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Number 1083

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1904

 

 

 

Collection Department

R. G. DUN & CO.
Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.
Page.
2> Window Trimming.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Tree Foliage.
8. Editorial.
9. Yankee Springs.
12. Butter and Eggs.
13. New York Market.
14. Evolution of Charity.
15. Public Service Corporations.
16. Clothing.
20. Summer Meeting.
22. Hardware.
24. Cut Flowers.
26. Framework of Trees.
28. Woman’s World.
30. Shoes.
32. Sstimates of Population.
33. Beauty in Grounds.
34. Store and Paper.
36. Clerks’ Corner.
38. Dry Goods.
40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.
43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery Price Current.
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WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES.

Chicago, after much suffering and
loss, has reached certain conclusions,
the most important of which is this:
Ii care and forethought can prevent
the fires and accidents attendant up-
on the usual celebration of the
Fourth of July, then the coming
Fourth ig to be a noteworthy one in
the history of this nation. To en-
sure this much-to-be desired result
she has already begun to work. She
has passed an ordinance to the ef-
fect that great judgment is to be used
in the sale of firecrackers and toys
where powder plays an important
part and she begins thus early that
merchants will not have any excuse
if their sales in this sort of mer-
chandise are interfered with. The
simple fact is that she, as a leading
city, can not indulge in any million-
dollat fires in order to grant Young
America the privilege of indulging in
his dangerous pastime. Therefore,
the public is forewarned that the
greatest surveillance will be exercised
in all that pertains to smoke and the
underlying cause of it and all good
citizens are called upon to. use
their influence in carrying out the
wholesome plans which the duly ap-
pointed committee have determined
upon. '

With the fearful record of only re-
cent years of Fourth of July con-
flagrations to pursuade them _ there
would seem to be little need of urg-
ing all good citizens to lend their in-
fluence in a cause so commendable,
and yet while that same citizenship
on general principles will heartily
concur in the purpose the committee
of safety have in view, there will be
after all a feeling that that purpose
strikes at the very life of all the day
is intended to honor and revere and
perpetuate. It is celebrating the oc-
casion when that paper was signed
which admitted mankind to kingship,

 

the Magna Charta for all coming time
of liberty, freedom and enfranchise-
ment. It was received by the ring-
ing of bells, by the firing of guns, by
the burning of powder in every con-
ceivable form and device and_ that
same rejoicing has been sanctioned
by custom until it has to all intents
and purposes, crystallized into law,
and there is no American, young or
‘old, who wants to violate that law.
The purpose is commendable, but is
it quite American?

‘There is no doubt that everywhere
the wisdom of the country will give
its hearty assent to the proposed re-
form and there is no doubt that when
the day dawns the sons of wisdom
will be found on the back steps and
on the front steps and in all the ac-
customed haunts of American boy-
hood with the same old firecracker
and the same old pistol and the
same old cannon, firing away at the
reckless expense of life and limb and
property, and that searching enquiry
will find out that Wisdom himself
has broken the law and has himself
bought and paid for and delivered in-
to the hands of his boys the forbid-
den articles.

The fact of the case is that all along
the boy has not been the cause of
the fires, big and little, that have
wrought destruction on the Fourth
of July, and another fact—much to
the point just now—is that the Chi-
cago ordinance is a shoe that does
not pinch the boy’s foot so much as
it pinches that boy’s father’s; and, if
the ordinance is a failure, that same
father will be the one responsible
for it. There are some things man-
kind do not outgrow, and this is one
of them. The man now does not be-
gin to celebrate at midnight or at
dawn, but he thinks highly of his
boy that does, and father and son
are one at heart in the uproar that
begins at an unearthly hour under
the former’s window, be the reproof
later on what it may. While the chil-
dren are young and little it is worthy
of note that the supply of crackers
and torpedoes and whatever makes
a noise is always abundant on the
glorious morning and he who cares
to watch will not fail to observe that
it is the hand of maturity that be-
gins the firing and that keeps it up
so long as the ammunition lasts.

Another fact that maturity con-
cedes and says nothing about is that
after a boy has been taught how to
celebrate that same boy wants. to
celebrate his “own self” without hitch
or hindrance. He wants his own fire-
crackers and all the rest, and he
wants to buy them himself. He wants
his own piece of punk and he wants
to light it and, what is much to the
purpose, that condition of things
suits the father exactly; and instances

 

are not wanting where paternity has
been so buried in patriotism as to lose
all sense of ownership in the fast
disappearing ammunition and_ only
the sharpest filial reproof could bring
the paternal offender to a realizing
sense of his lawlessness!

It remains to be seen whether the
American boy concealed in the Amer-
ican man will rise to the
and assert himself. He may in Chi-
cago this year, but it is safe to pre-
dict that the attempt will not be re-
peated. It is a day when the old
Adam must break out and show it-
self. In his heart, this minute, it is
about all the day is fit for. On gen-
eral principles he loves and reveres
the day and all it stands for. There
is Lexington and Bunker Hill and
Valley Forge and Yorktown, and
there they will stand forever. None
more than he loves the brave men
who won for us the country and the
independence he enjoys, and no one
is readier than he to defend the same
when they need it; but his ancestor,
whose musket hangs over his mantel,
fired that musket on the Fourth of
July and his son and his son’s son
are going to keep up that same firing,
sometimes with guns and sometimes
with crackers and sometimes with

occasion

rockets, and the ordinance that un-

dertakes to restrain them in the exer-
cise of the rfht that that gun and
those ancesto™ fought for will find
that its. requirements can not be
carried out! There is where the shoe
pinches, a shoe, be it remembered,
that covers the paternal foot.

 

In this section of the country the
St. Louis fair has not as yet created
any great amount of excitement, and
there does not seem to be a very
widespread or deep seated desire to
see it. Many who have been there
bring back the report that even the
grounds are but half finished, many of
the exhibits are not in place and
things generally are only half pre-
pared. They all agree that the show
is On an immense scale and has
a great deal that is worth seeing.
Another drawback is the disposition
of the St. Louis people to get rich
in a month out of the visitors. Later
on greater crowds are expected, al-
though it is reasonably sure that
there will be a heavy deficit at the
end. For this the St. Louis people
can in a measure blame themselves.

 

 

An effort to corner the pecan crop
was reported in the produce district
last week. The supply of the nuts
is said to be rather short on account
of unfavorable weather in Texas.

 

Supplies of bananas are not as lib-
eral as ordinarily, largely because of
the reduction of the supply in Jamai-
ca, the result of last year’s hurri-
cane.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

the Call.

All the stores
semi-summer look

have left off their
and assumed an
entirely-summer appearance. House-
cleaning-—in this case, store-cleaning
-—is over, or about so, and the sum-
mer business is in full swing, or soon
will be. The dry goods windows are
all suggestive either of diaphanous
goods or more substantial materials
of an outing description. Also num-
bers of others are displaying articles
intended to relieve hot-weather en-
nui—hammocks, fans, porch pillows,
screens, ice cream freezers, and the
like.

 

* * *

I never can quite understand how
the women will chase off after a sum-
mer resort, putting up with all sorts
of inconveniences—and_ paying big
money for the privilege—when they
might be ten times more comfortable
in their own homes with but a tithe
of the summer-resort expense. More
and more are otherwise sensible peo-
ple beginning to forego this sort of
foolishness and making their own
residences dreams—more than mere
dreams—of solid summer enjoyment.

In the first place, a carpenter is
called into requisition to take the
measurements of the erstwhile fly or
mosquito-laden piazza and before long
its sides are enclosed with wire
meshes that preclude the entrance of
droning winged intruders. Large
rugs are strewn over the recently
bare floor, a stand or two are added
for looks or convenience, easy chairs
and couches of the willow variety
are here and there disposed, hanging
baskets of bright-blossoming plants
are hung at intervals around the sides,
a smal escritoire occupies an out-of-
the-way corner, a large table stands
in the center, a hammock always in
the breeze, while overhead is an
electric light of sufficient power to
read by. All this if the porch is of
ample size. Of course, if the veran-
da is of the diminutive sort most of
the above pieces of furniture must be
dispensed with. But there may yet
remain the wide-spread hammock and
a pretty hanging basket or two and
still the picture be an extremely at-
tractive one to the  luxury-loving
soul. If there is no piazza, and _ if
suitable trees be lacking, there is left
the shady side of the house in the
afternoon, where may be planted a
heavy post and an inviting hammock
swung. When one counts all the
cost in actual money, not to mention
the wear and tear on one’s nerves
incident to the preparation for the
summer hegira, who shall say that
the stay-at-home-and-take-it-easy plan
is not the cheaper arrangement, not
taking into account all the pleasure
derivable from the following of such
a course?

-_ + +

Steketee’s right hand window pre-

sents a view of some dozen ham-

 

mocks—thirteen, to be exact—of all
colors of the rainbow, and at vary-
ing prices, the cheapest noted being
$2.75 and the most expensive $4.60.
All sorts of patterns are employed
in the weave. The central one has

_ large green and white hexagons run-
Hot Weather Goods At Last Have!

ning down the central stripe—quite
an odd conceit. I don’t recall ever
before having seen this geometrical
figure employed in hammock decora-
tion. Many have the ever-popular
fleur-de-lis in an all-over design.
Some contain figures suggestive of
those used in other articles, one ham-
mock looking as if made of linen
commonly used for stair covering for
preserving the carpeting, the color—
or tint, rather—being a light creamy
gray. If an_ old-fashioned woven
bedspread had been used for an-
other of these cotton hammocks
the appearance would not be far dif-
ferent. The foot-wide_ stripes are
white with immense red and blue
grape leaves on every other one. It
is extremely odd. Over at the right,
in the dusky background, hanging
flat against the partition which di-
vides the window from the store
proper, is a wide hammock all irregu-
larly barred off into a gay Scotch
plaid—red, green, white, black and a
little yellow lending themselves to
this peculiar design for a hammock.
There are so many patterns to se-
lect from that almost any nationality
can find something especially appeal-
ing to its ideas. The Orangeman,
for instance, can here choose a ham-
mock composed entirely of narrow
black and orange stripes. The Irish-
man himself can have for his the one
with the green hexagons down the
center. One in brilliant red and green
and another in blue and yellow stripes
would especially delight a colored
servant for the kitchen porch.
* * *

Perhaps you smile at the idea of
giving hired help a hammock. Why
not? In a well-kept home doesn’t
the maid’s back need resting even
more than that of the “missus?” If
the latter woman appreciates the de-
light of resting her weary bones in
the open air, how much more can
she enjoy such rest who does the
rough, heavy work of the household.
If more little comforts were furnish-
ed the paid toiler in the house the
sooner and easier would the Great
Domestic Problem be _ solved and
solved satisfactorily to all parties con-
cerned. In every home employing
service, the helper should have not
only her pleasant convenient kitchen
but also a room, no matter how tiny,
that she can feel is “her very own.”
There should be a cheerful carpet,
matting or rug on the floor, an easy,
back-fitting rocking chair and a good
springy couch—not all humps and
hollows, a decrepit old castaway. A
pretty picture or two should adorn
the neatly papered or tinted walls
(I prefer the former even if scream-
ed at by the “sanitary” house-decora-
tors), and a flowering plant or fern
should seek the sunshine at the mus-
lin-curtained window.

One of the most perfect home-
makers in the prosperous town of
Cadillac has fitted up just such a

 

room for her one maid, and she has
no trouble in “keeping help.”

The best housekeeper in Traverse
City has two good-sized windows in
the maid’s sitting room and across
the corner between them she placed
a pretty little oak writing desk. This
was put there as a present to the
room’s temporary owner and when
she “left to get married” quite need-
less to state she took the little desk
with her. Her mistress told me that
the girl was so delighted to possess
such a thing “all herself” that she
never went past it, if forty times a
day, without unlocking and locking
it at least once each trip. “The joy
of possession” seemed so complete
that the lady said she never regret-
ted the slight sacrifice she had to
make to give this piece of furniture.
The next servant to enjoy the little
sanctum could neither read nor write,
although she could “whack up a meal
o’ vittals to beat the band,” as a
certain Irish maid of all work used
to express it. There was no need
of catering to literary achievements
in the desk-owner’s successor, but
the latter had the faculty of extract-
ing comfort out of the rocker in
spare moments.

ee

I am wandering from my subject,
am I not?

Besides the hammocks I have men-
tioned, Steketee’s right hand window
has a big palm leaf fan stuck in sev-
eral dozen otherwise empty spots,
adding to the thought of coolness,
and there are also other porch ac-
cessories, in the shape of cushions.
These are ticketed at 33 and 39c, the
inexpensive sort that wouldn’t cause
a heart-break if rained on in_ the
night and ruined.

The ideal veranda must either have
all its decorations utterly impervious
to the elements, or they must beso
cheap that, if ruined by an unexpected
rainstorm, their loss will not be felt.
In such a piazza only can one take
any comfort.

The 39 centers are of flowered
sateen, mostly, although there is one
particularly pretty one of plain green
sateen, with a shaded flower outlined
with white machine stitching. There
is a dainty spider-webby design
around the edge anda little green tas-
sel dangles at each of the four cor-
ners. All the porch pillows at this
price have a one-thickness ruffle all
around the edge. The pillows at 33c
have a double ruffle, but the material
of this ruffle is cheapened, being
merely 5c per yard colored cambric.
The cheaper priced pillows have such
a good cotton (sateen) center that
it is a pity to spoil them with sucha
shabby-looking ruffle. The centers
are different as to colors used inthe
printing, but the picture is the same
on each—a Dutch landscape with a
Dutch girl holding a little Dutch baby
in her arms, while the empty arms
of a big Dutch windmill swing them-
selves to the breeze in the perspec-
tive. I think the baby must be
“teething”—the girl holding it has
her finger in the corner of its mouth
for it to bite on. The baby seems, in
spite of its teething, to be enjoying
life for it does not cry. It is proba-

  

 

bly true that it is, indeed, suffering .

from this childish ailment but has
for the timé being forgotten its in-
fantile troubles in contemplation of
the four fat white geese eating out
of a big china dish, while a baby
goose stands disconsolately at one
side patiently awaiting its turn at
the repast.
* * x

The little compartment next tothe
porch goods window holds nothing
but ladies’ white knit underwear. An
airy-looking placard bears this_ in-
scription:

Hot Weather Underwear.

I don’t know what the knit goods
manufacturers are thinking of to
send out the nether garments for la-
dies that they do. They are so
straight at the knee, falling at a hate-
ful length below it, and are trimmed
with coarse cheap lace put on with-
out the ghost of fulness. When on, a
woman looks, for all the world, like
the clown in a circus procession, and
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lous, even in the privacy of her own
boudoir. Although these garments
are turned out in better grades as to
the knit part, they all have the same
ugly shape—no shape at all—and_ the
homely scant lace, and I have yet
to know the woman, old or young,
who will torture herself into wearing
them. No lady likes “skimpy-look-
ing” things, and the man who per-
sists in foisting them on an unwilling,
not to say antagonistic, market is
simply and utterly wasting his time—
that is all!

The large nickel fixture in this knit
goods display is a very handsome
one, part of the radiating arms ter-
minating in a large ring, through
which articles may artistically be
drawn plainly or draped.

I observed that one of the knit
chemises had a piece of embroidery
set in across the top and over the
shoulders. The idea is a unique one,
but the embroidery is so coarse that
it spoils the whole garment.

There are some very attractive
vests in a fancy lacey stripe, for a
quarter.

Across from this exhibit, which is
all of white garments against a rose-
pink paper cambric background, and
the floor is of the same, is a fine dis-
play of shirt waists. This also isan
all-white window—with the exception
of a few duck belts which have black
embroidery—and as a contrast to the
opposite one the background and
floor are of Nile green paper cambric.
The “tablecloth” patterns in white
shirt waists still take well with
the trade, although not very popular
when they first came out. They are
mostly made up minus tucks or fol-
rerols, depending only on handsome
pearl buttons, either plain or figured,
for effect.

Next to this neat shirt-waist com-
partment come dress goods. These
are all materials that lend themselves
gracefully to making up into shirt-
waist suits, and they range from 12%c
the yard to the illusionizing price of
4gc for the same quantity. Some of
these would be pretty over a taffeta
drop skirt—indeed, would be_ too
slimsy without this rustling founda-
tion so dear to the heart feminine.
One gray white grenadine is specially
eye-taking. It is unevenly barred off
with what looks like black chenille into
squares about an inch and a_ half
across. Draped on this as an appro-
priate trimming is wide black lace
having a flowered border and the top
of plain netting. Such a dress, with
solicitude on the wearer’s part and
careful attention on that of the clean-
er, will last nicely for one season
and is not so very expensive in the
end.

So much as to the good appearance
of a dress of this kind depends on the
owner, and it is always a mystery to
me how a girl can “switch out” a
fine gown when she has only her

“own hair to pull” if it looks shabby.
—_§_2+s—_—__

Best Sellers in Silk Gloves.
The best sellers in silk gloves are
those which retail for 50 cents. This
has been the case during past sea-
sons and so long as a satisfactory
glove can be made to retail for 50

 

cents the larger share of the trade
will choose this popular price arti-
cle. The majority of buyers do not
choose to spend their money for the
best. But the fact that the 50-cent
silk glove is the popular seller does
not preclude an increasing demand
for a better silk glove. The lines
ranging up to and including $1 a pair
are in greater favor than before. And
to this cause may be traced the low
stocks which are reported among
distributers. Manufacturers have giv-
en so much attention to the manufac-
ture of silk gloves to retail at 50
cents a pair that the increased de-
mand for better grades has caught
the trade unprepared.

The absence of confidence onthe
part of the manufacturer regarding
the purchasing ability and inclination
of the American women has been
conspicuously demonstrated in a
number of instances recently and no
more effectively proved than in the
lack of preparation by glove manufac-
turers for better grades of silk gloves.
If the retailer has exhibited the same
weakness and not supplied himself
with better grades of merchandise,
then many women must be_ disap-
pointed in securing the qualities
which they are willing to purchase.
White silk gloves are in great pop-
ularity and lisles will not be neglect-
ed. This serviceable glove has lost
little of its favor with the buyer and
none of its merit. Both lines should
be given attention by merchants and
particularly should the better lines
of silks be kept up well, for a grow-
ing scarcity of the latter is reported.

—_.+-2——_—_

White Shoes for Summer Wear.

The predominance of _ all-white
toilets last summer was_ strongly
marked, and to insure the good effect
all-white shoes were in_ request.
White low shoes are now shown by
retailers who seem confident of their
coming popularity. The prices range
from $5 to $3, according to material
and style. White duck oxford ties,
with welted soles, cost $3. White
buckskin ties cost $4, and the ties
of white buckskin with welted soles
and decoration of punching and fan-
ciful’ perforations along the seams
and borders bring the price up to
$5 a pair. White buckskin walking
shoes are not to be confounded with
the oxford ties. They are made with
a flat last, extension soles and me-
dium weight, with Cuban heels. A
wide strip of ribbed white ribbon is
drawn through the single eyelet plac-
ed on each side over the rise of the
instep, and this is tied firmly in a
neat bow. Yachting shoes, with cot-
ton lacers, are made of white buck-
skin, with the flattest of lasts and
the rubber extension sole. The im-
portance of wearing a rubber soled
shoe, which will not scratch the
decks, will be recognized by yacht-
men.

——_~-2—____

One dissatisfied customer can work
more injury than a dozen _ pleased
patrons can efface. It is the former
class that takes especial delight in
telling his or her neighbors about
the poor service extended to custom-
ers.

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Movements of. Merchants.

Alpena—Sepull & Travis have
opened a new drug store.

Coopersville — The Coopersville
State Bank has installed new fixtures.

Houghton—Norman Denette has
opened a grocery. store in East
Houghton.

Holland—Henry Olert is erecting
a $2,500 residence just east of his
grocery store.

Fenton—Leonard Freeman has en-
gaged in the implement, carriage and
sleigh business.

Flint—A. H. Hixson succeeds Hix-
son & Bromley in the grocery and
bakery business.

 

Ann Arbor—George Clark, of De-|
troit, has opened a grocery store on |

Washington street.

Alma—tThe capital stock of the
Union Telephone Co. has been in-
creased from $400,000 to $500,000.

Lyons—Howard A. Rouger has sold
his general stock to John H. Unger,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

Mt. Pleasant—Dan Johnson’ and
Will Rowen have formed a partner-
ship and will open a meat market in
the old Marsh stand.

Pontiac—J. H. Bushnell has remov-
ed to this city from St. Clair and
opened a men’s furnishing goods
store at 20 South Saginaw street.

Germfask—J. I. Bellaire, the Seney
merchant, who recently made an as-
signment, has got on his feet again
and will open a general store here.

Allegan--Sherwood &_ Griswold
have sold their lumber yard—land,
stock, business, buildings—to Crock-
er & Knapp, who took possession at
once.

Hart—Burns Hutchins has _ pur-
chased a half interest in the grocery
stock of Adrian De Voist. The new
firm will be known as De Voist &
Hutchins.

Grand Haven—Koolman Bros., who
are engaged in the grain business in
this city, are about to erect a grist
mill here, which they will have in
Operation in a short time.

Maple Rapids—E. E. Cowan, of
Ovid, has leased the store recently
vacated by B. W. & I. E. Hewitt and
intends putting in a stock of clothing
and men’s furnishing goods.

Sault Ste. Marie—The Union Drug
Co. has been formed to take over the
business conducted for several years
by Dr. F. E. Parkinson, and former-
ly by Parkinson & Parkinson.

Benton Harbor—The Benton Har-
bor and Southern Michigan Cold
Storage Co. has been organized with
a capital stock of $75,000, of which
$60,000 has been paid in—$r10,000 in
cash and $50,000 in property.

Hancock-—--The Quincy Co-Opera-
tive store will go out of business
shortly. The sale of goods will con-
tinue as usual for about a week and
the remainder will then be auctioned
off. The business was started about
two years ago.

 

Muskegon—Rosen Bros. and Julius
Rosenthal have merged their cloth-
ing stogks and will continue the busi-
ness under the style of the Rosenthal
Clothing Co., a corporation having
an authorized capital stock of $8,000,
all of which is subscribed and paid

; in.

Muskegon—W. E. Minhinnick, who
has conducted a grocery store at the
corner of Lake and McGraft streets
for the last eight years, has sold his
stock to N. F. Strong, formerly a
traveling salesman for Fred Brund-
age. Mr. Strong will continue the
business at the same location.

Bay City--B. H. Briscoe & Co..
which has a number of years con-
sisted of a co-partnership of B. H.
Briscoe and C. E. Malone has been
incorporated. Mr. Malone retires
from the business and the _ present
stock company consists of B. H. Bris-
coe, President; E. J. Vance, Vice-
President, and A. E. Pearce, Secre-
tary and Treasurer. The stock is
held by each in equal amounts. The
business of the Briscoe Co. will be
carried on separately and distinctly
from the E. J. Vance Box Co., Ltd.,
and the management of each com-
pany will remain the same as hereto-
fore.

Manufacturing Matters.

Pewamo—Hathaway & Young have
put in a feed mill.

Lake Odessa—John and Geo. Kart
have leased the flouring mill of S. H.
Kart.

Kalamazoo—The Verdon Cigar Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $60,000.

Battle Creek—The Real Food Co.
has decreased its capital stock from
$500,000 to $100,000.

Detroit—The capital stock of the
Champion Lumber Co. has been de-
creased from $300,000 to $200,000.

Hudson—The Globe Fence Co. is
pushing the work on its buildings
and expects to have the plant in op-
eration before fall.

Painesdale—The sawmill owned by
the Copper Range Consolidated Co.
was destroyed by fire last week. The
loss was about $4,000.

Detroit—The Youghiogheny Gas
Coal Co. has been organized with a
capital of $10,000, all of which has
been: subscribed and paid in in cash.

Salem—The Worden Co-operative
Creamery Co. has been’ organized
with a capital stock of $4,000, of
which $3,025 is subscribed and $1,050
paid in.

Filmore Center—The Filmore Cen-
ter Creamery Co. has been organized
with a capital stock of $4,000, of
which $2,600 has been subscribed and
$1,000 has been paid in.

Muskegon—Joseph Torrent, who
recently bought the machine shop of
the old Muskegon Booming Co., has
moved it to the coupling grounds and
will use it as a sawmill.

Zeeland—P. Verplank, of Grand
Rapids, has formed a partnership with
C. De Jonge under the style of the
Verplank Manufacturing Co. They
will manufacture wood carvings, or-
naments, etc., and will locate on the
second floor of Mr. De Jonge’s fac-
tory building on Main street for the
present.

 

Onaway—John W. Lewis, of Ham-
mond, is negotiating for the purchase
of a site for a mill plant at the mouth
of Stony Creek, in the vicinity of
Black Lake and not far from this
place.

Detroit—The Tonic Tablet Co. has
been organized with a capital stock
of $30,000, of which $15,300 has been
subscribed and paid in in property.
The company will manufacture and
sell medical tablets.

Saginaw—On account of increased
business the Somers Bros.’ Match Co.
has been compelled to enlarge its
plant. A building 60x75 feet is be-
ing erected, connecting with the main
building in the rear.

Manistee—the Dempsey Lumber
Co. has been organized with a capi-
tal stock of $250,000, all subscribed
and paid in in property, James
Dempsey is the largest stockholder,
holding one-half of ‘the capital stock.

Portland—Geo. H. Doane has sold
his stock in the Portland Milling Co.
to the other stockholders, so that
President Newman now holds one-
half the stock; Secretary Knox one-
auarter and Treasurer Herolz one-
quarter.

Newberry—The Superior Chemical
Co. has been organized with a capi-
tal stock of $175,000, of which $110,500
has been subscribed and $19,250 has
been paid in. The company will
manufacture wood alcohol and acetate
of lime.

Sturgeon Bay—The Pankratz Lum-
ber Co. has sold a raft of cedar which
was stored at Peshtigo harbor to C.
J. Huebel & Co., of Menominee. The
raft contains several thousand pieces

and the consideration was_ several
thousand dollars.
Detroit—The Eureka Manufactur-

ing Co. has been organized with $50,-
coo capital to take over the business
of Northway & Erving. The com-
pany will make automobile machin-
ery, china kilns, fire brick, ete.
Stockholders are Henry Egle, Wil-
liam Egle, Ralph E. Northway and
Andrew V. Erving.

Rochester—The Detroit Sugar Co.
will not manufacture any beet sugar
this year. The crop of beets has
been sold to Capt. James Davidson,
of Bay City, and will be manufactur-
ed at a beet sugar plant at Mt. Cle-
mens in which Capt. Davidson is in-
terested. It is probable that the plant
of the Detroit Sugar Co. will be
sold to other parties, who will move
it to some location more favorable
for the business.

Muskegon—The sawmill of F. Al-
berts & Sons will resume operations
about July 1 for a run of two or
two and one-half months. It is ex-
pected to clean up about 2,500,000
feet of stock. The mill of C. C. Pot-
ter & Co., another of the Alberts in-
terests, has been running steadily
without a shut down since December
7. It will this season cut about 4,000,-
ooo feet of beech and maple, 1,000,000
feet of basswood and 4,000,000 feet

of hemlock.
Alpena—Leavitt & McPhee, have
bought fifteen 40s between Long

Lake and Grand Lake. There is a
lot of mixed timber on the land and
it will be lumbered next fall and win-

 

ter. After the timber shall have been
taken off the tract will be converted
into a cattle ranch. Lands from
which timber is being taken in north-
eastern Michigan are being utilized
for stock grazing and thousands of
acres are devoted to this industry,
which is in a thrifty condition. The
lands grow grass luxuriantly.

Detroit—Judge Donovan has grant-
ed a formal foreclosure decree for
$417,000 against the Michigan Rock
Salt Co. The suit was brought by
the Union Trust Co. as trustees for
400 bonds originally given to secure
a trust mortgage. The salt company
was organized in 1901 and land was
secured from the Ecorse Land Im-
provement Co., Ltd., and $365,000
worth of bonds was issued as secur-
ity. The amount named in the de-
cree represents the par value ofthe
bonds and $52,000 unpaid interest and
taxes.

Ann Arbor—The property of the
Peninsular Manufacturing Co. will be
sold at auction on July r. It is ex-
pected that it will be bid in by E.
A. Holden, of Lansing, who repre-
sents 72 per cent. of the claims
against the concern, and on whose
request the receiver petitioned for an
order to sell. Holden originally had
accounts against the company for
$10,300, and he bought up the claims
of others at 25 cents on the dollar,
until he now represents $32,587. Re-
ceiver Miner stated in his petition to
the Circuit Court that he had been
requested by persons representing 72
per cent. of the claims against the
company to sell all of the property,
and that he himself thought it would
be for the best interests of the
creditors to take such action.

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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Hillsdale-—-Floyd Sampson is clerk-
ing in Goodrich’s drug store.

Ann Arbor—Simon _ Dieterle
taken a position with the Fairchilds
Hardware Co., at Cincinnati, and will
leave the latter part of next week to
enter upon his duties.

South Haven—D. E. Murray is the
new pharmacist at the Clifton drug
store.

Ludington—W. H. Kinball has
been selected by Mrs. O. J. Wilcox
as manager of her hardware store.

Kalkaska—John Reynolds, for a
long time employed in the Evans
meat market, has taken a position in
Ed. Gilmore’s market at this place.

Cecil Bay—Frank Vise _ succeeds
Geo. Green as book-keeper for the
Emmet Lumber Co.

Ithaca—R. C. Damman, of Howell.
has taken the position of head clerk
in the Ithaca bazaar store.

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar (W. H. Edgar & Son)—
There has been no change in the
sugar situation since we wrote you
on June 14, with the exception of
the forced sale of two cargoes at
equal to 3.85c for 96 deg. test, be-
ing 1I-32c. above the price refiners were
bidding for these sugars. While this
establishes the market at 3.85c, there
is no sugar now obtainable at this
price and we hear rumors of sales in
Cuba, for July shipment, at a price
closely approximating 4c, duty paid.
Refined is unchanged and_ without
speciat indication for the immediate
future. A better general business is
reported and in some sections the
plentiful supply of | small fruit is
creating heavy consumption and ac-
tive demand. All that. is necessary
to quickly restore normal conditions
is seasonahle weather, such as_ is
now being reported from nearly every
section. With renewal of general de-
mand refined conditions should im-
prove, although no higher prices are
intimated for the immediate future.
Contrary to general belief, supplies
in dealers’ hands are not large. This
is not the season for “hand-to-mouth”
and buyers will do well to supply
their requirements well in advance.

Tea—Jobbers generally report the
market as quiet, with prices about
the same as prevailed last year, as
far as the high grade goods are con-
cerned. A cable just received in this
market says that teas generally are
advancing in Japan and that choice
grades are very scarce. New York
reports that the war has evidently
made no difference in the amount of
Japan teas exported as receipts at that
port have been normal this year.

Coffee—Receipts of the new crop
are small, being retarded by rain. The
quality is reported poor, and it is
still early to predict the outturn of
the crop. The general impression
seems to favor smaller production
and a higher market.

Canned Goods--The new prices
named by the California Canners’ As-
sociation followed the lines of the
large independent packers and ad-
vanced lemon cling peaches quite
considerably. Some other varieties
of fruits show a slight reduction, but
the list will not average much differ-
ent from last year’s. That was high
enough to suit almost anybody. It
is said that buyers have not been
taking hold at the new prices named
by the Association or the outsiders.
Everybody seems to be waiting for
the other fellow to move. This is
in spite of the fact that the canned
fruits were cleaned up better this
year than for almost any year within
the memory of the brokers. Salmon
is moving very well as far as the
jobbers are concerned. Reports of
the pack are conflicting as usual, but
it seems quite ecrtain that it will not
be a large one. Tomatoes are at-
tracting no attention beyond the daily

 

sales. These are very good and the
stocks seem to be ample to care for
them. Corn is nominally higher in
this market, but that means very lit-
tle as price has ceased to be much
of a factor in the corn market since
early in the year. The only ques-
tion was to get the goods. Other
vegetables are not active although
peas are moving well.

Dried Fruits—The demand for spot
prunes is light and the market is
weak. More peaches and apricots
are selling and the market is getting
more cleaned up every day. There
were a good many sales on new goods
for August shipment at fair prices.
No interest was manifested in rais-
ins, the jobbers buying only for ac-
tual requirements. No new prices
have been named and_ everybody
looks for new figures. There were
some sales of new currants at 4c
lower than last year.

Provisions—There has been a bet-
ter demand in the provision market
in every line. Lard has advanced
%4c on the preceding week’s prices.
Regular hams and skinbacks are un-
changed at current prices and_ the
market is firm. Picnic hams are 4c
higher, with no change in barrel beef
or pork and canned goods.

Rice—The enormous crop of rice
keeps the market very low and, while
it is moving out fairly well, prices
are cheaper than for years. Fancy
heads are quoted at full prices, but
otherwise retailers and jobbers are
afraid to buy, on account of a possi-
ble falling off. The quality is re-
ported to be better than last year.

Fish—New mackerel are running
exceptionally good. The sardine sit-
uation is unchanged, nearly all the
factories along the Maine coast hav-
ing been closed for ten days because
of no fish. There is a general scar-
city of sardines this spring, the mar-
ket being nearly bare of old goods
Cod, hake and haddock fishing ves-
sels have been doing well, but there
is very little demand. The _ trade
looks to see an easier supply of the
goods by the time they are wanted.
There is nothing doing in lake fish,
but a fair demand for ocean white-

fish.

—__--.—_——_

Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market is firm and an
advance asked, but not obtained.
Sales are light and in good demand.
Holders are strong and prefer to
wait, and this results in a surprising
inactivity. Heavy and extreme light
are in good demand.

Pelts are in good demand and close-
ly sold up at good prices.

Tallow has a fair demand for best
grades, with considerable _ trading.
Prices rule strong. Soapers’ stocks
are not sought after.

Wool is strong in price with grow-
ers and second-hand lots well sold
up. But few lots are held and those
are above buyers’ views. Shipments
from the State have been large in
volume, with over half the clip gone.
Prices are being manipulated to ef-
fect trade where possible. Values
have apparently reached the top as
buyers hesitate and look closely to
what they are getting for their
money. Wm. T. Hess.

 

The Produce Market.

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

Beans—$1.50@1.65 for hand picked
mediums.

Beets—$1 per box for new.

Butter—Creamery is unchanged
from a week ago, commanding 18c
for choice and, 1g9c for fancy. The
price still keeps way down as com-
pared with previous years at this
time. The low price is quite gen-
erally attributed to absence of specu-
lation and the large production. This
is the time of year when butter is
put in storage. For the last couple
of years nearly everyone who put in
supplies of June butter lost money,
im consequence of which their specu-
lative spirit is almost entirely lack-
ing this season. Receipts of dairy
grades are large, finding an outlet on
the basis of 9@toc for packing stock
and 12@13c for No. 1. Renovated,
14@I5Sc.

Cabbage—$2.25 for *Florida and
$< for Mississippi; Cairo, $1.50.

Carrots—4oc per doz. for Southern.

Cherries—Sour, 90c@$1.10 per 16
qt. case; sweet, $1.40@1.60 per case.

Cocoanuts—$3.50 per sack.

Cucumbers—45c per doz. for home
grown.

Eggs—Receipts are heavy, but the
consumptive demand absorbs the ar-
rivals as fast as they come in. Local
dealers pay 13@14c for case count,
holding case count at I5c and can-
dled at 16c. The warm weather of the
past week has increased the percent-
age of poor eggs very materially.

Green Onions—Silver Skins, 15¢
per doz. bunches.

Green Peas—$1 per bu. for home
grown.

Greens—Beet, 50c per bu. Spinach,
soc per bu.

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

Lemons—Messinas, $3@3.25; Cali-
fornia, $3.50@3.75.

Lettuce—Hot house leaf stock
fetches toc per tb.; outdoor, 50c
per bu.

Maple Sugar—ro@11'%c per tb.

Maple Syrup—$1@1.05 per gal.

Musk Melons—$3.50@3.75 per crate
of 1% bu.

Onions—Bermudas fetch $2 per
crate. Egyptians command $3.25 per
sack. Southern (Louisiana) are in
active demand at $2 per sack. Silver
Skins, $2.25 per crate. California,
$2.50 per sack.

Oranges—California Navels range
from $3.25 for choice to $3.50@3.75
for fancy. California Seedlings, $2.75
@3; Mediterranean Sweets = and

Bloods, $3@3.25.

Parsley—3oc per doz. bunches for
outdoor.

Pie Plant—soc per box of 50 fhbs.

Pineapples—Cubans command $2.50
@3 per crate, according to size; Flori-
das, $2.75(@3 per crate.

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

Potatoes—Old stock is in moderate
demand at $1 per bu. New = are
strong and in active demand at $1.25
per bu. For several weeks there
has been great trouble in getting ship-
ments of newstock from the South.
Heavy rains in Texas and at inter-

 

vening points have washed things out
badly and handicapped transporta-
tion. The result is that the market
on new has not gone down as_ it
would naturally be expected to do
at this time.

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

Poultry-—Receipts are liberal, but
the local and resort demand absorbs
arrivals as fast as they come in.
Spring chickens, 18@2o0c; fall chicks,
12(@13c; fowls, 9@1oc; No. 1 turkeys,
124@isc; No. 2. turkeys, 10@12c;
Nester squabs, $1.50@2 per doz.

Radishes—China Rose, 18c per doz.
bunches; long, 15c; round, I2c.

Strawberries—-The outcome ofthe
crop is a great disappointment to
both growers and shippers, it having
been cut short at least one-half by
the dry weather. It was expected
that Thursday would be the heavy
day, but the condition of the market
this morning disclosed the fact that
Tuesday was the big day of the
season, in consequence of which the
price of choice stock advanced from
$1 to $1.25 per 16 qt. case. Instead
of loading carlots, as shippers ex-
pected to be able to do this week,
they are getting enough only for lo-
cal shipments. Even although there
should be heavy rains within a day
or two, they would come too late to
help the crop to any extent.

Tomatoes—Declined to $1.10 per 4
basket crate.

Watermelons—20@3oc apiece for
Georgia.

Wax Beans—Declined to $1.65 per
bu. box.

—__++.
Against Strikes, Boycotts and Walk-
outs.

The Citizens Alliance of Cripp!e
Creek crystallized its attitude to-
ward organized labor in the following

terms:

“In the future neither walking dele-
gates, agitators nor labor unions will
be allowed to say who may or who
may not labor in Teller county, who
may or who may not do_ business
here. The source of all strife in the
Cripple Creek district has been the
Western Federation of Miners and the
Trades Assembly, which they domin-
ated, and through which they car-
ried out their boycotts, etc.

“There is no room in Teller coun-
ty for these two organizations, and
their existence will no longer be tol-
erated. Unions of the various crafts
already organized will not be inter-
ferred with as to their local or inter-
national affiliations, provided the
Trades Assembly be forthwith dis-
banded and no. similar boycotting
agency be organized; provided fur-
ther, that such unions of the local

crafts have not for their national nor

international affiliation the Western
Federation of Miners, the American
Federation of Labor, the State Fed-
eration of Labor or any kindred crimi-
nal organization.

