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ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

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jobbers whose interests are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corres-
pondence invited.

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.

2. Men of Mark.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Getting the People.
8. Editorial.
9. Editorial.
10. On the Move.
12. Hardware.
14. Clothing.
16. Shoes and Rubbers.
18. Dry Goods.
20. Woman’s World.
22. Butter and Eggs.
23. The New York Market.
24. Commission Seeds.
25. Commercial Travelers.
26. Drugs and Chemicals.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
29. Grocery Price Current.
30. Grocery Price Current,
31. The New Foods,
32. The Grain Market.

 

 

CIRCULAR MOTION WITH STEAM.

Even those persons who have a super-
ficial knowiedge of the steam engine
know that it operates by admitting
steam into a hollow cylinder in which
is a piston, arranged to move back and
forth either horizontally or perpendicu-
larly. When steam is admitted to one
end of the cylinder it shoves the piston
to the other end. Then steam is let in-
to that end when it shoves the piston
back to the point from which it started.

Thus is produced a back-and-forth
motion, which is converted into a cir-
cular movement by the intervention of
cranks after the manner of those of an
ordinary windlass. All mechanical! en-
gineers know that both speed and power
are lost by the use of the methods de-
scribed. When the piston reaches the

end of its stroke it comes toa dead stop

before it starts back on its return thrust.
Thus is sacrificed a great deal of time.
It is also known that the crank is not
equal and uniform in the power it ex-
erts, for there are positions in which it
comes where it has no pulling or push-
ing force, while there are others of its
positions where it exerts its greatest
power.

In hundreds of years it has been found
impossible to get rid of these difficul-
ties, although they are known to every
engineer. They all realize that if a di-
rect circular or rotary motion could be
got by means of steam without the aid
or intervention of the piston or the
crank an immense advantage would be
gained. This was done two thousand
years ago by a Greek Egpytian named
Hero or Heron; but although he suc-
ceeded in forcing the steam to produce
at once a rotating movement, the loss
of power was so great that it destroyed
all the advantage attained. Within a
few years past the problem of direct ap-
plication of steam to produce a rotary
movement and power has engaged the
attention of mechanicians, and it is
claimed that entire success has been
attained. This contrivance is known as
the steam turbine, and is constructed
upon the principle used inthe water tur-
bine, in which a stream of swiftly run-
ning water, rushing through a screw-
shaped channel in a hollow wheel, com-
municates to it a rotary motion. By a
similar contrivance, steam is made to

 

rotate a shaft which operates machinery
of any description, as it is claimed,
witb great power and swiftness.

Figures presented at the recent meet-
ing of the British Association give some
idea of the inroads of this simple form
of motor into the field until lately mo-
nopolized by the steam engine. Its first
use was in 1884 in the driving of dy-
namos, and by 1890 as many as 360
plants had been installed, ranging from
four to 120 horsepower and aggregating
more than 5,000 horsepower. Those
now in use or building aggregate over
300,000 horsepower, the largest turbine
thus far installed being of 3,000 horse-
power. Experience has shown that the
turbine compares favorably with the
engine in running economy, is material-
ly cheaper in first cost, and is much less
expensive to maintain. The best econ-
omy thus far recorded is 17.3 pounds
steam per kilowatt hour, corresponding
to about 10.2 pounds steam per indicated
horsepower per hour,

In large turbines working with super-
heated steam and a good vacuum a still
higher economy is promised. As re-
gards durability, it is asserted that
careful tests with turbines long in con-
tinuous operation at high speeds have
failed to show that they use any more
steam than when installed per unit of
effective energy. The usefulness of this
form of motor, although first developed
in connection with the driving of dyn-
amos, is by no means limited to that
employment. Already seven vessels
have been fitted with motors of that type,
and they will be put into the destroyer
Eden and the third-class_ cruiser
Amethyst, now building for the British
navy. Two 4,000 horsepower turbine
motors have been ordered for steamers
for the Channel service. One English
turbine steamer, the King Edward, was
tested competitively this summer with
a steamer chosen for the purpose as giv-
ing a fair basis of comparison, and
made ten more miles in the season's run
with 480 tons less of coal.

The turbine occupies but little space
compared with the ponderous engines of
modern warships and commercial lin
ers, while the mechanism is vastly more
simple and correspondingly more eco-
nomical. If this turbine principle can
be worked out to thorougbly practical
results for all the purposes for which
steam is used,it will mark a new era in
the entire world of steam power, and
therefore developments will be locked
for with extreme interest.

 

German manufacturers are greatly in-
censed because Prince Henry has_ pur-
chased an American automobile. A
prince, they say, should patronize his
own people rather than foreigners, no
matter if he does think foreigners make
the best things. lf Prince Henry plans
another visit to America there will prob-
ably be violent opposition in Germany.

 

There are too many people in this
world who devote only their leisure
moments to business.

Some hens will do a dime’s worth of
cackling over a cent’s worth of eggs,

 

DEGENERACY OF THE DRAMA,

The greatest dramatist who ever
lived, and he himself was an actor, set
forth the business of his kind to be ‘‘to
hold the mirror up to nature; to show
virtue ber own feature, scorn ber own
image, and the very age and body of
the time his form and_ pressure,’’
and, withal, as has said another play-
wright of eminence, ‘‘to point a moral
and adorn a tale."’

The great masters of dramatic ex-
pression had no false notion of their art
and its duties. They knew that it was
the object and end of their dramas and
of their acting to portray the passions
of human nature and the varied pass-
ages of human experience, in which
both good and evil, virtue and vice, had
their part, but in which finally vice was
punished and virtue rewarded, and so
thoroughly are this duty and function of
the playwright understood by the people
at large that the dealing out of poetic
justice is always applauded, and not
only is it applauded, but it is demanded.

So thoroughly grounded are the masses
of the people in this doctrine of justice
and the upholding of the right that the
majority of the playgoing people will
not patronize any theater in which this
is not the rule,

But there appears to be growing up
in certain circles a demand for pre-
sentations of the most abandoned char-
acteristics of human depravity. ‘‘Art
for art’s sake’’ was an expression con-
stantly in the mouth of the most de-
praved and morally-degraded poet of the
nineteenth century. He belonged toa
school of writers who claimed that any
fact or act in the conduct of any human
creature was a proper subject for liter-
ary and dramatic presentation. There
was no realism too gross and disgusting
or too depraved and hideous to be
offered to the public, and while every
dictate of ordinary sanitation counseled
the making away with as little display
as possible of material garbage, these
degenerates sought to parade before the
public the most abominable details of
moral filth.

It is said that all the depravity in art
and literature comes fron: Paris, but it
is authoritatively declared that ‘‘the
Theater Francais, embodying the tradi-
tions of self-respecting artists and
authors, forbids on its stage even the
slightest caress of a woman by a man.”’

Of course, the worst sort of immoral-
ity can be found in Paris or in any
great city if it be sought for, but the
caterers to the stage are not driven, for
lack of subjects, to resort to the vilest
sources of materialism. Like the ob-
scene carrion bird, which gives no re-
gard to the fairest scenes and the most
delightful surroundings, but seeks his
loathsome prey amid disgusting scenes,
the purveyor of the literature and drama
of depravity searches for itinall the re-

positories of moral filth.

The merchant must sell what the peo-
ple want, or cause the people to want
what he sells.

Mistake—to suppose a clock strikes
with its hands,

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

   

 

  

 

MEN OF MARK.
Edward Frick, Vice-President Olney &
Judson Grocer Co.

We are passing through the young
man period. Not many years ago the
remark was current that it required old
men for council and young men for war,
but in these days it is young men for
both council and war. Mere age counts
for little in the business world. Age
brings with it an experience that the
young can not have, but it does not nec-
essarily carry with it executive ability.
No doubt the older a man gets the more
he thinks—provided he has been sub-
ject to the thinking habit. The time
that in his younger days was spent in
hustling is now given to reflection.
Possession of the world’s goods becomes
of less value to him than it once was;
he recognizes the tact that he is fast
nearing the point where all except char-
acter will count for naught. He will
pass through the gate where money,
lands, bonds will
old age it is a question if a zeal to ob-
tain them isa desire of the sanest mind.
To the gay music of the morning of
life the young man whirls upon the
stage with vim and ambition. Defeat
bas not been his; therefore he is cour-
ageous to the extreme. Others may tell
him of the quicksands of life, but he
must find them out for himself. He
thinks it senseless that others should
have sunk. He is hopeful and invari-
ably hope adds strength.

In these days, by some subtle under-
standing which can not be clearly an-
alyzed, he has grasped the business
situation and has oftentimes mastered
it. Commercial schools have not en-
abled him to do this, for we never learn
wisdom by committing forms to memory.
Knowledge and wisdom are not syn-
onymous. Perhaps instead of learning
he has absorbed the business sagacity
of theage. A sage writer has remarked
that ideas hang in the air until they are
ripe to be plucked, instancing periods
in literature, art, invention, patriot-
ism, and possibly in this case the busi-
ness shrewdness and push which char-
acterize the age have for a long time
been forming into clouds from which
now the rain is falling.

Edward Frick was born ona farm
near New Holland, Aug. 26, 1858. His
father and mother were both of Holland
birth, having emigrated to this country
from Groningen in 1848. Edward was
the youngest of eleven children and is
now the youngest of five living children.
Both his parents have passed away. In
1866 the family sold the farm and moved
to Kalamazoo, and a year later they re-
turned to New Holland and purchased
another farm near the home they had
previously sold. Edward attended dis-
trict school three winters—filty-six days
the first winter, fifty-two days the sec-
ond winter and fifty-nine days the third
winter—and this practically comprised
all the education he obtained except
in the school of business and experi-
ence. In 1875 he went to Holland and
secured employment in the general
store of Kruisenga & Son. He remained
here eight months, when he left to take
a clerkship in the general store of W.
C. Semple, of East Saugatuck, with
whom he remained one summer. He
then obtained employment in the gen-
eral store of A. Wagenaar, of New Hol-
land, where he remained four years.
During the closing weeks of his con-
nection with this establishment, an in
cident occurred which we will permit
him to tell in his own words:

‘‘John Shields was then covering the

be barred; hence in-

colony trade for Graff, Shields & Co,
He asked Mr. Kruisenga one day where
he could find a man familiar with the
Holland language to cover the colony
and contiguous territory, and Mr. Krui-
senga immediately suggested that he
communicate with ‘Fred,’ as he always
called me. The next day, he called on
me at the store in New Holland and
enquired how I would like to travel on
the road selling goods at wholesale. I!
told him I had a good home in the
Wagenaar family; that I was practically
in charge of the store on account of Mr.
Wagenaar's illness and that I saw no
reason why I should make a change.
On his next trip to New Holland, two
weeks later, he renewed the offer, but I
did not feel as though I ought to leave
an employer who had treated me so weil
and placed so much confidence in me.
Two weeks later he again undertook to

zation of the new house of Olney,
Shields & Co., in 1886, I transferred
my services to that firm. In April,
1889, Mr. Shields was suddenly com-
pelled to leave for Florida with his wife
and he wired-me at Kalamazoo, where
I was attending tbe funeral of my sister-
in-law, to report for duty that evening
in Grand Rapids and assume his _posi-
tion as buyer and manager of the four
other salesmen then employed by the
house. I knew nothing about my new
work, but I called the boys together
the next Saturday—James A. and Sam-
uel B. Morrison, the late James N.
Bradford and Scott Swigart—and told
them it was up to us to hold the busi-
ness up to its former proportions. I
traveled three days each week and did
the buying the best I knew how the re-
imaining three days, making sales
amounting to $72,000 the following year

 

negotiate with me, when | told bim I|and increasing the trade of the house
would not leave Mr. Wagenaar without | $150 000, which was quite as much of a

 

 

 

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his consent, whereupon Mr. Shields
asked if I would be willing to have him
call on Mr. Wagenaar and go over the
ground with him personally. I reluc-
tantly gave my consent and,during this
interview, he convinced Mr. Wagenaar
that it would be to my permanent ad-
vantage to make anewalliance. On his
next trip to New Holland he tock me
with him for three days through the col-
ony, at the end of which time he told
me to report for duty at Grand Rapids
the next Tuesday morning. I spent
the remainder of the week in the old
store at New Holland, went to Grand
Rapids Monday, located a_ boarding

morning. I was assigned the territory
Mr. Shields had previously covered,
comprising the available trade between
Hartford and Pentwater. I followed the
fortunes of the house through the changes
to Shields, Bulkley & Co. and Shields,

 

Bulkley & Lemen and, on the organi-

place and reported for duty Tuesday |

surprise to Mr. Shields on his return as
it was to us. But for the hearty sup-
| port of the other traveling men and the
| cordial co-operation of my associates in
‘the house, I could never have achieved
this result.’’

| On the retirement of Mr. Shields and
| the organization of the Olney & Judson
|Grocer Co. in November, 1880, Mr.
| Frick was made a director and Vice-
| President of the corporation, which po-
|sition he still holds to the satisfac-
tion of all concerned.

Mr. Frick was married Dec, -23, 1881,
ito Miss Martha Klise, of Nunica, and
|they reside in their own home at 234
South College avenue. He is not a
member of any secret order or frater-
nity, having never acquired the jiner
habit or felt the necessity of seeking
associations not connected with his
home and place of business.

Mr. Frick is Vice-President of the A.
B. Klise Lumber Co., and was one of

 

 

the original stockholders of the North-
western Yeast Co. He is also interested
in the Globe Mining Co., managed by
James A. Morrison, so long identified
with the Olney & Judson Grocer Co,
Mr. Frick attributes his success to
hard work, patiently and conscientious-
ly undertaken and carried forward. He
probably puts in the longest hours of
any wholesale groceryman at this mar-
ket, being the first to arrive in the
morning and the last to leave at night.
Some of his fraters in the trade who
have tried to keep pace with him have
given up in despair, believing that be is
made of iron, while they are only com-
mon clay. Despite the long hours he
puts in at his desk and the exacting
manner in which he insists on person-
ally attending to every detail connected
with his department, he is charitably
inclined toward those of his associates
who can not keep his pace, and every
one who has ever worked with him or
under him is ready at all times to take
off his hat to Edward Frick and to insist
that he is one of the best fellows on
earth and that his worst fault is his
disposition to be too faithful to his
business and too negligent of his own
comfort and health in his earnest effort
to treat his customers right and see that
they get just what they order, in the
quantities and qualities best adapted to

their requirements.
—_—— —~—-9~<——_—

Why the Junior Clerk Was Promoted.

A business firm once employed a
young man whose energy and grasp of
affairs soon led the management to pro-
mote him over a faithful and trusted
employe. The old clerk felt deeply
hurt that the younger man should be
promoted over him and complained to
the manager.

Feeling that this was a case that
could not be argued, the manager asked
the old clerk what was the occasion of
all the noise in front of their building.

The clerk went forward and returned
with the answer that it was a lot of
wagons going by.

The manager then asked what they
were loaded with, and again the clerk
went out and returned, reporting that
they were loaded with wheat.

The manager then sent him to ascer-
tain how many wagons there were and
he returned with the answer that there
were sixteen. Finally he was sent to
see where they were from and he re-
turned saying they were from the city
of Lucena.

The manager then asked the old clerk
to be seated, and sent for the young
man and said to him:

‘Will you see what is the meaning of
that rumbling noise in front?’’

The young man replied: ‘‘Sixteen
wagons loaded with wheat. Twenty
more will pass to-morrow. They be-

long to Romero & Co., Lucena, and are
on their way to Marchesa, where wheat
is bringing $1.25 per bushel for haul-
me.”

The young man was dismissed and
the manager, turning to the old clerk,
said:

‘‘My friend, you see now why the
younger man was promoted over you.’’
——~>-2 2 ——__

Potato Imports and Exports For the Past
Year.

Imports of potatoes into the United
States in the fiscal year ended June 30,
1902, amounted to 7,656,162 bushels,
against 371,911 bushels in the previous
year. Exports in 1902 were 628,484
bushels, leaving the net imports 7,027,
672 bushels. With two exceptions the
1gC2 imports into this country were the
heaviest ever made; the short domestic
crop of 1881, amounting to only 1009,-
145,494 bushels, resulted in imports in
the following fiscal year of 8,789,860
bushels; another shortage in domestic
production in 1887, when the crop
amounted to only 134,103,000 bushels,
was followed by imports of 8,259,538
bushels.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

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Realizing the growing necessity
of prompt shipments, we have re-
organized our shipping department
and increased our facilities so that
we are able to guarantee shipment
of all orders the same day they

are received.

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

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To the Grocers and:
= Dealers of Michigan |

I wish to assure all who are selling or using
Jennings’ Flavoring Extract of Lemon that
Iam the manufacturer thereof and know that
it is made not only of pure material but of
the best quality that is produced. It is not
adulterated in the least. This I will be able
to establish beyond all question and shall do
so in the action begun against me in Mus-
kegon by the food inspector. [askthat you
withhold iudgment pending the vindication

of my extracts.

C. W. Jennings,

Proprietor of

Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 
  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Around the State
Movements of Merchants.

Carleton—Wm. lewis has closed out
his grocery stock.

Dighton—Ernest Snyder has opened
a drug store here.

Carleton—C. M. Reeves, grocer,
discontinued business.

Petoskey—E. W. Feile has purchased
the meat market of E. D. Ellis.

 

has

Holly—J. B. Smith, grocer, has re-
moved from Olney to this place.
Vassar—Ernest C. Rowley, black-

smith, has sold out to Robert Miller,

Adrian—Albert Reisig has purchased
the grocery stock of O. L. Kaumeier.

Shaftsburg—F. G. Randall has
moved his drug stock to Webberville.

Saginaw—Enos C, Kingsman has sold
his drug stock to the Dolson Pharmacy.

Lakeville—McKay & Campbell, gen-
eral dealers, are closing out their
stock.

Detroit—Thos. W. Goodale has sold
his stock of tobacco and cigars to P. C.
Payette.

Nunica—Fremont Brown has sold his
grocery and dry goods stock to Barber-
icle & Jubb.

Jones—Ralph Schell has purchased
the hardware and implement stock of
Wm. Thomas.

Jackson—The Jackson Cold Storage
Co, has been organized with a capita]
stock of $35,000.

Hastings—Dawson Bros., druggists at
Ann Arbor, have opened a branch drug
store at this place

Middleton—Slaght & First have sold
their grocery stock and meat market to
Tuttle & Wiseman.

Detroit—Fred W. Haines, dealer in
electric supplies, is succeeded by the
Standard Electric Co.

Empire—Max_ Frazer, of Traverse
City, bas engaged in the mercantile
business at this place.

Shepherd—Josephine
Harper is succeeded in
business by J. C. Pulver.

Saginaw—Locke & Wysner, grocers,
have dissolved partnership. Locke &
Co. continue the business.

New Era—Wiersing Bros, have pur-
chased the grocery, dry goods and boot
and shoe stock of H. H. Plescher.

Jackson—Edward Alger, dealer in
boots and shoes, has taken a partner un-
der the style of Alger & Freshour,

Berlin—Ed. Burns and Ed. Fox have
formed a copartnership and will engage
in general trade here about Dec. 1.

Battle Creek—Chas, E. Blood & Co,
have engaged in the dry goods business,
locating in the new Kingman block.

Battle Creek—Ryan & Young, furni-
ture dealers,have dissolved partnership.
The business is continued by Wm. H.
Young.

Ithaca—Henry J. Dodge has pur-
chased the interest of his partner in the

re-

(Mrs. J. A.)
the grocery

agricultural implement business of
Kille & Dodge.
Perrinton—O. A. Cook has engaged

in the general merchandise business,
having purchased the stock of F. L.
Longwood & Co.

Grand Haven—Ammeraal & Botby]l,
grocers, have dissolved partnership.
The business is continued under the
style of Botbyl Bros,

Manistee—MckKillip & Hopper have
recently incorporated with authorized
capital stock of$ 30,000 and succeeded
the partnership under the same style.

Middleton—Wm. Tuttle and Morrice
Wiseman have purchased the meat
market of A. J. Shickels, who recently
purchased the same of W. S, Sleight.

 

Marion—The Marion Mercantile Co.
has added forty feet on to its store build-
ing and constructed a potato cellar with
a capacity of several thousand bushels,

Pellston—The general merchandise
firm of H. A. Snyder & Co. has been
dissolved by mutual consent on account
of the ill health of H. A. Snyder. The
business will be continued by H. D.
Judkins.

Montague—Nicholas Osterhouse, of
Grand Rapids, has purchased the stock
of dry goods and groceries of John Haan
and will continue the business at the
same location. Mr. Haan will retire
from business.

Jackson—Giddings & Co., druggists
and recent successors to Giddings &
Hyndman, are succeeded by Dr. Hynd-
man, a former partner, and Jas. E.
Way, a clerk for them for the past eight
years, The firm will be known as Hynd-
man & Way.

Altona—C. J. Pattison has purchased
the drug stocks of Eli Lyons and Dr.
Bursma and will consolidate them in
the general store of Eli Lyons. He will
continue to clerk for Mr. Lyons, plac-
ing the drug stock in charge of a regis-
tered pharmacist.

Petoskey—The Petoskey Jewelry &
Optical Co., Limited, has filed articles
of incorporation, with a capital stock of
$5,000, all paid in. The stockholders
are Joseph T. Anderson, John Q. An-
derson, E, N. Anderson, Albert F.
Ruch and C. M. Ruch.

Greenville—Edward Lincoln, mar-
ket gardener at this place, has succeeded
in turning the wheels of time backward
or forward by bringing two cases of
strawberries to market during the fall
season. The berries are large in size,
bright in color and fine in flavor.

Traverse City—C. S. Cox, who has
been conducting a meat market on East
Front street, has sold out to Frank
Hardy, of Interlochen, formerly of this
place. The market will be removed to
the Schomberger building, just east of
the corner of Front street and Board-
man avenue.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—Burrell Chemical Co, has
increased its capital stock from $250, -
000 to $500, C00,

St. Ingace—Jamieson & St. James
have recently begun the manufacture of
hardwood lumber.

Saginaw—The National Manufactur-
ing & Supply Co, has increased its cap-
ital stock from $25,000 to $50, 000,

Detroit—The style of E. G,. Frisbie
& Co,, manufacturers of extracts, has
been changed to the E. G. Frisbie Co.

Manistee—The McKillop & Hopper
Manufacturing Co. succeeds McKillop
& Hopper in the lumber and sawmill
business,

Kalamazoo—The Burtt Manufacturing
Co. is succeeded by the Automatic Ma-
chine Co. in the manufacture of gaso-
line engines.

Kalamazoo—The Lull & Skinner Co.
is succeeded by the Lull Carriage Co.
in the manufacture of carriages and
agricultural implements,

Boyne City—A new industry has
been established at this place with a
capital stock of $30,000 under the style
of the Elm Cooperage Co.

Hopkins Station——The Hopkins
Creamery Co. wil! hereafter use the
Monterey creamery building as a skim-
ming station. The machinery has been
removed to this place.

Pontiac—The Pontiac Light & Power
Co. has been purchased by J. W. Mar-
tin, acting in behalf of a Detroit capi-
talist whose name does not appear in the

 

transaction. Besides furnishing light
to the city the new owners will do com-
mercial lighting.

Pontiac—Vaughan & Co., of Detroit,
announce their intention of erecting a
canning factory here. The factory,
which will be ready for business by
early spring, will be in use all summer.

Bannister—A cheese factory, 30x90
feet in dimensions and equipped with
the latest machinery, will shortly be
erected at this place. G. C. Peters, of
Chicago, is at the head of the enter-
prise.

Detroit—The Nutrine Food Co, has
been organized in this city and will use
the old Frederick Stearns laboratory
building. Nutr.ne is a preparation
made from beans. The capitalization is
$500, 000,

Menominee—The outlook for a beet
sugar factory here is very bright.
Enough acreage has already been
pledged by the farmers of the county
and the company will probably be or-
ganized within a few weeks.

Battle Creek—The World's Fair Food
Co. has been reorganized by Benj. F.
Morgan, Howard Green, Edgar P.
Boggs, John C. Bartholf and W. S,
Powers with an authorized capital stock
of $3,000,000. Three hundred thousand
dollars of the first issue of stock has
been guaranteed by the International
Banking & Building Co., recently in-
corporated, through the Equitable Life
Insurance Co, of New York.

Bay Shore—The Bay Shore Lime Co.
has purchased the Henry Easton quarry,
comprising Soacres and located west of
Petoskey on the Charlevoix road and the
Pere Marquette. This gives the com-
pany a total of 70 acres at this place.
Extensive developments are already un-
der way, a No. 5 Austin stone crusher,
with a capacity of 250 tons per day, and
a 50 horse-power Chandler & Taylor
engine having been installed. A board-
ing house is also being erected. The
output of the quarry has already been
contracted for one year.

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Chesaning—J. W. Kendall has re-
moved to this place from Pontiac and
taken a position with John W. Jackson
& Co.

Middletoun—Wm. White, for the past
two years behind the counter in the
general store of W. C. Shepard, has re-
signed to accept a similar position in
the general store of J. B. Resseguie.

Holland—Fred De Weerd, who has
been clerking in the clothing store of
the Stern-Goldman Co, for a long time,
has gone to Cincinnati, where he will
take a Bible course. Peter Van Anrooy
takes his place at the clothing store.

Lansing—Harlow J. Brumm has re-
signed his position with the Donsereaux
Grocery Co. to take a place in the gro-
cery store of Christopher & Loftus.

Cadillac—Fred A. Gleason, of Green-
ville, has taken a position with George
D. Van Vranken as a pharmacist and
has assumed the management of the
drug department in Mr. Van Vranken’'s
place of business. Mr. Gleason was
registered in 1894 as a pharmacist and
for several years has been with C. W.
Passage, the Greenville druggist. W.
T. Walker, also of Greenville, has
taken a position with Mr. Van Vranken
as Mr. Gleason’s assistant. Mr. Walker
was with Passage & Avery in Green-
viile.

Eaton Rapids— Will Godfrey has sev-
ered his connection with the H. Kos-
itchek & Bros. store and gone to Grand
Rapids, where he has secured a situa-
tion in a clothing store.

 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retaii Grocers’ Association,
held Monday evening, Oct. 20, Presi-
dent Fuller presided. ; :

The subject of co-operative buying
was discussed at considerable length.
No conclusion was reached, the matter
being referred to a committee composed
of D. S. Gray, J. Geo. Lehman, Ed,
Wykkel, Ed. Connelly and Homer Klap.

Reports having reached the Associa-
tion to the effect that the Market Com-
mittee of the Common Council contem-
plated a change in the present arrange-
ments, placing the growers on the out-
side and the hucksters and grocers to-
gether in the center, the Secretary was
instructed to communicate with the
Committee, requesting that no change
be made.

F. L. Merrill, chairman of the Pro-
gramme Committee of the annual pic-
nic, reported net receipts of $209.20, for
which he held the Treasurer’s receipt.
The report was accepted and adopted
and the Committee discharged.

President Fuller announced the fol-
lowing standing committees for the en-
suing year:

Executive Committee—J. Geo. Leh-
man, F. J. Dyk. D. 5S. Gray, M: EH;
Barber, W. W. Empey.

Trade Interests—B. S. Harris, E,
Wykkel, Ed. Connelly.
> +>

Rich as the Standard Oil Company is,
its managers have decided that it can
no longer afford to burn coal in its refin-
eries, The company is about to begin
the use of oil in its furnaces at Green-
point and Long Island City as a perma-
nent substitute for coal. The utilization
of oi] has long been considered but had
been laid aside until! forced to the front
by the shortage of coal. Inasmuch as
the success of the experiment will result
in the Standard Oil properties the coun-
try over abandoning coal for fuel the
withdrawal of the demand from the
coal market will be no small item.
Other manufacturers are ready to follow
the example if experience demonstrates
that at the market price oil will prove a
profitable substitute for coal.

 

 

 

We want
Potatoes, Onions,
Apples,
Poultry and Eggs
To handle on consignment.

M. 0. BAKER & CO.

Commission Merchants
119-121 Superior St., Toledo, Ohio

 

Winter
Weather
Deman

ds
STEAM

And steam requires wrought
iron pipe, iron pipe fittings,
radiators, radiator valves; also
brass and iron body valves.

Our mission is that of WHOLE-
SALE DEALERS and we are
amply prepared, with complete
stock, to promptly supply your
every need.

Honest Treatment—Fair Price.

G. R. Supply Co.

20 Pearl St-reet,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

The Valley City Chair Co, has been
organized with a capital stock of $15,.000.

 

 

John Bowden has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Summit City. The
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. furnished the
stock.

 

C. C. Follmer & Co., manufacturers
and dealers in shingles, have increased
their capital stock from $20,000 to
$50, 000,

A. B. Newton has purchased an in-
terest in the fruit and produce business
of T. H. Condra. The new firm will
be known as T. H. Condra & Co. and
will be located at 10 South Ionia street.

The Wm. Connor Clothing Co. has
leased the sixth floor of the Wm. Alden
Smith building and will remove its
sample lines from the fourth floor to the
six floor. The fourth floor will be oc-
cupied with its wholesale stock.

