A ee < ¢) ¥ ADESMAN Twentieth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 1, 1902. Number 993 CURRIE & FORSYTH, 1023 Michigan Trust Bdg. Grand Rapids, Mich. Branch Managers for Douglas, Lacey & Co. Mining, Oil and Smelter Stocks We do not know of a dissatisfied cus- tomer out of eleven thousand. We have 21 companies, most of them paying dividends in three months to a year trom the time they wee capitalized, all being worked and developed as fast as money and modern means can develop them. All stocks protected against loss. Citizens Phone 1651. Cor racer) Oca omc Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit ' Good but slow debtors pay upon receipt of our direct de- letters. Send all other accounts to our Offices for collec- mand reroyen William Connor Co. Wholesale Ready-Made Clothing Men’s, Boys’, Children’s We can stock your store completely, for we represent the largest manufacturers, making everything from children’s to adults’, and can show you the very cheap- est as well as the very best. 28-30 South lonia Street Grand Rapids, Mich. Circle on Rice pkgs Indi- the cates CHOICEST THE WORLD PRODUCES. Collection Department R. G. DUN & CO. Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, efficient, responsible; direct demand system. Collections ane every where—for every trader. Cc. E. MCCRONE, Manager. ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corres- pondence invited. 1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. You ought to sell LILY WHITE “The flour the best cooks use” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. IMPORTANT FEATURES. Page. 2. Getting the People. 3. Grand Rapids Banks. Around the State. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Store Loafers. 7. The Street Fair, 8. Editorial. 9. Editorial. Doomed to Failure. Shoes and Rubbers. Clothing. Not So Slow. Dry Goods. Woman’s World. Fruits and Produce. The New York Market. Clerks’ Corner. Commercial Travelers. Drugs and Chemicals. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. . Grocery Price Current. Grocery Price Current. - The Man on the Road, Boys Behind the Counter. FINANCIAL BUBBLES. A writer in Rand-McNally’s Bank- ers’ Magazine, commenting on the re- cent financial combinations and trust organizations, remarks that it is inter- esting to note that very little actual cash has been employed in bringing about a consolidation of the recently- organized concerns. In most cases the ‘‘deals’’ have been carried through by means of an exchange of securities. That is, the holders of the shares of the constituent properties agreed to ex- change their stock for that of the con- solidated company. The fact is that many of the concerns that are announced to have millions of capital are mere bladders, inflated with a fictitious capitalization, which if reduced to its last analysis would be able to show in real value very little of its alleged wealth. According to the writer mentioned, the total capitalization of th2 new in- corporations during the year IgoI was $3,922,752,600, bringing the grand total for the past nineteen months up to $9, 338,935,000. Nowithstanding the fact that the United States Steel Corporation was incorporated last year, thus helping to swell the total, there is every reason to believe that the aggregate capital of the new organizations during the current year will exceed that of Igol. This excessive capitalization is effected in this way: A trust is made up by bringing a large number of mills or factories, all engaged in the same busi- ness, into a single combination under one management. Some of these mills are fitted with good machinery, or by reason of their location or other cause are productive institutions. Others of them are of but little productive value, but it is necessary to control them all in order to kill off competition. The best concerns must be well paid to go into the combination, and so each piece of property is put into the combination as so much capital, at exaggerated valua- tions, the greatest share going to those persons whose property was really of great importance. In this arrangement nobody gets any money, and probably the only money put up is that which is required for a working capital, and yet the combination is rated at the amount of its stock shares, which stand before the world for millions, a great part of which is imaginary. In operating such a combination, the old and comparatively useless mills are closed, and all attention is concentrated upon the best and most productive, while each stockholder gets dividend according to his stock. Usually, the dividends so declared are small in proportion to the capitali- zation, but they may be large when the actual value of the stork basis is taken into consideration. It is claimed that it is desirable that the public shall not know when trusts are making large profits, because this increases the popu- lar prejudice against them, and, there- fore, the overcapitalization, by showing small dividends, does not excite popu- lar distrust. There is another purpose which the exaggerated inflation serves, It enables the floating of a great finan- cial bubble into the hands of a public eager for speculation and carried away by its showiness, and to burst after it has paid a profit to its creators and _ in- flaters, When the bursting of these bubbles shall commence there will be widespread trouble. INCORPORATION OF UNIONS. Attention is called to a notable act in the direction of fair dealing and good faith on the part of a labor union, in the announcement that the Wholesale Grocery Employes’ Union, of Chicago, will become incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois. This step is to be taken as a preliminary to mak- ing an agreement with the firms which employ its members, so that the em- ployers may have assurance that such an agreement can be enforced upon both parties alike. Most of the labor unions are voluntary and arbitrary bodies with no standing in law. Engagements made by them have no other force than the moral sanc- tion, which implies tbat the men who have undertaken contracts or have be- come parties to agreements are honest and acknowledge the moral obligations under which they have come. In oc- casional cases these obligations have been held sacred, greatly to the credit of the men and the unions they com- pose, but ninety-nine times in a hun- dred pledges are violated and obliga- tions ‘are spurned, at the behest of venal and unscrupulous leaders. Incorporation changes all this. It puts the Grocery Employes’ Union in the same position of legal responsibility oc- cupied by any corporation, Such a union could go into court to claim its rights, and it is not afraid to acknowl- edge its responsibility for its acts. In- corporation of trades unions is the first step necessary to the establishing of any system of judicial settlement of labor troubles, something which the states- manship of the American people wiil at no distant day be called upon to provide. The advertising that brings the same people day after day is the only kind that brings permanent success, GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. The continuance of the monetary stringency has been the dominating fac- tor in the Wall Street markets until, by the decision of Secretary Shaw, the re- quirement of reserve against Govern- ment deposits is no longer enforced, thus releasing something like $30,000, - ooo—enough to effectually arrest the de- moralization of thé last few days. There has been no real panic in stocks, the only trouble heing the lack of money to take care of pending operations. A stock panic when every condition is absolutely favorable would be a curious anamaly. The trouble is simply the aggregate of business requirements is so great that even the unusual quantity of money at hand proves inadequate for current needs, Atthe last rates went to an actual panic height and there was considerable excitement, but easier con- ditions are giving the market a more sudden rebound than was the depres- sion, All general conditions except the money situation are favorable. Trade distribution is going on at a tremen- dous rate; railway earnings are fully maintained at the highest ever known; the iron and steel industry is under its usual pressure of demand—everything is at the maximum. In fact, the only trouble is that activity is too great for normal financial conditions. The boom tendency is becoming manifest in some speculative trading, as in grains. Cot- ton continues unexpectedly high al- though arrivals are large. Textiles are enjoying great confidence. Boot and shoe shipments are heavy and promise of future business is good. SPECIE IN LOCAL BANKS. According to the statements of the Grand Rapids banks, four savings banks have a total of $203,852.50 in gold coin stored away intheir vaults and the amount of silver on hand is$i9,144. In the National bank statements, whether it is gold or silver coin is not set forth, but the National banks have a total of $423,352.23 of specie on hand, and it is safe to assume that a very large propor- tion of this is in the yellow metal. The Michigan Trust Company has $11,242.50 of gold coin. The total gold in stock is approximately $62c,o00, making some allowance for the silver in the National bank ‘‘specie.’’ An eagle, or $10 gold piece, weighs 258 grains troy and a lit- tle arithmetic will show that the entire golden treasure will weigh approximate- ly 2,777 pounds troy. How long it would take one burglar to carry off this load and how much more valuable it would be than an equal amount of coal, pound for pound, are problems the chil- dren may be set to figuring on. Speaking of silver, the Kent Savings Bank had but $711.75 on hand, while its stock of nickels and cents amounted to $571.47. The State Bank had the largest supply of the white metal—$13, 901—and the Michigan Trust Company the small- est— 66.75. A man who believes every one dis- honest is a dangerous citizen, 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _Getting the People With Advantage of Co-operating the Country Printer. Nothing is more disgusting to me than the army of fresh young men who, pre- tending to be advertising experts, go out of their way continually to insult, sneer and cry down the country printer in his effort to improve the advertising department of his paper. His facili- ties may not be equai to those of the advertisement setter on the city daily. His assortment of type and rules may be meager and the size of his fonts may be a serious handicap. He may not have the co-operation of the advertiser, as the city man does, because in many cases he not only has to urge his custom- er to change his announcement but actually prepares the copy, as well as puts it in type. His limited income and numerous duties may prevent his sub- scribing for and reading any consider- able number of the excellent publications now issued in the interest of better ad- vertising. Despite all these drawbacks, the average country printer is doing his level best to increase his equip- ment, improve his service, brighten his paper by frequent changes in his adver- tising department, make his display columns more up-to-date and_ study the requirements of his advertising pa- trons until he is able safely to advise them on what to advertise and how to do it. In spite of this disposition on the part of the country printer, it is a fa- vorite diversion with some of the smart alecks who pose as advertising experts and who do not know the difference between a shooting stick and the bed of a press to poke al! manner of fun at him and to bring to bear all the in- vectives they can command in describing his work and depreciating his efforts to- ward better conditions, In my conduct of this department, | have adopted the contrary course. My aim has been to co-vperate with the country printer, and I am happy to say that 1 have almost always found him willing and anxious to do his part. In the dozen years I have acted on this theory I have met but one country pub- lisher who took serious exceptions to my criticisms, and | think that, in the more mature judgment of later years, be will now concede that he was hasty in refusing me the right to criticise his patrons’ announcements at their request, even if he did write the copy himself. Hardly a week goes by that I do not re- ceive a letter from some newspaper man, thanking me for the kindly man- ner in which I have dealt with a clip- ping from his paper and explaining why he was unable to do better, which reason is frequentiy found in the stub- born mind of the advertiser, who insists on the use of certain faces and methods of display, whether they are adapted to his line of business or not. Some of the most appreciative letters | receive are from foremen and advertisement setters, who are kind enough to say that the suggestions they get from this de- partment are very helpful to them in their work. My instructions from the Tradesman are to deal fairly and honor- ably with all, to take into consideration the difficulties which hoth advertisers and printers in country towns encount- er, to encourage rather than condemn, and, above all, to stimulate to higher ideals and better endeavor rather than crush out all ambition by ridicule, in- vective and slurs, ee ae A good feature of the clothing adver- 3 a = 0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-000-0-17:5-0-900-00-0-0 HERE ARE SOLID FACTS AS TRUE AS STEEL. < < ™ We are not i the clothing 1” Gur tel wr rely make money We can’t make mone Vv unless we prolong ia mae ht twee rease «eer wh. a 13 prices. Most ciorh- lers want tu get rich inabarry That 1s why tbe prices are tizber Uban oars We ara run- ning our buns ness op different plans. We believe io building op a large volume of business on a small margin of protit. That we are satistied with » smaller profit ius olber stores is best proven by a plead cara low prices we name on the best clothing it is possible for skilled tailors and des gners tu produce. Take our line of Men's Perfect Fitting Suits at | Sidi 00 Vou comnetoqual shew for = an $12 & 5 The Kenm¢ re Sack Suitis designe the requirements of the most tastidious and it do es it Canvas Weaves are ‘11’ for stylish dressers. Ve carrg Ube leading colors in Broadhead Dress Goods, { the very best made in America, 6-3 Goods at (| $1.25 per yerd { { Shirt Waists. The very latest designs and fabrics. We can and fit for less | please you ip colton and wool. 39c¢ to $5 1} Furnishings. 15c Waistings. Our stock 1s most comple New Shi rte, ol |; They are ciegantin desigo and color You can- tars, Ti es Hats and Caps, i Siery. G | not tell them from the nigh priced ones. Come OES, saci derwear, etc, aud see tobem Shoes for the Masses and Warranted Al! Leather. 459c¢ for Eggs. 6c for Butter. MATT J. DEHN. f Oe DOLL OOIONt ener >> PAAPDAAAPAAANANAD 20 PER CENT OFF SALE. §/} ANobby New : > D, > To make room for < x SUIT x 4 our fall and winter > “s stock we will sell e ia ls ie lia $ ee tt Meee "4 |} ce Soot ees $ > ro ab silits 1 8B R 3 BicyoLzs AND REFRIGERATORS $41 $ 4 corte wa rs r i > at 20 per cent off. ale. as $ , « uf F tall ator D, 5 , $ If youare thinking of a wheel for > J. Wadstrom, > next season don't let this pass. ¢ Merchant Tailor e >s ’ ~ 3 MERRELL'S FURNITURE STORE a POO OTTO OO, MAAAAAAAAAAAAS i Mtb CORNER OF LOW PRICES. efeefeeteofeae FIRS T CT iP + ee z ADVANCE i + > towards the accum- a ulation of umey a) r i Cc consists in the sav- = t St ] "0 of it. Every Z| a es 3 sta a has to . | |O make his own way hace z in the world and 2 | “YOUNG'S” hats, none better made. ° every woman wage 9) This store’s reputation has been built < earner should open -' upon the goodness and cheapness of the a an account in the 0} merchandise it sells. It’s the honest c - | policy of the establishment that attracts 8 Antrim County Bank Z| people Lore and induces them to come = _ ei oe | tion of their earn + rs ings. + LIVELY JAKE #: z F | | McPhail & Richardson Kpfpye UP-TO NOW CLOTHIER. gedifie® cE OARERRANR _—. : : : ts elev atin | ie Ne a ee Our Nickel-Piated Safes = Strong, Handsome and Useful, ———< We loan them to those who wish to save |} up small sums athome. For particulars | write or call at the bank. The Marquette County Savings Bank, Marquette, Michigan. N. M. KAUFMAN, Pres't. E. N. BREITUNG, Vice-Pres’t. S.R KAUFMAN, Vice-Pres't GEO. BARNES, Cashier. WB. McCOMBS, Asst. Cashier. ww tisement of Matt J. Dehn is the fact that it is broken up by lines of divi- sion, so that the reader will catch some attractive display of articles and prices. My criticism is that there is too much matter and no main display indicating the line of trade. ‘‘Here are solid facts as true as steel’? would apply to hard- ware, groceries, insurance or banking just as well and so are too general to gain attention. The paragraph follow- ing is much too long—will not be read, especially with this introduction. The printer's work is in good style consid- ering the limitations of matter and space. It strikes me that Merrell’s Furniture Store misses a good opportunity to quote some definite attractive prices of his reduced wheeis and refrigerators. The average buyers of these articles are not sufficiently clear on the problem of percentages to be impressed by a cer- tain per cent. off. They will understand a $25 wheel at $20 or a $20 refrigerator at $16. I think a couple of representa- tive prices for each article in strong display would be effective. I will ven- ture to assert the present announcement is not. Thedisplay is good except that the upper and lower lines should be farther away from the border. Lively Jake starts out with an excel- lent introduction to his subject, could not be better, but for some reason he flies the track after the first sentence. The writer should have confined himself to hats instead of general remarks on business policy, however good this may be. The display is good, but I question the value of reading lines in the border. J. Wadstrom gives a display of the goods he is selling. His remarks keep to the subject and the printer handles the matter in good style, especially as to the use of white in the display. A noticeable bank advertisement is that of the Antrim County Bank. One good feature is that the space is suffi- cient for the use of strong display and matter. The point made is one to gain attention of any who may have either the latent or active ambition to get ahead. The printer has handled his rules and space with exceptional skill, so that while his variety in styles of display type are more than would seem desirable yet the result is strong and attractive. Another good bank adver- tisement is that of the Marquette County Savings Bank. The space is unusually generous for the amount of matter and the printer has taken exceptional pains in the rule display. I would leave out the ornaments in the upper panel and put a plain, moderately heavy rule in place of the zigzag line outside. <_< _S———___ Bubbles. Sweet and low—cheap candy. Small change—the baby’s clean shirt. Some things are a rare treat only when well! done. The chiropodist’s field of labor is really a cornfield. The girl who can not sing and won't try isa bird,”” A fast man owns that he is too fast when he gets behind prison bars. A printer who never made a bit of pi in his life takes the cake. Clothes do not make the man, but sometimes his wife's clothes break him, To some people a bank book is in- teresting enough to be a whole library in itself, Sa Matches may be made in heaven, but mergers are arranged in Wall Street. Lots of blessings in Sinan go away without discovering themselves, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GRAND RAPIDS BANKS. Their Rapid Growth During the Past Two Years. The bank statements published last week, shcwing the condition of Grand Rapids banks at the close of business Sept. 15, tell a wonderful story of this city’s rapid business growth in the past two years, and when comparisons are made with the figures of nine years ago, when the country was at the very bot- tom of the ditch, the change is simply astonishing. The following figures rep- resent the consolidated statement of the five National and four State banks, omitting the Michigan Trust company: The loans and discounts are $14,859, - 049.59, compared with $12, 268,073.58 on Sept. 30, 1901, and $10,530,606.27 on Sept. 5, 1900. The increase is $2,590, - 976.01 in one year and $4,318, 443.32 in two years. Since one year ago the Na- tional banks have increased their loans and discounts by $1,859,417.76 and the State banks have increased $731,558.25. This increase in the loans and dis- counts, it may be explained for the uninitiated, represents increased capital employed in business; it tells of trade expansion, of new enterprises being launched and of confidence in the fu- ture. The banks now have invested in stocks, bonds, mortgages and similar securities not including Government bonds, $3,650,349.04; last year it was $2,902,820.65 and in 1900 it was $2,652, - 298.98. The National banks have added to their holdings the past year about $55,000 and the State banks about $700, 000. The National banks carry $1,420,- 812.50 in Government bonds and prem- iums and have $24,000 circulation out- standing. Last year the figures were $1.113,000 bonds and $670,150 circula- tion; two years ago, $586,680 bonds and $372,050 circulation. The increased cir- culation since two years ago is $551,950, or nearly 150 per cent. The banks carry $536,694.41 on their books and the account of furniture, fix- tures and real estate, compared with $466,007.77 last year and $484,97c two years ago. Four banks now own their own establishments and this is included in the holdings. The quick assets, that is, money on hand and on deposit in reserve and other banks, aggregate $4,392,799.89, against $4,208,924.10 last year and $3,650, 286.60 two years ago. The surplus and undivided profits aggregate $1,095,370.71, or about 41! per cent. of the banking capital. Last year it was $956,971.89 and two years go $816,651.84. The banks are $278,- 718.87 better off than two years go, It is in the matter of deposits that the greatest surprise will come to those who have not closely followed business con- ditions. The commercial deposits are $7, 316,915.37, compared with $5, 403,- 792.62 last year and $4,240,937.06 two years ago. The increase in commercial deposits since one year ago has been $1,913,122.75 and since Sept. 5, 1900, $3,075,978. 31. The certificates of deposit and savings accounts now aggregate $10,942,033.2!, against $9,460,946.24 last year and $8,218,131.91 two years ago. The gain has been $1, 481,086.97 in one year and $2,723,901.30 in two years. In two years the National bank certificates have in- creased $684,092.20 and the State banks savings and savings certificates $2,039, - 809. 10. The Grand Rapids banks are carrying $1, 561,746.48 in bank deposits, which is approximately the same as last year and $275,000 greater than two years ago. The total deposits are now $109,588, - 224.17. Last year at this time they were $16,871,515.38 and two years ago $14,049,078.79. The increase in one year has been $2,716,708.79 and in two years $5,539,145.38. Never in the his- tory of Grand Rapids banking has such an increase been shown in so brief a period. While the comparison of the bank statements now with those of cne and two years ago is interesting and in- structive,it fairly takes the breath away to line them up with the statements that were published showing the conditions on October 3, 1893: The loans and discounts then were $6, 344,947.59; now they are $14, 859,- 049.59, or more than double. The stocks, bonds and mortgages then were $5,311,595.37; now they are $3, 650, 349.04. The National banks then carried $201,200 Government bonds and $202, 000 circulation; the figures now are $1, 420, - 812.50 bonds and $924,000 circulation. The cash on hand and in reserve or on deposit then was $2,088,706.09; now it is $4, 392,799.89. The surplus and undivided profits then were $732,908.97; now, $1,095,- 370.71, and this increase has come mainly in the last four years. The commercial deposits in October, 1893, were $2,772,902.35; now they are $7, 316, 915. 37. The savings and certificate deposits then were $3,060,271.01; now they are $10, 942,033.21. The total deposits then were $6,287, - 560.37 and now they are $19,588, 224.17, or three times greater. Comparison of the statements to-day with those of October, 1893, are not given to illustrate the city’s financial growth but simply to recall the dark days when most of the bankers were anxiously walking the floor. The _ bot- tom had fallen out of business in every direction; the panic was at its very worst stage. The total deposits, which in May aggregated $8,773,084.55, in October were $2,500,000 less. The shrinkage in savings and certificates in this period exceeded $1,100,00c and $1,200,000 commercial deposits had been withdrawn. The loans and dis- counts had been reduced by $2,600,000, The anxious business man could scarce- ly secure a loan on gold coin security so intense were the fear and distrust. Oc- tober was the turning point in the panic. The subsequent statements showed gains slowly at first, but more rapidly as confidence returned and busi- ness resumed its sway. The total de- posits now more than double the best statement ever rendered before’ the panic and the loans and discounts show an increase of 60 per cent. Eh At 50 Cents on the Dollar npr Wie OE, The largest stock of Gas and Gasoline Mantles ever unloaded in Mich- igan was bought by Glover's Wholesale Merchandise Co., of Grand Rapids, Mich. PRICES CUT IN HALVES Send in your order now. Catalogue of our regular line on application. eee ee Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co. Manufacturers, Importers and Jobbers of Gas and Gasoline Sundries Grand Rapids, Michigan 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 ot produced fears 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 femoving all traces of our brands therefrom. WC became Clete t Crs sy or Co J_ ROBINSON, Manager Benton Harbor.Michigan Bho): tme 813 Scent Cigar Oe NaN Eel) 1: ae GJ. reba ss tab esc tn 0 Sor Gas LIGHT + VGes MACHINE rosGy OMPLETE UT Re as COSTS BUT LITTLE MORE Cc GAS PLANT IN ITSELF a > rem wis NEEDED IN STORES, HOTELS. CHURCHES, LODGES, SALOONS " mmm eG Wye welty RESTAURANTS, ted ETC st el ini io : Lin eiieal set Poe ceari tutive in each Py \Z c first in 2 Important rons of Safety ee cent. better illuminati pericit 1000 CANDLE POWER NO UNDER SHADOW. ACTUALLY SAVES 75% ~UP-KEEP'—~ OF ANY OTHER LIGHT. LONG DISTANCE - BOTH PHONES 2090. non explosive. Very Sint ple to oper it I a to, get out of order. Will outlast a generat Perfection LightingjCo. .17 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.\ Mis MARTIN. ADV, "(GRDO.RAPIOS, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Leslie—J. C. Bailey has purchased the harness stock of Samuel W. Bailey. Armada—Phillis & Bearss have pur- chased the meat market of Wm. Ridley. Monroe—M. Slayman is succeeded in the fruit business by B. H. Kherbaivi. Burr Oak—H. fectioner, has sold out ett. Detroit—A. G. Jamieson & Co. have purchased the grocery stock of Thos. J. Juff, baker and con- to Mark Match Digby. Beebe—Jay Brader, of Ithaca, has purchased the general stock of Robert Gamble. Greenville—M. S. Dadles has pur- chased the dry goods stock of Stuart M. Albertson. Ccoopersville—S. E. Hosmer & Co. have sold their grocery stock to F. F. Thompson. Buchanan—J. Coh!l & Co. have pur- chased the dry goods stock of Dell J. Boardman. Saline—John A. Dunn succeeds John A. Alber in the confectionery and bak- ery business. Mt. Pleasant—Chatterton & Son, gro- cers and meat dealers, have sold out to Wm. 5S. Wise. Jackson—Geo, A. Smith succeeds H. Smith & Son (Clarence C. Smith) in general trade. Durand—Chick & Holmes continue the general merchandise business of Robt. J. Chick. Swartz Creek—Newton & Cummings have purchased the hardware stock of Wm. L. Miller. Jonesville—Miss Jennie M. Burnett has purchased the millinery stock of Mrs. L. Beatty. Manistee—The capital stock of the Manistee Novelty Co. has been in- creased $20, 000. Houghton—Harry Joffrey has discon- tinued the clothing and men’s furnish- ing goods business. Reese—W,. A. Donald & Co. are suc- ceeded by Thos. U. Dawson in the mercantile business. Swan Creek—J. W. Cross, general merchandise dealer, has sold his stock to Geo. Van Wormer. Dighton—Wm., Haybarker, of Milton Junction, has engaged in the mercantile business at this place. Hillsdale—Greenley & Bullock suc- ceed Wm. T. Seidel in the bakery and confectionery business. Mesick—Zagelmeyer & Harry have sold their furniture and harness stock to R. E. Turner, of Bannister. Freeport—J. W. Foglesong continues the furniture and undertaking business formerly owned by Frank H. Nye. Navarre—Eugene McQuade has_pur- chased the notion and grocery stock of the estate of the late John F. Porath. Big Rapids—Fred W. Morton has taken a partner in his jewelry business under the style of Gleason & Morton. Detroit—The E. J. McSweeney & Co., Limited, succeed E. Jj. McSweeney & Co. in the mantel, grate and tile busi- ness, Adrian—Albert Reisig has purchased the grocery stock of Otto Kaumeyer, at 59 Broad street, and has leased the store building. Pontiac—-J. L. Marcero & Co., whole- sale tobacconists, have merged their business into a corporation under the same style. Sanilac Center—Geo. P. Honeywell, druggist, has retired from the drug busi- ness, having sold his stock to H. H. Hoffman & Co. Harbor Springs—Rogers Bros., seed- men of New York City, have purchased a site and will shortly erect a suitable building for their business. Houghton—Jacobson & Kaplan, of Calumet, have opened a dry goods and department store in the new Careek building on Sheldon street. Big Rapids—Stewart E. and Herbert L. Canaan have formed a copartnership under the style of Canaan Bros. and purchased the grocery stock of A. R. Morehouse. Menominee—Peter L'Hote has _ pur- chased a half interest in the implement stock at 321 Grand avenue owned by W. D. Bigger. The new style is Big- ger & L’Hote. Alma—S. Stannard has purchased the harness stock of C. E. Richardson and has leased the building north of the Wright House, where he will have more commodious quarters. South Boardman—W. Granholm & Co, have embarked in the grocery busi- ness at this place. The stock was pur- chased of the Traverse City branch of the Musselman Grocer Co. Saginaw—Morley Brothers have ac- quired the business of the Flint Har- ness Co, and the stock and fixtures have been removed here and added to the firm’s harness factory in this city. Croswell—Smyth & Straffon will oc- cupy the north half of the new Smyth & Learmont block, now in process of con- struction, with their implement stock as soon as the building is completed. Pentwater—Harry Thorp, of the drug firm of Tuxbury & Thorp, was recently married to Miss Georgia Tuxbury, of New Orleans, who is a sister of bis partner. The Tradesman extends con- gratulations, Mulliken—A. C. Davis and Frank Brown have formed a copartnership un- der the style of Davis & Brown and pur- chased the drug and grocery stock of C. H. McCarger. They will continue the business at the same location. Kalamazoo—J. A. Sprague, who re- cently purchased the grocery stock of C. O. Stewart, has also purchased the stock of teas, coffees and spices of M. F. Fairchild, and will remove his gro- cery stock to Mr. Fairchild’s store. Tekonsha—Wolf & Clark have pur- chased the grocery stock of H. B. Wil- liams. The business will be continued at the old stand until the new addition is completed to the sture building now occupied by the dry goods stock of Wolf & Clark, Benton Harbor—Benj. Butzbach has purchased the interest of Frank Potts in the Battlement drug store. The busi- ness will be continued by the remaining partner, A. H. Wiggins, and Mr. Butz- bach under the style of Butzbach & Wiggins, Nashville—E. Liebhauser has sold his stock of drugs, jewelry and wall paper to Ralph A. Foote and Von W. Fur- niss, who have been connected with the store for a number of years. The busi- ness will be continued under the style of Foote & Furniss. ithaca—Arrangements have been made between the Ithaca Savings Bank and O. L. Altenberg whereby the latter will remove his jewelry stock to one of two excellent locations and the bank will occupy the part of the Monfort build- ing leased by Mr. Altenberg. Lansing—C. W. Pratt, who started a basket factory in Lansing some months ago, has been interesting Chicago capi- talists and, as a result, Edwin B. Brown has moved to this place from Chicago and together with Mr. Pratt will begin the manufacture of baskets on a large scale, Elk Rapids—Chris. and Jake Niffen- egger, of South Haven, have purchased of John Boyd what is known as the Front street property and have com- menced the erection of a two-story brick building. The same gentlemen have purchased the Cooper property of 66 feet frontage on River street, and will build a new three-story building in the spring. > 4 > — Buchanan—The Chapin Electric Co. has received a proposition from the Spinks Shoe Co, to start a shoe factory here with $600,000 capital. The owners claim the present business to be worth $250,000 and want $350,000, which will be preferred stock and draw Io per cent. of the profits before their stock will draw any. They say they can begin with 450 to 500 employes. os Marshall D. Elgin, of the Musselman Grocer Co., is spending the week at the Soo, superintending the work of inaug- urating the new branch house of the Musselman Grocer Co, at that market. A. W. Meyer, formerly engaged in the meat business at Big Rapids, has purchased the grocery and confectionery stock of L. K. Thompson at 766 South Division street. HO P. H. Hamming, manufacturer of bi- cycle grips at 116 Prescott street, has sold out to C. E. Peterlein. seu a _“- The effectiveness of circulars is fre- quently—and far too frequently—marred by undue length. > 0. Wm. J. Clarke, the Harbor Springs merchant and lumberman, is in town for a few days. Quite Likely You will be in- terested to know that we have just issued a new cata- logue containing 200 pages of real worth to him who looks well to qual- ity, make and value. We pride ourselves on its neat and trim at- tire and will gladly forward it for your inspection, if you say so. We carry a large supply of Pumps, Pipe and Tubular Well Supplies. Grand Rapids Supply Co. 20 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich. Want Peaches, Grapes, Potatoes Your shipments solicited. M. 0. BAKER & CO. Commission Merchants 119-121 Superior St., Toledo, Ohio Bell and Home Phone 1870. References; First National Bank, Toledo, Ohio This paper. BUSINESS CHANCES SPECIAL BARGAIN LIST A. M. Barron, Real Estate and Business Broker, South Bend, Indiana. My mission is to bring buyerand seller together. Iam a specialist in this Jine. Wherever mail is delivered I can do busi- ness. If you want. to buy or sell, write me. FOR SALE—One-third interest high grade grocery, prominent Michigan City; 15 percent. profit; $1,000 cash. Foliog FOR SALE—Custom shirt manufactur- ing business; Illinois city; $1,250; pays $150 monibly. Folio 19 FOR SALE—Two telephone exchanges, progressive Minnesota towns; toll and rural lines; one $3,500; the other $4, Sco. Fine chance to consolidate and ex- tend. Folio 22 WANTED—Man to invest $5,000 or more in lumber, sash, doors, mouldings, blinds, etc. ; fine business; want to en- large; write for full particulars, Folio 24 FOR SALE—Bakery, confectionery and school supplies; Connecticut city: 33% per cent. profit; price $3,000; a snap. Folio 29 FOR SALE—Well: equipped printing office, Michigan city; high grade ma- chinery and trade; pays I5 per cent; price $10,000; booked §2,500 in July. Folio 37 FOR SALE—General store, best farm- ing region Michigan; up-to-date stock ; invoice $3,500; sell for 95 per cent. Pays $10c per month net. Folio 48 FOR SALE—Coal, flour, feed and iron business; Nebraska town; big business; pays $150 per month net; price, every- thing complete, $3,800; includes resi- dence on lot 88x140. Write. Folio 52 FOR SALE—Greenhouse and residence property, Wyoming, owned by widow lady; unable handle it; fine opportu- nity ; $4,500 takes everything. Look after this, Folio $9 FOR SALE—Drug store, Michigan town; farming and factory community, long established trade. Price $2,500; pays usual profits. If interested write for particulars. Folio 69 FOR SALE—4o acre improved farm, Kalamazoo county, Michigan: fine property. Price $1,100; worth doubie; bargain, Folio 69 FOR SALE—320 acres unimproved land, Dickinson, Starke county, North Dakota; fine land; price $6 an acre; worth $10; one-half cash, balance long time. Folio 76 FOR SALE——General merchandise, Noble county, Indiana; two railroads; farming community; making money. Invoice $4,000; price 92 cents on dullar; profit 20 per cent. ; also have residence, 7 rooms, usual improvements, 2 lots, fruit; price $1,000. Folio 78 FOR SALE—Interest in a moneymak- ing sawmill located on large tract of timber land; $1,500 wanted. This isa fine opportunity for practical man. Write for particulars. Folio 80 FOR SALE—Photograph studio; also two branch studios, adjoining towns; Michigan, Tuscola county; making $200 per month net. Price, if taken at once, $1,000, Write for particulars at once. Folio 83 FOR SALE—Millinery and notions; fine trade, agricultural region; annual business over $2,400; profits 25 per cent; living rooms; fine garden, Price $800, This is a sure enough bargain. Folio 140 FOR SALE—Book publishing house, Toledo, Ohio; high grade productions at popular prices; installments. This is a good live business, Can be greatly enlarged. Now paying big money. Price about $14,500, according to stock on hand when sale is made. Folio 115 FOR SALE—High grade drug stock and fixtures, fine railroad and farming town, Ohio; stock fresh and salable; invoice $2,000; will sell for $1,500; fine living rooms upstairs; might trade for house and lot or small farm. Folio 120 Don't forget my address A. M. BARRON, 309 South Michigan St., South Bend, Ind. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is firm,with no change in price. Refiners were ready buyers, but offerings were small and but little business resulted. The market for refined continues very firm with good demand. Kefiners are still unable to cope with the present demand, although enquiries are not quite so heavy as they were a couple of weeks ago. They are, however, still from one to three weeks behind in de- liveries, Beet sugar is expected in next week and a number of orders have been placed for delivery as soon as manufac- tured. Canned Goods—The canned _ goods market shows no changes of note ex- cept, perhaps, a somewhat easier feel- ing on tomatoes. The rainy weather of the past few days has been good for the growing of the tomatoes but they do not ripen. It needs sunshiny weather for this and there has been very little bright sunshine the last two weeks. Should the weather clear up and the frosts hold off a little longer, there would be more tomatoes packed, but stil] not enough to make much of a showing against the outstanding contracts. There is still some demand for Eastern tomatoes, but it is not as heavy as last week and prices show some easiness, and Baltimore goods can be bought at 5c per dozen less than last week. Corn is very firmly held, with a good request at unchanged prices. The outlook for this season’s pack grows more favor- able and it is believed will make a very good showing when completed. Peas are quiet with practically no change. Peaches are very firmly held and are meeting with good demand. Gallon apples are quiet at unchanged prices. There continues -a good demand for small fruits, with almost nothing being offered, The pack was very short and a few gooseberries are almost the only thing offered. Prices on salmon con- tinue unchanged, with demand very good. Sardines are meeting with good demand at unchanged prices. Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market, as usual at this season of the year, is rather quiet. With the advent of cooler weather, however, considerable activity is expected. Some interest was aroused this week by the naming of prices on new crop raisins and quite a number of sales were made at the prices quoted, and these are expected to be the fore- runner of a good business a little later. Stocks are light and the consumptive demand will assume much larger pro- portions within the next few weeks, Prunes are very quiet just at present. With so much fresh fruit in the market one can not expect a good trade on prunes, nor will there be until the fresh fruit is out of the market. Prices show considerable easiness, but even a cut in price would not tempt buyers and it is practically impossible to move any quantity now at any price. Apricots are somewhat firmer this week, with an improved demand. Peaches are quiet, but show no change in price. The de- mand is very light. Currants are in fair demand, with a firmer tendency. Figs and dates are both firmly held, with good demand for this season of the year. It will greatly increase as soon as it grows a little colder and the holiday season draws near. The demand for evaporated apples the past few days has showed some failing off, but the market continues very firm, with small stocks on hand. Winter fruit is beginning to come in now, however, and as this will keep well, dryers have a chance to ac- cumulate stocks, when larger lots will be offered for sale. With the arrival of winter fruit, it is expected a steady mar- ket will rule, with a good demand. Rice—The rice market is firm, with an improved demand which will un- doubtedly increase with cooler weather. The demand at present is mostly for medium grades of domestic head rice, with a few enquiries for fancy grades. Molasses and Syrups—The molasses market continues very firm and trading shows quite an increase, with full prices obtained in every instance. In view of the continued steady demand and the probability of a late crop, to- gether with small supplies now on the market, dealers have become indiffer- ent sellers and will allow no concessions whatever. The demand at present is largely for molasses in cans, which is reducing to a great extent the sale of the goods in barrels. The corn syrup market shows some weakness and prices have declined tc per gallon and 6c on cans. Fish—Trade in fish is good, with the market for all grades more firmly held. Mackerel continues to be strong, with good demand. Codfish is in good de- mand, but shows no change. Nuts—An active market continues in this line, with most descriptions firmly held. California almonds are quiet, but firmly held. Walnuts are meeting gocd sales for both shelled and un- shelled. Brazils are in steady demand at full prices and an advance is looked for. Tarragona almonds are meeting a good demand. The new crop is re- ported at about half of last year’s. Pea- nuts are firmly held, but are in light demand. Rolled Oats—There is nothing of in- terest to note in the rolled oats market. Prices are firmly held, with very few goods offered. Shipments are still de- layed, but not quite as badly as a few weeks ago. > ee — Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool. The hide market is weaker on light stock, with buffs {@'%c lower. Heav- ier grades are in govud demand and prices are sustained. Countries are lower, with no accumulation and good demand at lower price. Orders are numerous, but the price named will not draw or tempt one to fill. The tendency is for lower prices, while prices vary as to locality. Pelts have been on the market in larger quantities of late on account of a strike among the men at one abattoir. This offering has supplied the wants of other pullers for the time being, and stocks accumulate at other points. Tallow has been in good demand for soapers’ use and freely sold at a de- clined price. Australia offerings were quickly sold. No edible is offering. Wool has revived from its apathy and sales are larger than for months before at full quotations. This gives life to the market and holders can see it has a value and feel hopeful. Offerings are large and are strongly held. Wm. T. Hess. GEG AAR VELA ss. EPC The Kalamazoo Gas Co. paid a sec- ond 1% percent. dividend to-day, the previous dividend having been paid in November of last year. The company is rapidly increasing its line of customers and the amount of its output, and the stockholders have every reason to feel satisfied with the present condition of the company and its prospect for the fu- ture, The Produce Market. Apples—Common, 25@75c per bbl. ; fancy, $1.50@1.75 per bbl. Bananas—Good shipping stock, $1.25 @z2 per bunch. Beeswax—Dealers pay 25c for prime yellow stock. Beets—soc per bu. Butter—Creamery is firm at 22c for fancy and 21Ic for choice. Pound prints from fancy command 23c, Dairy grades are firmer and higher, commanding 18 @ioc for fancy, 15@16c for choice and 13@14c for packing stock. Cabbage—Home grown command 40@ sec per doz, Carrots—4oc per bu. Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz. Crabapples—Late Transparents are in active demand at $1 per bu. Cranbcrries—Cape Cods are in limited supply and demand at $2.30 per box. Celery—Home grown is in ampie sup- ply at 18c per doz. Cucumbers--75c per bu. for garden grown and 25c per too for pickling stock. Egg Plant—$1.25 per doz. Eggs— Continue to advance as receipts of fresh become smalier. Local deal- ers pay !17@1oc for case count and 19@ 21c for candied. Figs—g5c per 10 |b. box of California. Grapes—Blue, 15c per 8 lb. basket; Niagaras, 16c per 8 lb. basket; Dela- wares, 15c per 4 Ib. basket. Green Corn—ioc per doz. 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, sinas, $3.75@4. Lettuce—Head commands 7oc per bu. Leaf fetches 50c per bu. Mapie Sugar—1o%c per Ib. Maple Syrup—$i per gal. for fancy. Musk Melons—Gems, 50c per basket; osage, 75c per crate. Onions—Home grown stock is in am- ple supply at 60@6s5c. Pickling stock, $2@3 per bu. Oranges—Jamaicas, $4 per box. Parsley—z2oc per -vz. eaches—Smocks, Chilas and Golden Drops, 60@85c; Old Mixons, 65@75c. This week will nearly close the season, which has been the most profitable one ever experienced at this market. The Michigan Central Railway has taken out 800 carloads, mainly to |Eastern points, and it is claimed that by the end of this week the shipments will ag- gregate 2,000 carloads. Pears—Sugar, $1 per bu.; rlemish Beauties, $1.35 per bu. ; Bartletts, $1.50 per bu. Peppers—7oc per bu. for green. Pieplant—zc per Ib. Plums—Blue Damsons, $2.50 per bu. Potatces—In ample supply at 45@5oc per bu. Poultry—Prices are firm, owing to small receipts. Live pigeons are in moderate demand at 60@75c and squabs at $1.50@1.75. Spring broilers, o@ loc; small hens, 8@oc:; large hens, 7 @8c; turkey hens, 10'4%@11%c; gob- blers, 9@1oc; white spring ducks, 8@ oc. Dressed stock commands the foi- lowing: Spring chickens, 12@13c; small hens, 1o@11c; spring ducks, 12) @13c; spring turkeys, 13@14c. Radishes—tioc per doz. Spanish Onions—$1.25 per crate. Squash—z2c per lb. for Hubbard. $3.50; Mes- Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $3.75 per bbl. ; Virginias, $2.35. Tomatoes—6sc per bu. Turnips—soc per bu. Watermelons—Home_ grown Sweet- hearts are in ample supply at 16c. John Knape, for many years superin- tendent of the Clipper bicycle factory, has recently installed a line of machin- ery at 87 Campau street, the enterprise to be known under the name of the John Knape Machine Co. The plant will make all kinds of light machinery to order, including patent models, special tools, extra parts to all makes of bi- cycles, and will carry Clipper parts in stock. a For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones. Had Piles 25 Years Cured in 15 Minutes I have made a new discovery for the cure of piles without Knife, Cautery, Chloroform, Pain or Detention from Business. The treatment consists of DISSOLVING and ABSORBING piles by means of a properly applied mild cur- rent of electricity; a property of elec- tricity discovered and used exclusively by me, administered by an equipment of my own invention, the construction of which is a secret. The pile is dissolved in afew minutes and readily absorbs in a few days. You suffer no. inconve- nience whatever from the treatment, and you are not laid up at all. I have cured many bad cases in ONE PAINLESS TREATMENT, sothe patient was able to return home on the next train cured. If you suffer with piles, write me a full description of your case as you under- stand it and I will give you my opinion free of charge and send you a booklet telling all about my NEW DISSOLVENT METHOD for the CURE OF PILES. If you have a friend who is afflicted and you wish to do him a kindness for which he will be everlastingly grateful to you, send his name and address to me and I will send him my booklet. I have a local reputation for remarka- ble cures in this line and dealing hon- estly and honorably with my patients, who send me their afflicted friends and acquaintances for treatment, and in this way I get a large clientele from all parts of the country. But wishing my new DISSOLVENT METHOD for the CURE OF PILES to become more widely known, have decided to do a little adver- tising. I am not an extensive advertiser, and if you are interested I would advise you to be sure and write me at oncs, as you may not see my advertisement again. I deal with my patients on the same basis as their family physician does. I exact no deposit and no ironclad agree- ment. When you have returned home and are satisfied you are cured, you mail me a check, and that is all there Is of It. If I don’t cure you, it will not cost you one cent. Dr. Willard M. Burleson RECTAL SPECIALIST 103 Monroe St. Grand Rapids, Michigan 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN STORE LOAFERS. Some Ways of Abolishing This Common Nuisance. Written for the Tradesman. Most merchants in the smaller towns know what it is to be bothered with loafers. In winter and summer, stormy and fair weather, they are always on hand to fill the store with smoke and decorate the floor with tobacco spit. Every merchant would be most happy | if he could rid himself of their pres- | ence, but the remedy to eradicate the pest is hard to find. I have seen several experiments tried, but in most Satisfactory. 1 know of a gentleman who conducted a drug business and was | troubled with the presence of the village statesmen, who made a practice of con- gregating in his place of business and discussing the tariff question with great enthusiasm, The druggist removed the chairs from the store, hoping by that means to make it so uncomfortable for his faithful guests that they would leave him in disgust when they found that there was no place in the store on which they could rest their valuable bodies, But they were not to be driven away so easily. When they found that no chairs were available they appropri- 1] ail ated the counters and lined up in greater numbers than ever. Then the druggist grew angry and vowed he would bring the thing to a head in short order. He cut a couple of pasteboard boxes into small pieces and inserted a number, of tacks, which he placed on the counters with the sharp ends up, On the upper side of the pasteboards he printed in plain letters: ‘‘Keep off the counter. This means you.'’ Then cases the results were not | Soon the usual crowd began to put in an appearance. One by one they came. | They remarked about the state of the | weather and walked up to the counters. | None of them wanted to buy anything j}and when they read the little notices | placed here and there about the store |they grew red in the face and strolled }outside. Soon the whole gang had been jin and become acquainted with the ; merchant's command. The boys gathered outside and held a council of war in which they cussed the druggist liberally ;and vowed they would get even by with- |drawing their patronage and teiling | other peopie what a mean fellow he was. |Had the tacks been removed from the counters at this stage of the game all ; would probably have been well. But | people who had never loafed in the store read the notices and, queer as it may seem, tock offense. The coat did not fit, but they put it on nevertheless. So it came about that, while the loafers were ;driven away, many good customers withdrew their patronage and the store suffered. It took the merchant a long time to square himself with a good many of the people. 1 know of a little grocery store that is a veritable bee-hive of loafers. Scarce- ly an hour in the day passes but what this store is filled with dense clouds of smoke, especially in the cold months of the year when the loafers can not stand on the street with comfort. One of the ‘“star boarders’’ of the establishment comes down town in the morning at six o'clock as regularly as the sun rises and sets and awaits the coming of the man who opens up and sweeps out. It is a custom with the store to have what is known as the ‘poor box,’’ an old cigar | box filled with smoking tobacco, always in a place where these fellows can come and fill their pipes. Nota chair or other kind of seat is to be found where the hangers on can sit during the day, yet they persist in congregating. As a gen- eral thing these men are not poor. They are retired farmers who have moved to | kind of worker. lives in what is probably to them a life of pleasure. They buy their groceries of this merchant, but at the same time drive away considerable trade that would come to this store if it was not continually filled with men and smoke. Ladies will not trade there because they say the goods smell of tobacco. Remedies for this evil are easily pre- scribed, but to rid a place of business of loafers is a more difficult task and one that necessitates the use of consid- erable tact. It is true, however, that the loafer loves a place where he can have full swing, where he can talk as loudly as he wants to and smoke as much as he pleases. Asa general thing he is not a lover of fine things. It is not the most up-to-date store that appeals to him. He would rather hang around a place where cobwebs and dirt predom- inate, and he is generally found in places of this class. Some merchants love to taik politics and will spend con- siderable time in doing so. Of course such a practice tends to increase the number of loafers. Such merchants soon grow into the habit of neglecting their business to ‘‘gas'’ with these fel- lows. Before waiting on a customer they will take time to finish what they are saying. This delays the customer perhaps half a minute. If he happens to be in a hurry it irritates him and the next time he has trading to do he wil! go to some other store. If the merchant himself is not accustomed to hustling when people are waiting for goods he can not expect his clerks to set a faster pace. A stream will rise no higher that the source from which it comes, neither will the average salesman move any faster than the man for whom he is working. If the proprietor likes to gos- sip better than to wait on customers he should not complain if the whole force about the store follows his example. The average clerk is not a Russell Sage He needs some sort of example to keep his vision fixed upon. A_ shiftless proprietor can ruin a whole force of salesmen, but a man with lots of of his enterprise into those about him and his business will be benefited thereby. As has been said before in this arti- cle, remedies for the eradication of the loafer are easier to name than to put in practice, but it would seem that the merchant who is troubled with a gang of chronic loafers might get rid of them if he would apply himself a little more closely to his business and less to their amusement. It will be noticed that the most successful stores are not troubled in this way because the atmosphere is not congenial to these fellows. Then let the merchant who is in trouble bestir himself. A good start in the right di- rection can be made by thoroughly over- hauling the store, dusting all the goods, washing the windows and wvodwork, sweeping down the cobwebs and rear- ranging the stock so that it will show off to the best advantage. The showcases should be cleaned, the floor scrubbed. Then let the cuspidors be removed, This will be a good start in the right direction, \ After all this is done see to it that all customers are waited on promptly. Let the clerks know that they are there to sell goods and not to gossip with all the old-timers that drop in for the purpose of getting up a conversation. When there are no customers in the store the employes will be able to find plenty of work to keep them busy. Let every- body about the establishment be on the move and before long the chronic loafer will come to realize that life in that quarter is too strenuous for him. When he discovers that the force about the place is there to sell goods and not for his entertainment his visits will grow less frequent, the ladies will begin to tell their neighbors that a wonderful change has come about in this store and if business does not pick up ina surprisingly short time it will be funny. Nothing succeeds like success is an old saying, but it is as true to-day as ever. Let the people know that you area hustler and they will reward you with he awaited results. town to spend the remainder of their! ginger in his makeup will infuse some | their patronage. Raymond H. Merrill. C2939 SS 2329503 SS OS 2S OS OS OS OS SOS SVPS B93S39 SS SeSege5 aS aS ERI AS Ee CE SS ASSES SS SS PS SSET CSS SSeS SSS SSSI ASS tock It Promptly! MS ATA . box. y Sk SIONeS Sa You will have enquiries for : SAA HAND SAPOLIO Do not let your neighbors get ahead of you. are now determined to push it. take a dollar’s worth. You will have no trouble in dis Same cost as Sapolio. ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS CO. Sez S255 It will sell because we Perhaps your first customer will KAS SASSI SA SASS ASS ESB posing of a a f Se ES MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Z THE STREET FAIR. Its Effect on Farmers and the Village Trade. Written for the Tradesman. Central Lake has just finished its fifth annual free street fair, and while the advisability of holding it this year seemed for a time to be somewhat in doubt, our business men are almost unanimous in the opinion that it was a better thing for the village than any- thing ever held here before. There has always been a feeling among us that these fairs helped gen- eral trade throughout the year by adver- tising the town, bringing farmers and others here at that time who might otherwise never get acquainted with us, and by giving our friends a lot of free amusement and a chance to carry home valuable premiums with no other ex- pense than loss of time during attend- ance. We have tried in this way to show our appreciation of the business we receive during the remainder of the year; but so far as direct returns during the three days of the fair are concerned, most of us have agreed that any other three days were apt to be productive of better results. Our street fairs have been conducted on a good financial basis, and we have invariably paid all premiums and other claims promptly and carried over a /air- sized balance to help out the next fair, and this, considering that we received not a penny from gate receipts nor en- try fees, seems to us like a pretty good record. Our fairs have given as good satisfac- tion to farmers,stock raisers, fruit grow- ers and other exhibitors as any of the county fairs of which we have been able to learn, and our exhibits of all man- ner of farm produce have been much better than those of the ordinary country fairs. As long as our farmer friends con- tinue to exhibit as much interest in the street fairs as they have inthe past, and this year especially, I believe it will be a very grave matter to drop the annual free street fair from the list of Central Lake's yearly attractions, The feature of the last day of the street fair this year was the thirteen in- ning ball game between Central Lake and Traverse City, which was won by the latter, the score being 4t0 5. Arch F., of the firm of A. F. & A. Cameron, who has a story pertinent to every oc- casion, sprung the following: ‘*Several years ago, when I was in Traverse City, the Escanaba ball team came over and played a game with our boys and got the worst of it. An Es canaba enthusiast made the statement that his father had a million dollars and that he would spend a_ good share of them if necessary to get a club together in Escanaba that would do up Traverse. After a while there was another game arranged. So we chartered a boat and all went to Escanaba to see the fun. Some of the businses men we knew were friendly enough, but, aside from that, people seemed pretty chilly. Our boys won the game. There was a big crowd out and we heard more rooting for our team than | supposed the few Traverse City people there could make, although I thought little of it at the time. But after the game, as we marched up town, the city was ominously quiet. ‘‘Escanaba feels pretty sore,’’ was my mental comment. There was hardly a soul in sight. People seemed to stay in their back yards or inside their buildings, and there was no one anywhere visible to extend the ‘‘glad hand’’ or to give usa pleasant look. As our party rounded into the main street of the city—a broad, splendid thoroughfare—away up the pavement, coming rapidly toward us, was a surg- ing mob of howling humanity. It was composed of big men—stevedores, dock- wallopers and iron workers, and every mother’s son of them brandished a bot- tle. The noise increased, and knowing that the feeling toward us was not of the most friendly character, we became a good dea] alarmed and had begun to consider the advisability of beating a hasty retreat, when through the fierce clamor of the approacing crowd we _ be- gan to distinguish such words as these: ‘*What’s the City?’ matter with Traverse ‘It's all right!’ ‘Who says so?’ ‘Gladstone!’ ‘What's the matter with Escanaba?’ ‘It’s rotten—rotten, r-o-t-t-e-n!’ ‘Well, now I want to say that we felt a whole lot better. Then we found that there was a Standing feud between the two Upper Peninsular towns and that the Gladstone men had chartered a steamer and gone to Escanaba on purpose to root for Traverse. Their boat lay at the dock near ours and they cheered us when we left and asked us to come to Gladstone to play their ball team. “You won’t get any frost when you come to Gladstone. You bet we know how to use our visitors!’’ they shouted as we steamed away. But we never found it convenient to accept their in- vitation. Something or other always prevented.’’ * + * ‘‘The feature of the game was the splendid battery work,’’ commented a fanatic after the thirteen inning contest at the street fair. ‘‘Why, how do you make that out?’’ queried his beautiful companion. ‘‘I thought there was very little batting done.’’ ‘‘Well, so there was,'’ he assented,*' but the battery isn’t supposed to do the batting. The bat. tery is put there to prevent the batting. They don't like to have any batting done.’’ ‘‘Well, what do they have a battery for if they are not allowed to bat?’’ she persisted. ‘‘Ob,’’ he re- plied, ‘‘they are allowed to bat when their turn comes. You see the battery is just the pitcher and the catcher.’’ ‘*Yes, but you said a minute ago that they were not allowed to bat, and now you say they are. I do not see how I shall ever be able to understand the game.’’ And the fanatic thought that she was probably right. However well agreed our people may be upon matters appertaining to the welfare of the village, their views upon the propriety of having allowed the ‘“snake show’’ to run here during the street fair may never quite coincide. ‘“‘Osco eats the snakes,’’ howled the ‘‘spieler’’ in front of a tent that was decorated with the painting of a shock- headed savage in short petticoats and a necklace of wriggiing serpents. ‘‘Osco eats ‘em—actually eats ‘em alive,’* yelped the orator. ‘‘Step in and see the living wonder—the strangest creature on the face of the earth, who tantalizes and enrages the deadly rattlesnakes and then eats ’em alive.’’ ‘‘Osco’’ was sure- ly a wonder, although at first we con- sidered the whole thing a hoax. But those who witnessed the revolting spec- tacle declare that it was only too real. How any human being can stoop to make a living by such means, passes the understanding of most of us; and what there is to attract people to an ex- hibition at once so unnatural and so re- pulsive is, perhaps, as great a mystery. Yet we are taught that nothing has been created in vain. There are those not lacking in means, who find it ‘‘incon- venient’’ to contribute to the support of the church or to charitable institutions or to the needy poor and, after such as these have exhausted the possibilities of | the cigarette, the grog shop, the opium den and the nickel in the slot machine in its various forms, it may be that the live snake eater comes in to furnish one more avenue through which to dispose of their surplus cash. I think that the snake show as we had it here should be prohibited. The weather continues warm and pleasant and up to this time—Sept. 29— there has been no frost to interfere with agriculture. 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STATE OF MICHIGAN } sie County of Kent ‘eae John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de- poses and says as follows: 1 am pressman in the office of the Tradesman Company and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establishment. 1 printed and folded 7,000 copies of the issue of September 24, 1902, and saw the edition mailed in the usual manner. And further deponent saith not. John DeBoer. Sworn and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this twenty-seventh day of September, 1902. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent county, Mich. TWANGING THE SAME OLD STRING. For some two or three years the coun- tries at the other end of the Morgan line have been humming the refrain ofa catchy tune and they never weary of it. ‘*Out with the products of the United States’’ is the sentiment expressed, and while there is no end of heartiness as to the end to be attained nobody has been able to propose any practical way of doing it. It is everywhere conceded that there is need enough of it. A glance at a recent address of the Bureau of Statistics proves it. According to that Europe took in the latest year for which the detailed statistics are avail- able more than one-half the exportation of manufactures from the United States. If the matter could end with that fact it would be bad enough, but it does not. Everything seems to strengthen the idea that this is only a beginning, and un- less something can be done about it Europe not only had better but will have to shut up shop, a conclusion’ which culminates in twanging vigorously the same old string, followed by the equally vigorous statement of the only remedy. The chief fact noticeable in the midst of the growing uneasiness is America’s unconcern. With a calmness, seemingly wholly unjustifiable,she hears the snatch of commercial ragtime, hums it and keeps right on with forge and loom. A single purpose has seized her: todo her level best with the work her hands have found. Her hammer and her shuttle fly faster than do her thoughts and every bar of steel she turns out and every thread she spins are an improvement upon the last one that left her thoughtful hands. She knows no limit to ‘‘best.’’ Like the poet’s realized ideal, once materialized its manifest crudeness in- cites to higher things; and right there lies the secret of Europe’s deep con- cern. The speech of the Statistics Bureau chief confirms it when he says that American manufacturers can hold their own in the world's markets. Let us consider this: Commercial ex- cellence is only the underlying idea of commercial supremacy—a fact which commercial history confirms. It is only a repetition of ‘‘a survival of the fit- test.’’ China is as good an example as modern Europe. They al! led as long as they furnished the best and they did that until they stopped thinking and realizing their best thought. China reached her limit and built a_ wall around it; henceforth China was su- preme and had to be walled in. The time has gone by for that. Stone and mortar can not shut in or out thinking or its thought. The untangible alone can bar that and law is called upon to bar out the American product to-day as the wall did in China centuries ago. The modern agrarian at present is try- ing to wall out of Europe the world’s best. It can not be done. As surely as the American genius has produced the best that cunning can contrive just so surely will that best find its way over the agrarian wall as it has found its way over the Asiatic barrier. If the American meat is best that meat will go where it is wanted. If the American shoemaker alone can fit the Old World's foot his shoe will find its way to that foot as unerringly as the wheat and the corn find their way into the European stom- ach. They are the best and, what is more to the purpose, they are the cheap- est, two qualities which have and will batter down the thickest wall which selfishness and greed can build. The Bureau chief pleasantly accounts for this country's calmness during the twanging of the string. He believes that combinations or concerted move- ments for the exclusion of our products will amount to nothing. The exclusion from the great markets of the world of the products of a country which supplies so large a proportion of the consump- tion of those markets would have the effect of advancing prices of those arti- cles in other parts of the world, so that the attempt to exclude American prod- ucts would compel the nation exclud- ing them to pay higher prices for those products when obtained elsewhere. European economists, especially in Germany, where the exclusion senti- ment is strongest, have urged that the inevitable effect of shutting out the products of this country would be to raise the prices of such products abroad and under existing conditions this would be a very serious matter fora large number of European consumers, In most of Europe the situation of the working classes at present is bad and a policy that would increase the cost of living would cause widespread distress. It is safe to assume that there is little danger of serious harm to the American trade. It is easy to see why, however pleasing the thought may be to the pop- ular European heart. They are teaching in song what they have learned in suffering and although they are finding out that their fond desires are never to be realized they are still enjoying a great deal of comfort from a constant twanging of the same old string. Amer- ica has seen all along what they are beginning to find out. Hence her calm- ness and hence an occasional humming of the most catchy strains as she goes on with her labors. The American Artisan has issued a Manual of Business which bears evi- dence of painstaking effort on the part of the compiler, The book is well printed and substantially bound and should have a large circulation among merchants and business men generally; AMERICANS IN EUROPE. A writer in the October Century Mag- azine, under the title of ‘‘Rolling Stones,’’ draws a most uninviting pic- ture of the lot of Americans who live abroad, One of the troubles is that Americans in Europe are regarded as interlopers and remain to the end strangers to all foreigners except those who can use them. The home life of Europe they seldom see, except in cases where they are boarders in families of the humbler sort. In Europe, as a rule, money is made with difficulty. Wages are not large and people have to shape their manners according to their incomes. They have no money to spend on strang- ers, and that free-handed, wasteful hos- pitality so common in this country is unknown abroad. Americans who travel abroad, as a general rule, are plain people of little culture, but with money to spend. They are, therefore, the objects of attention by smooth swindlers and all who hope to profit by the association. The fact that considerable numbers of American women have married foreigners of rank and title has vastly stimulated Ameri- can travel to Europe. Ambitious moth- ers have a hope that some such fortune may be in store for their girls, and so the fair Americans are exhibited in the foreign matrimonial markets. Then there is the subtle poison in the social atmosphere of the great cities of Europe that seems to affect more or less all who have come under its influence. Like the church deacon from our own rural districts who, however exemplary amid the quiet shades of his own home life, insists, when he gets into a big city, on seeing the under side of soci- ety, the American matron whose life at home has been as transparent to the view of her friends as crystal, as soon as she tastes the poison of Paris wants to visit the Moulin Rouge and see all the enormities of social license. It seems an anomaly too strange to be true, but the simple fact is that some people of this democratic Republic sometimes imbibe the notion that sc cial classes with titles and rights an- privileges of precedence over other make up a situation that is mo: charming, and it appears to be + highest ambition of the wealthy Am can to enter in some way the cha> -.ec circle. But, according to the .-:ite: quoted, even those Americans that gain entrance to it are not always of it. He thus remarks: Although they do not properly belong to the genus ‘‘rolling stone,’’ a word may be said here of those daughters of Uncle Sam who have married abroad with the idea of improving their posi- tion, and have learned too late that the chief difference between court life and ordinary existence lies in the obligation “‘to stand up when one wants to sit down and to sit up when one wants to go to bed’’—exercises, by the way, suffi- ciently difficult to those brought up to the task. I have the impression that, were these titled dames to confess the truth, they would acknowledge the game they are playing to be much less exciting than was expected, and, on the whole, hardly worth the cost, for a curious phenom- enon attends this form of exile. One finds that the girls who married foreign- ers in order to get away from their com- patriots are forced, for company, to condense into little sets by themselves, forming in all large cities a new species, neither flesh nor fowl. It is true the ladies bear foreign titles, live in stately mansions and chateaux, speak the language of the land more or less well, and affect the manners and morals of their new relatives; yet, in spite of all, they remain to the day of their death aliens in the land of their adop- tion, seeing little society but that of fel- low-exiles and an occasional stray friend from home. Even in England, among our own kin, the American ladies who have mar- ried Englishmen mostly live together in a little Anglo-American clique, and see but little more of inside British society than when they visited the island as girls. If this state of things exists in London and in Paris, where the natives are comparatively approachable, my readers may picture for themselves what the isolation must be of the mar- ried waifs in such exclusive citics as Vienna and Madrid. The idea untraveled people get that their fortunate relatives across the sea are chumming with dukes and hobnob- bing with royalty, comes, to a great ex- tent, from certain newspapers, which, when a rare American lunches with a grand duke at the Cannes club house or receives a princeling on his yacht at Kiel, trumpet the event in a blare of big type and faked photographs. If it could only be impressed on such of our compatriots as contemplate wan- dering that few foreigners without an ax to grind ever frequent the society of strangers or welcome one to their fire- side, much heart-burning and disap- pointment might be avoided. We, bow- ever, have such a free way of asking stray foreigners, with or without ‘’ char- acters,’’ to walk in and sit down, that we find it a bit hard to be kept waiting in the street after knocking at European doors; yet, humiliating as the avowal must be, such is often the case. The number of Americans residing abroad is very large. Some of them are wealthy, and some are otherwise. With the exception of those who are engaged in some sort of study, the greatest num- bers have no other occupation than to amuse themselves or to pass the time as best they may. In addition to these, great numbers of our people are con- stantly touring the Old World. Thus a great deal of American money is sent abroad, to come back sooner or later for our cotton, grain, meat and petroleum. It makes business, and, after all, it must be admitted that only a few of our people lose-their heads when they come in contact with Old , World ways and institutions. On the ‘contrary, they learn to see how petty -d pitiful is a social state when the st masses of the people are taught hat they are inferior, that they are j made of a cheaper, poorer clay than are their rulers and titled aristocracy. ; What a contrast it presents to the grand system in which all citizens be- fore the law are equals, where every in- dividual is entitled to make the most and get the best out of such abilities as he may possess, and where out of its mighty body of citizens are chosen in due order the Chief Magistrate of the Republic, the governors of states and the chief dignitaries of their Govern- ment. And it is another feature of this American grandeur that these high offi- cials and dignitaries are not chosen from any particular class or family, but are called whenever and from wherever the people will it, and they are called for limited terms and not for life. There can never be a permanent offi- cial class in this country, and that is the greatest security to its liberties and institutions, There can be no perma- nent Presidential family, nor any official aristocracy. The world needs more men whose word is good as long as time lasts, whether it is nominated in the bond or not; who do not lie awake nights con- cocting schemes to deceive and defraud their fellows; who do not employ tricky lawyers to draw up technical contracts which place the other party to the trans- action in jeopardy, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 BRAINS AND BOOKS. It is solace to remember that one may be civilized and rational while still comparatively ignorant. Not long ago a dozen members of the Massachusetts Historical Society agreed, without a dissenting opinion, that the greatest English historian since Gibbon was Samuel Rawson Gardiner. It would be an interesting experiment for the aver- age reader of these lines, as an exercise in restraint of intellectual pride, to en- quire of himself, privately, whether he ever before had heard of Dr. Gardiner and has any idea what he wrote. Then let him put the same question to his associates and learn the sort of company he keeps. The number of superlatively important books a busy man may omit to read,and still make a fair showing of general intelligence, is a comforting fact. But most of us in these busy times read fewer good serious books than we ought. The figures are not at hand, but it is certain that in our cities almost an imperceptible minority use the libraries. It would be humiliating to learn how few people in Grand Rapids read even one book a year which is not the light- est kind of novel. Very many of our busy men never read anything but mag- azines and newspapers, and so they get into the habit of satisfying their minds with that easy reading. But the mind fed in this way is like the body fed upon gruel; there must be for the mind as for the body, trial, hardship, good exercise, otherwise it will have no chance to strengthen itself. The mind gets dull and rusty with much cutting of soft things, and it finally becomes an extremely difficult task to cut intoa solid book. Men say they are too tired on return- ing from the day's work to use their brains, but it is just this use that will refresh and stimulate. Almost all the men who have made themselves promi- nent and won success in one depart- ment of life exercised their minds in some other department. Goethe turned from poetry to science; Rossetti was poet and painter; Gladstone was politi- cian and _ theologian; Dr. Thomas Arnold made himself a master of Roman history ; General Lee, General Charles Napier, General Lew Wallace, General Howard, General ‘‘Chinee’’ Gordon, all splendid soldiers, were also Biblical students and bookish men. President Roosevelt turns from the absorbing cares of his office to write books. No man or woman can make a more fatal mistake than to seek rest for the mind by ceasing to work it. Give it exercise and plenty of it, not on soft reading alone but on some solid substance. If people would do more serious read- ing they would gain convictions. The truth is the great mass of people have no convictions; they are led by the nose by any leader who happens along. A conviction implies study, thought, pon- dering on problems, making up the mind which way the world’s work would lead you and which way you ought to go. We are not worth a straw until we are moved by convictions. In politics, religion and other matters peo- ple are ruled by tradition, custom, habit; the great majority merely drift, inheriting their beliefs as they do the color of their hair. Von Humboldt says whatever we wish | to see introduced into the life of the na- tion must first be introduced into its schools;.and we may add, into the |and downs of common humanity. panions, the books on our shelves and on the shelves of the libraries, Are you lonely or sad, fancying yourself alone, go read the biographies of the men who have fought and conquered. Read the life of Scott and his splendid struggle to pay his debts; read the life of Thomas Arnold and see how religion may be translated into duty; read the life of Macaulay by his nepbew, and see how this man’s facilities were con quered by severe work; read the life of Darwin and see how no physical dis- abilities can stand between a student and_ success; read the life of Lafayette and see how a man may turn the most insidious temptation of the world into strength. Delve into books and make friends with Charlemagne and Luther and Savonarola and Loyola and Washing- ton and Napoleon, the men of action; learn what kind of men these were who stopped the current of the world for a moment and made it flow around them. Read the Bible and read Marcus An- toninus and Fenelon and Emerson and Tennyson and learn the secrets of the religious life. Fortunes go up and down, kings are crowned and dethroned, empires change their boundaries, the whole face of the earth is wrought over, but these men remain, kings of the brain, kings of the heart and soul— scientists, philosophers, poets. These men are not affected by any panics, by the stringency of the money market. ‘‘Here are worlds to which for a little while we may retire, like the gods on Olympus of old, unaffected by the ups pose we do not get the society we like, the very best society in the world is habitual reading of its citizens. There is such a world of comfort, happiness, help, instruction for us al] in those com- | LEO, mt — of om ae e d Treasurer —o the open to any intelligent man in the li- brary. There are no finer minds on earth than we can freely associate with in tay odes ay, go, and the shortage was diseoGred \ 4 a ing the regular semiannual examination % Ane re- a \ them to sha spn celle 4 ving no- ml makers. lec e the Re- pubs is “unquo-, ' me: \ ;_ed into the T4 - A / ‘month ago are y finite. fran- ig sn (ent fcr him G h R t D tion, da jate the joke | U@S emister vecision.) '\ ‘at yesterday an eaae ad ts Stated that oo aes etoag atte aa : meee exceilent Mites, 0 ond. Anders\ Nationai Cash Registe Infringement Suit fe, Chairman /ranchises of tittee of the “" = the Against Halwood Cash Reg- iders’’ and o * , tease thc ister Company. she favored the restric- SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQ “Mnnatt, Ohio, Au Thompson, of the United le With} to-. iay j patent sults brought by the National Cash son Sumrall fc Ee ae aera " indorsed W. O. [ Register Company, of Dayton, Ohio. on! 3. in the nz \ 7, one suit against the Hal-} aa a { er Company and the oth-} » New Colu ifacturers 3 t holds ur inges ¢] ing < been ision makes the > for all gains and and all damages s Company by ré handed down a decision tn the two yes claims of the Maxwell pat- 1 by the National Company, and 2S entered r Company Wins : : delegation, bu\_ in U. S. Court sigh “Of Any Man J sPecral DisPaTCH UVIRER. Harrodsburg, gust 30. — Judge ‘ re Judge} cubiicans met States Court here, |! | f day and fnstru} publican in but persiste candidate fo . mbus Waich Com-; f the Haiwood ma- the Halwood ma- accor@ingly. Halwood Company profits received py iffared by the Na- gon of such In-} SPECIAL has referred the Danvil an accounting (0! was f such profits and on the condition of learning to under- stand what they have to say. They are always ready to speak at our wish, and if we are tired, always ready to be lent. 7" There is much said nowadays to the effect that it is better to know life than literature, better to know men than books. But we can only know men well through books; can only know life si- through literature. With our eyes and ears we can see and hear only a few men, but with books we may know thousands; with books we may clasp hands with the great and the good of all ages and feel ourselves strengthened, guided, lifted by the invisible grasp reaching out to us from the pages of a book. There is the great panacea for all the ills of mind and body—the love of reading. If we cultivate the intel- lectual side of our nature and have learned to live in an intellectual world we have taken a great step upward, we have climbed up just so much above the level of the animal, above the range of the turmoil and _ transitoriness of life, and entered into the things that remain. The way to get business is to prove that what you have is what the other needs in order to make money or to satisfy a demand. Bend every energy toward convincing people that you have just what they can use to the best ad- vantage and personal satisfaction. The press advertisements, the spoken words, the distribution of samples, and all that | can be done to further a business should Sup- | be directed to this one end.. Give a man brains and riches and he is king; give him brains without riches and he is a slave; give him riches with- out brains and he is a fool. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN DOOMED TO FAILURE. Store Which Customer, Last week I heard one of the toughest little stories I have ever heard. 1 suppose there are millions of others just as tough—since for every one of these little bits of pathos that get known there are a thousand that do not. This the story of a grocery store that never had a customer. About five months ago a couple of old maiden ladies who had been family and personal friends for years happened to get thrown on their uppers at about the Story of the Never Had a is Same time. As I get the story, each one had had some little income, just enough to keep her from starving to death, and each happened to lose it, or the most of it, at the same time. To make a long story short after tear- fully canvassing ways and means for a week or two, the devil put it into their poor old heads to open a grocery store. One of the old maids told a friend of mine that ‘‘that seemed about the easiest sort of a store to run,"’ What do you think of that? The poor old girl had no money. Neither of them had had as much as $50, probably, at any one time in her whole life. The most they could scrape together was $40 apiece, and with this they set out to open a grocery sture, and in a neighborhood where there were already three and another one coming. Well, the first step they took was for one of them to give up her little two- story house and double up with the other. They took all the furniture out of the parlor and stained the _ floor, Then they bought a little second-hand counter for $10 and had a_ handy _hard- ware dealer in the neigbornood put up a few shelves. "You Ought to Own Then they bought their stock, having about $65 to do it with. You fellows think you have problems to solve—how would you like to try to open a grocery store with $65 worth of stock? Honestly, that was the poorest-looking little stock I ever saw. 1! was only in the place once, and then I knew noth- ing of the circumstances, having gone in to enquire for an address. They had three narrow little shelves, if I remem- ber rightly, and on these were arranged their tiny, meager little assortment. All the stock they had was on the three shelves, except a few boxes, such as soap and cakes, on the floor, It looked like a child’s play store. Tbe day I was in there the two pro- prietors sat rocking in respective cor- ners of the room, waiting for the trade that certainly did not come while I was there. As I said, there were afready three other well-established grocery stores in this neighborhood, I said, ‘‘and an- other one coming’’—that was one of Hunter’s—his ‘‘hundred and fourth’’ if 1 remember correctly. The old ladies had had their ‘‘store’’ open only a week or two when the Acme store opened with a great flourish of trumpets and the assortment of special offerings that usually mark a chain store’s opening. The old maids probably did not know there was such a man as Hunter; they did not know anything about the com- petition of his stores; they did not know anything, in fact, about any phase of their business, So the poor things sat and hopefully rocked while the tide rose around them. The other three grocers in the neigh- borhood knew about Hunter, however, and they started in to meet his new store just as vigorously as they could. You know how you feel when a new man comes into your neighborhood. Now, todo Hunter and the other three grocers justice, it is quite probable that they had never heard of the two old ladies and their child’s grocery store, and had never even seen their pitiful little pasteboard sign, “‘ Fresh Grocer- ies,’’ in the window. The four grocers waged their mimic war with never a thought that there was another enemy to be snuffed out by it. It is like a man who, striding forth to kill a lion, steps unbeknown upon a worm, Well, to condense a long story, the two old ladies kept their store open three months, And never in all that time did a single customer come near it. One of them sadly told this toa friend of mine the week after they closed up. The old girls had to give up their little house and take a room. They poor had their $65 worth of goods, untouched by the clamorous hand of any purchaser, and on this they are probably living yet. When you look at the matter you will see that it was perfectly logical that these old ladies should have failed. It goes without saying that they could never compete, on the merits of their store and stock, with even the smallest established store. Nobody, having only the object of getting good goods at right prices, would patronize the old maids in preference to the other stores in the neighborhood. Incidentallly, I also learned that they had priced their goods without the slightest regard to what their competitors were selling for, and | inches deep, with | inches deep. Prevents customers rD from handling goods THe lighted both long, Can be used for fruits, ee crackers and nuts. Given with 100 Ibs. of our extra ground spices assorted to suit, for . - | : Hi os ToLtepo Corrrer Co.---be sure you get the name 36 inches compartments; made in ale finished oak: strongly and sub- stantially constructed and absolutely dust proof: with drawers 10 inches the chances were that their figures were way out of sight. So that the only factor that could have gotten them trade was public sym- pathy, and that did not apply at all, be- cause the old maids had aiways kept much to themselves and nobody in the neighborhood knew or cared much about them. So that is why their poor little store must go down to history as the store that never had a customer. —Grocery World. ——~ 2. eo. The Gist of the Matter in a Nutshell. Written for the Tradesman. The establishment was a large one, the business was profitable and rapidly increasing and every member of the firm was having more than he was will- ing todo. Two ways out of the diffi- culty presented themselves: Take a new man into partnership, who from the nature of things would for some time be a disturbing element, or promote from the rank and file. For a good many reasons the latter way was the better, but that brought to the front a tremendous who?’’ Finally affairs came to a head and the house gathered around their council table to answer the ali-important question, ‘“We have an abundance of good ma terial to choose from,’’ was the first remark when the business of the meet- ing began. ‘‘That man Nott has noth- ing negative about him but his name. He is clean cut clear through. He can scent commercial game afar off and he hunts it down with a certainty as re- markable as it is unerring.’’ ‘“What’s the matter with Rugg?’ asked Marston, with the bluntness of the Middle West that betrayed his birth- |place. ‘‘I like him and I like his One of These & Spice right---offers this premium prop- osition with the absolute @uar- antee that every grocer who takes advantage of it will be de- with the case and the spices when they arrive: This oval front sales case, 6 feet high and 18 high and 16 $27.50 TOLEDO COFFEE & SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio Se FR Sa ss os wll MICHIGAN TRADESMAN il methods. No sham there. You always know what he means. He cuts corners and, what is much to the purpose, he leaves no sharp angles for people to get hurt on. See Gahan’s nose go up. You al! know what that means. It is a great pity, Gahan, that you were not born in the country and made to do chores on a big New England farm, It is the one thing you need to round you out. You would know then a great deal better than you can know now that a pumpkin that ripens early is not fit for anything. It is the big, overgrown, all-over-creation affair,green as grass in June anda globe of gold in October that takes the prize at the county fair.’’ ‘*{ see that you understand Rugg,’’ laughed the junior member, ‘‘and have nothing more to say.’’ ‘*Campbell is a boy that does not cal! for any horn-blowing. He has been with us now for something like five years; steady as a clock and has not gained or lost a minute inthe whole time. You do not catch him watching the clock and you never saw him leave the store with a job unfinished. I like that little bit of the Highlander that crops out once in a while. A little ‘near,’ but not stingy, with a quiet sense of the humor- ous that brightens things wonderfully. Some of the boys were having a good time the other evening. Campbell joined them. ‘Gime a match, some of you fellows.’ Nobody had one. ‘All right, you beggars. I shall have to use one of my own!’ and Scotchy lighted up with one from a pocketful! We do not want to forget Campbell in making the new deal.”’ ‘*How about Burke? There is your countryman with any quantity of the hayseed thrown in. Whether you know it or not he is the time-keeper for every house between here and _ his boarding place. He does not know how to get around a corner gracefully, but when he gets around it he is there with both feet and ready for the liveliest kind of busi- ness. Ever hear him say yes and no? It comes from the Jowest layer of his soles every time and settles things. After either one of them you know what to do. I think he would make just the balance wheel we have needed ever since Gahan has been in here. J am not going to be upish about it, but unless we can do a great deal better | am going to say Burke with all my might;’’ and the speaker having balanced his account with Gahan, settled back in his chair satis- fied. ‘*Any other names to present?’’ asked the senior member after a short pause. ‘‘Why—er, yes,’’ answered one of the ‘*Co.'’ ‘‘Il suppose 1 am going to get laughed at for my pains, but I have been a member of this.company ever since there has been one and from that day to tbis almost we have had a man in ouremploy whom I have watched. I detest as much as anybody the idea of sneaking around, but in this case, gentlemen, I acknowledge that I have done a lot of it and I have been at it for a gcod many years—ever since he has been with us, anyway. My man is Robb.”’ The silent member waited for the ex- pected laugh and it did not come. With a silence that was remarkable each member of the firm looked straight be- fore him, waiting for what was sure to follow. Scant of speech when Coomes said anything he was worth listening to. They had not long to wait. ‘‘l live on Sherman avenue and this boy's mother at the time | am speak- ing of lived on the other side of the alley directly back of my house. She is a widow and for a long time she used to do our washing. The woman had a hard row to hoe. She was sick half the time and the boy all the time. My wife is forever prowling around for just such people and she found exactly what she wanted in the Robbs, Of course that brought the widow into my kitchen and it was not long before the boy came too. I could stand her, but not him. | always had a prejudice against a red- head, and this boy, then nine years old, was a regular clover-top, splashed with freckles, and he had a nose too pug to wipe with ease and so it was not often wiped. He was sick and so he was always bawling and he was always getting in his heaviest work when | was at home. ‘‘Well, I got tired and I tried to get rid of the whole outfit, but my wife is stubborner than | am. I naturally gave in; but I had my eyes on that boy. | have kept them there. When he was ten years old the bawling stopped and | found out that he had begun to earn his own living. A neighbor wanted some errands done and Emmet begged to do them. Then that little cub, on his own account, canvassed the neighborhood as an errand boy and set up a regular busi- ness. One day somebody asked him why he did not sell papers and the lit- tle aristocrat, whose mother was a wash- woman, with his nose in the air and a scorn equal to Gahan’s made answer that that sort of thing was good enough for the ‘class’ that had not wit enough to do any better! For himself he was going to be a merchant like Mr.—— and he mentioned my wife’s husband. ‘‘With that scheme going on right in my own family I became convinced I had better wake up. I found that that young one had never been asleep! Then was the time | got busy. It did not take me long to see that, like Nott, he was clean cut clear through, and the busi- ness that boy did would have made many an old tradesman ashamed of him- self. He had started out with a string and came home with a jack-knife and be had exacted tribute from every one he met. When the pumpkin period overtook him I was on the lookout for a breakup. It did not come. You see what he is now. He reached the six- foot mark in six weeks when he began to grow and out-Rugged Ruggs in the pumpkinest year and a half that a boy ever lived through. I measured him one day after the Campbell standard. Wit! I shall not try that again when there is anybody around. My wife has not got over laughing at me yet. Take him all in all he is ahead of anybody in that store, at that anybody's best; but when you have said that you have not got through. ‘‘Now, gentlemen, you see where | am going to end and I am going to give you my standard in sizing up this man exactly as I have sized up every man that has been mnetioned. All of us want the man in here who was born for the place. That means he must be gifted—a natural born genius for the work to be done. Now genius differs in its methods of development. 1 have nothing to say about that; but I do say—and | say it with all my might— that he only is gifted who finds in his heart a willingness to do hard work. Emmet Robb is the only man we have blessed with that willingness and the needed force that goes with it. That is all I have to say. Take the man you can decide upon; but if it is Robb | am his financial backer.’’ The silent partner went out and Robb was taken into the firm. Richard Malcolm Strong. F Bements Sons [ansing Michigan. Bement Peerless Plow When you sell a Peerless Plow it seems to be a sale amounting to about fifteen dollars; but consider that purchaser must come back to your store several times a year for several years to get new shares, land- sides, mouldboards, clevises, jointer points and other parts that must sooner or later wear out. During this time he will pay you another fifteen dollars, and you will sell him other goods. Bemeat Piows TURN JHE FARTH. We make it our business to see that our agents have the exclusive sale of Peerless Plow Repairs. E Bements Sons Jansing Michigan. ALU GENUINE BEMENT PEERLESS REPAIRS -?- BEAR THIS EABEL-o~, BEWARE OF IMITATIONS! Our Legal Rights as Original Manufacturers will be protected by Law. 