Twenty-First Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1904

Number 1076

 

 

William Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, Ist Vice-Pres.
William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres.
M. C. Huggett, Secy-Treasurer

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.

2. Window Trimming.
3. Nitroglycerin.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Men of Mark.
8. Editorial.
12. Butter and Eggs.
13. Cottage Cheese.
16. Clothing.
19. The Twin Towns.
20. Shoes.
24. Hardware.
26. Home Ties Severed.
28. Woman’s World.
30. Clerks Corner.
32. Trick Turned.
35. New York Market.
36, Jukes in the Mail.
3%. Mardwure Price Current
38. Dry Guods.
40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs--Chemicals.
43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grucery Price Current.
46. Special Price Current.

RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.

There is nothing new in the com-
plaint made by legal counsel in cases
of crimes and other injuries to the
public that their clients are injured
by publications on the subject of
such offenses and offenders in the
public press, and they have sought
from the earliest times to prevent
such publications by some legal pro-
ceeding. But the people will never
submit to be silenced in the interest
of any wrongdoing.

The right of the public press to
discuss and denounce the crimes of
union labor leaders against the lives
of citizens and the peace and safety
of the State or of communities, and
acts that despoil the people at large
of any community of their property
and interests, should be undoubted
at all times, except when such cause
is actually on trial before a court
and made the subject of public at-
tention.

If the people can not condemn and
cry out against crimes committed in
their midst for fear of creating a pub-
lic prejudice against the criminals
or some one interested in or with
them, then, indeed, is crime privileged
above all that is honest and good.
When some flagrant offense occurs
against the safety of the community
or against the community’s money,
and the fact of the crime has become
known, no power exists in the state
to prevent the popular outcry that
is sure to follow, and the only busi-
ness of the courts is to fix the guilt
and assess the. penalty where it be-
longs.

Of course, any popular expression
against the offense and the offenders
is more or less prejudicial to the
latter, whether they are merely sus-
pected or found red-handed in the
act, but to this they have exposed
themselves and they must suffer for
it, whether or not they escape judi-
cial punishment. Public opinion is
a serious, but not tragic, sort of
lynching, and it is the exercise of an
undoubted right.

 

 

In all cases interested counsel
would have, if it were possible, all
expression on the subject of crimes
and offenses against the public inter-
ests suppressed, and the newspapers
especially silenced. Doubtless _ this
will be done in this Republic when
it shall come under a_ sufficiently
strong government. There are many
others besides common _ criminals
and their defenders who bitterly re-
sent the exposures by the press.
There are numerous public officials
who earnestly desire to see the news-
papers muzzled. Then there are not
a few hypocrites who denounce the
press as the propagators of evil be-
cause it exposes the misdoings of
others. But if it were not for these
exposures crime would be many times
more rampant and_ successful than
it is, and the contagion of vice would
spread in directions from which the
fear of exposure now excludes it.

When a jury in a criminal cause is
locked up, as is the rule in serious
cases, there is no reason why the
press should cease to comment on the
flagrant matter in such manner on
trial. When, however, the jury has
access to the public prints, then all
condemnatory expressions should
cease. But the people have a right,
by public opinion, to discuss and to
try all offenses against them and their
great interests when the offenders
are not actually on trial in the judi-
cial tribunal, and this right can never
be taken from any free people.

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PITIABLE SPECTACLE.

Notwithstanding the utter failure
which has attended the strike of
teamsters thus far and the ease with
which the team owners have been
able to replace the strikers with men
of better caliber, both mentally and
physically, the poor dupes who be-
long to the teamsters’ union have
been inveigled into calling a general
strike on the remaining team owners,
which went into effect at midnight
last night. Of course, there can be
but one outcome to all this, and that
is the utter defeat of the strikers and
the complete annihilation of the
union, which has demonstrated that
it has no reasonable excuse for exist-
ence, because it is dominated by dis-
reputable men whose proper habitat
is the prison and who would be there
if they had their just deserts. The
man Shea, who stopped the funerals
of Chicago and who refused to per-
mit the injured at the Iroquois dis-
aster to be conveyed to their homes
and hospitals in carriages, has taken
a prominent part in the — strike, al-
though he is now under arrest for
assault in this city and under indict-
ment in St. Louis. Shea, Fitzpatrick
and Bullock have demonstrated their
utter unfitness for leadership, and the
poor dupes who have followed them
have evinced a lack of manhood and
a lack of consideration for the rights

 

of others, including their own fami-
lies, which places them outside the
pale of sympathy or respect.

In’ view of the cowardly assaults
which have taken place during the
past ten days and the unlawful man-

| ner in which the strikers have con-

ducted themselves, from the interna-
tional president down to the lowest
employe, it is, of course, out of the
question for the team owners ever to
recognize the teamsters’ union or to
employ any of the men who have
previously enjoyed their
and shared in their prosperity.

confidence

 

It is announced by the daily papers
that the Grand Trunk
propose to ask for a franchise down
to the heart of the city, which fran-
chise is worth a dollars to
any railway corporation. In view of
the fact that the Grand Trunk people
have been offered trackage facilities
via the G. R. & I. and an opportunity
to use the Union depot for a nominal
consideration, and also in view of the
fact that the Grand Trunk people
should properly come into the city
around the south side of Reed’s
Lake, thus entering the Union depot
via the Pere Marquette—which ar-
rangement has also been tendered the
Grand Trunk people by the manage-
ment of the Pere Marquette—the
Tradesman believes it to be wise on
the part of the Common Council to
refuse to make the Grand Trunk sys-
tem a million dollars,
especially as the Grand Trunk has
always worked against Grand Rapids
and ignored the city from the begin-
ning and now treats it as a way sta-
tion instead of an important market.
Until the attitude of the Grand Trunk
is changed and ample amends are
made for the past the Tradesman
feels as though the city would stul-
tify itself to extend a welcoming
hand to a_ run-down, out-of-date,
back-number railroad, whose rolling
stock is a disgrace to any city which
it approaches and whose depots are
not clean enough and large enough
for decent hog pens.

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people now

million

present of a

“T can’t stand being called ‘a scab’
and so I joined the union,” said one
of the unfortunates who yielded to
the calling out of the Columbian
Transfer Co.’s teamsters and so lost
a good job. And what a_ weak,
thoughtless excuse it is. Such a term,
when applied by the contemptible,
irresponsible and utterly
organizers and paid rapscallions of
the labor unions, is an honorable dis-
tinction; and, when set up for com-
parison with such terms as_ loafer,
conspirator, thug and pauper, the
one to whom it is applied has a per-
fect right, as an honorable, industri-
ous, fair minded citizen, to realize and
proclaim the fact that he is a king
by the side of the calumniator.

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Attracted
Universal Attention.

jeweier’s Window 1Thac

‘the jewelers ot Grand Kapids
liave, as a genera: thing, in the past,
presented to the pupuc gaze windows
tat were creditable to their Owners,
but oi late the proprietors OL same
have all seemed to make a special
elmort along this line, and as a result
we have had dispiays of the art that
were worthy of more than a passing
notice.

Vhe Bible is full of reference to
goid and silver and precious stones.
‘the ancients seem to have possessed
an inherent love of jewels tor per-
sonal adornment, and we of more
modern times are not behind them
in this regard.
aoe + + =

Mr. W. D. Werner has an especial-
ly attractive exhibit this week. On
the floor of the window were first
placed empty boxes, or oblong blocks
of some hard material, and over al!
was draped white cheese cloth of the
finest quality, which Mr. Werner
says he finds about as _ satisfactory
as any other goods for display pur-
poses.

“There is another white cloth ein-
ployed a great deal by dealers in this
line of business,’ observed the gen-
tleman, “and that is cashmere. The
creain tint is the most liked.

“The window is a_ little more
crowded than I usually have it, on
account of the prominence given
the shirt waist sets, which are in
such demand just now, at the begin-
ning of this, the shirt waist season.”

And he might have added that it
is to be observed that the idea is
carried through the entire year, so
deservedly popular has this garment
become. For the office girl or others
employed in public places there is
nothing else so natty and appropri-
ate for work or so universally becom-
ing. It fills a crying need and has
come to stay forever, all the dress-
makers in the world to the contrary
notwithstanding. And, this being
true, manufacturers are not slow to
recognize the fact, and govern them-
selves accordingly, continually bring-
ing out something new in the way
of neckwear, fancy sets for the
front pleat or devices for stilling the
wail that ever ascendeth: the ceru-
lean ether for a sure Something (I
use the capital advisedly!) that shall
keep—not body and soul together
but waist and skirt. Numerous con-
trivances have been from time to
time gotten out, but nothing seems
to fill the bill any better than the
simple old-fashioned hook and eye.
Yet not the old-fashioned hook, eith-
er, but one of the “See that. hump?”
description. Six or eight sewed on
to the waist at the belt line, on top
of a stout stitched-on tape an inch
apart, and as many eyes applied on
the inside of the narrow skirt band
at corresponding distances are infi-
nitely more certain than all the con-
traptions on the market. It may be
stated, in passing, that the top of the

 

eyes must not be visible from the
back, otherwise the space is too wide
to be covered trimly by an inch belt.

In “Mr. Werner’s window were a
nice variety of shirt waist sets to se-
icct from. For those who admire the
new hand-decorated porcelain ones
there were exceedingly dainty de-
signs, one being noticeable for the
exquisite blending of colors. The
design was a_ hittle  pinkish-helio-
trope-colored flower, the background
being of the palest shade of helio-
trope-pink. The hand of an artist
was visible in the work. One sees
so many mere daubs in this new disc
decoration. Another set was em-
bellished with little rosy cupids that
reminded one of miniature work.
Some of these china sets were with-
out the belt pin and some with, and
one belt pin was shown without the
accompanying discs for the pleat.

One set departed from the com-
mon round and oval and assumed the
square in shape, outlined with gold
at the lower half of the edges. One
tiny forget-me-not ornamented each
small square.

Other sets were exhibited in gold
and sterling silver, the latter in
flowers and girls’ heads, the former
taking the shape of buckles. These
last were unique little  satin-finish
round-rim affairs that were decided-
ly fetching. They came in several
sizes and were accompanied by the
larger one for the, belt. But the
prettiest set of all, to my mind, was
three little buckles with a fancy rais-
ed design on the rim. One looked
in vain for the belt buckle to go with
these, however.

Last week there was shown in this
same window the handsomest silver
belt pin I have seen this spring in
any of the windows. It was quite
large and was a wild rose lying on
the outline of a heart. Sentiment
was expressed in that design.

Flowers and girls’ heads seem to
divide popularity as to the belt pins,
although I noticed a Turk’s head by
way of contrast. I didn’t fancy him at
all. There were four of him, in fact,
ior there was the complete waist
set. The golf girls’ heads seem to
sell the best just at present.

There was one shirt waist set that
deserved more attention from _ the
window-gazer than it was possible
for it to receive on account of its
being placed too far from the glass.
This was a safety-pin set, each pin
being a girl’s very small head, side
view, the hair being a peculiar al-
most greenish gold and_ spreading
far out at either side the entire
length of the pin. The girl’s fea-
tures were so delicate as to make it
almost impossible to make out, at
the enforced distance of the observ-
er, what the design was. The tint
of the gold forming the face was
of the Roman.

I must not omit reference to the
gold. belt pin with the large amethyst
set at one side. There was just a

small rim of gold, and the stone was |’

set in another gold rim and placed
just inside the outer one, high at
the left. .A spray of gold leaves set
with two pearls, for blossoms, trailed
down from this, and around the right
hand gold rim was twined a gold ser-
pent, which reached its diamond-

 

decked head across-the open space,
resting it on the edge of the ame-
thyst. The design was  attention-
compelling and would be much ad-
mired by the lover of bizarre effects.

‘Amethysts are not much worn,”
said the jeweler. “A few people like

them, but there is not much call for |

them.”

As Mr. Werner remarked at the
beginning of the interview, the shirt
waist sets were made conspicuous
in the window trim this week. They
occupied fully one-third of the space.
The rest was taken up by the raised
portions, on which were displayed
clocks, cut glass, silverware, watches
and watch fobs, neck chains and
rings.

The two large black clocks were
of the ordinary shape, and were made
by the Ansonia Clock Co., of New
York. There was also a cunning
little clock for milady’s boudoir, all
gilt, with a cupid at one side. This
was manufactured by the New Hav-
en Clock Co., of New Haven, Con-
necticut.

The cut glass was of the Meriden
make. There was a group of this,
composed of five pieces—berry dish,
jelly dish, cream and sugar set and
a pretty-shaped carafe.

Across the corner, standing all by
itself, thus inviting particular atten-
tion, was a tea set of pearl-handled
knives and forks. Mother-of-pearl
for handles of table knives and forks
is not new, by any means, but there
is nothing that adds more to the ap-
pearance of a well-laid table than
these. Silver, no matter how fine the
design or satiny the finish, pales by
comparison. Nothing can equal the
beautiful opalescent play of colors
of the best quality of pearl handles.
No more appreciable object can be
presented to the bride of ordinary
means. i

Other things suitable for wedding
gifts not too extravagant to be
used “for everyday” were the round-
bladed Rogers’ knives and forks, with
the “Mystic” handles; the “Gibson”
knives and forks, with bouillon
spoons to match; the tete a tete cold
meat or steak set, the handles of
which were heavily elaborate, the
manufacturers of this set being R.
Wallace & Sons, of Wallingford,
Connecticut. Also an_ acceptable
gift would be the good-sized plain
pudding dish with ebony knob.

Most men prefer an _ odd-shaped
china tobacco jar for a den, but the
lover of silver with ebony top-piece
could be satisfied with the neat one
in the rear of this jewelry window.

I leave last to speak of the several
dozens—there were all of forty—of
gentlemen’s watches (all hunting-
case). These were to be remarked
for their comparatively small size,
there being no longer any prefer-
ence for the ponderous watches of
the past, that required special effort
even to hold a minute in the hand,
let alone carrying one around all
day long on the person.

The ladies were not forgotten in

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this fine show window as to. time-
pieces, there being many dainty fem-
inine conceits. I have only space
to acknowledge their presence and
to especially mention one whose case
appeared as if made of “watered”
gold—a moire effect. Both sides
were alike, and on one was a dimin-
utive shining gold shield for a mon-
ogram.
And the signet rings! I wish I had
a page in which to do full justice to
their exceeding great beauty. Those
in the window were for gentlemen,
but going inside I was courteously
shown a caseful for digits of smaller
hands. The liking of the Fair Sex
for these must be due, I think, to
their desire to wear the mannish lit-
tle accessories of their Big Brothers.
Made in the dull “Rose finish,” with
exact reproduction of fourteenth
century heads, scrolls, etc., on either
side of the oval monogram space,
they are a new idea in jewelry that
has taken well in the Eastern States
and bids fair to obtain equal favor
in the West. -They certainly de-
serve it.
—_——_~2.—__—_.
Let money go so long as manhood
remains.
— 722

There is no padlock on the door to
heaven.

 

 

In a Corn Planter the three most
important points are

- flccurady
Lightness
Durability

 

The SEGMENT Com and Bean
Planter possesses all three in an
unusual degree. Its accuracy it
owes in part to the fact that the
dropper is part of the rim of a
wheel whose hub is represented by
the screws on which the jaws are
pivoted. This means no friction
and prompt action. The result is
a planter that never skips a hill.

No cast parts whatever are used,
sheet steel being employed instead.
This gives it great lightness and
durability.

This planter retails for only
$1.00. Sold by all jobbers.

Greenville Planter
Co. GREENVILLE, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

We are distributors for all kinds of FRUIT PACKAGES in large or
small quantities.
Also Shippers of Fruits and Vegetables.

JOHN G. DOAN, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Bell Main 2270

Citizens 1881

  

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NITROGLYCERIN.
New Plan to Defeat the Russian
Fleet.

Nothing so interesting has come
from Tokio since the beginning of
the war with Russia as the announce-
ment recently set forth that the Jap-
anese government is buying, or con-
fiscating, every article that enters in
any way into the manufacture of
nitric and sulphuric acids. At the
same time great quantities of grease
are being accumulated on the outly-
ing islands of the Japanese Archipel-
ago. These facts, taken together,
constitute a menace not so much to
the Russian fleets at Port Arthur
and Vladivostok as to the Baltic
fleet, which, under Admiral Wirenius,
made a recent unsuccessful effort to
reach the scene of hostilities. Japan
feels reasonably certain of her ability
to destroy the Port Arthur and the
Viadivostok fleets with the means
now available to her hands. But the
Baltic fleet is an element in the prob-
lem which requires consideration,
and it is by no means certain how
that formidable collection of war ves-
sels is to be eliminated from the great
game in the Orient. Obviously, to
dispose of it will leave Japan free
to prosecute her operations; but so
long as it retains the possibility of
circumnavigating half the globe and
bursting upon the Japanese rear like
a death-dealing thunderbolt, just so
long must the Mikado devote anx-
ious thought to the question: How
is that menacing fleet to be dealt
with? It is now generally known that
Japan is making preparations to cope
with the Baltic fleet, and the hope is
entertained that it will meet with the
terrible fate of the Spanish armada.
The armada was sent by Philip II.
of Spain to fight Englishmen; the
elements destroyed it. The elements
which, it is expected, will annihilate
Admiral Wirenius’ ships are those
discovered in 1847 by the young stu-
dent Sobrero and afterwards turneu
by Nobel into the most dangerous
of explosives.

Captain Oda is a capable young
Japanese officer. He belongs tothe
Korio Maru, a vessel forming part of
the Japanese fleet off Port Arthur,
and which has been employed in lay-
ing mines there. To him are attrib-
uted such of ‘the disasters as have
already befallen the Russians that
can not be directly credited to Ad-
miral Togo’s guns. Captain Oda has
received orders to establish, at the
Islands of Formosa and Luchu, sta-
tions where nitroglycerin can be
stored and where boats designed to
use this deadly material can obtain
it quickly and safely. Eventually
stations of this sort will be establish-
ed at appropriate places all over the
territory commanding the entrances
to the East China Sea and the Paci-
fic. The idea is that fleet-footed “de-
stroyers” shall thus be enabled to
operate against the Baltic fleet from
the moment it approaches Japan; and
that great supplies of a deadly explo-
sive shall be available to be hurled
against Wirenius’ doomed vessels.
All the machinery for these projected

~ stations is on hand, and Captain Oda

expects to complete his work within
a month, so far. as Formosa and the
Luchu Islands aré concerned; then

 

he will proceed to the Kurile Islands
to repeat his work on the shores of
these remote Northern Japanese pos-
sessions. The Kuriles form a chain
of small mountainous islands extend-
ing from the ice-bound extremity of
Kamchatka to Yezo. Russia original-
ly owned them, but by the Treaty of
1875 passed them over to Japan. It
now looks as if this act had barred
her even more effectively out of
Japanese waters, via the northward
passage, than the ice of the Polar
Seas. That may, perhaps, be over-
come, weather permitting, although
mariners here doubt it, but Captain
Oda’s nitroglycerin destroyers ~may
not. They will pounce upon the fag-
ged-out Russian fleet the moment it
emerges, whether from Behring
Straits or from Southern waters.

The new dynamite vessels are to
be on the flatboat order, somewhat
long and wide so as to rest well near
the surface. The craft is light and
inexpensive and propelled by twin
screws run at high speed and operat-
ed by engines of 300-horsepower.
They have the piston head operated
by alternate explosions instead of
steam. Once set in motion they re-
quire no further attention than oiling.
One barrel of gasoline propels a ves-
sel 150 miles, and there would be no
difficulty whatever of attaining a
speed of forty miles per hour. There
may be a dozen or more of these
vessels, for, unlike any other. war
craft, they are cheap, dirt cheap al-
most. Including ammunition, 100
barrels of nitroglycerin and all the
necessary equipment, they cost no
more than $20,000 apiece.

According to the plans of the Jap-
anese Admiral nitro-destroyers will
calmly await, along the line of sta-
tions, the approach of the hostile
craft. When the fleet is sighted a
number of these boats will be started
from the nearest stations on diverg-
ing lines, as spokes radiate from a
hub, thus anticipating any flank move-
ment. These destroyers .have no
crews. The prophecy Tesla made a
few years ago has been realized by
the Japs, for the irresistible power
of these vessels is exertéd at any dis-
tance by an agency of so delicate,
so impalpable a quality that, in-
credible as it may seem, a keyboard
suffices to direct these agencies of
death. .

Each of these vessels carries a
clock mechanism and in a fixed time
is bound to let go the earthquakes,
volcanoes, the thundering and light-
ning in their composition. The ocean
itself has no haven to which ships
could flee from the swift pursuit of
these automatically flying destroyers,
each of which bears a force capable
of hurling an entire ironclad fleet
a thousand feet into the air. And
if the wide-ocean offers no safety,
how much less the narrow seas, on
which the Japs intend to launch the
nitroglycerin destroyers? The great-
est ship is defenseless in sight of this
new danger. To strike one of Cap-
tain Oda’s destroyers by shot would
only hasten the catastrophe.

The act of destruction which these
vessels are liable to cause is described
to your correspondent by a Japanese
naval official as follows. “Imagine
a pressure, sudden, intense, killing,

 

the air practically a solid rock ond |
moved as if impelled by lightning, the |
ocean leaping to the clouds, leaving |
a yawning abyss; a circular Niagara |
discharging into the sky, followed by
a report as if the earth had rent. |
Such are the initial revelations while |
waves, exceeding in altitude the high-
est tides, churn the sea as the dis- |
placed waters seek their equilibrium.” |

 

As already stated one of the great- |
est advantages of the nitroglycerin
destroyers is their cheapness. Cap.
tain Oda thinks that with a hundred
thousand dollars spent for vessels
and ammunition, he can send to the |
bottom of the sea the greatest fleet |
that Russia or any other power might
dispatch to these shores, while the |
excellent scout service maintaiped |
by the Japanese promises to make the |
experiment entirely safe as far as ves
sels of friendly nations are concern-
ed.

“But will it not be very dangerous
to handle the vast masses of the
explosive the destroyers, stationed in
two hemispheres, need?” asked your
correspondent.

“Not at all,” replied the navalman,
“the ingredients of the explosive can
be kept apart until thirty minutes be-
fore the vessels are dispatched on
their death run.”

In conclusion the expert said: “In
all probability this will be the last
of wars. Naval war, at least, will
cease of itself when the most feeble
nation can supply itself immediately
with a weapon which will render ‘its
coast secure and its ports impregna-
ble to the assaults of the united ar-
madas of the world. Battleships will
cease to be built, and the mightiest
armorclads and the most tremendous
artillery afloat will be of no more
use than so much scrap iron.

 

Henry Graham.
Tokio, Japan, April, 1904.

 

The Squared Account.

Dodson was chuckling as he and
his wife emerged form the restaurant.

“George,” said his wife, “what's
getting into you? For the last ten
minutes you have had something on
your mind and now, suddenly, you
begin giggling.”

“Mary, I don’t want to go through
life with a secret in my bosom,” said
Dodson after chuckling some more.
“Remember the counterfeit 50-cent
piece that I got last winter?”

“Yes. It’s the only money you
ever succeeded in saving.”

“It’s gone. I gave it to the cashier
in the restaurant.”

“By accident?”

“No. I did it in cold blood. I
have been thinking about doing it for
a long time.”

“How did your conscience permit
you to do such a thing?”

“That’s the worst of it.
time | think about it it seems to make
my conscience feel better. We have
been patronizing that restaurant on
occasions for a year. The proprietor
has given us veal in the chicken salad,
codfish in the deviled crabs, chicory
in the coffee and water in the cream.”

Every

“There has been reason for sus-
picion.”

“We have had evidence that would
convince any jury. After I had given
him a 50-cent piece with some lead
in it I tried to be ashamed of my-

i self, but I couldn’t. It may have

been contrary to the statutes of the
United States, but it was poetic just-
ice.”
——_++2>—__—_
Absolutely Contented.

Mrs. Jenks—Are you perfectly sat-
isiied with your new dress?

Mrs. Speitz—Yes, indeed. The man
I love best thinks it’s beautiful, and
the woman I love least has pretended
to turn up her nose at it.

 

      
         

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Movements of Merchants.

Ypsilanti—C. E. Holly has sold his
grocery stock to C. H. Craine.

Glenn—A. A. Schram has purchas-
ed the drug stock of Carl B. Ely.

Bay City—Wm. D. Latour has sold
his grocery stock to Orla E. Adams.

Morrice—D. Scollen has purchased
the grocery stock of Daniel T. Birch.

Metamora—Robert C. Tuttle has
purchased the drug stock of Allen A.
Mack.

Evart—Mark Ardis has sold _ his
general merchandise stock to Robert
Ardis.

Detroit—The Walker Egg & Pro-
duce Co. is succeeded by Spencer &
Howes.

Big Rapids-—-H. J. Prevost has en-
gaged in the paint, oil and wall paper
business.

Petoskey—Breese & Porter suc-
ceeds C. Z. Pote in the dry goods
business.

Riley Center—J. B. Raymond suc-
cceds to the grocery stock of A. J.
Raymond.

Detroit—Conrad E. Volkert, grocer
and meat dealer, has sold out to O.
zZ. Adams.

Newaygo—W. Ralph Wagers has
purchased the bazaar stock of Geo.
Shumaker.

Traverse City—Miss Ida Klaiber
will open a millinery store at 215
Front street.

Detroit—The Strand Co. succeeds
the Stoddard Co. in the grocery and
meat business.

Harbor Springs—D. T. Bower has
purchased the drug stock of Atkin-
son & Abbott.

Saginaw—Alexander Christie suc-
ceeds Frederick E. Tallmadge inthe
harness business.

Flint—E. W. Garner has purchased
the grocery stock of J. R. Howe on
South Saginaw street.

Jonesville—J. M. Jones & Co. have
removed their dry goods stock from
Addison to this place.

Cadillac—Wm. Cassler, dealer in
ice, coal and wood, has sold out to
Huckleberry & Randall.

Pontiac—Ensminger & Miner have
opened a New York racket store at
22 South Saginaw street.

Muskegon—A. Westermeyer, who
operated a meat market at this place,
has sold out to Geo. W. Ellens.

Detroit—Hoban Bros. is the new
style which continues the produce
business of the Hoban & Walsh Co.

Fenton—C. F. Matthews has taken
a partner in his bakery business
under the style of Matthews & Cim-
mer.

Alverno—Mitchell Roberts has en-
gaged in the grocery business, having
purchased the stock of Alexander E.
Sova.

Bristol—James H. Sutton has pur-
chased the general stock of Hyde &
Co. and consolidated it with his own
stock.

Sault Ste. Marie—J. Deerwood has
opened a drug stock at Algonquin
under the management of W. T.
Grosse.

 

Grant—The grocery and _ notion
business of Shumaker & Wyckoff is
continued under the style of Mrs. A.
Wyckoff.

Eaton Rapids—J. J. Milbourne has
purchased the James Rushton drug
stock and. has removed same to his
own store.

Tustin-—-A. R. Bentley & Co., for
many years engaged in general mer-
chandise at this place, are closing out
their stock.

Onondaga-—M. A. Stewart, of To-
peka, Ind., has purchased the furni-
ture and general merchandise stock
of D. W. Freeland.

Newaygo—W. Ralph Wagers has
purchased the bazaar stock of Geo.
Schumacher and will add lines of dry
ggods and groceries.

Paw Paw—Pugsley & Shepard,
hardware dealers, have dissolved part-
nership. The business is continued
by Pugsley & Allen.

Lenox—Mau Bros., dealers in boots
and shoes, have dissolved partnership.
The business is continued under the
style of Albert A. Mau.

Hastings—Wooley & Bronson have
sold their boot and shoe stock to C.
W. Clarke and A. C. Brown, the new
style being C. W. Clarke & Co.

Lansing—Eilenburg & Reynolds
have sold their drug stock to Robert
S. Kimmich and Alex. Nesper, of De-
troit. The new style is Kimmich &
Nesper.

Sault Ste. Marie—Henry LaLonde
has purchased the bankrupt crockery
and glassware stock of W. L. Betts
and will continue the business at the
same stand.

Saginaw—Alex.
Christie Buggy Co. has purchased
the harness, turf goods and carriage
stock of Fred Talmadge, at 129 North
Franklin street.

Vassar—Learn & Buck, druggists,
have dissolved partnership. A com-
pany has been formed under the
style of C. A. Learn & Co. to con-
tinue the business.

Saginaw—George Orth has_ sold
his boot and shoe stock, located at
2724 South Washington avenue, to
Otto Flathau and will engage in an-
other line of business.

St. Joseph—The store _ building
formerly occupied by H. E. Hendrick
cas a bakery has been leased by Geo.
Michaels, of Albion, and converted
into a confectionery store.

Houghton—W. R. Daskam, dealer
in hardware, has decided to retire
from business at this place and will
close out his stock at once and en-
gage in business elsewhere.

Marcellus—Russell & Nash, deal-
ers in hardware and _ implements,
have dissolved partnership. The style
of the new firm which continues the
business is Russell & Patch.

Jackson—E. C. Greene, clothier at
this place, has leased the store build-
ing at 118 South Mechanic street and
will conduct an up-to-date clothing
and furnishing goods business.

Alpena—-Robert Machman, former-
ly of Petoskey, and Morris Alpern,
cf this place, have formed a co-part-
nership under the style of the Alpena
Wholesale Fruit & Produce Co. and
have leased the McRae store building
where they will do a wholesale busi-
ness in seeds, hides, furs, wool and
poultry.

Christie, of the

 

Flint—Samuels & Thomas, propri-
etors of the Flint Cloak, Suit & Fur
Co., have dissolved partnership by
mutual consent, A. A. Thomas retir-
ing to engage in business in another
field.

Traverse City—C. A. Bugbee has
purchased the interest of W. T. Rox-
burgh and Frank B. Gannett in the
City Drug Store and will continue
the business in his own name here-
after.

Sault Ste. Marie—The new block
on Ashmun street to be occupied by
D. K. Moses & Co. as a department
store is nearly completed. The new
block has a street frontage of 50 feet
and a depth of 165 feet.

Owosso—Charlie J. Thorne has
sold his stock of cigars and tobacco
and store fixtures to John T. Walsh.
Mr. Thorne will take an extended
trip through California and Old Mex-
ico in hopes of regaining his health.

Flint—Otto Sachse has disposed of
his interest in the shoe stock of Foote
& Sachse to Mrs. Frances E. Foote,
who will continue the business. Mr.
Sachse will take a well-earned vaca-
tion before again engaging in busi-
ness.

Smith’s Creek—A new flour and
feed company has been formed at this
place under the style of the Ellis
Milling Co., with a capital stock of
$14,000, held as follows: Louis A.
Peters, Detroit, 814 shares; W. L.
Ellis, of this place, 486 shares, and
A. W. Davis, Detroit, 100 shares.

Detroit—The Henry A. Newland

Co. is succeeded by the Newland Hat
Co. The new corporation has a capi-
tal stock of $50,000, which is held by
the following persons: J. A. Glee-
son, 1,500 shares; Geo. Peck, 1,000
shares; A. I.’ Lewis, 1,000 shares; C.
C. Jenks, 1,000 shares, and J. D.
Standish, 500 shares.
* Remus—Dell Mansfield has sold
his holdings in the Mansfield Mercan-
tile Co. to Herbert Miller, Lou
Wendling and Cassius Supernaw,
who will continue the business under
the same style. Mr. Miller will con-
tinue as general manager of the
business. Mr. Mansfield will continue
the elevator and warehouse business,
handling grain and produce.

Elk Rapids—The Antrim Hardware
Co., not incorporated, has been merg-
ed into a stock company under the
same style to continue the general
mercantile business. The authorized
capital stock is $15,000. The mem-
bers of the company and the number
of shares held by each are; S. H.
Beach, 790; Alexander Steel, 50; A.
Landstrom, 15; O. W. Gardner, 1,
and F. R. Williams, 1

East Jordan—W. A. Loveday &
Co. have sold their hardware stock
to Stroebel Bros., consisting of Carl
Stroebel, who was in the same line
of business at Central Lake a few
years ago, and W. A. Stroebel, form-
erly from Beaverton. Both are _ ex-
perienced hardware men. This busi-
ness was established about twenty-
one years ago by D. C. Loveday, who
retired from active business about
three years ago, since which time it
has been continued by W. A. and L.
E. Loveday under the firm style first
mentioned, who kept up the good
reputation of the business established
by its founder.

 

Fremont—The Stell & Oosting Im-
plement Co. succeeds Stell & Mallery
in the general line of agricultural
implements at this place. Dan E.
Mallery has retired from the business,
Peter and Cornelius Oosting having
purchased his interest.

Boyne City—Herron & Son are
erecting an addition to their store
building, 24x48 feet in dimensions.
The basement will be used by the
steam heating plant, the ground floor
for warehouse purposes and the sec-
ond floor by the plumbing depart-
ment.

Manufacturing Matters.

Ithaca—S. E. Parrish has pur-
chased the cheese factory and will
convert it into a creamery.

Detroit—The Peerless Heater &
Valve Co. has increased its capital
stock from $25,000 to $40,000.

Kalamazoo—The Model Brass Co.
has fiel notice of an increase of
capital stock from $5,000 to $10,000.

Petoskey—L. H. Cheeseman, gen-
eral manager of the Petoskey Fibre
Paper Co., has taken personal charge
of the business as well, succeeding M.
L. Johnston as superintendent.

Ludington—The basket factory of
Harley Bros. is nearing completion.
They expect to start the berry box
department in about two weeks and
will soon begin manufacturing peach
baskets.

Stephenson—Alart & McGuire, of
Green Bay, Wis., will erect a branch
pickle factory at this place this sea-
son with a capacity of 20,000 bushels.
This company also has branch sta-
tions at Grand Rapids, Chiocton and
Oconto, Wis.

Kalamazoo—H. L. Innes and A.
J. Lewis, of Holland,
Kutsche, of Erie, Pa., have formed
the Kalamazoo Pressed Brick Co. for
the purpose of manufacturing lime
and pressed brick and selling sand.
The new concern has an authorized
capital stock of $40,000.

Detroit—The Sommer Motor Co.
has been organized to manufacture
automobiles with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $40,000, all of which is
held by H. A. Sommer with the ex-
ception of three shares, owned re-
spectively by W. J. Sommer, A.
Schreiter and A. J. Reno.

Pentwater—The Payson Manufac-
turing Co., of Chicago, manufacturer
of builders’ hardware, has decided to
remove its plant to this place and will
probably begin operations by Sep-
tember 1. The company has under
normal conditions employed from 65
to 80 hands, one-fourth of whom are
skilled operators. The Pentwater
Implement Association and trustees
hold $30,850 of the stock, being 51
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M. VanZee, grocer at 38 Maple
street, has sold his stock to A. P.
Drake.

The Century Fuel Co. has increas-
ed its capital stock from $15,000 to
$40,000.

Jas. Ghysels has sold his grocery
stock at 105 Page street to Jacob
Van Dyke, of Chicago.

Troy & Brougham have purchased

the grocery stock of T. H. Hart &
Co. at 254 South Division street.

Max Mills speaks his mother
tongue only, but snores in seven dif-
ferent languages and two dialects.

The O. & W. Thum Co., manufac-
turer of fly paper, has increased its
capital stock from $900,000 to $1,000,-
000.

 

3iesbeck & English succeed Miller
& Brackett in the coal and wood busi-
ness at the corner of Grand avenue
and the D. & M. Railroad.

M. A. Michalowski, formerly en-
gaged in the grocery business at Hil-
liards, has opened a grocery store at
234 West Bridge street. The Wor-
den Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

J. J. Waterman, who conducts a
bazaar on Main street, Kalamazoo,
has also leased a store building at
Hastings which he will soon open
with a line of bazaar goods. The
stock of crockery and glassware was
purchased of David B. DeYoung.

Harry C. Jackson, formerly sales
agent for the Michigan Maple Co.,
but for the past fifteen months en-
gaged in buying Michigan hardwood
lumber for a Boston house, has en-
gaged in the hardwood lumber busi-
ness on his own account under the
style of the H. C. Jackson Lumber
Co. The office of the new company
will be at 103 Michigan Trust build-
ing.

—_+2+ +>
The Produce Market.

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

Asparagus—$2.50 per box of 2
doz.

Bananas — $1@1.25 for small
bunches and $1.75 for extra jumbos.

Beans—$1.70@1.75 per bu. for hand
picked mediums.

Beets—soc per bu.

Bermuda Onions—$2.25 per crate.

Butter — Creamery is without
change. Local dealers hold choice
at 23c and fancy at 24c. Receipts of
dairy are liberal, but the quality aver-

‘ages poor, fetching 11@t2c for pack-

ing grades, 15¢c for common and 16
@1v7c for choice.
Cabbage—$2.@3.50 per crate for
Florida, according to size.
Celery—75c for California.
Cocoanuts—$3.50 per sack.
Cucumbers—$1 per doz.
Eggs—Local dealers pay 15%4@16c
on track. Cold storage operators
pay as high as 16%c, but will proba-
bly not be in the market long.
Egyptian Onions—$3.75 per sack.
' Game—Live pigeons, 50@75c per
doz. a2

 

Grape Fruit—$3 per box of 60
per crate for assorted.

Green Onions—I5c
bunches.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 9@
1oc and white clover at 12@1I3c.

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

Lettuce—Hot house leaf stock
fetches 13c per fb.

Maple Sugar—1o@11%c per fb.

Maple Syrup—$1@1.05 per gal.

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

Oranges—California Navels, $2.55
for extra choice and $2.75 for extra
fancy; California Seedlings, $2@2z.25.

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

Pie Plant—-$1.25 per box of 40 tbs.

Pineapples—Floridas fetch $3 per
crate for assorted.

Potatoes—The market is weaker,
in consequence of which the price is
about toc per bu. lower than a week
ago. Local dealers hold their stocks
at $1@1I.10.

Pop Corn—goc for common and $1
for rice.

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@z2.25 per
doz.

Radishes—25c per doz. for hot
house.

Strawberries—Quarts fetch $4@
425 to-day, but will probably go
lower before the end of the week.

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

Tomatoes—$2.25 per 6 basket crate.

Wax Beans—$z2.50 per box.

222.
Lansing Grocers Considering Their
Outing.

Lansing, May 2—At the last meet-
ing of the Retail Grocers’ Association
the question of the annual picnic was
brought up and discussed. The loca-
tion for the picnic has not yet been
definitely decided upon, it resting be-
tween the cities of Port Huron and
Detroit. Pine Lake, which was at
one time suggested as a desirable
place, is entirely out of the question.

It is figured that there will be
about 5,000 people who will take oc-
casion to join in the grocers’ annual
festival. Port Huron affords many
pleasant features for the gathering
of this kind, but Detroit with its
many attractions was also favored.

The date of the picnic has not yet
been decided upon but it will prob-
ably be held some time in August.
Two years ago the grocers took 1,200
people on their excursion, this num-
ber being more than doubled last
year when something like 3,300 per-

sons enjoyed the outing.
— +2 >__

Boyne Falls—The Northern Brick
Co. has been organized with a capi-
tal stock of $8,000, of which one-half
is paid in, to engage in the manufac-
ture of brick. The stock is equally
divided among W. J. Pearson (Presi-
dent), A. B. Nichols (Vice-Presi-
dent), L. A. Moon (Secretary and
Treasurer) and Wm. Littlejohn. The
yard has been located one mile south
of town and from present indications
the company will be able to fill orders
for brick by June I.”

per dozen

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar (W. H. Edgar & Son)—Since
we wrote you on April 26 there has
been no material change in the sit-
uation. It has transpired that approx-
imately 300,000 bags of Cuban sugar
were purchased by our refiners at
from 3.67@3.72c, duty paid. Since
then we learn of sales at equal to
3%c, with rumors of additional busi-
ness at equal to 3.78c—the latter not
yet confirmed. Europe also advanc-
ed, the present quotation for beets
(duty paid). being approximately a
parity of 3.94c with 96 deg. test. Re-
fined sugar was advanced 5c per hun-
dred by all refiners on the 27th, but
“prompt shipment” orders were ac-
cepted until Saturday at old prices.
Everything in the nature of new busi-
ness was precluded, however, by the
announcement on Thursday that all
outstanding contracts on which the
assortment was due would be cancel-
ed on the 30th, unless refiners were
given the details to cover same on or
before that date. This naturally re-
sulted in very heavy withdrawals,
which will keep refiners busy for
some time to come. Meantime the
undertone of all markets indicates
such strength as must lead to higher
prices and we are advised, confiden-
tially, that another advance of 5c per
hundred is expected during this cur-
rent week. A continuance of the
present seasonable weather will do
much to clear the situation.

Coffee—The statistical position is
still strong and the receipts are run-
ning steadily behind last year. The
general impression is that the large
roasting interests will do all they
can to kéep the market down until
August. Brazil is constantly offering
coffee above our parity. Milds are
unchanged and quiet, as are Java and
Mocha.

Tea—Contrary to anticipation the
opening prices on first pickings of
Japan teas are about Io per cent.
lower than a year ago. It is thought
that the second and third crops may
be no lower and of course there is
the possibility—as long as the war
lasts—of some event taking place
which would cause’ higher prices.
Gunpowder is strong. There is lit-
tle change in the stock conditions or
the volume of trade.