“We declare against all agitators
and walking delegates.

“We declare against strikes, boy-
cotts and walkouts.”

—_22>—_—_

The capital stock of the Worden
Lumber Co. has been increased from
$100,000 to $200,000.

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TREE FOLIAGE

As an Index to the Character of the
Tree.*

It was my great pleasure to at-
tend the Grand River Valley Horti-
cultural Society, held at Mrs. Sarah
Smith’s, on West Bridge street, at
its May meeting, when every bush
and tree seemed aflame with God.
The earth in its first flush of green,
fiecked with the golden dandelions,
the white anemones, the purple phlox,
presented a carpet by the roadside
of such rare beauty that it seemed
sacrilege to place foot thereon.
Bridge street hill farms can not be
described in leafage, flowers and
fruit. The picture once seen becomes
a living memory. The soft shadows
of the western sun, the gentle undu-
lation of the hills, the golden brown
of the cultivated strip between the
green, the newly plowed fields and
the glory of the white blossoms of
the cherries and pears, the flush of
the apple and peach, with the halo
of indescribable beauty over all as
seen that May day, awakened a heart
throb in unison with all Nature. Then,
to consider that you favored _peo-
ple by farm life are privileged
to see all this and more every morn-
ing, every evening and the whole day
through, you may smile that one shall
come among you, denied these beau-
tiful scenes, and presume—no, I will
not presume anything, only
“Tell you what you knew before,
Paint the picture from your door,”
trusting to awaken greater love and
quickened perception of that which
by constant familiarity “Least we for-
get.” Japan has her cherry festival.
I wonder why all the roads leading
to this city do not give special rates
and induce people to visit our city
at blossoming time. With all the
vaunted beauty of the orange trees
is double beauty of fruit and flowers;
they are not in it even in perfume
with the fruit orchards of this local-
ity, bursting so suddenly in bloom,
instead of the slower bloom of the
semi-tropical countries. Our road-
sides are more beautiful each year
from the planting of trees, and as
the forests are disappearing much
more might be accomplished.

Two trees vie with each other for
supremacy and favoritism in _ this
locality, the maple and elm; and none
are more beautiful in their majesty
of bole, branch and leaf from the first
leaf and blossom of early spring to
the crimson and gold of autumn.
There are so many varieties of maple
that I enumerate but a few of the
most popular, all of which find favor
with our city people. The black, Jap-
anese, large-leaved, mountain, Nor
way, red or swamp, silver or white
cap, stigar, sycamore, ash-leaved ma-
ple or box elder. I think each va-
riety has blossoms, coming so early
in the spring, the varieties vieing with
each othér in red, green and yel-
low, followed so quickly by the seed
pods or keys, technically called sa-
mara, which fall to the earth by mil-
lions and are ready to germinate as
early as other seeds. These maple

 

*Paper read by Dr. Frances A. Ruth-
erford at the June meeting of the Grand
River Valley Horticultural Society.

 

 

trees are all noted for their rapid
growth, symmetrical form, beautiful-
shaped leaves and exquisite tints of
autumn foliage, which have
them such universal favorites that
they might well be called, “seek no
farther.”

There is a tree, native also to this
locality, which much resembles the
maple except that the central point
of the leaf is squared off. I refer
to the tulip tree. It is a trifle more
dificult to transplant and but few
have found favor in Grand Rapids.
There is one growing on the lawn
of Mr. Jenks, on Washington street.
The tree is yet small, but gives prom-
ise of great beauty. Some woods-
man spared a forest tree of this va-
riety on the first crossroad between
Leonard street and Walker avenue;
also between Leonard and West
Bridge on the crossroad two. are
planted by the roadside. These are
the only ones’ with which I am famil-
iar; but they are great enough and
big enough to inspire any tree lover
to possess even a small one in hope
that his grandchildren may _ enjoy
their beauty. The technical name
is- so euphonious that, like the sa-
mara of the maple, I desire to have
you all so call it—Liliodendron tulipi-
fera. The whole field where _ this
monarch of the forest grows is hal-
lowed ground. I know not but I may
be addressing the owners, and hereby
desire to confess that I make a year-
ly pilgrimage there to enjoy the beau-
ty of the leaf and flower, and twice
at my instigation has the tree been
scaled by a hardy youth and with
clipper a few blossoms been purloin-
ed for my pleasure.

Another most beautiful tree (na-
tive) which cries out for favor is the
linden—basswood. The _ beautiful
waxy blossoms are great favorites
with bees. “Under den Linden” has
a mellifluent sound, perhaps, to some
of our German friends, but the beau-
ty is not marked in the Fatherland.
It is in this country we get the big-
ness and beauty, for College avenue,
by Mrs. Bissell’s home, discounts
“Unter den Linden” in Berlin. We
owe these trees to the forethought
of W. 1D. Foster. To another early
settler of Grand Rapids we are in-
debted for the beautiful row of elms
on Washington street and College
avenue. It is useless to speculate on
the conception of Gothic architecture
if you will but notice the interlacing
branches of apposite elm _ trees.
There are a number of these trees
of large size on a plat between here
and Kalamazoo. It is worth the trip
there and back just to see them now.
I.ong may they be spared as an in-
spiration! A few only will I give you
to choose from: American, English,
slippery or red. But do not forget
the Waho or winged elm. This elm
throws out its tasseled blossoms in
March. I had never observed this
until fifteen years ago when I first
owned an elm. The March days were
warm that year and the tassels ap-
peared before any other blossoms. I
watched them daily, fearing the frost
would kill the tree, and was not fully
convinced until the blossoms reap-

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peared the next year in still greater
profusion. This is how you learn
when you are the possessor. When
you have time note the elm on Cher-
ry street, planted ages ago, and the
one in front of Judge Morrison’s old
home on Fountain street. Observe
it is not a new inspiration to plant
trees and to love trees. Our fathers
planted, why shall not we plant?

The beeches appeal very strongly
to me, with their pale many-veined
green leaves, soft fringy blossoms
and triangular nuts. As I sat in the
great park, thirteen miles long and
six wide, at The Hague in Holland,
planted with beeches in the ninth
century, I felt that kings were useful
as rulers when such an improvement
could be made and kept. Then I
wondered how long the noble old
beeches on my father’s farm had been
growing, the trees I first loved. After
Grand Rapids became my home I
found a beautiful grove of beeches on
South Division street, just as ma-
jestic and beautiful as the beeches at
The Hague in Holland. The woods-
men had driven through the forest
at many angles, but the trees were
still unharmed. It was just at sunset
one beautiful June evening when a
party of physicians, returning from
visiting a seriously ill patient, reach-
ed this grove of trees. We lingered
long among them until after the sun-
set—until after the moonrise—and
pledged ourselves that every year
would we gather in this beautiful
place. Alas, the next year their glory
was gone—only a few cords of four-
foot wood remained of all this won-
drous beauty which had been ages in
reaching perfection. At Dryburgh
Abbey in England do you remember
the size and beauty of the beeches
there?

I must mention the oak, of which
we have many in Grand Rapids, Eng-
lish, laurel, live, chestnut, mossy cup,
burr, pin, post, black, white, swamp
and willow, their glossy leaves, when
full grown, their beautiful pink tints
in early spring, as if real blossoms,
and the catkins haloing their coloring.
But the glory of their autumn color-
ing is so rich, so soft, so blended,
that it stirs the artist spirit in every
one. As you go up through Bronx

in New York to the Hall of Fame
these trees have been preserved in
all their primitive beauty. Many a
monarch of the forest bespeaks gen-
erations who have spared these trees,
and the carpet of golden rod, aster
and golden glow is as luxurious in
naturalness as if it were the forest
primeval; but, alas, Grand Rapids’
beeches are gone. The few that are
planted in Grand Rapids are bronze
or red. The legend says they are off-
shoots from the beeches in the Thur-
ingian forest on which three robbers
were hung, turning red the leaves. I
wonder all others about here should
not turn pale from the slaughter of
their brothers!

Of the nut-bearing trees the chest-
nut may claim the palm. We have
two in the city on North Lafayette
street and one south of Grand Rapids
ona farm. The walnut, although
scraggly as to branch, is superb in
leafage, but is liable to attack from
insects. The butternut, too, with the
same pinnate leaves, is useful as well
as ornamental. The hickory givesa
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an old favorite, the Balm of Gilead,
with its stately growth and balsamic
odor. It should stand alone in some
field by the roadside. In California
a man pointed with pride to two
palms, stately, perhaps, but not beau-
tiful, for which he had paid $220. To
my fancy some pine or fir tree would
have given greater grandeur.

Have we aught more beautiful than
the pine? “Out to the pine woods!” for
years has been the children’s cry, al-
though it is seven miles from the
city, and many a pale high school girl
has earned her rosy cheek from her
walk there and return before bicycles
were invented. But, alas, they, too,
are gone, and what can be done in
their stead? Plant pines and firs by
the roadside, far enough apart that
every branch may have room. But
don’t trim. Let them grow from the
ground up solidly, pyramidally. In Al-
tadena such a street has been plant-
ed. I can not describe its beauty,
but, looking down this beautiful ave-
nue, even there is one blot on the
escutcheon. A New Englander de-
siring to have his one lot marked,
trimmed his trees. Yes, his lot is
marked, and the whole avenue marred
because of his lack of appreciation of
the beautiful.

In California we hear much of the
pepper tree with its  red_ berries,
drooping branches and lovely foliage.
Have we not in the East something
for the roadside different yet beautiful
in the extreme? The locust is the
best material for fence posts; it does
not rot. Imagine a whole avenue or
country road rich with the perfume
of their white blossoms. The branches
will grow from the ground up the
same as the pepper and the foliage
is very beautiful.

In this locality we have many fine
trees or shrubs which are greatly neg-
lected—the Judas tree, or red bud, for
instance, once numerous on_ Plas-
ter Creek, and even now a few repre-
sentatives have withstood the slaugh-
ter of ages; but they are several miles
out on East street. I wish they might
be preserved, also several handsome
ones on the island at Cascade Springs.

The sassafras grows into a beauti-
ful tree and is a shining mark in the
autumn, with its golden leaves and
black berries. A medium sized tree
grows on the Fuller. place on Wash-
ington street.

The witch hazel is our last bush
to blossom in autumn.

Our thorn apple trees? Yes. A
beautiful tree grows on a by-street in
Grand Rapids which was worth and
received a visit from the great Pro-
fessor Sargent, of the Boston Arbora-
tum.

If you desire to know how to place
shrubbery for effect drive out the
Walker road up near Indian Creek
and see the thorn apples in bloom.
You will wonder if aught could be
more beautiful. We have nine varie-
ties of thorn apples, which can easily
be transplanted or grown from _ the
seed—the Scotch rone tree deserves
mention.

Of fruit trees, remember the wild
crab with its beauty and fragrance.
Do not allow it to be exterminated.
Of the real fruit trees I trust you

 

have all been permitted to visit West
Bridge street hill, where our success-
ful farmers have vied with each other
in planting the different varieties so
that harmony is perfect. But I no-
tice that farther out in Walker the
roadside is also planted with fruit
trees, and, although the harvest was
so plentiful last year that they were
unpicked, they have again put forth
profusions of blossoms, which the
bees are converting into honey and
the children into greater love of the
beautiful.

When asked to talk to you on this
subject who know so much more than
I, it seemed impossible to give you
anything of interest, and it is merely
with the hope that more trees may be
planted, more forest trees preserved.
that I plead for them, because I
desire more natural growth, less in-
judicious pruning and greater varie-
ty. Our great beeches are gone and
our stately pines. Could these few
acres have been preserved they would
have been a joy forever. I think
townships should be persuaded to
preserve such natural beauties by the
roadside as well as cities, and create
parks of natural forests. There are
still many small patches of woodland
near our Interurban and country
roads which might be secured at
small cost and serve as an illustration
of what might have been. Thirty-six
years ago the hillside east of Grand
River opposite “the Island”—our
present market—was an open field.
“The Island” was covered with a lux-
uriant growth. That Fourth of July
fireworks were sent up from “the
Island” and reflected in the water
of the river. The immense audience
from farms and town were enthusi-
astic at the beauty. Even then some
said, “What a spot for a park!” It
could have been bought for a song—
not one of Patti’s, either! Recall
the amount paid for it as a market
site and the destruction of all the
beauty. And as to the effort which
even now is being made to open up
a good roadway along the river bank,
can we not create interest so that
every roadside in the beautiful Grand
River Valley shall be planted with
trees, and each school district select
some spot of natural beauty to pre-
serve forever?

Sometimes the most important part
of a letter is said to be a postscript.
Mr. President, may I add mine?

It is: That every child in Kent
county may have flower and vegeta-
ble seeds and a garden spot of his
or her own. Thus will they be taught
to respect the rights of others and
appreciate and protect the beautiful
as well as useful in plant, shrub and
tree.

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WEDNESDAY - - JUNE 22, 1904

GOOD ENGLISH.

After the graduating class, diploma
in hand, and the Board of Education
have left the stage, the man with sta-
tistics and his friend, the critic, in
order that the public may not rejoice
too much over the commencement
exercises just closed, wish to make
a few remarks. They are brief and
to the point: “In spite of the enor-
mous amount that is expended an-
nually on the schools of this coun-
try there is a prevailing conviction
that the public is not receiving the
worth of its money. Starting out
with the fact that the schools were
designed originally to teach reading,
writing and arithmetic, it is a pain-
ful truth that only a small percen-
tage—a very small  percentage—of
the graduating class can do well
either of the three requirements.
Mind, we are not finding fault with
the enormous expenditure of public
money; we candidly admit the up-
lifting influence upon the community
of beautiful school architecture and
believe it is worth what has been
paid for it; but we do insist that
when these graduates go home, re-
joicing with the beribboned testimo-
nials of the school official, duly sign-
ed and sealed, they ought to be able
to speak good English; they ought
to write a fairly readable letter, well-
spelled, and they ought to be able
to add rapidly an ordinary column
of figures; and they can’t do _ it.
Somebody is to blame for it; who?”

The yearly presentation of this
same question fortunately precludes
the need of answering in detail the
charges made with the certainty of
the coming of the graduating exer-
cises, and with no desire and cer-
tainly with no intention of trying to
refute these charges it does seem no
more than fair to suggest to the
critic that it is barely possible that
even he with all his good intentions
may not have taken everything into
account that should be in reaching his
sweeping conclusions. Does the crit-
ic of these graduates consider, for
instance, that he is exacting from
these inexperienced boys and girls
results which he has no right to ex-
pect except from practical experi-
ence? He wants them to add rapidly
and correctly the common columns

 

 

 

of the daybook and ledger; can he
do it himself? He insists that they
shall produce a fairly written letter,
properly spelled and punctuated, with
the paragraphs and capital letters cor-
rect to a dot. It “is a consummation
devoutly to be wished” on the part
of old and young alike; can the critic
himself do this without the occasion-
al use of the dictionary? The English
speaking world is a wide one and
many are they who have been long
and faithfully trained in its use,
among them the critic of the hour.
Has he not learned from his inter-
course with these men and from his
own experience that mistakes are con-
stantly made? and does he not see
from this that he is thoroughly un-
just when he insists that these young
men and young women of seventeen
without experience shall meet suc-
cessfully the requirements which ma-
turity and the experience which goes
with it could not under any possibili-
ty meet?

There is no need here to try to
demonstrate as a_ proposition the
axiom that experience can not be
bought. There it stands, a self-evi-
dent truth, as unalterable as truth it-
self. “True ease in writing comes
from art, not chance,” says one poet,
and another as convincingly asserts
that “Art is long.” Time is an es-
sential in the making up of perfec-
tion and the expert, the class to
which undoubtedly our critic belongs,
to make his criticism worth anything
must have spent more time than these
graduates at seventeen have been
able to spend in the study and the
daily practice of the English tongue.
Could he at seventeen, can he at for-
ty in his place there on the stage,
swear with uplifted right hand that
since he was twenty-five—that gives
him eight years for study as a spe-
cialist—his speech in season and
out of season has been and is what
Spencer calls a “Well of English un-
defiled?” It is an easy thing for the
expert to make fun of the graduate’s
adding and his grammar, but it is
just as easy and a great deal more
gratifying to make fun of the critic
who finds fault because the public
schools do not teach experience, and
that is what the criticism amounts to.

Another matter, which is not taken
into account as often as it should be.
is the counteracting influence of the
world outside of the school room as
well as that outside of the grammar
recitation. The real teacher of Eng-
lish is usually a correct user of it.
Her daily school room talk is free
from the blemishes commonly com-
plained of, and so far as school and
recitation ate concerned for six hours
a day the children are brought up to
hear and to use good English—cer-
tainly most teachers never let an in-
stance of bad English go by uncor-
rected. Need it be backed-up by evi-
dence that the six hours of good
English work is utterly overcome and
destroyed by the home influence and
the street influence and the communi-
ty influence? And is it pertinent to

the point to insist that no one teacher
in six hours can make much progress
in any study where home and street
and community are strenuously doing

 

their best to overcome and tear down
the little she has been able to do
in forty-five minutes at the longest
in the grammar recitation?

The question, “Who is to blame?”
is not, then, a hard one to answer. It
is not*the teacher whose English-lov-
ing soul is tortured beyond endurance
by the “had wents”’ and the “had
saws” and the “I seens” which the
world outside her school room is
constantly using and encouraging her
pupils to use. She is the only one
who cares a straw for that pure well
of English and the critic knew when
he asked the question as well as the
rest of us know, that it is the home
and the street and the community
that are to blame for the outlandish
English that is heard throughout the
length and breadth of the land; and
let it be said here and now that if
this incorrect speech is ever to be
overcome these same agents with the
critic to lead the way must begin the
good work by beginning with a new
broom the sweeping of the home
doorstep.

 

Oil is coming in as fuel. There is
plenty of it, and it has to its advant-
age not only cheapness but freedom
from the disagreeable, blackening
smoke that goes along with soft
coal. Locomotive engines on West-
ern railroads use it quite extensively
and it has proven very satisfactory.
A board of navy officers has been ex-
perimenting with it during the last
two years and the report is very
favorable. It is said that crude pe-
troleum produces more steam than
coal and that with light distillation
its combustion is less wearing on
boilers. It may come to pass that

oil tanks will take the place of coal.

bunkers on ocean steamships and
prove an economical fuel. It is easy
to obtain and the apparently inex-
haustible supply is scattered all over
the United States. The report of the
naval experts is regarded as a very
strong argument in its interests.

 

France hoids the lead in the manu-
facture of automobiles. In tgo1 she
sold abroad $3,000,000 worth; in 1902,
$6,000,000 worth, and in 1903, $10,000,-
ooo worth, and this year is shipping
still more. It will be strange, indeed,
if Americans do not soon occupy this
held to a greater extent than they
now do. Americans have a_ well
earned reputation for skill in the in-
vention and manufacture of mechani-
cal devices, and there is no reason
why they should not be expected to
excel all competitors in the produc-
tion of automobiles.

 

 

 

According to a Philadelphia phy-
sician in a generation or two the Japs
will average the same stature as Eu-
ropeans. It is only their legs that
are short, he says, and this comes
from the habit of sittimg in cramped
positions on the floor. Western cus-
toms are being adopted, and he thinks
the little brown man will soon length-
en out. Of course, some of his bro-
ther physicians pooh-pooh this no-
tion. They point out that chairs are
almost unknown among Hindoos,
who, on the whole, are rather long
legged. i

 

DANGER TO GLOVE TRADE.
A serious condition confronts the
domestic glove trade on account of
the long-drawn-out strike at Glovers-
ville and Johnstown, N. Y.  Practi-
cally all the gloves made in this
country are made in these two towns,
and the strike threatens now to drive
the trade away from this country.

Even with a liberal protective tar-
iff, the margin between foreign and
domestic gloves is very small. The
domestic people, after years of ef-
fort, had about secured the entire
trade on men’s goods and on a few
of the heavier lines of women’s
gloves. The strike, which is against
the open shop, has been in progress
for several months, and the strikers
are now apparently as firm as ever.
If work is not resumed in two weeks
the jobbers and retailers will be forc-
ed to place their orders for fall con-
sumption with the importers and
there will be no work for the strikers
to do. All that the domestic manu-
facturers can hope for after that is
a few orders that the foreigners are
unable to fill.

Another danger which is seen by
the American manufacturers is that
once the trade has learned to go to
Europe to buy, it may continue to
go there, and the long fight to se-
cure the American trade in gloves
wil have to be begun all over again.

 

The other night a man and woman
were seen burying a white box be-
neath a tree in Central Park. The
matter was brought to the attention
of the authorities and the next night
a detective and a couple of helpers
went to the scene. They dug up the
sod in all directions for the mysteri-
ous grave and the white box that had
been interred, and finally their efforts
were rewarded. Something  whit-
was seen far down in the bottom of
a deep hole. Soon the earth was
cleared away and a pasteboard box
was disclosed. When the cover had
been removed there, wrapped in cot-
ton, was the corpse of ayellow can-
ary.

On account of the war with Japan
the exportation of horses from Rus-
sia is prohibited. Last year 43,000
Russian horses were sold in Germany
alone. Russia now needs all its
horses for cavalry and artillery ser-
vice, and it will be a long time before
it will have a surplus of animals. The
situation is one most favorable to
American horse raisers. It gives
them a chance to enter the European
market. Japan, too, will want more
horses before the war is over and
Americans may supply them.

The Southern pack of fine quali-
ties of peas is light, probably not
more than 60 per cent. of the aver-
age. The season opened auspiciously,
but unfavorable weather ruined the
crop before canning was completed.

 

 

Banks are in business to lend
money. It is better to pay banks a
little interest than to be slow pay.

Prompt pay means placing money
in the creditors’ hands the day it is
due, ‘

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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YANKEE SPRINGS.

The Half Way House of Seventy
Years Ago.

On the afternoon of a summer’s
day, August 26, 1836, nearly sixty-
eight years ago, there might have
been seen a covered wagon contain-
ing a stalwart man of thirty-five
years and five children, between the
ages of eleven and two years, driv-
ing through the then unbroken wil-
derness of Barry county, in the Ter-
ritory of Michigan.

Accompanying this wagon was a
woman on horseback, carefully guid-
ing her gray saddle-horse over the
rough roads of the new country. She
had in this way performed nearly the
whole of the journey, we having
started from Weathersfield, Wyom-
ing county, New York, three weeks
before, taking in Canada on our
route, and expecting to. settle in
South Bend, Indiana, where my
father had bought a tract of land of
160 acres.

This party consisted of my father,
William Lewis, and Mary Goodwin,
his wife, three daughters and a son,
also an adopted daughter, Flavia
Stone. We were at this time about
to spend the night with an older
brother, Calvin Lewis, who came to
Michigan a few weeks in advance of
us, and settled at Yankee Springs,
but the result was that we settled
there also. I was a child of four
years at the time, so the words of my
mother will best describe our com-
ing into Michigan:

“After leaving Detroit the road was
mostly through dense woods, Mar-
shall, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo
being marked by little clusters of
houses surrounded by forests. After
leaving Battle Creek we _ passed
through Gull Prairie, now Richland,
and there met Leonard Slater, locat-
ed on the Indian Reservation § as
missionary to the Pottawattamie
tribe of Indians. Leaving this place
we plunged into the wilderness and,
the road having disappeared, we fol-
lowed an Indian trail marked by
blazed trees and journeyed eighteen
miles farther through thé woods
without seeing a single habitation.
Tired and travel-worn, weary and
hungry, we halted at nightfall in a
lovely valley in the wilderness, where
a log house was in process of erec-
tion. Living springs of clear cold
water were gushing from a bank, and
on a nearby poplar tree someone had

fastened a shingle marked Yankee

Springs.

“In 1835 a young man by the name
of Chas. Paul, in company with the
family of Henry Leonard, were eat-
ing their luncheon under the trees
beside one of the springs. A stran-
ger joined them and it came out in
conversation that they were all from
New England States, and one of the
party said, “We are all Yankees.” At
this suggestion Charles Paul hewed
the bark off the side of an oak tree
and cut the words “Yankee Springs”
on it. The name clung to the place

and was finally adopted by the town-
ship.”

A welcome was given us by our
relatives, and the log cabin of two

 

rooms was shared together. A quilt
was hung over the door space and
the windows were boarded. A sup-
per was served and we settled down
for the night. Dismal tales have
come .to me of those first nights in
the forest; that the barking of wolves
broke the stillness of the hours and
that the glittering eye-balls of the
panther looked down upon us with
no friendly gaze.

My father located 1,000 acres of
land there and it soon grew to be
an attractive place. We endured in
common with all the early settlers
the trials and privations of pioneer
and frontier life, and lived to see the
wilderness subdued, and surrounded
by all that pertains to a later civiliza-
tion. Here in this thick forest, the
land entirely unclaimed, we settled.
The woods were filled with Indians,
and our nearest white neighbor, Cal-
vin G. Hill, was eight miles distant
from us. From Middleville to Ada,
the direct route to Grand Rapids,
was a dense forest, an unbroken wil-
derness without an inhabitant. We
were on the direct line of the great
Indian trail running from Detroit to
Grand Rapids, which passed directly
through Barry county. But we were
not long alone. The fur trader and
the speculator were abroad in the
land, and to fill the increasing de-
mands of the weary traveler, our lit-
tle cottage of two rooms was ex-
tended, building after building, until
we occupied “nine stories on the
ground,” seven distinct buildings in
a row in the front and two additional
in the back. They presented neith-
er an imposing nor a_ graceful ap-
pearance, but were the hurried crea-
tion of backwoods life, when there
was no time to waste on architec-
ture, symmetry or beauty.

The fame of the place spread
throughout the country and so brisk
was business at the old “Mansion
House,” as it was called, that it
was no uncommon thing for one
hundred people to tarry there for a
night, while sixty teams were often
stabled there between sunset and sun-
rise.

The extreme ends of the old house
were named. The one farthest north
was “Grand Rapids,” and the ex-
treme south was “Kalamazoo.” The
Kalamazoo was considered the “best
room” and was furnished rather bet-
ter than the others and the better
class of people occupied it generally,
bridal parties, etc. All the other
buildings have tumbled to ruin. This
building alone stands out all by
itself. It is close to the road down
in the hollow, seemingly proud of the
fact that it has survived all of the
changes of the last century and in-
viting admiration and respect because
of it. If the old building could
speak what stories it could tell, what
historical information it could impart
that would be of interest and benefit
to future generations.

Together this husband and wife
labored and toiled, their chief desire
seeming to be to give happiness to
those about them. With a hospitali-
ty that was proverbial and a gener-
osity that can not be measured by or-

 

dinary methods they greeted all who
came. The man without money was
treated as well as the man whose
pocket bulged with the currency of
that day. Ministers of all denomina-
tions, irrespective of creed, were en-
tertained free of charge, but were ex-
pected to hold an evening service in
our large dining room, and men were
sent out to notify the neighbors to
that effect. The first Episcopal serv-
ice I ever heard was rendered there
by Dr. Francis Cuming, who was
journeying to Grand Rapids to settle
over St. Mark’s church in that city.

We were in very close touch with
the people at Grand Rapids in the
early days and visited often in their
families. Much of our trading was
done there and, although thirty-eight
miles distant from us, we made fre-
quent journeys there. I remember
seeing Louis Campau and Rix Rob-
inson—-those grand pioneers—the
earliest. Their names should never
be forgotten by us. They were here
in the early 20’s and none who came
after exceeded them in powers of en-
durance, or the cheerfulness with
which they bore the hardships and
toil of that period. The name of
Louis Campau is reverenced by older
Grand Rapids people, for he came
there first. He once owned the
whole village of Grand Rapids. In
the old days all knew of his tender
heart—all who met him _ received
some kindness at his hands. We used
to hear how, when his. bank failed,
he brought home armfuls of wild-
cat money and papered his cupola
with it, saying, “If you won’t circu-
late, you shall stay still.” I recall
the Withey family, the Moreaus, the
Godfreys, Morrisons, Richmonds,
Whites, Henry R. Williams, the
Almys, P. R. L. Peirce, Canton Smith,
an early hotel keeper of that city,
the Rathbones, early settlers there,
who built a large hotel and opened
it with a big dance. I was there and
danced all night. Mrs. T. B. Church,
that noble pioneer woman, who play-
ed the organ of St. Mark’s church for
fifty years and is still living in that
city, her gifted son, Frederick Church,
then a babe whom I often carried in
my arms, now celebrated world-wide
as an artist—all these and many more
were household names with us and
went to make up a part of our fami-
ly life in a time when there were
few social barriers and man felt and
needed the sympathy and encourage-
ment of his brother man.

Lewis Cass was twice our guest,
Ex-Governor Felch, Ex-Governor
Ransom, U. S. Senator Zach Chan-
dler, Senator Chas. E. Stuart, Judge
Pratt—and, indeed, all men of note
who traveled in those days were at
some time or other entertained there
in the primitive style of the day.
Royalty was once entertained at the
Mansion House, and this occasion
was memorable as being the first
time that the table was set with nap-
kins for each guest, word having been
sent in advance of his coming. AlIl-
most the first guest I can remember
was Douglas Houghton, then a young
man. He was first appointed State
Surveyor and later, as we all know,

 

filled the office of State Geologist for
miany years.

Thefts and robberies were un-
known, although large quantities of
money were carried by travelers and
it would have been an easy matter for
it to change hands had there been
the desire for it by designing per-
sons. For example, every year large
quantities of money were carried
through from Detroit to Grand Rap-
ids to pay the Indians at their annual
payments. This money, $15,000, was
conveyed through in an extra stage
by a man named Lee, accompanied
by an Indian interpreter named Pro-
vonsol. The money was all in specie
and was carried in boxes about a foot
square, very heavy, as I remember
hearing. These boxes were all set
in the room at the south end of
the old house. There was an outside
door with an old lock and key to
it. Two old guns they had were set up
in one corner of the room and those
men probably slept without a care
or thought of being robbed = and
went safely through from Detroit to
Grand Rapids in this simple and
easy way.

My father was a man of indomita-
ble courage and perseverance—never
discouraged—-always happy and with
a fund of humor, wit and story-tell-
ing rarely excelled. He was just the
one to lead in settling and establish-
ing a new country. He planned large-
ly and liberally, and was able with
his perseverance and strong health
to carry out his plans, and by his per-
sonal magnetism encouraged others
to work and persevere also. He was
the first to contract for carrying the
United States mail through that por-
tion of the country. In the first con-
tract he was assisted by General
Withey, of Grand Rapids. This route
was from Battle Creek to Grand Rap-
ids. Later a contract was taken to
carry the mail from Kalamazoo to
Grand Rapids. Lines of stages were
put on and several coaches a day
were started from these points, all
meeting at Yankee Springs—the
“half way house”’—for refreshment
of passengers and change of horses.
For many years this was the only
route through the woods from Battle
Creek and Kalamazoo to Grand Rap-
ids, and until other roads were open-
ed up it made very lively times at
the old house. The Yankee Springs
postoffice for a long time supplied
the adjacent country. Letters were
luxuries in those days, rare and cost-
ly. Envelopes and postage stamps
were unknown. We wrote on three
pages of the paper, folding it so the
name could be written in the middle
of the fourth, and sealing with a
wafer, directed it and then paid our
25 cents postage on it or left it to
be collected by the person to whom
it was addressed, just as we chose.
Sometimes it was difficult for the old
settler to produce the 25 cents to
pay postage and he had to earn it
before he could claim his letter.

My father and Rix Robinson built
the first bridge across the Thornapple
River in 1838. The road then ran
on the old Indian trail, across Scales
Prairie. In 1838 my father also built
the first bridge across the Coldwater

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

|
Stream on Section 35, in Caledonia. |

Split logs were used for flooring,
pinned down by wooden pins. He,

in company with some others, started

in 1849 to build a plank road that
was to run from Galesburg to Grand
Rapids. A good deal of time, energy
and capital was expended on this
scheme, but it was finally abandoned.

There was a period when the Yan-
kee Springs property was considered
very valuable, and the Rathbones, in
Grand Rapids, wished to exchange
their hotel property for our own, we
to retain the farm lands. This Grand
Rapids property is now worth sever-
al hundred thousand dollars, and is
the present location of the Widdi-
comb building, corner of Monroe and
Market streets. The other, deserted
and forsaken, requires a stretch of
the imagination to that it
was ever of great importance.

believe

Wheat and potatoes at this early
date brought fabulous prices, but the
table was always well supplied with
the essentials and with many delica-
cies. Great care and attention were
given to the large garden of several
acres that lay across the road from
the old house. No vegetable or flow-
er then heard of but was grown there.
The light soil, highly enriched by
muck taken from the marsh, was
calculated to bring them forward to
speedy perfection. The most lus-
cious fruits, melons and vegetables

were grown in abundance, all luxu-|

riating in the new, warm soil of the

valley. Arbors were filled with choice |

peaches ripened in the sun.
the good old-fashioned

grapes,
and flowers,

flowers of that day, grew in abun-)

dance. Celery—the first grown in
Barry county and perhaps in the
State—was raised there. Tomatoes

were raised. They were first called
and we grew them for.
learned to}
eat them. Men were constantly em-.
ground. |
Water was supplied for use by wells |

My father was |
Each guest who}
came was made to feel at home under |
that hospitable roof. The first Thanks- |

’

“love apples,’
their beauty, but soon

ployed in caring for the

dug on the grounds.
a skillful caterer.

giving celebrated at Yankee Springs

new settlers for miles
them in. My mother meanwhile was
superintending the first Thanksgiving
dinner in the new country, which con-
sisted of wild turkeys brought by the
Indians from Gun Lake woods, two
imgense spare ribs cooked to a turn
before the great open fireplace, as
were also the turkeys. Mince pies
such as only my mother could make,
also pumpkin pies and puddings, were
baked in the large brick oven by the
side of the kitchen fireplace. Cook
stoves there were none. The turkeys
and ribs were suspended by stout tow
strings and slowly turned before the

open fire and some one had to burn |

their face while continually basting
the meats with their rich  gravies,
brought out by the heat of the fire.
Cranberries were brought by the In-
dians and was about the only fall
berry. Not a fruit tree or berry bush
had yet been planted.

; and six years later,
tavern was in the fall of 1838. My)
father sent out invitations to all the |
around and)
later sent men and teams to gather |

 

The tables were spread and the |
guests came from their homes in the |

openings and the silver streams of

Michigan. Noonday, the chief of the |

 

woods to enjoy this banquet prepared | | Pottawattamies, greatly impressed me |

for them in so hospitable a manner |
and, while all must have remembered |
the parents and homes so recently |
left by them, it was not their way to}
mourn for what they had not, but to}
enjoy fully what they had, which they |
did in a way that would astonish the |
dyspeptic of to-day.

It began to snow, the first of the |
but the harder it snowed the |
livelier grew the party. An old vio-|
lin was pulled out of some corner and |

season,

all began dancing and kept it up until |
morning, when breakfast was pre- |
pared for them, after which they were |
cenveyed back to their homes, and |
so passed our first Thanksgiving in|
the old Mansion House at Yankee |
Springs.

The political campaign of 1840)
made a hot time in the old house, as |
I well remember. Pole and flag
raising and stump speaking were the |
order of the day, but the doings on}
the Fourth of July, 1846, beat every- |
thing on record before or since, so}
far as I can remember. A tamarack |
pole was spliced until it was of the |
desired length and a flag was flung |
from it to the breeze with much |
hurrahing from the crowd that had |
collected from everywhere and filled
the road-front before the old house |
from hill to hill. Twenty-six girls,
all in white, representing the states— |
then twenty-six in number—and a
Goddess of Liberty in red, white and |
blue were loaded into a monster |
wagon drawn by twenty-six yoke of |
oxen. A girl for each state and a
yoke of oxen for each girl! We went
above the hill to form the procession
and came down into the crowd in fine |
style.

We were ten years in advance of |
the Michigan Central Railway. We |

| heard rumors of its approach, but

so slow was it in coming that the
old stage coach kept right along its
undisputed way for many years. The
road started from Detroit in 1836,
when Michigan was a territory. It
reached Kalamazoo February 21, 1846,
May, 1852, the
road reached Chicago.

It has been said “there is no good
Indian but a dead Indian,” but in
our experience we did not find in
them the treachery and deceit they
are usually credited with. They had
great respect for my father and we
lived in peace and harmony. The
woods were full of them, but we did
not fear them and I believe they were
our friends. They were strict in
their deals and if they made a prom-
ise they kept it. They brought us
berries of all kinds from the woods
and constantly supplied us with fresh
venison, never bringing any part of
the carcass but the hams, which were
always twenty-five cents, no more nor
less. They brought us fresh fish
from the lakes, and the muskallonge
from Gun Lake were enormous.
They made a great deal of maple sug-
ar. In 1840 these Pottawattamies
were removed by the United States
Government beyond the Mississippi,
and very reluctantly they left their
homes among the lakes and oak

lof eagle feathers
He looked kind and he laid

| was George Torrey, Sr.,

{than some of Kipling’s will,

‘by his dignified bearing. Six feet |
| tall and well proportioned, he was at |
| that time nearly 100 years old. His |
| face was painted and a great circlet |
was around his|
| head.
/his hand on my head. He died soon |
after and was buried in Richland |
cemetery by the side of his wife. |
He, Noonday, assisted in the

| of the city of Buffalo.

Ye say they all have — away,
That noble race and brave;

That their light canoes have vanished

om off the crystal wave;

That in the grand old forests
There rings no hunter’s shout,

But their name is on your waters
And ye may not wash them out.

{

|

|

war |
'of 1812 and witnessed the burning

There were poets in those days and |
frequently the old place was sound- |
ed in story and song, and occasional- |

ly one was found whose “feelings”

overflowed to the extent that he pub- |

lished his production.

ing from Boston at an early day, set-
tled in Kalamazoo county and was
associated with the Kalamazoo Tele-
graph at its birth in 1844. He trav-

Such an one)
who, com- |

|eled through Barry county at that}

date and a poem published in the |

| Telegraph soon after reached us inj

|this form. He had not the world-
wide fame of a Kipling, but this |
poem has survived perhaps ‘epee |

having been carefully preserved for}

sixty years,
presenting to you:

which, |

I have the pleasure of |

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Did you ever go out to Grand River
From Detroit to Kalamazoo,
In a wagon without any kiver,
Through a country that looks very new?
If you are hungry and wish for a dinner,
Breakfast, supper and lodging to boot,
If you’re a Turk, a Christian or sinner
— Springs is the place that will

The landiord’s a prince of his order—
Yankee Lewis—whose fame and renown
Far and near
border
Are noised about country and town.

It finished by enumerating the bill
of fare, which seemed to afford him
great satisfaction.