 

 

John T. Woodhouse, wholesale and
retail cigar and tobacco dealer at De-
troit, has leased one-half of the vacant
store in the Barnhart building and will
engage in the wholesale cigar and to-
bacco business Nov. 5 under the style of
the John T, Woodhouse Co., Ltd. The
traveling and office force will be de-
cided upon this week.

The Wisconsin Lumber and Bark Co.,
which is operating at Lakota, Wis., has
engaged Clarence A. Warren as super-
intendent of its mill and store. Mr.
Warren has been engaged in the saw
and shingle mill business and general
trade for several years at Leroy, where
be made an excellent record as a busi-
ness man and lumberman.

The Putnam Candy Co. is now part
and parcel of the National Candy Com-
pany. The formal transfer occurred
Oct. 15, but the new deal dates from
Sept. 1, at which time the inventories
were taken and verified. Wm. Judson
will continue the nominal manager of
the local branch, assisted by Richard
Bean, who has been elected a director
of the National Candy Company.

Adolph H. Eckert, who purchased the
drug stock at the corner of Carrier street
and North College avenue last April of
C, E. Kellogg on a chattel mortgage con-
tract, locked up the store last week and
decamped for parts unknown, leaving
numerous small debts behind unsatisfied
and unsettled. He wrote his mother a
letter telling her where he had gone,
and it is thought that she is the only
person in the city who is acquainted
with his whereabouts.

Co-operative buying of a peculiar
kind has come to light during the past
two or three days, culminating in the
discovery that Bert Rice, shipping
clerk for the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.,
has been systematically stealing from
his employer for along time. So far
as can be learned, most of the stolen
goods were delivered to Orra Chadwick,
the Cherry street grocer. On being con-
fronted with the evidence, Mr, Chad-
wick made a partial settlement by giv-
ing the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. a
note for $1,500, secured by mortgage.
Since this settlement was made, it has
been discovered that additional stolen
goods have come into his possession,
and the end is not yet. The stolen goods
comprised mostly sugar and cheese, it
being Mr. Rice’s custom to have the
goods placed on the sidewalk, when he

 

 

would hire an independent drayman to
take them to their destinations, Fifteen
barrels of stolen sugar have been traced
to the store of Arthur J. Lane, the South
Division street grocer, who claims he
purchased the goods from Rice in the
supposition that Rice was a merchan-
dise broker. The affair is a very seri-
ous one and the outcome is a great sur-
prise to the friends of all parties con-

cerned.
> 4.

The Produce Market.

Apples—Common, 25@75c per bu.,
fancy, $2@2.25 per bbl.

Bananas—Good shipping stock, $1.25
@2 per bunch.

Beeswax—Dealers pay 25c for prime
yellow stock.

Beets—4oc per bu.

Butter—Creamery is firmer and Ic
higher, commanding 24c for fancy and
23c for choice. Pound prints from fancy
command 22c. Dairy grades are strong
and scarce, commanding 18@19%c for
fancy, 16@17c for choice and 14@15c
for packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown command 4oc
per doz.

Carrots—35c per bu.

Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz.

Chestnuts—$5@6 per bu.
Michigan nuts command $7.

Cocoanuts—$3.25 per sack.

Crabapples—Late Transparents are in
limited supply at $1 per bu.

Cranberries—Cape Cods are in ample
mens at $2.40 per box and $7.25 per
bbl.

for Ohio.

Celery—Home grown is in ample sup-
ply at 17c per doz.

Dressed Calves—Fancy, 8%@gc per
lb. ; fair, 7@734c per Ib.

Eggs—Local dealers pay 19@2oc for
case count and 21@22c forcandled. Re-
ceipts are small and many of the eggs
are shrunken, giving evidence of hav-
ing been held.

Egg Plant—$1.25 per doz.

_Figs—$1.10 per Io Ib. box of Califor-
nia.

Grapes—Blue, 15c per 8 Ib. basket;
Niagaras, 16c per 8 lb. basket; Dela-
wares, 15c per 4 Ib. basket; Malagas,
$5.75 per keg.

Green Corn—toc 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 1ro@lIIc.

Lemons—Californias, $4;
$3-75-

Mapie Sugar—1o%c per Ib.

Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy.

Musk Melons—Osage, 75c per crate.

Onions—Home grown stock is in am-
ple supply at 60@65c. Pickling stock,
$2@3 per bu.

Oranges—Floridas "command $4 per
box. Jamaicas fetch $3.75 per box.

Parsley—2oc per doz.

Pears—Sugar, $1 per bu. ; Flemish
Beauties, $1.35 per bu.; Keefer, $1
per bu.

Potatoes— Local
supplies at 40c.

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, 9@
loc; small hens, 8@oc; large hens, 7
@8c; turkey hens, 10%@113c; gob-
blers, 9@1oc; white spring ducks, 8@
oc. Dressed stock commands the foi-
lowing: Spring chickens, 12@13c;
small hens, 10@1ic; spring ducks, 12
@13c; spring turkeys, 13@14c.

Quinces—Home grown are scarce at
$250 perbu. .

Radishes—1ioc per doz.

Spanish Onions—$1.25 per crate.

Squash—2c per lb. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $3.25 per
bbl. ; Virginias, $2.25.

Tomatoes—soc for ripe and 4oc for
green.

Turnips—soc per bu.

Messinas,

dealers hold their

—_—+_-—~> +>
For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades”

and prices, call Visner, both phones.

ee
Champion sharpshooters — neuralgia
and toothache.

Se
Men on the gallows can see the folly
of taking a drop too much.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugars—The raw sugar market is firm
and prices show an advance of I-16c on
96 deg. test centrifugals. Refiners are
rather indifferent, as they have suffi-
cient stocks for the present and are not
disposed to make heavy purchases.
Buyers and sellers are widely apart in
their ideas of value and but few sales
are made. It is believed, however, that
refiners will be obliged to pay the prices
asked, as the market continues very
strong. Refined sugar remains un-
changed in price. The demand shows a
little falling off for Eastern refined, on
account of the competition of the beet
sugar which is now coming from
Michigan factories quite freely and is
getting the preference in most cases,
Trade on this sugar grows larger every
year and it gives excellent satisfaction.

Canned Goods—Trade in canned
goods continues very good, particularly
on peaches, These are getting cleaned
up, however, very rapidly and but a few
small lots can be secured now,and a full
car of any one grade is almost impos-
sible to find. The demand for Michigan
peaches is increasing every year, as the
trade are beginning to find out the good
qualities of the pack. At present
prices, Michigan peaches are much
cheaper than the Baltimore article and
also much finer quality. We consider
pie peaches the best purchase in the
entire line of canned goods to-day.
Prices on tomatoes are unchanged with
demand fair. The outlook is somewhat
brighter. Some Michigan factories will
fill their orders in full and have a small
surplus to sell. Others will not be able
to fill over 60 per cent. of their con-
tracts, while some packers in the north-
ern part of the State will pack only
about 10 to 40 percent. Tomatoes are
ripening very slowly and packers are
able to secure only a few each day.
Corn is a very interesting article in the
canned goods line and prices are very
firmly held. The pack isa short one
and many packers will not be able to
deliver more than 25 to 30 per cent. of
their contracts, It is very difficult to get
hold of any large-sized stocks of corn
and orders have been turned down on
account of inability to find the stock.
Peas are in fair demand at unchanged
prices, with stocks of the better grades
very scarce. Some packers are very
firm in their views regarding gallon ap-
ples, while others who did not sell any
futures and have a surplus on hand are
offering at slightly lower prices and we
consider gallon apples a good purchase,
Salmon is unchanged in price, but
meeting with a good trade, moving out
well under an active consumptive de-
mand. Sardines are -in good demand,
particularly for % oils, and previous
prices are fully maintained.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market
is practically without any change.
Trade is as good as usual at this season
of the year. No large lots are purchased
now, as goods bought for future delivery
are just beginning to come in and deal-
ers want to move these stocks before
they buy any more. The demand for
prunes is improving a little and some
fair sized sales have been made during
the week. Stocks are light, but are con-
sidered sufficient to last until the new
goods arrive in quantities. Raisins
are firmly held, but meet with small
sales as new goods are expected in very
shortly. The recent strike in California
held back about 150 carloads of raisins
and late deliveries are almost sure to
result, but it is believed that present
stocks will last until they arrive. Spot

 

 

stocks of peaches and apricots are light,
and prices are firmly held. Figs and
dates are strong and meeting with fair
demand, which is expected to material-
ly increase as the holiday season draws
near. Evaporated apples are firmly
held, with good demand for all grades.
The demand for 1 Ib. cartons is con-
siderably greater than the supply and
orders have been turned down through in-
ability to pack the goods fast enough.
Most all of the fruit now on the market
is winter fruit and is giving excellent
satisfaction, as it is much better stock
and will keep better.

Rice—The tendency of prices in the
rice market is upward. Stocks at pres-
ent are light and no concessions in price
are made. It is said that the quality of
the rice crop will probably not be as
good as has been expected, due to the
bad weather, but just the amount of
damage can not yet be estimated.

Molasses—The consumptive demand
for molasses is increasing largely with
the advancement of the fall season and
grocers generally are adding to their
stocks. Prices are quotably unchanged,
and the tone of the market is firm.
Stocks in dealers’ hands are moderate
and offerings are consequently light.
Advices from New Orleans report the
season for the new crop as just.about
opening, with some factories already
starting up.

Fish—-Trade in fish is moderate and
prices are firmly held, but show no
change.

Nuts—Most descriptions show an ac-
tive demand and prices are firmly held.
Peanuts are the only article in the list
that shows any easier tendency. New
crop California almonds are meeting a
good sale at previous prices. Filberts
are in fair demand. Walnuts are firm
and a good demand is shown.

Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market is firm, with light
offerings, especially in the country.
Dealers find their trade crippled by low
prices, which country dealers are not in-
clined to accept, thus stopping trade
with little accumulation.

Pelts have been offered more freely,
but at prices not acceptable to pullers.
Trade has heen of some magnitude,
however, and the demand is good.

Tallow is firmer for soapers’ stock of
lower grades, while No. 1 brings full or
slightly advanced rrices. The demand
is strong.

Wools do not change. Large sales at
seaboard points the past few weeks were
made largely on conditions; while
the tendency was to firm up the market,
prices were no higher. But little has
changed kands in the State and that at
old prices. The outlook is that by March
1 these wools will be wanted and at
higher values. Wm. T. Hess.

- > o> =

L. D. Stark,formerly engaged in gen-
eral trade at Cascade, has gone to
Evanston, Florida, where he will spend
the winter on his orange plantation.

Piles Cured

By New Painless Dissolvent
treatment; no chloroform or

Send for book.

Dr. Willard M. Burleson
Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

knife.

 

6

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Getting the People

The Handicap of the Advertising School
Graduate,

Russell Henry Ramsey in Printer’s
Ink discusses the value of correspond-
ence schools for advertising as follows:

One of the most damaging pieces of
evidence supporting the current indict-
ment against advertising schools is the
recent voluntary admission of an adver-
tising school graduate that in seeking
employment he found it an absolute
handicap to make known the fact of his
advertising school training. When the
writer read and carefully re-read the
statement of this frank advertising
school graduate, he mentally asked him-
self this question: ‘‘Ifa man applied
to me for employment as an advertising
manager or writer, and stated he had
recently ‘graduated’ from an advertis-
ing school, would the fact influence me
against the applicant?’’

The writer thought awhile and then
mentally answered, ‘‘Yes,’’ for several
reasons, First and principally, because
it is a sign of lack of judgment on the
part of the applicant. It is fair to as-
sume that he was led to enroll in the
advertising school largely by the prom-
ise of speedy and very remunerative
employment. upon his completing the
‘‘course.’’ All advertising schools
promise that. From $25 to $100 per
week is the salary usually hinted at.
Now the man who imagines that with
the training obtained in a six months’
correspondence course he can find end-
less opportunities for employment at
such a salary has the poorest kind of
judgment. What a cinch, a snap, he
would be for the ordinary circulation
liar! Where is the sane business man
who would intrust to him the spending
of an advertising appropriation? True,
there are hundreds of advertising posi-
tions filled at such salaries, and at
larger ones, too; but they are kept warm
by men who must know more about real,
life-size advertising than all the adver-
tising schools in creation can teach
them,

Again, the advertising schoul graduate
usually holds a hopelessly distorted
view of advertising. He has dabbled
in it a bit—he has learned that adver-
tising is usually measured by agate
lines—he can tell what pica type is (al-
though he probably would not know it
if he saw it without the name tag) —he
has several times made a printer's ‘‘lay-
out’’ during the course of instruction
(carefully copying the model sent him
by the school)—and now he is fully
posted on the whole subject of advertis-
ing. Confidently he wiil go to the mak-
ers of Sapolio,or to his local retail mer-
chants, and offer to ‘‘greatly improve
their advertising in order to make it as
profitable as it should be.’’

In fact, nobody ever knows quite as
much about advertising as the fresh ad-
vertising school graduate. After the
world has rolled over hima few times
(to borrow a goud phrase from the Little
Schoolmaster) he begins to know less
and less. In the third place, the adver-
tising school graduate’s knowledge of
advertising is wholly theory—and what
holey theory it sometimes is! He knows
nothing of the practical work of making
real advertising. He consistently refuses
to realize (because he can not) that ad-
vertising involves more of business abil-
ity and discernment than it does of
tecbnical rules for telling the printer
what kind of type to use. Sooner or
later the advertising sckool graduate
will bump his head against the hard

 

 

 

{T PAYS TO BUY AT WRIGNTS’

Giving them away at the Popular Store

 

One Hundred
you have to buy ts
offer will not be gc

 
 
  

 

DRY GOODS.
* Outing Flannel Wrappers in nice, Keep coming aod going
neat patterns, sizes 32 to 44 for We. | customer asks us why it
Shirt Waists in Outing Flannel, | best 50c tea and coffee for the money

they ever bough We have other

 
   

sizes 32 to 44, on sale at 45c.
* Biack Mercerized Waists, sizes 32 |
to 44, special at Suc.

Furs. Another big shipment just

c ap Try us just
hese National Pancake
Oc Shredded Whole Wheat Ic.

 

     

arrived, ruffs from $1.25 to 315.00. oney only i6c lb. Breakfast
All kinds and qualities. Cocoa quarter pound cans on sale at
Blankets in all kinds andcolorings | !2¢. Mustard Sardines. large tias 7c

. | PerFo for pres and puddings, some
from SOc to 96.00. thing pag pound package i5¢c
Outing Flannel from 5c to 15c and | Giassware of all kinds at special
a fine range of patterns. | prices, see the line we are offering at |
Just received a swell line of new | 0c. Our tinware stock 1s now com
Umbrellas from 43c to $3.50, ask to | plete. Dont forgetto examine our
see them. | oc and 0c counter

We aon t ask you to buy one ¢
praud we give sou your ch
out hvely! see our window f¢

 

} $3.00 to $3.

Our new rubber boots have arrived. We have ail kinds and prices the Jowest.

  
    

aby Shoes is

in Barry Co,

Ladies and Misses Shoes keep com
ng id we have
most up to date kind. We have

jot now on the road of the Drew,
Selby & Co.’s line, there is nothing
better made.

For children we have the best and
most serviceable lines we can find
and at a discount in price from
single lines

Gentlemen we have a good satin
eaif shoe for $1.25, a better one for
$1.50, also a¥alf shoe for $2.00 and
a better one for $2.50 in a high top,
and the top noteh of the stock from

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are going out good and lively. and why not at the price we have them marked
friends so come along and make yourself at home

Successors to Phin Smith.
Produce taken the same as cash.
Helio No. 30, we do the rest. x D
Hastings, Mich.

 

John Mead is back and has full swing iv our Grocery Department and you should see the change, the goods

THE MONEY-BACK STORE.

WRIGHT BROS

at. Johp wants to see al! of bis old

EPARTMENT STORES,

 

 

 

 

Fresh Meat

We have just added a line of
Western fresh meats. to our
stock of groceries and are
in a position to guarantee
good service and good meat
to our customers.

Eastman & Charles.

 

 

 

 

e “e
WHEN YOU ARE

DEAD

Everyone speaks well of you.
When you are very much
alive some speak ill. If any one
speaks ill of us, it’s because
we are very much alive. The
secret is in the goods.

GOOD GOODS,
RIGHT PRICES,

Groceries,
Canned Goods,
” Vegetables.
China Ware, “
Porcelain,
Glassware.

The iargest assortmenr
in the city.

W. A. hams.)

 

 

e
Paraffine Wax

 

 

 

Coal is dear but
Shoes are cheap

f you can’t get coal you can buy shoes al] mght.
A dollar never before went so far in the purchase of
good stout shoes. We have bought large quantities of
tout heavy shoes for the winter wear for

Men, Women and Children.

The latest ideas are here and we will show you
them with pleasure if you can follow the shoe fash-
ions, without taxing your pocket-bo6k too much.
Why not? Drop in an look at the shoes just re-
ceived from the factors.

Star Shoe Co.)

is used by all careful
housekeepers to her-
metically seal Jelly,
Preserves and a)l
kinds of Fruit.

We have just received
avery fine lot of high-
grade, Strictly Pute,
Clean, Odorless, Par.
affine Wax,

15 Cents a Cake.

Try it once and you
will always use it.”

JOHN J. MILBOURN

“The Druggist.

Squibb’s, Merck's,

 

 

 

  

Can you think

of any thing that gives more character to
a house than it’s .floor coverings? Have
you ever thought how much can be ac-
complished in this line with a small out-
lay? We have an excellent line of RUGS
and floor coverings of every kind

   

Rugs from 18x36 in. to 9xi2Teet,

All makes, shades and designs.

a F. W. CRON

 

 

Parke Davis’, Wyeth’s
Products.

 

We have a complete line of these
and are prepared to fill any prescrip
tion exactly as specified by the phy-
sician.

We call the attention of physicians
to this fact. We pay at wholesale
whatever price is necessary to get the
Best Drugs and Chemicals, and there
fore we have earned a reputation for
getting results with our medicine.
You will find our prices as low as ts
consistent with first quality materiale
and work; nobody would knowingly ac
cept cheaper than that.

Robinson
Drug Co.

102 Washington
Avenue N,

 

 

truth that advertising can not be taught
in text books.

These reasons are sufficient to show
why the fact that a man is an advertis-
ing school graduate is good grounds for
rejecting his application for an adver-
tising position.

= + =

A bright, hustling department store
advertisement is that of Wright Bros,
In this the management has evidently
made a careful study of popular features
and knows by experience whether the
free picture scheme will gain attention.
I like the paragraphing of the dry goods
and shoes hetter than the solid groceries,
and I should have shortened the word-
ing in the latter, cutting out half the
first sentence, for instance, so there
could be room for opening out the sen-
tences so the eye could catch the prices
and the attention deai with one thing at
atime. This is a good illustration of
the difference between a solid jumbie
and paragraphed matter. The best par-
agraph in the shoe column is the last.
The general design of the advertise-
ment is good and the printer has kept
unity in style and presents a well-bal-
anced and attractive display.

A model announcement of the addi-
tion of a meat department is that shown
by Eastman & Charles. The proportion
in the display and the free use of white
space will gain more attention from
those who are acquainted with the firm
than any other scheme,in my opinion. I
would have added the location of the
store,

The Star Shoe Co. is taking advan-
tage of popular interest in current affairs
to gain general attention. As the dis-
play of the subject under consideration
is equally prominent the plan is not a
bad one. I would have used smaller
type inthe paragraphs, and the main
idea in the second, that all are able to
keep in style, is obscurely expressed,
partly owing to the punctuation,

F, W. Cron puts his rug advertise-
ment on an apparently raised surface
which, doubtless, tends to catch the
eye. It occurs to me, however, that the
attraction would be more effective to
have the word ‘‘rugs’’ stand out in the
Strongest display. With this change and
the omission of the stroke before the
name and a small ornament at the left
the results would be greater.

I do not like the suggestion in the
first two lines of W. A. Hams’ display
and am of the opinion it will not prove
an attraction to many. I would strike
out al] but the names of the goods and
the closing lines, using a better type
for signature and adding address and
Saying something about the goods, giv-
ing a few prices, perhaps. The differ-
ence would be that between a good ad-
vertisement and a bad one.

John J. Milbourn writes an attractive
notice of a seasonable convenience
which will bring him visits from house-
wives. I would have added the address.

The Robinson Drug Co. makes a
strong bid for professional patronage.
The list of manufacturers will not have
much force in the popular eye,

—_+2-+___

His Bumps,

‘*That man is a phrenologist, Pat.’?

‘‘A what?"’ asked Pat, puzzled.

‘A phrenologist.’’

‘‘An’ sure, what's that, sorr?’’

“Why, a man that can tell, by feel-
ing the bumps on your head, what kind
of a man you are,”’

‘‘Bumps on my head, is it?’’ ex-
claimed Pat. ‘“Begorra, then, I think

it would give him more of an idea what
kind of a woman my wife is,’’

 

  

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The Michigan machines are the
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to-day.

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Made From

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Any size desired at small
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Sleigh Shoe Steel
Bar and Band
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Send us your orders.

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electric fixtures, lead pipe, brass
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A LESSON FROM NATURE.

In spite of nature's practical methods
of teaching and in spite of her persist-
ency the world is slow in learning and
turning the knowledge to practical ac-
count. The intelligence of the present
day with an exalted sense of its own
importance is too proud of its ‘‘See
here’’ to admit the time taken to bring
it about. ‘‘The world is round and like
a ball is swinging in the air’’ is an
astounding fact made trite by repetition
and the child in the primary grade looks
with disdain upon the adult who ques-
tions it; but it took from the foundation
of the earth until the sixteenth century
to find it out. For centuries bodies had
fallen and human numskulls had taken
the fact as a matter of course with no
thought of the universal law behind it
and not until the patience of the teacher
had become almost exhausted was the
gray matter of Newton sufficiently agi-
tated by the pelting apples to write out
the laws that had controlled affairs from
the first ‘‘And God said.”’

This stupidity of the human biped is
painfully apparent in even these piping
times of discovery and invention. We
do, indeed, flood the world with light by
the turning of a peg,the engine whistles
at the forge and the earth quakes with
his heavy tread as he trudges along
with his heavily laden car,but Franklin
of our own time broke into the playtime
of the lightning, and it is less than a
hundred years ago that Watt listened to
the song of the teakettle and Stephen-
son and Fulton told us what the song
meant.

The worst of it all is that these splen-
did results are attended with so much
suffering. The dishes upon our break-
fast tables are the result of almost star-
vation. The sewing machine came near
being the death cf Howe and the sim-
ple—simple because it is common—
match was given to the world at the cost
of nobody knows how many jaw bones
that the phophorous fumes destroyed.
Of course ‘‘we get there’’ and then we

 

pat the sufferer on the back and call
him a hero and put him down after he is
dead among those who have ‘‘benefited
mankind’’ without ever thinking and
never caring and so never learning the
most important lesson of all, that a
good deal of the suffering never ought to
have been suffered and never was in-
tended to be suffered by that dear old
mother that invention knows and loves.

This same far-reaching truth finds a
painful illustration in the battle that
has been waging in the industrial world
for months. For years experience has
been trying to drive through the thick
skull of business and domestic economy
the fact that placing too much depend-
ence upon anthracite coal is too much
like putting all of the eggs in one bas-
ket; but with a persistence worthy of a
better cause the hope of the world has
been centered upon the Pennsylvania
coal mines until the owners and opera-
tors of that piece of the footstool have
come to the conclusion that the life of
all that is valuable is locked up in those
mines and that they alone have the key.
It is the result of false reasoning. Na-
ture does not work in that way. Never
has she confined herseif to a single re-
source and for years has she been tell-
ing of ways and means of avoiding this
very condition of things. No single
spot of earth can be called the anthracite
region, and no single mining production
was ever intended to take the preced-
ence of all others. It is only the ob-
stinacy of the man that has led to the
difficulty. Like lightning he follows
the path of least resistance and changes
his direction only when he hasto. The
last five months have been required to
teach him the needed lesson. Now,
after no end of cost in money and in
suffering, he is beginning to repeat, like
a learned-by-heart task, the maxim of
the ages: ‘‘Don’t put all your eggs in
one basket.’’

There is little doubt that a way will
be found out of the trouble without de-
pending upon the decision of the scrap-
pers, whose indifference to the public
has been the most noticeable feature of
the whole fight. The President may
have done something ; Congress may do
more; but the point at issue will be at-
tained in some other way. There are
coal fields outside of Pennsylvania.
Cheap light and heat are not yer shut
in by state lines and the world’s wit has
not yet been exhausted. Accident dis-
closed Pennsylvania coal,national emer-
gency sent the Monitor into Hampton
Roads and the same agencies, never at
rest, will settle this difference as it has
others. It has followed the well-trodden
track and there is every reason to be-
lieve that when the smoke of the battle
has cleared away it will be found that
anthracite coal is no longer a matter of
interest to either householder or manu-
facturer, both of whom are looking with
utter unconcern upon what has been a
matter of the greatest interest for some-
thing over five slowly-speeding months.
The lesson has been taught and learned.
What now remains is to look for the
outcome.

London has produced another sensa-
tional cause of death. A man was
killed by the simple inhalation of a per-
fume. The perfume was subjected toa
chemist for analysis and it was found
that some lavender in the man’s pocket
had been strengthened by an addition of
oil of almonds which induced nitro-
benzoic poisoning. The cause of death
was manifestly accidental, but it exposed
the danger to human life which rests in
apparently harmless perfumes,

 

ARE SHOES HARMFUL TO HEALTH?

The present is an age of fads about
health and disease.

Medical men claim to have found out
that vexatious and annoying little crea-
ture, the mosquito, originates fevers of
the most dangerous description. Des-
troy all the mosquitoes and there will be
an end to such fevers.

There are other medical men_ who
teach that every disease is caused by a
special microbe, and each disease has
its peculiar microscopic monster that is
responsible for its destructive powers.

There are others who hold that people
eat and drink too much, and a starva-
tion diet of bread and water is the only
health-giver.

These are only a few of these fads,
but perhaps the most unreasonable and
impossible of them all is one announced
very recently as a panacea against al!
the ills to which flesh is heir. It isa
particular serum to make all disease-
proof.

There has recently been put forth a
proposition that we do not rest enough
on the earth’s broad bosom and absorb
from her measureless reservoirs of phys-
ical forces enough of their life-giving
influences.

There is an old story from the Greek
mythology of an earth-born giant, named
Antaeus, who once tackled Hercules in
a fight. Hercules was a demigod; that
is, he was half god and half human.
In the course of his struggles with the
giant be found that every time he
knocked down his antagonist with a
blow that should have finished him, the
Son of Earth always arose witb re-
newed vigor and strength which he re-
ceived from his mother. The semi-
divine hero, realizing the state of
things, lifted the giant into the air and
dispatched him while he was deprived
of the life-giving force, which contact
with Mother Earth would have given
him under different conditions,

This very old story is suggested by a
claim recently made that the wearing of
shoes is extremely injurious to human
health. A writer in Medical Talk for
October declares that civilized man is
seriously damaged in health by wearing
on his feet a covering in the shape of
prepared leather, which more or less in-
sulates his body from the earth. He
holds that savages who are constantly
bare-foot, and the lower animals of
every sort by their constant contact with
the earth, are more vigorous than are
the people who go shod. He cites, as
examples, the natives of Africa and
tropical Asia, who never wear shoes,
and who, he asserts, are remarkably free
from diseases to which the civilized are
subject. They have no toothache—their
teeth, indeed, are proverbial for white-
ness and health without any toilet atten-
tion whatever—they are never bald, and
their sight is remarkably clear and
good, even in advanced age. The writer
mentioned says:

I ask any man, before he decides this
question for himself, to consider for a
moment the wonderful construction of
his own footsoles. Why are they pro-
vided by the Creator with that marvel-
ous cluster of cutaneous nerve endings
which so distinguishes them from any
other part of his body? Why have we
here those myriads of little nerve feel-
ers brought right out into the papillae
of the skin, so that, if free to do so,
they would have perfect electrical con-
tact with the earth as we walk on it? Is
that provision made in vain? We must
acknowledge that, if it is, it is certainly
the first of nature’s provisions which
can be said to be so. Now, the latest
advances of science on every side con-
cede the fact that the nervous system

 

is to all intents and purposes the elec-
trical system. 1, therefore, contend
that our footsoles are designed to act as
an electrical highway between our
bodies and Mother Earth,and the main-
taining of that highway in a free and
unimpeded state is a matter of vital im-
portance not only to man himself, but
to all other animals on earth,

It is so easy to multiply proof of the
absolute truth and importance of these
facts by practically relieving, as I
have so often done, sufferers from va-
rious forms of sore feet—these being
undoubtedly the first outward signs of na-
ture’s protest against our violation of
her laws—that volumes might be filled
with their narration. Instead thereof,
let us endeavor to suggest a remedy.
To this end I provide our ordinary
shoes with an insole of good conducting
material, with very fine wires invisibly
fixed, so as to afford perfect electrical
communication between this insole and
the earth; so that a man in his ordinary
footwear is caused, in an _ electrical
sense, literally to walk barefooted on
the ground, as he ought todo. The
effect of this most simple attachment to
shoes, as an immediate relief from cold
feet in winter and from painful and
swollen feet and ankles in summer,
often amounts to aimosta miracle. I
have myself purposely worn rubber-soled
shoes or ordinary rubbers until my eyes
became sore as if filled with sand, and
the pain in my foot-soles was unbear-
able. I have then had attached the
metallic earth connection as described,
and at once all was changed; the shoes
immediately became easy, not hurting
my feet at all, and in a short time my
eyes were again perfectly well.