Canned Goods—Peaches are very
closely cleaned up and are hard to
get except at high prices. Apples,
pears and cherries are in short sup-
ply. California reports are to the ef-
fect that there are more cherries in
proportion left than any other fruit.
This looks as if it should make them
easier as it will be but a very short
time until fresh cherries will be ship-
ped from Northern California. Maine
corn is offered at a price somewhat
above the opening figure, but none
of the canners will guarantee deliv-
ery. It is evident that the acreage
of corn will be large this year, but
it is a long time yet until the 1904
crop is in the cans, so there is little
use of guessing at the prevailing
price or the pro rata of delivery.
Opening prices on Columbia River
chinook salmon have been made and
are toc higher than a year ago. This
was not unexpected in view of the
short stocks and the heavy demand
for salmon of any kind. French sar-

 

dines are practically out of the mar-
ket. All that are obtainable are at
almost prohibitive prices. Tomatoes
remain unchanged and quite easy.
California asparagus packers now
say they hope to put up half an aver-
age crop. It will probably reach 75
per cent. before the pack is over.
Dried Fruits—Prunes are selling
fairly well at unchanged prices. The
market, however, is unsettled and
quotations are various. There is no
actual change on the coast, although
the market is possibly a little firm-
er. Peaches are doing well at un-
changed prices.
dull and unchanged. The trade are
waiting for the cut in price, which
the Association is expected to make
any day. This, however, can hardly
help trade in the East, since the
price of seeded raisins in Philadel-
phia is now about 15¢c lower than
the coast parity, and the Association

Seeded raisins are

is not expected to decline more than
tl4c at the most.
dull, by reason of the same expecta-
tion of a decline, but about the same
conditions exist, so it is not apparent
what the trade hope to get by wait-
ing. The Eastern market on loose
raisins is now about a cent below the
Apricots are getting well
cleaned up and the market is firm.
Currants are firmer and the demand
is fair.

Loose raisins are

coast.

Rice—There is little change in the
rice conditions. There remains about
one-third of the crop yet to be mar-
keted and the course of the market
is hard to foresee. At present rice
is plenty and cheap, but should the
combine, engineered by John W.
Gates, be successful or should some
accident happen to the present crop
there is a possibility of higher prices.
In case of the protraction of the war
quite a demand is likely to spring
up from the East also.

Syrup and Molasses—There — has
been no change in glucose during the
past week. Compound § syrup is
likewise unchanged and in light de-
mand. Sugar syrup is in fair demand
at unchanged prices. The market is
very steady. Molasses is quiet and
unchanged.

Fish—Mackerel is in some en-
auiry, with sales that seem a little
harder than a week ago. There seems
to be some reason for expecting a
small advance in mackerel ‘during
the next few weeks, since the fresh
mackerel fleet is doing nothing, and
a better demand is expected in May.
Cod, hake and haddock are dull in
this section, but in some trade else-
where. New cod is coming on the
market at substantially less prices
than are asked for the old = goods.
The receipts of new cod are fairly
liberal. Sardines are dull and un-
changed. The packing season will
probably be late, by reason of the
damage done by the severe winter.
Salmon is unchanged and a_ little
quiet. The stocks of red Alaska in
the East, from offers that were made
during the week, may be larger than
have been believed. Lake fish is
quiet and dull.

——_»+2>

Edward Lowe has resigned the di-
rectorship and vice-presidency of the
State Bank of Michigan, which he
has held for the past dozen years.

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Wm. Logie, of Rindge, Kalmbach,
Logie & Co., Ltd.

The biographer of large experience
who has traced the lives of all sorts
of individuals is impressed with the
fact that one’s career is much deter-
mined by inherited traits and early
environment. The ancient paradox
that the child is father of the man
is so nearly true in every instance
as to be an axiomatic expression.
While this is true of the native char-
acter, the trend and eventuality of the
individual life are largely governed
by environment and circumstances.
Whatever these accidental influences
may be, however, the man as he was
born will show forth from the cradle
to the grave. The strong and force-
ful will exhibit these traits in any
encounter with the adversities which
always accompany progress from
poverty and obscurity to success and
wealth or position and fame, while
the half-hearted and weak will falter
by the way and fall out or fall down
entirely. Yet while inborn character
has special potency in shaping the
destiny of the individual, the locality
of birth, conditions of childhood,
youth and early manhood or wom-
anhood, and the circumstances en-
vironing every step of the forward
movement, are the barriers and im-
pingements that determine the direc-
tion and results in one’s career.

There are personal characteristics
and there are_ racial peculiarities,
each transmitted to the child by pa-
rentage. These two. distinguishing
traits are conspicuously evident in
the subject of this sketch. His pa-
rents were of Scotch descent an:l
were Presbyterians in their religious
affiliation. .It is needless to say that
they were the offspring of a long line
of sterling characters, for of all the
numerous peoples and races settled
in the United States there are none
to which the term “sterling” is more
applicable. Earnest, energetic, enter-
prising, intelligent, conscientious, as-
piring, orderly, liberty-loving, the
Scotch, although perhaps tenacious
and to a degree intolerant of oppo-
sition in thought and opinion, are,
as a rule, steadfast supporters of ed-
ucation, good government and human
progress. The course of these peo-
ple is always onward and upward,
never backward or downward. In
every community where they havea
habitat they are always ranked with
the best elements of the community.
In following Mr. Logie’s career we
shall see how his inherited qualities
and those of his parents exemplify
this characterization of the race.
Originating in comparative obscuri-
ty, in a section of meager develop-
ment and few social or educational
advantages, he sought a home and a
career in the future metropolis of
Western Michigan and through dint
of character force struggled forward
and gradually emerged into ample
opportunities that led to success.

Wm. Logie was born at Flam-
boro West, Ontario, Dec. 5, 1851, his
antecedents on both. sides’. being
Scotch, his parents having emigrated
to America from the Orkney Islands
about sixty years ago. When he was
a year old the family removed to St.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Mary’s, Ont., where they remained
ten years. They subsequently remov-
ed to Alsie Craig, where they remain-
ed two years, thence to Grand
Rapids, where they arrived on St.
Patrick’s Day, 1865. Mr. Logie went
to work for the Michigan Barrel Co.,
being assigned to the measure depart-
ment. In September, 1865, he enter-
ed the employ of Whitley, Rindge &
Co.—the predecessor of the present
house of Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie
& Co., Limited—as salesman, packer
and porter. He swept the floor and
washed the windows mornings, wait-
ed on customers during the daytime
and at night assisted Mr. Rindge and
Mr.- Bertsch in packing the goods
they had sold during the day, fre-
quently taking them to the headquar-
ters of the stage lines then centering
in Grand Rapids. It was often mid-
night when Mr. Logie completed the

 

West Michigan from Grand Junction
to Watervliet. He saw his trade
every six weeks with the regularity
of clockwork, and when he first start-
ed out he went to Petoskey four or
five years before he ever saw the
town by daylight. In those days
there was only one train a day on the
G. R. & I. and he usually arrived in
town about 9 o'clock, borrowed a
truck of the baggage master, pushed
his trunks over to the store of his
customer, opened up after the store
was closed for the day, sold his cus-
tomer, packed his trunks, pushed
them back to the depot and went to
sleep in the chair car, never awaken-
ing until he was aroused by either
Captain May or Captain Heath in
time to get breakfast in Mancelona
the next morning.

Those were strenuous days for the
boys on the road and few of those

 

 

 

 

William Logie

 

 

work of packing and marking goods
for. transportation the next day.
After serving nine years in this ca-
pacity he was promoted to the posi-
tion of traveling salesman, taking the
old territory covered by Mr. Bertsch
and a portion of the territory cov-
ered by Mr. Rindge. This included
the available towns from Grand Rap-
ids to Petoskey on the G. R. & I.
and to Seney in the Upper Peninsula,
including drives to Charlevoix, Sher-
man, Elk Rapids and Little Traverse;
the F. & P. M. from Coleman and
Mt. Pleasant to Ludington and Man-
istee; Trufant and Coral on the D.,
L. & N.; the D. & M. to Grand Haven
and Muskegon and the Pentwater
branch; the Michigan Central to Ea-
ton Rapids; the South Haven branch;
Bellevue and Olivet on the Grand
Trunk and the Lake Shore from
White Pigeon to Allegan; Chicago &

 

who are now calling on the trade can
recall the privations and_ obstacles
which the traveling man of _ thirty
years ago endured.

After fifteen years’ apprenticeship
on the road Mr. Logie was promoted
to a position in the house and, on the
retirement of Mr. Bertsch from the
former firm of Rindge, Bertsch &
Co., he took entire charge of the
purchasing department, which he still
manages, to the entire satisfaction of
his house, his customers and himself.

In the logic of events Mr. Logie’s
fidelity to the house brought its re-
ward, as fidelity and faithfulness in-
variably do. In 1877 he was given
a working interest in the establish-
ment, which he has increased from
time to time, until he now owns a
quarter interest in the magnificent
business established and maintained
by his house.

 

 

When he was 16 years old his
father died, which made him the head
cf the family on account of his be-
ing the oldest of three children. How
well he discharged the duty
placed on his young shoulders is a
matter of common knowledge among
those who have resided here forty
years. His kindness to his mother
and the other members of his fami-
lI: became proverbial and he was fre-
quently pointed to as a model son
and brother.

Mr. Logie was married Dec. 10,
1874, to Miss Carrie L. Bertsch and
has three children—Charles, who is
house salesman for the Rindge, Kalm-
bach, Logie & Co., Limited; Wm.
Logie, who is a clerk in the same es-
tablishment, and Grace, who is now
attending Dana Hall at Wellesley.
The family made a tour of Europe
in 1900 and again in 1903. They have.
traveled all over this country from
Maine to California and from _ the
Upper Peninsula to the Gulf. They
reside at 31 Julia street and have a
handsome summer cottage at Maca-
tawa Park, where they maintain a

{| yacht during the summer season.

Mr. Logie has been a member of
the Westminster Presbyterian church
thirty years and has been a constant
attendant since 1866, there being
only two members of the society who
have been identified with the organ-
ization as long as he has. He has
been a member of the Board of
Trustees for many years and Presi-
dent of the Board for several years
and Treasurer of the Sunday School
for thirty consecutive years. He isa
member of the Peninsular Club, the
Military Club and the Macatawa Bay
Yacht Club. He is a member of the
Board of Trade and also a director,
having served as chairman of the
Wholesale Dealers’ Committee last
year and being a member this year
of the same Committee and of the
Industrial Committee. He is a di-
rector of the Peoples Savings Bank
and the Grand Rapids Leather Co.
and is financially interested in the
Grand Rapids Street Railway and sev-
eral other public utilities. He is
Vice-President of the Western Shoe
Wholesalers’ Association and a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee of
the National Association of Shoe
Wholesalers.

Mr. Logie is proud of the fact that,
never to his knowledge, has he of-
fended a customer. He is also proud
of the record he has achieved as a
traveling salesman—of never being
out but two days that he did not
book orders for goods. He is also
proud of the fact that he has been
with one house thirty-nine consecu-
tive years, beginning as_ clerk and
gradually working up to buyer, with
the duties of which are combined the
management of the selling and pack-
ing forces, the marking of samples
and the general direction of the sell-
ing department.

Mr. Logie is a man without a hob-
by, unless traveling, money-making
and church-going come under that
head. He has not been fishing for
thirty years, when he says he got
wet, got lost and got everything else
but fish, He has never attended a
horse race or a ball game; never told
a lie; never spoken ill of his neighbors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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or competitors. In all the years he
was on the road he was never known
tu decry a competitor or run down
his goods, and whether the customer
gave him an order or not, he always
carried the same smile and conducted
himself as becoming a_ gentleman.
The influence of the life of such a
man as Mr. Logie can hardly be com-
puted. Embarking on a business ‘ca-
reer, as he did, nearly forty years
ago, when roughness of speech and
uncouthness of manner were appar-
ently at a premium, he formed habits
of sobriety, fidelity and persona!
purity which have marked his entire
career from the start. His life dem-
onstrates that a man can be a sales-
man and yet rise above his condition;
that he can be a traveling man- and
still maintain his dignity and sereni-
ty; that he can be a buyer for a large
houce and not resort to browbeating
tactics and overbearing conduct,
bringing into play the same courteous
demeanor and gentlemanly attributes
which have crowned him with success
from the beginning.
——_+ > __.
Mistakes in Life.

One of the most unprofitable ways
of spending time is the practice, to
which many persons are addicted, of
brooding over the mistakes one has
made in life, and thinking what he
might have been or achieved if he
had not done, at certain times, just
what he did do. Almost every un-
successful man, in looking over his
past career, is inclined to think that
it would have been wholly different
but for certain slips and blunders—-
certain hasty, ill considered acts in-
to which he was betrayed almost un-
consciously and without a suspicion
of their consequences.

As he thinks of all the good things
of this world—honor, position, power
and influence—of which he has been
deprived in some mysterious, inex-
plicable way, he has no patience with
himself, and, as it is painful and hu-
miliating to dwell long upon one’s
own follies, it is fortunate if he does
not implicate others—friends and
relatives—in his disappointments.
Ferhaps as education has never been
free from mistakes—mistakes, in-
deed, of every kind—he imputes the
blame to his early training, in which
habits of thoroughness and accuracy,
or, again, of self-reliance and inde-
pendence of thought, may not have
been implanted. Perhaps a calling
was chosen for him by his parents,
without regard to his peculiar talents
or tastes and preferences; or, if he
was allowed to choose for himself, it
was when his judgment was imma-
ture and unfit for the responsibility.
The result was that the square man
got into the round hole, or the tri-
angular man got into the square hole,
or the round man squeezed himself
into the triangular hole.

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The Seedless Apple a Reality.

The seedless orange is a product
of comparatively recent date and is
decidedly popular. Now we are prom-
ised a seedless apple. It has, in fact,
become a reality. A device has been
discovered. which, while almost mirac-
ulous in the light of existing knowl-
edge, hardly creates a ripple in the
thoughts of mankind.

It has only been in the last year or

 

two, however, that the scope of the
principle in application to the seed-
less orange has been appreciated. A
veteran nurseryman of Colorado her-
alds the fact that after years of pa-
tient experiment in grafting and bud-
ding he has secured a seedless apple.
Modestly, Mr. Spencer has withheld
information of his success until he has
secured forty trees of this new va-
riety. Expert pomologists have ex-
amined the new apple and declare it
to be very handsome in appearance.
Details of the methods by which this
achievement was attained have not
been divulged, but when it is_ re-
membered that the million-box crop
of navel oranges came from a single
shipment of six slips the start that
has already been attained with forty
productive trees presages an_ early
appearance of the seedless apple in
commerce.

The Department of Agriculture as
well as many grape growers have been
working for years on the problem of
a seedless grape, and, while rumors
of success have appeared, the sultana
and Thompson seedless _ varieties
have during the last year established
their reputation among the viticultur-
ists. The Japanese plum, without a
stone, is also reported a reality, al-
though the seeds have not been obvi-
ated. Cherries without stones are
promised in the immediate future.
Seedless tomatoes are alleged to have
been perfected by an Indiana woman,
being grown from the stock of the
tomato, which is replanted when it is
at its full height. Watermelons of
the same freak nature are also rumor-
ed from Georgia, but not much cre-
dence is placed in this report, al-
though if tomatoes have been per-
fected there is no essential reason
why similar success should not be at-
tained with the watermelon.

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The Dangers in Dust,

Whether the bacilli that cause tu-
berculosis in the human being are
the same as those which cause it in
other warm blooded animals, and
even fish, or whether they merely
change their appearance with their
environment, is a question for the

bacteriological expert. That we may

become infected from other animals
has not the vital interest that the
undoubted fact has that we can, and
do, become infected by the germs
that other men carry about, and that
the home, the place where we take
refuge from the ills of life, is precise-
ly where this dread disease attacks
us. Inside the four walls of our
houses is where these deadly germs
are implanted, are nurtured and
bring forth their harvest. It is at
home we must begin to defend our-
selves. It is the part of wisdom to
do away with dust catching draperies
and carpets. Have the rugs shaken
and beaten out of doors. If you must
have carpets, sweep them with wet
tea leaves sprinkled on them. Wipe
the furniture with a moist cloth, not
flirt the dust about with a bunch of
feathers on a stick. Dust is danger-
ous. Remember that. Better to
have some critic write “Sloven” in
the dust upon the mantelpiece than
cloud the air with it and _ poison
your whole family.
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A WONDROUS REVELATION.

To the average American citizen
whose world’s fair standard has been,
very properly, the “White City” at
Chicago, it is hard to realize the pos-
sibility of anything superior in that
line of human effort. And yet, knowl-

edge of a few natural facts may ex-|

plain why it is that the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition which was open-
ed at St. Louis last Saturday is the
acme of expositional effort. The nat-
ural equipment at St. Louis included
hills and dales, babbling brooks and
forest trees, great effects in rocks
and exquisite bits of meadow. With
such resources at hand it has been
possible for the landscape architects,
the sculptors, gardeners, hydraulic
engineers, electrical engineers and

 

decorators to create a tout ensemble |
that is richer in its picturesque values |

than any similar production

the world began.

since |
Developed ac-|
cording to a grand plan, set in the|

midst of a magnificent natural park, |
| account of the war demands when the

there are dozens of individual pictures

that are strong, complete and beauti- |

ful in harmonious relation, each to
the other; and yet, clearly complete
as apart from the others. It is this
individuality that gives to the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition a variety in
decorative results scarcely approach-
ed by any previous exposition; and

it is this completeness that renders |
the establishment unique as a whole. |

In the natural evolution of things
mechanical, industrial, commercial
and artistic, it goes without saying
that in these characteristics the expo-
sition must, necessarily, be superior
to anything of the kind yet seen. A
week before the date of opening, so
far as could be judged by the tran-
sient, uninformed observer, all was
chaos in the condition at the expo-
sition grounds and the papers were
filled with disappointing, discouraging
reports as to the preparedness of
things for the opening. But 5,000
men, working day and night and under
leaders broadly experienced in the
handling of such conditions, achieved
wonders within seven days, so that,
when President Roosevelt touched
the golden key that set the wheels in
motion last Saturday, the transforma-
tion was a veritable demonstration

from the Arabian Nights. Scaffold-
ings had disappeared, the box and
package congestions at the several

departments had vanished, roadways
and promenades were as though they

 

had served the multitudes for
months, the exhibits—with very few
exceptions—wore their holiday aspect
and all details of the administrative
feature were operating harmonious-
ly and well.

The entire condition was a_ pro-
nounced triumph for the energy, sure
judgment and patriotism of the peo-
ple of St. Louis and Missouri, as
well as a most grateful surprise to

‘the peoples of all the world. With

such a record, such an _ auspicious
beginning, it is rational to assume
that the Louisiana Purchase Expo-
sition will also win the greater and
unique distinction of “winning out”
iu the matter of making receipts ex-
ceed the expenditures.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

There are enough of transient de-
moralizing factors to prevent any
steady advance in trading activity, but
these are not strong enough to pre-
vent a steady tone being given by the
general strength of the industrial sit-
uation. The most severe adverse
factor no doubt is the demoralization
of spring trade by the late season.
The coming of good weather has
greatly improved the situation in the
cities, but it is so favorable to farm
operations in most localities that
rural trade is very quiet.

Stock speculation is dominated by
the usual influence of election year,
when attention can not be given to
different matters without diminish-
ing results, and many minor matters
such as the payment of the Panama
loan, the unusual export of gold, etc.
There is not enough to account for
the adverse influence in these, for the
effect on the money market is infini-
tesimal. What does it amount. to
that we are to pay $40,0000,000 or
that $12,000,000 of gold goes out on

Treasury has the enormous balance
of the precious metal of over $706,-
000,000 in its vaults?

Manufacturing returns are less en-
couraging (particularly from the va-
rious branches of the textile indus-
try. Cotton mills are curtailing pro-
duction and the lack of demand at
first hands has produced lower quo-
tations in several lines. More at-
tractive terms have not stimulated
purchases, and it is evident that buy-
ers are waiting not only for the in-
fluence of cheaper raw material but
for evidence that their customers
will take the goods when delivered.
The percentage of idle machinery
constantly increases at both cotton
and woolen mills and the spring sea-
son has proved a_ disappointment.
Footwear jobbers tell much the same
story, asserting that, aside from the
first week, April business was the
smallest in many years.

Railway earnings show a small de-
cline as compared with the same
week a year ago, but it is to be re-
membered that the comparison is
with the height of the boom. Iron
and steel industries are active, espe-
cially along lines dependent on build-
ing and improvement trades, which
tends to show that confidence is una-
bated as to what conditions will be
after the distractions of politics, the
World’s Fair and similar temporary
disturbing influences,

 

THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION.

Three highly-important events in
the history of the New World have
been commemorated by the great
commercial and industrial exposi-
tions, or world’s fairs.

These were the Discovery of Amer-
ica by the Spaniards in 1492, cele-
brated in its four hundredth anniver-
sary at Chicago in 1892-3. The sec-
ond in importance, but the first in
point of commemoration was the
centennial of the Declaration of
American Independence in 1776, cele-
brated at Philadelphia in 1876. The
third in rank was the one hundredth
anniversary of the Purchase from
France of the vast territory of
Louisiana by the United States in
1803, and celebrated by a great indus-
trial exposition at St. Louis, prepa-
rations for which were not finished
in 1903, but were only sufficiently
completed to enable the occasion to
be formally inaugurated last Satur-
day.

The American Republic, which is
one of the newest nations on the
globe, having attained only the age
of 128 years, is now one of the most
powerful, and, in the way of popula-
tion, is among the greatest, while in
the matter of material wealth and re-
sources it stands at the head. In the
early part of the year 1803 the Re-
public of the United States occupied
a territory which extended from the
Atlantic Ocean westward to the Mis-
sissippi River, and from the great
Northern Lakes southward to a _lit-
tle below the 3ist parallel of
north latitude. The United States
did not touch the Gulf of Mexico, the
country to the south which shut them
off from the Gulf being owned and
occupied by Spain. Nor did the
American Republic have any control
of the Mississippi River, for although
it reached its eastern shore, the great
continental artery passed out to the
sea through French territory.

It is thus plain that the American
nation, although it owned a large ex-
panse of the northern half of the
hemisphere, was most seriously en-
vironed by foreign nations. On the
entire extent of its northern bound-
ary was a British dominion. On the
west the country belonged to France,
and on the south was a Spanish prov-
ince, embracing what is now the
whole of Florida, parts of Alabama
and Mississippi, and the portion of
Louisiana from Pearl River to Bayou
Manchac and the lakes.

The most urgent necessity was
that the people of the United States
should have a free outlet to the sea
through the mouth of the Mississippi
River, and it was first proposed to
buy from France that portion of
Louisiana known as the Isle of Or-
leans, including the city of New Or-
leans. The negotiations extended
until they embraced the whole of the
French territory west of the Missis-
sippi River, covering a million square
miles of area, and now occupied by
the States of Minnesota, Iowa, Mis-
souri, Arkansas, Louisiana, bordering
on the great river, and the two Da-
kotas, the greatest part of Kansas,
Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Mon-
tana, the greater part of Wyoming,
Nebraska and a part of Colorado.

In 1819 the Spanish Province of

 

Florida was acquired from Spain; in
1845 Texas, by voluntary annexation
on her part, came into the Union; in
1848 California, New Mexico, Ne-
vada and the greater part of Arizona
were ceded by Mexico, and in 1853,
by a further treaty with that nation,
some further additions to Arizona
and New Mexico were made. The
States of Washington, Oregon and
Idaho, north of California and west
of the Rocky Mountains were acquir-
ed, by right of exploration and settle-
ment, soon after the Louisiana Pur-
chase was made, and thus in a period
from 1803 to 1853 the United States
became possessed of all the territory
from the Mississippi River to the
Pacific Ocean, and from latitude 49
north, southward to the Gulf of Mex-
ico, and to the northern boundary
of Mexico.

No more contiguous territory in
North America has been annexed
since 1853, but the half century that
has elapsed has been spent in the
populating and industrial develop-
ment of that vast region west of the
Mississippi, containing, as it does,
one-third the population of the Re-
public, and two-thirds of its area.
Through this acquisition of territory
the great Republic of the New World
is enabled to command the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, the Gulf of Mex-
ico and the great Northern Lakes,
upon all of which it abuts, with ag-
gregate coast line of sixty thousand
miles.

The rise of the great free Repub-
lic which occupies so vast a part of
continent of North America was of
no less importance to the whole
world, to its commerce, its industries
and its civilization, than was the dis-
covery of this Western Hemisphere
itself, and it is pleasing to know that
all the nations of the earth except
Russia have joined in a world’s con-
gress of amity to take part in the
celebration which was opened in St.
Louis with such imposing and ap-
propriate ceremonies.

 

 

The Giant Clothing Co. having
been placed on the unfair list by the
local. cohorts of anarchy and unrest,
because it persists in handling Roch-
ester-made clothing, the Tradesman
calls upon all men who believe in
fair play and common decency—who
hold their heads up like men and
glory in the attributes of American
manhood-—to see that any loss in
trade which ensues as the result of
the action of union conspirators is
more than made good by the added
patronage of those who appreciate
the high grade goods manufactured
at Rochester. Every Grand Rapids
merchant who has been boycotted by
the trades unions—not’ excepting
George Morse—has_ thrived and
grown rich under the interdict, and
the Tradesman predicts that the profit
account of A. May & Son will show
a handsome gain during the time they
are under the displeasure of the venal
and unscrupulous elements of trades
unionism.

 

Every merchant should consider
that in employing a union man in any
capacity he is furnishing sustenance
to those who are enemies to the
country, enemies to society, enemies
to business and enemies to them-
selves and their own best interests.

 

 

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BATTLESHIPS ON TRIAL.

The mere supposition without a
scintilla of confirmatory proof that
a submarine boat might have had
something to do with the destruction
of the Russian battleship Petropav-
lovsk has led to a good deal of wild
talk in Congress as to the further use-
fulness of the battleship. Senator
Hale a few days ago stated that had
not the Naval appropriation bill al-
ready passed he would be in favor
of not including an appropriation for
a new battleship, and he now hoped
that the President would use the dis-
cretion which the law allowed to de-
lay for a year the signing of a con-
tract for the construction of the ship,
as the experience of the war now in
progress in the .Far East might
prove that battleships were entirely
useless luxuries.

Mr. Hale bases his idea on the de-
velopment of the submarine and the
disastrous effect upon battleships of
torpedoes and mines. Evidently the
learned Senator has based his con-
clusions on one-sided testimony. He
forgets that the only ships injured by
mines and torpedoes in the present
war have been Russian ships, the
Japanese having suffered no losses
whatever. That the Russians have
lost ships through mines and torpe-
does is not in the least extraordinary.
They have conclusively shown that
they are not skillful navalmen. Had
they kept a sharp lookout from the
beginning the Japanese torpedo boats
would never have been able fo tor-
pedo their ships, nor would a Japan-
ese torpedo depot ship have been
able to place contact mines right in
the channel of the Port Arthur road-
stead. So unskillful have the Rus-
sians been that they have actually lost
several ships by running upon their
own mines. Certainly nothing that
has happened during the present war
has proven the uselessness. of great
battleships, even though admitting
that the value of the torpedo has
been amply demonstrated.

The uses to which battleships are
put make it impossible that torpedo
boats and submarines should super-
sede them. A torpedo boat is only
of value when it can creep upon an
enemy in the night, and only then
where there has been a lack of vigi-
lance. Against shore batteries and
against formidable floating batteries
torpedo vessels are of no value what-
ever. A torpedo boat discovered be-
fore she has reached the distance
within which a Whitehead torpedo is
effective can be promptly riddled by
quick-firing guns. Even when a tor-
pedo boat succeeds in reaching with-
in proper distance of a battleship the
chances of hitting the mark are very
small if the battleship is in motion.

As far as submarine boats are con-
cerned it never was intended to use
them except for coast defense. They
are not capable of traveling at sea
any distance, and even if they were,
the chance of attacking a battleship
in motion would be infinitesimal as
the battleship moves much faster than
the best submarine. The radius of
action of a submarine when beneath
the surface is very small. It is true
that an instrument enables the sub-
marine officer to note in some meas-
ure what is going on on the surface,

 

but the scope of the instrument is

very limited, and it is utterly value- |

less in even a moderate sea.

The true value of the submarine
is to be sought in attacks upon ves-
sels anchored in a roadstead or ves-
sels blockading a port and moving
about slowly and over well-defined
tracks. A submarine could probably
approach such vessels with a fair
chance of escaping detection, and
might occasionally succeed in launch-
ing a torpedo that would prove ef-
fective, although in such case the
chances are that the submarine would
be destroyed as well as her victim.

While admitting that there are
great possibilities ahead of the sub-
marine, nothing has transpired that
would tend to show that the battle-
ships will be superseded. The danger
from submarines is not much greater
than from torpedo boats operating
in a regular way, whereas the tasks
assigned to the battleship could not
be performed by any other class of
vessel. It is true that something
should be done to improve the sta-
bility of the great ironclads. Lack
of sufficient stability is, however, a
defect that can be cured without the
necessity of consigning all existing
battleships to the junk heap.

It would be exceedingly unwise
to base unalterable opinions upon
the results achieved to date in the
present war, as the Russians have
not shown that they are able to cope
with the Japanese at sea in any re-
spect. It is certainly singular that
the Japanese have been able to escape
all mines and torpedoes, although
operating freely among them, where-
as Russia has inevitably run foul of
them on every occasion. The war
proves not the uselessness of the
battleships and the paramount value
of the torpedo so much as the utter
inferiority at sea of the Russians com-
pared with the Japanese.

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That tuberculosis is a dangerous
disease is evident from the fact that
many of the doctors at Bellevue Hos-
pital, New York City, have become
infected by contact with the patients
under treatment there. Several of
them are in a precarious condition.
Something is due to the overcrowding
of the hospitals during the winter and
to the character of the building, which
is old and poorly adapted to modern
requirements.

 

Hundreds of boys from the Den-
ver Juvenile Court will be sent into
the sugar beet fields near Longmont,
Colo., to work this summer. The boys
will be sent out in parties of twenty-
five each, in charge of a probation
officer, and will be equipped with
tents and camping outfits. They can
earn from $1.20 to $2 a day each.

When Queen Alexandria heard how
the moles were destroying the crops
in Wales. she ordered a_ moleskin
muff. This set the pace for other
women, with the result that the de-
mand for moleskin muffs is rapidly
exterminating the pests.

There are many local labor organi-
zations in China, but they are more
like mutual life, sickness, and acci-
dent insurance companies than trade
unions, There are few unions de-
voted to regulating hours and wages.

 

GREAT BRITAIN IN EGYPT.

Not the least of the satisfactory
features of the  recently-concluded
treaty between Great Britain and

France is the agreement as to Egypt. ;

For the past twenty-five years Egypt
has been the main source of friction
between the two countries, and on
several occasions the dissatisfaction
of the French with the practical
British control of the land of the
Pharaohs has almost led to a rup-
ture.

The Fashoda incident is still fresh
in everybody’s memory since it hap-
pened—little more than five years
ago—subsequent to the successful
termination of Lord Kitchener’s cam-
paign in the Soudan. Acting under
the instructions of his Government,
Major Marchand appeared at Fash-
oda, in the Southern Soudan, and
claimed that portion of Africa for
France. If the claim had been ad-
mitted it would have cut off the Brit-
ish Soudan and Egypt from communi-
cation with the British possession in
South Africa, making impossible the
dream of Cecil Rhodes of a Cape
tc Cairo railway through British ter-
ritory. For a time the presence of
the French expeditionary force in
the Soudan threatened war between
England and France, and it was only
by the prudent decision of France to
withdraw Major Marchand and ac-
cept a rearrangement of her sphere
of action in’ Africa, which did not
cut off Great Britain from the South,
that hostilities were averted.

This Fashoda affair only served to
accentuate the danger of the Egyp-
tian question and the feeling that
existed because of it in both England
and France. It was mainly on ac-
count of irritation over Egypt that
French sympathies in the Boer war
were so ostentatiously in favor of
the fighting burghers. It is safe to
say that had the Fashoda incident
happened while England was _ pre-
occupied in South Africa, the final
termination would have been very
different.

That France has come to feel satis-
fied with the permanent control of
Egypt by Great Britain represents a
radical change in the relations be-
tween the two countries. The recent
treaty gives England a free hand in
the control of the Egyptian finances,
which she has not heretofore ex-
erted, notwithstanding her absolute
political control. Of course, the in-
terests of the foreign bondholders
had to be guaranteed, but that was
a matter which involved no sacrifices,
whereas the removal of the French
financial obstruction is a most im-
portant matter.

If the Balfour Ministry accom-
plished nothing other than the set-
tlement of the Egyptian question it
would have conferred an inestimable
boon on the British Empire. The
possession of Egypt with the vast
Soudanese provinces attached to it,
promising eventually to afford an
unbroken line of communication
through the entire length of the dark
continent and rapid transit overland
from the shores of the Mediterran-
ean at Alexandria to the Cape of
Good Hope, is a consummation in-
finitely greater, made necessary by
the conquest of the Boer republics.

 

In withdrawing her objection to
British rule in Egypt, France has
recognized the magnificent results
which that rule has accomplished. In
the brief quarter of a century since
the Arabi Pacha rebellion Egypt has
become prosperous. Her people have
been elevated from the position of
the most abject poverty and servitude
te prosperity and contentment. The
productive area has been greatly ex-
tended, and the revenues have been
increased, with lighter burdens of
taxation, so that not only have all
proper expenditures been met, but
enough has been left over to prose-
cute invaluable public works and pay
the cost of the reconquest of the
Soudan. The construction of the
dams across the Nile, which cost
3,500,000 Egyptian pounds, has con-
ferred a greater and more lasting
benefit on Egypt than the 100,000,000
Egyptian pounds spent by Ismail
Pasha in the projects inaugurated
during his reign. It is therefore a
great thing for Egypt, as well as
conducive to the lasting peace of the
world, that France has recognized
the British occupation of that coun-
try.

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The origin of a “red letter day” has
been traced back to the third century.
Gregory, bishop of Caesarea, zealous
for the conversion of pagans, found
them unwilling to give up their cus-
tomary recreations at the festivals of
their gods, so, taking a leaf out of
their book, he instituted festivals in
honor of saints and martyrs. This ex-
ample soon led to the institution of
holy days, now corrupted into holi-
days. In old almanacs all such holy
days were set forth in red ink, the
rest being in black; hence the term
“red letter day” for any notable oc-
casion.

 

Americans abroad are not always
representative Americans. Unfortu-
nately, however, foreigners frequently
judge the nation by the conduct of
individuals who make themselves ob-
noxious. The London Mail, for in-
stance, relates this incident:” “King
Edward recently left some _ cherry
stones on his plate at a public func-
tion. The moment he left the table
a crowd of American ladies scrambled

‘for them, with the object, it is said,

of handing them down to their de-
scendants as family heirlooms.”

 

of the most sensational features of
greenhouse floriculture in America
during the last quarter of a century.
American florists raise about 5,000,-
ooo Easter lilies a year. Assuming
that only half of these plants are
sold; that each bears only two flow-
ers—a good plant should have six
or eight—and that the public pays
5c cents a bud, it would seem that
the American people spend at least
$2,500,000 for Easter lilies every year.

The Chamber of Commerce at
Denver, Colo. is considering a
proposition to bore one and an eighth
miles into the earth at a point four-
teen miles east of the city, in search
of natural gas, oil and coal. The cost
is estimated at $30,000, but the plan
is considered feasible by experts who
have investigated the geological for-
mations.

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

“Unpersuaded Though One _ Rose
From the Dead.”
Written for the Tradesman.
“What's the
“Punk.”
“Then we've ‘punked’ him!

matter with him?”

I know
the boy and I know his forbears and
I know the good blood that’s in him
on both sides never was intended to
be punk. Just turned’ twenty-two,
hasn't he? He came right from
the high school, a graduate at seven-
teen. ‘Punk!’ Well, I don’t know
about that. Is he all punk? Run
him over and let’s hear exactly what
he to decide the more easily
what’s to be done—something’s going
to be done, I can tell you that. Dick
Vanstone is not to come in here the
best of the best and become punk in
five years and then be burned into
the alley while I’m alive. What's the
matter with him, anyway?”
“Same old story with same old re-
sult. ‘Youth of great promise. Last
of noble family... He’s run. out, I
guess that’s all there is to it. What's
the legend? ‘First generation works
up from penury to opulence. Second
flourishes on the top round the sum-
mum bonum of his day and genera-
tion. Thirds and shows signs
of decay and a gradual fraying out
of the trousers. Fourth, punk and
back alley.’ Dick’s ready for the alley.
He’s punk all right and the quicker
he’s lighted and burned the _ better.
We don’t want him any longer.”

in

is, so

sees

“You don’t answer my _ question.
What’s the particular matter with
him? Punk isn’t always rot, al-

though everybody seems to think it
Now, then, what’s the matter with
Dick Vanstone?”

“You know the vices. It begins
with the cigarette and works its way
up to punk.”

“Go on. First, nicotine; second,
alcohol; third, billiards; fourth, pok-.
er: fifth, wantonness. Has that hit
him? Has it?”

“No, I,can’t say it has.

“Does he lie? Does he borrow and
forget to pay?”

I don’t think so.”

“Ts he honest?”

“Yes.”

“Is he a grafter?”

“Well, n-o, not exactly; but there
are times when it does seem as if it
were a choice between that and hav-
ing his leg broken there would be
no broken leg on him.”

“Is he lazy?”

“Oh, my gracious, no! There isn’t
a lazy bone in him, mentally or phy-
sically. The fact is, he has been—
and is—running down hill. It looks
as if he were mighty near the bot-
tom and going so swiftly he can’t
stop. If the breaks should be put on
there isn’t a power on earth to keep
him from hitting the punk pile. There
isn’t any use in worrying over

is.

”

it. |

 

The fellows all like him and have)

done their best with him, but nothing
seems to restrain him.
case of the man in torment.
would not be persuaded though one
rose from the dead.’ That's all there
is to it. He’s punk, and we'd better
prevent infection by burning.”

Mr. Ward took off his eye-glasses
and tapped his chin with them ashe
looked out of the window. Then,

It’s another |
‘He |

| up,
| more than fill it.

after a brief period of thoughtfulness,
he put them on with considerable
vigor, turned his chair until he faced
the man at the other desk and said,
“There isn’t going to be any punk-
burning in our back alley because we
haven’t any punk to burn. Richard
Ward Vanstone isn’t punk. That’s
ail?”

Then Joseph Ward went on with
the examination of some _ papers
which the above conversation had in-
terrupted with lips pressed tightly
together and a look on his face which
it always wore when that particular
man had particular work to be done.

When the papers were finished he
looked out of the window a while,
then he broke off the brimstone end
of a match and chewing the rest of
it went out upon the street. “So far
as I can see,” he thought, “the boy
is in that mental condition the body
is when it is badly in need of a bath.
He’s honest and he isn’t ‘lazy and he’s
norally decent. He won't lie and he
will play cards. Call an honest, work-
loving, truthful boy ‘punk’ and burn
him? Not any. There’s something
under and behind all this and I don’t
know but I’m a good deal to blame
it. Anyhow, to say of a boy
twenty-two years old because he’s
up-to-date in the common sins of the
day and gambles a little—he_ isn’t old
enough to be confirmed in anything
—that he wouldn’t be persuaded
though one rose from the dead is a
bit of tommy rot that I don’t have
any confidence in. A twenty-two-
year-old poker player isn’t such a
tremendously bad lot to encounter.
I’m going to tackle it, anyway; and
here’s dimes to dollars that right
there I’m going to hit the whole
thing. Five years and still on the
lower rounds of the ladder. I don’t
believe that’s what I told Jim Van-
stone I’d do when he said he’d named
his boy after me. He’s been dead a
dozen years or more and the boy’s
been with us five, and I have given
him—well, I haven’t even noticed
him since the morning I gave him
his chance here at three dollars a
week. ‘Unpersuaded though one rose
from the dead.’ That may be. all
right enough; but how would it be
about persuading him if one rose
from the living? There’s about the
place for me to come in and here
goes for the persuading.”

for

He went at once to his office and
called in his general manager.

“Mr. Rounds, my attention has been
recently called to young Vanstone.
Is he filling his place full?”

“Wes, sir.”

“Is he a clock-watcher?”

“No, sir.”

“Any fault to find with him as a
clerk?”

“No, sir.”

“What are his wages?”

“Fifteen dollars a week.”

“Any signs of an opening ahead
that he can fill?”

“Ridgeway leaves within a fort-
night and Vanstone, if he would brace
could step into the place and
There is considera-
ble ability in Vanstone and with half
a chance he’d let it come out. I’ve
been having my eye on him for a
good while. He’s ambitious and

proud as Lucifer, a fellow that has
his head up in the air and wants to
keep it there; but his salary isn’t large
enough to help him and I’m inclined
to believe that he’s trying to rush
the poker deck for all it’s worth. Too
bad. He’s a good fellow at heart and
1 guess he’s a little discouraged. I’d
like to try him higher up and, if you)
say so, I'll shape things that way.”
“It’s my idea exactly. Send the
young man in here now.—‘Though
rose from the living.’ I like
that,’ Joseph Ward went on after
his manager had left him, “and if a
friend of the five brothers the parable
tells about had taken it upon himself
to do the work the dead rich man
wanted to live again to do there

one

would have been no need of any
coming back. Here he comes.
“Ah! Dick. How are you. Take

I want to talk a lit-
I’m told you are play-
Are you?”

There was a suddenly red face in-
stantly followed by a suddenly white
one.

this chair here.
tle with you.
ing poker too much.

“Yes, sir.” The head was up and
the earnest, handsome eyes looked |
straight and level into the eyes of
his questioner.

