Twenty-First Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1904

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.

Page.

2. Closed Shop Illegal.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
8. Editorial.

10. Forty Years Ago. :
12. Butter and Eggs.

14. Meat Market.

16. Clothing.

18. Plaint of the Poet.

19. The Merchant’s Friend.
20. Shoes.

22. World’s Supply of Perfumes.
24. Hardware.

26. Jimmy Moriarity.

28. Woman’s World.

30. If Japan Should Win.
32. Women in Business.
34. New York Market.
36., The Closed Shop.

38. Dry Goods.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs and Chemicals.
43. Drug Quotations.

44. Grocery Price Current.
46. Special Price Current.

 

EPOCH-MAKING DECISION.

Fair minded men generally will hail
with delight the sweeping decision of
the Court of Appeals of Cook county,
Ill., in which it is held that any em-
ployer of labor who signs an exclu-
sive contract with a union, by which
he agrees to employ union men ex-
clusively, is guilty of criminal con-
spiracy and can be punished by crim-
inal action and is liable for damages
in civil action also. This is one of
the most wholesome decisions ever
handed down by a court, and as the
decision of the trial judge is acqui-
esced in by the other two judges on
the bench it is not thought that the
Illinois Supreme Court will fail to
sustain the decision in the event of
an appeal.

This decision points out
wherein the operations of
unions enter the domain of the crim-
inal. It will be an unassailable bar-
rier and protection for employers,
as the terrorism of labor unions is
directly rebuked by_ Judge Adams.
It is not likely that the contract
agreements for the closed shop can
survive this decision. The court
holds that the closed shop is a crime.
So the employer will have unanswera-
ble reasons in future for refusing to
become particeps criminis with labor
union leaders in any agreement,:oral,
written or implied, for the mainten-
ance of the closed shop anywhere.
It is no exaggeration to say that the
opinion means the legal death of the
closed shop and the triumph of the
non-union man’s right to an open
shop, where he may have an equal
chance with the union worker to ob-
tain and retain employment.

All other economic and legal ques-
tions aside, it now becomes a com-
plete answer to the demand of the
closed shop that the law stamps such
an arrangement as a criminal con-
spiracy. It is elementary that the
crime of conspiracy consists of a
combination of two or more persons

clearly
labor

 

to effect an illegal purpose, either by
legal or illegal means or to effect a
legal purpose by illegal means. The
dispute has always been as to wheth-
er a contract not to employ
union labor is an agreement to effect
an illegal purpose. It has been as-
serted over and over again by those
advocating the closed shop that an
agreement to employ only union la-
bor is perfectly legal and binding.

The courts have frequently hereto-
fore held illegal an agreement among
members of an association to with-
draw their patronage from anyone
who sold to one who was not a
member of the association or an
agreement which permitted members
of an association to make purchases
only from such as sell exclusively to
members of the association. - The
Tradesman has never been able to
appreciate the distinctions which some
courts have endeavored to make be-
tween cases of the kind indicated and
cases where the right to employ non-
union labor was involved. There is
no doubt that persons may combine
for legitimate purposes and that an
individual may refuse to deal with
any particular person or class of per-
sons and base such refusal upon mere
whim or caprice, but it has always
been the opinion of the Tradesman
that a number of persons can not
combine with the object of compell-
ing the adoption of a contract which
prohibits the employer from employ-
ing non-union labor.

If such a contract is entered into
it is illegal and under the decision
of the Appellate Court constitutes a
criminal conspiracy, to which not
only the union but the employer be-
comes a party and for which not only
the employe but the employer is sub-
ject to fine or imprisonment in the
penitentiary, or both, under our crim-
inal statutes. There are a vast num-
ber of manufacturing concerns in
this State that have written contracts
with labor unions which prohibit the
employment of non-union labor. Un-
der this decision of the Appellate
Court many hundreds, if not thous-
ands, of employers, as well as many
thousands of employes, have thus de-
liberately become parties to a crimin-
a! conspiracy of which the contracts
furnish the written and unanswerable
proof. Where such arrangements ex-
ist the crime can not be wiped out by
the cancellation of the contracts, but
a continued recognition of the bind-
ing force of such contracts, in the
light of the recent decision of the
Appellate Court, may create trouble
of a kind little dreamed of by those
who have permitted themselves to
be forced or lulled into them.

The fact that laborers have the
right to refuse to work for a man
who does not employ union labor, or
in order to better their condition or

non-

 

advance their wages, does not au-
thorize the making of a contract un-
der which the employer is compell-
ed to employ only union labor and
to discharge non-union labor. The
rights of the employer and employe
are and should be synonymous, but
employes can not, by combination or
union, without committing the crime
of conspiracy, force employers to
agree to employ only union _ labor.
When employers do become parties
to such an agreement they are equal-
ly guilty of conspiracy.

The opinion of the Appellate Court
should be studied at once by every
employer of labor in this State and
when the employer awakes to the
situation that he is a party to a crim-
inal conspiracy the floodgates will
open and non-union labor will  re-
ceive the protection that all of the
injunctions and of the
courts have heretofore been unable
to give them.

processes

 

The prune dealers are receiving
very discouraging reports from the
prune crop of the Pacific coast. Some
place the estimate for the present
crop at little over 50 per cent. of
that of the preceding year, or 75,000,-
e00, against 145,000,000 pounds for
the preceding season. Unfavorable
weather conditions and a_ severe
storm through the California district
are assigned as the chief causes of the
predicted shortage.

 

Four Chicago shoe manufacturers
voluntarily surrendered the union
stamp last week—the J. E. Tilt Shoe
Co., the J. P. Smith Shoe Co., Cohl-
Davies Shoe Co. and the Silt, Kenny
Shoe Co. All of these manufactur-
ers found the union stamp a draw-
back instead of an advantage and the
domination of the union so irksome
that life had no charms and business
no attractions.

Members of the hardware trade are
complaining of a practice which is
said to be prevalent of substituting
wire for iron nails. It is claimed
that where the supply of the latter
is light the former are being for-
warded in their stead, and with the
wrong label on the top of the keg.

We are to be rewarded, not only
for work done, but for burdens
borne, and I am not sure but that
the brightest rewards will be for
those who have borne burdens with-
out murmuring.

 

Providence has nothing good or
high in store for one who does not
resolutely aim at something high and
good. A purpose is the eternal con-
dition of success. Nothing will take
its place.

 

 

Language conceals more than _ it

expresses.

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

CLOSED SHOP ILLEGAL.

Contracts To Hire Union Men Only
Are Criminal.

Union labor’s restrictions excluding
the nonunion workman from “union-
ized” factories, stores and workshops
have been branded as outlaw regula-
tions in an epoch-making opinion
. handed down last week in the Appel-
late Court of Cook county, Ill. In
the opinion, which was written by
Judge Adams, with Judges Windes
and Ball concurring, the “open shop”
for which employers -have been con-
tending is vindicated and upheld, while
its antithesis and rival, the “closed
shop,” enforced by the unions, is per-
manently put outside the breastworks
of legality, as contravening and
abridging the contract rights guar-
anteed by common law and the laws
and constitution of the State of IlIli-
nois.

In the important matter of contract
rights the decision is the most sweep-
ing imaginable. It holds that “closed
shop” agreements exacted from em-
ployers by labor unions constitute
an illegal infringement of contract
rights and that the provision in such
agreements binding an employer to
hire none but members of a labor
union is an illegal -abridgement of
liberty, discriminating in favor of one
class of working people and exclud-
ing all others.

A startling phase of the decision is
that it puts into the hands of the
nonunion man, should he care to
avail himself of the privilege, one of
the most powerful weapons in the
law’s great armory. This formidable
weapon is found in the taint of “crim-
inality” which the decision attributes
to the conduct of the parties con-
tracting to maintain or establish the
“closed shop.”

The employer who signs the closed
shop contract, as well as the labor
union which procures his signature
by threats of strikes or in other ways,
is in this opinion held to be amenable
to the criminal laws for conspiring to
injure the property rights of a
workman in his labor.

“Tf in the future any employer signs
a closed-shop agreement with union
or nonunion workers,” said one of the
leading lawyers in the case, “such
employer will do so with the full
knowledge that he is laying himself
liable to the criminal as well as the
civil code and that any nonunion or
union workman excluded under the
signed agreement has a double-edged
weapon of the law with which to en-
force his right to be free from the
handicap of a conspiracy of discrimi-
nation when he seeks employment in
any workshop, store, factory or other
place of business.”

It will even be a crime to submit
a closed-shop agreement in the fu-
ture to an employer for his signature.
For it is itself a crime to ask anybody
to commit a crime.

From this point of view the decis-
ion may be regarded as putting a
ban of criminality as well as illegality
upon all the closed-shop agreements
actually obtained or vainly demanded
by members of labor unions from
their employers. Should the employ-
er be able to shoW that he signed

 

 

the closed-shop contract under the
compulsion of a threatened strike he
may be able to escape liability. But
in every case where he enters into
the exclusive agreement voluntarily
the employer is likely to be adjudged
equally as guilty under the law as
the labor union members or officials
at whose solicitation he executes the
illegal contract.

Contracts or agreements for the
maintenance of the closed shop are
therefore merely so much worthless
paper. From the point of view of
law and_ constitutional guarantees
they are even worse than worthless.
It might be that the very act of cir-
culating them would be construed to
be a crime, and it certainly could not
be a very safe or comfortable thing
for a walking delegate or other labor
leader to be caught with a supply of
them in his pockets. Mere posses-
sion of them might not be deemed
a crime, but should any of the docu-
ments have a bona fide signature a
good deal of trouble might follow at
the hands of anybody who — should
care to put the machinery of the
courts in motion.

Another remarkable feature of the
ruling is that under its terms all the
closed-shop contracts wrung from
employers under duress or threats
of strikes or other troubles are
obviously rendered null and void. Em-
ployers cannot be held by them to
the maintenance of the closed shops
promised. The agreements have no
binding force in law, the employer
incurs no legal obligation under them,
the performance of none of the re-
strictive regulations will be enforced
by a court and the members of the
labor unions secure no legal rights or
advantage from the employer’s sig-
nature.

What is more, it even seems that
union workers who have wrung a
closed-shop agreement from an em-
ployed are really worse off for having
obtained it. For in the event that
they strike to enforce its terms they
incur an additional responsibility un-
der the criminal laws—an additional
responsibility that would not exist
if the illegal contract had not been
obtained.
would not exist if the illegal con-
tract had not been obtained.

It is likely, therefore, that this mo-
mentous decision will be of more
for-reaching effect than is yet dream-
ed of either by the union workers or
the employers. How it can fail to
influence the employers is not an
easy thing to reason out. Almost
without a doubt it will “stiffen their
backbones” in the fight they have
been making for “the open shop.”
But what is even more significant is
that the decision—should it be up-
held, as seems certain, in the supreme
tribunals of the State or nation—is
practically certain to result in the
complete abrogation of the “closed-
shop” contracts between employers
and employes, as neither of the tra-
ditional parties to such contracts will
care to place themselves in the power
of the criminal prosecutors.

In the true and liberal sense the
death knell of the closed shop has,
therefore, been sounded in IIlinois:

 

Indictments and criminal trials and
convictions of the parties to such
agreements, whether employers or
employes, might be sought and ob-
tained at any time in the local courts,
and it is hardly probable that any
reckless risks of that sort will be
invited.

On the broad and high ground of
the public good the closed shop is
condemned by the Appellate Court.
The system is declared to be in re-
straint of trade. In this sense the
ruling may have an important bear-
ing on that most momentous issue
of the times—the problem of curb-
ing and regulating the great indus-
trial trusts or monopolies. Judge
Adams places “the union labor trust”
on the same plane with the industrial
trusts as an agency whose inevitable
tendency is to restrain trade. His
opinion on this interesting point is
emphatic and leaves not a single loop-
hole of escape for the labor union
system placed under the ban.

It is one of the first great judicial
opinions, if not the very first, in
which union labor is pronounced a
“trust in restraint of trade.” With
inexorable logic the jurist shows how
the closed-shop agreement demanded
by union labor is in its essence a
trust and tends to create an illegal
monopoly in favor of one class. of
workmen—the members of labor
unions.

Inasmuch as no citizen may lawful-
ly bind himself by contract never
to do work of any kind during his life-
time, neither can he contract or con-
spire to keep others idle for all time
unless they do a certain thing to
please him—join a labor union. He
may individually deny work to non-
union working people, but he can not
legally contract to deny work to any
particular worker or class of work-
ers. Should he do anything of the
sort he would be guilty of an un-
lawful conspiracy—a conspiracy in
restraint of trade and subversive of
sound public policy—and he is liable
to be punished as one of a despotic
band of conspirators and ostracisers.

Eminent lawyers have held for
some time that the closed shop con-
tract of the labor unions was a vio-
lation of the common law and _ the
civil code as well as the criminal
statutes. It was so held in a sensa-
tional opinion delivered some months
ago by the law firm of Moran, May-
er & Meyer to the Illinois Manufac-
turers’ Association. It was so main-
tained in the brief of Tenney, Cof-
feen & Harding, Allen & Wesemann
and James H. Wilkerson submitted
to the Appellate Court in the fam-
ous Kellogg strike case—that case
that has just been decided against the
closed shop in the opinion of Judge
Adams.

All the law on the subject has been
presented in the great argument com-
piled by Attorneys Tenney and Wil-
kerson. The appeal was from. the
injunction granted by Judge Hold-
om against the strikers at the plant
of the Kellogg Switchboard Com-
pany.

For the strikers Attorney Clarence
S. Darrow submitted a brief which
the court has quoted “as illustrative

 

of their view of the case,” as fol-
lows:

“How do picketing, patrolling or
even slugging affect property rights
except in the most fantastic sense?
Injury to business has no indepen-
dent existence whatever, because
business has no tangible existence to
be injured in the true and unpervert-
ed sense.”

But the court very promptly re-
jects and scouts Mr. Darrow’s fan-
tastic interpretation of the law, cit-
ing against counsel as “elementary
principles” that “a man’s business is
his property” and “that the freedom
of business, action lies at the foun-
dation of all commercial and business
enterprises.”

The gist of Judge Adams’ opin-
ion is contained in the following
synopsis copied from the records
of the Appellate Court:

“In the present case we think the
petitions amply sufficient; that it is
not necessary that one shall be a
party to the bill or officially served
with the writ in order for him to be
bound by the injunction, but only
that he shall have actual notice of
it. It is contended that the con-
tempts are criminal and appelants
should have been discharged on their
answers. The relief sought is a per-
manent injunction and _ preliminary
thereto a temporary one of the same
character as the permanent’ one
prayed. Manifestly the preliminary
injunction is for the benefit of the
complainant and therefore its en-
forcement is for its benefit.

“The injunction and its enforce-
ment being for the complainant’s
benefit, the proceedings must be re-
garded as civil. Appellant’s counsel
object to the overruling by the
court of motions for bills of particu-
lars and to a hearing on affidavits
instead of calling witnesses and ex-
amining them in open court. It was
clearly a matter within the discre-
tion of the court as to whether or
not a bill of particulars should be
ordered. And we are of the opin-
ion that bills of particulars were un-
necessary to enable appellants to pre-
pare their defense, as the affidavits
setting forth the facts are made a
part of the informations. Defend-
ants admitted that they were picket-
ing complainant’s place of business
and interfering with its employe;
and with persons seeking employment
with it, notifying them of the strike
and persuading the former to leave
its employ and the latter not to en-
ter it.

“Appellants deny that they used
force, threats or intimidation of any
sort and say they were peaceable and
mildly persuasive. But the very
presence of a large number of pick-
ets, with the avowed purpose of pre-
venting plaintiff's employes from re-
maining in its employ and of pre-
venting those seeking employment
from entering it was in itself intim-
idation. When a thousand laborers

gather around a railroad track and
say to those who seek employment
they had better not, and that advice
is supplemented every little while by
a terrible assault upon one who dis-
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Movements of Merchants.

Pontiac—John Kallenbach has sold |

his grocery stock to Lane & Co.

Lyons—Jacob Lund succeeds A.
Buchanan in the confectionery busi-
ness.

ed the grocery stock of Van Norman
& Co.

Elsie—R. T. Cameron has sold his
drug stock to Travis & Baker, of St.
Johns.

Lansing—Elias L. Boughner has
opened a grocery store at 510 Main
Street, West.

Bannister—Jacob Weidner has sold
his hardware stock to E. H. Weston,
of Bay View.

Clare—Melvin P. Anders, dealer in
furniture and crockery, has sold his
stock to Geo. W. Easler.

Bannister—E. H. Weston succeeds
Jacob Weidner in the hardware, im-
plement and coal business.

Ann Arbor—Wm. Randall has em-
barked in the grocery business in the
Shadford building on the North Side.

St. Johns—F. M. Vredenburg has
engaged in the agricultural implement
business, having purchased the stock
of Clavey & Hafelein.

Freeland—Wnm. J. Preston has pur-
chased the interest of his partner in
the general merchandise business of
Preston & Rothgang.

Byron Center—W. P. Manning has
exchanged his general merchandise
stock for the boot and shoe stock of
B. Sterken, at Holland.

Thompsonville—J. E. Farnham will
shortly r@ire from general trade on
account of failing health. He will lo-
cate in Southern California.

Traverse City—Will Hopkins has
opened a grocery store at 806 East
Front street. The Hannah & Lay
Mercantile Co. furnished the stock.

Detroit—The Dean Painting &
Decorating Co. continues the wall
paper and paint business formerly

conducted under the style of Dean,
Demersal & Co.

dJonia—Wm. G. Longe & Son is
the style of the meat market at the
old East End stand, W. Fred Longe
having associated himself with his
father in the business.

Lansing—John Donahue is erect-
ing a grocery and meat market at
the corner of Saginaw and Sycamore
streets. It will probably be ready for
occupancy about August I.

Hastings—Chas. Daley,
connected with Wright Bros., has
purchased the general merchandise
stock of W. D. Reynolds, at Carle-
ton Center, and has already taken
possession of same.

Negauhee—D. Benyas has bought
the interest of his partner, Isadore
Poltrowitz, in the jewelry business
conducted under the name of D. Ben-
yas & Co. Mr. Paltrowitz has taken
a permanent position in a store at
Hazelton, Pa., where he took his wife
early in the winter for the benefit of

her health.

formerly

 

Lansing—J. G. Reutter has pur-
chased the meat market at 322 Wash-

| ington avenue, south, which he sold
| some time ago to August C. Roller.

Mr. Roller retires from business on
account of ill health and will sail for
Germany the latter part of — this
month.

Pittsford—The Pittsford Mercantile

| Co. has been organized to engage in

men’s furnishing goods, boots and
shoes and hardware. The corporation

3 | 15 capitalized at $25,000, held as fol-
Detroit—Wm. Young has purchas- |

lows: B. A. Bonditch,
C. W. Byers, 200 shares,
Benty, 20 shares.

Flint—W. A. Samuels has sold the
stock of the Flint Cloak, Suit and
Fur store to A. A. Thomas, of Sagi-
naw, and will re-engage in the lum-
ber business. The new proprietor
has for many years been connected
with the Friedman Cloak & Suit
House, at Saginaw.

1,300 shares;
and E. T.

Harrietta—William Barry, who was
seriously burned last Tuesday even-
ing by the explosion of acetylene gas
in the store of Barry Brothers & Cur-
tis, is not in a dangerous condition,
although his injuries are painful and
may leave scars. Several hundred
dollars’ damage was done to the build-
ing and its contents.

Ypsilanti—T. M. Henderson, who
bought the dry goods stock of Bert
Comstock at the time of the late
bankruptcy, will remove the unsold
goods to Ovid, whither he will leave
shortly. The store has been leased
for a term of five years to Bullo &
Schiappacasse, of Detroit, who will oc-
cupy it as a fruit and confectionery
store.

Newaygo—Arthur Dysinger has
sold his bakery and restaurant to
Mrs. Louisa Koon, of Grant. Mr.

Dysinger willnot remove his cigar
factory plant to Grant, as reported,
but will remain at this place. He
at one time contemplated removing
to Grand Rapids, but as a bonus of
$1,500 has been tendered him, he will
remain at the old stand.

Flint—George Taylor, of Detroit,
and at one time a member of the firm
of Marr & Taylor, has purchased an
interest in the business of the dry
goods house of Hoyt & Co., composed
of G. R. Hoyt and his son, Stewart
Hoyt. The change will enable the
senior member of the firm to retire
from active business after a long
mercantile career. The new style is
Hoyt & Taylor.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Adrian—The capital stock of the
International Machine Co. has been
increased from $50,000 to $75,000.

Reed City—The Welsh Manufac-
turing Co. will engage in the lumber
yard and building material business.

Detroit—The Mohawk Pants &
Overall Co. succeeds Samuel J. Se-
linsky in the manufacture of pants.

Detroit—The Willard K. Bush Co..
manufacturer of pants, overalls and
skirts, is succeeded by H. R. Stoepel
& Co.

Elmira—C. E. Honeywell has mov-
ed his handle factory from Farwell
to this place and is putting the ma-
chinery in the Mahoney mill, —<
leased the property.

-Allegheny,

 

Detroit—The Automatic Tinning
Machine Co. has been organized to
manufacture automatic tinning ma-
chines. The capital stock is $1,000,
which is all held by A. VandeWich
except two shares.

Calumet—The Wieder Harness Co.
has been formed to engage in the
manufacture of harnesses. The capi-
tal stock is $20,000. The incorpora-
tors are Henry M. Geneke, Conrad
Wieder and Granville Benson.

Manistee—W. H. Kinsley and AI-
fred Irving have bought the interest
of E. D. Ellsworth in the Michigan
Iron Works. -The remaining inter-
est is held by W. E. Brown, who
came here with Mr. Ellsworth to
engage in the manufacture of cement
block machinery, concrete mixers,
and similar tools.

South Frankfort—Crane Bros.,
sel owners, land and timber agents
and manufacturers of lumber and
shingles, have merged their business
into a corporation, with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000. The mem-
bers of the company and the stock

ves-

held by each are as follows: Martin
Crane, 300; Jas. R. Crane, 150, and
Barnard Brown, 50.

Detroit—The F. B. Eby Co. has
merged its business into a corporation
for the purpose of engaging more ex-
tensively in the manufacture of wood
and metal articles. The new com-

pany is capitalized at $25,000, the
stockholders being as follows: F. B.
Eby, 840 shares; Benj. Noble, 190

shares; C. F. Tunstead, 120 shares,
and N. S. Praigg, 100 shares.

Port Huron—The Merchants’ &
Manufacturers’ Association has under
consideration the propositions of five
different industrial concerns which
desire to locate in this city, provid-
ing proper inducements are offered.
The J. C. Tappe Tanning Co., of
Pa., wants to locate a
glove factory employing 150 girls.
A Cleveland match factory employing
100 hands
added to its capital in this city. A
furniture factory wants a site with
20,000 square feet of floor space and
a plow works will move here if citi-
zens subscribe for $75,000 of its stock.

—_+-.__—
Worse Scheme Than the Trading
Stamp.

Sagizaw, May 30—For several days
past agents of a new Detroit paper
have been canvassing the city, exploit-
ing a paper scheme unlike anything
now in existence. They have pre-
sented a proposition to all of the
leading merchants as well as a large
number of the smaller ones. Thus far
little business has been done, owing
to the past experience Saginaw mer-
chants have had with similar schemes.

The proposition as explained by a
leading business man recalls the trad-
ing stamp with all its evil. It is
somewhat different, although the re-
sults are very much alike. A paper
to be known as “The U. S. Daily,” a
Detroit publication to be, is the basis
of the scheme. This paper will not
be sold upon the streets or to regular
subscribers. Its circulation will be
established through the medium of
the retail stores. The papers are to
be sold at a rate of a half cent each

wants to come if $15,000 is.

 

to the retailers, who in turn give a
paper free to every purchaser who
spends ten cents with them. For ex-
penditures of over ten cents a coupon
is given, one for each additional ten
cents. For instance one dollar would
buy in addition to the merchandise
a paper and nine coupons, which are
redeemable at the office of the coupon
company and certain prizes received.
The agents represent that the paper
is to be published first on September
first and that its circulation will then
be half a million. It is proposed to
have a news correspondent and a
business agent in every city. Adver-
tising will be the revenue of the paper
and local advertisers will get their
space at so much per inch. Willis J.
Abbott is credited with the editorial
responsibility of the new publication.

The proposition did not prove very
inviting to anybody. In discussing it
with a representative of this paper
an officer of the Retail Merchants’
Association said yesterday: “Local
business men cannot afford to let this
scheme get any foothold in this city.
It is much worse than the trading
stamp evil and I hope to see the As-
sociation give it a stamp of disap-
proval at its meeting. As a matter
of fact I do not regard it as a fair
business proposition and would be
opposed to it in any form. We are
selling goods too close now to have
to offer inducements. I certainly
hope that the agents of this paper
will attend the meeting.”

An ex-officer said: “The Associa-
tion won the trading stamp fight.
Now it has a harder one and I cer-
tainly hope it will win. The scheme
is the most dengerous we have been
asked to give our attention to. I
was called upon by its promoters and
refused to have anything to do with
it. Thus far the reception they have
met has been a chilly one I under-
stand.”

— +s _
Debating Between Detroit and Baw-
beese Lake.

Lansing, May 30—The grocers and
butchers have not yet decided defi-
nitely upon the place for holding their
next annual picnic.

The committee appointed to con-
fer with the Pere Marquette officials
in regard to the fare to be charged
ii Detroit was selected reported that
the. railroad company had made them
a rate, but it was not entirely satis-
factory. Another meeting will be held
with the officials and if a better offer
cannot be secured, the picnic will be
held at Bawbeese Lake. It is under-
stood the Lake Shore officials have
made the committee a good offer, if
it shall be decided to visit that resort.

 

 

 

 

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The Produce Market.

Asparagus—6oc per doz. bunches.

Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch-
es and $1.75 for Jumbos.

Beans—$1.50@1.65 for hand picked
mediums.

Beets—New bring $1 per box.

Butter—Creamery has declined an-
other cent, being now held at 18c
for choice and 1g9c for fancy. Re-
ceipts of dairy are overwhelming lo-
cal dealers, it being almost impossi-
ble to keep the receipts graded as
fast as they arrive. Prices are steady
on the basis of 9@1oc for packing
stock, 11@12ce for common and 13@
14c for choice. Renovated, 15@16c.

Cabbage—$2.25 for Florida and
$3 for Mississippi; Mobile, $2.50.

Carrots—g4oc per goz. for Southern.

Cocoanuts—$3.50 per sack.

Cucumbers—6oc per doz. for home
grown.

Eggs—Local dealers pay 13%@
14%c on track, holding case count at
14@15c and candled at 15@16c. The
ptice is much easier than a week ago.

Game—Live pigeons, 50@75c_ per
doz.

Green Onions—Evergreens, I5c per
doz.; Silver Skins, 20c per doz.

Green Peas—$1.35 per bu. box.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 9@
1oc and white clover at I2@I3c.

Lemons—Messinas and Californias
are steady at $3@3.50 per box.

Lettuce—Hot house leaf stock
fetches roc per fb.

Maple Sugar—1o@11%c per fb.

Maple Syrup—$1@1.05 per gal.

Onions—Bermudas_ fetch $2 per
crate. Egyptians command $3.50 per
sack. Southern (Louisiana) are in
active demand at $2 per sack. Silver
Skins (Texas) fetch $2.50 per crate.

Oranges—California Navels range
from $3 for choice to $3.50 for fancy.
California Seedlings, $2.75; Mediter-
ranean Sweets and Bloods, $3@3.25.

Parsley—3oc per doz. bunches _ for
hot house.

Pie Plant—soc per box of 4o fbs.

Pineapples—Owing to the high
price of bananas there is a growing
trade in this fruit. Cubans command
$2@3.50 per crate, according to size.

Plants—75c per box for either cab-
bage or tomato.

Potatoes—Old stock is scarce and
strong at $1@1.10 per bu. Receipts
of new are increasing, finding an out-
let on the basis of $1.25@1.35 per bu.

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
turkeys, 1I5@16c; ducks, 15@18c;
nester squabs, $2@2.25 per doz.

Radishes—Round, 15c; long, 20c per
doz. bunches.

Strawberries—Tennessee are on
their last legs on a basis of $2.25@
2.50. Illinois fruit is now the leading
feature of the market, ranging from

$2.75@3. The first receipts rfom the

 

Benton Harbor district came in to-
day, commanding $2.50 per 16 qt.
crate.

Tomatoes—$3 per 6 basket crate.

Wax Beans—$1.75 per 2-3 bu. box.

—_—_»- 2-2

The Boys Behind the Counter.

St. Ignace—Chas. Wenzel has re-
signed his position with D. Lenahan
and has taken a more lucrative one
with the Cornwell Beef Co., with
headquarters at the Soo.

Middleville—W. A. Quinlan & Co.
have a new clerk in their general
store in the person of W. C. Sackett,
of Woodbury.

Saugatuck—C. W. Parrish has

taken charge of the Thompson &
Grice drug store.
. Muskegon—The John Riordan Co.
has recently acquired the services of
Charles E. Dickinson, of St. Paul,
Minn., to manage its dry goods store.
Mr. Dickinson succeeds T. H. Bran-
don, who resigned to go to Fort
Wayne, Ind., where he has purchas-
ed an interest in a large mercantile
establishment.

Pontiac—Martin J. Cloonan, who
has been working at Monroe for the
past two months, has taken the posi-
tion of pharmacist at E. L. Keyser’s,
made vacant by the resignation of
Charles Smith. é

Hancock—Will Donahue has taken
a position in Scott’s drug store.

Adrian—E. C. Steidle, a registered
pharmacist from Milan, has taken a
position with the City pharmacy.

Elsie—Tony Loeher, of Westpha-
lia, will take charge of the Travis &
Baker drug stock, which will be con-
ducted asa branch of their St. Johns
drug establishment.

——_—_+-.___
Death on the Rail.

About six weeks ago the mother
of Geo. Stickney, the Gowen drug-
gist, died in a hospital in this city
as the result of an operation. She
willed the son the drug stock con-
ducted by the Stickney Drug Co., at
Gowen, and also left him $1,000 in
life insurance, which was to be paid
on June 7. The son, who has been
clerking in drug stores at Battle
Creek during the past year, started
home last Tuesday to join his family
and take possession of the property
left him by his mother. The train
stopped at Bellevue and he sauntered
out of the car in which he was travel-
ing to see what was the matter. While
standing on the track, he was struck
by a flyer going in the opposite direc-
tion and cut in-two, dying instantly.

—_—_-+>——__
Lesson in Modern Finance.

“Pa,” said the son of the captain
of industry, “what is being recreant
to one’s trust?”

“Not increasing the capital stock
every time the public can be hypno-
tized into buying a few more shares
for the benefit of the people who
hold the bonds.”

—_——_»>-+—_—
Fond of Fancy Work.

“Does your wife do much fancy
work?”

“Fancy work? She won’t even let
a porous plaster come into the house
without crocheting a red border round
it and running a_ yellow ribbon
through the holes.”

 

The Grocery Market.

Tea—The only development of the
week has been the opening of the
Foochow market on Oolongs, on a
basis about 3c higher than last year.
The crop is expected to be about 25
per cent. short. This condition is
likely to affect Foochow Oolongs, as
the Chinamen will be apt to turn the
leaf into Congous wherever they can.
There has been no change in the new
Japan or Formosa market during the
week. The general demand is light
with the whole line of prices held
steadily.

Coffee—Raw coffees have _ held
steady to firm for a long time, with
no more than slight occasional breaks
and it is impossible to buy No. 7s
now at the quoted price. The opinion
is freely expressed that one package
concern has a large quantity af low-
priced coffee that it is using and re-
fuses to put the figure up to accom-
modate its rivals who have not the
goods. Locally there is:a fair de-
mand for coffee but no great business
as every one has either plenty of
coffee or plenty of coffee experience
that prevents him from loading up.

Canned Goods—Stocks of all kinds
of canned fruits are light, but not
enough so, apparently, to presage any
shortage. It is probable that there
will be just about a good clean up.
Spot stocks of vegetables are light
except tomatoes. Corn is practically
well cleaned up and with four months
yet before the new crop is available,
no one who has any corn to sell is
anxious at all to dispose of it. It is
too good property. All the medium
and low priced peas have been clean-
ed up as far as first hands are con-
cerned. There are some better grades
still offered. Tomatoes are in good
supply, although it is not as easy to
get real standards at the bottom fig-
ures as it was some weeks ago. There
is little doubt that all the old salmon
will be cleaned up close before the
new pack comes on. If it had not
been for the backward weather there
would be a larger business even than
there is.

Syrups and Molasses—Compound
syrup is extremely dull at the decline
which followed the drop in glucose.
Sugar syrup is unchanged and very
strong on all grades. The demand
is fair. Little or nothing is doing
in molasses, which rules at unchang-
ed prices.

Dried Fruits—Prices have been
fairly stationary, holders realizing
that no cut, however deep, could
stimulate the demand much at this
time, when the jobbers are facing
cold storage. General stocks of
prunes are extremely light. Peaches
are showing some activity. There is
a good demand for low-priced peach-
es, but they are very scarce. The
coast is nearly cleaned up, the pres-
ent supply out there not aggregating
more than twenty cars. This is

much less than normal. Spot peaches |

are unchanged and stocks are clean-
ing up closely. Seeded raisins are
moving out quietly and the demand
is fully up to the average for the
season. All jobbers caught with
high-priced stocks when the associa-
tion made its recent decline have re-

duced their prices, and this seems
to have stimulated the demand from
retailers to a slight degree. Loose
raisins are very quiet at unchanged
prices. Apricots, for the first time
in many months, are dull, although
the market is still firm. Currants are
selling up to the average, and the
cleaners are doing a good business.
The market is strong.

Fish—There has developed a good
demand for sardines, mostly at $3.25
f. o. b. Eastport. A variety of lower
prices have been named on odd lots,
some as low as $3.10. No new price
which shall govern the season has as
yet been named, and may not be as
soon as was expected. Cod, hake
and haddock are quiet and show a
downward tendency. The fresh new
fish is selling at the lowest prices in
many years. There is some improve-
ment in the demand for salmon, but
buyers are still a little unwilling to
pay sellers’ prices which average
about $1.35 for red Alaska. There
has been quite a business done in
future Columbia River salmon at the
recently reported opening prices.

Provisions—The_ provision market
is in good shape, although practically
no change in price has occurred dur-
ing the week. Hams of all grades
are in good demand and ‘unchanged.
Barrel pork is also selling very fairly
at ruling prices. Dried beef shows
an improved demand at unchanged
prices. Lard is still very low, both
pure and compound. The demand is
fair.

—_+3 >

Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wools.’

The hide market is without change
The late takeoff is in good demand
at full prices. Old hides are draggy,
with calf and kip in good demand.

Pelts are closely sold up at full
values.

Tallow is in the dumps, with scarce-
ly life enough to look up. Specula-
tors tried to revive it, but large of-
ferings squelched them.

Wools are in demand at prices far
beyond the Eastern) market. The
strife between Eastern houses con-
tinues and prices have gone beyond
anticipation. The quoted Eastern
market will barely give a new dollar
for the old one on price being paid
in the States. It is wholly specula-
tion on present values. The grow-
ers have generally sold and many
buyers have parted with their hold-
ings. Wm. T. Hess.

—_—_+-.

Wm. Judson left to-day for New
York, where he will spend a week or
ten days. He is accompanied by Mrs.
Judson, and together they will at-
tend the graduation of their daughter
at Vassar College next Tuesday.

———_»-o-2——__— @

Beaverton—Mrs. John Patterson
has sold her general stock and store
building to W. H. Herendeen, who
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Secretary and Treasurer of an old-estab-
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CLOSED SHOPS ILLEGAL.
(Continued from page two.)
regards it, everyone knows’ some-
thing more than advice is intended.
It is coercion, force; it is the effort
of many by the mere weight of num-
bers to compel the one to do their

bidding.

“The affidavits show that defend-
ants picketed and patrolled around
and about complainant’s place of
business, watching the streets, alleys
and approaches thereto, daily shift-
ing their positions; that they so sta-
tioned themselves that the complain-
ant’s employes were obliged to pass
through their picket line; that their
attitude was ugly and menacing such
as to cause fear in the mind of an or-
dinary person. Complainant’s em-
ployes and persons seeking employ-
ment were waylaid on their way to
and from the factory; they were in-
sulted and threatened and in numer-
ous instances assaulted and beaten
by the strikers, pickets and patrollers,
and complainant’s business was seri-
ously and injuriously interrupted. All
teaming and hauling of merchandise
to and from complainan‘’s factory
were stopped.

“The purpose of the strike by com-
plainant’s employes and their prose-
cution of it, as described, was to
compel the complainant to execute
the agreements referred to and made
a part of the bill. The drafts of
agreements, three in number, purport
to be with the different unions whose
members were in complainant’s em-
ploy. The draft of agreement with
the Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers,
Brass Molders and Brass Workers’
International Union of North Ameri-
ca, International Union of Steam En-
gineers and International —Brother-
hood of Stationary Firemen contains
the following:

Article 1. The party of the first
part hereby agrees to employ none
but members of the aforesaid organi-
zations or those who carry the regu-
lar working card of the said organi-
zations, provided the various crafts
will furnish such competent help as
may be required by the party of the
first part within twenty-four hours
after notification.

Art. 7. There shall be a steward
for each craft in each factory ap-
pointed by the organization, whose
duty it shall be to see that the men
working in said factory belong to the
organizations.

Art. 8. It is hereby agreed by the
party of the first part that the busi-
ness agent of the party of the second
part shall have the privilege of inter-
viewing any member of the party
of the second part in the office of
the party of the first part during
business hours.

Art. to. A sympathetic strike to
protect union principles shall not be
considered a violation of this agree-
ment.

Art. 11. All the apprentices shall
belong to the union and carry the
working card of the organization.

Art. 12. The number of appren-
tices not to exceed one for ten men
or less of the different crafts.

“That the purpose of the strike
was to compel the execution of the
drafts of agreement is clear. It is

 

averred in the sworn bill and deposed
to in the affidavits of De Wolf, com-
plainant’s President; Kellogg, its
Secretary and Treasurer, and Ed-
wards, its Superintendent, that busi-
ness agents of the different unions
called on complainant and _ insisted
on its executing the agreements and
that, when complainant’s President
refused, on the ground that the
proposed agreements were unreason-
able, it was threatened by one of said
business agents that unless complain-
ant would sign the agreements a
strike would be called and that said
business agents called a strike, in re-
sponse to which about 500 of com-
plainant’s employes quit its employ.
Appellant’s counsel admit in their
brief the purpose of the strike is to
bring about the execution of the con-
tracts,, and at least three of the ap-
pellants so admit in their answers.
It is unlawful to compel one to exe-
cute any contract. A contract exe-
cuted under duress is voidable, and
duress is present where a party ‘is
constrained, under circumstances
which deprive him of the exercise
of free will, to agree or to perform
the act sought to be avoided.’
“Duress exists when a person is
induced to perform an act to avoid
a threatened and impending calamity.
Especially was the purpose to compel
complainant to execute the agree-
ments in question an unlawful pur-
pose. Article 1 of the agreement
strikes at the right of contract and
provides that complainant shall em-
ploy none but members of the sever-
al unions, thus discriminating in fav-
or of one class of men and excluding
all others. In Matthews vs. The Peo-
ple, 202 IIl., 389, the court, discuss-
ing the constitutionality of the free
employment agency act, says (page
4o1): ‘An employer whose workmen
have left him and gone on a strike,
particularly when they have done so
without any justifiable cause, is en-
titled to contract with other laborers
or workmen to fill the places of those
who have left him. Any workman
seeking work has a right to make
a contract with such employer to
work for him in the place of any
one of the men who have left him
to go out upon a strike. Therefore,
the prohibition contained in section
8 strikes at right of contract, both on
the part of the laborer and of the
employer. It is now well settled that
the privilege of contracting is both
a liberty and a property right. Lib-
erty includes the right to make and
enforce contracts, because the right
to make and enforce contracts is in-
cluded in the right to acquire prop-
erty. Labor is property. To de-
prive the laborer and the employer
of this right to contract with one
another is to violate section 2 of ar-
ticle 2 of the constitution of Tllinois,
which provides that ‘no person shall
be deprived of life, liberty or proper-
ty without due process of law.’ Tf is
equally a violation of the fifth and
fourteenth amendments of the con-
stitution of the United States. The
provision embodied in section 8 ‘is
a discrimination between . different
classes of citizens founded on no jus-
tifiable ground and an attempt to

 

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Is The Month

When you will sell a lot of Lily White
if you are careful to keep well supplied.
The demand for this flour is increasing
every day although our mills have been
increased in capacity time and time
again, there are periods during the year
when we are unable to make flour fast
enough. .

The great success of Lily White is
due to its merit and its reliability.

Good every time.

It is easy to claim reliability and
uniformity in flour but it is. quite an-
other matter to live uptoit. And peo-
ple soon get disgusted with flour that
isn't uniform. They can’t depend on
it and they lose time, patience and
money every time they buy it.

When you sell them Lily White
they feel grateful to you for giving them
such good flour. They remember it
and come back for more and say “Your
flour is so good I’m going to try some of
your tea,” or whatever they happen to
need at the time.

Thus you get more of their trade
and they tell their neighbors about you
and you get the neighbors’ trade. And
so it goes on and on until eventually
you get most of the trade in your town.

The buying of Lily White doesn’t
need to worry you because you can
always sell it. If you have to pay
more for it you can get more from your
customers. Many of them would pay
twice what you ask for it rather than
go without it. The people who use it
are those who want good, reliable goods.
They don’t buy shoddy of any kind and
their trade is worth more than all
other trade combined.

Get Lily White and get that trade.

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exercise legislative power in behalf of
certain classes and against other
classes, whether laborers seeking
work or employers. It falls under
the condemnation of the  constitu-
tion.’

“The agreements in question
would, if executed, tend to create a
monopoly in favor of the members
of the different unions, to the ex-
clusion of workmen not members of
such unions, and are, in this respect,
unlawful. Contracts tending to cre-
ate a monopoly are void.

- “The Legislature of the State can
not create a monopoly.

“The purpose, of the strikers is in
violation of the criminal code, which
provides as follows:

Sec. 158. If any two or more per-
sons shall combine for the purpose
of depriving the owner or possessor
of property of ‘its lawful use and
management, or of preventing, by
threats, suggestions of danger, or by
any unlawful means, any person from
being employed by or obtaining em-
ployment from any such owner or
possessor of property, on such terms
as the parties concerned may agree
upon, such persons so offending shall
be fined not exceeding $500 or con-
fined in the county jail not exceeding
six months.

Sec. 159. If any person shall, by
threat, intimidation or unlawful inter-
ference, seek to prevent any other
person from working or from obtain-
ing work at any lawful business, on
any terms that he may see fit, such
person so offending shall be fined not
exceeding $200.

Not only was the purpose of the
strike unlawful, but the means used
to achieve the unlawful purpose were
unlawful. The means used were the
acts heretofore mentioned, and there-
by injury to the complainant’s busi-
ness. The appellants and their asso-
ciates intended to stop the business
of the complainant, so far as they
possibly could, and the _ evidence
shows that they did stop it in great
part to complainant’s injury. The
following is contained in the brief
of appellant’s counsel, which we
quote as illustrative of their view of
the cause: ‘How do picketing, pa-
trolling, persuading or even slugging
affect property rights, except inthe
most fantastic sense? Injury to busi-
ness has no independent existence
whatever, because business has no
tangible existence to be injured in the
true and unperverted sense.’

“In the case of the Union Pacific
Railway Company vs. Ruef, cited by
counsel for appellants, the court
says: ‘And that one’s business is his
or its property is likewise elementary
and is conceded by all.’

“A man’s business is his property.
‘The freedom of business action lies
at the foundation of all commercial
and industrial enterprises.’