Personally, I knew little of the
hardships of pioneer life, for I was

throughout Michigan’s

_ protected and sheltered by my pa-

rents. There was so much of life
and activity about us that it was
akin to life in a city, and we had no
time for loneliness. Being the al-
most constant companion of my
father and visiting with him all the
towns within a large radius, I saw
life in all its forms in the new coun-
try, traveling in stage coach, wagon
-or on horseback. There was no un-
derbrush in those days, the annual
fires consumed it, leaving the forests
free from obstruction, and one could
walk, ride or drive anywhere as free-
ly as in a beautiful park. Nature was
liberal in the diffusion of fruits, nuts
and flowers, and from the little vio-
let in the early spring there was a
successive gradation of flowers. of
all kinds and colors until the frost
came in the fall. We lived only two
and one-half miles from Gun Lake—
that inland gem of Barry county. My
first view of it will never be forgot-
ten. Scouring through the woods
one day on my little pony—born of
the gray mare ridden by my mother
when we came into the country—we
came suddenly out on the shore of
this lake and I gazed in silent wonder
on that broad sheet of water, flashing
and dimpling in the sunlight where
no white man’s boat had ever been,
and only the Indian’s canoe had dis-
turbed the calm serenity of its wa-
ters. Not a tree had been disturbed
and the dark forest clear around was
reflected on the glistening surface of
the water. As I silently gazed a
feeling of awe stole over me. The
solemn stillness of lake and forest
frightened me. I turned my pony
and fled and never drew rein until
my home was reached.

In the new country you sometimes
looked around for your neighbors
and they were not, there, and so it
was that some of the birds we had
known—the robin, the wren and the
swallow—were not there, but blue-
jays and whip-poor-wills were not
lacking. The crows had not come,
neither the flies, but fleas and mos-
quitoes were plenty. We heard ofa
neighbor who opened her Bible one
day and found a fly pressed between
its leaves. “Now, children,” she
said, “don’t you touch that fly, let
it remain right here in this book,
just as it is, because that fly once
lived in our old home in York State.”
There were no rats or mice, neither
were there any house cats. The
country had no need for the latter,
but I had, and so pleaded that one
day a box came from Grand Rapids,
upon opening which out jumped two
lovely maltese kittens. The prettiest,
irrespective of sex, was immediately
christened Tommy and nursed and

 

petted to a great extent. One day
Tommy was missing, and there was
a great outcry. Finally, when found,
he was nursing a lot of little kittens
of his own. From this small begin-
ning many came and, no doubt, the
descendants of this same cat are rac-
ing around on the sand hills of Bar-
ry county to-day.

My father represented the counties
of Allegan and Barry in the State
Legislature in Detroit in 1846. He
came home for a short time during
the winter and when he returned was
accompanied by his two youngest
daughters, who took their first ride
on the new railroad and indulged in
the gayeties of the Capital City for
two keeks.

I have been asked to give my
girlhood recollections of this trip to
the then Capital City.

The ride to Battle Creek was duly
performed by stage coach and four
horses and from there we took our
first and never-to-be-forgotten ride
on that new railroad we had heard
so much about. We were nearly
frightened to death with the almost
constant scream of the engine whis-
tle and the clanking of the cars over
the rough road, which was about
equal to that of cattle cars at the
present time. We wished ourselves
back in the old stage coach many
times before the journey’ ended.

The Wales Hotel, on Jefferson
avenue, East, just thrown open to
the public January 1, 1846, we thought
very fine. It was kept by Austin
Wales and his two sons. It was
very crowded, as many members of
the Legislature and their wives were
staying there. The dining room was
large and nearly square and was fre-
quently used for entertainments in
the evening, balls, fancy-dress par-
ties and concerts, all of which we at-
tended. About January 24 a Scottish
ball was given. Perhaps it was a
Burns’ reunion and seemed to us a
grand affair. There was fine music,
with bag-pipes included (the first I
ever heard), the gay costumes with
kilted skirts, plaid hose and scarfs
and jaunty caps quite charmed us,
and the Scottish dances and horn-
pipes altogether made it a veritable
fairyland entertainment, the impres-
sion of which I have never forgotten.

We visited a daguerrean gallery and
had our pictures taken. This room
had just been opened in Detroit and
the art was considered something
wonderful and had _ but recently
come into practice on this side the
water. We thought it very tiresome,
as we had to sit still five minutes to
get a picture. My father had a num-
ber taken and presented one to each
of his seven brothers then living.

That was the last winter the Leg-
islature convened in Detroit. Some
feared that the frivolities of the gay
city might affect the manners and
morals of the members of that day,
and so voted that Lansing, forty
miles from any railroad, in the heart
of the forest of Ingham county,
should henceforth witness the as-
sembling together of that august
body. My father lived for six years
after this event, dying in September,
1853, at the age of fifty-one. His last

request was that he might be buried
on the hill overlooking the old place.
I have twice removed his remains—
once, after the old place passed from
our hands, to the nearby cemetery,
and again to lay them by the side
ot my mother in Kent county. She
outlived him by thirty-five years, dy-
ing March 1, 1888, at Alaska, Kent
county, at the age of eighty-three
years. My mother descended from
old Revolutionary stock, on the Nor-
ton-Goodwin side, and will ever be
remembered as a faithful friend and
worthy type of womanhood. Inthe
afflictions of life, from which she was
far from being exempt, she displayed
that true Christian fortitude which
commends her example to us.

The solid forests have vanished
and we sometimes feel that the solid
man has vanished, too. The type of
character they represented may not
be needed now, but they are worth
remembering for their courage in
opening up this country and reclaim-
ing it from brush and bramble trees
and stone, and placing Michigan in
the front rank she holds to-day among
the states of the Union.

The men have done much to make
this a grand and noble State, but the
women have not been idle. If “the
hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world” ours have certainly been
kept busy. In all ways pioneer wom-
en gladly did their share in bearing
the heavy burdens of that period, and
to-day can pride themselves upon be-
ing “the first ladies of the land,” and
by right, because we got here first!

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Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

Nothing encouraging has develop-
ed in the egg situation during the
past week. Arrivals have continued
tunseasonably large, bearing out our
previous expectation that the late be-

ginning of free production in the!

North would be followed by a long
season of surplus and result in ex-
cessive storage accumulations. Re-
serve stock has now grown to such
proportions that operators are loath
to add to it except at prices that ap-
pear very attractive in comparison
with the cost of April and early May
withdrawals and the surplus of  re-
ceipts beyond consumptive demands
is still so great that the disposition
to store still exercises a controlling
influence upon values of average and
under grade eggs. As to positively
fancy qualities—such as are very
closely candled and graded _ before
shipment—the regular consumptive
demand is, perhaps, nearly equal to
the supply because there is only a
small proportion of such in the re-
ceipts.

When our market declined to 17c
for Western firsts in the latter part of
May, and to 17%c for fancy selected
lines, there were enough dealers still
willing to store, and who considered
those prices attractive, to materially
lessen the quantity of eggs thrown

upon our open market. It was this.
fact, doubtless, which permitted so!

close a clearance of stock during the

first few days of June, under which |
values recovered to 174%@18c for)
firsts and to 18!4c—rarely even 19c— |
for selections. But, naturally, stor-|

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|over those of the same time — 5 ORWANT & SON, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

ers would not go, on putting eggs
away at these prices and not only

were larger supplies drawn to this|
market, but a much larger proportion |
of the receipts was thrown upon con- |
sumptive outlets. Of course, the de-|
mand could not take the increase—|
for the natural tendency is now to)

smaller rather than greater consump-
tion—and prices had to go back toa

point where more of the surplus)
would again be turned to storage. |
This is undoubtedly the reason for |
the decline of prices that has occur- |

red during the past week.

The position is now unsettled and
somewhat uncertain. Prices have fal-
len back to a point which, two weeks
ago, encouraged a greater withdrawal
of stock than the consumptive market
could spare, but whether or not this
will result again remains to be seen.
The season is now late, the eggs,
even although weather’ conditions
have been remarkably favorable, have
not the strength of body they had
before, and there is a growing feel-
ing of pessimism in regard to the fu-
ture of the egg deal which may pre-
vent continued free accumulations
except at still lower prices.

I understand that shippers in some
sections advanced their paying prices
when our market went up early in
June; if so they could not have un-

g derstood the reason for the advance; |

any way it was a most unfortunate |
action and must have resulted in!
/loss. Country prices should be put
down to a parity with about pres-
ent quotations here—say 174%4@18c
commission off for fancy selected)
goods, 17c for average best regular
packings and 16c for fair grades—_
and they should be kept down until
such time as the production falls off |
enough to bring the total yield below |
the total consumption. If increased |
disposition to store should, in the
meantime, result in momentary short-
age and recovery in distributing mar-
kets reactions from such advances
are certain until the surplus beyond
consumptive wants shall disappear.

From present indications it will be
a good while yet before egg produc- |
tion falls below the consumptive de-
mands of the country; this happened |
last year at an unusually early date |
—about the middle of July—but it)
will probably be considerably later |
this year. The cool weather prevail-|
ing has been favorable to the demand.
for eggs, but it also makes a rela-|
tively light wastage. It is evident |
that the June supply will run far
ahead of last year, naturally increas-

 

 

We Need Your Fresh Eggs

PRICES WILL BE RIGHT

L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers

36 Harrison Street, New York
Reference: N. Y. National Exchange Bank.

 

 

 

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 in
| 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.

 

 

ing the excess of storage accumula- |
tions during the remainder of the!
storage season. Judging from actual |

reports from a large number of stor-
age houses, representing nearly all
sections of the country, it is proba-|
bly safe to say that total accumula- |
tions on June 1 this year were fully

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

est market price at your station. Prompt returns.

Io per cent. greater than at the si William Findre, Grand Ledge, Michigan

time last year; and there is little
doubt that this excess will be in-

first of July. The receipts at New

phia for the first eleven days of June

| year; the increase in May was a lit-
tle over Io per cent.

In a report made some time ago
by A. W. Gridley, agent in Great
Britain for the Canadian Department
of Agriculture, it is said that Cana-
dian eggs have established a favora- |
ble reputation in

 

: oe | e
creased to at least 15 per ont ante (Treen Goods in Season

York, Chicago, Boston and Philadel- We are carlot receivers and distributors of green vegetables and fruits.

We also want your fresh eggs.

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

 

British markets.) We handle full line Farm, Garden and Flower Seeds.

SEEDS

Ask for whole-

They are mostly shipped in what Mr. | Sale price list for dealers only. Regular quotations, issued weekly

with fillers holding thirty dozen eggs
(the same as our ordinary egg case),
although a few are forwarded in cases
;such as are used on the Continent.
| The best grades of Canadian are said
to sell in England about even with

Gridley calls the “Canadian box” or oftener, mailed for the asking.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

We Carry——

 

| Danish selected and the glycerine F ULL LINE CLOV ER, TIMOTHY

eggs find considerable favor late in
| the season——N. Y. Produce Review.
| —~7+22—___
Remarkable Vegetable Product.

| Dr. Welwitsch brings news of a|
wonderful tree which he found grow- |
|ing in the west of Africa and named |
| for himself, the welwitsch. The ex- |
| traordinary proportions ‘of a trunk |
|four feet in diameter, with a height |
|of only one foot, make the plant |
|look like a round table. The tree |
| never has more than two leaves, and |
| these are the seed leaves, which ap-|
| pear when the plant first begins to
| grow, and which it never sheds or re-
places with others.

 

 

| Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street,

AND ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS
Orders filled promptly

MOSELEY BROS. ecranp rapips, MICH.

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

 

 

 

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.

 

 

atte

Sst

 

Dern eee

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

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

New York, June 18—There is a
slightly higher and fairly active mar-
ket for coffee, and this tendency toa
higher basis has led to buying ona
larger scale than has prevailed for
some weeks. At the close Rio No.
7 is steady at 7%c. In store and
afloat there are 2,838,856 bags,
against 2,380,725 bags at the same
time last season. West India cof-
fees are reported as very firm and
the tendency is to a higher basis of
values, owing to the reports that the
entire stock of old coffees had been
shipped from Venezuela and Colom-
bia. Stocks here are fairly large.
Good Cucuta, 9c, and good average
Bogota, 10%4@103%4c. East Indias are
steady and orders have been rather
ahead of last week.

There is no change in the old story
of small business in new transactions
in refined sugar. All that is done is
simply withdrawals under old _ con-
tracts, and while holders seem to
have great confidence in the future,
owing to the advancing tendency of
raws, the fact remains that “there
is room for improvement.” The new
refinery will start in July and will
be making 4,000 barrels a day by Au-
gust, and this naturally is a factor
that is being taken into account. This
is not a trust refinery. Prices for
granulated are unchanged on the ba-
sis of 4.80c, less I per cent. cash, in
barrels.

There is some business in lines in
tcas, but seemingly prices are in fav-
or of the buyer. And aside from
this trading there is little doing in
any sort. It seems to be a year not
especially active in teas anyway. Beer
is the stuff.

Same old story of a quiet rice mar-
ket. Holders generally seem to be
carrying full stocks and buyers take
only the smallest possible amounts.
Quotations are unchanged, and seem
to be rather lower here than at the
South.

There is a quiet time in the spice
trade. Orders have been for small
lots and these do not come as fre-
quently as might be hoped for. Pep-
per is not as firm as it has been,
while cloves seem to show a slight
improvement. Zanzibar, 164@16%c.

No changes have been made in
quotations for molasses. Neither in
new business nor in withdrawals un-
der old contracts is there anything
more than a midsummer trade going
on. Syrups are quiet and without
change in rates.

In canned goods peas seem to take
the lead this week. Buyers seem to
think opening prices of Baltimore
dealers rather steep and so far have
been backward about taking large
lots. But the chances are that they
will realize before many days that
they will do well not to linger any
longer, as the pack of some grades

 

is going to be very short. Some
pressure exists to dispose of canned
apples, as stocks are rather larger
than desirable. Future New York
corn is meeting with ready sale and,
in fact, the demand is more active
than can be met. Tomatoes are do-
ing better. Already the crop pros-
pects are being discussed and pack-
ers from Maryland say that in cer-
tain sections of the State the crop
will surely be light. But for many
years we have heard the same thing,
and who can recall ever having a
hankering for tomatoes that he could
not appease for 9c.

There is a better feeling in butter
and speculators seem to be showing
more interest notwithstanding the
reports of a heavy make all over the
country and a consequent large sup-
ply here. Best Western creamery,
174%4@18c; cesonds to firsts, I5@17%4c;
imitation creamery, 13@1!15c; factory,
12Y%@r3%c; renovated, 124%4@15c.

There is a slight improvement over
last week in the cheese market, and
the best grades can now be quoted
for the first time this season at 8c.
Exporters have been doing a fair
trade at about 7%c for colored, and
their efforts have helped to strength-
en the market here.

Offerings of eggs are larger than
can be taken care of, and the ten-
dency for other than near-by stock
is to a lower basis. Fancy Western
will fetch about 174@18c, although
the outside is perhaps rather high.
There is an abundance of stock that
sells for what it will bring, an aver-
age being about 13@14%c.

——_++-.—__—_

Nature Makes Men Meat Eaters.

The chemical composition argu-
ment shows that a mixed diet for
human beings is the most economical;
and the physiological
shows that it is the natural diet for
men. “Man’s_ digestive apparatus
shows that a mixed diet is best,” says
Quain’s Dictionary of Medicine.

First, our teeth are like neither
the teeth of the vegetarian animals
nor of flesh eating animals, but about
half-way between. The “grinders”
in the herbivora are large, and con-
sist of a wonderful arrangement of
hard and less hard substances, which
wear unevenly and keep the crowns
always furrowed for grinding. Our
molars are not as large or broad
crowned, while the typical molars of
the carnivores are almost as sharp
as the cutting teeth.

Secondly, the intestines of sheep
and other vegetarian animals are
long, of flesh-eating animals quite
short, and of man a medium length.

Thirdly, the digestive juice of car-
nivores is unequal to the task of
sufficiently digesting vegetables; the
herbivores can digest the hard cellu-
lose of raw oats, grass, etc., while
man can not digest cellulose at all.
He needs most of his vegetables to
be softened by cooking, and he can
easily digest meat raw or cooked.

2+.

Every seller has the unquestiona-
ble right to make his own price on
his own goods, and every purchaser
has the right to buy of whom he
pleases.

Butter

Butter markets are all pretty full and
dull. Feed conditions never were bet-
ter and are bound to be so for the
month of June. Keep the _ butter
moving promptly through the cool
weather. It will bring as much now

as any time and less shrinkage.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

argument

We want more

Fresh Eggs

We have orders for

500,000 Pounds
Packing Stock Butter

Will pay top market for fresh sweet
stock; old stock not wanted.
Phone or write for prices.

Grand Rapids Cold Storage Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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

Lemon & Wheeler Company, Grand Rapids
Howard & Solon, Jackson

Lee & Cady, Detroit
Phipps-Penoyer & Co , Saginaw

 

    

14
EVOLUTION OF CHARITY.

Dangers and Advantages of Institu-
tional Benevolence.

 

One of the most hopeful tokens
of the progress of society is the
readiness with which it takes upon
itself the burden of caring for its

own unfortunates. Charity in some |

form has undoubtedly been practiced
since the world began and the heart

of man softened to the distresses of |
his fellows. Organized charity, in|
the form we now see it, would ap-,
pear to be a modern institution. Back |
in the Middle Ages trade guilds pro- |

vided a form of relief for deserving
members overtaken by sickness or

old age, and religious societies gen- |
erously endeavored to alleviate the |

suffering of the public at large, but

these were little barks of rescue |

launched upon the vast sea of human
misery. Only of late years has a
general and comprehensive effort

been made in civilized lands having |
for its avowed intention the amelio- ,
ration of all ills that can overtake the |
race. And as this movement is for,

the benefit of every nation, having
for its ultimate object the arrest of

physical degeneracy and the reclama- |
tion from despair and vice of those}
who might otherwise go down inthe.

great struggle, it claims partnership

with the state and receives generous |
endowment at’ its hands. Almost all

important charities now draw upon

public funds in one form or another |

for their partial or total support, and
thus claim the interest of every tax-
payer in their conduct, although the

state is only lately obtaining a voice,

in their control.

Individual charity will always have |
an advantage over the more open!

benefactions of machine charity, in
that it may be proffered and accept-

ed, and even in time repaid, without |
sacrifice of self-respect on the part of |

the recipient. It touches, too, a ten-
der chord of human feeling in both
giver and recipient, which breeds a
brotherly sense and keeps alive a

sentiment which it is well should sur- |
vive in this day of commerce. It |
has the disadvantage over all machine |

charity in that, save in exceptional

cases, where a close personal knowl- |
edge exists, it offers every temptation |

and facility for fraud. The busy
man, the man who has money to
give, is the one with the least leisure
to expend in looking up cases of need
presented to him and ascertaining

their deserts. Acting upon his own!
initiative, he is commonly so plun- |

dered and victimized that the tenden-
cy of his experience is to dry up the
sweet fount of benevolence and con-
vert him into a cold-blooded cynic,
who laughs at cases of mifsfortune
henceforth presented to him. Fraud

and misrepresentation on the part of |
the unfortunates themselves are re-|
sponsible for the hardening of the!

civic heart against their woes.
Institutional charity, on the other
hand, which must perform its good
deeds in the public eye, while toa
certain extent pauperizing those who
benefit by it, yet by its very publici-
ty removes much of the danger of
perversion of funds. In its inception

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| the charity which assumed a part-

| nership with the state was made the
vehicle for cruelties innumerable at
the hands of its hired employes, vis-
ited upon the unfortunates under
their charge. Dickens was the first
to turn the searchlight of public
-cepinion upon the administration of
| homes for the indigent, orphanages
i and other state institutions, and the
watchfulness which he awakened has |
never wholly flagged. Nowadays,
whenever an abuse occurs in such es- |
tablishments, some one is on the
alert to ferret it out and to bring the
offender to justice. Newspapers are |
| society’s most valuable sentinels in
(this regard, not alone because the |
exposure of such an abuse means a.
good “story,” but because human na- |
ture, of which the reporter and edi-
tor have their due share, rejoices in|
bringing to righteous punishment |
those who would wreak vengeance
upon the children of misfortune. Un- |
der the present system of espionage
by regularly qualified state boards |
of charities and correction, now ex- |
isting in Michigan and most progres- |
sive American states, misappropria- |
| tion of public funds designed for the |
support of charitable institutions is |
impossible on any extended scale.
__o2-—_—__—__ |

Couldn’t Get a Jury.

A peculiar situation was developed |
in Detroit, when an attempt was |
made to obtain a jury to try the case
of a butcher who had been arrested |
on a charge of violating the Sunday |
closing law. The first nine tales-|
men were examined and _ rejected. |
The first was a barber, and stated |

i

 

that he himself worked on Sundays. |
The second was a druggist, who}
keeps open every day in the year. |
|The third was the proprietor of an |
automobile repair shop, whose best |
business came in on a Sunday. The |
fourth was a liveryman, who wouldn’t |
dream of closing the barn on a Sun- |
day.
The fifth was the owner of ‘a
building, the tenant of which did a
flourishing Sunday trade. The sixth
|man ran an ice cream parlor. The
seventh was a motorman. The eighth
| man said:
| “I'd like to see every person buy
meat on Sunday and get it.”
| The last man, Talesman J. Dunn,
| was disqualified because he consid-
| ered the Sunday closing law “obnox-
ious.”

——_--2—___
| Took Him at His Word.
A squire in a certain town had
| just finished marrying a young cou-
| ple, and proceeded in a paternal way
|to give them good, solid advice.
| Turning ‘to the bridegroom, he said:
| “Never spend your money extrava-
|gantly and be saving in every way
| possible.”
The bridegrom listened respectful-
ily, and then remarked:
“Well, judge, we might as well be-
| gin on-.you,” and he proceeded to
| give the squire 50 cents for tying the
| knot.
> —____
| When you write Tradesman ad-
| vertisers, be sure to mention that
| you saw the advertisement in the
Tradesman.

GREEN GOODS are in Season

You will make more of the Long Green if you handle our
reen 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, Mich.

 

 

 

That is made by the most
improved methods, by ex-
that

perienced millers,

brings you a good profit and satisfies your customers is

the kind you should sell.
manufactured by the ~

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

Such is the SELECT FLOUR

 

 

For Hay and Straw

 

 

Write, wire or telephone

Smith Young & Co.

Lansing, Mich.

All grades at the right price. We will be pleased to
supply you.

 

“Universal’’

Adjustable
Display Stand

The Best Display Stand Ever Made

Adjusts as table, bookcase, or to any angle. Only
a limited number will be sold at following prices:
No. 12, 5 shelves 12 inches wide, 33 inches

long, 5 feet high, net price................ $4. 60
No. 9, 5 shelves 9 inches wide, 27 inches 20
long, 4 feet high, net price................ $4.
Two or more crated together for either size, 20
cents less each.

Further information given on application.

American Bell & Foundry Co.
Northville, Mich.

 

 

ES HR a OR ee ee.

 

ing this profit-earning flour.

BEE SE EE SE SG SE WR GER Be WBA

Stop and Think a Moment

of how much effort and energy you are wasting each year urging upon your
trade some article of little merit that, instead of making your customers
permanent and attracting new ones, is driving them away. The competi-
* tion of to-day makes it essential that every sale you make gives satisfac-
tion, and while in the flour business it would be impracticable to exchange
goods that were found to be unsatisfactory, there is a way to fortify your-
self against dissatisfaction among your patrons and that is to handle the
brand that has been tested and found satisfactory. This is the position

Silver Leaf Flour

occupies in the minds of many dealers who are holding their trade by sell-
We would be pleased to have you investigate
our claim and can suggest no better way than by placing a trial order.

Muskegon Milling Co., Muskegon, Mich. j

BR RR EAE CAB EWR Wwe TR eR eR wR

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Wa UR GR OR OR GO OR

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

15

 

 

Publicity of Public Service Corpora-
tion Accounts.

One of the greatest troubles that
honest city officials have in dealing
with street railway, gas and other pub-
lic «service corporations, particularly
when franchises are to be granted and
rates, conditions and compensation
fixed, is that the companies know the
facts about the business while every-
one else is in the dark. The city has
to negotiate on unequal terms. Pub-
licity of accounts is widely regarded
as the most promising remedy for
the evils of trusts and a necessary
condition of proper public regulation
of all franchise-holding companies.
The people of St. Paul, in framing
their home-rule charter four years
ago, incorporated a provision requir-
ing annual reports of their business
from all franchise holders. These
reports, sworn to by at least two
officers of the company _ reporting,
must state “the then actual cost of
the plant,” “the actual incumbrances,
debts and obligations thereon, if any;
the names and residences of the stock-
holders and the amount of stock
held by each, and the consideration
paid therefor to the corporation;”
“an itemized statement of the assets
and liabilities;’ “the gross earnings,
the expenses and nature thereof, and
the net income” of the corporation
for the calendar year. The common
council may require further reports
from time to time. “The books, rec-
ords, bills and vouchers” of the com-
pany must be open at any time to the
inspection of the representative of the
council. The failure of the company
to observe these requirements ren-
ders it liable to a fine of $100.00 a
day while it is in default and the for-
feiture of its franchise after sixty
days’ delinquency.

It is generally agreed that the
only satisfactory way of receiving pay
for franchises is by a percentage of
the gross receipts being turned into
the city treasury. In a city of 100,-
000 population street railway, gas,
water, electric light and power and
telephone franchises are generally
of considerable value. Sometimes
their value is very great. A _practi-
cal monopoly of any one kind of pub-
lic service with a rate fixed that
would bring reasonable profits on
the investment in a city of 50,000 in-
habitants is a gold mine when the
population doubles. Some _ people
favor compelling public service cor-
porations to reduce their rates and
improve their service, so that all

value shall be taken out of their’

franchises as such. Others think that
a reasonable rate should be fixed for
the service, and the franchise sold
for what it is worth to help out
street improvements or to decrease
general taxes. The difficulty in re-
quiring either lower rates or a fran-
chise fee lies in the fact that most
franchises are already granted for
many years to come, and when a new
application is made it seems unfair
to make the mew enterprise pay
while the rich ones now in the field
escape. St. Paul has adopted a plan
that would extricate the city from
this difficulty. The St. Paul charter

 

provides that every franchise-holder
shall pay into the city treasury an-
nually a license fee equal to five per
cent. of the gross receipts of the
business. The charter then goes on
to say that no extension of franchise
rights or privileges may be granted
to any public service corporation
now in the field until it agrees to
exercise all of its franchises subject
to all the limitations contained in
the new city charter, including the
payment of the five per cent. tax on
gross receipts. It needs some such
charter provision to stiffen the back-
bone of the council when the peo-
ple are clamoring for a railway ex-
tension and the company is holding
off for the best terms possible.

In Grand Rapids we have the cu-
rious spectacle of the Edison Electric
Light Company operating a steam-
heating plant in some of the most
important downtown streets without
any franchise at all for that purpose.
By grace of permits given by the
Common Council at different times
this company is operating a public
utility outside of its original fran-
chise. What permanent rights it may
be acquiring in the streets only time
will tell. This sort of thing would
not be possible in St. Paul. There
“no person or corporation shall occu-
py or have any rights in, over, upon
or under any street” for any public
utility “until an ordinance shall have
been fully passed” in the manner
prescribed by the charter.

Although the council has_ not
pledged itself to a “radical” revision
of the charter, there surely will have
to be some radical changes in_ the
method of dealing with franchises.
The Common Council now has al-
most unlimited power in the matter,
and we are fortunate in having main-
tained as many rights as we have. To
think that only three or four years
ago a corrupt city attorney had the
Common Council in his pocket for
the purpose of carrying out gigantic
schemes of plunder is enough to
make a citizen shiver. And the worst
difficulty arises from the fact that in
this sort of crookedness experience
shows an alliance between big busi-
ness men and corrupt politicians.
The charter should be fixed so that
boodlers would not be attracted to
Grand Rapids. Delos F. Wilcox.

—_+++>—___
Appetite of the Eskimos.

The Eskimos have enormous appe-
tites. An Arctic explorer relates that
he saw a boy eat ten pounds of solid
food and drink a gallon and a half
of liquid with much gusto. This
same explorer observed an adult eat
ten pounds of meat and two candles
at a meal. Sir P. Phillips tells how
a lad of 17 years ate twenty-four
pounds of beef in twenty-four hours.

— 272s
Secrets of Slot Machines.

The police of Philadelphia recent-
ly destroyed about $8,000 worth of
slot machines. Pasted inside the
doors were secret operating instruc-
tions. One rule said: “To change
the percentage plug up the color that
is paying too frequently, but never
have all plugs in at one time.”

 

EGG CASES FOR SALE CHEAP

We have on hand and offer for sale cheap while they last several hundred new

30 dozen size No, 2 cases at 22 cents each, F

and we need the room. Write or call us up by Citizens phone 62
CUMMER MANUFACTURING CO., Cadillac, Michigan

Manufacturers of the Humpty-Dumpty Folding Egg Carriers

O. B. Cadillac. They are bulky

 

 

Bell Main 2270

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.

Citizens 1881

 

 

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Why, the Wilcox perfected delivery box. Grocers want it every-
where. Outwears a dozen ordinary baskets and looks better than
the best. No broken splints or ‘‘busted’’ corners. Nest per-
fectly and separate easily. Ask your jobber or write us. We
also make No. 1 Baker and Laundry Baskets.

WILCOX BROTHERS, Cadillac, Michigan

 

 

 

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Superior

tock Food

Is guaranteed to be the best stock
food on the market. You will
find it one of your best sellers
and at a good profit. It is put
up in neat packages which makes
it easy to handle. See quota-
tions in price current.
Manufactured by

Superior Stock Food Co.

Limited

Plainwell, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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Cigar

Contains the best Havana brought to
this country. It is perfect in quality
and workmanship, and fulfills every
requirement of a gentleman's smoke.

2 for 25 cents

10 cents straight

3 for 25 cents

according to size

Couldn’t be better if you paid a
dollar.

The Verdon Cigar Co.

Manufacturers
Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Folks’

Style Tendencies in Little
Wearables.

Retailers got business on wash suits
so much earlier this year than last
that, when the hot weather came in
May, drives were made, not only by
the stores doing a cheap trade, but.
by the better class as well. The lat-
ter inaugurated their wash goods
season as far back as February, and
in March did a_ thriving business.
With good business coming in the
early months of the year, first pur-
chases were materially depleted, and
with light stocks in May buyers were
in excellent position to avail them-
selves of the special offerings made
by manufacturers, hence the sales in
May and the first week in June at
price reductions. The business in
wash goods is therefore considera-
bly ahead of last year. While the
retailers doing a first-class trade
have ended their season on cloth
goods, the popular trade is still do-
ing very fair in serges and other
lightweight cloths in juvenile appar-
el. With them the season has been
late, and the turnovers less. At this
writing the consumptive demand for
boys’ and youths’ clothing is most ac-
tive.

Buyers who handled their stocks
scientifically and pushed their busi-
ness by liberal advertising, despite
the weather conditions, now have the
satisfaction of knowing that their
stocks of strictly spring goods are
lower than they were at this time
last year. These are the fortunate
ones who availed themselves of man-
ufacturers’ offers and closed out sea-
sonable merchandise at prices which
enabled them to retail the stuff very
low and still leave a good profit, the
manufacturers being the losers. This
will explain how retailers in large
cities were able, in May, to dispose
of boys’ and youths’ suits at $5,
which, at the opening of the season,
brought $7.50 at wholesale. The of-
ferings included serges of good qual-
ity, cassimeres, cheviots and Scotch
mixtures in seasonable colorings and
patterns.

Norfolk suits in medium and high-
priced goods, all sizes, are scarce.
The demand has exceeded the sup-
ply, the style having met with a
better run than was expected by buy-
ers and manufacturers. They have
been better sellers than for any sea-
son before, and the fact has put the
Norfolk well up in the front rank
for fall, although it is less seasonable
then than for spring. The demand
for outing suits for boys is increas-
ing more and more each year, and
this would seem to open up an op-
portunity for manufacturers to spe-
cialize along this line. In men’s
clothing we have houses making a
specialty of outing wear, but in boys’
outing garments the regular makers
of clothing simply specialize along
this line.

New in juvenile clothing for fall

 

is a hunting suit. The jacket is on
the order of a Norfolk, yet combining
the good points of the Norfolk and
double-breasted jacket, and is to be
worn with knickerbockers.

Bloomer pants have sold much bet-
ter this year than last. Boys who
formerly cried if their parents bought
them bloomers, saying that the
“other boys in school poked fun at
them,” are now crying for bloomers.
Shrewd buyers, recognizing their in-
creasing popularity with all classes,
are halving their orders for fall, or-
dering an equal number of straight
knee pants and bloomers.

There is a division of opinion
among buyers regarding Eton and
sailor collar styles for fall. Some
are of the opinion that the Eton
linen collar has seen its best days
and that it will be replaced for fall
by the sailor style and dickey, and
by the velvet and leather collar on
styles buttoning to the neck. Some
clothiers are showing the velvet and
leather collars in their fall lines. An
overcoat style with Eton collar is
also shown; as if it were not sufficient
to encumber a youngster with one
collar when wearing two garments,
is the argument used against the in-
troduction of the Eton collar over-
coat. But in putting the Eton collar
on the overcoat it is not intended
that the little fellow is also to wear
a white linen collar with the suit
jacket. The velvet and leather col-
lars in Eton shapes have been intro-
duced as a substitute for the linen,
the contention being that they do not
soil so readily and that they fill the
desire for a change.

From present indications it ap-
pears that browns and bright reds
will be the favorite colors in sailor
and Russian blouse suits for fall.

The junior suits made of Jersey
cloth, in the Russian blouse style,
have been revived for fall. It is
about a dozen years since Jersey fab-
rics played an important part in
clothing.

A leading maker of little men’s
wear has introduced a new concep-
tion on the order of the vestee or
continental suit for dress wear. The
style is admirably suited for Sunday,
party and evening wear. The jacket
and bloomer trousers are in velvet.
trimmed with soutache and silk but-
tons. The jacket is worn unbutton-
ed over a full white pique vest. For
evening dress it will undoubtedly be
preferred by many mothers to the
Tuxedo model and_ straight knee
pants.

Leading houses in children’s and
boys’ lines report being sold up on

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Handling Shoes in Connection With
Clothing.

Advices reach us from all quarters
that the clothing and _ furnishing
goods men are waking up to the
many advantages of running a shoe
department; and that more and more
of them are making room for sucha
department, and are carrying goods
for the spring and summer; while
others have made more or less ex-
tensive plans for installing such a
department in season for the fall
and winter trade.

The experiences of those who have
lately inaugurated this additional line
are in every case, as far as we can
learn, most satisfactory. The busi-
ness is not only affording a good
profit and adding to both the gross
and net incomes of the stores, but
it is having a beneficial effect upon
the other departments. It is drawing
in the trade of those who have never
before been patrons of these estab-
lishments. Many a man who has
been induced by the window display
to enter the store and buy shoes has
supplemented this initial purchase by
others of hats, furnishing goods or
clothing; and thus a larger circle of
customers is one, and not the least
important, benefit resulting  there-
from.

The shoe department requires care
and attention in keeping a full assort-
ment of sizes. But this is not both-
ering anyone who has had experience
in ready-made clothing, hats, collars,
shirts, suspenders, hosiery and under-
wear—all of which are subject to
the same requirement. Undoubtedly,
every one of our readers has his
own individual system for keeping
stock in proper shape, and in antici-
pating his needs so as to prevent
running out of sizes; but we feel cer-
tain that those who have had expe-
rience in other lines where there isa
question of sizes can easily adopt
some system which will fill the bill
to their entire satisfaction.

Tt is the custom of shoe dealers to
close out their summer goods as
soon as. possible after the Fourth of
July, this being practically the end
of the spring season. Many shoe
dealers do this by means of clearance
sales, marking their lines at reduced
prices. We do not advise this where
a small and well-selected stock is
carried. Better to buy sparingly and
size up often than to be found after
the first of next month with a big
stock on hand; although, if you have
made mistakes, and find that you have
a lot of distinctly summer shoes
which you can not work off in the
fall, it may be necessary for you to
use some such tactics as this, in
order to be in proper shape to take
care of the fall stock, which you
should have in hand by the first
week in September. ‘'

This is distinctively an Oxford sea-
son; and if you have a large amount
of Oxfords on hand, and do not in-
tend to make a clearance sale of
them, it will be well for you to stock
up early in the fall with overgaiters,
and then recommend the wearing of
Oxfords until late in the season—
calling the attention of your custom-
ers to the advantages of the low,

 

cool shoe during warm weather, and
the advantage of the gaiter on the
cooler days, thus making the shoe
adaptable to the weather. A few
years ago Oxfords were worn dur-
ing the whole winter, but the severe
cold of last winter worked againsta
continuance of this custom; although
every one who has worn gaiters with
Oxfords has discovered that the com-
bination is much warmer than the
high shoe.

The high-class clothier and furnish-
er is the one who is usually con-
sulted as an authority on all matters
of fashion and dress, and in regard
to shoes he should be well posted in
what is being worn. The dress shoes
for the coming season are of patent
leather with dull leather tops. They
are slightly narrower at the toe, and
are without caps. The edge is nar-
rower, with a light sole, trimmed
off thin at the edge. This is a but-
ton boot, with buttons of the same
finish and matching in appearance
the dull kid top. Some manufactur-
ers are showing these lines with a
plain cap, but these are not consid-
ered so dressy as the full plain
vamps.

Some tan shoes are likely to be
worn next winter, but it is not ad-
visable for the dealer who wishes to
carry a small stock to purchase
many heavy shoes in the light-color-
ed leathers. Let us stick to the
blacks, both in kid, calf and patent
leather, for these will certainly have
a good demand. qn

Select lines of goods which have
an undeniable style about them. The
drop toe is a popular feature at this
time. It gives the foot a very stylish
appearance, and is in keeping with
your lines of fine furnishing goods.
Toes are inclined to narrowness, and
your lines should be chosen with this
fact in mind. The broader toe is
going entirely out, and while the
sharp toe of a few years ago is not
likely to be repeated, a moderate de-
parture from last spring’s styles in
this matter is well to adopt.

Do not forget to place in your win-
dow a few shoes of your leading
styles. It is better to have a half
dozen than a half hundred of them.
Placed upon stands in the center and
near the front of the window they
will attract far more attention than
even a solid windowful; and if the
right kind of show cards are used
to call attention to them, they will
undoubtedly be trade winners.

To those who contemplate making
this addition to their business we can
not too strongly emphasize the fact
that it is well to move cautiously
and conservatively, until experience
has taught just what lines are best
to handle to cater to the require-
ments of one’s special trade. The
dealer whose customers are of the
highest class will require finer lines
than he who is doing a middle-class
business. The most popular-priced
shoe of to-day sells for $3.50; but
the tradesman catering to the finer
class can, perhaps, do better on ex-
clusive styles to retail at $4 and $5;
while he whose business is among
mechanics and working men will find
that lines which sell at $3.50 will go

 

fairly well, and that there will be a|
demand for shoes at $3, or even at
$2.50, and it is surprising what good
shoes can now be purchased to sell
at these moderate rates.

