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Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1904

Number 1094

 

William Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, 1st Vice-Pres.
William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres.
M, C. Huggett, Seoy-Treasurer

The William Connor Co.

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IMPORTANT FEATURES.

Page.

2. Mean Motives.

3. Why Teeth Decay.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Window Trimming.

8. Editorial.

10. Dry Goods.

12. Butter and Eggs.

14. New York Market.

15. Two $10,000 Jobs.

16. Spring Dress Goods.
18. What Men Will Wear.
20. Shoes.

23. Dress Goods Priecs.
24. Love Has Wings.

26. Care of the Hair.

28. Woman’s World.

30. War on Mosquitoes.
32. History Repeats Itself.
34. Hardware.

36. The Making of Perfume.
28. Leather Goods.

39. Dolls and Toys.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs and Chemicals.
43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery Price Current.
46. Special Price Current.

 

 

ENGLAND IN EGYPT.

Although Egypt is nominally a self-
governing, an autonomous country
under the suzerainty, only loosely
recognized, of the Sultan of Turkey,
it is, in fact, and to all practical pur-
poses, a British protectorate, hardly
as independent as the Native States
of India.
is appointed by the Khedive and all
governmental acts are executed
the name of that potentate, but not
a minister is actually appointed, nor
important governmental function ex-
ercised, without the approyal of the

British Resident.
Despite the practical control of
Egvpt by Great Britain and the |

fact that British troops occupied the
country and the native soldiery has
for years been under British control,
still the finances of the country had
been independent of British jurisdic-
tion.
up by the Khedive Ismail, the foreign
creditors of the country insisted up-
on the management of the finances
being taken out of the Khedive’s
hands and lodged in the control of
an international commission, in which
England, France and several other
countries were represented. The Khe-
dive was granted a stipulated salary
or civil list, and, after the running
expenses were provided for, the bal-
ance was laid aside as a sinking fund
to extinguish the foreign debt.
Owing to the many reforms insti-
tuted by the British the finances of
Egypt, which, previous to British
control, were in a wretched condi-
tion, so improved that not only was
the debt amply provided for, but a
large surplus was gradually accu-
mulated, amounting now to £10,000,-
000 or $50,000,000. While this vast
sum could have been of incalculable
benefit to Egypt, its expenditure was
steadily opposed by France, owing
to the fact that the money would

It is true that the ministry |

in |

Owing to the vast debt piled |

have to be expended under British
control.

Although France, by her own act,
failed to participate in the armed
intervention which restored order in
Egypt in 1880, she has never ceased
to resent the presence in the country
of British troops, and constantly de-
manded assurances as to when the
| British occupation would terminate.
| At times the hard feeling occasioned
| by this problem approached danger-

|
|
|
|
|

 

| ously near to war, especially at the|

time of the Fashoda incident.

however, France was never able
was able, through the Debt Commis-
to greatly hamper and disar-

| range British plans.

sion,

The treaty with France, negotiated

some months ago, finally settled the |

While, |
to |
drive Great Britain from Egypt, she |

|

| over, promise a

Egyptian problem, and left Eng-
|land for the future a free hand in |
| Egypt. British occupation of the

|kept quiet and undemonstrative. It

can be safely proclaimed at any time
the British government may see fit
to do so. Better than that, the Brit-
ish government will no longer be
hampered by the French opposition
on the Debt Commission, and will
no doubt be able to abolish the Com-
mission itself whenever it is conve-
nient to pay off the debt or provide
for it with British credit.

The

such as additional dams on the Nile
to improve irrigation and reclaim
present unproductive.
be used in building railroads and
of the Soudan.

Whether the British
will at once proclaim a protectorate
in Egypt or merely permit the status
quo to continue under the improved
auspices until a logical occasion shall
arrive for openly asserting her sov-
ereign rights remains to be seen, but
the chances are largely in favor of
the latter course. Whatever Egypt’s
future the fact is patent that she has
prospered more under British rule
than she has at any time since the
days of the Ptolemies.

government

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

advancing
line the
the week

indication to
trade conditions every
movement of stocks for

should be steadily upward.

pointing
in

gree oi activity not equaled in many
months past. While, doubtless,
speculative manipulation has had
much to do in increasing the volume
of business, the latter is too great to

 

£10,000,000 which have been |

susands of acres of good land, at}
thousands of r = |and steel operators have held meet-

Part of it can[o. i .
jings and reduced prices

ul |
The en-|
couraging feature of this movement |
is that it is accompanied by a de-|

be wholly attributed to such opera-
tions. While it is yet between sea-
sons in many leading lines, the defi-
nite improvement gives promise that
as the season advances the improve-
ment in general trade conditions will
continue in accellerating ratio.

the

is

The most assuring feature is
favorable crop situation. Wheat
secured, and while there has been
injury which will seriously affect the
quality in some localities, the crop
is a large one and will do its share
in giving the railroads profitable em-
ployment.
and heard of the corn situation, while
this cereal has quietly gone on to
maturity in what promises to be a
record-breaking quantity. Then fruits,
as a whole, are in healthy abundance,
indeed, apples, taking the country
larger yield than ever
The condition of the cotton

ll

~

Much less has been said

known.

| crop has been 2 matter of much spec-
| country is no longer a thing to be|

ulation, which has kept the price of

i that staple abnormally high, but as

is not only a palpable fact, but it

the yield becomes assured there is
promise of a more healthy basis for
the manufacture.

As the season advances adverse in-

| fluences in general trade are having

| less

effect. The political situation,
which is generally considered a se-
rious!y disturbing factor, is scarcely
in its relation to. trade.
labor difficulties in both

mentioned
Then the

|the East and West are of less con-

tied up can now be devoted to great |
public works for the benefit of Egypt, |

sequence than anticipated, and these

are fast being settled.

enough
of

Iron

is
to give assurance

In manufactures there
conseivatism
increase.

a

steady, moderate

of some

|lines which seemed to be too high

opening up to traffic the best parts |

 

| spirit of rivalry, but it must be

It is not strange that with every}

| trade Japanese teas would never
| been introduced abroad to any

for healthy business. Woolen manu-
facturers active on seasonable
work, but uncertainty as to the fu-
ture of the staple retards operations
beyond immediate needs. Cotton is
still slow, but the fact that general
stocks are low gives assurance ofan
early demand. Footwear is getting
on a more substantial basis and there
is comparatively little idle machinery.

are

 

Japanese merchants are extending
their efforts in the manufacture and
export of teas, and it is possible that
this may be done somewhat in the
con-
that without the aid of resi-
dent foreigners engaged in the

ceded

tea
have
con-
neither would its
present foreign export be maintained.
The same may said in the case
of mattings and other Japanese ex-
ports.

siderable extent;

be

Facts are stubborn but theories are
stubborner.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

MEAN MOTIVES.

 

They Necessarily Make the Work
Mean.

All work, no matter what it is, par-
takes oi the character of
This
commonplace, yet we too seldom re-
For
stance, while we are pounding away
on hcw to get ahead of the “other
we may fail to consider how

the man

who produces it. is indeed a

alize how significant it is. in-

fellow”
this feeling toward the “other fel-
may react us, and
quently on the work we do.

low” on conse-
make
If your idea of success

A mean motive. will

work mean.

your

is simply to get ahead of somedody
else your work will be correspond-
ingly mean and narrow. If your idea
of success relates itself primarily to
an ideal. you have set yourself, an ideal
that requires certain things of your-
self on principle, but which, also on
principle, does not interfere with the
well being of your fellow workers,
the work you produce will show a
different, a broader character than if
you thought your success must neces-
sarily be founded on the failure of
someone else.

If you are stingy, penurious, and
miserly your work will show it; your
work will not be full measure. “With
what measure you mete it shall be
measured to you again.” And you
cannot be stingy without having your
stinginess show in all the work you
do. If you are a miser at heart your
work, no matter what it is, will show
pinched, dry, and small, just as, on
the contrary, if you are generous
your work will show largeness and
generosity—-open heartedness.

Experienced telegraphers
experts in reading character
” They cannot speak of op-
erators as friends of whom they know
nothing except their manner of trans-
mitting a message. “O, I know him
well. I’ve never talked with him, but
I know him over the wire, and I know
him well,” says one operator to an-
other. He means simply that the
man’s character shows in his manner
of working. The quality soonest de-

become
“over
the wire.

tected in a_ telegrapher’s work is
courage or its opposite. Indeed, this
characteristic is almost the first to

show in any kind of work, and teleg-
raphers claim to distinguish the sex
of an operator by this one means.

Not men alone, but even animals
read character in one’s work. An in-
telligent horse soon learns the charac-
ter of the man riding or driving him
and conducts himself accordingly. It
is well known that dogs have a per-
ception of character, which they
must learn from one’s manner of
acting and speaking.

Character in handwriting, character
in speech, character in walking are
commonplace. But the idea of im-
proving one’s work by strengthening
one’s character is not often acted up-
on. In the first place, it sounds so
“goody-goody” that you are repelled
straight off. It seems akin to the
typical Sunday school paper story of
the abnormally unselfish boy who,
as a reward for his unselfishness, be-
comes a junior member in his firm at
the mature age of 21. It also smacks

 

 

of the heroically domestic young
woman who, although she has freck-
les and a snub nose, yet is rewarded
with a husband having youth, beauty,
brains, honors, and “money to burn,”
all she is a
keeper prefers

because model house-
and “minding the
baby” to reading a novel.

I say that we do feel such a creep-
ing of the flesh at the mere mention
of such tales of early rewards for sup-
that we
forget or overlook, or ignore the fact
of the moral quality of all work and
the relation which exists between the
moral quality of work and the ma-
terial reward which it brings.

posedly spiritual goodness

What you are shows in what you
do; what you are is what chiefly gives
color and individuality to what you
do. Therefore, instead of thinking all
the time of how to get ahead of the
other fellow, it would really stand you
in stead to consider whether
attitude toward the other fel-
low is the right attitude; instead of
always thinking how t6 make the
most money, to consider whether you
expend wisely what you make; in-
stead of considering whether you are
sufficiently ambitious, to consider
whether your ambitions are worthy;
instead of considering whether your
methods are sufficiently sharp and
shrewd, to consider whether they are
absolutely honorable and just.

good

“OUT

It might stand you in good stead
to do this, but if your motive in doing
so is merely practical instead of
moral. then you will get for result in
your work not moral quality, not
strength or effectiveness, but merely
affectation. Any quality which is cul-
tivated for effect will show in your
work for affectation and for nothing
better. A coward may “talk big” and
make people believe for a time in his
wonderous exploits and _ hairbreadth
escapes, but if he be a farmer let him
milk a cow, if he be a telegrapher let
him send a message over the wire,
if he be a schoolmaster let him teach,
and those who are wise in these sev-
eral occupations will soon be able to
tell whether he is fearful or brave. If
he wants to be a better farmer, or
telegrapher, or teacher !et him forget
his timidity, and the result will show
in his work.

So a man may talk a great deal
about honesty, but if he is not thor-
ough in his work he is not honest.
And a dishonest man cannot be thor-
ough. If, then, he wants to do the
only kind of work that pays let him
begin by being honest. If you want
to do work that will bring big results,
that will be broadly founded and far
reaching in extent begin by being
generous insteady of stingy. And so
one might catalogue the moral vir-
tues, for all work has a moral quality,
which increases or diminishes its
practical! effect.

Your character does import itself
to your work. And timid work can-
not compete with brave work; stingy
work cannot hold its own with gen-
erous work; mean and narrow work
must yield precedence to work that is
inherently broad and noble. Dishon-
est work must soon or late yield the

palm to work that is just as well

done in the dark as in the light, just

 

as well -one in the corners and
around the edges as in the middle.

In studying business methods,
therefore, never forget that, however
pertect your method. your technique.
vour success or failure is bound up in
your character. However far-reach-
ing your ambition, it is circumscribed
by your character. The most per-
fect method in the world is, after all,
only method. The quality of the man
behind the method counts more than
everything else, even in the dryest
and most mechanical business.

Practical success is, therefore, the
result of all that you are, of the sum
of your qualities—of your character.

John A. Howland.
2-2
Big Wrapper Season.

The eiderdowns have a large sec-
tion of the market to themselves, and
many improvements in this weave are
to be noted. In both sacques and
dressing gowns ribbon binding is the
favorite trimming. Plain and _ print-
ed French flannels, challies, and alba-
trosses are also employed in this class
of goods. In high-priced goods soft
silks are the most popular, and they
are usually elaborately trimmed in
lace.

A noticeable feature in
chases made this season is the de-
mand for better goods. Not only are
the stores in the large cities buying
expensive goods, but also those in
the smaller towns. Even in the cheap
goods the buyers are more particular
about the make and material, and
price does not seem to be as big an
object as formerly.

the pur-

 

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A caller stopped at the house of a
certain man and asked if he was at
home.

“*Deed an’ he’s not,” replied the
woman who answered the ring.

“Can you tell me where he is?”

“t could not!”

“When did you see him last?”

“At his funeral.”

“And who may you be?”

“I'm his remains,” said the widow,
and she closed the door.

—_—_+ 2. ___
Confirmed.

Quizzy—There is a rumor around
the hotel that you and Arthur had a
terrible falling out last night.

Dizzy—Quite true; we were both in
the hammock when the rope broke.

 

 

   
 
 

   
  
     

    

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WHY TEETH DECAY.

Caused Principally by by Fermentation |
of Food Films.

Nature made teeth perfect in the}
beginaing, and no doubt they were |
intended to serve a full lifetime. |
Why do they, as a rule, among civ-
ilized people, last but little over |
half that time?

All the whys and the wherefores |
can not be entered into here, but in
a large majority of cases the teeth |
of modern man do not come into
the mouth perfect in form and tex-
ture, and in consequence are predis-
posed to decay. The imperfections
and abnormalties are among the
marked features of that physical de-
generacy we so often hear about, that |
seems to follow a high state of civil- |
ization, notwithstanding the fact that |
ours is an age of approved methods |
of physical culture. It is a problem |
of long standing in the mater of he- |
redity and can be mastered only by |
several generations of more rational |
living. And yet much may be done
to improve conditions in our own in-
dividual lives, with beneficial influ-
ences upon our offspring. Proper nu- |
trition for both mother and child |
puts the later in a higher grade of|
perfection in every way, and espe-|
cially as regards teeth, than would |
likely be the case under neglect.

The teeth among the most|
important organs of the human econ- |
omy, for unless our food is properly |
masticeted and prepared for the |
stomach proper nutrition is not giv- |
en to the body, and diseases of va-|
rious kinds are induced and foster- |
ed, and then the teeth themselves |
begin to deteriorate.

Relatively few people have any}
idea how a tooth is developed. From |
the germ deep in the jaw a bit of |
ename! begins to form. If it is to |
be a grinding tooth from two to five
bits begin to form separately, or
ene for every cone shaped promin-
ence the completed tooth will have.
The building up and broadening out |
of these cones( cups) is from the un- |
der side, and the completed part
pushes toward the surface. Eventual-
ly these several parts come together,
unite, and fill in the intervening |
spaces, forming the top, or grinding,
surface of the tooth.

Now, no doubt nature intended this
union to be perfect and continuous,
and so it is, except in certain places,
with the majority of these teeth.
The exceptions are represented by
deep pits and fissures in the fully de-
veloped tooth. Here, with a vast
number of “civilized” teeth, the union
is not perfect. The two parts may
be in contact like a cracked piece of
china, but there is no union, and
possibly quite 2 channel may be left,
exposing the dentine which under-
lies the enamel. Real holes and fis-
sures through the enamel may be
found as soon as the tooth is through
the gums and before decay has visi-
bly affected the parts. For this rea-
son children’s teeth should be fre-
quently and carefully examined
whether decay is visible to parents
ofr not.

These defective places are at once
susceptible to the influences that

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are

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| immune.

| affected.

| :
| cause decay, and it accounts for the

|fact that nearly every one has to
| have his teeth filled in these particu-
ilar places, although otherwise they
|may be good and sound for long
years. In fact, prompt attention to
filling may keep the teeth sound in-
| definitely, or at least until other con-
| ditions arise that permit of other sur-
| faces being attacked.

Now, the influences that cause de-
cay of teeth are due to micro-organ-
isms, or bacteria, and the mouth,
much as we may abhor the idea, isa
hotbed for their culture and develop-
ment. They are there in endless va-
riety; some good, some bad, and pos-
sibly some indifferent. The air we
| breathe is full of them, and some—
the good ones, no doubt—are essen-
tial to our health. Since teeth (aside
from their congenital defects and
some vulnerable points to be men-
tioned further along) are quite im-
mune from decay for years, we may
presume, possibly, there is a predom-

inance of the good varieties of mi-|

 

crobes that have a tendency to sup- |

press or crowd out the bad ones, ex-
cept where certain conditions favor
the latter. Certain it is, that with

| all these bad ones ever present, ready

to make assault when opportunity oc-
curs, the teeth in a general way are

would all be toothless early in

If it were not so, our teeth |
would decay on all surfaces and we|
life. |

And certain it is, too, that there are |

periods when this immunity seems
abated and decay will for a time run
riot, attacking surfaces never before

This is due to a general |

systematic change in tone and vitali- |

ty from various causes, and a return
to the normal tone will bring again

| normal conditions in the mouth—ex- |

cept the repair of damage that may

have been done. Teeth never re-
pair themselves.
The condition of the saliva, in

which the teeth are constantly bath-
ed, has undoubtedly a bearing on
this condition of immunity or lack
of immunity, as the case may be,
which varying health causes to fluc-
tuate. Beyond all question, proper
hygienic measures practiced by the
individual, and especially under the
advice from time to time of a com-
petent dentist, has marked influence
for good.

If we comprehend the microbe we
will understand that he does not at-
tack a tooth, singly or collectively, as
a rat gnaws into wood, for they have
no designs on the teeth. They, how-
ever, feed and thrive and multiply
enormously on the films of food that
will cling somewhere about the teeth
despite our best care. In doing that
they give out an acid that has a corro-
sive action upon tooth structure; and
also a glutinous substance that covers
and protects them to- a certain ex-
tent against their enemies, or the
saliva that might in the right condi-
tion render the acid inert. This glu-
tinous patch, or plague, forms any-
where on a tooth, and especially in
recesses an on surfaces not readily
kept free by the action of tongue and
lips and the use of the teeth in mas-
ticating. If not dislodged by these
means or by the brush, or if not

|

 

rendered inert by other conditions off posed of his stock of stoves and tin-

the mouth, corrosion of the tooth |
substance begins. Once begun, films |
of food will attach themselves more
readily. The pits and fissures refer-
red to are exceedingly favorable |
places for food accumulation, and |
next {o them come the places where
teeth are in contact with each other.
Once a cavity is formed it fills with
food and the consequent multiplicity |
of microbes.

Personal efforts will do much to
the teeth free from injurious |
agencies, but it is futile as concerns |
deep pits and caverns. When decay |
has once started it is a mistake to|
neglect it. Decaying teeth, taken in
time, may not only be put in good |
repair and but menace to}
their fellows is removed.

Simply stated, decay of the teeth
is caused, principally, by the fermen-
tation of food films that are almost
impossible to remove by
care. Initial corrosion of enamel, a
softening of that tissue, may be caus-
ed by the introduction of other agen-
cies into the mouth,

 

keep

saved, a

| burned out.

| drugs

greatest |

ware to Lottich & Barbee.

Fort Wayne—A. Hirah & Co.,
manufacturers of overalls, are adver-
tising their machinery for sale.

Grabill—_W. H. Hood,
dealer, is removing to Fort Wayne.

Indiana Harbor—Stibble & Wem-
erstrom, meat dealers, been
The loss

retail meat

have
was covered
by insurance.
Perfection
have

Indianapolis The
Co. manufacturer

Broom re

| moved to Greenfield.

dealers in

succeeded

Oolitic—George Bros.,
and furniture, are
| by George Bros. & Porter.
Patoka—F. O. Milburn,
lis succeeded by H. A. Milburn & Co.
Sandborn—S. C. Jarvis has purchas-
ed the general stock of Killion Bros.
eee 5 M. Dickey &
have purchased the general stock of
Mrs. Jennie Tucker.
Tennyson—Dimitt & Spradley have

druggist,

Sons

| disposed of their stock of general

| merchandise to B
but mainly it |

is as above stated, and in any event, |

when the enamel has been made de-
fective, or is weakened by
causes, food collections and fermenta-

follow. kk. B. Tatler.
oo,
Recent Business Changes Among
Indiana Merchants.
Connersville—J. L. Ashworth has |
purchased the drug stock of Ward

Jemison.

Corydon—Samuel P. Voigt has dis- |

yare & Lesley.

Thayer—L. P. Kuss has_ purchas-

ed the general stock of Knight
| Bros.
Andrews—Wm. F. Mills, furniture

other |

| dealer,
tions, with augmented ill effects, will |

| conducts
| petition

has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy.

Columbia City—Jos. C. Rarick, who
a notion store, has filed a
in bankruptcy.
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When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that you

| saw the advertisement in the Trades-

man.

 

 

A Bargain in Every
Sack .%

is the unanimous verdict of those who are using

OIGT’S sesrsv rest

 

 

CRESCENT

 

 

“The Flour Everybody Likes”

It is really too good to sell at the same price with other
flours, still we cannot afford to offer an inferior article at

any price.

Every Sack is Bound to Please.

It is Perfect in Quality and Generous in Quantity.

Voigt Milling Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Petoskey—A. G. Cook has sold his
stock of books and stationery to C.
W. Fallass.

Coldwater—Herbert H. Schmidt,
of Sandusky, Ohio, has engaged in
the bazaar business.

Charlotte—Geo. J. Barney & Son
have concluded to sell their grocery
and crockery stocks.

Bangor—B. S. Hyatt, of Kalama-
zoo, has associated himself with H.
L. Tripp in the manufacture of
gars.

Charievoix—The R. A. Emery &
Co. clothing stock has been taken pos-
session of by the trustee of the mort-
gage, A. B. Stanton.

Traverse City—C. W. Bowen has
opened a grocery store at 802 West
Front street. The Musselman Gro-
cer Co. furnished the stock.

Sheridan—A. G. Giddings has dis-
posed of his furniture and undertak-
ing business to A. E. Stebbins, of
Muir, who has removed to this place.

Chariotte—Harper Krebs and Der-
by De Foe have formed a copartner-
ship under the style of Krebs & De
Foe and engaged in the grocery busi-
ness

Port Huron—The Flint Pantaloon
Co. has purchased the clothing stock
of S. Goodman, who retires after
forty-five years of business in this
place.

Harbor Springs—The L. B. Dens-
more & Co. dry goods and clothing
stock has beer purchased by J. B.
Stein, who has consolidated it with
his own.

Durand—Chas. W. Minto has sold
his clothing stock to Dr. R. C. Fair
and Paniel T. Gustin, who will con-
tinue the business under the style of
Fair, Gustin & Co.

Houghton—T. H. Dawson, who has
conducted a bazaar business in Ish-
peming for the past eighteen years,
has engaged in the same line of busi-
ness at this place.

Kingsley—The grocery stock of
B. A. Monroe and the hardware
stock of J. H. Monroe have been con-

ci-

 

solidated under the style of the
Monroe Mercantile Co.
McBride—Jacob McCrea, well-

known throughout Montcalm county,
and a druggist at this place for the
past twenty years, died last Monday,
after an illness of five months.

Sault Ste. Marie—C. P. Haerle has
purchased the grocery and provision
stock of J. S. Dearwood, at 1641
South street, Algonquin, and will con-
tinue the business at the same loca-
tion.

Port Huron—The Empire Produce
Co. has been organized to handle
produce and poultry. The capital
stock is $100,000, of which $55,010 is
subscribed and $10,000 is paid in in
cash.

Walkerville—Geo. H. Marzolf, gen-
eral merchant at this place, died Sun-
day after an illness of eighteen
months’ duration with spinal trouble.

 

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The rzmains were taken to Reed City
for interment.

Constantine—A. D. Burch, who has
recently managed the John Tripp, Jr.,
clothing stock, will engage in busi-
ness on his own account about Oct.
1, handling lines of clothing and fur-
nishing goods.

Mecosta—Dr. John Snyder, who
has had charge of the J. W. Kirk-
land Drug Co. stock for the past two
years, has purchased the stock and
will continue the business at the
same location.

Alpena—A. H. Marwede has sold
his jewelry stock to Arthur J. Tulian,
who kas been in the business twelve
years, having been located in Cleve-
land znd the Soo. He was associat-
ed with Mr. Marwede about eight
years.

Evart—Davy & Co. have merged
their general merchandise business
into 2 copartnership association, lim-
ited, under the style of Davy & Com-
pany, Inc. V. R. Davy holds $46,500

ot the $75,000 capital stock, L. E.
Davy holds $11,300 and Fred _ B.
Smith holds $7,500.

Boyne City—-L. A. Campbell, who

has had charge of the Cameron Lum-
ber Co.’s store at Torch Lake for
the past few years, has resigned. the
position and will engage in business
for himself at this place, having pur-
chased the dry goods and grocery
stock of E. Morris & Co.

Leslie—E. W. Potter, who engag-
ed in the hay and potato business on
an extensive scale after selling his
egg and butter business, is now
launching out on a larger plan than
ever. He has opened offices at Jack-
son, Albion and Parma, at each place
employed a local representative, and
will buy and ship in proportionately
larger quantities.