“We know of no well-considered
case, or, indeed, of any case, holding
that a combination of persons to
injure the business of another is not
unlawful. That the appellants, and
others associated with them, acted in
concert, in unlawfully endeavoring to
injure, and, in fact, injuring complain-
ant’s business for an unlawful pur-
pose, is fully sustained by the evi-

 

dence. They conspired, breathed to-
gether, to effect the unlawful pur-
pose, and by overt acts did all they
possibly could to that end. It is not
necessary to prove an express agree-
ment between the appellants and
those associated with them. It may
be proved by circumstantial evidence.

“Each conspirator is responsible
for the acts and declarations of every
other conspirator in furtherance of
the common purpose. The conspir-
acy originated simultaneously with
the calling of the strike and contin-
ued until the filing of the last peti-
tion, July 14, 1902. It was a single
conspiracy. And the court on the
hearing of each of the second and
third petitions did not err in hearing
the prior evidence. The evidence was
competent as tracing and showing
the character of the conspiracy. It
is an indispensable condition of the
enjoyment of each citizen of the lib-
erty and rights guaranteed by the con-
stitution and _ laws he shall respect
and not unlawfully infringe upon the
liberty or rights of any other citizen.
This can not be done with impu-
nity.”

——_*-<-___
Brilliant Record of a Newspaper
Man.

The success which has’ attended
William E. Curtis, the famous cor-
respondent of the Chicago Record-
Herald, is rarely attained by newspa-
per writers. Beginning his career in
Chicago in 1872 as reporter, he rapid-
ly rose to the position of managing
editor. He resigned that position on
receiving a Government appointment
as Secretary of the South American
Commission. Mr. Curtis traveled ex-
tensively in Central and South Amer-
ica while in this position, producing
several popular volumes as the result
of his literary labors. Afterward co-
operating with Secretary of State
James G. Blaine, Mr. Curtis organiz-
ed the work of the Bureau of Ameri-
can Republics, with the result that
he was placed in charge of that or-
ganization, and at the World’s Colum-
bian Exposition he distinguished
himself by his labors as the executive
head of the Latin-American depart-
ment. As correspondent of the Chi-
cago Record-Herald, Mr. Curtis’ trav-
els have carried him into every sec-
tion of the United States as well as
into all quarters of the globe. His
China and Japan letters were pub-
lished in book form; likewise his let-
ters from England, Germany and
France, as well as those written dur-
ing his travels in Mexico and South
America.

No newspaper correspondent pos-
sesses the facility shown by Mr. Cur-
tis in writing on any of the diver-
sified subjects embraced in his corre-
spondence and making it luminous.
Nor is any correspondent followed so
closely year after year by the thous-
ands of readers of the Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald. On his recent trip to
the Holy Land Mr. Curtis’ letters
have been read more closely than
ever, and his descriptions of that in-
teresting section of the globe as it
appears to-day have been quoted
everywhere.

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AMERICA UNDER THE KNIFE.

A Hungarian savant has been mak-
ing a study of the people of the
United States of America. He has
had that body on the operating table
and with scalpel in hand has studied
longer and cut deeper than any of
his contemporaries. He has reached
certain conclusions and these are not
wholly in harmony with previously
expressed ideas upon the same sub-
ject. He finds that, irrespective of
our Puritan origin, we believe in the
future of America and not in God
the Father Almighty; that in spite
of what we have been saying all
along about being the favorite child
of Nature we have deceived  our-
selves and the truth is not in us;
that all the good we have in us has
come from the foreigners here; that
our American at his best is too much
like the big immature pumpkin of
our corn fields except that he does
not take time to ripen; that the Amer-
ican woman—well, she is just the
American woman, unlike anything in
heaven above or the earth beneath,
or the waters under the earth, and
that instead of realizing that glorious
future where America leads the na-
tions of the earth triumphant be-
neath her banner radiant with stars
of living light, she is going plump
into perdition, or words to that ef-
fect.

While we do not presume to chal-
lenge the learned doctor to discuss
the statements he has made, and while
we are well aware that any attempt
to refute anything he has said in re-
gard to us will avail us little, there
are some facts which if expressed
will show that this country is not
ready to accede to all the wise man
has said.

Admit for the sake of the argu-
ment that we do pin our faith to the
future of América. The commonest
patriotism will commend us for that
and from Bunker Hill to Appomat-
tox the centuries applaud with clap-
ping hands. It may be that “We
don’t go much on religion,” but we
remember with some satisfaction that
we have what we call a Christian
Sunday and that we have _ taught
heathen Europe twice and are teach-
ing her now at the St. Louis Exposi-
tion what that sort of a Sunday

 

means and what its influence is on
national life and character. We do
not name the Deity in our constitu-
tion, but every dollar of our cur-
rency is made genuine by its legend,
“In God we trust.” With these facts
to stand upon we are willing to be-
lieve that church-spangled America
is as near the throne of heavenly
grace as Sundayless Europe, and that
her offerings and petitions find there
as ready a hearing. ;
What nature has done for this
country need not be entered into here
in detail. Fortunately the record still
stands and when we are told that
our mountains and rivers can not
compare in number or in size with
their counterpart in Europe, while
there is a temptation to dispute we
refrain and simply remark that the
facts do not support the statement.
The American standing upon the
quay at Lake Geneva and looking up-
on far-off Mont Blanc sees in_ its
opalescent splendor the fancied out-
line of the sleeping Napoleon and does
not desire to detract a single delight
from the view nor in any way lessen
the grandeur that crowns that lofty
summit and yet he knows, as the
Hungarian savant ought to know,
that Mont Blanc in size and grand-
eur sinks into insignificance with
what nature has. placed in_ this
United States. Nobody wants to say
a word against the Rhine. That voy-
age from Cologne to Bingen will live
forever in the mind of him who has
taken it. It is beautiful beyond de-
scription but—the Hudson still flows
past the Palisades into New York
Bay, and of the rivers of the two con-
tinents the school geography settles
the question when it gives the length
of the Danube as 2,000 miles and the
Missouri-Mississippi as 4,200 miles, a
difference it may be well for the sa-
vant to copy into his note book.
The declaration that all the good
we can call our own comes from the
foreigners among us in a trifle musty.
The people of the New World are
the children of the Old, something as
Shakespeare’s plays are descended
from the fragmentary literary _ riff-
raff of his time and just as they called
for the Shakespearean ‘genius to
make them immortal, so whatever
has come from our Old World ances-
try had to be breathed upon by
American republicanism before it
could be looked upon as the tran-
scendent citizenship of all coming
time: We are, if you please, the lat-
est type of evolution, and so a single
remove farther from the original an-
cestral monkey than the European
loins from which we have sprung.
Tf. then, all that is good in us has
come from the European pilgrim we
have no desire to disown it; but,
thankful for the inheritance, we sub-
mit that that same good has been
so improved upon mentally, morally,
physically and politically as to pro-
duce a quality of civilization never
before attained. With this under-
standing America acknowledges the
source of her existing “good.”
There is little fault to be found in
his summing up of the American per
se. He has a “magnificent passion for
ordered system. He is far too rapid

 

and he is incapable of applying all
his heart or all his intellect to any
one thing for any considerable time,”
statements which are granted with-
out contention. The “ordered” sys-
tem comes to us direct from the
skies—it is Heaven’s first law—and it
has been reserved for the American

-man to adapt it to the national as

well as the individual concerns of
life. The “rapid” is easily accounted
for. It is a condition due to natural
growth under the most favorable cir-
cumstances, and the European with all
his wisdom, unaccustomed to stch
growth, has simply misnamed it and
has misjudged us accordingly. This
in connection with the American
faculty of doing things once and for-
ever when the time comes gives the
negative to the assertion that we lack
a well-balanced emotional life and are
incapable of applying ourselves to
any one thing for any considerable
time.

With the American man thus dis-
posed of we are not at all surprised
at the conclusion reached in regard
to the American woman. She is a
failure. American maturity in her
hands has become bankrupt. She is
a home-breaker instead of a home-
maker. Her highest ambition is to
be considered smart. She likes to
pass for a person of energetic nerve
and she wants it to be distinctly un-
derstood that she is always ready
with bonnet on for every emergency,
and in every respect is far ahead of
her maternal Old-World ancestor
whom she is inclined to look down
upon.

There is, doubtless, much reason in
his sayings. There is a great differ-
ence between the Old-World woman
and the New-World one. There had
to be. It is the Anglo-Saxon of it.
The Teuton dame may be content,
yoked to a donkey, to aid that patient
brute in hauling the load to market
while the other brute whom she calls
husband trudges along unburdened at
her side; but not her Saxon sister.
In the spirit of her critic she kicks.
The load may go anywhere and any-
how; it is no concern of hers. No
yoke makes her one of a pair, cart-
hitched. She may be an animal, but
she is a human one and insists on be-
ing yoked only with her kind and
only for human duty. What that
duty is she decides and the Saxon
love of fair play makes the rest easy.
The American woman is her _hus-
band’s worthy mate. She sympa-
thizes with his hopes and aspirations
and ambitions. Her husband’s equal
in every sense of the word, she shows
her modern European sister what
real womanhood is and the world’s
estimation of her to-day is an utter
refutation of the foolishness which
the wise man has expressed in re-
gard to her.

It is an easy matter to conclude that
a single Americanism best expresses
the savant’s article upon the United
States: “He has been chewing the
rag!” He does not know what he
has been talking about. In a little

corner of the smallest continent on
the face of the earth and from a
point of view wholly his own, he has
looked out upon the world with prej-

 

udiced eyes and with a “wisdom,
gravity and profound conceit” has
played Sir Oracle with the usual re-
sult; and the United States, amused,
as she always is, by the Old World’s
criticisms, lives on in the even tenor
of her way, acknowledging herself the
big green pumpkin the learned doctor
has called her and, intent on matur-
ing and ripening into her golden fu-
ture, dreams only of making that fu-
ture what the world is beginning tc
concede and believe can come only
from her capable hands.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

There is little to record in the was
of changes in market conditions,
transactions continuing light in all
lines although investment buying is
in evidence to a degree which shows
that there is plenty of money when
conditions call tor its use. The
money market continues easy, al-
though the call for export of gold
continues until the bars, the most
profitable form for export, have be-
come very scarce. The Panama Can-
al account is finally settled and it is
found that only $18,000,000 of this
was included in the gold export, the

balance being arranged by foreign
bills of exchange. Thus in the move-
ment aggregating over $60,000,00u

more two-thirds of the amount was
owing to other causes than the pay-
ment of the Canal purchase. When-
ever any loan is called for in the
Wall Street markets the call seems
to meet with. a response which shows
that plenty of money is on hand seek-
ing investment. Every foreign loan
considered is quickly over-subscribed,
the last instance being the Cuban
loan.

General trade changes while small
have been in the direction of improve-
ment. More seasonable weather has
given an impetus to sales of summer
wear and the more favorable agri-
cultural reports give confidence to
dealers generally. The inevitable re-
action in the labor market attended
by the laying off of many hands is
naturally considered an unfavorable
feature, but it must be remembered
that the stimulation in that market
had reached a degree never attained
before in this country. It is signifi-
cant, and favorable, that immigra-
tion begins to show a check, indicat-
ing that the Old World countries are
beginning to realize that conditions
are not so favorable for seeking em-
ployment. Labor troubles are still
an important factor in the situation,
but the awakening of public senti-
ment as to the right status of union-
ism is proving an effective means of
settling many disputes—a fact of

 

more significance in the industrial
situation than is generally realized.
Indeed, there are few important

strikes now which do not terminate
with the open shop.

Textile conditions are reported
more favorable than for some time
past, usual causes of disturbance hav-
ing little effect. Auction offerings are
received with interest and the goods
absorbed so as to leave jobbers’
holdings unaffected. The improve-
ment is especially notable in woolens
and carpets and in the demand for
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THE HOME DOORSTEP.

Bret Harte’s sarcastic line, “We
are ruined by Chinese cheap labor,”
is beginning again to have meaning
in it. In some unaccountable way
our much-boasted Americanism is
having a set-back. We are not so
good as we have pretended to be.
“Monkeying” with the ballot box is
so generally looked upon as a joke
that when the other day a senator
of the Middle West refused to ac-
cept the fraudulent result and resign-
ed his seat in the Senate, there were
altogether too many in this broad
land of ours who thought that he
was more nice than’ wise. Pretty
scaly stories are told of St. Louis,
Milwaukee, Chicago and Philadelphia,
while New York and Tammany have
become notorious. Something has
been for a long time the matter with
the postoffice, and graft has become
a word closely connected with the
up-to-date idea of getting along in
the world. The infection has pass-
ed from maturity to youth and
even childhood is getting to know
the value of a “pull.” Work, the
genuine old-fashioned article, has
lost its old-fashioned meaning, and
is used now to designate what is

adroitly and undeservedly secured
from another without that other’s
unqualified hearty consent. “From

the center all round to the sea” we
are not a credit to our Puritan an-
cestry and _ training.

The reason has already been given:
“We are ruined by Chinese cheap la-
bor.” That is all that is the matter.
For years and years we have let
down the bars and Europe, Asia and
Africa have been crowding through
at the rate of nobody knows how
many millions a year, bringing with
them the hide-bound prejudices and
practices of the centuries, both of
them wholly antagonistic to every-
thing that republicanism holds dear,
and when the United States is over-
run with Old World riff-raff
we turn our backs upon our indiffer-
ence and pretend astonishment at
what even a blind man can see. So
we shrug our Puritan shoulders and
give. a hitch-up to our Pilgrim fath-
er’s trousers and put our wise old
Mayflower heads together and pour
forth our New England town-meet-
ing wisdom by the bucketful as_ to
how we are to remove “from our
midst” this foreign-born, century-
strengthened evil, never once think-
ing and so never once believing that
it is merely a home doorstep matter
to be taken care of by keeping that
home doorstep clean.

Now, then, suppose we to the
manor born, with a love of justice
worthy of the Saxon loins from which
we have sprung, be true to ourselves
and show that we are lovers of the
fair play upon which this people as
a nation pride themselves. Statistics
are not wanting; let us use them with
out regard to the consequences.

Of all states in the Union it is
generally conceded that the one most
prolific in unsound and dangerous
political theories is Kansas, whose

percentage of foreign-born population
_in 1900 was 8.6. Next to Kansas as
the hotbed of political crazes is Ne-

 

braska, with 16.6 per cent. of foreign-
born residents. Wyoming follows
with 18.18 per cent., and Colorado
with 16.9 per cent., leaving respec-
tively for these same _ States of
American-born, 91.4 per cent for
Kansas; 83.4 per cent. for Nebraska;
81.82 per cent. for Wyoming and for
Colorado 83.1 per cent. This is a
statement of considerable importance
when it is remembered that “a policy
of financial idiocy would have proba-
bly been fastened upon the country
had it not been for the sound money
sentiment of Illinois, with 20.1 per
cent.; Wisconsin with 24.9, and Min-
nesota with 28.9 per cent. of foreign-
born population.”

Mention has been made of what the
foreign element has done for certain
cities, but the figures do not seem
to strengthen any such statement. St.
Louis’ foreign-born is 19.4 per cent.
of her inhabitants; Chicago’s record
of foreign-born is 34.6 per cent.; Phil-
adelphia, 22.8; Manhattan and_ the
Bronx, which the statistics have put
for New York, 41.5; so that if we
want to be fair and square with the
riff-raff which have come to our
shores the best two things we can
do are to stop talking and with anew
broom clean off the home doorstep.

 

y IMPORTANT IF TRUE.

Many fears are expressed that the
work of constructing the Panama
canal will be attended by great loss
of life. It has been said a thousand
times that every tie in the Panama
railroad cost one or two lives and
some estimate it as high as three.
The work at canal digging done by
the French was likewise attended by
great loss of life. These indisputable
facts were urged as serious argu-
ments against this route, the more so
because they do not obtain against
the Nicaraguan route. At the latter
place white people can live and work
in comparative safety. Across the
isthmus there are innumerable pools,
ponds and lakes of stagnant water
breeding insects and miasma, and all
the climatic conditions are about as
bad as they can be. Scientific inves-
tigation has charged the mosquito
with a great deal of responsibility
for carrying disease. The stagnant
water at Panama _ furnishes fine
breeding places for these pests and
any scheme which can _ annihilate
them promises to be very useful ina
sanitary sense. Unless modern sci-
ence can invent some new schemes,
the Panama canal enterprise will be
very costly in human life.

The hope has been frequently ex-
pressed that American ingenuity and
scientific research would find some

an interview Prof. Moore says that
the proportion is one part of copper
to one million parts of water, a solu-
tion so weak that its presence can not
be discovered by any ordinary chem-
ical test. Even this small amount en-
tirely destroys the mosquito larvae.
This discovery has been reported to
the Panama Commission and_ the
news is right welcome. It is a very
simple and inexpensive procedure. If
it will work well in Panama there
is no reason why it should not work
equally well in New Jersey, where
the mosquito thrives and grows to
large proportion. It can be introduced
all over the country and the mosqui-
to put out of business. If the pre-
liminary experiments shall be veri-
fied by undertakings on a larger scale
Prof. Moore has established himself
as a great benefactor of humanity.

 

INCREASE OF DIVORCES.

In the United States during the
two decades from 1867 to 1886 there
were 328,716 divorces granted. Dur-
ing that twenty years the population
increased a little more than 60 per
cent., while the increase in divorces
was 157 per cent. In 1867 Indiana
led all the other states, with 1,096 di-
vorces. In 1900 there were 4,699 di-
vorces in Indiana, or one to every
3-7 marriages. Michigan in 1867 had
449 divorces, and in 1900 it had 2,418.
Here the ratio is one divorce’ to
every eleven marriages. In 1867 IIli-
nois granted 1,071 divorces, and in
1896 it granted 2,606. In Ohio the
ratio was one divorce to every twen-
ty-five marriages in 1870, and this in-
creased to one divorce in eight mar-
riages in 1902. These are startling
figures. By the side of them it is
worthy of note that in Connecticut
and Vermont there were fewer di-
vorces in 1900 than in 1867. The
figures for New York are not given
by the authority quoted, but there is
every reason for saying that there
has been a large increase in the
number of divorces in this State dur-
ing recent years.

The same statistician who gives the
figures above cited says that in Can-
ada only sixty-nine divorces were
granted in the thirty-four years be-
tween 1867 and tgor1. The exact ter-
ritory included in Canada for this
computation is not stated, and so
there is room for the presumption
that it means all we usually under-
stand as making up what goes by the
general name of Canada. The falling
off in the number of divorces in Con-
necticut and Vermont is assigned to
the changes of statutes in those
States and the strict administration
by the courts. It follows that what

way of safeguarding the lives of thosexis possible there would be possible

who must do this work. In this
connection an article recently given
large prominence by the Boston Ad-
vertiser is of interest. It tells how
Prof. G. T. Moore, a Harvard scien-
tist, has discovered that an infinitesi-
mal amount of sulphate of copper in-
troduced into drinking water will de-
prive it of ordinary impurities and,
moreover, that water so treated will
not retain the live larvae of the
mosquito, which insect can carry the
germs of malaria or enteric fevers. In

elsewhere. A great many in other
states go to the Dakotas, where the
granting of divorces is a prominent
and profitable industry. A certain
length of residence is required, dur-
ing which the applicant disburses
money according to his or her means,
thus contributing largely to the gen-
eral income. The statistics of South
Dakota, for example, would be even
more appalling than those above
quoted. Undoubtedly the statistics
are more startling in the aggregate

 

 

than most people would imagine. It
is a growing evil, and uniform as well
as stricter statutes on the subject
are most desirable and ought, through
concerted action, to be required.

TO GET GOOD OFFICERS.

For years the Chinese army has
been the laughing stock of military
men all over the world. The Chinese
army has been just about as far be-
hind the times as Chinese enterprises
and undertakings of other sorts, and
ii anything, even worse. The men
are undisciplined, poorly armed and
are of no practical use in modern
warfare. They are superstitious—de-
pend more on the lines of luck and

 

saying prayers to unknown gods
than they do to actual military
achievement. Western civilization

and enlightenment have found hard
work breaking into the Chinese em-
pire, but they are breaking in slowly
and surely. The visits of eminent
Chinamen to the United States have
been productive of considerable prog-
It is more than likely that the
return of the Chinese Minister who
lived so long at Washington has been
influential in impressing upon the
potentates of the flowery kingdom
the need of progress and_ reform.
Then, too, the Chinamen had the op-
portunity to see at the siege of Pekin
how the armies of other countries do
business and they were very dull in-
deed if they did not receive a favora-
ble impression. China has men
enough to make an immense army,
but men alone are not sufficient.

An article recently published in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat is of
interest not only in this country, but
all over the world. It appears there-
from that Chinese emissaries have
been and still are in this country hir-
ing American military men to serve
as officers in the Chinese army, which
it is proposed to reorganize and make
actually effective. Prince Pu Lin, a
member of the royal family of China
and chief of the Chinese War Com-
mission, came here not long ago,
ostensibly to visit the St. Louis Ex-
position, but he spent only a little
time at that business, having more
important things on hand. It has
leaked out that his real errand is the
employment of young American offi-
cers, to whom good pay and life ten-
ure is guaranteed. It is proposed to
secure a very large number and put
them in command of the Chinese
troops, the number to be thus em-
ployed being estimated as high as
7,000. The Chinamen realize their
own inefficiency in military matters
and appreciate that they must have
good officers before they can have
good armies. They compliment the
United States by coming here, indi-
cating their belief that here they can
find the best. In the city of Louis-
ville alone thirteen men have been
enlisted, with commissions from sec-
ond lieutenant to colonel. It is said
that Chinese are also actively engag-
ed in several large cities and that the
undertaking is now an open secret.
If these reports are true, it is a mat-
ter of world significance and_ will
have great bearing upon conditions
in the Far East.

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FORTY YEARS AGO.
Incidents of Pioneer Days in Mecos-
ta County.

IT am, perhaps, more of a pioneer
of Grand Rapids than Big Rapids, as

 

I first saw that now flourishing me- | ; ee
. |a blacksmith shop, a building occu- |

7 miles or more up the River.

tropolis of Western Michigan, which

is the pride of our State, the first |

day of November, 1845, when it was
a little frontier village of about one
thousand inhabitants, with muddy
streets, no bridge across the
and mainly celebrated as an Indian

river

trading post, where the red men con- |

gregated once a year to be paid by
the Government their annual stipend
of half a dollar each, and be robbed
of much of that by merchants who
claimed to be their creditors.

The older residents of that
beautiful city will well
those of that day now gone to their

now

reward, such as Louis Compau, Col. |

Amos Roberts, Aaron B. Turner,
Henry R. Williams, R. C. Luce, Wm.
Holden, Wilder D. Foster, John W.
Peirce, A. D. Rathbone, Hiram Rath-
bone, Canton Smith, John J. Holmes,
Charles P. Calkins, Dr. Charles
Shepard, E. B. Bostwick, Judge
Withey, W. G. Henry, James Miller,
Z. G. and Jacob Winsor, and others
I might mention, who laid the foun-
dation of the Grand Rapids of to-day.

In 1857 the Detroit & Milwaukee
Railroad, now the Grand Trunk,
reached Grand Rapids, or rather came
within a mile of town, and_ while,
during its construction, the little city
flourished, its advent, together with
the financial panic which soon fol-
lowed, was almost a death blow to
business of all kinds. The price of
property as well as labor fell to al-
most nothing and ruin seemed tobe
awaiting all until the War of the Re-
bellion came to the rescue of busi-
ness men and prosperity was brought
about by those terrible years of strife.
Being myself one of the sufferers
from the business depression I left
the home I had learned to love about
May 1, 1860, and went to the wild
and almost uninhabited region now
known as Mecosta county, with its
twenty-five thousand people, and se-
lected the little hamlet which had
been designated as the judicial seat
of said county at its organization in
1857, now known as the enterprising
city of Big Rapids.

How do you suppose we reached
the place? I will tell you: We char-
tered a good team of horses and lum-
ber wagon, loaded all our worldly
possessions, including wife and self,
into the latter, and started for the
North on April 28, expecting to reach
the end of our seventy-five mile jour-
ney in three days, which we did—but
what a trip! A few miles out of
Grand Rapids the road was fair, then
came mud, then a little better travel-
ing and finally on the morning of
the third day we started into the for-
est, and for twenty miles’ labored
through trees on a track which had
been “under-brushed”—old woodsmen
will know what that means—running
over roots, through mudholes_ and
around fallen trees, until finally at
night, worn out and weary with walk-
ing and riding, as much of the way
it was not safe to ride, the little

remember |

| opening in the woods came into view
|and our future home was presented
to us in all its romantic, yet rough,
attractiveness.

Only one little store, a boarding
house, a small red sawmill near by,

pied as a postoffice and for county
| offices—all in one room—a_ school
| house, a small hotel, five dwelling
| houses, a little building which had a
/ sign on its front reading, “Law Of-
fice,’ and a barn were all the build-
ings to be seen—fifteen, all told.

|
|
A village had been platted called
| Leonard, now Big Rapids, a few lots
| cleared and a few streets cut out;
| that is, the trees had been cut but
| stumps and loge prevented travel ex-
| cept on foot, and instead of being
| improvements the work of man had
| disfigured the fair face of nature, as
‘the rough appearance of the land-
| scape was far less beautiful than had
| been the case before the forest was
invaded by the woodsman’s axe.

To me there is no more grand and
beautiful sight than the pathless
woods, for “the groves were God’s
first temples,” but these groves have
been destroyed by vandal hands and
in their place we see the busy city
and fruitful fields.

Being young and ambitious, yet
poor in purse, I took off my coat and
went to work, cutting down more of
those beautiful trees, as I had pur-
chased some lots on which to build a
dwelling, and before long had cleared
room enough for the purpose. Be-
fore the winter came I had a cozy
little house to call my own.

There had been a young lawyer in
the village during the summer of
1859, who walked out of the woods
late in the fall with only a summer
suit of clothes, hawing sold the re-
mainder of his wardrobe, as well as
his books, to pay his expenses, and
finally left, as I was told, stating that
he had a profession and would not
work; would starve first.

The writer was able by hard work
and frugality to avoid starvation, al-
though we could not indulge in luxu-
ries, if so disposed. Grand Rapids
was our market and the cost of trans-
portation by teams was a big item. I
remember that a barrel of salt cost
me $3 in that city and $6 freight.

We had no bridge over the Muske-
gon River in the spring of 1860. In
low water it was a comparatively easy
matter to ford the rapids, but when
the water was high a canoe was neces-
sary.

I was appointed postmaster soon
after my arrival. The mail came once
a week from Greenville, forty miles
distant, on horseback, and the mail
carrier came, when on time, each’
Thursday noon, but he was always
on the wrong side of the river,. which
was the east side, and the village
was all on the west side.

When the water was low he could
cross, but when high he blew his
horn and some one would go over
in a “dugout” and fetch the carrier
and his mail across. I was allowed
an hour in which to distribute and
make up the mail. People from the
surrounding country for many miles
distant came to town on Thursdays,

 

 

and “mail day” was as great an occa-
sion as the Fourth of July.

There was no postoffice north of
us this side of Traverse City, and
some parties came a long distance
for their mail, as there were lumber
camps and an occasional settler fifty

Sunday was for several years also
a favorite day for men employed in
lumber camps, as well as _ settlers
who lived at a distance, to come af-
ter their mail, and a trip from my
house to the postoffice was almost
an hourly occurrence on_ pleasant
Sundays. We could enforce no arbi-
trary rules for opening or closing the
office in those days.

I have stated that there had been
a lawyer before me who became dis-
couraged and left late in the fall in
his summer clothes, but another came
in the summer of 1860 who remain-
ed, and when not professionally en-
gaged worked at his trade as a car-
penter, which was a good share of
the time. His name was Howard W.
Wiltse. He died in 1862.

Lawyers from Grand Rapids and
Newaygo were frequently retained in
important cases, among whom .were
E. S. Eggleston and Lucius Patter-
son, of Grand Rapids, and Col. J. H.
Standish, James Barton and William
T. Howell, of Newaygo. The latter
was appointed later by President
Lincoln Judge of the new Territory
of Arizona.

Hon. F. J. Littlejohn, of Allegan,
was our first Circuit Judge and his
circuit extended from Allegan county
to the Straits of Mackinaw. Col.

 

Standish always accompanied the
Judge on his rounds, both traveling
on horseback, and was retained in
all cases by my clients for the first
few years. We were always suc-
cessful, no matter whether for the
plaintiff or defendant, and it was un-
derstood that he was my standing
assistant. We rarely had a jury trial
for a civil case then. Some people
were so uncharitable as to suggest
that Judge Littlejohn was controlled
by the Colonel—mesmerized, as it
was then called, and _ hypnotized,
now. That may have been true, as
the Colonel was known to have prac-
ticed mesmerism in his younger days,
but we attributed our success to the
justice of our causes and the ability
with which they were tried. All
these names which I have mentioned
as belonging to the bench or _ bar
have long been chiseled on the monu-

ments which mark their owners’
graves, excepting that of Judge

James Barton, who still is a hale old
man of 92 and bids fair to round out
a century.

We had another judge in_ later
years—a tall, dark haired. man with a
Websterian head and intellect, who
possessed the ability, if he had lived,
to fill any position in civil life to
which he might have aspired with
credit to himself and honor to the
State, but he was cut down in his
prime and the world was made so
much poorer thereby. His name was
Augustine H. Giddings, a native of
Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

I should state, perhaps, that the
first postoffice was a log shanty and

 

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by three generations of

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the letters were put in cracks here
and there, while frequently each one
who came for mail looked over the
collection and selected his own, if he
found anything for him, as the post-
master was too busy at the sawmill
near by or engaged elsewhere about
the premises to wait upon him. The
mail was brought from Croton, New-
aygo county, by a man on foot occa-
sionally, in what we used to call a
carpet bag. I do not speak from my
own knowledge of this, but from
hearsay. There was no _ postoffice
north of Big Rapids in 1860 unless
at Traverse City, where Hannah,
Lay & Co. had settled and engaged
in lumbering, their business being
with Chicago, and their new town be-
ing accessible only by water or by
Indian trail.

The first postoffice, aside from
Traverse City, was called Reed City,
twelve miles north of Big Rapids, in
Osceola county, where a man named
Reed and others interested platted
a village which now is an important
station at the crossing of the G. R.
& I. and Pere Marquette Railroads.
I procured the establishing of the
postoffice and suggested its name.
This was in the year 1863 or 1864,
I think.

The first religious meetings held
in Big Rapids by one who called
himself a minister of the gospel were
in 1861 by a man named Kelley, who
abandoned a lucrative position at
Newaygo, where he drove an ox
team hauling slabs away from a saw-
mill, for a precarious living as a pio-
neer preacher. He was not an edu-
cated man, although, no doubt, a very
conscientious one, and his use of the
English language was quite out of
the ordinary. Ht had very original
ideas concerning the appropriation
of Christian names for his children,
of whom he had several, a few of
them being called Bright Venus, Gay
Saturn, Noble Mars and other pecu-
liar names I have forgotten. I do
not know whether he continued to
name his offspring after the rest of
the Heavenly bodies, as his efforts
as a “Sky Pilot,” as they call preach-
ers out in the mining regions, were
not remunerative, and he returned to
the millyard, as I was. informed,
where his services were better appre-
ciated than with us. He was long
since called away from his earthly la-
bors, and.no doubt is enjoying his
reward for the efforts he made to
guide the footsteps of the pioneers
in the narrow way.

I have mentioned the fact that mail
day was an important event in our
isolated community, and the fact that
there was no newspaper published
north of Newaygo caused us to agi-
tate the question of inducing some-
one to come and start a paper, both
to advertise our town and give the
news from the outside world. To
assist in bringing this about the writ-
er offered to assume the editorial
charge of a newspaper, without com-
pensation, if some printer would come
and publish one. In response to this
offer, a young man appeared one day
in the early spring of 1862, at my
office, and said he was a printer; that
his name was Charlie Gay and that

 

he had heard we wanted a newspaper.
Of course I told him this was so,
and the interview resulted in his
promise to come soon and see what
we could do.

He was poor as well as the rest
of us, but his former employer at
Newaygo was indebted to him, of
course, and having a lot of worn-out
type laid by, allowed him to take
what he wanted of it for use on his
new paper. Mr. Gay procured some
new advertising and job type and

we found an old second-hand Wash-

ington press in Greenville, which was
repaired by a blacksmith so as to be
capable of being used, and on April
17, 1862, the first number of the Me-
costa County Pioneer was issued.
Mr. Gay is still one of the publish-
ers of the paper, now called the Big
Rapids Pioneer, and both a daily as
well as weekly edition is issued. My

editorial duties lasted for only ten|

years, as I resigned in 1872.

Our civil war had been in progress
for a year when the Pioneer made its
appearance and many of our young
men, nearly all of whom were mar-
ried, had entered the army and the
coming of the mail was anxiously
awaited by the wives and parents of
those who had gone to the front,
some never to return.

Those were dark days for us who
remained at home, yet they finally
passed by. Peace was restored and
they now exist in memory, less and
less often recalled as the years go by,
yet awakened by the exercises of
our Memorial Day every year.

I ought, perhaps, to give an exam-
ple of some of the brighter scenes
which we enjoyed in our backwoods
home, one of which was a dancing
party participated in more or less
by all the settlers, young and old,
for many miles around. Among
those I remember as being present
were Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Blodgett,
then of Hersey, Osceola county,
some fifteen miles distant. The
dancing was done in the second story
of the mill boarding house, that be-
ing the largest room in town. I said
the people were both young and old,
but they were mostly young, as was
shown by the fact that there were
some sixteen babies on a bed in a
room opening off the one used for
dancing, none over twelve months
old, if I remember. John W. Blod-
gett, of Grand Rapids, now a mem-
ber of the Republican National Com-
mittee, was one of them. I presumes
he does not remember that occasion.

The room was not plastered and
for lights we had tallow candles, fas-
tened to the wall with old-fashioned
two-tined iron forks. This was not
a very brilliant light, nor was it a
very brilliant company there assem-
bled. The ladies did not appear in
evening dress, nor were claw ham-
mers present, but I suppose we had
as much enjoyment on the occasion,
with our rude environments, as those
now do who meet in gilded halls sur-
rounded by all the accessories of the
modern ball room. This was the
only time I believe that I ever tried
to dance.

The part of Michigan of which I
write, like many other portions of

 

 

our beautiful State, has made giant |

strides in many ways since then. In
those early days we had the red man
for our neighbor and he brought his
game and furs to our little town for
sale. Now he is gone no one knows
where, nor even cares. The railroad
trains are coming and going almost
hourly through what then was a)
trackless forest. “The Straits” are |
now only a few hours away and |
reached by palace cars, while then
an Indian trail was the only road |
through the wilderness.

We were without a railroad until
the summer of 1870, ten long years
after my arrival, when the Grand
Rapids & Indiana reached us, having |
been many years in building from
Grand Rapids, a distance of fifty-six |
miles, the last thirty-six of which
were done in fourteen months, and
the first twenty miles north of Ce-
dar Springs in ninety days, as an
Act of the Legislature, of which I

was a member, made it necessary so
to do in order to save a land grant
of a million acres.

Less than half a century ago Upper
Michigan was only known as_ the
home of wild beasts and semi-sav- |

ages, and none but the most venture-
some would brave the hardships and
dangers of a trip to those Northern
wilds, while now that region is in-
habited by an intelligent and thriv-
ing people with churches and school
houses on every hand.

What will be its appearance at the
end of the Twentieth Century? Who
will venture to even think, much less
to say? Ceylon C. Fuller.

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of food. Nearly one-half of the peo-
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Observations of a Gotham Egg Man. |

We are getting aiong to the warm
weather period without
any conditions of supply and demand

disclosing

\
ion and Philadelphia, is contained in

which might put a better face on the |
earlier speculative operations in the;

egg market.

There may be less April |

goods in store than there were last |

year, but the May storage is evi-
dently much larger and it may be
safely calculated that if the total

holdings in the country at large are

not now greater than last year they |

are certainly greater than in any
previous year. And production is
holding up at an unprecedented rate.
It is now quite evident that the light-

er April movement from country

points, compared with last vear, was |

due simply to a backward season, and
that the egg production of the season
as a whole will exceed that of any
previous year in the history of the
trade.

Naturally under the condition otf
excessively late spring supplies. the
speculative element which supported
prices at so high a level earlier in the
season has backed out of the deal
to a large extent and prices have
fallen more nearly to the limit set
by the more conservative operators.
The cool weather has kept the May
quality up to a comparatively high
level on all stock from Northwester-
ly points, and the seaboard storage
houses have been filling up at some-
what more favorable terms than their
Western competitors.

As we have previously anticipated
the Eastern storage houses have late-
ly been gaining rapidly on the figures
reported last year; the shortage in
this comparison, which was so great
during April, has now almost disap-
peared and as we may be sure that
Chicago has a large surplus it is rea-
sonable to suppose that the total
storage holdings are now fully equal
to or in excess of those at this date
last year. And the conditions for
further accumulations are now much
more favorable than they were then;
in all the large distributing markets
receipts are holding up far above cur-
rent consumptive requirements, goods
are accumulating rapidly, and it is
now almost a certainty that by the
first of July the storage houses of
the country will have the biggest
stock of eggs ever recorded.

When the cost of these goods is
considered it makes the outlook for
the high priced early holdings decid-
edly blue. Last year the May eggs
cost even more than those put away
in April and there was nothing to in-
terfere with the unloading of the
latter early in the season; but now
we are accumulating many thousands
of cases of very good eggs which
will certainly have control of the
market for some weeks after the un-
loading period begins.

A careful estimate of New York
storage accumulations to May 21, to-
gether with official estimates for Bos-

|

 

the following table:

 

 

1904. 1903.
Wew Yerk:....35. 0: 305,000 325,000
BOston 0.000. 120,520 151,498
Philadelphia ........ 83,176 114,253
Petal 508,696 590,751

As Chicago’s receipts since May I
have been nearly 45,000 cases more
than last year the excess of storage
at that point noted earlier in the
month has probably been fully main-
tained if not considerably increased,
so that it may safely be estimated
that the total accumulations in the
four big markets are now fully as
much as they were a year ago.

I am told that interior New York
and New England houses have lately
been filling up at a rapid rate.

Referring to my remarks last week |
in regard to glycerine eggs I have a)

letter from a_ reliable Western party
who says he has the secret of the
“glycerine” treatment for pickled
eggs (by which they may be boiled
without breaking) and that he will
disclose it for a consideration.

the eggs so treated bring much better
prices than limed eggs on the British
markets.
lime eggs would like to correspond
with this party I shall be glad to
“put him next.”

Several dealers have spoken to me
lately of unusual trouble with washed
eggs, mixed in with the current pack-
ings. These washed eggs do not keep
at all when the weather is even mod-
erately warm and it is a serious mis-
take to put them in when stock is
shipped for any distance or to be held.
I remember reading a statement from
somebody in the Egg Reporter a
while ago that washed eggs would
keep all right in cold storage; the
statement has since been refuted by
a number of writers in that paper,
but it may have increased the trouble
now becoming serious. When pack-
ers have local consumptive outlets
which use the eggs up at once it is
all right to wash dirties for such
trade, but they are absolutely no
good for distant shipment and a pack-
er will soon ruin the reputation of
his brand by packing them with clean
unwashed eggs.—N. Y. Produce Re-
view.

How Canadian Prize Stilton Cheese
Are Made.

The Canadian Stilton (shaped)
cheese shown by us at the Toronto
Exhibition were of the ordinary make
of the factory, no special milk being
used or method adopted in making
them. We receive the milk from
twenty farmers, each drawing their
own milk, and we make on an aver-
age about twelve tons of cheese each
month. The milk commences to ar-
rive at the factory at six o’clock in
the morning, and at eight o’clock is
generally all delivered. If the milk
is very sweet we start to heat it up
as soon as 1,000 pounds or more is
run into the vat, and raise it slowly
to 86 deg. Fahrenheit, bringing it to
that temperature by the time that
the vat is full. We then add the col-
oring, using 1%4 ounces diluted in a
half-gallon of water to each 1,000

This |
is a process much used in Canada and |

If any of our readers who |

 

 

 

 

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 Lemon & Wheeler Company, Grand Rapids
Phipps-Penoyer & Co , Saginaw Howard & Solon, Jackson

 

Butter

I want fresh butter all the time, the year around. Never saw
so much held butter at this time of year before; a grade that nobody
wants. If feed conditions this year are like last year’s, there is going
to be a heavy over-production and practically no export outlet what-
ever.

Russia, Siberia and Australia are furnishing the English people
more medium grade and creamery butter than they know what to do
with so that even Canada has no show and our country is left high
and dry. Our country merchants must look for rather low prices
this summer. Nothing can hinder it unless there is a drought and
with the experience of the last two years, a drought looks mighty
uncertain.

Whatever you do, do not hold your butter back. Keep it moving.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

       
       
   
   
         
       
     
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

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pounds of milk; we then use the ren-
net test to ascertain if it is ready to
set, which is done by taking eight
ounces of milk in a graduated glass,
and putting a small piece of a match
or cork into it, and then adding a
dram of rennet of known strength,
and stirring for eight seconds, and
if it starts to thicken in 18 or 20
seconds, which is observed by the
stoppage of the cork, it is ready for
the rennet. If it does not thicken
for 35 or 40 seconds, we use a start-
er of sour milk, prepared by adding
two parts of good milk to one of
spring water, and keeping it over
until the following day jn a stone
churn. We use three pounds of this
to 1,000 pounds of milk, and stir it
into the milk, and stir every ten or
fifteen minutes until the desired de-
gree of ripeness is obtained; then add
the rennet, using from three to four
ounces diluted in two quarts of water
to each 1,000 pounds of milk, or suf-
ficient to start coagulation in twelve
minutes. When curd is ready to cut,
which is determined by inserting the
finger under the curd and raising it
towards the surface until it breaks
clean, we use both vertical and hori-
zontal knives twice. The horizontai
first lengthwise, then the perpendicu-
lar crosswise and lengthwise, and
finish with the horizontal lengthwise;
then commence stirring with the
hands for ten minutes, rub off any
curd which adheres to the side of the
vat, and add steam, gently at first,
and increasing as the heating goes
on. We use a_ handrake after it
reaches 92 deg. We generally heat
to 102 deg. (although 98 deg. is quite
high enough in some localities), and
occupy from 45 to 50 minutes in heat-
ing. We always aim at keeping the
curd in the vat from two and a half
to three hours from the time we start
cooking. After the steam is turned
off we stir for ten minutes and let
settle, then at intervals of ten or
fifteen minutes, until ready to dip
(this we ascertain by the hot-iron

‘test, which is done by heating an

iron rod or piece of steam-pipe, tak-
ing a handful of curd, press the whey
out of it, and if when applied to the
iron it will draw out fine quarter inch,
it is ready to dip); we then draw off
the whey, dip into a curd sink, stir
four times, pile up and cover. After
it becomes matted, which takes about
fifteen minutes, we cut into pieces
six inches wide and turn over, leav-
ing an inch or two between the pieces;
in fifteen minutes we pile two deep,
and keep turning every fifteen min-
utes until ready for milling. This we
ascertain by the curd becoming mel-
low and flaky, and when a piece is
pressed in the hand. it shows some
butter. After milling we stir twice
and cover up to keep curd warm, af-
terwards stirring once every twenty
minutes until ready to salt, which we
know by the soft, silky feel and but-
tery appearance of the curd. We
then leave it uncovered for ten min-
utes and salt, using 2% pounds of
best dry salt to each 100 pounds of
curd. In twenty minutes turn’ the
curd over and put to press at a tem-
perature between 78 and 82 deg.; af-
ter pressing gradually for thirty min-

 

utes we bandage, using hot water on
press cloths to face the cheese and
give them a good rind. The cheese
are taken from the hoops the follow-
ing day about three o’clock, and put |
in the curing room; turned over once
a day in warm weather and vm
second day in cool weather. Our |
ing room is an ordinary two-story
frame building, lath and_ plastered |
ceiling ten feet from floor, and venti- |
lated by openings through floor and |
roof. As our cheése are handled |
mostly by one firm and ’moved out |
every ten days or so, we use no arti-
ficial means of controlling the tem-
perature, which is generally maintain-
ed between 58 and 65 deg.
Connolly Bros.
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Cheesemaker’s Relation to His Em-
ployer and Patrons.