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers Some Revelations of an Old Oxford Shoe. It is a peculiarity of my kind that I was no sooner born than wed. | confess that I was good to look upon, but for this | take no credit. For the pleasing softness of my skin I had to thank those progenitors of mine who spent hardy and common sense lives on the Swiss Alps. Also some thanks are due to my foster parents—good working people, poor but respectable—who did their end that I should make a fine appearance in the world. utmost to the My wife and | lived our lives not un- circumstance which I think was due to the fact that | insisted from the first that I was right, always right, and could be nothing else. This fact was settled when the knot was tied with the prettiest pair of shoestrings imaginable, and we had nothing in the world to do but hug each other closely and gaze out of a window all day. In the days that followed, although we kept pace admirably, | always main- tained my position. pleasantly—a I have lived too long in the world not to have become a trifle cynical, and in this, the story of my life, I intend to make full confession. I admired my wife—I could do no less, considering how much she resembled me. But’ the greatest love of my life was given to another. Lefty (my wife's pet name) and | made no show of our disagree- ments when on parade, but it was no- ticeable, as we grew older, that we drifted farther and farther apart in our off days. Of the love in my life it hurts me yet to speak, and still I must, for although my tongue is dry and hard, my sole is not yet dead, and there is that within me that bids me speak, I saw her first one sunny day in June—a breezy vision of loveliness. It was a case of love at first sight on both sides. Never shall I forget the joyous thrill I felt when first 1 encompassed that love- ly foot and drew that loved one to me! Soft and warm it was, pulsating with health and life and youth. We felt that we had been made for each other. Her instep, arched and beautiful, was at once a torture and a delight. I was tongue-tied, too full for utterance: and yet my very sole cried out with joyous pain when first she pressed me to the ground. How beautiful she was! How noble was her form! ‘‘ Her dainty feet peeped in and out like mice beneath her petti- coat.’’ I was one of the mice. She had the divinest ankles! I used to laugh at the open-mouthed appreciation of the Johnnies on wet days. felt that time flew by not fast enough if one but gazed upon the clock which graced her stocking. One She took us home with her and placed us side by side upon her dressing table. Was I indiscreet in telling my wife all my thoughts and feelings? I have since thought so. I am now convinced that it was nothing but feminine spite which caused Lefty to pinch my ear on the next day. This meant separation from all 1 loved for two whole days. It was also punishment for my wife, and for this | was not at ajl sorry. When I saw Lefty again she was decidedly chastened. She declared that she had been placed on the rack, and that the tortures she had been forced to suffer were some- thing awful. I was tickled clean to my toes, but I was wise enough to hold my tongue. after that. Frequently we took my loved one to the park, | willingly, Lefty because she had to. And there it was we met the man. The man and the maid had known each other long. I heard him beg her to marry him. She pleaded that her father would object. The man was poor; the girl's father was rich. But the man was persistent, and the girl pondered ; and while she pondered she looked at me. Be sure that I frowned my disapproval! I did not like the fel- low. I felt that he was looking at me too covetously. All would have been well had not the maid changed her posi- tion. I was retired, and it was Lefty that she looked at. The brazen young madame openly gloated in the admir- ing looks cast upon her by the man. When the girl began to waver Lefty wriggled ler approval. - It was not long before the man had his arm around the waist of the maid and she had promised to be his. I do not like to remember the days that followed. I was hurt and disap- pointed, and that girl walked me until! | was worn out. The culminating point came when her father interviewed her, He had just been interviewed by the man and his temper was not good to see. But the maid was her father’s own daughter, and she stamped her foot so that she dislocated my heel. She was a strenuouser, On the morning of the wedding my loved one took me in her hands and looked at me sadly. ‘‘I should have liked to take you with me,’’ she said: ‘“but now there is no earthly use. I can not understand how it could ever have broken the way it did. It must have been loose and | must have caught it on something. Why, the heel's half off,’’ And she threw me aside! I, who had worn myself out in her service! Who had loved her fondly and truly! Who had uplifted her in her adversity! But how was she to know that the broken heel signified a broken heart? | forgave her. My loved one's sister found me cn the bed where I had been thrown. She hur- ried downstairs and flung me out of the door at a departing carriage. | landed back of the driver. He lifted me with a coarse hand and with a laugh, equally coarse, placed me by his side. I saw Lefty fired after me, but she landed in the gutter, and her fall caused me no concern, At the railroad station the cabman, a coarse fellow, but good-hearted, followed the man and bride to the train, and when he saw them at the window he flung me in tothem. ‘*‘This belongs to you,’’ he said, and retired guffawing. The man was red in the face with an- ger, but the bride hastily slipped me into her portmanteau. Iam afraid she would have thrown me out of the win- dow if she could have done so unob- served. From the portmanteau I was removed some time later and thrown into the bottom of a trunk, and there remained for a long, long time: how long I do not know but it must have been years, It was the man who took me out, lift- ing me with reverent tenderness, ‘‘I]t was her shoe,’’ he said and the tears were in his eyes. Then I knew that my loved one was dead. ‘‘It was her shoe,'’ he said. ‘“" Dear little shoe! She wore you the day I proposed to her,”’ Poor fool! He did not know the hatred I had in my heart for him—a Lefty did no more pinching | Very Few Kicks You won't have much trouble if vou sell Boston Rubbers. Bos- tons are always durable. It is time now to. look your stock over and have us fill in the sizes and kinds you are short of. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Michigan Should be handled by every shoe dealer because they give satisfactory service and hold the trade. Six hundred skilled workmen are kept busy turning out all grades of shoes from the ordinary everyday shoe to the finest for dress wear, suitable for all classes of trade. fail. Mayer’s shoes give satisfaction where others Write for particulars. F. MAYER BOOT @ SHOE CO. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Se For $4.00 We will send you printed and complete 5,000 Bills 5,000 Duplicates 100 Sheets of Carbon Paper 2 Patent Leather Covers We do this to have you give them a trial. We know if once you use our Duplicate system you will always use it, as it pays for itself in forgotten charges alone. For descriptive circular and special prices on large quanti- ties address A. H. Morrill, Agt. 105 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan Manufactured by Cosby-Wirth Printing Co., St. Paul, Minnesota MICHIGAN TRADESMAN hatred, however, disappeared. He sat and smoked and talked to me for one whole evening and then placed me back in the trunk. I never saw him again. It was a woman who took me out of my hiding place a second time. ‘‘ Dear me,’’ she laughed, ‘‘I did not know that dear George had so much senti- ment about him. I must put this away where it won't bring up any unpleasant memories,’’ She handled me gingerly and directed the housemaid to throw me in the gar- bage can. And _ now I have landed where we all come to some time or other—on the dump. I am dead to all intent and purpose and the next load of refuse will bury me.—Pittsburg Despatch. a which now entirely More Troubles Ahead For the Wholesaler. If the coming year does not prove a study to wholesalers the probability is that there never will be one. Just as one serious disturbing element in whole- saling is retired there loom up new ones that emanate from tbe minds of strenuous and hustling manufacturers. The extension fad well] under control, the Colonial buckle craze came up to assist the Louis heel notion. Hardly can the retailer get a few pairs of the goods he has on hand prominently placed in his show windows before new lines of colored goods are shown by the hustling salesman who comes from some manufacturer. The retailer listens to the long unfolded tale of the salesman and comes to the conclusion that his stock will not be complete without the addition of any other new style or kind he is shown. We now hear that many of the finer goods in women’s lines that will be offered next season have notips. Plain vamps make another break in the kinds to be offered, according to this report. There is every evidence that tans and colored goods will find re- newed favor the coming season, and that means worry for the wholesaler who is anxious to be up with the times. One of the largest retail houses in Cincinnati has just put in an extensive line of men's, women’sand children’s knit un- derwear and hosiery. Why is it that some enterprising wholesaler does not include knit under- wear and hosiery in the lines carried by them, so that they will get the lead be- fore shoe retailers have become accus- tomed to making such purchases from wholesale dry goods houses? When one can see that those retailers who have gone into this branch have made a suc- cess, and are satisfied, it is a foregone conclusion that others will follow, and if the wholesalers permit, or rather force, retailers to visit dry goods dis- tricts in order to get the goods they want, the first thing we know the shoe wholesalers will begin to complain that they are losing their grip on the retail trade in this direction. If so many other unsatisfactory methods had not heretofore been adopted by retailers there would not exist the fear that this last innovation would prove serious to the wholesaler. It is within their prov- ince to protect themselves and their business in every legitimate way they can, by adopting new and appropriate means. Let us look at the prominent depart- ment stores. They are even now active- ly engaged in combining, and under one great head those of many cities are to be asone. See the advantages they will then possess in purchasing power. Will they stop at that point? No, in- deed. The next we are liable to hear of them, as the culmination of brain work, will be that they may dare to en- ter into the ranks of the shoe wholesal- ers. Mark this prophecy. The shoe wholesaler who first carries a line of knit underwear, in order to supply the retailers, will have solved the problem of how to obtain renewed vigor. There is a demand, limited yet, of course, already created for such a house, and it will not be many moons before the ex- periment, if it may so be called, will be tried. It will not be necessary to carry a large stock at first, and in fact, samples only might do to show, with the assurance that large orders would be promptly filled. No one can foretell what the future wholesaler may do in crder to bold his trade, but it is certain to be on new lines to a great extent, and the change is very near. When retailers demand cer- tain new lines of goods and are willing to purchase them from the wholesalers they have been beretofore dealing with, and when those wholesalers understand that they are securing customers who can not obtain the new lines from man- ufacturers, it would seem as if there would be but very little delay in testing the idea. Mianufacturers are cutting into the ranks of the wholesaler by sell- ing direct to retailers, and it behooves the wholesaler to cut them off by a flank movement. And where is a better one than the above suggested?—-Boot and | Shoe Recorder, | | It. Certainly Will Be to your advantage to send for samples of our Over-gaiters, Jersey Canvas Leggins. ties are A 1 and prices right. Send for Catalogue and deal at headquarters. CHICAGO hoe tore upply COMPANY 154 Fifth av., Chicago and Quali- All parties interested in Automobiles | | are cordially invited to see our exhibit at the West Michigan State Fair Rapids. September 29 to October 4. Grand We are territorial agents for the Olds- mobile, Knox, Winton and White. Also have some good bargains in second-hand autos. Be sure to hunt us up in main building. Adams & Hart, 12 W. Bridge St, 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- T} a fast aj 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, Saginaw, Michigan A postal card to us will bring the line to you. Rush Your Orders in now for Hoop and OLp COLONY RUBBERS. You will scon need them and we can take good care of you now. Either mail them or drop us a card and we will have our salesman call you soon, We are the main push on the above goods for this part of the country. The L. A. Dudley Rubber Co. Battle Creek, Mich. on With us when you come to the Fair, week of Sept. 29th. at We show you how It is Send your customers around, too, they will be Make us your headquarters. Make yourself home. will be glad to see you., We will incidentally our famous HARD PAN SHOES ing. are made. interest- inter- ested, also. Don’t forget we are at 12, 14 and 16 Pearl street. Herold=-Bertsch Shoe Co. Makers of Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. Men’s Work Shoes Snedicor & Hathaway Line No. Bal. S. Standard Screw. 743. Calf. Bellow’s Tongue. % D. $1.75. Carried in sizes 6 to 12, Kangaroo Geo. H. Reeder & Co. Grand Rapids MICHIGAN TRADESM > 2 the making of. coats. When the task | system was started, the journeyman} tailor received $2.50 to $3 for making a ready-made coat on which he per- formed all the work, principally by hand. In the task shop the same coat would be produced by five persons at a cost of $1.50 to $2, and as much 4s pos- sible of the work was done on the sew- ing machine. Through the task system the division of labor was carried into the shops. The peculiar feature of this System are the ‘‘team’’ work and the Clothing _ Wonderful Growth of the Manufacture of Men’s Clothing. The manufacture of ready-made cloth- ing as an industry worth noting is of comparatively recent date. Tnere are no records available of the earliest days of the industry in this country; how- ever, the industry came into being dur- ing the second decade of the nineteenth century, and George Opdyke, once y rf J aad k c : > firs ° ry ° : mayor of New York, was one of the first eaek! ctee §86“Thes wok da Bone to ie to engage in it. About 1831 he com- ' a f lothi . | following manner: Each team consists > : cture othin | a, ce ~ ae ; = Naany a 'D | of three men, an operator, a baster and son street, New rk . Abou ae : : a " . oe h ; as nT . ' : a finisher. Outside the team there are, 5 wholesz anufacture o ai wind — a pt - ig a . for | 25 3 tule, a presser and a girl for sew- t - é . -aAady- a cio Ti. : sv — _ : | oe a ing on buttons and making buttonholes. New irk onasma : : 2 i - a . ee l Each member of the team has his par- ale, ‘rior to this time it was usua . “i . ! . 7? . ticular part of the coat to make, and or stores in the seaport cities to manu-}. : : . f 4 = P " —. ,|ina short time gains such an efficiency acture an Pec in stock onthis of]. |. . ese f r + : — “ in his work that the team is able to turn ) which sailors cou - L : BP “ng ae ’ = . " es oT ae increasing number of coats. s y robes. se gar- me a ~ - ee | deve i ; 84T-! When the system was first introduced a s msis pri 3ally oO 2€ SO-. M om a ee kK? aa y at ea task of overcoats would consist of about alled “‘slop-work, At first aimost all | , . scoange Te “i .n fifty coats per week, for the completion the clothing was manufactured to sup- . / jie a Tis fas ie Rani ads ie cae of which the operator would receive $18, ; race 1€ Oout an 1€ St. c i. - ply egal ee auton E . the baster $16, the finisher $11 and the Gradually the wholesale houses in New J al : ' : : s presser $12. The girl was paid by the York began to manufacture better : “nh , : | week and received about $4.50. The grades of ready-made clothing. The titi cil aii contractor would, as a rule, be a mem- uantities manufactured were smal! an : q : Ta ber of the team, until he started to run everything was made by hand. From ies ake es h th three or more teams in his shop, when is obscure beginning has grown the ind tas f . 8 he became the bushelman or overseer. enormous industry of to-day. i : : ; ie The contractor would obtain the goods The invention of the sewing machine | from the manufacturer and be respon- in 1850 gave a great Impetus to the€/ sibje for them, When times were hard manufacture of clothing. and labor plentiful, the manufacurer Ihe sewing machine made it possible| would tell the contractor that he could to manufacture clothing on a_ larger get the work done at a lower figure. The scale, but a stronger impetus to the contractor would be compelled to take wholesale production of ready-made] the work at a reduced figure or go with- clothing was given by the civil war, | out it. He would tell his employes of when the Government suddenly faced the necessity of providing cl thing for hundreds of thousands of men. Since that time the volume of this industry has steadily increased. The methods prevailing in the man- ufacture of men’s (including children’s) ONLY clothing have changed greatly during ? ' the last half century. Before 1850 it was $ 50 Net! mainly a household industry and there Money refunded if not were but few manufacturers who ran — days’ factories of their own. After the sew-| Permitted by ing machine came into general use the iene eres. making of ready-made clothing was] teed. principally carried on by the aa men tailors. During the seasons they Bs worked for the custom tailors, and be-| Write for catalogue. a tween seasons they could be found in — for sample lamp to- [1 the shops of the manufacturers. At uA that time each tailor a skilled _ workman, who made the entire gar- ment. The majority of these tailors were English, Scotch and American. Soon after 1850 the Irish came largely into the trade. Next the Germans en- tered into the manufacture of ready- made clothing, and by them was _intro- duced a division of labor in the making of the garments. The garments werc made in the home, the father doing the machine work, while the mother and children assisted in the basting, finish- ing and making the buttonholes. Prior to 1876 there was little change in the methods of manufacture, but fol- lowing the great influx of Russian Jews, which began about that time, the task system was introduced into the manufac- ture of men’s ready-made clothing. QUICK LIGHTING GASOLINE LAMPS. Under- lamps $6.00 ele journey- line of gravity The trade will be large this season; supply your customers with the “* Ann Arbor.” was The Superior Mfg. Co. 20 South Main St. \ Ann Arbor, Michigan veuddvelcvudvcudedvedadudvdddeduvevedvdutedudied We have a complete line of Blankets Robes Fur Coats Write us for prices before The introduction of the task system placing your order revolutionized the ready-made clothing industry. It was no longer necessary for the worker to be a skilled workman, and the journeyman tailor was driven out of this branch of tailoring trade. Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Mich. Wiel ial Wield v Www’ ww’ Wafa'w/v'a Weave winfw/w'v'e'y Waa vfs Wu’ Wu’ wy : This system has only been applied in SEEN SV USET VEY UV UYU UEP VV PP UY EEN SPUN SEV Y EVE YY ATIDAUD AUD AUDA UDA Dz DUDA DADA DAL ea, DF My Atby A DAUD ALD AAD D) ») Sau Sati 0ZSa 8a a bac baka be eabaeaeaee SALIDA LD ALD DEAD DAD AD » ot Ube A >) » WVYVUVYYVBVVUVVEWVVVIeNY WW wy wes ee | FE WF The wise wear WW Selle ee a Sie: NH} Woy WY VINEBERG’S PATENT wy aoe oe POCKET PANTS, Sid fs ») >} ~~ . Sata Sie the only pants in the world fitted sak awe Wwy with a safety pocket; nothing can WWW WW drop out and are proof against Ww WWI pickpockets. Manufactured by Wy WW Vineberg’s Patent ss WWW Pocket Pants Co. S5hzu : WWW Detroit, Mich. NYXYW} WI WS Pw ae Fie FF AYA DS AIDE by UF AF A AF AE AS NDF NF Ai Dy Alby PU Ree eae Sem Ee eA, AD Dy Alb) ADF RDF ADE AE AIDS Ai » 4 DY AD UEC UN UI CUTS, Oy UEC ER eee eee g Ellsworth & Thayer MILWAUKEE, WIS., U. Sole Manufacturers of the Great Western Patent Double Thumbed Gloves and Mittens UNION MADE We have everything in gloves. Catalogue on application’ We want an agency in each town. B. B. DOWNARD, General Salesman. ma ee i Z } “24 lin Chicago? Sure! | Glad to see you there; show you our up-to-date plant—how we're able to turn ‘‘Correct interesting and such correct It'll be well give you a good time. 7 In Detroit, Too At 131 Jefferson Ave., just a few steps from our old stand, we have a out Clothes.” salesroom where we are showing our complete line with all the novelties just as soon as the Chicago plant turns ; ‘em out. Drop in any old time. We've some extra good things right now in Men’s Winter Suits and Overcoats which we'll be glad to tell you about if you say so. Heavenrich Bros. 131 Jefferson Ave, Detroit Corner Van Buren and Franklin Streets, Chicago MICHIGAN TRADESMAN this state of things, and in order not to have their wages reduced, the work- ers would agree to increase the task; thus in time the task, which at first con- sisted of eight or nine coats per day, was gradually increased until it reached as high astwenty. In order to finish a task in a day it became necessary to work longer hours, but it soon became impossible to finish a day’s work even by working twenty hours, and it would frequently take more than thirty hours to finish a day’s task. As the workers always received the same price fora task, whether it consisted of eight or twenty coats, they did not consider that their wages had been reduced. Thus it will be seen that a more obnoxious ex- emplification of the so-called sweating system can not be conceived. Public attention was first called to the sweating system in the winter of 1847- 1848, when, during a period of acute distress among the workingmen of Eng- land, the Morning Chronicle of London, sent a commission to investigate the condition of the industrial classes. The origin of this system was prob- ably the giving out of work by the man- ufacturer to the journeyman tailor, who did the work at his home. Although the ‘‘sweating system’’ has been debated for years, it is hard to find a satisfac- tory definition of the term. It may be said to be a system where the wholesale firm, which is styled manufacturers, lets the work to contractors who undertake to do it in their own houses or small workshops, or who, in turn, sublet it to other contractors or parcel it out to in- dividuals. Each of these contractors employs workers to do the work, making a profit for himself by the difference be- tween the contract price and the wages . he pays to his employes.—Appare] Gazette. ee Pointedly Put. Advertising is the elevator which has lifted many a man from obscurity and poverty to fame and fortune. New ideas and new methods are in- dispensable to the continued success of any business. There are no exceptions to this rule. Any chump can make enemies in business; but he isa clever man who can make friends—and keep them. Keep your outgo below your income. The man who cultivates a terrapin ap- petite on a cheese sandwich revenue Is sure, sooner or later, to come to grief. Business is a tall ladder in which the upper rounds are very far apart. For that reason there will always be plenty of room at the top and a struggling, pusbing crowd near the bottom. ee Opportunity never waits; if you are not on hand some one else gets the chance, A Coincidence of the Shoe Trade. From the Nashville Banner. A coincidence occurred here last Sat- urday so out of the ordinary that it is worthy of notice. Jim Rankin, who is a one-legged negro, went to the store of Overall & Naylor forthe purpose of buy- ing a pair of shoes, and although pos- sessed of only one pedal extremity, the right foot, he was compelled to buy a pair, as that firm was not selling odd shoes. Fortunately for him, but unfor- tunately for the firm, while he was se- lecting the shoe another negro, Pete Sanford, who had suffered the misfor- tune of losing his right leg, happened to enter the store for the same purpose that bad Jim, When he requested to be shown a pair of shoes he was referred by the busy proprietor to the clerk who was waiting on the first mentioned customer. On approaching the clerk, it was found that both customers were minus a foot, and consequently neither of them really needed a pair of shoes, and readily seeing the advantage of the situation, they pooled their interests and pur- chased one pair between them, each pay- ing the sum of 65 cents. Neither of the negroes knew the other and they wore the same number shoe. a a oe Printers’ Errors. Printers are generally charged with typographical errors by wrathy writers who frequently fail to remember that distinct writing is essential to perfect reproduction of words. It is a wonder that the printer is generally so good a guesser of obscure words. A_ composi- tor who was better acquainted with the geography of the West than with bibli- cal lore recently set up the _ phrase ‘‘From Alpha to Omega’’ as ‘‘ From Alton to Omaha,’’ and vossibly found himself obliged to start for those places next morning, A reporter once wrote: ‘‘At these words the entire audience rose and rent the air with shouts,’’ but it appeared as ‘‘rent the air with snouts,’’ for the compositor, although setting it up a did not notice that the top of the ‘*h’’ was broken off. ee An Apt Answer. His Medical Adviser—You won't last long at this rate, young man. You are burning the candle at both ends. Gayboy—Very well, doctor. When the’ candle is burnt out 1711 light the gas. MIRRORS Of all kinds. I manufacture Mirror Novelties—all styles and prices, for a variety of uses. Old mirrors resilvered. Get prices on my novelties for your Holiday trade. Call Fair time and inspect my new line of goods. H. W. BOOZER 70 N. Front St., Grand Rapids L, When you visit the Fair Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1, 2, 3, 4 Please call at our office, No. 28 and 30 South Tonia Street, Wm. Alden Smith block, near Union depot. Our Mr. Weber will be only too pleased to entertain you, and if in need of any Men’s Furnishing Goods will surely do all he can to please you. Best Goopvs at LOWEST PRICES. Citizens Phone 1957 Bell Phone 1282 The Peerless Manufacturing Co. Let the Goods Do the Talking The dealer who buys where he gets the most for his money is not worried by competition for his customers buy in the same manner. Our lines speak tor themselves. We pay our customers’ expenses. William Connor Co. Wholesale Clothing 28 and 30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan You cannot get good coffee at ten cents and there would be in it if you could; but B. BB. is an elegant coffee, enough for any one, and retails at 20 cents. OLNEY & JUDSON GROCER CO., Grand Rapids ALL THE RAGE::-THE DUTCH SKATE Say! Mr. Dealer, have you ever heard of the Dutch Skate? If not, step into our place when you come to the fair and will be glad to show you what they are If too busy write for illustrated booklet and price list. J. VANDER STEL, no money } good we 33 Kent St., Grand Rapid, Men’s Suits and Overcoats $3-75 to lines are extra swell = MANUFACTURED E BY _WILE BROS & WEILL — DETROIT: “OFFICE Is a sure thing for all the time It has a record—six seasons of phe- nomenal success—the greatest selling and money making line of clothing in the American market. You don’t have to worry about be ing “caught with the goods” have Pan-American Clothing. Salesman or samples—which will = we send? +——____.— when you Guaranteed = =19 ‘KAUTER BLOGs ROCA weclasee 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN NOT SO SLOW. How the Wayback Merchant Collected His Bill. Written for the Tradesman. ‘*Hello! Uncle Danny, how are you, and how’s everything over at Way- back?’’ sung out Billy Simms the last time the veteran storekeeper happened in town. Billy wants to have the old man put his nag in the Simms stable and has assiduously cultivated his ac- qguaintance for a long time with that end in view. But Uncle Danny is apt to bring along his own hay and oats and tie his steed in a free shed while he at- tends to such matters as he happens to have on his memorandum book. ‘‘Oh, things is good over our way,’’ replied Mr. Briggs, lifting a four-gallon crock of butter out of his buckboard as he spoke. ‘‘Things is most allers good to Wayback. What d’ye wanter know fer? Goin’ to put in a livery stable over 2399 there or suthin’? ‘*Naw,’’ said Billy, ‘‘was jest won- derin’ how you was prospering and how times is with ye. Hain’t nothing be’n going wrong in a business way, has fee?” ‘No, the’ hain’t been nothing going wrong in the way of business—that is, nothing going wrong withme. Course I can't answer fer the neighbors. Now there’s that skunk of a Si Green, what p'etends to run a grocery store there; he seems to be down to the heel quite a bit. Folks say he’s trying to sell out his stock the dumbdest way, but course 1 don’t know nothing about that. 1 jest attend to my own affairs and let other folks alone, so | couldn'tsay. But 1 do know one thing; and that is that if Green's stock is fer sale, the’ wouldn't no man in his right mind pay more than fifty er sixty dollars fer it, and he'd git beat at that.’’ ‘“Guess you was too much fer him,’’ suggested Billy, in the meantime help- ing Mr. Briggs into the store with a crate of eggs. ‘*Wall,the’ might be suthing in that,’’ agreed Uncle Danny with a broad grin. ‘‘The’ might be, and then ag’in the’ mightn’t. I look out fer Briggs and if the rest of "em don’t look out fer their- selves, why it hain’t my fault. Si Green may be piling up money hand over fist fer all I know, but if he be, what does he want to go and slap a mortgage onto his stock of goods fer? That's what I want to know! What did he do that here Billy shook his head. ing easy,’’ said he. ‘‘An’ if he’s gettin’ rich so dummed fast, what does he wanter let his stock of goods run down to little or nothing fer? Hay?"’ ‘‘He done that, did he?’’ enquired Billy in a solicitous tone. ‘‘Well, by gum!’’ ‘‘That’s what ‘Ast me suth- he done,’*’ continued Uncle Danny. ‘‘Leastwise, that’s what every one says. Of course, I don't p’etend to know personally, cus I hain’t interested, but if he’s the secont Jobn Jacob Vanderbilt he puts hisself up fer, I want to see where the dickens it all comes in. It don’t make no difference to me one way ner t’other—not a cent; but I'd like to know, jess fer amuse- ment sake.’’ ‘*They don't git much the start of you, | don’t reckon, nohow they fix it,’’ was Billy’s next comment. ‘That's what they don’t. Not with- out they crawl out extry airly in the morning,and | gin’ly come up with ‘em afore night anyhow. When I was young and green in the business they used to come roots on to me once inawhile, but I hain’t ketched in the same trap more nor once, and don’t ye fergit it.’’ ‘Some of the fellers git the start of ye in the store business?’’ queried Billy, who was always a sympathetic listener as long as he thought he could see any livery business at the end of the story. ‘‘Wall,in a kind of way, yes. Ye see, it was quite a few years ago. I hadn’t only jest started up my store, and I reckon I was about as green as they ever git up here in Northern Michigan. Hadn’t cut my eye teeth ner shed my pin feathers ner had no eddication in the ways of folks to any amount, | didn’t average to take in ten dollars a week them times, and the’s days now when my sales includin’ butter an’ eggs come to most that much, so you kin see what I was then and what I be now,and draw yer own references. ‘‘I was setting in the front door one day wondering how was times in Chi- cago and Cadillac and Muskegon, an’ how soon my place was going to be put on the maps in red print, instid of be- ing represented by a little black fly speck marked ‘P. O.’ It was a most dretile hot day and so still 1 could hear the corn leaves rubbing together with every little breath of air, and the pitater bugs craunching the vines on my field of peachblows. I sot there, thinking about things in gineral, and not caring ner wishing to do a blamed thing. ‘*Wall, sir, while I sot there a cogi- tating, along comesa feller on foot, and the first thing he says when he got nigh enough was: * ‘Say, gimme a chaw terbacker.’ ‘‘ Thinks, says I, ‘that’s pretty blamed suddent fer a short acquaintance,’ but how somever! give him a chaw, and then he told me he he'd be’n having the teethache fer quite a spell and that ter- backer was about the only thing would stop it, and he was clean out of chew- ing. ‘*He was a fine sociable sort of a chap when he got to talking and 1 was glad he come along, fer he had a big job of taking out sawlogs a piece from my store, he said, and he had to git some supplies fer his camp, and _ having heerd about me and my business, he reckoned he’d come over and git stocked up. ‘*Wall, he ordered a sack of flour and some pork and a pound of chewing and the same of smoking, and I want to tell ye that terbacker was terbacker in them days, too. Then he said he ‘lowed that if there was a teeth doctor anywheres around he'd git his molar yanked, cus it was a bothering of him night and day, and he was afeerd chawing so much strong terbacker was going to be bad fer his nerve, “‘So I ups an’ tells him of ole Hi Turner what lived j’inin’ farms with me, and had one of them air turnkey dinguses what'll pull anything from a sawtooth to an ellum root, and he ‘lowed he’d leave his stuff on the counter and interview Hi, ‘‘Some of the neighbors commenced coming in fer things so't I got pretty busy and kep’ so fer an hour or more ; but after the crowd was cleaned out | commenced to wonder where was my feller with the humping tooth. I locked up the road quite a few times, and finally seeing nothing of him, I takes a hike over to Hi’s to ast how his patient was comin’ along. ‘* “Hain't be’n no sech a chap here,’ says Hi, kinder su'prised like, ‘“ “Honest?” says 1, ‘* “Honest injun,’ says Hi. ‘* ‘Feller with a blue Mackinaw wam- | mus and a red chuke,’ I ses, ‘hain’t ye | see nothing of him at all?’ ‘* ‘Gosh, yes,’ says Hi, ‘come to} think on't, he hoofed it by here good | and lively ’bout two hour ago. Why?’ | he asks, ‘didn’t owe ye nothing, did | he?’ ‘ ‘No,’ says I, ‘he didn’t owe noth- ing,’ but jest then suthing come into my head, and | flew back to the store to see and, sure as shooting, that feller had lit out with them two pounds of ter- backer. T-w-o pounds, mind ye—one of smoking and one of chawing—and terbacker was terbacker them times, too. Wall, sir, I felt pretty blue about keeping on with the store after that. It was a bad blow fer me, and | felt it fer a good spell, too, but things com- menced coming my way ag’inaftera while, and | don’t know but what it was all the better fer me in the end, fer ex- perience, although a dear school, learns (a feller better’n all the books ye kin buy. So I got my experience then, and after a while | got my money back, too, ’’ ‘‘Good enough!’’ exclaimed Billy. ‘‘Streak of repentance or suthing like that hit the feller and he come and paid up. eh?’’ ‘‘Wall, he settled all right—paid up interest and all.’’ ‘*That’s what | call an honest man,’’ asserted Mr. Simms. ‘‘Most any of us is lierble to git hard up and all that, and can’t pay jest on the spot, but when a man settles as soon as he gits the coin, and comes up like a man, he’s anuff sight better Christian ’n lots of folks. Don’t you think so, too?’’ ‘Wall, that’s a leetle according to circumstances,’’ said Uncle Danny, somewhat deliberately. ‘‘ Making some Buckeye Paint PAINT, COLOR AND & Varnish Co. 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. We have the largest stock of Shot Guns, Rifles and Am- munition in this State. This time of year is the retailer’s harvest on sportsmen’s goods. Send us your order or drop us a postal and we will have a traveler call and show you. Foster, Stevens & Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. 2 THE ALLEN LIGHT, MFL. BY M.B.ALLEN GAS LIGHT CO, BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Allen Gas Light Company, Battle Creek, Mich. Gentlemen—I have used your Little Giant Gas machine for about two months. have used two other makes of gas machines with not very good results. chine that it gives a better light, with less breakage and trouble, seen. As you know, I light two stores, fifteen lights, every three nights. that you may have good success, I remain, Bellevue, Mich., Sept. 2, 1902. Truly yours, B. D. VAUGHAN. Prior to this I I can say for your ma- than any machine I have ever and it takes about four gallons of gasoline I think that I have the best lighted store in the State of Michigan. Trusting MICHIGAN TRADESMAN pond, wy fellers pay is suthing like learning a calf to drink out ofa pail. Ye got to run yer fingers into their mouth and mighty nigh choke ’em to death a doin’ of it. ‘‘The way this feller come to settle with me was like this: I was down to Grand Rapids. Called there to set on United States jury, and, going up Mon- roe street, who should I see but my same old gent. He was togged up quite a bit. Had ona new suit of clo’es that must of cost the price of three crocks of butter, and he had on a _ hard boiled shirt and acollar blamed nigh six inches high. ‘Hay there!’ I hollers, but if he heerd me he never let on, and I took arter him good and lively till I fin'ly ketched up with him clost enough to make him hear and look around. ‘ ‘Say,’ I says, ‘you’re pretty good on foot, but J think | kin keep in sight of ye fer a spell,’ says 1. ‘Where ye bound fer, anyway? Hain’t lookin’ fer a chanct to git that air tooth of yourn yanked out yit, be ye?’ ‘ ‘Kinder guess ye got the advantage of me, mister,’ says he, reel innercent like. "Right fer once,’ says ft.) i) I hain’t got the advantage of ye this time it's my own fault. I’ve gota little ac- count against ye fer chewing and smok- ing ye skun me out of July the seven- teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- five at three o’clock, p. m. And that last'll stand fer post mortum in about thirty seconts if ye don’t ante up,’ I says. ‘‘The lock of innocence and injury that come over that feller’s face was a wonder. ‘I'm sorry that any one would beat ye outen any money,’ he says, ‘and if any one has ye sure ort to get it, but I know nothing of the matter, and never seen ye before in my life. 1 hate to leave ye,’ he says, ‘but 1 have an en- gagement and will have to go and meet it. Good-by,’ says he, and started to go on. ‘*Don't be in a sweat,’ says I. got an engagement, too, but mine forty-five caliber one, and the’s six chambers to it. Now, you better settle up this matter right now, fer it may be quite a spell afore we git together like this ag’in. Pay me like a man for the terbacker and the trouble I’ve be’n to and the intrust and you kin go on and keep all the dates ye like. 1 know ye jest as well as if ye still bad on that ole blue Mackinaw wammus and the same red chuke ye wore when ye was going to git yer teeth yanked up to Hi Turn- er’s place nigh my store. Will ye settle peaceable or will I have to take ye toa dentist and have the job finished ?’ ‘The feller stood there looking down at the sidewalk, with his face as black as a pole cat's tail, and he kep’ a dig- ging up little chunks of clay with the toe of his shoe. He knowed | had him. ‘Come,’ I says, ‘fer I’m in a kind of a hurry, myself.’ ‘Il hain't got a red cent,’ says he. ‘I’ll bave to send it to ye in a letter. That's what I'll do,’ he says, brighten- ing up. ‘I'll send it to ye the very first money | git.’ ‘Ye might fergit,’ says I. ‘No, I dassent wait fer no letter. Dig up or elst go with me to the teeth doctor.’ ‘« ‘Ve want me to go to a dentist?’ he asks. ‘Either that or pay up.’ ‘ ‘What d’ye want me to the dentist fer?’ ‘‘Why, to git that tooth yanked,’ I says. ‘Ye know yer teeth is awful bad, ‘I’ve is a so while we're there, I low to have the rest of ‘em out, too. Them fellers’ll take out a mouthful cheaper’n they will jest one and I know it. I don’t mind furnishing my friends with a little free terbacker, but I can’t let 'em suffer with the teethache when I'm around, and | won't, nuther.’ ‘Ye dassent use no gun here,’ he says, ‘the police’d run ye in.’ ‘‘Jest then suthing hard under my coat shoved up ag’in the left side of his vest, Kin ye feelite’ bP asks, "If ye kin, I’d advise ye to keepstill. There’s one of them air polices over acrost the street now, but I don’t calklite you want no truck with him. 1 reckon’ you wouldn't reely feel safe to have him ast where ye was last night, even, fer, un- less ye’ve improved on yer ways late years, ye haint’ no better’n ye ort to be. Now, come on,’ ‘*So we walked along the street a few steps, and every little bit I’d dig him in the ribs with suthing hard under my coat, and all to oncet he stops and says, *How’ll ye settle?’ ' OO, L dine,’ I says. Guess we bet ter go on to the teeth doctor. Ye hain’t got no money anyhow.’ ‘* “Mebbe I got a friend,’ he says. 'Doubttul," says 1. Come on.’ ‘He was coming to a side street and I see him looking slantways toward it, so 1 says: ‘Don’t try none o’ yer tricks. I've lived in the North woods so blamed long now that I’m jest as wild asa deer. I don’t know nothing about city ways, and I hain't liable to respect ‘em. I've had to hunt quite a bit fer my keep, and I kin knock the eye out of a patridge ten rod off with this here ole forty-five, and fer me to hit a feller about your size with it would be like emptying pitaters into a cellar bin, | couldn't miss if I was to try.’ ‘ ‘I'll gin ye two dollars to be red of ye,’ says he. ‘ *O, I bet ye would,’ ‘Wall, call it five, kind of a hurry.’ ‘I’ve be’n thinkin’ it over some,’ I says, ‘an’ I set the figger at ten. Ten is a good round sum, it’s even money, and I think it'll be a bargain fer both on us.’ Wall, sir, that scamp pulled out a ten dollar bill so quick that I was I says. then, 1m ina clean su’prised. ‘Here ye air,’ he says. ‘Now, I s’pose I kin go.’ ‘ ‘Jest a minute,’ 1 says. ‘Le’s goin here and get this changed. bogus,’ 1 says. ‘*So we broke the bill and it was all It might be right, and the feller starts off down the street without so much as saying, ‘good-bye.’ ‘Hay there!’ I hollers after him. ‘Don't ye want to have that air tooth pulled? It'll be on me if ye do.’ ‘Go to blazes!’ says he, only he didn't say it half as perlite as that, I assure ye. ‘*O, L used to be suthing of a gazaboo when I was younger, but nowadays they don’ t git the start of me as much as they did.’ ‘Lucky thing ye had yer gun along, Uncle,’’ observed Billy. ‘‘Couldn’t ’a’ done nothin’ with him without that.”’ Uncle Danny burst into a wild laugh. ‘*T most forgot that part of it,’’ said he, when his mirth had subsided. ‘‘I didn’t have no gun at all.’’ ‘Why, I thought you said you held him up witha forty-five revolver,’’ said Billy in a tone that betrayed his disap- pointment, ‘*Guess I did kinder let on suthing like that,’’ admitted the seer, with an- other chuckle. ‘‘ Fact was, | had forgot my:gun. Left it to home, ye see, so | jest punched Mr. Gent in the ribs with my knuckles, and that done every bit as well.’’ Geo. L. Thurston. $? HeHHHHHHHHHAL, Open Deliver and Express Wagon $ An Offer Extraordinary ~ enn Description Wheels, 1% Axle, Body, 7 2 feet, 6 inches wide. High or low front ee A strong and serviceable wagon to carry 1,000 pounds. Shafts only are furnished. Pole will be furnished instead of shafts for $6.00 addi- tional. Wing boards $3.50 extra. Pur- chaser’s name, business and street lettered on sides without extra cost. state width of track desired, also whether high or low front wheels wanted. inch tread. inch. feet long, 1% bbb thier Be sure and Given Free to Merchants With 200 pounds of our Extra Ground Spices in Bulk, assorted to suit, at 35c per pound, for - $70.00 Spices delivered. Wagon F. O. B. factory. Woolson Spice Co. Toledo, Ohio do de te de de de de do bo de de do do? Soe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods Weekly Market Review of the Principal Staples. Staple Cottons—Despite the fact that the buying of brown sheetings and drills of all kinds has been confined almost entirely to present requirements, prices are firm on al! sides. Cotton ducks and brown osnaburgs are quiet but firm. There is a quiet demand for wide sheet- ings, the market being uniformly firm; the same may be said of coarse colored cotton, cotton flannels and blankets. Prints and Ginghams—Very fair dup- licate orders for staple and fancy lines of printed calicoes are reported, indi- cating a good business at second hands; prices are strongly maintained. Per- cales have not attracted very much busi- ness, but show no weakness, A fair de- mand has been noted for fine printed goods at full prices. Ginghams are in a strongly sold position, buyers finding no little difficulty in providing for their early necessities; naturally under the circumstances prices are very strong. This applies to staple and dress ging- hams particularly, although fine woven pattern goods are also strong. Leading lines of printed flannelettes are well sold and firm. Linings—The week’s business record in cotton linings has been favorable. . A good deal of the business has called for quick delivery, but there has also been a fair demand for forward delivery. A satisfactory business has been recorded in kid-finished fabrics and staple per- calines have also fared well. Medium and low grade silesias have moved fair- ly well. An average demand is re- corded for mercerized effects and also for silk and silk warp linings. Italians, Alberts, twills, alpacas and mohair serges have likewise soid in a very fair way. Underwear--Some very fair business has come into jobbers’ bands during the week on fall goods. The demand has been of a fairly general character and prices have asa rule held firm. Lines of a desirable character are in an inde- pendently sold position and in some cases buyers have failed to get down duplicate orders. The duplicate order movement can hardly be said to have set in in earnest, and it is not likely to until colder weather starts things active- y in the fall retail market. The fall business has so far been pleasing to the leading wholesale factors, inasmuch as orders were placed promptly and in a substantial way. The retailer is in a good position, having cleaned out bis lightweights in a satisfactory way ; his heavyweights have apparently been well selected and with a good, cool fall there is every reason to expect a fall business of better than average propor- tions. Hosiery—The movement of spring lines of hosiery has shown something of an improvement during the week. Staple lines continue to move well and a good movement of fancies and lace open work, embroidered effects, etc., has been secured. Indications appear to be working strongly in favor of goods of these classes. Elaborate clocking effects take in embroidered goods, Black and white effects have a strong hold in the fall market. In women’s hose for fall the weight of favor has reached to black and white effects and creamy white effects, sometimes embel- lished with pretty silk embroidery. Woolen Dress Goods—Considerable business is understood to have been done in certain quarters in spring dress goods, but the season can hardly be said to be actively under way on all sides. Importers’ selections approach a com- plete status and domestic lines are in a growing state of preparedness. The buyer, with certain exceptions, is not prepared to operate in a decided way as regards his general requirements. The Western jobber is the most prom- inent factor in the current buying of spring goods and his takings run strong- ly to plain and staple effects. There is no question that the weight of the busi- ness so far secured has been attracted to plain and staple goods. Leading factors in that division of the market have al- ready accumulated a substantial volume of business, some lines being credited with having reached a position where the future is actually assured. There are a number of lines of spring goods which are hardly a factor in the market as yet, sellers claiming that buyers are not yet ready to take hold of them. It will be some little time before the in- itial dress goods season will reach its most active and interesting point. Carpets—The carpet season is too far advanced for manufacturers to take on any large obligations in the way of busi- ness and they are looking more to the cleaning up of the orders on their books than anything else. The large Eastern mills, as a general thing, are not ina position to take another order until the opening of the new season in Novem- ber. Some of the smaller weavers, how- ever, have been benefited by quite a large duplicate business of late, but even the taking of this business has been limited to only a few. Weavers are not in the market just now even at better rates than those of previous orders. They are consulting with their design- ers the practicability of this design and that, and together with the finishing up of the old business, their time is prettty much occupied. A summary of the prospectus of the next season at the present time points to a big demand with values considerably higher. Ac- cording to the jobbers there will be a — A Postal Card Will get you prices on the best store stools made. BRYAN PLOW Cco., Bryan, Ohio Manufacturers Ce ne i Rugs from Old Carpets f Retailer of Fine Rugs and Carpets. j Absolute cleanliness is our hobby as well ‘ as our endeavor to make rugs better, closer woven, more durable than others. We cater to first class trade and if you write for our 16 page illustrated booklet it will make you better acquainted with j our methods and new process. We have f no agents. We pay the freight. Largest looms in United States. { Petoskey Rug Mfg. & Carpet Co., Limited 455-457 Mitchell St., Petoskey, Mich. SO Ss eS es Floor Oil Cloths Buy your floor oil cloths from us and buy them right. We have one at 18 cents a square yard; better qualities at 20, 22%, 25 and 30 cents. Also a tasty assortment of oil cloth rugs in 6x6 and SxS squares. Linoleums we carry in three qualities and ‘floor mattings at 10, 12%, 15, 27% and 30 cents a yard. P. Steketee § Sons, Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. The New Fad With the girls is to braid Belts, Neckties, etc., of colored shoe laces. We have the shoe laces in different colors, put up in half gross bunches at $1.50 per gross. Or- der some by mail or from our salesman. Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan Exclusively Wholesale All Kinds All Kinds o PAPER BOXES ot 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 Cash Reaister Paper Ofallkinds. Quality best. Prices guaranteed. Send for price list. If in need of a Cash Register address Standard Cash Register Co., W abash, Ind. eA ala MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 great deal of business that can not be put through in time for this season and which must necessarily be held over un- til after November. This, together with the usual demand, almost insures a very good business. With the reports of the final distributors receiving an exceed- ingly active demand thus far this season there is reason for believing that the balance of the season will be just as ac- tive, and that when it comes time for the retailers to come into the market again, their supplies will be so limited that heavy orders will be necessary. The selling end of the market to-day has better prospects than has the manufac- turing end. Only within the last ten days Philadelphia ingrain weavers are said to have paid for 14s worsted yarns as high as 48c. A small famine in near- ly all the worsted yarns for carpets has been felt for some time and prices have advanced so rapidly that a difference of ioc is shown on some grades between to-day’s prices and those in vogue at the beginning of the season. Worsted spinners have all they can do for the next month or more, and much lower prices, it is believed, are not in store for the future. Good, desirable wools are stronger with a tendency to advance The markets abroad are ad- in price. vancing and foreign weavers are heavy buyers. Importations, however, are pretty heavy, but, nevertheless, there is not much of the filling and combing stock that lies in bond any length of time. With the yarn and wool market in such a position to-day it would be natural for carpets to bring higher values. Manufacturers look for consid- erably higher prices, but time only will -tell whether their anticipations will be realized, Rugs—As one large manufacturer puts it, who, by the way, makes cCar- pets, ‘‘Anything in rugs sells well to- day.’’ Rugs of all kinds are in demand and rug weavers are sold up for the re- mainder of the seasan. The large car- pet-sized Wiltons, Brussels and Ax- minster rugs, 9x12 feet, are the features of the market. It seems that they can not be turned out fast enough. They retail at $35 and upwards, and there are a great many high-priced ones that are being sold. Smyrnas in the smaller sizes are in big request and the small jute rugs sell very readily. Art Squares—Are in good request and makers are very busy. Small Wilton rugs are good sellers. Good bright col- ors are what ca‘ch the public’s eye nowadays, and rugs having plenty of greens, reds and old gold in them are easily sold. —__s o> She Knew She Was Honest. At the hosiery counter of a large store a fine looking elderly woman was seated, her benign yet authoritative countenance bent intently over box after box of children’s stockings, Anything more obvious than the fact that she was a proud grandmother, making purchases which she could take back in the good old Saratoga trunk to some town re- moved from New York by the Jength of the Empire State, it would have been hard to find. As one looked at the cin- namon-colored silk dress, ivory-handled sunshade, a bonnet trimmed with pansies, one could fairly see the square brick house, set in the geometrical cen- ter of a square lawn, enclosed by a neat, iron fence; one could almost recognize her husband in a linen coat, watering the garden beds of foliage plants laid out before the piazza. As she sorted the little stockings—white openwork and black openwork and plain tan and red with clocks—one could watch the neigh- bors running to her house when the question arose of supplying the ‘‘sup- ply’’ with bed and board over Sunday; to ask advice in case of illness; or to request that, at the next meeting of their club, she would read a paper on ‘*My Visit to the City.’’ She went on with judicial deliberation, laying over her left arm the little hose which she kept for further consideration. Finally her dozen was made out. She paid for them, took her parcel, laid her black cloth jacket over her left arm and arose, The clerk threw a quick glance at the floorwalker, who strolled in her direc tion. ‘‘Excuse me, madam,’’ said the clerk, ‘‘but I think you have a few pairs of stockings put over your left arm_ un- der your jacket.’’ "On, go,'' she replied calmly. "'! think not. I’m sure | laid them all down on the counter.’’ She turned to go. ‘‘Won’t you please look?’’ asked the clerk, while the floorwalker waited at the purchaser’s elbow. ‘*Certainly,’’ she agreed suavely, and laid down upon the counter her plush bag, gloves, purse, parasol and parcel, in order to lift the coat. There hung three pairs of stockings. ‘‘Why!’’ she exclaimed, bursting into a delightful laugk, ‘‘did you ever! Well, I am glad you told me. Fancy my going out on the street with these stockings hung over my arm. Dear me, I guess I would never have heard the last of it. Now, wasn’t it fortunate that you noticed them?’’ **Yes,’’ said the clerk. Still beaming, she picked up her rightful possessions, But as she went up the aisle she turned back again to repeat her thanks to the clerk. For there is a sturdiness in provincial self- respect which had served not only to block the entrance to the preposterous idea that she had been suspected of be- ing a sneak-thief, but had prevented her from the slightest embarrassment over her absent-mindedness. She knew herself so thoroughly fur what she was that any ignorance on the world’s part was nothing short of incredible.—New York Sun. Short-sighted people close observers, are generally 38 HIGHEST AWARDS. in Europe and America. Walter Baker & Co.'s PURE, HIGH GRADE AND—:" Their preparations are put up in conformity to the Pure- Food Laws of all the States. Grocers will find them‘in the TRADE-MARK handle, as they are absolutely pure and of uniform quality. In writing your order specify Walter Baker & Co.’s goods. If OTHER goodsare substituted, please let us know. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. DORCHESTER, MASS. Established 1780 Warm Shoes We have a very large and complete line of Warm Shoes, Men’s, and Children’s. Write for samples or have salesman call. New, snappy, up-to-date, Women’s, Misses’ at popular prices. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. Specialty House Grand Rapids, Mich. THE BEST. CadlAC} asitorit MADE BY THE NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO CO. ndepondant AGAINST THE TRUST. See Quotations in Price Current. Sent on 5 Days’ Trial! A Modern Wonder Included in the list of approved lamps of the Examining Engineers of the National Board of Fire Underwriters; can therefore be used in any insured building without Fine Cut and Plug additional cost of insurance. long run the most profitable to | A FLOOD & The finest artificial light in the world. Hang or stand them anywhere. One lamp lights ordinary store. Two ample for room 25x100 feet. No smoke, no odor. Absolutely non-explosive Ask for catalogue. Very simple to operate. Burns ordinary gasoline. 800 candle power light at cost of 5 cents for 10 hours. Brass Manufacturing and Supply Co. 197 East Randolph St., Chicago 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Man at the Bottom of Woman’s Sorrows. A woman's club in the West, which has been trying to solve the eternai problem of human woe, has decided that, so far as woman is concerned, the fountain head of trouble is Man. In proof of this contention, they cite the fact that widows are proverbially fat and jolly and that old maids, as soon as they cease to struggle against fate and abandon themselves to celibacy, wear an expression of peaceful calm that no married woman ever exhibits. This sounds very much as if Eve had borrowed Adam's Garden of Eden argu- ment and was laying the blame of trouble on somebody else, but, never- theless, there is a grain of truth in the accusation. Man is at the bottom of most of woman's sorrows, and the foun- dation of all of her joys. But for him we would seldom have cause to weep, and yet we are never so happy as_ when he is kissing away the tears he has made us shed. Life without him would be a stormless voyage over a placid sea, but it would be so dull we should be bored to death before we reached the end of it. Let us, however, examine into some of the burdens which man lays upon the shoulders of his sister—woman. In the first place, there is the difficulty of catching a husband, and just what a trouble this is,and what a chase it leads one, only those who have had experi- ence can fully appreciate. Itis the po- lite convention to speak of husbands as if they flocked to a woman on wings and were what our sporting friends call ‘‘easy money.’’ We assume that there are long lines of gallants kneeling at every maiden’'s feet, with hand on heart, beseeching her to pick and choose among them. Never was there a more baseless fab- rication. The woman who gets married in these days has to get out and hustle for a husband. Like the politician who ‘*yields to the wishes of bis friends’’ in accepting an office, she veils her chase under glittering subterfuges, but it is a nerve-wearing and an exasperating cam- paign all the same. Some women are born with a mar- riage certificate in their hands, so to speak, and get married in their first season, Other women waste their entire lives in a vain pursuit of a husband. The majority of the female sex, how- ever, devote from two to ten years to the business of husband-hunting. And what they go through in that time—the weariness, the anxiety, the boerdom— is enough to draw tears of compassion from a heart of stone. The fool custom that prevents woman from taking an active part in the selec- tion of her mate makes her a martyr. All that she can do is to keep herself on exhibition and make herself agree- able to every chump in the hopes that the right man in the procession will happen along after awhile. She must dance with callow kids and smile on senile old beaux who pay her the same compliments they used to pay her mother, and listen with an expression of rapt enjoyment to the endless maunder- ings of the man who knows it all and tells it with his tiresome mouth, Oh, miserere, misericordia! Ob, my sisters, we have all suffered! We have ali been there! And there is no escape. For a woman to get the reputation of being hard to please is fatal, for ber to withdraw even for a moment from society is to leave hope behind, to refuse to be bored is to shut the door on opportunity. If one wishes to win the race, one must keep in the running. Then after one acquires a husband comes the trouble of keeping him. This is a distinctly feminine difficulty. No man ever worries his head about keeping his wife in love with him, but women get crow’s feet and gray hairs agonizing over the question of how to keep their husbands fascinated. This is the reason that married women generally look much older than their single sisters of the same age. The girl bachelor may have her own anxiety and tribulation over the bread and _ but- ter supply, but she does not have to wait until midnight to deliver a lecture to a man who has forgotten that he promised to be home early. Nor does she have to agonize over the prospect of losing a love that is not strong enough to stand a 32-inch waist measure. It is a pathetic and a signifi- cant fact that all the physical culture and banting classes I ever saw were composed exclusively of married women. The old maids, having no one but themselves to please in appearance, took fat or scrawniness as heaven sent it, with an even mind, and made no efforts to conform to anybody's stand- ard of pulchritude. Another of our misfortunes that we may fairly lay at our brother’s door is the awful burden of dress. Of course, women deny that they dress to please men. That is all right. Everyone hasa right to her trade secrets, but if women do not dress to please men, if they do not paint because men admire roses on a woman's cheeks, if they do not lace be- cause men are hopelessly and irretriev- ably committed to the hour glass figure, if they do not pinch their feet and wear high heels because for six thousand years men have sung and glorified little feet, will somebody kindly arise and ex- plain the phenomenon why the minute women are alone, and safe from mas- culine eyes, they get out of their stays with a gasp of relief and into kimonos and tlip-flop slippers? 1 maintain that it is because of man, and man alone, that woman is the vic- tim of fashions that ‘‘crib, cabin and confine.’’ Who invented the uncom- promising skin-tight tailor-made? A man—Redfern. Who devised swathing, eel-like draperies that demands a figure as tall as a telegraph pole and as slim as a fishing rod? Another man—Worth. In what countries do the women luxur- iate in loose Mother Hubbard like gar- ments? In those Oriental ones where there are no men milliners and mantua- makers. Furthermore, beloved, what forces all of us to wear these uncomfort- able abominations that bind and squeeze and choke? Again 1 say man, for no matter how men may deride our idiocy and inveigh against our want of sense in dress, it does not escape the silliest of us that itis the woman with the slim- mest waist and the highest heeled slip- pers and the most modish freck who gets the most attention from the oppo- site sex. Theoretically man believes in rational dress, but he would rather be dead than caught out with a female who personally illustrated his opinions on the subject. Of cooking it is scarcely necessary to speak. Except for man the art of din- ing would perish and the world would be run on a tea and toast basis ard life would be robbed of its chief thorn—the servant girl question. It is a man that o AP SSSSPSSSSSFSSSS € Looking Forward to Christmas get the choice articles good line for this season and can save you money. We have imported an exceptionally Dolls, Wagons, Engines, Go-carts, Toy Autos, Tree Trimmings, Books, Etc. Geo. H. Wheelock & Co. 113 and 115 West Washington Street, South Bend, Ind. All wise merchants buy their Toys and Dolls early so as to : SESELEELSLELELSLLLL LES SSY A Business Hint A suggested need often repeated creates the want that sends the purchaser to the store. Every dealer should have his share of the profit that reverts from the enormous amount of money expended by the National Biscuit Company in keeping their products constantly before the eyes of the public. These goods become the actual needs that send a sieady stream of trade to the stores that sell them. People have become educated to buying biscuit and crackers in the In-er-seal Package— and one success has followed the other from the famous Uneeda Biscuit to the latest widely advertised specialty. Each new product as it is announced to the public serves as a stimulant to business and acts as a drawing card that brings more custo- miers to the store than any plan you could devise. A well stocked line of National Biscuit goods is a business policy that it is not well to overlook. SEE EE BEB ER RE eS SD j : j j j ‘ j j j j Julius A. 5. Friedrich 30 and 32 Canal st., Grand Rapids, Mich. Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, Calking Machines, and all kinds of Smali Musical Instruments Right Goods, Right Prices and Right Treatment is our motto EE EE SE EB BB OB ST EE a a. a. a. oH ~“S oe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 makes that a burning issue wherever two or three women are gathered together, for it is for man that woman pickles and jells and preserves and makes her- self a burnt offering on the kitchen stove. Left to herself the simple sand- wich, the festive olive and the succu- lent caramel would suffice, and Mary Jane might stay or go without raising a ripple cn the domestic pond. But why delve deeper into the subject? Enough has been said to show that when woman was created she found tribula- tion, in the guise of man, waiting for her, but,instead of fleeing from it, from that day to this she has been chasing | after it. She has welcomed her affliction, for, while life with man may be full of stress and storm, without him it is cin- ders, ashes and dust. And, generally speaking, the more trouble he has given her the better she has loved him. Dorotby Dix. > 2 Jilted Girls Often Make the Wives. It might very naturally be supposed that, after having reposed her whole love and trust in a man, only to have the same ruthlessly trampled upon, a girl’s faith in men in general wouid be utter- ly destroyed, making her undesirable as a wife. It does not necessarily foilow, however, that because a girl has been disappointed in one love affair she is going to develop into a bitter old maid who never misses an opportunity of warning all girls against marriage. There are some girls, of course, who find it almost impossible to recover from the bitter experience of being jilted. The shock and humiliation are so great that they regard all men with contempt, and even hatred, and view with distrust each member of the op- posite sex with whom they come in contact. Such girls have little to recom- mend them for the position of wife; for, although there is some justification for their mistrust of men, it is only a narrow minded girl who will blame the majority for the faults of the few. The wise girl recognizes that it is better to be jilted before marriage than neglected when there is no escape. Al- though the experience is a bitter one, she will look upon it as a special act of Providence that she has been fortunate enough to discover the fickle nature of | the man she at one time loved, before | being bound to him by marriage ties. And she will appreciate all the more the Why Best love of the one she knows to be good | and true, and even find cause to he thankful to the one who has jilted her, seeing that otherwise she would not have} discovered the man to make her life. truly happy. Some men might possibly hesitate to marry a girl who had been jilted,on the | ground that it is not possible for her to| love twice, and that the experience of | her first lover’s deceit would probably | cause her at times to harbor suspicion | against her husband. That is a very mistaken idea. It is quite possible for a young woman to love twice, more especially when the first love has been destroyed by jilting. And if the man she marries shows him- | self to be a true husband in every sense of the word, with a desire to make her life happy, the mere comparison of him | with the one who jilted her would make | nearly any woman thankful that she} had after all discovered the man to make her life happy, and cause her to! resolve to make herself worthy of her husband’s love, Cora Stowell. 