Lowell—Clarence W. Parks has
merged his hand truck and hardware
specialty business into a limited co-
partnership association under the
style of the Parks Manufacturing
Co., Ltd. The capital stock is $10,-
000, 2ll paid in and divided equally
among C. W. Parks (President), F.
W. Hinyan (Vice-President), D. R.
Whitney (Secretary), D. H. Owen
(Treasurer) and R. B. Loveland (Di-
rector).

Saginaw—-Frank J. Jewett, mana-
ger for H. Watson & Co., has resign-
his position with the company
after nineteen years of service, dur-
ing which time he has worked his
way up from minor positions to the
top. He will remove to Carlsbad, N.
M., where he will engage in the stock
and fruit business. As Mr. Jewett
was leaving the store for the last
time he was presented with a suit
case from the employes of the firm
as a token of their esteem and best
wishes.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Sault Ste. Marie—The Soo Woolen
Mills has increased its capital stock
from $15,000 to $60,000.

Lansing—The Omega _ Separator
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $75,000 to $150,000.

Blissfield—The Blissfield Milling
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $12,000 to $18,000.

 

Adrian—-The American Screen
Door Co. has increased its capital
stock from $45,000 to $100,000.

Jackson—The Weeks Drug &
Chemical Co. has increased its capi-
tal stock from $25,000 to $75,000.

Detroit—The Harding & Petry
Lumber Co. will hereafter be known
as the H. W. Harding Lumber Co.

Lacota—The Lacota Cider & Vine-
gar Co. has been organized with a
capital stock of $2,700, all subscribed
and paid in.

Detroit—The Pioneer Manufactur-

 

ing Co., makers of reed furniture, has |

increased its capital stock from $10,-
000 to $25,000.

Barryton—Plato, Renwick & Co.
have closed their mill at this place
and most of the machinery has been
sold to Saginaw parties.

Crystal—B. F. Shafer is building a
two-story addition to his sawmill and
crate iactory. He will also carry
moldings and sash and door supplies.

Grand Marais—Daniel McLeod has
purchased a steam log loader to be
used in his lumbering operations. He
reports his woods work greatly ham-
pered by the shortage of men.

Pontiac—The new plant of
Dunlap Vehicle Co. is nearly com-
pleted. The buildings are of cement
blocks, three stories and

and tiie outpuz of the company will! son

be doubled.

 

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Detroit—E. A. Charbonneau & Co.,
manufacturers of pickles and _ pre-
serves, have merged their business
into a stock company under the same
style. The capital stock is $15,000,
all paid in—$4,o00 in cash and $11,000
in property. The stock held in
equal portions by Lyman R. Roberts,
Jacob Hoehn and Edward A. Char-
bonneau.

Lake Odessa—The Verity Manufac-
turing Co., which came here from
Portland four years ago on a five
year contract with the village, is ne-
gotiating with Portland parties witha
view to removing the plant to that
place again. Since the burning up of
the furniture plant in that place the
Portland people have been making a
hustle to find something to take its
place, and the Verity plant is appar-
ently about their size.

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Plainweil—The Cogswell Hub and
Wheel Co.,
for a new
more room

of Lakeview, is looking
location which will give
for increasing its output,
of the concern have been
Plain-
The wheel com-
pany coes not ask any bonus but re-

holding correspondence with
well business men.

| quests that a certain amount of stock

be taken by capitalists of the town

|in which the factory shall be located.

basement, |

Jackson—J. B. Timberlake & Sons, |

manufacturers of specialties, have |
merged their business into a_ stock |
compaiy under the same style. The |

capital stock is $15,000, all subscribed | ! !
P $15,000, | the chemical plant is shortly to re-

; sume Operations, about 15,000 cords

and paid in in property.
Detroit—The Detroit Pump Regu-
purpose of manufacturing tools and
lator Co. has been organized for the
devices. The capital stock is $24,-
000, ali subscribed and paid in—$s00
in cash and $23,500 in property.
Ionia—The Reed Chair Co. is
building at its own expense two large

additions to the prison shops. The
buildings, 28x140 and 28x90, two
stories, of brick, are immediately

west of the main contract shops.

Cutler—The Loveland & Stone
sawmiil, which is scheduled to cut
about 40,000,000 feet this season, run-
ning day and night, will run days
only next year. The entire output
of this plant this season was sold last
spring.

Jackson—The Lung Germine Co.
has been organized to manufacture
and seil lung medicine. The capital
stock 1s $3,000, one-half of which is
paid in. The stock is held in equal
portions by John Hauser, Carl G.
Wissmann and Julius Wissmann.

Marquette—The Detroit, Mackinaw
& Marquette Railway Co. has sold
122,250 acres of land in the Upper
Peninsula to the Upper Peninsula
Company, which in reality is the
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. The con-
sideration is said to have been $227 ,-
810.

Ontonagon—The Ontonagon Stave
& Veneer Co.’s plant will be ready
to start September 1. The construc-
tion work is nearly finished and the
machinery is all installed. Maple and
birch logs will be used and no diffi-
culty is anticipated in securing an
adequate supply.

 

It empjioys from fifty to seventy-five

Sault Ste. Marie—The ground wood
pulp mill of the Consolidated Com-

| pany is making over 100 tons of pulp

a day, with orders ahead at prices
that give it a handsome profit, and

of pulp wood having been purchased
from the Spanish River Pulp & Pa-
per Co. The by-products of the char-
coal kilns—wood alcohol and acetite

| of lime—have been disposed of fora

year ahead, assuring continuous ac-

tivity for the charcoal making de-
partment.
Pontiac—The C. E. DuPuy Co

all have a new elevator on Jackson
Street, adjoinirg the tracks of the
Grand Trunk, completed next week,
and the company will at once begin

the handling of two cars of beans
per day. The concern came _ here

from Stockbridge, believing Pontiac
a more advantzgeous location for the
bean industry. Sixty women and
girls will be employed in picking
beans by hand and in addition
chines will be used

ma-
Beans will be
shipped in here from all sections of

the State. The elevator is the old
Freeman elevator, which has been
remodeled and enlarged. The com-

pany will also engage in a general
produce business.

Don E. Minor

Attorney-at-Law

Republican Candidate for Nomi-
nation for Prosecuting Attorney

MY PLATFORM
Reduce our county expenses and
thus reduce our taxes.
Practice the same economy and

business principles in public as in
private affairs.

Primaries September 13.

 

 

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The Grocery Market.

(W. H. Edgar & Son)—
Since we wrote you on Aug. 30 there

Sugar

has been an improvement in all mar-
kets, affecting sugar of all descrip-
tions. The small available supply of
held

equal to 43%c, duty paid, for 96 deg.

Cuba centrifugals is now at
The only sugar offering at a less
price at this writing is far-off Javas.
With continued unfavorable weather
in Europe prices are gradually ad-
vancing, present quotations of beets
being on a parity with centrifugals
at about 4.35¢ for September ship-
ment and 4.41c for October ship-
ment. Refined was advanced 5c per
hundred Sept. :. with intimations that
prices might be higher at any time.
The week opens after a two days’

holiday with a very heavy accumula- |

tion of orders and with every reasona-

ble expectation of an unprecedented |
demand during the remainder of this |

doubtless,
quotations.

which will, soon

advanced

month,
lead
delays affecting shipments are

to

Cofiee—Quotations are unchanged.
The present strength of the market
seems to be due to the unexpected

effect which tre September liquida- |
Sep- |

tions or settlements have had.
tember is the last month to liquidate
under last fall’s boom, and the bear

contingent have looked to it to break |

the market and let them gather in}
large lots of coffee in Brazil at |
declined prices. Instead of that, |
the September liquidations really |

strengthened the market, as the large
buyers took their coffees like little |

Arbuckle
cepting very large blocks.

3ros. especially ac-
The best-
posted men in the trade look for a
steady, conservative increase in val-

men,

ues, as the most reliable houses in
Brazil report that the present crop
will run behind the last crop. Four
years of constantly decreasing pro-
duction are bound to have a legiti-
mate effect upon the low values
have ruled during the last
four years. Milds, as well as Mochas

which

and Javas, are firm and quiet.
Canned Goods—Tomatoes are un-
changed and very little interest
manifested. Futures range from
6714@72'%c, according to the pack-
ers’ strength of mind. The general
demand is light. There are persistent
prophecies of short pack and higher
prices. Corn continues in its down-
ward tendencies. Offers were made
during the week at 7oc of Maine
style that sold freely for future de-
livery at 75c and sold when first
packed on spot at 80c. Peas are still
low and may go lower. There is a
demand for bargains. Peaches are
selling rather better at firm prices.
The peck is not progressing very ac-
tively, as too high prices are being
offered for the fresh fruit to ship
away. California canned goods are
unchanged and quiet. Offers made

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be- |
coming serious and increasing daily. |
lies are making banner packings.

 

during the week for pie peaches de-.

veloped a great scarcity.

Dried Fruits—Currants are slow
and uuchanged on this side, but a
little easier abroad. Raisins are nom-
inally unchanged, but prices have
been cut again and something like
a panic seems to have seized the
coast holders. Startlingly low prices
have been named for November and
late shipment. Apricots are in very
light demand and unchanged. Prunes

are slow and the price still weak
and wholly demoralized. Peaches
slow and quiet, but the demand

somewhere has been sufficient to

keep the coast market very firm and

stocks light. Present prices are
nearly 1c above the opening.
Provisions—There has been no

change in the provision market dur-
the week. Hams of all grades
are in excellent demand at unchanged
prices. Barrel pork is improving in
demand, but prices are unchanged.
Lard unchanged, both pure
compound, and the demand is fair.
Dried beef is firm and de-
mand good. Bellies and bacon are
unchanged and active. Canned meats
are unchanged and quiet.
Fish—Mackerel continues strong.
The demand is fair and the situation
is very firm. Sardines have greatly
improved in prospect. The present
run of fish is good and some factor-
In
consequence of this, some of the
outside factories have declined prices
53@1oc per case Cod, hake and had-
dock are selling better than they have

ing

and

is

Scarce;

been; pure cod on a basis of about

6c £ oc b. Gloucester. . There is a
chance that this price may be low-
er. Salmon is unchanged. Consider-
able sales have been made at the
price of $1.10. The Alaska Packers’
Association has withdrawn its price

ion future red salmon, and what the

next move will be is in doubt. Every
day the Association is expected
do something. Ocean whitefish,
which has attained quite an impor-
tant position in the trade, is selling
fairly well at unchanged prices.

Syrups and Molasses—Glucose has
made no change during the’ week.
Compound syrup is unchanged and
m fam demand. Sugar syrup ts
stronger and in good demand both
for home and export. Molasses
quiet and unchanged. All advices
from. i.ouisiana prophesy a big crop.
In fact, the refiners down there have
already offered new sugar for No-
vember shipment at about 4c under
the current market.

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Have You One Hundred Thousand
Dollars?

If you have, you are invited to in-
vestigate the Business Opportunity
advertised on page 20 of this week’s
paper. This is the opportunity of a
lifetime and the Tradesman feels no
hesitation in recommending the mat-
ter to those who are in a position to
avail themselves of it.

a

Her Definition.
“Ma, what is a pessimist?”
“An old bachelor, my son.”

——_»+~-.—___

Hats off to the man who makes
things happen.

 

 

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—The crop of early varieties
is so large that the market is hardly
quotable.

Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch-
es; $1.50@1.75 for Jumbos.

Beans—$1.50@1.65 for hand picked
mediums.

Beets—soc per bu.

Blackberries—$1.25 per crate of 16
gts.

Butter—Creamery is strong at 19¢
for choice and 20c for fancy. Dairy
is steady at 1o@1Ic for packing stock
and 14@15c for No. 1. Renovated is
in good demand at 16c. Some other
markets are higher than Grand Rap-
ids, because there seems to be a dis-
position to keep butter moving until
an actual scarcity develops. The make
of butter is very good and very large.
The demand alto-
gether, the market is in a thoroughly
healthy condition.

Cabbage—4s5c per doz.

Carrots—soc per bu.

Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz.

Celery—1s5c per doz. bunches.

Cucumbers—toc per doz. for large;
18c per 100 for pickling.

Crabapples—soc per bu. for Siber-
ian.

Eggs—Receipts of fresh continue

excellent and,

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large, in consequence of which cold
storage people are beginning to have
long faces. Dealers continue to pay
16@17c for case count and offer can-
dled at 18@Ioc.

Ege Plant—$1 per doz.

Grapes—zoc per 8tb.
early blue varieties.

basket for

Green Corn—toc ver doz.

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

Green Peas—$1 per bu.

Green Peppers—75@S8oc per bu.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12c and white clover at I3@I5c.

Lemons — Californias command
$3.25 and Messinas fetch $3.75.

Lettuce—65c per bu.

Musk Melons—Home grown fetch
75@80c per crate. Small Rockfords
command $1.25@I.50 per crate.

Onions—Southern (Louisiana) are
in active demand at $1.50 per sack.

Silver Skins, $2 per crate. California,
$2.25 per sack; Spanish, $1.40 per
crate.

Oranges—Late Valencias range

around $3.75@4 per box.
Parsley-—25c per doz. bunches.

Peaches—White stock commands
75c(@$1; Barnards, $1@1.50; Early
Crawfords, $1.25@2. Receipts are

small and all offerings are picked up

as fast as a dicker can be made.
Plums—Lombards range from 50@

z5c per bu. Green Gages fetch 75c@

$1 per bu.
Pears — Flemish Beauties, 75c;
Bartlett, $1@1.25; sugar, 50@65c.
Potatoes—4oc appears to be the

prevailing price this week. The qual-
ity of offerings at this time is first-
class.

Pop Corn—goc per bu. for either
common or rice.

Pouitry—Spring chickens, 11@I2c;
fall chicks, 8@oc; fowls, 7@8c; spring
turkeys, 11@1zc; old turkeys, 9@Ioc;
spring ducks, :o@11c; Nester squabs,
$1.50 per doz.

Radishes—Round
China Rose, I5¢c.

toc; long and

| Squash—soc per box of 25 fb. net.
| Sweet Potatoes—$2.25 per bbl. for
| Virginias and $3.50 for Jerseys.

| Tomatoes—soc per bu.
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Watermelons—16@z20c apiece for
Georgia.
Wax Beans—75c per bu.
Whortleberries—$1.25 per 16 qt.
case.
Review of the Grain Market.
At the present time wheat seems

to be the center of cereal speculation
and the strong advance the past
month has brought in a host of buy-

ing orders. The price seems to have

struck a rut, however, and buyers
and sellers alike are watching the
report of threshers in the Northwest
with considerable interest. If one-
half the damage reports from the
spring wheat country are true the
price of wheat to-day is none too

 

high. On the other hand, the coun-
try at large generally makes a good
liberal allowance, when considering
these crop reports, for, as a rule, they
are highly exaggerated, whether bear-
ish or bullish.

The Northwest surely controls the
situation, for so far as the soft win-

ter wheat is concerned it is an estab-
|lished fact that there is not to ex-

heap Ao. per cent. of a crop; in fact,

 

25 per cent. would come nearer right.
The Southwestern territory has done
fairly well, even considering the loss
of 25,co0,000 bushels, due to excess
at harvest time. Kansas
alone has turned out a crop of 60,-
c00,009 to 70,000,000 bushels of good
While

predict a run-away market, we do be-

moisture

milling wheat. we do not
lieve that we must become reconciled
to a higher level of values than we
had the few years, for

wheat is worth on its merits 20@3oc

have past
per bushel more.
Corn has followed the advance in
wheat to a certain extent. We have
had a reaction of 2@3c from top quo-
tations. The outlook for the grow-
ing crop is good and if frosts hold
back for ten days longer corn will
be out of danger. We must remem-
ber, however, that it is three months
to new grinding corn and that we
are likely to have a little fireworks
in price before that time, as choice
old grade corn is none too plenty.
New oats are beginning to move
quite freely in some sections and the
quality good—much better than
we have had the past two or three
years.

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The price has been declining
during the month
now well down in the thirties.
The quality of rye is fine, in many
localities testing 60 to the
bushel. The price is high and the
demand is not urgent. Many of the
larger distillers have not started up
and they will not until they
are able to buy cheaper grain. The
demand for rye from the milling trade
is light. They, too, are waiting fora
reaction. L. Fred Peabody.

 

steadily and is

pounds

cleim

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Depended on the Inducement.
Johnny—Say, wouldn’t you like to

come to our Sunday school?
Tommy—I don’t know.
give trading stamps?

Do you

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The higher you climb on the wrong
ladder the greater your fall.

 

 

    

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

ware Window.

The west window of Foster, Stev-
ens & Co. is always devoted to arti-
cles of a heavy description. So, oc-
casionally, is the other one, but when
the windowman makes a display in
the Jatter of goods from the china
department, it generally borders on
the dainty in character. At any
rate, so long as it is pottery that in-
vites inspectior, it is never going to

be passed unheeded by the Gentle
Sex. From the connoisseur who is
unsatisfied short of the high art

goods of this and foreign countries
to the unsophisticated woman whose
highest perceptions are appealed to
by the “pretty little vase” of the toc
variety, one and all are devoted to
china.

 

Men's interest is of a decidedly |
less intense character, and with ex-}
ceptions here and there whose tastes |
in this direction have been inherited |
or cultivated, or who are dealers in
such goods and know their intrinsic |
value, few men pay much attention
to the subject.

While I was standing in front of
the hardware establishment I have
mentioned, admiring the ivory tinted |
dinner set whose plainness is. re-}
lieved only by an irregular band of
satiny gilt at the extreme edge, along |
came two particularly stupid-visaged |
individuals of the masculine
tion who did not look as if they
would know the difference between a
fry-pan and a piece of cut glass, but
the dinner set seemed to touch some
chord in their inner
They looked at the separate pieces
long and earnestly, in utter silence at
first. Finally,
tongue and earnestly
companion, whom h
gard as ignorant o

persua-

invisible selves.

one recovered his
informed his
e seemed to re-
f what it might
be that they were gazing at:

“Tha-a-t’s chiny!”

The vowel of the first word was}
exceedingly long drawn out; and the}
information imparted seemed to be
especially needed in the case of the
listener, for the which he
answered, “Is it?” testified to his
denseness on the “chiny” question.

tone in

Soon sauntered along two society |
women who do
taining in the
month, and they, also, paused in de-

enter- |
twelve- |

considerable

course of a

light at sight of the dinner set, ex-
pressing their admiration in no meas- |
ured terms.

In the window are two lunch sets,

one white with tiny double pink
roses, and their accompanying foli-

age as a border decoration, the other
an old-fashioned looking set of Eng-
lish ware—Cauldon. Both of thes
are beautiful but neither can com-
pare with the fine simplicity of th
plainly-embellished dinner set.

In the background are four um-
brella holders: two the work of Aus-

tria, one from Germany, the other | visions.

| coarse in texture and is not particu-

i engaged,
| Both sides have fought with desper- |
|ate valor—the
irecklessly; the

a dark blue and white one from Eng-
land—Doulton.

Three Parian marble pedestals
grace the exhibit. This is an Italian
marble, exquisite in itself, but not
as fine in quality as that employed
for the making of statuary.

One of the pedestals bears a daz-
zling French electrolier, a dream in
cut glass. The shade is composed
of a G-inch fringe of cut glass beads,
uncolored except for a simple design
at the lower edge in green and he-
liotrope crystals. The person who
becomes the fortunate owner of this
work of art will have something
worthy to be handed down to pos-
terity.

The second pedestal supports a
soft olive green and_ pinkish
with a charming female figure on
either side.

vase

On the third pedestal is a large
Teplitz vase aimed to imitate the
Royal Worcester in tinting.

Then there are quite a number of
pieces of Weymes ware. I have a|
suspicion that I am incorrect on the
spelling of this pottery. I am quite
sure, however, that there is a “y”
in the word, the pronunciation § of
which is “weems.” The china _ is

 

larly attractive in the matter of dec-

oration. I am not very fond of it

| myself, but it has the merit of being |

striking. Most of the subjects imi-
itated in the decoration are _ fruit, |
flowers, rabbits and barnyard ani-

mals. The ware is hand painted by}
across the water. It is
claimed to have originated in Brit-
tany. The peasants may be seen re-
turning from the factories where the
ware is manufactured, carrying im- |
baskets of it on their heads.
They paint it at their homes accord- |
their ideas and |
Often they peddle it from
house to house, getting perhaps Io
The high

price which one is obliged to pay for |

peasants

mense
ing to individual

tastes.
cents apiece for the plates.

this china here is all owing to the |
duty—6o per cent.
———_-+<___
Chief Characteristic of the Greatest
Battle in History.
The great battle around Liaoyang
—which raged steadily for ten days— |
is probably, from the number of men |
the greatest in_ history. |

attacking
defending
and retiring. On
some of the days the scales would
hold quite even from 5 in the morn-
ing until midnight. The

Japanese
Russians

doggedly

Sat

slowly

soldiers

| would then sleep on their arms and

renew the battle from the positions
they held. Fighting of that sort is
rare. In most previous battles the

event has been determined in one day.
In few has the fighting been pro-
ionged for ten days.

Only fragmentary reports have yet |
come in, and only the main outlines |
and principles of the conflict can now
be made out. The details must be
filled in later. It is yet impossible |

to identify the individual exploits of
companies, regiments, brigades, or di- |
The thing is on such a big!

| ever

| devised.

scale that it is difficult to follow even
the movements of corps.

People who for seven months have
been reading newspaper bulletins
about the war may fail to appreciate
that the meager reports received of
this great fight at Liaoyang are the
accounts of an event which will live
in history for thousands of years.
The battle is great not only because
it is of such immense magnitude; not
only because both sides have applied
thelatest teachings of tactics and the

permanent principles of strategy,
but because the troops of the two
armies have fought with desperate

valor. The battle of Liaoyang is of
such stupendous significance because
it is a fight between the West and
the East, between the most despotic
country of the West and the freest
people of the East; because in a
fight with substantially equal forces
on each side, in a position of its own

choosing, the West has succumbed
to the East, the white man to the
|yellow. Such a battle must take

place high up among the most de-
cisive battles of the world.

The gratifying thing to the West-
erner is that the Oriental, in order
to overcome, was forced to adopt the
tactics, the strategy, the weapons, the
training, the discipline, and experi-
ence of the West. Gen. Oyama’s
army is a type—perhaps a superior
type—of the best European army
devised. It is
type of the best Oriental army ever
And from their undertak-
their accomplishments, and

ings,

in no sense a|

 

 

 

their present direction, it is evident |

 

 

that the triumph of Japan will not
mean 2 setback to Western civiliza-
tion. For the Japanese have adopt-
ed Western civilization and have
triumphed only by means of it.

Japan is among the first nations
of the world in education. Her per-
centage of illiteracy is about the same
as our own. She has a universal sys-
tem o: public schools. And to this
system is due, in a large measure,
the success of the Japanese soldier.
He fights with bravery and _ intelli-
gence. Opposed to him was a foe
who fought also with bravery, but,
to a far lesser extent, with intelli-
gence. It is a comforting reflection
to us Americans that intelligence is
thus again proved, as it has been so
often proved before, a most valuable
asset of the private soldier. This
country does not want to fight. But
if wat comes it is a comtort to
know that among our people there
can be found the richest deposits of
those ingredients which go together
to make up a formidable soldier—
courage, strength and intelligence.—
Chicago Tribune.

+ --
Absentmindedness No Crime.
Judge—Not guilty! Why, the po-
liceman says he actually caught you
with your hand in this man’s pocket.
“Mebbe so, your Honor. But once
I had a coat of the same pattern, an’
I’m a little absent-minded at times.

Fact, your Honor.”

a

When you write Tradesman adver-
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A man came in recently and complained because we were too

particular about wheat.

Said he had some that was just a little “off”

and we wouldn't take it and he had to sell it elsewhere,
He didn’t realize that that’s one of the things which makes Lily

White “the flour the best cooks use.”

If we were not so particular

about the wheat, Lily White would be no better than any other flour,

It’s easy to take in any old kind of wheat.

It requires experi-

ence, judgment and backbone to refuse it.

Lily

White

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all the difference in the world in the quality of the flour and careful-

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Death of the President of Bradstreet
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Charles Finney Clark, President of
the Bradstreet Company, died in
London Sept. 3 of heart failure, pre-
sumably caused by an attack of indi-
gestion. Mr. Clark was born in

Preble, Cortland county, N. Y¥. on |

Aug. 30, 1836; was educated at Hom- |
er Academy, and studied law in the |

office of Crane & Wesson, at Detroit.
For a time he published a Detroit

city directory and was_ associated |

with Carl Schurz in the publication
of the Detroit Post. Mr. Clark, how-
ever, round his lifework in the devel-
opment of Bradstreet’s, the mercan-
tile agency which was established
by J. M. Bradstreet. From his first
association with it as a correspond-
ent, he became successively Superin-
tenden: of the Detroit, Philadelphia
and Boston offices, and General Man-
ager, with headquarters at New York.
The business was incorporated in 1876
as the Bradstreet Company, Mr.
Clark becoming Secretary, and later
being elected to the Presidency,
which office he held until the time
of his decease.

He had also served as Vice-Presi-
dent «f the Washington Trust Com-
pany «nd as Director of the Ameri-
can Cotton Oil and Niagara Falls
Power and Cataract Construction

Companies. He was a member of |

the Chamber cf Commerce, the St.
Andrew’s, American Geographical,
New: York Genealogical, and New
England Societies, and of the Union
League. Metropolitan, Lotos, Gro-
lier, Hardware, Church and Mer-
chants’ Clubs, and for many years
was Treasurer of St. James’ Protest-

ant Episcopal church. Mr. Clark’s |
home in New York City was at 831 |

Madison avenue, and his country res-
idence was’ Fairacres, Normandy
Park, Morristown, N. J.

