\ ; f S AS oe f i Epp) WwW 7 er ry Sy PO AN VS v Nineteenth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1902. Number 986 Commercial IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Getting the People. boxes at the rural roadsides throughout the country. The sections of the coun- try which have it would not go back to GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. The tendency to dulness which char- acterized the last reports of the Wall Py . 4. Around the State. the old system under any circumstances, Street markets in this column, and Oza Ory Re : ca Its benefits and its advantages are too | which was accepted as inevitable for the 5 b dace ; manifest to need argument. season, had too much of underlying Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids 9. Editorial. The figures show that the deficit in strength to last. In spite of the influence DRO CR ite Mt og poe age ee the postal department for the fiscal year |Of the vacation season there has been Ga. wal Cscds. . ending June 30, as compared with that considerable activity and prices are We furnish - protection [ERMRTAeas of last year,is materially decreased. In -. moving upward. Transportation - ; 19. American Shoes in Germany. fact, the proportionate showing is better | Stocks are especially strong and_ the against worthless ac- |RSS Woman’s World. than at pi previous time twenty |high average of the leading ones has counts and collect Put sae oe years, The authorities declare that this again gone above $114. There has been others 24, Business Success. is in a large measure due to the suc-|a decided hardening of many rates ; - 25. Commercial Travelers. cessful operation of rural free delivery caused by the demands of the season oa — and Chemicals. service. The last year’s deficit was| for moving crops. With national bank 4 OBBHODDEOVO9OO90 9005904 (ee only) Seo hich i ]| | resources over $6,000, 000,000, per capita 3° 28. Grocery Price Current. ¥Y $4,000,000, which 158 very Sia i i : i »P P WILLIAM CONNOR 29. Grocery Price Current. compared with some of its predecessors. | Circulation the highest known, and gold eneniaem , 30. Grocery — Current. The figures show that the postal reve-|!" the Treasury $565, 000, 000, there is anemia coor ve _ Must Co-operate. | nues in districts where free delivery|cettainly no cause for uneasiness even of every kind and for all ages. All manner of summer goods: Alpacas, Linen, Duck, Crash Fancy Vests, etc., direct from factory. William Alden Smith Building, 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’ = allowed. Citizens phone, 1957. ell phone, Main 1282. Western Michi- gan agent Vineberg’s Patent Pants. ba bn bn bn bn bn bn bn bn bn bn bo bn ha On bn > > Oe > 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. C. 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. Kent County Savings Bank Deposits exceed $2,300,000 3%% interest paid on Sav- ings certificates of deposit. The banking business of Merchants, Salesmen and Individuals solicited. Cor. Canal and Lyon Sts. Grand Rapids, Michigan —Glover’s Gem Mantles— For Gas or Gasoline. Write for catalogue Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co. Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of Gas and Gasoline Sundries Grand Rapids, Michigan Tradesman Coupons THE FRUITS OF UNIONISM. The other day at Shenandoah Gen, Gobin, in command of the troops, re- ceived a pathetic letter from the wife of a non-union worker. In it she told of the treatment accorded her by the strik- ers, saying that rocks had been hurled through her window by night, one of them nearly injuring her sleeping child. Shots had been fired at her, crowds hooted and jeered her and crepe had been hung onthe door. The husband at work in the mines to earn money for the support of his family was unable to come home, and so these assaults were wantonly made upon a_ defenseless woman and her children. The union leaders have issued an _ ul- timatum, threatening to cut off an ear of every man who leaves their ranks to work in the mines. All this is un- American and it is such performances which place trades unionism in its true light before the people. The real American is chivalrous, anxious to pro- tect the weak, never offering an insult or injury to innocent women and chil- dren. To maim and mark a man for life simply as an act of revenge is resort to disgraceful procedure. These are the ideas entertained and advocated by venal and unscrupulous union leaders and this propaganda is being fastened on the country by the crafty politicians and cowardly newspaper men who, for the sake of votes and patronage, con- done the crimes of unionism and thus tacitly encourage the adherents of the walking delegate to greater crimes and excesses. ; RURAL MAIL DELIVERY PAYS. One of the objections raised some years ago, when rural free delivery was suggested, was that the postal depart- ment was running behind already and that its annual deficit would be very much larger if this extra expense were added. It was always conceded that the convenience would be materially in- creased and that the improved service would be greatly appreciated. The cost was the bugbear which stood in the way. Then rural free delivery was finally inaugurated and its growth has been very rapid. It is generally en- joyed throughout this section, as any one can tell who has noted the letter did not exist increased last year only 2% per cent., whereas in sections where the system was in operation the receipts increased from 8% to 1o percent. This, of course, takes into the reckoning only the increased number of letters sent out in those sections and does not take in account the increased amount of mail matter sent into those sections. As to this there is no way of particularizing, because the only records kept are those of outgoing mail, and the mail distrib- uted by rural free delivery comes from all sections of the country. Its increase, however, must have been very consider- able to have had so large an effect upon the postal revenues. It appears, there- fore, that rural free delivery, instead of being a burden on the Government, is actually a benefit and advantage ina pecuniary sense, to say nothing of the far greater benefit and advantage en- joyed by the people thus served. See ea The United States is a big country and we may never see here a ‘‘landed gentry,’’ such as exists in European nations, but it is noticeable that there is a tendency among the richer classes to acquire vast holdings of real estate, not only in the city but in the country. There are many cases where individuals own thousands of acres in favored local- ities. Often it is not the value of the land for agricultural purposes that actu- ates purchases, but the desire for ex- clusiveness, to keep out undesirable neighbors and to preserve the natural beauties of the scenery. While thus far no evil results have developed, the move- ment is one that may produce condi- tions that will give us a taste of the land question that will prove extreme- ly bitter. It may be escaped if the rule that riches last but three genera- tions in America continues to operate, An invasion is to be made upon for- eign countries that should, in all sin- cerity, cause them alarm. A combina- tion of the leading stogie and cheroot manufacturers of the United States, with a capital of $6,500,000, is being formed for the purpose of luring for- eigners into using the rat-tail smokes. If Emperor William at one time felt impelled to shut out American pork, there surely should be no surprise if effort were made to stop the operations of this combination. if a temporary hardening of rates occurs. It is only an indication of the intensity of demand, which can not fail to make occasional disturbance. The unseasonable coolness has affected the demand for summer wear and caused an undue pressure of clearing sales to work down stocks in the hands of retail- ers. Jobbers have generally closed out stocks well, sothat goods are going into the hands of consumers even if bargain prices are too much of a factor. Easier prices in many classes of foodstuffs argue an abundance of supply and do not indicate any lessening in the ability of the people to buy. Minneapolis mills will break all records in the output of flour for the year ending with this month. Pressure of demand is becoming a matter of concern to operators when for- eign markets are being drawn upon to meet the deficiency in our own output. German billets are being offered freely at Pittsburg and many orders for steel rails have gone to that country in cases where buyers could not wait for Ameri- can delivery. Traffic congestion has also become a serious matter and the certainty of tremendous demands for the enormous crops is stimulating the output of traffic material and for agricul- tural tools and machinery. Textile mills are still well employed,as also are shoe factories, and these are strengthen- ing the prices of their products on ac- count of the phenomenal advance in hides. eee neenaemennccacemeennnccenncnenimcnnt The inclination of country merchants to ship produce to irresponsible com- mission merchants is a_ peculiarity which the Tradesman has never been able to account for. It appears always to have existed and, from present indi- cations, it will continue to exist as long as time lasts. The anxiety to obtain more than the market price induces many to take chances and, understand- ing this weakness of human nature, the fraudulent buyer meets little difficulty in obtaining all the goods he can dis- pose of by offering more than going prices. The man who buys a horse and looks up his antecedents and record afterward is no more ridiculous than the merchant who ships goods to an entire stranger on a postal card quotation and then sets about to enquire who he isand as to his responsibility. 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN done his work consistently, but the 080000006000 0000008 proof reader must have been on a va- Getting the People | ace ; : cation. The Advertiser a. the Company An Old Story: The printer has given due prominence es af she alone heres ti ak Ge to the three items of the Benedict Ele- i : vator advertisement by the aid of panels wtopment ot ~ munete RewEpaper is The Queen of Hearts taking the main s se The pro ois in the appreciation of the value of 8 eR — - cleanliness. In the striving for sensa- is good and the use of white space judi- Made some Tarts, On a summmer’s day; ee tionalism which, in the minds of many, ~ . 3 seems necessary to the gaining and ae — : — m2 — | holding of popular interest, publishers gis tik edi sie canis ee too frequently allow subjects, and treat- i ae 2 er, et ae ae ment, of questionable character to ap- The cooking is made pleasant at any time of the yeas, and especially in will_be aud ty Species fo Oe ot pear in reading columns. Fortunately summer it a gasoline stove is used. It provides a quick fire. a cool kitchen. — &C : such lapses from the correct standard and great satisfaction. Not expensive to buy or to operate. Sten in and see a. we a * ee usually provoke criticism and ridicule our line of these stoves. ness-like announcement of a wool blan- from competing papers which tend to ket sale, which has the merit of definite hasten the general reformation in this re- ie nage piangecoaaleras a of gard; but there are some cases where M N L h wane Wit Oe OS ee ee the tendency to salaciousness is obliv- e * e ner, nomically inclined and the | definite i ious to such correction. It is worth while prices will enable such to decide upon for an advertiser to watch the character Hardware Hustler. $ the amount of their expenditure before ee cee ot ooee 000090000000000000008 — ae his media, that he may be assured of ae i. Seeievely Srrenere Sone Sere Ewe ere ne tisement is that of the music house of L. cleanliness in this part of his surround- , : : ings. P | Flour Exchange for Wheat at Waterman's A, Baker. I would have given a little ® But where there is one offense against the Elevator. Tdeal Fountain Pen re Se ee decency and dignity in news columns iesichiesidun scans eed bpd iia ini ee there are many in the advertising asso- ae can We asthe BEST. Come in — i. & Roxburg ek «anne ciations. There is, no doubt, a great reese mis § Hand let us show you why. a pi CREE ae faa mR sg . improvement in this regard, the more e thi : everythin : 8 border is about twice too heav eae glaring examples of personal and medi- : seit : . . Bugbee & Roxburg. wie hath 7 cal infringements upon decency are be- z - ; eo a A great deal of pains is taken to ing expugned, but there is yet far too : —_——— esd 1 i é P ; i * f line «| When spell the name of W. H. Phelps’ Lead- much of the questionable, or worse, to : oe : G a in tk Seti Bate ois be encountered. Too many publishers ; any first while “| Henry the i fade set coas ed ge- Bi semiageanie ee eo : 2 se | : the result is too obscure to have much do not seem to realize that the average : class grist mill. ver advertising value, Usually the solution medical advertising, even when paid * Grear of riddles and reading of acrostics are for at highest rates, tends to lower the . . . : i too much of an effort to have much im- enedict Elevator. i ele Gk Genes mad do clicagem tic al- ; B L — visited this — _——— they are all about. vertising prestige. i ianineeieeeeniabiabianiniatiensiiammaiinanindll He os to — pods tomate It is the advertiser’s right to select ee Evidently in the prescription trade in terms which i the company he shall keep. If the col- $ Lingered too long in New will tend to carry conviction. umns admit large quantities of quack BRAIN S Ph mong — ee remedy and specialty medical publicity iseceag (niches ah nr ce en the publication is not catering to a Is the place to buy China, Glass- . = = and gaunt, —_ healthy public taste. The people who} i ware, Stationery, Fancy Groceries |) | 2" sal lak ae ceptors a aria es are caught by the sensational medical Historical ee views on the public platform. One advertiser are not the people of most and any of a thousand and one seston sdvapacncmstnaanaes evening she was telling a deeply in- value to reputable dealers. notions : terested crowd of listeners how she ° L I There is a large and rapidly growing IT’S A MONEY SAV] eae ne weaned her husband from the dreadful class of publishers who have come to | Attending it wee: : . realize the value of dignity and cleanli- rons Describes our bake-goods as a tae a ee ee se - ——— Se 8 for twelve long years, and at last in- ness in every department of their peri- odicals. These are learning that dig- nity is of more value than the gain that duced him to sign the pledge, promis- ing to abstain from tobacco in any shape or form. I was so overcome that None so fresh and Good in our village. SPECIAL SALE OF may come from catering to the lower Genial I threw my arms around him and kissed tastes of a certain class of readers. Reputable him." ; : ° Obliging Voice from the audience (seriously )— Such publishers are able to use the in- Clerks Served him right. ducement of exclusiveness to that which FOR AUGUST. An — is best and most business like, and this inducement is no slight one, There are many among the best mag- azines and periodicals whose acceptance of advertising carries with it an en- dorsement which means much to the ad- Respectfully to wait on ou He Guess Work {0. WYMAN & CO. offer one entire line of sam- ples of white, grey and red bed blankets. They have been carried through the farge cities and put ap at the best hotela, and they are slightly soiled. The price is very much under their value. 90.00 Blankets go fer...... $6.00 vertiser. This is a condition which 7.50 blankets ter... ....:..5.00 We de not guess atiout 4 should extend over a much wider field. 6-00 blankets fr... en sae Seas. eeuienaeianceinn. : Not only the special journals and the 8.00 blankets for... .......2.00 angina enganon pa : highest class of magazines, but the gen- geods of the highest grade, ; This will eclipse any Blanket Sale we ever have eral newspaper, and the local as well, : Never should give a value and prestige to We think we have enough to last during August. Substituting. their advertising utterances. Take them while they last ee eee It is the business of the advertiser to take cognizance of his surroundings. It is his right to insist that undignified details of discreditable happenings shall be reduced to the minimum or ex- cluded entirely. It is also his business to see that the advertising tone shall be kept up toa pitch which will be in har- COME AND SEE US. Geo. Wyman & Co, SOUTH BEND, IND. ______— Closed evenings except Saturday “n> ite, briag your a eee BASON & BEACH DRUG STORE, Center Ave, Cor. Sagisaw 31. = Do you want the weal's best in PIANOS and ORGANS? Here is the result o ae x 8 mony with what = _ to say. 3 thirty-two years’ experience in selecting from the highest grades. For a change there is an attractive —PIANOS— a ‘ Open Screen Halftones jingle to the simple rhyme introducing q The coerce nating Puchoed For use in the store advertisement of M. N. Lehner. 4 a Packard and ee or ‘ Newspapers and General Printing Generally speaking, the display of a word suggesting the subject will add to the effectiveness by gaining the atten- tion of those interested. The printer has This size and smaller, $1.50. Mail, $1.60. 222 WASHINGTON . Finer pl 2. Ls A. BAKER, AVENUE NORTH. ee a 2 fe TRADESMAN COMPANY : a eS REE ET Grand Rapids MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ae x 8 Our purchases of Pattern Hats and Novelties direct from Paris and Berlin markets have this year greatly excelled all past seasons, and it is with the utmost confidence that we invite your attention to the same, assur- ing you that nothing but the most reliable and correct styles will be offered to the trade. All our purchases are strictly cash transactions and made direct from the manufacturers, both in foreign and domestic goods. We carry the largest stock of any millinery house in Michigan, and are among the largest in the west. With a record of thirteen years of successful business, employing methods of the highest commercial integrity and with an inflexible fidelity to the interests of our customers, we hope for and feel warranted in solic- iting a continuance of your patronage. 7 The Corl-Knott styles have an individuality that makes them favorites in every state in the Union, and they are always the readiest sellers dis- played in the retail millinery stores. Our Annex Copying and Trimming Rooms are now open. Opening Days August 25 until October 3 NOTE---Special Merchants’ Excursion to Grand Rapids on all Mich- igan railroads at one and one-third fare for round trip, good going August 25 to 29. Returning on or before September 10. May we have the pleasure of a personal visit? Corl, Knott @ Company Grand Rapids, Mich. : 5 i g = = 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Bellevue—Orlo Morse has opened a new shoe store. Ovid—L. A. Westbrook has purchased the bazaar stock of W. G. Jolly. Detroit—G. F. Wherth has purchased the grocery stock of John C, Price. Scottville—J. & G. Henke, meat dealers, have sold out to Jos. Robinson. Charlotte—Kinsman Bros. succeed Kinsman & DeFoe in the drug busi- ness. Hersey—John Dalzell succeeds S. G. (Mrs. Fred) Kincaid in the drug busi- ness. Three Rivers—Wm. Latimer & Co., bakers, have sold out to Geo. B. South- worth. Traverse City—Carroll Sisters have sold their grocery stock to D. B. Nichols, Jackson—Swift Bros. & Harmon _ suc- ceed Swift & Bro. in the flouring mill business. Jonesville—J. M. Williams & Co. have sold their hardware stock to Spen- cer & Corbett. Petoskey—Van Alstine & Gilbert have sold their agricultural implement stock to Loren Randall. Boyne Falls—A. Dosie has removed his dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe stock to Onaway. Muskegon—J. L. Harris has_ pur- chased the general merchandise busi- ness of H. W. Korfker. Boyne Falls—H. A. Hamlin has pur- chased the dry goods grocery and boot and shoe stock of C. H. Johnson. Coral—Hil!l & Armitage will convert their building into an elevator and en- gage in handling grain and produce. Detroit—Jacobson & Susterka, ladies’ tailors, have dissolved partnership. Philip D. Jacobson continues the busi- ness. Port Huron—Otis Taylor will this week become the proprietor of the F. M. Taylor hardware store on Military Street. Ovid—Thomas Meehan has been en- gaged by the Smith Creamery Co. to go on the road buying eggs from local dealers. Sault Ste. Marie—George Watson has sold his grocery business at Algonquin to C. S. McLachlan, who will continue the business. Port Huron—A. R. Ballentine has purchased the stock of dry goods frum the Ballentine Co. and the store has been re-opened. Alpena—Col. C. R. Hawley, the vet- eran dry goods man of Bay City, has been at Long Lake on a ten days’ fish- ing and camping trip. Adrian—R. J. Clegg has sold his North Main street meat market to W. H. Kiff and Fred N. Knight, who will continue the business. Lansing—The North Lansing grocers who have been giving trading stamps held a meeting last week and decided to discontinue the system. Alton—Mrs, Jennie S. Keech, who conducted a grocery store here twenty- two years, died July 31 and was buried Aug. 3 in the Alton cemetery. Trufant—Hansen & Son’s brick store building is completed and they are occupying it with their lines of furniture and women's furnishing goods. Ithaca—The Nelson Grain Co, is erecting an addition to the east end of its elevator, which will increase its ca- pacity from 10,000 to 20,000 bushels. Vanderbilt—Glazer Bros., dealers in dry goods, clothing and shoes, have disso!ved partnership, Abe Glazer hav- ing purchased the interest of Max Gla- zer. Ithaca—The Oliver Jordan grocery stock has been purchased by Wm. and Frank Lennox, who will continue the business under the style of Lennox Bros. Wayland—A. Sessions has commenced the erection of a new store building on his lot in the burned block. It will be 24x40 feet, one story high, and covered with steel. Morley—Wm. F. Turner has_ pur- chased a lot on Main street in this vil- lage and will build a handsome brick store here this summer. It will be 25x80 feet, two stories. Alpena—Robert Stevens, who has been in the meat business here for many years, has closed up his shop. Mr. Stevens states that too much credit is the reason of his retiring. Alpena—Jobn Sinclair, the dry goods merchant, has returned from a _ two months’ trip in Europe. Mr. Rooney, his partner in the wholesale millnery business, accompanied him. Saranac—Osborn & Patch is the name of the new grocery firm which succeeds H, W. Dodge & Son. The individual members are J. C. Osborn, of Pewamo, and F. A. Patch, of Mecosta. Alpena—R. Levyn and R. C. Grimm, who were preparing to go into the hard- ware business in the new Meyers block, have decided not to start. Mr. Meyers has another tenant for the store. Muskegon—Dr. C. L. Fourtier, late of Sullivan, who kept a drug store on Pine street sixteen years ago, has again lo- cated in the city and has opened a drug store at 513 W. Western avenue. Wayland—H. D. Allgeo has sold his interest in the drug stock of Allgeo Bros. to his brother, Chas. E. Allgeo, who will continue the business under the style of the Allgeo Central Drug store. Ithaca—O. L. Altenberg & Co, have purchased the interest of H. C. Crane in the jewelry stock of Altenberg & Crane and will continue the business under the firm name of O. L. Altenberg & Co, Alpena—Adam Ludewig, the stationer and book dealer, received the second Ladies’ Home Journal prize of $10 for the second best trimmed window offered by the Curtis Publishing Co., of Phila- del phia, Ann Arbor—E. G. Hoag, of Chelsea, will open a furniture and house furnish- ing goods store in this city within a few weeks. He has until recently been Sec- retary of the Glazier Stove Co., at Chelsea. Negaunee—The firm of Charles Thoren & Son, tailors, has been dis- solved. The senior member pulls out and Charles Thoren, Jr., takes the busi- ness. The old gentleman will take the remainder of his life easy. Jackson—Joseph E. Collins, who for the past ten years has conducted a gro- cery business at the corner of Francis and High streets, has sold his stock to F. J. Warner, of this city, formerly ticket agent for the Cincinnati Northern Railway. Marquette—Some time ago the mer- chants agreed to close their stores at certain hours, Lately there have been some violations of the agreement, but now all differences have been settled and the six o’clock closing will continue in effect. Calumet—The hardware stock of Frank B. Lyon isto be closed out as soon as possible. E. G. Emmons, of Houghton, is in charge of the store. Mr. Lyon has retired permanently from the hardware business because of his health and the store will be closed as soon as the stock can be gotten out of the way. Traverse City—Stanley & Young, of Maple City, have purchased of Chester Elliott his stock of groceries at the cor- ner of Front and Oak streets, The new owners will remove the stock to their new store under process of erection at the corner of Front and Maple about October 1. Meanwhile Mr. Elliott will remain in charge of the business. Bear Lake—Mr. Marshall, of Cass City, and C. W. McPhail, of Scottville, have decided to open a bank at this place. Mr. Marshall has had consider- able experience in the banking business and Mr. McPhail is the principal owner of banks at Cass City, Scottville and one or two other places, so that the bank will be under competent manage- ment and with abundant financial back- ing. Muskegon—The Executive Committee having in charge the merchants’ picnic at Lake Michigan Park August 14 have engaged Keyes Bros., of Ionia, to pro- vide two balloon ascensions for that day and also a high wire act and slide for life. A Hastings man will do the high dive. Keyes Bros., who have the con- tract for this year’s ascension, had a similar contract at last year’s picnic. The life-saving crew will give an exhi- bition. Capt. Nelson is endeavoring to secure a special permit by which he may give the exhibit in front of the Lake Michigan park pavilion. In that event a schooner will be anchored off the shore and a realistic exhibition of shooting lines to a ship and bringing the crew ashore will be given. Two bands will be engaged, so there will be no dearth of music at the affair. Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—The Sampson Neckyoke Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $10,coo, Escanaba—The Iron Post Lumber Co, has been organized with a capital stock of $50, 000. Detroit—The Cabinet Letter Press Co, has been organized with a capital stock of $25,000. Detroit—The American Lubricator Co, has increased its capital stock from $5,000 to $25,000, Perry—Johnson & Love have com- pleted their new cheese factory and begun operations, Charlevoix—The Bay Shore Lime Co. has increased its capital stock from $150,000 to $250,000, Benton Harbor—The Endion Grape Juice Co. has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to $15,000, Three Rivers—A creamery company has been organized here under the name of the Riverside Butter Co. The capital stock is $5,000 and $4,700 has been sub- scribed, Saginaw—The Saginaw Sugar Beet Harvester Co., capital $10,000, has filed articles of association. The prin- cipal incorporators are W. L. Ring and P. L. Cooper, Battle Creek—The Battle Creek Nov- elty Co., Ltd., has been Organized to manufacture calipers, dividers, non- pickable locks, keys, etc. The capital stock is $25,000, Saginaw—The Wolcott Windmill Co., which has recently added the manufac- ture of gas engines to its products, will be ready to put these engines on the market soon after September 1, Detroit—The Imperial Cap Co., Ltd., has brought suit against six insurance companies to recover for losses sus. tained in the collapse of the building at 116 Jefferson avenue, Jan. Io last. Detroit—The firm of Charles E, Wain & Co., machinists and engineering sup- plies, has dissolved partnership, Al- fred W. Wain retiring. Charles E, Wain will continue the business at the same old stand, 7-9 Jefferson avenue, Detroit—The People’s Manufacturing Co. has filed articles of association with the county clerk. The company is to conduct a general mercantile business in silverware and novelties and has a capital stock of $20,000, with $2,100 paid in. The following are stockholders: E. H. Houghton, 500; E. H. Pudrith, 500; Geo. E. Comstock, 500; Geo, E, Comstock, trustee, 500. Detroit—John Walsh has begun suit against the Standard Portland Cement Co. for $50,000 damages. He alleges he had made arrangements to sell $300,000 worth of bonds for a commission of $42,500 worth of stock in the corporation, and the concern refused to issue him the stock. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds were to be used for the de- velopment of property in Livingstone county. Caro—The Peninsular Sugar Co, whose beet sugar factory here is the largest in the State, will increase its capital stock from $750,000 to $1,000,000, The in- crease is said to be for the purpose of enlarging the plant, and the present stockholders will take all the new issue of stock. The sugar trust, which now owns a large block of the steck, but not a controlling interest, will be given an opportunity to purchase its share of the new stock. Detroit—The Fulton Iron & Engine Co. has been reorganized as the Na- tional-Fulton Brass Manufacturing Co., and its capital stock doubled to $400, - ooo. Its Detroit plant will be main- tained, and a large modern foundry will be established in St. Louis, Mo. The stockholders are : William C. McMil- lan, 18,000; Walter J. McBride, trus- tee, St. Louis, Mo., 10,000; Geo. H. Russel, 5,000; John F. Harrigan, 2,000; Walter j. McBride, 3,000; Jos. H. Ames, St. Louis, Mo., 1,000; Millard Conklin, Detroit, 1,000. aa TT eg a en For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices. call Visner, both phones. EE a a. a. em ( You Know This is the season to stock up with Threshing necessities. We help the trade to Tank Pumps, Suction § Hose, Endless Thresher Belts, Automatic Injectors, Engine Trim- mings, Etc. Send for our new catalogue in which your eye will ( meet many surprises. Grand Rapids Supply Co. ‘20 Peeri uae” j Grand Rapids, Mich. SO SE SE a Ga oR. em SENT ON APPROVAL! arene THE STAR PEANUT VENDING MACHINE For automatically selling salted shelled peanuts. Op- erates with a cent and is per- fectly legitimate. It is at- tractive and lucrative —not an experiment, but actual facts from actual results. Handsomely finished, and will increase your sales at large profit. Try it; that’s the test! My circular gives ae , - full description and brings price and terms. ShallI send it to you? Manufactured by W. G. HENSHAW, Kalamazoo, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip A. Mulder & Co, have opened a gro- cery store at 412 South Division street. The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock. D. I. Rensenberger has engaged in the grocery business at Henry. The stock was furnished by the Worden Grocer Co. A. A. Weaver has opened a meat market in the Vinkemulder block at the corner of South Division street and Third avenue. A. S. Damsky has sold his grocery stock at 190 Fourth street to Wisniewski & Nowaczgh, who will continue the business at the same location. The Alfred J. Brown Co. has leased the double store at 20 and 22 Ottawa street, which it will use as a warehouse and for seed cleaning purposes, The sixteenth annual picnic of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion, which was held at Kalamazoo last Thursday, in conjunction with the fourth annual picnic of the Kalamazoo Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers’ As- sociation, was all that could be desired, except in point of weather, which was about the worst the Weather Clerk could invent. Every feature which could be presented in the face of discouraging circumstances was carried out to the let- ter, reflecting great credit on all who took part in the management of the affair. The Thursday half holiday to-morrow will be rendered memorable by a match game of base ball between the retail grocers and the policemen. The game wil! be played on the East Bridge street grounds, which are conveniently reached by the East Bridge street cars, On Aug. 21 it is expected that the grocers will again cross bats with the city sales- men, who naturally smart under their recent defeat and crave an opportunity to retrieve their reputation. Secretary Klap has challenged the Holland gro- cers to a game of indoor ball—played out doors—at Ottawa Beach on Aug. 28, but up to this writing no response has been received to the challenge. In the event of the Holland grocers coming to the front, it is expected that the Furni- ture City Band will accompany the grocers to the Beach on a special train. > > The Produce Market. Apples—Duchess, $2@2.75 per bbl. ; Red Astrachans, $2: other harvest va- rieties, $1.75; Sour Boughs (cooking), 1.50. ian Deine range from $1.25@ 1.75 per bunch, according to size. Jumbos, $2.25 per bunch. : Beeswax—Dealers pay 25c for prime yellow stock. Beets—6oc per bu. Blackberries—$1@1.25 per 16 qts. Butter—Fancy creamery is steady at 21c for fancy and 20c for choice. Dairy grades are about the same, command- ing 16@17¢ for fancy, 14@15¢ for choice and 1o@izc for packing stock. The Tradesman warns its patrons this week against Edward Fay & Co., of Detroit, whose ‘‘business’’ is managed by the notorious Samuel M. Tucker. Cabbage—Home grown command 4cc per doz. Carrots—6oc per bu. Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. oa grown is in ample sup- at 16c per doz. a per doz. for hot use. eee Local dealers pay 16@17c for candled and 144%@%15c for case count. Egg Plant—$1.30 per doz. Green Onions—tioc for Silver Skins. Green Corn—ioc per doz. Green Peas—85c per bu. for Tele- phones aud Champions of England. 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 10@IIc. Lemons—Californias, $3.75@4; Mes- sinas,$4.25@4.75. Maioras and Verdel- las, $5.25. Lettuce—Head commands 7oc per bu. Leaf fetches Soc per bu. Mapie Sugar—1o0%c per Ib. Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy. Musk Melons—Gems, 4oc per basket ; California Rockyfords, $3.25 per crate; Illinois Rockyfords, $1.25 per crate; Osage, $1.25 per crate. Onions—Home grown ample supply at 80@goc. Oranges—California Valencias fetch .50. * sa Re per doz. Peaches—White stock, 50@6o0c; Yel- low Triumphs, 80@goc. Pears—Sugar, $1.25 per bu. ; large, $1.25@1.35 per bu. Pieplant—z2c per lb. Plums—Abundance, goc per % bu.; Burbank, ooc per % bu; Bradshaws, $1.25 per bu; Biue Damsons, $1.50 per bu. Potatoes— New stock is in fair supply at soc per bu. Poultry—Prices are firm, owing to small receipts. Live pigeons are in moderate demand at 50@6oc and squabs at $1.20@1I.50. Spring broilers, 12@ 13c; chickens, 8@gc; small hens, 7@ 8c; large hens, 65@7c; turkey hens, 10% @i1%c; gobblers, g@toc; white spring ducks, 9@toc. Radishes—toc per doz. Squash—Summer fetches 4oc per bas- ket. Tomatoes—$I.50 per bu. Watermelons—Receipts of Indiana Sweethearts are large and quality is fine. Price ranges from 18@2oc. = Wax Beans—66c per bu. Whortleberries—$1.25 per 16 qts. —__> 2. __ stock is in Programme Prepared for the Muskegon Picnic. Muskegon, Aug. 12—The following has been prepared for the all-day picnic of the Muskegon business men at Lake Michigan Park Aug. 14: a. m.—The bands will start for Lake Michigan Park via Muskegon Heights, Pine and Ottawa street cars. 10:30 a. m. to I p. m.—Band concert. 11:30 a, m, to I p. m.—Grand free distribution of watermelons, coffee and celery. 1to8 p. m.—Free continuous con- cert by the celebrated Hawaiian Sextette Concert Company. 1:30 p. m.—High dive by Prof. Harry Wright, of Pennsylvania. Bsrs m.—Exhibition by U. S. Life Saving Crew under command of Captain Nelson. 3:30 p. m.—Balloon ascension and parachute drop by Professor Keyes. 4:15 p. m.—High dive by Professor Wright. 4:30 p. m.—Slide for life by Professor Keyes. 5:15 p. m.—Balloon ascension and parachute drop. Supper. 6:30 p. m.—High dive. 6:45 p. m.—Tight wire performance. 8 p. m.—Naval battle. 9 p. m.—Unique unfurling of Ameri- can flag to the music of the Star Spangled Banner. J. L. Hisey, Sec’y. 0 Hastening the End. ‘‘l am hard to discourage,’* said the rejected suitor, melodramatically. ‘*Some day I’ll make you say you love me, and then—and not until then—I shall die happy.’’ ‘I'll say it now,’’ said sbe promptly. ‘‘I don't mind telling a lie for a good end, ——__~»>4+>———___—_ The Tradesman advises its patrons to confine their dealings with the Union Dairy Co., of Toledo, to a cash basis until such time as the concern will! con- sent to make a statement to the mer- The Grocery Market. Sugar—There have been no changes in the sugar market during the past week, and the sugar situation has re- mained steady and unchanged now for a longer period than for several months. Tea—Cable advices show that the settlements of Japan tea until the end of July were 27,000,co0 pounds, against 25,500,000 pounds last year. Although the settlements show an increase of I,5c0,000 pounds over the same period last year, the shipments were only 14,- 700,000 pounds, against 19,000,000 pounds last year, leaving a stock of 12, 300,000 pounds, compared with 6, 500, - ooo pounds last year. One of two causes is responsible for this condition: Either prices are held too high to at- tract the attention of the consuming trade of the United States and Canada or this tea is being held for January de- livery. Indications are that the major- ity of the trade lean towards the latter belief, as the duty will then be off and tea can be bought and sold without tak- ing that into consideration. Coffee-—There has been very little change in the spot coffee market during the past fortnight. Some interest has been shown in speculative tendencies, and it is reported that a convention will be held in New York in the early part of October for the purpose of seeking some remedy by which production of low grades of coffee can be reduced and kept within proper limits. None of these influences, however, have had any effect on the spot situation and the lat- ter is unchanged. Demand continues very fair for this time of the year, due to a large consumption which is at- tributed to cool weather. In mild grades a steady and unchanged market is re- ported for West India growths. The bet- ter grades continue to be in very limited supply and buyers are quietly shopping around to secure all that they can obtain within a reasonable range of prices. East India growths are steady. Rice—Southern advices report only limited offerings, due to small available supplies, and with demand fairly active prices hold very firm. Receipts of new crop river rice are reported as running in excess of all previous records for this time of the year, but it will be another fortnight before the crop movement is at its height. Louisiana and Texas report that growing crops are full of promise. The local market is fairly firm. Canned Goods—In tomatoes there has been no important change. Reports have been sent out from Baltimore of lower prices on new packing, but upon investigation it has been found that these goods will not grade up to stand- ards and for that reason they are not at- tracting special attention. In most in- stances, it is claimed they are little bet- ter than good seconds, and for that rea- son they are offered some lower than quotations in the hope of cleaning them up. In corn spot is showing increased strength, A bid showing an advance of 5c over opening prices on standard pack was recently made to a packer and was refused. Prospects are for a considerable shortage in the pack. Spot peas are quiet. California fruits are not attracting special attention at the moment, but quite generally hold steady. Little interest is being taken in new pack Eastern peaches. Sardines are quiet, but are firmly held owing to a light pack thus far the present season. Mention was made last week of the large run of salmon on the Columbia River and our remarks may have given the present pack. While it is true that there is a good run on the Columbia River and that some packers are packing in excess of last year, the total pack on this River is so insignificant as to have no effect on the market price of salmon. The bulk of the salmon is packed in Alaska, and on the Puget Sound and Fraser River. The run in these loca- tions this year is light, especially of Sockeyes on the Sound. The shortage of this one grade in this one locality will probably be more than the total pack on the Columbia River. Salmon is a good purchase at present prices and dealers can make no mistake in buying liberally for both present and fu- ture wants. Dried Fruits— Prunes are fairly active for the season at the advance told about last week, Packers seem well filled up with orders for October shipment. The future of prunes is not easy to predict. Present prices are very low, and if any- thing happens to affect the crop an ad- vance is very likely. It is practically certain, in any event, that the market can go no lower. Peaches are slow. Stocks are low. New _ peaches will be shipped this month. Currants are not in much demand, but are hoiding their own so far as price is concerned. No important packers have named prices on raisins yet, but will in a few weeks. The demand is small, but should im- prove ina few weeks. Apricots are in light demand. New goods are on the way. Prices are unchanged. Syrups and Molasses—There have been no changes in syrup and molasses during the past week. Glucose is un- changed, and gives no prospect of any change. Compound syrup is unchanged and quiet. The demand for sugar syrup, on the contrary, is very good, the movement for export representing the small end of the present business. Molasses .is very dull and lifeless and prices are unchanged. Fish—There has been no change in fish during the past week. Sardines are as yet unchanged, but an advance seems imminent. All the packers talk strong and refuse to guarantee present prices even one day. The demand is good. Mackerel is in fair demand at unchanged prices. The New England strike is affecting shipments somewhat and the market might possibly have ad- vanced had that not occurred. The la- bor strike seems to have completely tied up the supply of cod, hake and had- dock, as under present conditions no goods can be shipped or even packed. ee The Boston Egg and Butter Market. Boston, Aug. 11—Receipts of eggs are extremely heavy for this time of year, being for the week nearly 8,000 cases more than for the same week. last year, and with very warm and wet weather the market is extremely dull on everything but the finest quality. There is a very wide margin between the best and ordinary stock, the latter running very poor and extremely heavy sbrink- age. Finest candled Michigans and In- dianas are selling at 20c. Uncandled eggs are Selling all the way from 14@18c. Receipts of butter in all Eastern mar- kets are excessive and the weather for the last week has been very favorable for a large make. Receipts for the week in Boston are some 500,000 pounds more than last season, or about 8,oco 60-pound tubs, and receipts in New York are about 10,000 packages in ex- cess of Jast year and, with conditions favorable for making butter all through the dairy sections, we are having an ex- tremely dull market. Finest Northern creameries are selling at 20@2ICc. Lower grades have felt the decline more than extra creamery. Firsts and seconds are selling extremely hard and bringing from 17%4@2oc; dairies, 16@19c; pack- ing stock, 14@15c. cantile agencies or to the Tradesman. average reader a false idea as to the Smith, McFarland Co. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SHIPPING APPLES. Some Needed Changes Which Must Be Made. This subject naturally divides itself into two heads, viz., ‘‘How can we transport the fruit?’’ and ‘‘In what kind of a package shall we put it?’’ To get an apple from the tree to the consumer at the least cost, and in the most perfect condition, is a problem se- riously occupying the attention of all fruit growers and shippers, whose suc- cess or failure largely depends on their ability in this direction. The first step in transportation is from the tree to the basket, where, in most cases, serious damage is done. Apple pickers require brains as well as muscle, and to pick an apple proper- ly requires some study and experience. The writer has noticed many apples literally pulled from the trees with the fruit spur attached, not only damaging the fruit, but ruining the tree itself for future bearing. If apples are carefully turned upwards they will break from the fruit spur clean, with the least resistance, and avoid thumb-marks so common in ap- ples, which seriously impair the keep- ing quality and spoil the appearance, particularly of green or yellow fruit. All shippers should instruct their packers very particularly on this point. The next move in transportation is from the basket to the barrel or package in which the apples are taken to mar- ket. Again they run a most hazardous gauntlet. Most apples are dumped on the ground in heaps, whereas, in the writer’s opinion, apples never should touch the ground, but be carefully emptied on a canvas stretcher of sim- ple construction, holding about three or four barrels at most, and about 3% to 4 feet high, so that the sorter may stand up to his work and use both hands and eyes in this most important transaction. From the stretcher they should go di- rectly into the package for market or store, graded as the shipper’s customers may desire, Now that the fruit is in the package at the tree, it should be carefully trans- ported tothe fruit house, railway or boat landing at once, on a conveyance hav- ing springs. Much fruit is damaged seri- ously by remaining in barrels on the ground after packing, or by being moved in lumber wagons without springs over rough roads. These can be easily procured to attach to any ordinary wagon, and no fruit grower should be without them. When we get the apples to the depot we again confront a difficult problem. What kind of a car should we use or what kind can we secure from the car- rier? Arrangements should invariably be made with the railway to furnish the kind of a car desired and as re- quired. No apples should remain at a depot longer than is necessary to load them directly into a car and get away the same evening. For short hauls ventilated cars should be used, and the car not filled to the roof, as frequently happens, but leave ample room for cir- culation of air. For any distance re- quiring more than twenty-four hours’ railway journey, refrigerator cars should be used, and have them sufficiently iced. From the cars the apples should go direct to destination without delay, either to the consumer, fruit house or steamer, for ocean transportation. Here again we confront a problem? What kind of space shall we use, or what can we secure? Apples usually receive little care at the hands of vessel owners and _ stevedores, are generaliy handled roughly, and placed in the hold as closely stowed as possible, and in most cases, without ventilation, and if they survive this gauntlet without being cooked and ruined the shipper may consider him- self fortunate. Can this be remedied? Combined action can do much to bring about the much needed reforms. Let there be an active transportation committee and let us shippers be loyal to their recom- mendations demanding ventilated space or cool storage. Again, why should a barrel of apples pay more freight than a barrel of flour? This question has often been asked rail- way tariff committees, but has never yet been satisfactorily answered. So far as I can learn, the real reason is be- cause they can collect more. They apparently think the business will stand it, but in a year like the present, when there is an abundant crop, cheap trans- portation would materially increase our markets, and place before the laboring classes which form the masses of Euro- pean population fruit within the reach of their means. Can this be accomplished? I maintain it can. A barrel of flour weighs about 50 pounds more than a barrel of apples, and usually is carried for about half the price. Does the barrel of apples get any more care from the carriers, any bet- ter protection from the weather, any better space, or is there any greater risk incurred? Do they pay any more claims or give any greater attention to the business? So far as I can ascertain, the only thing they can claim is better despatch en route as perishable freight is not so often side-tracked, but I have yet to learn of a railway that paid claims on apples for ordinary delay in transit, and I consider the handicap in weight quite sufficient to enable the car- riers to move a barrel of apples quite as cheaply asa barrel of flour. Agitation would bring about this much needed re- form. We next consider the various kinds of packages in use and their respective advantages. The barrel is the standard used for perhaps 90 per cent. of the fruit, but is it the best? California has adopted the box of four or five tiers, averaging about 40 pounds net of fruit, and this package is getting quite popu- lar in some localities, and has the ad- vantage of being more suitable fora grocer to handle as package goods. Many people would buy a box of those apples who could not be induced to buy a barrel at a time. When apples are retailed by the pound, much of the fruit is injured by the customer or dealer turning it over, pinching it and exam- ining it in a variety of ways that would not be done in a package. The cost of the package is about the same in each case, For the home trade and immediate use, the bushel crate is becoming quite popular in Michigan, and has some ad- vantages. It is cheaper than the barrel, saves all expense of packing, can be easier handled, all the fruit is open to view, any farmer can bring apples to the depot direct from the trees, and isa convenient package for the dealer and consumer when the apples are required for prompt use. For high class trade a compartment box is coming into use, and has been favorably received in the markets of Europe. These boxes are made to hold various amounts and different sized ap- pies and are made something like an egg .™{.®W-BW.@A.@-@-B-a: >sSSs: SSsFsFFSS SSS 55: THE FRANK B. TAYLOR COMPANY IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS 135 JEFFERSON AVENUE DETROIT, Miche, August 13, 1902e MRe MERCHANT, Dear Sir: Our Holiday line is now ready for your inspection. We have taken a great deal of time in getting together what we consider one of the largest #\ and best assorted lines ever shown a by any house in Michigan. Remember every article we show is NEW this season. Come in and see us, we pay your expenses. THE FRANK Be TAYLOR COMPANY. 2 242.2.2.2.2.2.2.2.8: 8-0 20 LM LL Le Me ib BLAUTY Business men require their records carefully and neatly written and will not tolerate poor penmanship. WE SPECIALIZE on this IMPORTANT SUBJECT and find that it PAYS. Lor J .- (allen Cnpisly Has placed more students in PERMANENT paying positions as BOOK-KEEP- ERS and STENOGRAPHERS during the past year than any other TWO BUSINESS COLLEGES COMBINED in WESTERN MICHIGAN. SEND FOR LIST. BEAUTIFUL CATALOGUES FREE. D. McLachlan & Co. 19-25 South Division Street Grand Rapids, Michigan SER SE eS SSS HK A Time of Need 4 YOU WILL FIND OUR § . Asphalt, Torpedo Gravel, Ready Roofing a strong protection in time of need. It is a pretty good in- surance policy, and when the winds blow and the floods come 4 it stands the test unflinchingly. H. M. Reynolds Roofing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. LO RRR ewewowwwe wows WS WS a. a. a. a. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN £ case, each apple having a compartment by itself and is thoroughly ventilated. A firm in London, Ontario, are manu- facturing them. Fruit growers of Niagara district are using them quite extensive- ly. They cost more than a barrel, but for a high class trade there is nothing better. Apples stored in these packages for the Pan-American Exhibition with the Buffalo Cold Storage Co,, kept in good condition fora year. One thing is essential to the transportation of apples in any package—air circulation, I feel convinced that fully so per cent. of our apples are ruined from improper transportation from some of the causes referred to, and if apple shippers ever expect to climb the ladder of success to its topmost step, it can only be ac- complished by giving this most im- portant question earnest consideration. R. J. Graham, ~~ 0 oe - Incompetent Help Who Are a Detriment to Employers. We have received a complaint from a shoe dealer to the effect that the clerks in jobbing houses who are especially detailed to wait on the trade, know nothing of the business in which they are employed. This retailer cites an instance where he went into an Eastern jobbing house,and enquired of the clerk if they carried barefoot sandals. The clerk, with a vacant stare, asked the enquirer to repeat his question. After doing so three times, the clerk politely informed him that he never had seen any. He then enquired of two other clerks who were standing close by, but they also answered in the negative. This very house carried barefoot sandals and had at that moment some thirty- eight pairs on the floor. The merchant was rather disgusted, and left without making any purchase. Once on the street he met a member of the firm, with whom he was well ac- quainted, and told him he had made a useless search for something that his trade was calling for day after day for summer wear, ‘*Oh!’’ said the jobber, ‘‘we have a few pairs of those in stock, and per- haps we have the very sizes you are looking for.’’ Not caring to get the clerk in trouble, the merchant did not let him know that he had been to the house and was re- fused the sandals, but returned with him. The very clerk that he had inter- viewed on his first trip was told to show Mr. ‘‘So-and-So’’ the barefoot sandals that were in sucha section. After a dil- igent search the employe at last dis- covered them, and said: ‘‘To tell you the honest truth, this is something 1 never knew we had in stock; the fact is, | am entirely unfamiliar with the name, and perhaps for that reason | was unable to answer you intelligently when you asked me betore.’’ There seems to be a very good moral in the neglect of this clerk to learn what stock his employer had on his shelves. These very subjects are discussed week after week by papers devoted to the shoe business. Each jobbing house in the country secures a copy of the paper every week, and instead of allowing the paper to rest either on the buyer’s or the advertising manager’s desk if it were distributed among the clerks on the floor these occurrences woud be less frequent. New things are cropping up in the trade every day, and the only way to keep abreast of the times is to seek a channel which disperses such in- formation. There is nothing new toa practical man ina shoe paper. He is abreast of the times; very often he is ahead of them. He designs and origin- ates. He watches for new things as they come out; he interviews manufac- turers and retailers, and has an eye on future business before it is possible for any one else to get it. He imparts this information to the trade, and this same information should be dissemi- nated in every channel possible. Every manufacturer and retail merchant, also each jobbing house, owe themselves, and those in theiremploy, such an edu- cation. If one paper is not sufficient for their wants, it would be better for them to buy half a dozen than to have ignor- ant clerks waiting on their trade.—Shoe Retailer. a Folly of Infidelity. From the Philadelphia Times. During one of E. L. Hyde’s evangel- ical trips through this State, he told a Scranton gathering that all infidels were fools, and that he would undertake to prove his argument in ten minutes if any professional infidel wished to give the opportunity. A man in the audience arose and was politely asked by Hyde to speak, if he wished to speak. “*Mr. Hyde,’’ was the reply, ‘‘I have been listening to you with interest this last half hour; but I think your most re- cent statement was a challenge I can not let pass. I ama infidel, but I’m not a fool. I’m a man of education and culture; I’ve traveled, and I know more than the average person, believer or non-believer, ’’ ‘“‘Do you really believe,’’ asked Hyde, *‘that there is nothing in religion? Would you go on record as saying so much?’’ ‘*Go on record?’’ queried the man in surprise. ‘‘Why, I’ve been writing and preaching against religion this last twenty years,’’ ‘‘And you say there’s nothing in it?’’ ‘‘Absolutely nothing !’’ ‘‘Well, 1 said I’d prove you a fool within ten minutes,’’ said Hyde, look- ing at his watch. ‘‘I still have seven minutes left. | will leave it to the gath- ering if that man is not a fool who de- votes twenty years to preaching against _omething which he claims has nothing Po es ——_-~» 2. Some Names Which Have Not Yet Been Adopted. Jabs, a Chicago paper, takes a jab at the well-known leaning of Battle Creek toward the pure foodindustry. Accord- ing to it even the car conductors are high officials in various cereal product companies and all the population is en- gaged in manufacturing breakfast foods that the opera house has already barred all but pure food plays and that the postoffice will be turned into a ‘pure food foundry.’’ It also suggests a few names for food products which have not yet been adopted, as follows: Hullo-Beano. Hello Billo, Tally-Ho. Try-a-chewa. Korn Kure. Korn Pone. Cornina, Oatsina. Hayina. Strawina. Foddereta. ———-o-0-e Princess Charming. ‘‘I am very sorry, George, you don’t admire my new dress,’’ said a young wife. ‘‘Everybody says it is charm- ing.’ " ‘Your friends, my dear, pay you com- pliments; I pay your bills,’’ replied her husband. Don’t Kick IF YOUR RETURNS OF BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY are not satisfactory, but try Lamson & Co. Blackstone St., BOSTON. SS Rugs from Old Carpets Retailer of Fine Rugs and Carpets. { Absolute cleanliness is our hobby as well fe our endeavor to make rugs better, closer woven, more durable than others. j We cater to first class trade and if you j write for our 16 page illustrated booklet it will make you better acquainted with j our methods and new process. We have 4 no agents. We paythefreight. Largest looms in United States. Petoskey Rug Mig. & Carpet Co., Limited 455-457 Mitchell St., Petoskey, Mich. Se N Things We Sell Iron pipe, brass rod, steam fittings, electric fixtures, lead pipe, brass wire, steam boilers, gas fixtures, brass pipe, brass tubing, water heaters, mantels, nickeled pipe, brass in sheet, hot air furnaces, fire place goods. Weatherly & Pulte Grand Rapids, Mich. Good weather now to sell Watermelons and Lemons To get the best stock and prices send your orders to The Vinkemulder Company, 14 and 16 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. We ean handle your hueckleberries to your advantage. 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Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. STATE OF ten COMMERCIAL COMPETITION. Professor Suess, an eminent Austrian, who is a scientist, as well as a statis- tician, and who some years ago wrote a notable treatise on the precious metals, keeps himself constantly informed in all matters of public interest occurring in the world, and on the occasion of the celebration of his seventieth birthday recently he entertained some _ public men and journalists with some interest- ing comments on world politics and policies generally. He realizes that the great questions which are disturbing nations to-day are how to keep their people peaceable and satisfied. Any financial panic or depression in trade or decay of indus- tries that had previously afforded occu- pation to the people is among the greatest evils that can occur. Any long period of enforced idleness which pre- _vents the people from earning a living in the pursuit of their usual avocations is a calamity. In order to avert such a misfortune it is necessary to meet every demand of trade and constantly to seek new and more extensive markets, so as to keep the people employed at fair wages. In this day of keen competition, every natural advantage counts and the nations possessing them and utilizing them to the utmust are sure to outstrip the less fortunate in the struggle for trade. In view of the known advan- tages possessed by the United States, the Austrian statesman has adopted the idea that has already become current in his country, that the Continental States of Europe will be forced to engage in a comnact to protect themselves against the aggressive commerce of the Ameri- can Republic. He declared that the American trust system, organized on a gigantic scale and combining in its movements the capitalists of the United States, has be- come alarming to Continental Europe, and it is a question if the States of Central Europe are strong enough com- mercially and financially to maintain an effective defense against it. This able thinker declared that before long there would be a serious shifting of the center of gravity among the ‘‘World Powers,’’ and that this shifting would create three great units around which the weaker powers would crys- tallize or be drawn by the gravitating force of self-protection. These, he said, would be Russia, America and China. Such interests as could make common. cause with any one of these leading powers would do so. In all probability there would be a co-opera- tion of the English-speaking nations, under the leadership of the American Republic. Russia would in ali prob- ability rally several of the Continental nations under her guardianship. As to China, its future was not set forth, but the manipulator of world powers de- clared that when once China should be properly equipped she would be one of the first of the World Powers. She has the. most capable merchants arid the cheapest labor. Great nationalities must have exten- sive contiguous territory not separated by seas, and must of necessity have vast aggregations of people actuated bya common purpose. These each of the nations mentioned possess. Of the three great units America decidedly had the lead. Its policy of commercial aggres- sion was beyond doubt. It would be prudent on the part of the Americans to keep within the bounds of the Monroe Doctrine in the political sphere, but un- fortunately prudence was not always a decisive factor in the conduct of state affairs. The strenuousness of commercial competition and the necessity for the conquest of new markets and the con- summation of constantly expanding trade make up conditions that it is even advisable to go to war to obtain. The salvation of an industrial popula- tion depends on the maintenance and extension of the trade for its products. It must be done at any cost. Statistics demonstrate that about the safest place, and one where there is the least chance of a person losing his or her life, is a railway train, but for once the German government does not seem to place reliance on figures and facts. The state railway administration has decided to maintain ambulance cars at seventy-seven of the principal stations throughout the country. These cars wil] contain a full hospital equipment, in- cluding operating tables and beds, cal- culated particularly to render every- thing necessary in the direction of first relief. Each car is to be in charge of a medical officer, while all railway em- ployes will be required to be trained in the performance of first-aid duties. The cars will be so located that none will be more than an hour anda half away from a hospital, thus rendering quick transportation for victims who require serious attention. The idea of a hos- pital car is a good one in more ways than the above. Seventy-seven of them dis- tributed over the country would come in rather handy if a big European scrap should materialize and in which the Fatherland got mixed up, and it is per- haps as much in view of this possibility as the rendering of relief in case of-a railway accident that has prompted the present decision, GROPING AFTER THE VITAL SPARK. When the telephone was invented it opened a field of discovery in electrical science which is going to prove, if pos- sible, the most important in the entire range of that most indispensable and remarkable agent. The telephone demonstrated the cap- ability of electricity to take up sound and carry it along at the same speed with which the electricity itself hurries. Sound travels through the atmosphere at the comparatively slow rate of 1,100 feet a second. Electricity passes through a wire or other conductor at a speed of thousands of miles a second. When the slow-moving sound is coupled to a current of electricity which is sent through a wire, the sound is carried with the electricity and arrives with it at the electricity’s regular rate of speed, just as a tramp who would otherwise have to walk from one place to another, by secreting himself on the truck frame that supports the wheels, is enabled to travel with the train and to arrive with it. The accepted theory of the movement or progression of heat, light and sound through the atmosphere or other sub- stances is that they progress by wave motion. There is, perhaps, no more reason why their progress should be the result of a vibratory impulse com- municated to them than that the progress should be directly from one atom of the intervening medium to another. Never- theless, the wave theory answers the purpose, and as a part of the plan we must hold that electricity also progresses by wave motion. Thus it is that the swift-moving elec- tricity, being able to pick up slow-mov- ing sound and carry it forward,is equal- ly able to catch on to any other entity which is subject to wave motion and carry iton. We may assume, at least, that if electricity can so operate on one such entity, it can similarly affect any other, light for instance. It is interesting to know that, follow- ing the telephone, came the Roentgen or X ray. Thisis a ray of light hitched on to an electric current and made to penetrate with it every substance that the electricity can pass through. Light travels at a rate of velocity lit- tle inferior to that of electricity, and therefore the electric energy is not needed to hasten or hurry up the speed of the ligkt ray. But light ordinarily can not pass through what are known as opaque or dark bodies. But electric- ity can penetrate and pass through any dark and solid matter which is known aS possessing conductivity, and it can carry a ray of light with it. Thus, by means of the apparatus for operating the X ray, the human eye is enabled to see into the heart of dark, solid matter and discover its interior constitution or condition, Here is opened to the world a vast and most important field of economic electricity. The possibilities are well- nigh infinite. All that is required is the use of some device by means of which the vibratory force of electricity is communicated to any other Vibrating entity. The telephone makes the con- nection with sound, and the Roentgen tube enables the visual ray to travel with the electric current. The way once opened as it is, the revelations of the X ray will be enor- mously multiplied; heat will be con- veyed to a distant point and concen- trated there; the force of an explosion will be likewise translated to any re- quired distance and delivered there in full energy, and all human emotions and sensations which vibrate over the nerves of a body here will be transposed in all their exactness and significance to per- sons at distant points. Life is not matter, nor is it a property of matter. It is a force which operates on matter and vitalizes it. This vital force can be coupled with electricity and made to co-operate with it to ac- complish the most potential and im- portant results. If we are ever to dis- cover the secret of vitality, it will not be from the study of soapsuds or any other dead matter, but from the study of forces and their operation. The vital force, like electricity, is everywhere in and around us, but we know not whence it cometh or whither it goeth when it has thrilled our nerves. It is power, and power is from a divine source. It is the only thing that creates, that forms, that fashions and shapes all to its ends. It uses force, and it is impos- sible to distinguish the electric force from the vital force, the operations of which we call life. It sparkles and coruscates with light as does the vital force. It reveals with an interior light as if there were in every human crea- ture a spark. There is such a spark. It is commonly called the soul. A Kansas farmer, with that thrift which characterizes the average Jay- hawker, has hit on a novel scheme for increasing the sweet-tasting product of that model worker, the bee, and has written Dr. Howard, the head of the United States division of entomology, offering the same presumably for such consideration or honorarium as it may be worth. In the course of his com- munings with nature he has discovered that the honeybee lays up her store only during the day, and that when night casts her pall over the earth, Kansas in particular, she has to stop her labors, whether tired or not. Now this genius from the land of the wheat blossom has an idea that if a suitable cross could be had between the bee and the lightning bug that the succeeding generation would be provided with a kind of portable incandescent lamp, thus en- abling her to continue her work after old Sol had turned his face towards the other side of this planet. It isa brilliant idea, even for Kansas, but unfortunatly there are physiological reasons making its consummation impossible. Even if this were not so, the country has seen sufficient of these hybridizing experi- ments. The introduction of the gypsy moth into the New England States was due to some experiments for improv- ing the breed of silk-worms. The cost to New England up to date has been something immense, and the cost seems fated to continue for many years to come. ‘“‘T am getting to be an old man. I have not many years to live. If I ac- complish all J bave set out to do things must move with celerity.’’ Such were the words of James J. Hill, one of the greatest railroad men America ever pro- duced, during a recent business trip. It is a noticeable fact that the men who have done most in the world usually feel that most remains to be accomplished. They who have seen and seized the op- portunities of the past are the ones who see those that lie before. Cecil Rhodes breathed their spirit in his last words, ‘*So much to do, so little done.’ Old ways and old methods may have worked fifty years ago, but they will not do to-day. SE, Nee ees MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 THE MORAL SENSE IN MAN. There are two ways of accounting for the origin of the moral sense in man. Jefferson expresses the prevailing view when he calls it ‘‘as much a part of man’s nature as the sense of hearing and feeling and may be strengthened by exercise.’’ But a school of modern thinkers following Herbert Spencer deny that the sense of right and wrong is inborn and regard it as a product of experience, strengthened and confirmed by heredity. It is certain that among primitive men morality could have existed only in a very low and rudimentary form, like their language, art and government. The human race was not set up at first with a full set of moral Jaws. Probably the faculty of distinguishing between good and evil, truth and _ falsehood, justice and injustice, belongs to the hu- man mind, although it is awakened or brought into activity only by the ex- periences of man in society, and there may be all degrees of this wakefulness. Thus we see that moral ideas and rules of conduct grow out of the constitution and conditions of humanity just as_ na- turally as do industry, invention, science, agriculture and politics. Suffering has been one of the great teachers of moral law. Men gradually found out that certain courses of con duct produced pain and misery and loss. Before the laws of cause and effect are understood, the child that bruises itself against a chair regards the chair as an active agent, and in some vague way it was at once supposed that the pain re- sulting from unwise conduct was a direct infliction from the unseen powers. There was thus an interplay of moral and re- ligious impressions and a belief in re wards and punishments expanded into ideal heavens and hells. But no group of intelligent beings could live together without discovering that their individual and collective safety and welfare depended upon do- ing some things and refraining from do- ing others. Thus there would gradually be produced a list of things required and forbidden. This would be the germ of a code of laws; and such a code must have come into operation ages before the invention of writing. The list of things would include whatever forms and observances were supposed to keep the family or tribe in friendly relations with living rulers and unseen beings. Hence sprang customs which were bind- ing. Their outward effect was regula- tive; their inward effect was educative. The superior races and the higher Civilizations did not spring wholly from warlike qualities or the ability to give and take hard knocks. One mighty factor of progress was the acceptance of law as a rule of right—the submission to discipline, whether domestic, mili- tary or civil. Moral discipline was par- ticularly powerful because it was an ex- ercise of each man’s personal will upon himself. When a man compels himself to act, or to refrain from acting, he is no longer an animal ora slave; he is a king, for he rules himself. Moral actions spring from a purpose; they imply a choice and the transaction is performed within the mind, There is no morality in winking and _ breath- ing and sleeping; we cannot help it. So with other actions which proceed from unreasoning impulse. Suppose we detect ourselves tapping on the table. Up to this moment the action has had no moral quality. Then we discover that the tapping causes annoyance to another person. If we continue tapping because we like to annoy, the action becomes immoral. If we refrain from a desire not to annoy, the action be- comes virtuous, This is a miniature of human history. In ‘‘the ages before morality,’’ to use Bagehot’s phrase, men tapped away on the world and, per- haps, tapped with clubs on each other’s heads, with no moral intention what- ever. But gradually they learned to dis- tinguish between conduct that was hurt- ful, selfish and cruel and conduct that was useful, just or kind, and, by the practice of self-control and deliberately using their power to help or to hurt, they became morally good or bad. After a set of customs or rules had once become established, morality con- sisted in conformity in living in accord- ance with usage. Ifa lad enters a shop to learn a trade, he watches to see how the toois are used and how the material is handled by those who have aiready learned. If he goes to school, he trusts to the teacher and the text book. If he ventures into company, he takes his cue as to manners and deportment from the behavior of his seniors. To violate the usages would be rude, disorderly, wrong. In a similar way did custom give law to ancient society. In savage tribes custom is still the only law; they treat all violation of itasacrime. Major Powell once spoke at a large gathering on. Indian’ ethics. ‘‘Who are the wicked?’’ he asked. ‘‘The bad man is he who has failed to sacrifice to his tutelar god the spleen of the last elk killed; or he who slept on his back the night before the battle, when the gods have taught him to sleep on his belly.’’ The original meaning of the words ‘‘moral’’ and ‘‘ethical’’ was simply conformity to the customs. But the customs were really laws; they were rooted in the life of society and were so vigorously enforced by the common conscience that no one could violate them without making himself an outlaw. To reuse a homely simile, to break the customs was like breaking the hoops of a barrel—it put in peril the whole struc- ture of the commonwealth. And society was true to itself in cherishing this in- stinct, for its very existence depended upon the unity of the people ; and their bond of unity was found in obedience to the laws, which included the observ- ances of religion. Forty million packages of seeds will be sent out by the Agricultural Depart- ment this year to farmers all over the country on lists furnished by Senators and Representatives. The number of seeds that will be contained in these packages will run up into the billions and they will weigh about 1,000 tons. This will be the most extensive seed distribution in the history of the De- partment of Agriculture. Heretofore there has been more or less complaint about the quality of the seeds sent out, many of which failed to grow. This year all contractors have been done away with and the Department has made its purchases in the seed markets by its own experts, who have tested all seeds bought. More attention is also being given this year to the selection of im- proved varieties of farm and garden seeds. Each Senator, Representative and delegate in Congress will have to his credit 12,000 miscellaneous packages, each containing smaller packages of five kinds of seeds. In addition each will have 500 packages of novelties— that is, new or little known varieties of peculiar merit—and each will have 5co packages of flower seeds. THE DECADENCE OF MUSIC. The time has come when honesty compels the admission that the divine art of music has reached a period of de- cadence among civilized peoples. Sin- gularly enough, while musical culture has always been supposed to bea criter- ion of national! refinement, the present degradation of the art is coexistent with unusual advancement in all other direc- tions. Literary accomplishment is be- coming general and is reaching to higher and higher standards. Science and in- vention seem to be nearing a culminat- ing point. In statesmanship and social organization there is marked progress. Education is pervading the masses and lifting the human race to new planes of achievement and of action. In sculp- ture and painting genius is bursting the bonds of convention and leading the way to brilliant conquest. The whole world is joining in a democracy of in- dustrial art, and West and East are ex- changing their secrets of handicraft. Ingenuity is lifting the drudgery of the toilers, setting hands free for finer and better uses. Original investigation is searching the mysteries of the deep and codifying the laws of the heavens. So- cial usages are undergoing a process of refinement, and the call is insistent for a stricter justice and a higher morality. All the world is marching on. Music alone lags behind to a rag-time movement. It keeps unseemly company and makes of itself a vehicle of vulgar- ity, pandering to the lowest tastes. In its present popular form it is a distinct demoralizing influence,degrading where it should elevate, corrupting where it should ennoble. The backward movement in music be- gan some thirty years ago, when weakly sentimental instrumental compositions like ‘‘The Maiden’s Prayer,’’ by force of their emotional pretensions, blinded the public to their lack of the essential quality which makes true music, and catchy, nonsensical productions like ‘‘Captain Jinks’’ and ‘‘Shoo Fly,’’ laid hold upen popular fancy. Once started on the downward path, with no great national crisis to repeat the influence of the Civil War and stimulate the demand for grander themes and more stirring notes, it was the old story of facilis de- scensus. The steeps of Parnassus are hard toclimb, but it is only necessary to loose the hold to glide easily down the walls that lead to Plutonian dominions. To-day a classical concert, lacking the stamp of fashion, will command a sparse audience, while the announce- ment of a programme filled with coon songs and cakewalks, or musical “‘spe- cialties’’-—that blanket-title of in- iquity—aiways insures a crowded house. True artists are making a gallant stand against the tendency of the times, but the number of those who weakly capit- ulate, furnishing bad music on the same principle that greedy pharmacists serve deadly poison to doubtful customers or dairymen dilute the milk they peddle, is greater. It is not probable that this degeneracy is more than a passing phase in the his- tory of an art as old as civilization it- self, and which was regarded by the an- cients as a means of expression for the loftiest themes. It may never be pos- sible to educate the populace to an ap- preciation of severe classical music, but it should be possible to divorce vulgar- ity from melody and to stimulate popu- lar taste to the enjoyment of what is pure and wholesome. Ballads and songs which appeal to human sympathy, to patriotism, to the heart’s finer senti- ments, never wane in popular favor, and no sane soul fails to respond to the musical lilt which expresses a healthy merriment. A resolute front on the part of musicians and managers, a little gen- erous forbearance on the part of a mis- guided public, would rescue suffering Music from her present unhappy plight and enable her to take her place in the procession which is moving forward in quest of a higher development. BEST MONEY FOR THE TOWN. Several New England localities have been celebrating Old Home Week, and among them is the city of Salem, Mass, At the formal exercises there the other day the address of welcome was de- livered by John F. Hurley, the mayor of the city. He improved the oppor- tunity to digress and to deliver a lecture of admonition. He pointed out how in the good old days Salem used to bea great place and that the sea captains who made their home there were sturdy, wide awake and enterprising, and then he had this to say: But unfortunately for Salem their de- scendants do not follow the footsteps of their illustrious ancestors. The busy bees of industrious life were followed by the lazy drones who, being idle and proud, scorned to continue the work of their fathers. They were satisfied to live on money which they never earned and were so unfavorable to commercial enterprises in their desire that Salem should remain an aristocratic and ex- clusive community that a commercial decline naturally followed. That, at least, has the merit of being plain and easily understood. The sting was taken out it a little by the sugges- tion that there was an improvement no- ticeable and that the time was coming when Salem would be quite a place again. It is true of Salem, as it is of every other place, that the best money for the town is that which is earned and not inherited. The dollar that is earned in the life of the possessor is an active, energetic, wide awake dollar, anxious to do something to multiply itself. The dollar that is inherited is usually timid, retiring and afraid to venture. It is quite satisfied to earn 3 per cent., espe- cially pleased if it can be invested ina Government bond, and never helps to turn new wheels or build up cities. For all practical purposes, so far as a town is concerned, the dollar earned is worth five inherited. The dollar earned has courage, while the dollar inherited is a coward. The dollar earned is diligent and industrious. The dollar inherited is indolent. That city which has the most earned dollars in it is the one which will be busiest, which will have the most mills and factories. The place which has the most inherited dollars will have the finest residences, the broadest streets, the highest prices and the poorest stores. Nobody would object to having as many inherited dollars as possible, but for the public welfare the earned dollar is far preferable. The United States mint at Philadel- phia turns out pennies at the rate of 4,000,000 per month and the Government is said to make a handsome profit out of the business. The copper blanks, out of which the pennies are made, are purchased at the rate of $7,300 per mil- lion. That is, the Government obtains for 7 3-10 cents the blanks which after stamping are transformed into $1 worth of pennies, What becomes of the mil- lions of pennies coined each year is an unsolved problem. Probably they go to the same place that the millions of pins manufactured annually go to. IATA LATE EE LE on i sido cog nindereneg aden brehbvees caine te nabesaiteeaen ae oa ee eae ee oe TBA, SET ae 10 Clothing Styles to Prevail in Ready-Made Clothing. It has only been within the past year and a half that styles for the coming seasons could be safely proclaimed un- til within two or three weeks of the opening of the season, when the tail- ors’ fashion plates arrived. These plates were held back until the last possible minute. To-day the styles shown in samples for ready-made clothing three months in advance of the incoming season are not only absolutely dependable, but are thought by some progressive minds to somewhat influence the complexion of the fashion plate which is issued at the opening of a season. Many will un- thinkingly scoff at the fact in that state- ment. It is nevertheless true to a very great extent. The skilled fashion designers, high- salaried men, employed to-day by the manufacturers of the highest class ready- made clothing, devote their entire study to the trend of styles and exercise the most cultivated skill and brain energy in designing fashions to meet the wants which their experience assures them will materialize. Is there any more reason then why this class of artists should not set the styles instead of one or two whose judgment can scarcely be more acute or positive? It must be acknowledged that the ready-made clothing of to-day is not only the peer of the tailor-made, but is forging to the front. A look at the sample display of the high class manufacturers impresses the observer by its genteel richness, while a close scrutiny emphasizes the merit of its quality. Never in the history of ready-made clothing have such high qualities in fabrics been shown, nor greater judgment exercised in avoiding any feature that would savor of the **freakish.’’ Extremes have been shunned and permissible innovations are very few. The rather long, comfortable overcoat will prevail, and undoubtedly be as great a favorite as last year. At the close of last season the reign of the long coat was written up in these columns and the prediction made that the de- mand for it would continue unabated into this coming season, but that the yokes, pleated backs, raglan shoulders and departures of a similar nature would be entirely eliminated. They have been, and to the betterment of the long coat. This long coat is now an established fixture, and will not go out of style for seasons. Anyone who has worn one, or even tried one on, is in- stantly converted into a staunch admirer of this comfortable, warm garment. It is strictly a winter coat and is a great protection in any kind of weather. Be- sides, it is dressy and appropriate for wear for any occasion or social func- tion, from business to wear with even- ing dress. No garment has ever held greater sway. For fall the boxy topcoat will be the favorite with men who dress well, yet not extravagantly. Its length has been shortened and its details broadened, making it look to be the warm garment it really is. In sack suits it seems that nota detail is lacking to make them as near the ideal or standard of perfection as it is possible to bring them. There is no stiffness or ‘‘set look,’’ which merchant tailors say characterizes ready-made clothing. This is due to the wonderful MICHIGAN TRADESMAN advancement made in the make-up of the garments. The leading clothing manufacturers have spared neither ex- pense nor energy in the past two years to bring about shape-retaining garments. Their results have stood the test of two or three seasons and are to-day satis- factory successes. The style and cut of the sack suits for fall and winter are particularly good this season. The shoulders are well built up, yet not square or chesty look- ing on the wearer. They are still further modifications from the military, yet re- tain that desired athletic, manly con- tour. The skirts are belled, or, rather, the waist line is taken in more than in last season’s suits. The flare ends very abruptly and is intended to stand out prominently. The trousers are very conservatively cut and show less amplitude over the hips. The general lines are straight. This distinct style was brought out early this spring and much favored. It is thought it may be an advance step to- ward bringing back the large, baggy trousers—of 22%-inch knee. Whether it is or not is now a question. The continued growth of the demand for the best ready-made clothing and the selection of quiet, genteel styles indi- cates that a better class of men are now patrons of the ready-made, and that heretofore indifferent dressers are real- izing the real economy in buying qual- ity. In looking back over the issues of this paper since April and studying the styles brought out by the many manu- facturers, one finds a general sameness in the various classes of garments that should be convincing proof that these results, from the minds of skilled de- signers, will be the prevailing styles. A Ellsworth & Thayer M’n’f’g Co. Miiwaukee, Wis. Manufacturers of Great Western Fur and Fur Lined Cioth Coats The Good-Fit, Don’t-Rip Kind. We want agent in every town. Catalogue and full particulars on application. B. B. DOWNARD, General Salesman. Heavenrich Bros. Correct Clothes for Men Are universally considered the best on the market. Your customers will surely ap- preciate them. We spare no ex- pense in getting up well-made, perfect-fitting, SHAPE-RETAINING garments and invite you to in- spect our line when you come to Chicago. Heavenrich Bros. 208, 210, 212, 214 Van Buren St., Chicago Take Elevator Corner of Franklin St. Detroit office and salesroom 131 Jefferson Avenue je Y0U BUY COVERT cons fe ee Ci <9 look at the best coats madeand ele you will find them in our line. $841 >» [OOK at the maicrial; the best No | Palmer coverts. We use them for TF their wearing qualities. | LOOK at the linings and workmanship 4 LOOK at the fit every time. 4 [QOKat our sizes and see if they 4 ore not full and true to size. lOOK to the interest of your custom er, and see that he gets qood values : so that he will come to you again. We make these goods in our fadories and will be pleased to receive @ sample order and test the truth of our statements. [DEAL (OTHING 8 (\K TOA W § ae SSSA lbelin oe. eae: WS SSX x SS - gi- 69 MARKET GRAND RAPIDS, M MICHIGAN TRADESMAN il great variance of styles would indicate that the designer for each house was ex- perimenting, but the general consensus of opinion, as expressed in their styles, shows that all have studied the fashion tendency and have designed their prod- ucts after the most careful research and reasoning. These men have access to the same source of information that the several have who for years have dic- tated the fashions to the custom tailor. Who, then, are the real authorities on styles, the several or the many, who have equal opportunities to study the wants of the dressy men?—Apparel Gazette. —_-—_~>-@ Shirting Styles For Spring. Exceptionally large business is al- ready booked in spring shirtings. The season’s collections of styles are fresh and natty—replete with newness. The style changes in colorings, patterns and fabrics are so very radical and mark so distinctive a breakaway from the shirt- ing vogues of the present retail season that they are crowding out all that is passe. Business in foreign woven lines has been increasing gratifyingly. Imported madras goods are resplendent with originality and beauty. The variety of ideas expressed in new collections is very great, and when one is told that style tendencies run largely to stripes, the wonder is that so much novelty can be worked out of so simple a thing as stripes. However, styles are not con- fined to stripes and the assortment of fancy woven figures is even more attrac- tive on account of the ingenuity of the designer and loom work. In color schemes white grounds pre- dominate, and patterns are wrought in delicate tints of pink, green and blue. Black on white is the undoubted leader, and into this combination a variety of color effects is introduced, such as green and black on white grounds, red and black, and so forth, mostly two and three tone patterns. Plain shades for the body of the shirt and fancy bosoms with collars to match are the coming shirt vogue. For such fancy bosoms an importer is showing fancy Russian cord stripes, also fancy broche madras in fetching color arrange- ments on white grounds. The very ultra idea in fashionable spring shirtings is cellular madras in mercerized effects, colcr stripes on white. The mesh is firmly bound in the weaving, so that there is stability to the fabric, the line in question being of the best foreign make. Originality and chic are characteristic features of spring collections of domes- tic shirtings in both the woven and printed fabrics. Styles run largely to small geometrical figures sparsely scat- tered over white grounds. These pat- terns are mostly in black on white, but there is also a generous assortment of two and three color schemes, which are brighter and more pleasing to the man who likes a dash of color as distinctive from the extreme nattiness of black and white purely. In these color combina- tions on fancy woven and corded per- cales there are blended brown and green, browns in two shades—light and dark— black and red. The reds, greens and blues are indefinite tones—far richer than the true colors themselves. A special line of domestic oxfords in printed stripes and mercerized stripes is winning friends for itself and busi- ness for the agent. The same may be said of a fancy assortment of oxford fancies woven in alternating stripes of pique and basket weave, each an inch broad, and especially designed for pleated fronts. The fetching character of domestic shirtings can best be judged’ from state- ments made to the writer and verified in his presence by order books, which is that the agents representing the lines specifically described are well sold for the spring of 1903,and have begun work on their collections for the fall of next year, a a The Panama Hat. There was a man whose chief desire Was a Panama hat. He said: ‘That’s what I most require; It is the thing I most admire; V’ll have to beg or buy or hire Me a Panama hat.”’ He envied every man he saw In a Panama hat. He gazed at window shows with awe And sighed: ‘They cost a heap, but, pshaw! I pretty near would break the law For a Panama hat.’’ He talked to every man and maid About a Panama hat. No chat of marriage he essayed, Nor weather, crops, or trusts or trade; just: ‘How Id like to be arrayed In a Panama hat!’ He soon fell ill; he worried so ver a Panama hat. And when he lay in sickness low They asked him where he’d like to go. ‘¢ Wherever,”’ he said, ‘‘ they can show Me a Panama hat!’ At last his feeble spirit fled— With no Panama hat. They preached a sermon o’er his head, In which they hoped, the speaker said, That he with wings was garnished— And a Panama hat. Take warning from this lesson true On a Panama hat. Don’t let your longings pester you Until you’re sick and sad and blue; But, if you must, go dare and do For a Panama hat. a In the Center of the Jobbing District. Merchants who visit Grand Rapids during the trade excursion from Aug. 25 to Sept. 10 are cordially invited to make their headquarters at the Hotel War- wick, which has always been a favorite with Michigan merchants and arpears to be growing in favor every day. Ample accommodations will be reserved for those arriving on late trains, includ- ing the week of the races, Aug. 26 to 29. The Warwick is the most conven- iently located of any hotel in Grand Rapids, being only three blocks from the Union depot, while three main car lines pass the front door. It is in the center of the jobbing district. Landlord Gardner has a long record as a success- ful hotel man and his management of the Warwick is augmenting that reputa- tion daily. 986 SOOO SOOS OH9909OS 96940564 9990906 96999966 00900008 The : Peerless Manuiacturing ; Company. | We are now closing out our entire line of Spring and Summer Men’s Fur- nishings at reduced prices, and will show you at the same time the most complete line for FALL and WINTER consisting in part of Pants, Shirts, Covert and Mackinaw Coats, Sweaters, e Underwear, Jersey Shirts, Hosiery, Gloves and Mitts. : Samples displayed at 28 So. lonia St., Grand Rap'ds and 31 and 33 Larned street East, Detroit, Michigan. OOO SH SSOOOOOS 99900409 Making Detroit Famous That’s what VINEBERG’S PATENT POCKET PANTS are doing. Nothing can drop out of them and they are proof against pick-pockets. If you are not handling our pants fitted with the celebrated SAFETY POCKETS you should do so at once, as they are money makers. SEND FOR SAMPLES. Sold everywhere by all up-to-date clothiers. Manufactured only by Vineberg’s Patent Pocket Pants Co. Detroit, Mich. All Kinds All Kinds of PAPER BOXES of Solid Folding Do you wish to put your goods up in neat, attractive packages? Then write us for estimates and samples. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Box Makers Die Cutters Printers Is something more than a label and a name—it’s a brand of popular priced clothing with capi- tal, advertising, brains, push, repu- tation and success behind it—a brand with unlimited pos- sibilities and profits in front of it. The profits can be Our $5.50, $7-00 and $8.50 lines have been “class leaders” for years. Progressive methods and success have enabled us to add QUALITY to our whole line. $3.75 to $15 oo—Men’s Suits and Overcoats—a range which includes everything in popular priced clothing. Boys’ and Children’s Clothing, too—just as good values as the men’s. Looks well—wears well—pleases the customer— pays the dealer—and you want it. “A new suit for every unsatisfactory one.’ Detroit Office Room 19, , Kanter Building. M. J. Rogan in charge. 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers Many Fine Theories Which Are ‘Not Practicable. There are lots of beautiful theories about fitting and selling shoes, many of which, if they could be carried out in practice, would make shoe buying and shoe wearing a sort of picnic, instead of a trying ordeal to customers. Of course, some general standard of procedure must be fixed by the shoe re- tailer for his own guidance in adapting the new shoe to the old foot: and in fixing his standard he is usually influ- enced by that eternal fitness of things which shall conduce to the welfare of the feet that are to wear the shoes he fits upon them. ‘‘Always try to sell your shoes large enough,’’ says the old shoe man, This is excellent advice, and so logical that he who fits shoes will readily assent to it; for a shoe that is too small at the start will never bring down blessings on the head of the man who sold it. But the same authority says (what every experienced retailer is saying to himself): ‘‘Some people will com- plain that you fit their shoes too large.’’ Now, there you are, and one of our cherished theories has ‘‘gone glimmer- ing’’—has met the enemy, and we are theirs; has been shattered by the stub- born, practical owner of the foot to be fitted. It takes two to make a bargain, in fitting as well as in selling shoes; and the foot that ‘‘ pays the freight’’ always has the deciding vote. We could have done better by that willful foot and saved it pain, only for the second one in the bargain. But it was not to be; so the shoe wearer will get the pain and punishment of a tight shoe, and we will reap the whirlwind of his wrath every time it pinches him. His ill- fitting shoe will be a Nemesis to follow his steps and revenge itself upon him. Just for a half size in length and one better in width of looks, that foolish woman has stepped hetween us and our pet theory, ‘‘sell your shoes large enough.’’ ‘‘Serves her right,’’ says the indignant young clerk. In his incon- siderate resentment of her insistence upon shoes that prove a curse to her, he forgets, or rather does not know, for he is green and inexperienced yet, that the tight shoe of the customer, even if selected by herself,is the shoe retailer’s boomerang. It will fly back, figuratively, and around the man who sold it; so that what serves her right will serve the shoe man wrong. The innocent will be com- pelled to suffer with the guilty; for she will, very likely, go elsewhere to have her proud feet pinched the next time. But the aforesaid authority goes back doggedly to his original theory, and declares: ‘‘It is far better to sell shoes a little large than too small.’' So it is and if you get your customer to say, “‘just so,’’ then there will be no hitch in the transaction. But will she? In nine and one-half cases out of ten each mother’s daughter of them will declare emphatically against the ‘‘little too large’’ condition; and the remaining one-half is only half persuaded. ‘“Now when you fit them,see that they do not hurt.’’ You can not see that, nor feel it either; and the only person who knows where it pinches is, like Br’er Remus’ rabbit, ‘‘layin’ low, and ain't sayin’ nothin’.’’ You wouid like to have some sort of an X-ray invented for detecting pain, so that you could locate the painful spot; and, in your determination to prevent her from hav- ing such shoes, you could then add so much to the shoe pain by dexterous pressure of the hand as to cause her to relinquish them. ‘‘Some people,’’ says a writer on footwear, ‘‘will sooner give away a pair of shoes than wear them when they pinch,’’ A great many persons will not. Some of the latter would rather force them back upon the retailer if they could, even if they have been partly worn. Others would fall back upon the deadly shoe stretcher, under whose power- ful influence something has to yield. Few resort to the donation dodge. In order to placate the little woman on whose feet you have easily slipped and laced up a pair of the ‘‘little-too-large’’ brand, tell her that a slip insole will adjust matters toa nicety. If this in- formation does not bring a derisive smile she will be a woman a little out of the ordinary. She will probably tell you the shoe that will contain an insole and her foot is not the sort she is looking for, Then, again, she may demand with prospective directness how this will pro- vide for the worn shoe after it becomes stretched. The sarcastic young clerk would, inconsiderately, recommend a second slip sole for this unseen emerg- ency; but the older head knows that this would be fatal to a sale, even if the superfluous room in the new shoe were not. And with the tight shoe there is that heroic remedy which the junior clerk calls ‘‘surgical treatment’’—the _ir- resistible stretcher. But woe unto the shoe that is slightly put together under this brutal strain! There is, perhaps, a spot where the stitching has run close to the edge of the upper, or a defective thread which won't stand such treat- ment, and then the retailer is a loser,or else there are damages to adjust. But, after all,why should any intelligent cus- tomer want a shoe that has to be forced to fit her foot, when there are others that are just right? Curious, when we come to think of it, how shoes are sold at all to some peo- ple. There are so many conditions to fit besides the feet. There are prejudices, captiousness, irresolution, and_ the ‘“something for nothing’’ mania to con- tend with, besides the physical labor of getting the minimum size shoe on the maximum size foot. Then the set of the thing, the looks of the thing and the feel of the thing; and lastly, but not least, the paramount question of price. All of which lead straight to the sub- ject of ‘‘ Prevention of Cruelty to Shoe Clerks.’’ If there is any class of toilers who need a half holiday each week dur- ing the summer more than the slave at the footrest, they have not yet been dis- covered, or put in their claim; and the sordid retailer who refuses to his clerks a breathing spell on regular holidays, or who grudgingly grants them one-half of such days, will not be likely to yield them a half day each week, Things are working this way, how- ever, and the time is not far distant when the overworked shoe salesman will have this much as his right, and not as a favor. Think of it; a whole, half day, besides Sunday, when you will not have to button or lace a shoe except your own! Now, the arbiter of this important question is not the merchant or his clerk, but the great trading public, who can. quietly bring relief so desirable to the shoe salesman, by simply making their necessary purchases a little earlier, This may seem like a dream Own (SS SCO If You Want the Best § Buy Hoods No better rubbers made. No better fitting rubbers sold. No better money makers to be had. Mail us your orders or 5 drop us a card and our salesman will call. We have a big stock and are headquarters for Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The L. A. Dudley Rubber Co. Battle Creek, Mich. wn wn, WT. a, a, Wn WH. © When you see a tough old customer come into your store for a pair of shoes, one that you know to be particularly hard on shoes, just put a pair of Our Hard Pan shoes on him. He won't come back kicking, for there are no shoes made that will come up to Our Hard Pan for wear. Made by Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Makers of Shoes Men’s Work Shoes Snedicor & Hathaway Line No. 743. Kangaroo Calf. Bal. Bellow’s Tongue. % D. S. Standard Screw. $1.75. Carried in sizes 6 to 12. Geo. H. Reeder & Co. Grand Rapids We would be pleased to have every shoe merchant in the State carefully inspect and compare our “Custom Made Shoes” with any they may be handling. - The season is fast ap- proaching when such a line as-ours will meet the de- mands of those who are looking for a FIRST CLASS WORKING SHOE Waldron, Alderton & Melze, A postal card to us will bring the line to you. Saginaw, Michigan MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 of Arcadia in some instances; but if the good natured public will co-operate, it is easily possible. Curious, too, that the same public which makes life a bur- den to the clerk, and of whom a rich man once said, ‘‘The public be d—d!’’ can bring balm of Gilead to this clerk. It is a big change from the Egyptian sandal before referred to, whicb was clapped on by the wearer herself without the aid of foot mirror or a buttonhook, to the present sort of foot toggery in our stores, The latter requires the com- bined efforts of a stalwart clerk, the heroic fortitude of the victim fitted,and sometimes a shoehorn and_ buttonhook. The old sandal was a snap, and no trouble about fitting. But we have changed all that primeval simplicity of form and scantinesss of material, and the modern methods of fitting shoes are a good deal more com- plicated than those which prevailed a thousand years ago. And then,the manner of buying shoes. Why, the modern dealer would regard the ancient shoemaker'’s ease of trans- ference of footwear from his shelves to the feet of customers as a delightful pastime, involving so little care and labor as to be a safeguard against ner- vous disorders and gray hairs and wrinkles, and the clerk would find it so agreeable and restful as to withdraw his claim upon a half holiday each week during the summer. But those ‘‘good old times’’ are gone to stay. The cumbrous ox-cart of the Nile dweller and the sandal have been replaced by the electric car and the wonderfully beautiful modern shoe. The latter does not go on with a thong and a couple of knots, or with the click of a snap hook, like the harness on a fire hoise. It gets onto the modern female foot with infinite pains, mental and physical, and then the chances are that five or six more must try their luck be- fore the right one is found to meet all the conditions of fit, tastes and finances of the woman who is most deeply con- cerned in the transaction. The feet, of course, have other troubles besides those occasioned by ill-fitting shoes. Although our feet are wonder- fully tough and, on the whole, quite re- liable members, nevertheless a_ very slight mishap will put them out of com- mission and cause great pain and incon- venience. A miscalculated step will throw the weight of the body where it does not belong, and the foot, in trying to prevent a fall, is forced to receive a strain never intended for it. There are two ways of treating sprained ankles, both of which have their advocates. Cold water and cold lotions are resorted to by some persons, while others regard hot applications as the better way. Sprains of the feet and ankles are sooner relieved by the latter in nine out of ten cases; and doctors are abandoning the old-fashioned treatment by cold applications as rather harmful. Take water as hot as it can be borne by the skin and some thick flannel cloths to use for the fomentation. Dip your flannel and wring out, and just before applying it each time pour ona little hot water, then clap it upon the tender place as hot as it can be Lorne, This is an alterative, and unlike a cold application, it soothes and reduces the swelling of the strained muscles and cords of the foot. Repeat until the pain is relieved. When the hot flannels can not be changed, as during sleep, have the affected part wrapped tightly in band- ages of the flannel, as the pressure will prevent painful motions of the foot. No rubbing or other interference is neces- sary, as the repeated hot, moist appli- cations will assist nature in repairing the trouble. These are among our un- avoidable sufferings, The tight shoe pain is avoidable.—E, A. Boyden in Boot and Shoe Recorder. > 2. _____ Recent Changes Among Indiana Mer- chants. Loogootee—Arvin & Klee continue the grocery business of Arvin Bros. Marion—Philip Lyons & Co, is the new style under which the clothing busi- ness of Philip Lyons is continued. Newcastle—E. S. Murphy has pur- chased the jewelry stock of W. G, Hillock. North Webster—Garber & Mock, general merchandise dealers, have dis- solved partnership, the former succeed- ing. Poseyville—French & Boyd have sold their furniture and hardware stock to Yarbroug & Ball. ! Selvin—A., Wolsey is succeeded in the grocery business by D. W. Whitting- hill. Sboals—A. O. Hawkins has purchased the bakery of Peterson & Marsey. Summitville—Jones & ‘Tomlinson, furniture dealers, have dissolved part- nership. The business is continued by Jones & Young. Tippecanoe—Geo. Swihart has pur- chased the interest of his brother in the grocery business of Philip & George Swihart. Lafayette—The dry goods firtn of the Loeb & Hene Co, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, The di- rectors are Solomon Loeb, Samuel Hene and Julius L. Loeb. Amboy—Samuel W. Cook has retired from the hardware business of Stan- combe & Cook. Clover— Powell & Albright, general dealers, have dissolved partnership. The business is continued under the style of John Powell & Son. Columbia City—E. E. Ricker suc- ceeds the Columbia Co. in the grocery business. Delphi—S. I. Wert has removed his boot and shoe stock to Rochester. DePauw—C. L. Coppa succeeds Jos. Peters in the confectionery business. Elkhart—Robert H. Owen has _ pur- chased the interest of his partner in the grocery business of Owen & Swain. Greensburg—Frank Batterton has sold his grocery stock to Chas. Schuh. Greensburg—S. C. Schoffner has dis- continued the drug business. Huntington—The capital stock of the Comstock Novelty Co. has been in- creased to $35,000, Indianapolis—The capital stock of the Reiffel Packing & Provision Co. has been increased from $10,c00 to $35,000, Indian Springs—Mrs. Martha A. Wampler has sold her general mer- chandise stock to Pershing & Inman. LaPorte—Mr. Peterson, of Peterson & Swanson, grocers, has purchased the in- terest of his partner and will! continue the business in his own name, Lawrenceburg——H. Tashman has closed out his clothing stock and retired from trade. Lebanon—Samuel Storm, grocer, has taken a partner under the style of Storm & Henderson. Ligonnier—Wm. E. & D. E. Cald- well continue the grocery and bakery business formerly conducted under the style of Braden & Caldwell. ——-—~ +9 There is one thing a Western cyclone can not do—lift a mortgage off the farm. The merchant who can please his trade on school shoes usually does the shoe business of the town. Mayer’s shoes for Boys and Girls are never disappointing, You can depend on them. They are made in every conceiva ble style and wear like iron. Write for prices. F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Co., Milwaukee, Wis. hii Skill Labor That’s the story from beginning to end. A shoe is either the glory or shame of its maker. Give him the best leather in the world to work with; give him his honest wage and steady work, and require only that he do his best and the results are shoes upon which we stamp our trade- mark with pride and gratification. AINE ONDE SHOE. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Mich. Brilliant and Halo Gasoline Gas Lamps Are lights that have never failed to give perfect satisfaction and thousands of them are in daily use all over the world in Stores, Homes, Churches, Factories, Streets, Parks, Etc. Average running expense about 15 to 30 cents a Month A 20 foot room can be lighted by one Bril- liant or a 40 foot hall by one Halo. Agents wanted everywhere. iis le \ ) c| BE) brats bal hsh| ee Oey Halo Pressure Lamp 500 Candle Power Brilliant Gas Lamp Company 42 State St., Chicago 100 Candle, Power George Bohner * 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods Weekly Market Review of the Principal Staples. Staple Cottons—The principal feature of interest in the market since our last report has been lower quctations an- nounced on several of the leading lines of wide sheetings. As a rule, these prices are merely a public announce- ment of quotations that have really been given for some little time. It has, however, made it hard for sellers in every line of goods and given the buy- ers a lever with which to work. In other lines of staple cottons so far there have been no open changes, although according to the buyers they expect them daily. Brown sheetings and drills reflect the characteristics of the past two weeks. The home demand is dull and there is little doing for export. The general tone is inclined to be easy. Bleached cottons are quiet and so far show no actual change in either demand or price. Coarse colored cottons are quiet and fairly steady in tone, although in some directions it is evident that special contracts are likely to receive special concessions. Prints and Ginghams—The print divi- sion of the market has been quiet all the week. There have been few buyers doing any business and even they have made but smal! selections. There has, however, been some increase in the mail order business,although not of any great consequence. Fancy prints have been purchased in very small quanti- ties. Some reorders are coming to hand for special finishes and full stand- ard grades, but for other lines there has been little business. Staple indigos, reds, etc., have shown a _ moderate amount of orders and the Jeading makes of mourning prints are said to be well sold up and steady. Ginghams are firm throughout on account of the small sup- ply, which at present does not meet the demand. Linings—The market for cotton lin- ings has been quiet this week in all di- rections, less business being transacted it is reported than the recent average. Kid-finished cambrics have been one of the lines to show open reductions, al- though these have been quoted in sev- eral instances. Silesias and percalines are quiet and somewhat irregular and offers on more favorable terms have been made to buyers but without bringing practical results. The clothing trade have bought sparingly of lines that in- terest them and prices show no change. Wool Goods—The past week has not served to materially change conditions in the initial wool and worsted dress goods market. The business that has come forward has consisted for the most part of modest reorders for cheap and medium-priced staples, with a fair sprinkling of fancies for skirt and suit uses. The initial market has not served to draw many buyers, either of the cut- ting up or the jobbing fraternities, and such as have put in an appearance have operated along careful and well-beaten lines. The reorders that are coming forward from jobbers are simply of a filling-in character and may he taken to indicate along which lines the retailer has so far pursued his purchases in a fair manner. The jobber shows little disposition to make any great provision at this time for the reorder business that he hopes to secure, but is simply oper- ating with a view to keeping his stock good. There is no special feature to the jobber’s business on wool and worsted goods at this time, While he is continually working off goods the outlet, he finds, is not a large one and seem- ingly will not assume larger proportions until things begin to crystallize in the fall retail market. Underwear—Business has been excel- lent and has shown that the public were guided by the calendar rather than the thermometer. The few very warm days early in spring were enough to make this business comparatively lively, and although it cooled off again it was thought that this summer would bea pretty warm one. The fact that stocks are not large is well borne out by the few ‘‘sales'’ of underwear that are an- nounced in the various parts of the country. In a like manner the jobbing trade has shown much less inclination than usual! to hold cut price sales. The cool summer, however, is undoubtedly the cause of the slower movement of the new spring goods. Some buyers have undoubtedly purchased practically all of their spring 1903 lines and further purchases on their part will be only for smal] lots here and there to fill in styles and sizes or because particularly attrac- tive prices are offered; still, the expec- tation is that the season will be a rather long one and the buying pretty evenly distributed over a good period. Buyers who are in town have complained a number of times about being disap- pointed in regard to deliveries last spring, but many of these complaints were caused by the orders being placed with irresponsible parties, those who took contracts at almost any price, and when it came to delivering the goods, -they filled orders on which they secured the best terms first and let the others come in as they could, sometimes not delivering them at all. The last two or three seasons have shown that buyers have taken more care in placing their orders on this account, and this season the result will be even more marked than before. Those who have failed to live up to agreements in the past sea- son, will undoubtedly find that prices alone will induce a very small com- plement of orders. They may get some orders, and they doubtless will, but those who place orders with them will duplicate the orders with other houses on which they can depend. If both con- tracts are filled they will get a portion of the goods at very small price. If they are not filled they will not suffer for it. Of course there is always another reason for late deliveries, and that is naturally the fault of the buyers, who wait and wait to see if they can not make a little better deal until they finally place their orders so late that it is next to impos- sible to get them at anywhere near the time wanted, but this certainly should be no cause for complaint. There has been a big business on the cheap bal- briggans, which was the case a year ago, and to some extent at the expense of ribbed goods. Nevertheless ribbed goods have received a fair quantity of orders. There are small assortments of fancies to be seen almost everywhere, but they are not considered as likely to be great factors in the spring business. Medium and lower grades are much scarcer than the fine grades. Hosiery—Hosiery buyers in town, while they have placed a fair number of orders for next spring, are undoubtedly fighting shy of the market in general. This section of the market will be a slow one. Many of the buyers who come to town to look over the lines and place small orders have now returned to their homes and will do the largest part of the business by mail. They ex- GSLLLLLALLLAALLALL ALA Attention We hereby call Special Attention to our stock of goods for with complete lines of goods selected with the greatest care, many of them under our exclusive control. Our facilities for serving the trade are now unsurpassed. P. Steketee @ Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich. fall trade. Each department of our house will be found well et Wholesale Dry Goods, We can show you as good an assortment of Sweaters as you care to look at—all “top notchers” for value. Prices as fol- lows: Men’s, per dozen, $4.50 $15.00 $24.00 It’s not a bluff but a fact $9.00 $22.50 $30.00 Boys’, per dozen, $4.50 $7.00 $12.00 Also a line for the little fellows at $6.00 per dozen, sizes 16 to 24. Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. Exclusively Wholesale Grand Rapids, Mich. Formerly Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. © Fall Line of Ready Made Clothing e = — Boys and ere ang oy: conceivable kind. No wholesale house has such a : arge line on view, samples filling sixty trunks, representing over Two Million and a @ Half Dollars’ worth of Ready Made Clothing. My establishment has proven a aias © e benefit, as dozens of respectable retail clothing merchants can testify, who come here often from all parts of the State and adjoining States, as they can buy from the very e 2 cheapest that is made to the highest grade of goods. I represent eleven different facto- ries. Lalso employ a competent staff of travelers, and such of the merchants as prefer to s e buy at home kindly drop me a line and same will receive prompt attention. I have very — and spacious — — —oe adapted to make selections, and I pay cus- 6 omers’ expenses. ice hours, daily.7:30a. m. to 6 p. m. ex ¢ av a ieee C} alee : v.72 P except Saturday, then 7:30 e@ PANTS of every kind and for all ages. Sole Ago £ ichi ne : y kind and for all ages. § Agent for Western Michigan for the VINEBERG PATENT POCKET PANTS, proof against pickpockets. 28% e @ Citizens phone, 1957; Bell phone, Main 1282; Residence address, room ° : 207, Livings Hotel; Business address 07, Livingston WILLIAM CONNOR, 28 and 30 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. ESTABLISHED A QUARTER OF A CENTURY N. B.—Remember, everything direct from the factory 3 no jobbers’ prices. SUMMER GOODS—I still have a good line to select from. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 pect to, and certainly will, place more orders because they have not purchased anywhere near enough to supply their trade. Two or three lines of hosiery claim to be sold up, but several are sold ahead in a way that will keep the fac- tories running for some little time. Most of the prices quoted for next spring are on last year’s level, but the same irregu- larity does not exist. Sellers are firm in their present quotations and prefer to wait further developments rather than accept iower prices, Fancies are evi- dently taking a strong position again for the spring, particularly in open- work effects, both for women and men. Embroiderd half hose are expected to be good factors, judging from the orders which they received. Carpets—The carpet trade continues active, with no immediate prospects of any sudden change. The mills have business on their books now that will take many weeks to fill, and it is no un- usual case where the entire season’s production has been contracted for. In Kensington and other Philadelphia car- pet mill centers the looms are working more than the full quota of time and the same can be said of the large Eastern mills. The carpet trade has doubtless seldom seen a more prosperous condition of things than they are experiencing at the present time. Help, especially fe- male help, in the large cities, has be- come scarce, owing to the good times. The male members of the family are all at work earning good wages, which does not make it necessary for the other sex to find employment. In the mill sections of Philadelphia it is not unusual now to see notices posted at the doors of nearly every mill asking for female help for nearly all departments in which they are usually employed. Mill owners are making a general complaint in relation to this and are quoted as saying that as soon as dull times make their appear- ance again, one can find all the help needed. In jobbing circles the demand for carpets is beginning to increase. Retailers and other dealers are laying in their fall supply to quite a large extent. Traveling men report that ‘things are coming their way’’ and that it takes lit- tle effort to get their trade to an inter- ested and even a buying point. The retailers’ stocks are in a pretty fair con- dition and the left-over pieces, it is thougbt,are not of a very heavy volume. The advanced prices so far have been received with little protest and the buy- ing movement has not been visibly affected by the increase in market values. Good orders for the three- quarter goods have been obtained, not only in the East, but also in the South and West, as well. Tapestries and Brus- sels seem to be the leaders thus far, al- though the Axminsters are not far be- hind. Wiltons and the five-frame body Brussels are receiving their share of the business, but it is plainly seen that the spring season saw a larger demand for these fine goods than is the case at the present time. While as a general thing the market is more active now than then, the tendency of the demand has been towards a slightly cheaper article. Some of the cheaper lines contain some very attractive looking fabrics, which nat- urally attract attention, but nevertheless the best policy in all cases is to buy the best that one’s purse can afford. In in- grains the business thus far placed in the jobbers’ hands has been of a very satis- factory nature. The Philadelphia weav- ers are running their mills at full capac- ity. Weavers are now able to get fairly satisfactory rates, but there is no telling how long it will be when another ad- vance in values will be necessary. With the shortage in deliveries which the yarn trade is experiencing to-day still better prices are likely to be seen if the present situation continues for any length of time. Rugs—The rug weavers in and about Philadelphia continue to feel the effects of the labor troubles. Efforts were made to settle the controversies and in fact some of the mills were able to run for a day, but now things are in as bad a position as ever. The mill men con- tinue to hold out and they say that they will not grant any further concessions. mn A Modern Vacation. Inclination, Deliberation, Consultation, Investigation, Hesitation, Anticipation, Recreation, Navigation, Piscation, Balneation. Confabulation, Communication, Information, Calculation, Computation, Exclamation, Expostulation, Indignation, Lachrymation, Explanation, Capitulation, Reconciliation, Osculation. Preparation, Elation, Exhilaration, Alteration, Procrastination, Obfuscation, Vexation, Reconsideration, Disputation, Arbitration, Propitiation, Revocation, Humiliation, Exultation , Negotiation, Resignation. Embarkation, Destination, Realization, Perambulation, Exploration, Disapprobation, Consternation, Lamentation, Mortification, Tribulation, Interrogation, Equivocation, Denunciation, Gesticulation, Placation, Perspiration, Deprecation, Prevarication, Desperation, Determination, Renunciation, Liquidation, Vociferation, Imprecation. Re-embarkation, Termination, Vacation. Aluminum Money Will Increase Your Business. ‘ a) Co. Ig é THE ALLEN LIGHT, gt MFO. BY M.B.ALLEN GAS LIGHT CO, BATTLE- CREEK, MICH Leslie, Mich., June 30, 1902. To whom it may concern: We have been using the Little Giant Gas Machine, manufactured by the Allen Gas Light Co. nearly two years and find it satisfactory in every way. Weare using twelve lights at an expense of twenty-four dollars a year. Have had no trouble whatever. There are seven of the Allen plants in town at the present time. Whoever wants a nice, bright, cheap light put in the Allen gas light. Beats them all. J. J. MURPHY. Responsible agents wanted in every town to install and sell Allen Light. Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. PAINT, COLOR AND VARNISH MAKERS Mixed Paint, White Lead, Shingle Stains, Wood Fillers Sole Manufacturers CRYSTAL ROCK FINISH for Interior and Exterior Use. Corner 15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo, Ohio. GOOOOOOOOOOOHOGOOOGDOOOGHHGO a Joe ED sprecpe meagan vee Woe ap a Sporting Goods, Ammunition, Stoves, Window Glass, Bar Iron, Shelf Hard- Ware, ctc., cic. Foster, Stevens & Co., 31, 33, 35> 37; 39 Louis St. 10 & 12 Monroe St. Grand Rapids, Mich. POOUGOOGOOGHOOOGHOOHOGHGHHOHHOSH SSSSSSSSSESSSSSSSSSHSISSSSOS SESSSESESSSCSE SS SOSSSSSSSSSSIAIE 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN so to speak, a portion of their tribute in the way of a reduced cost to the con- sumer, because of the economy effected in the distribution of goods. A consolidation of commercia) inter- ests is no monstrosity, unless an unwise policy makes it so. They have a power, we will admit, but that power must be for good or it will be taken away and the guardians of our country, holding forth in the Nation’s capital, will see to it that laws are inaugurated which will prevent, in a great measure, the carry- ing into effect of any policy which shall not be fair to aJl concerned. In this connection it is well to give due credit to those national and state organizations which have done so much for the hardware trade of the United States during the years which they have existed. They have done more perhaps than any other one thing to eliminate bad feeling between competitors and stimulate good feeling between different branches of the trade. What this has accomplished not only for the dealers themselves but for the manufacturers and consumers also, is too plainly apparent to need mention- ing. I believe the time has come when we can goa step further, and although that consolidation in which we have taken a vital interest has for the present at least been abandoned, I believe it is sure to come and that the great consoli- dations which have been made and which will be made in the future, just as soon as they get their bearings and their machinery into action, will be able to improve stiil further our condi- tions as a whole. The word ‘‘hardware’’ has a warm place in our hearts. This particular branch of industry is perhaps nearer to us than any other. In its ranks will be found as grand a set of men as have ever lived; men who have been accus- tomed to figkt the battle of life from their birth; men who have for many years kept their shoulders diligently to the wheel; men who haverisen from the most menial positions to the highest; men who from knowing how to labor themselves appreciate to a full degree the cost and value of labor. It is a business which must be thor- oughly mastered and understood if it is to be handled successfully, and the hardware trade are to be congratulated upon this fact. Following up a mere whim, an individual firm or corporation can not engage in the hardware business and make a success of it; they must pay their tribute in labor before they can hope for reward. Notwithstanding all this they have made their mistakes, and without being personal I believe it is no exaggeration, when speaking as a class, to say that until perhaps three years ago the hardware jobbers of the United States never realized that the in- terests of the hardware manufacturers were almost akin to their own. There was too much tendency in many localities to break down the manufacturer’s prices and ignore his goods. Some of our good friends were driven to the retail trade, and some of them were driven out of business, and for quite a considerable period the mar- kets were flonded with no end of cheap trash, for which this mistake was di- rectly responsible. The mercantile consolidations of to- day are mere fledglings, although they belong to the large species; they have a mission to fulfill, and I believe they will fulfill it. Difficulties, not facilities, make men and make nations, Certain- ly, the paths which our consolidations will have to travel at the outset will have few roses and many thorns, It will be necessary to learn how to control and govern them and then find able men who are capable of doing it; but I believe they will play a large and im- portant part in our future commercial history, and although the mistakes of those who are responsible for their crea- tion will, in a measure, retard their growth and development, their over- capitalization is but an incident, and although of grave moment—an incident nevertheless—and a setback, for this and other causes are to be expected and looked for, still I believe they will be in a better position to cope with the conditions which confront us now and which will confront us in the future than individual and scattered interests. W. M. Pratt. ~~» 2. Taking No Chances. I was expecting a letter at a Dakota postoffice, and when I went to enquire for it I found the postmaster to be doubtful of my identity. ‘*Sure you're the man?’’ he asked. ‘‘Of course.’’ ‘‘ Willing to make affidavit to it?’’ a oa: ‘*Not after any one else’s letters?’’ “No sit." ‘‘Willing to swear and sign your name?’’ ‘*T told you I was.”’ ‘‘Where would the he continued. ‘*Boston, perhaps.’’ ‘‘And written to you?’’ ‘‘Certainly. You seem to be over- particular here. ”’ ‘Yes, mebbe I am, but being as no- body here has got a letter for the last month, and being as there is none for you, and not likely to be, I thought | wouldn't take any chances, you know.’’ A. E. White. letter be from?’’ NEAT, DURABLE, STRONG. — A Postal Card Will get you prices on the best store stools made. BRYAN PLOW CO., Bryan, Ohio Manufacturers “Sure Catch” Minnow Length, 1943 inches. Diameter, 9%5 inches. Made from heavy, galvanized wire cloth, with all edges well protected. Can be taken apart at the middle in a moment and nested for convenience in carrying. Packed one-quarter dozen in a case. Retails at $1.25 each. Liberal discount to the trade. Our line of Fishing Tackle is complete in every particular, Mail orders solicited and satisfacticn guaranteed. MILES HARDWARE CO. 113-115 MONROE ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Tents Awnings Wagon and Stack Covers, Flags, Hammocks, Lawn Swings, Seat Shades and Wagon Umbrellas. Chas. A. Coye, 11 and 9 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Michigan i VE MOLE WOW ONY Before you set up that stove in the house of the purchaser, ob- tain a special report on the paying capacity of your cus- tomer from the ommercial redit oO. It is possible that detailed in- formation of this character will satisfy you that a new stove in your store is preferable to a second-hand stove in the pos- session of a man who does nxt pay. e e Duplicating Order Pads Counter Check Books Simplify your work. Avoid mistakes. Please your customers. ples and prices gladly submitted. The Simple Account File Co. 500 Whittlesey St., Fremont, Ohio Sam- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 American Shoe Stores in Germany. Not content with shipping American shoes abroad, Americans are beginning to sell them at retail as well. American sales and advertising methods are prov- ing very powerful when used in connec- tion with goods cf home manufacture, and the growth of the tendency is to be looked for in the future. Early last year a typical American shoe store was opened in Berlin. It has proved so profitable that the same management has opened a similar estab- lishment in Frankfort, and is preparing tc open another at Hamburg in Sep- tember. According to Dean M. Mason, our vice and deputy consul at Berlin, this prompt and noteworthy success has been due to the fact that, in addition to the merits of the shoes offered, the man- ager, Mr. Barthmann, began in the right way by opening an exclusively American shoe store, so spacious, hand- some and characteristic in its appoint- ments as to form an attraction on one of the most thronged streets of the German capital. Not only the entire stock of shoes, but the fixtures and the show windows, the shelving, and the whole method of con- ducting the business are typically Amer- ican. The goods offered represent the product of two Jeading American manu- facturers, one of whom makes men’s shoes of every kind, the other shoes in large variety for women, and every pair of shoves in the store is retailed at the uniform price of 18 marks (equal to $4.28 in United States currency.) Prior to the opening of this real American store, shoes of American manufacture had been sold in Germany at prices about equal to those of the higher grades of native custom made footwear. The $3 and $3.50 shoes from Lynn or Newark or Brockton were treated as a luxury by the German dealer and retailed at from 24 tu 28 marks ($5.11 to $6.66) per pair prices which put them beyond the reach of all but the well-to-do class of pur- chasers. The effect of the enterprise above cited has been to reduce by from $2 to $2.50 the cost of a pair of good American shoes in Berlin, The number of persons who will pay extra prices for the name of a shop or for something slightly better than the standard article is relatively small. ‘‘The German, as a rule, isa careful buyer,’’ says Mr. Mason, ‘‘and it is the salesman who can sell a foreign-made article superior in value to the home product, at a slightly advanced or equal price, who will cap- ture the valuable trade of the German middle classes. Not only will the sale of American shoes be promoted in Ger- many by the lower prices that are like- ly to be introduced by the establishment of American shoe stores, but these stores will be able to handle the trade better than has been done before.’’ The German has been in the habit of going several times to have his shoes tried on by his shoemakers. He has had to wait a couple of weeks and then the shoes were not always what he wanted. He now goes to the American stores, gets a pair of shoes fitted ina couple of minutes or so, and finds them satisfactory in every respect. The duty on a pair of shoes coming into Germany is at present from Io to 15 cents, according to weight, and, after deducting charges for freight and duty, there remains, undoubtedly, a generous profit over the amount paid by the retailer on the shoes which he sells at 18 marks ($4.28). Mr. Davis believes that there is not only a good opening for American shoe stores in Dresden, Munich and other cities of approximate- ly the same size, but that there would also be room for a large wholesaie house, which would be in a position to supply German retailers with the differ- ent sizes and qualities of American shoes, as the purchase of footwear in America by German retailers is at- tended with many inevitable delays and vexations. a One Hundred and Sixty-Three Dead in Iowa, A recent count showed 163 separate brands of baking powder (or mixtures called baking powder) unsalable, dead stock upon the shelves of the grocers in Iowa, Yet every one of these was sold to the grocer with a plausible story as to its quality and ready sale. It would seem as if the grocers would tire of holding the bag continuously for every Tom Dick of a manutacturer who comes along. These 163 brands of dead stock should be an object lesson to them. There is probably nota grocer in this State who can not count a good part of his capital in fly-blown stock, new brands put in at the solicitation of a plausible salesman, upon which he will never realize a cent. This State is at this time being raided by an outside baking powder at a high price, while grocers in the East are advertis- ing the same brand at 20 cents a pound to close it out. Grocers should learn that the profit of their business is in the sale of staple brands—goods that have had the market made for them by advertising by their makers and by their high quality—and decline to put their good capital in every new thing that is offered them.— Commercial Tribune, Denver, i Crows along the lake shore make part of their meals of clam which they dig out of the sand, then, flying up in the air, drop them ona rock and quickly descend and eat them out of the broken shell. Imported HIOGO JAPAN RICE Guardians The Michigan Trust Co. fills all the requirements of a guard- ian both of person and estate. Weare considered competent to pass upon all questions of education, training, accom- plishments, etc., of the ward. We have an extended and suc- cessful experience in caring for the interests of minors, in- sane, intemperate, mentally incompetent persons, spend- thrifts, and all questions can be met with greater skill and economy than are likely to be found inthe average individual guardian who meets such prob- lems for the first time. The Michigan Trust Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. NT TEPYEP OPO NET VOTH NET ener Nte enter ner enter ner ereor ner verter neT were Have WITTPVAP INANE HTA VUPNNP ED NEP HNT NEP HTE NEP NTP NTE VP ANP = Penn = (Ba — oe Re. a oe a > a. e~— oe a eG “1 Strap Sandals for Women, Hirth, Krause @ Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. QUAUUAUMA GMb AAA ANA ANG JbA AbA 264 244 144 444 You Our new Shoe or Finding Cat- If not of alogues? order one each. Up - to- date Shoes for Little Folks. Also full line Misses and Children. UNA ALAM ANAM AMA AAA ADA MA JUN Jb JA ANL ANG A4A Abd Jhb dA dk dbd Jhb Jbd ddd AMA AUAGMA AMA AAA ANA JUA 240 ddd dd ade The Flame o In artificial lighting has been turned faintest glow by the method involved in oper- ating the Safety Gas Light Machine. A Shock Will be felt when you learn that instead of paying 2c an hour for a 32 candle power light you can have 1000 candle power at 2c per hour—no more, no less. On Your Own Ground Your bill for light will meet you three-quarters of the way. Come! call up your better judg- ment, delay no longer—send for free descrip- tive matter—catalogue and price list. will you be convinced of the economy resulting from the adoption of an individual lighting plant that generates and burns the gas of gaso- Absolutely safe, clean an@ odorless. For stores, hotels, churches, lodges, restaurants, etc. line. f Expense to its Thus The Perfection Lighting Co. 17 S. Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Both Phones 2090. Long Distance. CHAS. C. WILMOT, Manager. BAKERS’ OVENS All sizes to suit the needs of any grocer. Do your own baking and make the double profit. Hubbard Portable Oven Co. 182 BELDEN AVENUE, CHICAGO 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Problems Presented in the Education of Daughters. This is the time of year when the average woman begins to lie awake nights trying to decide the school prob- lem for her daughters, and when she thinks a trifle enviously of the good old days when a girl’s education consisted in learning to write a fine, copperplate chirography and to make hair flowers. Those halcyon times are, indeed, of the past. Nobody denies a girl’s right to an education now or questions her need for one, and so the matter resolves itself into a problem of ways and means and a consideration of the relative merits of public schools and private schools, of tutors and governesses at home and colleges abroad. A mother does well to ponder this subject long and deeply, for selecting a husband for a girl is not a more deli- cate task, one requiring a finer dis- crimination of her needs or one that will affect her whole future happiness and usefulness more. A girl's school days are the formative and impression- able ones of her life. Her teachers form her ideals and her school makes her traditions and sets its ineffaceable seal upon her. Many things should enter into the choice of a school fora girl. Her wealth and social position, her bent of mind, whether she is to be a professional woman or not, whether her education is to be a grace and an accomplishment or a tool to work with, must all be taken into consideration. Generally speak- ing, it is a terrible mistake to try to educate girls out of the station in life to which it has pleased heaven to call them. It is an unintentional cruelty, but a cruelty none the less, to cultivate in a girl tastes and habits and aspira- tions that she will have no means of gratifying, and no spectacle is sadder than that of poor but foolishly ambi- tious parents who sacrifice themselves in order to send their daughters to fashionable schools. Here the girl without money is thrown with the girl who, in the slang of the day, has money to burn, Here the beg- gar maid, whose duty it is to walk through life, learns that it is better to be born dead than not to be born in an automobile ; that society is the ultimate end of human ambition and that the chief object of life is to wear Paris frocks and outdress your neighbor. That is very well for little Miss Mil- lionaire, to whom society is going to be a career and a business. It is even important that she should spend much time learning the fine art of dinner-giv- ing, the knack of getting in and out of a carriage, and the latest fad in cotillion leading; but no education could be more demoralizing to a poor girl. It teaches the poor girl that luxury is a necessity, to look with contempt upon the poverty of her home and to despise her hard-worked parents. More than that,she must be either continually mor- tified by the plainness of her clothes or else by her extravagance she must add fresh burdens and more hardships to ber mother and father. She must either withdraw from the camaraderie of school life and seem niggardly and mean by not paying her part in school affairs, or else,by participating in pleas- ures where some one else settles the bill, become a parasite and dead-beat. The inevitable result of such a life must be to make her either anarchistic, hating the rich girl who has more than she has, or else a sycophant who fawns and flatters in the hopes of holding onto the skirts of the wealthy. Nor is this the end of the disaster. No matter how intimate the poor girl and rich girl have been in school, the poor girl finds that the relationship ends at the school gate. If the rich girl is good natured, there may be a few invi- tations extended the poor girl to quiet affairs, and when they meet there is a suspicious warmth of protestation on the rich girl’s part, but their paths lie in different directions and school friend- ship is not strong enough to bridge over the chasm that lies between the mansion on the avenue and the shabby cottage on the back street. But for the poor girl the tragedy is complete. She has been made dis- satisfied with her own home and friends and has been:given no other. She has learned to despise the honest young mechanic or clerk who would marry her and there is no fairy prince looming up on the horizon on a milk-white steed for her. She yearns for society and the nearest she ever gets to it is reading in the papers the accounts of balls and parties to which she is never asked. Sbe has been given a champagne taste and she has only cistern water to quench it. So, I say, send your daughter to a school where she will be thrown with girls of her own class, where she will learn the things that will sweeten and not embitter her, where she will acquire practical knowledge that will be of use to her instead of frills that will be in her way. Do not believe for one minute that a fashionable education will open the doors of society for a girl. Such an investment is a ticket that always draws a blank in the lottery of life. If a girl has a taient, send her toa school where she can develop it, but for pity’s sake do not force her into trying to be something that God and nature never intended her to be. Chief among the noble army of martyrs are the mil- lions of little girls with no more gift for music than a rabbit, who have been forced to spend hours of torture drum- ming scales in the vain effort of their conscientious mammas to make them musicians. They tell me that the pro- fession of the music teacher is one that is passing almost out of existence ex- cept in its very highest branches, and | know of no other fact so comlorting and that indicates such progress in civiliza- tion. No teacher can make a childa musician unless heaven made it one first, but it is only of late that we have got intelligence enough to recognize that. Time was when every house had its piano and every miserable little girl had to be sacrificed upon it, a poor, little, helpless victim to her parents’ mistaken belief that anybody could learn to play it. Nothing on earth is a greater waste of good money than that which is fooled away on the so-called accomplishments of girls. In every household where there are daughters enough money is spent in enabling them to murder the ‘‘ Maiden’s Prayer’’ to provide them with good concert tickets for life, whiie the money the average girl spends in learning to do dauby china painting and commit color crimes on canvas would buy her an old master. Amateur music and amateur art are gratuitous inflictions that no one has a right to saddie on the world, and unless a girl has displayed talent of the most marked description, her parents are simply throwing away $00000000G00H0H0HH00H0H0HDGHDHIH0GHSH0GH00D0000000000) E. C. Adams Our travelers Oscar Kroppf L. C. Wann in your section W. P. Baillie Are now out with their trunks filled with Holiday Goods. Every article they carry is a good seller, and remember they are in a position to give you as low or a little lower price than any one else. They are carrying salads, cake plates, chop dishes, cracker jars, odd plates, plates in sets, cups and saucers, brush and comb trays, pin trays, ash trays, bric-a-brac, lamps and brass goods, glass vases, etc. You must not fail to look over their line. They can please you. GEO. H. WHEELOCK & CO., 113 AND 115 WEST WASHINGTON STREET, SOUTH BEND, IND. 0000HHHHHHH0HHHHHHHHHHHGHHHHHHOHHHOHHOHHOHHGOOOOOOO eesoeseesssoooosoesseosesessessess eeseeoecesoosoessossoesssessesess The Favorite Chips The Favorite Chips There are lots of Chocolate Chips on the mar- ket, but the Favorite Chocolate Chips lead them all. We put them up in 5 !b. boxes, 20 lb. and 30 Ib. pails and in our new toc pack- ages. S. B. & A. onevery piece. Made only by Straub Bros. @ Amiotte, Traverse City, Mich. Does your store suffer by comparison with some other store in your town? Is there an enterprising, up-to-date atmos- — i Se — a hese in yours? ou a a have thought ch abou , but—isn’t the other store better li will buy where buying is most pleasant.’ ae ACETYLENE lights any store to the best possible advantage. It has been adopted by thousands of leading merchants everywhere. Used in the city as a matter of economy. Used in the country because it is the best, the cheapest and most convenient lighting system on the market. Costs you nothing to investigate—write for catalogue and estimates for equipping your store. Acetylene Apparatus Manufacturing Co. 157 Michigan Ave., Chicago Br neh Offices and Salesrooms: Louisville, 310 W. Jefferson St.; Buffalo, 145-147 Ellicott St.; Dayton, 226 S. Ludlow St.; Sioux City, 417 Jackson St.; Minneapolis, 7 Washington Av. N. ae ae OT [| eer MICHIGAN TRADESmAN 21 their money in having her take lessons in either, Another mistake that I think parents frequently make is in forcing children to go to school to teachers whom they do not like, and to school where they are not interested. This may be valuable as discipline, but it is disastrous as ed- ucation. When school is a bore, when a child takes no interest in the studies and never speaks of them at home, it is almost invariably the teacher’s fault. Any child, especially any girl—for girls have quick imaginations and are easily aroused to enthusiasm—can be _inter- ested if the teacher is not too dull or too lazy to doit. Teachers are like poets— they are born, not made; and it is one of the misfortunes of scciety that the calling which should be as sacred a mission as the priesthood is followed as a mere profession. If you have a girl whom you had to force to school last year, send her to another school this. Change, and keep on changing, until you find somebody who has the heart and spirit and intelligence to fire the litle mind with the love of learning. The question of whether it is best to send girls off to school or keep them at home is another problem that vexes the soul of many fond mothers, Personally, 1 am an ardent advocate of the board- ing school. To my mind it is not only a merciful dispensation of Providence for the correction and regeneration of the spoiled American small girl, but the greatest missionary of sweetness and light. For one thing, it supplies that atmos- phere of study that all brain workers find necessary to their best accomplish- ments, and a girl in a boarding school do twice as much work as she will would at home. She is away from the distraction of parties and balls and theaters that occupy her attention, whether she is allowed to go or merely enviously looks on. She hears nothing but books, her horizon is bounded by school achievements and the heroes of her little world whom she is inspired to emulate have been the medalists and scholars of bygone days. For another reason, the boarding school gives the petted and indulged girl the discipline that she ought to have gotten at home. There is no other democracy like a school, no critic so merciless and unsparing as school girls. At home Maud's temper was euphoni- ously referred to as ‘‘nerves,’’ and Maud’s selfishness and ill manners as Maud's ‘‘ways.’’ At school Maud dces not get petted when she sulks, She is ostracized and people do nct overlook her peculiarities. They laugh at them. { once heard a woman who had been a petted daughter say that as a child she had the disgusting habit of eating with ber knife. Her mother had tried in vain to break her, but one meal ata boarding school did it. She overheard one girl say to another, ‘‘What sort of a girl is the new girl?’’ ‘‘Oh,’’ was the frank response, ‘‘she’s common; she eats with her knife.’’ And that settled that girl’s table manners for time and eternity. As a general thing the boarding school is the foster mother of heaJth. I have seen pale, thin, anaemic girls, who had been allowed to sit up late and live on candy and olives, who were transfigured by three or four years of regular life and school gymnastics. They went in virtual invalids; they came away strong, healthy, robust women—the ideal of the sane mind in the sound body—to bless the world with their presence. Another argument for the boarding school not strictly scholastic, but per- tinent in most households, is that the boarding school safely carries mother and daughter past the hobbledehoy stage of a girl’s life—that bad quarter of an hour between girlhood and womanhood when a girl is most impatient of all re- straint and needs most a firm hand on the bridle. In the mother’s opinion the girl is still a mere baby who should not be permitted the slightest liberty. In her own esteem the girl is a Solo- mon capable of deciding anything, from the Philippine question up and down. Out of this difference of point of view grows endless friction that only too often results in a permanent estrangement between the two that should be nearest and dearest to each other. A year or so away from home at this time is almost an absolute necessity. In it the mother learns to think of the girl as grown, with a grown woman’s rights; and the girl, with a wider knowledge of life and deeper experience of her own fallibility, turns to her mother for guide and coun- selor. Above all, however, in selecting a school for a girl, choose one where the teachers are refined, gentle women. No brilliance of intellect, no profundity of attainment can make up in a woman for gentleness of speech and manner and refinement of thought and expres- sion. The schooling that does not school a woman’s heart as well as her mind is a curse instead of a blessing, and no matter how much book learning she may acquire the education that does not teach a girl to be a lady is a fail- ure, Dorothy Dix. i a A Good Epidemic. A schoo! teacher once asked a class of children if any of them could tell what an epidemic was. No answer. ‘‘Well, let me prompt you. An epidemic is anything that spreads. Now, what’s an epidemic?"’ ‘‘Jam, sir,’’ replied a boy promptly. A Safe Place | for your money’ No matter where you live ‘ youcan keep your money safe in our bank, and you can getit immediately and easily when you want to use it. Any person living with- in the reach of a Post Office or Express Office can deposit money with us without risk or trouble. Our financial responsi- bility is $1,960,000 .- There is no safer bank 4 than ours. Money intrust- ” ed tous is absolutely secure and draws % interest Your dealings with usare perfectly confidential. ‘‘Banking by Mail?? is the name of an interest- ing book we publish which tells how anyone can do their banking with us by mail; how to send money or make deposits by mail; and important things persons should know who want to keep their money safe and well invested. It will be sent freeupon request. Old National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. Two dozen in a case, $1 per dozen Happy is the man who, returning from a day of toil, finds all his dear ones happy and him- self not forgotten as the well-laid table shows, with its spotless cloth and shining dishes, its plates of dainty viands, and, as a finishing touch to tempt his eye and appetite, an In-er-Seal carton of Graham Crackers. It is the consumer who makes it possible for the existence of the grocer. You must cater to his wants. red Graham without it. Order our now and never be National Biscuit Company Grand Rapids SM a. BL LE LE ME Le Po LE LE LP Ls Le ML LM LE ME Le ML a. TSSSSSFSSSSSSsJFSsJFSFJeee a: SS => => eta SS SS => => —_: oa, . Ra, - Sa, “A, “Va, “Ba, “Ba, Aa,» > > > > > Se ee >>. * Buyers’ Excursion TO Grand Rapids August 25 to Sept. 10 The Wholesale Merchants’ Association of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade has made arrangements with the Michigan Passenger Association to conduct a Buyers’ Ex- cursion to Grand Rapids from August 25 to September ro, 1902, both days inclusive, at one and one-third fare for the round trip from ALL PARTS OF MICHIGAN except from points where the regular tariff rate to Grand Rapids is less than 75 cents one way, on the certificate plan. A cordial invitation is hereby extended to all Michi- gan retailers and their families to visit Grand Rapids. Tickets will be sold for this occasion on August 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 and the certificate issued by ticket agent will be good when validated for a return ticket any day between August 28 and September 10, 1902. For conditions which must be observed correspond with any Grand Rapids jobber, or the Grand Rapids Board of Trade. 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Wisconsin as a Dairy State. The report made by the Census Bureau on the subject of the cheese, butter and condensed milk factories in the coun- try, will be of special interest to the people of Wisconsin. No State in the Union has made so marvelous an ad- vance in this agricultural industry dur- ing the past ten years as has Wiscon- sin,and the census returns show that the State now leads in the number of facto- ries in the dairy industry, her total be- ing 2,018, and a tremendous increase since 1890, when there were only 906 such factories in the State. New York is next in the list with 1,908 factories. The greater number of factories in Wis- consin shows the wide distribution of the business among the people of the State. In New York there is more capital invested in these factories and the total annual production of such dairy products in tbat State amounts to only a few million dollars’ worth more than that of Wisconsin; but in the total value of such factory dairy products Wisconsin has a rank second only to New York. The total value of product in Wiscon- sin is quoted at $20,120,147 annually, or nearly double that of Illinois and $5,000,000 worth more than Iowa. The report gives Wisconsin’s capital in- vested in these factories at $4,900,000, employing 1,700 hands and paying an- nual wages to the amount of nearly $1,000,000. The five States leading the factory dairy business of the country— New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Pennsylvania--produce $83, 000, 000 worth of the total of $130,090,000 worth pro- duced in the United States. The prog- ress in production made by Wisconsin, amounting to an increase of 186 per cent., is pronounced by the census offi- cials to be the greatest made by any State in this line.—A. J. Dodge in Mil- waukee Sentinel. —__>_¢ The Helpful Hen. The income from the sale of eggs last year was $144,285,158. The income from chickens was $136,891,877. The total income from the sale of wheat for 1900 was $323,515,035. In other words the income from wheat, one of the great staple products of the country, is only I5 per cent. more than the income from poultry. If wheat does not advance in price, and the price of poultry remains as high as at present, the 15 per cent. difference will probably be wiped out this vear, and we will see the income from the ‘‘helpful hen’’ equal to the in- come from wheat. Still what a row there is over wheat, which is grown by the men! But poultry is mainly taken care of by women and children, and you seldom hear the subject mentioned by them. The laugh is on the men. The moral is, encourage the poultry in- dustry.—Atchison Globe. —_—__—> 2.» ____ The Cattle Industry. Some of the older cattlemen feel a lit- tle dubious about the future prospects of the business when they remember the reaction from the boom times of the eighties. In all probability we shall have a siump from the present high prices, as this is an inevitable law of trade, but all farmers and cattlemen should take into consideration the im- portant fact that conditions at the pres- ent time are very different. Twenty years ago we had thousands of square miles of grazing lands that were unoc- cupied; ranching at that time was com- paratively new and high prices for beef cattle stimulated the business. Large companies were formed, and capital was drawn from all parts of the United States and many places in Europe for the purpose of stocking these lands with cattle. But conditions since that time have materially changed: our population has increased from 50,000, - ooo in 1880 to 75,000,000 in 1900, which has had the result of encroaching upon these cattle ranches materially, while greatly increasing our home consump- tion. Conditions are in this way burn- ing the candle at both ends, In addi- tion to this, the improved refrigerator car and refrigerator compartments in ocean-going vessels, together with our unprecedented foreign commercial ex- pansion, has opened up an extensive trade with a great many foreign coun- tries in different parts of the world. We may have competition in foreign mar- kets, from Argentina and other grazing countries, but we will never again see cheap beef and mutton in the United States, Curious Freak of an Old Hen. From the Kalamazoo Telegraph. A hen as the devoted mother of six kittens is one of the seven day wonders of S. O. Spier of Wheaton avenue, Mr. Spier has an old speckled hen which has been running about his yard for the past ten years or more. Every spring this hen gets the fever and wants to hatch out the customary batch of chickens. The lovesick hen got off her nest one day this spring in search of food and when she returned she was surprised to find that the family cat had taken possession of the nest and, in- stead of being filled with the regulation thirteen eggs, the place was rounded out with a litter of kittens of many col- ors. ‘*Topsy,’’ the old ben, got on her nest as usual and was a mother to both cat and kittens. After a time Tabby left the cubsin full charge of the hen, while she foraged and brought them meadow mice and other delicacies of ihe season. The kittens followed the old hen about the fields near the Spier homestead and learned to recognize the call of the fos- ter mother. At night she would roost on the barn floor and hover over the kit- tens as though they were the real thing. It is one of the most curious freaks of nature observed in this vicinity for years and Mr. Spier says he would not sell his old speckled hen for her weight in gold, —_____~> +4 + Milk Powder. The process of desiccating milk is now in operation in Sweden. The in- ventor is not prepared te make his proc- ess known at present because he has not secured all the patents he wishes to take out for his financial protection. Accord- ing to reports, however, it appears to be all right and bids fair to become a valuable commercial commodity. The cost of reducing milk to a powder that will keep any reasonable length of time, is said to be about one cent per gallon, which for cooking puiposes is as good as fresh skimmed milk. As consider- abie attention seems to be paid to this new production, both in Sweden and Germany, there may be good reason to regard it as anew commercial proposi- tion of more than ordinary value. The inventor has signified his intention of exhibiting his machine in the United States inthe near future. Dried milk in neat, fancy pasteboard packages for city consumption may become as common as breakfast foods if this process proves as valuable as it appears to be. Why Not Try L. O. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers, 36 Harrison St., N. Y. Est. 1865. Reference N. Y. Nat. Ex. Bank. MOSELEY BROS., SEEDS Clover and Timothy—all kinds of Grass Seeds. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST. 2 EEDS| Largest Stocks Best Quality Lowest Prices All orders filled promptly day received. Alfred J. Brown Seed @o., Grand Rapids, Mich. GROWERS, MERCHANTS, IMPORTERS 55 SEND YOUR 33:9333399233399339333399 to Year-Around Dealer and get Top Market and Prompt Returns. GEO. N. HUFF & CO. CADILLAC SQUARE ae y rem BUTTER AND Eas | DETROIT, MICHIGAN 75 W returns. JOHN H. HOLSTEN, Commission [lerchant arren Street, Specialties: Consignments solicited. References: New York City EGGS AND BUTTER. Special attention given to small shipments of eggs. Quick sales. Prompt Stencils furnished on application. N. Y. National Ex. Bank, Irving National Bank, N. Y., N. Y. Produce Review and American Creamery. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OOOOOOOOOOOHOGOOGHOGHOGHOG Butter I always want it. E. F. Dudley Owosso, Mich. OOOGOOOGOOGOGOOGOOGOOOGGOOOOOGD SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SEND YOUR BUTTER AND EGGS GRAND RAPIDS And receive highest prices and quick returns, C. D. CRITTENDEN, 98 South Division Street Successor to C. H. Libby Both Phones 1300 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 The New York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence. New York, Aug. 9—Everybody is away who can get away and we are at the height of midsummer dulness. Of course, some business has been done, but it seems to be under protest and for the next four weeks we can expect a lull. Meantime, the effect of numerous strikes is felt less in August than at al- most any time, and may he they will all be settled when fall trade sets in. Heaven knows we hore they will be! Coffee closes weak and, despite the effort to bolster up the market during the week, the tendency has been the other way. The crop movement con- tinues large and there is no legitimate reason for any advance in the staple. In store and afloat there are 2,748,882 bags, against 1,405,031 bags at the same time last year. The actual demand from roasters and jobbers has been con- fined to immediate wants. At the close Rio No. 7 is quotable at 55$@5%c. In mild grades there is a quiet trade and the close shows a steady range of prices. Good. Cucuta, 83¢c. East India coffees are quiet and_ practically without change, For the time of year the volume of trade in teas is all that couid be hoped. Prices are firmly maintained and deal- ers look to the future with a good deal of confidence. A firmer tone to the raw sugar market and light supplies of refined on hand lead to the expectation of a larger vol- ume of trade than we have yet had. The week past has been fairly satisfac- tory, but the demand has not been heavy enough to put refineries behind in fill- ing orders. Quotations are firmly main- tained, There is a good steady run of busi- ness:in rice and dealers are well pleased with the situation. Choice to head, 578 @7c. Pepper retains its recently-acquired Strength and a fair volume of business has been transacted. Other articles in the spice line are decidedly quiet, neither buyer nor seller showing any interest in the situation. Molasses is mighty quiet. Not an item of interest can be found. All hands are away and nothing will be done for six weeks at least. The canned goods market in general is in good shape and _ a fair average trade is being done every day. Tomatoes continue to be the chief object of in terest and the range for standard 3s is from 82%c for Maryland pack f. o. b. Baltimore to 95c or more for New Jer- sey standards here, Other vegetables are moving with about the usual midsum- mer spirit. Prices all around are well sustained and little complaint is heard. Salmon are selling well and red Alaska talls are worth here $1 1o net. Pacific coast fruits are attracting considerable attention and quotations seem to be firm- ly held. Prunes and raisins are very strong and the former have advanced to 63(c for 40 50 in 25 lb. boxes. The demand just at the moment is of a jobbing character, but exporters are ‘‘looking around’’ and it is believed that within a short time ‘*prunes will be prunes.’’ Raisins are firm and the whole situation seems to be just at present in favor of the seller. Currants are quiet. Uncleaned Amalias in barrels are held at 45¢c. Lemons are rather lower, although there is a fairly active trade. Fancy oranges sell well and other foreign fruits are also moving with a good degree of freedom. Sicily lemons range from $3.25 for extra fancy 300s down to $2 for extra choice 3603. Receipts of really desirable grades of butter seem to be decreasing, but quota- tions remain as yet without change. Best Western, 20!4c; seconds to firsts, 18@20c ; imitatiun creamery, 17@1714c; factory, 15@16%%4c, latter for fancy stock. The demand for cheese is light and quotations are without change in any particular. Full cream New York State, ge. Desirable grades of eggs are firm at 21c for fresh-gathered Western; fair to good, 20@20%c; fancy candled and graded, 194@2oc; ungraded, 14@17 %c. —_--—~>- 29 > New Plan a Success. Canton, N. Y., July 28—The attempt to have all butter and cheese sold on the board of trade here instead of by private sales in the hotel lobbies and on the street seems to be working well. Satur- day all sales of butter and cheese not al- ready contracted were made at auction in this way and the buyers and sales- men were able to go home at 3. The bidding was spirited and the sell- ing of the offered products took but a few minutes. One buyer complained that some lots were listed on the board as for sale thet were already contracted when the sale commenced. This would seem to be a mistake and_ such lots should be checked as_ contracted if put onthe board. The buyer said that he had trouble in squaring himself with his principals. He said that he had orders to buy a certain amount of butter and was here prepared to pay enough to get it, but said from what was al- ready contracted there was not enough to fill his orders. The report of offer- ings included the contracted butter, making au amount largely in excess of his order and his principals could not understand why he could not fill their orders, The manufacture of large cheese seems to have been practically aban- doned in this section and none were offered Saturday. A buyer told the salesman of one factory that if he would change to the manufacture of large cheese he would take the entire product on contract at the same prices at which small cheese shall be sold. Consider- ing the saving in shrinkage and other advantages this is considered a very good offer. Now that some business is transacted on the floor of the board the meetings are wellattended. At the hour of open- ing, the room was well filled with buy- ers, salesmen and spectators.—Water- town (N. Y.) Times. 8 Is a Frog Fish or Game? Quebec, Aug. 2—The Canadian De- partment of Marine and Fisheries is wrestling with the problem as to whether a frog is fish or game. Owing to the enormous increase in the export of frogs’ legs to the United States some fear is felt that unless restrictions are placed upon the killing of Canadian frogs there will soon be none left in the country. Ifa frog isa fish the depart- ment at Ottawa has the power to_ insti- tute a close season for it. If, however, it should be decided that the frog comes under the category of game the question of a close season must be settled by the provincial authorities. If the law officers of the different gov- ernments interested fail to come to an agreement on the subject the matter will probably be submitted to a committee of experts. Everybody agrees that some- thing must be done to prevent the total destruction of a valuable article of both food and commerce. If it should be decided that the frog is neither fish nor game it may be necessary, in order to secure a law for its protection, to obtain from the Imperial Parliament the pass- age of an amendment to the Act of British North America. ———__—~> 2. Large Apple Order. Montreal, Aug. 8—A million barrels of apples is the order which one Belle- ville dealer has received from an Eng- lish house, and he has started buyers out to get the goods. The significance of this can be seen when it is remembered that a million barrels of apples would in most seasons in the past equal nearly the whole of Canada’s export. This or- der is, therefore, far and away in excess of any order ever received before by a Canadian dealer, It indicates the high value placed upon the Canadian apples and the possibilities for increasing the trade in this fruit. G. C. Creelman, superintendent of Farmers’ Institutes, who has been trav- eling through the province lately reports that there will be a good crop of apples in all sections. EGGS WANTED We want severai thousand cases eggs for storage, and when you have ary to offer write for prices or call us up by phone if we fail to quote you. Butter We can handle all you send us. WHEELOCK PRODUCE CO. 106 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Citizens Phone 3232. TET yet Our Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE JUICE VIN- EGAR. To anyone who will analyze it and find any deleterious acids, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit $$ — ~~. We also guarantee it to be of full strength as required by law. We will prosecute any person found using our packages for cider or vinegar without first removing all traces of our brands therefrom. WC focoom Cee t Cin gg or Co J. ROBINSON. Manager. Benton Harbor, Michigan. - 8S6U5 SISEHOE SEVE T3 ORGRCR SH GROE OROROE OHOHOROLOR CHOHOR Che John &. 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 E. Fulton and Ferry Sts., Grand Rapids Citizens Phone 1881. HOTOe GOROKS CONSESCSTORE BO HO SOLOS HOBOS USNSES FORO SHIP YOUR BUTTER AND ECCS ena, STORIE R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH., and be sure of getting the Highest Market Price. GOOGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOGOO The following resolution was reported by the Committee on Resolutions and unanimously adopted by the Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association at its seventh annual convention. Resolved—That we hereby express our ap- preciation of the prompt and thorough manner in which parties doing a fraudulent business are exposed through the columns of the Michigan Tradesman and that we recommend its con- tinued and constant use by the members of this Association. POGOOOHOODODGHDHOGDHDGHHGOOOOGOG SSSSSSSSESSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSassessss 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BUSINESS SUCCESS. Character, Capacity and Capital the Three Essentials. We merchants are engaged in busi- ness for profit. There is little of the sentimental about the average business man. His self-preservation among his mercantile associates and the protection of those dependent upon him are what command his constant and earnest at- tention and make bearable the routine drudgery incident to commercial life. The discouraging fact ever confronts the struggling business man that over 90 per cent. of those who engage in mer- cantile pursuits fail, either directly or indirectly. -Notwithstanding this dis- turbing feature of our business, we should keep prominently before us the truth that there is something in life's struggle besides dollars and cents. A man who is confronted with inevitable failure and who sacrifices honor and in- tegrity for any salvage in the nature of dollars and cents is dishonest and un- worthy of confidence; while, on the centrary, the man who preserves his honor and integrity, even at great finan- cial cost, retains in a higher degree than before the respect and admiration of his fellow men. We should be at all times manly, honorable, faithful and reliable. These qualifications are in- dispensable to every successful business man and, what is more to the point, they are within the reach of all. There are at least three important requisites for the successful management of business. These are character, ca- pacity and capitai. While all these requisites are fundamenial the greatest is character. No man can hope to per- manently succeed in life’s struggle whose line of action is not based upon the principles of honesty, uprightness and integrity. A merchant should be honest with himself, honest with his pa- trons and honest with his fellow busi- ness men. To be honest with himself implies a full and accurate knowledge of the de- tails of his business affairs. He should keep his books in such a manner as to enable him at any time to show definite- ly what his assets and liabilities are. His books should indicate daily the amount of stock on hand at cost, the amount of his book accounts at actual value, and also the amount due his creditors. He should also have before him as a stimulus to greater effort a comparative statement of daily sales and expenses, extending over a series of years. A successful enterprise can not stand still. It must be progressive in order to be enduring, and every em- ploye should share this commendable ambition of his employer. In this connection I might say that it is very important that a merchant should have his stock fully protected by fire insurance. Insurance companies assume this risk for him at a reasonable compensation. It is their business to take risks of this kind and not the mer- chant’s. A merchant should also be honest with himself to the extent of appreciat- ing fully what a priceless boon it is to have it known in commercial centers of the country that he is reliable and trustworthy in every transaction, that his word is synonymous with his bond, and that he is ever keenly sensitive to the necessity of preserving his good name. Without honor, integrity and manhood, a man has nothing and can have noth- ing. These qualities are vital to every man, whether in business or out of business, and their value can not be es- eee eaerenacmnananenstibmasaenienasasinet timated on a hasis of dollars and cents. Second, a merchant should be honest with his patrons. This implies that there should be on hand a well-arranged stock of merchandise, kept in neat and attractive manner. IJt means, also, that it is incumbent on him to give honest value, full weights and correct measure- ments. It means, too, that there should be absolutely no misrepresentation. Trading stamps, chromos, prizes and other subterfuges should not be em- ployed to secure patronage. The un- reasonable plaints that arise in the life of the merchant should be met witb tact and diplomacy and the patron appeased if possible, but not at the cost of prin- ciple or self-respect. A merchant should also be honest with bis fellow business men, This implies that, when called upon to give his experience with regard to the standing of a certain customer, the information should be candid and reliable. This brings us face to face with the most deplorable feature of mer- cantile life—loss sustained through worthless accounts. How are we to guard against exces- sive losses? This question comes home to every merchant. There is no serious question about the truth of the common expression that credit is too cheap, nor about the kindred saying that ‘‘credit is too freely granted.’’ Credit should always be judiciously granted, and never indiscriminately or ina haphazard manner. A man who grants credit should be a good judge of human nature and with tact and discretion should se- cure proper information from the ap- plicant for credit as to his financial and moral responsibilities, who his refer- ences are, and also whether he is dis- posed to comply in every respect with the terms of settlement submitted to him. There should be a distinct un- derstanding as to the amount of the account, since every account should have its limit, and also, that the obli- gations contracted shall be discharged at least monthly. You must have courage to say ‘‘no’’ to the unworthy applicant, and there are many of this class who apply for credit without having any basis what- ever for such favors. You find compe- tition sharp and the maigin of profit necessarily small, and therefore you are not warranted in taking unreasonable financial risks. You are not warranted in taking all the possibilities of failure to pay, such as sickness, loss of situa- tion, etc. on the part of the debtor. Financial responsibility is not, after all, the only basis of credit. Moral re- sponsibility, in my judgment, is quite as important and more desirable. I have infinitely more respect for, and confidence in, a person who pays froma high sense of duty than I have fora per- son who pays because he can not avoid payment. In our dealings with the debtor class, we must not forget that they have some rights that we are bound to respect. We must discriminate between the repre- hensible debtor who can pay, but will not, and the unfortunate debtor, who is well disposed, but, through circum- stances, is unable to pay his honest ob- ligations. The first are clearly without the pale of our sympathy, while the lat- ter are worthy of considerate treatment and should not be numbered among dis- reputable debtors. We must be ever on our guard against the vicious debtor, who, with fervid eloquence and brazen assurance, goes from merchant to mer- chant with the studied purpose of add- ing another name to the long list of those whom he has already shamefully and criminally defrauded. Daniel B. Murphy. Account Files For petty charges of the busy grocer. Different styles. Several sizes. THE SIMPLE ACCOUNT FILE CO., Fremont, Ohio 500 WHITTLESEY STREET CPOLOlLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLS EVERYBODY IS AFTER MONEY O@OLOLOL@OLOLeLOLe ey And the merchant who sells STANDARD D CRACKERS will find easy sailing because they not only sell well on account of superior quality, but they bring a fine profit. Manufactured by E. J. KRUCE & CO., DETROIT, MICH. Grand Rapids Fixtures Co. A Shipped — knocked elegant oo design ! Takes in first a combination class Cigar freight Case rate. No. 64 Cigar Case. Our New Catalogue shows ten other styles of Cigar Cases at prices to suit any pocketbook. Corner Bartlett and South Ionia Streets, Grand Rapids, Mich. Also made with Metal Legs. For Fruit Time We wish to call your attention to our Fruit Powdered and Fine Frosting Sugars. We grind them in our own factory and guarantee quality in every respect. Price quoted on application. THE PUTNAM CANDY CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Gri President, JOHN A. WESTON, nsing; Sec- retary, M. S. BROWN, Safiinaw; Treasurer, JOHN W. SCHRAM, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint; Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale; Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw. Grand Rapids Council No. 131, 0. C. T. 1 Senior Counselor, S. BuRNS; Secretary Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Gripsack Brigade. Frank M. Tyler is very low at the home of his son and little hope is enter- tained of his recovery. A. E. Motley (Worden Grocer Co.) is enjoying a vacation for a few weeks. His route is being covered in the mean- time by Terry Barker. J. D. Lawton (Worden Grocer Co.) is in camp with the State militia at Man- istee. His route is being covered in the meantime by William Frederick Blake. Wm. J. Townsend, formerly on the road for Geo. W. Lord, of Philadel- phia, has engaged to travel for the Worden Grocer Co., covering Central Michigan. Kalamazoo Telegraph: Edward Locher, who has been connected with the Taylor Clothing Co, for a number of years, has resigned and will take to the road in the interest of the Puritan Corset Co. Dowagiac Republican: A. J. Cleve- land, formerly proprietor of the City shoe store, has taken a_ position as traveling salesman with the I. P. Far- num Shoe Co., of Chicago. His ter- ritory will be in Wisconsin. Marquette Mining Journal: William Sampson, of Hurontown, has secured a position as traveling salesman for the Carpenter-Cook Co., of Menominee. Mr. Sampson will represent this whole- sale grocery house in the copper coun- try. Geo. R. Alexander, Western Michi- gan representative for Merrill & Co., of Toledo, has resumed his work on the road after being laid up a couple of weeks with a sprained foot, resulting from turning over an ankle at Traverse City. The August plcnic of the members of Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, will be held at Fruitport Saturday, Aug. 23. Round trip tickets can be obtained at the interurban company's office at 50 cents apiece, good at any time during the day. The tickets will include a boat ride to Grand Haven and return, Ar- rangements will probably be made to visit the blast furnace at 4 o'clock to witness the conversion of moulten iron into pigs. It is expected that the turn- out will be very general. Lunch baskets will be in order. Byron S. Davenport (Olney & Judson Grocer Co.) is on the warpath again after a week's fishing trip. Before go- ing he borrowed the Tradesman’s col- lection of fish stories, which have been assembled from many sources and kept on file for the express use of those gro- cery salesmen who are piscatorially- in clined. On returning the collection, Byron volunteered the statement that he had succeeded in memorizing several of the tallest yarns so that he is now able to spin them off to his customers as glibly as. though he were relating his own experiences. Battle Creek Moon: James N. Riley, formerly of the firm of Riley & Fischer, has purchased the business interest of Mr. Durant in the firm of Meade & Durant, clothing dealers and haber- dashers at Jackson, and the firm will hereafter be known as A. J. Meade & Co, Mr. Riley still retains his position as traveling salesman and will not take an active part in the management of the business. He is now spending his summer vacation in Battle Creek, which place he considers home, and whicn his many friends will be pleased to learn he intends making his permanent home when he retires from the road. 6 The Grain Market. Wheat experienced another dull and downward market, which terminated in a decline of 2%c on cash winter and 2c on spring wheat options for September and December. Although the visible showed a decrease of 199,000 bushels, where a large increase was expected, still prices were forced down. Exports also are fair and receipts as shown by the decrease are small, but as usual on a down market, no one wants to invest so the price sagged of its own weight. Why this should be no one can say, un- less it is the elevatcr interests at work to fill up their bins ata low price. It is one of those unaccountable freaks in the trade which is hard to reconcile with conditions. The Government crop re- port came in and shows the condition of spring wheat to be 8g 7-10 per cent., against 92 3-10 per cent last month, which shows a loss of nearly three points, but notwithstanding all this it did not help the price of wheat; it looks to us as if it was around bottom. Some new influences will have to make their appearance in order to elevate the price. Corn, aS was expected, declined. September soid at 50!4c, against 557 2. The Drug Market. Opium—lIs firm at the primary mar- kets, but unchanged here. Morphine—Is steady. Quinine—There is no change to re- port, Castor Oil—Is steady at the decline reported last week. Cocoa Butter—At the last auction sale at Amsterdam higher prices were paid. This market has advanced about 2c per pound. Glycerine—There is a very firm un- dertone to this article. Crude is higher. Dynamite Glycerin—Has advanced. There is little doubt but that prices will be higher when the fall demand starts. Manna—Is very scarce and has ad- vanced,5c per pound. Balsam Fir, Canada—It is reported that the supply is a large one and that the lower prices will rule this winter, although there is no change as yet. Oil Peppermint—Has again advanced and is very firm. It is reported that there are thousands of pounds of Japan- ese oil in transit. What effect this will have on the market on arrival is uncertain. Oil Tansy—lIs scarce and has been ad- vanced. Oil Spearmint—Is in small supply and higher. Make Your Fountain Attractive. If you made it attractive last year, make it more so this year. Get some- thing new. One of the best attractions at the fountain is a decorated cake of ice. Take a large tin candy tray and set it ina convenient place on the coun- ter near the front door, With an awl punch a hole in one corner to carry off the water, which can drip in the sink or a pail back of the counter. - Place in the pan a large cake of clear ice, 100 to 200 pounds. With an ice shaver or pick chip out a large round hole in the top of the cake and set in a large crushed fruit or punch bowl. Now dig out little holes around in the ice and put in pieces of lemons or oranges cut fancy, get one or two pineapples to set on top, or cut one in two and place half on each side. Now cover up the pan around the edges with roses and leaves and chipped ice or any flowers in season. Make a crushed fruit syrup for the bowl, dipping it out with a ladle. Take one or two boxes of fresh strawberries, hull them and place ina flat bottom kettle and cover over with sugar. Mash them up and add about an equal quantity of syrup. Put this syrup in the bowl and then place on top a few pieces of orange or pineapple slices. This will make a most delicious flavor for an ice cream soda, tempting display and a trade winner—a good ad- vertisement, one that the ladies will talk about. Crushed pineapple can be made the same way, and the pieces of fruit on top look delicious. Richard Foy. 2. — Cleaning Compounds. The following formulas are said to yield very efficient cleaning compounds: 1. Dissolve 12 parts uf soap in 20 parts of boiling water, and, after cool- ing somewhat, add 3 parts of strongest ammonia water. Stir, and add, little by little, sufficient deodorized benzine to make Ioo parts. 2. The best results are had by using an excess of alkali: Common soap (shavings) 2 ozs. Potass. carbonate (crude) I oz. Powdered borax..... I 02, Ammonia water..... .... 2 ozs, Water to make......_... I pt. Heat the water to boiling, digest in it the soap, then add the borax and po- tassium carbonate, agitate until dis- solved, and strain; when cool add the ammonia water and cork well. 3. Extract quillaja.... 01.0.) Tez, Bere ee ees Ox-gall (iteshy 0. 4 ozs. Tallow soap. os 15 ozs. Triturate the borax with the extract of quillaja and afterward with the ox- gall, which will cause at least partial solution. Then thoroughly incorporate with it the soap so as to produce a plas- tic mass, which may be moulded into sticks or put into boxes. If no extract of soap-bark is at hand, soap-bark in shreds may be exhausted with boiling water, and the liquor evap- orated on a water bath. One hundred parts of bark yield about 20 parts of ex- tract. —_—___»-2 Elixir of Pepsin. Granular pepsin, U. S. P....... 512 grs. Granular rennet (concent.).....512 grs, eesteteed Water... se: 8 ozs. Cee 4 ozs, Deodorized alcohol............. 8 ozs. Detannated muscatel wine to oe oe EE nea 4 pts. Mix the water and glycerin, add the pepsin and rennet, and allow them to stand for three or four hours, until they are apparently dissolved. Then add the deodorized alcohol and sufficient wine to make 4 pints, Mix with one oz. talcum, and allow to stand a week and filter. The wine is detannated with hydrated oxide of iron. If sherry is used in place of muscatel, 30 drops of oil of orange should be added to improve the flavor. To test the finished product add 1 dr. to 2 pints.of fresh milk, previously warmed to 100 deg. Fahrenheit, and stir; in fifteen minutes a firm curd should be formed. ————__-~. 2. ___—_ Blackberry Cordial. Ripe blackberries........ I pt. Blackberry root.:........ 1 62, Mabe I dr. CTeVeS a ea AlispICe lo I dr. Case a, I dr. Ceeenen ee I dr, Porm Wine, 4 ozs, Aiconer 2 ozs, Water, q. s. Express the juice from the berries and add sufficient water through the residue to make the liquid measure 12 fluid ounces ; add the wine and alcohol, mix the drugs and grind to a moderate- ly fine powder, moisten with the liquid before mentioned, pack lightly in a per- colator, soak with menstruum, macerate for 24 hours, and then percolate, pass- ing the remainder of the liquid through the drug. Make up the required quan- tity with enough menstruum consisting of alcohol and water in the proportion of one of the former to four of the latter, ——__~» +. Prescription Sign. An enterprising Brooklyn druggist has a sign, which greets a customer on en- tering his store, showing a physician handing a prescription to a patient and underneath these words: Where will | take it? The question often arises after you have consulted the best physician and have received his prescription. Take it to—— Pharmacy. where they exercise the greatest care in getting the right drug, the right quan- tity, and make sure it is right. We conduct our prescription depart- ment as the best druggist should. This is the answer to the question. Where will I take it? — 8 Gum Arabic Produced by Ants. Walter Busse, who has been investi- gating the gum production of German East Africa, states that practically all secretion of gum in that country is pro- voked by ants. The ants perforate the bark of the acacia to gain admittance into the wood, where they lay their eggs in the excavations which are sometimes of considerable extent. The acacias with soft wood generally show few wounds of this kind; the hard wood acacias are riddled with them, each perforation being marked with a_ glob- ule of gum. The ant that produces the gum makes no use of it; it is only an obstruction to her work, since it stops up the galleries she hollows out. An- other species of ant, however, some- times attacks the exuded gum before it has become completely hardened, and gives it the peculiar appearance well known to collectors. —_- > «<——__—_ Deception is the worst kind of busi- ness policy to be pursued by any man in any business. FRED BRUNDAGE wholesale ® Drugs and Stat.ionery « 32 & 34 Western Ave., MUSKEGON, MICH. WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Menthol............. _@ 8 00| Seldiitz Mixture. ... . 0 22| Linseed, pure raw... 65 68 morphs § S., eects Bing - El g 18 Linseed, boiled .... . 66 «67 Advanced-—Oil Peppermint. »S.,N.Y. Q. 2 15@ 2 40 | Sinapis, opt......... 30! Neatsfoot, winterstr 65 80 Declined—Castor Oil. oo ae oa “— 2 ai Saud, Baceatoy, De @ o Spirits Turpentine.. 55 60 Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80 snout, Scoieh, DeVo's @ 4a Paints BBL. LB. ae Nux Vomica...po. 15 @ 10 Soda, B bisddweces 9@ il cidum Contum ee See dons 802 90/ Scillz Co.. @ wo) Os Sepia. 35@ 37 | Soda, 8, po..... 9@ 11| Red Venetian....... 1% 2 @8 Aceticum $- 6@$ 8| Co = ET ee a a i @ 50| Pe sin Saac, H. & P. Soda’ Ps Potass Tart. 25@ 27/| Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4 Benzoicum, German. 70@ 75|Cubebe............. 1 30@ 1 35| Prunus virg......... @ 50 ED @ 1 00} Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2/| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3 Barade @ 17 Hxeehthites 1 00@ 1 10 Reet Picis Lig. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi- Carb... 3@ 5) Putty, commercial.. 244 2%@3 Carbolicum.......... 2@ 29 ain... acco. 1 Oi 1 10 Ancutinm Manele? doz @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3%4@ 4/| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 Giisisana. 0. i065. 43@ 45 Gaultherla eee a 2 00@ 2 10 Apa pellisF 60 Picis Liq., quarts... @ 1 00/ Soda, Sulphas....... eo 3 oe, rime Hydrochlor 3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce.. @ 1% mv apelis 50 | Picis Lig., pints..... @ _ 85)| Spts. Cologne........ @ 260; Amer 13@ 1B Nitrocum 8@ 10 — ‘Sem. . gale. 50@ ~=s«60 Aloes aad i ay 60 | Pil Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @ %50| Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55 Vermilion, "Kugiish.. 7@ 75 Oxalicum............ 12@ 14 jac 1 80@ 1 85 yir 60 | Piper Nigra.. 5 22 @ 18) Spts. Myrcia Dom... @ 2 00| Green, Paris........ 144@ 18% Pace hotia, dil dil... an = Juntpera, -.... oe if = 2 00 aes be ee cc = i ~ poe = ° . SOE vee ni @ = pose gt ee a a Stipmricua 200. 1%@ 5 | Limonis .... "1 15@ 1 25 | Atrope Belladonna. 60 | Plumbi Acet 10@ 12| Spts. Vint Rect.iogal @ Lead, white......... 6 @ 6% Tannicum . * 4 10@ 1 20| Mentha Piper. ..:.:. 2 50@ 2 60 | Auranti Cortex...... 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et Opli 1 30@ 1 50/| Spts. Vini Rect.5gal @ Whiting, whiteSpan @ 9 Tartaricum ......... 38@ 40| Mentha Verid....... 1 90@ 2 00 on — = Pyrethrum, boxes Strychnia, Crystal... Bi | 1 05 | Whiting, gilders’.... @ % ia Myrela sgal....... 2 000 2 10) Rottima e227 50 pyrethin, ie 2s 50 | Sulphur, 4 Ae ms | Whitig, Pats, Eng. 2 Aqua, 16 deg......... 4 «26 | Olive os, <. Wes Cantharides......... 75 | Quassiz .. SS 16) Tamarinds........:. | __cliff.. @140 Aqua, 20 deg......... om 8s Pics Liggida. 10): 10@ 12| Capsicum............ 50 | Quinia, S. P.& Ww 25@ 35/| Terebenth Venice.. a a | Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20 Carbonas.... ....... 183@ 15| Picis Liquide, gal. @ 35| Cardamon........... 75| Quinia,S. German.. %%@ 35|Theobromz.......... 5B | Chioridum........... 12@ 14| Ricina.. 2) 94@ 1 00 | Cardamon Co........ 75 | Quinia, N. Y......... aoe Sh] Wana 9 ope 00 | Varnishes ‘Mating Rosmarini..... 2... @ 1 00| Castor............... 1 00 | Rubia Tinctorum.. 12@ 14| Zinci Sulph......... 8 | Black 2 00@ 2 25 | Ros, ounce......... 6 00@ 6 50 Gatochil 000.020 60 | Saccharum Lactis PY 2@ 2 Olls | No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 eave nove cece ace 80@ 1 00 Succini.............. 40@ 45| Cimchona............ 60 | Salacin .............. 4 50@ 4 75 Extra Torp...........1 60) 1 7 — “SEIS gs so | Sabina ..........--4. 9@ 1 00 eanee Os Co. a 60 Seunias Draconis... 40@ 50 BBL. GAL. | Coach Body. ........ 2 75@ 3 00 — ° tom 8 6 See 2 75@ 7 00 a --- becese 50 | Sapo, W... 12@ 14} Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10 Ccccecccccocsce Sassafras... 55@ 60 | Cubeb aa 50|SapoM..........-... 10@ 12|Lard,extra.......... 85 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Bacceze — ess., ‘ounce. @ 65 oe ‘ail 50 | Sapo G @ 6) tare, Ne. t..:..:.... 60 Se 70@ 79 Gubebee........ PO, 25 2 = Teme So air th -— 2 Digitalis... Bo uniperus.. coven OB Fe eon ne cove ccce ce ee ee nen Xant oxylum .. i. so@ 1 60| Thyme, opt.......... 1 60 og Ghitoridiia *e = iiiia dain Theobromas ........ 20 Gentian UM 50 Oopatba: 22.20... 50@ 55 Potassium Gentian Co.. 60 — @ 1 70| Bi-Carb.............. im 2 50 Terabin, Canada... 60@ 65 Bichromate piesaee, _— oo Go Potitaa. 0. 5@ 50) Bromide ............ 52@ 57 / tne: 50 Cortex Ce ci itty WS | Eno, ois, i Abies, Canadian. Sa: eee ee 50 Beis... .. .. 2 2- oi inna Lobe ee 50 ROG 2 30@ 2 40 Ginekol is 8 | Fotaea iar, re "ang "go | MI 0 ’ ‘otass Nitras - 7™@ 10 W h ] l M h t Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Opii.. ae 7 aoe Virgin... 12 Potass Nitras.... —- ae Opil, comphorated .. 50 O esa e erc an Ss Quillaia, gr’d........ 12 | Suiphat an Opii, deodorized..... 1 5g Sassafras...... po. = a en ee ee mo — eed eael eens Bs e a Ulmus...po. 18, gr Radix atany.. A t a ao ssociation : 30@ 33 | Sangu naria. 5o Glycyrrhiza — 24@ «25 Serpentaria .. 50 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28@ 30 10@ 12) gtromonium vo 69 Hamatox, 15 Ib.box M@ 12 oo 6 of the — Is........ a 1G po. po = Malerian 5p ——_ (iranian "pe 16 18 — eo Grand Rapids Board of Trade ‘ oe - ——— “a po.. 2 80 Miscellaneous arbonate Precip... ellebore * of 15 | Aither, Nit.? F 35 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25 | Inula, po.. pe 18@ 22 | Atther’ Spt. Near BO 3 ae Citrate Soluble...... 70} IpOeRe, BO. .......... 3008 S @ | Alumen .. 2... 24@ 3 creas Haag Bm as ’ < olut. Orlds.....- ¢ » PY. .... eee 2 AMBAGEOL ol lo. 0@ 50 =, com tl. _... 