a anaes seuss ~shinasanstiiin aa ene AeA nn at AA AY \m ww SS YS, x oN b 4 he: yr ie eC 2 Twentieth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1902. Number 1000 Currie & Forsyth Managers for Douglas, Lacey & Co. 1023 Mich. Trust Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. P. B. Forsyth, of the firm, and Dr. C. H. Bull, of this city, left Nov. Sth inst. with a party of 25 to visit the different properties handled by Douglas, Lacey & Co. in Arizona and California. We will be glad to give our customers and friends full par- ticulars of the trip and how they found the properties in that section. We have an excellent good pur- chase that will be withdrawn from sale shortly. Prospectus of our Plans and Methods of Business sent free to anyone on application. CITIZENS PHONE 1651. ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corres- pondence invited. 1232 [Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Commercial Credit Co., us MACCOLL ey sts ts Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit We. furnish - protection against worthless-~ac- counts. and collect‘ -all others. : William Connor Co. Wholesale Ready-Made Clothing Men’s, Boys’, Children’s Sole agents for the State of Michigan | for the S. F. & A. F. Miller & Co.’s famous line of summer clothing, made in Baltimore, Md , and many other lines Now is the time to buy summer clothing. 28-30 South lonia Street Grand Rapids, Mich. SOOO OSSS 0096000699086 008 > IF YOU HAVE MONEY and would like to have it EARN MORE MONEY, @ write me for an investment. 3 oe Will you at same price at end of re-purchase it of year if you wish it. Martin V. Barker Battle Creek, [Michigan @ a OO 33680008 a7 Collection Department R. G. DUN & CO. Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, efficient, responsible; direct demand system. Collections made everywhere—for every trader. C. E. McCRONE, Manager. Tradesman Coupons Noble, Moss & Co. Investment Securities Bonds netting 3, 4, 5 and 6 per cent. Government Municipal Railroad Traction Corporation Members Detroit Stock Exchange and are prepared to handle local stocks of all kinds, listed and unlisted. 808 Union Trust Building, Detroit LEY ME SELL your farm, residence, store building, stock of goods or business (any ine) anywhere; I am a SPECIALIST in this line. Send two stamps for booklet and learn how. Address A. M. BARRON, Station A, South Bend, Ind. Wanted We want several small manufacturing concerns to locate Lere and will furnish a site and a small bonus if necessa:y. This is an excellent location for a basket factory, oval wood dish factory or handle factory. Wealso want a bank and will extend the proper encouragement to any one who can supply our needs, Jack Moblo, Sec’y Riverdale Improvement Association Riverdale, Mich lf you could see the Oro Hondo property, you would invest The location of the Oro Hondo property ad- joins the biggest gold mine in the world— The Homestake—which promises to become equally famous and profitable. The Home- stake has paid regular dividends for twenty- five years and is crushing over 3,000 tons of ore daily, and has enough ore in sight to run its enormous plant for 35 years. This ore ledge, which is 456 feet wide, traverses the Oro Hondo property. The managers of the Oro Hondo property are practical business and mining men, who bought the property, consisting of over 1,000 acres, at a cost of over $600,000. With their own money they began the initial development work before a share of stock was offered. They erected a large hoisting plant at a cost of $20,000, and the shaft is down over 100 feet in ore at $7.60 a ton. They are block- ing out ore sufficient to operate a large cyanide plant which will cost about $500,000, and to do this they are offering to original investors a portion of its treasury shares at soc per share, par value $1. Write us for full information. If any subscriber, upon investigation, is not satisfied that existing conditions at the mine have been understated by us, we will refund the amount sub- scribed. Wm. A. Mears & Co., Fiscal Agents, New York Address all communications to Charles E. Temple, 623 Michigan Trust Bldg, Grand Rapids, Mich. One Ton of Scratch Pads We will sell 25 pounds assorted for $2, all small sizes, made from finest writing paper. This price is good for this lot only. We don’t want to move them to our new location and for this reason offer the stock at a bargain. TRADESMAN COMPANY. THE GRAIN MARKET. Wheat gained friends in the specula- tive market. There was considerable investment buying by large houses. Armour was credited with buying large lines. The visible made an increase of about 2,000, 000 bushels, against 3, 700, 000 bushels last year, for the same week. There seem to be more buyers than sellers. Winter wheat showed a gain of about 2c for cash, while December op-! tions were up 2%c and May 23%c._ For- eign demand was good. | France took | local and domestic, is good. Rye was neglected, with not much enquiry. The market was dragging and dormant. Lower prices may stimulate more activity. Beans held their own, which is about all that can be said. Receipts of for- eign beans were on the increase, which cut quite a figure in the Eastern mar- kets, as they can be imported cheaper than the present home price. Flour is very strong, owing to the ad- vance in wheat. The demand, both Foreign- some of our wheat, which is the first | ers are not purchasing much,as they are time she has bought in a long time. The tone was strong. Minneapolis cash wheat was 1@2c over December options. This premium for cash wheat stimu- | wheat larger than flour, | | looking for lower prices. The duty which the United Kingdom put on flour, in excess of wheat, makes exports of Gur next |lated interior elevators to run their! wheat to market, instead of holding, which made receipts heavy, but it was all absorbed by millers. The situation certainly is very healthy for wheat at the present outlook. Corn was also stiff in price. Decem- ber sold 6c per bushel higher than one week ago. The damp weather hada strengthening effect on prices, especial- ly as the stock decreased 685,000 bushels and new corn coming in does not grade, owing to its being soft. It looks like a further advance. Oats remain strong, as they are not | coming on the market as fast as was anticipated. Stocks remain about as they were, with no accumulation. Congress should find a way to remedy this evil. Mill feed is in good demand. With the high price of corn and oats, we see no immediate signs of lower prices in mill feed. Middlings are held firm at $19 and bran at $17. Receipts of grain have been nominal, as follows: wheat, 60 cars; corn, 4 cars; oats, 9 cars; flour, 1 car; beans, 2 cars; malt, 1 car; hay, I car; potatoes, 14 cars, Millers are paying 74c for No, 2 red wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. ——> Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.—Horace Manng © yan 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GRADUAL GROWTH. Wonderful Strides Made By the Citizens Telephone Co. The most sanguine dreamer, the most ' imaginative promoter in the independent ‘ telephone field at the time that the pro- jectors of the Citizens Company began canvassing the public of Grand Rapids : for patronage, some seven years ago, had but slight conception of the pos- sible development of telephone service. At that time the city of Grand Rapids, with a larger service per capita than any other city in the country, used less than 1,500 telephones. To-day the Citizens Telephone Com- pany has more than 4,800 telephones in the City Exchange—a much larger plant than Detroit was using six short years ago. Atthat time the toll line develop- ment was meager and very few of the little villages and smaller towns of the State had more than a single telephone for toll service. The use of telephones among farmers was practically un- known. Scores, you might almost say hundreds, of important points in this State—and the same is true of other states—had no telephonic communica- tion. The telephone had not become the everyday necessity of the average busi- ness man and householder; it was still largely a luxury within the reach of a comparatively limited number of users. Its possibilities of usefulness were scarcely dreamed of. So radical and rapid has been the change in this regard during the past six years, so great the development, many begin to surmise that as yet but a beginning has been made in the use- fulness of the telephone—that the growth of the next ten years will be compara- tively almost as radical and serviceable as in the past few years. It is asserted that the time is at hand when every well-to-do,energetic farmer will feel the necessity of being connected with the outside ,world by telephone and cheer- fully pay for the service just as school houses, good roads, bridges and other accessories to comfort and general satis- faction of life are now paid for. Every postoffice, every crossroad's hamlet will have its toll station, and the telephone will in many ways supplement, not sup- plant, the postal service. The telephone, with the traction rail- way and the rural route mail delivery, will radically change the tendency of population toward settlement in the cities and will scatter the people throughout the country,at the same time saving to them the conveniences and privileges of urban life together with the quiet and enjoyment of country residence. This whole tendency in the telephone field has been developed as a direct effect of the independent movement. It has been felt of late that the telephone was not a luxury but an everyday ne- cessity; as much so as the sewing ma- chine in the modern household, or other of the wonderful inventions which have so saved the iabor and increased the comfort of modern life. In no portion of the country has this fact been better illustrated or more generally demon- strated than in Western Michigan, where the people themselves have or- ganized their own companies, with local organization,and service thorough- ly conversant with local needs, giving careful attention to such needs—it is the very essence of the independent move- ment that the people themselves own the companies and directly control their management. Some of their efforts may be crude at first, but they inevitably evolve better conditions, more satisfac- tory results, and afford a service strictly consonant with the average requirement of the plain people. It is one of the soundest demonstrations of the rightful- ness and desirableness of the independ- ent telephone movement that it does care for the public in this way and that the previous condition was not what the public had a right to expect and demand. The fact that in some lo- cqlities independent methods have been used by the old company in reaching service among the farmers and smaller towns, further proves the soundness of the independent position. But to cease generalization and give the readers of the Tradesman some special facts more particularly relative to the Citizens Company will probably be pleasing to them because they have, from time to time, been so thoroughly advised through be confined to the city of Grand Rapids and that sum was deemed ample. Sub- sequently as the possibilities of develop- ment began to be apparent to the officers of the company, its field of operation being enlarged of necessity, its author- ized capital was increased to $200,000; then to $300,000; then to $500,000, and again to $550,000, and subsequently to $1,00c,000. As above stated the ex- pansion of the past twelve months has used more than $350,000. The authorized capital of $1,000,000 is all invested and the stockholders have recently by sub- stantially unanimous vote (not one re- quested to express a formal opinion on the matter objected) instructed and authorized the sixth increase of capital stock, this time to $2,000,000. It is in- tended by means of this increase to pro- vide the necessary funds to care for the growth of the future—it seems likely that its columns of the|the expansion of the ensuing twelve progress of this movement. The Grand| months will be quite as large as it has Rapids Citizens Exchange has this Monday morning, Nov. 17, 1902, 4,825 telephones connected. The old Grand Rapids Exchange of July 1, 1896, had 1,471 telephones, and that figure was larger proportionately than for any other exchange in the country. The Citizens Telephone Company now has 52 other exchanges in its own system with more than roo toll points, and included 11,683 telephones on the first of November as compared with 7,794 a year ago. During the past year the Citizens Company has expended more than $350,000 in the expansion of this system in construction, or by purchase and en- largement. The more important recent additions include Ionia, Belding, Cad- illac, Portland, Mason, Moline, Kings- ley and Empire. When the company was organized some seven years ago its authorized capital was $100,000, It was then sup- posed that its held of operation would been during the past year. The Citi- zens Company has a sphere of influence which is to be thoroughly developed as rapidly as may be. It has neighbors throughout the State and in Northern Indiana with which it has and is making first-class connections and long term contracts. These neigh- bors in their respective fields of develop- ment are manifesting quite the same spirit that has characterized the Citizens Company. The Union Company, the Valley Company, the Twin City Com- pany, the People’s Company of Jack- son, the Adrian Company, the U. S. Company and numerous companies of smaller capital and more limited fields of service are striving to fulfill the ideal of the independent telephone move- ment—ample and first-class service for everybody who has the desire for it and the willingness to pay for it. Another phase of telephone develop- ment of considereable importance, not peculiar, however, to the independents, is the expansion of the use of the ap- paratus in large commercial, banking and industrial institutions. A few years ago a single telephone in the office of such an establishment was considered ample for the business it was required to care for, Now the single instrument is replaced by what is popularly called a branch exchange. With sucha switch- board of its own in an office with a dozen or more telephones connecting the various officers or important em- ployes of such an establishment with each other and through the small switch- board with the outside public, the bank teller, for example, does not leave his post of duty tc confer with the president or cashier or fother employe of such bank; he talks from his own desk through the branch exchange direct to the person he desires, to any outsider making enquiry of his department. This tendency will certainly increase in the future—until in many residences a single instrument on one floor will be replaced by several téfephones scattered through various rooms. « * With the moderate prices of the in- dependents for toll line service, the habit of using this service is growing very rapidly. The more patrons use it for business or social conveniences the better they like it and the more they want it. During the month of October patrons of the Citizens system in Grand Rapids had more than 25,000 conversa- tions with their neighbors outside of Grand Rapids over the system, That number may be compared with 18,000 for the month of October one year ago, and the growth of almost 40 per cent. in a single year in this department of in- dependent service may be considered as indicative of the general progress and tendency of the business. Witb such growth indicated by these figures and by the changes in the num- ber of telephones in the Citizens system, which has not been enlarged in terri- tory, but within the territory claimed to be within its direct sphere of influence, it is easy to understand that the com- pany has been reasonably successful in a financial way and that its habit of paying dividends, begun in October, 1897, has been continued uninterrupted- ly, until now twenty-one of those quar- terly reminders of this condition have reached the now nearly goo stockholders of the company. Speaking of the stock- holders, the number of these has grown rapidly of late, more than 100 having been added to the already large list dur- ing the present fiscal year of the com- pany, which began with July 1, last. The company has held to the theory since its first organization that in num- bers there is strength, and that the se- curing of persons directly interested in its welfare in all the communities it serves will increase its power and in- sure its continued well being. The pol- icy of the past seems to have worked fairly well, and the future may be con- fidentiy expected to witness a continu- ancevof this policy. Ernest B. Fisher. ——_> +> Measuring Coal in a Bin or Box. A solid cubic foot of anthracite coal weighs about 93 pounds. When broken for use it weighs about 54 pounds. Bituminous coal, when broken up for use, weighs about sopounds. The con- sequent rule for the approximate meas- urement of coal in a bin or box is to multiply the length in feet by the height in feet, and again by the breadth in feet, and this result by 54 for anthra- cite coal, or by 50 for bituminous coal. The result will equal the number of pounds, and to find the number of tons divide by 2,000, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 John Knape Machine Co. The New Machine Shop Up-to-date machinery. Location central. Manufacturers of CLIPPER PARTS and extra parts for all makes of BICYCLES Full assortment extra Clipper parts carried in stuck Also manufacturers of Light Ma- chinery to order, Models for Patents, Dies and Tools of every description. Estimates given on each piece of work free of charge. Give us a trial. Office and Shop 87 Campau Street Grand Rapids, Michigan Citizens Phone 1197. ‘*Tobacco Theif’”’ & “Tobacco Theif” is a permanent and guaranteed cure for the tobacco habit in all its forms, It invigorates as well as regenerates the whole nervous system, and completely eradicates that hungry, gnawing desire. There is no good reason why you can not rid yourself of that dirty, filthy habit. Every bottle is wrapped with guarantee and sight draft, which will positively be paid in every instance where “Tobacco Theif” fails to cure. Two bottles are guaranteed. Less than one usually cures. Price $1 per Bottle wt Testimonials I took my first chew of tobacco in 186s and have used it continually ever since that time. December 26, 1893, I received a package of “Britton’s Tobacco Theif’’ and commenced to take it, and continued chewing but two or three days when I wanted it no more, and am now completely cured and realize that it will save me a great amount of money, be sides breaking me . the filthy habit. Yours Resp’y, *red K. N. Burhans, Portland, Mich. Have used tobacco in all its forms for over 38 years, and after trving ‘‘Britton’s Tobacco Theif”’ for 30 days I consider myself perfectly cured. W. H. Triphagen, Pewamo, Mich. Frank Corwin was cured by half a_ bottle, Nelson Harris by one bottle and I was cured by two and a half bottles. Geo. H. Hollister, Breckenridge, Mich. I am using your “Tobacco Theif”’ and find it what | you recommend it to be, and would like the agency | for La., Tex. and Miss. E S. Saxton, Patterson, La. | M. A. BRITTON, Pewamo, Mich. | A | Dutch Create is one where all concerned their Send your orders to Holland (Mich.) and we will you that we do business on get money's. worth, show that principle. Walsh-DeRoo Milling Zo. H Matter of Education The employment of a Trust Company in the capacity of ad- ministrator, execu- tor, guardian and trustee is a matter of education. The more you under- stand about our work the more good rea- sons you will find for employing us. Che Michigan Crust Zo. Grand Rapids, Mich. 38 HIGHEST AWARDS in Europe and America Walter Baker & Co.'s PURE, HIGH GRADE , COCOAS ———— A N D ——_——— CHOCOLATES Their preparations are put up in conformity to the Pure- Food Laws of all the States. Grocers will find them in the long run the most profitable to handle, as they are absolutely pure and of uniform quality. In writing your order specify Walter Baker & Co.’s goods. If OTHER goodsare substituted, please let us know. TRADE-MARK Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. DORCHESTER, MASS. Established 1780 elegant catalogue. William F. Jewell, President. Platt R. Spencer, Secretary YOUNG MEN Ano WOMEN LDOUCATED ror MONEY MAAING and useful citizenship in a course of study and training at Detroit Business University during its fifty-two years’ active usefulness. Those who wish to attain high success inthe least possible will promote their interests by taking up a course of study now. Business University Building, 13, 17, 19 Wilcox Avenue, il, Day and night sessions. time Call for Detroit., Mich. The “Perfection” Lighting System COSTS. BUT throughout the agency? LITTLE MORE MPLETE You have a complete private lighting system for your own individual use. 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Cheapest and best method of lighting known to earth, e xcept sunlight Amount saved on your ligh t bill will pay for a plant in nine months, You will not have to worry over conditions of weather, for atmospheric changes do not affect this light. The mechanical construction of the “Perfection” machine is of such a substantial nature that they will last a vears. In short, there is nothing about po m to wear out. Simple to operate. There are manv other points of advantage gained by the adoption of this system of illumination, about wh ich would be pleased to tell you. Machines in stock for immediate delivery. Size of generator 6 inches by 24 inches. For merchants of good stan¢ ea we ship plants on ten days’ trial. If you are satisfied we take the cash; never a dissatisfied customer yet. Your local tinsmith or plumber can ir istall the m. Could any thing be more fair? Catalogue and price list, circulars and references sent on request. PERFECTION LIGHTING CO., Sole Manufacturers, 17 §. Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Do you know of a better way to reveal our confidence in that which we recommend? MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. ee McNaughton is cic m ' ” ~~ 6,8 - bave purchased the meat market 404 East Front street. The business wil! e conducted under the style of Cox ¥ r i ay have rmed copartnership and purchased the hard- ware stock of H. E. Moon. Mr. Taller- day will have the active management of the business. Mattawan—N.C. Mosier has removed the stock be recently purchased at Grand Junction and installed it in his new store building. The stock com- prises dry goods, mill ber goods and grocerie Lansing—H. W. Bro bis position as mana Cold Storage Co. and S e been chosen as his successor. N will remove to this place to manage the plant to be erected here. Marcellus—Claud Sykes, who has con- ducted the drug and grocery business at Keller for several years, has purchased m ry a i ee] tn Oe 7 f 01 the new been but a el mort- in the » mer e. Mr. Butler bas been en- gaged in the merchandise business at Eckford for the past five years. Job T. and Fred Reynolds their interest in the banking Andrew Gerber, who for bas been its cashier. ] will spend the winter in ill resume busi- y received $6,500 nsurance compan- Hadden, a prosper- n township, has property to W. C. Fluke, ayment the hardware of the latter. His ated with bim in the an ~ harles E. Bird, who has ery business here for the bas filed a chattel mort- all his stock and ac- is named as iil be between Travis are c to erect a large : and sample building near ir ofice on West Bridge street. The iiding will be 30 feet wide, so feet two stories high and will be ample to exhibit their line of farming imp well—Ingraham & a Marie—The Keliber Prod- Commission Co. has been G. R. Keliber, formerly en- the wholesale grocery busi- N. C. Morgan, who for several s been engaged in the retail rade here. The firm will ban- , vegetables and dairy products. ter—Woodward & Son, dry erchants at this place, have d plans for the enlargement of space. They will greatly im- eir present quarters and have d the building adjoining them and will erect a modern building in the place of the old, connecting the two with large doorways Manafacturine Matters. Escanaba—The Viola Lumber Co. j bas been organized with a capital stock | of $10,000. Flint—The Flint Wagon Works has increased its capital stock from $150, 000 to $400,000 | Portland—The Hathaway Fornitur Co. bas been incorporated with $10,000 oO 2 | Capital stock. | Detroit—The Snyder Cereal Coffee | Co. bas been organized with a capital | stock of $10,000. | Freeport—The Freeport Cutter Co. |bas increased its capital stock from $5,690 to $10,000, Hermansville—The capital stock of j “ rocery business/the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Co, has been increased from $250,000 to $1,000, - 000, Oxford—The Oxford Pure Food Co. expects to be turning out ‘Oxford Fiakes’’ by Dec. 1. Manistique—The Burrell Chemical Co. has a record of 4.42 gallons of alco- hol per cord of wood. Lyons—The Ash-Harper Co., manu- facturer of gas engines, has increased its capital stock from $11,000 to $16, coo. Broce Crossing—The McArtbur Lum- ber Co. is the style of a new enterprise at this place. It is capitalized at $10,000. Kalamazoo—The style of the Upjobn Pill & Granule Co., manufacturing pharmacist, has been changed to the Upjobn Company. Detroit—The La Azora cigar factory will open a branch in this city at 59 61 Michigan avenue. The branch will be in charge of Sam T. Goidberg. Thompsonville—C. M. Fish is visit- ing Eastern cities for the purpose of purchasing new machinery for the woodenware plant at this place. Fred Ferguson, for many years man- ager of Robinson & Freeman's general store at Gould City, is now on the road for Franklin MacVeagh & Co., of Chi- cago. Barryton—The shingle mill plant of W. J. Shanks is nearly ready for opera- tions. It is located on the north branch of the Chippewa River, east of the rail- road depot. Rogers City—The Great Lakes Port- land Cement Co., capitalized at $3, 500, - ooo, has commenced the erection of a 2,000 barre] factory at this place. This is the fifth plant belonging to the com- pany, and it is expected that it will be in operation by July 1, 1903. Adrian—Withington & Co. have merged their wire fence manufacturing business into a corporation under the stye of the Withington Fence Co. The authorized capital is $100,000. Owosso—The Owosso Sugar Co. build- ings, now in process of construction, will constitute a large plant. The main building will be 70x260 feet, four stories high. The storage building will be 60x240 feet, and one story 20 feet in height: The beet sheds will be 200x400 feet. in addition to these there will be lime kilns and a power house. ORUOCE OR SROROE OROEOR CHOEOCES Heating Supplies Iron Pipe, Radiator Valves, Fittings, Kadiators, Valves, Air Valves, Pipe Covering. Grand Rapids Supply Company 20 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Michigan Hickory Nuts Wanted Name us price f. o. b. your station or delivered. = : : M. O. BAKER @® CO. Commission Merchants $ IIg-I2t Superior St, Toledo, Obio 3 9OO9OOOO 606666646006 00020004 000000 C0 For 30 Years weve been doing the best we could to please the careful cooks who are particu- lar about their Flour. We have succeeded in building up the largest merchant mill- ing concern in this State. Our trade has been increasing more rapidly during the past few years than ever before. a reason for this. you know, too. There is We know what it is, It’s QUALITY that tells. Our motto has been, ‘“ Make the best ” and the people will do the rest. it. They've done We thank you for the loyal patronage, and assure you one and all that our Royal Patent has no equal as a fine, high grade Pastry Flour. Voigt’s Crescent is a standard brand flour equalled by no mill at the price. It has been repeatedly demonstrated to be “ Best By Test.” VOIGT MILLING CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip Lottie A. Williams succeeds V. A. Signor in the bakery business at 59 West Bridge street. C. B. Sieperda bas opened a grocery store on Buchanan street. The Judson Grocer Company sold the stock, C. A. Brink has embarked in the gro- cery business at 3 Robinson avenue. The stock was furnished by the Worden Grocer Co. J. M. Wheeler, formerly engaged in the grocery business at White Pigeon, has opened a grocery store at Shelby. The stock was purchased of the Worden Grocer Co. Carman M. Barrett, formerly engaged in the grocery business at Richland, but for the past three years clerk in the general merchandise store of J. F. Fairchild, at Boyne City, bas re-engaged in the grocery business at Richland. The stock was furnished by the Lemon & Wheeler Company. The independent telephone movement in Indiana has assumed a phase of rapid and thorough development, It will be remembered that at South Bend some- thing more than two years ago an in- dependent plant was bought by its com- petitors, absorbed and discarded. The people of that community, after a com- paratively brief experience, decided that an independent company was es- sential, and a strictly modern, first-class plant now numbering more than 1,200 telephones has been completed this past summer and is beginning most satis- factory operation. This system is in negotiation with the Citizens Company for complete and ample toll line con- nections, thus opening the field of West- ern Michigan to independent service with the whole of Indiana. Through the completion a few weeks ago of the U. S. toll line system to a connection with the Toledo Home Telephone Com- pany’s plant, now numbering about 6,000 telephones, the great Ohio system of independent telephones closely ap- proximating 100,000 instruments, is in dirct connection with the Michigan in- dependent system. The service, already very good for that region, will be rapid- ly improved and the traffic now large, will grow steadily. To particularize in the matter of exchanges now built and building on the Southern border of the Michigan system, while interesting, would be, in a way, repetitious—it is a continuance of the old story so famil- iar to readers of the Tradesman as to achievements and successes in the vicin- ity of Grand Rapids. Those successes may be more adequately reckoned when it is remembered, as above stated, tbat the Citizens Company now has nearly 12,000 telephones in its own system, where but little more than six years ago there were not 14,000 telephones in the entire State, both peninsulas. —_—_»2<.—___ The Produce Market. Apples—$2@2.25 per bbl. Bananas—Good shipping stock, $1.25 @z2 per bunch. Beeswax—Dealers pay 25c for prime yellow stock. Beets—4oc per bu. Butter—Creamery is firm and higher, commanding 26c for fancy and 25c for choice. Pound prints from fancy com- mand 27c. Dairy grades are stronger and slightly higher, commanding 20@22c for fancy, 17@ioc for choice and 14@16c for packing stock. Receipts of dairy are meager in quantity and only fair in wag fs Cabbage—4oc per doz, Carrots—35c per bu. Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. Chestnuts—$5@6 per bu. for Ohio. Michigan nuts command $7. Cocoanuts—$4 per sack. Cranberries—Cape Cods are in ample supply at $2.75 per box and $8.25 per bbl. for Early Blacks and $3.25 per box and $9.50 per bbl. for Howes. Celery—Home grown is in ample sup- ply at 17c per doz. Dates —Hallowi, 5%4c; Sairs, 5c; 1 lb. package, 7c. Egg Plant—$1.25 per doz. Eggs—Local dealers pay 20@21Cc for case count and 22@24c forcandled. Re- ceipts are small and quality is poor. Dealers are drawing on their cold _stor- age supplies, which they market at I9@2Ic. Figs—$1.10 per 10 lb. box of Califor- nia; 5 crown Turkey, 17c; 3 crown, I4c. Grapes—Malagas, $5.25@5.75 ; Cataw- bas, 2o0c per 4 lb. basket. Honey—White stock is in ample sup- ply at 15@16c. Amber is in active de- mand at 13@14c and dark is in moder- ate demand at 1o@IiIc. Lemons—Californias, $5 ; Messinas, $5. Lettuce—12%c per |b. for hothouse. Maple Sugar—1o%c per Ib. Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy. Nuts—Butternuts, 75c; walnuts, 75¢; hickory nuts, $2.50 per bu. 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 $4.50 per box. Parsley—3oc per doz. Potatoes—The market is a trifle weaker, but buying at country points is still active at unchanged prices. Poultry—Receipts are small and not equal to the demand. Live pigeons are in active demand at 60@7o0c. Nester squabs, either live or dressed, $2 per doz. Dressed stock commands the fol- lowing : Spring chickens, 11@12c; small hens, 10@11c; spring ducks, 11@12c; spring turkeys, 13@14c; small squab broilers, 12%4@15c; Belgian hares, 12% @\5Sc. Radishes—3o0c per doz. for hothouse. Spanish Onions—$1.25 per crate. Spinach—6oc per bu. Squash—2c per lb. for Hubbard. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $3.50 per bbl. ; Virginias, $2.25. Turnips—4oc per bu. eu Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. Hides remain without change. There is a strong market at high values and a demand above the offerings. The qual- ity is at its best during the year. Offer- ings are light from country takeoff. Pelts are in good demand at an ad- vance from last month. The supply is not large. There is no accumulation. Furs are coming in onan unsettled | market. The outlook is good for de- sirable goods. Tallow is in good demand and values are heid firm on a light supply. Wools do not advance, as anticipated by many. Buyers have dropped out of the Western market, as holdings were above the present market. At last week’s prices some would move. Sales East continue large. All speculation is eliminated for the present. Wm. T. Hess. ——_+ +<-___ Oysters For Thanksgiving. Attention is directed to the oyster quotations of F. J. Dettenthaler in the produce department of this week’s paper. These quotations are so at- tractive that no dealer can afford to pass them by, and those who have dealt with Mr. Dettenthaler in the past—and their name is legion—require no assurance as to the quality of the stock he fur- nishes. Dealers who have not yet placed their Thanksgiving oyster arders would do well to do so without further delay, because a sudden storm on the coast or a freight blockade might hold up the goods in transit to that extent as to produce a scarcity of stock. > + For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones. The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is very firm and prices show an advance of 1-16c over last week's quotations, Re- finers are ready buyers, but offerings are very light and holders are asking still higher prices for what they have to offer. The present low price for refined has proved attractive to many buyers and they have placed orders for con- siderable quantities, particularly of Michigan beet granulated. The market the last two or three days is much firm- er and, now that the margin of profit be- tween the quotations of the standard grades of raw and refined sugars has been further reduced by the advance in raws, it is not thought prubable that the refiners will made a further reduction at present and many are looking for an advance in prices soon. Later—Prices of all grades of refined have advanced Io points. Canned Goods—The canned goods market is firm, but quiet. There is a moderate demand for almost everything in the line, which is enough to keep the market in good shape, although there is practically no speculative buying. Com- paratively little interest is taken in toma- toes at present, most buyers having sup- plied their needs for the immediate fu- ture by buying sufficient to make up for what they were short on their future contracts, Prices are firmly held, but buying is light. Corn is tirmly held and, while few sales are made, the quantities in sight are very light. There is a good demand for peas with a con- tinued scarcity of the better grades. Owing to light demand and lack of frost proof storage, one Michigan packer is offering about 2,000 cases gallon apples at a cut of about toc per dozen. Other packers, however, are very firm in their views and will not shade prices any. There still continues a good demand for peaches, both 3 pounds and gallons, The demand for Michigan peaches this season has been phenomenally large and the peculiar part of it is that the princi- pal demand has been from the East, from points usually supplied by Balti- more packers. There are only a few small lots scattered here and there over the State with a great scarcity of the better grades of syrup peaches. Small fruits are in fair demand, with an ac- tive enquiry for strawherries, both in water and syrup and for plums. Stocks of all kinds of small fruits are light and are very firmly held. Trade in salmon is good, with prices showing no change. Sardines are in moderate demand with cils very firmly held. Mustards, how- ever, show some easiness. Dried Fruits—There continues a strong market throughout the list and a good trade is noted in the dried fruit line. The present weather conditions, however, are not very favorable for busi- ness in this line. The situation in the prune market is still firm and stocks of 40-508 and 5060s are very limited. Small sizes are not in active demand, but are moving out fairly well. Some of the new goods are now en route from the coast and are expected in very soon. Raisins are firmly held and supplies continue very light. The late arrivals of new goods from the coast have caused considerable inconvenience to the trade, but it is hoped the delay will soon be over and the present scarcity relieved. Seeded raisins are particularly strong and meeting with good demand. Peaches and apricots are steady, but sales are only in small lots. Currants are unchanged in price and show a moderate demand. Figs are firmly held and are meeting with a good demand, particularly for the package goods. Dates are still firm, although stocks are considerably heavier than a few weeks ago. The demand also is much in- creased, Trade in evaporated apples is picking up a little in anticipation of the Thanksgiving trade. Prices, how- ever, show no change and indications do no point to any higher prices in the near future. Rice—Trade in rice is quite active and continues to show improvement. The wants of the consuming trade are growing larger as the season advances. There is no accumulation of stocks and prices hold steady. Southern advices report a backward movement of the crop on account of the wet weather earlier in the season, but it is generally believed that the yield will be as large as last season, Molasses—The molasses market shows considerable activity and buyers display more interest than heretofore. Prices are firmly heid for all grades. Advices from New Orleans stated that offerings of desirable grades of new crop molasses were only moderate, weather conditions being unfavorable for the maturing of the sugar cane, Fish—Trade in fish is practically un- changed, with the usual moderate de- mand for all grades. Mackerel and cod- fish both continue firm, with codfish showing a slight advance. Nuts—With the exception of peanuts, almost everything in this line is steady and meeting with a good demand. 3razils are somewhat stronger, with an advancing tendency. Pecans are in large supply and some easiness is ex- pected to manifest itself shortly. Wal- nuts are active and prices are well sus- tained on all offerings. a Prof. Atwater, who has been frequent- ly quoted as to the food value of alcohol, asserts that he has been misreported and hence misunderstood. He never said that alcohol, while injurious to the human system if taken in large quan- tities, has a beneficial and nutritive value when taken in small quantities. What he did say was that small doses may produce good effects in some cases of exhaustion or enfeebled di- gestion or acute disease; and his state- ments were made on the authority of ex- perienced physicians, This is quite a different thing from recommending al- cohol as an article having a positive food value. a A man in New York made the hor- rible mistake of eloping with his own wife. The perfidious lady suspected her husband of flirting with a widow. She impersonated the widow and wrote him that she would wear a veil and a bunch of chrysanthemums. She did so, and not until they were well on their rail- road journey did she reveal her iden- tity. This only shows what victims poor men are made of by guileless women, Piles Cured By New Painless Dissolvent treatment; no chloroform or knife. Send for book. Dr. Willard M. Burleson Rectal Specialist 103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN DOMESTIC DISTURBER. Blaming the Grocer For His Wife’s Short- comings. Were the grocer’s burdens not already heavy enough? Were his trials and tribulations not already heavier than he could bear? I heard a man accuse the grocer last week of being ‘responsible for many a case of matrimonial incompatibility ! How does that hit you? This man began at me in this way: ‘*Say, while you’re writing pieces for your paper, why don't you say something about the grocers that break up happy homes?"’ ‘‘What in heaven’s name are you talking about?’’ I demanded. I was riled anyhow, for if there is anything that gets on me it is to be ac- cused of writing ‘‘pieces’’ for the paper. I regard what I| write as much too classic to be spoken of in any such way. **Well, I'll tell you,’’ he said. ‘‘ Take my own case, for example. On Sunday I look forward to a good dinner. We have lunch in the middle of the day and dinner at five. It’s usually the big meal, and as I'm a pretty good feeder, I usually let out a reef inmy waistband before I go down and prepare myself to have a good time. ‘Last Sunday we had the toughest gutta-percha chicken, as the piece de resistance, that ever sneaked into my house. 1 got mad the minute | began to carve it; my dinner was spoiled; I had a scrap with my wife and slapped the children. We spent Sunday even- ing in gloomy silence—everybody at odds with everybody else. ‘‘Now, that chicken was supplied by our grocer,'’ he concluded, ‘‘and he had told my wife it was tender. Wasn't he responsible for the domestic difficul- ties that it caused?’’ That was my cue, and I got right in the game. ‘*Before I answer that,’’ says I, ‘‘let me ask you something. You are a lawyer, are you not?"’ He said he was, although I have heard some of his former clients deny it. *‘Well,’’ I asked, ‘‘do you win all your cases?’’ He had just lost a big one, and I had him on the hip. He admitted somewhat sourly that he did not. ‘“Very well,’’ I pursued, ‘‘do you hold yourself responsible for losing them, if you have done the best you can?"’ ‘Certainly not,’’ he replied, begin- ning to get a little sniff. ‘‘And you are not responsible, of course’’ I said,‘‘and for exactly the same reason the grocer is not responsible either, if he has done his best to get good stuff. There are some tough chickens in the world,’’ said I, ‘‘and somebody has to get them. I had one myself week before last—haven't you a right to have a turn? ‘‘As a matter of fact,’’ I continued, ‘the fault was partly,if not wholly, your wife’s, if you will excuse me. There are ways of telling a tender chicken, and every woman ought to know them.”’ Great gad! But | was glad to get that shot in! She is the woman who told somebody that | looked fifty-five years old. i But, while it was a shot, it was a true one, all right. The woman who does the marketing for a family is supposed to know something of the difference be- tween good stuff and poor. All the re- sponsibility of the choice should not be on the grocer, for, after all, he can only use the simple little tests of goodness that she can use and ought to know how to use. Is not that true? The idea of a man trying to accuse the grocer of causing his disagreeable scraps with his wife made me hot. The fault was not the grocer’s at all—it wag his wife’s fault, first, for not knowing how to buy; and bis own fault, second, for having a temper so poor that it goes to pieces over trifles. He ought to have a temper like mine —the only time I get mad is when my salary is raised. I have not been mad from that reason for some time.—Stroller in Grocery World. seen Official Ruling On Process Butter. Commissioner Yerkes has issued the following on process butter: In the case of a certain renovated butter firm after the renovated butter manufactured by them has been packed, marked, stamped and branded, as re- quired by law, the same is put into a hallway communicating with refriger- ating room, which refrigerating room contains creamery butter and packing stock. They have made a request of the Commissioner that they be permitted to continue such practice. The regu- lations provide that ‘‘collectors of inter- al revenue will decline to approve the bond of the manufacturer of renovated butter, unless they are satisfied that the premises to be used for the manufacture of that article are entirely separate from those used for the manufacture of adul- terated butter or oleomargarine, or for the handling or manipulation of butter not taxable under the act of May 9g, 1902. The result clearly intended to be ac- complished by this rule is that the par- ticular room or rooms in which the busi- ness is carried on must be entirely sep- arated by solid walls or partitions from any room or place where adulterated butter or oleomargarine, or butter not taxed under the act of May 9, 1902, is produced. Mr. Yerkes has therefore replied that the renovated butter factory premises of all manufacturers must be entirely sep- arated from the place where they handle creamery butter. There must be such a separation between establishments that it will be necessary,in order to have ac- cess to the creamery butter premises, to go entirely outside of the place or part of the building where the renovated butter is produced. The renovated but- ter produced by them should be kept en- tirely by itself until actually removed from place of manufacture. ——- 2. Recent Business Changes in Indiana. Columbia City—Samuel Evans is clos- ing out his grocery stock preliminary to retiring from trade. Cowan—The Neff Manufacturing Co., manufacturer of washing machines, has discontinued business, Decatur—Vogelwede Bros, dealers in boots and shoes, have dissolved partner- ship. The business is continued by C, J. Vogelwede. Markle—F., E. Alshouse, of Fox & Alshouse, hardware dealers, is dead. Mulberry—David Atkinson has pur- chased the interest of his partner in the grocery business of Atkinson & Thomas, Talbot—F. A. Vant succeeds E. I. King & Son in the grain business. Zionville—Brock & Cully, hardware dealers, have dissolved partnership, John W. Brock succeeding. Milford—A receiver has been ap- pointed in the case of the Indiana Port- land Cement Co, e141 Queer Things. Billy—Men go to hunt the north pole— o> Joe—Well? Billy—But they can’t cut any ice until they get back home. REMOVAL We are pleased to announce to our friends and patrons that we have va- cated the Gunn building, 5 and 7 South Ionia street, and may now be found in the new block we have been building this summer for a permanent home, 86 and 88 South Ionia street, opposite ex- press office at the Union Station, and we give you a special invitation to call and examine our building and works, which have been designed and erected especially for our business, whether in need of goods or not. 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People who use a ‘‘quick meal’’ know how to cook a meal quick and eat it in comfort. ‘Quick Meal’’ stoves look well, cook well, bake well and last well. They could not be made bet- ter at any price. Their immense sale is due to their merits—to nothing else. ‘Quick Meal” is the only ‘‘Best.”’ Write for new 1903 catalogue. Jobber, Grand Rapids, Mich. | | , e | | W on incre sree 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MIcHIGANARADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published weekly by the TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids Subscription Price One dollar per year, payable in advance. No subscription accepted unless accom- panied by a signed order for the paper. Without specific instructions to the con- trary, all subscriptions are continued indefi- nitely. Orders to discontinue must be accom- panied by payment to date. Sample copies, 5 cents apiece. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice When writing to any of our advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, EpitTor. WEDNESDAY - - NOVEMBER 19, 1902. STATE OF MICHIGAN County of Kent John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de- poses and says as follows: am pressman in the office of the Tradesman Company and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establishment. I printed and folded 7,000 copies of the issue of November 12, 1902, and saw the edition mailed in the usua! manner. And further deponent saith not. John DeBoer. _ sie and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this fifteenth day of November, 1902. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent county, Mich. ( ss. THE THOUSANDTH ISSUE. When the first issue of the Michigan Tradesman appeared, a thousand weeks ago, it would have required a more san- guine temperament than that possessed by the average individual to have pre- dicted the splendid success which has since been achieved by this publica- tion. To the average observer the field looked small and uninviting and the probability of success anything but promising. Hard work, patient en- deavor and painstaking effort, have how- ever, met their reward, as usual, and the result is a publication, now in its twen- tieth year, with seven thousand steadfast subscribers and a constantly enlarging circle of advertising patrons, many of whom have been with the paper since the first year of publication. The Tradesman will, perhaps, be par- doned if it improves this occasion to indulge in a little self-glorification, es- pecially in view of the fact that it does not often sound its own praises. Dur- ing the career of the Tradesman seven trade papers have started and died at Detroit and four have met a similar fate at Saginaw. Frequent attempts have been made to establish competing publications at the Grand Rapids mar- ket, but only one ever saw the light of day and that one ceased to exist after a few issues. The Tradesman has always pursued a liberal policy toward its com- petitors, content to accept the opinion of the business public as to the relative merits of each aspirant for recognition and confident that the verdict finally rendered would not be unfriendly or un- favorable to the senior publication. The Tradesman gladly avails itself of this opportunity to extend its hearty thanks to the contributors who have so generously assisted in making the pres- ent issue a memorable one in the his- tory of trade journalism. HOME OF THE TRUSTS. In addition to being the home of the largest variety of mosquito known to mankind, the State of New Jersey dur- ing the past six years has earned the designation of being the ‘‘home of the trusts.’’ In 1896 834 charters were granted to outside corporations, for which the filing fees amounted to $75,- coo, and the annual franchise tax to $707,430. The popularity of the State as a place for incorporating trusts is shown by the fact that five years later, in I90I, 2,347 charters were granted, for which the filing fees were $560,000, and the annual franchise tax $16,628,958. The total capitalization of the com- panies incorporated in I901 amounted to the enormous sum of $1,907, 390, 530. The revenue derived by New Jersey from these corporations is already about 60 per cent. of the total amount required for the support of the State government and the people expect in a few years, at the present rate of increase,to relieve the taxpayers of all their burdens, A writer in an Eastern law publication is even so bold as to predict that, if the formation of trusts in New Jersey con- tinues, within a few years there may be an annual dividend paid to the taxpay- ers out of the revenue derived from them. The cause of this is the favorable condition of the laws of New Jersey for corporation freedom. Wide latitude is allowed in transacting business, nothing being barred except railroading and banking for ordinary commercial com- panies. Charters are unlimited as to time, and taxation of franchises is fixed at a very low rate. The freedom guar- anteed permits of all sorts of trickery on the part of the incorporators,and un- less a New Jersey trust is managed with great care, and by men of acknowl- edged probity, it is usually viewed with suspicion by outside investors. The success of New Jersey, however, in luring capital into its precincts has encouraged other states to engage in the business. Kentucky, Delaware and Colorado have all adopted liberal! cor- poration laws for this purpose, and re- cently Arizona has emulated their ex- ample, In all these States the incorpo- ration of trusts has become a leading in- dustry. As is shown in New Jersey, it is certainly a profitable business. The official forecast of the Indian in- digo crop is particularly pessimistic, and again furnishes definite proof that itis only a question of a few years when the synthetical chemist will have turned a great industry into a mere memory. The total area planted this year is only 93,154 acres, as compared with 168,990 acres last year, ora de- crease of 45 per cent. Compared with the average acres under indigo for the preceding five and ten years, the de- cline is 70 per cent. in each case. With this immense decrease year by year, it is only too plain to realize that the in- dustry is doomed and that the Indian government will have another serious economic difficulty on its hands, Just as Cane culture superseded the cultiva- ticn of indigo in Louisiana, the same process of evolution is likely to be seen in India, but with this difference: In the case of the Louisiana planter it was not a case of necessity, but the securing of a more profitable crop. The cultivation of sugar is being fostered by the Indian government and some progress has al- ready been made. Whether the new staple will lead to a solution of the diffi- culty remains to be seen. As it is, with its teeming population, reaching into the hundreds of millions of souls, there is an almost unlimited outlet for the product. PROGRESSING BACKWARD. The October Bulletin of the State Dairy and Food Department—received Nov. 18—serves notice on manufacturers of extract of lemon that on and after January 1, 1903, all lemon extracts must contain 5 per cent. of lemon oil to con- form tothe United States Pharmacopoeia. Whether this ruling will be accepted by those manufacturers who have aban- doned the antiquated methods of the past and are now making lemon extract on the more modern methods which have come into use during the past twenty years, remains to be seen. It is also a question whether a food product should be defined by the Pharmacopoeia, which is the standard authority for pharma- cists, but is not intended to define the standard of goods produced by food manufacturers, If the Dairy and Food Department succeeds in getting extract of lemon made in exact accordance with the Pharmacopoeia, it ought also to estab- lish a similar standard for mince meat and saver kraut. It is a well-known fact that the standards of the Pharma- copoeia are changed frequently. For in- stance, the Pharmacopoeia of 1880 held that extract of lemon should contain 6 percent. of oil. The Pharmacopoeia of 1890 reduced the standard to 5 per cent. The Pharmacopoeia of 1900, which is not yet issued—being about as far behind as the publication of the State Dairy and Food Department--may reduce the standard to 4 percent. This variation shows how unstable such an authority is and how disadvantageous it would be to manufacturers to establish standards for their products which might conform to the Pharmacopoeia one year, but be at variance therewith a year or two after- ward. Fortunately, the attitude of the Food Department on this question— which appears to be about as ridiculous as anything the Department has ever undertaken (and it has espoused no end of fool ideas and met ignominious de- feat a number of times in consequence thereof)—will shortly be judicially re- viewed in the court proceedings insti- tuted by the Department against a manufacturer of lemon extract, so that tbe retail trade will soon know whether it is safe to handle goods which have been regarded as standard for the past dozen years or whether it must throw them out and put in goods which are so fully charged with oi! that they will turn to turpentine after being exposed to the light for a week. The effort of the Department to estab- lish arbitrary standards of strength, in the absence of legislative action, is a usurpation of authority which ought not to be tolerated for a single moment, be- cause, if the Food Department can es- tablish and maintain standards of this character, it would amount to the aboli- tion of the Legislature and the courts. It is commonly supposed that food laws should originate and receive the sanc- tion of the Legislature, and this attempt on the part of the Food Department to arrogate to itself the duties of the Legis- lature ought to receive the severe con- demnation of the people, and undoubt- edly will result in either the abolition of all food laws now on the statute books or in taking the Commissioner and his deputies out of the mire of party pol- itics,so that the enforcement of the laws may be placed in the hands of men of character, experience and ability, in- stead of being delegated to political ac- cidents who misuse their positions to usurp the duties of courts and legisla- tures and heap unnecessary hardships on those who cater to the needs and ne- cessities of the masses. Better have no laws and no restrictions against adulteration and sophistication than to place the enforcement of the laws in the hands of incompetent men! WHEN MEN DIDN’T CARE. Dr. Kornel Preisich and Dr. Alader Shutz have made the discovery that peo- ple who do not keep their hands im- maculately clean, and especially their finger nails, are in danger of tubercu- losis. Experiments were made and the doctors have been convinced that much tuberculosis arises from the fact that people do not keep their hands ina proper condition. The doctors warn parents to keep their children’s hands clean if they wish them to be free from tuberculosis. The learned German doc- tors may be correct in their theories, but dirty and unkempt hands seem to belong to peculiarly healthy, non-con- sumptive people. What is one to do with these doctors, anyway? One man tells a mother: ‘‘ Take your child into the country, let him roll in the mud, smell earth's sweet odors and bask in the sun and delight in dirt.’’ Then up comes another doctor and says: ‘‘If you do not keep your child's hands clean he will die of tuberculosis. ’’ Oh for the good old days when men died and their relatives did not care a rap whether the disease was tuberculosis or appendicitis! The fire department authorities in New York City have issued an order that after January I next, no permits will be issued for the storage or sale of parlor matches in that city. That is done in the belief that thereby the fire risk will be very much lessened. It is said that last year in the metropolis there were in the neighborhood of 1, 300 fires,the origin of which could be traced to parlor matches, and incident to these conflagrations eight lives were lost. This order is no hardship to the people, because there are plenty of other matches equally cheap and convenient. In fact, although there are a great many new fangled and fancy matches on the market,none of them are better than the old-fashioned, blue head, sulphur tipped, which have stood the test, strike fire every time when desired and are reason- ably safe, Thin teachers are in active demani in Philadelphia. The situation in that city affords them the chance of their lives. The Philadelphia Record quotes the remark of an official, made in all seriousness, that in a certain school the crowd of pupils is so great that it has become necessary to select slim teachers for several of the divisions, as women even of ordinary size can not make their way through the aisles so readily as to attend efficiently to the work of their ciasses, It has been decided to enlarge the school by two divisions, and for the new positions only the ‘‘slim’’ teachers need apply. ean enemies an The Legislature of Vermont is wrest!l- ing with the liquor question for the first time in fifty years. It looks likely that the prohibition law will be repealed and that some sort of a license system will be established. Public sentiment seems to incline toward high license with local option, although there is some favor for a dispensary law. A bitter discussion is anticipated, as the Prohibitionists are yet far from dead and will oppose to the utmost any scheme sanctioning the sale of liquor. Ors al MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Spring Wheat makes the flour that makes the _ best bread. Of all spring wheat flours the LAUREL made by a miller (with a lifetime’s expe- rience) who buys the best grain and makes his flour by the latest and most improved methods. The increasing de- mand is the best proof of its merit. Send orders to WoRDEN (GROCER COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Distributors for Western Michigan _ American Jewelry Co. Wholesale Only Jewelry and Novelties | We carry a large and complete stock of Rings, Lockets, Chains, Broaches, Buckles, Collar Buttons, Scarf Pins, Charms; Fobs, Hair Ornaments, etc. Our sample lines of Jewelry show the season’s Latest Styles, the Newest Things, at Right Prices. The most Attractive and Profitable line any mer- chant can handle. Write us for sample order, $25.00 of our Money Makers. Every article guaranteed to give entire satisfaction. American Jewelry Co. Tower Block Grand Rapids, Michigan § Julius A. I. Friedrich 30 and 32 Canal st., y Grand Rapids, Mich. ae Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, Calking Machines, and all kinds of Small Musical Instruments SE EG > ee ee EE Pe a a, ea a. wR. Right Goods, Right Prices and Right Treatment is our motto wa aE. a. eR. EB EE RE EG a we Rw eR A FEW POINTERS Showing the benefits the merchant receives by using the 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 OL ye Ow he een A. H. Morrill, Agent 105 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufactured by Cospy-WIRTH PRINTING - Co., St. Paul, Minn. 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 Ib. boxes, 20 Ib. and 30 lb. pails and in our new toc pack- ages. S. B. & A. onevery piece. Made only by Straub Bros. @ Amiotte, Traverse City, Mich. 1902 Jardiniere Assortment Jardiniers, assorted blends, 2 dozen in a package. 24 dozen 7 inch assorted tints for $2.37 %3 dozen 8 inch assorted tints for 3.00 24 dozen g inch assorted tintg for 4 38 Total : - . $9.75 They sell themselves for 50, 65 and 75 cents each. Write for a package now. GEO. H. WHEELOCK & CO. 113 and 115 West Washington Street, South Bend, Ind. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN - EXPERT SERVICE. Assistance of Every Kind Relating to In- surance, A project worthy ofthe interest of the public is the business of the Policy Holders’ Union, of Chicago, a corpora- tion officered by prominent business men of that city. They examine poli- cies of insurance, pointing out errors and omissions and recommending im- provements in the form of riders, give legal and other advice relating to the insurance of their subscribers, and, when necessary, assist in the adjustment of losses. Furthermore, they are pledged to the furtherance of beneficial legisla- tion, the improvement of general con- ditions that will tend to the reduction of the cost of insurance. Policy holders should recognize that the standard form of policy is simply a form provided by law. Its conditions are in the interests of the companies, as well as the policy holders; its provi- sions laid down therein are a two-edged sword cutting both ways. If the provi- sions of the printed part of the policy that applies to the property are not Strictly and literally fulfilled and com- plied with in the written portions of the form or riders attached, the law, which is the printed part of the policy, says that the policy is null and void. How- ever slight the discrepancies may be, the policies become as worthless as a blank piece of paper so far as a legal and binding contract goes. This company also reports on the standing of the companies. The Insur- ance Department of the State can only report the sworn statements and results of what few examinations they make of companies that comply with the law and are legally admitted to do business in the State. In these times much in- surance is sought for by insurers in companies that are not properly author- ized to do business in the State. Mer- cantile agencies do not pretend to fully report on the responsibility of insurance companies. The Policy Holders’ Union makes a business of knowing, as nearly as possible, the responsibility of every concern doing an_ insurance business. They keep constantly in touch with them, and secure information as well regarding the experience of fire suffer ers throughout the entire country. The Policy Holders’ Union is equipped to give expert information and assistance of every kind relating to in- surance for the benefit of its subscribers and for the adjustment of losses. There are many features of the in- surance business to-day that are unsatis- factory and should, and could, be reme- died by the policy holders would they but unite in their efforts. The Policy Holders’ Union takes the initiative in such subjects and undertakes, in the in- terests of its subscribers, to effect the remedies. Eventually this will mate- rially reduce the cost of insurance. Se i en Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence. New York, Sept. 15—The coffee mar- ket is weaker. Speculators have been liquidating this week and are probably glad to be rid of their holdings. The legitimate demand has been rather light, both from roasters and jobbers, although, of course, only an average sort of trade is the most that can be ex- pected, so long as supplies are so large. The inferior grades are not so plenty, but of No. 7 there is more than can be taken care of and nominally the price is 5%c. In store and afloat there are 2 672,812 bags, against 2, 290, - 631 bags at the same time last year. As to mild sorts there are different reports as to the supplies we are likely to have in the near future, and for this reason the market has been rather unstable, Good Cucuta closing at 83 Op he oe oh 0 ae ode ake whe i oe oe ofp ode ade oe ode ob oe ob ooo oh oh oh oh oh ooh oh Mr. Grocer You will find the quickest sales and largest profits in Tryabita Food The only ready-to-eat wheat flake cereal food that is impregnated with PEPSIN and CELERY. We are also the only cereal food company that employs only union labor. Union men knowthis. Have you seen our catchy advertisements in the daily papers all over the country advertising Tryabita Food and Tryabita Hulled Corn? TRYABITA FOOD CO., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. Grand Rapids Fixtures Co. - Shipped — knocked elegant ic design a : 4 Takes In first a combination class Cigar freight Case rate. No. 64 Cigar Case. Also made with Metal Legs, Our New Catalogue shows ten other styles of Cigar Cases at prices to suit any pocketbook. Corner Bartlett and South Ionia Streets, Grand Rapids, Mich. Re Crocker-Wheeler [Machinery x K S} > OSSes SS) BS SSeS SSS SOWSOwWw PSESE SESS BISSETT SAAT ES SSSA) i ' SNCS G. R. Electric Co. \ ZS) 9 South Di GRAND RAPI eS) 'Wholesale Supply Dealers iA ES DS, MICHIGAN pF vision Street. j : Telephones aon NARS SARAS ZI EA AAS aS Se SS SES ES ESSA SESE SESE SS 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SEEK TO PLEASE. Courtesy of Particular Value in the Retail Store. Courtesy—not mere politeness, but that habit of mind which causes a man to put himself in the other fellow’s place and give his ideas and feelings consideration—is an _ attribute well worthy of cultivation by a young busi- ness man. In this age, when the old- fashioned deference to our elders is re- placed by the encouraged self-assertion of the young people for whom we live, we are more simple and direct in our thought and speech, and manners more clearly show forth the man. Itis, there- fore, all the mere necessary that the man should have social qualities worthy of exhibition and that he should culti- vate a kindiiness and sincerity of thought that will find fitting expression in a straightforward, frank and manly bearing. The habit of courtesy is of commer- cial value wherever in business a man comes in contact with his fellows. It is the pleasant man, the fair man, the man whose manner betokens a self- respect and an appreciation of the de- sires of others, who is remembered, spoken well of and sought again. Many a transaction has been brought to a suc- cessful issue by the exercise of a tactful courtesy which, without it, could never have been consummated. Many a law- suit has been caused by the want of it; friends made enemies and _ business ruined, all because on one side or the other there was someone without this Saving grace. Particularly is courtesy of value in a retail store. Listen to a woman talking of her shopping and you will find that the service given in the different stores is in her eyes of equal importance with the quality and the price of the goods. It is the nice girl in the china store to whom she recommends her friends. The linen clerk who knows the latest wrinkles in napery gets her trade. The dry goods clerk who assists her in her little economies sells her all she buys in his line, and the furniture man who gave her a private view of a rare rug and dis- cussed furnishings with her when he knew she did not care to buy will be given the order for the new chamber suite when it is bought. Think over the Stores where you do your own trading and analyze the reasons for buying there, and you will find that you are in- fluenced by much the same motives and that the personal element cuts a large figure in your purchases. It is not only the customer who places a proper value upon courtesy. Every merchant weighs carefully and anxiously the qualities of his employes and, among the time-servers whom he must regard as a poor investment, the courte- ous, attentive, diligent man shines forth a jewel. Go intoa store and tell the pro- prietor what you want and see him turn to his clerks and after studying them a moment select one to wait upon you. Every time that he does this his clerks are mentally weighed in the balance and it is the man with business tact and ability, careful of your wishes and his interest to whom he entrusts his best cus- tomers and most profitable trade and upon whom his eye rests with the liveli- est satisfaction. It is he to whom it is safe to show favor and if the work given to him is harder than to his fellows it is but an indication of his employer’s con- fidence in his ability which sooner or later will find a satisfactory expression. How many, many of the junior mem- bers of large firms have made headway simply because by their courteous treat- ment of customers they made them- selves so well and favorably known as to be indispensable, I think there must be in the hereafter a special place of punishment for the careless, heedless, indifferent, selfish employes of men who have had to de- pend upon their assistants for success. What plans have failed through their poor service! What projects were never attempted because of the knowledge that the man who would do the work could not be depended upon! What waste is daily going on all over the country because the employes do not feel and act in accord with the employ- er’s interests. In every walk of life, ‘‘doctor, lawyer, merckant, chief, rich man, poor man, beggar man’’ and all the rest, this trait of courtesy—seeking to please others— leads to better things. With it a man is able to show his ability to the best advantage. Without it, be is as one who sits in his own light-and his good qualities are imperfectly seen. It is the outward expression of an in- ner quality well worthy of careful cul- tivation. ey Importance of Keeping Fully Insured. Every day we read of fire losses in re- tail and wholesale establishments, and after the amount of the loss is given the phrase, ‘‘ Partially insured,’’ or ‘‘ No in- surance,'* generally follows, for it is the exception rather than the rule to learn of a fire loss wholly covered by insur- ance. The merchant who neglects to secure sufficient insurance on his stock of mer- chandise and fixtures to indemnify not only his creditors, in case of a total loss, but also to cover his own investment, is neglecting the most important safe- guard of his business, The fire hazard is always present. Many a merchant says to himself: “‘Why should I carry insurance? ! light my store by electricity. No fire can originate there. My furnace is cold for eight months in the year. There are no exposed lights in any part of my establishment. Insurance companies are a band of robbers, anyway. I guess I will save the money."’ Insurance experts claim that the electrical hazard is one of the worst, if not the very worst that they have to con- tend with. Imperfect insulation, faulty systems of wiring and high-tension cur- rents are continually causing fires of the most serious character. The very fact that a store is illuminated by electri- city is absolutely no guaranrtee against the possibility of a fire from that cause, So much faulty electrical construction bas been done in the last decade and the methods of insulation and protection used have been so insufficient and crude that numberless fires have been directly traceable to these causes, and the respon- sibility rests at the doors of electrical contractors, merchants and property Light 15 Cents For Stores, Homes, Churches, Halls, Streets, Etc., with our owners who employ the lowest-price man or one ignorant of the true princi- ples of wiring and insulation when in- stalling electric lights. Furnaces or heating apparatus that are out of use for eight months in the year really increase the fire hazard. Fiues become clogged, the heaters, boil- ers and their attachments deteriorate by reason of being unused for so long a period, and unless periodical! inspec- tions and repairs are made there is nc telling where some break may develop which instantly produces the possibility of a fire. It is also important that the exposures and conditions surrounding the adjoin- ing property be considered. A merchant may have a well-protected establish- ment, fairly protected with the ordinary safeguards, yet the establishment ad- joining may be a very tinder box of de- struction, and should a fire break out in his neighbor's store nothing under the sun could save his own from complete destruction. Is the local fire department efficient, or has it been found sadly wanting whenever its services were most needed? There is more than one fire department that is a sham and a hollow mockery, having absolutely no claim for~recogni- tion as fire protection, and going little further than to present a glittering spec- tacle of red paint and brilliant uni- forms. Al] these and other things have a bearing on this subject and the credit men of the best wholesale and manu- facturing establishments are insisting that adequate insurance be shown as one of the requirements for obtaining credit. It is false economy to under insure. No merchant who has ever been through a fire with an insufficient amount of in- surance to cover his loss needs to be told this. And as no one knows when his turn is to come the time to lock the door is before the horse is stolen, —Shoe Retailer. All parties interested in Automobiles are requested to write us. We are territorial agents for the Oldsmo- bile, Knox, Winton and White; also have some good bargaiiis in second-hand autos. Adams & Hart, 12 W. Bridge St. Grand Rapids — 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. eke to Bets at Ere ae | 1 , M >) _ eel Ue = can RAPID mY Se We Hii ty dy) 4 The best plastering material in the world. Fire proof, wind proof, water proof. Is not injured by freezing. ate use by adding water. No glue, no acid. Ready for immedi- GYPSUM PRODUCTS MFG. CO. Manufacturer and Dealer in Calcined Plaster, Land Plaster, Bu g Compound, Etc. Mill and Warehouse, 200 S. Front St. Office, Room 20, Powers’ Opera House Blk. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. APP PPARIIIEIRRAPIIPARIIEIPP ARIE ALIP PL ®) | An enterprising agent wanted in every town. Write for circular with reference. mrrarrn®) BRILLIANT Or 30 cents a month per light with our HALO GASOLINE LAMPS A 15-foot room can be lighted by one Brilliant or a Halo Lamp. Every lamp guaranteed. Write for catal BRILLIANT GAS LAMP CO., 42 State Street, Chicago a Month 40-foot hall by one ogue, Agents wanted. ol MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 Fire Arms 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. CZTAASASASS CESS SS SSIESES Do Not Wait for cold weather, but commence now to Save $$33$ by attaching Burton’s Fuel Economizer to your stovepipe. i NEST) \ s , i 5 DAS If you are a dealer you should sell it. If you are a fuel consumer you must have it. S eS, ‘SN Price: Wood’s Smooth Iron, crated, $3.75. Our ‘“‘Money Refund” Guarantee Convinces Everybody If you wish to save fuel at once, order now. If you wish further information write for cata- logue J and testimonials. The Fuel Economizer Company 160 West Larned St., Detroit, 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 I SDI CIA SSNS TDN Dawa CS ESASES eS AES SS SESS ASRS ESS SSIES etre me ee Lp 4¢. ~~ 4 4-4-4 re ek , t For Delicious Coast a Che Fairgrieve Patent Gas Coaster Retails at 25¢ it ha but it may be new to the trade a been on the gas, gasoline or blue flame oil stoves directly over the flar don the flame. It saves fuel by ¢ It is the o free from objectionable taste or odor. old fa as plz ing the heat in such nly toaster de d fe Made « developed is used. f the best mat shioned wire toaster with eve Coaster Mig. Zo. Detroit, Michigan } will wear longer than the 4 Fairgri { 289 Jefferson Ave., lS ee ae ee ~ or a al ca a ae “Sure Catch” Minnow Trap Length, 195 inches. Diameter, 9g 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. BAKERS’ OVENS All sizes to suit the needs of any grocer. Do your own baking and make the double profit. Hubbard Portable Oven Co. 182 BELDEN AVENUE, CHICAGO You Bookkeeper When you ‘take stock,’’ when you figure up your year’s business, we have two new blanks which will help you Send NOW for sam- ples of our ‘‘Inventory Blanks’’ and our ‘‘Bal- ance Sheet.’’ Barlow Bros. Grand Rapids, Michigan : : i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _Clothin x Ready-Made Styles. Retail and wholesale manufacturing clothiers say that the merchant tailor has no better facilities than the maker of ready-to-wear clothing for getting in touch with the styles. Both are creatures of circumstance, and must depend upon the fashion plates issued season after season, The merchant tailor is made light of by the ready-made trade. Cut- ters who have been taken out of the best merchant tailoring establishments in New York City and placed in ready- made cutting rooms are referred to as notable failures. Speaking of such in- stances, the head of one of the largest retail clothing manufacturing establish- ments on Broadway said: ‘‘One of the most recent experiences I know of out- side of my own cutting department, and we have had several just like it, is that of a high-class cutter who came from a Fifth avenue merchant tailor to act as chief of the cutting department of one of the foremost retail manufacturing houses in the city, a house, as is known, that is distinguished for its high- class trade,to take the place of a gentle- man who left to assume charge of a new Broadway house soon to be opened. What was the result? For months after- ward vests and coats came back to that establishment with the complaint that they did not fit. Of course, he has since improved, but see what it has cost that house for the experiment,’’ ‘“To make a success here,’’ said the chief of a large manufacturing depart- ment, ‘‘a designer must be able to carry out ourideas. We take the fashion plates the very best of vogues for the season. Oe { RUBE, i: NEW YORK)_«) € S ° oF asney AU MM WN MASS AF WS NS AF WSN AF SAS WS AS AS SAS AS AS AS AAS AS AA A sb FE PN ROE A EE AE A AON I oe BUY THE GENUINE GOLD SEAL LEATHER TOP ALG GI SMM GMM SMM Ws gg WE CARRY Ae FOUR COMPLETE LINES (é 2 OF RUBBER SHOES. The designer who can meet our idea, adapt them and bring them out is the right man in the right place.’’ “It is seldom the designer or cutter in the merchant tailoring establish- ment, but the clothier, who shapes the garment,’ said another authority. ‘‘ Mer- chant tailors do not create styles. They bring out freak ideas to suit the desires of individual customers, but such are not standards of fashion. Let the man- ufacturer introduce freaks into the thou- sand and one suits he makes up for a season, and he could not realize fifty cents on the dollar for his stock. We must conform to the standards of fash- ion. Styles are not revolutionized in a month, nor departed from within a month after the inception of a season.’’ ———--—>-2——__ Assorted “Golden Rules.” The true rule in business is to guard and do by the things of others as they do by their own.—Hindoo. He sought for others the good he de- sired for himself. Let him pass on.— Egyptian, Do as you would be done by.—Per- sian One should seek for others the happi- ness one desires for oneself. — Buddhist. What you would not wish done to yourself do not unto others, —Chinese. Let none of you treat his brother in a way he himself would dislike to be treated.—Mohammedanism. Do not that to a neighbor which you would take ill from him.—Grecian. The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of so- ciety as themselves. —Roman. ati Degeneration. ‘Her father gave her a $10,000 wed- ding, I believe.’’ ‘“Yes. But the family has gone down | hill very rapidly during the past two or and adapt our clothing to conform to | ee S F three years. She was satisfied with a | $150 divorce."’ SEND FOR CATALOGUE. GOODYEAR RUBBER C AHA T NAAT AAT NDNA TTT ITA GIEMUMM Me The Use of Cheesecloth in Windows. Use of cheesecloth in window trim- ming is considered out of style by the best window trimmers. A window dis- play without this material was consid- ered impossible at one time, but to-day the familiar cloth of a few years ago is almost a novelty. Window backgrounds to-day are of plate glass, wood, or plush draped artistically. The tendency, in fact, is to abandon the cloth back- grounds entirely and to use the glass or wood. It is well to abandon the cheesecloth for the more modern trimmings. If, however, the cheesecloth is to be used, the puffing itself is very simple. The preliminaries, perhaps, are more of a puzzle. One of the best ways to use the cloth as a background is to build the figures on a movable framework. This may be used several times without tear- ing down each time. This framework may be shaped of lath or any light wood to fit the back of the window. Strips of wood should be nailed across the framework at intervals to form the foundation for the puffing process. These strips should be, say, a foot apart. Upon this skeleton the cloth should be laid. I use pins to tack the cloth to the framework, driving them in far enough to hold the cloth and then bending them over. The puffs are easily made. Each puff is simply an extra full- ness of the cloth, not too full or it will hang, not puff. Any trimmer, if he does not understand the details of puffing, should have no trouble in learning it from a dressmaker. If he be married, the recourse is to his wife. The framework may be varied to suit the pleasure of the window dresser. A circular background, in which different | colors are shown, makes a very pretty MSM MAA No ee i SMI WS SV WM MW WS MW AM AS A AS WET WEATHER ent CLOTHING CRAVENETTES MACKINTOSHES RUBBER SURFACE OILED CLOTHING REASONABLE PRICES. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. W. W. WALLIS, Manacer. effect. The combinations that can be used are many. Now as to colors. The merchant must rely on his judgment in a matter of that sort. But care must be used in select- ing the colors. They should be either harmonizing or contrasting tints that will not offend the eye. Green and gold make good backgrounds for fall. There should be more green than gold in such a display. Green and fawn are seldom used to- gether, but make a very pretty effect. The fawn should be most in evidence, the green used to lighten the effect. In the circular background just mentioned, a wide circle of fawn, alternating with a narrow circle of green, makes a very tasteful arrangement. oO 0 The Worst Yet. ‘‘Is this the best wurst you can send me?'’ asked the lady who walked into the meat store with a package of that edible in her hand. ‘*Madam,’’ answered the meat man, ‘it the best wurst we have.’’ ‘‘Well, it is the worst wurst I ever saw.’’ ‘‘l am sorry to hear that. The best I can do is to try to send you some better wurst from to-day's lot, but, as I said, that was the best wurst we have at pres- ent. I am sure, however, that the wurst we are now making will not be any worse than this, and it ought to be bet- ter. I assure you that as soon as | get the wurst you shall have the best of it. We never gave anyone the worst of it so long as we have been in the wurst business, and you may be sure that when we give you your wurst it will be the best, for our worst wurst is better wurst than the best wurst of our com- petitors. ’’ But the lady, whose eyes had taken on a stare of glassiness, was seen to throw up her hands and flee from the place, for she was afraid the worst was yet to come. TWIN) WIS HWS IN i Ns LVAD ININID INIT IDI INID IN INI HIN HIND AND LATEST STYLES. BEST GOODs. MILWAUKEE, WIS. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 Ellsworth & Thayer M’n’f’g Co. _ UW WWW VVVVVWW Milwaukee, Wis. VWWWW WY BeEEeny A BE CEREEUETEEED ae 2 Fool S2e282 The wise wear WW, VINEBERG’S PATENT DAUD: : POCKET PANTS, wie sia oid and his oe the only pants in the world fitted Sw We with a safety pocket; nothing can WWW J Money & WU drop out and are proof against WWW wy WY pickpockets. Manufactured by wwe are Wew Vineberg’s Patent SAW wi cayae Pocket Pants Co. pn S$ Th 3 Swsese Detroit, Mich. aa: wae WY: Parted S28a aI B UNI BL US uy UE NIUTUIE 22 pate Cava caue wate FO VIVID oy erery re Special Sale Of the entire stock of the old reliable wholesale clothiers, 7 Kolb & Son. of Rochester (now retiring from business) Co. and will be disposed of at a great sacrifice to the retail trade. 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. Wholesale Clothiers 28-30 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, lich. FOS 9OO GHOSE OHBDES OHGHOHHD HH HFOONHE SS OHDEESSHOHOOHNE . : The stock has been purchased in bulk by The William Connor The William Connor Co. A Safe Place for your mone,’ No matter where you live you can keep your money | | safe in our bank, and you can getit immediately and easily when you want to use it. Any person living with- in the reach of a Post Office or Express Office can deposit money with Lot 125 Apron Overall $7.50 per doz. Lot 275 Overall Coat $7.75 per doz. Made from 240 woven stripe, double cable, indigo us without risk or trouble. is always doing business. | blue cotton cheviot, stitched Our financial r - ee ae i : : : ‘ ao SS | in white with ring buttons. $ 1,960,000 That’s too slow for us though —we’re advertising this year from the dealer to the consumer. There’s Write us for a sales- oat .. | 24 A 0 i il man—he'll tel you Pteiacongly ot pron Overa what we’re doing to help you ot leer | $5.00 per doz. work about | make mouey | from the at anaes come | Lot 274 Overall Coat ing—it’s made under There is no safer bank than ours. Money intrust- ed tous is absolutely secure and draws 3% interest Your dealings with us are perfectly confidential. ‘‘Banking by Mail?” is the name of an interest- ing book we publish which cee how ree oe 2 te SN wee 8 Made from 250 Otis woven their banking with us by special accent on the $5.50, 7 mail; howtosend money or re $700, $8.50 Iines—that’s the stripe, indigo blue suitings, . make deposits by mail; - range. i i and important things Quality just a little better than stitched in white. persons should know all others. who want to keep their Suits and Overeoats for Men, Boys and Pan-Am- erican 3 proper sanitary condi- | $5.50 per doz. Cloth- tions. ing. aan ee [part oer] cotaren ae , 4 Room 19, Kan- That’s all. sent freeupon request. | ter Building in Samples if you want to know more. We use no extract soods Old National charge of M. J. | ! Rowan. as they are tender and will Bank, [Roem | y Grond Rapids. Mich. POSTAL SCALE $1.00 Tells ata glance postage in cents on all mail matter. Capacity, 1 Ib. by half ounces. 3 in. high. Cuts down the stamp bill. Useful and attractive present. We make sev- eral styles from $1 in nickel, as hown, up to $6in sterling. If deal- er doesn’t sell it, we prepay on re- P ceipt of price. Catalogue r. tree. Pelouze Scale & Mfg. Co., Chicago not wear. | Fc Comng FACTOR GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MADE MILLIONS, Inventor of the Shoe Hook Dying in the Poorhouse, Every man who has ever seen an ex-, asperated wcman trying to poke a raveled shoe lace through the eyelets in her shoes has certainly felt a keen de- light as he caught up his own shoe laces, both together, and twined them about the shoe hooks ‘‘that are made for men.’’ The owner of the patent of the shoe hook made more than a million dollars by its application. The inventor of that shoe hook is in the county almshouse at San Francisco. H. A. Ship is his name. He was born in London seventy- two years ago, and yet, with the hard life he bas lived and the great humility he has undergone, so clear is his brain, and so masterful his knowledge of me- chanical arts, that if he were to receive aid now it would cause no wonder among those who know him were he still to rise to a place of prominence. For the name which this man will leave rests by no means upon the hooking of a shoe, That he despises, describing it as a labor-saving ‘‘trick.’’ He has worked in the field of explosive inven- tions, has patented appliances for the manufacture of a finer grade of silk than is now obtained, and when he took up what may be his last dweiling house this side the mound, he laid away his models for a submarine fleet with which he expected to accomplish in naval war- fare what so many inventors have tried and failed toachieve. All that he needed was a ‘Manager and, lacking this,he has gone to his present home. The wonder is not that an inventor is in the poorhouse (it must be confessed that we send many of our best men there), but that the inventor of so sim- ple a money-making appliance should be in such a place. Asa rule,it is the shrewd man who invents a buckle or a belt or a clasp for your lead pencil; and it is the shrewd man that acquires the fortune. The man who invented a mod- ern suspender buckle is a millionaire, how many times over nobody knows. Dun rates him Aa, which means a million or more. The man who invented the pencil clasp has a residence in Newport. But Ship invented the shoe hook and—missed. But one only needs ask him about it to see just why he missed. ‘‘Tell me about that invention of yours, Mr. Ship,’’ you say, ‘‘for lacing the shoes without eyelets.’’ ‘Oh, that was a long time ago,’’ he answers, ‘*But don’t you know,’’ you say, ‘‘that the man who got that made over a mil- lion on it?’’ “Yes, I know,’’ he replies, ‘‘ and all I received was two hundred and fifty. If I had only known,’’ he adds, ‘‘I might have got money enough to work out those other models.’’ And there is the secret of his whole story: it has never occurred to this man in all his life that it might be a good thing to make money. Like our great naturalist he ‘*had no time to make money.*’ The inventor drifts away into a plan for this device or that time-saving method, and it is with difficulty that we get him back to the shoe hook. ‘* But how did you come to invent that hook?’" he is asked. “‘Why,’’ he replies, and a twinkle comes into his eye, ‘‘at that time, of course, we had eyeholes in our shoes to poke the laces through, but—well, we never did it, we didn’t have time, so most of the time we drew the laces tight, tied them about our ankles and let the old shoes go unlaced. Then there was a young fellow joined us (I was running a small shop at the time), and he was so fastidious that he laced his shoes clear to the top every time. And every time he laced them | was up and out at work before he finished, and when he unlaced them I was in bed and asleep before he got one shoe off. ‘* “How do you manage to beat me out every time, Ship,’ says he, ‘on the lac- ing of your shoes?’ ‘* “Why,’ says I, ‘if I felt that it was really necessary for me to unlace my shoes every time I went to bed, and to have to lace them up every time J got out of bed, I don't think I'd waste my time with a frazzled lace and a gimlet- hole like the eye of a needle.’ ‘* “Well, what would you do?’ says he. ‘* ‘Well,’ I. said, ‘I'd—I don’t know what I’d do, but I'd do something.’ And I got to thinking about it that night. ‘“The next morning I had it, and I cut a hook out of a piece of tough wood and fastened it into my shoe. I made sixty of them, but they were clumsy, so { took a piece of brass and made some out of that. Then all that was neces- sary to do was to put the right kind of a curve in it so that it would not bend back, and I had it. ‘That young fellow liked it immense- ly, so we agreed to try to sell it, and— well, I got $250 for it—be said that was half what it sold for—and that’s all there was to it, so far as I was concerned.,’’ ‘‘When did you make this invention, Mr. Ship?’’ ‘“That was a long time ago,’’ he answered, ‘‘in sixty-eight, I believe. It had the same experience,’’ he added, “‘as the barbed wire invention. That was patented a long time ago, and it was years after the patent was obtained before any one could be secured to take itup. The people called the inventor ‘the man with the terrible device for the purpose of maiming cattle,’ and he was obliged to sll his invention for what he could get—gso I think, in or- der to save his reputation.’’ Gradually, as we talked, we reverted to the submarine fleet whose models were laid away when the inventor was obliged to take up his pride-killing abode. The old man was in bed when we called, and spoke almost in a_ whis- per, but when he had forgotten that what he said was for print, and his con- centration had banished his diffidence, he mapped out on the coverlet before him this great submarine fleet. Not one submarine boat, clumsy and as dan- gerous to itself as to the enemy, but a fleet of them, smal! enough to bob about like a buoy and as hard to hit. His idea was not for a boat large enough to make a formidable attack,‘‘but fora swarm of little fellows,’’ as he termed it, ‘“‘that should harass the enemy like a swarm of poisonous insects, each with sufficent poison to kill should it get the chance to sting.’’ Considering the life this man has lived (for it has been a rough one) one can not but marvel that he has been able to raise himself to that high men- tal plane he holds and to accomplish so much. When a boy he joined the Eng- lish navy. He is a veteran of the Crimean war and of the Abyssinian war. While in the navy he gave his first thought to his submarine fleet, a work that has never been completed. Later he was a whaler in the North, and while there he invented a bomb to keep the whales from escaping under the ice. His bomb was a success—so much so that it blew off his left arm. Later-he engaged in business in one of the East- ern States. It was the manufacture of shoe blacking, and while at this he produced ‘‘the shoe hook’’—the one great chance that he had and missed. Later still he entered the silk business, and here his patents for the manufacture of silk were numerous and he ac- quired some money from them. At length, old and sick, he drifted to San Francisco, where first he became a church sexton and later a ‘‘guest’’ at the bounty of a family who kept him with them as long as they could. Now the county has claimed its own, and, like many another genius who has done so much for the state, at last he is cared for—by the state. a General Selling Agent of the Banigan Line. Edward R. Rice, general selling agent of the Banigan Rubber Company, has been connected with the exclusive rub- ber footwear business for over twenty years, He is one of the directors of the Joseph Banigan Rubber Company. He bas a large store at Buffalo, N. Y., is the ‘‘Co.’’ of C. L. Weaver & Co., of Boston, and is the selling agent in Chi- cago for the Banigan rubbers, carrying a large stock. aie Deceptions of the Bargain Counter. We have been informed by Bret Harte that ‘‘for ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain, the heathen Chinee is peculiar,*’ but he is not alone in the possession of that characteristic, as this incident shows: A short time ago this same firm de- cided to advertise a big bargain sale and get rid of a surplus of cotton fab- rics, Consequently the goods were ad- vertised at less than half. Then the manager, mussing a hundred yards of one class, placed it in the show window. It was 12-cent goods and was reduced to 5. The store was crowded that day by people desiring to purchase the cotton fabrics at a bargain. On the shelves were large pieces of the fabrics which had not been marked down, but were of the same quality as that in the window. The customers bought so heavily of these goods on the shelf at the regular |‘ price that before night it was necessary to take some of the mussed goods and reroll them in order to supply the de- mand. One shopper was heard to tell her companion that if the goods in the window, which looked cheap, were a bargain at 5 cents, the neatly rolled goods at 12 cents were bigger bargains, Woman Shoemaker Who Likes Her Work. From the Indianapolis Sun. Indianapolis has a woman shoemaker, and she knows her trade as well as any man who ever made a shoe. All parts of the shoe look alike to her, and she can build one from the ground up. She is now in business at 122 East Ohio street. Her favorite work on the shoe is the uppers. This is lighter and finer work and more suitable to a woman. She is Miss Louisa Hartness. She is 36 years old and has been in her busi- ness for twenty-one years. No other woman cobbler is known in the State, at least none with the business reputation she bears. She earns a good salary and is well able to care for herself, As a reporter waited in his stocking feet while she mended a shoe the other day, she told of her experience asa shoemaker. No false modesty is dis- played in explaining her work, for she is proud of the art. When she was a girl of 15 she sought employment with the old Barnett & Elliott shoe factory. Here she learned her trade and worked in the factory for eight years, until the factory closed down permanently. Since then she has worked for shoemakers and has also done special work. There is no part of the shoe she does not know, and know well enough to put together. ‘*You see, every part of the shoe looks alike to me,’’ she said, as she com- menced work on the material for a new shoe. ‘‘I can take the tanned leather, a few tacks, some thread and machine and make any kind of shoe you want.’’ The shoes she wears are her own make and she knows what they are made of, ‘There is no excuse for a shoe wear- ing out quick,’’ she says, ‘‘if it is made of good material.’’ The finest woman's shoe is as easy for her to make as the roughest hunting shoe. She can make shoes that prevent corns and shoes that do not hurt corns, shoes for short-legged people and plain, ordinary shoes, Miss Hartness likes her work and says she intends to follow the occupation for many years to come, —->_2.___ Made to Give Information in Spite of Himself. Recently a wealthy merchant in Paris, who does an extensive business with Japan, was informed that a prominent firm in Yokohama had failed, but the name of the firm he could not learn, al- though he was most anxious to ascertain whether it was the one with which he did most of his business in that city. He could have learned the truth by cabling, but instead he went to the man, a well-known banker, who had received the news, and requested him to reveal the name of the firm to him. ‘That's a very delicate thing to do,"’ replied the banker, ‘‘for the news is not official, and if 1 gave up the name I might incur some responsibility.’’ The merchant argued, but in vain, and finally he made this proposition : ‘‘I will give you,’’ he said, ‘‘a list of ten firms in Yokohama, and I will ask you to look through it and then to tell me, without mentioning any name, whether or not the name of the firm which has failed appears in it. Surely you will do that for me?”’ ‘“Yes,’’ said the banker, ‘‘for if I do not mention any name I can not be held responsible in any way.’’ The list was made, the banker looked through it, and, as he handed it back to the merchant, said, ‘‘The name of the firm which has failed is there.’’ “Then I have lost heavily,’’ replied the merchant, ‘‘for that is the firm with which I did business,’’ showing him a name on the list. ‘“But bow do you know that is the firm which has failed?’’ asked the banker in surprise. ‘‘Very easily,’’ replied the merchant. ‘“Of the ten names on the list only one 18 genuine, that of the firm with which I did business, all the others are ficti- tious,’ e+ >_____. Cause For Anxiety. ‘‘Don't you think we had better send for the doctor?’’ **What for?’’ “‘Well, the baby is too well to last long.’’ Can anne i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 THE National Ban Grand Rapids, Michigan ESTABLISHED 1863 OFFICERS J. M. Barnett, President. Willard Barnhart, Vice President. Fflarvey J. Hollister, Cashier. Clay H. Hollister, Assistant Cashier. Hoyt G. Post, Auditor. DIRECTORS James M. Barnett, Willard Barnhart, Jacob Cummer, Jos. H. Martin, W. hk. Shelby, E. G. Studley, Wm. Judson, L. H. Withey, E. Crofton Fox, Geo. C. Petree, H. J. Hollister, W. D. Stevens, Clay H. Hollister. Capital Stock, $800,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits, $348,767.49 Deposits, $4,135,870.80 This bank opened its beautiful new offices in Dec., 1900, since which time its deposits have increased one-half. It is constantly opening new accounts with people throughout the State, being the Largest Bank in Western Michigan. We are in position to meet your every want in the line of banking requirements. Write to-day for our book, “BANKING BY MaIL_;’ it is free and gives you information that is valuable. 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE HEALTH FOOD MAN. Some Sane Remarks Concerning a Recent Evolution. The past decade has been one of re- markable scientific development. It has witnessed the invention and perfection of the X-ray, a little machine that is curious to the point of impoliteness; of the wireless telegraph, which will make wire useless except in around broom-handles; and of the diri- gible balloon, which is one of the most attractive forms of suicide that has yet been conceived. The past decade has also been to blame for other things; and among these is the health food man, the person compared with whose daily menu the Diet of Worms was an epicurean re- past. The health food man exists upon cereals done up in strange disguises and yellow wrappers. He knows the nutri- tive value of everything he eats, because he has read it on the yellow wrapper aforesaid. With every teaspoon of pre- masticated and pre-digested grub he re-masticates and re-digests, he knows just what quantity of phosphates he is taking into his system and what his pulse will be seven hours and thirty- nine minutes after eating thereof. He knows all about nitrates and day-rates. He can analyze a new health food like a politician can analyze an unfriendly plurality and, when it comes toa ques- tion of detecting .0oco7 of a grain of sulphur in a ton of barley, the health food man has the pure food department backed clear off the stage. The health food man arises at 7 a. m. —when he is able—and makes a break- fast off nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus done up ina fifteen cent package to be had at the department stores two for a quarter. The festive flannel-cake knows him not and he has forgotten the joyous sigut of that time-honored culinary con- coction floating in a sea of honey or submerged beneath an ocean of melted butter. He drinks a counterfeit coffee which has never felt the hot kiss of the Arabian wind or trembled on the tree with the monthly earthquake of the Isle of Java. Where he once consumed large quantities of mysterious hash in bliss- ful ignorance of its concomitants, he now breakfasts on ground feed of which he knows the exact formula. At noon he lunches on dainties that have been ground up and digested by machinery before leaving the factory. Then he leans back and reads a dissertation on ‘‘How to Be Happy Although Horribly Healthy.’’ At6he dines on Poorino and Grape-Nits, with a dash of Snow- Flakes for an appetizer and boiled bar- ley for a wash. Then he goes to sleep and dreams dreams and in the morning ascribes the sea serpents he saw to the fact that the day before he yielded to temptation and looked ata roast ina restaurant window. We are living in an age when we dote on health goods; in fact, sort of a dote age. Our evening paper is full of the advertisements of health foods that will not injure the weakest digestion and will make a strong digestion look like a sheet of boiler plate alter target practice. We read of drinks that will not keep men awake nights, but will, instead, put slumber robes on them that will make them sleep through a Fourth of July celebration at Fife Lake. I have heard it said that occasionally a man starts out alone to drink up ail the laughing soup in Grand Rapids and wakes up the next morning to find there are a few bottles left. Just so does the intrepid bealth food man attempt to sample in the brief span of a health food politics and- lifetime all the health foods manufac- tured. He eats everything that is pre- coked, pre-masticated, pre-digested and pre-assimilated and in the morning reads in his paper that seven more health food companies have been or- ganized in Michigan during the night. Then he begins ail over; and yet we wonder at crime. In Michigan the health food business flourishes like a Green Bay, Wis., tree. When a man can not start a political boom or a riot he sallies forth and starts a health food company. All that is nec- essary isa little bran and brains and a good advertisement writer. New Jersey may have its trusts, but it can not touch Michigan when it comes to a question of turning out square meals that can be saturated with a little skim milk and faith and served in a saucer, The good old days, when people bought oatmeal out of a barrel a quar- ter's worth at a time, and bought coffee at 13 cents a pound that was strong enough to make its own way in the world, are past. Now they get 21 meals for 15 cents and a pasteboard box thrown in, and coffee at a corresponding re- duction if the barley crop is good. A square meal for a family of six costs about II cents a throw in theory; and in theory a family of ten can live on $3.44 a week and every member of it develop a_ biceps like a 10 cent loaf of rye bread and a nerve like a lightning- rod agent. Incidentally, the health food company agrees to throw in a brain that will make the mathematical wonder look like a first grader just learning that two Americans and two Irishmen on St. Patrick's Day make four, but that two Irishmen and two Italians make trouble. Is it to be wondered at that the health food habit grows when beef is so high that the cow jumps over the moon with- out the slightest difficulty? Every time a long-haired professor at Ann Arbor discovers a new bovine malady the steak trust boosts the price of choice cuts a quarter of a cent. Is it any wonder that the father of the family of ten there- upon goes forth and lays in a winter supply of pre-digested popcorn and be- gins feeding the baby bran mash? If the health feed gets the meat monopoly and the oyster octopus on the run, the octopi can pause long enough to kick themselves with their numerous legs, for they will have no one to blame but themselves, and the feed factories will not have flourished in vain. I would not bear down too hard on the health foods. I would bear down on them only so far as they rob us of our epicurean appetite for quail on toast and ducks paddling around in their own gravy and so far as they deny the mer- chant his old-time profit on the paper and the string. In the merchant’s be- half I sigh for the days when salt pork | was retailed by the yard and coffee was |found a tin bin in. 1 have no doubt that some of the gigantic intellects that are now running around loose in this country were developed by Maul-the- Vitals or some other of our numerous health foods. I have come to this con- clusion through some testimonials sent me by a friend. When I decided to take up this subject of health foods I wrote to him and asked him to send me some documentary evidence that his health food would cure unrequited love and grow hair on bald heads, as claimed in his glowing advertisemnts, In reply he sent me the following testimonials, which I am certain are genuine; in fact, I am as certain that he actually received them as | am that I wrote and requested them. Those who are skeptical about health foods should read this: When I began using your health food I was in Chicago, Ill. Now no one is as well as Siam. Uy, Z, And this: A month ago I could not tip the scales at go pounds, I have been eating your pre-digested preparation since then and now I can tip a Pullman porter. D. R. Ummer, And these: I am a professional diver and one year ago in Italy 1 was so thin that when I dove into the Mediterranean | stuck head first in the bottom. Now I am swiniming in Greece, R. U. Underdrink. When I began using your healih food I was suffering with intermittent fever, Thanks to your food, it is now a con- tinuous performance. Wood B. Hamlett. My hair was getting so long it made my head ache. I began using your health food and now | have hair no longer. Sent R. Rush. I know these testimonials are genuine because | wrote them myself, These glowing testimonials from satis- fied customers remind me of the case of my old friend, Tim Bumps. We were boys together. I was born in Muskegon and Tim was born in an advertisement school in New York. Bumps was not his real name, but we called him that because of the hard bumps he got as he went through life and because he was something of a knocker himself. Tim went to sleep in the basket of a captive balloon one time and it broke loose, as might have been expected if Hard Luck Tim had anything to do with it. When he fell out at an altitude of 12,271 feet, he thought he had bumped his last bump, but Tim slept all the way down and then complained because the jar woke him up and gave him a headache, A sudden fall would have given almost any other man pneumonia anyway. Tim had one passion: He liked to eat. He would startin at the corners of a square meal and make it look like the inside of a doughnut. This industry brought its reward. He soon had a case of indigestion on his hands—which is an unusual place for indigestion, His friends told him to quit eatiing seven course dinners every day and instead to eat one coarse dinner made up of health foods. Tim followed their advice. His indigestion disappeared. He again grew merry. People stopped calling — Tim Bumps and called him Funny im, Then the awful happened. I tell it for the benefit of the man with the health food habit. As the reader well knows, the chemical elements of which the human body is composed,and which must, therefore, be supplied to it by food, are fourteen in number. The health foods of which Funny Tim _ par- took contained all these fourteen ele- ments and nothing else. Now, be it known, Funny Tim was a man who did nothing by halves; and, as the health food habit grew upon him, he took these fourteen elements into his system in larger proportions daily. One day we missed Funny Tim. When two days passed and he did not appear we hoisted the coroner through the transom, Alas! All we found of Funny Tim was a quantity of carbon, phosphorus, sulphur, silicon, chlorine, fluorine, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron. The rest of him had been reduced to oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen and had vanished into thin air. _ A learned chemist explained it at the inquest. He testified that, from an ex- amination of the remains, which he had carefully corked up in a dozen or more bottles, he found Funny Tim came to his end by eating food that was too pure. So long as he ate mince pie and fried oysters and other articles of food in which impurities existed he was safe; but when he placed himself on a diet which contained nothing but those things which were pure there was _noth- ing else to hold him together and he dissolved into a purely elementary state. The jury rendered a verdict that Funny Tim came to his death by being altogether too healthy. 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No doubt but the class of grocers above mentioned possess advantages that the smaller grocers with limited means, and very frequently with very lim.ted business capacity, do not pos- sess and possibly can not attain. The large output of the establishments named necessitates large purchases, hence lower cost; if the chain stores and the others mentioned would only sell at regular or established prices they would all do better. The small grocer would be satisfied with the smaller profit and the large purchaser would be making a larger profit, but the greed to do all the business of the community and wipe out his poor competitors seems so deeply instilled in the minds of the bigger concerns that it is to be feared no appeal for fair play or a live and let live policy will prevail. Some cther remedy must be sought. Who will write a paper suggesting a remedy? The person who can solve this question will gain the thanks of hundreds of thousands of grocers in the United States. Will combination purchases accomplish it? No doubt combination purchases will reduce the cost of goods, but wili all members of the combina- tion stick to a card price, giving a liv- ing profit, and should that card price be made lower at times than the cutter’s price? If all grocers belonged to grocers’ as- sociations and complied with card prices issued by the association it would be easy sailing, but you can not get all grocers to join an association. Some few will always stay out, just out of cussed obstinacy, and they are the ones who frequently cause even good mem- bers to cut prices. Will combination purchases antago- nize the local’ jobbers? I think they will, but I also think that if the jobbers were to work in harmony with the retailers the matter of uniform fair prices could be brought about much sooner than in any other manner. In my estimation, retailers should buy altogether from the jobbers and the job- bers should see that no manufacturer sells to any one but a jobber, and if caught doing so the combination of job- bers should boycott such manufacturers. Retailers should refuse to buy from any manufacturer except through a jobber. Then when the jobbers’ organizations are strong enough and backed by the retailers, they can regulate the retail price of almost all the goods that enter into the business of the retailer, partic- ularly on such staple artices as sugars, cereals, soaps and probably half a dozen other staple or well advertised goods. If the prices on these articles were uniform it would be a great advance on the present conditions; let there be a leeway of bargains on other goods. There are hundreds of articles in a store which a merchant can offer at cut prices from time to time, either to un- load a surplus or to create a little stir. This is essential in every business, but why pick out such staples as above mentioned? The people must have them, and if all maintained a uniform low profit price there would be just as much sold, the public would not be dis- satisfied and the grocer could live a lit- tle better and no doubt pay his bills better and more promptly. 1 would not dare undertake to propose any positive remedy. I simply bring the question up and hope that some one will soon offer suggestions that will lead to some plan that will be of benefit to the grocer on this question. Are there too many grocers, more than the community actually needs to supply their wants expeditiously and economically? Does this apply to job- bers as well? What causes this super- abundance of retail grocers? Is it be- cause many think it is an easy business, requiring small capital and no business knowledge? No doubt this is one of the causes of demoralized prices. A beginner opening in a locality where there is really no need of another gro- cery fancies he must cut prices on everything in order to establish a trade. He does so and his competitor, who has perhaps long been located in that sec- tion, thinks he must meet his prices, does so, and the cutting becomes con- tagious and spreads, doing immense harm. The beginner's capitai is soon exhausted; he quits, but the damage has been done and is not so easily remedied. Do not the jobbers frequently encour- age the starting of new stores just to get the few dollars of the beginner? Even if the jobber is shrewd he is fre- quently bitten in his eagerness to in- crease his sales; perhaps the drummer is to blame. If the jobbers and estab- lished retailers worked in harmony the jobber could discourage the starting of new stores, both to his benefit as well as to the benefit of the estabiished re- tailers in that neighborhood. Possibly the cutting of prices by the department stores and chronic cutters could be reg- ulated by the jobbers combining to cut off their supply from first hands, in case an appeal to the cutter to maintain card prices is ignored. Has it ever struck anyone how the retail price of many commodities, no- tably cereal foods, is arbitrarily fixed by the manufacturers and frequently at a price that causes them to be sold less than cost? I say less than cost, of course including the expense of the business, Many grocers do not add the average expense of conducting business to the cost of goods, hence fancy, if they get 12 to 15 per cent. above cost, they are making a profit, when, in fact, they are selling ata loss, for most business will average that percentage of expense, even without counting the living ex- penses of the proprietor and his family. I think arrangements could be made in every community, where there are local jobbers, by the retailers to buy to a better advantage than out of their city. The jobber, if he could depend upon the local retail trade, could order in larger quantities, thereby reducing the first cost. His proportion of freight on large shipments would be so much lower than on small shipments, in itself quite a margin. The retailer need buy only as he needs the goods, hence has less capital invested, and does not over- load himself with goods, which he is frequently tempted to do by the per- suasive drummer from another city. Our jobbers could fill almost every want of the local dealer and just as low, if not lower than the other chap. Will the jobbers do this? If they will, so The Fourth National Bank 2 Monroe Street. Grand Rapids, Michigan U. S. Depositary Condensed from statement of the condition of the bank as reported to the Comptroller of the Currency at the close of business, September 15th, 1902. RESOURCFS Loans and Investments - “ | : U.S. Bonds” - - . . ul i i Premium on Bonds_~ - 4 : i Cash on Hand and in Banks a : " $2,085 ,248.38 750,000.00 ; 35,000.00 : 621,252 42 Ae a al j $3,491,500.80 LIABILITIES Capital Stock . - : - - - 300,000 00 Surplus and Undivided Profits - - - 132,391.10 National Bank Notes Outstanding - 300 000 00 Certificates - - $ 927,781 30 Deposits Commercial - 1,831,328.40 2,759,109 70 $3,491,500.80 OFFICERS Wm H. ANDERSON, President Jno. W. BLopDGETT, Vice-President Jno. A. SEYMour, Cashier L. Z. CAuKIN, Ass’t. Cashier DIRECTORS Jno. W. Blodgett W. H. Gay C. Bertsch A. D. Rathbone Geo. P. Wanty S. M. Lemon G. K. Johnson C. G. A. Voigt A. G. Hodenpyl Wm. Sears Wm. H. Anderson Sort ss eens Caer trroren ode We expect to occupy our new banking offices about December ist, where we will be pleased to meet our patrons and friends. Sort ss eens Caer trroren ode MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 much sooner will the harmony between jobber and retailer be effected. Another remedy has suggested itself— consolidation. Would the combining of various es- tablished businesses in one building, handling all the requirements of a fam- ily for the table, be desirable? I learn it is being done in many localities, but I have not heard of the results yet. This combination of capital, talent and established trade would possibly work in some localities, but the estab- lishment of card prices and some plan to prevent the card prices from being broken is after all the true and only solution to help the many small grocers. However, the advantages of consolida- tion, where it is possible, are many. It would relieve the various individuals of great mental anxieties, by dividing them, thus: One could devote his en- tire energy to selling goods, while an- other could attend to the buying, another to finances, etc. The cost of advertis- ing would be proportionately lower; in fact ail expenses could be_ reduced, while the trade, on account of the vari- ety offered and convenience of finding all under one roof, would no doubt be increased, but the advantages of a com- bination of capital, energy and talent are so obvious that it is unnecessary to enumerate or dwell upon them, and, in my opinion, in time this scheme will eventually have to be adopted by many, if they want to keep pace with the times. Has it ever dawned on the mind of the collector of trading stamps that he or she as a rule is paying $2 more or less for every one dollar’s worth of prizes or merchandise they get in ex- change for the stamps collected? It is an undisputed fact that no dealer in this day of close competition, and asking only a legitimate profit on his wares, can afford to give 5 per cent. away either as blackmail or as a gift to his customers, hence the buyer as a rule must pay this 5 percent. We know it to be a fact tbat many dealers while not advancing the price on such staple ar- ticles, the price of which is generally known to the public,or has been long es- tablished, have advanced their prices on goods where the quality can be reduced unknown to the customer or where 5 per cent. to the selling price is not notice- able, hence the stamp collectors uncon- sciously pay for the stamps and get in return articles that could be bought for much less than they pay for them in stamps. Some merchants say, if the public wants to be humbugged we are willing as long as they pay for it, hence are not to be blamed, only so far that they are assisting a class of people who are termed by many as blackmailers in victimizing the unsuspecting or un- thinking public. Enquiry has elicited the fact that children and servants are the ones that advocate the stamp scheme the strong- est It is true many unthinking persons think they are getting the prizes for nothing, hence prefer trading where stamps are given. If they stop to think for a moment they could not help real- izing that the obtaining of prizes for nothing is simply a delusion. Who is to blame for this condition of affairs? We blame the merchants, who assist in deluding the public; we blame the parents, who let their children and servants think the prizes are clear profit and not paid for by the household. If an honest merchant thinks he must give trading stamps because his competitors do he is simply being blackmailed and the public is -ssisting in his eventual downfall or in tempting him to become dishonest. The merchant who gives stamps will not tell the public of the delusion it is laboring under. Those who sell the trading stamps to the merchants have too soft a snap to tell the public the truth as exposed in thisarticle. Indi- vidual merchants who condemn the practice do not desire to assume the trouble of publicly making the facts known, hence an association of mer- chants should undertake the task. J. A. Dingens. a The English as Jam Eaters. The English people as a race are ex- tremely fond of jams, and the amount consumed in a year in the United King- dom is enormous. One reason for this is that jam is cheap in England, par- tially owing to the fact that for years the manufacturers have enioyed the cheapest sugar in the world. The bounty-paying countries of Europe have been taking money out of their own pockets so that the Englishmen might have one of their favorite dainties at a very low price. Jam is not served asa regular peace ration in the British army, but it was liberally furnished to the British troops during the South Afri- can campaign, as is shown by the offi- cial figures. According to Mr. Brod- rick, the war minister, no less than 34, 582,762 pounds of jam were consumed by the army during the war. Of this enormous total, 28,656,362 pounds were sent out from the United Kingdom and 5,926,400 from the colonies. Accord ing to the statistics the favorite jams with Tommy Atkins are in order of preference, gooseberry, apricot, marmal- ade and plum. Only some 200,000 pounds of peach jam were consumed and about 2,400,oco pounds of straw- berry. The London Express, in com- menting on the enormous amount of jam used—no less than 5,438 tons—says that one of the largest factories in the United Kingdom turns out about a ton a day, and yet it would take forty-two years for this factory, running every day in the year,to supply the amount used in South Africa in three years. A ship of 3,000 tons carrying capacity is not by any means a small vessel, and yet it would have taken five such vessels loaded to their capacity with nothing but jam to have carried out the supply needed; while it would have taken fifty-one trains, each of a carrying capacity of 300 tons, to have brought the jam to the front. Taking an average of the British forces in South Africa, and figuring that every man was allowed an equal amount of jam each day, this would mean 138 pounds per man for the campaign. As this lasted two years, seven months and twenty days, or, say, 960 days, this would mean a consumption of about 2% ounces per day per man. A man who served through the whole campaign and had his fair share of jam each day would, therefore, have eaten possibly bis own weight in jam during the Boer war. The English should no longer be called a nation of beef eaters, but a na- tion of jam eaters, —___—~>-4. His Moment of Forgetfulness. ‘‘Whiie Jacob still tarried at the well,’’ said the superintendent of the Sunday school, ‘‘ Rachel, as we are told, drew near. She was fair to look upon, and Jacob kissed her. Then ‘he lifted up his voice and wept.’ A great many whimsical explanations, children, have been advanced for this singular conduct on Jacob’s part. What possible reason could he have had for weeping, after having kissed his beautiful cousin?’’ ‘‘He remembered about the mi- crobes,’’ ventured Tommy Tucker. MACHINERY NEW AND SECOND HAND For Immediate Delivery The largest. machinery depot. in the world Our stock is continually changing. Please write us. 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In those early days the wholesale merchants of Michigan made semi-annual visits to New York and other Eastern markets in order to keep in touch with houses with whom they did business and to make purchases sufficient for two, three, four and six months. This became neces- sary, for at that time there were few trav- eling salesmen and no merchandise bro- kers, as the latter adjunct of the grocery business came into being about twenty- five years ago, and is now an indispen- sable factor in our trade relations. To- day the wholesale grocer of Michigan makes his purchases with much greater convenience. He is spared those long periodical trips, and from his own office he now talks every day with the Have- meyers, the Arbuckles, the American Tobacco Company and the Continental Tobacco Company, and with all the great marts of trade throughout the country, either by telephone or through his merchandise broker. In the ‘60's and early ‘'7o’s the wholesale business of this State was carried on at much disadvantage and great inconvenience, as there were but few railroads travers- ing the State; while to-day steam and electric railways migrate from every trade center and throughout the State have become a perfect network. In that early period to which I allude the whole- sale business of the State was carried on by a few individual independent concerns and by such men as Jobn Stephens, Walter J. Gould and William H. Brace, of Detroit; Bernard Desen- herg, of Kalamazoo; Leonard H. Ran- dall, Darwin D. Cody and John Caul- field, of Grand Rapids. These men were at that time regarded as the lead- ing wholesale grocery merchants in the State. They were men of high mercan- tile integrity whose names were a syn- onym for honesty and fair dealing ; and, in referring to this industry of our own city, special mention should be made of Leonard H. Randall, John Caulfield and Darwin D. Cody as the pioneers who, after having made for themselves in this business ample fortunes, retired many years ago, each with a career worthy the highest emulation. Our early local jobbers labored under the further disadvantage of doing business at and selling goods from a small and unimportant place, not regarded for many years as a trade center worthy of mention; for the population of Grand Rapids in 1870 was but 16,000 and its geographical location in the then unde- veloped wilds of Western Michigan was, to many intelligent people of the East and South, entirely unknown. Capital was then very limited and was necessa- rily tested to its fullest endurance and those engaged in wholesale enterprises were obliged to put forth most heroic efforts—first to secure and afterwards to retain local supremacy. These troubles and difficulties peculiar to all new states and young cities are well nigh past and overcome ; for Grand Rap- ids has now a population of 100,000 souls, is recognized in every city on the | secure adequate returns upon capital is face of the globe as the greatest furni- ture center in the world, is rich in re- sources, with ten banking institutions holding deposits aggregating over $20,- 000, 000, and considered the metropolis of Western Michigan, beautiful, progress- ive and thoroughly metropolitan; and | it is easy to perceive that its six well- organized and splendidly-conducted | wholesale grocery concerns, with ample | capital, doing a large and ever-increas- ing business co-equal with the develop- | ment of Michigan, enjoy to-day all the | prestige and advantages afforded by a/ metropolitan city and well-developed | State. Were I to stop here, what has | been said might be misleading as 1 | have spoken of the inconveniences, the troubles, the trials peculiar to the early jobbing interests of this State, the dis- advantage of lack of railroads, poor credits, scarcity of money, poor trans- | portation facilities, etc., of that time, | munity of interests, a subject that is most perplexing and very difficult to solve under existing conditions. New conditions are being considered, and it is regarded by many | that what is being adopted as the solu- tion of similar troubles, in other great industrial lines, and known as ‘‘com- *’ is the panacea for the wholesale grocers. This problem is being solved by the merging of organi- | zations into greater ones, with large ag- gregations of capital, sufficient to ab- sorb, control and handle the weightiest propositions connected with the busi- ness. The merging of interests seems strictly in harmony with the conditions and necessities of the times in which we live, and to us it is bound tocome; and the greater organizations which shall supplant the smaller ones that now exist in Michigan and throughout the coun- try will, when managed, as they surely | will be, by men of known integrity and as contrasted with the advantages and | facilities now possessed by the whole- sale grocers of Michigan, which repre- sent a most progressive civilization. Considering all these things, your read- ers might well imagine that the whole- sale grocer of Michigan is to-day enjoy- ing a real millennium, but it is not true; for in the wholesale grocery busi- ness here and throughout the Middle States competition has become so se- vere that there is very little profit in the business. This condition is the out- growth of an inordinate desire to in- crease the volume of business,and when trade is secured and increased other than in a legitimate way it is always at the expense of profit. Competition is not only most acute, but it possesses so many illegitimate phases that it has become abominable when exposed to the mirror of mercantile integrity ; and how to correct this and other existing evils, maintain legitimate competition and recognized ability, work injury to no one, but, on the contrary, will add greater dignity to this great industry, which will thus be enabled to contribute its full share in the development of our dome stic and foreign commerce. Sir, a close personal acquaintance of more than twenty years enables me to assure you that you enjoy the confidence of the wholesale grocers of Michigan, and I have the honor of presenting to you their greeting and congratulation on this, the thousandth anniversary issue of the Michigan Tradesman; and may we not hope that the next twenty years may be a period of even greater success—a success commensurate with your untir- ing efforts in the management of that journal of commerce which has done so much to correct evils in trade, to elevate commercial life toa higher plane and 30 teach always the cardinal prin- ciples and methods essential to a suc- cessful business career! © Samuel! M. Lemon, The Working “Japs” Live On Barley. M. Zumuto, editor of the Japanese Times, recently entertained a party of gentlemen in Chicago with some off- hand descriptions of the customs of his country, especially of practices in the business and industrial world there, And when it came to the matter of food his mouth fairly ‘‘watered’’ as he re- counted the things that he and his countrymen eat at home. ‘‘Barley,’’ he said, ‘‘is probably the staple food for fully 6 per cent. of the population of Japan—that is, the peasantry; second in importance are vegetables,and fish comes third. There is a general impression in this country that the Japanese live on rice, but that is not the case. The peasant or small farmer raises rice, barley and wheat, but sells the rice to the cities, ‘‘Barley is far more nutritious than rice, and the country people are a sturdy, long-lived class, among whom persons ninety years of age are frequent- ly found, while seventy and eighty years are usual. Most of the soldiers who have been doing such excellent service in China and Manchuria are from this class, and it would be diffi- cult to find a more hardy and enduring people, ‘‘In the merchant and official class and the nobility the diet differs in the substitution of rice for barley, the use of more fish and the addition of meat to a certain extent. The peasants eat no meat, because they regard cattle with great affection as their friends and help- ers. They would no more think of eat- ng the flesh of a cow or an ox, without which their farming would be impos- sible, than your people would eat a pet animal. This feeling may be the result, in a measure, of their Buddistic reli- gion, whose teachings are most humble. “Some idea of the small proportion that flesh food bears to the entire diet may be gained from the fact that in 1899 the number of cattle killed was 47,000 head. This quantity was used by about 6,000,000 of the people, the re- mainder of the population of about 45,- 000,000 belonging to the peasant class, ‘‘The peasants work in the field from sunrise to sunset, but they never seem to be exhausted by their long day. The city workers at trades, the journeymen and apprentices, work from 6 in the morning tog or 10 p. m. They work in a more leisurely manner than in this country, however, stopping every hour or two to lie down fora smoke. Their pipes are so small that they hold only two or three whiffs of tobacco, but that is sufficient to rest them, and the few minutes of cheerful chat refreshes them. They are not as rugged as the country people, partly because of city condi- tions, and partly because they eat more rice than barley. “The work of the factory hands is regulated by the government. Their day is from eight to ten hours, including time for meals, They eat eggs and bar- ley, as they wish. Wheat is seldom eaten by the poorer classes in the city. Sometimes they have it, but never oftener than once a week. The runners eat about the same diet, perbaps with a larger proportion of barley. That the average diet is well adapted to nourish- ing the whole body seems certain, from the fact that strong teeth and abundant hair are characteristic of all classes. Baldness is a rarity and th people re- tain their teeth to old age.’” ————> 4 In advertisement writing, as in every- thing else, there is one most important thing—the genius covers it and most of the other points, while the freak lays such stress on an unimportant detail that you never see the point, a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 See nrenrservrrierreee rns rateerr nr rTr ON Or ore We Want Estimates To Figure On Send us the specifications of your wooden boxes, shooks, nailed up or lock cornered and we will send you prices f. o. b. your station that will please you, workmanship considered. ‘The time taken is money well spent. 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Because of the fabulous fortunes that have been made by a few pioneers in the manufacture of so-called ‘‘health foods,’’ a veritable craze for exploiting new formulas, or copying, as nearly as possible, the old ones, has taken pos- session of the investing public, and there is no lack of wily, oily-tongued pro- moters to fan the flame. Would it not be well, therefore, to sit down quietly and figure and reason out the probable result,based upon the facts and the light of experience? It is a well-known axiom that a busi- ness of any kind built up upon fraud, misrepresentation and false pretense can have but one final ending. The people may be fooled by sophistry and mis-statement temporarily, but ‘‘Truth crushed to earth will rise again’’ and the flattering success of to- day, built upon imposture and deceit, will as surely be an ignominious failure to-morrow. What are the facts concerning wheat, wheat flour and bread as compared with health feods and the various breakfast food preparations now flooding the mar- ket? Let us examine Government experts and scientific, unbiased witnesses, who can and do speak with authority. Dr. Robert C. Kedzie, late of the Mich- igan Agricultural College, once said: Of the products of the soil, no single material outranks wheat in importance as human food. From earliest times, it was the food of the most powerful and enlightened nations and to-day the wheat eaters rule the world. The quantity of phosphorus and com- bined nitrogen in the wheat gives it al- most dynamic power as a storehouse of force. In nourishing quality, wheat stands at the head of the grains. ‘‘Bread Strengthened man’s heart’’ and ‘‘The stout-hearted nations are the bread eaters."' While wheat forms a food of the high- est quality, it is practically the cheap- est. Some novelties in food to take the place of bread have recently been intro- duced and persistently advertised. They are mainly made from wheat and some are appetizing and whole- some, while others are extolled beyond their merits. One fatal objection to these foods is that they cost too much for ordinary food for stalwart men, One pound of flour, costing 2% cents, equals in food value any of these prep- arations, costing 15 cents. The price for equivalent food values is more than six times too high. Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, of Michigan University, says: The economic value of a food is meas- ured by the kind and amount of food principles that can be bought for a unit of money. In this country, we depend largely upon bread for our carbohydrate food, and we get along with the carbo- hydrate in bread and a smaller amount of proteid material. There is no bread substitute used in this country which supplies these food principles in more palative or nutritive form than bread. Bread substitutes may be used oc- casionally in order to get variety of taste, but it should always be held in mind that wheat bread is the most pal- atable, most nutritious and most eco- nomic form in which we can obtain our carbohydrate food. Sir Wm. Crookes, of London, says: If bread fails, not only us, but all the bread eaters of the world, what are we to do? We are born bread eaters. The accummulated experience of civilized mankind has set wheat apart as the fit and proper food for the development of muscle and brains. Prof. Harry Snyder says: Much of the health food literature of the present day will probably be as in- teresting a century from now as the al- chemists’ tales of two centuries ago, who believed that the ‘‘elixir of life’’ was hidden away somewhere in the gtains,and diligent efforts were made by them to extract it. The claims made for nearly ali cereal health foods may be summarized as follows: 1. The presence of a large amount of nutrients, variously called proteids, glu- tens, nitrogenous compounds, albumi- noids, muscle and flesh forming com- — occasionally they are called ife-giving tissue, renewing or vital nutrients. 2. The nutrients are said to be read- ily digested, partially cooked, pre- digested, or given some undescribed treatment, which is supposed to make them more valuable for food. 3. A large amount of phosphates is claimed and the value of phosphates for brain and nerve energy is dwelt upon at length, Often the way in which the wheat densed food,’’ ‘‘that four heaping tea- spoons of Grape Nuts are sufficient for the average meal,’’ and ‘‘that the sys- tem will absorb a greater amount of nourishment from one pound of Grape Nuts than from ten pounds of meat, wheat, oats or bread.’’ Director Chas. D. Woods and F. H. Merrill, of the University of Maine, give the analysis and food value of Grape Nuts in the fifteenth annual re- port of that institution. They say it would take three-fourths of a package of Grape Nuts to furnish one-third of the protein needed for one day fora man at moderate work. As to the nour- ishment in four heaping teaspoons, they give the following figures: Protein. Fuel Value. Pounds. Calories. Needed for one-third day by a man at moderate —-...... 07 1,175 Furnished ‘by four ‘heap- jug teaspoons, or one ounce of Grape Nuts... -009 17 They also give the pound of protein health foods are advertised is to decry white wheat flour and laud whole wheat preparations. Tests, however, have shown that white patent flour contains more avail- able nutrients than coarser, granulated flours, such as entire wheat or graham. Statements, actually criminal, are made maligning white wheat flour, and all possible means are taken by some health food manufacturers to create a prejudice against its use, None of the wheat health foods are in any way superior in nutritive value to white bread, made from patent flours, and many of them are inferior because they are made from wheats that will not make strong flour. The poorer wheats that will not make good bread are commonly used for mak- ing health foods. The Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., which manufactures Grape Nuts, makes the preposterous claim that it is ‘‘a con and fuel value of one pound of Grape Nuts compared with ten pounds of beef, rolled wheat, wheat flour, rolled oats and white bread: Protein. Fuel Value. Pounds. Calories. ii. Grape Nuis......._. 12 1.870 10 Ib. Round Steak, includ- meee 8.950 10 1b. Beef Rump, includ- oe -29 14 050 10 lb. Rolled Wheat....... 1.01 17.650 10 ib. Wheat Flour........ 1.31 16.450 10 ib. Holied Oate...:...... 1.98 19.650 10 Ib. White Bread........ .80 12.200 While there is no question that Grape Nuts is a good cereal food, it is difficult to understand why the manufacturers should make claims so absurd and con- trary to facts, This illustration is cited simply to show to what length advertisers will go for the sake of working upon the sym- pathies and prejudices of the people and shows conclusively what becomes of the extravagant and most astounding claims made for the nostrums, cereal fads and bread substitutes when placed under the searchlight of analysis. At this point, however, it would be fair to state that some manufacturers of health foods conduct a clean, honor- able campaign of advertising, seeking to build up their own business without villifying pure flour and making mali- cious statements about other good foods, and, as a rule, their foods have merit and they deserve success; on the other hand, the villifier and maligner of pur- ified wheat flour—‘‘the cheapest and best food under the sun’’—has nothing worthy of consideration to offer, hence he must constantly seek new victims for his villainous compounds under false colors. 1 find in the United States Agricul- tural Bulletin, No. 13: The ideal flour for breadmaking is one which contains a sufficient quantity of gluten to produce a porous and spongy loaf, but not one which permits an excessive quantity of moisture to be incorporated in the loaf itself. When the best methods of breadmaking are followed, it can not be said that the hard spring wheats produce a better variety of bread than the soft winter wheats. The excellent quality of French bread is an evidence of the fact that soft winter wheats are capable, with proper manipulation, of furnishing the highest grade of bread, for it can not be denied that the very best bread in the world is made from the soft winter wheats of France. I find that much of the advertising done by the self-styled pure food manu- facturers is willfully and maliciously false and, not only so, but we hold those who willfully villify and malign pure wheat flour should be held responsible in a criminal court. These false and misleading state- ments have been the means of ta ing, in the aggregate, thousands of dollars from the pockets of a misguided public and putting them in the pockets of food fakirs, who are doping the people with their quack nostrums at a net profit to themselves of from 100 to 500 per cent. Such a procedure is worse than high- way robbery, because the injury does not stop with the loss of money by the pur- chasers, but jeopardizes the health of the community and the State. if allowed to continue unchecked, all sorts of formulas and concoctions will be foisted upon the public, so prepared as to tickle the palate and create a craving for more, and just as surely and insidiously injure the health of the consumer as a poisonous, villainous ‘| cigarette, It is high time, therefore, that wise National laws were enacted to protect the innocent purchaser of prepared foods, who has no means of determining their value or contents. These laws should provide a heavy penalty for violation of the provision that every package of food have printed thereon in plain, read- able type, a complete chemical analysis of its contents. Such analysis should be made by competent chemists in the employ of the Government and any im- pure or unwholesome preparations should be reported and disbarred by the provisions ike law. In summing up the evidence on this subject, so complete and convincing, we are brought face to face with the facts that there isa woeful lack of intelli- gence in reference to real food values and that people, asa rule, are guided in the selection of food, not by actual knowledge of what it is worth or what is best for them, but ina haphazard sort of fashion, by ,the sophistry of food venders or by fancy, whim or caprice. In eating, as in every other function of life, our tastes, inclinations and ap- petites should not always be pampered and fostered, but educated along right lines of healthful, nourishing diet. As a people, we are not half awake yet to the importance of the pure food and proper food problem, and what it means to us as a nation. We find the agricui- turists discussing and figuring out what is termed a baianced ration for their live stock and yet we hear but little about it for humanity. Fortunately, a beginning has been made in this direction in our public schools and doubtless the rising genera- tion will be better informed, but there is room for vastly improved methods and a much more insistent, healthful regime in the home, William N. Rowe. ee end MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 FOTO TOT TPT oT nT enneorennennenrennenrennenneeneen renner een een ren rene rrr rere nen nen neD ernie Nz Established 1872. Incorporated 1890. Lemon & Wheeler Company One of the Oldest and Largest Wholesale Grocers in Western Michigan’ controlling the distribution of the following well-known brands: WAAbddeddddddddddd oom “Forget Me Not” Japan Teas, Thompson & Taylor Spice Co.'s “Diamond” Coffees, Bay State Milling Co.'s Wingold Flour, King Cole White Tar Soap, Coal Oil Johnny Soap, Acme Canned Tomatoes, “Rapid” Canned Tomatoes, Seward Fancy Red Alaska Salmon, Lakeside Canned Peas, “Climax” Extra Fancy Canned Corn, Imperial Fancy Canned Corn, Simon Pure Spices and Extracts, Acme Cheese, T. & T. Package Spices, Viking Package Oats, Simon Pure Lard. Largest Importers of Ceas Being conveniently situated near the Union depot, we most cordially invite all mer- chants visiting Grand Rapids to confer upon us the pleasure of calling at our establishment when in the city, to the end that closer relationship may be cultivated to our mutual benefit. —— o- e— e- ee e— e— eo _ — eo oe e— o-— tan e— oo ee e— ea e— eo —— eo— — —— eo eo oo eo-— e— — e— e— a e-— e— it — ~~ eo~ e— e— = e-— eo — e— oe = eo — eo eo-— eo —" eo— — — o— oe — e— eo eo oe —— a a — —— e— e— eo eo— ee si e-— e— eo eo— e— -— e— ee — -— ee oo a — oe oe —— e— e— — eo = ee as- P e have the best as GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN sortment we ever carried in the following lines: = Box Makers Die Cutters Printers Dolls Rugs Ribbons Brushes Perfumes Hand Mirrors Lace Curtains Handkerchiefs Fancy Cushions Neckties Suspenders Mufflers ” eB a aig” Rugs from Old Carpets § A HT R U Cc S Retailer of Fine Rugs and Carpets. { Seite 2 Absolute cleanliness is our hobby as well Sam as our endeavor to make rugs better, closer woven, more durable than others. 4 We cater to first class trade and if you write for our 16 page illustrated booklet Sterling Silver Novelties Xmas Novelties POLES eS) ROSAS RAS Come in and inspect our line before placing your order. P. Steketee & Sons WHOLESALE DRY GOODS GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN RARAaAASSAA SA SASASA SASS! Made From Old Carpets Any size desired at small cost. Price list and in- fermation as to amount of carpet required free. Michigan Rug Co. 43-5 8. Madison St., Battle Creek, Mich it will make you better acquainted with our methods and new process. We have noagents. We paythefreight. Largest looms in United States. Petoskey Rug Mfg. & Carpet Co., Limited 455-457 Mitchell St., Petoskey, Mich. ee eR ee ee ee ee SASS SA SASSI) CASES 6s MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers _ Importance of Supplying Suitable Shoes For the Children. There is a store in New York City which does an enormous business in selling wearing apparel for children only, and one of the most important of its lines is children’s shoes. This con- cern numbers among its customers thousands of mothers who would not think of going elsewhere to supply their children with footwear. We believe we can state without hesitancy that this store probably sells more pairs of good shoes for children than any specialty shoe store in the city, and the success which it has attained in this branch can only be attributed to the same principles which are maintained throughout the entire establishment—namely, the sup- plying of footwear and apparel for chil- dren which shall fit, wear well and give better satisfaction than the merchandise generally sold. The theory that any- thing will do in children’s footwear, so long as it is strong and will wear, has been disapproved by this establishment. It might be said that the majority of parents want service when buying chil- dren’s shoes. This is true, but service is not necessarily compatible with ugly, coarse, mis-shaped footwear, the only virtue of which is solidity and strength. Probably one-half the ills to which the human foot is heir have come from careless fitting of shoes on chil- dren. The boy or girl is trotted into a store by its mother or father, and the first pair of shoes handy is put on by the saleman, who is anxious to make a sale, and so long as the price seems attract- ive to the ‘‘power behind the purse’’ nothing else is considered. The young- ster, not having discretion enough to know whether the shoe fits properly or not, and having become schooled in the belief that a new shoe must necessarily be tight and uncomfortable until it is broken in, says nothing; or if he does raise some objection about the shoe be- ing too tight or uncomfortable he is airily waived one side, and the matter is settled between the parent and the salesman, who are both anxious to close the transaction as quickly as possible. If a shoe dealer were in business for a week or a month any expedient to get rid of goods quickly might be feasible, but the boy of Io or 12 years soon be- comes a young man, and at 16 or 18 has something to say about his footwear. If he has learned to look upon visits to a certain shoe store with horror, by reason of the torture and agony which he has been compelled to endure every time a new pair of shoes was needed while he was a youngster, it is hardly possible that he is going to be anxious about purchasing his shoes at the same estab- lishment when he comes to havea voice in the matter. The foot of a child is more susceptible to pressure and feels the agony of ill-fitting shoes to a much greater extent than that of an older per- son. The corns and bunions of mature age can generally be traced to the care- less, slip-shod methods by which the footwear needs of the child were at- tended to. We believe there is a better policy than the one which promotes this tend- ency. Intelligent fathers and mothers are commencing to learn that it pays well to seek out a store which gives careful attention to the proper footwear needs of children. They are recom- mending such stores to one another and telling how much better shoes pur- chased there look and wear than those which were formerly picked up hap- hazard. The children, released from torture and careless fitting, beg and im- plore that their shoes come from this particular store, and painstaking, care- ful furtherance of this idea on the part of the merchant who sees the drift of the children's footwear business of his town coming toward his store will help to clinch this business for himself in a manner that will make it impossible fora competitor to make inroads. This policy is not only putting the children’s shoe business at his own store on an en- tirely new plane, but he is laying the foundation of a future business of tre- mendous value. To build up sucha children’s shoe business is a_ trade triumph. It can not be brought about by ordinary methods, The greatest pains must be taken in selecting lines which are built on the proper propor- tions. The lasts must be selected with even greater care than is given to the purchases of ordinary lines of men’s and women’s shoes. Fit, leather and serv- ice must be the three cardinal prin- ciples laid down to the manufacturer wko shall supply these goods. The cheap, poor, shoddy shoe, which has no virtue except the extremely low price, must be relegated to oblivion,or else kept down so that it will only be forth- coming when it is impossible to sell the customer the proper kind and quality. Salesmen must be educated to show people that one pair of shoes properly fitted and of the right build and stock will give the service of two pairs of the cheaper kinds, the combined price of which would more than exceed the cost of a single pair of the better grade. We believe this to be an actual fact. It is said that some children wear out a pair of shoes in two weeks, and all blame for it is laid on the youngster, who is supposed to be unnaturally hard on his footwear. Does the father or mother who com- plains so bitterly about the number of pairs of shoes they have to buy for the youngsters ever look into the quality of the shoe that is forced on the little one’s foot? Does the salesman in the store ever try to show the poor economy of buying a low-grade shoe which is pos- sibly one-third paper cr leather substi- tute? Does the shoe dealer ever call his clerks together and point out to them the necessity of more careful and con- scientious attention to the needs of the coming generation in the way of foot- wear and urge them to push the better grades? Does the shoe dealer himself take the trouble to see how good a shoe he can buy for his children’s trade, or does he try to squeeze the price down from the | present figures, already too low to give the sort of shoe that American boys and girls ought to wear? The children’s shoe business is an important branch of the industry, Mr. Retailer. Mutual helpfulness between manufacturer and retailer in improving the standard and quality of the chil- dren's shoes now sold can not help but have its effect on the customer, and the shoe retailer who is the first to take steps to bring about a radical reform in the children’s shoe business will reap a corresponding reward.--Shoe Retailer. —_-~s>>_____ Hard Proposition. ‘“Brace up,’’ said the leader of the suffrage club, ‘‘and we will yet prove that we can wear masculine attire.’’ ‘‘That’s the trouble,’’ sighed the pretty little blonde. ‘‘We can’t brace up because we can’t wear suspenders, ’’ Shinola The finest Shoe Polish made. Gives a lasting Shine. Water does not affect it. One gross large (10 cent size), $10.00. 