The body will arrive at New York
via the Oceanic, due Sept. 14, and
the funeral and interment will be
held the day following.

oe
Too Much Japan Tea.

A peculiar condition exists now in
the tea trade as a result of the Russo-
Japanese war. While Russia has not
succeeded in interfering with the sup-
ply of Japanese and Formosa teas the
importations for the season which has
just commenced will probably be from
3,000,000 to 4,000,000 pounds less than
the normal quantity. The reason for
this is that the stocks of this country
now are so large that there is practi-
cally no demand.

This is the result of the excessive
speculation in tea when the war was
threatened and after it had begun.
kiveryone expected then that Russia
would be able to cripple Japan’s com-
merce to some degree, and a great
advance in the prices of Japan teas
was looked for. As a result every
available pound of tea of this class
was brought to this country. The
result is, now that it is evident that
the supply will not be interrupted, that
there is no demand, and there has
been a slight drop in prices. There
is said to be enough Japan tea in the
_country to supply all demands up to
January 1.

  
 
  
 

   
  
 

   

 

 

  

      

 

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E. A. STOWE, Editor.
WEDNESDAY - SEPTEMBER 7, 1904
DEMAND FOR SEA POWER.

The importance of sea power to na-
tions is becoming more than ever
understood, and there is no nation-

 

 

 

 

iand probably there is no public ques-

tion to-day that attracts more atten-
tion in Germany than the struggle for
sea power, and as a cognate subject,

colonization and territorial expansion. |

Prof. Karl M.

University of Leipzig,

Lambrecht, of the
has recently
published an essay on the above sub-
ject in which he presents some orig-
He says

Ss
it has been generally held that a na-

tion expanding by acquiring colonies

iand

ality that is not striving with all the | :
ieventually part from the parent stem.

means in its reach to acquire it.

Time was when Spain was the dom-
inant nation upon the sea. Spain dis-
covered the Western Hemisphere,
and coquered and owned for centur-
ies the greatest part of it, besides
making extensive and
planting important colonies in the
Asiatic seas.

discoveries

After Spain came England. which
although an island kingdom, did not
start out as a colonizing country until
more than a century after the Spanish
occupation of Central and South Am-
erica. Columbus made his celebrated
voyage in 1492, and in a few years
later Spain had occupied extensive
regions on the American mainland,
while the British colonies in North
America were not planted until in the
early vears of the seventeenth cen-
tury. The Virginia settlement was
made in 1607. while the Massachu-
setts colonists landed in 1620. Por-
tugal had in the meantime taken pos-
session of the vast region of Brazil
and made settlements in India, while
the Dutch had seiged the Southern
cape of Africa and the great tropical
islands of Java and Sumatra in the

East Indian Seas. France took pos-
session of Canada and some of the
West Indian islands.

There were nations which
were so hampered by their geographi-
cal situations that they could not de-
velop any sea power.
was Russia, whose

two

One of these
only
were on the Arctic Ocean. and Ger-
inany, which was almost wholly cu
off from direct communication with
the sea. From the earliest times of
her development Russia has
struggling to get an outlet to the
sea, first through the Mediterranean,
and next to the Pacific Ocean. Rus-

sia’s war with Japan to-day has grown

out of this unceasing effort to get to
the sea, and all the considerable wars
Russia has ever waged were with that
object in view.

Germany has been worse handicap-
ped than any of the nations in the

effort to become a sea power, having |

been almost wholly cut off from the

i belief is erroneous;

foreign territory with foreign
tribes and population is lessening its
inherent compactness and strength, as
by so doing not only does it lose
that part of its population
which emigrates to settle the new ter-
ritories, but these new branches will

home

The Professor maintains that this

that a nation, to

become great, requires space and ex- |

pansion.
and their

Though the new territories

population will, in the
course of their development, owing to
geographical and other causes, pre-

sent some features and _ traits of
character somewhat different from |
those of the mother country, never-
theless the nation will gain in

and world influence.

Prof. Lambrecht, in support of his
theory, points to England and the
United States, they having by their ex-
pansive movements brought about a
centralization and unification of vari-
ous countries and peoples, increasing
thereby their inherent
strength and their power as_ world
motors, making the English language
the chief i

immensely

method of communication

the world’s progressiveness.
exposition of his views the
attention

1 .
and at length to

Professor calls specifically
the development of
“Has

<pansion of
great Republic weakened or sup-
mressed its political life? By no
: on the contrary, each State or
Territory added or annexed has ad-

the United States and exclaims:
]

the immense territorial ex

the

means

ided nutrition and has given a higher

sea-coasts ;

been |

plane to the nation’s political life.”
The concluding passage of the Pro-
s his country-
en to emulate the example given by
United States and England and
he indulges in the hope that Ger-
many will use all means in order to

ov

  

;  .
essor s advis

essay

obtain a necessary amount of sunlit
space, that is, a good slice of foreign
territory for purposes of expansion
iand centralization as elucidated in his
essay.

Germany at the present time has
itoo limited a coast to become a
igreat sea power. Her few ports
;could be too easily bottled up by
blockading fleets for her to accomp-
lish anything against a great naval
/power, and therefore it must be ex-
ipected that unceasing exertions will
| be made to acquire other outlets.

far |

 

that heretofore |

Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Nor-
way are possible subjects for Ger-
man expansion so as to acquire sea
room. But any attempt on these
countries will mean war, and that is
something not to be considered at this
time. But after the Russo-Japanese
war in all probability the prestige of
Russia as a great power may be so
'much impaired as to lead to new ad-
‘justments of international relations
and of the political powers of Europe.
An alliance between Russia and Ger-
/many to alter the status of the na-
around the Baltic

tionalities

and |

'North Seas, and of those around the |

Black Sea and the Dardanelles might
be the prelude to startling changes
in the affairs of Europe. Apparently,
Russia is going most seriously to need

an alliance that can be depended on}

in strenuous conditions, while Ger-
many will find such a connection with
iher great Eastern and Northern
neighbor the most desirable that can
be secured. The recent rapproche-
/ment between England and France
and the defeat of Russia in Asia seem

to have combined to weaken the

-bonds of the Russo-French alliance |

which was so eagerly entered into a

few years ago.

 

 

JAPAN’S NAVAL SUPREMACY.

There has been much academic dis-
cussion from time to time on the sub-
ject of the command of the sea, and

achieved a reputation as a writer on
| naval topics, has acquired no little ce-
lebrity for his magazine and other
larticles on this subject. Practical ex-
perience, however, teaches more than
any amount of theoretical teaching.
The war now in progress furnishes
such conspicuous examples of what
the command of the sea really means,
its influence upon the result of a war
and its economic importance, that the
veriest tyro cannot fail to understand
land appreciate.

From the very first day of the war
Japan controlled the sea in a measure.
This was due not to a greater num-
ber of more powerful ships, but to
a better trained and better equipped
naval establishment. Through a bit
of inexplicable folly the Russians sep-
arated their fleet and left some of its
units unprotected in harbors where
they could not claim the protection
of neutral waters. When, therefore,
| Japan attacked the Russian Port Ar-
ithur squadron and forced it to take
refuge in the harbor full control of
the sea was acquired for a time at
least. for the reason that the section
jof the Russian fleet at Vladivostok
therefore useless
for the time being . The two detached
ships located at Chemulpo were utter-
ly helpless and fell easy victims to
the Japanese.

The of this
porary control of
freedom it

was icebound and

result first
the
the
wherever in the
sphere of war they saw fit without
|interference or risk.
| later

sea was the
gave
their

i move troops

It is true that
on the activity of the Vladivo-
| stok

jence with transports and its succes-
raids interfered with commerce

|for a time, but when the Vladivostok

i sive

|squadron was finally sev nal | canis :
17 was finally severely mauled | criminal classes of society.

| commerce 1s

 

 

 

 

and the Port Arthur fleet routed and
scattered, Japanese ascendency at sea
was completely established, and no
pretense is now being made to inter-
fere with their movements. Not only
can Japan move troops to any part of
the theater of war without difficulty
and keep them supplied through the
free use of the sea routes, but her sea
relieved of embargo.
Under ordinary circumstances the
trade of a country at war is seriously
restricted, but the figures show that
Japan has actually increased her for-
eign trade since the war commenced.

For the first of the
present year the exports were valued

six months

lat 137,500,000 yen, an increase of over

11,500,000 as compared with the cor-
Raw

materials, of which the most import-

responding period of last year.

j ant are coal and copper, show a de-

|

| yen.
our own Captain Mahan, who has |

| to 72,000,000 yen.

riIOFr

i cline from 29,436,059 yen to 26,701,582

yen, but partly manufactured goods
show an increase from 60,500,000 yen
to 65,000,000 yen. Exports of manu-
factured goods show an increase from
36,000,000 yen to 40,000,000 yen. More
than half of this gain is in silk goods,

but cotton tissues have also. been
shipped more largely. Among the
imports of raw materials show in-
creases in almost all directions. Im-

ports of luxuries, among these, sugar,
the main
rose from 24,600,000 yen to 26,000,000
Shirtings and

which is classed as item,

cotton prints,
however, showed a very decided de-
The miscellaneous group,
which consists mainly of foodstuffs,

cline.

shows an increase from 63,750,000 yen
The total imports
months valued at
183,000,000, an 17,000,000

the six were

increase of

|yen as compared with the first half

;

Lye Um

of 1903. Payments for war material

are doubtless responsible for the large
exports of bullion and specie, which

rose from only 3,500,000 yen in the

i first half of 1903 to nearly 81,500,000

the first half of the current
year.

This is an eloquent exposition of
command of
drawbacks of

the importance of the

the sea. Much of the

| war and its great cost will be offset

iby the

and tem- |

Japanese to/|

}

fact: that industrial
and commercial life can go on with-
setback. Trade
makes revenue, and it is revenue that

Japan’s
out interruption or

is the most important matter to Japan
at the present time

 

 

The
of the
in the
ures

Chicago Tribune, which is one
most conservative newspapers
world, presents facts and fig-
that the numerical
the adherents of trade
unionism in Chicago has decreased
one-third during the past year. The
falling off in membership is largely
confined to and

showing
strength of

unions of artisans
mechanics, while unions composed of
men o1 less intelligence—
teamsters
and cigar makers—for instance—have

held their own. These facts are sig-

average
bartenders, hod carriers,

| uificant, because they show unmis-

|takably that the thinking men in the

squadron caused some interfer- |

|
|

realm of labor are rapidly deserting
the ranks of unionism and anarchy,
which will eventually be filled only
by men of a low order of intelli-
gence, including the vicious and

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

9

 

NOT UNMITIGATED CURSE.

Sleepy Hollow, an over-boomed
town some twenty years ago, has
come to the end of its long nap and
is beginning again to live. Its weeds
have been cut for the most part, the
rotten planks in its sidewalks have
been replaced by new ones or bet-
ter still by bricks or concrete, the
fences are looked after and the town
generally, a city of some six thous-
and, is “getting a move on itself” and
really trying to be something. Fi-
nancially it is “strapped” and onlyas
it sees a place here and another there
can it do anything to better itselfi—
always on a small scale.
The other day a proposition from
party outside for a carnival was
made to the town and accepted by it.
It was to be held a week. The first
seven hundred dollars was to go to
the city and any money made after
that was to go to the company. Seven
hundred dollars to a city out at the
toes and the elbows is too good an
offer to be refused and the city au-
thorities, equally praised and blam-
The carnival came
week. It literally cap-
It pitched its tents
in the middle of the principal streets,
so blockading them as to interfere

a

ed, accepted.
and had

tured the

its
town.

with the traffic of the stores and forc-
ing the to depend upon
doors for their exits and
their entrances. From Monday morn-
ing until Saturday night, Yokohama
time, the megaphone and the brass
band carried on a vigorous rivalry
in proclaiming the unequaled  at-
tractions of the show, and the crowd,
“Some in rags, some in jags and some
in velvet gowns,” pushed and crowd-
ed to the sights somewhere ahead of
them.

That was last week. This week
the citizens are talking it over, half
of them—there is no need of stating
which half—gleefully exulting over
the hundred dollars and the
other affirming with a good deal of
earnestness that there is something
in this world worth more than money
and self-respect is one of them.
Sleepy Hollow cannot afford this sort
of thing. A good name is above all
The week’s carnival has been
a week of debauch and for that paltry
sum we have turned over the town
to the mob element and stood back
and looked on with a galvanized grin,
trying to make believe in the midst
of it all that we are still respectable.
We are not. Sleepy Hollow has com-
promised its good name and all that
remains for it is to acknowledge the
mistake, sober up and live it down.

The bum element, brought to bay,
has better side.
(!)
improvements.

merchants
their back

seven

riches.

its The city hasa
hundred dollars for
The merchants (the
candy stores and saloons) have added
largely to their gains; for once in
twenty years old Sleepy Hollow has
waked up; the sidewalks have been
crowded with people; young and old
have had a good time which they will
talk about as long as they live; ac-
quaintance between town and country
has been greatly increased and it’s
been a mighty good thing all around.
Say what you please, coming right
down to the facts of the case, the dif-

clean seven

|

 

 

ference between the Fair at St. Louis
and the carnival at Sleepy Hollow is
one of degree and that to the world

|

at large and the United States at |

large is of no more advantage that

this carnival has been to the people.

who have come to it. Put that in
your pipe and smoke it.

The readers of the Tradesman al-
ready know its opinion upon the car-
nival as such and repeating it here
is unnecessary. It must be conceded

however, that there is a great dif-

ference between the carnival at Grand |, will roll up her sleeves and witha

Rapids, at Denver and at any other
large Western city and the one held
in the small country town. All have
the base element to contend with,

with this difference: in the little city |

it keeps itself in the background and
the carnival at its height lacks that
utter abandon to the low and the
vile which the large city is sure to
exhibit. In the small town there is
a notable and commendable feature
attending the gathering which can
be and should be taken in hand and
developed into the blessing it has

shown itself to be when made the

|most of—the bringing together the

better element of town and country
to the lasting benefit of both.
The fact is the country in its isola-

 

tion becomes hopelessly hide bound; |

the city crowded into narrow limits
is conceited and supercilious. In fact
the feudalism of the Middle Ages has
come back from the dead centuries

'to exercise its baneful influence over

mankind. The castle and the farm

Each from its own point
of view is abused and each with all
its strength resents what it considers
the other’s ill treatment. It is the
old condition over again with simi-
lar results unless some _ Peter - the
Hermit of the day will again preach
the needed crusade. There are the
same prejudices to be overcome and
now, as in the olden time, the war-
ring extremes are to be brought to-
gether and kept together until the
Lion Hearted and Solomon ,sworn
enemies, meet with distrust and part
as friends.

This the carnival, under another
name, can and should be made to ac-
complish, the best, not the basest,
element should take it and keep it in
hand. All that is sood can be re-
tained and, separated from the slime
of the touch and the tongue of man-
aging defilement, megaphone and
brass band, merry-go-round and tent-
show will become worthy means of
uplifting and bringing together the
social elements too often at war with
each other. “I don’t know,” said a
distinguished divine, “why the devil
should have all the best times;” and
there is no reason why the carnival
idea should not be taken out of the

are at war.

hands of the devil and be made the,

means of blessing and not cursing
the crowds which it certainly does
bring together.

 

The genius who invented the hair-
pin must have groaned
thought of the centuries
waited for him in vain.

when he
that had

 

If the toughs were all arrested our
jails would be filled with beefsteaks.

 

AN ANTI-VICE CRUSADE.

A thrifty city somewhere towards
the sunset has become tired of hear-
ing mean things said about her and
is going in for reform. She says that
coming right down to the facts in the
case she knows that she is no worse

than a good many other cities who |

are just now turning up their hypo-
critical noses at her; but for all that
she is willing for the speech of people
to admit that her doorstep has been
neglected and for the sake of a hush-

plenty of soap and hot water make
that particular specimen of granite

the model entrance of any city, big |
lor little,

the two oceans.
regular
cleaning, she wants it to be distinctly
understood, when she_ gets
through and gets things back in their
places she’s going to tell her defamers
what she‘thinks of them. To set the
ball a-rolling she has engaged a man,
who makes that sort of cleaning up
his business, to start in on a regular

between

It's gomg to be a spring

and

crusade against vice in all its forms
with a regular posse of skilled work-

men and, once the thing is done,

she’ll see what she can do to keep |

things going.

There is no doubt about the need
of the “spring cleaning.” There
no doubt that between now and the
spring when the work should have
been done the accretion of
point almost beyond endurance. It
is to be hoped that the crusade hap-
pily entered upon will be as happily
concluded and that the sister cities
whose pointing fingers have had a
tendency to hasten on the good work
will now have an opportunity to ex-
amine their own doorsteps; but the
real thought which insists upon mak-
ing itself prominent, if not foremost,
is whether the kind of house keeping
which has made the crusade a neces-
sity should not long ago have been
more intelligently looked after and
whether, if this be not done even now,
the crusade, successful it
may seem, will be worth the under-
taking.

however

At best the crusade is only a mu-
nicipal revival and everybody knows
what that amounts to. The idea goes
that things spiritual and
things temporal are as bad as they
can be—too bad anyway for the reg-
ular management to control—and a
specialist is brought in to get affairs
again into running order. The an-
nouncement made with a great
flourish of drums and trumpets that
wrongs are going to be righted and
the bad made good, and everybody
invited to come out and be told
what a miserable sinner he to

abroad

is

is

is,

stand up and confess and be prayed |

for and then, with scarlet sins made
white wool, drift back into the
old currents and be a little worse if
possible than they were before. That
is exactly what Dowie did in New
York and the chances are ten to one
that is what is to be the result of
the crusade in that Western city.

as

Changes for the better do not often
come that way. Genuine conviction

of sin does not proceed to the near-

iS |

urban
filth and abomination has reached a |

est street corner and herald the sin
and the intended reform in the same
breath. If Sodom, ancient or modern,
|} has reached that point where she is
ashamed of herself, she perceives as
well as Gomorrah does that the one
thing action not in
accordingly.

to do lies in

and proceeds
| Reform is an inside determination not

emotion. From within

speech
an outside
comes the drunkard’s resolution to
be again a man. It is the “I will” in
the still voice
that forces the feet of human ani-
malism to the pastures and
still waters of purity. It may be that
| Sodom the moral evangelist
ito come to her and to tell her and
|

 

small of conscience

green
needs

lher children what rapscailions they
| but themselves
cluded, guesses not. She knows and
ithey know, if her municipal life is
scandalous, that righteous living is
the cure for it, and that only. If she
simply wills so that is all there is to
it. If she does not, Peter the Great,
multiplied

| are, everybody, in-

times there

crusades he
nothing.
will return to
past like the dog to
| his vomit and the jeering sisterhood
lof cities will exultantly exclaim, “I

as many
the

accomplish

as

were soldiers in

will
and her children

preached,
She
the

revolting

| told you so.”

|

It is submitted that to attain the
| best and earliest results in reform a
| brass band is the last means to be
employed. Individual life and city
Both
are. purely and simply human, moved
by the same impulses the same
Without without har-
angue in the pulpit or out of it, with-
out being forced to the anxious seat

life are essentially the same.

in

way. noise,

that city has simply to go into her
look
the conditions squarely in the face,

closet and, shutting her door,

make up her mind what she wants to
do and do it. She has no need to be
told at this period of the world that
her life is what her citizens make it.
[It is a question of individual doorstep
and a determination to see to it that
depend and must depend upon the
family using it. There and_ there
only must municipal reform begin.
St. Louis found it Minneapolis,
Philadelphia and New York stand as
witnesses of the same truth, and this
same anxious city in the West will
find, if she ever brings about the re-
form she admits she needs, she will
accomplish it not by proclaiming what
what she is going to do, not by ap-
pealing to any outside Peter the
Great to come and help her, but sorry

so.

for her remissness of duty and her
wickedness, quietly, earnestly and
persistently she must strive for better
things. That course entered upon, re-
form will follow and once secured will
|remain a permanency as long as the
efforts it which
were employed to obtain it—a bit of
it observed,
which other municipalities can con-
template with profit.

continue to sustain

condensed wisdom, be

 

If it is true that male misquitoes
do not bite, a good many of them
jhave been put out of business by mis-
take.

 

A short hand goes with a long face.

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

Linens—Improvement in the linen
market seems now to be a positive

fact. The outlook is very favorable,

]
|
|

holds its own. The demand is main-
taining a fair level, particularly in the

| lower ends, as prices are very satis-

| factory.

These goods have a _ his-

| tory ot only about five years in this
| market, and for the period have a
| creditable record of success, which is

likely to continue and enhance in

view of the attractive appearance
presenied by the goods. When the
i quality of the work and the rich

mainly owing to the firmness of the |

Furthermore,
dealt
and brought only modest stocks from
this
there will be no pressure for making

fax market.

importers

many
have conservatively

over the water; and

sales on a losing basis. Fancies will,
of course, find a larger demand than
staples; a brisk trade is sure to back
good judgment here. Bleached dam-
ask napkins to match and towels are
justifying the confidence reposed in
them; the call is fully up to expecta-
tions. The domestic end—such as
crashes, union huck towels and mer-
chandise of that character—is strong-
ly in evidence and large orders are
being placed.
demand for linen goods is influenced

In a general way, the
by cottons, but so long as the mar-
ket is not overwhelmed by the cheap-
for the
buyers may be re-assured; there will
be nothing in the nature of a

er prices latter, intending

col-

lapse. The large establishments are
preparing for the spring trade and

they speak encouragingly of the pros-
pect. Indeed, while the current sea-
son has been good—in many respects
remarkably so—a phenomenal busi-
ness is expected in spring goods. It
would appear that popular suffrages
will elect all the plain fabrics—not
only in white, but in colors—to a po-
sition of high favor.
plain znd dotted and with fancy fig-
ures—are destined to enjoy _ still
greater The enormous
demand for fancy jacquards will not

Swisses—both

popularity.

be maintained, but a conservative han-
dling of these goods in small and me-
dium-sized
supported.
Irish
spring, 1905.

figures should be well
excellent lines of
dimities for
The making-up quality
of these goods is established, and they
are voted in for another term.

the with favor,
and certain houses have so much con-
fidence in these goods that very full
lines are carried
tend that taking

Some
fancy

are shown

Buy-

ers view line much

Manufacturers con-
into

being so}

appearance it presents are consider-

ed, it is certain that there is little of-
tered in a department at a price af-

tording such values as drawnwork.

There is a hemstitched variety now

offered whose beauty accounts for

 

the favor in which buying shows it}

to be held. This work is imported |
from Germany, Ireland, Japan and |
certain other centers, and speaks

a favorable

more eloquent!y than words can of |

the artistic sense of the creators.
The table and lunch cloths of this |
work, full-size—2% yards—can_ be|

purchased for from $12 to $40 each. |

The

and

-both
varieties—with all

Cluny tablecloths

square

round |

kinds |

of doines and centerpieces to match, |

are having an excellent sale. They|
tetch from $25 to $150 each. The}
prices are rather startling, but so}

great ix

supplied. ~

the demand it can barely be|

Silks—There has been, during the
last few years, a steady improvement |

use of

This

in the

public. increasing

silks by the general |
demand is

due largely to the merit which silks |

Without doubt
merit which
This
more znd more recognized by
trade. Unquestionably a silk dress
looks better than other
material. In the past silks have been
considered a luxury, but at the pres-
ent time are
tured comparatively

possess.

intrinsic few other fab-

rics fact ts

possess.

the

one of any

manufac-
than

they being
cheaper
The

not so

other dress materials. cost of

silk dress to-day is much

they have

becoming |

greater than other materials of equal |

Eight wool
dress goods that look as well as silk

will

appearance. yards of

cost nearly as much as a

dress. A silk dress always looks ele-
gant, and silk people maintain that
a silk dress
er than
with more

A silk dress

Silk is

wool

a woo! dress.

care than a

certainly has the quality

| of looking well longer than a wool

consideration |

the stiff quotations in London, Liver- |

pool and other centers, prices of

woolen blankets are at a level at

saying that their line is

presert that offers grounds for spec- |

ulation how long it can
without trying a flight upward. Large

sales are being made in Arizona and

continue |

| with a smile and say nothing.

Dakota of wool on the sheep’s back |

at 17@18c per pound. England is

handling the

japanese government, and from the

very large orders for
same source offers come to this coun-
try, provided always that the condi-

tions be met.

The tendency of all}

this jvst now is to stiffen the market. |

Indeed, the process has been felt to
such an extent that a recent sale in

Boston within one week of 13,000,000 |
pounds of wool had no “breaking”
Mercerized table damask |

i

effect.

dress There is always rivalry

does.
and wool

silk
1

Just now wool dress goods people are

between dress goods.
selling equal-
that it

season.

silks and has
the past

the silk managers

with
during
ciaim

ly well
been
this
They
have
experienced a good volume of busi-

can afford to smile for they

To |
reply |

silk |

will be serviceable long- |}
kept |
dress. |

ness this year and the prospects are |

excellent for future trade.

During |

the last ten years there has been a/|

steady improvement in the demand
for silks by the general public. An
incident is related by a silk man that
during the last ten years he has pur-
chased _ for
many silk

his six times as

he has

wife

dresses as wool.

Although himself a silk man, he was |

not thoroughly convineed as to

wearing qualities of silk until his

the |

wife had tested them by practical ex-
perience. He maintains that a silk
dress will give much better service
than a wool dress and that he is
satisfied it is economy to buy silk
dresses rather than wool. He main-
tains that they wear better and, con-
sidering the period during which they
are serviceable, they are cheaper than
a. wool dress.

