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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.

2. Wrong Methods.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

6. The Small Boy.

8. Editorial.

10. Clothing.

12. Clerks’ Corner. .

14. Dry Goods.

16. Shoes and Rubbers.
20. Woman’s World.
22 Poultry.

23. The New York Market.
24. Man During Christmas Season.
25. Commercial Travelers.
26. Drugs and Chemicals.
2%. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
29. Grocery Price Current.
30. Grocery Price Current,
31. Business and Politics.
32. Position of Shoe Salesman.

 

 

Sentiment and Friendship Cut a Figure
in Business.

‘*No, sir,’’ said I, with that charac-
teristic air of mine that seems to settle
a question, once and for all, ‘‘sentiment
cuts no figure in business, Neither does
friendship. The best friend you've
got—your brother, even—will leave you
for your competitor if he sells something
a cent cheaper than you do.”’

When I said this I was talking toa
grocer in a small New Jersey town of
about 5,000 people. It was only last
week. We had been talking about the
disposition of a man’s friends to stand
by him in his business. I bad put an
end to all discussion, as I thought, by
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‘‘That’s where you're dead wrong,’
answered the grocer,
What d’ye think of that—to me!

‘‘Wrong? How?’’ I asked, politely,
but incredulously.
‘*Because there are times,’’ he said,

‘

‘when friendship and sentiment do cut
a big figure, and I can give you a case
that will prove it.’’

‘*Glad to hear it,’’ 1 said, again in-
credulously, and he Jaunched in.

‘*It happened right in this very
town,’’ he said, ‘‘about three years ago.
This isn’t a very good town for busi-
ness. Things have sort of dropped
back in late years, A salesman who
stops here tells me it is the poorest town
for business for its size he gets into.

‘Well, it seemed about three or four
years ago as if things had gotten about
as bad as they could be, in the grocery
business. Most of the factories here-
abouts were closed down, or working
on half time, and the grocery business
was awful. Two or three grocers went
out of business and I thought sure I'd
have to, too, I hada lot of money on
my books that I couldn’t get in; why,
1 remember one day about that time |
went out with bills to collect amounting
to over $300. How much d’ye think |
got? Four dollars and fifty cents! Yes,
sir!

‘While we were in the dumps in this
way we heard one day that ——, a cutter
who has a lot of stores through Jersey,
was going to open one here. That put
us all on pins and needles. The store
came all right. He took one of the best
corners in town and opened a great big
place—meats in connection. Then he
started in to advertise, and he cut an
awful dash—had big circulars out and
quoted prices such as | had never heard
of before!

‘*Well, he knocked the rest of us
silly. My trade fell off, because I could
not begin to sell at such prices. A_ lot
of people who owed me ran to the cut
store and spent their casb. I was sick,
my wife cried all the time and |
thought I had come to my finish at last.

‘*One day I thought why wouldn't it
be a good idea to get all the other gro-
cers to meet and see if something could
not be done? So, to make a long story
short. I did that, and we decided to
hold a meeting, which we did. There
were about fourteen of us, and after a
lot of discussion we decided to lay our
case before the townspeople and throw
ourselves on their mercy. We decided
to do it by an advertisement in the two
local papers, and | got the editor of one
of the papers to write it. It took up
about quarter of a page and made quite
a show. Wait, | will show it to you.’’

He went back to his desk and lugged
out a scrap book. In the back of it
was pasted a great big advertisement,
which I got permission to copy. Here
it is verbatim:

An Appeal To Our Fellow Townsmen.

Being threatened with a condition
which we are unable to meet, we, the
grocers of ——, have decided to appeal
our case to the fair-minded residents of
the town.

There has been recently established
here a branch store for the firm of ——,

 

who have several stores. scattered
throughout the State. This store has
quoted prices so low that not one of the
undersigned is able to meet them, be-
cause in most cases we pay more than
that for our goods. We are threatened
with failure on that account, and we ap-
peal to our fellow townsmen not to let
this invader come in here and under-
mine the business of citizens of the
town. The low prices quoted by the
store have drawn many people, and if
this condition continues, some of us will
be forced to retire from business. We
are all citizens of the town, we have its
interests at heart and we ail pay taxes,
Three of us have beild local offices with-
out salary. When you are tempted to
patronize the cut store because of the
cent or two you might save, please re-
member that our stores are local institu-
tions and deserve your support. We are
all people together of the town—let us
stand‘ together. Even before the inva-
sion of the new store, business was very
poor, on account of many of the fac-
tories being closed down. At the present
time it is worse than bad, and hardly
one of us is making a living. A grocer
who runs twenty-five stores can buy
goods cheaper than we can who only
run one, thus presenting a form of com-
petition that we could not meet if we
would.

Think over the matter, fellow-towns-
men, and decide to do what is right.

‘This created a great time,’’ con-
tinued the grocer, ‘‘The papers took
our case up, notwithstanding the fact
that they had the cut store’s advertise-
ment, and they fought for us. To make
a long story short, the people here,
that is, the best people, started to boy-
cott the store and our trade began to
come back,

‘The cut store increased the size of
its advertisements and made a big ado,
but it didn't go; only a few of the poor-
est people in the town bought there. The
place petered along here about nine
months more and then one morning we
woke up and found them gone.

‘*So you see how wrong you are,’’ he
concluded, ‘‘when you say that senti-
ment and friendship cut no figure in
business. "’

And, by gum, I was
Stroller in Grocery Worl

—— >on. —

wrong, too!—

The broom has been a household im-
plement for many generations, but they
tell us that in a few years it will be
classed with the curiosities of past civ-
ilizations. A New York man has in-
vented an apparatus for cleaning rooms
of dust and dirt by air suction. Not
only are floors renovated in this new
fashion, but carpets and rugs, and walls
and draperies, upholsteries and ceil-
ings, are all subject to its beneficial
effects. The cleaning is done by pass-
ing the nozzle of a hose over the object
to be cleaned, a machine in the cellar
drawing the air—and incidentally the
dust and dirt—into the hose at a lively
rate and carrying all these accumula-
tions through smooth-jointed two-inch
pipes to the separators in the basement.
Of course; a good thing like this costs
something—several thousand dollars, in
fact—and at present can be economically
employed only in large buildings, but
like automobiles it will become cheaper
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WRONG METHODS.

Features Which Render Successful Store-
keeping Impossible.
Written for the Tradesman.

Once upon a time, as all good stories
begin, there was a man to whom suc-
cess was a stranger. No matter to what
he turned his hand, he made a failure
of it. I do not know whether he ever
attempted storekeeping or not; but it
is to be presumed he did, as it is about
as easy to make a failure of storekeep-
ing as of anything. It seemed that this
man would never achieve distinction,
for nothing he attempted prospered and
he apparently possessed no talent which
would make his name remembered. Yet
he won fame, for when he died his
friends wrote upon his tomb:

Write thus his name on fame’s illustrious page:
He was the greatest failure of his age.

It is in some such spirit as the friends
of that man inscribed this epitaph upon
his tombstone that I devote a little of
the Tradesman’s space and some of my
own and the reader’s valued time to a
description of a store with which I am
acquainted and which is conducted by
methods that entitle it to the name of
failure. Failure in business does not
always mean bankruptcy. A store may
be a failure and still survive, may even
produce a profit. The real failure in
storekeeping, from a financial point of
view, is a store that is not earning all]
that it might be earning if it were con-
ducted in the proper way.

It may be that the man who owns that
store may read this, although I doubt it
somewhat, as owners of that kind of
stores, as a rule, are not readers of the
Tradesman. However, some progressive
neighbor may place these lines before
his eyes and, if one does, I hope that
what is here written will do him some
good, just as | hope it may do good to
others who do not need this example as
badly as does this one _ storekeeper,
This article may fall into the hands of
some other man than the one I have in
mind, who may think that it is intended
for him, and if he needs it, I hope he
will make that error; if the coat fits
him, I would like to bave him put it on.
There are wrecks along the shore of
life, just as there are along the shore
of the great ocean, which are stranded
on some submerged rock, no longer of
use to themselves, but which should
serve aS warning to every mariner who
passes that way. Letthis store serve as
that kind of warning.

I speak of this store in the attitude
of the man in front of the counter, but I
trust that my opinion will not be taken
lightly because, after all, the satisfac-
tion of the customer is the great end in
storekeeping. A_ satisfied customer
means a full till and a satisfied banker.
Some other method than that you are
now using might seem better from a
purely technical or mercantile point of
view; but, if your customers are satis-
fied, and by satisfied I mean pleased,
you have accomplished a great deal in
merchandising.

The things in this store I have in
mind which appeal to me as bad must
appeal to every one as bad. First, be-
cause it is one of the worst, comes the
abuse of clerks. I speak notonly of the
public abuse of the storekeeper’s em-
ployes, but of the private amusement of
that character which this storekeeper
must indulge in. It may be that that
which is done in public exceeds that
which is done in private, for men some-
times prefer to exercise their authority
in the presence of others through mere
vanity; but in any event abuse ofa

 

clerk is never profitable or good. There
is a vast difference between reprimand
and abuse and it is safe to say that no
clerk ever improved or profited by any-
thing that was said to him if he felt that
an injustice was being done to him or
that he was being made a spectacle of
before customers. It should be the am-
bition of the storekeeper first of all to
make his store a pleasant place. For-
tunately, our sensibilities are not so
deadened that we can enjoy seeing an-
other man humiliated. Yet this is the
spectacle which is daily presented in
this store of which I speak. Leaving
out al] question of right and wrong, of
his duty to himself and to the man in his
employ, the fact remains that the store-
keeper who publicly scolds—I know no
better word—a clerk is making his place
of business an unpleasant place for
those who go there to buy. So policy
as well as right should restrain the store-
keeper who is given to this error.

More remarkable in this store in ques-
tion is the abuse of customers. Abuse
of clerks, sad to say, is not such a very
uncommon thing, but most men in the
mercantile business at least treat their
customers with consideration and re-
spect. In this place of which I speak
the proprietor proceeds upon an exactly
opposite line in dealing with customers
from that on which he should proceed.
The law says that every man is pre-
sumed to be innocent until he is proven
guilty; in commercial law every cus-
tomer is supposed to be honest and con-
cientious until be does something which
proves him otherwise. The last thing a
storekeeper should do is to question the
honesty of his patrons or tofdoubt, if they
attempt to drive a bargain, that at the
worst their intention is other than to get
the best value for their money. No man
should be accused of sharp practice, yet
I see these things done in this store of
which I speak.

There is another element which en-
ters into this question which is found
in other stores than this, and that is the
attempt that some people make to argue
a customer into buying something that
he does not want in preference to what
he does want. Of course, it is plainly
the seller’s duty, if he thinks that some-
thing else is better suited to the buyer’s
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plainly shown it to him, it is enough to
leave it to the other’s discretion. Then,
if the customer finds he has made a
mistake, if be is possessed of any fair-
ness at all, he will at least hold the seller
guiltless,

There is another fault in this store
that is not confined to this one place of
business and that is that its advertising
is poor. To attempt to write on this
question opens up opportunity for un-
limited discussion, and all that I shall
say on this subject is to urge merchants
anew not to underestimate tbis depart-
ment of store conduct. Good advertis-
ing is always profitable; bad advertis-
ing is always a losing game. There is
no medium; advertising is either so
good that it is very good or else so bad
that it is of no use at all.

In this store old goods are shoved
to the front and new goods are kept in
the rear. I do not believe that this is a
good system, and 1 do not believe any
sensible man will think it is a good
system; it gives the store a look of
staleness and does it an injustice. I do
not believe that old goods ever sell new
goods, but I do believe that new stock is
an assistance in moving old stock. Spe-
cial methods which will suggest them-
selves to the dealer are known to move
old goods; and, by the way, will not
the pursuit of advanced store methods
keep that part of the stock known as
old, ata minimum? The store with a
large amount of old goods never seems
to get caught up with itself.

Before | go farther 1 want to say that
this is a real store I am describing.
Perhaps the reader will ask, if it con-
tains all these bad features, why it has
not gone to the wall long ago. Ina fu-
ture article I will try to tell some more
of its numerous faults and wili also at-
tempt to answer the question.

Charles Frederick.
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Recent Business Changes in Indiana.

Holland—J. E, Steinkamp, dealer in
jewelry and musical instruments, has
removed to Jasper.

Indianapolis—The People’s Outfitting
Co., incorporated, succeeds Joseph
Wineman in the household furnishing
goods business.

Kempton—J. W. Southard, butcher,
has admitted his brother to partnership
in the business under the style of South-
ard Bros,

Montezuma—The Montezuma Mill Co.
is succeeded by the Nordyke Hominy
Milling Co.

Terre Haute—The Hickory Grocery
Co., formed to engage in the meat and
grocery business, is capitalized at
$60,000, equally divided in preferred
and common stock. The incorporators
are Lawrence Hickey, H. J. Hickey,
D. W. Hickey, Charles B. Hagerty and
John W. Corbin, all of Terra Haute.

Indianapolis—The wholesale and re-
tail buying and selling of fish, oysters
and game will engage the attention of
the F. G. Kamps Fish and Oyster Co.,
which is capitalized at $15,000, The
members are Robert L. Roper, Isaac
Erdman and Edward P. Booze, all of
Indianapolis,

Worthington—The Worthington Ele-
vator Co. has been organized with a
capitalization of $10,000, The new com-
pany will operate a grain elevator. The
incorporators are Samuel H, Carnahan,
Edward L, Taylor, Frank Wilson, David
Landis, David W. Moffatt, Fletcher
Owen and E. Byrd Squire. The three

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The Doctor’s Narrow Escape.

‘‘l have always insisted,’’ she said,
after a long, sweet silence, ‘*that
would never marry a doctor or a preach-
er.

He turned pale and a look of despair
crept into his eyes,

‘‘Arthur,’’ she exclaimed,
the matter?’’

With a heaving sigh, he answered:

‘Can't I induce you to overcome
your prejudice? Ah, tell me, tell me
that your decision against doctors and
preachers is not irrevocable, ’’

Six weeks before she had written a
message on an egg and sent it out into
the world. The frail messenger had
fallen into Arthur Higgleson’s hands,
and there they were sitting on the bag-
gage truck at the railway station, wait-
ing for the hack, which they had
missed, to return from tewn and convey
them to the hotel, where they had
planned to be married.

She looked up into his eyes with a
wild yearning, and cried:

‘*Are you a preacher?’’
he groaned, ‘‘not that—not

‘“‘what is

“Oh, tell me, tell me,’’ she wailed,
‘‘that you are not a doctor!’’

He hung his head. There was a
guilty look in his eyes, and she knew
that the worst had come.

At last, pulling himself together with
a mighty effort, he turned to her and
said:

‘Yes, Emeline. You have guessed
the truth. I am a doctor. But why
should that matter? Why do you dis-
criminate against preachers and doc-
tors?’?’

‘*Because they bave to be among
women so much,’’ she sadly replied. ‘‘I
should want my husband all! to myseif.’’

Love,’’ he cried,‘‘ then we may
still be happy. 1 ama horse doctor,’’
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Why He “Didn’t Dast.”

There is considerable risk attached to
loaning books at a public library, for
the ‘‘borrowers’’ not infrequently move
away without going through the cere-
mony of returning the books.

To minimize this risk each patron is
required to fill out a blank form, on
which some reliable person signifies
his willingness to be responsible for the
books ljoaned,

A librarian in one of the suburban
branches was recently hard put to it to
find a ‘‘guarantor’’ for a diminutive
lad who was anxious to join. Appar-
ently the youth in question had no ‘‘in-
fluential friends’’to vouch for him, Sud-
denly the librarian had an inspiration.

‘‘Do you live around here?’’ she
asked.

The would be borrower answered in
the affirmative.

‘*Did you ever buy groceries in the
store on the corner?’’

Again he assented.

‘“Weil, go over and ask the grocer to
sign for you. He’ll do it,’’ she con-
cluded with a relieved air.

But blackest gloom enveloped the
youth, as he replied:

Ob, I wouldn’t dast! We owe him
$8.16 an’ my mother sez, *taint no use to
pay him once, cos we’re goin’ to move
soon !’’

Needless to say. after this unexpected

glimpse of the family ethics the pros-
pective member was allowed to gain his
ideas of current literature from _ the
neighborhood billboards,

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Burning Verses.

‘‘T wouldn't care if that poet would
bring in a hundred poems a day,’’ said
the country editor,

‘He knows how to write 'em, does
he?'’ asked the office bore.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

  

 

| D : merci i tore on the | the patronage of al] women pos-

Around the State } roveme och of the M. & N, | sible who are not stockholders, Nobody
= wid | 4 ett ef D omen wiii be employed in the

€ profits will be paid back to

      

Movements of Merchants.

   
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
   
  
  

Manufacturing Matters.
Manistee Flouring
increased its capital stock

be Palmer Manufacturing
e Detroit Spring Bed

€ manufacture of beds.
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seeders and cul-
d its capitai stock

le Creek Grape
actory here, is
for the erection
aw Paw.
Michigan Manufac-
Mercantile Co. is succeeded
chigan Cooperage Co., Lim-
be manufacture of staves and

 

it—Meier & Schuknecht have
beir business into a corporation
| manufacture trunks, dress suit
novelties. The capital

bor—The Federal Lumber
een incorporated with a capital
,000, all of which is held by

exception of two shares.
Detroit—The Detroit Leather Spe-
alty Co. bas secured a contract with
the United States Quartermaster’s De-
partment at Philadelphia for 3,000 pairs
of gauntlets for the artillery of the

Detroit—The Wonderful Dream Salve
s filed articles of association. It
apital stock of $5,000 and is
by Ora J. Mulford, 449 shares;
Jobn C. Mulford, 50 shares and Walter
A. Stock, 1 share.
Jackson—Knickerbocker & Baker,
manufacturers of buggy boxes, have
dissolved partnership. Mr. Baker has
formed a copartnership with Mr. Rhodes
and the business will hereafter be con-
ducted under the style of Baker &
Rhodes.
Detroit—The Geo, H. Hammond Co.,
: M i of Chicago, has placed with the Amer-
iated with his brother in ican Blower Co. an order for sixteen
usiness and Mr. Alverson|/arge steel plate fans, two with direct-
from Alma last year to su-|COmmected engines for induced draft
ca ok the court-| Work, the others for use in connection
witb cold storage plant.
St. James—The Beaver Island Lum-
er Co. has been organized with an
uthorized capital stock of $75,000, held
y the following persons: Gus Kitsin-
er, Manistee, 3,750 shares: W. E.
Stephens, Freesoil, 1, 375 shares; JohnS,
Stephens, Freesoil, 1,875 shares.

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30. Papers will
be read by Chas. England, of Balti-
more, Md., President cf the National
y Association: Smith Young, of
Lansing, ex President of the Nationa!
Association: Geo. T. McComb, of Kalamazoo—The Henrietta Skirt Co.,
Lockport, N. Y., one of the largest bay | Manufacturerof skirts andthe Kalamazoo
er

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8 ie that State, and others. The| Pant & Overall Co., manufacturer of
recent decision of the Interstate Com-| pants and overalls, have merged their
merce Commission restoring hay and| business under the style of the Sam
Straw to the sixth class will] be one of | Rosenbaum & Sons Co. and will manu-
zg the leading topics of discussion and the | facture pants, overalls and skirts.
Blanche Johnson, of this place. The | meeting is expected to be of great value} East Tawas—The Tawas Sugar Co.
happy couple took a trip through South-| to hay dealers and shippers generally. has merged its business into a corpora-
ern Michigan as a bridal tour. Calumet—Miss Maggie Walz, editor|tion. The capital stock is $500,000,
Cedar Springs—G. F. Furner, farmer| and publisher of the Suometar and other | held by several stockholders, of whom
and im; -ment dealer, has purchased the Finnish journals, and the only woman/|the {fc llowing are the largest: iH, A.

interest of E. S. Rose in the hardware | Finnish editor in this country, is organ | Goodale, 50 shares; W. F. Whittemore,
business of Kose & Marvin. The new izing a co-operative store exclusively | 50 shares; H. N. Loud, 833 shares; W.
style will be Furner & Marvin. for women. She has just completed the | L. Churchill, 2,500 shares.

Copemish—Crawford Bros., dealers in| erection of a $40,000 business structure Detroit—The Everson Match Machine
hard old their| and the ground floor wil! be used by the|Co, bas merged its business into a cor-
Store building to Mrs. E. Hazard and|new concern. Shares of the company | poration. The capital stock is $25,000,
will remove to West Branch, where they | will be sold to women only, Every | divided among the following persons:
will engage in the mercantile business. | stockholder wil] be expected to buy the|George Everson, 2,445 shares; Jos.

Provemont—Mabn Bros, will shortly | necessities at the store, and in turn se-| Mayworm, 20 sbares; Robert H. Mur-

 

 

 

ray, 20 shares; Robert B. Swart, 10
shares, and Alfred Jackson, 5 shares,

Detroit—Articles of association have
been filled by the Stimpson Standard
Scale Co., the capital stock being
$6c,000. The principal stockholders
are Walter F. Stimpson, 2,470 shares:
Geo. F. Minto, 200 shares: YT. W.
Barnes, 200 shares; H.C. Sill, 200
shares, and J, J. Lannen, 500 shares,

Hillsdale—The Kesselring Hub &
Wheel Co. has been incorporated with
a capital stock of $300,000. The officers
are as follows: F. A. Roethlisberger,
President; H. F. Doty, Vice-President -
BE. C. Shupp, Secretary, and 1, A.
Goodrich, Treasurer. The company is
organized to manufacture the bub re-
cently patented by Geo. Kesselring, of
Reading. An extensive output is antic-
ipated as soon ag the building is erected
and equipped.

Detroit—Oren Scotten has resigned
the presidency of Scotten, Dillon & Co.
Mr. Scotten retains his interest in the
company and gave up the direction cf
its business to relieve himself of work
and to be able to go in search of health
all he wishes. He will shortly leave for
Arizona to spend the rest of the winter,
Edward C, Way waselected President to
succeed Mr. Scotten. Mr. Way has been
the general manager of the company
and has for twenty four years been con-
nected with the Scottens.

Eh
The Boys Behind the Counter.

Fremont—John Timmer, with Reber
Bros., will after January 1 be found
with C. E. Pearson.

Merrili—Albert A. White bas gone to
Central Lake, where he has a good situ-
ation with the Central Lake Lumber
Co, as book-keeper. Mr. White, dur-
ing his fourteen years’ residence in this
place, has become known all over this
part of Saginaw county as a man of
sterling qualities.

Ishpeming—George Skogberg has re-
signed his position with the Finnish
Mercantile Association to take a posi-
tion with A. T. Van Alstyn at Mar-
quette. Mr. Skogberg has been actively
identified with the dry goods trade for
a num ber of years in this city.

————>_
Went to Chicago On a Junket.

Lansing, Dec. 23—Food Commission-
er Snow and State Analyst Doolittle
were in Chicago yesterday, whither they
went to consult with the Dairy and
Food Commissioner of Illionis relative
to the length of time they should accord
the trade in promulgating a ruling
which necessitates the calling in of
goods and replacing them with other
goods. They found that the informa-
tion they desired is covered by statute in
Illinois, where the trade is given a full
year to make any change decided upon
by the Food Department. It is believed
that this information, which could have
been obtained in the office of the De-
partment at Lansing by simply referring
to the reports of the Illinois Commis-
sioner will resvjt in Mr, Snow issuing
an order, extending the time for putting
into effect,the’Bennett-Doclittle extract
of lemon ruling from ‘Jan. 1 to July.

and possibly&to Jan. 1, 1903.

 

 

 

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Grand Rapids Gossip

The Produce Market.

Apples—The market is looking up
and stock is moving more freely. Fancy
commands $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—Receipts of dairy grades are
liberal and there are indications of a
lower range in valuesafterJan. 1, Coun-
try merchants would do well to revise
their paying prices, so as to be ina
position to face a drop. Creamery is a
little weaker, commanding 29c for fancy
and 28c for choice. Pound prints from
fancy command 30c. Dairy grades
command 20@22c for fancy, 18@zoc for
choice and 16@18c for packing stock.

Cabbage—4oc per doz.

Carrots—35c per bu.

Celery—17c per doz,

Chestnuts—$5@6 per bu.

Cocoanuts—$3.50 per sack.

Cranberries—Howes from Cape Cod
are strong and scarce at $3.25 per bu.
box and $9.50 per bbl.

Dates —Hallowi, 5c; Sairs,
lb, package, 7c.

Eggs—Receipts of fresh are coming
in more freely, which is causing a
weakening in cold storage goods. Ow-
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cold storage to move their supplies
shortly after Jan. 1, lower prices are
looked for in near future. Local deal-

ers pay 20@22c for case count and 22@
24c for candled. Cold storage range
from I9@2Ic.

Figs—g1 per to Ib. box of Califor-
nia; 5 crown Turkey, 17c; 3 crown, I4c.

Grapes—Malagas, $5.25@5.75.

Honey—White stock is scarce and
higher, readily commanding 17@18c.
Amber is active at 14@15c and dark is
moving freely on the basis of 12@13¢c.

Lemons—Californias, $3.75 ; new Mes-
sinas, $4.50.

Lettuce—12%c per Ib. for hothouse.

Maple Sugar—io%c per Ib.

Maple Syrup—$1 per gal. for fancy.

Nuts—Butternuts, 65c; walnuts, 65c;
hickory nuts, $2.35 per bu.

Onions—In good supply
much demand at 6oc per bu.

Oranges—Floridas command $3.50 per
box. Califorina Navels, $3.25; Califor-
nia Seedless, $2.75.

Potatoes—The market is without par-
ticular change. Local dealers meet no
difficulty in obtaining 5oc.

Radishes—30c per doz. for hothouse.

Spanish Onions—$I.40 per crate.

Spinach—goc per bu.

Squash—2c per Ib. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $4 per bbl. ;
Illinois, $3. $0.

Turnips—4oc per bu.

and not

The Grain Market.

Wheat has been slow and the market
has had a holiday appearance. How-
ever, the situation is very strong and
prices did not yield to the heavy pound-
ing which they received. The visible,
contrary to all expectations, showed
only 665,000 bushels increase, which
was about 1,000,000 bushels less than
was anticipated, and this also gave
strength to the market. Exports were
fair during the week. Receipts at in-
itial points seem to be decreasing. The
amount on passage is 1,000,000 bushels
less than last week. Continental stocks
are small. Report had it that seventy-
eight boatloads were chartered for ex-
port—a boatload is 8,000 bushels. On
account of navigation being closed, we
look for an increase in stocks in the
West, especially at Duluth, Chicago
and probably Milwaukee, unless the
demand East is such that it will be car-
ried by rail. There was a contract
made with the railroads to-day of 100,-
ooo bushels to ship East by rail, which
seems peculiar at this early date, so
soon after the close of navigation. The

 

present outlook seems to be for a rather
slow market, which will continue until
after New Years, as the traders will be
absent during the holiday season.

Corn has taken another tumble and
the ‘‘sky rocket’’ period passed with a
certain thud. The price at present is
norma! as December options are selling
at 45%c, while a week ago they were
53c. The weather has had considerable
to do with it. There was not as much
long corn out as was anticipated, which
left the ‘‘tailers’’ in bad shape. How-
ever, it is nobody’s funeral but their
own; at least, people will get corn at
nearer its value than they have been
able to in the last two or three months.