Possibly there may be some sense and
reason in this theory. It seems to be as
intelligent as is the mosquito origin of
fevers. At any rate, its worth or worth-
lessness could be easily tested, and as
to all the other fads, none of them
should be accepted except upon in-
dubitable proof made plain to the pub-
lic, and not confined to the self-consti-
tuted scientists.

 

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The habit of Monday panics in Wall
Street seems to be so firmly fixed that,
while the settlement of the coal ques-
tion and buying of bonds would seem
to have been sufficient to steady the
market, yet the week starts out with an-
other decided sag. The trouble seems
to be that there is still really a lack of
money to carry on nermal operations.
The restoration of confidence and activ-
ity in the hard coal section fails to help
matters, rather tending to increase the
stringency by still further demands for
current funds. While it may take some
days to regain command of the situa-
tion, it would look now as though the
efforts of the banks and the Government
to furnish the needed funds will even-
tually prove sufficient.

There is no abatement in real busi-
ness activity. Railways are still break-
ing all records in earnings and, now
that fuel is finally assured, the hesita-
tion in steel and iron circles on this ac-
count is ended. There was not so
much actual interruption as a tendency
to conservatism for fear of what might
happen.

Grain and other staple movement is
exceeding expectation and prices are
advancing in spite of the abundance.
Textile mills are active, although the
uncertainty as to raw materials serves
to curtail future contracts. Footwear
factories are still active, but large re-
ceipts and poor quality of hides are not
favorable to high prices,

 

There are more waiters in a crowded

hotel dining room than those who wear
aprons,

Sin
A new class of work has been evolved
—working other people.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

CURATIVE PROPERTIES OF LIGHT.

Twenty years ago, among the many
fads which sprang up in this country
was the ‘‘blue light’’ or ‘‘blue glass’’
cure for diseases. The idea put forth
was that if a sick man or animal were
kept in a room to which the sunlight
was admitted through blue glass a cure
would be effected.

Heretofore but little attention has
been paid to the -curative powers of
light. It is known that plants which
attempt to grow in a dark or poorly
lighted room are miserable specimens,
while human beings confined in prisons
soon become pale and degenerate in
health. Light is absolutely necessary
to the proper development of health
and vigor in all animal and vegetable
life, but until recently no other consid-
eration has been given to a subject that
has in it enormous possibilities for
good,

According to an article in the Octo-
ber Review of Reviews, some six years
ago the medical world watched with
considerable curiosity the experiments

of a young Danish physician whose’

theories anent a ‘‘light cure’’ held out
great promises. Since then the experi-
mental stages bave broadened until they
include the realm of practicability. To-
day no name in the scientific catalogue
is better known than that of Prof. Niels
R, Finsen, of Copenhagen.

The aim of Prof, Finsen and the
Finsen Medical Light Institute is the
conquest of superficially-seated con-
sumption and cancer through the me-
dium of both natural and_ artificial
light. Many skin diseases yield to the
methods employed by the eminent dis-
coverer.

This Danish physician claims to have
discovered that such and such rays in
the sun’s spectrum are bacteria-destroy-
ing, while others are of a healing and
curative nature.

Working on this principle, bringing
to his aid the electric current, experi-
menting constantly, the result of his
studies has received the approval of
many scientific men and he has erected
buildings near Copenhagen for the treat-
ment of diseases by his methods.

He uses both sunlight and electricity,
but it is said that Prof. Finsen has come
to the conclusion that the greater bene-
fit lies in perfecting the electric appli-
ances to such a point where the natural
light can be dispensed with. As re-
gards the relative strength of electric
light and sunlight, Prof. Finsen’s ex-
periments with microbe cultures have
convinced him that where sunlight kills
the germs in a couple of minutes,
electricity does the work in that many
seconds.

It is claimed that the light cure is
effected absolutely without pain. Ac-
cording to accounts not only does the
patient suffer no inconvenience what-
ever, but those who have watched the
progress of certain aggravated cases
declare that the entire physiognomy of
the patient undergoes a change. The
eyes take on an added brilliancy. The
carriage becomes more erect. It is as
if a new dawn had risen, a regeneration
where the victim of his disease is once
more to be restored to his fellow men.
It is in the moral aspect of the case that
the Finsen treatment works such won-
derful changes side by side with the
physical.

In the removal! of birthmarks, such as
port wine stains, from the size of a
dime to those covering the entire one
side of a face, the concentrated-light
treatment has proved very efficacious,

 

and even if this were all, it would be a
valuable aid to curative science.

For anaemic patients, those in whom
the blood is deficient in red coloring
matter and other proper qualities, Prof.
Finsen has experimented successfully
with what he terms his photo-chemical
baths. He claims that the red color of
the exposed parts of the skin is caused
principally by light. Hence his effort
to restore the deficiency by subjecting
the anaemic patient to what is probably
one of the most powerful arc lights ever
constructed.

In the room set apart for this treat-
ment the patients walk about naked,
except for broad-brimmed straw hats to
protect the eyes. There is no glare,
however, notwithstanding the tremen-
dous light force generated, for the walls
and the ceiling are tempered in yellow
tones. The effect. of this treatment is
said to be exceedingly pleasant, a sense
of exhilaration taking possession of the
eniire nervous system. A number of
cures have already been reported.

Experiments with the various colored
lights, it isclaimed, show that each has
important effects upon animal and veg-
etable life. Red is said to be specially
beneficial to smallpox patients.

Without undertaking to champion the
claims made for this particular light
cure, there is good reason to believe
that it embraces most important possi-
bilites, which will sooner or later be
fully demonstrated.

Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, is
accounted a rich man, but he does not
hesitate to condemn those who do not
realize the responsibilities of weatlh.
‘‘When,’’ he says, ‘‘ wealth expends in
a single evening upon a vulgar, brain-
less entertainment an amount of money
the income of which would mean affiu-
ence to thousands of families; when it
is used to promote corners in the neces-
sities of life or for desperate gambling
in the stock market; when it is engaged
in an effort to debauch elections or con-
trol legislatures; whenit considers that
everything is for sale, legislatures and
courts, pubilc offices, the honesty of
men and the honor of women, it is hard
to overestimate the peril which it por-
tends. When so used and sought only
for its own sake it puts weapons into
the hands of those who through envy,
malice, ignorance, or misfortune seek
the overthrow of society and to produce
the anarchy which would return men to
the savage state from which they have
so painfully climbed upward.’’

The Pan-German movement in Europe
is a tangible thing, and some of the na-
tions that are neighbors to Germany ex-
press alarm at the measures which are
employed to spread it. There are some
who profess to believe that an attempt
is being made to Germanize the United
States. It is declared that Prince
Henry’s visit was not only intended as
a flattering attention to the United
States, but was also regarded as a means
of awakening the sentiment of solidar-
ity with the old home among the Ger-
man-Americans. The votes of this ele-
ment, it is intimated, might turn the
scale and decide the policy of the
United States at a critical moment,
when differences might conceivably
arise in regard to the practical applica-
tion of the Monroe doctrine. It is hard-
ly necessary to say that any expectations
in this direction are not likely to be
realized. There are no more loyal
Americans than those of German origin.

 

 

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red, black or

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with 28 inch
wheels.
Capacity
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per minute. Regulated to grind

coarse or fine while running.

Forwarded to you with 100 $ 3 3
pounds purest spices for

Be sure you get the name right

Che Toledo
Cotice & Spice Co.,

Toledo, Ohio

 

  

10

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

ON THE MOVE.

 

The Fourth Home of the Michigan Trades-
man.

When the Michigan Tradesman was
established in September, 1883, it was
located in one little room on the third
floor of the old Eagle building, 49 Lyon
street. The space was as limited as the
resources of the business, but in less
than a year the cramped quarters were
increased by the addition of an adjoin-
ing room,which became the mechanical
department, while the original office
was used as an editorial room and re-
ceived accessions in the shape of carpet,
desks, telephone, etc. As the business
of the office increased, two additional
rooms were taken, giving the firm the
use of an entire floor, with the excep-
tion of one small room.

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such proportions that a change of loca-
tion was imperative and in November
of that year the three-story and base-
ment building at 100 Louis street was
leased for a term of five years. This
lease was renewed for another five
years, but before a year of the second
term had elapsed the business of the
office had increased to the extent that it
became absolutely necessary that still
another change should be made.

After carefully considering several |o-
cations it was deemed desirable to exe-
cute a long-time lease of the fifth floor
of the Blodgett building, one of the fin-
est office buildings in the city, compris-
ing nearly double the floor space for-
merly occupied and admirably adapted
to the purpose by reason of its central
location, unusual amount of light (an
important advantage in a printing
office), and having everything, except
warehouse and storage room, on one
floor. The building is fitted with every
modern convenience. It is heated by
steam and provided with a quick pass-
enger elevator and two freight elevators,
one of which is the largest in the city.
Especial care was taken in designing
and fitting up the establishment, both
business and mechanical departments,
on the theory that the best work can be
accomplished where the surroundings
are made as light, airy and pleasant as

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possible. No reasonable expense was
spared to make the quarters complete
and up-to-date.

It has been very evident for some time
that the Tradesman has outgrown its
present quarters in the Blodgett build-
ing and that a larger and more conven-
ient location on the ground floor must
be secured. The consolidation of the
Ball-Barnbart-Putman Co, and the Ol-
ney & Judson Grocer Co., which in-
volves the abandonment of the corner
store in the four-story and basement
building at the corner of Ionia and
Louis streets, known as the Barnhart
building, afforded the Tradesman the
opportunity it bad long looked forward
to and little time was lost in negotiating
a lease for seventeen years and three
months, which establishes the Trades-
man in that location until March 1,
1920. It is claimed that this is the
longest lease of a business building ever
made in Grand Rapids,

The location is all that could be de-
sired. It is only a block from Monroe
street—the Morton House corner—and
only three biocks from the Union depot,
on the direct route from the depot to the
main business street of the city. It is
surrounded on all sides by wholesale
establishments, being opposite Rindge,
Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd., Sher-
wood Hall, Ltd., and the Grand Rapids
Wholesale Furniture Co. In the same
block are John T. Woodhouse & Co.,
the Grand Rapids Stationery Co., the
Clapp Clothing Co., the Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co, and the Grand Rap-
ids Dry Goods Co, Within a block are
located the Olney & Judson Grocer Co.,
Worden Grocer Co., H. Leonard &
Sons, U. S. Packing Co., E. E. Hewitt
and Maynard & Reed. Within two
blocks of the office nine-tenths of the
jobbing trade of this market is trans-
acted,

As soon as the present tenant vacates
the building, about Nov. 1, extensive
changes will be made in the interior in
the shape of new floors, partitions and
other betterments, the present intention
being to accomplish the work of re-
moval between Nov. 15 and 20. It will
be well along in December before the
Tradesman will be fully settled in its
new location, after which it will be
pleased to welcome its friends and pa-
trons, either city or out-of-town, any
time it is convenient for them to cali.

The Tradesman is not given to boast-
ing of what it intends to do, but it may
not be out of place to remark, in this
connection, that the increased floor
space will enable it to make material
additions to its equipment, including a
new Mergenthaler typesetting machine,
which has already been ordered from
the factory and is due to arrive early in
December. Other changes and improve-
ments which have been under consider-
ation for some time will also be carried
into execution.

Hit Him All Right.

A worthy man who was very sensitive
and retiring, having lost his wife, pri-
vately requested that he might be re-
membered in the minister's morning
prayer from the pulpit, but asked that
his name might not be mentioned.

On Sunday morning the good minister
prayed most eloquently for ‘‘our aged
brother upon whom the heavy hand of
sore affliction has so lately fallen.’’

At this point an elderly man, whom
the minister had married during the
week to a very young wife, arose with a
bounce and stamped down the aisle,
muttering loudly enough to be heard all
over the chapel :

“It may be an affliction, but I’m
blest if I want to be prayed for in that
fashion,"’

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

11

 

 

The Larimer

Door Check and Screen Door Check and Spring

oes

 

 

The best moderate priced check ever made.
manufacturer. It 1s what you have been looking for.
upwards. Write for circulars and price list.

JOSEPH SCHURSCH, 280 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Needed by every merchant and
All sizes and prices; $1.25

fi, BAKERS’
Z OVENS

All sizes to suit the
needs of any grocer.
Do your own baking
and make the double
profit.

Hubbard Portable
Oven Co.

182 BELDEN AVENUE, CHICAGO

 

 

 

 

 

 

- The Favorite
Chips

The Favorite
Chips

 

 

 

 

There are lots of Chocolate Chips on the mar-
ket, but the Favorite Chocolate Chips lead
them all. We put them up in 5 lb. boxes, 20
Ib. and 30 Ib. pails and in our new toc pack-
ages. S. B. & A. onevery piece. Made only by

Straub Bros. @ Amiotte, Traverse City, Mich.

 

All sizes and kinds for all purposes for sale or rent. Prices,
rates and terms on application. Camp furniture and canvas
covers. Send for catalogue.

THE M. I. WILCOX CO.

210 TO 216 WATER ST., TOLEDO, OHIO

 

 

A FEW POINTERS

Showing the benefits the merchant receives
by using the

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Kirkwood Short Credit
System of Accounts

It prevents forgotten charges. It makes
disputed accounts impossible. It assists in
making collections. It saves labor in book-
keeping. It systematizes credits. It estab-
lishes confidence between you and your cus-
tomer. One writing does it all. For full
particulars write or call on

A. H. Morrill, Agent
105 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Manufactured by CosBy-WIRTH PRINTING
Co., St. Paul, Minn.

 

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Putnam’s

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Ten certificates entitle
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The Putnam Candy Co.
Grand Rap ds, Mich.

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Certificate in every carton.
dealer to one carton free.

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Cera Dut Flakes

Is not recommended to CuRE consumption, rheumatism, toothache,
etc., but the people who use it soon recover from all their ailments.
Made from nuts and wheat—Nature’s true food.

National Pure Food Zo., Etd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

 

12

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

_Hardwar

What a Dealer in Sporting Goods May De.
Written for the Tradesman.

Passing down the street the other day,
I was hailed by a dealer in sporting
goods with this odd request:

‘‘I wish you would come back and
tell me what is the matter with my win-
dow.’”’

It made me feel a good deal like a
physician called upon to attend a sick
man; and, filled with responsibility, I
went back to see what was the matter.
There was matter enough. The dealer
had made the mistake so many ambi-
tious window trimmers do—attempted
to put his whole stock in the window at
one time. His intent evidently was to
give the idea that he possessed a large
stock, while in effect he gave people
the very opposite impression.

The dealer in sporting goods has an
unusual opportunity for the display of
his line. The dry goods man, the drug-
gist and other merchants have no mo-
nopoly on this art; in fact, I am. con-
strained to believe that those who are
interested in his display are even more
keenly interested than those drawn to
the windows of his neighbors who deal
in other lines, although I realize what
a furore a well-arranged display of new
ideas in fad and fashion will create
among the female population.

I found that my sporting goods friend
did not appreciate his opportunity. He
had arranged, with mathematical pre-
cision and generous profusion, a window
full cf all kinds of sporting goods ap-
propriate to alk seasons. Footballs vied
with baseball bats for attention and ten-
nis rackets lined up against phono-
graphs. Tennis rackets are ordinarily
movable stock in summer, while the
long winter evenings create an_ interest
in Sousa and Gilmore sold by the yard.
The dealer had made the mistake of
showing everything he had, instead of
trying to show a little well. lf he had
shown one line, no matter what it was
so long as it was appropriate to the sea-
son, the passer by would at once have
been impressed by the size of his stock
of that character and, when the idea of
purchase came to him at some later
time, his mind would have involuntarily
reverted to the display he hadseen. He
would have been well satisfied that this
was the place to buy and so the window
would have served the purpose for which
it was intended, that of a trade puller.

The football season was just bud-
ding and, at my suggestion, we ar-
ranged a window that suited my fancy,
however well it might meet the ideas of
others. We first unloaded that mammoth
stock of everything and in its place made
a display of something—football goods,
In the center of the window we laid
some green crepe paper which cust the
sum of Io cents and which represented
the entire outlay for that display. Upon
this green crepe we outlined a regular
football gridiron, with its five yard lines
distinctly marked with chalk just as
they would be with lime upon a real
*varsity field. At the two ends, where
they belonged, were two miniature foot-
ball goals shaped like the letter H. In
the center, at a point technically known
as the kick-off, reposed a tiny football
placed in the position it would be at the
beginning of the game. Around this
gridiron we arranged fuotball goods ex-
clusively, and I am quite hopeful! that
any boy or student who saw the window
went away with the impression that,
when he wanted something in the foot-

 

ball line, here was the place to get it.
If any dealer wishes to arrange this
window and is not posted upon the lay-
out of a football field, he can readily
get the information, and I consider the
window an attractive one.

Somewhere earlier in this article I
Stated that the dealer in sporting goods
had an unusual opportunity for the dis-
play of his stock. His window exhibits
are the most inexpensive of any, sport-
ing goods are not in any way damaged
by the sun and there is no expense for
drapery or draping. The idea to follow
is to exhibit that thing in sporting
goods which is at the present moment
exciting the public mind. The man
who put in a ping pong exhibit when
ping pong was at its first height has
cinched the ping pong trade of his town
or at least his share of it for some time
to come; for not only were ping pong
players but the general public interested
if he presented in his window a correct
exposition of the game just as it is
played, so far as a mere display of the
equipment would permit. If you have
not had a ping pong window, it will
soon be time, The winter months will
see a great revival of this fascinating
game.

There is a peculiar fact in connection
with the display of bicycles, or rather a
peculiar fact connected with my indi-
vidual opinion on the subject, and that
is that one wheel in a window of ordin-
ary size makes a better display than
many. The man who buys a wheel buys
a great deal like the man who buys a
borse,and David Harum in all his glory
was not better posted upon horse flesh
than is our ordinary rider upon the fine
points ofa wheel. If you have a bicycle
that appeals to you as being particularly
attractive in appearange or which pos-
sesses some new feature that would tell
in its sale if called to the public’s at-
tention, place that wheel on exhibition
alone in your window and it will receive
the attention it deserves and you de-
sire; put three or four with it and all
will be lost in a confused picture made
up of steel wire and rubber tires. The
place to make an exhibit of wheels that
will appeal to the public because of its
size is in your store itself and not in
your window.

The thing to be remembered in the
display of sporting goods is this: That
a general display of all lines gives the
idea of a small stock, while the display
of a sirgle line well arranged and in
season gives the idea of a large and up-

to-date stock. Charles Frederick.
ee

The smaller the brain the more con-
ceit it will hold.

 

Insurance
Hgainst
Fire
is generally conceded to be
a necessity with every mer-
chant. It is just as essential
that he should be protected
against slow-pay and bad-
pay customers, which can be
accomplished by maintain-
ing a membership in the

Commercial

Credit
Zo.

 

Tents, Awnings,

Horse Covers, Wagon
Covers, Stack Covers;
Cotton, Jute, Hemp,
Flax and Wool Twines;

Manila and Sisal Ropes.

  

 

Chas. A. Coye, 11 & 9 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Michigan

“Sure Catch” Minnow Trap

 

 

Length, 195 inches. Diameter, 95 inches.
Made from heavy, galvanized wire cloth, with all edges well protected. Can be
taken apart at the middle in a moment and nested for convenience in carrying,
Packed one-quarter dozen in a case.

Retails at $1.25 each. Liberal discount to the trade.

Our line of Fishing Tackle is complete in every particular,

Mail orders solicited and satisfacticn guaranteed.

MILES HARDWARE Co.
113-115 MONROE ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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.

 

 

Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co.

Paint, Color and Varnish Makers
Mixed Paint, White Lead, Shingle Stains, Wood Fillers
Sole Manufacturers CRYSTAL-ROCK FINISH for Interior and Exterior Use.
Corner 15th and Lucas Streets. Toledo, Ohio.
CLARK-RUTKA-WEAVER CO., Wholesale Agents for Western Michigan

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

13

 

UNCLE SAM’S SWEET TOOTH.

Per Capita Consumption Is Steadily On
the Increase.

The people of the United States are
second only to the United Kingdom in
satisfying the demands of a sweet tooth.
They consume eight times as much
sugar per capita as they did in the first
quarter of the last century, four times
as much as the average per capita dur-
ing the decade ending with 1850, and
twice as much as they did in any year
prior to 1870, A vast quantity of this
sugar consumption was in the form of
candies. In the years immediately
prior to 1825 the average consumption
of sugar was about eight pounds per
capita; in the decade of 1840-50 about
sixteen pounds per capita; in the years
immediately prior to 1870 the average
was about thirty-two pounds per capita
(omitting the war years, in which the
consumption was light); from 1870 to
1880 it averaged about forty pounds per
capita; from 1880 to 1890, fifty pounds
per capita; in 1891 the figure was sixty-
five pounds per capita, and it has
ranged from sixty-two to sixty-eight
pounds per capita since that time, the
figure for i19ct being sixty-eight and
four-tenths pounds. This steady growth
in the per capita consumption of sugar
is shown by some figures which the
Bureau of Statistics will present in the
next issue of its annual volume, the
Statistical Abstract. The per capita
consumption has been a matter of record
during recent years, but it has not been
before practicable to compare the per
capita consumption of recent years with
that of earlier years, and to note the
very rapid increase in the quantity con-
sumed by each individual of the coun-
trv.

This growth in the consumption of
sugar is, evidently, not confined to the
people of the United States. The in-
crease seems to have been equally rapid
in other parts of the world, judging
from the figures of total production.
Figures recently published by the
Bureau of Statistics in its monograph,
‘*The World’s Sugar Production and
Consumption,’’ showed that the sugar
production of the world was eight times
as great in 1900 as in 1840, the figure
for 1840 being 1,150,000 tons, and that
for 1900, 8,800,000 tons.

This increase in production, and con-
sequently in consumption, has come
largely through the development of the
beet sugar imdustry, which increased
from a production of 50,000 tons in
1840 to 200,000 tons in 1850, 831,000
in

tons 1870, I,402,000 tons in 1880,
3,633,000 tons in 1890 and 5,950,000
tons in 1900. During the same time,

cane sugar production increased from
I, 100,000 tons in 1840 to 2,850,000 tons
in Igoo, Beets in 1840 supplied 4.35
per cent. of the total sugar product of
the world; in 1850 they supplied 14.29
per cent.; in 1860, 20,43 per cent. ; in
1870, 34.40 per cent.; in 1890, 63.70
per cent, and in Igoo, 67.71 per cent.

The per capita consumption of sugar
in the United States is greater than that
of any other country, except the United
Kingdom, in which the annual consump-
tion ranges from 85 to 91 pounds per
capita, against from 60 to 68 pounds in
the United States, the figure of consump-
tion for 1900 in the United —
being 91.6 pounds per capita,

The following table shows the per
capita consumption of sugar in the
United States and the principal Euro-
pean countries in 1900, the latest avail-

 

able year:

 

Countries. Pounds.
United Kingdom: 2.0... ... 91.6
United States. . Te Ga
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Demat sly, 548
Sweden and Norway. 38.2
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Austria- -Hungary.. a 17.6
Portugal and "Madeira. Gh 14.7
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Se 10.6
Turkey.... ee 8.0
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What He Wanted to Say.

A few days ago Mr, Taylor was ab-
sent from his drug store for a few min-
utes and left his wife in charge. A
large Norwegian, who spoke English
with difficulty, entered and said:

‘Hi owe de firm Io cents.’’

‘‘Very well,’’ replied Mrs.
‘‘just pay
right.”

The Norwegian made no attempt to
produce the coin, but gazed steadily at
Mrs, Taylor and repeated:

‘Hi owe de firm Io cents.’’

‘*Ves, | heard you say that before.
Now, if you are afraid I will give you a
receipt for it.’’

In astonishment the man from Nor-
way looked at her and walked out with-
out a word. Pretty soon he returned
with a fellow countryman whose com-
mand of English was a little better, and
who interpreted the remark to Mrs.
Taylor by explaining: ‘‘He wants Io
cents’ worth of iodoform.’’—Frankfort
Review.

Taylor;
it to me and it will be all

oe

The rnore we help others to bear their
burdens the lighter our own will be.

 

 

 

Point in Demestic Economy.

‘*There are few women who do not
spend new money reluctantly,’’ said a
clerk in one of our leading stores. ‘‘It
is worth one’s while to watch them. A
woman will invariably hunt around in
her purse for old money in paying fora
purchase. Why this is so I have never
been able to discover, but the excep-
tions simply prove the rule. Daily I
have examples of this trait in women
right here in this store, and when
feminine customers finally do part with
the precious crisp bills it is with some
little eyaculation of annoyance and fre-
quently an attitude of indignation, as
though I had ferced them into spending
their money against their wilis. On
some occasions I have actually known
women to leave the store sooner than
break a new bill. |

‘But I have been benefited so by my
different experiences with this peculiar-
ity of the sex that I have learned to
take it philosophically, believing there
may be something yet to learn. So,
when my patience is on the verge of ex-
haustion, | gain new strength from the
knowledge of how much money | have
been saved from a woman's
parting with new money.
simple enough: I

dislike in
The secret is
always manage to
carry my salary home in _ beautiful,
clean, crisp bills, and the reiuctance
with which my wife gets rid of them re-
dounds to my financial benefit. This is
a tip for other married men, and I am

certain they would save money by
adopting the suggestion.
Oe
a Them at Home.
The country merchant who makes

loudest complaint about the townspeople
going to the city for trade is frequently
the one whose ‘‘announcement’’ in the
village paper remains unchanged from
one season’s end to another.

 

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The runners attached to a fine carriage make a turnout
much more comfortable, elegant in appearance
venient than the most expensive sleigh and at a cost very

No straps or other bungling devices are required to pre-
vent them from inverting or flopping over when backing
or driving rapidly over rough roads.
Only one bolt is required to fasten
It may be observed from the cut that there
are four bolt holes in the collar which holds the hub, thus
giving four different widths of track,
treme variation of six inches.
clips which grasp the axle
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Clothing

The Straw Goods Situation and the Job-
bers’ Association.

 

 

Under ordinary circumstances the two
subjects above mentioned would be
treated in separate articles, but at this
juncture the two seem so closely con-
nected in the mind of the trade that it
becomes convenient to talk of them un-
der one heading.

In examining the first matter it is
pertinent to speak of the agreement en-
tered into by some of the large straw
goods manufacturers with regard toa
date on which they simultaneously
opened their lines, for although a full
month has elapsed since the opening
date, viz., September 2, it is only now
that the real effect of this agreement
can be weighed with the possibility of
arriving at anything near a correct esti-
mate. For it is only now, when most of
the jobbers have left the market and all
orders have gone through the regular
routine, that anything like a real com-
parison of this season's separate orders
and totals, or purchases in special lines
and staples, can be made with the
records of last year.

And now that all this has been done,
it appears to be a moot question as to
whether there will be an agreed opening
date next year or not, for the matter
does not seem to have worked out as
satisfactorily as was expected.

In other years the buyers of straw
goods from case houses have usually
come to this market in three groups,
not, of course, strictly demarcated one
from another, but merging the one into
the other and making the buying sea-
son of considerable length. This year,
as a consequence of the opening date
agreement, the whole trade was prac-
tically here at one time, with tne result,
it is said, that the jobbers individually
could not inake their selections with the
same careful deliberation as heretofore,
although if this is so, it was most cer-
tainly through no intentional act of the
manufacturers, for in some houses the
salesmen were busy from six in the
morning until long after the gas or elec-
tricity was on.

Another consequence of the rush was
the inability of the salesmen to bring
properly before the buyers the new
things, of which there were many ready
for their inspection.

And so it now appears that purchases
have not been quite as satisfactory as we
were led to state in our last issue, from
reports which it now seems were prema-
ture, for although purchases have cov-
ered a large number and wide range of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

styles, quantities have been conserva-
tive.

Still another feature that tends away
from a date agreement for next year is
the supposed advantage that non-sign-
ing manufacturers had. These, it is
stated, sent their lines out into the trade
before those who made the agreement,
and it is believed in this manner were
able to secure many good orders, ‘to the
detriment of other manufacturers.

The formation of the Jobbers’ Asso-
ciation and its agreement with a num-
ber of the manufacturers wil] make it-
self felt in the straw goods market, but
not quite in the manner that was ex-
pected.

The permission to the manufacturers
to sell 150 retailers has had one peculiar
result. This is, that some of the manu-
facturers who before had never tried to
sell but a few very large retailers who
called at their show rooms, since sign-
ing the agreement and learning of these
names, are now trying to sell them, too.
As a result of the existence of the Asso-
ciation, some duplicate orders will be
placed with other factories than those
who supplied the originals, but not to
so great an extent as might be supposed,
for enquiry develops the fact that mem-
bers of this Association are continuing'to
buy from makers who did not sign the
agreement.