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Your dealings with usare “Banking by Mail’? ing book we publish which make deposits by mail; invested. sent free upon request. C!ld National Grand Rapids, Mich. A Safe Place 4/ for your money’ 24 Nomatter where you livé we BOHOROR SHOISS0C Are You Coming ' to the | Fair? Shows a Square Show Case Set on the New Case If so do not fail to see the new style Ball Bearing Rolling Top Show Cases Rolled Back to Get Into the Lower Case from the Front shows the Case They will be on exhi- bition at the Fair all the week. You can use your old show case and have a silent salesman ata small cost. It will pay to investigate, If you cannot come Shows How an Oval Top Show Case Will Look On the New send for catalogue. Parrish Roller Bearing Show Case Co. Saginaw, Mich. SEO TORSCRS 1S HORORORS TOLOHE LOTOTSHOTSORSOROROHOHOEOE SCHOHOKS HOES BS HORORS FO HOTOAC HLORSCHOROMOHE HOROHS GCOROHS ROROKE HO 4OKO FORONS HOHOL*SCHLSRDCOISCK HORORG 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. The White Peach Coming Into Greater Favor. The prejudice in favor of the yellow peach is well known to dealers, and is thoroughly intrenched in the minds of most consumers. It runs back to the very beginning of peach-growing in this country. By some accident of cir- cumstances which we can not now ex- plain, it happened that several of the first budded varieties to gain general circulation were of the yellow brand. Many uninstructed farming communities still believe that the ‘‘native’’ or ‘‘seed- ling’’ peaches are mostly small, white and worthless, whereas the improved, named and budded varieties are mostly yellow. This impression is partly true, and has been constantly cultivated by the colored plates which the tree agent exhibits on his semi-annual round. A yellow picture looks better than a tame white one; and a high color is one of the main attractions in selling nursery stuff from a book. The yellow peach has the first chance always with the ignorant un-horticultural population, Many persons of indisputable wisdom prefer the yeilow peaches, too,for fairly legitimate reasons. They look better canned for one thing—or many _ persons think they do,and canning is one of the chief uses to which peaches are put. One of the other principal uses of peaches is to be sliced and served with sugar and cream. Here again there may be an honest preference for the yellow-flesh peach, because it shows off better through the cream, That is the more true the whiter the cream is. With really fine, thick Jersey cream the white-flesh peaches make the better con- trast. The fact that, for many persons, the yellow peaches please the eye better than the white ones do has led uncon- sciously and erroneously to the conclu- sion that they please the palate better, too. Many persons, who ought to be wiser, really believe that they like the flavor of yellow peaches better. Usually this is because they have never had any really good white peaches, or have never had their attention called to the matter. The strong demand for yellow-flesh varieties has always tended to keep them in the market. The few peach-growers and peach-lovers who hold to the minor- ity opinion have continued to enjoy their white peaches at home, but they have found it unprofitable to send them to market. Recently a marked reaction has set in, and the white-fiesh peaches are rap- idly becoming more popular. Although Elberta is now the leader, and although it, with other yellow sorts, still predom- inates in the market, yet there are car- loads and carloads of white peaches sold every year. What is better, the quantity and the proportion of white peaches in the market are steadily in- creasing. In all the best markets, any one who wants white peaches can get them; and a growing clientage of cus- tomers ask for them. This revival of interest in the white- flesh peaches has doubtless been brought about chiefly by the introduction of sev eral new white varieties of special merit. Carman, Champion, Waddell, Hiley and Belle of Georgia are all fine peaches, and all of them have been pro- duced in commercial quantities. The buyers have had a fair taste of them, and that taste has gone a great way to- ward wiping out the oid prejudice. Most of these best new white varieties have come from the Chinese Cling type, a type which we recently discussed at length in these columns. In our former article we showed that the type has those qualities which characterize a good commercial peach. The varieties are of the kind that come to Stay. In conclusion, we disclaim any inten- tion of speaking against the yellow- flesh peaches. They are good and they are indispensable. But we are certain that the white peaches have been hither- to unduly neglected, and we are glad to see them coming into greater favor. We think that most experienced peach- eaters will agree with us, too, that the best white peaches have a delicacy and a sweetness which are seldom or never present in the yellow varieties. —Country Gentleman. a — Milk as a Powder. The successful reduction of milk to the form of a powder is a recent achieve- ment of much importance to the bakers, particularly those engaged in the busi- ness ina large way. They are enabled to secure their milk supply without any possibility of interruption and at much lower cost. This latter is due to the fact that the dried milk can be shipped so much more economically than the milk in its original form. A five pound box can be shipped at a small fraction of that of its equivalent of whole milk, and can be mixed as desired. The losses in the handling of fresh milk around a bakery are very great. Much is con- sumed by the men handling it, a great deal is wasted, and, not a little is spoiled by being improperly cared for. Another Visit. ‘I’ve come to pay my bill,’’ said the patient. ‘‘One hundred and ten dollars, I believe.”’ '' Ves,”" said De, Prace-Price, " mak- ing a total of $112.’’ ‘I don't quite understand."" ‘‘That brings it up to date, including to-day. My charge for office visits, you know, is $2.’’ Established 1865 L. O. Snedecor & Son NEW YORK Egg Receivers HAVE YOU EVER? considered how necessary it should be for your interests to ship eggs to an egg house that makes a specialty of the one line throughout the year? We want to double our business this year; we have the outlet, so will rely on YOU to send us the EGGS. Reference: N. Y. National Exchange Bank. SEEDS For the garden and farm. Iam a large grower and dealer in all kinds of garden, neld and flower seeds. Send me list ot your wants for prices. I can save you money. Ihandie only the best grade. Fresh and true to name. FRANK A. SHOWERMAN, PAW PAW, MICH. How speculators in April eggs may come out is still an open question which time only will answer. just now we are more interested in the current production and want liberal consignments of the best we Can pet. Est. 1849. LAMSON & CO., 13 Blackstone St., Boston, Mass. The Imperial Gas Lamp Is an absolutely safe lamp. It burns without odor or smoke. Common stove gasoline is used. It is an eco- nomical light. Attractive prices are offered. yrite at once for Agency The Imperial Gas Lamp Co. 206 Kinzie Street, Chicago (0,000 Barrels of Apples Wanted For storage. Write to R. Hirt, Jr., Detroit, Mich. Walker Celery Farm Fine Celery and Cabbage. Kelley Grace, R. R. No. 6, Grand Rapids, Mich. Citizens Phone 3793 SEND YOUR 3 om BUTTER AND oe Re to Year-Around Dealer and get Top Market and Prompt Returns. GEO. N. HUFF & CO. 55 CADILLAC SQUARE DETROIT, MICHIGAN { 1SEEE SECECE CECE CEEE CECE SESE SEEE CECE EESECRECE EECEEEEEEL EGGS WANTED We want several 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. Potatoes Tn car lots or less I have an outlet for all the potatces you can ship. Will sell on commission or buy outright. Highest market price paid. ¢. D. Crittenden, 98 S. Div. St., Grand Rapids Both Phones 1300 NEW CROP TIMOTHY We are direct receivers and recleaners of choice Western grown Timothy Seed. We buy and sell Clover, Alsyke, Beans, Pop Corn ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ORDER GRAPES Direct from the grower and get them fresh from the vine. We use Standard Fifths and extra size ‘‘Pony’’ baskets. When ordering state route preferred and whether by freight or express. No fruit shipped on commission. WM. K. MUNSON, Grand Rapids, Mich. Proprietor of Vinecroft Citizens Phone 2599—Long Distance POTATOES Carlots only wanted. Highest market price. State variety and quality. H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Long Distance Telephones—Citizens 2417 304 & 305 Clark Building, Bell Main 66 Opposite Union Depot Rural Route No. 4 Mi Mi The New York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence, New York, Sept. 27—The condition of the coffee market at the close of Septem- ber is to be described only in the stereo- typed fashion that has prevailed for many months, only since the last report there has been a still further sag in quo- tations and at the close not over 5%(c is to be quoted for Rio No. 7 in an in- voice way. Futures, as well as the ac- tual article, are extremely dull and there is no earthly reason for looking for much, if any, improvement, for the supplies continue large and the require- ments are only so much anyway. The receipts at Rio and Santos are not so large as last year by considerable, but the supply is still great, amounting to 4,306,000 bags since July 1, against 5,162,000 bags at the same time last year. In store and afloat there are 2,856,614 bags, against 2,196,568 bags, so that our supply in this country is almost 700,000 bags greater than last year. The general tone of the market is not encouraging for anybody except the consumer, who ought to have good coffee at very reasonable rates. Mild coffees are in limited supply and prices are well sustained, good Cucuta being firmly held at gc. East Indias are quiet. Holders of tea seem to be quite con- fident as to the future and prices are firm. A large part of the business be- ing done at present is in placing orders for new teas to arrive late in the year. Supplies here are limited and the out- look generally favors the holder. No boom in teas is expected, but a good steady trade is hoped for, New business in sugars has contracted during the week as the great demand from canners is over and normal condi- tions prevail. Quite a good trade has been done in withdrawals and the stocks carried by most dealers must be suffi cient for the time being, although con- siderable complaint exists of the slow- ness of deliveries by refiners, some of whom are still far behind. A fairly good trade in rice has been done during the week and sales are re- ported as being rather more numerous than for some little time. Prices are well sustained and the general outlook seems to favor holders. Supplies of pepper are light, the de- mand being fairly active, and prices very firm. Other goods, too, are meet- ing with good sale and the situation is satisfactory all around. Singapore black pepper, 134% @13%c. There 1s likely to be a yield of mo- lasses about one-third less than last year and this factor causes a firm market. Offerings of grocery grades that are de- sirable are comparatively light and the situation generally favors the. selier. Quotations are unchanged, but no sur- prise will be shown should. there be an advance a little later. Syrups are steady and unchanged. Jersey tomatoes of standard pack are worth $1.10@1.15 and the market is steadily hardening. Orders are coming from every section and the question is likely to be one of getting stock at all— something like coal in this respect. Nothing in Baltimore can be found un- der 5c and the more usual figure is $1. Corn is likely to be even scarcer than tomatoes and those who contracted to make deliveries of certain amounts are at their wits’ ends. New York is nom- inally 873%4@goc and Maine at some- thing like $1.20. Some Iowa corn is reported to have been sold here at 70c f. o. b. factory. Salmon is firm and active. Fruits of all kinds, and es- pecially the Pacific coast products, are well held and quotations are likely to advance. The whole canned goods sit- uation is such as to make the holder re- joice and'those who have stocks on hand sufficient to last until the beginning of the year will reap a good reward. firmness characterizes the dried fruit market and there is a good steady de- mand for almost everything on the list. Currants might do better, but they are improving and at the close fine Amalis are worth 43c in barrels, uncleaned. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Oranges and lemons are meeting with steady sale and quotations are practical- ly without change. Verdelli lemons range as to size from $2 to $4.50 per box. Repacked Jamaica oranges aver- age about $4.50 per barrel. Bananas are steady. Beans are showing increasing strength, Choice marrow, $2.75@2.80: choice pea, $1.90@1.92%; choice medium, practically the same; red kidney, $2.85 @2.99, Extra creamery butter is held at 22}2c. Supplies seem to be sufficient to meet the demand and yet do not ap- pear overabundant. Seconds to firsts, 19@22c; Western imitation creamery, finest, 18@18%c; fair to good, 17@ 173%c; Western factory, firsts, 17%(c and 18c for June make that will stand the test ; renovated, 1744@Ioc. Some advance has taken place in cheese and the market closes firmer than a week ago. Full cream New York State is worth 11%c,. Exporters have made purchases of about all they can pick up at IIc. Receipts of eggs are only moderate and the demand is sufficiently active to keep the market well cleaned up. West- ern fresh gathered loss off 24c for firsts and 22!14@23%%c for fair to good. At mark, Western, fancy candled, 224%@ 23c. Ungraded, 19@z2iIc. 8 oe Shortage in Poultry Supply. ‘Another thing that will tend to keep beef prices up is the shortage in the supply of poultry in the country,’’ says a Kansas man. ‘‘Last fall the poultry in the drouth-stricken districts was mar- keted as close as the hogs and cattle were, and for the same reason—scarcity of feed. Ordinarily along in the fall and early winter there is a big supply of poultry and it is cheap. It takes the place of beef and pork. This year poultry is as high as beef in propor- tion, and the supply of Thanksgiving turkeys is bound to be short. It wii! be as cheap to eat beefsteak as to eat roast chicken. The only kind of meat that is cheap is mutton, and you can not educate people to eat mutton in a day. People who are accustomed to eat beef will eat it if they are able to buy it. And here I come to another very strong reason why | think prices of beef cattle will continue high. The consump- tion is enormous. The country is pros- perous, Labor is well employed, and has money with which to buy beefsteak, even although it is high. As far as 1 can see the future for the cattle grower is full of promise."’ a Every business is capable of expand- ing, and the only way to insure expan- sion is to advertise. | ey \ Ceresota is tested before it is branded. We have for the exclusive use of our own mills a perfectly equipped baker, and we care- fully test the baking qualities of every day’s product. This enables us to guarantee the quality every time. Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Distributors for Western Michigan 23 OOODOOOGOHOGDOOOOHOOOGOHOOOHHOHOOH Butter I always want it. E. F. Dudley Owosso, Mich. OOOOOOOOOOO OOOO OOOOGOOGOOGODO SEEDS Clover and Timothy—all kinds of Grass Seeds. SOSSSSSSSSSOssssesqssasas SSSSSOesesssssssesssesass MOSELEY BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST. Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums In carloads or less. Crop in this section the finest in years, We have twelve years experience in this market and the best shipping facilities. Shipments carefully inspected and packed by competent men. Tele- phone, write or wire for quotations. The Vinkemulder Company, 14 and 16 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Messenger & Packet Co. 11-13 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. We make a specialty of handling Merchandise consigned to us in bulk to be distributed to various firms and residences. Our business in that line increases every week. Contracts made for the delivery of handbills, cata- logues, pamphlets, addressed or unaddressed circulars. Charges very rea- sonable. Give us a trial. Write for full particulars, etc., TO-DAY. Alex. McLachlin, Manager Cold Storage This is the time of year to store your Apples. Why not put them where they are sure to come out as good as when picked? Save shrinkage and sorting by storing with us. We also store Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Meats. Liberal advances on produce stored with us, where desired. Rates reasonable. Write for information. Grand Rapids Cold Storage & Sanitary Milk Zo. Grand Rapids, Michigan 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ Corner. Sale Spoiled By a Grouty Salesman. A little story told by the proprietor of a hig retail establishment contains a sermon to salesmen. This house goes to a large expense in getting up a hand- some catalogue. It is mailed freely all over the country, and a little later is followed by a circular. Not long ago an enquiry was received from a lady at a distance regarding two dinner sets— one at $150 and another at $75—both of which she desired to purchase. The letter was answered, but no reply was received. After waiting a reasonable time another letter was dispatched ask- ing why the order was not forthcoming. In reply the iady said she was a little dubious about buying without seeing, and so had requested a friend living in New York to call and inspect the ware. The friend had written that she went to the store, but the salesman who attended her was so grouty and discourteous that she had walked out in disgust and gone to another place, where she had found what she desired and gave the order. The salesman no doubt had a hundred excuses to offer—‘‘thought she was only shopping,'’ ‘‘was a crank,’’ ‘‘took up a lot of time looking at everything in the store with no intention of buying,’’ and so On. Not a valid excuse in the lot. He is paid to wait on people. It is his busi- ness to placate cranks, to smile and look pleasant when he is raging within, to be courteous when he thinks he is insulted by supercilious people—for he can never tell, no matter what he may suppose, whether he is attending a buy- er or only a shopper. He is not insulted by any treatment he may receive at the hands of a visitor—he is only a part of the machinery of the establishment in the eyes of thé would-be buyer—per- sonality does not enter into the matter at all. The moment he forgets this and shows by his actions that he has taken affront he has made an enemy for the store. It is important for him to re- member this. His employer's interests are in his hands. The annoyances are often great; there are queer people in this world; but he is put in his position for the very purpose of taking care of just such characters as most trouble him. Perhaps in the case qucted above the salesman was physically disturbed. He might have been up late the night be- fore, or had a series of unprofitable cus- tomers, or another customer waiting for him. Again not valid. It is his busi- ness to put away ali personal feeling and try to sell the party, bearing in mind that it is not bis affair, but that of his employer. The successful sales- man is he who does this and has some other thought than drawing his pay Sat- urday night. The careless, grouty man wonders why it is that he is not ad- vanced in position and pay—why some other man is more successful than he. The answer is perhaps found in the fact that he is thinking more of himself than of his employer's interest aan —— — Recent Business Changes in Indiana. Alexandria—The Brannum Hardware Co. has merged its business into a cor- poration under the same style. Bluffton—H. J. Kennedy has retired from H. J. Kennedy & Co., dealers in notions and groceries, Clinton—Halstead & Swinehart have purchased the grocery stock of Smith & Curtis. Elkhart—John Lusher has sold his general merchandise stock to Morris & Tripp. Evansville—lIlling Bros. is the new style under which the drug business of Aug. F. llling is continued. Evansville—Temple & Co. succeed _Temple Bros. in the manufacture of cigar boxes. Indianapolis—Wm. E. Springer, pro- prietor of the Champion Manufacturing Co., manufacturer of mops, has sold his interest in the business. Indianapolis—The Darling Gum Co. is succeeded by the Indianapolis Chew- ing Gum Co, Kimmell—Lambert P. Persing, of Persing & Son, flouring mill operators, is dead. New Castle—The Indiana Mill Co. succeeds the Co. Oakland City—Adam Young has pur- chased the drug stock of Mrs. Bertha W. Hixon. Oakville—C,. D. general Jones. Richmond—The Richmond Baking Co. continues the business of the Hoer- ner-Kopf Co. Russellville—Lakin & Scott, hard- ware dealers, have dissolved partner- ship. The style of the new partnership is Lakin & Water. Sanborn—Wm. Vanmeter has _ pur- chased the merchandise stock of Killion Bros. & Co, Pierceton—A. R. Clover continues the tailoring and men's furnishing goods business formerly conducted un- der the style of J. E. Grim & Co. a Courtesy is the grace of kings and should be an all-pervading quality of advertisements. Rolling Indiana Shovel Hale has sold his merchandise stock to W. V. AXLE GREASE has pecome known on account of its good qualities. Merchants handle Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes. It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that Mica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco- nomical as well, Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white and blue tin packages. ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING OILS PERFECTION OIL IS THE STANDARD THE WORLD OVER HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRELS STANDARD OIL CO. = we 4 a rr ern ae We call your attention this f week to our line of f § Horse Blankets j Plush Robes § Fur Robes Fur Coats eT, a ae Pb beh h hhh hhh hhh hh ehhh Shes If you are not supplied send { us your orders. We want your orders for § N addlery Hardware and our § own make of Harness. { Brown & Sehler, j West Bridge Street, Grand Rapids NO Ne ee ee ee a ee, ee, A, idl bial iii 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. Facts ina Nutshell = as WHY? They Are Scientifically PERFECT 129 Jefferson Avenue 113-115-117 Ontario Street Detroit, Mich. Toledo, Ohio EEEEEEEEEEEEE EE EEE EEE EY bob obobobob abe obo ebebub bob ubebebebobebebebub ab ebebebobobeh >> or ibiadiubie ae iii ie MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the 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. Senior Counselor, W. S. BuRNS; Secretary Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Gripsack Brigade. Leslie Local: W. F. Prescott has taken a position with the Olds Engine Works, of Lansing and Detroit, and will go on the road Oct. 1. He will look after the interests of that company throughout Michigan. Hudson Gazette: Robert Campbell, who formerly occupied the position of clerk in M. E. Power’s hardware store here, has accepted a position as travel- ing salesman with the Malleable Steel Range Works, of South Bend, Ind. Soo News: E. S. Royce has resigned his position with Franklin McVeagh & Co., of Chicago, to accept one with the Musselman Grocer Co,, which will shortly succeed P. C. Kelliher in the wholesale yrocery business here. Mr. Royce will have charge of the city trade. He is an experienced salesman. Portland Observer: J. Free Smith, the traveling man who used to ‘‘make”’ Portland and who has many acquaint- ances here, had a narrow escape from being killed in a runaway at Cham- paign, Ill., one day last week. As it was, he had his right arm broken and his left hand and ankle badly smashed, D. L. Porterfield has engaged to cover Northern and Western Michigan for Edward R. Rice, Western selling agent for the Banigan Rubber Co. Mr. Por- terfield is junior member of the firm of Porterfield & Son, shoe dealers at La- grange, Ind. E. D. Hutchinson, of De- troit, will continue to cover Southern and Eastern Michigan. Elk Rapids Progress: S. B. Owen, who for the past nineteen years has been a resident of Antrim county, and for the last ten years has been in the employ of the Elk Rapids Iron Co., as manager of the shoe department, bas accepted a po- sition with Selz, Schwab & Co., shoe manufacturers of Chicago. Mr. Owen’s position is that of a traveling salesman and he has been assigned the Western half of Ohio. Mr, Owen leaves Mon- day next for Chicago and will scon thereafter assume his duties in his new field of labor. Mr. Owen is undecided as to where he will make his home, but present prospects indicate either Lima or Columbus. Big Rapids Herald: John V. Carr, representing the wholesale clothing house of Heavenrich Bros., Chicago, was forcibly ejected from L. Wilensky & Co.’s clothing store on Michigan avenue this morning, according to a largely circulated report. It is said that H. Wilensky, when in Chicago re- cently, purchased from Heavenrich Bros, $95 worth of goods. Mr. Wilensky re- cently failed in business. The goods, it is said, he received on credit. Mr. Carr, being in the city on other busi- ness, went to the Wilensky store, so the report goes, to see if the goods from his firm’s house were there, and if so to try to effect a settlement for same. The report says Mr. Wilensky ordered him out of the store, and upon Mr, Carr’s re- fusal to get out, struck the latter on the forehead with a board and pushed him out of the building. It is said that, during the scuffle, Mr. Carr struck Mr. Wilensky with his fist and knocked him to the floor. The wound inflicted by the board required the attention of a physi- cian. The case did not get into court. CERO TT al The Grain Market. Wheat during the week was easy, all excepting September, which climbed up to g5c, all owing to the market be- ing oversold. The sellers will have to foot the bill. December was selling around 69c, while September went to 95c, am advance of 26c over December wheat, which is all out of natural con- ditions. The visible made an increase of 2,316,000 bushels, where 1,000,000 bushels increase had been expected. This large increase looks somewhat strange, especially as receipts at initial points were below last year and exports have been fully as large. However, as this increase is reported, it should be taken as final. Should there be an error it will correct itself in the near future, Winter wheat is quiet, as heretofore— not much moving and not much of it good. Very little of good No. 2 is be- ing received, owing to the dampness and poor quality. There is, as stated in previous reports, considerable being fed to stock. As corn is high, the farmers will prefer feeding the wheat yet, es- pecially asthe class of wheat is unfit for flouring purposes. Corn rules about the same, but the present damp weather is nct good for the ripening, so no new corn can be furnished that will grade in any market. Corn needs dry and sunshiny weather to ripen it. It looks as though the qual- ity would be poor, unless the weather changes. Now, the qusetion arises, when will it take place? The outlook is certainly not encouraging. We may see higher prices in corn before long. Oats are only steady and the stocks are increasing as another million bush- els are added to the visible, which leaves the visible oats at 7,700,000 bushels, against 9,900,000 bushels last year. Should this large increase con- tinue much longer, prices will sag off, as they are high, taking conditions into consideration. The quality is certain- ly not up to what is termed standard grades, as they are somewhat stained. Rye remains very steady. Good Michigan is being sold at 45c. It must be good or else it is rejected, as the de- mand is not pressing. The price may be lower, as the exporters are taking only a smal]! quantity and the distillers are holding off for lower prices. Beans are on the boom, as hoth cash and futures are reported at about 25c per bushel higher, also owing to the damp weather. The crop is being re- duced considerably and the quality is not up to what it has been in the years gone by. It looks as though they may possibly be higher yet. Flour is very steady. Millers are well sold up and the demand, both lo- cal and domestic, is good. Prices have not been shaded. In mill feed there is no change. The demand keeps pace with the produc- tion. As long as this state of affairs continues, prices will remain where they are. Receipts of grain are small, with the exception of wheat, which was very large, there being eighty-one cars of wheat received, three cars of corn, eight of oats, one of rye, three of flour and three of hay. Millers are paying 68c for No. 2 red wheat. C, G, A. Voigt. Held in Reserve. The thriftiness of a London shop- keeper is illustrated in a story told of a dry goods dealer. The merchant in question possessed a very excitable temperament, and on hearing his assist- ant say to a lady customer, ‘‘No, we have not had any for a long time,’’ un- able to countenance such an admission he turned to the lady, fixed his eyes on his assistant, and said: ‘‘We have plenty in reserve, madam—plenty up- stairs,’’ The lady looked thunderstruck, and then the assistant informed his mas- ter that his reply was to her remark: ‘*We have not had any rain lately."’ Reet e The Warwick Strictly first class. Rates $2 per day. Central location. Trade of visiting merchants and travel- ing men solicited. A. B. GARDNER, Manager. Fair Visitors Will be interested in knowing that the LIVINGSTON HOTEL, the modern fire-proof hotel of Grand Rapids—corner South Division and Fulton streets— is on the street car line that runs directly to the fair grounds without changing cars. The Larimer Door Check and Screen Door Check and Spring The best moderate priced check ever made. manufacturer, upwards. It is what you have been looking for. Write for circulars and price list. Needed by every merchant and All sises and prices; $1.25 JOSEPH SCHURSCH, 280 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Good 6 per cent. Investment No Taxes For the purpose of further enlarging and operating its new fac- tory, The Fred Macey Company, Limited, Grand Rapids, Michigan, offers for sale at par value, 1,000 shares of $100 each of its six per fy cent. treasury preferred stock. This stock draws full dividends at the rate of six percent. per annum from August 1, I902, (the com- pany’s last dividend date), and is entitled to receive three (3) per cent. dividend February 1 next, and three (3) per cent. every six months thereafter. This stock has preference also to the common stock in sharing in both the profits and assets of the company. The company pays all taxes on its property so that this stock yields its holders THREE (3) per cent. NET every six months—TAXES PAID. To those having funds to invest, the above stock offers a good safe investment at home, and in a company well organized—well established—well known, and already doing a large and profitable business in all parts of the United States and forrign countries, and already owning and operating one of the best located—best equip- ped—best arranged factories in the city of Grand Rapids. Subscriptions for the above stock will be received by mail up to and including October 15th, 1902, subject to previous sale, and may be made at the office of The Fred Macey Company, Limited, Grand Rapids, Michigan. application. Further information, if desired, furnished on References—Any bank in the city of Grand Rapids, also the mercantile agencies of Bradstreet and R. G, Dun & Co. 26 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Koard of Pharmacy Term expires HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 WrRT P. Dory. Detroit - - - Dac, 81, 199? CLARENCE B. STODDARD, Monroe Dec, 31, 1904 JOHN D. MUIR, Grand Kapids Dec. 31, LyuD ARTHUR H. WEBBER, Cadillac Dec. 31, 1906 President, H#NRY HIM, Saginaw. Secretary, JoHN D. Muir, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit. 8 Examination Sessions. Lansing, November 5 and 6. Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association. President—Lovu G. Moor, Saginaw. Secretary—W.H BURKE Detroit. Treasurer—C. F. HureER, Port Huron. One of Pharmacy’s Serious Shortcomings. Pharmacy suffers one shortcoming which was made abundantly manifest at last month's meeting of the Michigan Pharmaceutical Association: the quality of certain medicaments sold in drug stores is too often very poor. Professor Schlotterbeck, chairman of the Com- mittee on Adulterations, gave convinc- ing proof of a condition of things which is really a disgrace tothe calling. With- out reporting his findings at length, jet it suffice to say that not one of the thir- teen samples of spirit of nitrous ether yielded the required eleven volumes of nitrogen dioxide, the highest point reached, indeed, being but four vol- umes; that two out of seven samples of diluted hydrocyanic acid contained no HCN whatever; that a number of spec- imens of tincture of iodine ranged in content of iodine from 2.2 grammes to 6.2 grammes in each 100 cubic centi- meters, whereas the Pharmacopoeia re- quires 7 grammes; that ammonia water, which should contain 10 per cent. of gas, was found to contain all the way from 3.6 to 12.7 per cent. ; that solution of hydrogen dioxide, which should yield about 10 volumes of available hydrogen, was found upon investigation to yield anywhere from 7 to 12.7 vol- umes; and that of twelve specimens of saffron sold by druggists in response to a specific demand for Spanish saffron (the Crocus sativus of the U.S. P.) not one proved to he such—all were the American or false saffron (Carthamus Tinctorius), These findings are admittedly selected by us from among the worst reported by Professor Schlotterbeck, but they show conclusively and convincingly that there is an internal shortcomi.g which pharmacists should determinedly set about to correct. They should examine more carefully into the character of the goods which they buy from the jobber. They should take greater care in the manufacture of goods which they pre- pare themselves. And more important than all, they should use greater pre- cautions in the care and preservation of the goods which they both buy and make, and see to it that the deteriora- tion which is so common with many substances is avoided so far as possible. Many pharmacists have been slumber- ing in this matter. They have been in- different to it. Often they have been unaware of the conditions. A sudden and painful awakening has resulted in two or three states where the law has stepped in; but the law ought not to be waited for. Men ought to do right be- cause it is right, not because they are made to doit. Salvation which comes from a fear of punishment is of a pretty poor sort !—Bulletin of Pharmacy. Method of Preserving Kubber Goods. The hardening of vulcanized India rubber is caused by the gradual evapo- ration of the solvent liquids it contains and introduced during the process of vulcanization. According to the best authorities, keeping in an atmosphere saturated with the vapors of the solvents answers the purpose. India rubber stop- pers, tubing, etc., which still possess the elasticity, are to be kept in vessels containing a dish filled with common petroleum. Keeping in wooden boxes is objectionable, while keeping in air- tight glass vessels alone is sufficient to preserve India rubber fora long time. Exposure to light should be avoided as much as possible. Old hard India rubber may be softened again by letting vapor of carbon bisulphate act upon it. As soon as it has become soft, it must be removed from the carbon bisulphide atmosphere and kept in the regular way. In order to prevent India rubber mate- tials from hardening and cracking they are steeped in a bath of melted paraffin for a few seconds or a few minutes, ac- cording to the size of the articles, and then dried in a room heated to about 212 deg. Fahrenheit. Thos. Willets. >. ee The Drug Market. Opium—Has advanced, on account of higher price in the primary market. Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—Is in a very firm position. Another advance is looked for, Cocaine—Is unsettled, on account of competition among manufacturers. The raw material is scarce and advancing and higher prices will rule. Cod Liver Oil—As the season ap- proaches for consumption, prices are advancing. Manna—Is in very small supply and higher. Menthol—Is very firm at high price and very scarce. Juniper Berries—Remain very scarce and firm. Oi! Lavender—Has advanced and is tending higher, on account of small crop. Oil Cassia—Is very firm and advanc- ing. Oil vance, Linseed Oil—Price steadily declining. —->- > ___ Extemporaneous Method of Encapsulat- ing Liquid Drugs. J. T. Johnson, of Fergus Falls, Minn., writes the American Druggist that he has usually used a thick, mucilaginous solution of French geiatin for sealing capsules after filling. This he keeps in a half-ounce, wide-mouthed vial, fitted with a good cork, in the center of which he fastens a hardwoud toothpick, sharp- ened very fine and extending down into the glue. Using the pick as a brush, he lightly smears the edge of the cap with a Jayer of the liquid gelatin, and this cements it very nicely. In his limited experience he says he has had very nice results from this method. The only objection to it would be the slow- ness in large operations, His method he admits may not be according to best modern methods; but he declares that necessity is the mother of invention, and what we want in emergencies is re- suits that will pass the overseer’s square. Peppermint—Continues to ad- is unsettled and ——>_2.___ Formula for a Poultry Powder. Egg shell, or calcium On... 4 ozs. Pee 4 ozs, ee ee Se ae Diack peppers a I oz, ee Oe ci ll Dog biscuit or lentils........... 6 ozs. Reduce all to powder and mix well, A tablespoonful isto be mixed with sufficient meal or porridge to feed twenty hens. P. H, Quinley. Some New Pastes and Mucilages. For labels on metallic surfaces: I, ods ce eee es Venice turpentine. ........_... Glue, liquid, sufficient. Rub up the flour with the turpentine and then add sufficient freshly prepared glue (glue or gelatin dissolved in water) to make a stiff paste. This paste dries 5 parts. I part. slowly, but it will attach labels to any and all metallic surfaces. 2. ie Ae 50 parts. Ce 10 parts. Woeeer eee ll a Atimony, chloride, lig....... 2 parts. Mix, 3- ee -_.. 2 paren Pere acne... i log EE ge es Mioobol, 65 per cent.... 02.0... part, Dissolve the dextrin and acetic acid in water by heating together in the water bath, and to the solution add _ the alcohol. Generally Useful Pastes: i, Cm arepic.... 1... |. 100 parts, wear. oe 140 parts. eee i ey 10 parts, Acetic acid dilute........... 20 parts, Aluminum sulphate........ 6 parts, Dissolve the gum in the water and add the glycerin. Afterwards add the acetic acid and the aluminum sulphate, and mix thoroughly. Let stand awhile, then pour through a hair sieve. This mucilage is very strong, partaking somewhat of the qualities of glue or gelatin solutions. Cy 50 parts, Water, sufficient. Cover the glue, broken into small pieces, with cold water, and let macer- ate over night. In the morning, throw the glue on a towel and strain off the residual water. Dissolve too parts of powdered rock candy (loaf sugar will answer) and 25 parts of powdered gum arabic in 200 parts of water, by the aid of heat in the water bath. When com- pletely dissolved, add the swollen glue, continue the heat until it is dissolved, and when this occurs pour off into suit- able receptacles. camer, powdered.............. 1 part, Sodium silicate solution....... 4 parts. Mix and warm until dissolved. et te Cherry Tooth Paste. Try the following : Precipitated nati 00000)... 32 parts, SNe 16 parts. Orris root, powdered......... 4 parts. CE ee 4 parts, Re 8 parts, Mix the powders and sift thoroughly at least twice before working in the glycerin and honey. Asa perfume you can use to every pound of powder the following : Cae 20 m Oil rose geranium .............. 20m, cre 10 m. Mix and work well into the powders before adding the liquids. Set the pas e aside for at least a month before filling into the containers. If then found too stiff, work in a little water. > © me - Rheumatic or Muscular Pains. Chioroformis purae............. 5 drs, ee u. 4 drs. Act SACwCR 4 drs, ee UE Ce res MICs, Gu eam I2 ozs, This should be rubbed into the parts thoroughly or applied by means of flan- nel cloths. —_—__+ 2. __ Difficulties give way to diligence. Don’t Place Your Wall Paper Order Until you see our line. We represent the ten leading factories in the U. S. As- sortment positively not equalled on the road this season. Prices Guaranteed to be identically same as manufacturers, A card will bring salesman or samples. Keystek & Canfield Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Holiday Goods We extend a cordial invita- tion to visitors coming to Grand Rapids during Fair week, Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, to visit our store, where will be found one of the prettiest lines of Holiday Goods ever shown in Western Michigan. Complete in every respect. Will make liberal allowance for expense. Grand Rapids Stationery Co. 29 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. A. C. McClurg & Co. CHICAGO Holiday Display Kortlander Block Grand Rapids Until October 12 T. J. Humble Headquarters Livingston Hotel FRED BRUNDAGE wholesale % Drugs and Stationery « 32 & 34 Western Ave., MUSKEGON, MICH. einai sine insect MICHIGAN TRADESY AN WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Advanced— Declined— Acidum - 80@ 90) Seiliz Co.. 50 Aceticum .$ - 1 15@ 1 25/| Tolutan.. 1. 50 Benzoicum, ‘German. 70@ - 1 30@ 1 35; Prunus virg.. eee 50 = — Caer escecees ow : : a : 7 Tinctures Jarboliowm .......... : — 3 Ge 2 20 | Somes eee 60 Hydrochlor 3@ ' eo -onitum Napellis F 50 > Sesimpni ae Gossip, ‘Sem. . Bal. 50@ 60 | Aloes 60 Oxalicum............ 12@ Hedeo - 1 80@ 1 85 Aloes and Myrrh 60 Phosphorium, dil... @ Juntpera ..... - 1 50@ 2 00 | Aime Hs - Salicylicum ie 50@ Lavendula . ae W@ 2 00 Assafcetida.......... 50 ———.. 1X@ ae... 1 15@ 1 25 | Atrope Belladonna.. 60 a. ae Mentha Piper. ...... 2 90@ 3 29 | Auranti Cortex...... 50 “eee * ” 38@ Mentha Verid....... 2 10@ 2 20 | Benzoin............. 60 cc Morebam, ‘gal. - 1.2, 200@ 2 to | Benzoin Co.. 50 Ammonia Myrela .. |... |.... 400@ 4 BO Barosma.. oo 50 Aqua, 16 deg......... 4@ a eS 75@ 3 00 | Cantharides... 2... 75 Aqua, 20deg......... 6@ Picis Liquida.... ||” 10@ 12 | Capsicum............ 50 Carponas.... ....... Bo Picis 8 Liquida, gal... @ 35|Cardamon.... ...... 75 Chioridum........... w@ 9@ 9g | Cardamon Co... -. 1. 75 Aniline @ 1 0 conc set eeeeeete es = i 2 @ 2 =o Cinchona ....-. 22... 50 Brgwe. 2.2. ll ae @ 1 00 Cinchona Co... .... 80 eee sides cab basal ee a 75@ 7 00 a eon a 50 Vollow..... ....+-+. 00 2 @ yu E 50 Tacce "2 Blames Qubebse........ P0,25 22@ a oe - 50 Xanthoxyiuim ....... 1 80 eg ape 1g | Reet citi 50 Balsamum ae ne 2 = ae eee oe 50 Capaiie Potassium tentian Co.......... 60 ae eG 15@ 18 | Gulaca.. seen 50 Terabin, Canada.... 60@ Bichromate ......... 13 15 bvennonn ammon.... .. 80 Ce 15@ Bromide ....... B2@ OT | oo tees 7 ee 12 15 | =— Chlorate... .po. 17@19 160 1g | Zodine, colorless 75 Abies, Canadian..... CeNM os... s@ _ 33| Kino So Cassle..... .. -- Todide ....7 70271117. 2 30@ 2 40 Lobelia . 50 Cinchona Flava. .... Potassa, Bitart, pure 23@ 30 | Myrrh............... 50 Euonymus atropurp. | Potass Nitras, opt.. 7@ 10 | Nux Vomica.... 50 Myrica Cerifera, po. | Potass Nitras. 6@ 8 | OPIl.......-......-... 75 ar = oo. Prussiate.. 23@ 26 Obit = — uillaia, gr’ ‘ ’ eum eodorized..... ecm a po. 15 Sulphate po... — a 50 Ulmus...po. 18, gr’d Radix | apne fo Extractum Aeon. Soe asl ee po Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ a OG 33) senna 5 Glycyrrhiza, 28 Anchusa . 10@ 12 | Stromonium i 89 Hzmatox, 15 fp. box 11@ Arum po..... @ *'!Tolutan. |. Hzmatox, 1s. -— (iam ae = [ Walertan 5 jae ios... a coun. ‘m+. 5o ; ’ a. Hydrastis Canaden. @ 7% tn 0 Ferru Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 2x0 Miscellaneous Sarbonate Precip... Hellebore, Alba, i 12@ 15) Mther, Spts.Nit.2F 30@ 35 Oltrate and Quinia.. Inula, po.. 18@ 22)| Ather, Spts. Nit. 4F 3@ 38 Citrate Soluble...... Mpecac, po... | 2 7h 2/80 Mlumen 24@ 3 Ferrocyanidum Sol.. Iris plox...po. 35@38 35@ 40} Alumen, gro’d. p77 me 4 Solut. Chloride ..... en oe 25@ 30| Annatto.............. 40@ 50 Sulphate, com’l..... Maranta, %s........ @ 35) Antimoni, 4@ «C6 Sulphate, com'l, sees Podophyllum, po... 22@ 25| Antimonie Poti T 40@ 50 bbl, per ewt.. ee 75@ 1 00! Antipyrin .. @ 2B Sulphate, pure...... hel, we. @ 1 25| Antifebrin .......... @ 2 a egal ei sliembmaca: S amin saanews en anen oe a as ‘po. 15 @ 18/Balm Gilead Bids. 45Q@ 50 ee G Serpentaria......... 50@ 655/ Bismuth S. N.. 1 66@ 1 70 Matricaria........... 30@ Senega 80@ 85 | Calcium Chior., 18.. @ 9 Folia Smilax, fia i. @ 40| Calcium Chlior., is. @ 10 4 Smilax, M. 25 | Caletum Chlor., 12 ee aa tae = Scillz .. 3% 100 12 | Cantharides, ae 0 g 80 eee ans Feet, a Capslet Fructus, Ps @ 15 . a 6] or oe 25 | Capsie t 15 Salvia "ofnieinalla. tas _ Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 eo %:'C¢ es g 15 and 48 ....... ao Valeriana, German. 15@ 20 | Caryophyllus ‘po. 15 12 14 Uva Ursi........ ei ae anger Bere ceeeeees =. 2S * @ 3 00 ei. 4 27 | Cera a... 56@ 60 Gummi A Acacia, ist picked.. @ —— | Sn Se. a “2 0 Acacia, 2d picked... @ Antsum . - po. @ 15! Cassia Fructus...... @ 35 Acacia, 3d picked.. @ Banna (srvéieons. 13@ = 15/ Centraria.. ae eo ss Acacia, sifted sorts. Bid, in... 4@ 6! Cetaceum...... 45 Acacia, po. 45) nD Po. ‘15 10@ 11 | Chloroform .. 5 60 Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12 Cardamon. . ----. 1 25@ 1 75! Chloroform, squibbs @ 110 Aloe, Cape....po. 15. @ Coriandrum.. se 8@ 10/ Chioral Hyd Crst.... 1 35@ 1 60 _ Socotrl.. . po. 40 “a aaa Sativa. |... : 6 Ss —-. 2 20@ = mreneee... ....-... um. : 1 00 | Cinchonidine,P. rg 4 Saaeioee- ia 40 25@ Chenopodium . 15@ 16 | Cinchonidine, Germ. — 42 Benzoinum . cece — Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10| Cocaine ............. 4 05@ 4 25 Cageena, 6.......... Posmieuhm .......... @ 10! Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 75 = ae . a er ee = 9 er a g 45 atechu, 4s SS ae 4 Oe 70 2 Camphore .. Lini, S ue es 646 GB OG) Crete prep.......... @& & Euphorbium... “Po. “35 @ Lobel 1 50@ 1 55 | Creta, precip. one @ 11 Geen, ........ @ Pharlaris Canarian.. 5 @ # ¢/ Crem, fubea........ eo 3 Gamboge......... po %8@ ee... Ba ¢ roduc 20@ 365 Gualiacum...... po. 35 @ Sinapis Alba.. — «619i Coseee............. @ 2% Kino........po0. 92.76 @ Sinapis Nigra....... 1@ 12) Capel Saipn......... B44@sSsé«8 ae ..........-... @ Spiritus Dextrine . oo ee 7@ 10 a: po. 4. ii. 0 3 3 10; Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 eee on as ae 3 Shellac . 35@ Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Emery, po @ 6B Shellac bieached.. 40@ oo... ........ 1 25@ 1 50 Miacka |. po. “90 85@Q «=O Tragacanth 70@ Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 65@ 2 00| Make White. 122@ 15 catalina Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50| Gala a @ 2 Herba Saacharum N.E.... 1 900 2 10] Gambier s@ 9 Absinthium..oz. pkg Sot, Vini Galn....... 1 75@ 6 50 | Gelatin, Cooper. .. 7 @ 60 Eupatorium..oz. pkg me Oper... 1 26@ 2 00 | Gelatin, French..... 35@ 60 ee ...... oz. pkg Vie BIOS... |. 1 25@ 2 00 | Glassware, flint, box 75 5 ee pong pkg Sponges Less than box..... 70 Mentha V 9 ng oie Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, wrown. ...... 11@ 13 gy “oz. pie carriage........... 2 b0@ 2 75| Glue, white......... bo 8 Tanacetiim Vox. phe Nassau sheeps’ wool Gavcaties. |. T4GD =. rhymus, V...os. pkx earaee 2 BO@ 2 75 | Grana Paradisi...... ' @ . Velvet extra sheeps’ Humulus 2@ dd Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @ 150 pear Chior Mite @100 Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @ 9 Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20| wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25 | Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. = @1 10 Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20/| Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniati = @1 2 ‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 2 carriage . @ 1 00| HydrargUnguentum 50@ 60 H Hydrarayrum ....... @ 8 Oleum iard, for slate use. @ @ Ichth oi ype 70 Absinthtum 7 yo | Yellow Reef, for — mie Amygdale, Duic.... a = 610)| Fa als ne 3 60 Amygdala, Amare. 8 00@ 8 25 a Syrups ‘i —- sessseee BOO® 3 85 FE i eh ae ee knees 1 ce pe cs, 60 | Lupulin........ @ w Auranti en ie 2 10@ 2 20; Auranti Cortex.... @ 50| Lycopodium.. 6@ 70 Bpersaml........:... 3 5o@ 2 66 | Aagiber........... @ 50) Macis . 65@ 75 Gajiputt, Sek ia ie 80@ 85 | Ipecac........ @ 60) Li uor Arsen et" Hy- Caryophyill.. i 75@ 80) Ferri Iod.. Me @ 50} rarg Iod.. Q@ 2 Cader 0 see | een Alam @ “950; Liquor otassArsinit 10@ 12 Chenopadii.. o @ 275! Smilax Officinalis.. 50@ 60/| Magnesia, Sulph.... 2 3 Cinnamonil ......... 1 00@ 1 10/ Sen . cams, Spiced .......... 1 90 Clams. Little Neck, 1Ib..... 1 00 Little Neck. 2 Ib... -. 1 50 Clam Bouillon Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92 Burnham’s, pints........-- 3 60 Burnham’s, quarts.......- 73 Cherries Red Standards........ 1xX@ 50 oo... 1 50 Corn ae . 80 ee tee eee 85 ee... 1 00 French Peas Sur Extra Fine............ 22 i Pae................ 19 Se 15 ee 11 Gooseberries Standard ........-..- 90 Hominy Standard... 85 Lobster eo ........- o 210 a. oe... 3 6¢ oe 2 35 Mackerel Mustard, 11D........ 1 80 Mustard, 2%D........ 2 80 Soon t........- . 1 $0 een Ss .......- ° 2 80 eee, i ie......... 189 Oe 2 80 Mushrooms a ............. . 18@20 e.....-.-..... ° 22@25 Oysters io, 1 ......._... Cove, 3. ...... ia 1 55 Cove, 1 Ib Oval...... 95 Peaches ........... 8E@ 20 a... 1 60@1 85 Pears ae. 1 00 ae .....-.-... . 1 2 Peas arr ....... .- 1 00 Raety Jame. ....... -- 90@i 60 Early June Sifted.. 1 60 Plums a .......... 85 Pineapple se 1 25@2 75 ——————a 1 35@2 55 Pumpkin 1 15 Russian Cavier a. eee... -. 055 2. 3% %& Ib, cans....... te 1 Ib. can........ a on Columbia River, talls @1 65 Columbia River, flats @i 80 Ae... ...... @1 30 Pink Alaska . @ 90 Shrimps ee... Ck 1 40 Sardines Domestic, %s.......- 3% Domestic, 5,5 ....... 5 Domestic, Mustard. 6 California, 44s....... 11@14 California 4s...... os 17@24 Pea 7@1 French, }&.......... 18@28 Strawberries Se... ..2 110 eee 14 Succotash ae 95 ee ........... 1 00 Fancy * ge Tomatoes a... 110 — See ee 1 15 EE 1% Guaens a 3 00 CARBON OILS Barrels ocen @il Perfection @10 Diamond = @ 3% D. Ss. @14% — ‘Napitia. @12 oo: ..29 @34 ..... .... Black, winter.......--- 9 or Columbia, pints.. —— Columbia, % pints.. ee ee 1 25 CHEESE ais... ......-- --+- Bi2% Amboy. @iz Garson City....... --- @U% a Se eee = blem 4 Got oe Q'2% Gold Medal.. @11% on ...... @il*% Jersey... . D2 Riverside. iz —-- 14@15 BE hocc cs ccon cece we ee @i7 Limburger..........- 13@14 Pinea _ 50@75 Sap 19@20 comma GUM American Flag Spruce.. 55 Beeman’s Pepsin......---- 60 Biack Jack..........-.--.- 55 —— Gum Made....... = ao. on Breath Perfume.. 1 00 Sugar Loaf.....-..-------- 55 Wimetee......-.. .----..-+- 55 Schener’ a CHOCOLATE Walter eee - Co.'s. German Sweet.. 23 Premium .. a Breakfast es 46 Runkel Bros. Vienna Sweet ......... ---- 21 ee eee 28 Oe 31 CLOTHES LINES Sisal 60 ft, 3 thread, extra.. ... 100 72 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 1 40 90 ft, 3 thread, extra...... 170 60 ft, 6 thread, extra.....-. 1 29 72 ft, 6 thread. extra...... Le Jute ccs ee ote den 75 En 70 me ee 0 Galvanized Wire No. 20, each 100 ft long.... 1 90 No. 19, each 100 ft long.... 2 10 COCOA ae 41 Colonial, 48 ........--- ——_ ieee, Sh. Moms. ......-..-. «........... 42 a 45 Van Houten, %S........----- 12 Van Houten, %8....... oa Van Houten, 48............. 40 won sega “a Ce - Wilbur, — oo Wilbur. 4s oe ee 42 OCOANUT Dunham - es. a Dunham’s 4s and 4s — a COCOA SHELLS oo hh BOes.........-..... 2% ee 3 Pound packages ......... 4 penton y asted — Coffee Co. brands Mme b. .... ck.-..... 8% No. 10 SL aeets ceed ie koa eunewe 944 ee 12 BO sk twee denies se dee 14 ————————— 16 mae 18 ee i 20 ee 2 (a 24 No. 26.. --26 Me ee 28 Be eee. te. 20 aot ies... 24 ie eo ee 26 a eck ee ee = a in 100 Ib. lots. 4 Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands. White House, I Ib. cans..... White House, 2 Ib. cans..... Excelsior, M. & J. 1 lb. cans Excelsior, M. & J. 2 1b. cans Tip by M. & J., 1 1b. cans. ee Royal Java and Mocha...... Java and Mocha Blend...... Boston Combination........ Ja-Vo Blend... Ja-Mo-Ea Biend............ Distributed by Olney & Judson Gro. Co., Grand Rapids, C. El- Hott & Co., Detroit, B. Desen- berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons Bros. & Co., Saginaw, Jackson Grocer Co., Jackson, Meisel & Goeschel, Bay City, Fielbach Co., Toledo. Rio ee 8 MI ee ee oh ee 9 Mexican Me i , Guatemein Cee... 13 Java Se ey etee eine od 12 ames oy Aivionn ee eee 17 EE 25 P i eee 31 Mocha I, oa 21 Package New York Basis. I oi oie ose cc ee 10% —— Lied cube eae euses 10% Jersey.. ie -.10% Se 10 ee s XXXX McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct tc W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract Valley City % gross.. 75 Felix % gross.. As Hummel’s foil % gross... ae 85 Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 143 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle. = a ae is i ee ee 470 Champion En 4 25 NE gcc 4 00 Challenge .. oe Dime. .3 3 Peerless EV ‘aporated Cream. 4 00 eens... 6 10 ee... 3 85 Eee 425 Highland Cream............5 00 St. Charles Cream...........4 50 CRACKERS National Biscuit Co.'s brands Butter Pe a 6% Pe BO ois ee ose ee 64% eS aa 6% Ss 6% ———...- .,, COF Soda Soda = Sk eee neae oan 7 oe cer... 8 Long Island Wafers....... 13 pepeyree................. i anion I le eee ic TR eee eee... 7% Sees Oveier..........-.5 % — Goods—Boxes eee 5. 10 en ORR csc. 10 Belle Rose. ... 8 Bent’s Water 16 Cinnamon Bar. 9 Coffee Cake, Iced 10 Coffee Cake, Java . = Cocoanut Macaroons...... 18 Cocoanut Taily............ 10 Ce 16 ee 8 Cream é ee eae 10% Cubans. ccc sae Currant Fruit............. 12 Pees eee... ...... 12 Frosted Cream 9 Ginger Gems, "3 fe or smi 8 Ginger Snaps, N . & &.. 6% ok cee s eres cae 10% Grandma Cakes........... 9 Graham Crackers......... 8 Graham Wafers........... 12 Grand Rapids Tea........ 16 Honey Frgers.........-... 12 Iced Honey saan ue 10 Imperials.. . Jumbles, Honey. ee ee 12 Lady Fingers ES Tal 12 Lemon ae one ne 12 Lomon Warers............ 16 Pere... 5 se 16 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16 ot a ee 1% a 7% Molasses Cake............ 8 meres FOP.. .... .... 0. 9 mes pony her............ 12% ee a ce 12 Oatmeal Crackers......... 8 Oatmeal Wafers........... 12 CPAO OUND. . on... eocc cose 9 Cranes Gem..-............ 9 Penny Cake.. eee Pilot Bread, ae 7% Pretzelettes, hand made.. 8% Pretzels, hand made...... 8% Sooten Cockies............ 9 eens 1 eoee.............. 7% eer tee... g Sngar Cream. XXX —_ & ee I, 05 oe oso os 8 ee... .. i: oo Tutti Frutti.. 16 Vanilla Wafers. . ie Wiens CHOI. l | E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked good Standard Crackers. Blue Ribbon Squares. Write for complete price list with interesting discounts. CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..... 30 Cee eee 29 DRIED FRUITS Apples Sund ried . @b Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. boxes. 7@ 8 California Prunes 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... 4 90-100 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 4% 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 54 70 - 80 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 5% 60 - 70 25 Ib. boxes ...... @ 6% 50 - 60 25 Ib. boxes ...... @l% 40 - 50 25 Ib. — scenes @ 8x 30-40 25 1b. boxes ..... 9 lg cent less “7 50 Th. cases California Fruits Oe oe @ eee merries .......... Nectarines . ne 8% —- ote cenies games 8 Paes Pitted Cherries... Prunnelles . oe Raspberries .. eos Citron Lesmera.......... 12 ae, ls %e@ 3 Currants California, 1 lb. package... Imported, 1 lb package...... ci eeepeween, ONE... ........ 6% Peel Citron American 19 Ib. bx... Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..13 Orange American 10 Ib. bx..13 Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. 1 75 London Layers 3 Crown. 1 Cluster 4 Crown......... Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 7 Loose Muscatels 3 Crown our eae : b. srown L. M., See eS... ity L. M., Seeded, % Ib... a Sultanas, ae a Sultanas, package .......... 1% FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Lim 5% Medium Hand Picked” 1 20 Brown Holland = 2 Farina 24 1 Ib. pac’ a Bulk, per 100 bs... SRS EST 2 50 — Flake, 50 Ib. sack. . oo. eet. : 00 Pearl, em seek. Maccaroni and “akan Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box.........2 59 a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29 6 7 ee — Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu....... Green, Scotch, bu 1 85 Split, Ib.. —. 4 Rolled ‘Oats Rolled Avena, bbl.. po oe Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sacks.. 2 95 eee, oe... .......-.... 5 50 Monarch, % bbl.. -: OF Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks. —-_ Quaker, aes ae Walsh- Dettoo me *s Brand. GELATINE Knox’s Sparkling........ 1 Knox’s Sparkling,pr gross 14 Knox’s Acidulated........ i 2 Knox’s Acidulat’d,pr gross 14 Re Plymouth Rock. Nelson’ eS Cox’ *s, 2 qt size.. Cox’s, 1-qt size. GRAIN “BAGS Amoskeag, 100 in bale .... peo Amoskeag, less than bale. GRAINS AND FLOUR Wheat —.............. Winter Wheat Flour Local Brands Patents .. Lc, 2 oe Second Patent.. Die ens 3 65 i ec 3 45 —" Beraegee........... 3 15 3 LU aun. 3 20 Buckwheat .. 4 85 ye cl. oo Subject ‘to ‘usual cash dis- ount. Anam in bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad- Cases, 24 2 Ib. packages.....2 00 | diti Sago Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s ~~ ee oe | Diamonds Ha Gorman, Sacks.............. Om | Dione Me. 3 eo German, broken package.. 4 mene 46... 3 60 Tapioca Worden Grocer Co.’s as Flake, 110 lb. sacks......... 434 | Quaker s.. 3 70 Pearl, 130 lb. sacks......... 1 | Game Me... .... = Pearl, 24 1 Ib. pene ne 6% | Quaker \s... 370 heat Cracked, bulk....... 242 bb. packages . " FISHING T ot Wee... 6 144 to z inches. 7 1% to 2 inches 9 1% to2 — ll 2 inches.. 15 Senee......... 30 Cotton Lines No. 1, 10 feet..... 5 No. 2) 15 feet. . 7 No. 3, 15 feet. . 9 No. 4, 15 feet 10 No. 5, 15 feet. 11 No. 6, 15 feet. 12 No. 7, 15 feet. 15 No. 8, 15 feet 18 No. 9, 15 feet... oo. oe Linen Lines ae. ................ 20 Dee, ee i, 26 rE 34 Poles Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.... . 50 Bamboo, 16 ft.. per doz...... S Bamboo. 18 ft , per doz...... FLAVORING EXTRACTS. FOOTE & JENKS’ JAXON Sinect Grade en Vanilla tena. 1 20 secten 1 =. 80 20z full m.2 10 20z full m.1 25 ss 8 15 _No. _— 1 78 Vanilla Lemon = anel..1 20 20Zz a. 75 aper..2 00 40z taper..1 50 Folding Boxes D. C. Lemon Bp. C. —_— ee... 7 2.....- cus if 4a.... 3 00 6 OZ... oe €e...,.. 3 00 Taper Bottles D. C. Lemon ». C. — a mm 268....... 12 2oe....... [= sc....... 2 0 =..... to 4cf....... 2 40 Full Measure D. C. Lemon D. c. —_ | oe. oS tee....... 2e2....... em 262....... 1 = 40z. 72 Sec... .. 3 0U “‘Tropie al Extracts 2 0z. full measure, Lemon.. 75 4 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 1 50 2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 90 4 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 80 FLY PAP ER Tanglefoot, per box.......... 35 Tanglefoot. per case........ 3 20 FRESH MEATS Beef Carcass. 5 @7% Forequarters . 56 @6& Hindquarters .. 7 @8 Loins. _ 9 @14 a 7 @12 eee 6 @7% Chucks ce 5 @6 Plates ae 5 @ Pork peoeewh ee @9 oe 13 @13% Boston aa... . @iz Shoulders . aos @il Leaf Lard.. @12 Mutton Careass .. es 5 @7 RIE ossisnse Veal Oarcags.............. 64@ 8 Spring ‘Wheat Flour Clark Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand Pillsbury’s Best %s....... 4 40 Pillsbury’s Best 4s. . 4 30 Pilisbury’s Best %s.. . 4 Pillsbury’s Best %s paper. 20 Pilisbury’s Best ‘4s paper. 4 20 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand | Duluth Imperial }s....... 44 Duluth Imperial — a ~ Duluth Imperial ‘S.. 4 20 Lemon & Brand Wingold s. Wingold 4s Wines 766.............. Olney & - wane 8 bchacapeaay Ceresota s. 4 35 425 415 4 59 440 30 Ceresota ‘4s.. oe Ceresota 8. 4 Worden Grocer Go. 5 Brand Laurel ¥s. 4 30 Laurel igs... beta euns wees ones 4 20 Laurel \s. 4 10 Laurel %s and ys. paper... 410 Meal —... =o 2 90 Feed and Millstatts St. Car Feed, screened.... 24 25 | 0'Bp PICKLES Medium | Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 8 00 Half bbis, 600 count......... 4 25 Small | Barrels, 2,408 counsé ......... 9 50 | Half bbls, 1,200 count . -5 20 PLAYING CARDS No. 90, Steamboat......... 90 , | No. 15, Rival, assorted.... 1 20 No. 20, Rover, enameled.. 1 60 No. O92, Soeces. 1 75 No 98, Golf. satin finish.. 2 00 No. 808, Bicycle 3 No. 632, eee t Whist. 2 25 POTASH 48 cans in case. Babbitt’s .. iiss cea on Penna Salt Co.’s............. 3 00 PROVISIONS Barreled Pork — @l7 26 Back . eae @19 50 Clear back........... @20 50 Short cut.. es @19 75 ee 22 00 Bean @17 5) Familiy Mess Loin.. on = Best grade Imported Japan, been seen e600 é 3 pound pockets, 33 to ~ Dry Salt Meats a Belg 12 | Cost of packing in cotton pock. ag 18% | | ets only %e more than bul Extra shorts......... 11% SALAD DRESSING Smoked Meats _ Cream, hae 2 doz. .1 85 oy | Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz...1 90 — -— ae ¢ = Alpha Cream, small, 3doz.. 9% Hams, 16 1b. average. @ 12% | | Durkee’s, large, t deg. 415 Hams, zo, average. @ 12% | | Durkee’s, small, 2 doz....... 485 Ham dried beef. .... @ 12% | SALERATUS Shouldenet N. Y. cut) @ | Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Haoen, clear. ........ @ 15 | Churech’s Arm and Hammer. : s | California hams..... om | GIA Sw. Boiled Hams.. g 18 a wuteien s a 15 Picnic Boiled Hams @ 13% | Emblem. SS Berlin Ham pr’s’d oS ei 3 00 Mince Hams ....... 8%@ 10 Wyandotte, 100 %s.......... 3 00 ae | SAL SODA Compound........... 5g a @ 7% | Granulated, bbis............ 96 60 lb. Tubs... advance % | Granulated, 100 Ib. cases... 80 lb. Tubs..advance % | Lump, bbis.. ssees 50 Ib. Tins... advance s Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs........... 95 20 Ib. Palls..advance SALT 10 Ib. Pails..advance % Alb. Pails..advance 1 Diamond Crystal 21h Paollg advance 1 Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40 Vemotmie............. 8 | Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags. 3 00 Sausages Table, barrels, 407 Ib. bags.2 75 Helier 6 | Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 65 ae 6% | Butter, barrels, 20 — _— 2 85 Frankfort ag | Butter, sacks, 28 - 20 Pork .... @a%s Rutter, sacks, 56 oa ——. & ae i LR 24% | . eco sone ee 8% Common Grades Beef | | No. 1 Corn and ——. |. i" 25 Economy wv Feedin 100 sacks. .. =o Corn Meal, coarse. 35 25 Corn Meal, Goe............ 24 00 Winter W neat Bran....... = 00 | Winter Wheat Middlings. 18 00 | tose Pood. ...............- 7 00 | Dorcas ..;............- 16 00 Oats Car beter... ......... orn Coen, cae tos... Ot Hay No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 09 00 No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00 HERBS Hops ..... 15 Laure! Leaves. 15 Senna Leaves... _ INDIGO Madras, 5 lb. boxes ........... 55 S&S. F., 2,8 ana Gib. boxes...... 50 JELLY 5 lb. —_ per dog........ 1 85 i Soe... £86... 40 SS ae 80 LICORICE TO oecccc ce cot t ec cs | Oe CO ee LYE Condensed, 2 doz.. 8 2 | Condensed, 4 doz.. coe ae MEAT EXTRACTS Armour & Co.’s, 2 0Z.. 4 45 iacper as, 2 OF..........<... 2 75 MOLASSES New Orleans Fancy —* _— 40 Choice... ons 35 ee 26 Half-barrels 2¢ extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1 78 Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50 Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz........ 1 75 OLIVES Bulk, 1 gal. kegs......... - 135 Bulk, 3 eal. kegs........... 1.0 Pee, © ek. BOee........... 1 05 Manze, 7 oc. ......... 80 Coupon, Dies... ...... 2-0... 2 35 OO ae 4 50 ee 7 00 Seas, © Gh. 4... 5.05.00 90 ee 145 Stuffed, ee. ....<..... 2 30 PIPES View, OO We. os gs 170 Halford, large. . ee Halord, smaii............. : HY TEA Japan Sundried, medium .......... 31 Sundried, choice............ 33 Suandried, fancey............. 43 Regular, medium............ 31 Regular, choice ............. 33 egman, taney .............. 43 Basket-fired, medium....... 31 Basket-fired, choice......... 38 Basket-fired, fancy.......... 43 ee 30 CO 19@21 Ceereeee................ 20@22 Gunpowder Moyune, modium ........... 29 Moyune, choice..... --38 Moyune, fanc ..53 Pingsuey, medium ae Pingsuey, choice.. ooSe Pingsuey, fancy..... oon Young Hyson oo ee 30 Po ones 8. 38 Oolong Pormoes, faney.............. 42 Amoy, medium. eaceee acess 25 PY GROG once 5s cnn 32 English Breakfast ee Cholee.. ee oe sec wee ames 34 eee... 42 India COMNOEL, ORONEE. «6.655.556 5-. 82 Oe oe 42 a Cig: H. & P. Drug C Co. ’ —, Fortune Teller.. es 35 00 Our Manager.. . . 35 00 Guintatia . 85 06 G. J. Johnson.Cigar Co. s brand. “ ScW Cigar Citppings, | per ib..... 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ae Lubetsky on brands bik ce cee te 35 00 Daily Mail, 5c edition....... 35 00 Fine Cut ee 54 Sweet Loma. . eee 33 Hiawatha, 5 Ib. pails Le Hiawatha, 10 Ib. pemeernts Bi Teleeram...... ee ere... Prairta Raga on oe 49 oe 37 a eee... 38 SL 38 Plug Red “rnas, _.. et deee oe ee Kalo Dee ee 31 ee ee 34 condi Sele ee ee cee ccee 41 re a... American Eagle. oe 32 Standard eT 35 Spear Head, 16 0z.......-.-- 41 = ee. oe... 43 eee See. 48 Jolly —_— ....... 36 Old ameahy ee ee 42 oes... -...-- z+... 36 Piper Heidsick.......... .... (1 Oe 73 ee Or eee........... Black Standard..... ee Cadillae _—. a Forge a Nickel Twist.. oe ere Sweet Core.. oo: oe ae a eey.........-.. -.... 000 Warpath ee el Bam 00, 16 0Z. i ee ‘XL, 6m. Sh ea LX L, 160z. pails. a 39 Honey Dew . oe aoe oee,................. 35 Oo 38 oeee.....--....-........... 2 aoe 21 Duke’s Mixture....... <1 te Duke’s Cameo....... — myrtie Navy .....-.....--...08 Yum Yum, 1% oz. oe Yum Yum, 1 ib. pails. a 37 ————————— 35 Corn Cake, 2% 0Z....---..---22 le Cane, 1 iD..........-... 20 Poe eo, oe oe... ........ 1 Plow Boy, 34s 02... : Peerless, 34% 0Z.... Peerless, 1% OZ.........-.--- 34 ae Brake. ......... 36 cont Peek....-... : (oaniry Cee. ............024 oe eee... ..-.+--- 28 ———————e 23 Self Binder ee See... 34 TWINE 8 Soe... 16 een, 2 O.......... 16 Ce a oie ee 12 ae ee... ...... 20 oe 7% VINEGAR Mait White Wine, 40 grain.. 8 Mali White Wine, &9 grain..11 Pure Cider, B. & B. brand. .11 Pure Cider, Red Star........11 Pure Cider, Robinson. ......11 Pose (eee, See... ...... il WASHING POWDER Diamond Flake.. oa. Oe 3 Gold Dust, regulsr-.. ee 4 50 ee see oo... ......,.. 4 00 ska ag 24 41b.. on se ....L 275 Soapine...... 410 Babbitt’s 17 76. i. 3 75 Roseine.. ee 3 50 ee ee 37 ae ee, 3 80 i i 3 50 -o-ore................ 887 WICKING No. 0, per gross... oe No. !, per gross..... No. ? per gross. No.3 perarnss ™ WOODENWARE Baskets Bushels . . Bushels, wide pene 1 25 a... Splint, large... ee -6 00 & Splint, medium .... — oo e..............., Willow Clothes, large. Willow Clothes, medium. Willer Clothes. emall.. Bradley Butter Boxes HNO HOD 388 © So 2 lb. sie, 24 in ease... 72 3 Ib. ce, Gin cace......... Ge > iD. size, (2 im ceee......... Gs = i>. cies, 6 in Ceee......... 60 Butter Plates No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 40 No. 2 Ovai, 250 in crate...... 