First, he must be neat and clean
about his work and person; he should
be couteous to his patrons and gain
their respect; a maker has to use all
kinds of tact at times to get on with
the different people in the neighbor-
hood. Hold your temper when a
patron makes objections to the way
the milk is tested, when he asserts
very positively that he knows the
milk from his herd is much richer
than from some other; invite him to
your factory on the day you test
and explain to him how you take a
sample and read the test carefully,
and explain all the different parts of
your work, and in most cases when
you have to deal with an educated,
sensible person you will have no
further trouble. When you are in
the weigh room use good judgment
and caution in taking in milk; be
careful to use everyone alike. Ifyou
have to reject milk explain to the
patron the reason and instruct him
how to care for the milk, not alone
when it comes to the factory, but
from the time it is taken from the
cow. Suggest that the cows’ have
clean stalls, good bedding; that the
milker have clean hands, clean milk-
ing utensils; that the milk be placed
in clean pure water away from the
barn and all foul smells. Many peo-
ple need no such instruction, but the
majority do, and the cheesemaker is
the proper person to do the instruct-
ing. To do this properly at all times
you should read several good dairy
papers and keep posted in all the im-
provements in his line of work. La-
bor to improve your cheese; have
them uniform in size and they will
command a higher price in the mar-
ket. Do not think, “Oh, I am all
right; my cheese is good enough, all
I get out of it is my salary;” try all
the time to improve and make cheese
that will top the market. It is every
cheesemaker’s business, or at least
ought to be his business, and duty
owed to the employer and patron to
see that good work is done. If possi-
ble, always have good tools to work
with and keep them in working or-
der. If we all live up to these sug-
gestions we will never be hunting
new positions, but the places will be
after us. J. T. McCarthy.

—— +2 >—_—_

Don’t advertise, just sit still and

wait—and watch the people stream-

Fresh Eggs Wanted

| Will pay highest price f. o. b. your station, cases returned.
Wire, write or ohana

S. ORWANT & SON, aranp rapips, MICH.

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

 

GREEN GOODS ate 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

We Need More

You haven’t tried our new proposition to Egg
Shippers, have you? Why not?

Money in it

Wire at our expense for stencil.

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

Reference—Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

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

Distributor in this territory for Hammell Cracker Co., Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

 

ing into the other fellow’s store.

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

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

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

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.

Butter Wanted

I want it—just as it runs—-for which I will pay the high-

 

       
       

 

est market price at your station. Prompt returns.

William HAindre, Grand Ledge, michigan

 

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Some. Things a Meat Dealer Should
Not Do.

Many salesmen give away the prof-
its of their employer and have the
trouble of handling the goods and
serving the patrons without recom-
pense. It is much better to weigh
out potatoes in three and three-quar-
ters, seven and one-half, and fifteen
pound bags and have them ready for
the trade when the rush comes. Pack-
ages of all kinds of goods which are?
not perishable and which admit of
such a course should be put up in this |
manner, as this method enables a
clerk to serve his customer more yap-
idly.

Don’t give away any “cut meat,” |
young man, for that is the proprie-
tor’s business. Don’t give fifteen!
ounces for a pound, as the proprietor |
will think no more of you, and you
will lose your self-respect by do-
ing it. Don’t tell a patron who asks
if you have a nice tender roast of |
beef that you have, but tell him ina
joking way that you have it to roast,
and that it will be tender if properly
cooked. Don’t take it too seriously |
at heart when a purchaser tells you |
that the corned beef bought of you
at nine o'clock in the morning and
boiled hard until noon was tough, for
if it had been put in the kettle an
hour earlier and simmered instead of
boiled, it would have been tender |
and toothsome. Never sell old |
ewe leg of mutton for-a young leg |
of lamb. Never send to a customer |
whose patronage you wish to retain
a steak cut from a Chicago butt when
he orders a Boston cut rump, for he
will detect the trick and go elsewhere |
to trade.

an

Whenever a person leaves an order |
for meats for you to select, be sure
that you deliver to them better goods
than they are capable of choosing
themselves; for by so doing you will |
gain their confidence and permanent
patronage.

Never cut up an old hen and a pul-
let to fill one order. If you do there
will be trouble in’ cooking them.
Never split a bamtam hen for a broil-
er or sell a fowl for a chicken. Keep
your word good concerning the tur-
key, and if it is properly cooked, sat-
isfaction is assured.

Always see that a goose has yellow
bills and that the feet are yellow and
supple; that the skin is easily broken,
the breast plump, and the fat white.
A duck should feel tender under the
wings and the web of the feet should
be thin and transparent.

Never call ten and one-half pounds
of meat ten to please a patron to se-
sure or retain his trade, as by so do-
ing you give away a large share of the
profits, and trade without profits is
not worth having.

If your employer advertises smok-
ed shoulders at cost as a leader to in-
fluence trade, and the patrons arein
a hurry to secure the good bargain,
do not take advantage of this fact by

 

MICHIGAN

| throwing the shoulder into the scales
|'—as is often done by unprincipled |
| dealers—and saying seven and one-
‘half pounds at seven and one-half

cents will be sixty-eight cents, but I
will call it sixty-fixe to you, as you
will sooner or later be caught in the
trick and be exposed as a fraud.
Many patrons when making a pur-
chase at a market will ask the dealer

if the meat will be tender, and he will |

usually answer, “Most certainly it
will.” Now, how does he know that
the meat will be tender? If he is a
good judge of meat he will know a
choice of beef or lamb from a poor

piece; but he can not know whether |

it will be cooked properly or spoiled
in cooking; consequently his answer
should be, “Yes, it most certainly will
if properly cooked.” When a cus-
tomer tells you that a turkey was so
dry and hard that it was unfit for

| food, say to him that “if such was the

case it must have been due to exces-

sive heat and rapid roasting or neg- |

lect in properly basting the bird while
in the oven.”
If you sell a piece of meat of any

TRADESMAN
| offered for sale by many who are not |
|'aware of the diseased condition it is|
in, and it should not be sold unless it |
| has a bright red color, is firm and free |
from all light, dark, and grubby spots. |
I once lost a customer’s patronage |
for liver by telling the truth. In con-}
versation he said most of the liver |
after being cooked was so dry and |

tough it could not be eaten with a|
relish, and knowing the fault was in
the cooking of the same, I explained
the proper method to pursue and have |
it tender, and said that I had not!

 

 

PILES CURED

DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON
Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe Street Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS

1903 Winton 20 H. P. touring [car, 1903 Waterless

| Knox, 1902 Winton phaeton, two Oldsmobiles, sec-

ond hand electric runabout, 1903 U.S. Long Dis-

| tance with top, refinished White steam carriage

with top, Toledo steam carriage, four passenger,
dos-a-dos, two steam runabouts, allin good run-
ning order. Prices from $200 up.

| ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids

 

 

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 thgy 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

 

 

 

We are distributors for all kinds of FRUIT PACKAGES in large or
small quantities.

Also Receivers and Shippers of Fruits and Vegetables.

JOHN G. DOAN, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Bell Main 2270

kind which you know will be tender |

that it 1s

long enough after the animal

slaughtered to admit of the softening |

of the tissues by a slight commence-
ment of decomposition, or that the
meat was rendered tough and taste-

iect which every marketman should
understand, in order that he may be
able to explain to his patrons why
choice and high priced cuts of meats
are often unsatisfactory. A market-
man who is able to do this will often
retain the patronage of a good cus-

tomer which he would otherwise lose. |

One of the most essential elements

| of success in the meat business is the

faculty of disposing of the cheaper
pieces and the odds and ends to a
good advantage. Most salesmen
strive to sell the better cuts of meat
rather than work off the poorer ones,
in order to make larger sales, all of
which very wrong. The choice
cuts will sell themselves. The poor-
er pieces should be disposed of as
rapidly and at as good a price as
possible. The author has found by
experience that a clerk who could
sell a soup bone to a customer who
is in doubt what he wants is more
valuable to his employer than one
who sold a fifteen-pound sirloin or
other choice cuts, especially through
the summer months.

is

A salesman should understand the
different qualities of meats and know
the prices at which they are selling,
so that if a customer says that others
are selling as good meats as he for
less money, he may be able to con-
vince the bargain hunter to the con-
trary. Jt is a difficult matter to suit
every person with whom you come in
contact in the meat business, as many
do not know the difference in the
qualities, although all know the differ-
ence in prices.

The liver, which* is the waste mat-
ter receptacle of the whole body, is

9

because of two reasons, |
namely, the meat has not been kept |
was |

Citizens 1881

——We Carry——

and palatable, and the purchaser de- |
clares that it is tough, you may know |

FULL LINE CLOVER, TIMOTHY
AND ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS
Orders filled promptly

| MOSELEY BROS. ecranp rapips, mIcH.

i : | Office and Warehouse znd Avenue and Hilton Street,
less by poor cooking. The composi- |

| tion and cooking of meats is a sub- |}

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

 

For Hay and Straw

 

 

Write, wire

(@ All grades at the right price.
supply you.

or telephone.

Smith Young & Co.

Lansing, Mich.

We will be pleased to

 

 

or oftener, mailed for the asking.

SEEDS

We handle full line Farm, Garden and Flower Seeds.
sale price list for dealers only. Regular quotations, issued weekly

Ask for whole-

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CoO.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

 

 

FLOUR.

the kind you should sell.
manufactured by the

 

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-
perienced millers, that

 

 

 

 

Printing for Produce Dealers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

eaten the strainer of any animal for

a long time. The customer continued

to trade with me, but I never sold |

him any more liver, even for the cats,
although the cats ate canned corn |
thereafter; they, too, had no loss from |
my remarks, as the corn netted meas

much as the liver. You will quite

gard to prices of meats, they claiming
this dealer and that one sells the same
cut of meat for one and two cents
less, and if you are not posted you
have to swallow the poison whether
you like it or not, and trade with them
if you can, although there is hardly
a question that the purchaser of
meats can put to a posted salesman
about the different prices of meats in
his locality but what can be answer-
ed to the interest of an honest, relia-
ble dealer in meats if he will but
study and learn a few points about
the refuse, cooking, shrinkage, etc.,
of meats. To illustrate the above
point: How could a dealer sell to a
customer a nice piece of fancy brisket
(middle cut) to compete with a deal-
er who purchases briskets that you
could pile a dozen of them on a boy’s
shoulder, which he could carry with
ease from the middle of the street to
the rear of the store? Or how sell
a good flavored porterhouse steak
to compete with one that is sold in
some markets for fifteen cents per
pound, and if which carcass of beef
that it came out of was shipped from
Chicago, IIl., to Chelsea, Mass., the
bones would cost the consumer near-
ly as much as the muscle of the
meat, and if the consumer who thinks
it is economy to purchase that class
of meats would take one pound of
said, extract the juices from it, place
what is left in an oven for one hour
at a temperature of about 180 deg.
Fahrenheit, weigh the contents, he
would soon be convinced that the
amount of nutriment he paid fifteen
cents per pound for he could have
got for eight cents per pound from
a cut of the neck of prime beef. And
if the bargain hunters would pay more
attention to the point in question
they would have less car fare, cob-
blers’ and doctors’ bills, less growling
because the corned beef had shrunk
from eight to three and_ one-half
pounds in cooking, less hunting for
the pound of pork that was put into
the beans, less wondering how one
person could not be satisfied with the
pound of milky bacon he had eaten,
and less discontent generally. Young
man, my advice is, to lose no sleep
over the complaints of people that
you have tried to please by selling
them good, nourishing food, if they
leave you on account of prices, for
many of them are like the robins in
the spring time. It is useless for a
first-class dealer to cater to or satisfy
such a trade as the above, as there
is no profit in it. Sensible buyers
who desire a good, toothsome piece
of meat will pay no attention to the
advertisement of cheap butchers, but
will purchase their provisions of re-
liable dealers and pay a fair price for
them.

There are many who start in the]

meat business with a good trade, and
in a short time the trade has gone,

| and to account for the loss they can
not, although they are confident that
they have kept good, bright, fresh
| meats, and sold them as low as they
could; and to solve this loss of trade
' the mind is made up that business is
| dull, and every one is in the same
| Set: but such is not the case very

 

2a : : ain for it is an easy matter to keep |
often have a tilt with some one in re- |

the public coming after your meats if
you learn just a few points. For in-
stance, if you had a nice looking
basket of peaches placed on the meat
bench beside a fine, bright sirloin of
beef, and a customer asked you if
those fine looking peaches were ripe,
and you told her “yes,” and when she
got home with them she found them
so hard they had to be kept for a
week before being served, do you sup-
pose that customer would take any
stock in what you said after that?
And because the sirloin looked so
nice and bright, a slice of that was
purchased, and that, too, was not
ripe and required a week more of
age to make it toothsome, how can
it be expected that customers will
keep coming? Never cut a piece of
meat for steaks, or as a piece to be
cooked by radiant heat, without it is
ripe. Don’t sell salt junk for a few
davs of corning; don’t cut a clod
steak for a rump or round; don’t sell
a stag chop for a lamb chop; don’t
cut a fresh chilled piece of beef until
it is thoroughly thawed out, for it is
in the rigor mortis state (tough);
don’t sell the mother of all chicks
unless you can explain how it should
be cooked; don’t cut and sell your
trimmings for good Hamburger steak,
but tell the truth, and your trade will
multiply; don’t give the little master
or miss an apple for a bait, but make
the order if possible more tempting
than if the mother came; don’t sell

a bull fancy for a prime steer; don’t
give fifteen ounces for one pound,
and don’t throw away the points

given here until you have some bet-

ter ones.—Edson L. Grant in “Thir-

ty Years a Marketman.”
—_+-+

Raising Dishrags from the Soil.

In California the housewife is not
compelled to use her old towels for
dishrags. She simply goes to the
grocer’s and buys as many as she
needs—purely vegetable dishrags they
are, but admirably suited for her pur-
poses.
sary articles is being exploited by a
number of Southern California hor-
ticulturists, who received the inspira-
tion for the scheme from Charles
Richardson, whose gardens in Pasa-
dena are becoming famous for their
remarkable productions. Mr. Richard-
son has successfully raised many
growths new to American soil, and
this year is exceeding all his previ-
ous triumphs by raising thousands of
dishrags.

Last year Mr. Richardson’s string
beans, which measured forty-three
inches in length, created a stir, but
dishrag vines, which, with their pen-
dant dishrags, twine about orange
trees, palms, evergreens and _ peach
trees, and peek in at the top story
windows, bid fair to win the cham-
pionship from the beans.

These’ dishrags, or

 

vegetable

The graceful, well foliaged Destroysdisease germsand vermin. Never

: | rubs or scales. Youcan apply it—mix with
jare not only ornamental, but they cold water. Beautiful effects in white and
A : ne elicate tints. ota disease-breeding, out-

bear in profusion a fibrous sponge | of-date hot-water glue manana _

   

|
sponges, as they are sometimes call-
ed, are indigenous to Africa, but now
that it has been demonstrated they |
will thrive in this country they are
bound to become a popular produc- |
tion.

 

Given Given Away
us or es aD

$ Alabastine dealer for

particulars and free sample card of

Aiadvasitine

The Sanitary Wall Coating

    
   
  
 
 
    
 

vines |

Alabastine in 5 Ib. kages, 1
belled, of ve hardware nae ‘fue dealers,
i ALABASTINE CO. Grand Rapids, Mich,
ideas free, an Ci
or 105 Water St., N. ¥

that is eminently useful for bathing, |
as well as for scouring pans and |
kettles. Imagine picking dishrags in|
one’s garden just as one would pick |

 

blackberries or imagine having vines
all laden with dishrags clambering
over one’s kitchen windows, so that
all one needs to do is to stretch out
an arm and pull one in. Such an
arrangement would be much
than going to the ragbag or buying
dishrags at stores.

Agents for Northwest-
ern Michigan for yt

John W. Masury
& Son’s

easier

These curious vegetables assume
the form and appearance of cucum

bers, and hang on the vines until |
their green coats become brown)
and dry like parchment. At this | Paints, Varnishes
stage they are ready to harvest. Af-|
‘ , n
ter they are picked the brown coat | and Colors
is removed and an extremely strong | and

and compact fibrous sponge is reveal- |

ed. Through the center of this| - Jobbers of Painters

sponge, in three lengthwise compart- Supplies
ments, are many black seeds which | We solicit your orders, Prompt
shake out easily. In the Pasadena | shipments

garden these sponges have averaged |

eight inches in length. | Harve y &

IT Seymour Co.

write Tradesman ad-|}
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We Are a

 

 

PREPARED MUSTARD WITH HORSERADISH

Just What the People Want.
Good Profit; Quick Sales,
THOS. S. BEAUDOIN, Manufacturer
518-24 18th St,, Detroit, Mich.

Write for prices

 

 

 

The raising of these neces- [>

 

 

Bread Winners

Who are solicitous of their health and thoughtful of their future
pecuniary interests are urged to try

Voigt’s “-...
Crescent

“The Flour Everybody Likes’’

They are assured of receiving a just and fair equivalent for
their labors. No other flour offers so much in return for the
money expended. Pure and wholesome, a great muscle builder;
it gives to the human system a buoyancy of spirit and power of
endurance not to be acquired through any other source. With us

Every Dollar Counts

for its full value, no matter who spends it.

Voigt Milling Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Ps. eee
DRS

- woolens and balbriggans as

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Status of the Underwear and Hosiery
Markets.

The first half of fall business has
been placed, and the volume of trade
secured by the mills and jobbers ex-
ceeds that of last year up to this
time. There are some small retailers
who are still procrastinating, believ-
ing that their jobbers will be well
prepared to take care of them when
they want the goods. They do not
know, however, that the jobbers and
mills are contending with difficulties
not hitherto encountered. To the re-
tailer who does a business in fleeces
it is important that no further delay
be. permitted in getting orders book-
ed. Jobbers are paying higher prices
on duplicates and the retailer will
in turn have to pay more for his
goods, and, by tardy buying, may,
in all probability, have to be satisfied
with very inferior qualities.

During the several winters past
Eastern retailers have not done much
business in heavy fleeces. The con-
sumptive demand has steadily fallen
off, consumers buying mediumweight
more
comfortable weights for the climate.
Notwithstanding that the past winter
was remarkable for the severity of
its weather and continued cold, the
demand for fleeces did not show suffi-
cient improvement to warrant retail-
ers making any changes in their pur-
chases of underwear for next winter.
The sale of fleeces is confined, for
the most part, to the department
stores, where the workingmen’s trade
is catered to.

The mills are just now figuring on
their new price schedules for the
spring of 1905. What they will be
no one is prepared to say at this
time.

Thus far the retailers have had
the right sort of weather in May
to enliven business in lightweight
underwear. Had it been cooler the
month would have been lost to them.

In the underwear business the year
is divided into two seasons, summer
and winter, and men have formed
the habit of making but two changes
in the weights and character of their
underclothing, selecting heavy or
medium weights in balbriggan and
wool, and in cotton and wool mix-
tures for winter wear, which are not
laid off until the heat of the summer’s
sun renders their longer wear a dis-
comfort. From heavyweights they
go to gauze and nainsook, and while
it is, therefore, a comparatively easy
matter for the retailer to regulate his
stock accordingly, more _ business
would be possible if intermediate
weights were adopted in the spring
and autumn and result in. the turn-
over of a greater quantity of stock.

In reality retailers are ordering
less heavyweights from year to year,
as they find the demand for medium-
weight underwear for winter increas-
ing, men supplying the deficiency by
putting on heavy outer clothing and

 

great coats when the weather de-
mands it, as the outer clothing can
be changed and regulated to suit cli-
matic conditions much better than
the underwear, and with less risk
of catching colds.

The athletic styles in underwear,
consisting of sleeveless shirts and
knee drawers, are going into  con-
sumption- more and more each sea-
son. The demand in some localities
has become so much of a specialty
that the retailers are catering to it
with knee lengths in all kinds of
goods, including mesh, sanitary gauze,
wools and balbriggans.

Retail hosiery sales are excellent
throughout the country. This fact
is reflected in the continuous supple-
mentary orders received by whole-
salers. Some report that they can
not get stock in fast enough to meet
the demands of their customers. All
styles and qualities are selling, from
the rich varieties in cobwebby silk

to cheap cottons, and in every effect

and color.
black, tan and solid colors in the
season’s best shades. Everyone is
predicting a big season on tans. The
demand for them set in early inthe
month and has continued to grow.
Fall lines of hosiery have done so
well that importers and jobbers say
that retailers make urgent requests
for prompt shipments.

The new season’s styles show a
generous variety of color melanges
and random effects in Persian, mosaic
and Scotch colorings, worked in indis-
tinct plaids, broken plaids and overlaid
plaids on color plaid grounds. The
colorings are of a subdued kind, with
obtrusively bright effects in vertical,
unit, instep, boot and clock embreid-
erings.— Apparel Gazette.

—_2++___
Luxurious Garments for Home Com-
fort.

There is an increasing demand for
lounging robes, bath robes and _ pa-
jamas, which accounts for their be-
ing so much in evidence in not only
the best shops, but at the popular
furnishers’. At the fashionable places
garments of the richest imported
silks are shown at prices so high
as to often lead to the enquiry of
the shopkeeper as to whether they
are intended only for exhibition or if
people really buy them. Frequently
the reply is that not only men of
fashion, but women as well, are the
purchasers. JIn fact, the shopkeeper
takes special pains to impress upon
the enquirer that “quite a number of
men’s lounging and bath robes, as
well as pajamas, are bought by wom-
en for their own use.”

—__27.__
Pajamas.

It may be news to man, but woman
has adopted pajamas in earnest.

And why shouldn’t she? This gar-
ment is not so graceful nor so be-
coming as the night dress, but it is
far more comfortable, with one excep-
tion—in winter there are no comfor-
table folds in which to tuck the feet.

The most modish pajamas for sum-
mer wear are made of very fine hand-
kerchief linen. The coat, trousers,
military collar and cuffs are finished
with hand hemstitching, and there is
no other embellishment except a fine-

The leaders, however, are |

| year or two ago.

|

ly wrought monogram or crest on |
sleeve or over the heart.
Other expensive pajamas are made |
of wash silk and are trimmed with |
stitched bands in dainty colors.
30th styles are quite out of reach |
for the woman with a small allow- |
ance, but for her there are night- |
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The trouble that young Robert |

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i driving his automobile, because he |

did not have $25 in his pocket with |
which to pay a fine for exceeding |
the speed-limit, recalls the experience |
of Senator Chauncey M. Depew a'|

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He went over to-|

New York from Washington, and
when he stepped off the ferry he dis-
covered that he had not a cent in
his pocket. He walked all of five or
six blocks without meeting anybody
he knew. At last he came to the of-
fice of J. Pierpont Morgan and enter-
ed. A few minutes later he emerged
and met an intimate friend on the
sidewalk.

“ve just been in to touch my
friend Morgan for a nickel to pay
my car-fare uptown,” he explained.

“Did you get it?” his friend asked.

“O, yes. He said he’d lend me half
a dollar if I wanted it. But I didn’t
like to inconvenience him, so I just
took the nickel.”

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Fads and Fashions Noted in New
York.

That the high-grade read-to-wear
shirt is a comfortably fitting and
thoroughly well made garment to-
day no one who thoroughly under-
stands the shirt question will dispute.
Yet many men pay $4.50 apiece for
made-to-measure shirts, probably un-
aware of the excellence of the $3.50
ready-made garment.

I recently had the pleasure’ of
closely inspecting a line of fine fac-
tory-made shirts and was agreeably
surprised at the unusual amount of
hand work upon them, unusual be-
cause even in some of the best makes
of custom shirts there is little hand
sewing outside of the  buttonholes.
3ut the garments I referred to were
hemmed by hand, the buttonholes
were handmade—in fact, all of the
sewing was hand work excepting
about the yoke, pleated bosom and
sleeves. This much simply by way
of illustrating the point that really
good and careful work is put into the
shirt that is ready to put on.

There are undoubtedly many men
of means who to-day prefer the well-
made factory shirt to the custom
cut, because they get a better fit. 1
was in conversation with a down-
town furnisher a few days ago when
a gentleman, whom I recognized as
a prominent Wall Street financier
and an important personage in na-
tional politics, entered the store, ac-
companied by his Secretary. He said
he was going to Washington that
night, but wanted to leave an order
for shirts of a widely advertised
brand, and would make his seléctions
of patterns from the furnisher’s pat-
tern book and the shirts could be
delivered to his Secretary. He told
the furnisher that he had at one time
had his shirts made by Charvet in
Paris, and later by Budd, but -neither
had ever given him as comfortably
fitting a garment as he had afterward
obtained in the brand he ordered,
which is a $3.50 shirt.

This was certainly one of the high-
est compliments I had ever heard
paid to the ready-made shirt. Yet
more and more furnishers are estab-
lishing custom shirt departments as
a feature of their business, not how-
ever, because they guarantee any bet-
ter fitting shirt than can be bought
ready made, but because, as_ they
say, there is a better choice of exclu-
sive patterns to be had from piece
goods than can be found in the made-
up articles.

According to good authorities, who
make a study of things sartorial, blue
serge suits, tan shoes and yacht shape
straw hats with narrow brims will
be the summer vogue. For the pres-
ent gray suits of various mixtures,
ranging from the staple pepper and
salt to the gun metals, are in the
ascendant. The taking up of the
grays so largely at this time will un-
doubtedly give greater prominence
to blues later, and what better. com-
bination for business wear could be
suggested for a change than the blue
and the gray?

The loosely shaped jacket of Eng-
lish model, fitting only at the neck
and shoulders, these being the two

 

 

principal points of contact, and fall-
ing loose from the shoulders and
somewhat longer than the styles of
last year, is steadily gaining in favor
among good dressers. This garment,
with its wider collar and long  la-
pels, is in much better taste than the
military styles. Even the young fel-
lows who imitated the West Point-
ers in Hercules shoulder, wasplike
waist and flaring, flat-pressed skirts
have welcomed the change in coat
fashions. Although the English
shape is a conservative model, young
men look upon it as about “the swell-
est ever.”

The double-breasted jacket, which
gained more recognition last. summer
than it enjoyed before, is Fifth Ave-
nue’s choice as smart business dress.
Whether there is anything in the
claim or not, the double-breasted
coat is considered better form than
the single-breasted, and so long as
men think it at all distinctive the
clothier is going to cater to. their
whims, although it is a much more
dificult jacket to tailor than the
lounge.

The morning coat has been so
well received this season that it is
now assured a permanent place in
men’s vogue. Its shape will undoubt-
edly be modified in some details from
season to season, but as a garment
suitable for business wear and infor-
mal day functions it is practical. The
“sporty” inclined like it in gray black,
braided throughout. In the natty
mixed fabrics of the season it be-
comes a dressy garment for day
wear, and in black, worn with a wash
vest and gray striped trousers, com-
prises approved half-dress.

The monogram habit is spreading,
and where it will terminate no one
has the temerity to predict. The fad-
dists have gone to all sorts of ex-
tremes, and embroidered monograms
are common on underwear, hosiery,
shirts, neckwear and handkerchiefs.

A glover recently added another
item of haberdashery to the list when
he induced some of his swell patrons
to have a pyrographic artist burn
their initials upon the backs of
their gloves. The monogram burnt
in the oak shades in cape goods pre-
sents a striking effect, and although
it is yet confined to made-to-order
pairs, there is no doubt that the fad
will spread to the smart shops and
prove a profitable business. Furnish-
ers who cater to special pair trade
will undoubtedly see an opportunity
in the burnt monogram for presents,
and since the monogram feature has
become a specialty with some shops
the art of pyrography might be ad-
vantageously introduced to burn ini-

tials on belts, shoes and “cinch”
bands.—Apparel Gazette.
—_»-->—____
Special Sales.
The value of the special sale is

known to every live merchant. The
old time merchant does not believe
in them. He thinks they cheapen his
store’s reputation and are undigni-
fied. So he goes along year after
year accumulating great quantities
of out-of-date goods, that day by day
grow less and less in value. In
time he finds a large per cent. of his

 

 

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stock is back number _ stuff. His |
volume of trade grows steadily less |
because times have changed. He |
should gather himself together and |
look around him. Then he will see |
that this is the day and age of the |
special sale.- The big department |
stores of the great cities could not |
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And the time is here when the coun- |
- |
either. He|

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are the real article. You can not |
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when you hold your special sale let |
everybody in town know that there |
is “something doing” at your place
in the matter of prices.
stuff into spot cash when you get a!
chance. Then buy new,
day goods. These
hunters who got stuff cheap at your |
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come
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pays you a good profit.
—_+~-.___
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to-day will wake up and find himself |

in the “has been” class to-morrow. |

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1

PLAINT OF THE POETS.

 

A Degenerate Public No
Reads Their Verse.

The world has fallen upon
times. Commercialism is rampant. |
Material interests control men; ma- |
terial standards are worshiped; mate-
rial ends are sought. Genuine cul-
ture is going by the board. The na-
tions of the earth are treading the
downward path which leads to mut-

Longer

evil |

tons and to prose. Newspaper prose
at the breakfast, table, the prose of

figures in the world’s workshop, the

prose of fiction in the railway car-

riage and upon the steamboat, prose
from the pulpit, prose from the lec-
ture platform, prose everywhere, is
the mental pabulum upon which the
degenerate masses now The
higher forms of poetry are no longer
High poetical thought
has no auditors. The true poet may
as well fold his wings, for there are
none left to admire his pretty flights
Such, in brief, is

feed.

appreciated.

through the ether.
the plaint of two notable poets, Al-
fred Austin, poet laureate of England,
and William Watson,
ported in their wail by
Saintsbury of Edinburgh University
bards. It

who are sup-
Professor
and a chorus of minor
would appear to be a bad day for
the craft of versifiers. Mr. Austin,
treating his grievance with dignity,
as becomes a rhymester of his high
degree, says that men and women of
to-day turn from _ reflective
poems unless they be of the
modest dimensions. Our fathers and
mothers used to learn long passages
of poetry by heart, whereas their
children look coldly at each verse.
Shakespeare himself is merely toler-
ated. The readers of to-day prefer
tidbits of poetry, because another
form of romantic literature is more
congenial to the age. The novel
and the prose romance have ousted
poems.

Mr. Watson deals in more dignified
abstractions, so that one can not read
between the lines of his complaint
the bitterness of personal experience.
Iie inveighs in general against the
spirit of profound insensibility and
indifference to literature, giving even
the novelists a chance for their lives.
The minor poets are making the most
grievous outcry, although by force of
circumstance their plaints can not
reach so large a circle of auditors. It
has long been known that verse is a
drug in the market. It is no longer
profitable to wear long hair and apos-
trophize the stars and the planets.
Mr. Austin himself wears his hair
cropped short.

But is it the taste for poetry or
the poetry itself which is declining?
The booksellers tell us that never was
the demand for new and tasteful ed-
itions of the classics more active.
The poets who wrote for all time and
all people, whether their messages to
mankind be garbed in Oriental imag-
ery or in the English of Chaucer,
are translated into modern tongues
and phraseology and handed down
from generation to generation of
readers. Perhaps the trouble with
the poets is that they “hitch their
wagons to the stars” without seeing
that their wheels are kept upon this

away
most

| old earth.

| an unfeeling one.

 

This is an emienely prac-
tical and clear-headed age, but it is
far from being an unsentimental or
Education is pret-
ty general, and the educated man and
woman have found out that the best
thought and the highest thought is
the one that goes home to the brain
by the most direct route. The an-
cient delusion that to be poetical it
vague has been
Verse that is

is necessary to be
sent into banishment.

| the vehicle of high thought, and of

truth and sweetness, that brings a
lofty or a tender message to human
comprehension, is prized to-day as
dearly as ever before in the history
of literature. How many such mes-

sages are we receiving from how
many of our poets? Base coinage

there is to-day current in the realm
Yet may it not be that the
people who read Kipling’s rougher
verse, and James Whitcomb Riley
and his literary kin, might not have
read at all had this class of poetical

of verse.

composition been barred publication,

and, having read, be so much the

richer?

Coming back to the “higher forms |

of poetical thought,” whose non-ap-
preciation forms the burden of Mr.
Austin’s grievance, it becomes prop-
er to ask, Who among the listed poets
of the period is giving the reading
public these higher forms? Remem-
ber, first, it is everywhere acknowl-
edged that these same higher forms
of poetry depend not upon rhyme or
meter, upon no exterior form or rule

 

of expression, but upon their own in- |

trinsic beauty and meaning.
consider that the higher poetical
thought of to-day has merely found
a new vehicle of expression. It oc-
curs throughout that very prose and
prose fiction which the professional

Then,

poet looks upon as his worst enemy. |

Shaking itself free from

the tram- |

mels of rhyme and measure, it has |

found its way to an appreciative pub- |

lic in the Wayside wanderings of nat-
uralists, the profound reasoning of
philosophers and economists, the del-
icate fancies and sympathetic divina-
tion of novelists, the short stories in
our magazines. Volume after volume
of poetry of the highest order might
be culled from nominally prose books,
published every month. There are
many books which are poems in
themselves, yet make no pretensions
to being more than simple narrative
Occasionally, as in “Lorna Doone,”
sweetest story in the English lan-
guage, the exquisite descriptions of
nature sing themselves into perfect
measure, and their inner harmony of
sound, that mysterious quality which
we call “euphony,” is more musical
than any regularity of rhyme. In-
deed, rhyme is comparatively a mod-
ern invention and a very mechanical
matter in itself. The ancient He-
brews, most marvelous poets litera-
ture has ever known, whose lofty
imagery is preserved through all the
tribulations of English translation,
disdained its use.

The conclusion is plain. If the

poets, great and small, who have a
genuine mission to mankind, fail to
find a hearing through their accus-
tomed avenues, let

them descend

from the clouds, blanket Pegasus and
shut him in his stall, and, with mod-
est tread, themselves go out into the
streets of prose and speak the word
which will be heard.

Frank Stowell.

Getting Hot.

You can size up a man by the way
he talks back. It is the crooked man
who gets hot under the collar when
you question his actions. A man
has a poor case when his answer to
an interrogation or accusation is a
torrent of abuse or an avalanche of
villification. Put a scoundrel in the
witness box and he will
stuff he is made of by the way he an-
swers his cross-questioner. The us-
ual reply of the man who is in the
wrong is his attempt to show that
every body else is a shyster. In any
case you can tell what is in a man’s

show the

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The man who is right does
much less a_ foul

mouth.
not need anger,
mouth to establish his righteousness.
This disposition to jump on_ those
who enquire into our actions or mo-
tives usually comes from the knowl-
edge that those actions or motives
will not stand the light of inspection.
The upright not only court investi-
gation, but are dignified even when
that investigation is inspired by sin-
ister motives. The heart of the
righteous studieth to answer, but the
mouth of the poureth out
evil things——Canadian
Leather Journal.

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The Merchant’s Friend—the Travel-
ing Man.

Some other people who are notas
well known by the merchants as they
should be are the traveling salesmen.
When these people come into your
store they usually come with a rush,
a smile, and a big grip of samples.
They hustle and bustle and tell funny
stories while taking your orders.
They offer you cigars to smoke and
invite you to the hotel to eat dinner
with them. They get your order and
then they hurry away on the next
train to some other town to. go
through the same performance with
other merchants. After they have
gone you remember them as pleas-
ant fellows, although you know prac-
tically nothing about them and you
can not truthfully say that you real-
ly know them. They have been to
your store, you have bought goods
of them, and when the matter is
over all you can say is that you have
“met” them, the same as you could
say of any other stranger who had
been casually introduced to you.

Aside from his laugh and his joke
and his free dinner there is very
much to a traveling salesman that is
not known or appreciated. He is a
man to whom are denied many of the
things that you and I enjoy. Very
often he has a wife and family from
whom he is compelled to be separat-
ed against his desires. Many times
his health is not over good. Very
often he does not know where his
next month’s pay will come from.
None of these things are told to you
by him. You may learn some of
them from other sources, but. this
jolly drummer does not tell any of
his troubles, although on the average
he has more troubles than either you
or I.

He goes over the country by day
and by night, in good weather and in
bad. He reaches a measly little coun-
try town at 3 o’clock in the morning
and is informed that there is no ho-
tel in the town and that he must
sleep on a bench in the depot. After
daylight he hustles around and finds
some charitably disposed person who
sells him a breakfast.

Then he arrays himself in his smile,
and with his gripsack makes a call
upon you. As far as you can see he
is the happiest man on earth. He
does not tell you how stiff his back
is from sleeping on the bench all
night, nor how bad a cold he took
the night before while riding eight
miles across the country in an open
buggy to catch a train and save a
day’s time. He does not tell you
who is the customer in an adjoining
town who has just beaten the firm
out of a large debt, nor about the
scorching letter the firm has written
to him because he was not a mind
reader when he sold the goods.

There are a good many things in
which you can be helpful to this
long-suffering salesman. You can
save your orders for him generally.

* You can sympathize with him in his

stiff back and bad cold. You can
ask him how his family is and can
tel! him you enjoy having him come
to town to see you. In very many
towns the traveling salesman only

 

stops a few hours. To do this he
travels when he should be sleeping,
and he goes without his meals when
you and I are eating. When he does
come to your town for a few hours,
you can make those few hours’ so
pleasant for him that he will sincere-
ly want to return on his next trip.
You can see that he has a place in
which to write his letters after he
has taken your order, and you can
tell him that the next time he is
anywhere in your part of the country
to have his letters sent in your care.
This will not make you any addi-
tional trouble, but it will make that
salesman think at least twice as
much of you as he does now.—Cleve-
land Commercial Register.
——_+-+~.___

Tobacco Trade in the Grocery Store.

Practically every grocer in the
country sells tobacco; few, however,
give the tobacco trade the care and
attention it deserves. It goes without
saying that most men are as partic-
ular over tobacco as women are over
tea, in view of which fact it pays the
grocer to give them equal care in
selection and arrangemefit. In most
small country stores a various assort-
ment of pipes, cigars and tobacco is
kept, but in) many _ instances this
branch of trade is utterly neglected.

Is your tobacco trade flourishing?
If not, take a turn around and find
out the reason. A nice show may be
made with a very small stock of use-
ful shaped pipes, cut tobacco in tins,
plug tobacco in jars, and cigars, cig-
arettes, etc. Any grocer who uses
his eyes will soon learn what styles
of pipes are most favored in his dis-
trict, and although a big stock is not
necessary, a good assortment is. In
tobacco, find out what lines will suit
your customers’ tastes, and buy spar-
ingly.

Plug tobacco should always be
kept in jars or caddies. The promis-
cuous heaps amongst which assistants
have to search before finding the re-
quired brand are not likely to help
trade. Each brand of tobacco should
have its own special receptacle, and
be plainly marked, and, especially
during summer, it will be found ad-
visable to remove all tobacco stocks
to a cool place every night. At all
events see that it is properly cover-
ed before the shop is dusted.

The cigar trade can quickly be fos-
tered by judicious buying. Find out
a good flavored cigar, and recom-
mend it to your customers. Stock
only in small quantities, but make a
point of always keeping one partic-
ular flavor. By this means you
should soon find a regular demand
for your own particular good cigar.—
Indianapolis Trade Journal.

———~+2>—_—_

Why He Was Not Promoted.

He watched the clock.

He was always grumbling.

He was always behindhand.

He had no iron in his blood.

He was willing, but unfitted.

He didn’t believe in himself.

He asked too many questions.

He was stung by a bad book.

His stock excuse was “I forgot.”

He wasn’t ready for the next step.

He did not put his heart in his
work.

He learned nothing from his blun-
ders.

He felt that he was above his po-
sition.

He chose his friends among his in- |

feriors.

'
He was content to be a second-rate

man.
He ruined his ability by half doing
things.

He never dared to act on his own |

judgment.
He did not think it worth while to
learn how.

He tried to make “bluff” take the |

place of ability.

He thought he must take amuse-
ment every evening.

Familiarity with slipshod methods
paralyzed his ideal.

He thought it was clever to use
coarse and profane language.

He was ashamed of his parents be-
cause they were old-fashioned.

He imitated the habits of men who

could stand more than he could.

He did not learn that the best part

of his salary was not in his pay en-
Success.
—_+-->—___
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‘What They Say”’
Minonk, Illinois, April 11th, 1004
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Detroit, Mich.
Gentlemen :—

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Goods.

What are the best methods of sell-
What

merchants?

ing goods? makes the most

successful Have
ever asked yourself these two ques-
tions? No matter

how clever

| none of their business.

4 | terment of the store or department
/is suggested do not reply that it is
Think twice |
Give them a kind- |

upon the subject.

'ly word, which shows that you appre-

| ciate

their individual

: = = — == ‘are for your own welfare.
Instruct Your Clerks How To Sell |

Give your clerks

efforts, which |

a little talk on |

how to treat customers, on the man- |

you |

you |

are in buying, no matter how = suc- |

cessful you are individually in_ sell-
ing, the first and
object is good timber on the floor.

most

Successful merchants are not only the
good buyers, but they are the better
sellers. Any man can buy, but it

takes a good man to sell. Good buy-

ing simply forms a small portion of |

successful shoe

buyers

the functions of a
merchant. Too often
and proprietors of shoe departments
and stores feel their own importance
and fall into the that they
know it all, and are loath to associate
themselves with any of their selling
force on the floor, that is, in a busi-

shoe

belief

ness sense.

The successful head of any depart-
ment or store is on the floor early,
watches the selling force, and finds
out their faults and failings. By

necessary |

ner of handling shoes, and on the}

and push, also the
best methods of satisfying “cranky”
Try and assist the sales-
these little details,
work together as it were, assist one
another. Remember, it requires some
knowledge of human nature to fill

styles to show

customers.
force in all of

| the position of a salesperson in the

shoe line—-Shoe_ Retailer.

2. ___
| The Value of a Properly Filled Or-

 

this method any buyer or manager |

can stop a great many leaks. In or-

der to have your selling force up to

the high water mark, it is not neces- |

sary that you should _ hire
“crack-a-jack” in the country, and put
them on the floor. Make your own
“crack-a-jacks.” It is an easy mat-
ter, it is what the most successful
merchants and managers are
every day.

every

doing

der.

Various devices enter into the con-
struction or destruction of a mail or-
der business, and the successful mail
dealer is the man who can look them
all squarely in the face and while
picking the flaws from each may al-
the kernels of value inci-
dent to his business and necessary
for its It has thus been
proven by experience that one of the
things materially affecting the suc-
cess of a mail order business is the
well filled order. It shows at once
the class and kind of a house from
which it originates, the manner in
which it is accustomed to treat its
patrons.and the business ability which
controls it. Hence it is important.
Perhaps, then, it would be well to

so retain

success.

|} look at those things which may be

| order.

The up-to-date managers do these
things, and do them continually, not |

in the spirit of disgust, but in the
spirit of friendly unity which, inspires
the. salesperson.
selling force, and get closer to the
people who are in reality the ones
that make the business a success, and
the result will be so favorable that
one will begin to wonder why he did
not do so before.

A good selling force is a blessing
to any bright, up-to-date shoe mana-
ger, and only too often the lack of
appreciation shown discourages them.
Ask the advice of your salesforce
about lines, even although you do
not act upon it. The managers and
proprietors of some of the largest
establishments in the country do
these very things, so why shouldn't
you, Mr. Shoeman?

If a salesperson tells you that they
feel that a certain shoe will sell readi-
ly, do you ask their reason, or do
you simply nod your head and walk
away? The head of a big department
store will not do that, he encourages
everyone in the establishment to
make suggestions, and gives them
consideration immediately, and even
if it fails to be found worthy, the
person receives a courteous and en-
couraging reply for his effort. If
one of the selling force tells you a
shoe is a poor fitter, ask the reason
why. If a small change for the bet-

Warm up to the|

considered qualities of a_ well-filled
Of these there are three that
are paramount, hence they deserve to
be considered separately; they are
Neatness, Promptness and Accuracy.