Oats have remained exceptionally
strong. While no gain can be recorded,
prices are firm. The visible in oats,
as usual, showed a small decrease of
175,000 bushels, which goes to show
that the demand is equal to the supply,
and so long as this state of affairs exists,
prices will remain steady.

Rye has been very uninteresting and
there has been hardly any demand. On
the other hand, there has been but very
little offered, soit is hard work to main-
tain prices. We lock for still lower
prices in rye.

Beans are jogging along as they have
been for some time, with no change of
price, They seem to remain steady and
we see nothing in the present situation
that would advance the price. It looks
as if lower prices would be in order,
especially as there are lots of foreign
beans coming to this country.

Flour remains very firm at present
prices and nothing is insight at present
to lower them. While the demand is
not what it usually is, everyone is run-
ning bis stock low at the end of the year
for inventory. However, the mills are
running very steadily and losing no
time.

In mill feed there is nothing to re-
port. Prices are very firm and the de-
mand keeps up to the supply.

Receipts of grain have been normal,
being as follows: wheat, 60 cars; corn,
II cars; oats, 5 cars; flour, 2 cars; hay,
I car; straw, I Car; potatoes, 12 cars.

Millers are paying 76c for wheat.

CG. AL Vorgt,
oe Oe

Wm. B. Snow, State Dairy and Food
Commissioner, was in town last Thurs-
day and Friday and arranged to meet
representatives of the wholesale and re-
tail trade at the Morton House at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon. In case he
could not keep the engagement, he
agreed to telegraph the gentleman who
made the arrangement with him at least
six hours before the time set for the
meeting. No telegram was received, nor
did Mr. Snow put in an appearance.
His action in this matter is exactly in
keeping with his attitude toward the
Grand Rapids Board of Trade, whose
President wrote him an urgent letter
nearly two months ago which called for
an immediate reply. No answer was
ever received, which naturally leads to
the conclusion that Food Commissioner
Snow cares as little for Grand Rapids
as does His Excellency, Governor Bliss,
who has gone out of his way on every
occasion to vent his displeasure on the
Valley City.

 

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A. Levitt has sold his dry goods and
men’s furnishing goods stock at 1261
South Division street to George Hirsch-
berg, who will continue the business at
the same location in connection with his
shoe and notion business at 1259 South
Division street.

 

The Grocery Market,

Sugars—Raw sugars are somewhat
easier and prices show a decline of
I-16c,with very few sales reported. Re-
finers seemingly are not anxious buyers
at present at any price and both buyers
and sellers are disposed to hold off,
awaiting future developments, Prices
for refined are unchanged, but the
market presents a very tame appearance,
with only a moderate business done.
Dealers at present are fairly well stocked
up and consequently making only ligbt
purchases. There is no reason to an-
ticipate any important change in the
refined product for the present unless
conditions in the raw sugar market
should change for the worse, in which
case there might be a further decline
in prices. However, it is expected that
prices will be firmly maintained on their
present basis, as there is still only a
smali difference between the net price
of raw and refined.

Canned Goods--The canned goods
market presents very little change and
trade in general continues quiet, There
is the usual number of small orders at
this time of the year, which keeps
things moving slowly until the begin-
ning of the new year, when something
better is looked for. Tomatoes continue
in fair demand, but prices show no
change. Buyers, apparently are well
enough stocked with this article to sup-
ply their present needs, so are not giv-
ing it much attention just now. There
is a fair demand for corn at steady, un-
changed prices. Consumptive demand
is moderate and is causing a steady de-
crease in supplies. There is no change
in the price of peas, which are moving
out quite weil, especially for the better
grades, which are scarce. Small fruits
are in fair demand, but very few are
offered, as stocks are so light. There is
a good demand for salmon of almost all
grades and stocks show a steady de-
crease, Prices show no change, but are
firmly held. Sardines are unchanged in
price, but are meeting with fair demand.
Stocks are very light and no lower prices
are expected in the near future.

Dried Fruits—Trade in dried fruits
of almost all varieties continues good,
as is the usual thing at this season of the
year, Prunes are the strongest article
on the list and are meeting with excel-
lent demand, especially for the large
sizes, some of which are almost impos-
sible to obtain at any price. The ad-
vance noted last week has not curtailed
business any, but buyers are still anxious
to get hold of the large prunes at almost
any cost. Raisins are unchanged in
price, but are moving out very well for
the holiday trade. This is particularly
true of seeded, which are especially ac-
tive. Currants have been meeting a
good sale and the market is quite a lit-
tle firmer in consequence, with the
tendency toward higher prices, Peaches
and apricots are steady, but trade in this
line is rather limited and not much in-
terest is manifested. Dates continue
firm and the holiday trade on this ar-
ticle is very large. Stocks are moder-
ate, but not considered at all excessive.
Figs are quiet, but prices remain un-
changed. These goods do not seem
quite so active as usual at this time of
year. Evaporated apples show no
change in price and are meeting with
only a moderate demand. A number of
evaporators are holding their stock,
looking for higher prices after the first
of the year, but if these are not realized
there will be a lot of stock forced on the
market, which will bave the tendency
to lower prices,

 

 

Rice—Although full prices are still
maintained, trade in rice is dull. Hold-
ers have full confidence in the market
and will not make any concessions and
buyers have to pay full prices for what
they purchase. The stock of fancy
grades is light, but medium grades are
in good supply.

Molasses—Trade in molasses is not
particularly active, although prices are
firmly maintained. Stocks on hand are
light and buyers will soon be compelled
to enter the market to stock up to meet
their actual requirements. Advices
from New Orleans report that the re-
ceipts of the better grades of new crop
molasses are very light. The medium
grades, however, are in moderate sup-
ply.

Fish—Trade in fish is good. Prices
show no change, but are held steady,
particularly on mackerel, which has a
higher tendency.

Nuts—Trade on nuts of all grades is
very active, with prices on everything
except almonds very firmly held. There
is no actual change in price on these
goods, but the market for same is a trifle

easier.
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Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market has slumped and
stocks can not be moved at low prices.
3ids are some higher, but asking prices
are still above tanners’ views. Country
hides do not come in as expected. The
kill is light. Packers can fill the de-
mand, but ask more money.

Pelts are fairly plenty, with a good
demand. Prices do notchange. Pullers
are selling wool more freely.

Furs are in great demand and active.
The catch is light. Buyers are plenty
and are very eager to purchase,

Tallow is weak, with little demand.
Trade is practically stopped on account
of low values.

Wool is firm and quoted some higher,
but sales are small, with few looking
for supplies. No buyers are in the State
and no lots are being offered on the
present market. Wools are higher abroad
and above the importing point. Manu-
facturers are well supplied, while stocks
in sight are not large for the season.

Wm, T. Hess.
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Sturmer Bros., hardware dealers, Port
Huron: Enclosed find check to apply
on our subscription. We always take
the time to read the Tradesman and al-
ways find it pays. Every live hard-
ware dealer should read it.

———_ ~~. «.

The Grand Rapids Cereal Co. expects
to begin operations in the Raniville
building about Jan. 15 with a full com-
plement of machinery and employes.

8

P. Steketee & Sons have sold a new
dry goods stock to J. M. Wheeler, of
Shelby.

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THE SMALL Boy. {tion to see what new calamity had be-

Unable to Withstand the Attractions of | fallen tne business, we found that a box
Christmas Toys. | of weoden building blocks had been up-

Written for the Tradesman. i | Set and scattered over the floor and Jay |
Now that it is nearing Christmas and|Gould and three or four more smal |
the stores show more or less bountifu] | AMericans were on their knees, frantic- |
displays of holiday goods, the small boy j ally trying to gather up the pieces.
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and his smalier sister are unusually con- | = £ :
spicuous, | During the holiday season we always
“Wherever are dolls or toys or penny | look for a rattling trade.
whistles or red and yellow candies, | That is one good thing about this |
there, also, swarm the young hopefuls in| kind of business. We may indulge un- |
unwonted profusion and, ail things be- | bampered in all sorts of pleasant antici- |
ing eq there they abide from the/pations. In our minds we may build as|
ig C igh as we please ; we may see our aisles |

j warm with countless multitudes, and

| hear our coffers groan with their burden |

sf go and silver an

C and diamonds and |
|pearis. We may fancy ourselves getting
ll the trade away from the other fellows
nd wonder what the poor chaps will
j a living after the sheriff bas
them out; but there is apt to be
akening from these dreams

of fate ofttimes rests heav-

C n who too freely indulges in
sort of mental dissipation. But 1

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On the day mentioned trade was really
y good and time whirled on un-
iced until the hour hand of the store |

lock scraped acquaintance with the|
| third figure on its dial. There was a lull
|in business and, as I turned my atten-
ion once more to the toy department, |
| became aware of the fact that Jay Gould
was there. No one had seen him enter.
No one knew bow he got there. He
was simply present. There was no mis-
take about that.

 

‘Hello, Jay,’’ said I in no very pleas-
ant tones, | am afraid, for the incident
jof the morning still rankled in my
breast. ‘‘Are y-o-u stillbere? | thought
you went home.’’

 

Jay looked me full in the eye, a little
affrighted, it is true, but. still with a
}sort of pleading that is hard to resist,
;and said simply:

‘‘O, I did go home, but I come back

So I see,’’ said I, with perhaps less
| of acidity than I had intended. ‘‘Well,
You've got in a nice lot of Chris’- |! hope you'll try to keep your hands off
mus presents, hain’t you?’’ he remarks, | things now.*’

half interrc gatively, half apcologetical];

 

 

Sure, I will,’’ he replied heartily.
I admit the allegation. | Trade improved presently and, although
Jay stands spellbound before the won-| | meant to keep an eye on the toys, it

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will take a greater temptation than this],
to cause him to swerve from bi u- |
tion to observe the hitherto oft-re eated e
dmonition to ‘‘let things alone. ”’ His
breath comes and goes in iittle half |
scared gasps, but, finding that he i

s
not disturbed, he settles down to Satisfied |
silence and a calm observation of what |
is laid before him.

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Gancing bear. But feeling that there is guardian or trustee weigh the
an eye upon bis movements, the erring | permanency and responsibiiity
member is quickly withdrawn, Abash onli
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and silent he stands there, blushing vis- 4) ee i. a
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1Diy, until, unable to longer stand the a
ml vidual,
suspense, he observes by way of reliev- a. salle
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that rubber thing that there bear would things to which an individual
jump and dance ali over.’’ eet

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antil things in that region became so
hilarious that no sane man could endure
it and attend to customers at the same
time. Who was responsible for the oc-
currence will probably never be made
public, but the giggle of half-grown
girls, the shouts of small children and
the sonorous guffaw of some lumbermen
from the Torch Lake country were
mingled with the clatter of mechanical
toys and the shrill shrieks of half a
dozen penny whistles that were trying
to play an accompaniment to a dancing
nigger, a tin crocodile on wheels and an
automatic impossibility supposed to
represent a Senegambian ape. Some one
had wound them up and the crowd was
enjoying a free ‘‘mins'rel show.’’

Jay saw me coming and pulled him-
self together with an effort.

‘‘Is the 3 o’clock train in?’’ he asked,
hesitatingly, as he attempted to shrink
back into nothingness, ‘‘cus if it is, 171l
have to go.’’

‘Yes, it is,’’? I snapped.

“"Oh,’’ sata be, °* | didn’t know. I
didn’t hear it.”’

Hear it! Hearthattrain! With all
that racket going on the crack of doom
would fall upon the ear as lightly as
April sunshine smites the rock!

Jay escaped.
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{t was late in the evening—time to
close the store. The last customer had
been bowed out, the cash counted, the
fires banked, the back door fastened and
the large lamps extinguished. The
clerks were putting on their wraps pre-
paratory to taking their leave.

‘‘Hello! What’s this?’’ exclaimed
Dave, enquiringly.

We all looked toward the object of his
solicitude, and there, sitting on a coun-
ter stool, half hidden behind some tem-
porary shelving that held a lot of Christ-
mas noveities, his head pillowed on his
arms which in turn rested upon the
counter and his eyes closed in sleep was
a small boy.

There was something strangely famil-
iar in his appearance. We approached
more closely and, as the light from the
remaining lamp shone brightly on his
passive countenance, we all, with one
accord, recognized the intruder.

It was Jay Gould.

Geo, L. Thurston.
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Many Women Buyers in Business World.

There is a small business book in
quite general use and known as a
‘‘Buyer’s Directory.’’ In it appear the
names of more than nine hundred women
buyers, who are the representatives of
business firms all over the United States
that send to New York for goods, Those
who should know say that there are more
women buyers than this list shows—
women whose name are merely set down
as S. Brown or C. Jones, without the
distinguishing prefix of Miss or Mrs.

Nearly every woman buyer has become
such after a long apprenticeship in the
house that employs her, having begun
work as a cash girl or in the taking care
of the stock, and worked her way
through all the intervening grades to top
rank. Occasionally a bright woman
with a talent for comparing values will
learn the market and its possibilities
and limitations in less than five years’
time.

One of the largest stores in the city
employs a woman as buyer and manager
for its cutlery department. Her trade
sense is as keen and trustworthy as the
knives and scissors she handles, and
she has full swing in all matters con-
nected with ber department, her success

 

in the past having led the firm to rely
on her judgment, no matter what inno-
vations she may see fit to make. Until
recently women buyers were employed
chiefly in the infants'or women’s de-
partments, in buying corsets and articles
exclusively feminine. But they are be-
ing trusted with the buying of higher-
priced lines of stock, shoes, umbrellas,
leather goods and jewelry—departments
in which, as in cutlery, men and youths
are as often catered to as women and
children.

The fur department in one of the big-
gest shops in a Northwestern city is
controlled by a woman who buys §$250,-
ooo worth of goods in a single season.
She gets them direct from the factories
and makes such shrewd selections that
the men say she can not be fooled on
the value of a garment.—N. Y. Com-

mercial.
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A Hennery Hint.

A duck which had faithfully stuck to
business during the summer and had
laid several dozen large, fawn colored
eggs complained that she was not ap-
preciated.

‘*See that hen over there?’’ said she;
‘‘she hasn’t laid as many eggs as I
have, nor as big, but she has books writ-
ten about her, and verses composed in
bonor, while nobody is saying a word
about me,’”’

‘*The trouble with you is,’’ said a
wise rooster, who was standing near,
‘‘that you don't teil people what you
have done. You lay an egg and wad-
dle off without saying a word, while that
wife of mine never lays one without let-
ting everyone in the neighborhood
know it. If you want to cut any ice in
this community you must follow this
example and learn to blow your own
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EK. A. STOWE, Eprron.

WEDNESDAY - - DECEMBER 24, 1902.

   
   

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mailed in the usual manner. And further
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CHRISTMAS DAY.

The anniversary which

 

 

 

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festival is a moria f the
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known upon That it is a
both direct] e result of
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proved by the fact t

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of high excellence |

by men under the piration and in-

fluence of any of the other great religious
t which mankind has been de-
day, it should seem, would

 

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holy rejoicing; but it is a fact, most
disgraceful to the people of Christian
countries, that this hcly day is the oc-
casion of more intemperance, extrava-
gant expenditure and general debauch-
ery than are practiced on any other day
in the year. At this season men who

are commoniy sober and ¢

  

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prieties

f
the Christmas

: r many reasons
holidays are dreaded by
every community.

But whatever may be the shortcom-

large bodies of

ings of at this sacred sea-

son, tt ie a

many people

 

everybody is: ed to a special sense
of the importance of remembering on
this day the 3s and the needy.
Charity, the t
heavenly graces, shines out with dis-
tinguished brightness. This doing of

s
good must atone for all the other fail-

 

ures and misdeeds of which Christmas is |

too often the occasion.
For twenty successive Christmas days

the Tradesman has borne to its readers

 

pleasing fact that almost |

divine of the three]

a greeting of friendship and benevolence
meet for the season. To-day it again
tenders its regards and best wishes and
| renews its pledge to its patrons, for their
advancement and prosperity, all in its
power, and it never had more power to
work for their good than it has at this
moment. Strong in this determination
and desire, it wishes ali to whom it may
come, from its heart of hearts, a merry
Christmas and a most prosperous year

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EXTENSION OF TEA CULTURE.

The signs are not wanting that at no
distant date the Russian Empire is like-
| ly to become a serious competitor with
India and China in the world'stea mar-
kets. Extensive experiments have been
carried on of recent years in the Cau-
casus, and the resuic has been so ssatis-
factory that the Minister of Agriculture
and Imperial Domains is taking active
steps toward establishing the industry
ona sound working basis. The experi-
ments have been not only exhaustive as
regards the scientific aspect of tea cul-
ture, but thoroughly practical as well.
Next year expert tea cultivators are to
be imported from India, Ceylon and
China, to act as instructors on the Cau-
casian plantations. The yield this
year was thirteen and a balf tons, and
| the best qualities were disposed of at
over a dollar a pound. That such a
price could be had in the open market
for the product shows that the tea had
unusual merit, and if the careful meth-
ods of the planters of Ceylon and India
in the matter of curing of the product be
adopted there is every reason to suppose
tbat Caucasian tea will be as serious a

 

f|tival of the product of india and Cey-

lon as the latter proved to China. Cli-
matically, the region of the Caucasus
most highly favored, and tea is not

€ only product of world-wide con-
| sumption capable of cultivation. The
| planting of cotton is gradually assuming
|a scale which will practically make the
Russian spinner independent of this
country, save for exceptionally fine
grades of the staple.

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State Dairy and Food Commissicner
Snow confirms the statement made in
the Tradesman of last week to the effect
that he knows nothing about food prod-
ucts and does not undertake to perform
any of the duties of his office—except
signing a voucher for his Salary once a
month. He says he knows nothing about
terpeneless lemon or any other kind of
| lemon and never sees a Bulletin until
it is issued, the rulings and other read-
ing matter contained therein being pre-
pared and promulgated by his subor-
dinates, who practically peform the
duties of Commissioner, while he draws
tbe stipend connected with the office.
Humiliating as this admission is, it re-
lieves Mr. Snow, to some extent, of the
responsibility for the ridiculous posi-
tions recently taken by the Department
on several subjects, from which it has
been compelled to recede by the force of
public opinion,

es

Since the office of State Analyst has
[been occupied by a beardless youth of
small experience and even smaller men-
tal capacity, the analyses of food prod-
ucts published monthly in the Bulletin
of the Food Department have been de-
cidedly interesting reading, albeit they
have brought the Department into dis-
repute all over the country and made it
the laughing stock of those who are
thoroughly familiar with the subjects
treated,

 

 

 

THE PROMISE OF CHRISTMAS.

‘‘On earth peace, good will toward
men’’ is said to have been the theme of
the angelic song announcing to the hu-
man race an event that was to bring
greater benefits to mankind than any
other that had previously occurrred upon
this earth.

Nineteen centuries have passed away
since the song of the angels proclaim-
ing peace rang out from the skies that
hung over Jndea,and another has started
on its course of one hundred years, and
yet the universal] peace which has been
so long looked for and so eagerly longed
for through so many ages has not made
it8 appearance,

Human history is little more than a
chronicle of wars, and the men to whose
memory and in whose honor the loftiest
and most distinguished monuments
arise throughout the world are the con-
querors, the men who ied armies and
accomplished the greatest destruction of
their fellows.

When the advent of the Savior of
Men, the Prince of Peace, was an-
nounced, there was universal hope that
the age of peace had come, and that
wars would be known no more, How
complete and utter has been the disap-
pointment need only be Stated, and
when it is recalled that Christ himself
declared that he had not come to bring
peace but a sword, it can well be real-
ized that we have not fully compre-
bended the real meaning of the angelic
anthem.

St. Jerome, who translated the Scrip-
tures from the original tongues into
Latin, in the last part of the fourth and
beginning of the fifth centuries of the
Christian Era, rendered the song of the
heavenly hosts in this wise: ‘‘ Peace
on earth to men of good will.’’ Chris-
tianity teaches that the peace that pas-
seth all understanding can come only to
men of good will—that is to say, whose
wills and understandings are disposed to
receive it—and, since all men are mast-
ers of their own wills, it rests with them
whether or not they will accept the
perfect peace of Heaven.

If all the inhabitants of the earth were
men of good will, then, indeed, would
wars come to an end,and the tremendous
procession of the world's conquerors
who have marched to peace over the
dead bodies of millions of their fellows,
and through regions where only the ruins
of human habitations remain and
where all is black with death and deso-
lation, would be stopped and hurled
back upon itself, like the waves of the
ocean whose fury is stayed by a rocky
cliff.

But not only would wars cease—the
entire generation of men would give up
their selfish and cruel ambitions, their
unscrupulous and desperate schemes,
their ferocious and degrading lusts,
their intolerable bigotry and fanatical
hate and all their dishonesty and mean-
ness. The world has waited long for
such noble and glorious changes in bu-
man hearts and manners and stil! the
time of their accomplishing seems afar
off.

Are men growing better: are they any
more endued with love and charity than
they have been, and are they Striving
by their manner of living to realize that
perfect peace which the angels prom-
ised more than 1900 years ago? Let us
hope so; and, indeed, when, by the light
of human history, human life in the past
ages is compared, not year by year
but century by century, great changes
for the better are seen.

With the enlightenment and a vast in-

 

crease in the comforts of life, there has
been a corresponding growth in works
cf benefaction and charity. When, in
any other age, were there such enor-
mous gifts for the endowment of schools
and libraries for the education and up-
lifting of the masses, and when were
there ever so many hospitals and asy-
lums for the relief of the afflicted and
the helpless? Charity, the chiefest of
the heavenly graces,is to-day in the as-
cendant in every civilized and Christian
country. It seems to have taken a deep
and powerful hold upon the human
heart, and it is softening and tuning all
the chords of human feeling into har-
mony with that requirement of good will
which is to be the harbinger and the
bringer of the perfect peace which the
angels promised at the dawn of the first
Christmas. So may it be!
pc
EDUCATE THE CONSUMER.

The Tradesman has received several
letters from retail grocers during the
past week, enquiring what course they
should pursue with reference to the rul-
ing of the State Dairy and Food Com-
missioner on the subject of handiing ter-
peneless lemon extract.

The Tradesman’s position on the rul-
ing is an open book. No more ridicu-
lous position was ever taken by an
erratic inspector and an amateur chem-
ist who happened to hold office under
an indifferent Commissioner whose chief
anxiety is, apparently, to see how little
equivalent he can render the State for
a salary which ought to command the
services of a competent man.

While the Tradesman has every rea-
son to believe that the Supreme Court
will declare the ruling outrageous and
void, and while there are good grounds
for believing that the ruling will be nul-
lied by the present Commissioner or
his successor in the very near future,
the retail grocer need not go out of his
way to take part in the controversy and
can avoid the possibility of trouble by
having his neighboring druggist make
up a small amount of lemon essence in
conformity with the Pharmacopoeia.
This can be doled out to customers who
enquire for lemon extract, accompanied
by a statement that the legitimate lemon
extract of commerce is temporarily on
the prohibited list of the State Food
Department. This inferior preparation
will result in so much dissatisfaction
that there will soon be a clamor for the
more modern article, which the Supreme
Court will, undoubtedly, give the seal
of its approval, Under no circumstances
would the Tradesman advise the return
of terpeneless extracts to the jobber or
manufacturer or the putting in of a full
stock of inferior oil extracts until the
matter has been fully passed upon by the
Supreme Court,

Generai Grant is credited with the re-
mark that the quickest way to secure
the repeal! of an unjust law is to enforce
it; and the Tradesman believes that the
quickest way to secure immunity from
further annoyance at the hands of ig-
norant and incompetent officials is to
afford the consumer a realizing sense of
the injustice of the rulings and the in-
feriority of the product they are under-
taking to foist upon the people of Mich-
igan.

 

 

 

The way to get business is to go after
it. Sitting in one’s office will not bring
a. Pat out advertising, circulars, book-
lets, samples or anything that will put
the people in touch with you and your
goods. The time that is whiled away
doing nothing might be profitably em-
ployed in keeping literature moving
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_Clothing _

 

 

 

Novel Methods of Attracting the Atten-
tion of Customers.

‘It is a matter of wonder to me,
said the clothing buyer of a larce store
the other day, ‘‘why

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manufacturers of
clothing do not make a point of getting
up their goods in such a way that there
will be little points about a garment for
clerks to tale about 1am always glad
to get a garment that has little peculiar-
ities that my clerks can bring to the
attention of customers, Here, for. ex-
ample, is a pair of trousers with a false
pocket which renders it difficult for a
thief to pick the pocket. If a clothing
maker were to put on his trousers a
label saying that the trousers were
sewed with pure dyed silk, or do other
little things like that, it would help the
sale of goods greatly. The clerk can
soint out the advantages of this pocket
to customers. He could also enlarge on
the benefit of having garments sewed
rith good silk. These are little things
that help to give individuality to gar-
ments and that should help the clothing
manufacturers in their sale of goods,
Why would it not be a good thing for
makers of good garments to furnish
sample pieces of the insides of garments
so that clerks can show customers the
difference between a good and a bad in-

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side? Such a plan would help the sale
of clothing. ’’

A correspondent submits to us this
scheme for selling shoes: Four tickets
are sold to a person for — cents, or
twenty cents each. He will then sell
each of the tickets to different persons for
twenty cents each, thus getting his

Each of the persons pur-
; tickets will in turn buy four
eighty cents, which they in
will seil for twenty cents each,
thus getting their money back. Assoon
as the four persons buying the first four
tickets have tu ae in their eighty cents
each, the o tigina al purchaser is presented

 

their turn

 

with a pair of three-dollar shoes by the
shoe dealer. The same principle holds
with all the ticket holders. This is a
remarkably neat scheme for getting

so _—* for nothing, and, as is usual
in such schemes, somebc ndy is sure tc
get i ly bitten. The fol lly of engaging
in such a juestionable merchandising

scheme must be apparent to any mer-

chant who believes in legitimate meth-
ods.

A personal letter to a customer very
often brings results when no other form
of advertising will do so, bu it personal
letters require so much time that most
merchants compromise with the imita-
tion typewritten letter. One merchant,
having a very high-class trade, observed
that one qf his clerks, a man of some
education, necessarily, had a good deal
of spare time on his hands. So he hired
a secondhand typewriter and induced
this clerk to practice on it in his leisure
moments, until he became expert enough
to turn off creditable work, Thea, at
idle moments, he would copy personal
letters to be sent to customers. The re-
sults were excellent,

Among the many forms of ; guessing
contests which are popular the pot of
beans seeds is most attractive. A
glass jar is filled with a quantity of
beans, sunflower seeds, nuts or some
other small articles, such asa variety
of beads of different sizes, |t ' ‘Is an-
nounced that the jar will be cpened on
a specified day and the contents
counted by a jury, who will award a
Specified first, second and third prize
to the persons guessing nearest the num

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M. C. Huccerr
Sec’y-Treas.

WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH
Vice-President

The William Connor Co.

Incorporated

WHOLESALE CLOTHING

28 and 30 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
SPRING and SUMMER

line of samples of every kind in ready-made clothing for Children, Youths
and Men. The largest line ever shown by one firm, representing sixty
trunks and ten different factories’ goods to select from and cheapest to

highest grades.
WINTER OVERCOATS and SUITS

We have these on hand for immediate delivery and are closing out same at
reduced prices, being balance of KoLB & Sons’ line, who have now re-
tired from business. Mail orders promptly attended to. Customers’
expenses allowed.

WILLIAM CONNOR
President

 

 

We have everything in gloves.

Ellsworth & Thayer Mfg. Co.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., U. S. A.

Sole Manufacturers of the

 

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UNION MADE

Catalogue on application. We want an agency in each town.

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Lot 125 Apron Overall
$7.50 per doz.

Lot 275 Overall Coat
$7.75 per doz.

Made from 240 woven

stripe, double cable, indigo

blue cotton cheviot, stitched

in white with ring buttons.

Lot 124 Apron Overall

$5.00 per doz.

Lot 274 Overall Coat
$5.50 per doz.

Made from 250 Otis woven

stripe, indigo blue suitings,

stitched in white.

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as they are tender and will]
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ber of seeds or other articles in the jar.
One concern has a guessing contest of
this kind, with gold watches for prizes,
in operation all the year around. The
prizes are awarded every month or two.
Every purchaser is given a numbered
ticket with coupon to be torn off, on
which the guess is written. The coupon
is deposited in a sealed box until the
contest closes. The advantage of such
a plan as this is that it is quite appar-
ent to everyone that it would be very
improbable that the number of seeds in
the jar would be counted beforehand
and any unfair manipulation practiced.
Such a guessing contest in operation
all the year around with tickets given
away with every purchase, no matter
how small, has proved very successful
with some dealers.

A Cleveland tailoring concern is offer-
ing to give an extra vest with every one
of its twenty-five dollar suits purchased.
It is now in order for some competitor
to go it one better by offering an extra
pair of trousers. It is not unusual for
dealers in some parts of the country to
offer with purchases of a_ specified
amount a present of a cravat prettily
boxed for presentation purposes. A
useful plan to follow in stimulating
shirt business would be to offer shirt
studs or collar and cuff buttons with
every shirt purchased.

Presents to customers at holiday time
and Easter are a regular feature of some
merchants’ business. One concern gives
a turkey free with every ten-dollar pur-
chase at Thanksgiving ; another concern
gives a pot of lilies in bloom to every
lady patron the Saturday before Easter.
Another concern carrying many lines
of goods makes a feature of poultry of all
kinds sold below cost at holiday time.
In a small place, where such a plan as
the last would bring one into direct
competition with other tradesmen, it is
obviousiy impracticable, but in langer a
places it might be operated with suc-
cess,

A recent variation of the prize scheme
is the prize box to be opened with three
keys. A locked glass box has three ten-
dollar gold pieces placed in it. Every
purchaser receives a key, which on the
set day he can use in an attempt to un-
lock the box. The three persons who
are able to unlock it each receive a ten-
dollar gold piece.

In one small place it has for years been
the custom of a public-spirited mer-
chant to provide the prizes that are
awarded at graduation time tothe young
men and women of the high school.
Sometimes they are books, sometimes
jewelry, sometimes articles of apparel.
This practice has in a way identified
this merchant with the educational in-
stitutions of the place and he has ben-
efited by the good-will obtained, al-
though his practice has not been dic-
tated by advertising motives.

Gilchrist & Co., Boston, have opened
in their store a miniature theater, seat-
ing two hundred persons, where moving
pictures are exhibited. Scenes from
‘*Bluebeard,’’ ‘‘A Trip to the Moon’’
and other features are exhibited daily
to crowded houses. It may not be
practicable for every merchant to give
such an exhibition, but an orchestra to
render selections in the store at stated
times during the day, or a juggler to
amuse the crowd in the window are
among the possibilities for everyone.
And why would not a Punch and Judy
show be of interest to the children? The
immortal drama of these two historic
personages never fails to delight the

 

juvenile heart, and very cften the adult
heart as well.

A shoe dealer who desired to interest
the best people of his town in his chil-
dren’s department wrote personal letters
at Thanksgiving time to between thirty
and fifty of the most influential women
of his town, stating that at the close of
a most prosperous year he desired to
make an offering to the poor of the place
and would give a fair of good shoes to
that lad or girl who should be designated
by the recipient of the letter. It is
needless to say that many of the persons
addressed cailed in person at the store
to answer the request and the gift was
the means of securing trade that would
not have been secured had the shoes
been given ina lot to some charitable
institution.

One dealer, in opening bis new store
in a new neighborhood, used this plan
to get a list of addresses: He gave
away free to every man visiting the
store a key-ring having a numbered
metal tag on which was stamped a no-
tice offering a reward for its return to
the dealer in case of its ioss. The name
and address of every recipient of a key-
ring was noted in a book, so that the
key-ring might be returned in case of
loss. Fora comparatively small expendi-
ture the dealer got a very valuable list
of names for his mailing list.—Apparel
Gazette.

 

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PURE GUM
RUBBER SHOES

Write for catalogue.

GOODYEAR RUBBER CO.
382-384 E. Water St.
Milwaukee, Wis.

W. W. WALLIS, Manager

 

 

 

 

Share
in Our Profits

From November 27th to
December 31st 10 per cent.
of each cash sale amount-
ing to $10.00 or over goes
to the customer who makes
the purchase. Send for

our catalogue and further

information.

Chicago

HOE

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UPPLY
Company

154 Fifth ave. Chicago

This offer expires Dec. 31, 1902

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An Honest Tale Speeds Best Being
Plainly Told.—Shakespeare.

January is just the right time to look through our line; have more time.

Over 325 alert merchants of Michigan have seen it, liked it and bought
it and we

Should be pleased to add your account to our list of customers.
Can we?

Every one says: ‘‘ My, itis so different from the old lines we see.”

P. sitively, people like a change even in Hats, Caps and Straw Goods.

Hats! . Yes, sir, we sell ’em.

Straw goods in all shasta new snappy, breezy shapes and styles built
for 1903.

Have you a good Cap trade? We can make it a better one.

Remember, we are not an experiment in the Hat business;
years old last month.

Incidentally would remark if our Mr. F. H. Clarke has not called yet,

He will.

Every hatter and merchant wants the best up-to-date goods, and these
are ‘‘near it; very near it ’’

Regarding Prices, Terms, Discounts, they always do their own talking.

FRED H. CLARKE, Michigan Representative
78 Woodland Avenue Detroit, Michigan

we were 32

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Contains No Oil
The Cream of All Salad Dressings

 
 

This is the cream of great renown,
That is widely known in every town.
For even the lobster under the sea
With THIS a salad would fain to be.

20 and 25 cents per bottle
Valuable pillow tops given free for 5
trade marks.

H. J. Blodgett Co., Inc.
12 India St. Boston, Mass.

Also manufacturers of

Wonderland Pudding Tablets
The perfect pure food dessert. One
tablet, costing one penny, makes a
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Clerks’

Corner.

 

She Left Him All She Had to Leave.
Written for the Tradesman.

Arthur Rugg, Kittridge’s new clerk,
had not been in the store a week before
he began to notice the ‘‘ performances’’
of a customer whom Kittredge called
Betsey Babbit. ‘‘She ain’t bigger ’n a
pint o’ cider and she don’t buy enough
at a time to amount to anything, but
she’s the quietest, gentlest little woman
n ten states and you want to give ’er
the best we have and you need not try
to make too much on her. She never
will make any fuss and she never brings
anything back and she always pays cash
for what she buys. She minds her own
business and, by jingo! she will make
you mind yours, What made you ask
and what do you mean by ‘perform-
ancesr’ ””

“‘] think I’d better change that or
else say | don’t know. A couple of days
ago when you were over to Hastings |
was alone here and busy with orders
when all at once I looked up and _ there
stood this little thing looking as if she
had stepped out of a band-box without
a bit of the primness that such people
bring with them out of it. I think 1
should have been a little startled if it
hadn’t been for the hint of a smile that
nestled down on her face as if it be-
longed there and when she saw me look-
ing at her she said insucha dainty way,
‘I think thee are the new clerk, aren’t
thee?’ When I said, yes, ma’am, she
said, ‘John Kittridge says thy name is
Arthur and if you say I may I would
like to call thee that. May 1?’ I couldn’t
Say yes to such a question as that from
such a little lady as that and I blurted
out, ‘I hope you'll never call me any-
thing else!’ Then was the time i wished
1 had a nicer way of saying decent
things, ’’

‘Weill,
come in?’’

where do the performances

‘“Right there. She wasn’t rude about
it—I don’t believe she could be that,
anyway—but she kept looking at me in
such a funny way, as if she had known
me somewhere and was just trying to
locate me. When she looked at my hair
1 wondered if I had forgotten to brush

to have everything ready on time and
she wanted it in the good old New Eng-
land way. Just listen to a few of the
things I’ve got down: A turkey that
mustn't weigh less than seventeen
pounds. She wants me to find it at once
so that it will be sure to weigh at least
that and be fed expressly for her; a
brace of ducks and a pair of chickens:
a half-peck of cranberries ; four medium-
sized pumpkins, and then here’s a list
of spices and raisins and nuts and or-
anges that will reach from here to Min-
den. What does it mean, anyway?"’

‘I don’t know. Next time she comes
in, ask her!’’ .

Rugg concluded not to follow his ad-
vice. Aside from the implied warning,
that if he did he’d wish he hadn't,
there was something about the woman
that appealed to him most strongly.
She was so gentle; she had brought from
girlhood througa the intervening years
so much womanly beauty and grace;
‘‘Her voice was ever soft, gentle and
low—an excellent thing in woman;’’
her manner and all that centered in her
was so pleasing that he felt constantly
drawn to ber and more than all there
was something that suggested his mother
to him,so that he showed his admiration
whenever chance gave him the oppor-
tunity.

In one way this was natural enough,
It was the bringing together of ex-
tremes—the law of contrast. In age
they were opposites. She was weak and
he was strong. She was small and
fragile; he was big and stout with the
great desire of the large and strong to
support and protect the weak and de-
pendent. In connection with this he
had been brought up to lend a helping
hand wherever opportunity offered,
and as the woman saw this tendency
she did not hesitate to make use of it;
so that the weeks that intervened be-
tween the giving of the order and the
National feast day saw these two often
together.

‘The fact is, Arthur,’’ she said one
day, ‘‘I’m not going to be a selfish old

 

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the pepsin celery wheat flake is making rap-
id strides for first place in the cereal world.
Tryabita Food is steadily advertised—and
pays the profit to the grocer.

Our Tryabita Hulled Corn is a winner, too.

Tryabita Food Company, Ltd., Battle Creek

it. I remembered putting ona clean
collar, but I like to wear that red neck-
tie if it has got a hole in it and I won-
dered if that was what fastened her eyes
on me when she looked there. I was
glad 1 had on this one. You better be-
lieve I was glad that my hands were
clean and it was comforting to know
that there wasn’t a fingernail or any- Our financial responsi-
thing about me that suggested mourn-| § bility is
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the family. That is a fact and I said Your dealings with usare

so; but that branch isn’t putting on airs | { Perfectly contidential. AN

on that account and I went on with my *‘Banking by Mail?? os o , :

orders and she went on with ber look-|{ i. the name of an interest. ge] The Famous Favorite Chocolate Chips,

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woman any longer. For the last few
years, just because it was too much
work, I have let the day go by and
eaten my good Thanksgiving dinner
alone when I| knew there were at least a
dozen right around me who had no tur-
key and mince pie and plum pudding
and the only thing I had to remember
after it was all over was a hard head-
ache and that other feeling which comes
and stays after one has given away to
his unbounded selfishness. Last year J
determined I wouldn’t do it again and
the determination has strengthened. So
1 have been iooking around for my
guests. Up to now I have fifteen on
my list. There are the Chandlers,
mother and children whose last year’s
chief reason for giving thanks was a
bake-shop pumpkin pie—and 1 had
more mince than | could eat! That’s
four. There are the Rutlands—three;
five Starkeys and the three Kentzers.
Do you happen to know of any who
ought to be invited?’’

‘*Yes, There’s that little Hungate
boy over on the flats who hasn’t had a
smell of meat since he can remember
and the Wylands down here on the
Westover road look as if they were starv-
ing to death while that sot of a father is
drinking up every cent he can put his
hands on.”"

‘*How did you know about them?’’

‘*They come to the store. Kittridge
hag to look out that they don't get into
him too far and #bat puts me on my
guard. I've no use for these people that
are poor because they are willing to be,
but these that I’ve given to you are a
pitiful lot. I’ve had my eye on them for
the last few weeks and I’d made up my
mind little Joe should have one good
stomachache if a good dinner can give
itto him. The Wylands are looking
fate in the face and are stumping him to
do his worst and I’ve about made up
my mind to strangle the old man! You
see, Aunt Betsey, we have a lot of odds
and ends at the store that won’t sell and
are too good to throw away and it’s
easy to turn these in where they will
do the most good. Mother says that’s
what we’re here for and I guess she’s
right. Anyway, that’s the way I feel
after I've given these a whirl. How
many does that make?”’

‘‘Twenty, if we count in Wyland.
Shall we?’’

‘*Do you know that it’s a tough thing
for me to say yestothat? I suppose
you'll laugh, but I always think in such
cases, ‘1 guess, Lord, you'll have to
take care of this. I'm afraid I shall
overdo it!’ "’

There was a smile behind the sadness
of the gentle face, but the smile and the
sadness gave place to an expression of
profound satisfaction as the kind-
hearted woman locked upon the deter-
mined earnestness of the youthful man-
hood before her. It was another in-
stance of ‘‘ Now letest thou thy servant
depart in peace according to thy word,’’
and so refreshed and strengthened the
preparations went on. With two such
earnest workers there could be but one
result and it was easy to see what that
was when the table was pronounced
ready for its eager and thankful guests.
The crowning glory, however, was what
the seated guests could not see, for they,
without knowing it, put on the finishing
touch as they sat in their best with
happy hearts looking into each others’
smiling faces with a bulging white
envelope on the plates before them,
Aunt Betsey at one end of the table in
lace almost as dainty as her own loving
life and Arthur Rugg at the other end

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

behind the mammoth turkey, staring at
his fat envelope and wondering how in
the dickens it got there without his
knowing it. She said grace, never once
thinking, bless her dear heart! that she
was its living embodiment and then she
said as if it was the only next best
thing, ‘‘you'll find on your plates just a
little bit of a surprise.”’

There wasan ‘‘Oh!’’ from every guest
when the envelopes were opened ex-
cept from the man _ behind the turkey
and he was the only one that Aunt Bet-
sey looked at. He turned white and
then red and when a minute later he
took up the carving-knife and fork his
hands trembled so that he could scarcely
use them—a circumstance unnoticed be-
cause just then each guest was busy with
his own emotions.

What Rugg’s envelope held was not
known until months afterwards when
Aunt Betsey had sunk into ‘‘the sleep
that knows no waking,’’ and the only
sentence on the enclosed paper which
is needful here is this: ‘‘ Inasmuch as
ye have done this unto the least of these
my brethren, ye have done it unto me,’’

She had left him all she had and that
was much.

Richard Malcolm Strong.

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There is one thing which convinces us
that there is a tender, merciful Provi-
dence watching over all; no poor little
babies are born at the homes of the
equal suffragists.

 

 

38 HIGHEST AWARDS
in Europe and America

Walter Baker & Co.'s

PURE, HIGH GRADE

= COCOAS

 

 

 

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

 

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 bargains in second-hand autos.

Adams & Hart,
12 W. Bridge St. Grand Rapids

——— A N D—————_

CHOCOLATES.

 

 

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THE ALLEN LIGHT,

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M.E.ALLEN GAS LIGHT CO,
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

Allen Gas Light Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

 

Walloon Lake, Mich., Nov. 22, 1902

Gents—I write to tell you that the Gas Lighting Plant you put in for me last June is perfectly
satisfactory; I have never had the least trouble with it and consider I have as good a light as it

is possible to have. Wishing you every success with your machines, I am

Yours truly,
A. E. HASS.

 

 

 

 
 

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BAKERS’
OVENS

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

Hubbard Portable
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182 BELDEN AVENUE, CHICAGO

 

 

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Coffee, the world’s best, is blended and dry roasted

by experts.

flavor of any coffee in this market.

packages.

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Sold in pound

Telfer Coffee Co.

Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Dry Goods

 

Weekly | Market tee ott of the Putnsinat
Staples.

Staple Cottons—Wide sheetings
of 5 per cent., due, it is said, purely to
the good condition of the market in
Cotton flannels
, owing

these lines. t
blankets are ve to ex-
su

tremely limited

  

cottons remain firm and sales are small
due to the fact that contracts cover the
products of the mills for some little
time ahea

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and fairly goc
demand this week, and —_— have no
1 placing orders at prevail-
Sellers claim that futt
lent and are unwi

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very few manufacturers e obtai ning
much more than last a prices,
which, if true, can not be in any man-

ner satisfactory to an
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1y one but the buy-
more or less se-
pening of fleeces,
appears to be greatly
1, It is even hard to find out
many lines are out. But it is
sure that not all of them admit they are
out. It is pretty safe to say, however,
that every agent has taken orders and
will continue todoso, Ribbed goods are
moving fairly

year it

   

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weli at iast

year’s level
and others are about the same as last
year. There were some manufacturers
who tried to get an advance of moderate

size, but were unable to
and came down. There are some lines,
however, that are not yet out. Although
nearly all lines of wool underwear are
before the buyers, there has been but a
small amount of business transacted.
Several lines among the most important
in the market have been shown lately,

sustain prices

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and it bad been thought that buyers
were waiting for these before going
ahead with the ordering. The cold,
seasonable weather [has had a splendid
| effect on the retail trade, and they have
nid large quantities of heavyweight un-

This is beginning to be felt
jobbing circles, which is a wel-

derwear.
in the

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ls and cotton|Come relief after the depressed period
| through which they have been recently.

There is room for a considerably greater
improvement, however, which will come

with a continuation of winter tempera-
ture.
Hosiery—There is little new to be

| said in regard to the jobbing end of the

d| hosiery market this week, except that the
orders show a slight increase in the ag-
gregate over last week. The trading
here is good for this time of the year.
Prices are very firm, although there is
no sign of scarcity in any lines. Re-
tail business has let down to some ex-
tent in favor of goods more particularly
adapted to the holiday trade, although
in some secticns it has kept up remark-
oo well, Putting pairs of fancies in
boxes with appropriate decorations has
helped a little. Spring lines are sell-
ing quite well now. For women, in
particular, lace openwork effects are
taking well, especially patterns with
pronounced effects. Blacks and whites
in extracted patterns are also favorites
apparently.

Carpets—The carpet trade continues
active with no material change in evi-
dence since a week ago. Weavers in
general are well employed on old _busi-
ness and bid fair to be so for many
weeks to come. The majority of the
big Eastern factors of the trade have
their production for the season pretty
well contracted for, which places them
in a pretty independent position as far
as the remainder of this season is con-
cerned, Philadelphia weavers, in gen-
eral are enjoying a good, active busi-

ness with a good many contracts on
hand. Only a small portion of the initial
orders have been filled, so it will be

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Leading jobbers handle it.

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Grand Rapids,
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way of duplicates can be turned out.
While prices are quoted in full accord-
ance with values made at the beginning
of the season, the tendency to quote
even higher values is more apparent.
The anticipations expressed before the
present season opened up in reference
to the too-high prices exerting a tend-
ency to put a damper on the demand
for carpets, have not as yet been real-
ized, While jobbers realize that carpet
values are relatively high compared
with other years, they perfectly under-
stand the manufacturers’ reasons for
putting up prices. Ingrain weavers in
and about Philadelphia all report a
great deal of activity in their respective
lines, Western jobbers are beginning to
look to their initial deliveries, which
will be heavy. The better lines of in-
grains have certainly shown up remark-
ably well as far as the volume of busi-
ness has been concerned, but weavers
have been seriously handicapped by the
excessive yarn values. Cotton ingrains
and granites have been very good sellers
of late, the majority of the sales coming
from the West and South. Granites find
a ready call in the extreme South, where
a cool fabric is required the year
around. Printed ingrains and tapestries
are receiving some good business,

Rugs—Rug weavers report a very
heavy demand for all kinds of rugs with
orders on hand to last for many weeks
to come. The carpet-sized Brussels
and Axminsters, ranging from $35 to
$50, are attracting a great deal of atten-
tion. The small Wiltons and Smyrnas
are also in good request.

~~» 2.
Nothing But a Cheap Doll.

He was a middle-aged man, with
stains of machine grease upon his blue
overalls. As he edged his way up the
narrow aisle of the Lyon street car, his
shoulders slouched forward as if he
were used to standing long hours, bent
and weary, at his work. His dinner
can hung carelessly in one band, while
with the other he guarded a little pack-
age wrapped in white paper. Every
now and then he raised a tiny corner of
its covering and smiled happily upon it,
although the rich woman sitting next
him saw nothing but a common doll,
dressed in tawdry tinsel. She, too,
smiled as she looked, thinking of her
own petted darlings and their scorn of
such a present, and she could not know
that the man was dreaming of a pale,
wistful faced little child to whom it was
to be the crowning glory of Christmas
morning. Poor and cheap as it was, it
had cost the man heavily enough, and
was the price of many a bit of patient
self-sacrifice. Times had been hard
with him. There were terrible weeks in
the summer when he lay on a sick bed,
unable to do a stroke of work, when he
finally gained sufficient strength to re-
sume his place in the factory, there
were all the arrears of rent and grocery
bills to be paid and the evening up that
is so cruelly hard to those who must
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been the click of her little crutch about
the house, and her brave, patient little
face smiling at him from the doorway.
Now he lifted a burden that grew lighter
day by day from the bed to the couch
by the fire, where Janie lay the long
day through, because she said she was
so tired. She had never had any
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time, and the neighbors’ children, with
the callous selfishness of youth, merely
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forter a battered old rag doll that she
fondled and cuddled and made her
heroine of a_ thousand bits of childish
make-believes. In the old days, when
she had been able to go on short excur-
sions, it had been one of her treats to
hobble around to a little shop around the
corner and there ‘‘choose’’ among the
flaxen-haired wax dolls that ornamented
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the rest of us really expect our dream
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by spring, when it was warm enough to
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The rich woman was leaving the car
and, in passing him, her silk-lined frock
had accidentally caught on the little
bundle and swept it out of his hands,
and it lay a tiny broken heap of painted
china and crumpled tinsel on the floor
of the car. ‘‘It was nothing but a cheap
doll,’’? she thought, as she passed on.
“It doesn’t matter,’’ but the man gath-
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hands, and as the car stopped he passed
slowly and wearily out into the dark-
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16

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Shoes and Rubbers

How

 

a Certain Shoe Salesman
Christmas.

Spent

As Levermore came out of the tele-
phone cage, after ringing off, the head
of the concern called to him:

‘‘Who was that? Scrivens & Com-
pany?’
‘‘Well, not exactly. 1 was talking

with Miss Fairfax, our ‘hullo girl.’ She
seems to think we're reliable and wants
to know what a pair of Dongola kids,
with patent leather tips, will cost ber.”’

‘*She does, eh? What did
her?’

"Oh, I I'd see what we had in
stock and call her up later on, | think
there was a sample pair, just about her
size, in that ‘two twenty-five’ line.’’

‘‘Well, say, Levermore; to-morrow’s
Christmas, you know—by the way,
didn't we sympathize with her a little
last year?’

‘*To the extent of ten dollars—guess
it came in handy, too; those ‘Central
girls’ aren't making much of a fortune.’"’

‘“ This one seems to be a pretty decent
sort—we've averaged forty calls a day
and she hasn't lost her temper once.
She called me up when the factory
caught fire, too—overheard Chief Kay
talking with the department and thought
I’d like to go right over. I guess we’ll
continue the ten-dollar subscription and
throw in the shoes as well. What did
you say her name was?"’

‘Fairfax. She’s a good deal of a
lady, and wel! educated, besides.'’

‘*Well, now, you just pick out the
handsomest pair of shoes in stock, put
the ten dollars inside, and send them to
her with the compliments of the house.
1 suppose it wouldn't be quite the cor-
rect thing to take them around yourself,
Say, George, why the devil don’t you
find some nice girl and get married?
You'll be a confirmed old bach first thing
you know."’

‘*Can’t afford it.’’

‘‘Can’t af—great Scott! How much
do you think it takes to support a wife?
Why, man alive, you’re well fixed!
You don't spend half your income, and
I know you own three or four houses.
You're afraid of the women, that’s what's
the matter with you!"’

‘‘Ob, I don’t know; perhaps if 1
could make an impression on one of
those Kalamazoo girls, I might try it.
Those Kalamazoo people treated me
pretty on the last two trips, and
there are some handsome women in the
Celery City. I am not in any hurry,
though. There's plenty of time and as
good fish in the sea as ever came out
or at.""

‘“Yes, but, confound it all, you don't
seem to consider that the bait may be
a trifle moldy. You’re getting on,
George ; and you'll be wanting some one
to take an interest in you before long.’’

Levermore laughed a little and, as he
went out of the private office, said he'd
think of it. Then, while he was doing
up the shoes for Miss Fairfax, he fell to
speculating as to what sort of a Christ-
mas she was going to have—whether
she was good looking or otherwise—
where she lived—how she lived —whether
she wore, that is, whether—oh, pshaw!
—it’s all in the line of business for a
shoe man to know something about
stockings or to notice the difference be-
tween a shapely foot and a bunion-plated
extremity resembling an Irish potato.

Being a *‘three-thousand-dollar man,’’
he felt at liberty to leave the store early
and take a bath, which constituted the

you tell

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first of his preparations for Christmas.
After this refreshment he got into even-
ing clothes and ordered his dinner,
which proved to be an excellent one and
raised his spirits. Then, while smok-
ing a Rosa Concha, he began to wonder
what he should do next. Whist? Whist
was whist, of course, but it didn’t quite
seem to fill the bill. There was some-
thing common and every-day-like about
whist. What the devil had ‘‘M.’’
meant, anyhow, by talking to him about
getting married and holidays and all
that rot! He'd always been contented
enough before! Confound it all, he was
getting on! He'd be getting gray some
day, if he didn’t look out! And, come
to think of it, the interest other people
showed in him was rather confined to
dollars and cents. Thoughts like these
were depressing ; he began to cast about
for something to brace him up—some-
thing which would take his mind from
himself. Why not go to the theater?
Not a bad idea; there were several good
things on the boards. One of the pages
helped him into his fur-lined ulster and
he sauntered out in search of amuse-
ment.

There was a play which he had been
intending to see for some time, at one
of the theaters, and he was fortunate
enough to secure a good seat. The
house was filling rapidly, and presently
an usher slammed down the two seats
next him for a young couple who seemed
to be anticipating a most enjoyable
evening. One was a fair specimen of
the ‘‘twenty-dollar clerk—’’ Levermore
knew the species from long experience
and had something of a fellow feeling
for it—but the girl, somehow, appeared
to represent a different class. Her taste
in dress was so good that the observer's
attention was fixed upon her head and
figure in thorough unconsciousness of
clothes, while her face, with its dreamy
black eyes, red lips and delicate color,
would have made a more confirmed
woman-hater than George Levermore
look at it a second time. In spite of
Mr. ‘‘M.’s’’ insinuation, the genial
bachelor was very far from being
‘‘afraid of women."’ With a most
thorough respect for them, he had
reached an age where he _ permitted
himself to enjoy a good thing when he
saw it. Being too much of a gentleman
to stare at the girl offensively, his
glances were directed over the audience
in general ; but she noticed that his eyes
frequently rested upon her with a pleased
expression, and, although a heightened
color stole into her cheeks, it came from
a feeling which was certainly not re-
sentment against the fine-looking stran-
ger on her right.

Presently she fell to discussing theat-
rical matters with the young man, and
her soft, lazy accent easily accounted
for her interest in the Virginian locale
of the play. If Levermore had been at-
tracted toward her before, he was even
more delighted when she spoke—de-
lighted and puzzled. Her voice seemed
so very familiar. He taxed his memory
to recall where or under what circum-
stances he had heard it before,

An old gentleman who sat at his right
soon directed Levermore’s attention to
a bit of character acting which seemed
especially good. This led to a short
conversation between the two, during
which be was conscious that the girl
was listening attentively—listening with
an expression of pleased wonder
sparkling in her eyes—and when he
glanced around the red lips parted as if
she were upon the point of speaking.

   

 

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Then she appeared to hesitate, blushed
slightly and turned away.

By this time the performance had al-
most lost its interest for him. He
thought of and discarded a hundred
plans for ascertaining who she was and
securing an introduction. Twice again
he caught her listening when he spoke,
each time with a growing friendliness
in her face. Then came a bit of mag-
nificent acting which it was impossible
to ignore, and then—the match with
which the ‘‘Colonel’’ had just lighted
his cigar flamed up, for just one tiny
second, after he had tossed it into the
corner. Just a fraction of time, just an
atom of fire, yet it caught on the painted
canvas drop and in a few seconds more
had grown to a mighty tongue of flame
that shot clear up to the flies,

For just one moment the audience
were stunned by the suddenness of the
catastrophe and then pandemonium
broke loose. In the galleries, men and
women could be seen frantically climb
ing over the backs of the seats—in the
parquette, the aisles were jammed with
a struggling,screaming mob of animals.

Fortunately for Levermore, he was a
man who usually thcught before he
acted, and his first impulse was to re-
tain his self-control. In this he was
strengthened by the elderly stranger,
who remained quietly in his seat study-
ing the situation. The girl's escort,
when the panic galvanized his limbs,
grabbed her arm and plunged wildly
toward the struggling crowd. Being a
hollow-chested, cigarette-blighted youth,
his frantic assurance that he’d ‘‘fight a
way through for her’’ somehow did not
carry much weight, for she hesitated,
and freed her arm from his grasp. By
this time he had lost his wits complete-
ly, like most of the others, and fought
blindly on under the impression that
she was still with him. In another mo-
ment the lights went out,and a faint re-
flection of the roaring flames behind the
asbestos curtain, together with the dark-
ness and smoke, gave the place all the
appearance of an Inferno.

Obeying an impulse which he never
stopped to consider, Levermore reached
out, in the semi-ohscurity, and touched
her shoulder. In another instant she
was leaning tremblingly against him,
and his arm was about her waist. Then,
to his amazement, she said:

‘‘Do you think there’s any chance of
getting out, Mr. Levermore?’’ (Why
was it that her voice sounded so much
more familiar in the darkness? Who
under the canopy was she, anyhow? It
was on the tip of his tongue to ask, but
there were other things demanding im-
mediate atttenion. )

 

 

‘‘Well, I hope so! I don’t think any
of us want to be roasted alive! There
must be a side entrance somewhere—all
theaters are built with them now,
and—’’ (Here the calm voice of his
elderly neighbor broke in. )

‘‘The programmes ought to show.
Here’s mine—have you a match?’’

‘* Lots of them—wax ones, fortunately.
Now, then-—here’s a light—look on the
last page. There you are! Turn it the
way we're facing. Here are two exits
on this side—one to an alleyway, and
another through this box to the stage—’’

‘“Guess we won't try the stage! It’s a
furnace back there now. Let's go for
number nineteen—I remember seeing
an iron door in the wall as 1 came in—”’

“‘Hold on a second! Suppose that iron
door is locked? This plan shows a
double brick wall beyond the stage exit,
and the space opens on to the same alley
as the other! It may bea trifle warm,
but there won’t be any crowd, and the
fire can’t have got through those bricks
yet. See that fireman at the orchestra
plug—he’s playing his hose as if he had
all night before him. He wouldn't be
taking things easy unless he was sure of
getting out all right!’’

‘‘That’s so! We'll go through the
box—come on!’’

The girl was trembling so that Lever-
more picked her up without ceremony
and hurried through the box with his
burden. It was the work of but a few
seconds to find the outer door and step
into an alley which opened on the back
street; then, after assuring himself that
they were both uninjured, the stranger
bade them good night, and Levermore
asked his companion where he should
take her? He was about to hail a cab,
but she stopped him.

“It’s only a short walk to where |
live,’’ she said, ‘‘and the fresh air will
take away this faintness.’’

‘‘Well, but—hadn't we better go into
the drug store and get something to
strengthen you up a little?’’

‘‘Oh, no, thanks; if I’m not feeling
better when we get home, I will; but
really, I don’t think I'll need it. Poor
Mr. Smith! I hope he got out all
right.’’

**After seeing you safely in the house
I'll go back and enquire. Then, if you
don't mind waiting up, Ill return and
tell you, Miss —?”’

‘‘Do you mean to say you don’t know
me, Mr. Levermore? Why, I was sure
it was you the minute I heard you speak,
although’’ (shyly) ‘‘I thought you were
—older—than you seem to be.’’

‘‘You—you did!’’ (A shiver of satis-
faction traveled up and down Lever-
more’s back. Then a flash of compre-

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Mr. Retailer

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But our Hard Pans receive the most painstaking at-
The

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hension streaked through his mind.)
**By—by Jove! You—you can’t be—eh?
Yes, you are! Miss Fairfax?’’

‘“Why, of course! ‘Hello, 262 Frank-
lin!’?’’ (mischievously). “Isnt it
strange that we should finally meet in
this way! There is where we live—the
tree is in our front yard. You must
come in and be introduced to papa.
You’ve placed him under obligations to-
night that he will never forget.’’

The house was one of a row, with iron-
grilled balconies, which stood some
distance back from the street, and, in
answer to the bell, a veritable colored
‘‘mammy,’’ with ‘‘Dixie’’ written in
every fold of her bandanna turban,
creased in every wrinkle of her shining
black face, opened the door. Experi-
ence with Northern book agents and
other pests had evidently cast a shade
of conservatism over her inborn sense
of hospitality, but the moment she saw
who stood outside, the door was swung
wide open.

Miss Fairfax led the way into a cozy
back parlor,and when Dinah reappeared
with the eggnogs neither of the two
felt like slighting them; they were a
revelation to Levermore in spite of his
road experience. Then, hurrying back
to the theater, he found the fire under
control. The scenery had gone up in
smoke, but the walls and auditorium
were uninjured,and most of the audience
had escaped with minor injuries. There
were a few motionless forms upon the
floor of a neighboring store at which it
gave him cold shivers to look, but Miss
Fairfax’s escort was not among them,
so, purposely omitting the more shock-
ing details when he returned, he was
able to reassure her.

He was strongiy tempted to take mat-
ters into his own hands by announcing
an intention to call again very soon, but
this seemed so like an unfair advan-
tage, under the circumstances, that he
merely said, smilingly :

“Well, Ili call you up first thing
Monday morning and see how you’re
feeling. ’’

‘‘ lf your arrangements are not already
made, Mr. Levermore, it would be a
kindness to dine with us to-morrow,
There will be no one but ourselves, so
you can imagine how welcome an old
friend will be.”’

‘‘An old friend!’’ Levermore felt so
tickled at this admission of telephonic
acquaintance that he wanted to hug the
girl. Dinah’s broad grin and the whole
atmosphere of the quaint little house
were the most hospitable things he ever
remembered; so, with a stammering as-
surance that he would certainly avail
himself of the invitation, he said ‘* good
night’? and walked slowly back to the
club, with the reflection: ‘'M.’s going
to show me what a holiday’s like, to-
morrow, is he? Humph! I reckon by
Monday I’ll be able to give him
points!’

Next morning the hours seemed to
merely crawl. He figured that it wouldn't
do to present himself before half-past
twelve,so walked the length of the street
to kill time. Finding a florist’s shop
open, he bought a magnificent bunch of
roses backed up with maiden-hair ferns,
and after what seemed an interminable
time, rang the bell of the old house.
Dinah’s face shone liked polished ebony
as she showed him into the rear parlor,
with its sunny conservatory just be-
yond ; then, after a moment’s disappear-
ance, she came back with a tray, upon
which stcod a beautiful ruby cocktail
in a thin glass which was polished until
it reflected the light like a diamond.

 

Levermore had scarcely pulled him-
self together when Miss Fairfax ap-
peared, looking, in her pretty dinner
gown, quite the most charming speci-
men of womanhood he had ever known.
Then the Judge came in with such a
delightful atmosphere of Southern cor-
diality that the guest was placed upon
the footing of old acquaintance at once.

The dinners of Levermore’s previous
experience had _ been rather formal
affairs, but this one proved a novel ex-
ception. With a total absence of cer-
emony, the center table in the sunny
parlor was cleared by Dinah, a snowy
cloth was spread upon it, plates, dishes,
wine, and finally the smoking ‘‘turk’’
himself appeared, without interrupting
the conversation, which was spiced
with a soft Virginia accent and seasoned
with the Judge’s wealth of anecdote.

To a close observer there were indi-
cations here and there that the little
family were not overburdened with
wealth; but the old gentleman’s linen
was spotless, the wine was of the kind
which lingers deliciously in the mem-
ory, the various dishes were cooked as
only the daughters of Ham know how
to cook them, and every-day cares were
conspicuous by their absence.

The cloth was subsequently removed
with the same comfortable informality
which had hailed its coming. Dainty
cups of Miss Virginia’s own painting,
accompanied by more of the mirror-like
glasses, were placed upon the polished
mahogany. Steaming coffee, sherry,
walnuts and fragrant cigars were ar-
ranged within easy reach and, as the
blue smoke curled toward the ceiling,
Miss Fairfax began singing to her own
guitar accompaniment the Judge chim-
ing in with a clear, sweet tenor, while
a harmonious echo from the kitchen
proved that Dinah had a rich alto voice
which she knew how to use. Plantation
songs, creole songs, bits of opera, fol-
lowed each other without a break, un-
til the matter-of-fact shoe salesman _be-
gan to wish his associates could be near
enough to envy his blissful enjoyment.

The Judge’s sense of hospitality would
have made him forego the afternoon
nap, which had become a fixed habit of
lis life, without a moment’s thought,
but when his daughter frankly explained
this to their guest, both insisted that he
should retire as usual. Then followed
a couple of hours which Levermore
will never forget—hours filled with per-
sonal reminiscences and the patching
of blank spaces in personal history
which neither had trusted to the tele-
phone wires. He discovered that his
name had been family property ever
since she took her place in the ‘' Frank-
lin Central,’’ and she began to under
stand the extent to which a sober busi-
ness man can individualize a familiar
voice in his daily thoughts.

As the shadows deepened, and the
cheerful fire-logs tinged their faces with
a ruddy gleam, he thought of Dinah’s
sprig of mistletoe, and wondered
whether he really dared. It could
scarcely offend her to gently place it
upon the dark, waving hair which fel!
so bewitchingly over the little ears, he
thought, and presently this was done.
She felt the touch and put her hand up
to see what it was. But he stopped her
and took from the mantel a small mir-
ror, in which she could see the top of
her head. The crimson surged into her
cheeks as she raised her eyes to his—
shrank back just a little—and waited.

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looked at them over her spectacles,
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Suggestions of a Practical Woman on
Christmas Shopping.

The practical woman put on a rainy-
day skirt, jabbed another hatpin in se-
curely and took up a long and business-
like looking list.

‘*Whither away?’’ I asked.

‘‘lam going to take Christmas by the
forelock,’’ she replied, ‘‘and buy all
my presents while there is still time to
look things dispassionately over in the
shops, without being bustled and trod-
den upon by women until you feel as if
you had played right tackie in a foot-
ball match and were the battered re-
mains. Oh, [ know, cf course, it is not
conventional. The proper way to do is
to wait until the last minute, when
everything has been pulled and pawed
over and the shop girls are nervous and
cross, and then rush in and snatch up
some old thing that you never thought
of before and nobody wants and that
creates murderous feelings in the breast
of the person to whom you present it as
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‘‘T used to do that way and I suppose
it comes nearer to accounting for the
misfit Christmas presents than anything
else. 1 confess that when I see the ab-
surd and useless things that people give
each other and the money that they
waste, 1 am tempted to think that
Christmas-giving ought to be abolished
by law or a commission appointed to do
the buying. Just think of one rational
human being presenting another with a
painted celluloid box that gces to pieces
if you look at it or one of those awful
plush and satin monstrosities that ‘is
good for nothing on earth but to collect
dirt and aggravate the housemaid.

 

‘‘IT suppose there isn’t one person in
a hundred who ever looks over their
Christmas presents without a feeling of
impotent anger at the givers for the
money they have thrown away. You are
needing tablecloths and your dearest
friend sends you a fifteen-dollar illus-
trated copy of ‘The Ancient Mariner.’
You were yearning for a salad bowl and
the bachelor friend who wants to be
nice to you bestows a ten-dollar bunch
of American Beauty roses on you. You
yearned for a silk petticoat and your
husband buys you a fine box of candy.
It always makes me think of whata
popular society man said once. He
showed me forty silk-embroidered and
tinsel things that his girl friends had
sent him Christmas and remarked: ‘I
would trade them all for one good pair
of socks.’

‘*Now I believe in Christmas and in
Christmas giving, but I tbink we do
our best to make what shouid be the
bappiest and merriest time of all the
year a season of toil and turmoil and
trouble unspeakable, and so I have
worked out for myself what I call a ‘re-
formed Christmas’ that brings me peace
and happiness and trust carries cheer to
others. Inthe first place 1 have sim-
plified my giving. The three classes
who are hardest to buy presents for and
who simply reduce you to paresis when
you try to think of something that would
please their fancy are men, children
and servants.

‘“Of course, Christmas is pre emi-
nently the children’s season. They
come first, and there is a general im-
pression that they are overjoyed at any-
thing. Nothing on earth is farther from
the truth. Most children in well-to-do
families now are swamped with toys
and books for one thing and for an-

 

other. No grown person has the slight-
est idea of what is going to fire a child’s
fancy. I used to accumulate gray hairs
and wrinkles trying to think of some-
thing these spoiled little darlings did
not have, but I do not now. I give
money. That in itself is a blessed rarity
to the little folks and the fun they have
in going down town and spending it
themselves is the best part of the Christ-
mas to them. Take my word for ita
child would rather have one dollar in
cold cash than a ten dollar present.

‘Servants are the same way. For
years I used to inwardly resent the cold
and perfunctory thanks of my maid over
some gift that had cost hours of worry
as well as money, but I have no reason
to complain of the lack of gratitude for
the money gift. Nor is the reason of that
far to find. The $1, $2 or $5 that a fam-
ily bestows upon the cook or housemaid
is an accumulative gift and enables her
to buy some bit of finery that she yearns
for and which she could not have
afforded out of her wages.

‘‘As for men, I have one standing
present for these outside of my own
family to whom I wish to send some
token of remembrance—a subscription
to a magazine. it is not imaginative
to always give the same thing, but it is
acceptable, and in that way I never give
a book a man has already. For the men
of one’s own family the selection is
never difficult,,because men are not shy
about expressing their needs. If a
man has a bachelor apartment he is al-
ways pleased with a sofa cushion or a
good picture. If he boards he regards
such things as rubbish and bestows them
upon the landlady; but a magazine
brings its monthly, pleasant reminder,
without the burden of having to be
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perennial presents, and no other gift I
ever received ever gave me half so
much plesaure as a little red-bound
memorandum book that came to me last
Christmas and that has been of daily
use and joy ever since.

‘‘Another life-saving device I have
adopted is curing myself of the habit
of making things for Christmas gifts.
I used to work myself to death embroid-
ering and sewing and making dinky
little things that were of no use after
they were done, and that nothing but
family affection could have made ac-
ceptable presents. I did this because |
shared in the universal fallacy that I
was saving money, whereas, in reality,
it isthe rankest extravagance, Count
up what your lace and ribbon and tinsel
and embroidery silk cost you, and you
will find you have the price of solid sil-
ver. Add to it the doctor’s bill result-
ant from overwork and you might have
given diamonds.

‘*To my mind there is no other gift
so precious as the one that answers some
need of ours and shows that we have
really been remembered. I try never to
give a thing that is not of some prac-
tical use, and if you think that people
are hankering more for sentiment than
comfort around Christmas time, you just
try it. Somehow I have managed to get
used to the thought that Christmas is
going to come around at the same old
time every year, and I get ready for it,
and when I hear any of my friends or
family express a wish for something,
like Captain Cuttle, | make a note on it.

‘*Now, here is Sallie, for instance:
Last summer | spent a week at her house
in the country and noticed that she had
miserable lamps. I might send her, of
course, an illuminated copy of Brown-
ing, but I’m not. I am going to buy the
best lamp in town, and I venture to say
there won’t be an evening this winter,
when they gather around the reading
table, that they won’t remember me
with joy and gratitude.

‘“Then there is Aunt Polly. I hap-
pen to remember that she loves to take
a nap Sitting in her chair Do you sup-
pose | am going to add to her volumi-
nous collection of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’
and Bibles and bymnals? Not much. |
am going to buy her a Morris chair with
big, soft cushions, where she can take
her forty winks in a comfort she has
never known before.

‘‘Heaven has blessed me in one
thing,’’ went on the practical woman,
surveying her list, ‘‘and that is that 1
have friends with fads. They can al-
ways be provided for, The woman who
is collecting plates or steins or etchings
or pipes or curious weapons will be
pleased witb anything that bears on ‘her
hobby. Nor do I worry over housekeep-
ers, for them the linen closet is an in-
exhaustible source of need, and the
woman who is not thrilled over a new
table cloth or bit of embroidered linen
or set of napkins is simply wanting in
womanly feeling, that is all.

‘* Perhaps we would not make so many
mistakes in giving if we would follow
the old motto of, ‘Put yourself in his
place.’ Just think, if you were an in-
valid, how you would like to receive a
medicine glass, or if you were an old
person, how it would seem to be deluged
with books carefully selected to impress
on you the fact that you were not long
for this world. But, after all, Christ-
mas resolves itself into a lot of ‘don'ts,’
does it not? Any fool can do the right
thing, but it takes a wise person to re-
frain from doing the wrong ones. Here
are some of my rules:

Don’t wait until the last minute to
shop. Saleswomen have some right to
the season of peace on earth and good
will towards men.

Don’t buy foolishness. A_ useless
present is of no more account at Christ-
mas than at any other season.

Don’t give people things unless you
understand their tastes. Better is five
cents’ worth of candy of the flavor we
like than a ton of the kind that nauseates
us,

Don’t give books to people who do
not read.

Don't buy editions de luxe for any
but connoisseurs. Most people would
care more for the contents of a book
than for its binding.

Don’t give your seamstress a thimble
or your housemaid an apron. Nobody
cares to be presented with a badge of
service,

Don’t give men a lot of dinky little
trinkets to litter up their desks. A
man’s desk is his workshop and he de-
spises the judgment of the woman whose
gifts get in his way.

Don't give sensible presents to a
young girl. A woman has to be 30 years
old before she appreciates the useful.

Don't give presents expecting to get
them back with usury. Sometimes the
bread that is cast upon tbe water sinks

Don’t give presents to curry favor.
Bribe at some other time than Christ-
mas.

Don't, if you are a man, give your
wife a dress unless you let her pick it
out herself. A man’s judgment. of
color is worth as much as a woman’s
knowledge of cigars.

Don’t, if you are a wife, buy your
husband a present and send him the
bill, It is hard to be grateful for what
we pay for.

Don’t, if you area girl, send young
men presents. They feel bound to re-
pay them with usury.

Don’t, if you are a young man, go in
debt for a Christmas gift for a girl. The
ides of January approach and the bill
collector never tarries.

Don’t think that only expensive gifts
are appreciated. It is the thought and
not the price tag that counts.

Don’t forget that a letter or a tele-
gram are just as welcome and as sweet
as a gift that costs much money.

‘‘Don’t forget the poor, the needy
and the lonely,’’ wound up the practical
woman, her eyes bright with unshed
tears, ‘‘andas Tiny Tim says, ‘a merry
Christmas to all, and God bless us every
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_ Poultry

Short neile of Turkeys For Christmas.

As we approach the Christmas holiday
the outlook for poultry and especially
turkeys favors a scarcity of stock and
probably higher prices than have pre-
vailed for years. The very small supply
of turkeys this year, as well as other
poultry is due largely to the fact of the
scarcity and high prices of feed last
year,compelling farmers to kili off their
stock and a much smaller quantity of all
kinds was carried over for breeding |C¢
purposes. The unusually high prices
ruling for turkeys last spring induced
the farmers to market their oid birds
right after the first laying and comspara-
tively few were left for the production of
a second crop. The result has been an
unusually small crop of turkeys, fully
50 per cent. below an average. There
has been a fair crop of chickens, al-
though considerably lighter than last
year, when the crop was the largest on
record. A very much smaller crop of
ducks has been raised this year than last
and geese are also lighter.

Advices from nearly all sections claim
only a moderate remaining quantity of
turkeys and the general opinion appears
to favor 20c as a conservative figure for
finest Western turkeys and 22c for near-
by for Christmas. Some advices are
going out predicting even higher prices,
which will undoubtedly curtail the con-
sumption of turkeys, but doubtful if
there will be any surplus. The birds
should be in the finest niin of the
year and with prospects of high prices
all through the season dealers will not
hesitate to freeze desirable goods should
there be any surplus or should they be
unable to realize the high prices at
which they are limiting their stock.

The holidays will occur this year on
a Thursday, and with reasonably cold
weather many holders will commence
stocking up the previous week and not
later than the Monday or Tuesday pre-
ceding the holidays. Shippers should
time their shipments to arrive here not
later than Saturday or Sunday, the 20
and 22, and allow for ordinary delays.
Large quantities of turkeys intended
for the Thanksgiving trade were delayed
on the way, many not reaching here
until after the holiday.

The demand at Christmas is usually
for large fancy turkeys and fat ducks
and geese, but with the high prices ex-
pected to rule for all of these, there will,
no doubt, be more call than usual for
fancy grades of both chickens and fowls.
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An Incentive For Hoeing.

Mrs. F. A. Ehbmer, of Sunnyside,
Yakima county, Wash., has hoed out
$33.25 from her garden. She was weed-
ing cabbage when her hoe struck a
hard, shiny substance. This was raked
out inthe sand and proved to be a silver
dollar. Then the woman dropped on her
knees, raked carefully about, and soon
brought forth a $20 gold piece. A _ few
— scratches and she had a handful of
silver and gold.

She hurried to the house and washed
the money. On counting it she had a
$20 and a $10 gold piece and several
smail silver pieces, the total amounting
to $33.25. An investigation led to the
belief that the money had been lost by a
former resident of the place. She en-
quired of the neighbors, ‘and finally lo-
cated a man who had lived there two
years ago. He was J. T. Baird, a phar-
macist, employed in the Sunnyside
drug store.

The woman felt the money did not
belong to her and was uneasy. She
searched for the druggist and returned
the money to the loser. He stated that

 

 

he had lost the coins two years ago. He
kept the $20 piece and gave the woman
the remainder. She returned to her
home a happier woman and carried
$13.25 as a reward for honesty. Other
gardens are being weeded in anticipa-
tion of finding buried treasure,
i ae
This Year’s Florida Orange Crop.

Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 18—Latest es-
timates from railroad men and ex peri-
enced orange dealers is to the effect that
the Florida orange crop is about one-
half gone out of the State. The total
crop will be fully 900,000 boxes, being
an increment of 250,000 boxes on ac-

count of increased size of the fruit,
which is phenomenal this year. Oranges
run from 80 to 150 per box, 128 being
standard size. A crop of 200 boxes at
Seffner had 100 boxes of 80s, which had
to be packed in jumbo boxes. On the
Caloosa-hatchee some 64s were discov-
ered ; the cop averaging the growers
about $1.25 on the trees. Probably a
moiety of the fruit has been or will be
purchased on the trees. The deadlock
was obstinate for some weeks, but the
growers could not control the situation
as well as the buyers. The fruit was
fairly well colored up by Nov. 15, per-
haps, but itis not high colored. The
excessive humidity has diluted the col-
oring pigment. It is pale and lemonish.
This year the color was behind the
almanac, but the saccharine was ahead of
it, although behind the Florida normal.
In other words, the oranges have been
a little watered.

~~ 2.
Wonderous Hon est.

Bones called on his bootmaker, with
whom he had left a pair of boots to _ re-
pair, and, finding the door shut,
knocked loudly for admittance.

The son of Crispin put his head out
of the window and remarked:

‘‘No use knocking here: I’m closed.
I’ve filed a petition in bankruptcy.”’

‘‘Then hand me out my boots,’’ re-
torted Bones.

The bootmaker retired, and ina mo-
ment one of Bones’ boots was thrown at
him; the other, however, was not forth-
coming, and to Bones’ enquiry as to
the cause of delay the bootmaker very
coolly replied:

‘That’s all you can have now, Mr.
Bones, P m only paying 50 cents on the
dollar,’

 

You ought to sell

LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.,
GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

 

Secure the agency for the QUICK MEAL

FAMOUS QUICK MEAL
STEEL RANGE <a
QUICK MEAL

Write for 1903 catalogue
D. E. Vanderveen, Jobber, Grand Repids, Mich.

 

BARRONS®*"e0".57

MONTHLY BULLETIN sins. If you want t sect
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National Fire Insurance Co.
of Hartford.
W. Fred McBain,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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.

SHIP YOUR

BUTTER AND ECCS

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

and be sure of getting the Highest Market Price.

bip Koliday Poultry

also BUTTER, EGGS and VEAL to
Zoyne Brothers,

161 S. Water St., Chicago, Til.

 

 

Reference: Your Banker

 

 

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers.
wood and veneer basswood cases. Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit
purchaser. We manufacture every kind of fillers known to the trade, and sell
same in mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchaser. Also Excelsior, Nails
and Flats constantly in stock. Prompt shipment and courteous treatment. Ware-
houses and factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Address

L. J. SMITH & CO., Eaton Rapids, Mich.

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Cold Storage Eggs

Why pay 25 per cent. more for fresh when you can get just as
good by using our April stock? Give us an order and be con-
vinced. We store Fruit, 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 Rapitis, Michigan

 

 

 

 

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Hyde, Wheeler Company
4l North gaa a: ed . Clinton Street

Strictly Commission Merchants

Consequently we are able to give consignments our

undivided attention. We want shipments of

POULTRY AND EGGS

not make a very big mistake if you give us a few trial shipments. We will give
you the market price and remit promptly. Write for stencils, information relative to ad-
vances or a you wish to know about our line

    
  
   
 

  

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Fourth National, Board of Tra ade Bldg., Boston. When you write mention the Tradesman.

 

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Parchment Paper

For Roll Butter
Order now from

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

Wholesale Dealer in Butter, Eags, Fruits and Produce
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The New York Market

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

New York, Dec. 20~—It is hard to
find much, if anything, of interest in
the wholesale markets, Everybody is
strictiy looking after his Christmas sales
and nothing will divert attention there-
from, The weather is simply perfect.
There is no snow and the sun shines
brightly and warmly, The crowds that
throng the streets up-town are so dense
that a poor lone man is mighty apt to be
ostled to death as he tries to get
through the swarms of the gentler sex.

There is, of course, something doing
among jobbers and, taking coffee as the
usual starter, we have to report a firmer
feeling in the market generally. Quite
a little has been done in the speculative
line and whether there is solid ground
for this firmer undertone or not, the fact
remains that a more confident feeling
exists to-day. Reports from Brazil indi-
cate a crop up to June 30, 1903, that
will be comparatively small and dealers
are looking scme distance ahead, In
Store and afloat there are 2,594,235 bags,
against 2,419,843 bags at the same time
last year. There has sprung up a better
demand for mild grades, owing, per-
haps, to a little uneasiness in the South
American situation. Ifthe worst comes,
our dealers want to be fairly well sup-
plied with certain grades that might be
rather difficult to obtain in quantities.
Good Cucuta is firm at 8% @8%c. East
Indias are steady and unchanged in any
material respect.

Refined sugars have had one of the
dullest weeks of the whole year. This
is accounted for by the slump in raws,
which have had a bad time, and to the
near arrival of stock taking time. New
business has been almost nil and little
has been done in old contracts. Prices
seem to be steady and practically with-
out change,

Tea prices, as a rule, are firmly ad-
hered to, but buyers are taking only
smallest possible lots. They can not ex-
pect to find better rates after the turn of
the year, but they do not wish to be
burdened with any surplus.

The better grades of rice have been
well ,enquired for, for this time of the
year, and, upon the whole, dealers are
quite well satisfied with the trend of
affairs. Prices are practically without
change.

Pepper is strongly held and sellers
seem not at all anxious to part with
holding on present basis. They look
for a further advance in the not distant
future. Other goods are decidedly quiet
and transactions are on a very small
scale.

Offerings of really desirable grades of
molasses have been limited and buyers
are obliged to pay full values. Sales
have not been large in any particular
instance, but there is a fairly steady run
of orders all the time and dealers pro-
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Situation. Quotations are without
change. Syrups are in moderate de-
mand, Stocks are light.

Canned goods have had about as dull
a week as we have had for a year. Corn
is so hard to find in decently large lots
that dealers are loath to name prices.
The tomato situation is quiet and, as
time goes on and the figures of the pack
for 1902 come in, it is evident that the
aggregate will be far larger than was
supposed at the beginning of the season
and may run up well toward 80,000,000
cases. Prices sag and New Jersey threes
are worth $1.12}4@I1.15 at the factory.
Salmon is slow and the demand is of
only an average character.

Fruits and nuts have been in good re-
quest for holiday trade. Large sized
prunes, especially, are well sustained,
while currants, raisins, dates and figs
are all moving with a good degree of
freedom at well sustained rates.

Best Western creamery butter is steady
at joc. Arrivals have been rather mod-
erate and the week closes very firm.

Seconds to firsts, 25@29c; imitation
creamery, 18@22c, latter for finest
grades; factory, 1734@18%c; reno-

vated, 17@22c,

 

 

Cheese is quiet and about unchanged,
Full cream State, large size, is worth
13}24@13%c and are said to be very
scarce,

Eggs meet a dull market, quite in
contrast to what we have been having.
While stocks are not being greatly
added to, there is rather more than
needed and prices for fresh gathered
Western have fallen off about 2c and are
now quotable at 28c. At mark, the
range is from 22@26c.,

-- >. >.
Couldn’t Fool the Ant Twice.

An interesting demonstration of the
intelligence of the ant was made by a
student in the biological department of
the University of Pennsylvania last
week, The young man constructed a
roadway, two feet in length, of metal,
and divided this into two parallel paths,
separated by a high partition. One of
the paths he painted red and the other
blue; and at their end, in plain view,
he put a morsel of rich cake. Then he
set an ant at the beginning of the road-
way. The ant at once made for the cake
over the red path, whereupon the student
turned on a lamp under his mechanism
and heated the path toan uncomfortable
degree. The ant kept on, and finally
secured the cake, but on its return it
must have told itself that it had had a
mighty uncomfortable journey. Several
hours later the student brought it out
again, another morsel of cake being set
at the end of the roadway. The ant
thought a moment, and then started for
the cake over the blue path. It remem-
bered that the red one had been hot. To
prove still more conclusively that it re-
membered, the student next blocked up
the blue path, whereupon the ant did
without the cake rather than venture
after it by the red one.
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Only Two Guesses,

 

Doctor—You want exercise.

Invalid—But, doctor, I’m a postman.

Doctor—Then you need rest—join the
police force.

 

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

$30.00

will buy a ROYAL GEM
Lighting Plant complete.

 

It will produce 1,500 candle
power light at the cost of 1c

pet hour.
Can be installed in two hours.
No more trouble than gas.
Will last a lifetime.
A child can operate it.
3 single fixtures of 500 can-
die power each will light a

store 20x70 as bright as day.

Complete Piping, Fixtures,
Glassware, Mantles, ready to
put up only

$30.00.

Agents wanted.

Royal Gas Co.,
199 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Ill.

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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. We can handle your poultry as well as
any one and better than many. We are headquarters for Eggs
and Butter. Give us a trial. Prompt 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, a!l Express Companies and Commercial Agencies.
Established 1873

WHOLESALE

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We are the largest wholesale dealers in
Western Michigan. Order early.

DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Owosso, Mich.
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Shippers of poultry will be interested in knowing that we are putting on the market
crates 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.

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Man’s Uses During the Christmas Season. | treasury department.’’ Surely, man is Ph il H ilb
What is man at the time that is called|a busted community after Christmas, I 1 er
‘*Xmas’’ that he should vaunt himself,|and he is not often upon the map at

that he shouid say unto himself: ‘‘Lo, | other times and seasons, Jobber of Oleomargarine

 

 

I am a good many?’’ Is it not so, even as it is typewritten?
Verily he is about three-for-a-cent and | Y&S, a ty ae so. Yes, indeed. 109 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan
~ no sales, — What He Was Reading.
Behold, if he has a wife, she sayeth George F. Baer, President of the|1 have State agency for several manufacturers and am prepared to

unto him: “This is Xmas,’’ and taketh/ p-oding, was a successful lawyer before quote factory prices.

from him all the X's be hath. , he became a railroad magnate, and was
That she may buy presents therewith. regarded as a ptactitioner who, as a

She attireth herself in fine raiment! oie won his cases in the lower courts,
and goeth unto the market places where | -ven if he was at times reversed by the
everything is sold for half the price higher tribunals.

~~ yee ne ane Senet aenmny. On one occasion while journeying to
She meeteth other women that have Pittsburg a friend found him in the

husbands, and sayeth unto them:

“ie, ws es eek Bae sc eat in reading a_ thick law H. ELMER MOSELEY & Co.

 

Carlots only wanted. Highest market price. State variety and quality.

sehold, has he not given “aq all bis} «what is the matter,’’ he enquired GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
wealth, that 1 may buy gifts: i jokingly, ‘‘can't you read enough law| Long Distance Telephones—Citizens 2417 304 & 305 Clark Building,
And the other women, with one voice, | in the office, without lugging your books Bell Main 66 Opposite Union Depot

say:

| | around the country?’’
‘‘Surely, my husband is the same
kind of a man,’

: ‘‘Tam not reading law,’’ responded
| Mr. Baer, ‘‘I am reading the decisions
And they smile one upon the other] of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. ”’
with smiles that hold more language > #2
than the dictionary. Wherein They Harmonized.

 

 

She goeth about from merchant to| ‘‘An en a —. Say, indi- : d
merchant, saying to one, ‘‘] am just|C@ting the newly married pair. »| Clover and Timothy—all kinds of Grass Seeds.
looking to-day,’’ and to another, ‘‘Send Eminently suited to each other, y

they continued.

that up.”’ Here they pause and watch the happy
And she buyeth gifts for her folks| pair, 7 PPY'MOSELEY BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
and her friends, and her friends’ folks. ‘‘Seems like a made-to-order meeting 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST.

Toys and doilies and pictures she pur- | Of affinities,’’ they conclude. ;
He is a vegetarian and she isa

chases. = ’
dow. i
Also slippers for the minister. orn Tr sian EGGS WAN ED

 

 

And a bookmark for the minister’s Definition of a Kiss.
eae A kiss is a peculiar proposition. Of| We want several thousand cases eggs for storage, and when you have ary to offe
She getteth a statue of Apollo for her|0 use to one, yet absolute bliss to two. write for prices or call us up by phone if we fail to quote you.
oe Tag? The small boy gets it for nothing, the
, O co ye : g,
“ng i a copy of Que Vedio” See young man has to steal it, and the old Butter
. oar. . ee an has to buy it. The baby’s right, We can handle all you send us.
4\ pipe that needeth a mustar Fait, |}the lover's privilege, the hypocrite’s
she chooseth for her brother. mask. Toa young gir! faith, toa mar- WHEELOCK PRODUCE co.
And a necktie that would put an| ried woman, hope, and to an old maid, 106 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
alarm clock out of commission she get- | Charity. Citizens Phone 3232.

 

 

teth for her nephew.
For her husband she buyeth a powder

box and a fur boa and a parlor lamp and SOME PEOPLE

a cameo brooch and a piano cover,

Likewise a motto which readeth: ‘‘It NEVER. PROGRESS
is better to give than to receive. ”’ ,

Whereupon he reflecteth that under Font ane,
the circumstances there are arguments : ;
for the one side as well as for the other.

Yet again, consider the man who hath
no wife—doth he not come to the same
end?

He spendeth all that he hath fora
gift for the maiden that he considereth
his Sunday regular.

And he sendeth also the American
Beauty roses and the large box of bon-

 

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

E. S. Alpaugh & Co.

 

 

   

     
    
    
 

bons.
And the result is that he eateth the aity successtel, ts oe 4 ‘
bonbon which is called the baked bean, = uel an ~ Pa ee Ommission erc an S
. ‘ with a pen is <z g the past, at least is
and smoketh the Hackman’s Pride i. :
: coming to be a thing of the past, as fast as ‘
aw fr six athe te Gis collet OTE ok auwice kee 16 to 24 Bloomfield St. 17 to 23 Loew Avenue
make himself even financially. writer, and what a good typewriter “THE West Washington Market ‘
But his sweetheart forgetteth him not; FOX” is. >
nay, she does not overlook him. Our free trial plan enables anyone to thor- N Ww Y k 3
i cughly try the machine before buying. e or

 
 

She sendeth him something that is
tied with blue ribbons and hath a
shape like 10 cents’ worth of hay. Fox Typewriter Co., Ltd. i

And he knoweth not if it be a aaa 350 N. Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
holder or a glove box,

So he hangeth it upon the wall and

putteth matches in it. es

And when he seeth the maiden, she Little Giant
asketh him how he liketh the penwiper
she hath worked for him with her own $20.00

fair hands.

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Tc 20k, eee Soda Fountain We are in the market for

Not with any exceeding muchness, at R ‘ k ; R Y
any rate. Peradventure he getteth next a ac waa a. Over L O V E 5 A . K E a
to himself and communeth with him- chants. Write for eossseps .

sef, saying: ‘‘OfatruthI will hang Soda Water Sense Free BEANS, PEAS, POP CORN, ETC.

Let us take the matter up with you.

   

Specialties: Poultry, Eggs, Dressed Meats and Provisions.
Remember, we need your poultry for the holidays. We have the trade to
enable us to realize good prices for you. Ship us all possible to arrive the
2oth and 22nd. Prospects good prices.

References: Gansevoort Kank, R. G. Dun & Co., Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency, and
upon request many shippers in your State who have shipped us
for the last quarter of a century.
Established 1864

Cold Storage and Freezing Rooms

            
  

 

 
   
       
 

 

 

 

 

up my hose. ‘‘Also my watch and my : :

overcoat and my jewelry. Tells all about it. If any to offer write us.
‘‘For it is better to give than to re-| Grant Manufacturing Co., Inc., !

poles, tet ie. ix: cinee wantin onthe ieee. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. j

24 AND 26 N. DIVISION ST., 20 AND 22 OTTAWA ST. i

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the ~
President, JOHN A. WESTON, sing; Sec-

re » M. S. BROWN, Safiinaw; Treasurer,
JOHN W. ScHRAM, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, H. E. BARTLETT, Flint;
Grand Secretary, A. KENDALL, Hillsdale;
Grand Treasurer, C. M. EDELMAN, Saginaw.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, 0. C. 7.
Senior Counselor, W. S. BURNS; Secretary
urer, L. F. er.

 

 

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Pontiac Gazette: R. R. Nelson has
taken a position with the Pittsburg
Plate Glass Co. and will act as its travel-
ing representative in Southern Michi-
gan and Northern Ohio.

Louis J. Koster has started in on his
twenty-fourth year with Edson, Moore &
Co., of Detroit, apparently as entbus-
iastic and aggressive as when he first
Started out on the road a quarter of a
century ago,

Fred J. McWilliams, formerly with
Lautz Bros. & Co,, has engaged to
cover Southern and Eastern Michigan
and Northern Indiana for Gowans &
Sons, of Buffalo. He begins work un-
der the new auspices next week.

C. C. Davidson has returned from
Manchester, England, where he has
been for the past few months in the in-
terest of the American Machinery Co.
He is accompanied by Owen Living-
ston, who is in charge of the English
branch of the same house.

Joseph P. Visner, Grand Rapids rep-
resentative for Edwin J. Gillies & Co.,
left to-day for New York, where he
will spend a week in the house and tak-
ing in the sights of Gay Gotham. In-
cidentally, he will sign a contract for
the fifteenth consecutive year with his
house,

Joseph J. Finckler, who has been
connected with Spring & Company for
the past twenty years—six years in the
house and fourteen years on the road—
has engaged to travel for Burnham,
Stoepel & Co., of Detroit, covering the
Same territory as heretofore. He will
put in next week in Detroit posting up,
Starting out on the warpath the second
week of the new year,

St. Ignace Enterprise: Chas. Wenzel,
who has been traveling representative
for Cudahy Bros., has taken a position
in a similar capacity with Nelson Mor-
ris & Co,, the well-known Chicago
packing firm. His headquarters will be
at Houghton. Mr. Wenzel is an expe-
rienced man in bis line on the road, as
his new employers will find out on his
first round in their behalf.

Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, U.
C. T., has every reason to be satisfied
with the artistic and financial results it
bas achieved in connection with the
publication of its souvenir, which is
now being delivered to the members
and advertising patrons. The book is
replete with handsome iilustrations per-
taining to the city and environs and the
intention has been to present portraits of
every member of Grand Rapids Coun-
cil, The net proceeds of the publica-
tion will be devoted to the furnishing of
the new club rooms recently leased by
the organization in the Barnhart build-
ing.

Lansing Repubiican: The local post
of the Michigan Knights of the Grip
met at the Downey Saturday evening
and completed arrangements for attend-
ing the annual convention at Battle
Creek one week from to-day. A com-
mittee was appointed to secure a spe-
cial train over the Grand Trunk, on
which it is hoped to take the 100 mem-

 

bers of the Lansing lodge and the Cap-
ital City band of eighteen pieces, which
has been engaged to accompany them,
Lansing does not intend to quietly leave
the official roster of the Association.
A year ago John A. Weston was elected
President. Under the constitution he is
not eligible to a second term and his re-
tirement would leave Lansing without a
representative in the governing of the
order. At the Saturday meeting a mo-
tion was made endorsing the candidacy
of H. C. Klocksiem of this city for
membership on the Board of Directors.
The hundred members and the brass
band will work overtime in his behalf,
The members expect to have the time of
their lives at the convention. It was an-
nounced that the programme arranged
by the Battle Creek prosperity agents
includes a banquet on Monday evening at
the Phelps Sanitarium and a fancy dress
ball on Tuesday evening.

—_> +> ___
Endorsed by the Traveling Men of St.
Johns,

St. Johns, Dec. 23—At a meeting of
the traveling men of St. Johns, held
Saturday evening, Dec. 20, the follow-
ing resolution was unanimously adopted :

Whereas—It being apparent that a
large number of traveling men through-
out tke State are expressing opinions
favorable to the candidacy for President
of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, of
one of our esteemed citizens, Brother
B. D. Palmer, we appreciate the honor
thus conferred and we as traveling men
take great pleasure in assuring tbe
members of our order that in selecting
Mr. Palmer for this high office, time
will prove that no mistake has been
made, and that the office will be filled
by a gentleman of ripe experience and
good judgment, who will lend dignity
and ability to this position and certain-
ly ring success to the coming adminis-
tration; therefore

Resolved—That we, the traveling
men of St. Johns, heartily endorse the
candidacy of our friend and brother, B.
D, Palmer, for this position, and we
hope that for 1903 our esteemed friend
‘*Ben'’ may be addressed as‘‘Mr, Pres-
ident’’ by the brightest, brainiest, jolli-

est men on earth.
E, P. Waldron,

Ezra Smith,

C. S. Scofield,

J. H. Tilden,

Dell Chick,

H. L. Kendrick,

Willard C. Lvon,

Geo. Woodruff,

E. F. Brown,

Committee.

Supports the Nomination of Mr. Palmer.

Saginaw, Dec. 20—I notice with some
degree of pleasure the three letters pub-
lished in the Tradesman of Dec. 17,
written from different parts of the State,
supporting the candidacy for the presi-
dency of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip of our esteemed brother, B. D. Pal-
mer, and especially so, as I come from
the same town.

While a friendly contest always brings
out an increased interest in our annual
meetings, it is always essential to have
such contests of the most friendly na-
ture, and I am sure that the Saginaw
Valley will be willing to wait until she is
through holding the office ot Secretary
before expecting to receive another
office so important as that of President,
Any good thing that can be said of any
candidate can also be said of Brother
Palmer, who has served most efficiently
on the Board of Directors and is well
equipped to discharge the duties of
President. E. P. Waldron.

——-> 2.
Bay City Strong for Randall.

Bay City, Dec. 22—Bay City Knights
of the Grip are going to the State con-
vention in Battle Creek with the deter-
mination to capture the presidency for
George H. Randall, of West Bay City.
Randall has Jong been prominent in the
order and his fellow-travelers think he
should be recognized by the highest
office,

 

Look on This Picture and Then On That.

Members of the Michigan Knights of
the Grip have an opportunity this year
to vote for either one of two good men

 

 

 

 

 

Gro. H. RANDALL
for the office of President, and it natur-
ally affords the Tradesman much pleas-
ure to present its readers with counter-
feit presentments of each gentleman.
Both are old-time traveling men and
both have been long-time members of
the Michigan Knights of the Grip.
Both have served on the Board of Di-
rectors with credit to themselves and
with profit to the organization. Which-

 

 

B. D. PALMER

ever one is elected, the members need
have no fear but what the affairs of the
office will be carefully and conscien-
tiously conducted.
——____~.>_-+9<—___
Features of the Saturday Evening Enter-
tainment.

Grand Rapids, Dec. 22—The fourth
party of the winter series and the last
one for the year I902 was given by
Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, U. C.
T., atthe council rooms, 66 Pear! street,
Saturday evening. Promptly at 8:30 C,
P, Reynolds, chairman of Entertain-
ent Commitee, started twelve tables
playing pedro and for two hours all
went happily at cards. At the conclusion
the ladies’ first prize was awarded to
Mrs, F. J. Herbert and second to Mrs.
Will Hine. The gentleman standing
highest was John D. Martin, with F. J.
Herbert second. Prizes were awarded
them and then the floor was cleared for
dancing. At the commencement of
these parties it was not the intention to
have any dancing at all on the even-
ings set apart for card playing, but as

 

so many thoroughly enjoy dancing the

Committee devised a means of giving
some dancing after the games were fin-
ished, so as soon as the floor was in
readiness, Secretary Baker with his
violin, accompanied by Miss Minnie
Reynolds at the piano, furnished for
the next hour and a half music for
dancing. Talk about music! Well, all
we Can say is that we never danced to
any better and it was very pleasing and
gratifying to be able to furnish within
ourselves—by our members—entertain-
ment for our friends and guests in such
a pleasant way. Secretary Baker is all
rigbt in any place he is called upon to
fill, for positively he and Miss Reynolds
received compliments and congratula-
tions from all sides for their music.
Ja Dee.

Met Death While Writing to His Mother.

Chicago, Dec. 22--Leaning from the
window of his room on the twelfth
floor of the Great Northern Hotel to
get a breath of fresh air while he was
suffering from a headache to-day, Har-
rison S. Potter, traveling salesman for
the Sun Stove Co., lost his balance,
fell to the sidewalk and was killed,

Although his body was horribly man-
gled, Potter lived for a few seconds and
made an ineffectual effort to speak.
The street was filled with Christmas
shoppers and Potter’s body narrowly
missed striking several people as it
fell.

An unfinished letter to his mother, in
St. Joseph, was found in Potter’s room.
After stating that he had arrived in Chi-
cago and was well, with the exception
of a headache, he said: ‘*I guess I will
have to lay off writing fora minute or
so and get a breath of fresh air.”’

sto

Railroad companies have exerted a
powerful influence in promoting tem-
perance. Employes who become ad-
dicted to drink know that if the fact is
discovered their names will be instant-
ly dropped from the pay rolls. No mat-
ter what ability a man possesses if he
has not the virtue of sobriety he is not
wanted in the railroad business, Just
now there is an interesting situation at
Collinwood, a suburb of Cleveland. The
Lake Shore Railroad Company offers to
make extensive additions to its shops
there, provided the sale of liquor is
prohibited in that community. Here is
a temperance argument that citizens
must regard as forceful, to say the least.

2»

The expression, ‘‘ Long and short of
it," is readily understood when you
long for money and are short of it.

The Warwick

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

A. B. GARDNER, Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Che
Livingston
Hotel

Only three minutes’ walk
from Union Station.

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

   

26

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

Michigan State Board of Pharmacy

ee. BI 1802
HENRY Huim, Saginaw - - . 81, 1

Wirt P. Dory, Detroit - - - Dec. 81, 1903
CLARENCE B. STODDARD, Monroe Dec, 31, 1904
JOHN D. MUIR, Grand ids Dec. 31, 1905
ARTHUR H. WEBBER, Cadillac Dec. 31, 1906

President, HENRY HIM, Saginaw.
Secretary, JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, W. P. Dory, 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.
sing, Nov. 3 and 4.

 

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.

President—Lov G. MoorkE, Saginaw.
Secretary—W. H. BuRKE. Detroit.
Treasurer—C. F. HUBER, Port Huron.

 

 

Error Killed Two Persons.

A woman sixty years old and her
grandson, only seven months old, were
the victims recently of the mistake of a
young drug clerk. William J. Rogers,
employed 2s assistant in a New York
store,is said to be the one who made the
error.

The story told the police is that Mrs.
Vincenza Orlanda_ sent her grand-
daughter Jenny, eight years old, to Ren-
nenberg's drug store, at 103 Ninth ave-
nue, to buy 5 cents’ worth of a mixture
of castor and almond oils. The girl
returned with something in a glass
which her mother says she smelled and
thought had a peculiar odor. She sent
the little girl, with her elder sister,
Mary, back to the store to tell the man
that he had made a mistake.

The children returned with the report
that the clerk had said it ‘‘was all
right.’" The grandmother poured some
of it into a teaspoon and gave it to the
baby, after which she took a tablespoon-
ful herself. In five minutes both the
child and the aged woman fell into con-
vulsions. Dr. James Shea was called,
but he found the woman dead. The
child was taken to the New York Hos-
pital, where it died in a few minutes.

The drug store proprietor said that
Rogers was employed to assist the reg-
istered clerk. It is customary for him
to wait upon customers, it was said, and
serve out drugs which do not require
any more mixing than would be in-
volved in putting with castor oil some
innocent material intended to disguise
its taste. What the young man put in
in this case or how he did it the pro-
prietor did not profess to be able to ex-
plain. The registered clerk had not
noticed the sale. Dr, Shea examined
the glass and the contents, and thought
the mixture contained cyanide of po-
tassium.

Apparently the clerk used an excess
of oi] bitter almond, of which most drug-
gists do not realize the very poisonous
nature. Numerous cases are on record
of dangerous illness being caused from
its use. In many cases one drop is
sufficient to cause alarming symptoms.
Benzaldehyde is as good as the true oil
of bitter almond for flavoring purposes,
and, being free from hydrocyanic acid,
should be used in all cases. The true
oil should be kept in poison locker and
dispensed only on prescription.

————>2>—____

The Preservation of Solution of Mercuric
Chloride.

H. G. Greenish and F. A. Upsher
Smith have conducted an investigation
with a view of determining what change,
if any, takes place in solution of mer-
curic chloride on keeping in glass bot-
tles according to the nature of the bot-
tle. For the investigation bottles were

 

procured of different colors, viz., or-
dinary white, ordinary dark blue,
actinic green and amber. The effects
of the character of the water used, as
well as the influence of magnesium hbi-
carbonate and of organic matter, were
noted, and the particulars given. These
conclusions are drawn by the authors
from their experiments :

(1) That solution of mercuric chlior-
ide in distilled water will keep satis-
factorily in white, green or blue bottles
for a reasonable length of time if not
exposed to direct sunlight. (2) That
even in direct sunlight it will keep, if
protected by the use of amber glass;
we, therefore, recommend the use of
bottles made of such glass. (3) That
the ordinary white glass bottles, whether
of English, German or French manu-
facture, as sold to pharmacists do not
appreciably differ in their action. (4)
That the minute deposit gradually
formed is partly or wholly mercurous
chloride. (5) That mercuric chloride
with tap water gives a copious precipi-
tate in blue, green or white glass bot-
tles; the precipitate will not form, how-
ever, in amber bottles or in darkness.
(6) That in diffused light amber bottles
preserve the solution ‘better than blue,
green or white bottles. (7) That in
strong light the amber glass alone is
satisfactory. (8) That strong light
effects more decomposition than diffused
light, especially with tap water.

The Drug Market.

Opium—lIs firm in the primary market
and unchanged.

Quinine—Is steady.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Cod Liver Oil—Is very firm and has
advanced again $2 per bbl.

Glycerine—Is very firm and has been
advanced a fraction by some manufac-
turers,

Menthol—The market
an advance is looked for,

Strychnine—The manufacturers have
advanced their price toc per oz,

Oil Wormseed—Is scarce and advanc-
ing.

Oil Cloves—Is very firm and advanc-
ing.

Oil Wintergreen— Has again advanced
and is tending higher on account of scar-
city.

Oil Bergamot—On account of higher
prices in primary market, has been
advanced,

American Saffron—Has advanced and,
as stocks are scarce, higher prices are
looked for.

Assafoetida—Prime gum is in small
supply and has advanced.

Seneca Root—Crops were light and
prices rule very high. Another advance
is looked for.

Italian Anise Seed—Has advanced
and is tending higher,

——__sta___
Paraffin in Confectionery.

There is at present on the market a
confection purporting to be ‘‘ butter
Scotch,’* but consisting of glucose and
Faraffin of high melting point. The
fraud may be detected by attempting to
dissolve the mass in warm water, when
the paraffin, amounting to about 20 per
cent. of the whole, will slowly rise and
form a layer on the surface of the water
or else collect on the spoon at the level
of that surface. We think this is not an
entirely new form of sophistication, but
it is one the danger of which, intestinal
obstruction by the accumulation of para-
ffin in the digestive canal, ought to be
pointed out.

is firmer and

: Rinna
You can buy coal for $7 a ton at places
where there isn’t any.

 

Three Formulas For Glycerin Jellies.

A lotion or jelly of almost any desired
consistency may be made by using
enough Irish moss. Mucilage of quince
seed may be considerably thickened by
evaporating some of the water. This
procedure is not very satisfactory, as
however made the mucilage does not
keep well and it should be only em-
ployed in preparations for immediate
use. In most of the toilet or cosmetic
jellies the ‘‘body’’ consists of gelatin
starch, tragacanth, or similar substances,
the amount used depending upon the
stiffness or consistence of the prepara-
tion to be made. Here are formulas for
glycerin jelly:

Cipcer a, . I fluidounce.
Corestarch ....... . I drachm.,
bela ee 14 drachms.
Otto of rose, or extract of

wenee ene ol Ls. q. Ss.

Mix the starch, glycerin and water,
and bring to the boiling point; when
cold add the perfume, and color if de-
sired with solution of cochineal or red
aniline.

2.

Cee I ounce.
(sigoerin........ 16 fluidounces.
eee eo 3 fluidounces.
ee ee 2 drops.
Oil lavender flower...... 10 drops.

Soak the gelatin in the mixed gly-
cerin and water for twelve hours, then
heat ona water-bath until dissolved,and

finally add the oils. Other odors may
be employed.

Mucilage Irish moss.....,
ele). 4 ounces.
Cr 6 fluidounces,

Distilled extract witch-
ee 4 fluidounces,

Cologne water........... 2 fluidounces,
Oo eA 30 grains,

Dissolve the borax in the witch-hazel
extract, mix with three fluidounces of
glycerin and with the cologne, and add
slowly to the mucilage previously mixed
with the remainder of the glycerin.
After standing a few hours strain the
mixture.

 

0
Action of Grape Juice on the Organism.
The grape is composed of various con-
stituents which give it its value in the
so-called grape cure: Water, grape
Sugar, cream of tartar, tartaric and
malic acids, albuminoids, various min-
erals, as potassium salts, lime, mag-
nesia, the oxides of iron and manga-
nese, a little silicium and alumna, also
certain acids— phosphoric, sulphuric and
nitric. There are traces of chlorides
and a smal! quantity of soda, and phos-
phates. The seeds contain tannin.
Grape juice from its constituents is a
veritable natural mineral water,

In taking the grape juice cure the
quantity at first taken is small and is
gradually increased, the length of the
time of treatment being from three to
six weeks. Walking and exercise in
the open air assist very much in bring-
ing about good results during the time
of this cure. The general health is im-
proved, the appetite is increased, and
the digestive functions are greatly im-
proved. The patient usually puts on

 

 

 

flesh. This cure is especially indicated
in affections of the digestive organs, vis-
cerai congestions, ascites, jaundice, in
cases of hepatic calculi, diarrhea, hab-
itual constipation, in certain skin
troubles, and in neurasthenia; pulmon-
ary tuberculosis is benefited by this
treatment, but the intestines must be in
good condition. It seems contraindi-
cated only in persons who are too fat or
who have a tendency to become so, and

during the period of menstruation.
nO
Danger in Amyl Nitrate.

Dr. John J. Abel, of Johns Hopkins
University, had his hand severely cut
and was made ill recently by the ex-
plosion ofa bottle of amy! nitrate in the
physiological hall. Dr. Abel’s pulse
rushed up to 140, and he hurried out of
the building to the lawn to inhale as
much fresh air as possible and get the
poison out of his iungs.

One of the tendons of his right hand
was cut by the broken glass. It is
thought the drug was impure, containing
oxides of nitrogen, and there was no
way to guard against the accident.
Charles Snelling, an employe at the
laboratory who was assisting Dr. Abel
at the time, was also affected by the
gas. The explosion caused a scare in
the laboratory, but did no damage to the
apparatus,

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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Aceticum .. -- 1 15@ 1 25| Tolutan.. seen S@ bw
Benzoicum, German. 1 30@ 1 35/ Prunus virg.. bed oes @ sO
Boracic..... -- 1 50@ 1 60 ‘Tinotures
Carbolicum .......... -- 1 00@ 1 10 Aconitum Napellis R 80
ES ee 2 20@ 2 30 hace Napellis F 50
Hydrochlor.. .... . @ % ‘Aisne 80
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Phosphorium, +» 1 @ 2 00 be
Salicylicum 90@ 2 00 S
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Tartaricum . . : 00@ : = 50
Aisi . os 4 = 50
Aqua, 16 deg......... 8 75@ 3 00 75
Aqua, 20 deg. ee we 100@ 12 50
Carbonas ae L 15 @ 3 75
Chioridum........... 2@ 14 . 92@ 98 : =
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Oubebae........ po,25 22 24 . 1 50@ 1 60
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Balsamum 5@ .
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Euonymus atropurp. 30 | Potass Nitras, opt 7@ 10 5o
ca Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Ni 6@ 8 75
Prunus Virgini...... 12 ssinte.. 2@ 26 50
Quillais, sr ee 13 | Sulphate po. -.-. 7... Ib@ 18 ‘3
Ulmus...po. 20, gr’d 38 Radix 5p
Extractam 200 25 oe
bra. 24 30 33
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Hoomatox, 15 lb.box 11 12 SQ 89
Heematox, 18........ 13) 14 20@ : cal 8
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Ferra @ 80 Miscellaneous
Jarbonate Precip... 15 12@ 15| Mther, Spts.Nit.7 F 30@ 35
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25 18@ 22 — ; Spt. Nit.4F 3@ 38
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Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 40 Teor oa. -Po. 35@38 35@ 40 juaen. gro’d..po. 7 4
Solut. Chioride...... 15 _..... 3D 3 ~~ . 0@ 50
ulphate, com’l. -... 2| Maranta, ¥s.... 11). @ 35) Antimoni, 2 3
ae com 1, by Podophyilum, po... 22@ 25 | Antimontet Potass T 50
bbl, per ¢ Lala | 75@ 1 00| Antipyrin........... 2g 25
Sulphate, pure. suc 7 Rhel, Oe @ 1 2 Antifoprin See 20
Flora ae oe. 75@ 1 35/ Argenti Nitras, oz.. @ 42
1s@ 18 | SPigelia .. 35Q 38 Arsenioum Ee ei 100@ 12
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Fo san aaa 30@ 35 —— eteeeese s0@ 55 | Bismuth SN. 1 65@ 179
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Folia Smilax, officinalis H. @ 40| Calcium Chior., \s.. @ 10
Barosma............. 36@ 40 BE csi ees @ 25) Calctum Chior., s.. $ 12
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Selllae ae a = 10@ 12/ Cantharides, Rus. 80
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Acacia, 3d picked.. 35 | Apium (eravéisons). 13@ 15| Cen oe @ 10
Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 | Bird, 1s.. 4Q@ 6 /| Cetaceum.... aa 45
Acact: Se eee 65 | Carul.. --Po.. ‘15 10@ 11| Chloroform’ ee 60
14 | Cardamon. . 1 25@ 1 75 | Chloroform squibbs @ 110
12| Corfandrum.......... §8@  10| Chioral Hyd Crst.... 1 35@ 1 60
30 | Cannabis Sativa. |_|. 5@ 6 | Chondru: 20@ 2
60 | Cydonium......... 75@ 1 00 Cinchonidine, PEW BO 48
40 | Chenopodium ....... 16@ 16 Cinchonidine, Germ. 3@ 48
55 | Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10| Cocaine 4 55@ 4 75
13 | Foeniculum.... : @ 10 Sone list, ‘dis. pr. cet. 75
14 —: po ‘ 7@ 9 | Creosotum........... @ 44
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Spts. Myrcia Dom... @20
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @
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Spts. Vini Rect. 1 @
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Whale, winter....... 70 7
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Linseed, pure raw... 47 EO
Linseed, ae 48 50
Neatsfoot, winter str 59 65
Spirits Turpentine.. 59 34
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Putty ton, P pure. 2% 2%@3
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Wermuaee English. 70@ 75
Green, Paris........ | 1440 18%
Green, Peninsular, 13@ 16
f  bbsas de oes $@ 8%
| eee. 6 @ 6%
ee a Span S@
fing, gil ders’... @
White ris, Amer. @12
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Cee o. @is
Universal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20
Varnishes
No.1 Turp Coach... 1 1 1 20
oa | ‘ioe 170
Coach - 2 7%Q 8B 00
No. 1 Turp i Sosa
Extra Turk Damar.. 1 1 60
Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 79

 

 

 

 

rugs

 

 

We

We

We

We

We

are dealers in Paints,

Varnishes.

Sundries.

and Rums for medical

only.

are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

Oils and

have a full line of Staple Druggists’

are the sole proprietors of Weath-

erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

always have in stock a full line of

Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines

purpeses

give our personal attention to mail

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

day received.

Send a trial order.

 

 

  
  
 

Hazeltine & Perkins

Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

28

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GROCERY PRIC

E CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press,

Prices, however, are lia-

ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase,

 

ADVANCED

|
London Layer Raisins |

Buckwheat Flour

DECLINED
Rock Candy
Popcorn

 

 

Index to Markets

  
 
 

  

By Columns AXLE GREASE
aamEraa Nate gross |
Col | Aurora. .... 6 00 |
A "| Castor Oil 7 00;
Akron Stoneware Le a... a
Alabastine «-------------+-7" 1] EXE Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00
BRIS GROROS... 22. - wo ccee .. woe | |
B
Bakin ee ote inns |
Bath Brica.. 1}
Bluing 1}
Breaivfast Food. 1]
Brvome...... 1
Brushes ..... 1
Butter Color...... 1
Cc
— eee eee 14
C—O Mien te bone. 7 3 eo |
Cate INI 3] Paragon. 2208 6 00)
"ener a A a 8 BAKING POWDER
ee 8 Egg i
erie... 8/ lb. cans, 4 doz. case...... 3 75 |
—_— EE 3| 4 1b. cans, 2 doz. case...... 3 75 |
eee... 3| 1b. cans, 1 doz. case...... 3 75 |
Clothes Lines... oon cocaee Bl Oo One. Ook Geen... 8 00
Cocoa. . o ecees ; j
ae
nes... 3 JAXON
———————_oOooo
“ | % Ib. cans, 4 doz. case......
ee 1 le cme ol }% Ib. cans, 4 doz. case...... =
Crackers.» sssccvell, 4 |! I. cams. 2doz. case....-.1 60
Ce 5 | Royal
Db itecies....
Dried coun Cee ce 5) 4 Ib. cans 1 36|
Farinaceous Goods.......... 5| 6 0z. cans. 1 90
Fish oo eS . } 4% Ib. cans 2 50)
Pees Peeee.......-....... | a 7
Flavoring Extracts........... 6 % Ib. cans 3 75
a eer... 6 1b. cans. 4 80}
oe e...............,. 6 | a. 31D. cans 13 00
a ......... Sec pee cease 14 ; 5c tb. cans. 21 50
Ee 6 |
Grain Bags................-.. 7| Amerteat...- BRICK
Grains and “— ee 7 English. Se a
Heche Hie miciNe
el pin. 60 tee eeeeneusl
Hides and Pelts.............. 13 | Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross6 00
Indigo . , | Afetic 16 oz. round per gross9 00
eeee cere erer cess cess eeee Ss |
J
a ........,... Cn 7
L
cos eners................ 15
Lamp Chimneys.............. 15
ee ee 15
[ote Giebes.............. 15
—_—— 7
ec 7
M
I ———— 7
ee 7
ee 7
N
a 14
o Small size, per doz.......... 40
EE 15 | Large size, perdoz ......... 7
en otonnas se eee oie 7 BREAKFAST FOOD
ce ce vi
Sn Se 7
aoe Cards.. 8
a. oe &
Potash Se een oon cece een 8 | Cases, 36 packages......
ee 8 | Five case lots..... io
ae 8 TRYABITA
Salad D 1 9!
mia ei EE cm Peptoniz-d Celery Food, 3
Saleratus 8 a. in case... . a 06
: : Hulled Corn, per doz........ 93
Sea KOOMS
Balt _ : No. 1 Carpet... ee 270)
ee 0. 2 Carpet. re
— ‘Biacking. Pi Me tee 2 15
i ne a NN 10 | No. 4 Carpet.. coo
Soap seo. +. - 9) Parlor Gem. Lea
Boda.......-. - 10) Common Whisk.............. 85
8 — cron encnonerersecessenece = Fancy Whisk. a
eee eles ee le r
rove Polich.............---- 10 | as =e 3 50
Ce eee e eee aac
Byeaee......... tee bars bse eae 10 | Soltd Back, ee 45 |
;8 aoe. te ........... 95 |
= SAUCE... .-.. 0... sees . Potted Gale 85 |
hese a Ee 11| No.8 Shee
Twine 12 | NO: Be---eee sees ceeeeeeeee eeee 1
a . me mR a ea eseeennne ea”
NS i on. Cee
Wering iis ccccvees Sims... ~— |
eee ensee ce co ae No. 3 oe ee
| Se geeapaanbegeben a

Wrapping Paper............. 13 |

¥
WeOvGt Cake....o. 2.000.200. 18}

2

 

 

 

 

 

BUTTER COLOR”
W., R. & Co.'s, 15¢ size.. 12)
W., R. & Co.'s, 25c size..

+12 00|

j CA —
| Miosiets Ages, O68... ............

 

 

aoe Laas, is... ....
I a oe os cece
| Paraffine. 128. oe
Wiakine
CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 lb. Standards...... 85
| Gallons, standards 2 00
Blackberries
(Steieres ........... 85
Beans
| Baked 83@1 30
| Red Kidney. 75Q 85
Sirimg _... . 70
| Wax a ae 7E@ 83
Blueberries
Standard .
aici. Trout
| 2 1b. cans, Spleed .......... 190
Clams.
| Little Neck, 1 1b .... 1 00
Little Neck. 2 Ib..... 1 50
Clam Bouillon
| Burnham’s, % pint........ 1 92
Burnham's, pints.......... 3@
Burnham’s, quarts......... 7 20
Cherries
| Red Standards..... 1 R@1 50
ee. 1 50
Corn
ra. : ee 9
Good .... 1 00
a ........-.... @i 49
French Peas
Ser Ruire Fime............ 22
eee 19
oe ees 15
Moyen _ 11
Diioio
| Standard See eee 90
Hominy
| Standard ns 85
Lobster
Ce 2 90
at... 3 6¢
Pies Tas......... : 2 40
Mackerel
ee, te... 1 80
Mueterd, 21........ 2 80
oes se, £oe......... " 1 80
a, . 2 80
7 ot e.......-. 18
| toenso, 3%. ........ 2 80
Mushrooms
| Hotels eee oe 18@20
Ce 22@25
Oysters
iG oe... 85
se... 1 55
Cove, 1 Oval...... 95
Peaches
Ss... 8E@ 90
Ew 1 35@1 85
are
ee ......... ‘os 1 00
ee. ee 1 2
| Peas
| Marrowfat ....... 100
Early June... 90@i 60
| Early June Sifted 1 65
Plums
Plums. | 85
"Pineapple
Grated .... -. aoe w
Sliced. . _-.--..-» | oe on
Secmeaetcien
Fair . eee. 90
Good - oe 1 00
a 1 25
Raspberries
as... ie 115
Russian —e
| 34 Ib. cans.. 3 75
\% Ib, cans... 7 00
ao 12 00
Salmon
Columbia Ziver, talls @1 8
| Columbia = flats @1 80
; Red Alaska. . @1 30
Pink Alaska. . . @
Shrimps
| Standard es ee 1 40
Sardines
| Domestic, eo te 3%
| Domestic, 8 ....... 5
Domestic, Mustard. 6
| California, i 11@14
| California \S8........ 17@24
Peemen, 45......... 7@14
| French, secs ak 18@28
Strawberries
ae ............ 110
ae .........2..-... 1 40

 

 

 

  

 

 

Succotash
ao...
ewes ees ss
Fancy

Tomatoes
cal 110
OE ose 1 15
ee =>
Galions...... 8 65

CARBON OILS
Barrels
ees..........-..,. @12%
Pereetiea.....-.. - @il*

Diamond White........ @il
D. 8. Gasoline......... @i4%
Deodorized Naphtha.. @12
nna ei 29 @34
ss ee 16 @22
Black, winter ie dees 9 @i0X
CATSUP
Columbia, pints. . 2 00
Columbia, 4 pints... i 125
CHEESE
215
O1li%
14
cas @14%
Gem ao Bi4h%
— Modal. be ee ee @izs
ena @ii
cag eS a4
Riverside ............ 214%
oe 14@15
@17
13@14
50@75
Seen S19
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce.... 55
Beeman’s Pepsin.........- 60
Black Jack..............-. 55
60
55
00
55
55

 

CHOCOLATE

Walter _ " Co.'s.
a. Sweet.. ail

Breakfast Cocoa...

   
    
 

  
    
  

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“4 ZT: Ei

Ryo CLEANER

aS Cotans EvervtMinc
sot mame

  

  
   
 
 

 

8 oz. box, 3can., per doz. .$1 35

Qts box, 2 can., per doz .
Gal box, 4can., per doz..

2 25

7 50

Samples and Circulars Free.

CLOTHES LINES

 

Sisal
60 ft, 3 thread, extra.. ...
72 ft, 3 thread, extra......
90 ft, 3 thread, extra......
60 ft, 6 thread, extra......
72 ft, 6 thread. extra......
Oe
a...
es...
Cotton Windsor
Meee... 2. ee
ee
Oe ee ee ee
oe...
Cotton Braided
40 ft ce
eck ee
os...

Galvanized Wire

  

No. 20, each 100 ft long....
No. 19, each 100 ft long....
ee

Cleveland. . / eres
Colonial, 48 Lee ee
Colonial, ee

ee ee

NE ee dees ee cea ee
Van bowben, 36.............
Van Houten, s.......

Van Houten, ‘Tae

Van Houten, is...... as
ee
i Ce eG
je a

OANUT

Dunhant’s 46.....--.. --..
Dunham's %s and is copes
Dunham's 4S............-
Dunham's 546............-
eS.

= ee
20 Ib. bag :
Less quantity cules
Poun: packages . ote pene

COFFEE

1
1 40
1
1

Roasted
a — Co. brands
9

 

 

 

No.
Belle 2 aS 20
es 24
eer... ee , 26
vec abeiee cule ee eek 30
is hood ode peas ee ce 14

Koran
Gubeaied in 100 Ib. lots.
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands.

ais
. gl See

————

 

White House, | lb. cans.....
White House, 2 Ib. cans.....
Excelsior, M. & J. 1 lb. cans
Excelsior, M. & J. 2 1b. cans

Tip Top, M. as. 1 Ib. cans.
ie 2.2...
Royai Java and Mocha......

Java and Mocha Blend......
Boston © ee oe ee
on-ve Gem... ... ina
Ja-Mo-Ka Blend

Distributed by Judson Grocer
Co., Grand Rapids. C. £)-
liott & Co., Detroit, B. Desen-
berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons
Bros. & Co., Saginaw, Jackson
Grocer Co., Jackson, Meisel &
Goeschel, Bay City, Fielbach
Co., Toledo.

Rio
cs cu ec. 8
oe... 9
ee oe 10
a 15

Santos
\Common...... biden teceee seus 8
Fair .. oes . 9
NO eee et 10

leis ca lou onus. 13
eo, mi
Maracaibo
se cece eee ece tue 13
“holce 18
Mexican
ee ci cl 13
a 17
Guatemala
Cee... 13
Java
cated ee secs euudeu sees 12
—  . . .. ese 17
eS) 25
i 31
Mocha
Arabian....... eS a
Package
New York Po,
BAN o.oo a
ee... 10

eee,
Lion

McLaughlin’s XX XX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to

retailers only. Mail all orders

direct to W. F. McLaughlin &

Co., Chicago.

Extract
Valley City * gross.. .
Felix % gros a
Hummel’s fol % gross. eu pae 85
Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case.

 

    

Gail Borden Basie . ..6 40
a... ..5 90
Daisy 5 7
Chameian --4 25
Magnolia .. -.4 00
—- nee ob eye 4
Dim -8 35
Peerless Evaporated Cream. 4 00

Milkm a --6 10
Ti Top eee eee ee 3 85
eee 4 25
Bigmiand Croam............ 5 00
St. Charles Cream.. ooseut OO

CRACKERS
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
Butter

pore... 8%
eer Pee 6%
ee i

ted.

8%
WOLV@FING .....0.0csyrceee 7

 

 

Go 2 e........ 7
Soda, City.... 8
Long Island Wafers....... 13
pO
Oyster
Pee ia 7%
oo es hs ee Z
ee eee... .... .. 7%
Saline Oyeter.............. 7
Sweet Goods—Boxes

EE EE a 10
Assorted Cake............ 10
osc voce causes 8
Dent's Weert... .......... 18
Cieeenen Dar......._..... 9
Coffee Cake, Iced......... 10
Coffee Cake, Java......... 10
Cocoanut Macaroons...... 18
Cocoanut Taffy........... 2
Soins cdedne corsse 16
COORMIE, BOO... 65 ese. 8
Cream — ce eda 10%
Cuban ci. oo
Currant ae 10
Presses rey .,..........- lz
Prossea Cream............ 8
Ginger Gems, |’ oan 8
Ginger Snaps, x. 6.C..; 6%
a 10%
Grandma Cakes........... 9
Graham Crackers......... 8
Graham Wafers.. ~
Grand Rapids Wii 16
Homer Fingers... .... 0... 12
Iced Honey ——— ones 10
Imperials.. oa
Jumbles, Honey. i 12

Lady Fingers.............. 12
Loren eee...

Lemmon Warets............ 16
Meareeeaow....... .... .... 16
Marshmallow Creams..... 16

Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16

 

  
  

eee oe... 8
meee Femme... .... 1... 11%
x eee... Th
Moeneeon Came.........,.. 8
Peeeeeees ee.............. 9
Mees Jelly Par............ 12%
Newton. —— =
Oatmeal Crackers. . os
Oatmeal Wafers........... 12
lee at es 9
Cee Geek... 8
Pee Ce eee, | 8
Pilot bread, ae TT
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 8
Pretzels, hand made...... g
SO0Gs COGKIOS........66.. 10
poaee BUNen........ 04.4. 7%
Sugar Cake...... — 8
Rogar Biscuit Square.. 8
Sugar Squares..... 8
Sultanas....... 13
Tutt) Frasi...... 16
Vanilla Wafers. . |
Vee Orto............. 8

E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked good
Standard Crackers.
Blue Ribbon Squares.
Write for complete price list
with interesting discounts.

CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 Ib. wooden boxes.....30
are Ge ees. scion

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sundried . 4%@5
Evaporated, ‘50 Ib. boxes. 7@ 8

California Prunes
100-120 25 Ib. boxes ......

lg cent less in 50 Ib. “cases
California Fruits

ee... .... .... 8
a ee ayes o
Nectarines . ie 8%
Peaches . i. ig @10
Cee ea

Pitted Cherries........

Prema ....
Maepoerries ..........-

Citron
Coreeee 8, .. 13 @34
Currants
Imported, 1 lb pac e 64@
Imported bulk. ... -_ 64@

Peel

Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..13
Orange American 101b. bx..13

Raisins
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown.........
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 7
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 7%

Loose Muscatels 4 Crown &
. M., Seeded, 1 Ib..... @9
. M., Seeded, &% Ib 7
ee a 10

 

Sultanas, package ..........10%
FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans

Dried Lima.. bei
Medium Hand Picked
Brown Homeee.. ss...

“engi

  

24 1 Ib. pac’

Bulk, per 100 De...

 

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$a Mutton
Flake, 50 Ib. sack.. get Coreen... wcses Si oe
Peart, 01h. bi. ooo. 5 00 DS........ gener % @8
Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... 2 80 rhaiia aoe
Vv
Maccaroni and Vermicelli GELATINE
Domestic, 10 Ib. mag soseees 60) Knox's Sparkling........ 120
Imported. 25 Ih. --- 2B | Knox's Sparkling, spr gross 4 ia
Pearl ‘Bariey Knox’s Acidulated........
Common ...... .. ......+--.3 08) Knox’ a eenened ape aseus 14 F
Chester ieee dom boinc edie 3 90 aie ey, 75
ike oe ic 8 “ie Plymouth a. 1 20
i Peas AS ea 1 50
Green, South ae bu.......1 80 | Goy: (aon. 1 61
Green, Scote +reeeerl 85 | Cox's, t-qt size...... ...... 1 10
Split, ib... cot 6 ,
Rolled ‘Oats GRAIN BAGS
Rolled Avena, bbl... ---5 00 | Amoskeag, 100 in bale .... 154%
co a aa Yb. sacks... : z Amoskeag, less than bale. 15%
euenen, OM 4
Monarch, 90 Ib. sacks.......275| GRAINS nn FLOUR
Quaker, oral veeeeeee 8 10 wee. Me veces cea. 76
Winter Wheat Flour
Local ——
Patents oe inn oo
Second Patent............. 3 90
| OM 3 70
Second Straight. . 3 490
eee eee ce 3 25
ei 3 45
Buckwheat .. : =

 

Cases, 24 2 Ib. packages... .
Sago

East India..... = Severe core
Ceram, socns............ ..
German, broken package. .
Tapioca
Flake, 110 Ib. sacks......... 434 |
Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... 3% |
Pearl, 24 1 Ib. Wheat bees 6%

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_pubiedt to usual cash -
ee in bbls., 25¢e per bbl. ad-

ake Grocer Co.’s _

Cee ee. 30
ier Me as
Qeeeer Se a

Spring Wheat Flour

Clark-Jewell-Wells _ —
Pillsbury’s Best ‘ss.

  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

Bulk, . ° — 35

ulk, 1 ga! cc 2.4
Bulk, 3 a ‘cae os 1 10
Bulk, 5 gal. ce ie sce 1 0
My 7 Oh sei ciesse 80
RO, ic sous, 2 35
Cone. 06 G8... co, 4 50
Queen, ee cous TO
§ tuffed, Oe 90
eamen. 8 Of ........ — 1 4
oren. ee 2 3

PIPES

Clay, N 216... i
lay. i. °p. fait aonnt er

e

PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,200 count ........ 8 00
Half bbis, 600 count......... 45
Small
Barrels, —_ eoues .........0 Of
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
Ie Gee, BOCAS... cc: 1%
No 98, Golf. satin finish.. 2 00
No. 808, Bicycle . 2 00
No. 632, Tournam’t Whist. 2 25

POLISH

Y f ae
flare crits

Be add eda

ee Seed
Iie

 

Sold by all jobbers or write man-
ufacturers.

Packed 1 dozen in case.
Paste, 3 0z. box, per doz.. 75
Paste, 6 oz. box. per doz.... 1 25
Liquid, 4 07. bottle, per doz 1 25
Liquid, %4 pt. can, per doz. 1 80
Liquid, 1 pt. can, per doz.. 3 00
Liquid, % gal. can, per doz. 9 00

Liquid, 1 gal. can, "ee doz.15 00
Search Bar Polish.
1 Ib. sifters. per doz........ 1 80
on
In case. |
Babbitt’s scoeu ane
Penna Salt Go.’s....0 0.2221: 3 00
PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
eon NO @Ql7 25
ot @20 00
<near Gaek... @20 +0
Short cut, clear..... @is 00
ae 22 00
Bean.. 16 75
Family Mess Loin.: 20 00
Clea 9 50

 

| Dry ‘Salt Meats
eee 10%
S P Bellies... ces 12%
Extra shorts... a ll
| Smoked Meats
| Hams, 121b. average. @ 12%
| Hams, 141b. average. : 12%
Hams, 161b. average. 12%
Hams Soe average. @ 12%
led beef..... @ 12
geenaue (N.Y. cut) @
Bacon, clear. ........ 13 @ 14
California hams..... @ 10
Boiled Hams. . @ 17%
Picnic Boiled Hams @ 14
Berlin Ham pr’s’d 9%@ 10
Mince Hams ...... 9%@ 10
Lard
Compquné........... @ 7%
PO is cece ecu a : Q@i1%
60 Ib. Tubs..aavance ss
80 lb. Tubs..advance %
50 lb. Tins... advance %
20 Ib. Pails. .advance %
10 Ib. Paila..advance *
6 1b. Pails..advance 1
™ Peatls advance 1
Vegetoie............. 8
usages
aes 6
er 6%
— eos on 28
ca. oe ae 8 @8%
eee 6
Tongue..... oe oe ¥
Headcheese.... 8%
Extra Mess..........
bri a 11 75
meme, Mew @i1 75
Pigs’ Feet
14 bbis., 40 Ibs..... 1 85
bbls. 3 26
: bbis., ‘Ibs. eeueds 7 75
Tripe
mie, 6 te... 1... 80
44 bbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 50
%& bbis., 80 Ibs. Coun 3 00
Casings
Pork . sede 26
Beef rounds. ........ 5
12

 

heat Pilisbury’s Best igs. ‘ 80
Cracked, bulk... .......... Pilisbury’s Best 4s....... 4 40
242 tb. packages .... .-2 BO | Pema 8 — = paper. 4 40
; | sbury’s Best 4s paper. 4 40
XY Ppa TACKLE g| Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s Brand
1% toz inches. ............ 7| Wingold %s.............. 4 40
Motos tele eens MEBs. eee sere eens cS
1% toe Wiehiog. i. 11| Wingold i8..............
po ee CS ie 15; Judson Grocer Co.’s —,
Sie 30 | ae _
| Ceresota 4s ‘ .
No. 1 a — .. 5 | Ceresota %s..
ech 7|. Worden Grocer * Co.'s iirand
Nes ite 9 | —_— 68. ttteceeee ; =
Ne 4 eee 10 oe OO te reicnee ca
Moh i feee ul — *8.
No.6 thfeek 12 | Laurel 48 and qs paper. 4 30
me 4, Pee se 15 Meal
No. 8, 15 feet................. Te RO 2 70
nat oe................ 20 | Granulated.. ... 2.
Linen Lines
i 20 | ss Feed an and Millstuffs
Meee ok. 26 | St. Car Feed screened .... 21 00
ree " 34 No. 1 Corn and Oats... i
8 eee Corn Meal, coarse........ 21 OU
Poles Corn Meal, fine old.. 21 60
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.... . 50) winter Wheat bran....... 17 00 |
Bamboo, 16 ft.. per doz...... 65 | Winter Wheat Middlings. 19 00
Bamboo. 18 ft , per doz...... 80! Cow Feed 8 00 |
FLAVORING EXTRACTS | screenings ................ 17 00)
’ Oats
a + oer Coe ee... 8s
Corn
JAXON | Corn, car a, new... 6
Highest Grade Extracts Com car i... ... 60
ila Lemon | Hay :
5 120 lozfullm. 80| No.1 Timothy car lots.... 9 50
20z fullm 210 20z full m.1 25) No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00
No. 8fan’y 3 15 No.8fan’y 1 75 HERBS
es es eee
as
Canbel POAgON 6.0. lll 16
Monn Fees... ............. YJ
pone
Madras, 5 Ib. boxe oo oe
Vanilla Lemon
20z panel..1 20 20z panel. 75 oF. 2, sand 5 lb. boxes. rg
3 0z taper..2 00 40z taper..1 50 ; JELLY
5 Ib. = S.per doz........ 1 85
NNN i pale 40
oS Te Re most YEG) BID ate vanes oe ‘6
Oe Ly LICORICE
*LAVORING EXTRACTS base %
Folding Boxes | Sicil -.,
D. C. Lemon D. C. Vanilla | Root.. Coeds asec en ae
to. S ten... .. “LYE
2 ...... 1 mS é£...... 2 00) Eagle Brand
6 07... ie 00 << a pavers 3 00 | High test powdered lye.
: See Wenn | Single case lots.
D. C. Lemon , D.C. Vanilla | | 10¢ size, 4 doz cans per case 3 50
On... cc, % 2 oz is 1 = Quantity deal.
3 OZ......- 125 302....... 2 40 | 23-50 per case, with 1 case free
402..... 7 aa a 4 0Z.-.---» 2 with every 5 cases or 4 case free
D.C. Lemon D.C. Vanilla | With 3 cases.
err 85 Condensed, % €0Z...........: 1 20
— Aca oo = ee 1 go | Condensed, 4 doz...2........2 25
i... 8 bee 3 00 MALTED FOOD
Tropical Extracts | A
20z. full measure, Lemon.. 75 A
4 oz. full measure, Lemon.. 1 50| _
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla.. 90 | Cases, 12 packages.. 1 35
4 0z. full measure, Vanilla.. 1 80 | Cases, 36 packages......... 4 05
z. MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s,20z...... 4 45
Carcass...... casees OMT | Eiebiee Ss Om 2 75
Forequarters . 6 @6
Hindquarters «. . 6 @7% MOLASSES
—_ Selsee cua, : = a eto. i
. sal Fanc en Kettle 4
Rounds 54O 6% Chole. ea Co a
Chucks . © Oe re 26
tes .. Bee ‘Oo (Gene 22
or Half-barrels 2c extra
— 7 7
a g oe MUSTARD
@ 8% | Horse Radish, 1 doz.. 1 7%
@s8 Horse Radish, 2 doz.. 3 50
dencnbenne @'1% Bayle’s Celery, idoz........1 75

 

Beef =
Shee

De ‘Butterine
ee, Gey... 4...
Rolls, dairv...

&

 
 

Meme, purity.......; 18

Solid, —.. el 15%
anned Meats

Corned beef, 2 oe 2 50
Corned beef, i“ Ib.. 17 60
Roast beef, -. 2 50
Potted ham, \s..... 50
Potted ham, s..... 90
led + 48... 50
Deviled ham, \s 90
Potted tongue, %s 50
otted tongue, %s.. 90

 

RICE
Domestic

(eee Bee...
eee es i,

Carolina No. 2....
i  .

 

 

a
-B&

6

3%

Suttons T ble Rice, 49 to ths
vaid, dw toond pockets....73
—
Japan, No. 1 - 54D
Japan, Ne. 4... |. 15 @
Java, a, faney h head. @
Java, — @
Table.. @

 

Best —_ Imported Japan,
3 pound pockets, 33 to sas?"

bale
Cost of packing in cotton pock.

ets only %c more than bul
SALAD DRESSING

Alpha Cream, large, 2 doz. .1 85
Alpha Cream, large, 1 doz...1 90
Aipha Cream, small,3doz.. 95
Durkee’s, large, iden 415
Durkee’s, smaall, 2 doz....... 4 85
SALERATUS
Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 15
eee e 3 00
Dwight’s Cow a
Emblem. oi.

A 3 00
Wyandotte. ae 3 or

SAL SODA
Granulated, bbis............ 96
Granulated, 100 Ib. cases....1 05
Lump, bbis.. ftcnee ae
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs.. ed le aut 95
SALT
Diamond Crystal

Table, cases, 24 3 Ib. boxes..1 40

Table, barreis, 10 3 Ib. hags.
Table, barrels, 50 6 lb. bags

  

3 00
3 00

  

 

 

at
oe. 2 We, 5 50
met ie. ......... 2 50
me.1 1626, ....... 70
met. Ge .....:;.. ae 59
| Mackerel
Pens Oe, os cL. 16 50)
Mess 50 Ibs. a dede 8 76 |
Mess 10 Ibs. . edidualctecse - an
moms Se. be
mo tei... 1a
Pos eee... 2... 8 00
mel Oe, oo... —- oo
No.1 8 lbs. adcce hae
ree ONO ee
ros Oo es. .... 2...
Vo.2 9158
Whitefish |
No.1 No.2? Fam |
| Oe Pe ......... 775 8 75
| 60 Ibs.. | 2n 2 20
| olbe.  .... 9 BP
| + ia 49 |
SEEDS |
Anise. .... a
Canary, Smyrna.. a 3%
NNO 734
Cardamon, — ies aed ce 1 00
Celery.. Pou eee cease ae
Hemp, Russian div
Mixed Bird TT
— white... Ee
Poppy.. ee core es eae oa
pas eS
Cuttle Bone. 14
SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large......... 2 50
Handy Box. smail.. ‘ 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish. a 85
Miller’s Crown Polish..... 2h
OA
Beaver Soap Co, brands

 

 

  

 

lon DER, |
100 cakes, large size.........6 50
50 cakes, large size.........3 25

100 cakes, small size......... 3 85
50 cakes, small size......... 1 95

JAXON

See a ae
5 box lots, delivered

 
 

38
10 box lots, a beta cess 31

 

subi | 2 36 |
Jas. S. Kirk & Co. brands— |

 
 
  

   

Dusky Diamond.......... 3 55
dap Rose........ Love Oe
onan Imomeel.......... 3 55
Ware Russa .......... 3 60
Dome, oval bars.......... 3 55
Bate, Oval... 2 50
White Cloud.. we 1
Lautz Bros. brands— |
ee Agee... .1.......... 4 10)
Some Ge......... sous oO
a ee a ey 4 .
3 75
"ae & ‘Gamble brands—
i 3 10
Ivory. Cen 4 00
avcey, 2068... 1... 6 75 |
Schultz & Co. brand— |
PO ees «ce cus 3 25)
Search-Light Soa, Co. brand.
“Search-Light’’ Soap, 100

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

a re, solid bars...... 3 75
Table, barrels, 407 Ib. vags. z 75 B. Wrisley brands—
Butter, barrels, $20 Ib. bulk.2 75| Good Cheer .............. 4 00
Butter, barrels, a ogg bage.2 85 Owe Goa a 3 40
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs......... 27 Scouring
Butter, sacks. 5A ihe. -+.++-._ 87| Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz...... 2 40
Shaker, 24 2 Ib. boxes. --1 50 | Sapolio, hand, 3 doz
Common ‘oa SODA
100 3 Ib. sacks.. ree tom.
60 5 lb. sacks.. socuaee oe aa —_—
28 - Ib. sac. Deed Co eee aan 2 = NUFF
Oo. aeeks. 4
‘ 99 | Scotch, in ean. _ -—
soto. Soe 22 Maccaboy, in jars.. | a
Warsaw French Rappee, In jars..... 48
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags..... 40 SPICES |
28 Ib. dairy = drill bags. .... 20 Whole Spices
Ashton Allspice...... saad pe ace 12 |
56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... €0| Cassia, China in mats..... 12 |
Higgins | Cassia, Batavia, in bund.. 28
56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60/| Cassia, Saigon, broken.. 40
Solar Rock | Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.. 55
oe oes... 28 | Cloves, Am bar ae 7 |
common | Cloves, Zanzibar........ ose 4|
Gramulsted Fing.. .......... as | Gee oe 55
Moers Pie. 80 Nutmegs, —a  . 50
SALT FISH Nutmegs, 105-10........... 40
Cod Nutmess, 116-38.......... 35
Large whole........... @ 514 | Pepper, Singapore, black. 18
Sean Waele, .........- @656 | Pepper, Singapore, white. 28
Nérips o or bricks.......7 @9 | Pep ms shot.. 20
Polloc @ 38% Pure Ground in Bulk
NOB is oo 53+ po ' 16
Strips... _ 2 = a =
. 2 Yassia, Saigon...
—— Cloves, Zanzibar, 17
Holland wine on bbl. ” s Ginger, African 15
Holland white ee Ginger, Cochin.... 18
Holland white hoop, k a7 a. Jamatca.. 25
Holland white netp mene. 85 cececeee = BB
eee Mustard” 18
Round 100 lbs..........-.-. 3 60 | Pepper, Singapore, black. 17
Round 50 Ibs................ 2 10| Pepper, Singapore, white. 25
Seal: Pe ©, Cayenne... ..... 20
I eeeccieccccsestecunes |

 

 

 

 

| No. 4, 3 doz.in case, gross..
No. 6, 8 doz !n case, gross...

| oo ts toaey .......

STARCH
—— Gloss

 

co soa pees bid cowie cued 6
pb ED cedccccncsce OG
6-Ib. packages............. 6%
40 and 50-Ib. ben xoM.. cheese. &
——e 4
| Common Corn
| 20 1-Ib. packages..........
49 1-lb, Dackagos 4K QM
SYRUPS
Corn
Half Shia eke eee dues das <a
10 Ib. cans, % doz. in case.. 1 20
5 Ib. cans, 1 doz. in case. 2 00
2% Ib. cans, 2 doz. in case. ..2 00
Pure Cane
mo cas 16
20
5

 

     
  

J. i. Prescott & Co.
Manufacturers
New York, N. Y.

<=,

Ha fia

      
 

4 50
7 20

 

b. bags Fine Gran. oe ae 06

51 ib. cae Fine Gran...... 5 00
beecebopds tence | Oe ae

Denaad A. ‘Jucece. - on
Confectioner’s a 4 Sao
No. 1, Columbia A........ 4 85
No. 2, Wideor A... ...... 4 80
No. 38, Ridgewood A...... 490
Ne. 4, Phomix A......... 478
No. 6, Empire A.......... 470

No. 6..
7

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TABLE SAUCES

PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and

 

    
 
  
  

Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, pints...... 5 00
| Lea & Perrin’s, % pints... 2%
Mamord, ree... £98
| Balerd, cme... 2 25
| TEA
Japan
Sundried, medium .......... 81
Sundried, choice............ 33
Sundried, fancy........ -43
Regular, medium. peau -31

Regular, choice .

 

Ket-fired, medium .
Basket fired, choice

 
   

 

Basket-fired, EG 43
ae 30
Siftings. - 19@21
Paes... 20@22
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium ........... 35
Moyune, choice ............. 3s
meee, Meee... ss... 53
Pingsuey, medium.......... 28
Pingsuey, ae acces 33
Pingenes, faney............. 43
Young Hyson
Ea
We once wo 36
Oolong
| Formosa, fancy....... eecdaag 42
A, OE, ooo ns oc cose 25
pe i i 32
English Breakfast
Memee........... see caees
Choice. eccc cece SS
Paney...... esa me sede aca 42
India
Ceylon, choice....... iene. 82
Pamey.. «.. eledeaeouas sons

ag
H.& P prug Co.'s ——
35 0c

— a
- 8 00

Manager.........
aaa udteces. aa

G. J. Johnson Cigar C0.’s brand,

Cc
Dees Chen G68... 5. 35 00
Oe oe i we eee 32 00
De Oe no cei cee ese 31 60

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

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Lubetsky Bros. brands

 

EE 35 00
Daily Mail, 5c edition....... 35 00
Fine Cut
eee... 54
Sweet Lom besos
Hiawatha, 5 sib. ‘pails. oc oe
Hiawatha, 10 Ib. —_ 54
eee... 4... omen 22
ee 3
ee ise cee cee eene 49
a .....-.......-.... 37
Sweet Buriey en 42
Tiger .. 38
Po
Red Crees... 2020-20002 cove
Oe i cones 31
Ae 34
eee. 41
a 22) ...........-.. 33
American Eagle. ............ 52
Stendaré Navy.............- 36
Spear Head, 16 0z.........-- 4l
Spear Head, 802...........43
yong ai oe te 48
el eee 36
oid id Honesty ee 42
ee ec oe 33
eee cae eee
Pi e IE. 8. oo ou 1
Boo = —..  . 78
Bowes ee... 33
Peek Coeeeere.............. 38
oo eek ee eeu 38
ae 30
Nickel a .......-....
nein
Sweet Core.. nn
ae. 32
I nn es wee seen en
Warpath .......
Bam , 16 OZ
Ix L, 6
IXL, 16. oo oe........,...
cena Aten ee cone
ES ee
SO
ee 32
oe. .......... 21
Duke's Mixture. ............ 38
Duke's Cameo 41
Myrtle Navy .. 39
um Yum, 1% oz 39
Yum Yum, 1 Ib. pail 37

   
    

Corn Cake, 1 1b
Plow Boy, 1% 0z. 39
Plow Boy, 344 oz. 39
Peerless, 3% 0z..

  

Peerless, 1% 0z
Air Brake...
Cant Hook.... 30
Country Club. 34
ees.
on eee ..........--.... 23
Self Binder .............-20-22
Seer Pee ................ 0
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply.. eT
Ostton, 4 ply....... ous
a. 28 —. eo —_
emp, ce oe
ag a eee 20
ee 7%
VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand...11

Pure Cider, Red Star........11
Pure Cider, Robinson.......11
Pare Geer, Sever........... 11
WASHING POWDER
Peon Pee......... .. 2 75
Gold Brick..... ee
Gold oo regular. ee i
ee 4 00
ey —_— a 3 20
el 2%
eee 4 10
ee, i 37
jr oacan | 3 50
re 37
Nine 0’ =~ ee ee 3 35
nar ae a
re ..3 60
Rub-No More. cece on
WICKING
me. 8, pers... ..........
me, §, oer eee..............08
De. y, Sor ee... ..
Be. &. per erem...............
WOODENWARE
Des Baske
nee “wide ——........ 1 25
Market . a
Splint, large... eek weer e 6 00
a, oe... 5 00
OE 4 00
illow Clothes, —. ice a
Willow Clothes, medium... 5 50
Willow Clothes, small....... 5 00

Bradley Butter Boxes

  

2%. sce, Di imenss......... 72
3 Ib. size, 16 in case... 68
5 Ib. size, 12 in case... _
=m. cies, 6h onee......... 60
Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 40
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate...... 50
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate...... 60
Churns
Barrel, 5 gals., each......... 2 40
Barrel, 10 gals., each........ 2 5
Barrel, 15 gals., each........ 2 70

Clothes Pins
Round head, 5 gross ~—-- 50

Round head, cartons.. 75
tes

mmpty Demepty ........... 2 2

No. 1, complete ......... 28

No, 2, complete ......... 18

 

 

Faucets
Cork Geet. 6m... ...
Cork lined, 9 in.
Cork lined, 10 in
Se...
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring .
Eclipse patent spring .. ov.
No 1 common.
No. 2 patent brush holder .. 85
12 b: — mop heads..... 1 25
ae ees... 90
Pails
2-hoop Standard.............
3-hoop Standard.............
er, Ce ne
3wire, Cable..
Cedar, all red, brass bound.
Paper, Eureka.. —<
_e...... eees
Toothpicks
ewes ae
Softwood . i een eens
i
eee oy
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 Seles sce
Mouse, wood, 4 holes........
Mouse, wood, ci...
Monee, Ga, 5 boies..........
. ooe.......... /
Rat, rr -, oa _

bs
20-inch, Standard, No.1.....
18-inch, Standard, No. 2
16-inch, Standard, No. 3

  
 

ARS BRB

eh PO BD BD bat pat bet pt pt
ase SRRBBAS

  
 

aBSsEs

  

No. 1 Fibre......

No. 2 Fibre... it
No. 3 Fibre..

Wash ‘Boards

Deen Cee...
Dewey . oo
Double Agmen.
ees ee eee
Double Peerless...........

Single a
Northern —-
Double ee “
et ae
es ie a
Window Cleaners

pelea tg hg bo by bo Sa boven we
BASSERRAaS BSRassssss

Ls CL 1 65
a... 1 85
Ce. 6 2 30
ood Bowls
Le ee ................
ee oeeee.................8
me eee... 2 ee
. ..... .......... 2
Pe eee... 4 25
Assorted 13-15-17.... nk
Assorted 15-17-19 3 09

 

WRAPPING PAPER

Common Giraw............ 1%
Fiber Manila, white....... 3%

Fiber Manila, oer .

 

  

 

  

3
ila 2%
Wax Butter, short count. 13
Wax Butter, fullcount.... 20
Wax Butter, rolis.........
YEAST CAKE
oe 1 00
Suntignt, S€on............... 1 00
Sunlight, 146 @0s............ 50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz... :
Yeast Foam, 3 doz..
Yeast Foam. 1% doz........
FRESH FISH
eae... ....
BO oe se
Black Bas
——.. .... @
Ciscoes or Herring.. eS &
ee ee ug 12
Live Lobster...... ~_— =
Boiled Lobster. . . & a
Cod.. . se
Haddock ........ . & &
No. 1 Pickerel. . ._ os we
Eee, ee IES oe Ff
TE i i ee $ 5
Smoked — ee cee 11
Red Snapper......... @ 10
Col River Salunen.. 13 @ 14
Mackerel .. a @ ww
oY STERS
Bulk
per gal.
re ies... Ee
aes... 1 60
Selects. . —. oe
Baltimore Standards..... 1 2
Standards. : - 2
Cans
per can
r. 1. Coues............ 35
meare Seis... 27
Selects .... 23
Perfection Standards.. 22
a ae 20
ee.
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
oon et. 2
oon oe. 2... @é
oe eee @ &%
Cured No. 2. @ i
Calfskins green No.1 @ 9%
Calfskins,green No.2 @s
Calfskins,cured No.1 @i0%
Calfskins,cured No.2 @3
Pelts
i wee...
ee 5°@1 60
ees... ..... 75
Tallow
RN Re et le der @5 75
oT @5 75
ool
Washed, fine........ @z0

15 @I7
Unwashed, medium. 16 Sia

 

 

 

CANDIES
Stick Hii
bis. aT"
Standard . -
Standard H. H os @7
Standard Twist. acon @8
Oat Lem...... oon @3
cases
Jumbo, 82 b......... @7%
Extra HH ce aut @10%
Boston Cream....... @10
Reat R--* me
Mixed Candy
@é
3
Me
@ 7%
S &%
@3
@8
@ 8%
@e
@°e
o 0"
y Pan @i0
Hand” a Crem
14%
crystal Cream mix 3
Fancy—In Paus
Champ. Crys. Gums. 84%
Pony Hearts........ 15
Fairy Cream Squares 12
Fudge Squares...... 12
Peanut Squares. .... 9
S ‘eanuts 11
ted Peanuts...... 10
Starlight Kisses.... 10
ies.. 12
Lozenges, plain ..... 9
Lozenges, printed. . @10

Champion Chocolate @il
Eclipse Chocolates... @13%

Quintette Choc...... @12
cam Drops... @ 5%

Moss Dreps......... @9

Lemon Sours........ @°s

9

12

@il

 

Golden Waffies...... @i2
Fancy—In 5 ib. Boxes
Peppermint Dro Se
epperm Tops...
Chocolate Drops.... on
H. M. Choe. Drops..
H. M. Choc. Lt. aud
es @i 00
Gum Drops.. oe
Licorice Drops......
Lozenges, plain.....
—— , printed...
eee...
Mee
Cream Bar..
Molasses Bar.
Hand Made Creams. 80
Cream wees, I Pep.

 

Florida Russett......
Florida Bright......
Fancy Navels.......
Extra Choice........
Late — bebees

&
~
on

Sei
—...........
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300. .
Verdelli, fey 300. ....
Verdelli, ex chee 300
Verdelli, fcy 360.....
Cali Lemons, 300.....
Messinas 300s.......
Messinas 360s....... 3

Medium bunch ag
um bunches.... 1 50@2 00
Large bunches......

Foreign Dried Fruits

Fatey
Californias, @
Cal. p .10 ID os @1 00
Extra ‘hoice, Turk.,
16 TD. DOESS........ @
Fancy, Tkrk., 12 Ib.
a 13% @15
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Dates

‘a
Fards in 10 Ib. boxes

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Z
wD
aa
: 8
P
OBOHHH SPGHHHHOHOES

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50

  

 

@ 6%
Fards in 60 Ib. cases.
eer... 5

Ib. cases, new.....

Sairs, 60 lb. cases... @
iaaiiie NUTS

onds, Tarragona G6
Almonds, Ivica ..... @
Aimonas, California,

soft shelled........ 15@16

— @iu1%
ee @i2
Walnuts, Grenobles. @i5
Walnuts, soft shelled

Cal. No. 1, new.... @
Table Nuts, fancy.. '@i3Z%
Pecans, Med...... @ll
Pecans, Ex. Large. @iz
Pecans, Jumbos @13
Hickory Nuts per bu.

Ohio, new..... @
Cocoanuts, full sacks 50
Chestnuts, per bu... 3

a
em Suns.. 54@6
Fancy, H HB Suns
Roasted 6%@ 7

Choice, H. P., Jumbo @7%
Choice, H. P., Jumbo
Roas

secee i o-

Span. Skllé No. i n'w ¢ Or

 

STONEWARE
Butters
% er Oe... 48
1 S. ee ee oe 5%
8 gal. 2 48
ee ee 60
oe oe... 72
a5 gel. ment-tubs, cach... ............ : is
20 gal. meat-tubs, each................ 1 50
23> GAL meni-tube, eaek................ 2 12
30 gal. meat-tubs, each..... 2 55
Churns
Seeeee. eee... 2... ....... 8
“hurn Das ers, per eS ANN REN 84
Milkpans
% ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz. ce 48
1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, i esiceccc. 5%
Fine Glazed aiedeints
% gal. fiat or rd. bot., os —... ... 60
i gal. Gat or ra. bot., ekem.........-.. 6
Stewpans
% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz.. “ 8
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz......... 1 10
Jags
oe eer eee 56
oe ee... 42
[oS oe Oe oe... ...........,.; 7
Sealing Wax
5 Ibs. in package, per Ib-.............. 2
LAMP BURNERS
Oe occa . 35
ate 86
Pe es 48
ee a 85
cca snes bone mann 50
Ms os ie ere ees tees 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined ~—
<lcrae tt Ee 25 per gross
Quarts ee eer eh eee ee ‘ 50 per gross
ll 6 50 per gross

Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of . -

Anchor Carton Chimneys

Each chimney in corrugated carton.

oe. 6 Crimp... ........ ia eet
ee. © ee... 3.
Bo oie
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped 2 >
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab:
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wra & lab.
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapp a
Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled......
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled......
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled.....
No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe
Lamps ee ee ee cee
La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........
No.1 Crimp, EE
me. SC, er Oee,...................
Rochester
wee, 6 Ldeee Goes Gee)...
No. 2 Lime (75¢ doz)..
No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz)°*-

Electric
No. 2 Lime a om en oe
No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz

OIL CANS
gal. tin cans with spout, per doz..
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz...
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..
5 = aly. iron with faucet, per doz..
5 te a wen
5 = galy. Bom Maceies..............

ee
No. 0 Tubular, side lift.. sae
B Tubular

 

 

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No. 1 Tubular, glass fountain..
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp....... on
No. 3 Hépect lem, oben... .. .... ....
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10¢
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15¢
No. 0 Tub., bbis 5 doz. each, per bbl..
No.0 Tub., Bull’ ‘8 Bye, cases i doz. each

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Roll contains 32 yards in one —

No. 0, %-inch wide, per gross or rol
No.1, %-inch wide, per gross or roll. .
No. 2,1 inch wide, per gross or roll.
No. 3, 14% inch wide, per gross or roll..
COUPON BOOKS

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1,000 books, any denomination.........

  

Above — are for either Tradesman,

Superior,

conomic or Universal grades. Where

1,000 books are ordered at a time customers re-
ceive specially printed cover without extra

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Can be made to represent any denomination

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BUSINESS AND POLITICS.

Why the Two Do Not Go Well To-
gether.
Written for the Tradesman.

There seems to be something in the
average political argument between
men who profess to take an interest in
their country’s welfare to stir them to
anger. Men who can discuss any other
subject without showing the least ex-
citement will get fighting mad when
talking politics, and there is scarcely a
country merchant who has not been en-
tertained by debates of this kind, unless
he has been fortunate enough to get
along witkout the kind assistance of the
usual crowd of loafers that exist in
every Community in the country.

Once in awhile we find a merchant
who so far forgets his business as to en-
gage in these forensic debates. He he-
lieves in standing up for his rights, and
when the hangers on begin to dissect his
political belief he gets up on his ear
aud gives them to understand that when
they walk on bis party they tread on his
toes.

I know a merchant who belongs to
this class. He is a good fellow, but his
loyalty to his party sometimes leads to
unpleasant experiences. When I first
made his acquaintance he was running a
store in a small town in Western Mich-
igan. He had a good trade and was
making money. He was an old soldier,
He went out in ’61 and served until! the
Jobnnies gave up the fight and, as a re-
ward for his services and the injury to
his health received during his service
in the field,he received a pension. For
this he was grateful and nothing stirred
his wrath so quickly as to hear a man
running down the Government.

Now when he purchased this store a
goodly number of loafers were included
in the deal, or at least it seemed that way
from the frequency with which they con-
gregated after he had taken possession.
Nearby the town wasa river. Along
this stream were a lot of fellows who
made their living by catching suckers in
the spring and pulling deadheads in
the summer months. At other seasons
of the year they ‘‘just stayed,’’ the
source of their livelihood not being ap-
parent to the casual observer. In the
evenings and on rainy days they came
down tc the store to sit in a little circle
around the stove and talk over the do-
ings of the day, while dense clouds of
smoke arose from a dozen pipes that
were famous for their strong smelling
proclivities. Here was held a series of
thrilling debates that served to stir the
brethren of the country side to concert
pitch.

Well do I remember strolling into this
store one rainy day in the latter part of
November. The weather man had been
unusually cranky on this occasion, for
it had rained all through the night
previous and the country was soaked.
Nobody could work, and it Jooked as
though the whole settlement had taken
a day off and congregated in the store
fora holiday. The pipes were being
worked to the limit and the air was
biue as a whetstone. As I entered 1
heard somebody remark that the country
needed a change. Everything was going
to the dogs, according to the speaker,
The rich were growing richer and the
poor poorer. The masses were being
ground under the iron heel of oppres-
sion and taken all in all the situation
was decidedly discouraging.

At this moment a lady entered the
store and asked to be shown some calico.
The merchant took down several pieces
and the lady began looking at them.

 

But I could see that the old man was not
interested in making a sale half so much
as he was in what the fellows around
the stove were saying about the Govern-
ment. However, the lady finally de-
cided what she wanted and he meas-
ured the cloth and started to wrap it up.

‘‘The country is paying too much
money in pensions,’’ said one of the
patriarchs as he took a fresh chew and
scratched the back of his head with
his thumb nail,

This was the straw that broke the
camel’s back. It touched the old man
in a tender spot. The fellow had as-
saulted the Government that was pay-
ing him for loss of health in helping to
preserve the nation. He was mad clear
through, and the way he sailed into that
fellow was a caution. Never had the
merchant been so excited before, and as
he laid down the doctrine of patriotism
to the offending party the rest of the
crowd sat in humble silence, while the
pipes were allowed to go out.

The lady, however, was not interested
in the discussion. I could see that she
wished she was somewhere else. The
old man forgot about doing up the bun-
die and she had to remind him that she
was in a hurry before he finished his
argument. Then he finished wrapping it
and she went on her way rejoicing that
she escaped without seeing blood shed.

On several occasions after that I was
called to this store and almost every
time | was there the old man got into
an argument with somebody who did not
agree with him on this, that or the other
question. 1 also noticed that the crowd
of loafers increased as the days went by.

Then there came a time when | had
to leave the town for other fields and a
period of two or three years passed he-
fore I again called on the proprietor of
this rural establishment. When i did
call again the store was minus the air
of prosperity that it usedto carry. The
veteran of the great rebellion was a lit-
tle slower in step and his hair was whit-
ening rapidly. The wrinkles were be-
ginning to furrow his brow,his eyes had
lost the fire of the old days, and as |
shook hands with him | noticed that his
grip was feeble,

‘‘ How’s business?’’ I asked.

‘Pretty slim. I can’t see what is the
matter, When I came here the trade was
good and I made some money, but now
the store just about pays expenses and
I can’t get it through my head what
makes the difference.’’

I looked around and noticed that the
goods on the shelves wore an appear-
ance that denoted great age. The place
was run down at the heel, if the
language of the plebian may be allowed
a place in this article, and there was
nothing to commend it.

In conversation with some of the more
thrifty of the villagers I learned that the
old man had neglected his business to
talk politics with customers and loafers
until the most desirable customers had
quit him. All the dead-beats in the
country had learned that the way to
work him for goods was to agree with
him in all his arguments. Thus he had
been swindled out of a considerable
amount of merchandise.

But jit is said that a man is never too
old to learn. At last he came to realize
the cause of his troubles and moved to a
town far distant. Here he was not
known. He started in business again,
and by the adoption of different methods
he has been successful to a considerable
degree. If merchants throughout the
country would stop and take an invoice
of themselves as this man did I believe
there would be less kicking and more
successful men.

Raymond H. Merrill,

 

Hardware Price Current

 

 

 

 

 

Ammunitior
a
G. D., full count, per m. . 40
Hicks’ Waterproof. perm. 50
Musket, _—= 75
Ely’s Wa rproof, ‘perm... ie 60
Cartridges:
No. 22 short, per m cake 2 50
No. 22 long, per m. 3 00
No. 32 short, per m.. ian on peqeeces © 5 00
ee Oe tome, O08 i 5 75
Primers
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m...... 1 40
No. 2 W inchester, boxes 250, per m.. 1 40
Gun Wads
Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M.C.. 60
Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10, per m...... 70
Haack odg6, NO. 7, por m........ 80
Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns
Drs. of 0z.of Size Per
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 1% 10 1 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 af 1% 5 10 2
154 4 1% 4 10 3 OU
200 3 1 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 a 26
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70
264 3% i% i 12 270
Discount 40 per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100... 7
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 64
Gunpowder
Kegs, 25 lbs., per keg.. al 4 00
% kegs, 12% ibs., per ¥ kee LSet 2
iq kegs, 614 Ibs., ‘per Se Moe... ....... 1 25
Shot
In sacks containing 25 Ibs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than B........ 1 50
— and Bits
Snell’s. oe 60
Jennings | genuine. . 25
Jennings’ {mitation.. Swecaa 50
sae
First Quality, 8S. B. Bronze.. 6 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronze. _ 3 00
First Quality, Zt B.S. Steel. . 6 00
First Quality, D. B. Steel. . 10 50
Barrows |
immer es
Bolts
Ns 76
Lesriegs, new list 60
bese. 50
pA ag
Weill, plain .. . $4 00
"Matte, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ..... 70
Wrought Narrow .......... 60
Chain
gin. 6-16 in. % in. % In.
Com 7 6 . <¢ 5 G. ... 4%e,
ae... — 7 6% 6
ee 8% 7% 8%
eS
Cast Steel, per Ib.. s Sake oe eye 5
‘hte
Soe eee 65
Socket oe 65
Socket Corner.. 85
Socket Slicks.. emi Cee oe 65
perorrnine
Com. 4 piece, ~~ per doz.. a 75
yee aha 7 dey 1 25
Adjus casccocconveccesGie 4 M10
Misieien Bits
Clark’s small, $18; re ome... 40
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, . —. 25
Files—New ‘aa
New American . Looe 70&10
Nicholson’s. 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps... eee ioe. 70
Galvanized ian.
Nos. 16 to 20; a “—s 27, 28
List 12 13 16. 17
Discount, 7¢
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box...............dis 85820
Double Stren —_ belie dis 85&20
are teee dis 85&20
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’ _ a -----—-<--- 3334
Yerkes & Plum edge -dis 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Sie -B0e list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clark's 1,2,8.................. @ie  sehse
Hollow Ware
Oe i Maa es 50&10
— 50&10
i 50&10
Horse Nails
Au Sable . 40&10
House’ Furnishing aaa
Stamped a oe eee...
sepenmes Timware...... 8... .... 20810
Iron
MOM is. ioc cove veescccceccccecceed 20 6 PAKS
Light ie ue ice 3 c rates
Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........ 75
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..... eo 8
Lanterns
Reenlar 0 Tubular, Doz........ 2... cece 50
“ arren. Galyanized ¥ount........... oo

 

Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.......... dis 70
Mattocks
eee Oye... ae Oe ale 65
Metals— Zinc
600 pound _— Ret orice d on cae oe 7%
Per pound... con el a 8
‘endian
Bird Cages . 40
Pumps, Cistern.. es ee aaaace 75&10
Screws, New List . ees aoe 8E &2C
Casters, Bed and Plate........... .... 50810810
Dampers, American.............. ae 50

Molasses Gates

nn SN 60810
Enterprise, self-measuring............ 30
Pans

60&10&10

Pee Bee

Conmiaun “polished. See eee dean

Patent Planished Iron

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 30

*‘B”’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 80
Broken packages \c per pound extra.

   

Planes
Ohio —_ - 8, fancy.. 40
Selota Be 50
Sandusky ’ Toot Co. ‘s, ‘fancy. . 40
Sench, first yuality.. 45
Nails
Advance over oa on both Steel and Wire.
Ceeer ee OO ne. af
Wire nails, To ee oe ae wees 3 20
20 to 60 advance.. See oes - Base
WGnihedeiies 5
Seen 10
6 advance 20
4 advance 30
3 advance 45
2 advance 70
Fine 3 advane 50
Casing 10 advance 15
Casing 8 advance 25
Casing 6 advance 35
Finish 10 advance.......... ee 25
wee SOOveee 35
Finish 6 advance ................ 2... 45
Besves 3 advenes... ww. 85
Rivets
[ron and Tinned.. ae tee toe on 50
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. 45
Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............. 7 BO
14x20 Ex, Charcoal, Dean.. dl 9 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. ae 15 00
14x20 IC; Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 7 50
14x20 r, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 910
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 15 00
20x28 x, Soe Allaway Grade... 18 00
Ropes
Sisal, 4 -_ - ——- 10
Manilla ieee ances 12%
Sand Paper
Ee eek te ee. dis 50
Sash Weights
aren Even, per Gem. 30 08
Sheet Iron
com. smooth. com,
ee ee $3 60
oe eee sz
ee 8 90
ee 410 3 90
oC 4 co 4 00
4

Shovels se esas

Perec Geen, Dee
Second Grade, Doz...

Solder
re}
Ma prices: of the many ‘other qualities of watiee

 

 

  

in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.
uares
Steel and Iron. . -. 60-105
Seeties iatc

_— Ce $10 50

ae oe, COO 10 56
aoxit Ix, Ri 12 00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
oo Grade
10x14 IC, ee. i : -
1
10x14 "x, cau “ 10 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal 10 50
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50
Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, 2
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, {per pound.. 18
Traps

Steel, Game.. .. ae 7
Oneida Community, “Newhouse’s...... 40810
— Community, Hawley & Nor- ia

ee
Mouse, choker per eo. 15
Mouse, delusion, pec doz..... . ..... 1 28

Wire

Pe OO
menses MOOeee 66
ee — aac sisic eae eae 50810
Tinned oa : ve acme sce ceeteres =
Co; r ring Steel......

Rarbod a Sprn ervanined............ 2 90
Barbed Fence, Painted................ 2 60
Wire Goods
Bright ...... ceed de ede dees ces 80
Screw Eyes.........0.. me 80

eee i xe

Gate Hooks and Eyes................. 80
Wrenches

ee Adjustable, Nickeled...... 2

  

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Coa’s Patent Agriovitnrai, Wrought.” &10

 

 

32

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Present Position of the Shoe Salesman.

If a traveling salesman who has sold
shoes for many years for the same
wholesaler could take orders for as many
dollars’ worth each month as he did in
corresponding months years ago his sal-
ary would be raised with much pleas-
ure. And yet the salesman of to-day
spends more time on railroad trains
and more time interviewing customers
soliciting orders and less time enjoy-
ing himself than he did in former years.
No one who does not travel and stop at
the hotels that are frequented by sales-
men has much conception of the stren-
uous life they are obliged to lead in order
to make a respectable showing at head-
quarters.

Some years ago it was not uncommon
for a salesman who had good lines of
samples to be able to show sales of
$100,000 at the end ofa year. Now,
however, the salesman who can show
one-half that amount is accounted to be
a good fellow. The ground must be
covered more often than was necessary
years ago, as two trips sufficed then
whereas four trips a year are not un-
usual! of late years. Many of the smarter
recognize the fact that they are more
numerous than formerly, and that con-
sidering the returns they can not de-
mand such large salaries as they re-
ceived when sales were larger, and yet
many of them prefer small salaries rather
than commission, trusting to a certainty
instead of an uncertainty that depends
much on hard and persistent hustling,
with sometimes a huge piece of luck, if
there is such an element as luck in a
salesman’s life. A good many new men
are seen on the road who are very
young, and one wholesaler said he pre-
ferred them, even when they had not
made acquaintance with customers, if
they had not, for the reason that he had
followed the road in former years in his
own interest, and thereby had gained
much information as to the requirements
that were necessary to success, and
young men who were not over confident
would listen to and follow advice he
gave them. It is true that some oid-
time salesmen will continue to follow
ideas of their own, formed on experi-
ence of the past when perhaps they are
behind the times. Methods are subser-
vient to conditions, and retailers do not
run on the same tracks they once did.
Not only is that so, but they are better
acquainted with values in footwear than
they were years ago when the word of
the salesman only was required to con-
vince them of any statement.

The laborer is worthy of his hire.
The salesman is entitied to a_ fair
recomrfense for his time and work, but it
may be that a commission, based on a
fair expectation, is more satisfactory to
the man and to his employer than a
Stipulated salary can be. Besides, there
is a possibility that the saiesman may
exert himself a little more if he is de-
pendent on his sales for the amount of
money he receives. Some of them could
bardly be engaged to work on salary as
the independence they enjoy while on
commission might then suffer. A really
competent man who has confidence in
his ability and an extensive acquaint-
ance among the trade throughout his ter-
ritory might better take a fair per cent.
commission on his sales than to accept
a stated amount.

A man who can make a good salary
nowadays selling footwear need not
worry about his ability to sell any kind
of goods. There is as much or more
competition in that line than almost any
other staple line. Go where you will,

 

aS nee

if there is a hotel in the town you are
almost certain of finding at least one
shoe drummer there.

It would strike the ordinary observer
that there is too small a profit in every
department of the shoe business were it
not that there are a few manufacturers
and a few wholesalers who are proving
to us that they are making a whole lot
of money by carrying on their business
as they do. There are a few salesmen
who sell such a large amount of goods
each year, apparently without regard to
price or dulness of the seasons, that they
are bid for at still larger salaries than
they are receiving. It is the same with
people in ali kinds of business. There
are a few who show superior ability
(can we call it luck?) and it soon be-
comes known, after which there is con-
stant demand for them.—Bovt and Shoe
Recorder.

 

 

 

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.

ae BUSINESS CHANCES.
WANTED — WHOLESALE PRICES OF

match generating gasoline lamps; also of
others; send catalogues. Box 633, Plainweil,
Mich. 950

 

 

N UP-TO-DATE TRAVELING SALESMAN
desires position; references. Address E. P.,
care Michigan Tradesman. 955

POR SALE—A NEW VILLAGE HOTEL
and bar, with good prospects of making
money. Address Box C, Montrose, Mich. 943

ye ~ SALE—STOCX OF GENERAL MER-
chandise and millinery if desired; stock
now reduced to about $3,000; splendid opportu-
nity; will sell reasonably. Address Box 161,
Montrose, Mich. 944
ao SALE—DRUG STOCK IN ONE OF

the best business towns in Western Michi-
gan; good chance for a physician. Enquire of
No. 947, care Michigan Tradesman.

PUR RENT—BRICK BLOCK; BRICK OVEN;
best location for grocery, bakery, restau
rant; old established place. Box 637, Three
Rivers, Mich. 953
pres SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF GENERAL
merchandise; nearly new; about $3500; lo-
cated in Meivin. Ill, which has large territory
and rich farm surroundings; this is a fine open-
ing for a man to start business, as the store has
a good trade and the stock is one of the cleanest
- the State. Address Gus. Martins, Melvin,
: 952
= SALE—WHOLESALE GROCERY IN
a thriving city of 30,009 in the Northwest.
Address R, care Michigan Tradesman. 956
ee SALE—I HAVE A FEW FINE WHITE
Rock cockerels at two dollars each. L. A.
Olds, So. Haven, Mich. 949

 

 

 

 

 

Fe SALE OR TRADE—CHOICE 80 ACRES;
muck soil, improved. Address 32144 Lake
St.. Petoskey, Mich. 948

a SALE-GENERAL STOCK OF MER
chandise, worth $1,700, consisting of groce-
ries, boots and shoes and hardware: stock in
good shape. This stock was purchased by me
about a month ago. Owing to the illness of my
wife in the South, I desire to dispose of the
stock and return to the South. RK. C. Higgins,
Ashley, Mieh. 944
Ke SALE—DRUG STORE IN NORTHERN
Michigan; town of 10,000; invoices about
$1 600; doing business of $5,000 a year; no cut
prices. Address No. 945, care Michigan Trades-
man. 935

oe SALE OR EXCHANGE—A GOOD IM-
proved farm of 120 acres near Howard City.
Also 100 acres of improved land near Howard
City, and «20 acres of wild land. Address W. P.
Baxter, 683 Madison Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.
928
I ATTLE CREEK FOOD STOCKS—1 HAVE
for sale stock in the following companies:
Malta Vita, Norka, Tryabita, National Food Co.,
Maple Flake, Flakota, Sanitorium, Pepto Qui-
nine, Jebb Remedy Co. and all others. You can
double your money. Sam A. Howes, Broker,
Battle Creek, Mich. 92

    

“ SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR A STOCK
of merchandise, A No.1 100 acre farm, all
improved, in the Kalkaska county potato belt;
rice $2,500. Address P. 0. Box 27, South
oardman, Mich. 940
- SALE OR WILL TRADE FOR GOOD
stock of general merchandise, a fine resi-
dence, including new barn, ir Grand Rapids.
Address Lock Box 162, Muskegon. Mich. 937

 

PAEINEE WANTED, FITHER GENTLE-
man or lady, with, say $5,000 to $10.000 cash,
in one of the safest and best paying lines of
business known. Address Box 55, Sub Station
B, Grand Rapids, Mich. 936

OR SALE, AT A  BARGAIN—CON-

fectionery and News Depot, soda fountain,
counters and show cases. Best reasons for
selling. Address No. 930, care Michigan Trades-
man. 930

 

 

Wwe HAVE A STOCK OF ABOUT $2,000—
furniture—and our books are open to
your inspection, which will show that our profits
were over $280 average per month last year. A
factory town of 1,500 to 1,800. Rent for store,
barn and modern finished flat #25 per month.
Have just gone into the manufacturing business
and will sell this if taken before Jan. 1; other
wise, will hire good manager and run it myself.
It will only cost you a stamp to look this up.
We will answer all letters written in good faith.
Address No. 934, care Michigan Tradesman. 934
VHOICE FARM FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR
merchandise, hardware preferred; 177 acres
burr oak openings. Box 3, Leonidas, Mich. 931

oe SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIX-
tures, invoicing about $4,800; located in one
of the best resort towns in Western Michigan.
Address No. 923, care Michigan Tradesman. 923

LOTHING STOCK OF $3,500 IN GOOD
/ Upper Peninsula town must be sold imme-
diately; good discount. Clark’s Business Ex-
change, Grand Rapids. 922
ON’T BUY STOCK GENERAL MER-
chandise until you investigate mine; $10,000
yearly business on $3,000 investment; good
profit; pleasant small town. Address No. 919,
care Michigan Tradesman. 9i9
ws SALE—ONE OF THE BEST DRUG
stocks in Northern Indiana, invoicing about
$800; only stock of drugs in the town. Address
No. 909, care Michigan Tradesman. 909
60 ACRES OREGON GOVERNMENT LAND;
eut three million feet timber; take six
months; cost $500; worth $3,000. Clark’s Real
Estate Exchange, Grand Rapids. 921
: SALE—CLOTHING, DRY GOODS,
millinery and cloak business; established
thirty years; put in complete new stock four
years ago; best location; best trade in city 3,c00
population; best of reasons for selling; stock
can be reduced to $5,000; annual sales, $25,000.
Address No. 924, care Michigan Tradesman. 924
OR SALE—HALF INTEREST IN PLANT,
consisting of blacksmith shop, foundry and
machine shop; good location; must sell at once;
machinist required. W. P. Fleming, Box 187,
Sanilac Center, Mich. 917
SOR SALE— DRUG STORE, FIXTURES,
shelfware, show cases, counters, ete. Will
sellcheap at once. J.J. VanHaaften, Benton
Harbor, Mich. 906

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

\ 7 ANTED—SECOND HAND COMPUTING
scale; about 25 pounds. Address Chas. H.
Fish, Butler, Il. 896
>. PURCHASHING CO., 221 5TH
/ ave., largest cash buyers of stores and stocks
of all descriptions. 913

é ie HOOSIER HUSTLER, THE NOTED
salesman and Merchandise Auctioneer, has
closed out more stocks than any other one man
living. Forterms and reference book address
P. O. Box 478, Omaha, Neb. 911

OR SALE—CHANCE OF A LIFETIME TO
purchase an old-established grocery bus!-
ness in an A No.1 location. Annual saies, $30,-
000. Capital required, about $3,000. Reason for
selling, owner has other business. The editor of
the Tradesman knows this business and will
recommend it. Address No. 894, care Michigan
Tradesman. 8y4
as SALE—$3,000 GENERAL STOCK AND
$2,500 store building, located in village near
Grand Rapids. Fairbanks scales. Good paying
business, mostly cash. Reason for selling, owner
has other business. Address No. 838, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. &38
*OR SALE—WE HAVE THREE LAUN-
dries ranging in price from $400 to $6,000 in
some of the best cities in Central Michigan. If
any one interested will write us stating about
what they want, we will be pleased to correspond
with them. Address Derby, Choate & Woolfitt
Co., Ltd., Flint, Mich. 886
\ 7ANTED FOR CASH—LUMBER OF ALL
kinds; also shingles and lath. Will con-
— mill cuts. Belding-Hall Mfg. Co., Belding,
Mic 764

 

 

 

Le 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
= 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
HAVE SOME REAL ESTATE IN GRAND
Rapids. Will trade for a stock of general
merchandise. Address No. 751, care Michigan
Tradesman. 751
pros 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

J ANTED—POSITION AS CLERK; SIX
years’ experience in the general merchan-
dise line; feel competent to fill any place and
can furnish good references; good accountant
and can keep a set of books. Address L. A. E.,
Box 65, Newaygo, Mich. : 942
\ JANTED — GOOD SALESMEN, ENER-
getic and capable of handling sub sales-
men, to sell our famous Dustiess Brushes to
merchants and institutions. Two thousand of
the new perfected dustless brushes sold in forty
days. Wonderful sellers. Good money. Write
us quick. A. R. Wiens Company, 223 Cedar St.,
Milwaukee, Wis. 954
\ 7 ANTED— POSITION AS BOOKKEEPER
or office assistant, experienced, references.
Address No. 938, care Michigan Tradesman. 938
WV ANTED— a MAN TO DELIVER AND
work in grocery store. Must be of good
character,a worker and strictly temperate; a
— for the right man. Address No. 823,
care Michigan Tradesman. 823

 

 

 

 

QALESMAR WANTED—SHOE SALESMAN
to carry side line, on commission. Takes
but little time and your commissions are large
and quick. Give reference and territory tray-
eled. Address The Salina Mercantile Co., Syra-
cuse, N. Y. 932
{) XPERIENCED DRY GOODS MAN WANTS
permanent position, young, married, refer-
ences. Address P. X., care Michigan —
man. 9

 

 

 
   

Actually Found

a rare opportunity for careful investors.
A proposition much better than a

A Gold Mine

For a mint of money is certain to result
from the manufacture and sale of the
Vegetable Frankfort, the Grain Sau-
sage, and the various other imitation
meats exclusively manufactured by
recently organized Food Company of
Grand Rapids,

In Western Michigan

Products made entirely and completely
from wholesome grains and edible
nuts prepared without chemical aid by
a secret process, so closely resembling
real meat in both appearance and taste
that not one in twenty can detect even
slightest difference. It is indeed

Rare and Unusual

that man makes so truly greata dis-
covery as is the process for making
these choice substitutes for meat. Only
enterprise of its kind in existence;
hence no competition. A clear cut,
original departure in Pure Foods.
Nothing like our products anywhere.
\ more promising

Opportunity

for safe, sure and profitable investment
Was never presented to the shrewd
American investor. Stock now selling
at $2.50 per share (par value $10) will
confidentially be worth three to four
times the present value, within a year.
You truly ought

  

     
    
     
        
       
         
  
  
  
 
   
   
  
   
 
   
   
   
 
   
  
 
 
 
 
   
    
 
 
 

To Invest

immediately for now is the time to buy,
while this stock is yet for sale at so
low a price. Present receipts of sub
scriptions strongly indicate that price
of stock will advance, in next 30 Sere.
to $5 per share; therefore don’t delay
but act quickly, getting in

On Ground Fioor
while there is yet chance. Company
has no debts, no bonds and no salaried

othcers, Write for prospectus.

The M. B. MARTIN CO., Ltd.
Makers Choice Vegetable Foods
117-119 Monroe St.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

See Ad. on page 15.

 
   

 

Cheney & Tuxbury
the Real Estate Men

are in the market for Hemlock and Cedar Lands.

24 Canal St., Graad Rapids, Mich.

 

‘“*THE O’NEILL SALES”’

absolutely sell ro per cent. of your stock ina day.

Retail Selling—New Idea System

If you knew
that we could
clear your store
of all old stuff
and any lines
you would like
to eliminate and
get you thou-
sands of dollars
in cash, would
you try our

NEW
IDEA
SALE?

If so, write us
and we will
give you full
details and in-
formation.

 

&. C. O'Neill & Co.
SPECIAL SALESMEN & AUCTIONEERS
408 Star Bldg., 356 Dearborn St., Chicago
We also buy and sell Store Fixtures and take
them on consignment.

 

 

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