“Why do you do it?”

“ll tell you. Our affairs at home
are not prosperous. Mother has al-
ways been used to a certain way of
living and she can’t change and I
don’t want her to change. I find,
though, that I can’t keep things where
they were with what money I get}
and I’m lucky at cards and so far I}
have been able to make up in that |

 

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| way what my wages lack. That’s all

there is to it, Mr. Ward.”

“Would you stop gambling if you
had a larger salary?”

“Instantly.”

“And stay stopped?”

“And. stay stopped.”

“Will you sign a statement to that
effect?”

“Now and here.”

Joseph Ward turned to his desk and
a few lines. “There. Read
that and sign it, if you are in earnest.”

This was the statement:

“T promise Joseph Ward this day,
May 16, 1898, to play no more cards
for money if my salary is made a
living one.”

Dick Vanstone
tentively, looked

read the paper at-
at Joseph Ward
earnestly for a moment and then
signed the paper without a question,
although his face swarmed with
questions. Pleased with the implied
confidence the employer said after
iooking at the signature, “Dick, it
will be twenty-five dollars a week be-
ginning with last Monday.”

“And, Mr. Ward, I’ve played my
last game of poker.”

There was a young beaming face
that soon atfer left the office, leaving
another just as beaming behind it.
Then after the door closed the man
said, as if he was sure of a sympa-
thizing listener, “It’s the work of the
living and always has been. No won-
der Abraham said, ‘Neither will they
be persuaded though one rose from
the dead.’”

Be that as it may, Dick Vanstone
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fine stroke of business that Dick had

been quilty of Joseph Ward said with’

considerable earnestness, “Aren’t you
glad, Elby, that we didn’t burn him
for punk?”

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Suggestions Which Originated With
Retail Clerks.

The following extracts were for-
warded to the Dry Goods Economist
by an Illinois merchant, who offers a
ptize of $1 for the best suggestion
submitted by his clerks each week:

Clerks in giving samples should be
very careful as to the way they cut
them, so as not to waste goods.

I suggest that we all be more ge-
nial toward one another and not be
afraid of helping one another in put-
ting away goods before closing time.

Would it not be a good plan for
each of us to learn just how to bias
velvets, silks or any materials that
must be cut in that way, as great
loss results from doing it in any way
but the correct one?

I would suggest that we pay more
attention to the way we place goods
before a customer. If we practice
showing or draping goods so as to
attract the eye it often influences the
customer and has a good deal todo
with making the sale.

I suggest that we pay more atten-
tion to pattern customers, not send-
ing them into the back part of the
store to wait upon themselves. Cus-
tomers like to be shown attention in
small things, as well as large.

I suggest that every clerk be more
careful about keeping the price upon

 

every article in his or her department, | ]T suggest that each and every one|

so that when we get busy we will

not have to stop and hunt up the)

stock-keeper to find out the price.

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I suggest that after any one of us|
clerks fails to sell a customer, or)

fails to find what pleases her, we
should turn her over to another
cierk, who may be able to suggest
something that will fill the bill and
result in a sale.

I suggest that we be more careful
in our measurements; for instance,
in measuring materials such as wide
laces (or even narrow) do not begin
measuring them when they are bad-
ly twisted, as they are bound to over-
measure when in that condition.

I think it would be a good thing

 

it clerks would be more careful about |

remnants.

Very often we can, by|

having a special price made, avoid |
leaving a yard or a yard and a half, |
which has to be sold at a total loss. |

I suggest that when new wool dress |

goods come in the name of the mate-
tial be put on one side of the ticket,
so that the clerk will not have to
ask another the name, as the cus-

tomer loses confidence in the clerk |

who can not give the name of a mate-
rial when asked.
I suggest that we be less jealous of

| chase a small one, we feel it is not |

each other’s success in gaining cus- |

tomers. Some of us are apt to feel

sore when a customer comes in and |
buys of another clerk the piece of |

goods we have shown her.
object should be the good of

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of us be more careful about talking

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over store matters at home, or to)
our friends, for in so doing we are)

apt to make some little remark
which may reach our customer’s ears;
for instance, a clerk may say “So-
and-So” is hard to wait on. This re-
mark may come to the customer’s
ears and not only result in the loss
of her trade, but she may influence
others to give the store the go-by.

I suggest that each clerk make ita |

rule to put in stock every morning

a full line of different articles in his |

or her department, so that it won't
be necessary to get goods out of re-
serve stock during the day; also that
we try as nearly as possible to keep

things in their proper places; for in- |
stance, the sample books of the white |
goods, if shown at the dress goods |
counter and not taken away, may be |
entirely covered up, with the result,
that the next one who has a call for |

them may be unable to find the books.
I suggest that we all use more care

and persistency in showing notions

and small articles of any kind. Too

frequently, if the customer is a little |

hard to please and the proposed pur-

worth while to put forth any special
effort to effect it. But let us remem-
ber that although the amount of the
sale is small the percentage of profit

on these notions is much greater, ac- |
cording to the investment, than the |

profit on many of the larger sales.

and therefore we should be as careful |

and persistent in making a _ 5-cent
sale as we should be if it were a
dress goods pattern.

failure to please a customer in no-
tions and other small articles often
creates a strong prejudice against a
store.

Suggestions such as the above
turned in by the store force can be
typewritten and distributed or they
can be read and discussed at a meet-
The latter is the preferable
mode, as a weekly reunion of the
managemcnt and employes helps to
stimulate interest-and conduces to
the doing of one’s best for the com

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The importation of flour into Japan
was much greater in 1903 than. in the
this
war
ex-
pect a continued expansion of the
market this commodity in this
country. In 1901 the importation of
flour amounted to 81,000,000 pounds;
in 1902 it was a little more, but in
1903 it increased to Over 269,000,000
than three times
as much as in 1901. Wheat flour has
largely displaced rice flour in the
preparation of many Japanese sweets
and cakes, and a great deal of the
former is now used for this purpose
and for paste for the manufacture of
fans, screens, etc. Among the Japan-
ese wheat flour is not yet generally
jused for but a
are beginning to vary their diet by
its introduction.

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preceding years, and, although
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preparations, there is reason to

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We approach the end of the April,
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speculative support which has sus- |

tained egg values throughout the)
month at figures beyond all prece-
dent. As was previously anticipated |
many of the dealers who held off |
early in the month have not main- |
tained the courage of their earlier |
convictions, and, seeing the favorite |
storage month slipping by with hard- |
ening instead of weakening prices, |
they have, one by one, caught the
fever and “taken just a few’  be-}
cause they “had to have them.” And

so the month of April is winding up |soning that I shall attempt to set

with extreme prices for storage pack- |
ings, and nobody seems to have had
time yet to figure out what it all
means.

Accounts of storage holdings at
the end of this period (April 23) are
incomplete, but as nearly as I can
estimate the matter from the informa-
tion and reports at hand it may be
said that against an increase at Chi-
cago, compared with same date last
year, of about 50,000 cases we must
offset a decrease at New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia combined of
about 200,000 cases; but it is alto-|
gether probable that other Western
points, besides Chicago, have a ma-
terial increase.

In considering these comparisons |
of receipts and storage accumulations
with those of last year it must be re-
membered that last year’s April re-
ceipts and accumulations were phe-
nomenal; that for the four markets
above mentioned the receipts. in
April, 1903, were about 279,000 cases
greater than in April, 1902, and that
the April storage accumulations were
unprecedentedly large.

We may also remind ourselves that
even with the much smaller receipts
so far this April than last, they will
undoubtedly run considerably ahead
of April, 1902, and that the storage
operations begun at that time on an
average seaboard cost of Jess than
17c, when the Eastern storage was
little, if any, more than now, left us
with the height of storage accumula-
tions in the fall and a heavy overstock
to carry into the following year to
be sold at heavy losses.

It seems altogether probable that,
just as last year the May and June
storage fell off materially compared
with the previous year, and just as
the Western storage increased dur-
ing these months, so we shall see a
marked reversal of these conditions
this year—a relative decrease in the
Western storage (in May and June)
and a big increase at Eastern points.

Unless the production of eggs
proves considerably less than last
year, which is altogether improba-
ble, it may be safely calculated that
the total amount stored by July 1
will exceed that of last year by rea-
son of the higher prices being paid
and the consequent reduction in con-
sumptive demand.

There is no question whatever that

 

:and berries, with

the output of eggs in consumptive
channels in this city has been less in
April this year than last; the statistics
show it and the reports of distribu-
tors confirm it. This unfortunate ef-
fect of the high prices will doubtless
increase as the season advances and
warm weather dulls the natural ap-
petite for eggs.

last year exceptional weather con-
ditions gave us a great scarcity of
fresh vegetables and summer fruits
consequent high
prices; this incentive to egg  con-
sumption can not be expected to re-
cur this season, which is an additional
reason to expect a change in late
spring and summer conditions in the
egg market.

In conversation with a prominent

|egg man of this city a few days ago

he expressed a policy of action which
coincides so closely with sound rea-

down what he said:

I asked whether he was storing
eggs at the prices ruling and how he
regarded the situation? He replied
that this house had put away a few
eggs because there were times inthe
early fall when he felt that he could
work off a moderate quantity in his
own trade, but that he should not
think of storing eggs at present prices
as a speculation, with a dependence
upon open market for an outlet. “If
the present prices hold through the
season,” he said, “I feel ecrtain that
consumption will be so greatly cur-
tailed, especially during the summer
season, as to make it impossible to
unload during the fall and early win-

| ter the quantity that will be accumu-

lated; and if they do not hold, then
as soon as the price falls the surplus
will go in upon terms which will give
the later storers control of the early
fall markets and make it impossible
for the early packings to come out
until so late that the chance of a
profitable clearance will be very
slim.”

All of which is respectfully submit-
ted as reasonably good sense.—N. Y.
Produce Review.

—__2—__
The Parting of the Ways.

Why won’t women gear them-
selves together a little more care-
fully?

Now that shirt waist time is here,
the old ten years’ war between waist
and skirt has broken out afresh. The
waist line may well be called the
parting of the ways.

No matter how swell a woman’s
garments may be, she is undone
when they are. There are hundreds
of not-a-hook, not-a-button, not-a-
pin devices on the market for keep-
ing plackets closed and waist and
skirt together, but “nothing yet  in-
vented does the work like a good,
strong, old-fashioned hook and eye.
The proper plan for her who would
be firmly reefed together is to sew
two strong eyes on every skirt band
in the back; step number two—sew
two strong hooks on a very narrow
and stout webbing with a buckle on
one end.

Sew this firmly on the outside of
the shirt waist, fit the hooks to the
eyes, and there you are, firm and
taut and neat.

Butter

Send me more barrels of ordinary fresh
butter; I am not getting enough. It is
going to be cheap this summer. Our
country is producing more than we can
consume and no export outlet.

E. F. Dudley

Owosso, Mich.

           
     
     

 

 

We Want 20,000 Cases Fresh Eggs
This Week

Phone or wire at our expense.
Get our price before selling.
We have the money and nerve to pay extreme prices.

Grand Rapids Cold Storage Co., Grand Rapids
-Cold and ordinary storage for
Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Poultry, Dried and Green Fruits, Etc.

Ship everything to us.
We will sell it for you.

We Buy and Sell All Kinds of Produce

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warner’s
Oakland County
Cheese

Not always the cheapest,
But always the best

Manufactured and sold by

FRED M. WARNER, Farmington, Mich.

Send orders direct if not handled by your jobber.
Sold by

Lee & Cady, Detroit Lemoa & Wheeler Company, Grand Rapids
Phipps-Penoyer & Co , Saginaw Howard & Solon, Jackson

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

COTTAGE CHEESE.

Ways of Making It at the Geneva
Experiment Station.

The Geneva, N. Y., Experiment
Station has taken up the plain com-
mon cottage cheese and_ turned
the scientific searchlight on this sim-
ple food. The interesting fact is de-
veloped that cottage cheese is more
digestible than new cheddar cheese,
and if a satisfactory commercial mar-
ketable product can be made without
the too common use of alkalies, there
should be a boom in the trade. Mean-
while we reprint the methods used
according to the bulletin, as follows:

Material to Use. Skim milk should
be used. While whole milk can be
used, so much fat is lost that there
is serious waste of this valuable con-
stituent.

Preparation of Starter. In manu-
facturing cottage cheese on a large
scale, saving of time is usually effect-
ed by using a starter to hasten the
souring of the milk. The character
of the starter used is of much impor-
tance. Ferments other than acid
forming may be present in a starter
and cause the formation of a slimy
curd from which the whey can not
be separated. It is essential, there-
fore, when one uses a starter, to give
some attention to its preparation.
The following is suggested as a meth-
od that will give good results, if
properly carried out: Separator
skim milk, prepared from clean, fresh

‘ milk, is put into a carefully cleaned

receptacle, well covered and brought
tc a temperature of go deg. Fahren-
heit (32 deg. C.), after which it is
placed where it will remain at.a tem-
perature of 65 to 70 deg. Fahrenheit
(18 to 21 deg. C.). In 20 to 24
hours the skim milk will be found
properly ripened. In using this pre-
pared starter the upper portion to
the depth of 1 to 2 inches is remov-
ed and thrown away; the rest is
strained through a fine strained or
hair sieve into the milk and _ thor-
oughly mixed. Some of this prepar-
ed starter may be used in preparing
a starter for the day following, put-
ting a little into some skim milk that
has been heated to 180 deg. Fahren-
heit (82 deg. C.) for 30 minutes and
then cooled to 70 deg. Fahrenheit
(21 deg. C.) and allowed to stand
24 hours. The starter may thus be
propagated from day to day. As
soon as any unfavorable effect is no-
ticed in curdling, a new starter should
be prepared. :

There are on the market several
different preparations for souring or
ripening milk and cream, consisting
of special cultures. Full directions
for methods of ue always accom:
pany these special starters and we
do not need to consider them here

Manufacture of Cottage Cheese by
Ordinary Souring of Milk. The milk
is kept at a temperature of 70 to 75
deg. Fahrenheit (21 to 24 deg. C.)
until it is well curdled, which will
usually require 24 to 48 hours. The
curdled mass is then broken up hv
hand or cut by a curd knife an4 is
heated gradually to 90 deg. Fahren-
heit (32 deg. C.) and is kept at this
temperature until the whey appears
clear. When the heat is so applied
as to require 30 or 40 minutes to
reach go deg. Fahrenheit (32 deg. C.),

 

then the whey will separate clear in
15 or 20 minutes under normal con-
ditions. The whey is then run from
the curd and the curd is put into
muslin bags or placed on racks and
allowed to drain until whey ceases to
come from the curd. The curd is
then salted at the rate of about I
tb. of salt for 100 tbs. of curd or to
taste, shaped into balls and finally
wrapped in oiled paper that may be
obtained from any dairy supply house.
For the finest quality of cheese the

curd should be mixed with thick|

cream, preferably ripened cream, at
the rate of I ounce of cream for i
tb. of cheese, before being made in-
to balls.

_ Manufacture of Cottage Cheese
When a Starter is Used. The start-
er, prepared as described above or
by some equally good methods, is
added to the milk at the rate of 2 to
3 tbs. to roo tbs. of milk and thor-
oughly mixed through the mass of
milk. The rest of the operation is
completed as described above.

Manufacture of Cottage Cheese
When Rennet is Used Together With
Starter. The starter is added to the
milk as described above and about
eight hours later rennet extract is
added at the rate of about I ounce
for 1,000 ths. of milk. The rest of
the operation is completed as describ-
ed above.

Manufacture of Cottage Cheese by
Direct Addition of Hydrochloric
Acid. The milk should be at a tem-
perature between 70 and 80 deg.
Fahrenheit (21 and 27 deg. C.).
Measure out hydrochloric acid, of
specifice gravity 1.20, at the rate of
Io ounces for 100 fbs. of milk, dilute
this with Io. times its bulk of water
and add to the milk gradually, stir-
ring the milk constantly while the
acid is being added. The stirring is
continued until the curd separates
fully, leaving a clear whey entirely
free from milkiness. As soon as this
is accomplished, the whey is run
from the curd and the rest of the
operation completed as_ described
above. Some care should be exercis-
ed in regard to the quality of the
hydrochloric acid used. The kind us-
ually kept at drug stores is not pure
enough. The right kind of hydro-
chloric acid can be obtained from the
Baker & Adamson Chemical Com-
pany, Easton, Pa., by ordering “hy-
drochloric acid, c. p., sp. gr. 1.20,” and
the cost in 3-pine bottles is 7'%4c net
a tb., or in carboys at 7c net a th.

The qualities that determine in the
greatest degree the value of cottage
cheese as an article of commerce are
flavor and texture. The flavor should
be that of mildly soured milk or well-
ripened cream. There should be an
entire absence of all objectionable
flavors, such as bitter taste, flavor of
stable, etc. If the cheese tastes too
sour, it is probably due to the reten-
tion of too much whey. The use of
1 good starter will usually insure the
right kind of flavor. The texture of
cottage cheese, as we have already
pointed out, is largely dependent on
the amount of moisture retained in
the cheese, and this in turn is depen-

‘dent largely upon the temperature at

which the curdled mass of milk is
heated and the length of time the
heat is applied. Heating the coagu-

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

Will pay highest price F. O. B. your station. Cases returnable.

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

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

 

 

 

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 i
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.

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
at your station: Prompt returns.

William Andre, Grand Cedge, Michigan

Fresh Eggs Wanted

Will pay 16c next week f. o. b. your station, cases returned.
Wire, write or telephone.

S. ORWANT & SON, aranpv Rapips, micn.

Wholesale dealers in Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce.
Reference, Fourth National Bank of Grand Rapids.
Citizens Phone 2654. Bell Phone, Main 1885.

GREEN GOODS are in Season

You will make more of the Long Green if you handle our
Green Stuff.

 

    
   

 

 

 

 

We are Car-Lot Receivers and Distributors of all kinds of Early Vegetables
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Pineapples and Strawberries.

VINKEMULDER COMPANY

14°16 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, [ich.

 

EGGS

Got to Have 500 Cases
More Per Day

Our new proposition to Egg Shippers takes like hot
cakes—won’t you join us?

Money in it

Wire at our expense for stencil.

Harrison Bros. Co.
9 So. Market St., BOSTON

Reference—Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

later mass above 100 deg. Fahrenheit
(38 deg. C.) for a very short time
will make the cheese too dry and the
texture crumbly.

Heating below go)

deg. Fahrenheit (32 deg. C.) for too |
short a time will make it impossible |

for the whey to drain from the curd
satisfactorily, and the cheese will be
soft and mushy. For the soft, smooth
texture that is to be desired a moist

ure content of 70 to 75 per cent. is|

required.

When the percentage of |

moisture drops much below 7o, the |

cheese is harsh, dry and
like. The addition of cream to such
cheese may improve it, but can not
entirely overcome the effect of ex
pelling too much moisture from the
curd.
—___*-2 «___-
Incident in the Life of the Sausage
King.

saw-dust |

| with sudden and startling intensity.
|into the private office with the air of

ion his mind.

In Sanders’ sausage establishment |
all was activity and restless motion. |
The tempting, appetizing odor of sau- |

sages filled the air. Huge piles of

sausage casings covered the tables}

and littered the floors.
to be enough casings here to turn out

mutton that ever saddened the heart

of man. Large pots and vats. of
ground meat stood ready for the
stuffing machine. Underneath the

machinery rattled. Up above the gas
jets flickered.

There seemed |

| casionally he raised himself on his
| toes and swayed as he came down

Sanders imperially blew out his
rosy cheeks. Sanders majestically
rubbed his knowing old head. He
graciously dismissed the salesman
from his presence and walked tothe
window. Sanders looked out reflec-
tively, thoughtfully, with the appear-
ance of a man of infinite wisdom. Oc-

again on his heels. Finally he walked

quietly over to his desk and brought

his fist down with a resolute bang.
“By gum,

roared Sanders, the Sausage King,

Bates, Sanders’ foreman, walked
a man who had an overpowering load
His manner was taci-
turn. His expression was saturnine.

“Bates,” remarked Sanders, “Jim |
Johnson is trying to organize a com- |
pany to compete against us.”

“So I’ve heard,” responded the un-
’

I'll give Jim Johnson |
| such a lesson he’ll never forget it,”

pricked up their ears at Bates’ tone.

“Why not?’ demanded Sanders
with heat. “Why not?”

“ None of your business, you leath-
er headed old donkey,’ retorted
3ates with admirable spirit, “you old
pie face, you water drinker, you
image of pain, you!”

Sanders frowned heavily. He had
not counted on anything quite so
realistic as this.

“What do you mean by such lan-
guage?” he asked indignantly.

“Don’t you ask me what I mean!”
howled back Bates. He drew a full
breath and then artistically shook his
fist under Sanders’ astonished nose.
The fat sausage makers looked at
each other with the most perfect en-
joyment.

“Aw!” gasped Sanders incoherent-

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOGELEY & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

New Crop Mother’s Rice
too one- pound cotton pockets to bale
Pays you 6o per cent. profit

 

ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR

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

1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

impressionable Bates.
“Now, if there should be a hard}

‘fight in the sausage business it would |
sausages to supplement all the cold)

In this industrial song |

the prelude was sausages, the subject |

matter was sausages, the accompani-
ment was spices, and the different
variations were numerous, ingenious
and quaint.

discourage competition, wouldn’t it?” |
pursued Sanders. |

Bates nodded gloomily.

“And especially if one of the fight-
ing companies went to smash,” in-
sisted Sanders.

Bates nodded more gloomily than |
before.

“And _ so,”

|
|
|

continued Sanders—|

i“and so, Bates—and so”’—he seemed |

In his private office sat James San- |

ders himself—Sanders, the Sausage
King. He was a de luxe edition of
a man. - His cheeks were fat and
rosy. His head was smooth = and
shiny. For thirty odd years he had
sold his sausages to a grateful trade.
For thirty odd years he had spread
his “franks” over a constantly increas-
ing area. He had been successively
known as a sausage peddler, a sau-
sage seller, a sausage merchant, a
sausage prince, until now he finally
stood before his admiring fellow men
as the absolute Sausage King.

His scepter was a casing! His orb
was a garlic. His crown was a large
smoked frankfurter!

His sovereignty was supreme.

But suddenly a bolt disrupted from
the smiling blue. Sanders’ head sales-
man ran into his chief’s office with a
countenance full of news.

“Jim Johnson, the Main street sau-
sage man, is going around trying to
get stock subscriptions for a $100,000
sausage company,” he breathlessly
announced.

“What's he doing that for?” asked
Sanders, irritably.

“To knock us
salesman.

“Has he got any subscribers yet?”
asked Sanders.

“He’s only just started.”

“And what argument does he use
to interest investors?” asked San-
ders. He seemed to be thirsting for
information with all the intensity of
a woman who hasn’t had a drop of
news for a week.

“He says that we are making
money hand over fist and that there’s
lots of room for two,” responded the
salesman.

out,” replied the

| the outside world we are to appear
jas the bitterest enemies. You will

|

 

to be unwilling to give up the secret
that trembled on his lips—‘“and so
I've decided to start up competition |
against myself!” He paused dramati-
cally and lighted a gold banded cigar
with scrupulous care. In the. dim
light of the waning day his bald head
took on a strangely portentous and
phosphorescent glow.

Bates,” he continued, “you must
pretend to have a falling out with
Then you will go and start
up a place on your own hook. I will
privately furnish the funds, but to

me here.

make cheap sausages and at first
you will get more or less trade and
make a profit, but as soon as the prof-
its stop I will begin pushing you in
the market and you will go to smash
and say you lost a lot of money.”

“Sure enough,” replied Bates. He
began to sit up and show interest in
the thing.

“And then,” concluded Sanders,
with the proud air of a man who
unexpectedly introduces a friend to
his wife—“and then investors will
fight shy of backing another company
and Jim Johnson can go hang.”

“Good enough,” responded Bates.

“Then that’s all right,” remarked
Sanders. “Now, if you’ll just go back
into the factory I’ll come out and dis-
charge you. We’ll have a few words
to make it seem real and you can
come to my house to-night and we'll
go into details.”

So Bates returned to the factory,
with a curious little smile on his
strongly intelligent face. In a few
minutes he was followed by Sanders.

“Bates,” cried Sanders, “is that
salami ready yet?”

“No, it’s not!” replied Bates trucu-
lently. The fat sausage makers

 

30 dozen size No. 2 cases.
call us up by Citizens phone 62.

 

EGG CASES FOR SALE CHEAP

We have on‘hand and offer for sale cheap while they last several hundred new
They are bulky and we need the room.

CUMMER MANUFACTURING CO., Cadillac, Michigan

Manufacturers of the Humpty-Dumpty Folding Egg Carriers

Write or

 

 

 

 

For Hay and Straw

 

 

 

Write, wire or telephone

Smith Young & Co.

Lansing, Mich.

All grades at the right price.

supply you.

    
   

We will be pleased to

  

 

 

Reference, N. Y. National Exchange Bank

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

We want to hear from shippers who can ship us regularly every week. If you
want to ship on commission we can offer you a g
to sell on track we will make you track bids each week. We are thoroughly
reliable and want to deal with just such shippers. Write us. -

E. O. Snedecor § Son

Egg Receivers
36 Barrison Street, Rew York

proposition. If you want

 

 

 

SEEDS

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. MIOH.

 

 

the kind you should sell.
manufactured by the

 

FLOUR.

brings you a good profit and satisfies your customers is
Such is the SELECT FLOUR

ST. LOUIS MILLING CO., St. Louis, Mich.

That is made by the most
improved methods, by ex-
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ly. “Bates, vou get out of my sight
before I hurt you. And you just
keep away from me after this,” he
shouted volubly as he caught his
breath, “for if ever I see your face
again I’ll push it in, by gum!”

Whereupon Sanders stalked back
to his office with a kingly tread, and
Bates, making a hurried exit from the
building, steered a straight course for
the corner saloon.

Up in his private office. Sanders
scowled heavily to himself.

“Bates needn’t have been so blam-

ed realistic,” he, muttered from time |,

to time.

With an angry gesture he opened
the window to lower his heated tem-
perature. From the corner saloon a
long, loud peal of uncontrollable
laughter ascended through the clear
Apri! air.

* # *

The Great Sausage War was a mer-
ry one. Each side opened operations
by shouting aloud that all other sau-
sages were inferior imitations.

Sanders had the happy aid of allit-
eration on his side, thus:

Sanders’ Sausage
Always in Season.

Bates, on the other hand, covered
his sausages with a tantalizing air
of mystery, so:

The New Idea in Sausages
Bear the Trademark of
The New Idea Sausage Co.

The New Idea Sausage Co., it will
be understood, was the business name
and style of the wily Bates, and the
public naturally rushed to buy these
sausages just to find out what this
new idea was.

And as soon as the fight became
evident, Jim Johnson folded up his
subscription blanks with quick deci-
sion.

“No use trying to get investors in-
terested in a sausage company when
there’s a sausage fight on,” he rumin-
ated sadly.

Meanwhile the two contending fac-
tors still further stimulated the pub-
lic’s interest in the fight by issuing
pamphlets. Sanders brought out a
serio-humorous booklet entitled, “The
Sausage Flirtation.” Bates counter-
ed heavily by publishing a wonderful-
ly tender little brochure called “The
Language of Sausages.”

“By Gum!” murmured Sanders to
himself one day. “By this fight I
will make money scare competition
and increase trade. Talk about kill-
ing two birds with one stone! Here
I’m bringing down a whole flock!”

But the New Idea in sausages did
not seem to take. At first there was
money in it, but trade soon dropped
off again.

“Now,” said Sanders, “we will have
one last try to make a bit of money
out of this, and then you will go
smash, Bates, and we will quit.”

And a few days later Hohokus
awoke one morning to find itself con-
fronted with:

A Startling Sensation in
Sausage.
The New Idea Sausage Co.

A Startling Sensation! In Sau-
sages! Whatever could it be? There
was hardly a family in Hohokus that
didn’t invest 15 cents to solve this
alluring riddle.

,“And that’s the last time,” swore

 

each purchaser as he washed the taste
of the sensation out of his startled
mouth. “That’s the last time I go
trifling with new sausages. -The old-
fashioned sausages are good enough
for me.” :

Here Sanders was ready for them
again. He now arose above mere
artful alliteration and greeted them
with the following:

Sanders’ Sausage
Tried and True.

Best For Others,
Best For You.

Aye, even thus he wagged his kind-
ly head above the roseate clouds of
rhyme!

That is why the New Idea Sausage

Company went out of business, nois~

ily lamenting that there is no money
in sausages any more.

That is why Jim Johnson couldn't
get any capital to go into the sausage
business on a large scale. The New
Idea was too fresh in. the financial
mind. :

And Sanders still holds sway as the
Sausage King, with Bates acting as
prime Minister Extraordinary.—But-
chers’ Advocate.

rss —___
The Summer Supply of Hogs.

The summer season in the pork
packing industry is recognized as
representing the eight months from
March to October inclusive. The
question of available supplies of hogs
for a period of several months is al-
ways one surrounded with much un-
certainty, and can not be based on
information other than general judg-
ment, which varies with individual
observers in the same field of obser-
vation. Nevertheless it has been
shown that the gathering together
of such opinions has been serviceable
in securing worthy results as to in-

~dicated resources of supply.

Each year for a long time we have
made extended enquiries in the early
part of the summer packing season
in regard to probable supplies of
hogs for the period ending Novem-
ber 1. A year ago the details pre-
sented were attended with the fol-
lowing expression: “The reasonable
conclusion from these evidences in
regard to market supplies of hogs for
the summer season is that some de-
ficiency may be shown for the first
half of the season, which is likely to
be balanced by an increase subse-
quently, and that, all things consid-
ered, the season may show an en
largement in numbers, possibly to a
considerable extent. There is quite
a general expectation of heavier aver-
age weight of hogs.”

The outcome of the season, as re-
flected in the packing records, wasa
good confirmation of these conclu-
sions. There was a gain of $730,000
in numbers of hogs packed in the
West during the eight months, rep-
resenting nearly 6 per cent., and an
increase of nearly eight pounds in
average weight of hogs—the gain in
numbers being mostly in the latter
part of the period. Prices have been
remunerative to producers of hogs,
and the animals have been free from
an unusual depletion in numbers from
maladies. The breeding basis has
been reduced, so that immediate re-
vival of hog raising could not be
appropriately expected.

Reviewing the information received
from the larger markets, with refer-

for last year: Chicago, 100 to IIo;
Kansas City, 110 to 115; Omaha, 105
to 110; St. Louis, to5 to 110; St.
Joseph, 100 to 105; Indianapolis, 90
to 95; Milwaukee, 100 to 110; for the
various other packing points of im-
portance, 100 to I1ro. From interior
correspondents the information
points to about the following: For
Ohio, 95 per cent.; Indiana, 100; IIli-
nois, 95; Iowa, 90; Missouri, 105;
Kansas, 100; Nebraska, 105. These
averages point to about 98 as_ the
general average for these _ States,
which represent the greater part of
the commercial supplies of hogs.
The proportion of the Western
summer packing in recent years rep-
resented by operations from July 1
to November 1, the last half of the
period, has been as follows: 1903,
47 per cent.; 1902, 44 per cent.; I9QOI
47 per cent.; 1900, 46 per cent.; 1890,
4s per cent.; 1898> 47 per cent.; 1897.
47 per cent.
four months in 1903 were not un-
usual in such relations.

The reasonable deduction from the
evidences now available is that a mod-
erate gain in numbers may be ex-
pected, compared with last year, and
that the period prior to July 1 will
likely reflect as much relative  in-
crease as the later period, and possi-
bly more, while the average weight
will probably not be increased, and
may fall somewhat short.

—_—_+ +> ___-

Discovery of Beefsteak.

Beefsteak, like most other good
things, was discovered entirely by
accident. It appears that Lucius Plau-
cus, a Roman of rank, was ordered by
the Emperor Trajan for some offense
to act as one of the menial sacrificers
to Jupiter; he resisted, but was at

length dragged to the altar. There

ence to expected supplies, the result |
is as follows, as compared with 100 |

This implies that the)

| ator was forcibly compelled to turn
them. In the process of roasting one
of the slices fell off the coals and was
caught by Plaucus in its fall. It
| burned his fingers and he _ instinct-
ively thrust them into his mouth. In
| that moment he had made the grand
discovery that the taste of a slice,
| thus carbonated, was infinitely beyond
'all the sodden cookery of Rome. A
new expedient to save his dignity was
suggested at the same time, and he
at once evinced his obedience to the
|emperor by seeming to go through

the sacrifices with due regularity and
his scorn of the employment of turn-
ing the whole ceremony into a matter
'of appetite. He swallowed’ every
| piece, deluded Trajan, defrauded Ju-
| piter, and invented the beefsteak! A
| discovery of this magnitude could not
| long be concealed; the sacrifice began
| to disappear with a rapidity and sat-
isfaction to the parties too extraordi
nary to be unnoticed. The priests of
| Jupiter adopted the practice with de-
| light, and the king of Olympus must
| have been soon starved if he depend-
' ed on any share of the good things of
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What Athleticism Is Doing For Men’s
Dress.

Spring has demurred and wavered
and challenged and tantalized much
after the manner of a maid of sweet-
and-twenty, and the clothes question,

although uppermost in everybody’s |

thoughts, has not crystallized as rap-
idly as usual. The forms and fabrics
of the new season are, of course, es-
tablished and will change little from
now until Autumn. It is to the fads,
then, that we must look to give a
soupcon of spice to the fashions, to
relieve the soberness of dark cloths
and quiet patterns, and to mitigate
the funereal air that is prone to creep
into men’s dress after a period of
riot in color. Smart people are al-
ready turning their backs upon town
and either crossing the water or re-
treating to cottage, camp, bungalow,
however one may choose to designate
one’s country place. As Americans
grow. in wealth and leisure, so do
they grow in appreciation of the
graces and refinements of living and
in a love of outdoor life. The untutor-
ed person, whose conception of the
fashionable type of man is a draw-
ing room hero “uttering platitudes
in stained glass- attitudes,” is patheti-
cally wide of the mark. No other
race save the English has done as
much as we have to foster the manly

sports and wholesome activity in the |

open. And this spirit, as I have said
again and again, is mirrored in the
dress of Americans, which shows no
trace of effeminacy, but is simple,
comfortable, sensible and suited to
climate and environment. The state-
ment, often triumphantly put forth,
that there is no such thing as “Fash-

ion,” and that what is called fashion |

| marble greys and light tans,
| and buffs are prominent.

 

is merely the expression of the indi- |
vidual’s taste and judgment, is quite |

without point. Unquestionably a
gentleman does not dress by rote,
and unquestionably he consults his
own notions as to what is becoming
to him. But there are certain funda-

mental principles of dress, just as|

there is a fundamental standard of
good breeding, that are acknowledged
wherever gentlemen meet the world
over, and these constitute an unwrit-
ten dress code that stands as firm as
a granite shaft. Everybody who has
done his bit of globe-trotting has
noticed a marked likeness between
the dress of gentlemen of social po-
sition in every country. Customs and
radical characteristics may be as far
apart as the poles, but at bottom you
will find that the attributes which con-
tribute to form a gentleman in the
social sense are the same. The prig
is not the man who follows the fash-
ion, but the quixotic person who af-
fects to hold himself superior to it.
and who, if the truth he told, is
often an abject, although stealthy.
worshipper of caste. The one is de-
cently observant of the manners and
usages that govern his fellows; the
other is addicted to a form of cad-
dishness all the more odious because
it is masked under pretended scorn

 

 

of the proprieties. But I am getting

prosy.

The pleated soft shirt is approved
by the best dressed men for Spring
and there is a noticeable leaning to-

ward fewer and broader tucks in cus-
tom garments. This may be con-
strued simply as a desire to depart
from ready-made models, although,
to be sure, the fewer the pleats, the
less danger of crumpling and ravel-
ing of edges in the laundry. Fold
cuffs are unsuited to any but the most
expensive shirts, and it is quite im-
probable that they will be taken up
by the generality of men. They are
distinctively the mark of the upper
class garment. Among colors the

Plain front
neglige shirts are receiving little at-
tention in the best trade, and it would
not surprise me to see the pleated
bosom in complete favor throughout
Spring and Summer. The monogram
fad is not spreading; indeed, there
seems to be a reaction against it. No
objection can be urged to an incon-
spicuous monogram above the cuff,
but when a monogram stands out
on the shirt like a church steeple
against the sky, it is too akin to cattle
branding to be relished by gentlemen.
Handkerchiefs, always of linen, no
longer run to violent colors and mix-
tures, but have solid white centers
and spotted or delicately colored bor-
ders. The silk and linen handker-
chief has been dropped by high-class
shops and on its tombstone may be
inscribed: “Killed by popularity.”
In cravats purple is one of the domi-
nant colors of the season. The broad,
folded-in four-in-hand is the best
form to accompany the wing collar,
though ties are also beginning to be
worn. These are full and wide and
have nothing in common with the
snippy butterfly shape. I touched
on the budding vogue of Windsor ties
for men last month and shall have
more to say presently. The wing
collar is being favored by every man
who can lay any claim to following
the fashion. The fold is not to be
thought of until we discard waist-
coats and derbies and put on belts,
straw hats, soft shirts and the like.

And now we come to the sempiter-
nal subject of the evening jacket. T
never fancied this interloping gar-
ment for it is neither more nor les~
than a glorified smoking jacket. The
swallowtail is the only coat fit to
wear into the drawingroom after sun-
down at any function tinged with for-
mality and honored by the presence
of women. But preserving the dress
proprieties during the blistering days
and sultry nights of mid-Summer is
like trying to stem a mighty tide; the
very man who holds out inflexibly
against the evening jacket in Winter
is among the first to slip it on in
Summer and moistly waves you away
when you undertake to reason with
him. So what is there to do but re-
main dumb? Let us face the problem
and candidly admit that the comfort
of the evening jacket is too genuine
to be questioned, and that, in the ab-
sence of a garment to fill its place,
it is here to stay. For my own part.
I will have none of it and invariably
wear the tail coat.—Beaunash in Hab-
erdasher.

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Spring Trade in Shirts Retarded by
Cool Weather.

Cool weather has retarded to some
degree the sales of spring goods, al-
though the business in pleated shirts
has been very good. In fact, the
fine trade has run to pleated bosoms,
somewhat neglecting the plain. We
would not be surprised to see the
pleated shirt the leader this season
notwithstanding the early favor
shown to plain bosoms, and the very
general belief that the latter would
command the largest following.
Among the custom makers there is 2
pronounced leaning toward wider
pleats and less violent colorings and
designs. Box pleats, clusters and
narrow pleats, though, figure in all
lines. Damasks and cambrics find
increased favor. The progress of the
coat shirt in negliges has been very
satisfactory and this style will un-
doubtedly be a leader in selling. One
of the largest manufacturers who
has the coat shirt in every line that
he makes, soft and stiff, will extend
his representation of this style in his
autumn showing. The responses to
argument on the part of both maker
and retailer have been immediate, all
of which goes to show that the con-
sumer can be educated by his dealer
iy the thing be undertaken tactfully.
Prejudice may die hard, but it can
not survive a fusillade skillfully di-
rected against it.

Autumn lines are tolerably com-
plete and they bring many old favor-
ites and some new ones. The dark
grounds shown for spring were not
welcomed in some sections and_ the
light were demanded. The new lines
contain both dark and some light, and
run the whole gamut of color. We
believe that public taste will revert
to quieter effects, although there are
many adherents to pronounced pat-
terns, weaves and colors. Stripes,
dots, spots, groups, clusters and hair
lines all appear in the designs. A
prominent house is considering for
autumn the abandonment of the
$13.50 line and starting at $14.50,
which would require the retailer to
sell the shirt formerly marketed at
$1.50 for $1.75. This is due to the
rise in the cost of material which, if
long maintained, will force prices
upward.

Although the cross stripe bosom is
mentioned as among the autumn pos-
sibilities, it is not at the present time
viewed with marked favor. The fact
that it has been put into a few cus-
tom lines for spring does not make
it any the less an oddity. Horizon-
tal stripes restrict patterns and do not
allow of such a wide range of designs
and treatments. Stripes will still be
up and down. Combination shirts,
that is, shirts with plain bodies and
fancy bosoms and cuffs, and also with
bodies of one design and bosoms and
cuffs of another, have a place in the
lines. They are striking and showy.

Stiff bosoms for autumn are. in
about the same position as a year
ago. The soft shirt has encroached
te such an extent on the domain of
the stiff garment that it has been
virtually elbowed out of the way,
and what used to be a profitable busi-
ness in stiff shirts has dwindled to
next to nothing. The pleated front
will replace the stiff bosom to a

 

great extent as last year. Comfort
is the feature most sought after for
purely business and lounging shirts
and this accounts for the gradual
wane of the stiff bosom in favor of
the soft shirt.

3etween ready-to-wear and custom-
made shirts the difference each sea-
son grows less pronounced. Indeed,
if we consider patterns and weaves,
the shirt manufacturer is, in some re-
spects, a bit ahead in newness of
style and range of assortment. The
special label and special order busi-
ness, too, are gaining and more and
more manufacturers are devoting
themselves to it.

Just to what degree the higher cost
of fabrics will affect shirt prices is
problematical. Advance buying by
manufacturers has largely offset the
increased cost, but the situation will
have to be met soon. Shirting mak-
ers have introduced some new lines
for autumn and strengthened the old
ones, and the fine goods differ so
materially from the cheap that there
can be no danger of confusion among
buyers. The pick of weaves and col-
ors will go to those who see the new
lines early and are not afraid to or-
der. Hanging back in the hope that
the situation will change appreciably
is not good policy. Favorable spring
and summer weather are all that are
needed now to spur trade and de-
crease stocks. The bulk of the cus-
tom shirt business has been done
principally in flannels, oxfords and
silk and linens.