Every order should leave your
piace of business carefully, neatly and
smoothly wrapped or boxed. If mu-
cilage or paste is used do not allow

| it to be smeared over the entire sur-

 

face of the package. The address
should be neatly and plainly written
or typewritten in the lower right cor-
ner. The stamps may be placed in
the upper right corner and not any-
where and everywhere. At the up-
per left corner place a neatly print-
ed label showing whom package is
from. Use fresh, clean paper and
boxes always. Pack and wrap goods
in package separately and so they
will not injure one another. In large
orders enclose a bill of the goods
sent, in order that customers
know they are all there.

People residing in the country fair-
ly worship the firm that is prompt
in sending goods. If every firm
would and could adopt the rule “Or-
ders filled same day as _ received,”
there would be a great many more
country mail buyers, for that is all
they dislike—waiting for the goods.
Time goes slowly with them. It
will pay every dealer to put on extra
help, and have every order sent each
night rather than to keep two or
three days behind.

Perhaps this is the most impor-
tant of all. Study each order care-
fully that you may be sure you are
sending just the right thing. Time
and money are always lost in errors

 

 

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We are state agents for this famous line of Rubbers.
We have recently added a large warehouse to our
already commodious quarters, and are in position to
fill all orders promptly, which will be appreciated by
all dealers on account of the heavy demand for rub-
{ bers at this time of the year. Send us a trial order {

for the best rubbers made.

Waldron, Alderton & Melze

Wholesale Boots, Shoes and Rubbers
131-133-135 North Franklin St., Saginaw, Mich.

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The Past Season Has Been One of the
Very Worst on Shoes

Rain--Mud--Cold

A shoe that has gone through this season and has left
the stamp of satisfaction on the wearer’s face is the.
shoe to tie to.

THE HARD PANS HAVE DONE IT

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., Makers of Shoes
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Just at This Time

Most merchants are wanting goods to size up their
stock. We have a big stock on our floors and will be
only too glad to serve you promptly.

We

If you want any Tennis Shoes let us know.
have them.

Our leather line for fall is receiving many compli-

ments. Let our salesmen show you.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

21

 

that need not have been. It is bet- |
ter to write a customer for explana- |
tion before filling the order than to)
fill it wrong. After the goods are |
all arranged the order should be gone
over and carefully checked, to see}
that nothing has been omitted. Bet- |
ter to put in something extra than |
That. is, if |
money.
There are various other things to |
be noted in filling orders, but these
are the most important.
———_—o-2-
About Hitching Your Wagon to a
Star. '
“Hitch Your Wagon to a
but when you are sure the connection

to leave something out.

you are in business for

Star,” |

is good, don’t stop to do any star-
gazing.

“Hitch Your Wagon to a_ Star,”
but don’t expect the star to do any
mechanical stunts in the way of pull-
ing your load.

The star is a pretty object in its
It may fill the bill all right
for an inspiration, if you've got live
matter at your end of the line, but
when you come to slice it up in its
native unwarmed state for your daily
mighty |
You've simply got

place.

bread and porridge, it’s a

cold proposition.

to draw wood and light the fires
yourself.
“Hitch Your Wagon to a Star,”

and then get right down on earth
and skedaddle. The star will stay
right there, while you’re down help-
ing the wagon up the hill.

Fix your aim early. Aim as high |
as you will, for however high you}
may strike, you'll never strike high-
er than you aim—the wind doesn’t
blow from the ground up.

Aim high and stick to it! There’s
bound to be a heap’ of swapping
solid ground, and some-

 

horses on
body’s sure to get the best of every
bargain unless both get the worst-
but if you follow old Abraham Lin-
coln’s advice, you'll never swap
horses in the middle of the stream.
The time to pick and choose is when
you make up your mind to start UP.

Fix your aim and fix it high. So
long as you accommodate it to the
stretch of your own neck and the
range of your own eye, there is not
much danger of your fixing it too
high.

Then when you've got it all set-
tled—-got your aim well fixed—make
up your mind that you are at one
end of a long chain of endeavor, and
be sure that it is borne in upon you
clearly and_ sufficiently end
you_ are at. You are back of a ma-
chine where it is all push and no
pull; the moment you stop to light
will be under the

which

your pipe you
wheels.

Don’t expect to go forward by
leaps and bounds; accomplish
step at a time; conquer each detail
separately; pigeonhole it, and then
tackle resolutely the next.

If you don’t know where you're at,
where you're going, or how to get
there, “Hitch Yeur Wagon to a
Star,” and then just get down on
earth and skedaddle—Store Life.

one

— ee

The unwritten law of society con-

siders every man guilty until -he is
proved innocent.

 

 

| work, for me.
/to do what I[ tell him, let him get
/out and
| This may sound very businesslike to

neglected.

One Road To Success.
There are many men in business
who do not thoroughly appreciate
the importance, to the
their business, of friendly relations
between employers and employes.

success of

Recently a business man was heard to |

say, “I don’t want any suggestions

from my employes. I run this busi- |

' ness as I think best, and I don’t want
who

the men
If a man does not like

any ifs or ands from

work for somebody else.”

| some people, but it can not be con-
| sidered good business policy, unless

a man. knows that all his employes
are mentally incompetent and entire-
ly devoid of ability to offer sugges-
tions in the interests of the business.

It is not a hard matter to pick outa}
man who has always worked for such |

an employer and has been satisfied
to conform to the latter’s wishes with-
out comment. He grows up without
any confidence in his own ability, does
pot consider that his suggestions are
of any value, and in an emergency
can not be relied upon.

On the other hand, the youth who
has worked for an employer who en-
couraged suggestions on the part of
people whom he hires knows. that
there is no written law in business
which can be followed safely in
every case, and is prepared to use
his own judgment in all emergencies

| when it is impossible to consult with

his employer. What a great advan-

| tage a man has who can feel confi-

dence in his employes over the one
who must always feel that without
his presence his business is apt tobe
The men who have made
the greatest success in the mercantile
line are those who have encouraged
them-

ridi-

their employes to think for

selves. A clerk should not be
culed for making a mistake, but the
same should be pointed out to him
and he should be shown where he
was wrong. The better feeling which
will be generated by such a course

 

will reflect upon the success of the |

business, and it is clear that co-oper-
ation will result which would other-
wise be impossible.

Commendable suggestions
not be overlooked, and when the em-
ploye offers such he should be
brought to understand that it is ap-
preciated and not resented. Every
clerk likes to feel that his extra ef-
forts are not wasted and do not go
unappreciated, and a cordial word
now and then will be more effective
than continual fault-finding on the
of the

———_> 2.
A Reasonable Reflection.

John Farson, the Chicago banker,
who has drawn up a list of satirical
rules for entering society, holds that
there is too much dissipation among
the rich.

“A remark I heard the other day,”
he said to a reporter, “would apply
well to the average society man.

“A middle-aged couple were talk-
ing about the Russo-Japanese war
and the habits of Japan.

“How curious, the man_= said,
‘that Japanese custom is of taking off

should

part proprietor.

 

the shoes before entering the nowse’| AUTOMO B | LES

It is only curious, the woman We have the largest line in Western Mich-
retorted, ‘because it is practiced at igan and if you are thinking of buying you
2 a ‘: ue will serve your best interests by consult-

all hours instead of at night solely. ing us.

Michigan Automobile Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

—_>--—___
Beware of the silent man; he may

be a reformed prize fighter.

 

 

TENNIS

Now is the time you need
this class of goods

 

We carry a full and complete line of these
goods; so mail us your orders and get
prompt deliveries.

The Joseph Banigan Rubber Co.

Geo. S. Miller, Selling Agent
131-133 Market St , Chicago, Ill.

 

 

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SHOE. /

   

     
   
     
   
   
     
     
   
     

THE

RIGHT KIND o— SHOES

We make shoes in the right way, out of the
right kind of durable leather, that fit right, look
right and are right.

We make different kinds of shoes for all sorts
of purposes, from lumbering to social functions,
each kind adapted to the wearer’s particular
needs.

Your patron wants to buy the right sort of
shoe satisfaction. Our trademark on the sole
is a guarantee from us to him that he gets it.

RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE & CO. tro.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

  

22

Where the World Gets Its Supply
of Perfumes.

Few people realize the extent of
the perfume industry or of the im-
mense number of flowers that are
annually grown for the extract gain-
ed from them. It is estimated that
millions of pounds of rose leaves are
annually reduced to perfumes, and
that nearly a million women work
following the old home recipes and
supply the markets of the world.

 

In Southeastern Europe the rose-
gathering season is from May to the
middle of July, and 750,000 women
and girls are employed in this indus-
try. In the south of France and
near Paris roses are cultivated for
the purpose of manufacturing the
attar, and over 30,000,000 pounds of
rose leaves are annually gathered.

A fine quality of attar is obtained
from the valley of Damascus, and the
vale of Cashmere has for ages been
famous, not only for its roses, but
also for the quality of the product.

During the last thirty or thirty-five
years the attar or essence of roses
has become one of the most impor-
tant commercial products of Bulgaria.

One of the largest rose fields, if
not the largest, in the world is situ-
ated in Roumania and is over 120
miles long by forty in width. When
the time of the Roumanian picking
season is known, people come from
400 or 500 miles in every direction
to get to work. Whole families mi-
grate from Bosnia, Servia, Northern
Bulgaria, Albania, and even’ from
Greece, Roumania and Asia Minor to
take part in gathering the roses.

For two months any one who can
pick roses can get a job in the South-
ern Balkans. Picking begins at ear-
ly dawn when the dew is on the
leaves, and is continued until Io or
Ir a. m., or during cloudy weather
all day long. When the sun is shin-
ing bright labor is discontinued to-
ward noon, and recommenced at 4 or
5. and then work is carried on as
long as the workers can see. Labor
is paid for by the pound.

Every picker is equipped with a
basket holding about two bushels, for
rose ieaves are light. After the bas-
kets are full, they are emptied into
sacks, and as soon as possible these
are transported to the houses and
there converted into essence. The
factories where the attar of roses is
made are mere sheds; sometimes the
walls are of brick, sometimes of
stone, and occasionally of planks. On
one side stand the retorts in rows,
copper alembics about three feet high
with a brick furnace underneath.
Each alembic has a capacity of 110
liters, or quarts, but for a charge
only seventy-five quarts of water are
used and twenty-two pounds of rose
leaves.

Distillation goes on for an_ hour.
and then the flask receiving the di--
tilled product is removed and_ the
alembic recharged and the process be-
gun again. The attar of roses is the
oil which floats upon the surface, and
this is subsequently taken off by cool-
ing and condensation.

Some kinds of roses produce more
attar than others, and some countrie:
are far superior in the quality of

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

their production. It is said that a
humid spring, with intervals of warm
sunshine, causes the petals to yield
more abundantly than is the case in
a hot, dry season.

In Bulgaria 3,000 kilos of rose
leaves produce one kilogram, 2.2
pounds, of the attar; and the Bulgar-
ian flower-raiser realizes about $100
an acre for his crop. France is equal-
ly productive, bringing forth 3,000
pounds of the roses to a pound of
attar; and 400,000 roses are necessary
to produce one-ounce of the oil.

In Cashmere and at Ghazipur 1,500
and 2,000 pounds of petals produce
one pound of the essence. Only the
red rose is used, as the white or yel-
low varieties lack the essential oil-
making properties.

Attar of roses is far more valuable
than gold, for while in the markets
of the world gold is priced at $20 an
ounce, an ounce of the pure attar is
worth from $1oo to $150, and the
value of the annual yield of the Bal-
kan rose district is $400,000 worth of
attar.

That portion of Frapce south of
the maritime range of the Alps is the
flower garden of the world, and for
miles beyond the village of Grasse
nothing but a vista of flower gardens
may be seen. Women as well as
men work on these flower farms, and
many is the courtship that has taken
place in the springtime of the year
while occupied in work in these won-
derful gardens.

The violet plants are’ generally
grown in fields where there are
orange and lemon trees, and_ the
shade of these trees is a benefit to the
growth of the flower. The violet
farms require constant . irrigation.
These plants are set in rows so that
gathering may take place’ without
any one stepping on the flowers. Af-
ter the gathering has taken place a
pomade is made by bringing the
flowers into contact with some very
pure fat, the latter being a suitable
mixture of lard and suet, and care-
fully purified. The pomades are then
melted, put into tin cans and shipped
to all parts of the world. The manu-
facturing perfumer removes the po-
made from the tins, “washing” the
pomade with deodorized alcohol,
which takes away from the grease
the odoriferous substances of the
flowers. This “washing” is the basis
of all fine perfumes, and to it are
added the various oils and substances
that give to it its great commercial
value.

The standard scent-plants are as
follows: Rose, rose geranium, rose-
mary, citron, lavender, orris or iris
root, bitter almonds, thyme, violet,
cassie or opopanax, tuberose, anise,
caraway, fennel, dill and coriander.

The roses employed for attar mak-
ing in Europe are the Bulgarian red
damask rose and the French provence
rose. These roses are both spring
bloomers, although the damask rose
has a short autumn season as well,
and their bloom lasts for only about
a month. Rose farming would be
very popular if perpetual bloomers
having the requisite quantity and
quality of oi] could be obtained, This

 

 

would, in all probability, give work
for five or six months in the year.

The tuberose is one of the staple
flower products in the vicinity of
Grasse, France. It is also grown in
North Carolina, which furnishes some
choice bulbs to many of the countries
in Europe. The extraction of the
perfume takes place by the enfleur-
age process and brings a good price.

Jasmine culture is one of the most
expensive known, but as its perfume
is said to be one that can not be
adulterated or imitated, it brings a
high price, on account of its general
purity. It is grown in the vicinity
oi Grasse, France, and also in India,
where its very delicate perfume is
highly esteemed.

The French cassie and the Ameri-
can opopanax are the same, and are
obtained from the acacia farnesiana.
The acacia is a tree growing twenty
or thirty feet high, and the source

 

 

of the perfume is the flowers, which
are borne in small round heads of a
yellow color. This tree is extensive-
ly cultivated in the southern part of
France, and the odor is extracted
either by maceration or enfleurage.

In England rosemary and true lav-
ender flourish best. Rosemary is
found along with common _ thyme,
and distilled in great quantities. Ac-
cording to Piesse, “eau de cologne”
can not be made without it. It is
also the leading ingredient in “Hun-
gary water.”

True lavender, a plant of the mint
family, is cultivated extensively at
Mitcham, in Surrey, and other places
in the south of England. On account
of the mild, moist air and the cal-
careous soil this English variety pro-
duces a grade of oil superior in deli-
cacy of fragrance to that obtained
from the wild plant found in other
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23

 

 

Perfumes are also obtained from
the various citrus fruits, such as the
sweet orange, the bitter or Seville
orange, the bergamot orange, the
lemon, the citron, the sweet lime, the
sour lime, the shaddock and pomelo or
grape fruit. Of the orange-peel oils,
the bergamot is the most valuable,
although not very readily found in
the market in a pure state. This
fruit is cultivated in the south of
Italy, near the town of Reggio. To
extract the oil from the bergamot,
citron, lemon, lime and orange me-
chanical methods are resorted toin
connection with the rinds of the re-
spective fruits.

The material from which _ high-
grade perfume is extracted is a com-
bination of melted beef or mutton
fat and olive oil, and comes in air-
tight cans. This fatty substance is
laden with the essence of whatever
flower is to be reproduced in odor,
and the perfumer must extract this
odor by the application of spirits to
the raw material. This is a very deli-
cate process, and great skill is shown
in reclaiming the odor. The chief
aim is to preserve the freshness of
the flower odor and give it a body
that will be reasonably durable. If
an odor that will last too long is
produced, it will in time prove dis-
agreeable and the manufacturer wil!
have placed an unpopular product
upon the market, to his own loss and
financial injury.

——_>-o

The Oxford As a Health Shoe.

3ernard McFadden, a “health cul-
ture” expert, declares that shoes with-
out heels are the proper attire for
mankind, and says the moccasin of
the Indian is the ideal shoe.

The chief difficulty in the theories
which are urged upon us, involving
the “getting back to nature,” is that
nobody wants to “get back to na-
ture,” and most of us would die if we
attempted it. The phrase seems to
be considered by being
equivalent to “getting back to savag-
ery.” Why should not Mr. McFad-
den go the other step, and discard

many as

shoes altogether?

The first man to wear moccasins
wore them because he found need of
them. As he progressed he discov-
ered various modifications that im-
proved them for his use, and the shoe
of to-day is the result of some cen-
turies of evolution. Apart from such
merely ornamental features as_ it
may have, the modern shoe is an ad-
mirably adapted piece of work.

The heelless soft sole answered
very well when his only occupation
was sneaking through the mossy
woods, either in pursuit of game or
on the expeditions for the assassina-
tion of his fellow red men to which
his exaggerated bump of murderous-
ness prompted the Indian, but a race
that works for a living wants a differ-
ent garment. The hard pavements
of a city, the roughness of a work-
shop floor, the sharp crags of a
mine, the clods of a farm, all demand
a shoe with a hard sole anda heel.

Even on the softest of ground,
like the prairie soil of the West, the
farmer would be very uncomfortable
in a shoe without a heel, for the rea-

 

son that the feet would sink in the
ground at the heel as he walked, be-
cause of the much broader surface
of the front of the shoe, and his foot
would all the time be tipped up at
the toe. This is not mere theory;
ask a farmer. He needs something
at the heel to level up.

The “health fad” is a good, thing,
on general principles, even although
its chief exponents may at times
make mistakes, and the constant
study of many designers is to pro-
duce a shoe that shall be perfectly
adapted to the needs of the wearer.
The “health” shoe family is quite nu-
merous, and not all the finely made
and well designed shoes are labeled
by that name—not by about 99 per
cent.

For adaptation to a particular
need, why should not the oxford be
classed as a “health” shoe? If there
is any disadvantage in swathing the
foot in an airtight casing of leather,
the oxford remedies this disadvan-
tage in large part. For warm weath-
er wear it is certainly the best foot-
garment that can be worn.

With a few perforations added, in
the right places, a well made oxford
comes very near the ideal shoe for
comfort and healthfulness as well as
for looks. Its use has greatly in-
creased during the past few years,
and further increase may be expected.
—Shoe and Leather Gazette.

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Green Goat Leathers Wanted.

The rage for colors in shoes is be-
ing revived even to an embarrassing
extent. This season one or two new
shades in leather have been added to
the catalogue of recent years. Shades
and colors in good leathers that were
rejected two or three years ago are
now called for, but they are not to
be had at the tanneries, the leather
stores or the shoe shops.

Speaking of this the head of an
Eastern shoe manufacturing concern
justly noted for the production of the
highest grade of women’s work says:

“l was in a leading New York re-
tail shoe store last week when a
well-dressed man entered and asked
the proprietor for a pair of women’s
green shoes such as those in the
show-window. The shoe man replied
that they had none in stock and_ the
pair in the window was there simply
for display purposes. The enquirer
said he had been at another house
for such a shoe, but they asked $12
for a pair. The retailer said he would
take his order for a pair and would
endeavor to have them made up, that
is, if he succeeded in getting the green
upper stock. The deal was made
for $8.

“When the man went away the
proprietor turned to me, as I had been
listening to the conference, and ask-
ed me to make the shoes. I agreed
to do so if I could only procure the
stock and settled the price at $5. Be-
fore leaving New York I called on a
well-known house on Spruce street,
which has attained more than nation-
al fame as a producer of colored kid;
but while the firm were able to furn-
ish me with a green shade skin, they
refused absolutely to make any. ‘We
tried a line of green goat,’ said the
kid manufacturer, ‘some years ago,

 

 

but it did not sell; we had to dye |
the skins black, and we will not take | No Trouble Like This with
the risk again. ‘

“Many women now trim _ their | Hocking Dry Measures
dresses green and they are fascinated
with the idea of
which conform in shade with other |
parts of their attire.” |

possessing = shoes |

There seems just now, even at the
opening of the season, no limit to
the range of human desire in the mat-
ter of shoe colors. Moderation in
this, as well as in all other matters,
is to be commended; but time and
experience will before long regulate |
all this. Retailers should
prudence and judgment in dealing
with this question.—Shoe Trade Jour-

exercise

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The worm will turn. Tenants in
New York City have formed a_ pro-
Avaricious, un |

tective association.
accommodating and unattentive land

It. is|
claimed that rents have been raised

lords are to be backlisted.

 

without justification in many cases,

and that those who make their places Probably no fixtures pay for themselves quicker

than Hocking Bottomless Measures. They
save one handling of goods. No quicker
way of filling paper sacks. Goods are meas-
ured and dumped into paper bags or baskets
at one stroke. They are made of heavy
galvanized steel; and they will last a lifetime.
A set of three, peck, % peck, 4
peck, costs $2. If these Hocking
measure are not for sale by vour
jobber or paper house a postal gets
done through the power of organiza- | them from us.
tion. W. C. Hocking & Co.
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I think myself fortunate that lam
perfitted to address so notable an
Thrice fortunate that I
can come into this. Southland and
see with mine own eyes the progress
that you are making—can see the
results of the shifting of industrial
power and activity from the field to
the factory, so that the development
of the new South shall be harmo-
nious, and the field, and factory, and
church, and school house, and the
home, shall join in an all-round de-
velopment of this land, that is beau-
tiful for situation and lovely to dwell
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and see, in this new activity, a future

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pregnant with greatness and power
and usefulness.

But we are come here to-day to
discuss a question that enters large-
ly into the conditions of future suc-
cess and prosperity of this great
American people. And as I stand
before this gathering of representa-
tive men, engaged in the business
that is the key note to human indus-
try, or the barometer that tells of
the prosperity or depression of busi-
ness life, I am buoyed up with the
hope that our conference will result
in the betterment of our conditions
as business men.

In these modern times there have
arisen methods of doing business that
are harmful to a large number of
business men; because the success of
the methods depends on creating
false impressions; dangerous to so-
ciety, because of the efforts to cen-
tralize business in the large cities:
and bound, in the near future, t
bring disastrous results on us as z
people, for centralization carried to
an extreme breeds anarchy.

For nearly twenty years
methods have been developing. For
nearly ten years the retail organiz1-
tions of the North have been fight-
ing to hold in check what they have
felt to be the illegitimate and un-
fair methods of the catalogue houses
and department stores. Illegitimate.
because they seek to carry the idea
that the merchants in the towns, vil-
lages, and hamlets all over this land
are seeking to get exorbitant prices
for the goods that they are offering
to sell the public. Unfair, because
they are seeking to create and deep-
en an antagonism between the coun-
try merchant and his customers, by
offering to send to these customers
standard goods at prices at which the
merchants can not buy and sell them.
using goods that have become well
known to the. public by the faithful
efforts of the retailers who have in-
troduced them and made_ them
standard, as leaders to draw the un-
thinking public to patronize them.

While vaunting themselves asthe
“price makers of the country,” and

these

 

*Address by W. P. Bogardus. President of the
National Retail Hardware Dealers’ Associations
at annual convention at Atlanta on May 25,

 

boasting of their greatness, they
make this peculiar proposition, for |
honorable business men, that ifthe
public will buy of them their “name
will not appear on box, package,
wrapper, tag, envelope, or outside of |
merchandise,” so that they can send |
their money to the catalogue house, |
and when the goods are received no |
one will be the wiser, and no awk- |
asked by |
neighbors or home merchants. And |

 

 

ward questions will be

they go on to say that as they handle

such large quantities they “are en-|
abled to own their own factories,”
and so cut out all profits except their
own as manufacturers; that their ex-
pert buyers were on the lookout for
overstocked manufacturers and job-
bers, and by offering cash for their
surplus were getting the goods for
less than the cost to make. All this
they were giving to the public. And
they say, further, “We sell to the
largest merchants in the country, but
we have only one price. The man
with the dollar gets his goods just
as cheap as the man who buys thous-
ands.”

That the catalogue house and de-
partment stores have a right to buy
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But, if the manufacturer has a right
and the power to determine how his
shall be sold, and at what
prices they shall be sold to the retail
trade, and goes as far as to say to
the jobber, that “if you deviate from
these prices to your trade we will
cut you off from selling our goods,”
why can not the manufacturer say
to the catalogue house, “You must
sell the goods you buy of us at such

goods

prices as we may determine, or w+
will not let you handle any of our
output?” If it is right to make one
restriction, why not another? If one
class is to be controlled in selling the
goods of the manufacturer, why not
all? Why should any retailer be
permitted to buy goods so as to de-
moralize the market. True, the cata-
logue house will buy more goods
than any single retailer can be ex-
pected to buy. But he is and always
will remain a competitor of the re-
tailer. If the catalogue houses and
the department stores bought the
entire output of the manufacturers,
then this discussion would have no
place here, and neither would the
jobber. We must recognize the fact
that the jobber. as a rule, does not
sell to the catalogue house. There-
fore the catalogue house becomes an
immediate competitor of the jobber,
and is doing all that he can to under-
mine the jobber and the customers,
by going direct to the customers of
the jobber’s customers and soliciting
their trade. eBing in a position, and
recognized as a large buyer, he is
put on the same plane with the job-
ber, and even frequently above him
as regards prices, so that he is en-
abled to undersell and break down
those to whom the jobber must look
for support, if he is to remain a job-
ber.

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makes price then this condition of
things will continue. But this con-
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erned by quantity prevails. Buyers
should be graded, and manufacturers
owe it not only to themselves, but
to the trade in general, to be govern-
ed by other things than quantity in
making prices.

Why.are certain goods offered by
catalogue houses at such low prices?
Because they are standard. Because
they are known all over this coun-
try. Who made them known? Who
brought them to the attention of the
general public? Was it the catalogue
houses? I tell you nay. But = in
every hamlet and village and town,
merchants and storekeepers have
sung their praises until they have
become a household word.
they are well known they have been
used by the catalogue houses and
department stores to create an im-
pression that they were selling goods
all the way through at such prices.
And the curious thing to me is that
the manufacturers have joined with
them, and, because they have given
them sizable orders for goods, have
helped them, unwittingly I believe,
to break down the very people who
have been instrumental in giving
their goods the reputation they have
gained before the public, and so
building up the manufacturers’ trade.

Because

I take it as a fact, beyond dispute,
that the manufacturer would have
but small trade unless he had some
one to help distribute his output.
For the manufacturer to go to the
consumer means too large an ex-
pense account, and is not practicable.
For him to go to the retailer is open
to the same objection as regards ex-
pense, except in some few instances.
To go to the jobber for help to dis-
tribute his product is the least ex-
pensive, and most satisfactory meth-
od yet devised. Every time a manu-
facturer goes to a retailer and sells
him goods he that much cripples his
best friend, the jobber. He does not
add to the consumptive capacity of
the country one single cent, but
brings confusion where there should
be order. Mark you, I do not take
the position that the manufacturer
should never sell to the retailer; but
this I do say, do. not sell to the re-
tailer at the same price that you do
to the jobber, even if he offers to
buy more goods than the jobber at
the time. DoT say this as a retailer?
I certainly do. Go into a great fac-
tory, where the revolving wheels are
singing the song of human industry
and watch as the completed product
comes forth, and is boxed and piled
tier on tier ready to be shipped to
the markets of the world, and you
see but one line of goods. But go
into the great warehouses of the job-
ber and see the accumulation of
goods gathered from many factories,
that are waiting to be sent forth on
their mission of usefulness, and you
will see where the retailer can turn
with confidence that. his wants will
be supplied promptly and completely

Such being the conditions surround-
ing the retail and jobbing trade, is
there not good reason for a close af-
filiation between jobber and retailer?
Each is mutually dependent on the
other. The jobber can not exist, as
a jobber,-unless he can sell the goods

 

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that he has gathered together to the
retailer. He can not go to the con-
sumer. It is entirely too expensive.
Now if his natural customer has
been crippled by a competition that
has been fostered and built up on the
principle that price is governed by
quantity, and which in every way
possible seeks to convey the idea that
it is better for the consumer to send
his money away from home to buy
his goods, what is the natural cus-
tomer of the jobber going to do with
the goods he buys from ,the jobber?
To whom can he sell them? If a
merchant’s competitor has been giv-
en prices so low that he can sell for
what it costs the other to buy, how
is there going to be any competition?

Some may say that the catalogue
house question is a small matter.
Gentlemen, it is not a small matter.
lt vitally affects every retailer in all
this country, and as it affects the re-
tailer so it affects the jobber. So
closely are their interests interwoven
that the success of the one means
the success of the other.

In these strenuous times it seems
that the modern business mind is
impressed more by size than by a
careful consideration of the justice
and merit of a claim. In the hurry
of business it seems impossible to
get a hearing unless accompanied by
size. There must be influence back
of requests before they get a hearing.
The individual has no place in the
new order of things. It must be a
company, or corporation, or combin-
ation, or trust, if our plans are to
ripen into fruitage. So we turn to
organization, the spirit of the age
whose wand brings order out of
chaos, system out of confusion and
success out of disaster, with the hope
that a solution, fair and just to all,
may come through this agitation.

We are not here to ask that any
man shall be driven out of business.
We are not here to ask that any busi-
ness enterprise be throttled. But we
are here to ask that men who are
seeking to break down the retail
dealer in order that they can climb
upon the ruins may be hindered from
accomplishing their objects. Weare
here to ask that the help heretofore
given them may be withheld and that
other. considerations besides quantity
regulate the price.

Ten years ago there were no State
hardware associations. To-day there
are eighteen, with the prospect of
several new ones during the year.
During the year 1903 there was an
increase of membership ranging from
I5 per cent. to 50 per cent. to the
association. The retailer is slowly
recognizing his utter weakness when
alone, and his power when organiz-
ed. And he sees, as he hopes the
jobber will see, what closer affiliation
between the two Associations will
mean for both of them in the future.

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People who think that there is
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majority of us are very poor hands

 

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we usually tell him to count up the
mercies that are around him, when,
nine times out of ten, we should do
far more good by telling him the
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others.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

JIMMY MORIARTY.

 

His Rapid Advance from Errand Boy
to Partner.
Written for the Tradesman.

Mr. Wolden whirled in his swivel
chair and regarded the little speci-
men of humanity before him with
questioning eyes. Mr. Wolden was
the busy manager of the Austinport
Dry Goods Co. and the accumulated
mail which he had been reading
when disturbed did not portend a wel-
come reception for the intruder, who
appeared like a typical street youth,
with the exception that his clothing
knew the use of a brush, his face
showed the effects of soap and his
hair was neatly brushed.

“Well, what do you want?” said
the august gentleman in the chair,
as he continued to survey the boy,
who did not appear to be more than
14 years of age and who still stood
by the office door nervously twirling
his cap in his hands.

“IT com'’d to see about de ad.
for a kid to lug bundles,” he answer-
ed, and the motion of the cap was
accelerated.

Mr. Wolden glanced at his watch,
saw that it was barely 8:30 o'clock,
and said: “The advertisement said
9 o'clock. Why do you disturb me
now?”

“Well, me mudder says dat it’s de
early bird dat gets de worm, so I
figures it dat de first kid gets de bes’
look at de job an’ hikes down be-
fore de rush begins.”

“What's your name?”

“Jimmy.”

“Jimmy what?”

“Well, me mudder calls me James
Moriarty, but de kids all calls me
Jimmy, so I says dat’s me name.”

Mr. Wolden smiled at the earnest-
ness of the boy and said: “Well, I
will file your application and you
come back at 11 o'clock and I will
give you my decision.”

“Alright, sir,” said Jimmy, “I'll be
here wid de goods,” and he hurried
from the room.

During the next hour Mr. Wolden
examined a dozen or more applicants
for the place as delivery boy, but
none of them made a very marked
impression on him and he awaited
the return of Jimmy. Promptly on
the stroke of 11 the boy made his
appearance and gingerly took the
chair that Mr. Wolden motioned him
to while he finished looking over a
pile of invoices. This concluded, he
turned around and again looked the
boy over from head to foot. Finally
he said: “Do you think you would
like the dry goods business, James?”

“Yes, sir,” the boy answered, “J
think I would. You see it’s dis way; I
sells papers now, but den I can’t sell
papers always, coz I wants to be
somebody, so I says to meself dat
I might as well make de break now
as to wait till later, coz I'll have a
better chance to make good in a
new game. So I goes to me mudder
and puts de deal up to her and she
follows de ante and says dat I’m a
pretty good kid. I watches de ads
in de papers fer de chance an’ when
I see dat ad. of yourn, I says, ‘dat’s

 

de game for me,’ so I gets ready to
butt in.”

“Have you no father?”

“Nix, de old man was working on
de railroad and *bout four years ago
he went in to couple two cars and
stubbed his toe on a tie and when
dey brought him home he was in
chunks. Me mudder started to take
in boarders den and I started selling
papers.”

“How much do you make per week
selling papers?”

“Bout four or five dollars.”

“Well, you know that we couldn't
afford to pay you more than $3 per
week to begin with.”

“Sure, I pipes dat off alright, but I
figures dat if I holds off any longer
it gits just dat much harder, so I
wants to make de break right now.”

“That’s a sensible way to look at
it. Do you go to school now?”

“Not fer de last couple of months
I used to only sell de morning and
evening editions, but now I sells dem
all and makes more.”

“Well, James, I will give you a
trial. You come to-morrow morning
at 7:30 o’clock and Mr. Edgarton
will explain your duties to you.”

“Tank you, sir, I'll be here on
time,” and Jimmy left the room with
a happy look on his face.

When Mr. Wolden arrived at the
store the next morning Jimmy was
busily engaged in- looking over the
rubbish swept out the evening be-
fore for stray bits of lace, spools of
thread and other small articles which
in the hurrying of caring for the trade
during the rush hours invariably find
their way to the floor in large quanti-
ties.

“How do you like the work?” he
asked, pausing for a moment to watch
the operation.

“It’s a great hunch,” answered Jim-
my, giving a tangled mass of ribbon
paper a shake to be sure that no valu-
ables were concealed in its folds.

As the manager passed on his way
“You must break yourself
of slang, James, as it is offensive to
many people.”

“Alright, sir,” answered the boy, as
he continued his labor, “I'll cut it
out, alright,” and Mr. Wolden was
forced to smile at the earnestness of
the rather peculiar answer to his re-
quest.

Thus did Jimmy, as everyone in the
store called him with the exception
of Mr. Wolden, acquire the rudi-
ments of the dry goods business. I
called on the Austinport Co. regular-
ly then and had the story direct from
Mr. Wolden. I watched his progress
with interest. In a week he was the
friend and confidant of all the men
and the idol of the girls. Always
ready to do a private errand when
his duties permitted him to, quick to
learn and with a capacity for an enor-
mous amount of work for one so
small, he was a general favorite. Hi-
spare moments were spent in master-
ing the stock of the store and at the
close of the day’s work he assisted
in straightening out the domestic de-
partment after the overhauling which
it had received during the rush hours.
Contact with different classes of peo-
ple accentuated the natural sharpness

he said:

which the paper selling had develop-
ed and made many changes in him.
Of pleasing appearance, he was very
neat in his wearing apparel and, as
Mr. Wolden had advised, he was grad-
ually dropping the slang of the street
for better language, although in
moments of excitement he would
lapse into the vernacular. It was
spring when he entered the store and
on the Christmas following he was
rewarded with a raise in pay to $4.50
per week.

When the spring came again
changes in the clerical force left a
vacancy and Jimmy was deemed
worthy of the place. He was made
assistant in the domestic department
and rapidly developed an ability asa
salesman which excied wonder
among his associates. His tact was
astonishing for a boy of 15 and he
was always courteous under the most
trying circumstances. A large por-
tion. of the firm’s trade was drawn
from the foreign population of the
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handling this class of humanity, even
outselling the clerks of the same na-
tionality who were engaged to cater
to this trade.

As time passed by he mounted the
ladder rapidly. From domestics he
went to white goods, then to linings
and cheap dress goods. Here he
dropped out of my sight for several
years, owing to my being transferred
to another part of the country, but
only _ recently I was transferred
again and paid the house a visit.

I sought out Mr. Wolden, who met
me with the glad hand, but when I
asked him to look over my line he
said: “Mr. Moriarty, my _ partner,
who is assistant manager and the de-
partment head, will look at your
goods. Work has piled up so here
that other matters occupy my atten-
tion and I do little of the buying.”

At the name Moriarty I pricked up
my ears, wondering if it could be the
same, and just then a handsome
young fellow entered the office with
a bundle of papers in his hand. Mr.
Wolden called him forward and said:
“Mr. Blank, shake hands with Mr.
Moriarty; Mr. Blank represents
Smith, Jones & Brown and would
like to have you look over his line of
goods.”

It was true. I saw it in a moment.
Mr. Moriarty, assistant superinten-
dent, and Jimmy Moriarty, the de-
livery boy, Were one ahd the same,
and as I clasped his hand I saw that
the metamorphosis had indeed been
complete. J. F. Cremer.

—_2 > >_____
Rightful Scope of the Manufacturer
and Jobber.

The discussion of the subject,
“What Trade Should the Manufac-
turer and Jobber Rightfully Canvass
and Sell?” is a question we are all
deeply interested in, as upon this
rests very largely our success as mer-
chants. If the manufacturer and job-
ber sold anyone who might buy and
at the prices they could make it
would establish prices that no legiti-
mate merchant could compete with,
and necessarily we would have to do
business at a loss or change our oc-
cupation. Most manufacturers and
jobbers agree with us that they
should not sell the consumer, but
some contend that they ought to sell
to anyone, if his bill amounts to a
certain amount, and make wholesale
prices, which I contend is wrong. If
the customer wants to buy a large
bill of goods there is not one of us
but would be willing to sell at a very
small per cent. profit and save our
business from being infringed upon
and injured by the wholesaler quot-
ing prices direct to the trade.

Another trouble arises when the
wholesaler sells the trade, it creates
an idea in the minds of the consumer
that they are being overcharged by
the local merchant on everything he
buys, and he is apt to get catalogues
from all the cat-houses he can hear
of and expect the local merchant to
compete with that kind of competi-
tion, which we all know is unreason-
able. No manufacturer or jobber
should sell catalogue houses, because
they sell them the poorer grades of
goods they manufacture, and_ the
catalogue house in turn sells them

 

as first-class goods, and with open
competition with the same goods you
have on your shelves or your sample
floor, and as they are all sold by
cuts the consumer has nothing to
compare values by, and consequent-
ly gets cheaper goods at a_ higher
price. On small goods, such as shelf
goods, the merchant does not need
as much protection from the manufac-
turer and jobber as on goods that
represent a greater investment to
the buyer on each sale, for example:

A merchant needs more territory
protection on binders, mowers, plow
goods, windmills, buggies,
and_ steel than he
goods that he sells every day in small
quantities that represent a small in-
vestment to the consumer, while on
the larger sale he will consult more
carefully his catalogue. Manufactur-
ers and jobbers should not put their
agencies, especially on large goods,
too close together, as it does not give
the merchant enough territory to jus-
tify him in pushing the line he sells,
as but a few miles from him is a
blacksmith or well driller selling the
same article he is selling and at a
price he can not afford. If the well
driller or blacksmith wants to sell
goods let him make = arrangements
with a local merchant to sell the
goods and at a price that each can
make a small profit and not ruin the
merchant’s business by selling on too
narrow a margin.

wagons

ranges does on

The merchant that carries a stock
of goods and has his money invested
is just as essential to the community
as is the farmer and his business
should be protected just as well and
the state or territory that goes into
the manufacture of any staple article
and then sells it to the consumer at
wholesale prices and furnishes only
enough of it to ruin the prices is dis-
criminating against one class of. its
citizens in favor of another, and is
not right and should not be encourag-
ed. Manufacturers and jobbers ought
to be made to feel that we are unal-
terably opposed to selling the trailer
and canvasser who carries no stock,
but goes through the country, using
the roads we help to build and main-
tain, selling goods to our customers,
and generally of an inferior grade, at
a long price, and thus depriving the
local merchant of the profits justly
belonging to him.

I believe that if the manufacturer
and jobber will sell only legitimate
merchants who carry a stock of goods
suitable to their needs, that if the
manufacturer and jobber would pro-
tect the above class of merchants,
there would be a feeling of mutual
protection that would make lasting
friends between wholesalers and re-
tailers that would be a permanent
benefit to both. That the business
of wholesale and retail
would be put on a better basis be-
cause we would each feel the neces-
sity of each other, as each are essen-
tial to our modern mode of doing
business. We should be friends and
brothers and not feel -antagonistic
one to the other, but build up in these
grand territories a system of business
in which the manufacturer and job-
ber and retail merchant are  co-

merchants

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Passing of the Era of Whining and
Tears.
Written for the Tradesman.

One of the most interesting and
significant phases of the evolution of
woman is that she is ceasing to weep.
Science is powerless to explain it,
but it is a self-evident fact that every
observing person must have noticed
that as women develop’ backbone
their tears ducts dry up.

Time was, and not so long ago,
when the very name of the feminine
sex was synonymous with crying. It
was woman’s hereditary destiny to
weep, just as it was man’s to work,
and she did what was expected of
ker by sitting down and
whenever she came up against any
of the hard propositions of life.

More than that it was considered,
by men and women alike, proper and
elegant and a ladylike thing to do.

All the heroines in old-fashioned

howling

novels bedew every page with their
tears, and the real women of the
period seemed to exercise no more
self-control, but to have existed in
what Mr. Mantilini would have call-
ed a “demd damp condition.” Their
tears were always on tap and they
were ready to turn the water-works
on whenever anything was to. be
gained by doing it.

The modern woman has changed
all that. You hardly ever see a wo'n-
an weep now. There are—God help
us—just as many things to wring a
woman’s heart to-day and just as
many causes for tears as there ever
were, but if she has any tears to
shed, she sheds them in private. It
is almost as unusual and startling to
see a woman give way to emotion
in public as it is to see a man do so,
and no other one thing so emphatical-
ly marks the progress of the feminine
sex. It measures all the distance be-
tween hysteria and reason. It marks
the difference between the
child crying impotently for forbid-
den sweets, and the strong adult,
who takes what life gives with unfal-
tering bravery and cheerfulness.

spoiled

It seems likely that women have
always over-valued the effectiveness
of tears anyway. Tears were suppos-
ed to be an unanswerable argument
so far as men are concerned. The
truth is that few women can weep ef-
fectively. In poetry a pearly drop
that makes a blue eye look like a
violet drowned in dew gathers slow-
ly and rolls gently down an alabaster
cheek and the man dissolves in it. In
real life the woman who weeps gets
red eyed and her nose swells and
she looks purple and aploplectic and
the man gets up and slams the door
behind him and goes down town un-
til the water spout is over. In these
prosaic and common sense days
weeping has played out as a fascina-
tion and tears are a failure. Noman
wants to be salted down in brine as
if he were a dried herring.

Weeping was always a coward’s

 

weapon anyway. It was playing up-
on the best and tenderest part of
other people for your own selfish
ends. I heard a woman say not long
ago that she always got her way in
the family by crying for it. “When
I want a thing,” she said, “I just go
to bed and have hysterics until I get
it.” Of course, one understands how
a man gives in to that kind of a
woman. His very nobleness makes
him powerless to deal, with her as
she deserves, but what a withering
and blighting contempt he must have
for her! How he must despise the
littleness of the soul that trades » on
his pity, his chivalry, his very rever-
ence for her sex!

In an humble rank of society that
kind of a-woman is permanently and
instantaneously cured by a_ sound
trashing, and when I have observed
cther unreasonable and sobby wom-
en in a more exalted station of life,
it occurs to me that we are unduly
prejudiced against wife beating, and
that there are times and occasion:
when it makes for peace and right-
eousness.