It is advisable, wherever possible,
to deal with manufacturers who carry
shoes in stock, and who are thus en-
abled to fill small orders quickly.
The man who carries an exclusive
line, made especially for him, can
not get goods to size up in less than
three or four weeks from the time
he orders them; and such delay may |
make all the difference between a
successiui and an unsuccessful sea- |
son, for the heavy demand for goods |
is very likely to come during the
time when he is out of sizes called
for by his customers.

The manufacturer who carries sizes
in stock is enabled to ship size-up or-
ders immediately on receipt, and the |
retailer is thus enable, by weekly or- |
ders, to keep his stock in first-class |
shape until the heavy demand is)
over, and even up to the end of the |
season. There are now many such}
manufacturers of extremely popular
lines, who make a specialty of this
business, and who are giving excel-
lent service to their many customers.

There is less change in the weight
for summer and winter goods now-
adays than formerly, particularly for
city wear. Many men wear vici kid
shoes stummer and winter, and, al-
though the soles may be a little heav-
ier for winter wear, they are all sin-
gle-sole shoes. This is, in part, be-
cause of the care taken of the pave- |
ments in the cities, and the fact that |

 

people wear overshoes or rubbers in
preference to the heavy footwear
which was formerly so common.
And this brings us to another phase
of the shoe business—the carrying
of a stock of rubbers and overshoes.
In considering this subject one
should look at it in all its phases.
Care must be taken, if rubbers are
carried, to choose only those styles
which exactly fit the lines of shoes
you have in stock. This may be a
more difficult matter to decide upon
than would seem at first thought.
There is but little money in the rub-
ber business, and unless one has a
large shoe department, and caters to
all classes of trade, it is perhaps bet-
ter not to carry any goods of this

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Characteristics Which Determine the
Variations of Fashion.

The physical influence of the tem-
perature of a country combined with
the moral influence of taste and char-
acter of the population affects fash-
ion, but a stronger factor may be
found in the social and economic
organization.

It is a well-known fact that if the
habits, manners and customs of a
people be known, inductively their
social organization can be inferred,
and by a still farther deduction their
system of laws may be_ inferred; |
therefore, the institutions of a people
are reflected in their fashions as in|
a mirror. It thus follows, as night
the day, that in a country where |
abuse of privileges permits a class
considered superior to maintain a
system of idleness at the expense of
the rest of the nation, fashions are
ostentatious and complicated.

 

‘Fhe class thus privileged, as above |
mentioned, feel the necessity of os- |
tentatious show to dazzle the multi-
tude by the splendor of their exter- |

nal appearance, and thereby convince |
them that they are made of better
clay. The fashions are complicated
because of the great leisure the priv- |
ileged class have, and the time they |
can devote to their toilet, which, by|
its sumptuousness, inspires the com- |
mon people with exalted ideas of)
those that wear it.

If now the _ social
should change so as to eliminate the |
privileged class, and place them
among the toilers, where competition,
by its inevitable law, would compel
them to employ the faculties in earn-
ing their subsistence, fashion at
once would become more simple. All
the gorgeous wearing apparel pre-
viously common among the privileg-
ed would be eliminated by the trans-
formation of their social organiza-
tion, and in its stead would be seen
an attire easily adjustable and com-
fortable to wear.

The London tradesmen of the old
school are excellent examples of the
force of competition, which brought
into existence the new school of
tradesmen. The London tradesman
of the old school had to have his
powdered wig and the queue, the pre-
cise shoes and buckles, the unwrin-
kled silk hose and light impressibles.
He never forgot the stately step of
his forefathers, and nothing gave
him more pleasure than to take his
gold-headed cane in hand, and, leav-
ing his own shop, to visit his poorer
neighbors and impress them with his
authority by enquiring into their af-

organization |

fairs, settling their disputes, and com- |
pelling them to be honest and man- |

age their affairs upon his plan.
The business of this tradesman was
conducted throughout upon the for-
mal plan of his ancestors. His clerks,
shopmen, and porters had their ap-
pointed costumes, and their  inter-
course with one another was disci-
plined according to the laws of eti-
quette. Each had his special depart-
ment of duty, and the line of demar-

tillo of neighboring but rival states.

 

 

The shop of this trader retained all
the peculiarities and inconveniences
of preceding generations; its windows
displayed no gaudy wares to lure the
common people passing by, and the
panes of glass inserted in ponderous
wooden frames were constructed with
precision in accordance with the an-
cestral pattern.

With the advent of the new school
of traders, the first innovation was
to cast off the wig and cashier the
barber with his pomatum box, by
which step an hour was gained in
the daily toilet; then the shoes and

| tight unmentionables, whose compli-
| cated details of buckles and straps,

and whose close adjustment occupied
another half hour, were discarded in
favor of Wellingtons and pantaloons
that were whipped on in a thrice, and
gave freedom to the personal move-
ments during the day. Thus dress-
ed, they whisked or flew, just as the
momentary calls of business became
more or less urgent. While thus
absorbed in the affairs of their own

| business they had no time to attend
| to other people’s business, and scarce-
ily knew their next-door neighbor;
i neither did they care whether other
| people lived in peace or not, so long

as they did not come to break their
windows.

The change was not only one of
dress and fashion, for their shops un-
derwent as great a change as their
owners. The internal economy was

| reformed with the view to give the

utmost facility to the labor of the
establishment; the windows were
constructed of plate-glass with ele-
gant frames extending from the
ground to the ceiling, and were
made to blaze with all the tempting
finery of the day. One by one the
traders of the oid school took on the
habits of the new school, and placed
themselves in line to compete for
their share of the trade.

In this transformation of the old
London trader one is not at a loss
to see the necessity that determined
the simplification of the fashions of
the old regime. The necessity arose
from the suppression of the ancient
privilege which allowed a member of
a corporate body of tradesmen or a

manufacturing mechanic who has at- |’

tained the rank of master to pass his
time at his toilet, or to meddle in
the quarrels of his neighbors instead
of attending to his own _ business.
Strong competition compelled every
business man to take into account
time and concentration of his intel-
lectual energies to his immediate
business in hand to prevent his name
from appearing among those in the
list of bankruptcies.

Tt is evident that a regime of
competition does not permit the same
fashions as a regime of privilege, and
also that fashion is as sensitive to
modification arising from the social
organism of society as it is to
changes of temperature. It is owing
to this fact that any attempt of a
government to regulate fashions will
prove a failure——Clothier and Furn-

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cation at the counter was marked |

out and observed with all the punc- |

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SUMMER MEETING

Of the Grand River Valley Horticul- |

tural Society.

The annual summer meeting of the |
Grand River Valley Horticultural So- |

ciety occurred on the afternoon of

June 14 at Burton Farm, the home |}
/nary varieties of apples and_ pears,

of the President of the Society, Mr.
Chas. W. Garfield. The day was a
perfect one and the surroundings
comported so completely with the
numbers on the program, and the)
object lessons were so numerous

that the papers and addresses receiv- |

ed the emphasis desired to make
them most attractive and_ effective.
The meeting was held on the lawn!
in the shade of beautiful locusts, ma-
ples, butternuts and elms, and about |
one hundred and fifty people express- |
ed themselves as delighted with the |
meeting, ranking it as one of the
best in the annals of the Society.

The President, in calling the audi- |
ence together, introduced Mr. A. J.
3ell, who led in a number of the |
old-fashioned hymns and songs, the
audience joining each time in the
chorus. A bit of early history was}
given in connection with the farm, |
which is named for Barney and Har-|
riet Burton, who received the title)
from the Government. Mr. Garfield}
said incidentally that the apple tree |
in the foreground was probably the}
oldest apple tree in Kent county, the |
seed having been planted the first |
year of Mr. Burton’s residence upon
the place. Attention was called to
the very desirable amount of people}
who are looking toward the country |
for homes. The President thought |
the work of the Society and the lat- |
est movement of the Grand Rapids |
Park and Boulevard Association all |
tended to bring into popularity the |
attractions of country life and he be-
lieved more people than ever before
were thinking of owning enough
land upon which to grow the home
supplies and in connection with the
growing of them secure one of the
most delightful satisfactions of life.

The general program of the meet- |
ing was in the hands of Mr. John,
B. Martin, who introduced the vari-
ous speakers in a very happy way
and whose manner awakened enthu-
siasm on the part of all. Mr. Gar-
field first spoke of “Beauty in Form
of Fruits,” saying that form was one
of the most important considerations
in identifying varieties and the circle
was the unit from which all defining
words indicating varieties in form de-
rived their meaning and import. He
said the horticulturist was able to
modify forms by selection so as to
reach an ideal, but that many men
engaged in the development of new
varieties had over-reached by build-
ing up monstrosities, instead of come-
ly forms. This he illustrated by the
Sharpless strawberry, which, while
monstrous in proportion, had no sem-
blance to the original strawberry
type. He said that modifications in
form had been secured by the influ-
ence of the stock upon the cion in
grafting. As illustrations he spoke
of the Baldwin apple which had been
grafted upon a Maiden Blush, and
then cions taken from this tree and

|
' grafted again upon a_ pronounced
| type of the Maidens Blush, which is
a very flat apple, and the two re-
/'moves had changed the globular
form of the apple into a very oblate
fruit. He called attention to the
modification of form by climatic in-
fluence, and he said that our ordi-

transplanted to the country about
Puget Sound became more conical

'and irregular in shape. He thought

the ideal of the horticulturist in
form of fruits should have as _ its
distinguishing feature beauty of out-
line.

Dr. Frances A. Rutherford read a
paper upon “Tree Foliage as a
Character.”

Following Dr. Rutherford, Arthur
W. Brown, of the Y. M. C. A., treat-
ed “The Framework of Trees.”

Mrs. Cadette E. Fitch spoke in an
informal manner about the develop-
ment of her own home surroundings
ov Jefferson avenue, illustrating quite

| freely with photographs and pictures

of the plants to which she called at-
tention. As she proceeded she ad-

| vocated the planting of flowers in
| masses, having a sufficient quantity
| of one variety to make a distinguish-

ing feature in a group, and she em-
phasized the importance in arranging
plants and flowers to study their
characters so that their habits and
forms and colors would fit into each
other. She told the story of her
experience in trying to grow roses
upon the site of an old cellar in her
back yard, which had been the dump-
ing ground for rubbish for a genera-
tion, and jocularly said, as the re-
sult of this experience that she had
decided beyond possibility of change
in view, that roses would languish
when fed principally upon tin cans
and broken crockery. She finally ex-
cavated to the depth of four feet,
placing rich new soil therein, and
consulted books and florists, acquir-
ing all the information possible, con-
cerning the growth of roses. She
had achieved a considerable measure
of success, and she named the list
of roses which had given her the
keenest satisfaction. However, she
said that budded roses would in time
run out and there needed to be a
constant replenishing of stock. She
called attention to a variety of roses
grown in a historic place in Germany,
that was a thousand years old, and
she wondered whether in our Young
America we would gradually develop
a taste for historic things and main-
tain with great care plants of this
kind from one generation to another.
She spoke of the iris, especially the
German varieties, as very attra tive
things to use in connection with the
flower garden. They suited them-
selves to conditions and had such va-
riety of color, fragrance and withall
a dignity unsurpassed. About her
house were twenty varieties of climb-
ing vines. Perhaps the most satis-
factory of which was the clematis
paniculata, which during the month
of September gave the keenest sat-
isfaction to the denizens of the home
as well as the passersby. She said
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This man is writing for our 1903 catalogue;
something has happened in his store that has
made him think, and when a man gets to thinking
once, something generally moves.

This time it is that pound and ounce scale
that’s going to move; he’s tired of having his
clerks give overweight.

Tried it himself and found it was the scale,
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ground in winter would spring up and
be at its best in the following Sep-
tember. A variety somewhat simi-
lar, that blooms in August, was very
satisfactory. Among the roses the
Prairie Queen, the Baltimore Bell
and the Ramblers were the _ best.
Upon purchasing their home they
found a forsythia near the walls of
the house. This is one of the early
spring shrubs, as it is generally
treated, but by pinching and judicial
pruning, she had changed it into a
climber, and its golden bells, coming
into bloom with the hepatica and
the earliest spring flowers, produced
a most satisfactory effect. A similar
treatment of the Judas tree had been
productive of interesting results. The
passion flower was named as a most
satisfactory climber, but must be
given plenty of light and sun to be
at its best. Mrs. Fitch went into
some detail in treating of her corner
of wild plants at the rear of the
house. She said that the grape trel-
lis, with its burden of foliage, made
such a deep shade that she could
grow no,vegetables or ordinary gar-
den flowers with any satisfaction, and
she conceived the plan of turning it
into a wild garden, using such things
as grew in the shade as the elements
of the wee landscape. Her son had,
by aid of a little masonry, developed
a permanent pond, which was _ fed
from the waste of water employed in
running the house motor. In_ this
pond were grown all the things that
are found in shady places, where wa-

|
ter is permanent. Her model was}

the frog pond in Boston Common,
only hers was a very diminutive spec-
imen, and as it developed under her
hand the result had suggested the
name by which it was now called,
“The Jungle.” Among the most sat-
isfactory plants grown in this Jungle
were the lady slipper, yellow and
white; the cardinal flower, the colum-
bines, the rose mallow, the swamp
rose, the bellwort, the buttercup and
the cowslip, with some odd _ things,
like the pitcher plants, and some
very common things, like the black-
eyed Susan. She had even utilizeda
little corner for the common milk-
weeds, which were very satisfactory,
if kept within bounds. One plant af-
ter another had been added until the
Jungle contained a large number of
species. Mrs. Fitch called attention
to certain plants which grew so rap-
idly and so rampantly as to become
a menace to the other varieties.
Among these she named the bounc-
ing bet and the wild morning glory.
Mrs. Fitch closed her address with an
earnest plea for the preservation of
our wild flowers, and spoke of the
New England Society, a companion

The closing number on the pro-
gram was an informal account by
Mrs. Julia L. Fletcher, under the
title, “Beauty in Ground,” of her own
premises on College avenue. The il-
lustrations which gave point to the
address were numerous and so at-
tractive as to captivate the audience.

At the close of the meeting the
gathered horticulturists spread them-
selves over the farm and especially
enjoyed the little forest of six acres
which had been developed under Mr.
Garfield’s hands in the last twelve
years. The next meeting of the So-
ciety will be at the home of Prof.
Slayton, of Flat street, in the north-
east part of the city. The general
subject will be the “Harvest,” and
it will be in charge of the Rev. S.
B. Smith. The date will be the sec-
ond Tuesday in July.

Four of the papers read at the
meeting are reproduced elsewhere in

this week’s issue.
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What Asbestos Really Is.

In the important work of protect-
ing life and property from fire, there
are a growing appreciation of the
value of asbestos and a constant in-
crease in its use. It has a combina-
tion of properties unlike that of any
other substance found in nature. No
other product as yet discovered
could take its place. It has been
called mineral wool, and also the
connecting link between the mineral
and the vegetable kingdoms. After
the fibers of asbestos have been sep-
arated from their mother rock they
have a fluffy softness and whiteness
much like that of wool or cotton, and
by a process very similar to that of
ordinary weaving, they are converted
into cloth. It is a cloth, however,
which, owing to its mineral origin, is
impervious to fire, and herein lies its
value. It is more and more exten-
sively used in this country for fire-
proof curtains, for firemen’s helmets,
jackets and leggings, and for gloves
and shields for men working at the
mouths of furnaces. The texture of
the fabric resembles that of canvas,
so it is too coarse, as now manu-
factured, for such delicate materials
as those of lace curtains and women’s
dresses, for which its use has been
suggested, but an interesting way in
which it is now utilized is in the work
of surgeons making splints and dress-
ing wounds. Cotton and wool must
be specially treated to be rendered
apsolutely clean and antiseptic, while
asbestos is naturally so.

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are just two points to be considered—
economy and the quality of the product.

The Parma Butter Co., Parma, Mich.,
recently made up a churning with differ-
ent kinds of salt, including Diamond
Crystal, using the same quantity in each
lot, and asked a customer to decide which
was the best. Without knowing the
brands used, he reported that the butter
made with Diamond Crystal contained
the most salt, and was the best in quality.

Diamond Crystal Salt is used exclu-

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of the Audubon Society, the object | item of expense is bad business. It
being the preservation of the delicate|is the “unexpected that always hap-
wildlings, which were in danger of} pens.” Besides, your credit will be
extermination, through the careless-| better if you are well insured. You
a ness of people in gathering them,|are a safer risk.
and destroying the conditions that a
they enjoyed. Among the delicate Before returning goods that are
things that she felt it was most im-| not in good shape, write the shipper
portant to save were the trailing ar-| all about it and learn what he has
butus and the columbines. to say. A shipping house would soon
Mrs. Ellen L. Baker read a delight-| have to go out of business if it were
ful and practical paper on “The Use| unfair in its dealings. A satisfactory
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Factors Which Make a Hardware
Business Successful.

One of the first things to consider
is in buying the right kind of goods
and buying a class of goods that you
can build up a reputation on. If
you wish to be successful you should
have the reputation of having the
best goods in your line in your city.
And much care should be taken
to secure a line that you can tie to
and stay with, and not be buying
promiscuously from every jobber or
factory that comes along. Take, for
example, your stove line. I know of
some merchants who carry’ from
three to five lines of stoves. I be-
lieve this is a mistake, for I do not
think any dealer can handle more
than one line of stoves and do jus-
tice to himself, leave alone doing jus-
tice to the company he buys*from.

I have been in business for near-
ly eighteen years and_ practically
liave handled only one line of stoves,
one line of refrigerators, one line
of furnaces, one line of table cut-
lery, and with the exception of some
four years, one line of builders’ hard-
ware. I might mention many other
lines that we have sold exclusively.

I believe that if you show a cus-
tomer a stove made by one foundry
and show your customer all the
good points and merits of the stove,
and say you think it is the best stove
made, and then show them a stove
made by another foundry, and you
have to tell him you think that stove
also is the best stove made, your
customer is liable to get to thinking
that there might be still other stoves
made, and would desire to see them
before. buying, and your chance of
losing the sale is much greater than
if you only had one line to show
him.

Now, after you have decided on
the right line to buy, you must be
able to buy them right. And it is
impossible for a local dealer in
many of the smaller towns to keep
posted as to prices and much infor-
mation must be gained’ through
the commercial man.

And just a few words as to the
way you should treat the commercial
man. I believe they should have as
much attention as your customer,
and when you make dates with them,
be punctual and keep them, always
remembering their time is as valua-
ble as yours. If you gain the con-
fidence and good will of the travel-
ing man, I believe you will come as
near buying your goods at the right
price as in any other way. Now af-
ter these goods are bought, you
must find the trade to dispose of
them to, and how are you going to
do it?

One strong argument in favor of
securing trade is a nice, neat store-
room and display windows. And I
am afraid that many merchants do
not appreciate the value of a nice
window display, for I have seen

 

many hardware stores in Michigan
where the windows had the appear-
ance of being washed by the last
rainstorm and some seasons of the
year they are few and far between.
It is not always necessary -to trim
your window with hardware, but put
something in the window that will
attract attention and cause people to
talk. Only a few days ago we had
a fat steer in our front window and
it was the talk of the town. For
several days people would call us by
*phone to find out how long it would
be there, and a friend of mine tells
me he heard of it in Chicago. You
see it was something unusual and the
advertising we received from _ this
was of great benefit.

A great many merchants in the
smaller towns might say it does not
pay me for the trouble and expense
of fixing up a neat and attractive win-
dow. I say, “It does.” If your town
is large enough for you to do busi-
ness in, it is large enough for you
to have a nice window display. The
expense incurred is the best invest-
ment you ever made. You will get
more returns in sales from this one
thing than anything else you can do.

Now about your store. You have
heard it said, “Goods well bought are
half sold.” I want to add to this by

saying, “Well bought and well dis- |

played.”

Next to your windows a neat and
well-kept store and stock will secure
for you more business than any
other thing you can do. I can call
to my mind many hardware stores
that I have been in that had_ the ap-
pearance of second-hand stores. You
will see rusty shovels and steel goods
standing out in front which many
think are advertisements to draw
trade, and in many cases hide your
display window. Now, if this dis-
play was made in your show win-
dow and not on the sidewalk, how
much better it would look. And noth-
ing looks more careless than tosee
boxes on your shelves with ends or
sides broken and in many cases with-
out covers.

Well do I remember one of my
first experiences in a hardware store.
I was shown how to repair broken
boxes and was told never to “put
cotton wrapping twine around a box
that went on the shelves, but to al-
ways use I8B twine.

With a little care and labor a
stock of hardware can be made as at-
tractive as any other kind of mer-
chandise. Do not be afraid to use
a little paint every year or two, and
wear out a few feather dusters every
month. You have many points to
gain by doing this. One is, ladies
buy a large amount of hardware, and
they like to trade where the stock
is kept neat and clean.
men will give you a better rate on
your fire risk, which is something
we are all looking for.

And how about your show cases?
I am afraid many hardware men do
not appreciate their value. A good,
large and well kept show case will
soon pay for itself and helps to
make your store attractive. Also I
wish to impress upon you that too
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play goods so they will attract the
attention of your customers. Many
sales will be consummated if goods
cai be placed so that they can be
seen by your customers.

Another prominent factor for suc-
cess is the treatment your customers
should receive from your salesmen.
One of the hardest things I have to
contend with is the inattention given
by salesmen to customers who make
small purchases running from 5 to
25 cents. I find they do not give the
customer the attention on the small
sales they do on the large sales, and
this is a grave error and a costly one
if allowed to continue. For who
knows that the customer for a paper
of tacks to-day may not want a
lawn mower to-morrow?

We also find it hard to draw the
line on guaranteed goods and what
to do with customers when they re-
turn an article that has proven de-
fective or that they have had an ac-
cident with. They invariably bring
it back and I know in many cases
they are not justified in making any
demand upon you for exchanging it.
It has been somewhat of a problem
for me to decide what to do. On
small articles, such as tools and cut-
lery. we do not hesitate to replace,
thinking it much better to be imposed
upon than to make our customer
feel hard toward us. I think many
goods are returned that should not
have been, from lack of business ex-
perience your customer has had, and
not from any desire to gain any ad-
vantage over you. And you can not
afford to make a customer feel angry
toward you no matter how small a
customer they may be for the few
cents it would cost you to replace it.
While you may think you do not
care for their trade, and I know of
many people who come to our store
whom I wish would never cross our
threshold, if it were not _ for
their infiuence and talk with their
friends, I should be frank and say
to them we do not care for their
business. But you must put up with
it and treat them a little nicer than
other people, so that you can have
their influence which they certainly
would have with their friends.

Another very important factor is
the help problem. Does it pay to
keep cheap help or high-priced help?
I have given this some attention in
our business and find the most satis-
factory and most profitable help I
have are the high-priced men, and
if possible I should recommend the
system adopted by the jobbers—
keep sales separate and let the volume
of business be a basis to fix salaries.

Another very prominent factor is
the expense account. I would like to
know how many hardware merchants
know what it costs them to do busi-
ness. I know that some dealers fig-
ure very close and are able to tell
you to the fraction of a cent what
the cost of doing business is. And
the dealer who does not know what
it costs and happens to have sharp
competition will sooner or later be
up against a proposition that is lia-
ble to give him many sleepless nights.
A question is often asked, “What
items should be figured in as ex-

 

pense?” The first item I figure in is

the one usually left out by many | | forty-eight years ago.

dealers. That is
amonut of capital

interest on
invested.

that should be just what your time |
would be worth to some one else.
Other items, such as advertising, rent,
help, taxes, insurance, etc., I think |
every one figures in. And I know |
it often surprises the very best of
us when we find it costs us from 20
to 30 per cent. on our sales to do
business.

I recently had a call from a gentle-
man who is many years older than
I am in the trade who was desirous
of selling some hard coal base burn-
ers. His price, I think, was $42.75
each. I told him we had to sell the
stove for $55 and there was no money
in it. His reply
make $10 on each stove and was sur-
prised when I told him that the cost
of doing business in order to sell
his stove amounted to more than the
$10. He said he had never thought
of figuring the expense of doing busi-
ness as a part of the cost of an item.
cost of an item.

I have often heard it discussed as |

to what per cent. on sales you should
pay for rent and I find quite a differ-
ence of opinion. The most conserv-
ative say from 3 to 5 per cent. I
would say you should not exceed 3
per cent. You also often hear it
said, “We don’t have to pay any rent
because we own our own building.”
This is wrong for the building you
occupy; the capital invested is worth
something to you, and your business
should pay the interest at least on
money invested in building.

Another prominent factor is the
advertising. I will not go into detail
on this, any more than to say what
per cent. of your sales should be
used in advertising. This is some-
thing like the rent problem, upon
which many differ. My judgment
says it should not exceed 2 per cent.
of your sales. The cost of selling
goods should not exceed 8 per cent.
of your sales, and in many places 5
to 6 per cent. should cover this item.
The other items of expense are not
so great and to these I have not given
so much thought as the three defined.

Another very prominent factor is
how large a stock is a retail dealer
justified in carrying, independent of
what capital he has? I would say
that location and freight rates figure
somewhat on the amount, but maxi-
mum amount of stock should be one-
third of your annual sales. A larger
percentage can be made on the capi-
tal invested if you can carry one-
fourth. one-fifth or one-sixth of your
annual sales; or, in other words, you
should turn your stock over not less
than three times and as many as
six if possible. C. H. Rudge.

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A Spirit Age Can’t Conquer.
Men on the shady side of 50 may
find profit in considering the spirit
of David Lyon, who lost the work
of fifty years in a recent fire. He is
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this plucky, fine American citizen did,

and let him tell his own story:

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The Use and Abuse of Cut Flowers.*

My subject, “The Use and Abuse |
of Cut Flowers,” is one sufficiently
broad, it would seem, without includ- |
ing seeds and plants, but in order to
have satisfactory cut flowers from the
home garden one can not forget the
seed time, and better still is it to
remember the bulb time, for one of
the delights of early spring is the|
watching for the peeping forth of
the tender green leaves, so soon fol-
lowed by perfect bloom. The pen-|
alty for forgetting bulb time is that
of waiting a whole year for the long-
ed for blossoms.

It is the garden that has
lovingly thought of, well and care-'|
fully planned, that gives the succes-
sion of bloom.

been

There are the crocuses, the snow |
drops and the dainty blue scillas for |
our first flowers, followed by lilacs,
snowballs and the dear old-fashioned |
favorites. Next plan for the summer |
blossoms, then for the fall and you}
will find you may gather flowers |
from the going of the snow until it
comes again. i

Study to have colors harmonious.
especially with your perennials. For |
instance, if you are to have two)!
peonies, growing side by side,
choose white and pink, which, while |
in contrast, will yet be in harmony.
Every city yard, every country yard, |
ought to have peonies in profusion, |
not alone for their beautiful display
while blooming, but also for their |
decorative effect when cut. One of |
the most artistic table decorations |
I have ever seen was an immense |
bow! filled with rose pink peonies, |
arranged with their glossy, shining |
leaves. All peonies are attractive, |
but usually we see only the double |
ones, and I wish I could so describe |
the beauties of the single peony that |
you would each place one in your |
garden. I have the single crimson |
and the white, with exquisite pink |
shadings. I have never had the buds |
blast, and the blossoms with their |
wide-open petals last for days.

Almost as important as the flow- |
ers is the foliage to be used as back- |
ground to emphasize the beauties of |
form and color. One simply can not |
have satisfactory arrangements with- |
eut suitable green. Look at a bowl |
of scarlet geraniums, closely arrang- |
ed, without one bit of green. Notice |
how packed, how massed they are,
but give them a border of their own |
broad leaves and arrange dainty |
ferns, or sprays of Allegheny vine, |
amid the flowers and enjoy the |
transformation.

more vines and plants for this pur-
pose, but if you have not the desired
green do not despair, but in the
winter use sprays and branches of

 

*Paper read by Mrs. Ellen L. Baker at the June
meeting of the Grand River Valley Horticultural

 

Society.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

evergreens, and in summer go out
with eyes wide open for the beauti-
ful and come home with arms filled.
It has been my pleasure for years to
arrange the flowers in Park church,
and perhaps I ought to see how many
of our congregation are present be-

fore I confess that many times the |

most effective arrangements

have |

owed their beauty to the dainty back- |
ground, formed of common, despised |

weeds, gathered in fields or by the
wayside. But if possible have the
greens near at hand. In a shady
place have ferns.

is the intuitive knowledge of just
the flowers you need for your deco-
rations. You will know at once that
certain flowers are the ones for cer-
tain vases, or that a branch with
some peculiar bend will be lovely in
one place, but not quite right in
any other. If you really love flowers
you will have more enjoyment and
better effects from the flowers you
have yourself cut. Try my plan of
giving a few minutes many times a

'day to your yard and flowers, now,

Have mignonette |

in quantities, not only for the frag- |

There is also a plant,
white

legheny vines.
with very pretty green and

| leaves, which are very beautiful with
Mrs. Arnold used to}

most flowers.
have it, but once I bit the stem and
poisoned my lips and ever since it
has been banished from her garden,
the garden so many of us are indebt-
ed to for plants and pleasure.

One important use of cut flowers
is the cutting.

‘flowers it is the joy of getting out |

into the country, of searching the
woods for these treasures, or if the
pleasure of the woods can not be
ours, we can at least run out in
the yard many times a day and watch
the growing plants and the opening
buds. I wish I could persuade each
one to consider this a duty. Do not
say you can not take the time, but
as a dear, little three-year-old girl
used to say, “Get a bref of air.” I
know how full the days are, for I
too am busy, but IT also know I am
stronger and can accomplish more
from this habit of mine. It will
take your mind from the monotony
of life; it will change your thoughts;
it will rest you. Another benefit that
will result from cutting your flowers

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lilies, the peonies, the exquisite irises
and the gorgeous popies are in
their glory, and when winter comes
again you will recall with thankful-
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the wild flowers, the little woodsy
blossoms, are at their best in the
simplest vases. Sometimes in ar-
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Usually a flower’s own foliage is .

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little fine wire. Fasten a few stems
together near the ends, which will
give support to your stems yet allow
them to gracefully separate near the
flowers. If the wire is wound too
far on the stems a stiff effect would
be obtained. If you have not used
wire you can have no idea what a
help it is. Often a refractory blos-
som, that simply will not go where
you wish, is made to obey by a tiny
bit of wire. I have brought to-day
some wire I had made for my church
work that I- might illustrate its
value. ;

To the fathers and mothers I
would suggest another use, that of
teaching the boys and girls to love
the flowers. It will bring them in
closer touch with nature, it will quick-
en and train their powers of observa-
tion, and the love formed in child-
hood will grow stronger with the
years and will be a source of happi-
ness all through life. If possible let
the children study them with a mag-
nifying glass that they may more
fully learn all the wonders of their
structure and of their delicate shad-
ings, and as they perceive the ab-
solute perfection of the tiniest flower
there will be a new reverence in their
hearts for the Creator.

The best use of cut flowers is
when they are the bearers of our
good wishes to those in gladness, and
when, as messengers of comfort, they
enter the sick room to give cheer
and life to the suffering, or when
death comes to the home they tell
more eloquently than any words of
ours of our desire to give strength
and sympathy.

To the real flower lover the abuse
of flowers seems incredible, but those
who do not care for flowers, or who
simply like them, do unintentionally
abuse them. Often flowers are abus-
ed by cutting them in the heat of the
day. While a few varieties may bear
this, as a rule flowers are more fra-
grant and last better if cut early in
the morning or toward night. The
poppy must be cut in the very early
morning and placed at once in water
to last even the day. I have kept
the splendid, gorgeous Oriental pop-
pies three days by cutting them at
five o’clock in the morning, when if
cut at nine or ten all their brilliancy
would have faded in an hour.

Other abuses are the neglect to
give plenty of fresh water, and to
give them a cool place at_ night.
Their lives are so short at best
that to hasten their fading by want
of care is an abuse. Especially in
winter, when flowers are considered
a luxury (although to some a neces-
sity), will one feel abundantly re-
paid by taking them at night from
their vases, clipping the stems and
placing them in a cool place in an
abundance of water.

One unconscious abuse is over-
crowding—allowing no opportunity
for the individuality of the flower.
I remember seeing a box of flowers
of many colors and all beautiful that
might have been arranged charming-
ly in half a dozen vases, but all were
crowded in one bowl without the
slightest regard for form or color.
The result was such that I wish to

 

especially emphasize these words,
Do not crowd your flowers. I have
found that with many people this
massing of flowers is arranging them.
It is true that sometimes when they
are to be seen from a distance this
may be the best way to make them
effective, but for your homes try the
simple arrangements, and while some
of your flower receptacles may re-
quire many flowers, endeavor to ar-
range them loosely, avoiding the
crowded effect.

If you have a slender vase place
in it one perfect rose and see its
grace and beauty.

You know with the Japanese, who
make a study of the decorative effect
of flowers, you will find a vase with
one flower, or a jar with the one
branch. Many do not realize how
beautiful branches are for decoration.
Really every apple orchard ought to
have at least one tree that yields
poor fruit, so that when in blossom
we may with clear consciences break
its branches, and I wish that when
the trees flame red and yellow you
would break a branch and place it
in your home. Next May, when the
dogwood is in flower, you must have
at least one of its exquisite branches.
Do not forget the branches must
be broken, not cut. The first time
I used dogwood the most of the
branches were cut and on those each
blossom drooped like a little bell,
but on the few broken branches each
blossom was like a star.

Another abuse is destructive cut-
ting—the cutting that ruins shrubs
and trees, and in the woodlands will
destroy varieties now becoming rare.
The mania for cutting can be grati-
fied with the wayside daisies and
with pansies, sweet peas and nastur-
tiums. All flowers that must be cut
and continually cut, but be merciful
and leave in peace our wild orchids
and arbutus, and in cutting from
trees and shrubs use judgment, that
it may be more a wise pruning than
ruthless destruction.

I think as the greatest use is to
have flowers give joy and comfort,
so the greatest abuse is when we
neglect to have them do the greatest
good, when we forget to pass on the
pleasure that is ours.

And with the giving of flowers
let there be the hearty sympathy,
the kindly look. May we each find
ever increasing interest in the use
of flowers, and remember that

“God might have bade the earth bring
forth

Enough for great and small,
The oak tree and the cedar tree,

Without a flower at all.

Our outward life requires them not—-

Then wherefore had they birth?
To minister delight to man,

To beautify the earth;

To comfort man, to whisper hope,

When e’er his faith is dim,

For who so careth for the flowers,
Will care much more for Him.”
_———_o-o-2__

Apple of Their Eyes.

The wind swept a cloud of dust
about them as they turned the corner

of the street.

“Did you get any dust in your eyes,

darling?” he asked fondly, holding
her closely to him as though to keep
the too eager wind away.

“Yes,” she murmured, searching for
her handkerchief.

“Which one, precious?”

“The right one, love. Did you get
anything in yours?” she asked anx-
iously, seeing his handkerchief ap-
pear.

“Yes, darling.

“Which eye, dearest?”

“The right one, love.”

“How sweet!” she exclaimed witha
glad light glowing in her well eye.
“Do you suppose, dearest heart, that
it could have been part of the same
piece of dust that got in our eyes,
darling?”

“T hope it was,”

”

he said, beaming
with one eye and wiping the other.

“Wouldn't it be sweet, dear?”

“Wouldn't it, love?”

And the wind howled around the
corner as though it was in pain, and
from the house three doors below a
dentist’s sign fell off into the street.

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FRAMEWORK OF TREES. smooth, downy or rough to the touch.
Every One Has Some Special and| It is interesting to find that the
Peculiar Beauty.* | history of a tree for several years

Almost every tree has some spe-| P@St can be told by studying the
scars along the bare stems.

cial and peculiar beauty which is

seen to best advantage in winter. The annual growth each year is

| marked by a circle of scars around

|

in summer by the fresh green of
their foliage.

The white birch is a large, graceful
tree 60 to 75 feet high, with wonder-
fully white bark splitting into thin
rough layers. The branches are
thicker and the buds larger than

it grows along the edge of woodlands
where the shade of other trees has
forced it to grow slender and tall in
reaching for light. The white birch
is really a large tree, however, and
often grows to an enormous | size
among the Southern hills, where it

The bark of most trees appears

more beautiful in winter than at any | . as hoa h ; 43
other time because the eye can take | ee ee

in all the details. The differences in |
the various families of trees, once |
these are understood, are marked |
enough to make family relationships |
easy to recognize at this season of |
the year.

The character of the bark rarely |
changes much on individuals of the |
same age. Each tree has definite |
traits of its own which distinguish |
it from every other tree, and by trac- |
ing individual characteristics in
branches, trunk, stems, buds and leaf |
scars we are able to identify every |
tree with certainty.

There are two distinct plans of
branching in trees: When the main |
trunk extends upward to the top, as
it does in the larch and other conical
trees, and when the main stem di-|
vides into many more or less equal |
divisions, as we find it in the Ameri- |
can elm and other spreading trees. |
The latter form is the most common |
among our deciduous trees. |

Branches grow from the auxiliary |
or lateral buds on the stem, continu- |
ing their growth every year by the}
development and unfolding of new}
buds, both terminal and _ lateral. |
When the growth is carried on by |
the terminal buds the tree is more)
apt to be regular in outline than |
when these are injured and killed and |
lateral buds develop the growth in- |
stead.

Branches vary in showing an up-
right, drooping or horizontal habit |
of growth, as we see them in the!
Lombardy poplar, weeping willow |
and tupelo, and within these divi- |
sions there are other contrasts. of |
rigidity and flexibility, with  differ-
ences of color and texture as well.

Apart from the general shape of
the tree the bark on the trunk and
branches is a constant help in identi-
fication. It is hard and smooth in
some trees, like that of the beech,
fissured into ridges like that of the
sugar maple, or peels off laterally as
in the white birch.

The little dots on young bark are
called lenticels. They are openings
for admitting air to the inner tissues.
Lenticels are conspicuous in the bark
of the birch.

The presence of thorns on_ the
trunk and branches of certain trees
helps to- distinguish them from others
and the clusters of dry fruit which
remain . hanging on some
through the winter are
means of identification.

Stems and twigs vary from the
finest, lightest sprays to the most
coarsely moulded ones—from the
delicate twigs of the black birch to
the stout shoots of the horse chest-
nut. Like larger branches their tips
either ascend, droop or grow at right
angles from the stem and may be

trees
another

 

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meeting of the Grand River Valley Horticultural
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| of the tree.

the stem which was left by the scales

the spring, and these scars mark each

| season’s growth for successive years

along the stem.

Besides these circles of scars there
are scars on each side of the stem
which were left by the leaves when
they fell in the autumn. These
scars differ distinctly in various spe-
cies and may be found narrow, tri-
angular, oval, heart-shaped, or horse-
shoe shaped, according to the species
They may be opposite
each other on the stem, as those of

ithe horse chestnut, maple and ash,

or the arrangemént may be alternate,
as that of the hickory, walnut and
oak.

In our climate the buds of trees
are formed in the summer, during
the season’s growth. The bud at the
top of the stem is called the terminal
bud; the buds in the axils of the leaf
scars are called auxiliary or lateral
buds. As a rule the terminal bud

carries on the growth of the tree and
‘the lateral buds furnish the

side
branches.

The following is a description ofa
few of our forest trees:

The horse chestnut is a large tree
with a pyramidal head. It has little
grace or beauty of outline in winter.
Its branches are stiff, the twigs are
coarse, ending bluntly with large ter-
minal buds, and the general shape is
too compact to be pleasing. The buds
and recent shoots are particularly in-
teresting, however, as every scaris
sharply defined and the buds areso
large we can see the inner structure
perfectly. The bundle scars are
plainly seen on the leaf scars and
above the leaf scars are lateral buds

ready to develop into a lateral
branch a little later. The circle of
scars at the base of each lateral

shoot was left by the scales of the
lateral buds of the year _ before.
There are one or two small unde-
veloped buds at the top of the leaf
scars which would carry on_ the
growth of the branch if anything
happened to injure the vigorous buds
at the top of the stems. The dots
on the bark are the lenticels.

The general shape of the sugar
or rock maple is erect with smooth,
clean branches. Among the differ-
ent characteristics of this tree in win-
ter two stand out conspicuously as
unfailing means of identification: the
sharp, pointed, brown buds and the
rough furrowed trunk with smooth
places between the fissures. When
young it can be distinguished at a
distance by its erect habit of growth
and general shapeliness, the main
trunk often extending up into the
tree, unbroken by divisions.

The birches are a family of exceed-
ingly graceful and attractive trees
and charm us quite as much in win-
ter by the color of their stems and

the delicacy of their twigs as they do,

seems to thrive best.
The wood of the white birch is
light, but it is hard and strong. It is

those of other birches, and the up-
per part of the twigs is hairy. The
buds are sticky and greener inside

than those of other  birches—less| used for making shoe lasts and shoe
silverly and soft. The leaf scars are pegs, spools, wood pulp and for fuel.
alternate. |The Indians use it for making

sledges, paddles, frames for snow
shoes and the handles of hatchets.
They also use the bark for making
canoes, wigwams and_ baskets, and
they make a drink from the sap of
the tree.

The chestnut is one of the largest
of our forest trees. The bark is dark,

In winter as at every other sea-
son of the year few trees surpass the
white birch for beauty and delicacy.
No other tree has a bark so shining-
ly white and even the snow is unable
to dim its purity. We usually think
of this tree as being fragile and deli-
cate, especially when we recall it as

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hard and rugged, with coarse ridges
on old trees. It has light brown
buds and alternate leaf scars. Re-
cent shoots are coarse and channel-
ed with two groves running down
from the base of each leaf scar, close-
ly set with white or gray dots. The
fruit is ripe in October.

At all times a giant among trees,
the chestnut seems, perhaps, most
remarkable in winter, when the mas-
sive trunk and lofty branches can
be fully appreciated. There is much
beauty in the bark of this tree, the
fissures sweeping boldly up and down
the trunk with broad, smooth spaces
between the furrows, giving a most
pleasing impression.

It is interesting to find that the
chestnut is one of the exceptions in
nature to the rule that every tree has
an unvarying mathematical arrange-
ment of leaves on the stem. This
regular distribution of leaves onthe
stem to economize space and light
is called phyllotaxy, and_ different
trees follow various systematic  ar-
rangements. When the leaves or leaf
scars are alternate on the stem, as
they are in those of the chestnut, the
arrangement is spiral and one leaf
follows another up the stem in ranks
of two, three, five or more in definite
order, according to the kind of tree.
In the chestnut, however, the phyl-
lotaxy is frequently variable in differ-
ent twigs of the same tree, and it
follows an unruly, wayward leaf ar-
rangement.

The wood of the chestnut is light,

soft, and not strong, but it is used

for making cheap furniture. It is

 

also made into rails, posts and rail-
road ties, as it is durable when used
in contact with the soil. The nuts
are sweet and edible and have great
market value. The trees bear fruit
when they are very young, and some
Western farmers find that orchards
of these trees bring better returns
than the same amount of land in
farm products.

The oaks are large trees of temper-
ate climates, and both in Europe and
America few trees have the same va-
ried and general usefulness. The ex-
traordinary strength in the great
horizontal branches, their breadth
and immense sweep, and the rugged
boldness of the trunk have long as-
sociated the oak with all that stands
for strength, duration and unswerv-
ing vitality.

An oak never seems out of place;
no matter whether we find it grow-
ing in unbroken forests, on a country
estate, in a-little garden, or by the
roadside, it always harmonizes with
its surroundings and adds to the com-
position of the landscape.

The white oak is a large tree 60 to
8a feet high, with a trunk often six
feet in diameter. The bark is light
gray; the recent shoots light reddish
or grayish brown; alternate leaf
scars; small round buds, smooth and
short, about as long as they are wide;
acorns in a shallow, rough cup, often
sweet and edible.

The white oak seems to figure in
one’s earliest associations with the
woods in winter. The sound of the

withered leaves rustling in the wind |

 

er and dreariness, and_ invariably
strikes the key note of the woods

on a bleak December day. Towards |

the end of winter the

leaves are!

blown away or fall off and then the |

beautiful ramifications and_ stalwart
limbs of the trees are fully revealed.
I have often noticed in the country
that when one large, old oak is found
growing in an open pasture there are
usually five or_six more of the same
size and age within a short distance.
This may be accounted for by the
fact that in the early New England

days these trees were in great de- |

mand for shipbuilding and farmers

waited for the most promising trees |

to reach maturity before selling them.
On some farms these oaks happened

tc escape the ax, and have not only)
outlived the men who spared them, |

but stand for landmarks now, long
after the farms themselves have been
deserted and forgotten.

The wood of the white oak is very
heavy and hard, and durable in con-
tact with the soil.

construction and interior finish of

buildings and in ship building, for |

making carriages, cabinets, agricul-
tural implements, baskets and for
fences and _ railroad ties. It also

makes excellent fire wood.
The elms are remarkable for the
massive strength of their trunks and

limbs and for the light delicacy of |

their small branches and twigs as we
see them against the sky in winter.
The American and English elms par-
ticularly are really more beautiful in
winter than in summer, when the

It is used inthe |

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|

the little branches is hidden by the
leaves. The elms are all long lived
trees and grow rapidly. They bear
transplanting and pruning better than
any Other tree and grow on almost
any kind of soil. If it were not for
the attacks of insects, to which the
elms seem peculiarly liable, no trees
would be more deserving of cultiva-
tion. Perhaps no other tree is so
strongly associated in our minds with
the beautiful old valley towns and
hillside villages of New England, and
to the elms they largely owe their
beauty.

The American elm stands absolute-
ly alone among trees for its especial
kind of beauty. No other tree com-
bines such strength and lofty stateli-
ness with so much fine work and
delicacy. Its trunk divides a_ short
distance from the ground into many
large which
stretch up high into the air and sup-
port the waving, drooping, curving
twigs and small branches.

It is interesting to find out how
many distinct shapes the American
elm takes. These are so varied that
many people think that each form is
but they are all

spreading branches,

a separate species,
different types of the same tree.

And so from the great outlines of
the trees against the sky to the little
scales of the buds on the stems we
marvel to find here, as in all nature,
order, law, consisting of mfinite va-
riety.

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Written for the Tradesman.

As a general thing the sophisticat-
ed woman appeals to a man as more
enjoyable as a companion than desir-
able as a wife. He may like to spend
his leisure hours in the society of a
woman who knows her world, but
when he marries he is apt to pick
out some gentle creature who has, at
least, the illusion of artless ignorance
about her, for there is no gainsaying
the fact that an impression prevails
among men that the less a_ wife
knows the better.

This explains the fascination of the

debutante, and the reason why men |
so often pass by the cultured, ele- |
gant, socially experienced woman of |
with |

their own set to fall in love
some rustic maiden, with whom their
marriages are as incongruous as the
union of the Sevres jar and the earth-
en pot. To men ignorance in wom-
an still means innocence and ab-
sence of opportunity, lack of desire,
when, in reality, they are as
apart as the poles.

Still this is a mistake that
almost universally make, and strange-

ly enough, the older they are and the

far

men

less excuse there is for their making |

such an error, the more apt they are
to fall into it. If an old bachelor

riably picks out some little girl just
out of the school room with the
aroma of bread and butter still about
her, instead of some woman of his
own age who has arrived at his own
cocktail state of experience, so to
speak.

The average man’s ideal of woman
is still Eve before she ate the apple,
not the Eves who refrain from eat-
ing apples because the fruit is bad
for their digestion, so when his de-
lighted gaze falls upon the ingenue
he says to himself: “Here is. the
modest little floweret I have been
looking for! She does not know any-
thing about admiration and adulation
like the splendid big roses that bloom
in the conservatories, and so I will
transplant her to the secluded shade
of my own home where she will be
perfectly satisfied just to shed her
perfume for me. Heaven defend me
from acquiring, for my own pleas-
ure, one of the prize winning flow-
ers that every man that comes along
has admired, for I apprehend that
that kind of a woman can not live
except in an atmosphere of perpetual
adulation, and I do not care for any
married belle in mine.”

Thereupon the wise man marries a
young girl during her first season in
society, firmly convinced that  be-
cause he is the first and only man
who has ever made love to her that
he will be the last and only. This
depends on circumstances. The girl
may be sufficiently in love with him
to never crave the admiration of any
other man, or she may be so situat-

 

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ed as to be cut off from it and so| picks out a woman who has been

safe, but the path to the divorce |
court is kept hot by wives who were |
married when they were mere chil-
dren, and before they found out how |
intoxicating is the draught of admir-
ation, and flattery, and lovemaking
that man offers to woman’s lips. If |

a woman acquires a taste for this af- |assure themselves of getting a do-

ter marriage God help her husband, |

for there is no cure for the married |

flirt. She may not be a bad woman, iry to get a home far oftener than |
or an actually immoral one, but her) women do.

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the depth of imbecility into which |
it will lead its victim.

If you will trace back the stories |
of the infidelity of wives half of the |
time you will find that the woman |
was married when she was_ very
young, before she had experienced |
the thrilling delight of listening toa |
man’s vow of deathless devotion, or |
had known the subtle sense of power |
with which a woman finds out that
she can sway men by her beauty or
her charm. Few husbands’ ever
make love to their wives, and so it
is the woman’s natural desire for this |
courtship and this adulation that she
has missed that leads her into seek-
ing it away from home and in for-
bidden paths.

Far otherwise is it with the woman
who has been a belle before she was
married. She has had her fill of
adulation and admiration from men, |
and it possesses none of the charms |
of novelty to her. She has heard |

moods and tenses until it is as weari-
some as a school exercise. She has
played at the game of flirtation until
it has palled upon her, and as a
married woman she would no more
think of finding amusement in carry-
ing on a surreptitious love affair than
Paderewski would think of grinding
out rag-time from a barrel organ. She
has had all she wanted. She is tired
of it. She has outgrown it. Above
all she has picked out the man she
prefers, after knowing many men,
and the woman who has been a flirt
before marriage may be depended
upon to hang up her bow and arrow
when she marches to the altar, and
never to indulge in the sport again.
An old negro woman once put this
matter pithily to me when, in speak-
ing of a frivolous matron, she made
this excuse for the flighty lady: “You
see, honey,” said the dusky philoso-
pher, “Miss Ma’y done married be-
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young, it’s got to come when she is
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gal time now.” A profound truth is
wrapped up in this homely axiom.
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ried woman, as a whole, is more
trustworthy than her continental sis-
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woman has had her girl time of
lovemaking, and flirtation, and free
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is utterly weary of the deadly round | was her promise of domesticity, con-
. . ° |
of social gayeties, and until the very | verted as soon as she reached town

sight of a restaurant fills him with |

loathing, and the glare of electricity
above the theater door makes him
want to run from it instead of into
it. In his picture of domestic bliss
he sees himself spending the evenings
in slippered ease by his own fireside,
and the mere thought of being drag-
ged about in a wife’s wake to balls,
and parties, and first nights, fills him
with such terror that he feels his
only safety lies in marrying some
woman who knows nothing of them.

Never was a more fatal error.
There no other woman in the
world who is so absolutely crazy for
every form of amusement as_ the
woman who has never known any
gayety and who all of her life has
been starving for it. She is like a
man dying of thirst who is suddenly
plunged into a river where he can
steep’ himself to the lips. Perhaps
she has never been to a ball before,
and the intoxication of dancing be-
comes a frenzy with her that makes
her mad to go to every party to
which she is invited. Perhaps she
has never been to a restaurant before,
and the golden streets of the New Je-

is

rusalem do not appear so desirable |

to her eyes as to eat in a gilded pub-
lic dining room. Perhaps she has
never been to a five o’clock tea be-
fore, and the inane chatter of wom-
en’s tongues at a reception is like the
music of the spheres of which she
can never get enough. I have seen
a country bred wife, whose most po-

 

tent charm in her husband’s’ eyes!

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into the most insatiable of theater
fiends, and restaurant goers, and a
gad-about who counted every min-
lost that she had to spend
her own home, and who could never
by any stretch of the imagination
understand why her husband prefer-
red to have dinner at home and spend
an evening in the library, when he
might be eating at a table d’ hote
down town and going to see a musi-
cal extravaganza.

Nor is there any social climber
equal to the woman who has always

ute in

sat at the foot of the ladder and en-
vied the women who were perched
on the top rung. Almost without
exception the women in-
sane extravagance we hear, and who
bankrupt their husbands trying to
break into society by means of bi-
zarre entertainments
feature gold-plaited, are women
who are not used to society, and to
whom seeing their names in the so-
ciety column of the papers is a new
and undiluted joy of which they can
not get enough.

of whose

whose every

is

Here, too, it is the woman who has
had who is the safe matrimonial
chance for a man. The girl who has
been in society all her life, who has
been to parties and balls and theaters
until they have lost all charm otf
novelty, is glad enough to settle
down to domesticity, and to find her
pleasures inside of her home instead
of without it. To the girl who
knows her Europe as she does her
native town every excursion does not

 

offer a temptation; having seen the!
best the stage affords she does not |
yearn to see every silly play that is |
put on the boards; having wearied of
balls and parties she is glad to turn
from them to the abiding pleasures |
of old books and old friends. Hav- |
ing also a settled position in society
not feel it necessary to |
keep herself before the public by,
spectacular stunts that get her name |
in the newspapers.
often hear it woman |
that she has almost dropped out of |
society since her marriage, but we |
can depend upon it that she is mak- |
ing some man a good wife, and
mighty happy.

she does

This is why we |

said of some

Pretty much the same rule will be
found to apply to women and econo-

my. Most men are afraid to marry a |

: j : |
girl who has been raised rich lest
she be extravagant, and there is a/|

theory that if a man wants a saving
and helpful wife he should marry a
poor girl. Quite the reverse of this
is generally true. To the girl who
has never had any money at all to |
spend the two or three thousand |
dollars that her husband earns seems |
as unending as the wealth of
Rockefeller and she is generally reck- |
less in throwing it away, whereas to |
the girl who has’ been used to!
thousands instead of hundreds, the
husband’s small income seems so lit-
tle that she feels that she must save
every cent. Besides this, rich people
are habitually better economists, and
know better how to get the worth
of their money than poor people do
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For Safety.
First Citizen—It is not enough that
The law should
enforce a regular system of signals
that all can understand.

Second Citizen—-What would you
suggest?
First Citizen—Well, I don’t know

exactly, but it might be something
like this: “stand still; two
rings, “dodge to the right;”
rings, “dive to the left;” four rings,
“jump straight up and I'll run under
five rings, “turn a back hand-
spring and land behind me,” and so
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One ring,
three

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Keep Out of a Business You Don’t
Understand.

Speaking on the subject of under-
standing the shoe business before go-
ing into it reminds me of a case that
came under my personal observation
and with which I was closely asso-
ciated. The party I have in mind
knew just about as much about the
shoe business as he did air ships and
the results of his venture showed
that my theory is correct—every man
to his business.

Mr. F. was a dry goods drummer |
and was considered a successful one. |

He had traveled for a big St. Louis
house for several years, owned his
own property in a thriving Southern
Illinois town, had a nice bank ac-
count, was giving his children a
good education and showed every
evidence of being in a prosperous
condition, but his love of home and
family caused him to seek other busi-
ness where he could be with them
more.
from his own fireside,” and he began
to watch the “business chances” in

- the big newspapers in the hope of |

landing on something that would be
more congenial than traveling.

In 1897, in one of the most pros-
perous cities in Central Illinois a
gentleman had retired from the shoe
business—by request of his creditors.
A couple of years previous he was
the most popular shoe man in town,
had the carriage trade and did a big
business in the A’s and AA’s, but
he couldn’t stand prosperity, so-
ciety’s demands on his time caused
him to neglect his business and it
went down so low that one morning
the sheriff came down and took pos-
session. My friend was not easily
dismayed, however, and managed to
make a settlement with his creditors.
He held an assignee’s sale which was
a hummer, and just as he was ready
to make the last payment on his in-
debtedness the bank in which he de-
posited failed. This put him _ out
good and proper and his creditors
demanded what was left of the stock.

About this time a Mr. M., who lived
in the same town with Mr. F., ap-
peared on the scene. Mr. M. was a
very wise man, and made a good liv-
ing and money besides, by watching
for good things and taking advantage
of people who had been unfortunate
in business and needed assistance. He
furnished the money to pay off the
creditors and then traded a farm
which he didn’t own, to the popular
shoe man for what was left of the
stock, which was invoiced. He al-
lowed him 60 cents on the dollar for
it which was 30 cents more than it
was worth, and as it invoiced about
$9,000, he paid him $5,400 (in a
farm he didn’t own).

He then went to his friend and
neighbor, Mr. F., and told him what
a good thing he had and wanted to
jet him in on it. He explained that
he had gotten hold of a $9,000 shoe

He “never cared to wander |

 

stock for $5,400 and would sell him
half of it for $2,700. He went onto
tell him that he could move the stock
down where they lived, buy some
new stuff to go with it, and he could
then quit traveling and be at home
with his family. Mr. F. thought it
would be a capital idea, and immedi-
ately got on the train with Mr. M.
and up to that town they went to
inspect the stock of shoes, from
which they both expected so much.

After looking over the stock (he
might as well have been looking over
the town) he said he would take it,
and accordingly, gave Mr. M. his
check for $2,700.

He was very much elated over the
deal and commenced to lay plans as
to how he was going to run it. The
first problem which presented itself
was moving it about 100 miles and
getting it in shape for sale. He did
not know a right from a left and can-
didly admitted as much, and_ the
problem of getting it set up after
reaching its destination was a serious
one, but he _ finally overcame that
by getting me to go down with him
and take charge of the proceedings.

That being settled he commenced
to tell us about the clerk he intend-
ed to hire if he could get him. We
enquired what he was doing at the
present time and he replied that he
“was driving an ice wagon.” “He’s
never had any shoe experience,” said
he, “but he’s the most popular fel-
low in town and they can’s have any
kind of doings in town from an ice
cream supper to a wedding without
having Harvey Duff there.” We
other clerks looked at each other in
amazement. We couldn’t figure out
how Mr. F. and Harvey Duff could
make a success of the shoe business
when old experienced men were go-
ing under.

One thing in Mr. Duff’s favor was
that he was a good fellow at all func-
tions. There’s nothing like havinga
clerk that is a mixer and whose pres-
ence is indispensable at all social
gatherings. Those qualities, in con-
nection with a reasonable knowedge
of the shoe business, makes an ideal
clerk, but we were a little apprehen-
sive about Mr. F. and Mr. Duff mak-
ing a success of the business, as
neither one had ever sold a pair of
shoes in his life. For some reason
or other Mr. Duff’s services were not
engaged and we instantly came to the
conclusion that he’d “rather be the
ice man.”

Another young man was engaged,
however, who was very popular in the
town, and we spent the first few
days getting the stock in shape.
Shoes were unpacked and put in new
cartons, where the old ones’ were
broken, and arranged on the shelf in
a systematic manner. Oscar, the new
clerk, and I did the work while Mr.
F. looked on and got all the pointers
he could. He would say to me,
“Now Mc, you just order me and
Oscar around as if you owned the
store, and don’t you do a thing but
boss.” That was a good indication to
start with, and we were inclined to
encourage it. He and Oscar were
very apt pupils and in a few days we
were ready to open up for business.

I suggested to Mr. F. that he take
about a half-page in the local paper
to announce his new business. I did
not exactly say a half-page, but sup-
posed, of course, he would use that
much. He commissioned me to write

| up the advertisement, which I did and
| I expected it to occupy a good part
of one page, but when the paper came
out my effusion with which I had
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paper in a space of about four inches
in one column! I was greatly disap-
pointed, but concluded that I ought
to stand it if he could.

The Opening(?) was a failure, not
more than eighteen or twenty pairs
of shoes being sold all day. Mr. F.
and Oscar ‘sailed in and helped all
they could and Oscar made a good
impression on the trade and gave
promise of developing into a good
salesman. He could meet any ordi-
nary objection with ease and could
make them think it fit whether it did
or not.

Two very charming young ladies
came in and as Mr. F. was well ac-
quainted with them he went forth to
wait on them. After exchanging
pleasantries for a few minutes one
of them said, “Mr. F., I wish to look
at a pair of boots, No. 3% C.” Now
Mr. F. had never heard them called
“boots” before and he was non-pluss-
ed, however he didn’t want to show
his ignorance. His idea of a boot
was some kind of a contraption which
fitted over the foot and had a gener-
ous top to it and what did he do but
go and get a pair of leggins and hold
them up to the amazed young lady
and asked if that was what was want-
ed! Oscar and I saw the proceedings
and while we could not contain our
risibles, we felt very sorry for Mr.
F. It is needless to say the young
lady bought no “boots” in that store.

Instead of sorting out his stock be-
fore placing it on sale, he put it all
in together. He could have gotten
regular price for some of it, as it was
in good condition, and then when he
was obliged to cut and slash on
most of it he would have averaged
up better, but his instructions to us
was to sell it all at cost—Drygoods-
man.

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Retailers Essential to the Distribu-
tion of Shoes.

The mail order and _ catalogue
houses are availing themselves. of
every opportunity to extend their

trade throughout the country. Since
the institution of the free mail de-
livery system the efforts of the large
city houses to eliminate the retailer
and sell shoes directly to the consum-
er, have been greatly facilitated.

It would be well at this time for
every one connected with the trade
to take some thought of the trend of
affairs and consider broadly whether
it is expedient to attempt to eliminate
the retailer. A very little examina-
tion into the question will suffice to
demonstrate that the retail dealer is
the vital factor in the distribution of
almost every commodity. As a mat-
ter of fact it is not possible for the
manufacturer or wholesaler to dis-
pense with the services of the re-
tailer. Throughout the country
where agriculture is the basis of
wealth, it is impossible to get along
without credit. In country commu-
nities the consumer looks to the
retailer for credit and the retailer in
turn gets a line of credit from the
jobber or manufacturer. This is the
legitimate and established system of
trading. The consumer who ignores
the retailer and orders direct from a
catalogue house is to that extent in-

 

juring the retailer in his neighbor- |
hood, and is attempting to destroy a
credit system of trading which may |
be depended upon to carry him over
the between-crop period when money |
is scarce.

There is really no excuse for ig- |
noring the neighborhood retailer |
when purchasing shoes. Asa matter |
of fact the shoe retailer if he is prop- |
erly supported by his neighborhood,
can sell shoes of as good quality and
at as low prices as any mail order
house in the country. Then again
shoes can never be bought satisfac-
torily without seeing them and try-
ing them on. It is a notorious fact
that shoe cuts can be made to make
the poorest shoe look equal to the
best. The difference between fine
leather and inferior stock and_ be-
tween good workmanship and faulty |
construction can only be distinguish-
ed by looking at the shoes and try-
ing them on.

It would be well for retail mer-
chants if they would organize asso-
ciations and send out literature,
dwelling upon the points above made.
The consumers of any given locality
will really serve their best interests
by confining their purchases to the
retail dealers in their vicinity. Very
little argument should be necessary to
demonstrate to any practical farmer
the advantage of having a thriving,
prosperous town within driving dis-
tance. The only way a_ country
town can be made prosperous is by

the people in the vicinity making
their purchases there., There are
persons, of course, who are so

thoughtless and illogical that they
will in good times when money is
plentiful send their cash hundreds of
miles to mail order and catalogue
houses and then atfer a crop failure
when money is scarce will grumble
and repine because their neighbor-
hood retailer is not in a position to
extend them a line of credit. + All
other things being equal, the finan-
cial strength of a-retail store de-
pends upon the support given it by
purchasers in the neighborhood. Re-
tail dealers everywhere should get
together and in an organized capaci-
ty press these truths home to the
consumers in their vicinity.—Shoe

Trade Journal.
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Vanity Fair.

Dress has made a maniac of more
than one married man.

Don’t assume that Sweet Sixteen’s
mind is as transparent as her dress.

Some women don’t adopt tiny rose-
buds and muslin until they are well
past forty.

Fine clothes were ‘first devised by
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It is natural to assume that women
who affect cherry millinery must have
a predilection toward the truth.

Don’t judge a dress by the tag;
many forgeries are being perpetrated.

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much good matrimonial timber.

Crusoe-like, a woman is seized with
a panic of fear when first she discov-
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heart.

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

ESTIMATES OF POPULATION.

Municipal Pride Versus Cold Mathe-
matics.

The Director of the Census _ re-
cently issued a bulletin giving the
official estimate of the population of
the cities of the United States, and
thereby brought down upon his head
a delugs of wrath from the press of
those cities—and that means most
cities—in which the estimate of the
Census Office failed to correspond
with local estimates, based on the
names in the directory. Director
North probably knew what to expect,
but an official estimate seeming to be
necessary, he proceeded to the dis-

 

soldier, when ordered, attacks the
enemy’s batteries. So many calcu-
lations are based on population that
public convenience requires some
method of computation in intercensal
years which shall be uniform for the

 

United States. Without that, statis-
tics of mortality, for example, or of |
public indebtedness or taxation, will |
not be comparable and will often be)
very misleading. Applications for
charters for national banks are _fre-
quently received from places not
shown by the last census to have the
required population, and some uni-
form method must be adopted upon
which to pass upon the applications.

The Census Office does not pre-
tend that there is any method of as-
certaining population other than that
of actual enumeration as_ practiced |
every ten years. Some cities and
some sections are growing
faster than others, and any uniform
computation based upon the _ last
enumeration—which is the only pos-
sible base—must results too
large in some cases and too small in
others. Immigration varies greatly
in different decades, and_ hitherto
there have been’ extensive move-
menst of population within the coun-
try from one section to another. The
birth rate also varies more or less,
and the mortality rates vary still
more.

always

give

There are all sorts of sources of
error in any uniform method of
computing population in intercensal
years, and yet these always to a cer-
tain extent balance each other, so
that for the whole country the re-
sults will be sufficiently accurate for
purposes of general statistics while
they may be quite out of the way in
the case of cities or sections which
may be growing abnormally or los-
ing their surplus population. In de-
termining the method to be employed
the Census Office was guided, like
Patrick Henry, by the lamp of ex-
perience. It was discovered by ex-
amination that if, during the decade
1890-1900, an annual official estimate
had been made on the basis of add-
ing, each year, one-tenth the total
gain of the previous decade, the esti-
mated population in 1900 would have
been 75,414,181, while the actual pop-
ulation found by the enumerators
was 75,904,575—an error of only
three-fourths of I per cent. This is
certainly close enough for practical
purposes, and the Census Office

 

therefore assumes that the popula-

tion is increasing now in the ratio
of the increase of the last decade.
The Director of the Census believes
that this method will give very ac-
curate results in all well-settled com-
munities, while, as stated in the bul-
letin, they will be too small for lo-
calities experiencing unusual growth.
As there is no way except actual
enumeration—which is impossible—
to get the correct population in these
exceptional cases, those _ interested
will have to content themselves with
such guesses as they can devise, bas-
ed on multiplication of the registered
voters, the number of school children,
or the names in the directory by
some assumed number which they
find to give satisfactory results. Such
methods, however, have this disad-
vantage, that the results, being inva-
riably much too large—no estimates
being made except with a multiplier
sure to produce a good showing—
there is always an uncomfortable
setback when the actual enumeration
is made in the census year.

It is difficult to see why the people

| of any city should care whether it

was large or small, or growing rapid-
Iv or slowly. Of course, when a city
is thought to be-_growing fast own-
ers of real estate may be able to sell
land for more than it is really worth,

| while if it is not thought to be grow-
'ing buyers may be able to get good

bargains. It would appear that from

| the standpoint of the public one was

as desirable as the other. We do
not know why public sympathy
should always be with the seller in
such cases. Whether, however, one
can understand it or not, and regard-
less of absurdities which analysis
might disclose, there is no question
whatever that municipal pride inthe
growth of one’s city does exist in
this country in a very high degree. It
seems to be bred in the bone and is
the result of the spirit of specula-
tion which has been more marked
in this country than elsewhere, be-
cause our growth has been’ more
rapid.

It is not, however, necessary, and
perhaps not even desirable, to criti-
cise the Director of the Census be-
cause the figures of his arithmetic do
not harmonize with the figures of our
imagination. His figures are good for
his purpose, and ours are good for
our purpose. The truth is sure to
come out in the end, and ten years
roll around a good deal quicker than
many of us wish they did. If we are
all busily employed, if we see new
buildings going up all about us, and
occupied as soon as built; if wages,
salaries, interests and profits are sat-
isfactory and come regularly in, then,
and in that case, as the lawyers say,
we are evidently prosperous and have
reason to be proud and happy, what-
ever stories the Census Office may
set afloat about our population.

Frank Stowell.
———~22>—__

Robbing Peter To Pay Paul.

“James, dear.”

“Yes?”

“I must have some money to-day.”

“What for?”

“For the grocer.”

“I gave you the money for the
grocer yesterday.”

“But I used that to pay the meat
man.”

“The meat man?
last week.”

“No, dear, I took that money to
pay for the groceries we bought week
before last.”

“How much is the grocer’s bill this
week?”

“Five dollars.”

“Take it out of my _ insurance
money. I can stand the company off
thirty days.”

“But I have used the insurance
money, dear, to pay the rent.”

“Rent?”

“Yes, dear, the January rent. The
February rent is due to-morrow.”

“Can’t we get the landlord to wait
until the end of the month?”

“He does now, James. The Janu-
ary rent was really the December
rent, you know.”

—— 27.22

You paid him

Every time you ask extension of
time it hurts your credit, not only
with the one of whom you ask it,
but others. They soon learn of it. Do
not buy beyond your ability to pay.

 

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BEAUTY IN GROUNDS.

As Exemplified in the Home of the
Writer.*

Mr. Martin has asked me to give
you the story of some home grounds
on College avenue where flowering
shrubs have been used freely and
with increasing pleasure to the peo-
ple who live in the house and, to
judge by the enthusiastic expressions
of friends, to those who pass on the
street. The lot was not attractive un-
til it had been filled nearly twenty
feet. Indeed, some one asked why
that swamp had been purchased, but
the view in every direction, especial-
ly across the street, where one look-
ed into what was almost a forest
which concealed the houses, was most
delightful. The lot contained only
sand and weeds and possibilities the
first of September, 1894, when work
was commenced on the house. The
building site was considered very
important and two friends, an archi-
tech and a landscape gardener, were
called in consultation. The distance
from the street was decided upon,
just enough space being left upon
the north side for a driveway, leav-
ing seventy-five or eighty feet south
of the house. The lot is on the
west side of the street, 200 feet deep,
and about 150 feet front, and many
were the expressions of dissatisfac-
tion as the building grew. People
thought the house too low, too plain,
and it was even called ugly. Every-
one said it looked like an old house,

 

 

*Paper read by Mrs. Julia L. Fletcher
at June meeting of the Grand River
Valley Horticultural Society.

 

which the owners always regarded
as greatly in its favor. An irregular
belt of shrubs was planned for the
edges of the lot and many were
planted that fall. Early in the spring
the grading was done and the land-
scape friend, by what seemed almost
a miracle to the uninitiated, raised the
house at least four feet by sloping
away the ground from it in a restful,
beautiful curve. A plea for flower-
ing shrubs would hardly seem neces-
sary now, but nine years ago they
had a great many enemies, besides
their natural pests.

Is it an entirely money-getting age
when girls awaken their parents at
4 o'clock in the morning to hear
the whippoorwill, and busy men
give up days and weeks of their val-
uable time to help educate the peo-
ple in regard to the beautiful things
of this world? What can be more
delightful than the blossoming of the
flowering quince, sometimes called
firebush, in the early spring, or the
prompt forsythia with its golden bells,
or the spirea with its mass of snow,
of which it seems needless to speak
when there are so many evidences
of its growing popularity?

To me even one shrub is a redeem-
ing feature and a saving grace, but
many were the criticisms of the
“scrubs,” as they were often called
by a maid in the house. Hardly a
good word was heard. People said
they reminded one of a nursery, and
a great many preferred plain green
grass. Nevertheless, the planting
went on. Two or three experiments
proved failures. Pepperidge trees

 

would not grow under the shadow of
some magnificent elms which were
in the street. Choke cherries would
not thrive in the shadow of the
house. The north side of the house
was a puzzle; in fact, is yet some-
what. But for these disappointments
there were a_ hundred _ successes.
Native thorns were brought from
the woods, and have apparently been
very happy since coming to the
city. Pine trees were brought as a
screen for a neighbor’s barn and, as
a background for red dogwood, make
a beautiful picture in winter or sum-
mer. The bush honeysuckle with its
early pink or yellow flowers, and its
pretty berries later on, is always a
pleasure, and the dwarf  barberry
which looks well all the year, but is
gorgeously colored in the autumn,
is a constant delight. The European
barberries and the purple leaf bar-
berries with their yellow flowers

which develop into the beautiful red |

berries that last all winter (unless
perchance they are picked by the
passerby) you are all familiar with. I
have heard that these lovely berries
make delicious jelly, but as a friend
said years ago, “I should think you
would want to make it from some
other people’s barberries.” Not so,
however, with Japan quinces, which
make fine jelly and marmalade eith-
er alone or in combination with ap-
ples. For years the fruit was left
on the ground to rot, as the people
were ignorant of its value, but now
no quince is wasted.

Some of the most - satisfactory
planting is done around a large en-

 

closed porch on the south side, where
the fragrance of the flowering cur-
rant and sweet brier is very notice-
able, even in the second story.

I have not spoken of the many va-
rieties of lilacs nor of the June ber-
ries and red buds, which come so
early, nor of the wild flowers grow-
ing under the pines in their natural
environment.

The shrubs need care the first year
or two, hoeing being very necessary,
but afterwards they do very well
alone, although, of course, like so
many other things, a little care and
pruning of dead wood more than re-
pay the trouble by increased bloom
and grace of form.

As the shrubs are arranged, the
earliest blossoms are near the street
and about the house. When they are
gone the syringas come and then the
deutzias, and later on the altheas
and colutea. There is a lack of blos-
soms during July and part of August
on the grounds of which I am speak-
ing, but a crimson spirea is very at-
tractive at that time. And there are
many others if one takes the pains
tc. hunt them up.

To speak of the money side, no
amount spent in the house can give
as much pleasure to everybody asa
few dollars expended in shrubs and
plants—.an investment which _ in-
creases in value as the years pass.

I hope you may all derive as much
pieasure from your grounds as those
who live in the home I have describ-
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facetiously calls their Epping Forest.

 

 

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STORE AND PAPER.

How They Co-Operated to Their Mu-
tual Advantage.

I am a firm believer in co-opera-
tion.

Yes, sir, I believe that many a man
who is to-day running one of these
measly little John-Jones-dealer-in-
boots- shoes- caps- hats- and- general-
provision stores, where “Uncle Josh”
sits down on a barrel of pickles to
relieve his system of tobacco juice
and distributes it lavishly around on
cracker boxes, sugar sacks, floor and
stove with equal favor, could be a
merchant of some prominence. But
he must broaden out a bit and try to
licl,. some other fellow instead of let-
ting his skin become so tough and
tight that he can not take a long
breath without feeling that he is ab-
sorbing too much of the aroma from
the Mocha and Java cask.

A number of years ago I was bun-
dle-wrapper in a Western store that
had an advertising manager who was
the “whole thing.”

For short we called him “Old
Sous” with no little reverence, and I
don’t believe there was a fellow in
the store but what would have felt
highly honored had “Sous” asked him
to do a favor.

“Sous” and I got along together
finely, and one night when he asked
if I didn‘t want to help him write an
advertisement, you should have seen
me swell up. Why, I. almost split
my coat.

I must have written a beaut, be-
cause when I came back from the
cigar store with a handful of “cracker-
jacks,” “Sous’” favorite smokes, he
had it cut to pieces and rewrote about
seven-eighths of it.

A year or two after that “Sous”
got me a job as pencil-pusher in the
swellest store in a thriving Hoosier
county seat of about’ twenty-five
thousand.

There were three dailies in the
town, with a combined circulation
less than one should have had, and
that was largely of the waste-basket
variety.

Outside of the personals, society
happenings and an occasional local
story concerning some casuality_ or
special event, the news had about as
much ring to it as a cracked bell,
while the advertisements were run for
weeks and months without change.

I never worked quite so hard in my
life, not even when I was the “dev-
il” in a printshop, to start dollars to
roll into my employer’s till, but they
wouldn’t start.

I soon learned that it’s just as im-
portant to get advertisements circu-
lated as it is to write them; but how
I was to do it was the question that
bothered me.

“Everything comes to him who
waits” must have been the motto of
the evening issue, for I never saw
such a patient bunch, from the editor
down to the office-boy, and when I
suggested that we double our rate
and change copy every day, it almost
waked the manager.

He said that the old way, allowing
but one change a week, would be
more satisfactory and a good deal

  

 

 

more profitable to the publishers than
to give us the privilege of changing
daily.

The fact of the matter was, a lot
of politicians controlled the sheet and
the editorial columns commandeda
good, round price for representing
them to the community as shining
lights, consequently the advertising
was a secondary consideration.

The town needed a newspaper that
would be of interest to the general
public and of value to the merchants
as an advertising medium a good deal
more than a factional organ, and I
felt that it was up to yours truly to
butt in and do a little converting on
the Q. T.

T tried to figure out how to get
into the orchestra, where I could get
a swat at the organ once in a while,
btu my figuring was all subtraction.

When I get through, if you don’t
think that I did a wise thing when I
left the whole affair to another, and
if you don’t think that a woman isa
better diplomat in some things than
a man, you'd better keep your thinks
to yourself, for in this case the suc-
cess of a paper, and its value to the
merchants are the result of a bright,
modest little maiden’s untiring ef-
forts.

She has so much common sense
and so many practical ideas that any
fellow would feel mighty lucky if he
had a chance to share part of them.

On one of those cold, drizzly morn-
ings this little lady came into the
store and asked one of the girls at
the notion counter if she could tell
her something about the new things
that were going to be worn by the
fair sex, as she had just started to do
the society for the evening paper, and
wanted to do a little extra stunt.