Of pajamas the pongee silks are
enjoying a bit of a vogue just now.
These fabrics are also made up into
night-robes and are much favored by
a certain class of trade. The cost-
liest and most luxurious cloths enter
into sleeping garments to-day, the
military cut being most approved. Of
course, stripes and checks in multi-
colored fabrics rule popular price
trade. Printed madras, cellular cloth
and kindred materials are also prom-
inent. They close with silk frogs
and are made with the conventional
pearl buttons. The cheaper night
shirts are made of muslin, sometimes
trimmed in colors.—Haberdasher.

—_—_—_o-2- ———
The Ways of Farmers.

Although the modern farmer is not
like the old-time one, it is still a
fact that in the phrase, “the ways of
farmers,” there lies an implied re-
proach. The old-time farmer, you
will recall, neglected his horses, left
his tools exposed to the weather,
failed to gather his crops on time.

Possibly, you have used this very
phrase and that being the case, it is
well to ask if, then, the pot was not
calling the kettle black. When you
neglect to keep yourself in good con-
dition, are you following better ways
than the farmer who neglects his
horses? When you allow your stock
to remain. tumbled and mussed and
pulled about, are you doing better
than the farmer when he leaves his
tools out in the rain and sun? When
you miss sales because you have lit-
tle or no system and can not proper-
ly handle the trade that comes or
would come under better conditions,
are you following better methods
than the farmer who fails to gather
his crops on time?

The modern farmer has _ bettered
methods, simply by solving, to an
extent, the problem of how to avoid
waste. In merchandising as in farm-
ing, in the waste of
more than in the waste of extrava-

gance lies the harm—although care- |

lessness, it would seem, is the great-
est extravagance of all. Look close-
ly for the wastes in your business—
not always in actual dollars and
cents, possibly, but in things that

carelessness |

|

Made to Fit

| and

Fit to Wear

must and do represent dollars and |

cents.

Without system or responsi- |

Buy Direct from the Maker

bility in the work of your store, with- |

out a system in the handling of
stocks and customers so that time

may be saved and made the most of, |
without some one to call to task|
any one connected with the business, |
responsible for upsetting that which |

you and your employes are trying to
build up from another

waste.

Your main idea in conducting busi-
ness should be to make your capital
go farther and bring back more,
month after month, season after sea-
son, year after year. You want to
accomplish this, not by squeezing

and stinginess, but simply because |

that is what capital is for and what
it should be made to do, continuous-
ly. Think over these facts, not mere-

ly for the trade of any one season)

but for the trade of the year through,
even in the dullest day you will ever
experience.—Butler Bros.’ Circular.

——_+- +.

Be friendly with your neighbors; |

you do not know when you might
need them.

direction, |
without these, there is bound to be

 

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agent in every town in Michi-
gan to sell the Great Western
Fur and Fur Lined Cloth
Coats.
particulars on application.

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| MILWAUKEE, WIS.
| B. B. DOWNARD, General Salesman

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Market Conditions in the Neckwear
Line.
Fall lines of neckwear include a

variety of new treatments in cravat- |
- ms . |
tings which will appeal to the best |

tastes of particular buyers. The de-
signs run to figures, varying from
pin-head effects to large scroll and
floral or leaf patterns, and include
geometrical, nondescript and art de-

signs. The color treatments are

monotones, and three and four tone |

combinations.

Grays are again very |

prominent; also black and white cra- |

There is a new
grays, however, in which red,
green and, in fact, all the colors of
the season are blended in equal pro-

vattings.

portions, making combinations which
are exquisitely rich. In these the

grays form the grounds, the patterns

being in colors, and with gray and

series of |
blue, |

colors equally mixed in the grounds. |

In the holiday collections  T’art
noveau weaves show relief figures on

recess grounds which accentuate the |
of the designs. The|

“standing-out”
fabrics are unusually heavy, and the
astonishing part of them is that, not-
withstanding their apparent high
grade, they will enter into neckwear
lines selling from $4.50 to $9 and car-
ry all the appearance of the richest
and heaviest foreign cravattings usu-
ally imported in squares for custom
trade. The secret of their manufac-
ture lies in the looming of the silks.

If some of the cravattings brought
out for fall and holiday trade seem
to smack a bit of “things that are
seldom what they seem to be,” it is
because the fabricators, the manufac-
turers and retailers are simply meet-
ing the exigencies ot the times with
that which will give them a profit.

All concerned would be only too
glad to eliminate the present “fake’’
features of the business, and could
readily do it if trade were only in a
healthy enough condition to warrant
it. But business men, be they manu-
facturers or sellers, like ordinary mor-
tals, have to live. To survive they
must obtain a profit out of their busi-
ness, which has not been possible at
all times during the last several sea-
sons. Hence the necessity for sub-
stituting cotton for silk, and so con-
cealing the substitute that only the
practiced eye of the expert can detect
the cleverness of the fabricators.

So long as cranky, particular buy-
ers are insistent upon quantity, some-
body is sure to be clever enough to
take the difference out of the quality.
Consumers, however, will undoubted-
ly appreciate the seeming  indiffer-
ence, believing they are getting more
for their money. In French seams
the cravats carry the appearance of
fine goods, and in square careful hem-
ming conceals the presence of the
mercerizer to the uninitiated.

Foreign manufacturers of cravat-
tings were the first to introduce cot-
ton warps to this country. They were
such an instantaneous success that
the domestic people immediately took
them up, and their best efforts are
seen in fall collections. It is now
predicted that these cravattings have
come to stay. They are money-mak-
ers in popular-line goods.

Retailers have also obtained a good
profit from them, realizing when they
got the goods “in the house” that

 

they “looked extra values,” and were
sold for better prices than were in-
tended by the wholesale prices. These
are the kind of “values” retailers like.
When they get them they see bigger
profits in sight. The merchandise
gives excellent service in wear. What
more can be desired when a fifty-
cent cravat brings double, and looks
like a dollar grade?

Favorable spring weather was need-
ed to stimulate interest in neckwear,
and since top coats have been sub-
stituted for heavyweight overcoats
retailers have done more business.
Improvement will undoubtedly con-
tinue to be the order of the day with
As men don
less weighty apparel they take more
interest in neckwear, and retailers
should continue doing better business
from week to week.

the advancing season.

The displays of bright-hued scarfs,
which are like harbingers of the good
old summer time to the men who
have been monotonously clinging to
funereal blacks and grays, should in-
spire desire to be in keeping with
the month of blessoms. Dame Fash-
ion has done her utmost to make
colors la vogue, and if men would
only divorce themselves from staples
and woo the rich color blooms in
spring neckwear, the neckwear busi-
ness would take a new lease of life.
—Apparel Gazette.

—_>-2—_—__
Great Lake of Siberia.

Lake Baikal, in Siberia, is from
twenty to sixty miles wide and 500
to 600 miles long. It lies between
too and 110 degrees east longitude
and 50 and 56 degrees north latitude.
Its area equals that of Lake Erie and

Lake Ontario combined. Its depth
is a mile in places. Lake Superior,
the deepest of American lakes, is

1.030 feet deep.

There is a convict route around the
lower portion of the lake, but the
grades are so stupendous that the
cost of a road over this route has
been estimated to be $250,000 a mile.
Roads in the United States average
about $40,000 a mile under difficulties.
The route is 150 miles long. It is
evident why the Russian depends up-
on his boats in summer, which make
three round trips weekly, and builds
kis railroad upon the ice in winter,
when it freezes to a depth of twelve
feet.

In summer the storms strike Lake
Baikal out of a clear sky. The wind
1ushes down from the north like a
hurricane, without warning. When
it strikes the surrounding hills, which
nose out into the lake in rugged,
precipitous promentories, the hurri-
cane changes to a eyclone and the
surface of the deep sea is twisted
into the most appalling shapes. Rus-
sian boatmen never attempt to
weather Baikal storms if there is any
hope of reaching the nearest shore.
If the shore be astern sailors turn
about and flee. If it be ahead they
flee. Baikal terrifies the Russian not
only in summer but in winter.

In winter it is equally as danger-
ous. When the air holes close in
the ice, as is frequently done, there
is an explosion that can be heard for
miles. The surface of the ice be-
comes a volcano and huge mountains
of ice shoot upward, fall and disap-

 

pear in the water, to reappear at an-
other place, crashing through the
frozen surface. The closing of an air
hole in the ice of Lake Baikal might
wreck the Czar’s ice railroad, sink

his cars and rails and possibly his.

soldiers, and completely cut off com-
munication until another route across
the lake could be laid out, to meet,
perhaps, a similar fate.

The directors of the road have con-
templated building around the lower
end of the lake, and possibly work al-
ready has begun. But it will be two
or three years before it is finished,
and surely not in time to assist in
the transporting of troops to meet
the advance of the Japanese on the
Yalu.

One end of the lake traffic is List-
venichnaia. The other is Missovaia.
The distance between them is fifty-
three miles.

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It is remarked that there are very
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day who are addicted to habits of
dissipation. Many of them neither
smoke nor drink. They have found
it wise to keep their heads clear and
never to allow themselves to get in-
to a condition in which they might
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tion. A word out of season often
ruins the most carefully laid plans.
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its. They thus more easily fleece the
individuals who tarry over the wine
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

19

 

THE TWIN TOWNS.

Bright Prospects Ahead for the Two
Soos.
Written for the Tradesman.

Thousands of people in the Up-
per Peninsula’ and Northern Ontario
have had their eyes turned in the
direction of Toronto for weeks,
watching and waiting for the passage
of the Soo loan bill, which has for
its purpose the bringing about of the
reorganization of the Consolidated
Lake Superior Co. When the story
of the passage came over the wires
these thousands of people were filled
with optimism, because it will result
in the giving of work at good wages
to thousands of men.

The Consolidated Lake Superior
Co., in its re-organized state, will be
in a position to operate its large
plants, complete the Algoma Cen-
tral Railroad to a point where it will
connect with the Canadian Pacific,
and it is planned to inaugurate a
campaign, through a special depart-
ment, for the securing of industries
for the American Soo. President
Cornelius Shields says many factor-
ies will be located on the American
side of the river.

The rehabilitation of this great or-
ganization will be of interest to the
public in all parts of the Middle
West, from the fact that from: the in-
ception of the schemes of Francis H.
Clergue, the man who harnessed the
St. Mary’s River and brought capital
to the North country until the col-
lapse that was heard in all parts of
the world came to darken the hopes
of the people, magazine writers and
newspapers everywhere discussed the
work of this man. The story is fa-
miliar. As the work progressed
Clergue was lauded to the skies. He
was likened to J. Pierpont Morgan,
held up to the youth of the country
as a character one could do well to
study. And then—when the crash
came—he was damned as an adven-
turer, a financial grafter who worked
the monied interests for all they were
worth. The organization was pic-
tured as a bubble. Wise men—men
who gained their knowledge ofthe
world while holding down seats in
editorial sanctums—denounced him
as a type of being to be shunned.

But away up North, in the vicini-
ty of the two Soos, and farther from
the settled country in the Ontario
mining district, Clergue stands great-
er to-day than ever before. He is
near to the hearts of the people, and
to him, more than any other one
man, do they give the credit of sav-
ing the great corporation he built up.
These people swear by Clergue and
would like to see him once more at
the head of the allied industries.

This re-organization is going to re-
sult in some changes in the indus-
trial world. The steel trust will feel
the result more than anybody else,
without doubt, for when the Algoma
steel plant starts operations its mar-
ket for steel rails in Canada will have
become a thing of history only. Can-
ada is going to build miles and miles
of railroads in the coming few years.
Were it not for the existence of this
mill these rails would have to come
from the United States. With the
mill running, they will patronize
home industry.

 

A good many people who are at |

a distance from the scene of opera- |

tions have come to believe that it)

will be impossible for any concern
to compete with the trust, because it
is such a gigantic corporation. They
evidently have not studied the Cana-
dian situation as have the mining
people of Northern Michigan and
Canada. Ontario will now have a
double interest in the success of the
plants of the big company. Ontario
will desire to protect herself on this
two million dollar loan and will exert
her influence to have Canadian rails
used in all improvements on _ that
side of the border. Canada is in-
terested in the building of a railroad
that shall run from ocean to ocean.
The government will build half ot
this line. It is natural that the only
Canadian steel mill in the country
will secure the contract for the ma-
terial. This is not all. A _ prohibi-
tive tariff will confront the trust, so
about the only means of gaining this
business will be to buy the plant. It
is not likely that the Ontario gov-
ernment would countenance such a
proposition.

The starting of the steel plant will
be a big thing to both Soos. Not far
from 1,500 men will be employed—all
at the highest wages. This class of
people spend money freely and mer-
chants prosper on both sides of the
river as a result. President Shields
says the plant will be ready to start
as soon as navigation opens. Other
plants will be operated in the near
future.

A feature of the re-organized com-
pany, according to President Shields,
will be a department organized for
the sole purpose of inducing indus-
tries to locate on the American side
of the river. The people in this de-
partment will devote all their time
to educating manufacturing concerns
with a view to bringing them tothe
Upper Peninsula, where they can se-
sure power at a fraction of what it
would cost were they to use steam.

It is estimated that about five
months’ work will have to be done
on the big power house yet, but
nothing in this line will be started
until a corp. of expert engineers have
made an examination of the build-
ing and reported as to their findings.
Several hundred thousands of dollars
will be expended in this work, which
will insure a large pay roll on this
side of the river.

Another thing that will influence
business conditions in this part of the
State will be the paying off of all
claims against the company, includ-
ing the wage claims of some of the
men who worked on the canal be-
fore the water was turned in last
summer. Thousands of dollars. will
be paid out to settle judgments, all
of which will go into the pockets of
the people of the east end of the
Upper Peninsula.

They say it never rains but it
pours. The American Soo seems to
be the recipient of a shower of good
things just at the present time. The
United States Government is about
to start the work on the Neebish
channel, which will take four years
at least and cali for the expenditure
of as many millions of dollars. But
this is not all. The Government is

 

buying up some. valuable
along the river front for use in the
operation of the ship canal. The first
deal was made a few days ago, the

property

consideration being $148,000 for 3 4-10 |

acres. Other deals will come toa
head in a very short time. The land
that has been purchased was occu-
pied by the Union dock, the passen
ger and freight dock of the city. Af-
ter the coming year all business will
have to be done farther down the
river. It will cost considerable

nioney to make this move and labor- |

ing men will be benefited by the
work entailed.

3usiness men in the Upper
sula are confident that conditions will
be settled from now on, as it looks
as if there
ance in financial circles.

Penin-

can be no more disturb- |
Plans that |

have been held in waiting by the |
uncertainty as to what was to happen |

can now be carried out. There will
be no boom. Both
their fill of such prosperity. It will
be the aim of all to build on a per-
manent basis. The outlook, thanks
to both Uncle Sam and the Ontario
government, is all that could be de-|
sired. It seems as if both govern-
ments see in the twin towns some-
thing that in years to come will more
than repay them for what they arc
doing, Raymond H. Merrill.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

How the Selling of Cheap Shoes Pre-
cipitated Failure.

It behooves a merchant in a coun-
try town to cater to all classes of
trade; but more of them make the
mistake of going after the cheaper

than after the better class. It is
possible to overdo the matter in eith-
er case, but it is better to make the
mistake of pushing the better grades.

A country merchant can not very
well be a Marshall Field, but he
should avoid having his goods called
“cheap.” His merchandise should be
of good quality, with some cheap
goods, for those who can not be
urged to buy better, but every time
you sell a cheap article give the cus-
tomer to understand that it would
have been to his interest to buy
something better.

This should apply in the shoe de-
partment more forcibly than in any
other, because shoes are an actual
necessity and the best of them will
wear out soon enough. Without
considering appearances it is more
important to have a well made shoe
than any other thing you wear. A
coat with seyeral unsightly rents in
it is probably as warm as a new one
and will protect the wearer from ex-
posure as well, but let a rip come
in a shoe or a hole wear through the
sole, and the wearer’s health is jeop-
ardized, especially in bad weather.

When a mother buys a 98c shoe
for.a strong, lusty, 13-year-old boy,
she thinks she is getting a bargain,
when the truth is she is “skinning”
herself, as it were, for a shoe of that
size (a No. 3 or 4) can not possibly
be bought to sell at that price and
have any meat in it. It will probably
last that boy about four or five weeks
and then she will come in and swear
it was no good. Of course, it was
no account and she should not expect
it to be.

In his zeal to make a sale a clerk
will frequently make strong  asser-
tions about a cheap shoe that he
knows he can not substantiate. After
he sees a woman does not want to
pay $1.50 or $2 for her boy’s shoes,
he will fall back on the $1 kind and
tell her that “it’s just as good as the
higher price one, only it isn’t finish-
ed quite as well, but will wear with
the best of them, etc.,” and the woman
will take him at his word and when
the shoe does not wear satisfactorily
she will bring it back and remind
him of the extravagant claims he
made for it.

Tell the truth about a shoe, if you
miss a sale. Do not tell a customer
the $1 shoe is as good as the $1.50
one, for you know better; and if the
customer has ordinary intelligence
she will either know it is not the
truth or that you are robbing the
one who buys the $1.50 one, and in
either case you are giving her a bad
impression of your business methods.

When a customer comes in whose
appearance indicates that she is not
able to pay a big price for a shoe,
commence by showing her a medium

 

grade for her boy, say $1.50. You|
can buy a fairly good satin calf or |
oil grain boy’s shoe for $1.10 or $1.15 |
and sell it for $1.50, which is a rea- |
sonable profit. If she says she is not |
able to pay that much tell her that, |
of course, you have cheaper ones in
price, but in the end they prove more
expensive; that you buy as carefully
as any merchant on earth, but you
have been unable to buy an all solid
shoe that you could retail for less
than $1.50; that a boy the age of hers
will wear out more shoes than a
man and she should get the strongest
ones possible; that a $1 shoe will
wear him four or five weeks and the
$1.50 one should wear at least three
months; that you will guarantee it to
have a solid counter, sole and inner
sole, and that you will repair reasona-
ble rips free of charge, etc.

In telling her this impress her with |
the fact that it is not for your interest
you push the better shoe, but for
hers; that your per cent. of profit
would be as great or greater on the
cheaper one. Of course, it is to both
your interests for her to buy the
better. You may not make any
larger per cent. directly, but you will
be saved a great many complaints,
besides giving your house the reputa-
tion of selling dependable stuff.

If she persists in buying the cheap
shoe after what you have told her,
you have cleared your skirts and she
will not be apt to come back and
kick if it does not wear to suit her,
but if she takes your advice and buys
the better one it is up to you to
make your claims good. If it rips,
sew it up for her; if the sole comes
Icose nail it on; in other words, be
as truthful with your customer as
you are with your preacher or doc-
tor, and you will establish an envia-
ble reputation that will enable you
not only to sleep well at night, but
“put money in thy purse” as well.

I was employed at one time in a
shoe department that catered almost
exclusively to the cheaper class of
trade. Temporary poles with hooks
on them were scattered throughout
the department, on which shoes of
various prices were displayed, but the
cheapest ones were made the most
conspicuous. We started out by fea-
turing a woman’s 98c shoe, both in
displays and advertisements, which,
goodness knows, was certainly cheap
enough, but the department was new
and customers were not coming in
carriages, so the manager concluded
to stir up a little excitement by
springing something still cheaper on
the public.

He went to some auction or job
house and picked up several dozen
pair of women’s shoes for $6 per doz-
en. When they arrived he made a
big display—marked them 5o0c a pair
and put a big advertisement in the
paper announcing the arrival “of 1,400
pair of women’s fine India kid, Cu-
ban heel, patent-tip boots in button
and lace, worth $2, for 59c,” and the
next day the store was crowded.
Well-to-do women brushed elbows
with Dagos carrying one to two
mewling infants in their arms, all
pushing and jostling to get to the soc
shoes. Most of the well-to-do wom-
en went away disgusted, but most of
the Dagos loaded up generously on

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

21

 

 

the bargains(?), and in a week’s time
we had more complaints on our
hands than ever fell to the lot of
shoe clerks before, and the _ better
class not only tabooed us in the fu-
ture, but even the Dagos gave us the
go-by.

We kept on plugging away until
we got rid of them and by that time
the store was in the hands of a re-
ceiver, and jugt such methods as that
contributed to its dissolution. We
had nice shoes on the shelf—as nice
as any exclusive shoe store in the
city, and the clerks were a represen-
tative “body of the profession, and if
the better grades had been exploited
more and the cheaper ones less I’m
sure we would have worked up a
nice business.

If a customer walks past your win-
dow and sees it full of men’s and
women’s 98c and $1.24 shoes and
nothing else, she will conclude that
the interior corresponds to the dis-
play. On the other hand, if she sees
the window full of $4 and $5 shoes
she will pass you up if she wants a
medium price shoe.

Put a few nice ones and one or
two cheap ones in the window, but
have the bulk of the display consist
of $2 to $3 shoes for men and women
and children in proportion. Youcan
buy good solid stuff to sell at that
price with a good profit, and it will
hold: customers more securely than
by selling trash that will go _ to
pieces the first time it rains—Dry-

goodsman.
——_—_2> + 2

The Housewife and the Moth.

With the spring moving or house
cleaning comes the old, vexing ques-
tion of disposing of winter garments.
To the presiding genius of a_ real
house, with well-arranged cellar and
attic, the problem is comparatively
simple; plenty of moth balls and
newspapers from which to evolve
shapeless bundles—old boxes, barrels
and trunks—and the thing is done.

But for the city housewife, in her
apartment or flat, the proceeding is
more complicated. When storage
space is limited to a couple of steam-
er trunks under beds or in shallow
closets, or in the dusty bin of the

apartment-house cellar, every inch
must count.
The fundamental principle upon

which to work is to discard every-
thing that is not worth saving. This
is not a plea for wastefulness; for, if
the average woman is frank, she will
admit that, year after year, she saves
articles of wearing apparel which she
knows full well will never be utilized
again.

Before sorting out the winter
clothing, lay in a plentiful supply of
tar bags, clean newspapers, tissue
papers for wrapping delicate fabrics,
boxes for garments whose shape must
be preserved, sweet lavender to scat-
ter among feathers, and some anti-
moth preparation. It must be borne
in mind that there is no death-on-
moths preparation.

Some antimoth preparations keep
the little pests from entering a box
or a package, but none will kill them
if they are already in the garment. If
a small moth, or even an egg, is in
the article when packed, no amount
of so-called preventive will kill it. It

 

is, therefore, necessary to have the | sage he noticed at once that some- |

garments thoroughly cleaned and thing was wrong with the machin-
aired, beaten and sunned before pack- | ery. He returned, gave the alarm, and
ing. thus prevented much damage. The
Starting from the underwear, all circumstance was reported to. the
flannels must be washed with more| head of the firm, before whom John
than ordinary care, as the oil from) was summoned.
the skin is particularly attractive to.
moths. For the same reason the ice, my lad,” he said.
housewife should insist upon having |
woolens rinsed thoroughly, as moths |
look with favor upon the oils used
in strong soap. Wrap in small, flat
bundles and mark legibly.

wages will be increased $1 weekly.”

“Thank you, sir,” said the bright lit-
| tle fellow.
| worth it, and to be a good servant
| to you.”

Men’s suits and women’s costumes |
should be well dusted and cleaned. |
If in very bad condition, send them 1 ie

The reply struck the chief almost

“You have done me a great serv-|
“In future your |

“T will do my best to be |

| as much as the lad’s previous service |

“That’s the right spirit, my lad,”
he said. “In all the years I have
been in business no one has ever
thanked me in that way. I will make
the increase $2. Now, what_do you
say to that?”

“Well, sir,” said the boy, after a
moment’s hesitation, “would you
tmind if I said it 2gain?”’
oo

If there is a man anywhere whose
heart does not leap upward in songs
of praise and thanksgiving when the
| first warm days of spring come, we
| are sorry for him. He is yet a great
way off from the sweet kingdom that
is to come. He not enjoy

would
} it if he were really there.

 

to the tailor’s or scourer’s’ before |

 

packing. It will have to be done be- |
fore the garments are donned in the |
fall anyway, and dust invites moths.
Collect: all garments that are  out-
grown, or which, for some _ reason, |
you know will be unavailable next
year, and sell them to the first old

Sporting Boots

 

 

   
   
   
  
 
  

clothesman who happens along.

Large outer garments, such as
jackets, coats and top coats, should
be put away in tar bags. These come
in three sizes, 30x50 inches, 30x60 and
30x90. The garments, swathed in tar
paper and caught on the regulation
coat hangers, should be hung close
together in the coolest closet the flat
or house affords. At intervals during
the hot weather they should be taken
out, examined thoroughly, beaten and
returned to their summer quarters.

Many gowns which would not pay
for storage as a whole can be ripped
up to advantage. Select the best
parts of the cloth, clean and press
and roll away for a winter blouse.

Lace should be cleaned and_ laid
away; aired and wrapped the furs are
sent direct to a cold-storage plant.
The explanation is simple. Moths
generate in a hot atmosphere, but
they can not move or increase in
extreme cold.

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The woman who values her furs,
yet can not afford cold storage,
should air and clean them thoroughly,
and examine them with extreme
care. Tails seem the favorite nest-
ing place for moths, so the tails of
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Curious Condition Confronting the
Woman Shoe Buyer.
Written for the Tradesman.

“T have often wondered,” said a
lady to me the other day, a lady who
is a thrifty householder, a conscien-
tious and capable buyer of every de-
scription of domestic necessity, “T
have wondered,” said she, “a good |
many times, at the queer experiences
that befall one at the hands of the
genus clerk in the average city shoe
store. I have talked with a number |
of other women on the subject and |
I find that I am not the only one who |
encounters the same difficulty.

“T refer to that indefinable, that in-
tangible something one recognizes in
the atmosphere the moment one}
crosses the threshold of the store de- |
voted to the sale of the products of |
the shoemaker’s art. I begin to feel |
on the defensive the instant I close |
the door behind me, as if I said to my- |
self, ‘Now comes the tug of war!’ |

“Many times have I endeavored to |
analyze the emotion that comes over |
me, the feeling of antagonism that is |
engendered toward each and every |
attache of the establishment, from
the proprietor down through the dif-
ferent graduations to the shine boy
who polishes my shoes gratis—if I’ve
bought them in that particular place.

“TY am of the opinion that the an-
tipathy is due, in a measure, to the
fact that the moment a clerk has ac-
complished—either openly and above
board or with adroit finesse—the get-
ting of my shoe off, that moment I
am at his mercy, and I either have to
await his pleasure in putting it back
on my foot, or, if he dilly-dallies too
long, possibly with a degree of
awkwardness I am obliged to replace
it myself.

“The buying of a shoe is naturally
a very different matter from the pur-
chase of any other article of wearing
apparel. We will say the customer
investing in the shoes is a lady. If
she is of the petite variety of femin-
inity, her foot is generally one to
be proud of.as to contour; and she is
not averse to displaying it under all
the circumstances that may present
themselyes. But, if her figure is
built on the plan of generous pro-
portions, she is likely to be the more
or less unhappy possessor of a foot
that was intended by Nature for use,
and not to be looked at from the
viewpoint of mere beauty. Possibly
nay, probably—-there are certain
excrescences belonging to it that
were not there when she was born
and whose protruding prominence is
a matter to occasion her much embar-
rassment—not to say annoyance—
when she is obliged to expose their
awkward presence of the keen
optics of the critical, oftentimes un-
feeling clerk.

“This, of itself, is calculated to be
decidedly unpleasant, and when to
this are added the importunities of a
salesman to purchase what isn’t want-
ed as to style and other shoe reguire-
ments in her particular case, the lady
of sensitive temperament is subjected
to an ordeal which is anything but

agreeable for her to go through.”
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As the lady said, this feeling.
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indulged in toward the whole body
politic devoted to the dissemination
of. Saint Crispin’s wearables.
+ £ se

Since listening to the remarks of
the lady, I have again had a personal
demonstration of the mental state
she attempted to describe, and since
talking with her on the subject in

| question I have asked several ladies—

old, young, rich, poor, fussy ones and
some just the opposite, pretty girls
and homely old maids—if they per-
ceived this sentiment in their deal-
ings with the people who waited on

| them when they went on a shoe-pur-

chasing expedition.

Without an exception they said in
substance:

“Yes, there is a feeling I can’t ex-
plain, about the apparently simple
transaction of getting a pair of shoes,
Oxfords or slippers, although it is
to be remarked that this* idea seems
to be lacking somewhat when rubbers
are the object sought.”

One charming young girl voiced
the opinion of all when she stated:

“Yes, I know exactly the feeling to
which you refer, although I can hard-
ly describe it in words. It is as if the
clerks felt injured—I might say were
actually angry—if you walked out
without buying their goods, or if you
didn’t take the first pair of shoes they
brought you. That is just it—they
seem to object to trying on more than
one shoe, or, at the most, two; and
if you are not pleased with the third
or even the fourth one they put on
your foot, they show very plainly that
they wish you had not entered their

place of business. I notice they act |

alike about. this in every shoe store I

-enter, whether it is the owner that

waits on you or only one he hires.

“It’s different with everything else
you buy. You go to a_ milliner,
whether an exclusive store or as a
department in a general one, and you
don’t get that kind of treatment—why,
you often try on twenty hats before
you are suited, and even then you
can walk out unmolested by cross
looks and sullen manners. Yes, that’s
just it—a shoe man acts sullen if you
refuse to have foisted on you the shoe
you abominate.”

* * x

Yes, since I began this noting down
of my observations of the very pecu-
liar phase of public feeling on this
subject, I entered a Monroe street
store to investigate the matter of
styles in the soon-coming _ spring
wearables in walking shoes. I like
to anticipate the seasons in my pur-
chases, although I am never to be
found “the first by whom the new is
tried.” But I always want my pur-
chases a little ahead of time, so that
I am not rushed when the new season
is actually upon us. So I am looking
thus early at low shoes.

In this particular store it ever
seems my lot to fall to the tender(?)
mercies of the proprietor himself.
And, although I have bought a num-
ber of patrs of shoes of him, I dis-
like his manner exceedingly. ’Tis
such an offish, I-wish-you’d-staid-
away sort of attitude he assumes.

The very first thing I told the man,
on this occasion, exactly the sort of
walking shoe I was looking for. He
said he hadn’t it. I suggested, point-

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World’s Fair.
Descriptions of the leather and rubber, and shoe machinery
exhibits.
a. Illustrated account of the processes of making shoes.
b. An illustrated account showing the processes of making
rubber footwear.
c. Description of the processes of tanning leather, as shown
in the working exhibits.
Special contributions by prominent retail shoe dealers, upon
store-keeping problems, as buying, advertising, selling,
stock keeping, credits, management of sales-force, etc.
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ing to a pair that came the nearest
to what I wanted, that “I might try
on that.” Mind you, he never offered
such a thing! But he tried it on. I
didn’t admire the toe at all. It looked
like a duck’s toe—so flat. I said, very
pleasantly, that I didn’t fancy the
shoe—-that it had the same appear-
ance as some I already had home and
had worn but twice—I hated them so.
He looked mad and noncommittal.
He allowed me one more trying on
and I was not pleased with the fit of
the second pair. I told the man they
hurt my heel.

He then put on my own shoe, with
sour downcast looks, jabbing the shoe-
string tags viciously through the eye-
lets and pulling up the slackness with
a long button hook with quite un-
necessary tightness, tied the strings,
leaving them untucked in, and I left
the establishment with a humiliated
feeling as if I had been caught steal-
ing a sheep.

Before departing I stood a moment
trying to placate the man by the
laughing remark that I was the one
that had to wear the shoes and not
he, and then I thanked him’ with a
cordiality I was far from feeling, and
got away from the store with the
uncomfortable consciousness that I
had given irrevocable offense.

Be ae

If some shoe dealer will kindly ex-
plain, through the columns of the
Tradesman as a mediun, this general
attitude of his class toward the public
that brings him his bread and butter
——not to mention his jam—-I, in com-
mon with scores of similar sufferers,
would be under great obligations.

TY.
2
Interior Decoration Quite as Impor-
tant as Window Trims.

When a retail merchant, no matter
where located, decides to give proper
attention to the matter of store dec-
orating and practical window dress-
ing, he is sometimes prone to devote
his sole attention and efforts to the
windows; often neglecting the im-
portant feature of interior decorating.

Good window display is a big step
towards retail success; but when this
is accomplished it is well to consider
ways and means of improving the
methods of interior display. In some
of the larger department stores in
Chicago and New York great atten-
tion has been paid to this question.

One of the former’s largest furni-
ture houses built a complete cottage
on one floor of its establishment a
number of years ago. It is safe to
say that its fame has brought hun-
dreds of thousands to see it, and has
contributed largely to the enormous
amount of business enjoyed by this
house.

Marshall Field & Co. has made two
special interior displays recently, one
of furniture for summer homes, in-
cluding a suite of model rooms as
they should be furnished in an ideal
way.

The other display included every-
thing appertaining to a man’s ward-
robe. This attracted wide attention.
On one floor in the clothing section
were collected not only every mod-
ish style of made-up garments for
men’s wear, but also every article of
furniture and bric-a-brac which goes

 

to make up a bachelor’s apartments.

Another department store used a
large section on one floor to make an
imitation of a park containing trees,
walks, grass plots, miniature lakes,
benches, swings and everything for
the amusement of the children, for
which it was intended as a playground
where tired mothers could come and
rest from shopping exertions while
their off-spring amused themselves
under the watchful eyes of attendants.

Still another store which depends
largely upon local trade, displayed
a barn yard scene with sheep, cattle
and horses. It is needless to say that
this appealed to the class of trade
to which this firm catered as well as
to the lovers of nature who have not
the means to enjoy it, except in such
a measure as may be had in the city
parks.

These instances mentioned here are
of course dissimilar but illustrate
the point that interior decorating of
the store may be featured to attract
in even a greater measure than can
windows.

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She Wants to Know.

It has lately become the fashion to
publish the letters of people who are
or have been famous, infamous and
otherwise. We, therefore, take pleas-
ure in laying before the public the
following epistle, written by a woman
who resides in Beagh, Kan., to a lady
who receives ,her mail at Animosa,
Towa.

I thought being I am a reader of
the Missouri Valley Farmer and be-
ing I am acquainted with a man that
used to live there, Mr. , but
now lives in Beagh and intended to
be my future husband in May 22, 1904.
Ye told me to write you a few lines
and enquire of you if he knows you
and if he was a member of the M. E.
Church there. And besides that the
janitor of it too. And if he aint all
©. K. And I want you to tell me how
many children he has. I don’t care
how many if they want to come and
see I and him when we are married
they can and will you please find out
when kind of a wife his son John a
going to get he told his father he
intended to get married in June 24
and he don’t know her very well.
Now kind friend, I intended to come
and see some of my new neighbors
in Iowa and I want them all to think
I am all O. K. a fortune teller told
me I intended to marry in the royal
family and if you say it is so it will
be all right because I have got his
Photo Square and fair and his Father
and Mother is well thought of and
so am I now don’t think that I am
bold because I write you these few
lines. I want to find out all about
him. Of course I am his promised
wife and I intend to be as long as
I live so now please ans soon and
Oblige a sister in Christ.

—_+-2>——_
He Told Her the Worst.

“Doctor,” said the beautiful young
woman who had become the wife of
a rich old man, “tell me the worst.
I will be brave and try to bear it.”

Leading her gently from her suffer-
ing husband’s bedside the doctor an-
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Necessity of Good Will Among
Hardware Dealers.

I speak especially of good will
among hardware men—the hardware
men of this State, of the various
wnanufacturers, the jobbers, the retail
dealers and the clerks in our employ
who will, no doubt, in the course of
time enter the ranks as hardware
men.

Let us begin with the manufactur-
er, for he plays, I was about to say,
the most important part in the trade,
but that is not so, for where would
he be without the jobber and the re-
tailer and their good will? The man-
utacturer has certain products which
must be distributed to the consumer,
certain new articles just out for
which a demand must first be created.
To do this, business tact and integrity
are required to secure good will. of
both jobber and retailer. It is the
legitimate field of the retailer to in-
troduce the article and help create
the demand. It is the province of the
jobber to fill all demands of the re-
tailer. It is the privilege of the
manufacturer to supply the jobber.
Each has his share of the work and
proportionate profit, and good feeling
abounds.

But let the manufacturer swerve
from the straight paths of business,
as he sometimes does, and the charm
is broken, confidence is destroyed.
He can not sell the jobber a large
bill of goods and then send out his
agents among retailers, catalogue
houses and department stores to sell
the same goods at a cut price and
expect to perpetuate the doctrine of
peace and good will at the same time.
Good will and co-operation go hand
int hand. But you never find co-oper-
ation linked with ill will. It is a poor
rule that won't work both ways, and
what holds true of the manufacturer
in his relationse with the jobber is
applicable also to the jobber in his
dealings with the retailer. As far as
possible it is his business to protect
the retailer. This he can not do by
systematic soliciting of trade from
the consumer; nor is this method pro-
ductive of any good will. It is the
business of the jobber or his repre-
sentative to protect the retailer by
assuring him of the lowest prices in
all present transactions, together with
a guarantee for all future shipments.
Do not imagine by what I have men
tioned that I consider the manufac-
turer and the jobber the only ones
who are responsible for the friendly
or unfriendly relations among hard-
ware men. The retailer has obliga-
tions as well—great ones—which
must not be shirked, and I will just
mention one way by which he can
secure the everlasting good will of
the jobber—and that is by paying
bills promptly.

There are some firms doubtless
who, by reason of a large capitaliza-
tion, are enabled to “carry their cus-
tomers” to an extent quite beyond
the ability of others. There are
others, however, whose credit de-

 

 

pends largely upon the promptness
with which they meet their own bills
and who feel that they can not af-
ford to ignore any element of risk.

There is no question about it, that
if the pernicious system of credits in
use by manufacturers, wholesalers
and retailers to-day could be elimin-
ated, it would improve every feature
of business and make for’ good,
healthy commercial prosperity.
Therefore, I say, pay your bills
promptly. You may not be able to
discount them—that’s your loss—but
endeavor to meet them as they ma-
ture. I remember several years ago
a jobber of your city made the re-
mark, “We have two classes of cus-
tomers. One takes all there is in
it by discounting bills; the other
class is so long-winded that it leaves
nothing in it.” But I am glad tosay
he still lives and is doing a good busi-
ness at his old stand.

Now, as regards the traveling man
—the representative of. the hardware
business. He is certainly entitled to
a share of our good will. Consider
how many times a tired knight of
the grip enters a place of business,
getting the scantiest courtesy from
the grouchy retailer. Maybe busi-
ness has not been the liveliest; may-
be the. retailer has been out all night;
maybe his store is already overstock-
ed. Is that any reason why he should
deliberately turn his back upon the
traveling man, keeping him waiting
all day with no intention of buying?
Some men use this snubbing process,
thinking it makes it easier to turn the
representative down. It is a poor
way and productive only of humilia-
tion and hard feeling. And why
should the salesman bear the brunt
of the dealer’s boorishness? He is
not responsible for business situation.

The representatives of jobbing
houses are entitled to all courtesy
trom us. They are doing a legitimate
business in soliciting our trade. They
do not expect to force it. It is to
be admitted that some are very tena-
cious and determined to get an order.
But remember that that very persis-
tency is one of the requisites of a
good salesman. If the dealer does
not care to buy, he ought to say so
promptly. He can be firm, courteous

and couch his refusal in such a gen-

tlemanly manner that the traveling
man will feel no frost, no humiliation
and depart with the impression that
he has been treated like a_ prince.
Good will will be the result of such
treatment, but not the only one. You
cast your bread upon the waters and
find it again, after many days _per-
haps, in various little attentions to
the particular wants of your trade
from the salesman who has become
your friend and well-wisher.

And now a word concerning local
relations. What will promote good
will among the hardware men of our
own little burgs?

Nothing can guide a man in friend-
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integrity and good will to perform
the duty of every hour.

Business men everywhere realize
that never was there a time when
competition along all lines of trade
was more fierce than it is to-day.
Chances of successful business
growth are fewer, profits reduced to

smallest margins. It is this fact that |

makes it necessary for the retailers
of any locality to establish a basis of
good will.

There is only one way to establish
results, and that is by well-directed
effort. It is all well enough to
preach good will, but_ something more
is necessary. There is need for re-
form in business—ways to improve it.
And it seems to me that the key to
the situation is local organization.

Let each retailer of hardware in
your city get into line, for concerted
action will develop trade. Let him
affiliate with his business competitors,
treating them as he would customers,
co-operating with them on all busi-
ness matters, exchanging views and
opinions, doing nothing underhanded
to get away competitors’ trade but,
by dropping all petty jealousies and
bickerings, become friendly allies in
the hardware business.

We all know this is the age of
“Any way to get there,” but I still
believe in the old adage of “Live and
let live.’ I believe unity along this
line of action would accomplish won-
ders in building up friendly relations
and hearty good will among local
dealers. The surest way to protect
the interests of the hardware business
is for the dealers to protect each
other. I am not in favor of ironclad
combinations on prices, but a mutual
understanding on staple prices would
not be amiss. Unity is strength. In
strength and influence there is enthu-
siasm, and as I said before, good will
and co-operation work hand in hand
and make for success.