Although the meeting at the Hoffman
House in New York took place a month
ago, its echoes are still heard, and
apropos of it, many things are tcld us.
It is stated that one of the results of
the Hoffman Hous®t talk was a request
that the manufacturers who had signed
the agreement should refuse to sell
goods to any jobber not a member of the
Jobbers’ Association.

A reporter for this paper has en-
quired of a number of jobbers who are
not in the Association, but has not
found one who has nct been able to pur-
chase any straws he desired from manu-
facturers who signed the agreement with
the jobbers.

However, it is a fact that the possi-
bility of these manufacturers actually
refusing to sell to non-members of the
Jobbers’ Association has been regarded
with some seriousness by both sides.

Evidence of this on the one side is,
that some of the manufacturers have
come together to discuss the matter as to
its possibilities,and as to the legality of
such action, while on the other side it
is said on good authority that some
powerful jobbers who are not members
of the Jobbers’ Assoeiation have earnest-
ly discussed and formulated plans for
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manufacture straws in grades below $6
a dozen.

A competent manufacturer to run the
plant was available, it is said, and the
requisite capital would be readily sub-
scribed by those jobbers who would be
the customers of this factory. A shrewd
detail of the plan was to allow salesmen
of the jobbers to purchase stock, as this
would make them push goods from this
factory above those of outside makes.

This whole scheme is spoken of with
regard to some cities other than New
York, for none of the New York job-
bers questioned seemed to know a thing
about it, although it is a fact that in
New York some of the jobbers who are
among the very largest operators in
straws have not joined the Association.
Some others whose names we published
in our issue of September g in the list
of members as it existed last March
have since resigned, and some who did
not resign did not evince enough in-
terest to attend the Hoffman House
meeting.—Apparel Gazette.

 

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Carrying Light Stocks.

A firm of retailers who have been con-
spicuously successful in New York’s
medium-grade outfitting field, have
had, thus far, notwithstanding many ad-
verse weather conditions, a very suc-
cessful year. In talking about the pros-
perous state of affairs at their various
stores, one of the partners said recently:
‘‘Like almost everybody else in the
Borough of Manbattan and nearby, we
did a comparatively small summer busi-
ness, but we are not complaining, and
for the reason that we made more
money, because we tied up less than
usual in big stocks, What I mean is
that we had more than usual to show at
the end of the season in dollars and
cents and less in merchandise for the
business done. We bought lightly, not
because we anticipated small results,
but because we wanted to see if it was
not possible to so conduct our business
that it would not be necessary to pile
goods to the ceiling in order to antici-
pate all demands. It has seemed to us
for some time that, being so near the
sources of supply, it would not be neces-
sary to order heavy stocks of goods.

‘“*‘Of course, | know you can not al-
ways do what you would like in pre-
paring for a season, but from all I can
learn, among even the best of operators,
it is becoming more and more the rule
to prepare with fair liberality, but not
superabundantly, so to speak. In this,
as in other matters affecting merchan-
dising, one must act in the light of his
experience. It is better, it seems to
me, to err on the side of too small than
too large a stock.’’

—s» >
Delays on Underwear Deliveries.

So far as the volume of business an-
ticipated or now doing by manufactur-
ers and jobbers in fall and winter
weights is concerned, there is scarcely
any room for complaint. In many lo-
calities retailers are not busy on heavy-
weights, because there has been no cool
weather but Jet there be a decidedly cold
snap, or the thermometer fall consider-
ably, and local jobbers will have to ex-
plain to retailers that there are not any
too many goods to go around. Here and
there (in the New York market, for in-
stance) is encountered a large jobber
who prepared for what has happened,
and is well supplied, but the majority
of wholesalers are not any too well
stocked up with fall weights. In fact,
in many instances the orders placed
with jobbers by retailers have not been
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goods, Early in the buying season, and
for quite a while certain jobbers held
off, because of the conditions of the yarn
market. They believed that concessions
would be made later on, but in this
they have been disappointed. In con-
sequence some of them find themselves
without desirable merchandise, and the
condition becomes aggravated as the
time for cold weather approaches. Job-
bers who bought early and abundantly
are in a fortunate position. Their more
conservative neighbors are not so hap-
pily placed.

Small manufacturers, who made only
limited quantities on account of the
stiff conditions prevailing in the yarn
market, are not showing any very de-
cided disposition to live up to their con-
tracts,

Another element that has contributed
very materially to the embarrassment of
unprepared jobbers is the usual dispo-
sition of scores of retailers to wait until
the eleventh hour before placing their
orders. With the exception of enter-
prising manufacturers and jobbers, this
holding off has the effect of creating
conservative conditions. The producer
must know something of the intentions
of the retailer before he can prepare
stocks of goods. It is hardly reasonable
to expect him to take all the chances.
In fact, he will not take all the chances
and the conviction is growing that the
time is not very far distant when the
systems which obtained in the fancy
shirt business will prevail in underwear.
That is, orders of a hard and fast char-
acter will have to be placed many
months in advance by retailers before
they can reasonably expect perfect de-

liveries.
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Neckwear Silks.

Manufacturers of tie silks are quite
busy on holiday orders, which are
wanted for immediate delivery. There
has been exceptionally good business
done in heavy weave baratheas, bas-
kets, armures, ottomans and grosgrains,
Those of the best grade have been or-
dered freely by high-class neckwear
manufacturers, as the demands of the
neckwear people are for weaves full of
silk and soft and pliable to the hand, so
that they will tie well and gracefully.

Silk manufacturers who have made a
specialty of mufflers for fal] have done
an excellent business. They report that
mufilers are to be worn treely this fall
and winter, and heavy weaves, with
plenty of silk, have been brought out for
warmth.

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invitation to the trade 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,

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Stationery Co.

29 North Ionia St..
Grand Rapids, Mich.

    

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Lot 275 Overall Coat

$7.75 per doz.

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stripe, double cable, indigo
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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.

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Milwaukee, Wis.

 

Manufacturers of
Great Western Fur and Fur Lined Cloth Coats
The Good-Fit, Don’t-Rip Kind.
We want agent in every town. Catalogue and
full particulars on application.

B. B. DOWNARD. General Salesman.

 

   

 

Get our prices and try

our work when you need

Rubber and
Steel Stamps
Seals, etc.

Send for Catalogue and see what
we offer.

Detroit Rubber Stamp Co.
99 Griswold St. Detroit, Mich.

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Will get you prices on the
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Manufacturers

 

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Shoes and Rubbers

Why Retailers Should Not Return Shoes
to Manufacturers.

 

Some time ago various shoe trade
papers in the country took up the subject
of *‘ Returned Goods,’’ and threshed it
out pretty thoroughly in their columns.
They advanced many reasons why shoe
retailers should not return shoes to man-
ufacturers, and proved that many claims
made by them were indeed unjust.
They also advised manufacturers to
deal with such cases as severely as pos-
sible and not to permit any impositions,
such as they were being subjected to, to
grow. They also advised the retail
merchants to be a little more consider-
ate in their dealings with manufactur-
ers and jobbers and to desist from send-
ing a whole case, or cases, of shoes to
the factory because they thought one or
two pairs of the number did not come
up to sample.

Strange to say, this discussion in the
papers has brought about many startling
changes. It doubtless proved to many
merchants that they were entirely wrong
and stopped the same people from con-
tinuing along their old lines of sending

back those shoes to the manufacturer.
If the manufacturer desired to be ar-
bitrary, especially where the firm’s
name is stamped on goods, he could
force the retail merchant to take the
goods, as the retailer has no way of
proving that the shoes were not as good
as samples. It is simply a case of one
man's word against another’s, but along
with the order the manufacturer has the
signature of the retail dealer, which will
stand in any court of law.—Shoe Re-

tailer.
———-~_>-4<.—___

Ought to Be Satisfied.

‘‘T mever have any doubt about
Henry's affection for me,’’ the young
bride said to her father, on the occasion
of the first visit after her marriage,
‘‘but I sometimes wish he were a little
more demonstrative. ’’

‘*Does he ever make any objection,’’
asked the old gentleman, ‘‘to your keep-
ing this sore-eyed poodle in the house
all the time?’’

|

‘‘What other demonstration do you
want?’’

——--_ 3

Overdone heartiness is nearly as nasty
as underdone mutton.

 

All parties interested in

Rush
Your Orders

in now for Hoop and OLp
COLONY RUBBERS. You
will soon 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 on 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.

 

 

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LADIES’ SHOES

Embrace every feature
of Style, Grace, Beauty
and Durability; they wear
well, look well.

The dealer who will
put in our line of Ladies’

back shoes, iust to let manufacturers 8

know that they were living. On the Automobiles
other hand, many shoe dealers who
never returned a case of gocds in their
lives, so manufacturers claim, have got-
ten the notion into their heads that they
have been ‘‘slow’’ and have not taken
advantage of the manufacturer as they
might have done. With this in mind
manufacturers ciaim that shoes which

are requested to write us.

should never have been returned have
been sent to them by dealers who, in
“years gone by, were perfectly satisfied
with much less perfect product. It is
rather an unusual thing to imagine that
shoe retailers could be so inconsiderate,
but in one or two cases this is positive-
ly a fact. We know of manufacturers
who have been making shoes for cer-
tain houses for years and years without
ever having one pair of shoes returned
to them as not being up to sample. We
know of ancther instance where one re-
tailer sent back a lot of seventeen cases,
claiming that they were not as good as
they should be. It was quite apparent
after examining the cases that sixteen
of them had never been opened, and as
for the one case that was opened, the
shoes in it were equally as good as the
samples seen in the shoe factory.

This worid is rather a funny world
and men get funny notions. This is
about the most ridiculous one ever
brought to our attention. It is a cause
for wonderment if retail merchants real-
ize what they are doing when they re-
turn goods in this manner. Of course,
if they are overbought it is one method
of getting rid of a lot of shoes which
they rightfully contracted for and which
on account of overbuying will not be
sold during the season; but at the same
time it is an undignified and an unbusi-
nesslike method and makes sume one
else suffer for their own mistakes. The
real injury, however, is the one they
do themselves in the future. If they
send back their goods to the manufac-
turer they leave themselves short of
shoes which the trade is continually
calling for. They can not expect to
have their orders duplicated in three or
four wecks, especially during the rush
season, and by the time their goods are
made up they will find they have lost
many sales that they would have other-
wise made had they not been incon-
istent as well as inconsiderate and sent

 

 

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bile, Knox, Winton and White; also have

some good bargains in second-hand autos.
Adams & Hart,

12 W. Bridge St. Grand Rapids

 

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No matter where you live
you can keep your money
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when you want to use it.

Any person living with-
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“‘Banking by Mail?!

is the name of an interest-
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tells how anyone can do
their banking with us by
mail; how to send money or
make deposits by mail:
and important things
persons should know
who want to keep their
money safe and well
invested. It will be
sent freeupon request.

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Shoes will do weld.
Write us about it.

F. MAYER
BOOT & SHOE CO.

Milwaukee
Wis.

 

 

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No Time Like the
Present

The weather conditions of
the fall are particularly hard
on footwear.

You cannot appreciate the
sterling wearing qualities of
this shoe until you subject it to
a Severe test.

We suggest you send for a
few pairs. Their durability
will create a demand that will
be profitable to satisfy.

Rindge, Kalmbach,
Logie & Co., Ltd.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

17

 

    
   
  

Stock No. 225
Price $1.75

Show Cases as an Assistant in Showing
Novelties.

Too much importance can not be at-
tributed to the vaiue of show-cases as
trade-bringers and assistants to clerks
in the shoe store or department. Show-
cases also have another use—that of
setting the store off to advantage. Very
often a shoe store or department which
looks bare and incomplete is made more
than ordinarily attractive by the addi-
tion of a show-case.

Many of the large departments use
show-cases to exhibit not only their
leaders, but also to show specialties to
the consumers to advantage—perishable
novelties in the way of colored slip-
pers, lace ornates, suede or Persian calf
oxfords and reception shoes, which do
not show well except when formed up
and exhibited in the show-cases seen
in the departments.

Past experience has proved that to
handle this class of footwear, lifting
them in and out of the cartons, takes
the surface off the kid or soils the lace
or ooze calf. All of this is obviated by
the use of the show case. Here the cus-
tomer can see the shoe or slipper to
advantage without its being handled by
either the clerk or the customer.

Outdoor show-cases are considered by
some shve men of more value as an ad-
vertising medium than their show-win-
dows. !f the merchant uses his cases
to advantage, the ‘‘transient’’ begins to
watch these cases for special leaders,
and in this way many sales are made
which would not otherwise be made.
Outdoor show-cases if not properly used
can be made an actual detriment to
one's business,

Shoe men who put out their cases
without any regard to their appearance
very often disgust the prospective cus-
tomers, and those who would have
otherwise made their purchases at this
store pass it by and seek some store
where the surroundings are more invit-
ing. lf outdoor show-cases are used,
avoid overcrowding of same. Taboo all
styles of cards which you would not con-
sider good enough for the show-win-
dows. If cards are to be used, make
them neat and distinctive.

Do not crowd the cases. If your cases
have shelves in them, see that only one
style of shoe is placed on each shelf.
Make the exhibit of but a few pairs so
that prospective customers can compre-
hend exactly what ‘“‘specials’’ you have
to offer.

See that each pair of shoes is properly
formed up. Shoes shown in this way
are to all appearances worth 200 per
cent. more than those shown without
forms,

Do not use a show-case which is not

 

A Test Case

The Michigan Tradesman claims it reaches more good dealers in Michigan and Indiana than any other trade journal in the country.
To test the truth of this assertion we will sell (if you will mail the orders direct to us and mention the Michigan Tradesman),
four shoes cheaper than any other factory in the West.

Order our numbers:

225 Men’s Kangaroo Calf, 6 inch top, full double sole and tap bals, $1.75
2254 Men’s Kangaroo Calf, 6 inch top, full double sole and tap blucher, 1.75
226 Men’s Kangaroo Calf, g inch top, full double sole and tap bals, 2.00
22634 Men’s Kangaroo Calf, g inch top, full double sole and tap blucher, 2.00

These shoes are cut out of Albert Trostle & Son's Kangaroo Calf and made in our Northville factory. “Rodgers” is

The

as attractive as your window front. A
poor looking show-case isa positive det-
riment to business. A good rule in
every connection is to taboo everything
which has the appearance of cheapness.
Do not use a case with window glass
sides. Get a good glass case, one which
will show your shoes to advantage.
———>_2 ~~ —___

Predicts a Demand For Better Goods.

‘‘Yes, I know the medium-priced
shoe stores are multiplying,’’ said a
Western dealer, in discussing features
of the shoe trade of to-day, ‘‘but I am
a firm believer in the return of the
higher-priced shoe. Of course, not so
great in demand as formerly, but I be-
lieve that the day is not far distant
when a store handling exclusively men’s
$5 shoes will come and be a success.
It was but a few years ago that the gen-
eral run of trade in fine goods was on $5
shoes. Then came the advent of the
$3.50, until now we have scores of one-
priced shoes, either handled exclusive-
ly or as a leader. There are as many
people now as formerly able to pay $5
for their shoes and many want some-
thing better than the $3.5c grade of foot-
wear, Such being the case I believe
the $5 shoe will return. A dealer can
afford to sell fewer, since the profit is
greater, and it is a question if more
$3.50 shoes are sold, in proportion,
which is necessary to make up the cost
of handling at a closer margin of profit.
Now we see $3 and $2.50 shoes coming
in, but I think that is drawing it too
fine for a stylish, serviceable man’s
shoe. Yet, I think a success could be
made of a higher-priced men’s shoe
store, and more profit on the business

realized,’’
+> +>

The Solace of Solitaire.

‘Solitaire as a nerve soother ranks
with men just as knitting does with a
woman,’’ said T. O. Woodbury, of Cin-
cinnati.

‘*There is nothing in the world that
calms the troubled human soul as a
game of solitaire, played all by one’s
lonesome, It has a solacing power that
the great Napoleon admjtted, and in
this day is conceded by that Napoleon
of finance, J. P. Morgan. It is said
there are eighty-two separate and dis-
tinct forms of the game, and no doubt
new varieties will be added from time
to time.

‘*One of the best-loved of solitaires is
known as the game of ‘seven,’ and ri-
vals No. 13,’ otherwise styled the
‘idiot’s delight.’ A far more intricate
solitaire that has lately come in vogue
is termed ‘Miss Mulligan;' it is played
with two decks of cards, and the man
who can make it is a genius. In fact, it
is far too complicated to ever become
popular,”’

 

stamped on the sole of each shoe and “Rodgers Means Reliable ”

 

Order to-day.

Rodgers Shoe Company

Toledo, Ohio
Factory at Northville, Mich.

Men’s Work Shoes

Snedicor &
Hathaway
Line

No. 743. Kangaroo Calf.
Bal. Bellow’s Tongue. % D.

S. Standard Screw. $1.75.
Carried in sizes 6 to 12.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.
Grand Rapids

 

 

We would be pleased to have every shoe merchant in
the State carefully inspect and compare our

“Custom Made Shoes”

with any they may be handling.
proaching when such a line as ours will meet the de-

The season is fast ap-

mands of those who are looking for a

FIRST CLASS WORKING SHOE

Waldron, Alderton & Meize,

A postal card to us will bring the line to you. Saginaw, Michigan

 

Hard Pan Shoes

When in need of a shoe for boy or man,
That will wear longest in all kinds of weather,
Ask for ‘‘Herold-Bertsch’s Famous Hard Pan,”’
The greatest Shoe made out of leather.

Wear Like Iron

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Dry Goods

Weekly Market Review of the Principal
Staples.

Staple Cottons—Domestic cottons have
shown no special change this week.
The demand in all departments has
been of an ordinary character, such as
has characterized the market for some
little time. Exporters are making a
good many bids, but there are very few
purchases made. The heavy brown
goods market continues firm, lightweight
sheetings are also firm and printed drills
are pretty wel] sold up. Ducks show a
quiet market, but very firm, and brown
osnaburgs are without change. Bleached
muslins are being bought in fair quan-
tities,and it is easy to obtain full prices
for them. Bleached cambrics are steady
and firm. Wide sheetings have found
a limited business, but made-up goods
are in full demand and prices firm. In
coarse colored cottons, denims show a
fair trading, but supplies are very small
for immediate delivery. Ticks are fair-
ly steady, although there are said to be
good supplies of some of the low grades.
Plaids, cheviots, checks, etc., are firm
and with a good demand.

Prints and Ginghams—Printed cali-
coes have shown a fair amount of busi-
ness for the past week. The reorder
business for both fancies and staples
for the fall trade, however, has been
moderate. Prices are maintained fairly
well and stocks have been reduced to a
good condition. In this department
buyers seem pretty willing to place or-
ders for spring deliveries, but sellers
are, as a rule, not at all anxious to ac-
cept these propositions. Fine printed
specialties are firm and the spring pro-
duction is pretty well sold up. Printed
flannelettes are scarce in desirable lines
and the market is very firm. Percales
are quiet and show no change. Ging-
hams are hard to obtain, the demand
running ahead of the supply for both
staple and dress styles, and prices show
an upward tendency in some of the
lower grades of staples,

Wool Dress Goods—There is a fairly
active business under way on both light
and heavyweight dress goods, Dress
goods looms are generally well engaged
and not a few mills have sufficient busi-
ness between the fall and spring orders
in hand to keep them fully engaged for
some months. A substantial volume of
spring business has been secured. In
some quarters this is more apparent than
in others, of course. The initial spring
business is not conceded to be all in
hand, however. There are a good num-
ber of buyers who are understood to
have considerable buying yet to do,
and manufacturers who have not yet got
to the point in the selling of their lines
where they can regard their accomplish-
ment with complacency are building
hopefully on the business that remains
to come forward to place them ina
much better position. It is expected
that during the next few weeks a con-
siderable volume of business will be
added to that already in hand. The
business that has come forward during
the week has run to staple goods and
such fancies as are but a step removed
from plain goods. In out and out fancy
goods in large effects and striking color
combinations there has not been much
evidence of interest.

Underwear—While there are a good
many buyers to be found in the knit goods
market, there is very little actual trad-
ing accomplished. Most of them seem
to devote their time to pushing the
manufacturers’ agents for goods already

 

 

 

under contract. Some are making en-
quiries in regard to the coming season,
but their greatest anxiety seems to be to
obtain goods for the present season.
This matter of deliveries is becoming a
serious one, because the buyers, as a
tule, have very small stocks carried
over, some of them none at all, and un-
less they can obtain their quota of
goods, it will leave them in a very diffi-
cult and not altogether enviable posi-
tion. Some of the agents are taking a
very independent stand in this matter,
claiming that it is the buyer's own fault
because he did not place his orders at
the time he should have done so. What
the outcome of this will be it is hard to
say, but the mills are working up to the
limit to make deliveries and there
seems to be no relief in sight from the
present condition. Higher prices are
obtained for duplicates, but this seems
to have no effect on the demand. Most
of this business is from a distance, the
local buyers having obtained their goods
and needing very little more. Retailers
are waiting to use up a reasonable por-
tion of their present stocks before ap-
plying to the jobbers for more and until
they do, the local jobbers will not again
be in the market. There is a great
deal of interest manifested in the pros-
fect for fleeces for the next season. Just
when the season will open is very un-
certain, although rumors are circulated
in the market to the effect that some
salesmen are already out with their new
samples. It is realized very generally
that this is far too early to show them,
but if such an act has taken place, it
is only following out the style of busi-
ness done last season. Every one in the
business knows how, after it had been
decided not to open until in December,
practically every salesman was on the
road early in November and some in
October. Certainly this is not conducive
to higher prices nor will it assist in
maintaining the strength in the market,
but, on the contrary, is bound to have
an adverse effect and no matter how well
the market is situated at present it will
be weakened by any action of this kind.
Those who take a common sense view of
the matter say that they are willing to
let their competitors take the lead and
send their men out. Let them test the
market and know just what is doing.
These men predict that there will be
very little in the way of business for the

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first month and do not think that there
will be much inducement for them to
buy on the present basis.

Hosiery—A few buyers of hosiery are
seen in town, but most of them have
completed their purchases for spring ;
therefore the market is likely to remain
in a quiet state for some little time. It
is undoubtedly a fact that there is con-
siderable business to come which will
probably extend over the next two
months and before that time duplicate
business will be due.

Carpets—The carpet season is too far
advanced for manufacturers to take on
any large obligations in the way of
business, and many are not taking any,
whether small or large. The manufac-
turing end of the market can be well
defined as a ‘‘clearing up business.’’
All orders left on the books are being
filled as quickly as possible, so as to
give ample time and a clear sway for
the immediate business following the
opening of the spring goods. Design-
ers are practically through with getting
out the initial designs, many of which
have been run off on the loom to the ex-
tent of a few rolls for opening purposes.
The question of prices for the next sea-
son is what is occupying much of the
attention of the trade these days. All
arguments point strongly to consider-
ably higher prices than those received
on the spring business. It is evident
that the opening figures will show an
advance, but not such a large one as
some predict. Some consideration must
be taken of the demand and its likeli-
hood of decreasing should prices be
quoted beyond a certain point. With
the course pursued by a certain large
New York factor in the situation during
the past few years, there need be little
sleep lost on the part of the public in
regard to prices advancing more than
they should. Last season it was said
that this factor was the means of the
manufacturers not getting their price.
The scacity of coal is having keen effect
upon the numerous owners of the car-
pet and yarn mills all over the country.
In Philadelphia particularly, where
nearly all the ingrain carpets made in
this country are produced, workers are
threatened with a complete shutdown.
Some mills have scarcely a supply of
three days’ duration ahead at any time,
while others have from a week to two
weeks’ supply. Coal has become such
valuable property that some manufactur-
ers have deemed it prudent enough to
place a guard on the coal pile during | ©
the night time. The yarn mills are in
the same position. With a shutdown in
this branch of the business, the supply
of yarn, which is particularly short now,
will not be large enough to keep those
with a good coal supply running. No
shutdown has yet come to our notice,
but if the situation does not show a turn
for the better before another week, it
would not be surprising to find quite a
number of mills idle.

Rugs—The rug manufacturing busi-
ness continues onthe boom. Everything
in rugs sells well. Materials are higher,
but prices as yet remain unchanged.
Jute yarns are up one-half cent above
the prices of two weeks ago, Large
9x12 Brussels, Axminsters and velvet
rugs beginning at $30 to $35 are in
larger demand than the supply will ad-
mit. Mills have orders for these that
will take some weeks to fil.

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The Annual Clean Up.

Crawford—What makes you think his
wife is coming home from the country
to-morrow?

Grabshaw—There was a barrel of
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No Such Thing as Dreamless Sleep.

Many persons congratulate themselves
when waking in the morning on hav-
ing slept a sleep entirely free from
dreams. In fact,the expression ‘‘dream-
less -sleep’’ has become a stock phrase
which we all use to describe the most
refreshing kind of slumber. Sir Arthur
Mitchell, however, an eminent British
investigator, agrees with perhaps the
majority of medical authorities that
there is absolutely no such thing as
dreamless sleep. A writer in the British
Medical! Journal sums up the matters in
part as follows:

Many persons when awakened from
sleep assert very positively that they
have not been dreaming, and yet later
on remember that they have done so,
after all. In a large number of cases
such people may never be able to re-
member at all. The absence of a know!l-
egde of having dreamed furnishes no
proof that dreams have not taken place.
The watcher by the bedside of a _ sleep-
ing person may have what he regards as
satisfactory evidence that the person is
dreaming, yet that person when the
sleep ends may feel quite positive that
dreams have not taken place. In the
direct support to his theory the author
can not be said to be very convincing,
nor from the nature of his subject is it
possible that he could be. Several res-
olute observers had for a considerable
time scarcely ever failed to ask them-
selves immediately on wakening if they
had dreamed or not, and they nearly al-
ways got a Satisfying affirmative answer.
In many such cases the details of the
dreams were completely gone, but they
knew that a dream had occurred. If,
then, these mental processes continue
both during sleep and while awake, it
might naturally be supposed that the
brain would become worn out. Such
dreaming or ‘‘sleep thinking,’’ how-
ever, according to the authority is not to
be considered as affording no rest. On
the contrary, by the withdrawal of
‘‘will’’ during sleep this form of
thought is, so to speak, left free to
sport, and accordingly refreshment
actually comes from the change, not
weariness. Similarly, delirium is mere-
ly another form of this thinking with-
out the control of the will. Further, on
such an hypothesis a reason might per-
haps be found to explain why raving
may go on for a considerable period
without ordinary sleep. Some persons,
again, are never really wide awake,
and their thinking is normally of this
disordered character. Into this class Sir
Arthur Mitchell would even place the
man in a ‘‘brown study.’’

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description.

Estimates given on each piece
of work.

Office and Shop 87 Campau Street
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Woman’s World

Sensible Advice on the Selection of a
Wife.

Weoman is the one conundrum of the
world that man has given up as unsolv-
able and ceased trying to guess. After
centuries of deep philosophizing that
amounted to nothing and generalizing
that always reached a wrong conclusion,
he has frankly admitted her to bea
mystery beyond him, and lets it go at
that. He has measured the distance to
the stars, harnessed electricity to the
plow, wrested from nature the secret of
life and death, but no man has ever
been able to discover why a woman gets
off of a street car backwards, and is
generally wrong when she reasons, and
right when she acts on her hunches.

It is this inability to comprehend the
feminine mind and character that makes
men pure fatalists in marriage. They
argue, in effect, that they do not under-
stand women anyhow and that no man
can tell what he is getting in a wife,
and so they shut their eyes and make a
blind choice on the church grab-bag
principle.

It is true, of course, that the average
man and woman do have precious little
chance to know each other before
marriage, because during courtship
both parties are on their best behavior
and have on their company clothes and
society manners. Many a wedding
would be calied off if the man should
get an inkling that the dainty little
fluffy-headed darling, whose sweet wil-
fulness he admires so much, was, in
reality, a thing of slovenly curl papers
and wrappers, with a disposition like a
balky mule. Unfortunately, he does not
find this out until the knowledge is too
late to do him any good, and when he
does, he generally accepts the result
with philosophical fortitude as one of
the accidents of matrimony that nobody
could have foreseen or guarded against.

This is a mistake. Women are not
nearly so inscrutible as they are repre-
sented, and if a man would only take
half as much trouble in studying the
character of the woman he is going to
marry as he does the man he is going
into business with, he would save
them both much domestic unhappiness
and many a curtain lecture. Straws
show which way the wind blows, and
there are certain lines in a woman's
face that, be she ever so artful, are
pointers that are dead give-aways of
her disposition.

Take the matter of temper, for in-
stance. The one thing on earth of which
every man stands in mortal terror is a
woman's temper. There is an old story
of an intrepid lion-tamer who was found
once hidden, trembling, in a cage of
ferocious beats, while his tiny mite of
a red-headed wife stood on the outside
and shrieked: ‘‘Come out of there, you
coward, while I give you a piece of my
mind,’’ and the man did not dare leave
his retreat. In a way that is fairly rep-
resentative of the masculine attitude.
Many a man who has had a forlorn hope
on the battle field and faced the can-
non’s mouth without flinching or who
has had the courage to stand alone and
fight for an unpopular cause feels his
knees smite together in terror as he puts
bis key in his own front door and pulls
off his shoes and sneaks up the back
Stairs, cowering with fear at every step,
on lodge nights. With a man he can
fight, but before the storm of a woman’s
wrath he is abjectly helpless and brow-
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and of set purpose marries a high-tem-
pered woman, and the question thus
arises, how is be to know a shrew be-
fore he has a taste of her tongue? A
woman will answer by her face. Temper
is like the tide. It ebbs and flows, but
every surging wave leaves its mark, and
the record of a woman’s disposition is
written on her countenance for all the
world to read. The flashing eye, the
quivering nostril, the tell-tale mouth,
are all there for a man to see, and it is
his own stupidity if he does not take the
warning they give him.