2| Maranta, \%s........ @ 35) Antimoni, 4 5 B E hate, oo ™ Podophyilum, po... 22@ 25| Antimonie Potass T | 50 ul ers xXxCul rsion Supe per ewt. edt ces al 70 1 00 | Angipgrin 2... @ 2 Sulphate, pure.. z Rhel, COE @ 1 25) Antifebrin ..... @ 2 . Flora. Bol, pv... ------- 78@ 1 35 | Argenti Nitras, oz... a 3 to Grand Rapids, Mich. siete -.-—------ ES a po. 15 o% 38| Balm Gitend Bil ii 45@ | 50 esses. 2 ae Te ae 1 65@ 17 red oie Mationtia 0 u 30@ 35| Sonega em 6S uae Chior, as From August 25 to September 10, 1902, both days inclusive Folia ee officinalis H. @ 40| Caletum Chior., oe @ 10 eee ae 35@ 40|Smilax,M............ @ 25/CalelumChlor., ¥s.. @ 12 rns i " Garela Acatitel, Tin: © | Seillze , ‘Ro. 35 10@ 12) Cantharides, Rus.po — @ 80 At one and one-third fare for the round nevelly 20@ 2 Symplocarpus, rei — pa are = ructus, a ¢ a - 5 a) Gee po... Japsici Fructus, po. sae 266 | valeriana ig’ f0.38 Ze Capstl Fructus i @ i tiip from all parts of Michigan, except from ‘ Jaleriana, German. : aryo us..po.15 12 14 a ‘310 | Zingtber a........... 14@ 16 | Carmine, No. 40... @ 3 00 points where the regular tariff rate to Grand oe ee Zager]... 3. 2... «|e Se) Cera Alba... So Ge . : — Cera Flava....0..... 0@ 42 Rapids is less than 75 cents one way, on Acacia, ist = i @ = “a wrong eon Cooons is ne @ po s i 15 r a Acacia, 2 cke nisum . .po. assia Fructus...... 2 Acacia, 3d pioked : (giavelbons). 18 15) Centraria.......00:-. @ 10 the certificate plan. ifted sorts. 2 rd, 1s wee 6 | Cetaceum.. 45 : : : : : th ee 45@ 65| Carul..... 0.15 10@ 11| Chloroform .. 55 60 i A cordial invitation is hereby extended Aloe, Bard. ‘po. 18@: 20 12@ 14|Cardamon........... 1 25@ 1 75 | Chloroform, squibbs @ 110 . . Aloe, Cape....p0.15. @ 12| Coriandrum 8@ 10| Chioral Hyd Crst.... 1 35@ 1 60 to our patrons and to all retailers and their Aloe, Socotri. - po. 40 aa = aoe Sativa aa a =o erg er —— 25 0 c : jae. vwaonlum ...... . 00 | Cinchonidine,P. 48 ' wae. = = air onal ae cam 16 en Germ. | = families to visit Grand Rapids inum . 50 pterix orate... . i | Cocaine -....:....... 4 O6@ £2 oo . : : oc ee ae @ 13) Fenteulum...-...... (@ 10 Corks, list dis-priet. 75 Tickets will be sold for this occasion Catecbu, 4s ‘oenugreek, po...... eOsObuM........... 4 ) Catechu, '4s aif 16 | Lini..... 4@_ 6|Creta.........bb1.75 @ 2 only on August 26. 26, 27, 2, 20 and 30 and Camphore . = = ae. a bbl. 4 @ a — _—. Soe eee & 7 i E : — i 0 1 55 | Creta, precip........ 1 2 reat - 2 ay — Gooiee a t = i 5 @ 6 — bra. es as 8 the certificate issued by ticket agent will be / pe 80 Rapa 5 6| Crocus . ae 30 i : ie oa. Guaiaeum — po8s “@ 35|Sinapis Alba.” 9@ 10| Cudbear...-2.. 222. @ 2 good when validated for a return ticket Kino.. .. po. $0.75 @ 75) Sinapis Nigra... 11@ «= s 12; Cupet Saiph. ...._... 64@ 8 5 + ’ Mastic a Spiritus Dextrine «2s... 7G 10 any day between August 28 and September Ee , eae 430 ¢ Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 ‘ Opt: a :* 3 10/ Frumenti, D.F.R.. 2 00@ 2 25 or = eo , IO, 1902. Shellac, bieached.... 40@ 45 Frumenti ee a 1S 2 00| Ergota ......-Po.90 85 90 ; ‘ ; Tragacanth ........-. 70@ 1 00) ‘vuntperis Co........ -—a.. Ce Our Holiday Line will be on exhibi- Herba Saacharum N.E.... 1 9@ 2 10| Gambler . oo S@ 9 : ‘ ~; Absinthium..oz. pkg 25) Spt. Vin! Galll....... 1 75@ 6 50 | Gelatin, Cooper. @ 60 tion on above dates in charge of our Mr. Eupatorium..oz. pkg 0} Vini Oporto. .... .... 1 25@ 2 00! Gelatin, French. .... 60 . Lobelia ...... oz. pkg 25 | Vini A .. 1 25@ 2 00! Glassware, flint, box 75 & 5 Dudle gaan ; eee pkE = Sponges a= Box...) a = y- a So oe ox | Florida sheeps’ wool ue, Drown. ........ ; — =< pkg Pn cariea 2 50@ 2 75 =. ee. Hea van = iia Tanacetiim V 07. Pke zg | Nassau sheeps’ wool | Gruna Paradis... @ 2 Thymus, V...0z. pkg 25 | Velvet extra sheeps’ Humulus 25@ 55 Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @ 1 50 Byarare Chior dite = 1 = H l e e n ee 55@ 60) Extra yellow noope? ~ t Carbonate, Pig. 18@ 20| wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25 parse ye es < ; = aZe I ne ¢ r I S Carbonate, K .&M.. 18@ 20] Grass ‘sheeps’ — ydrarg Am e ; HydrargUnguentum 50@ «60 ‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20 carriage . @1 rar ™m @ 85 ol Hard, for slate use.. @ 7 iehth an, ae 6570 sae ,,| Yellow Reef, for = > rug oO. Absinthium......... 7 00@ 7 20| ciate use... ....... @ 140 = bi ot 5@ ‘@ Amygdale, Dulc.. 50@ 60 s pre esubi...... 40@ Amygdale, Amarz. 8 00@ 8 25 aia lodoform.. -+++ 3 O@ 3 85 OME os oka c steels 1 60@ 1 65| Acacia ............+. 6 tite... 6 Auranti Cortex...... 2 10@ 2 20 ona — @ 50 Lycopodium. . a 65@ 70 ——— dee oses ae. 2 60@ 2 75 | Zingiber.. @ 50/2 eo . Go Cajiput' 80@ 85 7 oi Loca oes e - Li = Arsen et Hy- sa Caryopniil — = Rhel Ar a @ 450; Liquor otassArsinit 10@ 12 Chenopadii. @ 2 75| Smilax x Otcinal.. 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph.... =f Cinnamonil 1 00D 1 10 | Somega ..... 0. se voee @ 50| Magnesia. Sulph, bbl @ 1% Citronella ........... BBQ 40! Boil... .0ce sees cone M 50| Mannia. 8. Fiser-2-, BQ 68 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT 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 Boneless Ham Plug Tobacco DECLINED Galvanized Iron Pails Lard in Tierces Navy Beans Index to Markets By Columns Col. A Akron one beaks omee 15 Alabastine . Scaepecs ¢ a AMMONIAB...... 2. ee eee cee cone 1 Axio Grease. ..... 2.000: ..... 1 B No vcecs sos ce 1 Bath BrteK. .... ....ccsccccees 1 Bluing ee Ne Breakfast Food. Se ee 1 Brooms. ic cceccece cass = We 8 Butter Color..............-+-- 1 Cc ND eo es cee eee 14 i ccctioe coos ee eeee 1 Canned Goods....... soe en 2 OO a 3 Carbon Olls .... 2... cccces cece 3 eae ec e eee 3 Chewing Gum.........-..---- 3 CS 3 eee 3 Clothes Lines. . : ee ee 3 Cocoa Shells.........---+-+++: 3 NO ee es oa nee 3 Condensed Milk.............- 4 Coupon Books.....--..----+--- 15 Crackers .......------ oo Cream Tartar .........-...-.- 5 D meee Pris. ..-....-........ ¥F Farinaceous Goods.......... 5 Fish and Oysters...........-- 13 Fishing Tackle.......-.....-- 6 Flavoring Extracts..........- 6 Fly Paper........:.0--e0+ 00. 6 Fresh Meats.......-.------+-- 6 I os on dcisues one Sees 14 G ERRIRD. ... ... oc cn econ see scu- 6 rain Bags......------------- 7 Grains and Flour .........--- 7 H I Indigo. ....... 222+ ees cee cere 7 J See .... <5. ...---- eee ies 7 L Lamp Burners....... 15 Lamp Chimneys... 15 Lanterns.......-.- 15 Lantern Globes. 15 Licorice .....-- 7 YO... ce ececseeceeee 7 M Meat Extracts.............--- 7 CNN es sak ee cece ewes 3 I Soe. pss wows nn oes 7 N Ne ca ce teese es eee 14 oe 15 ee 7 P — Be cau oe : Paving —_ ; ane pense g R is sw eens 8 Ss Beles Dressing............... BAISFAGUE ... .. . 2200 e co ee cocece eee ae eee ear eres twesece Wrapping Y Yeast Oake......cccecsseeeee 13 2 AXLE GREASE doz. gross ae !6lClUlC ee Oe Castor ae oe sane cece Siw 560 «0.425 hen sane 9 00! IXL Got i boxes75 9 00 Mica, tin boxes. . Paraen BAKING Fé POWDER aa se 1q4 lb. cans, 4 d0z. case. —- 75 % Ib. cans, 2 doz. case......3 75 11b. cans, 1 doz. case.. 5 lb. cans, % doz. case.. TOTS ¥ Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 45 \% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case.. 85 1 Ib. cans. 2 doz. case......1 60 Royal 10csize.... 90 14 lb. cans 1 35 6 0z. cans. 1 90 % Ib. cans 2 50 % Ib. cans 3 75 7 1 1b. cans. 4 80 ie. 31b. cans 13 00 = 5 1b. cans. 21 50 BATH BRICK ——- oe English... 70 “BLUING Arctic, 4 0z. ovals, per gross 4 00 Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross6 00 Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00 Small size, per doz.......... Large size, perdoz.......... BREAKFAST FOOD GERA NUT FLAKED Cases, 36 packages.......... PrGonmoeme..... .-..-... 3: 4 = BROOMS No. 1 Carpet... 2 78 No. 2 Carpet. . -2 25 No. 3 Carpet... -2 15 No. 4 Carpet.. -1 75 Parlor Gem.. .2 40 Common Whisk . ae Fancy Whisk.. 2 Warehouse.. -3 50 BRUSHES. Milwaukee Dustless eee : 00@3 00 Russian Bristle........ 3 00@5 00 Discount, pose in doz. lots. ub Solid Back, 8 ih be seb eikon 45 eo eS ea 95 Petaeed Bees... .......... .2.. 85 BUTTER — W., R. & Co.’s, 15¢ size.. 1 W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.. 2 a Electric Light, 8s Electric “By 168. Parafiine, 6s..... oe Parafiine, 12s. Wicking CANNED GOODS Apples 3 lb. Standards...... Gallons, standards. . Blackberries Sienierds....-..c. .. Beans Blueberries Bianiard ............-- Brook Trout 2 Ib. cans, Spiced.......... Clams. Little Neck, 1 !b..... Little Neck. 2 Ib..... Clam Bouillon Burnham’s, % pint........ Burnham’s, pints.......--- Burnham’s, quarts........ Cherries Red Standards........ White Pee French Peas Sur Extra Fine.......-.--- Mxtea Wine...... -...:..--- a Mages. |... -.. 2... Gooseberries Standard ...........- Hominy Standard... Star, 1 Ib Picnic Talls.......... Mackerel Mastard, 11b......-- Mustard, 21b........ Bodies, tip........- > Soused, 2 Ib........ ‘ Tometn, £ 1b... ...--- Teas. 2m... ...... Mushrooms Pee ° Dee... ..... <1 -. Oysters ome 19... oo. ore 2c... Cove, 1 Ib Oval...... Peaches Marrowfat .......... Early June ay June Sifted.. Plums Plums.. Pieeeete Raspberries Biwtere. ec Russian Cavier Salmon Columbia River, talls Columbia River, flats Red ka California, 448....... California %s...... = French, 348.......... French, 4S......... Strawberries ee steerer werner eee és . _ bh Oo bo & DO ht DS DO Sasasa SBa z - & 888 &S BS SR 1 25@2 75 1 35@2 55 mnie - SSSR SSR & ge 4 En Bik. winter........-- 9 CATSUP Columbia, pints...... ..2 00 Columbia, % pints... eee ace 1 2 CHEESE CHEWING GUM American Flag Spruce.. ——* s Pepsin Sen Sen Sen aa Breath Perfume.. 1 Sugar WUIGRERT. . ...- 5-5-0 5 cece es CHICORY Eagle. Franck’s Ss eee dt eee eee Schoener’s.... ...--e-eeee eee CHOCOLATE Walter Baker & Co.’s. oo Sweet.. Prem Cees iron Recs Runkel Bros. Vienna — eke) aes Vanilla . be ced ee! on Premium.. CLOTHES LINES Sisal 60 ft, 3 thread, extra.. 72 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 90 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 60 ft, 6 thread, extra...... 72 ft, 6 thread, extra.....- Jute AQnePnug Galvanized Wire No. 20, each 100 ft long.. No. 19, each 100 ft long... bes COCOA ieesene. .........-..... Colonial, 148 ........++---0.- — S.. see bem dete Sees ++ Caegibees owen nue ~ ° Van Houten, ee. ce, Van Houten, ¥s....... Van Houten, ee see ue Van Houten, Is...... boos Wilbur. 4 eka ecee cess sie OCOANUT i aaa ae os oe Dunham’s %s and \S..... Dunham’s 4s Dupham’s 48... 2... ..36<. Bulk COCOA SHELLS a0 1b: Demet... .......... Less quantity ............ 3 Pound packages ......... 4 COFFEE Roasted F. M. C. brands MBROIINS. oo cic scs. 30% Pi ioe ences a 28 Nol iotel pcteau weet caidas 28 Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands. ee vate BOSTON, al te White House, 1 Ib. cans..... White House, 2 Ib. cans..... Excelsior, M. & J. 1 lb. cans Excelsior, M. & J.2 Ib. cans Tip Top, M. & J., 1 lb. cans. Royal a ee Royal Java and Mocha...... Java and Mocha Blend...... Boston Combination........ Ja-Vo Blend... Ja-Mo-Ka Blend Distributed by Olney & Judson Gro. Co., Grand Rapids, C. El- liott & Co., Detroit, B. Desen- berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons Bros. & Co., ~~ Jackson Grocer Co., "Jae son, Meisel & Goeschel, "Bay City, Fielbach Co., Toledo. Telfer Coffee Co. brands we 8 8% We oes. cs 9% No. 12.. one OR, eee cee ese 14 ee a 16 On hice ec ce hee aoe 18 a ee ee ee 20 i ee 22 ee os oe ie oc 24 ee ee 26 Me oe es 28 Balstse ee 20 en Crees... co .. 24 Cobonial oo 26 a a. oe ca caucus eau 28 ae 14 Damvesed in 100 Ib. lots. Rio ee eames 8 can ancy African .............. 17 oe 25 ee 31 Mocha Aree... ss... 21 Packa; New York Arbuckle... — — MeLaughiin’ s XXXxX McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers aa. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chi — Extract Valley City % gross....... ~ 75 Felix & gross. s 1 15 Hummel’s foil | % gross.. Sc ceus 85 Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Jue Oo . BOR no rn rote i = eee ee eee ees er eeee ee weere Peerless Evaporated Cream. Milkmaid.... Highland ‘Cream St. Charles Cream.. Se Ly SSRRSSRSSRSES CRACKERS National Biscuit Co.’s brands Butter Soda ON ice oes ess to 7 Hoda, Og. ..2..-c.. 8... 8 Long cael Wafers....... 18 Zephyrette.. s eons ae Oyster ee 7% Wren 2d 7 Extra Farina ee eeu a 7% Saitine Oyster. ............ 7 Sweet Goods—Boxes Ae... 10 Assorted Cake............ 10 PC NS 6 eet occ 8 Bont's Water........-..... 16 Cinnamon Bar... .... — -. Coffee Cake, Iced... 10 Coffee Cake, Java... 10 Cocoanut Macaroons 18 Cocoanut Taffy.... 10 Cracknells..... 16 Creams, —- a 8 Cream Crisp.. 10% Cubans. 11% Currant Fruit. 12 Frosted Honey.. << ie Frosted Cream............ 9 Ginger Gems,!’ Tee or as 8 Ginger Snaps, N Be. ©.22 6% Cage. 10% Grandma Cakes........... 9 Graham Crackers......... 8 Graham Wafers........... 12 Grand Rapids Tea........ 16 — Peer ek 12 Iced Honey aero. pease 10 Imperials.. ae Jumbles, Honey.. Gece sees. 12 aes Peers... x... 12 Lemon Snaps... ceecsee SS Lemon Watere............ 16 Marshmaliow......:........ 16 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 —— = 16 Mary An eee os Mixed ras. banding eeoiere: 11% ae PE ct ck 7% Molasses seal 8 meoenes Bar.............. 9 Moss Jelly Bar............ 12% Newton.. i Oatmeal Grackers.. . oo Oatmeal Wafers........... 12 Orange oe Sa pen ees 9 (renee GoM... .... co. 9 Penn Gan.. aes cee ag oe Pilot Bread, SR % Pretzelettes, hand made.. 8 Pretzels, hand made...... 8% Beoten Cookies............ 9 poare bumen...- <......... 7% peer Cale... jo. wc. ose & Sugar Cream. XXX....... 8 Sugar Squares,............ 8 SN ee L 13 Tutti Frutti.. 16 Vanilla Wafers.. . i Vienna Crimp. ...... ...... 8 E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked good Standard Crackers. Blue Ribbon Squares. rite for complete price list with interesting discounts. CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 Ib. a noms ae 30 Bulk in sacks.. ee DRIED ‘FRUITS Apples Sundried . @6% Evaporated, ‘60 Ib. boxes. Q10% California Prunes © > ©889E9 RRR REE 1g cent less In 50 Ib. cases California Fruits Morteotn 11% Blackberries .......... Nectarines 8% eS @9% Pears..... suc. 96 Pitted Cherries...... ENE cco Raspberries ........... Pa Leghorn... Sceceus ot gue ee CONE ees. 12% California, : 1b. pat ne Imported, 1 lb package...... Ly imported, Gulk,..... -....... 6% Peel Citron American 19 Ib. bx...13 Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..13 Orange American 10 Ib. bx..13 Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. 75 London Layers 3 Crown. 1 90 Cluster 4 Crown......... Loose Muscatels 2 Crown z Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 1% Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 84 L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib..... - - lL. a, Seeded, % = Sultanas, bulk . cae Sultanas, package .. ceoaee “is FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Lima.. cules Medium Hand Picked 1 Brown Holland......... 2 Farina 241 1b. packages ............1 Bulk, per 100 18.......5 oso. 002 ominy Flake, 50 Ib. sack..... ..... Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl............ Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... Maccaroni and Vermice Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... Imported, 25 Ib. box......... woe aSK nw a DOO SS"-sss Su MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29 6 Peari ss Cummen i; -.. .. ..........8 8 eee ee 2 75 Mire... 2.2... ...-... 8 Peas Green, a _ cael SO Green, Scotch, bu. . ae Split, Ib.. ccc & Rolled Oats Rolled Avena, bbi.. «+. 30 Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... 3 30 Monaren, DD............ ed 10 Monarch, % pbi.. a ae Monarch, 90 lb. sacks. -2 9 Quaker, — “213 20 Walsh-Deltoo Co.’ s Brand, Cases, 24 2 lb. packages..... 2 00 Sago ee Se es. 3% Gorman, SAGKR. ............. 3% German, broken pacKkage.: 4 Tapioca Flake, 110 Ib. sacks......... 434 Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.. <.- Oe Pearl, 24 1 lb. packages. ie 6% Whea Cracked, bulk.. . 8% 242 b. packages .. " -2 5 FISHING T CKLE tot inen:...... 6 1% to z inches. z 1% to 2 inches... 9 1% to 2 inches 11 2 inches...... 83 Se 30 Cotton Lines Wee. 0 ee 5 Noo ib fee... 7 Oe 9 me. 4 15 f0en............. 10 ie & 16 feet... .... --.......: ll eo, G 15 eee... ek. 12 oy eters... <......,.... 15 Be & to eee: 18 ee Oto ree... ou 20 Linen Lines Pe 20 Og s,s... 26 WOE se 34 Poles Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.... . 50 Bamboo, 16 ft . per doz...... = Bamboo. 8 it. per doz.....- FLAVORING EXTRACTS. FOOTE & JENKYS’ JAXON Highest Grade Extracts Vanilla Lemon lozfullm.120 tozfullm. 80 2ozfullm.2 10 2o0zfullm.1 25 No. 3fan’y 3 15 No.38fan’y.1 78 Vanilla ~ Lemon =— .120 2ozpanel. 75 aper..2 00 40z taper..1 50 2 0Z 3 0z No. 4T 2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. Our Tropical. . 152 20z. full measure, Lemon.. 75 4 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 1 50 2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 90 4 0z. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 80 Standar 2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka.. 70 2 0z. Panel Lemon.......... 60 FLY PAPER Tanglefoot, per box.......... Tanglefoot. ner case......-. 3 20 FRESH MEATS Beef KO 9 ORGGO8.. 8s. 3.2555. Forequarters. a 6 Oe Oe Hindquarters ....... 8 @i0 ee a oc ose 8 @12% Moumae. oc). %@ 9 Cneske......-....... 3 @e eee ee Pork Dressed ...........~. @8 Lome... |...) 2...) IS Boston Butts........ @il Semen eno+ or =r @10% Leaf @l2 ‘Mutton @8 eee eee cece coe Lambs. . oh sarees TH@ 9% e Carcass ..........---. 8%@8 9 10 GELATINE Knox’s Sparkling........ 13 a Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross 14 00 Ma Knox’s Acidulated........ 1 20 | Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 8 00 Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 00 | Half bbls, 600 count......... 4 50 — Sagas atk ace 75 Small ymout eee 1 20 Monee 1 50 ee 5.8 ot geoceee sD BO Con's, 2 qtisiea 1 61 8, 1,200 count .......5 25 Cox's, E-gt size. 110 PLAYING CARDS GRAIN BAGS No. 90, Steamboat......... 90 Amoskeag, 100 in bale .... 151% | No. 15, Rival, assorted.... 1 20 Amoskeag, less than bale. 1534 — > yn’ eae. 1 60 p oes, HoeCAL. .. li GRAINS AND FLOUR No * = Satin finish.. 2 00 ! heat No. 86 wee 2 00 bei Old. 66 No. 632, Tournam’t Whist. 2 25 eat, New... 6t POTASH Winter at Brands 48 cans in case. eile. re 4 39 | Babbitt’s son eeeesencnne-f OO Second Patent. co 3 81 Penna Salt Go.’s............. 3 00 ee 3 60 PROVISIONS Second Straight eee oe ce : 3) Barreled Pork po eee eee Ua 3 30 | Mess................. Ql7 "5 en 4 80 Back . @19 50 Se Clear back. @20 50 RR biect to usual cash = Short cut.. @19 25 ount. B. ae mmeees = = Flour i " Se ee dition: al. mnie, See Mt. at Family Mess Loin... 21 00 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s ere Creag @19 50 fees Mee ec, 3 8 Dry Salt Meats mend Ae... 3 3 Diamond M68. 3 8 og oa ae Worden Grocer Covi s Brand Extra shorts.. ca 1s Quaker \s.. 3 go | Extra shorts......... Criitcor Mea 3 96 Smoked Meats Cuamer Me. 3 90 | Hams, 121b. average. @ 13% Spring Wheat Flour Hams, 141b. average. @ 13% Clark“ Jewell-Wells _— _—— Hams, 161b. average. @ 13% Pillsbury’s Best %s.. 4 60 | Hams, 20!b. average. @ 13% Pilisbury’s Best igs....... 450} Ham dried beef..... @ 12% Pillsbury’s Best s.. 4 40 | Shoulders (N.Y. _ @ 102, Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 4 40 | Bacon, clear. . -. 184@ 14% Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 40 | California hams. .... @ 10% Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s ~— Boiled Hams.. @ 19% Duluth Imperial }s....... 4 40| Picnic Boiled Hams @ 15% Duluth Imperial \s... 4 3 Berlin Ham pr’s’d 9Q 2% Duluth Imperial 4s....... 4 20} Mince Hams....... 9%@ 10 Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s Brand Lard Wineold s.............. 4 45 C WHNOA Idec 4 35 a tees ee eens @ 8% Wise i66.............. 4 26 TO, «00+ voce ee vee ee @i1n% 60 Ib. Tubs..advance y Olney & Judson’s — 80 lb. Tubs..advance 6 Ceresota }s. ...advanee \% Ceresota ys. . advance % Ceresota 48 4 20 | 10 Ib. Pails..advance % Worden — = _ . Pails..advance 1 — st re eth Palls_ advance d ee OT S30 Weectiian Laurel &s.. 4 20 — s 8% Laurel %s and 4s paper.. 4 20 Bologna sausages Meal _ | Bologna............. _. Bolted .. a : 00 Frankfort. as Granulated . eocc cece co cccecs 3 10 Pork . @8% Feed and Millstuffs Blood .. oo 8 = er Feed, oo . 26 ais Ongue « ie 9 o. 1 Corn an ats... 27 Unbolted Corn Meal...... 26 50 Headchoose.....--... 6% Winter Wheat Bran....... 18 00 Beef Winter Wheat Middlings. ’2 00 | Extra Mess.......... Dareeeniee 20 60 | Boneless. ¢......... 4 50 Oats Rump, New . ie ores 0a Car = —_ eee 33 Pigs’ “Feet iar lots, Old... .. .... 52 Less than cat fia ee Oe Corn 1 obia., Wha 8 co Carn, car lem... ......... +O Tripe me Kits, 15 Ibs 8) No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 09 00| 1 pbis., 40 Ibs... 1 50 No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00/ npis.’ g0 Ibs....... 3 00 HERBS Casings Sage... ‘ 15 Hops ... 151 Bork . ie a ca 2 Laurel Leaves. 15 | Beef rounds......... 5 Senna Leaves. ..28 | Beef middles........ 12 peeen..........:..... 85 INDIGO Uncolored Butterine Madras, 5 lb. boxes . see Solid, dairy.. @13% S. ., 2,3 and 5 Ib. boxes. eee 50 Rolls, dairy.... @14 JELLY Rolls, creamery. .... —igg 5 lb, palls.per doz........ 1 5 | Solid, creamery. .... SE 40| aT. Meats ae SOib. pam go | Corned beef, 2 Ib.... Corned beef, 14 Ib... 18 50 LICORICE Roast beef, 2 Ib...... 2 50 Pure. 30 | Potted ham, \s..... 50 Calabria. oo 23 | Potted ham, s..... 90 Sicily .. Soe 14 | Deviled ham, 4s.. 50 Bn 10 | Deviled ham, 5a | 90 LYE Potted tongue, \4s.. 50 Condensed, 2 doz............ 1 20 | Potted wee 8 90 Condensed, 4 doz............ 2 25 ecuucatie MEAT EXTRACTS Carolina head................ 7 Armour & Co.'s, 2 02...... 4 45 | Carolina No.1..........- --8% Liebig’s, 2 0Z...........-.- 2 75| Garolina No.2 ........-+- MOLASSES mee “36 New Orleans — Open Kettle.... 40 Choice...... 35 a eae 26 ee. oe ce 22 ale: barrels 2c extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1 doz.........1 7& Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 50 Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 1 75 OLIVES L Bulk, 1 gal. kegs.......-. ~ 1.6 Bulk, 3 gal. kegs........... 1 20 Bulk, 5 gal. Kegs..........- 115 Manzanilla, 7 0Z......-+..- 80 Queen, pints Be ect wecees 2 35 Queen, 19 OZ........... +++ 4 50 Queen, 28 OZ....- eee eeeee 7 00 Staffed, 5 OZ. «.-.-. ..--w.s- 90 Stuffed, & OF. 2... .......... 145 Staifad, 10 oz.... ........-. 2 30 PIPES as Me BO os noe ween cone Clay T D., full count......: 65 | Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the OOD. NG. Biccc cece ces ccccece © , 2% pound pockets....74 oe Japan, No. 1.. Japan, No. 2.. Java, nig head . Java, = Table.. Best grade Imported Japan, — pockets, 33 to _, Tie ss, Cost of packing in cotton ae ets only 4%e more than bulk. SALAD DRESSING Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz. Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz.. Alpha Cream, small,3doz.. 95 Durkee’s, large, | doz. --4 15 Durkee’s, small, 2 doz....... 4 85 SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Church’s Arm and Hammer. : 15 Deland’s 3 00 -1 85 -1 90 Dwight’s Cow.. 3 15 Emblem. encase ee 3 00 Wyandotte, 100 Xie... 28... 3 00 SAL SODA Granulated, bbis............ 96 Granulated, 100 Ib. cases....1 00 Lump, bbls. Manufacturers New York, N N. Ys No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 —— | Domino.. eT Cl tee 5 20 tec ee Cues... 4 95 common ge 4 +0 Coarse Powdered. . ou XXXX Powdored......... 4 85 Fine Granulated........... 470 2b. bags Fine Gran... .. 490 5 lb. bags Fine Gran...... 4 85 moa ce Diamond A.. 4 70 Confectioner’s A.. 450 No. 1, Columbla rm . £40 No. 2) Windsor 4... 4 35 No. 3, Ridgewood A...... 4 35 me. £4 fheee A... 6 No. 6, Rmpite A.......... 425 Me. G....... 0... 0... 2 ae No 7 410 No. &... 4 00 eS =. Ll lee nee... hee Wo. te... ae oe oa... .. 6 ee CO ING, TA ceca ee ee. 6 Oe TG Te a. cee Ne. TABLE SAUCES LEA & PERRINS’ SAUCE = Se The Original and ) Genuine = Worcestershire. Lea & Perrin’s, pints boas 5 00 Lea & Perrin’ a“ \ —_ — 220 Halford, large. . cow 21. Battord, smai,............ 2 25 TEA Japan Sundried, medium .......... 31 Sundried, choice............ 33 ee es 43 Regular, medium............ 31 Mewar, Gneree | ...........- 33 | Momsen, tamey .............. 43 Basket-fired, medium....... 31 Basket-fired, choice......... 38 ga pared, faney.........- . a ee Panrinee................ 20@22 | Gunpowder Moyune, medium ........... 23 Movie, CHOICE. ...... 62.025 38 Miovuno, fancy.............. 53 Pingsuey, medium.......... 28 Pingeney, CROie............ &3 Pingenoy, fancy... 24... 6... 43 Young Hyson We ce oie cass ec. s 30 po, 36 Oolong Formosa, fancy... ........... 42 po a ee 25 I, Ce 6 oss cence oss. 32 English Breakfast Peck cece ces 27 bo ae 34 Ee 42 India Comion, Gugiee.. ......... 4, 32 Co 42 ~~ Cigar H. & F. — Co.’ 8 — Fortune Teller... sesce Oe Our a ga . 35 00 Quintette.. . 85 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co s brand. OE A Cigar Clippings, perlb..... 26 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i2 13 14 16 < coe o ) . ee Bros. a lion eek Zee Mixed Candy STONEWARE ieee oe. oe ac hae is ove ees cx teed Sie... 65 a... 35 00 | Cork lined, 9 in..........-... cio °F Butters F. M. 3 Fine Cut Cork lined, 101n.......--..-- 85] Special... 0.222222. O 7 | 6 pale, Der d0n........---- seesee cress 43 iW eter. Bees 65 | Co’ pt ara ; i fo 6 gal, ber ee ic 5% Cadillac...... Ss et og RS SE @ 7% 8 gal. & ce 48 Sweet Loma.......... 83 Mop — ES @ 8% 10 gal a Cea 60 i Fiiawatha, sib. pails .......*6 | Trojan spring . -- 90} Ribbon .............. @? | i2¢al. — ce 72 : Hiawatha,.10 Ib. pails BA Eclipse patent spring. aa my > emma $ $y; | 15 gal. meat-tubs, each 2 1 12 i oe *+-2 | No. 2 patent brush aa ‘. 85 | English Rock. 22.72: @9 | 20 gal. meat-tubs, each := are alwa Prairie Rose ‘**4g | 12 3. cotton mop heads.....1 25| Kindergarten ....... @ 9 | 2 gal. meat-tubs, each. += baci Protection .. ae TET Fs co nce ees 90 | Bon Ton Cream..... g 8% | 30 gal. meat-tubs, each......... i rench Cream....... a \ ; Sweet Buriey. peceernaret he = — 1 5o| Dandy Pan.......... alt rn — . Fresh Roasted 4 : “1 @5| Hand Made Cream 2 to 6 ga 7 ee : Plug go | mixed . @14% | “wurn Dashers, per dvz...... ae 84 q Red Cross.........05--++--2- 22 “1 go | Crystal Cream mix. @13 Milkpans : K le peeee oe cece mn ecee > oes = .1 25 Fancy—In Pails % ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz......... 48 ee .-2 25 | Champ. Crys. Gums. gx | 1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, each............ BY 5 is bee... ....<--c--+>-- 33 --2 401 Pony Hearts... 15 Fine Glazed Milkpans American Eagle........:.-.- ol ———— Squares 12 | y% gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 60 Standard Navy.............- 35 ni Soe 12 | ‘1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each..........-- 6 Spear Head, 16 0z.......-... 40 2 75 | Peanut Squares. .... 9 ; s ar Head, ta. 1 60 | Sugared Peanuts.... Bt Stewpans 4 Nobby eB co ce eae 47 1 50 | Salted Peanuts...... 10 | % gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85 eS ee See 35 Traps Starlight Kisses..... 10 | ‘i gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10 : Oia Honest. ..+--41 | Mouse, wood, 2 holes.. 22 | 8an Blas Goodies. .. @12 Old Honesty..---------------3) | Mouse, wood: 4 holes........ 45 | Lozenges, plain .-... @ 3 Jugs Bocas enn tose 35 | Mouse, wood,6 holes........ 70] Lozenges, printed... =» @10_| 4 gal. per doz.........-.-+++++++++++0+ 56 Piper Heldsick....--........ €0 | Mouse, tin, 5 holes.......... os; | Caos. eee... --.. QI | 34 gal. per d0Z......... 0 seeeeeseeseee 42 ik Se a at oe ee 80 ae ee “ = Pie seal, por OOl eo 7 e | oe, Stan dard. eee Rat, ee ic coemeuicn 75 Victoria tei.” i @15 Sealing Wax U | es a um Drops.......... : ‘ Cadillac viisssss+eee-38 | g9-4noh, Standard, No. 1.....7 00] Moss ‘Drops. . $ 5% 5 Ibs. in package, per IbD............... 2 30 a Onge aaa gi genacame St 50 18-inch, Standard, No. 2 .6 00} Lemon Sours.. a @9 LAMP BURNERS age 16-inch, Standard, No. 8 00 | Imperials............ @°% |No.0Sun.:.......... 35 aeenins 20-inch, Cable, No. 1.. 50 | Ital. Cream Opera... @12 | No.1Sun 36 Sweet Core.. ...---84 |18inch, Cable, No. -6 59 | Ital. Cr Bonbons Ma eae 2: 48 ae lee eee, Me "5 50 oe »2SUM...-.- ee eeee eevee pe Mm he seen 85 abiets ates Great Navy.-..----+0++- ..34 | No.1 Fibre..... -9 45 | Molasses on = Tubular 50 ; : Waroeth ...........---.....- 24 | No.2 Fibre..... - -7 95! Ib. pails.. Gis (tetas et ae i. 50 Bamboo, 16 0Z........--+--+- 24 | No.3 Fibre.. . .7 20] Golden Waiiies ... @12 ee namie rae en Sponges Paper Pee CW 25 _ pena LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds r 7 ck Lot. pells..........-. 2 Ip a me Boar 2 50 Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes Per box of 6 doz. . Honey D ec 34 enon 0 -+-+eee++2 0] Lemon Sours . @50 | No. OSUN...........-eeeeeeeeeeee eeeeee Pencils, Crayons, 7 Gold BGR oo keno 34 | Double Acme... 2.1.2 75 | Peppermint Drops.. OO FR BON ns ect ectter nantes nace i 72 f BMAN ......-- 2202 eee ones = ineeian............. 1S. 2 a WUD I ROE oes speci cieentceceen or cess 2 42 Pencil B Ink Chips cae 31 Deakie =. oa == . Choe. Drops.. @85 ‘Muni Cleanias tibiae encil DOXeS, INKS, \ We PT oo eee cack wien 21 Single Peerless............ 2 50 M. Choe _— and y Duke’s Mixture.........---- 3 | Hesthern Queen .........3 8 MK. Nos sits @1 00 Each chimney in corrugated carton. Pens Duke’s Cameo............... 41 | Double Duplex.. ***"3 gg | Gum Drops.. i @35 | No.0 Crimp............ eo eee ss etn oct ee 1 62 Myrtle Navy Saja tis conan 30 | Good Luck *+***°5 75 | Licorice Drops...... @75 | No.1Crimp.. 195 Yum Yum, 1% 02. ---- +++ 38 Good Luck ......0.00.sse000 2 25 ——. Fined @55 | No. 2Crimp...........0.0.-2s0-0eee eee 2 66 — Window Cleaners | Imperial ae ge RAR ang hcncen We have the goods. Corn Cake, 2% 0Z......+..--- 22 9S eigen non ee ottoes . so cies No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrappe a 1 85 : Corn Cake, 11b.............- SS tte: 1 85| Cream Bar.......... on No.1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00 Send us the order, Plow Boy, RE Sr Tb we.. Cs oe: 2 30 Moines bf @55 | No.2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 90 Plow Boy, 3% 02.........-+--36 Wood Bowls ani e Creams. 80 @90 XXX Flint eee ce ‘ — Buttons, Pep. i i Peaeon in ‘o eo ce cana cee nice 3 - a9 = > aoe cn ie = Mt. cS. 2 @s65 | No.1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75 Grand Rapids Stationery Co. Air ‘Brake i eapsoe cece cs » 15 in. ae. Geen 1 75 String ook... @65 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, Tr. & lab. 3 75 29 N. lonia St. ait Hoek... t 17 in. Butter...... vsrcrtoo55"""9 25 | Wintergreen Berries @eo | No. 2Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... 4 00 oad : : Country Club. . oa ae 19 in. Butter. 4 eieeesese 00 Caramels Pearl Top rand Rapids, Mich. Forex XXXX..... : vee -28 | Assorted 13-15-17. .+++-1 75 | Clipper, 201b. pails.. @ 8% | No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 00 : gn gag ema nen Assorted 15-17-19 .........--- 2 50 | Perfection, 20 lb. pls @12% _ 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 5 00 i ee 34 WRAPPING PAPER Amazon, Choe Cov’d @15 Vo. 2 hinge, Wrap ed and labeled..... 5 10 peau oa eee Common Straw.....-...--. 1% | Korker 2 for 1¢ pr bx @55 | No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe TWINE Fiber Manila, white. ...... 3% | Big 3, 3 for 1c pr bx.. @55 LAMPS..-.0---0005 seeeee ceeeeees 80 Cotton, 3 ply... Roepe! ae Manila, en oo Dukes, 2 for 1c pr bx @60 La Bastie Cotton, 4 ply.. - 86 iA... . 4 | Favorite, 4 for 1c, bx No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 00 Jute, 2 ply..... 12 3 | AA Cream Car’ls 3Ib @50 | No.2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 25 ee 6 i . = —— awed " ig FRUITS No. 1 Crimp, per d0Z............ 02.005 1 35 Garo ar —_ _ E ae _ Butter, short count. = Oranges No. 2 Grimp, per doz............._.... 1 60 ur atalogue 1S voeoan | Warbuserrole os [Fae meg “aes INEG: See orida Bright...... Mo. t Lime (Ge Ger). 3 50 99 Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8 YEAST CAKE | Fancy Navels....... S | No.3 Lime {tee aes)... 4 00 “Our Drummer Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 C, 3 AOZ... +--+ vee eons Extra Choice........ @ 2a... 460 Pure Cider, B. & B. brand. Sunlight, 3 doz coset etttteeees 1 00} Late Valencias...... 5 5026 00 Pure Cider, Red Star.. cir | Sunlight, 1% doz...00000000. 50 | Seedlings. ........... @ Electric Pure Cider, Robinson.......11 | Yeast Cream, 3 doz.......... 1 00} Medt. Sweets........ @ No. 2 Lime So — ee 4 00 Pure Cider, Silver........... il so — 3 tae sete eeee 1 = Semmens @ No: ¢ Witnt (900 doz). 4 60 WASHING POWDER “hindlpmoseigaags ee ; @ OIL CANS : FRESH FISH iain Diamond Flake......... .. 2 75 Per lb. 1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 1 35 Gold Brick..... .........---3 25] white fish . 9 Verdelll, ex fey 300.. @ 1 gal. galy. iron with spout, per doz.. 1 60 Gold Dust, regular... ee 4 50 | Trout Co a Verdelli, fey 300..... @ 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 9 95 It lists the largest line of gen- Gold Dust, 5¢................ 400| Black Bass............0@ 11 Verdelli, ex chee 300 @ 3 gal. galy. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 50 eral merchandise in the world. Kirkoline, awe. c i. 3 80] Faliput............ oe @ 16 Verdelli, fey 360..... @ 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 4 80 r nang ' ee Be cnet te ene 2 75 | Ciseoes or Herring. a @ 5 Cali Lemons, 300..... @4 00 | 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 3 85 It is the only representative of eee 4 10] Binefish . "12 @ 19 | Messinas 300s....... 4 00@5 00 | 5 gal. galy. iron with faucet, per doz.. 5 20 one of the six largest ial Babbitt” Cee 375 a ; Messinas 360s....... 4 00@5 00 | 5 gal. Tilting cans....... CT ean ert Rosei 50 Live Lobster... ne @ 2 gi g Boo. oe woce oer ceceees 7 00 establishments in the United States een cee era : 79 | Boiled Lobster @ 2 Bananas 5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas.............. 9 00 ce ' sc rlarranetee aime Eaty Mine Orbe 23 | gee @ 1 | Medium bunches... 1 50@2 00 LANTERNS It sells more goods than any Wisdom ..............-------3 99] No.1 Pickerel. g : ~~ aa ieain No. © Tubular, side lift............... 4 75 four hundred salesmen on the road See ce ee ee 7 2 —and at 1-5 th st. Rub-No-More................ 2 aR gi Californias, Feee.: @ | No-15 Tubular, dash... 7 25 pile Gases WICKING Smoked White. g 10 Cal. pk, 16 Ib. ow @ _ e — eee. Laas 7 50 It has but one price and that is No. 0, por gross..............25 | Got tiver Salinon “iew® ————e No. 3 Street lamp, each... 2.2.2.2... "3 60 — uM MILINININ gs | Col River Salmon...12%@ 13 | | 101b. boxes........ aii Sea ; prices are guaranteed: — : = a a —_— ae @ 18 Fancy, Tkrk,, i2 ib. @ LANTERN GLOBES Its prices are guaranteed and do No. 2, per gross..............55 HIDES AND PELTS nme @ not change until another catalogue WOODENWARE Hides Pulled. 8 = boxes.. @ No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 45 is issued. No discount sheets to Bask Eroon No.1... .:... @7 Naturals, in bags. ‘z @ No, 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢ 45 oie oe ate. .. 5| Green No.2......... @6 Dates No. 0 Tub., bbis 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 1 75 ce jsieeie. wide ‘and 1 15 | Cured No.1.-........ @ 9 | Fards in 10 Ib. boxes @ 6% | No.0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 1 25 It tells the truth, the whole ket . p Ca ve 39 | Cured No. 2.. @ 8 | Fards in 60 Ib. cases. @ BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS truth and nothing but the truth i fe... ---. 2 ¢ 00 | Calfskins,greenNo.1 § @ 9% | Hallowi.............. 5 @5% Roll contains 32 yards i Splint, medium . ae Calfskins.green No. 2 @B Ib. cases, new..... @ No. 0 oul contains 32 yards In one ‘me It never wastes your time or te wee 4 09 | Calfskins,cured No.1 @10% | Sairs, 60 Ib. cases.... @ No i. ze —_ — per mrons or rol 18 urges you to overload your stock Willow Clothes, large.......5 60 | Calfskins,cured No.2 @ 9 NUTS 2S oa 3 - ue Willow Clothes, medium... 5 00 Pelts Almonds, Tarragona @ic . t enables you to select your Willow Clothes, small.......4 75 Old Wool. --++ +--+ 50@1 60 | Almonds, Ivica ..... . CO - goods according to your own best Bradley Butter Boxes MD.....- 2022.00. 30@ 50 | Aimonas, — a judgment and : vith freed f 2 Ib. size, 24 in case. 72 Sheariings bye race 30@ 40| soft shelled........ 15@16 50 books, any denomination.............. 1 50 Se ae cea ee ere — ig aie uae Voce = cian Rate @10 100 books, any denomination.............. 2 undue influence. 5 Ib. size. 12 in case... : 631 No.1 @6 Fiiberts ............ @i3 600 books, any denomination.... ......... 11 50 It will be sent t y he oe ia " iene @5 | Walnuts. Grenobles. @\3 | 1,000 books, any denomination... .......... 20 00 oe ee : se ee a oe Wool ——— Above quotations are for either Tradesman, upon request. Ask for catalogueJ. Butter Plates Washed, fine @20 California No.1... 12343131 | Superior, Economic or Universal grades. Where No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 40 st Table Nuts, fancy... ‘@13%, | 1,000 books are ordered at a time customers re- No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate....... 45 eee s = Pecans, Med. @10" | ceive specially printed cover without extra - ’ Jeo ones eee ecans, Ex. Large... 13 | charge. No. 5 . 250 in crate...... 69 PO ee 16@18 | Pecans, Jumbos..... oi Coupon Pass Books Barrel, 5 sie nee gas cies Stick Candy eed bu. @ ; Can be made to represent any denomination Barrel, 10 gals., each........ 2 55 bis. pails | Cocoanuts, fulisacks @350| "39 books ~~ Butler Brothers Barrel, 15 gals., each........ 2 70 | Standard .. wane Chestnuts, per bu... @ commer: 00 rene? it~" eaee ere 1 BU Clothes Pins Standard H. Hi .... 2 r a Peanuts a “aL Bo 230 to 240 Adams St Round head, 5 gross box.... 50] Gut Loaf............. ancy, H. a 5%@ 6% | 1.000 books .....-.....+.... + 20 00 ms Round head cartons 75 See aces @9 |¥Fancy, H. P., Suns . . Chi ah — pea sks a aoe Roasted ........... ox 7% Credit Checks icago ioscan: Choice, H. P., Jumbo 7%| 500, any one denomination................ 00 Humpty Dasety cain 2 25| Extra H.H.......... @10% | Choice, H. P.. Jumbo 9% : 00, any one denomination................ : 00 We Sell at Wholesale only. No. 1, complete ............. 29 | Boston ee 3% Roasted ........... @ any one denomination... 5 00 } No. 2, complete ........ vi. 181 BeetRee® ....... 8 ‘Span ShildNo.in’w 6 @7 ie te cen. I Sy rg ane ace et RS ERENT kt BCT EOE ER ARE DE LE ESS Rama i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 Some Valid Reasons Why Hardware Deal- ers Must Co-operate.* Organizations are almost as old as time and can be traced back to the early history of man. The ancient uncivilized and semi-civilized peoples were organ- ized into tribes and had strict rules and regulations for the government of their members and later, for the government of the people and the regulation and protection of society, governments have been instituted among men; and whenever any set of people within these governments desired to accomplish any great reform or carry out any purpose for the betterment of mankind, they found it necessary to organize them- selves into associations, so that they could work together for the common good, The hardware men throughout the country have been and are still con- fronted with a condition of things which is ruinous to their trade—a condition which greatly handicaps them in their struggle with illegitimate competition. Commercial salesmen will call upon the druggist, jeweler and dry goods mer- chant and sell revolvers and cutlery; the tinware trade has been ruined by the common practice of selling to grocers and bazaars; stoves are handled by fur- niture and department stores; almost all the jobbing houses have _ special salesmen who call upon the factories, mill men, blacksmiths and contractors and are instructed to keep out of sight of the regular dealers; co-operative stores are being organized. These, with mail order and catalogue houses, curtail and limit the trade of hardware men generally. Hence the necessity for the organization of retail hardware dealers into an association, having for its object the correction of these evils, and I firmly believe that through our united efforts much good can be and has been accomplished. Manufacturers are already beginning to see that it is best to sell their output through the regular channels of trade and, through the influ- ence of our National Association, cer- tain lines of axes, saws, ice cream freezers, stoves, etc., are not sold to these demoralizers of trade; in fact, manufacturers and jobbers, generally, are advertising that they do not sell these people. Having accomplished this much dur- ing our brief existence, we ought to feel encouraged to go on and continue the good work. I am, therefore, convinced that not alone our State, but our National organization should receive the hearty support of every retail hardware dealer in the country. Not only should we have state and National associations, but the dealers in every city and hamlet in our land should have a local organization. lf there are but two dealers in a town, those two should meet together often and talk over business matters, compare views and thus become friends instead of bitter enemies, as many competitors are. My experience has convinced me that one of the greatest evils we have to con- tend with to-day is the ruinous price cutting of competitors in trade. The best way to cure this evil is to organize locally, hold regular monthly meetings, rub against each other, get new ideas and thus become more friendly and have a better understanding as to the best way to deal with the evils of trade and maintain prices at a legitimate profit. 10 keep hardware husiness within hard- ware channels and call a halt to this *Paper read at annual convention Michigan Re- — 1 Hardware Dealers’ Association by A. Har- shaw, of Delray. ruinous cutting of prices ought to be the chief object of our organization. There- fore, our State and National organization should receive our individual efforts to increase our membership, until at least 75 per cent. of the retail hardware deal- ers of the United States are enrolled as members and tbus become co-workers with us in the good cause. When we shall have reached that stage, we shall then be in a position to dictate to the manufacturers and jobbers such terms of protection as we are justly entitled to as retail dealers. This can and will be accomplished by careful and system- atic work of our members, In conclusion I would say that our achievements may seem small to some, yet enough has been done to appeal to every intelligent hardware dealer in our State to convince him that his own per- sonal and business interests demand that he should put his shoulder to the wheel and become a working member of our organization. I firmly believe that the Michigan Retail Hardware Dealers’ Association is destined to become one of the most energetic and progressive of our times. —_—_—_» 2-2 Plenty of His Favorite Drink. There was a big religious revival go- ing on ina Texas town, conducted by Sam_ Jones, and he was stirring things up in that section of the world. The town was wrought up over his sayings. One day he found himself in possession of a bottle of good old wine, which had been sent to him as an evidence of good faith in a profession made by some man who had decided to quit the rum habit. Sam Jones had no use for the wine, In a jocular way he presented the wine to the newspaper crowd, telling the boys they might manage to get a little inspi- ration out of it. One of the boys, in writing a little skit about the thing, said Mr. Jones had given the wine to the boys of the press and had _ incident- ally mentioned the fact that buttermilk was his favorite drink. The little town was the hub of the buttermilk belt. Enough milk was produced in that part of Texas to float the American navy. The newspaper notice had a marvelous effect. It brought forth the buttermilk, and it came in all sorts of quantities to the hotel where the evangelist was stop- ping. Buckets, bottles and cans and utensils of almost every kind were left at the eating place for the Georgian. Milk bells were ringing and milk wag- ons were rolling up to the place during all the day. I never saw so much butter- milk in my life. Sam Jones, if he had lived to be as old as Methuselah, could not have consumed the quantity of milk which had been hauled, carried and ‘*toted’’ to the hotel by Texans who read the little squib in the newspaper about buttermilk being the favorite drink of the evangelist. Sam Jones was some- what annoyed by the thing at first, but the funny part of the situation dawned on him, and, appreciating the good spirit of the offering, he got a good deal of fun out of it all. 8 Very Simple. A rather simple looking lad halted before a blacksmith’s shop on his way home from school, and eyed the doings of the proprietor with much interest. he brawny smith, dissatisfied with the boy’s curiosity, held a piece of red hot iron suddenly under the youngster's nose, hoping to make him beat a hasty retreat. ‘*If you'll give me half a dollar I'll lick it,’’ said the Jad. The smith took from his pocket halfa dollar and held it out. The simple looking youngster took the coin, licked it, and slowly walked away whistling. Certainly Had. Wife—How could you give that cook a recommend after she drank up all your best whisky? Husband—I merely said that she had a great deal that was good in her, The Old, Old Story. Not Worth While. From the White Pigeon Journal. The Agent—1 think you will like the Not long ago a shrewd traveling sales- | house, madam, when you see it. There man, representing a_ wholesale grocery | is a clothes press or wardrobe in almost firm in Dayton, Ohio, arrived in town | every room. and at once began soliciting among Madam—No, I guess ’tain’t worth farmers orders for groceries, claiming| while. Clothes presses and wardrobes he sold nothing but first-class goods at|/are good enough in their way, I sup- wholesale prices, and that if the goods, | pose; but, after all, what is a house upon arrival in carload lots, were not | without closets? according to samples, they need not take a them. ' Equine Marvels. With this understanding some of our} ‘‘I saw an account in the paper the most well-to-do farmers invested quite | other day of a horse that eats meat.’’ freely. Orders sufficient for a carload ‘‘Well, I never saw a horse eat meat, of groceries solicited, the wily salesman|but I have seen one running for a set out for new fields of commerce. In} stake.’’ due time. july 16,the catioad for White |= Pigeon arrived. The people for miles acu gathered about the car waiting You ought to sell impatiently for their turn to consum- mate, it seemed for the time being, the LIL y WHI | = greatest bargain of theirlives. But they did not get to the car in time — = “The flour the best cooks use”’ avoid the rush. Consequently they di not have sufficient Gon to inspect the VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., goods as had been agreed upon by the GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. advance agent. Everything was — a hurry and scurry; hurrah and hurrah— no time for sale except to exchange Lamps money for goods and hardly Pye to make the necessary change. And what do you think was the seach of this hasty to Burn and imprudent way of doing business? Why,some of our best financiers paid 64 We cents a pound for tea they can buy in| paye pur- White Pigeon for 30 cents a pound, and | chased a paid 38 cents for spices they can buy in large this place at 30 cents a pound. stock of But this is not all: A food inspector] Gasoline has been here,and has sent some of these Lamps goods of an inferior quality to Lansing | which we to have them analyzed, believing that will some of these goods have been sent into} qigpose this State in violation of our pure food | o¢ in lots laws, and that the arrest of the perpe- to suit trators will yet take place. the pur- A chaser. Heroic Measures. Dr. Pills—How did you manage to collect the bill that Closefist owed you? Dr. Squills—I told him that if he didn’t pay, I would advise his wife to go to Europe for her health. Our prices will make customers of you. Write to-day as this stock will be dis- posed of at once. Ames & Clark, Detroit, Mich. (9333999993939 393393393939939332I39339393I3939339339233233333939 Every Cake : of FLEISCHMANN & COV’S YELLOW LABEL COMPRESSED YEAST you Sell not only increases your profits, but also gives com- plete satisfaction to your patrons. ; Fleischmann & Co., i Detroit Office, 111 W. Larned St. ety Sth ig, ; SAMANY? 2, orn Gen, 2 : oy ae Muy Oy oo oa Facsimile Signature e: Lo. § Aixhu— Ze § % COMPRESSED a YEAST See agar os Vy v Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Ave. oa, on, oR, oi, oR, oR, on, ol, ot, oR, ot, oR, oR, t,t, oo, st, ot, ot, a, a, a, g* , < SOOO III IO OOOO OOO OOOO I I Ia Oe Che Good Food Cera Nut Flakes Is not recommended to CURE consumption, rheumatism, toothache, etc., but the people who use it soon recover from all their ailments, Made from nuts and wheat—Nature’s true food. National Pure Food Zo., Etd. Grand Rapids, Mich. S355 5 355523 S2SS2S FSS s2N 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ANOTHER FRAUD. Edward Fay & Co., of Detroit, Swindlers’ Column. The Tradesman is in receipt of the following letter from a valued subscrip- tion patron : Thanks for your kind favor of Aug. 4. Although I had gotten posted about the Crystal Creamery Co., my thanks are due you. There is, however, a firm, or professed firm, in Detroit that may be a relative of the Crystal Creamery Co.— Edward Fay & Co., 387 Russell street. They sent me a circular dated July 11, wanting dairy butter—No, 1 at 18c, No. 2 at 16c, off grades at 14c. I answered their circular and they phoned me and bargained for some butter at 15 4c cash. I sent them 8 tubs, amounting to $76.06 and, although I have written them sev- eral times since J sent the bill, I don’t get any reply. Yesterday I made a draft on them forthe amount. Their circular came about a week before the Crystal Creamery Co,’s card. Is there some connection? The Tradesman has no means of as- certaining whether there is any connec- tion between the Crystal Creamery Co. and Edward Fay & Co. The latter firm is evidently quite as dangerous as the former, judging by the record of the house and the man who is in charge of the business. The firm of Edward Fay & Co, is reported to be composed of Edward Fay and George White, neither of whom have any considerable amount of money invested in the business. Fay appears to be a new man in Detroit, his name appearing for the first time in the 1902 directory. Parties next door to his piace of business do not know of ever having seen a man by the name of Fay, and it is possible that both Fay and White are creatures of the imagination, in- vented in the fertile brain of Samuel M. Tucker, who has been repeatedly ex- posed by the Tradesman as a swindler and who appears to bob up serenely at frequent intervals under assumed names and cognomens. It will be remembered by readers of the Tradesman that Tucker has done business under the style of the Crawford Produce Co., the Union Fruit & Grain Co., the Man- hattan Fruit & Grain Co., the German- American Fruit & Grain Co., the Tucker Produce Co. and the A, B. Clark Co, There are about a dozen unsatisfied judgments recorded against him in the Justice Court of Detroit, and his busi- ness methods have long been the sub- ject of criticism. At the present time he is said to be under bond for misuse of the mails. - In addition to being exposed repeated- ly by the Tradesman as a swindler, Tucker has had considerable trouble with the police department of Detroit on account of his crooked dealings, and it is not an unusual thing for him to be taken on a body execution for debt. It is unfortunate that the legitimate com mission merchants of Detroit do not take up the matter as a body and rid the city of a scoundrel who has brought disrepute on the market so many years and subjected the shippers of Michigan to so much loss and annoyance. The Tradesman believes that it is a duty they owe their market to do this. Since the last issue of the Tradesman, two letters have been received relating to the exposure of the Crystal Creamery Co., as follows: Aug. 9—I will have to plead guilty to being one of the suckers that bit on the uotation from the Crystal Creamery o. to the tune of $52.80. I had been informed by a party, who claimed to knew them, that they were all right, but found that they were not the parties he in the took them to be. Thanks for your trouble. Aug. 11—I wish to add my testimony to those who are commending the Tradesman for its courage and energy in warning the country shippers of the State to beware of the Crystal Creamery Co. It is one thing to be in possession of information and disseminate it when called upon to do so and another thing to publish the information so promptly that it will be tothe monetary advantage of the recipient. That’s why I like the Tradesman's way of handling fraudulent schemes. Instead of waiting until alter the losses are sustained and the swind- lers have evaporated, it comes out boldly at the very inception of the scheme, warhing its customers in plenty of time to profit by the exposure. 1! confess | have sometimes wondered whether the Tradesman is not a little too fast to condemn a house on slight provocation, but the fact that the parties either skip out or find themselves behind prison bars on charges preferred by the Trades- man convinces me that the Tradesman’'s judgment is better than my own in these matters and that when the Tradesman warns the trade against a house | will be money ahead if I let it alone. If 1 had some one to post me on whom to credit and whom to refuse credit who is as incapable of making a mistake as the Tradesman appears to be, I would feel that business was a pleasure and life one grand gala day. The Boys Behind the Counter. Port Huron—Albert Van Luven is now connected with Davis Bros.’ gro- cery store. Quincy—Ed. Howe has taken a posi- tion as clerk in Branch & Co’s store, at Coldwater. Manistee—Geo. Woodrow and Wm. Tracy have been engaged to clerk in the new clothing store to be opened un- der the management of E. E. Bidle- man. Boyne Falls—E. L. Sargent has been engaged by L. A. Moon to manage the drug store he will open here about Sept. 20. Stockbridge—Elanthan Skidmore is clerking for the Fletcher & Hall Co. Henry Heying has resigned his posi- tion,to which Cassie Cain has succeeded. Port Huron—A. J. Robinson has re- signed his position in the office of the Boyce hardware store. Businss Mons Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payments. BUSINESS CHANCES. ARGAIN — BAKERY, GROCERY, ICE cream and soda business in a good town of 700; store building, living rooms. well, cistern, ice house, etc.; pays well; write Box 192, Wald- ron, Mich. 670 OR SALE—ONE NEW NATIONAL CASH register, latest improved style. Will sell at a bargain now. Address Zoa-Phora Company, Kalamazoo, Mich. 669 NOR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF JEWELRY, fixtures and tools, aggregating $2,500, in growing town in rich farming district. Estab- lished trade, mostly cash. Terms reasonable. If _ mean business, write for particulars. Address No. 661, care Michigan Tradesman. 661 FOR SALE—A GOOD PAYING DRUG store in a growing town of 1,000 Fa ego ra in North Central Indiana; one other drug store; cash sales in 1991, $8,335; stock and fixtures will invoice about $2,500; only soda fountain in town; will sell for invoice; a good chance. Address No. 6*6, care Michigan Tradesman. 656 TQUR SALE—MY GENERAL STORE STOCK ' and fixtures for $2,000 cash. Did $15,000 worth of business last year. Best of reasons for selling. This is certainly the best bargain in the State. Call or write at once. J. E. ©. Farns- worth, Wexford county, Mich. 663 OR SALE—A CLEAN $6,500 STOCK OF staple dry goods, ladies’ and gents’ furnish- ing goods and children’s clothing; also store fix- tures; stock only one year old. Best location in town. Long lease. Want cash or good paper. Address Max M. Savlan, Petoskey, Mich. 667 ANTED—GOOD LOCATION FOR HARD- ware. Address 434 Lockwood St., Alpena, Mich. 666 Fo SALE—ESTABLISHED CASH GRO- -eery business in hustling town of 1,200. Stock inventories about $1,200. Owner has other business and must sell at once. Address No. 663, care Michigan Tradesman. 663 F°8..24 LE—DRUG STORE, MAIN street; fine location; large trade; owner in feeble health. Druggist, Box 255, — ro SALE—A $1,600 STOCK OF BAZAAR and dry goods; a great chance; live Central Michigan town of 1,500 inhabitants; best loca- tion; 3 year lease; acash bargain. Address No. 665, eare Michigan Tradesman. 665 | a SALE—MARBLE AND GRANITE business in a growing Michigan City of 4,000 inhabitants; only stock in city; satisfactory rea- sons for selling. Address No. 660, care Michigan Tradesman. 6 i SALE—FARM, 300 ACRES, 240 UN- der cultivation, one-half cash, one-half gen- eral merchandise, smooth valley land; two frame dwellings, outbuildings, wells, cisterns, ponds, apple, peach trees—a farm home—i% miles from railroad station; $65 per acre. Ad- dress I. N. Beckner, Conway, Mo. 659 _ — SALE—MEAT MARKET AND GRO- cery; nice business; good town; good rea- son for selling; invoice $2,000; also an up-to-date restaurant aud bakery; only onein town. J. H. Graham, Fremont, Ind. 658 y TANTED—STOCKS OF GENERAL MEK- chandise, for which I will pay spot cash. Must be cheap enough to enable me to move them. F. E. Orcutt, Beulah, Mich. 657 CE BUsINEss FOR SALE; EXCLUSIVE trade. John Jeffrey, Union City, Mich. 655 NOK SALE—CHEAP, ONE 20 H. P. GASO- line engine, used only one year; good condi- tion. Hemily & Kennicott, Newaygo, Mich. 654 WOR SALE—CLEAN HARDWARE STOCK inventorying about $5,000, located in grow- ing town in center of rich farming region. Sales fully half cash andincreasing. Rent reasonable. Reason for selling, owners have arranged to en- gage in another business. Terms to suit pur- chaser. Address No. 651, care Michigan Trades- man. 651 OR SALE—DRUG STORE IN NORTHERN Michigan town of 10,000; invoices about $2,000; good location; cash sales $5,000 per year. Address No. 653, care Michigan lradesman. 653 OR SALE—BaKERY, CONFECTIONERY and ice cream business with new brick building; good chance for right man; satisfac- tory reason for selling. Address Box 560, Howell, Mich. 652 YOR SALE—BRICK STORE BUILDING, 22 x60 feet, with frame addition on back, 22x4u feet, two stories, with living rooms above. For particulars address J. L. Farnham, Mancelona, Mich. . 640 OR SALE—COMPUTING SCALE, LARGE size, marblé platform. W. F. Harris, So. Bend, Ind. 638 JOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR A FARM— a@ clean stock of hardware, tinshop and plumbing; the right place for a hustler; good reason tor selling. Address No. 637, care Michi- gan Tradesman. | SALE—A GOOD FIRST-CLASS 10 horse livery; only one in town of 960; good trade and everything in good order. Address Philip Taylor, Saranac, Mich. 636 OR SALE—$2,000 STOCK OF GENERAL merchandise with store building, dwelling and barn, situated in smali town near railroad in the best tarming community in Central Michi- gan; staple goods; established trade; sales last — $9,198.66. Address No. 647, care Michigan r sman 647 SOR SALE—GENERAL STORE AND stock; one of the best locations in city of Grand Rapids; near five large factories and on main street to the country; no competition; only for cash for both stock and building. Address No. 616, care Michigan Tradesman. €46 CAN SELL YOUR PROPERTY OR BUSI- ness, no matter what it is or where located. No deal too large or toosmall. If you want to buy I have what you want. Money sent to your own bank. Address with stamp, A. M. Barron, Desk ** Q.,” South Bend, Ind. 645 rs SALE—CLEAN GROCERY AND crockery stock and bakery plant in best lo- cation in rapidly growing city of 5,000 popula- tion; rent reasonable; trade mostly cash: reason tor selling, ill health of manager; purchaser must have at least $1.500 to pay half down. Ad- dress No 644, care Michigan Tradesman. 644 YOR SALE—A ONE-HALF INTEREST IN a well-established business in a city of 20,000 inhabitants, being one of the best manufacturing cities in Michigan. It is a money-making busi- ness and a fine chance for some young man who has push and energy to make some mouey. It will only require a small amount of capital. The only reason for se:ling the half interest is be- cause there is more business than the present owner can attend toalone. The owner will fur- nish the best of references and will expect the purchaser to do the same. Address all commu- — to Derby, Choate & Woolfitt Co., Flint, ch. 643 OR SALE OR TRADE FOR STOCK OF Drugs, Hardware or Furniture in Smaller Town—Clean stock of groceries in good manu- facturing town of 5,000; trade established five years; no better trade in city. Address 119 Front St., Dowagiac, Mich. 633 BARGAIN—MY STOCK OF GROCERIES, crockery and store furniture (counters and shelving not included) for sale; will inventory $1,600; stock is new and well assorted; store to rent; best locationintown. Thisis a rareo portunity for a business man with small capital; come and see the stock and town. Romeo is the finest village in the State. James B. Lucas, Romeo, Mich. 632 Foe SALE—STOCK OF GROCERIES AND meat business; new stock, having been run only three years; invoices about $4,000; last a sales, $60,000; would sell grocery alone. eason for selling, other business. Address C. 621 & Son, Box 822, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. OR SALE CHEAP—HEARSE, GOOD AS new; description on application. Address No. 609, care Michigan Tradesman. 609 NOR SALE—THREE OR FOUR HUNDRED dollar grocery stock, with fixtures. in college town; write-or call on F. H. Gage, Olivet, Eaton Co., Mich. cy ro? SALE—HARDWARE STOCK, ABOUT $2,000, in good live town; splendid oppor- tunity for right party. Address Hardware, care Michigan Tradesman. 624 FOR SALE—STORE, STOCK AND FIX- tures; stock will invoice about $600. Will take $1,000 if sold soon. Address 623, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 623 A SNAP—WANTED, TO SELL A HALF interest in quarter section of heavy timber Draw 642 and copper land; will guarantee copper. 26, Brighton, Mich. Ko SALE—SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLAR general stock in good town of 1,000 in Central Michigan. Best trade in town. Large trick food plant being erected. Rent low. Will sell right to cash purchaser or exchange for im- roved and unincumbered real estate in Grand apids. Address No. 634, care Michigan Trades- man. 634 ELLO, BROTHER GROCER AND EVERY- body using Liquid Measure. Write for cir- cular on my Patent Lip. It will pour from full gallon Measure into Teaspoon and not waste a drop. Chas. Martin, Patentee and Grocer, Tif- fin, Ohio. 631 ANTED—WILL PAY CASH FOR STOCK of groceries invoicing $1,2C0 to $1,500; lo- cated in live town on railroad in good farming locality; must be good section for farm produce, such as hay, grain, live stock and poultry. Ad- dress No 635, care Michigan Tradesman. 635 OR SALE—FINE CLOTHING BUSINESS in one of the best towns in Michigan. The best of terms and reason givenforsale. Address 915, Lake Boulevard, St. Joseph, Mich. 602 ] HAVE FOUR VACANT LOTS IN GRAND Rapids, free and clear; will trade for general stock; will pay balance cash. Address No. 583, care Michigan Tradesman. 583 EST LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR DRY goods business at Freeport. W. H. Pardee. 578 OR SALE—I DESIRE TO SELL MY EN- tire general stock, including fine line of shoes and store fixtures. No cleaner stock or better trade in the State. Business been estab- lished 25 years. Reason for seliing, other busi- ness. P. L. Perkins, Merrill, Mich. 473 7}OR SALE—DRUG FIXTURES—ELEGANT wall cases, counters, show cases, prescrip- tion case; all light oak; will sell at half price. ©. A. Fanckboner, Grand Rapids. 534 Foe SALE—GUOD DRUG STOCK, INVOIC- ing $2,800. in one of the best Southern Michi- gan towns. Terms on application. Address No. 521, care Michigan Tradesman. 521 Ko SALE — FINE YIELDING 40 ACRE farm in Kalamazoo county; buildings; all under cultivation; value, $1,200. Address No. 522, care Michigan Tradesman. 522 OR SALE—FIRST-CLASS, EXCLUSIVE millinery business in Grand Rapids; object for selling, parties leaving the city. Address Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 507 HREE VACANT LOTS IN GRAND Rapids, free of incumbrance, to exchange for drug, grocery or notion stock. Address No. 485, care Michigan Tradesman. 485 wWAFES—NEW AND SECOND-HAND FIRE and burglar proof safes. Geo. M.Smith Wood & Brick Building Moving Co., 376 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids. 321 JOR SALE—COUNTRY STORE AND dwelling combined; general merchandise stock, barn, custom saw mill and feed mill, with good patronage; Citizens local and long distance telephones in store; bargain for cash. Reason for seliing, must retire. For particulars call on or address Eli Runnels, Corning. Mich. 474 OR SALE—MOSLER, BAHMANN & CO. fire proof safe. Outside measurément—36 inches high, 27 inches wide and 24 inches deep. Inside measurement—16% inches high, 14 inches wide and 10 inches deep. Will sell for $50 cash. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 368 NOR SALE CHEAP—SECONDHAND NO. 4 Bar-Lock typewriter, in good condition. Specimen of work done on machine on applica- tion. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465 YOR SALE—DRUGS1LOCK AND FIXTURES, invoicing about $2,000. Situated in center of Michigan Fruit Belt, one-half mile from Lake Michigan. Good resort trade. Living rooms over store; water inside building. Rent, $12.50 er month. G ood reason for selling. Address 0. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. : 334 MISCELLANEOUS ANTED—DRUG CLERK; REGISTERED assistant preferred. Reburn, Druggist, Main and Rose, Kalamazoo, Wich. 664 Vy 7] ANTED—EXPERIENCED DRY GOODS saleslady; references required; state sal- ary wanted. Address Kohlenstein Bros, Ot- sego, Mich. 650 ANTED—SALESMEN TO CARRY GOOD side line to grocery trade on liberal basis. Address Bohart & Company, River Park, Clin- ton, Iowa 649 ANTED—REGISTERED PHARMACIST. Address No. 648, care Michigan Trades- 648 man. LERK WANTED—ENERGETIC HUSTLER to work in general store; must be up in dry goods especially. J. A. Collins & Bro, Howard City, Mich, 641 ANTED, DEPARTMENT SALESMEN— active young men in our notion depart- ment for next season. Applications will be con- sidered only from those with wholesale experi- ence and at present employed in similar capac- ity. Correspondence confidential. Ferguson- McKinney Dry Goods (Co., St. Louis, Mo. 629 ANTED — PURCHASER FOR MEAT market; only stand in town of 450. Ad- dress No, 515, care Michigan Tradesman. 6515