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IMPORTANT FEATURES.

Cheese in the Window.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
Around the State.
7%. Union Men Must Cease Criminal Acts
8. Editorial.
9. Editorial.
10. Selecting Stocks.
11. The Iwo Soos,
12. New York Market.
13. The Blow to the Blameless Grocer.
14. Dry Go ds.
16. Clothing.
20. Sculptured Leather.
22. India Rubber.
24. Fate Was Unkind.
26. Renovated Butter.
28. Woman's World.
30. KEdison’s New Battery.
32. Personal Responsibility.
34. Fundamental Principles.
35. Plea for Higher Prices.
36. Real Happiness. :
37. Hardware Price Curren
38. Butter and Eggs.
39. Clerks’ Corner.
40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs--Chemicals.
43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery Price Current.
46. Special Price Current. .

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Organization of a Law and Order
Society.

The Citizens’ Industrial Association
of América, organized in Chicago two
weeks ago, is undoubtedly destined to
play an important and beneficent part
in the rescue of the country from
strike lawlessness and violence and
the restoration and maintenance of
peace and a decent respect for au-
thority.

The last two resolutions of a series
adopted sufficiently set forth the pur-
poses of the organization and com-
mend it to the approval and support
not only of employers but of the em-
ployed who long for exemption from
the incessant interruptions of indus-
try, the loss of profits and wages, the
wild riotings, the violent assaults, the
destruction of property, the criminal
conspiracies to ruin the business of
individuals, the official corruption and
degradation, the infliction of incalcu-
lable injury upon the public, which
are common incidents of strikes in-
stigated and ordered by the socialists
and ruffians who now control many
of the agencies of organized labor.

These resolutions declare distinct-
ly that the purpose of the association
is not to combat organized labor as
such, but only the lawlessness and
crime committed in the name of la-
bor as now organized. They express-
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combine and admit that their com-
binations when rightly constituted
and conducted may prove highly use-
ful. They declare the purpose to be
to combat not the unions but the
abuses of the unions as now consti-
tuted and conducted.

They go further and declare that
the association “is in earnest sympa-
thy with every movement in the in-
terest of labor” and that “there can
be no national prosperity where the
working masses are ground down in
hopeless poverty and _ ignorance.”
And this necessarily implies that the
association is not hostile to any law-
ful and peaceable effort of working-
men in any pursuit to improve their
codnition.

Such an association deserves and
no doubt will receive the active and
cordial support of law-abiding and
patriotic men in all walks of life—hir-
ed workingmen, self-employed work-
ingmen, professional men—as well as
of employers.

Socialistic and lawless trades union-
ism has corrupted and degraded the
body of. officialism until rightful au-
thority is treated with defiance and
contempt, and those whose duty it is
to exercise such authority wilfully
refrain from doing their duty and not
infrequently exhibit with little  at-
tempt at concealment their sympathy
with lawlessness and even downright
criminality.

There is in this movement much
promise of industrial peace, and not
only of that, but of a purer and more
bracing official atmosphere and of a
more decent respect for law and
rightful authority throughout the en-
tire body politic. Once we have off-
cials of the right stamp law breakers
of all descriptions will be subjected
to more wholesome restraint.

—_—_+0.—__
Wit in Toasts to Women.

A banquet with a list of toasts as
a part of its programme almost neces-
sarily includes one “To Lovely Wom-
an.” To omit such would be lese-
majesty of the most ungallant sort.
Many of these toasts have become
famous for their wit or sentiment or
sarcasm, and among them may be
recalled the following:

“Woman, the fairest work in all
creation. The edition is large, and
no man should be without a copy.”

This is fairly seconded by a youth
who, giving his distant sweetheart,
said: “Delectable dear, so sweet that
honey would blush in her presence
and treacle stand appalied.”

Further, in regard to the fair sex,
we have: “Woman, she needs no
eulogy; she speaks for _ herself.”
“Woman, the_bitter half of man.”

In regard to matrimony some bach-
elor once gave: “Marriage, the gate
through which the happy lover leaves

 

 

his enchanted ground and returns to
earth.”

At the marriage of a deaf and dumb
couple some wit wished them “un-
speakable bliss.”

At a supper given to a writer of
comedies a wag said: “The writer’s
very good health; may he live to be
as old as his jokes.”

From a lay critic: “The bench and
If it were not for the bar there
would be little use for the bench.”

A celebrated statesman

bar.

din-
ing with a duchess on her eightieth
birthday, in proposing her health,
said:

while

“May you live, my lady duchess,
until you begin to grow ugly.”

“T thank you, sir,” she said, “and
may you long continue your taste for
antiquities.”

——— +2. —__

Everybody catches colds and those
who catch them are annoyed thereby.
The common, every day opinion is
that colds are taken from sitting in
a draft, from exposure to the cold,
getting wet or from some such rea-
son easily ascertained. The London
Hospital, a medical magazine of
some prominence, declares that colds
are acquired in the same way that
other infectious diseases are and ad-
vances a germ theory. It enters in-
to an extended argument to prove its
contention. The theory is by no
means new and has been attracting
new adherents for some time. A cu-
rious statement made in the article is
that in the small, rocky island of St.
Kilda, one of the Western Hebrides,
colds are unknown save when some
vessel visits that port, and it is more-
over added that the inhabitants can
distinguish between the different
kinds of colds brought there from dif-
ferent countries by different ships.
Perhaps the future will set up a quar-
antine against the infection which re-
sults in that ailment commonly call-
ed a cold.

Sa

Dr. Siebert, a St. Louis specialist
who has treated a number of per-
sons having the same disease of the
throat, predicts that Emperor Wil-
liam will die within three years. He
regards it as a significant fact that
the Emperor has arrived at just the
age when his father began to show
signs of the same disease. Dr. Sie-
bert tells of the case of a young wom-
an upon whom he operated two years
ago. She improved for several weeks

and then grew worse, dying recently.
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one of New Jersey’s most profitable
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CHEESE IN THE WINDOW.

Very Remarkable Display by a Local
Dealer.
“All the world loves a lover!”
Not all the world is especially fas-
cinated (I mean the more important,
the feminine portion) by the latest

 

creation direct from Paris for the
adornment of their devoted little
brain-pans.

And not all the world (I refer to
the less important, the masculine

contingent of the human race) cares
to possess itself of the latest shapes

from the blocks of the immortal
Knox.
For some the jeweler hath no

charms; the haberdasher haberdash-
eth in vain to attract the attention
ot others; yet others still bid Saint
Crispin go hang, for all they care.
The picture dealer may frame his
choicest works of art in the richest
of gilt settings; the house-furnisher
may display his goods in a manner
calculated to ensnare the pocketbook
of the onlooker who delights to revel
in the possession of polished wood,
substantial leather, velvet carpets and
Oriental rugs and_ tapestries, filmy
curtainings, fine napery and dainty
tableware, costly bric-a-brac—all the

appointments of a_ luxurious exist-
ence; the—
But why go farther? All these,

and more, may seek in many ways to
dispose of the product of hand and
brain, but still all these may fail in
their efforts to appeal to the inner
consciousness of the average man.

Yet every son of Adam _ who _ is
blessed with the ownership of that
most comfortable of gifts, a good ap-
petite, and has a_ strong stomach
stowed away in the proper region of
his anatomy can contemplate with
keen delight, anticipatory of future
joy, anything connected with the sub-
ject of “eatin’.”

I never see the contracted “eatin’”
but I am reminded of the funny but
pathetic story of the little city waif
who was sent into the country, along
with a number of comrades just as
forlorn, by the Fresh Air Fund, for
recuperation.

They arrived at the comfortable
farm house early in the morning and
were seated at a generous table with-
out any unnecessary delay. Their ap-
petites were sharpened by the morn-
ing journey and the amount of food
they were able to stow away was in
direct proportion to their healthy di-
gestions. Midway between breakfast
and 12 o’clock the “kids” were each
supplied with a large bowl of bread
and milk. At noon the cook did not
forget them and in the middle of the
afternoon their capacity was again
tested. At6their hearts were glad-
dened with the appearance—and par-
ticularly the ‘disappearance—of an-
other great quantity of the good
things of life, and about half past
8 there was some more bread and
milk. Then they were all trundled
off to the upper regions of the roomy
old vine-covered farmhouse to rest in
the arms of Morpheus.

The last thing, the sweet-faced
house-mother went the rounds of the
little white-robed figures in the clean
beds, patting them lovingly and tuck-

 

ing them up as if each little “Fanfan’
were her own little child. When she
got to the end of this pleasant task,
up went a thin little pair of arms in
a close clasp around her neck and
a plaintive little voice said in a loud
whisper:

“Missus! Missus! You’ve been
awful good to me since I come here.
Say' Missus! Ef there’s any eatin’
t’ be done here’n th’ night, won't ye
wake me up?”

But it’s a far cry to where I szarted
ont with the remark:

“All the world loves a lover.”

Not .3i the world loves the coagu-
lated casein product of the mure ot
less festive, gentle-eyed bovine, bu:
if one may judge by the appearance
of an exhibit last week in the
mense window of an immense Mon-
roe street establishment that deals
in many eatables of the delicatessen
variety, certainly all the world—or

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go inside and look at some cheese,
talk about it a little to the man behind
the counter, tell something about it,
and that was the end of it. Goodness
me! That “talk about it” was the
merest starter.

The subject was so vast I thought
it advisable to begin with the tiny
fellows, the midgets, so to speak.

Among these the first to claim my
attention were four varieties of soft
cheese—Neufchatel, New Century,
D’Isigny and Camembert. Their
prices at retail are 5, 10, 20 and 25c
a package. They are made by the
Zeeland Cheese Co., and Dettenthal-
er’s has their exclusive sale in town,
although these brands may be han-

led by other firms outside of the
Furniture City. The Neufchatel is
the most familiar to cheese samplers
who like to try new tastes in the
edible. It comes in the shape of lit-
tle cylinders three or four inches

 

These cheese with the foreign
names are as near the imported goods
of the same designation as it is pos-
sible to make in this country,” said
Mr. Dettenthaler, “climate and milk
considered. Of course we can’t have
exactly the same conditions of cli-
mate, and then the feed of the cows
is different from ours. The Zeeland
people, and all others this side of the
Big Pond who make imitations of
imported cheese, aim to secure the
services of a competent cheesemaker

from those countries whose goods
they are copying. The Zeeland
Cheese Co. claims to have the best

maker for this purpose in the United
States.

“You would be surprised at the in-
creasing consumption of cheese.
There is an enormous quantity con-
sumed by Grand Rapids people. More
Americans every year are eating the
different foreign cheese, and gradu-

 

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CHEESE DISPLAY BY THE DETTENTHALER MARKET.

 

that very considerable part of it
known as the greatest furniture city
on the globe—was given a chance to
wonder at, admire and fall in love
with the product, 78 varieties of which
were spread out in a tempting array.

Cheese! At mention of the word,
one sees, with the mind’s eye, a large,
round, rind-covered mass of yellow
substance of more or less solid con-
sistency. But when 78 different kinds
of this pungent article of commerce,
some imported, some domestic, are
spread out before him in as many
different shapes, each having a pe-
culiar flavor all its own, in trying to
separate all this more or less delecta-
ble aggregation, that mind becomes
befuddled and that mind’s eye so
“twisticated” that. strabismus can be
the only result for it.

The Tradesman’s_ representative
thought it was going to be an easy
matter to write up that window—just

 

long and wrapped in tinfoil. The New
Century is a small oblong in shape
and is richer than the first mentioned.
The Camembert is packaged in a
small round wooden box, in imitation
of the real imported article, of which
I shall speak later on. The last,
D’Isigny, is wrapped only in white
paper. It is a very soft creamy-
looking disk about an inch and a
half thick and six inches across and
weighs a pound. The top and bottom
are peculiar in that they are corru-
gated. It certainly “looked good
enough to eat” and made at least one
mouth water to taste it! One other
product of this company I neglected
to note, making five in all, a cute lit-
tle tinfoiled soft cheese, blue label-
ed Lunch Cheese—“big as a_ little
box,” a child would call it—selling
for 5c. These are all fresh when pur-
chased and are allowed to cure as

_they lie on the dealer’s shelves.

 

ally the people of other nationalities
are taking to the cheese made in this
country. As a rule, a foreigner, no
matter from what country he hails,
first enquires for the sort of cheese
he is accustomed to in his own land.
He doesn’t appear to mind the ex-
pense—he wants what he was used
to eating in his old home across the
sea—with him it seems to be a case
of wanting things ‘like Mother used
to make.’

“Take that Norway Gedost, over
there,” continued Mr: Dettenthaler,
pointing to some cunning, little, fat,
stubby loaves of solid, pasty-looking
cheese wrapped in tinfoil and ticket-
ed at 35c per pound. “Most of our
demand for that comes from Swedes
and Hollanders, hardly any other
foreigners seeming to care for it. It
reminds them of the Vaterland and
the Swedes will have no other ex-
cept Swiss.

 

 

 

 

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“And Swiss cheese, the Emen-
thaler! It’s astonishing how much
of that is consumed. It sells for 35
cents a pound and everybody buys
it. You ought to see what quantities
of it I have on hand in storage. I
can’t hardly get enough to keep up
with the demand. I buy over a
thousand pounds of that alone every
six weeks! I speak of the imported
goods—the real thing. Then there

-is a cheaper domestic cheese that is

very good, made in imitation of this.
It is manufactured at Broadhead,
Wisconsin, and costs the consumer
20 cents. It’s a nice cheese, but seems
te lack the ‘tang’ of the genuine ar-
ticle—comes shipped four or five in
a tub. .ney weigh 140 or 150 pounds
apiece, making weight of the tub 700
or 800 pounds. A great many of the
saloons buy the domestic and palm it
off on their customers for the import-
ed goods. They cut it thin, put it
between slices of rye bread with mus-
tard, and lots of their lunchers don’t
catch onto the fake. There is the
same difference in taste between the
real Swiss and our imitation of it
that there is between all the imported
and domestic products, and about the
same variation in price.

“Notice that Brickstein at 16c over
there? I sell lots of that, too. Looks
like large bricks of white butter. It
is made in Milwaukee and, like many
of that city’s inhabitants, has a way
of drifting into the saloons for free
lunches. Most of my private custom-
ers for the Brickstein are Germans
and Hollanders.

“This 16 cent Man’s cheese? Yes,
the ladies eat it, too. It weighs 38
or 40 pounds and is a New York
State Cheddar—very popular.

“Here’s an English Dairy, for
which the dear public pay 25c—that’s
the price just now. It varies accord-
ing to the season, being generally
higher in the winter, sometimes
touching 35c. It is manufactured in
New York State by Baumert & Co.
They have an office in New York
City.

“Here’s some Holland Spice
Cheese, which costs the man from
the Land of Dikes 22 cents. It is
made in Rotterdam. My only cus-
tomers for it are Hollanders and a
few Americans. The latter get a
sample only out of curiosity.”

The cut half of a cheese of the
last named variety was exposed to
view, and looked tempting to one
who has a penchant ‘for spices. It
was a pale yellow, not so high color-
ed as our New York State Cheddar,
and was all full of caraway seeds. I
myself am a cheese fiend and, know-
ing this fact, I am often favored by
my friends with little samples—‘“just
to try and see how you like it”’—
and I remembered that this was like
a slice brought me just a few days
ago by an agreeable young Hollander.
He claimed it was simply delicious—
“the only cheese on earth,” he called
it. I tasted it—in fact, I ate it all
up. I liked it. After that he thought
I was a “real Hollander.”

“Pineapple cheese, so called on ac-
count of their shape,” continued Mr.
Dettenthaler, “are made in Utica,
New York, by Robert Norton. They

 

come in three sizes—r pound, 1%
and 4 pounds, called Picnic, Special
and Large, and bring 30, 45 and 85
cents respectively. We don’t cut
them. The ridged appearance is
caused by the little cord nets in
which the curd is hung to cure. It
is much used by hotels and restau-
rants, as is also the Edam, which
comes in one size only and fetches
a dollar and a quarter. They come
about 45 pounds to the dozen, which
makes them weigh in the neighbor-
hood of 33% or 4 pounds each.
Scooped out with a special spoon for
the purpose they make an attractive
object for the sideboard.”

“What’s that magenta color for,”
I asked, “and what’s it made of?
I've always wondered—and if it was
poison.”

Mr. Dettenthaler smiled, I guess
at my ignorance.

“That,” he answered, “is paint—ma-
genta paint—aniline. It is put on at
first, by the cheesemaker, to keep the
moisture in and for appearance. In
knocking around, before they get to
us, ‘the bloom gets rubbed off the
peach,’ so to speak, and all we have
to do is to give ’em another coat and
they look as fresh as if ‘just picked
off the tree,’” and Mr. Dettenthaler
laughed again, and anybody who
knows him knows that this genial
proprietor’s laugh is infectious. By
the way, if there is one thing for
which Mr. Dettenthaler has missed
his calling it is as a Sir Boniface—
he would make a great “jolly—er”
in that situation!

“All this grated cheese in bottles,”
continued the storekeeper, all uncon-
scious of the fate to which I was
consigning him, “has as a basis some
very strong Parmasan cheese. It is
grated up very fine, like corn meal,
mixed with other ingredients and
sells for the same price as the cheese
that forms its base.”

On a little china jar of After Din-
ner Cheese was the following:

“When you see Bayle’s name on
food products you know they are
the best,” reminding one forcibly of
the saying printed next to the head-
ing of the New York Sun every day
to this effect: “If you see it in the
Sun it’s so.”

On another of Bayle’s productions
was the following:

“There are no. others just _ like
them. They stand alone in the dig-
nity of their excellence of flavor and
reputation.”

“Nut Cheese and all other potted
cheese,” explained Mr. Dettenthaler,
“have as a basis strong Old New
York State Cheddar. This is true of
Mac Laren’s Imperial and also his
Roquefort. Mac Laren is located in
Canada. He has an office in New
York. The Cheddar is’ mixed with
butter or oil and some other—but
secret—ingredients. It is then packed
in the little jars in which it all comes
to the dealer. It is very reasonable
in price, ranging from 25 cents up.
It -has more body than the several
soft cheese turned out by the Zeeland
people, so that it can be _ readily
spread on bread or salted wafers
without soaking in, and on the other
hand, it is not crumbly. This makes

 

it handy for picnics or little mid-
night lunches; and it is nice to keep
on hand to rely on as a little deli-
cacy in case of an emergency—when
the cook goes off on a tangent, for
example, or the Lord of the Manor
brings a friend home to luncheon un-
expectedly.

“This grated cheese in the bottles
is said to be very appetizing when
sprinkled on a platter of tomatoes on
toast. A lady told me her husband
brought home a bottle—I mean of
cheese—and none of the family took
kindly to it, it was so. strong—it
tastes as if made out of goats’ milk.
Finally, after it had stood around for
several weeks, she bethought herself
one day to try a little on toast with
tomatoes, and after that no toast-and-
tomatoes dish was considered com-
plete without a peppering of grated
Parmasan.

“Show the reporter the real—the
imported—Parmasan—and the Roma
—bring them both out to light,” and
at the proprietor’s suggestion, Mr.
Freuberg, the obliging young man
who presides over the cheese depart-
ment (he is the central figure in the
picture), dived down into a deep, cov-
ered bin and fished up two of the
awfulest—yes, they were simply ter-
rific—looking specimens on which my
eyes ever rested! One was green and
old, and the other was old and green,
and both were as hard as Pharaoh’s
heart when he was mean to Moses.

“Wait a minute,” said Mr. Freu-
berg, and he ran to the front of the
store, returning directly with a big

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Grawn—H. C. Burt has purchased
the hardware stock of McCowan &

* Co.

Detroit—The Michigan Savings
Bank has increased its capital stock
from $150,000 to $250,000.!

Saginaw—The Stewart-Peck Co.
succeeds the Stewart-Leesch Co. in
the grocery business.

Levering—E. L. Sargent has pur-
chased the M. M. Palmer drug
stock and will continue the business.

Alpena—-Masters & Thorne suq-
ceed the Sandham Co. in the cloth-
ing and men’s furnishing goods busi-
ness.

Allegan—S. B. Allen has sold his
bazaar stock to J. L. Gilson, of Cad-
illac, formerly a resident of this
place.

Sault Ste. Marie—A. Tuxbury has
purchased the grocery stock of C.
N. Dysinger, on South Ashmun
street.

Ironwood—Kerkes & Buchko, deal-
ers in clothing and men’s furnishing
goods, have field a vountary petition
in bankruptcy.

Alma—Lafayette Stevens, furniture
dealer and undertaker at this place,
has taken a partner under the style
of Stevens & Cole.

Price—H. E. Pierce has engaged
in the grocery business at this place.
The St. Johns store will be in charge
of his brother Ed. Pierce.

Traverse City—Fay S. Hamlin has
sold his grocery stock to A. E.
Knight, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Port Huron—Harper & Puddock
continue the dry goods and cloak
business formerly conducted under
the style of W. N. Harper & Co.

St. Louis—Geo. H. Scriver & Son
have sold their hardware and agricul-
tural implement stock to O. F. Jack-
son & Co. Mr. Jackson formerly
resided at Ithaca.

Lansing—F. E. Shank has sold his
suburban grocery store, at the cor-
ner of Butler and Kalamazoo streets,
to Peter Walter, and will devote his
entire attention to his downtown
store.

Charlotte—George J. Shannon has
leased the vacant store in the Lock-
ard block and is putting in a stock
of jewelry, books and novelties. Mr.
Shannon has been engaged in busi-
ness in Cleveland for the past two
years.

Petoskey—H. Leismer has purch-
ased the interest of Daniel Berry in
the implement and vehicle business
of H. Leismer C. and will continue
the business on his own account.
Mr. Berry has embarked in the feed
business.

Flint—John M. Hammond and E
E. Hammond, of this place, and F.
W. Woodworth, of Bay City, have
engaged in the salt, fuel, coulter’s
and mason’s supplies business as
the Flint Coal Co. The authorized
capital stock is $10,000, of which
$8,000 has been paid in.

Elk Rapids—W. R. White, formerly
in the employ of the Antrim Hard-
ware Co., has leased the Crombie
building, recently vacated by E. S.

 

 

 

Noble & Son, and will install there-
in a line of shelf and builders’ hard-
ware, together with a stock of har-
nesses, robes and blankets.

Omer—A new real estate company
has been established here under the
style of the Omer Land Co. The
members of the company are C. H.
Macomber, who holds too shares of
the $2,000 capital stock; Chauncey
D. Brooks, who holds 15 shares, and
Wm. J. Ardis, who holds to shares.

Hamilton—Simon Hellenthal has
purchased the half interest of Albert
DeGroot in the merchandise busi-
ness of Borgman & DeGroot. The
new style is Borgman & Hellenthal.
Mr. Hellenthal was formerly  con-
nected with Klomparens & Brower
and later with the Zeeland Milling
Co.

Grawn—H. C. Burt & Son _ have
purchased the hardware stock and
store building of H. B. McCowan,
paying 90 per cent. of the invoice
price for the goods and $1,600 for the
real estate. They will erect an ad-
dition, 40x60 feet, to the building in
the spring to be used as a warehouse
for farm machinery.

Port’ Huron—The dry goods firm
of W. N. Harper & Co. has been dis-
solved and will hereafter be known
as Harper & Ruddock, Wm. Ruddock
having purchased the interest of D.
H. Comstock. Mr. Ruddock formerly
conducted the branch store of George
R. Shotto and Martin Bros., at Min-
den, Capac and Memphis.

Hudson—Frank A. Knapp has pur-
chased Jay Cooley’s interest in the
firm of Knapp & Cooley and will here-
after conduct the flour and feed busi-
ness at the Church street stand on his
own account. Mr. Cooley retired
from the feed store business in order
to be able to devote all of his time
to the milling business in which he
and his father are interested with J.
W. Shaver.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Adrian—Merritt H. Higby, who
operates a creamery at this place,
has taken advantage of the bankrupt-
cy laws.

Adrian—The Adrian Basket Co. has
contracted to purchase the veneer
plant of the Lesh & Young Co., which
has not been in operation for some
time.

Mt. Pleasant—Whitney & Taylor,
who operated a hub mill here, have
moved their plant to Twining, where
they have secured a large tract of
hardwood timber.

Cross Village—-The Litchfield-Ste-
vens Lumber Co. is overhauling its
sawmill, putting in new boilers and
other improvements, with a view to
doubling its capacity.

Muskegon—The Superior Manu-
facturing Co. has added church furni-
ture and opera seating to its lines of
manufacture. It will also install ma-
chinery for the manufacture of its
own veneers.

St. Clair—Walter J. Hopkins, Chas.
Boyschlag and Hugh H. Hart have
organized the Imperial Ginseng Co,
with a capital stock of $25,000, held
in equal amounts by the members
of the company.

Sidnaw—D. A. Hapeman’s shingle
mill, which has been idle for the last

 

two months, will probably start up
next week. It is expected that
enough shingle bolts will be secured
to keep the mill in operation all win-
ter.

Detroit—The American’ Brazing
Co. of Michigan has been organized
with a capital stock of $75,000, which
is held by Richard H. Lana, of Or-
ange, N. J., with the exception of ten
shares, owned equally by Jas. P.
Buckley and Robert W. Hart, of this
city.

Stephenson—Negotiations are now
under way for the removal of the
cedar yard and mill of the C. S.
Hart Cedar & Lumber Co. from this
village to Koss, on the Wisconsin &
Michigan railway. The arrangements
for the removal will be completed in
a short time. The company has a
large cedar yard.

Detroit—W. H. McGregor, P. J.
Hoenscheid, Chas. R. Becker, A. W.
Ehrman and W. H. Warren consti-
tute a new company known as the
National Twist Drill & Tool Co,
which will engage in the manufacture
of twist drills, reamers and other
tools. The capital stock is $20,000,
held in equal amounts by the stock-
holders.

Menominee—The shingle manufac-
turers are closing their mills earlier
than usual on account of the condi-
tion of the market and the refusal of
the employes to take a reduction in
wages. The shingle mill of the A.
Spies Lumber Co. has closed, al-
though the company had enough logs
on hand to keep it running for a
month longer.

 

Northland—The Wolverine Cedar
& Lumber Co. recently submitted to
the shingle weaver’s union a proposi-
tion to reduce the wage scale 25
cents for each class of labor per day.
It was not accepted by the union,
which declared that it would reduce
the wage scale but ten cents, where-
upon Manager J. M. Thompson or-
dered the shingle mill closed down
and the entire crew discharged.

Cheboygan—It is proposed to or-

.|ganize a stock company, capital $50,-

ooo, of which one-fifth will be held
in Cheboygan, for utilizing the big
pile of dust in this city known locally
as “sawdust mountain,” in the manu-
facture of ethyl alcohol and charcoal.
Extraction of alcohol leaves the dust
in a pressed state, almost hard enough
for use as paving prick, which when
burned makes the best of charcoal.
Chicago parties are back of the pro-
ject.
—_—_>-9

For Gillies’ N. Y. tea, all kinds,

grades and prices, Visner, both phones

 

 

Commercial

Credit Co., ta.

Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids
Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit

Good but slow debtors pay

upon receipt of our direct de-
erenerel

letters. all other

accounts to our otfices for collec

 

 

 

Vege-Meato Sells

*»

People
Like It

Want It

 

Buy It

 

The selling qualities of a food preparation is

what interests the dealer.

to handle it.

If a food sells it pays

You can order a supply of Vege-Meato and
rest assured that it will be sold promptly at a good

profit.

Send for samples and introductory prices.

The M. B. Martin Co., Ltd.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

_MIOHIGAN TRADESMAN

&

 

Grand Rapids Gossip
W.-H. Vaughn has opened a drug
store at Muskegon. The stock was

purchased of the Hazeltine & Per-
kins Drug Co.

 

 

Thomas Ford, son of ex-Congress-
man Ford, has opened a_ grocery
store on Grand avenue. The Judson
Grocer Company furnished the stock.

Amos Packard has engaged in the
grocery business at the location for-
merly known as Jeffery, near Port-
land. The Worden Grocer Co. furn-
ished the stock.

The Hatt Polish Manufacturing Co.
has been organized with a capital
stock of $1,000, held as_ follows:
Chas. E. Hatt, 340 shares; Wm. T.
McGurrin, 290 shares; W. G. Mc-
Gurrin, 50 shares, and Geo. E. Dew-
ey, 20 shares.

A. T. Driggs, founder of the Grand
Rapids Mattress Co., also the H. B.
Feather Co., both of this city, after
twenty-one years as acting manager
and proprietor, now retires and will
take the position of buyer and gen-
eral salesman for the I. X. L. Up-

holstering Co.
~~

The Grocery Market.

Tea—Prices remain about sta-
tionary, with a decided firmness in
some lines. Jobbers anticipate a
fairly steady market from now on
with a possible advancing tendency
toward the close of the old crop sea-
son as it is thought stocks are none
too large to carry the trade through
to the ‘next crop. Demand is nor-
mal, and without particular feature.

Coffee—The consuming trade has
fallen off considerably, and as a re-
sult the dealers in actual coffee are
not inclined to take coffees at pres-
ent prices. There has been no reces-
sion from the high ruling prices, but
a weaker tone is apparent, as offer-
ings of Brazils at prices formerly
eagerly paid have had no takers dur-
ing the last few days. Brazil stili
continues very high. Coffees | other
than Brazils are steady and_ un-
changed.

Canned Goods—Tomatoes are un-
changed. The market is’ still nomi-
nal and the demand is only fair. Corn
is still high and scarce. Peas are quiet
and ‘unchanged. California canned
goods are unchanged, except that the
independent packers have followed
the association in the recent advance.
Eastern peaches are nearly out of
the market. Apples are unchanged
and quiet. Some of the New York
packers are asking more money, but
it is still possible to buy at the old
price.

Dried _Fruits—Peaches are in fair
demand. The supply is not heavy
and prices are unchanged. Currants
are ‘in fair demand at unchanged
prices. Seeded raisins are in moder-
ate demand, with sales still being
made at the old prices. Loose rais-
ins are in good demand, and clean
up as fast as they get in. Apricots
are the most active of the list. The
demand is active, and the market ex-
tremely strong.

Rice—Business is quite active in
this community, although not so

-to warrant.

 

much so as the present prices and the
real value of the rice as a food seem
The country is slowly
coming to a realization of the ex-
cellent qualities of rice as a food
product and the consumption is in-
creasing from year to year. There
are no price changes.

Provisions—The market is quiet
on practically everything. All grades
of hams are dull and_ unchanged.
Beef is unchanged and quiet. Barrel
pork is very scarce. Family pork is
in especially small supply and may
advance in price if receipts do not
improve. Pure lard is unchanged,
but compound lard is %c off, as a
result of the small margin between
pure and compound, and also a de-
cline in the cottonseed oil market.
The demand for lard is good.

Fish—Salt mackerel is steady.
Norway bloaters are firm and sup-
plies moderate. Cape Shore macker-
el is steady. In herrings supplies are
fairly large, with the tendency of
values toward a lower basis on both
Scotch and Holland fish. Codfish is
steady. Stockfish is in good demand
at full prices.

Syrups and Molasses—Sugar syrup
is unchanged and in fair demand.
New pure molasses is scarce, but the
quantity of adulterated stuff coming
forward from New Orleans has al-
ready begun to be very large. Good
new molasses, which will commence
to come forward in good measure
during the next few days, is ruling at
a good price. The demand for mo-

lasses on spot is fair.
——_—=>--o-—

Arrange For Thanksgiving Oysters.

The Dettenthaler Market wishes to
remind the trade that it is in shape
to meet every requirement of the
Thanksgiving trade on oysters and
offers good service and bang-up good
stuff. The Perfection brand is car-
ried in both cans and bulk and in
all grades. The stock this year is
better than ever before and the sup-
ply is adequate to meet every de-
mand, no matter how large or how
pressing. Telephone or write in
your orders, anticipating your needs
as far in advance as you possibly can,
because this will be to your manifest

advantage in more ways than one.
—o-e oa

The Great Central Railway in Eng-
land has such a large volume of fish
traffic from the coast to interior cities
that the line has been equipped with
special cars for the purpose. These

 

‘are formed into separate trains and

hauled on fast time schedule by pow-
erful ten-wheel locomotives. Fish are
thus delivered to interior markets in
the briefest period after being taken

from the sea.
———~9

The money in circulation in the
United States during October in-
creased $23,000,000. Allowing for an
increase in population of 133,000, the
circulation per capita has advanced
from $29.75, the best previous record,
to $29.99, the highest point ever
reached. Any person who has $30
in his cash reserve may thus realize
that he is better off than the average.

——>-0-———____

We ought to be much better judges
of our own characters than our
neighbors, but we are not.

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—Local dealers have se-
cured their winter’s supply, which
they are marketing on the basis of
$2@2.25 per bbl.

Bananas—Good shipping _ stock,
$1.25@2.25 per bunch. Extra Jumbos,
$2.50 per bunch.

Beets—soc per bu.

Butter—Factory creamery is steady
at 22c for choice and 23c for fancy.
Receipts of dairy grades continue
large and the quality has somewhat
improved. Local dealers hold the
price at 13c for packing stock, 16c for
choice and 18c for fancy. Renovated
is in active demand at 18%@r9c.

Cabbage—so@6oc per doz.

Celery—18c per bunch.

Cranberries—Cape Cods and _ Jer-
seys command $9 per bbl. and $3 per
bu.

Eggs—The market is stronger and
higher, local dealers having advanc-
ed their prices to 25@26c for candled,
22@23c for case count and 21@22c
for cold storage.

Game—Live pigeons, 50c per doz.
Drawn rabbits, $1@1.20 per doz.
Squabs, $1.50 per doz.

Grapes—Malaga command $4.50@
4-75 per keg.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 9@
1oc and white clover at 12@13c.

Lemons—Messinas, $4.50; Califor-
nias, $4.65.

Lettuce—Hot house leaf
fetches 12%c per fb.

Onions—Local dealers pay 35@4oc.

Oranges—California late Valencias,
$5; Jamaicas, $3.25@3.50; Floridas,
$3.50.

Parsley—-soc per doz. bunches for
hot house.

Potatoes—The market is firm and
cars are scarce. Buyers generally
are paying 40@43c for white stock
and 35c for red. The farmers are
holding their stock, evidently in
hopes of higher prices, and are taking
chances on the rot that has been the
bane of the potato man this year.
However, the stock that is coming
now is said to be comparatively free
from this and to be practically No.
1. Few buyers have sufficient faith
in the tubers yet to store any. The
growers will take the loss this year
if there is any and, on the other hand,
will take the profit if it comes.

Poultry—Turkeys are higher and
stronger, with every indication of
a scarcity for Thanksgiving. Fowls
are also higher, the receipts being
inadequate to meet the consumptive
demands of the market. Local deal-
ers pay as follows for dressed: Spring
chickens, 11@12%c; fowls, t10@1Ic;
young turkeys, 14@16c; ducks, 11@
I2c; geese, 9@Ioc.

Pumpkin—$1 per doz.

Squash—1%c per tb. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginias have ad-
vanced to $2 per bbl. Genuine Jer-
seys are steady at $3.75 per bbl.

Detroit—The Beals & Ward Furni-
ture Co. will make and repair furni-
ture. The members of the firm are
Elmer W. Beals and John L. Ward.

ieee cae

Detroit—The C. E. Winter Cigar
Manufacturing Co. has been organ-
ized with a capital stock of $5,000, of
which $2,500 is paid in cash. Incor-

stock

 

porators are Carl E. Winter, Cynthia
Winter; Carl E. Winter, trustee, and
William E. Brines, Jr.

ee

The dinner tendered the Wholesale
grocers of Michigan and Toledo by
the wholesale grocery trade of De-
troit at Hotel Cadillac Monday even-
ing was attended by forty-three rep-
resentatives of the trade, including
representatives from five of the six
wholesale grocery houses of Toledo.
Gilbert W. Lee presided as master
of ceremonies and presented the vari-
ous speakers of the evening in his
usually fluent manner. Wm. Judson
spoke for the National Association of
Wholesale Grocers, setting forth the
advantages of the organization and
enumerating the several concessions
it has obtained during the past two
James S. Smart, Jr., of Sagi-
naw, discussed the condition of the
Edgar A. Hill, of
Chicago, described the conditions
prevailing in the yeast business before
the various companies manufacturing
hop yeast were combined as_ the
Northwestern Yeast Co. W. I.
Brotherton, of Bay City, spoke of the
improved conditions of the whole-
D. Elgin, of
Grand Rapids, presented the compli-
ments of the National Grocer Co.
H. P. Sanger made a brief address,
which so captivated his hearers that
at its conclusion they all rose to their
feet to drink his health.

ll

An apparently insurmountable ob-
jection has been raised by German
oculists against the practical adop-
tion of an electric railway speed of
128 miles per hour, such as has been
attained on the military experimental
railway at Berlin.
say that this high rate of speed is
beyond the sight limit of human
vision, and it will, therefore, be im-
possible for the engineer to read the

years.

wholesale trade.

sale grocery trade. M.

These scientists

signals ahead of his train, which is
indispensable to secure safety.
nea

A young peasant in a village in the
Russian province of Minsk, who was
trying to educate himself, was ar
rested for being in possession of a
The justice of the
peace before whom he was brought
acquitted him on the charge of con-
spiracy made against him by the po-
lice, but warned him not to buy books
which tended to make an anarchist

and an infidel of him.
ence ene

The total area used for farming
purposes in the United States is 841,-
000,000 acres, an area larger’ than
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales,
France, Germany, Austria, Spain,
Japan and the Transvaal. There are
10,438,000 persons engaged in the ag-
ricultural pursuits, while all other in-
dustries employ but 18,845,000. One-
third of the people are, therefore, de-

voted to farming.
———>_ 6

Vienna now has a large retail store
where only American shoes are sold.
Those who have tried them are said
to have pronounced these machine-
made goods superior to the hand-

made Austrian shoes.
———_>2.___

Health is the second blessing that
we mortals are capable of; a blessing

 

book on algebra.

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that money can not buy.

 

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

CHEESE IN THE WINDOW.
Continued from page three.
sheet of clean, thick wrapping paper,
which he spread on the floor in front
of him. Then he lifted those cheese
in his hands, high above his head,
“einer zur Zeite,” and brought them
down with terrific force—just as the
Macbeth people say you can do with
some of their hardened chimneys, but
T never cared to try the experiment.

It never feazed ’em!

They stood the drubbing like the
Rock of Gibraltar would under simi-
lar conditions. Their cheeseship
came forth unscathed from the bat-
tle—“they look like silk and wear
better.”

“We have to saw that cheese or
else pound it apart—we can’t budge
it any other way,” panted Mr. Freu-
berg. Then he picked up the rocky(!)
cheese and let it fall into its former
hiding place with a dull thud.

“It’s rather harder than this fine
Sage cheese, isn’t it?” said the pro-
prietor. “This is made by our Eng-
lish cousins, and those who are fond
of it pay me 22 cents. The imitation
is manufactured in N. Y. State and
also over in Wisconsin, and is from
2 to 4 cents cheaper than the real
thing. Both varieties weigh from
30 to 50 pounds apiece. This cheese
slices evenly and is preferred by
many of my patrons, some of whom
never pretend to buy any _ other
brand.

“People get into the habit of liking
one kind of cheese and will call for
no other. There’s one young lady
stenographer in a downtown office
who comes in every Saturday even-
ing, so Henry here says, and gets
a whole pound of it and a pound of
crisp crackers to munch on _ over
Sunday. She says she rather have
some nice cheese any day than a
box of candy, and that they never
seem to have the cheese that suits
her taste where she boards.

“This suiting of cheese taste is
peculiar. One man will enquire for
a strong, old cheese. The next that
comes in wants his just off the fac-
tory shelves. I keep ’em all and so
am able to please anybody and
everybody.

“You don’t like the looks of these
little New Hand Cheese? Why,
some customers won’t look ‘at any-
thing else. You'd think they liked
them, to see the way they come in
scmetimes, buy one of those little
fellows and eat it right down while
they stand here. No, that glazed
outside that looks like glace marsh-
mallows is nothing but cheese—noth-
ing but cheese,” he repeated at my
incredulity. “It looks like a coating
of some foreign mixture, but it’s only
the cheese itself. They come in two
sizes; the larger go for 5 and the
smaller are ‘twofers.’ They are close-
ly packed four dozen to the box, and
are made by Germans down in the
Windy City State.

“There’s an expensive cheese,”
pointing to a measly-looking  speci-
men of Italian production. “It’s Gor-
gonzola. We don’t have any spoil
on our hands, for its ‘keeping quali-
ties’ are equal to those of a miser!
This you see is a year and a half old;

 

we've had it that long, and goodness
knows how old it was when we were
introduced to it; it’s like a woman’s
age—you can’t tell and she won't.
They cure this Gorgonzola in caves.
It’s a French cheese. It is wrapped
in clay and straw and left in these
caves from 60 to go days. It loses
its color a little when exposed to the
light, but even then looks like
witches’ broth boiled down and solid-
ified. ‘The older the better,’ those
who eat it Say.

“This old cheese,” indicating an-
other variety that looked like the one
just examined, “only more _ so,”
“tastes of money’ even more than
the Gorgonzola—it retails for 75
cents a pound. It is English Blue
Stilton.”

I suppose this is a great delicacy,
but it looked like a brown and green
old hodgepodge. In shape it was a
cylinder 7 or 8 inches in diameter and
about Io high and was covered all
over with “cow’s_ bladder.” Some-
body else can eat it—‘“I’ll none of
tt.

“Now here are two kinds of cheese
that are known the world over,” and
two small, round, wooden boxes with
foreign labels were laid out for my
inspection. They were the same size.
On one was the following:

“Veritable © Camembert.
Cream.”

The other read:

“Veritable Fromage de Camembert.
Double Creme. A. Rousset, Havre.”

Both are soft cheese and_ retail
at 35c. The latter is known every-
where as the Ship Brand.

Triple

“These little hard green Sap
Sagos,” was my next information,
“are imported from Holland. Our

prevailing foreign element are my
best customers for it. It is also used
by Americans. Three tip the scales
to make a pound and one sells for
1o cents. It is grated fine—that’s the
only way it is used—and made into
a soft paste with butter and, spread
on rye brod, is said to be ‘a delicacy
fit for the gods’—by those who like
it.

“This fine-looking, yellow, whole-
some domestic cheese is Herkimer
county Cheddar. It goes to every-
body—at 18c.”

“This little group of foreign potted
cheese—glass jars—are all much
alike. The names are  Port-Salut,
Fromage de Gorgonzola, Colhom-
miers. Price of each is 35c. Italians,
Americans and a few French enquire
for them.”

“That  Pottus roosting high?
That’s Dettenthaler’s Own. Brandy!”
came in a stage whisper. “Every-
body—everybody buys it. We make
it with very, very strong old Herki-
mer county cheese—a year old—as
the basis. We grind it very fine un-
til it is of the consistency of butter
and then mix brandy with it. It is
made into a sandwich with rye bread.
The price is 25c. It’s fit for a king.”

And the Limburger! Wow! I
tasted my first sample. I can’t truth-
fully say I ever want another. Yet,
fragrant as its odor and fierce as its
taste, Mr. Dettenthaler says there is
a great demand for it by Americans,
as well as those who would be ex-

 

pected to like it—Germans and Hol-
landers.

“You don’t mean to say that Amer-
icans like it!” I exclaimed. “Not—
like—it!”

“Yes.. I buy that and Brickstein
at the same time—ten or twelve cases
of 115 to 125 pounds each. The
Americans are coming more and
more to eat it every year. They say
they actually -enjoy it. I sell lots of
it for Dutch lunches, so called.”

I gingerly got near enough to the
yellow-labeled packages to read the
inscription:

“Vollstetter Limburger Kase. Gar-
antirt feinste Gebirgswaare. Boy
Schneller & Co. Fussen an Lech, im
Bairischen Hochgebirge. F. J. Det-
tenthaler, Agent fur die westl. Ver.
St., Grand Rapids, Mich.”

Mr. Dettenthaler said that it is
made near a lake at the foot (“Fussen
an Lech”) of the highest of the Ba-
varian Mountains (“Hochgebirge”),
which corresponds to our own Pike’s
Peak in Colorado.

When I leaned over the stuff to
write out the inscription I was strong-
ly reminded of what Mr. Douglas
Malloch said about it in a recent issue
of the Tradesman. He had been
told that a small piece of it—a mere
morsel—if ‘ placed in a refrigerator,
would drive away ants.

“Yes,” he went on to say, “it’s
true—drives away aunts and uncles
and cousins and nephews and _ hus-
bands and wives and_ mothers-in-
law—and every other living thing—
out of the house!” BLE. RS.

—_—_—>-? >
Saving an Old Pair of Shoes.

It was an old pair of shoes.

Its owner was in hard lines, finan-
cially, for the time being, and the
fact that the shoes were without no-
ticeable holes, that they still held to-
gether and that the wearing of them
would postpone for a week or two
his having to buy a new pair, was
too great a temptation.

He felt a little shabby as he wore

 

them down town in the car. The man
next him had on a good pair of
shoes—dressy and neat.

He hid them under the seat as best
he could.

Passing a shine stand downtown he
thought: “No, it isn’t worth while
wasting the price of a shine on them.”

The insole was worn out of the left
shoe, and brads protruded, hurting
his foot and making him limp. Also
the constant hurt made him nervous
enough to make some annoying er-
rors in his work and cross enough to
talk somewhat rudely to a customer
and get himself into trouble.

That night when he took off his
shoes he found that the brads had
ruined one of a pair of 50-cent half
hose.

He also had a stone-bruise on his
heel.

The next day he was sent unex-
pectedly by his senior partner: to
call on an out-of-town customer at
a hotel, and when the out-of-town
man saw the shabby shoes he gained
the impression that the firm was like-
wise going to pieces, and placed his
order elsewhere.

The following day he bought a new
pair of shoes, and this is the mental
entries he made regarding the tran-
saction:

“Lost, some
pretty high.

“Lost, 50 cents, value of hose worn
out by absence of insole.

“Lost, $10 deal with local customer,
who placed order elsewhere because
I talked ugly to him when my heel
was hurting.

“Lost, 25 cents, cost of ointment
for stone-bruise caused by brads.

“Lost, $500 order and maybe a life-
time customer, owing to my shabby ~
appearance when I met him at the
hotel.

“Gained, the interest on $5 (the
price of a pair of shoes) for two days,
at 6 per cent.

“Gained, enough sense not to. be
such a fool next time.”

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Union Men Must Cease Criminal
Acts.

Since the unions have grown pow-
erful and the demands take on a more
peremptory tone it becomes necessary
for the social organization as repre-
sented by governments to have more
regard for the flagrant defiance of
the laws and to make the unions un-
derstand that the rights of others
must be considered and fully protect-
ed. This action may surprise some
oi the union leaders who have felt
so secure in their power, but it must
finally appeal to the good sense of
the majority of the workers who will
understand that exact justice for all
is the only safe basis for satisfactory
government.

Two cases that have come before
the courts recently serve to illustrate
the extent to which unions have gone
in assuming a superiority to the laws
to which others must submit. One
is the boycott case in Indiana and
the other the Sam Parks case in
New York. In the former case a
contractor brought suit against a
union for damages caused by a boy-
cott which the union ordered and a
verdict was secured against the union,
which the court held to be responsi-
ble. There could be no question of
the responsibility of a number of in-
dividuals who would deliberately con-
spire to ruin another and the fact that
the conspiracy in this case was in the
form of a labor organization could not
change the legal status. The plea
that the labor union was not regular-
ly incorporated was overruled by the
court, which held that the members
as individuals were responsible for
what they ordered collectively. The
injury was done and the law must
find the redress, otherwise justice
would be a mockery. Other cases
following the same lines are in the
courts and reasonable men can have
little doubt of the outcome.

The Sam Parks case was for ex-
tortion of sums of money from em-
ployers by threatening strikes. The
facts, at first denied, were finally ad-
mitted, but it was urged that the ac-
tion was really taken by the union
and that the money was turned over
to the union. In this case the court
ruled that extortion of money by
threat was a crime. which the law
must deal with. It made no differ-
ence what disposition Parks made of
the money after he had obtained it
by a criminal action. Whether Parks
was disloyal to his union or not was
not a question at issue. As he had
personally forced the payment he
must suffer the penalty.

The unions have been warned often
enough that they were going too far
and that the time must come when
the people would no longer submit
and the indications are that the time
is at hand. The courts have found
ways for enforcing the laws and
unions can no longer afford a shelter
for the malefactors. The _ verdict
against the union in Indiana will hold
against every member because as a
voluntary association they are virtual-
ly in partnership, whereas as a cor-
poration there would be only the lim-
ited liability. The court can order
an assessment and if the officers of

the union refuse to act or members
refuse to pay according to their
means they would be in contempt and
subject to imprisonment. On_ the
other hand the high and mighty offi-
cials, walking delegates and business
agents who undertake to bully and
threaten employers must be careful
to find out how far they can safely
go, because a union backing will be
no protection for them any more
than for any other individual who
should attempt the same tactics and
be brought up to answer for the
same.—Boot and Shoe Recorder.
—_—_—>-_3

Duty to Creditors and Employes.

Accepting the explanation as made
by the failed firm of Philadelphia
seedsmen—that the cause was too lib-
eral treatment of its employes
through paying them full wages when
there was little or nothing for them
to do—“it is pertinent to ask,” says
the New York Times, “how far a
business concern has the right to be
generous in the matter of paying un-
earned wages—unless, indeed, it shall
appear that for labor performed it
pays less than that labor is worth,
holding in reserve part of the price
to support its workmen when invol-
untarily idle. This question has in-
terest in view of the attitude of or-
ganized labor and its demand for
full current participation in what is
created by its co-operation with capi-
tal. Organized labor insists that the
satisfaction of the wage earner in
the matter of a generous living wage
is paramount to any and every obli-
gation on the part of the employer.
This loses sight of the fact that the
paramount obligation of the business
man is to pay his debts, and that
he can not do this if he permits his
expenses to absorb his profits and
erode his capital to the vanishing
point. His first duty is to be just;
his second to be generous. If he can
be both just and generous so much
the better, but in the keen competi-
tion of modern business this is not
always possible. Evidently it was
impossible in the case of the firm
mentioned, and its effort to continue
under the existing wage system a re-
lation in which the labor was a part-
ner in prosperity and a dependent in
adversity ended exactly as might
have been expected. Organized labor
has made that sort of relation impos-
sible—whether for the better or not
is beside the fact. The fundamental
error of its position is that it elects
to eat its cake, and when it is gone it
clamors for the share of others.

“There is food for thought and for
profitable discussion in the facts
above outlined. The duty of the em-
ployer to the wage earner, popularly
styled the duty of capital to labor,
has been much debated. Perhaps it
would promote a satisfactory conclu-
sion if some consideration is given
to the duty of the employer to his
creditors and to himself. It may be
found that these two sets of duties
are not at all in conflict.”

Usual Course.

An Indiana man went crazy on his
wedding day. If it had not been no-
ticed he would have recovered soon,
no doubt. Marriage has that effect.

 

 

 

  
 
 

  

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STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF KENT )5*

John DeBoer, being duly sworn, deposes
and says as follows:

I am a resident of Grand Rapids and
am employed as pressman in the office
of the Tradesman Companye Since the
issue of October 4, 1899 (4 years), no
edition of the Michigan Tradesman has
fallen below SEVEN THOUSAND complete
copiese I have personally superintend-
ed the printing and folding of every
edition and have seen the papers mailed
in the usual mannere And further de-
ponent saith note

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Ernest Ae Stowe, being duly sworn,
deposes and says as follows:

_ I am President of the Tradesman Com-
pany, publisher of the Michigan Trades-
man, and certify to the correctness of
the above affidavite

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Notary Public in and for said county,
Ernest Ae Stowe and John DeBoer, known
to me to be the persons who executed
the above affidavits, who certify that
they made the statements regarding the
circulation of the Michigan Tradesman
from their personal knowledge, on this
-lst day of October, Ae De 1903.

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TARDY HONOR.

More than a century after his
death, which occurred in Paris in 1792,
some few of the American people
have awakened to some sense of the
obligation due from this great Repub-
lic to John Paul Jones, probably the
most daring fighter on the sea who
ever lived.

He died in retirement and poverty
in a foreign land, and no one knows
where he was buried, probably in a
Potter’s Field, near the French capi-
tal. Recently some inquiry has been
made as to the location of his grave,
and United States Senator Lodge has
offered a resolution to provide for the
erection of a monument to his mem-
ory, a belated tribute to perhaps the
most remarkable of the American
naval commanders.

Paul Jones, as he was commonly
known, was a native of Scotland, but
was a resident of Fredericksburg,
Va., when the War of the Revolution
was brewing. Having been brought
up to a seafaring life, he immediately
sought service in the naval forces of
the infant Republic. Of course, the
Continental Government had no ships,
but several of the States fitted out
some small trading vessels with guns
and sent them out to meet the squad-
rons of the British Navy. Jones, who
had been made a Lieutenant in the
Continental Navy, sailed from Dela-
ware Bay in April, in command of the
sloop Providence, and in six weeks
captured sixteen British prizes, be-
sides ravaging the coast of Nova
Scotia. He soon made another suc-
cessful cruise in the Alfred, and in
March, 1777, he sailed into the broad
Atlantic in the Ranger and reached
France, after many exciting adven-
tures with the British ships.

France being also at war with Eng-
land, he had no difficulty in making a
base in French ports. Jones then
sailed into St. George’s Channel, be-
tween England and TIreland, took
merchant prizes and burned the ship-
ping in Whitehaven Harbor and cap-
tured the British ship of war Drake,
of twenty guns, carrying his prizes
to France. He needed a vessel of
larger capacity and gun power, and
this he got by fixing up an old mer-
chant ship that had run in the East
Indian trade, arming her with twelve
and eighteen pounders and naming
her Bon Homme Richard.

With this old hulk and three small
vessels he sailed into British waters,
where he sighted forty sail of British

 

merchantmen, under the escort of the
two ships of war Serapis, of forty-
four guns, and Countess of Scarbor-
ough, of twenty-eight. At 7 in the
evening the Bon Homme _ Richard
closed with the Serapis, Jones lash-
ing the two ‘ships together. The
most desperate sea fight on record
occurred, lasting until 10 o’clock at
night, when the Serapis surrendered.
Jones’ ship was so shot to pieces that
it had to be abandoned. In the mean-
time the other vessels had captured
the Scarborough and some of the
merchantmen and Jonés got away
with his prizes into a Fretich port.

For this daring and brilliant ser-
vice the French King gave Jones a
gold and jewel hilted sword, while
Congress voted him thanks, but he
was the victim of such violent jeal-
ousy and prejudices in the Naval De-
partment at home that he could get
no promotion and no more | ships.
He had impoverished himself fitting
out the Richard and other vessels and
he remained in poverty and enforced
idleness in Paris until the end of the
war. Then he accepted service in the
Russian Navy, where he became a
Rear Admiral.

Hon. John Adams, of Massachu-
setts, who became the second Presi-
dent of the United States, appears to
have been bitterly opposed to Jones,
characterizing him as ambitious and
intriguing and referring to him as a
foreigner from the South (Virginia)
arrogating to himself the merit that
belonged to New England _ sailors,
and the influences exerted by Mr.
Adams were sufficient to deprive the
greatest of the sailors of the Revo-
lutionary war of the honors. and the
promotion he had won.

It is on record that all of the thir-
teen Government ships were captured
by the British.

Jones was the only one of the Fed-
eral Naval Commanders who gained
any victories on the sea during the
War for Independence, all the other
distinguished marine exploits having
been achieved by privateers. It is
worth while to note that in the begin-
ning of the war the Continental Con-
gress authorized the building of thir-
teen war frigates, one for each State,
but not one of them was given to
Jones, who had to fight in such small
vessels or old hulks as he could get
possession of.

 

The rottenness accidentally discov-
ered in the office of the City Comp-
troller, due to collusion between the
former encumbent of that office and
a local printer, is a legitimate out-
come of the “short shop” policy of
the trades unions. Under a resolution
of the Common Council, all city
printing ‘is confined to the printing
establishments which wear the yoke
of the typographical union and use
the union label on its output. This
necessarily destroys competition and
enables the few houses which stulti-
fy themselves in this way to form
combinations and graft the city ina
most reprehensible manner. So long
as the municipality continues its
present partnership relation with
trades unionism, it must expect to
be the victim of greed and graft.

 

RADIUM OR ELECTRICITY.

The physical philosophers who have
speculated on the nature, operation
and constitution of the heavenly
bodies, have not hesitated to figure
on their ages.

They generally agree that the sun,
which is the center of our planetary
system, is burning up, and, therefore,
approaching extinction. Those world-
builders who argue that it is a blaz-
ing fire seek to secure fuel to keep it
going, by claiming that comets,
meteoric bodies, and the like are
constantly being drawn into the sun
to feed its fires, and that in time al]
the bodies which revolve around it
will be consumed, unless it should,
by cooling rapidly and shrinking, lose
its power of attracting fuel. It will
then become extinguished, growing
black and cold and leave us upon this
earth to die of freezing and darkness,
unless we are sooner drawn into the
fiery vortex and take part in the con-
flagration of a world.

Lord Kelvin, a distinguished chem-
ist and physical philosopher, claims
that the stn is not more than Io00,-
000,000 years old, and he thinks since
the discovery of the new elemental
body known as radium, which has a
remarkable property of giving off
heat and light without losing any of
its substance, that the sun may be
largely composed of it, and if so, will
be able to survive for a much longer
time than has heretofore been al-
lowed to it.

The spectroscopists are trying to
find if radium is one of the illuminat-
ing factors in our great source of
light, and in all probability it is. But
it seems entirely unnecessary to con-
ceive that the sun is a fire supported
by material that is being consumed.
The existence of radium militates
against such a conclusion. But there
is also another view that is full of
interest. It is that the sun is a vast
incandescent electric light, kept in
operation by innumerable planetary,
cometary and other bodies, which re-
volve around it. These to all intents
and purposes perform the functions
of a titanic dynamo, which constantly
generates the electricity necessary to
keep in its proper condition the great
light and source of heat which gives
life to our universe.

Why not?

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

When the tide of speculation goes
to either extreme, unless it meets
with sudden reaction in the nature
of a panic it continues at the high or
low level for a much longer time than
is usually expected. Thus the pre-
dictions that there must come a
reaction when prices were at the
height of inflation were a long time
in being realized. So now that the
low level is established predictions
of a change are correspondingly
slow in results. Probably the ex-
planation in both cases is to be found
in the fact that stock operators find
it to their interest to support the
high tide as long as possible and
then for similar reasons to continue
the low. The leaders in the present
decline are United States Steel and
the Pennsylvania shares, two of the
most assured properties as to intrin-

 

 

sic value in the country. Both made
new low records, although price
changes were slight and trading ex-
ceedingly dull.

In spite of the tendency to read-
justment to new conditions in price
declines the general volume of trade
continues large. With good crops
of all the leading staples selling rep-
idly at high prices there is good as-
surance that the consuming public
will have plenty of money, and this
is evidenced in the support which is
given to general merchandise dis-
tribution. A suggestive feature of
the situation is that, in spite of the
extreme high price of cotton, that
staple is being freely taken for ex-
port to meet the imperative needs
of foreign spinners. High prices of
both cotton and wool, with the in-
flated wage scale, are still serious
factors in domestic trade and these
would suffer severely were it not for
the tremendous support accorded by
the consuming public.

Iron and steel are as active as
could be expected in process of read-
justment. As long as there is pros-
pect of lower prices in products there
will be waiting in many undertakings
where local conditions make delay
possible. But as yet there is little
actual reduction in the general vol-
ume of even these leaders in read-
justment.

 

A man of eighty-odd years died last
week in New York, leaving written
on a small sheet of paper the follow-
ing: “Personal memoirs. At the age
of thirty I gave up dancing; at forty,
my endeavors to please the fair sex;
at fifty, my regard of public opinion;
at sixty, the trouble of thinking, and
I have now become a true sage, or
an egotist, which is the same thing.
I have never meddled in any mar-
riages or scandals; I have never rec-
ommended a cook or a_ physician;
consequently I have never attempted
the life of anyone.”

 

 

Michigan grain shippers are grati-
fied by the prospects for a barge can-
al connecting Lake Erie with the
Hudson river. They expect when the
canal is completed the cost of send-
ing grain to New York will be re-
duced two cents per bushel, or about
one-third the present rates. Of course
from five to ten years will elapse be-
fore the proposed canal can be ready
for navigation, and during that time
other routes may be developed and
existing charges for transportation
materially reduced.

 

 

 

European governments are all more
or less interested in the Panama sit-
uation, but indications are that they
are content to allow the United States
to handle it, having entire confidence
that whatever is done will be for the
common advantage of all nations.
The United States is bound by treaty
obligations to keep traffic open across
the isthmus, and there is no doubt
of its ability to do so.

The State of Texas has brought suit
against the Pullman Car Company to
break the monopoly which it is
claiming there, and which takes the
form of excluding all sleeping cars
but its own from Texas railroads.

 

 

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Pemerearesreenmne sera:

THEN AND NOW.

In glancing back over the years
that separate us from the _ first
Thanksgiving day in our country, in
1621, certain very salient changes in
manner of life are evident, and it
may not be a bad plan to notice them
and their significance ta this time.

Shortly after the first harvest of
the colonists at Plymouth Governor
Bradford sent four men out to shoot
game, so that they might, as the ac-
count reads, “after a more special
manner rejoice together.” Then, as
now, the special manner of rejoicing
seems to have been primarily a mat-
ter of gastronomy. The shooting and
eating of turkeys then, as now, was
made symbolical.

Those four men who went out to
shoot game for the first Thanksgiv-
ing day dinner were probably the
builders of their own houses. They
raised their own corn and vegetables,
they patched their own boots and
clothes, and all the  carpentering,
soldiering, ‘hunting, butchering, bak-
ing and candlestickmaking they did
themselves. They all took part in
governing, in church matters, in
fighting the Indians. In fine, every
man was many-sided and developed
along many lines. They were re-
sourceful men, each man taking a
hand in a variety of occupations. To-
day it requires we should not like
to say how many men to make one
nail, one pin, one sheet of paper, and
each man is restricted to his especial
part of the nail, the pin, the sheet of
paper. In glancing back over the
ages to 1621 the greatest change one
notices is the change between man
as generally employed and man as
specially employed. Nowadays, in
the professional and business world,
the divisions and subdivisions are so
many that men in one department
of work do not even know the routine
of the work in another department.

The next most noticeable change
between the world of 282 years ago
and the world of to-day is the change
from poverty to wealth, from bare
necessity to rococo luxury, that is
sometimes ridiculous in its flamboy-
ant exaggerations. Those four men,
with their leathern jackets and fowl-
ing pieces, had, perhaps, a house, a
garden, a little rough furniture and
a few simple utensils for cooking; few
clothes, few books, no luxuries; while
we—the mere catalogue of our super-
fluities would require an index as
large as an encyclopedia. That there
could be any difference between those
four men of the time of Governor
Bradford because one of them had a
better fowling piece than the other
or because one had two jackets and
another only one never occurred to
them for a moment. But to-day the
difference btween the men who have
money and the men who have none
is marked. They have different in-
terests, different amusements, occu-
pations, training, opportunities. No
man cared very much, that first
Thanksgiving day, whether he had
much money or little money, be-
cause then men, not money, differen-
tiated their world. To-day the furi-
ous scramble for money is so appar-
ent and so often referred to that we

 

are almost ashamed to mention it.

The third change that has been
creeping over the country from
Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving from
1621 to 1903 is the increasing lack of
time. Man had more leisure then
than now; there was less hurry. Con-
versations were more frequent; let-
ters were longer; intercourse was less
hurried.,If one will take up the
month’s magazines on the news
stands he will find that nine out of
ten articles are not literary, but peda-
gogic; that is to say, they try to
teach, to instruct, to edify. There is
no time to be lost in mere literary
browsing. One must find out some-
thing. In the old days they traveled
more slowly, made longer visits, read
longer books, wrote longer letters,
suffered longer sermons, sat longer
at table and were, in short, less con-
science-stricken about wasting time
than are we.

Now what of these marked dif-
ferences between the huntsmen sent
out by Governor Bradford in 1621 and
the men of to-day? All over the land
at this ‘season, in obedience to the
proclamations of more or less worthy
Governors, thanks are offered up for
our prosperity and progress, and
these very changes are alluded to ad-
miringly. The specialization of pur-
suits has made it possible to culti-
vate square miles instead of square
yards and to make pins and needles
by the million. The accumulations
of great wealth have made_ philan-
thropic and educational enterprises
possible. This pushing, busy life is
giving us a leading place among the
commercial nations of the world.
The advantages are evident and often
referred to; but there are certain dan-
gers, even when all the lower wants
of life are supplied. There is the dan-
ger that the man who works ten
hours a day making one part of a nail,
who specializes himself, will also nar-
row himself. There is the danger
that the lordlier qualities of life will
be subordinated to mere possessions.

These three changes mark one
great change and that is, that man
is slave to more masters even as he
is master of more slaves. All civili-
zation should tend to make, not nails,
nor money, nor multitudinous ways
of occupying time, but a man—a man
broader than any one occupation; a
man who is master of money, not its
slave; a man who always has time,
because all the time there is is manu-
factured by man. What this nation
needs is more men who have time,
more men who find their happiness,
not in what money can buy but in
themselves. Not that all men should
be dreamers, bookworms, visionaries;
only we wish to emphasize the fact
that this is at present the undeveloped
side of our life. A man ought to ask
himself continually, Is time, is money,
is my special pursuit my master or
am I using them to make myself a
more perfect man? If things have
harnessed us and are driving us, then
we have very little to be thankful for;
but if we are conquering these then
we are preparing for ourselves a pros-
perity and serenity of life which are,
after all, the best things we can strive
for or give thanks for.

SOCIALISM IN THE BAY STATE

It has long been customary to
look upon Massachusetts as quite a
model State in-many ways. Its peo-
ple are supposed to be more highly
educated than those to be found any-
where else in the Union. That is
true if the statements of the Boston-
ese are to be. accepted as made. Bos-
ton boasts that it is the seat and cen-
ter of culture. Where New Yorkers
ordinarily read newspapers on the
cars, the Boston people read books
on metaphysics and scientific maga-
zines. It seems curious therefore that
in Massachusetts the growth of so-
cialism, as indicated by the vote, has
been greater than elsewhere. In
1891 the Socialist party there had
less than half of 1 per cent. of all the
voters. In 1806 it had grown to a
little over I per cent., and in 1808 it
rose to 4.4 per cent. In 1899 _ it
reached 6.4 percent.; the next year
it went to 8.3 per cent. Massachu-
setts has two socialist members in its
House of Representatives. There are
two explanations offered and both of
them are based on the educational
argument.

It is claimed on the one side that
the masses there are so well educat-
ed that they read and understand and
come to approve the doctrines of so-
cialism. The acceptance of this
theory means, of course, the accept-
ance of the theory that socialism is
sound. The other explanation offer-
ed is the old adage that a little learn-
ing is a dangerous thing. The theory
advanced is that the masses are suf-
ficiently educated to be attracted by
socialistic theories, but not well
enough educated to see and appreci-
ate their fallacies. Whichever of the
two is accepted, the fact remains that
the advocates of this theory are grow-
ing in Massachusetts more than in
any other state of the Union, and of
course it.must be conceded in this
connection that the boasted educa-
tion of the Massachusetts masses is
either an explanation or only a coin-
cidence. Probably a better explana-
tion than either of the two thus far
advanced is that Massachusetts being
a great manufacturing center, has
attracted more than its proportionate
share of foreigners; who have brought
to this country the notions, the prej-
udices and the theories which are so
pronounced in various places of Eu-
rope, and which in many cases
prompted their believers to seek a
free country. European governments
do not take kindly to such notions,
nor do they deal kindly with those
who entertain them. Hence social-
ists, like electricity, seeking the line
of least resistance, come to the Unit-
ed States, where freedom of thought
is guaranteed. When socialism
reaches a point where it practically
includes 10 per cent. of the vote it is
worth taking into serious account.

 

 

Music, how much and of what sort
shall form a part of church service,
has long been a theme of interest
and discussion. All denominations
are growing broader in their belief
on this subject and all appreciate
that good music is a pleasant and
important accompaniment of  wor-
ship. Prof. Penny, of Washburn Col-

 

 

 

lege, Kansas, is out with an argument
in which he says that many of the
gospel hymns are immoral, not in
word, but in tune. He declares that
certain musical measures are moral
He says that
waltz time, two-steps, polkas, etce.,
are -depraved, and that this sort of
meter finds its way into so-called re-
ligious hymn books. He _ proposes
to start a crusade against all such
tunes; but he will have a hard time
driving them out of existence. That
was a wise preacher who is credited
with having said that he did not be-
lieve in letting the devil have all the
best music. That saying is so old
that probably its author can not be
discovered for the purposes of a
joint debate with Prof. Penny, but,
prima facie, the unknown sage has
the better of the argument.

and others immoral.

French engineers declare it is per-
fectly feasible to convert the desert
of Sahara into a vast lake, thus open-
ing to commerce great regions of
the interior of Africa, which can now
only be reached by long, tedious and
dangerous caravan journeys. They
say that a large portion of the desert
lies below the level of the Atlantic,
and that by digging a canal to let in
the waters of the ocean the great
change could be effected easily and
at a cost which would be small com-
pared to the benefits which would
aaccrue. The French have conceiv-
ed several. such projects, but they
have not executed nor _ controlled
them for their own benefit. The Suez
and Panama canals are familiar in-
stances. When the sea of Sahara
is created the cities built around its
shores will probably not be French
cities.

Lots of people in this part of the
world are thinking, as winter ap-
proaches, of places in which they
would like to linger until summer
They may be interested
in knowing that Bahreinn, on the
Percian Gulf, is the hottest place on
earth. The mean temperature there
for the year is 99, and night after
night in the summer months the
thermometer stands at Io0o at mid-
night. By 7 in the morning it shows
107 or 108, and by 3 in the afternoon
it is 140 in the shade. It is not a
lonesome place at all. The population
numbers 25,000, all, presumably, hot
and happy.

comes again.

Alexander Young, an Indiana as-
tronomer, announced some time ago
that the sun was inhabited. His dis-
covery did not find general accept-
ance. Now he comes forward with
the theory that the climate of the
sun is that of perpetual summer, and
no doubt is delighted to know that
everybody agrees with him.

The present dictator of New York
City—the head of Tammany—was a
bartender for several years and those
who have met him at Mt. Clemens
during the past ten days, where he
is recuperating his health, assert that
he still retains the manners and meth-
ods of the doggery.

 

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SELECTING STOCKS.

Too Dssis Buyers I Have Too Little
Knowledge.

A book might be written on the
proper selection of dry goods stocks
and the subject would not then be
exhausted.

It—or rather the lack of it—is re-
sponsible for the non-success of many
dry goods departments. throughout
the country. This, of course, applies
to all departments in the store, but
just now we are dealing with the dry
goods section.

For one thing, the man who selects
the stock very often has really little
idea of the wants of his customers.
If it is a store employing two or
three salesmen the chances are that
the buyer (the proprietor, usually)
has as little idea of what the custom-
ers call for each day as has anyone
in the store. And yet he will go to
market with all the assurance in the
world and buy what he thinks his
trade should want. What they should
want and what they do want are apt
to be two very different things. Or
if the traveling man’ comes to town
with his line of samples how many
times does the proprietor take that
bright young lady out of the dry
goods department to help him select
his goods? Or his wife, who, ten
chances to one, knows more about
what the women of the town want in
the way of dress goods, corsets, un-
derwear, hosiery and notions than he
ever will?

With all due respect to the travel-
ing man the buyer should learn to
say “No.” It is impossible for the
best traveling man in the world to
put himself in the place of the mer-
chant. He can not detach himself
from the idea that he is out to sell
goods and nothing else.

He may urge a few pieces of some
high priced stuff because it is “the
thing in New York.” His recommen-
dation will often make the merchant
take a selection against his better
judgment. The latter well knows
that with nine-tenths of his trade it
is not a question of the “thing in
New York.” Women everywhere like
to be fashionable well enough, but
they are not going to take some new
color or kind of fabric merely be-
cause it is the thing in the East some-
where, especially as the chances will
be ten to one that none of them will
know that it is the thing.

Therefore the buyer of any depart-
ment should be in close touch with
that department. If he is buying dress
goods he should not only know what
the general tendency in the fashion
centers is—that is a very good thing
to know, of course—but he should be
equally well acquainted with the
whims and the notions of his own
trade. If his patrons express a desire
for green when all the rest of the
world is wearing red he should know
it and cater to the trade. Of course,
he should have some red, too, as a
certain number of his customers will
undoubtedly find out that red is the
thing and will want it, but there
should be an abundant supply of
green for all those that want the
color.

To be more specific, in buying even

 

the commonest ginghams, and cali-
coes, care should be taken in select-
ing the patterns. Too many buyers
say to the traveling man, “Oh, pick
me out a dozen good selling pat-
terns,’ or something like that. How
is the traveling man to know what
will be good selling patterns? Furth-
ermore, the order as it reaches. the
house will very likely read simply
“Twelve patterns” and the man who
fills the order will take the easiest
ones to get or the ones of which there
ire the most in stock. That would
be the most natural thing to do. He
might even take pains to work off on
stich an order some designs that have
been dragging for a year back.

Instead of doing this the buyer
should pick out every pattern that he
wants and do it with an eye to sell-
ing the goods. He can not always
follow his own ideas of what is pret-
ty, or attractive in this matter. He
is after goods that his trade wants
and his ideas of beauty may not
agree with those of his customers by
any means.

And here is where the average mer-
chant needs the help of some one
else. And in a good many cases it
will be a woman that he needs, as he
has needed her at different times all
through his life. If he has a bright
young lady clerk in the dry goods
department (as the chances are that
he has) she should be given a chance
to demonstrate her observation by
picking out goods that the trade will
like.

If she is at all observing she will
be able, by the combination of her
woman’s knowledge of dress and her
experience as a clerk, to pick out
goods that will sell. Not only that
but she will likely see something that
has been called for recently and for-
gotten until it is displayed before her.

Being of the male sex we can not
acknowledge that a man can not do
this kind of buying, but the chances
are pretty good that a woman will do
it better than it has been done if not
better than the merchant can do it.

A good many merchants bring
their wives to the markets to help
them select dry goods and notions. It
is a good plan. A woman naturally
knows more than a man about these
things, and especially in the smaller
communities where the merchant’s
wife knows practically everybody in
town and knows their tastes is she
a valuable help.

Bue the chief point to be made in
this matter of selecting goods is that
the merchant or some one that repre-
sents him should do it and it should
never be left to the traveling man or
to the wholesale house. What may
look like a good seller in the Twin
Cities may not look so much like it
up in North Dakota. A buyer should
know the general condition and so-
cial status of his trade, and he is in
the best position to judge of what his
customers require.

One of the most successful mer-
chants in one of the smaller cities in
Minnesota was recently in the mar-
ket. In a conversation he said that
whatever success he may have had in
his dry goods department was due,
next to general careful management,

 

to the fact that he picked personally
every piece or pattern of goods that
went into his stock. Many times, he
said, in his younger days, he felt as
if he was wasting time to hang so
long over the selection of a pattern
in a six-cent gingham, but he had al-
ways found that it had paid and paid
well in the long run. As a result he
rarely has any quantity of old goods
on his shelves. If he finds he has
made a mistake in selecting a piece
of goods he puts it out prominently
and advertises it hard, cutting the
price below cost, if need be, to get
rid of it.

What has been said has applied
particularly to piece goods of various
kinds. But just as much care should
be exercised in all lines. In hosiery,
for instance, there is abundant chance
to buy carelessly and to have a lot
of odd-sized and undesirable stock-
ings on the shelf from one year’s end
to another.

If the merchant has a “silk stock-
ing” trade those are the kind of hose
to buy, but the chances are that the
majority of his customers buy a
twenty-five cent stocking or less and
the largest part of the stock should
be of that grade.

While a certain amount of fancy
hosiery should be kept in stock the
buyer should remember that not only
is the trade comparatively small in
these lines, but tastes are so varied
that it is particularly hard to buy
these goods that will sell out clean.

To sum the matter all up, it simply
means that care should be used.

Every man has_ some particular
points in his business to which he
devotes more care than to any other.
A good many neglect the buying de-
partment in the matter of selecting
stocks. This should be as carefully
attended to as any other department
of the business, and even more so,
for it is an old but pretty nearly true
statement that “Goods well bought
are half sold.”,—Commercial Bulletin.

 

 

 

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THE TWO SOOS.

 

Their Bright Future Prospects .as
Viewed by a Resident.
Written for the Tradesman. .

It can be said with the greatest
truthfulness that the two Sault Ste.
Maries, Michigan and Ontario, are
about as closely watched at the pres-
ent time by the general public as any
other towns in the country. In many
ways are these towns _ interesting.
There is much connected with the
history of each city that would make,
and has made, interesting reading,
but at the present time things ro-
mantic are eliminated from the situ-
ation and business men all over the
country have their eyes fixed on the
“Two Soos,” wondering what will be
the commercial future of the twin
cities on the banks of the roaring
rapids of the St. Mary’s. When the
recent crash of the Consolidated Lake
Superior Company was healded across
the country by the newspapers there
were many who said that the “Two
Soos” were doomed. Various editors
took delight in making the picture as
black as possible, and therefore it is,
perhaps, not surprising that in many
quarters there exists a feeling of sym-
pathy for the people who have their
money invested in this locality.

Now the feeling among Sault Ste.
Marie’s business men is that pros-
pects for the two cities were never
brighter. Outsiders are not familiar
with the true situation, else they
would not think of the towns as in
any respect less prosperous than the
average small city throughout the
country. There is nothing in the
present situation to create fear con-
cerning the future of the cities—but
on the other hand there is every rea-
son to believe that within a few
months the activity in this locality
will be greater than ever before.

The general distrust of the “Twin
Cities” started when the recent riot
broke out on the Canadian side. The
story is familiar to everybody, as it
was told under flaming headlines in
ali the newspapers of the country.
Special correspondents were on the
scene from several of the large towns,
and for a few hours there was great
excitement. The press of the coun-
try bawled forth that “the great Lake
Superior bubble’ had burst, that a
panic had taken the business men of
the two cities in its grasp and that,
with a hard winter coming on, the
situation was awful to contemplate.
A crowd of 3,000 angry, hungry and
penniless foreigners from the woods
marched the streets of the Canadian
Soo and there was nothing to feed
them. These newspapers vied with
each other in painting a picture dark
as night. No wonder, then, that busi-
ness men.all over the country lost
faith in this locality.

But there was no gnashing of teeth
here. To-day there is not a hungry
man to be found. Business houses
refuse to fail, as it was predicted they
would, and both towns are progress-
ing—not by leaps and bounds, per-
haps, but with a steady stride that
promises well for the coming new
year.

It has been a popular thing among
many people to make fun of the Ca-

 

nadian Soo. It is said that its busi-
ness men are slow and have not the
hustle of their brothers in the United
States. That may be true, but at the
same time there are many towns in
Michigan to-day that would be much
better than they are at present were
they moving forward as rapidly as
this very town of the Dominion.

Despite the hard luck stories that
are at present current outside, many
fine business buildings are under way
on that side of the river. In a few
days contractors will commence lay-
ing the foundation for a government
building which will cost $50,000. The
pulp mill has resumed operations and
several other industries are scheduled
to start their wheels in a few days.
A syndicate, headed by Charles M.
Schwab, has purchased the Bruce
copper mines. A gold mine at Webb-
wood, a few miles out in Algoma,
that was bought in June for $2,000
has been sold within the past few
days for nearly $700,000. This is the
situation on the Canadian side.

On this side of the river things
are even better than they are in
Canada. Merchants are paying their
bills and while, as in all towns
throughout the country, there are
some who are not getting along well,
the majority are prospering. A con-
tract has just been let for a $15,000
block, to be used entirely by a lead-
ing department store. Many dwell-
ing houses averaging about $3,000
each, are nearing completion, besides
the first skyscraper in the Upper
Peninsula. A company is_ being
formed to erect a five-story theater
in the spring, which will be entirely
fire-proof and cost $150,000. Plans
have been drawn for many _ other
buildings that will go up in the
spring. The leading and most con-
servative architects tell me that they
look for the greatest building season
on record in 1904. Besides the many
manufacturing enterprises that are
about to begin operations—which in-
clude the largest calcium carbide
plant in the world, the Superior Food
Company’s plant and a shirt factory,
all of which have no financial con-

 

nection in any way with the Con-
solidated Lake Superior Company—
the Government is to expend several
millions of dollars here within’ the
next few years. A new lock must
be built. I have been personally in-
formed by the head of the Govern-
ment works here that this may take
eight years to complete. To add to
this, amovable dam at the head of
the canal is to be constructed, as soon
as plans are adopted, which will cost
$250,000. The dredging of the Nee-
bish Channel will require at least
three years’ work and, if the Govern-
ment buys more land here for the
purpose of extending its park system,
which matter will be looked after by
Congress this winter, a lot of money
will be put in circulation within the
coming few months.

It will be seen, therefore, that the
outlook is very satisfactory. There
is enough business assured on_ this
side of the river to keep the town
busy for several years to come, elimi-
nating entirely the business of the
Consolidated Lake Superior Com-
pany.

As the “Soo” prospers, so will the
eastern portion of the Upper Penin-
sula. This is the general market for
the products of the soil. Sault Ste.
Marie money circulates in evety
township for miles around. And, as
it is more than likely that the Con-
solidated people will be able to ef-
fect a re-organization before spring
so as to start up the steel plant, iron
works, car shops and other indus-
tries in Canada, there is every reason

 

to believe that things will move lively
here in 1904.
This part of Michigan is destined
to progress rapidly.
Raymond H. Merrill.

—_ 2
Reducing the Number of Stores.
At the recent meeting at Mackinac,

a prominent pharmacist urged that

as the owner or manager of a store

is held personally responsible for the
acts of his employes, he should have
greater latitude in their selection, and
that registration should only be re-
quired of proprietors. He claims that
this measure would reduce the num-
ber of drug stores considerably, with

a corresponding improvement in

business, because it would make it

more difficult for a clerk to start a

new store.

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

GRAND RAPIDS
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY
W. FRED McBAIN, President

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.

 

 

New York, Nov. 14—The week in
the coffee market has been a dull
and dragging one. . This is about the
stereotyped information given your
correspondent all through the trade.
Actual buyers are few and when they
do make purchases it is of only the
smallest amounts. Sellers are not
seemingly anxious to part with hold-
ings on the present basis and the
only activity is in the speculative
market, which is irregular. At the
close Rio No. 7 is worth 6 1-16c. In
store and afloat there are 2,659,166
bags of Brazil coffee, against 2,672,812
bags at the same time last year.
There is a fairly steady tone to the
market for mild sorts and quotations
are sustained on the basis of recent
quotations. Good Cucuta, 84%@8'%c.
While East India coffees show no
change, there is a fairly satisfactory
undertone to the market and prices
are well sustained.

In the sugar trade brokers report
an extremely light volume of busi-
ness, so far as new orders are con-
cerned, and even the withdrawals on
old contracts are not very active, al-
though there is improvement over
last week. Prices show no change.

There is a steady improvement in
the tea market and holders are very
firm in their views of the situation.
Jobbers are said to be paying full
values for teas coming and that are
now landing. Quite a satisfactory
business has been done in lines at full
value. The packet trade is active
and shows a steady increase.

While there is room for improve-
ment in ‘the rice trade here, there
have been much duller times. Buyers
do not take large lots, but there is a
steady run of trade, and, upon the
whole, the outlook is satisfactory.
Quotations show practically no
change. Foreign grades are quiet
and unchanged.

It is thought we shall see in the
spice market a 20c rate for cloves be-
fore the season is over. All spices
are well sustained and sellers make
no concessions. A large part of the
trade is in making deliveries on pre-
vious contracts. Amboyna cloves,
™5%4@16c; Singapore pepper, 123%4,@
13c.

Steady improvement is shown in
the molasses trade by jobbing gro-
cers. Offerings are not at all exces-
Sive and the situation rather favors
sellers. The National Biscuit Co. is
taking a large part of the arrivals at
full rates. Foreign grades are steady
and practically without change in
quotations. Syrups are rather light
as to supply and, under a pretty good
call, close very firm.

There is little of interest in canned
goods. Tomatoes are going to turn
out a pretty good pack and as this
becomes more and more evident buy-
ers operate with more and more con-
servatism. Prices vary from 60@7oc
for Maryland and Southern to goc for
standard New Jersey stock. With
ample supplies the market seems to
be “layin’ low” and buyers are willing

 

to let the growers hold the accumula-
tion. Other goods are about un-
changed. There is a dull market for
salmon and no changes are to be not-
ed in quotations.

The butter market remains un-
changed, although possibly it is
rather firmer. Best Western cream-
ery is quoted at 2334c, although it
certainly requires a fine article to
bring the latter price. Firsts to
thirds, 20!‘%4@17c; imitation creamery,
15@18c; factory, 144@15%c, the lat-
ter for choice held stock; renovated,
15@17c and possibly 17%4c; packing
stock, 13@15c.

The cheese market is quiet. Ex-
porters are doing almost nothing and
neither the local nor _ out-of-town
trade is moving in other than an
average sort of way. N. Y. State Sep-
tember make full cream is worth
1134c for small size and %4c less for
large.

There are few fresh-gathered eggs
to be found here and nearby stock
is selling for 35@38c, and there is a
good demand at this quotation. Best
Western range from 28@29c, but
some choice lots have been reported
at Y%@ic more. Seconds to firsts,
25@28c; candled, 20@z2ic; refrigera-
tors, 19@22%c; limed, 21@21%c.

There is a great scarcity of apple
barrels and while they have been
selling—in the fruit districts of this
State—for 50@55c, it is said they can
not be obtained at any price. In
fact, staves, which in June sold at
$6.60 per M, are now quoted at
$14.80. Is Michigan doing anything
in the barrel business? If so, now is
her opportunity.

——>0>—__
What the Bugs Cost Us.

We keep an army of 65,000 men
and have 254 ships of war. We are
ready to fight any nation on the
earth, yet the little potato bug laughs
us to scorn. Ever hear of the big
United States suffering with the grass-
hopper? Are we not powerless be-
fore the gypsy moth? The bug fam-
ily taxes this great country $350,000,-
ooo a year, but in the unequal fight
between the nation and the bugs the
latter ever remain unconquered. The
worms that attack the cotton plant
assess the farmer $60,000,000 a
year. The potato bugs eat $8,000,000
worth annually out of our gardens.
The chinch bug costs us $100,000,000,
the Hessian fly $50,000,000, and the
grasshopper $90,000,000. The big
United States has not enough money
or men to win any war with an in-
sect.—Popular Mechanics.

——_2.___

Precipitation in Liquor Mag. Cit.

The trouble probably lies in the
quality of the magnes, carb., much of
that sold is only fit for covering
steam pipes, etc. Another cause is
the water used, it may contain micro-
organisms which later multiply and
give rise to a deposit. If the water
be boiled before using and cooled
out of contact with the air, this source
of disturbance will be done away
with. A good method is to keep the
filtered solution in citrate bottles,
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The Blow That Came to a Blameless
Grocer.

The pure food law is a good thing,
I suppose—yes, I’m sure it’s a good
thing—but it’s an infernal hardship
on the retail grocer sometimes.

Let me tell you about a case that
I know of.

Several months ago I was touring
Indiana county, which is in the west-
ern part of Pennsylvania. There
aren’t So very many grocers but there,
and I guess I know every man of
them—intimately, you might say.

There is one grocer out in Indiana
county that I have sort of especially
tied to. He’s one of the best men I
ever knew, and you can’t help pity-
ing the poor devil because he has
tried so hard to get along. Never-
theless, he never has gotten along, in
anything more than a very moderate
degree.

I tell you this so that you can more
fully appreciate the hardship that
overtook the man when his trouble
with the food law rubbed in a life-
time of more or less hard luck. He
keeps an ordinary little store, neither
very fancy nor very cheap. He does
not know a great deal about the food
law, and a good deal of the little he
does know, I guess, has come from
me.

A few weeks ago this grocer, with-
out a moment’s warning, was arrest-
ed one morning on the charge of
selling adulterated pepper. He. was
struck nearly dumb. He had always
ordered pure stuff, and believed he
was handling that. And added to that,
he had that blind, unreasoning terror
of the law and its processes that
many people have, and when a war-
rant for his arrest was laid before
him he simply shivered with terror.

T happened along later in the same
day, and found him all gone to pieces
over it. His wife is a nervous, fret-
ful creature, and she had made him a
good deal worse instead of holding
up his hands.

Well, I asked him whom he had
bought the pepper of, and whether
he had a receipt. He said he had
asked for perfectly pure pepper and
showed me an invoice in which the
stuff was mentioned as “pepper“ and
not “compound: pepper.”

His hearing was to be the next
morning at 9 o'clock. I was there,
because I had to stay over anyway.

They wouldn’t let him talk, of
course, before the magistrate. In that
one-sided way in which the law some-
times goes about things, they only
heard the evidence against him. The
was that an inspector bought the pep-
per at his store, paying, I think, 10
cents a quarter, and that later it had
been analyzed and found adulterated.
He was held in $300 bail for court,
and went back to his store white-
faced and with two deep lines of
nervousness cut deep on each side of
his mouth.

There is published in this place a
weekly paper, which, like most coun-
try papers, is read by everybody.
This grocer has never advertised in
it, although I have often told him
he was making a mistake.

The country editor can do the lo-
cal merchant many a good turn if

MICHIGAN

—_

TRADESMAN

138

 

he’s in the mood to, and he can do
him an ill turn if he’s in the mood to.

I’d cultivate the country editor the
very first man, if I was a grocer in
a country town. I’d make it my busi-
ness to get so close to him that I
could borrow a chew of him every
day if I needed it.

This Indiana county grocer had
made the mistake of not doing this,
and in consequence when the local
editor got a chance to swipe him one,
he took it with great gusto.

The day after the hearing the fol-
lowing article appeared:

“The principal business transacted
at Justice Schmidt’s office yesterday
was the hearing of the case against
W. M. Jones, local grocer, on the
charge of selling pepper that a chem-
ist had found to be adulterated. The
case was brought by an inspector of
the State Food Department, who
testified yesterday that he had bought
a quarter-pound of pepper from
Jones’ store some weeks ago. The
sample was turned over to one of the
State chemists, who had found it to
be adulterated. The chemist testified
to this at the hearing yesterday.
Jones, who had been arrested the
day before the hearing, was held in
$300 bail for court, which was enter-
ed by his father-in-law, Daniel R.
Morgan.

“The State Food Department has
become very active in stamping out
impure and adulterated food from the
State, and all grocers found selling
the same will be vigorously prose-
cuted.”

Every line of this was true. There
was not a word that it was not le-
gitimate to print, because it was a
part of the public record. And yet
it was a terrible blow to the grocer
who was the subject, and he told me
personally that his business began to
fall off the very day after the article
came out.

Well, in due course of time the
grocer’s trial came on in the little
county court house. It was called
between a case of horsestealing and
a disorderly house case. The man
had employed a lawyer on my ad-
vice, a young fellow in the town who
had just graduated. At the trial the
evidence against him was presented.
When it came the turn of the defense,
the grocer was put on the stand and
swore that he had ordered pure pep-
per and had no idea that he was get-
ting anything else. He produced the
wholesaler’s bill to show it.

Think this did any good? Not a
bit! The judge charged the jury that
legally it made no difference whether
the grocer sold the pepper innocently
or not; that the law did not make
ignorance of the fact an excuse, so
that the man was just as guilty if he
sold the stuff unknowingly as if he
had sold it knowingly.

What dad-burned idiocy!

The jury did as they had to do—
brought in a verdict of guilty, and
the judge coldly imposed a fine of
$100 and costs, all of which the pim-
ple-headed little country editor pub-
lished with great gusto.

Now, mark you! All of this trouble
—this arrest and the newspaper no-

 

toriety—the fining and the disgrace—

all this came to the grocer without
one iota of fault on his part. He
had not done anything. He had or-
dered pure goods—what more could
he do? Could he spend $5 to get a
chemical analysis of $3 worth of pep-
per? What would have become of
his profits then?

That is why I was a little doubtful
at the beginning of this article wheth-
er the pure food law was a good thing
or not. This grocer has a right to
sue the jobber or the manufacturer
who told him lies about his pepper, of
course, but suing is not any cinch.
The man is in New York State any-
how, and the grocer has no money.
He has not even money enough to
pay his fine—Stroller in Grocery
World.

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in any one city or town at a saving
in expenses which could be made to
result in a considerable reduction in
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Dry Goods

Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

 

 

Staple Cottons—In sheetings the
position has materially improved, al-
though the export demand is at pres-
ent quiet. There is consideral-le en-
quiry, but this has not materialized
in the way of actual business, beyond
small quantities. Home trade, how-
ever, has been able to take care cf
the surplus production. Three-yard
sheetings are selling close to 6c, and
many sellers are holding firmly for
that figure. Denims have been sold
in good sized quantities and nearly
every line shows firmness. There is
a fair demand for bleached cottons,
although brown goods lead. Wide
sheetings are being purchased in
moderate quantities for spring, al-
though not under very large orders.

Dress Goods—AlIthough the volume
of new business secured during the
week under review for spring dress
goods has been but moderate in to-
tal, and in some directions is report-
ed as practically nil, the condition of
the market at large affords a good
deal of encouragement to manufactur-
ers and agents. There are certain
discordant notes to be heard, but for
the most part sellers regard the out-
look for a satisfactory rounding out
of the season as something more than
promising. There are certain domes-
tic and foreign lines which have fail-
ed to develop the expected drawing
strength, and are to-day in a more or
less uncertain position. The lines
which are sold up tight for the sea-
son have been the exception rather

than the rule. According to informa-

tion available, there are certain dress
goods looms which are idle, or only
partially engaged. Every season de-
velops its disappointments, and the
current one is not an exception. Some
manufacturers are able to hit the
mark squarely, others hit the target
but fall short of the bull’s-eye, and
still others fail to hit the target at
all, either overshooting or under-
shooting the mark. To the first-
named class a big season’s trade is
assured, the orders already in hand.
if not actually equalling their full
season’s production, falling so little
short of a full quota that supplemen-
tary buying, when it develops, will
auickly fill up the void. The second
class have performed creditably, have
secured a good initial distribution,
and have strong reason to believe that
a sufficient aggregate business will
come their way, in addition to that
already in hand, to assure them
steady work and a good profit return
on their orders. To the last class,
which is fortunately small, business
is an elusive quantity, and the out-
look the reverse of encouraging.
Certain manufacturers who realize
that they made mistakes in the prep-
aration of their lines have taken up
other lines of work, and have as a
consequence improved their status,
both as regards business in hand and
future prospects, to a notable extent.

Sheer Goods—Undiminished confi-
dence is shown by leading sellers
of oreign and domestic goods in sheer

 

fabrics of the voile batiste, crepe, al-
batross, etamine, eolienne, grenadine,
canvas, twine, etc., effects. The voile,
however, is the dominant factor in
the sheer goods division, being
strongly taken in both plain and knot-
ted yarn effects. The high class trade
show a particular leaning to delicate
tissue effects, while the medium and
popular priced end of the business
shows more leaning to creations of
a somewhat weightier character. If
the duplicate demand for sheer goods
lives up to the promises contained in

initial orders, the consumption of this

ciass of goods will compare very fav-
orably with the last lightweight sea-
son, and, according to the views of
certain enthusiastic supporters, ex-
ceed it to a considerable extent.

 

Underwear—Interest to-day is cen-
tered upon the new fall lines, many of
which are ready and the balance are
nearly ready to be shown, but the
question of prices stands before the
manufacturer like a big grim specter.
He can not decide what the -prices
should be. If he puts them low
enough to suit the trade, he is going
to lose money or run a great risk of
it by reason of a very narrow margin.
If he puts them where they ought to
be according to what he will have to
pay for material and making, his cus-
tomers say that it will prohibit trad-
ing; so there you are. The manufac-
turers have tried to make contracts
for yarns at times when the prices
were somewhat lower than to-day, but
at that time the spinners were on the
obstinate side of the fence and did
not care particularly to place them-
selves under contract. If contracts
could have been made at that time
there would have been more hopes of
finishing the season a little better than
ever, but prices are again harder and
now the knit goods manufacturers
say that they are literally “up against
it.” The mills have been obliged to
work on a hand-to-mouth basis for
some time and the prices of yarns
are again up. If it is true that the
lowest price for cotton will be toc or
higher during the next few months,
the price of yarns must remain high,
unless indeed the manufacturers of
knit goods can by some means or
other kept out of the market and let
the yarn stocks accumulate. In that
case the law of supply and demand
would probably bring prices down
somewhat. When the opening date
of the fall, 1904, underwear will be,
no man is willing to state; no one
seems to be in a position to even haz-
ard a guess. There is one thing cer
tain, the manufacturers will not be
sending their men on the road on the
quiet, as happened during many sea-
sons in the past, in order to get ahead
of the other fellow. On the contrary.

each will wait until the last possible

moment, hoping that .the other fel-
low will be forced to-show his hand.
As stated above, most of the fall lines
are complete and buyers for the job-
bing houses have intimated that they
are ready to place orders, a condition
quite the reverse of the usual. The
lines for which the greatest anxiety
is felt are the fleeced goods and
women’s ribbed underwear, which,
combined, represent pretty nearly

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We have a good stock of
them, also a big assort-
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for boys’ and men’s wear.

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half of the heavyweight underwear |

output. It is more than probable that
another week will show something
definite in the direction of prices, and
it must come soon, if any preparations
whatever are to be made for the fal!
sezson. Union suits are expected to
play a prominent part in the new sea-
son’s lines and it is expected also that
finer grades will be demanded. Some
of the cheap stuff that was placed on
the market last year has made a good
deal of trouble and prejudiced many
against it.

Hosiery—The hosiery trade during
the past week has shown considerably
more life and some good duplicate
business on spot goods has resulted.
Most of the jobbers’ stocks are con-
siderably broken and this has made
it necessary in many cases to substi-
tute many lines in orders. Spring
business has continued fairly active
in spite of the fact that the majority
of salesmen have returned from the
road and will not again venture out
until after the holidays. Preparations
are in order for fall lines and it is
thought that they will not suffer the
same inconvenience in regard to
yarns and prices as the underwear
manufacturers. The prices will un-
doubtedly be higher but not probably
to the same extent as_ underwear.
There will be a good deal of imported
hosiery in the market, it is expected.

Carpets—Some do not anticipate
sufficient advance to cover the in-
creased values of raw material, as
they claim that the many strikes all
ever the country and the immense

shrinkages in values of stocks and
bonds and the near approach of the
presidential election will cause many
buyers to place orders conservatively
this coming season. On_ ingrains
some manufacturers have concluded
that 1%4c per yard advance on extra
supers and combing and clothing su-
pers will be about the figure as com-
pared with last season. The sales-
men who represent the manufacturers
started out on their trips Saturday,
October 31. Regarding prices of
Brussels and velvets some manufac-
turers of this class claim that while
reference has been made to the fact
that they were advanced last season,
they claim it was not enough to cov-
er the present price of raw material
Statistically the situation
on carpets of all lines is strong.
Should the demand develop a large
volume of business, the prices must
advance on tapestries, velvets and
ingrains. One thing, it is claimed, is
sure and that is, there will not be
any reduction from last  season’s
prices.

a
The Future of Two Grocery Staples.

How much more can canned corn
advance before the price will curtail
consumption and a halt be called?

Is the canned tomato market drag-
ging bottom and is it likely to brace?

Here are two interesting questions
on two important grocery staples, on
which there seems to be considerable
difference of opinion.

Standard canned corn is now job-
bing at about $1.05. Good Baltimore
standard tomatoes from 85 to 90
cents.

 

Large quantities of both corn and
tomatoes were sold for future de-
livery in the Northwest. Delivery to
the retailer on tomatoes has been no
difficult problem. As near as can be
learned nearly all of the Northwest-
ern iobbers will make full deliveries
on corn. The jobber has been unable
to get full delivery from any corn
packer, and in many instances’ the
percentage of his order received has
fallen far below 50 per cent. But it
is believed enough will come to this
market to fill all orders. How much
more the jobber will receive is an
open question.

With tomatoes it has been more a
question of quality than supply. A
large amount of cheap goods have
been packed and the Northwestern
jobber has had plenty of opportunity
to discriminate between good and bad
stock. This fall he could reject the
bad. Last fall he had to take what
he could get. It is safe to say that
the jobbers’ stocks contain only good
goods. The large quantity of mushy
goods on the Eastern market influ-
ences the price to some extent.

Last year when tomatoes went to
tall figures consumption held up well.
The tomato is an acid vegetable
which the Northwest must have. Corn
is a great staple, but it is a question
if it can walk up the price incline
with the same confidence as the to-
mato. There are several good au-
thorities who consider that standard
corn at $1.05 has about reached its
limit. They believe any price beyond
that will cut down the demand.

Some of the largest grocery houses
in the West have been put through
lively paces this year to gather in
enough corn to square them with the
retailers. Chicago and St. Louis
houses had flags of distress up early
and their buyers have been scouring
the country for small lots. Buying
corn for future delivery has been a
satisfactory deal for the retailer this
year if he gets his corn.

On the other hand with the tomato
market in the dumps, the retailer’s
early purchase of canned tomatoes
may have been in vain as far as clean
cut results go.

But there are hopeful ones who be-
lieve the tomato market will take a
brace, and all of them do not live in

Baltimore.—Commercial Bulletin.

No More Red Trousers.

It is a matter of more than passing
interest that the French infantry uni-
form, made familiar all over the world
by paintings of famous artists, is to
be changed. The baggy red trousers
are to go out. The French Ministry
has decided that they make to good
targets for German or other siiarp-
shooters. The “piou-piou,’ as the
French infantry man has been affec-
tionately caitled, was as much a land-
mark of Paris, in his blue iacket and
baggy red trousers, as the Arc de
Triomphe or the Madeleine. The gav
capital will be sadly changed when
che legs of its defenders are itcased
in something more inconspicuous.
“La Presse,” of Paris, mourns. the
loss of the gay plumage, saying: “In
depriving our soldiers of their red
‘trousers General Andre has deprived
them almost of their excuse for exist-

 

ence. To deprive an army of its dis-
tinctive signs is to show that he wish-
es to attack it in its vital principie.”
Although the “Presse” in ‘ts excess
of despair exaggerates the case when
it argues that the change almos:z de-
prives the army of its reason for ex-
istence, and certainly strikes a blow
at its vital principles, yet one can
understand that journal’s grief. The
French are a histrionic and artistic
people, and the placing of a sombre
olive on her soldiers’ legs will depress
Paris for many hours. Yet such is
the inexorable march of progress.
The beautiful gives way to the expe-
dient.
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Notwithstanding the fact that
women reach a greater age than men
they have proved a losing venture to
life insurance companies. Women are
not prone to the excesses, nor ex-
posed to the rough weather, nor
liable to the accidents which shorten
life, but they are more likely to suf-
fer from cancer in middle life than
are men; and, too, women much more
frequently have intuitive premonition
of failing health than have men, and,
having that intuitive fear, take life
insurance.

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Too Much for His Nerves.

Manager—Doctor, come into the
store, quick.

M. D.—Is it a serious case?

Manager—Extremely so. A wom-
an bought $10 worth and didn’t ask
for a single sample and the clerk is
now a gibbering idiot.

 

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Clothing

Woman’s Ideas as to How Men
Ought to Dress.

Miss Vesta Tilley, the English ac-
tress, who is famous for her male im-
personations, and who has, it is stat-
ed, long been regarded as the best
dressed “man” on the London stage,
describes the more important articles
of apparel she has brought with her
from England, and which she will
wear in “Algy” this season. Miss
Tilley points out exactly wherein
these articles differ from the prevail-
ing styles.

“First,” she says, “let me tell you
of the new kind of silk vest which
will be in vogue this season in Lon-
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introduced here. These vests are in-]

tended for morning wear, of course.
They are made of pure Spitalfields
silk, and have a well-defined floral
or feather pattern resembling the old-
fashioned brocade used for waistcoats
by our grandfathers.” The vests used
by Miss Tilley “are all in subdued
colors, with light backgrounds, and
some of them are iridescent, produc-
ing a particularly beautiful effect. The
vest ought to be double breasted, cut
high and tapering from the waist
down to a sharp point in front.

“As for the rest of the morning
dress suit, the frock coat is, as a mat-
ter of course, still the proper thing.
This season, however, it ought to be
cut single breasted, with roll lapels,
so that no matter where it is but-
toned it falls into shape, and when it
is worn open the two sides will flap
over into long lapels rolling almost
to the bottom. The trousers ought
to be made of the same material as
the coat, which is generally a subdued
brown or gray, or even fawn, in
color.

“The gloves are of lavender kid,
with three rows of black stitching on
the backs. The silk hat, which, it is
needless to say, is the only hat to be
worn with this suit, is rather higher
in the crown than the one worn last
season, belling slightly toward the
top—not so extreme as the Codding-
ton was, but on the same lines—with
a brim inclined to flatness. A deep
black felt band should be worn in-
stead of the silk ribbon now in vogue.
The tie ought to be of Irish poplin,
which ‘is very soft and beautiful in
texture. It is made in all colors and
is most expensive. A pearl scarfpin
may be worn, but no watch chain or
fob should be displayed on the silk
vest.

“For early morning wear, instead
of the swallowtail frock coat, a gar-
ment is now worn which is cut al-
most square in front and with very
long skirts. It is of black material
always, and a feature is the edging
of deep black braid. With this coat
a double-breasted black vest is worn,
edged with braid in the same way,
and the trousers ought to be of gray
cashmere—a thin line pattern being
preferable.

“The hat ought to be a silk one,
never under any circumstances a

bowler, or, as it is called in America,
a derby. A watch chain can be worn
with this costume and a jeweled scarf-

 

pin. With both the suits I have
mentioned the standing collar is de
rigueur, the turndown collar being
very bad form with either. The
gloves for early morning wear ought
to be tan or suede, never white.

“Of the lounge suit there is little
to be said, except that the coat is be-
ing cut much longer than formerly
and with only one split up the back.
The lapel is rolling and unpressed,
as on the frock coat, and a margin of
the linen vest must always show when
the coat is buttoned. This is impera-
tive. The trousers are narrower and
must be turned up at the bottom. The
hat ought to be a Trilby of the same
shade as the suit, or a black bowler.
Away from town, silk shirts, or fine
linen, unstarched, may be worn, with
turndown collar—never a standing.

“The new evening dress coat is an-
ot yr novelty, being entirely different
in cut from the one now worn, and
it is hoped that the change will have
the long-desired effect of differentiat-
ing between the gentleman and the
waiter. The coat has lapels coming
in straight lines to the waist. From
this point it branches away on a
slant just to the edge of the vest.
Then it takes a curve to the hip and
falls in a perfectly straight line to
about a quarter of an inch above the
knee. It is very tight at the waist,
and the sleeves are much narrower
than formerly, with three-button
cuffs. The silk on the lapels ought
to extend right out to the edge, and
it ought not to be continued around
the neck. The collar of the coat
ought always to be of cloth.

“The evening dress vest this season
is to be of white kid or of cream-col-
ored suede, not pique or linen. It has
a collar, and is cut very wide, show-
ing much of the shirt bosom. The
vest buttons, three in number, are
fancy pearls with diamond or tur-
quoise centers, and the cuff buttons
ought to match them.

“The trousers for evening wear are
much narrower than last season, tap-
ering slightly to the foot, and a dou-
ble row of braid down the side is de
rigueur. The material of the coat and
trousers is black doe, wihch is soft
and clinging and absolutely without
elasticity.

“It is bad form to wear a made-
up tie with evening dress, and for this
reason a broad tape tie is preferred
to the butterfly. The shirt ought to
be of fancy pique or fine white linen.
The one stud—and there must be only
one—must be as small as_ possible,
and either a pearl or of gold, never
under any circumstances a diamond.
Ordinary white kid gloves, without
black stitching, ought to be worn.
The collar, of course, must be of the
standing variety and perfectly straight
in front.

“The Tuxedo jacket this season is
to be cut square in front and with
flap pockets. It ought to have a roll-
ing lapel, with silk facing to the edge,
and with a collar of cloth. The vest
must be black—never white—and -a
very thin gold watch chain may be
worn. Fobs have gone out com-
pletely. With the Tuxedo a turn-
down collar ought to be worn and
a black tie. It may be permissible

 

in warm weather to wear a straw
hat with the Tuxedo, but never a
bowler, as I have seen some men here
doing. The opera hat is really the
proper thing.

“By the way, I ought to say that
when a silk hat is worn with evening
dress a cane ought also to be carried.

’'The idea is that the silk hat makes it

an outdoor costume, and the cane is
necessary to complete the outfit. The
opera hat is proper with the evening
dress.

“Of overcoats I have two new
styles. One is called the overfrock,
and may be worn with either morn-
ing or evening dress. It is made gen-
erally of light herringbone material,
fitting close to the figure. It is single
breasted, with a fly front, to hide the
buttons, and with a piping of black
velvet on the edges of the lapels and
collar and on the top of the cuff. A
raised seam defines the waist, and
ought to taper down from the hips
in front. The lapels are rolling, and
the coat ought to fasten high to pro-
tect the chest. The skirt falls just
below the knee, is well belled, and
has one vent up the back. i

“A greater novelty is a type of mil-
itary cape which is to be worn this
season as a covering for evening
dress. It is cut to come about a foot
below the extreme length of the arm
in front, and gradually lengthens un-
til it is well below the knee at the
back. It is very full, falling in grace-
ful folds from the shoulders. A deep
velvet collar reaches to the ears when
turned up. The garment has an ox-
idized silver clasp and chain at the
throat and a row of buttons down the
side, but is usually worn open, its
shape being such as not to require
fastening. The cape is made _ of
black melton and is lined with black
silk to match the lapels of the even-
ing suit. This cape is a very hand-
some garment, and I shall venture to
predict that before Christmas it will
be in general use in New York, as
will be several of the other new styles
I have mentioned. My tailors always
keep me three months ahead of the
fashion, and later in the season I shall
probably be able to show New York
men what they ought to wear next
spring.”

 

Influence of Environment.

The Philadelphia Telegraph reports
this incident, the scene of which was
the public school in a district where
all the residents are skilled in farm-
ing:

A flag-raising was held at the
schoolhouse, and after the banner had
been flung to the breeze there was an
exhibition of the drawings which the
pupils had made and the work they
had done during the year. The teach-
er had recited to the class the story
of the landing of the Pilgrims, and
after she had finished she requested
each pupil to try to draw from his or
her imagination a picture of Plymouth
Rock.

Most of them went to work at once,
but one little fellow hesitated and at
length raised his hand.

“Well, Willie, what is it?” asked the
teacher.

“Please, ma’am, do you want us to
draw a hen or a rooster?”

How to Keep the Cigar Stock.

If cigars are kept in a damp place
they will absorb the moisture in the
atmosphere, resulting in a heavy, sog-
gy, spongy article, no matter how
well it may have previously been sea-
soned, and if the air be unwhole-
some, a good cigar becomes strong,
rank and disagreeable.

Cigars that are sold for use at the
seashore should be selected from the
oldest or best-seasoned stock. No ex-
perienced dealer or smoker would
think of taking a fresh cigar on board
an ocean-bound steamship, inasmuch
as the ordinary domestic “two-for”
unseasoned would smoke and _ taste
equally as well as the finest imported
or Key West cigars, if newly made,
on board the ship.

Cigars should always be kept as
far as possible from coming in con-
tact with such articles as_ butter,
cheese, lard, fish or goods of any pro-
nounced character in the grocery line,
inasmuch as the tobacco is more than
likely to absorb the peculiar charac-
teristics of all that is disagreeable in
connection with every article that is
particularly distinct in smell, taste or
flavor.

Many a good cigar has been ruined
by being packed in a second-hand
soap box, or through having been
kept in the same room with butter,
fish or cheese. It is, therefore, a
matter of great importance to the
retail dealer that these features
should be taken into consideration
by clerks and employes in looking
after the welfare of stock. It is up-
on care in this direction that a repu-
tation for handling first-class cigars
or tobacco very largely hinges.

There are many other articles of
merchandise which should never be
aliowed to come in contact with ci-
gars, such as camphor, ammonia,
vinegar, spices, coffee, tea, and other
similar things.

These facts will explain why cigars
which are known to have a standard
value for quality are oftentimes made
the subject of complaint from deal-
ers, and may point the way to pre-
vent such trouble in the future—Gro-
cery World.

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Non-Expansive Steel.

One of the most remarkable and
valuable properties of nickel-steel
is revealed by the discovery of the
French scientist, Guillaume, that when
the proportion of nickel in the alloy
is a little above 36 per cent., the co-
efficient of expansion, with rise of
temperature, sinks to the lowest point
known for any substance. Indeed,
Monsieur Guillaume avers that nickel-
steel can be made with no coefficient
of expansion at all. Experiments in
this country have resulted in the pro-
duction of nickel-steel with so slight
a degree of expansibility that in prac-
tical work it can be entirely neglected.
The usefulness of such a material for
making instruments of precision is
evident. But at present the cost of
making the alloy is too high for its
employment in building and the man-

ufacture of heavy machinery.
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Experience of a Lady in a Clothing

Store.
Written for the Tradesman. :
“There is one store toward which

I have an intense antipathy,” said a
pleasant matron to me, the _ other
day. “It is a store,” she continued,
“that stands high in the community
where I reside, a store that keeps
only the very best of goods of the
kind it deals in. I refer to So-and-So.

“They like my trade, for I pay cash
for everything I get and have a fam-
ily of three growing boys, who are
no easier on their clothes than most
boys of their age and a great deal
harder than some. It is nothing but
buy, buy, buy for them all the time.
Something pertaining to their apparel
is constantly giving out and needing
replenishing.

“T started in with this store when
I took my first youngster out of
dresses. He never wore the tradi-
tional—and __transitional—kilts’ as
none of the family like the looks of
them. I put him right into a cute
little 4-year-old suit.

“I was prejudiced in favor of this
establishment because my husband al-
ways bought his clothes there. He
was always well suited with the
style, quality and price of his gar-
ments, and it was very natural that,
in debating with myself where it was
best to get my little boy’s first suit,
I should decide to patronize the store
where my husband invariably traded.

“Now you know a woman,” the
lady said, laughingly. :

“Yes,” I observed, “I know two or
three.”

“Oh, pshaw!” returned the lady,
“you know I don’t mean that, al-
though I am perfectly aware that you
have a great many friends among the
ladies.

“What I was going to say was
this, and don’t interrupt me again with
such little pleasantries,” admonished
the lady. “What I was about to say
was the following: You know a
woman, when she gets to liking to
trade at any particular store, is hard
to be ‘switched around,’ as the saying
is, to go anywhere else. In time she
comes to know, in a business way,
all the clerks of the different depart-
ments, and before long she feels ‘at
home’ in the place, that is, if she is
treated right. Of course, a woman
always avoids a_ store where the
clerks are churlish, and never enters
it unless it is a case of last resort—
unless she can’t find in any other
store the article she is looking for.

“So, when I began with the store
I mention, if they pleased me I was
quite likely to buy my boy’s clothes
there till ‘Kingdom Come,’ or at any
rate until he got old enough to pur-
chase his own and had a choice as to
where he got them.

“Now, I’m a real sensible sort of
person—”

“Although one might not imagine
it,’ I said, addressing my remark to
the ceiling.

“Tut tut!” said the lady—our fam-
ilies are old friends, so we can afford
to be “sassy” with each other—“tut,
tut! As I say,” bridling, “I am very
sensible. I like clothes for myself
that fit nicely, but they must be com-
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fine ‘wearing’ qualities. None of your
shoddy stuff for me’—this very em-
phatically. “The characteristics I
admire for myself I would be more
than likely to admire, also, as to
children’s clothes, you see.

“Well, the very first time I went
to the ‘boys’ department’ in So-and-
So’s I ‘ran against a snag’ as to my
intentions concerning my little boy’s
first suit of clothes.

“Not that the presiding genius of
the ‘boys’ department’ wasn’t on his
good behavior—bless you, no! He
was suavity itself. But the very first
thing he seemed to want to impress
upon me was the fact that I must
get a suit for Johnny that just exact-
ly fitted him at that very moment—
just as if I didn’t know how fast that
little chicken of ours was a-growing!
I guess if that measly clerk had had
to let out as many hems and tucks
as that little ‘kid’s’ ma had done, he
would have had more of an idea of
his growing capacity. I’m his ma and
I knew.

“He spirited Johnny off to a far-
away dressing room and when they
came back I wish you could have seen
the ‘skimpy’ look of that poor little
child.

“To be sure, I had never had any
experience in buying boys’ clothes,
but any one with half an eye could
see that that suit was miles too small
for Johnny—well, about two sizes too
little, anyway,” she tacked.

“T said, most decidedly, that what-
ever suit I selected must certainly be
larger than the one on him. The
clerk at once allowed a calmly severe
look to’creep over his features and
informed me, just as positively, that I
must have the child’s clothes fit snug-
ly or they wouldn’t look well.

“T argued and argued and argued,
but it did no good—I couldn’t seem
to budge that employe of Messrs.
So-and-So a mite. He showed so
plainly by his tones of voice and by
his manner that he felt only pitying
contempt for my opinion that I felt
exceedingly embarrassed.

“Where the shoe pinches with my
bete noire of a salesman, of course,
is that the more that is sold in his
department the better Mr. Clerk
stands in the eyes of his employers;
and, of course, it is going to swell his
sales if he sells me, or any one else,
clothes for a child that do not allow
for any growing on the part of the
latter—the snugger they fit the soon-
er the return for other garments to
take their place, that is all. The rea-
son of his course is perfectly plain
to any thinking person—oh, yes, I do
think, occasionally!

“Now, as you know, there are three
little shavers to buy clothes for. I
do now, and always have bought their
‘togs’ of this identical house. And
you wouldn’t believe it, but it is a
fact that I have had to have this same
sort of skirmish with this same clerk
over every blessed suit I have ever
got in that store!

“Once I fitted one of the boys out
for the summer at a rival place of
business, and once I bought an over-
coat at another rival’s, and a few odd
articles I have purchased at the ex-
clusive dry goods stores, -but all the

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rest of their clothing has _ passed
through the hands of that—to me—
most disagreeable clerk, so you. can
imagine that my shopping for the
children, all these years, has been
anything but a delightful task.

“Yet what can I do? I never com-
plain to the proprietor about a clerk—
it seems unkind—and the store in
question keeps the goods I want; so
I just grin and bear it.” —

Reader, what would you do under
like circumstances?

Your Uncle.
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Men with Business Instinct Are
Born, Not Made.
Written for the Tradesman.

If people regarded the old adage,
“Every man to his trade,” there
would be fewer failures in business.
In a great many cases when a man
has worked at manual labor and accu-
mulated enough capital he promptly
buys a stock of goods of one kind or
another and “starts in business,” as
the term is.

It seems to be the height of every
workingman’s ambition to start in
the retail trade as soon as he can
rake and scrape together sufficient
capital. Often he has not the pa-
tience to wait, but borrows money
and so is handicapped in another
way. The carpenter, the millwright,
in fact, the man who works at any
kind of manual labor, seems to have
an idea that all he needs is a stock of
goods and place to put them in ana
his fortune is made.

We have been told that “Poets
are born, not made,” but it would be
safer to bank on a “made” poet than
a “made” business man. One could,
with the aid of a rhyming dictionary,
get out a combination of words that
would so closely resemble what is
commonly called a poem that it
might be difficult to detect the me-
chanical work upon it. But there is
no dictionary of business methods.
Situations are rising every moment
that require different handling than
the last, and to successfully cope
with them a merchant must have
“the business instinct.”

I know a man who amuses himself
with mechanics while a jewelry busi-
ness which he fondly imagines he is
running is running itself. It is going
at a very slow run, too, and unless a
change soon takes place it will stop
entirely. Yet this mechanic, alias
jeweler, is tinkering up an old bicycle
in the back room while the dust set-
tles peacefully upon the show cases
and the silver is acquiring a hue which
is anything but conducive to sales-
making.

This man of mainsprings is the
possessor of a gasoline launch which,
to him is a never-enduring source of
delight in as much as the engine re-
quires frequent “fixing.” When it is
in good working order he takes it
apart and sits with the pieces scatter-
ed around him, whistling and debat-
ing as to whether a “jump spark” is
better than something else, or wheth-
er “two fours are better than one
eight.”

The man is neglecting his business
and thereby losing money, whereas,
if he had followed his natural bent

 

and become a mechanic, he would be
perfectly happy and contented. He
is an extremely poor’ merchant,
whereas he might have been an ex-
cellent mechanic. His store is not
exactly up to date, nor is it in the
business center of the town, but it is
a good example of what the average
workingman accomplishes when he
leaves his trade and becomes a mer-
chant. He rarely rises from the po-
sition of a small merchant on a back
street. He starts in in a small way,
expecting to enlarge as business de-
mands; but for some—to him unac-
countable—reason business never de-
mands it and he remains as he started
or fails altogether and goes back to
his trade.

This is a true case and its parallel
may be found every day.

Now by this it must not be infer-
red that because a man has followed
a trade he can never become a suc-
cessful merchant. Many men with
the business instinct are compelled
by circumstances to follow a trade
for which they have no liking, but
as soon as the opportunity offers they
start a business and become success-
ful.

Marked ability in two directions is
very rarely found in a man. He has
one bent and that one will come up-
permost in his every movement.

There is a young man of my ac-
quaintance who is a boat builder and
designer. He is a good workman in
his line and dreams of the time when
he will start a boat factory, “in a
small way,’ as usual, and increase
its size as the orders come in. If
that young man puts his money into
a factory he will certainly lose it all.
He has not the talent for conducting
any business.

It requires as much talent to run a
business as it does to paint a picture,
but of a different sort, of course. The
Yankee has this trading instinct in a
marked degree. The much persecut-
ed Jew stands at the head of the trad-
ing profession. Give him but a pack
and he will soon be the owner of a
retail store. He is started in life
with this gift and he makes the most
of it.

The business man must be a phi-
losopher, a political economist, a dip-
lomat. The category of qualifications
must be longer than that of another—
with the possible exception of the
newspaper reporter. Why, then, does
not the man who is a carpenter stick
to his hammer and saw instead of
trying to do something for which he
is not qualified? Because to the
average workingman the business of
selling goods looks so alluring. It
seems an easy and lucrative employ-
ment.

The shores of the business sea are
strewn with the wrecks of the crafts-
men who have abandoned the good
ship of their trade to embark in
the (to them) frail and uncertain one
of business. Let the carpenter stay
by his bench, the blacksmith by his
forge. Then, and not until then, will
the sheriff have more leisure and the
man who runs the “failure column”
in the trade journal be out of em-
ployment. Burton Allen.

 

Men Who Like Dream Books.

“Have you got any of those fool

dream books?” said a_ short, stout
man entering a prominent book
store.
“Lots of ’em,” replied the salesman,
tossing over a pile of paper covered
books, with demons in red and black
adorning the front pages.

“My servant girl wants them,” ex-
plained the man, half apoiogetically.

“Yes,” said the salesman, looking
bored.

The man selected three of the
books, one on dreams, one on fortune
telling and one on handkerchief flir-
tations, paid for them and went away.

“His servant girl wants them,” said
the salesman to a friend. “The old
gag. He wants them himself, and is
ashamed to ask for them.

“We get several dozens of that
kind in here every week. They are
crazy over dream books and fortune
telling books, and all that kind of
thing, but they are so afraid someone
will know it.

“Almost every one of them blames
the poor servant. That’s the most
popular bluff. They laugh, and say
they don’t know why the servant
wants them, but they suppose they’d
better humor her.

“Then they take the books home
and read them by the hour. When
they’ve finished them they come back
for more.

“Tt’s best to let them think they
are fooling you, for we sell more

books that way.”
—_>_¢ 2 —_

The Object of Foolishness.
“Why is it that woman so often
leads man to make a fool of himself?”
“She doesn’t. The man who makes
a fool of himself over a woman would
do it any way, but she happens to
furnish the easiest excuse for it.”

 

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SCULPTURED LEATHER.

The Modern Revival of an Ancient
Art.

More than twenty years ago two
young craftsmen found in the museum
of Hamburg, Germany, a piece of em-
bossed leather, which had been taken
from a mediaeval chair. It was curi-
ously crude, yet beautiful as a work
of art. None in the admiring group
knew how the work had been exe-
cuted, but one of the young men,
who was engaged at the time in the
Hamburg Industrial Art School de-
cided that he would try. He had
very little to guide him; the manner
in which the leather work had been
treated was as much a lost art as the
hardening of copper. To all intents
and purposes the man who revived
the lost art, Henry Busse, had to
construct a new one.

Apart from the fact that the work
was drawn on leather, then embossed
and stained, he knew nothing of the
process, so he set about inventinga
system for embossing leather. To-
day he has in this city the only place
in the country where “sculptured
leather,” as he terms it, is made. All
the sculptured leather used in mural
or other decoration in this country
comes from Philadelphia.

The uses to which the new decora-
tive art lends itself appear to be un-
limited. Beginning with book covers,
screens, chair seats and backs and
various pieces of furniture, it has now
been extended to friezes, to allegori-
cal panels for immense rooms, and
for other seemingly impossible pur-
poses. It is just as pliable a material
as modeler’s wax, and more _ inde-
structible than fresco or plaster.

A casket which is to receive the
architectural designs of the new State
capitol and to be placed in the arch-
ives of the State is one of the latest
important works made of the sculp-
tured leather. There are also to be
made eight large panels for the frieze
of the Lieutenant-Governor’s recep-
tion room in the new capitol. These
are allegorical conceptions of the in-
dustries which have placed Pennsyl-
vania in the fore. They will be each
six feet high and fourteen feet long.

Little is known of the beginning of
what is now called sculptured leath-

 

er. Mr. Busse is authority for the

statement that it was first practiced
in the monasteries of continental Eu-
rope during the fifteenth and six-
teenth centuries. More than likely it
was early used to cover books, and
it is very probable that it subsequent-
ly was extended to interior decora-
tion. It was one of the results of the
Renaissance which swept over Europe
at the dawn of the Reformation.
There was then a general awakening
of the arts and a perceptible quicken-
ing of the pulse of the industries.
Following this birth of new ideas in
art came the stifling of effort during
a period of years of strife. The work
of the armorer was in demand, but
that of the craftsman in leather was
not sought, and the closing years of
the sixteenth century saw it end.
While the process is extremely sim-
ple, and could be learned in an hour,
like every other work of art, it de-
mands skill, an unerring hand, and,

 

of course, the life of it is in an ability
to draw. It is not a parlor accomplish-
ment for the young lady who “does
a little” of this and that. If the work
is to be of value it must come from
an artist. There is no easy road to
success; there is no method of hiding
lazy work or poor drawing. The
drawing must be good and exact, or
the sculptured leather is'a failure. De-
tail to a certain extent is absolutely
a requirement; there is no loophole
for so-called breadth, which is very
often another name for inability to
draw accurately.

From the method of working the
leather it will be seen that it is not
to be confused with burnt leather. To
begin with, a design is first drawn
with care in outline upon _ either
tracing paper or tracing cloth. Some-
times this is itself a tracing for out-
line of a finished sketch the exact
size of the finished work.

A piece of specially tanned cowhide
--the better kind still comes from
Germany tanneries, although the
United States furnishes a fair grade—
is then taken by the artist and spread
on a board before him. The leather
is fine in texture, as smooth, and be-
ing thin, almost as pliable as calkskin.
The artist dips a little sponge in wa-
ter and quickly passes it over the
surface of the leather, for the work
must progress upon the wet leather,
which may be worked and modeled
as easily as putty.

The leather being wet, the tracing
paper with the outline of the design
is placed on top of it. With a blunt
needle, stuck in the end of a handle,
and reminding one very much of the
etcher’s point, the artist quickly
traces over the outline. When he has
finished, an impression is found upon
the leather very like a piece of blind
tooling on a book cover. Having the
design now fixed upon the leather,
the artist takes another little tool,
which hes a miniature knife blade at
the end. With this held perpendicu-
lar to the leather, and guided by the
forefinger of the left hand, which pre-
vents the blade from cutting through
the hide, he quickly and deftly cuts
around the outline. To see the ar-
tist at this stage of the work gives the
impression that it is only child’s play.
But it really demands that confidence
which a great painter has when he
quickly puts a brush stroke to a pic-
ture that gives it life; a stroke that
belongs only in one place, and the
master puts it exactly and deftly
where it belongs. The outline is
quickly cut, but only the outer sur-
face of the skin has been separated.

This has been done to stamp the
design indelibly into the leather, and
also for the effectiveness it plays
later when the actual modeling and
throwing up of the relief is to be ac-
complished.

A stone slab is next introduced,
and now the leather is wet on both
sides by means of the sponge before
mentioned. This is done to swell
the design. Now the modeling of the
relief begins. Where the relief is to
be the highest the parts must be
punched up from the level of the de-
sign. For this purpose specially cut
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shapes, some of them crude parts of
scrolls, are used. One of these is
placed over a part desired in high re-
lief. The leather is then reversed.
With the ring resting upon the slab,
and the leather held over it with the
under side up toward the craftsman,
a blunt punch is driven with a ham-
mer upon the leather, which is there-
by pushed, to a certain extent, through
the leather ring.

After this is accomplished, it is
seen that bulges have been made here
and there in the design, which begins
to “stand out.” They are to some
extent formless, and they must be
smoothed and accommodated to har-
monize with the design. For this
purpose other leather rings come into
use. The work is now face up, and
the artist craftsman begins to feel
his work. He holds one of the rings
against an edge of one of the swell-
ings or contours, while from beneath
he works up with a tool the soft
leather, which begins to assume more
definite shape.

This modeling completed, the hol-
low places in the back are filled in
with a specially prepared “putty,” a
composition of sawdust and paste. As
this hardens in time, the relief be-
comes as hard and indestructible as
papier mache.

The relief being now roughly indi-
cated, the artist takes from his box
of small, thin, steel modeling tools
one that answers his purpose. With
this he works over the design, work-
ing it up here, depressing it there,
until he has a well rounded piece of
relief. Next a broad pointed instru-
ment is used to enlarge the outline.
With this the contour is outlined
deeply, which saves it from damage
when the next punch is used.

The next punch is known as a star
punch and its point looks like an
asterisk, hence its name. With this
the background is punched down,
making the design appear in bold re-
lief. Gouges and punches are then
used to give depth to the low points
of the relief.

Following this the outline is again
trimmed with the short-bladed knife,
to get the shadows necessary for the
effect. Finally the modeler uses dif-
ferent sized modeling tools to finish
up the work. The piece of leather is
then ready for the decorator.

While a great deal depends upon
the sculptor, the final effectiveness
of the piece as a work of art rests
with the decorator who is to stain
and paint it. The parts of the leath-
er that are to remain light in color
are shelacked, for on those parts thus
treated the stain will not “take.” Va-
rious shades are gotten by successive
coats of stain, each coat making the
part treated darker than the preceding
one. At last the brilliant colors are
applied with oil, and it is then some-
times varnished to give it lustre.

There seems to be no reasonable
limit to the height of relief that may
be secured. In the long panel made
for Architect Joseph Huston’s house
in Germantown, the sleeve of the
man in the center of the composition
stands out about four inches. In col-
oring the work, comparatively little
attention needs to be given to the
shadows, the relief as a rule taking

 

care of them. In other words, they
are colored, not painted as a picture.

In the very large panels, such as
are to be made for the room in the
new State capitol, it is, of course, im-
possible to get any skin large enough
to answer the purpose. Several pieces
of leather are necessary, but they are
joined at the outline of a figure or
design, and the presence of seams is
not apparent.

Although the work was novel when
introduced here some years ago, from
an idea it has become a business, and
the company will, next spring, adopt
an entirely new principle, and work
on a co-operative plan with its em-
ployes. It will then move to Glen-
side, where a factory is to be erected,
plans for the building having already
been drawn by Mr. Huston.

Mr. Busse says he was led to adopt
this idea, which he thinks under his
system will be practical and not sen-
timental, by the evident fact that un-
rest to a large extent dwells among
the workers of many industries. He
says this feeling is perpetual. It may
be considered a closed incident on
the surface, but the germ of dissatis-
faction remains, awaiting only the
pernicious activity of a malcontent
to stir it up again.

“All agree that the laborer has his
rights,” he continued, “and they
should be respected, but many abbre-
viate them too abruptly. Any fair-
minded person will grant, however,
that ‘the worker is entitled to such
recompense for his toil as will enable
him, from week to week, or from
month to month, not only to fulfill
his ordinary obligations, but also to
set aside, in some responsible man-
ner, a portion for days ahead.

“TI have been pleased, therefore, to
note various industrial enterprises,
one by one, taking up the question
of co-operation with their employes
during the past decade. In some in-
stances, philanthropic principles may
not have been the only motives guid-
ing them, but if the conditions of
the laboring man have been improv-
ed; if his wages have been increased
by his taking a greater interest in his
work, if he is better contented with
his lot in life, have not then these
managements acted judiciously in
more ways than one?

“In large cities the solution of this
question is comparatively difficult,
because the elementary conditions are
unfavorable, but the ideal location
is near enough to a city to maintain
a grasp on current events. The arti-
san and the mechanic should know
what is going on in art and commer-
cial circles, and the active manage-
ment must be in a position to always
feel the pulse of the business world.

“The co-operative plans include the
founding of premiums or prizes for
energetic workmen, together with
the setting aside yearly of a portion
of the net earnings of the company
to be distributed among the work-
men. Furthermore, there is to be
reserved a portion of the capital of
the company, which will be purchasa-
ble by the employes, either by small
weekly payments or in some other
equitable manner. The company will
also aid those of its employes who

 

may wish to purchase or build their
own homes.

“As soon as matters assume a tan-
gible state, it is intended to allot spa-
cious quarters for the installation of
a library, as a basis for which there
is already a valuable collection of
art books. Each year there is to be
set aside a sum for the purchase of
additional books. There will also
be arrangements made for a station
of a circulating library, so that every-
body can have the benefits of the
latest literary productions. In con-
nection with the library, classes will
be formed for lectures on drawing,
modeling, painting and other of the
liberal arts. Trustees will be elected
from among the employes and em-
ployers, whose aim it shall be to
promote a general good feeling among
the workmen and their families, the
plans for which include entertain-
ments of various character.”—Phila-
delphia Ledger.

——__> 2. __
As To Shoe Style Changes.

Dame Fashion is erratic and shoe

 

shapes change so rapidly that many
styles which are looked upon as cer-
tain sellers early in ‘the season fall
flat later on. Therefore, anyone
caught with a large line of them in
stock is sure to sustain a heavy loss.
In these days a thoroughly assorted
stock is a prime necessity in large
cities, as well as plate glass windows
and up-to-date fixtures, and it is
rapidly becoming a necessity evenin
the smaller towns. It would be pol-
icy for a merchant to go light on
new things until they are firmly es-
tablished in public favor.

It is an easy matter to reorder and
obtain goods within a_ reasonably
short time, once the dealer is con-
vinced beyond a doubt that the new
things have caught on. A good point
to remember is not how large a busi-
ness is done, but how many times the
stock is turned in the course of the
year and how many goods are sold
at a paying margin. One line of shoes
sold at cost or below to get rid of
them wipes out the profit on two or
three others. Go slow.

 

Don’t Drift---Pull

Don't let your business drift any old way.

Take a firm

hold—PULL. Get business pullers to pull business
your way.

Give them a chance.

Our own Factory-Made Shoes will do it.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Makers of Shoes
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

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While Our Men’s
Goodyear Welts
Are Popular Priced
They Are Thor-
oughly Reliable

The velour, box-calf and vici-kid we put into their
uppers are carefully selected skins from the best tan-
The soles, likewise, are cut from stock that we

They are built over new up to date, and anatomical-
ly correct lasts; are perfectly comfortable to the foot

They cannot help but satisfy.

Rindge, Kalmbach,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Logie & Co., Ltd.

 

 

 

 

   

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

INDIA RUBBER.

America’s Great Gift to Human Civ-
ilization.

While tropical America is the chief
source of rubber, it is also found in
the tropical regions of Asia and Afri-
ca. When the Spaniards landed in
Hayti they found the natives playing
with elastic gum balls, but the gum
was also used for rendering baskets
and other articles -water-tight. The
Spaniards subsequently employed it
to make coats and shoes water-proof.

The question may be asked why
Europeans, who traded with Asia and
Africa long before the discovery of
America, did not obtain rubber or a
knowledge of it sooner. But the an-
swer is that the Europeans had no di-
rect communication or trade with
Asia and Africa by sea until after
Columbus had made his second voy-
age to America. In 1497 Vasco di
Gama, a Portuguese navigator, round-
ed the continent of Africa and reach-
ed India by a direct voyage. After
that trade by sea was opened with
the two ancient but little-known con-
tinents of the Eastern hemispheres
for the first time in modern history.
Previous to Di Gama’s voyage all
trade with India was carried on by
caravans overland to the Mediterra-
nean, the caravans being conducted
by Asiatics. Marco Polo, the cele-
brated Venetian traveler, was. the
only European who was known to
have visited China and the extreme
eastern parts of Asia, up to the time
of Columbus.

Thus America gave India rub-
ber as it gave tobacco to the world,
and the two gifts have grown into
universal importance among the in-
habitants of our globe. At first rub-
ber was used only for making water-
proof clothing and boots, and for
playing-balls, and for erasing pencil
marks from paper.

To-day, to those uses science has
added a thousand others. Among the
most important are material for the
insulation of electric cables, tires for
vehicles of all sorts, elastic tubing and
hose, belting for machinery, packing
for pumps and steam engines, and
the manufacture of innumerable arti-
cles of vulcanized or hard rubber, so
that the demand for this indispensa-
ble substance is constantly growing.

Rubber is shipped to and manufac-
tured in the chief European countries,
its use having become general. The
manufacture and consumption of this
article is probably more extensive in
the United States than elsewhere.
According to the official statistics,
more than fifty million pounds of In-
dia rubber, valued at more than $30,-
000,000, was imported into the United
States last year. In 1890 the quanti-
ty was only 33,000,000 pounds, in 1880
16,000,000, in 1870 9,000,000, and in
1862, the earliest date at which it was
separately shown in the import state-
ments, only 2,125,561 pounds appear.

Over $100,000,000 worth of manufac-
tures from India rubber are
turned out from the factories of the
country every year, and about half
of this total is in the form of boots
and shoes. So great is the demand
for India rubber for use in manufac-
turing that not only has the impor-

 

 

tation grown from 2,000,000 pounds
in 1862 to over 50,000,000 annually
at the present period, but in addition
to this the forests of the East Indies
are called upon for several million
pounds annually of a new substitute
for gutta-percha, known as “gutta-
joolatong,” while at the same time
the highways and byways of Europe
and other countries are ransacked
for cast-off rubber manufactures
from which the rubber is “reclaimed”
and reused in conjunction with the
new rubber from the forests of Bra-
zil, Africa and the East Indies.

Figures just compiled by the De-
partment of Commerce and _ Labor,
through its Bureau of Statistics, show
the importations of three classes of
material utilized as India rubber in
recent years. They show that during
the past few years the importations
of crude rubber have ranged from
50,000,000 to 55,000,000 pounds; of
gutta-joolatong from 5,000,000 to I5,-
000,000 pounds, and of “old and scrap
rubber, fit only for remanufacture,”
from Io to 20 odd million pounds per
annum, and of gutta-percha a half
million pounds.

Gutta-joolatong is another compar-
atively new material which may be
utilized as a substitute for or in con-
junction with India rubber. It is a
product of the East Indies, chiefly
the island of Borneo, located not far
from our Philippines, and in the form
in which it is imported is described
as “whitish in color, looking some-
thing like marchmallow candy, smell-
ing strongly of petroleum, and oxi-
dizing on exposure to the air, becom-
ing hard.” The same. description
says: “It is not a substitute for gut-
ta-percha or India rubber, but is used
chiefly as a filler in manufactures of
India rubber gum and gutta-percha.”
The importation of this newly-devel-
oped aid in the manufacture of India
rubber has increased from six and
one-half million pounds in 1899 to
14,000,000 pounds in 1903. :

A very large proportion of the In-
dia rubber imported into the United
States is produced in Brazil. Over
one-half of the total is imported di-
rect from Brazil, while considerable
quantities come from the United
Kingdom, presumably the products
of her colonies, and from Belgium,
chiefly the product of the Congo Free
State, which is under control of the
Relgian government and its indus-
tries of this character controlled by
the people of that country. Recent
reports received by the Division of
Consular Reports of the Bureau of
Statistics show that experiments in
the East Indies have declared the
entire practicability of producing the
best Para rubber in territory imme-
diately adjacent to the Philippines
from trees transplanted from South
America, and suggesting the possi-
bility that the Philippine Islands may
in time supply at least a part of the
growing rubber consumption of the

United States. Frank Stowell.
————

The Elm’s Thirst.

It has been computed that if the
leaves of an elm tree 60 feet high
were spread out on the ground, edge
to edge, they would cover five acres
of land. These leaves, averaging 7,-

 

000,000 to a full-grown tree, will
transpire water to the amount of sev-
en tons during the normal summer
day. Were it not for the ingathering
of the stomata during the night a
few elms would soon draw off all the
water from a district. As it is every
market grower knows what elms are
like near fruit or market gardens.
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No Detail in Shoemaking More Im-
portant Than Lasting.

Shoe retailers never had so much
bother with returned shoes as during
the last few years, and the evil seem-
ed to be growing rather than dimin-
ishing. It is most largely developed
in factories where there is a lack of
care regarding the lasting. Careful
attention to this detail in shoemaking
greatly reduces the number of “kicks”
on returned shoes. The hand method
system of lasting is doing much to
cure the difficulty. Speaking on this
subject, a technical writer in Super-
intendent and Foreman recently re-
marked: “From the great number
of hand method machines which are
now in all making rooms, and which
are, in many cases, lasting some of
the best lines of men’s and women’s
welts, there ,is no reason for other
manufacturers, who have not yet
tried it on welt work, to feel that it
is now doing other than the best kind
of lasting. The company has made
a big improvement on this machine,
and as for the operators, they are
getting more skilled all the time. In
those shops where the machine is
running, and lasting some of the
hardest Corona uppers, the foremen
of these departments, as a rule, are
perfectly satisfied with the work they
are getting on this machine. In one
of the latest rooms visited, and in
which there were six hand methods,
they were lasting about one hundred
dozen men’s welts, and nearly all
on the hand method machines. The
six could do a large amount of work
and do it easily; about 80 per cent.
of the shoes were of some of the
toughest and hardest uppers ever put
into men’s shoes. These shoes were
noticed all through the shop as well
as in the lasting room and they were
perfectly lasted shoes in all cases.
The foreman claimed that he was get-
ting as good a shoe as when he had
all bed machines, and from the looks
of the shoes he appeared to be get-
ting the best results.

It was noticed that each operator
on the machine in this room had a
pail of hot water on his bench quite
handy. A very small steam pipe en-
tered this pail, being coiled in such a
way that it could be removed at any
time, and as this same pipe was ar-
ranged to carry off the exhaust steam
the water could be kept at the boil-
ing point all the time if necessary.
The operators dipped the toes. of
colt uppers as they lasted them, and
this was done always without wetting
the insole. The foreman also used
a softener which was put into the
water once a day, and in this way it
enabled the operators to get good
toes on the heaviest uppers and with
sole leather boxes. They wet some
of the other stock, too, in hot water,
but in all cases only that part of the
upper lasted over was wet up. The
toes of kid shoes were just dipped in
cold water. This machine has been
improved from the start, and when
a machine is doing good work its
value sheuld be recognized. That, in
fact, is now being done in a vast ma-
jority of shops, for more welts are
now being lasted on the hand meth-
od, and these embrace all lines of

 

men’s and women’s from medium to
the best grade of shoe.—Shoe Re-
tailer.

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Dancing Shoes.

All manufacturers of patent leather
have their own’ tanning processes,
much like those of the calkskin tan-
ner, although some patent leather is
given a bark tanning. Horse-hide and
colt-skins are the chief leathers made
with a patent finish.

The patent or enamel finish is real-
ly painted and baked on, as the bi-
cycle manufacturer paints and bakes
enamel on to a frame. Tanners are
very particular about keeping their
processes secret, and nobody but
workmen are ever allowed into the
finishing-rooms.

The hide or skin, having been
stretched and dried as much as pos-
sible, is first given a coating of a
mixture of linseed oil, litharge, white
lead, or similar materials, boiled to-
gether until they make a pasty mix-
ture. This is daubed on the surfacz
with a steel tool, and well rubbed in
so that the pores of the leather will
be filled up. Then the leather is put
into the oven, its surface being expos-
ed to stem pipes at a temperature of
about 160 degrees.

Next the surface is rubbed down
with pumice-stone, and then it is cov-
ered with linseed oil and ivory black,
about six layers being applied, each
layer being dried and rubbed down.
Finally a varnish is applied, and then
the surface is rubbed down and finish-
ed off as nicely as a painter finishesa
fine carriage.

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FATE WAS UNKIND

To the Little Widow Who Earned
Her Living.
Written for the Tradesman.

In the Tradesman of October 28
and November 4, in articles with the
above heading, I told, somewhat in
detail, the story of the lives of two
women I know, the one distantly re-
lated to me, rich, old, utterly unhap-
py over a disappointment in love in
her early life, afterwards married to
a rich man old enough to be her
father, and now she is a widow of
many years’ standing.

The other old lady is also a widow
and she, too, was disappointed in her
youth in not marrying the man she
dearly loved and in marrying the man
she disliked. He proved ugly to her
in many, many ways, finally deserting
her in a dreary old makeshift of a ho-
tel in a miserable little hole in the
woods up in Northern Michigan. An
Uncle settled affairs with the landlord
financially, as far as his niece was
concerned, and she left the lonely
piace, accepting the offered hospitali-
ty of the Uncle until she could gain
courage to face the world again in
a struggle for existence.

After a brief stay under his roof
she came back to Grand Rapids, the
scene of her unhappy married life,
where her brute of a husband had
established her in three different
homes, only to sell them from over
her head each time when she had
sewed for others and put the earnings
of her hands into beautifying the in-
teriors.

On her return she rented a tiny
back room in a large block (then in
its prime) near the business part of
the city. It gave upon a winding al-
ley, where windows of other blocks
on another street overlooked the
same heterogeneous array of rubbish.
It was at a time when alleys were
not kept overly sanitary and ever the
same disagreeable surroundings met
her gaze at night that greeted her
waking eyes.

One time a strange occurrence hap-
pened among her alley neighbors.
Across the way, very late in the
night, she heard the loud quarreling
voices of a man and woman. She
had often heard them disputing in
anger, but this time there appeared
to be more than the usual amount of
wretchedness. Looking across into
the lighted room, which seemed to
be kitchen, dining room and living
room all combined, she saw the man
tearing excitedly around and “rais-
ing Cain” generally. Overturning
pieces of furniture in his way he
made a dive for his coat, which lay
or a trunk against the wall, and be-
gan searching the pockets, evidently
for money, for thereupon followed a
violent struggle between the two, end-
ing in the man’s overpowering the
woman and his starting out of the
door with the jingling dollars in his
hands.

“If you take that money and go
away” (either proposition seemed of
equal importance to her) “I’ll commit
suicide!” screamed the woman to the
retreating figure in the hallway.

Repeating her threat the woman
flew to the open alley window, climb-

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing over the stone sill and in the
twinkling of an eye was. hanging
therefrom, with nothing between her
and eternity but the tips of her fin-
gers.

She was a large fleshy woman and
as her body swayed in its descent
from the sill, it [looked to the horri-
fied little woman in the opposite win-
dow as if every moment would be
her neighbor’s last. Her blood froze
in her veins at the strange, dreadful
spectacle and she seemed to be turn-
ed to stone. Vaguely she tried to
collect her senses, to think what she
could do.

In the meantime the man settled
matters by rushing back to the win-
dow and grabbing hold of both of
the woman’s hands, while he yelled
the name of some other woman, im-
pioring her to “Come quick and help!”

At this a disheveled woman came
running down the hallway and across
the room to the man’s assistance,
and between them they hauled up
the would-be suicide, shut the win-
dow and pulled down the curtain.

The white-faced little widow never
knew the sequel of the tragedy. She
crept back into bed, but not to sleep,
and for many a night thereafter she
would lie with wide-open eyes in the
darkness, living over and over again
the frightful scene to which she had
been an unwilling witness.

The people lived on the third floor
and had the woman carried out her
alleged intention she would have been
smashed to death on the cobblestone
pavement below.

But usually the alley life was less
thrilling, moving less tempestuously
along its way.

After the little widow had lived
eight long years in this inconvenient
little box of a room, and the alley
had become as familiar to her as her
cwn thoughts, she had a chance to
secure a room fronting on the street
and a dark little room in its rear and
two closets.

She felt herself a queen! Her Good
Uncle paid a part of the rent and,
with the earnings she made in the
large dressmaking shop where she
had found employment, it seemed to
the little woman as if she had sud-
denly turned into Cinderella!

This—for her—happy life lasted for
several years. Then came the evil
days of which I spoke in the previous
Tradesman, when rheumatism crip-
pled the poor little hands and left
her incapable of following her long-
time occupation. The brave little
soul became discouraged as the en-
forced idleness ate up her rainy-day
Savings.

By and by the laid-by money in
the bank was all dissipated and Want
forced her to take up menial work in
the shape of caring for the apart-
ments of some dozen young men in
the block where she lived. Gradual-
ly the building lost its prestige as the
abode of fashionable people and one
after another moved away. Some-
times other and poorer young fel-
lows took the places vacated, but af-
ter a while even these no longer de-
sired the block as a home and it was
then given up to offices and small
shops. Now there are just two ten-

 

ants left of a residence character, as
I said last week, on whom the poor
little widow can depend for her liv-
ing.

My rich old Aunt had half promised
to go with me sometime in her auto-
mobile and call on this stricken little
woman. I had wondered what would
be the circumstances under which we
would go. Sometimes I wished it
would be a sunshiny day, that would
show up the surroundings of the
block in all their ugly dinginess.
Sometimes I hoped the ° weather
would be dark and gloomy, so as to
be a fitting accompaniment of the
cheerlessness everywhere in evidence.

It happened that Aunt Maria came
for me of an evening; and that was
just as well for my purpose.

I looked up at the third-story win-
dow. A faint light proclaimed that
Aunt Silvia—as I call my little old
lady friend—was at home.

Aunt Maria’s natty chauffeur left
us, with instructions from her to be
back in an hour. I gave my cross
old Aunt my arm and then began
the—for her—laborious ascent of the
steep stairs. Halfway up the first
flight are two heavy swinging doors
to keep out the winter’s cold. Here
I went ahead and held them open
while Aunt Maria helped herself
through them. -Then I lugged her up
the rest of that and the next flight.
I hoped she noticed, as she went
along, the hideous attempt at wal!
decoration and the great patches of
worn off paint on the doors where
many hands had pushed them open
many years. The floors and their

 

 

 

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corners were reasonably clean, but
everywhere were the marks of better
days. Those halls give me the hypos
every time I trot up to see my little
old friend. My heart smote me when
I thought how long it was since I
had looked after her, and as always
when I have been remiss in my duty
to her, I mentally resolved that I
would do better in the future.

The door of her room was ajar and
I tapped lightly on it. <A soft little
hobbling step was heard inside and
then there was a throwing up of lit-
tle crippled hands and a glad light
shining in a pair of bright old eyes.

“Why, Miss Josephine, is it your-
self or your ghost! My, my! how
long it is since you’ve been to see me!
Rut come right in and make yourself
at home.”

In her astonishment Aunt Silvia had
stopped in the doorway, and now be-
gan to back into the room, still hold-
ing my hand in her two with a close
clasp.

I introduced Aunt Maria, and our
little hostess bustled around telling
us in which chairs to sit “as they were
the most comfortable.” The one
Aunt Maria dropped her lengthy self
into had a most nerve-racking squeak
as she rocked to and fro, as old la-
dies seem to get into the habit of
doing, and I hoped she mentally con-
trasted its discomfort with the big
luxurious chairs in her own home. I
saw her cold hard blue eyes discreet-
ly taking in the depressing surround-
ings, and hoped the lesson was sink-
ing into her complaining old heart.

When Aunt Silvia had given us of
her best she herself sat down on the
broken-spring couch in front of us.
Then followed mutual enquiries as
to the wellbeing of each and grad-
ually the talk drifted around to Aunt
Silvia’s early days, as it always does
when she and I are together.

During the talk I cast furtive
glances in Aunt Maria’s_ direction.
Once I thought I detected a suspic-
ious moisture in the region of her
eyes, when they rested on the little
woman’s left hand, the wrist of which
was all muffled up in red flannel, and
which the little widow carefully held
up in her other hand to keep it from
contact with her lap.

“My wrist is easier this way,” Aunt
Silvia explained, “it hurts when I
don’t hold it up. I keep it bound in
flannel all the while now,” she said
plaintively; “the warmth seems to re-
lieve it a little.

“Yes, I still manage to take care
of my own rooms and the two that
bring me in all I am able to earn
now. I used to sew for my living,”
she went on, turning to Aunt Maria,
“but it’s many, many years since I had
to give that up. You see, my hands
are in such bad shape,” and she held
up ten crooked and knotted fingers,
“that I can’t use a needle.”

There was an unwonted tremble in
my old Aunt’s voice as he asked the
other if she had done anything for
them. “Why don’t you doctor them?”
she asked.

“Oh, I have,” was the quick re-
sponse; “I’ve doctored and doctored
and doctored,” and she told the name
of a prominent local physician who

 

had been so good to her. “He’s done
all he can for me,” she continued,
gratefully; “but he says my hands
will never be straight again. The lin-
iment he gives me to rub on helps
the pain lots, but it can’t take the
kinks out of my bones,” and she
even gave a cheery little laugh. “No,
I never can sew any more, but I can
wield the broomstick yet, and I thank
God every day for that. The young
men roomers are not home all the
time, though, so I am not able to
earn as much as I wish. I get pay
only the days they are in town from
their trips—they travel. I’ve been a
good deal worried about my rent this
summer,” she turned to me confiden-
tially. “My Uncle, you know, always
sent me $5 towards it, and I have al-
ways managed, somehow, to rake and
scrape together the rest; but he has-
n’t sent me any- money since last
May,” the tears started in her eyes,
but she whisked them bravely away.
“Tf it wasn’t for the good itiends of
my early days, and Miss Josephine
here,” I raised a hand deprecatingly,
“T don’t know what I would do.”

Then the little widow went on to
relate how a lady who used to live
in Grand Rapids, and now runs a
summer hotel at a nearby resort, had
invited her down for a week this last
August, paying her way to and from
the place.

“Everybody is so_ kind
don’t know why,” she said.

But I understood. How could any-
one who knew her lovable character
be anything else?

I rose to go, and crossed the tiny
room to help Aunt Maria up out of
the squeaky old rocking chair, but to
my surprise she got up without my
assistance. She seemed to be coming
to a realization of her mercies at last.

I quietly called Aunt Silvia’s atten-
tion to a parcel I had laid on the
stand and a couple of baskets I had
set on the disused sewing machine
as we came in.

“What! Are both those baskets for
me, too?” she exclaimed delightedly.

Childlike she insisted on discover-
ing their contents, and as package af-
ter package came to view (you see I
had neglected her for so long I felt
conscience stricken) she exclaimed
again and again, “Oh, how good that
will taste! Why, how did you know
TI was hungry for that? Just yester-
day I was wishing I had some. And
butter! How good it looks—so nice
and yellow. Why, do you know, I
have left a little piece only just so
big,” and she measured with her
crooked forefingers a space two
inches square. Then was the time
for the tears to come in my eyes and
I had hard work to preserve my
composure.

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Going down the stairs Aunt Maria
no longer needed a strong young arm
to lean on, and to his surprise the
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

RENOVATED BUTTER.

The Obliteration of the Brand Is
Not Illegal.

Following the enactment af the
present United States law governing
the manufacture of renovated butter
and imposing upon the Secretary of
Agriculture the duty of enforcing cer-
tain requirements as to the inspection
of factories and the branding of the
commodity when intended for ex-
portation from the state where made,
certain “rules and regulations’ were
issued by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture, intended to guide dealers in ren-
ovated butter in conforming with the
provisions of the law.

Among these rules and regulations
was one which conveyed the impres-
sion that it was illegal for any person,
anywhere, to remove the _ contents
from any manufacturer’s original
package of renovated butter, and re-
pack it for sale, in any form. Several
cases have been made by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture against persons
who had repacked renovated butter,
to bring about a judicial decision as
to the meaning of Section 5 of the
Act of May 9, 1902, but none of these
have come to trial until the “Water-
bury case,” recently decided in the
United States District Court at Hart-
ford, Connecticut.

A wholesale merchant, who had
repacked renovated butter in print
form for delivery to retail dealers,
was arrested at Waterbury upon the
specific charge of violating the pro-
visions of Section 5 of the law, by
destroying the indented stamps upon
the surface of an original package.
The defendant was bound over by
the United States Commissioner and
the ‘case was brought by the Dis-
trict Attorney before the court at
Hartford “by information.” The de-
fendant entered a demurrer, and by
agreement the case was submitted to
the court without argument, upon
written briefs prepared by the attor-
neys on either side. On the 15th of
October Judge Platt filed his opinion
upon the demurrer, sustaining the
same and dismissing the information.
which discharged the defendant.
This closes the case, for the time be-
ing at least, adversely to the Govern-
ment. Judge Platt’s decision is as
follows:

“The subjects of Section 5 of the
Act of May 9, 1902, are clearly ‘proc-
ess or renovated butter’ and the
marking and branding thereof, prior
to transportation. It is equally clear
that the purposes of the Section are
to provide for the sanitary inspection
of such butter at the place of manu-
facture, and to take every precaution
in order that none shall be shipped
from the factory which can in any
way be injurious to the health of the
consumer.

“The Acts of August 30, 1890, and
March 3, 1891, as amended March 2:
1895, so far as they touch upon these
subjects and purposes, are engrafted
into Section 5 of the Act of 1902,
and all rules and regulations adopted
by the Secretary of Agriculture,
which are calculated to carry such
subjects and purposes into full ef-
fect, have all the force of the statute
itself. Other portions of the Act in

 

 

question may _ gain their efficiency
from the taxing clause of the consti-
tution, but Section 5 goes to the
commerce clause as the fountain
whence its vigor -springs.

“It is idle to discuss whether or
not the tub of butter, when it reaches
the wholesaler, is still an article of in-
terstate commerce.

“Our crucial question is this: Does
a rule or regulation forbidding the
obliteration of the brand, as charged,
tend in any manner to aid in the en-
forcement of strict sanitary inspection
and care, or, if it pleases the enquir-
er, in the collection of the tax there-
on?

“It is my opinion that the rule is
of no value in either regard; it was,
on the contrary, calculated to pre-
vent fraud and subterfuge on the part
of the dealer and his relations with
the consumer. I do not decide that
Congress has no power.to take up
that matter. I am content to say that
in Section 5, no such action was tak-
en, nor was any attempt made to do
so. Beyond all this, if the Congress
did intend to take such a step, it sig-
nally failed in its effort.

“It would be necessary to read
into Section 5, not only the general
provisions of the Acts relating to the
inspection of meats and carcasses,
but also the definite penalty inflicted
for an infraction of the former laws,
in a situation analogous to that which
the Secretary of Agriculture attempts
to provide for, in his rules and regu-
lations under this Act.

“Such action is not permissible
either on strict legal principles or
upon the basis of fair dealing with the
individual citizen. It follows from
what I have said, that the statute in
question affords no warrant for the
information which the learned Dis-
trict Attorney seeks to found  up-
on it.

“The demurrer. is sustained.

“Let the information be dismissed.”

This opinion takes a view of the
law in question that has not before
been publicly advanced. The defend-
ant claimed that the manufacturer’s
package of renovated butter, having
passed through interstate commerce
in due form and reached its destina-
tion, ceased to be under the control
of the United States, and that the
owner then had an absolute right to
treat the contents of the package as
he pleased. This was virtually the
position taken by Attorney Brown
of Buffalo in his letter regarding a
like case, which was published in
New York Produce Review in April
last. The Review then and _ since
expressed its agreement with this
view of the subject, and many per-
sons have been of like opinion.

But although Judge Platt holds
specifically that Section 5 of the laws
of 1902 depends upon the commerce
clause of the constitution for its vi-
tality, he dismisses as “idle to dis-
cuss” the question whether or not
the butter, when it reaches the whole-
sale dealer, is still an article of inter-
state commerce. This is, apparently,
because he considers the regulation
forbidding the obliteration of brand
as charged unwarranted by any leg-

 

islative intention
law.

The opinion holds that “strict san-
itary inspection” was the main and
practically the sole object of Section
5 of the law of 1902. The court sees
no intention on the part of Congress
“to prevent fraud and subterfuge on
the part of the dealer and his relation
with the consumer” and declares that
‘if the Congress did intend to take
such a step, it signally failed in its
effort.” Consequently this opinion
holds that the meat inspection laws,

expressed in the

 

 

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referred to by title and date in the
first part of Section 5, are valid as
to renovated butter only so far as
they apply to sanitary inspection at
the factories (or perhaps for export)
and objects to their being “read in-
to” the Act of 1902 for any other pur-
pose.

The effect of this opinion is mani-
festly to destroy the contention of the
Agricultural Department that the first
part of Section 5 may be relied upon
to punish for a misdemeanor any
person who defaces or destroys the
marks placed upon renovated butter
in accordance with the regulations
of the Secretary of Agriculture.

The decision does not, however,
have any bearing upon the revenue
features of the law and interferes in
no way with the provisions of law
and regulations relating to factory
inspection, markings as_ prescribed,
and supervision of the commodity “in-
tended for exportation or shipment
into other states or in course of ex-
portation or shipment.”

It is understood that the officials
oi the Department of Agriculture are
not satisfied with the Connecticut de-
cision, and while they admit that so
long as Judge Platt’s decision stands
it largely nullifies the first full sen-
tence,of Section 5 of the law of 1902,
it is said that they do not intend to
relax efforts to enforce the regula-
tions as promulgated. It is, there-
fore, of interest to investigate the
grounds upon which the Secretary of
Agriculture and his assistants base
their view of the subject. An at-
tempt has been made to do this by
an examination of official correspon-
dence, and it is believed that the fol-
lowing is a fair statement of the mat-
ter:

The Department of Agriculture
holds (contrary to the opinion of
Judge Platt) that the law of 1902
intended to have the Secretary of
Agriculture do two distinct things—
first, to conduct a “rigid sanitary in-
spection” and second, to prescribe
and regulate and enforce such dis-
tinctive “marks, labels or brands” up-
on all renovated butter as to insure
its commercial identity and make its
true charcater known to all purchas-
ers and consumers. They hold that
the marking or branding is of chief
importance and consider this as the
primary object of the law; further,
that Congress intended to preserve
and protect the identifying marks to
the utmost constitutional limit. They
hold that the previous laws of which
all parts applicable to this purpose
were made to apply to renovated
butter provide specifically for pre-
serving and protecting such marks
by making it a misdemeanor to deface
or destroy them.

The Department officers hold that
an original manufacturer’s package of
renovated butter, having once become
“the subject of interstate commerce,”
continues to hold that character until
the package is broken in domestic re-
tail trade or for consumption, or un-
tilexported. Although it may reach
a destination from which it is not
to move across state lines, they claim
that it remains subject to all the laws
of the United States which have ever

 

applied, and so continues while it is
an article of trade. As already stat-
ed, this is in opposition to the inten-
tion and effect of the law as under-
stood by this journal, and as ex-
pressed by the U. S. District Attor-
ney for Western New York, and as
more lately. decided by Judge Platt,
of Connecticut. But the Washington
view is claimed to be supported by
legal advice of a high order.

The Department officials are of
opinion that insufficient attention has
been given to the meat inspection
laws which are cited by title and
date in the first part of Section 5 of
the law of 1902; that Attorney Brown
appears to have entirely overlooked
these laws prior to his letter written
to Assistant Commissioner Kracke, of
New York, and that Judge Platt fail-
ed to grasp their full intent and ef-
fect. The Secretary of Agriculture,
acting under advice of the Depart-
ment of Justice, has exercised dis-
cretion in determining what part of
the meat inspection laws referred to
in the law of 1902 are applicable to
the purposes of its Section 5. He
holds that the Congress, having re-
quired him to cause all renovated
butter to be branded at the factories,
has also provided protection for such
brands and marks, from the time they
are affixed, for an indefinite period
and in all places (within reasonable
and constitutional limits), and has
made it a misdemeanor for any per-
son to deface or destroy such marks.
And he holds that the depressed
brand upon the surface of the pack-
age of renovated butter is one of the
marks so protected.

It is claimed by Department offi-
cials that in all the prosecutions thus
far attempted it has never proposed
the arrest or punishment of any per-
son specifically for breaking up or
repacking an original box of renovat-
ed butter, but that the basis for such
prosecution has been the destruction
of duly authorized, legal marks while
the commodity was an article of com-
merce.

It will be observed that the con-
tentions of the Department of Agri-
culture in this matter have been
largely contradicted by Judge Platt,
although the latter authority, unfor-
tunately, avoided any declaration as
to how far a commodity remains an
article of interstate commerce. But
it is to be noted that the Department
is disposed to continue its efforts to
enforce its regulations, still believing
them to be fully warranted by law.
And it is stated that the Commission-
er of Internal Revenue has published
a decision that renovated butter
should not be removed from the orig-
inal package bearing the tax stamp
until delivered to the purchaser in
retail trade, on the ground that if
the contents of an original package
is separated from the package itself,
all evidence is lost of the connection
between that particular lot of butter
and the stamp upon the package.
This aspect of the matter, which is
practically the same in its effect as
the brand-defacing argument of the
agricultural officials, has not been
passed upon by any court.

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Woman’s World

Takes Too Many Chances With His
Daughter’s Welfare.

An incident that throws a queer so-
cial side light on the negligence of
parents recently occurred in Brook-
lyn. In that city, a week or two ago,
a young woman of blameless charac-
ter and respectable family was mur-
dered under mysterious circumstanc-
es. In the investigation into the
crime that followed it developed
that, although the murdered girl was
soon to be married to a man who
had been paying court to her for
years, none of her family knew eith-
er his address or his occupation.

This case is a remarkable and, per-
haps, a flagrant one of the careless-
ness of parents, but it illustrates the
absolute recklessness with which
American girls are permitted to mar-
ry, and in a way explains the preva-
lence of the divorce evil among us.
It is a national peculiarity that no
other people in the world makes such
a fetish of their daughters as we do,
and no other people do so little to
safeguard them. We rear them as
tenderly as a hothouse plant; we do
not suffer the wind to blow harshly
upon them and then we chuck them
out into life to live or die, with brok-
en hearts or without, as chance may
determine.

No better example could be given
of this than is found in the criminal-
ly loose way in which girls are per-
mitted to make acquaintances and
form their own visiting list of people

 

 

 

 

with whom their parents are totally
unacquainted. Our darling Maud
meets Tom, Dick and Harry at a
party or on the golf links or is intro-
duced to Adolphus or Augustus on
the street car by some other girl just
as poor a judge of character, as ig-
norant and as undiscriminating as she
is herself. The man who met the
man, who saw the man, who knew
the man who broke the bank at Mon-
te Carlo does not present fewer or
hazier credentials as a passport to
our home. Nevertheless, in accord
with the ethics of our beautifully
democratic society, Tom, Dick and
Harry, and eke Adolphus and Augus-
tus, happening to pass the house and
being pleased with Maud’s beaux
yeux, drop in for a call, and, before
anybody knows it, like the Vaneer-
ings, they are established as her old-
est friends.

Apparently nobody stops to en-
quire who Tom, Dick and Harry are,
what sort of family they came from,
what they are doing, or what sort of

a moral character they possess.
Sometimes ‘Maud’s mother has a
speaking acquaintance with her

daughter’s beaux, sometimes she has
not. As for Maud’s father, he does
not know them by sight; and as for
investigating the character of young
Smith, or young Jones, or young
Brown, who are camping on his door-
step and, perhaps, holding his daugh-
ter’s hand, he would never dream of
putting himself to so much trouble.
Yet in other matters, Maud’s father
is neither blindly trusting nor wild-
ly reckless. If he were going to hire

 

a ten-dollar-a-week clerk he would
look into the applicant’s references,
ascertain whether he played the races
or was addicted to drink; and if he
were going to trust him with his
cash drawer, instead of his daughter,
he would require him to give bonds
for his conduct. It is only with his
daughter’s welfare that he takes
chances, and, as a matter of fact, the
attitude of the general father who
gets Dun’s or Bradstreet’s report on
his clerks, and takes his daughter’s
visitors on trust, can only be compar-
ed to the prudence of a man who
would lock up a stock of iron pots
and kettles in his fireproof safe and
leave his Government bonds out on
the sidewalk.

When a strange man appears on the
scene, or opens up a voluminous cor-
respondence with Maud, he is gsuffi-
ciently explained if Maud says she
met him at Mrs. Flightlies, or was
introduced to him by Cholly Addle-
pate, yet on no other subject would
Maud’s parents take the opinion ofa
woman notoriously silly and impul-
sive, or of a man whose judgment
thel despised and whose _ discretion
they doubted. So it happens that
hundred of girls all about us are
receiving visits, and going to parties,
and writing letters to men of whom
their fathers and mothers know ab-
solutely nothing, and it is to the
standing glory of the manhood of
our country that so little harm comes
of these uncensured acquaintances,
and that American men protect Amer-
ican girls better than their own pa-
rents do.

 

But if parents are recklessly care-
less in letting men visit their daugh-
ters that they do not know, they are
criminal in letting men come to their
houses that they do know and whom,
for any reason, they are unwilling to
let their daughters marry. All of us
have seen young lives wrecked, and
young hearts bruised and_ broken,
times without number, by this paren-
tal stupidity. Fathers and mothers
may ‘cet it down as an unalterable
fact that youth is youth, and love is
love, and that their own children are
going to follow the primrose path,
just like every other lad and maiden.
When young Grigsby takes to spend-
ing seven evenings a week at their
house, and he and Maud develop an
ability to talk to each other from 7
o’clock until midnight without yawn-
ing, they are not discussing the po-
litical outlook, or the state of the
market, or the chances of Peary dis-
covering the north pole. They have
gotten down to business and to the
one question of which no human be-
ing ever hears enough—the old, old
question: “Do you love me?”

He may be a cousin, and Maud’s
parents may have violent views on
the subject of cousins marrying; he
may be of a different religious faith,
and Maud’s parents may be fanatically
opposed to people marrying out of
their own church; he may have some
terrible inherited malady or be mere-
ly poor, but whatever the objection,
the time to raise it was before he
and Maud fell in love with each other
and not afterwards. Yet every day
people let their sons and daughters

 

 

 
   

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Forgetfulness—Carelessness

Thousands of human lives and millions of dollars’
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ForGETFULNEsSs and CarRELESSNESS.

If the railroads, which pay very high wages, are unable to get men
who never grow careless and forget, isn’t it reasonable to suppose that
you and your clerks sometimes make mistakes and forget to charge
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

29

 

 

associate in an intimacy that can only
lead to love, and then when they sud-
denly wake up to the fact that the
young creatures want to get married
they are aghast. No father or moth-
er has a right to let any young man
visit at their house that they would
not be willing to see their daughter
marry.

If American fathers were indiffer-
ent to their daughters, if they regard-
ed them as an incumbrance of which
they wished to rid themselves as soon
as possible by marrying them off, or
even if they were unaware that mar-
riage makes or mars the happiness
of life, one could the more easily un-
derstand their position on this sub-
ject. Such, however, is far enough
from being the case. His daughter
is the idol of the American father’s
heart, the one flower of his hard-
worked, struggling life, the being for
whom he toils and sacrifices, and to
secure whose happiness he would die,
yet for all that he is absolutely and
criminally careless about taking the
commonest precaution to secure her
a good husband.

Some fine day Maud appears before
him and announces that she is going
to marry Adolphus Gustavus, whom
she has met in New York, or San
Francisco, or Kalamazoo, and who,
she assures her father, is the most
adorable and delightful of his sex,
and that she is sure he is eligible be-
cause he has a black mustache and
dances a two-step divinely. Maud is
a dear, and her father worships her,
but he would not trust her judgment
to pick out a setter puppy, while as
for allowing her to buy a $200 piece
of real estate, or invest in a share of
stock on her own good, hard, horse
sense, he would not consider such
a risk for a moment. But he trusts
Maud to pick out a husband of whom
he knows nothing and whom _ he
perhaps never sees until the wedding
day.

Is not this the most cynical and
incomprehensive paradox of life? A
man would not dream of putting his
all in a piece of real estate in a
neighboring city without going to
see it and investigating its titles and
seeing what chances it had of prov-
ing a good investment. He would
not even buy a fine horse without
looking into its pedigree and ascer-
taining if it was sound and had good
habits. On none of these points
would he take the opinion of a young
and ignorant girl, who was taken
by handsome outward appearances,
and whose very lack of experience
of the world prevented her from
forming a proper estimate of their
worth, yet such a man, shrewd and
cautious in business, will let his
daughter marry a stranger without
ever taking the trouble of going to
the man’s home city to investigate
how he stands, or if there are any
mortgages on his past.

What wonder is it, then, that we
hear so often of girls marrying men
who prove to be bigamists or that
we see so many women, broken in
health and heart, coming back after
a few years of married life to seek
the shelter and support of their fath-
er’s home? Never shall I forget the

 

anguish and despair with which a
beautiful and aristocratic girl told
me of her bridal trip and rude awak-
ening to the fact that she had been
deceived in the man with whose fate
she had united her own. She mar-
ried a handsome young man of easy
address and pleasant manner, who
was a traveling man and who often
spoke to her of his mother’s place
near the sea in Massachusetts. He
took her there on their bridal tour,
when, to her horror, she discovered
that his mother was a coarse and vul-
gar creature, who kept a low eating
and drinking-house in a_ seaport
town. A case even more tragical
occurred in New York City a year
or two ago, when a_ beautiful and
lively girl married a_ fascinating
stranger, who represented himself as
a wealthy man from Chicago. Af-
ter a few months of married life he
disappeared, and her parents, making
investigation after it was everlasting-
ly too late instead of in time to save
their daughter, found that no such
man as he represented himself to be
had ever existed.

Marriage even at its best, and set
about with all the safeguards with
which one can hedge it, has. risk
enough. Certainly no one should add
to these by going into it blindly and
every girl has a right to demand, es-
pecially of her father, that he shall
protect her from the pitfalls into
which her ignorance of the world and
of men would lead her. The father
who does not do this, who does not
know personally and by reputation
the young men who are visiting his
daughter and who, when she goes to
marry, does not overhaul the past and
forecast the future of the prospective
son-in-law, has failed in his duty, and
if his daughter marries badly she has
a right to blame him for her wreck-
ed life. Dorothy Dix.

———_—>_6

Eight Great Secrets of Success.

A man with a mania for answering
advertisements has had some interest-
ing experiences. He learned that by
sending $1 to a Yankee he could get
a cure for drunkenness. And he did.
It was to “take the pledge and keep
it.”

Then he sent fifty cents to find out
how to raise turnips successfully. He
found out: “Just take hold of the
tops and lift.”

Being young, he wished to marry,
and sent thirty-four one-cent stamps
to a Chicago firm for information as
to how to make an impression. When
the answer came it read, “Sit down in
a pan of dough.”

Next advertisement he answered
read, “How to double your money in
six months.” He was told to convert
his money into bills, fold them and
thus deuble his money.

Next he sent for twelve useful
household articles and got a package
of needles.

He was slow to learn, so he sent
$1 to find out “how to get rich.”
“Work hard and never spend a cent.”
That stopped him.

But his brother wrote to find out
how to write without pen or ink. He
was told to use a lead pencil.

He paid $1 to learn how to live with-
out work, and was told on a postal

 

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do. ”
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Internal Difficulties.

Little Archie Richards, at the close
of the Thanksgiving dinner, sat at
the table with his eyes suffused with
tears. His mother was greatly trou-
bled. With a sweet smile and with
gentle intonation she put one arm
around her little baby boy and
asked:

“What is it mamma’s
wants?”

But “mamma’s little darling” con-
tinued to cry.

Mamma made another effort to find
out the trouble.

“Does mamma’s baby boy
more cake?” she asked.

“No’m,” said the child, while the
tears continued to flow.

“Does he want some more pie:
she further enquired.

“No’m,” he further replied.

“Well,” said the mother, making
a last effort to reach his case, “tell
mamma what baby wants.”

The little boy managed somehow
to say between sobs, “I want some
of this out I’ve got in.”

a
Keeping It Up To the Last.

Dix—I understand Windig, the at-
terney, is seriously ill?

Mix—Yes. I met his physician this
morning, and he says he is lying at
death’s door.

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EDISON’S NEW BATTERY.

Invention of Immense Possibilities
Perfected and Tested.
Thomas A. Edison has perfected
his electrical generator, which will
make possible the almost universal
utilization of the storage battery in-
vented by him a few years ago, plac-
ing electric lighting and electrically-
propelled vehicles in the hands of
the masses of the people. :
Six feet long, 6 feet high and 5 feet
wide, the generator is capable of pro-
ducing electricity sufficient to store
one of the Edison batteries to run
an automobile and light a house, at
a price very much less than that ex-
acted by large supply companies. The
machine can now be made at a cost
of $450, and the inventor declares
that cost will be much reduced in a
short time. After the first expense
the outlay for operation is almost

nominal.

The generator is so simple in its
workings that any person of ordin-
ary intelligence can act as engineer.

Three pounds of the “fuel,” which
Mr. Edison says has never been
adapted to its present purpose before,
will, through the generator, light a
house and run a motor car for twen-
ty-four hours.

Referring to the manufacture of
the new battery, Mr. Edison recent-
ly said:

“There is one thing connected with
this subject which I wish to be
thoroughly understood. I don’t ex-
pect to supply the world with the
machine I am describing, to-day, to-
morrow, next week or next month.
Nothing was ever done in a minute.
Things can not be manufactured for
the market until there are machines
to make them, and often it is a great-
er task to get the machinery and
tools together for their manufacture
than it is to make the thing itself.
Men have come here many times to
enquire about one or another of my
inventions. I have told them all
about it, just as I am telling you
about this one now. They ‘get the
notion, just because I have made
my working model, and found that
it will perform whatever I expected
of it, that I am ready on the instant
to put it on the market, and they go
away and print in some paper the
fact that I have accomplished this or
that thing, and that it will cost just
so much. Then, because I am_ not
prepared to supply an instant demand
for 500 or 5,000 of them at a mini-
mum cost, the public gets the idea
that I have been romancing or dream-
ing.

“Such mistaken statements are un-
fair to me, and still more unfair to
the public, and for once I would like
to have the account straight and cor-
rect.

“T can not supply the demand for
my storage batteries simply because
I have not had the capacity for turn-
ing them out.

“T haven’t been able to reduce the
first cost of them materially as yet,
because I have not been able to sup-
ply the machinery or the space in this
factory that is necessary for that re-
duction.

“T never know how cheaply a thing

 

 

can be made, until I have supplied
the machinery to make it at the min-
imum cost.

“Whenever I make anything, like
this machine which will generate its
own electricity, I have to make it
myself, by hand. I can not hire
somebody else to make it, because
nobody else knows how to make it.
I can not give another person my
ideas and expect him to do the work
as I would do it. I have to do it
myself. It is slow work, and often
my ideas change while I am perform-
ing it.

“Tt may have taken me a year or
ten years to do a simple thing. Some-
times it is so simple when I get it
done that I think any common fool
ought to have seen through it at
once, and yet it may have taken me
years to accomplish it. Very well.

“The next step after I have accom-
plished what I started out to do is to
devise a means to manufacture in
quantities the article I have made by
hand, and there are just as much brain
work and manual labor connected
with that part of the operation as
there were in the original invention.
Sometimes much more.

“Now, whatever I tell you to-day
that I can do, and that I will do, will
be true, because I know it to be true
by reason of my own tests and my
own experiences, but I can not tell
you just when I will be able to place
these things on the market, simply
because I do not know how long it
will take me to perfect the machinery
and tools and other facilities for man-
ufacture.

“The point is this:

“IT have invented and made a ma-
chine, which is 6 feet long, 6 feet
high and 5 feet wide, which will gen-
erate electricity sufficient to store my
batteries to run an automobile and
light a house at an expense, per unit
of electricity, very much less_ than
the largest companies sell it. I know
now that I can make that machine at
a selling price of $450. I also know
that I will not be able to make one
to sell to anybody before next spring,
at the earliest; that it may cost me
more at first, but, ultimately, that it
won’t cost any more than $450 when
I am ready to sell it. I do not know
how much less than $450 it may be
sold at.

“Don’t send me in an order this af-
ternoon for 50 or 100 of those ma-
chines, to be delivered next June, at
$450 each. I would not accept it, be-
cause I don’t know that I could fill
it. I do not know that my machinery
and tools for making it will be ready
by that time. But when everything
is ready, when I have the floor space
and all the paraphernalia necessary
for the manufacture of the machine,
I think I can safely prophesy that its
history will not be unlike many other
well-known inventions of great util-
ity.

“Take, for instance, the incandes-
cent lamp.

“I took a contract to supply them
in quantities to the demand at 40
cents apiece, when they cost me $1.24
apiece to make them. I believed I

could reduce the cost of manufacture
almost at once, so that 40 cents apiece

 

would bring in a fair profit. That
contract almost swamped us. After
a while I got them down to $1.10
apiece, still selling them at 40 cents,
and the demand was increasing enor-
mously. Those were blue times.
Well, I got them down to 8o cents;
then to 60 cents; then to 28 cents.
There was a profit of 12 cents, and
we began to see light. They can be
bought in the market to-day a great
deal cheaper than that, and there is a
good profit in them, too.

“All inventions go through
process.

“Ten years ago you paid as high
as $160 for a safety bicycle, not as
good as you can buy for $25 to-day.
Isn’t that true?

“You are wearing a good-looking
pair of shoes. Let us say that they
cost you $3.50 at retail, and that there
are half a dozen men who have real-
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much do you suppose the mere cost
of making them would amount toif
they happened to be the first pair
ever made and every bit of the work
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it; it is another thing to invent the
machinery and tools to make it quick-
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“Now, there is my storage battery
and there is my machine for making
electricity to operate it. They both
work beautifully and perfectly. One
cost $1 a pound, and the other costs

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$450 for the machine, because I have
not now tools and facilities to make
them any cheaper. Come around a
year from now and I'll tell you a dif-
ferent story.”

“You do expect, then, to be able
to make and sell both at a very much
cheaper rate in time?” was asked.

“Certainly. The point is, I can not
tell you just when. I believe I could
make a fair prophecy on the subject,
but you don’t want prophecy; you
want fact.

“My great desire—my great am-
bition—is to place all these facilities
within the reach of the mass of the
people, so that the ordinary individual
can afford to keep a pleasure vehicle
for his family and light his house by
electricity. That is what I am going
to do, and what I will succeed in do-
ing before very long.

“T was riding through the suburbs
of a city recently, when I counted 62
houses where men of moderate _in-
comes lived. With the 62 houses
there was only one barn. There was
only one man in the lot who felt that
he could afford to keep a horse. I
mean to live long enough to see a
littie shed like that one behind every
one of those 62 houses, with an au-
tomobile and a machine for charging
it and lighting the house in each
shed—and I don’t expect to be so
very much older than I am _ now,
either.

“Of course an automobile can be
geared to 70 miles per hour if the
parts of the vehicle ‘were strong
enough to stand that speed.

“There is really no limit to the
speed that can be gotten out of a
vehicle if it is strong enough to with-
stand the wear and tear of the power
the cells are capable of containing
and giving out.

“In the operation of the machine,
there is not the slightest noise or dis-
turbance, and of course no odor what-
ever. There is no jar, no grating or
wheezing, no noise of a motor, but
all is silent and perfect.

“A touch of the finger moves the
lever that controls the power, and the
machine is under absolutely perfect
control.

“There is a great deal in the way
of promise concerning the storage
battery and the machine for generat-
ing electricity with which to charge
it, which the inventor is willing to
discuss with his friends, but is not
prepared to have published at the
present time.

“This is due,” he said, “to the fact
that the public does not, or will not,
understand my statements exactly as
I give them out. Even supposing that
I am quoted with absolute correct-
ness, more than one construction can
almost at any time be put upon one
statement, and for some unexplained
reason the average reader will persist
in applying the wrong omne_ every
time.

“I may know to an absolute cer-
tainty exactly what I can accomplish
with a particular thing, although I
may not yet have put it to the test;
or I may have tested it, and be, so
to speak, twice positive, and still be
unwilling to give out the information
about it, for the reason that I also

 

know that months—perhaps years—
may elapse before the public can reap
the benefit of it. This harks back to
the question of machinery and tools.

“Inventions over which I _ have
worked for months and which, when
they are announced, impress you and
others as remarkable, or even wonder-
ful, are neither the one nor the other
to me. They are merely results of
my labor.

“This machine, which you think so
wonderful, is really a very simple
contrivance. I think it strange that
somebody has not thought of it and
made it long before this. It is not
complicated, and any person of ordin-
ary intelligence, who never saw a ma-
chine before, can operate it.

“The machines will, of course, be
made in different sizes, so that they
will meet any requirements, from a
jittle six-room house to an institution.

“The point is this: When it is per-
fected and ready for the market every
householder will be independent of
electric light and gas companies. The
isolated farmer can have electric
light in his house as readily as_ the
man who owns a residence in the
city, close to an established plant.

“The storage battery question being
solved, and the problem of storing it
now about to be relegated to the
field of reminiscence, it would seem
that further steps forward in that di-
rection, in the way of similar and
lighter appliances and apparatuses, is
a natural consequence, would it not?

“The maximum of power is retain-
ed in the battery until it is almost
completely exhausted. Suppose the
starting point is A, representing your
cells when they are fully stored, and
Z represents them when they are ex-
hausted; they will exert their full
power to the letter Y, and then drop
suddenly to Z. Now make a square
on a sheet of paper. Put A at the
upper left-hand corner and Z at the
lower right-hand corner. The nickel
battery will exert its full power, so
that you may follow it along the top
line of the square almost to the end;
then it will drop suddenly to Z.
With any other storage battery the
exertion of the power would be repre-
sented by drawing a diagonal line
straight through the square, from A
to Z. Or compare it to a watch. A
watch is supposed to keep time until
it runs down; then it stops. Take
out the regulator, and it will run
more and more slowly from the time
you wind it until it stops. That is
the idea.

“Lead batteries must be kept charg-
ed or they will become useless. It is
not so with the nickel battery. They
do not destroy themselves. They are
always ready, and the only feeding
they require is distilled water.”

Mr. Thomas A. Edison is fifty-eight
years old.

Almost his entire time is passed
among the buildings of his labora-
tory, either in the library, the  gal-
vanometer room or the chemical
room.

It is a common practice for him to
have his dinner sent to him from the
house, and to remain at his labors
throughout the night.

On the night immediately preced-

 

ing the writer’s last interview with
him he remained at work in his labor-

atory until after 2 o’clock in the
morning.
He often passes ten or twelve

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every ray of light has been excluded.
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customed to doing so, that now, after
he has been in the dark room sever-
al hours, objects are as distinctly vis-
ible to him there as they are ordinar-
ily in the daylight out of doors.
“After I have been in the dark room
ten hours or more,” he said, “I can
see to read ordinary print without
any other light than that which sifts

through solid wood and_ walls,’ or
emanates from the body. It is won-
derful how supersensitive the eyes
will become. Prisoners who are

locked away for years in utter dark-
ness can see things there as readily
as you or I can in the sunlight.”

He likes good stories. He likes to
tell them and to listen to them.

His appreciation of humor is as
keen as his appreciation of a new in-
vention.

His manner is always gentle, kind-
ly and thoroughly unassuming.

He is not a draughtsman. Hesees
his ideas in the ether around him, de-
scribes them, and directs somebody
else to put them on paper for him.

He has little appreciation of a
drawing after it is made. It is noth-
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sents measurements; but when the
parts are made from the drawings
nothing delights him more than to
see them go together.

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is apt to smoke too many of them
if they are within reach.

His power of concentration is phe-
nomenal. When he is at work time
ceases, and he is quite as intense over
a letter he is reading as when absorb-
ed in his favorite occupation of work-
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Every man in his employ loves
him, and this is high praise.

His eyes are as bright as stars; his
face is the face of a babe; his smile
is as ingenuous as a young girl’s; his
handclasp is firm and hearty; his step
is brisk and energetic. He is an af-

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

An Early Assumption of Personal
Responsibility.
Written for the Tradesman.

Craig Reynolds’ cigar was the in-
fallible index of his mental condition.
Pitt Johnson, his partner, the only
man on the face of the earth not
afraid of him, noticed when “Senior,”
as he often called him, came in that
an inch of the said cigar was. all
chewed up and amusingly wondered
what the matter was. “When Craig
gets on a rampage, it’s as good as a
circus to watch him,” Pitt told his
wife, and, with the cigar-sign out, he
watched expectantly for the outbreak.

The outside news of the morning
paper didn’t seem to suit the senior
partner and, with an impatient jerk,
he turned to the inside only to swear
at the editorials, the cigar in the
meantime intensely suffering. A
very little of that soon satisfied and
then, throwing down the paper, with
a savage glare at Pitt, he roared out:
“We have one man out in the other
room we must get rid of sometime
and there’s going to be a change in
him right away or he’s going pretty
something soon.”

The junior member knew enough,
when he had something good, to en-
joy it in silence and turned away from
his desk with an earnest look on his
face to listen.

“That fellow has been with us ever
since he was 9 years old—just the sort
of boy we have wanted—and now
after eight years, when he knows
what’s what, I find him running with
a gang that will simply ruin him in
three months. I’ve told him what he
is up against, and I’ve told him what
I’m going to have; and last night
there he was sailing down Sixteenth
street arm in arm with three of the
meanest hugags in town. Now those
devils are going to have him or I
am, and I don’t care a snap which one
it is; but he’s going out of here before
to-morrow night unless he cuts clear
of them. Now you're going to take
care o’ this or I am, and it’s going to
be done right straight off. Who'll do
it?” fl

Thus appealed to, the junior mem-
ber—deliberation personified—took
out the cigar he was enjoying, gently
breathed forth the delicious ‘blue
from his mouth and calmly answered:
“T guess you’re right, Craig, you
usually are; but who is the cuss this
time, we’ve quite a number, you know,
that we’re bringing up? ’Tisn’t Joe
Harris this time, I hope.”

“Harris be hanged! I wish ’twas—
I’d ship him so quick he wouldn’t
know where he was! It’s that—that
Clarence Kingsbury; and—and he’s
got to stop it or I’ll smash him, and
that’s all there is to it.”

“Wasn’t doing anything out of the
way, was he? Smoking or anything
of that sort, was he? ’Tisn’t much of
a crime, you know, to have a fellow
on each side put his arm around your
shoulders—I’ve seen you with your
hand on that same shoulder yourself,
so you want to be careful.”

“And I hope you'll see it there
again. Don’t you see, Pitt, what I
mean? That Clarence is the best boy

we ever had. I want to keep him so;
but, just so surely as he gets to going

 

with that gang, he’s going to be like
them. I know them and so do you.
They are bright, but there’s a taint
with it that makes them positively
dangerous. Take Samuels. He isn’t
clean-minded. I’ve seen and heard
the laugh that follows the doubtful
story and part of the laugh has been
Clarence’s. He swears, even when he
isn’t mad—there’s where I draw the
line on that—and he and Griffin drink
and play poker for money. How long
will it be before Clarence is going
to do the same thing? There’s no use
in my talking round the bush to you,
Pitt, and I’m not going to. I like
that boy as well as I ever did my own
son and I’ve told you what I’m going
to do for him.”

“Yes, but this boy is Clarence
Kingsbury and he is 17 years old—two
very important facts. You’ve had
many a brush with him when he was
younger, but you ought to know that
at 17 a fellow like that—he’s two
years older than his real age—will
assert his manhood and he’ll do it
hard. If you’re not careful how you
go for him he’ll tell you that he’s his
own boss—and he is—and I’ll miss
my guess if he doesn’t wind up with
telling you to mind your own busi-
ness. Better let your wife handle
him. She likes him as well as you
do and she knows enough not to slop
Over, see?”

“I should advise you,” the smoker
went on, “to remember that the boy
is wise beyond his years, that he has
been well brought up—you and I
have had a hand in it and we are no
fools—and that he knows fairly well
how to take care of himself.”

He might as well have talked to a
lamp post. He looked at his partner
1s 1f he would annihilate him, humph-
ed and struck his call bell as if he
intended to break it and, when the

 

boy came in, roared: “Tell Kingsbury
I want him.”

Shortly after Kingsbury stood be-
fore the head of the house.

It was no wonder that both men
liked him. He was good to look at,
always—never more so than when he
stood there now—full five feet ten,
broad-shouldered, broad-breasted and
straight as an arrow. Well-groomed
and well-dressed the manhood that
looked out of the eyes that had
brought with them the color of the
sky was worthy of its setting; and it
iooked into the face of the angry man
before it as if it was ready for what
was coming, be it fair or foul.

“Kingsbury, I saw you again with
that gang last night and I want to
know what you mean by it?”

A faint flush of red flooded the
strong face from brow to chin. The
clear-cut lips contracted slightly, a
gleam that meant not a little shot
from the eyes, the left thumb hooked
into a trowser pocket and, after an
instant of this gathering together,
the not unpleasant voice made
swer:

“Mr. Reynolds, Iam 17 years old.
Ever since I can remember I have had
I might say, to take care of myself
and, while it hasn’t always been the
best of care, I have done the best I
could under the circumstances. [|
shall have to keep on doing so. The
‘gang,’ as you designate it, is a 17-
year-old gang with the good and the
bad traits of that age. I like all of
them, and I expect to keep on with
them as long as they’ll have me; and
somehow, Mr. Reynolds, I don’t ex-
actly like the course you have taken
in this matter. I am doing my best,
in business hours and out of them,
for your business and I don’t think
it’s any concern of yours what I do
or whom I go with the rest of the
time. You've told me what you think

an-

 

of the fellows; but I haven’t seen any-
thing in them, so far, out of the way,
and the only things I ever heard
against them have come from you.
I’m young and I like a good time
and you can’t expect a young fellow
to think and to act like an old one.
Then, too, I can’t have you telling me
whom I’m to go with, and I can’t
help resenting the idea of your watch-
ing me as if I were a kid. I know
what this is coming to, but if you’re
going to keep it up, much as I like
the place, I shall have to go—I’ve got
to be my own man wherever I am.”

Craig Reynolds looked the amaze-
ment he could not express. The boy’s
calm self-assertion without the slight-
est tone or manner of disrespect,
completely unarmed the forceful man,
not known for his gentleness when
aroused as he was now. Pitt John-
son looked for the usual explosion,
but it did not come. Instead the lion
left the senior member’s face and
voice and the real man that the out-
side world seldom saw said, plead-
ingly, “Clarence can’t you see the
vice that is hidden in these young
men? I want you to be young, I’ll
help on in your good time, but that
fun is always questionable which
stains. Like all young men your fu-
ture is before you, and the man who
has said what you have just now
knows that a future to be cursed by
gambling, by drinking, by unmention-
able wickedness, isn’t the success that
sound sense expects or wants. That’s
all. You may go.”

“No, it isn’t all! There is just one
thought more,” said Pitt Johnson,
with a look in his face which the boy
did not expect to see. “This is a
respectable house and is going to
keep respectable. It can’t be that
and take that sort of back talk from
anybody. Now then, young feller,
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thing over. A week from to-day you
come in here and give us the result
of your thinking. If you’ve changed
your mind you may go on with us.
If you haven’t you can’t; but, whether
you go or stay, remember that busi-
ness houses are making it their busi-
ness to do exactly what you have had
the impudence to say that we mustn’t
do. You'll give up the ‘gang’ if you
stay here, and we’re going to know
what you are doing between supper
and bedtime. Now use the common
sense we know you have; if you don’t
come in here a week from to-day, tell
us you’ve changed your mind and
apologize for the contemptible rot
you've been giving us, I’ll miss my
guess. At any rate, if you don’t
you’re not the man we want and the
quicker yot: leave us the better. Go.”
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Indiana Merchants.

Aurora—Dils Bros., dealers in hay
and grain, have dissolved partnership.
The business is continued by H. H.
Dils.

English—Criswell & Landis _ suc-
ceed C. M. Rosenbarger in the gro-
cery and confectionery business.

Ft. Wayne—The W. L. Carnahan
Co. is retiring from the boot and shoe
business.

Grantsburg—Ferguson & Ford con-
tinue the general merchandise busi-
ness of Pavey & Ferguson.

Knox—Cooper & Dumas, jewelers,
and Short Bros., grocers, have con-
solidated their stocks under the style
of Cooper, Dumas & Short.

Milford—S. L. Prickett, tinner, has
removed to Albion.

Rockville—Thompson &  Richard-
son, furniture dealers and undertak-
ers, have dissolved partnership. The
business is continued by Richardson
& Hadley.

Vincennes—Fred Yocum, baker, has
sold out to B. Bender.

Wabash—Nathan Meyer, of the
Pioneer Hat Works, has changed the
style of his business to Nathan Mey-
er & Co.

Wolcottville—S. M. Coon has tak-
en a partner in his hardwood and im-
plement business under the style of
Coon & Pierce.

Ft. Wayne—A receiver has been
appointed in the case of Koehlinger
& Bauer, dealers in hardware.

Indianapolis—A foreclosure — suit
for chattel mortgage on her grocery
stock has been instituted against M.
E. (Mrs. A.) McGary.

Indianapolis—Benjamin Moyer &
Co., dealers in clothing, have gone
into bankruptcy.

Kendallville—E. D. Stroup, boot
and. shoe dealer, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy.

Daketon—A permanent receiver has
been appointed in the case of the
Laketon Milling Co.

Logansport—W. W._ Ridenour,
dealer in cloaks, has taken advantage

of the bankruptcy laws.
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judgment does not pronounce sound
and practicable.

Settled the Size.

She walked into a fashionable shoe-
shop and said to the polite assistant

“You may show me a pair of walk-
ing boots, No. 4. I used to wear 3’s,
but I go in for solid comfort now.”

The man tried the boots, but they
would not go on.

“Strange,” she murmured; “it must
be rheumatism. Try 5’s; I know I
can swim in them, but my feet are so
tender.”

While the shopman was getting
them on she said:

“IT used to have a beautiful foot,
not small, but such a good shape. I
never had a small foot, but I wore
2% size for years, until I walked so
much and grew heavier.”

“Your foot is a peculiar shape, the
instep is so high—that is why you
require a large size,’ said the man,
who had no fear of Ananias before
his eyes.

“T’ve heard,” she said, “that the Ve-
nus dee Medeechy wears No. 5, and
she is a model of true proportions.”

“Exactly,” said the obliging young
fellow, growing red in the face as he
pulled and tugged to get them on. He
had never heard of “dee Medeechy,”
but he was up to a trick or two him-
self. “After all,” he said, “these are
too large. You'll find the 4’s just
right.”

He was only gone a moment, but
in that time he had erased 6 from the
inside of a pair of boots and substi-
tuted 4.

“There, I thought it was strange,”
she said, when they were on and paid
for; “why, these are quite as easy as
my old ones. I believe I could just
as well have had 3’s after all.”

And the young man without a con-
science went back to his duties with
the air of one well satisfied with him-

self.
—__6-62.__—_

The Inventor and His Employer.

Peter Williams, a man employed by
a firm of dealers in poultry at a sal-
ary of $10 a week, having grown tired
of the monotonous labor of plucking
chickens and turkeys by hand, in-
vented a machine that would do the
work.

He showed a model of it to the
head of the firm.

“It’s a good idea,” said the latter,
“and if you care to sell it, we'll give
you $600 for it. That’s all it would
be worth to us.”

Peter did not wait to consult an
expert as to the value of his inven-
tion, but closed with the offer at once.

“T’ll take it,” he said.

Whereupon the firm engaged large-
ly in the manufacture of poultry-
picking machines, and went broke in-
side of a year.

While Peter invested his $600 in
mining stock, and is now a million-
aire.

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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

Which Real Business Men Will Not
Deny.

Cranstan Haywood gave a growl
without looking up and went on with
the letters before him.

“I’m quite sure I could satisfy you
if you’d only let me try. You could-
n’t lose anything because | am will-
ing to work a week for nothing on
trial. I could afford to do that be-
cause I feel sure that by that time
you'd like to try me a little longer
and that would fix it. This is my first
asking for a place and mother thinks
a good deal of getting the first place
you ask for and I do, too.”

Long before the boy stopped
speaking the rather stern-looking man
had whirled around in his chair. He
found a boy of fifteen, hat in hand,
looking cheerily and earnestly in his
face. Neatly yet poorly clad there
was something in the garb even that
portrayed the embryo man concealed
within it, and the bright black eyes,
together with the pleading voice,
were evidently accomplishing their
purpose.

“So you think by the end of a
week you can convince us that we
can’t get on without you, do ou?”

“Oh, no; I didn’t mean ‘hac if I
said it. Mother told me long ago,
among the things I must always re-
member, that the world would man-
age to get along if I hadn’t come into
it. What I did mean to say is that
you wouldn’t want to get on without
me.”

The rather old way of the boy’s
talking, this happy combination of
the old and the young amused the
man and he wanted a little more of it.

“What could you do besides sweep
the office and go on errands and do
up packages and about five hundred
cther things, hey?”

Something very like a twinkle leap-
ed into the boy’s eyes as he azuswered,
“What mother calls ‘an occasional
rest!”

At that the sternness left the man’s
face and, taking another all-over look
at the attraction before him, he went
on with his catechism.

“Did you like your teachers?”

“Yes, sir, all of them.”

“J don’t suppose you brought me
any certificate or recommendation,
did you?”

“IT have in my pocket my recerd of
standing for last year, if you care to
look at it. Mother doesn’t think
much of a recommendation. She says
everybody carries that in his face and

manner and that nobody ever covers.

up what he really is. She savs the
face and the finger nails tell the whole
story, but I’m afraid that moczher at
times is apt to go to extremes!”

A laugh followed this.

“It certainly looks like it. How
can she tell by looking at these that
the owner is—well, lazy, for  in-
stance?”

“She says that’s easy. Neglected
finger nails are due to indifterence
and that is second cousin to laziness,
if not something nearer. That and a
something always in the face, or a
want of it, settles the question if we
are only sharp enough to see it, and
if we aren’t we are out of gear our-

 

selves. Here’s my standing if you
care to look at it;” and a neat enve-
lope with an unwrinkled record was
placed in the merchant’s hands.

“Why. here are some figures to be
proud of: Arithmetic, 98; grammar,
98; algebra, 95; penmanship, g2; con-
duct, 100. Why, this is a prize-win-
ner, boy. Didn’t you get any?”

“Yes; but that’s nothing to be
proud of. A fellow has to do his
best, anyhow—that’s what m»ther al-
ways says—and if a prize is one re-
sult that’s all right. In itself it does-
n’t amount to anything. Mother says
what it stands for does, and J ‘ike to
think as she does. It’s the struggle
to get it that tells the story and if I
can’t get any fun out of that Ud bet-
ter give up.”

“Do you mean to tell me, boy, that
if you don’t get any pleasure in doing
what you do with all your might
what you're doing is worth working
for?”

“T didn’t used to think so but moth-
er has talked it into me so long that
I’m about sure she’s right so far as
I am concerned. I’m not old enough
to see how it works with grown-up
people, but in going to school and
noticing other boys it seems to be
that way.”

“How do you mean?”

“Oh, I don’t suppose vou know
Lest Rushway, do you? He’s one of
my friends and he likes to play foot-

ball better’n he does to eat. You
just ought to see him punt a_ ball!
Honestly, Mr. Haywood, if he was

only strong enough I believe he’d
kicked it out of sight! Well, he’s
had any number of prizes and things
like that that he’s got that way, but
he doesn’t care a rap about them. I
was up in his room not long ago and
he showed ’em to me. One’s a splen-
did little gold badge and when I said
he ought to be proud of it he said,‘It’s
the getting it that I like!’ and it does
seem so, doesn’t it?”

“Yes, I believe that’s right.
else? How about yourself?”

“Mother says it isn’t a good plan
for one to talk much about himself;
but this isn’t anything to brag of. I
don’t like algebra very well; I used
to hate it. Well, one month I car-
ried home my report with that mark-
ed 30. She looked pretty sober and
I guess I looked as if I didn’t care.
You know how it is with mothers,
and so I had to tell her aJl about it.
I found she cared more than I was
afraid she would, and I told her, for
her sake, I’d make it higher next
time. This is what she said: ‘I don’t
want you to do it for my sake. If
in the studying it you can’t find all
that’s worth working for, I don’t want
you to do it because you want to
please me. It isn’t a matter of alge-
bra; but if you’re going to be a suc-
cess in that or anything else it’ll be
because you like the mastering of it.
Thirty in any study is what I don’t
like. If you can’t raise it by learn-
ing to like it don’t raise it; only I
don’t like that sort of boy!’ That
95 is the yearly average and I got it
by meeting mother on her own terms.

“I guess I’m talking too much, but
I didn’t mean to. Do you think that
you will give me that week’s trial?”

What

Cranston Haywood heard, there
was no mistake about that, but he did
not heed. For the first time in his
life he had heard his own pet theory
put into words by a child and he
was too busy just then with his sur-
prise to notice the question. “The
prize lies in the struggle, that’s it.
and this young one hardly fifteen is
the best embodiment of the idea I’ve
seen. I guess here’s the boy I’ve
been looking for all these years.”
Then he came to himself.

“What did you say your name is?”

“I didn’t say, sir; but it’s Greg.
Winton.”

“Have you been working for any-
body in the city?”

“No, sir, only Saturdays and times
like that. I got through the high
school in June and during the hot
weather mother thought I’d_ better
rest and build up; so I haven’t tried
for a place before, and this is my
first application. Do you want me?”

-“Why, I don’t believe we do need
a boy just now; but we shall soon and
I think we’d better come to terms.
Have you any idea what wages you
want?”

“Mother says that I shouldn’t both-
er about that. She thinks that every
workman has his value and that no-
body knows what I’m worth until
I’ve let them see. So if that arrange-
ment satisfies you it will us. May I
begin this afternoon, because the
sooner I begin the sooner you'll find
out.”

“Why, you needn’t wait until after-
noon. Begin now.” He = stuck his
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and, that manager appearing, he said,
“Mr. Mayfield, here’s a boy who says
that the fighting after the prize is all
there is to it that’s worth anything.
I wish you’d give him a chance to
do some of that fighting with us.
Take him out and put him to work.”

That interview as I have reported
it took place about twenty years ago.
The boy started in at 8:30 that bright
September morning and he is there
still; only his desk is next to Cran-
ston Haywood’s in one of the finest
offices of that Middle West city.
Now Haywood doesn’t do much. He
is at his desk as regular as the clerk
at 9:45 in the morning. He reads the
paper, signs his name to certain pa-
pers and saunters over to his club. I
happened to be in there not long ago
when he came in. “Hello! Crans!”
greeted a life-long friend, “you’re not
doing much these days?”

“No. Along back in the 80’s I got
hold of a youngster who finds his
prizes in life in working for them,
and after-giving him a chance to win
a few I concluded he knew what he
was about and let him alone. He’s
still at it and gets along better with-
out me than with me. When a boy
at fifteen starts in with that idea all
he wants is a fair field and no favor.
You know Gregory Winton, don’t
you? Well, he’s the man and my son-
in-law. Better let me introduce you
to him.”

“I know him and there’d be fewer
business wrecks to-day if more of
our young men could be imbued with
the same doctrine”’—a fundamental
business principle which real ‘business
men will not deny.

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——_>22_

Persistent Plea for Higher Prices.

A great many shoemen at the pres-
ent time—men who are doing a lit-
tle thinking and figuring—are asking
themselves these questions: Is
“cheap” footwear really cheap? Have
we ever carried on a Satisfactory,
money-making business on what is
commonly known as the “cheap”
shoe? Has the margin of profit on
this class of shoe ever compensated
us for the constant kicks of dissatis-
fied customers; for the loss of old
customers; for the trade we have al-
lowed to slip away from us simply be-
cause we devoted our entire atten-
tion to the so-called “cheap” trade,
oblivious to the wants and desires of
those people in a position to pay for
what they want, and who will do so
gladly when they discover the shoe-
man who has these lines and is push-
ing them to the front?

It is not the writer’s purpose to
argue against the manufacture and
sale of the “cheap” shoe. There will
always be a considerable demand for
it, and every dealer, unless his trade
is exclusively among the well-to-do,
will have to carry the cheap lines.
But many dealers are decidedly at
fault in believing that the cheap shoe
is the beginning and the end of their
business. Why sit back helplessly
and wail: “There is no money to be
made in the shoe business any more.”

Let’s throw off this feeling of help-
lessness! Let’s wake up, and look
about us for a minute. Take, for ex-
ample, any medium-sized city or

 

 

town, East or West, North or South,
you will find a large number of well-
to-do families who have to’ send
sometimes hundreds of miles for foot-
wear—the kind they want. Why?
Because the dealers in their home
town can not, and will not, raise the
standard of their stock. They are
not able to “deliver the goods!”

To cite an instance pertinent to my
line of argument: A traveling sales-
man went into a town of some 70,000
inhabitants recently and tried to sell
to what was reported to be “the lead-
ing shoeman” a line of women’s shoes
retailing at $5 and upward. The deal-
er liked the line and seemed prepared
to give it a trial, but when he was
told the prices, he held up his hands
in amazement. “Why, my dear sir!”
he gasped, “I can’t get over $4 for
my best women’s shoes, and I’m con-
sidered high-priced in this town.”

While riding through the town that
afternoon on top of a ’bus my friend
passed along an avenue lined on eith-
er side for a mile or so with as hand-
some residences as can be found any-
where in these United States. The
driver pointed out to him home after
home of millionaires. Where hid
they buy their footwear? Had to
send to neighboring cities for it.
Why? Because the $4 shoe man and
his competitors hadn’t “get-up-and-
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nities. He couldn’t see that by carry-
ing a line of -goods that appealed to,
and were needed by wealthy custom-
ers in his town, he would be pushing
his way to a fine trade and consequent
prosperity.

Keep cheap shoes, certainly, to
meet the demands of the class of your
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grade of footwear. Don’t reconcile
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of each month figuring out which is
the larger, your profit or your loss
account.

Never mind what your competitor
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your own possibilities are. Have your
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The higher the grade, the better the
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vice, the more likely will people who
want the best find you out and trade
with vou.

Usually it is the dealer’s fault that
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REAL HAPPINESS.

The Road One Must Travel to Ob-
tain It.

What all of us want more than we
want anything else is happiness; not
pleasure or joy merely, but real hap-
piness, which is something very dif-
ferent from these other two. It is
not a selfish wish, because few, if
any, of us could be really happy un-
less our friends and acquaintances,
and, indeed, all our brethren of the
human race could have some share
of happiness. That is the trouble
with the old idea of heaven as a place
where a few people would be happy,
while all the rest of mankind went
plunging down into the abyss to end-
less torment. It would no longer be
heaven if you could look over the par-
apets to where the smoke of their
torment ascended, and most of us
would not accept it on such terms.

Real happiness, then, includes the
wellbeing of others. And in some
form or other happiness is what all
the world is seeking. Sometimes peo-
ple think pleasure is happiness or that
enjoyment is happiness or mistake
some other inferior thing for the
real article; but happiness, wellbeing,
success, this is what everybody is af-
ter, and how to get it is what every-
body wants to know. All the world
from a cardinal to Carlyle, from the
drunkard in the gutter to the Presi-
dent in the White House, from Joa-
quin Miller, who makes verses, to
John Rockefeller, who makes mil-
lions: from the Dowager Empress of
China, who rules 400,000,000 of sub-
jects, to Mrs. Jones on a back street,
who rules her cat, all the world is
seeking happiness and goes about the
seeking of it in many strange and
curious ways. We are all trying
very hard to be happy, but it looks
as though we did not know very well
how to go about it.

Sometimes we say health and
wealth give happiness, but we do not
have to look very far to find some
men and women who are both healthy
and wealthy who have not yet attain-
ed their object. Indeed, they may be
very unhappy. A certain amount of
comfort can be bought, if one has
health into the bargain, and pleasure
often follows wealth; but enjoyment
is a different matter and happiness
may elude. “Pleasure may demoral-
ize, and enjoyment yields to weari-
ness; but we don’t get tired of being
happy; and we may be ever so tired
and still be happy.”

Let us notice some of the very dif-
ferent ways people try to be happy:

There was a man, a rich young citi-
zen, who, having all that money and
influence could buy, leaves his gay
companions and their riotous living,
throws aside his rich clothing, dons
a rough, coarse garment, sacrifices
home, inheritance, friends, and goes
out among the poor and outcast, min-
isters to the sick, bathes the sores
oi lepers and eats the crusts of pov-
erty. Here is one way of. seeking
happiness.

The leader of the Four Hundred in
New York City has a different notion.
He devotes his whole life to balls
and parties and frankly confesses that
here is his ideal. He stands between

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

£

those who have entered in and at-
tained the highest happiness they can
dream of or live for and those who
are eating their hearts out with envy
because they can not get in.

A few months ago we celebrated in
this country the centennial anniver-
sary of the birth of a great American,
Ralph Waldo Emerson. His ideal of
happiness was somewhat different
from that set forth above. He had
little physical strength, little money;
but he had ideas, and they were good
ideas. All he ever did was to think,
and write down what he thought, and
we honor him that he thought to
such remarkable purpose.

Now the point we seek to make is
that all these various kinds of people,
and all others, are seeking in various
ways the answer to just one question,
and that is, How shall we get the
best out of life? Or how shall we
make a success of it? Or how shall
we arrive at happiness here or here-
after or both?

Now he would be a bold man who
should pretend to be able to tell us
where happiness lies for each one of
us. But some directions may be giv-
en which will point the way. A trav-
eler in the Alps met a small Swiss on
the Gemmi pass and asked of him the
question, “Where is Kandersteg?” “I
don’t know,” said he, “but there is
the road to it.” And so, although each
one of us finds happiness and wellbe-
ing for himself if he finds it at all,
nevertheless it may be possible to
point out some things which will
mark the way to it, whether one takes
one path or another.

We human creatures are commonly
considered to be made up of body,
mind and spirit; and the wise tell us
that if we wish happiness we must
take care of all three departments,
for if we neglect any one it will take
sure vengeance on us some day.

In the first place there is the body.
We can arrive at a certain degree of
happiness in spite of an unhealthy
body; but good health certainly goes
a long way toward making life seem
worth while for most people, and
an unhealthy body is very apt to
bring about an unhealthy condition
of mind. We have given up the old
conception of the body as an enemy
ot the soul and we have found that
even questions of religion are compli-
cated with questions of sanitation, of
better heredity, of better food and
clothing. The supreme faith of our
day is in soundness and wholesome-
ness. Good health must be recogniz-
ed as the basis not only of intellectual
endeavor, but of moral achievement.
“The normal body must be the dwell-
ing place of the normal soul.” The
active, out-of-door life of the Ameri-
can student of to-day is making a
different race in this country and its
influence is not only physical, but in-
tellectual and moral.

Then there is the mind; we must
make that strong by vigorous exer-
cise if we would have the most happi-
ness. We must not let it get flabby
and so fall a prey to the various mi-
crobes of fads and fancies that attack
the weak-minded. We must set it
to thinking, which would seem to be
its main business. It is curious how

 

few people there are in this world
who ever do any real thinking. Most
people never think, some think they
think, and a few think. Whether it
be politics or religion or what not,
the most of us lack real, genuine con-
victions and are led by the nose by
any leader of speculative enthusiasm
that comes along. It is not of so
much importance what particular
view we accept when we think as it
is that each one of us find his own
conception of the truth as conscience
and mind direct, and, having reached
a result, have the courage to follow
that conception wherever it may lead.

But man is more than body and
mind. Nature gives cravings for the
body, hunger and thirst, mental long-
ings to urge us to train the mind, also
spiritual aspirations to secure some-
thing else. And if we neglect this
moral and spiritual part of our nature
we shall miss happiness. Ever since
the beginning of the world men have
felt that they were vitally connected
in some way with a higher power,
and have been trying to get into bet-

ter relations with that power. They

have been conscious of the fact that
life and happiness depend upon our
knowing something about the laws
of this power and obeying those laws.
The religious people put it one way.
Herbert Spencer puts it in other
words, but the idea is that if we are
to secure wellbeing we must get into
proper relation with our environ-
ment. The secret of life and of hap-
piness would seem to lie in being
rightly related to the “Power, not
ourselves, that makes for righteous-
ness.” Just as we weaken our muscles
and our mind by disuse and strength-
en them by proper use, so we must
cultivate this higher side of our na-
ture if we would not lose it. Now
what are the highest things in the
part of our nature? Are they not
love, truth and service? A _ loving
life, a right-thinking life and a life
of service. He never despairs who
serves his fellows. The evil in the
world does not make him _ pessimis-
tic. He has learned that the high se-
cret of happiness is not to get but
to give. This is not the doctrine of
the preachers merely, it is the settled
word of experience, and the message
of the men of action. “Great educa-
tors take it up. Do you want the
happy life? they ask; see to it that
you give your life to the largest uses
of mankind. No one will ever doubt
your use, nor you your own.”

So, if we are to arrive at happiness
or wellbeing, it would appear that
we must travel along the road that
leads by a healthy body to a sane
mind and a right spirit. That will
bring us as near our goal as any
road at present known to man.

a
Looking For a Husband.

“When a woman wants a husband
she doesn’t go looking in a club for
one,’ said the short-haired maiden
lecturer.

“Not unless she happens to be mar-
tied,” suggested one of the long-hair-
ed sisters in the audience.
a

Tf there is a harvest ahead, even a
distant one, it is poor thrift to be
stingy of your seed corn.—Carlyle.

 

 

THANKSGIVING WINDOWS.

 

A Few Suggestions by the Way of
Illustration. ,

It may be a fair question in the
mind of the exclusive shoe dealer
whether it pays or doesn’t™pay to
devote particular attention in win-
dow trimming to the holidays—par-
ticularly those of lesser importance—
and to local celebrations. Probably
the best selling seasons that are as-
sociated directly with holidays are
Christmas and Easter. Of less im-
portance are Thanksgiving (Indepen-
dence Day, Memorial Day, St. Pat-
rick’s Day, Labor Day and all the
rest ad infinitum.

The writer thinks that many of
them are deserving of notice. A win-
dow trim need not be very elaborate.
For instance, a few little green rib-
bon bows tied to each shoe or to the
price cards on'a window full of shoes
give a pretty effect for St. Patrick’s
Day. The expense is very slight.
Perhaps a little. blue pencil story
pasted in the center of each window
giving a concise account, such as can
be condensed from an encyclopedia
article, on the mythical Irish saint
would be interesting.

Such a story about the origin ot
Thanksgiving Day would be an ap-
propriate feature for the approaching
holiday. You have many chances
during three hundred and sixty-five
days of each year to remind the peo-
ple that you are alive and up-to-date.
A store can get a good deal of valua-
ble publicity by such means. The
little reminders stick for a long time.
The dividend comes maybe three or
four months later, sometimes it
comes a year or more later and
brings a customer who stays for all
time.

The encyclopedia has this to say
of Thanksgiving Day: “In the Unit-
ed States it is a day set apart for an
aunual festival; it is appointed by
proclamation, and held always on the
last Thursday of November. It is
celebrated with religious services and
with social festivities. The first cel-
ebration was held by the Plymouth
Colony in 1621 and soon the usage
became general throughout New Eng-
land.

“After the Revolution the custom
gradually extended to the Middle
States, later to the West and more
slowly to the South. Since 1863 its
observance has been’ recommended
annually by the President.”

This brief statement brings out
some interesting facts which are none
too well known. It also raises a num-
ber of questions. How did it happen
that a national day of Thanksgiving
was first declared by the Great War
President? How did the old New
Englanders celebrate the day and
what had they to be thankful for in
comparison with what we enjoy to-
day? Seems to me several very pleas-
ing little notes might be written for
pasting on the window. Perhaps you
might run a series of them, one each
day for three or four days before
Thursday. At the end of each make
some application to your customers
or to yourself.

If you make a display with pump-
kins you won’t go far astray. Next

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

37

 

to turkey, pumpkin pie is the tradi-
tional Thanksgiving Day staple. You
can get plenty of material for a dis-
play of this kind. Get some bumper
big ones and a few also of the choic-
est sweet variety from some good
farmer customer and make the cus-
tomer happy by putting his card on
them.

When you go to looking through
the Thanksgiving lore for familiar
references to the pumpkin it’s easy.
One of the best is from Whittier, the
old New England Quaker poet. It
runs in part as follows:

“Ah, on Thanksgiving Day when from
East and from West
And from North and from South
come the pilgrim and guest,
When the grey-haired New England-
er sees round his board

The old broken links of affection re-
stored,

What moistens the
brightens the eye,

What brings back the past like the
rich pumpkin  pie!”—Shoe and

Leather Gazette.

ee
She Was a Wise One.

A clerk in a West Side confection-
ery store says that one day a little
girl came in, and laying down a dime,
asked for ten cents’ worth of candy.

“It’s for my father,” she explained.
“It’s for his birthday and I’m going
to s’prise him.”

The clerk began to make a selec-
tion of sweets, when his customer
objected.

“Don’t give me that kind, give me
caramels. I just love caramels.”

“But I thought these were for your
father,” the candy man remarked.

“Yes,” replied the little girl, “I
know; but when I give them to fath-
er, he’ll say for me to keep ’em,
*cause I’m such a thoughtful little
girl, and he’ll give them all back to
me. So you’d better give me cara-
mels.”

lip and what

-——s-2.——____
An Intended Paradox.

Some years ago there was a small
branch railroad that ran one train a
day from Reading to Slatington, the
heart of the Pennsylvania Dutch
country.

One morning, when to everyone’s
surprise the train had been on time
for three consecutive days, an old
Pennsylvania Dutch market woman
climbed aboard, deposited her basket
on the floor of the car, and turned to
give up her ticket to the conductor.
She was a regular passenger, and he
greeted her with a cheery “Good
morning.”

“Goot-mornin’, Benny,” she replied.
“Say, Benny!”

“Ves?”

“Vot was it happened? You vas
early of late.. You used to be behind

before; now you vas first at last.”
——_—-9—<—____

The Longest Day.
Teacher—You must remember,
children, that December 21 is’ the
shortest day we have. Do you re-
member the longest?
Freddie—Yes’m. It’s July 3, when
you’re waiting for firecracker day.
——_—~2.—____
If you would hit the target, aim a
little above it. Every arrow that flies
feels the attraction of earth.

 

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MEOSHOt, DOE Bis cock cee ks 15
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Cartridges
No. 22: short, ‘per i: 62... . -..2 50
No. 22 long, per m..... Ceo, eae 3 00
No. 32 short, per m.........5..........5 00
INO. 22 lone) DOr We ee kk 5 75
Primers
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Gun Wads
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Loaded Shells
New. Rival—For Shotguns

Drs.-of oz.of Size Per
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120 4 1% 10 10 2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 1 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70
264 1% 4 12 2 70

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Paper Shells—Not Loaded
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Gunpowder
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First Quality, S. B. S. Steel ........ 7 00
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Barrows
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Bolts
ONS oe eos 70
Carriage, new Hot .....0 006066... 70
CAO ee. aces -~- ae
Buckets
Week. platy oo 4 50
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ 70
Wrought Narrow ..... asians Su ccleislodes 60
Chain

¥%in. 5-16in. % in. in.
Common © ©€::.6 ¢€...6 ¢...4%¢.
BB. 84c...7%c...6%c...6 «
BBB 8%c...7%c...6%c...64e.

Crowbars
Cast Steel, per W.o.. 2)... k cot kk 5

Chisels
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Soeket Cormier o.oo 5c... eck ck ck. ee 65
CG EE 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz. .....net 75
Corrugated, per doz. ........... ons oak ool
Adjustable ....... creeeeesee.. Gis. 40&10
Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 ........ 40
tyes 4, Sis: 2) G24: 9 S30... 25
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aw American i. si... kt ttt 70&10
PERCH ORION Se se:
Heller's Horse Rasps.-:.. 2.2... 2... 8. 70

Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 28
List 12 13 14 15 16. 17
Discount, 70.

Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box ..........dis. 90
Double Strength, by box ........ dis. 90
By the Bight ooo oc se kc dis. 90
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list ......dis. 33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s ~........... dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ...... 30c list 70
Hinges
Gate; Clarks 1, 2. 3... 2. cose dis. 60&10
Hollow Ware
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re ON cee cee e -..2 25 c rates
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Nobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ...... 75
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings .... 85
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis
Metals—Zinc
Ge POU CAsNe oe occ eee eee 1%
Per pound .............. eee kee a ae 8
Miscellaneous
ee ee ea 40
US CUO osc oo one eco eto we va ec 75
Screws INGw tiee oe . 85
Casters, Bed and Plate ........ 560&10&10
Dampers, American .;.......0. «+. 50
Molasses Gates
moounins Patier ... 0... ke 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring .......... - 380
Pans
ee ROM ce ue 60&10&10
Common, polished .......... coec eee FUGELO

Patent Planished Iron
““A’’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80

  

  

“B” Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80
Broken packages %c per Ib. extra..
Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s fancy ......:....... 40
pelOta: POOROGR ee es —- a
Sandusky Tool Co.’s fancy ... 40
Bench, first quality ........... 45
Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire
Steel maiie, Base: o.oo y eck kl 2 75
Mine WAS, BARS 2 30
20 to 60 advance ............. cece. Base
iy to-16 advance 2.0. ca 5
Sv es. 10
A se | 20
OE oe. 30
Se BOVANOG ec, 45
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Bane S AOVANCe) oc. ko. 50
Casin=g 10 advances .....0....4..... ae
Casing 8 advance ............ 25
Casing 6 advance .......... 35
Finish 10 advance ......... 25
Finish 8 advance ........... 35
Finish 6 advance ......... . =
Barrel 4 advance .................. 85
Rivets
iron Asi Wed 50
Copper Rivets and Burs .............. 45
Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ............ 7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ............ 9 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean ........... -15 00

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9

20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00

Ropes
Sisal, %inch and larger ......... ase Se
Sand Paper
aise aect. £9) 96 ooo ikl dis
Sash Weights
Selid Myes, per ton .................. 36 00
Sheet Iron
es: fC te S40 ll. $3 60
eee A Oe 3 70
os, FS 40 oe 3 90
Or 22°00 26 es 410 3 00
Nee. 26 tO 26 ......... Sane oe 4 00
No. 27 3 10

See ee coerce eas 4 30 4
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Shovels and Spades

Hirst Grade, Dog ...........:... Parwiea 6 00
Second Grade, Dox .........0..25.. 5 50
Solder
ee 19

The prices of the many other qualities
of solder in the market indicated by priv-
ate brands vary according to composition.

Squares
mreed ANG TWO oo. succes. 60-10-5
Tin—Melyn Grade
nate KC Charcoal... 1... $10 50
14x20 IC, Charcoal ........ -- 10 50
10x14 IX, Charcoal ........ ‘

   

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Tin—Allaway Grade

20xt4 10 Charcoal .. i. se noe $ 9 00
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POxtt EX. Charéeoai 2.3... lsc. es 10 50
ooe2o TH, Charegal ................- 10 50

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14x56 IX, for No. 8 & 9 boilers, per tb. 13
Traps
pieces, GAG or oe 15
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..40&10
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Mouse, choker, per doz. ............
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Wire
Bright Market ......... se ca aw ac 60
Annealed Market ............ cs. Se
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Barbed Fence, Galvanized 3 00

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Se ee esd ns ise ccccsecas 80-10

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m wel wee Gee 6c... see... 48
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S gal. each <...... 52
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12 gal. each .. re 78
15 gal. meat tubs, each 1 20
20 gal. meat tubs, each .. 1 60
25 gal. meat tubs, each .. os oe
OO Gal, ment tubs, GGCH ......cccucess 2 70

Churns
m <0 G gal, per Oat ow. i ce cass soe CY
Churn Dashers, per doz ............ 84

Milkpans
% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each ... 6

Fine Glazed Milkpans
% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 60
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each ... 6

 

   

Stewpans
% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz. ....... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail per doz. ...... 110
Jugs
Oe OO OP OOM cs oe acc e us oe 60
me wee Or Ole i cece cick 45
a 00S Sal Pee OO) ones sc caw ces 1%
Sealing Wax
5 Ibs. in package, per Ib. .......... 2
LAMP BURNERS
mo. © Bun .... 35
No. 1 Sun .. 36
No. 2 Sun 48
No. 3 Sun 85
Tubular .. 50
Ue a, 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps

Per Gross.

es acc cusses. 25
MN ee ee ee 4 50
me eee ee tc 6 50

Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.

mo. 0 San ....... - 1 60
No. 1 Sun .. _.o-
moO. 2 Gun .. iors ooh eens decennen oan

Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in corrugated carton

VO OO sc tea a als. 1 80
ee a 90
ie, 2 CYIOW 2.1 .u.. ccc aes didnboene 90

First Quality
0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.

XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled.

Pearl Top

mm oO one nue
>
co

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled .... 4 60
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled .... 5 30
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled .. 5 10
No. 2 Sun, “‘small bulb,” globe lamps. 80
La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 00
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .... 1 25
No. 1 Crimp, per doz. ..... — 1 35
Ivo. 2 Cyt per Gos. ............. - 1 60
Rochester
mao. 2 Eide (666 Ga) .. oo... cece cuce 3 50
ING. 2 Edme (756 GOB.) 2.0.66. cece ese 4 00
No. 2 Bint (80c dea.) .....650...4.4 4 60
Electric
No. 2. Lime (70c doz.) ..... raWewenes 4 00
NG. 2 Flint (S0e dom.) ................ 4 60
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz... 1 30
1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 40
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 30
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 3 25
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 20
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 70
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 60
@ Bal. Tine CONS ...... i. ccc c tec scs 7 00
5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas ..... oe 9 00
LANTERNS
INO. @ Tubular, side Hf ......:....... 4 65
re: t Oe ee 7 25
INO. 15 Tubular, dash ............... 6 50
No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ............ 7 75
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp .......... 13 50
No. 3 Street lamp, each ............ 3 60

LANTERN GLOBES
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No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx, lic. 50
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Butter and Eggs

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

The reduction of refrigerator egg
stock at all of the important centers
seems to be going on at a very sat-
isfactory rate, and yet not faster than
should be in order to reduce the
holdings by January I to a point low
enough to assure an absence of the
losses that occurred after that date
last year.

About the 20th of last July the
quantity of eggs accumulated in the
warehouses of Chicago, New York,
Boston and Philadelphia was careful-
ly estimated at 1,260,000 cases. By
September Ist there had been a re-
duction to a total of about 1,115,000
cases, by October Ist to 915,000 cases,
and on November Ist the quantity
remaining was’ estimated 679,000
cases—205,000 in New York (includ-
ing Jersey City), 300,000 in Chicago,
114,000 cases in Boston and 60,000 in
Philadelphia.

These figures indicate a reduction
from highest point to September 1
of 145,000 cases, a September reduc-
tion of 200,000 cases and an October
reduction of 236,000 cases. It is quite
usual that the reduction of refrigera-

 

 

tor eggs in November and December
is greater than in any other months.
Last year the average output of re-
frigerator eggs from our local houses,
during November and December, was
about 20 per cent. greater than in
October; in Boston the increase was
very much greater than that, but in
that city the October output was
phenomenally small. If we estimate
that 20 per cent. more refrigerator
eggs will be used this year in Novem-
ber and December than were used in
October, we should get a basis for
anticipating a stock of only about
113,000 cases to be carried over Janu-
ary I in the four markets of New
York, Chicago, Boston and Philadel-
phia.

Of course this is not a very safe
calculation because several] factors
bearing upon egg consumption and
production may cause a different pro-
portionate use of refrigerator eggs
this season than last. But even if
the later reduction should prove no
greater than during October we
shall have, in the four markets men-
tioned, not to exceed 200,000 cases
unsold January tst—about as many
as were carried over last year by
New York and Boston alone.

I notice a statement in a Grand
Rapids paper that a company has
been organized by William Fitzger-
ald, S. W. McKee, E. F. Pine and
others to manufacture a folding egg
crate invented by J. E. Tilson. This
crate is made of galvanized iron and
is so constructed that it can be folded
up and returned to the shipper for
repeated use. If these gentlemen
are familiar with the egg trade they
ought to know that returnable pack-
ages for eggs have been dead and
buried for years and that no one
wants to revive them. Such a crate
as described might find some use in
certain localities, but for general egg
transportation it can not expect a

 

favorable reception by either shippers
or merchants.

Another sample of “preserved eggs
that can not be told from fresh laid”
came to light during the past week.
This time they came from a house
in Christiana, Norway, who devised
to sell the right to the process to
some enterprising American. They
were sent to a New York paper
house, who turned them over to one
of our local egg receivers for judg-
ment as to quality.

These eggs were put up in Chris-
tiana only last June and were ship-
ped to New York some five or six
weeks ago. There was considerable
delay in getting them through the
custom house without breaking the
seals that had been put upon the
package before a Norwegian notary
so that when the eggs were examined
their fine fresh flavor could not create
suspicion as to their identity. Final-
ly, however, the package was brought
to the egg receiver and I was invited,
with a number of local egg sharps,
to see the package opened. There
was a good sized box in which, pack-
ed with excelsior, lay the smaller
package carefully wrapped and seal-
ed. Upon opening the box twenty
eggs were found, each carefully wrap-
ped in paper, and upon taking them
out they looked like any ordinary doz-
en and eight American eggs. But
when passed before the candle it was
the same old story; twelve of the
twenty rotten to punk and the rest
very badly shrunken, watery and
generally N. G. It is pretty hard to
beat the refrigerator for carrying
eggs, and the good old pickle vat
still holds well onto second place —
N Y. Produce Review.

——_> ae ___
Toilet Soap Combine Falls Through.

The meeting which was to have
been held in Chicago on October 23,
for the purpose of reorganizing the
National Toilet Soap Manufacturers’
Association, did not take place sfter
all. For reasons which seenied to
him sufficient, Charles H. Geilfus,
President of the old associaticn, in
whose name the call was issued, de-
cided for the second time at the last
moment to annul the call; and so
once more the organization »f an im-
portant industry is delayed.

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In thirty years, 1,391,076 Italians
have come to this country. This im-
migration has a very peculiar charac-
ter. Until 1890 the percentage of
women was less than 15, but now it
has increased to 39. This indicates
that the immigration has a marked
tendency to become permanent. Thir-
ty per cent. or more of Italian adults
who have been in this country more
than ten years went back at least
once to Italy, and 80 per cent. of
these came to this country again,
bringing their families with them.

———>- 02> ___

In a cemetery in Middlebury, Vt.,
is a stone, erected by a widow to her
loving husband, bearing this inscrip-
tion: “Rest in peace—until we meet
again.”

———_>0.__

The ideal man is he whose physi-
cal mental and moral powers are all
cultivated and harmoniously _ bal-
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Opportunities!

Did you ever stop to think that every
piece of advertising matter you send out,
whether it be a Catalogue, Booklet, Circu-
lar, Letter Head or Business Card, is an
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Are you advertising your business rightly ?
Are you getting the best returns possible
for the amount it is costing you? |

If your printing isn’t THE BEST you can get,
then you are losing opportunities. Your print-
ing is generally considered as an index to
your business. If it’s right—high grade,
the best—it establishes a feeling of con-
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feeling is given that your business methods,
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Clerks’ Corner..

To What Extent Should a Salesman
Like Society.

Written for the Tradesman.

 

 

We believe in the employe doing
justice to himself and to his employ-
er, although we have not drifted into
the notion that the employer has no
claims on his help outside of busi-
ness hours. For instance, he has a
right to expect that you will at all
times take such care of your strength
as to be able to render quick and in-
telligent service when called upon.
In some cases it is entirely pardon-
able for him to request the foregoing
of such pleasures as rob you of your
rest or unfit you for the work of the
morrow. A mind capable of the ful-
fillment of its highest duties, should
be receptive to ideas, quick to com-
prehend and ready to decide. It is
well to recognize this at the outset
and act accordingly.

In order to have social pleasures
contribute to happiness they must not
be pursued to excess. Many become
so infected with society that they
are unhappy when alone or _ even
about their daily business.

Of course, young men have by no
means a monopoly of the failing. In
fact, when this delusion gets fast hold
of the mind all work is turned into
druggery and the person becomes
anything but an active, cheerful and
useful worker in the world’s great
hive of industry. Whenever persons
get into such a condition of mind
that they must be “on the go” all the
time to enjoy anything, such persons
will soon find themselves “on the go”
toward a state of insipidity and gen-
eral inefficiency. The bulk of society
is not made up of those who are am-
bitious for success in business and
one must be possessed of extraordi-
nary ability to divide the time be-
tween the two and attain success in
either.

However, so high an authority as
Russell Sage admits that it would be
well for would-be salesmen to at-
tend debating societies to qualify
themselves to express ideas in an in-
telligent manner on both feet. In
general, we may say that, while so-
ciety is good by way of spice or va-
riety, while it has many useful func-
tions to perform in the development
and refinement of the individual, per-
verted from its true intent, it can also
be transformed into a source of evil.

On the other hand, it lies in the
power of any clerk or salesman to
draw and retain by his pleasant,
straightforward and affable manner,
a circle of customers for his exclu-
sive attention so that they will look
for him and be waited on by no one
else.

Don’t forget that you are not ac-
commodating a customer by waiting
on him—it is the customer that is
accomodating you. It is of no use
to advertise for trade if the customer
is not well treated upon his first visit.
If what he wants is not in stock use
every effort to obtain it; and, no mat-
ter how small the order is, do not
keep the customer waiting for it, but
send it to him. People are continu-
ally changing from one store to an-

 

other and if they do not get the
proper attention from you they will
go where they can get it.

Above all things, know the con-
dition of your stock and where to
put your hand on everything. When
customers are scarce busy yourself
fixing things up ready and convenient
to receive them. There are hundreds
of little odds and ends to do. You
should know what is required to re-
plenish and keep the stock up to the
times and demands of the _ public.
All this acquired information cannot
fail to command the confidence of
your customers, fellow salesmen and
employer.

In any case truthfulness should be
the trump card for securing the con-
fidence of the public so that they will
return again. From a business point
of- view it will pay to have every
employe polite in word and action.
People like to be treated well and
will take pains to go where good ser-
vice abounds. When a merchant is
known to retain polite obliging help,
when his employes are seen to be
neat, careful and quiet, he will have
advantages in holding his trade which
the man who employs rough or un-
couth help will never understand
although he may feel it to his sor-
row.

An expert salesman has a thorough
knowledge of human nature, courte-
ous manners and tact to adapt him-
self to the various humors of the
buyers. Some customers are short
of speech and of few words, others
talkative to a degree of weariness.
To answer the latter in monosyllables
is to send them to the store over the
way where they may find a more ap-
preciative listener. Many buy more
than they intend to because the
salesman is agreeable. To every de-
mand of his customer he is all eye,
all ear, all attention. He explains
what he has in stock without hurry-
ing the customer.

The successful salesman is not
evolved in a day, some being more
apt than others. Know all about the
materials you use—where and how
they are made, why one is better than
another. Your customer will soon
see that your opinion is founded on
something better than guesswork and
his confidence in you will be propor-
tionately increased. The inventive
genius of the age is constantly push-
ing new designs and combinations
ttpon the market in all lines of busi-
ness. It is impossible that you
should get early information of these
except through a journal devoted to
vour interests. Nor should you look
upon a visit to your wholesale house
as time thrown away but rather as
a recreation. You will find someone
in the house ready and willing to give
you all necessary information. In
the course of a few years you will
store up a great fund of experience
that will prove useful to you in many
ways. Thomas A. Major.

—s-_ 2. ——__—_
A Fad of the Season.

Patent leather slippers or black sat-
in slippers are worn not only with
black gowns, but with light ones al-
so by women who think the black
makes their feet look smaller. The
stockings are of openwork design,

 

more or less elaborate, and occasion-
ally are seen embroidered in colored
silk like mauve, pale blue or pink.
Ilowever, the all black is much smart-
er. The satin slippers embroidered
in jet beads are delightfully effective,
but look best with the all black stock-
ings. One of the fads of the season
is to have low shoes or colonial ties
and stockings to match exactly the
color of the reception gown; that is,
if the reception gown be of light col-
ored or white cloth. This fashion is
absolutely incorrect excepting for
carriage or house wear, and would
be shockingly bad form with a walk-
ing skirt; in fact, it is a fashion suit-
able only for reception, theater or
house wear.
——>_0 2 —___
Spanish Refineries Combine.

It is reported that of the eighty or
more beet and cane sugar factories
of Spain, all except two or three have
just been merged into a sugar trust.
The former Finance Minister, Lopez
Puigcerver, has been elected chair-
man of the board of directors. The
beet sugar industry of Spain, although
comparatively young, is already far
more important than the cane sugar
industry. The two together produce
aimost 100,000 metric tons annually,
some of which is exported.

——_> 2. __

It is true that most new things are
false, but it is equally true that the
best things we have were once new.

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Illustrations are good in advertise-
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printed description.

 

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assist you in the preliminary
steps of the undertaking.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip
President, B. D. Palmer, Detroit; Sec-
retary, M. S. Brown, Saginaw; Treas-
urer, H. E. Bradner, Lansing.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan

Grand Councelor, J. C. Emery, Grand Rap-

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int.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
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No Serum Will Kill the Germ of
Road Life.

Pity the traveling salesman
grows old in the harness.

You often hear a salesman wish he
could. get a job off the road some-
where, so he could stay at home.
He'll sit by the hour in your store
and paint pretty little pictures of
vine-clad cottages where he wants to
live and never go away from. He’s
dead tired of the road, he says. He
wants some home life, like other men
And so on and so on and so

who

have
on.

Don’t believe him. He thinks he
means it, but he doesn’t. He’d be
like a fish out of water off the road,
and don’t you forget it.

He’ll deny this, but I know.

I’ve known a good many old sales-
men. They’re tremendously to be
pitied. They’re not happy, although
they have looked forward to leaving
the road for years, in the belief that
they wouldn’t be perfectly happy until
they left it.

IT went to see one of these old fel-
lows the other day. For years I have
gone, more or less regularly, over
the same territory he traveled for a
Baltimore wholesale grocery house
and I’ve gotten to know him pretty
well. Bill was never a crack-a-jack
salesman, but he was a hard worker
and made out fairly well.

He is about 68 years old now, and
left the road about nine months ago.
He lives with his daughter now, down
here in Wilmington, Del.

Bill’s been at me to come see him—
said he was so lonely—so I wrote
him the other day that I’d drop down
about noon.

When I got there Bill was sitting
on a bench at the station waiting for
me, and he nearly ate me up. I’m
sure ke had thoughts of kissing me
once.

We went up to his daughter’s house
and I allowed them to persuade me
to eat a little lunch. Old Bill’s tongue
ciattered through the meal like a
bobbin factory. Had I seen So-and-
So lately? How was So-and-So?
Whom had the firm sent on_ his
route? Had they put on any new
trains yet between So-and-So? How
was business, anyway?

I had to talk with my mouth full
several times.

After we were through, Bill went
up stairs to get something he wanted
to show me and his daughter said:

“Poor father, it worries me so to
see him so uneasy. He can’t stand
this idleness at all—he wants to be
back on the road so! Why, do you
know the poor old fellow goes down
to the station every day, rain or shine,
just to sit there and see the trains go
by. They remind him so of the days
he used to travel, you see. We've

tried to get him something to do

 

here in Wilmington. He’s a good
book-keeper and John (her husband)
could have gotten him in So-and-So’s
office, but he wouldn’t have it—said he
wouldn’t be contented at any but the
one thing.”

Just then Bill came down.

“Well, what shall we do?” I asked.

“Suppose we take a little walk,”
said Bill. He took me out and in ten
minutes we were snugly ensconced on
a bench at the station, “watching the
trains go by.”

Bill followed every train that pass-
ed. “That’s the 4 o’clock express,”
he would say. “She’s going South.
That’s the train I used to take a good
deal.”

Well, I flatter myself that I gave
old Bill a pretty happy afternoon, any-
way. I filled him full of news of
his old territory, where he knew al-
most every man, woman and_ child,
having traveled it for thirty-four
years. He coaxed me to stay all
night—said he’d take me to the thea-
ter if I would, but I knew what that
would mean—it would mean trying to
hear the people on the stage above
old Bill’s clatter.

So I declined and came away. Poor
old Bill followed me clear into the
train and only left when the thing
started. When I looked out the
window as we moved out of Wil-
mington he was standing there look-
ing wistfully after me with his hat
in his hand.

Poor old Bill! Put a sample case
in his hand again and shove him out
on the road and he’d be the happiest
man on earth!

But the trouble is that the old man
can’t compete with age.

I have another salesman in mind.
He hates the road so—or says he
does—that tears come into his eyes
every time he has to leave his wife
and children.

I pitied this fellow—he seemed: so
utterly unhappy, when he left, and
one day I made up my mind that I’d
see if I couldn’t get him a job that
he could stay home in. I broached
the matter to him one day and he
almost cried, he was so eager to
get it.

I found the job. Ed. was a good
book-keeper, and used to follow that
before he went on the road. I suc-
ceeded in getting him a chance as
book-keeper with a_ wholesale oil
house. On the road he was getting
$1,200 a year. The wholesale oil
house said if he was what they want-
ed—and I was sure he would be—they
would pay him $1,400.

So I was considerably elated when
T went to Ed.’s house one night to
tell him. I pictured myself as a sort
of Santa Claus dispensing fat jobs to
those so fortunate as to be my
friends.

Ed. worked hard to seem glad, but
he soon dropped the subject. Before
I left I brought it up again.

“See here, old man,” I said, “what
are you going to do about-this offer?
It's a good thing and exactly what
you’ve been wanting. When shall I
tell these people you'll go to see
them?”

“Wait,” he said, “I’ll call Maggie.”

His wife came in and we laid the

 

 

matter before her. When we got
through she shook her head.

“He'd never be contented in the
world,” she said; “I know him so
well. It’s awfully kind of you to get
the position for him, but I know he’d
be like a fish out of water.”

Ed. sat with an apologetic grin on
twiddling his thumbs.

“Why, Ed., you old salamander!” I
said, “what do you mean, anyway?
You groan around here about want-
ing to get off the road and when I get
you a chance to get off you won’t
take it. You old  stick-in-the-mud,
you!”

“Well, old man,” he said, “you see
it’s like this: I’ve been on the road
for twenty years, and to get off now
would be an awful wrench. I might
be’ happier after I was off, but I am
afraid I’m too old a dog to learn new
tricks. I’ll just have to keep on and
on until I drop in my tracks, and then
I can be brought home on a shutter.”

The: old chump was pitying him-
self so that he would have sobbed
it all out on my shoulder in a minute
if I hadn’t handed him out another
roast for not knowing a good thing
when he got it.

Still, he couldn’t help it—I know
that. When a man gets the germ of
road life in his blood, there isn’t any
serum that will kill it, except death.
At least none that I know of.—Strol-
ler in Grocery World.

—~>- 2 —___
Electric Typewriters.

The electric typewriter is the new-
est thing in writing machines. It
differs little in size and appearance

 

from the machines operated by fin-
ger power, but somewhere in its in-
terior is the mechanism by which the
electric current does its work, The
only thing for the operator to do is
to insert the paper and then touch
the desired keys. Nn strong down-
ward stroke is needed. Electricity
from an ordinary droplight attach-
ment supplies all the power. Increas-
ed speed and the doing away with
“typewriter’s cramp” are some of the
advantages claimed for it.

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The arguments that sell goods in
the store would make good data for
newspaper advertisements.

 

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He who wants a dollar’s worth
For every hundred cents
Goes straightway to the Livingston
And nevermore repents.
A cordial welcome meets him there
With best of service, room and fare.

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

 

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The EAGLE Messengers

Office 47 Washington Ave
F. H. VAUGHN, Proprietor and Manager

Ex-Clerk Griswold House

 

 

 

address

 

GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT

The “IDEAL” has it

(In the Rainy River District, Ontario)
It is up to you to investigate this mining proposition.
personally inspected this property, in company with the presi-
dent of the company and Captain Williams, mining engineer.
I can furnish you his report; that tells the story. This is as
safe a mining proposition as has ever been offered the public.
For price of stock, prospectus and Mining Engineer’s report,

J. A. ZAHN

1318 MAJESTIC BUILDING
DETROIT, MICH.

     
 

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The FOREST CITY PAINT & VARNISH CO.

C.EVELAND, OHIO

to have the agency for the best line of
mixed paints made.

Forest City Mixed Paints

are made of strictly pure lead, zinc
and linseed oil. Guaranteed not to
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Late State Items.

Lawrence—O. D. Allen has taken
possession of the Lawrence Drug Co.

Bendon—Albert Kent, the pioneer
merchant of this section, died Mon-
day.

Muskegon-—-Harris Bros. have put
a new line of fixtures in their drug
store.

Gilford—Merrill Bros. have  pur-
chased the general merchandise stock
and store building of Frank Bliss.

St. Louis—The first load of beets
for the St. Louis Sugar Co.’s new
factory was received Tuesday. The
factory will be finished and beet slic-
ing will commence this week.

Milan—The Milan Creamery Co.,
of which Geo. F. Minto and Homer
C. Sill are the owners, have sold
three plants to the Lime City Cream-
ery Co., of Toledo. Ora Deland, of
Milan, will be manager.

Hastings-—-Robert Dawson, George
Osborn and E. A. Burton have or-
ganized the Hastings Roller Mill Co.
The authorized capital stock is $12,-
ooo, held in equal amounts by the
members of the company.

Battle Creek—-The hardware house
of Charles F. Bock & Son will un-
doubtedly continue. as Bock &
Coates, the firm having been a part-
nership between C. F. and F. F.
Bock and Floyd B. Coates.

Detroit—The Wolverine Chemical
Co. has engaged in the manufacture
of baking powder, fruit extracts and
other sundries. The company wis
organized by Ralph R. Bowdle, who
holds 996 of the 1,000 shares of the
$20.000 capital stock.

Thompson—The Thompson Lum-
ber Co., Limited, has been organized
tc engage in the lumber and mer-
cantile business. The authorized
capital stock is $60,000 and is held in
equal amounts by Fred Cooper, C.
B. Mercorean and J. H. Cole.

Menominee—Freidstein & Lowen-
stein, proprietors of the Lion de-
partment store, will dissolve partner-.
ship Jan. 1, Morris Lowenstein, who
has had the active management of
the’ business heretofore, purchasing
the interest of H. Freidstein, of
Marinette, Wis. Mr. Lowenstein
will continue the business in his own
name.

Kalamazoo—Arad C. Balch, found-
er of the Kalamazoo Cold Storage
Co., of which he was President until
two years ago, died Monday at the
Kalamazoo hospital. He suffered a
stroke of paralysis last June and this
with heart failure was the cause of
his death. Mr. Balch was born Nov.
30, 1823, in Vermont, coming to this
State and city when a young man.
He was always an active worker for
the development of the community.
During the early days of the village
he served a number of terms in dif-
ferent public offices.

Battle Creek—Charles F. Bock, the
o!dest business man in Battle Creek,
and head of the oldest firm in the
city, died suddenly Monday of heart
disease, aged 67 years. He attended
church as usual Sunday, but was tak-
en ill in the night. He had been
in the hardware business here for
over thirty-five years. He left a
widow, one son, who is a member

 

of the hardware firm, and one daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. C. Tanner, of Indianapo-
lis, Ind. Deceased was a prominent
Republican, had been alderman from
his ward, and was formerly President
of the Athelstan club and President
of the Michigan Hardware Dealers’
Association. He was a _ prominent
Mason and Knight Templar.
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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Hudson—Bert Winn has taken a
position as clerk in W. E. Keister’s
grocery store.

McBain—Orville Scott has taken
a clerkship in the grocery store of
Hughston & Co.

Flint—W. W. Smith has been em-
ployed in the shoe department of
Smith, Bridgman & Co.’s store a third
of a century, having taken the po-
sition on July 12, 1870.

Alpena—McKim & Polzin have a
new clerk in the grocery store in
the person of Will J. Trommer, of
Saginaw.

Greenville—Charles Dell, formerly
a drug clerk with C. W. Vining, of
Lakeview, is now in the employ of
W. W. Slawson.

Bay City—W. J. Shannon, formerly
with the Wm. Barie Dry Goods Co.,
Saginaw, has taken a position in the
drapery department of the Boston
store.

Belding—Will Cobb has taken a
clerkship in the grocery store of Rob-
inson & Hudson.

Alma-—Tunis Creech, formerly em-
ployed in Sharrar & Mulholland’s drug
store at this place, has taken a posi-
tion in Randolph’s drug store in St.
Louis.

 

 

 

First Event of the Winter Season.
Grand Rapids, Nov. 16—Grand Rap-
ids Council, No. 131, U. C. T., gave
the first of a series of dancing par-
ties at the St. Cecilia building Sat-
urday night. Music was furnished
by the Heald orchestra. The com-
mittee, composed of Bros. S. H. Sim-
mons, Skillman and Starr, did them-
selves proud. Punch was served on
the side. A large attendance of com-
mercial men and their friends enjoy-
ed the gay and fantastic until mid-
night. The parties this year bid fair
to equal those of last year in popular-
ity. The next party will be a card
party, to be held in the council club
rooms Nov. 28. Come out and have
a good time. “Laugh and the world
laughs with you.” W. S. Burns.

———»>6>____

Cedar Springs Clipper: Dennis J.
Collins, now of Elgin, Ill., who has
a good position as traveling sales-
man for a Madison, Wis., house, and
Miss Louise Enrich, of Grand Rapids,
formerly of Spencer township, were
happily married Nov. 12 and _ their
many friends extend congratulations
to the popular young couple.

—_——__>-2.—_____

Middleville Republican: A _ letter
from Will Jordan this week states
that he is soon to travel through Col-
orado, Arizona and New Mexico. with
the line of W. M. Finck & Co., De-
troit, in whose employ he has been
for some time. Will has a fine posi-
tion and this trip will greatly bene-
fit his health.

———_. 02> —____-
Pay what you owe, and you will
know how much you are worth.

 

Cheap Shades a Bait That Kills.

There is nothing sold in the up-
holstery line that calls for the last-
ing qualities required in the shade
and the shade roller; and yet, as a
matter of fact, during the past few
years, there has been such an enor-
mous amount of truck thrown on the
market that the shade business is
threatened with absolute annihilation.
Here is an article that is a necessity;
it requires little salesmanship to im-
press upon the customer the fallacy
of putting up an anaemic roller made
extra-worthless by the use of an un-
trimmed shade that ravels at the edge
and chokes up the whole contrivance
to standstill. There is nothing that
goes into your customer’s house that
gives such quick evidence of quali-
ty, good or bad, as the shade that is
pulled up or down at a window half
a dozen times a day; and_ still,
because cheap, these goods, which
are ruinous to the reputation, are
recklessly sold to good customers by
firms who are otherwise long-headed
and wise.

It is all well enough to use the
cheap shade as a bait to bring trade
to the store, but what earthly reason
is there for using a bait that kills?
You want to keep your customers
alive to come back again.

You can sell a woman a ruffled cur-
tain at 49 cents, and she knows what
she is getting, but the trouble is that
she does not know what she is get-
ting when she buys a cheap mounted
shade, and if the morality of com-
mercialism does not appeal to you,
bear this in mind, that after a few
weeks’ annoyance in the manipulation
of a poor shade, that customer is
ruined: she’s lost for good; the fact
that it was cheap will never appease
her wrath. The ready-made shade is
of no earthly use to the department
with a workroom, and even in a stock
that runs no workroom the 2-foot
10-inch roller is a misfit in the 3-foot
window; and that’s another evil.
These stock sizes are worked into
all manner of misfit measurements
and constitute invariably a poor
quality article, badly applied. More-
over, there is no monyebgkqjbfgwy

over, there is no money in them.
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Reports of financial transactions in
several cities are to the effect that a
goodly number of people with small
means are improving the opportunity
to buy first-class stocks at the pre-
vailing low figures. The number of
shareholders in the best railroads is
rapidly increasing. Some _ statistics
of the Illinois Central railroad pre-
sented at its annual meeting last week
have verified this statement. A year
ago that company had 7,128 stock-
holders and among them were 5,599
who owned less than too shares, but
who together own over $13,000,000
worth. To-day that company has
8.647 shareholders, of whom 6,728 own
small amounts. In other words there
have been during the year 1,519 small
investors who have put small sums
into the stock of that company. The
experience of the Illinois Central in
this respect is duplicated doubtless in
many other railroads of like standing.
While it may make more book-keep-
ing and a little more trouble in get-

 

ting out the dividend checks, it is not
at all a bad thing for these railroads
to haye a larger number of people in-
terested in their welfare and prosper-
ity. The control remains where it
was before and so there is no inter-
ference with the management, but
every additional stockholder is one
more person solicitous for the pro-
tection and prosperity of the prop-
erty.

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Ignorance and superstition, if they
are not found together, ought to be,
for they are twins.

 

Late Business Chances

 

Meat Business for Sale—In lve town,
doing fifty thousand dollars per year.
Reason for selling, ill health. Address
F. C. Schmidt, Niles, Mich. 907

For Sale—A good paying grocery and
liquor business, on account of ill health.
Address Postoffice Box 256, Jacksonville,
Florida. 922

For Sale-—Stock of hardware in one of
the best towns in Central Michigan; best
location in the town, with large trade.
Address No. 921, care Michigan Trades-
man. 921

For Sale—A saw and planing mill: ca-
pacity 30,000; located in town of 8,000;
200,000,000 feet white pine adjacent. Ad-
dress J. Bundy, Johnston, Moscow, Ida-
ho. 920

For Sale—House furnishing store in
manufacturing town of twelve to four-
teen hundred people; clearing above all
expenses $175 per month: books open for
inspection; and a new home built this
summer; cost $1,400; will sell for $1.100;
stock will invoice about $2,000; will not
sell the store without the home; cash
only will be considered and real estate
agents need not answer. Reason for
selling, business interests demand per-
sonal attention in another state after
the first of the year. Address No. 919,
care Michigan Tradesman. 919

Stores to rent all parts of State. Clark’s
Busine Exchange, Grand Rapids. 915

For » or Trade-—-A good first-class,
three-story brick hotel with all modern
improvements. Will trade for good
land if desirably located. Address M.
W. Moulton, Bellevue, Iowa. 910

A Drug Stock for Sale—Invoices $450
to $500: good town; only drug stock in
town: good reason for selling. A. &
Larabee, Twining, Mich. 917

Druggists, exceptional opportunity!
Will sell whole or fixtures only. Have
two stores and wish to operate but one,
If you have an idea of starting in or
wish to change location, this will bear
inspection. Have good trade and_ small
expense. Address Druggist, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 925

My health having failed me, I have a
stock of undertaking, hearse and _ fine
team of horses, a brick store, also a
dwelling and harn for sale; large terri-
tory to work in; will close out cheap;
write for terms. Charles N. Plymovton,
Pinckney, Livingston Co., Mich. 932

For Sale at 2 Bargain—Up-to-d»te
manufacturing plant, finely equipped for
the manufacture of shirt waists, shirts,
etc. Ready to start immediately: cheap
rent, fine location; also Dayton self-com-
puting seales and cash register. The J.
L. Hudson Company. Detroit. 931

We ean rent your vacant stores in
good towns. Clark’s Business Exchange,
Grand Rapids. 914

For Sale at a Bargain—A neat, clean
stock of ladies’ and men’s _ furnishing
goods, located in a hustling manufactur-
ing town of 4,000 inhabitants. is is a
rare opportunity, if taken at once, for
a person with a small capital to buy a
good established business. Reason for
selling. entire time required for other
business. Address A. Fuhrman, Belding,
Mich. 929

For Sale or Exchange—General stock
merchandise, $6,000; also store building
and large brick hotel; all in small rail-
road town: postoffice in store; good trode;
will exchange for Grand Rapids income
property or good large farm. Address
Lock Box 914, Belding, Mich. 928

For Sale—Kid glove case. For —de-
seription and price address J. D. Raw
Co., Athens, Ohio. 927

For Rent—A shoe space in a depart-
ment store: $3,000 capital required to
stock it. Address Shera & eIntosh,
Connersville, Ind. 933

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Michigan State Board of Pharmacy.
Tee. 31.1908
Wirt P. Doty, Detroit, c. 31,
Cc. B: Stoddard, Monroe, Dec. 31, 1903
John D. Muir, Grand Rapids, Dec. 31, 1905
Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac, Dec. 31, 1906
Henry Heim, Saginaw, Dec. 31, 1907
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—J. Muir, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—W. P. Doty, Detroit.

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.
President—A. L. Walker, Detroit.
First. Vice-President—J. O. Schlotter-

beck, Ann Arbor.

Second Vice-President—J. E. Weeks,

Battle Creek.

Third Vice-President—H. C. Peckham,

Freeport.

Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.
Treasurer—J. Major Lemen, Shepard.
Executive Committee—D. A. Hagans,

Monroe; J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids; W

A. Hall, Detroit; Dr. Ward, St. Clair; H.

J. Brown, Ann Arbor.

Trade Interest—W. C. Kirchgessner,

Grand Rapids; Stanley Parkill, Owosso.

 

A New “Beef” Extract.

It has been accidentally discovered
that the juice of yeast, when evapor-
ated down, looks, smells and _ tastes
like beef extract. Large quantities
of it have been placed on the market
and sold as extract of beef. The
strangest part of this is, that chemical
analysis shows that yeast extract and
beef extract, are practically the same
thing. This is an interesting propo-
sition, and it has been suggested that
the great similarity may possibly be
due to the presence of bacteria termo.
According to the Chemist and Drug-
gist, the two extracts can be distin-
guished by the following test: -

Make a modified Fehling’s solution
by dissolving 200 grs. of sulphate of
copper and 250 ers. of neutral tar-
trate of soda in 4 ozs. of water. Add
to this 250 grs. of caustic soda, dis-
solved in 4 ozs. of water. Dissolve
Io grs. of the sample to be examined
in 1% ozs. of water, and add to it
half a volume of the above solution,
and boil for a minute or two. With
genttine meat extract no precipitation
occurs, but with yeast extract a bulky
curdled precipitate of a bluish-white
color is thrown out, which is almost
insoluble in water. When collected,
washed, dried, and weighed, several
samples of yeast extract have been
found to give approximately 1 gr. of
this precipitate (it looks to the eye
more like 20 gers.) from to grs. of ex-
tract. It naturally varies a little, ac-
cording to the amount of moisture and
ash contained in the sample. Only
one sample of yeast extract has yet
been found which did not respond to
this test, and in that case it readily
reduced the copper.

New York Liquor Sales.

Contrary to the expectation of
many, the law permitting the sale of
liquor in New York State in pint
packages bearing a _ special State
stamp does not seem to have produc-
ed the evil effects predicted by many.
It was said that it would cause the
druggist to compete with the liquor
dealer, also that the liquor selling
druggists are mostly in New York
City. It appears, however, that dur-
ing the first three months of the new
excise law’s operation, 228 stamp
books were issued to druggists of
Greater New York, and 663 to those
in other portions of the State.

Reports of the Board of Pharmacy
show that there are 4,110 druggists in
the State, and of these 2,308 are in

 

 

this city. Therefore, only one in
ten of the pharmacists in the city care
enough for the liquor trade to pur-
chase stamp books, while in the bal-
ance of the State the proportion is
one in three. Assuming that all these
891 books of stamps were used, and
that each stamp was affixed to a full
pint, the total quantity of liquor sold
in drug stores equals 44,550 pints or
5,569 gallons, a small amount as com-
pared with the total sales in the
State, which goes to prove that the
druggist is not much of a_compet-
itor for the liquor trade.
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Process of Making Simple Syrup.

Take of refined, granulated sugar 14
pounds, distilled water one gallon.
Select a small sponge; one of the
cheap variety, ordinarily sold as
slate sponges, will do, provided it be
conical-shaped and has small pores.
(I would suggest that you select sev-
eral from your stock and put them
aside for percolation. They can be
thoroughly washed after using, laid
away in a dry place and used repeat-
edly.) Wet the sponge well, being
careful to squeeze out any excess of
water. Place it snugly in the neck
of the percolator, and holding the
percolator in an _ upright position,
pour in the sugar, tapping the sides
of the percolator gently with the
hand to get the sugar evenly distrib-
uted. Place the percolator in posi-
tion and pour on the distilled water.
If the flow be too rapid it can be reg-
ulated by reaching up into the neck
of the jar with a long pair of tweez-
ers and pulling the sponge down until
the flow is graduated. Return the
first filtered portions to the percola-
tor until the fluid shows clear. Add
enough distilled water to dissolve the
sugar, bringing the volume up to two
gallons. By using distilled water and
following these directions, the prod-
uct will be a nice, heavy syrup, which
will keep indefinitely under ordinary
temperatures. Geo. A. Matthews.