Clan Plaids and Fancies—Tthe sale
of silks from
year to year and there is no sign of
a decrease in the demand for some
time to come, but rather a probable
increase during the next year in the
consumption of silks. It is quite like-
ly now that the year 1905 will be a

has been growing

banner year.

The buyer for a rep-|

 

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RUGS “2acvers 5

OLD

CARPETS
THE SANITARY KIND

We have established a branch factory at j
Sault Ste Marie, Mich. All orders from the
Upper Peninsula and westward should be
sent to our address there. We have no
agents soliciting orders as we rely on
Printers’ Ink. nscrupulous persons take
advantage of our reputation as makers of
“Sanitary Rugs’”’ to répresent — in our
employ (turn them down). Write direct to
us at either Petoskey or the Soo. A book-
let mailed on request. {
Petoskey Rug M’f’g. & Carpet Co. Ltd.

Petoskey, Mich. j

 

GRAND RAPIDS

FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

resentative retail firm says there is |

outlook for clan plaid

| Grand Rapids, Mich.

W. FRED McBAIN, Fresidert
The Leading Agency

 

 

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Woolen
Fleece Lined

WINTER GOODS

Lumbermen’s
Woolen
Home Knit

For men, women, and children at all prices.

P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids

Wholesale Dry Goods

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

   

We carry a complete line of

   

Socks
and
Hose

Ask our

 
 

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Fleece Lined
and Cotton r

|

|

and Cotton J

   

agents to show you their line.

       
 

 

 

 

      

   
     
      

“PURITAN /

STYLé&s01

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We
Do Not
Blame

the retail merchant for growing just a
little bit weary of these oft repeated
Statements of the salesman and ad.
writer: “I am the largest,” “I am the
best,” “You cannot do business with-
out me,” etc,

You Are The Man Who
Pays The Bills

and in the conduct of your business

some few things at least ought to be
left to your judgment. We do not want an order that we have to take

out of a merchant with a corkscrew,

Puritan Corsets

Are all right, they are guaranteed and they will pay you a better profit

than any other line you can buy.
about all there is of it.

maiden,” we have made the proposal
forever happy or reject and make it n

That is our side of the story and
So faras you are concerned you are the “coy
, it's up to you to accept and be
ecessary for us to talk some more

Puritan Corset Co.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

silks. Plaids are spoken of with in-
terest in various dry goods lines this
season, which is more or less a per-
ennial occurrénce, but it remains to
be seen whether or not they will this
season attain the distinction so long
hoped for in vain by their purveyors.
They will certainly be taken to a cer-
tain extent by the millinery trade.
Neat fancies are by no means out of
it in fall silk lines. They are still a
factor of less degree with strong
probabilities of a reappearance, with
renewed force in next spring’s aggre-
gation. Shot silks with small jac-
quard designs of self color between
stitch effects Persian colors are
well taken by waist and suit makers.
The harmony with
those of fall suitings and they will
serve the purpose of the indispensa-
ble blouse under a
jacket. Domestic

in

shades are in

cOat Or
manufacturers are

costume

showing novelties in rough weave of
tussore silks in the natural shade and
There

is a host of these which bears a cer-

dyed in all desirable colors.

tain family resemblance, a slight dif-
ference in the weave or weight giv-
ing them a claim to a specific name.
“Silk duck,” “Bagdad,” “Cheetoo’’
and “Tokio” are among them.
Ribbons
liant iuster
fects are

bril-
ef-

the chief characteristics of

—Extreme softness,

and wonderful color
the new ribbons which are beautiful
beyond description. Fancies are
conspicuous by their absence in most
lines. Plains are the order of the
season and yet a surprising variety
afforded by the difference
weave. Ombres are very much
evidence; shot, glace, and chameleon
effects; soft chiffon,
trous, shot with a different shade and

to

is in

in
lus-

moires as

ombre. The taffeta elaces seem
have reached the limit of softness and
The bright colors, pure
classic shades to be so much
vogue, are toned and softened by the

brilliancy.
in

combination. The. most brillant
shades—-such as emerald green, scar-
let, indigo blue and orange—are all

shot with black and these are among
the most attractive numbers. Serge
ribbon with a twill
both shot and two tones, which
brown and orange, green and coque
blue

on both sides is
in
de roche, and scarlet
Moire
chiffon is glace and omber generally
in a light shot with a dark shade and
ombre from one side to the other in
pale to medium or medium to dark
shades. “Regina” is another brilliant
weave which comes in all of the pop-
ular tones of terra cotta, bird of par-
adise, carals, des Alpes and
various shades of green, as well
some of the palest pastel shades.
Merveilleux another  high-luster
ribbon with a twill effect on one side
like the old silks of that name, but
very soft, and faille maquise is of

indigo
are some of the combinations.

rose

as

is

heavier grain, but otherwise of simi-
lar description.

Velvets and Velveteens—The vel-
vet outlook is promising and manu-
facturers have brought out all of the
plain velvets in the new shades. Chif-
fon velvet easily leads in high-class
goods, but the paon and silk or sik-
faced velvets are all produced with
an unusually soft finish. Velveteens

 

with the chiffon finish are well re-
ceived and some of them are beauti-
ful with a soft, rich, close pile and
the high lights of the best silk vel-

vets. Miroir and ombre miroir vel-
vets «re shown by importers and
will be used in millinery and the

trimming of gowns and accessories
Metallic printed goods in two or
three colors giving a Persian effect
are a novelty for waists and _ shirt-
waist gowns. Embroiderettes
attractive numbers of the impress or-
der, and there is a novelty with em-
bossed leather effect. Plushes of
rich deep pile which
straight are shown in colors ombre
and changeable effects. Two, three,
even tour contrasting colors are so

are

very stand

closely mingled as to give almost a
effect.
one color are mingled in the same
way and the plumage of different
kinds of birds is represented. The
colors of the woodcock, parrot, wild
duck and bullfinch are some of them.
There are some fancy plushes with
outlined with
cut mohair yarns which are stitched
to the surface in shades of the same
color or in a contrasting color.

monotone Several. shades of

designs fine combed-

Underwear—Wool goods in a

firmer condition than they have been

are

at any previous period of the year.
All mills are reported to be running
to their full capacity and orders have
been received which, it is believed,
will keep them busy the remainder
of the season. Prices in all cases are
firm. This is due chiefly to the
strength of the wool market. It is
said that all purchases of wool the

last few weeks have been on a high- |

er basis, and it now begins to look
as if the wool manufacturers were
going to be harder pressed to secure
wool than the most. careful
expected. Many manufacturers
withdrawing prices on certain num-

buyers
are

bers, especially worsted and_ the
finer grades of wool goods. Yarns
are advancing, Columbia Shetland

floss and wool both having been ad-
vanced toc per pound. The
current of movement is toward the
control of wool of certain grades, to
a limited extent, in the hands of a
few manufacturers. It may be confi-
dently predicted that wool will not be
lower for the next twelve months
than the present quotations. Indeed,
the probability is the values will ap-
preciate. Especially is this probable
in the finer grades and in the longer
combings, which are found to be very
scarce. In view of the fact that
there will be considerable defective
knit goods on the market this fall and
winter, merchants should watch their
deliveries and those who have _ not
already placed their orders should do
so with responsible jobbers. Mer-
chants can not afford to take chances
with defective merchandise.

under-

Hosiery—-One buyer of hosiery
says he thinks the trade is going to
find cashmeres a subject of interest
this fall, but his position is not ac-
cepted by some of the other buyers.
Fleeces have attained a strong posi-
tion with the trade and are very
popular. At the prices for which
fleeces sell they wear longer and

better than the shoddy wool which

must enter into the manufacture of |
cashmeres to compete with fleece lin- |
ed. A hole is made in
much quicker than in

cashmeres |
a fleece lined
at anywhere near the same price. Tan |
hose are holding a prominent place
in the interest of the buying public, |
and it is thought by prominent buyers |

that they have come to stay for|
some time. The belief is expressed
that there will be a large number

sold for the spring and summer of
1905. Lace hosiery has kept in favor |
of the trade, and if anything the de-|

mand recently has been better than

earlier. All qualities are selling from |

the cheapest to the very best. Prices

in hosicry are firm. Merchants will

act wisely if they keep their stocks

of tow grades well up. Manufactur- |

ers’ stocks are low in the cheaper
grades, and they purpose to hold}
back until they can turn out their

product at a profit.
—__+~+.____
Hats, Gloves and Hosiery.
The derby best liked for this fall
quite full in the and
pitched in front and rear and well
set up in the sides.

is crown is
The crown will
run from five-and-a-half to six inches
in height, with brim from two-and- |
one-eighth to two-and-three-quarters |
One the best selling
fall derbies has a five-eighths inch |
oval curl.
band and 11-ligne binding.
are noticed in all hat lines, but spec-
ulation is without basis. Local hab-
erdashers think well of the soft hat}
for fall. College boys have declared |
in favor of the soft hat, so register |

in width. of

This number has a 12-ligne |
Browns |

 

 

 

   
       
        
     
 
     
   
   
     
   
     
   

| f the s about our line of Men’s
{one score in 1ts favor.

Haberdashers
in fall novelties
genuine and possess many selling fea-
and under- |
garments showing yoeguard ef-

are buying heavily Pants is the one of fit.

These novelties are

We give that special

tures. Merino cashmere
wear
fects
most aggressive haberdashers. Heath- |

mixtures are thought well of by!

attention and it’s the

in silk are being shown by the}

point that makes

er

steady customers for

city buyers catering to. early fall |
|trade. Dark gunmetal and seal-brown | OUTL goods. We have
lare favored. In the knit glove line |
grays, tans and beaver shades are | all grades from $9.00
taking exceptionally well. Hosiery

to $36.00 per dozen.

novelties can be had in large assort- |
ments. Wine grounds with two col-|
ored embroidery make up one of the |
advance fall displays. The cape
promises to be the glove for business
wear this fall.
“Merchants ere on
Branch f something

Grand
Rapids
Dry Goods
Co.,

Exclusively
Wholesale

Grand Rapids, Mich.

lookout
said a

the
for new,”
manufacturer in the furnishing line.
“As soon as a merchant comes into my
display rooms and asks for the newest
I've got I know right away that he
is a good fellow to have on my list
and frequently I never ‘look him up.’
I’m always glad to show my best
things to the country merchant who |
appreciates a new thing. There was |
a time when I sold only the city|
dealer, but since I’ve discovered there

 

 

is something original in the country
| merchant I’m right glad to see him.
All novelties look alike to some
dealers.”

—_22>>—___
What Was the Use?

“Do you keep chickens, Uncle Ras-

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

tus?”
“Keep ’em, suh? No, suh, not mo’
dan about two hours arfter I git em.”

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

In looking over some newspaper

clippings lately I have noticed some

articles which have recently appeared |
|has been about equalled by the quan-

in the interior press of which the
following abstract from an article
in Buffalo Times gives a_ fair idea.

This begins with a scare head“Eggs
Are Decidedly Scarce: Hens Enjoy-
ing a Vacation and Refuse to Supply
the Ever Increasing Demand:
Prices are High and Will Go Even
Higher.” This interesting heading is
followed by the statement that the
hens have stopped laying and that
“the hungry public is being left egg-
less,” and that the effect is being felt
all over the country: “In Buffalo
eggs are scarcer than in the dead of
winter,” restaurant men, it is stated,
are cutting them off their bills of fare,
and some of the large groceries have
been entirely unable to get any for
their customers for days at a time.
The article goes on to say that the
“inevitable result of this startling
shortage” will be a big rise in the
price of eggs—“higher than ever be-
fore this year.” Then comes this
remarkable statement: “The cold
storage houses are empty of eggs,
their supply being sold in the dead
of winter. It is now time for the cold
storage people to lay in their supply
to guard against the winter shortage
and it is said they are having great
difficulty in doing so.”

Local

Of course nobody who is at all
acquainted with the conditions in the
egg market will be misled by this rot
but it struck me as peculiar that such
a gross misrepresentation of the egg
situation could get into a reputable
newspaper, and I can’t help the sus-
picion that the reporter was purpose-
ly “stuffed” by somebody. There
are a lot of speculative holders of
early packed eggs who know little
or nothing about the egg market, and
if they could be made to believe that
boom prices were coming the effect
on the early fall markets might be
favorable to those who understood
how the land lies. But, taking the
situation as a whole, such false in-
tormation does harm if it has any
effect at all.

As for the silly statement in regard
to storage stocks quoted above from
the Buffalo Times article, it is hardly
worth correcting except for the bene-
fit of those who are unfamiliar with
the situation. It is probably a fact
that the storage stock of eggs carried
into September will be iarger this
year than ever before, and very great-
ly in excess of last year.

These conditions are reflected in
the course of distributing markets
during August, for while at the begin-
ning of the month western eggs were
selling here about one cent higher
than same date last year they are now
one cent lower than at the close of
August last year, although the cost
of storage accumulations averaged
more than 2c a dozen higher than last

 

year. This latter circumstance of it-
self is sufficient to prove that dis-
tributing markets this summer have
needed no larger volume of eggs than
has been supplied by the current pro-
duction. If other markets are simi-
larly situated with ours it may be de-
pended upon that, taking the country
as a whole, the moderate quantity of
May and June eggs withdrawn from
cold storage during July and August

tity of July and August production put
away, so that the total accumulations
have made no reduction. Last year the
stock of eggs in New York and Jer-
sey City was reduced from about 415,-
006 cases July I to about 360,000 cases
September I, whereas the count of
stocks this year will probably show
no reduction to the latter date.
Considering the apparent extent of
current egg production the course of
the markets for the near future would

| seem to depend largely upon the spec-

nlative disposition in respect to early
fall collections. We seem to be about
at the point where all the desirable
current collections are needed in con-
sumptive channels and if any con-
siderable quantity of them should be
withdrawn to storage prices would
undoubtedly be drawn up to a point
where fine April refrigertors could
be used at a small profit. The same
effect would, of course, follow when
production falls below general con-
sumptive demands. But iudging the
scale of production from recent re-
ceipts in the larger markets it cer-
tainly looks as if there would be little
necessity to draw freely on reserve
stocks until late in September, if, in-
deed, before the following month;
and if it turns out so holders will have
to hustle to get the reserve stock
uown to anything like a safe point
by the end of the year—N. Y. Pro-
duce Review.
—___-2 2 —
How the Original Edam Cheese is
Manufactured.

In North Holland, on the west
shore of the Zuyder Zee, is the city
of Edam. Father Knickerbocker that
Washington Irving writes about
must have from this little
The men wear wide flowing
trousers, wooden shoes and coats of
the Tuxedo pattern. The streets are
paven with brick and the canals with
water. Every fifteen minutes the rev-
eries of the inhabitants are broken
by the pealing of beautiful chimes in
the church steeples.

come
town.

Such is the town that has given its
name to the little round cannon ball
cheese known as Edam. The cheese,
however, is not made_ exclusively
in the town. It is made all through
Holland. Most of the cheese is made
in farm dairies, there being but few
factories.

The cows are milked in the fields
and the milk is loaded in to carts,
upon which it is hauled to the dairy.
There it is put into large wooden
tubs, and the process of cheesemaking
is gone through with. The cheese
may be cured on shelves erected in
the stable or the loft of the house.

There are a few factories. One of

these is at Hoogskarspel and receives |.
about 9,000 Ibs. of milk daily, from

 

 

Benry Freudenberg
Jobber of Butter, Eggs, Cheese

104 $. Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Sole agent for Washington Brand finest Sweet Cream
Creamery Butter in one-pound cartons. Consignments
solicited. Refer to Peoples Savings Bank.

 

 

 

 

You Won’t Have Trouble

IF YOU BUY

Ladd’s Full Cream Cheese

We guarantee the best quality of goods, prompt

shipments and right prices.
Manufactured and sold by

LADD BROS., Saginaw, Mich.

If net handled by your jobber send orders direct to us,

 

 

 

It Will Only Cost You a Cent to Try It

We would like to buy your eggs each week, so drop a postal card to us stating
how many you have for sale and at what price and on what days of the week
you ship. Write in time so we can either write or wire an acceptance. We
can use them all summer if they are nice.

L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers

36 Harrison Street, New York

 

 

 

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 ana
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Address

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

 

      
      
     

Butter, Eggs, Apples, Pears,
Plums, Peaches.

1 am in the market all the time and will give you highest prices and quick
returns. Send me all your shipments,

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

Poultry Shippers

I want track buyers for carlots. Would like to hear from shippers from
every point in Michigan. I also want local shipments from nearby points
by express. Can handle all the poultry shipped tome, Write or wire.

William Andre, Grana ceage, michigan

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

which about 850 Ibs. of cheese is
made. The regulation size of cheese
is six inches in diameter; it weighs
4 lbs. In this Hoogskarspel factory
five hands are employed. The cheese
is pressed in molds, made sometimes
of metal, but usually of wood.

The mold is cup-shaped with round
bottom. The top fits into the cup
and is carved on top so that the
resulting cheese is spherical. They
are placed in a similar “salting cup”
for a few days and salted by rubbing
on the outside.

In the curing room they are placed
on shelves with holes in them to pre-
vent the cheese rolling off. They are
turned and rubbed each day. They
may mold and at the end of
a month are washed, dried and rub-
bed with flaxseed oil so that they
shine.

The cheese

some

loaded into carts
which are usually drawn by dogs to
the market towns. One of these
towns is Hoorn. street

are

A

and the Hoogskarspel factory is on
this street.

Arriving at market the cheese is
piled on the cobblestone pavement
in pyramids like so many cannon
balls. Cloths are thrown
different piles for protection
the sun.
and one or two cheese
from a pile and a_ plug
means of a cheese trier.
right quality an offer is made. If
accepted the buyer and seller strike
hands to close the bargain.

Next the official
come with skids onto which the
cheese is loaded. About 150 of the
cheese balls are held on a skid load
which therefore weighs 600
lbs.
the officials hitch onto such a load
and waddle along to the official bal-
ances, which are huge affairs hung

from

are taken

drawn by

weigh

about

from the roof of the market building. |
The load is deposited in one pan and |

the weight in the other.

The officials are dressed in white
suits and straw hats.

The buyer then takes charge of his
purchase. It may eventually be found
on the shelf of an American grocery
store colored red and wrapped
tinfoil, price $1.—John W. Decker.

a
What Constitutes a Good Cheese-
maker.

in

The cheesemaker, if properly quali-
fied, is a very important man in the
community. A successful cheese fac-
tory brings in a lot of money, and a
factory will not be successful unless
the maker is competent. He should,
therefore, be a man of well-trained
judgment and excellent natural abil-
ity, well-informed and have a good
knowledge of human nature, besides
being thoroughly posted in his busi-
ness as a cheesemaker.

In most professions the operator
has the raw material in about the
same condition from day to day. Not
so with the cheesemaker. His raw
material—the milk—is never the
same. He will not get two vats ex-
actly alike. even on the same day,
and to make a uniform cheese from
the different qualities of milk re-

twelve |
miles long runs from Edam to Hoorn |

over the |

The buyers go the rounds |

If of the |

masters |

By means of a harness two of |

quires good judgment and great care.
Then he has the best interests of the
patrons of the factory to consider.
Some patrons will take proper care
of their milk, and see that it is always
| sent to the factory in good condition,
while others will be careless, allow
their cows to feed on what they
should not, or are not careful about
milking or hauling the milk as they
should be, and when it arrives at
the factory the maker finds it is not
| fit to make first-class cheese. It is
ihis duty to refuse, and not accept,
isuch milk, whether it be from the
|largest patron or the most influen-
| tial man in the company, just the
| same as if it were from the smallest
[patron or the meanest one. The
| cheesemaker needs to be a just, up-
‘right, impartial man, and he should
ibe courteous also. If a can of milk
|smells bad, it is not necessary to
|say it is rotten, vile, etc. Such ex-
| pressions are apt to offend the owner
and drive him away from the factory;
whereas, if he were carefully ad-
| vised that his milk was off in flavor
lor quality not right, he might get
interested, and finally become one
of the best supporters of the factory.
The cheesemaker should impress the
patrons with the idea that their in-
terests and his are mutual, and as he
knows more about milk, and how it
should be handled than they do,
| should try and lead them to a better
way, and not attempt to drive them.
| A cheesemaker with intelligence, tact
and good judgment will build up
| business, where one lacking those
| qualities will fail. Therefore the
|success or failure of a factory de-
pends very largely on the manager.

A cheesemaker should be a bit of
an engineer, understand how to care
| for and manage his boiler and engine

 

iso as to get the best out of them
for the fuel consumed, and have them
last a long time. There are times,
too, when he needs to be very quick

'in his decisions and actions and
others when he needs to exercise
great patience.

—_~-.—___—_

Pepsin For Cheesemakers.

The manufacturers of pepsin for use
in cheesemaking gives the following
points in its favor:

First—Scale pepsin (1 to 3,000 test)
uniform product, every batch
acting the same, and is not variable
in strength, as are the liquid rennets,
each lot of which you must accus-
tom yourself to.

Second—Pepsin in dry form keeps
its strength indefinitely and does not
deteriorate during warm weather. In
addition pepsin is sterile and not li-
able, as is liquid preparation, to con-
tain large numbers of bacteria.

Cheese made, using pepsin instead
of rennet, won first place in the
cheddar cheese contest at the Ohio
convention in January and also at
the Ohio State Fair last fall.

—_—__+ +.

When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-
man.

is 2

_—o-o--oa
A man who probably knows says
that there is no meal so expensive as
a free lunch.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

For fifteen years I have worked to build up a

Good
Michigan Cheese

 

 

Trade

I have it. Last year I manufactured at my own
factories 25,462 boxes of cheese, 1,016,000 pounds,
selling in Michigan 23,180 boxes, or over 91 per
cent. of my total output. I solicit trial orders from
trade not already using Warner’s Oakland County
Cheese. Stock paraffined and placed in cold stor-
age if desired.

Fred M. Warner, Farmington, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Butter

Drouth conditions seem to strike
Michigan only in spots, and in the west-
ern states not at all. Butter comes in
rather slow but of better quality and at
reasonable prices demand will be very
good. I want all the fresh dairy butter
you can send me always, of course.

Weekly quotations always furnished
to those who want them.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.
New York, Sept. 3—There has
been this week a moderate volume
of business in the coffee market, but

the general undertone is not as
strong as a week ago. Statistics

seem to favor the buyer, but he is
not seemingly anxious to purchase
ahead of current wants. In store and
afloat there are 3,215,439 bags, against
2,498,231 bags at the same time last
year. For. the two months from
July to Sept. 1 the crop receipts
at Rio and Santos amounted to
2,843,0c0 bags, against 3,241,000 bags
at the same time in 1903 and 2,8q1,-
o00 bags in 1902. At the close Rio
No. 7-is fairly steady at 8'4@85c.
Mild sorts are pretty well sustained,
although it is almost always the rule

| coast for red- Alaska, there has been
|a pretty fair call and, taking the mar-

| ket as a whole, there is great

im-
provement. For fruits and vegeta-
bles there is simply a drifting market

and for a fortnight yet little change |
There is quite a va-|

will take place.

riation in the quality of Southern

| tomatoes, and the range is from 67%

that ttiese grades sympathize closely |

with Brazil sorts. Good Cucuta is
worth 93%4c and good average Bogo-
tas 11%4c. East Indias are
with Padang Interior ranging from
1I5s4@izc.

In teas there has been a better line
business and it is hoped this is the
beginning of the turning of the tide.
Stocks of fine Formosa oolongs and
Country greens are seemingly quite
limited and firm prices are asked for
both.

The market for refined sugar re-
mains very firm. Nota great amount
of new business has been
there 1s a steady call for deliveries
on previous contracts, and matters
generaily hav2 been quite satisfac-
tory to the refiners, who are now
pretty. well caught up on orders.

There has been a fair demand from

steady,

@72Y%sc. The crop in New Jersey has
greatly improved within a few days
as to quality and quantity, and fine
stock sells from 80@82'%c f. o. b.
factory. Corn promises to be a full
pack and quotations are hardly as
firmly held as a week ago.

For top grades of butter the mar- |
ket is quite firm and 19@19%c is the |
Finest creamery, |

established range.

19@19%4c; seconds to firsts, 164%4@
18'4c; imitation creamery, 14@16c;

factory, 121%4@13%c.

There is nothing doing in
For top grades of full
over 834c can be named.

cream

the |
cheese market and prices are sagging. |
not
Quotations |

Buyers and Shippers of
POTATOES

j
in carlots. Write or telephone us.

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

Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
50c on the Dollar

GLOVER’S WHOLESALE MDSE. CO.
MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
of GAS AND GASOLINE SUNDRIES
Grand Rapids, Mish.

 

ELLIOT 0. 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.

‘We are distributors for all kinds

Bell Main 2270
—

here are apparently lower than in|

the country.
some large sizes at 8%4c.

Firmness_ characterizes
market. The supply of

the

near-by sorts 26(@27c is the ruling
range. For fancy Michigan and Ohio
the range is 20!4@2Ic; average best,
19@20c; seconds, 174 @18%%c.
——_+-.__-
Cheesemaking in the South.

The Columbia, S. C., State writes:
“De. W. j. Spiliman m a recent
interview in

| virtues of this climate as the best in

done, but |

10obbers for fancy head rice at value, |

but for the lower sorts there is al-
most nothing doing and holders of
old stock are apt to make some con-
cession from the low rates that have
been ruling if thereby they could get
rid of the surplus. Prices can
ply be said to be unsettled.

