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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1904

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responsible; direct demand system. Collections
made everywhere—for every trader.

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Total Issues
of
State, County, City, School District,
Street Railway and Gas

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Correspondence Solicited.

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William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres.
M. C. Huggett, Secy-Treasurer

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING
MANUFACTURERS

28-30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Twenty-seven companies! We have a
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and in case of failure in any company you

are reimbursed from the trust fund of a
successful company. ‘The stocks are all

withdrawn from sale with the exception of
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customer.

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.

Page.

2. Window Trimming.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.

8. Editorial.
10. The Hired Man.

12. Butter and Eggs.
13. New York Market.

14. Dry Goods.

16, Clothing.

19. Do It Now.
20. Leaf From Life.
24. Woman’s World.
26. Hardware.
28. Vegetable Windows.
30. Shoes.
32. Hoodoo Coin.
33. Cleanliness, Godliness.
34. Clerks’ Corner.
36. Skeptic and Enquirer.
37. Hardware Price Current.
38. Cut Soles.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs--Chemicals.

43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery Price Current.
46. Special Price Current.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

General distribution in the North
and West is still seriously interrupt-
ed by the effects of floods and the
consequent congestion of freights in
most centers. Conditions are improv-
ing as rapidly as could be expected,
but it necessarily takes time to again
reach the normal. Then the slow
approach of spring after the long and
severe winter causes delay in many
lines of trade and in the active prose-
cution of industrial enterprises. But
on every hand is found preparation
for an active season. Buying for
spring trade is on a liberal scale and
building projects are confing forward
in a way that promises no abatement
as compared with any past period. In
some of the principal centers organ-
ized labor controversies are becom-
ing somewhat serious, but the spirit
and firmness with which these are
being met promise to limit the se-
riousness of the disturbances.

There were too many adverse influ-
ences in the stock market for any
material activity, but its course show-
ed a degree of firmness which prom-
ises healthy conditions when these
temporary hindrances are no longer
effective. Railway earnings are nec-
essarily much demoralized by weath-
er conditions and floods, yet in the
aggregate they are only second to
last year’s climax of activity. As an
indication of the strength and confi-
dence of the financial world the Penn-
sylvania placed a $50,000,000 loan at
4% per cent. for eighteen months,
which was taken at once and that
without the slightest disturbance.

Among industries iron and steel are
still taking the lead in the resumption
of activity. Prices are well main-
tained and yet operations are being
increased. on every hand. There is
not yet enough of a decline in raw
materials for confidence in the textile
world and so restriction of produc-
tion is a prominent feature. Foot-

 

wear is still only second to the rec-

 

ord of last year, but there is ue |
cf conservatism as to future business. |
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Where the treasure is there the |
heart is also. It is not to be wonder- |
ed at that the French are very much |
interested in the success of Russia |
and have no fondness or friendliness |
for the Japanese in this particular |
instance. It is said that the people |
of France have over a billion and a|
half of dollars invested in Russian |
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securities. They are chiefly in evi-
dences of government indebtedness.
This is a stronger tie to bind than |
the best treaty that was ever drawn.
When you touch a man’s pocketbook
you touch his most sensitive nerve.
The French want their money back
with interest and their investments
are a great deal securer with Russia |
winning than losing the fight. |

—_~+ 2s |

Justice Brewer, of the United |
States Supreme Court, in the course |
of an address at Chicago, paid his
respects to the union teamsters in
referring to the police force of that |
city, as follows: “The policeman |
was the hero and sufferer at Hay-
market Square, and of late in this
city he stood beside the hearse in
which your dear ones were borne
to their final resting place and bade
defiance to those human devils who
for a slight difference in the matter
of wages sought to light the fires of
violence in the quiet darkness of sor-
row and play the dance of hell around
the coffined dead.”

66s ___-

The courts are commonly merciful
to women ‘in this country. That is
why a woman who was plaintiff in a
case on trial in Washington declared
she would not tell her age unless
ordered to do so by the court. This
time, however, the court declined to
save the exposure of female antiquity.
If counsel insisted on the question
the court would direct the woman to
answer. The counsel didn’t insist.
Lawyers have occasional streaks of
kindness.

—_+2-———_

The origin of the peculiar woman’s
right of leap year is said to date back
to the fifth century. St. Bridget, so
the story goes, was troubled because
the women under her charge insist-
ed on their right of proposing to the
men. Accordingly she went to St.
Patrick, and begged him to settle the
matter by fixing certain seasons in
which women might take the initia-
tive. St. Patrick promised them
every seventh year, but then, pleased
by the persuasive eloquence of St.
Bridget, he said they should have the
longest year in the calendar, and that
was every fourth year, when Febru-
ary had an extra day.

———_2-2>

 

Small ability with great energy will
accomplish more than the greatest
ability without energy.

Manufacturing Matters.
Kent City—A. L. Power has sold

an interest in his cheese factory to

his son, H. S. Power. The business
will hereafter be conducted under the
style of A. L. Power & Son. The
factory began operations for the sea-
son April 4.

Weidman—The Weidman Cheese
& Butter Co. composed of Geo. C.
‘isher, Lewis Lapearl, E. E. Wolfe,
. Simmer and J. Fritz, has been es-
ablished, with a capital stock of
$4,000. The stock is held in equal

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Detroit—The Bacon China Kiln Co.
has been organized with a _ capital
stock of $25,000 to engage in the
manufacture of Bacon china kilns.
The members of the company are
A. E. Dance, who holds 472 shares;
E. S. Bacon, 289 shares, and J. P.
Scott. 289 shares.

Saginaw--The U. S. Cement Shin-
gle Machinery Co. has been organized
to manufacture machinery, shingles,
tile, roofing and cement. The new
concern is capitalized at $50,000, the
shareholders being Geo. C. Zwerk,
4,500 shares; Robert M. Randall, 499
shares, and Mary W. Randall, 1 share.

Kalkaska—A new canning factory
has been established at this place un-
der the style of the Kalkaska Can-
ning Co. The authorized capital stock
is $20,000, the principal stockholders
being A. E. Palmer, roo shares; Jas.
E. Harriet, 70 shares; J. M. Linkle-
paugh, ro shares, and J. E. Rainbow.

Fremont—The Fremont Creamery
Co. has been organized with a capi-
tal stock of $5,000 to engage in the
manufacture of butter. The members
of the new company are Jas. Schrem,
276 shares; Henry Rozema, 10
shares; Ed. Zagers, 5 shares; Klaus
Vendenbeldt, 5 shares, and Jas. Mur-
phy, 4 shares.

Lansing—The Michigan Distribut-
ing Co. has merged its business into
a corporation and will manufacture
machinery and farm implements. The
authorized capital stock is $80,000, the
stockholders being A. E. Merrifield,
130 shares; Daniel Bell, too shares;
N. L. Spencer, 50 shares; F. M. Wit-
beck, 50 shares, and others.

—_+2-2—_

Senator Knute Nelson declares that
in fifty years Alaska will have a pop-
ulation of 1,000,000. In view of the
past history of the United States no
cne will be rash enough to say him
vay. If the mineral wealth of Alaska
continues to be developed within the
next half century as it has during the
last decade, the estimate of Senator
Nelson may not prove out of the
way. Already many thousands of
white people have been able to pass
the whole year in Alaska in compara-
tive comfort, and the increase inthe
means of communication will serve
to make life in that region even more
tolerable than it is now.

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pelled Attention.

A caterer, a jeweler, a florist, a
druggist and a milliner all told a
story, last week, each in a different
way, of things temporal for man’s—
or woman’s—interior and_ exterior
calculated to fill some real or imagin-
‘ary’ need or satisfy some _ burning,
craving desire, this latter of course
applying strictly to the Fair Sex, in
regard to the store of the last
merchant mentioned.

- * +

Jandorf’s appetizing story related
to spicy looking fruit cake in
round loaves, and oblong, too; gin-
gersnaps with child-pleasing sugar
sprinkled on their shiny tops (always
somehow reminding one of poor dear
little David Copperfield and the cakes
that Peggotty gave him in the pa-
per bags); yellow cookies, delicately
browned on the outside and with
Zante currants on the inside and of
a grandmotherly thickness; pop-open

cylinder-shaped loaves of brown
bread—like “those that Mother
makes;” “old maid’s curls” having

the appearance of rows of cannon
piled into pyramids; chocolate puffs
that newsboys love to indulge in—
most any time in the evening, on
Monroe street, one may see them
munching their sweet stickiness; bak-
ed beans; oranges, and apple and
custard pies.

(I never see custard pie without
thinking of a young lady I used to
know who was a regular kid for this
variety of dessert and who always
said she “just loved to take a piece
of custard pie in her hand and bite
it right down through!’’)

Lace was shirred on a rod at the
rear of the window and _ yellowish
green.cambric covered the floor of
the space. Jandorf always has
tempting goodies displayed in _ his
two large windows, but he makes the
mistake of not having quite dainty
enough accessories. One naturally
associates nothing less than immacu-
late white linen with cooked articles
of food and anything else seems in-
congruous. Some windows contain-
ing prepared edibles go the yellow-
green cambric “one better” and re-
sort to the use of white cheesecloth.
This is an improvement over the
other stuff, to be sure, but it is still
too cheap in appearance for this pur-
pose. The material employed should
be nothing but white linen and _ the
background curtain should be of
some other material than lace—some-
thing plainer, like sateen.

Speaking of pop-open brown bread,
I don’t know how Jandorf makes his,
or just what tins he uses, but I
know one good housewife who is for-
tunate in being one of those cooks
who are “born, not made,” who saves
the round pint tin cans that contain
“canned goods” from the _ grocery.
The ridged end she melts off in the
flame of the gas stove, being careful
not to melt the solder along the side.
These are washed up and set away,

open end down, to be used as occa-
sion demands. When makimg corn

| bread the batter is put into these
‘small cans to within a couple. ot
| inches of the top and four are placed
lin a steamer, which just holds this
cameo | number.
Four Sorts of Windows That Com-|

One extra one is always
made to give away to same old lady

| living alone or to some young friend

fat |.

 

| who is boarding around at the res-

taurants. The latter can take it to
her room, buy a nice little oblong of
creamery butter and a little pot of
jam or cheese and have a delicious
little lunch that is a welcome change
to the restaurant routine, and she
need not return the tin can. Every
good cook knows some girl in an
office so situated to whom a morsel
of “home cooking” comes like a god-
send, and more housewives’ should
make a practice of bringing these lit-
tle oases into the boarding-around-
at-any-old-place life of their less fav-
ored friends—their homeless friends.
* * *

The jeweler, P. J. Koke, has but
two small windows at his disposal in
which to give the public a hint of
what may be seen. within, but they
are always attractive, being ever ar-
ranged with nice discrimination.

The dainty little curtaining hung
on the rod at the back of the exhibit
seemed to be of the same material
as Spring’s mammoth ones—white
sateen. In neither window were the
obiects very large. The floor of the
east one was covered with soft white
goods and on the step-like arrange-
ments, set diagonally under the
floor covering were placed small ar-
ticles pertaining to a jewelry store.
At the rear right hand corner were
a cut glass carafe and two pretty
candlesticks in the same _ material.
Next to these was a bouquet of four
enormous pink carnations and aspara-
gus fern. Good taste was shown in
having the flowers of the best obtain-
able—large and fresh. They made a
charming bit of color and drew at-
tention to the goods. In front of
these were handled opera glasses and
separate sticks for attaching to any
glasses. If one is tired of his old-
fashioned glasses without this conve-
nience he may purchase a handle for
them and be up-to-date. :

There were dainty little bookmarks
of narrow satin ribbon with the heart,
anchor and cross attached, indicative
of the approaching Easter. These al-
ways make pretty and appropriate
gifts for this joyous season of the
Church.

Many other pretty objects were in
evidence, notably something new in
hatpins—white and old-rose colored
mother-of-pearl spikes for the heads,
a very acceptable present for Milady
at any season of the year. Hatpins,
like their brothers of the ordinary
sort, are “forever and eternally” get-
ting lost and their replenishment is
a matter of no little expense if one
wants nice ones—and one usually is
not satisfied with anything at all
“common” in this line. A case of
one suggesting the other, mayhap,
next to the hatpins were several va-
rieties of side-combs likely to fill
some fair damsel with the desire to
Lossess one or more of the display.
This is another article of strictly
feminine use which is always having

 

something happen to it and one is
generally needing duplicates.

Gold bracelets and gold beads, two
old-fashioned articles of adornment
rescued from the past, were in close
proximity to the combs.

Tiny chatelaine dull silver powder-
hoiders come handy for the girl with
the shiny nose, although many are
averse to advertising the fact, no
matter how “temptizing” the little
containers, that they resort to the
use of powder for self-beautification!

Gentlemen’s and_ ladies’ gold
watches occupied another of the step-
like projections, along with massive
emblem rings.

At the very left was quite a space
on which were exhibited many small
articles for common use, noticeable
among them being neat sterling sil-
ver belt buckles (ladies’), handsome
corkscrews (gentlemen’s) and a large
selection of sterling silver satchel
name-plates (both sexes). These al-
ways make a gift to rejoice over for
man, woman or child, forming, as
they do, a means of identification of
lost or mistaken bags.

In the left hand window of this
dealer were beautiful specimens of
dull silver articles, for the table,
mostly in colonial patterns. Some
lovely little cream and sugar sets
were especially nice for little five-
o’clock tea-tables. Jet black cloth
was laid under these silver articles
to bring out their soft luster. Here,
also, boxes, or something similar, had
been placed under the floor covering
to give variety to the height of the
silver. The display here was limited
to a few goods, so that the mind’s eye
might easily carry away the pleasing
picture.

* * *

Henry Smith often gives quite a
bit of attention to a combination of
colors in his immense posy: windows
that must be a trade-bringing plan.
It is extremely hard -to resist spend-
ing money for flowers, either for one’s
very own self or for one who needs
them more. I say “needs.” Flowers
fill a very actual, a very tangible want
of the human heart and have come
to be looked upon almost as a neces-
sity in these times when the “rais-
ing” of plants is an impossibility in
our gas-lighted, furnace-heated hu-
man habitations. The flowers cost a
pretty penny, but it is a penny glad-
ly parted with for the intense pleas-
ure to be derived by the buyer in this
exchange of commodities.

There was a very wealth of color
one day last week in this enterprising
florist’s place of business. Here are
a few of the plants that were abloom
(and otherwise):

Hyacinths, daffodils, feathery spir-
eas, deutzias, marguerites, hydrangeas
(pink and lavender), roses, azalias,
acacias, tulips (white, red and yellow),
paradoxia, araucaria, mimosa (a fine
yellow thistle-shaped flower), Boston
ferns and last, not least, the ever
pure and fragrant bell-shaped Easter
lilies.

The so-called “Puerto Rican” mat-
ting comes in all colors and group-
ings of colors and makes a very
pretty covering for an ugly earthen
pot.

All sorts of pretty receptacles and
an extensive amount of parti-colored

 

ribbons are carried in stock by Mr.
Smith, which add not a little to the
natural beauty of the lovely goods in
which he deals.

kk *

Some time ago Peck Bros. confer-
red a boon on that part of the gen-
eral public who are ignorant of the
appearance of various drugs in their
natural state by exhibiting, in their
large bent-glass show window, heap-
ed-up piles of drug supplies just as
they are obtained from Mother Earth.
No one who passed that window but
looked in long and interestedly, and 1
havé often wondered why they never
repeated the experiment. It certainly
made their store the most-talked-of
establishment on the street during the
entire time those drugs were in the
window.

Last week there were three things
exposed to view in the window men-
tioned which reminded one strongly
of that memorable other week. This
time it was an immense inner-lined
burlap bag of “arnica blows,” that
made one want to get a whiff of their
pungent odor; a large box of stick
licorice, showing, in its turned-over
position, the leaves in which it was
originally packed, and a small barrel
or keg of ye olde-fashioned hore-
hound, little bags of which reposed
in front, irresistibly drawing the be-
holder inside the portal.

* * *

Not familiar. with the leaves in
which the sticks of licorice were
packed I asked a certain well-known,
well-read business man if he could
give me any information on the sub-
ject.

“No, he knew absolutely less than
nothing concerning them—not even
their name.”

Then I called up Peck Bros. them-
selves, and was told (by an obliging
lady’s voice) that they were laurel
leaves. She did not know where they
were procured by the licorice manu-
facturers but was of the impression
that they came from this country.

I asked Mr. J. H. Hagy, buyer for
the wholesale firm of Hazeltine &
Ferkins Drug Company, to tell me
something about the leaves.

“They are bay or laurel leaves,”
said that good-natured gentleman of
the pill and pestle. “They don’t grow
in this country, but are imported from
Spain, Italy, Turkey, Russia and, in
fact, most Southern European coun-
tries. They come over here packed
in a dry state, pressed flat, as you
see them with the licorice. The lat-
ter must be packed in something that
will not absorb its properties and the
laurel leaves are admirably adapted
for this commercial purpose, giving,
as they do, their aromatic odor to
the licorice. Then, too, the packing
must be something that will not al-
low the licorice to ‘run’ or melt when
it ‘crosses the hot sands,’ so to
speak, in the warm weather.”

A young German, a fellow who
knows how to thoroughly appreciate
the good things of life on this ter-
restrial sphere, says that on his na-
tive heath a certain kind of hare is
allowed to remain in pickle for a long
time--two months raaybe. It is call-
ed “hazenpfeffer.’? When it is thor-

oughly pickled—“if the truth were
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STAPLE AS GOLD

Grocers are wise to sell more Royal Baking
Powder, because in the end it yields a greater
profit than the low-priced powders, many of
which contain alum, which is injurious to health.

Royal Baking Powder is always worth one
hundred cents on the dollar, and no grocer need
hesitate to carry a large amount of it in stock.

Royal Baking Powder retains its full strength
in all climates all the time.

Varying atmospheres do not lessen its leav-
ening qualities. You have no spoiled stock.

It is absolutely pure and healthful and always
sure in results.

 

It never fails to satisty the consumer.

It is sold the world over and is as staple
as gold.

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Movements of Merchants.

Niles—S. Daniel, meat dealer, has
sold out to Wm. Johns.

Wexford—Foust & East succeed
John Lenington in general trade.

Summerton—S. W. Cline has sold
his grocery stock to J. J. Battles.

North Port Huron—J. Collinge has
opened a news and stationery store.

Boyne City—Joseph McNamee has
engaged in the grocery business here.

Union City—-H. G. Fisk has sold
his stock of groceries to Glenn Wor-
den.

Ann Arbor—Wm. Purfield has em-
barked in the shoe business at this
place.

Muskegon—James
opened a dry goods store on
street.

Manton—George Gibson has_ pur-
chased the bazaar stock of Chas. J.
Bristol.

Willis—J. O’Brien, dealer in gen-
eral trade, will shortly retire from
business.

Grand Ledge—Love & Lewis have
engaged in the paint and wall paper
business.

Marshali—-C. B. Powers has pur-
chased the meat market of Amos W.
Hoffman.

-Coldwater—H. Ruple, of Bronson,
has purchased the furniture stock of
John Soderquist.

Leslie—Milo Campbell has _ pur-
chased the brick building in which
his drug stock is located.

Atlanta—Chas. E. Alpern has pur-
chased the dry goods, boot and shoe
and crockery stock of Jacob Cohen.

Ubly—Pagett & Braim have engag-
ed in the grocery business. The
stock was purchased of James Lewis.

Lake Ann—Louis Huellmantel is
erecting a store building, which he
will occupy with a stock of groceries.

Lake City—Peck & Peck succeed
Miss R. A. Howey in the millinery
and ladies’ furnishing goods business.

Boyne City—Wm. Pratt has pur-
chased the jewelry stock of A. L.
White and consolidated it with his
own. :

Reed City—Harvey Hawkins has
purchased the general merchandise
stock of the estate of John W. Dens-
more.

Marion—Geo. L. Thornton contin-
ues the department store business of
G. L. Thornton & Co. in his own
name.

Hudsonville—L. M. Wolf will cel-
ebrate the 2Ist anniversary of his
engaging in business at this place on
June 8.

Cheboygan—Haynes & _ Rabior,
clothiers, have dissolved partnership.
The business is continued by A. O.
Haynes. .

Kalamazoo—Tyler & DeMeyer ar
succeeded in the coal, wood and ice
business by the Kalamazoo Ice &
Fuel Co.

Bronson-—D. J. Kensinger has sold
his half interest in the furniture and
undertaking business of DeWitt &
Kensinger to J. W. Holcomb. Mr.
Kensinger will return to Indiana.

Mulder has
Pine

 

Croswell—-Miss Olive Kinsey has
purchased the millinery parlors of
Mrs. Anderson and will continue the
business.

Howell—A. W. Cimmer has moved

his grocery stock to Fenton, where
he has formed a copartnership with
Mr. Mathews.
' Hastings—Dawson Bros. have sold
their drug stock to Quincy Hynes.
Mr. Hynes formerly conducted a drug
store at Delton.

fonia—E. H. Thompson has sold
his clothing stock to Broderick &
Son, of Grand. Rapids, who will con-
tinue the business.

Saranac—Watt & Wallington have
established a branch general store at
Cucumber Bend, with Howard Lane
in charge thereof.

Mesick—Geo. S. Surplice has sold
his drug stock to A. E. Stickley, who
was formerly engaged in the drug
business at Winn.

Dowagiac—The Geo. E. Bishop
Hardware Co. succeeds Geo. E. Bis-
hop in the hardware, carriage and
paint and oil business.

Lake Ann—J. T. Richardson has
sold his store building to Samuel
Ward, who has engaged in the gener-
al merchandise business.

Sault Ste. Marie—George Elliott
announces that he will embark in the
grocery and bazaar business in his
own building about May 1.

Frankfort—Chas. Moody and Chas.
Cooper have formed a copartnership
and purchased the general merchan-
dise stock of Huckle & Pettis.

Muskegon—Wilcox & Polland, deal-
ers in cigars and confectionery, have
dissolved partnership. The business
is continued by C. F. Wilcox.

Boyne City—T. J. Wood has sold
his grocery stock to Zylstra & Pee-
bles, of Atwood, who will remove the
stock to ‘the Hillegas building.

Union City—Homer Fisk, after
fourteen years spent in the grocery
business, has retired from trade, hav-
ing sold his stock to Mr. Worden.

Coidwater—John Soderquist has
sold his furniture stock to Harry Ru-
ple, of Bronson, who will continue
the business at the same location.

Fife Lake—James S. Hodges has
purchased the hardware stock of
Hodges & Glidden, the two “Dicks”
having decided to retire from trade.

Concord—Bert E. Dunn has sold
his interest in the hardware business
of J. C. Reynolds & Co. to Delbert
Warner, brother-in-law of Mr. Rey-
nolds.

Howard City—Austin Barber has
embarked in the shoe business and
will be located in his own block, re-
cently vacated by the Fuhrman stock
of shoes.

Irving—W. W. Watson, of Middle-
ville, has purchased the general mer-
chandise stock of J. T. Pierson. Clare
Watson will have the management
of the business.

Sutton’s Bay—The Wyman &
Strong Co. has sold its general
merchandise stock to N. C. & Frank
Clark, of Ovid, who have already
taken possession.

Escanaba—The Escanaba Clothing
Co. has engaged in the mercantile
business, with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, held as follows: M.
Perron, 10 shares; Jos. Lapointe, 20
shares, and M. Fillian, 20 shares.

 

 

 

AIma—Stevens & Cole, furniture
dealers, have dissolved partnership,
Mr. Cole retiring from the firm and
Mr. Stevens continuing the business
under the style of Stevens & Co.

Pontiac—Miss Sadie Burke has
purchased an interest in the millinery
stock of Mrs. M. Wildgen-Pauli, at
53 Saginaw street. The business will
be continued under its present style.

Scottville—Wm. Arnold has sever-
ed his connection with the F. J. Read-
er Hardware Co. and purchased some
lots at Chief Lake, where he will
erect a building and engage in the
agricultural and implement business.

Beulah—The hardware store of
Barker Bros. has been re-opened, with
O. E. Barker as manager. Henry
Howard will be associated with Mr.
Parker in the agricultural implement,
windmill and cream separator busi-
ness.

Cheboygan-—F. A. Kramer and
Leo Edelstein, who compose the
clothing firm of F. A. Kramer & Co.,
have dissolved partnership by mutual
consent. The business will be con-
tinued by Mr. Edelstein in his own
name.

Escanaba—A. A. Soder, Jos. La-
pointe and E. Gaudette have engag-
ed in. the general merchandise busi-
ness under the style of the Masonic
Block Department Store. The au-
thorized capital stock is $25,000, held
in equa! amounts by the stockhold-
ers.

Saginaw—Dan J. Mooney, former-
ly with Heavenrich Bros. & Co., and
Benj. J. Pitsch, engaged with Mauter
& Krause, have formed a copartner-
ship under the style of Mooney &
Pitsch and opened a clothing, furn-
ishing and hat store at 319 Genesee
avenue.

St. Johns—H. E. Pierce has sold
his grocery stock to his brother, E.
J. Pierce and Mr. Shumaker, who will
continue the business under the style
of Pierce & Shumaker. Mr. Pierce
has removed to Price, where he has
purchased a grocery stock and to
which he will add a general line of
goods.

Adrian—A. J. Walper, of Toledo,
has purchased the furniture and
crockery stock of W. E. Kimball &
Co. Mr. Walper, who represents a
Toledo furniture and manufacturing
company on the road, will continue
in that capacity until July 1. In the
meantime the business will be under
the charge of Joseph Michaels.

Kalamazoo—H. G. Colman & Co.
have merged their drug business into
a corporation under the style of the
Colman Drug Co. and will engage in
the manufacture and sale of drugs
and medicines. Capital stock is $12,-
000, held as follows: H. G. Colman,
796 shares; Helen C.- Eaton, 399
shares; F. H. Colman, 2 shares; A.
H. Pengelly, 2 shares, and C. Mou-
ningh, 1 share.

Hancock—-A. J. Scott, who has been
engaged in the drug business at this
place for the past thirty-five years,
has decided to retire from business.
He has accordingly sold his stock to
Peter O. Bakke, of Milwaukee. For
the past four years Mr. Bakke has
been making this territory as the rep-
resentative of the wholesale drug
house of Jerman, Pflueger & Kuehm-
sted, of Milwaukee.

 

Saginaw—The E. R. Gould Shoe
Co., Limited, has been formed with
a capital stock of $10,000. The busi-
ness is to be managed by a board of
three and in the first instance N. M.
Lacy, Caro, is Chairman; E. R. Gould,
Saginaw, Treasurer; C. E. Hodges,
Secretary. The stockholders are: N.
M. Lacy, $250; E. R. Gould, $250; C.
E. Hodges, $250; Agnes L. Lacy,
$1,416.66; Ella M. Hodges, $1,416.66;
Mary L. Gould, $1,416.66. The amount
actually paid in is $3,000. The busi-
ness is located at 124 North Hamilton
street.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Cheboygan—Sullivan Bros. have be-
gun operations at their new cigar
factory.

Pontiac—The Pontiac Knitting Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $75,000.

Monroe—The National Milling Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$500,000 to $600,000.

Detroit—The Ray Chemical Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$100,000 to $200,000.

Ypsilanti—The capital stock of the
Ypsilanti Underwear Co. has been in-
creased from $200,000 to $700,000.

Muskegon—The_ capital stock of
the Atlas Parlor Furniture Co. has
been increased from $50,000 to $70,-
000.

Cheboygan—The Cheboygan Elec-
tric Light & Power Co. has increased
its capital stock from $100,000 to
$200,000.

Coldwater—An increase in the cap-
ital stock of the Wm. A. Coombs
Milling Co. has been made from $r00,-
000 to $135,000.

Kalamazoo—Mrs. Estella Lehman,
proprietor of the Rough Rider Sus-
pender Co., has merged the business
into a corporation under the same
style.

Alma—The Alma Manufacturing
Co., manufacturer of wagons and
agricultural implements, has increas-
ed its capital stock from $100,000 to
$125,000.

Jackson—Arthur Phelps, who has
been manager of the Post Tavern
Cigar Co., of Battle Creek, for some
time, has returned to this place to as-
sume the management of the Smoke
House Cigar Co.

Homer—The establishment of a
factory at this place for the manufac-
ture of steam valves, plumbers’ sup-
plies and other novelties is under ad-
visement, a. committee having been
appointed to investigate the matter.
The plan proposed is to organize a
stock company to be capitalized at
$25,000, with $7,000 paid in, to be
used in the purchase of machinery,
patterns, etc., and in getting the fac-
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The Grocery Market.

Sugar (W. H. Edgar & Son)—
There has been no quotable change
in the market for raw or refined sug-
ars. There have been sales, how-
ever, of practically spot centrifugals
at equal to 3.67c and the market is
now quoted at 35¢@I1I-I6c. As evi-
dencing the trend of prices, we call
attention to a sale of new crop Java
sugar at equal to 334c, duty paid.
These sugars are probably for June
or July shipment by steamer and,
therefore, can not go into consump-
tion until very late in the season. At
this writing Javas are not obtainable
on this basis. Europe remains firm
around a parity of 3.82c with 96 deg.
test—next month’s shipments 1-32c
higher. Cuba is now firm at 23%c
cost and freight, say 3.73c, duty paid,
at which no business has yet trans-
pired. Refined sugar continues in
good demand for withdrawals on
contracts and, with conditions im-
proving in all flooded districts, a very
much better demand is in sight. New
business is comparatively light,
which, however, is not surprising in
view of the large transactions of the
past thirty days. A short period of
comparative dulness is generally
looked for, but stocks throughout the
country being only sufficient to sup-
ply current requirements, a steady in-
crease may reasonably be expected.
We have no changes to note in quo-
tations, and at this writing there are
no special indications for the imme-
diate future. We think well of
sugar.

Tea—Considerable speculation is
indulged in as to what will be the
effect of the war-on the coming crop,
but that, of course, remains to be
seen. The trade is pretty well loaded
up and jobbers find selling more dif-
ficult than it was a month ago.

Coffee—Receipts at Rio and Santos
are 1,040,000 bags less than up to the
same period of last year, which proves
that the current crop will be even
less than the estimates of 11,000,000
bags. made last October. Mild cof-
fees are firm and unchanged, and
Javas and Mochas are about in the
same condition. Nos. 7 and 8 Rio
are still 34c higher in Brazil than
they are in this country, and in con-
sequence the coffee afloat is less than
for many years.

Canned Goods—Canned goods of
all kinds are moving better than they
were two weeks ago. It is likely that
stocks are well depleted throughout
the country in most lines and the
dealers are beginning to load up
again. The canned fruit has some
little time to sell yet before the fresh
goods are on the market, and it is
moving. Peaches and apples are do-
ing quite well. Fancy goods are not
moving in a very lively manner, but
standards of all varieties are in de-
mand. There is little change in to-
matoes. Just now there appears to
be a trifle easier feeling in the spot
goods in the east, although it is
very likely only temporary. The

tomato market has been rather steady
to firm for some time. Good stock
/is in ready sale, but of course there
|is a lot of poorly packed goods yet
'to be moved and this is weak and
| selling at low prices. Corn of the
1904 pack is interesting the trade
very largely now as the 1903 is al-
most a minus quantity. Prices paid
for 1904 have been considerably in
advance of those of a year ago. The
high price of the-corn will doubtless
induce more planting this year than
last. Asparagus prospects are dam-
pened by the heavy rains in the Cali-
‘fornia districts where much of it is
grown. Some of the farms have been
inundated and others are reported
totally destroyed. Salmon is un-
changed, with a good demand and
prices strong. With the season of
the heaviest demand yet to come, job-
bers are wondering where the stock
is coming from to supply it.

Dried Fruits—Prunes are some-
what weak, both on the coast and in
secondary markets. Peaches are in

cleaned up at unchanged prices. Cur-
rants are ‘ec weaker and are slow
sale. Seeded raisins are dull and un-
changed. Loose Muscatels are in
good demand and strong. Apricots
are’ selling well and stocks are closely
cleaned up. Prices are firm.

Rice—If the war in the East con-
tinues it is not all unlikely that there
will be advances in the next crop
of rice, but at present the stocks are
large enough to preclude a very
heavy advance in the near future. At
least that is the opinion of several
jobbers.

Syrups and Molasses—Corn syrup
is a little stronger and has gone up
a trifle. It is just getting readjusted
to the higher prices of cereals. Sor-
ghum is as hard to get as ever, if not
more so. All grades of molasses are
doing very well, and the way the
trade keeps up is almost ‘surprising
to the jobbers. The maple syrup
problem is a hard one to solve in
Minnesota, as the food department
is very strict. However, most of the
goods that are labeled illegal merely
contain some other form of sugar
and are in no wise injurious. Syrup
that passes the test is very rare.

Fish—Mackerel is very weak in
price, but no further declines have
occurred during the week. It is pos-
sible that a good brisk demand would
cause an advance, as stocks on spot
are light. Sardines are _ tending
higher, speaking of oils, which are
scarce. Mustard sardines are _ in-
clinéd to be weak. There is some
doubt whether many new sardines
will be marketed in May, although
the season opens May toth. The
winter has been hard on the weirs,
and the repairs will take a long time.
Cod, hake and haddock are quiet and
very high. In Gloucester very high
prices are being paid for fresh fish,
and the consumption of the cured
article has actually been blocked by
prevailing prices. Salmon is firm,
and so far as home consumption is
concerned, quiet.

——_+--

The Dettenthaler Market has leas-
ed the store building adjoining its
present quarters on the east and
will occupy same after May 1.

 

fair demand and cheap lots are being |

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—Fancy, $3.50@4; common,
$2.50@3.

Bananas—$1.25 for small bunches
and $1.75 for extra jumbos.

Beets—soc per bu.

Bermuda Onions—$z2.75 per crate.

Butter—Factory creamery is steady
at 24c for choice and 25c for fancy.
Receipts of dairy grades are meager,
on account of the floods. Local deal-
ers hold the price at 12c for packing
stock, 15¢ for choice and 18c_ for
fancy. Renovated is steady at 17@
T8e.

Cabbage—ac per fb.

Celery—25c for home grown; 7oc
for California.

Cocoanuts—$3.75@4 per sack.

Eggs—Receipts are not much in ex-
cess of consumptive requirements.
Local dealers pay 15c on track and
sell for t6c. There are indications
that both paying and selling prices
will recede about Ic in the near fu-
ture. :

Game—Live pigeons, 50@75c per
doz.

Grape Fruit—$3 per
per crate for assorted.

Grapes—Malagas are
$6@7 per keg.

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

Lemons—Messinas and Californias
are steady at $2.75@3 per box.

Lettuce—Hot house . leaf
fetches 1I5c per fb.

Maple Sugar—1o@11%c per tb.

Onions—$1@1.25 per bu., accord-
ing to quality.

Oranges—California Navels, $2.25
for extra choice and $2.40 for extra
fency; California Seedlings, $2@2.25.

Parsley—35c per doz. bunches for
hot house.

Pieplant—1oc per fb. for hot house.

Pineapples—Floridas fetch $4.25
per crate for assorted.

Potatoes—Local dealers meet no
difficulty in obtaining $1 in carlots
and $1.10 in store lots. The price is
gradually stiffening at most outside
markets.

Pop Corn—goc for old and s50@60c
for new.

Poultry—Receipts are small, in
consequence of which prices are
firm. Chickens, 14@15c; fowls, 13@
14c; No. 1 turkeys, 18@19c; No. 2 tur-
keys, 15@16c; ducks, 14@15c; geese,
12@13c; nester squabs, $2@2.25 per
doz.

Radishes—25c per doz. for hot
house.

Spanish Onions—$1.75 per crate.

Strawberries—Receipts are increas-
ing and supplies are reaching the
market in good shape. Quarts fetch
$3.75 and pints bring $1.65@1.75.

Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys are steady
at $4.50 per bu.

Tomatoes—$3 per 6 basket crate.

Wax Beans—$3 per box.

—_—_——_»- 2.
. Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

On account of the.scarcity of buff
hides the market shows sales at 9
cents, which has been strenuously
fought for by dealers. This will stif-
fen hides all along the line, and for
the poor quality tanners object, as
they can not see a new dollar for the
old one.

Sheep pelts are kept closely sold

box of 60

steady at

stock

 

up on a sharp demand and light of-
ferings.

Tallow develops nothing very
new. It is a dull, sluggish trade. No
deals can be made* without conces-
sions.

The new wools are being offered
by growers and bring 20 cents for
medium unwashed. An_ occasional
clip brings a little over this for local
buyers’ special pull. Eastern dealers
are clubbing down prices, and any
argument they can use is brought up.
Local buyers seem to think they can
see a future for good margins and
are bears. No set price is establish-
ed, as one waits for the other to
open on prices, while piles bought so
far are small. Local buyers will net
contract ahead until they are better
informed on the outcome.

Wm. T. Hess.
———_+->____
Program for the Butchers’ Banquet.

The annual banquet of the Grand
Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Asso-
ciation, which will be held at the
Livingston Hotel to-morrow evening,
promises to be an event of rare pleas-
ure to all who attend. Music for the
occasion will be provided by the
Wurzburg orchestra, while solos will
be sung by Paul C. Rademaker.

The program of addresses will be
as follows:

“The Meat Business and Organiza-
tion’—John H. Schofield.

“Country Sausage’—Rev. J. Her-
man Randall.

“A Few Choice Cuts”—E. A. Stowe.

“Patriotism”—A. E. Ewing.

“The Retail Meat Dealers’ Lament”
—S. J. Hufford.

“Butchers of the Past and Present”
—Levi Pearl.

The banquet will begin promptly
at 8:30 o’clock, with the invocation by
Rev. J. Herman Randall. J. O. Me-
Cool will act as toastmaster.

— >>
The Boys Behind the Counter.

Calumet—Buford G. Lincoln | suc-
ceeds Joseph Matulys as clerk inthe
Eagle drug store.

Port Huron—lInslee Pierce has
taken a clerkship in the Rodgers drug
store.

South Haven—Chas. Rumsey, who
has been clerking in M. Hale & Co.’s
grocery department, is again with FE.
W. Edgerton, assisting in prepara-
tions for opening the new store at
426 Phoenix street.

Hillsdale—Carl V. Richardson suc-
ceeds Charles Klingensmith as clerk
in the Goodrich drug store.

Detroit—H. O. Nichols, formerly
manager of the clothing department
of Foster Bros., at Port Huron, has
taken a position with Traver-Bird &
Co.

—++>—___

Davis & Co., grocers, bakers and
ice cream manufacturers, Ypsilanti:
We think the Michigan Tradesman
the best trade journal published.

—~++2>—___

Ed. Schumann, for several years
with the Dettenthaler market, has
taken the position of superintendent
for the Omaha Packing Co.

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The Worden Grocer Co. has sold
a grocery stock to H. M. Davis at
Chestonia.

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WINDOW TRIMMINGS.
(Concluded from page two.)
told, when the meat is almost rotten,
said this young man—it is removed
from the pickle, placed in a large ket-

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tle (used especially for this purpose)’

atid water and a little vinegar are
poured over it. Then bay leaves and
pepper, salt and many strong pun-
gent spices are liberally sprinkled
over atid around the meat and it is
simmered a long time, forming a
sort of soup, the meat being so ten-
der (or rotten, ugh!) that it falls
apart when picked with a fork.

“My, but it’s good—simply out of
sight!” exclaimed the young man re-
ferred to. “It makes my mouth wa-
ter just to think of it.”

I differed from his estimate of the
so-called delicacy.

* * *

Across the street, on the opposite
corner, merchandise of quite another
sort beckoned the public inside—but
only one-half the public, the other
half were interested only in the most
cursory way.

The Emporium window floors had
been covered with white tissue pa-
per, somewhat crumpled and then
heaped up to a depth of six inches.
On top of this were gracefully laid
white chiffon in one and a soft
buff in the other. In this last, in a
fancy basket with a very tall handle,
were daffodils, adding their bright
golden color to the pale yellow be-
low them. Depending from the han-
dle were long and wide loops and
streamers of white and light lemon
soft taffeta ribbon, drooping grace-
fully over the asparagus fern below.
_ There were only a few hats in these

windows, the trimmers (all young la-
‘ dies employed in the store) avoiding
the very common error of over-
crowding a display, there being but
two in the left window. One _ of
these was a most dainty example of
the milliner’s skill. It was a white
maline Napoleon shape, encircled with
white forget-me-nots and their green
foliage. The buds of this flower
were true to Nature in their tiny pink
tips. A little wisp of lace at the back
and a buckle completed this airy cre-
ation. A lily-draped mirror on the
wall repeated the temptations in front
of it.

A turban in the opposite window
was composed entirely of buff roses,
with a beautiful garniture of flat-
laid ribbon on top shading from white
to deepest buff. The dealer doesn’t
make a mistake this year who lays in
a goodly supply of colors on this or-
der—buff, butter color, maize, “cham-
pagne.” They are all popular sellers.

One hat in the west window was
especially pleasing, and probably
would not wait long for a purchaser.
It was an Havana brown Maud Muel-
ler shape. The wire foundation was
covered with unusually coarse net, laid
on perfectly plain—no shirrings or
folds or tucks—and therein lay its
beauty. The low crown was draped
with a vail of the same material—
edged with three rows of narrow lace
of exactly the same shade—and this
hung down in two long points at the
back. A snug bunch of six buff roses
at the right in front completed this
very stylish headgear. It would make
a fetching suit hat.

 

HEALTH OF THE AGED.

Some Ways By Which It Can Be
Improved.

A man is as old as he feels, a wom-
an is as old as she looks.

What is old age? It is not merely
the lapse of years, but it is some-
thing else. Ninon L’Enclos, who died
at 90 years, preserved an appearance
of youth and beauty after she had
passed the traditional limit of three-
score and ten. Old Parr, an English-
man, who died at 120 years of age,
possessed all his faculties of man-
hood up to the century mark. There
are old men at twenty-five, old be-
cause they have suffered the decay
and disabilities that are commonly at-
tributed to the wear and tear of
many years of life.

When we enquire of the physician
he can only tell us that old age is
discovered only in bodily decay. He
replies that there is a diminution of
all the functional activities. At mid-
dle life, with all the bodily functions
in complete activity of operation, one
set is constantly engaged in repairing
by the various procession of nutrition
the losses caused by the wear and
tear of such activities, while another
set is occupied in getting rid of the
waste matters which have performed
their purposes, and are discarded, or
which from the first were worthless
and are thrown out.

When the two processes of the res-
toration of the worn parts, and the
relieving of the body of that which is
no longer of use, but which would
be highly injurious if not properly
disposed of, are properly balanced
and kept in perfect operation, there
results a high state of health with
a reserve of energy which can be
used for extraordinary exertion.

But such extraordinary exertion
must be paid for by a corresponding,
momentary it may be, weakening of
the bodily powers, to be cured by
rest and a’ little care, but in time any
persistent unusual tax on the bodily
powers may result in an early break-
down. Such is the effect of excessive
dissipation and debauchery, and it is
by this means that the old man of
twenty-five years becomes a possi
bility.

Tessier, a medical authority on the
physiology of senile decadence, tells
of the structural degeneration of the
chief bodily organs in the general
order of their failure, thus: First,
the heart and blood vessels; second,
the lungs; third, the kidneys; fourth,
the digestive organs, and fifth, the
brain. First, of the heart, which is
now recognized to be the organ which
plays the chief part in the ending
of life. There is commonly a harden-
ing of the walls of the arteries so
they cease to respond readily and ac-
tively to the function of distributing
the blood, and there is also a weaken-
ing of the nerve supply. The heart
begins to give trouble, and finally
there may be a tragedy attributed to
heart failure. But the heart is not
primarily at fault. It did its duty
as well as it could to the end. The
blood supplied to it either was not
good in the beginning, or it had be-
come impure through the failure of
the purifying function to get rid of
the poisons that should have been

thrown off: No heart, however vigor-
ous, can do its full duty working with
impure blood.

Usually old persons eat too much.
‘The digestive organs are more or less
enfeebled, and they cannot dispose of
the quantity of food once the ordi-
nary and proper allowance of the pa-
tient. Moreover, it is often the case
that the substitutes that were once
found to be wholesome are no longer
so because of the increased difficulties
of digestion. When, therefore, the
person of advanced years attempts
to keep to the same bill of fare, in
the same quantities that made up his
daily meals thirty years earlier, he
heavily overtaxes his powers of di-
gestion and assimilation, as well as
the ability of the depurative organs
to dispose of the greater amount of
resulting waste matter.

It is easy to see why under such
circumstances tne heart, supplied
with insufficient or unwholesome
blood, or both, is driven to a task
beyond its power, and faithful to the
purpose for which it was created, ex-
erting its utmost but enfeebled en-
ergies, sinks under the load, as the
wounded soldier, still fighting to the
last, falls and dies on the field of bat-
tle.

These lines are not written’ to
weaken the confidence of the patient
in his physician. On the contrary,
the aged person more than ever needs
the care of the medical adviser, but
be needs advice perhaps more than
medicine. He needs prudence in eat-
ing above all, and one of the lessons
he is to learn from his own experience
is what sorts of foods are most con-
ducive to his health, and what sorts
invariably disagree with him.
Horace Fletcher has for a number
of years given himself to a careful
study of the human digestion. Col-
laborating with Sir Michael Foster,
and other distinguished physiologists,

at Cambridge University, England,
and with the Physiological Faculty
of Yale University, in the United
States, and with medical officers of
the United States Army, he has reach-
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even in their usual health eat more | early love affairs—gave himself away
than is good for them, and that nearly | in great shape.”

all persons advanced in years are to |

be charged with that offense against
their failing physical faculties. There
is so much sound sense in this doc-
trine, that the London Lancet, prob-
ably the very highest exponent of

medical progress published, says in |

its issue of Jan. 30, of the present
year:

It is with considerable complacency
therefore that we may view what seems
almost to amount to a ‘‘craze’’ at the
present time. We allude to the prevalent
exploitation of eating slowly and eating
less. A more a beneficial doc-
trine could hardly be chosen for the
popular medical idol of the moment. A
lay contemporary has recently devoted
many paragraphs to the researches and
experiences of an American gentleman,
Horace Fletcher, who has made it the
business of his life to demonstrate that
most people eat too much and eat too
fast. Incidentally he believes that a new
throat reflex has been discovered insur-
ing proper mastication for the “slow
feeder.” .Mr. Fletcher’s results have in-
terested physiologists and many of his
experiments were carried on at  Cam-

‘bridge in association with Sir Michael

Foster and other physiologists at that
place. As an_ enthusiast Mr. Fletcher
sees in the reduction of the quantity of
food necessary for the individual far-

reaching results, amongst others’ the,
kernel of National military success by teh |

simplification of the commissariat prob-

lem. Napoleon’s dictum that _an army ,

‘“‘moves on its belly’ is to be altered and
the instructed army will hardly need a
belly to move on. Whatever may be
the wide effects of the adoption of such
a system of feeding as Mr. Fletcher pro-
poses, at any rate there can be no ques-
tion of the individual advantage that
would follow in most cases from such a
course. A similar lesson, in a less con-
vineing form, is, of course, the central
point of the mysterious successes that
attend Mr. Barrie’s heroine in his play
of “Little Mary,’’ and if when lay writ-
ers dealt with medical subjects they were
always to work in such directions the
medical profession would welcome them
as valuable co-operators, as, indeed, we
do in the case of Horace Fletcher.
Advice as to dietetics is commonly
thrown away on persons in fair
health and is never heeded by the
young; but those advanced in years
should give it regard because it can
accomplish for them great benefit and
add to their comfort and happiness.
The aged are in no hurry to depart
hence and, while they must moderate
their demand for physical indulgences,
they may, at least, by a proper atten-
tion to health retain a much better
hold upon life than they could hope

for without such care.

———_+---

She Was Taking No Chances.

She had been suffering for several
days with a slight abscess, and when
she decided to have it lanced her
young husband accompanied her to
the physician’s.

“You are very brave, dearest,” he
said to her, as they waited for the
doctor in the reception room.

“Oh,” she said, smiling sweetly.
“you see, I’m going to take chloro-
form or gas or something.”

“No! Oh, no!” he remonstrated.
“You mustn’—”

“Why, Jack, it won’t cost so much
more—”

“Darling, how unkind! But, you
know, sometimes patients die under
chloroform.”

“Tl risk that. Ah, doctor, my hus-
band is trying to scare me with tales
about patients who die under chloro-
form. Now, you don’t think—”

“Pshaw! There’s no danger when
the doctor understands his patient’s
condition,” exclaimed the physician.
And a few moments later:

“Will you kindly take hold of this
sponge? By the way, just before you
came in I was administering the drug
to a man, and he was honestly quite
amusing. He rattled on about the

“Oh!” cried the young woman in
evident distress. Then collecting her-
self: “Will it hurt dreadfully, doc-
| tor?”

| “The lancing? No; with the drug
you won’t be any the wiser.”

“T think I can manage without any
| drug, don’t you know.”

“You might faint, dearest,” put in
the anxious husband. “And doctors
say there’s no danger in your case.
You’d better take it.”

“No, I think not,” she said, throw-
ing the sponge away and sitting bolt
upright. “I’m going to show you
men how a weak little woman can
bear pain.”

—_—_»- +

Side Talks About Advertising.

There are probably, at this time of
year, more demands made upon the
retail druggist for a remedy for
coughs and colds than for any other
one kind of medicine. When some
manufacturer’s ready made prepara-
| tion is not specifically asked for, the
thrifty druggist should be prepared
to furnish a thoroughly reliable rem-
edy of his own manufacture, one
which does not, in name or style of
package, simulate any other manufac-
turer’s product.

And the druggist should, by judi-
cious advertising, see to it that his
patrons are thoroughly familiar with
the fact that he does prepare a reme-
dy for coughs and colds on which
they can place absolute dependence.

There are many ways in which the
attention of the public may be at-
tracted. A supply of twenty-five and
fifty-cent sizes of your own prepara-
tion, re-enforced by judiciously word-
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PATERNAL GOVERNMENT.

The radical political element in this
country is un-American. The demo-
cratic idea abroad is something very
different from the Jeffersonian con-
ception of popular liberty. It does
not comprehend so much the develop-
ment of individual genius and charac-
ter as the bestowal of all the rewards
of labor and enterprise upon the peo-
ple as a whole. The ideal autocracy
would be a system of government
with all the power of the state held
by a single person who would pro-
vide for the welfare of all his sub-
jects as a good father looks after
the interest of his children. The so-
cial democrat is impatient and dis-
trustful of paternalism thus defined.
He insists that the general interest
is safest when it is under the imme-
diate protection of the people them-
selves. The weak point in this polit-
ical philosophy is found in its inade-
quate recognition of the supreme im-
portance of individual independence
and initiative to progress in every
field of endeavor. The social demo-
crat regards it as enough if the will
of the majofity is supreme, and he
is often too little careful of the se-
curity of personal rights. It is the
grand distinction of the political sys-
tem of this country that it is a lim-
ited democracy. A nation has made
a great advance when it has convert-
ed an autocracy into a constitutional
or limited democracy, and the dis-
tance is almost as great between a
limited and unlimited democracy. To
accord absolute power to a mere ma-
jority is hardly less dangerous than
to confide everything to the justice
and wisdom of a single person. It
is necessary, first of all, to secure the
effectual operation of equal laws so
that neither the tyrant on the throne
nor a-popular party in the majority
can trample upon the natural and in-
alienable rights of private citizens.

With this end in view, the authors
of the Constitution of the United
States undertook to define the limits
of the authority of the Federal Gov-
ernment on the one hand and ofthe
several state governments on the
other, as- precisely as possible. It
seems that they were not altogether
successful in this attempt. At least
representatives of apparently conflict-
ing interests have found it possible
to differ widely in regard to the
construction of various provisions in

 

the organic law of this country. From
the very beginning of the history of
the Federal Government a marked
paternalistic tendency became evi-
dent, and the country very narrowly
escaped-civil war, on that account,
as far back as the administration of
Andrew Jackson. The complaint of
the disaffected, then—a complaint
very frequently repeated since—was
that Federal authority had been exer-
cised beyond its legitimate limits for
the protection of particular classes
and special interests. Of late years,
however, a similar abuse of power
has been demanded for the protec-
tion of the masses against the class-
es, and so, at last, even in this coun-
try something in the nature of Social
Democracy, a tendency in that direc-
tion, has acquired a degree of popu-
larity in certain quarters. The Jef-
fersonian Democrat declares himself
equally opposed to both these ten-
dencies. He-might admit that in a
country where the condition of the
masses is hopeless, where the poor
man’s son has no opportunity to es-
cape the burdens which have rested
so heavily upon the shoulders of his
father, and where all the great prizes
of life are reserved for a privileged
few, a more or less plausible plea
might be made for the establishment
of a social state; but it seems to him
premature, to say the least of it, to
propose a revolution of that sort un-
der existing conditions in the United
States. He asserts his opposition to
every form of socialism in full view
of the giant’s strides made by mo-
nopoly here within the last- twenty
years. He is not yet prepared to
give up the fight for individualism.
He sees here the most magnificent
body of common people the world
has ever known; the descendants of
men who have periled all for the sa-
cred cause of personal liberty, or of
men who have crossed the seas to
make a home for themselves and
their children in a land where hith-
erto a career has always been open
to every honest and capable worker.
He remembers how great a part of
the whole number of Americans who
have achieved fortune or fame have
come to the front from the ranks
of that mighty mass of sturdy yeo-
men and honest toilers. And, there-
fore, he feels that it ought certainly to
be possible to make a successful ap-
peal to the general public in this
favored land in behalf of the princi-
ple which embodies the whole mean-
ing and purpose of true democracy.

As a matter of fact, no public leader
in either of the great parties in the
United States would admit that he is
ready to abandon the struggle. The
Republican party, while clinging as
tenaciously as ever to the policy of
patriotism, declares that the trusts
represent a form of oppression which
the Government should neglect no
legitimate means to crush or to crip-
ple. Democratic statesmen have sug-
gested that a good deal might be ac-
complished in that behalf by a re-
vision of the tariff. A Republican
Governor of Iowa has boldly an-
nounced the same view, and has suc-
ceeded in securing at least its partial
indorsement by his own party in that
State. For that reason the plan of
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vision was commonly known in the
campaign, preceding the congres-
sional elections two years ago, as the
“Iowa idea.” The most conspicuous
figure on the stump, however, about
that time was President Roosevelt,
who deprecated the adoption of the
“Towa idea,” on the ground that it
would not be possible to strike a
blow at the trusts in that way with-
out, at the same time, doing serious
and possibly irremediable injury to
legitimate industries. Mr. Roosevelt’s
bump of caution does not ordinarily
appear abnormally large, but it is
very conspicuously in evidence when-
ever any proposal to touch the tariff
is under consideration. The other
day Secretary Shaw undertook to
show, by a long and somewhat spe-
cious review of the history of Fed-
eral legislation on that subject, that
the Republican party had been from
the first to last the only earnest and
effective opponent of the trust sys-
tem in the United States. Of course,
he did not neglect to dwell upon the
Government by Attorney General
Knox in the Northern Securities case.
On the other hand, attention has been
called to an apparent attempt on the
part of the Attorney General him-
self to hedge—that is to say, to re-
mind the capitalists directly con-
cerned in that case that the decision
rendered by the Court would not be
found so sweeping in its application
as some enthusiastic anti-trust people
might have been led fondly to believe.

What the general public desires is
that all existing anti-trust legislation
shall have full effect and that it shall
be supplemented by further legisla-
tion whenever it may appear feasible
and desirable to provide additional
defenses against monopolistic ag-
gression. But the country demands
nothing violent, nothing .undemo-
cratic, nothing revolutionary. No
man can establish a claim to excep-
tional originality, honesty or public
spirit by mere noisy denunciation
of this form of evil; but if any man
can prescribe a prompt and effective
remedy, one which wil commend it-
self to the sane judgment of the peo-
ple, he will win a well-merited ap-
plause. Meanwhile, what is needed
is to confide the enforcement of the
anti-trust laws and the revision of
the tariff to the hands of men who
will, at least, endeavor to protect the
freedom of the home market against
the machinations of the inveterate
foes of competition.

 

The tobacco crop of Cuba this year
will be the finest ever gathered ow-
ing to the adoption of a Yankee
idea—that of covering the plants with
cheese cloth—which was originated
by the tobacco growers in Connecti-
cut. The cloth protects the plants
from insects and the leaves are fully
developed without spots or flaws of
any sort.

 

It is predicted that the crops this
year will be early and satisfactory
for the reason that the frost was so
severe during the past winter that
insect pests were killed. Something
will of course depend upon the cli-
matic conditions. Too much or too
little rain is the cause of most of the
troubles of the agriculturist.

 

INFLUENCE OF RELIGION.

Several wealthy Japanese recently
arrived at Seattle, their errand here
being to visit some of the principal
centers of the United States for the
purpose of seeing and learning. The
report says that one of the things
they desire to ascertain is “whether
religion enters to any appreciable ex-
tent into the actual daily life of our
people.” That seems at first glance
like a curious mission, and ‘yet it is

an eminently proper enquiry, and it

would really be interesting and in-
structive to Americans to read the,
reports made by. these visitors on
this particular subject. Their opin-
ions will differ materially, according
to the places and the scenes visited.
If they go into the dives, the drink-
ing places, etc., they will see the sad-
ness of sin, which will impress them
as being very widespread. If they go
on the stock market or into polities
and make a very thorough investiga-
tion, they will believe that religion
enters precious little into the daily
life of Americans. Properly conduct-
ed strangers, after what might seem
to them a very thorough examination,
would be convinced that there are
no saints in this country, but that
the United States is one great aggre-
gation of sinners.

But there is. another side, and it
is the side which it is hoped these
visitors will see. Religion in the
particular, liberal sense enters very
thoroughly into the daily life of our
citizens. They have only to noteon
every hand the hospitals, the asylums.
the homes, the social settlements and
all that sort of enterprises, to be
impressed with the great care and
concern Americans have for their un-
fortunate and their generosity in pro-
viding for the welfare of those who
are in distress. The religion of char-
ity is exemplified perhaps no better
in any country than it is right here
in the United States. But more than
that, the religion which holds up
ideals of high thinking and right liv-
ing is a very -potent influence and en-
ters more generally into the daily life
than most people might believe at
first thought. Religion teaches hon-
esty and justice. The Americans as
a people, in their business and their
personal relations, aré pre-eminently
honest. To the great proportion of
the people this statement applies.
There are exceptions, and many la-
mentable ones, to be sure, but the
Americans as a people are honest and
honorable. Even those who belong
to no church and subscribe to no re-
ligious creed pay a hundred cents on
the dollar and keep their word as
faithfully as they would their bond.
The Yankee is a great admirer of
justice as represented by fair play.
The influence of religion in this coun-
try is infinitely more far reaching
than the sound of the _ preacher’s
voice or the. notes of the church
chimes.

 

The radical advance in long dis-
tance rates by the Michigan (Bell)
Telephone Co. is probably due to the
ambition of the promoters to pay 4
dividend on the enormously watered
capital stock, so they can unload on
the investing public, the same as was
the case with the old company.

 

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OUR INTEREST IN THE EAST.

The Washington Government
which has all along been burning
with eagerness to become embroiled
in the war between Japan and Rus-
sia, may at last be able to hatch up
a pretext.

Everybody knows that Secretary
Hay took early occasion to interfere
by proposing to the European Pow-
ers to join him in guaranteeing the
freedom of the Chinese Empire from
spoliation by Russia in the present
war. The proposition was at once
recognized by all the other Powers
as a remarkable piece of intervention
in a matter in which the United
States can only have an indirect and
remote interest.

It was also recognized that Russia
was already occupying Manchuria,
one of the provinces of China, and
that any proposition to include that
in any undertaking in which Secre-
tary Hay was seeking to engage was
wholly out of the question, and to
persist in it would mean nothing less
than war with Russia, since if Rus-
sia should be victorious in the war
she would undoubtedly hold on to
Manchuria, which province Russia
has already occupied for some years
past.

The European Powers, to which
Mr. Hay’s note was presented, at
once insisted on striking out any al-
lusion to Manchuria, and they signed
it with that condition. It was shrewd-
ly suspected that Mr. Hay was acting
wholly under the influence of the
Sritish Cabinet, since it is well known
that the partition and parceling-out
of the Chinese Empire has already
been in progress for years. France
has assailed it from the South, and
while the country captured and an-
nexed did not actually belong’ to
China, it trenched closely upon the
ancient Empire. Thus France has
absorbed about 250,000 square miles
of Annam, Cambodia, Cochin China,
and Ton-King, and has pushed up
to China proper, and is ready to seize
on her share of the plunder as soon
as the break-up of the Empire shall
take place.

Germany’s slice of China is as yet
not very large, but a brave beginning
is made with the intention of increas-
ing it enormously at the break-up,
which must occur sooner or later. In
November, 1897, Germany seized the
District of Kiau-Chau, on the east
coast of the province of Shan-Tung.
It embraces a port with a fine harbor
and a territory of 200 square miles,
and a population of 60,000. After some
negotiations, China having protested
against the seizure, the entire region
was leased to Germany for ninety-
nine years, and became virtually Ger-
man territory.

Great Britain has long owned the
island of Hong Kong, in the mouth
of the Canton River, and with terri-
tory on both sides of the bay and
river completely commands the city
of Canton and all the territory tribu-
tary to it.

From this it is seen that the divis-
ion and seizure by the great Euro-
pean Powers, such as Russia, Great
Britain, Germany and France, have
long ago commenced, and that the
Government of the United States has
never protested against any of the

 

marauders, with the single exception
of Russia. Russia and Great Britain
may be considered hereditary ene-

mies on account of the fear by the|

latter that Russian

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aggressions in|

Asia mean an attack on Great Brit-|

ain’s Indian Empire.

The conclusion is irresistible that
Secretary Hay’s intrusion into the
war in Asia was done in the interest
of Great Britain, or that this great
Republic, under the control, as it is
at present, of a veritable madman, is
getting ready to seize a share of
China when the general dismember-
ment comes, and that the Philippines
are to be used as the base of opera-
tions when the dividing of the spoils
shall commence.

It is not surprising that all the con-
spirators that are engaged in the
spoliation of China were willing to
sign Mr. Hay’s note after it was re-
quired and admitted that Manchuria
was to be excluded and excepted from
the conditions, which are now robbed
of their attack on Russia and actually
mean nothing now, beyond that when
the present war is over if Russia still
holds Manchuria she can continue to
do so, and all the other robbers will
hold on also to what they have
seized. It is now a general agree-
ment to that effect. The work of
spoliation will take place at some
future time.

China also signed the agreement
of neutrality in the war, but it is
difficult to believe that China, whose
territory is at stake, can actually sit
still without taking some part in aid
of Japan. In this connection it is
reported that Russia has captured a
junk loaded with Chinese troops,
which was being towed by a Jap-
anese steamer under such circumstan-
ces as to give color to the belief that
the Chinese were co-operating or
aiding the Japanese. There are also
indications that the Chinese generals
commanding in the northern provin-
ces are in favor of making common
cause with the Japanese in an effort
tc drive out the Russians.

These indications and discoveries do
not necessarily imply that the Chin-
ese Government is not entirely sin-
cere in its protestations of neutrality.
Although the Pekin Government may
be heartily desirous of remaining neu-
tral, one or more of the Chinese vice-
roys in close proximity to Manchuria
may decide to aid the Japanese with-
out consulting the Pekin govern-
ment. Chinese viceroys are prone to
act independently and have frequent-
ly done so in the past. They nat-
urally resent Russia’s theft of Man-
churia and would welcome any turn
of events that might drive that Pow-
er out.

Whether Japan will do anything
to induce the Chinese to seek an open
rupture with Russia may very well be
doubted. Chinese assistance would
be a very uncertain quantity, where-
as it would give Russia the desired
pretext for utilizing Chinese terri-
tory in her military operations. It
would, therefore, appear that it
would be more to Japan’s interest for
China to remain neutral than to: in-
sist upon taking a hand in the war.

For China to espouse the cause of
Japan against Russia would be a se-
rious matter, as it would furnish Rus-

 

sia with an excellent pretext to seize
more of Chinese territory and estab-
lish her policy of exclusion firmly,
not merely in Manchuria, but over
the whole of Northern China.

The prospect at present is that
Russia will be defeated, and may be
finally driven out of Manchuria, but
even allowing that Russia holds her
ground and makes further aggressions |
in China, that can give no shadow
of an excuse for the United States
to plunge into an Asiatic war which
can bring no benefits to this country.

The time will come sooner or later
when we will only have such trade
in China as the European nations that
may conquer it will permit, but if
China should awake, as has Japan.
the Western invaders will be driven
out, and when China shall be fairly
developed by means of railroads and
machinery the people will be able
to produce and manufacture so cheap-
ly that so far from being able to sel!
them our products, they will supply
themselves and compete with us in
other markets.

The arrogant claim is made that
the position of this country as_ the
leading power in the Pacific ocean de-
mands that we be consulted upon any

matter so important as the balance

of power in the Far East.

The business of this great Republic
is to devote itself to the Americani-
zation of the Western Hemisphere,
which in commerce, in the prejudices
of its people and in their feelings and
ideas, is largely under
influence, and, certainly, in the coun-
tries outside of the United States,
is under European control. If un-
der the aegis of the Monroe Doctrine
American statesmanship and enter-
prise and money were employed in
developing our rich New World, we
would not need to care who domin-
ated the Old.

Therefore, there can be no more
dangerous talk than that our enor-
mous growth in power and wealth has
made it impossible to hold aloof
from the family of nations or to re-
frain from playing our part in the
affairs of the world. The prospect
is that sooner or later we will have
ali we can do to keep Europe out
of our hemisphere. Great Britain is
the chief foreign holder in it. Her
domain is vastly larger than our own,
and instead of acting as a catspaw
for her, we should beware of her more
than of all others.

European

 

 

This country takes more than one-
half of the baled leaf tobacco which
Cuba exports, but less than one-
fourth of the number of cigars sent
out by the dusky queen of the An-
tilles. So enormous is the quantity
of cigars rolled in manufactories in
the United States that the sources
of supply of the material outside of
that raised under the Stars and
Stripes are many and important.

Over $500,000,000 of American capi-
tal has been expended in developing
railroads in Mexico. The Mexicans
appreciate what American enterprise
has accomplished for their country
and encourage American undertak-
ings of every description for they
know by experience that the Ameri-
cans are usually successful in busi-
ness ventures.

 

AN ATTACK ON COLUMBUS.

One of the first things which the
youthful student of American history
is taught is that Christopher Colum-
bus discovered America in 1492.
Ever since that eventful voyage Co-
lumbus has been held in high esteem
and his name has been much respect-
ed. For more than 400 years he has
enjoyed a good reputation both in
print and popular speech. He is in
danger now, however, of losing his
good name. Henry Vignaud, first
Secretary of the American embassy in
Paris, has written a letter to Hon.
Whitelaw Reid, in which he rakes
Columbus fore and aft and says that
he was not an honest man and that
the histories have given him an al-
together better reputation than he de-
serves. Mr. Vignaud is a native of
Louisiana and has been abroad in
the United States diplomatic service
for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury. He has made a very thorough
study, consulting original documents
and records, and his charges against
the discoverer are sweeping, summed
up in the single sentence, “He was
boastful and lying, greedy, violent
and brutal.”

In his bill of particulars filed with
his complaint against the ancient nav-
igator, Mr. Vignaud says that Colum-
bus, instead of being descended from
noble ancestors whose coat of arms
is engraved on their tombs at Piacen-
za, was the son of an humble weaver.
Likewise it is insisted that Columbus
made untruthful statements about his
age, claiming that he was born in
1436, or at latest in 1446, when as a
matter of fact he was born in 1451.
It matters less when or where a man
was born than it does about what he
did after he was born, but Mr. Vig-
naud lays great stress on his state-
ments as showing that he did not tell
the truth, and the man who will pre-
varicate about one thing may about
another, It is argued that if it is
proven he lied about his age and his
ancestors, he was untrustworthy as to
It is asserted in the
same connection that he did not orig-
inally start out to reach the Indies by
the way of the West and that this
was an afterthought. Mr. Vignaud
bases his allegations upon various
deeds and other documents he has
consulted, which are at variance with
generally accepted history. Columbus
is to be congratulated that he escap-
ed such severe criticism for more
than 400 years... The fact remains
that however unreliable he may have
been as to his ancestry or the date
of his birth he did make the voyages,
and as commander of the expedition
discovered the New World. That is
glory enough for one man and even
Mr. Vignaud admits it. It is doubtful
if the histories will all be re-written
because of these alleged discoveries.
The fame of Columbus as a fearless
navigator must continue as it has for
more than four centuries. If his
father was a weaver, it is all the
more credit to the son that he accom-
plished so much, and although he
may have been the first, he certain-
ly was not the last individual to be
wary about stating his age.

other things.

 

What a happy old world this would
be if people who lose their tempers
were unable to find them again!

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE HIRED MAN |
Approaches the Crisis, But Dodges |
the Issue.

“There's jest no two ways about it. |
I’ve jest got to go to town an’ git
somethin’ to wear onto my feet.”

This statement was made. with}!
great emphasis by James Milker, |
hired man by the month, to Pete: |
Clover, hired man by the day, as they
stood together in the open doorway |
of the -woodshed.

“Yes,” responded = Mr. Clover,
“seems to me I’ve heard you say
somethin’ like that some time afore.’ |

“Well, this time there’s no gettin’ |
around it. I’m jest agoin’ to knock |
off at noon and go to town.”

“Asked OV Orrin?”

“No, I ain’t asked OV Orrin, an’ |
what’s more I ain’t goin’ to ask him,
I’m jest goin’ to tell him.”

Peter Clover smiled skeptically.
Just at that moment Mr. Earlap
came out from breakfast and_ the
three men went out to the barn |
gether.

It was some time after this, when |
Mr. Earlap had changed wagons |}
three times and the help was just)
beginning to load the empty wagon)
he had driven into the barn yard, that
the hired man spoke. “I mos’ forgot |
to ask ye, can Pete an’ me take a/|
hoss after dinner to drive over to}
Heronville? We got to have some
shoes.”

Peter Clover opened his mouth
aghast. He was day help and did
not desire to be docked a half day.

“T don’t—” he began.

“We'll have the manure all out 0’
this end o’ the yard ’fore noon an’ I
reckoned ’twould be about the best
chance we'd git, the way we’re goin
to tuck into work this spring.”

“Fur as I’m concerned—” interpo-
lated the day help again—

“No objections, hev ye?” said
James Milker, hurriedly. “I'll take
ol’ Buckskin an’ the ol’ square box?”

“Why, no,” replied Orrin Earlap,
hesitatingly. “If you got to go, you
got to go, I s’pose, though I did
think we'd finish coverin’ that east |
lot to-day.”

 

* * *

Old Buckskin was not a fast horse
and it was nearly three o’clock when
the pair drove into Heronville, James |
Milker having talked so continuously
that Peter Clover had not once had
a chance to state that he didn’t mean
to come at all.

“*Fore we go to any store I’ve got
to have one drink over a bar. I’ve
had cider, an’ cider, ’til I’m plumb
blasted jest longin’ for a civilized
drink.”

Peter Clover said more. He knew
he could not afford to lose the half
day. He could not afford any new
boots, yet at that moment he was
glad he had come. As they pushed
open the green doors.

Twelve regular customers came
and went, some slipping in the side
door, some in the back door and some
coming and going through regular
channels, while the two hired men
enjoyed to the fill the big glasses of
beer which they sipped slowly as if
it were wine, held up to the light
ever and anon, as they leaned luxuri-

 

 

 

 

| down the thoroughfare.

| Something in footwear to-day?”

| an’ will wear, an’ that’s where you

| days, but I’ve got a few customers
| yet who know how much more pro-
| tection a boot is, and I keep a special

ously on the bar with one foot on)
the iron railing.

Several times the bartender had |
nervously wiped off the counter close |

to the happy pair without hurrying |

| them in the least. The next time he |
appeared Mr. Milker remarked in|

aii offhand tone of good fellowship,
“Where’s a good place here to git |
pair o’ boots?”

“All the stores is good, I guess.

| Sometimes I goes to one and some- |

|

:
times I goes to another.
“Till he’s got trusted at all of ’em,” |
facetiously observed the other bar-

| tender, at which the two hired men

laughed long and flatteringly.
“Hyde’ll do as well by you as any-

_ body,” observed the facetious  bar-’
| tender condescendingly.

“ve got a pair of boots on,” be-

| gan James Milker, but both bartend-
| ers had, hurried far down to the other

end of the long bar to wait on the
dapper-looking village customers who
nad just come in, and the hired man
did not have a fair chance.

They wandered out and looked up
and down the street for Hyde’s Shoe

| Store, and finally they spied it far

ee
It was Mr. Hyde himself who came}
forward. |
“Ah, good afternoon, gentlemen. |

“T’ve brought a friend of mine in,
said Mr. Milker with a sudden _ in-|
spiration, “who wants to git the best |
pair of boots you got in the store. |
He asked me where to come, an’ I
said Hyde’s is the place, I says,
where they keep boots that are good,

|
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git ’em at prices that’s right, I says.”

The meek Mr. Clover opened his
mouth to protest, but the shoe dealer
was leading the way down the store
toward the heavy wear department.
“You’ve come to the right place,” he
said, confidently. “Of course we sell
more coarse shoes than boots these

stock for them. Let me see, I know
your name perfectly well. Eh—”

“Clover, Peter Clover.”

“Oh, yes, I remember, and_ of
course your name I know, because
you’ve been such a good friend of
the store.”

“Milker, James Milker,” put in the
regularly ordained hired man, hastily.

“Oh, yes, Mr. Milker, I know you
well enough, but Mr. Clover hasn’t
been in quite so often. Now there’s
a boot, Mr. Clover, that we have
made especially for our trade and it
is a good one. Solid stock back and
front, not a pieced back, you will ob-
serve, counters on the outside so you
don’t have to slip a table knife down
inside to keep the counter up every
time you put them on, when they get
a little old.”

Mr. Clover took hold of the boot
awkwardly, it was so new and bright
and shiny. “I wasn’t calculatin’,” he
began—

“He wasn’t calc’latin’ to pay more’n
about $2.50 for a pair this time,”
broke in Mr. Milker hastily.

“You hit a half dollar under the
price on them,” ejaculated the dealer,
“but just exactly the figure that I was

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Eee,

to make them to you at—$z2.50, which
only allows us a quarter of a dollar
profit, but I want to do right by you.
What size do you wear, Mr. Clover?
You do? That’s a number 9 you’ve
got right in your hand. It'll fit you
like a glove.”

“No need to try ’em on,” broke
in the hired man. “They’ll fit you
all right. Do ’em up, Mr. Hyde.
They’re jest what he wants.”

“Why, dang it, I— Gosh blast it—”
ejaculated the perplexed day helper.

“Oh, hush up,” interposed Mr.
Milker. ‘Pay for your boots an’ let’s
git out an’ git another drink.”

“Nothing for your own wear, to-
day? queried the dealer as he placed
the package in the hands of the con-
fused Mr. Clover and jingled the two
silver dollars and the half together
in his hands.

“No, I guess not, to-day,” said the
hired man, “not to-day.”

“Why, dang it, you— Why—’” ex-
ploded the day helper.

“Yes, we'll have to be goin’,” said
the hired man, hastily. “I'll be
needin’ somethin’ pretty soon now,
and I’ll be sure to come in, Hyde,
same as I allus do, an’ all my friends.
Good day.”

And he piloted the scowling Mr.
Clover, who hadn’t intended to lay
off, who hadn’t intended to come to
town, who hadn’t intended to buy any
boots, out of the door. But the dark
look on Mr. Clover’s face lightened
some as he saw where Mr. Milker
was headed for, and they went off up
the street—Ike N. Fitem in Boot
and Shoe Recorder.

— ~+2>_
Fallacies About .Fish.

It is doubtful whether any given
food in common use contains con-
stituents which have a selective ac-
tion, so to speak, on the property of
ministering to one part of the body
more than another. As a rule, when
a food is assumed to have specific
reparative properties—as, for exam-
ple, a so-called brain or nerve food
—the fact really is that such food is
easily and quickly assimilated to the
body’s general advantage; in a word,
in such a case repair quickly over-
takes waste and a real purposeful nu-
trition and restoration are accom-
plished. The administration of such
elements as phosphorus or iron in
medicine is, of course, a different mat-
ter, but these elements are evenly
distributed in the materials of a daily
diet.

It is often stated that fish is a food
which ministers particularly to the
needs of the brain, because it con-
tains phosphorus. As a matter of
fact, fish does not contain more phos-
phorus than do ordinary meat foods,
and it certainly does not contain it
in a free state. The notion that fish

>

* contains phosphorus had no doubt its

origin in the glowing phosphores-
cence of fish in the dark. This phos-
phorescence is due, not to phosphor-
us at all, but to micro-organisms.
The belief, therefore, that fish is a
brain food is just about as reasona-
ble as the idea that because soup is
thick and gelatinous “it will stick to
the ribs,” or as sensible as the cele-
brated advice to Verdant Green to
lay in a stock of Reading biscuits to
assist his reading.

 

Fish, of course, is excellent food,
partly because of the nourishing na-
ture of its constituents and partly be-
cause of its digestibility. But it is in
no sense a specific for brain or nerve.

——_>+ >
Corean Wisdom.

A thing is good when it is new.

A man is good when he is old.

He who hath eaten salt drinketh
water.

One can paint the fur of the tiger,
but not his joints.

Even the blind man can find = for the first time that American cut- |

way through an open door.

When the tiger is gone, the fox is
master.

As soon as the moon is full it be-
gins to grow smaller.

The higher the mountain the deep-
er the valley.

Does smoke come out of a fireless
chimney?

Even a hedgehog says his young
ones are weak.

A single high wheat stalk is not
distinguished from the rest in the
field.

A basket full of gold is not so val-
uable for a son as instruction in
one of the classics.

It is only the thirsty who dig a
well.

When the ox has broken through
the stall repairs are first made.

A family who has no sickness for

ten years must be rich.
——_>---.—____

New Idea in Unbreakable Tableware.

The Company du Val-St.-Lambert,
of Liege, Belgium, is manufacturing
a hardened crystal dish, which in ap-
pearance closely resembles fine trans-
lucent china of uniform shape and
manufacture. The resisting power of
this ware is due to a special harden-
ing process and to the quality and
nature of the crystal used. It not
only successfully resists the usual
wear and tear, but is almost proof
against breakage. The resistance to
shocks and sudden changes of tem-
perature of this product is remarka-
ble indeed. A hardened crystal dish
can be substituted for a hammer in
driving nails into wood, while the
same ware can be put into boiling
water at a high degree, then plunged
into ice water repeatedly, without
the least noticeable damage to the
dish or plate.

——— +>
New-Fangled Orthography.
Francis Wilson, when not engaged
in being funny on the stage or in
hunting old books, loves an hour on
the water. He has a neat little sail-
boat with which he finds it safe to
explore the shores of Long Island
Sound in the neighborhood of his
home at New Rochelle; New York.
This boat has been named
“Psyche,” which seems to fit the light
and airy nature of the craft, and of
which he is rather proud among the
host of commonplace names of many
other local boats.
One day last summer Mr. Wilson
was on the pier when he saw a griz-
zly oysterman regarding with a dis-
gusted expression the name as it ap-
pears on the stern. Pointing with his
thumb he called his companion’s at-
tention to it and said:
“*P_s-y-c-h-e!’? Well, if that ain’t
the durndest way I ever seen to spell
‘fish! ”

 

 

Knife Blade Thirty Feet Long.

The biggest carving knife
manufactured may be seen at the
World’s Fair. This monster blade
is 30 feet in length and has an edge
as sharp as a razor. It is made out
of the finest steel, and the handle is
a masterpiece of the cutler’s art,
elaborately carved and _ beautifully
polished. It would take a veritable
giant to wield a knife like this. The

ever;

blade is altogether of American man- |

ufacture, and it is expected to show

lery has now reached a point of per- |
fection where it fears no rivalry. The |
giant carving knife cost several thous- |

and dollars, and special machinery

had to be made before its construc- |

tion could begin. No such knife was
ever before manufactured.
—--—
No Charge for Overvaluation.

“This ring,” said the jeweler, “ will |

}

cost you $50, with our extra service |

gratis.”

“What is your ‘extra service?”

asked the young man who was look- |

ing at engagement rings.

“When the young lady calls to
make enquiries we'll tell her it’s
worth $150.”

a
Husband Your Brains.

The first lesson of scientific edu-
cation should be: that a man’s brain
cells are not only money, but capital,
and that it is just as possible to dis-
sipate them foolishly as to use them
in the work of building up a career.

> 2

It takes a man with a strong face

to travel on his cheek.

 

Money in it

It pays to use New Century Flour.

It pays because it makes more and
better bread and biscuit; more delic-
ious, wholesome cake and pastry
than any other flour ever milled.

One sack proves it.

Get an order and know the facts.

Write for prices.

Caledonia Milling Co.

Caledonia, Mich.
Citz. Phone No. 9

 

 

 

 

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Good paint is the first essential to a
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Moses Cleveland

of ye
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Good Paint

begets confidence both in the dealer and con-
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Assisted by the effective local advertising
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The

Forest City Paint & Varnish Co.
Dept. T.
Cleveland, Ohio

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

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| ern
| backward and

It is rather interesting to note that |

the average price of best refrigerator

eggs in September has always shown |
the |
| conservative figures.

a profit over the prices paid in
previous April and May, and that in
every instance except one (1899) the
November average has been higher

than the September average.

This |

is quite natural, for it would very |

rarely happen that any one would be-
gin to unload holdings at
any loss at the beginning of the un-
loading season; even when the situa-
tion is inherently unhealthy at that

storage

crease as yet; in many of the North-
sections the weather has been
in the Central West
very bad _ floods

there have been

which have seriously interferred with |
| the receipts of

ss oe | points.
Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

stock at primary
Most of the experienced egg opera-

tors regard present prices as danger-

| ously high and many of them declare |
that they will not store any eggs un- |
more |

had later at
There are prob

less they can be

ably a lot of outsiders who have
been attracted to the deal by the
protits last year and by the’ very

easy terms upon which a lot of eggs
can be carried with comparative lit-

| tle money, but it seems hardly possi-

time the position is not sufficiently |

developed to make it apparent, and
ii September it is always the offer-
ing of storage reserves which limits
the natural upward tendency of
prices.
November-—which
month of naturally lightest egg pro-

is perhaps

duction—should usually see some ad-

It is quite natural also that |
the |

vance in the level of storage egg val- |

ues, even although later developments
may disastrous to remaining
stocks—for there is always the possi-
bility of a hard winter ahead. But
it is noted that in six of the last ten
vears the January average was lower
than the November average and in
only two was it any higher. In four
of the years there was a very bad
wind-up at heavy losses. In consid-
ering the above figures it should be
remembered that they represent the
average of the highest grade; the
average quality being below the value
of the best the figures would have to
be let down somewhat to indicate
average results.

The more conservative feeling as
to the storage egg deal noted among
iccal operators early last week—when
we were getting the heaviest receipts
ever recorded in this market—had
about as much effect as a dam_ of
straw in a spring freshet. It was not
at all contagious, and it took only a
day or two to show that it was not
shared by the sum total of specula-
tive operators. Prices here had fall-
en below a parity with country cost,
and instead of putting the latter down
many of the big egg packers went
right along buying everything in
sight and packing for storage. Most
of them had orders in hand from
people in nearly all parts of the coun-
try and many of them thought they
might as well turn some to storage
on their own account. So the prices
stayed up and at this end of the line
supplies available for current use be-
gan to run short.

We have a very heavy consumptive
demand here now and, of
must compete with the speculative
outlets to get the stock to supply
it; so prices here were drawn steadi-
ly upward to a full parity with West-
ern cost—-which now seems to have
been reached.

Perhaps the action of the market
does not truly indicate the relative
force of the storage disposition, but
this is only a faint hope. Collections
have probably not made a normal in-

prove

 

 

course, |

 

ble that there can be enough of these
to absorb the April surplus when the
country dries up and warms up, and
when production reaches its height.
One of our Warren street egg
houses received the other day in a
shipment of eggs from Kentucky five
cases that were invoiced as “solution
eggs.” Upon examination they prov-
ed to be old eggs—hard to say how
old—apparently kept in some kind of
pickle, although they were not limed
Upon breaking they smelled

eggs.

| to heaven and the yolks were found

to be solidified. They were a pretty
poor specimen of modified hen fruit
and the receiver was lucky to find a
buyer for them at $1 a case. The
strange thing is that any one should
have kept these eggs through the
months of high prices, unless it was
done simply as an experiment.—N. Y.
Produce Review.
—_ o___
American Apples Wanted in France
and Ireland.

The Department of Agriculture of
Canada has had its attention called
to the excellent market in France for
apples. The firm of Champagne
Freres, of Paris, writes that 1903 was
the first year that American and Ca-
nadian apples have come to France
in important quantities, and that the
best apples brought satisfactory
prices. The market, he adds, is not
so good at present, but he is of the
opinion that it will soon recover.
What are wanted, he emphasizes,
are apples of the best qualities and
hard and strong, so that they will
arrive in good condition. From the
north of Ireland a_ correspondent
writes to the same department that
good market for first-class fruit
and other products exists. A dealer
in Belfast, R. Andrews, writes that
that market is not properly cultivat-
ed by Canadian exporters and de-
sires to be put in correspondence
with them. A market open to Cana-
dian fruits would seem worth culti-
vating. by American shippers.

—_++>___

“The Japanese language,” we are
told, “was molded into its literary
form by the touch of woman.” Per-
haps that is the reason why it con-
tains no cuss words. There are times,
if is said, when the Japanese regards
this as a real disadvantage. The Jap-
anese soldiers who come into contact
with the Russians may acquire a
splendid vocabulary for swearing pur-
poses, and in a few years after the
war Japan may resound with pro-
fanity.

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Fresh Eggs Wanted

| Will pay top market price f. o. b. your station,

Wire, write or telephone.

‘Ss. ORWANT & SON, cranp rRapips, micn.

Wholesale dealers in Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce.
Reference, Fourth National Bank of Grand Rapids.
Citizens Phone 2654.

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

| Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers. Sawed whitewood
| and veneer basswood cases. Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit pur-
'chaser. We manufacture every kind of fillers known to the trade, and sell same ii
| mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchas2r. Also Excelsior, Nails and Flats
‘constantly in stock. Prompt shipment and courteous treatment. Warehouses and
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Address

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

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

Will pay 14c F. O. B. your’station for balance of this week. Cases returnable

C. D. CRITTENDEN, 3 N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Dealer in Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce
Both Phones 1300

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We handle full line Farm, Garden and Flower Seeds. Ask for whole-
sale price list for dealers only. Regular quotations, issued weekly
or oftener, mailed for the asking.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Houseman Bldg., Michigan

 

 

 

 

Write or telephone us if you can offer

POTATOES BEANS APPLES
CLOVER SEED ONIONS

We are in the market to buy.

MOSELEY BROS. ecranp rapiDs, MICH.

Office and Warehouse znd Avenue and Hilton Street, Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217.

R. HIRT, JR.

WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION

Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce

34 AND 36 MARKET STREET, DETROIT, MICH.
If you ship goods to Detroit keep us in mind, as we are reliable and pay the
highest market price.

 

    

  
       

 

Storage Eqas Wanted

I am in the market for 10,000 cases of strictly fresh
eggs, for which I will pay the highest market price
Prompt returns.

William Andre, Grand Ledge, Michigan

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Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, April 2—The market |
for actual coffee has had a week of |
increased activity, and at the close)
the situation is decidedly in favor of |
the seller. This tendency is owing |
to firmer European reports and ex- |
pected large decrease in the world’s |
supply. This decrease, amounting |
to something like a half million bags |
iii March, is quite an important face |
ter. The amount of Brazil coffee in|
store and afloat now amounts to|
2,913,107 bags, against 2,681,747 bags |
at the same time last year. Demand
during the week, as stated above, has |
been -quite active and buyers are tak- |
ing more liberal supplies. Friday was
almost a complete holiday, West In-
dia sorts were quiet and no large |
lots were sold. Good Cucuta, 8'%c;
East India, quiet and a shade lower |
on some sorts.

Dulness characterizes the sugar
market. Some stock is being called

for under old contracts but of new}
business practically nothing has been |
recorded. Offices of refiners were
closed Thursday night and will re-
main so until Monday, indicating a |
small business in hand. Prices are |
firmly maintained, and this is one re-|
deeming featuse.

There is a steady distributive trade
in teas, but transactions are light. |
Offerings are limited in first hands
and quotations are well sustained. |

Rice is mighty quiet owing to the |
fact that this market is still above |
those of the South. Prices are un-
changed and firm.

The little business done in spices
was of a jobbing nature, but prices
are very firm and if changes are made
at all they will be to a higher basis.
Zanzibar cloves, 1644@17c.

The market for molasses remains
firm under the influence of limited
offerings and a fairly active demand
which has come from many points.
This applies not only to the better
qualities, but to the inferior sorts as
Syrups are quiet and unchang-

well.
ed. :

Canned goods continue to show
steady improvement and demand is
not confined to one sort. Tomatoes
have sold extremely well and prices
are perhaps a little higher than last
week. Salmon is firm and steadily
improving. The market will be in
excellent shape for new goods—six
months from now.

Dried fruits are miserably dull.
Prunes sell only in very small lots,
while peaches do not sell at all.
Loose raisins have been moving a
little, but not over 5%4c can be named.

Butter is tending downward, al-
though the official quotations are un-
changed. The supply is steadily in- |
creasing and lower figures are inevi-
table. Best Western creamery, 25@
25'4c; held extras, 20@2Ic; imitation
creamery, extras, 18c; firsts, 16@18c;

| character

| is something

| time”

| departments.

 

factory, 13%4@14%4c; renovated, 15
@18c; rolls, 1314@14¢.

There is no change in cheese, de-
mand being simply of an every-day
and 1I2c remains the rate
for full cream.

Easter demand for eggs being over,

|

|

as well as the call from the Hebrew |

| element, prices will probably take an

immediate tumble. Select Western,

| 18%c; from this down to I4@1I5c as
| to quality and outside appearance.

——_- 2
Fair Pay for Labor.

The fixing of the pay for
done is one of the most important
operations in modern manufacturing;
yet it is one that, in general, has been
given the least amount of systematic
study. Most establishments have
expert financiers, expert designers,
expert salesmen, and expert purchas-
ing agents for everything except la-
bor. The buying of labor is general-
lv left to people whose special work
else, with the result
that it is usually done in a manner
very unsatisfactory to both the pur-
It is admitted

work

chaser and the seller.

ito be the hardest problem we have
| to face in manufacturing to-day, and

yet it is considered only when the
manager “has time” or has to “take
account of the unsatisfac-
affairs. The time to

on

tory state of

study this subject is not when labor

trouble has commenced and_ every
move, either of the employer
workman, is viewed with suspicion,
but when things are running smooth-
ly and when employer and workmen
have confidence in one another.
When compensation is fixed for do-

or

(ing work it should be for doing a
'definite piece of work with specified

implements in a definite way. When

ithe work to be done is accurately

known and the implements are pro-
vided, it is a matter of investigation
to determine the amount that a good
man should do, and the writer has

yet to find a case in which a pretty

accurate solution could not be arriv-
ed at if only the proper methods of
investigation were followed and the
subject given sufficient study. The
difficulty is that few people are will-
ing to give the subject the same
amount of study that they would
give to the design of a complicated
piece of machinery; yet it involves
more unknown’ quantities and is
quite as difficult of solution. It re-
quires a trained specialist just as
much as the design of machinery
does.

The fact must be emphasized that
the problem is not an easy one, and
can not be solved by men who are
busy at something else, and work at
it only when they have time. Such
problems must be studied by capable
men who make the solution their
main, if not their whole, business. In
other words, the rate-fixing expert,
if he is not to be a guesser, must be
of the same order as the other ex-
perts. Then his department, proper-
ly administered, becomes quite as
important and valuable as the older
H. L. Gault.

— ~+22>—___

What the Egg Crop Is Worth.

The production of eggs in the
United States last year was undoubt-
edly about 60,000,000 cases, and prob-
ably cost the consumers from I5 to

| aoc a dozen with an average cost

|
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during 1903 about $350,000,000. If to |
this sum is added $140,000,000, the Fresh Eggs
value of poultry marketed in this
country the last year, we shall see Prices Will Be Right
that during 1903 the “little hen” add-
ed to the wealth of this country i 0. SNEDECOR & SON
about $500,000,000. Egg Receivers
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of the United States paid for eggs

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BUTTER

I want more ordinary receipts of fresh dairy butter
than are coming.

I am getting one egg where | ought to get one hundred.

Am oversold on my best process butter; don’t want
orders.

THE IOWA DAIRY is the only first class hand sep-
arator for a farmer.

E. F. DUDLEY, OWOSSO, MICH.

EGGS

Everybody Takes To Our New Prop-
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Harrison Bros. Co.
9 So. Market St., BOSTON

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“MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Novelty Goods—Novelty white

| goods for waistings in lightweights
| for the Eastern trade promise to re-
| ceive some excellent orders a little

| later on.

For the West and North-

| west medium weights are likely to be
'in better favor, but heavy goods from
Weekly Market Review of the Prin-|

'any quarter.

Staple Cottons—The heavy staple)

goods, both brown
seem to be quite a factor in the pres-
ent requirements of the consumers.
Brown sheetings, drills

and bleached, |

and cotton |

flannels are moving forward to a fair |
extent, which, with present market |

conditions, makes a larger impression
than it would do in more active

times. Prices are firmly maintained,

| smal! selections are

all appearances are not wanted in
Mercerized fabrics are
likely to show up fairly well when
retailers come to a decision about
their fall needs, but the general im-
pression seems to point towards plain
finished goods. Fancy novelty goods
are not taking hold as strongly as
they might with the jobbers. Only
in hand and
further ordering will not be done un-

| til something of a more definite na-

but buyers are making strong efforts |

to get concessions. [ull

require- |

ments are taken only in a few cases, |

owing to the strong feeling against
present asking prices. The

fine |

bleached goods, such as cambrics and |

muslins, are moving slowly.

In job- |

bing circles, in particular, there is |
little business being placed for job- |

bing accounts, but the big underwear | oe
: | that heavy initial orders have been

manufacturers and lingerie makers

are buying from Io to 100 cases at a|

time. On fine cambrics prices are
quoted on a very reasonable basis,
considering the heavy cost of manu-
facturing, but consumers seem to dif-
fer on this point.

When a 208s thread

cambric sells for 15¢c or under on a's
I4c cotton basis, buyers should not |
| excellent promise -for the future. As

have any room for argument.
Sheer Fabrics—Just now sheer fab-

rics are in a very inactive position, at |
a time when business should be at its |

highest point of activity. Retailers
and the cutting-up trade have but
small stocks on hand, but these stocks

were purchased early and placed on|
the market too early for actual needs. |

The results have been that the retailer
has become disappointed in
goods and prefers to hold out a while

sheer |

ture takes place.

Ginghams-—Apron ginghams have
been moving fairly well for some
weeks, now, in both jobbing and com-
mission circles, but prices seem to

 

be a hindrance towards heavier or- |

ders.
some very excellent fabrics are be-
ing shown for fall needs. Some lines
have been of such excellent patterns

placed and mills are well sold up for
the season. In the fine ginghams
only the usual business is being done.

Cheviots—While the cheviot cassi-

In the cheap dress ginghams |

mere has been a prominent feature, |
the cheviot itself has by no means |

been a back number, and there was |

enough buying to give more thanan

was expected, staple effects were by

far the best sellers, yet a slight ten- |
dency to branch out in the other ef- |

It was
merely a hesitation born of caution
that prevented a proper trading in
brighter tones, but this may come
with the duplicate season, when it
opens. In fact, it will not be at all
strange if all theories that existed

fects could not be ignored.

_during the initial buying were com-

before he places his duplicate busi- |

ness.
same position, but they are buying
sample pieces here
getting up heavier stocks in antici-

The garment makers take the.

and there and)

pation of a good business later on. |
Washable chiffon is a very prominent

fabric in the making of the higher-
priced garments this season, and, in
fact, is a fabric of a rather recent
creation.

Washable Chiffon—The washable

chiffon that is being used by the un- |
derwear makers is a fabric of French |
manufacture and similar in construc- |

tion to a very fine lawn. It is rather
a wide fabric of its kind, being about

40 inches in width, and sells for about |

25c.
the properties of a chiffon.
plain weave, and is made with the
very finest of yarns. The appearance
of the goods lies wholly in the finish

In appearance it has some of}
It has a!

pletely upset when the duplicate sea-
sons sets in.

Cloakings—There is much to be
done yet with the spring line of
cloakings before there can be any
degree of satisfaction in the mills and
among the selling agents. Stocks
have not accumulated to any unpleas-
ant extent, yet there are considerable
to be found in the primary market
that must be moved, and that very
shortly. The agents feel sure that
the cutting-up trade will be in the
market for more goods very soon,
and when they come the cloaking
business will straighten out rapidly.
The decision of styles, of course, is
what holds matters back.

Underwear—The first underwear
orders of the season are practically

 

_concluded and now the general ex-
| pression of the trade is a hope for

| duplicates.

and goes to show in part the skill of | pursue a very conservative course and

the French manufacturer in his con-|

verting department.

It is very soft |

to the feel and yet somewhat. stiff, |
and it is rather difficult to tell from |

a hurried inspection just what meth-

ods are used in the sizing of the.

goods. In a made-up garment, it is
unusually attractive to the eye, and
from the present indications of things

promises to cut a very large figure |

in the sheer white goods business of
the season.

Buyers are very apt to

are not apt to make very liberal pur-
chases for some time. Until some
idea can be obtained as to how much
longer the present level of prices is
to last, buyers will not show any
large interest in goods. Comparative-
ly few knitters are anxious to secure
additional business on the present
basis, but as long as orders are be-
ing placed at present figures the

knitters are obliged to do business or

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not on full time and some are idle,
yet the first shipments of summer
goods are far behind the date of de-
livery in contract. This is attributed |
to the difficulty in getting yarns by |
knitters whose yarn contracts were
made late in the season.
Hosiery—Hosiery buyers are giv-
ing little attention to the primary}
markets. Jobbers are fairly busy, al-
though the initial spring and summer |
deliveries have been made. Dupli- |
cates are coming in fairly well, par- |
ticularly so in staple goods. Fancies
in ladies’ hose are showing up very |
well, but half hose in laces and in|
loud designs are inactive. Some tans |
are being bought and evidently itis
believed that they will prove good
sellers.
Carpets—The general situation has
not changed materially the past week.
Manufacturers of three-quarter car-
pets continue fairly busy on old or-
ders taken earlier in’ the season.
While tapestry carpets continue ac-
tive, the manufacturers report a fall-
ing off in demand for tapestry velvet.
Weather conditions are gradually im-
proving in some sections of the coun-
try, and the retail end of the business
has shown some signs of improve-
ment. With continued mild and
pleasant weather the trade are confi-
dent of a decided improvement in |
business, as the distribution among |
retailers this year is one month later |
than usual. Ingrain carpets, all-wool
lines, continue active with some of |
the best mills, who are still at work |
on initial orders. The duplicates for
all lines of ingrains are small up to}
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now at work on new samples for
next season, in some instances where
the manufacturers sell direct to the
trade. They will have their samples
ready to show by April 1, but this is
exceptional, as most of the mills will
not have their samples ready before
the middle or last of April. The in-
creased price of cotton and yarn has
caused a more general demand for
all-wool ingrains. The advancing
price of woolen filling for next sea-
son, manufacturers claim, will neces-
sitate a further advance on standard
goods of 2'4c per yard, as spinners do
not care, even at 2614@27c, to take

more than limited orders for early de-
The high prices for foreign |

livery.
carpet wool, it is claimed, necessitate
the advance asked. The Philadelphia
manufacturers of union and cotton
chain ingrain carpets held a meeting
Friday evening, March 25, to consid-
er the question of a further advance
cn their goods for next season, which
they claim should be 2@2%c per yard.
Some, during the approaching sea-
son, will buy their cotton filling yarn
in skein, and wind it themselves.
Some mills are about completing
their initial orders and unless some
duplicate orders come in soon, they
will have completed their present or-
ders by the second week in April.

T.ace Curtains—This line has been
affected by high prices, as well as
other lines where cotton yarn is used.
The break in cotton can not, they
claim, affect the manufacturers for
some time, as they have not bought
yarn on the full advance in cotton.
Later this lower price of material
will have an effect on their trade,
unless yarn should hold firm or ad-
vance again.

—__--2—_
Muff Originated in Venice.

“Do you know that the color of a
muff once betokened the rank of the
wearer?” said a furrier the other day,
as he stroked a_ beautiful sealskin
muff. “In the days of Charles IX.
no lady could have worn this fur,
for black was decreed by the King
to be the badge of the common peo-
ple, and the court followers were re-
stricted to the colors,” says the Phil-
adelphia Record.

“Muffs have gone through more
styles than it would seem possible to
iiivent for such a simple article of
convenience. They have been long and
narrow, like a sheaf, and again large
and round. At the beginning ofthe
last century the test of size was to
try the muff in a flour barrel. If it
went in without much trouble, then
that muff was too small to be really
fashionable. At the present day al-
most anything is proper, but those
enormous cylinders would certainly
draw much attention. One of the
most curious styles was that of
Louis XIV., called the ‘chiens mau-
chons,’ because they were made to
convey little dogs in.

“The muff when first introduced
was the exclusive property of the no-
bility, and originated in Venice.
These muffs were very small and con-
sisted of a single piece of velvet, bro-
cade or silk, lined with fur, and the
openings fastened with rich jewels.
Such arrangements came in during
the early part of the seventeenth cen-
tury, but in the previous century the

 

ladies frequently carried a piece of
rich fur, which they used either as
a muff or a neckpiece.

“The muff reached its highest point
in the reign of Louis XV., when the
productions were exquisite.”

——> > —___
Save One-Third of Your Income.

How much insurance should a
young man carry on his life? What
relation should the premiums bear
to his income? What relation should
the amount of his policy bear tothe,
amount of his other investments? |
There must be an infinite variety of
answers to these questions because
there is an infinite variety in the
circumstances of different men. But
my earnest advice to every young
man is to make an effort to save at
least one-third of his income; and
one-half of this saving can, in my
opinion, be most advantageously used,
from time to time, by investments
in life insurance. Indeed, there is no
other investment which can be paid
for in small iristallments so conve-
niently. Thus invested, it will bring
a return to his heirs in the event of
his premature death; and if he con-
tinues to live he can accumulate the
other half of his savings and_ use
them for investments in stocks, bonds
and real estate.

But I hear some one ask, Why use
so large a portion of his income in
that way? Because life insurance is
the only agency offered for preserv-
ing his earning power, which is all
the capital a young man has at the
beginning of his career, and some-
times all that he has for many years.
His power to earn a living is to
him what real estate, money and per-
sonal properties are to the capitalist,
and for that reason it should be made
secure by a life insurance.

James H. Hyde.
>. ____

Novel Show Window Display.

Two live canaries in a globe in
which five goldfish are swimming is
an attraction an uptown tailor has in
his window, and all day long a crowd
stands, wondering how the birds can
live with the fish. They really don’t,
but it seems as if they do.

The birds are as lively and chipper
as birds usually are at this season of
the year and seem to be enjoying
themselves thoroughly. The fishact
as other fish do and lazily swim
round and round the globe. It takes
a keen eye to discover that there are
two globes. The birds are in a small
one that stands inside the larger one,
and as fish usually swim round when
in confined spaces, the fact that the
center of their globe is taken up by
one in which the birds are kept does
not bother them at all. Weeds and
stones at the bottom of the water
hide the bottom of the glass cage
in which the birds are living, and it
is difficult to detect the round edge
of the inner globe except when get-
ting the light on it at a certain an-
gle.

Men, women and children stand at
the window and wonder how the il-
lusion is managed. The children think
it is one of the wonders they have
yet to hear about—New York Sun.

—____>-
Will Help Business.
The latest fashion reports from

for women. That will necessarily
mean more prominence to footwear,
and, naturally, more attention being
paid to the same. A fashion writer
says:

“To be sure we do not expect to
wear heelless slippers with crossed

| elastics over the instep, nor yet pan-

talets, but we are to have a visitation
of mitts, tiny parasols and even the
poke bonnet in a modified form and
of a more becoming order. And af-

iter all, what a delightful thing it is

to float about in full skirts after all
these years of tight hips.

“There are little trains on skirts
still, but the autocratic fashion mak-
ers tell us that they are not to be
permitted to exist very much longer,
and then we shall have returned to
the round skirt once more.

“Ankles will then become fashion-
able, and as in the early 70's the girl
of the period will have to wear ex-
quisitely dainty shoes, for there will
be nothing to hide them.”

—_+ +.

You can live without many things
and still be comfortable, but if you
try to live without the approval of
your conscience despair will creep
over vou as the shadows of evening
creep over the earth at sundown.
Religion teaches us to keep our faces
toward heaven, as a mariner watches
the polar star, and to steer by what
we see. To be true, just, kindly, is
to bring heaven so near that when
you die you have but a step to go,
and that step will make you glad
that you have sacrificed all else, but
keep your faith in the true and the
right intact.

ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
jobbers on interests are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corres-
pondence invited.

1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

W. FRED McBAIN, President
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
50c on the Dollar

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none too good

A good merchant buys the
best. The “Lowell” wrap-
pers and night robes are

the best in style, pattern
and fit. Write for samples
or call and see us when in
town,

Lowell Manufacturing Co.

87, 89, 91 Campau St.
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Some Observations Regarding New
York Fashions.

Full dress and dinner jacket suits
of blue cloth have been favored by
some fashionable men this season.
The cloth is a very dark shade of
blue unfinished worsted, and under
the glare of the gas or electric light
looks a rich black. Worn with white
waistcoats, a costume of this sort is
considered good form attire for al-
most every occasion requiring the
“swallow-tail” or dinner jacket. It
is especially favored by young men
in swelldom.

One may not always depend upon
the styles introduced before the foot-
lights, although worn’ by notably
good dressers who are very much in
the public eye as stage favorites. But
a garment which impressed me as
making a happy combination was in-
troduced at a Broadway theater with-
in the fortnight. It may very prop-
erly be designated sack-Norfolk,
since it combines features which en-
ter into the fashion of both styles of
jackets. The front, three-buttoned,
with the bottoms sharply cut away
as in the present style of single-
breasted jacket, had two breast and
two hip pockets, patched, with but-
tons and buttonholes.. The back of
the garment was truly Norfolk in
style, with yoke, a wide center box-
pleat and two knife-pleats on each
side. The belt, which fastened at
the side seams with a button, was
loose, not drawing in the back.

In the fashionable shops almost
every salesman has a customer, a man
of fashion, who habitually strolls in
with the query, “What have you new
in cravats?” or it may be shirts, col-
lars, waistcoats, or any other item
of dress. He is the fellow who ap-
preciates “the latest vogue,” and the
novel confections are always mtro-
duced to him because he is the man
who appreciates. He is an invaluable
quantity to the clientele of the swell
shop.

It is this man, be he prominent in
the swell clubs of the metropolis, or
from the busy mart of mercantile
life, who vies with the college boys
of the city in introducing the latest
and best ideas in dress. It was this
smart dresser who brought out the
present season’s fetching contrast in
shirts and neckwear. It is that of
wearing a pretty colored shirt with
a cravat in harmony; for instance, a
corn-colored shirt with a Havande
cravat, an aristocratic brown; a helio
shirt with a purple cravat; a shirt-
front of pistachio green with a knot
in myrtle green. It matters not who
first suggested it. Perhaps it was the
tasteful art of the window dresser.
The vogue is in its inception. The
fashionable shops predict that it will
be de rigueur for spring.

This vogue of contrasting shades
is bringing cravats of solid colors in-
to prominence. Contrasting shades
will also be helpful in giving tone to
color-ground shirts, and are neces-
sary to set off the beauty of the new

a

pee effects, natty crepes, rough
| homespuns and cheviots, so distinc-
| tive of all that is best in the shirt-
maker’s art. The fashionable colors
ir solid-tone cravats are myrtle, hunt-
ing from ecru, or champagne,
marine and navy blues; wine’ or
claret red, maroon and garnet. Some
of these solid-color cravats are plain,
depending upon the richness of the
weaves for beauty, others have in-
finitesimal effects, pinhead dots, in
self and contrasting colors. Among
the weaves are Ottoman, barathea,
fancy armures, reps, cord-like twills
and peau de soie.

In the matter of shirts and neck-
wear there is much danger of spoil-
ing the good effect of a pretty front
or a nice cravat if there is lack of
harmony in the colors.

3ecoming contrasts are permissi-
ble if in good taste, but be careful
about such inconsistencies as a green
cravat on a pink shirt. Faulty mix-
tures of these two items of dress wili
surely occur even if men of known
good taste in such matters do not
take time to properly match before
wearing. Men who lack judgment in
such matters should appeal to their
furnishers. They are consultants in
matters appertaining to dress, and it
is always best to get their opinions.
Many of the inconspicuously _ best-
dressed men in Gotham are under
obligation to the fashionable shops
they patronize for the good taste ev-
ident in their dress. The fashion au-
thorities in the best shops, however,
seldom intrude their knowledge of

what is most proper, unless it is
asked. Oftentimes men who are to
all intents and purposes’ bent on

making style selections which, in
their mind, will give them the “swell”
lok noticed on some other fellow
make selections which the salesman
knows are entirely unsuited to the
person, but respect for that custom-
checks the suggestion
faltering on the tip of his tongue.

er’s opinion

Wide scarfs and ties are at present
most chic. In four-in-hands—French
seam and reversible—the widths fav-

ored are 2% and 3 inches. Batwings
and graduated end ties, 2% and 3

inches wide, are also just being intro-
duced at the leading furnishers’ as
the newest out. Windsors and hand-
kerchief-end ties are also exploited
as really good form for both spring
and summer wear. At this writing
not more than half a dozen of the
best shops are introducing these ex-
treme widths. But they are the lead-
ers, and before long there will be
plenty of followers.

The introduction of wide neckwear
is not done to the exclusion of nar-
row shapes. They, too, are in it.
Four-in-hands 1% inches wide bid
fair to be very popular from now
on.—Apparel Gazette.

—_--—___

Find a fellow whose mouth waters
to catch the drippings from a piece
of political honeycomb and who
wants the other boys to be content-
ed with “bee bread” and you have
a man who’ll hide behind your back
when you're under fire.

—_~2+ 22

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

17

 

 

FUR-LINED OVERCOAT.

Forty Thousand Dollars Is the Limit
of Cost.

New York, March 30—Forty thous-
and dollars for a man’s fur-lined over-
coat is the latest price quoted by lo-
cal furriers for the finest article that
their skill can produce. In making
a single garment of so great value
American manufacturers have taken
the record for the highest price from
the Canadian makers, who, until a
few years ago, held a monopoly on
the market. Ultra-fashionablé Amer-
icans, when placing their orders with
the Northern firms, were shown va-
rious kinds of fur, the best of which
was said to be Hudson Bay sable.
Sealskins of the finest quality were
aiso offered to them as very good for
men’s wear. For several garments
made of the former material prices
as high as $25,000 were asked, and
a man possessing a Hudson Bay sa-
ble overcoat believed that he had the
finest thing that money could pro-
duce.

During the past two years, however,
the American furriers have so large-
ly entered the field that they have
secured a strong foothold on the fur
market of Canada, the effect of which
has been to reduce the prices of Ca-
nadian furs. In the meanwhile a bet-
ter quality of imperial crown Russian
sable has been brought out, and this
fur stands to-day the most costly
of all.

It is of imperial crown Russian sa-
ble that the coat for which the deal-
ers ask $40,000 is made. A _ local
multi-millionaire, whose pastime is
horse racing, was the purchaser, and
his order for the coat was placed one
year before the garment was finished
for him. It was delivered early in the
past winter. The coat completed
weighs no more than an ordinary
cloth garment, but it is guaranteed to
last at least during the lifetime of its
owner.

 

When the order for the garment
was placed, the fur houses of this
country were searched for skins
enough to make a perfect coat. For
two months experts went to every
city where imperial crown Russian
sable skins were handled, but nothing
fine enough could be found. In the
order it was stipulated that every
skin must match, and that there must
not be a. flaw in any one of them.

Sixty-five skins were necessary to
make the coat, and that number of
perfect ones could not be found in
the entire country. The manufactur-
ers then sent their agents abroad to
purchase the pelts, and another six
months were spent in this pursuit.
Because the stripes of all of the ani-
mals that wore the skins were not of
the same width, extreme care had to
be used, and before any skin was
purchased the width of its stripes and
the distance between them were
measured so that when the skins were
put together they would match per-
fectly. After more than twenty fur
houses in Europe had been visited,
sufficient skins were obtained and
shipped to this country to complete
the coat.

In making the garment the first
thing done was the putting together
of the skins in the form of a blanket.

 

So skillfully were they joined that
the stripes ran from one end to the
other without a break, and where one
skin ended and another began could
not be told except by careful exam-
ination. The tints of the stripes were
exactly the same throughout, and the
hair of the fur was even all through.

The coat as made up presents from
the outside about the same appear-
ance as do other fur-lined coats. It
is made of the finest of medium-
weight black broadcloth, with cloth
buttons to match. There are no but-
tonholes, their place being taken by
binding on the edge, which fits over
the buttons and keeps the garment
together in front. It is made full and
loose all the way around, hanging
easily from the shoulders. It is fif-
ty-two inches long, reaching just be-
low the knees. The only fur to be
seen on the outside is on the collar.
There, as on the inside, the fur is
perfectly matched, the stripes run-
ning around the neck in even bands.
Parts of seven skins alone were used
in making this part of the coat. The
collar is on the shawl style, without
a notch in it, and is made wide
enough to cover the ears when turn-
ed up. Cuffs are not on this coat,
the fur lining ending at the bottom
of the sleeves.

The man who now owns this coat,
in ordering it, displayed less concern
about it than did the dealers. He
went into the shop one afternoon and,
turning to one of the attendants, said,
“T want a fur coat. What is the best
I can get?”

Several kinds of fur were shown to
him, and then he asked if nothing
better could be secured. He was told
that a garment of imperial crown
Russian sable could be made in time,
but that the expense of it would be
enormous.

“Never mind the cost,” he replied,
“just make the coat as I wish it made,
and I will take it.”

He left a check covering one-half
the price of the coat, and did not ap-
pear again until it was time for the
coat to be fitted.

According to the dealers, men who
can afford garments of great value
are the most easily pleased. They
know exactly what they want, andin
ordering a garment they insist on
having just what they ask for. They
seldom ask the price of an article of
wear, and they invariably select quiet-
looking goods.

Sometimes, however, a man getsa
notion to have something that no-
body else has, and then the dealers
are put to their wits’ ends. Some
time ago a man well known in New
York went into one of the Fifth Ave-
nue fur stores and said that he wish-
ed to get a coat lined with lions’
skins. Nothing of the kind had ever
been heard of before for street wear,
and the dealer questioned the man’s
sincerity.

“T mean what I say,” the prospec-
tive purchaser said, “and I want the
coat as soon as possible.”

There were not more than half a
dozen skins of lions in the city, and
they were not such as could be used
in the making of a coat. Other ci-
ties were tried, and enough skins se-
cured to make the garment. When
it was finished its buyer paid $2,200

for it, wore it twice in public and
then sent it to the fur storage, where
it is expected to remain for a long
time.

The ordinary mijlionaire pays be- |

tween $450 and $15,000 for his fur
overcoat.
of the best Persian lamb can _ be
bought, and it is this style that has
become most popular during the past
year. Some men have the black fur
trimmed with mink or sable, which
adds to the price.

ing the past winter.
of sea otter will cost $16,000.
made of it can be obtained for less

than $8,000. Seal is no longer popu-
lar with men, but what few coats are

being made of it bring about $1,000. |
Bear skin is used now only for driv- |
The finest |
article of this skin brings only $250. |

So important a part of a man’s)

ing in the automobile.

At the lower price a coat |

Made to Fit

and

Fit to Wear

A coat lined with |
mink alone has been used much dur- |
This style brings |
as high as $4,000, while a garment)
Hud- ;
son Bay sable has lost favor during |
the past few years, and now a coat |

Buy Direct from the Maker

 

wardrobe has the fur-lined coat be- |

come that dealers are now keeping |
None_

them in stock already made.
of these coats is of as fine quality as
those made to order, but several are
shown in the local furriers which
are valued at as much as $15,000.

We want one dealer as an
agent in every town in Michi-
gan to sell the Great Western
Fur and Fur Lined Cloth

All the “dressy” men among the |

fashionable set have fixed ideas con-

cerning the buying of clothes, and it)

is useless for tailors to produce fash-
ion plates for their inspection. The
few tailors who have been classed
among the makers to the men of the
ultra-fashionable part of society have
gained their fame through having es-

Coats. Catalogue and full

particulars on application.

Ellsworth & Thayer Mnfg. Co.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.
B. B. DOWNARD, Generali Salesman

 

Those New Brown Overalls and
Coats are Sun and Perspiration

 

Proof.

 

They are new and the ‘‘boss’’ for

spring and summer wear.

Every

Garment Guaranteed— They Fit.

Clapp Clothing Company
“Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

M. 1. SCHLOSS

MANUFACTURER OF

MEN'S AND BOYS’ CLOTHING

143 JEFFERSON AVE,

DETROIT.

MICHIGAN

Is offering to the trade a line of spring suits for sea-

son of 1904 Perfect fitting garments—beautiful

effects—all the novelties of the season.

Look at

the line when our representative calls on you.

 

 

 

 

    

18

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

tablished styles of their own, which | man did not ask what the expense
are suitable to the rich American, and | would be, but casually remarked that

which they invariably follow.

There are four tailors in the Fifth |
Avenue section each of whom has a
following of a part of the wealthy
men of New York. These men can |
now be seen ordering their clothes |
for the coming year, and the man)
who has but a limited amount to|
spend on dress opens his eyes in as- |
tonishmen as he sees them give or- |
der after order for clothing.

A few days ago one of the young-
er of the local millionaires was seen
in a Fifth Avenue tailoring establish-
ment. He told the proprietor that
he wanted to order all of his clothes
for the coming year, and before he|
had finished he had selected sixteen |
suits. In making his order, he look-
ed at the styles of cloth, selecting
certain samples, and then he pro-
ceeded to tell his tailor just how he
wished the clothes made. The tailor
stood by with notebook in hand and
took down every particular. Later
he said: “I always do that with my
wealthy customers, and I follow their
instructions to the dot. If there is
the least variation when the clothes
are made up, they refuse to take
them. Those men know exactly what
they want, and they frequently come
into my store when the goods are
being cut, and stand by telling me
how certain lines should go.”

The order for sixteen suits includ-
ed four business suits, of the sack
coat style. All of these were of the
most modest material, and were or-
dered made up without any particu-
lar style. The two suits of dress
clothes were ordered to be of the
finest material and perfectly _ plain.
A dinner jacket was also in the or-
der. An English walking suit of a
mixed material, the coat made inthe
cutaway style, was added, and a plain
black cutaway to be worn with trous-
ers of other goods. About the order-
ing of the double-breasted frock coat
the young man was particularly in-
structive. The style which he had
ordered last year did not suit him,
and he insisted on having his coat
made this year according to a style
which he had pictured in his own
mind. Two yachting suits, one of
blue and one of white, were ordered,
and two suits of tennis clothes.

The other two suits ordered were
of riding clothes. In the selection
of these the young man was especial-
ly careful. He first selected a cloth
as near to what he said was the col-
or of his horse as he could obtain.
He then found a piece of buckskin
for the inside of the trousers, which
he ordered to be dyed to the color
of the goods. The exact length de-
sired to the quarter of an inch was
then given the tailor, and also the
directions for making the garment,
so that it would look well when the
knee was bent.

Besides all these suits he ordered
eight waistcoats of various colors and
material, and ten extra pairs of trou-
sers. The order was finished by three
overcoats, one of heavy material for
winter wear, one of cravenette, and
one short light coat for spring.

During all of this ordering price
had not once been mentioned. Even
when the order was all in the young

 

 

| he ordered clothes to the value of

he would be ready to try on the
clothes on any Monday or Thursday.

When the purchaser had gone the
tailor was asked what was the value
of all the goods ordered. After fig-
uring for a moment he replied:
“Those clothes made up as he asks to
have them willcost him alittle over
$2,000." He must be hard up this year,
because last spring when he came in |

over $5,000, and he was considered
the best-dressed young man in New|
York during the past year.

“But he is not at all out of the
ordinary among the young million-
aires. All of them spend from $5,000
to $6,000 a year on their clothes.
Yesterday I had a man in here who
ordered twenty-one suits, and I
think he now holds the record for a

 

single order. I am glad to have those |
men for customers, aside from the |
fact that they give big orders. Their |
styles are modest, and their clothes |
are easy to make. I have some cus- |
tomers, however, who ask to have |
suits made in certain ways which are |
next to impossible. Most of these)
people, however, are of the get-rich- |
quick class, and they always seem |
to be overdressed. The real Ameri- |
can millionaire wears the richest |
clothes he can get, but nothing loud. |

“Sometimes I have customers who |
wish to have ideas of their own fol-
lowed, and in complying with their
requests I do myself no good. A
tailor’s reputation rests on the clothes |
he turns out, and when a man ap-'
pears in public with velvet collars |
on all of his sack coats his tailor
suffers.”

——_—_2- 2
Recent Business Changes Among
Indiana Merchants. |

Anderson—S. M. Hauger has pur- |
chased the interest of his partner in|
the grocery business of Ryckman & |
Hauger and will continue the busi- |
ness at the same stand.

Berne—The style of the Erhart- |
Runyon Co., dealer in general mer-|
chandise, has been changed to the|
People’s Store.

Bluffton—Saurer & Linn continue |
the implement business of Ed. Saurer.

Brunswick—John Krudop has pur-
chased the general merchandise busi- |
ness of H. C. Beckman & Son.

Connersville—The boot and shoe
stock of J. M. Heron & Co. has been
damaged by fire.

Franklin—R. C. Wood has taken
a partner in his drug business under
the style of R. C. Wood & Son.

Indianapolis—The American Color
Co., manufacturer of dyes, has in-
creased its capital stock to $50,000.

Indianapolis—Hoff & Woodfield is
the new style under which the millin-
ery and dry goods business of S. M.
Hoff is continued. :

Modoc—T. F. Whelan, general
merchandise dealer, has sold his stock
to W. N. Oper.

Muncie—Little & Oakley, hardware
dealers, have dissolved partnership.
The business is continued by Wm. L.
Little.

Rainstown—May & King, general
merchandise dealers, have dissolved
partnership, Jas. May succeeding.

ed his general merchandise stock to
Peru.

Rockport—Harry Kerchival has en-
gaged in the general merchandise
business, having purchased his stock
of E. W. Fee.

Rockville—Butler & Co., dealers in
boots and shoes, notions, hats and
caps, have dissolved partnership. The
business is continued by Henry But-
ler.

Waterloo—Fisk & Miser is the
new style which continues the imple-
ment business of Fisk & Goodwin.

Indianapolis—A_ receiver has been
appointed in the case of the Patter-
son-Busby Co., manufacturer of
hoops.

Madison—John F. Hoffman, gro-

cer, has filed a_ petition in bank-
ruptcy.
Pleasant Lake—Jos. E. Orwig,

dealer in harnesses and shoes, has
taken advantage of the bankruptcy
laws.

—__222—__—__

A Wise Judge.

The late Judge Holmes once had
before him a_ respectable-looking
man who was charged with a theft
of jewelry. The man pleaded guilty,
but it was urged that there were
extenuating circumstances. The de-
fense introduced a medical expert
who swore that the prisoner suffer-
ed from kleptomania.

“IT know the disease,” said his Hon-
or, “I know the disease, and I am
here to cure it.”

—~2+2>___

Be a man whose word is worth a
hundred cents on the dollar and your
reputation will be as good as gold.

 

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‘RUGS "=

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CARPETS
THE SANITARY KIND

We have established a branch factory at
Sault Ste Marie, Mich. All orders from the
Upper Peninsula and westward should be
sent to our address there. We have no

ents soliciting orders as we rely on

rinters’ Ink. nscrupulous persons take
advantage of our reputation as makers of
“Sanitary Rugs” to represent being in our
employ (turn them down). Write direct to
us at either Petoskey or the Soo. A book-
let mailed on request. j

Petoskey Rug M’f’g. & Carpet Co. Ltd.
Petoskey, Mich.
ee

 

Spring Trade is Near

We Have a Complete Line of

Light and
Heavy
Harness,

Saddlery
Hardware,

Collars,
Whips, Etc,

and can fill your orders promptly.
We still have a good stock of
Blankets, Robes and Fur Coats.
Send in your orders.

Brown & Sehler Co.

West Bridge St., Grand Rapids
No Goods at Retail

 

 

 

    

aaa

 

Che William Zonnor Co.

Wholesale Ready-Made Clothing
Manufacturers

28 and 30 South Tonia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

The greatest stock in Michigan, largest sample rooms
and one of the biggest lines (including union-made)
of samples to select from in the Union, for Children,

Boys and Men.

Excellent fitters, equitable prices,

all styles for spring and summer wear; also Stouts,

Slims, Etc.
enettes.

Spring Top Coats, Rain Coats, Crav-
Everything ready for immediate shipment.

Remember, good terms, one price to all.

3 Mail orders solicited.

Phones, Bell, 1282; Cit., 1957

PABOOSOS 290OSSSHSSHSHSSHOSSSSOSSSS99SHSSS9S SOO SOOSOSLS

 

 

Rochester—Samuel Flox has mov-

When Looking

over our spring line of samples which our men

are now Carrying

Don’t Forget

to ask about our KANGAROO KIP Line for men, and

what goes with them as advertising matter.
Strictly solid. Best on earth at

from $1.20 to $2.50.
the price.

Prices

GEO. H. REEDER & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

19

 

 

 

 

 

DO IT NOW.

Words’ Especially Applicable to
Michigan Implement Dealers.

Nashville, April 5—The _ three
words, “Do it now,” form a motto
which, if adopted as a rule of action
and rigidly adhered to, would greatly
lessen the labor in many a business
man’s office and increase his capacity
for work fully one-third.

The putting off of present duty for
an hour or a day and charging the
mind with its keeping impose bur-
dens it often refuses to carry and,
failing to recall it at a given time, an
important matter is neglected, an
opportunity missed and that which
might result in material benefit fails
of accomplishment. To do promptly
the thing which presents itself neces-
sitates the doing of those things that
have preceded it, leaving the mind
free to act without encumbrance
clearly and intelligently and insuring
the best results. The managers of
large enterprises perform an almost
inconceivable amount of mental la-
bor, not alone by reason of its being
systematized but by doing at once
the work at hand, thus leaving the
mind free to exercise its full power
on each new’ question presented.
Following this plan the business man
is never rushed, vexed or worried by
“being behind with his work.” There-
fore, if you have a duty to perform
do it now.

ces

The unfavorable weather keeps the
dealers in implements and vehicles
confined to their warm offices, in-
stead of. hustling among their cus-
tomers. We are having ample time
to get samples in and set up, to be-
come thoroughly conversant with the
list of prospective purchasers which
we have secured during the long win-
ter months. We have our plans all
matured, our arrangements perfected
for getting our fair share of the
rush trade sure to follow the advent
of a late spring. The condition of
the times affords a reasonable guar-
antee of large sales and reasonably
prompt payment and each dealer pic-
. tures the comforts to be enjoyed and
the material benefits to be received
from a profitable season’s business.
All this is founded upon the supposi-
tion that legitimate and regular deal-
ers only will occupy the field.

But we must not forget that, while
we are enjoying the satisfaction that
comes from the contemplation of our
perfected arrangements, others are
equally well prepared. The _ black-
smith, with whom some over-anxious
manufacturer has placed his goods,
has received his pointers for trade-
getting and is ready also. He has
been led to believe that no get-rich-
quick scheme has ever equaled the
profits to be derived from selling im-
plements and buggies. Later, failing
to realize his expectations, price-cut-
ting begins and profits take wings.
Or, possibly some retired farmer who
thinks $1 on a plow and $2 on a
mower will yield a princely fortune
tries his hand at-the selling of im-
plements and thus the regular dealer
who maintains a place of _ business,
carries a stock of new goods and
repairs and pays taxes finds himself
at the close of the year with net re-

 

sults less than the day laborer. All | time to do this for 1904 business is |

the arrangements and plans of these | now.

business leeches have been as per- |
fectly made as your own and will |
prove the same profit-destroyer and |
thorn in the flesh as even they have |
been until you rouse yourself and_

show a disposition to help those who

are endeavoring to correct this evil. |

Certainly you are too honorable to |

accept and profit by the relief that | far from scrapping to bullying, and

may come through the sacrifice of
time and means on the part of others
without doing something toward ac-
complishing the end desired and plac-
ing yourself in a position to accept
the fruits of associated effort in
which you have taken an active part.

This is work you have long wished
to have done but which can not be
accomplished through your individual
effort; but you can act in concert
with others and that is what we ask.
T assume that you have received the
circular letter, Constitution and By-
Laws and application blank from the
Secretary of the Michigan Retail In-
plement and Vehicle Dealers’ Asso-
ciation and that you have read them
over and have meant to send in the
small amount and become a member;
but you have laid the papers aside,
honestly intending to do so later.

Soon I hope we shall all be busy—
in fact, so busy that the consideration
of other matters must be put aside.
You know the object of our Associa-
tion to be a good and profitable one,
that it will help your business, de-
crease your trials and increase your
profits; therefore, it is the most rea-
sonable thing to do. So just look up
the application card, fill it out, remit
the amount and “do it now!”

Our membership has increased one-
third since organization. Some man-
ufacturers are writing offering todo
away with irregular agencies and
stand by us. Others are waiting to
see if we mean business, if through
an increased and earnest membership
we shall become of sufficient impor-
tance to merit attention. As stated,
we are growing rapidly. We started
with the largest membership of any
like association organized in_ this
country. Some members report con-
cessions made in the terms of iron
clad contracts that were previously
asked for and flatly refused. The
good work has commenced. We need
your influence, your advice; your
business needs our results. There-
fore I aSk again that you dig up that
card, fill it out and send it in, and
“do it now.”

Your competitor sizes you up as
being ready and willing to name any
price, resort to any scheme to beat
him at every turn. Outwardly you
are friends, inwardly bitter enemies,
and in order to gain your end each
sacrifices health, pleasure and good
hard-earned dollars. The customers
who benefit by the foolishness quiet-
ly laugh at you. As dealers you are
each better than the™ other thinks.
Get together, be sensible, organize
your county dealers into an associa-
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tion, increase your business and prof-
its thereby this year. Join the State
Association. That will effect a bond
of sympathy between you and unite
you in a common cause. The best

 

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Pres. Mich. Implement and Vehicle

Dealers’ Association.

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The man who loves a scrap lives
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the man who begins the one game
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that will give him all he can handle}
without calling upon his neighbors |
to provide him with physical or men- |
tal athletics.
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of our mills.

Our customers will please make due allow-
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their orders filled for the next two weeks.

We are hustling things all we can and no un-
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20

LEAF FROM LIFE.

True Incident Which Occurred in a
Michigan Town.
Written for the Tradesman.

 

Mort Banker and the tiny, box-like
vehicle representing Rural Route No.
2, had just turned into the River
Road when the voice of a woman in
distress interrupted the mail carrier’s
reverie and caused his alert little bay

mare to prick up her ears with their |
points directed riverward. Bred in|
the country and quick to observe, |
Mort caught the horse’s hint and)
tightening his grip on the reins pick- |

ed up a smart gait to get beyond the

heavy growth of bushes that shut |

out the view of the river.

Again there came a cry as though
a woman was trying to attract his
attention and four or five seconds

later he came toa clear view of the |
river which, crowde« to its limits by |
the spring freshet, was rushing rap- |
idly with great blocks of ice crunch- |

ing and grinding together as they

sped along. Simultaneously he saw

a woman crouching low upon apiece |
of ice about thirty feet square and |

waving a basket to attract attention.

Instantly grasping the situation the |

mail carrier shouted to the woman to

remain perfectly quiet; that he would |
drive down stream about a quarter)

of a mile to the bridge and take her
from her perilous position. As he

spoke he touched up the mare and |

the little animal, realizing the respon-
sibility thrust upon her, stepped out
squarely and speedily to beat the

‘three mile current of the stream.

Two minutes later Banker stood on
the bridge with a stout new fence
rail in his hands and about 30 rods
up stream he saw the woman and
her precarious raft heading for the
center span. “Don’t move until you
get within ten feet of me,” he shout-
ed, “and when you see me brace this
rail against your boat, jump for the
bridge and I will catch you.”

The woman nodded her head, sig-
nifying that she comprehended his
orders and then he noted that she
was young, comely and a stranger.
He could see, also, that she was ar-

ranging her skirts and preparing for |

the expected leap with perfect self
possession and that there was a light
of supreme confidence in her eyes
as she looked at him.

It was this expression of her face,
probably, that put unintended force
into his effort, for as the great cake
of ice neared his position he thrust
the rail against its lower edge and
shouted: “Now jump!” The force
of the blow and the resistance of the
sturdy man as he pushed against and
partially checked the movement of
the ice, proved the rottenness of the
stuff, for, as it whirled to the left a
great crack quickly showed itself
within three feet of the unhappy pas-
senger.

And there were two blocks of ice
where before there had been but one.
At the same time the girl arose and
jumped, Banker dropping the rail
just in timé to catch a firm hold up-
on her right arm near the shoulder.
Instinctively she clasped her hands
together around his neck and witha:
“Hold on tight,” and his arms at
liberty he slowly regained his feet,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

lifting the girl from her danger as)
/he did so.
| “Are you hurt or wet?” he asked)
as she let go of his neck and scram- |
bled to her feet, somewhat embar- |
|rassed but very much relieved.

“I guess my feet are pretty wet,”
| she replied, “but let’s not talk of
that, because I want to thank you for
my rescue and to ask a favor at the
Really, I do thank you

same time.
and—”

“Never mind the thanks; it was
lucky, that’s all. Lucky that I dis-
covered you and lucky that you had
| the sense to keep perfectly quiet. And
now get into my wagon and I'll take
you to the next house, only a short
| distance away, where you can dry
your feet and tell the folks all
| about it.”

As Banker spoke the young lady
stepped into the mail wagon and the
carrier crowded into the seat beside
her with “Go on Jennie,” to _ his
| mare.

“Jennie,” repeated the girl, “isn’t
that odd. My name is Jennie and
that reminds me of the favor I want
to ask of you. My name is Jennie
Bell, I am an almost total stranger
in this neighborhood and, for the
present, I don’t want anyone to know
of my predicament or of your gallant
rescue.”

“Gallant nothing,” observed Bank-
er; “but all right, I’ll keep quiet, but
how did you happen to be on that
cake of ice?”

“It was just a piece of my thought-
less stupidity. I was in a strange
town and lonesome and I knew that
I could find some trailing arbutus if
I would only look for it. So, taking
my basket I started out alone and
traversed the hill just below town.
_Here and there I found a few blos-
soms until, looking over an abrupt
bluff I could see a lot of it peeping
out on the bank below. The only
way to reach it was to go down the
slope at the up-stream side of the
hill until I reached the river bank
and then, by walking on the ice, I
reached shore again, where I filled
my basket. Again I stepped on the
lice and started for the foot of the

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slope. When twenty or thirty feet
from shore I realized that I was
afloat and was so horror stricken
that I just settled right down in my
tracks and couldn’t move.”

“Which,” observed the mail car-
happened, was_ the
could have

rier, as at
very best thing you
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“I couldn’t scream, even,” said Miss
Zell. “Indeed, it was all I could do}
to breathe. By the way, what may |
I call your name?”

“My name is Banker, Mort Banker,
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21

 

 

whether the information leaked out |
through her employers or not is not |
known—it was quite well understood |
that she had absolute authority in|
all things in her department, went |
twice a year to New York City to|
get styles and received a salary of |

$30 a week the year
many distinctions and of such unan-

’round. So)

swerable character, served to make

an important personage of Miss Bell.
And yet she was, seemingly of her

cepted without question until Dave

own volition, in no sense a seeker |

after social recognition.

“T have my |

own way to make through life,” was |
her explanation to a lady customer |
prominent in the city’s society cir-|
| vain, to become acquainted with Miss |

cles. “I am alone and I will not be
always young and the earner of high
wages.

Besides, I have a few pleas- |

ures of my own which are deeply in- |
teresting and so I have no time for |

other recreation.”

The statements were true and, as

a rule, were accepted as such, but, |

as in all small cities where the “mad-

| ceived from the St. Louis Department

ding crowd” is not large enough to |
afford seclusion and lost identity to |

the one seeking such comforts, there
were troublesome gossips who were
‘resourceful

| little comment was made.

in the development of |

tales and did not permit Miss Bell to)

escape them entirely.

Thus it became |

necessary for her employers to cause |

Miss Bell to be

interviewed—of |

course it was a good advertisement— |

by a reporter for the Evening Times,
in which she told how, left an orphan
when but six years old, she had been

| versation

raised in an Asylum; how she learned |

plain and fancy sewing in the man-

ual training department of the public |

schools where she lived; how she be- |

came apprentice to a dressmaker and |

so on until at last she developed in-
to an entirely self supporting and self
reliant woman. As. the interview
was a “sop” in return for a certain
number of inches of advertising space
in the Times, that had been con-
tracted for—a fact of which Miss
3ell was entirely ignorant—and as

the lady was a most interesting talk- |

er, the reporter could not resist pil-
ing up his questions.

“How does it}

happen, with a life so full of work, |

that you are a musician?” he asked.

“Am I a-musician?” she replied
with a smile as she held up the hat
she was inspecting. “I play upon the
piano a little, just for my own enter-
tainment, but I’m
am fond of music, very fond of it;
but T lay no claim to being a mu-
sician.”

“And then, too,’ interrupted the
reporter, “I hear that you are an ex-
pert photographer, as an amateur.”

“All in the way of relaxation and
self entertainment. I am fond of
flowers, but I’m no botanist; fond of
onions, but no gardener. I am_ pas-
sionately fond of the woods, but n®
woodsman.
“TI profess to be a milliner and dress-
maker and I have faith that my work
will substantiate my claim.
quite a bit as to music and am not

”

afraid to play on my piano for my |

no musician. I

Ah no,” said Miss Bell, |

I know |

| ton City was lands which explained |

 

friends; but I wouldn’t for an instant |

think of teaching music. I have been

credited with having obtained good |

results in photography, but I have

no desire to pose professionally in |

that direction.
things. My trades are business.”

Those are my play- |

|

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Pretty, intellectual and charming as |
to dress and manner, the little mil- |
liner was most attratcive; and while |
she was neither exclusive or prudish,
she maintained a dignity that was ef-
fective, at the same time winning for |
her the esteem and hearty good will |
of all the desirable men and women |
in the city. The story of the ride |
on the floating ice had long been |
public property and its truth was ac-

Berry, man-about-town and the si-
lent partner in the White Elephant,
the largest saloon in town, began to |
auestion its likelihood. It was known |
that he had tried repeatedly but in|

Bell and, indeed, it was known, that |
upon one occasion the lady had pub- |
licly rebuked him for his impertin-

ance. Accordingly when Berry allud- |
-ed to Mort Banker as “Arbutus |

Mort” and sneeringly expressed won-

der as to how much Miss Bell re-

Store for permitting the story to be|
printed in the Evening Times, but)
About the only comment worth |
mention came in the form of a blow
from the mail carrier’s fist, who |
sought Berry out and expressed his |
opinion forcibly and unmistakably.
“You should have seen it,” said the |
hostler. at the Hotel Duray, in con-
with the driver of the
‘bus. “Dave had started his mouth |
going and gone away and ‘left it. |
And it was about little Miss Bell)
and her ride down the river a year
ago last spring. He’s been chinnin’ |
’hout that fer more’n a year—dead |
sore on her cause she won’t stan’ fer |

| er up on

a fact not generally known that a
Chicago syndicate had _ purchased
flowage rights along the river above
the town and intended to invest

about $100,000 in developing a thous- |

and horse water power.

And yet it was so small and primi- |
tive as a center of population that |

an automobile was as strong an at-
traction as a circus, while a silk hat
worn upon the streets on the Sab-
bath day stuck out “like a_ sore
thumb.”

hill, drew a crowd on the street be-

low of fully a hundred persons, who |
remained an hour or more delight- |

Mort Banker brought the |
first phonograph into town and plac- |
ing it with its great brassy funnel at |
the open window of his room on the |

 

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concert ever given in Lawnton. Miss |

Bell occupied a suite of two rooms
in the hotel and her’s was a piece
of extravagance
not account for.

that people could |
“T wouldn’t live in |

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a hotel if they’d give me the whole.

outfit,” was the serene judgment of |
an old maid who was a carpet weav- |
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the hill. “There’s
homey about a tavern and she could

live for half the money.”
In vain did the proprietor of the |

St. Louis Department Store explain
that Miss Bell alone; that her
duties gave her no time for household
cares, etc.

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“T don’t care, it don’t look right,” |

replied the spinster, “an’ then, too, |
her dabblin’ in picture makin’, an’ |

havin’ a piano in her room;I declare
I don’t see where she gets the money
to do it. I can’t do it and do it hon-
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up, but it was no go. Mort walked)
up to him an’ said: ‘You're a loaf-|
er!’ an’ then give him a short arm|
jolt thet set him spinnin’, an’ as he |
came “round he give him another |
thet put Dave down and out an’ no,
wind due fer more’n a minute. It
wuz jes’ bootiful!”

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About the cheapest asset in Lawn- |

the fact that the St. Lonis Depart- |
ment Store was all on the ground— |
a two-story structure of rather pic- |
turesque lines and colors, located at |
the foot of the main street and hav-|
ing the river and the woodland on the |
opposite shore as a_ background.
Across the main street was a brick
building—the Hotel Duray, the post-
office and various other establish-
ments common to the small city de-
pendent upon a wheezy little steam-_
boat that visited the place daily for |
its transportation facilities. It was)
a busier, better place than it looked |
and had great expectations. A trol-|
ley line was an assured fact in the
near future and a Portland Cement
factory—“the largest one in the
State,” as usual—was building and
would be ready for business soon.
Then, too, the pickle factory had
proved a success and beet sugar was
hound to come because contracts had
already been made with neighboring
farmers to put upward of 4,000 acres
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“You don’t have to, auntie,” put
in an irrepressable boy who was try-

ing to win passage to the Louisiana |

Purchase Exposition by

certain number of “The Greatest

Short Story Magazine on Earth” each |

week, and with that he dodged an

empty kerosene can the woman threw |
at him and flew out of the store with |

a shout of derision.

Such episodes were commonplace, |
but when the Evening Times came |
out with the announcement that Miss |

Bell had won two first prizes at an
exhibition given under the auspices
of the Dauguerre Camera Club of

New York, new fury was added to the |
“Miss Jennie Bell, of This |

flame.

City, Wins Two First Prizes,” was |

the text of one headline. “Lawnton

City Gets There Right in New York” |
And the article went |

was the next.

on to indicate the high standing of |

the Dauguerre Camera Club and di-

lated upon the remarkable skill re-|

quired to capture first prizes for the
best outdoor study in landscapes and
for the best results in outdoor expos-
ures at night.

“Humph!” said the proprietor of |

the White Elephant, who had been
listening to the rehearsal of the little
milliner’s triumph, “it’s all right I
s’pose, but I’d like to hear the inside
facts. Ill bet that ’ere Dauguerre
is one of them wholesalers down to
New York she buys goods of twice
a year.”

“You're right,’ echoed Dave Ber-
ry, the backer, “you can gamble she
had a pull somehow. MMe’s a keen-
er, that girl is, an’ no mistake.”

ss

Soundly sleeping on the hill, the
people of Lawnton City were aroused
about two o’clock one morning bya
series of loud reports—a combination
like loud beats upon a bass drum and
the rattling clatter of a great pile of
falling lumber. As they looked out
of their chamber windows they saw
a tiny flame lighting the office at the
river end or rear of the St. Louis
Department Store. Then came a be-
lated report and a great cloud of
smoke was seen coming out one of
the windows, followed almost instant-
ly by a bright illumination from the
interior of the office. They saw, al-
so, two figures, seemingly those of
a man and a woman, come out of
the store and run toward the river.

The fact that the town was with-
out water works or fire engines prob-
ably explains the remarkable alacrity
with which men, women and chil-
dren hurried to the scene, carrying
pails, ladders and axes, and foremost
among them was Mort Banker.
Bucket lines were speedily formed
from the river to the store, ladders
were raised and inside the building
was the mail carrier directing a blan-
ket fight. Horse blankets and rolls
of carpet soaked in water were hung
against the office partition walls and
bucket lines, of women chiefly, kept
the blankets wet. On the floor above
the office were other bucket lines
fighting the fire in its upward effort,
while outside were axesmen tearing
away the siding and pouring water
steadily. It was a short, intelligent
and successful struggle, which ended
with a great mass of merchandise
on the sidewalks across the street, a

selling a/|

| badly dilapidated corner and a safe
' that had been blown apart with ter-
| rific force.

The danger passed, there was a
| wild curiosity and enquiry as to the
|identity of the safe blowers and in-
cendiaries and a unanimity of opinion
that the man and woman seen run-
ning toward the river were the guilty
| parties. Detectives from the city ar-
rived the next day and pronounced
| the case as the work of amateurs and
hinted broadly that whoever did the
| job was well acquainted with the
premises. In some mysterious way
ithe conjectures at last developed a
suspicion that Mort Banker bore a
strong resemblance to the figure of
| the man seen running when the burst
of flame broke out. It was difficult
to believe such a theory because it
was against the man’s entire record
' and no sufficient motive could be con-

| jectured. At last it was rumored that
the detectives had followed all clues
to the end and as a_ result would
make a complaint against the letter
carrier.

Through it all Miss Bell not only
maintained her faith in Banker, but
carried on a little investigation of
her own as she stoutly declared her
friend’s innocence. Among, other
things she visited the carpet weaver,
with whom she had a long interview,
and on the day the news was receiv-
ed that Banker was to be complained
against she visited the county Seat.
When the steamboat reached its
|landing next day Miss Bell stepped
ashore, accompanied by the sheriff of
the county. Shortly thereafter Dave
Berry and the proprietor of the White
Elephant were under arrest, charged
with burglary, and at the trial, which
ended in their conviction, the evi-
dence that did the work was a pho-
tograph, a night exposure made by
Miss Bell, showing the St. Louis De-
partment Store and its striking back-
ground, while in the immediate fore-
ground was an_ unmistakable full
length portrait of Dave Berry and
another portrait of a figure wearing
a peculiarly fashioned gown. The
face of the wearer could not be dis-
tinguished, but the carpet weaver
identified the gown beyond all ques-
tion as one she had made during the
winter for the saloon keeper, who
had worn it at a masquerade. More-
over, when the identity of the gown
and the connecting circumstances had
been fully established, the saloon
man “squealed like a pig,” as the
hotel hostler put it.

Berry and his partner went to
prison to do a ten years’ stunt and—

At present Mort Banker is a part-
ner in the St. Louis Department
Store, having charge of the men’s
clothing and hats and caps depart-
ments, while his wife is also a part-
ner, and still in charge of the millin-
ery and dressmaking departments.

Charles S. Hathaway.
———_>--.

The men who have become rich
are seldom those who started in
business with capital, but those who
had nothing to begin with but their
strong arms and active brains.

—_+-+—__

No young man of to-day can suc-
ceed to any great extent who is not
enthusiastic in his business occupa-
tion.

 

 

Prospects of Success for the Coming
Generation.

In my opinion the chances of suc-
cess to a young man are as brilliant
to-day as ever, and especially is this
so in our own country. To achieve
success the young man must be born
of the determination to climb the
ladder at whatever cost, and to as-
sume the incidental responsibilities,
meet the inevitable difficulties, leap
the obstacles, which will no doubt
be in his path. There are, unfortu-
nately, but a small percentage of
the young men of to-day who have
sufficient self-control and indomitable
energy to reach the goal. It is far
easier to drift with the tide, and en-
joy the pleasures of life, than to get
a grip on one’s self and prepare for
a campaign of hill-climbing, but if
he has a sincere desire to leave the
world better than he found it, it is
necessary for every young man to
regard his occupation as a jealous
mistress.

This applies with equal force to
the professions, as well as to the
commercial and industrial affairs.
Life is but an education, by which I
do not mean book-learning, but rath-
er a knowledge of men, a knowledge
of affairs, and particularly a knowl-
edge of one’s own business or call-
ing. Persistence belongs in the cor-
nerstone of the boy’s structure. Get-
rich-quick schemes are always looked
upon with suspicion, therefore, when
young we must look forward to a
long period of close application be-
fore we see the results of our ef-
forts. It is this prospect that dis-
courages the larger number of young
men entering the world’s affairs. Un-
less they can look forward to this
period with determination to succeed,
they will not reach the goal.

It has been asked, What is the
reason for success or failure? It can
not be opportunity because we see
examples of notable successes among
those to whom opportunity has been
a stranger. In commerce and indus-
try it can not be book-learning be-
cause the large majority of the cap-
tains started life with very little edu-
cation. It» can not be good clothes
or good manners, as we see many of
both extremes at the goal.

My diagnosis would be that it is
inherent in the boy. If I were asked
to advise upon the requisites I should
say, he must enter his chosen path
with zeal, pursue it with zest and
energy, taking delight in the begin-
ning of success and using the experi-
ence thus gained in larger fields. This
delight should not be primarily or
mainly for the money returns’ so
much as for the very glory of it. I
would say keep the body and mind
in the best possible condition for
battle, and especially the mind, as
success can only be attained through
training. -Be loyal and patriotic, be
fair in all of your dealings, and gen-
erous in your thoughts, cultivating
only. those acquaintances with whom
contact is profitable in knowledge.
Accustom your mind to close appli-
cation, directing it always in the
chosen channel at the end of which
keep in view the desired goal. If
the boy has an honest conviction and
determination to make his mark there

 

is no power on earth which will stop
him.

If I were asked to name the best
field for the accomplishment of these
objects, I would say, broadly, United
States. If experience be taken as a
guide, we have but to note recent
history. You all know, but do you
thoroughly realize the rapidity with
which this country is growing? I am
not going to burden you with statis-
tics, but in my own line, manufactur-
ing, it will be sufficient to say that
the figures taken from the United
States census show that the value of
manufactured goods in the past fifty
years has almost geometrically dou-
bled with the passing of each decade.
In 1850 this value was shown to bea
billion of dollars, while in 1900 the
value was thirteen billions. Our com-
mercial position before the world has
developed in almost the same ratio
The value of manufactured goods ex-
ported in 1840 was eleven millions,
and in this connection it may be in-
teresting to note that the increase in
the value of our exports during the
past twelve years was nearly double
the total increase during the preced-
ing ninety years. With such figures
before us can we ask for a better
field in which to labor?

Is it not fair to assume that the
momentum of this development will
carry us on and on, provided only
we have a sufficient number of pro-
gressive, aggressive and determined
young men to whom we can look for
assistance? I do not for one mo-
ment desire to discount the value of
the older heads in directing affairs,
but look if you will among the cap-
tains in the profession, in industry
and commerce, do you not find many
a gray-haired man _ surrounded by
bright, capable, thinking young men,
who themselves are managing certain
departments of the business? In’ such
a field as I have named, and in such
a time as the present, can it be ques-
tioned that a young man can achieve
success if he has the necessary attri-
butes? Success can be purchased, but -
the cost is high. Eternal vigilance
is the price. C. W. Asbury.

— 7+ >
The Shifting of Trade.

A good many people trade at some
one store for years, and then for
seemingly no known reason to the
proprietor, they change and go else-
where. What is the reason? Per-
haps it is some little unintentional
slight in store treatment, or maybe,
some error in delivery or the book-
keeping. Whatever it is, it is good
business for the proprietor to find it
out and correct the fault that has
caused the trouble.

The tendncy of a good man men
is to get huffy and say “let them go
if they want to,” but it goes without
saying that no man, however pros-
perous his business, can afford to
lose customers in this way and feel
that he is able to get along without
them. If every proprietor would

personally search out such customers
as leave him in this way and strive
to win them back to his store, there
is no doubt but what his business
would be the healthier, because it
would open his eyes to faults he
knows not of.

 

 

 

 

 

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How Married Life Can Pay Divi-
dends in Happiness.
Written for the Tradesman.

The public schools of New York
City are trying to offset the exodus
of women from the domestic
sphere by teaching boys how tosew
and cook. Hereafter, in Manhattan,
-the science of the frying pan will be

mathematics, and an intelligent, ed-
ucated youth will be able to recognize
a mauve voile bolero with lace in-
sets and entre doux at sight and
know it for what it is as easily as he
does a right angle triangle.

hold arts will seem doubtful wisdom,

clined to resent it.

anybody questioning her right

apprehension to a time when,
Othello, her occupation will be gone.
Worse still, it is a deadly blow at
matrimony. The man who can sew
on his own buttons, and patch his
own trousers, and cook things just
as he likes them, will have one less
incentive to marry than the man who

 

 

: i : -|the youth who has taken the blue |
inculeated along with the science o7| . Se :
| ribbon prize in the cooking school.

 

| find

To the majority of people the in-|
novation of teaching boys the house- |
i been up against the pots and the
and woman, in particular, will be in- |
It is an invasion |
of the one field of labor where she |
has been permitted to work without |
to
delve in it, and with a prospect of |
papa’s pies rivalling mamma’s dough- |
nuts, she may well look forward with |

like |

| depends on some woman to rescue |

|

All of these objections, however,
the

offered to the woman who is lucky |
enough to marry a husband who has |
had a thorough domestic training. |
Indeed, it does not take a prophetic
vision to see that New York will |
become the Mecca of women in
search of husbands and that the mat-
rimonial prize of the future will not
be the millionaire, nor the swell, but

Nor does this imply that women
have any intention of abandoning the |
cooking stove that has ever been |
their most potent weapon and ally.
It merely means that women will |
in the man who has wrestled |
with bread that wouldn’t rise, and
jelly that wouldn’t jell, and who has |

pans, a heart-to-heart sympathy and
comprehension that no unculinary,
half-baked man can ever feel. Dick-
in one of his stories, that
no educated man ever looks at even
the back of a book like an ignorant
person does, and it is precisely the
same way in domestic affairs. The
man whose whole experience in
housekeeping consists in _ offering
gratuitous criticism every time any-
thing is overdone or underdone can
never behold a dinner with the same
exquisite perception of all the labor
and time and worry it took to pro-
duce it that the man will show who

ens says,

 

| treat,

FSi from personal experience of

| him from the depredations of laun-| the deceitfulness of butcher’s meat
| dresses and the nightmare of board. |
| ing houses.

and the caprices of the kitchen range.

As it is now, the average husband |
‘is like the military experts who sit

in their offices, and theorize about
how Japan ought to carry on a cam-
paign in a country of which they
know next to nothing

mate. As he figures it out, all the
domestic trials that seem mountains
to his wife are but mole hills that
she ought to be able to take with one
hand tied behind her. All that she
has to do is to march double quick
on the enemy intrenched in the

| kitchen, show a bold front, fire off a
| torpedo or two, after which he ex-

pects white winged peace to hover
over the scene. It does not even oc-
cur to him that the enemy is_ in-
trenched in her own country and
armed to the teeth with bombs in

| the shape of threats to leave, and at

the very first hint of attack she is
ready to execute a_ successful _ re-
leaving behind her the break
fast dishes in the sink and the clothes
soaking in the tubs.

The general man has nothing but

contemptuous pity for the feeble fe- |

inine intellect that can not manage
two servants without acquiring gray
hairs and wrinkles in the _ process,
while he bosses a hundred employes
without turning a hair. The man
who has been through the domestic
mill on his own account will never
take that tone of voice with his wife.
He knows that no rule that applies
to other labor has any bearing on
the servant girl question. Like the

Karo Corn Syrup, a new delicious, wholesome syrup

made from corn.

A syrup with a new flavor that is
finding great favor with particular tastes.

A table de-

light, appreciated — noon or night—an appe-

tizer that makes you eat.

A fine food for feeble folks.

CORN SYRUP
G he Great Spread for Daily Bread.

Children love it and thrive upon its wholesome,
nutritious goodness. Sold in friction-top tins—

a guaranty of clean/iness.
Ioc, 25c and 5o0c.

Three sizes,
At all

grocers.

Corn Propucts C

and whose |

difficulties they habitually underesti- |
| that perhaps he would get no better

 

wind she cometh and goeth as she
listeth and no man or woman knows
when or why or for how long she
is going to list. Nor will a domestic

| husband make unfavorable comments

on the culinary achievements of
Sarah and Hilda and Dinah. He will
cat what is set before him, asking no
aunestions for sympathy’s sake, and he
will reflect when things go wrong

results in his own affairs if he had to
depend for help on ignorant and un-
reliable people who neither desired
to learn their business nor to keep
their places.

Of how desirable a husband would
be who could sew a hook on the
back of a bodice when one popped
off at a critical moment and who took
a real heart interest in fashions and
was able to discuss intelligently the
subtle points of a creation and acon-
fection, it is needless to speak. No
husband can ever hope to be All in
All to his wife until he understands
chiffons. It is men’s lack of compre-
hension of clothes that drives thous-
ands of women to tea drinking and
gossip, and with a husband not only
able to discuss, but if need be to
take a needle, and assist in making
godet plaits and French knots, the
great question of how to keep a wife
at home may be considered as good
as settled.

In all good truth, teaching boys
how to cook and sew is one of the
most practical and healthful sugges-
tions that has yet been made to-
wards settling some of the vexed do-
mestic problems. It is the first. ef-
fort that has yet been made to make

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

men see life from the woman’s point
of view. Most of the difficulties be-
tween men and women arise from
their not comprehending the troubles
with which the other has to cope,
and, without doubt, the man who
practically knows how to cook and
sew will make a tendered and a more
patient husband than the one who
has an illusion that meals are con-
jured on the table by some sleight
of hand performance which it is no
trouble for the woman to perform,
and which she deserves no credit for
doing.

For exactly the same reason that I,
as a woman, if I were contemplating
niatrimony would search through the
length and the breadth of the land
for a’ husband who was a cooking
school graduate, so if I were a man
I would choose a wife who had some
business training in preference to
one who had led nothing but a
butterfly existence. The reason that
a business woman is a preferred risk
in matrimony is too obvious to need
stating. For one thing she would
be more careful about money. No
woman who has ever earned a dol-
lar looks at it with the same eyes as
the woman who has had everything
given to her. To the one it means
an added luxury, something that
comes easy and goes easy. To the
other it represents toil and weariness,

sometimes the very price of life it- |

self. She knows how hard it is to
win, and how hard to keep, and all
the anxiety and humiliation that the
lack of it causes, and she spends it
prudently and judiciously.

Another thing that the man who
marries a business woman may count
on is getting a sympathy in his work
that the other woman is incapable
through very ignorance of extending.
The average woman, deep down in
her soul, regards her husband’s busi-
ness as a kind of picnic. Her idea
of having a thoroughly good time is
going down town, meeting a lot of
other women and lunching at a res-
taurant, and to save her life she can
not help feeling that this going down
town of her husband’s is the same
sort of hilarious enjoyment. No
woman who has stood behind a coun-
ter all day or bent over a set of
books or taken part in the grind of
business—who knows the anxiety and
disappointment, the nerve wrecking
strain of plans that fail of fulfillment,
who has seen the promising schemes
that come to naught—cherishes any
illusion about business being fun.
She knows it for the heart wearing
thing it is, and this knowledge keeps
her from inflicting on her husband
many of the unconscious. cruelties
that women who are ignorant of
what men have to go through prac-
tice upon their long suffering spouses.

It is this same knowledge that
keeps the woman who knows life
as a man knows it from burdening
her already over-burdened husband
with the errands she can do herself,
and it makes her keep from him all
the unpleasant communications that
he can be spared. She remembers
that, when she came home at night
with nerves fretted to fiddle strings,
she felt that just one more calamity,
however trivial, would strain things
to the breaking point. You may be

 

sure that such a woman does not
meet a tired man at the door with a
glad announcement that Jenny has
swallowed a pin and the plumbing
is leaking and that the steam heat
won't heat and that the butcher’s
bill is beyond reason and Aunt Maria
is coming on a three months’ visit
and that the housemaid broke his
pet meerschaum. Neither does she ex-
pect a man burdened with weighty
affairs and whose time is money to
stop down town and rummage
through a department store trying to
match a spool of elephant’s breath
silk. All of these pleasing vagaries
belong to women who do not inten-
tionally make martyrs of their hus-
bands, but who do it through mere
ignorance, just as so many husbands
are absolutely brutal to their wives
about things they do not understand
and difficulties they do not appreci-
ate.

A great deal of nonsense is talked
about men and women invading each
other’s spheres. In reality there is
no sphere in work. It is universal,
and there is no augury more hopeful
for the future than that women should
be taught the principles of business
and that boys should be taught the
rudiments of domestic science. When
that is done we have a common plane
of mutual helpfulness and compre-

| hension on which the sexes can meet.

Men and women will not only under-
stand the trials and tribulations un-
der which each other labor, but will
be able to sympathize with them and
refrain from adding to each other’s
burden. With personal knowledge
reform will come and married life
will be a mutual sympathy and bene-
ht company that will pay dividends

in happiness. Dorothy Dix.
——_>+ > ___

Problem Which Confronts the Busi-
ness Woman.

To the down-town business woman
the lunch question is one of serious
importance. If she happens to have
patrician tastes and a quick lunch
pocketbook, she will usually compro-
mise her inclinations with her in-
come by bringing a sandwich or two
from home, which she secretes some-
where about her person, and these,
supplemented by a banana from an
itinerant fruit vendor and possibly a
few caramels, constitute her mid-day
meal.

But now that the habit skirt has
made the inside pocket impossible,
the economical girl has to face a per-
plexing problem: how to dispose her
sandwiches among her draperies and
still preserve the symmetry of her
figure. That she should carry them
openly and above-board is, of course,
out of the question, for it is the se-
cret ambition of the business woman
to be mistaken for a lady of leisure.
She wishes to create the impression,
when she hails a street car each
morning, that she has merely saun-
tered forth at an early hour for a
constitutional or to catch at the bar-
gain counter the proverbial worm
which falls to the share of the early
shopper. A lunch box or _ basket
would, of course, instantly reveal her
true vocation, and she must, there-
fore, in spite of the prevailing fash-
ion of severe lines and clinging gar-
ments, which reveals the least irreg-

ularity of outline, either continue is}
carry her lunch concealed, or else)
disguise in some way its true nature.

Her shirtwaist with its ample)
blouse is the only garment which af-
fords any storage room nowadays, |
and that has been’ pre-empted to}
some extent by handkerchiefs. Then, |
too, even although she cuts her sand- |
wiches with mathematical exactness |
and carefully disposes an equal num- |
ber on each side of her blouse to}
preserve the proper balance, _ their |
angular edges will obtrude them- |
selves and show. outlines entirely |
toreign to the female form.

Now, given a problem half as hard |
as this to solve, a mere man would |
succumb immediately. But not so |
woman; women are born smugglers |
and in the seclusion of their offices |
they bring forth repasts from con- |
trivances which make the produc- |
tion of omelets and hencoops from
the prestidigitator’s silk hat seem
mere child’s play.

Of all the receptacles used for this
purpose, that employed by |
a maid from across the river is, per- |
haps, the most ingenious. AII winter |
she has carried what to the uninitiat-
ed appeared to be one of those books
which a certain library delivers in a
neat cardboard box and has acquir- |
ed the reputation among her fellow- |
travelers of being very — studious.
One day, however, the real use to
which the cardboard box had been}
perverted was revealed. By acci-
dent its open end, which had hither-
to been carefully hidden, was dis- |
closed to view, and from it protrud- |

ed the corner of.a fringed doily! |

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Our Forbears.

When the rattle of the shop or the
murmur of the store tires the nerves
and wearies the body it is pleasant
to steal to the birthplaces of the na-
tion, and there look upon the handi-
work of the men of olden times who
toiled slowly, but strongly and well,
for their products are as good as
new to-day.

Picture, if it is possible to the mod-

ern eye, such hardware as might be)

expected to have come from the
Philippines, or some South Sea is-

land; bitstocks of wood, padlocks as |
big as a mince pie, and thicker than |

the kind mother used to make for
Thanksgiving; scythes that look like

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machettes, tiny shovels in which Ben |
'in perfect order. Undoubtedly, these

Franklin passed hot coals for his
friends with which to light their

pipes; lanterns more tin than glass, |

keys nearly a foot long, and bed
keys of greater size, swords used in

several wars and guns which killed |
the redskins, and a host of hardware |
household |
and otherwise, and all once used in}
These |
strange things, as well as things even |
more marvelous, may be seen care-|
fully preserved in one of the birth- |
places of the nation, old Salem, in|
Massachusetts, at its Essex Institute. |

implements used in the

this country’s settlement.

The traveler of to-day might, with

the nature and the use of some of the

queer bits of ancient hardware as he |
looks upon them in the museum of |
this Institute. A big blade of steel, |
ten inches wide at the butt and taper- |

ing to a point, certainly resembles 2
scythe, although more like that in
the allegorical picture of Father
Time than any which an enterprising
farmer of this twentieth century
might have use for. A glance at the
index card above this old scythe af-
firms the suspicion that it is really a
scythe used sometime in the seven-
teenth century. And by this big
scythe is a sickle which Death him-
self might have used on his busy
days, it is so long and rakish.

But coming to the things of domes-
tic life, up in the corner of the mu-
seum case is a black thread-bound
handle from which four whole bone
strips project; it suggests a sawed-
off cat-’o’nine-tails, but the card by
its side states it is an old-fashion-
ed egg beater. Perchance the grand-
mother could whip with it most excel-
lent custards in those days, but the
writer mentally resolved that if he
was ever put to the task of being
chief cook of the household, he would
prefer to hustle around to get a
modern “Dover.”

Towards another corner of the

case, the smoker instinctively turns; |

he sees nothing familiar about, but
has suspicions that something smells
of smoke, a little like his oldest pipe.
He notices a couple of pair of tongs,
each about a yard long, and_ with
cueer little hollow grips at their end.
There is nothing to indicate a fra-

| dles, nails: and hinges brought from
good excuse, be baffled to discover |

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

|
grant Havana or a well-colored |
meerschaum here, but the index card |
briefly states: “Pipe tongs and
cleaners, used by the forefathers to)
pick hot coals from the coal hearth |
from which to light their pipes.” And
close by is the dainty little iron shov-
el, in which wise Ben Franklin used |
/to pass the coals, so that his cronies
might light their pipes as they sat
about and smoked and chatted about |
“Poor Richard” and his Almanac wis- |
dom.
The traveler momentarily recalls
that the open hearth has vanished, |
and that electric and gas cigar light- |
ers are here, but he marvels little at |
the progress of the world until he |
notices the tinder boxes and the flint |
and stone, by which crude devices |
the forefathers used to light their |
|
|

fires.

The family man will observe in the |
museum the fine set of steel dinner
knives, with bone handles, carefully
tucked away in a leathern bound,
brass trimmed case, each in its place

 

knives once graced sumptuous colon-
ial banquets, when bear, venison, tur-
key and game were more plentiful
than beef is to-day. The family man
will also glance at the sadirons, used
in 1750, that are still serviceable to-
day. Their wooden handles show
well that the colonial housewives
knew how to keep their fingers from
burning as they put a dull gloss on
the Sunday linen of their worthy
squires.

A gem of the collection is the hard-
wood door, with its wrought iron han-

a New Hampshire farm, and which
was erected before Revolutionary
times. The iran work of this door
is apparently as good and as strong
as the day it was made, and some of
the wrought iron nails are driven in-
to the hardwood to show that they
are still strong. Of course, the finish
|is crude, for this iron was wrought
when men were in a hurry to get
safely into their homes before the
aborigine came along with his toma-
hawk and scalping knife to make
things even livelier.

A wooden bitstock, undoubtedly
hand carved, and about a yard long
shows the clumsy tools with which
the forefathers had to work. Near
the bitstock is a quaint old pair of
pincers, with which “ye cordwainer”
might have pulled the mis-driven peg
from the sole of the shoe, or the
aching tooth from the head of the
village dandy. A vine cutter looks
as if it might have come from Old
Greece, and a powerful wrist muscle
must have been necessary to use it,
for its operator had to cut twigs by
squeezing them between its blade and
its flat base.

A chain of rings seems to have
been the iron dish cloth of some fam-
ily of giants, but it is really the
Flemish girdle chain by which old-
time butchers fastened their steels
| to their waists. A collection of an-
| cient steelyards and balances range
|from those small enough to weigh
|particles of gold to those great
| enough to balance bales of hay.
| Among the keys, locks and latches,
there are some strange pieces: pad-
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mince pie, keys as long as a foot rule,
and latches of quaint shape and use, |
but the strangest of them all are the |
bed keys. One of these is of hard-,|
wood, 15 inches long, and its ward 2 |
square hole at its thickest end; it.
looks like the handle of a modern |
child’s cart, for its knob is another |
stick of wood at right angles to it
across its top; other bed keys are
smaller, and are of both wood and
metal.

The bed key is a stranger to the
men of these days of hair mattresses
and folding beds that look like
pianos. But when our sturdy ances-
tors went to bed they made sure that
the bed posts were locked to the
walls, and that the sides were firmly
fastened in place, so .that the bed
neither collapsed beneath them nor |
doubled up upon them, as have done
some modern rest promoters. Inci-
dentally, the bed key was always
kept where anybody or everybody
might find it, so that the bed might
be quickly unlocked, taken down and
carried out of doors in event of fire.

From the forges of colonial Vul-
cans are many exhibits, quaint look-
ing guns that were used against the
savage redskins or wild beasts that
roamed to the Atlantic seashore.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2

fore entering houses, looks big
enough for an elephant to have used;
a potato masher that would make a
big “billy” for a policeman to-day,
and a milk skimmer that is but a
wooden saucer. Ship’s hardware—
well, that’s another story. Looking
at so many queer things of the fore-
fathers is getting a little confusing.
How did they ever get along with
such crude devices? How did they
ever make them? What would they
do in these days when machines whirl
so swiftly, and tools are turned out
by the gross instead of by the single
one? And will the world keep mov-
ing on, and the men of the next cen-
tury look back upon the cherished
products of this age as crude devices
of simple people? And will the hard-
ware of to-day last the one and two
centuries that the hardware of the
forefathers has endured?

Certainly the journey to the Insti-
tute at old Salem has been interest-
ing. A glance at the curios the fore-
fathers once used is sufficient proof
that the world is moving on, and
that there is more in it to-day than
there ever was.—F. A. G. in Hard-

ware.
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There, too, are swords that have |

What Business to Take Home.
It is a reflection upon your own

drink blood in two continents, rest-| business ability that you can not

ing calmly beside the gaudy dress)

make a living during business hours.

swords of dandy soldiers in times of | Your ill humor is a confession to

peace.

| your wife of your weakness and in-

And of hardware for the household capacity, and of your not being mas-

there is a great variety,

which the twentieth century man

readily recognizes and some of which |

is certainly Greek to him. What

looks like a tin cage for small birds |

is really a lantern, although a man
used to electric lights can scarce un-
derstand the value of the faint light
that might steal from its tallow dip
through the knife blade holes punch-
ed in its sides.

A roasting jack is a puzzle to the
man of to-day who likes his beef wel!
done. On the roasting jack the co-
lonial housewife used to “spit” the
daily allowance’ of meat, and slowly
turn it before the open fire, so that
all parts might be equally well done.
Bread was toasted in a like manner,
although an odd looking wire device
was often used as a toaster. °

A Dutch oven hanging on a chim-
ney crane looks like a witch’s kettle,
and a foot stove was a luxury of the
forefathers of which men of to-day
know but little. The foot stove was
a tin box, about a foot square, in a
wooden frame, with holes punched
in the top and sides of the stoves. In
olden times, when hardy forefathers
considered stoves in church the Dev-
i’s temptation to sleep during the
sermon, these foot stoves were filled
with hot coals from the family hearth,
and rushed to church by a swift run-
ner and placed in the family pew.

Apple roasters, shovels, tongs, and-
irons, fire tongs, fire backs that look
like tombstones, and many -other
queer things of “our forefathers’”
homes are included in this collection.

Scattered here and there about the
Institute, as parts of other collections,
are a number of other things of in-
terest to the hardware dealer. An
iron door scraper, on which polite
people wiped their muddy boots be-

some oi /| ter of the situation or equal to con-

Women nat-
urally admire strength, capacity, ef-
They
admire the man who can not only
make a living, but also make it easi-
ly, without fretting, stewing or wor-
rying. Your wife will think less of
you if you continually lug home your
business cares.

This does not mean that you should
not keep your wife informed about
your business. Every man should
talk over his affairs with his wife, and
she should always know the exact
condition of his business. Many a
man has come to grief by keeping
his wife in ignorance of his straight-
ened circumstances or declining busi-
ness, or of the fact that he was tem-
porarily pressed for capital and un-
able to indulge in certain luxuries.
A good wife will help a man amaz-
ingly in his business troubles. or
struggles to get established if she
knows just how he is situated and
what is required of her. Her econo-
my and her planning may give just
the needed support; her sympathy
may take out the sting of the pain
and enable him to bear his trials. This
confiding frankly in a wife is a very
different thing from everlastingly
harping on the disagreeable features
of a business or letting them ruin
your attitude toward your family,
making life miserable for those not
to blame.

Good cheer, a feeling of good will
toward one another and toward other
people, and a spirit of helpfulness
and utter unselfishness should al-
ways be present in the home. It
should be regarded as the most sa-
cred spot on the earth. The hus-
band should look upon it as the one
place in all the world where he can

| fronting emergencies.

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get away from business troubles, the
exactions, grinding and crowding of
life’s struggles—a place to which he
can flee from all inharmony and dis- |
cord, and find peace and rest, con-|
tentment and satisfaction. It should)
be a place where he always longs to |
go, and from which he is loath to
part.—-Success.
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Grasshoppers For the Table.

Big grasshoppers, such as grow fat
and buzz loudly in the Orient, are
looked upon as table delicacies in
the Philippines.

There are several methods used by
the natives for catching grasshoppers.
The most effective is the net. This
is a large butterfly net, arranged
with netting placed over a hoop, and
to the latter is fixed a long handle.

The hopper is first so thoroughly
dried out in the heat of the sun or
in the bake oven that there is noth-
ing left that is really objectionable,
and a nice crispy article of food re-
sults. This tastes sweet of itself, and
something like ginger biscuits. The
natives usually sweeten the grass- |
hopper more by using a sprinkling |
of brown sugar. Then the confec-
tioners make up grasshoppers with |
sugar, chocolate trimmings, and col-|
ored candies in such a way that a|
very nice tasting piece of confection- |
ery is obtained: The housewife of |
the Philippines takes considerable de- |
light in placing before you a nice_
grasshopper pie or cake. The grass- |
hopper pie is the most wonderful |
dish, as the big hoppers are prepared |
in such a way that they do not lose |
their form. |

Greenville
Planter Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN
Manufacturers of

 

The Eureka Potato Planter, a tube
planter with locking jaws and an
adjustable depth gauge.

The Pingree Potato Planter, a stick
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adjustable depth gauge

 

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The Swan Potato Planter, a non-lock-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

VEGETABLE WINDOWS.

They Compare Favorably With
Those of Dry Goods Stores.
Written for the Tradesman.

When he is coming around the cor-
ner of West Park street or down Ful-
ton street the eyes of the pedestrian
are almost sure to be greeted with
a sight well calculated to make the
mouth below them water.

When the firm of Daane & Witters
announced the fact, twelve years ago,
that they were going to do business

on that particular corner many were |

numerous others, a hoodoo of the}

worst description. But, either they
pursued new business methods, or
possessed a trade-bringing personal

popularity, or put on sale the kind |
of goods the people want, or perhaps |
it was a combination of all three of |

these elements of successful store-

| radishes flanking the lettuce, also, |

keeping—at any rate, it was not many |

weeks before the prophets stopped
wagging their heads and said, “I
dunno—that Daane & Witters seem

to be going to make a ‘go’ of it.)

The people in there are pleasant,

their prices are no higher than the}

others’ and, although they are a
little too far off the regular ‘beat,’
yet there’s one great thing in their
favor—they do keep things about
their place extremely neat and
clean’—a comment that any firm
might be proud to provoke.

I think that this last—the item of |

cleanness—accounts for a great meas- | was anything we had here in Michi-

ure of the liking to trade at this
store. Too many of the Grand Rap-

 

the predictions that the location | @bles looked fine, but by noon the
would prove for them, as it had for | Public ate ‘em up—the berries were

“Jacob MHartger trims the win-
dows—we all call him ‘J.’,” said Mr.
Daane. “Whether he lies awake
nights to think up displays I don’t
know--at any rate, he always carries
out some original idea. He has been
with us for two years. He has things
his own way about the windows.
Every last thing is removed from
them at night to the refrigerator, and
this item alone entails no small |
amount of work. Early this morning
the way he had the boxes of straw-
berries set with the other spring eat-

all gone. We filled the vacant trian-
gle they occupied in the center with
those fine string beans you see, but |
they do not form so pleasing a con-
trast with the head lettuce as did
‘God’s own berries,’ as they have |
Leen called. We had little round,

 

but they ate all those up, too.

 

“Yes, one can have fresh—abso-
lutely so—vegetables the year around
now,” continued Mr. Daane, “for, as
soon as our home grown stuff gives
out, things begin to arrive from the
West and the South.” |

As he talked Mr. Daane deftly pack-
ed a square wooden box, holding ten
pounds, with tempting little cakes
of what he solemnly declared was
“the real” maple sugar.

“This is going to California,” he
informed me.

A Peep into
the Future

We cannot tell your fortune, :
but we can help you make it.

Our plan is'very simple. You will be
surprised at what a change a Day-
ton Moneyweight Scale, with the

It never had struck me that there

'gan that that State might not have new invention, the Nearweight

| in her midst, and I said as much.

ids groceries are criticisable in this |

regard. And they are carried on by
men, too, whose wives are the very
pink of neatness, whose own homes
are models of good housekeeping. I
have in mind several grocers in par-
ticular, whose wives. preside over
homes whose interiors are a delight
to contemplate—everything as spick
and span as soap and water and sa-
polio and all the cleans-all on the
face of the footstool can make it
all the house in perfect order—and
yet these same grocers could not put
their foot down in a clean spot on
their store floors if their lives de-
pended on it.

Isn’t this an anomaly! One would
imagine that the very force of ex-
ample would be a compelling influ-
ence over them, but, on the con-
trary, this contrast appears not to
affect them in the least—they ride
right over it.

But Daane & Witters—they are
different, they take to cleanliness as
naturally as a duck to water. As a
consequence business men living to
the east and northeast of their store
have developed a habit of walking a
block or so out of their way—or may-
be two or three—to purchase eata-
les on their way home, perhaps miss-
ing one car to do so. And it goes
without saying that the ladies like to
trade here. Women may be depend-
ed upon to patronize a Spotless Town
establishment always, other things
being equal of course.

That window across the corner is;
as I said, sure to catch the eye, and
that a long distance off. It is al-
ways arranged in some striking man-
ner.

| from their own trees,” said he, “for

 

Detector, will make in your month-
ly profits.

Mr. Daane smiled. (I think it was
at my ignorance, but it was a real
polite smile!) r

“Oh, they can’t have maple sugar

One man tells us: “It pays the hire
of my best clerk.” Another says,
“T had no idea of the loss.”

with their climate they can’t have
the alternate freeze and thaw neces-
sary for the flow of the sap i : : :
ae ee We believe this system will do as

Then it was my turn to smile. much for you.

“Well, I never thought of that,” I
acknowledged, crestfallen.

“As I say, the ‘Land of Sunshine
and Vlowers’ will see this box Iam
filling. T had about 75 pounds—it re-
tails at 25 cents—and all but 20
pounds of it has been shipped to New
York, Washington, D. C., Racine,
Wisconsin, and the State of Califor-
nia.

Now here’s what we want you to do:
Spend one cent for a post card,
address it to us, and ask for our
1903 catalog. Not much, is it?
This book will help you

a ww ake

Ask Department ‘‘K’’ for Catalog.

“Yes, California gets some things
from other states. Many Californians
won’t eat their own oranges or grape
fruit, any more than people here who ;
know the difference. Heft these,” and
he placed in my hands a sample of THE COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY
grape fruit from the State he men- MAKERS
tioned and one from Florida.

The latter was much the heavier.

And every one at all fond of this tart- THE MONEYWEIGHT SCALE COMPANY
juiced edible knows the great differ- DISTRIBUTORS a a
ence in flavor of the two, the Califor-
nia tasting like weak orange juice
compared with that grown in the
Southern State.

“T should think there would be no
call for the California,” I observed.

“Oh, yes, there is considerable. You
see, it’s quite a bit cheaper so those
who can’t afford the better article pur-
chase the less expensive. For my
part, I rather not have the fruit so
often, but, when I do have it, have
that of superior quality.

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“The most delectable way to eat |
grape fruit is not—as is the way with |
those who know no better—to cut |
the grape fruit in two and put sugar |
on, but to prepare them the night be-|
fore. Cut them in two, take out all |
the seeds, which are not a few, and |
fill with sugar the space they occu- |
pied. The sugar forms a syrup which |
permeates the whole interior and in |
the morning they are simply delic- |
ious, the syrup rendering them much
richer than just the sugar. Some like
the addition of Sherry wine, but the
temperance people object most stren- |
ously to this as a device of the Evii
One.

I jumped from the grape fruit to
the California artichokes, those funny |
looking little green rosettes. Surely,
Nature never made a queerer little
vegetable.

“The only way I know of cooking
them,” commented Mr. Daane, “is to
boil them, until tender, in hot water,
to which a little salt has been added.
They are served one to a_ person.
There’s just a certain portion of the
lower leaf that is edible, the rest is
no good. Each ‘petal,’ you might
call it, is dipped a trifle in mayon- |
naise dressing, that lower bit that is |
good, and the rest is discarded. They |
grow in California. Our delivery boy |
has much trouble to remember the |
name artichokes, so when he brings |
us in an order he says, “They want |
some of those things that look like |
tulips!’ |

“Some confuse these ‘tulips’ with |
the artichoke of our own State, which |

is a tuber, growing like potatoes un- |

grows on top of the ground and has
the distinguishing name of ‘Jerusa-
lem artichoke,’ coming first, I pre-
sume, from the Orient.

“Yes, that leaf lettuce looks nice

and crisp, but I prefer the head, by |
yellow |

all means. Take the small
leaves from the inside and the leaf
can’t compare with them for tender-
ness. They grow much like a cab-
bage.

“How much are cucumbers? Twen-
ty cents apiece. They were down

some but came back to that figure.’

All green stuff is a little higher now,
on account of Easter. Reason? Oh,
prices always come up a bit just be-
fore a holiday or special day of any
sort. Take Easter. Everybody, al-
most, entertains some on that Church
festival day, and even if they don’t
they are quite apt to lay in more of
a supply then than usual. Just so
with every extraordinary occasion,
and it’s simply a case of supply and
demand.

“Of the things you see in the win-
dow the parsley, spinach, celery, lit-
tle onions, radishes and pieplant are
all home grown. The maple sugar
is also home grown—if one can call
it ‘grown,’ There’s 20 pounds in that
small pile, although you might not
think it.”

“That lady that stepped out just
now bought 10 cents’ worth. She
got just enough, I’m thinkin’, to make
her provoked that she didn’t buy
more,” I heard a customer behind
me laugh to one of the clerks.

“Florida sends us those very red
tomatoes. They come nicely packed,

 

Manila paper to keep it from contact |

with its neighbors. They are shipped
six baskets to a crate. It’s really re-
markable in what good shape things
reach us. We are also indebted to
Fiorida for the cucumbers, string
beans and asparagus. I don’t know
just exactly where the cocoanuts hail
from. They were said to have come
‘in a car with oranges.’ I know they
grow in the southern part of Flori-
da, but, whether these came from
there, I couldn’t say. The strawber-
ries were contributed by Louisiana.
They don’t taste quite so much of
money as they did—down now to Io
cents and a shilling.

“Yes,” concluded Mr. Daane.
“there’s quite an art in dressing a
show window with ‘garden
alone.
as the trimmer
material.
variety of vegetables to draw upon,
but what I mean is that they are
always pretty much the same, espe-
cially during winter
course, in the ‘good old
time’ it is somewhat different. Ber-
ries and fruits come on in their sea-
son and then there can be more ef-
fective displays of Nature’s handi-
work.

“Yes, there’s been a great change
along this line within the last five
years. Why, we. never used to
dream of such a thing as an exhibit
of vegetables in our windows, and
now a grocery store would look
strange indeed without one. We try

is restricted as to

our best to make ours attractive and, |

if we may judge by the interested

der the soil. The California variety | each one being carefully wrapped in| faces on the other side of the glass

truck’ |
It takes a deal of ingenuity |

Of course, he has a great |

weather. Of,
summer |

and the pleasing comments brought
inside, we succeed in our attempt.”

The next morning after the above
conversation—or I might better say
monologue as I let Mr. Daane do the
talking—I dropped into the store for
the answer to a question or two I
had inadvertently allowed to get
away, and the clerks, between_ wait-
ing on early customers and answer-
ing the continual jingling of the tele-
phone, were as busy as a swarm of
bees, cleaning the counters and tidy-
ing things up generally. I threw a
glance or so around—surreptitiously.
be it said—-and even at that unsea-
sonable hour the place partook of
the nature of a lighthouse—the con-
dition was one of simple immaculate-
ness!

I was sure I saw in that fact the
greatest secret of this firm’s success.
——__» +.

Fortune Through Failure.
“I owe my success in life to poli-
tics.”
“Why, I didn’t know that you had
ever held office.”
“T never have, but I ran for office

| once and got so badly beaten that I

turned from politics in disgust and
took up the line that has brought

| me a fortune.”

—_—__.+++.
Hair which is lightest in color is
lightest in weight. Light or
blonde hair is generally the most
luxuriant, and it has been calculated
that the average number of hairs of
this color on an average person’s
head is 140,000 while the number of
brown hairs is 110,000, and black only
103,000.

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merchant.

Is the one leaving your store with a National Cash
Register check, because she knows no mistake was
The check is a receipt and a record. A
National Cash Register shows that a customer did
one of five things:

3. Paid money on account.

A Satisfied Customer

1. Bought something for cash.
2. Bought something on credit.

4. Collected money from you.
5. Had acoin or bill changed as an accommodation.

National registers always satisfy—both merchant and
By their use, every chance of mistake is pre-
That pleases customers and saves money.
The 1904 models are wonderful machines.
They do many things to increase the profits of a
It’s worth money to know about
them. A merchant will find it a good invest-
ment to give a few moments of his time &
talking to one of the National represent- _"

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Please have
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Objections Raised to the Fit of a
Shoe.

The salesman who never has a
real cranky customer is to be en-
vied, for the fact is that not one man
out of five will buy the first shoe he
tries on even if it fits perfectly, and
strange as it may seem the average
man is disappointed if he gets fitted
with the first pair, although it is
exactly the kind of shoe he wants.

He comes in the store expecting
to try on six or seven pair and also

 

tu make the salesman earn his salary,
and he usually succeeds in doing both, |
but the clerk has been schooled in|
patience and will show as many shoes |
as he desires to look at, not for any |
love he has for him but for fear of |
incurring the displeasure of the pro-|
prietor.

The objections which a customer |
will make are numerous and some- |
times ludicrous and I will mention a
few that would give anyone an idea |
what a shoe clerk is up against.

One of the meanest propositions he |
has is the man that begins to object
before he has seen a shoe, and these
cases are by no means rare. I have |
had them come in, take a seat, and
when I would attempt to remove one
shoe I would be handed out some-
thing like this:

“Don’t take that shoe off until I
see what you’ve got; I haven’t hada
decent fit in a shoe for the last five
vears, and I don’t suppose you've got
anything in here that I’d have, but
IT need a pair and if you can fit me
I'll buy ’em.” I explained that I
couldn’t tell just what style to show
him unless I could see the shape of
his foot. which was impossible with-
out removing his shoe; told him that
when a horse was led into a black-
smith shop to be shod, the first thing
the smith did was to examine the
hoof, etc., but he was obdurate and
attempted to describe the shape he
wanted.

“T’ve got a wide, flat foot with a
low instep and a bunion on the right
that was caused by this pair I have
on; now, if you can do anything for
that let’s have it.”

1 brought out a swing last vici
which I thought would appeal to
him, but he waved it away with the
remark that “he didn’t want any of
these crooked shoes, the old-fashion-
ed, straight kind was good enough
for him.”

I next tried a London toe and he
looked on it with more favor.

“I believe I’ll try that on,” said
he. I tried to assist him in remov-
ing his shoe but he’d none of it, say-
ing, “he’d been able so far to take
off his own shoes and guessed he
didn’t need any help.”

He tried it on—an 8 E. It was wide
enough across the ball, but when he
laced it up it came clear together
over the instep, with room to spare.
Of course, he let out a roar. I an-
ticipated that and began to lose pa-
tience. “See here, my friend,” said

| thing else,”

 

I, “you want a shoe that will fit your

 

foot and not your head. Of course,
if you can fit both, so much the bet-
ter, but in this case it’s impossible.
Now, you want a straight last that
will fit a wide ball and a low instep,
and you can never find it.
ness is fitting shoes. I understand it
from A to Z, and if you will do me
the favor to let me put a shoe on
your foot that fits it I will not urge
you to buy it, but I simply want to
show you what a good fit is.”

He was somewhat impressed with
my earnestness and told me to go
ahead. I got down a g C in aswing
last, put it on, laced it and it fitted
perfectly. The extra number in
length gave him plenty of ball room
and the narrower width made it fit
the instep perfectly. He stood up,
stamped around a while and I saw I}
had made a hit.

“The trouble with the shoes you | @Ow~ Wh wh WR WG WA wa WA

have been wearing is that they were |

too short. A short shoe will cause a
bunion quicker than a tight one, and
instead of wearing a No. 8 you ought
to wear a No. 9.” “I guess you're
right, young man,’ said he, and
bought the shoes, and forever after-
| ward he was my customer.

Another fellow that is hard to sell
is the one whom you fit with the first
pair he tries on. As I remarked at

| first, he is actually disappointed, and
| while he urges no’ objection, he is

not satisfied and wants to see “some-
and right here is where
a great many clerks make a mistake.

In their efforts to be agreeable and
pleasant they will get down all the
latest styles and proceed to fit him
neatly in all of them and the result
is he gets confused and does not
know what he wants.

The proper way to handle him is
to show him some of the most out-
of-date bugs you have in stock—get
into the P. M. section and bring out
a few, and if he wants to try on any
of them give him one a size or two
too big and let it look as ill-shapen
on his foot as possible, and by the
time he has tried on two or three he
will fall back on the first pair and
you will have his money in five or
ten minutes, instead of waiting an
hour for him to decide which one
of the new styles he wants.

Another fellow that is troublesome
is the man with the small heel. His
foot is well proportioned otherwise,
but every shoe you put on him slips
up at the heel—he does not fill it
out properly. With your back to
him take the shoe in your hands and
press the counter inward on both
sides. This will make it feel tighter
when it first slips on and he will im-
agine it is smaller in that particular.
If that does not do, take it back to
the hydrant and dampen the counter
on the inside. This will have a ten-
dency to make the heel set more
firmly and he will think it is a differ-
ent shoe, at the same time lace it
as tightly over the instep as he can
stand without squealing.

Another fellow that’s hard to han-
dle is the one with the narrow foot
and high instep.

Some insteps have a lump on them
as large as a hen’s egg and couple
this with a narrow foot it makes a
very hard proposition for the clerk
to go up against, and I would hardly

 

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know just how to overcome it. 1|
always had-the consolation of know- |
ing that I could fit him as well as |
anyone else could and he usually |
shared my views.

After lacing it up as tightly as 1)
could I would make the remark that |
“you don’t usually get them to lace |
very closely, I suppose.” I would jerk |
his trousers down as low as possible, |
and let it go at that.

But by far one of the most disa- |
greeable customers to wait on is an}
old man who wears a_ plain shoe. |
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred,
after giving him the proper width
he will say it is too long.

There being no cap or box on the}
toe he can reach down and feel just
where his toes come and if there
is a half inch space between them
and the end of the shoe he will swear
it is too long.

You may argue with him until you |
are black in the face, tell him that
short shoes produce ingrowing toe
nails and bunions, also that his foot.
will gradually work forward, meas-
ure the new shoe with the old one
and show him that the old one is
the longer, and he will insist on a
shorter shoe, but he must have the
same width, which is a double E.

I have often thought if I were run-
ning a factory I would take some old
man’s foot, size 74% FF and have a
last built exactly the same shape, and
make a few pair of shoes for sam-
ples, and when a_ shoe clerk ran
across a crank like that just let him
show the sample and the old man
would buy a decent looking shoe
much easier.—Shoe and Leather Ga-
zette.

—~>—_
Explanation of the Advance in Rub-
ber Goods.

The 7% per cent. advance in the
price of rubber boots and shoes by
the United States Rubber Co., fol-
lowing a still further advance inthe
price of crude rubber, came as a
surprise.

For years, even before the forma-
tion of the United States Rubber
Co., it has been the policy of the
rubber companies to-make their prices
early in the year for the full year ana
stand by them whether they made
money or not. Of course, profits in
the business depended largely upon
the fluctuations in the crude rubber
market.

This custom has been followed by
reason of the fact that the large con-
sumption of rubber boots and shoes
is only in the winter and the jobbers
and retailers place their orders early
in the year for next winter’s require-
ments, and prices are made once a
year so that there will be a settlea
basis upon which to place advance
detailed orders.

This year when the United States
Rubber Co. announced its 1904 prices,
which recorded a 12% per cent. ad-
vance over prices of a year ago, crude
rubber being about 20 cents per
pound higher than a year ago, it
made a new departure, in so far as
it reserved the right to advance prices
it the crude rubber market warranted
such an advance.

This action was taken as the Unit-
ed States Rubber Co. management
had intimations of a still further ad-

 

   

vance in crude rubber, and they had
no inclination to repeat their experi-
cence of 1903 when the company did
the largest business in its history, but
was prevented from securing an ade-
quate profit upon this business, be-
cause of an abnormal advance inthe
price of crude rubber.

Crude rubber took a sudden jump
last week and on Saturday the Unit-

'ed States Co. advanced its prices 7%

per cent., making a total advance over
last year’s figures of 20 per cent.,
which a little more than offsets the

| 30 cent per pound advance in the

price of crude rubber.
The hard rubber manufacturers had

previously advanced their prices 10)

per cent.

The intimation to the trade that
prices might be advanced had a note-
worthy effect upon advance orders

| for we understand that orders so far

this year have shown an increase of
about 20 per cent. over last year.

It is evident that the United States
Rubber Co. is now being operated
along business lines. There are in-
timations that this year it is planned

| to place United States Rubber pre-

ferred stock upon a 4 per cent. divi-
dend basis. This stock is entitled to
8 per cent. but is a non-cumulative
issue.

The company recently took up
$1,000,000 of its 5 per cent. notes,
which leaves the issue $10,000,000.
These notes all become due _ in
March, 1905. The Boston Rubber
Shoe Co.’s bonds do not become due
until 1908. The company has_ so
strengthened its financial position that
it should have no difficulty in funding
these short term notes into bonds,
which would permit of the diversion
of a portion of net earnings to stock-
holders—Boston News Bureau.

—_—_~++>___

Is Advertising Too Expensive?

As a matter of fact nothing is too
expensive if it pays. It is better to

spend $1,000 and make a profit than)
to spend $25 and lose money. But,
expensive |

good advertising is not
considering the service it renders.
It is only poor advertising that is
dear. Every retail shoe dealer knows
that he could probably cut his rent
in half by moving to a less desirable
location, but he realizes that it would
be bad business policy to make the
change.

The experience of successful adver-
tisers is that the best mediums and
large space pay best. Of course this
requires money but it is impossible
to be successful in business without
capital enough to do what should be
done.

It is a mistake, however, for a
business man to say he “can not af-
ford to advertise.” It would be near-
er the truth to say, “I can not afford
to stop advertising.” A common
sense way to look at this question is
to consider that the cost of advertis-
ing is a legitimate expense and that
manufacturing, wholesaling and re-
tailing are to-day conducted upon a
system that recognizes advertising
as an integral part of success. It is
true that profits are small, but if
others in your line can afford fo ad-
vertise a confession that you can not
argues that something is wrong. It
behooves every man who honestly

supposes that he can not afford to |

advertise to get in alignment with
modern conditions. Many years ago

there were manufacturers and whole- |
sale merchants who refused to em-—
They de-|
clared that they would never add this |
expense to their sales departments. |

ploy traveling salesmen.

Some of them stuck it out until their
business was ruined and they were
compelled to retire on their private
fortunes.
tinue in business must adopt modern
methods and one of these is adver-
tising—-Shoe Trade Journal.
——_—__»2 2

The man who is successful is the

man who is useful.

Those who intend to con- |

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The Berlin Mechaniker says that
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bath: In
5,000 parts of very hot water dissolve

rect, with the following

1,000 parts of nickel sulphate; 725
parts of neutral ammonium sulphate
and 5 parts of tannic acid, dissolved
in the smallest quantity of ether; fil-
ter and add sufficient distilled water
to make 20,000 parts. The bath must
be absolutely neutral.
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vate

“his luck came back.

By

HOODOO COIN.

Trail of Disaster Which Followed a
Half Dollar.

Who has it?

If you possess a Columbian hali
dollar, if you have been carefully
pocketing it as a souvenir and can
look back over a trail of inconceiva-
bly hard luck, then rid yourself of
the coin and witness your rise into
a normal condition of life.

Somewhere in the United States
this Columbian half dollar is dealing
destruction—perhaps death. Those
who once gladly touched flesh toit
now shiver at the thought of its
deadly influence and rejoice over
their escape from an awful fate. For
in its time—and the story is backed
by the words of men who know—it
has killed the hopes of many men
and destroyed the lives of at least
two.

There is in this tale no fabric oi
superstition. Facts do not deceive.
To “see with one’s own eyes” is to |

 

know. The writer is one who has
suffered.
In 1892 there had been a little

game in a little club in the city of
Pittsburg. “Charley” McSwiggan,
until recently press representative of
the Carnegie Steel Corporation, in-
variably took a hand. For weeks he
was invincible. Nightly did he clean
the table, stake his friends with car-
and then bolt for an all-night
conveyance to his suburban home.
In time McSwiggan’s affluence in-
duced him to journey East for a rest. |
He came to New York. It was dur-
ing the year preceding the Chicago
Fair. One day, when passing the
Sub-Treasury he entered and availed
himself of a shining Columbian half
dollar.

McSwiggan’s. diary shows that|
trom that minute his god of fortune |
deserted him. He went to the
Sheepshead track. The “bookies” hit
him hard. He rode on a Broadway
car, and a pickpocket pumped him
dry. He boarded a train for Pitts-
burg with a railroad ticket, a pain-|

fare,

 

racking hunger, and _ his Columbian |
half dollar.
The “boys” were -glad_ to one

McSwiggan return, but sorry to learn
that he had left all his money inthe
metropolis. While he had been away
they had been preparing for a vig-
crous attack. They had to wait sev-
eral weeks, however, until he pulled
himself together. Then he “sat in.”

McSwiggan was now the “easiest
money” they had ever known. He
couldn’t touch anything. Every time
he sat down he was separated from |
everything excepting carfare and the |
Columbian half dollar. Finally he |
said he had lost faith in his mascot.
He played it in. Presto! He picked |
up instantly. He redeemed the haif |
dollar and carried it away.

The next time he played he wot |
down to low water again, and in |
went the Columbian coin. Once more |
And so, night |
after night, McSwiggan lost, parted |
from his mascot, and then redeemed |
it. It dawned upon him that the)
coin always marked the turning |
point, and he finally abandoned it to |
the banker.

Harvey Reese, another of the

| who had been murdered, beaten to
| death,

MICHIGAN

group, came into possession of it.
Finding it a “jonah,” he cast it away.
All around the table it went. Every
man who got it fell under its influ-
ence. It was consigned to the chip
box, where it remained for weeks.

One night Reese had an unusual |
run of luck. His friend Leon Ban- |
croft, thinking to have some _ fun,
dropped the coin into his coat pocket.
Reese’s stack melted away. When
he discovered the coin he declared
he had been robbed. He was furious
for a time, but after he subsided he
gave birth to a brilliant idea.

“Boys,” he said, “let’s stake Ste-
phen Hornett and get him to play it
into a bank. Steve has never won.
If he can win with this coin then
we will have proof beyond any ques-
tion of a doubt that this coin is what
we think it is.

“Steve’s” weakness was faro. He
had played faro all his life, and no
man had ever known-him to win.
His friend “Buck” Connolly, who ran
a gambling house on the outskirts
of Pittsburg, had begged him not to
play, but in vain. But now he start-
ed for the bank with instructions to
put in the Columbian half dollar on
the first play. In a short time he
had $500 of the bank’s money. He
went to a telephone and called up
Bancroft. Bancroft tipped the word
around, and in a few minutes every
man in the pool was “bosrowing,
begging, and stealing” enough money |
to get at Connolly’s bank. They all
won. At Io o'clock that night Con-
nolly threw up his hands and closed
down.

The next morning Coroner He-
ber McDowell came into possession
of the coin. It had been found in
the pocket of an old man named Jope,

in the cellar of the First Ave-
nue Hotel.

 

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Hughes, the dealer at

TRADESMAN

Connolly’s, had appropriated the coin
for a souvenir, but unknowingly had
passed it over the First Avenue bar.
Jope, who was the cashier of the ho-
tel, also had appropriated the coin
upon finding it in the cash register.

“I know the history of this coin,”
said Coroner McDowell after thein-
quest to a group of reporters and
loungers in his office. “I am going
to put it in this drawer, and any per-
son with a reckless regard for life
can cart it away.” |

For weeks the coin remained un-
disturbed. One day an old man who
had haunted the Coroner’s office
seeking jury duty was found dead
in the back room of a saloon. That
day the coin was missed. It was
never traced.

Where is it now?

——— +22
Confidential Advice.

Simeon Ford, the hotelkeeper and |
humorous after-dinner talker, was |
once for some months the victim of |
« young man whose only claim upon |
his attention seemed to be that his |
father had once boarded at Mr. Ford’s
inn.

This youth was an_ unspeakable
bore, and made himself a general nui-
sance about the hotel. Finally he
penetrated to Mr. Ford’s private of-
fice, and after sitting down and put-
ting his feet on the desk, said:

“T say, Ford, I’ve been thinking
that it is a great thing for a young
man like me to get into some good
secret society, such as the Masons,
or the Odd Fellows, some of them.
Helps his chances, you know. Now
which of the lodges would you rec-
ommend for me?”

“Young man,” answered Mr. Ford
confidingly, “you go straight and join
the Ancient and Independent Order
of the Colts of the Wild Ass. In-
side of six months they'll make you

 

 

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CLEANLINESS, GODLINESS.

Leavening Influence of Soap and Wa-
ter on Public Morals.

The Omaha Police Judge who re-
cently sentenced one Kitty Moriari-
ty, a vagrant, to six months’ confine-
ment in the county jail and a bath
every day during the term of her in-
carceration, may unconsciously have
inaugurated a new era in the methods
of criminal reform. For sanitary rea-
not so intimately connected
with the inmates of penal institutions
as with the comfort of their caretak-
ers, it has hitherto been customary
to put newcomers through a_ scrub-
bing process. The Omaha episode
would seem to be the first in history
in which the scrubbing has been re-
sorted to as a

sons,

regular course of
treatment of a remedial nature.

It is to be feared that the old adage |

which likened cleanliness with godli-
ness has been too lightly regarded
in the past. A little observation will
serve to convince any one that dirt
and common professional
crime have a_ close affinity. The
thieves’ quarters of all large cities
are foul and noisome, unlovely dis-
tricts, where the sun rarely enters,
malodorous and_ pestiferous. The
lower grade criminal may occasional-
ly be dapper of dress, but strip him
to the skin and the chances are that
he will be found in need of soap and
water. So rarely are the thief, the
housebreaker, the safe-cracker, the
pickpocket, the counterfeiter, be they
gver so prosperous, discovered living
in neat or respectable quarters, that
whenever one is found in a whole-

types of

|some home or neighborhood
| papers make much of the fact.

| inals.

As for
the tramp, a watch dog of discrimina-
tion will scent his approach half a
mile distant.

Conversely, people who keep them-
selves sweet and clean of person, who
maintain wholesome — surroundings,
rank, as a rule, as the law-abiding
members of society. Law itself is
nothing more than a convention in
which men agree to respect each
other’s rights and comforts, and one
of the foremost inherent rights of
every being born under civilization
is to breathe an uncontaminated at-
mosphere and be forced in contact
with naught that shall offend the most
spiritual of the senses, the sense of
smell.
ilized of the

nations are

news-

Likewise, the most highly civ- |
cleanliest. |

That the removing of dirt has a di- |

rect effect in curbing crime in any
locality has been clearly shown by
the costly but most profitable experi-

ments of Paris, Naples and London,!  ; : 4
- pelos ENE 1 London |of this sort might have a

crime-breeders, and of the connection |

between physical degeneracy and dis-
bred of bad sanitation, with
But these are matters for so-
ciological investigation, which canin
no manner affect this argument save
to strengthen it. The fact remains
that clean people, clean cities and
clean nations rank highest in the so-
cial scale, considered in their moral
aspects.

ease,
vice.

The drastic penalty imposed upon
Omaha Kitty, of carrying a clean face
and a clean body for the next six

months, may or may not have a

bleaching effect upon her character, |
but the result of the Judge’s empiric |

sentence will be watched with inter-
est by philanthropists the country
over.

of soap and water, let our penal in- |

| stitutions by all means at once lay
| in stores of castile and amplify their

each of which opened broad, neatly |

and well lighted avenues

through the foulest portions of

paved

ously consorted, tearing down decay-
ing barracks and vile abodes where

evil had been housed and erecting in |

the |

city, where vice an it Z ri- | oo. .
ty ice and crime had previ- | the organization of a chain gang.

their places modern business houses |

and sanitary dwellings, placing here

and there sunny squares, with pleas- |

ant lawns, shrubs and flowers.

The |

result in each case was to literally |
purge the quarter of crime and crim- |

several other enquiries,
among them the
whether poverty and want are not

This naturally leads out into |
foremost |

questions as to)

water supply. Possibly preparations
deterrent
influence upon crime and protect com-

against the
even more effectually

invasion of
than

munities
tramps,

22.
Do the Hard Thing First.
Suspended above the desk of a

Pittsburg bank president is the mot-
to: “Do the Hard Thing First.”
Ten years ago he was discount clerk
in this same bank.

“How did you climb so fast?” I
asked.

“IT lived up to that text,’ he re-
plied.

“Tell

me about it.”

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If any degree of moral reform |
can be effected by a liberal application |

I had

long been conscious that I was not

“There is not much to tell.

getting on as fast as I should. I was
not keeping up with my work. It
was distasteful to. me. When I open-
ed my desk in the morning and found
it covered with reminders of work
to be done during the day | became
There were always
plenty of comparatively easy things
to do, and these I did first, putting
off the disagreeable duties as long
Result: I became intel-
lectually lazy. I felt an increasing
incapacity for my work. One morn-
I took stock of my-
Memo-
jranda of that had
|long needed attention stared at me

discouraged.

as possible.

ing I woke up.
self to find out the trouble.
several matters
from my calendar. I had been carry-
| ing them along from day to day. In-
| closed in a rubber band were a num-
ber of unanswered letters which ne--
cessitated the looking up of certain

information before the replies could
| be sent. I had tried for days to ig-
their

nore presence.

“Suddenly the thought came to me:
‘| have been doing only the easy
| things. By postponing the disagree-
lable tasks, the mean, annoying little
| things, my mental muscles have been
allowed to grow flabby. They must
| get took off my
coat and proceeded to ‘clean house.’
It wasn't half as hard as I had ex-
pected. Then I took a card and
wrote on it: ‘Do the Hard Things
First, and put it where I could see
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Grafting Not an Element of Commer-
mercial Success.
Written for the Tradesman.

John Rushland in looking over the |
letters in the morning mail saw the)
familiar postoffice stamp of dear old}
England Burrillville and open- |

New
ed that first. It was in his brother’s
handwriting and here it is:

“Dear Jack—-I’m butting up against
a pretty serious proposition and I
want you to help me out. My “ap-
ple of my eye,”

not seem to be casting any longing
glances on the pathway that you and
I followed with commendable  suc-

cess and while not by any means go- |

ing to the bad he looks in that direc-

tion so often and so longingly that

I am a little nervous in regard to
him.

“He isn’t satisfied with what I am
trying to do for him. School is a
bore and books an utter detestation.
He wants to follow in the footsteps
of Lincoln and Garfield and _ strike
out for himself. Just now he is on
the lookout for some easy old chest-
nut logs to split into rails or if he
could come across a canal company

looking for a mule driver he wants |

to apply and in either line of service
get a good early start for the White
House; and I’ve come to the conclu-
sion that the sooner he finds the
one or the other the better it’s going
to be for the boy and for his mother
and me.

and of atmosphere. He wants to be

removed from the immediate vicinity |
whom he is most un- |

of his mother,
mercifully working
her(!), me.

“In my emergency I| appeal to you.
I want you to take him off my hands
for a season.
says—-at the lowest round of the lad- |
der and work up. It’s the first time |
in a long time that we have heartily |
enjoyed a common thought and I
want to make the most of it.
send him to you. Let him come and
be one of your numerous commercial
army.
the ladder and if you have a basement
or, what is much more to the pur-
pose, a sub-basement,
of the ladder there and kindly see |
to it, dear Jack, that the boy’s feet |
are right there. He wants to begin
low down and I want him to. Work-
ing up has charms for him. Kindly
accommodate his enterprising spirit.
1 have an idea that under favorable

and, through

circumstances three months will do |

the business for him and that if the |
treatment be as vigorous as you and |

I found it at his age something less |

will do.

“So far as Jack’s inner works are |

concerned I won’t say a word. Maria
and I differ widely on that question
and I don’t want to prejudice you
in the slightest degree either way.

T just feel as if I ought to say that |

Jack shows symptoms of

you see the same thing, that you'll

your namesake, is on |
the border line of manhood and does |

He wants to begin—he |

Let me |

Let him stand at the foot of |

put the foot |

having |
Uncle Eph’s peculiarity and hope, if |

| head him off. I can’t so long as he
is here with his mother.

“Now, Jack, if you see your way
to help me in this matter let me
know at once. If you say yes, wire
;me to that effect, and I'll start him
' Westward at once.—Jim.”

“Send the boy by the next fast
mail,” was Jack’s telegram to Jim,
and the next “Flier,” sunset-headed,
had among its passengers the seven-
teen-year-oid Jack.

“Uncle Eph to a dot!” was John
Rushland’s ejaculation as he saw the
| boy get out of the Overland Limited.
| “Still he’s going to have the benefit
| of every doubt, and who knows but
| the change of scene and surroundings
|and influences is going to do the
business for him. He’s going to have
a good start and he’s going to be un-
der my watchful eye and he’s going
to be under my roof. For the time
being he’s going to be my Jack and
I'm going to be his ‘old man’ and
we'll see the result.”

The train rolls into the Denver sta-
tion at eight something in the morn-
ing and at one o’clock that same day
the head of “The Rushland Dry
Goods Company” had this to say to
the head of a department: ‘“Kings-
bury, I want you to take this boy”—
boy!—-“John Rushland in hand. He
wants to begin at the bottom and
work up. Put him in the basement
and as fast as he shows himself a
little more than equal to it—mind
now, a little more than equal to it—
I want you to shove him along. His
promotion is to depend upon his own
exertions—don’t for a minute forget

| that—-and although his name is the

same as mine and he’s going to live

| in my house it isn’t to make any dif-
He needs a change of scene

ference; all he asks and all he’s go-
ing to get is a fair field and no favor.
Now, Jack, go in and do your level-
est and let me hear nothing about

| you but recommendations from your
| superiors for promotions.

Your suc-

| cess is exactly where you want it—

’

your own hands. Good morning.’
The clerks of “The Rushland Dry

| in

Goods Company” didn’t have any
trouble in sizing up the youngster.
Had there been any he would, con-

have furn-
|ished every means for removing it.
| “Too tall for his height,” as one of
them expressed, he furnished a pain-
ful contrast to his uncle, whose
splendid physique was the envy of
| every mother’s son of them. He was
hollow-chested and his sallow, sau-
| cer-shaped face, dotted with pimples,
| was not pleasant to look at. His pro-
|-truding chin and equally protruding
forehead, rimmed with brindle-color-
ed hair, did not meet with approval
_and only added a feeling of repulsion
_ to the expression of a most undesira-
ble indwelling spirit that through a
| pair of dead-looking eyes looked out
upon a most unsatisfactory world.

| The clerking force wee a happy
i lot and, unpromising as “our Jack”
appeared, they were ready to give
him the benefit of every doubt, taking
him at his best without regard to ap-
pearances and _ without counting
against him his close relationship to
the “old man”—an accident of birth
which he candidly couldn’t help and
sO was not responsible for. Long
before the close of that first after-

| sciously and unconsciously,

noon, however, it became evident to
the fellows that any such sentiment
was lost. He wanted none of their
sympathy and kindness. “My uncle”
was the constant and untiring theme,
changed only” for “my father” and
“my mother,” things “at home’—all
and always the best and no more to
be compared with this something
Denver than black can be compared
with white.

That might have been made a mere
matter to laugh at and to make fun
of and so to be dropped like any
other orange when the juice had been
squeezed out of it had it not been for
another and to the boys a far differ-
ent matter: The fellow was a graft-
er of the first water. He got tired
before the end of the first half-day
and showed such certain signs of the

shirk that his fellow workers in the
basement “got on to him early” and
so were early ready for him. The

“my uncle” dodge didn’t work worth
a cent and, relationship to the con-
trary, the individual so dubbed had
to do his share of the work and to
do it well; and when one night “gig-
lamps” came around a little before
six and gave “my uncle” the choice
of finishing his work after supper or
of having his pay docked he wisely

chose the former that the actual con- |
dition of things might not come to/|

 

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the knowledge of his distinguished | was in polar segments, instead of

relative.

posting.

| the figure 8 pieces that are now used, |
That individual did not need any | which
He had eyes and he had! by the way two hands cover a ball |

undoubtedly were suggested |

ears and he used both. He did not held between them, as if pressing a

hesitate to assert himself whenever |
an opportunity presented. The first |
morning after the arrival of his’
nephew that person presented him- |
self at the breakfast table at an hour |
when he should have been at the store
and he did ‘this without a sign of |
concern. |

“Oughtn’t you to have been at the
store an hour ago?”

“N—o. I'll get there time enough
as it is, I guess.”

“Elizabeth, didn’t you tell Bridget
to have Jack’s breakfast ready for
him at quarter past six?”

“IT did and it’s waiting for him now
in the kitchen.”

“It so happens that I don’t take
breakfast at quarter past six in the
morning,” and the eye, the sallow face
and the impudent tone gave emphasis
to the thought.

“We'll see to that. Let Bridget
bring him a plate and I'll take the
epportunity to state things.