The trouble in the past with the
women who wept was that they wept
in the wrong way. A tear, as a tear,
is as ineffective as any other drop of
water, yet people make the mistake
of reverencing it as if weeping over
a thing was going to perform some
kind of a miracle and right any kind
of a wrong. You might weep, for
instance, Over a starving family until
you shed an ocean of tears, yet it
would not keep them from perishing
of hunger. It is only when you be-
gin to sob with your pocketbook
that you relieve their sufferings. It
is not the people who mingle their
tears with ours when we are unfortu-
nate and poor and downcast who help
us. It is those who sympathize with
the offer of a good job or a timely
loan or helpful counsel. Nothing
else on plentiful and
cheap to give as tears, but unless

earth is so

they are backed up with good deeds
and hard cash nobody has a right t¢
attempt to sustain a reputation for
charity on them. Plenty of people
do. I have seen women sit up in a
fashionable church and sniffle into a
point lace handkerchief all through a
charity sermon and then drop a plug-
ged nickel into the contribution plate.

Then there is the folly of thinking
that you can float prosperity on a
sea of tears or wash away poverty
by turning yourself into a salt ‘water
geyser. Yet there is no theory that
women cling to more fondly than
that they can alter their financial
situation by lamenting it loudly
enough. If all the tears women have
shed over being poor had been turn-
ed to account they would have made
a water power that would have turn-
ed the wheels of the machinery of
the world. Yet all of this lost mo-
tion has been wasted. Tears have
never whirled back vanished dollars.
No woman ever wept herself into a
fortune, but still they have made per-
fect Niobes of themselves over their
spilt milk. I had a friend once who
lost her money and who did there-
after nothing but weep. “What shall
I do?” she demanded. “If you would

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your eyes you could make a fortune
as a charwoman,” I answered, “for
you certainly are the goods.” She
never forgave me. People never do
when you tell them the truth, but
it is a fact, nevertheless, that the only
tears that can conjure back prosper-
ity are the tears we weep with our
hands at some good, honest labor.
Sometimes | myself by
speculating on what the state of af-
fairs would be if mothers wept less
wayward children = and

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29

 

spanked more. Every woman speaks
of her children’s conduct when they
turn out bad as a mysterious dis-
pensation of Providence. It is a
sneaking way to try to get out of
responsibility. She has _ been
weak, or too selfish, or too lazy to
raise them right. Then the day
comes when she discovers that her
daughter is meeting fast young men
on the street, or some night her boy
comes home staggering drunk and
she can do nothing but cry over
them. It is one of the great trage-
dies of life when a mother sees the
young lives that are her
than her own and the young
that she would give her own to save

too

dearer to

souls

hang trembling in the balance and
she can meet the situation with noth-
ing but tears.

Sentimentalists have embalmed a
mother’s tears in song and story and
made them sacred, but in reality the
tears a mother sheds over an ill-raised
son or daughter are a shameful dis-
grace to her. There should be no
cause for her to shed them and there
would be no cause, once in a million
times, for her to shed them if she
had done her duty. When I hear
of a heart-broken mother trying to
float her son. out of the penitentiary
on a stream of tears I do not pity
her half so much as I pity him for
having had such a mother. In strict
justice every mother of a criminal
ought to be indicted as an accom-
plice before the crime, because if
children are raised right they simply,
do not go wrong. Weep with au-
thority, mothers, sob with a club un-

 

 

 

til you enforce obedience, respect for
law and property, and inculcate hab-
its of industry while your children

are little, and when they are grown |

you will not have to moan over sons
and daughters who have’ brought
shame upon you.

It has also always appeared to
me that women have wasted quite an
unnecessary amount of tears on their
husbands. For a_ thousand
tions wives have clung to the theory
that a man could be wept into all the
virtues of the cherubim and seraphim.
When a woman had a drunken hus-
band she got up and opened the door
for him in the early hours of the
morning and bedewed him with her
When she had a brutal one
wept when he mistreated her,
but she forgave him and let him go
on doing it. If their husbands were
unfaithful to them they shed a few
barrels of tears and let it go at that.
Now tears as a reforming agent are
not worth a pinch of the salt that is
in them. They do not work and men
never make the mistake of using
them. Men never weep over wom-
en’s misdoings. They make _ their
wives behave themselves or else they
haul them up before the divorce
court, and that is why the percentage
of good conduct is so largely in fav-
or of the fair sex.

genera-

tears.
she

It is a hopeful sign for the whole
human race that women have quit
doing the baby act—quit weeping. It
was always weak and useless. We
owe it to the world to give it sun-
shine instead of showers and we best
do our part in life when we meet its

 

trials with smiles and courage, in-
stead of whining and tears.
Dorothy Dix.
> ___
Anathematized Without Reason.
Every hygienist and most sensible
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of all the
the tight corset is not only the most
ridiculous but harm-
ful. It would difficult
to find anything new to say about

follies of woman's dress

also the most
indeed seem

it, except that the various crusades
seem to have had a certain influ-
that a
women are now more or
the fact that the
the natural figure have an ease and
elegance that can
by bunched-out
waists and beetling hips.

ence on society and good

many less
alive to lines of
never be shown
shoulders, tapering

It has often been assumed that the
corset is a modern invention, and
the ancient statuary is referred to
to show what was the shape of love-
ly woman before she took to incas-
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That the corset is nearly as old as
history seems, however, to be the
fact. The researches that are now
being made into the of the
forest cities of South America throw
a new light on the antiquity of waist-
compressing garments. A bas relief
that was lately unearthed shows a
female figure which
being compressed between the lower
ribs and the hips by an
appliance.

It appears to have been arranged,

ruins

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as its latter-day antitype, in trans-
verse and circular foldings, so that
the greatest amount of uniform
pressure can be brought to bear on
the unfortunate abdomen of the
wearer, and from the appearance of
the the grip it exerted
would seem in no wise less tenacious
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bas relief

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that the South

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American de-
centuries ago

deformed themselves in a_ similarly
would be glad

fact.— Medical

grotesque fashion one
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Press.
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Commuting a Sentence.
Judge Gary, at the recent meeting
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

IF JAPAN SHOULD WIN.

Prince Krapotkin Foresees No So-
cial Awakening for Russia.

In the Far East a struggle is tak-
ing place which is unique in the
world’s history. One of the greatest
and richest of world powers, occupy-
ing more than one-half of Europe
and controlling more than one-third
of Asia—ancient, rich and _ influen-
tial—is pitted against a people whose
country is composed of a number of
small islands, a mere streak of color
off the coast of Asia as seen in a
modern atlas, and whose inhabitants
only joined hands with civilization
some thirty-five years ago.

The true significance of this con-
test lies not in the small section of
territory for whose possession or in-
dependence either side is contending.
To the world at large it matters lit-
tle whether Japan, Russia or China
shall hold Manchuria. 3ut it does
matter very much, indeed, what the
result of the combat will be in its
effect upon the nations involved, ac-
cording as they acquire ascendancy
or experience the humiliation of de-
feat. Sociologists have already made
mournful predictions of the disasters
threatening civilization in case Japan
proves to be victorious. Of even
more vital interest to humanity at
large becomes the speculation as to
the effect the apparent impending
defeat will have upon proud Russia,
torn as she has been for half a cen-
tury by internal dissensions and re-
volt.

Popular opinion, pronounced — by
statesmen of other nations, social
democrats, and observers in gener-
al, holds. that a crushing defeat of
‘Russia must bring about most benefi-
cent political changes; that it would
mean the doom of absolutism, the
beginning of a new era in the land
of the Czar. Newspapers have au-
thoritatively stated that should Russia
lose the day the event will be the
signal for a general uprising of the
oppressed throughout her own do-
minions, and it is not saying too
much to declare that this view ha
been cheerfully espoused by citizens
living under governments which, like
our own, hold exceedingly friendly
political relations with Russia, so
intense is the personal indignation
which has everywhere been excited
by the recital of the brutal deeds of
Russian soldiery and the harsh des-
potism of her rulers.

Strangely enough, it has remained
for Prince Krapotkin, the eminent
Russian aristocrat, social reformer
and fearless writer, to discourage this
cheering belief. Prince-Krapotkin in
Russia stands for principles which
are black treachery to his own Im-
perial government, but which in a
republic are considered the most ele-
mentary principles of justice. He
stands for liberty of speech and of
thought, justice to high and low, uni-
versal education and equal opportu-
nity for the industrious and = ambi-
tious. No man is looking more eager-
ly than he for the day that Shall
strike away Russia’s. shackles of
prejudice and ignorance. No man
would more gladly announce the
dawning of her renaissance. Yet he

 

 

discusses the question sadly and
hopelessly in a recent number of the
Speaker, and is constrained to arrive
at dispiriting conclusions.

The Prince, at the outset, main-
tains ‘that every war is an evil, no
matter what its issue may be; an evil
for the triumphant ones as well as for
the belligerents themselves, and that
the present war offers no differences
from all others. Passing on, he main-
tains that Russian occupation of Man-
churia was a direct consequence of
the Crimean war, for when it was
expected that in the summer of 1854
the allies were going to make a
landing in the sea of Okhotsk and
Kamchatka, to take possession of the
Russian ports of Ayan and_ Petro-
pavlovsk, Muravieff, Governor-Gen-
eral of East Siberia, undertook to
garri.on these ports from Siberia,
making the first descent of the Amur
River with troops, and = afterward,
with no support from St. Petersburg
and against the will of the St. Peters-
burg bureaucracy, by diplomatic ef-
fort secured from China the immense
stretches of uninhabited fertile lands
on the left bank of the Amur and
the Pacific littoral, with its harbors.
All this he obtained without firing
a single shot. Looking back upon
these events, and the further en-
croachment upon the disputed terri-
tory in the progress of raiiroad
building, Krapotkin reflects: “I can
not but say that it was a misfortune
for the Russian nation that no other
civilized nation had taken possession
of Northern Manchuria. The whole
history of that part of the world
would have taken another turn if, let
us say, the United States had got
hold of this territory.”

Of the Japanese, Krapotkin coolly
maintains that it is not Corea that
they want—it is Peking. Not at all
more room for their growing and al-
ready overcrowded population, which,
without any war, would have _ per-
meated Corea, Manchuria and_ the
Russian maritime province, but the
military lead of China. War in it-
self is bad, but the Prince disdainfully
remarks that to pretend that a war
inspired by such motives is going to
be a boon to Russia is simply a re-
minder of that faith according to
which Providence’ will always ar-
range everything for the good ofthe
nations, especially the most docile
ones. “Far from. sharing such a
faith,” he says, “I maintain that the
revolutionary movement in Russia,
forty years old by this time, is now
in such a good way that it does not
require the aid of Japanese torpe-
does in order to achieve its aims.”

His reasons for believing that this
war will only retard the reform
movement and divert it from the
great issues at stake are clearly set
forth as follows: “Great economical
and political problems, such as the
general impoverishment of the rural
population of Russia, the industrial
laborers question, and the necessity
of a federal organization for the Rus-
sian nation, have imperatively come
to the front. At the same time the
impossibility of further maintaining
the absolute rule has been evident
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members of the imperial family, even
M. Plehve, recognize that. Plehve
has put ten years, the others five
years, as the utmost time limit for
absolutism. War or no war, the ab-
solute rule had to disappear. Under
such circumstances, what can the war
do but ‘to impose new incredible suf-
ferings upon the Russian nation, and
to postpone the solution of the great
problems just named, to put an end
to the great and broad popular agi-
tation, and to reduce the little agita-
tion that will be possible, in war
time, to minor issues?”

Such words as these, from the
courageous Krapotkin, must force the
most optimistic to recast their views.
Reduced to their essence, they point
to the simple moral that good can
not come out of evil, and that a re-
constructed state is not likely to
spring from a calamity which saps
the nation’s life blood.

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the shadows pass as if but a myth.

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“Seldom,” says a doctor whose po-
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post mortem services for many of
these unfortunates, “have I
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as well dressed as her circumstances
would allow. The published reports
of these tragedies confirm my observ-
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of a suicide, and nine times out of
ten it will wind up by saying ‘the
woman was well dressed, or, at
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clean.’

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opinion, but what will affect it is
the fact that Russia is contemplating
levying an export tax on the com-
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WOMEN IN BUSINESS.

Some Observations by a Grand Rap-
: ids Employer.*
They talk about a woman’s sphere
As though it had a limit:
There’s not a place in earth or
heaven,
There’s not
There’s not
There's not
There’s not a life, a death, or birth,
That has a feather’s weight of worth,
Without a woman in it.
Women by nature are honest and

task to mankind given,
a blessing or a woe,
a whisper, Yes or No,

faithful to the task set for them, but. |

in order to succeed, they must show
that their hearts are in their work.
Whether she is an artist, a teacher, a

journalist, a stenographer or a train- |
ed nurse, whether she is employed in |

office, shop or factory, she must be
sincere, earnest, conscientious, if she

would find happiness herself and ap- |
The field of |

preciation from others.
work in stenography and typewriting
overcrowded | be-

many incompetent

is not considered

cause there are

persons, yet very few experts, and the |

skilled worker is really in
Many women do not succeed because
they take up business as a make-
shift rather than a profession.
left dependent on their own energies
for a livelihood they enter into what-

demand. |

Being |

ever opening offers itself without that |

keen appreciation that to succeed they
must become complete masters of the
undertaking in hand, as though that
one proposition was to become their
life work; the same as a

obliged to do in order to
Many women take up a business life
after having come to the conclusion
that to be married into a competency
is what they are to watch and work
for, and while waiting for that op-
portune Occasion to occur they may
well put in their time at
pays best without much skill.

out a full determination

as

 

|
|
|
|
|

man is |
succeed. |

|

what
With- |

to become |

an expert in her particular line I do}
not believe she will succeed, nor will |

she ever command a high salary. In
a recent conversation with a woman

book-keeper left in charge of an of-|

fice the question came up—during the
absence of the business manager—
as to a large sale of lumber which
the manager was anxious to make,
the price being the important fea-
ture. Having schooled herself tothe
one proposition as to who was to
stand the cost of loading and cartage,
the buyer or the seller—which was
a matter of only fifty cents per 1,000
feet—she became so strenuous onthe
buyer paying it that she nearly lost
her employer the entire deal, which
was proven by the fact that sooner
than lose the sale he lowered his
price $2 per M. and delivered the
goods besides. When the woman saw
no farther than to insist on collecting
fifty cents delivery or throw over
the transaction, she did not grasp the
situation of the business and hence
was unfitted to do more than keep
records of the transactions going on.

I don’t believe it is well to mix the
sexes indiscriminately in office.
Either have nearly all men, or near-

an

ly all women, as very many young

 

*Address by Robert W. Merrill at an-
nual banquet of the Grand Rapids Cred-
it Men’s Association.

| gues

|
|

| that lot of women will succeed bet-

; ant results out of the husband’s in-

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|a strong-minded woman

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

competition. If the wages of men
were to continue as they are, while
the wives are not employed outside
of the home, there might be some
hope that the merged interests would
fill up the family exchequer, but com-
petition would be inevitable, so that
with wives and husbands both work-
ing the joint income might not be
much more than is the husband's
alone now.

women shield themselves from spe-
cially tedious or difficult propositions
by a desire to throw the difficult |
work onto the men and, where this
is done, man has become the supe-
rior in capacity and, therefore, re-
ceives greater compensation, whicha
woman seldom appreciates. Because
of this discrimination she will lay it
to a prejudice against her sex. Where
undertakes

a business on her own account and
help,

Another criticism is: It is imprac-
ticable because, when a woman mar-
ries the husband and undertakes to
discharge the duties of wife and
mother and mistress of the house-
that wives of husbands with | hold, she can —_ be expected to go
small incomes should be wage-earners out into the business world and Sat

esi Should she do so, it would

employs nothing but women

ter than where the sexes are mixed.

Prof. Patten, of Pennsylvania, ar-

also. The whole social problem

would be solved were the wife to| tend to destroy manhood and mother-
ai 4 : 1

become an income producer. Of| 00d and wreck the home. Every

man who marries assumes the obli-
| gation. to support her and their chil-
dren. The plan would do away at
one sweep with the home as the unit
of civilization and make it, instead,
a luxury for the higher salaried
classes.

 

course, I refer to the young married
couples where each, before marriage,
is earning from $10 to $20 a week. I
believe that each should continue ‘|
wage-earner until the in- |
come increases to at least $20, when
the wife can add more to the utility
of his money by withdrawing from
the wage-earning class. As the
come from a man increases from $1o
to $20 a week, that of the woman
remains stationary at $10 and then,
giving herself up to the home they
both can get better and more pleas-

 

husband’s

 

 

There are those who ate so crazy
in-|in their adoration of the sex as to
assert that no man ever met a wom-
an without being the better for _ it.
These I always crushed by asking
them if Adam was the better for
having met Eve? On the’ other
hand, when a railer at the weaknesses
of the sex would assert that no wom-
an ever kept a secret, I crushed him
by demanding the name and address
of any unmarried woman above 25
who ever divulged her age or any
woman—married, single or divorced
—who ever confided to any one the
fact that her hair, teeth or complex-
ion were artificial. I hold that the
virtues were inherent in woman and,
so believing, felt it unnecessary to
look for sin among them; that is, to
any alarming extent. I have _ found

come. The social pressure on the
woman is to force her from the em-
ployed classes. There is no objection
to the wife working as long as it is
to the better utilization of the income
of the husband. A criticism of this
is that he does not take into mind the
fact that the entry of a vast army of
wives into the different trades, occu-
pations and professions would lessen
the financial reward which men now
receive. To make the wives produc-
ers. in the market would intensify the

You have

 

 

BS that woman can be very wicked.

They are not all truthful and, when
they set out to lie they do it with
an ease, a grace, a smoothness that
sugarcoats the most audacious falsi-
fication, and makes it go down as
easily as the sweetest truth. I have
found them horribly insincere in
everything relating to the stronger
sex. They would flirt and trifle with
them. And J never heard but one
who even condemned the practice,
and her condemnation did not count,
for she was 39, had had smallpox,
was cross-eyed and wore a wig and
was thin and angular, and had frec-
kles and very sandy hair; and her
nose turned up, and her teeth were
bad and she did not know how to
dress and had large feet and very
large bony hands and a stoop inher
shoulders, and some other defects.
She was not the belle of her native
village. She protested vehemently
against this thing of ensnaring young
men, and when they had lost all con-
trol of themselves in their adoration,
of casting them off heartlessly.

 

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33

 

Is Disease Gaining On the Doctors?

At a cost of $11,000,000 Greater
New York is to have one of the fin-
est hospitals in the world. It is the
new Bellevue, which is t obe erected
on First avenue, with a frontage of
two blocks from Twenty-sixth to
Twenty-eighth streets.

In the meantime the overcrowding
of all the city hospitals will probably
continue until the new institution is
completed in 1914.

During the last three months Belle-
vue has received 1,950 patients from
other hospitals and has sent 1,523 pa-
tients to Blackwell’s Island.

The present hospital has accommo-
dations for only 750 patients, and is
woefully over-crowded all the time,
with the conditions growing worse
from year to year.

It is expected that the new hospi-
tal will accommodate 2,800 patients,
which will be ample for all conditions
likely to arise.

On Manhattan Island last year
there were over 150,000 hospital pa-
tients. Many institutions for the
sick and disabled badly
overcrowded that it was impossible
to give proper treatment to those
who sought admission.

Bellevue alone handled over. 27,000
cases. In Mount Sinai 36,366 patients
were treated. Roosevelt was so bad-
ly crowded that 1,200 patients were
sent away to Bellevue and the total
number of ambulance calls, which
were 5,822 for Roosevelt, was 415
more than during the previous year.
The Presbyterian Hospital treated
Over 40,000 patients.

All over the city during the long,
hard winter the people of the tene-
ments died by hundreds of pneumo-
nia, grip,-typhoid and pulmonary dis-
eases.

Physicians attribute this remarka-
ble increase in sickness to the severi-
ty of the winter and to the filthy, torn
up condition of the New York streets.

Although pathological knowledge
and science have steadily progressed
in ratio with the increase of disease,
the death rate has not ceased to
climb steadily upward, until it has
become an alarming problem for the
Board of Health and the city au-
thorities to contemplate.

This is disectly attributable to in-
adequate hospital facilities through-
out the city. One hospital which was
forced to curtail its work for lack of
funds estimates that the lives of 400
persons were saved last year in one
ward, since closed.

This means that fully 400 persons
are likely to die during the next year
in their tenement homes for the lack
of hospital care, unless that ward is
reopened.

About 75 per cent. of the 150,000
hospital inmates last year were chari-
ty patients, and it is by reason of
the enormous amount of this work
that the institutions find themselves
overwhelmed.

Twenty of the principal hospitals
of the city report deficits for last
year varying from $500 to $88,500.

Thus in the absence of immediate
assistance hundreds of poor patients
will be deprived of life-saving meas-
ures. This will mean a further in-

were so

crease in the death rate and an added
menace to the community.

St. Luke’s, the Presbyterian and
Roosevelt are heavily in debt and
have been compelled to seriously cur-
tail their facilities, and several other
hospitals have made serious inroads
into their endowment funds in the
hope that assistance would come at
the eleventh hour.

Among the hospitals most heavily
in arrears are the J. Hood Wright,
Roosevelt, St. Luke’s, Flower, Mount
Sinai, German and Woman’s. The
total deficit of the hospitals is about
$500,000.

This situation, which has _ been
growing for years, reached its most
serious phase last winter, when pneu-
monia was almost epidemic and grip
was raging all over the city.

Speaking of the overtaxed condi-
tion of the hospitals a physician at-
tached ‘to Bellevue said: “We have
125 beds arranged with springs and
mattresses between chairs for the ex-
tra occupants of the wards. This
over-crowding is injurious to the
other patients. The air naturally be-
comes foul and impure, and neces-
sary ventilation becomes a_ serious
problem.

“We no longer fear typhoid. We
have learned to combat it successful-
ly in almost every instance. Take
Roosevelt Hospital as an example. In
1902 that institution handled 127 cases
of typhoid fever, of which III were
cured. Our own record is not far
behind that, although the number of
patients in Bellevue is vastly greater.

“Smallpox, save in epidemic form,
has practically been conquered. Diph-
theria, when taken in time, is not a
dangerous disease with our present
knowledge of germs and germ-kill-
ers. In fact, it is the vast increase
in our knowledge of bacteria which
has enabled us to cope successfully
with disease during the past trying
winter.

“Pneumonia is the one. disease
which has up to the present time baf-
fled all our efforts. The methods
employed in fighting it are practical-
ly the same as those in vogue a
quarter of a century ago, when it
was popularly known as ‘lung fever.’
As in the past, we simply do the best
we can to ease and sustain the pa-
tients while the disease runs _ its
course.

“The only new knowledge we have
of it is that it is infectious, and,
therefore, a germ disease. It claims
three times as many victims as ty-
phoid. and there are more annual
cases of it than of consumption.

“T have no doubt that some pathol-
ogists will succeed before many years
in segregating the germ and finding
an anti-toxin for the disease.

“The great advance in surgery is
too complex and too voluminous a
subject for me to comment upon.

“The hospitals will have to reduce
their work to fit their incomes,
which means that they will become
merely surgical places. The medicai
wards will close and the sick poor
will be left to their fate unless some-
thing is done.

“In the treatment of scarlet fever

 

one of the first requirements is the

  

isolation of the case, with the view |

of preventing the spread of the dis-
ease.

“Disinfectants, such as_ carbolic
acid, etc., are used freely in the ward
where the patient lies, and all body
and bed clothes are placed at once
in boiling water or some disinfecting
fluid. In convalescence, with the
view of preventing the transmission
of the desquamated cuticle, the in-

There is no doubt in the minds of
that

has

Bellevue Hospital physicians

disease during the past winter

been greatly increased by the over-

| crowding of the wards.

| OF

unction of the body with carbolized |
oil and the frequent use of a soda/|

bath

“A great factor in

are necessary.

the

the increased cost of modern meth-
ods of treating the sick and_ the
greater cost of keeping the buildings
in order as they grow older.”

In the year past the total ex-
penses were $2,004,616.82; the total
receipts $1,924,511.72, of which $673,-
761.54 was from the public. This de-
ficit of $150,000 is not on account of
the increase of population, but rath-
er from the fact that disease
grown past the capacities of the hos-
pitals.

During the last fiscal year

an average of 545 per day.

er said: “Of the 3,214 patients

increased |. :
. , - | im his last report:
expenses of the private hospitals is |

Persons suffering from trivial injur-
ies requiring surgical aid have been
sent home with the germs of typhoid
pneumonia in their
caught association

systems,
with pa-
tients in the receiving room.

Of the condition prevailing in this
Dr. John W. Brannan,
dent of the Board of Trustees, says
“All the patients

from

room Presi-

must be received and examined in
one room in the basement, poorly
lighted and badly ventilated. From

80 to 100 sick people, most of them
very poor, apply for admission every
day, and all of them—men, women
and children—must pass through the

same room, there being no. other

available. Every variety of disease

|and injury, besides intoxication and

has |

| proper diagnosis can be made.
the |
Presbyterian Hospital gave medical |
or surgical advice to 40,195 persons, |
Of the}
conditions in this hospital Dr. Fisch- |
in |
this hospital during the past fiscal |
year 68 per cent. were unable to pay |
anything and were treated free, and |

insanity, is thus displayed in rapid
succession, and transfers must fre-
quently be made to the wards before
Con-
siderations of quiet and privacy have
to be disregarded under such circum-
and incidents
All

to

distressing
can not be altogether avoided.
that the trustees
do in the way of improving condi-
to have bath-
tubs attached to the reception-room,

stances,

have been able

tions here has been

so that patients are no longer car-

 

6 per cent. were on endowed beds.| ried to the wards unwashed or in
Only two-thirds of our plant is now} clothes perhaps infested with ver-
in operation.” | min.”

 

 

 

can.

 

 

 
 
  

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tempts poor ones—nourishes all.

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with Chili Sauce.

The taste is a treat—pure, piquant, unsurpassed in
deliciousness. ‘*Columbia”’ stands for perfect clean-
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Serves six—costs 10 cents.

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them, send his name with yours to

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Try a

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

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

New York, May 28—There is little
if any change in the coffee market.
Buyers do not seem to show any
great animation, but there is a steady
volume of orders coming in and, up-
on the whole, trade is in a satisfac-
tory condition. At the close Rio No.
7 is well held at 67%c and stocks are
moderate. In store and afloat there
are 2,798,758 bags, against 2,381,747

bags of Brazil coffee at the same time |

last year. Mild coffees are
and stocks are seemingly ample to
meet all requirements. Quotations
are unchanged, Good Cucuta being
still worth oc. For the East India
sorts there is a steady call and rates
are unchanged.

There has been quite a heavy de-
mand for refined sugars on old con-
tracts and some new business as well,
so that the market has been firm all
the week and this condition is very

likely to remain for some time. Re- |

finers are slightly behind in filling
orders in some cases and by next
Tuesday there is likely to be quite
a congestion of orders.

The tea market remains as it has
for some time—dull and
Sales are of small lots and buyers
seem not at all interested.

There is a flat market for rice and

the consuming demand is said to be!

at a low ebb. Still holders are not
disposed to let go of stocks at less
than quotations and evidently have
faith in the future. Quotations at

the South for certain grades seem to |

be above the parity of those here.

There is a firm and unchanged mar-
ket with the spice men. Pepper, es-
pecially, is well sustained and, in

fact, there is no weakness anywhere. |

The supply of grocery. grades of
molasses is limited, but there seems
to be enough to meet the require-
ments, which are simply for small
lots to keep assortments in fair con-
dition. Quotations are steady. Good
to prime centrifugal, 18@27c.

There is continued quietude in
canned goods and neither buyer nor
seller seems at the moment to be
vitally interested. The trade is wait-
ing for samples of new goods. All
reports agree that so far the pros-
pect for peas has been all that could
be asked for and a pack large and
of very fine quality is anticipated in
Maryland. From New York and New
Jersey and the “Peninsula” the re-
ports of good crops are’ uniform.
About the dullest thing at the mo-
ment is tomatoes, which are work-
ing out at about 62%c. For futures,
67'%4@7oc. Peas are not well estab-
lished as to quotations.

Lemons and oranges have met
with favor from buyers this week
and for the former there is some ad-
vance in quotations, the range being
from about $3@3.50. Bananas. are
firm and the demand is showing daily
improvement. Some delay has been

steady |

dragging. |

experienced by the strike of the
| steamboat men. :
| Little change is shown in the but-
ter market. Receipts are fairly liber-
ai and there is some accumulation,
| but not over 18@18%c can be quoted
/and, while the latter might be ex-
i ceeded once in awhile, there is yet
| some very good stock to be had at
174%4c; seconds, 16@16%c; imitation
creamery, 13@I15c; factory, I2@1I4c;
| renovated, 14(@15c.

In the cheese market most of the
| trading has been in the better grades,
the supplies of which have not been
overabundant this week. The few
| very hot days had the effect of injur-
ing a lot of cheese and quite a lot
of such has been sold for what it
' would bring. Exporters have been
trade. Full cream
about 8c:

| doing quite a
small sizes are held at
‘large, 7%c.

There is a firm market for desira-
ble eggs and very top grades of
| Western will fetch 17%4@18c; storage
| goods are about %c less, and from
this down to 14@14\4c.

>_> —__
Relation of Strikes to Dull Times.

The action of the Pennsylvania
| Railroad Company in laying off in-
definitely the names of- about eleven
| thousand men from its pay-rolls is
not an isolated occurrence. Other
railroad lines and manufacturing and
business concerns in general are dis-
pensing with employes wherever it
is possible for them to do so. Trade,
just at present, is in the ebb tide, and
| business men everywhere are forced
'to adopt a policy of sharp retrench-
'ment. The Commercial would not
| care to go so far as to say, with Vice-
| President Todd of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railway
Company, that “there are many indi-
cations now that for the next few
| years hard times are ahead”; but even
| the wayfaring man should be able to
| perceive that there is a marked slack-
| ening in nearly all sorts of business.
In spite of this situation—a_ situa-
| tion in which it might be supposed
| that working people would do what
‘lay in their power to make continua-
tion of employment possible—fresh
labor disputes, often over trifles, ap-
pear to be breaking out in every di-
rection. Do these working people
realize that, even though this busi-
ness reaction may prove to be only
moderate in character, it is likely to
go hard with them in retaining or se-
curing jobs? Do they realize how
vastly the army of competitors for
employment has been increased of
late years? Since 1896, when this
country began to emerge from the
last period of business depression,
probably four million immigrants—
the great majority of them male
adults—have landed on our shores.
In the same period millions of the
native juvenile population have reach-
ed the self-supporting age—the num-
ber of voters alone having been in-
creased between 1892 and 1900 by
over two millions, with the prob-
ability that this number has_ been
swelled as much again since 1900.
Since 1890, the entire population of
| the United States has increased, it
| is estimated, nearly twenty millions.

 

In view of this tremendous ad-
dition to the ranks of labor could
there be a greater piece of folly than
for working people to plunge into
strikes—especially strikes for higher
wages-—just when business is plainly
slowing down? One would imagine
that labor leaders, as a matter of
self-interest, would use all their in-
fluence, in these circumstances, to
check strikes. It is notorious that
the membership of labor organiza-
tions invariably falls off enormously
in dull times and, as a consequence,

there is less occupation for trades
union organizers and walking del-
egates. Workingmen who have

lest their positions by reason of
dwindling business can not keep up
their dues in such organizations, and
necessarily they are dropped from
the rolls. All this should be obvious.

Yet just now, when business men
in all sections of this country are
taking in sail and preparing for a
gale, labor leaders appear bent on
precipitating fresh labor troubles. It
seems to be impossible to beat into
their skulls the fact that many em-
ployers are only too glad of such an
excuse for curtailing operations or

 

shutting down operations
Employers understand clearly that the

entirely.

more strikes there are when business
is stagnant the easied it is for them
to obtain labor at terms that will
enable them to keep going.

Some day stern experience will
succeed in drilling this fact into the
crass brains of the men who pose as
“leaders” of the working  classes—
New York Commercial.

—_——_>-.—___.
Silent Auctions.

To a stranger a Chinese auction is
a most curious spectacle. The auc-
tioneer leans over a slightly elevated
counter and exhibits his wares. He
says nothing, neither does the bid-
der, who merely steps forward to
the auctioneer and runs his fingers
up his sleeve, making pressure on the
salesman’s arm, thus indicating how
much he will pay for the article.
Then another and another repeat the
action, until the one signifying the
highest price receives the article with-
out a word being exchanged on eith-
er side. Only the auctioneer and
the successful bidder know the price
offered and accepted.

 

 

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35

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Excellent Demand for Top Coats at
New York.

The early spring was rather a se-
vere one for the _ ultra-fashionable
man who wished to show his new
spring clothes, although it was un-
doubtedly a good season for the cloth-

iers from one point of view, because |
for |

there was an excellent demand
top coats and spring overcoats. Here-

in lies a fruitful topic for discussion |
I do not remember of any_spring |

season that has
a variety in top coats and overcoats.
We find everything in vogue from
the short, toppy garment, 32 inches
long, to the 52-inch rain coats, and

even longer than these if the wearer |

be tall. The raincoat has certainly

proved itself to be a prime favorite |
It was |

with every class this season.
made up in the straight loose style,
ic was made up full back and belt
and it was of frock overcoat shape,

close fitting at the waist, form-fitting |

above and with loose skirts like the
frock coat from which it takes
name.

sons past—tan and gray coverts and
a moderate share of fancies in modest

and almost invisible plaids for the |
short toppers, tan and gray coverts |
for the long raincoats, also for the}

spring frock overcoats, while for the
knee lengths» soft vicunas and similar
fabrics hold sway.

_The latest English spring overcoat

is really designed for a riding coat, |
and as might be expected, is rain- |

proof. This is a coat for riding in

the saddle and is of very light stuff, |

is made large and will slip over any
coat and has large triangles of cloth
set in the side, the apex of each al-

most to the armpits, and when un- |

fastened by means of the studs and
sockets on the side make a great
spread of skirts that will completely
cover the legs in the saddle. When

not in the saddle and these are fas- |

tened, the coat is of ordinary dimen-
sions. Except from _ this

spread of skirts, its features
close fitting to a little below the

shoulder, from which point it spreads |
The collar has a tab and}

rather full.
button to hold it when turned up
and the sleeves are made either with
tabs and buttons or with turned back
cuffs.

Speaking of the saddle reminds me
that the riding season is well under
way. It should be borne in mind
that there is a decided distinction be-
tween the correct dress’ forms for
hunting and for ordinary park and
country-use, and that to a certain ex-
tent, the sport, as far as its apparel
is concerned, has its formal and in-
formal sides. With hunting togs I
will not deal in this article, but only
with such apparel as is for everyday
exercise in the ring, or on the road.

In short jackets there is nothing
distinctive, and as a mater of fact,
short jackets do not come within the
category of genuine riding clothes,
although they are frequently worn. In
the country a Norfolk jacket or a
tweed sack coat may be well enough
for informal wear, but in town or
generally wherever one cares in the

allowed so. great}

its |
There is not very much diver-
sity of fabric and covert rules the)
favorite this season as for many sea- |

extra |
are |

l
‘least about his appearance or the
| fitness of things, the skirted coat is
| the thing. If a short coat be worn
| it is much better to have it plain,
black vicuna, worsted or cheviot, and
cut in the simple sack style. As
this is essentially an informal dress,
almost any kind of leggings or boot-
ees are better than boots, and the
| breeches should be of some medium
or light-toned fabric. The waistcoat
| should be single breasted and of the

| same cloth as the coat, or a simple
flanel waistcoat may be worn, but
the regulation riding waistcoat of
Tattersall pattern is hardly in keeping
with the short sack coat.

The hat with this style coat may be
the derby, or, in the country, a simple
cloth cap. For the man who rides
only occasionally, this outfit does very
well, for it is good enough, although
not strictly the smartest.

The correct riding coat is the skirt
coat, cut about the length of the reg-
ular cutaway, but the skirts almost
meet in front. The models for these
have changed very little since last
season. There is quite a pronounced
waist line and it is fastened with four
bone buttons, the lowest one being
at the waist seam. There should be
two buttons in the middle of the back
and either two, three or four on the
sleeves. There should be but one
| outside breast-pocket, although occa-
| sionally these coats are made with
/two covered by a flap. There are
| fairly large side pockets covered with

the waist seam and about an inch be-
|low it. Grays and browns figure
prominently in the color schemes,
and they are apt to be cut from
'rather fancy materials, plaids and
checks. The waist seam of this coat
in this latest form should drape in
| front a little below the waist line,
'the skirt full, straight in front but
cut away about five or six inches
the bottom.

The breeches are, of course, of the
regular riding style, cut very full over
| the thighs, tight from the knees down,
| where they should be reinforced with
| buckskin or box cloth, or, as some
| prefer, extra patches of the same
cloth as the rest of the breeches.
The bottoms of these breeches may
be either laced or buttoned, the latter,
I think, being preferred if they are
made to fit right. For hunting I be-
lieve buckskin breeches or corduroy
are more to be desired than cloth,
but for the ordinary park and country
riding I prefer the full suit of the
same material. With these skirt
coats the derby is the only correct
hat to wear and should be plain
black. If you wear a brown suit a
brown derby may be worn, or, if you
wear a gray suit a gray derby. How-
ever, I do not fancy, for my own part,
anything but black for a hat.

The outing suit gives promise of
being the most important article of
wearing apparel for this summer, and
it is more than likely, if the weather
proves extremely oppressive, that it
will be worn to business far more
than last summer, when, for the
most part, the weather was too cool
for outing suits. Flannel will be
prominent. Crash will be in evi-

| from

 

flaps and set at the same angle as}

dence, but there promises to be a
greater demand for rough homespuns
It

than anything else. is

easy to get the real thing in this fab- |

ric, that is, the genuine hand-made

not very)

| the lower side-pockets have rather
| deep flaps.
|
a
The successful salesman
| parts tact and one part talk.

is nine

 

 

stuff, but the mills make such excel-|

lent imitations that they pass very |

well.

njade homespun is a more serviceable |

As a matter of fact, the mill- |

New Crop Mother’s Rice
too one- pound cotton pockets to bale
Pays you 60 per cent. profit

fabric, if of good quality, than the!
hand-made stuff, and the cost is con- |

siderably less. One _ feature
should be carefully considered in se-
lecting the homespun fabric is the

stretching quality. If of soft, loose- |

ly woven texture, the breeches will

not hold the shape, yet homespuns |
are made that do hold the shape in}

most satisfactory manner. I
not believe in these so-called fancy
homespuns that have a plaid figure
in them, because, when you come
to this, you get away entirely from
the fundamental principles of the

a

homespun, a rough, plain fabric, the}
uneven colors being entirely due to|
the roughness of the yarn from which
woven, and variety of imper- ||
or comes from the variety of imper- |

it is
fections spun in the yarns, not neces-
sarily detrimental to quality, but, ac-
cording to some people’s idea, an im-
provement in looks. There is very

little if any change in the styles this | E
season, unless: we note that the coat |
is a trifle looser and a trifle longer. |

The trousers follow the  season’s
styles in shape, and are, of course,
turned up at the bottom. The out-
side breast-pocket, which should be

there, is placed at a sharp angle and

that |

do |

 

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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.

 

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THE CLOSED SHOP.

Tyranny Not To Be Tolerated by
American Freemen.

The movement among the manu-
facturers of this country against the
closed shop has now taken such gen-
eral shape as to warrant the atten-
tion of all thinking men. Questions
of wages and hours are not so serious
because they are matters of negotia-
tion, and decisions can usually be ar-
rived at without serious loss; but the
proposition of the closed shop is more
dangerous because it is not arbitra-

 

ble. For that reason the rights of
the employer and the rights of the
employe in this connection should be
carefully considered and any popular
misapprehension as to terms be re-
moved, so as to narrow the question
to its proper limits.

It is frequently discovered in con-
flicts which take place in the world
of labor, as well as in private life.
that they have been caused by mis-
construction of terms; parties quar-
rel because they look at questions
from different standpoints. When
the misunderstanding is cleared up
the conflict is over. Let us proceed |
then to try to clear the air on the
meaning of the terms “open” and
“closed” shops, and in that way help
to avoid unnecessary friction.

“In their relation to union labor
shops may be divided into three
general classes. First, the “anti-
union” shop; second, the “open”

shop, which may be subdivided into
the non-union shop, the part union
shop and the union shop; third, the
“closed” shop.

The Anti-Union Shop.

‘In this shop the employer objects
to union men; he discharges men
when he learns that they have join-
ed the union. It is no “open” shop,
being closed against union men, and
I protest against this class of shop
closed against union men as strongly
as I protest against the shop closed
against non-union men.

The Non-Union Shop.

This differs from the anti-union
shop in that it is open to union men.
The employer has no objection to
union men, but the circumstances
are such, perhaps because workmen
are not organized in his trade or
section, that non-union men only are
working in his establishment.

The Part Union Shop.

This shop, where union and non-
union men work side by side, is the
popular idea of the “open” shop. In
England, where unions are numerical-
ly twice as strong in proportion to
the population as they are in the
United States, very few unions ob-
ject to their members working in
the same shops with non-union men.
I hope our unions will soon come to
the same point as their older broth-
ers abroad. Outside of the question
of right it seems to me bad policy for
the unions to object to this condition,
particularly for the following reason:
Wherever union and non-union men
work together the chances are very
great that the union men, being or-
ganized and therefore more potent
in their influence than unorganized
non-union men, will gradually induce
their fellow-workmen to join the

 

union. In other words, missionary
work and evolution will go on with
good results to the union. Provided
the union is doing what is right and
that its methods are good, it will un-
doubtedly enlarge its membership in
such shops. Of course if the union
man “agitates” during business hours,
or if he endeavors to inject arbitrary
rules and restrictions into the busi-
ness, he may not only lose the good
will of the employer but also that of
such non-union workers who desire
to push themselves forward and not
be a party to the objectionable
measures that may be adopted. In
other words, by methods of evolution
the success of the union in the “open”
shop depends upon the conduct of
the union, and for my part I see a
greater future for unionism through
the missionary work which is made
possible by union men working side
by side with non-union men than in
the segregation of all the union men
in closed shops where the limit of
their membership has been reached.
Besides what is accomplished by evo-

| lution, slowly and peacefully, is more

likely to be permanent than what is

| accomplished by coercion, quickly, un-

naturally. The struggle for the closed
shop moreover does not come up in
the non-union shops, but mainly in
the shops which are part union and
part non-union, particularly in those
shops where 90 to 95 per cent. are
already in the union and where the
desire is to control the balance. Is
it not bad policy when the union has
such a large proportion of men in
its organization to risk all for the
sake of gaining that small per cent.?
There are so little to gain and so
much to lose. The demand for the
closed shop antagonizes the employ-
er, and also when it succeeds in forc-
ing a few men into the union it adds
poor members to the organization.
An unwilling union man is a_ bad
union man to get.
The Union Shop.