If a man thinks of marrying a woman,
the first thing he should take into con-
sideration is her mouth—and he should
not limit his observation, either, to the
fact as to whether it is a Cupid's bow or
not. If it is a straight, thin-lipped
mouth, he should know she is a woman
of strong character, intelligence, deter-
mination and ability, and then he
should go into an executive session to
try to ascertain if he has amiability
enough for two. Ifhe has, if he is easy-
going and does not mind curtain lec-
tures and is willing to be bossed, the
thin-lipped woman makes a good wife.
But he may depend upon it that she has
a pretty temper of her own and a
double-action tongue hung in the mid-
dle. On the other hand, her virtues are
many, for she is nearly always nervous-
ly industricus, a good manager and a
notable housewife.

If the thin-lipped woman’s mouth
drops at the corners, beware of her, for
she is the woman with a smouldering
temper, who nurses her wrath to keep it
warm and who will stick pins in herself
to keep awake in order to tell a man at
3 a. m. precisely what she thinks of
bim. This type of woman is the con-
stitutional nagger, and better is it that
a man should die of blighted love than
to marry her. With age she drops into
a state of hypochondriacal querulous-
ness. The pictures of all the female
martyrs have this kind of a mouth, and
while theoretically we all admire and
reverence them, most of us prefer not
to live in the house with a saint.

If the thin-lipped woman’s mouth has
a little bunch of fine wrinkles that run
up to the corner of her nose, flee for
your life to a place of safety, for she is
a sarcastic, and her words are scourges
that flay you without pity. She isa
woman who holds her husband's faults
up to ridicule and makes him look like
a fool in the eyes of strangers in order
that she may show off her wit. A
woman without sense of humor may he
a bore, but a sarcastically funny one is
one whose tongue raises a blister wher-
ever it touches,

Only two types of men should ven-
ture on matrimony with the woman with
over-full red lips—the man who is as
placid and as unemotionai as a bow! of
bread and milk and the man who is
brute enough to control her even if he
has to break her neck to doit. Sucha
woman is irresistibly fascinating and
correspondingly dangerous. She loves
passionately and is willing to die for
her husband, but the one thing that is
totally beyond her is to live for him in
such a way as to make him happy.

Her temper is hung on a hair-trigger
and ready to explode at any minute.
She ‘‘flies off'’ and says things that
wound and burt and that she expects you
to excuse because you know she was
angry and did not meanthem. The thin-
lipped woman will cherish a grudge
and sulk over it for twenty years. The
full-lipped woman sometimes kills, in
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24 dozen 7 inch assorted tints for $2.37
24 dozen 8 inch assorted tints for 3 00

24 dozen g inch assorted tints for 4 38

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then weeps passionate tears of devotion
over it.

The choice between them is a matter
of taste. The preferred risk is the
woman whose mouth may defy every
line of classic beauty, but that is
wreathed about with smiles. She is the
woman whose even nerves are not jarred
by every turn of the wheel of fate, whose
calm and equable temperament wil! ad-
just itself to every condition, who sees
good in her fellow man, beauty in the
world, love in her home, and who will
make the sunshine of her husband’s
life.

Another thing is that, no matter how
much men may write and talk of women
being angels, every man looks forward
to finding a helpful business partner in
his wife. He wants some one who will
spend the money he makes judiciously,
who will keep a clean and well-ordered
home and be a confidante to whom he
can go with his financial worries, secure
of getting comprehension and sympathy
and wise counsel. Every man who fails
to get this—who finds that his wife is a
brainless doll, merely to be petted and
dressed up, or a spendthrift who wastes
his substance—realizes he has made a
terrible mistake in the choice of a wife
and curses his luck in drawing a blank
instead of a prize in the matrimonial
lottery.

He should blame his own lack of dis-
cernment, instead, for the signs of what
sort of a wife a girl will make are so
plain that a blind man might see them
and know. Cuvier, it is said, could
construct a whole animal from a single
bone, and every man ought to be able to
estimate from a woman's pin just ex-
actly what sort of a housekeeper and
wife she will be.

The gitl who is never ready to see
callers will make a curl paper and
wrapper woman who wears down-at the-
heel slippers and never sweeps under
the bed. She is not intrinsically neat.
The woman whose skirt sags down in
the back under her belt and whose shirt
waist always bags in the rear is a slap-
dash woman who never takes time to do
anything properly. Her table may be
well supplied, but the dishes will be hit
or miss,and nothing will be done order-
ly or on time in her house.

Any girl who wears dirty finery lacks
refinement. One whose clothes are
pinned where they ought to be sewed is
a sloven and wasteful to boot. The poor
girl who dresses beyond her means will
keep her husband's nose to the grind-
stone the longest day he lives. The girl
who wears shoes two sizes too small for
her has mental corns as well as physical
ones. The girl who dresses daintily,
tastefully, appropriately and in accord-
ance with her means, who is spotiessly
clean and neat, is generally a well-bal-
anced woman who will make a good
housekeeper and preserve the harmony
of life.

Unfoitunately, you can not always
judge a girl by her conversation, for not
every woman is as big a fool as she ap-
pears, Girls think it attractive to men
to pretend to be timid and clinging and
helpless, whereas they are perfectly able
to look after themselves. A man, how-
ever, does well never to marry a girl
who boasts of her inability to cook and
Says that she hates domestic affairs.
Never, either, marry a woman who is
not attentive to old people, who does
not love children and is not sympathetic.
Life is full of angles and, if you are to
get through it without being bruised and
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by a woman’s love and unfailing ten-
derness.

After all, advice to a man about how
to pick out a wife is wasted. Love
blinds his eyes so that he sees all the
qualities he desires in the face of the
giil he admires, and by the time he can
see straight he is past the place where
counse! does any gocd and where he
only needs our sympathy. However, if
he reads this, he can not say I did not

warn him, Dorothy Dix,
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Letting Plants Die From Neglect.

‘‘A great poet has immortalized the
death of the garden flowers in verse,
but the pathos of house plants that die
from neglect has never been appre-
ciated,’’ said a plant lover. ‘‘An exotic
in all the happiness of sentient bloom
and fragrance is taken from its natural
surroundings, and does its best to adapt
itself to an uncongenial atmosphere,
putting forth pathetic little green leaves
after its blooming season is over, to re-
mind one that it would dearly like to
live if only encouraged. Do we owe.a
plant nothing for having assumed the
responsibility of its existence? It is not
an inanimate object; it has life, and we
do not know bow much feeling. And
yet how do we express our gratitude for
the beauty and sweetness it has brought
into our dwelling? ‘Take away those
plants, James,’ says the house mistress,
‘they are not in good condition. Where
shall you put them? Oh, anywhere out
of sight. Give them a little water oc-
casionally, and when the warm weather
comes they can be put in the back yard.’
James carries them down into the serv-
ants’ hall, perhaps, and puts them in
the window. A few days later the
kitchen maid declares she is not going
to have ‘them dirty old things about,’
and consigns thein to a dark corner of
the cellar, where they die in prolonged
misery,as the long, white death-stricken
shoots which they send forth frequently
testify. It would have been kinder to
consign them to the ash barrel at once,
but their mistress has a_ sort of con-
scienticus feeling that prevents her
from killing them outright, so she
throws the responsibility upon others,
and thinks no more about it. When
the plants, through with their period of
usefulness, are sent back to their homes
—the green houses—it seems all right
they should have been used to give pleas-
ure, but they certainly should not be
maltreated, anda society for the preven-
tion of cruelty to plants might doa good
work by collecting used-up plants during
the winter and restoring them to health
and beauty in a hospital devoted to the
purpose. ”’

 

 

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3%4% interest paid on Sav-
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The banking business of
Merchants, Salesmen and
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SUNDRIES CASE.

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Grand Rapids Fixtures Co.

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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 steady 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
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DIFFERENT STYLES VARIOUS SIZES
We are the Oldest and Largest Manufacturers.

The Simple Account File Co., 500 Whittlesey Street, Fremont, Ohio

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Butter and Eggs —

Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. _

Late information as to the receipts
and output of refrigerator eggs at some
of our larger local warehoues confirms
very closely our previous estimate of the
quantity of stock withdrawn into storage
in New York and Jersey City during the
past season. A new estimate, based
upon reliable information, enables us to
place the total quantity withdrawn to
New York City warehouses at about
260,000 cases, and to Jersey City
houses at about 178,000, making a total
of 438,000 cases, against our previous
estimate of 425,000 cases on hand Sep-
tember 1. As some of the goods stored
were taken out prior to September |, it
leaves our previous estimate pretty
closely verified.

But further information as to the out-
put from the warehouses necessitates
some revision of previous estimates of
the quantity withdrawn from storage,
which has been larger than supposed.
The total output from New York and
Jersey City houses to October 1 may
now be estimated at about 83,000 cases,
leaving a probable balance in reserve
on the latter date of 355,000 cases. Part
of this output occurred prior to Septem-
ber 1, and if we estimate this propor-
tion at about one-fourth, it would ap-
pear that some 60,000 cases of eggs had
been distributed during September in
addition to the current receipts. From
this, it would seem that our previous
estimate of current consumption must
be increased considerably. Our Sep-
tember receipts were 213,500 cases, and,
allowing for a larger quantity in stores
and on docks at the end of September
than at the beginning, we may calculate
that 210,c00 cases of these were con-
sumed, together with the 60,000 cases
removed from cold storage during Sep-
tember. This would indicate a con-
sumptive demand during September of
60,000 cases per week, and upon that
basis, the prospects for a satisfactory
clearance of remaining stocks would
seem to be less unfavorable than here-
tofore indicated.

It may be supposed that a reduction
of our storage stocks to, say 55,000 cases
by January 1, would be sufficient to
preserve a healthy tone in the egg mar-
ket; to effect this, we shall have to
move about 300,000 cases from local
warehouses during the thirteen weeks
from October 1 to January i an average
of about 23,000 cases per week. If our
present consumptive capacity is 60,000
cases per week, as above indicated,
and remains constant, this would leave
37,000 cases per week to be supplied
from current arrivals during the last
three months ofthe year. During these
months of last year our receipts aver-
aged over 42,000 cases per week.

As to the prospect for current receipts
during the balance of this year it may
be expected that the eastward move-
ment of refrigerator eggs will be some-
what less because a larger proportion of
the stock seems to be held in the East
than usual. But there are indications
that we shall have more fresh gathered
eggs than during the late fall of last
year. Southerly sections are looking
this way for an outlet and while the
stock so far received from Kentucky
and Tennsessee contains many stale and
shrunken eggs there is also mixed in a
good deal of fresh and full stock, indi-
cating a fair current production in that
section.

If the increase in fall fresh compared
with last year ‘shall prove to offset a

 

 

 

possible decrease in receipts of refrig-
erators our revised estimates of the situ-
ation still indicate a considerable sur-
plus of eggs for the New York market.

It is worthy of attention that up to
October 6, Boston stocks had been re-
duced only about 8 per cent., while last
year they had been reduced over one-
third at the same date, when the quan-
tity remaining in store was some 23,000
cases less than this year.

I noticed a shipment of eggs from
Indiana the other day in which some of
the cases were packed sideways. That
is, the packer had taken off the side of
the case instead of the top, placed in
his fillers and eggs as if the sides of the
case were the bottom and top, and re-
placed the side. The stencil was put
on the end of the case in the usual way
—right side up—and the cases were nat-
urally handled in transit as if properly
packed, but the weight of the contents
came on the sides of the eggsand fillers
instead of on the end of the eggs and
tops of the fillers. Naturally there
were about six dozen broken to the
case—less than might have been ex-
pected. Such things do not happen very
often, but other faults of packing—al-

most equally damaging—are all too
common. We describe them in this
column from time to time.—N. Y.

Produce Review.
a
The Cleanly Peach.

A California grower has recently de-
vised a method of ‘‘skinning peaches
alive,”’ as he calls it, The fruit is
dipped, a boxful at a time, in an iron
cage, into three vats successively—the
first containing a solution of lye, the
second hot water and the third cold
water. From their final cold bath the
peaches are taken smooth and clean,
ready for preserving, with their epider-
mis entirely removed.

 

BUTTER EGGS
POULTRY

We expect to doubie our sales of poultry this winter. Why?
Because all our old shippers will stick to us and this advertise-
ment will do the rest. We can handle your poultry as well as
any one and better than many. We are headquarters for Eggs
and Butter. Give us a trial. Prompt
Reliable quotations.

Buffalo market compares favorably with all others.

Rea & Witzig
Commission Merchants in Butter, Eggs and Poultry
96 West Market Street, BUFFALO, N. Y.

References: Buffalo Commercial Bank, all Express Companies and Commercial Agencies.
Established 1873

and honest returns.

 

 

E. S. Alpaugh & Co.

Commission Merchants

16 to 24 Bloomfield St. 17 to 23 Loew Avenue
West Washington Market

New York

Poultry, Eggs, Dressed Meats and Provisions.

       
   
     
     
    

Specialties:

If you anticipate shipping any produce to the New York market we advise
your correspondence with us before doing so; it will pay you.

References: Gansevoort Kank, R. G. Dun & Co. Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency, and
upon request many shippers in your State who have shipped us
for the last quarter of a century.

Cold Storage and Freezing Rooms Established 1864

  
 

 

 

Poultry

We have an outlet for all kinds and will
give our shippers top market
and prompt returns.

AMSON & CO.,
13 Blackstone St.

Boston

L
Est. 1849

 

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.

Oyster Cabinets

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Different
styles and
sizes always
carriedin
stock. Send
for our illus-
trated cata-
logue and
price list. It
will interest
you and bea
profitable in-
vestment.

CHOCOLATE COOLER COMPANY
.Grand Rapids, Michigan ~~

 

 

 

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- Butter—

I always
want it.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso, Mich.
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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-

Charges very rea-
Write for full particulars, etc., TOo-Day.

Alex. McLachlin, Manager

logues, pamphlets, addressed or unaddressed circulars.
sonable. Give us a trial.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod-
uce Trades.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Oct. 17—Every branch of
trade feels a new life now that the coal
strike is over, and it is pleasant to walk
along by the big concerns and note the
enthusiasm over the future, Without a
single exception dealers are sure of a
long run of prosperity and they are
working to make up lost time with
vigor.

The coffee market is naturally the one
that will not be especially ‘‘vitalized’’
by the ending of the strike; but, inci-
dentally, there is a better feeling even
here. The demand during the week
from both roasters and jobbers has been
rather quiet and prices are practically
the same as last noted. Receipts at pri-
mary points are fairly large, although
to date the amount is quite largely be-
hind the same time last year. In store
and afloat there are 2,801,338 bags,
against 2,201,148 bags at the same time
last year. At the close Rio No. 7 is
worth 53gc and seems to be well sus-
tained atthis. Mild sorts continue firm,
with supplies comparatively light.
Good Cucuta is firm atgc. Dulness
characterizes the movement of East
India coffees and sales generally are of
small quantities.

Soft sugars have been shaded some-
what, but the market for hards is rather
firmer than last week, owing, perhaps,
to better conditions reported in Euro-
pean markets for beet sugar. The next
few weeks will be interesting to the
sugar trade, as the competition between
beet and cane may become keen.

Offerings of teas are reported light
and the general situation favors the sell-
er. Country greens and pingsueys are
especially called for and prices tend to
a higher level. A Ceylon planter is try-
ing to enter his goods in the American
market by selling direct to the retailers
tea in one-pound lead-wrapped pack-
ages. There are three grades and the
same is delivered in New York at about
11 pence for the best.

There is a fairly active trade in rice
and dealers seem to be satisfied with the
prospect. Full values are being obtained
and there seems to be no surplus in any
grade. Prime to choice, 54% @5 5éc.

Pepper is in light supply and, with a
pretty good demand, the market is firm-
ly sustained. Other spices are in usual
demand at this season and the outlook
is for a satisfactory fall and winter
trade. Singapore pepper, 13@13%c.

Fancy grades of both open-kettle and
centrifugal molasses are sought for and
the market is firm. While quotations
are unchanged, the tone of the market
is such that a slight advance will oc-
casion no surprise. Good to prime cen-
trifugal, 17@30c. Syrups are steady
and held at full value.

Canned goods remain active and there
is not an article on the list but sells
readily at fuil price. Tomatoes are ad-
vancing and all sorts of prophecies are
heard as to the future. Some think we
shall soon see tomatoes as high as_ they
were last summer and, indeed, there
seems reason for the belief. The corn
pack is awfully short; in fact, the whole
line of canned goods is on a rising mar-
ket. Salmon is selling well and people
find it cheaper than steak.

Prunes are scarce in the large sizes
and the market is gaining strength every
day; in fact, all sorts of dried fruits are
in good request and holders are not anx-
ious to dispose of stock unless full fig-
ures are obtained.

Supplies of beans continue light and
on almost all kind the market is strong.
Choice marrows of this year’s crop are
worth $3 a bushel; medium, $2.45@
2.50; pea, $2.45@2.50; red kidney,
$3. 10,

The better grades of butter are not
over abundant and, while the demand is
not especially active,the market is very
firm and prices show a slight advance,
Best Western creamery, 2414c; seconds
to firsts, 21@24c; imitation creamery,
18@1oc % ; Western factory, 174@18%c,
the latter for fancy June make; reno-
vated, 17%@2o0k4c,

 

 

 

The cheese market is hardly as firm
as last noted and possibly some little
concession might be made rather than
lose a sale, Full cream is worth 12%c,
and this is probably top rate. Large
sizes are about %c less.

The egg market is strong, after a
slight decline, which has been about re-
covered. Western, loss off, 23@24c. At
mark the range is from ioc for ungraded
to 23c for choice graded and candled

stock,
A

Methods of Large Packing Concerns in
Handling Poultry.

The packing houses have spent many
thousands in poultry experiments and
to-day are a factor in the trade, a factor
which must be reckoned with. It was
only a few seasons ago that these large
operators turned their attention to poul-
try as a side line. Shrewd managers of
these departments have brought the side
line up to a respectable position so that
from now on the meat packers will be
the large poultry operators. They have
found where the profit lies in the poui-
try line and will develop this feature of
their business in a scientific manner.
They will put system behind a deal in
which there was never known system.
Naturally hundreds of handlers now do-
ing a fairly large business in the large
market centers will have to take up
other lines or follow the deal with meth-
ods similar to those used by the meat
packers. They must become large
handlers and invest heavily or they are
outclassed. The same evolution which
has taken place in fruits, especially
apples and tropical] fruits, is now going
on in poultry.

The meat packers have established
hundreds of buying stations during the
past twenty-four months, Farmers have
received cash for their poultry. All the
past summer meat packers have been
steady buyers of young fowls. They
are buying now and will continue so
long as the present outlook lasts. They
are buying live stock just as they are
buying live cattle, sheep and_ hogs.
The cattle, however, are already fattened,
the poultry not.

And here lies the secret of the meat
packers’ success. They are buying
thin, light live fowls and are selling fat,
dressed poultry. They have found the
profit in this particular division of the
production of poultry for market. The
farmer owns the hens and markets the
young chickens while they are light.
This is when they can be bought at a
low value per head. The meat packers
save the risks and losses attendant to
raising young fowls and taking them in
at an early stage proceed to ‘‘finish’’
them for market.

That the meat packers will have a
large supply of poultry all through the
fall is certain. They have bought in
all the primary poultry markets and in
the country ona larger scale than ever
before. One concern alone in one of
the packing house centers is now using
1,000 gallons of buttermilk daily with
which are mixed ground feed and stale
bread. Another concern has a large
poultry feeding building full and buy-
ing more stock every day. The demand
for fat, tender young fowls during the
holiday will be supplied. It looks as
if those who have had the nerve to in-
vest in thin, scrawny chicks will be
the ones to get the fancy price for the
fancy product. Of course sales will be
almost wholly in the East—Packer.

—_——_ -~> 9 <> - ——
Just An Easy One.

‘*Papa, can you answer a question?’’

‘‘If it's not too hard a one.’’

‘*Oh, it’s easy.’’

‘*All right. What is it?’’

‘‘Why don’t bald eagles wear wigs?’’

Sweet Potatoes, Spanish Onions,
Cranberries

Fine fresh stock constantly arriving.
ONIONS, WINTER APPLES AND BEANS

The Vinkemulder Company, Commission Merchants

We are in the market to buy

14-16 Ottawa Street Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

Beans

The bean market is very active. I can handle all youcan ship me. Will pay highest price.
Write or telephone me for prices and particulars.

Z. D. Crittenden, 98 S. Div. St., Grand Rapids

Both Phones 1200

 

 

 

 

 

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

Phil Hilber

Jobber of Oleomargarine
109 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Opposite Union Depot

 

I have State agency for several manufacturers and am prepared to

quote factory prices.

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.

EGGS WANTED

We want several thousand cases eggs for storage, and when you have any 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.

Cold Storage

Why not put

 

 

 

This is the time of year to store your Apples.

them where they are sure to come out as good as when picked?
Save shrinkage and sorting by storing with us.

We also store
Liberal advances on produce
Write for

Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Meats.
stored with us, where desired. Rates reasonable.
information.

Grand Rapids Cold Storage
& Sanitary Milk Zo.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

COMMISSION SEEDS.

Little Prejudice Against Them
days.
Written for the Tradesman.

I believe, as a rule, that it is a pretty
good idea for a boy to choose his own
calling. I selected mine, although 1
was a long time about it, and began at
a very early day to make my choice. 1
wavered between a yearning to be the
drum major of a negro minstrel troupe,
and the desire to run a knot saw ina
shinglemill, and I might have remained
undecided to the end of time had it not
been that my mother put an end to the
drum major dream and my father posi-
tively forbade the knot sawing proposi-
tion. I believe I wept copiously at the
time and compared myself to Mozart,
Rubens and other talented youths who
made their mark early in life and who
knew much better for what they were
fitted than did any one else, and |
thought it pretty hard if, a fellow had a
special gift for twirling sticks or for
trimming off the edges of pine shingles,
that he should not be allowed to improve
his talents.

And so it happens that the grocery
business is the better off to-day by the
acquisition of at least one real genius,
and likely to this cause may be attrib-
uted the disfavor into which the drum
major business and the knot sawing
profession have fallen.

But all this is aside from the subject
on which I wished to pen these few
lines. Early in my grocery career I
tumbled to the fact that garden seeds
grew in paper packages, were imprinted
with the name of ‘‘Ferry,’’ and that
they were sold on the commission plan.
Just why this was, I did not stop to en-
quire, and supposed that was all there
was to the seed business. This went on
for a time, but eventually there came a
change. A customer one day asked
why in the world we did not get some
of Burpee’s seeds and have something
good. Said he had had all kinds of bad
luck with Ferry’s and thought they were
rotten. Showed me Burpee’s catalogue
that depicted vegetables of gigantic
Size, and portrayed field after field
growing with vines so heavily laden
that they appeared as if touched by the
hand of some good fairy. He said that
a farmer would get rich in two years if
he planted Burpee’s seeds,and it looked
to me like acinch. I wondered what
right Burpee had to monkey with the
seed business, when Ferry seemed able
to supply everything in that line that
was required, but I thought very likely
if he had such a graft as his catalogue
seemed to indicate, Burpee might be a
good thing for the growers, and I de-
cided not to interfere with him.

Nowa-

After that I began to notice things
more, and | soon found that there was
a fellow named Rice who was in seeds
to some extent, and then Peter Hender-
son showed up. There were a lot more,
but I won't take the space to enumer-
ate them. Still, it seemed to me that
they were rather overdoing the matter
and that some of them were sure to go
up the spout. The old fellows who
used to swear at Ferry’s seeds began to
say that they did not know but they
were about as good as any of them,after
all, and that some of the seedmen who
promised so much were not able to
make good. But the generai impression
was that all ‘‘boughten seeds’’ were
bad, the best way you could fix it, and
the only really reliable article in this
line was that grown by the farmer him-
self. :

It was a long time before I heard

 

much about bulk seeds being handled
in the grocery stores, but when that
idea got hold of the farmers, the com-
mission seed business, as far as the
small dealers were concerned, began to
go hay wire. Bulk seeds were lots
cheaper and ever and ever so much bet-
ter, so said they all at first, and as there
must be something in what every one
says, everybody flocked after bulk
seeds and the commission boxes lay
untouched in the corner groceries.

But now things are a little different. I
think that the seed companies take
more pains with their commission seeds
than they did at one time, and 1am
sure that there is but iittle prejudice
against them now as far as quality goes.
The large user buys in bulk, of course,
while the village gardener usually takes
the package goods.

A number of seed growers now sell
their package seeds outright and ina
limited number of cases they destroy
yearly, at their own expense, all or at
least a part of the seeds that the retailer
happens to have left over.

Many merchants prefer the latter way
of handling package seeds. The profit
is better and there is at least as good a
chance to see that the goods are fresh.

The originator of one of these ideas
tells me that he occasionally runs across
a merchant who prefers the commission
plan, and to such as these he tells the
following story :

Jones met Smith on the street one day
wearing the funniest little bobbed off
jacket he ever saw. Smith looked rather
bard up, but Jones could not help ask-
ing him if he did not think his coat
was too short,

‘Oh, yes,’’ replied Smith, jocularly,
‘“but it'll be long enough before | get
another one.’

Jones thought the matter over fora
while and when at last he saw the point
be was very much pleased with the joke.
So when he got home he said to his
wife, ‘‘I met the funniest man on the
Street to-day that ever you saw. His
coat didn’t seem to me to be long
enough, and | asked him about it. He
said: ‘My coat is a little short, but it’il
be a good while before I get another
one.

‘*Huh!’" said Mrs, Jones, ‘‘I don't
see anything very. funny about that.’’

‘“No,’’ said Jones, ‘'I s’pose not. |
didn't at first, either. But you just
keep a thinking and you'll see it after
a while.’’

‘‘And that,*’ said the seed man, ‘‘is
what I tell ‘em about my way of selling
seeds, Just keep on a thinking and
you'll see it after a while.’’

Back in the old days there was quite
an excitemnt among country merchants
about short count in commission seeds.
Some grocer either found or thought he
found that his box was a few papers
short, and he flew into print to expose
the alleged fraud. Then one after an-
other, the Michigan grocers began to
believe that they had been trifled with,
and if I am not mistaken, at least seven
or eight reported discrepancies of this
nature. Two or three merchants found
that theirs were either all right or else
a little ahead, and finally the matter
died out to give place to short count
pickles or undersized prunes, and the
matter dropped.

As a matter of fact the seed com-
panies, | am sure, mean to give their
customers all they buy. Fraudulent
firms never prospered for any length of
time. Short counts and short weights
never profited the seller more than tem-
porarily, and Michigan dealers are too
much alive to suffer such a wrong in si-
lence. Mistakes may have happened,
and some seed boxes may have been
packed short, but when this has oc-
curred and the matter has been _proper-
ly presented to the seller, 1 believe
that he has always been more than
willing to make good the shortage.

I sometimes think that if some of our
extra sharp country dealers really had a
fair sized business to look after, with a
decent number of employes to keep
lined up, they would be so crazy by the
time the first week had expired, that
they could not tell a package of garden
seeds from a cake of soap.

George Crandall Lee,

 

 

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The Acknowledged King
of Coffee Mills

No Better Made

—

“The Star” No. 10

This mill has an elegant nickel plated hopper,
holding three pounds of coffee, with a hinged
dome top cover. Has two twenty-three inch
fly wheels. Mill stands thirty inches high, and
finished in vermilion with rich gilt decorations.
Its capacity is one and one-half to two pounds
per minute. The most popular size of counter
mills. See supplementary list for price on

larger size mill.
$27.00

Given as a Premium with 100 pounds of
Pure Spices, assorted, for . .

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Gri »
rae JOHN A. WESTON, Lansing; 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, Hilisdale:
Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, 0. €. T.
Senior Counselor, S. BuRNS; Secretary
Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

 

 

 

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

James A. Massie, for several years
past connected with B. J. Reynolds, is
debating between two offers—one from
the John T. Woodhouse Co., Ltd., and
the other from a Chicago tobacco house.

Robert S. Brown, for the past two
years traveling representative for B. J.
Reynolds, has engaged to travel for the
cigar department of Berdan & Co., of
Toledo. He will continue to reside in
this city.

J. F. Bird, formerly connected with
C, B. Bailey and &. C. Ballard, of
Manton, in a clerical capacity, has gone
on the road for Wilcox Bros., basket
manufacturers of Cadillac. His terri-
tory comprises Michigan, Ohio and In-
diana.