As a rule the spice market is quiet,
but there is a steady trade, such as
it is, and prices generally are well
sustained. From now on it is con-
fidently believed there will be a
steady increase in the volume of busi-
ness. At the moment pepper isthe

sim-

this country for the manufacture of
cheese. He predicted that the indus-
try will become one of the charac-
teristics of the state within ten years.

The milk imparts a fine flavor to the
cheese, particularly when the cattle |

S. ORWANT & SON, cranp rapips, mic.

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

are fed on cottonseed products.
“The best evidence of the wisdom

of Dr. Spiiiman’s prediction is the |

results of practical experiments. , Mr.
C. G. Voight, manager of the Union
Creamery Company writes to Mr.
E. J. Watson, Commissioner of Im-
migration, that he is unable to fill

his orders and that experienced dairy-
|}men should be induced to come here
|for they can make 20 to 30 per cent.

most active thing on the list, and is |

very firm.

There is a moderate but increasing
call for molasses and for the time
of year trade may be said to be quite
satisfactory. Some new business is
done, but most of the call is for with-
drawals under previous contract.
Low grades are very firm and in
comparatively light supply. Syrups
are firm and holders are not dispos-
ed to make any concession. Good to
prime in round lots, 17@27c.

There is nothing of interest as yet
to be picked up in the canned goods
market, salmon being perhaps the
thing of most interest. At the re-

_cently-made rate of $1.10 f. o. b.

| milk

 

profit. Mr. Voight writes:

“"T found that there was a grand |

opening here for the creamery busi-
ness and that the time would come
when South Carolina would be a lead-
ing state in the manufacture of cheese.

““T have proved that more cheese
can be made from too gallons of
here than in the northwestern
states, and it sells at 16c. [?] whole-
sale. The seven cheese factories that
I have established are unable to meet
the demand. I have organized the
company here and expect to work
on a different plan; instead of having
farmers to bring us milk, we have
our own farm and are buying cows
to supply us with milk.’ ”

—_2-+___
Boycotted.

Mr. Tucker—I can hear mice in the
pantry every day, but I can’t catch
any of them in thetrap.

Tommy—lI know the reason, paw.
You’re baitin’ it with unfair cheese.

Exporters have taken |
egg |

desirable |
stock is not at all abundant and for |

the State extolled the |

Will pay highest market price F. O. B. your station.

AUTOMOBILES

We have the largest line in Western Mich-
igan and if you are thinking of buying you
will serve your best interests by consult-
ing us.

Michigan Automobile Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

of FRUIT PACKAGES in large or

 

small quantities.
Also Receivers and Shippers of Fruits and Vegetables.

JOHN G. DOAN, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wanted

Daily shipments of

Butter, Eggs and Poultry

Citizens 1881

 

We

can make you money. Write or phone us at once for

prices. Both phones.

Lansing Cold Storage Co.

| Lansing, Mich.

 

 

Green Good

Citizens Phone 2654.

CLOVER

If in the market to

——We

  
       
   

 

The Vinkemulder Company

Fruit Jobbers and Commission Merchants
Can handle your shipments of Huckleberries and furnish crates and baskets

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

s in Season

| We are carlot receivers and distributors of green vegetables and fruits.
We also want your fresh eggs.

Bell Phone, Main 1885.

TIMOTHY

ALSYKE

buy or sell write us.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CoO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Carry ——

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

MOSELEY BROS. ecranp rapiIps, MICH.

Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street,

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 121

   

 

TWO $10,000 JOBS.

Why They Went Begging in the
City of Chicago.

When $10,000 jobs go begging it is
time to admit that the day of the
young man’s opportunity is not past.
Within the last fortnight two rich
and solid Chicago business institu-
tions have offered these lucrative po-
sitions to a dozen men,
refused the propositions.

The work is not laborious, the
hours are agreeable, the duties of the
positions involve neither a university

all of whom

education nor a professional diploma,
yet seveial industrious, intelligent and
ambitious men declined the offer. The
two places in question are the man-
agerships of the freight and traffic bu-
reaus of the Board of Trade and of
the Chicago Shippers’ Association.
Investigation shows that there is
no lack of $10,000 men in Chicago, but
it also discloses the more or less as-
tonishing fact that men of this caliber
are getting $10,000 a year or better,
and therefore find it wise to decline
the new positions with thanks. Doubt-
less there are many others who have
in them the stuff out of which $10,000
men are made, but, either from lack
of opportunity or because of the ob-
scurity of their past efforts, they have
not been found out by the empleyers
who have $10,000 a year to spend on
a capable traffic manager.
understood that
there has been any dearth of appli-
cants for the positions mentioned
The striking fact is,

It must not be

rather, that out
of the long list of aspirants who failed
the prizes all fell short
or another of the essential

to gain in

one way
qualifications required by the position.
There are thousands of young men in
the railroad offices and great com-
mercial houses of Chicago to-day who
are face to face with the opportuni-
to a final mastery of
of trafic management
which the stock trade as it
were of the $10,000 official. Some, a
few the
of
will

ties necessary

those details
are in
into
majority

of them will graduate
high places, but a vast
them will

dissipate their native

become discouraged,

talents, or per-
mit some trifling habit to mar by de-

grees the bright certainty of success

which lies ahead of them.
There is nothing occult, intricate,
or specially difficult about the quali-

necessary to fill these two
positions, which literally went beg-
ging’ for an occupant, but simple and
easy as they seem, comparatively few

fications

men combine them. The first essen-
tial required was a practical and gen-
eral knowledge of railway affairs
specialized in the direction of freight
rates, classifications, tornage,
mileage, tariffs, or, in a word, freight
traffic management.

and

Perhaps the next most requisite
quality was the possession of proved
executive ability. Many men who
possessed all of the technical know-
ledge of freight traffic management
lacked that invaluable gift of being
able to do or cause to be done with
celerity, accuracy, and decision those
multitudinous transactions which
they understood perfectly and which

constitute the actual business of a

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

traffic bureau. Here, as must happen
in all the affairs of life, it was made
apparent to unsuccessful applicants
that knowledge without execution is
but a fine weapon without ammuni-
tion.

There are a few men who undoubt-
edly technical
the executive
who have

possess every equip-
ment and genius in a
high demonstrated

their standing as managerial practic-

order,

ians, but who destroyed their careers
by some moral obliquity, or obscur-
ed their merits by mental or physical
slovenliness. Some of these finely en-
dowed men have passed middle life
without accomplishing any perma-
nent success. Some of them are still
anchored in the $5,000 class with the
ebb tide of their fortunes gradually
leaving them high and dry on the mud
flats of mediocrity and final failure.

A breath reeking of whisky proved
a bad introduction for one aspirant,
who pointed with pride to his past
and who

successes, carried with him

the indorsement even of those who
had discharged him. He had the
knowledge. He had the experience,
the executive gift, the captivating
personality, the poise, the aplomb
which go to make up the ideal, and

yet all 5f his fine qualifications were
sicklied over by so paltry a weakness
as intemperance.

Untidy
trivial as such failings seem to their
victims, stood here as they may often
stand between some capable man and
the $10,000 Diffidence, an
unhappy, awkward, unconvincing
manner debarred others from evena
consideration of their claims, for the
executive head of a large enterprise
must be self reliant, at ease,
adaptable,

position.

impres-

sive, comely, and with a
measure of that personal finish which
characterizes good tools, good weap-
It is for such
men that these two $10,000 jobs wait-

ed in vain for a considerable time.

ons, and good officiais

An edifying feature of this remark-
able

elemental,

situation is the simple, almost
nature of the qualities re-

Thus,

act and fascinating busiress,

knowledge of an ex-
ability
self-con-

quired.

to energize this knowledge,
convincing
proved habits

fidence, a good address, a
delivery,
sobriety.

presence and
of integrity, and order
Written down they seem so common-
place that the wonder grows so few
possess them. Certainly,
cept in the few instances in which
temperamental or physical failings in-
terfere, they seem to be well within
the possibilities of any intelligent boy
ot young man who might set himself
to encompass them.

The executive genius may be inher-
ited, but it can also be cultivated and
even copied with success, but there
are many men who possess it in a
high degree who,
ment or practice,

men cx-

by lack of experi-
never bring it into
advantageous play. The mastery of
traffic affairs is a simpler matter, re-
quiring, the successful
managers themselves, only intelli-
gence, industry, and unceasing pa-
tience. Opportunities in the railroad
business are not wanting to those who
excel, and it is a striking fact that the
great manufacturers and large mer-

according to

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SPRING DRESS GOODS.

 

Novelties in Linens Indicate Their
Continued Popularity.

It is the current belief in linen sec-
tions that suiting materials of the
etamine and canvas order with small
knotty effects will continue in favor
another season, and importers show
their faith by their sample lines. There
is evidence of a reaction against fine
Irish and butcher’s linens. because of
their tendency to wrinkle and _ lose
their fresh appearance sooner than
many other wash fabrics, but this is
only a repetition of what has occur-
red at the end of the past two sum-
mers and which seems always to be
forgotten in the season of preparation
for the next year, as linens of the kind
have and probably will keep a firm
p sition.

Importers are showing distinct nov-
elties in linens and linen and cotton
mixtures. Linens of canvassy weave
are embroidered in double raindrop
designs in two-tone effects; for ex-
ample, on an ecru ground there are
double drops in pale pink and in
spring green, in blue and white and
other darker combinations.

Large plaid effects composed of
quarter-inch lines of heavier weave on
grounds of open canvassy nature area
novelty. On grounds of pale ecru
there are plaids in pale pink, pale blue,
nile and champagne.

These and handkerchief linens have
had an increase of fashionable
favor for very fine waists, lingerie,
neckwear and children’s and infants’
frocks. They are, however. articles
de luxe, and, the prices prohibi-
tive to the general trade. It is.
therefore, probable that. like all goods
in the exclusive category, their ad-
vance in the estimation of the fash-
ionable few will not appreciably en-
hance their value as business propo-
sition.

There are many mercerized fab-
rics of attractive appearance with spe-
cific names given by their manufac-
turers, some of which resemble pon-
ges, others taffetas, others silk batis-
tes and all claim to bear the tubbing
process without losing a particle of
their luster. In these as well as simi-
lar fabrics in colors, small jacquard
dots and designs appear which in
most instances add much to their
appearance and value.

Crepon lawn with jacquard designs
is a new feature with bright promise;
also jacquard poplins with a satin fig-
ure thrown up in the weave, and a
similar fabric called rep suiting is
worthy of attention. In fact, all of
the silk-and-wool goods of popular
weave are closely imitated in mer-
cerized cottons as well as the all-silk
materials which belong to the sheer
goods category. Cotton crepes de
chine, eolinnes, gauzes and chiffons,
which come in colors as well, all find
a representation in white goods
lines.

Most attractive patterns in damasse
sateens come in wide variety and in
stripes of different widths as well as
checks of all sizes. There are also
very thin, light-weight, fine, plain
sateens, which, on a cursory glance,
could easily be taken for mesaline

 

satin, so soft and dainty is the fab-
ric and so brilliant the luster. These
zoods deserve to lead in waists and
suits of the better class, as nothing
is handsomer or more all-around
satisfactory. Being independent of
starch they are easily laundred and
keep an unsoiled appearance longer
than any other material. A close sec-
ond to these are the mercerized mad-
rasses, which reappear in the season’s
showing with renewed claim to ad-
miration of the beauty and variety
of their designs.

The sovereignty of King Cotton is
extending. This is evident in the sur-
passing variety of cotton dress fabrics
in this season’s showing. The weave
of almost every kind of textile of
wool, worsted, silk, linen or mohair
yarns is imitated in cotton and there
are others quite new or belonging le-
gitimately to cotton alone. Some of
the effects brought about by the mer-
cerizing process or a commingling of
mercerized yarns in the weave are
simply marvelous and a steady im-
provement in the finish of these pro-
ducts is obvious. It is even stated
in some cases that the silken lus-
ter, which is their own charm, is not
only lasting, but is improved by laun-
dering in the ordinary way.

Scotch tweeds and homespuns are
very cleverly imitated in cotton
weaves with mixture yarns, and the
nub effects in the modest form now
prescribed by fashion are also intro-
duced, sometimes in small overplaids
or stripped effects. These are in a
mixture of white, one neutral color
only, but the illuminated effects are
also imitated by printing, and by this
means nearly all of the wide variety
of Scotch suitings are reproduced
with such remarkable fidelity that,
without close inspection, even an ex-
pert can be deceived.

Pongees, eolinnes, poplinettes, bat-
istes, organdies and ginghams and
innumerable fancy effects in stripes
or overplaids, many of which have
Frenchified names, are in the season’s
showing, and most of them irrestibly
attractive in their dainty sheerness
and soft delicate color schemes. The
Lorraine bareges are a shining ex-
ample in more than one sense. They
have the exact weave of the recently
revived old-time favorite, silk and
wool barege, and over them are non-
descript printed designs in Persian or
Pompadour colorings, which bear a
striking resemblance to warp-print
effects.

Lace insets are a feature of spring
goods which appear in high-class silks
for fall, and the idea has been ap-
plied to wool, linen and cotton goods
of the voile or etamine order for
spting. Designs of various forms
in white lace of the Venetian type are
inserted a jourin goods of pale colors.
They are framed in embroidery,
which fixes them securely, and the ef-
fect is extremely novel and attract-
ive.

A volume of respectable size could
be printed about these alone. The
cleverest of water-color artists make
the designs. which are perfectly re-
produced in the printing, and the
beauty of form and color shading in
the flowers of natural size makes a
strong appeal to aesthetic perception.

 

 

It is easy to sell goods which are
stylish and right-priced. |

It is easy to continue to sell them,
season after season, if the qualities are
right.

The “Palmer Garment” offers you,
on these grounds, the easiest-selling and
best trade-keeping women’s-garment

opportunity in the market.

Percival B. Palmer & Co.

Makers of the *‘Palmer Garment’’ for
Women, Misses and Children

The “Quality First” Line

Chicago

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Absence of Freaks and Absurdities | cause everybody

in Neckwear.

This season has been exceptionally
free from
surdities in men’s

neckwear, and

now that the season is_ practically
over, retail dealers will have less mer-
chandise in this line to carry over or
to dispose of at what is usually a
great loss.

now understands

| how to tie a four-in-hand.

|
|

The last six months’ business has |

not proven a great paying one, but
the goods that have been sold have
yielded a good profit, and whatever
will have to be carried over will not
have to be sacrificed, but can be sold

The shapes for fall are practically
the same as those of last spring, with
the exception that they are some-
what the demand for
narrow shapes will continue well into
the fall

Now

larger, yet
season.
that manufacturers have al-
ready had a two months’ business, it |
is easy to definitely
will be,

what this
and buyers

Sce

season’s styles

who have not yet placed their orders |

should have no hesitancy in follow-

| new

The broad batwing tie is_ selling

codatied teeiee saa | well and aside from the old standby,

| the club, it will be one of the features -

in this season’s styles.

In all qualities plain colors are
more popular than ever, and in ad-
dition to all the different shades of
tans and browns, several new colors
are shown, such as dark mulberry, a
new rich shade of dark green and a
shade of blue on the order of

|cornflowers but slightly on the nile

| tint.

The rep weave seems to be the

|favorite at present in all plain colors
land the fine wale is generally prefer-
: | red.

with new fall goods at regular prices. |

| but very rich weave are great,

|

{
|

of the conventional and_ reliable}
houses.

Aside from what the general de-
mand may be, there is often a local

| These
|and the same with sharp, medium-
| sized figures.

Multi-colored effects are quite popu-
lar. The possibilities in this quiet
as so
can -be made
in a large variety

combinations
are shown

many

The tints are from
the darkest up to light medium ef-
i fects, sages, drabs, olives and _ soft
tans being particularly sought for.

Another new weave, at least new |
}in many combinations of colors, is
| granite in plain

ing the directions and advice of any | same with clean, sharp white and con-

effects, and _ the
trasting colored figures. They might
be cailed conservative, but they look

well made ua in all shapes.—Cloth-

‘ier and Furnisher.

a i

| Browns and Grays Will Be Popular.

demand for certain things which a}
buyer cannot afford to ignore, for
instance, lined four-in-hands in all

qualities of silks have been largely
ordered in some sections.
will

claimed that people not waer
lined scarfs, except in very cheap
goods, but must have. either the

Fench or the reversible. The buy-
ers from such sections will unfortun-
ately find it quite difficult to satisfy
that demand, as they will have trouble
to find manufacturers who will furn-
ish a 2% and 2%-inch four-in-hand
for the same price as the 134-inch.
The sooner these dealers educate
their to the change the
better for them, as they will experi-

customers

It may be | making early fall deliveries.

Manufacturers of clothing are bus-

\ily engaged at the present time in

The gar-

| ments which are now on order dem-
| onstrate the belief of retail merchants

that brown and gray will be the pop-

| ular shades for suitings for the com-

| ing season.

The brown will doubtless

| be the leader and all shades and tones

are inciuded in the garments selected.
There are many suits of solid color,

| but the range is carried out to a mix-
| . oe .
| ture that contains only a faint stripe

|
|

or plaid of brownish tint. Many
orders call for plain black or blue
cheviots and serges in both single and

ence less trouble to furnish the | gouyble-breasted effects. Fancy wor-

goods. steds and cassimeres also have a
It stands to reason, if a 1%! considerable demand.

and 134-inch reversible scarf is worth | There is little change in top coat

and has sold for $4.50 per dozen ina} styles from those worn last fall. The

certain quality, that a 2% and 2!2-| medium length coat is favored and

inch article of the same quality must
Either the material must
be of a cheaper grade or the price
must be higher, or the scarf must be
lined instead of being the “all-round”
(French) or reversible. Almost
universally the lined have been ac-
cepted, and, after all, there is a good
déal in the methods used in educat-
ing the public as to what is correct
and what they should buy.

The demand for squares is not as
great as it was and the regular Ascot,
both lined and reversible, is enquired
for more frequently. — popular
width in the latter is 3%4-inch, and
where price is not an object, 3% and
even 4 inches is not too wide.

There is a marked increase in the
sale of puffs, which is owing to the
fact that standing collars are expected
to have a better sale than for some
years and puffs can easily be worn
with them. Tecks seem to have cor-
respondingly decreased, probably be-

COst more.

 

covert is the popular fabric, although
oxfords are used to some extent. This
coat is made with broad shoulders
and fits loosely about the body. It
is the most convenient coat ever de-
vised for wear during the cool even-
ings of late summer and early fall.
There are several attractive styles of
lightweight overcoats this season;
probably the most popular one will
be the “Chesterfield” of moderate
length for wear over the frock or
evening suit. This coat is made of
oxford, vicuna or other soft mate-
rials, and is silk faced to the edge.
—_——_>2>——_

The Female and the Mail Fee.

“No, I’m not going to the Fair,”
said the sweet girl. “Railroad fares
cost so. I often wish I might just
lick a stamp on my forehead and go
anywhere in the United States for
two cents. Wouldn’t that be lovely?”

“No,” replied the gallant man, “you
would be mail then.”

 

 

 

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SWING POCKETS, FELLED SEAMS;

FULL SIZE

WRITE FOR SAMPLE.

 

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60.

Call your special attention
to their complete line of

FLY NETS
AND HORSE GOVERS

The season is now at hand
for these goods. Full line

Harness, Collars, Saddlery

Hardware, Lap Dusters, Whips,

Etc. e &@eeneeneee’
Special attention giver to
Mail Orders. Wholesaie
Only.

W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion
Ratesevery day to Grand Rapids.
Send for circular.

 

 

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Agents for Northwest-
ern Michigan for #&

John W. Masury
& Son’s

Paints, Varnishes
and Colors
and
Jobbers of Painters’
Supplies

We solicit your orders,
shipments

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What Men Will Wear in Coming
Seasons.

Purchasing in fall neckwear is be-
ing done on a very liberal basis. Band
four-in-hands are selling exceedingly
well. Neckwezr novelties of the
campaign order are being grabbed up
at a rapid rate. Their reception by
the popular priced trade has been
phenomenal. Neckwear styles which
promise to be most successful during
the holiday season include a wide
variety of bright and dark color
schemes in many combinations. The
livest color schemes are taking best.
It is very likely that Persian silks
will be more popular far this fall than
they were for two seasons _ back.
This Oriental is found in the popu-
lar priced lines, as well as in the
high-ciass displays. The colors, how-
ever, will be a little more subdued
than they were two years ago.

Brown, dark purple, green, in
combination with other colors, gold-
en brown, moleskin, between gray
and gun-metai, and kindred shades,
are much approved. There are some
new ties with fringed ends for wear
with the wing collar, but, broadly
considered, the sales of ties promise
to be limited. Grey is losing its
hold and is not favored except in
distinctly new shades. Brown keeps
up wonderfully well and yields beau-
tiful effects when blended with black
and other contrasting colors. Stripes,
bias and straight, are shown in many
lines, as are also plaids in the quiet-
er treatments. There ought to be
an opening for stripes, since. the
changes have been rung on the fig-
ures so long that people are getting
a bit tired of them. Black, white and
turquoise; black, scarlet and black;
white and canary and black, myrtle
and white are some effective com-
binations put forth in autumn goods.

Signs point to a brisk business in
fine goods this season, and all the
manufacturers of high-class cravats
have enlarged their lines and filled
them with special weaves of the
most luxurious quality. While the
standard seller, as heretofore, will be
the half dollar article, there is, nev-
ertheless, a well-defined demand for
cravats selling from a dollar upward.
Mufflers have been brought out in
black, white and fancies. The big
unstitched square, 27 to 36 inches, in
plain and self blacks and with plain
bordered ends is preferred in fine
goods, while the made-up mufflers
and protectors will figure in cheap
goods. So-called reefers will be
much in request.

Midgets, which enjoyed a wide
sale in the cheap trade for the last
two years, have fallen into disfavor,
and they are no longer in apprecia-
ble demand even in the South. More
puffs and tecks, and, in fact, made-
up cravats generally are sought this
season than at any time during the
last five years This is traceable to
the bigness of cravat forms and the
difficulty that unskilled fingers ex-
perience in knotting four-in-hands,
ascots and squares. Of course, the
madeup cravat has no standing and
is generally sold in low-grade goods.

Shirt lines for next spring are
complete, or near it, and will soon

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| be shown by the salesmen on their
|early trips. One fact seems clear—
| that it is not to be a season of great
| changes either in fabrics or patterns.
There is plenty that is both bright
and pretty in weave and design, but
this is rather a variation of things
gone before, a reassembling of famil-
iar colors and patterns into new and
pleasant combinations. Of colors,
| tans promise to hold their place,
| greys are weil established in favor,
icorn and biscuit shades are to be
kandled gingerly and pinks and
helios are, of course, merely experi-
ments. Grey may be regarded asa
staple color, little subject to season
changes.

In designs there are some novel
Persian effects, intermittent stripes,
jacquards, be-

clipped figures and
sides the usual showing of stripes,
detached units and groups. Light
| and dark grounds are shown in al-
| most equal proportion with a slight
preponderance in favor of the light.
Opinions differ curiously in respect
to this, some dealers endorsing light,
others lenaing
vice versa.
ing will undoubtedly be the demand
for soft collar and soft cuff shirts,

general favor. The coat-shirt is con-
spicuous in every high-class line,
both in plain and pleated garments.

men out of every ten.

been undergoing their annual clean-
ing and repairing. Preparations are
in order for new fall styles, although
it is not thought that there will be
any very radical change from the
summer or last fall.

Ameng the novelties now being
shown the market buyer are many
new and interesting creations in the
light furnishing line. Probably the
most original handkerchief creation
is the Persian pattern with the dark
two-inch border. These _ kerchiefs
are to be worn in the outside vest
pocket of the coat.

The latest sweater creation has no
cross seam in the neck where the
collar is usually joined. The old-
time seam is done away with and
the body and neck are knit continu-
ously. The shoulder is concave and
is so knit that all sagging and draw-
ing of the shoulders are obviated.
This sweater has the desired broad
shoulder effect.

—_+~+»___
Slow Trains in Spain.

Trains in Spain are certainly slow.
A rate of ten or twelve miles an hour
is considered a good average of
speed for everyday travelers. When
the Spanish officials wish to show
visiting foreigners what they really
can accomplish in the way of rapidi-
ty they offer express trains which
dash madly across the landscape at
an average rate of fifteen or eighteen
miles an hour. In one way this proves
an advantage, for the traveler sees
a great deal more scenery for his
money than if he were rushed past
it swiftly.

 

toward dark, and |
A feature of spring buy- |

seems destined to another season of

Its convenience commends it to nine

The collar and cuff factories have |

 

in flannels, pongees and silks. Flan-|
nels are very strong in fine goods, |
and this really admirable fabric}

 

 

“We Say”

Without fear of contradiction
that we carry the best and
of medium

strongest line

priced union made

Men’s and Boys’
Clothing

Try us.

in the country.

Wile Bros. & Weill

Makers of Pan-American Guaranteed Clothing

Buffalo, fh. Y¥.

 

 

THEY FIT
Gladiator Pantaloons
ot

Clapp Clothing Company
.

 

 

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS
The Largest Establishment in the State
28 and 30 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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. Their samples of Overcoats for coming fall
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 Citizens’ 1957

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates to Grand Rapids every day. Write for circular.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

 

 

TOM MURRAY SERIES—NO. 12.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN S

 

 

 

 

Custom Shoes Have Gone Out of
Existence.