I had not met her, but it didn’t
take me over half a minute to get
busy. b

She told me that on account of my
being such a rustic-looking Western-
er with an ice-chest-like disposition
I might drop the Miss and add “is”
to her name.

My heart bounded so fast that I
couldn’t keep the blood pumped out
of my face and I guess Lloydie must
have noticed it, for she called me-an
Indian.

When I offered to give her a
bunch of periodicals from which to
gather data she thanked me so many
times that I couldn’t count them;
I’m pretty sure the number was suffi-
cient to pay the debt, though.

The next day Lloydie’s talk arous-
ed more interest than anything else
in the paper, and they had to run off
several hundred extras.

The way she jollied people up and
slipped in a fashion hint here and
there was enough to turn a literary
genius green with envy.

Whenever something new came in
I'd tip it off to Lloydie and she would
ring it in on the society page; then I
followed with an appropriate adver-
tisement.

The scheme worked like a charm
and by the end of the year the paper
had more than doubled its circula-
tion, as well as its advertising rates,
and the way people came flocking into

 

the store reminded one of a camp-
meeting.

To-day Lloydie is filling one of the
most important places on the staff of
the paper which she worked so hard
to elevate, and there isn’t a business
man of any consequence in the town
but what will tell you that she is a
queen. David Crichton.

—~-2s——_
Use and Abuse of the Bargain Table.

The “bargain” table, which only a
few short years ago was tabooed in
many good stores as a deteriorating
influence on the trade, has now not
only overcome this prejudice but has
developed from the mere table into
what is called the “bargain depart-
ment.” In fact, this department has
now become recognized as a neces-
sary adjunct in nearly every enter-
prising store, small or large. Where
space permits, a section of the store,
usually the basement, is set apart for
“bargain” offerings of every descrip-
tion. Where space is too limited a
“bargain table” or counter is necessi-
tated.

In every store, no matter how care-
fully conducted, or how conserva-
tively the buying is done, some goods
will be found in stock that can not
be sold in the regular way. They
may be out of style, a little damaged,
or contain some flaw unobserved at
the time of arrival. But whatever the
reason, they are undesirable goods,
and the sooner they are out of stock,
the better. They not only take up
shelf room but become less and less
salable the longer they are kept.

Why not the “bargain table?” Sure-
ly a most sensible solution to a
most annoying problem. Somehow
there is something in the word “bar-
gain” that appeals to nine shoppers
out of ten—be they men or women—
and which leads them in spite of
their better judgment to purchase ar-
ticles at “bargain” prices that under
ordinary circumstances they would
not even look at.

However, in order to make this
department profitable, it will not do
to merely make it a clearing place
for damaged or unsalable_ goods.
These are not sufficient bargains, no

/matter how low you put the price,

to prove a permanent drawing card.
What you want to do is to build up
a reputation for low prices and good
values for this particular part of the
store. It would be well to add a line
of staples which you can sell a trifle
lower than the usual price and a line
of popular-priced goods would not be
amiss here, either. On these latter
you could make up some of the profit
which you have to forego on the
staples, and yet retain the “bargain”
reputation. Keep a lookout for job
lots and special offers. They will

serve to replenish the stock gleaned |-

from the odds and ends found unde-
sirable in the regular departments.
But be sure that your offers are
genuine. Let them be bargains in
the true sense. of the word. Don’t
attempt to sell an article for the same
price that you sell it in the regular
department and pretend that it is an
unusual bargain. The customer may
have. priced it upstairs before she

 

came to this counter. And if you
offer damaged goods even at a very
low price be sure that the customer
knows it is damaged before she buys
it. Otherwise it is likely to act like
a boomerang, coming back at you
with more force than it took to get
rid of it. Don’t make the bargain
table a receptacle for trash. It was
never meant to be that. “Bargain”
means extraordinary values. It is
only by such values that you can
hope to make this department a
much-talked-of, much-sought-after
place in the shopping world. And
don’t for a moment think that the
trade attracted by this department is
going to confine all its shopping there.
The balance of the store will benefit
by it far more than you surmise. Be-
sides, the advertising you get out of
it from those that have already tested.
the good values is also worthy of
more than a little consideration.

—_+-->___—_
Sovereign Remedy for Man.

One may see on every hand indica-
tions that appendicitis has become
one of the most fashionable of fads.

A malady of recent discovery, it
seems to have spread with the swift-
ness of the plague and to have gath-
ered its victims into the hospitals by
uncounted thousands.

Scarcely a neighborhood or social
circle but has one or more of its
members in a hospital being relieved
of the troublesome vermiform appen-
dix, and fortunate is the man or wom-

an—usually the woman—who = es-
capes with only one operation.
Wise in his generation was_ the

man who, when picked up _ uncon-
scious on the street and taken to a
hospital, was found to have had
tattooed on his breast these words:
“Don’t operate for appendicitis—had
appendix removed three times.”

It is a strange fact, wholly inexpli-
cable to the lay mind, that operations
for appendicitis seem to be consid-
ered imperative only in cases. of
wealthy people. And it has _fre-
quently been observed that in propor-
tion to the money people have to
spend for operations the necessity
for operations increases. The poor
man is permitted to get along very
well with pills. This is one of ~ the
advantages of poverty.

If the sum-total of the world’s best
philosophy as related to health means
anything it is this—that activity of
body and mind is the best preventive
and the most sovereign remedy for
disease.

The man who walks and hustles can
laugh at the doctors, and the woman
who discharges her servants and
goes into the kitchen as her mother
did will find neither time nor cause
to go to a hospital.

——---~.
One Balances the Other.

“My words don’t seem to have
much weight,” protested the young
wife during an argument at _ the
breakfast table.

“Never mind, my dear,” rejoined
the brutal other half, “your biscuit
more than make up for the short-
age.”

—_ 2+
If the shoe fits you, that’s a sure
sign you could wear a size smaller.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 35

 

 

No Statement made in the interest of

SAPOLIO

has EVER been disproved by the public or the trade.

The housekeeper has for many years depended upon Sapolio as a household cleanser, and has
bought it from a satisfied retailer, who, in turn, got it from a protected wholesaler.

NOW we offer to the trade and the public

HAND SAPOLIO

It can be depended upon with the same confidence—by the Dealer because its worth, made
known by our wide advertising, will sell it; and by the Consumer, because of our guarantee that it is
the best, purest, safest and most satisfactory toilet soap in existence.

Every corner of the country shall know the worth of Hand Sapolio. Already, where it has
been fully introduced, it is rivalling its long-known namesake, Sapolio—our advertising shall not
cease until it is equally popular.

Have you had ONE call? That is but the warning! We will send you more in ever-increas-
ing numbers. See that you stock it promptly before your rivals wrest from you the reputation of being
the leading grocer in town.

If you are selling Sapolio you can double your sales by stocking Hand Sapolio. If you have
not yet stocked either, delay no longer—satisfy your customers with both. A quarter-gross box of
each should not cost you over $5.00 in all, and should retail at $7.20.

~ORDER FROM YOUR JOBBER.

1. | ENOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO.

NEW YORK.

 

   

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Comparative Advantages of Pull and
Hard Work.
Written for the Tradesman.

They were both working for the
same house; both were desirous of
climbing for the higher position as
well as the higher salary; both were
from out of town and as different
from each other as the East is from
the West, where the home of each
is respectively located. One was town
born and bred on the Nebraska
prairies; the other’s first breath was
breathed on the breeze-swept plains
of Wyoming. The same_ impulse
that, years before, had forced their
fathers and mothers from far-off New
England had brought the young fel-
lows to Denver, and there chance had
made them fellow-workers in one of
the up-to-date commercial houses of
that thrifty, go-ahead city.

Neither had any difficulty in get-
ting a place, although neither had
bothered about recommendations.
Their faces were their fortunes, as the
old song says, or if not that the per-
sonality of each had so come to the
front that the short interview in the
front office in each instance had end-
ed in the calling in of the general
manager, into whose hands the young
men were at once consigned.

It did not take long to discover
that Douglas Dale, or Doug., as the
boys soon called him, considered him-
self as belonging to a superior spe-
cies of the genius homo to_ that
of his fellow rival for commercial
emoluments. He early had consid-
erable to say about the advantages
of the town over country. “There
are, don’t you know, a good many
things a boy brought up in a town
will just naturally pick up by being
around where things are going on.
It’s a kind of training in itself. He
gets used to seeing people and _ the
way they do things. His angles are
worn off instead of knocked off and
he doesn’t go around sticking ’em
into people. The single idea of dress
goes a great ways with a fellow while
he’s growing. The boy on the ranch
is brought up not to care for these
things, because he doesn’t see ’em,
and when he reaches the gawky age—
all the way from fifteen to twenty-
two—he’s generally the confirmed
hayseed without any ambition and
he goes slouching around home look-
ing like the devil and when he occa-
sionally comes to town his one am-
bition is to light a two-for-a-nickel
and smoke it on a corner, leaning
against a lamp-post. If his particu-
lar huckleberry on a_ neighboring
ranch goes by ten chances to one
he’ll wink at her, call her by her
first name and walk along with her
a block or two, puffing into her face
the rank smoke of his burning garden
truck!

“Such a bringing-up as that doesn’t
fit a fellow for business. He comes
to town feeling like a cat in a
strange garret and is one. It takes

 

him from six months to a year to
find out that he’s talking through his
nose; it takes him longer than that
to see the difference between a tail-
or-made suit and a hand-me-down,
and by the time he begins to learn
that it’s only the country gawk who
goes around with his mouth open,
the town-reared boy is away ahead
of him at the store. There, too, his
ranch training tells against him. His
fingers are all thumbs. He gets in
everybody’s way, his own included,
and his big, clumsy footgear, that
covers all creation, is a pretty fair
type of his whole make-up. Of
course, I know I’m prejudiced, but
that’s the way the thing looks to
me. I may be all wrong, but I’m
mighty glad that I can take off my
hat to a young lady on the street
without suggesting to her that I’m a

y?

bucking bronco!

That last brought down the house,
the laughter all the more hilarious
from the discovery that the level-
headed, quick-witted, whole-souled,
ranch-reared, American manhood,
right from the Wyoming plains, had
heard the town-bred tirade and was
heartily laughing at it. The reply
was liberal and comprehensive but
condensed. “You d-—d jackass!” was
all he said; but it completely covered
the ground and gave the argument
to the ranch as a man-breeder a hun-
dred to one.

It did not take long for each ‘to
illustrate per se his side of the ques-
tion. Doug., with his suave speech
and pretended sincerity, soon disclos-
ed the ass’s ears under the _ lion’s
skin. In the round world the ground
he stood on was the center and any-
thing not centering exactly there was
eccentric. His town training had
early taught him the word “pull” and
all it is intended to convey, and that
same town training had led him to
believe that deceit and cunning and
graft were the essential elements of
success.
est work for every cent of the dol-
lar that came to him was splendid
in theory, but demoralizing in prac-
tice, and he wanted none of it. What
was the use of working ten hours if
nine could be made to answer? So
his day began at the last minute of
grace in the morning and never did
six o’clock find him with anything in
his hands that he did not instantly
drop. So all work that could be
shirked, he shirked. Every string
that was pullable he pulled. The
most unpromising graft he _ tested.
He dressed well, but he never paid
his tailor. He was continually be-
hind with his barber. His laundry
was always delivered C. O. D.; in a
word, he had reached that point
where it was truthfully said of him
that “Doug. would be considerable
of a success if he would work as hard
to earn a dollar as he did to get it
for nothing.”

In the course of time the commer-
cial sugar bowl on the corner of
Blank and A. streets was occasional-
ly shaken and the big lumps slowly
but surely found their way to the
surface. Then one day when the
general manager announced to the

Straight out, first-class, hon--

 

house his determination to go into
business for himself, Douglas Dale
immediately began to scheme to se-
cure the coming vacancy. From his
point of view it was merely a matter
of “pull” and the one who got hold
of the right string and pulled the
hardest would get the place. As fate
would have it Dale’s hopes centered
upon the out-going manager and, as
promptness is the twin-sister of suc-
cess, the evening of the day of the
resignation found the grafter press-
ing the button of the manager’s door.

The two were soon seated. “I
have called,” the young man began,
“to see what steps it will be neces-
sary to take in order to secure the
position you have resigned.”

“Steps? What do you mean?”

“Why, I want the place; I am con-
fident that I can fill it satisfactorily;
but I don’t quite see the best way
to proceed. Naturally you have a
great deal of influence with the firm
—with Mr. Branerd_ especially—and
it occurred to me that for a consider-
ation you might be willing to pull
the string for me.”

For a minute anger prevented all
utterance. A glare came into. the
eyes of the manager and then faded,
while a firm meeting of the lips
might have told the young seeker
after knowledge that he was about
to receive the lesson of his life; but
he was too much in earnest-just then
to notice anything. “What would
you consider as an inducement?”

The town-bred boy who had learn-
ed to get around angles without im-
paling himself on them attributed the
succeeding silence to the mathemati-
cal calculation going on in the mind
of the man before him and could
hardly understand the real reason for
that gentleman’s quietly rising and
turning the key in the door. Put-
ting the key in his pocket he seated
himself near Mr. Douglas Dale and,
hooking his left thumb in the left
armhole of his vest, he said:

“Mr. Dale, you have asked me two
very unusual and remarkable ques-
tions, and I am in doubt how best
to reply. If I considered simply my
own feelings I should make short
work of both; but aside from the
personal satisfaction such work would
undoubtedly give me, I doubt wheth-
er any good would come of it. I
will say this: Some seven or eight
years ago, more or less, at all events
you had been here only a short time,
I heard you make some very dispar-
aging remarks about a boy brought
up in the country, and especially one
who was born on a ranch. The boy
you had in mind was Duff, and you
said some mighty nasty things about
him, as untrue as they were nasty.
When you began I knew what was
coming and I motioned to the ste-
nographer, who at my request took
down word for word what you said.”
He went to a desk, took out the pa-
per and read what has already been

given. “You said he was a gawky
full of angles. He wasn’t. You
made fun of his clothes. They fit-

ted him better and were better than
yours. You said he looked like the
devil. He didn’t; there wasn’t the
slightest resemblance between you.

 

 

 

You told about his leaning against
the corner lamp-post and smoking
two-for-fives. He didn’t then and he
doesn’t now. You laughed at his
‘particular huckleberry.’ I need not
tell you that his will compare favora-
bly with the ‘huckleberry’ I saw you
with no later than day before yes-
terday—after dark! You charged
him with talking through his nose.
He doesn’t; and I need not tell you
the short word we give to such state-
ments. He was clumsy, you said. He
had big feet and acted like a bucking
bronco; and that same little word of
three letters meets the condition of
every statement. You didn’t describe
him at all in your three hundred
words and he did you when he said
you were ‘a d—d jackass!’—just three.
“Now, Mr. Dale, you are right in
supposing that I have influence with
the firm. I have; but there is an-
other man it the house who, just
now, has a great deal more. He’s
been with us for about eight years.
In those years he has been faithful,
industrious and honest. He has nev-
er pretended once to be what he is _
not. He doesn’t lie, nor get drunk,
nor gamble, nor walk “with his
‘particular huckleberry’—after dark!
Clear through he is a first-class man
and in whatever way we look at him
we are convinced that he is by all
odds the best man for the place, and
he’s going to have it because he de-
serves it. He doesn’t know yet that
he’s going to have it and he isn’t go-
ing about trying to find a pull and
insulting respectable people by offer-
ing them money to let him get hold
of the string. His name is Duff—
John George Duff. He came here
with his fingers all thumbs and in
eight years by a strict attention to
business he, a week from to-day, is
going to be promoted to a responsi-
ble position at $3,000 a year. Mr.
Dale, I bid you good evening.”
Richard Malcolm Strong.

o>
Take Your Share of Responsibility.

Young man, if you mean ever to
rise out of the ranks, you’ve got to
take your share of responsibility.
Shirk responsibility and you will al-
ways be a private.

This world is just full of men and
women who are willing to work rea-
sonably hard for eight or nine or
ten hours a day, but do not take their
share of responsibility. They do
things only half well—or not on time
—do not finish them—require con-
stant pushing to do what they know
well how to do—leave some part to
be completed by the one next above
them.

By taking one’s share of responsi-
bility we mean taking some of the
worry that goes with all work—see-
ing, not only that it is well done,
but that it is finished, leaving no
loose ends to snarl.

High salaries are paid to certain
men, not on account of the prodigious
amonut of work they can do, but be-
cause they are both willing and able
to take responsibility. Some one
must take it—in the smallest business
as well as in the largest.

In your business some one must
see to it that goods are re-ordered
before they run out—that goods are

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

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not overlooked in the store room—
that over-stocks do not accumulate—
that fore-thought is used to provide
goods and advertising for a special
sale—that copy goes to the printer
on time—that bills are paid when due,
and a dozen other things.

Naturally the head of the house
must take responsibility for all ina
sense, but he shortens his own hie
and hurts his own development if he
does not try to train those under
him to take their share. They will
be better men for themselves as well
as for him if they form the habit of

_taking their share of responsibility.

If a boy is told to sweep out, he
shirks responsibility when he fails
to get the dirt out of the corners and
behind the counters as well as in
show places. He forces his employer
to prod him into doing that which
he knew well how to do.

When a thing is given you to do
DO IT—do it as well as it can be
done by anyone—or step forward
manfully and say you can not.

Above all, if you find you can not
handle the task that has been given
you, never keep silent in the hope
that the boss will forget about it.

Maybe he will this time, but if you}.

shirk responsibility once you will
shirk it again. You will form the
habit of shirking.

Be sure you are not taking your
full share of responsibility until your
superior can feel that when he gives
you a thing to do he need not worry
about it—that it will be done and
done right.—Butler Bros.’ Drummer.

—_2.2>—__—_
Why Ice Does Not Sink.

It is one of the most extraordinary stow

things in this extraordinary world,
writes Henry Martyn Hart in a mag-
azine, that water should be the sole
exception to the otherwise universal
law that all cooling bodies contract
and therefore increase in density.
Water contracts as its temperature
falls and therefore becomes heavier, |B
and sinks until it reaches 39 degrees.
At this temperature water is the
heaviest; this is the point of its max-
imum density. From this point it
begins to expand. Therefore in win-
ter, although the surface may be
freezing at a temperature of 32 de-

grees, the water at the bottom of
the pool is six or seven degrees
warmer.

Suppose that water, like everything
else, had gone on contracting as_ it
cooled until it reached the freezing
point; the heaviest water would have
sunk to the lowest place and there
become ice. Although it is true that
eight pints of water become nine
pints of ice and therefore icebergs
float, showing above the surface an
eighth of their bulk, still, had the
water when at the bottom turned in-
to ice, the stones would have locked
it in their interstices and held _ it
there, and before winter was over =
whole pool would become solid
and all the poor fish would be en-
tombed in clear, beautiful crystal.

—_+--2—____

Do not take it for granted that the
one from whom you buy goods is
making an enormous profit and can
afford to be mulcted at every turn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Ticks? Waterproof, went 60 Level
SEUMEAL, POF BE occ. ce el ec ececcs - oT /
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Cartridges Metals—Zinc
600 pound casks ........... geo cec eae 1%
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Loaded Shells BY ACMI ese 60610810
_ _ inten Shotguns - Common, * polished ees eae cs 10&
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— Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 | .. ‘A’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80 |
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264 % % 4 12 2 70 | Advance over base, on both Steel = =
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No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per —* 72 | 20 to 60 advance .
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Axes Erom and Tinned ...............5.... 50
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Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 34; 25 and 26; 27, 28
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Hammers

  

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15 gal. meat tubs, each ............ 1 20
20 gal. meat tubs, each ...........e06 1 60
|25 gal. meat tubs, each ............ 2 25
| 30 gal. meat tubs, each .............. 2 70
| Churns
OO © OE, DOP OE ove cok hice cscawess 6%
Churn Dashers, per doz ............ 84

Milkpans
¥% gal. flat or round bottom, per on: 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 a each ... 6
Stewpan
% gal. fireproof, Dall, per ion. ieee 85

1 gal. fireproof, bail per doz. ...... 110
| Jugs
% gal. per doz.
|% gal. per doz.

: st - ' a.
Sadia: Wax
S Me. i peekaee, per &. .......... 2
LAMP BURNERS
Dee © Sue se ae 35
Wee 0 A ce ce cee duces 38
Ce ee 50
WO cel coches 85
OE 60
a a ih 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined ~
Per Gross.
eee renew u ee, 4 00
I leet ue skate nenedeues we ae 4 50
ON be ei chet ce ctns uekeree oy 25
| Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
| Per box of 6 o~.
POG Cd ce ecccceecueyeu eden 1 60
Wee eB oh ck ec ieee ec tece ys secee 2 OO
EE EN 2 64
Anchor Carton Chimneys
| Each chimney in corrugated carton
No. 0 Crimp .. ooo 2 OO
No. 1 Crimp .. oo 2 ae
ee CC
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 91
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 00
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, —— & lab. 3 26
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled. 4 25
Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled .... 4 60
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled .... 6 30
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled .. 5 10
No. 2 Sun, ‘‘small bulb,” globe lamps. 80
La Bastle
No. ; Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 00
No 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .... 1 26
No. . CYENAD, DOE GOR. oo cc vec c ccc cise 1 35
Wo. 3 Crimp, pér @om ............. 164
Rochester
No. 1 Lime (65c doz.) ......... - 3 60
No. 2 Lime (75c doz.) ... - 400
No. 2 Flint (80c bei as - 4 60
Electric
oO: 2 Tide (760 Gam) onc. cc ccscass 4 00
No. 2 Flint (Came GOmy . 2. cc ese c.s. «a. £6
OIL. CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 20
1 gal. glav. iron with spout, per doz. 1 38
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 20
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 3 10
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 05
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 70
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 68
S gal. TUNG GANS ... occ ceccs eben ae - 700
5 Sal. galv. iron pi sicne Csesece O Oe
LANTERNS
No. : Tubular, side Me bose icdeas. 4 65
No. 1 py ne 7 25
No. 15 Tubular, dash -. 6 50
No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ............ 7 7
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.......... 12 60
No. 3 Street lamp, each............ 3 50
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each,bx,1@c. 50
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx, 15c. 50
No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl. 2 26
0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. e’ch 1 25
BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS

Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.

o. 0, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 25
No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 30
No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll. 45
No. 3, 1% in. wide, per gross or roll. 85

COUPON BOOKS

50 books, any denomination ...... 1 50
100 books, any denomination ...... 2 =
500 books, any denomination ....... 11 5
1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00

Above quotations are for either Trades-
man, Superior, Econamic or Unive
grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered
at a time customers receive specially
printed cover without extra charge.

Coupon Pass Books

Can be made to represent any denomi-
nation from $10 down.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

 

 

OODS

Weekly Market Review of the Princi-
pal Staples.
Much to the surprise of the retail-

 

 

 

er brown has been about the best
selling color this spring. It took
very well in the winter, but when the

buyers made their purchases for this |

 

season they figured brown as a win- |

ter color and, thinking it would not
be much in demand, placed their or-
ders accordingly. It is said that

| where.

when brown became popular many!

of the mills had the

shades dyed this color. According

undesirable |

to the opinion of various dress goods |
buyers brown will be in vogue in the |

fall. One new shade is called “onion
brown.” It is a question as to how
it will take with the public. The
retailers had a few pieces of this col-
or in the spring, but so far they have
not met with favor. It is also to be
seen in the new lines of trimming
and it is more appropriate for this
class of goods.

Cotton Dress Goods—The poplaine
weave is still in favor for late fall
wear. The poplaine weave is similar
to a weave in a pique, although ina
pique the fabric is generally produced
with two warps, while in a poplaine
weave only one warp is_ necessary.
The poplaine idea originated in a
Fall River mill. The original idea
was made with an 80s warp and an
8s filling in a piece dye only. The
original. fabric was called poplaine
de soie. It was given this name
probably because it was the first
high sounding title that entered the
mind of the maker. Since the intro-
duction of poplaine de soie, fancy ef-
fects have been added to the original
idea, but to the trade it is connected
with the poplaine cloths.

Wool Dress Goods—The primary
market is busily engaged upon lines
for spring, 1005, but as yet too little
is known to permit a statement of
the styles. For fall and winter plain
materials are certainly holding first
place and promise to continue soon
account of the trend of styles abroad.
The shades that are finding most
favor are about in the following or-
der: tans, browns and navy blues
stand first—creams, mole skin, light
blue, maroon and greens next, and
reds and purples third. In regard
tc the range of fabrics that are in
best demand, broadcloths seem to
lead by considerable, unless we take
voiles, crepes and summer dress
goods under one heading—next to
these come zibelines in plain colors,
mixtures and suitings, and then pru-
nellas, cashmeres, jacquards, etc. In
looking over the style tendencies
abroad with a view of ascertaining
their possible effect on the demand
in this country, both for the fall and
next spring, we see that a good many
almost invisible plaids of very som-
bre tones are being utilized this sea-
son: the dark grays that border on
black and some plaid effects in the
new mohair that come from_ the

 

 

weave rather than from the introduc-
tion of another color. Black, brown
and blue tones are most favored.
Underwear—The firmness shown
by raw wool of late has led a good
many authorities to predict higher
prices for woolen underwear,  al-
though this prophecy, as well as that
relating to cotton prices, is readily
accepted by some and ridiculed by
others. Prices on the new wool
clips will serve to settle this question
in no slight degree, hence definite
figures are awaited with more than
ordinary interest by jobbers every-
Manufacturers might easily
be influenced to ask higher prices for
the manufactured goods, as

would be justified in asking when |
to-day’s manufacturing conditions are |
Knowing |

given due consideration.
the jobber’s disposition to keep out
of .the market following the establish-
ment of higher prices wherever such
a course is possible, it can be seen
that the operator, unless pressed too
hard by conditions in the staple mar-
ket, will continue to do a fair amount
of business at a small profit in prefer-
ence to a small business at a large
profit. As a matter of fact, the sit-
uation hinges on the

prices. If the retailer believed that
his customers could be induced to
pay increased prices for their under-
wear, the operator, through the job-
ber, would feel that his position was
materially improved. As it is, how-
ever, buyers are holding out against
higher prices, as they lack confidence
in the public’s willingness to meet an
advance.

Hosiery—The hosiery market has
shown up to good advantage during
the last week, in view of the high
prices asked for cotton goods. The
manner in which many lines, notably
the cheaper ones, have been cleaned
up augurs well for future business.
Fancy designs do not appear to be
meeting with as great favor as they
did last year, solid colors having
come in for increased popularity of
late. Fabric gloves are also turning
out to be an interesting factor in
retail trade, staple colors being in
very good demand.

Gloves—The demand in gloves now
is for the lightest possible. It re-
quires an effort with most people in
hot weather to wear a pair of kid
gloves, and they are avoided. The
ordeal of conforming to Fashion’s
behests and dictates is undergone by
some people even when they severe-
ly censure themselves for their prac-
tice. A very attractive window dis-
play seen in Broadway recently was
one made entirely of ladies’ silk
gloves. Moreover, the only gloves
shown were whites. A window of
nothing but white silk gloves is
bound to attract attention. If a deal-
er has the courage and a deft window
trimmer during some public occasion
he should try a white silk glove win-
dow. It need not be up more than
a single day, but it will most certain-
ly interest the buying public in the
glove stock. And the dealer may

 

they |
claim, with no small degree of rea-|
son, that the present prices for knit |
goods are lower than those which they |

    

OVERSHIRTS

‘‘Boss of Michigan” (our brand)
means just what it says. Can't be
beat for quality of material, make-
up of garment, and price. We
carry a complete line from $2.25 to
$18.00 the dozen.

Duck Shirts, Negligee Shirts, Laundered
Shirts, Outing Flannel Shirts, Wool Flan-
nel Shirts.

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids.
for circular.

P. Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids

Wholesale Dry Goods

   

 
   
 

 
   
 

 
   
 

 
   
 

   

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Per dozen is all we ask for our Lot 100 Plaid Coats.
These are the EMPIRE make, which is the usual
guarantee of full size and good fit. They are worth
more money. We also have the ‘‘bargain store” ar-
ticle at $2.25 per dozen if you want them.

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids.
for circular.

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.

Exclusively Wholesale
Grand Rapids, Michigan

THE
ONLY

Loose Leaf Invoice File that
is worthy of the name.

Let us send you our catalogue

Tue (uni Hine Co.

Loose Leaf Devices, Printing and Binding
8-16 Lyon Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

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rest confident that he will be accom-
plishing two very desirably effective
bits of advertising—namely, stealing
a march on his competitor, who is
afraid to attempt a window display of
this nature or has not thought of
doing so, and he will also be advertis-
ing his confidence in a line of gloves
concerning which he is safe in urg-
ing to the very first place, white silk
gloves. The general consensus 0‘
opinion is that white gloves will have
the lead for summer wear this sea-
son. They are even now in such a
strong position that little doubt ex-
ists regarding their continued lead-
ership for the season. If you have
not enough white silk gloves mix in
a few white lisles.

Carpets—The carpet situation  re-
mains unchanged. As yet the orders
received from the salesmen on_ the
road are not large and they are not
expected to increase in volume until
after the first of July. The prices
in general are not satisfactory to the
great majority of the manufacturers.
None of the manufacturers seem in-
clined to cut under present prices for
the purpose of inducing jobbers to
buy. If any one was so inclined, the
prices of the raw materials would de-
ter him from such action, as_ the
prices are so high and stiff that he
could not replace old stock with new
and manufacture at a profit. Distrib-
uters report a good business during
the past week, especially in summer
fabrics. Velvets have been in fair
demand during the past week among
consumers. The surplus stock of
some manufacturers recently placed
on the market has not yet been fully
disposed of, and until it is sold it will
act as a check on the sale of other
fabrics of the same class which may
be offered at regular prices. The new
prices established at the opening of
the season have not as yet proved
attractive to the jobbers, who are still
holding back orders in the hopes of
a further decline. During the past
year and a half some of these goods
were advanced as much as 18 and
20c a yard. The recent reduction in
prices and the high cost of the pres-
ent supply of raw materials bring the
present prices to about bedrock, and
it is not probable that any further
reductions will be made. If buyers
continue to hold back their orders
instead of weakening the prices as
expected, manufacturers claim that
that policy on the part of the buy-
ers will have a tendency to strength-
en prices, as it is not probable under
present conditions that manufactur-
ers will produce goods in anticipation
of orders. The price of ingrains, as
fixed at the last opening, is still agi-
tating Philadelphia manufacturers,
but as yet no plan has been formu-
lated to prevent a_ recurrence next
season. Some of the large manufac-
turers, while deploring the lack of
courage and business foresight shown
by some of their associates, deem it
almost a hopeless task to attempt at
present to unite them all in any
movement to establish a profit yield-
ing price list. They say that the
only hope for the future lies in the
profits being so small this season
that all who wish to continue in the

 

business will, as a matter of  self-
preservation, be forced to act to-
gether the next season, regardless
of the attitude of the Eastern manu-
facturers.

Smyyrna Rugs—Manufacturers re-
port a better demand, at present, for
Smyrna rugs than has existed for the
last six months. In this line of busi-
ness all the indications point to a
fairly profitable season.

Smyrna Rugs—Manufacturers re-
week the demand for summer rugs
has been very large. These goods
are largely cotton and white is the
preponderating color in nearly all.
Sometimes it is white and blue; in
others it is white and brown. Con-
sumers have a large variety of pat-
terns and colors to select from, but
there are few shown in which white
does not occupy a prominent place
in the color scheme.

——— +22
Women’s Waists for Fall.

Manufacturers are busily engaged
in getting their fall lines of waists
ready. Some houses have quite a
line to show, while others are just
beginning. There is no reason why
there should not be a big fall busi-
ness. The vogue of the heavy white
waist is over as a winter garment,
and this fall silk, flannel, albatross
and similar materials will take its
place.

Some waist manufacturers believe
messaline will be the favorite of the
season. It has the appearance of a
satin finished crepe de chine. The
style of the dress waist is similar to
the ones seen this spring. Broad
shouldered effects, however, are pre-
ferred to the drooping shoulders. The
sleeves are fuller and made with a
deep cuff. A great deal of hand-
work is to be seen on the elaborate
styles. Crepe de chine, chiffon, taffe-
ta, peau de cygne, net and lace are
also to be employed in the dressy
waist. ;

The new samples of fall waists are
made with just as much blouse as
ever, and the buyers in the different
department stores have great confi-
dence,in the blouse waist. The plain
styles, however, will have sleeves
with small, narrow cuffs.

The cheaper styles are the best
sellers. The lawn waist can be retail-
ed for $1 and $1.50. A buyer, when
asked which waists are selling best,
replied that on a warm day the lin-
gerie waist is in the lead, and in cool
weather the linen waist has first
place. The demand for the linen waist
has been exceptionally good this sea-
son. The backward spring has help-
ed the sale of these goods; further-
more, they launder better than the
other style.

—_—_o-2-2—_———_
To Restore White Silk.

A good way to restore white silk
articles that have ‘become yellow in
washing is to dip them in tepid soft
water containing to each quart a ta-
blespoonful of ammonia water and a
few drops of bluing. Wring them
out and if still yellow add a little
more bluing to the water until they
are fully restored. Hang in the
shade and dry partially, and press
with a hot iron between folds of
cotton while damp.

Sgt ng aia al acl lacie
The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS

28 and 30 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Largest Establishment in the State

Beg to announce that their entire line of samples for Men's, Boys’ and
Children’s wear is now on view in their elegantly lighted sample room 130

feet deep and 50 feet wide.

trade are immense staples and newest styles.

Spring and Summer Clothing on hand ready for

Immediate Delivery

Mail orders promptly shipped.

: Bell Phone, Main, 1282

 

Their samples of Overcoats for coming fall

Citizens’ 1957

 

We are sending you by mail
our latest Bulletin on Gladiator
Overalls and Jackets

to which we trust you will give consideration. as it means
Should this bulletin fail to reach
you promptly we would appreciate a notification of the fact

additional profit to you.

When taking advantage of the perpetual trade
excursion we invite you to make our factory
your headquarters.

Clapp Clothing Company

Manufacturers of Gladiator Garments
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

We would be pleased to send you our catalogue and estimate on your store

Michigan Gas Machine Co.

Lane-Pyke Co., Lafayette, Ind., and Macauley Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Michigan Gas Machine

is the best artificial lighting machine on the market today, and is therefore

the cheapest.

lighting.

Morenci, Michigan

Manufacturers’ Agents

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Michigan Knights of the Gri
President, Michael Howarn,
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-

troit;
urer, H. BK. Bradner, Lansing.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Councelor, L. Williams, Detroit;
Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy, Flint.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

 

BRAND FROM THE BURNING.

Experience of a Michigan Clerk in
Chicago.
Written for the Tradesman.

The great white moon, riding high
in the cloudless vault of Heaven,
shed a silvery radiance across the
rolling bosom of Lake Michigan,
turned the beach sand into a dazzling
strip of seeming snowflakes and gave
strange fantastic shapes to the scrag-
gly trees clinging to the edge of the
great sand-dunes that raised their
heads in an irregular line along the
shore. The never-ceasing waves broke
into phosphorescent spray as_ they
reached the sand, far out on the broad
expanse a ship’s bell marked the time
as the white winged vessel plowed
slowly along with the soft wind, down
the beach the brightly illumined pa-
villion filled with a merry crowd of
dancers disturbed the serenity of the
natural picture, but, taken all in all,
it was an ideal night for wily Cupid.
Couples wearied with the dance or
finding more enjoyment with them-

selves dotted the sands, the great
drift-logs forming convenient re-
treats.

Seated in a cozy nook formed by
two great timbers, washed from the
deck load of a passing barge in
some long-forgotten storm, sat two
lovers. The girl, the moonbeams
sparkling her hair like a mass_ of
jewels, in a conventional summer cos-
tume of cool linen, her straw hat ly-
ing by her side, rested easily against
the broad side of a timber, streams of
white sand slipping through her fin-
gers, while the man sprawled at her
feet, the smoke from a_ cigarette
floating lazily above his head.

“Are you glad to go, Frank?” ask-
ed the girl, as she gazed wistfully
over the lake to where the blue of
the sky seemed to meet and mingle
with that of the waters.

“I'd be tickled to death, girlie, if
it wasn’t for one thing, and that’s
leaving you. It’s a great chance; the
one I’ve been waiting for, but I hate
to leave you, Mabel, even for a little
while,” he answered, as he flipped the
ashes from his cigarette towards the
water’s edge.

The girl sighed pensively before
replying and then whispered: “Yes,
Frank, the thought of your going
fills me with sadness, but it is all for
the best. I know that you have
grown too big for this place and the
quicker you get. to the city the more
rapid will be your progress.”

“That is the case exactly; the way
the old man put it. He came to me
last week and said: ‘Frank, you’ve
grown beyond us here. I’ve boosted

 

your salary to the limit and still you
are not getting what is coming to
you, so I am going to get you a
chance where the field will be large
enough for you to grow still more.
I have written to Rosenbaum, Ho-
henstein & Co., of Chicago, to see
what they can do and I am awaiting
their reply now.’ I thanked him for
what he had done and said no more
about it until he came to me this
morning and showed me the letter in
which they said that, on the strength
of the boost that he had given me
they would give me a show in the
city salesroom until I was fit to go
on the road. He asked me if I’d go
for the salary mentioned and I told
him that I would. To-day I wrote
a letter of acceptance and will leave
next Monday for the job. But don’t
you worry, Kid; when I told you
that you were all the world to me
there was no hot air about it and the
bet holds good. As soon as I can
get the price of a nice little flat in
sight, it’s me back to you and
the wedding bells and you may bet
something that if hard work will get
the goods that time isn’t-far away.”

“Don’t be foolish, Frank,” said the
girl blushing prettily, let us go
back to the pavillion.”

“No, let us stay here. I’d sooner
be with you alone down here than
mixing with that bunch up there,”
and he raised himself high enough to
place his arm around the girl’s waist.
For an hour they sat and talked as
only lovers can, built their airy cas-
tles high and dreamed sweet dreams
of the future. At last the dwindling
crowd warned them that the night
was wearing on and reluctantly they
arose and strolled towards the car
landing. The ride to the city was
passed in retrospective silence and
an hour later they bade each other
good bye at the gate of her father’s
house. The days intervening until
Frank’s departure passed rapidly and
the night he sailed away’ on the
lake steamer for Chicago he left her
on the dock with his kisses on her
lips. She returned home to dream
and wait for his return, but the little
city seemed to have lost its charm
with his going.

In his new field Frank rose rapid-
ly. A few months in the salesroom
of the house and he was placed on
the road on an excellent route. He

‘wrote frequently to the sweetheart

at home and looked forward eagerly
to the time he could return and claim
her. After an interval, however, his
interest waned. The goodfellowship
that characterizes the road man set-
tled upon him and: the thought of
giving up his freedom—he was hon-
est enough to believe that he would
be perfectly true if married—no long-
er had the same charm. His salary
was raised, but still he put the matter
off and gradually his love cooled. His
letters became infrequent and no
longer were filled with the honeyed
words of infatuation.

At last he was offered an excellent
position with a retail house in the
city and he knew that the time had
come to keep his promises. He tried
to bring himself to do his duty, but
the hold of the city was upon him

 

Western
Travelers Accident
Association

Sells Insurance at Cost

Has paid the Traveling Men over
$200,000

Accidents happen when least expected
Join now; $1 will carry your insur-
ance to July 1.

Write for application blanks and inform-
ation to
GEO. F. OWEN, Sec’y

75 Lyon Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

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The steady improvement ot tue Livingston with
its new and unique writing room unequaled in
Mich., its large and beautiful lobby, its elegant
rooms and excellent table commends it to the trav-
eling public and accounts for its wonderful growth
in popularity and patronage.

Cor. Fulton & Division Sts., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS
1903 Winton 20 H. P. touring fear, 1903 Waterless
Knox, 1902 Winton phaeton, two Oldsmobiles, sec-
ond hand electric runabout, 1903 U.S. Long Dis-
tance with top, refinished hite 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

 

TreKent County

Savings Bank
OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Has at amount of deposits
of any er Bank in Western
Michigan. If you are contem-
plating a change in your Banking
relations, or think of opening a
new account, call and see us.

344 Per Cent.

Paid on Certificates of Deposit

Banking By Mail

Resources Exceed 2¥4 Million Dollars

 

ELLIOT O. GROSVENOR

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

1232 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

dent of the company and Capt

For price of stock, prospectus
address

GOLDIS WHERE YOU FIND IT

The “IDEAL” has it

(In the Rainy River District, Ontario)
It is up to you to investigate this mining proposition.
personally inspected this property, in compary with the presi-

I can furnish you his report; that tells the story. This is as
safe a mining proposition as has ever been offered the public.

JN. A ZAHN

1318 MAJESTIC BUILDING
DETROIT, MICH.

      

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* motley crowd filled the place.

and he could not do so. He contin-
ved to write for a time, but at last
he ceased doing even this and, as the
months slipped by, she passed al-
most completely out of his mind. She
had written twice after he gave up
corresponding, but when the letters
were unanswered her pride forbade
her to do more and she accepted the
inevitable and turned to her own life
in an effort to forget him.

His career was the same as count-
less of others in the great metropo-
lis. For eight hours each day he
was all business and then for a good-
ly portion of the remainder of the
twenty-four the companion of men-
about town, a habitue of the clubs,
taking occasional flights into the half-
world and called by all who knew
him a “royal good-fellow.” He lived
as did hundreds and, although
conscience suffered an occasional
prick, he regarded his old love affair
in the light of an infatuation of his
youth. :

One night, in company with sever-
al boon companions, he sought a well-
known resort down State street to
while away a few hours. They found
an empty table and the liquor flowed
merrily. It was a scene which only
the city knows. The great mahogany
bar, with its fittings of brass, stood
out from a back bar of fancily carved
wood and wonderful mirrors. The
colored lights cast their beams about
the place and the rich cut glass re-
fiected them back in beautiful tints. A
A few
loungers lolled against the bar, but
by far the greater number sat at ease
about the small tables. Women,
painted and _ overdressed, mingled
freely with the men and the polite
waiters threaded their ways skillfully
between the groups with trayfuls of
drinkables. Over all hung-a cloud
of tobacco smoke, which the rapidly
revolving electric fans failed to dissi-
pate.

As a clock somewhere tolled the
hour of eleven a little figure entered
the place and moved forward towards
the thick of the crowd. A gown of
ill-fitting blue, the waist of red show-
ing through the front, failed to hide
the charm of the lithe form and from
beneath the deep bonnet, with its
band of red, a face of beauty could
be seen. Above the murmur of the
merry-makers her sweet voice sound-
ed clear in the usual cry of “War
Cry, sir? War Cry?” As she ap-
proached the table at which Frank
sat that worthy was deep in_ the re-
cital of a racy tale to which his com-
panions were listening with absorbed
interest. None of them noticed the
approach of the girl and Frank had
reached the point of the story, when
she said: “Would you like to have
your mother hear you tell that story,
sir?”

With shamed face he turned to-
wards the Salvation Army lassie and,
as he saw the face beneath the bon-
net, he gave a start. So did the girl
and slowly the blood mounted the
faces of both. His mind moved rap-
idly. Once again he was sitting on
the beach back at the little city
which he had called home. At his
side a girl sat and together they were

his

planning the future. Years had pass-
ed since then, but there was the same
old love tone in-his voice as he whis-
pered, “Mabel.”

“Yes, Frank,’ she answered, “you
bad better come with me.”
Staggering slightly from the ef-
fects of his drinking, he slipped from
his place at the table and, unmindful
of the curious glances which were
bent upon them, walked with her out
of the door.

Years have passed since that night
and in a beautiful home in a suburb
of the city a couple have just reach-
ed a cozy sitting room after enjoying
an excellent dinner. The father reads
the last edition of the paper, while
the mother arbitrates threatened war
between the boys upon the _ floor.
The room is handsomely furnished,
but, in strange contrast to the re-
mainder of the pictures, on one wall
hangs a portrait of a young woman
in the dress of a member of the Sal-
vation Army. If you wonder why it
is there, just look at the happy
mother and you will see that her face
is “The Face Beneath the Bonnett.”

J. F. Cremer.
—__> +>

The manufacturers of leather goods
are now busily engaged in getting
their samples ready for fall, and each
is endeavoring to bring out the bag
that will make the hit of the season.
It is expected that the bags will not
be quite as large as those of last
spring.
—_——_-2-2___.

Man’s extremity sometimes leads
a man to find out what he can do.

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Rockford Boys Cross Bats With
U. €. TF.

Grand Rapids, June 20—The United
Commercial Travelers of Grand Rap-
ids won the ball game at Rockford
last Saturday afternoon. The
by innings was as follows:
ee 100030400—-8
Rockford. ...... 00400000 0-4

Battery for U. C. T., Rockwell,
Rider and Jones; for Rockford, Bur-
rell and Mitchell.

We had the very finest treatment
possible to give us. They met our
boys at the afternoon train with the
Rockford band
the ball ground, and we would like
you to give them a nice write-up, as
they certainly deserve it for the fine
the UL C.F:

score

and escorted us to

treatment accorded
team.

Manager C. P. Reynolds is open for
games with any Grand Rapids team
or towns near Grand Rapids. Please
give this your best attention and by
so doing you will confer a favor on
the U. C. T., as well as the writer.
Make the puff for Rockford as strong
as possible, as they certainly treated
us fine.

——_~+--+-2
Gripsack Brigade.

Detroit Free Press: John M.
Fieming, formerly a salesman for the
Universal Tobacco Co., has been giv- |
en a verdict of $579.53 against that |
company by a jury in Judge Frazer’s
court. The amount represents two
months’ salary.

A Bangor correspondent’ writes:
W. B. Edmonds is being boomed by
his brother traveling for

 

 

salesmen

President of the National Confection-~
Association. The
standing Mr. Edmonds has with the
fraternity is quite liable to win him
the office.

A traveling man tells a story of
hotel in

ers’ Salesmen

a clergyman who visited a
Western Michigan and was. astonish-
ed afterward to receive a visit from
a delegation of labor. leaders, who
asked him to go to some other hotel
because the bartenders’ union had or-
dered a strike on that hotel and the
hotel had been declared unfair.

Business Changes
Indiana Merchants.
Indianapolis —Essex & Terwilliger

Recent Among

are succeeded by Hugh Essex in the

grocery business.
Richmond—Railroad Store

the

Co. has
been incorporated under same
style.

Russellville—Lain &
dealers in buggies and
are succeeded by Sutherlin & Dodd.

Indianapolis—The Union Manufac-
turing Co., manufacturer of suspend-
ers, is in the hands of a trustee.

——_>-+ >—___

Do not be offended when a draft
is made on you for a bill that is over-
It is your fault. The creditor
Do not re-
Pay it.

Sutherlin,
implements,

due.
is entitled to payment.
turn the draft if it is correct.
—o.->——_—
An ounce of prevention has cheated
many a person out of the delights of
being advised during convalescence.
—_—_+>+ +
It is better to live on a desert is-
land with a parrot than to live in
Paradise with a woman who pouts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmany.
President—Henry Heim, Sagina
Secretary—John D. Muir, cael ‘Rap-

Treasurer—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Cc. B. Stoddard, an te
Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

Sessions for 1904.
Star Island—June 20 _ 31.
Houghton—Aug. 23 — a
Lansing—Nov. 1 and 2

Mich. State Pharmaceutical Association.
President—A. L. Walker, Detroit.
First Vice-President—J. O. Schiotter-

ids.

 

beck, Ann Arbor.
paceond Vice-President—J. E. Weeks,

Creek.

see Vice-President—H. C. Peckham,

ee
Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.
Treasurer—J. Major Lemen, Shepard
— Committee—D. A. ‘agans,
D. Muir, Grand Rapids; W.
Hall, Detroit; Dr. Ward, St. ir; H

r
Trade ‘Interest—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Stanley Parkill. 0880.

 

Laboring Against Odds in a Small
Town.

“Yes, it’s nice, very nice,” said the
retired capitalist as he put the thous-
and dollar greenback he had been dis-
playing back into a fat wallet. “It’s
not only nice to have such things
about, but to look back and remem-
ber that I owe all I’ve got to the
State of Connecticut.”

“But why particularize Connecti-
cut?”

“Because of its laws and because
of its people. When I got my diplo-
ma as a pharmacist I went into busi-
ness in that State. In those old days
a druggist who started in business
in a Connecticut town found forty
old laws on the statute books to
confront him and render his life mis-
erable, and the stranger who opened
business in a small town found all
other business men against him. I
got a corner store in a big village
and began to hustle. The first thing
I did was to take a full-page adver-
tisement in a local paper. Can you
believe that I was arrested for it?”

“On what grounds?” was asked.

“For unduly exciting the public!
Yes, sir; the warrant read that I
was seeking to stir up anger and ex-
citement against public welfare, and
I was fined $10 and cautioned to go
slow. I paid the newspaper $30 for
that advertisement, and yet the edi-
tor came out in the next issue and
said it was evident that a dangerous
agitator had settled in the community
and ought to be carefully looked
after.

“Tt was the proprietor of the other
drug store who instituted the proceed-
ings against me, and in revenge I
marked all my patent dollar reme-
dies down to 80 cents. That left a
thumping big profit, as you know, but
in less than thirty-six hours I was
arrested again. The charge was that
I was preparing to defraud my cred-
itors. I proved that I hadn’t any, but
owned my stock and had $1,500 in
the bank, but the court held that
there must be some sort of fraud in
my knocking down prices, and I paid
another fine. I realized by this time
that they were after me, but I was

 

born of fighting stock, and I made
up my mind to hang on.”

“And the next move?”

“Well, I had a grocer next to me
and a shoe store on the opposite cor-
ner. The grocer got four dozen
bottles of cough medicine to peddle
out, and the shoe man put a lot of
sponges and tooth-brushes on sale. |
at once bought two barrels of sugar
and sold it at a cent less a pound
than the grocer, and I got a case of
boots worth $3 a pair and gave every
man his choice for $1.50. I made
those fellows tired of me in about
three days, and they had me arrested
for false pretenses. I turned about
and hauled ’em up for selling goods
not covered by their licenses, and
they let go of me as if they’d picked
up a hot potato.

“Meanwhile the other druggist was4
laying for me again. There was a
law that every prescription should be
filed with the town clerk, but not
knowing of it, I had taken no steps.
I pleaded guilty when arrested and
was fined $10 and costs. I wanted
tc get even, of course, and the chance
soon occurred. He visited his store
on Sunday to see that all was right,
and I swore out a warrant and he
had to fork over $5. The law at that
time even kept a man out of his own
store on Sunday unless in case of
fire or serious illness.

“A dry goods man went into toilet
soaps and I bought and almost gave
away calico enough to last that coun-
ty ten years. When I had settled
him a book store man took up Seid-
litz powders and pills and I supplied
the town with free paper and enve-
lopes. I had got the better of him
when I was fined for using obnox-
ious language. It wasn’t anything I
said, but a sign in the window read-
ing ‘You’ve All Got ’Em, but I’ve
Got the Cure.’

“Tt was a cold-feet remedy, but the
judge decided that the sign might
refer to bugs and other things, and
was at any rate calculated to shock
sensible people. I paid the usual fine
and shouldered my gun to get back
at the chap who swore out the war-
rant. He was a furniture man and
a church deacon, and after a bit I had
him fined $5 for obstructing the side-
walk with a bedstead.

“As to trade and profits, I hadn’t
any, of course, but as my expenses
were light and my stock all paid for
I could afford to hang on. When
they had made a general boycott on
me I used to go off fishing and hunt-
ing, and, queerly enough, I was ar-
rested for that. Under an old law,
which read that a drug store must be
kept open during reasonable hours on
week days, I was fined $10 and costs.
My rival was the man who caused
it, and the very next day I got even
with him. A chimney burned out and
he rang the fire bell. The law read
that any person ringing the bell -un-
less there was a fire was guilty of a
misdemeanor, and as there was no
fire it cost him $8 to square matters.”

“But they let you alone at last?”
was asked by one of the listeners.
“Yes, aftet a year or two more of
” replied the retired druggist, with
“But I’m thinkin’ that

it,
a grim smile.

 

most young men in my _ position
would have gotten discouraged and
thrown up the sponge. Perhaps you
never heard that there used to bea
law in Connecticut against the use of
ambiguous language? Well, there
was, and I_ was arrested and fined $3
under it. A man came in with a sore
finger and wanted to know if tar
would heal it. I told him I doubted
it, and that was defined as ambiguous.

“It was the furniture man who put
up this job, and next day I had him
up for cruelty to animals in keeping
his dog in the store over night. In
the last attempt to crush me the furni-

ture man, the shoe store man, _ the ]|-

grocer and the rival druggist were
combined. A boy came down to the
store with a sore heel, and I dressed
it with a piece of courtplaster. They
brought up an old law to prove that
I had given ‘medical aid and assist-
ance’ without having filed my diploma
as a physician, and I paid something
like $25 for my charity.

“The laugh was on me, but not for
long. I caught the old deacon out
after Io o’clock without a lantern and
had him hauled up. The shoe store
man got into a jaw with a drayman
and I had seven counts of ‘harsh and
undue language’ against him in the
warrant. The grocer left a trapdoor
open ‘against public safety’ and had to
pay $4 and costs, and the druggist
was soaked $25 under an ancient law
which held that all salves sold for
the curing of sores must be com-
pounded by ’ye keeper of ye drug
store himself.’ ”

“And then you shook hands over
the chasm and began to make your
million and a half?” was asked as
the retired druggist got up to go.

“Why, yes; that was the end of
the attempted freeze-out, but I sold
my store after a bit. There was no
money to be made there.”

“But how—how a

“Oh, I got elected to the Legisla-
ture and stood in with the ring for
two or three terms. It may not be
quite a million and a half, but a few
thousand dollars makes no difference
one way or the other. I was telling
you of my adventures as a druggist
simply to point a moral.”

“But what is the point?”

“Go into some other business if
you want to make a million and a

half!”—-M. Quad in Chicago News.
——_—~»-22

The merchant, the preacher and
the school teacher in each community
are in about the same boat. All of
them are trying to please the public
and the public is hard to please. The
people who do not like the merchant
get even by trading at the other
store. In time they get mad at all
of the merchants and get back tothe
first store again. When they get
mad at the preacher they stay away
from church. They get even with the
school teacher in the next school elec-
tion. The editor does not care what
they do, as he has the last word any-
way.—Commercial Bulletin.

—27.2s—__—_

One of the things that a woman
with brains never gets quite used to
is the ease with which the woman
without them commonly gets along.

 

The Drug Market.
Opium-——Is very weak but unchang-
ed in price.

Morphine—Is steady.

Quinine—Is without change.
Cod Liver Oil, Norwegian—Is
steadily declining.

Lycopodium—Is very firm and an-
other advance is looked for.
Menthol—Has advanced in the pri-
mary market but is unchanged here.
Sugar Milk—Owing to scarcity has
advanced.

Oils Bergamot, Lemon and Orange
—Have advanced on account of high-
er prices in primary markets.

Oil Lemongrass—Has again ad-
vanced and is very firm.

Oil Sassafras—True remains very
high.

American Saffron—The market
broke last week, but has again ad-
vanced, and is now higher than be-
fore with advancing tendency.
Jamaica Ginger—Is firmer on ac-
count of small stocks and an ad-

vance is looked for.
——_.-.o———

In the belt world there is much dis-
cussion concerning the belt which will
be the proper thing for fall and win-
ter. While the wide crush belt will
probably be the most popular, there
may still be some radical departure
in the new style. The medium width
is the best seller at present. One of
the latest leather belts is made of
two pieces of leather attached to-
gether in the center. When in the
hand it gives a wave effect, but when
put on fits into the lines of the figure.
It is reported that back ornaments
will not be so fashionable this com-
ing season. This is not surprising,
for the new belts will have to be
made so they fit snugly to the figure,
as they will be worn under a coat.

 

 

 

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Thymus : ..0 pk 25 | Velvet extra shps’ Glue, brown ...... ue 13
agnesia wool, carriage .. @1 50 Glue, white 11.11: 25
Calcined, "Pate 55 Extra yellow shps" Glycerina ....... ag 25
Carbonate, Pat... 18@ 20| Wool. carriage . @125|Grana Paradisi @ 2%
Carbonate K-M.. 18@ 20/Grass_sheeps’ wi, See ae 25@ 55
Carbonate ....... 18@ 20|,,carriage ....... @1 00 | Hydrarg Ch Mt. 95
Hard, slate use... $1 00 | Hydrarg Ch Cor . 90
Oleum Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ox Ru’m 1 05
Absinthium ..... 3 25 slate use @140|Hydrarg Ammo’l. 115
Amygdalae, Dulc. 50@ 60); === ° = “""** Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
— alae Ama.. “8 00 — ae Syrups e Hydrargyrum g 85
Piet oe encia.. 2502s... Icht
es —— ae 40 Zingibe Cortex 2 ai ndi thyobolla, Am. et *
ergamii ........ in, ee es cea oe 0 Todide, R
Cajiputi .--...... 1 i0o1 15|Ipecac ........... @ 60| Iodof wo 1 420
Caryophylli ...... 150@160/} Ferri Iod ........ @ 50 toe co eee 50
Cegar <....... .e--- 85@ 70|Rhei Arom ...... @ 60] Lycopodium ..... 85@ 90
Chenopadii ss nece 300|Smilax Off’s .... 50@ 60|Macis ........... 65@ 75
Cinnamonii ......110@120|Senega .......... 60| Liquor Arsen et
Citronella ....... #6} Scilige ........... 50| Hydrarg Iod .. @ 2
om Mac..... 80@ 90)|Scillae Co ....... @ 50| Liq Potass Arsinit = =
aiba ......... 115@1 26 | Tolutan ......... @ 50/ Magnesia, Sulph..
Sobsbes oocccece ek 80@1 85 | Prunus virg : @ 50 | Magnesia, Sulh bbl *o1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mannia, S F .... 75@ 80|Sapo, M.......... “3 12| Lard, extra .... 70 80
Montho) ...-..... 6 00@6 50 | Sapo, G .......... ij] Lard, No, 1...... 600 65
Morphia, S P & W.2 35@2 60 Sedlitz Mixture.. 20 22 | Linseed, pure raw 39@ 42
Morphia, SN ¥ Q. 2 2502 60 ee 18 | Linseed, boiled 40@ 43
Morphia. 3802 60 | Sinapis, opt ..... 30 | Neatsfoot. w str.. 85@ 70
Secret bn a 40 Snuff, eeaey. Spts. Turpentine. 638@ 68
Myristica, No. 1. 38@ 40| ge VOSS powers a Paints bb! L
ux Vomica.po 15 10 | Soda.’ Boras 9 11 | Red Venetian... -1% 2 8
Oe Bem ........ 25@ 28 Soda. Boras, po.. 9 11 Ochre, yel Mars 1 2 4
— Saac, H & Soda et Pot’s Tart 28 30 Ochre, yel Ber ..1% 2 3
I Ce. sien @1 00 | Soda. Carb 1 g | Putty, commer’l.2% 2%@3
Picis Liq NN % Soda, Sorby) 4S «2 | putty: strictly pr.2% 2%@3
el Ge inc. ce... @2 00 Soda. Ash . 3% 4 Vermillion, Prime
Picis Lig, qts.... 100 | Soda’ Sulphas ee 9 American ...... 13 15
Picis Liq, pints 85 Spts,. Cologne cS 2 60 Vermillion, Eng.. 70 75
Pil Hydrarg .po 80 @ 60 Spts. Ether Co... 50 65 | Green, Paris 14 18
Piper Nigra .po 22 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom 200 Green Feninsular on 16
Piper Alba . -po 36 30 Spts. Vini Rect bbl Tae, PO cksccece q
Plix Burgun ...... 7 | Spts. Vi'l Rect % b Lead, white ..... oa 7
Plumbi Acet ..... 10@ Spts. Vi'l R’t 10 gl Whiting, white S’n 0
Pulvis Ip’c et Opii.1 30@1 5 Spts. VI R't5 ga Whiting, Gilders.’ $ 95
a bxs H onda te ceed 90@1 15 | White, Paris, Am’r 1 26
&PDCo. doz.. @ 75 Sulphur, Subl % 4 Whit'g, Paris, Eng
Pyrethrum, ee +e 25@ 30 Sulphur, Roll ue 2 @ 8% OE dee deues sis @14
ee a 8@ 10|Tamarinds .. : i i 10 Universal Prep’d.110@1 30
Quinta, 8 Ger... 260 a6| Ferebenth | Venjce ug = Varnishes
bla’ rinotorina, tee 14 | YanilIR "ae tee oe ee
a ne orum. co “xtra Turp ......
Saccharum La’s . 22@ 25 Zinci Sulph ..... "@ 8 Coach Body ..... 3 *s 3 00
MN nc ewew ccs 560@4 75 Oils No. 1 tom Furn.1 me =
Sanguis eee 40@ bbl gal Extra T Damar..155
Sapo, W ...cess - 12@ 14| Whale, winter 70@ 70, Jap Dryer No 1T 70

 

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We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

 

 

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

We are dealers in Paints, Oils and

Varnishes.

We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

Sundries.

We are the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s

Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

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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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,| 70 ft. .........-------1 80
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia- ad see eenccans oo
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at = = Pees eae ce : -
market prices at date of purchase. ot la Ss
no. sSoaaiae
i 0. eac ong.
ADVANCED DECLINED No. 19, each 100 ft long.2 10
Canned Pears Spring Wheat Flour fo COCOA ‘
CCA ee
Paces. emer Cleveland ............-. 4
| Colonial, 48 .......... 35
Colonial, %S .........- =
| Huyler ..........0.0.0. 46
Van Houten, %s ...... 1
—- shoo re oe =
an Houten, \%s .....
Index to Markets { | 2 Van Houten, ie csclck. 2
By Columns AXLE GREASE Pineapple Mritwar, 168 .........2.. 41
dz gro|Grated ........... ace | TO SS -----<---- sg
Col — peers = 6 00 eo 2 65 COCOANUT
aster GO ........ 5 umpkin ,
Diamond .........- ” emimee ...........-. i pee? Se Se
A “a pge ie a eecccee = io once a) one ole lalla waa 1 = Dunham’s %s cele i 27
mote Geemee --------->-- . BAKED BEANS —..: ao =
B Columbia Brand Raspberries 2. eS
1th. can per doz. .... 90| Standard COCOA SHELLS
Bath Brick ..........<. 4 | 21. can per doz. ...... 1 40 Russian Cavier 30 m. Bags... 522 ce 2%
ee 1| 3M. can per doz. ..... 2.30 136 Mh. came <2... 62 3 75 | Less quantity Ree ee
ees 2. or BATH BRICK SG 0. CAMS 22-5 0s 7 Pound packages ...... 4
Butter Color .......... 4 |/American ............. Bit 1 Cam 2). soe 12 00 COFFEE
Emp 2... os. 85 Salmon
c BROOMS Col’a River, talls.. @165 Rilo
Confections ............ 11|No. 1 Carpet ........ 2 75 | Col’a River, flats. fe5 | Common. .. 2.2 2:2. -2. 11
ftemdies 1|No. 2 Carpet .......... 2 35|Red Alaska ..... 265 fair -.... 2... ok
Canned Goods ........ g1No. 3 Carpet .......... 216] Pink Alaska .. . @ 95! Choice .....
Carbon Oils .......... . 3|No. 4 Carpet .......... 175 Sardines Fancy ....-
ene oe ¢| Parlor Gem ..........- 2 40 | Domestic, = oe 3%
ene oo. 2|Common Whisk ...... Domestic, 5 | Common
Chewing Gum ........ 3| Fancy Whisk ..... .-+-.1 20 | Domestic, ust’a.. 6@ 9 ee ee Lean
PRinery oo g | Warehouse ..-......... 3 00 | California, %s ... 11@14/ Choice ............... 18 1-3
Choeolate ............+ 2 BRUSHES California, %s ... 17@24/| Fancy ..............-- 16%
Clothes Lines .......... 2 Scrub French, 4s ....... 7@14 | Peaberry ....... ....-
Sauna g | Solid Back, 8 in ...... 75 | French, %s ...... 18@28 Maracalbo
Cocoanut ..........+-+-- 3 | Solid Back, 11 in ..... Bair... 2000: STO i 131%
Cocoa nSheiis ee 3 | Pointed Ends .......... Ghsice 2 16%
ee kc Sc 3 N 3 Stove Mexican
irackers _.........- Sie Soot e nn we Choice (2000 16%
BE cei 110 as 19
= ns . No. sttegicegenerees 175 Pee ia
spaa GE No. 8 .......ceeeseee+e1 00 | Standard Ee
F = : Se oe cece ae : = atEey, 6. Wea ee 12
a6 7
ee See > Sie 190| Fair .. ee >:
— * _ Om Pee : BUTTER COLOR Good = ghaeene feo =
ee eee 5 |W. BR. & Co.'s, 15c size.125 Fancy a
oo W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.2 00 _ Gallons 2 Arabian 21
Pro h Mes é cece ccc ccnce 5 CANDLES CARBON_ ‘ol ie) eee C--. --
tag tae 11 | Hlectric Light, 8s .... 9% Barrels Package
eee ee ee Electric Light, 16s 10 | Perfection ...... 12% New York Basis
G Paraffine, 6s .... 9 Water White ... 12 Arbuckle
Paraffine, 12s ... . 9144! D. S. Gasoline .. 14 Dilworth
Gelatine ...........+--.- S| Wicking | ..... 0 ....... 3. |Deodor’'d Nap’a... @13%| Jersey.
Grain Bags ..........+. 5 CANNED GOODS Cylinder ........ St) iiom oe ea, 11 25
Grains and Flour ...... 5 Apples Bngine 22002... 16 @22_ | McLaughlin’s XXXX
H 3 tb. Standards .. 80 Black, winter ..9 @10% McLaughlin’s XXXX s
Herbs ea CATSUP to retailers only." Mail ‘ail
BEDS ..-.---------- bi ee t
Hides and Pelts ...... 10 ciandards (0 i. 2s 5 2 Selanne - — a
1 Bak ea 80@1 30 Snider’s ‘quarts .. cago.
ees. ec a 5 | Red Kidney (oon 85@ en as , 130 Extract
J Striag c e: 70@1 15 CHEESE Holland, % gro boxes. 965
Jelly g | Wax --...----.e ee 75@125| acme .......... @9 | Felix, % gross ........ 115
ee ena Blueberries Butternut . @ 9 |Hummel's foil, % gro. 85
L Standard ....... 1 40| Carson City @9 |Hummel’s tin, % gro.1 43
+ aie’ 5 Brook Trout Hisic =... .. @ 9% :
ise Oe ce teste ee 5 2 tb. cans, Spiced. 190 mele. @ 9 2 CRACKERS
Cee : : ; ‘
M Little Neck, 1'Tb.100@1 25 Gem. «-.+----::- @ 9% | National Biscuit Company's
M t Ext ct: g | Little Neck, 2 Ib. 150 | Jersey .......... @9- rands
= ee 6 Clam Bouillon Riverside. ...... @ 9 Butter
ee ae 6 Burnham’s, \% pt......192] Warners. ...... @ 9 Seymour oo eae
Pee ea Burnham’s, pts .......360] Brick ........... 12 | New York Uo at eae
N menue a seeeeee B20 | Mig be OO | Salted (oo 614
Nuts 1 Tope. oes. 15 Way 6c oe eee eee 6%
eee Red ‘Standards. *4 oe . Limburger ...... 11 Soda
oO White ............ Pineapple ...... 40 60 NB. Co coe cans 6%
6 Corn Swiss, domestic . i |\Select) oe. so 8
Wives ...-----22-- 2200s. eg ee SS ae et — a : 23 | Saratoga Flakes ...... 13
P WOR Seilicw ce ps oc clea se oe 35 HEWING GUM Ovater
g| Fancy ......-. .--.++-- 150 Aueetinan Flag Spruce. 56 Saal ¥ 3
aaeee ik ae ie Ss ncn okie indi inhi 6 French Peas Beeman’s Pepsin ee me ene g mnietiele es acne
os aaa aa ¢| Sur Extra Fine........ 22|Black Jack ........... bs a ee
Potash sci g | =xtra Fine ............ 19 —— Gum Made .. = eee Coe ee 7
Seer Fine .................. 15|Sen Sen ..............-
EOOUMEOES ---0-+----+>~ Sitmuen .......-......5. i1|Sen Sen Breath Per’e.1 00 | 2*tt@ ee ea ™%
R Gooseberrles Sugar Loaf ........... 55 oath we joods 10
Ri g | Standard .............. 90 | Yucatan .......:...... 55 et en a 10
CO wc cccccccccccccccoce miny CHICORY sso! Become
Standard .............. Lack... ee :
Salad Dressing ........ 7 scsi Se Vinee water...) 16
gene ee eet eee 7 — i . 4 Hag ae oe ie loue Butter Thin .......... 13
ings 1 Pieni ce a ee eS
ee ir ee pice 7) Mackerel CHOCOLATE Cosneanaik Tatty seeeeee 12
ee etal 7 Mustard, 1 oben oe Walter Baker & Co.’s Gi ae we ceeeee
Shoe Blacking ......... 7 | Mustard, 2 tb.......... 28°\German Sweet .....-. 23 | Coffee Cake, N. B. G..10
Raa ee z | Sos 1 %® Se 1 80 Premium Cae 31 Goffee Cake. Iced .... 10
5. 5) eee, tO... ee Cocoanut Macaroons .. 18
ES 8 Tomato, Ze > coe ceee ecm 220 tmaipie ee 26 ae Fruit 22.2122! 10
— | ie a CLOTHES LINES Chocolate Dainty .... 16
Sigil Selicc cs oe BiOtets -. ess Ber nesian Gl.
Syrups ......-----+-++. [ee a ee a Ss thrond’ extrs..400| Dixie Cookie -..--..-- 8
T ina @ 90|72 ft, 3 thread, extra ..140/| Fluted Cocoanut ...... 10
MOR op occ cece cscccccces S Love Mh @1 70 | 90 ft, 3 thread, extra . =a. Frosted Creams ..... :
Tobacco .........-.+++- 9 Gove, 1 tb. Oval 100 | 60 ft. 6 thread, extra ..2 29 wl — So a
eee oe. 9 Peaches 72 ft, 6 thread, extra .. nger 1 ‘awi P mae
| . 1 10@1 15 Jute Grandma Sandwich .. 10.
ain Vv * gl Yellow .........1 65@2 00 - . ce eee eee te = SS goa
eeeecocsoecoosoeoe Pears Pe ee id
4 95 100 TE... ek occ ens ose Honey Jumbles ......
w Standard ....... @1 35190 ft. ...----+++- 1% “3
5 120 Th. oe ee 150 | Iced Happy Family ...11
Wicking SS | Sel Beng 7 OT Cotton Victor as Iced Honey Crumpet . 10
Soe el ee | ln Oe BES clea cs Cece ae mperials .....+-++-+ +;
eemwere --.-------- a... BS a 1 35 | Indiana Belle <----.... is
Wrapping Paper ...... - 10 rly June ........ aa 1 60 | Jersey Lunch ......... i
Y Early June Sifted.. 1 6 Gotton Windsor Lady Fingers ........
——_— oa gg | OPE. ce -reccreosen 20-2 90 Lady Minders, hand md 26

| 4

Lemon Biscuit eee .
temon Wafer

Lemon Snaps .......- i2
Lemon Gems ........- 10
Eem. Yen ...-..-2.--- 10
Marshmallow ......... 16

Marshmallow Cream.. 16
Marshmallow wauinut. 38
Mary Ann
Malaga 3
Mich Tieng Fs’d_ honey.12
Milk Biscuit .......... 8
Mich Frosted Honey .. 12
Mixed Picnic 11
Molasses Cakes. Sclo’d 8
Moss Jelly Bar........

5 Muskegon Branch, Iced 10

Newton
Oatmeal Cracker
Orange Slice ...
Orange Gem ..
Penny Assorted
Pilot Bread i
Pineapple Honey
Ping Pout .....-.-«s
Pretzels, hand made ..
Pretzelettes, hand m’d
Pretzelettes, mch. m’d
Revere
Rube Sears ....
Scotch Cookies
Snowdrops i
Spiced Sugar Tops ...
Sugar Cakes, scalloped 3

 

 

Sugar Squares .......
SSUES 6 oc Se cae 13
Spiced Gingers ....... 8
Wechine® 2... 0. . 10
Vienna Crimp ........
Vanilla Wafer ........ 16
a 9
Zama Oe 6 os oe ais le 9
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sundried ... ...... gr"
Evaporated ..... -64%@7

Callfornia Prunes

Loose Muscatels, 2 cr..
Loose Muscatels, 3 cr.. 6
-— Muscatels, 4 cr..

i uM. Seeded. % Yb. 5%@8
Sultanas, bulk. .
Sultanas, package.

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Pearl, 200 tb. sack .

Maccaronl
Domestic, 10 Th. box .
Imported, 25 fb. box .
Pearl Barley
Common
Chester
Empire

Peas
Green, Wisconsin,
Green, Scotch, bu..
Split.

  

Rolled Oats
Rolled Avenna, bbl...

Monarch, bbl

 

100-125 25Ib. boxes. gi"

  
  

80-90 25 Ib. bxs. 4%
0-80 25 tb. bxs. @ 5
60-70 25tb. boxes 6
50-60 25 tb. bxs. 6%
40-50 25 Yb. bxs. 1%
30-40 25 Ib. bxs.

Yc less in bv ww. cases
Citron
are ob a @14%

I d. im, ne 7

mp’ pk s

Imported — ane 7

zemon ‘cea esses 12

Orange American ..... 12
Ratsins

London Layers 3 cr 1 90

T.ondon Layers 3 cr 1 95

Cluster 4 crown. 60

5%

one
Seeded, ltb.. @T%

8%

Beans
Dried Timea ...::....---
Med. Hd. Pk’d. ..2 00@2 Iv
Brown Holland ....... 2
za

Bulk. tt Bt Ds.....7 2 B0
Hominy
Flake, 50 Th. sack ....1 00

.-4 00
Pearl, 100 th. sack ...2 00
and Vermicelll

6
-2 50

bu.1 35
14

-5 50
Steel Cut, 100%b. sacks 2 2

Monarch, #0%Ib. sacks. ==

 

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Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., pr ds.. 60
Bamboo, 16 ft., pr ds. 65
Bamboo, 18 ft., pr dz.- 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Foote & Jenks

Coleman’s Van. Lem.
20z. Panel ....... 120 75
Son. Taper —.....<; 2 1 60
No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 1 50
Jennings
Terpeneless _—
No. 2 dz 76
No. 4 D. 271 60
No. 6 D. . 2 00
Taper D. 1 60

 

Mexican Vanilla
No. 2 D..C: pr: ds <...
No. 4 D. C.
No. 6 D. C.
Taper D. C.

GELATINE
Sparkling, dz. 1 20

3

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be tebe.
23s:

Knox’s
Knox’s
Knox’s
Knox’s
OXfONG: 20.55.05. . 5 a6
Plymouth Rock

Mcwons. .: 20.5... . 2.
Cox's, & qt. sige ...<: 1 61
Cox's, 1 qt. sine. ....:.5 16

GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100 in b’e. 19
Amoskeag, less than b. 19%

GRAINS AND FLOUR
Wheat

No. td White. 3... c.. IS
No. 2 Regs. oo 3. 98
Winter Wheat Fiour
Local Brands
POPemts oo os Sine cic 5 65
Second Patents. ...... 5 25
PUPA Mees ose oe se 05
Sanouel Straight. See ae 4 75
WOPOA Te oe ck pores aoe 45
I os as 70
Buckwheat ........ «cosh 70
BR eek oc eee cole 4 00
Subject to usual cash

discount.
Flour in bblis., 26c per

bbl. additional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s ——
Quaker, paper
Quaker, cloth

Spring Wheat Fiour
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s

Brand
Pillsbury’s Best ‘cag
Pillsbury s Best %s .
Pillsbury’s Best ‘s..
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s

Brand

‘Wingeold, 446 .......... 5 50
Wineold, 145)... 2.5... 5 40
ee oe ne tek 5 30
Judson Grocer Co. —
‘Ceresota, Es bolas pot ee

Ceresota, Ws .0k.<.28 . oO
Ceresota, %s ........ 5 30

es
Worden Grocer. Co. =e
Laurel, %s
Laurel, 4s
Laurel,. a
Laurel, 4% &

< 4s paper. 5 30

Meal

Bonew. 2.0260 oc
Golden Granulated ....