The first dancing party of the winter
series to be given by Grand Rapids
Council, No. 131, occurred last Satur-
day evening at the Council rooms on
Pearl street. There was a jolly crowd
and even although the evening was
warm and the hall close, all putin an
enjoyable time. It is the intention of
the committee in future to hold all danc-
ing parties in some larger hal! and card
parties only in the Council rooms,

E. E. Bower, a traveling man of
Romeo, has_ started a damage suit
against the Grand Trunk Railway for
$5,000. Bower was a passenger on the
afternoon train of the Air Line division
which runs between Pontiac and Jeck-
son on May § last. While inside the city
the train collided witb a string of freight
cars. Buwer claims he was thrown for-
ward with such violence that he was
permanently injured, besides being kept
from business duties for a period of two
months,

Neal Cary (Olney & Judson Grocer
Co.) had the misfortune to lose a pocket-
book containing $400 while driving from
Luther to Tustin one day last week. He
did not discover his loss until he
reached Tustin, and as soon as daybreak
next morning,he hired a rig and started
over the route traversed the day before,
resulting in the discovery of the pocket-
book at Edgett, on the exact spot where
he had dismounted from the vehicle. It
is useless to say that Neal was very
much rejoiced over the happy find.

Petoskey Evening News: The many
friends of L. J. Fasquelle, of Detroit,
formerly of Petoskey, will be gratified
to know that he has been made manager
of the new varnish department of the
Sherwin-Williams Paint Co., which has
been established at Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Fasquelle has been remarkabiy suc-
cessful as a traveling salesman, and
this new promdtion is a just recognition
of his valuable services as a business
man. Mr. and Mrs, Fasquelle, who are
prime favorites in Petoskey, will re-
move to Cleveland in a few weeks to
take up their residence in that city.

Harry C, Rindge (Rindge, Kalm-
bach, Logie & Co., Ltd.,) has returned
from the Gulf States, where he put in
six weeks booking orders for the river
stoe manufactured by his house. Mr.
Rindge was greatly interested in the
wonderful development of the rice

 

growing district near Jennings and
Crowley, La., where he found lands
adapted to the cultivation of rice selling
at $30 per acre which were going beg-
ging at 25 cents an acre a few years
ago. He spent some time at Beau-
mont, Texas, which he describes as one
of the most remarkable settlements he
has ever visited.

 

a
The Dream of the Drummer.
The long day was over, when, tired and wet,
z he drummer climbed into the train
And watched the dim landscape slide past and away
Through the dirty and blurred window pane,
Witha lor ig ride before him and none of the boys
To while away time with a jest;
So he laid his head down on his old sample case,
To try for a moment to re st.

Soon he dropped off to sleep, all his troubles forgot,
nd how strz a wwe his sensation did seem;

He thought he had just started out ona trip,
He was w orkine sa town in his dream.

But, ah, whata difference there seemed in the air
Of each place that he went in to sell,

For the buver invariably gave the glad hand:
He had never been treated so well.

   

“Why, good morning,
this luck,

You’re the man that I wanted to see.

My stock is down low and I thought vou’d forgot
To call on a man like me.

I want twe nty tons of that best grade of yours,”’
Now, ten was a corking good bill

“Never mind about price,
For I feel

Friend Smith, now isn't

do the be st ‘that you can,
very sure that you will.

And so through the trip the orde rs piled up
Till he’d broken all records tod ate,

And he thought of the “‘raise’”’

obtain;

You can bet he was highly elate.

And when he reached home the head of the firm
Said, * ‘Smith, we can use you = higher:

We'll take vou inside and give you some stock
And make you our principal buyer.”

So now the scene shifts, he is sitting in state
In an office palatial and granc

With a long line of salesr men outside of his gate
Awaiting his beckoning hand

But, strangest of all, every one of the bunch
Are buvers he’d called on of ola;

But in all of the crowd he could not see the face
Of a single one he’d ever sold.

1 them

In the days that were gone he had waited or

And taken their insults galore,

And laughed at their jokes and bought them cigars,
But it wasn’t that way any more;

For what a great change had come over them all,
They were haughty and curt with him then—

Now with hats in their hands they humbly drew

nigh,

A very subdued lot of men.

He  bou ght bills of some and some he turned down,
ut he saved himself up for the last;
on was a sour old man he’d called on for years
Who had treated him worst in the past.)
But just as he started to roast him in style,

A voice of a stentor, and strange,
"Twas the . of the brakeman) rang out through
the cz
Calling ‘ Bi uffalo! Every one change!”’
—__~> 2.

The last census makes an_ interesting
showing regarding the progress made
by the negro race in the South in the
tenancy and ownership of land. In
South Carolina, Mississippi and Louis-
jana, more than half of the farms are
managed by negroes, either as owners
or tenants. In the entire South 150,027
negroes own the land they till; 28,000
are part owners and 1,336 both owners
and tenants. Cash tenants and share
tenants number 550,000, The Southern
negroes have, in fact, one-quarter of the
farms. Forty-nine per cent. of these
are cotton plantations and 37 per cent.
rice farms, and 14.8 per cent. of the re-
mainder are sugar plantations. The
negroes carry, however a much smaller
quantity of live stock on their property
than the white farmers do. The aver-
age value of the live stock owned by
negro farmers amounts to $135, as
against $603 for each white agricultur-
an A

The Business Women’ s Club of Chi-
cago has voted to exclude wine from its
precincts. There were some of the
members who protested against this ac-
tion. ‘‘It's a funny kind of a club if
you can’t get what you want,’’ they
said. But the majority decided that it
would be a funny kind of a woman's

club if women were to be seen coming
away under difficulties. Wine and
women do not go well together. The
Chicago business women are wise to
preserve the reputation of their club for
sobriety.

*twas a cinch he’d |

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

August F. Engfer, Representing the Rodg-
ers Shoe Co.

August F,. Engfer was born in Toledo,
Ohio, Feb. 17, 1868. He attended the
public schools until he was 16 years of
age, when he secured a position in the
retail shoe store of S. W. Nettleton,
with whom he remained six years, be-
ginning as errand boy and, by con-
scientious and faithful service, working
his way up to the position of buyer, At
the end of six years he was tendered a
more lucrative position with the shoe
house of Wachter Bros., which he ac-
cepted. He was employed in this ca-
pacity when the business was purchased
by J. L. Hudson, with whom he re-
mained for five years, when he accepted
the position of buyer and manager for
John N. Mockett, clothier and shoe

 

 

dealer, of Toledo. Three years ago he
was engaged by the Rodgers Shoe Co.
to cover one of their best territories—
Southern Michigan and Northern Ohio
and Indiana—formerly represented by
Jobn Thomas, who now occupies the po-
sition of buyer and manager for the
same house. Mr. Engfer is a hustler
and is well liked by his trade and fel-
low salesmen and enjoys the esteem and
confidence of his employers.

June 18, 1895, Mr. Engfer was mar-
ried to Miss Alice Baldwin, of Toledo,
They have two children, a girl of six
and a boy three years of age. The fam-
ily reside at 1029 Oakwood avenue, To-
ledo.

Mr. Engfer is a member of the To-
ledo Traveling Men’s Association and

 

‘Toledo Council, No. 16, U. CC. T.
——— a a ae
Only Woman Whisky Drummer on the
Road.
From the New York Sun.
The lineman of the old joke who,

perched on a sixty-foot pole, boasted
that,however women might invade other
fields of men, his job was safe would
probably have felt less security in his
high calling had he heard of Mrs. H.
Rueger, of New York.

Mrs. Rueger is a whisky drummer.
The field she covers is conservative
New England, and all along ber route
a ripple of comment is caused by this
feminine invasion of a hitherto distinctly
masculine occupation.

The presence of women in bar-rooms
is a spectacle not often witnessed in
New England towns. Consequently,
when the woman whisky drummer en-
ters, business is temporarily suspended.

Her calls are therefore brief and to
the point, for she is the last to wish to
discourage trade. Quickly she tells her
story of the merits of her wares and as
quickly writes down orders and _ leaves.

From her appearance Mrs. Rueger
might be the matron of an orphan
asylum. She sells whisky strictly on

 

its merits and not by her personal
charms. She dresses neatly, talks ina
brisk, businesslike manner and has the
reputation of being a good fellow.

She looks upon her work as a legiti-
mate calling for women, and that she, at
least,is a success at it is acknowledged.
Her earnings are comfortable.

‘Men treat me courteously,’’ said
Mrs. Rueger. ‘‘I have never been rude-
ly addressed, although they are not used
to seeing a woman in my line of busi-
ness and at first the impression is apt
to be misleading.

‘IT walk into a saloon, hotel or club
and state why | am there and put for-
ward the merits of my goods. The
whisky dealers either buy or they do
not. That closes the incident and I
hurry on, for I am a busy woman.

‘Yes, I think Iam the only woman
in America who sells whisky. One dis-
agreeable feature of the business is that
1 am obliged to take from fifteen to toc
drinks in a day, just as the men sales-
men have to. Otherwise selling whisky
is not much different from selling any-
thing else.’’

To avoid an encounter with Carrie
Nation Mrs. Rueger has been forced to
make changes in her route where it
intersected that of the Kansas cyclone.
She admits she left New Haven when

she heard of the hatchet-wielder’s ar-
rival in that city.
——_>-2>—___

An exchange digs out the following
questions that will keep most people
guessing: ‘‘You can any day see a
white horse, but did you ever see a
white colt? How many different kinds
of trees grow in your neighborhood, and
what are they good for? Why doesa
horse eat grass backward and a cow for-
ward? Why does a hop vine wind one
way and a bean vine the other? Where
should a chimney be the larger, at the
top or bottom? Can you tell why a horse,
when tied with a rope always unravels
it, while a cow always twists it into a
kinky knot?’’

 

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

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

A. B. GARDNER, Manager.

 

 

 

 

  

Livingston
Hotel

Only three minutes’ walk

 

from Union Station.

Cor. Division and Fulton Sts.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
50c on the Dollar

GLOVER’S WHOLESALE MDSE. CO.
MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
of GAS AND GASOLINE SUNDRIES
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

You ought to sell

LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

  

26

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy
Term expires
HENEY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902
Wirt P. Dory, Detroit- - - Dec. 31, 1903
CLARENCE B. STODDARD, Monroe Dec. 31, 1904
JOHN D. Murkg, Grand Rapids Dec. 81, lyv5
ARTHUR H. WEBBER, Cadillac Dec. 31, 1906
President, HenzY Hem, Saginaw.
Secretary, JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit.

 

 

 

Examination Sessions.
Lansing, November 5 and 6.

 

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.
President—Lovu G. Moork, Saginaw.
Secretary—W. H BURKE Detroit.
Treasurer—C. F. HUBER, Port Huron.

 

The Department Store a Creature of Nat-
ural Law.

The small dealer of every kind, in-
cluding the druggist, has always been
fiercely hostile to the department store.
Ever since this modern development in
commerce appeared it has been fought
tooth and nail. Abuse of every sort has
been heaped upon it. It has been
branded with the stigma of octopus. It
has been pictured as a demon seeking
whom it could devour. Attempt after
attempt has been made to legislate it
out of existence. Bill after bill, both
in this country and in Germany, has
been passed after fanatical agitation.
Zealots have made it a part of their re-
ligion never to step foot inside a de-
partment store—never to countenance
by example the operations of a ruthless
creature leaving a trail of injury ever
in its wake.

But despite all this the department
store is still with us—nay, it still con-
tinues to grow in size and increase in
number; and for a very good reason: It
is the creature, not of circumstance,
not of the law or will of man, but of the
law of nature. It is in complete har-
mony with the unfolding of progress in
the commercial and industrial world.
More, it is demanded by the stern re-
quirements of necessity, and has ap-
peared in compliance with those require-
ments,

Darwin made clear how it is that
higher and higher levels of perfection
have ever been reached in the animal
world. The struggle for existence has
always been so fierce that only the best-
equipped individuals could survive;
these individuals have passed their su-
periorities along to the next genera-
tion; this generation has in turn ex-
perienced the same struggle, undergone
the same survival only of the fittes: ;
and thus sheer necessity has continuous-
ly brought about a greater and still
greater degree of efficiency—thus higher
and higher types have constantly been
evolved. This is the law of ‘‘natural
selection ;’’ and it is a law which is
universal in its operation. It exercises
its powerful and_ ceaseless influence
upon man as well as upon the animal,
and upon the institutions of man as
well as upon man himself.

It is in response to this law that in-
dustrial and commercial structures have
always ascended to higher and higher
planes of efficiency. The struggle for
existence is such that only those insti-
tutions survive—only those are ‘‘se-
lected’’—which do their work best; all
cthers, incapable of continuing the com-
petition, are ‘‘rejected’’ and fall by the
wayside. There is a ceaseless demand,
a never-ending necessity, for greater
and greater efficiency in order that exist-
ence may not be sacrificed; and so it is
that the crude structures of one genera-
tion or century give way gradually and
slowly to the better-equipped ones of the
next.

The factory succeeded the small shop
because it greatly increased the power
of production and the small shop was
eliminated——‘‘ rejected’’—— because it
could not continue the competition.
The trust is now in turn succeeding the
independent factory because it is still
further increasing the power of produc-
tion, and the independent factory is
suffering the fate which it meted out
formerly to the smal! shop. The depart-
ment store appeared, and is growing in
size and power, because it is much bet-
ter equipped to meet the stern require-
ments of necessity than the small store.

 

It prevents in considerable measure the
economic wastes inevitable in a number
of separately conducted stores; it makes
possible a greater degree of organiza-
tion; it develops a higher type of execu-
tive ability; and in a number of ways
it becomes much more efficient in the
struggle for existence.

It is apparent, then, that nothing can
stop the development of the department
store. It is born of necessity, It is the
child of progress. It is protected and
nurtured by the great laws which hold
mankind in their grasp so firmly that
there is no possible escape. And it is
bound to endure until some more per-
fect structure arises in competition and
wrests from it the victory of struggle.
Understanding all! this, grasping its sig-
nificance, how futile and how unwise is
seen to be the effort of the small dealer
to abolish the department store! As
well might one hope to stay the rising
tide or to turn back the mighty river
upon its course.

1 am aware that all this sounds very
cold and calloused, and I hasten to de-
clare that I have always felt, and now
feel, a great sympatby for the small
dealer, and of course more particularly
for the druggist. The druggist has
suffered grievously at the hands cf the
department store. More than half his
business in toilet goods and sundries
has been taken away from him; and the
percentage of profit in the portion left
has been cut nearly intwo. This has
been enough in itself, but of more re-
cent years his business in drugs and
even his purely professional work in
prescription compounding have been
ruthlessly encroached upon, until it has
often seemed as if nothing would in
time be left to him. Small cause for
wonder is it that the druggist, goaded
first on this side and then on that, has
turned on the department store with
anger in his eye, a fierce hatred in his
heart, and a burning desire within him
to rid the earth of his merciless assail-
ant!

And yet, unwholesome although the
thought is, we must recognize here the
penalty of progress. No higher step in
economic evolution is ever reached but
some cruel harm is done. It will not
now be gainsaid by any one familiar
with industrial conditions that the ma-
chine and the factory, since their in-
troduction in England a century ago,
have been of enormous benefit to soci-
ety, increasing the wages and salaries
of the workers and executives on the
one hand, and on the other greatly re-
ducing the cost of the goods which they
consume. Indeed, scarcely any single
industrial change has ever been so de-
cidedly to the advantage of society as
that ushered in by the machine; and yet
the machine threw thousands of men out
of work at one stroke; it brought these
men to the verge of starvation and de-
spair; it bred inthema spirit of savage
hatred and revolt; and the machine-
breaking riots in England are among
the most bloody scenes in ali the pages
of industrial history.

Two years ago it was reported that
the trust, in its rapid development dur-
ing the previous three years, had
brought about the loss of position to
thirty thousand traveling salesmen.
These men were of a higher order of
intelligence than the handicraftsmen
thrown out of work by the machine;
they had less difficulty in adapting
themselves to their changed environ-
ment; and so the public at large has
heard less of the fate of the commer-
cial travelers than was the case a cen-
tury ago with the mechanics and labor-
ing men. But the travelers were never-
theless very bitter. They met in na-
tional council, made severe complaint
of their fate, and declared in no mild
terms that the trust was a cruel monster
which should be wiped off the face of
the earth sternly and without remorse.
They desired the extinction of the trust
no less devoutly than the handicrafts-
men desired that of the machine, or the
small dealer that of the department
store,

The readjustment which follows in-
dustrial or commercial changes is ever
painful. Somebody is always hurt—
somebody cruelly and ruthlessly crushed ;

 

and it is a saddening thought that it is
by these very injuries that society ben-
efits. A real economy was made when
the machine threw thousands of men out
of employment; it was no less an econ-
omy when the trust dispensed with the
services of the traveling salesmen, and
when the department store compelled
the small dealer to lower the price of
goods. Every time a_ handicraftsman
or traveler lost his position; every time
a small dealer was compelied to reduce
his profit on an article, or perhaps to
sell the article at a loss, society gained
that much. The few were hurt in order
that the many might be_ benefited.
This is cruel. It is sad to contemplate.
But it is nature’s way; it is inevitable;
and there is no escape from it—posi-
tively none.

The department store represents a
higher step in the evolution of com-
merce; it is the result of natural ‘‘se-
lection ;’’ it is more efficient than the
small store—more capable of succeeding
in the struggle for existence; and it will
continue to grow and develop despite
all efforts to abolish it, and absolutely
regardless of the classes or individuals
whom it treads under foot in its progress
onward and upward. To cry out against
this fate is worse than useless. To at-
tempt its prevention is merely to kick
against the pricks or, Don Quixote-like,
to tilt one’s lance against a windmill.
The lesson of evolutionary science is to
waste no time in reactionary efforts
which can avail nothing, to spend no
energy in foolish attempts to turn the
river back upon its course, but to real
ize that the conditions have changed
irrevocably, and that we must adapt
ourselves to them if we are nt to perish
from the earth. In biology the species
of animals which have successfully
adapted themselves to their changing
environments have continued to exist;
those which have not so adapted them-
selves have suffered the fate of extinc-
tion. The same alternative presents it-
self to the small dealer. If he succeeds
in lifting himself to the economic plane
of the department store he will be in
position to continue the struggle for ex-
istence on equal terms. If he does not
so succeed, his lot is bound in the very
nature of things to grow werse and
worse with each passing decade.

Fortunately, so far as the druggist is
concerned, the process of adaptation to
environment is beginning to take place,
and the outlook is promising. I most
firmly believe that an era of co oper-
ation and combination in pbarmacy is
slowly appearing, and in a paper read a
month ago before the Michigan Phar-
maceutical Association | reported the
numerous evidences of such a move-
ment which had manifested themselves
during the past year. This development
is in line with economic progress. It
will equip the druggist with powers
equal to those of the depastment store.
When the drug business is done on a
larger scale; when the economic wastes
of the present order have in consider-
able measure been prevented, and the
percentage expense of doing business
has been decreased ; when greater exec-
utive ability has been developed and
placed at the helm; when, in short,
greater economic efficiency has been
gained, the druggist will be in position
to compete with the department store
on equal terms. He will then have
adapted himseif to the changed environ-
ment and wiil have placed himself in
harmony with the laws of progress in-
stead of in blind opposition to them.

This adaptation will not be accom-
plished quickly. Its consummation
must wait upon a fuller development of
the co-operative spirit. Its attainment
must necessarily be a matter of slow
and natural growth. But a long step in
the process will have been taken when
it is once thoroughly realized that
adaptation is necessary. When we have
come to know perfectly that to kick
against the pricks is not only useless,
but is wasteful of time and energy that
should be husbanded and used to better
advantage, and when we have been
brought to realize that we must keep
pace with changing conditions if we are
to succeed in the struggle for existence,
the battle will already be half won, To

bring ourselves to, this Frealization is
then our first duty; and the rest shall
follow in due time. Harry B. Mason.

> 4+.

The Drug Market.

Opium—Is weak but not quotably
lower.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Quinine—ls less firm but unchanged.

Cocaine—Is very firm and an advance
is looked for on account of higher price
for crude material.
~ Epsom Salts—Have advanced 25c per
cwt.

Menthol—Has again advanced and is
tending higher, on account of reports
that the Japanese peppermint crop is
seriously damaged. Stocks are light
both here and abroad.

Nitrate Silver—Has declined on ac-
count of lower price for bullion.

Bromide Potassium—Is weak at late
decline and tending lower.

Santonine—On account of higher
price for raw material, has advanced
25c per Ib.

Balsam Copaiba—Is in small supply
and advancing.

Balsam Tolu—Has advanced.

Oil Peppermint—Is excited and has
advanced again. It is stated that one
firm controls go per cent. of the supply
and will not sell for less than $5 per Ib.

Oil Spearmint—Is in very light sup-
ply and has again advanced.

Oil Cloves—Is tending higher, on ac-
count of higher price for spice.

Linseed Oil—Is dull and lower.
——--+—> 2.
Asks For Removal of Borax Prohibition.

The Society for the Protection of the
Interests of the German Chemical In-
dustry, in session at Frankfort last
week, unanimously passed a resolution
against the prohibition of the use of
boric acid for the preservation of meats,
and has appealed to the Bundesrath to
reverse its decision in this connection,
in view of the present scarcity and
dearness of meat. This society has a
great deal of influence and it is be-
lieved its appeal will have considerable

force.
> ___

Kind to the Sick.

William Slimson, Jr.—Do you believe
in being kind to the sick, mamma?

Mrs. W. Slimson—Certainly, Willie,
and I hope you always will. Why do
you ask?

William—Because, mamma, | heard
the little boy in the next block had the
measles, and I've been visiting bim
all the afternoon,

 

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Heematox, %4s....... 16@ 17 Hedrastic Cichamn. @
Ferru Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 80
Jarbonate _—. 15| Heliebore, Alba, po. 12@ 15
Citrate and 225 ee pe 18@ 22
Citrate Soluble...... 75 | Ipecac, po. 2 75@ 2 80
Ferrocyanidum ~ 40 | Iris plox.. ‘po. 35038 33@ 40
Solut. Chloride. . 15 | Jalapa, pr.. 23@ 30
Sulphate, com’l.. 2| Maranta, \s........ @ 3
~~ hate, ag ‘by Fodopnyitum, hecpee 22@ «25
bbl, per cwt.. 80 co. ote
Sulphate, pure.. 7 Ret, TEA s 1 25
as bot ec uey 7 1 35
Flora. 18 Spigot 35@ =38
Arnica....... 15) Sanguinaria.. ‘:po.16 = @ 18
Anthemis... ++ 22@ 25 ww kha ai 50@ 5
MaGriceria............ 30 Sen. ae @ 85
Folia Smilax, officinalis Hi. @
Barosma............. 35@ 40/| Smilax, M........... Q@ 2%
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Scillze . a 10@ 12
ewe ec 20g 25 Symplocarpus, ceti- ie
Salvi oficinalls, 48 | Valeriana.itng.po.dd = @ 2
and %s cc aaa 20 | Valeriana, German. 15@ 20
is ON cs cs se 10 Zingiber Recieneccces 4@ 16
Gites eee sc. 232@ 27
Acacia, 1st picked... 65 —.
Acacia, 2d picked... 45 Anisum -po. eo
Acacia, 3d picked 35 Beda’ (graveieons). 13@ 15
Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 . 41@. 6
Acacia, 65 | Carul.... 100@ 11
Aloe, Barb. ‘po. 18@20 12 14| Cardamon ; » 25@ 1 75
Aloe, Cape....po. = 12 | Coriandrum.. ee 8@ 10
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 30 | Cannabis Sativa... 5@ 6
Ammoniac........... 60 | Cydonium . i 75@ 1 00
Assafotida.. ane 40 25@ 40/ Chenopodium . ita =
Benzoinum.. 50 55 | Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10
Catoe, 18. ......... Jo | Pens. @ 10
Catecbu, 48......... 14 — os 773
Catechu, 44s.. i 16 | Lini .. e@ 6
Camphore .. 69 | Lint, a Boe a G@ s
phon “Po. 35 @ 4 Soe 1 50@ 1 55
pe 1 00 — Canarian... 5 @ 6
Gambore ........- “po ime... ............ 56 @ 8
m.....,.pe. ob @ Sinai Alba.. 93@ 10
Rind... ......B0. Se78 @ 75/ Sinapis Nigra. . 1@ 12
wane See ee = = Spiritus
“na, au Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50
ep {i0Gi. 9 008 2 in Frument!, D.F.R.. ‘os
Shellac ‘bleached... . ss « PON oo os ooo ve Lg 1 30
Tragacan Juniperis Co. O. T... 1 65@ 2 00
AB... +--+ —)s Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50
Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli....... 1 75@ 6 50
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20 a Gports......... 1 25@ 2 00
oo pe aot Vint Ame........... 1 25@ 2 00
ajorum ....0z. pkg 28 s
ao a Dke 23 | morida euuaad
— ee cae = Cars... 2 WO@ 2 75
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 22 ent ceed wool viene
Thymus, V ...0z. pkg ™ Velvet extra sheeps’
Magnesia wool, carriage. .... @ 150
Calcined, Pat........ 55@ 60/ Extra yellow sheeps’
Carbonate, ee. ous 18@ 20| wool, carriage..... @ 1 2
Carbonate, K.&M.. 18@ 20/ Grass ‘sheeps wool,
‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20; carriage. @10
Oleum ne for slate use. @ 7%
ellow ee or
Absinthium......... 6 50@ 7 0)
Amygdalz, ino 50@ 80 einke 060.......5..... @ 140
amygd: dalz, Amar@. 8 00@ 8 25 Syrups
---.. 1 60@ 1 65| Acacia ee @ so
fei Cortex. Es 2 10@ 2 20| Auranti. Cortex. ce S@ wo
Pewee... .. 2 59@ 2 65/ Zingiber.. Seas @ so
Cajiputi ..... - 80@ s/\I @ 60
Gevephym.. 75Q 80 @ wb
80@ 8 @ ww
eas” : @ 2 75 50@ «60
Ctnnamonii ... . 1 10 @ wo
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Omen @ BO
Pronus Virg......... @ 50
Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R 60
—" N —— F 50
Aloe 60
60
Arn 50
Assafoctida.......... 50
Atrope Belladonna.. 60
Auranti ieee eeeee 50
ZO 60
Benzoin Co.. 50
Barosma..... 50
Cantharides 75
Co 50
CAlGamon ..... 4... 75
an Ge... 75
ee 1 00
Catechaj 50
Copemee |, 50
Cinchona ~ Wee 60
Columba . Seas 'ce 50
Cubebe.. wo 50
Cassia Acutifol...... 50
Cassia — Co.. 50
= Peabo cota 50
Erg 50
Foor Chioridum .- 35
Gentian aes pe 50
Gentian Co.... 222222 60
Gulaca. . oe 50
Guilaca ammon...... 60
Hyoscyamus... 50
Iodine ce 75
Iodine, coloriess.. Sacer 75
Kino eee 50
Lobelia .. eee 50
re 5o
Nux —- 50
Opil.. 75
opi com phoratt 50
Opii, orized. 1 Bp
Gueneie eece ct 50
Rhatany 50
Rhei.. 50
Sanguinaria.. 50
Serpentaria .. 5o
a ee conus 60
Tolutan . 69
Valetta 59
Veratrum Veride.. 50
Zee 29
Miscellaneous
Ather, Spts. Nit.? F 30@ 35
= — Nit.4F 3@ 38
oo os =< 3
oon gro’d..po. 7 4
Res oe 40@ 50
Antim 4@ 5
Antonie Potas T 20@ 50
Antipyrin . oe @
Antifebrin .......... @ 2
see 3 N ae on... @ 42
Arsenic 10@ 12
Balm Gilead Buds.. 45@ «50
Bismuth S. N .-- 1 65@ 1 76
Calelum Chior., a a
Calcium Chlor., MS... @ 10
Calcium Chlor.. \s.. @ 2B
Cantharides, Rus.po @ 380
Capsici Fructus, Qo ss
Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15
Capsici Fructus B, po @
Caryophyllus. - 15 12@ 14
Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
Cera Alba. . a 55@ 60
Cera Flava.......... 40@ 42
Coccus i @ 4
jan Fructus... @ 35
Centraria. . meees @ 10
Cetaceum.. a 45
Chloroform . 60
. hloroform ‘squibbs @ 110
Chloral H Hyd Cr 1 35@ 1 60
Chondrus............ 20@ 25
Caaensainn P.&W 30 8
Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48
Cocaine ............. 4 G6 £2
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 75
POOROCUI..... 4... @ 4
TE bbl. 75 @ 2
Cresa, prem. ......... Se 56
Creta, oad Coe eags @
Crete, Roprs........ @ 8
on icanteccescs Sar am
udbear.. ie @ 2
ae Sulph.. ees 648
Dextrine . ee 7@ 10
Ether Sulph.. 78@ 92
Emery, al pumbecs. $ 8
‘ene po.. 8
. po. “90 ae 90
Fiese White. eee cee 12@ «15
Galla . oa clus @Q@ 2
Gambler . eens 8s 9
Gelatin, Cooper. <ul @ 60
Gelatin, French. .... 3@ 60
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Indigo.. ics oe
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Sinapis .. ae as @ 18
8 is, ‘opt. asee @ 3
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
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Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s @ 41
Soda, sana ee @ i1
Soda, Boras, po..... @ 11
Soda et Yom Tart! 23@Q@ 27
a. Core... ...... 1%@ 2
Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ 5
Soda, Ash.. 3%@ 4
Soda, Sulphas oe 3
Spts. Cologne. @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ «iB
Spts. Myrcia Dom @ 2 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl @
Spts. Vini Rect. %bbl @
ra Vini Rect. 10gal @
2 rarhions ae c @
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Suiph ur, 8 Bupl.... 2%
Sulphur, Roll. . 4G ai |
Temarinds .......... 10 |
Terebenth oo ws 30 |
Ee gg pie cee ob oe 45D 50)
eee ee nee 9 00@16 00 |
Zinci Sulph. . 7@ 8 |
Olls
BBL. GAL.
Whale, winter....... 70 70
pane, Omera.... 2... 90
mene, Ne. bo... co... 60 65 |

 

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Linseed, bolled..... « & 47
Neatsfoot, winterstr 59 85
Spirits Turpentine... 58 33
Paints BBL. LB.
Red Venetian. . 1% 2 @8
Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @
Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3
ty, commercial... 2% 2%@3
Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Vermilion, rime
Alerseen......... Be
Vermilion, English.. 70@ 75
Green, Paris........ 14%@ 12%
Green, Peninsular... 13@ 16
Meee, tee............ $@ 8%
Lead, wee... 6 @ &%
Whiting, white Span @ 9
Whiting, gilders’.. @ %
| White, paris, Amer. @1 2
| Whiting, Paris, Eng.
¢ @i4
| Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20
Varnishes
No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20
Extra 1 1 70
Get teen i t 10
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Extra Turk Damar 1 60
Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 79

 

 

 

We

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

We

are dealers in Paints,

are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

Varnishes.