 

tory can not have a department where
strictly hand made custom work is

produced if they are disposed to do|

so, and if experienced custom men

direct that part of the work custom |
But right here |
let me say that such cases are very |

work is the result.
tare although almost every factory
some claim to having a custom de-

partment.
The fact is that such a department

amounts to little except that goods |
are hurried out at a certain time, and |
frequently |

also some changes are
made in the lasts to try to give a
better fit. Such shoes are essential-
ly factory made; the innersoles are
channeled by machine, welted by ma-
chine, usually stitched by machine,
heeled by machine, and in fact every-
thing is done by machinery except
possibly the finish is slightly chang-
ed to give it the appearance of cus-
tom work.

Now wherein does this shoe differ
from the regular factory shoe?

Possibly the single pair edge-trim- |

mer gives it a little different shape
as his eye suggests, that is all, in so

far as the workmanship is concerned. |

But the bill will show an additional
cost to the retailer of from 25 to

a high cost and thinks he has a
custom shoe.at a low cost. But the
average American likes to be hum-
bugged, and he usually gets what he
likes.

Again, if we were to take say five
hundred of our leading shoe factor-
ies, not necessarily the biggest ones,
making wholly or in part for the re-
tail trade and could look over their
orders any day during their busy
season, we would find them making
from one to one htindred, or more,
single pairs daily; or suppose we al-
low an average of ten pairs each, this
will give a total of five thousand
daily, or in other words, with all
our boasted skill, and our multiplicity
of styles and leathers and endless
variety of designs we still have five
thousand customers daily ‘that can
not be suited from the goods carried
by our retail shoe dealers. And the
number set is one-half too low, as it
is not a fair way to estimate from
the factory records, as there are
many dealers carrying on a mail or-
der business and their goods are
mainly sent to purchasers within easy
reach of shoe stores.

Through liberal use of printers’ ink
they are getting some special atten-
tion and the boy that picks their size
cut of the case sends along with
them enough skillfully worded stuff
to make the credulous believe that
the factory in question is equipped
and run for their special benefit.

This is skillful advertising, good

 

; custom makers are

 

 

salesmanship and,

por shoemaking.

to be humbugeged.
The facts of the case are that the

usually,
The public likes

gulf between the “custom shoe” and |
the “factory shoe” is wider than it |
has ever been, and the increasing |
| multitude of di8satisfied customers
| proclaim this truth, but they do not
There is no reason why any fac- |

know where to turn for relief as
growing very
scarce and, besides, the custom boot
of to-day is not equal to the cus-
tom boot of ten years ago.
of the younger custom

there is more life and the older ones

|are becoming scarcer every year.
makinz so-called fine goods makes |

The custom business has not only
not kept up with the procession, it
has dropped out. The writer be-

|lieves that the time is ripe for a
genuinely made custom boot, at a}
The public is rapid- |
ly learning that style is not endur- |
ing, and the myriads of people who!
are lame and in some cases crippled |
for life as a result of wearing cheap |
shoes that looked well is proof suf- |
ficient that something is needed to}

moderate price.

bring relief.

The custom looking article, with |
its cut-off vamp, leather board heel |

and cardboard shank will have to give

place to the genuine article. This)
latter grade will have to be made|
under improved conditions and bet-|
ter management than heretofore, but |
it will be welcomed nevertheless if|

rightly presented.

| It is no exaggeration to state that |
| if all who apply to our foot special- |
ists for relief, and all who are wear- |
50 cents, and the retailer puts on an- |
other 50 cents or possibly $1, and}
the consumer gets a factory shoe at |

ing some kind of foot supports, were
to patronize a custom maker, he
would have a large business right in
Boston, and I am persuaded that
Boston is no exception. Some of
our doctors have called this an epi-
demic of foot disease, but they are
entirely wrong.

{t is an epidemic of poor shoe-
making, trying to satisfy the demands
for a cheap shoe, endeavoring to fit
the eye and suit the pocketbook at
the same time. So long as our pres-
ent mode of city life continues, with
our hard pavements, climbing stairs,
jumping off cars, and the general
strain and jar to which our feet are
subjected, just so long will the epi-
demic exist and increase, unless some-
thing is produced to protect the feet
and aid them in supporting the body.
--A. C. E. in American Shoemaking.

—__>.._____
Circumventing Fate.

The palmist again studied the lines
in the young man’s hand.

“You will have a long life, sir,” she
said.

“Well, that’s some comfort.”

“Ves,” she went on; “your line of
life, as we call it, has a break in it,
about the middle, but I can see that
you have repaired it for my inspec-
tion by creasing it with your finger
nail, or the back of a knifeblade, or
something of the kind. A man that
will do that will be shrewd enough
to cheat death in some way or other
when his time comes. Fifty cents,

please.”
————— — i --

Meekness is not mushiness.

blamed |

 

Most |
workmen |
have gone into the factories where |

Business Opportunity

 

For Sale—The stock and good will of a pros-
perous, well-established wholesale shoe business of
highest reputation, in one of the best cities of the
west. Parties wishing to consider such an open-

ing will please address C. C., care of this paper,
when full details and an opportunity to investigate
will be given.

Capital required, about $100,000.

 

 

Shoe The Boy

School time is here. Prepare for the rush. Get
Good shoes and hold your trade. ‘‘MICHIGAN
BOY” shoe for boys and “TRIUMPH” school shoes
for girls are built for the purpose, will stand hard
knocks and look well. Just let us show you.

Waldron, Alderton & Melze }

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

 

 

 

     

We Believe

A business without competition cannot be of long duration, but we
have no fear of ultimate results after

 

Banigan and
Woonasquatucket Rubbers

have been compared wiih others. You'll marvel at the differer ce
and wonder why you did not handle them before. The memory
of quality lasts long after the price has been forgotten. If not

thoroughly acquainted with the line a trial order will afford entire
satisfaction.

The Joseph Banigan Rubber Co.

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

 

 

 

MICHIGAN.

TRADESMAN

2

 

Mr. Fitem’s Opinions on Fits in a
Shoe Store.

Dear Epileptics—I call you that

because of your liability to fits. I

used to know

 

a fellow in theshoe
business who really did have fits, but |
he could always tell when they were |
coming on, and right in the middle of
a sale he would suddenly ask to be|
excused, into the back room, |
have a fit, and be back before the cus- |
tomer had decided whether the broad |
or the narrow toes were preferable,
a little dopey but still able to get|
a good profit en the sale.

Old Skinley, and
he certainly was the sort of a shoe
dealer who had a right to the name.
His fits were a sort of standing joke |
among: his customers, and they used
to have a joke about his high prices
and say that he might have fits, but |
they were not |
fits. He never would come down on
prices.

sneak

his name was,

certainly “falling”

One time he was waiting on an
“old maid” customer who was surely |
a hard one. Old Skinley was asure |
good salesman, and he was |
right on his metal that day, but it

looked very much as though he were

enough

going to lose her and he was putting
in good hard licks.
The spinster wasn’t getting much

of ht, but Old

a Skinley felt one
coming on. He hated to leave her |
to go back into the office and have

his for fear she'd get

away while he was gone, so he took

conniption

chances and delayed a little too long,
and the first thing Miss
knew down he plumped right in front |
fits. |

Old Skinley’s fits were strictly busi- |
ness.

Spinster

of her with one of his choicest
Short and sharp, and no waste
About all he

on his back, squirm around a little,

time. did was to fall
snap his teeth a few times, and come |
to.
right it Miss Spinster hadn’t been in
her stocking feet, because her shoes

Everything would have beenall |

would probably have protected her.
She couldn’t tell, how § it
happened, but someway he happened

herself,

to fall just right and snap just right
with his teeth, and he bit her foot— |
right her
onto the end of her boss toe.

It looked second or
though would bite off something |
lke half a size, and fix it so’s Miss |
Spinster could wear fives, but she |
let: a yell out of her that brought |
the old man out of his trance quick- |

. |
er than scat, and there was his cus-|

through home knits and

for 2 so as|

he

tomer hopping around on one foot |
with the other held both hands |
and pretty near as mad as she was|

in
scared. |
Old Skinley didn’t know what he’d |
done, and she was too flustered to |
tell him, and things were certainly |
mixed for awhile. After a time she |
got settled enough to tell him she
was going to have him arrested and
sue him besides, and a whole lot of
other things, and the old man was
scared to death. Then she beganto|}
cry and the old fellow tried to com-
fort her, and just when the minister
came in he had her head on his
shoulder, and that cooked Skinley’s
goose.

The easiest way out of the whole

| son. to

| lacing

|as a pencil, and when you come

business was to court her and mar- |
|ry her, and that’s exactly what hap- |

pened.

All of which should prove a les-
A good fit is all right,
but it has to be in the right place,

us.

and the right place is on the right

foot.

That makes me think. Do you re-

member when women’s laced shoes
Hirst came in?

convince

How hard it was. to

4 woman that the

ought not to lace together in front |

at first? I bet I’ve spent hours and
hours in the old days convincing
women that they couldn’t afford to
the shoes lace together in
front, because if they did when they

have

were new and they stretched any, as
they certainly must, the shoe would
be too loose. I never expected laced
shoes would be so_ popular
women as they have become,  be-
cause it proved impossible to use the
hooks satisfactorily
count of their catching in skirts. But
beautiful about
women’s shoes. If a style of any-
thing, shoes or anything is
they'll stand
no matter how much bother
Men won't that.
hooks you couldn’t have made laced

on ac-

there’s one thing
else,
them,
it

fashionable, for
is.

do

shoes for men popular in a hundred

| years.

Some manufacturers are foxy about

shoes |

with |

Without the!

| great time with the laced goods. His
eyesight isn’t as good as it used to

| be, even when he has his double

gogs on, and he has a pretty tough |

time of it fitting on the women’s

laced shoes, and that’s one reason he |

joins in a big holler for larger string |

holes.

It looks as if trade was going to
be pretty good here this fall in spite
of the presidential election.

We are going to have a nice run
on women’s fine felt goods the
slipper line, and we have put in a
big stock of fancy Romeos, fur trim-
med and plain, in black and colors.
We had a line of fur trimmed, quilt-

in

ed satin goods last year, but we’ve
had enough of them, thank you, and
shall stick to fancy felts and kid for
house shoes this year.—Ike N. Fit-
em in Boot and Shoe Recorder.
a
A Bit of Realism.

Alexis came home one night with

| his clothes fuli of holes.

“What has happened to you?” ex-

claimed his mother.

“Oh, we’ve been playing shop ever
since school closed,’ Alexis replied.
“Shop?” echoed his mother.

“Yes. We opened a grocery, and
everybody was something,” Alexis
replied. “I was the cheese.”

 

 

 

 

»

Comfort

ee le

co

GRAND RAPIDS

 

SHOE.*

Comfort in shoes is very important to the

man who works.

this when it comes to low shoes and |

other laced goods without hooks in
putting in good big eyelets, as big
to
What was the
use in the old days of holes so small
that if the tip of the

think of it, why not?
shoe string
got

to lace at all. In the humble opin-

ion of the corps of hot salesmen in|
this store every laced shoe for men}
or women which isn’t provided with |

hooks, ought to have good, big,
strong, heavy eyelets with
large enough to let a slate
throuzh. Why not? And. yet
got a lot of patent leather oxfords
for women the other day to sel! at
$5 the pair, and the lacing holes are
not large enough to admit a self re-
specting match that hadn’t been starv-
ed to death.

I asked George Stark about it when
he was along here, and he said that
so far as the women’s shoes were con-
cerned, the reason they didn’t always
put in large eyelets was because un-
less ribbon laces were used the or-
dinary string filled up only a _ por-
tion of the space, and made the hole
look like a continuous house during

the supper turn, but that explanation

pencil
we

| doesnt explain.

We are getting ready now for the
opening of school trade, and we have
laid in the finest stock of children’s
shoes that I ever saw. I don’t know
how it is in other sections, but with
us a heavier line in demand for
both boys and girls. A few years
ago, you remember, “Beatrice really
couldn’t wear anything as heavy as
that,” but quite a change has come
in recent years, which is very mark-
ed this season. The styles and
weights of children’s shoes are going
to be much more sensible this year.

Poor old man Laster is having a

is

a little stretched it was too big |

Cripple his feet and you destroy his use-

fulness.

Sell him shoes that not only wear but are
perfectly easy and you hold his trade and that

of his entire family.

a hole}

Our make guarantees comfort.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

Write for circular.

o

 

 

Boys--Solid Throughout

No. 6512 Boys’ 2% to
See a $I 50

No. 6412 Youths’ 12%
Toe a $1.35

 

No 6612 L. G. 8 to 12
a $1.15

Our Own Make
Guaranteed

 

A Genuine Box Calf Shoe For School

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

Not a Bad Shoe For a Good Boy

BUT JUST THE REVERSE

 
 
  

Hirth, Krause & Co., Grand Rapids

16 and 18 South Ionia Street

Write for circular.

 

 

22

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

How To Achieve Success in Shoe
Selling.

Advice is plentiful and frequently
obnoxious. Much of the stuff that is
printed about success and prosperity
enly awakens skepticism and incre-
dulity. But every reader of these
lines desires to better his condition
and may be aided in his ambitions
by the timely words of others.

There is no royal road to pros-
perity, neither can the secret of suc-
cess be gathered from a newspaper
paragraph. And yet desire lapses
end energy abates if they have noth-
ing to subsist upon.

On the average the people who
attain are those who attempt. In-
tense desire to achieve is the propul-
sive power that, properly guided and
controlled, will win the prize. Self-
satisfaction, indolence, pessimism and
ill health are the greatest obstacles
to success. Many men in the shoe
trade “lay the flattering unction to
their souls” that the causes of their
failure are not within, but without.
This is the solace, the opiate of the
incompetent.

The beginning of success is inthe
development of discontent with pres-
ent conditions which should engender
courage and determination to ad-
vance to a higher plane.

If profits are small, competition
keen and the environment unfavora-
ble, and these things can not be
changed, the ambitious man should
look within himself for the means
of advancement.
ounce of introspection is better than

a pound of egotism. Self-analysis

portunities lost, time frittered away.
There never was a greater fallacy

Before our law perhaps, but not in
intrinsic qualities of brain and brawn,
of intelligence and health. But the

 

age of solicitation and trade goes
where it is drawn.

In wholesale and manufacturing
lines where the follow-up system is
in use at least four circular letters
are sent to a prospective customer
before deciding that you can not get
his trade, and even then the bombard-
ment is renewed at a later date. This
system demands _ hard, persistent,
methodical work, but, as we have
said, hard work is the prerequisite
of success.

There are many ways in which the
patient plodder in the shoe business
can outstrip his perhaps more orna-
mental and showy competitors. He
can take time and pains to learn the
kinds of shoes the people are buying
who live within a twenty-mile radius
of his store. Perhaps they are
sending to one of the large cities for
shoes that they are unable to buy
nearer home. The plodder will know
enough under these circumstances to
put in a full line and get out a spe-
cial letter announcing the fact. It
is easier to swim with than against
the current, and for the same rea-
son it is better to offer the shoes
the people want rather than to at-
tempt to force them to buy what
you have selected for them. It would
seem the part of wisdom to stduy the
wants of the vicinity and then to
cater to those wants. But it is fre-
quently a mistake to assume too has-
tily that certain goods will not sell.

If there is a special industry in

| your town in which many people are

At such a time an|

employed it requires no wonderful

| genius to study what particular sort

/of shoe would give the best service.
will reveal mistakes committed, op-|

Having found a manufacturer who
makes just the right shoe, there

| should be no difficulty in getting and
than that all men are created equal. |

world is full of compensating forces. |

Brilliant men are erratic and lack

bust j;hysique is often the abode of
idleness.

A capacity for hard and continu-
ous work week after week, year aft-
er year, is after all most likely to
grasp and wear the laurels of suc-
cess.

One can do without genius, inspir-
ation and a university sheepskin, but
success almost invariably demands
humbler attributes of frugality, indus-
try, patience and _ continuity. Of
course if one is so fortunate as to
possess unusual! intellectual attain-
ments in addition to the humbler
qualities we have named his progress
will be more swift and sure.

The shoe retailer who sits supine-
ly in his stors wondering and com-
plaining because customers do not
come should fill in the dull hours by
getting up letters, circulars and lit-
erature to the people of his neighbor-
hood. What is called the follow-up
system has doubled many a whole-
sale business and there is no reason
why it would not do the same for a
retail merchant.

In many lines of trade possible cus-
tomers are comparatively few and
scattered, but every man, woman and
child must have shoes. This is an

holding the trade.

It is possible to underestimate the
ability and willingness of the people
to buy shoes. They are so low in
price and the styles are so many that

|almost every person could be in-
continuity of purpose, while a ro-|

duced to buy several pairs. Persons
of moderate means can afford to own

| shoes for evening as well as_ busi-

ness wear. There are, however, hun-
dreds of thousands of people who
will never buy new shoes before the
old ones wear out if some one does
not solicit their orders. The advan-
tages of having several pairs of shoes
are so many and the _ cost is so
little that literature along this line
should be productive of good results

|to the retail shoe dealer who is en-
| terprising enough to do a little extra

 

thinking and working.

One of the most certain indications
of an inert, unprogressive shoe re-
tailer is a dirty and poorly trimmed
window. The show window is the
face of the store and no one re-
spects the man who is too lazy to
wash his face. There is no excuse
for dusty windows, and the dealer
who says he has no taste or natural
ability for window trimming should
hustle until he learns. You proba-
bly use your right hand to hold the
fork when eating, but if you will no-
tice you will see that one-armed men
don’t go hungry. As a matter of
fact 2 man can learn to do almost
anything if he goes at it and sticks
to it.--Shoe Trade Journal.

 

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Shoe Co., of Caro, Mich., and will fill all their orders,

This makes us exclusive agents for the famous

Hood Rubbers

in the Saginaw Valley as well as in Western Michigan.
We have the largest stock of rubbers in the State and

can fill all orders promptly. Send us your orders.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

DRESS GOODS PRICES.

 

Manufacturers May Advance Cost
of Spring Lines.

An important subject for the con-
sideration of dress goods buyers is
the price condition of the market at
the present time the probable
appreciation of all dress goods dur-
ing the next few months. In the face
of declared regarding a
lower market the opposite is now
more probable. Manufacturers of

and

opinions

dress goods, both foreign and Amer-
ican, 2re showing a spirit of  in-
dependence regarding their prices

that at first was somewhat of a sur-
prise to buyers. This firmness in
prices is due primarily to the con-
dition of the market in raw materials.
That the market firmer
evident. have been some
contradictory opinions regarding raw
material. These opinions have been
held by the manufacturers and the
wool agents from whom the manu-
facturers secure their supplies.
Manufacturers have held to the opin-
ion that they were in a safe position
regarding their stock of wool. They
have reported that they had a suffi-
cient amount of old clips) on hand.
This statement was disputed by the
wool people from whom the manu-
The
that
the prices of wool would decline when

wool is is

There

facturers must buy their wool.
manufacturers further declared
the new clip was ready for the mar-
ket. Up to date these contentions
of the manufacturers have not been
realized, but the other hand the

market has been steadily advancing.

on

The prices of wool at interior points
are higher thun at some sea board
New has. been

cities. wool

 

taken |

quickly at higher prices, some say at |

record prices. This has caused hesi-
tation on the part of manufacturers

Although the season is pretty well
advanced the cloak people are not
fully decided what garment is going
to sell best. It is pretty risky to
venture into the field of cloaks,
dress fabrics are difficult enough to

take care of without encroaching on
another line, but this year it is al- |
most necessary to do so. It is not |
unlikely that the general trade will
take a staple garment of 27-inch
length. But whether it does or not,
some of the trade must have more

of a novelty and that class of trade
which is not satisfied with cloaks of

staple length will, doubtless, look to |

the ulster. At the present time, the
ulster coat is being favorably con-
sidered by the best trade. The city
and large town merchants are favor-
ably inclined to the ulster from pres-
ent reports. For these the chief ma-
terial is the English tourist cloth.
fort made to learn’ the
weight of some of these cloths be-
ing offered, but the exact weight was
not known. It is at least two to three
times as heavy as the ordinary chev-
10t.

was

In appearance the English tourist
cloth is very coarse.

cloth.

as |

|eign make.

These Scotch mixtures
range in prices from $1.50 to $2 a
yard and are both American and for-

materials.

The ulster is practically

for all the trade and may be

In addition to Scotch suitings there

| -
|}are two other weaves which are not

|unlikely to appeal to the trade. They
| are worsted suitings and cravenettes

| or waterproof
ed suitings with mannish effects are |

fabrics. The worst-
conspicuous in all the lines this sea-
son and it will not be difficult to se-

cure desirable patterns in these
goods. Cravenettes are shown in

| greater variety than for some time
jand for the ulster they should be en- |
itirely acceptable to the trade.

In-

jdeed the ulster coat should increase

| very strongly the sale of cravenettes
(and. all waterproof materials.
This fabric is exceedingly heavy. Ef- |

exact |

ties of the cloth will appeal to the |

exclusive shopper.
seems to be almost a paradox, but
it is true nevertheless. The ordinary
shopper will hardly stop to consider
this cloth, because of its coarseness

Such a statement |

and great weight. That will leave |
the cloth for the ultra trade. This |
tourist cloth is shown in the best |

stocks as a high novelty of the com-
ing season.
material possesses style and quali-
ties of service, but it is doubtful if a

| better wearing material can be found

about making prices for their future |

output.
the present of prices
wool is going to be maintained.

in
lf

firmness

They now desire to know if |

it is, they say they must make higher |

prices on their manufactured  pro-
dicts.

The future of cotton is a problem
the

Just now the price of

that pe:plexes nearly all
goods trade

io is stationary and it has been

to> some weeks past. Spot cotton
Has held around 11 cents for a
lo ger period than was expected, and
the iluctuatiors have been fewer

than were earlier anticipated by most
of the dry goods people. Even with

-he excellent condition of the cotton

c op the dry goods market does not
ceen ‘o be affected unfavorably. The
geveral belief is now that cotton is

pot going far below to cents. Some-
where between 9 and to cents is the
range fixed by some very good au-
This must mean the main-

most
it will
above
this side,
instances

thorities.
tenance of present prices in
and some cases
advance. The
ditions exist not alone on
but also in_Europe. No
are reported of the manufacturers
making concessions in their prices,
but the feeling of the trade is that
an advance is not improbable. Indeed
some manufacturers are said to be
asking an advance on their reorders.

i ‘stances, in

Cat ay cCOn-

in the dress goods stocks than the
tourist cloth will prove to be. The
cloth, however, will be selected be-
cause it possesses wearing quality.

In for

the suiting shown

It is not always that a}

next |

| winter, the herringbone is very con- |
| spicuous. Early in the present season,

land indeed last spring the Trades-

dry |

 

man called attention to the  prob-
able prominence. of herringbone
weaves for the coming winter. In}

the English tourist cloth just refer- |

to the shown

herringbone.

red first pattern
The tourist cloths also
invisible stripes,
checks and The
checks and plaid designs are plenti-
ful.
as [english cloths, are not made by
Many

have patterns, as

plaids. broken

only. Ameri-
can mills produce acceptable cloths
of the The prices

placed on

English mills
same character.
English tourist cloths on
the counters of the city stores are
$2.50 to $5 a yard. Four to five yards
are sold for an ulster.

For trade desiring cheaper fabrics

is |

These fabrics, while designated |

a close imitation is supplied in Scotch |

suitings. The bon-ton trade will call
for tourist cloth, while the less criti-
cal whose pocketbooks are smaller
will concern themselves with similar
effects in lighter weights and at more
popular prices.
mixtures is very large this season
and affords an available line for ulster

The range of Scotch |

——_+-.___
Cheerfulness of Home.
A man’s home should be on

hill-top of cheerfulness and serenity, |

so high that no shadows rest upon
it, and where the morning comes so
early and the evening tarries
late that the day has twice as many

So

. «| golden hours as those of other men.
Indeed, this is | . Da ie

i | He is to be pitied whose house is in|
one of the necessary qualities of the | sai
The coarse and heavy quali- | ,

valley of grief between the
hills, with the longest night and the
shortest day. Home
center of joy, equatorial and _ tropi-
cal.

—_.-

When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-
man.

ac-

|
| cepted by the general trade to quite |
la degree.

Bob the Blacksmith

 

the |

 

Bob the blacksmith is hearty and hale,

Makes shoes for horses that never fail,
| Wears shoes that are shoes upon his feet,
That don’t set him crazy on account of

the heat.

| They are made by a firm who calls them

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we make them more money than

other manufacturers.

should be the}

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|

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24

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

LOVE HAS WINGS.

The Little God Knows How to Use
Them.

Faithful love, which is also of the
undying variety, is as rare as radium,
and when desired and desirable, is,
or ought to be, even more precious.
For when two people are thoroughly
in love with one another, each caring
more for the other than for one’s

 

self, each finding life’s chief joy and |
interest in the other, so that toil for |

that other is not hardship but de-
light, when happiness is to be found
merely in serving and seeking the
welfare of that dearer self, then come
what may fate can not harm them
so long as they have each other. This
is the victory which overcometh the
world; nothing save the “peace
which passeth understanding” can
so lift one’s heart and mind above
the fret and worries of the world
and its many cares. Given this and
the crust, however hard, is palatable,
sugarless tea ceases to be bitter, and
the dinner of herbs is satisfying and
nutritious. A true and unselfish love
between man and woman is the best
earthly gift to mankind; self-cheer-
ing and self-supporting, it fortifies its
possessors against most of the ills
which flesh is heir to, and helps them
to bear the rest with patience.
However, fortunately or unfortu-
nately, as the case may be, all genu-
ine, permanent love is not mutual.
Mental affinities are not invariably
reciprocal, and men, and women
more frequently, have sometimes died
for love which was wholly on one
side. In chemistry the willingness

 

No. 76 Weightless. Even-Balance

have from the first been the standard of computing scales and when a merchant

| to combine or the refusal to do so
is always reciprocal, but a mental af-
| finity is by no means certain to arouse
a corresponding inclination in the de-
sired object. Nay, there may even
be repulsion upon the other side; and
the world is full of people who have
made shipwrecks of their lives for
the sole reason that they have per-
severed in a misplaced attachment,
striving vainly to establish affinity
where no affinity could be. True, it
occasionally happens that affinity, or
at least a fair substitute for it, may
be cultivated when there is no actual
repulsion to be overcome, while it
is the rule rather than the exception
that unreturned affection dies for
lack of sustenance.