The third division of the open
shop—the “union” shop—exists
where, although all union men are
employed, there is no agreement to
exclude non-union men, but where
circumstances are such by reason of
the thorough organization of the
union in a trade or district that no
others happen to be employed in a
shop; here non-union men have not
been refused employment. It may be
that non-union men had been em-
ployed in this shop, but that mission-
ary work had converted them into
union men. The employer in this
case does not discriminate against
non-union men, nor has he been ad-
vised of or accepted the authority of

a “shop chairman” selected by the
union. Here the line is drawn be-
tween the “union” shop and_ the
“closed” shop. The union shop is
such by circumstances and not’ by
agreement with the employer. In

the union shop non-union men have
not been refused employment. As
soon as they are refused employment
by agreement and union rules are
accepted by the employer it becomes
the “closed” shop.
The Closed Shop.
The union shop is a voluntary con-

 

dition, the closed shop is a compul-
sory condition. While most employ-
ers are not opposed to the unions,
nearly all object to the closed shop.
They say that it is “un-American;”
that it is brought about by coercion;
that it takes from them the free
right of employment; that it compels
them to say to a workman applying
for employment, “Join the union, or
starve;” that it limits their employes
to a favored class; that it is against
the laws of trade; that it restricts
the right of the workmen to do their
best, and thoroughly develop their
faculties; that it arbitrarily keeps the
sons of American workmen from
learning the trade of their fathers;
that it introduces the arbitrarily ap-
pointed “shop chairman,” who in
carrying out the rules of the union
often interferes with the discipline of
the employer and frequently attempts
to make the latter the collecting
agency of the dues of the union;
that the closed shop with its restric-
tive measures threatens to impede
the progress of American industry
and to take our country from the
proud place of supremacy it has re-
cently attained in the commerce of
the world. You may hear a ‘great
deal about the improved conditions
brought about by unions, and no one
is more glad to recognize and ap-
plaud their good work than I, but
do not confuse the work of the unions
with the “closed shop.” A_ very
small percentage of the union work-
men of this country are in closed
shops and therefore do not fairly de-
serve all the credit of the good work
of unions; on the contrary, the evils
of unionism, the excesses of unionism,
which have done and are still doing
the greatest injury to the prospects
of the movement, are traceable to
the use of the arbitrary and coercive
powers of the closed shop. The clos-
ed shop is certainly not a natural
condition, nor a voluntary one; other-
wise why do the employers rise as
in a body against it? It is true that
some employers favor the _ closed
shop. In many instances, -however,
it is discovered that they have a sel-
fish purpose, that they are conspiring
with the unions to restrict competi-
tion, that they want to keep the
small emplover from going into busi-
ness, and if he is in business to drive
him out. Here I raise my voice for
the rights of the beginner in busi-
ness. Nearly all of us had to begin
small, and in free America, the land
of opportunity, should we now allow
the beginner to be crushed by the
closed shop agreement between the
Trust of Capital and the Trust of
Labor?

Let us get together, employers
and wage earners, and thresh out the
differences regarding the open and the
closed shop. Fundamental _ princi-
ples are involved; the right of an
employer to hire and discharge, and
the right of a workman to seek em-
ployment where he will not be com-
promised. The right of a workman
to join a union nor be discrim-
inated against on that account must
be conceded; but equally so the right
of a workman not to join a union
nor be discriminated against on that

 

account. But strikes and lockouts
will not settle the question—they will
only prove which side is stronger,
not which side is right. We must
get together and argue this question
out—education of employer and wage
earner is needed. General discus-
sions will be helpful; conferences be-
tween employers and wage earners in
the various trades still more so. It
will thus be learned by both sides that
what is good for the head is good
for the hand—that high wages areas
beneficial to employers as to em-
ployes—that a short workday is as
much needed by the employers as by
the workmen, and that arbitrary and
coercive measures, such as the clos-
ed shop, prejudice the larger interests
of wage earner as well as of em-
ployer. Marcus M. Marks,

President National Clothiers’ Ass'n.

 

The Canadian Cheese Trade of 1903.

In his report regarding the cheese
trade of 1903 A. W. Grindley, agent
of the Department of Agriculture in
Great Britain, says: “The cheese sea-
son was a most successful one; there
was a large increase in the quantity,
and the steady improvement in the
quality was so great that in spite
of very heavy supplies the prices
realized on the whole were satisfac-
tory. The mild, sweet, palatable flav-
or, as distinguished from the heat-
ed and biting character so noticeable
in former years, has créated a large
consumptive demand, which will
have a tendency to do away with the
disproportion in value between Cana-
dian and English cheddar.”

The practice of shipping too new
or “green” can not be too emphati-
cally condemned, as it- not only spoils
the sale, but hurts the reputation of
Canadian cheese. The salesman, as
well as the exporter, are to blame for
sending these immature cheese, and
the patrons of factories should insist
that their cheese should be held in
the curing room until it is in sucha
condition as will give satisfaction to
the British consumer.

The difference in the quality of
cheese held in the government cool-
curing rooms was very _ noticeable,
not only in quality, but in general
appearance. This improvement is
due to cool curing and “waxing” the
cheese, which also has the advantage
of preventing a considerable percen-
tage of shrinkage. During the sea-
son of 1902, when waxed” cheese
first appeared on the British market,
some of the grocers’ associations ob-
jected, and even went so far as o
demand an allowance in weights, but
it was soon proved that there was
less shrinkage, which, added to the
improved quality and appearance of
the cheese, quickly created a brisk
demand for cheese coming from the
Government Curing Stations, at an
advance in price compared to cheese
coming from the ordinary factories.

Care should be taken not to use
green, unseasoned boxes, as_ the
cheese, particularly the top and bot-
tom, may be damaged in quality from
this cause alone. It is false economy
to buy cheap boxes.

Leading British importers of Ca-
nadian cheese are in favor of brand-
ing cheese indelibly with the month

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

in which they are made. Some years
ago “September” cheese became the
favorites, but owing to the improve-
ment in the quality of cheese made
during July and August, brought
about by the system of “cool curing”
introduced by the Department of
Agriculture, the makes of other
months have proved to be nearly as
good in quality as Septembers.

It is claimed that unscrupulous
dealers in Canada, as well as in Great
Britain, quote “Septembers” at such
low prices that the supposition is
that they are the make of other
months, and any inferiority in quality
is not discovered until after delivery
is taken. If the month of make was
branded on the cheese they would be
sold on their merits, and speculators
who bought cheap lines of July, Au-
gust, October, or November makes
would be debarred from quoting
them by cable or otherwise as “Sep-
tembers.”—W. A. Clemons in Farm-

er’s Advocate.
2.

Recent Business Changes
Indiana Merchants.
Anderson—Kaufman & Co.
ceed Van Horn & Kaufman in
paint business.

Bedford—Messick & Dodd, drug-
gists, have dissolved partnership.
The business hereafter will be con-
ducted under the style of Dodd &
Douthitt.

Indianapolis — Driftmeyer Bros.
continue the grocery business former-
ly conducted by Driftmeyer & Cory.

Indianapolis—The Ardmore Gro-
cery Co. has purchased the grocery
stock of Robert Keller & Son.

Livonia—E. K. Hardin has taken a
partner in his general merchandise
business under the style of Hardin
& Hall.

Orleans—A. E. Oldham, © black-
smith, is succeeded by T. J. Shepherd.

Shelbyville—Robins Bros. continue
the grocery business of A. C. Robins.

South Bend—F. A. & H. Temple,
grocers, have dissolved partnership.
The business is continued by F. A.
Temple.

Tipton—Mr. Woodruff has _ pur-
chased the meat market of H. L.
(Mrs. J. W.) Richardson.

Warsaw—Eschbach & Weimer,
grocers, have dissolved partnership,
Chas. E. Weimer succeeding.

Matthews—A receiver has’ been
appointed in the case of the Star Co-
operative Glass Co.

Among

suc-
the

Mier—A receiver has’ been ° ap-
pointed for the Mier Window
Glass Co.

Salem—E. N. Conner, grocer, has
made an assignment.

Silver Lake—Thos. J. Colbert, deal-
er in general merchandise, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy.

—_+-+
Secret of Success.

“Consider the meek and lowly por-
ous plaster, my son,” remarked the
home- -grown philosopher, “and don’t
get discouraged. Everybody turns
his back on it, yet it hangs on and
eventually achieves success by close
application.”

—_+2-2—__—_-

Reduce your business to a _ sys-
tem and you will save time and
money and prevent worry.

 

Hardware Price Current

 

 

AMMUNITION
Caps

G. D., full count, per m......... wcces, ae
Hicks’ Waterproof, per ...........- 50
pe a ee a ea eae 75
Ely’s Waterproof, Oe WE ccc cat 60

Cartridges
NO. 22 short, DOF Wi. ok. eid i ccc cee 2 60
Ne. 22 lene, DE0 Ws oe. on. Sock c ccc c ee 3 00
Wo. 32 short, per Mi... . occ os kc ctw 5 00
INO: Sc Ome, HOR ME... 6... ck 5 75

Primers

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, n...-1 60
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60

Gun Wads
Black edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C..... 60
Black edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m...... 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 90
129 4 1 9 1 2 90
128 4 1 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 290
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 2 70
26 4 12 2 70

4 sis

Discount 40 per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 72

 

 

  

 

Crockery and Glassware

 

 

 
  
 

STONEWARE
Butters
ki ieet ewes ceeds 48
1 to 6 gal. per doz. 6
S onl. Gpeh ...... 62
10 gal. each 66
i e_—_—e_—_ ee 78
15 gal. meat tubs, each . 1 20
20 gal. meat tubs, each ... 1 60
25 gal. meat tubs, each . «wt @
30 gal. meat tubs, ae 2 70
Churns .
CO Ee _ eee 6%
2 | Churn ————_——— 84
Milkpans

fron
Bar Irom ....:.... pees ace ...2 25 e rates
EG PA co oc eee ks 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 BOUNE COMERS ooo cc cee cecnsess 1%
Oe WO ee cc ects we 8
Miscellaneous
TSE CM og ae dace cc Ov bance cde 40
Ps CRORE ie ci ieee eee s es =
OO,
Casters, Bed and Plate ........ sidibat
Deere, AMICFIORN oink cece cces
Molasses Gates
Stembin's Pattern 2... 06.6. sce ccs 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring ........... 30
Pans
ee AGM co see oe
Common, polished .........ccccscces

Patent Planished fron

“‘A’' Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80)

‘*B’’ Wood’s pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80
Broken packages %c per Ib. extra..

Planes

Olio Tool Co.'s faney .............. 40

NOE UN ose ee ccc esc 50

Sandusky Tool Co.'s fancy .......... 40

Bench, first Quality .........0ss0ccees 45
Nalls

Advance over base, on both Steel & _
SeGel WAM BORO ooo. icons cscs 2 75
WAPI ons ccc ce eecs 2 30
20 to 60 advance Base

 

  

 

| % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each ... 6
Fine Glazed Milkpans
% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 60
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each ... 6
Stewpans

 

% gal. fireproof, bail, per doz. ....... 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail per dom. ...... 110
Jugs
% gal. per doz. .. 60
% gal. per doz. i 45
E UO GD Gal, DOF OWE coc icecse ce cec ess 1%
Sealing Wax
5 Ibs. in package, per Ib. .......... 2
LAMP BURNERS
ie OO ce 35
OE 36
Oe ee 48
as ade debe eodeacsuauy 85
PTI, bc ccdd sca reteouuscecceneus 60
oe eck es bet ceces cues 50

MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps

 

 

 

 

No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 64/10 to 16 advance ..............ce00 Si, Per Gross.
G d ee 19/ Pints ..... 4 25
aoe © Awemee oe 20 | Quarts ...
Kegs, 25 tbs., per keg............... fe aavanee 30 Led 30 | % Gallon . 6
% Kegs, 12% Tbs., per Moe 55... 3 30 S Geuaee ico ee 45 Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in ‘box.
Kegs, 6% Ibs., per ee Oe) 2 anvenee ec cc eee cee 70 | LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Shot Wale 3 SOMANOE ook tesa eee 50 | Per box of 6 doz.
Casing 10 dGvance .. 20... .06 55. e cee 5s CO a ve 60
In sacks containing 26 Ibs. Camis § SRVANCE 6.5... ......205..506 oi eee ee ale eooe AUB
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 75 comune ‘ amaenee ae ae Se ee 2 54
A BI inis OO ose co as 25 Anchor Carton Chimneys
: —— Finish 8 advance ..... 35 Each chimney in cecvanuenl unten
Se A ee 60 | Finish 6 advance 45 | No rimp 1 80
Jennings’ genuine .. -- 25|Barrel % advance ...............0+- S06 et 178
Jennings’ imitation . 50 Rivets Th GE Socisehissscceasseseccs BOO
Axes Iron and Tinned .............eeecees 50 First Quality
ek eee Oe es... 6 50 | Copper Rivets and Burs ...........0.. a | Re % oo. — = Seana 2 ioe : *
First Quality, D. B. Brenge ........ 9 00 Roofing Plates No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 00
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel ........ 7 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean 7 50 : : XXX Flint (
First Quality, D. B. Steel ........... 10 50 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ............ 9 00| No. 1 Sun, crimp top, ‘erenwed & lab. 3 25
Barrows 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean ............ 15 00 | No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 7 50| No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled. 4 25
AON ei kee eee css nse 14 00 | 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00 ' Pearl T :
MA ich Sis hecaelancdesscugsssed 33 00 | 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade |.15 00 | no 1 Sun, wraprel and labeled 1@
Bolts 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00/ No 2 Sun, weannen and labeled .... 5 30
iawn 70 Ropes No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled .. 5 10
Carriage, new list ...2.20200II III! 70 | Sisal, % inch and larger ........... 20 | HO. 3 San, “meee bem,” Gee ee, =
(CO 50 Sand P. La Bastle
aper No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 00
Buckets East deot. 19, S6 2.5.0 e cc 3 es dis 650 a 2 Sun, — So per doz. .... =
Me. plein ee ce oO. EMMID, DOF GOR. woe sserreerorses
Well, pisin eee ei 7s Solid Eyes 2. ion No. 2 Crimp, per Gom. .............. 1 60
‘ i ae datas
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ 70 Sheet Iron Teo. 1 Tide (660 Gam.) 2.2... cs ecunase 3 50
Wrought Narrow .............eeeeees GO Naa. 10) to Me $3 60| No. 2 Lime (75e doz.) .........+++-+ 00
Chain an 3 79|No. 2 Flint (80c doz.) .........++.+. 4 60
Oe 2S Oe oe ce  eece ee 90 Electric
% 5-16 in. é im. 36m. | Nos 22 te 24... 410 $00) No. 2. Lime (70e Gom.) ........ 0000s 4 00
Common <7 c...6 a Woe. 95 te 26 .............. 4 20 4 00 | No. 2 Flint (80c doz.) .........0..000- 4 60
f a. e Oe Oe CIN. 20 ee 4 30 410 OIL CANS
BBB 3 . 6%c...6%c. All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30/1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 20
Crowbars inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. i ante. _— ae na per Fg , ¢
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz.. 2 2
Cast Steel: per Wo ..000.55.....02.... 5 aa a and Spades an 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, ae doz. 3 15
Chisels i Sead go “oe oc cersccccesccsess ; 7 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 20
. a 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 75
—— foe Dee egueie cas oe ece ewe ce . Solder z gal. eo: iron with faucet, per doz. : a
NE nes ila ek, TUN GRRE oo. senso cscs soe . 7 00
Socket Corner .............e.eee eee Oe a IE Ge gay. Wee Mande ......-0-., 9 00
Socket Slicks ..........cccccceeeeeeees (| ot sonder in the mates tadlonted tr erty. LANTERNS
Elbows ate brands vary according to sceupaaiion. No. @ Tubular, side fe ......ccceccee 4 65
—. 4 — 6 _ per doz. net . 35 Squares , ee ae pape st tnaneenenre ; #
orrugated, per doz. ............... 4 feet atid Mon 2.2... klk -10- 0 pigeon gl aaa tl
Adjustable ’.........0..000cc00 0” ”6™6hlUL—ELo No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ............ 7 75
Expansive Bits 10x14 IC, Charcoal .............6.. $10 50 | No. ; dasout ‘ion aa or cenentee eine 80
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26 ........ 40 | 14x20 IC, Charcoal ................. a =
Ives’ 1, $18: 3, $24: % Sse ...:..- «-. 26 /|10x14 IX, Charcoal ................ LANTERN GLOBES
Each additional X on this grade, ? = No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx, 10c. 60
Files—New List Tin—All Grad No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx, lic. 50
New Amerioge oo... oi. ae sk d 70&10 ms ee No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl. 2 25
Nicholaon’s .........-.eeeeeeeeeeeeees 70 a m — 7 -$ : . No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. e’ch 1 25
Heller’s Horse Rasps ............... « we 10x14 IX, Charccal .. ° 19 50 BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Galvanized Iron 14520 TX, Chaectal ................ 0 60 aT <i. a oe oe a 24
Nag nse angi: ang ama gp “Btn sana ards #2 Noh SRY Sie BS ee Pa
Discount, 76. “ 14x56 IX, for No. 8 & 9 boilers, per tb. 13| No. 3. 1% in. wide, per gross or roil. 75
jauges Traps
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s .... 60&10/| Steel. Game ............ccesecececees 7
Glass oa oon ae goa Gewen . oo sn inet ee ae ta 1 50
neida Com’y, wle orton’s.. ooks, any denomination ......
Single Strength, by box .......... dis. 90| Mouse. choker, per - papeeasi etiam 15| 100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
Double Strength, by box ........ dis. 90| Mouse. delusion, per doz 1 26 | 500 books, any denomination ....... 11 50
By the Eight 2.0.25.....:... -dis. 90 : iy Tea ee ay 1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00
Hammers Bright, Market Pe gy gg a
Leas ue clea eee uel nn :
Tones & eee ae ee aes Geen soaio |sT2des: Where 1,000 books are ordered
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel... 30c Hist 70|Tinned Market .............c.0c00.. B0&10 se See Se eee
a Coppered Spring Steel printed cover without extra charge.
nges §—_____|Coppered Spring Steel .............. Geiitds tis tenis
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3..... ae dis. 60&10 ee wae meee : 20 » made to represent any denomi-
nation from own.
os Hollow Ware aiihis cua Wire Goods g0-10 | 730 BOOKS ...sseeseeesseserseeeees 1 50
Kettles 2022020212. ee EE tee We ocean csnc | Be bomb cece 11 60
SMES ok os On | RO ee uae 0 on tee
HorseNalls Gate Hooks and Eyes eocccocccoce -. 80-10 Credit Checks
Au Sable). dis. 40&10 Wrenches 500, any one denomination 2 00
House Furnishing Goods Baxter’s Aaa, Nickeled ..... = 1000, any one denomination .. 3 00
Stamped Tiaweare. HOW HEL ...... 20 701 Coes GeWUINE oo loci oes cnc pasos cee 2000, any one denomination . --. 5 00
Japanned seccecsecccccces -20&10 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought. 70&10 Steel PUNCH -- 26. ck cece ove cece %

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

SOCK S$

We have a line of Fancy Socks
that will prove a winner to retail at
roc per pair.

 

| tong top coat styles are in just as good
|favor as the short styles. The ma-
| jority of men feel that a rain coat
| is a necessity in every wardrobe that
'is up-to-date, and certainly last fall
|}and this spring can only have con-
| firmed their belief, showers being so
Weekly Market Review of the Prin- | frequent this season. What is true

  

 

     

 

 

 
   
   
 

cipal Staples. | of men’s wear coat fabrics is just as A :
Staple Cottons—Recent advices | true of women’s wear. Also better -— to retail at I5c, 25¢
from Fall River are as follows: Cot-! Mercerized Worsteds—The mer- and 50c per pair.

 
 

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ton manufacturers have decided to! cerized end of the worsted market
secure signatures to an agreement) seems to be an uncertain factor, al-
binding the mills to abide by any| though the belief is growing that the
change in the wage schedule, and to | consumption of these goods will not
reduce the present schedule 10 per| be anywhere near what was looked
cent. Some of the manufacturers,| for during the initial buying. Buy-
however, argue that it is not a good lers seém to be carried away with the
business policy to reduce the wages| brilliancy of the patterns in spite of
of operatives working two-thirds their belief that milder effects would
time, unless it is clear that assur- | rule in styles. The jobbers have tak-
ances can be given of steady work en fair quantities of these goods and
under the lower scale. Such assur-| the clothiers took a good deal inthe ©
ances can not be given at this time,| initial season at prices averaging {

Ask our agents to show you their

 

 
 

line.

P. Steketee & Sons
Wholesale Dry Goods
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 
  
 

  
 
 

 

 

  

 

 

it is said, because one of the great! about a dollar. Many of the clothing
difficulties in the present situation is| salesmen took orders for clothing
a lack of demand for goods. The} made from these goods and in some
majority favoring the reduction at | cases have been pushing them strong-
once contend that they are now un-| ly, although not with the success al-
dersold in the open markets about together that their efforts would seem
34c a pound, and if they can get at| to warrant. Some lines have really
least 2c a pound nearer the cost of | done exceedingly well. They are the

 

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A lot of those nobby, new’ style

Rain Coats for men’s and ladies’

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production, they can make their com- |

petitors feel the present situation as
keenly as they do themselves, and
can prevent a constant underselling
in the markets. Before the signa-
tures of some mills can be obtained,
it will be necessary to hold meetings
of the directors of the corporations.
The general strike talk in the air
here, and the wage changes, which
have been consequent on the changes
in the methods of weaving in the
mills, show the state of unrest among
the operatives, but manufacturers
who favor pressing the reduction be-
lieve it will be accepted after the
usual amount of discussion.

Dress Goods—A fair number of
duplicate orders for dress goods con-
tinue to come to hand, but they are
usually small sized individually. The
agents feel, however, that the season
will be satisfactory in the end, al-
though expected to be rather long
drawn out. The subject of style is
the chief stumbling block and is a
matter of slower or more uncertain
development than with men’s wear
fabrics. The jobbers have placed fair
orders on fancy goods, but the great-
est part of the business is yet to
come and the same must be said of
cloakings: In fact, the cloaking end
of the business is still exceedingly un-
certain and no one can say whether
the plain or fancy fabrics will be in
the lead.

Rain Cloths—There is no possible
question about the success of show-
er-proof fabrics. They have become

ones that possessed tangible merit
that there was no gainsaying. A fab-
ric like this that is evidently good
value will seldom have a hard time
finding a market, but the trouble
with mercerized fabrics is to differ-
entiate between the worthy and un-
worthy.

Linens—Linen importers are just
sending men out on the road with
general lines. There has been little
doing of late in this branch of the
dry goods trade.

Gloves—The glove manufacturers
of Gloversville, N. Y., have issued an
ultimatum to the effect that no furth-
er conferences will be held with the
employes of the international union,
no matter how long the strike lasts.
A resolution to that effect was pass-
ed at a meeting of the manufacturers
and communicated to the President
of the union.

Hosiery—The market for hosiery
at first hands is not in a particularly
reassuring condition at present writ-
ing, orders being few and far be-
tween, both for present and future
business. Jobbers, however, are feel-
ing encouraged over the manner in
which business is beginning to come
in, and it looks as if the season’s
business would foot up to a respecta-
ble total after all. Higher prices on
special lines are a possibility of the
near future. :

Carpets—The opening of the fall
season’s samples in New York on
May 16 has not, as yet, had any de-
cided influence on the carpet situa-

 

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wear. The men’s coat we select-
ed is a medium priced garment—
only $6.00 each; but it is excep-
tional value for the money. Sizes
are 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44.

In ladies’ coats we give you a
choice of two grades; one at
$2.50 and the other at $12.00 each.
Sizes are 34, 36, 38, 40. All of
these are packed one garment
in a box. Our salesmen are

showing the samples.

Grand Rapids
Dry Goods Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Exclusively Wholesale

 

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,

a factor in the market that has/tion. The failure to advance prices
grown to enormous proportions andj has temporarily depressed a few man-
there are few mills which make over-| ufacturers, but the great majority of
coatings that do not include a line| them view the situation philosophi-
of rain-proof fabrics. This has un-| cally, and declare that an advance in
doubtedly had much influence with] prices would have been a_ mistake.
top coat fashions for spring-and fall,| None of them want to do business at

blacks, indigoes, light blues and reds, sizes =
32 to 44, at $o.
_ 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 i
in assorted colors, $12. %

We solicit your patronage.

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because the larger number of men can
not afford two coats and, when they
buy one, the rain coat proves so
much more useful that they more fre-

a loss or on a very narrow margin,
but those who have studied the situa-
tion with care for the past year de-
clare that the prices set this year

Lowell Manufacturing Co.
87, 89 and 91 Campau St.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

quently select that, consequently the| are as high as the consumers will

 

 

 

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pay. Evidently, the manufacturers
who take this position were the con-
trolling factors in making the prices.
The reductions made were for the
purpose of equalizing values in the
hopes that these lines would meet
with a better demand during the
coming season than they have dur-
ing the past. The failure to advance
prices over last season’s prices and
the reductions in some lines must
not be taken as an indication that
manufacturers made money last or
will this season. With the present
high prices of the raw materials it
will be a shrewd, careful manager
who can make a profit, and his atti-
tude simply indicates his desire to do
business. Many of them did_ not
make a profit last year and naturally
some of them were depressed when
the new price lists were announced.
Others look for a profit by a fall in
the prices of the raw material. Their
position is that while there may be
an apparent shortage in the world’s
wool supply, the prices have reached
a point where curtailment of con-
sumption will act as a check. While
some can afford to and will pay al-
most any price asked for goods, they
know the great majority, the ones
who create the great volume of busi-
ness, can not pay exhorbitant prices.
The result will be that the dealers
in raw materials can either hold their
stock or sell it at prices which will
enable the spinner and manufacturer
to make a profit. Manufacturers
claim that in all grades of yarn spin-
ners will have to lower their prices
if they expect to do a normal busi-
ness, but, as spinners are not making
any profit at present prices, they are
not likely to lower them unless the
prices of the raw materials are low-
ered.

Rugs—Distributers report a good
demand for high-grade’ Brussels
rugs. For tapestry rugs the demand
is good, but for Wiltons it is only
normal. In all-wool ingrain art
squares the demand is not so good.

——_++>_

Fancy Waistcoats Less Popular.

A vear ago light fancy waistcoats
were very popular, and Ascots seem-
ed to be the popular shape to be
worn with them. This spring light
waistcoats are not nearly so popular,
and it is predicted by some that by
fall very few will be worn, and if
that should prove correct, the scarfs
to be worn would probably prove to
be the wide four-in-hands. Black
scarfs are already in correct form
with light waistcoats, hence black
neckwear had such a great sale last
year. With waistcoats from suitings,
light neckwear and anything on the
fancy order will be proper.

All silk reps are becoming daily
more popular for cravats. This
weave, an old English one, is much
liked, because it looks rich and it
ties down soft and pliable. Plain
colors are very desirable. Those
with two-inch colored borders have
been quite successful. They are in-
tended to be worn when waistcoats
are dispensed with. All dealers in
popular furnishings are carrying
some midget ties, but they are going
off slowly, and few duplicate orders

‘shapes have never been more varied

 

are being placed. Taffeta silk foe
men’s scarfs is increasing in popular- |
ity, largely owing to the fact that |
the material slides easily under turn-
over collars. Recently some very |
rich effects have been shown, the |
texture being “taffeta-batiste” in the |
prevalent soft medium shades on the |
tan and light brown order. They have |
self figures in the nature of scrolls.
New weaves in Rumchunda are}
shown this season. One, a herring-
bone weave, is particularly attractive.
The goods are English, the quality
fine and they have brought regular
prices.

|

+>
Brown Hats More Popular.

Brown stiff hats have secured for
themselves a greater degree of favor
than was thought probable earlier in
the season. The shapes shown are
extremely natty. The shades of color
are limited to the dark, medium, and
light brown, although an_ infinite
number of names is used to describe
them. As is well known, attempts
were made during the past two sea-
sons to popularize brown stiff hats,
but the public would buy only black
hats, and in this connection it may
be stated that the introduction ot
light-colored overcoats may be re-
sponsible to a great extent for the
adoption of brown derby hats _ this
spring. The short box, or top-coat,
made of light tan cloth, which is
popular this season permits of a
brown hat; in fact, the two. harmonize
nicely; however, when a black or gray
coat is worn a black hat is the more
appropriate.

Silk and linen handkerchiefs in soft
medium tints are the mode. They
are plain, with hems sewed on and
self silk figures hemstitched. The
shades are cadet blue, pale pink, tan,
pale lilac and white.

—_2» 22>
Straw Hats in Demand.

The straw hat business promises

to be a lively one this year and_ the

or fancy. At one time during the
season manufacturers were serious-
ly alarmed in regard to the supply
of split straw. The importations
were very light, and the demand,
which was expected, promised to
send prices far up above normal. This
situation~has become somewhat eas-
ier, however, owing to the apparent
favor shown to Javas and Manilas.
For the best trade yacht styles will
continue to be the best favored and
sennits will also be in good demand.
Next to these come the popular-
priced goods, which are shown in a
great variety of fancy shapes, includ-
ing telescopes and tourists. Some of
these fancy shapes will also be made
up in a very fine close woven mate-
rial which makes the hat even more
pliable than the Panama and are to
be sold at retail from $5 up. The sale
of Panama, however, is said to be
very light and confined largely to the
more remote country districts.

——_.2-2-2——_

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Serious Predicaments When the Re-
mittance Fails to Arrive.

 

A well-known traveling salesman
was sitting in a corner of the Galt
House at Louisville, Ky., recently,
the picture of despair. His whole
air was one of dejection and collapse.
He needed a shave, a shine and his
clothes were all out of gear. He
avoided speaking or being spoken to,
and every little while walked up to
the desk and gazed anxiously at his
room letter box. Then he would

study the time tables, and figure out |

the arrival of mails. Twice withina
short time he hurriedly wrote a tel-
egram only to tear it up. At his re-
quest the clerk went through all the
letters and telegrams from A to Z.
f{e started for the cigar counter feel-
ing in every pocket, and turned quick-
ly away. Then he asked the clerk
where the postoffice was and rushed
out of doors.

To the uninitiated this salesman
by his strange actions was bordering
on insanity or developing a fever, the
simple truth, however: He was
“check-bound” and “busted.”

Through oversight, negligence or
delay in the mail his remittance had
not arrived from his house and the
experience of this particular sales-
man coincides with similar ones en-
countered at times by nearly every
traveling man. Of all things  inci-
dental to the life of traveling, to be
caught “broke” perhaps a thousand
miles from home is the worst. Money
and plenty of it is necessary at any
time to keep moving and nothing will
unnerve a traveling man _ quicker
than to be without funds. He can
not eat, sleep, or work and his utter
helplessness is forced on him at every
turn. I have seen a high-grade, nervy
salesman collapse, become moody
and fretful when caught this way.
He has to avoid mingling with other
traveling men for fear of disclosing
his condition. It often takes a trav-
eling man a week to resume his nor-
mal attitude. Firms should pay par-
ticular attention to this remittance
feature and see their travelers are
sent checks as per requests. The
house that becomes negligent or
dilatory will unnerve and break down
the best man on the road. And
furthermore do not calculate on a
traveling man using his own funds
or having them with him. Ninety
per cent. have home ties and obliga-
tions thet hold claims upon his in-
come.

A little story often told may fit
in on this subject:

“T came near being in a hotel fire
once,” said the drummer.

 

“Came near being in one?” queried
the other.

“Yes; they were just going to fire
me when my check arrived.”

A delayed remittance owing to the
negligence of a cashier in a large
Philadelphia specialty house played
a tragic part in a sad affair several
years ago. The traveling man reach-
ed his hotel in Binghamton, N. Y.,
one Saturday morning dead _ broke
and a stranger to the hotel people.
He waited until afternoon and wired
the house, when the telegram was
returned “Office Closed” on account
of Saturday half holiday. Sunday
morning he was greatly disturbed
when no check came. Glancing over
the papers he was horrified to see
an account of a terrible fire in Phila-
delphia in which his wife and three
children were burned to death. He
did not have a dollar and by giving
his watch as security obtained funds
enough to reach home. It was a
humiliating position for him and
even in his distress it took considera-
bie argument to get the money from
the hotel people.

Another salesman who traveled for
a prominent house notoriously lax in
remittances was prevented from
reaching his dying mother’s bedside
in time and finally secured funds
from his father by telegraph.

Numerous incidents exist similar
to these and also some with a hu-
morous turn.

A safe salesman eager to close a
contract ordered a big wine supper
for the Board of Directors of a
Southern bank. The layout was or-
dered at a local country hotel. The
salesman was running pretty low in
funds and had sent several telegrams
requesting remittances. The cashier
was away at the seashore and noone
in authority at the office. The Board
of Directors solemnly assembled for
the feast when the landlord called
the salesman aside and presented his
bill and refused to continue prepara-
tions unless paid. He was obliged
to admit his “busted” condition, but
on putting up a diamond ring and
his watch the banquet proceeded.

A soap salesman recently wrote to
a local customer inviting the custom-
er and his wife to attend the theater
on a certain date. When he arrived
in town no check was there and his
exchequer woefully depleted. By
ringing in a bluff he borrowed a $10
bill from the customer and the play
went on.

Some time ago the firm failed to
remit a Chicago specialty man on
time whose wife travels with him.
He left her at Cincinnati and pro-
ceeded to Indianapolis. Nearly a
week elapsed before the check
came, in the meantime the wife had
to remain in Cincinnati and run up a
hotel bill and the salesman was
stranded in Indianapolis.

Every hotelkeeper could furnish a
fund of stories about “check-bound”
salesmen, some exceedingly | funny
and others equally pathetic.

“T have seen salesmen nearly
crazy,’ remarked a_ hotel clerk.
“Firms must know a man can not
work without money.”

Leaving this important feature to
the office boy or some subordinate
to look after is folly. Prompt remit-

 

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ager should personally supervise this

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man’s progress, and every sales man- |
pou a The EAGLE Messengers

part of the system.

—_—-_+2-2o____-
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Office 47 Washington Ave.

|F. H. VAUGHN, Proprietor and Manager

Ex-Clerk Griswold House

 

jury occurred some time ago in Buf. |
falo. The case was that of a Polish |
laborer employed in the East Buffalo |
stock yards. He was found one}
morning lying unconscious beside the
railroad tracks, having evidently been |
struck by a passing train. He was |
considerably cut up, but the chief in- |
jury was a depressed fracture of the |
skull, situated three inches above and |
one inch behind the left ear. The
skull was immediately trephined, the
depressed bone removed, and he was
put to bed, and seemed to be doing
well, although he remained
scious.
he suddenly began to

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for about a minute, and then stop for
five or ten minutes.
up at regular intervals until he died
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pitched always in the same key, and
at no time could any melody be dis-
tinguished.
whole hospital ward, and attracted
the attention of every one about. It
was impossible to arouse the man at
any time after the accident, and he
remained entirely unconscious to the
end and whistled until a few minutes
before he died.

—_++2—___
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of bronze about as big around as the
top of a slate pencil and having a
value of only one-twelfth of a penny.

—_.-2—___

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

41

 

UNION OPPRESSION.

Some Manifestations of Tyranny in
the Upper Peninsula.
Written for the Tradesman.

 

The power of unionism is being felt
to a considerable extent by the busi-
ness interests of the Upper Peninsu-
la. In fact, the people in this part
of the State have never been called
upon to witness a struggle between
capital and the walking delegate
which affected business in all lines as
has the strike of this spring, in
which the masters and pilots have
been arrayed against the Lake Car-
riers’ Association.

At no time in the history of the
Lake Superior country have the
vessel interests been tied up in such
a struggle as the one that has block-
ed business for the past few weeks.
Several years ago the engineers
struck and things looked bad, but the
interested parties got together about
the time the ice went out and busi-
ness in general did not suffer.

The towns that have suffered most
from the tieup of lake commerce are
the mining communities, where the
mines have been forced to close be-
cause of lack of room for the pil-
ing of ore. As a general rule, these
towns depend almost solely on this
industry for support, and when the
business shuts down the merchants
feel the effects keenly.

One notable feature of the  shut-
down in some localities is the move-
ment of foreigners toward the Old
Country. The railroads have adver-
tised flattering rates and large num-
bers are taking advantage of the op-
portunity to visit their native land.
This goes to show that the miners
have been prosperous. A majority
of them will return to the mining
country in a few weeks when things
begin to move again.

The tieup of the lake boats would
indicate the strength of the unions
along the lakes. There is not a town
of any importance where the men
are not organized, and everybody in
these localities looks upon unionism
as a thing to be figured on whenever
one undertakes any sort of enter-
prise.

Through all this trouble none of
the men are heard to complain, al-
though a majority of them are with-
out money. The longshoremen have
had little to do this spring,. although
they have had no trouble with any-
body. When the boats do not run
they can not work, and all the em-
ployment they have had has been that
of unloading coal and handling the
freight from a limited number of
Canadian steamers and a few Amer-
ican freighters that have commenced
running. The lumber carriers are
also running, but some of them have
not made the trip North yet, pre-
ferring to carry freight between lower
ports while the other fellows are tied
up. All the tugmen not engaged in
dredge work have been idle, as the
lumber boats seldom have work of
this kind to be done.

The strike has been the sole topic
of conversation among a large num-
ber of business men in Upper Penin-
sular towns for some time, as_ all
have been vitally affected. A number

 

have grown so bold as to denounce
unionism, but in a majority of cases
those opposed to the system are con-
tent to express their opinions only in
places where they know they will go
no farther.

This discussion has assumed many
interesting features and has _ also
served to show that a lot of the peo-
ple who profess to be friendly to the
unions in their campaign against
capital are at heart opposed to the
system. During the past few days
I have heard many men in public
places make remarks not complimen-
tary to unionism and the men who
call the big strikes and tie up busi-
ness, but as they care too much for
the votes of the masses to risk their
reputations by making their beliefs
public, such talk is not heard in pub-
lic places.

It was but a few days ago that I
heard an officeholder ask a_ friend
where he supposed the union ques-
tion would end, and the friend re-
plied that in his opinion it would re-
sult in an industrial war that would
stagnate business everywhere
throughout the country and work
much hardship to the people gener-
ally. The officeholder said he was of
the same opinion, but it is dollars to
doughnuts that if such a thing were
to come out in print as his utterance,
he would deny it in the most stren-
uous terms.

As an illustration of the fact that
those who claim to be friendly to the
unions are not always what they
claim to be I might cite an incident
that goes to show that all is not
gold that glitters, no matter in what
form one uses the proposition. A few
months ago the union men of Sault
Ste. Marie asked the Common Coun-
cil to employ none but union men
on the public works of the munici-
pality. The aldermen were unani-
mous in the opinion that this was all
right and a resolution instructing the
Board of Public Works to employ
none but union men went through
with a whoop. Several of the city
fathers arose and spoke in favor of
the proposition, being loud in the be-
lief that it was the duty of the
Board to look after the interests of
organized labor.

The next day I talked with several
of these gentlemen, who, the night
before, had been such loud champions
of the cause of the sons of toil who
march under the banner of unionism,
and I found that they did not be-
lieve more than half of what they
said the night before. Some of them
did not believe the Council had any
right to discriminate, because, they
argued, the non-union man _ pays
taxes the same as the man who be-
longs to a union and, as a result, he
should have an equal opportunity to
secure work from the city, providing
he is capable.

“But what could I do?” said one of
the aldermen. “It would have been
a case of political suicide for me to
have bucked that motion last night
About a quarter of the voters in my
ward are union men, and if I had
voted against the measure where do
you suppose I would have been in
the next election? My name would

 

have ben Dennis, and don’t you for-
get it!”

The only case that has come to my
notice where a non-union man got
anything from the public crib was
in the case of an electrician who un-
derbid the union men, who stood to-
gether. The city fathers could not
go back on his bid, as they were at
that time putting up a great howl
about economy in the administration
of city affairs. :

Unionism is about the strongest
thing in the towns of Northern
Michigan, and in many instances the
business men are alleged to have
combined with them to keep the
prices skyward. In connection with
this assertion I might repeat a story
that is told in the Soo concerning a
non-union plumber who went to a
hardware store and bought a bath-
tub. The store in question was do-
ing business under an iron-clad agree-
ment with the plumbers’ union, and
when it was learned that the tub
had been sold to a scab, who intended
to install the affair in his own house,
doing his own work, a man was sent
out to overtake the delivery man and
the tub was brought back to the
store.

The non-union man had an inter-
esting time hustling for a tub, as
none of the dealers would sell him
one, unless it was installed by union
workmen. This story may not be
true. All I know is that it is told
by a man who stands high in business
circles, a man who has been identi-
fied with some large undertakings
and has a reputation for telling the
truth. He told the story to me and
claimed to know that it was true.

There is not a man, hardly, who,
if in business, dares express an opin-
ion detrimental to unionism. Many
of the merchants have been af-
fected so far by the growing influ-
ence of the unions that they claim
to sell nothing but union goods, and
display in their windows large pic-
tures of laboring men, also the union
label, around which they weave argu-
ments as to why the workingman
should trade with them.

The clerks in the big stores seem
to be the hardest to organize on a
business basis. It has been found
in this part of the country that they
do not hang together as well as labor-
ing people in other lines. Why this
is so is a mystery, for as a general
rule they do not receive as large
wages as workers in other lines. It
is, perhaps, due to the fact that there
is so much changing around in this
business that it is hard to keep a
union together; also to the fact that
clerks are, as a rule, above the aver-
age in intelligence and can see into
the future far enough to convince
themselves that the excesses of the
unions must inevitably create a public
sentiment against them which will
sweep the walking delegate system
out of existence.

It would be interesting to witness
the fun, however, were those who
are against the striking unionist to
come out and show their hand, in-
stead of submitting to whatever he
asks of them. It would probably re-
sult in one of the hottest fights the

country has ever seen. It is evident
that a lot of the talk we hear about
the poor laboring man is nothing
more nor less than hot air, pumped
at us by people who are afraid to
take any other stand. The unions °
run things in Northern Michigan, and
are being aided by some of the peo-
ple who would like to give them a
solar plexus punch, but who have not
the courage to come out into the open
and fight.

There is not much non-union tim-
ber left in this part of the State. Or-
ganizers have been busy for a long
time until everything is union. The
non-union man has friends, but they
are no good to him. At the first sign
of trouble they take to the woods and
do not reappear until peace once
more prevails. These people in pri-
vate talk about the
unionism being as bad or worse than
that of the trusts. They get very
earnest in. their arguments. They
swell up and talk about untrammeled
citizenship, etc., and look wise. And
when their non-union friend, whom
they have been patting on the back,
asks them for a job they say, “Gosh,
I'd like to give it to you, John, but,
if I did, the union wouldn’t do a
thing to me.” And there you are.
The unions seem to be holding four
aces up to the present.

Raymond H. Merrill.
—_—_.-2————_

oppression of

A Hastings correspondent writes:
Mrs. Fanny Tower has taken a posi-
tion with Morris, Mann & Reilly, of
Chicago, wholesale dealers in dry
goods novelties. She went Monday
to Chicago to acquaint herself with.
the stock, after which she will travel
in the Northern part of Ohio.

——_—_2+- 2.

Fred H. Stanton, who has_ been
identified with the hardware business
of John Mackey, of South Haven,
for several years, has taken a posi-
tion as traveling representative of the
Peninsular Stove Co., Detroit.

———_>22>—___

The catastrophe of every play is
caused always by folly or fault of a
man; the redemption, if there be
any, is by the wisdom and virtue of
a woman, and failing that there is
none.

——_222s———_

Learning, to a man of genius, is
like a broad-sword in the hands of
a giant.

 

 

 

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Butter
Wanted

Prices quoted on
application.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
ee D. Muir, Grand Rap-

Treasurer—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
C. B. Stoddard, Monroe.
Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

Sessions for 1904.
Star Isiand—June 20 and 21.
Houghton—Aug. 23 and 24.
Lansing—Nov. 1 and 2.

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.
President—A. L. Walker, Detroit.
First Vice-President—J. O. Schlotter-

beck, Ann Arbor.

Second a President—J. E. Weeks,

Battle Creek
Third Vice-President—H. C. Peckham,

Freeport.
Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.
Treasurer—J. Major Lemen, —
Executive Committee—D. A. ogg

Monroe; J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids; W

A. Hall; Detroit; Dr. Ward, St. Clair; H.

Trade Interest—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Stanley Parkill, Owosso.

 

 

 

Pertinent Advice to the Green Drug
Clerk.

All kinds of clerks begin well; a
new broom sweeps clean. But your
employer will judge you by the way
you wear, not by the way you start
in. Lots of good starters are poor
finishers.

Be prompt. One of the first things
for a man to learn if he expects to
be a business man is the necessity.
for promptness. - Tardiness may do
in swell society, but it won’t do in
business. Be prompt, and above all
be prompt in the morning.

There’s a right way to do every-
thing in the drug store. You proba-
bly will do most things the wrong
way at first. When you do find out
the right way, remember it!

Keep busy. As long as there is a
bit of dirt in sight you have no ex-
cuse for being idle. You have no
excuse for being idle anyway. There
are a thousand things to do without
waiting to be told. Keep busy!

Don’t get the notion in your head
that most of the old-fashioned, fun-
damental rules are exploded theories,
and that you have a lot of new ideas
that are going to revolutionize the
drug business. Revolutions are not
so easily started, and many of them
end in smoke anyway.