—_——_--2.
Give the Store a General Cleaning
Up.
Written for the Tradesman.

The time of year is now at hand
when the poet tunes his lyre afresh
and proceeds to court the muse in
the hope of getting out something
original in the way of spring poems.

It is also the time of year when the
progressive merchant shakes off the
tired feeling which lays hold of every
one more or less in the early spring
and begins to lay plans for the cap-
ture of the elusive Almighty Dollar.

It is also the time of year when
the customer sniffs the air, redolent
of the woods, and begins to figure on
new clothes for his family and sea-
sonable eatables with which to tickle
the palate after a long winter of
buckwheat cakes.

It now is the accepted time for the
merchant to get a new grasp on life.
The stock has, no doubt, not been
kept up to a proper standard during
the winter, although it should have
been, and now is the time to freshen
it up. The human animal, after a
winter of animal foods, is looking
for green fodder. It is still too early
for green stuff, but the hothouse
product is obtainable and a goodly
display will net the grocer a tidy
sum.

Because it is spring many mer-

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chants make the mistake of thinking
that it is a good plan to unload on
the unsuspecting buyers the refuse
of a winter’s business at a bargain
sale which is a bargain sale in name
only. The idea may be all right, but
the right prices must be placed on
the goods—real bargain prices, not
the prices that the goods. usually
bring but a good cut that will sell
the goods and get them out of the
way to make room for the new and
attractive goods that mean so much
in keeping up the general atmos-
phere of freshness about the place.

Now is the time.of year, if ever,
that a place of business should look
fresh. Not that it should ever be the
opposite, but a dingy store is all the
more noticeable when everything else
is bright. When the door is open
and the fresh warm air is coming in,
filling every nook and corner with the
pleasant earthy odor; when the sun-
shine comes through the windows in
golden streams, unmercifully showing
up any defect in the general appear-
ance of the interior, then, if ever,
should everything be in harmony with
the beautiful outside world.

The window display is another
item to receive special spring atten-
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half in this general spring rejuveniz-
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without really knowing it, expecting
something new, is one of the most
important factors in getting new busi-
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So much has been said upon this sub-
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more; but the field is large and has
never yet been entirely covered.

One of the first things to be
thought of in connection with this
branch of the business is the delivery
wagon, or wagons, as the case may
be. Yet this branch of advertising,
in most instances, receives the least
attention. A man will spend $50 in
foolish handbill and dodger advertis-
ing when one-fifth of that amount
spent upon the delivery wagon would
be of ten fold more _ value. The
wagon is an advertisement whetever
it is—on the residence streets or in
the business section of the place.
Whether that advertisement is good
or bad depends upon the care that
has been expended upon it. Nothing
looks more as if the business was go-
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a fresh coat of paint.

Thus all through the business are
little things that must be attended
to in the spring. The springtime
seems to suggest innovations and
alterations. It seems fitting that
something should be done in the
spring in the way of a change and
to make the place more attractive to
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HOME TIES SEVERED

As a Result of the Trading Stamp
Mania.

 

I have another story to tell about
trading stamps this week from  an-
other standpoint. I am giving it to
you just as it was given to me by
the grocer in whose town it happen-
ed. If there is any exaggeration
about it, he made it, not I.

Some people think the trading

 

stamp scheme is a big thing for the
consumer. They think of nothing
but the theory that a woman, with-
out lifting a finger or paying a cent
more for her goods than she would
pay anyway, can collect enough
stamps in a little time to get a lot of |
“wseful and beautiful presents,” to |
cuote from Sperry & Hutchinson’s |
advertisement.

That is all right, but wait a min-
ute. I have a story to tell that con-
firms a belief I have had all along)
—that the trading stamp scheme is
the greatest destroyer of economy |
that the consumer ever had.

For everybody but the trading
stamp company it is a bad scheme.

A week or so ago I had occasion
to go to a little town down in one
corner of Pennsylvania. It has a
population of about 1,500 people and |
is one of those places where Mrs. |

Simpkins can not have the dressmak- |
er for a day without the whole town |
rubbering when she goes to church |
the next Sunday.

The trading stamp serpent has |
even invaded this place and nearly |

all the little stores there have trad- |

ing stamp signs in the window. They |
are redeemed in a larger town about |
seven miles away. |

“Well, I see trading stamps have |
struck you, like the rest of us,” I)
said to the grocer after we had fin- |
ished our business.

“So they have,”‘he said. “I would-
n’t have had anything to do with
’?em—I don’t believe such schemes
and business go together—but the
rest of the stores put ’em in and peo-
ple seemed to want me to, too.”

“Have they been a good thing for
you?” T asked.

“No,” he answered, “I can’t see
where they’ve done me any good at
all.”

“It is a scheme that has no good
in it for the dealer,” I said. “The
company and the consumer are the
only ones who get anything out of
at.”

““The consumer?” he repeated.
“I wouldn’t want to get whet a good
many consumers get out of it! Why,
there are people in this town who
have been completely upset by these
darned stamps. There was Charlie
Ambler’s wife up here—they lived as
nice and happy as could be before this
husiness came around, and now Char-
lie is living with his folks and she’s
gone to live with her sister in Har-
risburg.”

This was a new one.

“You don’t mean _ that trading
stamps broke up this man’s home,
do you?” T said incredulously.

“IT don’t know anything else to lay
it to,’ he answered. “That’s the
common talk around the place.”

Then I got him to tell me, and
here is the story:

 

| make all the difference between four

| little village Mrs. Ambler went crazy.
| She was not to be blamed for want-
| ing her home nice, of course, and she
| thought she saw a way to make it
| nice without spending a cent.

| stores in the village put in the stamps |

| grocer, every time she went to the}

|of two to accumulate $99 worth of

| tity these sharks will redeem, I be-
| lieve. And even when you've got

. This Charlie Ambler was a young
printer. He had the only printing
office in the village and he issued a
little weekly paper. No man in that |
business can get rich in a town of
1,500, but he made a few hundred a |
year and was happy and content. |

Just about two years before that |
he had married this girl from Har- |
risburg. He had met her while she |
was on a visit to the place. She was
a nice sort of girl, a clever house-
keeper, and they buckled down to-/|

| gether and made a little home in a/!
| two-story house on the outskirts of
| the village.

Ambler had no money to speak of
when he was married and he had
had to get his furniture by degrees.
He had done the best he could in
the two years he had been married
and had gotten everything fitted up

| but the parlor. That had a few
chairs in it, but none of the little

ornaments and_ knick-knacks _ that |

{
bare walls and a palace. |

When trading stamps struck this

Well, when practically all the |

she had a delighted fit. Everything
she bought she insisted on getting
stamps with, and, according to the

near-by town where the stamp store
was she would go in there and gloat
over the trumpery stuff on exhibi-
tion.

It takes a long time for a family

stamps, which is the smallest quan-

your $99 worth, it’s disappointing
what a meager little foolish thing
you can get for them.

With the Amblers the book filled
slowly. The grocer told me she only
spent about $3 a week with him, and,
of course, the bulk of anybody’s
spending is done for groceries and
rent, which brings no stamps.

Young Mrs. Ambler was a_ very
economical woman. She had always
been a close buyer and a very in-
sistent one. In fact, the grocer had
been sour on her more than once
on that account.

These accursed trading stamps
soon changed her disposition com-
pletely. In a little while she began
to buy two pounds of coffee where
she had formerly bought one, and
to buy it just as frequently. He said
he noticed that all her purchases
were larger and her weekly bills be-
gan to run 50 per cent. more than
they ever had before—simply and
solely to get more stamps!

Ambler’s bill was sent in every
month. When the first bill that
showed any _ substantial increase
reached Ambler he brought it back
to the store and asked an explana-
tion.

“We haven’t been eating any more,”
he said, “and we haven’t had any
company. I can’t understand how
it is that the bill is so much larger.”

The grocer showed him his books

 

  
    
      
           
       
     
     
       
     
   
    
        
      
    

 

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and the man paid the bill, although
very sullenly.

He must have called his wife down,
for her purchases got back to nor-
mal again for a little while, but they
soon began to grow again, and then
the grocer made some surreptitious
enquiries among other storekeepers
of the place. He found that she was
doing the same thing with all of
them—buying more than she ever had
before.

When the next grocery bill went
in, even larger than the one Ambler
had kicked over before, the young
fellow went to the grocer and told
him sharply that he did not want his
wife given credit for more than $3
worth of goods a week.

The grocer refused to be drawn
into the wrangle. He said he did
not want to be placed in the position
of having to refuse Mrs. Ambler
goods; advised the man to settle the
matter in his own home instead of
through the storekeepers.

Ambler went away without mak-
ing any reply, and all the goods that
his wife ordered thenext month she
got. c

The bill was just about as large
as it had been the month before.

To make a long story short, the
town woke up one morning and found
that Charlie Ambler’s wife had gone
back to her folks in Harrisburg and
one of Charlie’s married sisters had
moved into the little two-story house
with her husband.

Of course, the whole thing was
soon over town—who has a secret in
a country village? The poor girl
had had her head completely turned

 

by the trading stamps. Her laudable
desire to make her home pretty had
developed into a perfect craze to get
stamps. The only way she could get
them was by buying goods and, as
her ordinary purchases were small,
she soon began to buy more, and so
it went on. Ambler told the grocer
shortly after she had gone, that she
had left bills at every store in town
sc big that it would take him months
to pay them off.

The goods she had bought were
all stored in the house—they found
ten pounds of coffee in the kitchen
closet—but every premium she had
got she had stuck religiously in her
parlor.

Some of these days I hope with
all my heart that these people may
come together again. It would be
an awful thing if these wretched
stamps should break up a home for
all time.

I have no doubt there are hundreds
more cases on this same order. Not
as bad as this, perhaps, but bad
enough. It is a strong woman whose
head can not be turned by this lust
for getting something for nothing,
and once it is turned, the Lord only
knows what she will do.

My wife is collecting the stamps, in
an indifferent sort of way—she has
not got very far in yet—but I am on
the watch, and at the very first sign
that she.is getting under the influ-
ence, I am going to take a barrel
stave, remove the nails carefully from
the end, and then apply it where it
will do the most good.—Stroller in
Grocery World.

 

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As an example, take |
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Do not be afraid to have something
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always that good clothing and furn-
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The i "Attitude “Now Assumed
Towards Children.
Written for the Tradesman.

The simultaneous announcement
that the public schools are about to
return to corporal punishment and |
that a man in Kalamazoo has invent-
ed a patent spanking machine that is
guaranteed to carry repentance and
reformation in its wake is more than
a coincidence. It is a special Provi-
dence. Of course, there was never
anything the matter with the old-
fashioned, hand-made spank, except
that there was never enough of it
to go around, and so the invention
of something that promises to en-
large its cope and usefulness meets
a long-felt want, for there is no such
other crying need in America as the
unspanked children in need of a good
paddling.

I am quite aware that these views
will not meet the approval of most
mothers, and that I shall be consider-
ed a rank Philistine by the child cul-
ture cult, but to my mind there is
no other sin equal to that of letting
a child make itself and everybody
else about it miserable and uncom-
fortable when it could be sweetened,
reformed, made agreeable and optim-
istic by a judiciously administered
spank. For the spank stands to the
child for law and order and respecta-
bility, and it is happy just in propor-
tion as it is amenable to it. The
child criminal is just as miserable,
and unrestful, and guilty as the adult
criminal. There is no peace in law
breaking.

The most curious evolution of mod-
ern civilization is the new. attitude
we have taken towards children, and
its fundamental principle is that a
child must not be made to behave.
He is no longer forced into the
straight and narrow path and made
to stay there. He is beguiled into the
ways of righteousness and politeness
and civility, and if he condescends to
walk in that direction, everybody
breathes a sigh of relief and is thank-
ful for small favors. But if he be-
haves it is simply a matter of grace.
Nobody is rash enough to try to
make him.

In olden times there did not seem
to be any particular difficulty, or
flurry, about raising children, and
when most of us were brought up it
was a perfectly plain and_ simple
proposition without any _ sterilized
milk or sterilized philosophizing
about it. We were dressed simply,
reared plainly, spanked when we were
bad, kissed when we reformed, taught
obedience to our parents, respect for
our elders, and had the fact forcibly
impressed on our youthful under-
standing that children were to be
seen and not heard. Now all of that
is clean out. As for the seen and
not heard theory it has fallen into
utter desuetude so far as the modern
child is concerned. After the first

baby is born into a family, even the
most optimistic abandon hope of get-

 

ting any rational conversation out of

either parent for the next twenty
years. It is always what Tommy
thinks, or the clever thing Sallie did
that is the staple of talk, re-enforced
by corrections and emendations from
the author, “No, mamma, I didn’t say
it that way, I said it so and_ so;”
“Papa, tell the lady what I did,” and
so on. No effort is made to suppress
these infant terrors. On the con-
trary, they are dragged to - front
and kept there.

Once upon a time, I was invited to
spend an evening- with a number of
charming people, among whom wasa
noted traveler, scarcely less famous
as a raconteur than he was for his
adventures. I am sure that all the
other guests, as well as myself, went
expecting to sit in absorbed silence,
listening to the great man, but alas,
for our hopes, early in the evening
the young son of the house brought
forth a copy of the American Boys’
Hand Book of Sports and insisted on
reading aloud how to build an_ ice
boat. For one solid hour we writhed
in silence while he droned along with
all the fascinating elocutionary effects
peculiar to inexperienced youth. No-
body dared put their impulse into
execution and gag him, and at the
end his misguided. mother turned on
her outraged guests and beamingly
asked us if we did not think Charley
read remarkably well for a child of
that age? I trust that was an ex-
treme case, but do you know a house
in which there are children that they
are not the eternal subject of all con-
versation? There, there, beloved, do
not ransack your memory any more.
You do not. Neither do I.

I do not believe in suppressing
children altogether, or even too much,
but I do think it is a rank injustice
to any child to raise him up to think
that he is of supreme and paramount
importance and that the world is
waiting breathlessly to hear his opin-
ion. It is going to be a bitter day
for him when he finds out he is not
the only pebble on the beach, and
he will get many a hard -lick before
life knocks the inflated self-esteem
out of. him and reduces him to the
proper size for the little bit of a
place he is going to fill in the world.

Another cherished theory is that
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and the right thing in an alluring
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the day when that child—grown into
a man or woman—faces the work
that is stripped of its tinsel and dis-
guise, and that is nothing but a hard,
unromantic, twelve-hour a day job?
The chances are that if the child is
a boy he will throw it up and go and
loaf on his kinsfolk, or if it is a girl
that she will marry for a home, and
swell the ranks of the dissatisfied,
complaining, spiteful women.

There is not any use in trying to
sugar-coat the duties of life in the
hopes that a child will swallow them
and never discover there is a bitter
pill inside. The sweet always rubs
off at the critical moment. Better
cultivate enough backbone to make
him strong enough to choose the
right, even if it is hard. When any-
one has learned to do what they have
to do without fuss or complaint, when
they have learned to take their pill
without making faces—they have
conquered fate. Do not buoy any
child up with the hope that things
are going to be made smooth and
pleasant for him in life. They are
not, and remember that it is the
things we learn in childhood, the
prayer we learn at our mother’s knee,
the old song we heard on our nurse’s
bosom, the habits we formed then
that stick to us through life. They
are the thousand gossamer threads
that are woven into character, and if
they are weak, some day the cable
that should bind us fast to goodness
and truth breaks and we are blown
out to sea.

In the new attitude towards chil-
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brutal to enforce it. You must never
say “must” to a child, but instead,
insinuate your desires in a diplomatic
way that will leave you a chance to
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A parent who never commands and
who never enforces obedience with

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eve of battle should say to his troops
that he would be gratified if thev
would advance, and hoped that those
who felt like it would charge the ene-
my. Would anybody be wild enough
to predict anything but disaster? It
is the sharp, stern command, the hab-
it of obedience that does the work.
It may seem a matter of very small
moment whether Sally comes in off
the sidewalk when you call her or
Johnny stays away from the ball
game when you forbid him to go.
but what about the day when Sally
imagines herself in love with some
drunken beast whose acquaintance
she has picked up somewhere or
Johnny takes to running with hood-
lums and staying out of nights? You
can* not control them. You never
enforced obedience and you are re-
sponsible here and hereafter for a
wrecked life.

The greatest misfortune that has be_
fallen the human race since the Eden
episode was the discovery that a
child was a problem. Up to that
time we had not been pestered and
confused with theories. If a child
was disobedient he was punished for
it and refrained from repeating the
offense. In the mercy of heaven it

had not occurred to anybody that

 

there was danger of cowing him by}

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| making him behave. If he disturbed
| an entire neighborhood with _ yells
| and howls that were nothing but tem-
ee, some humane person turned him
|across their knees and administered
la spanking* that created a beaming
| pacifico in a few minutes. Inspired
wisdom had not discovered then that
it was likely to break a proud spirit.
It is probable that Mrs. Washington,
and Mrs. Jefferson, and Mrs. Grant,
and a thousand other energetic
determined women who brought up
sens who were a credit to themselves
and an honor to their nation, never
once suspected that in little George,
or Thomas, or Ulysses they were
confronting a problem. They were
just human boys, and they dealt with
them on that platform.

Children are just as adorable now
as ever. They are still the sunshine
and the perfume of life, but for their
own sakes we need to get back into
a saner attitude towards them. They
need to be relegated to the rear for
a while and not brought perpetually
to the front.
obedience, that they may be fitted
some day to command. They need
to be strengthened to meet the stern
requirements of destiny, not taught
that they may shirk its responsibili-
ties, for childhood is the school of
life, and as we learn its lessons so
shall we stand or fall.

Dorothy Dix.
—___o + .___

Most of the accidents of this world
are not accidents at all; nothing but
Simon pure carelessless.

 

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He will sell your cottage cheese,
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horse-radish, and all the little things
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He will sell, at moderate prices,
boxes that make excellent hens’ nests
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He will sell your eggs to his best
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He will buy your vegetables, fruits
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He will make. it profitable to you,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Where the Clerks Think Themselves
Imposed Upon.

When there is a necessity for do-
ing extra work is not the time for a
clerk to flunk, get cranky and mulish
and refuse to do what he knows he
should do to help the work along.
A rush of trade, an unlooked-for ab-
sence of other clerks, a busy noon
hour with few to do the work, an
unusually tumbled stock are all con-
tributors to the upsetting of the spir-
its of the clerk who is inclined to

- think he may be doing more work

than his share.

A few days ago it was necessary
for me to go down town in a hurry,
and one of my errands called me to
the clothing stock in a pretty preten-
tious store. I wore an old cap and
had on an old office coat and will
confess that I did not look quite as
reputable and prosperous as I should
have done or as I might have done
by taking a little trouble before start-
ing. I found the stock with but one
clerk in charge—it was the noon
hour. One customer was ahead ot
me, but I patiently awaited my turn,
being conscious that the young man
was sizing me up and also being
willing to see what would be the
result.

The customer completed his errand
ai the other end of the stock about
the time that two. others, better
dressed than myself, came in. No
attention was paid to me, not even
a question being asked as to my er-
rand or wants. The other two peo-
ple were immediately taken up, and
during ten minutes of further patient
waiting I watched the progress of
“business.” At the end of that time
Il walked out, taking pains to pass
very near the clerk in order to allow
him to accost me, if he so desired,
but he did no more than look at me
as I went down the stairs.

What sort of a conclusion did I
make? Well, I philosophically figur-
ed out that the young man sized me
up as a cheap skate, jumped at a
conclusion that my trade would not
amount to much, and proceeded to
handle people he believed would pass
more money over to him. I also
thought that the average customer,
under such circumstances, would have
gone out of the store indignant and
at least mentally declared themselves
through with trading at that store.
Personally, I didn’t care a continen-
tal, for I went to another place and
purchased what I wanted, but it will
be the most natural thing in the
world for me not to go into that
clothing department the next time I
want something in that line of goods.

Now, had the young man spoken
to me and asked my wants, he could
have answered me or sold me within
three minutes. Instead, he carefully
and studiously shunned me to reach
out for a customer that was better
looking. Perhaps it was a lesson to
me not to go about looking quite so
shop worn, yet it was not the busi-
ness of the clerk to pay any atten-

 

tion whatever to that, but to see at
the first opportunity what I wanted.
It gave me an excellent thing to
think about and something good to
talk to you about.

There is no circumstance whena
clerk can afford to wittingly allow a
customer to stand on the* floor unac-
costed longer than is necessary.
There is never an occasion when a
clerk has the right to size up a cus-
tomer by means of a carefully scru-
tinizing glance, for the sensitiveness
of all people is not laid out on the
same scale. There is never an occa-
sion when a clerk is alone that he
is not able to at least speak to cus-
tomers and ask them their wants, in-
stead of allowing them to stand
about and feel foolish while their
personal duties are calling them to
hurry up.

That young man very evidently
does the same thing with many other
customers and undoubtedly thinks he
does a pretty smart stunt by picking
the best customers from the pile of
all sorts of people who come into

the store. The men in authority

above him may not know anything
about his tendencies and believe that
he is doing all right when left alone
tc take care of the business. That
is why it is a good thing for me to
give you a few pointers right here.
You would not take them from your
boss without firing up and feeling
sour and disgruntled, but you can
not hit back at me or slam my goods
around on the counter after you have
read this, so here goes to tell you
how foolish and simple you often
are when you think you are doing
bright stunts or are doing something
at which you will never be caught.

This forenoon there was an hour
of lull in business and you did not
have one customer to wait upon. This
noon it happened that you were left
alone for half an hour because of the
sickness of another clerk. ‘In that
half hour there were ten people in
the store, and five of them were in
a hurry to be waited upon. You
don’t know about the other five, for
they got away. You know you could
have held at least a part of those five
had you taken pains to speak to
them and ask them to wait until you
could get to them, but you became
cranky because you were alone with
so much work to do, which cranki-
ness was aggravated by the ques-
tions of a customer who seemed
bound not to be pleased with any-
thing. Two of the five you saw go
into a store across the street, and
you dread to have the other three
come into your store again for fear
they may say something to the boss
about not being waited upon at
noon.

Just cut that conduct out from this
time henceforth. It not only exas-
perates customers, but so, stirs up
your own mind as to make you unfit
tc properly wait upon the customers
you tackle. It makes no difference
if fifty people come up before you
when you are alone, it is a part of
your business to do your best to
get a hold on every one of them, and
if a few get away you will know that
you did your best to serve and satis-
fy them.

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31

 

than your share of work and attempt
to get even with the boss for it. If
you are not satisfied with your place
and your work, it is up to you to
talk with the boss about it, and if
no satisfactory adjustment can be
made the time has come when you
should try your abilities somewhere
else at the first opportunity. It is
never a part of your business to try
to get even with your employer be-
cause you think he is not treating
you as you should be treated. You
can not do too well the work you
are set to do, and even although you
are right in your belief of unfair
treatment, you will be the gainer by
doing the best you can under all cir-
cumstances. Two wrongs won’t make
a right, even although you think you
have the proper formula for such
work.

Never size a customer up by the
clothes he wears. It is not long ago
that I gave you a lecture on that
point, but it is a pretty good thing
te again rub into your mind. The
appearance of a man may be a good
indication of his inclinations, but the
pocketbook is not always of the
same roughness as the pocket that
holds it. Circumstances of immedi-
ate nature often control appearances
almost completely, and it is not your
business to become the judge of the
customer’s purchasing inclinations.

You are hired to do a part of the
work of the store and there are
times when you do more of the tum-
bling of goods than the other fellows.
It is not a square deal that you
should refuse to help put up stock,
or should growl and pout about it
when some other fellow has been do-
ing a larger tumbling business than
yourself and it comes your turn to
do some of the work. The work of
the store is there to be done, and
do not fool yourself that the boss
is not able to see who does it and
how it is done. Honest labor done
with cheerfulness is not effort that
goes unnoticed.

Never think your present  busi-
ness is so important you can let go
of it for a second in order to do
something else. I have known clerks
to refuse the calls of others to come
and wait upon customers because the
willful clerks were so occupied with
something else they would not give
it up. The goods can be placed and
re-arranged after the customers are
gone. The idle hours are sufficient
for that work, and the customer who
gets what she wants this morning is
willing to wait until some other day
to see the goods in a perfectly proper
alignment. She needs what she asks
for, and is most naturally and right-
fully exasperated at being held up
while you do something which she
fails to understand has any bearing
whatever on her case. °

Never assort your customers when
there are many waiting to be served.
The customers usually know _ their
turn as well as they would know.
their positions in the line before a
ticket window, and they are resentful
it others are taken up before them.
If you occasionally make an error
it is not a fault to be laid up against
you, but a deliberate assorting and
choosing are something not to be
thought of for the good of the store-

 

and much less for the good of your-
self as an efficient clerk.

Some people might tell you to al-
ways treat your customers as you
would like to be treated were youa
customer. That is a very good rule
so far as it reaches, but you have
got to bear in mind that other people
are not like you, and their tastes and
desires differ very largely. The best
thing you can do is to treat each
customer as you think that customer
wants to be treated. Attempts todo
that will quickly lead you into the
habit of following the inclinations
and thoughts of your customers to
the extent of coming close to pleas-
ing them every time. That is the
point at which you must aim, and
that is the place where you must
bank your greatest usefulness as a

 

clerk. Not only do as you would be

done by, but do as the other fellow
Not |
always will you agree with him, but |
yours. |
You are there to please the customers |
and not to have the customers please |

thinks he wants to be done by.

that is his business and not

you.—Drygoodsman.
——_2->—__
The Taste for Chocolate.
The taste of the people of the
United States for cacao and choco-
late appears to be developing
the

rapidity. Figures compiled by

Department of Commerce and Labor |

show that the importation of cacao

has grown from 9,000,000 pounds in}
1883 to 24,000,000 pounds in 1893, and |

63,000,000 pounds in 1903. Cacao, as
is well understood, is the product of

with |

| the cacao tree, which grows wild in
tropical America, and is also much
cultivated there, and to some extent
in Asia and Africa. The fruit of
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five to ten inches in length, contains
numerous large seeds from which the
| chocolate of commerce is produced,
| while the shells are also utilized for
| the decoction known as cacao or
| cocoa, used as a substitute for tea or
| coffee. It is the crude cacao, leaves
and shells, which form the large and
rapidly-growing importation above
| referred to, which has increased from
9,000,000 pounds in 1883 to 63,000,000
pounds in 1903. The value of impor-
tations of cacao in this crude form
_has grown from $1,000,000 in 1883 to
| $4,000,000 in 1893, and nearly $8,000,-
| C00 in 1903.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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32

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

TRICK TURNED.

Circus Day in Wellston—First Na-
tional Bank Robbed.

It was circus day in Wellston and
the accumulated energy and enthusi-
asm of four weeks of anticipation had
populated the little city with thous-
ands of people from all the country-
side within thirty miles, every one
off for a holiday. The townsfolk,
too, were equally alert and on all
sides was that inexplicable paradox
of people dazed with curiosity and |

 

expectation over an event, every de-/
tail of which was as familiar to}
uhem as the hitching posts along the |
main streets.

The Metropolitan, the City and the
Exchange hotels were adjusted. for)
the usual crush at dinner time;, the
team sheds, private stables and barn)
yards were open to people who had
driven in from the country; all the
stores wore a gala day aspect and
thrifty, shifty citizens had establish- |
ed the usual temporary soft drink|
and candy booths at corners and
along front yard fences over the en-
tire way from town out to the circus |

grounds.

And the small boy, the omnipresent, |
irrepressable small boy, had complet- |
ed his fifth or sixth invoice of the |
circus outfit as it was discharged |
from the trains at the statiqn, or at |
“the grounds” during the process of |
staking out and tent raising, so that |
everything was in readiness for the
grand parade.

“Well, I can’t help it, we gave the |
citizens fair warning a week ago,’ |
said the chief of police in answer to
an anxious and much disturbed citi- |
zen who had confided to him the
fact that he had heard from a friend |
who lived “in the town where this |
show gave exhibitions last week that |
the crooks just cut things wide open.” |

|

“Tt is beyond reason,” continued |
the head of the police force, “to ex- |
pect six men to protect the half a hun-
dred fools who accept circus day as |
the best time in which to exhibit |
their weaknesses. They will go up.
against thimble riggers, the shell |
game, confidence men or any old |

skin dodge and there’s no use trying |™

to stop ’em.”

“That’s right,” put in Warren G.
3ondy, proprietor of the largest de-
partment store in the city, “an’ for
one, I think that other idiot, the one
right here in town, who packs off
with his entire family to see the
show, leaving his back door, his cel-
lar door or two or three windows in
his house unlocked, is not only not
entitled to sympathy if his house is
looted by thieves, but he has no right
even to expect police protection.”

é B.-B.-B.

The Busy Bees—Bondy’s Big  Ba-
zaar—The Busy Bees.
B.-B.-B.

Thus it was that Warren G. Bondy

 

constructed the initial display inhis; 3

regular advertisements and so, too, it |
came about that Bondy’s Big Ba-|
zaar, the largest and finest retail es- |
tablishment in the city, was best |
known, locally, as “The Busy Bee.” |

The Busy Bee corner was the com-
mercial center of town, the First Na-
tional Bank occupying the corner of- |
fices while, in an L-shape around two |

 

a LAR LTT EET CO AST

i“Here they come,” and
| fruitless rushes to the window, the
strains of, “The Washington

| selves,

sides of the bank, was Bondy’s Ba-
zaar. Mr. Bondy was President of
the bank, besides being at the head
of the bazaar, and his private office
was so arranged that it could be en-
tered from the bank or from the
store by passing through the count-
ing room of either establishment.
This office, fronting on the main
street, had a spacious bay window
with a single plate of glass twelve
feet wide and six feet high and a
broad window’ seat—an_ extremely

| advantageous point from which to
| view a street display of any kind.

alarms _ of:
repeated

After various false

Post

| March,” in the unmistakable tempo
|of the circus, made the approach of

the “Unexampled, Unequalled and
Unique Display of Arenic and Eques-
trian Magnificence” assured, and_ the
rush began.

Men, women and children hurried

| wildly here and there, finding points

of vantage one minute and deserting

them the next; clinging to window
| ledges, standing in stairways and on
| doorsteps, climbing into wagons, and

on to wagon hubs, balancing on wag-
on tires, fathers held little ones aloft
and beys shinned up telegraph poles,
electric light poles and sign posts.
Every store window was filled with
gaping, wondering people and War-
ren G. Bondy’s office and window
seat were decorously devoted to Mr.
3ondy and several of his lady friends.

Upon the step just outside and
below his window, tiptoeing and
daintily balancing herself to get oc-
casional glimpses up the street, stood
a very pretty young woman, attired
modestly in a plain but very taste-

| ful tailor made suit, who, evidently

alone, was having great difficulty in

| retaining her place amid the pushing,

jostling, thoughtless crowd. And
Mr. Bondy saw her. Mr. Bondy was
a man and a gentleman. His instinct
was strong and, as a rule, it was re-
liable, therefore it was that, speaking
to the book-keeper, who stood just
back of him, he said in a low tone,
“Ransom, just step out and ask that

 

lady if she wouldn’t like a place in
here with the rest of us.”

Ransom obeyed the request only
too gladly, being somewhat of a
lady’s man himself, and the next min-
ute the handsome stranger, carrying
herself with most becoming diffi-
dence ,and yet with exceeding grace
and gratitude, was occupying a po-
sition between Mr. Bondy and _ the
assistant cashier. To the left of Mr.
Bondy were two other ladies who
were conversing with the book-keep-
er, while between the cashier and the
assistant cashier were two more la-
dies. And this group of nine, each
one unconsciously courteous and
thoughtful to all others, was also a
throbbing mass of human expectan-
cy. “Isn’t it odd and most fortunate,”
observed the fair young stranger,
“that I should fall into such hands?”
And her enquiry was delivered so
generally that every other person ac-
cepted it as if personally addressed
and smiled a cordial, sympathetic re-
sponse. “And to think of it,” con-
tinued the stranger, “here I am, twen-
ty-four years old and about to look
upon—I am almost ashamed to con-
fess it---my very first circus proces-
sion.”

A chorus of surprised: “Oh’s” and
“Ah’s” from her astonished compan-
ions was cut off abruptly by the
delighted young woman, who, with a
quick and all inclusive exclamation
of joy, directed the attention of those
who were with her to the open cage
of lions just then passing. “And just
see those dear kittens!” she exclaim-
ed, clapping her hands in a perfect
frenzy of excitement. “Dear me, I
wish that band would stop playing,
1 want to”’—-

At this juncture the bespangled but
tired-looking man in one of the open
cages stood up and permitted the
great tiger shut in with him to rear
upon his hind legs and rest his fore
paws upon his shoulders. “Oh! oh!
just look!” cried the stranger guest,
“the tiger is taller than that man.
Wouldn’t it be dreadful if his fierce
nature should suddenly assert __it-
self?”

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enquired Mr. Bondy. And the fair
one laughed heartily with the rest
over the sally. Quickly recovering
herself, however, she blushed and
seemed to seek less prominence by
adding, penitently: “I suppose Iam
making a ridiculous exhibition of my-
self, but—-oh, ladies! ladies! look at
those absurd monkeys. Look! gen-
tlemen, aren’t they just too comical!”
and here her clear, pleasant voice
rang out low and sweet in a burst of
unrestrained laughter that was infec-
tious. All of her companions joined
in the merry outburst and people in
the street before them turned to note
the funny pantomime.

“Ah, there! Suorkey!” shouted the
bechalked Momus astride a_ white
mule, as he lifted his conical hat and
bowed low to the group in the win-
cow.

Mr. Bondy waved his hand in cor-
cial good nature to the clown, at
which the stranger, in dire surprise,
asked, “Do you know him—that
man?” And then the laughter was
resumed with redoubled fury.

“Know him!” echoed Mr. Bondy,
fairly bursting with amusement over
the excitement of his ingenuous and
most attractive guest, “know him? ]
have known him for twenty years and
I den’t think that in all that time a
year has passed that I have not seen
and greeted him.”

“Truly? The same man? You
have seen him each year?” queried
the young woman with a beautiful
girlish interest and confidence that
would have annihilated the vows and
will of an anchorite. And then, as
the little group were brushing laugh-
ter-tears from their eyes, she held the
attention .of the cashier and his as-
sistant, the book-keeper and the la-
dies by simply turning her great li-
quid, brown and honest eyes upon
them as though amazed and hurt.

“No, no, no, you dear, confiding
little thing,” put in one of the ladies
as she took the stranger’s hand, “Mr.
Bondy means, simply, that all clowns
are alike. You see one and you see
ali:

“Oh, the elephants! See the ele-
phants!” exclaimed the guest, to al-
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who had taken pity on her with:
“Pardon me, madame, but never be-
fore have I seen a real live elephant.
IT once saw the restored figure of a
mastadon at the Virginia University,
Charlottesville, but—my! aren’t they
great, big, good-natured, sleepy-look-
ing things?”

“Fourteen of ’em,”
book-keeper.

“No, thirteen,”
cashier.

“Let’s count ’em all over again,”
suggested the charming stranger.
And so each person in the window be-

observed the

contradicted the

gan to count half audibly as they

craned their necks after the rapidly
passing herd lumbering its way-along.
Then followed a hopeless tangle as
to the exact number of elephants,
until the blatantly wretched libel on
both steam and piano made its crim-
inal passage, marking the end of the
parade. Just then, also, the young
lady exclaimed: “Oh, there’s papa
looking for me,” pointing to a tall

and genteel looking man across the
street who, evidently, was engaged

 

in the difficult task of trying to lo-
cate one among the hundreds of
people who were squeezing, push-
ing, crowding, jostling each other
about. “And so, Mr. Bondy—pardon
me, but one of the ladies mentioned
your name to me—I trust you will
believe me when I say I thank you
very, very much indeed for your cour-
tesy and great kindness to me. And
to these ladies and you, too, gentle-
men, I give my thanks most sincere-
ly. Truly I have seen a circus pa-
rade under most delightful condi-
tions. And--if I may so show my
appreciation, permit me to add that
my father, Colonel Fitzhugh Fairfax,
of Lynchburg, Va., and myself are
guests at the Metropolitan for two
or three days and I am certain my
father, when I tell him of my great
good fortune, will do himself the hon-
or to call upon you, Mr. Bondy, to
express his—our gratitude.”

There was not a man, or a woman
either, in that party not in love with
the smiling, graceful, girlish young
thing as they watched Mr. Bondy es-
cort her to the door and guide her
carefully down the steps to the side-
walk. Incidentally, too, the cashier
observed that no matter how or
where refinement and gentility are
placed in a great miscellaneous crowd,
their brilliant values shine out tothe
exclusion of all else.

And the cheery, confident little
Miss Fairfax with final thanks and a
bewildering smile bowed adieu to
Mr. Bondy and gracefully darting
through an opening in the crowd,
walked swiftly up the street and out
of sight.

‘Mr. Bondy returned . the group
in his office with the information
that the handsome young Virginian
had promised to call at the bank later
in the day with her father, at which
one of the ladies, quick to scent so-
cial distinction, suggested the possi-
bility of a circus party for the even-
ing with Col. and Miss Fairfax as
the guests. Mr. Ransom, the book-
keeper, seconded the proposition
with enthusiasm, at which the cash-
ier remarked: “And we'll let Ran-
som act as escort to the Colonel.”

Mr. Bondy was about to announce
that he would assign the honors for
the evening-—with permission of the
ladies, when the general manager of
the Bazaar came into the office, his
face and manner showing that he was
under some unusual strain, and asked
to speak to Mr. Bondy. As the two
men whispered together briefly,
noises of loud talking men with
sounds of a tumult of some kind.
came through the door from the Ba-
zaar so that, as the manager of the
store, together with Mr. Bondy quick-
ly left the office the others followed,
beset with curiosity.

“He’s a sneak thief!” wass heard
irom the clerk in charge of the boots
and shoes department.

“Probably following up the circus,”
echoed another clerk in the dry goods
department.

Mr. Bondy soon reached the little
crowd that had gathered near the
front docr, to find two clerks and
the janitor guarding a small, wiry,
meanly-dressed man who, to all ap-
pearances, was frightened beyond
measure and hopeless in his helpless-

 

ness.
of your office, Mr. Bondy,” spoke up
the janitor, “and found these two
pairs of shoes in his possession,” at
the same time showing two cheap
pairs of men’s shoes.

“Did you see him steal the shoes?”
asked Mr. Bondy.

“No, I didn’t see him take ’em,”
replied the janitor,
shoes an’ he didn’t buy them.”

“Aw—I copped de shoes all right,”
sullenly muttered the captive as
though anxious to be over with it all.
“I’ve been goin’ in my bare feet long
enough; [ saw de shoes and_ they
wasn’t no one looking and so I pinch-
ed ’em.”

Mr. Bondy directed his employes
to turn the man over to the police

and bidding his friends adieu return- |

ed to his office with the cashier and
book-keeper. Barely had they closed
the door between the office and the
Bazaar when
white as a ghost and almost speech-
less, rushed in from the bank with
the news:
bank has been robbed!”

Warren G. Bondy was proud of his
lack of nerves. Never had he been
known to become “rattled” and in
this instance he maintained his repu-
tation. “Sh-h, Mr. Marvin. Not so
loud! Step in here, gentlemen; close
the office door and, Ransom, you take
the cashier’s window and stop anyone
who comes into the bank. Stop ’em|
somehow and keep ’em busy while
we look into this thing.”

Ransom did as he was_ bidden,
while the two cashiers and Mr.
dy stepped into the

“T caught him just at the door |

“but they’re our

the assistant cashier, |

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little cage of an office. Fortunately
the Wellston world was too busy out-
side of the bank so that within five
minutes it was clearly demonstrated
that some daring and skillful thief
had entered the bank through the
side street door and, while everybody
was busy looking at the circus parade,
had sneaked through the counter gate-
way, in front of the vault, so to the
cashier’s cage and taken somewhere
between twelve hundred and_ two
thousand dollars laid out on the coun-
ters for the morning’s business.

This much was clear because the
side door and the gate were found
open and the money was gone. Nat-
urally the inference at first was that
the thief had made his escape inthe
same manner. Upon second thought,
however, Mr. Bondy commanded:
“Not a word about this to anyone,
gentlemen. Let business go on ex-
actly as though nothing of this kind
had happened. Fortunately not
enough money has been taken to
cripple us, so I depend upon you to
keep absolutely quiet. Don’t exhibit
the slightest excitement.”

With this he put on his coat and
hat and stepped into the street on
his way to police headquarters in
the city hall. Opposite the Metropol-
itan, he was reminded of Colonel and
Miss Fairfax and mentally he resolv-
ed that he would, after interviewing
the police, stop at the hotel and en-
quire for the Colonel. Just what he
did do, is best told by the gentleman
himself, as he related the history a
few months later:

“T found the chief of police trying
to ‘sweat’ the truth out of the chap
who was accused of stealing the
shoes, with little or no success. Af-
’ ter listening, briefly, I asked the chief
to give me a few minutes time and
the trampish suspect was dismissed
to a cell. In the privacy of the
chief's office I told my story as com-
pletely and accurately as I could and
then, as the smiling official was about
to reply, I added: ‘I have told you
this and now I want you to promise
me that, no matter what success you
have in looking up the case, you will
keep it “under your hat” until you
have the thieves or give up the chase.”