 

“Now, Jack, this is your pro-
gramme: Mike will wake you up at
six o’clock. You will have breakfast
at twenty minutes past six and you

docked. A boy at seventeen must be
in bed at ten o’clock and I want to
know always where your evenings
have been spent and whom with. Be-
cause you're here you'll have to be
a model for the rest of the boys, and
your father writes me that he wants
you to have your home here. I
sha’n’t watch you, but I shall know
where you are and I shall insist on

your being respectable. You gave

the boys vesterday a lot of rot about;

my being your uncle. I am and I’m
not sorry or ashamed of it, but you
want to drop that. That won’t cut
any ice with me or at the store. You
are on a level with the rest of them
and you'll have to do exactly as the
rest do or get docked or dropped.
That’s all. Now hurry through with
your breakfast and get down to the
store as soon as the Lord will let
you and I’ll tell the book-keeper to
wink at this first delinquency. After
this depend only upon yourself for
any favors you get and remember
that favoritism in the Rushland Com-
pany depends on personal merit only.

“T heard the boys putting you down
as a grafter. I don’t know anything
about that. You do; and, if you are
at all inclined that way, remember
we are all on the lookout for that
and if that’s so and we are convinced
of it we'll drop you as we would a
hot potato.”

A word to the wise was found suf-
ficient and when two years later Jack
Rushland went home for his summer
vacation nobody knew him. He had
braced up, the “My Uncle” in him
was dead and, best of all, he wasn’t
a grafter.

Richard Malcolm Strong.
— ~7++2s_
Baseball Making a Complicated Mat-
ter.

Many can recall the day when the
village cobbler was always called up-
on to make and repair the balls used

 

in local games. The old style cover

snow-ball.

The modern process of making
baseballs is an interesting branch of |
leather work and rubber work. As/
only new balls are used in a profes- |

| sional game, and as many are dam-|}
| please drop my old ones down again

aged, the consumption is greater than
the layman would suppose. Thous- |
ands are used annually, and there is |
no record of the lost, strayed and |
stolen... Many, doubtless, serve a}
subsequent term of service in school- |
boy leagues after their start on the)
professional diamond. |

League baseballs are made from)
rubber and covered with selected por- |
tions of horsehide. The small sphere |
of rubber is wound round and round |
with woolen yarn, until it has grown |
to be two inches in thickness.

The ball is then dropped into a/|
fluid cement which soaks into the |
wool and solidifies. This prevents |
the ball being batted out of shape.
The balls are next wound again—

| this time with a certain thickness of |

three ply white yarn. |

This is covered with a three ply |

| blue until it has reached the required |
are to be at the store at seven or get | |

size of nine inches in circumference. |
All of these winding processes have |
been automatic, and the balls appear
of exactly the same size and weight.
3ut no chances are taken, and each
is weighed several times during the.
final winding, so that accuracy may
be assured. After being dipped in
the cement again, the ball is ready |
for covering.

The covers are alum tanned horse-
hide, which is as soft and fine as the |
best white kid. The hide is first
knee-staked; that is, it is stretched
backward and forward over a knee
high stake until it will stretch no
more. The cutting is done by ma-
chinery. The cover is of two pieces,
each the shape of a figure 8. A ma-
chine cuts out these pieces and per-
forates them ready for sewing. These
machines are wonderfully accurate
and very rapid.

The balls are placed for covering
in dampers of wood, and the covers
are fastened first with brass staples
and then with strong cotton thread
of the best quality. It takes about
fifteen minutes to sew a cover on a
ball. This requires considerable mus-
cle, and only men are employed on
the work.

The ball is. still rough on the
seams. It is rolled by hand, and a
few hours later by machinery, whence
it emerges, the completed article,
ready for packing and selling. The
market for these balls is entirely in
this country, with the exception of
a small recent demand that has de-
veloped in Cuba and the Philippines,
through Americans, especially among
the soldiers in the islands of the Pa-
cific—Shoe and Leather Gazette.

——_+--2>—__
Her Prayer.

Gladys had lost two front teeth.
She had been told that God would
give her some new ones. She was
to take part in the Easter exercises

wishing, however, the teeth refused to
put in an appearance, and Easter was
at hand.

her talking after she had been put

to bed. She went back and saw her
| kneeling beside her bed in the moon-
light.

“Oh, God!” she was saying, “if you
haven’t got my teeth done, won't you

until after
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|
SKEPTIC AND ENQUIRER. |

The Virtue’ That Lies in Honest)
Doubt.

There are large numbers of people |
who are troubled and afraid as they |
behold the critical and investigating |
work of the modern world—troubled
because it seems to them that certain
things which are precious and dear
to them may be taken away; afraid |
lest things of vital importance. to the
world be taken away. They fear this
modern critical spirit, which makes |
men dig away at the foundations of |
long-accepted theories and doctrines
and practices. And they can not un-
derstand why some people must be
forever asking questions.

This is certainly a questioning age. |
Questions are in all the air; and the
people who ask them—who are they?
They are not the vicious nor the ig- |
norant people. Su¢h people are not |
disturbed very much by intellectual
problems. But it is the people who
read and think who doubt and ask
questions, and among these are some
of the noblest leaders of the world.

A distinguished writer has called
this present time “an age of doubt,” |
but another equally observant man)
has recently written a book in which
he styles this “an age of faith.” Of |
course, it all depends upon one’s defi-
nition of faith. If by faith is meant
such assurance as results from dem- |
onstration, or if it 1s held to signify
belief unsupported by reasonable ev- |
idence, then this is not a period of
faith. But if faith means “willingness
to follow the intuitions, the
taneous convictions, the affirmations |

spon-

of the heart, always with good rea- |
son but without waiting for the intel- |
lect to be convinced;” if it means
willingness to act where duty calls |
but where sight is impossible, then
perhaps no other age of the world’s |
history better deserves the name “an |
age of faith.’ Says Dr. Amory H.}
Bradford, assistant editor of the Out-
look: “Defining faith as willingness
to act on intuitions
of what is true and right, not because
they have been proven but because |
the whole man asserts that they ought
to be true, I find that it is so wide-
spread and so predominant as to jus-
tify me in
faith.”
However this may be, it is ptobable
that every one would agree that the
present is an age of questioning, of
investigation. Never in the history
of this world was there such an earn-
est truth-seeking, such a feverish de-
sire to knew all that can be known,
as characterizes the leaders of the
world’s life and thought at the be-
ginning of the twentieth century.
There is no harm in honest doubt:
indeed, there may be much virtue in
it. It is certainly just as much a
man’s duty to doubt whatever can
not produce its credentials of one
kind or another as to accept. that
which can. Doubt may have rever-
ence and regard for God and the
tenderest religious qualities about it.
As Tennyson, one of the most pro-
foundly religious natures of the past
generation, has sung:
There lives more faith in
doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.

or convictions

calling this an age of

honest

 

 

 

| means to do.’

| that

| injure it.
| profound idea.

| investigate and ask questions.

| developed to think on the

| answer it at all.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The man whose aim is to find out
what is true and what is false,.and
who is sincere and honest about it,
is facing toward the light and may
be a benefactor to the race.

In some sense all of us are doubt-
ers. Whatever we do not accept, we
doubt or deny. The man who never
had a doubt never had a mind. Giv-
en a mind, a doubt must at some time
enter it, for the reason that the skep-
tic is the enquirer. We do not en-

| quire as to that we already know; we

enquire where we are in doubt. As
a modern writer well says: “The
enquirer’s business is to find things
out, and for the most part he finds

| things out for the other man who

does not care to find them out. The
real doubter, the enquirer, is out on
a voyage of discovery. He under-
stands that the anchor is not the
whole equipment of a ship. He is
not afraid of losing his moorings—
that is, indeed, the very thing he
,

It is a good thing to remember,
for the peace of mind of some of us,
doubt, investigation, criticism,
have no power to destroy anything.
Whatever is true is true, and asking
auestions about it, digging away at
its foundations, testing it in any and
all ways, can not by any possibility
That does not seem a very
It is, one would think,
most commonplace, and yet thous-

'ands of people seem never to have

thought of it and are anxious and
troubled in consequence.
Probably we shall never cease to

The

| meaning of existence has always in-

terested mankind, and mankind has
always been thinking and puzzling
over it. It has always been a matter
of speculation to beings sufficiently
subject.
The question may not occur to the
ape or the animal. It may seldom
occur to the child. It does occur to
the philosopher, and nearly all of us
are philosophers to the extent of
seeing the riddle even if we can not
Nobody can answer
satisfactorily very many of the
questions that even the child is al-
Not the wisest man
living can answer many of the most
fundamental questions—answer them
so that he can verify his answer and
make it good for all men. We are
surrounded by mystery on_ every
hand. The things we talk of know-
ing we know only partially. Our
knowledge is only skin deep in re-
gard to the most familiar things.
Different forms of matter we call
them, but we do not know what mat-
ter is. President Eliot of Harvard
has recently said: “Not a man ever
breathed who had the faintest idea
of the real nature of electricity. It
is an absolute mystery, root and
branch. We know certain ways in
which this force manifests itself, we
are learning some of its laws so that
we can control it, but we do not un-
derstand what it is. It is called by a
variety of names, but the name the
motorman first gave it, ‘juice,’ is as
good as any scientific name given it.
We have not the least conception of
how a single blade of wheat springs
from the ground and grows, or how
the colors on the robin’s breast have

ways asking.

 

been transmitted from generation to
generation for thousands of years
without any perceptible change.”
Now, it seems pretty clear that
there will always be the mystery, and
that no matter how much we may
learn about the universe the greater
part will always remain unknown so
far as any clear intellectual percep-
tion is concerned. The riddle of

the universe probably does not admit |

Sci-

more

of a purely intellectual answer.
ence can teach us more and
about the physical universe and its
laws, but to the philosophers and the

religionists all this, while helpful and |

vastly interesting, does not go to the
root of the matter; it is merely su-
perficial, and leaves out as beyond its
province much that is most vital.
Science can not bring us into any
contact with some of the best things
in life, but we believe in them just
the same. There are depths beyond
the limits to which the reasoning and
observing faculties can carry.

There are other ways of penetrat-
ing into the secrets of the universe
than by microscope or telescope or
the marvelous processes of chemis-
try. The best things in life are
things we -,can not prove. “The
heart,” says Pascal, “has reasons of
its own that the reason knows not
of.” Love and the moral sense and
all esthetics and ethics, and a large
part of man’s best and most real
life are equally incapable of being
examined or-even taken cognizance
of by the processes of science. “The
truths of which we are most certain
are not the truths we reason out.
Deep down back of the reason and
behind it, back of the eye and the
ear, are the truths which lie in our
very nature; they come to us through
the reason, but are independent of
the reason.”

So let us not be afraid of this ques-
tioning, enquiring, investigating,
doubting, skeptical spirit of the age.
On the whole, it is healthy—a sign
of more vigorous intellectual life, an
evidence of a more earnest longing
for the truth. Let us remember that
whatever is true is true, and rests on
eternal foundations, and no amount
of investigation can possibly destroy
or injure it. And also let us remem-
ber that the greatest things in life,
the things we need most to know in
order hopefully and manfully to live,
are the things that come to man not
through any process of reasoning but
by intuition. Whatever is contrary to
reason, whatever is contradicted by
the reason, can not be true; but this
is not denying that great truths come
to us not from the reason but through
the reason—come to us as though be-
longing to our very nature, demanded
by our deepest convictions of what
ought to be, and that what ought to
be must be. Frank Stowell.

—_+-+>___
Grows Needles and Thread.

The Mexican maguey tree furn-
ishes a needle and thread all ready
for use. At the tip of each dark
green leaf is a slender thorn needle
that must be carefully drawn from
its sheath, at the same time it slowly
unwinds the thread, a strong smooth
fibre attached to the needle and capa-

ble of being drawn out to a great
length.

 

Condition of the Underwear and
Hosiery Market.

Mill agents and commission houses
report an excellent amount of ad-
vance order business already booked
for fall delivery. Travelers say that
retailers throughout the country
have had a very prosperous winter
on heavyweights, sales of which ex-
tended into January and February,
enabling retailers to clean up their
stocks quite thoroughly.

Jobbers and retailers everywhere
have been found in need of mer-
chandise. This fact, coupled with the
disposition of the mills not to man-
ufacture except on orders, has stimu-
lated interest in winterweights and
salesmen have not found it so diffi-
cult as before to interest buyers. Re-
tailers who have not customarily
placed orders so early in advance of
the season have done so this time in
order to secure the lines desired.
Besides there has been some fear
lest delayed purchasing might result
in the paying of higher prices later,
as the mills have talked of making
further advances on duplicates. This
rumored advance on cotton fleeces,
balbriggans and cheap cotton under-
wear influenced jobbers to place full
orders in anticipation of the course
of the cotton market.

The people of this country are fast
becoming as enthusiastic devotees ot
outdoor sports as their English cous-
ins, and the demand for knit wear
designed for various open air recrea-
tions has become so large that the
manufacture and sale of appropriate
garments has become a specialty of
the knit goods business. There are
many varieties of sweaters, guernseys
and jerseys, as well as specially de-
signed knit golf vests, etc., imported
to this country, but the improvement
in domestic products has been’ so
rapid that foreign lines now feel the
domestic competition quite severely,
so much so that the business onthe
imported goods seems to be depre-
ciating except on novelties which
would not pay our manufacturers for
the undertaking, owing to the limit-
ed sales and very high prices; the
fine angora hair vests and sweaters
are instances. The spring business
on sweaters, jerseys, guernseys and

other varieties of knit wear for
spring and summer use has_ been
heavier than it was last year. Retail-

ers exhausted their stocks and were
obliged to lay in new lines. Gar-
ments in college colors are in request.
Retailers will find that they can build
up quite a satisfactory business in
this kind of knit goods if they make
early preparations to present the
right goods to local clubs, college or-
ganizations and the young people of
the town with sporting proclivities.

Advance import and domestic or-
ders for half-hose are being placed
for the fall and winter of 1904-5, and
in volume greater than a year ago.
The past season has been an unusual-
ly good one on hosiery, leaving all
divisions of the market pretty clean
for the new season, which explains
present activity.

Retailers have been receiving
spring shipments of half-hose this
month and are now prepared for Eas-
ter displays.

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ruling here and abroad on raw cot-
ton, hosiery has not been affected to
the extent underwear has. On the
contrary, seemingly better values are
offered. All of the leading new ef-
fects brought out last season in 50
and 75 cent grades are now obtaina-
ble at a price enabling profitable 25
cent retailing. Prominent in this as-
sortment of high grade effects are
the mottled half-hose of last season,
boot patterns in blue, purple, white,
green, and other bright colors mixed
with black, the’ latter predominating.
They look every bit as good as_ the |
high priced qualities and at once
strike the consumer as exceptional
values at 25 cents.

Embroidered hose have had such
a long run that they are now consid-
ered staple and will endure for sea-
sons to come.

Champagne, amber and tans, light
and dark, are in the front rank for
spring. Tan shoes are coming back
to popular favor for the season of
sunny skies and verdant fields, and
their coming will undoubtedly create
a run on hosiery in these shades.

Lurid colors in vertical and unit

effects on solid color grounds are
conspicuous, including ombre_ or
yainbow shadings. None the _ less

gaudy are Persian mixtures which
include all the colors so much admir-
ed in Persian textures of all kinds.
About every effect in pattern and

style known to hosiery vogue is
proper for the season, including ver-
tical and horizontal stripes, units,
plaids, boot patterns, clocks, solid and
mixed colors, sober and flamboyant,
gauze, Richelieu ribs, drop stitch and
openwork—all are included in_ the
season’s style category, the only dif-
ference being that openworks are
less in good taste than gauzes, bright
colors less than solid ones. But
everything will sell—Apparel Ga-
zette.

——— >>

Fish Fed by Hand.

Experiments made in a large ac-
quarium have proved that fish may
be easily tamed and trained. This is
particularly true of blue perch. They
soon consent to taking their food—
ulva, a green lettuce-like weed—
from the hand, and do not at all ob-
ject to being handled. A huge kelp
cod, a splendid specimen of rich
blue and green hues, that was kept
in the same tank with the _ perch,
readily learned to feed from the hand
and seemed to enjoy being scratched
and rubbed.

Sea-slugs, too—singular, shelless
things possessing the faculty of se-
creting a purple fluid which they
throw out in self-defence—took their
regular meal of seaweed from their
feeder’s fingers without the slightest
fear. Sticklebacks, perch, bass and
catfish are among the most easily
tamed fish, and the story is told of
an old fisherman who day after day
fed a large horse mackerel in the
open sea with pieces of the fish he
cleaned. It gradually got into the
habit of coming nearer and nearer
to where the boat was tethered until,
finally convinced that it would not be
harmed, it consented to take its daily
meal directly from the fisherman’s
hand.

 

 

 

Hardware Price Current
AMMUNITION
Caps
G. D., full count, per m............-. 40}
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m..... ccteecs OO
MEUSICE. DOr MW... cs teesues ee
Ely’s Waterproof, per m.............. 60
Cartridges
NO: 22 shore, per Wi... 2.0.2.5. 665.. 2 50
NT 3 00
ING: SS ShOrt, DOF TB... ... so. eee cee ines 5 00
Wo. 32 Wiis. Ger Mo. s cs 5 75
Primers
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, roen....1 60
| No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60
| Gun Wads
| Black edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C.. 60
Black edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m...... 7
| Black edge, No. 7, per m.............. 80

Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of oz. of Size Per
| No. — Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 1% 10 10 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2
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 : 12 2 70

3% %
Discount 40 per ce
Paper shells “Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 72
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 64

Gunpowder
Kegs, 25 ibe:, per Keg....<...... coves & OO
% Kegs, 12% Ibs., per Ree .:.... 2 90
% Kegs, 6% Ibs., per keg........ 1 60
Shot

In sacks containing 25 tbs.

    

Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 75
Augurs and Bits
Smens -.. 2. i... ae cecdeeceucucs. as «> 6
DOWNES MOWMINS oo. ce cece cece es 25
Jennings’ imitation ...... Soesecwscec 50
Axes
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ........ 6 50
First Quality, D. - Bronze ........ 9 00
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel ........ 7 00
First Quality, D. B. Steel ...........10 50
Barrows
Railroad ....... Sidisidecic ces scciecelse saan ae
Garden ......... Mee daciniclgs oa eles cee 32 00
Bolts
SEOUE oo niecces cee ce ee
Carriage. new list 211222211 Secceeces 0G
PIO ce cet cee Soccseccsccees OO
Buckets
VCH, DI co 4 50
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ 70
Wrought Narrow ........... idea ee 60
Chain
%, in. 5-16 in. 2 in. in.
Common e...6 ¢...6 c¢..- ae.
BB. ioe ot eC...614C...6° C.
BBB 8%c...7%c...6%c...646c.
Crowbars
Cast Steel, per He 5
Chisels
Seekct WMCr 2. oe cc eee ce 65
Socket Framing .. ‘ 65
Socket Corner .. - 65
SOCHEO SOIEMS (oc 65

 

Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz. a: ee 15

Corrugated, per doz ol 29
MGGUREAINS ooo sk ok cc cet ‘dis. ” 40&10
Expansive Bits
Clark’ : small, $18; =a _ cig eceaie oka 40
ives 1, $88; 2 $24; 3, $a6 <......... 2
Files—New List
New American ........... eles oc ove les 70&10
WischoIsen Booed oot ee es sce ae

HieMer’s Hlorse Rasps .-.......:......

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 Eight ........... tici.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, Clark’s 1, 2, 3..... occa dis. 60&10
Hollow Ware
Oe ee ae cooeeee 50&10
EO occ cade cea ci es sac. + <0 are
PN cece as cn 5 ee
HorseNalis
Anu Sable :....... -...-dis. 40810
House Furnishing Goods

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Stamped > new
Japanned Tinware

 

ron
Mae MOR i ccc. see -2 25 ¢ rates
Eigne Hand ........2.......< 3 c rates
Nobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ...... 75
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings .... 85
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s ....dis
Metals—Zinc
G00 pound CaaRM (. 5... 2.666... ckuen 1%
er POGee oe ct 8
Miscellaneous
OO EE Ee 40
GE oi ods ce a ede clne 75
Screws. New Cie... 85
Casters, Bed and’ Plate ........ 50&10&10
Dampers, AMGTICHM ...... ccc cess 50
Molasses Gates
Sicha 6 Pattern .. 2c... 8k 60&10 |
Enterprise, self-measuring ........... 30
Pans |
iy Demme i ees 60&10&10
Comimon, polished ~...............4 70&10
Patent Planished tron
“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
OE ee 50
Sandusky Tool Co.’s fancy .......... 40
OT O_O 45
Nails

Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire
Steel nails, base 2 75
Wire nails, base ..
20 to 60 advance .
10 to 16 advance

S ROWE ce
S POO ee ete ded ue
© Be cies
S Advance .............< oS a
Oe POS oi ic wen ecica es
Fine 3 advance |
Casing 16 agyanee 2... cece cdcw ce 15 |
Cmsitig & AGAVANCE «ow... cece ce escs 25 |
Casing 6 agvanee .. 2.6... ccc cee ce cers 35 |
Minish 20 SGVANCE «2.1... c ccc ecncere 25 |
IPOH © AGVANCS 2 oe eee cece s es 35
Minish 6 advance ......:............ 45 |
Witivel % AAVANCe 2... ict ce eee 85
Rivets
Prom ang Tinted ........... cee cesses 50
Copper Rivets and Burs .............. 45
Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ............ 7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, — bene euee cco o GG
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean ............ 15 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, pane Grade .. 7 50

14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00

Ropes
Sisal, % inch and larger ........... 10
Sand Paper
East acet. $9, "S¢ ....;........ «-..4am 50
Sash Weights
Solid Eyes, per ton ........ wceeee. oe On
Sheet Iron
ee 10 te 08 oe $3 60
Nees. 16 46 Foc 3 70
PC we ee 3 90
Ge: 22 16°28 2 cl ak ce 410 3 00
INOS. 25 06 26. 2s cece wees 4 20 4 00
ING. Oe cece 30 4 10

4
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30

inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Shovels and Spades
Rivet Grade, Bom... kk eats 6 00
Second Grade, Dom .....6.55.5..40- 5 50
Solder
Me ee eee ence cece 4s

21
The prices of the many other qualities
of solder in the market indicated by priv-

ate brands vary according to composition.
Squares
Steel and Irom 3... .....6.0....... 2 60-10-5
Tin—Melyn Grade
MOxs4 FO, CoMPCORN ooo ccc cc cuss $10 50
14x20 IC, so ee cdeceenacae = =
TOs EX, Cieregal oo. cca n kein cua

Each additional x on this grade, 3. a.
Tin—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal ..... coger eles so $ 9 00
Taxco TC. Ciarcodl ......... 26.600 9 00
hOet4 EX, Charecnl 2... 6... eon = 50
14x20 IX. Charcoal .......5........ 05

0
Each additional X on this grade, 3. 50.
Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No. 8 & 9 boilers, pertb. 13
Traps

Steel Geme .... 3...
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40810
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’ 8. 65

  
 
  

Mouse, choker, per doz. ............ 15
Mouse, delusion, per doz. ............ 1 25
Wire
Ae NEE is co eee ce ee 60
Annealed Market oon OF
Coppered Market 50&10

Tinned Market .........
Coppered Spring Steel .. E
Barbed Fence, Galvanized ‘ oe

Barbed Fence, Painted .............. 2 70

Wire Goods
es hence us, 80-10
Screw Byes .......... Og Uae au cecees Oe-ie
Ee «...80-10
Gate Hooks and Eyes ce ee

Wrenches
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled ......
(OO OEE

Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wreught.7eale

Crockery and Glassware

 

 

 

STONEWARE
Butters
ME wel, Per GoM, eos i cise 48
i to @ gal. per dom. ............5... 6
ee ee a 62
TO OO GAO. Sick i ee eal 66
Oe ee a ina a eu ened eens 78
15 gal. meat tubs, each ......... ok ae
20 gal. meat tubs, each ...........5.; 1 60
25 gal. meat tubs, each ............ 2 25
30 gal. meat tubs, each ...........0.. 2 7
| Churns
Sto 6 met, Her Oe kek ee ee 6%
Charn Dashers, per Gom ..........5. <7
Milkpans
l% 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
16 oak per Gime -..-. tsk... 60
Gel mer Gm oi i oot. 45
| to G@ el, wer gem... wwe 1%
Sealing Wax
5 Yhs. in package, per MH. .......... 2
LAMP BURNERS
No. 0 Sun 35
iNo. 1 Sun .. 36
No. 2 Sun 48
ino. 3 Sun .. 85
| Tubular 50
Nutmeg 50
| MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
Per Grogs.
a an 4 25
PO ees wd ce ade nine 4 50
ea ea ee a ees 6 50

 

Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of 6 o

 

No. 0 Sun 60
No. 1 Sun -23
Tee © Oe cc ce 2 54
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in corrugated carton
ING © CUT oo ii ee ce eaten 1 80
ee. 1 Cyt ......... Sheleeeecbpcuns a oe
Pete DO OU cee ccs cs es us eccoeccca & Oe
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 91
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 00
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 25
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled. 4 25
Pearl Top
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 dom. ................ 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per dom. ........... ~-—- Le
Rochester
Oe 3 50
No. 2 Lame (75e dom.) ...........4.- 4 00
No. 2 Wiint (0c dom) «.............. 4 60
Electric
Wo. 2. Lime (i0c Gog.) .........46.-- 4 00
PRG. & PPE (OGG GOR) once ccc cee cees 4 60
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.. 1 25
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 — 4 60
S Wb. TU COE cic cc tccecescs 7 00
5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas ............ 9 00
LANTERNS
No. 0 Tubular, side TE .......6cceeee 4 65
Re SB Pe gk le cece wes cscs 7 25
No. 18 Tubular, Gagh ........ccs0 -- 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
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each,bx,10c. 50
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx, lic. 50
No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl. 2 25
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. e’ch 1 25

BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
o. 0, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 24
No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 33
No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll.. 46

 

 

No. 3, 1% in. wide, per gross or roil. 75
COUPON BOOKS
50 books, any denomination ...... 1 50
100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
500 books, any denomination ....... 11 50
1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00
Above quotations are for either Trades-
man, Superior, Economie or Universal
grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered

at a time customers receive’ specially
printed cover without extra charge.
Coupon Pass Books
Can be made to represent any denomi-
nation from $10 down.
50 b

cece e ace des ce eae 1 oe
MOG POONO ooo le 2 50
Ge BOGE ace cece ccc sess Secaeneanes i ae
3000 DOGRS .........-.:... beerdccuccca Oe

Credit Checks
500, any one denomination . °
1000, any one denomination .. .
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38

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

CUT SOLES.

Rise and Progress of a Modern Spec-
ialty.

“It was not so very many years
ago,” said a dealer in shoe supplies,
“that you saw in every cobbler’s shop
a side of sole leather, or, it might be,
a roll of such leather standing over
in one corner, the stock from which
he cut his supply of soles, as he
needed them, in repairing shoes. But
now from many thousands of such
shops this once familiar feature has
disappeared. Instead, the cobbler
can now buy cut soles and get ex-
actly what he wants for less than he
can buy the leather and cut them
out himself.

“About 50 per cent. of the cobblers |

of New York and this part of the
country now buy cut solés; in the
South now about 25 per cent. buy
them. In the West about 75 per cent.
of the cobblers buy them. They are
apparently more progressive there
than the people of the East.

“This is accounted for, I suppose,
by the fact that there are more new
communities there, and towns start-
ing new are likely to start with every-
thing modern. If you were going
to install a new plant of any sort
you would put in the very latest
styles of machinery, while in older
communities they cling more to old
ways.

“And in the West, too, cut soles
are sold to people who mend their |
own shoes. Taking them altogether, |
in all parts of the country there are
many thousands who do this.

“There are plenty of people living
scattered about the land who would
have to go seventy-five miles to get
to a cobbler, and this wouldn’t pay.
Or they may mend their own shoes
for economy’s sake.

“In old times the farmer or other
head of the family who did this work
had for it an improvised set of tools.
But in these days he buys a house-
hold kit of cobblers’ tools.

“In no trade has there been a
greater advance than in that of shoe
manufacturing. And no trade has
been more highly specialized. For
example, there are concerns that
make nothing but shoe counters, and
other establishments that turn out
nothing but boot and shoe heels; and
there is one big Western establish-
ment that makes nothing but kits of
cobblers’ tools, turning out of house-
hold kits and other sorts a carload
a day.

“Weil, the farmer or other man
who mends his own shoes buys in
these days a household kit of cob-
blers’ tools, and he can also buy cut
soles, getting just what he wants, and
all handy to use.”—New York Sun.

—— +2 >__

Some Superstitions About Eggs.

There are many superstitions about
the egg. Eggs laid on Good Friday
used to be kept all the year around.
Such eggs were also said to possess
the power to extinguish fires.

The old tradition that you must
make a hole in the bottom of an egg
after eating its contents had its origin
ir a superstitious custom observed in
days of old by the Romans, who
thought that if a witch were to find
the shell lying about she would make
use of it as a boat, and cause terrible

 

storms and shipwrecks. But making
a hole in the egg shell rendered it
unseaworthy.

The Japanese never let egg shells
lie around; they have a superstition
that any one who steps over them
will go mad.

In England numerous odd beliefs
concerning eggs are still current. In
Lincolnshire an infant is given a beat-
en up egg at the first house it enters
“for luck.” In Norfolk there is a
tradition that egg shells should never
be burnt lest the hens cease laying.
You must never set a hen when the
wind is in the east—is another old
English superstition.

In the south of England it is con-
sidered unlucky to eat the whole of
a double egg. To dream about eggs
is thought to be unlucky in Western
England.

In Finland if a Finn who is contem-
plating matrimony chance to sleep
in a strange place, he takes the yolk
out of an egg, and fills its place with
salt, eats it and goes to bed. Natur-
ally great thirst follows. If the Finn
dreams that some special fair one of
his acquaintance strives to assuage
it with a refreshing beverage, when
he awakens he should hie away at
once and tender her his heart.

In Germany “wind eggs,” or those
which have not a properly formed
shell, are thrown over the roofs so
that storms can not damage the
house. According to another German
superstition, if wind eggs hatch, out
will come a basilisk that will kill with
a look the first person whom it be-
holds, but which must die itself if a
human being first looks on it.

The ostrich, tradition says, hatches
its eggs by gazing intently at them.
Nothing will induce a Dutchman or
German to rob a stork’s nest upon
his roof, lest the house take fire. The
eggs of many other birds should nev-

er be taken out of the nest.
—_+-->___
Cigar Store Paralysis.

A nice looking woman walked into
one of the Broadway stores of the
tobacco octopus the other night and
asked to see some of the store’s best
cigars. The clerk handed out a doz-
en boxes.

While the new patron was taking
a dry whiff of each fifteen men lined
up along the counter to make various
purchases. They might just as well
have been wooden Indians as far as
the one clerk was concerned. But
just about the time the entire line
began to display a nervous desire to
get away, the fair one selected a 12-
cent cigar with a bright band, and
asked the customer next in line if he
didn’t think it was a good one.

“I’ve been smoking thirty years and
couldn’t have selected a better one
myself,” he replied gallantly.

“Then will you please wrap this
one up?” she said, tendering the clerk
a twenty-dollar bill.

It took the clerk five minutes to
change the bill, and then he tripped
on an empty cigar box and dropped
all the coin. It was finally handed
to the purchaser. When she had
her hand on the door knob’ she
thought of the coupons. She turned
back.

“Don’t you give
with cigars?’ she

trading
asked

stamps
sweetly,

whereupon the clerk thrust a quar-
ter’s worth of coupons into her hand.
“It does beat ’ell how dead easy a
lady can paralyze a cigar store,” said
one of the men in line when he fin-
ally got the package of tobacco for
which he had waited twenty minutes.
—New York Sun.
———+- >

Roosters That Do Not Crow.
George F. Nachtway, of Seattle,
owns two roosters, both full grown
but silent. Neither of them has
shown the slightest desire to crow.
Whether they are deaf and dumb,
Nachtway does not know, but they
can’t, don’t, or won’t crow. In all
other respects they are like other
roosters. The crowless fowls are
hybrids—a cross of Black Spanish
with Wyandottes.

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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Good or Bad Policy to Handle Manu-
facturers’ Orders?

Is it good business for a retail gro-
cer to fill orders solicited and turned
over to him by manufacturers’ sales-
mien?

This question admits of both nega-_

tive and affirmative answers. Of
course, no retailer is going to let good

business opportunities pass, and when |

the ones sold that we just politely |
turned them down. Let the business |
man best judge for himself in these |

instances.

faked; e

| nothing more than get the names of |

| housekeepers and turned them over

orders received from salesmen of al-|

ready established houses are turned

over to us, we are just going to fill

same and are glad to do it, too.
For any man to flatly say that such

orders are a bother and a nuisance is |
He is not}

both narrow and unfair.
doing justice to the manufacturer, the
customer, nor himself. This has be-
come a very popular method of ad-
vertising, and not infrequently is re-
sorted to by reliable firms in the
hope of becoming quickly established
on the market. And another thing—
this is about the only method of ad-
vertising now used that directly bene-
fits the retailer. Great amounts of
advertising in magazines, billboards
and daily periodicals now employed
to introduce and sell articles have
been a drawback rather than a help
to the retailer, whereas orders taken
from his regular customers serve to
bring the desired information that
printer’s ink does not always sell the
article in question, relieving the gro-
cer of the sometimes arduous duty
of talking the merits of a good article.
House-to-house canvass is the most
complete advertising scheme possible.
There we have the lady to the very
best possible advantage. She is at
home to the caller, sees, feels, and if
necessary tastes the goods, hears its
merits praised, etc. No amount of
personal work by a retail grocer or
his clerks can outstrip this kind of
selling, because the canvasser has
only his specialty to sell, and the lady
has for the time being only to listen
to him, while if the grocer had it in
his store already the lady must needs
do all her other purchasing and the
merchant attend to all details accord-
ingly, leaving a few moments only
to the new article.

We have had several brands of
soaps established on this market by
house-to-house canvass, and in every
instance we have cause to rejoice that
we entered into rather than discour-
aged the special salesmen. We have
had flour and numbers of articles that
proved to be as_ staple as cream
cheese or granulated sugar advertised
here in this way. So the man who
makes the sweeping assertion that
these schemes are a nuisance is very
unreasonable, and I’ll guarantee that
if Proctor & Gamble should get or-
ders from their customers they would
be the first men behind their desks
to jump for them and fill same with
great gusto. :

But, as we said in the beginning,
this question also has its thorny side.
Many, many manufacturers of fake
foods have resorted to this scheme
until is has become threadbare, and
if they don’t soon let up it will be-
come very unpopular to every house-
keeper and storekeeper. We have
often found it necessary to turn down
orders because the merits were not
in the goods themselves, or we had
soinething else in stock so nearly like

 

as orders to the nearest store. We
soon “caught on,’ for we had orders
from folks that had never been known
tu buy a cent’s worth from us. These
fellows deserved just what they got,
viz. the “G. B.” “Be sure you are
right and then go ahead” in this mat-
ter, just as in any other question of
living or business.

We can not conscientiously turn
down good orders, whether taken by
our own clerks or those of the manu-
facturer. How would your customer
like your clerks to sell a box of toilet
soap to her and you turn it down?
Wouldn’t she get insulted? Then if
John Smith of another city sells her
the same, telling her that you would
send it to her, what is the great differ-
ence?

We do not agree with some cor-
respondents on this theme, that all
of these orders are given by ladies
to get rid of the salesmen. Ladies
certainly would not, and we have a
great many of them in Alexandria.
In order to disabuse your minds of
the supposition that we are not
enough experienced in these things,
we must tell you that Alexandria,
Va., is but a half-hour’s run from
Washington, D. C. All large manu-
facturing concerns, and small ones,
too, have made a dead set to estab-
lish trade in the Capital City; more
we believe, than in any other
city of its size in the country. They
zo there and find the ground so
thoroughly worked by competitors
that, disappointed, they try to dump
it ali in Alexandria. So we have re-

so,

ceived more than our share of these |
them |

schemes, and come out. of
wiser and better merchants.

We had a batch of orders.
turned over to us once that were all |
g., the canvassers had done |

   

     
     
   
   

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We do not know what phrase of |

contempt to use in expressing our
mind of the fellows who are retail
storekeepers and give fake orders
to salesmen and afterwards counter-
mand them to the jobber. This is a
most dastardly trick, and deserves
punishment by a fine. I never met
but one salesman who was not a
gentleman, and he didn’t stay in my
store long enough to hear all I had
to say of him or his deal.

Some housekeepers, no doubt, may
be excused for giving bogus orders
to canvassers, because we do _ not
know what they are undergoing at
the time, and the fellow must have
a nerve to argue a lady into buying
a hair restorer when her bread is
burning or the baby is crying. This
little discussion serves to show how
it surely is the exception and not the
rule for these specialty orders to be
all a fake and unprofitable to the gro-
cer. We have gone so far as to in-
vite specialty salesmen to canvass
our trade for their wares, and have
found it both congenial to the trade
and profitable to us.

Do the fair thing all the time and
results will show that this question,
like all others, has two sides to it—
C. R. Yates, in Grocery World.

Detroit Salt Company, Detroit, Michigan
FLOUR improved methods, by ex-
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President. Michael Howarn, etroit;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
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United Commercial Travelers of Michigan

Grand Councelor, J. C. Emery, Grand Rap-
ids; Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy.
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Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T. |
Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

Fake Claims from a Traveling Man’s

Standpoint.
I read a paragraph in the “Grocery
Worid” some time ago that turned

my mind to a subject on which I
have a pretty strong opinion.

I mean the subject of
claims. Wholesale grocers are
the only people bothered with them.

unjust
not

 

Manufacturers and packers have un-
just claims from jobbers. Every man
in business has them. It is the worst
graft in business to-day.

I have heard retail dealers openly |
boast that they made most of their |
money from claims on jobbers. I
know one fellow in particular—he is
a cash cutter in a small place about
five hours out from Philadelphia. He}
is a foxy lad, and if there is a trick
to turn a sharp penny that he does
not know, he will cheerfully give up
money any time to have it taught to}
him.

This man told me once that he
thought he had a right to get all he
could out of jobbers, since they were
all the time “trying to do him,” as
he said. So he laid for them and
trapped them whenever he could.

Which was pretty often.

He had a very slick scheme. The
average wholesale grocer will stand
a good many of these claims, but
there is a limit, and with any one
jobber the limit would have been too
low ideas. So he bought a
few goods of a good many jobbers
and made claims from all of them.
In that way, you see, he did not
reach the limit with any one of them,
and as most of his claims were allow-
ed, he had a good thing.

You would be surprised how easy
the average wholesale grocer is in
this thing of claims. A retailer who
a lot of goods and pays in ten
days will make a small claim. Nine
times out of ten the jobber will al-
low it, whether it is good or not—
often without even investigating it.
Competition forces him to. He ar-
gues that it is better to lose half a
dollar than a good customer.

The retailer I speak of was a fair-
ly good customer. He did not buy}
a lot of goods from any one jobber,
but he discounted- every bill he
bought.

for his

 

To show how far dealers |
will go in allowing their legs to be
pulled by fake claims, I will tell you |
something I know about Gimbel)
Bros. le

You know Gimbel Bros.—they are |
the Philadelphia department store)!
people who keep the only first- ae
grocery store in Philadelphia. x- |
cuse me while I burst into ee |

One day a woman who was a good
charge customer brought back some |

some

 

 

 

books which she said were not what)

she wanted. :

The salesman at the book counte1
refused to take them back, for the
good and sufficient reason that they
had not come from there.

The aisle manager, when appealed
to, refused to overrule the salesman
and expressed surprise that they
should be expected to accept goods
that were bought somewhere else.

Then the persistent female insist-

| ed on being taken to the manager of

the book department and volubly laid
her case before him.

He politely but positively upheld |
the two underlings and tried to
make the woman see what an ass
she was.

Then she went to
the active manager of the
establishment—and he_ took
back!

Wouldn’t that put chicory in your
Tabard Inn coffee?

I tell you, when a dealer has to}
decide whether to allow a small claim
or lose a customer, he is pretty sure
to keep the customer, even although
he knows positively that the claim
is a steal.

There

Ellis Gimbel,
whole |
them

used to be an old man in|

| business a short distance out on the |

main line of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. He had a general store and
sold feed and such things. A year
or so ago he sold out and moved
West.

This old robber had his thieving |
claims down to a regular system.

He used to buy such things as
feed by the car. He would order
a car and when it reached him he
would invariably find something
wrong with it that justified him in
claiming some rebate.

In every case the amount of his
claim was just a little bit less than

it would have cost the seller- to
move the car away, and that was
the basis of his system. I know it

to be a fact that the old rascal knew
to a penny the freight rate on every
line he bought—exactly what it
would have cost to ship the stuff back
to its destination. And he very
shrewdly concluded that the shipper
would usually allow the claim rather
than bother with reshipping the
goods and then pay even more than
the claim in freight.

This old man was rich, and I veri-
ly believe he made the most of his
money this way. The station agent
up at this place told me only a few
weeks ago that never in his life had
he seen a merchant in such constant
hot water with everybody he bought
of as this old man was.

Still. nobody refused to sell him.
Why? Because he bought big lots.

There is, of course, always a ques-
tion whether these professional claim-
ers do not pull their own legs instead
of the people’s they buy of. A job-

| ber will soon get on to a man who

is always claiming damaged or miss-
ing goods. So will a salesman, and
usually such a fellow pays more for
his goods than his competitor who
is more decent.

And so he should.

The very worst case of fake claims
I ever knew reached its climax about
nine months ago. It occurred in

‘mannered sort of a chap—just

| bathroom
| plumbing.

 

Philadelphia. The victim was a man

who did plumbing and dealt in plumb-
ers’ supplies. He was a gentle, mild-
man to be browbeaten.

The bulk of this
tive builders in the city—a man who
would build a hundred houses at a
The plumber supplied all the
requisites and did all the
It was a pretty good busi-
ness, or would have been, if the build-
er had not been the scurvy hound
that he was.

 

cp.

He was a ciaimer, this builder—

one of these dogs who worry a man’s

price down to a starvation basis be-
fore giving him the contract and then

| push it below a starvation basis by
| making claims after the work is done.

He kept this poor plumber ground
down all the time. The plumber
would finish his end of an operation.
His debts for material would press
him and he would ask the builder for
what was due him. The builder would

| go over the houses and pick imagin-

ary flaws in the work. After he had
badgered the poor plumber into a
condition of deep -despondency he
would agree to pay him about 75 or
80 per cent. of the bill, if he would
give him a receipt in full.

As a rule the plumber, with the
thought of his own overdue debts
heavy upon him, would allow him-
self to be robbed. This thing went
on for about five years. The plumber
was doing a lot of work and would
have made a good living had he been
getting all that was coming to him.
Under the circumstances he made
nothing, and the end of every year
found him harder pushed.

Last summer he got sick and his |

affairs went all to pieces—he had
been running behind so long.
sickness went to his brain and he}
is in the Friends’ asylum at Frank-
ford to-day.

.All this man’s trouble came from

hc total lack of principle of a pro-|

fessional claimer whom I would be!

boiling glad to see in jail.