5 per cent. off. Free With each gross, a fine Oriental Rug, 36x72. Just what you want in your shoe department. Write now. birth, Krause § Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. The Flying Machine would no doubt be a good thing for man, but as long as he’s got to keep his feet on the ground shoe him with a pair of our Hard Pan Shoes—wear like iron. They’ll give him longer service than any other shoe made out of leather. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Makers of Shoes, Grand Rapids, Mich. NOT AT ALL OFFENSIVE SCW. S¢ CIGAR “Tae CELEBRATED Sweet Loma ‘ot TOBACCO. NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO CO. (Against the Trust. ) fe eg, sides ig € 5 2 4 Es eiidieg uk Ce olde eRah a: sonnet Dacia MOR AALS REE. 8 MICHIGAN aie /j Ce, Ui tans A for TRADESMAN YOU WILL FIND This cut on all our cartons. We stand behind our assertions; if goods are not as represented, remember that the railroad runs both ways. We will send the following shoes on approval because we know you can not better them. ‘‘Honesty is the best policy,’’ so we are honest in what we advertise. Three of our good things made by us at our Northville factory are: No. 236. Men’s Boarded Calf, Heavy % D S., Brass Stand, Screw, French, Bals...........$1 50 No. 230. Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip, Brass Stand, Screw, French, Bals.... 1 60 No. 231. Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip, Brass Stand, Screw, Tipped, Bals.... 1 60 Each pair with a guarantee tag attached The Rodgers Shoe Company, Toledo, Ohio FACTORY, NORTHVILLE, MICH. Your Orders in now for Hoop and OLp CoLtony RuvuBBERS. 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. Weare the main push on the above goods for this part of the country. The L. A. Dudley Rubber Co. Battle Creek, Mich. We would be pleased to have every shoe merchant in the State carefully inspect and compare our “Custom Made Shoes” with any they may be handling. The season is fast ap- proaching when such a line as ours will meet the de- mands of those who are looking for a FIRST CLASS WORKING SHOE Waldron, Alderton & Melze, A postal card to us will bring the line to you. Saginaw, Michigan seme Push Our Hard Pan Shoe with Your Trade It will surprise you how its good wearing and fit- ting qualities will help your business. None genuine without our trade mark on the sole. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Mich. Original Makers Mr. Retailer Our line is complete. Salesmen will call soon. Wait for our Ladies’ specialties; they retail at v % $2 & $2.50 The Lacy Made in | Shoe Company All Leathers R R Caro, Mich. Mayer’s Shoes for the FARMER, MINER, LABORER, etc., are made of strong and tough leather. They are reliable in every respect and are guaranteed to give satisfactory wear. Dealers who want to sell shoes that give the best satisfac- tion and bring new trade want our line. Write for particulars. F. MAYER BOOT & SHOE CO., Milwaukee, Wis. ZO MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Butter and Eggs _ Observations by a Gotham Egg Man, A considerable falling off in the aver- age quality of our receipts of fresh gathered eggs has lately been notice- able. Prior to the first of November fresh stock that would just pass the re- quirements of the rules as firsts (65 per cent. fresh) would hardly pass muster with buyers at top prices and there were a number of lots of closely graded Western that would run up to 75@8o per cent. comparatively new eggs. For this reason the Egg Committee decided to maintain the requirement of full fresh eggs at 65 per cent. to pass as firsts after November 1, although the printed egg rules provided for a reduction of the standard to 50 per cent. on and after November 1. But the average quality of receipts has lately fallen so much that it now takes unusually good stock to pass in- Spection as firsts under the present rule and we shall not be surprised if the rule is soon put back to a 50 per cent. stand- ard. The hardening tendency now notice- able in fine fresh eggs is confined pretty closely to the very highest and good medium grades. It will be remembered that last year there was a difference of about roc per dozen between the finest fresh eggs and the best refrigerators late in November, and that that differ- | ence was maintained in December. It. must also be considered that the position of refrigerator eggs was generally re- garded as stronger last year in Noveni- ber and December than is now the case. It would seem reasonable to expect the present difference in prices of fresh and held goods to increase as the season advances, and for the near future, at least, we may expect this to be attained by an advance in fresh rather than by a decline in refrigerators, We are now approaching the season of naturally lightest supplies of new eggs. No matter what the weather conditions may be we can expect only a smal! production of eggs until the spring crop of poultry begins to lay; this does not usually give any material increase in production until December and then only in the event of favorable weather in the Southerly and Southwestern sec- tions where the pullets are the most ad- vanced in maturity, + The natural upward tendency in high grade fresh eggs is not likely to be in- terfered with materially by any slaughter of refrigerator holdings in the near fu- ture. Although the refrigerator out- look is evidently less favorable than it was at this time last year the situation is one that may be saved by a cold win- ter and a late beginning of new crop production; until the scale of winter production is indicated by December conditions there will doubtless be a waiting policy on the part of the ma- jority of refrigerator holders, Very like- ly the offerings will continue free enough for all demands at about pres- ent range of prices, but we think the natural strength of the position on new eggs will sustain values of held stock even under a comparatively slow reduc- tion, until signs of increased production in the South and Southwest shake con- fidence.—N,. Y. Produce Review. +> Timely Hints on Raising Turkeys For Markot. A great many people have quit raising turkeys because they did not find them profitable, and the reason they were not profitable was not due to the turkeys but the way in which they handled and marketed them. If you ask a farmer whether his turkeys are in good condi- tion for market,he almost invariably re- plies, ‘They ought to be; they have been running with the fattening hogs.’’ Our experience, however, is that ina case of this kind the fattening hogs get the corn and become fat while the tur- keys get very little of it and come to market in only fair condition; nothing like what they should be. To fatten a turkey it should be fed shell corn or other grain until accustomed to heavy feed and then it should be penned for about two weeks and given plenty of grain, good water, lime and gravel. Never put a turkey directly from grass feed into a pen on grain feed. The turkeys should: not be expected to find their own feed nor sbeil their own corn, for while they will find enough to keep reasonably healthy they will not get fat. A variety of grains will prove benefi- cial, Western people do not realize the advantage of fattening turkeys. It in- creases the value of the turkey per pound and also materially increases the weight. It will pay just as well to fat- ten a turkey as it will to fatten a hog, and no farmer thinks of selling a hog without first fattening it. Again when it comes to marketing the turkeys, farmers seem to depend more upon what their neighbors are doing than on their own judgment and the advice of the dealer, and when one sells they all sell, which makes the supply of turkeys come in all at once instead of being marketed with reference to the facilities of the dealer to handle them. In bringing turkeys to market the tur- keys should be tied in bunches of three or four and this tying should be done about the feet. Never tie the wings. Then these bunches of turkeys should be laid in the bottom of the wagon bed on a good bed of straw. This is the best way to market turkeys and will prevent them. becoming bruised or smothered in bringing to town. Ifa farmer will raise a good grade of tur- keys and fatten them and market them properly there is good money in them, Arthur Jordan, se Suggesting an Improvement. The fellow with the wagon-load of cabbages started to drive across the track when the big red street car was about twenty-five feet away. By shutting off the power instantly and applying the brake with all his might the motorman succeeded in stop- ping the car just in time to avoid a col- lision, ‘“Ye blamed fool!’’ he yelled to the man in the wagon, ‘‘let one o’ the other cabbage heads drive!’’ 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. Thanksgiving Poultry SHIP To LAMSON & CO., BOSTON Ask the Tradesman about us. Hyde, Wheeler Company 4! North Market Street and 41 Clinton Street BOSTON Strictly Commission Merchants its our e are able to give consignme! Consequently w undivided attention. We want shipments of POULTRY AND EGGS You can n u ¢ you the market price and remit promptly. Write for stencils, information relative to ad- vish to know about our line. We do oard of Trade Bldg., Boston. When you write mention the *t make a very big mistake if you give us a few trial shipments. We will give vances or anyt our banking with the Fourth National, Tradesman. SHIP YOUR BUTTER AND ECCS nine ci R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH. and be sure of getting the Highest Market Price. Sweet Potatoes, Cranberries, Oranges, New Nuts, Figs and Dates We are headquarters for these goods. We want Potatoes, Onions, Apples and Beans. The Vinkemulder Company, Commission Merchants 14-16 Ottawa Street Grand Rapids, Michigan Cold Storage This is the time of year to store your Apples. Why not put them where they are sure to come out as good as when picked? Save shrinkage and sorting by Storing with us. We also store Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Meats. Liberal advances on produce stored with us, where desired. Rates reasonable. Write for information. Grand Rapids Cold Storage & Sanitary Milk Zo. Grand Rapids, Michigan —sth Ain TRE ALLEN LIGHT, MRS. BY - 'MB-ALLEN GAS LIGHT CO., BATTLE CREEK, MICH. . Bellevue, Mich., Sept. 2, 1902. Allen Gas Light Company, Battle Creek, Mich. Gentlemen—I have used your Little Giant Gas machine for about two months. Prior to this I have used two other makes of gas machines with not very good results. Iean say for your ma- chine that it gives a better light, with less breakage and trouble, than any machine I have ever seen. As you know, I light two stores, fifteen lights. and it takes about four galions of gasoline every three nights. I think that I have the best lighted store in the State of Michigan. Trusting that you may have good success, I remain, Truly yours, B. D. VAUGHAN, ik a scoala = = ee ae ee sessile pte BI Gees: War abio eS ea WS hee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7h Phil Hilber Jobber of Oleomargarine 109 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan I have State agency for several manufacturers and am prepared to quote factory prices. We are in the market for CLOVER, ALSYKE BEANS, PEAS, POP CORN, ETC. If any to offer write us. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 24 AND 26 N. DIVISION ST., 20 AND 22 OTTAWA ST. EGGS WANTED We want several thousand cases eggs for storage, and when you have ary to offer write for prices or call us up by phone if we fail to quote you. Butter We can handle all you send us. WHEELOCK PRODUCE CO. 106 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Citizens Phone 3232. Beans The bean market is very active. I can handle all you can ship me. Will pay highest price. rite or telephone me for prices and particulars ¢. D. Crittenden, 98 S. Div. St., Grand Rapids Both Phones 1300 SEEDS Clover and Timothy—all kinds of Grass Seeds. MOSELEY BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST. E. S. Alpaugh & Co. Commission Merchants 16 to 24 Bloomfield St. 17 to 23 Loew Avenue West Washington Market New York Specialties: Poultry, Eggs, Dressed Meats and Provisions. 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 Bank, 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 POTATOES Carlots only wanted. Highest market price. State variety and quality. H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Long Distance Telephones—Citizens 2417 304 & 305 Clark Building, Bell Main 66 Opposite Union Depot GOOGDOOOGOOOOGHOGOOGHOOOGHGOOOGOOH Butter I always Want 1. E. F. Dudley Owosso, Mich. OOOOOGOOOOODOOHOO OOO OO GOGOOOOOD a SESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOSSSS SHSSSSSSSSSESOSSHSOSHSOS PLP POPPI IPI III POULTRY CRATES — —- Shippers of poultry will be interested in knowing that we are putting on the market erates made especially for poultry. They are made of seasoned elm, are strong, light and well ventilated. We have had nothing but words of praise from those shippers who have used them. Ask us to send you booklet giving full information and prices. WILCOX BROTHERS, CADILLAG, MICH. PPAPPARPPADA RADDA PADD ADDALDOAD PEPPPREREPPPOE CEP PRA Ne BE BE BB BBE BB BE Bs a SD GE GE a BUTTER EGGS POULTRY We expect to double our sales of poultry this winter. Why? Because all our old shippers will stick to us and this advertise- ment will do the rest. Wecan handle your poultry as well as any one and better than many. We are headquarters for Eggs and Butter. Give us a trial. Prompt and honest returns. 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 SEE EB BEB BD BD BB. BD. BE BD BD. DD a a WHOLESALE OYSTERS WE QUOTE YOU THIS WEEK SE ee ee ee ee a ee Se se ee es se Selects, percan, 23 cents Selects, per gallon, - . $1.60 Anchors, percan, 20 cents Perfection Standards. per gallon, 1.15 Standards, per can, 18 cents Standards, per gallon, - . 1.10 Favorites, per can, 16 cents Clams, per gallon, - - S| as DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN PEOPLES Savings Bank of Grand Rapids, Michigan Assets over $2,000,000 Pays 3% per cent. on Deposits wt OFFICERS THOMAS HEFFERAN, President WM. ALDEN SMITH, Vice President SAMUEL M. LEMON, Vice President CHARLES B. KELSEY, Cashier M. D. HOOGESTEGER, Ass’t Cashier & DIRECTORS THomas HEFFERAN Cuaries B. KeEtsty A. D. RaTHBONE Wn. H. Gay Wms. ALDEN SMITH DupiLey E. Waters W. H. ANDERSON Curistian Bertscu Joun Murray EvuceNne D. Concer Cuas. W. GarrFiELp REUBEN HatcuH Joun W. Biopcerr J. Boyp PantLinp SAMUEL M. Lemon iia IMs RS sae RE in ft nay Ea aa Ra TAS Wok RLY Hea tie x DEERE wf i TN EC RNR MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 73 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Gri President, en A. WESTON, nsing; Sec- retary, S. Brown, Safiinaw; Treasurer, JOHN We SCHRAM, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint; Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hilisdale: Grand freasunes, ‘OM M. . EDELMAN, Saginaw. Grand Rapids Council Na - 131, 0. ¢. T. Senior Counselor, W. BURNS; Secretary Treasurer, L. F. Baker. Gripsack Brigade. A wise man does not need advice, and a fool will not take it. Never interrupt a buyer who is open- ing his mail. It is exasperating. A salesman will not be expected to do the impossible, but will be asked to recognize and do more possible things, ‘and to waste neither time nor energy on the impossible. It is easier to instruct a salesman in what he should not do than in what he should do, yet if he will avoid the evils pointed out to him, he will be more like- ly to do right than wrong. Some salesmen have a penchant for ‘‘nursing their trade.’’ The great trouble arises from keeping it too long at the bottle. The house can not afford to pay for the milk. A ‘‘grown up’’ trade is more profitable. Jonesville Independent: Percival Sibley, in the employ of F. L. Burdick & Co., of Sturgis, for the last few years, severed his connection with that firm last week and goes on the road for the Walker Co., of Buffalo, manufac- turer of boots and shoes. Notwithstanding Dun’s or Bradstreet’s ratings a customer may show signs of weakness which an experienced sales- man can detect almost by intuition. He should be prompt in advising his house of any circumstance which might have a bearing on the credit of a customer. The interests of his house are also the salesman's interests. Big Rapids Herald: Claude Carlisle, the trustworthy and obliging young gentleman who the past four or five years has been M. M. Brackney’s right band man, has resigned his position in this city to accept a more lucrative po- sition as traveling salesman for the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., of Grand Rap- ids. He enters upon his new duties next Monday and will remain in the factory a week or more until he becomes acquainted with the business methods of the house before starting on the road. Modern business methods are crowd- ing out the vocation of sample carry- ing. Dozens of men used to linger about the hotels of the big towns and cities on the lookout for the job of carrying drummers’ cases. Travelers having valuable goods are unwilling to intrust them to any man they may pick up on the street, and insist that hotel managers furnish them men on whom they can rely. Photography is another enemy of the carriers,as photographs in many instances serve fully as well as the goods themselves. Another plan has reduced the volume of baggage still further where pottery, chinaware and fancy glass drummers are concerned. The samples in these lines are ‘‘shells’’ or ‘‘masks,’’ simply the front halves of the vessels, and made so thin and light that a great many of them can be car- ried in small space. The segments of the vases and other things carried rep- resent the principal part of the design and decoration and give to the experi- enced dealer a perfect idea of just what the goods are. A system in vogue in many cities by which the out-of-town merchant’s fare to and from the city is paid if he makes a purchase of a cer- tain amount has depleted the ranks of the drummers themselves, ey The Boys Behind the Counter. Bay Shore—Marion Burnett, formerly with W. J. Clarke & Son, of Harbor Springs, has been engaged to take charge of the grocery department of the Bay Shore Lime Co, W. S. Atwood, who has been with that house fora number of years as general clerk, has been placed in charge of the other de- partments, with the exception of the meat market, which is under the charge of Frank Van Schoick, who has also been with the house for a number of years. Port Huron—Henry Saety is now con- nected with the wholesale grocery store of Silas Armstrong. Elk Rapids—Fred Marriott has re- signed his position with the Butler Gro- cery Co, and is now in the employ of the Elk Rapids pharmacy. Menominee—James Lahaie, who ‘has clerked in the clothing store of E. A. Devall for the past five years, has taken the management of the wholesale furnishing goods store of G. H. Nicholas & Co, Sturgis—J. Peterson, of Webster City, la., has taken a position as salesman in the dry goods department of F. L. Burdick & Co.'s store. Alma—Arthur Downing, of Harbor Springs, has taken the position of clerk at the drug store of Sharrar & Mulhol- land. Port Huron—Fred A. Baker, for sev- eral years connected with Shields’ gro- cery store, has taken a position as book- keerer for R. C. Burton & Co. Cedar Springs—Elbert Wagar is head clerk in the grocery store of Mrs. Jennie A. Davis. Lansing—W. G. Manning, for the past four years with the dry goods establish- ment of Burnham & Co., has taken a position with Mandel Bros., of Chicago. oO Not Without Friends at Home. Bay City, Nov. 15—At a special meet- ing of Post D, Michigan Knights of the Grip, heid Saturday evening, Nov. 8, the following resolutions were unani- mously and enthusiastically adopted: Whereas—Our esteemed brother and co-worker, George H. Randall, is about to retire from the directorate of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, after four years’ service; and Whereas—He has ever worked, in and out of season, at all times and_ places, under all conditions and circumstances, for the propagation and advancement of the principles of the order; and Whereas—We believe that our order can ill afford to lose the official services of such an experienced member; and that such long and faithful service should be fittingly recognized and re- warded by our order; therefore be it Resolved—That Post D, M. K. of G., in meeting assembled, unanimous'y en dorse Brother George H. Randall for President of the Michigan Knights of the Grip for 1903; be it further Resolved—That the Post do all in its power to further his candidacy and that we pledge ourselves, individually and collectively, to use all legitimate means to bring about his election to this office. Resolved—That these resolutions be spread on the minutes of this Post and copies be transmitted to the various posts of the State, to the local press and to the trade journals of Michigan. Oe There is a report to the effect that an English publisher is bringing out a book in which the Smith family, with all its ramifications, is to be traced. Enterprising publisher ! He probably expects every man of the name of Smith to subscribe for or buy the book, Too Late to Classify. Lyons—The Ash-Harper Co. is con- sidering the removal of its factory to Mt. Pleasant, where $14,000 has been subscribed in the shape of additional capital stock, conditional on the change of location being made. Belding—Wilson & Sinclair, planing mill and lumber operators, have dis- solved partnership, W. D. Sinclair re- tiring. The business will be continued by R. E. Wilson & Co., with Robert Wilson as active manager, Pontiac—R. D. Scott & Co. will shortly put on an extra force of men, in- creasing the capacity of the factory to the utmost. The output for the present year will reach 12,000 vehicles, averag- ing one about every sixteen minutes for the working days of the year. Birch Creek—Michael Krick, owner of the Birch Creek cheese factory, has discontinued operations for the season. He has handled about 400,000 pounds of milk and has made about 40,000 pounds of cheese, which sold for about $4,400. This is the first season in the history of the factory. Mr. Krick ex- pects to double his output next year. St. James—The Beaver Island Lum- ber Co., which was recently organized with a capital stock of $75,000, has pur- chased the plant of W. F. Gill, and will at once proceed to survey and grade a narrow gauge railroad leading into its newly acquired timber lands, formerly known as the McCrea lands, a tract of over 8,000 acres of cedar, hemlock and | bardwood. Cadillac—John S. Goldie and Paul | Johnson, who have been engaged in the | lumber business for many years, and| john H. Manning, a superintendent of | the plant of the Cadillac Handle Co., have formed a copartnership under the | what almost every church | imous vote, style of Goldie, Johnson & Manning and purchased a sawmill plant at Bag- nall. The new concern has already contracted for the cutting of one million feet of logs and will begin operations within three or four weeks. Howell—The Central Machine & En- gine Co., of Detroit, has submitted a proposition to the citizens of this place to remove its plant here and manufac- ture gasoline engines and tool holders. The company will employ from twenty- five to fifty men at the beginning. A committee was appointed to confer with the company and satisfactory terms have been agreed upon. It now re- mains for the village to back up the agreement, which it will doubtless do. re Queer charges are sometimes brought against clergymen with a view of in- ducing them to seek other fields. Such a case is reported from Denver, the pas- tor being Rev. Bruce Brown, of the Cen- tral Christian church, whose resignation was demanded by the elders when he was out of town. The complaint against him was in some particulars unique and consisted of three points—that he be- longed to too many secret societies, that he preached too many special sermons, and that he drew so many outsiders to the church the regular members were | inconvenienced by the crowd. The first two indictments are scarcely sufficient, if proven, to warrant his dismissal, and the third is one to which he probably will put in no denial and constitutes in Christen- dom would regard as the strongest pos- sible reason for retaining a pastor’s services. That seems to have been the |view taken of it by the members and | congregation, for last Sunday, by a unan- they asked Kev. Brown to remain. Peach Flake Nut Flavored The latest and most popular cereal food now on the market. It has a delicacy of flake and flavor that puts it in a class by itself above all others. Who should eat Peach Flake? retain health, strength and brain power. Those desiring to regain and Peach Flake is so prepared as to be easily digested and assimilated by old or young, sick or well. Put up in attractive cartons chants find in it a good profit and ready sales. ready for immediate use. Mer- Give us a trial. Send for free samples and prices. Globe Food Co., Ltd., Grand Rapids, Mich. 74 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires HENRY HEIM, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 WIRT P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dee. 31, 1902 CLARENCE B. STODDARD, Monroe Dec. 31, 1904 JOHN D. MuIR, Grand Kapids Dee, Si, 1yvd ARTHUR H. WEBBER, Cadillac Dec. 31, 1906 President, HzNRY Herm, Sagina w. Secretary, JoHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, W. P. Doty, Detroit. Examination Sessions, Detroit, Jan. 6 and 7. Grand Rapids, March 3 and 4. Star Island, June 16 and 17. Houghton, Aug. 25 and 26. Lansing, Noy. 3 and 4. Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association. President—Lovu G. Moor, Saginaw. Secretary—W. H. BURKE Detroit. Treasurer—C, F. HUBER, Port Huron. Something of a Dilemma. The incident of which I speak occurred when, as a boy studying pharmacy, | had progressed so far as to begin to compound simple prescriptions, always, however, under the eye of the ‘‘boss.’’ One rainy Sunday afternoon the ‘‘boss"’ went home leaving me in charge, with instructions to telephone for him if he should be needed. A few minutes after he left a lady came in with a prescrip- tion. I offered her a chair and went behind the prescription case, apparently as unconcerned as though | were a phar- macist of years’ standing! The pre- scription was one caliing for thirty capsules, and at our store we always filled them by the ‘‘mass’’ process, | had often watched the ‘'boss’’ fil] them, and was confident I could do so. Care- fully weighing out the ingredients, | mixed them together and added a little of the excipient; that did not seem to be enough, and so I added some more, when, behold! the whole thing seemed to turn a sticky, slimy paste. Then I tried adding an absorbent powder, but that only seemed to increase the bulk without remedying the difficulty. Finally, I did succeed in rolling the mass out and dividing it, but found half of it sticking to the pill-tile and Spatula, to say nothing of what was Sticking to me, By this time I was ina pretty ner- vous condition, and the worse | got, the more that stuff stuck. It wanted to go on the outside instead of the inside of the capsules ; while sounds of impatience from the front of the store did not make matters easier for me. At that point the ‘‘old man’’ came in: he sized up the situation and started to make a new mass, telling me to throw my stuff away. I told the lady it took a long time to compound the prescription, which in that case it certainly did. The ‘*boss’’ must have thought that my mortification was punishment enough for me, for | never received the reprimand I de- served, although I learned the valuable lesson of not attempting to do that which I am not sure of. J. A. Shaw. ———_>2.__ Simple Home-Made Prescription File, The device | am going to describe fis perhaps as convenient and economical as any and no doubt superior to many. Any one with any patience can easily make the file, and the time consumed in filing the prescriptions with it is not nearly so'great as that required to paste them away, while the cost is practically nothing, First get an empty cigar-box of the size holding a hundred cigars—not the long box, but the short, tall kind most common. Saw a block of wood sc that it will fit loosely in this box, making it about half an inch shorter and narrower than the inside of the box. Make this out of % or ¥% inch wood. Witha small gimlet bore two holes through the block, one about a half-inch from one end of the block and an equal distance from either edge, and the other about an inch from the first hole and toward the center of block. Get a piece of small fence wire, not too heavy to bend easily, yet heavy enough to easily retain its shape when subjected to some strain. File off a piece about 12 inches in length, slight- ly sharpen one end, and bend (a pair of pliers will greatly aid) the other end so that there will be formed a hook in the shape of the letter U with a short arm about an inch and a half long. The distance between the long and the short arms should be that between the two holes in the block. Draw the wire through the block with the tong arm through the hole nearest the edge of the block and the short arm through the other. Place the block on a solid base and hammer the protruding end of the short arm over toward the long one until it is flush with surface of the wood. Then remove your prescriptions from your desk file onto this one, placing the Jowest number on the bottom. This size of box will be found large enough to accommodate all average- sized prescriptions and will easily hold 1,000. After putting on this number you can bend the wire over so that the top of the box will close. Nearly every drug store is equipped with a set of rubber type, and with this print, on a piece of paper cut the size of the end of the box, the number con- tained therein. For instance: 10, 000 to 11,000 Paste this on the end of the box. These little boxes will not occupy much space, and the prescriptions can easily be found. When a prescription is wanted, take down the box containing the number, lift out the pad by means of the wire, and turn all the prescriptions above the one wanted around on the wire. You then have your prescription before you in such form that you can easily place it where most convenient on the dispensing counter.—M. K. Bar- ber in Bulletin of Pharmacy. > 2 > __ Artificial Strawberry and Raspberry Es- sence, ec 5 parts. Mee remem 5 parts, Asyl-acetse ether... |. 3 parts. Amyl]-butyric ether............ 2 parts, KslvOerime) 000... EE 2 parts, Pee ere I part. sitinyptgyre bos, I part. Methyl-salicylic ether......... I part, Mix. Reece 5 parts. De 5 parts. ee 4 parts, coats ee. de ES IS I part. Pe I part. re Oe I part. PMREIC ORaer I part. Oenanthic ether........... -.. 1 Bare. Methyl salicylic ether......... I part. Pre I part. ee ee T part. pee I part, These make artificial and uncertain preparations, which the best druggists refuse to have anything to do with, ex- cept in special cases and on their merits as substitutes. It is a good rule to use and sell only the best fruit juices in cases like these. Wm. Mixton. —_-s>______ Boarding House Repartee. ‘* Are hogs long-lived, I wonder."’ ‘I understand they live to a good old sausage, *’ Reign of the Sachet Fad. The reign of the scent bottle is over. In place of the familiar silver-stoppered bottles, which are now considered sug- gestive of the furnishings of a barber shop, the sachet bag lurks unseen among the boxes and bags, the shelves and drawers that hold the gowns and hats and small belongings of the cos- tume. "Sachet powder is expensive, and the girl of lavish taste but restricted in- come is obliged to limit her use of it. A little of the best procurable quality is far better than a larger amount of a cheaper. grade. But there are no really cheap sachet powders, for the use of this form of scent does not appeal to cheaper tastes than the cultivated, and there would be no sale for it in the low priced shops. Of course, the simple old powders are not used at all. Violet, always deli- cate and lovely, has been cheapened by too much popularity, and the more un- common perfumes are chosen. The makers are kept busy inventing new combinations, and an odd thing about sachets is that you can mix several odors, such as violet, rose and mignonette, which will produce an entirely new and, of course, odd odor. Once a girl has ex- perimented on some of these combina- tions she lays in a supply and then hugs her secret to her breast and is true to it. The expense of setting up the sachet fad is considerable; but, as time goes on, it is easier to keep up from a mone- tary point of view than the purchase of bottled extracts, which continue to hold their high prices. The woman in society orders her sachets made up by the dozen and has her maid renew them when nec- essary, but the girl in the first throes of the sachet fad always makes them up herself. She begins by buying a quan- tity of odd bits of silk remnants, some- times very beautiful and very reason- able in price, of different sizes; fora sachet may beas small as athimble and as iarge asa bedspread, according to the use for which it is intended. For the drawers of a dressing table the sachet is usually made to rest as a lining beneath the contents of the drawer. The same idea must be carried out for every drawer where clothing rests, even where fans, trinkets and lingerie are kept. For closets where gowns and coats may hang, the sachet is large enough to reach across the entire space from one end hook to the other, covering the gowns completely. This has proved a much better plan than the old idea of placing sachet bags in the gowns themselves, In this way the nearness of the body makes the sachet too much in evidence. o>? >_—_ The Drug Market. Opium—lIs quiet and prices are weak, although not quotably lower. Morpbine—Is unchanged. Quinine—Is quiet. A decline was ex- pected, but has not as yet been an- nounced. Bromides Ammonia, Potash and Soda—Have again declined and are still tending lower, Caffeine——Owing to competition among manufacturers, has declined. Chloral Hydrate—A decision of the United States Circuit Court changes the duty and, if the decision holds, the price will be reduced. Cocaine—On account of scarcity of crude, has been advanced and tending higher. Menthol—Is weak, on account of lack of demand. Elm Bark—Select and in bundles is very scarce and prices are high and firm. Saw Palmetto Berries——Have ad- vanced and are very scarce, All prepa- rations of saw palmetto are likely to be higher, Oils Anise and Cassia—Are very firm and advancing. Sabadilla Seed—Is higher abroad and has been advanced in this market. Higher prices are looked for later on. Linseed Oil—An advance of 5c per gallon has taken place within the last ‘ten days. Flax Seed—Has advanced and lower price for oil is not looked for. ——-s0>_____ How to Take Castor Oil. Dr. F. S. Hough says that the dis- agreeable feature about taking a dose of castor oil is due to the odor of the oil and not the taste. He gives the follow- ing as a good method for its adminis- tration. If the patient .grips the nos- trils firmly before pouring out the dose, drinks same complacently, and then thoroughly: cleanses the mouth, lips, larynx, etc., with water, removing the last vestige of the oil before removing the fingers, he will not get the least taste from the oil, which is bland and tasteless. It all depends upon keeping any air from entering the nose during the time while there is any oil present. ———_>2___ One golden day redeems a weary year.—Celia Thaxter. for Special Sized Window Shades. We guarantee satisfaction in price and quality of goods. Making window = Send Us Your Orders = shades is a leading specialty with us. Orders filled within 24 hours after re- ceipt. No delay. Send for samples and price list. Heyst.ek & Canfield Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Jobbers wall paper and window shades. FONRSINN The Druggist. is Dead to his best interests who does not hold a membership in the COMMERCIAL CREDIT Co... which files over 200,- oco detailed reports on Michigan consum- ers and purchasers of merchandise at retail FRED BRUNDAGE wholesale ® Drugs and Stationery « 32 & 34 Western Ave., MUSKEGON, MICH. i | ects na MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7S ‘ RUG PRICE CURRENT ae Rew iuase @@ 22| Linseed, pureraw... 47 £0 3 Advanced —Linseed Oil. Morphia, 8. N.Y Q: 2 15@ 2 40 si is, Me 3 30 Noateroot annals $68 3 omen ; pe 2% ff, Macca Turpe 4 eclin romides ee — a2 ‘ a — @ 4 — — 3 c. iUUUUanemnneannno>S:):}}3008.— ee a Vomltn po ii 80 Snuft, “Scotch, be Vo" Acidum Conium Mac......... 8G 9 @ wo Os —- 7 350 7 — = 7s i aS i ee Aceticum .$ g | Copaiba..... . 11501 ak Satene Saad. = 8. aes =: gets cae ABP | cane LT fs 2 Meee e é onal se ae GS Oe ee ia da cae re, yellow Ber. 1% 2 Pe ¥ E rigeron -.. . : — : = ae ee a aa N.N.% gal. eis — = ‘ mg 5 | putes’ commercial. te aKee . _ aaa ‘aie NaneiieR «a | Pies 4 , Stric ure. 2% 2X%@z 3 as, es gta ei SS) eee So cee oe 4 Ss ee, ||| a ee ee oa oe = milion E z= i Nitrocum ag 10 foe ee m gal.. aa ; . aati ~ > = Hydrarg. . po. 80 @ 50| Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55 | Vermilion, English. . 700 7B 4 Phosphorium nae @ 15|Junipera............ 1 50@ 2 00 | Armica ............ 50 Piber ee S Be Fi nee ual o:3 | So Paris: —_— a 2 ae wal a = ia” - re ia Se oe —— 35 @ 30/| Spts. 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GAL.| Coach Body. ... sonaa j BO@ 3 00 ae 2 75@ 7 00 Columba . 50 |. ~~ ‘Orn. oot fi Sas “ B@ 60 Cubebez....... 7 50 Whale, winter....... 70 No 1 Turp Furn..... 1 00@ 1 10 Singpts, eis, ans: Bw a ee : Lard, ¢ a... 83 00 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 96 1 60 ; aaa ao a oe 1 50% 1 &| Cassia Acutifol Go.. = re, og 60 65 | Jap.Dryer,No.l1Turp 70@ 79 : jae ee Seas ae 50 —— Lc Ae 50 | = 1 1 ‘ ee = ————— Xanthoxylum 60@ 1 60) neobromas ....... 15 20 Fert ¢ Chioridum .- 25 55 Potassium Gentian Go... 1... 1 70| Bi-Carb............. 15@ 18 | Gulaca.. sees So 65 | Bichromate ._ 13@ 15 Guiaca ammon...... 60 60 | Bromide ..... ~ -— 2 50 a Bai po 75 “ Chlorate...po.17@i9 16@ : Iodine, colorless..... 75 : Cc mime .... ; pia’ 12 | Cyanide ............, HQ 38 Lobelia 00.7 50 : Cinchona Flava... 18 Potassa, Bite, pare * 2 ale... eget oo 4 Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potass Nitras opt... 7 10 Nux Vomica. 50 & Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras... he 7 3 Prunus Virgini...... 12 | Siaieie. — a Opt co se 60 4 Quillaia, gr’d........ 12| Sulphate po......... 1b@ 1 deodo rized..... 1 Bo : Sassafras ....-. po. 15 eC 8 50 i Ulmus...po. 20, gr’d 38 Radix at d 50 i Extractam Aconitum............ 20@ 25| Bhel.. 50 i Glycyrrhiza Gabe. 24 30 a 0@ 33 Sanguinaria 5o ; Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28@ 30 | Anchusa . ™ 2 oooe.. 50 gieyitox 15 ib.box 11@ 12| ATum po.. . so 89 Hamatox, 18........ 13@ 14| Calamus.. 2@ 49 | Tolutan er eoeee 80 Hematox, %8....... 14@ 15 Gentiana ......po. 15 12@ 15 Sos Sais 50 Heematox, \s....... 16 17 | Glyehrrhiza...pv. 15 16@ 18) 7,0 4.0™ eride.. 59 — Hydrastis Canaden. @ 75 | Zineiber. 29 Jarbonate Prec 15 Hollebore, “Abi Moe. S$ Miscellaneous wr 8 . . Citrate ana inka. 2 25| Inula, pO. .-. nese 18 22|Mther, Spi. NILAF HQ 38 ra wee... pecac, po. 2 75@ 2 80| Alumen ............ 2 3 Ferroc ae So. i dal Tris plox.. 0. i 36@ 40| Alumen, gro'd.-po.7 — 3 We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs, a a... ——. MS = = Aree 40@ 50 ! ~* pee oe _ aa Autimont, po oiass 2 a Chemicals and Patent Medicines. i on _— esr 75@ 1 00} Antipyrin . oe eo & 3 Pp » pure...... @ 1 25| Antifebrin .......... @ 2 : “ Week 73@ 1 35 | Argenti Nitras, 02. @ 42 We are dealers in Paints, Oils and ARMICa vi ooos se ooos @ 18|Balm Gilead Buds.) 459 0 4 ee cel “A - ] i : Matricarla........... [alias “as ne hior., 1s... we Folia e Smilax, officinalis H, . = Calcium Chlor., \s.. @ 10 ery ote sella rE i et i 2b Caletum Chlor., %48.. g "§ We have a full line of Staple Druggists’ plocarpus, Foetl- : : ; on La ‘Aix. = dus, an Bec aae 25 Capsicl ae pe. $ 15 Sundries Salvia officinalis, %S Valeriana,Eng. po. 36 25 | CapsiciFructusB,po @ 15 ek ie 29 | Valeriana, German. 20 Gave _ 2 15 12@ 14 tue... 10 Zingiber a 16 | Carmine, No. 40..... @ 300 y 7 cote Zingiber j.......... a Cera Alb iba ane We are the sole proprietors of Weath- Mie 0@ 42 Acacia, 1st picked... 65 ne aaa sites ete, Se TD) cst. oe _ Coceus ei i g “ erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. Acacia, 3d picked... 35| Apium (eraveieots). 15 | Centrarla............ @ 10 Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 Bird. 1s ci 6 | Cetaceum.. ne 45 Aloe, ‘Barb. p po. 18@20 14 aes rei - 15 ee squibbs eg 1 10 ba —— aes ee ee Aloe, Cape....po. 15. 12 andrum ce 8@ 10/| Chioral H d Crst.. ioky j ; Aloe, Soeoii.-p0. 40 20 Cannabis Saiiva. mee 5G 6 a = 's Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines Aseatortids.. po. 40 $0 | Chenopodium |". ing | ea ae Ss d ——s . ae x Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10} Cocaine ....... 4 05@ 4 25 _ Rums for medical — , a ... Cuneeeem......... @ _ 10/ Corks, list, dis pr. ct. 5 a pe ee - a (oe... 9 | Creosotum... . cee @ S only. Camphore Da 69 | Lini, grd..... “bbl. 4” $ on prep : g 5 Euphorbium...po. 35 40 Lobélfa es oa le 1 55 Creta, recip %@ i! i ; : 0 Phariaris Ganariaa., os situ Gene = We give our personal attention to mail eae a ce was & @ 6&1 Croom ...... 30@ «36 35 | Sinapis Alba........ 9@ 10} Cudbear..... 24 i i 7 — Sia = 2 Cape Sup ong ‘ orders and guarantee satisfaction. ‘ piritus 7 : 40 Ether Sulph.. 78Q 92 F . DD. Ca. i i i - 19 a W. D. Oo [= .3 Emery, a aid g 8 All orders shipped and invoiced the same 4 Co ee 1 25@ 1 50 eer 45 1 Ergota . 90 90 : : : 00 | Juniperis Co. 0. T.. - 1 85@ 2 00 Flake waite. ig = day received. Send a trial order. Saacharum N.E.... 1 rn ™ Absinthium..oz. pkg 95 | Spt. Vini Galli... 1 70 6 oo | Gambler — oe Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin, Cooper a = = Lobelia ...... oz. Pkg 25 | Vini Alba 1 25@ 2 00| Glasswa =o ’ box 7. a. -OZ. . Dee 28 Sponges Less than a ~~ 70 - - £éij| Sponges | lem than box..... ae vo -o = Florida sheeps’ wool Glue, brown......... 1@ 18 oo = pkg 39 | _ carriage. 2 BO@ 2 75 Glue, white......... 1@ 2 Tanaeetiim V oz pkg 99 | Nassau sheeps’ Wool Glycerina............ 17%@ 25 € % gene 6 g|"araee morn |camemei. S Hazeltine & Perkins aoe wool, carriage. @150|Hydrarg Chior Mite @ 1 00 j Caleined, Pat........ 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydrarg ChiorCor.. @ a Carbonate, Pat...... 18@ 20| wool, carriage. . @ 1 25 | Hydrarg Ox Rub’m @io a Carbonate, K.& M.. 18@ 20 | Grass sheeps’ wool, Hydrarg Ammoniat! = @ 1 20 : ‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| carriage.. @ 1 0 | HydrargUnguentum 50@ 60 rug O. 2 inane Hard, for slate use. @ 75| Hydrargyrum....... @ % 2 Yellow Reef, for Ichthyobolla, Am 6@ 70 # Abeinthiom ......... 6 50@ 7 0) Indi; 3 Amygdale, Duis... 50m o0| “t? Us-..-.------ @ 1 40) Woaine, Resubi 3 0G 3 60 5 Amygdale, Amare. 8 000 & 25 betas os a. 3 606 3 88 Grand Rapids Mich ) Auranti Cortes = i seo $$ Sine. os * : i 7. Bergam 2 50@ 2 65 | Zingiber : S@ 50 ee aa | a i Cajiputi .. 80@ 85/1 eae coce os Gan @ 60| Liquor Arsen et Hy- x Caryophyill. 75@ 80| Ferri Iod.. oe @ so drare. @ 2B i pone 80@ 85| Rhei Arom.......... @ 60} Liquor otagsArsinit 10@ 12 : enopadii. @ 2 75} Smilax Officinalis .. 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph.... 2@ 3 4 Cinnamonii 1 00@ 1 10 | Senega .............. £ 60 | Magnesia 5 — iy bol @ 1% 3 Citronella .... SB «40 | Solli=. 58 | Mannta 75 «80 se anna ahenlnettnN eta etree seeneceren amt geese 21 heb 3 ahr Fe es 76 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. market prices at date of purchase, ADVANCED Sugars Oranges Cranberries Scaled Herring Index to Markets | By Columns Col. A Akron Stoneware............ 15 eee a 1 ee ES Se ee CS, a os 1} B ees Peeeee............... i oe ee 1 nee coe cece wee 1 Breakfast Food.............. 1} EE SE nan 1} Brushes . . eu Butter Color... 1} Candies..... OCandies....... Canned Goods (e.......... Carbon Olls . ne Chewing Gum ey... 2155 Chocolate. - — Lines. 5 ee a Shells ai... Coupon Books...........-...- 15 Se : ee Serer ................ 5 D o_O 5 F Farinaceous Goods.......... 5 Fish and Oysters............. 13 Piss Taee............... 6 Flavoring Extracts........... 6 Fly Pa —.. & Fresh 6 eae et ee 14 Ga eee... 6 ee es... 7 Grains and Fiour ............ 7 | H | ae... 7/ Hides aan Pelle .............. 13 | I ae. __.....--.- 2... .--- J a 7 L Lamp Burners..............-- 15 —, — et coe 4 eee ee hee coe 15 | pee “Globes eid ebb oe 15 | EG oie beets cone oun ons 7| Be lee dicho br einae ce 7| M Moat Extracts................ zi ES Se Z| —_—_————— Zv} N | EEE nn 14 o | Oe ees ee eee 15 | i eee Rr sen ee ec eee : | Playing ae 8 | ii eteie eee ee ee 8 | OE Ee 8) R i ee ee toe 8 | Gates Drecsing............._. ¥ I oie oess ben ee cone 9} 1 ... a ae oe 9 Salt _— ee 9 esc cect oe ese 9 Shoe ‘Biacking peeseee ee ee 9 ree i oes oe ee 10 ee 9 ee 10 ee 10 a 10 Stove Polish ee 10 Ne ees ws cete vecesteawen ae il Ee 10 — ie eee ccs ll Do ok cubs cleo pein teeeos ll Tobacco Seibert eet eeees 11 No ces kee ce eccee 12 - wee es 12 weaiee eer nek edn ecas 13 eT 13 hoe tren, ie 13 Weepeing Paper............. 13 Y Veasi Oake.................. 13 JROCERY ICE CURRENT These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, | p,), pn 95 Prices, however, are lia- — eel a ed ‘= ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at . cae a 1 115 i 8 00 DECLINED CARBON OILS | : Barrels | Package Coffee ieee @12% Brooms Peeteetion.,......-..+. fi oo Pec: Nuts Diamond White.. i re a D. 8. Gasoline......-.. @14% ae Deodorized Naphtha.. @i2 | Cylinder. ..... ....«+0<-- @34 UN bss epee cana nee rr} @22 Black, winter........-- 9 @10% CATSUP i 2 Columbia, pints...........+. Columbia, % pints. E AXLE GREASE Hicctrt aa CHEESE doz. gross ectric Light, 8s............ 12 | Acme.. @ 3% | aurora. .. = Br oo | Electric Light, 16s........... 12% | 4 mboy ei4 Castor Oil. . ...-.60 7 09| Parafiine, ore A @i4 Diamond en 500 4-25 | Paraffine, 128.. totes Mabiem ........... 5 Qi4 YS 9 09: Wicking Mi Q'th% IXL Golden. tin boxes75 9 00 eS GOODS | Gold Medal.......... ais Apples eal .... lace @13% 3 Ib. Standards...... 85 Spee o'4 Gallons, standards. . 3 25! Riverside........-... ai4 Blackberries ae 14@15 Wied S Standards .......... : 95 | Eda... .-.------- eo Ne Beans Tdmburgétec-2.:: 13M ms ea 1 00@1 30 | Pineappie.. a 50@75 i : ee Reeeey......... 5@ Sap Sago. coe @i8 eS = CHEWING GUM ee American Flag Spruce.. 55 Blueberries Beeman’s Pepsin.......--- 60 Mica, tin boxes.......75 900) Standard .............. ik Se 55 Paragon......... --55 600 Brook Trout —— Gum Made....... = — BAKING Powner 2 Ib. cans, Spiced.......... 190 | Son sen Breath Perfame.. 1 00 44 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......3 75 Clams. Sugar Loaf...........--+-- = % Ib. cans, 2 doz. case...... 3 75| Little Neck, 1Ib..... 1 00 | Yucatan......-------+-++++ Ab. cans, 1 Goz. case...... 3 75 | Little Neck. 2 Ib... .- 1 50 CHICORY 5 Ib. cans, % doz. case...... 8 00 Clam Bouillon ee Burnham’s, % pint.......- Oe ee el 4 JA © N Burnham’s, pints......-.-- BO eames el 7 tg Ib 4d 45 se seasaaancshes > roto aeatay 7 Oem 6 4 Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... 85 ee : CHOCOLATE 1 Ib. cans. 2 doz. case...... 1 60 | Red Standards........* 3C@I1 50 Walter Baker & aC Co.’s. Royal 1 50} German Sweet.. Premium .. oe 10esize.... 90 = Breakfast Cocoa.. : 46 } > POLI: HER = “— : : 10° @1 20 CLEANER & F Ss ee i French Peas % Ib. cans 2 50) Sur Extra Fine..........+- 22 & Ib. cans 3 75| Extra Fine................ 19 1 Ib. cans. 4 80 ee hess eek eee ae ' . sib. cans 13 60 eS ean ae cen me ees . é Gooseberries 5 tb. cans. 21 50) standard ...........- Hominy BATH BRICK Standard... . 85 American.. ————- os Lobster 10 oz. box, 3 doz., per doz. .$1 - English... / vsees 85! Star, x6 Ib 2 10} Qts box, 2 ¢oz., per doz... 2 2 “BLUING | Star, 1 Ib... ae 3 6c | Gal box, % ,doz., per doz.. 7 50 — : OZ. OV aes per gross 4 00 | Picnic Talls.... 240; Samplesand Circulars Free. Arctic, 8 0z. ovals, per gross6 00 H LINES Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00 | wustard, Mackerel 1 80 — ie Mustard, 21b.-.-.... 2 80 | Go ft, 3 thread, extra...... 1 00 Soused, 1Ib..... 1 30 | 79 tt. 3 thread, extra...... 1 40 oe —- : . 90 . 3 a. — ee 1 70 , ; 60 ft, 6 thread, extra...... 72 Tomato, 2 lb. . 2 80 | 72 ft, 6 thread, extra...... ae Mushreems ES ° 18@20 75 eee 22@25 90 Oysters 1 05 oe. ........... 1 50 ee, ie. ...---...- 1 55 Cove, 1 Ib Oval...... 95 80 Peaches 95 so 2 1 10 -. 1 36@1 85 Pears t 1 20 Small size, per doz.......... 40 | Standard ......... “ 1 00 1 40 | Large size, per eee.......... i .0e 1 25 1 65 BREAKFAST FOOD Peas 1 85 cg oe 1 00 Rary Jome.......... 90@i 6C 75 Saale Sae Sifted. . 1 65 85 Plums 35 | . Galvanized Wire | Cases, 36 packages.......... beeen % | No. 20, each 100 ft long... 1 90 | Five case lots..... .......... ‘ a0 "Pineapple No. 19, each 100 ft long.... 2 10 ae... 1 25@2 75 ' TRYABITA o_o - 1 35@2 55 sian Pumpkin Cleveland........ oT Peptonized Celery Food, ee go | Colonial, SEE 35 @oz. in case... .... : a al 1 00 | Colonial, 448................. 38 Hulled Corn, per der Sew: 1 25 e Cees ceeaes bees = BROOMS u el ns sc 15 | a0 Houten, %s.-.....0. 2... 12 No. 2 Carpet.. 2 2 BEG. ...-.-----00 5 | Van Houten, \s....... ee No. 3 Carpet. 2 15 Russian Cavier Van Houten, 4s...... cn ee 40 No. 4 Carpet 1 75 | @ ID. cans.. eee one 3 75 | Van Houten, 1is...... oe Parlor Gem..... ..2 40 | % Ib, cans.. cee eceees 0 WEEE WE cee obese ec csccms sn 30 Common Whisk @5| 1b. can... on CO eee 41 | Fancy Whisk. 10 Salmon Wieeer. Ws. ....... .: ce seeeee 42 | ree. 50 | Columbia River, talls @1 8 COCOANUT BRUSHES Columbia River, flats @1 30 | Dunham’s }s.. . = scrub Rot Ale. 8. @1 36 | Dunham’s 4s and %s...-. 26% Saee eee, Sen... 45) Pink Alaska.. . @ 99} Dunham’s 4s............. 7 Pee Ss Oe Oe 5. cs sce. 95 Shrimps —" ES : 3 Pointed wie beeee aad 85 | standard..... ...... 140 OS 3 i 1 00 Sardines COCOS SHEIAS Ss ee 1 39 | Domestic, 4s........ 3% | 20 ID. Dags............... 244 tL ea eM 1 70 | Domestic, ys ....... 5 | Less eon 3 ae. 1 90| Domestic, Mustard. 6 | Pound packages ......... 4 Sto ornia, %48.. 11@14 eo 7s | California 8... aus a Bk ost eee a es 11 ench, 348.......... 7@14 SORES AEHS i 75 | French, 48.. 18928 | wo. St Coffee Co. brands ‘ BUTTER COLOR ucintbenstien W., R. & Co.'s, 15 size.... 125 Sentent W., R. & Co.'s, 25e size.... 2 00/| Fancy 0. 28... Belle i an 20 moe Ceeee....... 2... 24 —_— Ee eee 26 a aS A a en alee 30 Koran Delivered in 100 Ib. lots. Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands. Moc =m a tie WRIGHT © BOSTON, MASS: White House, I lb. cans..... White House, 2 Ib. cans..... Excelsior, M. & J. 1 lb. cans Excelsior, M. & J. 2 1b. cans Tip Top, M. & J., 1 lb. cans. Oe WOW sc eeu e es Royal Java and Mocha...... Java and Mocha Blend...... Boston © en a Ja-Vo Blend.. Ja-Mo-Ka Blen Distributed or a & Judson Gro. Co., Grand Rapids, C. El- lott & Go. ., Detroit, B. Desen- berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons Bros. & C 0., —— "Jackson Grocer Co., Jae son, Meisel & Goeschel, Bay City, Fielbach Co., Toledo. Rio eee ; OO he ceo dees WU Sere eee ae 10 see 15 Santos Mexican ea 13 ieee ee aac 17 Guatemala CM ce 13 Java Ns onic ek eo eeeecce: 12 emee AUR 2... woh cs caus 17 Ms once co ecee ethos cee es 25 eis cite el 31 Mocha De. oi 21 Package New York Basis. Arbuckle.. eae Dilworth....... 10 Jersey re Bb issekebectemceneeuess W% McLaughlin’s XXXX McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract Valley City % gross.. Felix % gross.. Humme!l’s foil % gross... i Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 11 43 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. —= N \ = oa Raney Galil Borden Eagle .......... 6 40 Reece be seca... ae as oe 470 Champion 4 25 oe 400 Challenge 1 Dime. -.3 3 Peerless Evaporated ( eam.4 00 Milkmaid.. oe Tip Top 3 85 Nesties...... torce eh oe Highland Cream............ 5 00 St. Charles Cream...........4 50 CRACKERS National Biscuit Co.’s brands 7 8 13 13 7% : Saltine Oyster............. “a Sweet Goods—Boxes MN cs hae ass cue, 10 — ee, 10 Le seus e cea a 8 ee 16 Cope Hee... ........-- 9 Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10 Coffee Cake, Java......... 10 Cocoanut Macaroons...... 18 whore cpa iti. Jn eae nn 10 wo 16 Creme, tee8........ ..... Cream érisp ie ies alee aig 10% nees........ 11% oe a a 12 Presses Heney............ 12 Prosees Cream... ...4...... 9 Ginger Gems, i orsm’ll 8 oie snaps, N.B.0.... 6% vn Grandma Cakes : Graham Crackers......... 8 cranes Woes... ....., 12 Grand Rapids Tea........ 16 oer Peers... ........ 12 — oney ee. kota 10 mperials.. i. 5 umbles, Honey.. cee have us 12 Lady ingers eieeh coe 12 Lemon Snaps 12 Lemon Wafers.... 16 Marshmaliow......... .- 3 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16 te Ee 8 mere FeOee. oc... .4,,.05u TES BR ase oes toes a, 7% Molasses Cake..... : Molasses Bar...... 9 Moss Jelly Bar.. 12% Newton. 12 Oatmeal G rackers.. 8 Oatmeal Wafers.. 12 Orange Crisp...... 9 Orange Gem...... 9 Penny Cake...... » Pilot Bread, XXX... 7% Pretzelettes, hand mad 8% Pretzels, hand made. 8% Scotch kies..... 9 Sears’ Lunch 7% Sugar Cake.. ~ Sngar Cream. XXX. 8 supe Seats, .. iwi § rhed donk eae 13 eo 16 Vanilla Wafers............ 16 Viemna (yie......,...... 8 E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked good Standard Crackers. Blue Ribbon Squares. Write for complete — list with interesting discounts CREAM TARTAR 5 and 10 Ib. oe _—. -30 Bulk in sacks... 29 DRIED FRUITS Apples Sundried . @5 Evaporated, BO Ib. boxes. 7@ 8 California Prunes 100-120 25 Ib. boxes ...... 88898899 D0 OR Oe ae AER ar aR at ak . boxes ¢ cant less in 50 Ib. ‘cases California Fruits Pitted Cherries........ eT Raspberries ........... Citron FE ENE RES In Ce a, Currants California, 1 1b. package.. —? 1 lb package...... re Imported, bulk. 6 secsccsels 124%@13 Peel Citron American 10 Ib. bx...12% Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..13 Orange American 10 Ib. bx..13 Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. London Layers 3 Crown. 1 85 Cluster 4 Crown......... 2 50 Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 6% Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 7% Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 8 L. M., Seeded, 1 Ib..... @ 2% L. M., Seeded, ¥& Ib.... 8 Pe OE sci cs ve e> ” Sultanas, package .......... 10% FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried L a OO Medium Hand Picked 2 50 Brown Holland.. uss Farina Bulk. per 100 he. in parsers 50 wae QQ eee Eee. - - ee a Veo o~ Li ORAS Wire, ie Lee 4 Z % es ae Pe = ue ee i SA, ei hited SEER MST 6 Hominy Pisks, OE. eek. .... ..... Peart, 29 >. OF...... 5 00 Paarl, Oe oe... ....... 2 50 Maccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 BD. ben.. . C. — @ 208. ....., 25 pom onan ue we 268.....5 2 10 ee Se 2 40 Full Measure cy C. Vanilla 1 10 oon beac 1 60 OO iia. 3 Tropical Extracts 2 0z. full measure, Lemon.. 75 4 oz. full measure, Lemon... 2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 4 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 20 FRESH MEATS Beef eI nr ono ne 44 @ 1% Forequarters ....... 6 @6 Hindquarters....... 6 @8 Nie oe a . § @i4 CE RE Rees... cs. eT CRORE 6. ais al. a Pees. ioc. a Dasaeed — 74@Q 7% EME ior cuuek es uses segue Boston B Ws c. cs @ 9% Shoulders ........... 9 pe 12 Oarreaae .. & & 2K GELATINE Knox’s Sparkling........ 1 20 Knox’s Sparkling, prgross 14 00 Knox’s Acidulated 1 20 Knox’s Acidulat’ a gross 14 = Oxford Plymouth We 1 30 eee 1 50 Cons, 20s Oe... 1 61 Cone, ate... ...... 110 GRAIN BAGS Amoskeag, 100in bale .... 15% Amoskeag, less than bale. 15% GRAINS AND FLOUR heat Winter Wheat Flour Local — Patents ........ 1. as Buckwheat . ye Subject to usual cash dis. unt. Flour In bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Kener 968... 3 80 Meee Me... ne Cauamee 46... Spring Wheat Flour Clark-Jewell-Wells = 8 —— Pillsbury’s Best %s. Pillsbury’s Best is. . 4 30 Pilisbury’s Best %s....... 4 40 Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 40 3 83 3 80 Pillsbury’s Best 4s — 4 40 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand Wingold “ a 440 Wage Me............., 4 30 Wingold fs eee ee 4 20 Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand. Ceresota %8.. —————. (o Ceresota \4s.. ‘ = Ceresota %s. . Worden Grocer Co.'s iran EMSNOe FO... 4. ............ 280 Laurel igs. : 40 Laurel \s. 4 60 Laurel %s and Ks paper... 4 30 Meal EE ce cisiddvvuvcuweass Oe ENO i seubtsuevenn 2.0 Feed and ee. St. Car Feed, screened 3 06 No. 1 Corn and Oats. 23 oo Corn Meal, coarse... 23 OU Corn Meal, fine....... 22 50 Winter Wheat Bran.. 16 00 ae = Middlings. 19 00 ST 18 00 einen Seed as 17 vo Oats Ole ie ew... ....... a oe Corn on or ee... 68 Hay No. 1 Timothy car lots.... o9 50 No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00 HERBS a ee OI oo ate ec wede ues 1 Laurel Leaves....... MR TS ees ace cous INDIGO eaeres. Oe ee ak 55 Ss. ¥:, 2,3 and 5 lb. boxas......50 aa JELLY pe 5 Ib. pails. per doz........ 1 15 Ib. a. Co aes 43 oe oe eee... -. 80 LICORICE a, ee Calabria...... nee 23 TN vd re coec ec cous 14 ... oo : 10 LYE Oonmeneed, 3 dcz..........,.1 @ Condensed, 4 doz............2 25 MALTED FOOD Cases, 12 packages......... 135 Cases, 36 packages......... 4 05 MEAT EXTRACTS Armour & Co.’s,20Z...... 4 45 De 0a oO oe co ces eeu ns 275 MOLASSES New Orleans Fancy — —— bec eae 40 —- da seees Po eocerere Half-barrels 2c extra MUSTARD Horse Radish, 1 doz.........1 Horse Radish, 2 doz.........3 Rayle’s Celery, 1 doz........ 1 OLIVES Bulk: 3 gal: kegs.. gS... Bulk, 5 Manzan ee eeeeee 0 10 OZ... . cecceevace OT SRSSSRSRSK BWA Stuff 10 PIPES cen a owt a full. count. ono Ge = "Ne Sd PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,200 count ......... 8 00 Half bbis, Gee count... ....... 4i5 Small Barrels, 2,400 count .........9 50 |. Imported. Japen, No. 1... ........046 Japan, No. 2;... .. 5 @ Java, fancy head... @ ave, 6. 2........ @ Table. ae @ Half bbis, 1,200 count . . 5 20 PLAYING CARDS No. 90, Steamboat......... 90 No. 15, Rival, assorted.... 1 20 No. 20, Rover, enameled.. 1 60 No. S72, Speciar............ a No 98, Golf. satin finish.. 2 00 No. 808, Bicycle . 2 00 No. 632, Tournam’ t W hist. 2 25 POTASH 48 cans ip case. Babbitt’s sco ae Penna Salt Co.’s............. 3 00 PROVISIONS Barreled Pork MO capes, uc @17 75 Back . doeet eee @29 75 Clear back... 2.22721. @20 5) Short cut.. ecco @21 00 ee, 24 00; Best grade Imported —. Bean 19 00 — pockets, 33 to th r Family Mess Loin.. _ 21 00 eT: Clear. il @20 765 | Cost of packing in cotton “pook: | Dry | Salt Meats ets only %c more than bul Bellies. 12 SALAD DRESSING S P Bellies... hua tecude 13% | Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz. .1 85 Extra shorts......... 12 | Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz...1 90 Smoked Meats | Alpha Cream, small, 3 doz.. 95 Hams, 121b. average. @ 13_‘| Durkee’s, large, { doz....... 415) Hams, 14Ib. average. @ i3 | Durkee’s, small, 2 doz.......4 85 Hams, poo . average. $ 13 SALERATUS ams average. 12% Packed 60 lbs. in box. Ham dried beef. .... Gwe | Shoulders (N. Y.cut) @ pee te hag — ee : 2 Oalitorais't eaake ce r g ts Dua’ 8 Cow. : = Bolled Hams... @ 18 Boe oo... = enic Bolle ams S 13% i Berlin Ham pr’s’d. 9%@10 | Wyandotte, 100 Ma. 2-22-22 09 Mince Hams....... 9%@ 10 | SAL a | : Lard | Granulated, bbis........... 96 | Compound........... @ 7% | Granulated, 100 Ib. cases ..111 "108 re. Serres 7s | Lump, bbis.. a ash. Taka ateuuae i | | Lump, 145 Ib. Kegs........... 95 50 lb. Tins...advance lg SALT 20 Ib. Pails. .advance % Diamond Crystal ] = Sar nga Lea % Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40 li Palle advance . | Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags.3 3 00 | Vegotole............. 8; | Table, barrels, 50 6 Ib. bags.3 00 | Table, barrels, 407 Ib. vags.z 75 Sausages Butter, barrels, 320 Ib. bulk.2 75 Bologna ... “ 6 | Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 8 iver ...... 6% | Butter, sacks, 28 Ibs......... Frankfort _.28 | Butter, sacks. 5 Ibs... 1. ao Blea 277 — Shaker, 24 2 Ib. boxes.......1 50 Tongus 2. -.2...2.. y Common Grades Headcheese.......... O<4 | 1065 ©. Shone................2 & Beer oem theee. eS a vtea Meee | 2020. Oho 2 05 Bo te eeee cece tO Cee 40 a, 11 75 28 Ib. sacks 22 Romp, New ........ @ 2 00 ee ois” ‘Feet Warsaw 1% bbls., 40 Ibs. 1 75 | 56 1b. dairy in drill bags. .... 40 MOE 3 25 | 28 lb. dairy in drill bags. .... 20 [ieee te. 7 50 Ashton Tripe 6 ee. ul A go | 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60 6 = = 2... cou es : = Higgins np 8 Casings 56 1b. dairy in linen sacks... 60 Pork . 26 Solar Rock Beef rounds......... OOO 28 _ middles.. 12 iia een... Uncolored Butterine Granulated Fine............ 75 Solid, dairy... 2.2... @12% | Medium Fine................ 80 Rolls, datre.-0...0., @13 SALT FISH | Halle, ea =" Coa purity... Large whole........... @ 5% Cina beet, 2. Meats 9 gp | Smail whole........... @5 orned bee Strips 0 or bricks....... 7 @9 Corned beef, 14 Ib.. 7 5 | pono @ 3% Roast beef, -.... ae eee Potted ham, gs. 50 Halibut. Potted ham, \s. ieee... ................. I Deviled ham, ‘4s OS) Chae ge eek aoe aa = Sean 0 ongue, %48.. F Potted tongue, \s.. Cet eG. 8 ON Oe, oo. os ee im oa gue, y RICE Nes ee tiienanite ee eee 70 Ceremes Rome. 5... Ce z No.1 SIDS. .............. = Cauromes Nat .... 52.5 2.0. OG Mackerel EE Bree 190 Te. ..... .. 5: .... 14 50 PrOnen .... co. bok oie dees i Poe ee ee a 1 30 Ne. 1 200 ee. ........ _ ae No.1 60 Ibs. 7 00 No.1 10 Ibs. 1 45 No.1 8 ibs. 119 No, 2 100 Ibe. ....... No.2 5) ibs. .. No.2 10 Ibs. ... 2 are Herrin Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 50 Holland white hoopsbbl. 5 5 Holland white hoop, keg.. @75 Holland white — mchs. 85 Gn Round 100 lbs... ae 50 Ibs... Sees. icconeddenmacece & Ce Whitefish ce 1 No.2 _ Se ae... 5... is 3 75 OS ibe........4 2 2 20 Sutton’s Table Rice, 40 to the ae....,... 53 bale, 2% pound pockets... 73% ' 8 Ibs........ 77 43 ae SEEDS ee on Corn An Seecciaade: & fl Li. packages.......... 6 Canary, Smyraa.. ee ae - 1-Ib. packages.......... 5% Cardamon, Maisbar.......711.00| SYRUPS ee mw I Corn Mixed Birds ee ede eee 4 a Mixed Bir ceanes o a, Oo ee ones wae 2 Mustard, white.. a | 10 Ib. cans, % doz. in case.. 1 85 —- Sttentucccousee @ [a Core. doz. in case.... 2 10 ek ae ae + | 2% Ib. cans, 2 doz. in case...2 10 bn ” tle Rena..... 14 SHOE BLACKING | pair 8 as 18 Maney box, lares......... 250i Geauga 20 Handy Box, small. ee Bixby’s Royal Polish..... 85 | Miller’s Crown Polish..... 85 | STOVE POLISH SOAP | Beaver Soap Co. brands J.L. Prescott & Co. Manufacturers New York, N., Y. | | No, 4, 3 doz.in case, gross.. 4:50 | No. 6, 8240z In case, gross.. 7 20 100 cakes, large size......... 6 50 | 50 cakes, large size.........3 25 | SUGAR 100 cakes, small size......... S| Dee... ....... 6 76 50 cakes, small size......... eS a 5 16 Crushed . a 5 15 JAXON Ie ‘ | Powdered . 4 65 Sinaia be i | vane Poids” Jtccene & Om x. =U} Es oie coc 47 | 5 box lots, delivered... "3 15 | Fine Granulated. .......... 4 55 10 box lots, delivered ........ 3 10/21b. bags Fine Gran... .. 4 75 Johnson Soap Co. eee aia oo bags Fine Gran...... 4 * eee : | Mould dededdctusen Mo Calumet Daa. Meee wouce 2 75 | Teneaan aa aa 4 55 Scotch Family..... ...... 2 85 | Confectioner’s A.......... 4 40 jas. & Wink & Co. brands” | RO Columbia A... 6 : — a 3 55 No. 3, Ridgewood A... 4 35 * Dennen eee eweeeens ie. 4, Fnenix A... 4 Savon Imperial.......... 