“Throughout the talk the chief's
face was a blank—a sort of unintelli-
gible mask; but when I finished the
asked-for promise was given and then,
with a broad smile lighting up his

countenance, he picked up his hat
with: ‘We'll call on Col. Fairfax
first.’ And we called, to learn that

no man and woman of such a name
or answering the descriptions I had
given, had been guests there. And,
to make the story short, we spent a
month and quite a bit of money and
effort trying to locate Miss .Fairfax
and her distinguished father, but
without success. The sneak thief
was convicted and ‘went up’ for 60
days for stealing the shoes and _ the
First National Bank went right along
doing business as usual, with the bank
employes as mum as oysters.

“At the end of his term of impris-
onment the sneak thief left town and
I followed him—the understanding
at home being that I had gone up
North for a season of hunting and
fishing. My friend led me a chase
cf over 800 miles and caused me to

sojourn in Chicago for nearly a
month. But my reward came in the
capture of Miss ‘Fairfax,’ her arrest
and trial—but not her conviction. |
was unable to connect the two—Miss
Fairfax and the sneak thief—while
she had no difficulty whatever, in Chi-
cago, in proving a perfect alibi. I
wouldn’t have felt especially bad over
my failure had it not been for the
fact that all through the trial I was
forced to see that woman—and she
was. clever and handsome—sitting
there in court and wearing a soli-
taire that I had missed from my shirt
bosom while on my way up to the city
hall to tell my troubles to our chief
of police; a loss I had failed to report
to him or to any other person.”

“But couldn’t the shoe thief’s testi-
mony help you out?” enquired the
listener.

“Tt should have done so,” continued
Mr. Bondy, “he told me how he
‘turned de trick while de Moll (Miss
Fairfax) was engaging our attention
--and admiration.’ And how he did
laugh as he referred to her excite-
ment and wonder over the circus pa-
rade. But, you see, he told me all
this privately, while serving the sixty
days. When I got him into court
with Miss Fairfax—by the way, she
is well known to the police all over
the country as ‘Sheeny Sue,’ one of
the cleverest thieves living—in front
of him on a charge of bank robbery—
well, then he talked differently.”

Charles S. Hathaway.

Recent Business Changes
Indiana Merchants.
Bedford—Bush & Garrity, jewelers,
have dissolved partnership. The busi-
ness is continued by Garrity & Bry-
ant.

Decatur—N. A. Loch has taken a
partner in his hardware, harness and
vehicle business under. the style of
Loch & Dirkson..

Evansville—Hatfield & Kearney,
boot and shoe dealers, have turned
their stock over to their creditors.

Frenchlick—Sutton & Haggett is
the new style under which the gen-
eral merchandise business of J. L.
Sutton is continued.

Goshen—F. DeLaClaire & Co,
manufacturers of perfumery, have
merged their business into a corpora-
tion under the style of the F. DeLa-
Claire Co.

Holton—John W. Timmers has
purchased the general merchandise
stock of L. Mendenhall.

Indianapolis—J. C. Craig has re-
tired from the grocery business.

Indianapolis—Mary Schneider, who
conducted a grocery store at this
place, is dead.

Indianapolis—Chas. N. Stevenson
& Co. have incorporated their busi-
ness under the style of the Capital
Suspender Co.

LaFayette—Robert L. Jacques has
merged his book and stationery busi-
ness into a corporation under the
style of the Jacques-Mueller Co.

Liberal—Frank M. Harter has pur-
chased the general merchandise stock
of E. Tableman.

North Manchester—M. M. Snorf,
of the dry goods and clothing house
of Helm, Snorf & Co., is dead.

Russiaville-——Leader & Co. have
sold their hardware stack to Frank

Among

 

D. Merrill.

 

 

South Bend—John Heil, Sr., has
taken his son into partnership in his
grocery business under the style of
Heil & Son.

Syracuse—The Syracuse Boat
Manufacturing Co. has incorporated
its business with a capital stock of
$10,000 under the same style.

Zionsville—Mills, Cropper & Co.,
clothiers and boot and shoe dealers,
have merged their business ‘into a

corporation under the style of the |

Mills-Cropper Co.

Indianapolis—A receiver has been
appointed in the case of the Staple
& Tack Co.

Sandborn—A. E. Crane & Son,
general merchandise _ dealers,
filed a petition in bankruptcy.

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The Passing of the Pathmaster.

The pathmaster is a pioneer hand-
ed down into the days of develop-
ment. As his name signifies, he was
a factor of early days. He blazed
the trail and laid the path through
forest and over plain from settlement
to settlement. He was a_ leader
amony the apostles of axe and gun
who established the first means of
local commerce. And like the log
house, the ox team and the “Injuns”
he is becoming a thing of the past.
With all the good he has been to
history, like the ague, sand flies,
mosquitoes and leeky butter, before
many generations more have passed
he will be only a sweet memory. In
his flower he assembled the farmers
of his road district after corn plant-
ing to make about the same tempor-
ary fillings in and diggings out that

have |

 

had been made from year to year.
He would each year rebuild the same
culverts, repair the same “cross-
ways,” cut the same _ overhanging
brush and fill in the same washouts.
A new piece of road was sometimes
cut, but never built except in the
most temporary manner. In short,
his was much less a road factory than
a repair shop.

But a change is coming, in fact, has
come. The progressive farmer now
realizes that the highway is to him
what the railroad is to the city: a
poor one is better than none, but it
does not meet the demands of prog-
ress and competition. With a road
over which he can haul his products
to market any day in the year he can
take advantage of the markets and
is not at the mercy of the weather
for the prices he may hope to get.
Tie also begins to realize that it is

better to raise a moderate money tax

and have it- effectually applied in
building permanent roads, than to
pay a larger labor tax and get no
permanently good roads. These
changes in the farmers’ sentiments
toward the road question are shown
in the number of townships that are

adopting the township road system,

with an occasional county adopting
the county system.

The pathmaster is slowly but sure-
ly passing. He was a necessity to
his time. But like the rod and gun
as means of supporting a family,
he ts no longer equal to the _ task.
Well tilled fields must have good
roads or their market value is much
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Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, April 30—There is a
very quiet business in the coffee mar-
ket and the best that can be said is
that values are steady. Buyers take
small lots only and seem to be wait-
ing the future. At the close Rio No.
7 is worth 7%4c. In store and afloat
there are 2,790,007. bags, against
2,501,225 bags at the same time last
year. The better sorts of West In-
dia coffees are selling fairly well at
quotations, but, aside from the top
grades, the market is dull and life-
Good Cucuta, 9@9%c; Bogota

less.

of good average sort, 10%c. Crop
receipts at Rio and Santos’ from

July 1, 1903, to April 28, 1904, aggre-
gate 9,724,000 bags, against 11,024,-
ooo bags during the same time last
year, and 13,916,000 bags two years
ago. East India coffees are steady,
with a sale of 500 mats of Kroe at
16%4c.

The issuance by the American Sug-
ar Refining Co. of a notice that it
would cancel all overdue contracts
at noon, April 30, on which shipping
directions had not been received
caused. quite a call for deliveries on
the old contracts; but so far as new
business goes there was very little
to be reported. Quotations remain
practically without change and what
we want now is some real summer
weather. This we seem to be about
reaching, too.

Lower grades of Congou teas con-
tinue to be taken freely for the Lon-
don market and, naturally, the sup-
ply of these goods is very material-
ly reduced—to everybody’s satisfac-
tion. Aside from this business, there
is a fair trade in line business and,
while there is no boom, quotations
are well sustained and the general
outlook. may be said to be in favor
of the seller.

The rice market is quiet, only a
hand-to-mouth business being done
on about the former basis of quota-
tions. Prime to choice, 44 @4%c.

In spices we have a_ decidedly
firmer tone for cloves and advices
from London report prices there
equal to 18%4c here. Aside from this
there is little, if any, change to re-
port. The market generally is
strong and sellers are not inclined to
make concessions at any point.

Molasses has been in pretty good
request, the business being chiefly
of withdrawals under old contracts.
Both domestic and foreign sorts of
grocery grades have sold fairly well
and prices remain firm. The lower
sorts, too, have been in fairly active
movement and at well sustained quo-
tations.

Business in future canned goods.
which has been very active for some
time past, seems to be about over
and the market is settling into a sort
of between-seasons quietude. The
discussion over the merits of the
different varieties of salmon goes on
apace, but it seems to have little- of

 

interest for retailers. The general
market may be summed up as easy.
Tomatoes show a little firmer tone
than last week, but the supply is
great enough to prevent any undue
increase.

In dried fruits the new prices on
raisins made by the California Grow-
ers’ Association was the chief topic.
It was hoped, after the long delay.
that a definite scale of quotations
would be made; but now they have
the proviso. “Prices not guaranteed,
subject to change without notice.”
This leaves matters “all at sea’ and
buyers seem to be helpless. Many
jobbers have taken offense at the
proceedings of the Association. The
general trade is quiet and prices, as
a rule, are on a low level.

The very best grades of butter are
in comparatively short supply and
some lots have sold for 24c. This
seems pretty well established,  al-
though some lots have brought Ye
more. Seconds to firsts, 17@23%c;
imitation creamery, 14@17c; factory,
13@14c; renovated, 15@17%4c—lat-
ter for fancy stock; packing, 13@
13%.

There is a very moderate demand

-|for old cheese and the general ap-

pearance of the market is lifeless.
Neither exporters nor home dealers
show any interest and dealers are
waiting for a decent supply of new
cheese of fair quality. Eleven cents
seems to be top for full cream old
stock and new grades are working
out at a fraction less than 8c.

Fewer eggs have been received
and the market has returned to a
stronger tone and slight advance in
quotations within a day or so. West-
ern, fresh-gathered firsts, 18c; sec-
onds, 1744@173%c and from this down
to 15'4@I7Cc.

——_»>+>—____
Future Demand for Wheat.

A strong point made by the flour
mill magnates of the West is that
when any considerable number of the
millions of China shall call for flour
the entire wheat-growing area of the
world will not be sufficient to supply
the demand. “Even if all Japan
should become a flour-eating people,”
he said, “the whole available supply
of the Pacific coast would provide
this commodity for only 20 per cent.
of the population of that kingdom.”
There is likelihood, too, that a great-
er portion of the inhabitants of Ja-
pan will acquire the habit of using
flour. It was represented to the mi-
kado by his ablest advisers that, in
modeling the Japanese army on the
latest military standard of the mod-
ern powers, the important matter of
diet had been overlooked. Not only
had all modern nations a standing
army, but the food of these formida-
ble hosts consisted in great measure
of wheat products. Rice-eating regi-
ments, it was feared, might not be
able successfully to contend with a
foe whose sinews were built of wheat.
Japan, to be up to date, must main-
tain not only a big, well-equipped
and well-drilled military force, but its
soldiers, like the men of arms of
other lands, must eat flour. So an
imperial edict went forth recently,
and now every soldier in the armies
of Japan gets a daily ration of Ore-
gon, Washington or California flour.

This ukase of the emperor will mark
the beginning of a very important
chapter in the commercial history,
for this mandate on the part of the
mikado has already greatly stimulat-

ed the demand in the kingdom for)
being |
alert to keep abreast of whatever is |

wheat products, the people
decided to be progress along modern

lines.
—_>--—____

Apples as Moral Agents.
Scarcely too much can the apple

be extolled since it has been almost

entirely the creation of man. Start-
ing with the crab apple of Europe,
man has produced a fruit that has no
comparison with its original. Na-
ture could only furnish the germinal
and is not given to making improve-
ments.
son of the pomology department of
the world’s fair says: “There is no
doubt that apples are a cure for the
drink habit, the tobacco habit, the
‘Indian’ habit and many others that
may be called objectionable,” we ap-
preciate deeply what the apple has
done for man and still more deeply
what man has done for the apple.
Professor Stimson adds: “Apples
elevate the morals of persons who
eat them and if the United States
were a greater apple-eating country
we should have less crime and fewer
woes. When you want to smoke eat
an apple and you will find the desire
in a measure satisfied. Do the same
if you want a drink.”

It will be seen that the apple is

the enemy of the saloon and of the)
vice of smoking. The moral effect |

of apples has been too much neglect-
ed. We have tried to reform entirely
with the gospels and moral suasion.

Had we gone into the haunts and hot- |

beds of vice and crime with an apple
in one hand and the bible in the
other we might have had better suc-
cess.

Mr. Stimson says that apples are
good for the “Indian” habit. This
is something that has never been tried
in all the efforts to reform St. Louis
politics. The “Indians” have not had
apples enough. Bar’ls have been
opened in plenty, but not apple bar’ls.
Clayton conventions wotld be im-
possible on.a diet of apples. Here-
after the sturdy farmer should go to
his convention with a dozen apples
in one pocket—and a well-oiled .44

in the other.
— +s
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not what it should be, see if some of
the. following causes are not at least
contributory:

-Clinging to the exploded idea that
winter trade is over, leaving omy a
few remnants that are not worth
troubling about.

Sticking to the old-fashioned idea
of having nothing but closing-out
sales of last season’s stock.

Allowing staple lines to be broken
or sold out, and not having what cus-
tomers want.

When Superintendent Stim- |

Not having new goods of the irres-
istible trade-compelling sort.

Imagining that only “cheap stuff”
will catch trade.

Grumbling and complaining of hard
times and poor business.

Having dirty sidewalks, dirty win-
dows, and a generally untidy, unin-
viting store exterior.

Having clerks about you who are
not sufficiently wideawake to suggest
good things in other departments
to their customers.

Being too previous in some things,
too slow in others.

Allowing more gossip than busi-
ness behind the counter.

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JOKES IN THE MAIL.

Remarks of Country Postmasters on |
Returned Letters.

“Persons who handle a great deal
of mail for big firms come upon many |
little tragedies and comedies to dis-|
turb their matter-of-fact occupation,”
said a young office man the other day.
“It falls to my lot to mail 300 or 400
letters every day to persons living
outside of Chicago. I receive and!
open an equally large number each
day. Almost every week I find in my
mail a little notation by a country |
postmaster or a rural route carrier.
Often this notation is simply ‘De-
ceased,’ and following that one word
may be the initials of the postmaster |

. |
or carrier. |

|
|

“Sometimes the rural servant of the |
Government attempts to tell the en-
tire story of the death of the person
to whom the letter was addressed.
One letter was returned to me a few
days ago. Across the back of the
envelope was written: ‘Miss John-
son died last week by being kicked
in the head by a horse. Her funeral
was held before this letter came. I
could not deliver it; and she has no
relatives here.’

“Some postmasters are more matter
of fact. A letter came back from an
Indiana town the other day. Upon
the envelope was written: ‘Can’t find
party. Dead since August.’ On our
mailing list are the names of many
single persons, both young men and
young women. Matrimony plays
havoc with our mail at times, and I
have noticed that in January and June

 

| found
| Some postmasters don’t seem to real-
|ize that the young woman

|came. back.

MICHIGAN

| scores of letters come back which

were addressed to parties we never
it difficult to reach before.

is the
same young woman after she has
changed her name.

“T remember one particular  in-
stance of this kind. I sent out a let-
ter to a young woman—call her Emi-
ly Brown; I don’t remember her
name now. In about a week I receiv-
ed a letter complaining that Mrs. Bill
Jones, nee Miss Emily Brown, had
received no reply to a letter she had
written our office. I knew the letter
had been answered. The mystery
was cleared up a few days later, when
the letter addressed to Emily Brown
On the envelope was

written: ‘Return to writer. Ad-
dressee has married William Jones.
letter addressed to Mrs. William

Jones will reach her at this office.’

“The firm I am with is engaged in
a high-class business, and we use the
best stationery. The envelopes are
plain, bearing no mark, except a dain-
tily engraved name of the head of the
firm. Some of the country postmas-
ters, who know all the affairs of the
neighborhood and who, no_ doubt,
mean well, often take pains to see
that the letters do not fall into the
hands of the new husbands of some
of the young women to whom the
mail is addressed. A few days ago
I received a letter from a postmaster,
enclosing a letter I had mailed to a
young woman out in Iowa.

“His letter

was addressed, of

 

TRADESMAN

course, to the head of our firm, and
it read something like this: ‘My dear
sir: Maybe you don’t know it, but
this young woman has just been mar-
ried to the most jealous cuss in the
whole State of Iowa. I don’t know
who you are, but I know the names
of all her kin, and I know you are no
relation to her. If I am doing wrong

in returning your letter, send it back |
and I will deliver it, but knowing her |
husband as I do, I thought you might |

consider it a good turn if I put you
next to him. This is none of my
business, but I don’t like to see 2
fellow get in any kind of trouble.’
“Of course, cases like the last one
are very rare, but there is never a
week that I do not run across some-
thing to relieve the monotony of my
job. I remember one letter which
came from a dutiful servant of the
Government. If all postmasters
were like him I believe the registry
division of the mail service would
jump to the skies. He had delivered
our letter all right and then he sat
down and wrote to the head of the
firm. His letter ran something like
this: ‘From the way your letter to
So-and-So felt, I believe it contained
currency. It is very unsafe to send
money that way by mail. It only
costs eight cents more to register the
letter and ensure yourself against
loss. -If you do much writing and
send much money some of your let-
ters may fall into the hands of dis-
honest postmasters and your money
would never reach the right party. I
could have destroyed the letter and

 

no one would have been any wiser,
but you would have been poorer. I
hope you will takenotice of this in the
future.’

“You might think that communities
that are famously bucolic would give
us the greatest number of these in-
stances, but really the most peculiar
things I find in our mails come from
what are supposed to be enlightened
regions. I do not handle any city
mail at all, and I don’t know in what
shape it might be returned, but I
judge it would be iittle different from
that we get froin the country.”—Chi-
Inter-Ocean.

 

|
cago

———--<+ >.
Bright Window Displays.

Keep the window display up to the
highest possible standard. It pays.
A well-trimmed window is often the
retailer’s best advertisement. Even
if you are located in a small town
you cannot afford to keep a dark
window at night. A bright display
window draws trade to your store
while you sleep. It keeps your store
in the minds of the people, and when
some of the members of their fam-
ily need footwear, that window will
| loom up favorably in their recollec-
: tion, and the selling will be com-
| paratively easy, if your clerks are
| courteous and your goods all right.—
| Shoe and Leather Facts.

—_2--___

Try our system for collection of
accounts. Write for particular.
| Crescent Printing Co, St. Johns,
| Mich.

 

 

 

Success does not come with a jump
and hurrah.

 

Men Prominent

in the Management of the West Michigan State Fair

 

 

PRESIDENT.

 

 

 

‘C. A. French .

 

J. Rindge 4H. D. C. Van Asmus

Wm. H. Anderson

Robert Graham

Sidney F. Stevens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

37

 

 

Town Whose Industry Is Develop-
ment of Goose Liver.

The raising, stufing and shipping
of geese has become quite a large in-
dustry in the vicinity of Watertown,
Wis., and about 90,000 pounds of
stuffed geese and about 325,000
pounds of stall-fed geese are shipped
annually from there to all parts of
this country. The demand for stuff-
ed geese is increasing all the time,
and the shippers of this. class of
poultry claim it is not possible to
fill all their orders unless these are
placed early in the fall. The geese
have to undergo the stuffing process
to produce abnormally large livers.

In stuffing the goose the feeder
holds it between his knees and forces
the noodles down into his throat,
but each noodle-must first be dipped
into warm water to make it more
slippery. During the first week eight
noodles are thus given three timesa
day, and during the second week the
same number are given four times
every day. From then on the stuffing
has to be done every three or four
hours, night and day, and each time
six or seven noodles are forced down.
The geese have by this time accu-
mulated so much fat and the liver has
expanded to such proportions that
they have to be watched continuous-
ly, as some are liable to choke and
thus prove a total loss. The entire
household is called upon, and every
man, woman or child has to take
turns and sit up and attend to the
geese.

At last, when ready for market, the
geese are killed and the feathers on
breast and belly must be picked im-
mediately, while the bodies are
warm, otherwise the very tender skin
would be torn or damaged, and this
would allow the thick layer of the
precious goose fat to ooze out. The
wings and back parts of the fowl can
be picked more easily, and are first
dipped into hot water to facilitate
the process. After they are thor-
oughly picked the heads, wings and
legs are tied together on the back
and the birds hung up in a cold
place and allowed to freeze solid.

Prepared in this way they are very
appetizing looking. Their size is
enormous. In weight they range
from twenty to twenty-eight pounds
each, some extra large ones weigh-
ing from. thirty-four to thirty-six
pounds. The livers are generally
very large, covering an ordinary soup
plate, and some weigh over three

and one-half pounds.
—_22>__

His Idea of Spring.

Here is a Georgia youngster’s com-
position on spring:

“Spring is the most delightfulest
season of the year. It is the time
when Maw tells Paw to take down
the stovepipe, an’ reach for cobwebs,
an’ beat the carpets, an’ whitewash

. the fence palins’, an’ move the pian-

ner, an’ hang the pictures over again,
an’ dig in the garden till breakfast
is ready, an’ then go to his work
downtown; an’ Paw goes off in a cor-
ner an’ swears privately, till Maw
hears him. Then he whistles!”
—_2+2s—__—_

Tt costs less to clean up the cellar
than it does to pay the doctor’s bill.
And right now is the time to do it.

 

Hardware Price Current

 

 

AMMUNITION
Caps

G. }.., full count. per m:..........-... 40
Hicks’ Waterproof, er 60
BEGSNGCE, NOP We oe ee ccc ewes 75
Ely’s Waterproof, per m.............. 60

Cartridges
ING. 22 SOT, POP WE. oc cc cic csce see 2 60
INO. 22 -AONS, DEF WS a5 oc. et ces ces 3 00
NG. 22: Short, per Weis. so. ss. es es 5 00
NG..32, lone, per Mico... ct ee ts te 5 75

Primers

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, n....1 60
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per m..1 60

Gun Wads
Black edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C..... 60
Black edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m...... 70
Black edge, No. 7, per m.............. 80

Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of oz. of Size Per
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 1 10 10 $2
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 -10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 1 10 12 2 60
208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 3% 1% 5 12 .- 270
264 3 1 12 2 70

% 4

Discount 40 per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 72

No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 64

 

  
 

Gunpowder
hig 25 mh ss slay ta a ae ‘>
egs, 8., per A ccs.
$k Kegs, 6% Ibs., per kege eden ce 1 60
Shot
In sacks containing 25 Ibs.

Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 17
Augurs and Bits
Oe aoe cccuce ela ee can 60
SOWRINES SPONUINEG - 2.0... oe cee seee 25
Jennings’ imitation ..............<-- 50

Axes :
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ........ 6 50
First Quality, D. = conn Shee as 9 00
First Quality, S. eee...
First Quality, D. B Stat Se ed aagie 10 50
Barrows
ARILOAG oe ee aes 14 00
PORCINE oe sak bani ea wink Se Mia's ~- 33.00
Bolts
Siewe nsdn. saa ene ey oe ica ae
Carriage, new list ............. ~ ee
TO a ee ees 50
Buckets
‘Well, plain’ ........ Be aside cra ware 4 50
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ 70
Wrougnt Narrow ... 2.2... oo. ck 60
Chain
% in. 5-16 = % ~ Ke
Common c...6 ..6 . 4%c,
BB. ae "Tye. a "eye. 2-6 1c.
BBB 8%c...7%Cc.. -6%c...64%c.
Crowbars
Cast Steel; per Bis. o.. cc. oS) ck 5
Chisels
Becket Nirman oo oe lass ac ce 65
SOGKeCt Frame oo. oogs. ko ck. ls cece 65
Becket Commer: iii cic tek. 65
BOCKEt SHGNR oo i oo 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz. ..... net 15
ae per ne Ug 12
PI os ise ke ca'e eae dis. 40&10
Expansive Bits
os small, $18; ae = Cobo oaks 40
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; A OO Svcccwaue Oe
botagte $s List
New Ameria oo... oe. ess -70&10
Nicholson’s ........ aoe

Heller’s Horse Rasps

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

   
  

 

 

tron
Pee BOOM eed ae nena ..-2 26 e¢ rates
EG TR eo eek aes 3 c rates
Nobs—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ...... 15
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings .... 85
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis
Metals—Zinc

GOO POUNA CARES wu. 6 ce seca ce 1%
PGP BOMRG oo. se eel 8
Miscellaneous
eee Ce i oo ew 40
Pate CUNBGP oc a eo ec cae 75
merews, Mew Tae oi... ct lcs s se 85
Casters, Bed and Plate ........ —s

Dampers, American ..............6.
Molasses Gates
Steins PAO oo: ccs ses 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring ........... 30
Pans
Ere Aeine os eet a
Common, polished ........scesccces W0&

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

“B” Wood's pe plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80
Broken packages \c per Ib. extra...

Planes

Ohio Tool Co.’s fancy .............. 40

PPIOCA: SONG Oo ee ec 50

Sandusky Tool Co.’s fancy .......... 40

Benen, tret quality ..... 4.22.0... 5.5. 45
Nails

Advance over base, on both Steel = oa

Steel nails, base .....
Wire nails, base ..

  

20 to 60 advance . - Base
10 to 16 advance “ 5
8 advance ....... <.
6 advance ....... 20
© BEVANCS oo isos c as en
© GOVANCE oo scl. co. a
UR ee aoe 70
Fine $ advance ...........04 ites ame 50
Casing 10 gQVAanNCe . 2... occas 15
Caring § AGVANCE .......0.0.600. 0000s 25
Casiee 6 AGVENCO 2... ll 35
Finteh 10 advance .. 00.066. .c. ccc css 25
PMO S GGVANCE 2. oo. ce eee cece es 35
Binnie 6 AGWONCE 22... kes cs a 45
Barrel % SGVARCe 2606 o. 6. ok 85
Rivets
Tron and Timed ..................-. 50
Copper Rivets and Burs .............. 45
Roofing Plates
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ............ 7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ............ 9 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean ............ 15 00

Dean
14x20 IC, Charcoal. Allaway 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
Ase -aeet. 99: 86 owe. dis 60

Sash Weights
Solid Byes, OO TO oh. cece cee 30 60

Sheet Iron

Nos. 10 to 14 ....
Nos. 15 to 17 .
Nos. 18 to 21 ..
Nos. 22 to 24 .. :
Nos. 25 to 26 .. .
ONG. 28 4 30

All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels and Spades

 

Pitst Grate, Doe . 0. occ ec os. os 6 00
Seeond, Grade; Dem. oo oi. 6 con k 5 ese 5 50
Solder

Toe ee at ssc ceee oo

21
The prices of the many other qualities
of solder in the market indicated by —

ate brands vary according to composition
Squares
Steel and: Tree: oi ts kkk 60-10-5
Tin—Melyn Grade
BOnt4 IC, Charcoal oo... 0... c kkk $10 50
d4020 IC, Crarooal .. 0.5. csc. ccuses. = 50
10x14 IX, ASCO ooo ook cs oc

2 00
Each additional X on this grade, i 25.
Tin—Allaway Grade

2Onbt 20. CHOPOORE 2.5 sce c ce $ 9 00
14x20 IC, CUMPCOME 6 9

10x14 IX, Chatcoal 11.222220222222! 10 50
14x20 x, CREO does ocueca eae 10 50

‘coal
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.
Boller Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for No. 8 & 9 boilers, pertb. 13

 
   
  

Gauges Traps
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .... 60&10|Steel, Game .............eccecacecees 75
Glass Oneida Community, ees -40&10
Single Strength % DOK eaeess++- dis. 90 ee Cond, Eee Starke.
7 Stren y box “dis. ET) GOB. ik cock oo

By the Light ....... = “dis. 90 Mouse, delusion, a — apis see ves 11 25
Hammers Bright Market ..............00000005 60
Maydole & Co.’ . new tae. dis. 33% Anneniod Market . : 60
Yerkes & Plumb’s ............ dis. 40&10 Coppeced Market 50&10
Mason’s Solid "Gast Sted .....< 30c list 70| Tinned Market ..... 50&10
Hinges Coppered Spring Steel . 40
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3............dis. 60810 Barbed re Galvanized <=

Hollow Ware Wire Goods
RT 80-10
BOWE: FO sides pacecs ve se's +.-. 280-10
ROM ee ia i te et ce wae . 80-10
Gate Hooks and Byes .............. 80-10

AG Sable: oe esa dis. 40&10 Wrenches
House Furnishing Goods Baxter’s ee Nickeled ..... 30
Stamped Tinware, new list ...... . Wt COGS COE ooo ooo os cc vc ce cc a's 40
Japanned Tinware ..........c.eece. *20&10 Coe’s Patent “Agricultural, Wrought. 70&10

 

Crockery and Glassware

 

 

STONEWARE

Butters
ee CO 48
- tO 6 gal per Gm Lo... ces 6
ON etc rien dedeesuee cu anes 62
BO Oe CRC a ois Bees coke ccs 66
Be OOS: ONC eer ices cused. 78
15 gal. meat tubs, each ............ 1 20.
20 gal. meat tubs, each .............. 1 60
25 gal. meat tubs, each ............ 2 25
30 gal. meat tubs, each .............. 2 7

Churns
CC EE ee 6%
Churn Dashers, per doz ............ 84

Milkpans
\% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each ... 6

Fine Glazed Milkpans

| * gal. flat or round bottom, per ~~ “

gal. flat or round bottom, each .

 
 

Stewpans
% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz. ....... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail per dom. ...... 110
Jugs

% gual. per doz. .... 60
% gal. per doz. ..... a

mo & @Ab, per Oe oo. co... 5... ™™%

Sealing Wax
5 Ids. in package, per Ib. .......... 2
LAMP BURNERS

ee ee ae ae
ge ee ee 36
Oe ON ee esc eee ule. 48
WOO OP ec,
EE ss eave deceereb es waaus 50
POEUN i ibe eee cece a baa cae 50

MASON FRUIT JARS

With Porcelain Lined -
Per ~~

om Ce cl 6 50
Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHES Serene

Per box of 6 eo

 

Anchor Carton Chimneys
_ chimney in corrugated —
oO.

 

First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. : 10
.4
5
5

No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled.
Pearl Top

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled .

No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled ....

No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled ..

No. 2 Sun, “‘small bulb,” globe lamps. 80

La Bastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 00
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .... 1 25
ee. FE Crimp, per GOS, . 2. ces cee acs 1 36
Ine. 2 Crimp, per doe: ... 65... oc. 1 60
Rochester

No. 1 Lime (65c doz.)
No. 2 Lime (75c doz.) ...
No. 2 Flint (80c doz.) ...

 

Electric
No. 2. Lime (Tle dod.) .......cccecc- 4 00
ING. 2 FRint (S06 Geom.) 2.0.20. 656 ceccn 4 60
OIL CANS

1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.
1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.

OI ROO OOD
ee
cS

5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 75
5 ot Tilting hicks w ican wua 00
5 gal. galv. eer eine Cieeeewewes - 9 00
TERNS
No. 0 Tubular, ‘stale Pe odie ee eceecau 4 65
No. 1 B Tubular .................0.. 7 2
No. 15 Tubular, dagh ......60.0.2... 6 50
No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ............ 7 15
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 i dz. e’ch 1 25

BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
= contains 32 yards in one piece.

No. 0, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 24
— 1, 5% in. wide, per gross or roll. 33
. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll.. 46

pe:
. 3. 1% in. wide, per gross or roll. 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, Economic or Unive
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 boo!

eed da cece. wee cwaws cawa digs 1 50

Re WOU 6 eo dis wae oi ake ooliek 2 50

OO OE oe ie eee ees pees 11 60

SOOO WOON ee wea 20 00

Credit Checks

500, any one denomination ........ 2 00

1000, any one denomination ........ 3 00
2000, any one denomination ....... -. 5 00
merece PUMED cee ee aoe u ae 15

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

weekly Market Review of the Princi-
pal Staples.

bomestics—Vomestics are not ac-
tive, but in certain limes more has
been done, Owing Jargely to the tact
that quotations have veen snaaed, and
at lower prices buyers are willing to
average up their purcnases. More in-
taken in goods Ol

construction, and
saies Of cCONsiderabie volume _ have
been made. Wide 64s have com-
manded the most attention and it is
estimated that considerably Over 150,-
000 pieces have been sold at 41% cents.
wriuis and sheetings are practically
nominal. The demand tor bleacned
goods 1s confined to spots, but buy-
ers are trying to secure information
with regard to prices, although not
prepared to make purchases of mo-
ment.

terest has been
print cioth yarn

Dress Goods—There is a very small

spot demand in the dress goods mar- |
ket to-day, due entirely to the con-}

ditions in the retail market. Natural-
ly where the retailers are not making
sales they are not making purchases.
There have been reorders to some ex-
‘tent on all lines, confined almost al-
together to medium
goods, but in addition to the reord-
ers there have been some cancella-
The matter of plain and fancy
dress goods is still an open question,
yet up to the present writing the
plain goods have had the biggest call,
although it is impossible to state how
this matter will develop for the fu-
ture.

Knit Goods—Manufacturers and
mill agents have experienced little or
no change for the better during the
week. The disposition among job-
bers to buy only for their near-by re-
quirements is as pronounced as it was
a month or two ago and from all ap-
pearances it will be some weeks yet
before any change in the present sit-
uation can be expected to occur. A
number of influences closely allied
with manufacturing and selling inter-
ests have been brought to bear on
the knit goods situation during the
week and these influences are likely
to give more or less trouble to the
manufacturers as the weeks pass by,
especially the question as to the sta-
bility of values. On the whole, how-
ever, the market has stood the set-
backs far better than it would be
natural to suppose, but it is not ex-
pected that the market can show the
remarkable firmness in the next few
weeks that it has experienced in the
past month or two. The market in
cotton knit goods has shown more
uneasiness the past week than at any
time during the present season. Val-
ues on the surface have been fairly
well maintained, but concessions,
nevertheless, have been made in many
directions in a quiet way. It seems

tions.

very reasonable to expect that from
now on values will be even less favor-
able to the seller than they are now,
both in hosiery and underwear, and
it seems very probable that from the
standpoint of

the manufacturers,

and low-grade |

 

losses of no small amounts will be
obliged to be taken until the time ar-
rives for yarns to be placed on a basis
equal to the values placed on the new
cotton crop. The jobbing market, to
a certain extent, has shown more or
less improvement, but as a whole the
situation is far from being an active
one. In the southern and _ middle
states the store trade are disposing
of a good deal of their early spring
goods and are interested to a certain
degree in duplicates. In the West
and East, weather conditions con-
tinue unfavorable and the initial busi-
ness is not likely to commence until
about the middle of May. Thus far
the duplicate business has been more
in the medium-priced goods, both
in underwear and hosiery.

Carpets—The carpet trade contin-
ues backward owing to the long win-
ter, which has lingered far in the lap
of spring. Some of the large depart-
ment stores have started big sales
recently in all lines of floor coverings.
These goods have, in some instances,
been obtained from surplus goods of
large mills. The largest distributors
report a very limited demand this
past season for Axminster, Wilton
and Wilton velvet and other high
pile fabrics. As a result, the next
season on these lines is likely to be
slow, as the average buyer will place
his business later than usual.

Rugs—The large carpet sizes con-
tinue to command more attention
each succeeding season. Nine by
twelve feet is the most popular. Mod-
ern houses are now built with rooms

much smaller than formerly and the

new generation of buyers have ac-
quired the rug habit along with their
advanced ideas on the subject of
physical culture and more practical
sanitary ideas, and this is manifested
in the fitting up of the modern home.
Not only is this idea carried out in
rugs, but also in the art square.

Lace Curtains—The demand has
been good for the Nottingham lace
curtains. The advance this season is
Io per cent. over the one preceding.
The lines run up to 14 points. Above
that number very few goods are pro-
duced in America up to the present
time. The finest grades are imported,
although the American manufactur-
ers are each year making finer goods
and very attractive patterns. Origi-
nal orders have been placed by the
leading department stores.

Rope Portieres—The demand .is
moderate. Some new chenille rope
portieres in several attractive pat-
terns are shown. This new line is
made in the form of a round chenille
about one inch in diameter with fancy
effects in light colors worked in the
darker portion of the goods. Some
have tinsel effects.

—_2-.->—_—
- Will Pay $1,000 for a Boycott.

The Washburn-Crosby Company,
flour manufacturer of Minneapolis,
asserts that it would give $1,000 if
it were placed upon the unfair list
of the American Federation of La-
bor. The company claims that its
business would be benefited instead
of injured by such action on the
part of the Federation. Trade union-
ists will make a note of. this asser-
tion.

Wrappers

We still offer our line of fancy mercerized
Taffeta Wrappers in reds, indigoes, light
blues ard blacks; also full standard Prints
and Percales; best of patterns in grays,
blacks, indigoes, light blues and reds, sizes
32 to 44, at $9. :

Also a line of fancy Print Wrappers in
light colors, Simpson’s and other standard
goods, lace trimmed, at $10. 50.

Our usual good line of Percale Wrappers
in assorted colors, $12. i

We solicit your patronage.

  
 
      
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
   
     
 

  

Lowell Manufacturing Co.
87, 89 and 91 Campau St.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Outing, Cotton and Shaker Flannels; Flannelettes, Cotton
and Wool Blankets; Comfortables.

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OUTING OUTFITS.

 

Prepare For the Coming Demand
From Campers.

Outing outfits, especially of the

ness to be ready with this stuff before
the other fellows get a start. Collect
from the different stocks the articles
absolutely necessary for camping
trips, add to them a few of the handy
but really superfluous articles and
make a stock, or department, by
themselves.

Some stores will include all this in
the sporting goods department, but
the campers ought to have a space by
themselves next to the sporters and
arranged in such a way that from the
two stocks goods can be bought ar
the same time without having to run
to different parts of the store.

People who are “red hot” to go on
a camping trip don’t argue long on
the cost of the stuff, and the goods
can be so arranged and selected as
to come within the means of every-
body, according to individual tastes
There is good money in such selected
stock, if put out in time to catch the
early talkers and allow them to help
in the advertising of where the stuff
can be easily found and selected.

A conversation among women who
had just returned from a visit to a
big retail district recently developed
the fact that all five preferred to
wander along the sidewalks and look
over the goods displayed in the win-
dows to entering the stores and at-
tempting to see the goods there.
Doesn’t that contain a_ suggestion
worthy of working upon?

Every store does its best to dis-
play in the window goods that wil!
attract people to the departments
inside, yet the stores with the rich-
est and best-appointed window dis
plays call forth the statement from
good shoppers that there is little op-
portunity inside to see the goods.

Floor space is valuable, and so is
window space, which cuts that much
from the store. Why shouldn’t cer-
tain spaces in the interior of the store
be given to displays of goods equally
as well put up as those displayed in
the windows—many goods that, per-
haps, cannot be exposed to the strong
exterior light without danger of dam-
age?

A woman wanders about a store
more or less bewildered unless she is
in pursuit of a particular article, and
in almost every instance could be -in-
duced to halt and look over goods
put up for inspection at points where
she can easily approach them.

It is very true that “draping” is
done over the counters and fixtures,
but in almost every such display the
distance from the customer is so
great that the goods merely “look
pretty” and the customer needs a
field glass to see what the stuff is
like.

An interior display on the floor, en-
closed and protected, if you please,
like the windows, which people can
look over without being interfered
with by a questioning floorwalker or
worried by an importuning clerk, with
no one in charge excepting some one
to answer questions as to prices and
where the goods may be seen on the
counters, will be an attraction worth

 

more than the value of the space re-
quired. :

It will bring to the interior the
women who would now rather wand-

| er along the street and look into other
camping nature, will soon be in de- |
mand, and it is the part of good busi- |

store windows. And such exhibits
should be advertised. ©

“Do you think this will fade?” “I
don’t know, ma’am; it is called fast
You might hear that a hun-
dred times every day at ten thousana
wash goods counters all over the
country. And the customer buys
with that compound uncertainty that
makes her feel sore if the goods do
fade. It is an old controversy as to
whether a customer should be given
any information relative to the fast-
ness of colors, but the course that
will mean the greatest protection to
the store is always the safest, for it
protects the customer at the same
time.

It is a fact that all dyed and printed
goods will fade to a degree. All cus-
tomers know that, yet they are willing
to be allowed to believe in the fast-
ness of a printing, if a clerk can be
led to make a statement to that ef-
fect. Wouldn’t it always be better,
even though the sales of goods might
be temporarily retarded somewhat
thereby, to say that all printing will
fade and their care and handling have
more to do with the fastness of the
colors than the work of the chemists
and printers? Wouldn't it always be
better to allow a customer to expect
the goods will fade than to expect
they will retain brilliancy of color
and eventually become dull?

A big carpet department in a big
store has for years made prominent
the sign “All Colors Will Fade,” and
the results in sales have justified the
bold statement. Couldn’t that be
done in a wash goods department
without in the least destroying the
business of the department? Every-
body prefers lusty truth to weakling
uncertainty and  equivocation.—Dry
Goods Economist.

—— 72>
The Value of Reputation.

A business reputation is not a crea-
ture of a day. Some reputations are
built faster than others, but every
store that enjoys the good will of a
buying public can point back to a
hard struggle for recognition, and
most determined efforts to retain the
popularity gained by years of patient
struggle and the expenditure of vast
sums of money.

Some stores have reputations that
they might well be rid of—the kind
of reputation that drives knowing
cnes away from their doors. These
reputations, too, are often a matter
of gradual development. Slipshod
methods, poor management, irrespon-
sible employees—all these are ele-
ments that contribute to the under-
mining of a store’s good name.

“Don’t buy it here,” says one shop-
per to her companion; “So-andSo are
advertising the same thing for 5
cents a yard less.”

“But I’d rather buy it here and pay
more,” replies the other, “for then I
know it’s right. The other store isn’t
reliable and I won’t give them a
chance to fool me again.”