I hope to see him beautifully roast- |

ed some day, after he dies, if not
before.
The grocery business has many

claimers in it—I am speaking wholly |
not |

of the makers of false claims,
the men who make a claim because
there is a reason for it. No one job-
ber, single-handed, can best such fel- |
lows; at least,

the |

man’s business |
/came from one of the largest opera-

His |

no single jobber will, |

/ because the besting costs more than
'what it brings in. The jobbers ought
to fix up a blacklist for them, be-
| cause they hurt every decent retailer
in business.-Stroller in Grocery
W orld.

2+.

Some men look to see if the tide
is coming in before casting their
bread upon the water.

——>-2—___

Talk is cheap; otherwise the aver-
age wife would soon bankrupt her
husband.

 

 

Western
Travelers Accident
Association

Sells Insurance at Cost

Has paid the Traveling Men over
$200,000
= To when least expected

Join now; I will carry your insur-
ance to July 1.

Write for application | blanks and inform-
ation to

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75 Lyon Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

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GOLDIS 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,

JN. A ZAHN

1318 MAJESTIC BUILDING
DETROIT, MICH.

 

 
   
 

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Gripsack Brigade.

Fred H. Ball has engaged to repre-
sent the Clark-Coggin & Johnson
Co., coffee roasters of Boston, Mass.,
in Western Michigan, making Grand
Rapids his headquarters. The en-
gagement dates from May I.

Four new members were initiated
at the meeting of Grand Rapids Coun-
cil last Saturday evening—Samuel S.
Corl, Wm. N. Corl and J: Edward
Post, all of Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd.,
and Wm. H. Jennings, of the Jennings
Flavoring Extract Co.

An Ishpeming correspondent writes:
R. H. Putnam, who has represented
the Carpenter-Cook Co. ‘in Baraga
county for some time past, has been
forced to give up his position on-ac-
count of his health. He left yester-
day for his home at Grand Rapids.

Salesmanship is the science of or-
ganized knowledge, the ability to
analvze the goods you have to sell;
the eternal law of hustle, concentrat-
ed effort and energy, power to per-
suade, personality and honesty—with
ali the emphasis possible on_ the
word. Salesmen don’t find very will-
ing subjects. Your trué salesman
don’t hypnotize, don’t load a victim
with goods he has no use for, but
convinces his customer that he has
a use for them, and by putting the
tight kind of goods in the right place
opens up a field of future endeavor.
The power to sell is a force born of
character and experience. The lat-
ter may be likened to a college—the
college of “hard knocks.”

Niles Star: E. R. Mead, a pioneer

“traveling salesman, who sold grocer-
ies to Niles merchants upwards of
half a century ago, is the guest of
John Woodruff, who, together with
his brother Edgar, now deceased,
conducted the only exclusive grocery
store in Niles in 1853. Mr. Mead,
who is now a resident of Chicago
and who retired from the road only
a short time ago, is a unique charac-
ter. He is 78 years of age and as
spry as a kitten. His memory is
wonderful, and to a reporter he talk-
ed most interestingly to-day of the
old-time local mercantile establish-
ments, and proprietors thereof, giv-
ing names and dates with great ac-
curacy. When Mr. Mead first began
coming to Niles there were only
about 2,500 people here, but the mer-
chants enjoyed a lucrative trade from
St. Joseph, Hartford, Watervliet, Bu-
chanan, Cassopolis, Vandalia, New
Buffalo, Hill’s Corners and_ other
towns, this being at that time the
mecca for bargain seekers for miles
around. The Woodruff brothers were
among Mr. Mead’s first customers,
and he says that in those early days
they occupied a_ two-story frame
building, at the northwest corner of
Main and Front streets, where the
Woodruff brick building now stands.
Mr. Mead says he remembers Dennis
Bunbury, when the latter was clerk-
ing for Messrs. Woodruff, and that
he sold him—Bunbury—his first stock
of goods,. when he branched out for
himself. This transaction took place
in 1872, the firm name then being
Bunbury & O’Brien. Mr. Mead says
he used to stop at a wooden hotel, at
the southeast corner of Main and
Front streets, and that he sold goods
to H. A. Chapin and William Bee-

 

son, both of whom conducted gener-
al stores here.
upon a time H. A. Chapin, the de-
ceased millionaire iron king, who was
a poor man at that time, called him
aside and said: “Mead, I’m not al-
ways going to be as poor as I am
now.” Mr. Mead says Chapin, suit-
ing the action to the words, drew
forth from his trousers pockets a
handful of what he said was iron ore,
just received from the northern part
of the State, where it had been found
on a piece of property belonging to
him. Mr. Mead says he left Chapin
and, crossing over to Woodruff’s
store, enquired if Chapin had gone
crazy. However, a year later when
he revisited Niles Mr. Mead was ac-
costed, he says, by Mr. Pike, of
Pike’s Hotel, who informed him con-
fidentially that an employe of a local
bank who boarded at the hotel had
said that Mr. Chapin had a big lump
of money on deposit at the bank. Lat-
er a flood of light was thrown upon
the situation and it became generally
known that the Chapin land belong-
ed to a tract in one of the richest
copper mines in the famous copper
country, the annual revenue from
which has been estimated as high as
$250,000. Mr. Mead’s health, both
mental and physical, is especially
good, and he greatly enjoys recount-
ing reminiscences of early days with
his old friend, Mr. Woodruff.
——_—_—_~+-.

A druggist, being asked what is
the commonest ailment among his
customers, replied, “Corns.” Surprise
being expressed, he added: “I know
you expected me to say ‘colds,’ and,
of course, everybody has a cold. But
a cold is not a permanency. A corn
is. There is no known cure. I sell
about a hundred different alleged
cures, but the best they can do is to
afford temporary relief. All useful
corn cures contain salicylic acid, and
most of them collodion. The one
positive cure of a corn on the toe is

to cut the toe off. What’s the good.

of a toe, anyway, except to breed
corns?”
——_>+ 2 ____

It was the curtailing of manufac-
ture that brought about the collapse
of the cotton corner. Although nu-
merous mills in England and Ameri-
ca closed on account of the high
prices demanded for the raw product
by those in control of the market, it
was imagined by the latter that this
would make no difference in their
plans. They had the cotton and
thought they could compel the con-
sumers to buy it at the figures they
put upon it.

>>

Albert Towl, grocer, Muskegon:
We can not keep store without the
Tradesman. It is always a welcome
visitor and shows much improvement
since its first issue.

— 72>

The frankness with which a 17-
year-old girl refers to herself as an
old maid is only exceeded by the
frankness with which she denies it
ten years later.

In this day of sharp competition,
half-hearted, indifferent methods will
not suffice.

——_222____

When a wife is outspoken the hus-

band is generally out-talked,

He avers that once |-

 

 

Can Druggists Write Advertise-
ments?

Any druggist can write a good ad-
vertisement if he will give the matter |
the same care and attention that are |
required in the other departments of |
his business. If a druggist has the |
business tact, the energy and the
mastery of details that will ensure
success, he should be eminently fit-
ted to write his own advertisements,
provided, of course, that he is willing
to give the matter the necessary at-
tention. He knows what he has to
sell and the prices he is willing to
take. He should have a pretty accu-
rate idea of the wants of his cus-
tomers, and of those who are likely
to become his customers. He is, or
should be, in a position to tell these
people just what they want to know
about the goods he has to offer them. |
The kinds of merchandise that will |
suit their tastes or requirements
should be known to him, and_ he
should know pretty nearly what prices
they have been used to paying. He
will thus be in a position to tell them
what they want to know about his
goods, and be able to quote prices
which will appeal to their apprecia-
tion of bargains. If he will put the
information he has to give into lan-
guage that can be easily understood
he will write a good advertisement.
He will tell the public what they
want to know concerning the stock
he has for sale, and the best profes-
sional advertisement-writer could do
no better. He might not do as well, |
for his information concerning the
goods and their potential purchasers
would probably be less accurate.

Of course, the writing of the adver-
tisement is not the whole business.
The drawing effect of a well prepared
advertisement may be largely reduc-
ed by having it badly printed. ‘Its
attractiveness is sure to be destroyed
to a great extent if it be crowded in-
to small type, without display head-
ings or sufficient white space to ren-
der it conspicuous. But these are
merely matters of detail, and do not
affect the main proposition, for they
can be attended to by the merchant
who writes his own advertisements
as well as by another. If a merchant
has neither the time nor thé inclina-
tion to attend to his advertising, he
will do well to entrust it to another,
but even in that case he should still
have a general supervision of the
work.

——_>-2-2
_ Could Afford To Smoke.
“How many cigars do you smoke
day?” enquired the meddler.
“Three,” patiently replied the youth.
“How much do you pay for them?”
“Ten cents each.”
“Don’t you know, sir,” continued
the sage, “that if you save that
money, by the time you are as old
as I am you might own that big
building on the corner?”

“Do you own _ it?”
smoker.

“No, I don’t,” replied the old man.

“Well, I do,” said the young man.

———_+-+-2
Soft Coal For Pigs.

A farmer in Illinois has been try-
ing to find out whether it is advan-
tageous or otherwise to feed soft

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asked the

| current market quotations

 

coal to hogs, with the idea of fatten-

ing them. This winter a little soft
coal judiciously fed might be bene-
ficial, because it is not as high in
price as last winter, when it was
higher than pork tenderloins by the
pound. Corn-fed pork is always bet-
ter than that raised on coal and
should be of better color.

——_»>2>—_—
One Sort of Philosophy.

Pinch—Don’t get foolish just be-
cause you've had a little money left
to you. You'd better be economical
now.

Gayler—-Ah! it’s too hard.

Pinch—But if you don’t live eco-
nomically now you'll have to later.

Gayler—Well, it isn’t so hard to
be economical when you have to.

——_>+>—__
Vanished Prestige.

“Who is that?” asked the bantam.

“That,” replied the brama, “is the
famous goose that lays the golden
egg.”

“Well, she needn’t put on airs. At
the hen
that lays the plain, old-fashioned egg

lis quite as valuable.”

——_22+s——_
The Net Result.
“Did you go into that speculation
you were talking to me about?”
“Veo”
“What
from it?”
“Just at present there’s a strong
prospect that I may realize what a
fool I was.”
——_+->—__
Not as Bad as She Feared.

“O,” exclaimed the new housemaid,
“T have broken—”

“What?” cried her mistress in dis-
may.

“The fourth commandment.”

“Ah, I was afraid it was my cut-
glass pickle dish.”

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do you expect to realize

—_++>-—_—_
He’s One of Them Now.

Green—I don’t hear DeRanter de-
claiming against the plutocrats any
more.

Brown—Of course not. A relative
in the old country died recently and
left him a few hundred dollars.

——_++>—__

Frank Burns has purchased the
stallion Braden, which has a road rec-
ord of 2:101%4, weighs 1,255 pounds
and is 16 hands and 1 inch high. He
will stand at Comstock Park this sea-
son.

—_—_>+->_—_-

If a man does not push his busi-

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—John D. Muir, Grand Rap-

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Treasurer—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Cc. B. Stoddard, Monroe.
Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

Sessions for 1904.
Ann Arbor—March 1 and 2.
Star Island—June 20 and 21.
Houghton—Aug. 23 and 24.
Lansing—Nov. 1 and 2.

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. . 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.

 

 

Suggestions To Be Observed at the
Soda Counter.

Many dealers close their soda foun-
tains during the winter months, us-
ing the counter for other purposes.
There are also a unmber of those who
use their soda fountains in a limited
way during the cold weather. All
soda water apparatus should be exam-
ined and placed in good working or-
der at this time of the year. Take
away everything that is stored upon
the apparatus or counter, open the

body of the apparatus and see that |

the coils and lead pipes are in good

condition; take out the dirt that has |

accumulated on the inside, so that the
water will drain away. Place new
washers on the syrup: faucets and
draft arms. Give the marble. or
onyx a thorough cleaning with soap
and water; then, after drying, give it
a good rubbing with boiled linseed
oii. This will make it look bright and
well polished. The syrup jars should
be scoured with a brush and Sapolio:
the soda holders, spoons and pitchers
repaired and polished.

By starting early on this work you

hot day comes. Do not delay get-
ting in your stock, such as sugar for
syrup, crushed fruits, extracts, glass-
es and all necessary utensils pertain-
ing to the fountain. Get out menu
cards with a lot of new drinks and
sundries. Don’t make up too many
syrups, for fear they may = spoil.
Make them often and keep a fresh
supply on hand.

There are many cases where a dis-
penser becomes careless in making
syrups. It is very important to give
the greatest care and attention to the
preparation of syrups. For instance,
in making vanilla syrup he may, at
the beginning, use a graduate and
measure out two ounces of the ex-
tract to the gallon of syrup, which
would be the correct quantity if pure
vanilla extract is used. The next
time he may be in a hurry, and in-
stead of measuring, he pours the ex-
tract out of the bottle; just makes a
guess at the quantity. Such cases al-
ways cause a loss. The syrup will be
either too weak or too strong; never
uniform. The customers will become
dissatisfied and quit coming, for the
reason. that the beverage is not al-

 

 

 

 

 

ways pleasant. Not only is the con-
fidence of the customer lost, but the
extra quantity of extracts used, or
rather wasted, through carelessness,
will almost amount to as much as
the dispenser’s salary. That of it-
self means a considerable loss to the
proprietor. A good dispenser can
save hundreds of dollars for his em-
ployer by being careful at his work.
The soda water business has become
«a business of its own. A dispenser
who is perfect and faithful to his du-
ties is sure to win. If he is bright and
makes his business a study he will
always find something new that will
interest his customers and be profita-
ble to his employer.

By all means keep your spoons,
spoon-holders, trays, cream pitchers,
syrup bottles, etc., clean, dry and
highly polished. Do not allow a
trace of negligence about your foun-
tain. Have your glasses and mugs
carefully washed and dried with a
clean towel. You can not have too
many towels. A clean towel will give
your customer a quicker and better
impression of your cleanliness than
anything else. Have plenty and
change them often. Never wipe a
spoon or a dish, especially a glass or
cup, from which someone must drink,
with a soiled towel. If once you
wipe your counter with a towel do
not use it to wipe dishes or glasses,
as people notice such things quickly.

Start in this season with a deter-
mination to make your soda business
a success and remember that attrac-
tiveness is the principal feature to
be thought of. A. B. Link.

—_++2—___

The Passing of the Leucocyte.

Some authorities now claim that
the leucocyte’s value for destroying
bacteria has been much over-rated.

The leucocyte was formerly credit-
ed with the power of destroying viru-
lent bacteria. This view was later
combated by some who claimed that
he was not so much of a hero after
ali, but merely a scavenger that pick-

ied up the bodies of the dead and
| crippled bacteria and destroyed them,
i but was unable to give protection

ry 2 rhe he fi ST | : «
will be fully prepared when the fir oe alcwk fa a.

But even this honor is now denied
them by the researches of Prof. Pet-
rie based on his statement that he has
obtained an extract of leucocytes de-
void of any bactericidal power.

——— 2. 7+ >____
Test for Tartaric Acid.

Prof. D. Ganassini uses as a test
for tartaric acid boiling with water
and red lead and treating the result-
ing solution with potassium sulpho-
cyanide. The latter reagent in one
to five solution is added in equal
volume, and if tartaric acid is present
the mixture darkens in a few sec-
onds. Other organic acids do not
give the reaction; mineral acids are
to be avoided.

—_»>~+2—___
Chewing Gum For Insanity.

Minnesota’s insane charity patients
are supplied with chewing gum.
When a patient is violently excited
he can often be quieted by giving
him a piece of gum to chew. Those
patients who are unable to concen-
trate their minds on any physical ex-
ercise are put in a condition to per-
form useful work through the same
agency.

ihe would make a serious mistake in

 

Undermining Pharmacy from the In-
side.

Several articles have recently ap-
peared in the pharmaceutical press on
the remuneration of the druggist.
There is no room for argument, real- |
ly, if the matter is boiled down’ to
its essence: “Does the average drug-
gist make as much money as_ he
should?” He does not. We are con-
strained to enquire, however, if the)
druggist is not at fault in some re-
spects.

About a year ago we talked with
a druggist who had been selling a
purgative pill under his own name for |
several years. The formula was good,
his packages were neat, he had adver-
tised consistently, and his sales were
very satisfactory. He put 36 pills
in a package, selling at 20 cents. He
decided, ultimately, for some reason
or other, to make some. slight
changes in his labels and_ cartons.
Then he made up his mind to put
100 pills in a package and advance the
price to 25 cents. We contended that

 

 

doing so; that not five persons in a
thousand really cared for a package |
as large as he proposed to put up; |
and in a variety of ways we present- |
ed arguments with a view of convinc- |
ing him that he would speedily lose
by his liberality. But he looked at:
one phase of the matter only. He
knew “how much each package of
pills cost, and the profit will be
good.” © Apparently, nothing would
convince him that he could not mate-
rially increase consumption; that the
chances were he would sell fewer
packages during the next year. Much
to our regret, therefore, we left him
firm in the opinion that he was mak-
ing a good move.

He carried out his intentions, and
now he realizes that he was lamenta-
bly short-sighted. He has not only
lessened his sales on a very profita-
ble article, but he has made some of |

 

larger packages.

Another shining example of an er-
ror of judgment is the case of the
druggist who put up a cough syrup
in bottles holding half a pint, and
fixed the price at 50 cents. Now, the
general public has been educated to
expect a bottle holding about four
ounces, and for this the average man
is perfectly willing to pay 50 cents.
He does not want a big bottle, and
if he can escape buying one he will
do so. He will, as a rule, tell you
plainly that he wants a small bottle.
Why, then, should a druggist depart
radically from custom and step away
beyond expectation at the same time?
Medicines are different from ordinary
merchandise; you can not make a
drive on them by giving an unusual
quantity. If four ounces of a cough
syrup relieve a man of a troublesome
cough, he is done with the prepara-
tion for the time being. You could
not tempt him to buy if he had no
cough, even if you gave him a big
bottle at half the ordinary price.

We have seen other druggists mak-
ing blunders in the price of headache
powders. There was a time when
they were sold at 10 cents a package
—three powders. For people who
were troubled with frequent head-
aches larger packages were put up—

 

 

his customers look for other goods in|

 

boxes of 10 powders selling at 25
cents. These prices were certainly
reasonable, and we doubt if they were
much objected to by any one. Pres-
ently, however, here and there, drug-
gists began to increase the number
of powders in the dime. package. Six
powders for Io cents is the rule with
many druggists nowadays.

Where will this foolish tendency
end? It is time for serious reflection.
There are enough external influences
at work against pharmacy as a busi-
ness without undermining it from the
inside. i

———_+->—____
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is very dull and weak, al-
though it is firmer in primary mar-
ket.
Morphine-—Is unchanged.

Quinine—Shipments of bark were

very small and it is believed higher
prices will rule at the Amsterdam sale
this week. Another advance in qui-
nine is looked for.

Carbolic Acid—Is very firm as
large quantities are being used for
smokeless powder.

Cocaine—On account of higher
price in foreign markets and firm
price for raw material an advance is

 

| looked for.

Cod Liver Oil—High prices. will
again rule during the coming sea-
son.

Epsom
higher.

Formaldehyde—Is very firm on ac-
count of advance in wood alcohol.

Bayberry Bark—Is lower on ac-
count of the fact that the new crop
is due.

Oil Peppermint—Stocks are small
and in a few hands. Price has ad-
vanced and tending higher.

Oil Lemon Grass—Has advanced.

American Saffron—Stocks are about
exhausted, price has more than dou-
bled and is still advancing.

Goldenseal Root—Shows a small
decline.

Canary Seed—Is very firm. High
prices will rule for some time to
come.

Gum Shellac-—After a decline of
25 per cent., has again advanced and
is tending higher.

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Polishing Surgical Instruments.

A very efficient soap for polishing
instruments may be prepared by in-
corporating two parts of powdered
emery and one part of magnesium
carbonate with ten parts of tallow
soap softened with a very small quan-
tity of water. A good polish in pow-
dered form is obtained by mixing
four parts of prepared chalk, four
parts of magnesium carbonate, and
seven parts of red oxide of iron.

Salts—Are scarce and

 

 

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$450 0o—will sell for $60.00 and ship
on approval. Address

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Citronella ....... 4% i Scillae ...... @ 50 Hydrarg
Conium -Mac..... 80@ 90] Scillae Co @ 50/| Liq Potass Arsinit 00 2
Copaiba ..... ,---115@1 25 | Tolutan ...... - $ 50 ' Magnesia, Sulph.. 2 3
Fubehae ....000+7) 80@1 8b | Prvaus virg ..... 60 | Magnesia, § Sujb bbl 1%

| Mannia, S F ....
Menthol

Morphia, Mal
Moschus Canton .
Myristica, No. 1.
Nux Vomica.po 1
Os Sepia

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Morphia, S P & W.2 35@2 60 |
Morphia, SN Y¥ Q.2 35

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Sinapis
Sinapis,
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Snuff, S’ h De Vo’s
Soda, Boras ......

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Maccaboy,

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cacacuce Soda, Boras
— — Hé& @100 Soda et Pot’s Part
encveees i rb ......
Picis Lia NN% Soda Bi-Carb
1 doz ........ 200) Soda, Ash .......
Picis Lia, ats.. 100 | Soda, Sulphas
Picis Lig, pints 85 Spts, Cologne ...
Pil Hydrarg .po 80 50/Spts. Ether Co..
Piper Nigra .po 22 18|Snts. Myrcia Dom
a. Alba ..po 35 30 | Spts. Vini Rect bbl
a -o--+- R Spts. Vi'i Rect % b
m cet ..... Spts. Vil R't 10 gl
Pulvis Ip’c et Opii.1 3091 0 Spts. Vi'i R't 5 ga
Pyrethrum., = H 75 | Strychnia, Crystal
‘0. doz @ Sulphur, Subl ...
Pyrethrum, pv 25@ 30) Suiphur, Roll
Quassiae ........ 8@ 10 | Tamarinds i
Quinia, S P & W. 27 37 | Terebenth Wickes
Quinia, S Ger... 27@ 37 | heobromae
Seas FS 2S ive .........-
2 gg eM SER 4 ee
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Lard, extra .... 70@ 80
Lard: No, 1...: <. 60@ 65
Linseed,
Linseed,

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oiled .. 44 47
Neatsfoot, wstr.. 65

Spts. Turpentine. 67@ 72
Paints bbi L
|Red Venetian....1% 2 @8
| Ochre, yel Mars 1% 2 @4
Ochre, yel Ber ..1% 2 @3
Putty. commer’l.2% 2%@3
Putty, strictly pr.2% 2% @3
Vermillion. Prime
American ...... 3@ 15
Vermillion, Eng.. 70@ 75
Green, Paris .... 14@ 18
Green, Feninsular 13@ 16
Buesd, rOd ...i0.0- 6%@ 7

Lead, white ..... ""_ 7
Whiting. white S’n 90
Whiting. Gilders.’ 95
White,
Whit'g.

Paris, Am’r
Paris, Eng

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Universal Prep’d.110@1 20

Varnishes
No. 1 Turp Coach.1 == 20
Extra Turp ...... 1 60@1 70
Coach Body ..... 2 aae 2
No. 1 rah Furn.1 00
Extra T Damar..155
Jap a No 1 T 70

 

 

 

 

  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 

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We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

in Paints,

We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

We are the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s

Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

day received. Send a trial order.

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

Rums for medical purposes only.

We give our personal attention to mail

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—_ PRICE CURREN
otations are careful
and are intended to be correct at = corrected weekly, within six hou 3 4
- ble to change ime of going to rs of mailin Cotton Bralded
ge at any time, and is press. Prices, h Z,| 40 ft. temo Ss
market prices at date of : country merchants will ha es, however, are lia | 50 ff .iiseseeeeeeee ee 12
e of purchase. ve their orders filled oe. ‘Si ien Sen oe 10 |g Linen Lines
at a: “Galvanised Wire 65 Maple aaa -+ 10 joel ee ceceeee Genes
ADVANCED NO. 38; cach 100 ft long:2 10 Marshmallow vaecegees Wg | TONE Seep Sneee Hy
Corn Syrup DECLINED = secure oe wee = a x fe. Dr dz.. 650
Sees oeieecs secu M Sp utoedeeeue oe
Rolled Oats ee a a a pine Bamboo, is pr dz. 665
mial, 4s . Coco Fs’d h pr dz.
Solonial, Me 20000000 41| Milk Biscuit .....+---+ 12% | FLAVORING =
[oe ce oe eerie’ 33 Mich Frosted Honey’ oe oe Fo EXTRACTS
Huyier oleh oa, ewan 42 | Mixed Picnic . -- 12) | Colem pote & Jenks
Van Houten, %s .....- #2 | Molasses Cakes, Scio’a 202 Panel —
fe ies os BER aia Bat
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Index to Markets Van Houten, gh Lisi 72 Newshoy ecneea 3 12 Bich. tak tas B0
By Columns i | 2 Wilbur, igs’ --: Beige = Nie Nas u . - Se i N Terpeneleas Lemo
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AXLE GREASE | — coobe oes = 42 ——— — woos a No. 4 9 = = voce 4S
Col | Aurora cca. a Qrange Gem sj $% | Taper D. G. pra IEE 00
Castor oo .— aia. Dunham’s a eeceee 6 Pilot oe Iee .. 10 per D. C. pr dz. 39 Se
Axl * Diamond ........-- rs 700 Fancy ............ go | Dunham’s _* ija.] 26% | Ping Pong ...-...-0.. 7 , Mexican Vanilla
e Grease .........++- Ae agen eae: 73 oe oe = Dunham's 8 --.--. = Lecce hand made .. 3 Fe C. pr dz i'30
, Golden ....... 15 4 Raspberrie OM ester etzelettes, hand md : sO pe da ..:
B BAT "11°98 $00] Standard. ee Te pe meee a 12 | Pretzelcttes, mid s | No. 6 D. c. “oon oe
ee ao... mossian C oe co Paper D. G. pr ae 1112 00
ee ee ce 1 English Pie ees eas 13 % tb. cans . savier Tessa . NZS ccccecccoce 2 a Cookies ....: 8% GE ° 2 00
Brushes 0000000000000: RES pascal $5|% Tb. cans o..0 202.2! s |Bound packages ...0.. 2% |Snowdrops oo -1- 18 | Knox's Sparkling,
r @eler .......... 1 No. 2 oon ee ee 2 75 1 Ib can sheesnane’ pare ee 4 | Sugar me. Tops Knox’s Sparkling” dz. 1 20
- as a es 2 35 | Col’a Rivesnmen = FFEE nares Galkes, scalloped ou — ‘Acidu’d., 4 =
Confections ee “i = * tueeet se : 15 | Col’a River, cea 165 Gultanae .....-...s-.2 3 816 pos? Acidu’d, gro .14 00
gentetins occ 4] amon ei" bea Alana ss GI 8 cag etaneetee Mt ee
Sam hisk askn : nity . Sine e ev eee oe ere eae ieee
ae ee 1 | Eanoy Wnisk --. Pink ASerdines Vienne. Crim Nelo ap aigctse 48
3 Be cee at mestic, er... 7. ee
2 | Be aaah 3 Domestic, ips wees 3 ss re Cox's, 1 qt. size ...... i fo
m: set 9 [Common eevee di pmo ara
3 golia Backs fim. California, Ye -- “AG a ae Amosttng. 100 dn be
—- eke tin go alifornia, ie Pe ng a uBR less than b. 13%
aus Dclicice kee French, Sees oie 1@14 . Sundried es RAINS AND
39 : Ce eee 5 | Standa oh 18@28 | pair Maracalbo Evaporated. ......4 gs No. ; wine FLOUR
te ce Beis ee SS a No. 2 Red ooo vcess 3
= sncgt et | Batty ash Choice . Mexican ee | = Se ee 0. 3 Red Wheat a
ee Say aac ee Was ee ee 80-90 . a 4 win, Ak ee,
— a ae Fancy Sireivere : = ——s ae Le "25.1 ony 5% tone ——
Seen Seesmic e rawb jatemala -70 : ; PB
OO ini gwierries | ee java sag 15 | 50-80 oe. poe 8S Secaee Babsate 5 65
w TER COLOR ae woke iag 10 | agri Java . 40-50 25 tb. x8. 6% | Straigh atents ....... 5 25
Farinaceous Good ., IR. & Co.'s, 1 ser 140 a 30- bxs. 1g | | t is
to 3... 41WLRE&C "8, 15¢ aize.1 25 | Fat netoae ous eget 12 40 25 Tb. bxs. % Second siraight seeeeee 5 05
Suhieg "Tackle ae CAND ase size.200|Good |... veeeee 85@_ 95/9 & "atria penne = %c less in by .v. cases Clear wee crereesceeees 448
Flavori Ow seee oem Electric Raney (od 115 P. G. Sas ee Bu m ee
a Paper ee oe 5 Electric = mn +++ 9% Gallons be tisiasis wale i 15g 50 cs oe 31 Cormicax gates oy ~ egg ieee ete ae 10
oe ne, 6s . 0" 1 6GARBON  ¢ Mee ubject to usual <
a 3 Parasites, _aeaae 3% = OILS ps .eeeee2) | Imp’d. a a ao to usual cash
uses + | Wicking ........+.2:2--19 Perfection. New York Has Imported bulk : “148 Flour in bbls
Gelatine . CANNED GOODS ee 12% | Revert 18. 5 50 | Lemo . (ioe
Grain Bal coe soo 5 |. standat soo Beodord Napa... giaM | ee eee American ......38 | Qanter Giyeer CO'® BBRG
a aa Stour ool. als, Standards .. 5 [Bendord Napa, Ie | la ighiinie OK 0 aiaine << o .. S ...--
eo 5 S ..200@2 25 | Engine aes 34 eae SITTITIiiitigy g9 | London La ns aaakes SER cS. eeeeeeD 50
H in_eo ee oo cquahiln, FOO aia | Cluster eis is Quaker Me 102000000018 60
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Hides and Pelts 11... 10 — Sc eee eee Columbia® 25 ee sodere mee te Mail all | Loose Muse's 4 or 2 60 Spring Wheat Flour
' aes Kidney *- 95 ——- 5 Se 50| McLaughlin & Co. T.oose Musca’s 3 er. 8% Clark-Jewell-Wells | Co.’
Indigo Wax Cee aes 70@1 15 oe qua : 22 cago. » “Chi- eM 8 Mu s ce Loe ima Brand 0.8
Loins mle wn leie io lewis aro ee 5 ee eco oe S$ er’s pints oe Si > "290'9 ury’s Best %
BI nider’s ooo 20 ¢ M. Pillsbu: Bes 8.
is J Standard nares sation oe ce Sueae 130 Holland. % ero a ae Suttanas, pulik — THOTM Pillsbury's ea
eee igs ne x, . . m.
oe ee 5\2 wD. Bee Trout ae erm icisleiei ss @12 are ; Sat. kee |) as. package. @ 9% on ——— Co.'s
L ns, ee 190 | Carson a @12 Hummel’s foil % gro. 85 ARINACEOUS GOODS Wingold, can
Ltgorics ..---0002777 5 | Little Neck. 1 tb.1 00 Elsie ----- a — ee Wingold, oes
ES SE! §| Little Neck, 2 Tb @1 25 mblem + -+.+-+-. , CRACKERS Dried Lima, ---5-i22358 Judson ee ee
oe eee M Burnham's, % —_ as Gold ene nal Biscuit Company's Brown Holland ee = SS rand
Molnasen crevasse § Bonhams, Wie ae Butter oa a me. oes. 60] Mame ie 8
° oe Red, sua cries 7 20 | Riverside ies | Berets cena Bulk, per 00 ibe... 50 aural ies Co. "s Brand
N ards...130@150|Edam ... out (eee : | a ee urel 4S 2.2.22 esses
lee WE ke coon wn ates ake, 50 tb. Pubes tee ose 8 0
Se ae ee ecole 11| Fai Corn 150 oo . gi 00 ae. pea ee Pearl, 200 p.sack .1 00; Laurel So xicsoete
> Fair -e..eeesee: —- Limburger : ing bis olverine ....---++- 1 | Pearl, 100 I. enc «18 68 “~ papers 60
A gs lite tne ae ieee 4 og s0@75 | N. B.C Soda Maccaron! and ck. .2 00 Bolted ..... ence
P "te French Peas | Se ee ee a ; coe ee eee. bee Golden Graneiated’ 1112 60
ur Ext merica Sine WAS ccs ox - achcknaig
Extra Fin Fine........ aie: sa oe a 13 Pearl Barle SJ
ne .. s Pepsin Oyst Com y Car Feed
se eeeeeees 19 Black os need oc - er” wean ssaac jc eee gee and oats. 21 op
rgest Gum binds: 60 — ss sree aa ee ee” 73 $0
AMEE os -snannnn ters 1% aa. Winter wheat pet -21 00
a Se cere — Wisconsin, bu.1 35 Cow Fe eons a'ngs22 00
fominy Bu ewer Goode Green, Stree. 3) Soeennee vovnsesnee 80
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7 | Pant Tels eee ee gl Cage 4 a ten. cael .5 50 pe ig
7 ee as. elle Rose .....-- : cae Monarch, 100Ib. sacks : To Corn, ne orn
Mu ackerel Se coe ety Bent’s Wat ---8% c fe We oe e es 5
fee fe at) rrecesorrtien 9 | eae aes ie |aouees, canes” sacks.2 85 | Hay —
| Bouseds 1 toees222000031 9 WaneTQCOLATES.,, | Socacanut oe 22k 1 tee aac bee 6
7 | Soused, BI as German Sweet ..... 0.’ , | Cinnamon Taffy «2... 10 | wast India ~~. —
7 To ato, 1 Ib........... 18 ——— mes Coffee Cake, N. B.C. 9 | German, a 2%\3g “HERBS
——- Ih....--. 2 = oe se eee tenes = Coffee Cake, Ic 2 aoe c.. - German, broken pkg . 3%
ushrooms.___ eb ce ee Cocoanut Ma 0 - Tapl
g| Hotels .. * ag eee * 351 acaroons ..18 | Flake plocs
ae me ml choses LINES racknels .... , 110tb. sacks ..
; OHS. 2.2-..- 55 22@ 25 cor LINES 28|Gurrant. Fruit ........ 6 a 130%». a C 3
81 cove, 1 ysters ca sal Smaie Dainty earl, 24 1 th. os
ss @ 90 ft, 3 thread, ext Cartwheels . : Wh o-
T oes SB eS ae oo tao  goxtra..1 00 | Dixie Cooke =... ir ae uk 3%
ea .. ; 100 thread, extra .. rosted Creams 2 Tb. packages ....
eke ee Peaches 60 ft, 6 ra ..170| Gin oe ages ....2 60 :
— See ee ease $ Yell ne Se eee 10@1 15 72 ft, 6 thread: extra ..1 29 Ginger Snaps, 'N BC: : FISHING TACKL
Bees ese ee 9 oF -- soy .1 45@1 85 Jut wupeeeae ae ave NG S é y, ee 1 ooeereee * 6 30Ib. pails
ra! oe 4, ee eee er
Vinegar Vv Standard .....--. 1 Hazelnut a =e (oe Pe LICORICE ,
Se ous cohaaus g | Fancy ----..-.-5- a 90| Honey Fingers, iced. . 1 Los 4 le ke uot: Orewa ere ~~
ashing P Marrowfat _— 50 Honey Jumbles .. i3 ‘=a Sicily cee seee eens Loge
Wickin: — seeeee 9 | Barly June ....... ee? 00 es rl Family .. ‘7.11 ‘maa ie aise 14
Woodenware "--.. eae 9 Early June Sifted... ol - ieee = Crumpet .10 | No. 1 — Lines 6 —_" 11
rapping Paper Te 9 Pl Plums Indiana Bell eee eeceece 8% No. 2 15 ee eccccoce 5 ‘condensed, 2.0 ius
teens 10 jums tae ae 85 gavies: .. O23. se No. 3. een. eo Condensed, 4 dz i =
Yeast Cake G neapple Jersey Lunch .....--- 8 |No. 4, scott 9] meat EXTRACTS
Seseucceos . 10 cae Seeeeeee sao 1 26@2 75 Lady eee ene nan 1% | No. 5, 10 araoere ver
2 er eta ee 1 2G3 te 10 ot Eye ne 1 30 Lady Fingers. rs sg + = + 4 oz aaieie S - =
seeiecenwinteecees n Bis . 7, ie ~ Chicago, 2 oss
{IITTs 00 | Lemon — 8% | No. 8 15 ee Chicago, 202.2 75
seoveee 16 | No. 9, 15 f 2. imported, sont os
jebig’s. imported. 4 oz.8 60

 

 

 

 

 

 

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eee a ae ae: se _ SOAP | TOBACCO | Egg Crates
jew leans rkee’s, large, oz Central Cit Co’ Humpt Tron ee 40|
Fancy Open Kettle ... 40 | Durkee’s small, 2 doz..5 25 a cece oa | Fine Cut Laat cee. ge | Old ee SS 2
CHiekee oe esc. 35 | Snider’s, large, 1 doz..2 85| Jaxon .......... eee 8 16 | Cadillac ....-.........- 54 | No. 2, complete ........ 18 | | Shearlings i 8
Wel seas igo saa 26 | Snider’s, small, 2 doz..1 85} Jaxon, 5 box, del. ...3 05 | Sweet Loma .......... 33 Faucets Tallow
ats Suds awace oo 22 SALERATUS Jaxon, 10 box, del ...3 00 | Hiawatha, 5Ib. pails ..55 | Cork lined, 8 in ep {Noo t wi... @ am
Half barrels 2c extra | Packed 60 Ibs. in bo Johnsor. Soap Co. brands | Hiawatha, 10%b. pails ..53 | Gork lined, 9 in ........ 1 | OF seken alee @ 3%
MUSTARD Aes Oe er 8 15 | Silver sing .......-- 3 65 | Telegram ......---+--. S iw os. 83 | Wool
Horse Radish, 995 Deland’s ne “""3 99 | Calumet iamily . 2 75 | Pay Car .... a r, 8 in. ........... 55 | Washed, fine ...... @20
Horse Radish, 2 i Oita foe 3 15 Scotch Family 85 | Prairie Rose 4 | : | Washed, medium .. 23
Bayle’s Celery, 1 dz .. B eo $45 | Cuba_.....--+2-+2-+-5-- 2 35 | Protection ......:..... 7 Mop Sticks | Unwashed, fine ..14@16
, m r oes eee 300| 2: S. Kirk & Co. brands | Sweet Burley .......... 42 | Trojan spring ........ 90 | Unwashed, medium @20
3 > otia 160" '% sores 3 00 American Family ..... 405 Viger 2. tee ce 38 | Eclipse patent spring .. 85 | CONFECTIONS
i] yandotte, S .. busky Diamond, $6 802.2 80 | Plug | ae : a ea | Stick Candy Pails
4 SAL SODA usky nd., OZ... | | No. 2 pat. brush holder.
j (Hahnlated bbis ...... 85 | Jap Rose ............. 3 7% | Red Cross sext..c...... | 12%. cotton mop heads.1 25/| Standard ........... Be
f Granulated, 100% cases.1 00 Savon Imperial a Palo ooo Pa cecweeessecvcs 32 | Ideal NGG Esa bekssen esd 90 | Standard H. H. ...... 7
, Lump, bbls. scent 7 White Russian —. sae eres = Palls Tee WANE ssa, :
. ee eee : "3 10; Hiawatha ............. eee sg gk Cut Leet)... 6... cL
4 P = Satinet, oval ...... 2 Battie Axe oo... 1... 33 CO ; —— ——. Sede : 7 | cases
ri SALT White Cloud ........-. 4 00| American Eagle ...... ss | feo c th EE ceeeee 179 | Jumbo, 32%. ......+-. 1%
4 ‘Diamond Crystal Lautz Bros. & Co. brands | Standard Navy ....... 36 | 3- Wire. Cable aoe 1 Mxtra HE a: 9
Ta Big Acme ............ 4 00 auear Head. 18 oz. ....42 l Cedar. ais van ies a | | Raston Cream 10
Clay, No. Hn s.......1 10) Barrels, 1003 ‘Boxes ...} 40) Acinc"100-%tb. bars..-$ 10 Spent, Head. 8 on. «44 | Paper; Mureka voess--) ie Se ee
Clay, T. D. full’ oe 65 Barrels, 50 6tb. bags "°3 00|Snow Boy Pa'r. 100 pk. 4 Ou | Jolly ea oe ee 36 | Fibre Stee ded bes eee ee oe 2 70) Mixed Candy
on es 95 | Barrels, 40 7b. bags ..2 75|Marselles ............. 4 0u | Old Honesty .......... 42 | Toothpicks LQbeeea ou 6
Proctor & Gamble brands b POGGS os ea kc se. | Eigrdiwoee 5... 3... 2 50 | Gompetition .......... 7
- PICKLES utter eae ee ee Be cee ee ee a = OTE WOGE 0. i. cote sc ceee 2 75 | ‘pected . : : 1%
Medium Barrels, 320 Tb. bulk ..2 65| ivory, 6 oz ............ = Piper Heidsick ....... Banquet .............. i Wicca...
Barrels, 1,200 count...7 75 | Barrels, 20 141. bags ..2 85/ ivory, 10 oz .......... 6 76 | Boot Jack oo 5.55..... 78 Ideal ..........-2-2.05: 1 BOOMME cece ctassmones cue 1%
Half bbis, $00 count ..4 50| Sacks, 28 Ibs ........ Bisige 3 25 | Honey Dip Twist ....39 Traps PRIDDOR) 5....0...cceeces 9
all Sacks, 56 Ibs. ........ 67 - B. Wrisley brands Black Standard ........ 38 | Mouse, wood, 2 holes .. 22/ Broken ............ i
Half bbls, 1, 200 count ..5 50 Shaker Good Chase (5.01050. 4 00 Cadillac er cota sie aise « 38 | Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45/Cut Loaf. ..........6. 8
Barrels, 2, 400 count ..9 50 Boxes, 24 21b 150 Ola Country .......... o 46 | POMBE hie ct... 30 Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70 | English Rock ........ 9
PLAYING CARDS i Fasc eebeae 2 4 Scouring : Nickel EMME ha wwe 50 er cee 5 holes ... 65 | Kindergarten STONER 8%
No. 90, Steamboat . 85 Table ee organ’s Sons. Smoking Wis Guia | Bon Ton Cream .......