Feed and Milttstuffs
St. Car Feed screened22 50
No. 1 Corn and =
Corn Meal, coarse .
Winter wheat bran .
Winter a mid'ngs22 00

 

boteter
=
°
3

Cow Weed... :... 2.05. 1 50
Seresnines -....... 255 3 00
Oats
ar lets ool. os 45%

: Corn
Corn, new =.......... 54%
Hay

No. 1 timothy car lots.10 50

 

 

 

Quaker, cases ........ 10| No. 1 timothy ton lots.12 50
Sago E
East India ~ ieececues a% Sa — 15
German, sacks ........ 3% Hops pein aes Aaa es
ae. — * a Leaves” eeseee . =
Flake, um sacks... : “4 enna elle eos
ear sac 3
Madras, 5 tb. boxes .. 665
—_— oe — ++ 64/3 °R, 2,8, 51. boxes.. 65
JELLY
Cracked, pul. Voce 3% pails,
24 2 th. packages ....2 50 Foo pails oS
FISHING TACKLE S0%D. palls .c.sc.. cs. sion Se
% to BD acciiy etal al w.e'e!
1% t0 3 im .20..-.-.-- 1 LICORICE 80
1% to 2 in ......... : 9 23
: ig te 2 oc 14
Mo Se ees
3 in ”
1 Condensed, 2 dz ...... 1 60
2 a Condensed, 4 dz ......8 00
No. 3. MEAT EXTRACTS
No. 4, Armour’s, 2 om 3. cs 4 45
No. 5, Armour’s 4 oz ........8 20
No. 6, Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 0z.2 75
No. 7, Liebig’s, Chicago, 402.6 50
No. 8, Liebig’s, imported. 2 oz.4 55
No, 9. 90 | Liebig’s. imported. 4 os.* 60

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Choice ....... aes a Columbia if pint. ....2 40) ¢ — | a ne |
Fair Ce 35 ee a i aoe! 23 Central City Soap Co’s | aeons Se | theteet, or |
Boe a Durkee’s. s ; 0z.4 50 brand. ean i gal., each ..2 40
Half harrels 2c extra 22 | Snider's, oe 1 iy -5 25 | —— Scab ioe gene | Fancy .......... cane 40 | Barrel i a coe. --2
MINCE MEAT Gaidexé talk 2 z..2 35 | Jaxon, 5 box, ae ele tndta 15 gal., each ..2 70
Columbia, per case. ...2 75 doz..1 35 | Jaxon, 10 box, del ...3 5 | Comoe. <teioe -..----- ‘each tae & vom
a, MUSTARD “| tng ag te a Co. brands « ““*' "gg Round head, 6 grose bx. 56 | wo. 1 Tallow
rse Radish, | dz ac. 60 Ibs. in b ic ™ Lt oS TOBAC | < S) No. oo 4
Horse Radish. 2 ..-1 75 | Arm : ox | Calumet Fami . co &gy Crates ee ere eg as .
Bayle's cetery : — . Beland’s. merase) = 00 Caen Family” a iB Cadill oe Not coe oo -+-.2 40 Washed — ..
. _ eee aa aie |. . A, plete ....... g ashed, fine ..... 22
OLIVES a — eng Cow .......- 315| J. S. Kirk & Co. br a eeen ton. ose 54 ~~ No. 2, complete ... 32 Washed, medium .. es
Hulk. 14: oo 210\/A Co. brands f MA. 12+ ss eee ile 18 | Unwashed, fi me
: ee ee ist 2 >| sme Sony | eS fiawatha, 5b. pails ..56 | C _ Faucets eres ook ae
bulk. ; s- kegs ttt" gg | Wyandotte, ioe 2°23 00 Daas Diamond. 50 802.2 80 | weueeee 10%. pails 154 ae —e 8in.... 65 ashed, medium21@23
> eal. : o- nd. . ram .... ° < lined. cece
a — = SAL SODA | Jap Rose nd., 100 6oz..3 80 | Pay Car .--....2..00.. a i Soe awe: = So
een, pints .......: Gra | Savon I Sr ae | Prairie Rose .......... | ae ee tick
Queen, 19 oz ........ : = ae ben Sei 85 | White oeaian ela 3 10) Protection . eae = Mo on - — P
Queen, 28 oz .......... 4 50 | Lump, bbls. ee Sek. oe bars.00 002 10 | Sweet Burley ...2221211 a it oo Sees ass’ 7"
Stuffed. a $ . = Lump, 14518. _ ee gos = 9G | ak ik . 89 | Tiger ...... a er uestets 42 | welipee spring ........ 90 | Standard "s _ ce . 7
U Stuffed. $ oz oe egs- “" "95 | White ee os occ 40 | Eclipse patent sprin | Standard Twist hid
a eg gg A 1 45 Fanke Er ages oes 4 00 4 Plug | No. 1 common . Bh lee LAME... ecco c cuss 8
"Pp a. a ot te aoe & Co. brands Red Cross | No. 2 pat. brush sane’ Se ee 9
3 Clay, N IPES Diamond Crystal oa adn cae a ete 31 | 12%. cotton mop heads.1 85 Jumbo, 321b cases
' Sey eur count’ 08 /C Table Rem 100-ib. bate. s-$ 19 IO Sones Sooo ideal WoT cee S135 | xtra He He 2022 ;
Cob, No. 3 Acoimsaan = ee Mae eee t/a r. 100 pk.4 4 Hiawatha s.e.ceeee.e4l a Pails ee tae ae
PICKLES ao sam i ..3 00 eae bees occ ees 4 00 | American Hagie 2... 37 i=. teen Standard .. 1 60 30 tb. case ugar attem
e ee se Hasceia as 9 — +3 90 te r & Gamble nrapes fear Magy ....... = 3 —— Standard ’ UU
arrels, 1,200 coun fl mata... ig | Spear Head 7 oz. ... | 3-wire, _ 1 70 Mi
Half bbls, = count 4 = Barrels, “es bulk ..2 6 a7. 10 oe : : | eat, oo 2-3 oz. rH Godan arg pee aan te = | Grocers _— 6
ma _.2 65 | Star ....... Sage ote tse: 43 | Paper, EB ul NR, cas ttn 4s5ee> 4
Hal : Barrels’ 20 14Ib. bags 1.2 83| , A-,B.,Wrisley brands | Jolly Tar . ureka ..... |Competition ....
att Ship, ee cect - : 5 50 Sacks, 28 — bags ..2 % Pt gy oi a | Oi setae 00 39 | Fibre Fu 8 NOOR = | — podscuiun s caaius i%
os aaa. Good Cheer ..... RIE ag | TOMMY oon se nscscsee Toothpl " | Conserve ...--....6. ae
PLAYING CARD COLLDDESED ¢7| Old Countr | J. T. rane ae 34 OH picks ny 1%
S AM Sais SS | Hardwood .. | Royal .......e.ee.
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f No. 20: : ve assuricdl 20 | Boxes, 24 2Ib 150\s — Morgan's Sons. | lanes tn cpetsapttes ‘30 | Banguet prircte nares ed i 50 | Gut fe peiseteeess sen 3
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No. 672, S 0 Butter 3apoli lots ....9 00 | Black ee 150 English Rock ........ 8
No. 98. Golf, satin finish 1 75 | Bris, 280 Ibs, bulk. Sapolio, half gross lots.4 - oe 38 Traps oe oe
No 08, Bi satin finish2 00 | Linen bags, 5-56 iba 2 25 en single boxes ..2 25 | Forge eee teas 38 | Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22 |B ndergarten ........-. 8%
on ed — ees 2 oe wine fae oS 38 | Mouse, wood, 4 holes . St. 8%
ournm t whist 95 | Cotton bags, 10-28 Ibs 2 75 SODA | ir A hsiees <i ok ae + ie 9
4 : : , tin, 5 holes ... isaac bet hb hal 11
\ 48 cans Ch Boxes .... ig Smoking |Rat, wood «+ | ee eee
nate in case 5 barrel lots, 6 an See 5% | Sweet Core .... | Rat, sprin eels. 80 | Premio eee Crees ae
fe ae es | oe Puieaumnaats 2 ae 4% | Plat Car... 00000000 32 | BT csereceseses a ae
ee eee ou 10 barrel lots, 7% per Columbia SOUPS [en Sere Te ey ae || eee inane : OF ieccinh come
B S$ cent. discount. a toe 3 go) Warpath one... eee e. 2 | 20-in., Standard, No. 1.7 00 | Gypsy, ose .-38
Mess arrelied Pork Above prices are F. O. B Mette cial: 9011 os 16 oz. 7 | 16-in.., ene No. 2.6 00 | Coco . ee cet eee 14
Se 1: : e a. iz ard, No. joco Bon Bane ....-..- 12
egg age’ Comaare 00 100 ———- Grades : _— |1_X L, 16 oz., pails .: 27 | 20-in., Cable, Not a 30 | ean weet tte? ++ +12
, Fat Back ............ a6 06) 108 2 eee 7-5 So Aes Whole Spices | Honey Dew ee ao? oe oe 2-8 50 Gagureé Pesmate .2..21
See Ss ae spice ...... old Block ....... Ma ih | Se nuts ....
Pig ees ene ake 13 ov 28 Lomb. sacks sees: = Cassia, ee 2 Flagman ee 40 | Ne. i'Fibre =. No. 3 6 60 | Zeoteet “tee vf Pha is
MA ie eenee eect § Ib. sacks ........ q Jassia, Bz i 4 we a a 0 °. iis hap nt Kisses ......
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| a eS Hereditas promn H y Gaty Eat
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| i Sl Mace vaceeaeeagecceese 89 Yum Yum, 1b og'-.9 Single oo 118 Quintette Chocolates. 12
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s, : anscny ei, s, 5-20 a mS tone Se oa a Guitame ly teas 9
Hams, 14 Ib Sacuce 1% 22 | Pepper, Singapore, bik. 30 | Cor % on. 11124 «| Northern Queen ......! 2 69 | Lemon Sours
;, : ape 1s , Singapore, n Cake, 1 ern Queen . - 9
Hams, 16 Ib. average. redo Granulated: fine - Posaee, Gum. “ae 15 | Plow Boy, 1 | epee | Double OS sonal 2 50 | i MEE 9
Hams, 20 tb. average. 1” Medium ane foes go | Pepper, shot e . 25)|Plow Boy, 3% oa ee | Goed: Baar sl. 3 00 | ital, Cream Opera ...12
Skinned Hams ...... CO rcccoeee ae Ground in Buik - | Reerless, 3% — ae [SIMIOMME coe ccoccnesas 3 4 = oon pon ee
sd sets. 13 — Cassia, Batavia ees : 16 | Air Brake” 2-8 of. ...88 | 49 j Window Cleaners. | Molasses a ey
acon, clea cassia, AEN. | Gale ek 36 Be i | cages ...,... fo
Gitigornia tian. @'4%| Snail Whale, 22. @ 8 ae oe Speers ie ee ee
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Picnic Boiled Hams .. ie Strips or bricks. 14910 Ginger, ae ee 15 Good a 28 Weee @ -+-2 30) Lemon Sours —~ Boxes
Berlin H an Pollock ee ee 18 | mo 11 owls [pcpiteimtindllnn sang shhh dy 50
eae te waa ClO ee esi” Jamaica ..... : 26 | | Silv Binder .. 13 . — odd di 75 | | eeeesite | Drops ....60
| ao 9 Halibut Mace a-eveeceresesees ace = a ae crrttitig Blatt Ghee. Snape’... =
Canina” aa Mustard ---0..00--..- 4 ; 13 in. Butter ........ 200 H. M hoc. Drops .. .86
Pure nd. -e.-e+-+-++- 6 | Chunks dents, oscmie SAM boon, a 17 | Cotton, "WINE a. oe [1213 25 | Dark Choe, Lt. and
60 Ib. tubs. ‘advance. % sistas. « Pepper, Gagcue ' es a | Cotton, 4 ply ss a | cavers 18-15-49° 10009 . ee ‘Gums, asses
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‘ go. line. -advance: Holland so | tee Dope Lamune gee bc B Loge a a
10 Ib. pails. advance. ‘ white Hoop, barrels ..8 25 eassnaasee | Wool, << 20 | Sao an Straw ... 1 | iaepertale SERS +o
‘ 6 Ib. pails..advance. | |W. te hoops, %bbl. ...4 60 Common Gloss te | eue iia?” Up | Mettoes_......-.... oon SS
pails 1 White sae =e: -60@ 85 oa Ean weeee-4@5_ | Mal VINEGAR [No.4 Manila, colored . 3% | Cream Bar a en ao
s mchs .. ckages ....... alt Whit nila ...... ‘ olasses Bar .........
Norwegian Gib. packages ......... 4% M e Wine, 40 Cream M ca. i Vo ee a ee 56
Eee Ses .... alt Wh gr. 8 anila ....... Hand Mad
Se soa | Sag be las "ae ote ind By Oo Ona
Round, 60 Ibs ....... "3 10 8. cil eae ; ure Cider, Red 8 Wax B er, short c’nt.13 and Wintergreen 65
baceeenes a ommon Co Pure Cid tar.11 utter, full co String Rock uh
Trout 40 ib. ee 1s | Pure Cider, a i ys yn r— —. Old “Time A itanes <2
No. * ages ....4 | WA ais AST CA ime Assort 26
No. 1, 100 ts. ......-. 6 50 SYRUP | a. oe POWDER Magic, 3 doz. — ea eee a
' ei a + & BB ern ntenss 21> ; s | Gold se seas 75 | a eres 1 15 uster Br r Brown Goodies
Boneless BB veeeeeees 10 50 me tote. W.. 68 ree, — 33 | Gola Dust, 24 large. *| og Tent aan *% a a “Date Asstmt, 32
sieieiors #4 i . Alo lec an 0 .-
ump, new ......... 10 50 Mackerel THT barrels | aan 25 oe 100-5e.... 14 99 | Least Cream, 3 a 1 a ++++-3 50
% bbls Pig’s Feet a 100 Ibs. . 14 60 | 10Ib cans i oe ta case. 1 60 Pearline ” 24 40D. ... - Yeast Foam, 1% = - ad ee ae a Corn
Pee eee ress 1 10|Mess 50 Ibs. 2200020. 5Ib. ca: z in case.1 60 | So, ca ereens -.3 7 ; -» 68 Dandy Smack, 248 ..
3 3 bbis.. 40 IDS... 1 90 Mess 10 Ibs. ..... aks He 24%Ib oan so case. 1 $5 | Babbitt’s 1 eee aaa 4 = FRESH FISH  meage Smack, 100s :.:2 *
a bile es 3 io Mess 8 Ibs. .......... 1 45| pai ao eons of BB | Babbitt’s 1776 ........3 7 | Jumbo Whitefish Per tb. | Pop Corn ‘Toast,’ a 20
ses o =< **! lo ———_ .3 50| No. 1 Wh sh ..11@12 Cracker J s. 50
Kits, 16 Ibs .. i ee oe es Mae teres 3 00
pple. 40 “1s = Wisdom = rereseeesB 36 “Trout mocboeniapen 1912 p Corn Balls ....... 1 30
. onda 12% sion ll ad alan owe lack a — NUTS
c - Rub-No-More .... -----8 50 | Hal foot
Shien coe — : oe Janae o-More ....... ..3 75 Paar ete ts 10@11 | Almonds Fanea
Beef ee ce oie a oe Le WICKING luefish : oe. 2 a
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Solid, dairy eet @10 Oe ig #4 ———. ee No. 3 per icone Mae Haddock ....... «+ @12% | Filberts cents es <saneneaee
olls, dairy ----10%@11% Anise aan aor wads 36 WOODENWARE * Bike’ Pickerel .... 3% | Walnuts, French... -12
Corned ned Meats Canary, Smyrn Bask , medium .31 ARE 1 EE alnuts, soft shelled
Sacaas —— Pe 2 5y | Caraway ig cea eee ae choice ..38 Basiate em dressed ...: : | Fabia. De eaeae ...16@16
nae 1? ee sete lane Sap aa US a as, taney -..-1
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ot a. ae 33 | Mixed eG Fannings ......... iz@i4 | Splint. PE ahaa cages 35 Mackerel on Os | aoa ee “oid
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= SHOE BLACKING uey, medium ....30 ow Clothes | if So seveeeeee 40 | Shelled
BLACK Pin sees small.6 60) HIDE Spanish
Carolina ood te fan Handy Box, la: tai Pingsuey, = +++ 80 Bradley Butter B oe PRATS | Seana oo 71%4@8
; C icy. 6@6% H. . large, 3 dz.2 50 . fancy ......40 21. siz oxes Hides iw See eee . 38
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a a No 2s os Royal Polish .. 85 | Choice oung Hyson = size, 16 in case .. 68) arm No. | foes Meats .........25
Broken. ---+--- 36 3% iller’s Crown Polish. 85 | Fancy opaernenes seen = 8S 10Ib. ee . = case .. 63 Cured No. a Sa ee
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- ia ee ie : ; necrate. 45|C cured No. 111. |R . H. P., Suns,
° @|Amoy, choice .......:. 0. 3 Oval, 260 in crate. 50 alfskins. cured No oasted ....... aug
"7111 "gg |INo. 5 Oval. 250 in crate. 60 Steer Hides ¢0tbs. * overs! neice: B HP, Sbe @ 8%
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Business-Wants Department

Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word

the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent
Cash

continuous insertion.

must accompany all orders.

No charge less than 25 cents.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—Retail meat market in the
liveliest town in Southern Michigan, pop-
ulation 30,000. 1 pack my own hams,
bacon and lard; make all my own sau-
sage; I do no killing; I own my _ build-
ing and would sell or rent it; steam
plant and machinery
tion; the meat business,
wagons and stock of pickled meats,
invoice about $2,000; sales $500 to
per week; experience in the meat
ness not a necessity, as I have a man
working for me who is capable of run-
ning the business; a good, clean, money-
making business for some one. Address
No. 597, care Michigan Tradesman. 597

Grocery and Meat Business—Fine open-
ing for live, up-to-date party in prosper-

$650
busi-

 

 

ous Michigan county seat. Entire brick
building, three stories and basement, to
lease. No progressive competition. En-
quire of Geo. L. Little, Monroe, Mich. 600
Wanted To Exchange—Compressed | air
apparatus and electrical table plate for
optician’s trial case. Dr. Hawkey, Hes-
peria, Mich. 602
For Sale—Fourteen room hotel, new
and newly furnished, near Petoskey. Fine

trout fishing. Immediate possession on
account of poor health. Address No. 601,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 601
For Sale—The leading hardware store
in a thriving city in Western Illinois.
Invoice. Best location in city. A money-
maker. Best of reasons for selling. Ad-
dress Rambler, care Michigan Trades-
man. 605
For Sale—A fine bazaar stock in a
lumbering town in Northern Michigan,
county seat. Price right. Good reasons
for selling. Must be sold at once. Ad-
dress Rogers Bazaar Co., Grayling, Mich.
606

 

 

Cash or a good farm for your stock or
merchandise. Address Box 148, ———
dence, Iowa. ee

~ Restaurant—Located in a live mining
town of 2,000 population; only one other
small restaurant in town; good town for
some music organizer. L. M. Johnson.
Pleasant City. Ohio. 583

“An old-established business for sale,
stock consists of new and second-hand
furniture, stoves, etc., in the best city in
Southern Michigan; good reasons for sell-
ing. Northern Specialty Co., Battle
Creek. Mich. 582

ict doing good

 

 

For Sale—Candy — aay

business, both city and country, Seattle,
Washington; population, 150,000 Ad-
dress W. H. Hecht & Co. 587

 

Wanted—Active experienced partner in
retail dry goods business, with $10,00¢
cash capital, in one of the best cities ir
Iinois. Address Gubbins, Jung & Co.
147-153 Fifth Ave., Lees Building, Ba
cago, Il.

Fine residence, new store building, ee
eral stock of merchandise for sale cheap.
Box 280, Cedar Springs, Mich. 577

Wanted—To buy a stock of goods at
onee. Lock Box 21, Odessa, oo
6
A retail business in Philadelphia for
sale; light, clean and well paying; buyer
must have from $5.000 to $7,000 cash; a
chance = a lifetime; must sell to settle
estate. E. Skinner, 2310 North Han-
cock St., Moniladelphia, Pa. 563

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, —

 

 

 

For Sale—Small stock of general mer-
chandise in a live town. Will sell ata
bargain and rent building; good two-
story brick. Address Box 387, Portland.
Mich 570

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 S. A. Lock-
wood. T.apeer. Mich. 545

M. Smith Safe Co., agents _ one
of ten strongest, heaviest and best fire-
proof safes made. All kinds of second-
hand safes in stock. Safes opened and
376 South lonia street. gg

repaired. :
Grand Rapids

phones.

in excellent condi- | !
including horses, |
will |

 

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.
es 301 Jefferson St., Grand —"

Ss.

 

For Sale—One of the finest 100- —
flour mills and elevators in the State.
good B vs howd business. Address, H. v
care chigan Tradesman. 453

 

For Sale—Stock consisting of bazaar
goods, crockery, glassware, lamps and
groceries; also fixtures; invoices $1,000;
centrally located in thriving town of 909
inhabitants; rent low; good trade and
paying business. Ill health reason for
selling. Address No. 499, care Michigas
‘Tradesman. 499

For Sale Cheap—Good > corner brick
store and office building and vacant lot
adjoining, in hustling Thompsonville,
Mich. Price $3,600 cash.
cent. interest. Address G. W.

Sharp,
North Baltimore, Ohio. 553

 

For Sale—Meat market; good location. | Arctic 16 oz ro’d, p gro 9 00

Address No. 554, care Michigan Trades-
man. 554

A Golden Opportunity—Party desires
to retire from business. Will sell stock |
and building or stock, consisting of |
clothing, boots and shoes, and_ rent
buildirpg. Only cash buyers need apply.
Write or call and see.
Lander, Wyoming.

 

 

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. yi008 6 6. CE.
Blunt, S. D. ee

For Sale—A modern ‘eight- -room house
Woodmere Court. Will trade for stock
of groceries. Enquire J. Powers.
Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, —
Phone 1455.

Wanted—Will pay cash for an =
lished, profitable business. Will consid-
er shoe store, stock of general merchan-

Price,

 

dise or manufacturing business. Give
full particulars in first letter. Confiden-
tial. Address No. 519, care Michigan
Tradesman. 519

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. 532

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. 535

A firm of old standing that has been
in business for fifteen years and whose
reputation as to integrity, business meth-
ods, etc., is positively established, de-
sires a man who has $5,000 to take an
active part in the store. This store is
a department store. Our last year’s busi-
ness was above $60,000. The man must
understand shoes, dry goods or groceries.
The person who invests this money must
be a man of integrity and ability. Ad-
dress No. 571, care Michigan Tradesman. | *

71

 

 

Brings 12 per |

Bossert.
529 |

 

For Sale—Bright, new up-to-date stock
of clothing and furnishings and fixtures,
the only exclusive stock in the _ best
town of 1,200 people in Michigan; nice
brick store building; plate glass front;
good business. Stock will inventory
about $5,000. Will rent or sell building.
Failing health reason for selling. No
trades. Ackerson Clothing Co., Middle-
ville, Mich, 569

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 building in a aon
town on the Pere Marquette Railroa
for stock of merchandise or drug stock.
Address Lock Box 214, Marion, Mich. 485

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 a

2

 

 

 

Cash for Your Stock—Or we will close
out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce ry stock.
Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,
577 West Forest Ave., Detroit, Mich. 2

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
ehandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan ~~
man.

 

 

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SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Paragon 65 6 00

BAKING POWDER
Jaxon Brand

JAXKON

\%Ib. cans, 4 doz. ease 45
%tb. cans, 4 doz. case 85
| Tb. cans, 2 doz. casel 60

Royal

10c size. 90
%lbcans 135
6 ozcans 190
%lbcans 250
&%lbcans 375
1 Teans 480
= 3 tbcans1300
5 Ibcans 2150
BLUING

 

Arctic 8 oz evals, p gro 6 00

BREAKFAST FOOD
Grits
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brands

 

 

Cases, 24 2 Ib pack’s..2 00
CIGARS

 

J. Johnson Cigar Co.’ —
ewe than 500....... pk
5900 or more... ....... 5 2 00
«000 or more......... 3 00

COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

70 %Ib pkg, per case..2 60
35 +2tb pkg. per case. .2 60
= Ip pkg, per case. .2 60

6 %Ib pkg, per case. .2 60

FRESH MEATS

 

Beef
Carcass. ...... .-6%@ 9%
Forequarters. 54@ 6%
Hindquarters. 8%@10
oo |. 12 @16
HS see 84@13
Rounds. ......... %@ 8
CRUCES. oo ks. @ 6
Plates .....20..: @ 4
Pork
Dressed ....,....- @ 5%
TORS so ee @ 9%
Boston Butts. ... @ 6%
Shoulders. ...... @ 7%
Leaf Lard ....... 7
Mutton
Carcass. 2... 5... 9
Tame 2... s C. 11 @1z
Veal
Carcass ..... pone <a %

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CORN SYRUP |

24 10c cans ..
12 25c cans
6 60c cans ..........2 30

  

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hoe

 

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds.

 

White House, 1 Ib......
White House, 2 Ib.......
Excelsior, M & J, 1 “tbs:
Excelsior, M & 7 . tb..
‘Lup Top, M & J, 1 tb....
ee
Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....
Distrivuted by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
Nations] Grocer Co., De-
troit and Jackson; F. Saun-
ders & Co., Port Huron;
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel & Goeschel,
Bay City; Godsmark, Du-
rand & Co., Battle Creek;
Fielbach Co., Toledo.

COFFEE SUBSTITUTE
Javril

 

2 doz. in case.

 

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-Salt
One dozen
Ball’s quart
jars
(8 pounds
noes. ae

Mason

each)

 

STOCK FOOD.
Superior Stock Food Co.,
Ltd.
$ .50 carton, 36 in box.10.80
1.00 carton, 18 in box.10.s9
12% Yb. cloth sacks... .84

25 Tb. cloth sacks... 1.65
50 Ib. cloth sacks.... 3.15
100 tb. cloth sacks.... 6.00
Peck measure ....... -90
% bu. measure...... 1.80

12% Tb. sack Cal meal .39
25 tb. sack Cal meal.. .75
F. O. B. Plainwel, Mich.

 

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

in

100 cakes, large size..6 50
50 cakes, large size..3 25
100 cakes, small size. .3 85

0 cakes. small size..1 95

Tradesman Co.'s Brand

 

Black Hawk, one box..2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs.3 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES

Halford, large ........3 75
Halford, small ........3 25

 

Place Your
Business
ona
Cash Basis

_ by using
our
Coupon Book
System.
We
manufacture
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sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape
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denomination.
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pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us.
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) Soon will begin a season when, if the merchant
4 lets things take their natural course, outgo will be
dangerously near--possibly even greater than--income.

| | To forestall that condition, there is a way--The

i Butler Way. To travel it demands but extra push
and some goods particularly selected for tempting
the jaded, summer, buying appetite.

We have such goods in plenty--varied enough
to keep the summer offerings of the largest store
continuously so spiced as to arouse the hunger of de-

 

 

! sire in the most satiated of buyers.

i Besides the goods, our July catalogue describes
: in detail practical methods--not only for making trade
i in new things good but, also, for the use of those new
things in turning stock odds and ends into ready money.
x A request for the July catalogue will be especially
i interesting, for well know that it comes from the
y merchant ready with the Extra Push and that’s the
| kind our catalogue is made for. The July catalogue

is No. J509.

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Canned Corn to Be Scarce.

According to present indications
the prospective corn pack will be
reduced far below what it was last
year and much below what it usually
is. Farmers have had difficulty with
their seed, and in some _ instances
three replantings have been _ neces-
sary. New York State and Maine
have been severe sufferers in this re-
gard. The losses sustained during
the past two years have discouraged
growers, and there is every evidence
that the acreage will be much less
this year than it has been for several
years. Last year’s pack in New York
was 585,403 cases, and the pack of
1902 was 552,167 cases. It is gen-
erally believed that the prospective
pack this season is sold ahead.

In Maine conditions at present are
no better than they are in New York.
Available seed has poor germinating
qualities, and in some instances three
replantings have been necessary.
Conservative estimates place the
pack about the same as last year. The
quantity put up last year aggregated
381,000 cases, compared with 367,000
cases in 1902. Under favorable con-
ditions New York, Maine, and the
other New England States put out
3,750,000 cases a year. The _ entire
prospective output of Maine has been
sold under early contracts, and not
a packer can be found who is willing
to sell a case under any terms. An
ezrly price for Western account was
95 cents per dozen, free on board,
Portland.

In Maryland conditions have been
favorable up to a week ago, but poor
weather has injured the crop pros-
pects; yet they appear more favor-
able than in New York and Maine.
The Maryland pack last year was
588,000 cases, compared with 498,000
cases in 1902. Some packers are still
auoting on the basis of 62%c per
dozen for standard No. 2 and 67%c
to 7oc for standard Maine style, free
on board, factory.

Much of the acreage in the West
has been plowed up and planted to
other crops because of poor germina-
tion of the seed. Many of the pack-
ers will supply their contract grow-
ers with seed in the hope that they
will be able to produce sufficient
corn to fill contracts.

The total pack of the United States
last vear was 4,600,000 cases, com-
pared with 4,200,000 cases the previ-
ous year. In 1901 the pack was 5,-
000,000 cases and in 1900 6,400,000
cases, the latter the largest in the

history of the business.
—_————o2> >

Two Records Broken.

At the Athelstan club yesterady af-
ternoon C. E. Kolb, John Knight
and C. R. Dye, the traveler, were tell-
ing their experiences with snakes and
fish. “Farmer” Knight and “Cap’t’l-
ist” Kolb were way ahead, when “Old
Man” Dye started in to relate some
of his tales.

“Well,” said Dye, “my father and
my uncle came to Michigan in 1836,
settled in Ionia county, and were cut-
ting marsh hay one day when they
killed 265 rattlesnakes.”

Knight and Kolb, partially paral-

 

yzed by the blow, asked, “Can you
tell a true fish story?”

“Why, yes,” said Dye, “but it’s a
tame one. My brother is spending
the year in South Africa and a while
ago he went fishing, with a couple of
natives, for alligators, using a cod-
fish hook, and having a young goat
for bait. They pulled out in the
Congo River about a mile and got a
strike. The alligator, as they sup-
posed it was, pulled them up the
river two miles, and finally gave up,
when my brother was surprised to
find that their fish was a full-sized
hippopotamus.”

Mr. Dye insists that both stories
are true and says his brother sent
him some of the hippo’s teeth for
proof. But when Kolb told the story
at home last evening, his little daugh-
ter would not believe it, and asked.
“Why didn’t Mr. Dye use a bale of
hay for bait?”

Members of the club threaten to
buy a belt for the “Old Man.”—Battle
Creek Record.

———— +s

In St. Louis recently a jury ac-
quitted a notorious woman of the
charge of grand larceny when the
proof was clear against her. She
stole $204 from a visitor after entic-
ing him into a resort. It seems that
some members of the jury flirted
with the woman in court. The Judge
commented on this defeat of justice,
due to what he called a “sickening
flirtation,” and Assistant Circuit At-
torney Bishop sarcastically thanked
the jury for their verdict in these
words: “Gentlemen of the jury, I
thank you for your verdict. I thank
you in the name of all that is lawless
and shameless in crime and criminals.
I thank you for the discriminating
taste you have shown—for the high
order of citizenship which you have
displayed—in being influenced in your
verdict by a pretty woman’s winks
and a glimpse at a bit of openwork
stocking. You are a credit to your
class.” If the jury had not forgot-
ten how to blush, these words must
have brought the blood to their
faces.

Every merchant: must take into ac-
count what the public thinks of him.
He wants the good opinion of most
of the good people of the community.
He can not expect to have the good
opinion of all the good people be-
cause some of them will allow their
prejudices to sway their judgment.
He need not be afraid, however, to
refuse credit to unworthy parties. He
must also bring much tact to his serv-
ice when he does refuse-——Commer-
cial Bulletin.

— rss —___

Detroit—The plan to operate aco-
operative wholesale grocery, whereby
retailers would secure better prices,
started under the firm name_ of
Starkweather & Co., has been aban-
doned, and the company has sold out
to Lee & Cady. The reason given
for selling out is that there was not
enough capital behind the enterprise
to carry it on successfully.

Decline in Calicoes.
American prints have declined %
cent per yard. Send us your orders.
P. Steketee & Sons.

 

Businasonls

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Steam Bakery—Simpkins oven; boiler,
No. 6 Day mixer, brake, ten horse power
electric motor, bakeshop tools, oak writ-
ing desk, counters, wall and show cases.
safe, cash register, fifty grocery show
cases, six horses, five wagons. Doing
good business; 55 to 60 barrels weekly.
Large cake trade. Price, $3,000. Rea-
son, sickness. Vienna Steam Bakery,
Fort Wayne, Ind. 617

Wanted—To buy half interest in stock
of general merchandise. Address No.
615, care Michigan Tradesman. 61)

For Sale—Tin shop, complete set tools,
good furnace business. Small stock. Ad-
dress Lock Box 592, Shelby, Mich. 611

For Sale—New four-room cottage at
Lake Missaukee Park, beautiful summer
resort on G. R. & LR. R. Price very
low. Terms easy. Write for illustrated
booklet. Address B. A Howard, McBain,
Mich. 612

 

 

For Sale—The only confectionery and
restaurant combined in the city; a rush-
ing business. Apply at once to Box 784,
St. Clair, Mich. 614°

If you wish to hear of a genuine grouna
floor enterprise, with modern 10 stimp
mill, 6 gold mines, large veins, 1,000 feet
development, ore shipments averaged
over $50, in heart of great gold camp,
drop card to John O. Ming & Co., fiscal
agent, Marshall, Mo. 613

For Sale—The right opportunity for
anyone wishing hotel business. Entire
new outfit, up-to-date style, in new
three-story twenty room brick; hot and
cold water and toilet rooms on_ each
floor, fine bath room; rent cheap; rates,
$1.50 and $2 per day; meals, 50 cents;
good transient trade, constantly _in-
creasing; located in the best town of its
size in the State of Michigan to-day;
population about 1,200; excellent agricul-
tural surroundings; two railroads through
the place. Price for outfit, $1,250. Rea-
son for selling, family sickness and must
change climate at once. Address No.
558, care Michigan Tradesman. 558

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

Drug Store and Business for’ Sale
Cheap—$3,000 inventory. Address Muske-
gon, care Michigan Tradesman. 594

For Sale or Rent—Two-story brick
building in hustling town; fine location
for any business; store has electric light,
fixtures, shelving, counters, tables, city
water. Address No. 595, care Michigan
Tradesman. 595

For Sale—We have decided to sell our
stock of hardware; will inventory about
$3,500; here is a great chance for some
one. Miller Bros., leading hardware deal-
ers at Colon, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Wantd—Position as salesman in retail
hardware store. Have had ten years’
experience. Address Box 367, Kalkas
Mich. 466

Wanted—A position by an experienced
clothing and shoe man as clerk or mana-
ger. Address J. A. Vandervest, Thomp-
sonville, Mich. ~ 655

Ad-writer, thoroughly experienced in
clothing—all its branches; Al salesman,
open to proposition after June 20; satis-
factory references. Address Lock Box
817, Tecumseh, Mich. 576

 

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

To Merchants—Are you burdened with
slow-moving stock? Try the ‘Correcx
Method Sales People.’”’ They move it
out on a small commission. No new
goods to be bought. You make the price.
Write for particulars. The C. O. Scott
Co., Main Office 120 South Lebanon St.,
Lebanon, Indiana. 604

The Hoosier Hustler—The prince of
merchandise auctioneers, carries the larg-
est book of reference of any auctioneer
in the United States; now selling stock
for A. H. Dearborn. For terms and ref-
erence book address Box 12, Barnes, Kan-
sas. 603

Reduction Sales—Conducted by my
new and novel methods draw crowds
everywhere. Beat any auction or _fire
sale ever held. I personally conducr
every sale. I am not a novice at the
business, but a competent special sales-
man and advertiser with years of ex-
perience. My methods clean your stock
of all stickers, and will quickly raise
money for the merchant. I also conducr
closing out sales. For terms and refer-
ences write to-day. Address W. A.
Anning, 86 Williams street, Aurora, Illi-
nois. ~ 607

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
uf the most prufitable either at auction
or at private sule. Our long experience
and new methods are the only means,
no matter how uld your stock is. We
employ no one but the best austioneers
and salespeople. Write for terms and
date. ‘he Giobe ‘Traders & Licensed
Auctioneers, U:iice 431 EK. Nelson  St..
Cadillac, Mich. 445

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 fuiled to please. Write for
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
bash ave., Chicago. (Reference, Dun’s
Mercantile Agency.) 872

 

On account of ill health I wish to close
out at once my stock of general mer-
chandise, consisting of groceries; all new
stock a year and a half ago, dry goods
and notions. For particulars address J.
M. Wheeler, Shelby, Mich. 591

For Sale—An established and profita-
ble business consisting of a family res-
taurant run in connection with bakery in
a thriving Michigan city of over 25,000
inhabitants; splendid returns on invest-
ment; good reasons for selling furnished;
a fine opportunity for right man _ or
woman; terms cash. Address P. O. Box
493, Kalamazoo, Mich. 590
_ For Sale—Hardware stock inventory-
ing from $3,000 to $3.500; established six
years; reason for selling, are not familiar
with the hardware business and lumber
yard requires all of our attention. Ad-
dress A. A. Hemily & Co., Newaygo,
Mich. 580

Bakery—At invoice; most convenient,
up-to-date bakery, confectionery, ice
cream plant in Central Illinois. Strictly
cash business, no delivering. Money-
making business, growing every year; no
competition; will bear closest investiga-
tion. Reason for selling, want to go into
other business. Anyone meaning busi-
ress and wanting nice money-maker, ad-
dress K. Cooper, Maroa, IIl. 573

 

 

HELP WANTED.

Wanted—A registered assistant to work
nights; ten hours work; must be well
recommended. Address No. 596, care
Michigan Tradesman. 596

 

 

Salesman Wanted—First-class shoe and
findings road salesman to carry our new
dressing in connection with regular line.
Nothing like it on the market. Meets
with instant favor. Liberal terms. Teats
Polish Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 57

Wanted—Grocery and drug salesman
to sell an article with merit. through
your house; liberal commission. Write
Maple City Soap Works, ———

562

 

 

 

POSITIONS WANTED.

 

Position Wanted—Young lady woula

like position as assistant book-keeper or’

some kind of work in an office. Good
references. Address L., care Michigan
Tradesman. 598

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Grocerymen and _ Dealers—50c will
bring you by return mail 100 _ bright,
catchy. up-to-date pulling suggestions for
advertising by circular or in newspapers.
Don’t delay a day in sending for them
and see how your business will grow.
Address R. A. Neff, 1020 Broadway, To-
ledo, Ohio. 616

Wanted—Good second-hand _ portable
baker’s oven. C. E. Fairweather, Imlay
City, Mich. 608

Wanted—We are in a position to con-
tract for light manufacturing work; nov-
elties, punch-press work, forming, as-
sembling, etc.; the larger the contract the
better; prices and estimates given prompt
attention on receipt of samples and spe-
cifications; quality of work guaranteed.
P. O. Box 56, Toledo, Ohio. 609

 

 

 

  

 

Wanted—To buy at once one_ second-
hand hand carpet machine. Write at
once condition and time in use and price
wanted. Address Harry H. Shaw, Gree-
ley, Colo. 599

 

Good Typewriter wanted in exchange
for printing. Gildart Bros., Albion, _—

 

Four new towns on Thief River Falls
extension of the Great Northern railway
now being built. First-class openings for
all kinds of business and investments.
Address A. D. Stephens, Crookston, =

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A Good Position is always open for a
eompetent man. His difficulty is to find
it. We have openings for high-grade men
in all capacities—Executive, Technical
and Clerical—paying from $1,000 to $10.-
000 a year. Write for plan and booklet.
Hapgoods (Inc.), Suite 511, 309 Broadway,
New York. 37

Bees, honey and bee-Keepers’ supplies.
The Rural Bee-keeper, sample copy free.
Address W. H. Putnam, River Falls,
Wis. 556

 

 

To Exchange—80 acre farm 3% miles
southeast of Lowell. 69 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 gond town. Real
estate is worth ahout $2.500. Correspon-
ee solicited. Konkle & Son. ogg

 

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