We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

Sundries.

We

erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We

are the sole proprietors of Weath-

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

and Rums for medical

only.

Oils and

purposes

We give our personal attention to mail

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

day received.

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order.

 

 

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Fish and Oysters............. 13

Pee Peee.........:....: 6

Flavoring Extracts........... 6

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Lamp —_— ee 15

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Lantern *Giobes Gcdeamhand eee 15

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,|,.;, | ° ——" 95 | Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands.
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia- Gooa i ae a eae 1 o0 oS
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at pie aca
____ Ee a Sa 110
Oe. sa 115
I oo nae scruape 1%
ND secon opascdns 8 00
DECLINED - CARBON OILS
ee ee a es @11%
Toothpicks Perfection............ - @10%
Some Soaps Diamond White. ... @i0
Gia Pia BN sete: cncu 14%
— Deodorized Naphtha..._ @12
af linder........ . Pat en Se
oe Sc uea tas ae 16 @22 aber eos
Black, winter.......... 9 @10% nea
f 2 Columbia, a: _
coro gee NO White House, 1 Ib. cans.....
Columbia, % pints........... ot 2 White House, 2 Ib. cans..... ia tS
AXLE GREASE El tri t 8s NDLES 13 — = . . ; > cans Honey Fingers once eces 13
lectric Light, 88 Se ubie, i. xcelsior Feces dig. a
o....'.= Saeee Light, 108... Amboy Tip Top, i , M. & J., 11D, cans. jeod | ~ pipes aageanaeet
zen Paraffine, 68..... ea ae WAL DAWA. ioc a cccu le cask sit eeee es
Castor Oil....-.....04.00 7 OO | PRFARING, 69, conve soserreee 8 Royal Java and Mocha...... Ftunbles Honey....--0.3.. 13
¢ 00; Wicking --17 Java and Mocha Blend...... peeea i ere ee 12
CANNED GOODS Boston Combination........ “ereett
“ Lemon Waters............ 16
Apples Ja-Vo Blend..... . Marshmallow 16
3 lb. Standards...... 110 Ja-Mo-Ka Blend............ eee ean st =
Gallons, standards. . 3 35 Distributed by Olney & ——- Sastiaesthon Welants. << ae
Blackberries Gro. Co., Grand Rapids, C. El | iory ann............. nie
Standards 80 Hott & Go., Detroit, B. “Desen- | Mer aig 20 0T any
ee ee a , berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons Mik Biscuit 7%
Beans Bros. & Co., aw, Jackson tions aks... 8
o3s+ceseveenen 1 1 30 Grocer Co., Jac son, Meisel & Molasses Bar. oe ie 9
Red Kidney... 700 8 Gooschel. ‘Bay City, Flelbach | Molasses Bars. 8
Pee ee 70 ne i Newent... .«..--.-- 12
Me 75 CHEWING gg Rio teeennah Crackers 8
Blueberries American Flag Spruce.. Oatmeal Wafers... . 12
Beeman’s Pepsin .....- Orange Crisp......... see
Standard ............-- Black Jack....--.- -- Orange Gem..............- 9
Brook Trout soneans Same Bete Penny Cake........ --
ib. cans, Spiced .......... 190] eGo Rraath Perfume... Pilot Bread, XXX......... 1%
ap eSegay a Sen Sen Breath Perfume.. Pretzelettes, hand made.. 8%
SUNT LATE. ~--orveener ors Pretzels, hand made...... 8%
Little Neck, 1 Ib..... 1 00 | Yucatan..........-..-++0+- Seateh Goalies” a
Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 1 50 CHICORY Sears’ Lunch.............. ™%
‘ Clam Bouillon *- Sugar ee -wey iietahes 8
Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92| Rogie... . conaeieeaned scares .
JA XO | Burnham's, pints.......... 2 = Means ak as 7 ~ i re aes ee
Burnham’s, quarts........ 7 RepiieMe aL buucks 6 ee Tutti Frott... 16
14 Ib. cams, 4 doz. case...... 45 CHOCOLATE Mexi Vanilla Wafers. . 16
4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case..:... 85 50 Walter Baker & Co. om ee Vienna Crimp........ oo.
1 Ib, cans, 2 doz. case......1 60| White 50 CS es ince iy ace tweatenk o 13 ip J. Kruce &Co. ee V
Royal Standard Crackers.
80 Blue Ribbon Squares.
10esize.... 90 85 Write for complete price list
l 20 | Vienna Sweet ......... -... 21 J with interesting discounts.
Ib. cans 1 35 French Peas rs 28 —
6 oz. cans. 1 90 3] pa. as | AUSIOME. «8s... os soso. ons CREAM TARTAR
% Ib. cans 2 50 19) CLOTHES LINES =| O°” AfieaD ssrv-vrricrr | Sand 10 1b, wooden boxes.....30
% Ib. cans 3 75 | Fin = Sisal a 31 | Bulk in sacks............... =e
1lb. cans. 4 80 49 3 on. — .- aes ; = Mocha DRIED FRUITS
3 thread, extra......
5 3 lb. cans 13 00 90 Z ir 3 thread, extra...... 1 70 | Arablan....... ehrehss weep 2 Apples
gy 5 lb. cans. 21 50 60 ft. 6 thread, extra...... 1 29 Package Sundried ................. @5
ccareeh sles 85 | 72 ft, 6 thread, extra......  .... ae New York Baste. ss Evaporated, 50 Ib. boxes.7@ 8
: Jute isc cee cine 4c California Prunes
ase hc ince, Star, %& tb. ......... o S07 Ge on ccc coe week ces Bet NOR os goes pose snecuas 10% 100-120 25 Ib. boxes
on gout ye . aft... ee as. 10% moh”
1 Pw sees oe eR FR Finn wc vows ccscccscocs pens... 2. Oe) RIE 660000 besece 000006004000 ri
BLUING mee 1 50| McLaughlin’s XXXX 80 - 90 25 Ib. boxes .......
Aretie, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00| mustard, 1b. ial” Gana Saae McLaughlin's XXXX sold to| ("79 25 ib: boxes -
Sa SOS. ee eee S| ee, Oe... [OG Py eneeprnpaneaasee dee go | Fetallers only. Mail all orders | 6-70 25 1b. boxes -
Aretic16 oz. round per gross9 00| Soused Vib... 1 SOL OE Qs | direct to W. i. McLaughlin & | 52-60 25 1D. boxes -
Soused, 2 Ib........ : SI 1 10 | ©o., Chicago. 80-40 26 1b. boxes... Sg
Tomato, : » beeveeees - Cotton Windsor = iaiaciaes Extract 34 cent logs in 50 1b. cases
9 eect et ees uae 1: ley % gross... 75 Frai
Hotels Se 18@20 oe 1 65 omen 3 foll 6 gross. es Al — ~
one eee cence . iii ed cde wen cees bak um: nena ance on sous: cues
pees... -:..-. 1: ‘ 22@25 30 ft SL eee ocbuittenigiemes 1 85 | Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43 Blackber‘ici oboe cues *
sters Cotton Braided CONDENSED MILK octarines .. °
Cove, 1Ib.....-.----- * see Ss 4. doz in case. no" gage ae ee 8 @10
ea 2 ee, el er
Cove, 1 Ib Oval...... 95 | TO ft nn 8 pete .
ae auetas Luveoeebe
eck — 8E@ 90 | No. 20, each 100 ft long.... 1 90 Raspberries ...........
ee 1 65@1 85 | No. 19, each 100 ft long.... 2 10 ens
COCOA Leghorn... ws... 12
1 00 eta = UNO ooo. eet oe . 2KGi3
1
33 Currants
Small size, per doz.......... 40
Large size, perdoz.....-.... 75 1 00 . ees a ‘
BREAKFAST FOOD — 60 = Imported, bulk.............. 6%
40 Peel
85 70 Bord eate<. Citron American 19 Ib. bx...
CERA NUT FLAKES 30 —* a ee ie $e | Lemon American 10 Ib. bx.
ei 1 25@2 75 {> | Dalsy......---.-.--.s-+s2...-4 70 | Ofange American 10 1b. bx..
Cases, 36 packages.......... 4 50} Sliced............... - 1 35@2 55 Geomeion posi modagitpesccas ual ae Raisins
PIvO GROG ME. oo. ooo sce ce 4 40 Pumpkin 6s. syosesieny sentinel aam London La
BROOMS I setistiercsccs 90 Dunham's 48 ‘and \s.... 26% | Challen sage. sasesneccecose conan 10 | TOG re — a. :>
No. 1 Carpet...... St OO wc a 1 00 | nunham’s \S.....-.------ a |B Bee sien rated 6 4 00 | Cluster 4 :
No. 2 Carpet. aise! ee Gielgud 2 2 Fancy settee eee w wees 1 26 es iS . 28 iicmaia po ream. $10 Loose 3 eee 7
No. 3 Carpet.. 2 15 Raspberries | | BulK............... «+-+++: 13 Tip Top.. “3 95 | Loose 3 Crown
No. 4 Carpet.. 1 75 | Standard........... 1 15 COCOA SHELLS Nestles '4 25 | Loose 4 Crown
ee ee “2 Russian Cavier 20 Ib. Dags........ 2% | Highland Cream. “5 00 | L. M., L Ib..-. 9%@18
Fancy Whisk... 1 10| $i: eames ii Fo Lose quantity occ. 2 | St Charles Cream... 4 00 | Salta aE
Warehouse....... --++++3 50) “T th’ can......-.-. ... 12 0 COFFEE CRACKERS Sultanas, package .. e+e LK
BRUSHES Sen National Biscuit Co.’s brands FARIN AcRoUs doame
Seru Columbia River, talis @1 8 Telfer Coffee “s brands © Butter Siagoees
Solid Back, 8 in.. +++... 45} Columbia River, flats @i 30 6%
Solid Back, WOES cies oo. 95 | Red Alaska... ...... @i1 30 8% Dried Lim ice ee
PORNOOR TOG oo ooo s 55. 85 | Pink Alaska.. .. @ 2 6% Medium Hand Picked’ 2 50
Shoe Shrimps ey | Brown Holland..............2 25
- Doc csae seek kc eee sek cuca 1 00 | Standard..... ...... 1 40 7 iii
Pe 0 sccue ies cen bukmngk eck) 1 30 es 2411b. 1 80
De, Bo cn dessa pace 1 70 | Domestic, i4s........ 3% 7 | Bulk, ar ihe. -2 50
WR. Sisecc co 1 90 Domestic, 3s 5 8 ‘
Domestic, Mustard 6 13 Hominy
75 ornia, +48 11@14 1g | Flake, 50 Ib. sack..... 90
"110 California %s...... ° 17@24 Pearl, 200 Ib. bbl.. 5 00
“iB French, i eek cces 7Q@14 a Pearl, 100 Ib. sack... --2 50
- en 18@28 7 Maccaroni and Vormiceiii
W., R. & Co.'s, 15e size.... 1 25 | Standard ............ 110 7% | Domestic, 10 Ib. box......... 60
W., R. & Co.'s, 2c size.... 200| Fancy .............. 1 40 7 (Imported, 25 lb. box.........2 56

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I Sec ct 2
i ice oa6s eee es 8 65
Green, Wisconsin, bu <
Green, Scotch, bu... wi @
Split, kas 4

Rolled Oats
Rolied Avena, bbl.. vino
Steel Cut, 100 Tb. sacks. ”"'3 09

Deere, Wet...
Monarch, Wass 2
Monarch, 90 ~ ——- we ©
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German, — pemaee.- 4
Tapioca
Flake, 110 Ib. sacks......... 434
Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... 3%
Pearl, 24 1 Ib. Wheat” Lease 6%
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FISHING TACKLE”
We OD a occa ev gene es :
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‘Cotton Lines
No. 1, 10 feet.. 5
No. 2; 15 feet 7
No. 3, 15 feet. 9
No. 4, 35 feet 10
No. 5, 15 feet 11
ee, ©, Ib ee. esc tae 12
ek, We 80 POOR ooo oo aks 15
Dee: & 05 9008. -..... 52-6: 18
Ne. 8, 16 fer ee 8: 20
Linen Lines
Nei eek a, oo ee 20
IN, ag ik ca ewe cee ce 26
RS ooo ice 34
Bamboo, 14 ft. or doz... 50
Bamboo, 16 ft.. per doz...... 65
Bamboo. 18 ft , per doz.. 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

FOOTE & JENKS’

JAXON

Highest Grade Extracts

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

 

   

Vanilla “iene
2 0z panel..1 20 20z a 75
3 oz taper. 2°00 402 r..1 50

   

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Folding Boxes
D. C. Lemon D.C. Vanilla
SOB. cies 75 Chic eenss 1 20
£08 ics. Loe A408 2... 2 00
€06...5. i S68....:. 3 00

Taper Bottles
D. C. Lemon b. C. =
SOR, ivesas oe 2 Oc. 1 25
oe. BOs... 210
ee Oe AGE... scs 2 40

Full Measure
D. C. Lemon 2 Cc. io
A ee OS 108.) .i.:.

SO iiss 1 10 ; = aa 1 80
OB. os ccs 200 : 406... uc 3 Ou
Tropical Extracts
2 0z. full measure, Lemon.. 75
4 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 1 =

2 oz. full measure, V;
4 0z. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 30
FLY a.

 

Tanglefoot, per box. . a
Tanglefoot. per a... 8 20
FRESH MEATS
Beef

ites, & 7 Ok
Forequarters ....... 6 @6
Hindquarters .. ie eas 6 @8
J ele pi ly 9 os
Ribs... i 7 2
Rounds a 6 @7
Chucks.... . + ao
soccer
Pork i
die eh geo aaad @ 8%
RINE oo ene seas onbaen OO,
Boston Butts........ 11K%@l2
Shoulders ........... | a
Leaf Lard..... asc 12
Mutton
Carcass .. ise, © OS
Lambs... ‘ee oT ee
Veal

OMICASS ...... + 5-2 200+

 

7

GELATINE

oe. es . 75
Plymouth Roek...... eo oe
POON eee acc cuc a soca 1 50
Con's, S06 008.... ..:..<. 1 61
Oona: tet abes...... ...... 110

GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100in bale .... 15%
Amoskeag, lessthan bale. 15%

GRAINS AND FLOUR
Wheat

Ey oie i ides cee 7
Winter Wheat Flour
Brands

Rye. 8 00
ocbubiect: ‘to ‘usual “cash dis-

 

PICKLES
Medium
Barreis, 1,200 count ...

00
Half bbis, 600 count......... 435

Small

Barrels, 2,400 count .........9
Half bbis, 1,200 count ......

PLAYING CARDS

No. 90, Steamboat.....

Y Spec
No 98, Gort, satin finish. .

No. 808, Bicycle

No. 632, Tournam’t Whist.

POTASH

cans in case.
Babbitt's

Penna Salt Co.’s............

PROVISION

Ss

Barreled Pork

oor lour in bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | Pi

- nal.
oe 8 ~~
Diamond s...... “a
Reaemnein M68. 34... oo coc... ; oe
Diamond s. ~ oo
Worden Grocer Go. “8 Brand
scl et EC ee 3
Quaket MA. 8
Quaker s...... 3

Sprin
Clark ewe
Pi +

 

 

 

 

Olney & — Ss Brand
resota 3s.

Ceresota \8...............
Ceresota %s.
Worden Gr Grocer Co.'s Brand

> > >

sess &38

 

> > ee

Oe Ses ek
Laurel 4s and %s paper. .
Meal
Feed and Milletatts
St. Car Feed, screened.... 24 25
No. 1 Corn and Oats...... 24 25
Corn Meal, coarse........ 24 25
Corn Beal, ine............ 24 00
Winter Wheat Bran....... 16 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. 18 00
Re se oad oon a cee = -
1

34%

:
:
:

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ss

Oats
Gar lots new....-.........
Corn

Corn, car lots............. 66
Hay

No. 1 Timothy car lots....

No. 1 Timothy ton lots....

 

  

Gens Legves....... 0.6.00. 25
INDIGO
Madras, 5 Ib. boxes a
8. F., 2, 3 and 5 Ib. boxes......50
JELLY
5 lb. pails.per doz........ 1 8
= ~ pails = eens : << a
eit es a 80
LICORICE
Calabria. i 23

SICIlY «20. sesso cose ieecsas We

S P Bellies...

eee eeeees

Extra shorts.........

Smoked Meats

 

Hams, 121b. average.
Hams, 141b. average.
Hams, i6lb. average.

 

 

 

 

 

Berlin — pr’s’d
Mince

a eenees

 

-- advance
e™ Potis_.advanca
VOROIIE.. «coe. ck cso:

 

 

Rump, New. a
Pigy 1 “Feet
4 pis» 40 Ibs..

% bbls.

 

% bbls., 80 Ibs.......
oe

Pork .

Beef rounds.

Beef middles..

Sheep..........-

 

Uncolored ‘Butterine
a =

wiwe wwseee WI De

LYE
Condensed, 2 doz........
Condensed, 4 doz.......

MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 2 0z......
Re, © GE ec se

MOLASSES
New Orleans

Fancy _ oe...
Choice anes
Fair

oe te
Be &S

SSRs

rage RE SEG ie EES Se ERS

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

Horse Radish, 1 doz.........

Horse Radish, 2 doz.........

Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz........

OLIVES

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs. .

Bulk, 3 gal. kegs

Bulk, 5 gal. kegs.

70z

= Coe

SSS SHSSSRSRSR ASA

 

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Best grade Imported Japan,
3 — pockets, 33 to -~

outa of packing in cotton poek-
ets only %c more than bul
SALAD DRESSING
Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz. .1 85
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz...1 90
Alpha Cream, small,3doz.. 95

Durkee’s, large, fGen. 2, 415
Durkee’s, small, 2 doz....... 4 85
SALERATUS

Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15
a 3 00

Peete ee wee eens ee wane

Dwight’s ees «3 15
Emblem. 2 @
te i a ..8 00
Wyandotte, 100 %a_.. 11272 8 00

SAL SODA
Granulated, bbis............ 96
Granulated, 100 Ib. cases....1 05
Tee, OOM oo ls ae
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs........... 95

SALT
Diamond oe -

 

Table, barrels, 407 Ib. 8.2 75
Butter, barrels, 280 Ib. bulk.2 65
Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 85
Butter, sac sacks, 28 Ibs......... 27
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 87
Bee es 24%
Common Grades
100 3 Ib. sacks. . 2 2
60 5 Ib. sacks. es as 2 15
26 te te. Gee. 2 05
OG TD. OnONeS ss. 40
20. GNONN sis... 22
Warsaw
56 Ib. dairy in = bags..... 40
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 20

Ashton

56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. ..
Higgins

56 Ib. dairy in linen saeks...

Solar Rock
OO Ones... fos. 28

Common
Granulated Fine............ 75

  

meets Pine.. .2c....... 2... ob
SALT FISH
Cod
Large whole........... @ 5%
Smail whole........... @5
Ser. ips or pricks 7 @9
Mees d ee uscla. @ 3%
Halibut.
ee a, pied anes cues
Chunks.. ciel lk cee
tau
No. 8 100 iim. ............26 5 50
No.1 40 Ibs. 2 50
No.1 10 Ibs. .. noc wa
Td OO ss .. 59
Mackerel
Bienes 200 Tie oo. oo 14 50
Seees OF Ue... 6.55...c.5 28
eee Oe
Meee Sie. 4k... 2
eG PO ee, ng. 13 60
es Oe ee
eh Oe 1 45
eee a 119

+ eeeeweenes

4 bbl. 10 50
ps%bbl. 5 50
Dy ee 5
p mens. 88

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whitefish
No.1 No.2
100 Ibs........ 775 8
50 2

 

 

“ a
Mustard, white.. ee
Foppy... Fa Gl Oe
4
4

Rape a: Oa Gianna
SHOE BLACKING
2 50

Bixby’s Royal Foleh......
Miller’s Crown Polish..... 85

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co. brands

 

  

100 cakes, large size......... 6 50
50 cakes, large size......... 3 25
100 cakes, small size......... 3 85
50 cakes, small size......... 1 95
Single box.. ci 20
5 box lots, delivered. 2.1.1. "3 15
10 box lots, delivered ........ 3 10
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver age 2 coon 65
Calumet Family.... ..... 2 75
Scotch Family..... ...... 2 85
i a
Jas. 8S. Kirk & Co. brands—
Dusk eee Sauce oead 3 55
Jan Tees... ...... as oe
Saves a ‘i oe
White Russian.. ~ ae
Dome, oval bars.. - 3 55
Satinet, oval...... . <0
‘White Cloud. ........ . 410
Lautz Bros. brands—
ee Bemis... .... 410
Ee 3 55
— ade oes sue caus 4 00
os eeu, 70
Proctor & Gamble brands—
NN eli ow clue eaves 10
Teeny. 6 0z 400
oe ee aE 6 75
Schultz & Co. brand— ‘
,Search-Light Co. brand.
“Search-Light”’ 00
big, ure, solid bars...... 3 75
A risley brands—
ae 4 00
Old Guanies owt en ce 3 40
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 dos be ven 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40
—
Boxes....... 5%

Kegs, English. ....202.222.7:
SNUFF
Scotch ae ee ae

Macca’ - a oa: a
French pee, aie ‘jars. Pood 43
PICES
Whole Spices

oie ieee co tee eos
Cassia, China in mats... :
ia, Batavia, in bund...
cae Saigon, cae
Cassia, Sal:

 

    

Nutmegs, 75-80...
Nutmegs, 105-10..
oe 115-20 i
per, Singapore, black.
pop per, 8! pore, white.
sis om , shi ol bia dt cod ad ois
Pure ee in Bulk
Cassia, Batavia............

Cloves, aia ames in 17
Ginger, African........... 15
Canwen, Coemee.......... 18
Ginger, — Siege ge 25
Mace...... cdgaee pene 65

3

 

 

M 18
Sing: ré, black. 17
Pepper, — white. 25
Pep 20
hy

 

 

 

 

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Kingstord’s Corn

 

40 1-Ib Bly
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 1-Ib. packages........... 8%
6 Ib. packages.... ...... v%

atk — Gloss

1-Ib. packages............. 8
3-Ib. one cue tunes). Oak
6-Ib. packag a on
40 and 50-Ib. axes... a
Barra! , 4

 

 

Common —

20 1-Ib. pac es. io ©
49 1-Ib. ee tinomen ow 5%
SYRUPS
Corn
Soci cuiiicdedonbocs eee
bone co. tt 29
10 Ib. cans, % doz. in case.. 1 85
5 lb. cans, 1 doz. in case.... 2 10
2% Ib. cans, 2 doz. in case...2 10
Pure a

Fair . cicae.

Choice srcoseonee A
STOVE POLISH

<—<=s*, J.L. Prescott &Co.

Manufacturers
New York, HN, Y.

 

     
   

No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No, 6, 8 doz in case, groas.. 7 20
SUGAR
Domino.... 6 76
Cut Loaf. i.e
Crushed 5 15

bes .. . 4
Powdered . 4s
Coarse Powdered. 475
XXXX Powdered. . 4 80
Fine Granulated. .......... 4 65
21b. bags Fine Gran... .. 4 85
: Ib. a — — isi ce 4 80

a
Doenaad las ic +o
Confectioner’s A. «o- 445
No. 1, Columbia Re 4 365
No. 2, Windsor A......... 430
No. 8, Ridgewood A...... 4 30
No. 4 cenix A.. «§ €f
No, 8 Empire A........ uo 42
ee Gl
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te

: 4 00

3 95
3 95
3 90
3 85
3 765
8 80
8 75

 

TABLE SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and

 

Genuine

co Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, pints...... 5 00
Lea & Perrin’s, — 2 7%
seem, Eee... 2... 1... 2 oe
Halford, mae 2 25

edie auuon 81

ae esac, 33

WET ess coals 43

yp MUM secs ccs 31

conee eedd due 33

43

, MOINES. ..4.:. 31

ie 43

80

Nd Mcee sl Gciiaae eued 19@21

20@22

Moyune, medium ........... 29

Moyune, choice ............. 38

ec 53

ides cues 28

Pingsuey, choice............ 83

Pingeuey, faney............. 43

Young Hyson
ee 30
PAGE i esc sna inal nelbieey wales 38
Oolong

Formosa, fancy....... seseues 42

PEROT, MROGINEN. 60.6060. noes 25

ET, GUI on oot cannes gene 32

English Breakfast

 

Medium
Choice. .
I os ccccpedicene chtaoeabions 42
India
— Omens... ois. 32
ON cs sesececccss senaua uscd 42
TOBACCO °

Cigars
H. & P. Drug ~ *s brands.
Fortune Teller............ 35 00
Our er.. onus oy a oe
Cuneta 2 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co,’s brand.

oh

. monk WEE one esha obiecenes
gar Clippings, per —*

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

{2

i3

14

16

 

Lubetsky Bros. brands
ee ana 35 00
Daily Mail, 5c edition....... 35 00
Fine Cut
I eae eo 54
ea cee... 33
Hiawatha, 3 ib. peas .......
Hiawatha, 10 Ib. paiis...... 5a
Co 22
Oe leila 2h eee cs 1
I MR ees occ e occ +
Re 37
eee ere... .-...... <2. 42
EE ee a ae ge 38
Plug

Red Cross.....
ae... 3.
a7. .......
Hiawatha...
Battle Axe .

  

t
Honey DID ee... .. - 2. 33
Black Standard. .... c.

 

—.
Nickel Twist.

Smoking
erect Oere...........
Flat

 
 

ee ee 3?
Great Navy........ 34
eee 25

—_—— 24
ooh 6H.....:...0.. 26
iz, — _- Lecce eae 30
Honey De . --35
Gold feck. --88

oe
——————— oo ae
Kiln Dried ...... onal
Duke’s "Mixture pocccn ce .-38
Duke’s Cameo........... 41
Myrtle Navy .-39
Yum Yum, 1% -.39
Yum Yum, 1 Ib. pails a
Cr foe eee a
Corn Cake, 2% 0Z.. |
or cee, 2... .... ...... 22
oe ee, 1 Oe... 39
Piow Boy, 33 02z..
Peeueen 2 ee.............. 32
Peerless, 136 OZ........ +020. 34
ae... . 36
—— o............... ee
Country Ciab.........-..- 32-34
eee eee... 28
joo Indien .......... ae
oo Cee... -.. 0-22
er eee 34
TWINE
CE 16
oe fee...-..._ 16
Hem 2p ply: Ce eens Gute :
emp, i ce

a . 20

Wool, Se 7™
VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8
Malt White Wine; 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, B. & a: lu

Pure Cider, Red 1
Pure Cider, Robinson.......11
Pure Cider, Silver........... 11

WASHING POWDER
27

 

 

 

  

Faucets :
Cork Dned Si........... ce
Cork lined, o-..... —
Cork lined, 10in.. 85
Cedar. 8in.......... 65
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring .. .- &
Eclipse patent spring. 85

No 1 common. 5
No. 2 patent brush holder . 85

  
 
  
 
  
 
  

   

12 Bb. —T mop heads..... 11 25
Ideal - Seco So peholbeeece 90
Pails
2-hoop Sentean peace Cue. 1 50
3-hoop — bitecis coe. 1 65
2-wire, Cable.. Se
3-wire, Cable.. -1 80
Cedar, all red, ‘brass bound. 1 25
Paper, Eureka........ -2 25
ae... we
Toothpicks
Hardwood . oe
ee i 2 75
ee 1 BO
Beoes.......2..... ik
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 holes.. . =
Mouse, wood, 4 holes. 45
Mouse, wood, 6 hole: 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes.. 65
Zak, (e8........- 80
Bat, epriee.....-: .-... 75

Single Peerless.............
Nortpern Queen ............
Double Duplex .............-
en tee.
ee ce ees
Window Cleaners

-o.t

6 00

16-inch, Standard, No «5 00

20-inch, Cable, No. 1 as 2

18-inch, Cable, No. 2.........6 59

16-inch, Cable, 3.. -.d 50

No. 1 Fibre To eas

No. 2 ones. -7 95

No. 3 Fibre... so
Wash eee

Bronze Globe.. sion ae

Dewey noc oe

Double Acme.. ‘ 75

Single Acme.. eee 2

Double Peerless........-.. 25

50

50

00

75

25

WNW Whe

Wood Bowls
11 in. Butter... i. oe
13 in. Butter.. hi
iste eee
oO
oe a ete
Assorted 13-15-17.... ........1 75
Assorted 15-17-19 ........... 3 09
ao —.
Common Stra

Fiber Manila, “ie. el ie
Fiber — _—- 4
No. 1 Man neal — ©
Cream a. Sees ont 3
Butcher’s Manila.......... 2%

Wax Butter, short count. 13
Wax Butter, fullcount.... 20
‘Wax Batter, roms......... 15
YEAST CAKE

—————————
Sun ght, 3doz.
Sunlight, 1% doz.
Yeast Cream, 8 doz.
Yeast Foam, 3 doz.
Yeast Foam, 1% doz........