Each of these stores has a repu-
tation. Which is preferable?

A reputation for reliability entitles

color.”

you to larger profits on your mer-
chandise.

Such a reputation has rights that
are recognized and never questioned.

When your name comes to be sy-
nonymous with reliability, any price
within reason will prevail against
competition.

There’s a famous haberdasher in
New York whose goods are standards
for style and quality. His name to
the select trade of the metropolis is
as significant in men’s furnishings as
Tiffany’s in jewelry.. Inside informa-
tion reveals the fact that his hosiery
is purchased from the manufacturers
of a famous’ brand, first-class for
value, which retails anywhere at a
half. dollar. This hosiery he markg
with his own name and_ brand,
charges a dollar and gets it without
any question.

That’s one instance of the real
profit there is in reliability. You
probably know others just as con-
spicuous, if you stop to think.

And to reach it and keep it, all you
have to do is to deserve it.

— +22
The Electrical Age.

The president of a great railroad
system has publicly announced that
the motive power of the near future
on our trunk lines will be electricity,
and steam engines will be worth only
so much junk. The New York Cen-
tral Railroad proposes to spend $20,-
000,000 in equipping its suburban
service with electric locomotives. In
the republic of Switzerland a plan

tives with electric power is proposed,
by substituting electric heating in the
place of coal until the present loco-
motives are worn out when they will
be replaced by complete electric lo-
comotives.

Pretty soon everything will be done
by electricity—cooking, heating, light-
ing and locomotion. The business
man will electrify his stomach by
eating a breakfast cooked on an
electric stove. He will take his elec-
tric automobile to the station and
board the train drawn by an electric
engine for the city. He will ride to
his office by the electric trolley. Here
he will sit and work by electric light
all winter and have his bald spot
cooled by an electric fan all summer.
At night he will go home by the
electric trolley and _ the electric
engine, getting into his _ elec-
tric automobile, eating an electrically
cooked dinner, spending the evening
reading by electric light and warming
his toes at the open electric heater—
in short there will be no point in his
whole life where the electrical fluid
will not exercise an important in-
fluence upon his welfare, comfort and
happiness.

Great is electricity.

—_—_o o. —_—_

Pleasant words and smiles will help
the clerks through a hard day a
thousand times better than sharp,
fretful words. Just try it and see.
You will feel better yourself, too.

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Michigan Knights of the ~~,
President. Michael Howarn, troit;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, H. E. Bradner, Lansing.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan

Grand Councelor, J. C. Emery, Grand Rap-

ei Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,
int.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.

Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Secre-
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OLD METHODS

Which Cause Shaken Confidence
Should Be Avoided.

Confidence is the keynote of busi- |

ness. Confidence begets credit. The
world’s commerce is built upon the
credit that confidence in the integrity
of mankind establishes. Without con-
fidence a merchant would be unable
to do business. The manufacturer
has confidence in the jobber; the job-
ber in the retailer; the retailer in the
consumer, who in turn must have
confidence in the first three, else he
could not sell his labor or the pro-
ducts of it.

Confidence is established through
character. A good character means
business integrity. To have that in-
tegrity, a man must have every in-
centive to do right. A strong char-
acter needs no more. But all per-
sons are not strong. Many are weak.
Many stumble and fall and become
a part of the flotsam and jetsam of
commercial disaster. Some fall
through natural heredity; others
through circumstances that are unfor-
tunate—cupidity, love of display,
gross appetites, loss of confidence in
themselves, their employes and their
fellowmen, temptation — unjustly
placed in their way—and a natural
desire to get rich quickly.

It is those weak characters which
should be safeguarded.

An employer should see that no act
of his puts any of his employes in
moral jeopardy. He should cultivate
the confidence of his men. He should
strive to have them believe in him
and his methods. He should so sys-
temize his business as to give every-
one confidence in him and in them-
selves. He should so arrange details
that no. suspicion of dishonesty, dis-
loyalty or wanton carelessness could
be laid at the door of any clerk in his
store.

He should adopt all the modern
methods of storekeeping, discarding
the obsolete ways of the past gen-
eration like the old open cash-drawer
with its handy temptations to lure
on weak employes, immature cus-
tomers or servants to do wrong.
He should instead install modern cash
registers to record his daily transac-
tions so that a busy clerk can feel
sire that all his transactions are
properly.taken care of by the me-
chanical device and thus give him the
confidence of his employer. To have
confidence in his clerks, a storekeep-
er must be able to locate accurately
and promptly any and all mistakes
that are likely to occur in a day’s busi-
ness. With the old and out of date
open cash-drawer this is not possible.
He is unable to tell what he has taken

 

 

in, what he has sold for cash or sold
on credit, or what he has paid out, ex-
cept through a tedious system of
book-keeping. And then when mis-
takes occur he cannot tell who made
the errors.

This shatters confidence. With
confidence shaken, credit is disturbed,
and with disturbed credit and loss of
confidence come all the ills of the
business world. :

All this can be avoided if the old
methods which cause shaken con-
fidence are avoided. This is really
a subject fit for legislation. A rail-
road company is required by law to
take all precaution to protect the pas-
sengers and its employes from physi-
cal injury. Why shouldn’t a law be
passed to safeguard the moral stand-
ing of weak customers and employes
and children? They should be pro-
tected from the dangers of the open
cash-drawer—the temptation to take
that which is not theirs—as well as
the suspicion, often unjust, that they
have appropriated that which never
was taken in over the counter.

A customer or clerk suspected is a
blow to public confidence. This con-
fidence disturbed brings financial tur-
moil. It is the duty of lawmakers
to prevent this turmoil and no doubt
the advance thinkers soon will be de-
manding that such _ precautionary
laws be placed upon the statute books
of the states.

There is much food for thought in
this subject. Able and forcible ser-
mons can be preached from such a
text. Virile and convincing editorials
may be written. A new era in the
commercial world will begin when
these evils, brought into the full light
of publicity by press and pulpit, are
prevented by legislators who quickly
hearken to the voices of these two
great molders of public opinion.

——— + 22>
Scorning the Union Stamp.

The stamp of the Boot and Shoe
Workers’ Union has been surrender-
ed by the John W. Russ Shoe Com-
pany, of Haverhill, Mass., the eighth
firm to take such a step during the
past year. The company will main-
tain an open shop in the _ future.
More than 350 shoe workers are af-
fected by the change and several of

them, it is said, will leave the union. |

—— 72s
Peace At Last.

Mr. Hoon—Scrappington and_ his
wife have parted. fe

Mrs. Hoon—Good gracious!
is the trouble? |

Mr. Hoon—There isn’t any trouble
now. They have parted.

——— +2 2>—___

The consumption of coffee has in-
creased a little more than two pounds
per capita in this country since the
price fell in 1898. Before that year
the import price of coffee was more
than 14 cents per pound, or double
the cost price. In 1897, the last year
of high prices, we imported 724,000,-
oco pounds of coffee, but since that
time the imports have usually been
above 800,000 pounds, and in one year
they. were more than _ 1,000,000,000
pounds. It is estimated that the 8o,-
000,000 people of the United States
drink yearly 1,566,000,000 gallons of
coffee at a cost of about Io cents per
gallon.

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The steady improvement of the Livingston with
its new and unique writing room unequaled in
Mich., its large and beautiful lobby, its elegant
rooms and excellent table commends it to the trav-
eling public and accounts for its wonderful growth
in popularity and patronage.

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

 

Western
Travelers Accident
Association

Sells Insurance at Cost

Has paid the Traveling Men over
$200,000
Accidents happen when least expected

Join now; $1 will carry your insur-
ance to July 1.

Write for application | blanks and inform-
ation to

GEO. F. OWEN, Sec’y
75 Lyon Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

New Oldsmobile

 

Touring Car $950.

Noiseless, odorless, speedy and
safe. The Oldsmobile is built for
use every day in the year, on all
kinds of roads and in ali kinds of
weather. Built to run and does it.
The above car without tonneau,
$850. A smaller runabout, same
general style, seats two people,
$750. Thecurved dash runabout
with larger engine and more power
than ever, $650. Oldsmobile de-
livery wagon, $850.

Adams & Hart
12 and 14 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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Office 47 Washington Ave.

F. H. VAUGHN, Proprietor and Manager
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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.

Todd Haskell, formerly on the road
for the Spaulding & Merrick Tobac-
co Co., succeeds Flint B. Aniba as
traveling representative for the G.
J. Johnson Cigar Co.

Jonia Sentinel: Frank L. Kelner
leaves Monday to commence work as
traveling salesman in Illinois for
Harry H. Hamilton & Co., wholesale
clothiers, of Detroit.

A Central Lake correspondent
writes: A. F. Cameron has accepted
a position as commercial traveler for
the J. G. Flint Co., Jobber of teas

and spices at Milwaukee.

Lansing Republican: Capt. H. H.
Herrick has gone to Elkhart, Ind.,
where he will reside, that place being
the most convenient center for him
during his trips for the National Bis-
cuit Co. His family will follow the
latter part of the week.

William H. Hurley, a well-known
representative of the firm of Lee &
Cady, of Detroit, recently died at
his home in Flint. An acute attack
of appendicitis was the cause of
death. Deceased was 36 years of age
and is survived by his widow.

A. W. (Bert) Peck was mixed up
in the wreck near Bellaire last week
and walked six and one-half miles
to the county seat so that he might
take the orders coming to him there
before the wrecking train could re-
store his train to its rightful position
on the track.

Allegan Press: Irving Franks has
taken a position as traveling sales-
man with the Fox Typewriter Co.,
Ltd., of Grand Rapids. He spent
several days this week at the factory
studying the mechanical features of
the machine and left for Milwaukee
last night, which place will be his
headquarters for the present.

W. A. Van Leuven (National Can-
dy Co.) has returned from  Chau-
tauqua county, Kansas, where _ he
owns 240 acres of land on which two
oil test wells are now being bored.
Oil has been obtained in all direc-
tions around his farm and Candy
Van confidently expects to be wear-
ing diamonds purchased with the roy:
alties he obtains from this source in
the course of a few months.

Flint B. Aniba, for the past four
years traveling representative for the
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co—a part of
the time in the Upper Peninsula and
a portion of the time in the Southern
territory—has resigned to go to To-
peka, Kas., where he has formed a
co-partnership under the style of
Falkiner, Aniba & Co., to engage in
the manufacture of the Elliott patent
window scaffold, which will be ex-
-ploited from that city. The good
. wishes of a large circle of friends
go with Mr. Aniba.

Munising News: John Russell,
traveling salesman for this district.
returned Monday from Menominee
where he was entertained by the
Carpenter-Cook Co., the well known
wholesale grocers. That firm enter-
tained its employes in right royal
style from Friday last until Saturday
night. The company has sixteen or
seventeen traveling salesmen—with
their office force about 30 employes
in all. These were all entertained at

 

one of the finest banquets ever given
in the Upper Peninsula.

——_> 2

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Traverse City—James McAllister
has taken a clerkship in the drug
store of C. A. Bugbee.

Lowell—D. G. Look has a_ new
clerk in his drug store in the person
of Harry Shooter, late of Nashville.

Kalamazoo—Glenn Hathaway has
entered the employ of J. R. Jones,
Sons & Co., taking charge of their
cloak and suit department.

Bay Shore—Frank Van _ Schoick
has taken a clerkship in the general
store of A. C. Stauffer & Co.

Schoolcraft—Theodore Folz,
at one time conducted a_ branch
clothing store here for his brother,
and who has been in the South for
several years, has returned to Kala-
mazoo and taken a position as clerk
at the Folz clothing establishment.

Elk Rapids—C. A. Carr, who came
to Elk Rapids in 1903 and opened a
grocery store in the Mickleson build-
ing on the east side of the river, has
discontinued business and entered
the employ of Gately & Donovan, of
Saginaw.

——_.>2>——_

Hides, Tallow, Pelts and Wools.

The hide market shows less firm-
ness; in fact, there has been a de-
cline and sales have been made at
less figures. The demand is_ not
good from the East and little inter-
est is shown in the situation. Prices
must go lower or they will not be
accepted. The light stock holds firm.

Tallow is still lifeless. Trading is
light and the small sales show no
profit. Soapers take some stock, as
it is at a lower value than for some
time past and they can use it.

The offerings of pelts are few and
far between.

Wools are moving freely, with con-
siderable being piled up. Prices are
high. Some of the early wools have
gone forward to supply immediate
wants. Local buyers are anxious
and run wild, while the Eastern buy-
ers do not respond so promptly.

Wm. T. Hess.
—_2+

The manufacture and sale of to-
bacco is a State monopoly in Austria,
which nets the national Treasury over
$27,000,000 a year. The Government
purchases the raw material, manu-
factures it into cigars, cigarettes,
smoking tobacco and snuff, and sells
the consumer through licensed agents
who receive a fixed commission aver-
aging about Io per cent. on the pro-

ceeds of their sales.
—_322s

Russia is reported as planning to
do numerous things when she gets
around to them that will crush the
pretentious Japanese. The talk of
St. Petersburg much resembles the
talk of Madrid during the Spanish-
American war. The Spanish untii
the very last were going to annihilate
the Americans. They dreamed ot
revenge, but never realized it.

who

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“Go ahead and build your roads,”
says Stuyvesant Fish, President of
the Illinois Central Railroad, in an
address to good roads advocates.
“We will stand our share of the ex-
pense. The railroads are the arteries
of this country, but the public roads
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Creed of Modern American Success. |
The true creed of most of Paul's |
friends when reduced to terms was |
substantially this, that the important |
thing in life is to be on top, that in
America every one has a chance and |
the best men come to the front, that!
success means money, that money
insures enjoyment, and that no one
is supposed to be enjoying himself |
or herself who does not keep feed-
ing the dynamo of conscious exist-
ence with fresh sensations and run
the human machine at full pressure.
There were necessary corollaries to
this, such as “the devil take the hind- |

most,” uttered considerately — but |
firmly; “we shall be a long time,
dead,” murmured —jocosely but

|
shrewdly, and “the cranks may se!
vail and the crash come, but we shall |
be under the sod,” spoken philosoph- |
ically, with a shake of the head
a sigh—-the moral of it all being that
the position of the successful—that
is, the rich—is delectable and intox-
icating, and the rank and file are ex-
pected to comport themselves with
patriotic and Christian resignation,
and not interfere with the free work-
ings of the millionairium, an inge-

or |

nious substitute for the  millen-
nium.
The stock market, athletic sports

and cocktails were the tutelary saints
of this section of society. They were
habitually long or short of the mar-
ket from one or two hundred to sev-
eral thousand shares, according to
their means. They followed fever-
ishly the prevailing fads sport,
yachting, tennis, polo, rowing, golf.
rackets, hunting, horse
now, a few years later, “bridge,” ping |
pong and the deadly automobile).
And after exercise, before luncheon
and dinner, and on every other ex-
cuse, they imbibed a cocktail or a
whisky and soda as a fillip to the
nervous system. They were dashing,
manly looking fellows, these com-
panions of Paul, ingenious and dar- |
ing in their business enterprises, or, |
if men of leisure, keen and brilliant |

in

shows (as|

 

' threatened to disturb prices on

| short,
| market, a

at their games. They set great store
by physical courage and unflinching
endurance of peril and pain, and they
would have responed promptly to a
national demand for troops in case of
war; but when anything arose on the
social horizon which
the
Stock Exchange, they set their teeth
as one man and howled maledictions
at it and its author, although it bore
the sign manual of true progress. In
life for them meant a_ bull
galaxy of competitive
sports and perpetual novelty.—Rob-
ert Grant in Scribner’s.
—__+->—__—_
To Cure Sleeplessness.

political or

When we are kept awake from our
fatigue, the first thing to do is to
say over and over to ourselves that
we do not care whether we sleep or
not, in order to imbue ourselves with
a healthy indifference about it. It
will help toward gaining this whole-
some indifference to say: “I am too
tired to sleep, and therefore the first
thing for me to do is to get rested
in order to prepare for sleep. When
my brain is well rested it will go to
sleep; it can not help it. When it
is well rested it will sleep just as
naturally as my lungs breathe, or as
my heart beats.” Another thing to
remember— and it is very important
—is that an overtired brain needs
more than the usual nourishment. If
you have been awake for an hour,
and it is three hours after your last
meal, take half a cup or a cup of hot
milk. If you are awake for another
two hours take half a cup more, and
at intervals, of about two hours,
so long as you are awake throughout
the night. Hot milk nourishing
and a sedative. It inconve-
nient to have milk by the side of one’s
bed, and a little saucepan and a spir-
it lamp.

—_»2>—_—

For hands that have been stained
in any way, try a little buttermilk
with a bit of cornmeal added. It
will whiten them nicely.

SO,

is

is not

 

Jellies and Tumblers

Now is the time to order your Tin Top Jelly Glasses and Tum-

blers.

Have them shipped any time you prefer.

Water Tumblers

The styles of g-ounce Water Tumblers shown represent the best

standard grades at the lowest price.

Jellies in less than a barrel.

I cannot sell these Tumblers and

Price Per Dozen, 15c

 

 

 

 

 

 

more per dozen.

DAVID

 

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One-Third Pint Tin Top Jellies..--.
One-Half Pint Tin Top Jellies... ..... per dozen 14c
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Importers’ and Manufacturers’ Agent

Crockery, Glassware, China, Lamps

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board of -
President—Henry Heim, Sagina
cya ame D. Muir, Grand ‘Rap-

idee baie H. Webber, Cadillac.
C. B. Stoddard, Monroe
Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

Sessions for 1904.
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 ge — O. Schlotter-
beck, Ann A

Second Vice- President—J. E. Weeks,
Battle Creek.

Third Vice-President—H. C. Peckham,
Freeport.

Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.

Treasurer—J. Major Lemen, Shepard.
Executive Committee—D. A. Hagans.
ae . D. Muir, Grand Rapids; W.
. Hall) Detroit; Dr. Ward, St. Clair; H
v Brown, Ann Arbor.
Trade Interest—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Stanley Parkill, Owosso.

 

 

Jobbers Regaining the Trade Which
Belongs to Them.

Referring to the paper read at a
meeting of the Chicago Credit Men’s
Association and published'in full in
last week’s issue of the Tradesman,
a representative of a manufacturing
chemical establishment wrote Mr.
Nind as follows:

Chicago, April 21—The writer was
very much interested in your talk
last.evening and it occurred to him
that you might possibly be interested
in a movement which is beginning
to show itself in the drug line.

The tendency has been in our line,
as well as many others, to more and
more ignore the middleman or job-
ber. There has been a decided ten-
dency during the last ten years to
give the retail druggist better than
the ordinary trade discounts, particu-
larly when they can buy in fairly large
quantities. I am speaking now strictly
of the pharmaceutical end of the busi-
ness. The ordinary discount to the
retailer used to be 25 per cent. and
to the jobber 40 per cent. The dis-
count to the jobber, however, has
gradually been getting larger and
there has developed a_ tendency to
give large retailers 40 per cent. on
shipments made direct from the man-
ufacturer. It finally resulted in the
making of so-called contracts with
large retailers, whereby they agreed
to buy a certain amount of goods.
say, from $250 up per annum, in order
that they might get the benefit of
this 40 per cent. discount. This re-
sulted in more or less demoralization
and the tendency has been increased
right along toward the giving of 40
per .cent. to the retail trade—always,
of course, on direct shipments only.

Some four years ago one of the
manufacturers who is located in In-
dianapolis decided to turn over a new
Icaf. He took a very strong position.
issued a new catalogue, raising the
list price on some of the items which
were being sold on too close a mar-
gin and issued a circular to the effect
that he would sell any retailer in any
quantity as per list at 40 per cent.
discount, the main point, however, be-
ing that all orders absolutely must
come through the jobber. He in-
“creased his force of salesmen rather
than decreased it, covering the trade
very closely, and has been building

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

up a steadily growing trade. Natural-
ly, the jobbers favored his line to a
certain extent and put out his goods
on unspecified orders.

Meanwhile the other manufactur-
ers have been driving more and more
towards the elimination of the mid-
dle man. Last fall we made up our
minds that “through the jobber only”
could be_made to win and, with the
issuance of our annual catalogue, we
went on to practically the same basis.
So far we believe that it is a success,
for many reasons which I will not
stop to go into here. We are suffi-
ciently confident of its permanent
success to push the proposition to
the limit from every standpoint, both
through our salesmen and through
other forms of advertising.

This shows that there are some of
us thinking along other lines than
those referred fo by you in your talk
last evening and that possibly the
pendulum is beginning to swing the
other way and the jobber is beginning
to regain, to a certain extent, that
trade which belongs to him.

You are probably aware that the
patent medicine end of the drug busi-
ness is so arranged that the jobber
absolutely controls the situation and
none of the large manufacturers make
any shipments except through the
jobber.

We believe that our having taken
the same position as that of the In-
dianapolis firm will go a long way
toward bringing the pharmaceutical
part of the drug business back to the
same basis.

We are having the support of most
of the drug trade journals in this
policy.

——_>+>—__
Need For a Morgan Among the
Colleges.

The young man of the present day
who does not get a pharmaceuticai
education probably does not want
one, for eighty schools of pharmacy
in the United States and Canada pro-
vide opportunities in great abund-
ance. However, lest we become too
much inflated with pride over our
educational system, we may well re-
flect that mere figures may be more
inspiring than that for which they
stand. Colleges of pharmacy in this
country—I use the term college and
school synonymously—have increas-
ed in number about 35 per cent. dur-
ing the past three years, and there
is little reason to hope that the worst
is over. At one time in our history
such an increase would have been
hailed as an evidence of pharmaceu-
tical progress. But it is possible to
have too much of even so good a
thing as colleges of pharmacy, and it
is altogether likely that we were al-
ready suffering from such an embar-
rassment of riches. This is wholly
without disparagement of the new-
comers; yet helps us to understand
the feelings of the impecunious man
who said he valued his twelve child-
ren at a million dollars apiece, but
wouldn’t give fifty cents for another.

To state bluntly a generally con-
ceded fact, what we need is fewer
pharmacy schools and better ones—
and fewer schools would mean better
ones because of concentration of
students, income, and teaching ability.
Combination has so long been the
popular order that one may almost

 

 

wonder how our _ pharmaceutical
teaching institutions have remained
unaffected by it. Even the medical
colleges have begun to learn the les-
son of commerce, and it would not
be difficult to cite instances where
one excellently equipped and largely
attended school has succeeded sev-
eral smaller warring ones. If there
be a Morgan among us willing to
do the cause of pharmaceutical edu-
cation a service of no mean propor-
tions let him come forth and elimi-
nate unnecessary pharmacy schools
and their wasteful competition by
merging them with the dozen schools
that are really needed and could be
reasonably well supported. No fev-
erishly fertile imagination is required
to realize that concentrating in a
dozen such schools the students now
scattered thinly among eighty would
yield better results than are at pres-
ent obtained.

Dr. Frank Billings pointed out in
his recent presidential address to the
A. M. A. that of the 5,000 new gradu-
ates in medicine each year, 3,000 are
not needed; that is to say, 2,000 new
disciples of Aesculapins each year
would be sufficient to supply the small
demand of an increasing population
and fill vacancies caused by _ retire-
ments, death, etc. Pharmacy, how-
ever, suffers not so much from the
number of its students as from their
deficiency in preliminary education,
and this is more or less directly trace-
able to the surplus of colleges with
which we are afflicted. The attempt
is being made, and I believe in all
good faith, to adopt a uniform en-
trance requirement so that the young
man who presents himself for admis-
sion to a pharmacy school must show
a high-school diploma or its equiva-
lent before he can become a student.
With a small number of well-attend-
ed schools there would be no great
obstacle in the way, but where the
number is large and the competition
for ‘students is brisk—for the hideous
specter of a deficit is ever before the
majority of colleges—it is not hard
to understand the difficulties that
have thus far beset those wishing to
bring about such an agreement.

J. W. T. Knox.
—~+22>__
The Druggist as a Refracting Op-
tician.

For a druggist who is situated in
the country, with plenty of leisure
time on his hands, I do not know of
a better or more profitable thing for
him to do than to take up the busi-
ness of a refracting optician. Sev-
eral states already recognize the mem-
bers of this calling, and more will
probably do so every year until rec-
ognition has been granted in all the
states. In those states where laws
now exist state boards of optometry
are to be found, and they are much
the same in character as the state
boards of pharmacy.

The business opens up a wide field
for any intelligent druggi-t who is
willing to give some time to study
the subject. In my opinion the best
way to go at the thing is first to pur-
chase several text-books and make
a careful study of them, following
with a course at any of the recognized
optical colleges by correspondence or
personal attendance. One will be
more than repaid for the money ex-

 

 

pended. Personally, I was unable
to leave my store, and was compelled
to take the correspondence course.
Consequently I did not expect the
public to have any great confidence
in me at first. However, I adver-
tised pretty thoroughly and took a
great deal of pains to do good work,
thus hoping to give satisfaction and
develop confidence gradually. I have
succeeded beyond my expectations.
No complaints have been made of
my work, and my business is steadily
increasing. The town where I am
located is the county seat; it has
about goo inhabitants, but in addi-
tion to this a good many people from
the surrounding country come to the
village to do their shopping.

After you once get the theory of
optometry, the only really necessary
thing is a trial case. This should
cost from $50 to $75—that is, you
should pay that much, since it is
best to get a good one. One need
not keep any stock of lenses’ or
frames at all, provided he can get
what he wants from a manufacturing
optician in two or three days. Ii,
however, he keeps a stock, it should
only be of the cheap frames, for it
is better to measure one’s patients
for every pair of eyeglasses or spec-
tacles prescribed and have them
made. No two pairs of eyes are ever
exactly alike—wWillets Corson in
Bulletin of Pharmacy.

———~sr.22s—___
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is weak and lower, on ac-
count of reports in primary market
that crop will be a large one.

Morphine—Is unchanged.

Carbolic Acid—Is very firm and ad-

vancing.

Cantharides, Russian—Are very
firm and tending higher.

Epsom Salts—Are very scarce.
Manufacturers are behind in their

orders. The market is firm and tend-
ing higher.

Menthol—Is firm, although compe-
tition among holders keeps the price
low.

Oil Peppermint—Is very scarce and
firm.

Oil Cloves—Is very firm on ac-
count of higher price for spice.

American Saffron—Has again ad-
vanced and is tending higher on ac-
count of scarcity.

Gum Camphor—Has again declin-
ed on account of competition of the
Japanese refined.

Goldenseal Root—Is very hom and
advancing.

Gum Shellac—Is very firm and
tending higher.

Cloves—Have advanced and are
very firm.

 

 

 

FOR SALE

Soda Fountain, good as new. Cost
$450 co—will sell for $60.00 and ship
on approval. Address

“*Soda’’

Care Michigan Tradesman

 

 

 

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FRED BRUNDAGE
Wholesale Drugs and Stationery,

Fishing Tackle, Sporting Goods,
Fireworks and Flags.

32-34 Western Ave., MUSKEGON, Mich.

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Menthol ......... 6 50@7 00 Sctmits Mixture.! 20 22 Linseed, pure raw 41 42
Morphia, S P & W.2 35@2 60 Sinapis .......... $ 18 | Linseed, boiled .. 42@ 45
Advanc: d— Morphia, so 260 Sinapis, opt ..... @ 380|Neatsfoot, w str.. 65 :
Declined— Morphia, Mal ....235@2 60 | Snuff, | Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine. 6
. er Ae aga 380 40/5. De "SS pws g2 tees -
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Xanthoxylum .... 30@ 35 | Theobromas Gentian 60 ce
a Potassium Gentian Co ...... 60
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, Peru ...cccceeeeeee @1 50 Bichromate ...... 183@ 15|Guiaca ammon .. 60
q Terabin, Canada.. 60@ 65| Bromide ......... —- 45 | Hyoscyamus ..... 60
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Abies, Canadian.. 18 | Cyanide .......... Sita 50
Cassiae .........- 12 | Iodide ............ 275@285| Lobelia .......... 50
Cinchona Flava.. 18 | Potassa, Bitart pr 30@ 32|Myrrh ........... 50
Euonymus atro.. 30 | Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10!Nux Vomica ..._. 50
Myrica ——- 20) Potass Nitras 6@ 8/Opil ............. 715
Prunus Virgini. 12) Prussiate ........ 23@ 26 Opil, comphorated 50
Quillaia, gr’d..... 12 | Sulphate po ...... 15@ 18| Opil, deodorized . 160
Sassafras ..po. 18 Ss Radix Quassia .......... 50
Ulmus ..25, gr’d. Aconitum ........ 20@ 25|Rhatany ......... 50
‘Extractum pe 30@ 83|Rhei .:........... 50
Giycyrrhiza Gla... 24@ = Anchusa ......... 10@ 12/|Sanguinaria ...... 50
Glycyrrhiza, po... 28 7 Arum po ........ @ 26|Serpentaria ...... 50
Haematox ...-- 11 44| Calamus ........ 20@ 40|Stromonium ...... 60
Haematox, 1s.... 18 5|Gentiana ..po 16 12@ 15|Tolutan ......... 60
Haematox, %s..-. 14@ 15| Giychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18| Valerian ......... 50 |-
Haematox, 4s... 16@ 17) Fydrastis Cana 150 | Veratrum Veride.. 50
Hydrastis Can po 150|Zingiber ......... 20
Carbonate Pree! 15 | Hellebore, Alba.. 12@ 15
a oe a 2 75 | Inula, po ........ - 18 2 Miscellaneous
rate =e Ipecac, po ........
Ferrocyanidum 8. 40\ tris piox . 12.2.0: 35@ 40| Aether, SptsNit3 30@ 35 We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,
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; Flora Rhei, pv ........ 15@1 35 aetin et = | f mT d
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Folla 33 | Same: omits H.-S fo | Bismuth §.N ....2 2002 30
Barosma ...------ 30@ Smilax. M i @ 25| Calcium Chior, is 9
= ely, — 20%) 25 | Scillae ‘po 35 109 12 Calcium Chior, es 10
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Absinthium .....3 00@3 25 slate use ...... @140|Hydrarg Ammo’l. 115 rug e
Amygdalae, Dulce. 50@ 60 Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Amyegdalae Ama..8 00@8 25 Syrups Hydrargyrum .... 85
Anisi ...... gece. sd pagel So | Acacia §.......... @ 650 Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1 00
Auranti Cortex...210@2 20} Auranti Cortex . g 50 |Indigo ........... 75@1 00
Berea oe ” aot 7. yaar Soe oie aes = Toaide, Resubi <I = — d R ids Mich
iputi ........-110@115|Ipecac ........... : G
ep ophyili 2...2160@1 70 | Ferri Tod ......2. 3S Ble : ran ap ’ °
‘ Cedar. ....... 70|Rhei Arom ...... @ 50| Lycopodium :
4 Chenopadii . : 200 | Smilax Offi’s .... 50@ 60{| Macis 65@ 75
@ Cinnamonii . 110 g 50|Liquor Arsen et
Citronella ....... 40 50} Hydrarg Iod . @ 2
, Conium Mac.... @ 50/ Liq Potass Arsinit 10 4
ze Copaiba ......... "116 @ 50|™Maenesia,. Sulph.. 2
‘ Cubebae ..... aco @ 50 | Magnesia, Sulh | bbi @ ie

 

  

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Som eRSTET

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia-
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.

 

DECLINED

 

 

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AXLE GREASE
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Axle Grease .........+.-

 

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No. 3
BUTTER COLOR
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size.1 25
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size.2 00
CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s ....
Electric Light, 16s ....10

Farinaceous Goods ....
Fish and Oysters ...... .
Fishing Tackle
Flavoring extracts .....

CANNED GOODS
Apples

ags Gals, Standards ..
Grains and Flour ...... B

aides and Pelts

 

I oon onc iw ww ween
Standard .......

B
2 Tb. cans, —_—
. ittle — ; h.100@1 25
2 th. 150

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Cherries
Red Standards...
White ..... ace

Extra Fine ............

Mustard, 2 ™.........- 2 80

 

-

Wrapping Paper .......

a

 

  

i Pumpkin
Bair .. i cc
Good ..
Fancy ... <i
Galion .. 6... c6s 6.

Raspberries
Standard

 

Russian Cavier

Salmon
Col’a River, talls..
Col’a River, flats.
Red Alaska .....
Pink Alaska .. .

Sardines
Domestic, %s ..

California, 4s ...
California, %s ...
French, 4s .......
French, %S ......-

Strawberries
Standard ........
ST ee ee

Tomatoes
ar
Good

Barrel
Perfection ......
Water White ...

S. Gasoline ..
Deodor’d Nap’a...

“Cotton Victor

 

70 ft.
80

 

Domestic, _ ce
Domestic, Must’d.. 6@

CARBON OILS

 

Se ee

eee ee es 110

Cotton Windsor
Oe o.oo. ics os wos seven ee
60 Sods ctes>eeusecin a

tesasstotsstsvae SD

ME. cece cece ceee

 

Cotton Braided

40 ft. cc cceccvecccccesss 95
BO ft ce ---1 35
GO ft. 0... cence ec eeeee.

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100 ft long.1 90
No. 19, each 100 ft long.2 10

 

COCOA
ROE Bo ooo Sac oe 38
Cleveland ............< 41
Colonial, %s ....... <3, oo
Colonial, i cists Se 33
EO eee ees e scence 42
RUG IOE oo cc cco eto 45
Van Houten, \%s ...... 12
Van Houten, %s ...... 20
Van Houten, ¥%s ..... 40
bs Houten, 1s ....... =
Wilbur, BGS oc oau 41
Wilbur, BES co 8G sc ko 42
COCOANUT
Dunham’s Suc. 26
Dunham’s ¥s & \%s 26%
Dunham’s Bees 27
Punham’s ks ...... 28
PM oo oc a es 12
COCOA SHELLS
Ge 3p. BASS. Wo. we
Less quantity ........
Pound packages ...... 4
COFFEE
Rio
Common .......+.-++- 10%
CG@mRIOn . os coco. oe 11
ME. cwcececcsweb ee ce 12%
PAROS ce ee ee 13 1-3
MCY -. osc cus cceise os
Peaberry. ..2.22. 2.2 FS
Maracalbo
Mat 2... secs cee; oo 13%
neiee § ..555...5. 32.3 16%
Mexican
Chole 2. ...6) cs. sek 16%
MEBCY oo Gee ey see 19
Guatemala
Cnheice 2.6. 6c cet 15
Java
Aerican | 2. ..5 6.2.3 lee 12
eee African ....... 17
DB Go soos ei, 25
Be os 31
ocha
Arabian 22... ts ccc 21
Package
New York Basis.
ATDUCKIO 2< . cic. sc ccne 11 50
Pweg ee 11 50
“yee Lidlce aca. oil cleans 11 50

Lio
McLaughiin’s XXKK

a Set ieee 9
Pmome .......... 16 McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
Black. winter .. 9 to retailers only. Mail all
CATSUP orders direct to W._ F.
Columbia, 25 pts...... 450 | McLaughlin & Co., Chi-
Columbia, 25 %pts.... cago.
Snider’s quarts .......
Snider’s pints ........ Extract
Snider’s % pints ..... 130| Holland, % gro boxes. 95
CHEESE Felix, % gross ........ 115
Acme ooo. sos. Hummel's foil, % gro. 85
Amboy -........ Hummel's tin, % gro.1 43
Carson City
Elsie CRACKERS
—e National Biscuit Company’s
Gold Medal Brands
teers Butter
ersey :
Riverside Serene eas alae ee
| Eas ae. 6%
L iden Rama 6%,
cere Wolverine ..........-. 7
Limburger Soda
Pineapple wee ee 61%
ap Sa Seisct (il a a
CHEWING GUM Saratoga Flakes ...... 13
American Flag Spruce. 55 oO
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... Suns yster 6%
Black. Jack <......:.-; Square ee eel pee
manage Gum Made aust weer eee eee eee eee
beoseh 2. ee eee ee ae
RD oo cco o cesses
er Beans ee os Extra Farina ........ 1%
Wucatan ......... 6.2.2 Sweet Goods
CHICORY IAmiraets, 2. os ss ewe 10
Bulk 5 Assorted Cake ....... 10
Red er cccccccccceccece Bagley Gomes ..- 2.5.00 Ha
i ena Belle Rose ....... ceees 8
Eag e ar Bent’s Water ........ 16
a . ste ceeeee neces Butter Thin ee 13
scat Scie, 7 e peo Bar 22.2... ca.
CHOCOLATE , Cococanut Taffy ...... 12
Walter Baker & Co.’s_| | Cinnamon Bar ........ 9
German Sweet ----+-+ Coffee Cake, N. B. C..10
Premium ..........-.-- Coffee Cake, Iced .... 10
Vanilla ........-..2eeee Cocoanut Macaroons .. 18
Caracas ...---+--+++++- Cracknels ........+0++ 16
Eagle sila bi ip. saris lot tote ian ie secleries Currant Fruit ........ 10
meee LINES Chocolate Dainty .... 16
sal Cartwheels ........... 9
60 ft, 3 thread. extra..100 | Dixie Cookie ..... ..... 8%
72 ft, 3 thread, extra ..140/ Frosted Creams ...... a

Ginger Gems
Ginger Snaps, N B C. 38
Grandma Sandwich . . 10

Graham Cracker ...... 86

Hazelnut 1
Honey Fingers, or: 12
Honey Jumbles ...... 2
Iced Happy Family coe
Iced Honey — - 10
Imperials 8

ee or

 
  

Indiana Belle 1.2.15
Series °.. 6656 : &
Jersey Lunch . “ md

Lady Fingers .
Lady Fingers, hand md 8
Lemon Biscuit Square 3”
Lemon Wafer ......---

4

Lemon Snaps ........ 12
Lemon Gemg ........- 10
hem Ven. .0 5.66 scs2s 10
Maple Cake ...... onc
Marshmallow .........- 16

Marshmallow Cream.. 16
Marshmallow wauisnut. =

Mary a i sic'e! siaeloisions ai
Walawa ©. 6.65625. 55-
Mich "Gese Fs’d honey 1
Milk Biscuit ..........
Mich Frosted Honey . "2
Mixed Picnic ......... 11
Molasses Cakes, Sclo’d 8
Moss Jelly Bar ...... 12
Muskegon Branch, Iced 10
ae es 12
Gntmcs Cracker ..... 8%
Orange Slice ......... 16
Orange Gem .........-- 8%

Orange & Lemon Ice .. 10
Pilot Bread 7
Ping Pong 9
Pretzels. hand made .. 8
Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8

Pretzelettes, mch. m’d 7
Hube Sears ....5...-.-. 8%
Scotch Cookies ...... 10
Snowdrops ........... 5

Spiced Sugar Tops
Sugar Cakes, scndioped Sy

  

Sugar Squares ......... 8%
Suitanas.§ ........ oe
Spiced Gingers - 8%
Urchins ......

Vienna Crimp
Vanilla Wafer .

Waverly ..... oe
Banewear 26. secs 9
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sundried = peice 5
Evaporated ..... -6%@7

California Prunes
100-125 25tb. boxes. 3%
99-100 = Tb. bxs.. 4

80-90 25 Ib. bxs. 4%
70-80 25 tb. bxs. 5
60-70 25%b. boxes. . 6
50-60 25 Ib. bxs. 6%
40-50 25 Tb. bxs. @ 7%
30-40 25 Yb. bxs. @
\%c less in bu .v. cases
Citron
Corsica eeSore @12%
Imp’d. 1%b. Die.
Imported = ws 1
zemon hae oe sae sive 12
Orange American ..... 12
Ralsins
London Layers 3 cr 1 90
T.ondon Layers 3 cr 1 95
Cluster 4 crown. 2 60

Loose Musca’s 2 cr... 6%
Loose Musca’s 3 cr. ..7
Loose Musca’s 4 cr. ..8

L. M. Seeded, 1 @
L. M. Seeded. %Ib.7%4%@7%
Sultanas, bulk .

Sultanas, package. @ 9%
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans

Dried Lima ............
Med. Hd. Pk’d...2 iso? =
Brown Holland .......
Farina
24 4 Th. PRES. os... SS
Bulk, per 100 fbs...... 2 80
Hominy
Flake, 50 th. sack ....1 =
Pearl, 200 th. sack ...4 00
Pearl, 100 tbh. sack -2 00
Maccaron! and Vermicelll
Domestic, 10 Tb. box 60
Imported, 25 Yb. box . ‘2 50
Pearl Barley
Common <..-....--.-- 2 50
eS A eI a ee 2 65
Pompe 3 50
Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu.1 35
Green, Scotch, bu..... Bs =
Spit, WG... .< 6 66 ose ose
Rolled Oats
Rolled Avenna, bbl....5 50
Steel Cut, 100Tb. sacks 2 70
Monarch, bbl.......... 5 25
Monarch, #0tb. sacks. .2 55
Quaker, cases ........ 3 10
Sago
Wast india  -- . 666.65. o%
German, sacks ........ 3%
German, broken pkg . 4
Taploca
Flake, 1101D. sacks .... 4%
Pearl, 130%. sacks ..3%

Wheat
Cracked, bulk
24 2 Th. packages ...