3 55/| No. 6, Empire A.......... 425 Wore Buesian........... Ct Dome, oval bars.......... 355| Na 7 415 Satinet, OVAL. ............ 2 50) We, 8. 410 Wee Cloud............. 410) Wa 4 05 Lautz Bros. brands— No. 10. 4 00 a ed bce ee ores : ¥ | No. ii. 3 95 miti~_é | | No, 12. 3 90 or sagem ae : = - 13. 8 - No. 14 3 8 Proctor & Gamble brands— | No. 16... 8 8 8c OE keds recta eeues & | We. i6...... 8 75 BVOIY, GO. es secec Se auan 4 00 i ne » 10,02 a ao 6 75 TABLE SAUCES chu - 30. brand— SAE eae oop 8 28 LEA & cane Light Soa rand. > — a aa Soap, 1 PERRINS g, pure, so ore. ieee 3 75 A. B. risley brands— SAUCE Good Cheer .............. 4 00 Old er Saas ot 3 40 ze The Original and ours Genuine Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz...... 240/| .=—= tl Sapolio, hand, 3 doz......... 2 40, Worcestershire. SODA Lea & Perrin’s, pints...... 5 00 Boxes 5% — & i 8, % — 2 75 Re ae ice ae becuse we alford, large............. 375 Kegs, ——. NUFF es Halford, small............. 2 26 Scotch, in sauna ——. oF =e aceaboy, in jars oF pan French —— in jar. i oe 43 | Sundried, tion ee 31 SPICE | Sundried, choice............ 33 aiid Whole Spices ay — edt ee 43 econ de Heres seen eaee | Regular, me um, Caasia, China in mats..... 12 neue, choice . oO ¢ Cassia, Batavia, !nbund... 28 Regular, ee 43 Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 40 Basket-fired, medium....... 31 Cassia, Saigon, in rolls 55 | Basket-fired, choice......... 38 pi rans Zanzibar. sees i Basket-fired, fancy.......... 43 Mace . : a. Nutmegs, 75-80...... | Ot Me 20@: Nutmegs, 105-10.. ous 40 | ee - Nutmogs, 115-20.. 35 Gunpowder Pepper, Singapore, black. 18 | Moyune, medium ........... 29 Pepper, Singapore, white. 28 | eee, —_ Sei dliie ep ate 38 Ponpor, GOs... 5... ae 20 | Moyune, fancy......... . 68 goo ee | Pingsuey, medium..... a8 seen. gi eee = ees = See ead = Jassia, Batavia. eeu as 28 | ee eee ecm. .......... 48 | Cloves, Zanzibar..........._ 17| Chote Young Hyson Ginger, ae 15 | i IOS ose ceees 069966 cane oees 30 Ginger, Cochin............ 18 | SNOT ecccceces —— sons once 36 Ginger, a ee oes 25 | Oolong Mace. s-------- 65) Formosa, fancy.. 42 Mustard. 18) Amoy, medium... 25 Pepper, Singapore, black. at Pepper, Singapore, white. 25 | | Pepper, Cayenne..... ined 20 | Saga _. STARCH Kin 40 1-lb. packages as Kingsford’s Silver Glons g sford’s Corn 40 1-Ib. packages........... 6 Ib. oaanaane etc aeekee 8 3 >, —— Gloss 2-1, DOORAGOS............. = ng Cdeaee = . es — ‘ 40 and 50-Ib, boxes......... 4 eeceveceserceseceses & & | 33 | | Cc 3) si . W | meee, Gueeee. 4... ........,. English ee 82 | Medium ———————_—— az } 34 -42 | ndia iC — weds Leece oa dig alee 82 ancy.. ... eer seces eccees cove 42 TOBACCO | Cig: | Lae. Drug ¢ ‘Oe. ‘se —— | Fortune Teller.. . 35 00 | Our Manager.. . 3 00 | Quintette.. ---- 85 08 G.J. Johnson Cigar Co *s brand, Clippings, per ....- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN We Are the Largest Mail Order House in the Worl Why Because we were the pioneers and Origi- nators of the wholesale mail order system. Because we have done away with the ex- pensive plan of employing traveling salesmen and are therefore able to undersell any other wholesale house in the country. Because we issue the most complete and best illustrated wholesale catalogue in the world. Because we have demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that merchants can order more intelligently and sat- isfactorily from a catalogue than they can from a salesman who is constantly endeavoring to pad his orders and work off his firm's dead stock. Because we ask but one price from all our customers, no matter how large or how small they may be. Because all our goods are exactly as rep- resented in our catalogue. Because we supply our trade promptly on the first of every month with a new and complete price list of the largest line of merchandise in the world. “Our Drummer” is always “the drum- mer on the spot.” He is never a bore—for he’s not talkative. His advice is sound and conservative. His personality is in- Because Have you a copy of our April catalogue? If not, why not? You can no more afford to do business without it than you can without a yard measure—one is the measure of the stuff you sell, the other a measure of the prices teresting and his you pay. Ask for cata- . ” logue J442. It costs promises are always you nothing. kept. BUTLER BROTHERS 230 to 240 Adams St., CHICAGO e of all kinds solicited. We makea onsignments specialty of handling merchandise consigned to us in bulk to be dis- tributed to various firms here and outside, We will also act as brokers for you here. Large storage warehouses, extra good facilities and prompt at- tention to all business, Our many years’ experience enables us to look after the business to the benefit of our customers. Give us a trial. Write for full particulars and state what is wanted. We can help you. Grand Rapids Messenger & Packet Co. 11-13 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Alex. McLachlin, Manager Z 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 = 3 = = 3 3 = 3 3 3 3 3 3 = = N T. W. Brown & Company Wholesale Poultry, Butter and Eggs Port Huron, Mich. FIFTY- TWO WEEKS in the year we are in the market for Poultry, Butter and Eggs. We are paying this week: FOR SWEET DAIRY PACKING STOCK BUTTER, léc, f. 0. b. shipper’s station, Port Huron weights and 2 per cent. added account shrinkage. Pack your butter in parchment paper lined sugar barrels and- head with wooden head. FOR FRESH GATHERED EGGS (cases included) 19c, f. 0. b. ship- per’s station, Port Huron count and inspection. For Poultry Delivered Port Huron: Fowls, No. 1 . - -tc kb. Old Tom Turkeys - - - - _ Ib. Springs, No.1 - : = > Old Hen Turkeys - - ¢e lb. Old Roosters Young Tom Turkeys (over 101b. and fat) ile Ib. Ducks fat, full feathered) 7 7 Ke ib. Young Her or a (over 8 lb. and fat) Lie lb. Geese (fat, full feathered) 7c | We charge no commission or cartage and make prompt re- turns upon receipt of shipments. Prices are quoted for Michigan shipments only. We refer you to First National Bank, Durand, Mich., Jean, Garrison & Co., New York City, St. Clair County Savings Bank, Port Huron. TIENTPNNE NAT TPT VP FYE TEV Nev nr Nnr Ne vr er er veneer strsnrvt strat SPAIN JAA ALAA AL UL JAA 6 AA A OLA AA UA AULA UL AAA J ub If you are a carload shipper let us hear from you. We buy in carlots. Sid Md Jd hd Jd . NOV. 17—UNSURPASSED POULTRY MARKET We predict for Thanksgiving fancy turkeys will sell, dressed, 15@16. Chickens, 13@14. Hens, 11 @12. Ducks, 15@16. Geese, 12@13. Live turkeys, 13@14. Chickens, 12@ 13. Hens, 10@11. Ducks, 12 @13. Geese, 1o@11. Should be short supplies 1 to 2c more would be easy. Have seen seasons when turkeys sold 18@20, others accordingly. Buffalo will pay up with any market in United States when she has to. For fancy (scalded) poultry Buffalo will equal any market—no exception—for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are not prophets, but predict, just the same, as we have safely for years, that no mar- ket excels us on holiday poultry this season, because Buffalo has places for it. First, always big holi- day demand; second, the canners want very large quantities; third, cold stor: age speculators, any amount; aii: live, raffling trade, carloads; fifth, factory proprietors’ trade—thousands as gifts. Hence no danger of poor results this season. Buy conservative—better sure margin on moderate shipments than loss on large ones. We assure unsurpassed service, promptness, integrity, responsibility, conservative quotations and we be- lieve an unexcelled poultry market, light freight, quick time, etc. References: New shippers to old ones and Western shippers to Berlin Heights Bank, Berlin Heights, Ohio, or Third National Bank, Buffalo; or anywhere on demand. Our 34th year. BATTERSON & CO., 159 Michigan St., Buffalo, N. Y. ~ ALWAYS: AS Ei AG EST. TAB OA OM aA TES oa = del Paniggione weirs ti hinitasibe acsilevses with ea tae : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 79 Demijohns and Their Many Uses in Trade. Why do we call a jug ina wicker- work casing or box a demijohn? That name naturally suggests ‘‘half-John,’’ or ‘‘John half fuil,’’ or somebody or something directly or indirectly con- nected with some ‘‘John’’ and liquor. But demijohns are used for holding all sorts of liquors—not necessarily intox- icants by any means, The origin of the word is a trifle clouded. We get it from the French ‘‘demejeanne,’’ which signifies a ‘‘demi-jobn,’’ just as in our language. And that word appears to have been originally a corruption or an ‘‘accom- modation,’’ so called, of ‘‘Dame Jeanne,’’ or Lady Jane—or else to have gone into the French tongue directly from the Arabic ‘‘damagan’’ (a demi- john), said to be so called from Dama- ghan, a town in Northern Persia, once famous for its glass works, and to have been the spot where glass jugs enclosed in wickerwork were originally made. So much for the name. The demi- johns themselves are a most important article in the liquor, oil, spirits and paint trades, not to mention other branches generally not so well known. We frequently see immense vessels of this sort standing in front of liquor stores. But they are, of course, signs or else advertisements, pure and simple. On them the wickercase is woven over a bottle-shaped or jug-shaped form of wood, From a dealer in glassware it was learned by a New York reporter the other day that the largest demijohn made regularly for the trade has a ca- pacity of only five gallons. The small- est holds only one and a half ounces, or less than a gill. That size is used chiefly for perfumery and cordials. ‘*Retween the five-gallon and the gill size,’’ this dealer explained, ‘‘demi-. johns are made in many sizes, includ- ing quarts, pints and balf pints. In these smaller demijohns there is a consider- able holiday trade. Demijobns are not very costly, anyway, but the very small- est are the most expensive proportion- ately. A gill demijohn sells for more than one that will hold half a gallon,the simple reason being tbat the little one must be covered with care as to its ap- pearance, while in the larger sizes the chief thing required is serviceability. So the basketwork on the very little demijohns may take more time and lots more for labor than that on a demijohn some sizes larger. ‘*Probably the first idea of most peo- ple would be that the demijohn is made solely to contain liquor; and very likely it is more used for tbat than for any other one purpose. But demijohns are, in fact, used for many purposes. They are used for vinegar and for molasses, for perfumery and for bay rum, for cordials and for extracts, for essences and for waters, and so on, in housekeep- ing use and in the drug and other trades. ‘‘Almost all the demijohns used in this country are made here, although some are imported from Germany and France. From those countries also we get, containing drug importations, some odd-shaped demijohns larger than any we use inthis country. Here, for in- stance, is a French demijohn that holds approximately 6% gallons. It is tall and of straight-sided, cylindrical form, and carried in a hamper-like outer bas- ket, with two handles, one on either side at the top. This makes a nice-looking package and is handy to lift and carry around, but railroads do not like to handle wicker-covered bottles of that sort on account of their liability to break. ‘On the other side they pack big demijohns like that with cork scraps, or scraps of sponge, for their protection in transportation. Our big demijohns here,above five gallons, are made in the form of what are called box demijohns, the bottle being incased not in wicker- work, but in a box, or a wooden crate. For that matter there are now made many box demijohns of smaller sizes as well.’’ —~> 2 > Frost Proof Oranges. The Department of Agriculture has in- vented, or rather developed, an orange that is guaranteed to withstand the cold waves that have so many times dam- aged the Florida groves. This has been accomplished by crossing the Japanese tri-foliate orange, an ornamental tree, with the common varieties successively until a fine fruit capable of enduring extreme cold has been produced. It is announced that the new orange can be grown 200 miles farther north than the varieties now under cutivation in Florida. It is to be hoped the Depart- ment will not be content with an ad- vance of 200 miles, Let it continue its experiments until the traveler may view orange groves all the way from the gulf to the Great Lakes. —_—-~> -6 > The rarest of flowers is candor,—Ra- cine, WANTED We have a business proposition that will inter- est ONE reliable young man in each city or town. Only afew spare moments of your time necessary; will not conflict with other work. Send us five two cent stamps for full particu- lars at once. iener Bros. & Co., Wholesale Produce, 25 John St., Boston 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. / Kent County Savings Bank Deposits exceed $2,300,000 3%% interest paid on Sav- ings certificates of deposit. The banking business of Merchants, Salesmen and Individuals solicited. Cor. Canal and Lyon Sts. Grand Rapids, Michigan F. M. C. COFFEES are always Fresh Roasted The “Marvel” Can Opener Excels and outsells all others. Protects 47 the hands from the tin. Does Has the not slip out of advantage can when in over allothers aS opera- it can be used for tion. yy other purposes than a can : A opener. Sells on Sight, Agents Wanted Everywhere. Kalischer Mfg. Co., Cleveland, O. Things We Sell Iron pipe, brass rod, steam fittings, electric fixtures, lead pipe, brass wire, steam boilers, gas fixtures, brass pipe, brass tubing, water heaters, mantels, nickeled pipe, brass in sheet, hot air furnaces. fire place goods. Weatherly & Pulte Grand Rapids, Mich. _ Steel Feed Gookers oleél Tanks 8 Steel Windmls WRITE FOR PRIGES. KALAMAZOO. MICH. C. C. Wormer Machinery Co. Contracting Engineers and Machinery Dealers Complete power plants designed and eee Estimates cheerfully furnished. Let us figure with you. Bargains in second-hand engines, boilers, pumps, air compressors and heavy machinery. Complete stock new and second-hand iron and brass and wood working ma- chinery. Large Stock of New Machinery DETROIT, MICHIGAN Foot of Cass St. You ought to sell LILY WHITE “The flour the best cooks use” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We have the Largest Stock in Western Mich- igan of Sleigh Runners Convex and Flat Sleigh Shoe Steel Bar and Band lron Send us your orders. Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Michigan Skates latest styles Dutch skates well and allow you a good margin. price list Free. Are going to be all the craze this season. Just received a complete stock from the Netherlands of genuine hand made, imported, Order some now. Dutch skates are meeting with immediate success, They meet a popular want and, Mr. Merchant, if you have not ordered some, do so now. My own special makes of They sell Write for my illustrated catalogue and J. Vander Stel Mfr. and Importer 33 Kent, St. Grand Rapids, Mich. iain agains AUT VEEP NENT NENT VET NET NTP NTT EP EP TT The Woodhouse Co. Wholesale Tobacco and Cigars Now open for business with com- plete lines in all departments. 33 N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. MUA AAM AAA AU GA AAA UbA Jbk Jhb AL SAA 44 40d Jk bk bk JbG Jb dk bk JbA 14d Jd 2d KZ AUAMA AA dbb ddA bd dba dbbddd rTP Se aR AEN NOR MRE a gigi A eae ye ESE SR RIE re ne oo ma cI SAOSIN A i ta: ae NC ad 80 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN How Pins, Hooks and Eyes Are Now Made. The manufacture of pins has become such an industry in the United States that its mills practically supply the world with this much-needed article, and yet the demand is by no means a small one. In 1900 the 75,000,000 peo- pie in the United States used 66,000, C00 gross of common pins, which is equal to 9,500,000,000 pins, or an average of about 126 pins for every man, woman and child in the country. This is the highest average reached anywhere in the use of pins. Ten years ago we used only about seventy-two pins apiece, Figures condensed by the American Exporter from the census reports dis- close that the total number of pins man- ufactured in the United States during 1900, the census year, was 68, 889, 260 gross. There are forty-three factories in all, with 2,358 employes. The busi- ness has grown rapidly during the last twenty years, for, although there were forty factories in 1880, they produced only half as much, employed only about half the capital and only 1,077 hands, There has been a considerable increase in the number of women and children employed in pin factories of late years, which is an indication that the machin- ery is being improved and simplified, and that its operation does not require so high an order of mechanical! skill. Hooks and eyes are a by-product of pin-making and are produced at most of the factories from material that will not do for pins. The output of hooks and eyes in Ig00 was 1,131,824 gross. Pins and hooks and eyes are turned out by automatic machines in such quantities to-day that the cost of manu- facture is practically limited to the value of the brass wire from which they are made. A single machine does the whole business. Coils of wire, hung upon reels, are passed into the machines, which cut them into proper lengths, and they drop off into receptacles and ar- range themselves in the line of a slot formed by two bars. When they reach the lower end of the bars they are seized and pressed between two dies, which form the heads, and pass along into the grip of another steel instrument, which points them by pressure. They are then dropped into a soluiion of sour beer, whirling as they go to be cleaned, and then into a hot solution of tin, which is also kept revolving. They here receive their bright coat of metal and are pushed: along, killing time, until they have had an opportunity to harden, when they are dropped into a revolving barrel of bran and sawdust, which cools and polishes them at the same time. Because of the oscillation of the bran they work gradually down to the bottom of the barrel, which is a metallic plate cut into slits just big enough for the pins, but not big enough for the heads to pass through, Thus they are straightened out into rows again, and, like well-drilled soldiers, pass along toward the edge of the bottom, and slide down an inclined plane, still hanging by their heads, until they reach strips of paper,to which they are introduced by a curious jerk of the machine. The first they know they are all placed in rows, wrapped up and on their way to the big department store, where they are sold at from five to ten cents a gross. A machine is expected to throw out several thousand gross an hour. Needles are made by a similar ma- chine. In 1900 there were made 1,397, - 533 gross of machine needles, 212,689 gross for shoemaking, 324,476 gross for ordinary household sewing machines, 307,426 gross for knitting machines, and the rest for other kinds of sewing and knitting machinery, generally for fac- tory use. We imported $418,004 worth of ordinary needles, most of them from England. Hairpins and safety pins and other kinds of pins are manufactured ina Similar manner. We made 1,189, 104 gross of hairpins in 1890. Both needles and hairpins are manufactured to a greater extent in Europe than plain pins. Safety pins, however, are de- cidedly American,and of these we make On an average 1,000,000 gross a year. Busines Nant Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payments. BUSINESS CHANCES. ror SALE—MEAT MARKET STOCK AND fixtures, slaughter house, horses, wagons. sleighs, etc.,in town of 1,600 inhabitants; good business. Address No. 881, care Michigan Trades- man. 881 j}OR SALE—SAFE, WEIGHT 1,600 POUNDs; Same as hew; can be bought at a bargain. Address R. G. Burlingame, Hartford. Mich. +78 WANTED—a GOOD SECUND-HAND BUSS for hotel and livery use. L. L. Pearce, Elsie, Mich. 871 “UR SALE-—SECOND-HAND COMPUTING __Scales. W. F. Harris, South Bend, Ind. 870 ‘\REAT OPENINGS FOR BUSINESS OF all kinds. New towns are being opened on the Chicago, Great Western Railway, Omaha Extension. For particulars address EB Ma- gill, Mgr, Townsite Department, Fort Dodge, lowa. e 869 NOR SALE—-STOCK OF GROCERIES, crockery, graniteware, etc.; best location in city of 20,060; doing $100 cash business a day; all good class of trade; chance of a lifetime; must sell at once; go ng to move south. E. A. Gard- ner, Manistee, Mich. 868 “ SALE—SMALL STOCK CLOTHING, shoes and furnishing goods; invoices about $2,500; stock new and clean; in town of about 1,200. Address No. 867, care Michigan Trades- man. 867 \ "ECAN SELL YOUK REAL ESTATE OR business wherever located; we incorporate and float stock companies; write us. oratio Gilbert & Company, 325 Elifeott Square, Buffalo. 866 | paw SALE—STOCK OF MILLINERY AND ladies’ furnishings; invoices between $1,000 and $1,200; fine location: town of 1,500 popula- tion. Good reason for selling. Address No. 865, care Michigan Tradesman. 865 OR SALE-160 ACRES OF LAND, SITU- 4’ ated in best farming locality in Michigan, four miles west of Lake Odessa; land and build- ings in excellent condition. For particulars ad- dress Mrs. E. Stuart, Clarksville, Mich. 864 DARTIES LOOKING FOR BUSINESS openings will do well to correspond with Y, care Michigan Tradesman. 877 EST YET. FOR SALE ON ACCOUNT OF other business—An established grocery in the best city in the Upper Peninsula. Willi sell at sacrifice if taken immediately. Stock about $1,200. Corner store and*basement, 20x60 ‘feet; and plate glass front. Address No. 876, care Michigan Tradesman. 878 OR SALE—A GOOD GROCERY BUSINESS _ ina thriving Michigan city; center of State; amount of business, $70 per day; stock will in- voice from $1,500 to $2,000; good reason for sell- ing. Address No. 874, care Michigan Trades- man. 74 7 SALE—FINE STOCK OF GENERAL merchandise in country town; postofiice in connection; splendid farming country; trade about £10,000 per gvear; cheap rent; or will sell controlling interest in large brick store; also two acres of splendid land, with residence, ware- house, barn, coal shed, carriage house, ete.- plenty of fruit; store and residences both lighted with acetylene gas; stock and fixtures will in- voice about $2,000; price for residence and land, $1,000; will sell separate or together. Reason for selling, poor health Address, or come and see, A. L. Spafford, P. M.. Chester, Mich. 873 EXCELLENT DRY GOODS STOCK FOR business; stock about sale; doing a fine located twenty-five miles from Grand $10,000; Rapids; would be pleased to correspond. Ad- dress Al, care Michigan Tradesman. 872 > W ANTED—MAN WITH $10,000 TO PUSH an article now before the public; it’s a winner; investigation solicited. E. J. Post, oM. D , Ber'amont, Mich. 884 80 ACRES IN EMMET COUNTY, ONE mile and a half from Brutus, unimproved, to exchange for merchandise. Address Lock Box 280, Cedar Springs, Mich. 883 ANTED—GOOD LOCATION FOR FIVE and ten cent store. Address No. 882, care Michigan Tradesman. 882 OR SALE — GROCERY BUSINESS IN Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., doing{$s0,000 yearly; Will invoice about $3,000 Owner has other bust- ness. Terms cash or good security. Address F. M. Holmes, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 885 | pe SALE—A 32,000 STOCK OF BAZAAR goods in a hustling town of 2,500; best rea- sons for selling; correspondence solicited. Ad- dress No. 880, care Michigan Tradesman. 880 wes SALE—DESIRABLE RESIDENCE, brick store and business properties. Ad- dress J. S. Hoffman, Monroe, Mich. 863 — STOCK WANTED FOR CASH WITH- in the next 30 days. Address No. 862, care Michigan Tradesman. 862 Fok SALE AT A BARGAIN IF TAKEN at once—Nice, clean stock of groceries, in- cluding fixtures and soda fountain. Will invoice about $1,500; brick building; rent $15 per month; best town of 1,200 population in Southern Mich- igan. Further particulars address No. 860, care Michigan Tradesman. 860 ANTED—TO BUY A SMALL STOCK OF drugs. Address No. 847, care Michigan Tradesman. 847 | prone SALE—STORE AND STOCK OF GEN- eral merchandise, situated at one of Michi- gan’s most pular summer resorts; a good trade established; store runs year round. A money maker. Investigate. Terms cash. Also farm of 240 acres, “five miles south of Petos- key.” Good buildings, well watered and — improved. A bargain for cash. Address A. ‘ Hass, Walloon Lake, Mich. 852 r= SALE—STOCK IN UNITED STATES Robe Factory. Inquire of F. M. Kilbourn, Secretary, Corunna, Mich. 854 N UP-TO-DATE RESTAURANT AND ey, doing a profitable business, can be bought right. Address B., care Michigan Trades- man. 861 [a FARM FOR SALE OR TRADE for merchandise; 80 acres muck soil, 1% miles from town. Address 321%4 Lake, — 85 O RENT $7—BUILDING FOR MEAT MAK- ket or other business, with three living rooms, also barn; location good on South East St, Grand Rapids. James Campbell, Room 6, Giant Block, Grand Rapids. 850 Fo SALE — GROCERY AND NOTION stock; good lively town in Southern Michi- gan; good lovation; will invoice about $800; good reason for selling. Address Owner, Box 193, Lawrence, Mich. 855 {OR SALE—HARDWARE AND IMPLE- ment stock in the best agricultural district of N.rthern Michigan. Good reason for selling. Address No. 846, care Michigan Tradesman. 8.6 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE--$12,000 STOCK of dry goods, shoes and clothing at Mason City, Ia., one of the best towns in the State. Will accept part in gcod real estate. Address No. 845, care Michigan Tradesman. 845 Fe SALE—A TWELVE HOKSE POWER boiler nearly new for $100, if sold before Jan. 1, 1903. Mich. Fe SALE—A GROCERY BUSINESS IN Houghton, Mich.; $75,000 to $100,000 business yearly; $5,000 stock; can be reduced to $3,000. Address Geo. Williams, Houghton, Mich. | 827 re SALE — MEAT MARKET AND slaughter house in connection; a good first- class trade and cash business; town of fourteen hundred inhabitants and the only market in town. Reason for selling, have other business in larger place. M.A. Mahoney, Box 246, Belle- vue, Mich. 843 F YOU WISH TO SELL A BUSINESS OR any kind of real estate anywhere in America, for quick cash, give description and price. I will send free booklet telling how itis done. No commissions. Emerson De Puy, Specialist, Des Moines, Ia. 829 Ke SALE—$3,000 GENERAL STOCK AND $2,500 store building, located in Village near Grand Rapids. Fairbauxs scales. Good paying business, mostly cash. Reason for selling, owner has other business. Address No 838, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 838 OR SALE—A NICE, CLEAN STOCK OF hardware and farm implements, tinner’s and pump tools, good location, good business, good reasons for selling. Address Lock Box 107, Hol- land, Minn. 835 / ANTED—EVERY ONE TO KNOW THAT there is one honest commission man on earth. What have you to offer? A.M Bentley, Saginaw, W.S., Michigan, Distributor of “Best on Record” Fiour 834 i? SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF ILL health, long established furniture business in finest town of 7,600 in Southern Michigan; sold at discount if taken at once. Address No. 816, care Michigan Tradesman. 816 rS SALE—A NEW AND MODERN FURN- iture delivery wagon cheap if sold at once. Address No. 8'7, care Michigan Tradesman. #17 ANTED—STOCK OF GENERAL MER- chandise for cash: must be cheap to be removed. Address Reval, 221 Fifth Ave., Chi- cago, Ill. 819 Kee SALE — AT A BARGAIN, STEAM flour mlll in good running order, on railroad. Will exchange for city a R. M. Grindley, 171 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. 827 Vo SALE OR TRADE FOR A STOCK OF general merchandise—farm of 100 acres, val- ued at $3,000; mortgaged for $1,100; located in the northeastern part of Ionia county. Address No. 795, care Michigan Tradesman. W ANTED_STEAM HEAT FOR CHURCH ae 30x60, with basement. Box 8, ——, ich. Fo SALE—TWO BUSINESS BUILDINGS in best location in town; cost $3,800; also a stock of men’s furnishing goods and shoes in first- class condition; will invoice $3,000; if taken with- in 30 days both can be bought f h. Real estate will have a big advance here before next spring. For further particulars address Box 343, Munising, Mich. 781 Fo SALE—DRUG STOCK IN ONE OF the best business towns in Western Michi- ge: good chance for a physician. Enquire of 0. 778, care Michigan Tradesman. 778 Address F. W. Brown, Ithaca, 853 J ANTED—QUICK MAIL ORDERS. Overstocked; must keep the factory run- ning; a suit cases, whips; low prices. For special discounts and illustrated descriptive list address Olney Telescope & Harness Co., Box 155, Olney, IL. 769 ‘OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIX- tures; only one in good prosperous town on railroad; g business; stock about $1,200; cash, no trades. Address rge, care Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. WANTED FOR CASH—LUMBER OF ALL kinds; also shingles and lath. Will con- oct mill cuts. Belding-Hall Mfg. Co., — ch. M Fe SALE—FIRST-CLASS, EXCLUSIVE millinery business in Grand Rapids; object for selling, parties leaving the city. Address Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 507 AFES—NEW AND SECOND-HAND FIRE and burglar proof safes. Geo. M. Smith Wood & Brick Building Moving Co., 376 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids. 321 ms SALE—DRUG STOCK‘AND FIXTURES invoicing about $2,000. Situated in center of Michigan Fruit Belt, one-half mile from Lake Michigan. Good resort trade. Living rooms over store; water inside building. Rent, $12.50 rmonth. Good reason for selling. Address 0. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 334 WANT TO BUY SOME KIND OF BUSINESS and residence (not connected); what have you to offer? Give full description and price, A. M. Barron, Station A, South Bend, Ind. 745 HAVE SOME REAL ESTATE IN GRAND Rapids. Will trade for a stock of general merchandise. Address No. 751, care M chigan 751 Tradesman. ILL PAY SPOT CASH FOR STOCKS boots and shoes, hardware, dry goods, 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 YOR 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 ANTED—A REGISTERED ASSISTANT pharmacist, one who has had at least one year’s experience, and prefer one who has had a little experience in wall Paper Correspond with G. T. Chamberlin, Hartford, Mich. 879 \ TANIED—A NO. 1 DRY GOODS, FUR- nishing goods and shoe salesman. Must be steady and reliable. State wages expected. Address P. O. Box 141, South Boardman, Mich. 875 JHARKMACIST SITUATION WANTED; EX- perienced; references: state Salary paid. Address 856, care Michigan Tradesman. 856 W AsTED BY KXPERIENCED SALES- man— Permanent position in general store; references. Address N. B., care Michigan Tradesman. 859 WASTED BY EXPERIENCED SALES- lady—Permanent position in dry goods store. References if required. Address No. 858, care Michigan Tradesman. 858 ALESMEN, IN EVERY STATE, TO CARRY as a side line on commission an article of proved merit handled by druggists, grocers, general stores and feed dealers. American Glutrose Company, Camden, N. J. 825 WANTED—a MAN TO DELIVER AND work in grocery store. Must be of good character,a worker and strictly temperate; a steady job for the right man. Address No. 823, care Michigan Tradesman. 823 WANTED — FIRST-CLASS DRY GOODS man for Northern Wisconsin; good Salary to the right man. Address No. 821, care Mich- igan Tradesman, 821 ave Auctioneers and Special Salesmen and can reduce or closeout your stock with- out one cent of loss to you by our New Idea ale. 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. > oO rrespond- " ence confiden- oar a Ear tial. We buy C. C. O’NEILL and sell store fixtures or take them on consignment. Cc. C. O"NEILL & CO., Chicagu, Il. 356 Dearborn St., Suite 408 Star Building Cheney & Tuxbury Real Estate Dealers Timbered and Farm Lands a Specialty. 24 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.