FRESH FISH

   
   

Per Ib.
oe... ee
a... _ = &
S. 10@ 11
Pee @ 14
a Herring. . —- a
vt a Sai
Bab i © OFM... .---- -- ae an 3 fo | Live Lobster...-...... @ 2
Armouris....2....2.00.2.2023 79 | Bolled Lobster........ Qs
Nine O'clock... 0 2002002.. ‘oo.
oe eee de ea > No. : ha... @ 8%
inub-No-More. B15 | Perea BE
ice a eee... .... 3 il
ne aoe...
Ne . oo... eee sona Col River Salmon. . —- 3
No. 3 per groas.. core, Pere 18
No. 8. per groas..............85 HIDES a ial
w ODENWARE ides
- Bask eon eo. 8... @™%
Bushels .. a. omen 4 _ Se coe 2
Seek elne 2 ‘ur 9. :
Marker ate — + 4 ees 2.. ‘a g o%
8S int eee 6 00 8 \green 0.1 9
Splint la . ee kee 5 00 Calfskins,green No.2 @s
Splint, omeall See eee eee 4 00 | Calfskins,cured No.1 @10%
Willow Clothes, “8 00| Calfskins,curedNo.2 @ 9
Willow Clothes, m can - 550 Pelts
Willow Clothes, omall eee oo! Oe Woul............ 50@1 50
Bradley Butter Boxes Lamb ocebes cece cccoes 45@ 75
2 Ib. size, 24 in case... 72 | Shearlings .... ..... 40@ 75
3 Ib. size, 16 in case... 68 Tallow
5 Ib. size, 12 in case.. o> OPT O Bs @é6
10 Ib. size, 6 in case......... 60 maa G @5
Butter Plates ool
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 49 | Washed, fine........ @z0
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45 | Washed, medium @22
No. Oval, 250 in crate...... 5¢ | Unwashed, fine..... @is5
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... 60} Unwashed, medium.  16@18
Churns CANDIES
Barrel, 5 gals., each....._. Stick ie
Barrel, 10 gals.,each........ - 53 bis. pails
Barrel, 15 gals., each........ 2 76 nes tae @7
setae Fins Standard Twist... Q3
Round head, a 50 ae ll @9
Round ae apm Pe 75 ee eee cases
rates rege ee Z
Humpty a . shade eee 2 25 ra H.H.. ai Sie
No. 1, complete ............. 29 Boston Cream. 10
No. 2, complete ............. 18 g

 

 

Mixed Candy
—— ce
m ee.
oe i. %
++ %

eee
ee
egg an OE
Cui

   

 

English Rock. os P
Kinde :
Bon Ton od %
French Cream.......
Deniy Fae...
d Made Cre-
meee. 14%
Crystal Cream mix 13
Fancy—In Pauis
Champ. Crys. Gums. Sy
Pony Hearts. ..... .. 5
Fairy Gerson Squares 12
Fudge Squares...... 12
Peanut Squares..... 9
Sugared Peanuts. 11
ted Peanuts...... 10
Starlight Kisses..... 10
ies.. @12
Lozenges, plain ..... @3
Lozenges, printed @10
Champion Chocolate @li
Eclipse Chocolates... 13%
Quintette Choe...... @lz
Gum Drops.......:.. @ 5K
Moss Drops... . 9
Lemon Sours 9
Imperials.. .. 9
Ital. Cream ra 12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 Ib. pails. . @1
—- Chews, is
b. pails.... @13
aude Wafties .. @i2

Fancy—In & Ib. Boxes

Feppermsiet Di Se0
epperm s.
Chocolate anes.
H. M. Choe. Drops..
H. M. Choc. ~ an
a. ne @i 00
Gum Drops...... —
Licorice Drops.. @75
Lozenges, plain. @55
Lozen ee —— @s6o0
—- @60
@60
@55
Hand Made Creams. 380 @90
Cream Buttons, —_

— wee... @65
Sitme Beck... G65
Wintergreen Berries @é60

Caramels
Clipper, 20 1b. @ 8%
Perfection, oh pls @12%
Amazon, Choe Cov’d @13
Korker 2 for ic pr bx @55
Big 3, 3 for 1¢ pr bx..
Dukes, 2 for ic pr bx oo
Favorite, 4 for le, bx @60
Cream Car’ls 3Ib @50
FRUITS
Oranges
Florida Russett...... @
Florida Bright...... @
Fancy Navels....... @
Extra Choice........ @
Late Valencias...... e
Medt. Sweets........ @
II bios oe ews @4 00
ipa eee ‘ @
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300.. @
Verdelli, foy 300. .... @
Verdelli, ex chee 300 @
Verdelli, fey 360..... @
Cali Lemons, 300..... @
Messinas 300s....... 3 50
Messinas 360s....... 3 4 50
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 1 50@2 00
Large bunches......
oreign — Fruits
8
Californias, Fancy. @
Cal. p . 10 Ib. boxes @i 00
Extra iholce, Turk.,
i. bees........ @
——. Tkrk. ~ ae.
ee @
Pulled. 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags...
Dates
Fards in 10 lb. boxes @ 6%
Fards in 60 Ib. cases. @
oe, eect 5 3 5%
Ib. cases, new. ....
Sairs, 60 lb. cases.. .. @
Almonds, Tar a

onds, ragona @16
Almonds, Ivica ..._. @
Aimonas, California,

soft shelled........ 15@16
coe SS Ree @10
Pee @13
Walnuts. Grenobles @13
Walnuts, soft shelled

California No. 1 @
Table Nuts, ee. @13%
Pecans, Med... @10
Pecans, _ Large.. @13
Pecans, Jumbos..... @u4
Hickory Nute per bu.

tem a @

ts, full sacks @3 50
Chestnuts’ er bu... @
eanuts
Fancy, H.P.,Suns.. 5%@ 6%
Fancy, H 2, Suns

Roas 6%@ 7%
Choice, H. P.. ae “Jumbo 7%
Choice, H. P., Jumbo 9%

Roas on

Span. Shlld No. in’w

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STONEWARE
Buttera

% gal, oasis cer ecchede wc csss 48
1 = "4 oe. 8 5%

8 = 9 Po kee Sheen eee mans wee 48

Co 60

12 ga: ORM ere 7

15 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 112

20 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 50

2 eal. manatee, oaek................ 212

30 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 2
Churns
SOC Oe Or ee wwe 6
“hurn Das ers, per ee 84
Milkpans

% ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz.. ns 48

1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, en... 5%
Fine Glazed Milkpans
% gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each............ 6
Stew pans
% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10
Jags

ee eee 56

oer ee... . 42

[oon Oe ber eee. 7

Sealing Wax
6 ibs. in package, per Ib............... 2
LAMP BURNERS

Pe eee... 35

ee ee 36

ee 48

eis ans ncn oases. 85

DE oes c cca, sh eeee oi ewe che 50

ees cote u ce cc. 50

MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps

RO 4 25 per gross
Quarts oe eeke ee Sede el ua : 50 per gross
ee 6 50 per gross

Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of : 9g

moe...
Pie... i os
eee 2 sv

Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in corrugated carton.
No. 0 Crimp el ek eee eee 1
Pee CO 1
Pe SC 2
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, erimp top, wrapped & lab.
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, erimp top, wr — & lab.
No. 2 Sun; hinge, wrapp
Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled......
No. 2 Sun, wrap) ee aa "
No. 2 hinge, wrapped Sc
No. 2 eee oe Bulb for Giobe

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THE NEW FOODS.

No Amount of Advertising Can Overturn
Public Sentiment.

It took several hundred years for the
flour-eating human family to discover
that in the milling process the most nu-
tritious elements of the wheat kernel
were thrown away. During all this time
the miller calmly sat beside the mill-
stone grinding out the white meal, trust-
ing to habit and tradition to sell it.

But science has been pounding away
at the door of the miller, urging him
with much scientific argument to utilize
the portions of the wheat that have been
discarded.

In the meantime, through scientific
investigation and persistent advertising,
the people have keen made aware of the
fact that they have been cheated for
years out of what nature designed
should be the most nutritious portions of
the wheat.

From whole wheat flour, graham
flour and other kinds of flour, in which
were ground up portions of the hull of
the wheat, to the modern array of cereal
foods and health foods the public has
been thoroughly impressed with the fact
that the old white flour was amazingly
lacking in the elements calculated to
contribute to the nourishment of the
human system.

The markets are now flooded with an
almost countless variety of ‘‘health
foods,’’ and their wholesomeness and
healthfulness are abundantly attested by
their tremendous sales. These sales are
the result not only of clever advertising,
which has made their virtues known all
over the broad land, but of the dietetic
experience of the human family.

It has been scientifically proved that
white flour has been shorn of nearly all!
of its bone, muscle and brainmaking
material. Very few dietetic students will
challenge the conclusions of science on
this subject.

With the increasing consumption of
the cereal foods which utilize the former-
ly discarded nutritious hull of the wheat,
the manufacturers of white flour are nat-
urally thrown into a panic over the de-
creasing consumption of their product.
The Northwestern Miller, the official
organ of the millers, howls frantically
over the encroachments of the health
foods upon its preserves, which it was
thought belonged for ail time to the old-
style wheat flour, and tearfully laments
the decline in popular intelligence that
leads to such a departure in dietetics.
With much editorial screaming it has
been endeavoring to break down the
barriers against white flour, erected
by the enormous amount of advertising
now running in the current magazines
and newspapers giving publicity to ce-
real foods.

Suppose the manufacturers of white
flour suddenly determined to inaugurate
an expensive and comprehensive plan
of publicity. How could they hope to
cope with such a ‘‘past master’’ in the
art as Mr. Perky, who has been one of
the most active and skillful of the pro-
moters who have been for years educat-
ing the public concerning the nutritive
value of the elements of the wheat ker-
nel that are discarded in the manufac-
ture of process white flour? How could
they hope to reverse the public verdict
in favor of the new cereal foods already
rendered on the basis of the work done
by such experts as Messrs, Ellsworth,
Brampton, Post, Wisner, Danforth,
Dickinson, Koplin, Mapes, Kellogg and
other educators and promoters in this
line?

 

We think the effort would be not only
costly but futile.

Notwithstanding this increase of con-
sumption of the new cereal foods and
the tremendous investmensts in their
manufacture the Northwestern Miller is
apparently impressed with the belief
that it can by persistent editorial pound-
ing maintain the old-time supremacy
of white flour as the only nutritious
product of the wheat kernel. Of course,
this is an absurd delusion on the part of
the Northwestern Miller,

It may be reasonably expected that
the manufacturers of the new health
foods will not only keep up the present
annual output of their products, but
will vastly increase it, as their maga-
zine advertising continues to educate
public sentiment upon the dietetic value
of their bealth-giving, body-building,
brain-making foods.

It may also be reasonably expected
that the consumption of white flour will
correspondingly decrease as the years
go by.

In this extremity the question has
been raised as to whether the loss of
ground by the flour milling industry can
be retrieved by resorting to the same
advertising methods that have been em-
ployed so successfully by the manufac-
turers of the cereal foods. We are in-
clined to believe that it is too late.

The advertisers of modern health
foods have been educating the public
upon this question for years. If the
publicity upon which they have spent
millions of dollars rests upon a scientific
basis and upon accurate, scientific
knowledge, how can the verdict of the
consuming public upon this question be
reversed? The immense plants at
Akron, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Battle
Creek and St. Louis have been built up
on the fruits of this widely disseminated
scientific knowledge.

The time has gone by for elementary
courses of instruction in the dietetic
value of these new foods; people have
learned their superior nutritive value by
experience. It is now a battle royal be-
tween the manufacturers of the various
kinds of cereai foods as to which shall
maintain the ascendency with popular
favor. Nearly all are recognized as
vastly superior in nourishing elements,
in bone and muscle making material, to
white flour.

The selection of a particular make,
therefore, by each family is largely a
question of the cleverness and extent of

sie advertising that is done in its be-
half,

It may be gravely questioned if this
tide of popular favor in the direction of
the new foods could be turned back to
white flour, even although the manufac-
turers of the latter should suddenly con-
clude to invest millions in advertising.
The health foods have secured an ad-
vantage, a lead, that can not be over-
come,

Publicity is a powerful agency for the
distribution of any food product, but in
our opinion, no amount of publicity at
this late day can overturn public senti-
ment, now in favor of the cereal prod-
ucts, that is based upon the absolute
and unerring conclusions of dietetic
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The Grain Market.

Wheat has been on the gain. While
not displaying any excessively high
flights, it has been on a steady advance
and is up 2c per bushel for cash and
about the same for futures. May op-
tions, however, were the most favored in
trading. Bad reports from the continent
figured in the advancing price. Ger-
many lost a good share of the wheat
crop, anid the same is the case with the
United Kingdom. Italy is short 26,000, -
ooo bushels. Our own crop is now esti-
mated at only 600,000,000 bushels and
a part of that is unfit for flouring pur-
poses. Receipts have been larger at
initial points in the Northwest, but the
millers have been taking it neariy as
fast as offered. The visible made a
gain of 1,500,000 bushels, which is
small, taking the season into consider-
ation. Exports were large from export-
ing countries, as the amount reported
on passage is 120,00,000 bushels, of which
the United States furnished about half.
Our exports seem to be larger than last
year, while we have much less to offer
than a year agc. In all probability,
present prices will be sustained, if not
a little added to them.

Corn seems to be congested, less than
three-fourths of a million bushels being
in Chicago, and the demand from the
shorts is urgent because there is no new
corn coming in that will grade. The
shorts certainly are in a box, as only
Armour has any corn and that is being
shipped out as fast as vessel room can
be secured. With this depletion in con-
tract corn, the question arises where the
traders who were so anxious to sell corn
around 44c will get the corn they have
sold when they are bidding up from 53c
per bushel now. It does look like a
squeeze, The visible in corn decreased
300,000 bushels during the week.

Oats, not to be outdone, also showed
a decrease of 580,000 bushels, so the
market was boosted a couple of cents
and the ciosing was strong at the ad-
vance of 3c.

Rye followed along with an advance
of about %c per bushel, although not
very much doing, as holders are getting
the idea to hold up firm for an advance.
Whether they will get it is problemat-
ical.

Beans are off 8c per bushel, but very
strong at that. They will remain so as
the wet weather in Germany also caused
a partial failure.

Flour is strong and at 2oc per barrel
advance. The mills are all busy and
local and domestic demand is urgent.

Mill feed, likewise, is up $1 a ton on
both bran and middlings, With the high
price of corn and oats, mill feed will
be firm and another advance will prob-
ably take place in the near future.

Receipts of grain have been as fol-
lows: wheat, 77 cars; oats, 9 cars; rye,
3 cars; flour, 4 cars; beans, 1 car:
Straw, I Car; potatoes, 12 cars,

Mills are paying 7oc for No. 2 red
wheat. C. G. A. Voigt.

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A great many results are confidently
anticipated as consequent upon the
building of the great dam at Assouan.
It is expected to make the valley of the
Nile wonderfully fertile. It will change
the desert into a granary. Its material
advantages can scarcely be overesti-
mated and for the region affected will
be unquestionably productive of great
benefit. It is interesting to note in this
connection that Egyptologists fear that
this enterprise is going to have a very
disastrous effect upon the Sphinx of
Gizah. For centuries it has stood, owing

 

its fair state of preservation to the dry
atmosphere. When the dam at Assouan
bas its perfect work there will be in-
creased humidity and it is thought that
it will have such an effect on the sand-
stone of the sphinx that in about a hun-
dred years there will be no semblance
of the face remaining. That need not
necessarily very much alarm the pres-
ent generation nor the succeeding one.
The notice is sufficiently long to answer
all present putposes. The formal noti-
fication of the Egyptologists amounts to
this, that those who want to see the
sphinx must do so within the next hun-
dred years. After that date people
must depend on pictures.
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The Alaskan boundary dispute between
Canada and the United States, which has
been pending several years, will prob-
ably never he settled until Canada aban-
dons her claims. It bas come to be gen-
erally believed that they were put for-
ward by Canada witb the idea of ob-
taining concession in another direction.
Discussing the situation in a _ recent
speech Senatur Lodge said: ‘‘The old
Russian boundary was recognized until
the United States bought Alaska and
the discovery of gold was made. Then
an effort was made on the part of the
Canadian government to change the
boundary line. The land which they
claim is of great strategic importance.
If we accede to their claims there is no
reason why Canada could not claim
New Hampshire or Maine. If Canada
wants to have a reciprocity treaty with
us she knows how she can get it. She
must drop her talk about the Alaskan
boundary.’”’

 

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BUSINESS CHANCES. _
oo RENT—NEW DOUBLE BRICK STORE;
one of the finest locations in Southern Mich-
igan for any dry goods or general store business;
will be ready for occupancy about Noy. 15. Ad-
dress No. 800, care Michigan Tradesman. 800
re SALE- GARDEN, FRUIT AND POUL-
try ranch, Constantine. Mich. Address Con-
stantine Med. Co., Constantine, Mich. 799

7 ANTED—STEAM HEAT FOR CHURCH
sac 30x60, with basement. Box 8, Benzonia,
Mich. 793

ye SALE—LONG ESTABLISHED, WELL
advertised tailoring or jewelry and optical
business in good Ohio town; population 2,000;
good surrounding territory, farming, manufac-
turing and mining; business making good profits
and everything on cash basis. Building can be
bought or rented. Particulars from owner.
Fred W. Shafer, Pleasant City, Ohio. 796

 

 

 

a SALE OR TRADE FOR A STOCK OF
general merchandise—farm of 100 acres, val-
ued at $3.000; mortgaged for 81,100: located in
the northeastern part of Ionia county. Address
No. 795, care Michigan Tradesman. 795
YANTED—TWO SECOND-HAND EIGHT
foot display cases and one six foot combt-
nation cigar case in good condition. Must be a
bargsin. Address Box 504, Gobleville, Mich. 802
TOCK OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE FOR
sale—the stock of Pa'meter & Pratt, of Ash-
ley, Mich., consisting of groceries, boots and
shoes, hardwere. notions. ete., with all fixtures
and book accounts, will be sold in bulk at auc-
tion, in front of their store in the Village of Ash-
ley, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 1 p- m., to the
highest bidder. Terms, cash. Full and com-
plete inventory of the stock will be taken and
submitted on that occasion. Chas. H. Smith,
Trustee. i 807
tp SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF ILL HEALTH
the whole or part interest in the best wall
aper business in Sault Ste. Marie. A. M.
Mathews Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 805
OR SALE—2%2 HORSE POWER GASOLINE
engine, with dynamo sparkler complete,
in good condition; cost $270, will sell for $90.
The Evening Journal, Sault Ste. Marie. Mich 806
WANSTED—a LATH MILL. ADDRESS A.
D. Plumb, Grand Rapids, Mich. 804
{OR SALE—2,800 ACRES LAND IN CHILTON
county, Alabama, nine miles south of Calera;
seven room house; one good cotton gin; three
barns, 15 outhouses; 690 acres clear; rents for
$1,009 per year; price $12 per acre. It will pay
you to look after this. A.M. Barron, Station A,
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ANTED—A GOOD LOCATION FOR IM-
plement and machinery business: small
stock of hardware not objectionable. Address
Box 3!, Pomona, Mich. 794
ARE CHANCE—FOK SALE, WELL-ES-
tablished wholesale and retail grocery busi-
ness. On account of the ill health of our Mr.
P. J. O'Neill, we are compelled to get out of the
mercantile business. Stock must be sold with
good will of business; established over a quarter
of a century; doing large and growing business
in city and throughout the Thumb; only one
exclusively wholesale grocery house in Port
Huron. Our three-story and basement brick
store for rent; best corner in the city. Only
principals dealt with. O’Neill Bros. & Co., 235
Huron Ave., Port Huron, Mich. 791

| age SALE—THE LARGEST AND BEST

wholesale and retail crockery and china, gas
and electric fixture business in Michigan outside
of Detroit and Grand — Stock is new and
active. Thousands of dollars of importations
from France, Germiny and Japan received
within the past sixty days. Business must be
sold on account of ill health of our Mr. P. J.
O'Neill. Rare opportunity for any one wanting
to engage in this line of business. Very attract-
ive store, 233 Huron avenue; rent reasouable.
Only oe dealt with. O’Neill Bros. & Co.,
Port Huron, Mich. 792

Kee RENT--BRICK BLOCK; ELEGANT
rooms for grocery, bakery, restaurant; good
bake shop; brick oven; best location; old estab-
lished business. Address A. A. Udell, Three
Rivers, Mich. 809

re SALE—BAKERY, LUNCH ROOM, CON-
fectionery, tobacco and cigars; good location
and sufficient room for additional business if
desired. Write Will Botsford, Holland, Mich.
810
IR SALE—TWO LAND CONTRACTS,
$400 each. for land valued at $',000 and draw.
ing 6 per cent.; must be sold at 10 per cent. dis-
count from face. Also four “forties” fine wild
land in Fruitport township, Muskegon county,
Mich., at a great sacrifice if taken at once. Ww.
W. Barcus, Muskegon, Mich. 811

rs SALE—CONFECTIONERY STOCK AND
fixtures, including soda fountain, in best
town in Michigan; good location for a restau-
rant. 228 River St., Holland, Mich. 801
it SALE—CASH GKOCERY BUSINESS
in town of 1,000; splendid opportunity; stock
will invoice about $700; owner has other busi-
ness and must sell at once. Address No. 783.
care Michigan Tradesman. 783
OR SALE—A CLOTHING, HAT AND
furnishing goods stock in small town; doing
$11,000 business; rent, $200 a year: amount of
stock and fixtures, about $5,000, which will be
sold for 55 cents on the dollar; good reasons for
selling; no traders need write. M. J. Rogan, 19
Kanter Bldg., Detroit. 782
| ge SALE—TWO BUSINESS BUILDINGS
in best location in town; cost $3,300; also a
stock of men’s furnishing goods and shoes in first-
class condition; will invoive $3,000; if taken with
in 30 days both can be bought for $4,500 eash.
Real estate will have a big advance here before
next spring. For further particulars address
Box 343, Munising, Mich. 781
wt PLENDID MANUFACTURING PLANT;
experienced business men with capital can
have immediate —— with stock taken.
Address Box 253, Hastings, Mich. 780
=. AND GROCERY SALESMEN TO
sell our cigar slot machine, as side line; selis
on sight toevery cigar and grocery store; big
rofits; write today. Michigan Noveity Co.,
Jicksburg, Mich. 779
SALE—DRUG STOCK IN ONE OF
the best business towns in Western Michi-
gan; good chance for a physician. Enquire of
‘No. 778, care Michigan Tradesman. 778
pe SALE — SMALL STUCK GENERAL
merchandise, about $1,200; a bargain for
someone; Can lease store if desired. Apply 482
Washington Ave., Muskegon, Mich. 784
_ SALE—200 10 PEK CENT. PREFERRED
stock shares in an incorporated mercantile
company now on a solid paying basis, or will
trade for merchandise; good position to buyer if
he wishes it. For furth-r particulars address
Baker Mercantile Co.,, Nashville, Mich. 788
RoE SALE—A STOCK OF DRUGS AND
patent medicines, cigars and confectionery
in one of the best fruit and grain sections in
Michigan. Stock all new, clean and Salable, no
dead stock; invoice: s about $1,800; will discount.
Sickness reason for selling. Address No. 774,
care Michigan Tradesman. 774

XCHANGE—GOOD STfOCK AND FRUIT
farm of 156 acres, free and clear, located
near Lowell; want a general stock of merchan-
dise. Address Chas. E. Mercer, Widdicomb
Building, Grand Rapids. 74i
\ J ANTED—QUICK MAIL ORDERS.
Overstocked; must keep the factory run-
ning; telescopes, suit cases, whips; low prices.
For special discounts and illustrated descriptive
list address Olney Telescope & Harness Co.,
Box 155, Olney, Lil. 769

WANTED STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise for cash; must be cheap to be
removed. Address Reval, 221 Fifth Ave., Chi-
cago, Il. 767
OT ghee SALE—DRUG STORE IN MICHIGAN
town of 10,000 popvlation; invoices about
$1,600; cash sales over $400 a month; wil! sell at
a bargain. Address No. 775, care Michigan
Tradesman. 775

re 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 Trades-
man. 759
SOR 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.
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\7ANTED FOR CASH—LUMBER OF ALL
\ kinds; also shingles and lath. Will con-
tract mill cuts. Belding-Hall Mfg. Co., Belding,
Mich. 764

YOK SALE—DRUG STOCK, INVOICING
k $200; only drug stock in town; sales last
year, $2,900; good reasen for selling. Address
754, care Michigan Tradesman. 754
1A, 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
LS yee 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, —
Mich.

 

iy SALE—A GOOD FIRST-CLASS 10
horse livery; only one in town of 9060; g
trade and everything in good order. Address
Philip Taylor, Saranac. Mich. 626
= SALE—FIRST-CLASS, EXCLUSIVE
millinery business in Grand Rapids; object
for selling, parties leaving the city. Address
Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 507
SAFES—NEW AND SECUND-HAND FIRE
and burglar proof safes. Geo. M. Smith Wood
& Brick Building Moving Co., 376 South Ionia
St., Grand Rapids. 321
| ge SALE—31,700 DRUG STOCK AND FIX-
tures; can be bought at great discount for
cash. Address P. O. box 222, Saginaw, yas
‘
Ke 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
er month. Good reason for selling. Address
No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 334
WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS
and residence (not connected); what have
you to offer? Give tull description and price.
A. M. Barron, Station A, South Bend, Ind. 745
HAVE SOME REAL ESTATE IN GRAND
Rapids. Will trade for a stock of general
merchandise. Address No. 751, care Michigan
Tradesman. 751
rT SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR FARM
property in or near Kent county—A g
clean stock of general merchandise and fixtures,
invoicing about $4,500. Stock consists of dry
goods, groceries. men’s furnishing goods and
crockery. Located in good lake port town of
25,000. The true reason for selling given on ap-
lication. Address No. 731, eare Michigan
radesman. 731
RUG STOCK FOR SALE IN A GOOD
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

JILL PAY SPOT CASH FOR STOCKS
dry goods, boots and shoes, hardware,
furniture or groceries. Lock Box 74, Ypsilanti,
Mich. 715
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
re SALE—MOSLEK, 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 aoe. Will sell for $50 cash.
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 368

WE SALE CHEAP—SECONDHAND NO. 4
Bar-Lock typewriter, in good condition.
Specimen of work done on machine on applica-
tion. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465

MISCELLANEOUS

RUGGISTS DESIRING CLERKS, AND

drug clerks who desire ositions, should
write to J. A. Hynes, 615 S. Ingalls St., Ann
Arbor, Mich. 802

ANTED, BY A REGISTERED PHARMA-

~ cist, a position; thirteen years experience.
Address F. W. H., Trufant, Mich. 797

WANTED—EXPERIENCED DRESS
goods salesman wanted: state wages and
give reference in first letter. A. E£. Poulsen,
Battle Creek, Mich. 793
WP ANTED_REGISLERED PHAKMAUOIST;
give references. Address Drugs, care Car-
rier No 18, Grand Rapids. 787

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

\ ) ANTE D—REGISTERED ASSISTANT

pharmacist or person with at least two
years’ experience; good references required.
Address C. E. Van Every, Kalamazoo, Mich. 786

ave Auctioneers
and Special Salesmen

and can reduce
or closeout
your stock with-
out one cent of
loss ‘to you by
our New Idea
Sale.

We take sales
on a commis-
sion basis, al-
lowing you to
set the price on
the goods. This
is the very best
time of the year
for sales and we
would like you
to call on us or
write at once.

Correspond-
ence confiden-
tial We buy
and sell store

 

c. . OP NHILL
fixtures or take them on consignment.

Cc. C. O’NEILL & CO., Chicago, Tl.
356 Dearborn St., Suite 408 Star Building

 

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