Be a man. Now that you have
started in business life, just drop out
the fool boy tricks that are a nuis-
ance to everybody but boys. Take
your job seriously, but don’t be
gloomy and solemn. Beé a man, and
be a cheerful one.

Do little things with the same de-
gree of care that you use in the more
important things. In no business do
the little things count as they do in
a drug store.

If you have ideas don’t be afraid
to suggest them to the boss, but
think them over a little and weed out
the nonsense first.

Find out where things are. Keep
looking over the stock until you know
just where to get whatever is asked
for. That is one of the first ways to
make yourself valuable; be able to
wait on trade without keeping them
waiting.

Keeping things in their places is
more than necessary in the drug

 

store. It will enable the buyer to
know what to buy and the seller to
know what to sell. Don’t leave things
out of place a minute’ longer than
is necessary.

Be affable and courteous. Be po-
lite to the ladies and to every one
else. Don’t hurry your customers.
Make them feel that you have time
enough to get them anything that
they want and to show them goods
besides.

Hand people their change or pack-
ages. Don’t lay the money down
somewhere in their vicinity for them
to pick up. /

Make your packages neat. Make
them conspicuous for their neatness.
The drug store is expected to put
out the best looking packages on the
block.

Don’t you make a single sale that
you are not absolutely positive you
are allowed to make, and then be
positive that you are right before
vou make it. Get into the habit of

| being right the first thing.

Don’t think because you have
three or four years to spend in get-
ting ready for your State Board ex-
aminations that you can put off study-
ing. Begin to study the first day
and keep at it whenever opportunity
offers. Use the odd moments for all
they are worth.

Don’t be cocksure. Just make up
your mind that you don’t know a
thing—that you probably don’t even
suspect anything. Few men get over
the cock-sure period before _ thirty.
You might try to be an exception.

You are liable to be called to wait
upon very particular people at any
moment. Keep just as near fit for
such people as you can. Always ap-
pear as neat as possible to customers.

Don’t wear a chip on your shoul-
der. A good many times people will
be impertinent to you, but you can
not afford to resent it. Be above get-
ting angry when customers’ show
their ill breeding.

The proprietor wants you to draw
to the store all the trade you can,
but that does not mean that he
wants your friends to get into the
habit of loafing there. Loafing is the
bane of many a store. Do all you can
to keep it from hurting yours.

Identify yourself with the store to
the extent of keeping up the same
interest in the business that you
would if it were your own.

Be honest with yourself and you
will be honest with everybody else.
Never compromise when it is a ques-
tion of honesty. Keep the difference
between “yours” and “mine” firmly
fixed in your mind.

Don’t slouch around. Don’t sit on
the counters and don’t act as if your
backbone was rubber. Be erect and
alert.

You may think that it is none of
the boss’s business what you do out-
side of store hours. You are mis-
taken. It is very much his business,
although he probably will not say a
great deal about it. The first intima-
tion you are likely to get of his be-
ing interested will be an invitation
to look for a new job.

Leave alcoholic drinks alone. A
resolution to that effect admits of no

 

possible qualification or exception.

Take pains with the children. They
very soon grow up, and children are
about the most discriminating cus-
tomers that come into a drug store.
They know every time when _ they
are treated well, and they report
things at home.

Your salary is small, but you are
not worth much; in fact, the boss is
taking some chances in keeping you
at all, and it won’t be wise for you
to discount your future wages. Keep
down expenses and then your credit-
ors won’t be asking your employer
to help them collect their bills against
you.

If your boss is the right sort he
will raise your wages sooner than
he said he would—if you are worth
a raise. Better be worth it.

When you set out to do a thing,
do it! Don’t be a quitter. Be thor-
ough.

Don’t hang around the door of the
store, either inside or outside. Don’t
be a sign telling people that there’s
nothing doing.

Keep close watch of the advertis-
ing that the store is doing. Read
it all carefully and know what to
expect customers to call for.

Try your own hand at advertise-
ment writing. The employe whocan
write advertisements is always worth
more nowadays. You may possess
a rare talent for the work.

See that you put things on the
want book every time when you
think there is any chance of the
stock. being low. It is the buyer’s
business to know whether they are
needed or not. Having the goods
is what gets the trade—Frank Far-

rington in Bulletin of Pharmacy.
++
Preserving Strawberries.

The only method for preserving
strawberries without subjecting them
to heat is to use some preservative
like salicylic acid. Why do you ob-
ject to heat? The following process,
for instance, is said to make a very
fine preserved fruit and one which re-
tains the whole fruit flavor:

Use champagne bottles and _ fill
them full of the fruit dry, without
crushing more than necessary to
squeeze through the neck of the bot-
tle. Heat to the boiling point a syr-
up made of 1 gallon of water and 15
pounds of granulated sugar and pour
this into the bottles, nearly full, and
cork at once, tying down firmly.
While hot place the bottles in a
water bath, covered nearly to the top,
setting them on wires in the bottom
of a kettle or boiler, and let them
stand for fifteen minutes, while the
water boils, then remove and allow
to cool slowly. Set them in a warm
place on cloths to prevent cracking.
The fruits should be fully ripe, of a
rich color, and fresh. By standing
delicate fruits lose much of _ their
flavor and become stale. Select clean
fruit and don’t wash them.

—~+22s—___

Destruction of Cork Forests in Italy.

According to Consul - General
Guenther, in Consular Reports, a
method has been discovered by which
cork waste can be utilized in large
quantities. By this method large
pieces of cork can be made from the

 

small ones, which will give a new
impetus to the cork industry. He
also remarks that at one time Italy
was a great producer of cork, but
that a large part of her splendid cork-
oak forests has already been destroy-
ed—cut down for making charcoal,
potash, etc. He says that seventy-
five years ago the English demand
for cork was supplied exclusively
from Italy. The destruction of the
remaining forests goes on uninter-
ruptedly, and nobody seems to try
to prevent it or to plant new forests,
in spite of the fact that Italy pos-
sesses the most favorable climate
and soil for the cork oak, the most
favorable conditions for its growth
being found in the volcanic soil of
the peninsula.
—_>--.—___
Utilizing Old Bottles.

Every druggist often wonders what
he can do with the half-pint and pint
bottles in which manufacturers send
out their fluid extracts and the like.
B. S. Cooban, of Chicago, utilizes
the bottles in this way: He puts
ammonia, witch-hazel, and turpentine
in them, and then sells these products
by the bottle. He labels them neatly
and occasionally displays them on the
counter. The ammonia is a 5-per-
cent. product, and the pint bottle sells
for 10 cents in competition with the
various brands of “household am-
monia.” The latter product, it may
be stated, usually contains only 1 to
2 per cent. of gas. For the witch-
hazel Mr. Cooban gets 25 cents a
pint.

——— +. >—__—__
Keeping and Restoring Volatile Oils.

Volatile oils should be kept in
small, well-filled and well-stoppered
bottles in a dark, cool place. To oils
of lemon and orange a small amount
of alcohol, say about 10 per cent.,
should be added. Oils that have be-
come darkened may be partially re-
stored by agitating them with animal
charcoal and filtering. If this treat-
ment does not suffice, or the oil has
become too resinified or terebinthin-
ous, try agitating it for fifteen min-
utes with a mixture of powdered
borax, animal charcoal, and water,
and then filtering.

—_r---.——_—_

It is easier for some men to talk
all day than to keep their mouths
shut five minutes.

 

 

 

WAIT FOR THE BIG LINE

FIREWORKS

Flags,
Torpedo
Canes

and all Celebra-
tion Goods

No other line is
so complete.

Wait for travel-
er or order by
mail.

Prices right.

PUBLIC DISPLAYS for any amount sup-
plied on short notice.

FRED BRUNDAGE

  

 

 

 

 

32-34 Western Ave. MUSKEGON, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

   
 

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
Advanced—
Declined—
Acidum Exechthitos ..... 4 25@4 50 TI
———_ Pte a a Gaulthert hela siuee 1 00@1 10 | 4 conitum ce 60
enzoicum, aultheria .......
Boracie Sao un 17 | Gera . ty — ts as Nap’s F =
Carbolicum ...... 26@ 29 Gossippit Sem SO Oi steers:
Citricum ......... 38@ 40|Hedeoma ..... zal, #0G1 80 50 — & Myrrh 60
Hydrochlor ...... 3@ 5 foern Le 150@2 99 ana 50
Nitrocum ........ 8@ 10|Lavendula ....... oe seseee 50
Oxalicum ........ 12@ 14|Limonis ........: 115@1 35 pirene Deledeune 60
Phosphorium, dil. g 15 | Mentha Piper ...435@4 50 ao Cortex .. 50
Salicylicum ...... 42@ 45|Mentha Verid....5 00@5 50 Be sae sttteceee 60
Sulphuricum ..... 1 5 | Morrhuae, gal. ..2 00@3 50 | ,enz0in Co ...... 50
Tannicum .......110@120|Myrcia .......... 4 00@4 50 Soatmant setteeeee 50
Tartaricum ...... 38 Olive 75@3 00 | Cantharides ..... 75
Ammonia Picis Liquida .... 10@ 12 — seteeee 50
Aqua, 18 deg..... 4 6 | Picis Liquida gal. 35 Ga — oe. as 75
Aqua, 20 deg..... 6 Ricina ardamon Co 15
arbonas ......-- 13@ 15 | Rosmarini porn bees dae 100
Chloridum ....... 12@ 14|Rosae, oz ........ 5 00@6 00| Ginthoua 50
Succini Gin ONG oo. cc.
Black os. 5.12225. 2 00@2 25 | Sabina pe eat Co de 60
Brown... <2... -. . 80@1 00 | Santal oe eden les 60
Bed) eli ae 45 50 Sassafras oes aoe am 50
he napis 4
— : Baccae eos Tigitt oe Cassia Acutifol Co 50
Cubebae ...po. 25 = = eee : 3 meas ne 60
Juniperus ........ iyme, opt ...... i ere es cnt oe ee
Xanthoxylum .... 30@ 35|Theobromas :..:: 160 20 Fern ¢ Chldridum. . 35
tme  ie E ene eo orate
Cubebae ....po. 20 12@ 16 | Bi-Carb a 15@ 18 Gentian se =
a steeees oo: . Bichromate placa 13@ 15|Guiaca ammon . =
© ’ ada... romide ......... ae
Tolutan’ ......---- 46@ 60| Carb o.oo. 120 ig | Hyosevamus ..... 50
ortex Chl rate po17@19 16@ 18\Indine «cInedo
Abies, Canadian. . 18 | Gone clei 16@ = Iodine, colorless 16
Cassiae .......... 12 | Todide ...2.2.22221 Sita 07°77 50
a = = —— = 30 Sie 60
juonymus a otass ivan opt %@ 16) ke Unica
Myrica a = Potass Nitras 7 Opit Vomica .....
Prunus in Prussfate ........ 90 Sl On eomohowial
Quillaia, gr’d..... 12 | Sulphate po ...... 6 18 Obit, aces eS
Sassafras ..po. 18 14 Radi Op leodorized 160
Ulmus ..25, gr’d. 48 | aconitum adix “a Quassia Ee 50
‘Extractum po gga —. = esr My seule S 50
Giycyrrhiza Gla... 24@ 30 Poe ao oo is e! getters 60
Glycyrrhiza, po... 28@ 30 ae aa 35 aren maria, ...... 50
Haematox ....... 11@ 12] Gi} eee te eeeeee @ : Serpentarta A 50
Haematox, ae 13@ 14 So see eeess 20@ 40|Stromonium ...... 60
Gentiana ..po 15 12 16 j} Tolutan ......... 60
Haematox, %s.... 14@ 15 Glychrrhiza 18 1¢@ 18 | Valeri
Haematox, a 16@ 17| ZY pv alerian ......... 50
erru. oe Cana.. 150 | Veratrum Veride.. 50
Carbonate coe. 15 eee Can po mm = Zingiber ......... 20
Citrate and Quinia 2 25 Inula, po 183@ 22 Seni
Citrate Soluble .. 75 Ipecac, a 2 7% @2 80 scellaneous
Pores ©. 40} tris piox 1120102! 40 | Aether, SptsNit3 30@ 365
Solut. Chloride. . 1S eed ee | Aether, Spts Nit 4 34q
Sulphate, com. ao a Alumen, grapo? 3@ 4
Sulphate, com'’l, by od + Annatto 40@
bbl, per cwt:. @|Podophyilum po.. 22@ 25 | Anne oo 4G Oe
Sulphate, pure .. 7 Rhei, cut ........ Antimoni et PoT 40@ 50
Flora Rhef, pv ........ Antipyrin ........ @ 25
Arnica .......... . 15@ 18/Spigella ......... Antifebrin ....... 20
Anthemis ........ 22@ 25] Sanguinart, po 24 Argent! Nitras, oz 48
Matricaria ....... 30@ %85/Serpentaria ...... Arsenicum ....... 10@ 12
Folla Senega .......... 15 Balm Gilead —, 46@ 60
Barosma .......-- 30@ 33/| Smilax, off’s H . i Bismuth SN . 20@2 30
Cassia Acutifol, Smilax, M ...... ( Calcium Chlor, = Dp 9
Tinnevelly ..... 20%b 25 | Scillae ...... po 35 104 Calcium Chior, %s 10
Cassia, Acutifol.. 26@ 80|Symplocarpus .... — Chior, %s » 12
Salvia officinalis, Valeriana Eng.. — Rus. D1 20
%s and %s.... 12@ 20|Valeriana, Ger .. psic! Fruc’s af.. 20
Uva Ursi........- 8@ 10|Zingibera ....... 14 Capsict_Fruc’s po.. 22
Gummi Zingiber j ........ 16@ 20 ae uc's B po. =? i
Acacia, 1st pkd.. @ Semen Carmine. N No 40... 300
Acacia, 2d pkd.. g 45 | Anisum ....po. @ 16|Cera Alba........ 50@ 55
pkd. Se oreo. 18@ 15) Cera Flava ...... 49@ 42
ee precas 2.00...
¢ 65|Carui ...... po 16 10 11 Cuenta. Fructus . < =
14|Cardamon ....... 70@ 99|Centraria ....... i 10
@ 25|Coriandrum ..... 8 10} Cetaceum ....... 45
@ 30/| Cannabis Sativa. 7@ 8{|Chloroform ..... 55@ 60
@ 60|Cydonium ....... 75@100|Chloro’m, Squibbs 110
Assafoetida ..... se 40 |Chenopodium .... 25@ 80] Chloral Hyd Crst.135@1 60
Benzoinum ....... 50 65° | Dipterix Odorate. 80@1 00 Chondrus ........ 20 5
Catechu, 1s....... 13 | Foenfculum ..... @ 18|Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Catechu, 48...... 14 | Foenugreek, po .. 7@ 9|Cinchonid’e Germ 38@ 48
Catechu, %S8...... 16) tet foo ee. 4@ 6/| Cocaine .......... 4 05@4 25
Camphorae 75@ 80| Lini, grd ...bbl 4 3@ 6/ Corks list d p ct. 15
Euphorbium sige 40 | Lobelia. =... ....... 15 80|Creosotum ....... 45
Galbanum ........ 100] Pharlaris Cana’n 6%@ 8/|Creta ...... bbl 75 2
Gamboge ....po...1 25 186 el ee ee 5 6|Creta, prep ...... 5
Guaiacum ..po. 35 85 |Sinapis Alba .... 7 9/Creta, precip .... 9@ 11
. 76 |Sinapis Nigra .... 9@ 10/Creta, Rubra ... 8
60 Spiritus Crocus | LUA is ‘a 70
Frumenti W D.. = 00@2 50} emear «eee se eee 24
: — uw: imal 50 eae ph ..... -
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ses aca & Top1 00 | Juniperis Co ....1 76@3 60| Meher Sulph ...... 18@ 92
Herb. Saccharum N E ..1 90@210| mmery. Nos. 8
erba Spt Vint Galli .:.175@6 50| wreots, °°. 50 96 6
Bupatorium as 25 | Vint Oporto ..... 125@2 00| Fake white - $5 3
upatorium oz p ie oo.
ok oe ok 35 | Vini Alba .......: 125@200|Galla ... 1”!
Majorum -0Z pk 28 Sponges Gambler’ ......... 9
Mentha Pip oz pk 23 | Florida sheeps’ wl Gelatin, Cooper .. 60
Mentha Vir oz pk 25| carriage ....... 2 50@2 75 Gelatin, French |! 8 60
Rue 222.2. .5 oz pk 89 | Nassau sheeps’ wl Glassware, fit box 75 & 5
Tanacetum V..... 22| carriage ....... .250@2 75 | Less than box .. 70
Thymus V ..oz pk 25 | Velvet extra shps Glue, brown ...... 11@ 13
Magnesia wool, contane’ -- @160 Glue, white ....7: 15@ 25
Calcined, Pat..... 55@ 60 | Extra yellow shps’ Glycerina ....... 17%@ 25
Carbonate, Pat... 18@ 20| Wool. carriage . @125|Grana Paradisi 25
Carbonate K-M.. 18@ 20|Grass sheeps’ wl, Humulus ........ 25@ 55
Carbonate ....... 18@ 20|__carriage ....... @100|Hydrarg Ch Mt 95
Hard, slate use... @100|Hydrarg Ch Cor . 90
Oleum Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ox Ru’m 1 05
Absinthium ..... 3 00@3 25 : Hydra A *]
Amygdalae, Dulc. 50@ 60 slate use ...... @1 40 ‘ear ae. 115
Amygdalae Ama.. ‘Tegt > oe Syrups pee Hodra. = 50 =
feos One el.
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Cajiputi .. BPOCHE 2... occas @ 60} Iod odoform _—— 2 =
Caryophylli ° Ferri Iod_ ........ @ Lupulin ... 5
Cedar ...... 70|Rhei Arom ...... @ 50 a 5
Chenopadii Smilax Offi’s 60@ 60|Macis ........... 65@
Cinnamonii Beueen  .. 8... g 50 loner Arsen et
Citronella “6 Sctliae .-.-....... 50| Hydrarg Iod @ 2
con 90 | Scillae Co ....... @ 50| Liq Potass Arsinit 10@ 12
—— soncccocsd SEGRE ae > ToOMtAn =... 6... s @ 50/|™Maenesia. Sulph.. 2@
Gubebae ::.......180@186 | Prunus virg ..... @ 60| Magnesia, Sulh bbi @1%

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Soda, ~ _— wee
Soda, Ash .......
Soda, cakes ae
Spts, Cologne ...
Spts. Ether Co...

Spts. Myrcia Dom
Spts. Vini Rect bbl
Spts. Vi’'i Rect % b
Spts. Vil R’t 10 gl
Spts. Vi’l R’t 5 gal
Strychnia, Crystal > %

Sulphur, Subl ..
Sulphur, Roll ....

Tamarinds ......

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Wane ..5......- 900

Zinci Sulph .....
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Lard, extra
larg, Ne. 1......
Linseed, pure raw
Linseed, boiled ..
Neatsfoot, w str..
Spts. Turpentine.
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Red Venetian..
Ochre, yel Mars 1
Ochre, yel Ber .
Putty, commer'l. 3
Putty, aa - 2
Vermillion, Prime
American ......
Vermillion, Eng..
Green, Paris

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Green, Peninsular ox

tend, POG ........

Lead, white ..... Sa

Whiting. white S’n
Whiting, Gilders.’

White, Paris, Am’r

Whit’g, Paris, Eng

cliff
Universal Prep’d.1 1091 20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach. 2 we 20

Extra Turp ......

Coach Body ..... 2 oo8 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.1 00@1 10 :
Extra T Damar. .155
Jap Dryer No 1T 70

 

 

 

 

We are dealers

Varnishes.

Sundries.

Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

in Paints,

We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

Oils and

We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

We are the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s

We always have in stock a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines and

Rums for medical purposes only.

We give our personal attention to mail

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

day received. Send a trial order.

 

 

 

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

and are intended to be correct at time of going té press.

Prices, however, are lia-

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

 

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

 

ndex to Markets

 

By Columns
Col
A
Axle Grease ...........; 1
B
Bath Erick ............ 1
Breems 4.20.0... 25. ce 1
Brushes ......... ns 1
Butter Color ........:. 1
c
Confections ............ 11
NN i oics ic cisco. 1
Canned Goods ........ 1
Carben Os .......-.2- 2
ae Ses aue ss oeee ses :
a. Ss
ae, a 2
Georte ..-.--.......6 2
cates Times Senco bec 2
SS 3
eegemuat ....... oe. 3
Seeoe Shetis ........... 3
ek cece een 3
CEN ck cio, 3
D
Dried Fruits ........... 4
F
Farinaceous Goods .... 4
Fish and Oysters ...... 10
Fishing Tackle ........ 4
Flavoring extracts ..... 5
Bis Paper .......-......
Mrech Meats ........... 5
Pes oe 11
G
oo 5
rein Bees ...........0 5
Grains and Flour ...... 5
H
Pees ee 5
Hides and Pelts ...... 10
!
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J
Beg oe se eee 5
L
MCOEAOD 565.2 ces 5
ae 2. 5

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Washing Powder ...... 9
ie 9
Woodenware ..........- 9
Wrapping eye ease 10

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AXLE —

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AMES ooo. ce es s 6
Canter OE tou cw 55
Diamond | ....36.55%5 50 425
MeaEeT RS .... ose. cs 75 900
IXL Golden ....... 75 900
BATH BRICK
American 2.02516 o. 5
EN eo ici ei os we 85
BROOMS
No. 1 Carpet ........3 7
Mo. 2 Carpet .......2.2 2 35
Ne. 3 Carpet 222.2 .c. 215
No. & Campet ........... 175
Parlor Gem ..........- 2 40
Common Whisk ......
Fancy Whisk .......... 1 20
Warehouse .........<.. 3 00
BRUSHES

Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in ...... 75
Solid Back, 11 in ..... 95
Pointed Ends .......... 85

Stove
eS oe ce 75
me: 2 oo 110
Me. fe oe 175

Shoe
Me. 6.5). .2o. ees 100
as 7 Sls 130
Ma: 4-3 170
Ne. 2 2.00.2). 190

BUTTER COLOR
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size.1 25:
W., R. & Co.’s, 25e size.2 00
CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s .... 9%

Electric Light, 16s ....10
Perens, 6 ....<5455. 9

Qe ee 9%
WICKES 23
CANNED GOODS

Apples
tb. Standards .

3 . 80
Gals, Standards ..2 00@2 25

Blackberries
Standards ....... 85
Beans
Baked ... <........ 80@1 30
Red Sxianey se eeeks $5@95
ee a EE en 10@1 13
Wat ..52. coun: 75@1 25
Blueberries
Standard ....... 1 40
Brook Trout

2 Th. cans, a 190

Little Neck, 7 DD. 100@1 =
Little Neck, th. 15

Clam _ Bouillon
Burnham’s,
Burnham’s, pts
ee a ..
Red Stemdanie’
White

 

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Corn
Peat Se
ee Ss ee 135
Pee (2.5... oo 150
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine........ 22
etvo Pine . 2.0.2... 5. 19
mee ee 15
BPO. cee ct cee ee 11
Gooseberrles
Stanger 2660. jesse 90
ominy
POUR ok ie. 85
Lobster
Star, 36 TD. <2... 25. 2 25
Sram. 2 9B... 3 75
Picni Talls ............ 2 40
Mackerel
Master, + @ ........ 1 80
Mustard, 2 M........... 2 80
Saowmsed. 1 AD... <ccciccen 180
Soused: 2.2 s6 2.328 2 80
go ae ee 180
Tomato, 2 %b........... 2 80
Mushrooms
Peters i. ce 8@ 20
Buttons .........: 22@ 25
ysters
iPove, Am. oo eS @ 90
en Se. 2.2 5, @1 70
Cove, 1 th. Oval . 100
Peaches
Pas 33. eeseee-l 10@1 15
WeHOW. 22.5.5 2 1 65@2 00
Pears
Standard. ....... @1 15
Pavey. ...-.-..6- @1 35
Pea
Marrowfat ...... 90@1 00
Barly June ........ — 60
Early June Sifted.. 1 65
Plums
PS 3s oo 85
Pineapple
Geetet: 5.232 1 26@2 75
Sliced ............1 36@2 55

Pumpkin
Mae 2. eee 79
NOR 2. oss: 80
MOCT son ccs cise 100
Genen ...2 0.02.4. 25

Raspberries
Standard
Russian Cavier
i We: Cams 2... ce 5
TDD. ~ COMA tisinic'snmicie.- « 700

i o> can... 2-552.) ces. 12 00

Salmon
Col’a River, talls.. 165
Col’a River, flats. 85
Red Alaska ..... 1 65
Pink Alaska .. . 95

Sardines
Domestic, %s . 3%
Domestic, By oa a 5
Domestic, Must’d.. 6@ 9

California, 4s ... 11@14

California, %s ... 17@24

French, %s ....... 7@14

French, 2s Beaces « 18@28

Shrimps

Pee eects caces 1 20@1 40
cotash

Pair ow... 505...

O00 26 ota 1 50
Mancy ...5:...... 60
Sicmadaandions
Standard ........: 10
Pencry ..:...-.....- 140
Tomatoes
MANE occ ccc. 85@ 95
Gee .........05., 115
Peoeey cc 1 83 50
Gallons ..... -2 65@3 00
CARBON OILS
Barrel
Perfection ...... ei*
Water White ... 12
D. S. Gasoline .. @14
Deodor’d Nap’a... D13%
Cylinder  ........ 29 34
cat ees 16 @22
Black, winter ..9 @10%
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts...... 450

Columbia, 25 %pts....2 60

  

Snider’s quarts ....... 3 25
Snider’s pints ........ 2 25
Snider’s % pints ..... 130
CHEESE
Acme ~.. oo... g 9
Duteoreas uous 10
Carson aed ees @ 9
Elsie . @11
Emblem =.
Gold Medal
pal eS @ 9%

oes os (esalnaiil a late @ 9%
Riverside ....... @ 9

ee 12
WN So oe 90
DO cw etek 15
Limburger ...... 11
Pineapple eee d 4 0
Swiss, domestic . 15
Swiss, imported . 23

CHEWING GUM

American Flag Spruce. 55
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 60
Biack Jack <....... 22.

55
Largest Gum Made .. 60
ee ee we 5
Sen Sen Breath Per’e.1 4

ee
WROSIAN ..2.255.0. 05045 55
CHICORY
Bee es ee 5
ROG sce eee 1
Miele ie. co eee 4
Rraner's .2. 0.6. 6s. 7
SenenOrs.. 25006. oes 6
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s

German Sweet ....... 23
Premisgm ..-.°.<.. .. a: 31
WONG | 5.5.6. cos copies 41
Corseas  ... 2.2. cle 35
Wage 5.0... ck cae 28

acne. LINES

60 ft, 3 thread, extra. oo

72 ft, 3 thread, extra ..1 40

90 ft, 3 thread, extra ..170

60 ft, 6 thread, extra ..1 29

72 ft, 6 thread, extra ..
Jute

OO fe osc ces 75
Wee cc ee
me oe 105
ee 1
..-. Cotton Victor
50 Siete clateie arenes os de 1 10
mf 2. 1 35
WO Te oc Scene 1 60
Cotton Windsor
ee ft. cs. cece ete 1 30
oes cs 144
20 28, ses esas s 1 80

 

 

 

asm Braided Lemon Snaps ........ 12
ue 95 | Lemon Gems ......... 10
50 fe sees 226i tem. Yen: ....s 3... 10

ek 165 |Maple Cake ......... 10

Galvanized Wire Marshmallow ......... 16

No. 20, each 100 ft long.1 90
No. 19, each 100 ft long.2 10

    
   

COCOA

Baker's ..:., - 38
| Cleveland .
Colonial, %s 35
Colonial, 8 33

Oe oc6 6 42
myrer oo c5. 5 . 45
Van Houten, 12
Van Houten, 20

Van Houten, %s 40
— Houten, 1s .. =
Wilbur, os 41
Wilbur, %s 42
COCOANUT
Dunham’s ¥s ...... 26
Dunham’s %s& \s.. 26%
Dunham’s Xs ...... 27
Dunham’s ¥s ......- 28
WAP iS tee csi cc 12
— SHELLS
20 4b: bags. ....4.-02. 2%
Less quantity ........
Pound packages ...... 4
COFFEE
Rio
ommen . 5... 6... sc ee 10%
Re os ie ese 12
Romotee ooo. ss -15
MICH ee Sec ee cn 18
Santos
MAMION oc os oss simew cos 11
OE oa icee cess cscs cd 12%
Choice ....... Siamese 18 1-3
CY os nics we onsen oie oe
PeGROTy 2.526. oscies
Maracalbo
ar... eoceseewce eo 13%
IORGICE  . oes ec ae 16%
Mexican
Cholee ©...255 sic. es - 16%
PONCY oc) coe «2 oko
Guatemala
Choice ..... Soci ae 15
va
STICOR oo. cee ce occ 12
Fancy African ....... 17
Oe oso. assis 25
ceo ee 31
ocha
Arabian: 02 12%s.0. 0005 21
Package
New York Hasis.
BPRUCKIC 2. ..06550s06 — -
Dilworth :
Jersey ..... :
iOn oe ee ee 7311 50

 

McLaughiin’s XXXX

McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers os Mail _
orders direct Ww.
McLaughlin & gs chi:
cago.

Extract
Holland, % gro boxes. 95
Felix, “ross 2... 115
Hummel’s foil,
Hummel’s tin, % gro.1 43

CRACKERS

National Biscuit Company’s
Brands
Butter
eee es kee ee 6%
New — So wis hee 6%
Watced =... Skt ee 6%
MOMmMEy: oo oe ice 6%
Wolverine ............ q
Soda
Me BC) ool lee 6%
Sewec’. 2 ee cee 8
Saratoga Flakes ...... 13
Oyster
ee ae 8
Memes 23. co eae 6
No eee 1%
AU 2656. ps cten cece
Extra Farina ........ 1%
Sweet Goods
Animals <2 ..<.5.-.52-6 0
Assorted Cake ....... 10
Bagley Gems ......... 8
Belle Rose .........0- 8
Bent’s Water ........ 16
Butter Thim <.......«. 13
Goce. Bar... 5.2. 10
Cococanut Taffy ...... 12
Cinnamon Bar ........ 9

Coffee Cake, N. B. C..10
Coffee Cake, Iced .... 10
Cocoanut Macaroons .. 18
ISRIIOIS: (6 ccc oa

Currant Fruit ........ 10
Chocolate Dainty .... 16

Wariwnaes ...... 2... $
Dixie Cookie ......... 8
Frosted arsed on oe 8
Ginger Gems ......... 8

Ginger a. N B C..7%
Grandma Sandwich .. 10
Graham Cracker ...... 8
Hazelnut

90| Honey Fingers, Iced.. 12
bl -

 

Imperials ........- od

Indiana Belle ......... 15
Jerico a
eee Lunch -

Lady Fingers,
Lemon Biscuit Square. 8
Lemon Wafer ......-. 16

 

Marshmallow Cream.. 16
Marshmallow waunut. =
Mary AMM oc... cesl os
ee Po ects ease ee
ich Coco Fs’d honey 2%
Maik BIRCH 26.5 20560
Mich Frosted Honey .. "12
Mixed Picnic

Molasses Cakes, Sclo’d &
Moss Jelly Bar ...... 12%
Muskegon Branch, Iced 10
Newton: 62... .665.- 5.6 12
Oatmeal Cracker ..... 8%
Orange Sifee ....:...: 16
Orange Gem .........
Orange & Lemon Ice .. 10
Pilot Bread .. .. 22.3% 7
Ping Pon « .<. 3. oc. see 9
Pretzels, hand made .. 8
Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8
Pretzelcttes, mch. m’d 7
Rube Beare .......5...- 8
Scotch Cookies ...... 10
Snowdrops ..... fccwes 16

Spiced Sugar Tops ... 8
Sugar Cakes, scalloped 8

Sugar Squares ....... 8
SHON eo os iso a ain 13
Spiced Gingers ....... 8
WIGCHINS oo ss oc ee ce ¥
Vienna Crimp ........
Vanilla Wafer Cees 18
ee 9
METUEORE 55 oo ke co sce 9
mee —
Sundried ... ...... gre
Sundried wae e -64%@7

California Prunes

100-125 25tb. boxes 3
90-100 25 Ib.bxs..
80-90 25 Ib. bxs. 4%
0-80 25 Ib. bxs.
60-70 25%b. boxes.
50-60 26 tb. bxs. 6%
40-50 25 tb. bxs. 1%
30-40 25 Ib. bxs.
Yc less in bv .v. cases

ron

c
Corsiean ...<... @14%

Imp’d. 1%b. =

Imported = = "4g 1

zemon ania Sew 12

Orange American ..... 12
Raisins

London Layers 3 cr 1 90

Tondon Layers 3 cr 1 95

Cluster 4 crown. . 2 60
Loose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5%
Loose Muscatels, 3 cr.. 6
oe Muscatels, 4 cr.. 6%
. M. Seeded, 1!b.. .744@8
M. Seeded, %tb. 6 6%
Sultans bulk. 8

 

mn

Sultanas, package. 8%
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans

Dried Lima ....:....-..

Med. Hd. Pkid.. 2 == =

Brown Holland .......
Farina

24 1 3b. pees no... ee

Bulk, per 100 fbs...... 3 5
ominy

Flake, 50 th. sack ....1 00

Pearl, 200 Th. sack ...4 00

Pearl, 100 th. sack ...2 00
Maccaronl and Vermicell
Domestic, 10 tb. box
Imported, 25 tb. box is $0

Pearl Barley
Duets cece 2 50

 
 

 

  
 

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MOCGMM «665 ese ccs. ws ae

PS as diciew science

Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., pr dsz.. 60
Bamboo, 16 ft., pr ds. 65
Bamboo, 18 ft., pr ds. 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
‘cote & Jenks
Coleman’s Van. Lem.
oz. Panel ........1 20 15
30z. Taper ........3 00 1 50
No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 1 60
Jennings

Terpeneless Lemon
No. 2 D. C. pr ds .... %
No. 4 D. C. pr dz ....1 60
No. 6 D. C. pr dz .....3 00
Taper D. C. pr dz ....1 6@

 

Mexican Vanilla ....
No. 2D. C pr ds ....1 98
No. 4 D. C. pr dz Lill: 00
No. 6 D. C. pr dz ....3 00
Taper D. C. pr dz ....23 00

GELATINE

Knox’s Sparkling, dz. 1 20
Knox’s Sparklit 14 00

ng, gro.
Knox’s Acidu’d., doz. 1 20
<= Acidu’d, gro .14 00

Ce see ee 15
Plymouth Rock ..... 1 20
Nelson's 2.0.7... --- 150
Cox’s, 2 qt. size ..... 1 61
Cox's, 1 Gt sige ...... 110

GRAIN BAGS
AmosKeag, 100 in b’e. 19
Amoskeag, less than b. 19%

GRAINS AND FLOUR
Wheat

   

oon ccwet athe 1 02
Winter Wheat Fiour
Local Brands :
Patents .......5 25
| Straight "......4 15
cio alaealbrtsejecoha 45
Bisu" Wrbteae eoltela 4 60
sack cenielnea eee ae
Secieeac oa ee
usual cash
discount.
Flour in bblis., 26c per
bbl. additional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s —
Quaker, paper ........

Quaker, cloth ......... 2 2°

Spring Wheat Flour
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s

Bran
Pillsbury’s Best %s.
Pillsbury s Best \%s ...
Pillsbury’s Best %s..

mon & Wheeler Co.'s

: id

Wingold, %48........... 5 60
Wingold, 4s
Wingold, 4s
Judson Grocer Co. 7
Ceresota, %s ......... 5
Ceresota, \s.
Ceresota, gs.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Paurel, 1S (2555:..365
Laurel, ea 5 50
Laurel, SS
Laurel, & %s paper 5 40

Meal
Slee! a ateata mists

Bolted 7 50
Golden Granulated ....2 60

Feed and ieancan:
St. Car Feed screened22 50
No. 1 Corn and oats. .22 50
Corn Meal, coarse ...21 00
Winter wheat bran ..21 00
Winter wheat mid'ngs22 00

 

 

 

Peas Cow Need i.5......6, 21 50
Green, Wisconsin, bu.1 35 | Screenings .......... 00
Green, Scotch, bu..... ok Oats
Split, Th. ....---------- Gar tote 6 6665..00 83 45%
Rolled Oats
Boll 6 poses [= = Corn
eel Cu le
aerate ee 25 “oe pa emo 54%
Monarch, #0tb. sacks..2 55 ay
Quaker, cases ........ 3 10| No. 1 timothy car lots.10 50
Sa No. 1 timothy ton lots.12 50
Bast India -:........ - 2
German, sacks ........ 3% s — 16
German, broken pkg . 4 ae ce ce 15
Taploca Laurel Leaves 18
Flake, 110M. saeks .... 4% |Senna Leaves . 36
Pearl, a, sacks ..3% INDIGO
Pearl, 24 1 Tb. pkgs .. 6% | Madras, 5 Ib. 55
ae s. F., 2, , 5 ih. boxes. . 65
Cracked, bulk ........ 3% JELLY
24 2 tb. packages ....2 50| 5th. pails, per dos ..1 70
FISHING TACKLE — | sop. pails. LILI &
i_eee 4 LICORICE
1s tO 2 oo. ol ce ccs TO .eeece
i 3-3 to 3 im ......2... ll a .
aoe ese .. 18 | Sicily .
3 in g0 | Root ...... ; oe
Condensed, dz
— 22 . Condensed, 4 dz ......8 00
No. 3, 9 MEAT EXTRACTS
No. 4, 10 | Armour’s, 2 OZ ........
No. 5, 11| Armour’s 4 02 ........ 20
No. 6, 12 | Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 0z.2 75
No. 7, 16 | Lie , Chicago, 402.5 50
No, 8, 1 18 | Liebig’s, imported, 2 oz.4 55
No. 9, 2 : 405.8 60

 

 

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Fancy Open Kettle ... 40
CRUNGS os oo ie is ce ce ee
T0086 es ence 22
Half 2c extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 dz ...1 75
Horse Radish, 2 dz ....3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 de ..
Bulk 1 eee 1 00
ulk, i vas
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs ..... 90
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs .. 85
nilla, 7 oz ..... 80
bueen, pints ......... 2 35
lueen, 19 oz ........4 50
een, 28 OS .......... 7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz ....... - 90
Seniten, & Of ........;.. 1 45
Stuffed, 10 oz ........ 2 30
PIPES
Clay, =~ 206 ........1 20
Clay, T. - full count 65
Cob, Na 252 gs

PICKLES
edium

M
Barrels, 1,200 count...7
Half bbls, 600 spot

ma!
Half bbls, 1,200 count ..5
Barrels, 2,400 count ..9

PLAYING CARDS
boa:

No. 90, Steam!

No. 572,

No. 808,

Special ax
No. 98, Golf, Bacay finish?

oot

15
50

50
50

t -
15, Rival, assorted
No. 20, Rover enameledl

No. 632, B vinta t whniatz 2

POTASH
48 cans in case

Babbitt’s

Penna Salt Co.’s ......3

PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork

eccccsccscess 4

 

Dry Salt Meats

were ccccccee

Bellies
sP P Bellies eee a case

Extra shorts ......... 8
Smoked Meats

Hams,
Hams,
Hams,

Hams,
Skinned
Ham,

161b

12%b. average .

Shoulders, (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear ....10 @1l%

average ..11
20Ib. average ..10%
Hams 12

dried beef sets .13

Boile ams ....16 our
Picnic Boiled Hams .. 12
Berlin Ham pr’s’d ....8
Mince Ham .......... 9
Compound. ........ .. 6%
IPMNG 2 oss. iM
60 Ib. tubs..advance. %
80 tb. tubs..advance. %
60 bb. ..advance. %
20 tb. pails..advance. %
10 tb. pails..advance. %
5 Ib. pails..advance. 1
3 tb. pails..advance. 1
Sausages
Eilers. oe
OP osc ce cases) ioe
Weel ...:.... 2.
T ee 9
Headcheese .......... 6%
fexttrn “Mess 2.2.5.2... 10 50
Boneless ............. 11 00
Rump, new .......... 1 00
Pig’s Feet
% bb Se Sears ioc sccc a ae
pbis., 40 Ibs. .....1 90
SS ate Sy
ile is cece. s ce OO
Kite, 16: thee 2. 55....5 10
bbis., 40 tbs ...... 1 25
bbis., 80 ths ...... 2 60
Casings
Beef middles, set ..... 45
Sheep, per bundle ..... 70
Uncolored Butterine
Solid, dairy "ee
Rolls, dairy ....10%@11%
Canned Mea
Corned beef, fe
Corned beef, 14 ...... 17 50
Roast beef, 2 ee
Potted . s

vil a
Potted tongue, Ys sis

Potted tongue. %s

RICE
Domestic

Carolina head, fancy.6@6%
Carolina No. 1 .......5%
Carolina No. 2 ......5
Broken .........3 @ 3%
Japan No. .--. 44@ 5
Japan No. 2 .. %

Java, No. 1

SALAD DRESSING

Durkee’s, large, 1 doz.4 50
Durkee’s_ small, 2 doz..5 25
Snider’s, large, 1 doz..2 35

 

Snider’s, small, 2 doz..1 35
SALERATUS
Packed 60 Ibs. in box
Arm and Hammer 8 15

-..3 00

3 15

2 10

-. 3 00

Wyandotte, 100 %s 4 00
SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls ...... 85
Granulated, 100Ib cases.1 00
Lump, bbls. 15

Lump, 145tb. kegs .... 95

SALT
Diamond Crystal
Table
Cases, 24 3tb. boxes ...1 40
Barreis, 190 3Ib. bags ..3 00
Barrels, 50 6Ib. bags ..3 00
Barrels, 40 7!Ib. bags 2 75

Butter
320 Ib. ‘bulk -.2 65
Barrels, 20 14Ib. bags ..2 85
Sacks, 28 Ibs 27
Sacks, 56 Ibs. ........

Shaker
Boxes, 24 Zibb ........

Barrels,

Cheese
5 barrel lots, 5 5 per cent.
discount.
10 barrel lots, 7% per
cent. discount.
Above prices are F. O. B.

Common Grades
100 3tb. sacks Sees 90

60 5Ib. sacks ...... 80
28 20m). sacks ........ 1 70
5G iD. sacks .........- 30
28 th. Sacks ....::.... 36
Warsaw
66 Ib. dairy in drill bags 40
28 tb. dairy in drill bags 20
Solar Rock
56 ID. Sacks: .......... 22
Common
Granulated, fine ......... 80
Medium Fine ........ 90
SALT FISH
Cod
Large Whole ... 7%
Small Whole .... 1%
Strips or bricks. 74@10
Pollock = ..5.02.. @ 3%
Halibut
Sivtos ....:. .......-. 28%
CAUHEE 6.552.005. soe
Herring
Holland
White Hoop, barrels ..8 25
White hoops, %bbl. ...4 50
White hoops keg...60@65

 

SHOE BLACKING
Handy Box, large, 3 dz.2 50
Handy Box, small ....1 25
Bixby’s Royal Polish .. 85
Miller’s Crown Polish. 85

SNUFF
Scotch, in bladders ...
Maccabo:

y, in jars ....
French Rayple i= rs.

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SOAP
Central City Soap Co’s
brand.