; No. 16, Rival, assortedi 20| Bris, 120 bags, 2% Ibs 8 25 | S2POlio. gross lots |. --2 00 | cect Core 2.2.0.0 00. ct 1 | Erench Cream .....---
No. 20, Rover enameled 60 | Bris, 100 bags, 3. Ibs 3 00 Sapolio, half gross lots.4 50 | Fi} Tubs | Star... este eats 11
7 No. Ei, Special ...... 175| Bris, 60 bags, 6 Ibs 3 00 | SuPolio. single boxes ..2 = Se ee ert anes 32 20-in., Standard, No. 1.7 0v| Hand made Cream....14%

No. 9: 8. Goll, satin finish2 00 Bris 50 ce 6 Ibs 3 09 | sepolio, hand ........ 2 2 5 | Wrest aeYY terete eeeee * 18-in., Standard, No. 2.6 00 | Premio Cream mixed. .12%
No. 808° Bicycle ...... 2 00| Bris. 30 bags, 10 tbs 2 75|. SODA Bamboo, 16 oz. <.1..125 i” Cue Mess 20 or pancy—in Pails
No. 632, Tournm't what 25| Bris, 22 bags, 14 Ibs 2 95 | Boxes ..... ect ecesecees 5% Ch Ss Wee 27 3 —— a 1 .. 5 orehoun rop..
’ POTASH Bris, 320 the ‘bulk. v8 9 98| Kegs, English ........ 4% i +i i we ee 3-in., able, No. 2 ..6 50) Gypsy Hearts ........ 14
es ae Cases. 24 cts, 3 Ibs.... 1 25 SPICES Hanes: Laie 37 16-in., Cable, No. 3 ..5 50| Coco Bon Bons ........ 12
q Babbitt’s ......-.----- 4 00 Butter Whole Spices |Gold Block 2222112137 | No. 2 Fibre 122200021278 ral i ee
Penna Salt Co.’s ...... 3 00 Bris, 280 Ibs, bulk.... 2 25 allspice ............06. 12 es tee e ee ee eee 40 Ma..S Wits 2... coe. 8 55 | Sugared Peanuts ..... 11
PROVISIONS | Linen bags, 5-56 Ibs 3 00 Cassia, Chinain mats. 12 MIDS... e ee cee eee e eee 33 Wash Boards | Salted Peanuts ....... 12
Linen bags, 10-28 ths 3 00| Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28 Min Drie@ .-. c's. 2f Bronze Globe 2 50) | Starlight Kisses 10
Barreled Pork Cotton bags, 10- — tbs 2 75 | Cassia, : Duke’s Mixture ........ So. | Bewer Co |San Blas Goodies .....
eee 14050 Cassia, Saigon, broken. 40 Duk DY os as hao es oe 1 75 | San Blas Goodies ..... 12
ee rat 2 = Che Cassia, Saigon. in rolls. 55 _ = Cameo: ...:....- 43 Double Acme .......... 2 75 | Lozenges, plain ....... 9
e See 5 barrel lots, 5 5 per cent.| Cloves, Amboyna .... 25/3 yrule Navy ..:....... 40 Single Acme .......... 2 25 | lozenges, printed ....10
; Clear back .......... 16 00 | giscount. Cloves, Zanzibar ..... -g3 | Yum Yum, 1 2-3 oz. ..39 Double Peerless 3 25 | Champion Chocolate ..11
® Short OE: oy soecice ees 14 50 10 barrel lots, 7% per|Mace ............ 5a | Yum Yum, lb. pails ..37 Single Peerless ........ 2 50 | Eclipse Chocolates ...13
Te tti<‘(“é«ia RR ww eee ec ccc we rece 19 cent. discount. Nutmegs, 75-80 ....... 50 CVOCRM . 2. fisce cc ccs. 36 | Northern Queen ....... 9 Quintette Chocolates. 712
Bene = Above prices are = O. B.| Nutmegs, 105-10 -..... 40 — cae i” oz. ae | Double fetes ls 00 Champion Gum Drops. 8
Clear amily <<n..2718 80 99 sipe"sachs crnces..1 90 Penta Singapore, oii: ig Plow Boy. 22-2 aa°1198 | Universal ©. 200010001103 gs | emon Sours m3
“ee cats 5% | 60 Sib. sacks ........ 1 80| Pepper, Singp. white . 25| blow Boy, 3% oz. ....39 Window Cleaners. Imperials .........+++. 9
a —. P Bellies eeccece 28 10D. sacks ....... .1 70 Pepper, war... ls 17 enna 3% O68. 4, 6. 8 ih ee aelau 1 65 Ital. Cream Opera cae
BF Bellies ----- -+++-10%) 56 tb. sacks .......... 80) Pure Ground in Buik | heeres®, 1 2-3 om ....86 (14 in. eee. vo} 9% | Ital. Cream Bon Bons.
sr dlbgetaads 28 Ib. sacks .......... 15| Alispice -...-.---+0++++ 36 | Bet PERE wn oonseene-s- fe ae. 3 00) eee te Pore sate: 12
we: Hams, 12Ib. average.12 Warsaw oe eee eos 28 Country Club’ ..1.7! 32-34 aoe we
Hams, 14th. average.11% 68 Tb. dairy in drill bags 40 /Cisws, Sogon o-oo -77 $3 Rorex308X 1000010 Ba Ai in. Butter .....-:-... 5 | qoigen Waffles |.....012
esha 20ib. average. 1% Ginger, AlrVicAH ..cccc 15 Indian .......... 23 Ts im. Teeter 2.5... 2 00 Fancy—Iin 5th. Boxes
Shivntd Ham 5 Solar Rock Ginger, Cochin 1s | Self Binder ......... 20-22 17 in. Butter 3 25 | Lemon Sours .......... 50
S — . bee ae = 56 Ib. sacks .......... 33| Ginger. Jamaica ...... 26|SUver Foam .......... 34 | 19 in. Butter ....!114 75 | Peppermint Drops ....60
ne "10 @12% Gisnelated "Fine 85 Mustard ee uae is a iam 18-17-19 Ca ; 3 Ht. St. Choe. ie 8
1a California hams ...... 1% Medium Fine ........ 90 Pepper, Singapore, bik. i ee . as reeeeeeee 26 con RAPPING PAPER _s.. , .
: Boi Hams 3... s: 1 pper, Singp. white . 28) ommon Straw ....... oe ee eee
4 Picnic Boiled Hams .. 12 _— Pepper, Cayenne ...... 20 Pon 2 Fg os Fibre Manila, white a 2a Brilliant Gums, Crys.60
4 Berlin Ham pr’s’d -...8% | Large Whol ie IE es ec an. 20 | Pian” siedtion . Fibre Manila, colored . 4 | 0. F. Licorice Drops ..80
iwtnce tien 9 rge ole ... @ 7% Flax, medium a No. 1 Manila Lozenges, plain ........ 5
4 tard Strips oF bricks" “7%@0% | Common Glows | Nook Mb. alle oo ¢ | creses ‘Sianiin -<°-.:: | Lomeupes, urented ----68
4 Compound ...... vis oT, | Pollock... ...0: @4|1%. packages ......... 5 VINEGAR Butcher's Manila .... 2% ee or ro
NIE Se aie wets cau + 1% ax Butter, short c’nt.13 | ROUOCS oss er cere c cess
Halibut packages ......... 1% Malt White Wine, 40 ’ 5
60 Ib. tubs.-advance. % ‘strips otros --- _.....14 | 6ID. packages |1......: Malt White Wine, 80 grai_ | Wax Butter, full count.20 le a ©
80 Ib. tubs..advance. % Chunks ......cs020: 145 | 49 and 50 tb. boxes ‘s@ik |Pure Cider, B&B ..11 | Va* Butter. rolls 2°15 | Hand Made Cr'ms..80@90
20 Ib. pails..advance. % Herrin tt os via | fa Ga EA | Magen vem. ...-..... 1 15 | ee Bamene, 28H
Ty , . j eee
§ Ib: palls.-advance. 1° | white oe ee oe 50 noe Aaa Sunlight, 116 ‘dos’... go | String Hock ervey 8b
ER Saiearenes: 1S Rabb ee more patasiiNa rowoen || Yet Chath tae, 1 Oi Nie aamrnds 3
a e hoops re eas ream, oz ..1 00
Bologna ue. Seen cts 54 White hoops “a ‘os 7. Corn Gala CS a Yeast mais heen -- 58 a es a ”
eteeceectueesen' orwegian .........0e iN ae 24 | Gold Dust, regular 4 50 30Ib. case
Frankfort ............ 7% | Round, 100 Ibs ........ 3 60| Half Barrels .......... 26__ | Gol ae Per tb.| Up-to-Date Asstmt, 3 ‘
Otek <5 201... 5s. 7% | Round, 50 tbs ........ 2 10 | 20tb. cans, 4bz in case.1 65 | <a of 4b a 3 $e White fish ........ 10@11 — “a eoepits =
; ME ceca 7% | Scaled .......... >, «+. 18|10%b. cans, %dz. in case.1 65 | ee ne Trout ..-.-se eee eee . TR f
Tr i | Peaitine: io ok oe 3 75 Bossenberger’s brands.
" oe Sooke a is 9 ‘Sous Sib. cans, i dz in case.1 85 | Soap. De cate ok 410 —— Oe oo ease 11@12 Ceremonies ne 12
‘ cheese _.......... id 5 50 |2 2 Cans, 2 dz. in case 1 99 wae ee 3 76 | Halibut ..... a ti 10@11 | Nut caramels ........ 14
be axtre a No. 1, 40 Ibs ........ 2 80/ p ; Pure Cane Roseine, Bese g ee 3 50 blueish Oe. - ame: actas dines °- ii"se
3 Boneless beicias ae 00 | No. 1, 10 tbs .......... eee cece | 2G) eTOUE Sweet eee en sss 3 70 | Live Lobster ...... er ae meren
Gai 20 | Nine O'clock 3 35 | Live ctantt 25 Pop
Rump, ey an 00|No. 1, 8 ee ceia ioe 25 Wisdom 3 80 — Lobster ..... ox panty smack, “2s aie *
courine ..............3 BO | os att tte Jandy mac. ee o
Gee, 00 toe L033 Se eee oe ee 43 laa eae 37 Heddoak Paaeeal 22: 5, | Ee cen ee ee
fe bbls.” ....0--ee 20: 3 7 Mess 10 Ibs. ot Sundried, medium ....24 Pike oon bees. Me Crocker Taek ees eees: 3 00
j oe eee occa cee ceeee Ge et ae un 1 CEOS 54 c0s- No. 0 r erc ress wuue 7 op Corn Balls .......
Tripe No 1, 100 tbs a eo Sundried, fancy 36 | N pio gaa ee
cL foes , fener 2. ..; o. 1 moked =— eas 12 NUTS
ee eet 1 2 | No. 1, 60 ths. 220002 7 00 | Regular, medium ..... 24 | No. 2 per gross .....260 | Red. Snapper ....-. ” Whole
Kpbis aor eeceee ia No. 1 10 the. .......: 1 60 | Regular, choice ........ 32 No. 3 per gross Lo ie Col. “River! Salmonia 13 Almonds, —: 16
ss Gace Sonne e Wo: 4 3 the. Go... 1 35 | Regular, fancy ........ 36 ‘ Mackerel .......... 19@20 | Almonds, Ivica .......
ais - gs a. Whitefish Basket- —. medium “31 WOODENWARE =. — Califoriia S16
. © ee eccccce e choice Ba ans she new
Beef rounds, set ...... 15 100 Nol No.2 Fam Basket- fired, fancy ..43 aanete Per can | Brasils .....cc.cccces om
Beef middles, set.-... 45 | 120 «=p oe Se on oe segue | RE anuot so ----8 Ow . Counts Filberts 212121222!
cep. Bad undle ..... Seen Siftings eae 9@11 ' 5 Sars Extra Selects ......... 30 | Walnuts, French ....-
lored Butterine 10 Ths)... 3... 90 50 | Fannin i2@14 | Market .............+4. Oe ete 25 | Walnuts Peg ch ina
Solid” “aay Ce 9%@10 eS fos ol 15 43 BS wee eee eee @ Splint, large .......... 6 00 Perfection’ Standards 24 Cal. No. 1 15@16
eae Gunpowder Splint, medium ....... sPosirenanedumgiin a oie ees”
— — i0BG 1% SEEDS Moyune, medium ....30 |Splint. small ......... 4 00 r ee
Canned Meats Raine 15 < -4 00 | Standards Pecans. Med. 9
Gormed beef. $ ........ 2 50 7 hea ¢ | Moyune, choice ....... 32 | Willow, Clothes, large.7 25 ai Pecans. Ex. Large ...10
Corned beef. 14 ...... 17 50 paasaoee ccs 8 Moyune, fancy ....... 40 | Willow Clothes, med’m.6 09| Standard, gal 1 20| Pecans an Lait
: Roast beef, 2@ |...... 2 50! Ga are “Midiabar "111 00 | Dimgsuey. medium ....30 | Willow Clothes, small.5 69 | Selects, oak a 1 40| Hickory Nuts per bu.
Potted ham, %s .... 45|Gelery ""q9, | Pingsuey, choice ..... 30 Bradley Butter Boxes Extra Selects, gal. ...160|! Ohio new 1 75
Potted ham. is cna 85 Soe ea os ap wees 40 = — = = i a Fairhaven Counts, gal.1 75|Cocoanuts ............. 4
Vv’ am, 4S .... Mixed Bird } 4 oung Hyson n case .. Shell Oysters, per 100.1 00! Chestnuts, per bu. ....
Deviled ham, %s .... 85 poe Cheice eee 30 | 5Ib. size. 12 in case .. 63 | Shell Cl ar 100 i
Potted tongue, gs --- 45 a oe le Se 36 | l0Ib. size. 6 in case .. 60) Iw~- So 2s | Spanish Seon 74%4@8
Potted tongue. %s .. 85|Rape ..............000- 4% Oolong eee Butter Plates HIDES AND PELTS- Pecan Halves ........ 38
RICE Cuttle Bone .....-.... 25 | Formosa, fancy ....... 42 Na 2 oe = - pre = Gr N — | Watnut Bakver -...---- 3
a 8 | ee eee . 35 | No. 3 Oval. 250 in crate. 50 foe ey 8D eee Aion
Garelina ‘Now pepe Handy Box. small nee English Breakfast oO ae oak we it a ee :
Carolina No. 2 ...... 5. | Bixby’s Royal Polish .. 85|Medium .............. 20 Barrel, 5 gal., each ..2 40| Calfskins. zreen No. 110 P'sur
; Broken <<... 3 @ 3% | Miller’s — Polish. 85 \Choice Cae Sas ceelceecuce 30 Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55 Calfskins, aroun No. 2 % | Fancy, tt ee
gr % .
Japan, No. 1 ..... 5 @b% SNU OS oo eee c te ass ...40 Barrel, 15 gal., each ..2 70 | Calfskins. cured No. 1 11 Roasted @8
ree et i * bladders ++ 87 india Clothes Pins Calfskin, cured No. 2 9% | Choice, HP, S'be.” @8
ava fancy head . “81% Ceylon, choice ........83 | Round head. 5 gross br. 5&5 | Steer Hides 60Itbs. over9 Choice H P Ju “
t Java, MGS secs = Rappie, im Jars. a Fancy covecsccecccceucee Round head, cartons .. 75 | Cow Hides 60 tbs. over8% bo, Roasted pee” @ 9%

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
ParaZon:. 2. -..6.04 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER

Jaxon Brand

%Yb. cans, 4 doz. case 45
letb. cans, 4 doz. case 85

1 Th. cans, 2 doz. casel 60 |

Royal

6 ozcans 190
llbcans 250
&%Ibeans 375
pe 1 theans 480

me 3 th cans1300
5 Ibcans 215%

 

BLUING
Arctic 40z ovals, p gro 4 00

Arctic 8 oz evals. p gro 6 00
Arctic 16 oz ro’d, p gro 9 00

BREAKFAST FOOD

Grits
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brands

 

 

————_|
Cases, 24 2 tb pack’s..2 00
CIGARS

 

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. —.

Less than 5v0........ =s

500 or more........... 3 00 |

«.000 or more......... 3 00
COCOANUT

Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

70 %4%b pkg, per case..2 60)

35 +z2tb pkg. per case..2 60)
38 %41tb pkg, per case..2 60 |
16 %tb pkg. per ease. .2 40 |

FRESH MEATS
Beef
Cees 2... 6 @8
Forequarters ....5 @ 6
Hindquarters --7%@ 9
Ge fea etl sae haere st 8 @13
ee oo ee 9 @12
Rounds . 22.5.2... 6%@ 8
CMMERS .2 2.566505 44@ 5%
Piates. ....-.. | ae
Pork
Dressed ....... A @s6
Jo 2%
Boston Butts .... @ 8%
Shoulders ...... @ 8
Leaf Lard ...... @ 7%
utton
(Sores «. 6... es. 6 7%
WR cs 3 8%4@10

10c size, 90 |
¥tbecans 135 |

aro

CORN SYRUP
COFFEE
Roasted

Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds.

Cae

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White House, 1 fb......

White House, 2 Ib.......
| Excelsior, = & J, 1 Ib..
Excelsior, a J, 2 =
| tap Top, M & J, 1 tb....
HOyal JAVA ..:..2.0. 25.

Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ...
Distrivuted by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer Co., De-
troit — Jackson; B. Des-
enberg & Co., Kalamazoo;
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel & Goeschel.

Bay City; Fielbach Co..
Toledo.
COFFEE SUBSTITUTE

Javril

 

2 doz. in: case ....-.. 4 30

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case

 

 

| Gail Borden Eagle ....6 40
ee wl 5
Champion

Challenge a

| Dime ....... -3 85

| Peerless Evap’d Cream.4 00
SAFES

 

 

Full line of the celebrated
Diebold fire reof safes
kept in_ stoc by the
Tradesman Company.
| Twenty different sizes on
} hand at all times—twice
| as many of them as are
carried hy a“ other house
in the Sta If you are
unable to visit Grand Rap-
ids and inspect the line
personally. write for quo-

tationa.
SALT
Jar-Salt

One dozen
Ball’s quart
Mason jars
(3 pounds
each) .......85

 

 

 

 

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

 

100 cakes, large size...6 5v
50 cakes, large size..3 25
100 cakes, small size..3 85
50 cakes, small size..1 95

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

 

Black Hawk, one box..2 50
Black Hawk. five bxs.2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES

Halford, large ........ 3 75
Halford, small ........ 2 25

 

Place Your
Business
ona
Cash Basis
by using
our
Coupon Book
System.
We
manufacture
four kinds
of
Coupon Books
and
sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape

or
denomination.
Wewill *
be
very
pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us.
They are
free.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids

 

 

We sell more 5 and 10
Cent Goods Than Any
Other Twenty Whole-
sale Houses in the
Country.

WHY?

 

 

Because our houses are the recog-
nized headquarters for these
goods.

Because our prices are the lowest.

Because our service is the best.

Because our goods are always
exactly as we tell you they are.

Because we carry the largest
assortment in this line in the
world.

Because our assortment is always
kept up-to-date and free from
stickers.

Because we a'm to make this one
of our chief lines and give to
it our best thought and atten-
tion.

Our current catalogue lists the most com-
plete offerings in this line in the world.
We shall be glad to send it toany merchant
who will ask for it Send for Catalogue J.

 

 

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Everything---By Catalogue Maly

New York Chicago St. Louis

 

 

 

The
ACME
Potato
Planter

 
 
 
   
           
         
       
         
         
         
    
   
      
 

Mr. Dore

You are the keystone of
our system of sales

We place Acme Planters in the
hands of convenient jobbers, and
our advertising sends the farmer
to you.

No canvassers, agents or cata-
logue houses divide this trade with
you. We protect you, and help
you sell the goods.

Could anything be more fair ?

Write today, on your letter head,
get our Book et and Catalogue.

Learn of the effort we are
making

in your behalf

You can co-operate with us to
your advantage—the expense and
trouble are ours.

Potato
Implement
Company

  

  

Traverse City
Michigan

Potato Profit

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. w ww ww Ww

Free sam-

 

 

TRADESMAN
COMPrAN ¢

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this

subsequent continuous msertuon.

No charge less than 25 cents,

GP amma nen

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Rent—June 1, suitable for a depart-
ment store, first floor and basement of

three-story block. An L 45 feet front, 50 |

feet deep on Sixth street, 25 feet front,
140 feet _— on Central ave. Fine oa
fixtures; modern low down fronts; steam

best. Extensive manufacturing
15,000 inhabitants, and_best_agriculturai
country surrounding. The Gypsum City,
daily output 100 cars. Best dry goods
stand in the city. For further particu-
lars, address R. W. Crawford, owner,
Fort Dodge, Iowa. 358
For Sale—One of the best stocks of
general merchandise in Central Michi-
gan. Reason for selling, other business.
Invoices $1,000. Address C. O. D., care
Michigan Tradesman. 397

 

 

ror Rent—tine location tor a depart-
hent, general, or dry goods store. Large
stone building, three entrances, on two
miain business streets. Rent reasonable.

Possession given ‘in April.’”’ Don’t fail
to write. ‘has. E. Nelson, Waukesha,
Wis. 354

 

80 acres cut over land for exchange for
merchandise. 321% Lake street, Petos-
key, Mich. 353

For Sale—$6,000 stock of dry goods,
shoes and groceries; in business two
years; have done a profitable business,
but have opportunity to secure interest
in a large ee store and will dis-
pose of my business by May 1; or will
sell shoes and groceries alone. L. P.
Teel, Colon, Mich. 350

$100 buys a marble soda fountain with
fixtures and charger. Has_ been used
six months. Box 138, Elsie, Mich. 357

For Sale—A general stock in best lo-
cation in county seat, Southwestern
Michigan; invoices about $12,000. This
is a money-maker; owner is engaged in
manufacturing and must: devote his en-
tire time to same; low rent; center of
fruit belt. Address No. 356, care Mich.-
gan Tradesman. 356

For Sate, Real Bargain—Well-selected
stock drugs, invoicing $2,409, 10 per cent.
off; two-story frame building, value
$3,000, for $2,500; easy terms; together
with above or separate. Reason for sell-
ing, retiring from business. Address Wer-
ner VonWalthausen, 1345 Johnson _ St.,
Bay City, Mich. 355

For Sale—The only men’s and boys’
clothing and furnishing goods store in
Oregon, Mo., the county seat of Holt
eceunty, lying in richest part of North-
west Missouri. Stock invoices between

 

$8,600 and $9,000, all new goods. _ Will
sell residence if desired. Address W. B.
Hinde, Oregon, Mo. 355

 

100,000 union made Londus cigars for
sale at a bargain. Geo. W. Coldbeek,
St. Johnsbury, Vt 354

Spring Opening Souvenirs—Unique,
popular, inexpensive yet productive of
big results. Send for particulars. W. E.
Cummings & Co., 458-460 State St., Chi-
cago, Ill. ° 4

For Sale—To close an estate,

 

 

=
20:
one of

the best business chances in Southwest |

Missouri; doing a large business; stock
consists of dry goods, notions, boots
and shoes and groceries. Invoices about
$10,000. Liberal discount to buyer. M.
H. & C. W. Trott, Jasper, Mo. 330

 

eWell Equip ed Machine Shop. and

foundry for sale at a bargain. Address
A. D. DeLand, Manager, a
Wisconsin. 329

 

Good paying drug store in Western
Michigan, town of*®1,400, cash or secured
payments. Address No. 327, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 327

For Sale—Groceries and meat market;
clean stock; nice fixtures; complete meat
market outfit; two horses, two new
wagons, new brick building with two
storerooms, two flats with bathroom,
city water, gas, two good cellars, big
barn; located in one of the best sections
of the best-growing city of Toledo, Ohio;
established, 1892. This is a fine chance
for safe investment for a man _ with
small capital and a little push. Good
reason for selling; bears close investiga-
tion; no agents wanted; price, $14,000;
$7,000 cash, the balance on long time.
John Ulmer, 1302-1304 Elmwood Ave.,
Toledo, Ohio. 325
_For Sale—-Carriage elevator, used only
six months; suitable for agricultural store
or any heavy work. Box Owosso,
Mich. i 290

For Sale—Fine two-story store, well
situated on street car line, with factories
and street car barn nearby. Apply to
482 Washington Ave., Muskegon, —"

 

Wanted—Partner in general merchan-
dise business in good town; good clean

stock; enjoying good cash trade; need
more capital. Address No. 308, care
Michigan Tradesman. 308

k | and
| selling.
Up-to-date brick building; location |
town, |

For Sale—A first-class business, es-
tablished 10 years; stoves, furnaces,
tinning, plumbing, hot water and steam
heating; trade increasing; no opposition;
best location; five minutes from Harris-
burg via trolley; four railroads; stock
complete outfit. Good reasons for
A. K., Lemoyne, Pa.

For Sale—One top buggy,
seat canopy top; both have had some
use; also a beautiful child’s cart, nearly
new. If interested, send a postal to
223 Widdicomb Building, Grand —

 

 

 

For Sale—One of the best live busi-
ness opportunities in Northwestern Iowa:
new town; new stock; new store and
residence; four best lots in town;
interesting proposition for man _ with
cash; total value about $7,000, but will

go at a bargain soon. Write. if inter-
ested, for particulars. W. W. Payne &
Co., Truesdale, Iowa. 321

 

For Sale—$4,500 stock groceries and
meat market doing $45,000 business an-
nually. Illinois mining town, 8,000 popu-
lation. Address No. 331, care Michigan
Tradesman. 331

Furniture Business Wanted—Small
or medium stock referred. Must_ be
cheap for cash. Address Box 394, Mar-
ion, Ohio. 332

$1,200 a year income assured if you buy
five shares in our 6,000-acre rubber
plantation in Mexico; small monthly
payments; finest location; best tran-
—— facilities; cultivation of rub-
ber exclusively. Apply _ for een
to the Conservative Rubber Production
te 913 Parrott bldg., San —"
4 ; °

 

 

 

I own a large, rich copper property,
two miles, and a _ large gold property,
ten miles from railroad in State of So-
nora, Mexico. I desire to either sell
one outright or a half interest to pro-
gressive party financialy able to fully
organize and work the property. Per-
fect title from the Mexican government.
Address Copper, No. 19 ay Street,
Binghamton, ~ 339

For Sale—A _ good paris drug store
in Grand Rapids, centrally located; clean
stock; invoices about $3,800; a bargain.
Address No. 277, care Michigan Trades-
man. 277

Wanted—To buy drug store.
No. 241, care Michigan Tradesman. 241

For Sale—A fine up-to-date stock of

 

general merchandise. Stock inventories
about $10,000 Address o. 239, care
Michigan Tradesman. 239

 

For Sale—Building 386x100, solid brick
store, plate front, two stories, Brillion,
eral store. A bargain. Address
Tesch, Appleton, Wis.

For Sale, Cheap—A ten syrup soda
fountain and fixtures. Enquire No. 199,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 199

Wis.; good opening for hardware or Eel |
202

 

 

For Sale—480 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.
change for stock of merchandise ef any
kind. C. C. Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St..
Grand Rapids. 835

 

For Sale—Acme Spring Throw and |

Push Carriers. Cheap to introduce. Acme

Cash Railway, New Haven, Conn. 176
For Rent—A good two-story brick

store on a good business corner, in @

 

good business town; city water and
electric lights. Address P. O. Box No.
, Decatur, Mich. 115

 

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

We Can Sell for Cash—yYour stock of
goods or business, no matter where lo-

 

cated. Our plan gets the buyer. Write
to-day. Wood’s Investment Co., Main
Cffice, Wellington, Kas. 351

 

For Sale—A strictly high-grade, two-
seated surrey for less than manufactur-
er’s cost, Stanhope style, and made from
the best materials money can buy; ball
bearing axles and pneumatic tires. This
is a bargain. M. F. Goodrich, Jackson,

ich. 352

For Sale—New Giant soda fountain.
Will sell cheap; a big moneymaker_ in

small town; also 8 foot dispensing soda
counter. Address C. E. H., care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 345

 

For Sale at a Bargain—Building and
stock of merchandise, entirely new and
up to date; in good farming country,
four and a half miles from railroad. En-
quire of No. 350, care Michigan Trades-
man. 350

 

 

 

Store For Rent—Good location.

Mar-
tha Brewer, Owosso, Mich. 28

 

 

one two- |

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an | ed in thriving suburb of

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For Saie—-Soda fountain, almost new.
A big —— Address J. H. Fenner,
Negaunee, Mich 302

For Sale—A
all clean, up-to-date goods;
clothing store in
town; room, 22x60,
rent. Enquire of Halsted  Bros.,
bart, Ind.

 

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accompany

 

head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each

all orders.

Hxperienced furniture

man wants per-
m:nent position as salesman.

Has had

| eight years’ experience and is thoroughly

$3,500 stock of clothing, |
only | -
a first-class country |
at $15 per month |
Ho- |
301

For Sale—General store in good Ohio |
town with oil and many manufacturing |
industries; fine farming community; good |

cash trade; rent $25; electric light $3.50
er month; good man can clear $2,500 to
3,000 a year. P. O. Box 332, Bluffton,
Ohio. 296

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stock, locat-
rge manufac-
turing town; rent low; last year’s sales
$15,000 cash; established for the last
eleven years; never did any credit busi-
ness; stock substantially brand new. Ad-
ress No. 342, care Michigan —
inan. :

 

For Sale—New stock of jewelry and |

store fixtures. including safe and tools.
Splendid opportunity for someone. Will
be sold at a bargain.
W. Morton,
Rapids, Mich.

For Sale—Grocery
about $2,000;
Western Michigan; bargain
once. Address No. 344, care —

 

Tradesman.

‘Yo Exchange—I can exchange your
stock merchandise, any _ size, for farms
or other property. Eugene Munson, Mo-
berly. Mo. 303

Drug Store For Sal
$3,500; location O. K.; 24,000 population;
English, Holland and German. Address
Quinine, care Michigan Tradesman. 292

For Sale—Fine stock farm, 440 acres;
Newton township; fine buildings; good
timber; $18,000. James Redfield, Mar-
shali, Mich. 316

Wanted—Hustling business man to es-
tablish New York racket store in town
of 3,000. Just the location for branch
store. Money-making place for. right
person. Address No. 318, care Michigan
Tradesman. 318

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stock, _ invoicing |
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ness, or make sale to reduce your stock. |

Address | \
| 577 Forest Ave.,

ex- |

Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,

577 Forest Ave., Detroit, Mich. 2
_. For Sale—Thirteen acres patented min-
ing ground. Mineral in sight. Address
P. O. Box 1064, Cripple Creek, Colo. 132

 

 

| chandise

or Sale—Farm. implement business, |
established fifteen years. First-class lo- |
cation at Grand Rapids, Mich. Will sell |

or lease four-story and basement brick
building. Stock will inventory about
$10,000. Good reason for_ selling.
trades desired. Address No. 67,
Michigan Tradesman.

For Rent—Large store building
basement.
dress No. 971, care
man.

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

 

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and |
Good town, fine location. Ad- |

| let.
| Broadway, N

repaired. 376 South Ionia street. Both
| phones. Grand Rapids. 926
Wanted—Tobacco tags and cigar |
bands; state quantity and price; H. F.
Jacobs, Hawkeye, Iowa. 338

 

 

If you are looking for a very profit-
able, legitimate, independent business
requiring small capital and have _ good
references as to character and ability,
we will assign you the exclusive wale

| of our apparatus in a division of Michi-

gan or Indiana. Our plants absolutely
obviate the defects of inferior machines,

being the result of eight years of de- |

velopment. They are well advertised
and are in successful use in almost every
state in the Union. We have one of the

; and

largest factories in the business and are |

responsible in every respect.
for further information.
lene Co., Elkhart, Ind.
For Sale—Best hardware business ia
the Warren Mining District, Cochise
county, Arizona. Address Box 627, Sta-
tion C.. T.os Angeles, California. 340
For Sale—Grist mill, roller process, fif-
ty barrels capacity, in good shape, with
good water power, forty-five miles east
of Grand Rapids at Nashville on the
Thornapple River. For particulars _ad-

 

 

 

dress Mrs. Mary Barber, Kinsley, Bg
POSITIONS WANTED.
Young man, 21 years of age, desires

position. Has had four years of experi-
ence in clothing; shoes and men’s furn-
ishings and has acted as buyer.for gro-
cery department. Can give O. K. refer-
ences. Address K, care Michigan Trades-
man. 353

Write us|
Davis Acety- |
337

 

| Globe Employment &

and of good habits. Address
eare Michigan Tradesman. 335
Wanted—Position by registered phar-
macist in Northern Michigan or Detroit;
single; Al references. Address _ fo
ire Michigan Tradesman. 346
Wanted—Position by experienced hard-
ware clerk in Michigan; single; refer-
ences Al. Address C. W., Whitehall,
Mich. 351
Wanted—Position as specialty —sales-
man to call on grocery and general store
trade in Michigan. Can give Al refer-
ences. Address No. 317, care Michigan
‘Yradesman. 317
Experienced Drug and Grocery Clerk—
Wants position at once. Can give good
references; country town preferred. Ad-
dress No. 298, care Michigan ‘Trades-
man. 298
Wanted—Position as clerk in general
or hardware store; five years’ experience;
Al references. Address Box 166, Clare,
Mich. 288

qualified

No. ado.

Window trimmer and card writer now
Chicago, de-
sires a position with a first-class dry
goods house in Michigan. Address No.
268, care Michigan Tradesman. 268
SALESMEN WANTED.
Wanted—Active dry goods salesman
with $2,500 to $3,500 cash. Good osi-
tion. Address P. O. Box 1192, Helena,
Montana. 359

Wanted—Clothing salesman to take
orders by sample for the finest merchant
taloring produced; good opportunity to
into a splendid business and_ be
your own ‘‘boss.”’ Write for full infor-
mation. E. L. Moon, Gen’l Manager,
Station A, Columbus, Ohio. 498
Wanted—Salesman, side line, staple ar-
ticle; liberal terms; references required.
gern. 211-213 Randolph St., coe

 

Wanted—Clerks of all kinds apply at
once. Enclose self-addressed avers
and $1, covering necessary expense. The

Agency Co., Cad-
illac, Mich. 216
AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

The Hoosier Hustler—The noted mer-
auctioneer, carries the largest
book of references of any living man in
the business. For reference book, terms,
ete., address Box 47, Valparaiso, Neb. 291

H. GC. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
tioners. 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
Mercantile Agency.) 872

MISCELLANEOUS.

A good position is always open for a
competent man. His difficulty is to find
it. We have openings for high-grade
men in all capacities—executive, techni-
eal and clerical—paying from $1,000 to
$10,000 a year. Write for plan and book-
Hapecads _ (inc.). Suite 6511, er

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Wanted—Registered assistant. pharma-
cist. Good referenees required. C. E.
Van Avery, Kalamazoo, Mich. 352

Plato, Renwick & Co., Barryton, Mich.,
will pay a gece salary to a clerk compe-
tent in all departments of a general
store. 356

Wanted at Once—Registered or regis-
tered assistant pharmacist. Address 180,
Butterworth Ave., Grand Rapids. 358

 

 

Wanted At Once—-A good steady re-
liable man who is familiar with the
building and repairing of tubular wells
the erection of windmills. Good
pay and steady work for the right man.
Address Jim McGuire, Bear Lake, —

Young Man—With fair business abili-
ty, willing to work to prepare for good
Government position. Entrance salary
$800. Gradual promotion. Permanent.
Box 1, Cedar Rapids, Ia. 341

Best lying-in hospital in this State;
strict secrecy; child’: adopted; a few who
are poor can work out fees. Write to
Reed City Sanitarium, Reed City, =

 

Wanted—Energetic young married
man who can push a general merchan-
dise millinery and fancy goods business
in a good town in Central Michigan.
Splendid opening for right man. ond
required. Address A. B. C., care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 250

Merchants Wanting Experienced Clerks
—Of all kinds apply to the Globe Em-
ployment & Agency Co., Cadillac, _-

 

 

 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

 

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SUGAR BEETS.

The Upper Peninsula Peculiarly
Adapted for Their Culture.
Written for the Tradesman.

lf authorities on the culture of sug-
a: beets are to be believed, the Upper
Peninsula will some day become the
banner sugar-producing district of the
State. Up to the present but one
sugar factory has been started above
the Straits, but so satisfactory have
the results been that others are be-
ing talked of.

The chief difficulty of getting beet
acreage in this part of the State is
the fact that the farmers have grown
hay and oats as their main crops so
long it is- hard to induce many of
them to go into diversified farming.
Hay is a great crop in Northern
Michigan, from the fact that the
weather is generally favorable and
the soil all that could be desired.

In an address recently delivered
before a gathering of Chippewa coun-
ty farmers Prof. Leo A. Geismar, of
the Chatham Experiment Station, said
that the curse of the Upper Penin-
sula is the hay farmer. In some
places, he claimed, the land has been
growing hay for the past twenty
years and more, and had it not been
of unusual fertility would long ago
have failed to produce large enough
crops to make a living for the farmer.

Prof. Geismar said he was familiar
with the soil of Chippewa county and
that it .will raise more and better
beets than any county in Michigan.
He claimed the quality of beets rais-
ed in this locality is considerably
higher than that of the beets grown
in the Bay City and Saginaw dis-
trict, but unless the farmers get over
their love for the hay crop they will
never realize what opportunities for
money-making lie at their very door.

Another thing that has had a ten-
dency to impede the _ progress. of
those who would introduce — sugar-
making into Northern Michigan is
the fact that the country is not so
thickly settled as farther south.
While the number of farmers who
could raise beets is probably large
enough to supply a factory, many of

- them are located far from town, mak-

ing a long haul of the beets neces-
sary. This has been the complaint
of many farmers when asked to sign
acreage contracts. They claim they
would gladly agree to raise beets for
a factory if they were situated so
as to handle the crop without having
the cartage expense eat up the prof-
its.

At the present time the Menominee
River Sugar Co. is making an effort
to contract for 500 acres of beets in
Chippewa county, and it is believed
the effort will be successful from the
fact that the business men of the
Soo are doing all in their power to
induce their rural friends to try beet
raising. It is believed that if the
business is once started it will be
easier to interest the farmers later
on to a sufficient extent to justify the
erection of a factory in the Lock City.

The experience at Menominee in
raising beets has proven satisfactory
to the farmers, who have tried it one
year, so that fhose who contracted
last year for small acreage are in-
creasing it this year. It has result-
ed in stimulating business of all

MICHIGAN

kinds. The farmers have more money
than ever before, and this naturally
serves to increase the prosperity of
the dealers in merchandise of every
kind. More and better farm machin-
ery and tools are demanded as a re-
sult of the increased income of the
rural element in every locality adja-
cent to that city.

This seems to illustrate the fact
that the Upper Peninsula must pay
considerable attention to its agricul-
tural possibilities in order to develop
as rapidly as the people desire. The
area of fertile soil is large and it will
be many years before it is all- under
cultivation, but much work in this
direction is being done. There seems
to be no doubt in the minds of busi-
ness men that if fhis part of the
State had as many farmers to the
square mile as the southern counties
possess, sugar factories would be
seen in almost every town of any
importance. If these institutions of
industry can be made to pay in less
favored localities, where the soil is
less fertile and the elements less fav-
orable, it would seem that more prof-
it could be made in this line of busi-
ness up North. It is claimed that
beets grown in the Upper Peninsular
counties run from I to 2 per cent.
higher in sugar than beets raised
farther south. This in itself is quite
a consideration.

Both Sault Ste. Marie and Newber-
ry would like a sugar factory. Both
are good locations and both are sur-
rounded by a good country, but the
matter of acreage makes the promo-
tion of the industry a hard one. Here
in the Soo it is announced that cap-
ital stands ready to erect a big fac-
tory just as soon as 5,000 acres are
contracted for. It is, therefore, up
to the farmers to say whether or not
the undertaking shall be a success.

This movement of the Menominee
people in hustling for beet acreage
here is not done entirely from a
monetary standpoint. True, the com-
pany is in the business for dividends,
but it is probable that they would
not have come into this territory to
get beets were it not for the fact
that the Soo is hustling for a plant
of its own. Manager McCormick
came here from Menominee and ad-
dressed the farmers on the possibili-
ties of beet culture and urged them
to get into the business. He told
them they should have a sugar fac-
tory in Chippewa county, and if once
they tried beet growing they would
never be satisfied without one. This
is evidence showing that Menominee
and the Soo are pulling together for
the betterment of the territory here-
abouts. It is an example that might
be followed with profit by other
towns throughout the country.

As said before, the hay growing
proposition has to be contended with
in beet growing here. Those who are
hustling for contracts find that so
much land is in hay that very few
farmers have much space on which
they can grow beets under the best
of conditions. They should be grown
on land worked the year previous
with a crop of corn or potatoes. Sod
seems to be bad for them. Prof.
Geismar says the farmers of the Up-
per Peninsula have raised hay so

 

long that they must make a change

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TRADESMAN

soon or the land will be worthless
from draining of the fertility year
after year. He advises them to try
beets. Between the campaign of the
land companies, the -authorities. on
farming and the sugar manufacturers
it would seem that within a few years
the Upper Peninsula must blossom
into.one of the finest agricultural
districts in the State. The hay farmer
must go. Raymond H. Merrill.
—_-2-2

The Century Dictionary contains
about 225,000 words, and the new edi-
tion of the Standard Dictionary lays
claim to over 300,000. Shakespeare,
whose vocabulary is larger than that
of any other English poet, unless it
be Browning, used about 15,000
words. The common estimate of
the average vocabulary of educated
people is from 5,000 to 6,000. A well-
read college graduate should be fa-
miliar with perhaps 100,000, but a
stenographer finds 2,500 word signs
sufficient for reporting most speakers.

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J. W. Hallett & Son, dealers in
hardware, harnesses and_ vehicles,
Carson City: We like the Trades-
man very much and always carefully
read it.

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While the fool is waiting for an
opportunity the wise man makes
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Shoe Stock For Sale—In hustling, rap-
id-growing town in Southern Michigan.
Stock $1, 500, fresh, first-class condition;
excellent farming ‘country; poor health:
particulars address Shoe Stock, care
Michigan Tradesman. 270

We sell your real estate or business,
no matter where located. Send de-
scription with lowest cash price. The
Hoagland Eee ak Agency, Princi-
pal Office, St. Louis, Mo. ~ - 264

Wanted—A man to take charge.of meat

inarket. Must be a good, competent man, '

thoroughly-~honest, steady an temperate.
For the right man

employment.. References required. Ad-
dress Market, care Michigan seh

can furnish steady.

 

120 acre farm — ane a half miles
ad. to trade for stock
of bantage Tock Box 491, vues.

 

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan a
man.

For Sale—One of the best 50 ca
water power roller mills in the State.
Owing to ill health. will sell at a bargain.
Address Geo. Carrington, Trent, Mich. 148

For Sale or Exchange—A good drug
stock and fixtures, located on good busi-
ness street in Grand Rapids. Good lo-

cation. Good reasons for selling. Ad-
ae No. 109, care Michigan T: —

 

 

 

For Sale—Good stock drugs, dry goods
and groceries. Poor health. Good chance.
Address No. 179, care Michigan ——
man.

 

 

for Sale—The popular Petrie Boarding
House, centrally located on Mitchell
street, Petoskey, Mich. No better place
for summer tourists or hay fever BS obo;
in the city. Price, furnished,
terms, $2,000 cash; —— easy pay-
ments. Address or call on R. C. Smith,
Petoskey, Mich. 210

 

I believe by an investment = $3 you
can increase your profits $25 to $50 per
month by using the Christensen Practi-
eal Stock Book. Will send you sample
pages and instructions for 25 cents. A
complete copy good for four years $3,
less 25 cents to persons having ordered
the sample pages. C. H. Christensen,
DeWitt, Iowa. 295

 

For Sale—A fully equipped cheese fac-

tory; first-class location; a go oppor-
tunity for the right man. Address E.
E. Church, Clarksville, Mich. 294

For Sale—A good confectionery and
soda fountain business in a city of 5,000;
worth $2,500; will sell for $1,500. . x
Perrin, Three Rivers, Mich.

 

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Wanted at Once—A young man with
some drug experience to work about
drug store and tend fountain. Address

Geo. McDonald Drug Co., 101 E. =

St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

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