 

Smuggled Synthetics.

An interesting case involving the
disposition of smuggled patetted ar-
ticles seized by the Government is
to be decided shortly in New York.
A quantity of a patented synthetic,
said to be smuggled, was seized by
the custom officers and sold. The
buyer was served with an injunction,
preventing their further sale, at the
instance of the patentees. The Attor-
ney-General’s office maintains that
the Government had a legal right to
sell the goods and that the buyer has
a legal right to again dispose of
them. The patent office, however,
contends that not even the Govern-
ment, in fact, no one but the repre-
sentatives of the patentees has any
right to dispose of the goods.

—-2 =
Decorating Windows.

The first and most important thing
to learn about window dressing is
that you must have nothing more
attractive in your window than the
goods you have for sale. Decorate
them as you will, but always keep
the merchandise first and foremost
to the front. Some windows look
well, yet many simple points are too
often overlooked.

The Drug Market.
Opium—Is weak and lower.
Quinine-—The expected advance

did not take place after the Amster-
dam bark sale, but the article is very
firm.

Morphine—Is_ unchanged.

Carbonate Ammonia—TIs scarce and
has advanced.

Cocaine—Is weak and a decline is
looked for on account of competition.
The crude drug is scarce and higher
and if it was not for the fact that
sellers are so anxious to make sales,
there would be an advance instead
of a decline.

Epsom Salts—Manufacturers have
made another advance of toc per
hendredweight.

Menthol—Is in better supply and
has declined.

Balsam Peru--Is in small supply
and has advanced.

Canada Balsam
higher.

Cubeb Berries—Are very firm and
an advance is looked for.

Oil GCloves—Has again advanced,
on account of higher price for spice.

Oil Wormwood—Is dull and lower.

Oil Anise and Oil Cassia—Are ad-
vancing on account of higher prices
in primary market.

Oil Spearmint—Is
higher.

Oil Pennyroyal—Is dull and
lower.

Oils Sassafras and Wintergreen—
Are both very firm and advancing.

Blood Root—Is scarce and contin-
ues to advance.

Goldenseal, Elecampane and Man-
drake Root—Are higher on acconnt
of scarcity.

Celery Seed—Is tending upward.

Lobelia Seed—Is in smal! supply
and has advanced.

————>_ 2
Liquid Medicinal Soap.

G. Gilbert gives the following for-

mula for preparing fluid medicinal

Fir—Is_ tending

scarce and

soap:

Comon (Or 200 parts.
Alcohol, 91 deg. ........... 300 parts.
AVatee ce es 325 parts.
Caustic soda 0. 45 parts.
Sodium carbonate ........ 10 parts.
BCE 15 parts.
Carbolic acid 2.000000 /000) 25 parts.

Put the oil in a flask of sufficient
size, and add 100 parts water, 200
parts of alcohol and the caustic soda
thereto. After saponification has tak-
en place add the remainder of the al-
cohol. Dissolve the sodium carbon-
ate in the remainder of the water,
add the solution to the foregoing, and
finally add the carbolic acid and the
ether. Agitate all together, and close
the vessel tightly, and keep in a
moderately cool place. The prepara-
tion may be perfumed at pleasure, and
cther medicaments may be added to
or used, instead of carbolic acid.

> 2a
Loose Pestle Handles.

When the handles of pestles be-
come loose, many plans are resorted
to for refastening them. Probably
the best and most convenient is to
fill the opening in the wooden handle
with wet plaster of Paris, press in
the narrow end of the detached pes-
tle, hold in place until the plaster has

 

set, wipe off the excess, and lay aside

 

 

when it will be found about as firm
as when new and equally as endur-
ing. Portland cement can be used in
the same manner as the plaster, and
answers quite as well. Shellac and
sealing wax are frequently used for
this purpose, but they do not make
as firm or as enduring a joint.
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WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
Advanc d—
Declined—
‘ Se eS a igh 50@1 60 Tinctures
Aceticum = :. 2... meperOn ....<...- Aconitum Nap’s R 60
Benzoicum, 75 | Gaultheria
Boracic .......... 17 | Geranium %5 — _ - .
ee S oe Sem onl 1 1091 0 Aloes & Myrrh ... 60
ricum ... edeoma ........
Hydrochlor 5|Junipera ......... 1 50@2 00 fee Tene =
Nitrocum 10 | Lavendula 90 Atrope Belladonna 60
Oxalicum 12 14} Limonis... a Auranti Cortex .. 50
Phosphorium, dil. 15 | Mentha Piper -+--3 30@3 40 Bena oe 60
Salicylicum ...... 42@ 45|Mentha Verid....500@550|pRooin Co 1.11]! 50
Sulphuricum ..... 1% Morrhuae, gal....5 00@5 25 Raroema ...... 50
Tannicum ....... 110@1 2¢ | Myrcia_ .......... 400@4 50 Cantharides _.... 15
Tartaricum ...... 38@ Ole oe. ce 75@3 00 Capsicum ....... 50
mmonta Picis Liquida .... 10@ 12|Girqamon |_|...” 165
Aqua, 18 deg..... 4@ 6) Picis Liquida gal. @ 35 | Gardamon ee. 75
Aqua, 20 deg..... 6 Ls ere eee 90@ Micastor ........... 100
Carbonas *:,. <2... 13 15} Rosmarini ....... @1 0 CHidcin ) 50
Chioridum ....... 12@ 14 ons OS iad. 5 0g . Ginchona 2.0.00." 50
MCCEOE oc cys
Black .......e-.++ 200@225|Sabina 272212212: 99@1 00 | Ginchona Co .... &
a oes Sule = 1 = eco Sie vos ou 2 a = Cubebed le 50
esese se cclsie ces Ss eccccccs Cassia Acutifol .. 50
Wellow 62.20: <2: 2 50@8 00 | Sinapis, ess, oz... g 65 | Cassia Acutifol Co 50
yoy” 22 a Ee ee a ocdie a gle 1 - 1 o> Digitalis ......... 50
Cubebae po. me ek, ane ee 50
Juniperus ........ . Thyme, opt ...... ¢, 60 Fern Chloridum. . 35
Xanthoxylum.- .... 30@ 85|Theobromas ..... 15 20/Gentian .... : 50
——— Potassium Gentian Co . 60
Cubebae ....po. 20 12@ 15/Bi-carb ......... @ 18|Guiaca .......... 50
Peru .......-22-+++ @150 | Bichromate . 15 |Guiaca ammon .. 60
=. Canada.. oo = Bromide e Si: Hyoscyamus ..... 50
Olutan ........-- 40@ OlCarb ............ foe 5
Cortex Chlorate 0 17@19 186@ 18 | Iodine, colorless. . 75
Abies, Canadian.. 18 | Cyanide Lieder 38 [Kino 22. c. 00004. 50
Cassiae .......... 12 |Todide ........... 2 30@2 40 | Lobelia 50
Cinchona Fiava.. 18 | Potassa, Bitart pr 28@ 30| Myrrh 50
Euonymus atro.. 30|Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10|Nux Vomica 50
Myrica Cerifera.. 20] Potass Nitras im Sioa 2s... 75
Prunus Virgini.... 12} Prussiate ........ 3@ 26|Opil, comphorated 50
Quillaia, gr’d..... 12] Sulphate po ...... 15@ 18 |Opil, deodorized .. 150
Sassafras ..po. 18 14 Quassia .......... 50
Ulmus . .25, gr’d.. aceite 5.2... 20@ 25|Rhatany 50
oa Althae 30@ 33|Rhei ..... 50
Glycyrrhiza Gla... 24@ 30 Reheat 10@ 12 |Sanguinaria 50
Glycyrrhiza, po... 28@ 30 ‘Arum po es 25 | Serpentaria nae 50
Haematox ......- 1@ 12) Galamus 20@ 40|Stromonium ...... 60
Haematox, 1s.... 13 14 Gentiana po 15 12 15 | Tolutan ......... 60
Haematox, %s.... 14@ 1 Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18| Valerian ......... 50
Haematox, %s.... 16@ 17 : Veratrum Veride.. 50
Gerri Hydrastis Cana.. 85 Zingiber 20
Carbonate Precip. 15 a ure ae 7.
Citrate and Quinia 2 25 Inula. po oc an 18 29 Miscellaneous
Citrate Soluble .. 75 Ipec: de sll wi i =
Ferrocyanidum = 40 Iris pi ae — Aether, Spts Nit 3 uo 35
Solut. Chloride.. 15 Jalapa, p i Aether, Spts Nit 4 34 38
Sulphate, com’l.. 2 Marsata. 30 @ Alumen, gr’'dpo7 3 4
Sulphate, com’l, by Podophyilum a 22@ 25 Awmngtte) .5.000..< 40 50
bbl, per cwt.. 80 | phe 7 P Z Antimoni, po .. 4 5
Sulphate, pure 7 RHA cue kL gi Antimont et PoT ee °
Flora 5@ 18 | Rhel: Antifebrin "....... @ 20
Aves ec... = 3s Spigella 5@ 3 Argenti Nitras, oz @ 46
Anthemis .......- @ 25/Sanguinari po 22. @ 22 Arsenicum ....... 10@ 12
Matricaria ....... 30@ 35 Serpentaria ...... 65@ 29|Balm Gilead bu ds, 45@ 50
Folia Sene; sss teeees 75@ 85 Bismuth S N 2 20@2 30
Barosma ......... 30@ 33] Smilax, offi’s H . @ 40 Calcium Chlor, “is 9
Cassia Acutifol, Smilax, BE eee @ 25 Calcium Chlor, %s 10
Tinnevelly ..... 20% 25|Scillae ...... po 35 10@ 12 | Gaicium Chlor, {s @ 12
Cassia, Acutifol.. 25@ 30 Symplocarpus ee @ 2% Cantharides, Rus. 95
Salvia officinalts, Valeriana Eng... g 25 Capsici Fruc’s af.. g 20
%S — RS... 2 = eee Ger = @ = Capsici_Fruc’s po.. g 22
Uva TSE ce meiper ae - 2.2.2.5: a Capi Fruc’s B po. 15
GummI Zingiber j ........ 16@ 20/Caryophyllus .... 22@ 25
Acacia, 1st pkd. @ 6 Semen Carmine. No 40... gs 00
Acacia, 2d pkd. S 45] Anisum ....po. @ 16|Cera Alba........ 50@ 55
Acacia, 3d pkd.. 35} Apium (gravel’s). 13@ 15|Cera Flava ...... 49@ 42
Acacia, sifted sts. _@ 28/Bird, 1s ......... 4@ 6|Coccus ........... 4
Acacia, po........ — 65 |}Carui ...... 15 10@ 11]|Cassia Fructus .. 35
Aloe, Barb....... 12@ 14/Cardamon ....... 70@ 9)/|Centraria ........ 10
Aloe, Cape........ @ 25|Coriandrum ..... 8@ 10] Cetaceum @ 45
Aloe, Socotri - @ 30/Cannabis Sativa .6%@ 7{|Chloroform a “$5 60
Ammoniac ....... 55@ 60/Cydonium ....... 75@100|Chloro’m, Squi
Assafoetida ..... 35@ 40 | Chenopodium 25@ 30]Chloral Hyd Cr. 1 — 60
Benzoinum ....... 50@ 65 |Dipterix Odorate. 80@100|Chondrus ........ 20@ 25
Catechu, 1s....... 13 | Foeniculum ..... @ 18 Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
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Euphorbium ..... @ 40|Lobelia .......... 75@ 80]|Creosotum ....... g 45
Galbanum ........ @100 an Cana’n 6@ 7|Creta ...... bbl 75 2
Gamboge ....po...125@135/Rapa ............ 5@ 6/|Creta, prep ...... g 5
Guaiacum ..po. 35 85 | Sinapis Alba .. 7@ 9jCreta, precip .... 9@ 14
Kine .....: ‘po. 75c¢ 75 | Sinapis Nigra .... 9@ 10|Creta, Rubra .... e 8
Mastic -......2-.. g ¢ Spiritus Crecus .. 25.2... 45 50
ayere . po. 45 P Cadbear .:<..6i). @ 24
Opi soe 3 s0@s 50 Frumenti W D.. — —_ = Cupri Sulph ..... : 6%@ 8
Shellac Os 65 ee pe one: i =< 2 op | pextrine ........ @ 10
Shellac, bleached. Bo 60 oo Pood 175@3 50 Ether Sulph ...... 78@ 92
Tragacanth ..... 70@1 00 a pers (Out mery, all Nos... @ 8
accharum NE ..190@210|mery, po ...... 6
Herba Spt Vini Galli ..-175@6 50 — po 90 8@ 90
Absinthium, oz pk 25! vini Oporto ..... 125@2 00] Flake White 12@ 15
Eupatorium ox pk 20} vini Alba .......: 1 25@2 00 | Galla 1 "@ 23
eure ue — = = Gambler ee 8@ 9
aiorum. ..o£ pk... 38! =:  ‘Sponces. ..._ | Gambler..........-
Mentha Pip oz pk 23 | Florida ae = Sane Comer se 56 =
Mentha Vir oz pk 25 COPrIaee. lea ss 2 50@2 75 Ciaswnre fit hae 75 & 5
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Tanacetum V..... 22 carriage ....,.. : 2 50@2 75 Ghas, boon =o @ 2B
Thymus V ..oz pk 25 | Velvet extra shps Glue. a 15 25
Magnesia eee eee C8 | ectan |... 1T%@ 25
Calcined, Pat..... 55@ 60 | Extra yellow shps @125|Grana Paradisi .. 25
Carbonate, Pat... 18@ 20 cance , _ lage 1 Peed 25@ 655
Carbonate K-M.. 18@ 20) Tass § Cepe | 109 |Hydrarg Ch Mt. @ 95
Carbonate ....... 18@ 20 Hard. ao teens Hydrarg Ch Cor . 90
ard, slate use... 100 Hydrare Ox R 105
oe 00@3 25 | Yellow Reef, for a - @1
Absinthium ..... slate use ...... @1 40 | Hydrarg Ammo’ @1 15
Amygdalae, Dulc. 50 60 Egrare Toane™ 50 60
Ante seebmres 3 80 : 8 | a. ba ai @ 50 Eine Am. 65 70
Auranti Cortex. ..2 10@2 20 Auranti Cortex @ 50|Indigo ......... 75@1 00
Bergamii ........285@3 25 |Zingiber ......... @ 50|Iodine, Resubi 3 40@3 60
Caja: ..-..-.-- 10@1 15 cca See oe @ 60|Iodoform ........ 60@3 85
en a ae jek 135@140| Ferri Iod ........ @ 50|Lupulin ......... 50
se a rg aio 3 70|Rhei Arom ...... - @ 50|Lycopodium ..... 65 70
Chenopadii sale eae Smilax Offi’s 50 60 OES cite cas bau 65 75
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Conium Mac..... 8 90 | Scillae Co ....... 50 | Liq Potass Arsinit 10 12
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Menthol ......... 7 25@8 00 | Sapo, G .......-.. @ 15/Lard, No. 1...... 60@ 65
i. Solenits Mixture.. 20@ 22/ Linseed. pure raw 36@ 39
Morphia, 8 P & W.2 35@2 60 |Sinapis .......... @ 18|Linseed: boiled .. 37@ 40
Morphia, SN Y¥ Q.2 35@2 60| Sinapis, opt ..... @ 30) Neatsfoot, wstr.. 65@ 70
pine many daae -+++2 35@2 = Snuff, Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine. 64 68
Myristica, No.1, 38@ 40 ic ce Se ae ale cae Paints — bbI_
Nux_Vomica.po 15 10 oy Boras oo 9@ 11|Red Venetian....1% 2 =
Oe Sep ......-. 259 28 | Soda, Boras, po.. 9@ 11| Ochre, yel Mars 1% 2
Pepsin — H& Soda. et Pot’s Tart 28@ 30 Ochre, yel Ber ..1% 2
PD Co oe @1 00 | Soda, Carb . 1%@ 2|Putty, commer'l.2% a4O3
Picis Liq NN% Soda. Bi-Carb .... 3@ Putty, strictly pr. 214 2% @3
wal Goe ........ @2 00 Soda, Ash a 3%@ 4 Vermillion, Prime
Picis Liq, ats. @100|Soaa’ Sulphas 1. -@ 2| American ...... 13@ 15
Picis Liq, pints.. @ Spts, Cologne oe @260\| Vermillion, Eng.. te 75
Pil Hydrarg .po 80 g 50/Spnts’ Ether Co... 50@ 55|Green, Paris ... 18
Piper Nigra .po 22 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom 2 00 | Green, Peninsular i3o 16
Piper Alba Aba 35 @ 30 Spts. Vini Rect bbl EM, WO coco ueas % 7
Plix Burgun ...... me 7 Spts. Vi'i Rect % b @ Lead, white ..... 6%@ T°
Plumbi ‘a sea es 12 Spts. Vi'i R’t 10 el ; Whiting, white S’n @ 90
Pulvis Ip’c et Opii.1 5001 50 Sots, Vi'i R't 5 gal @ Whiting, Gilders.’ @ 9%
Pyrethrum, bxs H Strychnia, Crystal 90@115| White, Paris, Am’r @1 25
Co. doz.. @ 75 Sulphur, Sobl ... 24%@ 4 Ww ae &, Paris, Eng
Pyrethrum, pv .. 25@ 30 Sulphur, Roll ....24%@ 3% weet Ualetlay @1 40
Quassine ........ ¢ 10 Tamarinds ...... 8 U ae ersal Prep'd.110@1 20
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Quinia, NY... 27q 37 | Lheobromae ..... 00m » | No. 1 Turp Coach.t 10@1 20
Rubia Tinctorum. 12 14 | Zinci Sulph eg aang 7™@ 8 Peete TOP oo. ass 1 60@1 70
Saccharum La’s 20 22 sc ea Coach Body ..... 2 75@3 00
SOIOM 53 eves . 14 50@4 75 Oils No. 1 Turp Furn.100@110
Sanguis Drac’s... 40@ 50 bbl gal} Extra T Damar..155@1 60
meee WN esa cues 12@ 14| Whale, winter 70@ 70|Jap Dryer No 1T 70@
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_MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

 

Mica, tin boxes.......75 908
Paragon...............05 600
BAKING POWDER
Royal

% Ib. cans 2 50
% Ib. cans 8 75
7 1b. cans. 4 80
m.. 31b. cans 13 00
— 5 Ib. cans. 21 50

 

BLUING

Arctic, 4 0z. ovals, per gross 4 00 TH

Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross6 00
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross9 00

BREAKFAST FOOD

Nie CTiay

Feat Read a
SS ee

Cases, 24 1 Ib. packages..... 270

Oxford Flakes.

No.1 A, per case........... 3 €0
No. 2 B, per case... ......... 8 60
No. 3 C, per case.
No.1 D per case..
No. 2 D, per case,..

  

 

 

CHEWING GUM

Gelery Nerve

1 box, 20 packages..........
5 boxes lo carton..,......... 2 0

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Brands.

Treen

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freee le

 

White House, 1 Ib. cans.....
White House, 2 Ib. cans.....

 

 

 

Java and Mocha a ao.
Distributed = sanean Grocer
Co., Grand ids; National
Grocer Co., Be oit and Jack.
son; B. Desenbe & — Kal-
amazoo, Symons & Co.,
Saginaw; Meisel @ C Goeschei
Bay City; Fielbach Co., Toledo.

CONDENSED MILK

 

 

No. 3 D, per case .......... 8 60
No. 1 E, per case........... 3 60
= : E. per cass. .......... 8 os
° DarGeee. <2. 3 60] Gall Borden Me
No. 8 F, per case........... 8 60 ee “$3
470
Grits am
440
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. —.
SOAP
Beaver Soap Co. brands
———— < 7
Cases, 24 2 lb. packages..... 2 00 WONDER
c1aaRs SOAP]
@. J. Johnson Cigar Co.'s brand. 100 cakes, large size......... 6 50
60 cakes, large size......... 3 25
100 cakes, small size......... 3 85
Cc 50 cakes, small size......... 1 95
Tradesman Co.’s brand
Leas than 500...........:... 33 00
OUP OF MOrTe........ 25. oo cse 82 or
1080 or more...... : si er
COCOANUT
Black Hawk one box....... 2 50
Black H wk, five boxes ....2 40
Black Hawk, ten boxes. ....2 25

 

70 14\b packages, per case % 60
35 “lb packages, per case 2 60

lb packages,
ie il b packages, percase 2 60

 

TABLE SAUCES

LEA &
1 PERRINS’
SAUCE

The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.
& Perrin’s, pints...... 5 00
Hated ans) a. A [2
Halforé, email... coos cess coce 3

 

 

Coupon
Book
System

Place Your
Business
ona
Cash Basis

by using -
Coupon Books.
We
manufacture
four kinds

of

Coupon Books
and
sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape
or

denomination.
We will
be
very
pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us..
They are

free.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids

 

 

 

We Are the ae
Mail Order House
in the World--- .

WHY?

Because we were the pioneers and originators
of the wholesale mail order system.

Because we have done away with the expen-
sive plan of employing traveling salesmen
and are therefore able to undersell any
other wholesale house in the country.

Because we issue the most complete and best
illustrated wholesale catalogue in the world

Because we have demonstrated beyond a shad-
ow of a doubt that merchants can order
more intelligently and satisfactorily from a
catalogue than they can from a salesman
who is constan‘ly endeavoring to pad his
orders and work off his firm’s dead stock.

Because we ask but one price from all our cus-
tomers, no matter how large or how small
they may be.

Because we supply our trade promptly on the
first of every month with a new and com-
plete price list of the largest line of mer-
chandise in the world.

Because all our goods are exactly as repre-
sented in our catalogue.

Because ‘Our Drummer” is always “the drum-
mer on the spot.”? He is nevera bore, for
he is not talkative. His advice is sound
and conservative. His personality is in-
teresting and his promises are always kept.

Ask for catalogue J.

BUTLER BROTHERS

WHOLESALERS OF EVERYTHING — BY CATALOGUE ONLY
New York Chicago St. Louis

 

 

 

 

MOOFG & WUkes

MERCHANDISE BROKERS
Office and Warehouse, 3 N. lonia St.

$ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
. + +SASRWAGAGre OOODSOOS

 

 

New Century Flour

A guaranteed confidence winner
to both dealer and consumer

 

 

WHY?

Because we use nothing but Michi-
gan’s best wheat which is thoroughly
cleaned seven times by best machin-
ery that can be bought, which gives
best possible results.

One order will convince the most
particular.

Write for prices.

Caledonia Milling Co.
Caledonia, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COUPON
BOOKS

 

same _ basis,

Are the simplest, safest, cheapest
and best method of putting your
business On a cash basis. w w w
Four kinds of coupon are manu-
factured by us and all sold on the
irrespective of size,
shape or denomination.
ples on application. ww ww ww

Free sam-

 

 

TRADESMAN
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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CALENDA

 

 

 

NATURE TO THE RESCUE.

Wm. J. Clarke & Son

Grocers and Clothiers

Harbor Springs, Michigan

 

1904 JANUARY 1904

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The above is a sample of one of the many kinds and sizes of calendars of which we are the
most extensive makers in Michigan. We will send you samples and prices if you will tell us what

— TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

   

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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMEN

 

Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent UA a6 ae mn aO)

subsequent continuous insertion.

No charge less than 25 cents.

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Geo. M. Smith Safe Co., agents for one
of the strongest, heaviest and best fire-
proof safes made. All ‘kinds of second-

 

 

 

hand safes in stock. Safes opened and
repaired. 376 South Ionia street. Both
phones. Grand Rapids. 926
For Sale—The leading drug store in
West Lebanon, Ind. Store on good pay-
ing basis. Proposition will be sold for
invoice value, or about $3,000. W. N.
Menefee, West Lebanon, Ind. 908

 

 

 

For Saie—A small stock of drugs, pat-
ents and fixtures at Ferry, Oceana Co.,

 

 

 

Mich. Invoice about $275. Will sell ar
a bargain if taken at once. Good open-
ing for physician. Address Fred Brun-
dage, Muskegon, Mich. 916
Busihess Opportunity—Drug store, in-
cluding drugs, chemicals, patent medi-
cines and fixtures for sale, to be re-
moved from the premrses; actual cost
over $4,000; 25 per cent. discount for
cash. Fixtures include soda fountarn,
shelving. counters, up-to-date prescrip-
tion case with plate-glass mirror, six

show-cases good as new, National cash
register, 1 torsion balance prescription
scale, 1 torsion balance counter seale,

and latest improved electric fan. Stock-
ed with Merck’s chemicals, Wyeth’s pow-

dered extracts, medicinal elixirs, Sharp
& Dohme’'s pills, tablets and fluid ex-
tracts; no old stock, practically new
store. It will pay you to investigate this

offer. Recent death
quick sale necessary.
particulars, J. D.

in tamily makes

Apply at once for

Simons, Braddock, Pa.
909

 

Have cash customer for good $1,000
to $1,500 drug stock in good Southern
Michigan town. Clark’s Business Ex-
change, Grand Rapids. 913

For Sale—An interest in a piano busi-

 

ness to a man capable of assuming the
management. Present owner has other
interests that require his attention.

Business is located in the best city in the
country; well established and will pay
ten thousand a year to the right man.
Address Box 1315, Pittsburg, Pa. 906
For Rent—Crockery and house furnish-
ing department. including carpets, if de-
sired, in the most popular department
store in the best town in Upper Michi-

gan. Store does a strictly cash business
and is thoroughly established. Modern
building. Size. of space for rent. 50x100.

Answers must state full particulars and
sive references or no attention will be
paid. Address Opportunity, care Michi-
gan Tradesman.

For Sale—A.shoe factory in a middle
Western city having a good paying busi-
ness and good class of customers. A big
bargain for anyone looking for a good in-
vestment. Will give satisfactory reasons
for selling. Address No. 904, care Michi-
gan ‘Tradesman. 904

$50,000 will secure one of the best lo-
cated plants in New York State; stock
is in prime condition for present season
with slight additions. Business can do,

250,000 annuaHy. Lease of store and fix-
tures unrestricted. Stock consists of dry
goods, suits, millinery, carpets, ete. Ad-
dress Hirschmann Bros. Company, Bing-
hamton, N. Y. 2

For Sale—One of the best paying drug
stores in Grand Rapids. Good location,
clean stock, invoicing about $4,000. Ad-
dress No. 897, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

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For Sale or Exchange—One 75 barrel
roller process flouring mill, one bean ele-
vator, one portable sawmill, 160 acre Ne-
braska farm and other property to ex-
change for merchandise. A. Hawley,
Leslie, Mich. 887

For Sale—Are you looking for an es-
tablished business doing $25,000 a year
in a hustling manufacturing town of
5,000? Good farming country. If so, here
is your opportunity. Owner going West.
Clean hardware stock invoicing about

 

$7,000. If you are interested, write me
to-day. Address J. K., care Michigan
Tradesman. 883

For Sale—Having other business to
attend to I will sell a complete creamery
in running order; gasoline power: con-
trols large territory; good opening for
the man who understands the hand sep-
arator system; will sell half interest if
desired. Address Box 63, Platte, S. D.

895

 

Nice clean men’s
sale. A
Box 90, St.

893

« stock of clothing,
furnishings, store fixtures for
bonanza. Investigate.
Charles, Mich.
Wanted—Partner
ishing business.
50,000.
Bend,

in clothing and furn-
s Best location in city of
Rich & Rich, Attorneys, South
Ind. 892

 

For Sale—Grist mill in center of dairy
district, 44 miles west from Chicago. J.
J. Spalding, Elburn, Ill. 891

For Sale—A Lamson cash and package
carrier system; three stations, in perfect
order; been used only one season; price
$90 cash. For particulars address Mit-
chell Bros. & Cherry, Mason City, _—"

 

 

Wanted—Good farm in Southern Mich-
igan in exchange for new clean general
stock and building; valuation, $5,000. Ad-
dress No. 899, care Michigan a

 

‘Lo Exchange—-A ten-room house on
paved street for stock of merchandise;
balance in cash. 80 Fitzhugh St., Grand
Rapids. 885

For Sale or Trade—80 acres One and
one-half miles from Brutus. 321144 Lake
St., Petoskey, Mich. 894

For Sale—On account of other inter-
ests, we offer for sale a stock of gro-
ceries and bazaar goods. The stock is
fresh, centrally located and a first-class
opening for a hustling business man
who can attend to it. In a good brick
store, rent reasonable. Address The
Bell Store, care J. K. Sharpe & Co., Big
Rapids, Mich. 884

I am the inventor of a wonderfully fas-
cinating nickel-in-the-slot game of skill.
Lawful everywhere. My friends say it
is sure to make a fortune. Would you
like to join in my good luck? Write for
liberal proposition. It explains every-
thing. Disc Rolling Game Co., Detroit,
Mich. 912

For Sale or Exchange—A $40,000 tract
of Illinois land; 1,600 acres; good soil;
well worth $50,000; want merchandise
for all, or small farm or city property
part pay. Write for map and descrip-
tion. Box 82, Wetaug, Il. 882

For Sale—Rare chance. One of only
two general stores in best village in
Genesee county. Write for description.
Address No. 881, care Michigan Trades-
man. 881

 

 

 

For Sale or Trade—130 acre farm.
houses, cattle and tools, five miles south-
east Lapeer. Will trade for stock of mer-
chandise. Geo. E. Dent, Lapeer, —"

 

For Sale—Good building for general
stock of merchandise in nice clean Iowze
business town. Good corn, wheat and
stock section. Address H., care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 876

Stock of clothing, boots and shoes for
sale. Valued at about eight thousand dol-
lars. Sixteen thousand in cash, net, clear-
ed from stock during past three years.
Good brick store room in which stock
is located also for sale or for rent. Ad-
dress T. J. Bossert, Lander, Wyoming. 877

For Sale—A new $2,500 stock of cloth-
ing. men’s furnishings, hats and caps, in
one of the best Southern Mjchigan towns.
surrounded by the best farming country
in Michigan; population 1,200; large fac-
tory employing 250 and 300 people, most-
ly men and boys; new store building.
plate glass windows, electric light; next
door to Postoffice; rent reasonable; stock
can be reduced to suit buyer. Reason for
selling, have other business. Address No.
878. care Michigan Tradesman. 878

For Sale—Furniture and five year lease;
100 room American plan hotel in city of
100,000 population in California; rent
$200 per month; gross annual receipts
$25,000; price $8,500 cash. J. R. Richards,
Hotel Brokers Company, Los =

 

 

Cal.
For Sale—Dayton computing scale.
Been used short time. As good as new.

First cost $88; will take $70. Address
Youngman & Bishop, Lakeview, Mich. 869

Cash for goods! Old stock sold—money
in the bank Trade boomed—all worry

gone! It is done by Buehrmann’s Reg-
ulating Sales. 1103 Schiller Building, Chi-
cago. Write. 865

 

An unusual opportunity to obtain. an
old-established grocery business located
on the best retail street in Grand Rapids.
Yon't answer unless: vou have at least
$1,500 in cash. No trades Will deal with
principies only. Address No. 874, care
Michigan Tradesman. 874

For Sale at Once—General stock, in-
ventorying about $4,000, all bought with-
in last seven months; located in town
of 50¢ inhabitants; summer resort town,
surrounded by good farming country;
best location in town; stock can be re-
duced; must sell at once for cash: liberal
offer; other business to look after. H.
E. Hamilton, Crystal, Mich, 85.

Good opening for dry goods: first-class
store to rent in good location. H. M. Wil-
liams, Mason, Mich. 858

 

.furnish good

For Sale—My entire stock of furniture,
crockery and notions; established in
1880; best location in the city; best of
prospects ahead; business this season
more than 100 per cent. over last; part
cash; easy terms; only one exclusively
new line in competition. Because of fail-
ing health, my physician says I must
have outdoor work. An excellent chance
for a hustler. Correspondence solicited.

C. Smith, Petoskey. 84

For Sale or Would Exchange for Small
Farm and Cash—Store, stock and dwell-
ing, about $5,000. Address No. 857, care
Michigan Tradesman. 857

Store Building, 28x133,
acetaline gas, plate glass front.

 

furnace heat,
Will sell

or rent. Good opening for general store.
Located at Elmira, Mich. Address M.
Fordham & Co., Spokane, Wash. 870

 

Wanted—Stocks of merchandise for im-
proved and wild farm lands. W. F.
Poole, 2126 Gladys av., Chicago, Ill. 852

Administrator’s Sale—Saw mill com-
nlete, consisting of two boilers, 34 and 36
feet, 36 inch shell, engine 12x20, cable
gear saw rig, patent edger, lath machine,
cutoff saw and Perkins gummer, and
small tools which go with plant. Ad-
dress Hiram Barker, Administrator, Pier-
son, Mich. 755

 

For Sale—420 acres of cut-over. hard-
wood land, three miles north of Thomp-
sonville. House and barn on premises.
Pere Marquette railroad runs across one
corner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will © ex-
change for stock of merchandise of: any
kind. C. C. Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St.,
Grand Rapids. 835

For Sale—Shoe stock doing a business
of $15,000 per year, in good manufactur-
ing and railroad town in Southern Michi-
gan of 5,000 population. Best stock and
trade in city. Reason for selling, health.
Will take part cash and part bankable
paper in payment. No property trade en-
tertained. Address No. 811, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 811

Good opening for first-class jeweler if
taken at once. Address No. 794, care
Michigan Tradesman. 794

For Sale—Two-story frame store build-
ing and stock of general merchandise for
sale cheap, or will exchange for real es-
tute. Stock and fixtures will inventory
about $2,500. Address No. 775, care
Michigan Tradesman. 775

For Rent—Fine location for a depart-
ment or general or dry goods |store.
Large stone building, three entrances, on
two main business streets. Rent, $100
per month. Vacant Jan. 1, 1904. Don’t
fail to write to Chas. E. Nelson, Wau-
kesha, Wis. 830

For Sale—$1,600 stock of jewelry,
watches and fixtures. New and clean
and in one of the best villages in Central
Michigan. Centrally located and rent
cheap. Reason for selling, other busi-
ness interests to look after. Address No.
733, care Michigan Tradesman. 733

For Sale or Exchange—143 acre farm
in Clare county, eighty acres stumped ana
stoned; good buildings; eighty rods to
good school and two and one-half miles
from shipping point and market; value,
$2,600. S. A. Lockwood, Lapeer, —"

We want a dealer in every town In
Michigzn to handle our own make of fur
coats, gloves and mittens. Send for
catalogues and full particulars, Ellsworth
& Thayer Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 617

One trial will prove how quick and
well we fill orders and how much money
we can save you. Tradesman Company.
Printers, Grand Rapids.

Dividends—It is dividends you want if
you buy stock. Many Michigan people
are interested as stockholders in a very
rich producing gold mine in California I
recently visited. Only a little more of
the stock can be bought. For particulars
send for free copy of my Mining Bulle-
tin. Edwin Fernald, 119 Griswold St.,
Detroit. Mich. 860

MACHINERY FOR SALE.

For Sale—Second-hand machinery, in-
cluding engines, lathes, iron and wood
planers, band -saw, drill presses, emery
grinders, steam pumps, a tin scrap bal-

 

 

 

ing press, ten ton jib crane, moulding
machines. blowers, cupolas, tumbling
mills, vises, shafting, boxes, hangers;

also a miscellaneous lot of foundry equip-
ment. Rice & Co., 157 North Ottawa St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 924

MISCELLANEOUS. a

Wanted—A good book-keeper and ex-
press man, married man preferred. Must
references. Address A.
Cantwell, Chesaning, Mich, 889

 

complete
how;

care Michigan

J. E. Darrah,

 

Write Your Own Advertisements—Our
instruction book teaches you
simple, comprehensive, invaluable;

no merchant or ambitious clerk should

be without it; hundreds sold daily. Price,
50
Co., 86 Baldwin Block, es:

cents. Address Specialty Publishing

 

Wanted at Once—A registered phar-
macist. State salary expected and send
references. Young man preferred. Frank
E. Heath, Middleville, Mich. 871

Young Man—Bright, over 18, to pre-

 

pare for Government position. Good sal-
ary. Permanent. Gradual promotion.
Box 570, Cedar Rapids, Ia. _ 862 ©

 

POSITIONS WANTED.
Wanted—Position as clothing or shoe

 

salesman; five years’ experience; best ref-
erences.

Address Box 239, _.

ich.
Situation
stenographer.

 

Wanted—Book-keeper ana
Young lady, Al double

entry book-keeper and fair stenographer,
competent to take entire charge of of-

fice, desires position of - responsibility.
Gilt edge references. Address Wyliis,
Tradesman. 911

Wanted—A position as manager of
town drug store; registered, good buyer,
trusty, temperate, good general educa-

tion. Address No. 856, care Michigan
Tradesman. 856

SALESMEN WANTED.
Wanted—A traveling salesman. Walsh-
DeRoo Milling Co., Holland, Mich. 930

Wanted—Ten traveling fur salesmen at
once with Detroit Fur Co., Detroit, —"

Wanted—Salesmen to sell as side line
or on commission Dilley Queen Washer.

 

 

 

 

 

Any territory but Michigan. Address

Lyons Washing Machine Company,
Lyons, Mich. 658
Wanted—Clothing salesman to

orders by sample for the finest merchant
tailoring produced; good opportunity to
grow into a splendid business and be
your own “‘boss.’’ Write for full infor-
mation. E. L. Moon, Gen’l Manager,
Station A, Columbus, O. 458

 

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

I'he Hoosier Hustler, the noted merchan-

dise auctioneer, carries the largest and

best book of reference of any living man

in the business. Now selling stock for

Greenfield, Iowa. For

= and reference book address Box
. 901

 

 

Cash! Cash! Cash! for your stock, or
will close out at your own place of busi-
hess at private sale or auction. Special
sales made for merchants. Write for
full information. C. L. Yost & Co., 557
Forest Ave., West, Detroit, Mich. 900

H. C. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
tioneers. Stocks closed out or reduced
anywhere in the United States. New
methods, original ideas, long experience,
hundreds of merchants to refer to: We
have never failed to please. Write for
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
bash ave., Chicago. (Reference, Dun’s
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