45 No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 50 No. 5 Oval, 250 in trate... .. 6 Churns 3arrel, 5 gals.,each.... <2 farrei. Wealks.. caoh...._... 2 55 Barrel, 15 gals., each........ 2 70 Clothes Pins Round head, 5 gross box.... 50 Round head. eertons...... 75 Egg Crates Humpty —— - eke ee ee 2 2 No. 1, complete . i ee he oc ns neces 18 i3 Faucets (ern Boed. cin... .. Corn eed om... 5... Cork ned, 10 in. ....... 85 —— oe 65 Mop Sticks Trojan spring 90 Eclipse patent spring .. 85 No i common. 75 No. 2 patent brush holder . 85 12 BD. cotton mop heads..... 1125 No. 7 Tdeal No Pails 2hoop Standard............. 3-hoop Standard...... 2-wire, Cable.. 3-wire, Cable.. Cedar, all red, ‘brass bound. Paper, Eureka. tia itetetete 8 Fibre.. _ len awe... ............ 2 50 cote eeara, | 2% ET le Traps Mouse, wood, 2 holes........ 22 Mouse, wood, 4 holes.. ..... 45 Mouse. wood, 6 holes....... Mouse, tin, 5 holes... Rat, wood. : Rat, spring.. ‘Tubs, 20-inch, Standard, No. 18-Inch, Standard, No. 16-inch, aes No. 20-Inch, Cable, No. 1.. 18-inch, Cable, No. 16-inch, Cable, No. No. 1 a cis eeeee cece No. 2 Fibre.. No. 3 Fibre.. Bronze Globe.. .. Dewey . Doubie Acme. Single Acme.. Double Peeriess.. Single Peerless.. Northern Queen . ae soncenee Double Duplex...... Wash eee a. . anes 8888 NNOCUG IOC 3 re) SERS SSRSaaS Good Luck — rr ee 25 Window Cleaners eee 1 65 ...... a ———————— oe Wood Bowls a ee. Oe 13 tn. Babee 10 Oe ee eee 2 Oe 17 in. Butter. ... 19 in. Butter... Assorted 13-15-17. en Assorted 15-17-19 ..... Peace rm 17 WRAPPING PAPER Common Straw....... Fiber Manila, white Fiber Manila, colored... . | No. 1 Manila.. Cream Manila........ Butcher’s Manila.. ... ia 1% a 3 2% Wax Butter, short count. 13 Wax Butter, fullcount.... 2u War Barer, roes..... .... 15 ao agggl CAKE re eee. Suniight, 30: ee 1 00 Sees, 1, Oet...........- 50 Yeast Cream, 3 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Foam, 3 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Foam,1% doz.... 50 FRESH FISH Per Ib. White fish... ier soe frout.. ss = 2 a Bass. Ibu! - -10@ li @ 14 a oe or Herring. . @ 5 Bluefish . ——- -_ = Live Lobster... |. | @ 2 Bolied Lobseter........ a a 4 ee @ 10 —s............ B & No.1 Pickerel......... @ 84 ae. -— Ff Perch ., —. @ s&s Smoked Whits.. ——— a oe Red Snapper Sm Coil River Salmon . -.12%@ 3 Mackere ...... @ 18 HIDES AND ‘PELTS idea Crees oe. f.......- @™ Green No. 2..... .. Boh ioe ei......... Qo Cures he.2... .... @® Calfskins.green No. 1 @ 9% Calfskins,green No.2 @x Calfskins,cured No.1 @i0% Calfskins,cured No.2 @9: Pelts oe 4h Oe............ a Sheariings .... ..... Taliow at mee Wool Woshet, Ene... .... Washed, medium... Unwashed, fine..... Unwashed, medium. CANDIES 50@1 80 at@ 65 40@ 55 16318 Stick Candy Standard . Standard H. ‘f. Standard Twist. .... Ce ....... Jumbo, #0 a... . Extra H. H bbis. palis @ QZ @B @9 cases @ 7% @10% @10 Qe i4 Mixed Candy oe Bee Cut Loaf. . ne English Rook. -.--. Kindergarten . . Bon Ton Cream..... French Cream....... Desay Fan... — Made Cre-~ —s. Crystal Cream mix e REX a ay SCOT SCCHHMCHOINIIVAS QPHOHHOHHOHHHOHS Fancy—In Pais Champ. Crys. Gums. Pony Earts...... Fairy Cream Squares Fudge Squares Peanut Squares. .... Sugared Peanuts.... Salted Peanuts...... Starlight Kisses..... San Bias Goodies.... Lozenges, plain ..... lozenges, printed Champion Chocolate Eclipse Chocolates... Quintette Choe...... Gam Dreps.......... Moss Drops.. Lemon Sours. . — a. . Cream ‘Opera... Hal. Cream Bonbons 20 Ib. patis. Molasses Chews, i “15 Ib. pails . Golden W. ‘afties . — e Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes Lemon Sours. Peppermint Drops.. Cc ae Drops .. M. Choc. Drops.. E M. Choc. - and Dk. No. 12.. Gum Drops..... Licorice an. os Lozenges, plain..... Lozenges, —— Imper als... —- Mottoes . oe Cream Bar......... Molasses Bar.. Hand Made Creams. Cream Buttons, Pep. and Wint..... ow Biring Rock......... Wintergreen Berries Caramels Clipper, 20 Ib. gp Perfection, 20 pis Amazon, C ‘hoe C tov'd Korker 2 for le pr bx Big 3, 3 for 1¢ pr bx.. Dukes, 2 for le pr bx Favorite, 4 for le, bx AA Cream Car’ls 31D FRUITS Oranges Florida Russett...... Florida Bright...... Fancy Navels....... Extra Choice... Late Valencias...... Lemens Verdelli, ex fey 300.. Verdelli, fey 300... Verdelli, ex chee 300 Verdelli, fey 360. .... Cali Lemons, 300... .. Messinas 300s...... Messinas 360s...... Bananas Medium bunches... Large bunches...... Jamaicas. Rod 80 @90 @ @60 @ 8% Q@i2s6 @60 $8 OHASGSH SOHSOHHHSOH & ® Ys g 3 50¢ z a 3 1 50@2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits Fi g8 Californias, Fancy.. Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes Extra Choice, Turk., i Sees .......... Fancy, Tkrk., 12 Ib. ee Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... Naturals, in pn .. ates Fards in 10 iD. boxes Fards tn 60 Ib. cases ——e............. Ib. cases, new..... Sairs, 60 Ib. cases... .. NUTS Almonds, Tarragona Almonés, iyiea ... ALmenas, é uifornta, soft snelled.. es... ee Walnuts Grenobles. Walnut, soft shelled California No. 1... Table Nuts, ‘nse Pecans, Med.... Pecans, Ex. Larg: e.. Pecans, oer — Hickory Nuts per bu. Ohio, new. Cocoanuts, full sacks Chestnuts, per bu. eanuts Fancy, H. P., Suns.. Fancy, ae P..t Suns Choice, H.P., Choice H. P. Jumbo Span. Shilé Na. 7 rw @ @1 00 STONEWARE Butters wal.. per dov..... 48 1 to 6 gal., sit haat 5% 8 gal. each... 48 10 gal. each.. “ 60 Seles... 72 Po eal. mea ie, Oath... .... 12 20 eal. mesttubs, cach... .............. 1 50 Zo @Al. mesttabs, eben. ............... 2 a0 al. meat-tubs, cack... ............ 2 55 Churns SreGee wore... __............: 6 "arn DASROPSs, per dan............... 84 Milkpans % ga. fist or rd. bot., per doz. ........ 48 i gal. nat or rd. bot,, each...... us 5% Fine Glazed Milkpans ‘4 gal flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 60 i wal. Gat of ni. bet. caeh.......... .. € Stew pans % gal. fireproof, bail, per doz... ..... 85 1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10 Jugs or pee... 56 eee... CC 42 oa ee... «Ck, 7 Sealing Wax os. oes, oe .............. 2 LAMP BURNERS eee. 35 aie... 36 oe 48 tte 85 Tuabualar..... Le 50 Mater... .... .. 50 MASON FRUIT JARS With Porcelain Lined Caps — LU : 25 per gross orcs .... ... 50 per gross a... 6 50 per gross Fruit Jars packed 1 dozenin box LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of ; doz. ae... 1 6: ae 184 aes... 2 30 Anchor Carton Chimneys Each chimney in corrugated carton. No. 174 No. 1 96 No. 2 90 First Quality No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 91 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 258 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 08 XXX Flint No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75 No. 2 Sun, erimp top, — ved & lab. 3 75 No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab...... 4 00 Pearl Top No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 60 No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 5 20 No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled..... 5 10 No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe EE ES 80 La Bastie No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 00 No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........ 1 26 mo. 1 Crimp, per der... 1 35 oe. 2 Cr, per Gee... 1 60 Rochester No. 1 Lime (65¢ i c 3 50 No. 2 Lime (75¢ doz 4 00 No. 2 Flint (80e doz)-- 4 60 Electric mee, 2 Lee (yee ee)... ........,.._... 4 00 No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz)........ ena a 4 60 OIL CANS 1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 1 30 1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 1 5) 2 gal. gaiv. tron with spout, per doz.. 2 50 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 3 50 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 459 3 gal. galy. iron with faucet, per doz.. 3 73 5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, - doz.. 5 00 Dae Pee ee 7 00 S eal. galv. ron Nacemas.............. 9 00 LANTERNS No. 0 Tubular, side — ee 47! No. 1B Tubular. Ss 7 2 No. 15 Tubular, ce 72 No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain......... 7 50 Bo. 12 Tubular, 60 lnmep............. 13 50 No. 3 Street lamp, ee... 3 60 LANTERN GLOBES No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 16¢ 45 ° No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢ 45 No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 1 75 No.0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 1 25 BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS Roll contains 32 yards in one _ No. 0, %4-inch wide, per gross or rol 18 No. 1 5, ineh wide, per gross or roll. 24 No. 2,1 inch wide, per gross or roll... 34 No. 3, 1% inch wide, per gross or roll.. 53 COUPON BOOKS 50 books, any denomination.............. 1 50 100 books, any denomination.............. 2 50 500 books, any denomination.. oo 1,000 books, any denomination.............. 20 00 i) Above quotations are for either Tradesman, Superior, Economic or Universal grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered at a time customers re- ceiv e specially charge. Coupon Pass Books printed cover without extra Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 down. 50 books . Le eel ete pee eee 1 50 cities a 2 50 adh a ee 11 50 OO ~1 cone oe Credit Checks 508, any One @enomination................ 2.00 1,000, any one denomination................ 3 00 2,000, any one denomination...........-- 5 00 iil bbbkdk cus sinahe oobednusndeans 75 Our Catalogue is “Our Drummer” It lists the largest line of gen- eral merchandise in the world. It is the only representative of one of the six largest commercial establishments in the United States. It sells more goods than any four hundred salesmen on the road and at 1-5 the cost. It has but one price and that is the lowest. Its prices are guaranteed and do not change until another catalogue is issued. No discount sheets to bother you. It tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It never wastes your time or urges you to ov erload your stock. It enables you to select your goods according to your own best judgment and with freedom from undue influence. It will be sent to any merchant Ask for catalogue J. upon request. Butler Brothers 230 to 240 Adams St., Chicago We Sell at Wholesale only. Don’t Do Don’t place your order for oyster crackers until you have investigated the merits of Standard Bud Oyster Crackers Manufactured by €. J. Kruce & Co. Detroit, Mich. We will send you our price list and tell you all about our line if you say so. Don’t Miss SSSSSSSSSESOSSSSESSHSSS SSS SES ESSS ESE SEESESESECESESSSESSS EEC ESEEESEEEEEESES ee did = MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 The Man on the Road. The man on tke road is in business for himself, just as much as any _stock- holder in the firm he represents. His trade is distinctly his; his customers wait for bis visit, buy on his recom- mendation, and mail their orders to him. If he changes houses, his patrons follow him. His salary is based on the volume of business, as is tbe profit of any manufacturer or merchant. He is in business for himself without the investment of cash capital. Any young man who can sell goods can get into business for himself. The newsboy, the clerk, or the farm boy must not wait for some manufac- turer to send for him te fill a five-thous- and-dollar position. Such dilatory evi- dence is not a mark of salesmanship. Neither should either expect vcluntary promotion, but must advance himself by a show of persistence for the place he wants. After a few years’ experience as a drug clerk, I wanted to try the road, | applied to the head of a wholesale drug house, saying that | was willing to commence at any job and work up. ‘“Where do you want to work up to?’’ asked the manager, **Well, sir, | want to go on the road.’’ ‘“Then be careful where you begin to work up from, and get as near as you can to the place you want,’’ he said. ‘Downstairs we have a man that began as a boy over thirty years ago, washing bottles. He became such an_ expert bottle-washer that we could not afford to advance him, because we did not know how we could replace him.’’ ‘*Suppose,’’ said I, ‘‘he had de- manded a better place, on the ground of faithfulness to duty.’’ ‘“‘But he did not, and there is where he probably failed to advance himself. He is too old—washing bottles is all he is good for now,’’ The foregoing narrative is true, which may account for its variation from some of the storybook episodes. A young man, to get on the road, must know where to draw the line in obedience, and when to quit washing bottles, Every issue of smoke from every fac- tory says: ‘‘We are making goods to be sold.’’ Every boat and railroad en- gine says: ‘‘We are hauling goods to be sold.’’ In every publication thous- ands are calling: ‘*We have goods to be sold.’’ New inventions daily pro- claim: ‘‘Improved goods to be sold.’’ The masses are crying: ‘‘We want the goods that are to be sold.’* Then what? Why! there is always room for a medium between those who buy and those who sell. The firm, however, that employs a salesman must know that he is that medium, and he must be will- ing to prove that he is by going out for a week’s trial without salary, at his own expense, if necessary. There is room for men that can build, command and bold trade. a How Not to Write Advertisements. ‘*The philosophy of advertising,’’ says Jas. H. Collins in Printers’ Ink, ‘‘is pretty well defined now—that people read advertisements for information, just as they read murder trials and Washington correspondence. The head of a news story is the index to it and the bait set for readers. The head over an advertisement should follow the same principle. The advertisement that con- tains the most information sticks out of the page for the reason that its catch- phrase is the introduction of a vitally interesting story, The old-fashioned ad- vertisement writer was wont to catch his reader’s eye with lines such as ‘Houses and Lots Free,’ or ‘Gold Dollars Absolutely Given Away.’ Every one knows the shifty style of story that followed such titles, and only the gullible were caught by them. The day of the dishonest advertisement is over. Honesty is the poiicy followed by most of the advertisers who use paid Space to increase their business, and facts are their best arguments. There- fore, let the novice choose a strong, clean catch-phrase and go directly into the heart of his story—just as neatly and plumply as he would make a dive into water. Let him come to plain ‘shop’ at once, without hemming or hawing.’’ ak i ae - A David Harum Trade. There is a citizen in New York who decided to treat himself to a horse and runabout. In every case he insisted upon knowing the attitude of the pros- pective purchase in relation to auto- mobiles. ‘‘I don’t want my neck broken daily,’’ he would say. There was a horse that suited him. ‘‘I can warrant him on the automobile question, ’’ said the Jersey farmer who owned him. ‘‘I will guarantee that he will pass a dozen an hour all day long and never look at one of them.’ ‘Will you give me a written state- ment to that effect?’’ wilt,’ The sale was made. For once a Jer- sey man had told the truth in a horse trade. The horse was blind. a Animals That Sleep Little. The term sleep, is, after all, a rela- tive one. The turtle, ‘for instance, the best type of sluggish life, lives to a very old age without sleeping in the human sense of the word, because its animal functions are performed so slowly that the organs do not need that restoration which higher organisms do. So, too, it is said, although without definite proof, that certain fish never sleep. Goldfish, pike and salmon are included in this category, but there is no absolute proof that the periods of rest which these fish are constantly ob- served to take are not to them the equiv- alent of sleep. Of highly organized creatures, the elephant can do hard work on four or five hours’ sleep out of twenty-four. a It seems to be easier for some of us to break our backs undoing than to lift out little ies = : John “ang Machine Co. The new machine shop. to-date machinery. central. Up- Location Manufacturers of CLIPPER PARTS and extra parts for all makes of BICYCLES Full assortment extra Clipper parts carried in stock. Also manufacturers light machin- ery to order, modeis for pat- ents, dies and tools of every description. ES Estimates given on each piece of work. Office and Shop 87 Campau Street Grand Rapids, Mich. Citizens Telephone 1197. GPELLLLLALLLAALLLALLLLALARALKARRRALLLLRKLALK GB) An Important Subject, Letter Writing It is a sur prising — that busi ness men aka are gressive and up-to date ; aes li lly willing sto adopt new ideas, when those ide: is have been proven good ones, will still continue to write their pin siness letters with a pen; these same men willinvoh or form an opinion of the standing of the wholesale house which Saoubd do such a thing, are easily within their reach. A Fox Typewriter is easy to buy and anvone can soon le arn to oper- ate chi anu rapidly than they can write with a pen. In buyi writing machine, though, get good one and Save vours ate lo ots a annoyance, hence the necessity of getting * A FC vill advise us that you are ‘ekaconaa we will acquaint you fully with the typewriter and ‘en- able you to try it for ten days. Let us at least send you our catalogue. and yet tvpewritte n letters Fox Typewriter Co., Ltd. 350 N. Front St. Grand Rapids, Mich Kent County Savings Bank Deposits exceed = 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 = Us All about Detroit PRESSURE and GRAVITY Ames & Clark, Detroit., Michigan F. M. C. COFFEES are always Fresh Roasted Cone rrr ree) Lot 125 Apron Overall $7.50 per doz Lot 275 Overall Coat $7.75 per doz. Made from 240 woven stripe, double cable, indigo blue cotton cheviot, stitched in white with ring buttons. Lot 124 Apron Overall $5.00 per doz. Lot 274 Overall Coat $5.50 per doz. Made from 250 Otis woven stripe, indigo blue suitings, stitched in white. We use no extract goods as they are tender and will not wear. [En CorHINc@ FACTOR GRAND RAPIOS, MICH. 32 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Boys Behind the Counter. Stanton—Ernest Camburn, after an absence of six months, is again hehind the counter in the department store of Curtis Ball. Calumet—William J. Light, manager of the Tamarack co-operative store here, has resigned and will remove to Sault Ste. Marie to take charge of his large lumber business in that city. Mr. Light has been manager of the Tamarack co- operative store ever since it was es- tablished in 1890. The concern is one of the largest in the Upper Peninsula, and its annual business is over $400,000 The company is owned by mine officials and workingmen. Stanton—Jack Rossman, for the past two years with George C. Prevette, fur- niture and undertaking, has removed to Sidney Center, where he will engage in the harness and shoe repairing business. Marquette—Charles B. Sande, who has been a popular employe at Stafford’s drug store for the past two and a half years, has removed to Eau Claire, Wis., to take the management of the Playter Pharmacy Co, Stanton—Miss Mattie Bucanning, of Cadillac, has taken a position as _ sales- lady in the dry goods department of M. W. Stevenson. Alma—C. E. Silsbee, for the past four years in charge of the clothing depart ment at Vermeulen’s has resigned to accept a position with Mockett, the large retail clothier of Toledo. Charlotte—E. L. Coy has resigned his position with R.C. Jones & Co. and returned to the grocery store of Geo. H. Tubbs, where he will take charge of the crockery department. Stanton—Ed, Stevenson, formerly with the E. D. Hawley Co., has taken a position in a drug store at St. Charles. Ypsilanti—Frank Ellis, the well-known shoe salesman, will leave soon for Springfield, Ill., where he has taken a position in the shoe department of the E. & W. clothing house. Mr. Ellis clerked a number of years for Joseph King, of the Chicago shoe store, and has spent the past two and a half years in Owosso. Homer—Joseph Worden has moved with his family to St. Joseph, where he has taken a position with the Neutro Crisp Food factory. Linn Mead, who graduated from the high school last June, will fill the vacancy in Hunter's store made by Mr. Worden’s departure. Stanton—Ray King, for several years head clerk for M. W. Stevenson, has resigned his position to accept another in the South. ———_>0.—___ Manufacturine Matters. Caro—The Lacy Shoe Co. has filed articles of incorporation with a capital stock of $60,000, Detroit—The Detroit Folding Cart Co. has increased its capital stock from $5,000 to $10, C00, Port Huron—The capital stock of the Aikamn Bakery Co. has been increased from $15,000 to $30,000. Escanaba—The Iron Port Lumber Co, has recently increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $100, 000, Stronach—McKillop & Hopper Man- ufacturing Co. has been organized with a capital stock of $25,000. Detroit—The Burr Tool & Manufac- turing Co. has filed articles of associa- tion with a capital stock of $5,000. Marshall—The style of the Lambert Good Food Co., Limited, has been changed to the Malt-Wheat Biscuit Co. Limited. Detroit—The Sterling & Skinner Manufacturing Co., manufacturer of brass goods, has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $35, 000. Detroit—The Buick & Sherwood Manufacturing Co. is succeeded by the Standard Manufacturing Co., of New Jersey, in the manufacture of sanitary specialties. Battle Creek—Tarta Fruit Co., Ltd., is the latest addition to the long list of aspirants for public favor recently launched here. The company is capi- talized at $300, 000, Jackson—Edmund S. Bowman has merged his shirt waist manufacturing business into a corporation with a cap- ital stock of $30,000. The new style is the E. S. Bowman Co. Tekonsha—Stock to the amount of 2,900 has been subscribed by the farm- ers of this vicinity for the erection of a cheese factory at this place. Work on the building will be begun at once. Baltic—The South Range Lumber Co. expects to open a_ large general store at this place about the first of the year. The contract for the erection of the building will shortly be awarded. Hillsdale—The Fleming Window Screen Co. has begun operations in its new building for the fall and winter work. . The factory has a capacity for turning out about seventy-five dozen completed window screens a day. Mt. Pleasant—The Mt. Pleasant Sugar Co, has purchased the tract of land of about 100 acres included between the Ann Arbor and Pere Marquette Rail- roads, fronting on Pickard avenue and north of the Bradley bridge, and will shortly erect a large factory building. Detroit—The paint factories in De- troit that use pig lead look upon the new $6,000,000 combine as possibly a benefit if it does not become too arbi- trary, for it is said that a combine of that kind usually steadies the market for the raw material and the paint men can tell where they are at with greater certainty. Concord—The Crystal Creamery As- sociation has been organized at this place with the following officers: Presi- dent, Geo. Pretty; Secretary, Henry Dart; Treasurer, Henry Findley. The new concern has a capital stock of $5,000 and will begin operations with a Capacity for handling the milk of 600 cows. A building will be erected 26x58 feet in dimensions, which will be equipped with the latest improved ma- chinery for buttermaking. The business will be conducted on the co-operative plan. Lawton—Six hundred tons of Concord grapes will be converted into grape juice at one mill that has just been started here. The product will be go,000 gallons from grapes now being picked. The new concern has a capital of $400,- ooo, and is being managed by Frank E. Morrill, one of the practical grape growers of this section. Another press, with a capital of $50,000, on the asso- ciation plan, will be established this year at Lake Cora, which has become the center of some of the finest grape country in Michigan. Business Hons 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. Wy Anrep FOR CASH—LUMBER OF ALL kinds; also shingles and lath. Will con- tract mill cuts. Belding-Hall Mfg. Co., Belding, Mich, 764 VOR SALE—GROCERY AND MARKET doing good business; one of the best loca- tions in East Saginaw; good opportunity; ex- penses low; best reasons for selling; investigate. Address No. 761, care Michigan Tradesman. 761 OR SALE—THE BEST PAYING GRv- cery business in the best town in Michigan, doing strictly cash business; no credit; stock willinvoice about $1,600 and in elegant condi- tion; reason for selling, have other business that needs attention. Address Grocer 129, Colfax avenue, Benton Harbor, Mich. 760 {OR SALE—$5,000 STOCK OF GENERAL merchandise; stock, with exception of a few shoes and groceries. all new within last six months; can be reduced to suit purchaser; lo- cated in hustling town of 600 in the best farming section in Central Michigan. Good reasons for selling. Address No. 759, care Michigan — man. 75! OR SALE—BAZAAR STOCK AND FIX- tures; will invoice $2,000; splendid chance for a hustling business man in a live town of 1,500 people. Address 758, care Michigan Tradesman. 758 | SALE—A STOCK OF GROCERIES, hardware and other merchandise amounting to $2,009 will be sold at a bargainforcash. This stock formerly belonged to Palmeter & Pratt. of Ashley, and was assigned to me by them for the benefit of thir creditors. For particulars write to Chas. H. Smith, Trustee, Saginaw, Mich., care Wm. Barie Dry Goods Co. 757 } OW TO WIN-ON THE NICKEL-IN-THE- slot game of chance machines. Send stamp for sample of slugs or checks. H. Morris, 1133 Bellevue Ave., Detroit, Mich. 756 RUG STOCK WANTED IN EXCHANGE for a good stock farm of 180 acres, ten miles from Ann Arbor, Mich., with 40 acres of timber; wish drug stock in city of 5,000 or 10,00. well lo- cated; will give a good bargain. Address L. Anderson, 116 Cedar St., Lansing, Mich. 755 T= SALE—DRUG STOCK, INVOICING $800; only drug stock in town; sales last year, $2,900; good reason for selling. Address 754, care Michigan Tradesman. 754 {XCHANGE FOR GOOD STOCK A FRUIT _4 farm of 156 acres, free and clear, located near Lowe'l; want a general stock of merchan dise. Address Chas. E. Mercer, Widdicomb Bldg, Grand Rapids. 741 RINTING, PUBLISHING PLANT AND two newspapers for sale: Daily and weekly paper, with or without publishing plant; also completely equipped printing, publishing and bookbinding plant in city near Detroit of 14,000 and county of 47,671 inhabitants in 1900; imme- diate sale; terms cash. Address or telegraph a to Detroit Trust Company, De- roit. 765 ANTED—STOCK OF MERCHANDISE for improved Iowa farm. Want to get into business and will exchange on right basis and give good bargain. Notraders need answer. Address No. 763, care Michigan Tradesman. 763 ,}OR SALE—BRICK STORE BUILDING, 22 x60 feet, with frame addition on back, 22x40 feet, two stories, with living rooms above. For = address J. L. Farnham, Mancelona, ch. 707 VOR SALE—A GOOD FIRST-CLASS 10 horse livery; only one in town of 9€0; good trade and everything in good order. Address Philip Taylor, Saranac, Mich. 636 SS OF GENERAL MER- chandise, for which I will pay spot cash. Must be cheap enough to enable me to move them. F. L. Orcutt, Beulah, Mich. 657 YOR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIX- tures; only one in good prosperous town on railroad; good business; stock about $1,200; cash, no trades. Address George, care Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 671 JOR SALE—31,700 DRUG STOCK AND FIX- tures; can be bought at great discount for cash. Address P. O. Box 222, Saginaw, Mich. 67 j}OR SALE—HOME IN FLORIDA; FOUR- teen acres, eight acres bearing orange trees; good buildings; good neighbors; near railroad; healthy location; will sell for $3,000 cash or take clean stock of merchandise (Northern Michigan or Wisconsin preferred ) in exchange. Address No. 672, care Michigan Tradesman. 672 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 OR SALE—GOOD 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 | SALE — FINE YIELDING 40 ACRE farm in Kalamazoo county; buildings; all under cultivation; value, $1,200. Address No. 522, care Michigan Tradesman. 2 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. AFES—NEW AND SECOND-HAND FIRE and burglar proof safes. Geo. M. Smith Wood & Brick Building Moving Co., 376 South lonia St., Grand Rapids. 321 OR SALE—MOSLER, BAHMANN & CO. fire proof safe. Outside measurement—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 YOR SALE CHEAP—SECONDHAND NO. 4 Bar-Lock typewriter, in ng condition. Specimen of work done on machine on applica- tion. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465 OR SALE—DRUG STOCK‘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 rmonth. G reason for selling. Address No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. NOR RENT—CORNER STORE 18x70 FEET, with back room 18x20 feet; best location in this city for grocery or shoe stock; rent only er month. A. L. Bradford, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 746 WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS and residence (not connected); what have you to offer? Give full description and price. A. M. Barron, Station A, South Bend, Ind. 745 OR SALE—SHOW CASES AND COUNTERS now in use at 668 Wealthy Avenue, Grand Rapids. 750 Fee SALE—STOCK SHOES, MEN’S FUR- nishing goods and notions; invoices about $1,000; neat frame story building 24x46; situated in most flourishing town in Northern Michigan; 700 inhatitants; three mills, two churches, twelve graded schools; employment for laboring men all year; money maker for right person; no speculators need “Fr. M. J. Bolen, Wol- verine, Cheboygan Co , Mich. 743 HAVE SOME REAL ESTATE IN GRAND Rapids. Will trade for a stock of general merchandise. Address No. 751, care Michigan Tradesman. 7A1 450 TAKES NEAT GROCERY; NEW STOCK; centrally located; doing good business. Ad- dress J. E Berg, Saugatuck, Mich. 722 UR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR FARM property in or near Kent county—A good clean stock of general merchandise and fixtures, invoicing about $4,500. Stock consists of dry goods, groceries. men’s furnishing goods and erockery. Located in good lake port town of 25,000. The true reason for selling given on ap- lication. Address No. 731, care Michigan redesman. 731 Foe SALE—20 ACRE FRUIT FARM, 1% miles north of South Haven; 2,000 trees; good buildings; will exchange for stock hard- ware in good country town. Box 73, So. Haven, Mich. 739 RUG STOCK FOR SALE IN A GOUD live town of 1,500; will invoice about fifteen hundred dollars. Reason for selling, other busi- ness. Address No. 738, care Michigan Trades- man. 738 Pye SALE— GOOD THRIVING FURNI- ture business for sale in a city of 6,000 in- habitants in Michigan; old established trade; good reason for selling. Address A. C., care Michigan Tradesman. 740 NERKY & WILSON, EXPERT AUUCTION- eers and salesmen, make a business of clos- ing out or reducing stocks of merchandise in any part of the country; with our new ideas and methods we are constantly making successful sales and with a profit; all sales personally con- ducted; for particulars, terms and dates, ad- dress 269 Dearborn St , Chicago, Ill. z tr SALE- WHOLESALE AND RETAIL bakery, confectionery and ice cream factory business. Will stand the closest inspection. Price about $1,800 without stock. Present owner must retire permanently. Jos. Holi, 607 State St., Milwaukee, Wis. 725 ERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS, LAW- 4¥i yers using stenographers can save from $600 per year and upwards if they correspond with W. 8. Ferguson, Suffolk, Va., and send $1.50 and a stamped envelope. 718 ILL PAY SPOT CASH FOR STOCKS dry goods, boots and shoes, hardware, — or groceries. Lock Box 74, — ch. 15 OR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER- chandise invoicing from $1,000 to $1,200, con- sisting of millinery ($125 to $150), crockery and glassware (less than $100), dry goods, dress trim- mings, notions; stock in splendid condition; also store fixtures for sale and store building for rent; stock located In ——— little town of 700 in southern part of State; splendid opening for a general store. Reason for selling, iil health. Address No. 720, care Michigan Tradesman. 720 ‘OR SALE—HARDWARE BUSINESS LO- cated in prosperous farming and manufac- turing center; tin shop in connection; stock clean and well assorted; will inventory $3,000; must sell on account of sickness; a rare oppor- tunity. Address Hardware, 55 Stephenson St., Freeport, Ill. 702 ARD TO FIND—A FIRST CLASS DRUG store in city of 50,000 people in Michigan for sale. Best of reasons for selling. Address Mrs. B., Room 801, 377-9 Broadway, New York City. 694 {OR SALE—A CLOTHING AND FURNISH- ing goods store in one of the best towns of Southern Michigan; established in 1893; yearly Sales, $12,000, all cash; not a dollar ever sold on credit; goods all brand new; stock cleaned out every season, rent, $425; will be sold on easy ae toaresponsible party; a reasonable own payment required; stock about 88,000; reason for selling, dissolution of partnership. Address No. 676, care Michigan aleaee 676 MISCELLANEOUS ANTED—POSITION AS BOOK-KEEPER or office assistant by competent youn: man; expcrienced, highly recommended, ual references. Address Book-keeper, Zeeland, Mich. 762 ELP WANTED—AN EXPERIENCED young man in dry goods and clothing; must be an up-to-date decorator and a good salesman; State age, whether married or single, and wages expected. B. Cohen, Northville, Mich. 153 ANTED — POSITION AS CLOTHING salesman. Have had four years’ experi- ence—some experience in shoes; speak German; 22 years of age; can furnish references. Address No. 748, care Michigan Tradesman. 748 WANTED SPECIALTY SALESMAN WHO Seana am supply ne, _ a a line of ax Packing. For partic d Box 847, Charleston, 5. C, 7 = 7 ee ee ee: