i EE SRE FRE DOD YI SF ON IF ELERS oe RAVENS LASS SES STIS (is oP One OAM Ray (a) Ie. ay an ga COR Ee aS co | Ne eae RRR Se, IN we ee Ae Pe (GRE SE BES NAS) SN f Vey a0 eae) (ama | “a 1S +o ae i eae me (WR ERC aS Le EN: g a Wy. CEN KOE a Ce Na ca (GA WE Ow ES Ee DEE RE ONE) WE | Pros (eset MNOS OS Pe NE ee WZZZZZ2339 es oN MN PINS SsPUBLISHED WEEKLY (GNF RADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS >) ASE Re SISOS ae NEES SET NOR DSB SER { Twentieth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1903. Number 1010 ' If you buy BEACON FALLS You can demonstrate the truth of this maxim. They are, FIRST OF ALL, Goop RUBBERS, and then Goop SELLERS because they have so many TALKING Pornts—extension heels, cap toes, etc —points that appeal to the buyer and ensure a long profit to the seller. On Leather Tops we lead the procession. By all means wait for the “ Beacon Falls Man” or write us for sam- ’ ples, PREPAID. The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. - - of ee ee oer - Factory and General Offices, Beacon Falls, Conn. BRANCH STORES CHICAGO—207 Monroe Street. NEW YORK—106 Duane Street. BOSTON—177-181 Congress Street. Always look for this mark on your rubbers. “ . eee vO" — Western Distributing Agents Roasted and packed in 1 and 2 |b. air-tight tin cans only. Comes either whole or af ground. pe DWINELL-W HT CO.’S I'WHITE HOUSE COFFEE THE MORE YOU SELL OF IT THE MORE YOU WILL WANT TO All parties interested in Automobiles One of our Shipped are requested to write us. Lone Knocked in Cigar Down Cases | | Write us Takes for : First Class | Catalogue We are territorial agents for the Oldsmo- | and Freight bile, Knox, Winton and White; also have | : some good bargains in second-hand autos. | Prices Rate Adams & Hart, | No. 52 Cigar Case 12 W. Bridge St. « Grand Rapids Corner Bartlett and South lonia Streets, Grand Rapids, Michigan DSS Kent County Savings Bank Deposits. exceed $2,300,000 37 6% interest paid on Sav-}| in gs certificates of deposit. The banking business of| Merchants, Salesmen and Individuals solicited. Cor. Canal and Lyon Sts. Grand Rapids, Michigan Grand Rapids Fixtures Co. Start the New Year Right By stocking up with Tryabita Food the pepsin celery wheat flake. Tryabita Hulled Corn Both are trade winners. Also Manufactured by Tryabita Food Company, Ltd., Battle Creek Walsh-DeRoo Buckwheat Flour Is absolutely pure, fresh- ground and has the genuine old-fashioned flavor. Put up in 5 lb., ro Ib. and % bbl. paper sacks, 125 lb. grain bags and bbls. Write us, please, for prices. Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co. HOLLAND, MICH, SHORERRHCLEE ePSHRERHE GEE SER * ESTIMATES Cheerfully given free on light ma- chinery of all kinds. Prices right. Models for patents, dies and tools a specialty. Expert repair men always ready for quick work Let us know your wants. John Knape Machine Co. 87 Campau St. Grand Rapids, Mich. SESLSSERHRASG TAHOE RS BETS The Supirior Manufacturing Co. Manufacturers of The ‘Ann Arbor’? Quick Lighting Gasoline Lamps And The «One Gallon Ann Arbor’ Lighting System Dealers in Mantles, Shades, Chimneys, Gas and Gasoline Lamp Supplies Ann Arbor, Miche, 1-21-0364 You, Everybody & Coe, Anywhere, Miche Gentlemen: In your wireless telegram you did not state how many "Ann Arbor” Are lamps your store will requiree If it is not more than 60 fte long two will be sufficient to make it as light as daye Kindly send us copy of your order so that we will make no error in shipmente Give your customers a chance to buy one of our handsome parlor lampse Write for complete catalog and pricese Dice He He Se Yours very truly, Ne Ge Re SUPERIOR MFGe COc Your customers need these home lamps for their homes. Put a few in your stock. 4 a ad et ete Naa nee oe \ 4 f TN ay DY a Va Vie fe ‘\ 4 i Za Twentieth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1903. Number 1010 Noble, Moss & Co. Investment Securities Bonds netting 3, 4, 5 and 6 per cent. Government Municipal Railroad Traction Corporation Members Detroit Stock Exchange and are prepared to handle local stocks of all kinds, listed and unlisted. 808 Union Trust Building, Detroit CREDIT ADVICES COLLECTIONS AND, — LIT/GATION, “ae WIDDICOMB BLDG. GRAND RAPIDS, DETROIT OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, DETROIT. William Connor Co. Wholesale Ready-Made Clothing Men’s, Boys’, Children’s Sole agents for the State of Michigan for the S. F. & A. F. Miller & Co.’s famous line of summer clothing, made in Baltimore, Md., and many other lines Now is the time to buy summer clothing. 28-30 South lonia Street Grand Rapids, Mich. OUR Telegraphic Advices Regarding the Progress at the Oro Hondo Mine from the Vice-President and General Man- ager, George M. Nix, indicate a contin- uation of the present favorable conditions will guarantee a further advance in the yrice of the shares in the very near future. Ve are still able to offer a limited number of the unsubscribed Allotment of the Treasury Stock at par ONE DOLLAR per share Subscriptions will be accepted and entered in the order in which they are received un- til this allotment is exhausted, when* the stock will be still further advanced. Ap- plication will be made to list this stock on the Boston and Philadelphia Exchanges, also on the principal mining exchanges in the West. Send in your subscriptions at once Address all communications and make all checks payable to Charles E. Temple Mich. Trust Bidg., Grand Rapids, Mich. Tradesman Coupons IMPORTANT FEATURES. 2. Food Preservatives. 4. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Fifth Annual Banquet. 8. Editorial. 11. Dry Goods. 12. Clothing. 15. A Clean Sweep. 16. Shoes and Rubbers. 19. Successful Salesmen. 20. Woman’s World. 22. The New York Market. 23. Renovated Butter. 24. Butter and Eggs. 25. Commercial Travelers. 26. Drugs and Chemicals. 2%. Drug Price Current. 28. Grocery Price Current. 29. Grocery Price Current. 30. Grocery Price Current. 31. Frozen En Route. Trade Changes Too Late to Classify. Kent City—Fred Roman has sold his grocery stock to M. Bromon., Lester—Fred Krum has purchased the grocery stock of E. Forney. Saginaw— Miss A. M. Rogers has pur- chased the millinery stock of Josephine & Co, Ypsilanti—The Ypsilanti Reed Fur- niture Co, bas doubled its capital stock from $25,000. Detroit—Schulte & Kaiser, grocers, have dissolved partnership, Willebald Schulte succeeding. Fenwick—R. A. Chapman has pur- chased the general merchandise stock of S. Harmon Rinker. Manistique—Dueli & Nessman con- tinue the grocery and crockery business of Parker & Nessman. IF YOU HAVE MONEY and would like to have it EARN MORE MONEY, write me for an investment that will be guaranteed to earn a certain dividend. Will pay your money back at end of year if you de- sire it. Martin V. Barker Battle Creek, Michigan 900000004 i ES dé Gn Gn by Gn bn tn th bn th, Ge Gn tn bt tnt ttn be VP SV SV VV VSS VV Tere SG Collection Department R. G. DUN & CO. Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, efficient, pe apace direct demand system. Collections made everywhere—for every trader. Cc. E. McCRONE, Manager. Experience and Ability Essential One-mine propositions, ‘home’? companies, and inexperienced management by gentlemen of high standing as business men in their own locality but having absolutely no experience in mining matters, have done as much to bring mining invest- ments into ill repute as the thousands of stock-sell- ing schemes which in past years have been pre- sented to confiding investors; the investing public, however, are now coming to realize that legitimate mining is a business in itself, requiring peculiar ability and years of experience to successfully real- ize the acknowledged large profits the industry fur- nishes under proper management and supervision. Any information pertaining to our companies, fur- nished on application. CURRIE & FORSYTH, Managers 1023 Mich. Trust Bidg., Grand Rapids, Mich. Oxford—A. P. Glaspie has sold his clothing, men’s furnishing and shoe stock to Haddrill Bros. Mt. Pleasant—The Mt. Pleasant Body Works has increased its capital stock from $20,000 to $50,000, North Branch—Finkle & McKenzie continue the general merchandise busi- ness of Geo. H, Finkle. Detroit—Berman, Friedberg & Co, succeed Berman, Wine & Co. in the wholesale clothing business. Monroe—A. Mitchell, dealer in books, has taken his son into partnership under the style of A. Mitchell & Son. Algonac—The Algonac Hardware Co. succeeds Clarence J. Lemmon in the hardware and plumbing business. Lowell—Arthur McMahon has _ pur- chased the interest of his brother in the grocery business of McMahon Bros, Battle Creek—The capital stock of the American Steam Pump Co. has been increased from 400,000 to $500, coo. Lansing—The Beilfuss Motor Co., manufacturer of gas engines, has in- creased its capital stock from $4,500 to $15,000, Hillman—Richard Bates continues the hardware and implement business for- merly conducted under the style of Wing & Bates. Manistique—Anderson & Norvall, grocers, have dissolved partnership. The business is continued by Anderson & Parker, Reed City—Curtis Bros., dealers in produce and grain, have dissolved part nership. The business is continued by Wm. Curtis. Findley—Willard Walter, dealer in grain and coal at this place, has pur- chased the general merchandise stock of A. Sargeant. Sanford—Edward A. Lane has en- gaged in the general merchandise busi- ness, having purchased the stock of Wm. H. Peck. Albion—M. A. Randall, hardware dealer at Cheboygan, has leased a store building and will shortly open a hard- ware store at this place, Detroit—Geo. E.. Roberts has pur- chased the interest of his partner in the dry goods, furnishing and notion business of Roberts & Wiley. Fairfax—S. R. Wagner has sold his general merchandise stock at this place to W. W. Terry and engaged in the dry goods and boot and shoe business at Cambria. Jackson—W. C. Starr and Robert Campbell, of this place, and Allen P, Ford, of Chicago, have organized the Starr Hardware Co, with a capital stock of $15,000, Owosso—The Owosso Outfitting Co. succeeds Arthur Thompson in the sec- ond-hand store business and will occupy the Thompson stand, thus consolidating the two stocks. Detroit—The Federal Paint & Oil Co, has been organized with a capital stock of $50,000, held by E. A. Hall, 500 shares; J. E. Harris, 500 shares; Rachael W. Harris, 4,000 shares, Ogden Center—Lutes & Becker, gen- eral merchandise dealers, have dis- solved partnership. G. L. Lutes has purchased the interest of his partner and will continue the business in his own name. Muskegon—John and Joseph A. Wol- ters have sold their feed store at 100 Third street to George and Dirk Wolffis and will locate in Fremont, where they have purchased the Crescent flouring mill from H. A, Brown. Crystal Falls—The Crystal Falls Mer- cantile Co. has been established by Ernest Peterson, Carmelita Waters and Byron C. Waters, the latter of whom holds the entire number of shares except two. The capital stock is $5,000, Jackson—Charles E. Barnard has sold his interest in the bardware stock of 3arnard & Starr to the Starr Hardware Co. Mr. Barnard has been engaged in business for eighteen years and will for the present take a much needed rest. Warren Village—The Warren Cream- ery Co. has been organized to engage in the creamery business here. The capital stock is $4,600, held by Tom Reddich, 130 shares; J. M. Stanley, 10 shares, and Mary A. Wilson, Io shares. Ithaca—H. B. Crane, who for some time was associated with C. L. Alten- berg in the jewelry business at this place, but for the past few months lo- cated at Mt. Pleasant, has purchased the jewelry stock of Alrenberg & Ringle. Eaton Rapids—W. B. Garrison is closing out his bazaar stock and will retire from trade on account of poor health, The Eaton Rapids Co-Opera- tive Association has purchased the building occupied by Mr. Garrison and will take possession March 1, Benton Harbor—A new enterprise has been established here under the style of the Freestone Pickle Co. The author- ized capital stock is $50,000 and is held by the following persons: Wm. Free- stone, 2,500 shares; Wilbert D. Free- stone, 2,499 shares, and Geo. Wm. Lark- worthy, 1 share, Elk Rapids—C. E, Mahan has re- signed his position with the Elk Rap- ids Iron Co., to take effect March 1, when he will assume the management of the Rapid City Cedar Co., which will operate at a point five miles east of Kalkaska. The company already owns 4oo acres of cedar timber and has an option on 1,200 acres additional. Rail- road ties and telegraph poles will also be handled. SERRE ctl itm ea Will H. Pipp, general salesman for the Columbia Enameling and Stamping Co., of Terre Haute, Ind., now covers twenty-four states and forty jobbing points. He is accompanied on all of his trips by his brother, Henry L. Pipp, who looks after the trade of the scheme department, J. W. Sleight, who travels for the same company, calls on the re- tail trade and the jobbers in the small towns. The capital stock of the Grand Rap- ids Veneer Works has been increased from $200,000 to $425, 000. " i — lye Wm. Jenkinson has purchased the grocery stock of Broene Bros. at 857 Jefferson avenue, tented teitoae aeebtsecsh dedi ‘? pA ved Se “te 4 as % =] te ¢ : Se Nr te Wis Pidor 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN FOOD PRESERVATIVES. Should Prevent Bacteria and Be Per- fectly Harmless. Written for the Tradesman. In a nation so advanced as the Ameri- can, the question of food preservatives ig an important one, and that should alike be discussed by manufacturer, jobber, retailer and consumer. It has been customary in the past to consider all treatment and additions to food products, for the purpose of keeping or preserving them until ready for bodily consumption, as injurious to the quality of the foods and also as making them unfit for digestion and assimilation by the human body, and laws have been enacted, more or less ridiculous, to reg- ulate or simply probibit the use of pre- servatives, giving merely some political appointee a pretense for his ‘‘useful’’ existence. At the present time, how- ever, the subject of food preservatives has been taken up in an earnest manner by many able investigators, notably Doctors Vaughan of Ann Arbor and Wiley of Washington. It is my object to present to the read- ers of the Michigan Tradesman a con- cise and intelligent review of the vari- ous articles used as preservatives: In order that food may be properly digested and utilized, it is not only necessary that it have some value as a food, but also that it be palatable—a most important point not to be over- looked, since many diseases can be traced to the neglect of the same. The stomach has an intelligence of its own and readily makes known its wants on this account. Food in general is eager- ly sought by all living things. The mil- lions, yes, billions and trillions, of un- known, invisible and greedy animalculi —miicrobes, as we call them, or, more properly, bacteria—contest our rights of digestion at every step. These bacteria are found everywhere—in all climates, in every mouthful! of air we inhale, in every drop of water that quenches our thirst. These bacteria digest the food in their own peculiar way, and in so doing many of them develop poisonous products, harmful to the human organ- ism. If, then, food partially predigested by bacteria finds its way into our stom- ach our health is constantly menaced and endangered. Now a food preservative should be something that will prevent the exist- ence of these bacteria and at the same time be perfectly barmless to the hu- man being. Nature herself in many ways provides her living creatures with preservatives against obnoxious com- petitors and conditions. The presence of essential oils in many plants living in tropical, semi-tropical or marshy re- gions seems to justify this conclusion, since essential oils are generally very good preservatives. Oil of pepper- mint, from the plant of the same name, is a worthy example. Small quantities of this oil, evenly distributed, will pre- vent fermentation. Oil of spearmint is another instance. Oil of calamus, from the root growing in the low Mississippi swamps, may also be mentioned, Spices in general are good preservatives, like cloves, pimento, cassia, thyme, etc, ; these all contain essential oils. Vanillin,from the vanilla bean, has also some value as a preservative. But one of the best known food preservatives we possess is alcohol. To the extent of not less than 15 per cent. it preserves our saccharine wines from fermenting into vinegar. We also use the method of excluding the bacteria by first boiling the food, to kill the bacteria already present, and then hermetically sealing the containers, This method is much used in the canning industry. By exposure to a low temperature—that is, freezing—we are also able to prevent the life of bac- teria. Cold storage is extensively used by packers. Eggsare kept by painting them with an airtight coating of silicate of potassium and then putting them in- to cold storage. One of the best food preservatives is sugar. A syrup made by dissolving eight pounds of sugar in a half gallon of hot water is excellent for fruits. Fruit syrups made with this strength of sugar keep exceedingly well, but less than six pounds of sugar to one-half gal- lon of liquid is not satisfactory. Salt is one of the best preservatives known. Most of the so-called preservatives in the market contain from Io per cent. to 75 per cent. of salt. Codfish is air- dried and salted in enormous quantities on the western coast of Norway. Smok- ing, as in the case of smoked hams, in valuable, because the smoke contains certain substances, as creosote, etc., that act as preservatives. One of the most modern preservatives is saccharine, which is made on a large scale from toluol, a substance found in coal tar. One part to 500 parts of liquid is the proportion used in fruit juices, foun- tain syrups, etc. Saccharine is exceed- ingly sweet and is used as a substitute for sugar in certain diseases, Many writers ciaim that pure saccharine is perfectly harmless. It is impossible to go through life at the present time without some- where getting a taste of saccharine. The writer has found it by analysis in wines, lemon pie, chocolate, sweetened medicines, soda water Syrups and ice cream. We spoke about salt. This ar- ticle is extremely necessary to all ani- mals. When eaten part is converted into hydrochloric acid in the stomach, which in normal condition should contain about one-half per cent. of this acid. Hydrochloric acid is an excellent food preservative. Without its presence food would putrefy and poison us, as is no- ticed in many diseases. Sulphur fur- nishes, when burning, a gas called sul- phur dioxide. This gas, when passed into a solution of sal soda in water, gives us sodium sulphite, an excellent preservative and used largely by pack- ers of meat. Sodium sulphite and other compounds of sulphur have been care- fully studied in their action upon di- gestion. The majority of investigators find it absolutely harmless, but, im- properly used, it may discolor the cans and dissolve minute quantities of metal which may cause poisoning. Otherwise sulphur is a normal constituent of the human body. Borax has come into use as a preservative for meats. Doctor Vaughan of Ann Arbor {found no harm- ful effects from its use. Nitre is occas- ionally met with at the present time. One of the most modern preservatives is formaldehyde, a gas made extensively from wood alcohol. It is readily soluble in water, so that you generally buy a 40 per cent. solution from the manufactur- er. One part of formaldehyde will pre- serve 2,000,0co of an animal food prod- uct. Evidence has been offered that in this dilution it is harmless. Otherwise, when concentrated, we find it to be a pungent, irritating gas, used for em- balming and hardening anatomical sec- tions. In surgery formaldehyde is used as an antiseptic, and recently a_ physi- cian in New York used it as an injec- tion in a case of blood poisoning with favorable results. Salicylic acid is well known and is a constituent of oil of wintergreen. Both the oil and the acid are used. The chemist, however, makes the acid from carbolic acid, which in turn is obtained from coaltar. One part of salicylic acid will keep 2,000 parts of food. Legislation has generally been directed against its use. Conflict- ing opinions exist as to its effect upon the human system. Finally, benzoic acid has come to the front as a preser- vative. In animals subsisting on a vegetable diet benzoic acid is constant- ly formed from the food during diges- tion. It is eliminated in a more com- pound form. Formerly benzoic acid was obtained from the gum, benzoe, a _ well- known ingredient of incense, but to day the chemist makes it from naphthaline, popularly called tar camphor. It is considered harmless asa preservative. Thus we find that a food preservative is not necessarily harmful to digestion since even Nature herself produces a preservative in the stomach when food is introduced. It is the abuse and not the use of preservatives that should be regulated by law; and for this purpose reliable evidence by able investigators should be utilized, while mere hasty conclusions should be disregarded. Louis Hogrefe. Oe Oe An Era of Good Sense and Comfortable Living. Ailing, complaining, whining women are not fashionable. It is not good form to ask, ‘‘ How are you feeling to-day?’’ It is no longer interesting to faint or to pose as delicate. The modern woman is equal to most things and afraid of al- most nothing, even drafts. She is in- terested in anything rather than her own symptoms. She prefers riding, driving, golfing and ping-pong to fancy work, The woman who gets up late so that her day will not be too long belongs to the dark ages—the ages before writing and art and automobiling and golfing and economics and nature study, etc., made her days fall too short. It is the fashion to get up early now and be outon your shopping or market- ing by 10 o'clock. Society has discovered that other themes are as interesting and more profitable than picking one’s friends to pieces. This has been called the age of uni- versal laxity,and again of universa! lux- ury. Howéver that may be, it is cer- tainly the age of comfort. And comfort has ushered in simplicity. This may be due to the fact that we have grown used to things, Do you remember our overladen din- ner tables of the past? The twelve or fifteen-course dinner has gone out—six courses is the correct thing. And not more than two kinds of wine, How often have you dined out and found yourself dodging a high floral centerpiece, gorgeous if you please, beautiful anywhere, but hiding a beau- tiful woman who may be your vis-a-vis? It stood like a wall between you and the other end of the table—a barrier to all informality. The chroniclers of 1903, if they do their duty, will declare that the decora- tions of the dinner table are low, so that guests are given an uninterrupted view of one another. There are candelabra, but they are set at the corners of the table; there is a centerpiece, but it is not higher than a man’s waistcoat ora woman’s decol- lete gown. It is to be hoped that they will also mention the fact that the bewildering mass of silver and glass that has been known to load the dinner tables of the luxurious is now infinitely less bewilder- ing. It does not seem more thana year ago that one sat studying an array of forks— two pronged forks, curved forks, big forks, little forks—and knives of every sort to match. We grew scarlet with embarrassment trying to find out which sort fitted which dish. We studied our neighbor furtively. And, oh, how frequently we came out wrong in the end, with the fish knife for the roast, or the salad fork for the punch! This embarrassing situation is ban- ished. It is out of fashion for madame to empty ber safe onto the dinner table. Even her collection of forks is brought out unobtrusively, one or two at a time, and slid in at the side of the plate as the courses follow one another. Then the array of glasses that used to be set before us, six or eight grouped around our plate, so that we did not dare move our elbows! And we thought nothing of sipping fine sherry, old bur- gundy, rich hock, champagne, claret, Sauterne, at one dinner. And, ob, how we regretted it! but noblesse oblige, so does fashion. Our host had provided it out of his fine old cellar, and we had not the heart to refuse, although we had not the stomach to digest. In 1903 it is the fashion to dine with one kind of wine; possibly two, not more, We may sip Apollinaris at a banquet and not be decried as an invalid. We may toast with a glass of club soda and whisky, and have neither qualms that night nor the next day. One kind of wine through dinner is a blessed fashion of this era of luxury and simplicity. Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., is a notable example of the modern hostess. She has made entertaining a science. She attracts to her house the cleverest people and invariably draws out, asa good hostess should, what is best in them. She attracts the best singers, the finest pianists, the ablest wits and best table talkers, and whatever other talent may add to the pleasure of her guests. These changes we have quoted are important, They mean healthier minds, healthier bodies, kindlier hostesses. They mean more comforts. Possibly much of this is due to the healthful influence of the athletic, out- door woman, Cora Stowell. : renner sere MS eT Sie ennai dl Ser nahn Sa eneencti: SN tisccasesscinneat Dantonio Sn MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 THE OLD RELIABLE POWDER Absolutely Pure. No Grocer can afford to be without a full stock of ROYAL BAKING POWDER THERE [S NO SUBSTITUTE Bell has en- Berrien Springs—R. C. gaged in the meat business. Leslie—A. Hall, of Detroit, has pur- chased the bakery of H. Crane. Port Huron—L. A. McCarthar has opened a grocery store at the North End, Detroit—Wailace & Bohn have pur- chased the drug stock of John A. Van Loon. Allendale—Edward Scanlon has sold his general merchandise stock to George Robston. Alpena—The Star Co., Limited, suc- ceeds the Cheney Shoe Co. in the retail shoe business. Battle Creek—David Moss has pur- chased the crockery and notion stock of John D. Wilson. Alma—Pulfrey & Co. have sold their grocery stock to W. L. Scranton & Co., formerly of Corunna. Parma—L. H. Godfrey and Lloyd Van Valin have purchased the hardware stock of J. R. Godfrey. Ashley--D,. W. C. Tiffany & Co. have sold their hardware and furniture stock to Charles A. Pratt. Ann Arbor—L. T. .Freeman has pur- chased the grocery business of Stimson & Co., at 914 South State street. Eaton Rapids—H. Kositchek & Bros. are closing out their clothing and fur- nishing goods stock at this place. Battle Creek—H. R. Chown, who has been conducting a hardware store at Greenland, has moved his stock to this city. Reed City—A new furniture store has been opened in the store building of Stoddard Bros., with N. A. Stoddard as proprietor. Lansing—C. J. Rouser has contracted with Hugh Lyons & Co. to equip his drug store with new sheiving and mod- ern fixtures. Pontiac—At the annual meeting of the Howland Manufacturing Co. it was de- cided to increase the capital stock from $50,000 to $60, 000. Imlay City—Jobn McKillen has sold his bakery and grocery stock to Samuel Burk, who will continue the business at the same location. Muskegon—P. E. Zuidema has opened a feed store in connection with his gro- cery at the corner of Sixth street and Washington avenue. Kalamazoo—]. A. Phillips, formerly engaged in the grocery business, has opened a bazaar and variety stock at 152 South Burdick street. Detroit—The Summerfield-Hecht Co.,, dealer in furniture, carpets and stoves, has been incorporated under the style of Summerfield & Hecht. Greenland—L. Lansing has moved his stock of hardware and furniture from Mass City to the store building recently vacated by H. R. Chown. Manton—Judd Seaman has purchased the grocery and crockery stock of Burns & Westbrook and will! continue the busi- ness at the same location. Chelsea—Hoag & Holmes, dealers in hardware, furniture, crockery and bazaar goods, have dissolved partnership. The business is continued by Holmes & Walker. Allegan—The meat market of Wiley & McAlpine will hereafter be conducted by H. C, McAlpine, Mr. Wiley having removed to his farm in Trowbridge township. Detroit—The capital stock of the Mc- Kaig Foundry Co. has been increased from $5,000 to $10,000 and the name of MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the company changed to the Michigan Column Co. Petoskey--Jobn C. Clark, of the Clark Shoe Co., has purchased a half interest in the general merchandise stock of Ar- mour fT. Cope, at Carp Lake. Mr. Clark will continue to reside here. South Haven—Barrett & Barrett have offered to settle with their creditors at 50 cents on the dollar. The creditors have not yet accepted, but it is thought that they will do so in order to save further litigation. Baldwin—The O. K. Cummings House Furnishing Co. has sold its stock at Newaygo and will engage in the same line of business at this place about Feb. 10. Mr. Cummings will also continue his undertaking business here. Walton Junction—M. D. Crane has sold a half ‘interest in his general merchandise stock to Henry W. Fraser, and has also purchased a half interest in the Exchange Hotel owned by Mr. Fraser. The new style is Crane & Fraser. Mt. Pleasant—The Minto-Bell Co., composed of W. E. Bell, of Union City, and C. W. Minto, of Durand, has em- barked in the clothing, furnishing goods and shoe business and will locate in the block vacated by the Isbell Hard- ware Co. Petoskey—Bump & Co. succeed the hardware firm of Bump & Waldrond, the interest of Mr. Waldrond having been purchased by George Bump and Sidney S. Bump. Sidney Bump will be the managing partner of the new business, Berrien Springs—Frank Ford has ex- changed his hardware stock, new build- ing on Main street and other valuable considerations for a farm in Marshail county, Ind., owned by Mr. Calbeck, who will continue the hardware busi- ness here. Alpena—A. Rudolph & Co. is the style of a new clothing and furnishing goods business established at this place. Mr. Rudolph has for some time been a clerk in the employ of I. Cohen. His partner will not take an active part in the business. Onaway—The Marks-Barnett Co., Limited, dealer in dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes and furniture, has dis- solved partnership The business will hereafter be conducted under the style of the Marks-DeCarrie Co., Limited, with Oliver DeCarrie, of Alpena, in charge. Grand Haven—John M. Cook, who has been engaged in the grocery busi- ness for the past eighteen years, has sold bis stock to his son, Richard Cook, who will continue the business with two clerks, Louis Streng and Cornelius Donker, as a copartnership under the style of the Cook Mercantile Co. Ann Arbor—L. T. Freeman, formerly engaged in the grocery business at Chelsea, has purchased the Stimson gro- cery at 314 State street. Geo. Stimson, who has been conducting the business for the estate of the late J. D. Stimson, will remain with Mr. Freeman for some time. The store building will be re- modeled and an addition erected. Detroit—Charles B. Ward has been adjudicated a bankrupt on his own pe- tition. His liabilities are $16,183.97 and his assets are $6,335, consisting of real estate, on which there are mortgages, Mr. Ward was in business here for thirty years, lately as a bicycle dealer. He has also been interested in real estate, and suffered when the slump came in that market. Lake Linden—The general dealers, grocers, meat market proprietors, hard- derson took charge of the management. The business of 1902 showed an increase of 20 per cent. over that of 1901. Dur- ing the past year a new boiler house and new boilers have been added to the plant. During the coming year a new system of dry-kilns will be put in. ee a te ee ware dealers and merchants in exclu- sive lines, such as jewelry and shoes, have all signed the agreement calling for the adoption of early hours for four nights of each week, namely, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, On these evenings the several stores will close their doors and relieve the clerks at 6 o’clock, while on Wednesday even- ings the closing hours will be 8 o'clock and on Saturday evenings 9 o'clock. For Gillies’ N. Y. tea,all kinds, grades and prices, call Visner, both phones Manufacturing Matters. Saginaw—The Lufkin Rule Co, has increased its capital stock from $100,000 to $200, coo, Onekama—John Koeglan has engaged in the grocery business here, purchasing his stock of F. Firzloff & Son,of Man- istee. Detroit—Henry A. Berns continues the manufacture of tables formerly con- ducted under the style of Burhop, Berns co Co. Corunna—The United States Kobe Co. has declared a dividend of Io per Live Merchants will handle “Sanitary” brand of Dried Fruits ! cent. The prospects are favorable for a Put up in 1 pound packages large output this season. " Atbens—The Star Manufacturing Co., Convenient Limited, has been organized, with a Clean capital stock of $60,000, Woolen boots, FE soal gloves and mittens will be manufac- conomica i tured. Chelsea—The Chelsea Manufacturing Co,., manufacturers of metal novelties and_ specialties, succeeded by a limited copartnership under the style of the Chelsea Manufacturing Co,, Limited. Capac—W. J. Forrest, cigar manufac- | turer, has taken a partner in the person | of A. L. McMeans, of Rocky Ford, Cali. A number of changes have been made in the factory, greatly improving its appearance. Zeeland—J. Grebel, Secretary for the Vander Meer-Timmer Lumber Co., has sold his interest in the business to Lam- bertus Schipper and will engage in business at Grandville. Miss Bertha Tolsma succeeds him as acting Secre- tary. Detroit—Articles of incorporation will be filed in a few days by the Cadillac Cabinet Co., capital $100,000, to manu- facture fancy cabinetware, music cabi- nets, ladies’ desks, ladies’ toilet tables, shaving cabinets and articles of a sim- ilar character. The promoters of the enterprise are the officials of the Wolver- Emery Wheels ine Manufacturing Co., whose remark- Files able success in the latter concern has : Band Saws often been commented upon, Ann Arbor—The stockholders of the | Circular Saws General Mill | Ann Arbor Organ Co. have decided to| increase the capital stock from $51, 000 | the present stockholders at par, The| Supp - new Capital stock will be used to de- | Complete stock. velop the business and increase the out- | Prompt shipments. Our new catalogue tured last year was six times the num- GRAND RAPIDS SUPPLY CO. : ber turned out in 1806, when Mr. Hen-| 2 Pearl St. een Reates, eee. | CREDIT ADVICES » ia / | COLLECTIONS AND ae a Good fruit at a reasonable price. Neat packages—free from dirt and vermin, which is appreciated by is all housewives. una hhdhhhhababbahdidehahdddeidddddich. BUY OF YOUR JOBBER Geo. D. Bills & Co., Chicago, Ill. SOLE AGENTS to $75,000 and will sell the new stock to | put. The number of organs manufac- | for the asking. e Py nmercial ra UMAZescel| 4 . { WIDDICOMB TORnIT - Fe BUILDING FFICES DEMAND Veo MICHIGAN TRADESMAN § Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Market. Sugars—The raw sugar market is quiet but unchanged. There is very little interest manifested in raw sugars just at the present time. Refiners are apparently well supplied for the present and are holding off purchases, waiting further developments. The same can be said of the refined market. Although there is very little demand, purchases being almost entirely for immediate wants, the market remains firm, with the prospect of a renewed activity shortly. Canned Goods—The canned goods market continues rather quiet, althougb there is a little interest in some lines. As a rule, prices are firmly held and no changes of note are reported. There is some future business being done, par- ticularly in corn, which is selling quite freely. Spot tomatoes are un- changed in price and are meeting with fair demand. Some Michigan packers who did not sell any futures have still a few on hand, which they are holding for full prices. The spring trade on this article is usually good and dealers are looking forward to an increased busi- ness in this line. Corn continues in moderate demand at unchanged prices. This articie is in good position and trade is on the increase. The demand for peas continues fair, with light stocks and full prices realized on all sales, Peaches are still quiet, with no appar- ent improvement indemand. They can not always stay this way, however, and something is expected to develop short- ly. Stocks are only moderate and would soon be exhausted with any in- creased demand. Supplies of salmon are moderate and trade is of good vol- ume at unchanged prices. Sardines are in fair supply and a good trade on this line is reported. Prices are firmly held, both for oils and mustards. There is also some enquiry for fancy grades at full prices. Dried Fruits—The dried fruit market as a whole is quiet and unchanged. Prunes still occupy the chief attention and are selling well at firm prices, There is no surplus of stocks, as the small as well as the large sizes have been in good demand, which has reduced stocks considerably. Holders are firm in their views and are holding up for full prices. Seeded raisins show no changes in price here, but the general tone of the market is firmer, caused by an advance on the coast. Stocks here are quite liberal, however, and no im- mediate advance is looked for, at any rate not until the present stocks are con- siderably reduced. No lower prices are thought possible ‘on account of the small stocks on hand on the coast to last the remainder of the season. Apricots are in fair demand, with prices firmly held and the prospect of higher prices soon. Peaches are quiet, but firmly held and meeting with light demand. Stocks of these goods are light. Figs are quiet, with rather heavy stocks on hand and a somewhat weaker tendency. The demand for evaporated apples shows no material change, being fair for the goods both in 50 pound boxes and 1 pound packages. Just at present the weather is unfavorable for the sale of these goods, but with the return of colder weather, a better demand is looked for. Rice—The rice market is very firm, with holders’ views rather above those of buyers, Offerings of the fancy grades are very light, but the more common grades are in good supply and are mov- ing out quite well at full prices. Molasses—The molasses market is firm, with good demand. Offerings are rather limited, but dealers’ supplies are light and what stock is offered is quick- ly taken up at full prices. Holders are very firm in their views and no conces- sions in price are made. Corn syrup is very firmly held, with no immediate prospect of shipment as the refineries are at least three weeks oversold, and even after the goods are shipped the railroads are making such poor time that shipments are very badly delayed. Fish—Trade in fish is good, with a very firm market on almost ali grades. More interest is being taken in this line now, aS a more active business is expected soon. Dealers’ stocks are small and they will have to make large purchases to supply their regular con- suming trade. There is quite a little trade on halibut in packages, and mackerel and codfish are both in good demand, Nuts—The situation in this line is still very quiet and the continued in- activity has depressed prices on some line. Brazil nuts are quoted %c lower on both medium and large. Filberts are particularly dull, Almonds are in small request, but prices remain un- changed. For walnuts the demand is quiet, but as the supplies on hand are not large, there does not seem any dis- position to force goods at lower prices. Peanuts are in fair demand with prices unchanged. Rolled Oats—The rolled oats market is very firm, with the probability of an advance very suon. Business has been very good in this line and the mills are badly oversold. a The Produce Market. Apples—Cold storage stock is in steady demand at $2.50@3 per bbl. Bananas—Good shipping stock, $1.25 @1.75 per bunch. Beeswax—Dealers pay 25c for prime yellow stock. Beets—soc per bu. Butter—Receipts of dairy Tare in- creasing and stocks are accumulating. Local handlers pay 14@15c for packing stock, 16@17c for choice and 18@1gc for fancy. Factory creamery sustained a drop of 2c at Elgin .Monday, in conse- quence of which local handlers have re- duced their selling prices to 25c for choice and 26c for fancy. 4, Cabbage—goc per doz. Carrots—35c per bu. Celery—17c per doz. for home grown; 75c per doz. for California. Cocoanuts—$3.25 per sack. Cranberries—Cape Cod and Jerseys are strong at $3.50 per bu. box and $10 per bbl. Dates—Hallowi, 5c; lb. package, 7c. Eggs—Receipts of fresh are improv- ing in quality and increasing in quan- tity, in consequence of which the price has dropped to 19@z2Ic for case count, 21@23c for candled. Refrigerator eggs have fallen heavily as a natural result of the decline in fresh and prospect of further increase in supplies. There are many remaining to be sold and trade has been so dull that actual values have been hard to arrive at. Holders who have been anxious to close out have been willing to accept 18c for their best spring goods and 17%%c for very good qualities, and poorer lots have been offered lower; even at those prices the demand has been slow and uncer- tain. Some holders, banking on the possibility of a later cut off in fresh, have withdrawn fine marks from sale at present. Limed are still in consider- able supply, greatly neglected and values are nominal, Figs—$1 per 10 Ib. box of Califor- nia; 5 crown Turkey, 16c; 3 crown, 14Cc. Game—Rabbits are weak and slow sale at 9oc@$1 per doz. Sairs, 43c; 1 Grape Fruit—$4.25 per case’for Cali- fornia ; $5.25 per case for a Grapes—Malagas, $5.25@5.7 Honey—White stock is in ihiceas supply at 15@16c. Amber is active at 13@14c and dark is moving freely on the basis of 12@13¢c. Lemons—Californias or $3.50. Lettuce—15c per lb. Supply is now equal to the demand. Maple Sugar—io%c per Ib, Maple Syrup—$i per gal. for fancy. Nuts—Butternuts, 65c; walnuts, 65c; hickory nuts, $2.35 per bu. Onions—In increasing demand at 6oc per bu. Oranges—Floridas command $3.25 per box. California Navels $3 for fancy and $2.75 for choice; California Seedlings, $2.25. Poultry—Live pigeons are in active demand at 75c@$1. Nester squabs, either live or dressed, $2 per doz. Dressed stock commands the following: Chickens, 12@13c; small hens, 11@12c; ducks, 14@15c; young geese, 11@1i2c; turkeys, 16@17c; small squab broilers, 12%@1sc; Belgian hares, 8@9c. Ducks, geese and broilers are scarce and in ac- tive demand. Radishes—25c per doz. for hothouse. Spanish Onions—$1.50 per crate. Spinach—goc per bu. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, $4 per bbl. ; Illinois, $3.75. Turnips—goc per bu. lel Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. Hides are well sold ahead ‘by dealers in Chicago market and they are now squeezing values down. Stocks are lighter than one year ago, Eastern tan- ners are not free buyers at prices asked, and values are likely to go lower, Pelts are closely picked up by one or two large puilers, There is no accumu- lation and the demand is good. Values have been somewhat advanced. Furs were well sustained in value at London sales the past week. The tallow market continues strong, with little trading. Prime and edible are in good demand for small amount offering. Soapers’ stocks are well cleaned up as offered. Wools are in fair demand at slightly higher values, with supplies none too large for the demand. The outlook is for higher values. Wo. T. Hess, Samuel M, Vinton has exchanged his residence property at South Grand Rap- ids, known as the Ward place, for the three-story Spraker building, at Lowell, and will remove to that place and en- gage in the grocery business. Mr, Vinton was engaged in the grocery business at Leetsville for several years. oH I, C. Levi is effecting a settlement with his creditors on the basis of 25 cents on the dollar, At a meeting of the Eastern creditors, held in New York Messinas, City, Mr. Levi made a frank statement of his condition, after which the credit- ors present voted unanimously to ac- cept the compromise proposed. It is stated that every creditor who has been approached by Mr. Levi up to this time has signed the agreement. Wiens’ Dustless Hygienic Sweeper Nickel Plated Oil Reservoir. Oil fiow regulated at will. Will keep your Stock and Store Clean It kills the dust while you sweep the floor. Send us $2.00 for a Fiber Dustless Sweeper or $3.50 for a pure Bristle Dustless Sweep- er. Bestmade. Express charges prepaid by us. All our sweepers guaranteed. Money back if not satisfied. Order one now. wanted quick. The A. R. Weins Dustless Brush Company, Agents 227-229 Cedar Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Piles Cured By New Painless Dissolvent treatment; no chloroform or knife. Send for book. Dr. Willard M. Burleson Rectal Specialist 103 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. . | | 3 i CP 10.00 CP : SPICE i! ard my: i [ er ) ( BU RNS { touch in his business with the ladies Cleans E erything niently get at them. than any other class of business men. In dealing with them he finds some very . pleasant ladies and also a few cranks, i grit. and when the cranks have their day the —_——_—- grocer feels if he could get a job man- | Does not injure the hands. aging Mayor Palmer’s municipal coal yard he would sel] out for so cents on cf the dollar, but the next day’s dealing 8 Takes the place of ‘Floor with the pleasant ladies is such a pleas- Cleaners,’’ ‘‘Washing Com- ure that he would not trade his business § fi : i u pounds,’’ ‘Scouring Soap, { for Homer Klap's chances of being al- ‘‘Metal Polishes,’’ ‘‘ Grease A Roller Step Ladder puts you in easy reach of your stock. ; Do not put it off, but write f j Contains no acid, no lye, _ j j j immediately for a ! derman of the ninth ward. Another class of ladies we have to deal with is the traveling saleslady and if they were all of the same type as Mrs. Allen the boys on the road would have to take to the woods. Mrs. Allen was in my store a short time ago and said she wished she could be with us at the banquet and hear the speeches. She says of the re- tail grocers that they ‘‘will average as ‘ high, if not higher, morally, than any other class of husiness men she ever f j j met,’’ and { thanked her, on behalf of the ‘ | j f j j j catalogue and price list. Removers.”’ £ P Does the work of all with half the labor. Hirth, Krause & Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan TTY See prices in Price List. Write for Free Sample. trade, for the compliment. i Fred A. Connor Qne peculiar feature of the trade is {& Co., that, no matter how well liked the gro- 58 W. Congress St., cers may be by the ladies, they will shake them for the huckster in the sum- Detroit, Mich. Note page 28, column No. 3, Jobbers’ list mer time, and I will say right here that if our friend, G. H. DeGraff, was mayor it would not be so. He would issue 4 no permits and the license would be $50 instead of $25. So I will say to the gro- cers present who are not members, be- come such and under the leadership of a aia J @ BEST. TTAB AA AMO aA REMIT TES handling Brunswick’s Easybright. SS a a eR. HR. a. ae CE at reat nent eee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Z Art. Commissioner on the ladies’ annex at the Soldiers’ Home he could stop all dissatisfaction among the old ladies be- cause their pensions were taken away. Manley Jones, with the Telfer Coffee Co., is well liked by the trade. Before being married he was a ladies’ man, they say, but since he talks nothing but coffee, and his wife says she fears his mind will give way under the strain; but, gentlemen, he has the goods. Joe Triel, for the Lemon & Wheeler Co., stands well with the ladies and the funny part of it is they take him fora Jew—a great combination a Jew selling goods for the Irishman, That is not so. Joe is Dutch and a great sympathizer with the Boers, There is Deacon Patrich, who sells bread for Blake. He is a keen observer of people, both ladies and gentlemen. He has had experience with botb. He has sold water to the ladies and bread to the grocers and comes out flat-footed in declaring that there are more cranks among the retail grocers than among the ladies, and I be- lieve he is right; but there is a reason for it. Every grocer wants fresh bread and the Deacon would like to leave some stale. Before ending my response I want to advise the clerks and delivery boys to be kind, courteous and accommodating to the ladies. Do not argue with them, for you can not win. I know by experi- ence. Do not spend much time with the young ladies, as you might fall in love; and, by the way, do not think every time you have a stitch in your side or a crick in your back you are in love or you will have dreams and they may come true, and you will wake up to find yourself trying to support a wife with a millionaire’s taste on a small salary; then you will lose your job. Baby wiil have to drink skim milk. Your wife won’t be as pretty as you thought she was, House rent will be past due and you would give your wedding presents to a friend to kick you into the canal. When you get the real thing, you will know it. What some people think is love is only a deranged liver. N. I. Tubbs, of Grand Haven, invited the Association to hold its next annual picnic in Grand Haven. Edward A. Rasch presented a couple of recitations, R. J. Cleland talked on and around or- ganization, after which the event was brought to a close, Music was furnished by the Furniture City orchestra and the Oriental trio, The affair passed off pleasantly and re flects credit on all who took part in the managem nt. ———————— ae Occasion For the Remarkable Advance in Oil. From the Paint, Oil and Drug Review. Advanced prices on refined and crude oil in this country have been occasion for unfavorable comment on the part of the daily press alleging that advantage of the coal strike has been taken to in- crease the price of oil. This is so far from true that it needs no refutation among those who are best acquainted with the oil situation as it is. The ratio between runs and shipments is constantly decreasing, resulting in a net loss to stocks on hand that is alarm- ing. With all the activity in seeking new production the exhaustion of pres- ent pipe line stocks is apparently a matter of only a short time, and the re- cent sharp upward movement of the crude, and consequently of the refined, markets is due to causes of supply and demand over which no one interest, nor all combined, has any control. The net decrease in stocks during November was 597,908 barrels, and it is evident that this drain, if kept up during the coming year as it has been in the past, will re- sult in still further advances in the crude market without the necessity of any manipulation whatever. Indiana oil-field men are jubilant over the increase in price of Indiana oi] to the unprecedented figure of $1.04 per barrel. The operators are confident that the top has not yet been reached. The November demand exceeded production by over 320,000 barrels and the total shipments from the two States—Indiana and Ohio—for that month reached 2, 443, - 046 barrels. The runs from the wells in the two States was but 2,112, 122 barrels. Pennsylvania was drawn on in addition for 500, 000 barrels. —___—~> +. Dog That Husks Corn. A cornhusking dog is the latest nov- elty on the banks of the Wabash, This industrious and intelligent canine is the property of Jacob Diffenbaugh, who lives on the Stephens farm, near An- drews, It is a nine-months-old pup, and watched Mr. Diffenbaugn husk corn one day last week and then went in on his own hook, tearing the husks from the ears with more celerity than the av- erage farm-hand. He was not careful in piling the corn and the husks, but he stripped the husks clean. The next day he followed Diffenbaugh and his man to the field and did several hours of effi- cient work. The dog apparently was delighted with his work. > 4+. Some men never lie verbally, although act one a dozen times a day, yet they believe that truthfulness is one of their virtues, We are headquarters for Tank Heaters and Feed Cutters Write for list and prices. Brown & Sehler Grand Rapids, Mich. $30.00 will buy a ROYAL GEM Lighting Plant complete. It will produce 1,500 candle power light at the cost of 1c per 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 soo can- dle 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. SMR ae a. or Write for 1903 catalogue. D, E. VANDERVEEN, Jobber, Grand Rapids, Mich. The reasons why you should sell Columbia Food Delicacies There is nothing so good as COLUMBIA. “The Best is the Cheapest.” All the ingredients of COLUMBIA canned and a productions are of the best selected tock. “There is nothing too good for our stomachs.” The commissary department of the great trunk railway dining cars is stocKed with COLUMBIA prepared foods and relishes. “Bless me! this is pleasant, riding on a rail.” Every grocer should carry in stockK COLUM- BIA Catsup, Soups, Chili Sauce, Baked | Beans, Salad Dressing, Plum Pudding, Pot- ted Meats, Devilled Meats, French Pates, etc. Manufactured by The MULLEN-BLACKLEDGE CoO., Indianapolis, Ind. WoRDEN ([ROCER COMPANY Distributing Agents Grand Rapids, Mich., ESE: WHOLESALE SoreorERS We are the largest wholesale dealers in Western Michigan. Order early. DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich. a H. M. REYNOLDS ROOFING CO. Grand Rapids, Michigan MANUFACTURERS Ready Gravel Roofing, Two and Three Ply Tarred Felt Roofing, 3 Roof Paints, Pitch and Tarred Felt. a THE BEST. MADE BY THE NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO C0. (sndependane A k { AGAINST THE TRUST. See Quotations in Price Current. Use Tradesman Coupons MICHIGAN TRADESMAN wee, Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published weekly by the TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids Subscription Price One dollar per year, payable in advance. No subscription accepted unless accom- panied by a signed order for the paper. Without specific instructions to the con- trary, all subscriptions are continued indefi- nitely. Orders to discontinue must be accom panied by payment to date. Sample copies, 5 cents apiece. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice When writing to any of ouradvertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY - - JANUARY 28, 1903. STATE OF MICHIGAN c- County of Kent . John DeBoer, being duly sworn, de- poses and says as follows: am pressman in the office of the Tradesman Company and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establishment. 1 printed and folded 7,000 copies of the issue of January 21, 1903, and saw the edition mailed in the usual manner. And further — saith not. John DeBoer. Sworn and subscribed before me, a notary public in and for said county, this twenty-fourth day of January, 1903. Henry B. Fairchild, Notary Public in and for Kent county, Mich. GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. The long indifference of the public to Wall Street affairs has become such a habit that it takes but little of political complication to bring business to a low ebb. Thus the Venezuela complications have been enough to prevent stock ac- tivity and to bring operations within easy nianipulation of professional trad- ers except that there is too much inher- ent Strength to permit any material de- clines. It is noticeable that among the properties showing most strength copper is now often mentioned. Money is com- ing into the large centers in great abun- dance, so that its lack can no longer be accounted as preventing activity. The greater amount of trading is in low priced issues, indicating that the strong- er properties are in the hands of invest- ors who are satisfied with conditions as long as liberal dividends are forthcom- ing. Prices of securities of this char- acter are already so high that there is hesitation in further advances by spec- ulation, If such prices were not already high there would be occasion for a more ac- tive advance in the fact that the rail- ways are unable to handle the business offered. With plenty of money and uni- versal activity, it would seem as though boom conditions could hardly be avoided, but it is fortunate that conserv- atism is still permitted to control, Gen- eral business shows hardly an indica- tion of the usual hait to follow the holi- days—hardly a breath being taken be- fore pushing ahead for the new ‘season. There is an activity in labor circles in some trades and localities which has a disquieting tendency, but not more than is to be expected under the favor- able conditions. One feature of the la- bor disturbances worthy of note is that wars seem to be spreading between rival organizations. Thus the output of footwear from Eastern factories would undoubtedly break all records were it not that a fight between two unions promises to cut down the results. In several other trades this remarkable con- dition is a factor of uncertainty. It is often remarked and frequently proved that juries are prone to give ver- dicts for the plaintiff in negligence suits for damages against corporations. Whenever a person is injured by a rail- way company or any such corporation, it usually happens that an action is brought and then the attorneys endeavor to impress themselves and their client's case upon the sympathy of the twelve men who sit in the box. The lawyers for the defendant companies always make the claim that justice should be meted out between the parties without any reference to the fact that one is an individual and the other a corporation. A case occurred the otber day in St. Louis where a jury seemed to discrimi- nate between sympathy and justice and sought to meet the ends of both. A suit was brought against a street railway company for damages caused to the plaintiff, who was a crippled boy, but the plaintiff did not make a strong case, although in many ways he was entitled to sympathy. The jury brought ina verdict of ‘‘no cause for action’’ and then among themselves made up a purse which they presented to the plantiff as an evidence of their substantial sym- pathy. It is perhaps not an example liable to be very generally followed. It is noticeable, however, as indicating that juries see and appreciate the dis- tinction and that is more than they al- ways do. The Tradesman has positive infor- mation that ‘‘Col.’? Jobn Bennett will succeed himself as Food Inspector under the new Dairy and Food Commissioner. This will be unwelcome information to the wholesale and retail grocery trade of his district, who have come to regard the gentleman from the Sawdust City with anything but the highest feelings of regard, due to his peculiar methods and his frequent lack of frankness and fairness in discharging the duties of his position. The Tradesman is as- sured that Governor Bliss will clip bis wings and not permit him to make wholesale arrests on bis own responsibil- ity and without consulting the head of the department, as has been his custom during the past two years the depart- ment has been without a head. This will afford some relief, but, genial as the Colonel is socially, his bump of vindictiveness is too largely developed to enable him to make a safe and satis- factory inspector. Magic cities are familiar in the West. Hundreds of prosperous places in West- ern States have literally sprung up in a night. Such occurrences are unlooked for in the East, but they are not impos- sible. Maine offers several instances of recent development. They are due to the utilizing of water power in regions that it was supposed would never be populated. Rumford Falls, in particu- lar, has had a pbenomenal growth. Where there was lately only a howling wilderness there is now a town of 6,000 or 7,cC0o inhabitants. Marconi is not content to flash wire- less messages across the Atlantic Ocean, He will soon direct his attention to the establishment of wireless communica- tion between New York and San Fran- cisco. After that is accomplished he will endeavor to send messages across the Pacific. Verily Marconi regards the world as his oyster. EDUCATION OF THE COAL STRIKE. Every controversy involving econom- ic conditions is of valve in that pub- lic attention is called to possibilities of change and to the effects of interference in the accepted status of things. For instance, the general manner of heating the dwellings of the American people has been the outgrowth of a natural transition from the growing scarcity of fire wood to that which most easily could be made to take its place. It was nota question whether the substitute was the best or the cheapest which could be found, but whether it was the most con- venient to use in the present state of public education. The smoke objection to the use of bituminous coal kept it out of the large cities to a great extent, and where this was not so great a factor the natural tendency for the well-to-do to buy the best and most convenient went far to give the harder fuel its ascend- ency. Then the natural tendency for manufacturers to assume certain fixed types gave character to the stoves and furnaces, and the man who would buy anything out of the accepted forms would be considered at least eccentric, even if he could find anything to meet his demand. Another phase of educational effect is the canvass of the transportation prob- lem and its effects upon the prices of the commodities transported. In ordi- nary times it has been accepted that a large profit should be made at the mines, another relatively larger in the trans- portation and then as much as the pub- lic could be made to pay at the last in the retail distribution, varying a dollar or so per ton between the summer and the winter schedule, thus making the poor pay the highest prices. Combina- tions in all these fields would spring up with more or less effect according to lo- cality, so that the matter of fuel produc- tion and distribution had become one of the most extravagant features of our economic life in every city. Thus, aside from the more direct results of the strike and its investigations into the workings of unionism in the anthracite regions and the economic and industrial condi- tions obtaining there, these less direct questions are being brought under the public eye to an extent which promises the most widespread results. : One of the earliest questions to gain attention was that of firing in the use of other than the hard fuel. All are famil- iar with the discussion of the use of petroleum and its rapid adoption in such localities as its relative plentiful- ness and accessibility made desirable. Also the use of soft coal, coke and other forms of fuel early gained notice toa degree which will no doubt conduce to their permanent substitution ina vast number of cases. One result of the agitation of no small significance is the turning of attention to the use of unusual forms of fuel. Most prominent among these is the use of the almost unlimited and universal- ly-distributed stores of bog peat. At- tention has been directed to the fact that many countries of Europe are de- pending upon this kind of fuel, either in its natural form or made into bri- quettes, to the practical exclusion of all others. Emigrants of those countries bring the knowledge of their use and manufacture here, but under ordinary conditions these are so taken up with wage-getting, as the Opportunity offers, that the knowledge of such matters is soon lost sight of. Such will be found of service when the experimenter turns his attention to the subject. Space will not suffice to go into the different direc- tions in which fuel development must lead, but it is pertinent to say that when an effective and cheap rival of coal may be found within a few hours of every large city it will tend to modify the transportation problem, Then the direct attention to the mat- ter of transportation and distribution js likely to work no small consequences, The present local coal famines are cal]- ing for the minutest consideration of the question of responsibility for the suffering produced. In the great cities commissions are investigating to find out where the coal is apparently hiding ; whether claims of car shortage are well founded ; whether there are illegal com- binations of producers and carriers or of carriers and distributors or either of these. Grand juries are indicting those found illegally interfering with the pub- lic welfare in this emergency, Altogether there is such an awakening of public in- terest as occurs seldom in economic history and the consequences in many directions are bound to be far reaching, innate Drunkenness in England has become so general that a most stringent law against it has been enacted and went into effect January 1. Three convictions in a year make a man an habitual drunkard and he is published as such. After that anvone who serves him with drinks is liable to a fine, anyone who treats him is likewise liable, and if the man is found intoxicated at any time within three years a long term of im- prisonment is inevitable. Another clause in the act provides ready means by which husbands may escape drunken wives and wives drunken husbands. Habitual drunkenness is now made a ground for legal separation. Many have already obtained relief from their marital ties through this section. Tc Postmaster General Payne says that the Postoffice Department is nearing the point where it will be self-supporting. Rural free delivery, when it becomes generai, he declares, will not be a bur- den, but a source of increased revenue, General Payne thinks that a reduction of foreign postage from five to two cents would be a great advantage, and would add largely to the receipts. The pres- ent cost of sending foreign mail pre- vents anything like active correspon- dence among poor people who have rel- atives and friends on the other side, and American business houses can not send their circulars abroad without too great expense, —_— Secretary Hay says he was born in Indiana, brought up in Illinois, edu- cated in Rhode Island; that he got his law in Springfield, his politics under Lincoln in Washington, his diplomacy in Europe, Asia and Africa; has a resi- dence in New Hampshire and a desk in the District of Columbia; his father was born in the North and his mother in the South, while his grandfathers were of Scotch, English, German and French blood. ‘‘So,’’ said Mr. Hay, in his address before the Ohio Society, ‘‘I seem to be nothing but just a plain American."’ It does not appear that this fact has proved anything of a handi- cap. LL LTLLsLLAteNSeENE oe There is nothing new under the sun. Examination of a mummy over 2,000 years old shows that death must have been caused by appendicitis. So this disease is not to be included in the list of modern inventions, ee ‘Weta naaicteon = i = oonenanerneNahansne ee OO a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN @ wh WA Ww Co OS. a ar. A © Would a system of keeping your accounts that Lessens Bookkeeping By One=-Half That gives you the Total Amount your cus- | tomer owes you with Every Bill of goods he buys; : That gives your customer a duplicate of his order together. with the total amount of his f account; Thereby keeping your accounts up to date like a bank, be of interest to you? , Our descriptive booklet tells all about it and we will gladly send you one if you will drop us a card. { j @ The Simple Account File Co. 500 Whittlesey Street, Fremont, Ohio ws Wn. a a rn ) ane has pecome known on account of its good qualities. Merchants handle Mica because their customers want the best axle grease they can get for W” their money. Mica is the best because it is made especially to reduce friction, and friction is the greatest destroyer of axles and axle boxes. 4 It is becoming a common saying that “Only one-half as much Mica is required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle grease,” so that Mica is not only the best axle grease on the market but the most eco- nomical as well, Ask your dealer to show you Mica in the new white k and blue tin packages. U U U U U G G G 4 G GJ G G G G g GU G U (2 (A (A SFFFFFFFFFSFSFSSFFSS || 0 \ ILLUMINATING AND | LUBRICATING OILS ) PERFECTION OIL IS THE STANDARD ’ THE WORLD OVER HIGHEST PRIO“ PAID FOR EMPTY CARBON AND GASOLINE BARRAELS STANDARD OIL CO. BES SCS VSKSCSEPCOH HH Stock it Promptly! ——yYou will have enquiries for — Do not let your neighbors get ahead of you. It will sell because we are now determined to push it. Perhaps your first customer will take a dollar’s worth. You will have no trouble in disposing of a box. Same cost as Sapolio. Enoch Morgan’s Sons Co. The Generator Used on The Imperial Gas Lamps The ‘Imperial’? Burner. Perfect Generation D; . eit You will be satistied that this is true if you read the EXPLANATION The gasoline enters the burner at the point indicated by the letter A and passes to the mixing chamber B. Itis thorough!y warmed as it moves forward to the generating tube C, where it is subjected to the heat of the flame as it rises from the gauge D. The gasoline is also subjected to the reflected heat of the mantle. This gives the burner an immense reserve gen- Jo erating power and makes G it impossible that any gasoline should pass this point in a liquid form. The gas passes from the generating tube through orifice E to the back burner F and is liberated at the needle tip G. After leaving the needle tip, gas passes through the air chamber H and is burned as it passes through gauge D. : a Reliable Agents Wanted aia in Every Locality. Imperial Gas Lamp Co., 206 Kinzie St., Chicago, Ill. SEND FOR CATALOGUE, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ; OUR ——am Urocerymen New Deal Sl za 53 tad ke Have you heard of FOR THE ys Snyder’s Cereal | a Es Coffee Compound] aeians ie - i a One Handsome Giant Nail Puller an order for a 5 whole case deal of i se BRANDS POWDERED LYE. HOW OBTAINED If not investigate and find out its merits. To your interest. Send for a trial order. Twenty-four packages ina case. Once tried, always used. Goods sold on approval. Protects boih yourself and customers. Nice tasty display cards and advertising matter free. Free package on receipt of postal card. Give us a trial. i Beene enone a g ur er r hole cases (either one or assorted siz es) Eag Pr I 2 } nt on nnone cont aoe Lye will f i g t paic Sta ler wil please sen { e wig porchare thus made, which will he returned to: the Snyder Cereal Coffee Co., | Eagle Lye Works, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 302-4 Grand River Ave., Detroit, Mich. | All Kinds ‘ All Kinds «| {PAPER BOXES] |“ S14 4 " Solid Folding Until you get our prices on the Cooper . Roller Awning, the best awning on the Do you wish to put your goods up in neat, attractive packages? Then write market. No ropes to cut the cloth. us for estimates and samples, We make all styles of awnings for stores and residences. Send for prices and direc- ——“—_ a F tions for measuring. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO. pike | ee ity CHAS. A. COYE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Re eB) oe canada : ‘ “it if and 9 Pearl Street : Box Makers Die Cutters Printers es Sse ul Grand Rapids, Michigan If two-thirds ot the ive thousand employes of the U. S. Treasury Department should average a tardiness of ten minutes each day, it would mean an annual loss to the government of nearly twenty-seven years of service. That is why the rules of the Department compel all employes to i register their time of entering and leaving the building. Sy stematic economy in small details makes great successes possible. The daily savings of a National Cash Register may be small, but in the yearly aggregate they will amount to a con- siderable sum. The testimony of thousands of merchants proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that a National Cash Register will soon pay for itself in money saved. Many successful business men claim that A they owe their success to the machine by its stopping the x Fin 1: } 1 ° ie 1 ' - hel tle, but important leaks which they could not find posted free “co, without it. Let us tell you other reasons why you traistento., 9 need a National Cash Register. Detach the ne Place %, Coupon, fill it out and mail to us today. NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO. Dayton, Ohio “Not Cost Us One Cent” Onl $25 for this thoroughly practica! Co . a y detail-adding Nationai Cast: It has brought about a n in our business that R nothing \ 1s that the egister. regi 250 styles at higher prices. ; ns & Co. Some styles of second-hand registers 4 : General Merchandise. Function, Ark. always in stock. es MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I Dry Goods Weekly Market Review of the Principal Staples. Staple Cottons—A moderate amount of business has been done in ducks and brown osnaburgs and prices are steady. Bleached cottons show no change in the amount of business or prices in any grade, the market being in generally good shape and prices firm. Wide sheetings are well sold up and prices steady. Canton flannels and blankets are scarce and prices firm; a consider- able more business would be accom- plished in these if stocks could be found, Coarse colored cottons of all de- scriptions show the same condition that has existed for some time. A fair de- mand limited by the small quantity of goods obtainable keeps prices firm. Prints and Ginghams—The demand for regular lines of printed calicoes has been on a quiet basis for some time past. There is a steady and reason- able quantity of orders coming to hand, but buyers are doing little beyond fiil- ing in for immediate requirements, both of staples and fancies: Sellers control the market for indigo blues, mournings, reds and other staples and no stocks of size are to be found. Fancy calicoes receive an occasional reorder and they are in good condition. Asa rule the market is quiet for printed dimities, organdies and other sheer fabrics and printed flannelettes are pretty well sold ahead. Woven patterned fabrics, both staples and fancies are firm. Dress Goods—The developments of the week in connection with the new fall lines of dress goods have not been such as to clarify the situation to any sub- stantial extent. The new lines have not yet been regularly opened, and it will be another week or more before the new lines will come out in earnest and with a show of completeness. Agents repre- senting both domestic and foreign man- ufacturers have already garnered consid- erable business. The past week has witnessed the placing of a very fair volume of advance business, principally on staple fabrics. Such has been the business done by early buyers, promi- nent among whom are large Western jobbers, that certain well-known lines of staples are already in a well-sold po- sition with a promise of an early cover- ing of the entire production of a num- ber of lines. The early buying has been done largely on such fabrics as venetians, broadcloths, sackings, thib- ets, cheviots, etc. A question that is agitating the dress goods manufacturer to no small extent has relation to the status of fancy effects in heavyweights, That fancies are going to be a factor in the situation is generally admitted, but to what extent they will claim the buy- er’s support is a matter of uncertainty. There are those who refuse to believe that staple effects will fall below the proportion of business attracted by them in 1902 for fall and claim that the buyer has not been wholly satisfied with the manner in which the fancies bought last year have worked their way into consumption. The strong manner in which neat plaid effects, Scotch checks, French knot and mohair effects closed the last fall sesaon is considered by cer- tain sellers as holding out good promise for these and similar fabrics during the season just about to open. Whatever may prove to be the status of fancies, sellers look for careful, conservative buying operations on the part of their trade pending a demonstration of the attitude of the retail buyer thereto. Underwear—The purchases of fleeced underwear since our last report have fallen off to some extent. Many buyers have bought all they needed, at least for the early part of the season, and are waiting further developments before in- creasing their lines. Perhaps if a weak spot could be found in the market where the agents were inclined to make conces- sions the jobbers would take advantage of it on speculative bases, but we fail to hear of any inducements in this di- rection recently. The cheaper lines are practically all sold up, but the higher grades have not yet reached that condi- tion, as a rule, although they have se- cured enough business to place them well beyond the worrying condition. When the conditions of stocks and _ pur- chases are compared witb the conditions| that existed a year ago now and the de- velopments that followed, there seems to be no need of worrying over the fleeced goods situation. There is positively no need of cutting prices for the prospects of this as well as other departments .of the knit goods market were never better than to-day. Hosiery—The last week has seen the receipt of good orders for hosiery that have been increasing and promise to increase during the balance of this week. Here, as in the underwear sec- tions, buyers stated that they would come to town, and while quite a fair business has been accomplished on the road, it is expected that even more will be done in the city than usual. Sales- men report in many cases that their trips were more successful than for last fall, yet the buyers informed them that they are coming to town to make many of their purchases, There is some anx- iety on the part of buyers to get their orders in early and avoid possible de- lay and confusion, such as existed in previous seasons, Carpets—The carpet trade continues in excellent condition. Manufacturers, in general, are well sold up for weeks to come on all lines. What new business is coming in comes under the head of duplicates. The orders that are placed are where the wholesalers find that they are short on certain lines. The hulk of the season's business has already been placed and will keep the mills running generally until it becomes time to think of fall lines. The large Eastern mills have taken about all they can handle, and, in fact, have been in that position for some time. Even although their production has been pretty much sold up, they have in some cases given out the fact that an advance ranging from 2 to $c per yard will go into effect at once. They do not expect much busi- ness at these rates and could not take such even if they desired to. This ad- vance is quite usual at this season of the year and is done more for the pur- pose of affecting values next season than for the reason that conditions necessi- tate it. Rugs—Rug weavers generally are ex- ceedingly busy and bid fair to be so for many weeks to come, on both cheap and high-priced rugs. The large carpet- sized rugs in Wiltons, Axminsters and Brussels are in big request and some makers report that they have sufficient business in these alone to keep all hands busy. In Smyrnas there is a good busi- ness doing in the smaller rugs. If you have money to invest read The M. B. Martin Co.’s advertisement on page 22. YOUR ONLY LOSS Will be the time spent writing a card and its cost. Our salesman will. and you are not obliged to buy if the lines do not suit. The chance to se- cure part of your business is what we want. HH O2°,02°.02°.0 . bi BS . Py O22 828s call CE Pe Will you give us that chance? Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Pra) Exclusively Wholesale Ladies’ Muslin Underwear We now carry in stock a com- Muslin Drawers, Muslin Corset Covers and Muslin Night Robes. We would advise you to carry a line p'ete line of Ladies’ of these goods, as the demand is growing stronger every day for ready made garments. Write for sample line. P. Steketee & Sons Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Michigan 33333I3333B of FLEISCHMANN & CO’S s§ YELLOW LABEL COMPRESSED : a ou re m é Fo _ YEAST you sell not only increases ay your profits, but also gives com- ; plete satisfaction to your patrons. ; Fleischmann & Co., ® Detroit Office, 11 W. Larned St. ; Grand ~~ Office, 29 Crescent Ave. Nad Bi nde tae te se bec Noam Fa a oe oper te MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Clothing Prevailing Styles in Clothing at Chicago and New York. Chicago. Ready-to-wear evening clothes are growing in favor. Time was when a ‘‘*hand-me-down’’ dress-suit was re- garded with silent contempt. One who would buy such an article was looked upon asa trifle off color, that is, if he al- lowed the awful truth to leak out. Es- tablished custom shuddered at the very thought. Strange to say, however, the practice of renting a dress suit for an evening, although the subject of some interchange of pleasantries, was not re- garded as an unpardonable crime. The idea became prevalent that a lucky pos- sessor of such a dress suit was a_ legiti- mate prey for all others of his stature among his circle of acquaintances. The idea still prevails. Chicago clothiers, for whom the sale of dress clothes is more of a side issue than an established business, are so much encouraged with the increase in sales of these garments, that more atten- tion will be paid to them this year than before. Indeed, one store, at least, that has been the Mecca for men who strut about in artificial plumage at the rate of $3 per night, has decided to go out of the business of renting dress suits. This concern believes it can sell more of them by so doing. While the bulk of busi- ness in that line is comparatively small, it has grown to such an extent that it seems to warrant special pushing. The ready-to wear suit business bene- fits alike the producer and the consum- er. At least this is the argument. The garments are turned out during com- paratively dull seasons in trade, and in them is a good margin of profit for both the maker and the dealer. A_ ready-to- wear outfit will sell from $35 to $50 and the dealers say they can not be repro- duced by the tailors for one-third more at the inside. There is where the con- sumer saves. Those who handle the garments say the made-up dress suit is fitted ina very few minutes with such a degree of perfection that it can not be distin- guished from the custom-made garment. What more can be desired? asks the merchant. The ‘‘spike-tail’’ has the bulk of Chicago sales in its favor, but the Tuxedo, or dinner coat, is a very good seller. Dealers say the purchase of the former is almost invariably fol- lowed by the sale of the latter. In fact, the increased sale of the dress suit, the making of which until recently was _ re- garded as the one unquestioned prerog- ative of the custom tailor, is but one phase of the increased popularity of ready-to-wear clothing. The reported increase in the clothing trade may be explained to some degree by the general prosperous trade conditions. But the increased sale of high-priced clothing is an indication that the ready-to-wear dealers are making inroads into the business of the custom tailors. More Chicago business men patron- ized the retail clotbiers this season than ever before. These men, advised by friends, caught by the advertisements and determined to give the thing a trial, or however they may have been attracted, bought the ready-made gar- nents and found them satisfactory. The average business man, once suited, is held as a customer, for business clothes at least. In overcoats more than suits, perhaps, this tendency is noticeable. It is not quite so difficult to fit a man with an overcoat as with a suii, and the garment may be purchased from the clothier for one-third less. Given this proposition and the business man be- comes a customer, Chicago men have taken kindly toa Pongee silk mufiler in white. The neck scarf is about a yard long and folds handily without the bulky appearance of the heavier materials. A muffler of this kind may be washed, and two of them furnish a working outfit. New York. Whatever the future trend of fashion may be in men’s wear, a change, no matter how slight, will undoubtedly re- ceive a cordial welcome, providing it indicates a break-away from the pre- dominating funereal black which charac- terizes men’s dress at present. In cast- ing about among the best dressed for. just a ray of color I learn from the lead- ing custom shops that there is a most Gecided tendency to subdued, unob- trusive splashes of color in the cloth- ing. Browns have first place in the estima- tion of those who should know a thing or two about the direction of gentlemen’s choice. Browns are certainly making a bid for recognition, and just a glimmer of hope in this direction is observable on the streets of New York. There are not so many brown overcoats as there are fabrics containing a tasteful mix- ture of the color, varying in shade from the golden to the dark seal. In suit- ings, these mixtures are rich and natty. They are the conversions of American mills as a knickerbocker adaptation of the heathery Scotch mixtures, at pres- ent so popular abroad. In London there is a great deal of talk about the coming in of browns again, and here in New York we are just re- ceiving an intimation of its probability. Ellsworth & Thayer Mnfg. Co. MILWAUKEE, WIS. MANUFACTURERS OF Great Western Fur and Fur Lined Cloth Coats The Good- Fit, Don’t-Rip kind. We want agent in every town. Catalogue and full particulars on application. B. B. DOWNARD, Generai Salesman » Write for a Sample Showing Pants Only in Position. SSM. La MMe. Six Hangers and Closet Bar. That is easy and costs you nothing. Then judge for yourself. The Peerless. Combination Suit, Hanger holds the whole suit on one hanger; holds it right. The Peerless Improved Closet Bar holds six suits, each independent of the rest. in the last few months. Sets in paper boxes or in bulk by the dozen. matter furnished. Sample free to dealers. Hincher Mfg. Co., Burr Oak, Mich. We have sold thousands Sold in Attractive advertising Write to-day. SSeS SESS SSS SS SES Xo WILLIAM CONNOR, President M. C. HUGGETT, Secretary and Treasurer William ASAE SEES AS OES, =) CA} Si) = 2S CASS RSS WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, Vice-President The Connor Co. Incorporated Wholesale Clothing 28 and 30 S. lonia St. Grand Rapids, Mich. We solicit inspection of our immense line of samples for Men, Boys and Children. Men’s Suits as low as $3.25; also up to the very highest and best grades that are made by hand, including full dress or swallow tails, Tuxedos, ete. No manufacturers can give better values and more popular prices. Suits not giving satisfaction we make good; that’s how William Connor has held his trade for a quarter of acentury. Union label goods without extra charge; these help some of our customers’ trade, as the goods are made by most skilled union men. Pants of every description from $2 per dozen pair up. Summer Alpacas, Linen, Serge, Duck, Clerical Coats, White Vests of every kind. We represent Rochester, New York, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and other cities’ houses, which gives you the largest lines in the United States to select from. We will gladly send one of our travelers to see you with line of samples, but prefer to allow customers’ expenses to come here and select from our gigantic line, intwo extra large and splendidly lighted sample rooms, one altered and arranged so as to get the best of light. We carry in stock a large line of goods for immediate use, such as Ulsters, Overcoats, heavy winter and early spring suits. Mailorders promptly attended to. Office hours 7:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. daily except Saturday, when we close at 1 p. m. BsesesS eS Cees esses CIE There is one thing certain about the tendency, however, and it is that brown has received more attention than usual in the new fabrics designed by American mills for the new year. For the coming spring season, greys are said to be in the lead. White and black and its commixtures certainly would be the logical successors of black, In new goods greys predominate in un- finished worsteds, homespuns and doubie-and-twist novelties, These spring clothes in natty greys are sedate enough for the most conservative individual. With a view to forecasting the accept- ableness of greys, leading clothiers in- troduced suits made up of the newest types of mixtures. They were put be- fore their best customers to ascertain how well they would take, and the change met with such a welcome re- ception that naturally a very good opin- ion of grey is entertained for spring. As indicating a style departure from these combinations of color—if white and black can properly be called colors —white and brown, with just a dash of color, was brought out at the same time, and for the new season we are going to have an attractive variety of double- and-twist and single-twist yarn fancies in fabrics on the knickerbocker and homespun order of fabrics, The new design of sack coat will be less military in cut than formerly, more graceful in its proportions, to my way of thinking, and by fara more sightly garment for young men as well as those advanced in years. The coat collar will be narrow in width, as in the present style of cut, with small lapels, concave shoulders, square set but only lightly padded, just sufficient to give a grace- ful poise to the set of the garment on the wearer, Vests will be cut high with small lapels. Trouseis have lost their baggy, peg-top effect and fit more snugly about the hips and are shaped to conform to the anatomical proportions of the leg, medium in width to just below the calf and from there narrowing to the bettom. just bow much grey is going to come into fashion may be judged by the fact that it predominates largely in other lines of men’s wear. In shirts, grey grounds with black and also color stripes have already been taken to very grate- fully by swagger young men asa de- cided change from white grounds. The new grey percales are very neat, al- though dark. Grey is also a dominant color in madras shirts, the grounds be- ing in solid grey, the shades varying in strength from light to dark, and are en- hanced by corded stripes and woven figures in light tones, Grey in neckwear is a feature of the season before us. Efforts have been made to push heliotrope as a color change from prevailing vogue, but witb somewhat indifferent success. Grey is consequently the most promising, for the reason that it admits of a great va- riety of treatment and combinations in patterning. Last, although by no means the least, we are to have grey hosiery. Black still holds full sway, and the tans or leather shades will be of secondary importance, but greys are very much in evidence in half-hose, and their catchiness may be instrumental in making them the vogue. —Apparel Gazette. > +. The deep thinking and optimistic minds of the present, from out their] glowing eyes, look up the pathway of evolution into a moneyless civilization, where there will be a better medium of exchange than lifeless gold and _perish- able paper. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ——~__- 13 Recent Business Changes in Indiana. Evansville—Conrad Mueller has sold his grocery stock to John Mubbauer, Ft. Wayne—J. R. Heinrich has taken a partner in bis drug business under the style of Heinrich & Fuelling. Ft, Wayne—Chas. Kratsch has re- tired from the clothing and furnishing goods business of Kratsch Bros. Indianapolis—Wm, H. Fox has pur- chased the interest of his partner in the grocery business of Fox & Steele. Kokomo—Botorff & Duncan, grocers, have dissolved partnership. The busi- ness is continued by Chas, Duncan. La Porte—Jobn S, Minich has pur- chased the interest of his partner in the boot and shoe and grocery business of Minich & Mohr, La Porte—Peterson & Son succeed Peterson & Lonn in the clothing and tailoring business. Scottsburg—Everett. Bros., general merchandise dealers, bave dissolved partnership. The business is continued under the style of T. H. Son. Shelbyville—Abraham Miller has dis- continued the clothing business, Attica—E, H. Marlott, grocer and meat dealer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Evansville—H. E. Straub, dealer in hardware, has filed a petition in bank- ruptcy. Shelbyville—Toner & Comstock have not discontinued thetimplement business, as stated last week. Se The Way With Boys. Farmer Korntop—Yes, | sot my boy to sawin’ some wood to-day. Farmer Medders—I’ll send my _ boy over to help him ef ye want. Farmer Korntop—No, don’t ye. | want the job done in a hurry, Everett & All of our garmetits are made to obr- der and contain the United Garment Workers’ ‘‘Made to Measure”’ label. We do nvt handle atty ready made clothing. We afte the only tailors who are mak ing (without extra chat SOFT ds well as stiff front coats, ; teal do not twist up or break. All of our coats art NON-BREAKABLE. Gold Medal Tailors Chicago, Ill. We guarantee perfect cut, style atid We send sample outfits, express pre fit, also that our garments will give paid, to merchants and cor; S perfect satisfaction in every respect running commissaries. If you it aid will build up an increasing and the best that’s going write for lasting trade for our agents. and please mention this paper. Now is the time to send in your application for our Spring Line My Spring Line is very complete in all staples and fancies. Black Clays, unfin- ished Worsteds, fancy Worsteds, Cassimeres and Cheviots in all grades. Well made, perfect fitting, up-to-date styles. Mm. 1. Schloss Manufacturer of Clothing 143 Jefferson Hvuc. Detroit, Michigan RoR oR is the whole argument in itself. “A new suit for every unsatisfactory one.’ It has the Union Label too—we’ve added cause it ensures better workmanship for the same money. Fs Ow, a Pe LEX STS DS Pad DDS DDT ST ISSUED BY | SETHORTTY OF is UNIT < See OMMENT S S ERS Se NOR or | meaistoneD on ne na we > > Sid Suits and Overcoats $3. 75 to $13.50, ar line at every Brice a le: Our sale n are out. troit at 19 Kanter Buildi ples by express—prep: Drop us a card isking Department. ‘about our Retailers’ Help Ah LIKI MOO OO 9% — A ROO EE Halo Pressure Lamp,fsoo Candle Power. One Quart. of Gasoline BRILLIANT OR HALO SELF-MAKING GAS LAMP than § quarts of kerosene will do in any lamp, an nd the lig is better than can be had from incandescent gas burners, electricity or coal oil, an¢ less the an 1-1oth the cost. Over 100,000 in home and business use at an average expense o Anv"one can use them; are simple and absolutely safe; can be hung anywhere. A they autiful light for almost nothing, without smoke, smell or greasy wick. imitations. Every lamp is guaranteed. Write for catalogue. = BRILLIANT GAS LAMP CO., 42 State Street, Chicago will give more light and burn longer in our [PUL oO! t “1IMOG Less Than 15 Cents a Month Don’t be persuaded to try Agents wanted everywhere. 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoplifting in the Clothing Store. The article on this subject published a short time ago has elicited many reminiscences from men in the trade. In one New York town a storekeeper caught six shoplifters operating in his Store during one week. One party, a woman, took a shirt valued at twenty- five cents and it cost fifty dollars to makes a test case. The woman pleaded not guilty, although caught with the goods on her. One jury disagreed, but a second jury found her guilty. In an- other store in the same town five per- sons were caught in one day. In the clothing department in one of the well-known metropolitan stores few people notice a well-dressed, retiring in- dividual who stands idly about the rear of the department near the elevator. It is his business to see that no overcoats or suits travel down that way surrepti- tiously. It was so very easy for pecple to drift through the stock and drift into the elevator after having had clothing drift into their arms or on their backs in a mysterious manner that it was de- cided to do something to impede further progress of that nature, A well-known man in silk hat and of a most distinguished bearing went into a large clothing store lately and re- quested to see an overcoat. After look- ing at some coats the clerk was obliged to turn around and leave him for a min- ute to wait on another customer. The man sauntered along to a pile of fine trousers and slipped a couple of pairs under his coat. It bappened that the clerk by accident glanced in the mirror just as the theft was committed. He was so astonished that he could net believe his eyes, but as the man started to walk cout he hurried back to him, ncticing that two pairs of trousers were missing from the pile and that the man was somewhat more corpulent than when he came in. The manager was quietly summoned and the man was induced to walk to the back of the store. He blus- tered and threatened a suit for damages but finally allowed the trousers to be pulled from his clothing. Then he pleaded and begged to be allowed to go without arrest. Finally the manager of the store permitted him to depart after paying for the trousers, as he did not wish to incur the expense of prosecution. But the worst form of shoplifting with which the merchant is obliged to con- tend is that of his own clerks. A cloth- ier wondered where his goods were go- ing to. Every week two or three pairs of trousers, an overcoat, or a suit were missing. It was utterly impossible to locate the means of loss, Finally the thing was revealed by accident. A new errand boy was sent out with a bundle of goods and took by accident instead a dress suit case that one of the clerks of the store used every few days to bring down some of his clothing for pressing in the busheling room—a privilege ex- tended tothe clerks by the house. The man at the door recognized the case ata glance, and playfully gave it a kick as he told the boy of the mistake he had made. To the surprise of every one the case, having a broken lock, opened up under the kick and dropped two new pairs of trousers on the floor. Explana- tions were in order. The clerk owning the case made a clean breast of his offenses and several hundred dollars’ worth of clothing was recovered. It had been for so long a time the custom of the clerks to come in and out with pack- ages that no one had seemed to think of the possibility of thefts being committed in that way. This little incident from real life illustrates the inducements to theft put in the way of clerks by a shift- less system of store management. Some men are led astray by the opportunities placed in their way and, although a*man without enough moral fiber to resist temptation is pretty sure to fall sooner or later, it isa store manager's business to see that he has no direct temptations to steal, H “FIGURES WON’T LIE, BUT LIARS CAN FIGURE.” JOSEPH SHRIER Manufacturer and Jobber of ATS, CAPS AND STRAW GOODS 193-195 BANK ST., CLEVELAND, OHIO Write F. H. 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Lot 124 Apron Overall $5.00 per doz. Lot 274 Overall Coat $5.50 per doz. Made from 250 Otis woven stripe, indigo blue suitings, stitched in white. We use no extract goods as they are tender and will not wear. EAL (LOHINGG TWO GRAND RAPIOS, MICH. 5 / oe age / SS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 A CLEAN SWEEP. One of the Most Important Functions in the Store. It is an adage of domestic currency that a woman with a dust cap and broom will rout the stoutest nerved man on earth. It is not so much the woman as it is the dust and turmoil she spreads like a cyclone. At least, untrained ones do, and mas- culine broom wielders are no better. Any man who knows the average routine of office ‘‘cleaning’’ knows that the whole object of the janitor or janitress is apparently to get the dust off the floor, where it would nct hurt anything, and to deposit it in an even layer over and in desks, tables, chairs, bis office coat, etc. In the down town part of a city, where a thousand smoking chimneys are scattering soot and ashes, and a thous- and horses are kicking up the street accumulations, the deposits of dust are something astonishing. Even in smaller towns, the ordinary store accumulates a vast quantity, that will damage almost any kind of stock if not fought continually. You can not keep it out. The problem is to get it off the floor and out of the building, without having it settle on the goods, The following gives some useful hints: Dampness in some form must be brought into play to keep the dust down. How shall this be done? The old- fashioned way is to sprinkle water on the floor. It is thrown about from a cup or a sponge, or distributed with a gar- den sprinkling pot. A very expert per- son might succeed with the pot in Spreading the water quite evenly over the floor without making any very deep pools anywhere, but the average person does not. Poois produce mud, which sweeping can not remove, and which, drying, be- comes dust again. It is, in fact, al- most impossible to dampen the floor by sprinkling so as to prevent raising dust without also making mud. This crude method, then, should never be used in any shop. The material now often used is wet sawdust, but this is not always judici- ously applied. Many cover the whole floor with a sprinkling of it. Part of it becomes dry before it is reached, while the whole forms an unwieldy mass tc sweep and it is a waste of material. The better plan is to deposit a consider- able quantity, well saturated and par- tially squeezed out, at the point or points in the shop where sweeping is to begin. This mass should then be swept along like a regiment in line of battle, cover- ing in its path every part of the floor. It will absorb the dust and carry it along, leaving the floor clean. If the shop or the different portions so swept are quite long it may be necessary to re- inforce the moving mags once, or even twice, on the way, but the addition should be made (like the original de- posit) in a lump at one point and not scattered or strewn over the whole floor, This method produces the clean- est floor and raises the least dust of all ways known to us. A word about using the broom, It seems to be natural fora boy to push the broom in front of him, thus flirting the dust up into the air. We never saw a boy who had not been taught better who did not do this way. Now, if a broom is used ior this purpose it should be drawn and not pushed, the handle of the utensil being pointed ahead and the broom part following. This makes cleaner sweeping, raises less dust and does not destroy the broom. Of course, a bristle brush makes cleaner work than a bass broom. It is sometimes called a *‘hair broom,’’ It is needless to say that a rough floor can never be swept clean, and is ex- pensive in its consumption of time, energy and brooms. lf a landlord will not provide a smooth floor the tenant would best do it himself; it will be economical in the long run. Flooring boards should be of hardwood and sawed ‘‘boom-grain’’ up. So cut, they can not sliver and hecome rough or un- even, Sweeping is one of the most important functions in the store. It is done every day or oftener, and should be performed under the best conditions possible. Dust is destruction to goods and losses thus entailed can and must be kept down, Remember that a feather duster dis- perses, but does not remove the dust from the shop. 8 Overheard in a Gun Store. Desperate-Looking Party—I want to buy a revolver. Dealer—Yes, sir, here's the three lat- est styles; this plain, substantial arm is much used for self-defense; this silver- mounted one with pear! handle is used for shooting sweethearts,and this cheap, common affair is usually used to shoot wives. It is very popular just now. ap Wise is the baldheaded individual who fully realizes that hair will never again grow on his cranium. fi tia idan Hi HTB CL RUGS Made From Old Carpets Any size desired at small - cost. Price Hst and in- formation as to amount of carpet required free. Michigan Rug Co. 43-5 S. Madison St., Battle Creek, Mich WRAPPERS Full Size. Perfect Fitting. Moderna Styles. Choice Patterns. Carefully Made. Prints and Percales. Lawns and Dimities. Price $7.50 to $15 per dozen. foe Send for samples. Manufactured by the Lowell Manufacturing Co., 91 Campau Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. SS Rugs from Old Carpets Retailer of Fine Rugs and Carpets. Absolute cleanliness is our hobby as well as our endeavor to nfake rugs better, closer woven, more durable than others. We cater to first class trade and if you j write for our 16 page illustrated booklet it will make you better acquainted with our methods and new process. We have no agents. We pay the freight. Largest looms in United States. 4 Petoskey Rug Mfg. & Carpet Co., Limited 455-457 Mitchell St., Petoskey, Mich. WS Ps a. wo ge NOT AT ALL OFFENSIVE SCW. 3¢ CIGAR A Business Hint A suggested need often repeated creates the want that sends the purchaser to the store. Every dealer should have his share of the profit that reverts from the enormous amount of money expended by the National Biscuit Company in keeping their products constantly before the eyes of the public. These goods become the actual needs that send a steady stream of trade to the stores that sell them. People have becoine educated to buying biscuit and crackers in the In-er-seal Package— and one success has followed the other from the famous Uneeda Biscuit to the latest widely advertised specialty. Each new product as it is announced to the public serves as a stimulant to business and acts as a drawing card that brings more custo- miers to the store than any plan you could devise. A well stocked line of National Biscuit goods is a business policy that it is not well to overlook. ferterereeeere etter erry st Cera Nut Flakes One of the Choicest of Flaked Foods Manufactured by a prosperous company; now in its second year. We could sell three carloads a day if we could make them. We must have additional buildings and offer a limited amount of treasury stock for this pur- pose. No uncertainty, no new undeveloped proposi- tion; but a prosperous institution, running night and day. Ceme and look us over or write to us for terms, NATIONAL PURE FOOD CO., LTD. 187 Canal Street Grand Rapids, Michigan EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ESET TTT eo ob oo ob oh he oh oh hehe} ob hh hop hh heheh hhh o> 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Rubbers The Tragic Love Story of Mr. Augustus Sniper. Augustus Sniper stood in his second- floor back bedroom surveying himself in a Small looking glass. He was ar- raved for conquest and contemplated himself with a smile of complacency. His necktie was most correct, his coat was a marvel of tailoring, although somewhat aggressively new, as was also the rest of his attire down to his crim- son socks, but here the newness sudden ly ceased, for on his feet were a pair of the most disreputable old boots which have ever been worn since boots were invented. That they had once been patent leather was apparent, but of their former ele- gance, their white stitching and pristine brilliancy, there was no sign. They had been patched, sewed, blacked, inked, sctatched, battered, trodden down at the heels and kicked out at the toes to such a degree that a costermonger would have refused to convert them into a flower for the dinner table,'’ even ac- companied by a shilling, when they had reached half the state of dilapida- tion in which Mr, Sniper wote them, And why did he wear them? Among his friends his boots wete a constant source of ‘‘envy, hatred and malice;'’ his toes were the most pointed, his fit the most perfect, his leather the most shiny and his fashion the newest. His lady friends talked of them, and one of*them had even been known to refuse a man ‘*his boots were not to be men- tioned in the same breath with Mr, Sniper’s, and she had once seen him wear one that was patched.'’’ But then no one ever saw him in the boots he wore in the privacy of his bed- room. Such toes as he showed to an ad- miring world were not compatible with the broad foot he unquestionably pos- sessed, and the agony they made him suffer was only to be allayed by wearing those comfortable old friends in his mo ments of retirement from the stage of suburban society where he played no unimportant part in his own estima- tion. Having surveyed himself care- fully, beginning at the top and only lamenting that the new fashion in ties precluded him from wearing a stick- pin, his glance at last rested on bis crimson silk socks and the boots, As he eyed the latter he gave a chuckle and looked with pride toward a pair of ir- patents'' which stood on his chest of drawers ina state of im- maculate brightness and glasslike hard- ness, ‘It wouldn't do because reproachable ° to forget to change them,’’ he said, with a grin; ‘‘by Jove, what would the dear Katie say? Why, my chances would be clean gone directly. It was only the other day | heard her say to Jack McDonald that she thought a man who did not wear patent leathers was not fit to be spoken to, and a patch was perfectly inadmis- sible in a lady's drawingroom. And if she was to see these! Oh, it makes me all of a flutter to think of it. Now, I} must he cool. What shall I do to calm| myself? I know, | will read that book | she lent me; it will do to open the con- | versation with.'' So he sat down in his} easiest chair and began to read. The book, however, was very excit- ing, and he never noticed the time un- til the clock struck four, the hour he should bave been at his adored one's house. So, with an exciamation which one couldn't exactly say to a Sunday school class without having difficulties with the superintendent, he hastily glanced at himself in the glass, picked up his carefully brushed hat and hur- riedly left the house. Fortunately his destination, the house of Dr. Gunn, was not far off, and in six minutes he was standing on the doorstep waiting for the door to be opened that he might be ushered into the presence of his Katie, to whom he meant that very afternoon to offer his hand, his heart and—his boots. He heard the welcome footsteps of the housemaid and his heart was beating high with expectation when, looking downward, he saw he had forgotten to change his boots. There was ho time to retreat, already the door was open and before he could collect his thoughts he found himself in the drawing room in the presence of his divinity and several other visitors of both sexes, ‘Ob, I am so glad you have come, Mr. Sniper’’ said Katie, a pretty girl with sparkling dark eyes and a neat figure, as she burried to meet him at the door. Then she loweted her voice to say: “‘Such a nuisance those people com- ing.’ ‘Er—er—not at all—er—I assure you —I—’' he stammered convulsively, too much unnerved by the discovery of the state of his feet to have the slightest idea of what she was saying, beyond a vague idea that she was apologizing for something. So Augustus was left stranded by the door where he had entered, too much overcome by the paralyzing fear that someone would look at him and dis- cover those boots to heed Katie's anger or to be aware in what way he had offended her. However, he dared not remain in the open space and seeing an ottoman he determined to reach it or perish in the attempt. Happily it was near Mrs, Gunn, which afforded him excuse to go to it, Where he stood he felt as though he was on the edge of some fearful precipice, any moment some one might No matter where you liv e you can keep your money safe in our bank, and you can getit immediately and easily when you want to use it. Any person living with- in the reach of a Post Office or Express Office can deposit money with us without risk or trouble. Our financial responsi- bility is $1,960,000 There is no safer bank Z than ours. Money intrust- ed tous is absolutely secure and draws r 3% interest Your dealings with usare perfectly confidential. *‘Banking by Mail? is the name of an interest- ing book we publish which tells how anyone can do ~ eir banking with us by ; how to send money or 1ake deposits by mail; and important things persons should know who want to keep their money safe and well invested. It will be sent free upon request. Old National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. eer res RAPIDS | | Sui? The shoes we make bring in the profits and bring them often. Their wear-resisting qualities are what, does it. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Limited Grand Rapids, Mich. COMFORT SHOES Embrace every feature that goes to make style, comfort and durability. Our gored shoes run just a little ahead of anything made by our competitors. The goring used in the production’ of these shoes is the very best made and will retain its strength until the shoe is worn out. All styles and grades. Dealers who handle Mayer's Shoes have the advantage of handling a product that is backed by a liberal advertising ap- propriation. For prices aud particulars address F. MAYER ‘BOOT @ SHOE CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS. “Do It Now -Send us your orders at once for Hood and Old Colony Rubbers We will take care of you. The L. A. Dudley Rubber Co. Battle Creek, Mich. LN AR RE NNR NRE St ML ERT a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 YOU WILL FIND This cut on all our cartons. We stand behind our assertions; if goods are not as represented, remember that the railroad runs both ways. We will send the following shoes on approval because we know you can not better them. ‘Honesty is the best policy,’” so we are honest in what we advertise. Three of our good things made by us at our Northville factory are: No. 236. Men’s Boarded Calf, Heavy % D S., Brass Stand, Screw, French, Bals.......... $150 No 230. Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip, Brass Stand, Screw, French, Bals.... 1 60 No. 231. Men’s Boarded Calf, two full Sole and Slip, Brass Stand, Screw, Tipped, Bals.... 1 60 Each pair with a guarantee tag attached The Rodgers Shoe Company, Toledo, Ohio FACTORY, NORTHVILLE, MICH. look around; there was nothing for it}room, but I could not tell where you OEE SESE SE SE Ee es ee but arush. He rushed. Happily he was able to pull himself up in time and avoid tumbling over Mrs. Gunn. ‘‘How do you do my dear Mrs, Gunn?’’ he gasped shaking hands with her violently hoping thereby to draw her attention from the eccentric manner in which he had crossed the room. ‘‘How do you do?’’ she answered coldly adding to herself ‘‘If it were not so early in the day I should say that man had been drinking. I hope he has no vicious habits. He comes here very often, I must drop a hint to Katie.’’ Here the conversation languished. Augustus remained wrapt in his own thoughts which were far from pleasant. At last he decided he would outstay every one, propose to Katie and then if accepted he would be asked to dinner and would make his escape under cover of the night but if refused, well it would not much matter then whether she saw the boots or not. He was suddenly aroused from these reflections by hear- ing Mrs. Gunn say: ‘‘Won’t you sit down, Mr. Sniper?’’ And awakening to the fact that he had been standing all the time in silence he seated himself on the otta- man. But he had put himself in the worst place in the room viz. next to the tea table. Presently Mrs. Gunn again spoke: ‘‘Ah, here is the tea. May 1 trouble you Mr. Sniper to take this cup of tea to Miss Neville? She is at the other side of the room near the win- dow."’ There was nothing for it but to go, so with a cup in one hand and a plate of cake in the other he started on his perilous journey. Behind the sofa around a fat old lady between a lady and gentleman in the midst of a flirta- tion, occasionally darting in a zigzag course from the edge of a curtain toa footstool and back again to the vast out- lying flanges of some old dowager gin- gerly skirting the groups of laughing, chattering girls, he made his erratic way, taking advantage of every corner with the care of a oer, and at last reached the farther end of the room, where sat Miss Neville in the bow win- dow. ‘‘At last,’’? he said to himself, as he handed her the cake. ‘‘I have done it, but | would not go through that again for $5,000.’" And he sat down beside Maggie Neville, determined nothing should move him from his haven. ‘‘What a cosy place you have over here. I thought so directly I came in, so I got Mrs. Gunn to let me bring you your tea and come over here fora talk.’’ ‘‘Did you? | watched you crossing the were going."’ He turned warm at the bare idea of bis being watched. Had she seen the boots? ‘Did you—er—did you notice any- thing—er—peculiar about me?'’ he stammered. ‘*No,’’ she said, wonderingly, ‘‘ex- cept perhaps your manner of walking. You did not look as if you were trying to get here.’’ ‘‘Ob, that is nothing—I often—er—do that. Jt is a way I have.’’ ‘‘Indeed.,’’ This was not encouraging. Anything to turn the subject, so he rushed on: ‘‘But Lassure you, Miss Neville, now I am here, I could wish for no greater happiness than to remain here forever. At least, that is to say, until you go away.”’ This was perfectly true. ‘IT will leave a little margin for your politeness, Mr. Sniper, and will not consider you bound by tbat,’’ she said with a laugh, and then added dryly, ‘‘What would the others—what would Katie say if you sat here all the after- noon?’’ ‘‘I do not care what they say. My present position is the only one to give me happiness. |! would not exchange it for a throne,’’ he said with fervor. He was getting desperate. Anything to keep her attention from his boots, and all these speeches which she took to mean a sudden desire to get upa flirtation were no empty compliments, but terribly true expressions of his pain- ful position. Meanwhile Katie was watching him with great wrath. What did he mean by this behavior? She was not going to stand such treatment. He had not once looked at her, and now to see him flirting with that minx Maggie Neville was more than flesh and blood could put up with. ‘“*Here is your tea,’’ said young Mc- Donald at this moment. ‘‘Can | bring you anything to eat, Miss Gunn?’’ ‘‘Yes, please; I should like some cake,'’ she answered, fixing Augustus, who still held the plate of cake, with her eye. ‘*Where the dickens can it have gone to?’’ he muttered some mintues later, after bunting high and low. ‘‘Well, I’m blessed if there isn’t Sniper hug- ging it on his knee; I will go and in- terrupt bim.’’ And he went in Sniper's direction, Poor Augustus saw him coming and moved a little closer to Miss Neville, hiding his feet under the edge of her gown, little thinking all this was per- Trade Builders That Will Help You Our Men’s and Ladies’ $1.75 Dongola Shoes. Remember our $1.50 Ladies’ shoe is the best on earth MADE WITH OUR TAPLESS INSOLES Of which we control the patent. 300 dozen of this one shoe sold in December. 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REEDER & CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 28 and 30 South Ionia Street as eeeeoves ee ae LAN : : : 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ceived by Katie. ‘*The wretch,’’ she said to herself, and when Jack Mc- Donald returned she flirted desperately with him, keeping one eye on Augustus, however. ‘‘Well, Mr. Sniper,’’ said Miss Neville in answer to one of his pretty speeches; ‘‘since you Say your pleasure is in serving me, will you be so kind as to bring me another cup of tea?’’ Poor Augustus! ‘“Of course my greatest pleasure is to serve you, Miss Neville, but—er—when that service—er—necessitates my leav- ing you—er—being deprived of your society, I can not fly to accomplish your wish as I would otherwise do—’’ He had the cup in hand and was balancing it idiotically as he stammeringly sought an excuse for remaining where he was. Just at this critical moment a friend passed at about the distanceof a yard and ahalf. Here was his chance. ‘‘Thomson,'’ he said, reaching over to touch him and nearly overbalancing as he did so, ‘‘Miss Neville says, will you get her a cup of tea, please?”’ Thomson, who had long worshipped Maggie Neville, flew off with alacrity on his errand, ‘‘Really, Mr. Sniper, this is going too far,”” said Neville in an offended tone; ‘‘if you did not wish to get my tea I would not have you do it for worlds, but | think you need not put speeches into my mouth.’’ ‘‘My dear Miss Neville—not wish to get your tea? 1 assure you—I—’’ And then a happy idea struck him. ‘*The thing was, I knew that fellow wanted to come and join us—and—I—er—I—dic not want him. See?’’ Just then Thomson returned, carefully steering his way across the room with the desired cup of tea. ‘‘Thank you, Mr. Thomson,’’ she said with a gracious smile, ‘‘it is lucky you have come, as Mr. Sniper has declared he can no longer keep away from Miss Gunn, and I shall be left al! alone. ’”’ Poor Augustus! Thomson beamed, and there was noth- ing for it but for him to rise and give up his seat and make his way to Katie. ‘Oh, that I had skirts!'’ be groaned. ‘Why was | not born a woman?’’ By this time many of the guests had departed, and to cross the room was a matter of still greater difficulty than be- fore. However, by making darts, when no one was looking, from cover to cover, he at length managed to place himself behind his beloved Katie’s chair. She, however, took no notice of him, but continued chatting gaily with Jack Mc- Donald. So there he stood (sitting was out of the question) in silence until the last guest had departed, and when Katie returned from bidding them good-bye at the door, he advanced and said: ‘‘I am so glad all those bores are gone.’’ ‘‘You have the advantage of me there,’’ she said, haughtily. He ignored this remark tinued: ‘‘T have been waiting to speak to you all the afternoon, Miss Gunn—Katie— you know what | have come for—I want to tell you—"’ ‘Please tell me nothing, Mr. Sniper. After your disgraceful behavior this afternoon nothing you can say will have any interest for me.’’ Miss and con- in the state you are in, after your out- rageous flirtation, is nothing short of an insult. A gentleman does not come to ask a lady to be his wife and begin by flirting with some one else, nor does he expect to be received in respectable houses when he can not even walk straight, nor does he,’’ as her glance traveled downward, ‘‘come to pay suit in such boots. ”’ Augustus fled. ton Journal. - >+o Shoe Dealer Solved the Fuel Problem. Coal has become such a precious ar- ticle that one man in this city has found it to his advantage to heat his store with old shoes. Rufe Williams bas been col- lecting old shoes for the last ten years and he has six wagonloads of them in his cellar. He kept collecting them, for he thought he would have use for them sometime. Many customers who come into shoe stores leave their old shoes and wear away their new ones. That is the way Mr. Williams got his shoes. When cold weather came this month the natural gas supply went down so low in the shoe store that Mr. Williams be- gan to cast about to see what he could do for more heat. He investigated the price of coal and found it pretty high. Then an idea struck him. He remem- bered his visit to a shoe factory where the immense building was entirely heated by scraps of leather from the shoes. He thought of his pile of old shoes in thé cellar of his store and the feul problem was solved. The store is now very comfortabie as far as the atmosphere is concerned. The shoes make an intense heat and there are enough of them to last the rest of the winter. Whenever it gets pretty cold in the room Mr. Williams opens the stove door and throws in a pair of cowhide boots. When only a small fire is needed he searches around in the box of shoes which he has brought up for the day and finds a pair of Cinderella slip- pers which have graced the small feet of some fair lady and throws them into the fire. He uses baby sboes in the morning when he wants to kindle the fire and then throws on overshoes to make it burn lively. Mr, Williams says that if there is not too much cold weather he might be able to retail a few loads of old sboes to con- sumers at a few cents cheaper than coal costs per ton.—Anderson, Ind., Herald. Poor Augustus !—Bos- Assignees. Our exnerience in acting as assignees is large and enables us to do this work ina way that will prove entirely satisfactory. Our records show that we do the work economically and in a business-like manner, with good results. The Michigan ‘But, Katie, listen to me—you know I love you, have always loved you from | the first time | saw you, and I thought | you did not dislike me.’’ ‘‘Sir, you force me to speak more | plainly, In short, your language to me | Trust Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Buckskin Rubbers The Buckskin Rubber Boots and Shoes are made of only the purest rubber. to only one dealer in a town. vertised They are sold They are ad- in all the farm papers. Consumers call for them. You can make more clear profit than on any other line of rubbers. They will outwear any other rubbers two to one. Do you want to secure this line for your town? Re- member the capacity of the factory is limited. My agents are now on the road. Address all communications to Milton Reeder Selling Hgent tor Michigan Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufactured by Monarch Rubber Co., St. Louis, Mo. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. S. E. Barrett, Representing the Lacey Shoe Co, Stephen Elden Barrett was born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., March 17, 1864. His grandfather on his father’s side was English. His grandmother on his father’s side was Scotch. His grand- mother on his mother’s side was an own cousin of ex-Governor Wm. H. Seward, of New York who was Lin- coln’s great Secretary of State. When 2 years oid his parents removed to Os- wego, N. Y., where they remained until he was 16 years old, when they moved back to Poughkeepsie, and he pursued a commercial course at the Eastman Business College. He and his father then embarked in the livery business, which they continued four years, when he went to New York City and entered the employ of H. W. Shotwell & Co., wholesale grain and hay dealers, as city salesman. Two years later he left this position and accompanied his family = to Binghampton, where he and _ his father engaged in the meat business un- der the style of Barrett & Son, Four years later he entered upon a career as traveling salesman, representing the G. E. S. S. Medicine Co., of Elmira, N, Y., in Northern Pennsylvania. He not only called on the trade, but sampled the towns, contracted for advertising and wrote the advertisements. Three years later he engaged to travel for J. Rich- ardson & Co., shoe manufacturers of El- mira, with whom he remained six years, covering Northern Pennsylvania and Western Michigan regularly, be- sides jumping to other fields at intervals, He then engaged to travel for the Pon- tiac Knitting Co., covering the trade of Southern Michigan and the Upper Pen- insula with the regularity of clockwork for three years. On account of the change in the policy of the Pontiac company in placing its goods exclu- sively in the hands of jobbers, Mr. Bar- rett looked around for a new connection, and was gratified over receiving prop- ositions from four houses. He finally decided to accept the offer received from the newly-organized Lacey Shoe Co., of Caro, to represent that house on the road, covering Southern Michigan and Northern Minnesota four times a year. In getting out the initial line of goods, he has been able to assist Man- ager Lacey very materially in point of style, design and workmanship, on ac- count of the intimate knowledge of the business be acquired during the six years he was employed by Richardson & Co, Mr. Barrett was married six years ago to Miss Carrie Clark, of Clarkston, where they reside in their own home. His aged parents—he was an only child—reside in a beautiful home at Woodmere Heights, in the Catskills. Besides being a member of the Mich- igan Knights of the Grip, Mr. Barrett is not a member of any fraternal asso- ciation or secret society, having never aspired to being a ‘‘jiner,”’ Mr, Barrett has two hobbies—a good horse and a disposition to cut up a shoe to see what it is made of. He has be- come so expert in diagnosing shoes from their appearance that he can near- ly always teil what is to be found in the shoe before it is dissected. He has not been without a good horse for many years,and during this time he has owned several animals which have achieved something more than a local reputation as roadsters. Mr. Barrett attributes his success to his knowledge of the shoe business and to the fact that he never abuses the con- fidence of a customer, In common with traveling men generally, he has numer- ous opportunities to crowd goods on his customers, but he has made it an invariable rule never to force sales which are likely to react on him or in- duce his customers to purchase lines which are not adapted to their commun- ities. This policy, persistently and con- sistently maintained at all times and under all circumstances, has enabled him~-to make and retain friends wher- ever he has traveled. If you have money to invest read The M. B. Martin Co.’s advertisement on page 22. We have the Largest Stock in Western Mich- igan of Sleigh Runners Convex and Flat Sleigh Shoe Steel Bar and Band lron Send us your orders, Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd. Grand Rapids, Michigan Perfection Lighting Company 17 S. Division St., Grand Rapids General Lighting Supplies Perfection Lighting System BOnenesonesonesenc nenene We not only carry a full and complete line of the celebrated Lycoming Rubbers but we also carry an assortment of the old reliable Woonsocket Boots Write for prices and catalogues. Our assortment of combinations and Lumberman’s Socks is complete. “Our Special” black top Felt Boots with duck rubber overs, per dozen, $19 Send fora sample case of these before they are gone. Waldron, Alderton & Melze, Saginaw, Mich. ©. YES! We make other shoes beside the Hard Pan, and good ones, too. But our Hard Pans receive the most painstaking at- tention from the moment the order reaches the factory. The upperstock, the insole, the outsole, the counter, the gusset, even the thread, and every smallest part are most carefully selected, scrutinized and examined. And the greatest watch- fulness is exercised in putting these parts together; every process is closely followed, every mishap guarded against. Everything is done and nothing left undone to produce the greatest wearing shoe that can be made out of leather. To make our ‘‘Hard Pan Shoes—Wear Like Iron’’ is our great- est ambition. Try them. HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE Co., MAKERS OF SHOES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Spring Rubbers Three Grades GOLD SEALS THE BEST Goodyear Rubber Company Milwaukee, Wis. Length, 19's inches. Made from heavy, galvanized wire cloth, with all edges well protected. Can be taken apart at the middle in a moment and nested for convenience in carrying, Packed one-quarter dozen in a case. Retails at $1.25 each. Liberal discount to the trade. Our line of Fishing Tackle is complete in every particular. Mail orders solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. MILES HARDWARE CO. 113-115 MONROE,ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Diameter, 95 inches. 3 ba ? 2 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Things to Be Avoided If Popularity Is Desired. A school girl writes to me complain- ing that she is not popular and asking for some magic whereby she may win the affection of her mates. ‘‘I have no difficulty in making friends, ’’ she says, ‘‘but I can not keep them. Girls seem to like me at first, but in a little time | have the pain and mortification of see- ing regard turn into indifference, then into coldness and negiect, and realize that another friendship has slipped from my gtasp. What shall I do to make myself popular?’’ It is a hard question to answer, little sister. To a degree kissing must always go by favor, and there will be certain women who, by no conscious effort, draw all hearts to them as irresistibly as sunflowers turn to the sun. It is some- thing—nothing—a trick of manner or voice or speech or smile that attracts us, but nonetheless they go through a world where every eye brightens at their ap- proach and every hand waves a wel- come. To have this power by nature is the gift of the gods, but if it bas been de- nied you,there is comfort in the thought that it can be acquired by art. It is one of our mistakes to always speak of love as if it were an orchid that grew only under tropical conditions, amid the jun- gles of passion; whereas, it is a thor- oughly acclimated domestic plant that flourishes in any kitchen garden if prop- erly cultivated. It is always easier to win love than it is to keep it. Anyone can charm for an hour or a day, but the real test of one’s attractiveness and likeahility comes when affection must stand the wear and tear of everyday use and the disillusionment of close companionship. This is the reason that so many people whom we like at first fail to wear well, and why, year by year, we find ourselves with a constantly narrowing circle of those in whom we take any real heart interest. It is one of the tragedies of life that we start out in youth with an army of friends, but one by one they drop away, until we are fortunate when we come to the last stage of the journey to find one faithful hand still clasping ours and one single comrade of all who started out so loyally with us still keep- ing step with us. This is pathetic, but it is also self- preservation. With intelligent people, friendship becomes a process of elimi- nation, and as we go along we rid our- selves of the unfit, just as we throw away a garment when it begins to chafe and bind. It is a hard saying, but worthy of all acceptance, that those who have no friends do not deserve them. We all like to think, when we are neglected, that it is because we are not under- stood, and we console ourselves by re- flecting what a good thing people are missing when they miss us, but the solemn truth is that our fellow creatures generally appraise us at our real face value and we get all to which we are entitled. It is, therefore, up to you, little sister, if you can not keep the love you win, to resolve yourself into an investigating committee and ascertain what it is in your own nature that drives friends away. For be sure of this, that all the world is hungering and thirsting for love and sympathy and comradeship, and everyone you meet is waiting, trembling and eager to see if you can give them the grip and password. There are, however, faults that are as antagonistic to friendship as an acid is to a sweet. What are yours? Are you egotistical? The reason there is so little friendship in the world is because it has been talked to death. Most people’s idea of a friend is one whom they are privileged to bore, Some small remnant of decency prevents them from afflicting the chance stranger whom they meet with a dull monologue upon their personal affairs, but they show no such mercy to their friends. If they have troubles they come and dump the whole burden of them down upon their friends, If they have success they hold their friends as unwilling auditors while they blow their own horns and brag about what wonders they are. Friendship presupposes that another person is interested in your private affairs, but it is a narrow margin on which to trade, and most of us are al- ways overdrawing our account. We care to know that our friends are well and prospering and we sympathize with them in their troubles, but we are self- centered creatures, and the thing of genuine heart importance to every one of us is what we are doing ourselves. If you want to bore people, talk about yourself. If you want to fascinate them, listen while they talk about themselves, This is the one rule in the world tc which there is no exception. You often hear people say that when they lost their money they lost their friends, The real reason is that they became such nuis- ances bewailing their loss of fortune that their friends fled from them to avoid having to listen over and over again to their tale of woe. Talk about yourself a little, little sister. It is your Get our prices and try our work when you need Rubber and Steel Stamps Seals, etc. Send for Catalogue and see what we offer. Detroit Rubber Stamp Co. 99 Griswold St. Detroit, Mich. ‘O2’OUN HLINS'H yO Uv. C. Wormer Machinery Co. Contracting Engineers and Machinery Dealers Complete eo plants designed and erected. Estimates cheerfully furnished. Let us figure with you. Bargains in second-hand engines, boilers, pumps, air compressors and heavy machinery. Complete stock new and second-hand iron and brass and wood working ma- chinery. Large Stock of New Machinery DETROIT, MICHIGAN Foot of Cass St. ee ee | Cere Kofa| Made from clean grains. No doctoring. Wholesome and nutritious. Best substitute for coffee made. Put up in cases containing 24 packages of 20 ounces each. desired. Free sample if Try it and be con- vinced. Order from your job- ber or from us direct. Grand Rapids Cereal Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Mills Foot of Lyon Street, Raniville Building ee ee ( q | al JAMO Coffee, the world’s best, is blended and dry roasted by experts. Contains the finest aroma and richest flavor of any coffee in this market. Sold in pound packages. Telfer Coffee Co. Detroit, Mich. Our Trade Winners The Famous Favorite Chocolate Chips, Viletta, Bitter Swets, Full Cream Caramels, Marshmallows. CCT: MADE ONLY BY Straub Bros. @ Amiotte, Traverse City, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 right to take that much toll of friend- ship; but keep your troubles to yourself, brag lightly, and never forget that while other people's interest in you is only skin-deep, their absorption in them- selves goes to the marrow of the bone. Are you overly sensitive? This is a busy and a careless world, little sister, and if you spread your feelings all over the place you must expect to get them trodden upon. Not many people go deliberately out of their way to insult or wound one. We are not of enough im- portance for that. They are simply careless,and what you mistake for snubs is often only preoccupation—some grief or worry or unsettled problem that is lying beavy on another’s heart and mind. Every now and then you meet a woman who says that she would like to have friends, but that she can not make the first advances. Why not? Whatin- tolerable insolence to put herself upon a pedestal and then expect people tu come to her as pilgrims to Mecca, and if you will observe, my dear, there are not many people bound on pilgrimages these days. Do not think that the girls in your school mean to slight y6u be- cause you are not invited to join all their clubs and societies. They may think you haughty and standoffish and be afraid to ask you. Never forget that self-consciousness is nothing but in- growing vanity and that it will burt you all of your life if you do not get rid of it. Be companionable. If you want friend- ship you must do as our Methodist friends say—put yourself in the at- titude of receiving the blessing. Pre- cious few of us are attractive enough to make people run after us. We must meet them halfway. Are you bossy? When you have a friend do you think she ought to do your way, or are you willing occasionally to do hers? Of course you know best. We all do, but chief among the people we could do without are the friends who think tbat friendship gives them the right to boss us. It is the misfortune of of being a woman that one seldom has any real liberty. By the time a girl gets out from under her mother’s thumb, she is under her husband's foot, and she has to ask permission to do things from the cradle to the grave. This makes us jealous of little liberties, and the thing that alienates friendship quicker than anything else is petty tyranny. If you want friends, do not try to make the other girls adopt your design for the class pin or the school colors, and when they will not do it, do not pick up your dol] rags and go home and say you won't play any more. The ability to ac- cept the report of the majority with a good grace will not only win you school friends, but insure you popularity through life, for every woman is on a still bunt for a woman friend who is broad-minded enough to let her live her own life in her own way. Are you one of those who think that friendship gives one the liberty of speaking unpleasant truths? ‘‘ Faithful is going to salve over an insult. When you tell Lulu that she has a voice like a parrot and that people ridicule her for singing in public, do not expect her to believe that you did it in the sacred name of freindship and to save her mor- tification, When you tell Marie that her dress hasn't any style about it, and Susie that her hat shows that her mother trimmed it, do not expect them to be- lieve that you did it for noble and al- truistic purposes. They will not. They will believe you to be a little cat. and will dislike you to the end of their days. We can depend upon ous enemies, lit- tle sister, saying all the unpleasant things about us that it is necessary to bear. What we want of friendship is the praise that puts new heart into us, the kindly words that heal over the hurts the world has made, and there can be no possible use or excuse for saying un- pleasant things to our acquaintances. If your friends must be stabbed by un- kindly criticism and unpleasant truths, let another hand deal the blow. Not yours. Are you monopolistic? Nothing is a more deadly enemy to friendship. It is natural to want tc absorb all the affec- tion, the time and attention of those we like, but it is unreasonable. Human nature is a many-sided instrument, with many strings, and no one hand, be it ever so clever, can hope to strike every chord in it. We find one person sym- pathetic in one way, another compan- ionable in an entirely different way,and so our lives are rounded out with diverse interests. Yet there are people who are vain enough and selfish enough to resent their friends having any friend but themselves. Do not do this. Do not expect to monopolize the interest or the heart of any creature on earth, so shall you save yourself trouble and tribulation when you find out that you are merely an annex to another life, instead of be- ing the main structure. Do not expect the girl you like to have no other friend but you. Do not make her apologize when she shares her chewing gum with another or goes to the matinee with her. Monopolistic friendship is a burden, and the afflicted party will shake it off at the first moment. Friendship and love can never be tied. They must be kept on a loose tether or else they will break from you and escape into greener pastures. Everything in this world, little sister, is bought at a price; friendship and love are among the highest commodi- ties, but they are worth paying for. How to get them’! can not tell you, but hav- ing them, if you will take a grain of self-control, an ounce of forbearance, and a pound of self-reasonableness, you may make a cement that will hold them while life lasts, and that is warranted weather-proof and to stand in any cli- mate. Dorothy Dix. ee Oe A lawyer never mistakes the will for the deed. “Better than Chips” Chocolate Sticks Manufactured by Putnam Factory National Candy Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. FUANARERBARAARAMAAABARARBAAR E | For Sale by Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids. Cheese. Just what you are looking for. It will increase your sales wonderfully in these lines and save time. It is a silent salesman. It is dirt cheap as we are the largest makers of glass display jars in the world and bought the glass six years ago at a low price, so give you the benefit. Write for catalogue and price list or order half a dozen jars. The Kneeland Crystal Creamery Co., 72 Concord St., Lansing, Mich. 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Many people make friendship the cloak under which they satisfy personal spite and envy by doing a little stabbing in the dark, This is peculiarly coward ly, because the wounded persons is so defenseless and off his guard. Do nat delude yourself for one minute by the thought that any profession of affection System of Accounts Things We Sell Iron pipe, brass rod, steam fittings, electric fixtures, lead pipe, brass wire, steam boilers, gas fixtures, brass pipe, brass tubing, water heaters, mantels, nickeled pipe, brass in sheet, hot air furnaces, fire place goods. Weatherly & Pulte Grand Rapids, Mich. It prevents forgotten charges. It makes disputed accounts impossible. It assists in making collections. It saves labor in book- keeping. It systematizes credits. It estab- lishes confidence between you and your cus- tomer. One writing does it all. For full particulars write or call on A. H. Morrill, Agent 105 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufactured by CosByY-WIRTH PRINTING Co., St. Paul, Minn. 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The New York Market Special Features of the Grocery and Prod- uce Trades. Special Correspondence, New York, Jan. 24—Speculative coffee is down a peg and while the ac- tual article is not quotably lower there is not as firm a feeling as existed last week, and dealers would not be greatly surprised to see a fractional decline. At the close Rio No. 7 is worth 53%@5\c. it would be folly to say that dealers are not at all interested in the condition of affairs just now in Venezuela. They are. And they are vitally interested. True, the “‘scene of action’’ is a good way from Brazil, but a little spark may kindle a big fire and coffee dealers are awaiting every dispatch with the keen- est interest, 1f not anxiety. Germany seems to be trying to knock achip from somebody’s shoulder and it may be from that of Uncle Sam. In store and afloat there are 2,714,306 bags of coffee, against 2,426,962 bags at the same time last year. Jobbers, asa rule, report a fairly good week and some pretty good stocks have changed hands, most attention be ing paid to good roasting grades of San- tos. Mild sorts have sold pretty well and prices are firmly adhered to. East Indias are without change. Every day seems to give a more con- fident tone to the tea market and orders have come in witha gratifying rapidity. It would seem as though stocks had become preity well reduced in the hands of the grocery trade throughout the country and dealers are now trying t make up for losttime. Offerings are not very large and quotations as recently made are very firmly sustained. It is about the very dullest time of year in the sugar line. The trade are sim- ply resting on their oars and neither buyer nor seller seems inclined to dk much until the Cuban treaty is out of Congress. Raw sugars are dull ana slightly lower. Quotations are firm as to rice, but the volume of business is rather light. It seems likely ihat before new crop rice comes to market supplies of do- mestic will be very closely sold up. This is looking about a year abead, to be sure, but scilers certainly bave things on their side. Spices are strong not es] active not give way a bit prices is concerned. Actual business is but holders will so far as shading Supplies are not large, although there seems to be enougb of everything to meet present require- ments, Open kettle molasses are firmly held, although the amount of business is r 2 hardly as large as last week. Good to prime rifugal, 17@27c. Syrups show little, i = Inc the reduction in the price ‘ mon by Armsby has been the chief ic this week. At the made by this concern it is said ! loss of something like Chis is not very funny who loses, and as yet it eem to cause a boom in There has been quite a ne in canned corn and Wisconsin, has sold about 11S futures at 5c above last year’s Taking the canned goods as a whole it is in a most satis- condition and everybody looks for a prosperous year. The canners’ convention next month at Washington promises to be very largely attended. Prunes are rather more firmly held, but aside from this the dried fruit mar- ket generally is in a rather quiet posi- tion. Quotations are practicaily with- out change, The butter market for the past day or so has been in better shape so far as demand goes, but prices have not ad- vanced. Best Western creamery, 26c; seconds to firsts, 22@25c; held cream- ery, 23@24%c; Western’ imitation Creamery, I9@2Ic; factory, 17@2oc: renovated, I19@20c, The volume of trading in cheese is prices s heir good business d Landreth, of all t quotations, market factory moderate, but prices are well held. Full cream, i4%c for either small or large. Exporters have been doing a little in skimmed cheese, but find our rates too high for much business in cream cheese, With increased supplies and a fair chance of still further increase, there bas been a decided fall in the egg mar- ket, and, of course, when a decline be- gins buyers are cautious about taking large supplies, The range for Western fresh-gathered eggs at mark is from 21 @23c, and at this time the latter price seems to be top. oe a Low Rates to California. Via Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and Union Pacific line. February 15 to April 30, 1903. Only $33 Chicago to San Francisco, Los Angeles and many other California points. One-way, second-class, colonist tickets, Will be glad to send you additional information, Robert C. Jones, Michigan Passenger Agent, 32 Campus Martius, Detroit. An Unusual Opportunity FOR Safe - - Sure -- Profitable Investment IN A COMPANY HAVING No Debts No Bonds No P-eferred Stock No Promoters’ Stock No Salaried Officers No Individual Liabilities All stock fully psid and non- assessable Z an invest- of the treasury Stock is n opportunity for 1 the risk all t eir stock c » so stockholders can rest as- of a conservative business policy. ‘e believe that the proposition is of your consideration and, rmore, if you desire to invest in ht, honest, legitimate ** Whole- e Food” proposition, you c: I stake by becor in The M. B. Martir In soliciting your sul pital stock o make ga stockholder » Led, ription to the our comy ny, we a you ofa careful and honest ma We ask you to take an in- enterprise as a_ stock- n the nd theiebe bocce tnbssietad na thereby become interested in what is everywhere considered the best food proposition ever known. The M. B. Martin Co., Ltd. 117-119 Monroe Street Grand Rapids, Mich. Cold Storage Eggs Why pay 25 per cent. more for fresh when you can get just as good by using our April stock? vinced. Give us an order and be con- 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 Rapids, Michigan ! 4-~—~ PIPPI yde, Wheeler Company: 4! North Market Street and 41 Clinton Street BOSTON Strictly Commission Merchants Consequently we are able to give consignments our undivided attention. We want shipments of POULTRY AND EGGS You can not make a very big mistake if you give us a few trial shipments. you the market price and remit promptly. vances or anything you wish to know about our line. Fourth Nati r an We will give Write for stencils, information relative to ad- We do our banking with the 5 ial, Board of Trade Bldg., Boston. When you write mention the Tradesman. Sa ee te eee rrr & 16 to 24 Bloomfield St. Specialties: kinds are wanted and bringing good prices to gather. E. S. Alpaugh & Co. Commission Merchants 17 to 23 Loew Avenue West Washington Market New York Poultry, Eggs, Dressed Meats and Provisions. ‘The receipts of poultry are now running very high. Fancy goods of all 1 You can make no mistake in shipping us all the fancy poultry and also fresh laid eggs that you are able We can assure you of good prices. References: Gansevoort Bank, R. G. Dun & Co » Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency, and upon request many shippers in your State w for the last quarter of a c Cold Storage and Freezing Rooms entury. ho have shipped us Established 1864 We want your POULTRY utter and Eggs Highest cash prices paid. Write and what you have. not to-morrow. let us know Do it now, JAMES COURT & SON, Marshall, Michigan Branches at Allegan, Bellevue and Homer Cold Storage References: Dun or Bradstreet or your own Banker MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 Unjust Prejudice Against Renovated But- ter. It is difficult to understand the acri- mony with which renovated butter seems to be regarded by some who are sup- posed to have the welfare of the dairy interests at heart. One of the greatest objects aimed at by the educational efforts in behalf of this industry is to improve and make more uniform the quality of the butter product of the country. It may safely be asserted that nothing has ever been done that has been more effective inthis respect, con- sidering the butter product as a_ whole, than the process of ‘‘making over’’ farm butter. It must be remembered that the creamery butter product is, as yet, less than half of tbe total. Before the introduction of the renovating proc- ess the lower grades of farm butter had no such outlets as they now have; they accumulated in the hands of country storekeepers, were often kept under the most unfavorable conditions, becoming poorer and contaminated, until! finally made up into cheap ladle goods, most of which were exported. The renova ting process has opened a much more immediate outlet for the farm butter while fresh; no longer does it hang about the country stores to grow rancia and dirty, but finds sale at once at the factories, or moves to cold storage, where it is held under cleanly and wholesome surroundings. The renovat- ing process has enhanced the value of a very large part of the country’s butter product enormously, and has caused the practical disappearance from trade channels of the wretched stuff that used to disgrace the markets, the worst qualities of which were acquired after the butter was made, being the result of a lack of prompt outlet such as is now enjoyed. The raw material from which reno- vated butter is made is, consequently, very much better than it was when the process was first installed, and the fin- ished product is so far better than its raw material that there is no compari- son. Of course the product sbould not be permitted to be sold as creamery butter, and laws and regulations compelling distinctive branding are to be com- mended ; but with this accomplished the product is in no sense fraudulent and it seems strange to find an association of dairymen branding with opprobrious names a commodity that has vastly in- creased the worth of many millions of pounds of the country’s annual butter product. The argument used by some that ren- ovated butter is a detriment to the in- dustry because it lessens the induce- ment of farmers to take their milk to the creameries is of little force. With renovated butter selling on its merits under distinctive brand its value will undoubtedly remain enough below that of fine creamery to give the creamery system the call on all milk within prac- tical reach, and to give an effective Stimulus to the introduction of the creamery system wherever it can be profitably established. To consider renovated butter a detri- ment because it comes more in compe- tition with creamery and high grade dairy than would its raw material of ir- regular farm butter is illogical, unless one takes the ground that ali makers of fine butter are injured by the universal efforts to improve the average quality of the butter product. Of course, the smaller the proportion of fancy butter, the higher its price would be in relation to the average value of the product; but few would make this the basis for ob- jecting to anything that would tend to raise the average of quality. As a mat- ter of fact demand is so greatly affected by quality that improvement in the general grade of goods increases the out- lets to the benefit of all producers. ——__~-2 Black Olives Imported From Greece. In speaking of ripe clives imported from Greece the trade uses the word ‘*black.’’ The black olive is the rich, tipe olive ready forthe table. Black olives are known very little among Americans, Their consumption is en- tirely among foreigners, Over on the East Side of New York City they are in great demand. Jews from the South of Europe, Italians, Greeks, Spaniards and others are customers for them. Their importation began about eight years ago as a recognized and separate business and it is constantly on the in- crease, This business was in the hands of Italians for a time, but now they constitute the jobbers principally. The business is going into the hands of Greeks, who have learned American methods and are making a great suc- cess of it. One Greek firm in Lower Wall Street, which does the largest busi- ness in black olives, is making an effort to introduce them among the native American population and no doubt their intelligent methods and conception of the business will prove successful. The ripe olive is really very appetiz- ing. It is packed in barrels and is served from the brine just as the green one is served. The black olive is small and round with smooth, thin skin. It is very meaty and has a good flavor, The taste for it isnot bard to acquire. When it is out of the brine long enough to become dried it looks very much like a prune. Olives grow throughout all the Isles of Greece—everywhere except on_ the mountains, The new crop begins in October and ends in January. Men, women and childern pick them. They shake the trees and knock them off with sticks. They are gathered in baskets ind carried to the market borne on don- keys. The olives are packed in brine in barrels holding an average of 190 pounds, The imports direct from Greece last year amounted to about 10,000 barrels. The wholesale price of the black olive is six to eight cents a pound. Retailers get ten to twelve cents. The Salona is the best black olive. The skin is thin- ner,it is meatier and the seed is smaller. Salona is the capital of the province of Parnassus, Etea is its principal sea- port, whence the olives are shipped, Aside from their other advantages the Salona olives keep the longest. Next come the black olives of Volo. These are the blackest of all and the largest. The skin is thicker, the stone larger, the flavor Jess sweet. Black olives of Calamata differ from the others by be- ing oblong instead of round. They are best packed in olive oil with a little vinegar added. When picked from the trees they are packed in large barrels with vinegar instead of in salt and water, as the others. Quantities of black olives of Greece are shipped from New York for consumption by foreign. ers in other cities of the United States. —N, Y. Commercial. ——_> 2. Bitter Hatred. Daughter——-Oh, mamma, Reggie Montvert is down in the parlor. I know he’s going to propose! Mother—Well, accept him, my dear. I detest the fellow so much that I intend to be his mother-in-law. Michigan Maple Sugar Association, Ltd. PRODUCERS OF High Grade Maple Sugar and Syrup Grand Rapids, Mich. 119 Monroe Street, Pure Maple Sugar Pure Maple Syrup 30 Ib. Pails Maple Drops, per lb....15 ¢ 10 Gal. Jacket Cans, each............$8 50 50 to 60 drops per pound. 6 Gal. Jacket Cans, each............ 4 50 301b. Pails astd. Fancy Moulds, Oe acc, ge ee 15 Cc per case 20 to 30 moulds to pound. tal. C % fees. 57 100 1b. Cases, 26 ox. bare, perlb.-.....9x%¢ | xf Gal Gans, 14 doz, tncase.-....---- 3 75 60 Ib. Cases, 26 oz. bars, per Ib... ..10 ¢ 14 Gal. Cans, 2 doz. In case........... 6 50 100 Ib. Cases. 13 oz. bars, per Ib.. .... S 4 Gal. Cans, 2 doz. in case........... 45 60 Ib. Cases, 13 oz. bars, per Ib...... 10‘4¢ Mail Orders Solicited. Goods Guaranteed. OOODDOO OOO DOOD ODOODOOOGDD Butter I always Want It. E. F. Dudley Owosso, Mich. OOOO GOOOODODGOOOODDGDOOGOOOOHGOO SSSSSSSSSSSSHOSESESSESHSSS SSSOSSCSSSESSHFCEEESOSSAS In any quantity. Let us know what you have and we will quote prices Extensive jobbers in PATENT STEEL WIRE BALE TIES Prices guaranteed. for same F. O. B. your city. Write for price list. Smith Young @ Co., Lansing, Michigan 1019 MICHIGAN AVE. EAST References: Dun’s and Bradstreet’s, City National Bank, Lansing, Mich. DON’T SHIP US if you have a doubt about our ability to render you good service. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN knows we are all right or we would not be here. POULTRY, BUTTER, EGGS, VEAL, POTATOES COYNE BROS., CHICAGO, ILL. 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Butter and Eggs Observations by a Gotham Egg Man. Here is another instance of the old saying ‘‘There’s nothing new under the sun.’’ I suppose most people think hatching eggs in incubators is a modern invention—something to place to the credit of nineteenth century inventive- ness and ingenuity. But reading the travels of Sir John Mandeville the other day, a book written in the fourteenth century, | came across this statement in regard to the city of Cairo in Egypt: ‘*And there is a common house in that city that is fuli of small furnaces, and thither bring woman of the town their eyren of hens, of geese and of ducks for to be put into those furnaces. And they that keep that house cover them with heat of horse dung, without hen, goose or duck or any other fowl. And at the end of three weeks or of a month they come again and take their chickens and nourish them and bring them forth, so that al! the country is full of them. And so men do there, both winter and summer.’’' And so we see that even ‘*motherless chickens’’ were known and patronized away back in the thirteen hundreds. Some time ago a Swedish gentleman— Capt. Stewart—called upon us to say that certain correspondents of his in Sweden had control of a new process for preserving eggs and that samples of the eggs preserved by this process were |. on the way to this country, Capt. Stew- art wanted an opportunity to show these eggs, upon their arrival, to a few egg men in order to get their opinion as to the effect of the process and the quality of the goods preserved. It was said that the process was a patented one and con- eisted of subjecting the eggs first to dipping in bot water and then to the fumes of salicylic acid. They were guaranteed to keep in perfect condition for some eight months—maybe longer. Capt. Stewart had a good deal of trouble in getting the samples through the cus- tom house, and although they were shipped from Stockholm on Nov. 18, it was only last Monday, Jan. 12, that he got them in shape to show. The Egg Man, being ever cn the alert for items of interest, arranged with a few egg ex- perts to examine the samples, and on Monday afternoon the case containing the eggs was taken to the candling rooms of Gude Bros., on Warren street, and opened in the presence of a tew neighboring knights of the candle. The eggs were packed in four wooden boxes, contained in a big outer case packed with shavings. Each package contained ten eggs and was sealed and attested by a notary public of Sweden as having been sealed in his presence upon certain dates—two boxes in Au- gust, 1902, and two in the summer of 1901. They were opened with great ex- pectations. Capt. Stewart had sheet after sbeet of testimonials, telling how perfectly the eggs were preserved by this process, and offered to read them to the gentlemen present, but it was con- sidered best to see the eggs first and hear the testimonials afterward. So the sealed boxes were opened and there lay the wondrous eggs—some four months, some sixteen months old; and when they were held up tothe light, lo and behold, there was no difference between them; those sixteen months old were just as good as those only four months old, for all were equally rotten—just as rotten as any eggs could be, salicylic or no salicylic. Well, of course it was a pretty severe test to have the eggs kicking around the custom house tor six weesk, but Captain Stewart had to treat just the same and another ‘‘new process’’ for egg preserva- tion was buried with appropriate cere- monies.—N. Y. Produce Reveiw. —— ere ee Did Not Believe Either. ‘* After the war,’’ said Senator Bacon, of Georgia, ‘‘there was a great shortage of judges in the South. In Georgia many men were put on the bench who had no training in the law. At a circuit court one of these judges presided, and the two lawyers who were trying a case before him thought to have some fun with him. After the evidence had been taken one of the lawyers arose and said: ‘* “Your Honor, both sides are willing to let the case go to the jury without argument and on a statement of the law and the facts by yourself.’ ‘*The Judge arose slowly and faced the jury. ‘* ‘Gentlemen,’ he said, ‘‘you have heard the evidence and what these law- yers have said. If you believe what the lawyer for the defendant says you must decide for him. If you believe what the lawyer for the plaintiff has said you must decide for him. But if you are like me and don’t believe what either one of them said, | am hanged if I know what you should do.*’’ —> 4 > A New Chronology. The haughty leading lady lifted her handsome pearl-colored veil and kissed the little toe dancer. ‘‘How long has it been since we lasi | met?'’ asked the latter. The leading lady pondered. ‘*Let’s see, dear,’’ she said finally, —___>2+.——_ i The boy of success does his best, whether under paid, well paid or over paid. to bis impossible without faithfulness employer. He is faithful to himself and all | things, and faithfulness to himself is} POTATOES Carlots only wanted. Highest market price. State variety and quality H. ELMER MOSELEY & Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 304 & 305 Clark Building, Opposite Union Depot Long Distance Telephones—Citizens 2417 Bell Main 66 BUTTER AND ECCS R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH. and be sure of getting the Highest Market Price. BEANS AND CLOVER SEED WANTED Mail us sample with price Beans and Clover Seed if any to offer. MOSELEY BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST. Parchment Paper For Roll Butter Order now from ¢. D. Crittenden, 98 S. Div. St., Grand Rapids Wholesale Dealer in Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce Both Phones 1300 F. M. C. COFFEES are always Fresh Roasted Ce 2) POULTRY SHip To LAMSON & CO., BOSTON Ask the Tradesman about us. ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR Late State Food Commissioner Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and jobbers whose interests are affected by the Food Laws of any state. Corres- pondence invited. 1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Gas or Gasoline Mantles at 50c on the Dollar GLOVER’S WHOLESALE MDSE. CO. MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS of GAS AND GASOLINE SUNDRIES Grand Rapids. Mich You ougnt to seli LILY WHITE “The flour the best cooks use” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers. Sawed white- 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. We are in the market for CLOVER. ALSYKE BEANS, PEAS, POP CORN, ETC. If any to offer write us. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 24 AND 26 N. DIVISION ST., 20 AND 22 OTTAWA ST. een | WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for California Navel Oranges and Lemons, Sweet Potatoes, Cranberries, Nuts, Figs and Dates Onions, Apples and Potatoes. The Vinkemulder Company, 14-16 Ottawa Street Grand Rapids, Michigan What have you to offer for prompt shipment? , We buy Potatoes in carlots. EGGS WANTED We want several thousand cases eggs for storage, and when you have any to offe write for prices or call us up by phone if we fail to quote you. Butter We can handle all you send us. WHEELOCK PRODUCE CO. 106 SOUTH DIVISION STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Citizens Phone 3232. ea RAE STEIN ina cndll vate wane MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 25 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip President, B. D. PALMER, St. Johns; Sec- retary, "M. 8. BROWN, Saginaw; Treasurer, H. E. BRADNER, Lansing. United Commercial ag of Stign Grand Counselor, F. C. Scurt, y City; Grand Secretary, AMos. KENDALL, Toledo; Grand Rapids Council No. 131, 0. C. T. Senior Counselor, = a BURNS; Secretary Treasurer, L. F. SYSTEM IN SELLING. Cardinal Principles Which Should Be Observed. I anticipate that the reader will have very much the same opinion of my re- marks as the congregation of an old English preacher had of his sermons, It is related that while in conversation with one of his parishioners he remarked that he often went into his pulpit with- out any preparation whatever, selected a text and preached a sermon from it and thought nothing of it, and the parish- ioner replied that the congregation didn't think anything of his sermons either. This ‘‘text’’ is one that has been ‘‘preached’’ about so often, in all its phases, that the good things to be said of it may not be new and the new things may not be guod. That system is indispensable in all business matters is beyond question, and there is perhaps no work where good systematic effort will count for more than in selling goods on the road. Given a territory, a salesman must have, with other qualities, the ability of both a civil engineer and a train dis- patcher. He must lay out his route with care as to the seasonable wants of trade and then arrange to make the towns along that route as rapidly and effective- ly as possible. He will be unable to ‘‘run’’ his trains all one way, but must plan to run in both directions and not meet himself coming back. The amount of mileage used should not be taken into consideration so long as good results are obtained—mileage cuts no figure, it is the matter of successfully making the greatest number of towns in the shortest possible time. Time is the all-important factor, The successful salesman’s life is, in- deed, a strenuous one. It is always to ‘*make’’ the first town, get the first or- der, ‘‘catch’’ the first train to another town, take a snapshot at business—and repeat this programme continually ‘*The race is to the swift’’ to a greater extent in a traveling man’s life than in any other. He must not wait, for wait- ing will not win. Had Longfellow lived in this age of commercialism and been a traveling man he might have written a verse something like this: Orders may come To those who wait, But when they do They’re out of date. After having arranged for the en- gineering of the route and dispatch in handling the towns, the next important— and much more difficult—matter to sys- tematize is how to approach a buyer ina manner to secure prompt and success- ful results. Nature has made no dupli- cates in men. All patterns seem to have been broken immediately after us- ing. So no two on whom we call are alike. One may be a merchant with all of a merchant’s ability and enterprise, the next a mere shopkeeper; one a pos- itive pole, the other a negative. So to devise a system for approach that will apply in all cases is well nigh impos- sible, Personal experience has taught me to make all introductory remarks as brief as circumstances will permit, to proceed to business at once. The sales- man’s time is valuable, so is the buy- er’s—too valuable tn be spent in story- telling or idle gossip. He should go at his work respectfully, but fearlessly and fiercely if need be. In this way he will command attention at once,and the pos- sible buyer will become enthusiastic in just the proportion that the salesman himself is enthusiastic over the goods he is talking. If a negative answer is given—or, to use a common phrase, if “turned down’'’—he should not give up. Giving up is more a habit than a neces- sity, stick to your guns—be gently ag- gressive, but courteous and dignified, and absolutely truthful first, last and all the time. Forget self entirely, but bring out the good points of the goods you are talking with all the earnestness you possess. We are sent out to get business, and get business we must. We should concentrate all our efforts and work as if life itself depended on getting that particular order. If an article does not possess merit, if it will not prove a good seller, tell your customer so frank- ly and honesty and pass it along. That salesman makes a mistake who recom- mends an article that will not bear recommendation. While such a course may increase his immediate busi- ness it is sure to ‘‘queer’’ him for the future. If the buyer is of a pessimistic disposition, talk happiness and_ suc- cess—talk happiness and success any- way, it is always in order and always mutually beneficial. If inclined to be over conservative talk quantity. Talk large quantity. Impress him with his ability to sell an immense quantity of such superior goods as you would sell him. I may be pardoned for giving here an incident from my personal experi- ence when working this quantity "packet :"* It was my first call on a certain firm and found them to be extremists in slowness and _ conservatism. They wanted and bought some goods, but all they could think about or talk about was how they could possibly pay for so many goods; pay day was ever uppermost in their minds, while I continually assured them it was orders I wanted and not money. I had spent a long time with them, had lost my own supper and kept them from theirs, but | continued to talk dozens of this and dozens of that and dozens of everything in the catalogue, when one of the buyers leaned back in bis chair, drew a long breath and said, ‘*Mr,. Seely, where do you live?’’ | told him where I lived. Then he asked if I was a married man. I told him that I was. Next he said, ‘‘Have you any children?’’ I again replied in the affirmative. Then he said, with much emphasis, ‘‘Have you a dozen?’’ That was a corker! Then was the time in my life I regretted that I was not the father of a dozen babies, for I was obliged to say ‘‘No’’ to him, and then he ex- pressed surprise that one who talked dozens so constantly and industriously should stop short of a dozen children! I do not, however, wish to be under- stood that loading up customers is good policy. It is, indeed, bad policy, We should never do it. We should sell them enough if possible to last{them un- til we can see them again, but not enough to put them or ourselves out of business. Getting business is to a great extent a matter of dollars and cents, a cold business proposition, yet the sentimen- tal side, if I may use that expression, should not be forgotten or overlooked. A system that would ensure success in order-getting alone does not go far enough. While the money part is, in- deed, a necessity, it forms a smaller part in the salesman’s life of to-day than ever before. We are all familiar witb the story of the miserly and money- loving parent who, when sending his son out into the world, said to him: ‘‘Get money. Get it honestly if you can, but get money.’’ Such a rule as that would not apply for a moment in successfully selling goods. The salesman who would acquire success by such a system would be a miserable failure. Selling goods for the sole purpose of selling goods would rob the work of all sentiment, of all that would be pleas- urable and ennobling. Itis possible for us to get something more out of our work than the mere money we receive for it. Were it not so, the life would be all but unbearable. There has never been a time when character and absolute honesty counted for so much in order-getting as at pres- ent. If we would be successful in all that the word implies we must be self- respecting men. If we do not respect ourselves others can not respect us and our power for business success as well as our general usefulness will be badly impaired. If we would adopt a system of selling that would be complete in all its details, one that would give us the fullest measure of success, we must not overlook good moral character and true manhood as essential elements in that system—a system that Will give to us a home, With a queen on its throne, And a limitless kingdom of love all our own. It is manhood gives riches like these. Howard Seely. Gripsack Brigade. John D. Martin, who has been laid up since January!5 with fever and grip, is again able to resume his regular trips, starting North Wednedsay morning. Hudson Gazette: Frank Whitbeck has accepted a position as traveling salesman for the Toledo Scale Co., of Toledo, Ohio, and will begin his duties at once. W. F. Gallinger, Michigan represent- ative for the Sherwin-Williams Co., of Cleveland, will remove about March 1 from North Branch to Grand Rapids, which will be his headquarters there- after. Charlotte Leader: George W. Rue has returned to his ‘‘first love,’’ as the saying goes, and will travel for a Mil- waukee stove manufactory. Mr. Rue’s first trip will take him to the Pacific coast in February. Quincy Herald: After a vacation of several weeks, Eugene Widner has started on a trip through Illinois in the interest of the Consolidated Time Lock Co., of Cincinnati. He now has Mich- igan, Illinois, Wisconsin and lowa as his territory. Harbor Springs Republican: Orla Brown, who recently severed his con- nection with Foster & Wilson, has ac- cepted a position as traveling salesman for the A. T. Moore Cigar Co. and already entered upon the duties of his new position. The Warwick Strictly first class. Rates $2 per day. Central location. Trade of visiting merchants and travel- ing men solicited. A. B, GARDNER, Manager. Little Gem Peanut Roaster A late invention, and the most durable, con- venient and attractive spring power Roaster made. Price within reach of all. Made of iron, steel, German silver, glass, copper and brass. Ingenious method of. dumping and keeping roasted Nuts hot. Full description sent on application. Catalogue mailed free describes steam, spring and hand power Peanut and Coffee Roasters, power and hand rotary Corn Pop- pers, Roasters and Poppers Combined from $8.75 to $200. Most complete line on the mar- ket. Also Crystal Flake (the celebrated Ice Cream Improver, % Ib. sample and recipe free), Flavoring Extracts, power and hand Ice Cream Freezers; Ice Cream Cabinets, Ice Breakers, Porcelain, Iron and Steel Cans, Tubs, Ice Cream Dishers, Ice Shavers, Milk Shakers, etc., etc. Kingery Manufacturing Co., 131 E. Pearl Street, Cincinnati, Ohio National Hotel Dorr, Mich. Thoroughly renovated, Fumigated and ready to serve the transient public and friends with the best the market affords. Come and s e us. CARREL BROTHERS, Proprietors « Livingston Hotel Grand Rapids, Mich. The Best in the State. 26 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals Michigan State Board of Pharmacy Term expires a. HEM, _~ . - Dec, 31, 1902 troit - . - Dec. 81, 1903 - ae ioe eee Dee. 31, 1904 JOHN D. MutR, Grand ds Dec. 31, 1905 ARTHUR H. WEBBER, © illse Dec. 31, 1906 President, HENRY HIM, Saginaw. Secretary, JOHN D. Muir, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, W. P. Dory, Detroit. Examination Sessions. Grand Rapids, March 3 and 4, Star Island, June 16 and 17. Houghton, Aug. 25 and 26. Lansing, Nov. 3 and 4. Mich. State President—Lovu G. Moorr, Saginaw. Secretary—W.H. BuRKE, Detroit. Treasurer—C. F. HUBER, Port Huron. Pharmaceutical Association. Arrangement For Barrel Goods. An arrangement which will be useful for stores where trade compels the keep ing of such stock as alcohol, witch hazel, wines, whiskies, etc., in barrel quantities—especially when those com- modities have to be stored in the base- ment—is as follows: Suppose we have six barrels to be stored. Put three on the bottom row lying on their sides, slightly raised from the floor, and leave a small space between each. On top of these put a row of two, and on top of these again one more. You now have the six barrels arranged in —_— form; they should be blocked up so as to be solid. Into the top of ia barrel fit tightly a piece of half-inch gas pipe, and bring these six pieces up through the floor of the room above, about six inches from the wall and a fvoot apart, letting them project but a few inches. Into the bottom of each barrel tightly fit another piece of quarter or three-eighths inch pipe and bring these pieces through the floor, letting them project ahout two feet. The pieces from the bottom of any barrel should come through the floor against the wall, and directly hack of the piece projecting from the top of the same barrel. Mount a small faucet on the top of each of the two-fvot projec- tions, which are against the wall: and on the top of the other six pieces, which should be threaded, fit a cap that can be easily unscrewed with the fingers. A large bicycle-pump fastened to the floor and having a rubber tube long enough to reach any of the pipes, and to the end of which is attached a cap fitting the short pipes, completes the ar- rangement. Assuming the barrels to be fuil, to draw from any one remove the cap from the pipe going to the top of that bar- rel, and attach the tube from the pump by means of the cap at its end. Turn the faucet of the pipe coming from the bottom of the barrel and apply the pump. The liquid flows from the fau- cet. When through close the faucet, remove the pump, and replace the cap, which keeps out the dust, and which could be attached to the pipe with a small chain to prevent its being lost. Now, when a barrel is emptied, in- stead of putting the new barrel into the basement—always a mean, awkward job —bave it rolled into the back room, raise it slightly from the floor, put a funnel into the pipe leading to the top of the barrel and siphon off the full one. The barrels should be set up as_ near ly as possibie directly under the space on the floor above where the faucets are to be located. This is not, of course, absolutely necessary, but saves pumping the liquid too far. Each faucet should be iabeled, the name being printed on the wall directly above the correspond- Handy ing faucet. All tight. This plan saves many steps and much time ; and many occasions for going in- to the basement, which is usually dark, are avoided. The flow of the liquid is easily regulated by the pump, or the faucet can be turned, avoiding the waste attendant on drawing from a large faucet directly from the barrel. As the faucets are small, bottling can be done direct, thus saving one handling of the goods. It saves putting full barrels into the basement, and thus saves mounting them. It economizes space by allowing one barrel to be mounted above another, Edward P. Higby, Ph, G, joints must be air- _ —>-)-<—_— Formula For Essence pena Pepsin, £3000... . ..512 grs. Ac. hydrochloric. . 96 m. 0 ie E TTT SG Tan 8 ozs. Acobol. ca 8 ozs, Te. vanillin, ‘colorless... i Tr. sweet —— —- 2 ozs, Water ad.. %4 gal. Purified talcum, q. 's. Dissolve the pepsin in the water, glycerin and hydrochloric acid: add other ingredients, let stand for a few hours, and filter. Some makers use a strong solution of calf's pepsin or renne solution, and in addition add _ consider- able papaine, claiming that such a com- bination is more effective and popular, Jobn Morley. —_>-2—____ “Dry” Shampoo. Wasminy Soap... a Ce % oz, Lequor OOeMeMR 3 drs. Lamon aeeenin.... : dr. Oil geranium.. ec eT a 20 m. Alcohol... ae I oz, sade i 20 ozs. Shred the soap fine, and just cover it with water. Allow to stand all night, and next morning rub it smooth in a mortar, add more water, the borax and solutions of potash and ammonia: dis- solve and strain. Then add the oils dis- solved in the alcohol and finally water to make 20 ounces. ie mene How Is Uphrasia Used in Eye Lotions? It is added in proportion of two to five drops to the ounce of lotion. Eve- waters usually contain boric acid or sul- nhate vinc in distilled or rose water. The following is said to be the formula of a largely advertised eye water: FC SHIGE. 20 grs. Cnper Sete 5 grs. Wt i En 2 drs, ne Comper. 6... I ae. (eects Gonresia.. 80 m. ee eee 8 ozs. Distilled water..... 8 ozs, "Joba ‘Morley. —_——_4 2 __ Camphorated Cream. Oe 5 ozs, Exnscneed oil almond... .5% ozs SOG 4 drs Rose Wate I oz. White wax... I oz, Pen ee (ete t keegan, Melt the wax and spermaceti, and add to them the oil in which the cam- phor has been dissolved with very gen- tle heat; then gradually add the rose water, stirring constantly until cold and well mixed; and lastly, add the oil of rose, ———-> 2 Snuff For Colds. Re ee 3. gts. Sere a tae, Biemnuth subear.. 0). 1% drs. Powd. benzoin....... i 1% drs. Sodium bicarbonate........... Io. «6grs. Magnesium carbonate......... 25 | ers, Powd. CEG a: Of > _____ The illusions of life are but the bandles to our surroundings, Formula For Spotting Cigar Wrappers. The process of artificially spotting cigar wrappers consists of the applica- tion of some active oxidizing agent, such as solution of chlorinated soda, di- lute nitric acid, or hydrogen peroxide. The following solution is said to be in use by a large firm of cigar manufactur- ers: Sodium carbonate. ............ 3 parts. Chlorinated fimie...... 1... .... I part. Water, hot. . 8 parts. Dissolve the soda in the hot water, add the chlorinated lime and heat the mixture to boiling temperature for three minutes; when cool, decant into earthen ware or stoneware jugs, cork tightly and keep in a cool place. The corks of jugs not intended for immediate use should be covered with a piece of bladder or strong parchment paper, to prevent es- cape of gas and consequent weakening | - of the fluid. The prepared liquid is sprinkled on the tobacco, the latter be ing then exposed to light and air, when, it is said, the disagreeable odor pro- duced soon disappears. The leaf may be spotted on a small scale by touching with a pointed stick first dipped into dilute nitric acid, or the following solution: Aemon. carponate............ I part. Hydrogen peroxid............ 25 parts, Joseph Lingley. oo Oe The Drug Market. Opium—Is dull and shows a frac- tional decline, although advices from primary markets show an advance. Morphine—Is steady. Quinine—Is very firm. Bark sales at Amsterdam were made at an advance of 5 per cent. over last sale, Cocaine—Is very firm at the last ad- vance, Glycerine—Is very firm, on account of higher foreign market for crude. Prickly Ash Berries—Are again in fair supply and prices are lower. Oil Bergamot —Has been advanced 5c per pound. Gum Gamboge—Is very firm at last advance. Higher prices are likely to rule for some time. Golden Seal Root—Is scarce and has been advanced. Nutmegs— Have tending higher. + +. Premature Baldness. The best treatment is to apply pom- ade No. 1 once daily, after washing the parts with soft soap and warm water, for a week, and then use pomade No. 2 three weeks or a month. If this is not successful, give another course of No, 1 and follow it by No. 2. advanced and are for ee % to 1 dr, waeeuee. Ll... .2 drs Lanoline........ .2 drs, ee Oe 2 ars, ON _.2 drs, | Pilocarpine hydrocbloride a 20 grs. Distilled water. i 2 drs. | Mix and add: Ce 10 drs. Heavy petroleum oil. ‘ » drs, ek em 6 dr. OU Ceren a % dr, Make a pomade. 2 > Formula For Walnut Hair Dye. The simplest form is the expressed | juice of the bark or shell of green wal- nuts. To preserve the juice a little alcohol is commonly added to it, with a few bruised cloves, and the whole di- gested together with occasional agita- tion, for a week or two, when the clear portion is decanted, and, if necessary, filtered. It should be kept ina cool place. It is most conveniently applied by a sponge. John Morley, Honey Water. Oil bergamot... ee, OR ee 12 dps, Oe er 5 dps. OMe WHET 10 ozs, ea 22 ozs, Dissolve the oils in the alcohol and add the rose-water. Poor indeed is a friendless master, al- ee he may govern a world. Little Giant $20.00 Soda Fountain Requires no tanks or plumbing. Over 10,000 in use. Great for country mer- chants. Write for Soda Water Sense Free Tells all about it. Grant Manufacturing Co., Inc., Pittsburg, Pa. Valentines Write for catalogue and discount before placing your order. Grand Rapids Stationery Co. 29 No. Ionia St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Do you sell Wall Papers? If you have not ordered your Spring stock or if your stock needs sort- ing up, Let us send our Samples, Prepaid express, for your inspection We have a very fine as- sortment at the right prices. Drop us acard. Heystek & Canfield Co. Grand Rapids, Michigan The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers | FRED BRUNDAGE wholesale 2 Drugs and Stationery « | 3a & 34 Western Ave., MUSKEGON, MICH. PELOUZE SCALES ARE THE STANDARD FOR * Accuracy, DURABILITY & SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP ’| Buy oF YouUR JoBBER: INSIST UPON GETTING THE PELOUZE MAKE N° E 90 AS SHOWN 24'Lbts. N° T. 90. WITH TIN Scoop. N° 92% BRASS DIAL;TILE Top. PELouze ScaLe & MFs. Co. CATALOGUE,35 STYLES. CHICAGO: WHOLES ALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Menthol........ 8 59@ 8 00 | Seldiitz Mixture... A@ 2 Linseed, pure raw.. “7 £0 Morphia, 8., PaW. 2 15@ 2 40/8! Oe as @ 2 ca 50 Morpnhia, 8., N.Y. Q. 2 15@ 2 40 |S ‘is, opt.. @ | Neatsfoot, winter str 58 65 some re Rergemet. Nutmegs, , Turpentine. ree. ay Mal........ 2 ar 2 2 Sn if, Maccaboy, ‘De e «| Spirits Turpentine.. 67 2 celiecrndiacoabentssroR ayn No.1... 380 40 gnult,Scoieh, tie Vos @ 4i| Paints BBL. L ux Vomica.. 15 10 i, BO ee. 11 Ate Mac 80@ 90 | Sclllze Co @ 50| Os Sepia....... ~— 35 37 | Soda, Boras, po. .... 0 11 | Red Venetian. . 1% 2 @8 eee cet Pe sin Sasc, i. &P. Soda et Poenes Tart. 25@ 27 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4 Aceticum . mo 18 sa -imeis eae ee Ta $ 50 Oe @ 1 00/| Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2/| Ochre, yellow Ber... 1% 2 @3 Benzoloum, ini” ¥5 | Rxcckthites ..- i 1 60 eae Plots Lig. N.N.i gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ «OB | , commercial .. te 2%4@3 Boracic.. SS ian i 110 Tinctures doz. . @ 2 00 | Soda, Ash 34@ 4| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 ie wsielioen = ] ee 30@ 2 40 reer Nepalis F . Picts Lia, quarts... @1 ° Boda, Sulphas. oe @ é) beeen rime _ - Des buce sca m 5 ne “pRe ng 9 H ae. eh 3@_ =Ssé# ounce.... -_ 7B Ay pe ' elena nya, _ sé $ = Spt, ge ag ee - Wau ain. ca om Nitrocu s@ 10 Sem. gal. = 60 G Paris 14%@ 18 Scestcec ss A SO 1 SS Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18/| Spts. Myrcia Dom @ 2 00 | Green, Par a “7 Sxatloum 722002212. . “ 1 50@ 2 00 60 | Piber Alba....p0.35 © 90|Spte. Vial Rect. bbl. © Green, Peninsular... 19 16 Phosphoriaim, ail... - * ” 90@ 2 00 50 | Pilx B ec @ 7/|Spts.ViniRect.%bbi @ | Lead, red............ 3 @ 8% Salicylicum ......... ieee 1 18@ 15 60 | Plumbi Acet......... 10@ 12| Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ Lead’ ‘white......... 6 @ 8% Saas .------ 1N@ 5 ine 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et Op!i 1 30@ 1 50 | Spts. Vini Rect.5gal | @ | Whiting, white Span @ 90 Tannicu - 110@ 1 20 oo oe 60 | Pyrothrum, boxes H. Sirychnia, Crystal... 90g 1 15) Whiting, gliders @ % Tartaricum | BQ 40 —. 4s = 2 10 50 P. D. Co., doz. @ 75/ Sulphur, Sub... %@ 4 White, Pars, Amer, 125 Ammonia Cee *" 4 00@ 4 50 50 Pyrethrum, pv...... 25@ 30) Sulphur, 24@ 3% | Whiting, Paris, Eng. Aqua, 16 deg. £1: 0ne .......:. . 775Q@ 300 1 Gages... .. .. $@ 10| Tamarinds .......... 8@ cliff .. @i4 ‘Aqua, 20 deg. 8 Liquida.. | ‘ 10@ 12 50 | Quinia, 8. P. & W. 28@ 38) Terebenth Venice.. 2WOQ 0 | Untyersal Prepared. 1 10@ 1 20 Cer benas .. 1 15 Liquida, ‘al ie ae 75 | Quinia, 8. German.. ?8@ 38| Theobrome.......... 45@ Chioridum. 12@Q@ 14 on oa eS 75 Goals mw. Sos BA | Vane. 9 00@16 0 Varnishes : : 1 00 1 00| Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14| Zinei Sulph......... 7@ Aniline a a 2 So mLactispy 20@ 22 Oils | No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 min boa eed acleneens 2 0@ Se ee! 475 xtra i" 1 70 oo a 80@ 1 00/ ganina -17°7777 777777 ne 1 = 60 | Sanguls Deacents.. “oe BO BBL. aar. Cong oo 2 75@ 8 00 et seaeeees eee = 50 ae 50 | Sapo, W. 12@ 14| Whale, winter....... 70 ‘urn..... 1 00@ 1 10 Wollow...........:... 2 8 00| Gassafras............ 55@ «60 50 (A 10@ 12) Lard, extra.......... 85 | Bxiva Tur Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Baccse est., ‘ounce. : of . 85 Cassia Acutifol...... . Sapo G.. © | tad, Ne. 7... 0... 60 8 | | Jap.Dryer,No.lTurp 70@ 79 OCubebs........ po, 25 22 24 : 50 msm ene rome md eee ee EE 6 7 | Thyme............... nO we 80 Xanthoxylum ....... 30@ 35 Ec eat a steeeeeee as ‘= 35 — Potsiien 6 eee Pee 50: 55 otassium — g: Ce 15 18 - Terabin, Canada 60 65 | Bichromate ......... 18@ 15 50 folutan...........--- 45@ 50/| Bromide 83@ 35 = — a aa a 75 Abies, Canadian. .... 18 | Gyanide. po. UO 38 50 ASSI@.........------ Se TOMMMM 2 2 40 = eee Flava. .... 18 Potassa, Bitart, pure os 30 8 Buonymus ——o = Potass Nitras, opt... 7™@ 10) Opn. 7. rca Virgini...... 12 | potas Nitras....... 62 & | pit, comphorated .. 50 Quillata, gr°d........ 12| Sulphate po... 15@ 18 | Pll, deodorized..... 1 59 Sassafras ...... po. 15 12 5o Ulmus...po. 20, gr’d 38 Radix hai 50 Extractum a. = = 5 Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 30 2 59 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 2@ 90 | Anchusa "_ = 89 Heematox, 15 D. box ll 12 Sateen po 80 Heematox, 1s........ @ 14 US... 2. essere es 20@ 40 Bo Heematox, 48....... 14@ 15 Gener ne sees 2 oa is | Yo 5p Hematox, \4s....... 16 17 Treaeeasae tia Cincsicdieen 2 6 29 Ferru Hydrastis Can., po. . 80 ‘ae Jarbonate Precip... 16 Hellebore, Alba.po. 12 15 Atther, Spts.Nit.2 F 30@ 35 = = —_ a.. 2 = — = meee aces ee Z 3 ‘ = a Spts. Nit.4F ag = Ww I : q bb 'D 3 8 DEO... 0.00 eCcac, PO........... 2 7 NE sca cues rugs Ferroc yanidum Bai. 40 Tis plox 0. a8 8 40 | Alu : r e are Importers and Jobbers o gs, Sulphate, com. J... 2 ba, SO @ 3 4m 5 Chemicals and Patent Medicines. Sulphate, —, = i — lum, po = : = .4 . bol, per cwt........ @| Mnet................ eed ee was i Sulphate, pure...... 71 oe, OME... @ 1 2| Antitebrin .......... 20 : - : r Flora See 75@ 1 35 | Argenti Nitras, oz.. @ «2 We are dealers in Paints, Oils and armies we 1 sins po is “S| ASI ads: BB Varnish ue ' ce ae” Anthemis.........--- ne 25 | Serpentaria ......... 65@ 70| Bismuth 8. N 1 65@ 179 arnishes. Matricaria........... 30 35 | Sen nega . 1 10@ 1 15 | Calctum Chior., ay a Folia Smilax, officinalis i. @ 40| Calctum Chior., \s.. @ 10 i / 1 Ly Barosma...........-. 35@ 40| Smilax, M........... @ 25/Calectum Chior., \s.. @ 12 We have a full line of Staple Druggists Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Scille .. > 10@ 12) Cantharides,Rus.po @ 380 neve 20@ 25 | Symplocarpus, Fcet!- Capsici Fructus, @ 3 Ginsdiies Cassia, MX catigot, Alix. 25 30 van 7 pes eee @ 2! Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15 : Salvia officinalis, 48 y i ag. po. 30 @ 2) CapsiciFructusB,po @ 15 ee ee ca, 12 20 | Valeriana, German. 16@ 20 pono ing, No. 3. -po.15 12@ 14 : i i Ce CN 5 nse 3 10 Zingiber } bette eeeees 14@ 16 | Carmine, No. 40. .... was We are the sole proprietors of Weath- Gummi a ca Cera Flava.. 40@ 42 ‘ f ‘ a Acacia, ist picked... — Coceus a erly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. = — ee a. : ; 3 = Cassia ii $ . Acacia, cked... um grave eons). 13@ 15] Centraria..... ee sifted sorts - aetbage = siquee a = We always have in stock a full line of a’ po... jarul... _10@ 11| Chloroform’: 60 y Aloe, — - — ; 0 : io Ohioral Fiyd sib 1 so i a Whiski B di GH Wi oe, Cape.... 5. 4 al Hyd C c ns ines Aloe, Sovoti.-po. 40 Cyionium See a Pus poate ag ws pe = nn ens sai Ammontss........... Ge Wi Cyectmm........... ‘nchonidine . Assafcetida.. ..Po. 40 Chenopodium 15@ 16|Cinchonidine, Germ. 38@ 48 and Rums for medical purpeses Benzoinum .. oo Dipterix Odorate.... 1 00@ 1 10| Cocaine ............. 4 8@ 5 0 Catechu, 7 Posieuiom.......... @ 10; Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 75 lv Catechu, 48......... Foenugreek, po...... Ss tum 45 only. | eee en Bee cs ae wee Toi sat onstage tate : $ : : Jampho Jonede cece Poo ie i L : p= nog ieatiad es ce: ca & 48 . We give our personal attention to mail anum § Hamboge ........- t ee sea 6 40 i 4 Gualacam ee Sinapis “Alba. 9@ 10 24 orders and guarantee satisfaction. Kino.. po. $0.75 Sinapis Nigra. . 11@ 12 8 — ea es Spiritus = l ! ae Opi. "po. ita 30 3 00@ 3 10 Frumenti, W.D D. . Co. 208 ‘ 80 8 All orders shipped and invoiced the same 33@ 45 Frumenti............ 1 25@ 1 50 90 : - Shelia, dieached.... = O@ . | Juntperis Go. 0.7... 1 65@ 2 00 - day received. Send a trial order. pareaheetes a _ ae 1 75@ 3 50 23 Herba .E.... 1 90@ 2 10 9 Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 Set Vint ‘Galli euae on 1 75@ 6 60 Eupatorium..oz. pkg 20 mt Corte... .... 1 25@ 2 00 35@ 60 Lobelia ...... oz. i 26) Vin Atoe............ 1 25@ 2 00 75 & 6 Mentha Pip.-on. DEE 23 apenas 70 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 6) en l bo 25 Tan nacetim Voz. DAE 39 | Nassau sheep "wool Glycerina. THO B® H It ° < Pp | : rhymus, V...0z. pkg 25 ener ae extra. sheeps’ ns? Humulus............ 25 55 aZe I ne er 1 n S Magnesia wool, carri @ 1 50| Hydrarg Chior Mite @ 1 00 Calcined, Pat........ 60 | Extra yellow s neeps Hydrarg Chior Cor.. @ 9% Carbonate, Pat. 180 20 ro carriage - @12 ——— Ox Rub'm. g i D r (. O Carbonate, K. ~~ o 20 | Grass sheeps’ wool, 1 | ‘arbonate, Jennings 18@ 20| ca wes aan @ 1 00 geen shaggy = = g ° Oleum Hard, for slate use.. @ 75 Ichthyobolla, aa. * 7 Yellow Reef, for 65@ Abeintitam . .......: 6 50@ 703) slate use.. @1 40 digo “ 75@ 1 00 iL U sure Auras ¢ sep 6 Se Syrape me 3 © Grand Rapids, Mich m 2, mare. 2 e i. 1 =o 1 65 | Acacia . @ wo @ 50 ’ Auranti Cortex ‘ 2 10@ 2 20| Auranti Corte: S@ So 85@ 70 Bergamlii 2 75@ 8 10 | Zingiber...... @ wo 2. 65 75 Cajiputi 80@ 85/1 @ 6 ——-* Arsen et Hy- Caryophyll 75@ 80) Ferri Tod. @ wo moon 8 @ 2 leodar .... 80@ 85/ Rhel Arom... Sine @ 560/ Liquor otags Arsinit 10@ 12 Chenopadii . ‘: @ 2 00 | Smilax en 30@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph.... 2@ 3 Cinnamon! . . 1 00@ 1 10| Senega ........ eee @ 650| Magnesia, Sulph, bbi @ i*% Mtronella........... 88 @0/ Soll... .....0.c.cc- @ 68|Mannin §, #2... 75 80 28 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT fhese quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at market prices at date of purchase. Prices, however, are lia- ADVANCED Lard Lard Compound DECLINED “Search” Metal Polish Oranges Peari Barley Rolled Oats Syrup Starch, Corn and Gloss Pop Corn | Index to Markets | j | 2 By Columns AXLE GREASE BRUSHES | Seru an. ae “anaes 45 Col. i Solid Back, 11 im ........202. 95 A | Castor "HERE NDR a =i | D a. 4 25| Pointed Ends................ 85 SE ccc es 50 | Akron Stoneware..........-- Si eae 7 900. Shoe Alabastine ..-.....-.-..-.++-- 1| IXL Golden, tin boxes75 9 00 ee 1 00 Ammonia.......---+-+ +--+ +++- 1| é SS eS SE 1 30 Axle Grease......---+--..---- 1 He. a 1 = B | 7 ’ i ee 1 Baking Powder..........:.... 1) 3B oa Stove ae 4 Gs a8 S =: ore oie i‘ S eerie Net ‘3 + ee 1] Ses Wiens’ Dustiess Sweeper ee Le . ~—s..,.lUrUC.LCUC.CCsCst 1 50 Butter rr nageee tite one 1} No. 8 2 00 | a) . .... a ee Ra ‘I DR cnc nbdideeiec cucu 3 50 ae oaned ——— 2) BUTTER COLOR ee ove tie nwte me a enes 3 | Mica, tin boxes.......75 900! W., R. & Co.’s, i5c size.... 1 25 ee .| Lo oe nce . .- 55 600 aoe CANDLES 2 00 eI BAKING POWDER — Lien ane - C 3 | Egg cL ca — Lines. : x Ib. cans, 4 doz case......3 75 Paraffine, 128. ates eee DOCOR. .. 2. - eee eee ee ceee cere ‘ pe ‘ : = —.......- epee terete 7 | Tomato, 21D. oa 2 80 Mushrooms — accu OH ; | Hotels bei no : 18@20 Pipe vee v sees eeeneee 7 | Small size, per doz.......... #0 ee 2225 Playing € wards. seeeeeee 8 | Large size, perdoz...... oo Oysters" coe ee ee rin t oe, ' | Gove, 1 1p ones Tena 8 | a AST FOOD i 1 5S R ch eeeeneoove ON ald etsenteemennnve meetin i HERA NUT FLAKES aan te o.... 95 Salad Dressing............... 9] | Yeliow weeeeeneeneereees ; — J 3 Baleratus......-----.-.. +++ 9 Cases, 36 packages..........4 “Pears” Sal Soda : Five case tots ee 4 ] | SteeGerd ......_.- . 1 00 Salt, Fish... 9 nn 1 2 9 ae : HUTC OTS) at Snuff ..................--..... 10| OW Oem mw SQ ewe | ey cue. - -- ~~ + - Early June Sifted. 1 65 = ee Ene R a y ee” oon | Plums en 85 s ees «- Granulap on Pineappie Stove Polis A Delidhtful Cereal Surprise | Sar ee : 25@2 = MABE «oon 0s cecees ceceessccesce 11 | Cases, 24 1 Ib. packages... ...2 70 | ir ae 35@2 SE 10 TRYABIT — - Table ee A& (ood ee : 00 to na Peptonized Celery Food, 3 | & eee so I _ ee 405 | allon siisaieilaas 2 5” Twine . Hulled Corn, per doz........ 95 | Standard 115 Vinegar BROOMS Russian Cavier neg sis casa eenesaeee een No. 1 Carpet. ene PRE a, a : OO oe co ann Se ee eee Washing Powder.............. 13 | No.3 6 Se ‘ 3 sl *% > eae 7 2 Aen a ee 13 | No. 4 Carpet. “1 BI le ace ee eee ee ee ""2 40 | Columbia Biver, talls @i & Pping Paper -.....--..-- 13/ Gommon Whisk... 85 | Columbia River, flats @I1 80 i ¥ Fancy Whisk.. 1 20/ Red Alaska... ...... @1 30 Yeast Cake o| Gee. ee . @ 0 | : Shrimps a 1 40 Succotash cee nne cess Good 1 2 Fancy oleae 1 48 Sardines Domestic, 48........ 3% Domestic, 5 ....... 5 Domestic, Mustard 6 California, %48....... 11@14 California 48........ 17@24 eee, 1... wc. 7Q14 Peenen, 4.......... 18@28 Strawberries en 1 10 Fancy 1 40 Tomatoes i a 110 ee 1 15 a 1 % ee ce ee 8 83 CARBON OILS I ik ae ks ies @i2% Perfection aceiee eee . @11* Diamond a ec @il D. 8. Gasoline......... @14% ceadeaneek t Naphtha.. @12 Se a SE 6 Black, MON... ones g Six CATSUP Columbia, pints.............2 00 Columbia, % pints..........- 1 25 CHEESE ee O15 Amboy @li% Elsie.. . @i4 Emble @l4% en O15 Gold Med @ Ideal ... @i4 Jersey.. gia Riverside 214 Brick ... 144@15 a EES @20 Leiden @i7 Limbu 13@14 Pinea; 50@75 Sap ‘o @19 . RL SSS ny 6 oz can, per doz.. a Quart can, per “a 22 Gallon can, per doz........ 7 50 Samples and Cireulars Free. Jobbers selling Brunswick’s Easybright cleaner and pol- isher, a world winner and a seller: Musselman Grocer Co., Rapids. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co, Grand Rapids. B. Desenberg & Co , Kalamazoo. Jackson Grocery Co., Jackson Brown, Davis & Warner, Jack- Grand son Howard & Solon, Jackson. Austin oe Grocery Co., Lansin Northrop. Robertson & Carrier, Lansin Smart & hex Co., Saginaw. Valley City Drug Co., Saginaw. Morley Bros. Siginaw. Geo. Hume & Co, Muskegon. Wm. Bradley’s Son, Greenville. ©. P. DeWitt. St. Johns. Ward L. Andrus Co., Ltd., De- troit. Lee & Cady, Detroit. Phelps, Brace & Co , Detroit. C. Elliott & Co., Detroit. Crusoe Bros. Co , Detroit. Fdw. Hentel Co., Detroit. H. Wohifelder Co., Detroit, L. B. King & Co. Detroit. Spater Bros , Detroit Buhl Sons’ Co., Detroit. Standart Bros., Ltd., Detroit. Mich. Drug Co.. Detroit. Farrand, Williams & Clark, De- trolt. ; Stollberg & Clapp Co., Toledo. Ohio. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin Co., Toledo, Ohio Brinkmeyer, Kuhn & Co., Indi- anapolis, Ind. Kramer & Sons, La Porte, Ind. Lord, Owen & Co, Chicago, Ill. oO —" Pieper & Co., Milwaukee, WwW J. F. tees s&Co., ington. 1il. Jobst, Bethard Company, oria, Ill. Wilsen Grocery Co., Peoria, Il. Chesterman Co., Souix City, la. Bloom- Pe CEREAL COFFEE ~ UBTE KOM: Put up in cases of twenty four packages, twenty ounces each. Per eeee ...-...-. 2 50 For sale by all jobbers 4 COFFEE Roasted Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands. MOCHA iYINELL-wRIGHT °° BOSTON, ake White House, | lb. cans White House, 2 Ib. cans..... Excelsior, M. & J. 1 Ib. cans Excelsior, M. & J. 2 1b. cans Tip Top, M. & J., 1 Ib. cans. Roval JOvA...... ....+-+++--- Royal Java and Mocha...... Java and Mocha Blend...... Boston ¢ nan. — Ja-Vo Blend.. .. oe Ja-Mo-Ka Blend............ Distributed 7 Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids, C. E? Hott & Co., Detroit, B. Desen- berg & Co., Kalamazoo, Symons Bros. & Co., Saginaw, Jackson Grocer Co., "Jac son, Metsel & Goeschel, Bay City, Fielbach Co., Toledo. Telfer Coffee Co. brands No. 9 9 No. No. No. Rio Fair id ie i cisshh ceeken yun 10 epee cette ces 13 Paes... .... ll Maracaibo BE iach bs eces ec isnn teers 13 ee 18 Mexican a oie eee cece 13 eee ieee eae 17 Guatemala aoe e ence eons 13 Java a 12 —— African . a 31 Mocha Arablan....... a a Package a —_ a. Arbuckle.. o a ee 10 ee, SS Lion MeLaughiin’ s XXxXxX McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers =. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract Holland . Sn Felix % TOSS..... cook oe Hummel’s foil \ gross. ee 85 Hummel’s tin % gross ...... 1 43 CONDENSED MILK 4 doz in case. 6 49 ..5 90 470 --4 25 4 00 -.4 0 ..3 8 4 00 --6 10 -8 85 425 Highland Cream... -5 00 St. Charles Cream...........4 50 CRACKERS National Biscuit Co.’s brands Butter IE iicas ccctcnoceese [eS POM 0.2.0 cv ccce cece ss 6% § dcbeeeusveses cane) ie Wolverine. ese Cons ween ee 7 i ee 12 POOGen COOGEE...» +2025 00. 8 Ginger Gems, |’ ae as 8 Gin ne Snaps, 6% BE 5 Sass lose aces 10% Grandma Cakes........... 9 Graham Crackers......... 8 Graham Wafers........... 12 Grand Rapids Tea........ 16 ee: 12 Iced Honey Crumpets..... 10 PO tee sees icone, SO Jumbles, Honey........... 12 | NE Lemon Wrers.... .... oss. 16 TRO Winns conn sive 16 Marshmallow Creams... .. 16 sayy oo gg Walnuts. . 16 ME oo ais cece ccs 8 Mixed Picnic. seas eg —~ we Molasses Cake............ 8 Miotaeees BOF..:...402-0... 8 Se eS 12% Newton. —— on Oatmeal Crackers. ...... oe 12 9 8 8 gs Pretzels, hand made...... 8 Scotch Cookies............ 10 BORED LAIR ess seis ses on OE CTR ois oes oc so a aca Square... . : ju uares..... eee Sultanas.......... cS 13 ee ee 16 Vane Walter... ...... 4... 16 Viemns OFD. ..6666 --504- 8 E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods Standard Crackers Blue Ribbon Squares. Write for complete price list with interesting discounts. CREAM TARTAR 6 and 10 Ib. _— — ical 30 Bulk in sacks.. i DRIED ‘FRUITS Apples Sundri Os ok, ‘60 Ib. boxes. 10 8 California Prunes 25 Ib. 1¢ cent less in 6 Ib. cases ei Fruits Pitted Gherries........ PN ou. os cuckas Raspberries ........... Citron Cariean ......-. 13 @13% Imported, 1 noun uae ~~ Imported bulk......... 4@ Peel Lemon American 10 Ib. bx..13 Orange American 10 Ib. bx..13 Raisins London Layers 2 Crown. London Layers 3 Crown. 1 95 Cluster 4 Crown......... 60 Loose Muscateis 2 Crown 7 Loose Muscatels 3 Crown ™% Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 8 L.. M., Seeded, i ..... @93 L. M., Seeded, % Ib.... 7 Sultanas, Ne aie ae Sultanas, package clea eee 10% FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Lim ceteris. an Medium ‘Hand Picked 2 40 Brows eee... ¥ 241 1b, packages ............1 50 Bulk, per 100 _ cocsoscel OO sata ipa narrate t : ‘ i i i i : i j a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 10 29 if oo Flake, 50 Ib. sack.. ee 90 Peer, 20m, Oel............ 8 00 Pearl, 100 Ib. sack........... 2 BO oMaccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 ~ neta os. oe Imported. 25 Ib. box. _..... “2 BO = ‘Bariey 26 .-8 50 Green, Wisconsin, ~~. i @ Green, Scotch, b -1 85 Split, th. , « Rolled Oats BBSR an, sacks German. broken package.. 4 apioca Flake, vat - OORD. 6. onsen. 44 Pearl, 130 Ib. sacks.......... B% Pearl, 24 1 lb. > packages nce 6% heat Cenemes, DUI... ........... Oe 242 Bb. packages . oie eaccen ue 2 50 FISHING TACKLE NE OO FO i i icant icnedcan ac. ee 0 8 eeeee................ 7 i565 OOS Wome... .. «+555... 9 i OOS ree... <.4.-..,. ll ees mained cues 15 Seren... se. 30 Cotton Lines Linen Lines a nn Medium. Poles Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz.... . 50 Bamboo, 16 ft.. per doz...... 65 Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz...... 80 FLAVORING EXTRACTS FOOTE & JENKS’ eons Highest Grade Extracts BH oy Lemon zfullm.120 lozfullm. 80 zfullm.210 20z full m.1 25 No 0. 8fan’y 3815 No.8fan’y.1 75 E | Bt a - Lemon anel. 75 er..2 00 40zZ taper..1 50 2 oz panel anel..1 20 20Z 3 oz tap JENNINGS: he * e ; Cece rEKTe? FLAVORING EXTRACTS Folding Boxes D. C, Lemon D. CG. — 2 0z a ae 2G... 2 OB. scse 16 46...... 2 00 Cok... ..., 20 602....... 3 00 Taper Bottles D. C. Lemon D. C. Vanilla 2 2o........ 1 26 ee8...... 123 63a. -_- O06... 5. GD <408......; 2 40 Full Measure D. C. Lemon 13% .- : rlin Ham pr’s’d. *~ i Mince Hams ....... 9%@ 10 tanec ‘Leaves at. Senna Leaves. . .8 | Compound........... Bian Madras, 5 eae 55 60 lb. Tubs.. advance * +e | 80 lb. Tubs.. advance % 8. F., 2,3 and 5 ib. boxes. ee 60 Ib. Tins...advance % JELLY 20 1b. Pails. .advance % 5 * a. — OO. Cn caces 1 85 | 10 lb. Pails.. advance % Oe wee 40 8 1b. Palls.. advance 1 30 Ib. a. ieee css dudcuceues 78| *1h Pafle. advance 1 ao LICORICE WepeOne... .... 8 BO dis criecctscs cacdeccsee OM usages Calabria. oe ON i clues 5% @6 BOEE divas at cite sees cece a 10 | Frankfort LYE FOlm .... < Eagle Brand ace poe tacwaceuey High test powdered lye. Ton seeeee Single case lots. H cheese... natttsee 10¢ size, 4 doz cans per case 3 50 Beef Quantity deal. Extra Mess.......... $3.90 per case, with 1 case free CO 11 75 with every 5 cases or 4 case free | Rump, New ......... @il 75 with 3 cases. ow 5 Feet Condensed, 2 doz............1 20 oe. 40 Ibs.. 1 36 Condensed. 4 doz............2 25 | 4[bbis.,.............. 3 60 MALTED FOOD bbls, Ibs.. - 7 76 Tripe MA LT-OLA iin 2 Me.......... 70 14 Dbis., 40 Ibs....... 1 40 Cases, 12 packages......... 1 35 | % bbis., 80 Ibs. . 270 Cases, 36 packages......... 4 05 Por Casings 28 MEAT EXTRACTS Armour’s, 2 0Z............ 4 45 Beet rounds. ceased a —* = eo. : = Sa 85 ebig’s, Chicago, 2 0z.... 2 a Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 oz.... 5 50 gota, neolored ‘Buttavine | Liebig’s, imported, 20z... 4 55 Rolls, dairy.......... 12 @12% Liebig’s, imported, 4o0z... 8 50 Rolls, entiay. ee 5 1BK MOLASSES Solid, purity. . 15 New Orleans Canned Monts Fancy Open Kettle........ 40 Corned beef, 2 Ib.. 3 50 Choice.. — 35 17 60 oo RM RN 26 2 50 Oe ieee sascha cece 22 60 Half-barrels 2c extra 90 MUSTARD 50 Horse Radish, 1 doz.........1 78 90 Horse Radish, 2 doz .8 50 50 Bayle’s Celery, . doz........ we Best grade Imported Japan, 3 — pockets, 33 to the Cost ef packing in. cotton poek- ets only %c more than bulk. SALAD DRESSING Durkee’s, large, | doz....... 4 50 Durkee’s, small, 2 doz....... 5 25 Snider’s, large, 1 doz........2 30 Snider’s, small, 2 doz........ 1 80 SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Church’s Arm and Hammer.3 E 3 15 Emblem. 2 10 DO cs ca 8 00 Wyandotte, 100 %e_... 21... 3 00 SAL SODA Granulated, bbis............ 96 Granulated, 100 Ib. cases 1 05 Lump, bbis. . —— ioe 145 Ib. kegs. liste nen ou 95 SALT Diamond Crystal Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes..1 40 Table, barrels, 100 3 Ib. bags. 3 00 Table, barrels, 50 6 lb. bags.3 00 Table, barrels, 407 Ib. 8.2 75 Butter, barrels, 320 Ib. bulk.2 65 Butter, barrels, 20 141b.bags.2 85 Butter, sacks, a tho = Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... Shaker, 24 2 Ib. boxes....... 1 60 ——" Aaeusezens Warsaw 86 Ib. dairy tn drill bags..... 40 28 lb, dairy in drill bags..... 20 Ashton 56 Ib. dairy in linen sacks... 60 8 86 Ib, dairy in linen sacks... 60 Solar Rock ere Oheee. wc. 28 — Granulated Fine.. ac. oo eee SALT FISH | Cod Large whole.. Smail whole. . Strips or brie! Halibut. BERRIES. 4... corccncaecccsccees Ohunk wii Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 50 Holland white hoops%bbl. 5 50 Holland white hoop, & O75 en white ms mc 8. 85 Round 100 lbs..........+--. 3 60 Mate OO TRE... oc. ccecsee EM Trout es Ss oss oo coca OO BS ks os cos cone eee Me No.1 8Ibs.. et enense Mackerel Mess 100 Ibs. . as Does GO ...... 5... Dees We meee Oe. ee, © Oe, OS cg co chs oh ce nod ee... POG: OR cet as won BaB8SSSaS SSSF ~ — bt mt UD CA et ee 00 OD es ON ids eee sion ks oe PO a cease No, 2 8B BE -2nc nove vee ee Whitefish No.3 Canary, Smyrna.. oe e aee 4s 5 C. MO as dade, 7M Cardamon, Malabar......... 1 00 eg Se 10 Hemp, Russian.......... woes a Mixed Bird.. adc once & Mustard, white.. cece 7 Po a Gad cb beneas e | = Rape --... baa meee seeeeeeseees 4 SHOE BLACKING Handy Box, large......... 2 50 Handy Box, small......... 1 25 | Bixby’s Royal Polish...... 85 | Miller’s Crown Polish..... 85 | SOAP | Beaver Soap Co. brands | | WONDER, WONDER 100 cakes, large size......... 6 50 | 50 cakes, large size......... 3 25 | 100 cakes, small size......... 7 = | 50 cakes, small size......... Single oa 5 box i. delivered........ "3 15 10 box lots, delivered........ 3 10 Johnson Soap Co. anente— Silve beg wn. Coe posi: Family. — 2 75 Seateh Familly..... ...... 2 85 Juba... 2 35) Jas. 8. Kirk & Co. brands— Dusky Diamond.......... 9 2g | Jap ee 3 75 Savon Imperial.......... 319 White Russian........... 4 @ Dome, oval bars.......... 3 10 Satinet, oval.. 2 15 White Cloud....... 2.2.2. 4 00 Lautz Bros. brands— Me i bie dame 410 ee 3 55 —— le dee de 4 = | ae 7. oor se08 STARCH Common Gloss ie cuse cues 5 oe Becca aKa > pa oortony Corn — ‘“ 2 1-ID. Packages .........- 40 1-Ib. eae 44O% SYRUPS Corn Barrels cae 23 OO os ec wee ea! 6 10 Ib. cans, % doz. In case.. 1 &5 5 Ib. cans, 1 doz. in case.... 1 85 2% Ib. cans, 2 doz. in case...1 85 Pure ie Fair . eid cacea oe Good . 2 | Chotee” cee ee 25 STOVE ‘POLISH ~ — st J.L. Prescott & Co. Manufacturers New York, N. Y. es NTT | No. 4, 8 dozin case, groas.. 4 50 | No, 6, 8 doz in case, gross . 7 20 SUGAR Domino... elec 2a | 5 45 I oo oor oe etn cone 6 45 ca 5 10 | Powdered . . 4a | Coarse Powdered......... 4 v5 | XXXX Powdered......... 510 | Fine Granulated. .......... 475 | 21b. bags Fine Gran... .. 4.5 | 5 1b. Da oo ee 4 90 Mould Wheteesesconces O40 | Diamond vm ‘cc per, Singapore, white. on | Looe Gian 600............... 33 00 Pep) r, Oayenne..... iia ee eT a 32 00 ea 25° eee OF eee... 31 00 ————— ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i. 1... 35 Daily Mail, 5c edition....... 35 00 Fine Cut a . 54 Sweet Loma........... 83 Hiawatha, 5 sib. palis........88 Hiawatha, 10 Ib. ane... 54 Telegram.....-..+..ss+eeeees 22 oa eee 31 Bath, inherit oe oo Pe 87 Sweet Burley... 02 rece cces 42 BN i eee ee cee ee 38 Plug ett Ol ooo 82 Palo .. 31 Kylo.. 34 Hiawatha ...... 41 Battle Axe ...:.. 33 American Eagle. Standard Navy.. Spear Head, 16 oz. Spear Head, 8 0z. 43 Moboy TWMS .......... ae eee ee 36 ae ene... 42 ee een eon eee 38 Piper a Se 61 Boot Jack... —. a Honey Dip Twist. a se 33 Black ne oe 38 Ee Peres .... Seen ee ee Nickel Twist. ne 50 stg Sweet Core........-.. .- see 34 Oe ee ee 34 Warpath oe Bamboo, 16 OZ...........---- 24 TX i, Gib. 26 I X L, 16 02. pails oss ees 30 Honey Dew a Gold Biock... Ss Flagman . ea Chips. eee eee 21 Duke's Mixture. : ae Duke’s Cameo.........-..--- 41 Myrtle Navy .. ee Yum Yum, 1% oz.. coe Yum Yum, 1 Ib. pails sees 37 ie ee che eee oo ne 36 Corn Cak 2% 0 Corn Cake, 11b.. Plow Boy, Peerless, 3% 02. Peerless, 1% 0z.. Bey BeARO. 204+... ' i oek.......- Country Club. .....-...-. Forex-X XXX. Good Indian . Self Binder Silver Foam_.... TWINE Cotton, 3 ply ae 16 —e - Jute, oR Hemp, 6 . Flax, m io ore Wool, 1 Ib. balis............. 7% VINEGAR Malt White Wine, 40 grain.. 8 Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 Pure Cider, B. & B. brand. = Pure Cider, Red Star.. 11 Pure Cider, Robinson. . au Pure Cider, Sliver..........-. ll WASHING POWDER Diamond Flake........- 2 75 Gold Brick..... Ce Gold Dust, regulsr.. a 4 50 oe ee O.............. 4 00 meee, 964 ........... 3 90 oes. 2% Soapine.. ee Babbitt’s 1776. ..3% Roseine. . Sl 3 50 Pe eR 37 ae eee... 3 35 EE i ee ee 3 50 oe eee... .. 8 75 WICKING oo eereees.......... oe ie. 1, DOT HPO... ..... 22s 2 30 Pe. & eee ee... me. 8. Hereee..............00 WOODENWARE Baskets ie i ee Bushels, wide band......... 1 25 I ek ees chee wn 30 Splint, large ee ‘16 00 oe ee 5 00 lint, small ..... -4 00 tllow Clothes, large a 8 00 Willow Clothes, medium... 5 50 Witlow Clothes. small. 90 Bradley Butter Boxes 2 Ib. sie, 24 in case... 72 Bib. clue, Min caee......... & Sib. see, Bin oees......... B 10 lb. size, 6 in case......... 60 Butter Plates No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate...... 40 No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate...... 45 No. 3 ( val, 250 in crate...... 50 No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate...... 60 Churns Barrel, 5 gals., each... -.2 40 Barrel, 10 gals., each........2 55 Barrel, 15 gals., each........ 2 70 Clothes Pins Round head, 5 gross box.... 50 Round head, cartons....... 7 Ege Crates Humpty Dumpty ........... 2 2 No. 1, Complete .... ......000 29 me i3 Faucets Dork Heed, $i.............. 65 ee ee PO ec ccettaeccee oe ee eee 65 Mop — Trojan spring .. — = Eclipse patent spring .. - = No 1 common. i No. 2 patent prush holder... 85 12 . cotton mop heads..... 1 25 ees Oe Fs... -. 2... Pails 2-hoop Standard.. 3-hoop —- - 2-wire, Cable.. ecb ces 3-wire, Cable.. Cedar, all red, ‘brass bound. Paper, Eureka...... Fibre .. oe Toothpicks eres - oe Softwood . ee wise tee comes es eee ee ee Traps Mouse, wood, 2 holes........ Mouse, wood, 4 holes....... . Mouse, wood, 6 holes........ Mouse, tin, 5 holes.......... Rat, wood. Rat, spring............+--..-- Tubs 20-inch, Standard, No.1..... 18-inch, Standard, No. 2..... 16-inch, Standard, No. 3..... 20-inch, Cable, No. 1.. 18-inch, Cable, No. 2.. - 16-inch, a" No. 3.. on No. 1 Fibre.. eau No. 2 Fibre... ' No. 3 Fibre.. : Wash ‘Boards Bronze Globe... .. 2... cece +08 Dewey ... a Double ee 2 Single Acme.. ——a. = Double Peerless........--- Single Peerless............ Northern Queen . Double Duplex... Good Luck Universal. ..... Window Cleaners ie eh ones whee stn 1 ———————— We ee Wood Bowls nn ee................ 13 In. Butter.. ee 15 in. See EC —_———————— EE ————— Assorted oo Lae ae Ass , 15-17-1 09 EPPING PAPER Common xine ee 1 Fiber Manila, white Fiber — —-« SSas SERSSRS FSSSER NNOUVQIAH~a BASSSRGaAS SEESSSSSS epee crore) ~ on No. 1 Mant Cream Manta............. 3 Butcher’s Manila......-.... 2% Wax Butter, short count. 13 Wax Butter, fullcount.... 20 Wax Butter, rolls......... YEAST CAKE oes 1 00 a ght, ees ee 100 Sunlight, 1% doz...........- 50 Yeast Cream, 8 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Foam, 8 doz.......... 1 00 Yeast Foam.1% doz........ 5 FRESH FISH Per Ib. Wale tk.............4 UO Trout.. cei coesee ae Black Bass.. 1@ 12 Halibut ....... raneeesoes @ Ciscoes or — = 5 Bluefish ... 1 12 Live Lobster.......... @ 2 Botled Lobster........ @ 2 ee ee oe —_ 2 ae ......... @ 8 No. 1 _ ae @ 8% I ics a4 Kee nwe = Ff ee ee 3 5 Smoked White........ il Red Snapper........-. @ 10 Col River Salmon...13 @ t4 Mackerel........ @ 18 oY STERS Bulk per gal. co, eee... .. .-. 1 75 Pea. ............. Fae ee 1 40 Baltimore Standards. .... 115 eee Cans per can P, ©, Te. ....-. ones 35 Extra Selects. 27 Selects .. oe 23 Perfection Standards. | 22 aie ....... oe 20 Stand «rds. 8 HIDES ‘AND PELTS ; Hides | creen Be. i......... @?7 > | Green No. 2........ @é io me. 8... S 4 Cee Bo. 2......... @i* Calfskins,green No.1 @ o% Calfskins,green No.2 @s Calfskins,cured No.1 @10% Calfskins,cured No.2 @s elts i -oe............ oe re 5°@1 60 Shearlings Bi er 40@ o me 8. @ 5% BO Bee @ 4% Wool Washed, fine........ @z0 Washed, medium... @23 Unwashed, fine. .... 18 @i7 Unwashed, medium. 16 sH i4 CANDIES Stick —_— bis. pails Peers ............ @7 Standard H. H...... @7 Standard Twist. .... @8 oe oe... @°9 cases Jumbo, 32 Ib......... @7% te @10% Boston Cream. . @10 VDoeot Pr- ae Mixed Candy ee... ...... @6 | Spa Ste ees @7z ee @ 7% i ee @7% TE oo oe is wee @ 8% I oe cee, @°9 ee Ee @s Ce tee. ............ @ && English Rock........ @°2 Kindergarten ....... @9 Bon Ton Cream..... @ &% French Cream....... @9 Dos Fe... ....... @10 Hand a Crev™ 14% c Sour Cream mix 13 Fancy—In Pais ene. Crys. Gums. Sy rosy Teese. ..... .. 15 Fairy Cream Squares 12 Fudge Squares...... 12 Peanut Squares. .... 9 Sugared Peanuts 11 ted Peanuts...... 10 Starlight Kisses..... 10 San Bias Goodies.... @12 Lozenges, plain ..... @9 Lozenges, printed. . @i0 Champion Chocolate @ill Kelipse Chocolates... @i3% Quintette Choc...... @i2 ae Dee... S 5% Moss Drops......... @3 Lemon Sours.... @°9 Imporiais........ 9 Itai. Cream Opera 12 Itai. Cream Bonbons 20 ib. pais. ....... @i1 Molasses Chews, 15 a @13 Golden Waffies..... ° @i2 Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes Lemon Sours @50 Peppermint Drops. @6o Chocolate Drops... 4 H. M. Choc. Drops... H. M. Choc. Lt. and x, oe. ......... @i 00 ian oe... .. @35 Licorice Drops...... @75 Lozenges, plain..... @55 Imperias.. — @so Imper ca. @s0 @60 gs Hand Made Creams. 80 @90 Cream Buttons, —_ Wen. ......... @65 Siring Reck......... @65 Wintergreen Berries (@60 FRUITS Oranges Florida Russett...... @ Florida Bright / @ Fancy Navelis.. 3 00@3 HC Extra Choice. . @ Late Valencias. @ ee... @ Medt. Sweets @ Jamaicas .. @ Ce @ Lemons Verdelll, ex fey 300. . @ Verdelli, fey 300..... @ Verdelli, ex chee 300 @ Verdelll, fey 360. .... @ Cali Lemons, 300..... 3 59@3 75 Messinas 300s....... 3 50/@4 (0 Messinas 360s....... 3 50@s CO apas Medium bunches.... 1 50@2 00 Large bunches...... Foreign a Fruits Californias, any. Cal. pkg, 10 Ib. bones Extra — Turk., 10 Ib. bo: — Thr, 12 Ib. Pulled. a = boxes. . Naturals, in bags.... Dates Fards in 10 Ib. boxes Fards in 60 lb. cases. ee... Ib. cases, new. .... Sairs, 60 lb. cases.... NUTS Almonds, Tarragona Almonds, Ivica ..... Aimones, Oallfornia, soft shelled........ | Walnuts Grenobles. Walnuts, soft shelled Cal Me. 1, pew... Table Nuts, fancy... Pecans, Ex. Large... Pecans, Jumbos..... Hickory Nuts per bu. Ohio, new. Cocoanuts, full sacks Chestnuts, per bu ... Peanutse—new Fancy, H. P., Suns.. Fancy, 0 H. P., Suns Roas Choice, H.P., Jumbo Choice, H. P., Jumbo Roasted . Sean. Bhild Ne. in’w @ @1 00 @ 134 @15 crop 1x @ 54 6 @ 6% 7 @7% B4S om STONEWARE Butters % gal., per doz..... 1 to 6 gal., per gal 5% 8 gal. each ee 48 te oa) Gee... .... 22. 60 ee 72 15 oa meat-tubs, each................ 32 20 gal. meat-tubs, each.............-.- 1 50 25 gal. meat-tube, each............ .+-: 20 80 gal. meat-tubs, each............ .+-- 2 55 Churns 2 to 6 gal., es lanes cnueres 8 “hurn Dashers, per PA aN 84 Milkpans % ga. fiat or rd. bot., per doz... a 48 1 gal. nat or rd. bot,, each...... Senne o 54% Fine Glazed Milkpans % gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.... .... 60 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each............ 6 Stewpans % gal. ——- bail, per doz.. 8 1 wal fireproof, bail, per doz.. 1 10 Jags % ~ OT a ek 56 48 oat wee Oe. 8 42 2ie5 oe, oer on... |... 7 Sealing Wax & Ibs. in package, per ID. .............. 2 LAMP BURNERS Re Oe... 35 me, 1s... cs... 86 oe 48 ae ee 85 I cin deans ni ie 50 ee 50 MASON FRUIT JARS With Porcelain Lined Caps reee............ 4 25 per gross _——————— 4 50 per gross ON tee 6 50 per gross Fruit Jars packed 1 dozenin box LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds Per box of : doz. We OO ss le 62 mile... i 84 We 8 ee 2 80 Anchor Carton Chimneys Each chimney in corrugated carton. Bo. eOmme............ peek Speke 1 74 oe eee... 1 96 ie. See... 2 90 First Quality No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped’! & lab. 191 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 18 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 08 XXX Flint No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 75 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wra & lab. 3 75 No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrap; a 4 00 Pearl Top No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 4 60 No. 2 Sun, ere a Poaeen Lebese 5 380 No. 2 hinge, wrap — — 5 10 No. 2 Sun, “Smal Bulbs c i “Globe eS Se En La Bastie No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.. No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz No. 1 Crimp, per doz...... No. 2 Crimp, por Gos................... Rochester No. 1 Lime (65¢ doz)........ EEE ee ee oe... ........ Boer eee eee... Electric No. 2 Lime Sag = eed nee oe oe. 2 eee Cee ee... 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It is the only catalogue in the world that does a business of eighteen millions a year witLout a single salesman on the road, It isthe standard by which thousands of the closest buyers in the country gauge prices. Do you want a ‘right-hand man?” Costs you nothing. A new _ booklet “More. Business” may tell you some- thing new and do you some good. Specify catalogue J454 and _ booklet J3018—both sent gratis if you are a merchant. BUTLER BROTHERS Chicago WE SELL AT WHOLESALE ONLY -_— Aehaieibign ata ie 2 sedis onside Ries titttrnsarctcst cite yh Atenas tomatoe =. et aiiccemnnninin ebro i " MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 31 FROZEN EN ROUTE. Tough Story Told by a Canadian Weather Prophet. Written for the Tradesman. It was a wild evening in February ; one of those nights when every man— the store loafer always excepted—who has a home and a fireside, is supposed to stay by it,and when nothing but dire necessity tempts him from his door. Mercury hovered close around the zero mark, For forty-eight hours a gale had been in progress, but instead of ‘‘blow- in’ of itself out,’’ as the Weather Prophet had confidently predicted, it steadily increased in violence until its voice arose to a prolonged bellow. The air was filled with little pellets of frozen snow that the wind hurled against window panes with the sharp click of a telegraph instrument, or pitched over the roof and around the corners of the little country store, and at last heaped in great drifts about its door. : Inside the building all was warm and cozy. The big box stove was filled with well-seasoned slabs of beech and maple wood and its sides glowed with the fer- vor of their heat. The merchant arose and walked to the window, where he pressed his face against the pane and vainly tried to pierce the outer dark- ness; but he quickly returned, shivering and resumed his seat. ‘* This is an awful night to be out,’’ said he. ‘*Wust I ever see, est Inhabitant. ‘‘Huh! I’ve see weather nuff sight wuss’n this in Canady,'’ snorted the ** assented the Old- Weather Prophet, snuggling back on his salt barrel. ‘‘I've seen it cold enough in Canady,’’ he pursued remin- iscently, ‘‘to freeze b’ilin’ water,’’ and then he glared defiantly at his little circle of listeners as much to say, ‘‘beat that if you can!’’ ‘“Do you mean that the water was boiling when it froze?’’ queried Jim Hicks, after a decorous pause. The Prophet nodded. ‘*B’ilin’ hard?’’ asked Billy Simms, ‘‘Yes, b’ilin’ hard. That’s just what I meant. It don’t seen like you fellers un'erstand United States. But that’s jest what I mean all the same.”’ ‘Would it freeze ice right on top of the kittle the water was a b’ilin’ in?’’ pursued Bill. ‘*That's what it would. an inch thick, an’ measured it."’ It froze ice I know that cus I ‘“*Ice an inch thick, an’ the water b’ilin’ all the time,’’ continued Billy with a guileless expression of face. ‘*Mebbe, then, the’ was a_ safety valve er suthin’ on to the kittle?’’ The listeners repressed asmile. Billy was laying a trap for the old man—the only one present who did not see it as his answer showed—for he replied guilelessly : ‘*Ohb, no, the’ wa’n't no safety valve on the kittle. They didn’t have nothin’ o’ that kind in them parts,’’ Billy grinned like a demon, ‘‘ How the dickens did ye keep it from blowin’ up, then?’’ he enquired exultantly. There was a general titter and Simms took a fresh chew on the srtength of his own acuteness. But if the Weather Prophet was at all discomfited by the hilarity, he certainly did not show it. Slowly and methodically he shifted his position on the salt barrel to one a little more comfortable, then deliberately un- clasped his pocket knife and froma sliver of wood began to whittle out a long slender toothpick, ‘*Ye’ve as’t me a fair question an’ manners in me calls fer a decent ans- wer,’’ said he at length. ‘'Hows’ever I’d feel quite a hit better over it if ye as’t it in a way that'd show more re- spect fer yer betters. Still an’ all that don't cut no ice with the facts in the case. The kittle did blow up. It blowed up slick an’ clean, an’ that’s the way I got this ‘ere scar over m’ eye,’’ and he pointed to a mark that might have been made by a small bullet or could easily have resulted from a bad case of chicken pox. Billy was too much discomfited to speak, so the Oldest Inhabitant took up the case. “‘Kittle bust an’ knock ye over?’’ he enquired. The Weather Prophet shook his head. ‘*Ne, the kittle wa’n’t hurt a mite,’’ said he. ‘“‘What done it, then, chunks of ice flyin’ around like?’’ ‘‘Some. But that wa’n't what struck me?” ‘*What was it then?’’ ‘*B’ilin’ water !’’ ‘*Scalded, eh?’’ ‘(Not frts,"" | Briar” ‘ore, ‘*How kin a feller be friz with b’ilin’ water?’’ asked Billy, suddenly coming to himself. ‘‘Easy enough when the temperatoor is right. Ye know what the poet Shake- speare writ in the piece called Milton's Paradise Lost? ‘Fer ye can’t see good, and to a blind man fire and ice is all the same thing.’ Ye hain’t fergot that, 1 reckon?’ ‘‘That hain’t no poetry,’’ grunted Billy, ‘‘an’ what's more it hain’t sense nuther, Ye might as well tell a feller he wouldn’t know a snowball from a hot pitater. But that hain’t explainin’ how bi’lin’ water friz a hole in yer old cocoanut. ”’ The Prophet turned away from Simms in disgust. ‘‘If it wa’n’t that the’ is decent folks here I'd go home this min- ute, fer | don’t relish bein’ abused no better’n the next one. I’ve got the feelin’s of a young ‘un tucked away in my old carcase an’ | hate to be tromped on as bad as anybody. But I’ve give out that i got this scar by bein’ friz with bi’lin’ water, and I feel that justice to me an’ to the g-e-n-t-l-e-men present demands an explanation. Feller citi- zens, when that air kittle blowed up, the water wasa b’ilin’. 1 stood about twenty foot away at the time, an’ the’ was a stream of scaldin’ water started right fer my head. I see it a comin’ an’ ducked. B’ilin’ water is swift; but them times I was like a hyeny—quick, active an’ savagerous, I dodged the main part of the dose, but the’ was a few stray chunks sashayin’ around that 1 couldn’t git away from, an’ one on ’em hit me right where this scar is now. I was left fer dead, but arter a while I come to, an’ here I be.’’ ‘*Yes, but ye said a spell ago that ye was friz, an’ now ye claim as how ye was scalded. I hope ye don’t reckon we kin swaller both 0’ them yarns to once an’ not git the dyspepsy,’’ grinned Simms. A look of weariness not unmixed with annoyance crossed the Prophet's face. ‘‘Gentlem-e-n,’’ said he,’ ‘the cold that mornin’ was suthin’turrible. It was a hunderd an’ eight before freezin’. B’ilin’ water don't stan’ no show ina time like o’ that. When it started fer me it was frothin’ like a switch engine, but by the time it got to me, goin’ through all that cold air, it was chilled until it was as hard as a fire brick, an’ it friz a spot on my head eight inches long, five inches wide an’ an inch an’ three-eighths deep.’’ The Prophet ceased speaking. After a while Billy Simms coughed a little and began to button his overcoat. One after another the members of the group arose. The merchant turned down the lights, and all moved sadly and silently out into the tempestuous night. Geo, L. Thurston. [CAN SEL a want to sell a farm, ¢: coe ak | te anes 4 YOUR REAL L ESTATE ‘ae princess: sare, Ponape —_ — ane ir BU or FR = BARRON’ 7S MONTHLY BULLETIN. it is fall of barga Barron. South: Bena, Emed. Siesta enleerne MONTH ert antes oF couatry}, factory, back, busine sen or womnen, _ Sample 10 « oti ick for exclus Pe ce ul GENTS Wanted, territory. ZENO M. aE Tee CO.“SGuTH BEND. IND. National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford. W. 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Bi iii shissmiennoinneniinoenenene Cereal SOSSSOSS OO SSSOSOCO Food, Samples and liter- Lansing, Michigan SPOTESSS S*ESSSSES 382 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Grain Market. Wheat has been very active during the week. The foreign demand has been good, especially from France, which has taken quite a number of loads. The car shortage alone wasa damper on shipments for export, as stocks of wheat at seaborad are small, which will continue until navigation opens as the railroads seem to be un- able to furnish transportation for mov- ing wheat eastward. The visible showed a_decrease of 672,000 bushels. One great drawback with the dealers at present is that there appears to be a one-man mar- ket; that is, one house can sway the market whichever way it pleases, and that is Armour & Co. Itis reported that this house is long 20,000,000 bushels, and, as it is virtually holding the ma- jority of the cash wheat in its elevators in Chicago, it is easy to be seen that it is dangerous for outsiders to ‘‘monkey with the buzz saw.’’ The shorts dare not sell wheat, because they do not know where to get the wheat to fill their short sales. Again, if they buy long wheat, they are liable to have it deliv- ered from Armour & Co.'s elevators, So the market at present is simply con- trolled by the Armour & Co, interest, and this is especially hard as there is not much contract wheat in Chicago, The Northwest is holding its wheat for flouring purposes and cash wheat isa trifle above the May options,so the mar- ket is in a waiting mood. Corn has run an even tenor, the de- mand equaling the supply. Trading in futures is limited. While there are some long sellers, the short interest is timid, on account of the small amount of con- tract corn. Prices remain fairly steady. Oats decreased 187,000 bushels, not worth mentioning, but the price is heid very firm, as there is more wanted toan is offered. What is offered is taken up very quickly, which leaves the market bare of oats. Rye has been flat, with not much do- ing. Prices are hardly steady and will probably sag to a lower level. Beans are wabbling around present prices—one day up a couple cents and the next day down. The price seems to be topheavy just now and beans will have to be cheaper in order to move freely. Flour is very firm, The demand is good. The mills are running full and are behind on orders. Mill! feed is in fully as good demand as it has been for some time, with no shading of prices. Receipts have been of the usual order, being as follows: wheat, 75 cars; corn, 16 Cars; oats, 2 cars; flour, 5 cars; po- tatoes, II Cars. Mills are paying 75c for No, 2 wheat, 7oc for No. 1 white wheat 7oc for No. 3 red wheat. C. G. A. Voigt. Es ee Fancy Dress Ball the Next Entertainment. Grand Rapids, Jan. 27—The card party given by Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, U. C. T. at their hall Saturday evening was, without any questicn, one of the most enjoyable of the series. Card playing in the form of progressive pedro started at 8 o'clock and continued until 10, when the prizes were awarded, and then all were seated at the banquet table, where covers were laid for seventy- five people. J. W. Drew, of Detroit, with a corps of waiters, served a three- red and course luncheon made entirely of shredded wheat biscuit. All present enjoyed themselves immensely. After the spread, dancing was kept up until the usual quitting hour—12 o'clock, Miss Minnie Reynolds furnishing music in her usual acceptable manner, As the guests were putting on their things and getting ready for home many were the expressions heard that the parties given this season by the U, C. T. were all right. The next party will be at St. Cecilia hall, February 14, and will be a fancy dress ball and, as Brother Rey- nolds announced, none will be admitted without a costume. ja Dee. intel Ap nmnsaetn The Egyptian Manufacturing Co., manufacturer of throat bands, has in- creased its capital stock from $5,000 to $25, 000, Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent insertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payments. BUSINESS CHANCES. ED — TO SELL ONE-HALF OR whole interest in the best business for the money invested in Central Michigan. Cause of selling, poor heaith. Write to No. 45, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 45 \ J ANTED—TO SELL OR EXCHANGE FOR Improved Farm Property—Stock of gen- eral merchandise in good condition; stock will run about $6,500; doing a good business. Write to or enquire of W. L. Stowell, Munith, Mich. 46 hand, in good condition; reasonable for eash; give description. Address, Lock Box 38, Armada, Mich. 40 OR SALE—STOCK OF SHOES ABOUT $1,300; in good shape to be soid and moved atonce. Address No. 39, care Michigan Trades- man. 39 HOICE FARM FOR SALE OR TRADE / for merchandise. Shoe stock preferred. Box 591, Sheiby, Mich. 38 oS TO EXCHANGE FOR STOCK OF goods. Address No. 86, care Michigan iradesman. 36 he SALE CHEAP—ENTERPRISE COFFEE mill; dried beef cutter; cheese safe; cracker case; three small shoe cases; fire proof safe; three 10-foot oak counters; one delivery wagon. Address No 33, care Wichigan Tradesmin. 33 YODA FOUNLAIN FUR SALK — TUFIL’s confection-r's; new, used oniy three sea- sons; complete with gas; drum for charging eighteen syrups; co t $475; will seil for &35u Address J. W. Kunner, Shelby, Mich. YOR SALE — CUUNrKY SiUKE AND dwelling combined; geueral merchandis- stock, barn, custom saw mill and feed mili with good patronage, bargain tor cash. Eli Kunnels, Corning, Mich. 31 ws SALE—STUCK OF GROCERIES AND crockery; will inventory about $2,000; best lucation in summer resort town of 500 inhabi- tants; good farming country; fine opportunity for persons wishing to carry a general stock; rent. $ 5 per month for two-story and bisement vullding, 25x75 feet; located on corner. Audress H E. H milton, Crystai, Wich 29 \ JANTED—STUCK OF MEKCHANDOISE; must be clean and up todate. Answe! with full particulars. Address No. v8, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 28 ae SALE % DOWN AND $3 PER MONTH for sixteen months buys five acres of rich undeveloped zine and jead land in the very heari ot the Missour! District; no d fference where you live,as an investment in this land will m .ke you money; send for my circular and learn why. Address W. B. Sayier, Carthage, Mo. 7 ae SALE CHEAP—TUFT’S 20 SYRUP soda fountain, with all appurtenances. Wil. sell cheap. Address ‘radtord & Co., St. Joseph, Mich. 26 “NHANCE OF A LIFETIWE—WELL ESTAB- lished general store, carrying lines of dry xoods, carpets, furs, cloaks, clothing, bazaa: goods, shoes and groveries, locsted in thriving Western Michigan town. Wili sell good stock at cost and put in small amounto! shelf worn goods at value. Stock can be reduced to $15,000. Owner is going into manufacturing business. Address No. 4', care Michigan Tradesman. 44 1,000 WORTH OF PERFECT MEN’S FUR- nishings mostly and clothing slightly dam- »ged for sale cheap. Will sell furnishings or clothing separate. This advertisement will ap- pear but once. If you wanta real bargain. come or write me at once. Geo. W. Gribbin, Nash- ville, Mich. 43 NAN BE PURCHASED FOR CASH ONLY. / Hardware stocs, inventory $3,000; in good business town of 2,000 population: two railroads and water transportation; did $15,000 business last year; best farming country tn Northern Michigan; present owner desires to devote his time to promoting local enterprises. Address Hardware, care Michigan Tradesman. 24 WR SALE—THE LARGEST WALL PAPER, aint and picture frame business in Sault Ste. Marie. Invoices about $7,000 and does a business of $25,000 yearly. Reason for selling, ill health of owner. Address A. M. Mathews Co.. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 23 ee SALE — HARDWARE BUSINESS; stock invoices $2,800; prosperous manufac- turing and farmin: able proposition. Freeport, [il 7 ANTED—STOCK OF MERCHANDISEIN y exchange for agood Iowa farm. Address No, 973, care Michigan Tradesman. v3 center; stock clean; profit ardware, 55 Stephenson St., 982 O YOU WANT IT? A DRUG STORE DO- ing business of $5,000 a year, with only $1.500invested. In Northern Michigan town of 10,000. A bargain. Address No. 25, care Michi- gan Tradesman oe 25 OR SALE—NICE FRESH DRUG STOCK in gocd country town; only drug store; un- expected loss of health. Write for particulars to No. 22, care Wichigan Tradesman. 22 jy JANTED— EVERY READER OF THE Michigan Tradesman to use our Handy Self Inking Pocket Name . Two lines. 50 cents. American Novelty Works, Kokomo, _ OR SALE—WHOLE INTEREST IN DEPT. store; rare bargain: good reason for selling. Address B., Lock Box 548, Rock Falls Ill. 19 RARE CHANCE EOR INVESTORS. A Michigan Lumber Co. owning large tract of pine and building its mills, will sell some shares of its capital stock cheap. H. K. Johnson, 86 LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill. 18 OR RENT—FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS of brick store in hust ing town; city water, electric lights, good storage below; now occu- xed by department store doing big business. ine chance to secure an established business location if taken at once. Address Mrs. C. W. Moon. Howell, Mich. 972 ‘OR SALE—NICE, NEAT GENERAL stock. Store and dwelling if desired; best farming section in naw Valley. Address No. 971, care Michigan desman. 971 — SALE—GENERAL STOCK OF $2,500 IN small booming town; cleared $2,000 last year; can reduce stock to suit purchaser. II] health reason for selling. Address No. 983, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 983 OR SALE—WHOLESALE GROCERY IN a thriving city of 30,000 in the Northwest. Addrears R, care Michigan Tradesman ORR ANTED—SMAiuL JOB PRINTING OUT- fit. Must be cheap. Address No, 979, eare Michigan Tradesman. 979 ae SALE— A SMALL STWvCK OF watches, jewelry and clocks; also bench and some too's; good chance for as plen- ty of repair work; will rent one window in drug store. Address No. 17, care Michigan Trades- man. 17 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GOOD farm—a stock of general merchandise in a good farming locality. No — Dee Carrier, Colonville, Clare Co., Mich _ 16 \ 7 ANTED—TO ARRANGE WITH MANU- facturers for the manufacture of a patent- ed article which will be in demand by railroad and boat lines. Address H, Box 114, So. Board- man, Mich. 13 OR SALE AT ONCE—A GENERAL STOCK of merchandise located in one of the best business towns in Northern Indiana; the best location and room in the town. Write at once a particulars. S. A. Moss & Sons, es Ind. 2 ao SALE—ONE NEW DELIVERY WAGON suitable for grocery or laundry. Address, Lock Box 48, Shepherd, Mich. il ae RENT—SPLENDID OPENING FOR A department store at Seneca, county seat of Nemaha county, Kansas. A suitable brick build- ing, now vacant, at one of the two main business corners for sale or rent Twocellars, each 20x60, connected by a large door; two store rooms, each 20x60, connected by large archway; brick addl- tion, 20x45, connected by very large archway, practically a continuation of the store room; an- other addition, 20x30, and a shed 20x25. Has counters and shelving; $70.00 a month rent by the year or longer. Eight rooms up stairs rent for $20.00 a month. No incumbrance. Price $9,000.00. Three large stores recently destroyed there by fire. Investigate by communicating direct there with the owner, 8S. K. W — 1 YTUCK GENERAL MERCHANDISE, IN Ss good village, for sale; $4,000 invested; earned over 30 per cent. last year. Address No. 8, care Michigan Tradesman. 8 ek K+NT—BEST LOCATION FOR GROC- ery stock in a rapidly growing city in East- ern Michigan. Stand has been occupied by a successtul grocer for several years. Rent, reason- able. Address No. 7, care Michigan Tradesman. 7 AKERY FOR SALE—OWING TO ILL- health of my wife I wish to sell bakery restaurant; good trade; fine town. Address Rox *61, Grand Ledge, Mich. 5 oc. SALE—CLEAN S!1OCK CROCKERY. china and bazaar goods; about $3,500; good iocation; well established. Address C. H. Man- teville, Ionia, Mich. 4 i SALKE—AT A BAKGAIN—$1,500 CLUTH- ing, or would exchange for a stock of shoes ddress No. 9-6. care Michigan Tradesman. 984 wr thrid UN THe $1] BUYS ANEW YORK (2) ra ket store; stock in good shape; stock ud furniture and fixtures inventory about $2,300 (3. B. Webber, Wuskegon, Mich 998 ae SALE OR |LRADK—CHOICE 80, ONE and one-half miles from town; no a. ments. Address 321% Lake, Petoskey, Mich. 996 SUR SaLE—GENERAL MEKCHANDISE stock, invoicing »xbout $7,000; annual sales thiis year, $11,0v0, situated in count: y; postoffice in connection; surrounded by excellent farm- ng country. Address No. 1, care Michigan 1 lradesman nUG STUCK FOR SALE, WITH A GOOD discount; in Northern Indiana, twenty miles from Michigan State line; stock invoices sbout $890. address No. 995, care Michigan [radesman. 995 “— SALE—THE LEADING GROCEKY stock in the best manufacturing town in Michigan; cash sales last year, $22,000; books open to inspection; investigate this. Address No. 994, care Michigan Tradesman. 994 F OR SALE—DRUG STORE GRAND Rapids; good business; good reason. Ad- dress No. 993, care Michigan Tradesman. 993 1. EXCHANGE—iMPROVED FARM FOR stock of merchandise. Address Box 242, Frankfort, ind. y92 OR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS AND FIX- tures invoicing about $2,000.in a prosperous Michigan city of 6,000; competition slight; full prices. Term: cash or negotiable paper. Ad- dress Chemist, care Michigan Tradesman. 990 Opp SALE—WE HAVE A STOCK OF DRY goods that inventories $8,000; will reduce to $5,000. Weare doing a business of $25,000 r annum. Business successfulin every way. We are engaged in an outside enterprise which takes all our time is our only reason for selling. This city is growing very fast. We have the Fest lo- cation, the most prominent corner. A grand opportunity for anyone wishing to engage in the dry goods business. Trades will not be consid- —_ Watson Dry Gooas Co., Grand Haven, Mich. 976 JE CAN SELL YOUR REAL ESTATE OR business wherever located; we incorporate and float stock me write us. oratio Gilbert & Co., 325 Ellicott sq., Buffalo. 974 VOR SALE—DRUG STOCK IN ONE OF the best business towns in Western Michi- ag good chance for a ao Enquire of 0. 947, care Michigan esman. 947 ,OR 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 HICAGO PURCHASHING CO., 221 5TH ave., largest cash buyers of stores and stocks of all descriptions. 913 OR 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 Trad D. 838 ‘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 Ko SALE—FIRST-CLASS, EXCLUSIVE millinery business in Grand Rapids; object for selling, parties leaving the city. Address Milliner, care Michigan Tradesman. 507 JAFES—NEW AND SECUOND-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 j;OR SALE CHEAP—SECONDHAND NO. 4 Bar-Lock typewriter, in good condition. Specimen of work done on machine on applica- tion. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 465 MISCELLANEOUS ANTED BY REGISTERED PHARMA- cist, position; fourteen years’ experience; good references. Address Box 78, Moriey, Mich. 42 J, XPERIENCED HARDWARE CLEKK Wants position at once, wholesale or retail; e * references. Address W. B. Ross, Pontiac, ch. 41 ANITED— REPRESENTAIIVES WITH wide acquaintance, ability and standing. in States of (hio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wis- consin, Pennsylvania, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota, to place an issue of treasury stock in a safe and reliable corporation, fur the purpose of extending present business. Paid 15 per cent. net last year, 1742 per cent. net this year. A good talking proposition; big money to right parties; no speculation, but a safe and guaranteed investment, highest references given and required; no trifiers need apply; time is money in thiscase Address the Tioga Mineral Wells Co , Tioga, Texas. 37 Wy Aare — EXPERIENCED SALESMAN for our Lusterine Liquid Metal Polish, bought by all grocers, hardware, paint and gas fixture stores, plumbers, ete.; acknowledged the best in the market; cans one-third larger than those of our competitors; article the vest. Ad- dress Oscar Schlegel Manufacturing Co., 182-186 Grand St., New York. 34 ANTED—SALESMAN ACQUAINTED with furniture trade to represent leading New York manufacturer of varnish. siains, lacquers, brushes, bronze powder and other specialties. Address No. 35, care Michigan radesman. 35 ANTED—WE WANT GOOD SIDE LINE salesmen who visit the Hardware, Paint and Department Store Trade in the States of iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan and Mis- sourl. We havea good manufacturers’ line and one very profitable to h.ndie. Address H. H. Adkins, 204 W. 21st St., Chicago, Ill. 30 \ 7 ANTED—FIRST-CLASS TINSMITH FOR general _ furnace and outside work; wages, $2.45 per day for year around; booze fighters need not apply. Antrim Hardware Co., Elk Rapids, Mich. 21 \V 7JANTED— UNE OR TWO FIRST-CLASS experienced traveling salesmen to call on the grocery and drug trade. Address, one references, Dunkley Company, Kalamazoo, Mich. 14 W4ntep AT ONCE—A REGISTERED pharmacist, young man pane. Send references and state salary. Address No. 6, care Michigan Tradesman. 6 Cheney & Tuxbury the Real Estate Men are in the market for Hemlock and Cedar Lands. 24 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. BEMENT PALACE STEEL fjements Sans g Michigan, Sax Ce - “N We would like to explain to you our plan for helping the dealer sell Palace Ask for large Ranges. Write us about it. colored lithograph. F. Bements Sons Jansing Michigan. Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. Paint, Color and Varnish Makers Mixed Paint, White Lead, Shingle Stains, Wood Fillers Sole Manufacturers CRYSTAL-ROCK FINISH for Interior and Exterior Use. Corner 15th and Lucas Streets. Toledo, Ohio. CLARK-RUTKA-WEAVER CO., Wholesale Agents for Western Michigan wererserneervtrverervtrsernerervtrnerererververervarnerervtrserzz Everything in Carpenters’ Tools KZ Grand Rapids, Michigan PVE TTY TPTYETVPTTY HPT EUPTT YTV FPL HV ETE ss AAHHrerstrververnerververcersnevercerverververserverenrverververver verter AMMA AAA ANAJAA AAA ADA dA J44 444 NA Ab Jbd J04 JbL 00k dU Jd 444 264 04k dd ddd ddd ae ySoss te wae ts} Be Eo - ee 4 and r Mist Mane SL EP ecg S: Sere * De i = ae a 4 4 tA = 4 i All sizes to suit the needs of any grocer. Do your own baking and make the double profit. Hubbard Portable Oven Co. 1682 BELDEN AVENUE, CHICAGO THE wean ai ones MFG. M.B.ALLEN GAS LIGHT CO., BATILE CREEK, MICH. Walloon Lake, Mich., Noy. 22, 1902 Allen Gas Light Company, Battle Creek, Mich. 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. a . ap RRR ANE nmr ARENA oC RE RY a H. Leonard & Sons GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN PTET TE TE TL Facts in a _ Nutshell HID me aga iy ‘MAKE BUSINESS WHY? They Are Scientifically PERFECT 129 Jefferson Avenue 113-115-117 Ontario Street Detroit, Mich. Toiedo, Ohio MUAAAAAALAAA AAA AAA 14K 244 ADL AML AAA AAA JAA JbN dk hk AAA Jbk Abd Jd Abd ddd bk bd Manufacturers and Manufacturers’ Agents -FOR-——--— White and Decorated Crockery and China. “Leonard Cleanable” and “Champion” Re- frigerators. ‘« Insurance ” Gasoline Stoves. Children’s Carriages. Screen Doors, Window Screens, Hammocks. Glassware, Grocers’ Sundries, Notions, Sil- verware. Full line of House Furnishing Goods, etc. Low Prices Prompt Service Ask for Catalogue eee SIVIPTTTP TTR TE NTP VE TPE TT NEP PVE NPY NPV PN VT NPP TV PVP PT NPP Md The Templeton Cheese Cutter We have recently taken up the manufacture and sale of the machine illustrated herewith after a careful investigation of its merits among dealers who have operated it for the past year. That the problem of saving the waste in merchandising cheese which has always confronted the dealer heretofore, can be solved by this machine, we have no doubt at all. There is absolutely no waste in cutting. It keeps your cheese fresh. Saves half the time of the clerk. Cuts automatically and accurate to weight. Saves approximately 50 cents on each cheese cut, and conce- quently save more than its cost. We have never before introduced an article to the grocery trade which has attracted more attention than The Templeton Cheese Cutter and we anticipate a demand that will task our capacity to fill. Mr. Craigue gives the situation: “ COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. “ GENTLEMEN:—A look at my cheese used to give me horrors. The waste was enormous, not less than $100.00 per year. “ Your Templeton Cheese Cutter, though, has solved the problem, and I now save absolutely every pound. “Very truly yours, A. D. CRAIGUE.” Sold on easy monthly payments. Write for particulars. COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY “MANUFACTURERS DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A.