+ee--3 10
---3 05
00

SRE oS casks
J 5 box, del.
Jaxon, 10 box, del

 
 
  

  

 

 

 

TOBACCO

Fine Cut
OR pee sae 54 CO
Sweet Loma ........ ween I
Hiawatha, 5tb. pails ..56

Hiawatha, 10%. reals =

Johnson Soap Co. brands | 4
Silver Ling ..........8 65 | Telegram .... .........2
Calumet Family oS 16 | Pay Car ......0..2 fo se~ 31
Scotch Family ....... 2 85 | Prairie Rose .......... 49
Cube coool, «.2+-+-2 35 | Protection ... ........ 40
J. S. Kirk & Co. brands | Sweet Burley .......... 42
American Family .....4 05| Tiger ................. 40
Dusky Diamond, 50 802.2 80 Plug
— 2 _ ne 100 —: 3 = Med €rene ..... <i... 31
Savon Imperial 3 10 Kae eeere eee eneesee =|
White Russian or a
Dome, oval bars 2 85 | Battle eee eines ** 139
Satinet, oval + -2 = | American Eagle ..... 33
Lautz Bros. & Co. were | ——— —7 aaa =
Big: Acme ........-...4 00! aoe Ge, ie as
A 100-% tb. ba 3 10 | Spear Head 14 2-3 oz..44
Big Master % rs.. me . a i eeeecuae =
Oe ee ©. Cb ear ees dice
Snow Boy Pd’r. 100 pk.4 00 | Old *Fronesty See da oes 43
Marseles oo. ..cces es oO OU TOGRY fo5c5 socks Be
Proctor & Gamble brands a ea cpa a Se eee pass 37
DOME oes cece eee s .--3 10) Fiper Heidsick ues 66
Ivory, © O% ........ ae o0 BOO  GAOR vc cece ec. s =
sees 1 Om 220s. -6 75| Honey Dip Twist .
Ole ee 3 25 | Black aaa a “738
os B. Wrisley brands ae ce uecu ss Conan cae
Good Cheer .......... 00 | FOTse: wee es 30
Old Country - ee .3 40 Nickel TW. wicccc... 50
Scouring
Enoch Morgan's Sons. Smoking
Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00 | Sweet Core ...........34
Sapolio, half gross lots.4 50 Piat Car ..... ae we ek ce
Sapolio, single boxes < 25|Great Navy ........... 34
Sapolio, hand ........2 25| Warpath ......... eS
SODA atk a 6 Om. 55... 25
Boxes no IX L, 16 of. palis’.31
cegs, English Honey. BIN a cea eeaes 40
SPICES Gold Biocke .........23 40
Whole Spices Flagman fied a bee oe sie « 40
Allspice ........ 12 Chips settee eee eeeeeee 33
Cassia, China in mats. 12 | Kiln Dried Se 21
Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28 DBuke’s Mrcture ........ 39
Cassia, Saigon, broken. 40 Duke’s Cameo ........ 43
Cassia, Saigon. inrolls. 55| Myrtle Navy .......... 44
Cloves, Amboyna ..... 23) Yum Yum, 1 2-3 oz. ..39
Cloves, Zanzibar . 20 | Yum Yum, lib. pails .:40
Tue a 8

   

ces. sie eo
Nutmegs, 75-80 .

Nutmegs, 105-10 . 40
Nutmegs, 115-20 ...... 35
Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15
Pepper, Singp. white . 25
Pepper, shot ...... 17
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allapiee: occ cs. soe ae
Cassia, Batavia ....... 28
Cassia, Saigon ....... 48
Cloves, Zanzi cages ae
Ginger, African ...... 15
Ginger, Cochin ........ 18
Ginger, Jamaica ...... 25
Mace 5... 65
MERStAGe .. 3.5.55. e 5 tt 18
Pepper, Singapore, blk. 17
Pepper, Singp. white . 28
Pepper, Cayenne ...... 20
Sage ...:. ee een es 20
STARCH
Common Gloss

1tb. packages. pe ~~
3Ib. packages ......... i
6Ib. pac

kages .

40 and 50 Ib. boxes "s03%

Barrels. 3
Common Corn

   

eee mchs .. vis} = oy packages ...... 5
Orwegian 5.2......6.6 . packages ....4 7
Round, 100 Ibs ........3 60 . %@
Round, 50 tbs ........2 10 SYRUPS
Benled i 5220.0 02. 2.4 18 Corn
els . ee 23
Trout — ee ie acne -
4Uib cans Zin case.
oe . ” = .---- =o 10Ib cans % dz in case.1 60
No 1,10 tbs oes "490 5 cans, 1dzin case.1 85
No. 1 8 te 59 2161 cans 2 dz in case.1 85
- Pure Cane
Mackerel Mair 2... ceeee ceases) ae
Mess 100 Ibs. ........14 50| Good ....... Cecceucceue ae
Mess 50 Ibs. ........ 7 75 | Choice eaccoten eas
Mess 10 tbs. ........ 1 75| | TEA
Mess 8 na sao 2 = demas
— : aa ee 7 00|Sundried, medium ....24
No. 1, 10 Ibs. ........ 1 60 | Sundried, choice ......
No. 1, 8 tbs. ........ 1 85 | Sundried, fancy ......36
Regular, medium .....24
Whitefish —— — seen
o. 2 Fam ) SARC cocc cscs
100 Ibs. = : 3 50 | Basket-fired, medium .31
50 aa. ......3 @ 2 10} Basket-fired, choice ..38
10 tha. ....... 9 60 | Basket-fired, fancy ..
Sis, 62:2. 46 — coessetesees22Q24
SEEDS Fannings . eo i
Gunpowder
Moyune, medium ....30
Moyune, choice .. 32
Moyune, fancy 40

Pingsuey, medium .
Pingsuey, choice
Pingsuey, fancy
Young Hyson
NCHS 6h Soin ee osc sec soe
AMC i25.654..- Si aleic.aed Cat
Oolong
Formosa, fancy ....... 42
Amoy, medium ........25
Amoy, choice .........32
English Breakfast
Medium
Choice
Wancy ..........:......40
india

Ceylon, choice ........83
Faney

 

 

 

Corn Cake, 2% oz. eer
Corn Cake, 1tb. .......

Plow Boy, 1 2-3 oz. “—
Plow Boy, 3% oz. ....39
Peerless, 3% oz. ......35
Peerless, 1 2-3 oz. ...38
Aly Brake oo... lk... 36
Cant Took ............ 30
Country Club ...... -_ 34
Forex-XXXX
Good Indian
Self Binder ...
Silver Foa:

TWINE
ply

  

Cotton, 3
Cotton, 4 ply .
Jute, 2 ply ...
Hemp, 6 ~.
Flax. mediu

Wool, 1tb. balla.

VINEGAR
Malt White Wine; 40 gr. 3
Malt White Wine, 80 gr.11
Pure Cider, B&B 11
Pure Cider, Red Star. 11
Pure Cider, — 11
Pure Cider, Silver ....11

WASHING POWDER

 

Pelts
(Oid Wool ..........
tM ck ease es, 50@1 50
| BROArimee ..... «.. 10@_ 30
allow
ee ne 4
BOO Bebe uae 3
Wool
Washed, fine ..... @22
Washed, medium .. @25
Unwashed, fine ..14@19
Unwashed, medium21@23
CONFECTIONS

Egg Crates
Humpty umpty ....2 40 |
No. 1, complete ....... 32
No. 2, complete ........ 18
Faucets |
| Cork neg, SiO ......-. 65
| Cork lined, 9 in ........ 75
| Cork lined, 10 in ....... 85
| Cedar, © Oe geese uses 55
Mop Sticks
17 POsN SOCEM 2.44... 90
Eclipse patent spring . 85
moO. 3 COMMON ....... 75
| No. 2 pat. brush holder. 85

| 121. cotton mop heads.1
| Ideal No. 7

 

 

| Palls
| 2-hoop Standard ...... 1 60
| 8-hoop Standard ...... 1 75
| 2-wire, Cable ......... 1 70
| 3-wire, Cable ......... 1 90
| Cedar, all red, brass ..1 25
iPaper, MUareme ........ 2 25
1B | 5 aE eee 2 70

| greeted

ERMrGwooG. 2... c.ce5ss 2 50
Softwood ....... es a
PE 6 ove da case cee 1 60
es cheese vas 1 50

Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 holes .. 22
Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. 45
Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes ... 65
Oe, WOU oi cei icuce 80
Met, SOOO 66s. sess 75

Tubs
20-in., Standard, No. 1.7 00
18-in., Standard, No. 2.6 00
16-in., Standard, No. 3.5 00
20-in., Cable, No. 1 ..7 50
18-in., Cable, No. 2 ..6 50
16-in., Cable, No. 3 ..5 50
NO. 2 Pies ..... 25... lv 80
mo. 2 Wibre .......... 9 45
No. 3 Fibre .......... 8 55

Wash Boards
Bronze Globe .......... 2 50
POOF fone al ia. 1 76
Double Acme .......... 2 75
Sines AGCWE .......+.. 2 25
Double Peerless ...... 3 25
| Single Peerless ........ 2 50
| Northern Queen ....... 2 50
| Double Pee ous. 3 00
1Goo@ Luo 0.0.2.0... 2 75
| Universal ....55....40 26
Window Cleaners
So eee cas oe 1 65
oe .5.0., -1 85
a ccm of
Wood Bowls

1c in, Eeteee ot. 75
ie in: Beater 2... ts... 115
16 tm. Butter ........ 2 00
17 ‘in. aoe ioe 3 26
19 im. Batter ....... -4 75
Assort is, 15. i? 1.4.8 26
Assort 16-17-19 .....3 25

WRAPPING PAPER
Common Straw
Fibre Manila, white .. 2
Fibre Manila, colored . 4
No. 1 Manila
Cream Manila ........
Butcher’s Manila .... 2%
Wax Butter, short c nt. 13
Wax Butter, full count. =
Wax Butter, rolls

 

 

| Standard Twist

Stick Candy

  

TOMO cows ceeeeasas
Standard H. H.

Cut Loaf

Jumbo, 32Ib.
Extra H.

Boston Cream 10
Olde Pgapnod —— stick nn

Mixed Candy

POG cts cs seueues 6
| COMMOTIRION occcs cee 7
eS ie
EE 1%
eh ck ee 8%
PE onc seces seven a
TOVOR  heccdaescunee a
ea 8
Engen BOCK ......4s 9
BIMGOPOArten ...cccccas 8%
3on Ton Cream ....... 8%
French Cream ........ 9
P BABE esis esas cones. ce 11
|Hand made Cream....14%
| Premio Cream mixed..12%
| Fancy—in Palis
|O F Horehound Drop..10
Gypey Biearee ........ 14
EO —_————e 12
Fudge Bquares ........ 12
Peanut Squares «ae
Sugared Feanuts ..... 11
Salted Peanuts ....... 12
Starlight Kisses ...... 10
San Blas Goodies ..... 12
Lozenges, plain ....... 9
Lozenges, printed ..10
Champion Choeolate ..11
Eclipse Chocolates ...13
Quintette Chocolates...12

|Champion Gum Drops. §

 

1 DEC TOU oo cde cesses. 9
jLemon Soure ......... 9
aa 9
|Ital. Cream Opera ae
|Ital. Cream Bon Bons.
[. 2 We, De <u cw ae
|Molasses Chews, 15Ib.
oo eal 12
|Golden Waffles ....... 12
Fancy—in 5th. Boxes
Lemon SOUR ....6..... 50
Peppermint Drops ....60
|Chocolate Drops ......60

|H. M. Choc. Drops ...85
\H. M. Choc. Lt. an
ee
Brilliant Gums, Crys.60
O. F. Licorice Drops ..80
Lozenges, plain ........ 55
Lozenges, printed 60
PE sce cce ceed 55
I voi iw eee casa 60
Cream Bar ..... daaouen 55
|Molasses Bar ......... 55

 

Hand Made Cr’ms..80@90
Cream Buttons, Pep.

Diamond Flake ....... 2 75 and Wintergreen ...65
Gold Brick ...........3 25 YEAST CAKE | String Rock .........
Gold Dust, regular ....4 60 | Magic, 3 doz. .......... 1 15 | Wintergreen Berries . .55
Gold Dust, 5c ........4 00 | Sunlight, 3 doz. ......1 09, Old Time Assorted, 25
Posting 24 A. ----3 90 | Yeast Voant odes.” 21 49| Buster Brown Goodies
Saree so. coud 2a oam, OZ. . 5 |
EAA -419| Yeast Cream, 3 doz .11 00 |, 30M. case 5. ° +. 1-+2.)
Babbitt’s 1776 ........ 3 75 | Yeast Foam, 1% doz. .. 6g | Up-to-Date Asstm 3 50
ie ce 3 50 FRESH FISH a
ee See wen. 3 70) tee ta | aiid ee 6s
e clock ..... ces: . vee
Wisdom ......... = Z| sone fish ........: 10@12 | Dandy Smack, 100s ...2 75
Soourine ....-...--+-..3 | Binek Bae @° | Bop Corn Eritters, 1008 50
Rub-No-More bso as i 16 Halibut ican 10@11 Ae tae a, o
WICKING ae or Herring. g 5 Pop Corn Balls .......1 30
No. 0 per gross -......30 | Live Lobster” ..22.. as NUTS
No. 2 per gross ......50 — ee sence en Whole
No. 3 per gross ......75 | tiaddock ..” iiealgtes 13% poe ee -16
WOODENWARE No. 1 Pickerel .... 8% | Almonds, California sft
Baskets i aed | | oe
ana 100 bo. Ste ude ee coewes
Bushels, wide band :.:11 35|Red Snapper...) @ | Walnuts, French 2.2.1
arket ......... seeee+s 85) Col. River Salmonl5 @16 | Walnuts, soft shell
Splint, large .......... 6 00| Mackerel. ......... ingen | Cal Wee dl 5@16
Splint, medium ....... 5 00 Table Nuts faney oie
Splint, small .......... 4 00 OYSTERS Pecans, Med. le
Willow, Clothes, large. : 25 | Cans | Pecans, Ex. Large ...10
Willow Clothes, med’m.6 00 | | Pecans, Jumbos ...... 11
Willow Clothes, small.5 50 | F. H. Counts | Hickory Nuts per bu.
snraciey Butter Boxes a | ee .* 35 | ¢ Ohio new he ee 75
size, in case .. Lege ere ss ss (Cocdenute ........-...-
3tb. size, 16 in case .. 68 | peor ag Standards . Ps | Chestnuts, per bu. ....
5Ib. size, 12 in case .. 63 | Standards ......1.02 17" Shelled
10%b. size, 6 in case .. 60) oe eae Spanish Peanuts. T4@8
Butter Plates HIDES AND PELTS |; Pecan Halves ........ 38
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate. 40) Hides | Walnut Halves ........: 33
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate. 45 | Green No. 1 ........... 7 rilbert Meats .........25
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate. 50) Green No. 2? ........... « | Alicante Almonds .....36
No. 5 Oval. 260 in crate. 60) Cured No. 1 ..........8% | Jordan _.. steeee 47
urns | Cured Oe eee ew le 7%
Barrel, 5 gal., each ..2 40| Calfskins, green No. 1 io r | Fancy, H’ Pr nguns.6%4@7
Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55 | Calfskins, green No. 2 8% Fancy, H. P., Suns,
Barrel, 19 g: gal., each -.2 70 | Calfskins, cured No. 1 | | Roasted oi é .
othes Pins ‘alfskins, cur. oice, 2.
Round head, 5 gross bx. 6&5 | Steer Hides 60Ibs. over9 Choice. H. P.. Jum-
Round head, cartons .. 75 | Cow Hides 60 Ibs. over8% bo, Roasted ....9 @ 9%

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Paragon ......2.5¢ 65 6 00
BAKING POWDER
Jaxon Brand
rs

%Yb. cans, 4 doz. case 45
4%. cans, 4 doz. case 85
1 th. cans, 2 doz. casel 60

Royal
10c size. 90
\¥%lbcans 135
6 ozcans 190
%lbcans 250
% beans 375
1 Iecans 480
F 3 Ibcans1300
a 5 theans 2150

BLUING
Arctic 40z ovals, p gro 4 00
Arctic 8 oz ovals, p gro 6 00
Arctic 16 ozro’d, p gro 9 00
BREAKFAST FOOD

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brands

   

 

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Cases, 24 3 Ib pack’s..2 00
CIGARS

 

G. J. ee —.
Less than 5v0........ 33 0
500 or more.........5. 32 00
«.000 or more......... 31 00
COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

aC 2 Ze

is tg 1

 

70 %1Ib pkg, per case..2 60
35 +2Ib pkg. per case..2 60
38 %4%b pkg, per case. .2 60
16 %1%b pkg. per case. .2 60

FRESH MEATS

Beef
carcass 5. 6... 7 @8%
Forequarters. 52@ 6%
Hindquarters. ...  81%6@ @10
ee a 11 @13
Bee so 9 2
GUNES, oo ces oe T%@ 8%
ne. os @
eee. ne @ 4

Pork
Dresse@ . 2... 5. @ 5%
Dees @ 8%
Boston Butts. ... @ 6%
Shoulders ...... @i7
seat Land .... 4... @ 7

Mutton

Carcass ....°.... @ 9
Lambe 2.252555 3. 12 @12%

Veal
Cree... ...... 44@ 7

24 10c cans
12 25c cans
50c cans ....

 

 

 

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bads.

 

White House, 1 fb..
White House, 2 .
Excelsior, M & J, ‘i “D::
Excelsior, M & J, 2 tb..
‘Lip Top, M & J, 1%D....
Royal Java <....3... 32...
Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ...
Distrivuted by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer oe De-
troit and Jackson; Saun-
ders & Co., Port a.
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel & Goeschel,
Bay City; Godsmark, Du-
rand & Co., Battle Creek;
Fielbach Co., Toledo.

COFFEE SUBSTITUTE
Javril

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz in case

   

Magnolia ..
Challenge . Sodiot ee
Dime oo eS 3 85
Peerless Evap’d Cream.4 00

SAFES

 

Full line of the celebrated
Diebold fire and _ burglar
proof safes kept in stock
by the Tradesman Com-
pany. Twenty different
sizes on hand at all times
—twice as many safes as
are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand
Rapids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.

SALT
Jar-Sait
One dozen
y Ball's quart
> I Mason jars
qd (3 pounds
if

each) .......85

 

 

 

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

 

100 cakes, large size..6 5v
50 cakes, large size..3 25
100 cakes, small size..3 85
50 cakes, small size..1 95

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

 

 

Black Hawk, one box..2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs.2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES

Halford, large ........ 3 75
Halford, small ........ 2 25

 

Place Your
Business
ona
Cash Basis
by using
our
Coupon Book
System.
We
manufacture
four kinds
of
Coupon Books
and
sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape
or
denomination.
We will
be
very
pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us.
They are
free.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids

Spice Announcement

In order to meet the requirements of the bet-
ter class of retailers, we have arranged with
one of the best manufacturers of spices for
packing ABSOLUTELY PURE GOODS in
cartons bearing our insignia of purity and

perfection—

Quaker

The Pure Food Commissioner’s office says

they are “right.”

BUY, TALK AND SELL
QUAKER SPICES (in cartons)

WORDEN (GROCER COMPANY

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

A Catalogue That
Is Without a Rival

 

There are somcth.ng like 85,000 com-
mercial inst'tutions in the country that
issue catalogues of some sort. They are
all trade- getters—some of them are success-
ful and some are not.

Ours is a successful one. In fact it is
THE successful one.

It sells more goods than any other three
catalogues or any 400 traveling salesmen
in the country.

It lists the largest line of general mer-
chandise in the world.

It is the most concise and best illustrated
catalogue gotten up by any American
wholesale house. c

It is the only representative of the larg-
est house in the world that does business
entirely by catalogue.

It quotes but one price to all and that is
the lowest.

Its prices are guaranteed and do not
change until another catalogue is issued.

It never misrepresents. You can bank
on what it tells you about the goods it
offers—our reputation is back of it.

It enables you to select your goods
according to your own best judgment and
with much more satisfaction than you can
from the flesh-and-blood salesman, who
is always endeavoring to pad his orders
and work off his firm’s dead stock.

Ask for catalogue J.

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Everything—
By Catalogue Only.
Chicago

New York St. Louis

Making
Money

Becomes a simple proposi-
tion when you sell

New
Silver

Leaf
Flour

It is the best flour on the
market and grocers who
have once handled it. never
change. We have custom-
ers who have been with
us since we first started in
business. Better let us
send you quotations so you
may become one of the
favored ones.

Muskegon
Milling Co.,
Muskegon, Michigan

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

47

 

 

 

 

 

 

, North Freedom, Wis.

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents

subsequent CONTINUOUS INSeFtON.

No charge less

a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each

than 245 cents.

GES neta ECON Oren Mar TL MRO) RC LenS

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

Are you satisfied with your present po-
sition and salary? If not write us for
plan and booklet. We have openings for
managers, secretaries, advertising men,
salesmen, book-keepers, ete., paying from
$1,000 to $10,000 a year. High grade ex-
clusively. * Hapgoods (Inc.), Suite 511,
309 Broadway, New York. 37

For Sale—Ten acres of rich zinc and
lead land in the very heart of the Mis-
souri district; price, $4 down and $4 a
month for 27 months; no difference where
you live an investment in this land will
make you money. Send for my circulars
and learn why. Address W. B. Sayler,
Carthage, Mo. 549

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. 551

For Rent—Fine location for a depart-
ment, general, or dry goods store. Large
stone building, three entrances, on two
main business streets. Rent reasonable,
possession given at once. Don't fail to
write Chas. E. Nelson, Waukesha, oo

 

 

 

For Sale—Nice stock musical merchan-
dise, books, stationery, jewelry, novel-
ties and sporting goods; fine location,
next door to postoffice. Globe Novelty
Co., Owosso, Mich. 544

Good paying dry goods business for
sale. Best business street in Detroit.
Stock and fixtures inventory $6,800. Ad-
dress No. 548, care Michigan Trades-
man. 548

Farm for Sale or Exchange—163 acres,
80 cleared; good buildings, two and one-
half miles from Leota, Clare county.
Mich.; good school, one-quarter mile;
good location and good farm. Can give
immediate possession if taken before July
1. Enquire on premises or of Lock-
wood, Lapeer, Mich. 545

For Sale—A new stock of hardware,
implements, buggies, etc., in one of the
best hardware and implement towns in
Northern Indiana. Stock will invoice
between $4,000 and $5,000. Best reasons
for, selling. No competition. Sales last
year, $24,000. Address No. 541, care
Michigan Tradesman. 541

80 acres unimproved good farm land,
40 acres timbered land, to exchange for
merchandise. Address No. 540, care
Michigan Tradesman. 540

For Sale—General merchandise, from

 

 

 

 

 

. ten hundred to ten thousand in ten years,

by a farmer boy in the best town, in the
best county, in the best state, in the best
country in the world. Lock box = 5,

 

For Sale—800 acres of the finest unim-
proved farm land in one of the_ best
farming districts in Central South Dako-
ta. Five miles from county seat, twen-
ty-five miles from Pierre, the State capi-
tal. Offered at a bargain for twenty days
for cash. Price, $7,500. R. C. Greer,
Blunt, S. D. 538

For Sale—A 25 horse-power steel hori-
zontal boiler. A 12 horse-power engine
with pipe fittings. A blacksmith forge
with blower and tools. Shafting, pul-
leys, belting. All practically new. Orig-
inal cost over $1.200. Will sell for $600.
Address B-B Manufacturing Co., 50 Ma-
sonic Temple, Davenport, Iowa. 537

Squash, Pumpkin and Potato Flour. A
great chance for the right man to en-
gage in a new business and make money.
Now located at Hudson, Mich. This flour
was put on the market last year and
took instantly. The plant is new and
ready for business. No experience need-
ed. You can be shown in a week how
to run it. A good and satisfactory rea-
son for selling. Enquire of E. Frens-
dorf, Hudson, Mich., or C. H. Warner,
owner, Providence, R. I. 552

For Sale—City meat market; finest in
the State; all tile, ice box, tile counter.
nickel racks; best trade in the city. Will
rent or sell the fine two-story brick
building; has all glass front, tile floor;
finest location. Good reasons for selling.
Also for sale Perkins shingle mill. :
M. Neff & Son, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. 534

For Sale—To close an estate—the Ho-
tel Iroquois at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Possession immediately. Address H. T.
Phillips, 29 Monroe Ave., Detroit, —

 

For Sale—Stock consisting of bazaar
goods, crockery, glassware, lamps and
groceries; also fixtures; invoices $1,300,
centrally located in thriving town of 909
inhabitants; rent low; good trade and
paying business. Ill health reason for
selling. Address No. 499, care Michigan
Tradesman. 499

On account of failing health I desire
to sell my store, merchandise, residence,
two small houses and farm. Will divide
to suit purchasers. J. Aldrich Holmes,
Caseville, Mich. 632

For Sale—On account of death in fam-
ily, $4,000 stock of groceries and men’s
furnishing goods, all staples, located in
best manufacturing city of 30,000 on the
wake Shore. Will sell at 65 cents on the
dollar if taken at once. Address No.
536, care Michigan Tradesman. 536

 

 

For Sale or Will Exchange for an Al
Stock of General Merchandise—My fine
farm of 160 acres, together with teams,
stock and tools. The farm is located at
Coopersville, Ottawa county, thirteen
miles from city limits of city of Grand
Rapids. Call or write if you mean busi-
ness E. O. Phillips, Coopersville, Mich. 935

_ Wanted—Will pay cash for an estab-
lished, profitable business. Will consid-
er shoe store, stock of general merchan-

 

dise or manufacturing business. Give
full particulars in first letter. Confiden-
tial. Address No. 519, care Michigan
Tradesman. 519

For Sale—A good clean stock of hard-
ware, about $3,500, in good live town of
3,000 inhabitants. Write or call on a
F. Jackson, 14 North Union St., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 518

 

For Sale—Small stock of groceries.
shoes, crockery and fixtures at a bar-
gain; best location in copper country;
rent reasonable. Coon & Rowe, Lauri-
um, Mich. 516

For Sale—A $4,000 stock of hardware in
Lee county, Illinois. Trade commands a
large territory. Address No. 517, care
Michigan Tradesman. 517

For Sale—$4,500 stock of groceries,
with meat market, in [Illinois mining
town of 8,000 population; annual sales
$45,000. Address No. 515, care Michigan
Tradesman. 515

 

 

 

Vehicle and Implement Business _ for
Sale—Small stock on hand. Hold agency
for all the best lines. Will sell or rent
buildings. One of the best locations in
Shiawassee county. Reason for selling,
have other business. Address No. 521
care Michigan Tradesman. 521

For Sale—$5,000 stock general merchan-
dise in town of 1,500 in Central Michi-
gan; clean stock; cash trade; sales $18,-
000; must sell on account of sickness.
Address C. G., care Michigan Trades-
man. 522

 

 

For Sale or Exchange—Full _ roller
swing sifter, steam flour mill, 30 barrels
capacity: good town; large territory. Or
will take partner. Address Box 183,
Stockbridge, Mich. 523

 

For Sale—Small stock of general mer-
cnandise in a live town. Will sell at a
bargain and rent building; good two-
_— brick. Address Box 387, —

en.

 

Wanted to Exchange—120 acres_im-
proved land, good buildings, good loca-
tion, or 120 acres wild land, good loca-
tion, near schools; also eighteen-room
hotel and store buildi in a sae
town on the Pere Marquette Railroa
for stock of merchandise or drug stock.
Address Lock Box 214, Marion, Mich. 485
For Sale—Our stock groceries and dry
goods. Invoice $1,500. Established trade.
Write, Barger & Son, Martin “. -

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For Sale Cheap—Drug stock in North-
ern Indiana; invoices about $800. Ad-
dress No. 471, care Michigan ———

 

Sixty-six and two-thirds cents on the
dollar buys stock of general merchandise
in town of 1,000; cash trade. Address
G. L. Thornton, Marion, Mich. 469

I desire to sell outright at cost my
stock of general merchandise and _ store
building. Stock in fine shape. Will in-
ventory about $5,000; —— buildings
valued at $3,000; no go general store
within eight miles; might exchange for
unincumbered productive block or city
—— E. C. Inderlied, Rock a

 

For Exchange or Sale—A highly im-
proved 240 acre farm in Whiteside coun-
ty. Illinois. James A. Hill, Mechanics-
ville. Iowa. 481

 

Rare Goper ats 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

- mortgage; both together or separate.
ill rent building if preferred at reason-

able rate. Reason for selling, retiring

from business. Address Warner Von

ee 1345 Johnson st., Bay Se-
ch.

 

 

First-class business chance for cloth-
ing, men’s a and tailoring.
Box 90, St. Charles, Mich. 440

 

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—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. 3
For Sale—An eight room house with
four lots in Torch ke village, an ideal
place for a summer home. 437

For Sale—$2,200 to $2,500 grocery stock
and fixtures. Reason for selling, other
business. Write or call for ahaa as
F. Gates, Port Huron, Mich. 428

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—480 acres of cut-over hard-
wood land, three miles north of Thomp-
sonville. House and barn on premises.
Pere Marquette railroad runs across one
corner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
ae 301 Jefferson St., Grand —
ids.

 

 

 

 

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan Trades-
man. 89
_ 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 7

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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 invento about
$10,000. Good reason for selling. No
trades desired. Address No. 67, care
Michigan Tradesman. 67

 

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-
pess, or make sale to reduce your stock.
Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,
577 West Forest Ave., Detroit, Mich. 2

Geo. M. Smith Safe Co., agents for one
of the strongest, heaviest and best fire-
roof safes made. All kinds of second-
1and safes in stock. Safes opened and
repaired. 376 South lonia street. Both
phones. Grand Rapids. 926

 

 

 

POSITIONS WANTED.

 

Wanted—aA position on the road with
wholesale grocery house by experienced
salesman; age 25. Address Box 140,
Marshall, Il. 28

 

Wantd—Position as salesman in retail
hardware store. Have had ten years’
aaa Address Box 367, a

ich.

 

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

 

Merchants—I hereby certify that F. M.
Smith & Co., of Chicago, have just closed
one of these ‘Special Sales’’ for me and
am highly pleased with the way they
conducted the sale and prices they ob-
tained for my goods, and can_ recom-
mend them very highly and their ‘‘Spe-
cial Sales Plan” to any wanting to re-
duce or close out their stock of merchan-
dise, as they surely understand their
business, and their plan of advertising is
a winner. Henry Bruning, dealer in gen-
eral merchandise, Bluffton, Ohio. For full
particulars address F. M. Smith & Co.,
215 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Il. 550

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
mploy no one but the best austioneers
oa salespeople. Write for terms and
lobe Traders & Licensed

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a
d
Nelson _St..
445

ate. The
Auctioneers, Office 431 E.
Cadillac, Mich.

H. C. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
tioners. Stocks closed out or reduced
anywhere in the United States. New
methods, original ideas, long experience,
hundreds of merchants to refer to. We
have never failed to please. Write for
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
bash ave., Chicago. (Reference, Dun’s
Mercantile Agency.) 872

 

WANTED—STOCKS

100 cents guaranteed
for your stock
Correspond with me.

S. J. STEINHART

Suite 845, Chicago Stock Exchange Building
CHICAGO, ILL.

 

 

HELP WANTED.
Wanted A ' ” first-class Scandina Vian
clothing salesman and stock-keeper, Grand

Rapids, a single man _ preferred; must
be experienced, with good habits and
references and not afraid to work; good
steady position for the right man. Ad-
dress No. 553, care Michigan Trades-

man. 553
Man—Energetic, willing to learn, under
35, to prepare for Government position.
Beginning salary $800. Increase as de-
served. Good future. LC. L, Cedar
Rapids, Ia. 526
Wanted—Experienced suspender sales-
man to handle our line of men’s belts
and suspenders in Ohio, Indiana and Il-
linois. None but experienced men need
apply. Exclusive territory given. Com-
mission only. Novelty Leather Works,
Jackson, Mich. 525

Enclose stamp.

220

 

Wanted—A hustler with $3,000 to take
charge of the best general store in
Thompsonville. I am going West. J. E.
Farnham. 527

Wanted—Clothing salesma: to take
orders by sample for the finest merchant
tailoring produced; good opportunity to
grow into a splendid business and be
your own “‘boss.’’ Write for full infor-
mation. E. L. Moon, _ Gen’'l a

 

Station A, Columbus, Ohio.
MISCELLANEOUS.

J. Wildauer Jewelry Co., 5300 Hal-
sted street, Chicago, Ll, sells goods at
manufacturers’ — prices. Special black
enamel or gold back collar buttons at $2
per gross; plain gold filled front. link
cuff buttons, $12 per gross, less 25 per
cent. for cash only. 543

 

~Wanted—Men with capital to invest in

a live proposition that will stand investi-

gation. Address 304 Clapp Block, _ Des

a ee
Preserve eggs for high prices or home

use; receipt 50 cents; satisfaction guar-

anteed. Isaac Rohrer, Sparta, Mich. 524
Store decorating, store

 

advertising.
window trimming and all the latest ideas
and methods in store management, with
profuse illustrations, designs, etc., in the
Window Trimmer and Retail Merchants’
Advertiser, Chicago and New York. Sub-
scription $1 per year; sample copy 10
cents. Publication office, Mt. Vernon, N.
Y. You want it. 511
Wanted—Agents to handle our dupli-
cating sales books and credit system.
Write for particulars, Battle Creek
(Mich.) Sales Book Co., Ltd. 508
Wanted—Partner, I want a sober, en-
ergetic man with $250 to manage busi-
ness in Grand Rapids; $15 per week
wages, and half interest in the business;
this is a good business chance, perma-
nent situation; reference required. Ad-
dress H.Willmering, Peoria, Ill. 502

Reduction Sales conducted by my new
and novel methods draw crowds every-
where. Beats any auction or fire sale
ever held. Cleans your. stock of all
stickers. Quickly raises money for the
merchant. A money maker for any
merchant. Every sale personally con-
ducted; also closing out sales. For terms
and references write to-day. Address W.
A. Anning, 86 Williams St., ——

 

 

Send stamp for latest catalogue Mich-
igan fruit farms. Elkenburg, South Hav-
en, Mich. 489

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.
estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
dence solicited. Konkle & Son, to,
Mich. 501

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Conutry Dealer Who Employs
Unique Practical Methods.

Decoration Day I put in at the
rather small town of Blank, where
does business a certain enterprising
dispenser of hats, caps, trousers and
thimbles, books and  washboards,
candy and vinegar, wall paper and
calico, cheap jewelry and mousetraps,
shoes and slate pencils, furniture and
spectacles, pictures and_ hosiery,
washing machines and dog collars,
looking glasses and chewing gum, all
sorts of farm produce and needles,
plowshares and toothpicks—and these
constitute not the thousandth part
of his stock as regards variety. Ver-
ily the “spice of life” is so well exem-
plified in this man’s store that he
will never lack it if he but glance
around his well-kept quarters.

A heterogeneous mess as to quan-
tity and diversity of objects is this
dealer’s stock, yet is everything ar-
ranged neatly and with an eye to ef-
fect and all the multifarious articles
are grouped as to their direct rela-
tion to each other so that he knows
exactly where to lay his hand on
anything (if he has it in stock) that
a customer may call for.

This is the individual I wrote
about, along in the winter, who
“does things,’ in the way of win-
dow dressing, by hunting up odd-
sounding foreign phrases in the back
end of the dictionary and utilizing
them to embellish display cards for
his windows, which he trims to illus-
trate the idea conveyed by the cards.

Sometimes he varies the program
by the addition of English-speaking
cards which carry a supplementary
thought throwing a little glimmer of
intelligence on the first mentioned
ones, which are often literal Greek to
the townspeople and _ the _ bucolic
neighbors within a radius of twenty
miles. And the latter enjoy the sit-
uation quite as much as the former,
and talk about these windows just
as much if not more.

Every time I have occasion to set
foot in the town that boasts _ this
unique commercial character I visit
his stor®€ for instruction and amuse-
ment, and am always well repaid for
the time spent in this interesting en-
vironment. The owner of the place
enjoys talking to a remarkable de-
gree, and I am quite content to lis-
ten—one can learn more by listening
than by talking, any day in the year.

Here are some of the funny but
effective ideas purloined from “Quo-
tations, Words, Phrases, etc., from
the Greek, the Latin, and Modern
Foreign Languages.” No one but
this peculiar fellow would think of
employing such helps, and yet they
do him a world of good in an adver-
tising way. Not one in a thousand
of the Tradesman’s readers knows
nor ever heard of this man, otherwise
than in its columns, so they are at
perfect liberty to copy anything here

 

given if it will do them any business
good.

Note the following:

“Mauvais gout, but Materfamilias

declares we must take it in the ver-

nal months.”

This statement (which the country
folk—and others as well—construed
to mean something concerning that
painful malady compassable only by
the very rich) accompanied a dry
bunch of old-fashioned “thorough-
wort,” which bitter tonic no one who
has ever obeyed the solicitous—and
at the same time imperative—injunc-
tion of “Materfamilias” to “Down
with it!” can call to mind without a
reminiscent screwing up of the face
and an attendant marked action of the
salivary glands, such as the contem-
plation of a lemon inevitably pro-
duces.

What could be any simpler than
that big bunch of exsiccated boneset
—every country boy can gather it—
and yet that little herb-and-card ar-
rangement put this storekeeper in
more mouths than you could count
on your own fingers and those of
ten of your acquaintances!

With a bag of Diamond “Crystal
salt was displayed a card which was
easy of inference:

“The Sal that’s all Sal.”

At one time half the show window
contained a display of diverse sorts
of chewing gum, the open boxes of
which were piled in eye-attracting
shapes. The other half of the win-
dow contained a small cheap boy (50c
per diem) sitting in a dry goods box
just his size, the two boards of the
top each having a half circle cut out,
these semi-circles fitting loosely
around the kid’s neck. The little chap
possessed a spark of humor all his
own, and the grimaces he executed
in chewing, all day long (except at
mealtime), an enormous “cud” of
gum made him an exceedingly forci-
ble illustration of the big yellow
placard suspended directly above his
head:

“Mobile
motion.)

An exhibit of linens once bore this
inscription:

perpetuum!” (Perpetual

“More Hibernico.” (After the
Irish fashion.)
“Nil desperandum” (Never de-

spair)—a bottle of hair restorer stood
in close proximity.

A mirror had this, in white erasable
letters, over its entire face:

“Nimium ne crede colori.” (Trust
not too much to looks.)

A fishing tackle window, containing
everything in common need of the
Isaac Walton, had a picture down
by the front glass of a happy young-
ster enjoying the sport. Underneath
the margin it stated:

“Nolo episcopari.” (I would not
wish to be made a bishop.)

Sleighbells: announced this to the
inquisitive cold-weather passer-by:

“Nugae canorae.” (Mere jingling.)

A picture of a bridal couple bore
this suggestion:

“Nemo solus sapit.”
wise alone.) !

This illustration’ rested amid a
whole arsenal of kitchen utensils.

(No one is

An exhibit of schoolbooks admon-
ished pupils and parents alike:

“Piuttosto mendicanti che ignoran-
ti.’ (Better be a beggar than be ig-
norant.)

Hammocks—their card enjoined:

“Don’t permitte divis  caetera.”
(Don’t leave the rest to the gods.)

Thick eiderdown insoles had the
paraphrase:

“Pro salute animae.”
soul’s—soles’—health.)

Glass fruit jars:

“Vis preservatrix.”
power.)

A single lampwick suggested:

“Redolet lucerna.” (It smells of
the lamp.)

A winter exhibit—of skates—had a
picture of a buxom country girl who
had unexpectedly taken a tumble on
the ice. Her card announced:

“Ruit mole sua. Resurgam.” (It
falls by its own weight. I shall rise
again.)

I have given the meanings of all
these, but there was no such help
presented by this ingenious dealer.
He left that for the girls and boys
to study out and tell their folks.

The window decoration on Memor-
ial Day would have done credit toa
more pretentious merchant in a more
pretentious town. The inscription
then was inspiring:

“Vincit amor patriae!” (Love of
country prevails.)

(For the

(A_ preserving

—__2-
Will Repeat the Success of Last Year.

Muskegon, May 30—The first step
towards the merchants and business
men’s picnic for 1904 will be taken
some time this week, when the com-
mittee that was in charge of the pic-
nic so successfully carried out last
year will call a meeting of local busi-
ness men to take action relative to
the picnic of this year.

The picnic of 1903 gave such satis-
faction that the plan for a similar
one this year meets much favor. The
committee could arrange for one that
will entail less expense by cutting out
the high class features and making
more of the free distribution of sou-
venirs. This is the idea of some of
the business men and it may be fol-
lowed: out.

Last year at the picnic 173,000 sou-
venirs were distributed free of charge
to the picknickers and this was a
source of enjoyment to all at Lake
Michigan Park, where the picnic was
held.

A great deal of work on the port
of the committee was required to get
these and altogether 1,372 letters. were
written. Business firms about the
country were asked to contribute ar-
ticles for gratuitous distribution and
in some instances it was necessary
to write five or six letters before sat-
isfactory arrangements were made.

This year it will not be so arduous
a task, however, as the firms that do-
nated last year were so well pleased
with the result that they will undoubt-
edly be willing to assist the com-
mittee.

Some of the firms went so far as
to send representatives here to see

they complimented the committee on
the successful manner in which the
gifts were dealt out.

 

 

the distribution of the articles, and

 

Souvenirs consisting of samples of
breakfast foods, match safes, tin cups,
pin trays, pocket mirrors, fans, cards
and other articles were given away
in 1903. :

At the meeting next week it is ex-
pected a committee to have charge

of the picnic will be appointed.
——»-2-————

“What Shall We Eat?”

Every day the same old question,
What shall we eat for breakfast, for
luncheon, for dinner? assails with
monotonous regularity. the patient
housewife who seeks to provide good
living for the family in agreeable va-
riety at a moderate cost. There is a
daily department in the Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald which is intended to an-
swer this question satisfactorily
every day in the year. It is entitled
“Meals for a Day,” and_ provides
menus for the three meals every day,
with the necessary recipes. These
menus and recipes are carefully se-
lected by the Record-Herald’s house-
hold editor, and cash prizes are
awarded to the best that are received.
Housewives everywhere are invited
to participate in the competition. For
full particulars see the “Meals for a
Day” department in the Chicago
Record-Herald.

—~7>—_
A Poor Bargain.

“Old Hammerson says this horse
he wants to sell me is sound, gentle,
and kind, and won’t kick.”

“T’d be suspicious of him if I were
you, old man.” -

“Why?”

“Well, you know I married his
daughter.”

Bussacss Mail

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale Cheap—Good corner brick
store and office building and vacant lot
adjoining, in hustling Thompsonville,
Mich. Price $3,600 cash. Brings 12 per
cent. interest. Address G. W. Sharp,
North Baltimore, Ohio. 553

For Sale—Meat market; good location.
Address No. 554, care Michigan Trades-
man. 554

For Sale—Stock of dry goods, clothing,
hats, caps, shoes and groceries in town
of 1,800; business established twenty-five
years; leading store in town; clean stock,
invoicing about $12,000 to $13,000; failing
health reason for selling. Address Op-
portunity, care Michigan Tradesman. 513

Golden Opportunity—Party desires
to retire from business. Will sell stock
and building or stock, consisting of
clothing, boots and shoes, and_ rent
building. Only cash buyers need apply.
Write or call and see. T. J. Bossert,
Lander, Wyoming. 529

For Sale—Stock of general merchan-
dise and country store; in one of the
best locations in Southern Michigan. Also
ood farm, 120 acres. Address Walter
usselwhite, Kinderhook, Branch Co.,
Michigan. 447
For Sale—Bazaar and soda fountain;
splendid business; hustling town; fine
brick store building; reasonable _ rent;
good location; no opposition. H. M. Dut-
ton, No. Branch, Mich. 510
_For Sale or Exchange—Drug _ store in
city of 3,000; invoices about $3,500; good
reasons for selling. Address No. 506
care Michigan Trad n 506

For Sale—On account of the death of
the owner, a small stock of fine millinerv
must be sold immediately. Write or call
— J. Zavitz, Shelby, —--

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Sale—A modern eight-room house
Woodmere Court. Will trade for stock
of groceries. Enquire J. W. Powers,
Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Phone 1455. 498

POSITIONS WANTED.

 

 

Wanted—A position by an experienced
clothing and shoe man as clerk or mana-
ger. Address J. A. Vandervest, Thomp-
sonville, Mich. 555

 

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