 

Fire goes out for lack of fuel,
plants, even air plants, demand sun-
shine and moisture, gems of the rar-
est do not shine in the dark, and love,
although its death may be slow and
hard, leaving desolation behind it,
perishes, sooner or later, when neith-
er love nor care take thought. of its

existence. It is not enough to win

tenderest affection is often that which
suffers most cruelly from
and neglect.

Oftentimes love is strong enough
to survive cruel stabs, heavy blows,
but rarely or never is it proof against
slow starvation. It can live upon

sustenance it must have or die. Some-
body kas said, and truly, that love
between husband and wife should be
new every morning. The truth is

 

love; to call it into being; one must |
keep it or lose it, and the truest, |

coldness |

 

one which men are, alas, too prone |

to forget, in the belief that, having |
married a wife, they have given am- |
ple proof of devotion, and settled the |
question once for all. Many a young |
wife bas cried her eyes sore the first |
time her husband forgot, in his hur- |
ry to get to his business downtown, |
to kiss her before leaving; the while |
the man never dreamed that his
haste had cost her a single tear. It)
was such a little thing to him! But
“trifles make up the sum of human)
life,’ and a single drop of oil may
save infinite wear and tear as well |
as much friction, in love as well as
mechanics. The child who allows its |
canary bird to die for lack of seed)
and water is not wantonly cruel, only |
thoughtless. It weeps bitterly when
the bird is dead, but no tears can |
bring back the life which a few mo-|
ments’ care would have preserved.

There are, also, loves which hold |
in themselves the seed of death; loves |
which no amount of care and tender-
ness may keep alive; loves which
wither away for lack of depth of
root. There are many differing kinds
of love, even as in plant life the

| oak endures for ages, while the flow-

|

little, but something in the shape of |

|

 

er of the grass “to-day is, and to-
morrow is cast into the oven.” Dav-
enport Adams, a recognized English
authority upon the subject, cautions
Benedict and Beatrice, as they value
their iife’s happiness, to be particular
in their choice of a life partner; not
to show less care in the selection
than is commonly exercised in the
choice of a coat. “Love at frst
sight,” says he, “may be an indispen-

sable ingredient for dramas and ro-
mances, and in the heydey dreams of
youth will always figure as the one
special element of happiness; but as
few of us possess an intuitive faculty
of reading off-hand the character and
disposition of 2 person whom we have
never seen before, it must be pro-
nounced injudicious.” It is not tobe
denied that there have been and are
cases when “spirit rushed to spirit,”
where the soul instinctively feels
that, according to the Platonic the-
ory, it has met its other self; but far
more numerous are the instances

| where the hasty passion opens the

door to a lifelong repentance.

It is merely prudence of the most
necessary sort to make oneself ac-
quainted with the temper, disposition,
mental and moral qualifications, tastes
and tendencies of the one man or

| woman who is to become to us for

the rest of our lives more than any

| other man or woman, with whom we
|are to live in the closest intimacy,

and upon whom, in spite of ourselves,
the good or ill fortune of our future
career must mainly depend. All of
us ate cognizant af marriages in
which the happiness of the contracting
parties is set upon a hazard; mar-
riages between men and women who
know as little of each other’s real
self as if they had never met. “No
true and enduring love,” says Fichte,
“can exist without mutual esteem;
every other draws regret after it and
is unworthy of a noble human soul.”
This esteem is the true foundation of
enduring love, a bond which no pres-
sure of untoward circumstance, no

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25

 

malignant influence of time, can
weaken or break.

However well assorted a married |
couple may be, it still behooves
them both to take as much pains to
please each other after marriage

as before.
the old formula which no one can af-
ford to forget. Many a

ery, let slip through careless fingers.
One counts a thing all one’s own and
leaves it unguarded, to come back
and find it gone. When the lover is
metamorphosed into the inattentive
or overbearing and tyrannical spouse;
when the dainty, charming
heart changes into the fretful
untidy wife, what
affection which
the original refuses its tribute to the
changeling? Many a woman _ has
hardened and grown cold under in-
difference, which was perhaps unin-

marvel

was lavished

sweet-| has shut the account books with a

and |

that the | fact that something is going to be

has |

}

| supposed to be beyond
|“takes a

i |
against but not checked, until at last

the business office, finding its keen-

est ventures failures from influences |

its
whitt as a

| straightens things out and the world
at large, thus unceremoniously made |

“To have and to hold” is |

precious |
treasure has been lost beyond recov- |

better, goes on its way thankful and
rejoicing.

The insurance business office is the

| latest industry concluding that it has
i had enough of this kind of impedi-

| ment.

For some reason or other the

| ledger has not been telling the right

upon |

tentional; many a man, fairly fond |

of his wife to begin with, has found | : ! ‘
la face track, in a pool room or im

his devotion strangled by elf locks,
or smothered in the wrinkles of a
soiled wrapper. Home, it should al-
ways be remembered, is the
of its lights should be

shrine

love; kept

kind of story. The official, turning
the leaves of journal and day-book,

bang and, with a look announcing the

about it and done
called in his stenographer.

what he dictates:

done now,

This ss
“For reasons that seem proper to
the officials of the company, you are
hereby notified that your presence on

future to be seen in company with

| persons whose business it is to place

trimmed and burning, it should beal- |

ways a haven of rest and peace.

If, |

through carelessness, the lamps grow |

dim, if dust gathers on its window

panes, and love finds no rest within |

its threshoid, who shall
little god if he remembers that he
has wings and uses them?
Helen Oldfield.
—_——_+-.—___

| decree and it stands.
| That belongs to the pulpit.

Effect of the Business Office Over)

the Pulpit.
Written for the Tradesman.

With no desire of uplifting the one

ple justice to say that whenever the
business office makes up its mind to
widen its world and take a
straightening things out in
not considered peculiarly its
matters are straightened out and the
world at large is vastly improved
thereby.

For reasons which remain unfath-

matters
own, the

omed the pulpit is losing its grip
upon the pew end where sits the
man of the household, and as_ the

years go by and the boys grow up
they take after their fathers as fast
as the waning control of the apron-
string permits, and like them hear
but heed not the bell that calls to
church. It is the old story of like
seeking like, the follows the
man in things spiritual as well as

boy

yn

led to
| those of the numerous policy holders |

blame the}

bets on horse races, will be counted
sufficient excuse on whith to _ re-
quest your resignation from the af-

fairs of the company.”

A thunderbolt out of the cloudless
blue could not have created greater
consternation. With not even a
hint of what voteless young manhood
delights to designate
cock, the “boss” has

as
uttered
Reform?
The or-

“poppy |
his |
No.

control, |
reformer, |

 

|

that the order in no way interferes
with the independence for which our
forefathers fought and died. The de-
cree has gone forth. It-will stand.
The men, young or old, in its service
who want to gamble can. In that
way they may assert their rights as
American citizens, but the company
with the same underlying law before
its eyes insists upon its inalienable
right to discharge the man who does.
That ts all there is to it. The world,
moral and immoral, draws a long
breath, the pulpit rejoices over a
condition of things long prayed for
and scciety, nodding its hearty ap-
proval, wonders if business office and
pulpit have not both mistaken their
calling.

It will take some time for the “hit”
and their sympathizing friends to
adapt themselves to this new busi-
move. Those who “can’t see
why” will see in time, there will be
some few discharged, there will be
others who will have an occasional
“buck” on the sly, then there will be
a general falling in with the idea that
it is for the best and gambling will
receive the setback that it ought to
Looked at
from the business point of view, the

ness

have received long ago.

vice will become first unpopular and
then disreputable. That draws the
line and then the general betterment
will begin. There will be a fading
interest in what horse The
element that dresses in big plaids and
delights in big diamonds in finger

wins.

|rings and shirt fronts will sink by

der is in line with purely business in- |

téerests.

protect its own interests and

The company has determin- |

: ro. who look to it for Sound msurance. |
and putting down the other, it 1s sim- |

hand in |}

It has discovered that its employes
have been “playing the horses’ in
“a way it despises,” and while this

lis a tree country it still concludes

 

mental and physical and in too many |

instances long before the threshold |

of manhood is reached and stepped
over the church bell and all that be-
longs to it are to the boy with his
life before him “like the idle wind
which he respects not.”

behind the barn or just back in the
alley. He emphasizes his talk with
the same explosives his father used
and uses; he is not chewing gum half
the time he says he is; his beverage
is not confined to “soft” drinks and,
following in the footsteps of his sire,
betting is the most convincing argu-
ment his world of reasoning knows.
Right under the eyes of the pulpit
these things are going on, preached

He begins, |
as his father began, with the smoke |

 

| less reprehensible form of dissipation; |
| youth, bearded and wanting to
| bearded, in

its natural gravity to its natural lev-
el; with its passing and sinking will
pass and sink its language and nomen-
clature; uppertendom will
find for its leading amusement some

social

be

playing cards without

i “chips” will no longer think it smart

 

to express wonder and delight at
the poker hands they hold. This point
gained the rest naturally and easily
follows. The ten-year-old will find
no particular fun in playing marbles
for keeps, “What’ll you bet?” will
no longer be the leading question in
all colloquialism, high or low, rich
or ‘poor, and even the pessimist -is
willing to admit that the time may
come when the man with the carving
knife and fork and the woman behind
the coffee urn may try to banish
from the breakfast table and the home
circle the language of the race course
and the gambling hall. ft ts sate
to say that “the beginning has be-
gun” and it is equally safe to say
that the hoped-for result when it
does come will be the outcome of
the business office and not of the
pulpit. R. M. Streeter.
a ee
Of Course Not.

A judge of one of the United States
Circuit Courts has a five-year-old
niece of whom he is very proud. A
few days ago she came to him and
said with a very serious air:

“Uncle, there is a question about
law I want to ask you.”

“Well, dear, what is) 177
enquired the judge.

“Unele, i 2 had a_ peacock
and it went into another man’s yard

patiently
man

and laid an egg, who would the egg
belong to?”

The judge smiled indulgently and
replied:

“Why, the egg would belong to
the man who owned the peacock, but
he could be prosecuted for trespass-
ing if he went on other’s property
to) get 16.7

The child seemed very much inter-
ested in the explanation, and then
observed innocently:

“Unele, did it ever occur to you
that a peacock couldn’t lay anegg?”

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26

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

CARE OF THE HAIR.

Simple Rules of Health for Its Pres-
ervation.

Ve
e

Numerous as are the formulas for

tonics and lotions for the scalp, and, |
good as they may be, “an ounce of |

prevention is worth a pound of cure”
in scalp as well as other matters.

Recipes for tonics and ointments |

for ailments of the scalp can be found
h in any book on the hair or procured
; from scalp specialists and are not
given here.
tioned are such as the has
seen used many times, and for pe-
riods cf time, and found to be effica-
cious zs well as simple, and all
adapted to the slimmest purse.

writer

are

The simple lotions men- | back, and make two or four loose

| braids.

Perhaps even less care is recciv- |

ed by the scalp than the complexion
during the summer, and_ people,
whether in the country or the city,
are woefully apt to neglect their hair
in warm weather and to attempt

when winter comes to repair the dam- |

age entailed by their previous inac-
tion.

The condition of the scalp and hair
is affected by that of the body, and,
except in certain ailments,
healthy appearing hair indicates a
good physical condition, and the re-
verse the opposite. There are, of
course, cases where luxuriant
grows on the heads of those

hair

glossy, |

far}

from well, and in which it takes from |
the body the strength the latter needs, |

but these cases are not common and
are subjects for the physician.
There is a vast amount of misinfor-

scalp and a thousand preparations
for treating them to one line of advice

mation afloat concerning the hair and |

as to the prevention of the condi: |

tions these recipes are put forth as
curing or alleviating.
The glossiness of some hair is due

 

to superabundant oil, which, instead |
of being retained by the scalp to|

nourish the hair, leaks out on the
scalp, glossing the surface of the |
hair, but leaving an insufficient |

amount in the glands to nourish the |
hair and keep it healthy. Hair should. |

be glossy without being greasy.

The scalp may be entirely

free |

from dandruff or surface oiliness, and |

yet the circulation may be so poor

and the scalp so tight that the hair | -

is either falling out or getting into |

a condition where jit will.
As one grows older the scalp re-

quires more attention, if peovle won'd |

keep their locks thick and healthy,
and especially if they have

any ob-
jection to gray or white hair, for a
too tight scalp and a lack of ci-en
lation will bring about a change of

‘a both hair and scaly are healthy
ie Great grief, severe illness, much wor-
ry, and many other causes contribute

to the early loss of color, and wiile

iE white and gray hair are almost u-i-|

versally admired, especially if their

owners be young, it is a well-known |

fact that the possessors thereof re-
ae gard it as a misfortune.
le One essential to the health of the
bth hair is that it should be thoroughly
aired several hours out of the twen-

 

eolor quite as soon if not more quick- |
ly than age, although white hair is |
often hereditary and occurs where |

 eyfous, and whenever possible it
| should be shaken out and left loose.
| It should never be done up at night.
| If it can be left entirely free so much
the better, and unless one is a rest-
less sleeper, if after lying down, the
hair is lifted out and up away from
the neck and spread out over the
| pillow it will air well.
one objects to this, let her part the
| hair from the center of the forehead
to the nape of the neck, comb each
side out straight, but toward the
This parting allows the air
to reach the scalp along lines it can

not get at at all during the day,
when the hair is dressed.
The heads of some people per-

spire, and if the hair is heavy, and
especially if i+ is oily, it becomes
| what some term “musty.” The scalp

|
|
|
|
|
|
|

If, however, |
shaking,

| before proceeding with

the scalp and enables it to dry much
quicker.
dry before it is put up; it is best to

The hair should be crisply |

let it hang for two hours after one |

thinks it quite dry, and if it can be
washed in the late afternoon and not
done up until the next morning so
much the better. Dry by fanning and
and the

Of course

when possible in

open air. one dries
hair as much as possible with towels
the fanning
or other method. To shake it dry
the hair should be parted from fore-

head to nape of neck, and each sec-

the |

| tion combed straight. to its own side |

of the head, then grasp the hair

| firmly, half in each hand, six inches
| from the ends and shake it vigorous-

usually requires treatment from spe- |

cialists in such cases, if the condi- | . . -
: the cond | eral minutes, even five, between each

tion continues, but where this treat-
ment is impracticable the victim can
at least prevent the odor.

soap; the square, white soap used by
physicians and surgeons is excellent.
The hair should be thoroughly rins-
ed and a little alcohol added to the
last water or witch
rinsing.

hazel
A teacupful of witch hazel
with a tablespoonful of alcohol anda
teaspoonful of tincture of rosemary

ly 100 times, then drop and straight-
en with the comb and repeat. It is
rather hard on the and
warming, and it is better to rest sev-

arms,

| shaking than to get in a perspiration
}and thus start the scalp perspiring.
| When the hair is dressed it should

To begin with, the hair should be |
thoroughly shampooed with a pure |

|high 1s

used for |

also |

be done loosely and drawn well away |

from the spots where the perspiration
is worst. Even if dressing the hair
unbecoming it should be
adopted if it assists in counteracting
the activity of the sweat glands.

| spires, the hair should be taken down

at intervals and shaken out, as de-
scribed in the directions for drying,
and fanned until dry before it is put
up. The hair should be washed once
a week at least while the condition
continues.

If the scalp perspires all the time,
and, as it does im some cases, it
seems impossible to get it dry or
keep it free from mustiness, and a

specialist can not be reached, get
10 cents’ worth of boracic acid and

dust enough of it through the hair
and on the scalp to thoroughly pow-
der it; do this at: aight, and after
shaking out the superfluous powder,
let the rest remain in until morning,
that
very easily. The boracic acid is an-
tiseptic, stopping the odor, and ab-
sorbs all the moisture, leaving the
It can be used every day
or so, or every day, and not show
at all, save that it dims the luster of
the hair a little, and its application
has been known to cure dandruff as
well as remove the obnoxious mois-
ture and odor. It is a wise plan to
get the boracic acid by the quarter
of a peund, and not to be sparing in
its use, as, so far as known, it proves

when all shows. brushes. out

hair dry.

perfectly harmless, even if used right
| through the hot season.

If the scalp shows. dandruff it
| should be soaked with vaseline the |
night before washing, or, at least,

| for several

added is a capital thing to pout care- |

fully over the scalp after it has been
well rinsed and some of the water
Squeezed out by towels; it stimulates

|
}

hours. The dandruff is
absorbed by the grease, and when the
latter is out dandruff

washed the

| goes with it.

If, iollowing this, the scalp per- |

Among remedies and specifics for
the hair never seen in print, but which
practice has proved efficacious, if not
dainty, is the use of onion juice for
oiliness dandruff. It is best to
get onions of small size, cut off one
end, and rub the cut portion on the

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27

 

scalp, parting the hair first. As soon
as the juice disappears from’ the
onion top cut off a thin slice and
proceed as before until the onion has
all been cut away. Two good-sized
onions will do the scalp of thick-hair-
ed persons. The odor soon disappears,
being usually gone by the next day.
The person using onions usually im-
agines she can smell them all the
time, but it is very seldom that any
one else, not knowing the user’s hab-
it, discerns any onion odor.

One of the best of hair tonics is
made from the garden sage, and the
fresher it is the better. If one can
not get the fresh, that put up in
packages and sold at the drug store
will do, but if one is in the country
it is easily procured fresh. Make a
strong infusion by pouring a cupful
water on plenty of the
sage and letting it remain on a hot
part of the stove, but do not let it
boil. When it is cold add a table-
spoonful of brandy or a teaspoonful
of alcohol and apply it daily to the
scalp. In hot weather it should be
made fresh every two or three days

The best way of applying liquids
to the scalp is, perhaps, with antisep-
tic cotton. A very tiny bit should be
wadded up, dipped in the liquid, par-
tially squeezed out, and then rubbed
on the scalp, the dipping being fre-
quent. The hair should be parted
with a comb, not with the fingers,
from the forehead to the nape and
after the part is thoroughly dampen-
around the

of boiling

ed one should proceed
head from the back, always parting
the side partings from the center part,
and taking only a small section at a
so that the scalp may be com-
pletely If the scalp is rub-
bed in-circles from the bottom up
and from the front to the back, it
will stimulate the circulation and
tend to loosen the scalp.

Whether one rubs the scalp or
not, as soon as the liquid is applied
the hair should be straightened out,
and shaken as described in
the drying process, and the shaking
should be repeated every five min-
utes for half an hour or so, and, as
often as convenient until the hair
is dry. This treatment is specially
adapted for the summer, when one
is in the country procure

time,
covered.

dividea,

and can

the fresh sage. This sage lotion will
remove scaip irritations, stop the
hair talling, and make it grow. The

plain infusion without the brandy or
alcohol is better for dry scalps and
thin, brittle hair.

If one is at the seashore, wetting
the kair should be avoided while
bathing, as the ocean water dries the
scalp and makes the hair stiff, lus-
terless and brittle.

No oily lotion or ointment, should
be used on the hair while it is damp,
as it renders the hair pasty and
sticky, and this condition can not
be overcome except by shampooing
the hair.

Ointments are often recommended
for dandruff and for certain varieties
of that trouble it is an essential for
a time, but the advice given above
should always be followed.

A good shampoo is made of two

 

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ter and rubbed thoroughly into the | as highly polished as the day it was |

scalp, and then thoroughly | rinsed

out.

for oil, and it is also nourishing.

Soda and ammonia in small quan- |
tities, just enough to make the water |
| with a
|

a bit smoother, are good for light

hair, but care must be taken not to'|

have it too strong.

In shampooing, the hair should be |
braided in four braids before starting |

in. By the time the shampoo is over
the hair will have come out of the
braids, but will not be tangled, as
it stays braided long enough to avoid
that. As soon as the hair is dry
after 1. shampoo is the ideal time to
apply hair tonics.

Care must be taken not to wash
the scalp too often. Once a month
is usually quite enough for thin, dry
hatr,
yest, oilest hair, OF course, # the
scalp is being treated and ointments
are being used, the hair must be
washed oftener, the ointment being
applied as soon as it is dry.

Care should be exercised in the
purchase of hairbrushes. Brushes are

made to straighten the hair and to}

and not to scrape the |
| for the pass.

remove dust,
scalp. Should the scalp require rub-
bing it must be done with the soft
tips ot the fingers. The best brush
for
on the toilet table for beauty—are
small ones havinsc natural wood
backs and fine. moderately long un-
bleached bristles.
cured for from $1.25 up at the dry
goods stores. Small brushes not
over two inches wide at the end and

an inch and a half wide at the handle |
best |

are the most convenient and
adapted for practical service, especial-
ly for thick hair. These brushes may
and should be washed every day after
the hair has its morning brushing.
No one can expect to have healthy,
handsome, and clean hair who uses
soiled brushes and combs, and it is
for this reason that the hardwood
brushes are recommended, as_ they
will stand any amount of washing
if of zood quality.

When a brush has been used as it
should be it will be found to have
more or less fuzz sticking to the bris-
tles and to be slightly discolored by
dust. Before washing it should be
Struck smartiv a dozen tunes or
more, bristles down, on a hard sur-
face, when the fuzz and dust will
be seen flying in all directions. Then
hold the brush under the cold water
faucet until wet, bristles up, of
course, then rub on a cake of naph-
tha soap until plenty of the soap is
seen on the bristles. Next hold the
face bristles un, and at intervals side-
ways, under the cold water faucet.
It may be combed or rubbed to fa-
cilitate the removal of the soap. As
soon as the soap is out the brush
will be perfectly clean and may be
wiped with a. towel, after which it
should be turned bristles down in
the air to dry. The cold water and
cold water soap do not remove the
polish from the wood; the writer has
a brush that has been washed every
day, as above, for three months, and

The egg has a peculiar affinity |

| Pennsylvania Railroad,
| story on himself.

| him,
and once a week for the heav- |
| back and read him a lecture.

use—silver-backed ones can lie} |
| to pay your fare,’

They can be pro-|

| bought.
If the hair is kept clean, well |
| brushed, well aired, a simple tonic |

used several times a week, and the

scalp is gently massaged,
rotary movement

with the

tips of the fingers five or ten min-|
utes every day, and this is kept up|

through the summer, there
no necessity with the advent of colder

weather to rush to a specialist for |

treatment for faded, brittle
too oily hair or scalp.

A. $. Cassatt, President of

| delphia to New York when the con- |
| ductor of the train,

who recognized
passed by without asking to see
his pass. Mr. Cassett called the man
“Even
he said, “you
ask to see my

if you know who I am,”
should always

when I have a pass?” The conductor,
a little roiled, asked
"DPhat’s sicht,”
the road;

for

his pockets in vain.
must have left it in my office,”
ally exclaimed. “Then you'll
said the conductor,
“And

he fin-

hardly able to suppress a grin.
I did,” added the storyteller.

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Kind of Man a Woman Ought To
Marry.
Written for the Tradesman.

Marriage is a sort of confidence
game we enter into with some agree-
able stranger whom we_ happen
to meet on the journey of life. The
marvel is, not that we lose so often,
but that we win at all. Girls, who
would not be permitted to select a
frock by themselves, are trusted to
choose a husband. Callow youths,
whose judgment is so immature their
property is held in trust for them
until they arrive at years of discre-
tion, are considered to have mind
enough to pick out a wife.

Yet marriage, for woman at least,
is the great event of life. Compared
to it, being born is a mere incident,
and dying a mere episode. True,
the divorce courts nowadays make it
a little less permanent arrangement
than dying, but no legislation has
ever done away with the unhappiness,
the bitterness and heartburning
caused by an unfortunate marriage.

Men say women are _ poor card
players because they always play
their own hand _ without reference
to anyone else’s. And that is the
way we play the game of matri-
mony. We look at our own hands.
We sav “we love” and we forget
it is not a simple game when we
can call for our partner’s best and
go it alone.

The trouble is, you see, that there
are so many rules to. the game, and
sO many exceptions, and one only
learns when it is best to bluff, and
better to hedge, after one has been
playing it a very long time, and
then it is too late. One of the
great troubles is that. experience
comes at the wrong end of life. Then
we have made all our decisions, we
have played out the game, and we
have no need of the dearly bought
knowledge. When we make our fa-
tal matrimonial choice we need al!
the worldly wisdom, the keen in-
sight into character, the broad expe-
rience of a life time. And what do
we have? Nothing on earth but un-
limited ignorance, utter inexperience,
and stupendous. credulity. The
cruelty of the thing is- appalling.

Did you ever think there are two
times in a woman’s life when she is
liable to marry anybody who asks
her? This is when she is 17 and
27, but between these ages she picks
and chooses, and if she commits mat-
rimony it is a case of meeting her
ideal or outside influence.

If a debutante does not marry the
first man who asks her it is because
her guardian angel is attending strict-
ly to business and shoos off the
danger. It is not the girl’s fault. To
a girl the thought that she has in-
spired affection in a man’s heart is
so unutterably flattering, and she
feels so,grateful to him for singling
her ous from the balance of her sex

 

that she easily persuades herself she
is in love.