 

FISHING TACKLE
6
7
9
ll
15
30
“No. 1, f fegecs as
No. 2, 15 feet ..... fee
No. 3, 15 f eo eck te
No. 4, 15 feet ........- 38
No. 5, 15. feet ........ <a
No. 6, 15 feet ........ 12
No. 7, 15 feet ......... 15
No. 8, 15 feet ..... sees ae
No. 9, 15 feet ..... eae

 

Pearl, 24 1 th. pkgs .. 6%

 

Linen Lines

 

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Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., pr ds..
Bamboo, 16 ft., pr ds.
Bamboo, 18 ft., pr ds.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Foote & Jenks

Coleman’s Van. Lem.
2oz. Panel ........120 75
Sez. Taper :....;. -2 00 1 50

No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 1 50

Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon
No. 2 D. C. pr Sa
No. 4 D. C. pr dz

Taper D. C. pr dz

Mexican Vanilla
No. 2 1). C.
No. 4 D. C.
No. 6 D.

pr dz

GELATINE

Knox’s Sparkling, dz. 1 20
Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 00
Knox’s Acidu’d., doz. 1 20
Knox’s Acidu’d, gro .14 00

OxfOPrd: 20 cei. e555
Plymouth Rock

NelsGn’s 2320552025...
Cox’s, 2 qt. size ..... 7161
Cox's, 1 qt: sige ..:;... 110

GRAIN BAGS

Amoskeag, 100 in b’e. 19
Amoskeag, less than b. 19%

GRAINS AND FLOUR
Wheat

No. tL White <.......
No. 2 Hed -..........,
Winter Wheat Fiour
Local Brands
PPREOWEE occ oc so cisitieie 5 6!
a po cacsie ae 5 25
Straigh HERS ie a
Second “sitaieit value 1o
WHORE. coi occa ce -.4 6
Grabaan iecsee OO

Buckwheat pike Bs

Subject to usual cash

discount.
Flour in bblis.,
bbl. additional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
s

Quaker, s
Quaker, 4s

Quaker, %s ..........- 5 15

Spring Wheat Flour
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s
Brand

ne
Pillsbury’s Best %s.

# Pillsbury s Best %s ...

Pillsbury’s Best s..
Lemon ~~ — Co.’s

Wingold,
Wingold, i
Wingold,

Judson Grocer’ oe ’s Brand
s 5 60

Ceresota, 1
Cerasota, 4s ..
Ceresota, %s

 

 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Bra

Laurel, 148 °.::.+....-5'60

Laurel, Ws svc... so. se D

Laurel, 2 ease ee 5 40

Laurel, 14% & 4s paper 5 40
Meal

Boleed ...-.. ..2. 2s =

Golden Granulated ....2
Feed and Mittstuffs

St. Car Feed screened22 50
No. 1 Corn and oats. .22 50
...21 00
-21 00
Winter wheat mid’ngs22 00

21 50

Corn Meal, coarse
Winter wheat bran .

Cow Feed
Screenings

Oa
Car lots 3.22.5... coocee

Corn,

Hay
No. 1 timothy car lots.10 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots.12 50

HERBS

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Sage

EIGDS oi... sis ous cease
Laurel Leaves
Senna Leaves

INDIGO
boxes

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LICORICE

cece eccrccccosccoce
eecccccccoccce

eco ececoce ecceccce

Condensed, 2 dz ...
.Condensed, 4 dz ......8

MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour’s, 2 0Z .......-4
Armour’s 4 0Z

Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 02.2 75
Liebig’s, Chicago, oes 50
Liebig’s, imported, : — 65
90 | Liebig’s. imported, 4 0s.8 60

Sas Ske

osock oe
No. 6 D. C. pr dz .....2 00
vosek OO

pr dz ....1 20
o2e-8 00
Cc. pr dz ....3 00
Taper D. C. pr dz ....2 00

26c per

 

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Fan Op riean
Choice ee n Kettle ae es a 8 9
Pacer eeereecrnte 35 Durkee's pat 1 dons ot cae SOAP 10
208 ec ccie ie ex r++ 26) 5 er’s, large, 1 oz..5 25 City Soap Co’s TOBA
Poke ide gna a 22 | Snider’s, small, 2 — . 35 Jaxon brand. | es cco rT
MUS 35 | Jaxon, 6 box, del. ... Ine C Egg
Horse Radish, 2) dx ...1 78 Arm” ee | dana ae ea, 58 ee a | Humpty. Dumpty |
Bayle’ Radish, 2 dz ..-1 75 | Arm cked 60 Ibs. in b Johnson 5 x, del ...3 00) Stiga Pe 54 |No. a complete -+--3 40/ Old Pelts
yle’s Celery, 1 ees 50 | — 2 Hammer Ox . | = I ving Co. eet g inten gt ie | complete ......-- 3 Se ee
Bulk, OLIVES re Dwight’s Co cw suse eee oe — 00 | ie ove Family aS 4 3 65) Telegram’ 10Tb. pails” = | Cork 1 Faucets i | Shearlings «aeeee ees 50@1 50
1 w h ined,
2s —s [5 re: Emblem .-....2..200+. 3 so - oe s e218 BE ne aot ee | Gork lined, Sin ....-++- No. 1 ae
ae PER RS oc 1 $0 Wana, ie 10 IDA oe eee pe 2 Prairie Rose .........- 31 ork ed a No. 1...
ee sa Wyandotie, 100 %3s .- 3 00 | Americ eee a eee Protectio a eB caret ete @ 4%
q sees 83 100 %s 3 0 erican F . brands | Sw ao. , 8 in... o. a
eee "3 00 | Lusk amily ... | Sweet Burl . a eco ues Ww @ 3%
, eeeee neon 3 ceectneele — Dusky Bnd. tod 60 ion2 80 — ge See cak eas = Trojan —e Washed. ane O23
77-3 | Granulate bbls .... ap Rose .. ton2 0) Pug Dl en eee wdc Se ae vi
90 ‘Eatmp, bola. cazen's 6)| White Imperial 100013 10 [Bed Cross = Re e'cbeamon ee go Ciwashed, medi “ais
‘+: “G9 Lump, 1451. kegs - ‘ a! OB oe ease. ‘ | : m21@22
a en. 15 | Dome, oval. ba 381 Este oh cn et older. 88 CON Boog
seneeees "3 30, cael 9% rae a -3 10 Hiawatha oS | Ideal 3 mop heads. = s ogra
j Clay, N PES SALT ite Cloud .....: eee a a eae = tick Candy
Clay, rT 1G cos | Diamond Crysta en ae tion & Ge we 4 Battle AX ooojoccrss: 37 . Palis -- 90! Standard et
ons weceeil 10 | cases, 24 31D, DO cine, 100- sete brands | Spear Hi = ool | Fee Sener ig Standard aH es
cee aes » 24 31D. b Big -%ib. bars... o| Spear Head ceinerwee 4 tandera ...... 9 | Standa seees
.. 86 | Barrel oxes ...1 ig Mas bars...3 Spea 8 oz. 7 | 2-wire, @ Lc. | rd Twist Ls
, PICKLES See ae a 3 Bis “a: | Spear Head, 1602. "... 47 | 3- Cable it Ok TEE oxc-ce oe 8
els, 50 6Ib. gs ..3 00| Marse Boy Pd'r. 100 pic. 4 60 | pope ee oz. ...44 wire, Cable ......... hl
Mediu Bar bags . Marsel. r. 100 | Jolly Te Ae 44 | Cedar, ee wk 9
e Barrels, 1, 2 oes Set a rels, 40 7!b. bags = "3 : Proctor ben = Old, ‘wronesty shee Es = brass =e - a ae sen cages
count Ba: Butter MOX .....-.4- e brands | J Y cesses -43 Slat TNE TT mE 2 25 | Bosto EM ssickas
Half bbls, one. all -4 50 oe =. Ib. bulk ..2.65 i 6 oz petro 3 le eee ial -34 B Toothpick seeecs 279 Olde "hime. Su st Heiney .
St a con 3 Sacks, 28 aT. bags ..2 38 a -+-4 00 | Boot jaigidsicic "66 Seen. . | 30 Tb. ca gar stick
5 acks,"28 fos cess--- 21 | aesa onset. on ie aaa wt alae a ae EE is dss nnanens ee 12
» wa, PAYING CARDS 0 66 fos. -. 02... = cosa oneer = eae Celt -+-80 | Ticats ei nstess* 215 a
No. 15, eamboat Sh: oi 4 oo 2. eee: 0) bocors 1... ly
No. = Rover’ assorted! 3 Boxes, 24 =. 1 50 En en seouring cr 3 Oo IN Nickel ‘are ed AY — wae te 1 . 8 a ee
le 2, S$ e 1 60 eee oc Mo Eee ouse a oles Special ees. vseeeses
N ecial ... Brl utter Sa) uring | Smoking Bl , wood, 4 <q UMIEO anaes cots sues q
No. Be Bicgele, finish? 00 Tinen begs.” 8-88 i 2 a5 | Sapolio, hall gross Sons... | sweet Cores... $ Mouse; Wood, ¢ holes ©. 0. Royal... ts
‘o. 632, Tournm’ 2 2 00 Cation —. 10-28 _ : = acoue single a. 50 | Flat — oe ee oes 34 ee wood. _—— teu OB Broken na ees ey oi
POTASH 25 ags, 10-28 Ibs 2 75 hand: 0.00 e 26 - Groat ~ ES nae aba 32 Weel Soe go | Cut Loaf. sctrswenatines 3
amt. $ narrel los. Boxes 5 ict Bamboo, eo — | " |Bnglish Rock "......-. :
ee nk ea 1a ae ots, 8 per cent.| itngitah 22222207 sy |t Xt Em oa. 220138 | igen! Standard. Wo. 1.7 00 | Bon ergarten ........+. 834
a s. ee 5 tone Geen in i or a. eae ees a ae a ae oa 2.6 00 French Cream Creuse 8%
ve Barreled Por Above peices are FO. Allspice a ee bal Block. Ceeeeess 40 iy Cable. a3 ot oie vege ueeteceee Hd
ok det WT se cee es Grades * nomen China in mats. 12 Chips. -. os No.1’ Finre” No. 3 6 60 | remio Cream mixed. ie
“ag 75 | 60 Bib. sacks .......-1 a Se — 2 ChIpS nae aeeceeceeeeees 40 | No. 2 nares ior Fancy—in Pal *
Short aes pereeeti"* ae at ae ee ole : 90 | Ga ee Saigon, —— ee oe sh 21 No. 2 Fibre .......0.: ; 801g Horehound - Is
Pigs veseees toes 12 75 | 56 coo. Loss Chicas “numer dicen. 40 | Myrtle Mixture .......-89 | B Wash ‘eecede” 8 45, Gogo Bon Bont iontieese
Brisket oe et 28 Ib. Sacks sechoren 30 Cloves, — are - Myrtle Navy sass oes 43 er Globe — in Fudge Squares eivetss oe
lear Family ew. i Hg GB) Se Sake SS Ags igi ooo 25 Yum « ag 0 eeee Doub eo ae u Squa eecceeede 12
: w ‘Siew. wa 21 G Yum, Zz. 39 | eee es 175 Sugare ares .....
a Ory ‘Salt Meats - ib. Jamey . : Nutmegs, 15-80 a — = ees “ie ~~ pails . -& a pean ee ga 2 = | Salted “Peanuts ae “<1
Bellies dees da ags utm 7 - Lom ‘ake, erssseeee 38 Lo on ar a 225 Sati Sees 12
Extra Coan . in drill bags 20 Pepper Singapor ores - —- — 2% - + BA Single Peerless steees 3 25 7 Blas aes setees 10
, wee ee ces olar R epper, Si e, bik. 15 | Fl , 1 2-3 0m... Northern Queen «...... 25 Lozenges, plain ....... 12
Smo - 8 56 ock Pp . w 5 ow Bo a .s Double Na al Loz , plain ....
: vee, Seat | semen | ERE a a aie Bi Ber gone | Un spates” 2B Ghampog, Gan =f
tinea: 14Ip. average 11% | Gr: Common -- 22] auspice Ground in Buik 17 Peerless, 3 os aa ee 3 00 | Eclipse i Chocolate. 11
Hams, 16Ib. average ae eS a Cassia. ees ceas esse 16 ea eee . +88 Pe nV indow Cie nase 25 — eee“ ae
a age SN ia, van le ag Si Ho ERS | on
Srinned oak a SAL -+++ 90) Cloves, Zant aoa ee = Country Club |.) 22132- 30 aa ee a 1e\Le Breve. um Drops. §
swoulders wee sets.12% : FISH eS canter ae ae ones 32- “44 in. ieee: spore ieens 1 85 | Lamon et iterate 5
> oc: Be coe a | eo
Caliromnia i son Large Whole ce Senet — - pol woe ae 7 < eo $l ee ae :
Boiled H Hams ... 12 Small Whole @ 7% | Mace maica ..... 1 "haga ~ ot aa 30:22 | 15 i eee 75 | ital. Cream Bon B “" "42
vicnic Boiled ote es or bricks .7 @ 1% Mace aseeeeseeeesteees = caer aaae 34 = in. Butter ae 116 we tg at ae
Berlin Hai Hams .. 12 ook et 146@10% Pepper, geen ta 85 | Cotto INE i9 i ae 2 00 seumaa “n.. Lo 2
— a ee a = a ae a 2 gee a oe cate. 5 vy . 19 in. Butter 200000. 5 cn win ws, 15Ib.
weccceacs 9 Stri alibut epper, Cay: . white . 28 Jute 3 ply. dca cae ee r aids 15 en ‘Wamies
Compound Lard rips .... Sage enne ... Tan ply . — ort ii. 2 25 ett iy nage OES 12
Pure steeeee mae oO 20 mp, 6 pi WRAPP a rn ney—in 5tb
RS saree Pe a ete 20 Flax ply . | Co ING P -3 25 mon $0 . Boxes
eres Ae eh ceca , Mm soos ; Comm AP urs ..
7 ae a om common Gi Wool Te bale Bere sprue rn ny | Ghegangs Dropa 2.160
0 Ib. = ce. - packa; ln 6 re Manila, e.. 2% |H ro aie
. Bb. pails. ee % eons eon ae =. ti res a Malt Beye ebay ae Manila colored . an | H. = os. Pai
: pails. ance. % te hoops, ----8 50 | 40 ackages ......... Mal e Win B ae 4 Dark N and
5 Ib ae cacence White h ps, %bbl. ...4 50 oy - i Gehae a 5% | P t White Wi e, 40 gr. 8 a wee 3 Brillia. a ae
3 Ib. pails. .advance. i” White oa keg.. 60@65 Barrels . oxes .3 eran Cider a 80 gr.11 Wax Butte fonda | | ame: [Ones ne Gumia. Crys.
° z . : "60@65|. + #Common Cc ’ Ww r, short % Licori » rys. :
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Paragon .....<...<2 65 6 00

BAKING POWDER

Jaxon Brand

JAXON

%tb. cans, 4 doz. case 45
1gtb. cans, 4 doz. case 85
1 Tb. cans, 2 doz. casel 60

Royal

10c size. 90
\¥%becans 135
6 ozcans 190
tbcans 250
%ldcans 375
1 heans 480
a. 3 Ihcans1300
6 Ibcans 2159

 

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

 

 

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Cases, 24 2 Ib pack’s..2 00
CIGARS

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G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. ane
Less than 6v0........ 33 0

500 or more........... 32 00 Cro
«000 or more......... 31 00

COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

70 % Ib pkg, per case..2 60
35 +2Ib pkg. per case..2 60
38 %%b pkg, per case..2 60
16 %ib pkg. per case. .2 60

FRESH MEATS
Beef
cage can ce 6%4@7%

Carcass
Forequarters .... 5
Hindquarters ....7%
Ries 2S. oe 8 @13
eee ee 9 @12
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Paeees oss “ @ 5
Pork
et a @ 6%
Siems © o2s @ 916
Boston Batts ~.... 816
Shoulders ....... 7%@ 8
Leaf Lard ...... @ 7%
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Carcass 6 @7

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CORN SYRUP
COFFEE
Roasted :

Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds.

 

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White House, 2 Ib.......
Excelsior, = & J, 1 tb..
Excelsior, M & J, tb..
‘lip To .M&J,1%....
Royal Java .............
Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....
Distrivuted by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer Co., De-
troit and 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

 

5
periees Evap’d Cream.4 00
SAFES

 

Full line of the celebrated
Diebold fire preof safes
kept in_ stoc oe the
Tradesman Co any.
Twenty differents sizes on
hand at all times—twice
as many of them as are
carried by any other house
in the State. If you are
unable to visit Grand Rap-
ids and inspect the line
personally, write for quo-
tations.
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 ........
Halford, small ........ i

 

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.
We will
be
very
pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us.
They are
free.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids

 

We Are the Largest
Mail Order House
in the World---

WHY?

Because we were the pioneers and originators
of the wholesale mail order system.

Because we have done away with the expen-
sive plan of employing traveling salesmen
and are therefore able to undersell any
other wholesale house in the country.

Because we issue the most complete and best
illustrated wholesale catalogue in the world

Because we have demonstrated beyond a shad-
ow of a doubt that merchants can order
more intelligently and satisfactorily from a
catalogue than they can from a salesman
who is constantly endeavoring to pad his
orders and work off his firm’s dead stock.

Because we ask but one price from all our cus-
tomers, no matter how large or how small
-they may be.

Because we supply our trade promptly on the
first of every month with a new and com-
plete price list of the largest line of mer-
chandise in the world.

Because all our goods are exactly as repre-
sented in our catalogue.

Because “‘Our Drummer”? is always “the drum-
mer on the spot.”” He is nevera bore, for
he is not talkative. His advice is sound
and conservative. His personality is in-
teresting and his promises are always kept.

Ask for catalogue J.

BUTLER BROTHERS

WHOLESALERS OF EVERYTHING — BY CATALOGUE ONLY
New York Chicago St. Louis

 

 

 

 

Summer Goods

 

We have the most complete
line of

Lap Dusters,
Stable Sheets,
Horse Covers, 4
Fly Nets, [
Cooling Blankets, Etc.

all bought before the advance
in cotton. Our prices are
right. Send us your orders.
Write for Price-List. pa

Wholesale Only,

Brown & Sehler Co.

West Bridge St., Grand Rapids

 

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BOOKS

 

 

 

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
same basis, irrespective of size,
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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

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BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

Choice Missouri and Kansas farms to
exchange for stocks of merchandise. Ad-
dress, A. W. Pollock, Clinton, Mo. 452

Rare Opportunity, sacrificing sale.
Well selected stock drugs, invoicing $2,409
for only $2,000 cash; two-story frame
building valued at $3,000 for .$2,000, or
$2,100 one-third cash, balance secured
by mortgage; both together or separate.
Will rent building if preferred at reason-
uble rate. Reason for selling, retiring
from business. Address Warner Von
Walthausen, 1345 Johnson st., Bay City,
Mich. 461

For Sale—Clean drug _ stock.
$1,800; in best town in Michigan, popu-
lation 4,000; cause for selling, other busi-
ness interests. Address No. care
Michigan Tradesman. 459

For Sale—At a bargain, an up-to-date
stock of groceries in a good town, with
good patronage; also, an A No. 1 two-
story nine-room residence. Address Lock
Box 250, Linneus, Mo. 450

For Sale—Stock of general merchan-
dise and country store; in one of the
best locations in Southern Michigan. Also

 

Invoices

good farm, 120 acres. Address Walter
Musselwhite, Kinderhook, Branch Co.,
Michigan. aT

store and stock; build-
ing 17x50, well located on main street;
new gas plant; 86 feet shelving; (5
modern show cases; 250 shelf bottles; 33
foot front; new building; only drug store
in town; population 900; daily sales for
1908, $20; 1904, $25; building $850, stock
at inventory price estimated $1,800; own-
er must sell on account of poor health;
a fine opportunity. you. have_ the
money write B. A. Howard, McBain,
ich. 456
The right party with from $500 to
$800 in money can secure a new stock
of drugs, sundries and fixtures in a first-
clas$ suburban location in city of about
20,000 inhabitants. For particulars eith-
er write or call upon the Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. i
For Sale—Paying drug business; pros-
perous town Southwestern Michigan,
average daily sales in 1903, $27.00; in-
voices about $3,000; stock easily reduced
and no old stock; rent, $20; location fine;
poor health reason for _ selling. Don’t
write unless you mean business. Address
John, care Michigan Tradesman. 463
For Sale—Good elevator and feed ‘mill
in Michigan, in_ first-class condition.
Paying business for the right man. Ad-
dress, No. 454, care Michigan oo

For Sale—Dru

 

 

For Sale—General stock of merchan-
dise; good business; ill health reason for
selling. Call on or address A. R. Bentley
& Co., Tustin, Mich. 443

First-class business chance for cloth-
ing, men’s furnishings and tailoring.
Box 90, St. Charles, Mich. 440

Wanted—To sell grocery and bakery in
Cadillac; doing good business. Address
Lock Box 368, Cadillac, Mich. 438

For Sale—An eight room house with
four lots in Torch Lake village, an ideal
place for a summery home. 437

I will pay cash for a drug or drug and
grocery stock in good small town of 300

‘to 600 population in good farming > ga

munity. Ox Sheridan, Mich.

For Sale—$2,200 to $2,500 grocery stock
and fixtures. Reason for selling, other
business. Write or call for ena 3
F. F. Gates, Port Huron, Mich. 428

For Rent—Store building 20x50 with
wareroom 13x26, good cellar, shelves and
counters, suitable for general store, on
corner of street in center of town on
railroad; town of 500 D carmen Ad-
dress D, care Michigan Tradesman. 427

 

 

business.

Leading Bakery, confectionery, ice
cream business in romising Western
town of 5,000. Established on good pay-
ing basis. Books open to parties meaning
Invoice $3,300. \. al sell for
$2,200. Must be cash proposition. Ml
health necessitates change of altitude.
Address Box 403, Florence, Colo. 421

 

Grocery stock in Lowell and building
for sale or trade for farm property. Cash
value $1,800. Address No. 420, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 420

For Sale—Set Dayton Moneyweight
scales, good as new; price $40 cash; $45
time. Eddy Bros., Eagle, .Mich. 418

 

 

For Sale—Stock of groceries, invoicing
about $2,000, in the best location in city
of 3,300; doing good paying cash busi-
ness of $75 per day; can reduce stock
to suit purchaser. Address No. 422, care
Michigan Tradesman. 422

 

- For Sale—One of the finest 100-barrel
flour mills and elevators in the State. A
good paying business. Address, H. V..
care Michigan Tradesman. 453

 

For Sale—Oak stumpage, from three
to six million feet. For particulars ad-
dress F. V. Idleman, Scherr, W. Va. 380

For Sale—An up-to-date grocery in
one of the best towns in Central Michi-
gan; $15,000 cash business annually; best
location; rent reasonable. Address No.
433, care Michigan Tradesman. 433

On account of sickness, will sell our
fine residence, new store building and
general stock of merchandise cheap.
Lock Box 280, Cedar Springs, Mich. 432

 

For Sale, Cheap—A ten syrup soda
fountain and fixtures. Enquire No. 199,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 199

 

Geo. M. Smith Safe Co., agents for one
of the strongest, heaviest and best fire-
proof safes made. All kinds of second-
hand safes in stock. Safes opened and
repaired. 376 South lonia street. Both
phones. Grand Rapids. 926

 

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
eorner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will  ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
er 301 Jefferson St., Grand all
ids.

 

Furniture and undertaking for sale in
a hustling town; rich farming country;
business well established and paying.
Address W. J. S., care Michigan 7
man. 2

 

A clean five thousand dollar stock of
dry goods; guaranteed best opening in
Michigan; population three thousand;
four railroads. Box 56, Durand, Mich. 411

 

ror sSale—$i7,000 stock general mer-
chandise with a well established trade;
sales from 40 to 50 thousand annually;
in an industrious community; excellent
climate; a great chance for a hustler to
make money; good reasons for selling.
Address Carr & Poss, Columbia Falls,
Mont. 405

 

For Sale—First-class furniture stock,
centrally located. Rent store three or
five years. Also elegant home; finest
corner in the city. A great bargain.
Going to California. H. N. James, 21
River St.. Aurora, Ill. 374

 

Want to buy drug store in Michigan
$2,000 to $3,000. To save time, give full
particulars. V. Roussin, Ludington, ——

 

For Sale—Country store; stock gen-
eral merchandise; good railroad town,
good German trade; well established
business. Address Kunny Bros., Fre-
donia, ‘Wis. 396

 

For Sale—One-half interest in a live
healthy real estate business in this city;
business in shape for quick returns. Ad-
dress J. B., 167 Kerr St., Memphis, =

 

For Sale—Small stock of general mer-
chandise in a live town. Will sell ata
bargain and rent building; _good two-
story brick. Address Box 387, Portland,
Mich. 407

 

Shoe Stock For Sale—In hustling, rap-
id-growing town in Southern Michigan.
Stock $1,600, fresh, first-class condition;
excellent farming country; poor health;
particulars address Shoe tock, care
Michigan Tradesman. 270

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan ——
man.

 

 

80 acres cut over land for exchange for
merchandise. 321% Lake street, Petos-
key, Mich. 363

 

For Rent—Large store building and
basement. Good town, fine location. Ad-
dress No. 971, care Michigan a
man.

 

For Kent—A two-story brick
store on a good business corner, in a@
good business town; city water and
electric lights. Address P. O. Box No.
298, Decatur, Mich. 115

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

120 acre farm two and a half miles
from railroad. Wish to trade for stock
-. hardware. Lock Box 491, ——:

en.

For Sale—Best hardware business ia
the Warren Mining District, Cochise
county, Arizona. Address Box 627, Sta-
tion C., Los Angeles, California. 340

POSITIONS WANTED.

Wanted—Position in meat market by
first-class meat cutter. Capable of tak-
ing entire charge of market if desired.
References furnished. Address No. 387,
care Michigan Tradesman. 387

Position Wanted by first-class clothing.
shoe and general store man; good sales-
man and stock keeper; can speak Eng-
lish and Scandinavian; a single man; ten
years’ experience; good references. Ad-
dress No. 373, care Michigan ——

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

Merchants, Attention—Our method of
closing out stocks of merchandise is one
of the most profitable either at auction
or at private sale. Our long experience
and new methods are the only means,
no matter how old your stock is. We
eo no one but the best austioneers
and salespeople. Write for terms and
date. ‘The Globe ‘Traders & Licensed
Auctioneers, Office 481 E. Nelson  St..
Cadillac, Mich. 445

H. C. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
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., hicago. (Reference, Dun’s
Mercantile Agency.) 872

HELP WANTED.

Grocer Wanted—Man of experience in
keeping up stock in retail store. Address
P. G. R., care Michigan Tradesman. 423

Meat Cutter Wanted—Steady indus-
trious man. Address K. G., care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 424

Wanted—Clothing salesman to _ take
orders by sample for the finest merchant
tailoring produced; good a to
grow into a splendid business and_ be
your own “boss.’’ Write for full infor-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mation. E. L. Moon, Gen’l Manager,
Station A, Columbus, Ohio. 458
Wanted—Energetic young married

man who can push a general merchan-
dise millinery and fancy goods _ business
in a od town in Central Michigan.
Splendid opening for right man. ond
required. dress A. B. C., care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 250
Wanted—Clerks of all kinds apply at
once. Enclose self-addressed envelope
and $1, covering necessary expense. The
Globe Employment & Agency Co., Cad-
illac, Mich. 216

MISCELLANEOUS.

A good position is always open to a
competent man. The difficulty is to find
it. e have openings and receive daily
calls for secretaries and treasurers of
business houses, superintendents, mana-
gers, engineers, expert book-keepers,
are salesmen, executive, clerical
and technical positions of all kinds, ay-
ing from $1,000 to $10,000 a year. rite
for plan and booklet. Hapgoods (Inc.),
Suite 511, 309 Broadway, New York. 37

For Sale—Nearly new Twentieth Cen-
tury. soda fountain complete; cost over
a thousand: take $400, part cash. Bur-
rell Tripp, Allegan, Mich. 455

 

 

 

 

For Sale—The only men’s and boys’
clothing and furnishing goods store in
Oregon, Mo., the county seat of Holt
county, lying in richest part of North-
west Missouri. Stock invoices between
$8,000 and. $9,000, all new goods. Will
sell residence if desired. Address W. B.
Hinde, Oregon, Mo 355

 

For Sale—One of the best stocks of
general merchandise in Central Michi-
gan. Reason for selling, other business.
invoices $10,000. Address C. O. D., care
Michigan Tradesman. 357

 

 

Cash for Your Stock—Or we will close
out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce your stock.
Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,

577 West Forest Ave., Detroit, Mich. 2

 

For 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. inventor; about
$10,000. Good reason for_ selling. No
trades desired. Address No. 67, care
Michigan Tradesman. 67

Wanted—Shelving for drug store; must
in good condition; easy terms. Size
of store 20x50. Address Shelving, care
Michigan Tradesman. 460
Merchants, are you not
Yes! Then employ us to conduct a
special 10-day sale for you. Our new
and only system never fails to realize the
quick cash with a profit on_ your old
merchandise. All correspondence con-
fidential. References given. C. N. Harper
& Co., Quick Sale Promoters, Room _ 606,
87 Washington St., Chicago, Ill. 446

Pool Room and lunch counter for sale

overstocked?

 

cheap. The only one in town_of 3,000.
Will invoice. A snap bargain. C. Freese,
Boyne, Mich. 51

 

Wanted—Reliable agents in a7 sec-
tion of Michigan for the Willard Roll
Paper Cutter and Printer. Address _F.
H. Williams, Adrian, Mich. 457

Wanted—Partner in retail lumber busi-
ness. Must have $2,000. Experience not
necessary. Established business; mone
maker. Write now. Address Box 9
Sawyer, N. D. 448

 

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A three station Davis Cash Carrier for
sale. C. E. Doyle, Marlette, Mich. 449
To Exchange—80 acre farm 3% miles
southeast of Lowell, 60 acres improved,
5 acres timber and 10 acres orchard
land, fair house, good well, convenient
to good school, for stock of general mer-
chandise situated in a good town. Real
estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
dence solicited. Konkle & Son, Alto,
Mich. 446
Spring Opening Souvenirs—Unique,
popular, inexpensive yet productive of
big results. Send for particulars. W. E.
Cummings & Co., 458-460 State St., Chi-
eago, Ill. 204
Partners Wanted—To invest money or
take active interest as outside agent or
manager to start independent cracker
jakery in Grand Rapids. A §Splendid in-
vestment for the right parties. I am a
cracker baker, been foreman and well
acquainted with the goods here required
and have $1,750 in machinery and_ stock.
Address No. 431, care Michigan Trades-
man. 431
For Exchange—Twenty-seven  thous-
and, five hundred dollars equity in_row
of brick houses facing Lincoln Park,
Chicago, for farm, country store and
farm or Grand Rapids property. Box
252, Hart, Mich. 425

 

 

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

Merchants—Do you want to sell all or
reduce your stock by closing out any
“odds and ends’’ on hand? If so, ask
about our “Special Sales plan” of adver-
tising. You make the prices. We sell
the goods. Ask for particulars. F. M.
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100,000 union made Londus cigars for
sale at a bargain. Geo. Coldbeek,
St. Johnsbury, Vt. 354

Merchants Wanting Experienced Clerks
—Of all kinds apply to the Globe Em-
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strict secrecy; child adopted; a few who
are poor can work out fees. Write to
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~ Young Man—High school graduate pre-
ferred, to prepare for lucrative Govern-
ment position. Begin with $800 salary.

Gradual increase as deserved, Perma-
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INSURANCE LOSSES.

That this has been a bad year for
the insurance companies of the coun-
try is a fact pretty well known, hence
it did not require the recent disastrous
fire in Foronto to emphasize that
fact by calling attention to it. The
Toronto fire is understood not to
have. hit the American companies to
any extent, but the fact that it was
a conflagation of the first class served
to draw renewed attention to the im-
mense fire waste of the present year.
Canadian fire losses are usually
grouped with those of the United
States, as conditions in the two coun-
tries are to a great extent similar.

The Baltimore and Rochester fires
following closely each other, caused
the main losses the insurance com-
panies have suffered, and although
the Toronto losses will be borne
mainly by the British companies, the
blows these same ‘foreign companies
suffered in Baltimore Will serve to

make the Toronto losses all the
harder to bear.
There has naturally been some

shrinkage in the price of the shares
of the large insurance companies of
the country, but with the exception
of a very few cases, there.is no fear
that they will be irreparably injured,
and it is doubtful if more than a few
will even find it necessary to pass
the usual dividends. It is a signifi-
cant fact that there have been no
securities unloaded on the market for
the insurance companies, although
their surplus funds must have been
considerably drawn upon to meet
the payment of the losses resulting
from the great conflagrations of the
year. It is assumed, in explanation,
that the companies must have prefer-
red to invest most of their surplus
funds in the loan market rather than
in securities.

Although it is gratifying that so
few of the insurance companies of the
country have succumbed to.the heavy
drain upon their resources, resulting
from the Baltimore and Rochester
fires, it nevertheless remains impera-
tive that greater care should be exer-
cised for the future in avoiding the
heavy fire waste which has character-
ized recent years. The insurance
companies cannot stand constantly-
_repeated drains, such as the Baltimore
fire put upon them, and in order to
recover from the losses already sus-
tained, and keep up a proper sur-
plus essential to safety, premiums
have had to be raised. A great fire
waste is a luxury which the whole
mass of the people must pay for in
the shape of enhanced premiums.

——~+2>—__

Congress makes the local laws for
the District of Columbia, and it is said
that among those on their way to
the statute books is one prohibiting
the docking of horses’ tails. The
President is in favor of it and will
allow none of his horses to be sub-
jected to this barbarity. It is some-
thing even worse than barbarous, be-
cause barbarians, however brutal
they may be, have never been accus-
ed of docking their horses. Colorado
has an anti-docking law whose con-
stitutionality has been tested, and it
has been endorsed by the Supreme
Court, which in a recent decision
says: “We regard this law as just.

 

wise and humane and withal a law-

ful exercise of the power confided to

the Legislature, becattse it conserves
the public morals and because it pun-
ishes the cruel and senseless treat-
ment by man of his best and most
constant friend.” Therein the judi-
cial tribunal summed up the whole
question and stated the incontroverti-
ble fact. Would that there. might
be sucha law in every state-in the
union. Many a good horse has been
cruelly treated and made miserable.
——— 722s

Editor Bok insists that young men
don’t go to church because the ser-
mons have no vital quality. He said
this nine years ago, and investigations
made since confirm him in the belief
that the statement is correct. The
ministers first said that bicycle riding
kept young men from church, then
they said it was the Sunday news-
papers, and lately they have said it
was golf. Bicycle riding for pleasure
has entirely ceased. The number who
have access to golf links is limited.
Reading the Sunday papers does not
occupy much time. So Bob declares
that the preachers are to blame. He
shows that whereas nine years ago
only 30 per cent. of the young men
attended church, only 22 per cent.
now attend.

72>

A Milwaukee paper has interviewed
several noted golfers as to whether
there has been a decline of interest
in the game. The replies show that
while there may be a loss of inter-
est in the game among its former
women devotees, the men are as en-
thusiastic about it as ever. The loss
of interest among the women is ex-
plained by the assertion that they
never took a whole-hearted interest
in the sport, anyway, and were not
what enthusiasts would term “real
sports.”

—_»-2.-.___

Mme. Marie Paille, the autocrat of
Parisian hairdressers, has _ decided
that the hideous chignon is to come
in again. All of feminine France
doubtless will bow in submission to
this decree, Englishwomen will fall
into line, and it is not to be thought
that Uncle Sam’s daughters will lag
behind. The chignon has been de-
scribed as “about on a par, as a bar-
baric ornamentation, with the nose
ring and the jingling bracelet. It is
unsanitary.”

+.

Two senators had lunch together in
the restaurant at the end of the cap-
itol. The bill was exactly $1. The
senior of the two, in point of service,
drew forth a bank note to pay the
score. “I have been here 18 years,”
said he, philosophically, “and that note
is about all I have to show for it.”
“But,” replied the other, known as a
facetious senator, “what has the coun-
try to show for it?” The colloquy
did not continue along that line.

— +22

It is said that every bachelor in
Korea, no matter his age, is regarded
as a child, dressed as a child, and
treated as a child. Even if he be
ceventy, he may not knot his hair
in manly fashion, or assume the garb
of a man. It is suggested that some
such scheme would be far more ef-
fective than the proposals for taxing
bachelors frequently made in_ this
country.

 

No Mimicry in Gardening.

Our. counsel is to avoid all mimicry
in gardening as we would avoid it in
speech or in gait. Sometimes we do
not mind being repetitious. “In gar-
dening,” we say—as if we had never
said it before—“almost the only thing
which costs unduly—-in money or in
mortification—is for one to try to
give -himself somebody else’s gar-
den!” Often we say this twice to the
same person.

One of the reasons we give against
it is that it leads to toy gardening,
and toy gardening is of all sorts the
most pitiful and ridiculous. “No true
art,” we say, “can tolerate any make-
believe which is not in some way
finer than the reality it simulates. In
other words, imitation should always
be in the nature of an amiable con-
descension. Whatever falseness, pre-
tension, or even mere frailty or
smallness, suggests to the eye, the
ineffectuality of a toy is out of place
in any sort of gardening.” We do
not actually speak all this, but we
imply it, and we often find that the
mere utterance of the words, “toy
gardening,’ has a magical effect to
suggest all the rest, and to overhelm
with contrition the bad taste and
frivolity of many a misguided attempt
at adornment. At that word of ex-
orcism joints of cerulean sewer pipe
crested with scarlet geraniums, rows
of white cobbles along the walk or
drive like a cannibal’s skulls around
his hut, purple paint kegs of petunias
on the scanty doorsteps, crimson
wash kettles of verbenas, anthill roc-
keries, and well sweeps and curbs
where no wells are, go modestly and
forever into oblivion—G. W. Cable
in Scribner’s.

————+- 2. ___
Many Causes For Dying.

It has been said that few men die
of old age and that almost all persons
die of disappointment, personal, men-
tal or bodily toil, or accident. The
passions kill men sometimes even
suddenly. The common expression,
“choked with rage,’ has. little ex-
aggeration in it, for even although not
suddenly fatal, strong passions short-
en life. Strong-bodied men often die
young, weak men live longer than
the strong, for the strong use their
strength and the weak have none to
use—the latter take care of them-
selves, the former do not. As it is
with the body so it is with the mind
and the temper; the strong are apt
to break, or, like the candle, run;
the weak burn out. The inferior ani-
mals, which live temperate lives, have
generally their prescribed term of
years. Thus the horse lives 25 years,
the ox 15 to 20, the lion about 20,
the hog Io or 12, the rabbit 8, the
guinea pig 6 or 7. The numbers all
bear proportion to the time the ani-
mal takes to grow its full size. But
man, of all animals, is one that sel-
dom comes up to the average. He
ought to live 100 years, according to
the physiological law, for five times
twenty are 100, but instead of that
he scarcely reaches an average of four
times the growing period. The rea-
son is obvious—man is not only the
most irregular and intemperate but
most laborious and hard-working of
all animals. He is always the most
irritable, and there is reason to be-
lieve, although we cannot tell what

 

an animal secretly feels, that more
than any other animal man cherishes
wrath to keep it warm and consumes
himself with the fire of his own re-
flections.

—_--->—__
A- Domesticated Eagle.
Havana, Mason county, Il., has
one of the greatest curiosities in
America, if not the greatest in all
the world. Mr. Damarin, -County

Treasurer, has a pet golden eagle,
one that stays in the courthouse
park without being caged. He is at
liberty to go when and where he
pleases. Mr. Damarin feeds his pet
twice a day. He can go up to him
and stroke him, just as he would a
cat or dog. When the street carni-

val was in Havana last week the
eagle was the. greatest attraction
there.

This is the history of the bird: A
son of J. Wiley Smith, who lives
about eight miles southwest of Ma-
son City, near the Sangamon bottom,
shot and crippled him last fall and
took him home and kept him until
spring, when his son Berry brought
him to Havana and put him in a
squirrel cage. But, as that was too
small and he could not learn to fly,
as one of his wings had been shot,
Smith had the business men and
county officers donate enough to
build a cage about twelve feet square,
and the bird was kept in that about
six weeks. Mr. Damarin fed and
tamed him. He had a stump of a
tree put in the large cage, and the
eagle stays on that tree all the time
when not flying or walking in’ the
park. As the cage was still not large
enough to let him fly, they took the
cage away to give him his liberty,
but the bird will not leave. He eats
fresh beef, kidneys or liver or live
rabbits.

——_»---._____

Alum is one of the latest mineral
substances of value to be added to
the list credited to Colorado. <A
blanket deposit, four feet thick and
of great width, has been discovered
a few miles east of Florence, and it
is pronounced to be of high commer-
cial quality. This is the first discovery
of alum in Colorado.

—_>2>—___- :

Grand Haven—Silas Kilbour &
Co., manufacturers of tubs and _ hol-
lowware, have merged their business
into a corporation under the style of
Kilbourn & Kilbourn. The author-
ized capital stock is $75,000, owned
by S. Kilbourn, 375 shares; Sidney
Kilbourn, 370 shares, and Hattie Kil-
bourn, 5 shares.

Bussnsanls

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Bakery and grocery. Doing a splendid
business; all cash trade. he greatest
opportunity of your life. Must sell. ill
health. Address Hecht, 1105 West Wal-
nut street, Louisville, y. 464

POSITIONS WANTED.

Position Wanted—As ad writer and
book-keeper for a large general store.
Three years’ experience. ddress No.
465, care Michigan Tradesman. 5

Wantd—Position as salesman in retail
hardware store. Have had ten years’
— Address Box 367, ———

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HELP WANTED.

Wanted—A1 clothing salesman
stock-keeper. Also one who is
with the brush. Apply at once.

 

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Address
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Box 1789, Traverse City, Mich.

 

 

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