She is full of the romance and
poetry she has been reading all of
her life, and this is her first oppor-
tunity to expend it on a live object.
She is playing Juliet off her own
balcony, and the game intoxicates her
with its excitement. Besides, she
has not yet learned that love is sel-
dom a fatal complaint with men, and
it makes her shudder to think of
breaking a heart and wrecking a
life. Consequently she is apt to say
“ves,” only too often to find out, if
she marries, that love’s young dream
is a nightmare.

By the time she is Ig it is no
longer ANY man. It ts SOME
man. She has begun to have an
ideal. He must be tall, and dark,
and passionate looking, with a mys-
terious past. Preferably his faith
should have been shaken in his kind
and ke should take desperate and
pessimistic views of life. Until he
met her his heart was ashes, but
her purity and innocence restored his
tottering belief in humanity, and
turned existence once more into an
Eden. It is at this time that a girl
is attacked with acute missionary
fever, and is liable to marry a drunk-
ard to reform him.

At 20 her ideal has changed. It
is more practical and less romantic.
She cuts out the looks and the hard
luck story, and adores strength and
earnestness and a lofty way of look-
ing at things. She becomes a hero
worshipper and burns incense before
matinee idols and social settlement
workers, and discovers unappreciated
geniuses in newspaper scribblers and
long kaired poets. This is the time
when the curaie and the Angora fra-
ternity generally have their innings,
and when, unless she has somebody
to save her hfe, a girl is apt to
marry a poet or _ elope with her
music teacher.

Twenty-two is a time of compara-
tive safety. She has begun to enjoy
herself and achieve a certain philoso-
phy. She still looks forward to mat-
rimony as she does to heaven asthe
reward of the blest, but she is in no
hurry to enter into it. She is hav-
ing too good a time as it is, and she
hesitates to exchange the violets and
candy of many admirers for the
bread and butter of one. This isthe
time when a girl uses her head as
well as her heart when she selectsa
life partner, and when she is most
apt to make a wise choice.

At 27 all the danger signals ought
to be set. At that age a woman gets
into 2 panic. She sees that all the
girls who were her contemporaries
are married and perceives suddenly
that she has been pushed aside by
the younger set. She is asked to
chaperon parties instead of dance at
them. A few gray hairs have made
their zppearance. Old maidenhood is
staring her in the face and her nerve
deserts her. She plunges wildly and
takes the first thing that offers. This
is the time when a woman is almost
sure to make a foolish match. She
marries the old beau who has been
hanging on for years, or the widower
with seven small children, and spends

 

the bzelance of her life ES,

what made her do it. JEN N

At 35 if she has passed safely over |
the panic period, she begins to per-|
ceive that spinsterhood has much to}
recommend it. She has grown a lit- |
tle cynical about love from having |
seen so much of it that gave out}
under the first stress of matrimony, |
and if she marries she is pretty sure |
to have a weather eye upon an estab- |
lishment.

 

At 40 the old maid is hopelessly
addicted to her latch key and _ her| e
own pocketbook, and her matrimonial
chances are nil. Some few widows, Flavoring Fyiracts
who have acquired the habit of hav- |
ing a master, and are lost without
one, marry after that, but the spin-|
When she does, |
however, she throws judgment and |

are known by the

Fruit!

ster rarely does.

reason to the winds and marries to |
please her fancy and she is just as
liable to marry a boy young enough The question of selling consum-

mn ts ¢ . hear rat, 7 .

to be her son, as any other way. ers and peddlers Flavoring Ex-
3ut from any point of view it is
wonderful the recklessness with which

women rush into matrimony. They tention, and we wish to state plain-
do not even take a man’s business | Jy that we do not sell direct to
into consideration, and the business

determines the man.

tracts has been brought to our at-

For instance. a | Cither private consumers or public

woman who is marrying a clergyman peddlers.

should ask herself before she takes |
the fatal step whether she is meek | JENNINGS
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and lowly enough in spirit to wear
made over dresses and last year’s
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29

 

it will be up to her to give her hus-
band a double distilled brand of flat-
tery if she keeps in the running. No
jealous woman who can not distin-
guish between a spiritual interest in
a sister soul and a bodily interest in
her heart should marry a _ preacher
unless she is starting out to hunt for
trouble.

If a doctor proposes—a real doc-
tor, who his duty—a
should take into consideration wheth-
er she would rather have a homeopa-
thic dose of his society than an al-
lopathic dose of a
She would know that
no time for society and little for his

does woman

business man’s.

he will have

family. His hours, when not office
hours, are spent in study or visiting
patients. He never keeps engage-

ments with his wife, and life with
him is a waiting game, where she is
always on the ragged edge of uncer-
tamty. Bor the
matrimony with a doctor is a bad
risk.

The woman
marry 2 lawyer. li he
divorcing couples who

methodical woman

curious should never
is successful
have gone
astray or shielding the guilty who
ought to be punished, he is bound
to have secrets from his little tootsie
wootsie wife that she is dying to find
out, and a the
warm facts won't
tell them is an aggravation that is
enough to drive any woman into the
divorce court herself.

The woman who contemplates mar-

husband who knows

m a seandal and

rying an author must ask herself if
she can bear the inevitable compari-
with the
of the heroines her husband creates.
It must be a little trying to a sawed-
off woman, with a dumpy figure and

son inimitable perfections

hay colored hair, to read the descrip-
tion of a
feet high, with a rose leaf skin and
golden locks, and know that
the ideal of feminine pulchritude her
husband cherishes in his secret soul.

gorgeous creature six

she is

The woman who marries an actor
must consider if stand to
see the man she loves make love to
another woman and throw
ginger in the scene to make it go,
‘without wanting to tear the
heroine’s hair and read the riot act
to Romeo when he gets home. Many
women have tried this.
succeeded. Hence the brevity of stage
Marriages.

A politician’s wife is

she can
enough

stage
have

Few

either his

hoodoo or his mascot. Men may|
overlook his grabs and grafts and|

forget his past record, but the bar-|

keeper whose wife his wife snubbed
knifes him in the primaries. No wom-
an should marry a politician unless
nature has gifted her with the glad
hand, and who is not willing to put
the red plush offering of the ’Steenth
Ward the
more, she must reflect that her hus-
band must give the best of himself
to the public, and that his smiles and

in

diplomacy are too valuable for home |

consumption.

Musicians are almost always nerv-
ous and irritable, and the woman who
marries look out
Any woman who undertakes

high € affinity to a musical
artist should examine herself closely

one may for
cord.

to be a

and ascertain if she has the temper
of an angel and is thoroughly inocu- |
lated against the tendency to talk|
back. Thus may she save herself

the expense of a divorce suit.

The journalist’s wife must smash
the clock and burn up the time table;
the student’s wife must be prepared
to run for unworldly
while the artist’s wife must
subscribe to the theory that her hus-
band’s admiration of
is a case) of art for

On the

Ress Meth

things her

spouse,

a pretty model
art’s sake.
though, the
is about the safest matri-
monial chance.

whole,

He is used to charg-
ing things up to “profit and loss,”

and he not only generally strikes a}

of but

best of

good average

makes the his wife’s

and foibles. Dorothy Dix.
———_»--

domesticity,

Let Not Your Mirror Become Your
Tyrant.

women the time

they devote before the

Yo a great many

mirror be-

torture. Whether long or short, this

time spent in peering into her glass

and searching there for signs of age,

care or worry in her face is not only

time wasted, but put to the worst

possible use.

[ have in mind a woman of thirty |

odd in the heyday of her beauty who
daily .scans her mirror for traces of

the first wrinkle

or ‘the first) rey |
hair. The day when she makes the |
discovery—and it will be long be-
fore any one else does—will be a

day of misery for her, for she firmly

believes that youth, beauty and hap- |

front parlor. Further- |

dis- |

busi- |

faults |

hair.

Her apprehension is so great and
she worries so that
her unawares that she is really in-
capable of fully enjoying her youth
and good looks.

No the
life who lives in constant
what the
woman wants to be as pretty as pos-
should do
preserve her
3ut to make a tyrant of the
| mirror is to give it a power and in-
fluence which do not rightly belong
to if.

We see in others what we wish to
see in them, and this is particularly

one can get best out of

dread _ of
mirror will reflect. Every
sible, and

all

charms.

woman
to

every

in her power

true of the reflections in the looking-
glass.

If we scan it for traces of oncom-

|

age should take |

 

ing years, for wrinkles and __luster-
less eyes, we see, or think we see, |
ithe stgns of age approaching. If |

one looks at it convinced that it will

reflect the vigor and splendid matur-
ity which one feels there will be no
disappointment.

does not

A wrinkle, a grey hair

mean age. The handsomest woman

| know its a grandmother, and the

years may possibly point to 49, but

when she looks into the glass she
does so feerlessly, knowing that she
see there the image of a face
| full of charm, good cheer and sym-
pathy, and she is never disappoint-
| ed.

will

She uses many outward means of

preserving her looks and attends to |

| inches

 

piness are bound up in the preserva- | her hair and complexion persistently,
tion of an unlined brow and raven | but she has learned the secret that it

is her spirit and not the lotion that
keeps her looking and feeling young.

She not think of
old, of the approaching
years dread. fill-
things, her

does herself as

nor speak
Her mind 1s
all

heart with sympathy for all people,
and found the of

with

ed with interest for

she has secret
youth.

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They burn sandalwood in_ the
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In London it is possible to get
wood prepared for the purpose. In
America it is to be had at almost

any Turkish or Japanese importing
house.

ing

Tt is then prepared for burn-
being first cut into small
pieces one-half inch thick and three

by

long. ‘

Then it is baked or dried out in a
slow oven twenty-four hours. A
pieec of the wood is put into a metal
urn, lighted and allowed to burn until
well-aflame, when the flame is extin-
guished and the redhot ember left
to smolder until the con-
sumed and nothing is left but a heap

wood is

of fine gray ashes.
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WAR ON MOSQUITOES.

Uprising of Mankind to Fight These
Tormentors.

Civilized man has declared war on
the mosquito. The pestiferous insect
is to be endured no longer. From
the equator as far North and South
as the mosquito will live the human
race is avenging itself for the millen-
niums of misery which it has endur-
ed from the stings of these blood-
thirsty insects. The crusade is thor-
oughly organized. Local, state and
national governments are contribut-

ing public funds for the expense. In-
dividuals are acting, and local asso-
ciations are springing up everywhere
There has already been held in this
country a national conference for the
extermination of the mosquito, at
which learned and practical papers
were read by distinguished men from
all walks of iife, and by next year
there will doubtless be organized an
international society. Professional
gentlemen are already
themselves as “mosquito engineers,”
and there is generally such an upris-
ing among men as has hardly been
seen since the days of Peter the
Hermit. The literature of the sub-
ject is already voluminous and large-
ly official, and if any one is ignor-
ant of the best methods of extermin-
ating the pests it is entirely his own
fault, for documents giving explicit
directions for conducting the warfare
can be had for the asking. In the

United States the storm center seems
to be the State of New Jersey, where
thirty-three kinds of mosquitoes have
been “identified” at the cost of the
State treasury and State appropria-
tions have been made to bring about
their extermination.

The immediate occasion of the
outbreak of these organized hostili-
ties was the demonstration not only
that miosquitoes are the carriers of
infectious disease, but that as to
some deadly diseases they are vir-
tually the only agents by. which the
disease is disseminated. Yellow fever,
it is thought, will cease to claim hu-
man victims whenever the particular
species of mosquito which carries it
can be exterminated from the earth.
It is easy to understand why. that
disease dies out at the approach of
cold weather. It is because these
mosquitoes cease to breed. One of
the first steps toward the construc-
tion of the Panama canal will be
to reclaim the breeding places of the
mosquito. It is coming to be believ-
ed that this insect is the principal
purveyor of malarial disease, and it
is this which is. in the United States,
the main reason assigned for expend-
ing public money for its extermina-
tion.

Where there is no standing water
there can be no mosquitoes, for they
breed only there, and one period of
their iife history is passed entirely
in th2 water. This is _ sufficiently
near the truth for the purposes of
this article, although among _ the
many species there are some which
appear to breed in damp ground.
Moisture and warmth, at any rate,
are essential to the propagation of
all species. The life history of the

announcing

 

mosquito is brief and full of evil. In
the case of the species which cause
most trouble the female deposits her
eggs in clusters on the surface of a
stagnant pool. Within twenty-four
hours, if the weather is warm enough,
the larvae emerge and become the
“wigglers” with whose appearance
all are familiar. While in this form
they iive entirely in the water, and
yet, being air-breathing insects, they
must come often to the surface to
breathe. This makes it easy to de-
stroy them by placing a small amount
of crude oil or kerosene on the wa-
ter, which forms a film on the sur-
face and kills by contact. A little
later they change to the pupa form,
when they float upon the surface,
taking no food. From the pupa there
emerges the perfect winged insect
to torment mankind for a few days,
reproduce itself and die—often, as
we all know, by violence. The en-
tire cycle, from living egg to dead
mosquito, may be completed in two
weeks, more or less, according to the
temperature.

While mosquitoes may be killed by
mineral oils, in the nature of the
case the extermination is seldom
complete. If 2 pond must be kept
it can be covered with oil during
warm weather and most of the pests
will be killed. Some will get away.
Sure and permanent relief can be
had only by draining or filling the
ponds and marshes. It is this meth-
od which is being followed in New
Jersey, on Long Island, in India and
Hawaii, on the Isthmus of Panama,
and wherever throughout*the world
there is a resolute intent to extermin-
ate the pests. At the recent
mosquito conference in New York
there were wise papers read concern-
ing what part the Nation, the state
and the community should respective-
ly bear in this warfare. The general
opinion seems to be that the State
and Nation should investigate and
publish, and the community should
do the work. Extermination of the
mosquito is a problem of local drain-
age or filling. The work of investi-
gation is said to be fairly well advanc-
ed. It appears that while all mos-
quitoes bite, they do not all carry
disease. The species which has
been caught carrying malaria is
anopheles. If a community is’ in
doubt as to whether their particular
mosquitoes are disease-bearing, the
State may well furnish the entomolo-
gist to decide the question of fact.
If he finds the disease-carrying insect,
the local Board of Health may act
in the public interest as in any other
case of protection of the _ public
health. If he finds them harmful
only ior the discomfort which they
cause it becomes simply a question
whether the people will endure the
discomfort “r drain their lands.
But the chances are that wherever
there are mosquitoes the disease-
bearing species will be among them,
and it is best for a community to
give itself the benefit of the doubt
and suppress the nuisance.

—_>+2>____

There is something wrong with a
man when all his nerves are in his
pocket.

 

BLACK PEPPER.

 

Its Varieties and the Process of Man-
ufacture.

While an active trade is carried on
the year round in the various grades
of pepper, it is seldom that the aver-
age grocer who buys pepper in small
quantities from the jobber knows
where the ground spice comes from
and how it grows. All he knows is
that it is black, white, or red, and has
sufficient strength to agreeably sea-
son the food on which it is used.

Pepper is a native of the forests
of Western and Southern India, but
has long been cultivated in Sumatra,
Java, Ceylon, Borneo, Siam, the Ma-
lay Peninsula, and in various other
tropical countries. The vine grows
to a height of eight to twelve feet,
and is usually supported by poles or
by trees planted for that purpose.
The fruit is a small round berry,
which grows in loosely packed clus-
ters, each cluster containing from
twenty to thirty of these berries,
closely attached to a common pendu-
lous fruit stalk, pieces of which may
often be found in samples of whole
black pepper. To obtain black pep-
per the berries are gathered as soon
as one or two of the cluster com-
mence to turn red. After being re-
moved from the stem they are dried
in the sun or near a mild fire.

The commercial grades of black
pepper are Singapore, Allepey, Telli-
cherry, Trang and Acheen, named
from the province or port from which
they are shipped. Singapore pepper
is grown in the Malay Peninsula,
principally in the southern portion,
known as the State of Johore. It
constitutes a good portion of all the
pepper raised, and by reason of its
dark color and fairly uniform quality
is a good-looking pepper. The only
objection to Singapore pepper for
grinding purpuses is its smoky odor,
which it retains to a considerable
extent even after it has reached the
powdered state, this being one of the
tests by which the pepper merchant
can determine whether or not a given
sample is genuine Singapore pepper.
The smoky odor is due to the fact
that the pepper and gambier planta-
tions of Johore are usually under one
management, and in boiling down the
gambier to make the vegetable ex-
tract mats are suspended over the
kettle, and on these are placed quan-
tities of the pepper. The smoke from
the furnace dries and at the same
time blackens and gives the unmis-
takable smoky smell.

As to the other grades of black pep-
per, the Allepey and Tellicherry va-
rieties are from British India, are of
a light brown color, and are sun-
dried. Trang pepper is grown in
either Java or Sumatra and is ship-
ped from Penang. Lampong is
grown on the east end of the Island
of Sumatra, near the Straits of Sunda.
This pepper is less uniform in size
than the other varieties of black pep-
per and is of a lighter color. It is
sun-dried and its surface shows con-
siderable dirt. Acheen, Sumatra, or
West Coast are names applied to the
pepper obtained from Acheen, the
western extremity of the Island of
Sumatra. The pepper is designated,

 

according to its specific gravity, as
A, B, C or D grades, the former des-
ignation of East and West Coast hav-
ing been discarded. The A _ grade
does not come to this country, as it
is sought after by manufacturers of
Penang white pepper.

The manufacture of white pepper
is a separate and distinct business,
and is not always done at the planta-
tions. The shell or pericarp of the
pepper berry is removed by friction
after soaking the berries in water, and
berries which have been allowed to
ripen before picking are generally
used, as they are more easily decor-
ticated. The corn are often bleached
and otherwise treated to improve
their appearance. There are several
varieties of white pepper on the
market corresponding in a general
way with black peppers.

Decorticated white pepper is the
name applied to a variety which has
the seed coats entirely removed,
forming hard kernels. There are va-
rious qualities, depending on the ex-
tent to which the pearling process
has been carried. Other varieties of
white pepper have only the first or
dark shell part- removed.

——oeo as —_—_
English Gaining in Size.

With the view of ascertaining
whether the race is deteriorating or
otherwise, so far as physique is con-
cerned, a large woolen firm at Leeds,
England, recently undertook the task
of comparing the measurements
made in its woolen department at
the present time with those in simi-
lar classes of goods manufactured a
couple of generations ago. The re-
sult announced is greatly in favor of
present day conditions. The average
chest and hip measurements work
out at fully 3 per cent. increase.

This rule applies practically to all
parts of the country, with the ex-
ception of a few isolated towns. Com-
ing at a time when so much is being
heard of the deterioration of the race,
this announcement affords a welcome
surprise, and effectively demolishes
the theory that the race is deteriorat-
ing. The English giants are appar-
ently to be found in the North.
Workingmen, it is said, in the ship-
yards on Tyneside and district are
very much bigger than was the case
fifty or sixty years ago.

Taking the whole of the country,
the biggest framed men appear to
be in the lime-stone districts of
Northwest Yorkshire, Westmoreland
and Cumberland, while the hilly coun-
ties of the North of Ireland can also
lay claim to this distinction.

The investigation had also elicited
the interesting fact that in the Old-
ham district are to be found Eng-
land’s dwarfs. Here, and in the Bat-
ley locality, the factory operatives
are the most diminutive in the
country.

—__> +.
The Natural Result.
“He’s always at his post.”
“Yes, that’s the reason, I suppose,
that all the girls call him such a
stick.”

2

When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-
man.

 

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32

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.

 

The Development and Degeneration
of Nations.

In view of the fact that a scientific
commission is engaged in an investi-
gation of the charge that the British
race is deteriorating or degenerating
and that the matter is being exten-
sively discussed, it is worth while to
give the subject some little attention,
because it involves problems that af-
fect every branch of
family.

the human

The population of the British Isles
is one of the most remarkable race
mixtures. Prior to the historic period
the islands were inhabited by several
different branches of the Celtic race.
The Britons, who covered the great-
est part of England; the Welsh, the
Cornishmen, the Erse, or Irish, and
the Scottish Highlanders, were all

members of the same great family of |
peoples, but possessing many pro-|}
vincial or tribal differences and dis- |
tinctions. It i¢ known that Phoeni- |
cian ships from Tyre, Carthage and |
Cadiz were in the habit of trading in |

the islands.

Julius Caesar, at the head of a Ro-
man army, invaded and conquered a
large part of Britain in the year 55,
B. C., and the Romans held the coun-
try until 418, A. D., a period of 473
years, and in that time the Roman
garrison was composed of Spaniards,
Italians and troops from other parts
of Europe and from Asia. The Ro-
mans always garrisoned a conquered
province with soldiers from _ other
countries, and sent to those countries

the men recruited in such provinces |

or colonies, so that there would be
no revolutionary collusion between
the soldiers and the citizens.

After the retirement of the Romans
to defend the “Eternal City” itself
against the attacks of the Huns and
the Vandals, Britain was invaded by
the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, the
Northmen and the Danes, and each
body of invaders gained more or
less of a foothold in the islands and
thus people of many of the white
races were amalgamated with the
native races of the islands. This ex-
traordinary mingling of the strongest,
the most vigorous and enterprising
races in the world has resuited in
the creation of a people who have
long stood at the head of the modern
nations for their achievements in
war, in commerce, in manufacturing
and in intellectual accomplishments.

This sort of mingling of the supe-
rior races has brought forth in every
age the master nations of the world.
Rome, at the height of its greatness,
was possessed by a people made up
of many races, and succeeding the
British, the American Republic is the
grandest example of race mixtures as
it is the latest. The chief cause of the
degeneration of nations is the de-
struction of the bravest, the most vig-
orous and enterprising of their men
in wars. Rome poured out the blood
of her best and bravest on all the
battle fields of Europe, North Africa
and Western Asia, while the cowards,
the indolent, the self-indulgent, the
idlers and loafers remained at home
to become the fathers of successive
generations. Rome lived as a nation

about a thousand years from the
founding of the Republic to the fall
of the Western Empire. In_ that
vast period of almost incessant wars |
her best men were slaughtered year |
after year, while the camp followers |
and stragglers returning from the
foreign wars brought back with them
to Rome every vice and all the|
moral depravity they had learned in
their wanderings, and in the course
| of years the Roman race became too
| feeble, too much demoralized to de-
| fend the country against the vigorous
| and fierce barbarians, and so the em-
| pire that had for at least five cen-|

 

|turies ruled the world lost all sem-|
| blance of power and retained only
| the ruins of its once great city, the}
| world’s greatest.

|
|

| It would be too rash to say that
| the British race has passed the zenith
| of its power, but if there are any evi-|
dences of decline in it, as its own peo- |
ple have changed, it must be from
the destruction of its bravest and}
most heroic men on the plains and
mountains of Europe, Asia, Africa
and America. There is no quarter of
ithe globe, no land upon its face, that
/has not been watered with British
| blood, and such an incessant drain
| of its most precious lifeblood must
work to the degeneration of a race
that is constantly losing its manliest |
men.

|
|
|
|

France and Spain had their best
emcee drained from them in centuries
| of war down to the end of the Napo-|
| leonic dynasty, and Germany has suf- |
|fered as seriously. Russia is still a|
| young country, not long enough in}
| existence to have amalgamated its |
| many races into one type of people
| nor to have reached the culmination |
of its power, while Germany has still
an opportunity to assemble all the
Teutonic peoples of Europe into a
single nationality to work out her
destiny.

But the mightiest future is in|
store for the American Republic. It}
is a combination of all the great races, |
and of those of them that possessed |
the daring and the enterprise to cross |
oceans and seek their fortunes in a}

CY
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ST tab

 

|are at work destructive
| that have only been known for a few
| centuries, and from which the Ro-
| mans were free.
| bacco was brought into Europe and

| sixteenth century.
| their introduction as a beverage peo-

| fermented liquors and with small in-
| toxicating power.
| known in Asia from the earliest times,
| morphine, cocaine and

'teenth century, and thus it is that

| many demoralizing drugs which were
| unknown to the ancients are now ex-

made from corn.

tizer that makes you eat.

new and, to many, an unknown world.
The nation is young and so full of)
energy, vigor and virile power that |
it is already being recognized as the |
primate among the world powers of|
the twentieth century. Of course, it |
will rise to some grand height of
destiny, and having culminated, it
will begin to decline, but that time
may be still far away.

In the meantime it must be re- |

|/membered that the degeneration of |
| the human race is going on to-day at |

a vastly increased rate, because there |
influences

For instance, to-
Asia from America, and this dates
only from the beginning of the six-
teenth century. Spirituous or distill-
ed liquors were not in use until the
Up to the time of
ple drank wine, beer and cider, all

While opium was

other such
nerve poisons started in the nine-

 

erting 2 frightful effect in debauching

and destroying the minds and bodies
of the people of the twentieth cen-
tury. There was nothing like them
in the times when nations subsisted
as such for a thousand years. From
this day on a century or two will be
all the time required to test and ex-
haust the possibilities of a people or
Otto Von Platen.
—_—_++>—_—__

race.

The secrets of success are three—
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the other two will not avail.

 

 

 

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33

 

Japs Are Great Chemists.
Probably no Eastern nation is
more strongly represented than are
the Japanese in the English annals
of science and more particularly in
literature and chemistry. They pos-
sess an undoubtedly strong faculty
for original research and they com-
bine this factor with a sharp-sighted-
ness as to the possibilities of practi-
_cal application of the fruits of re-
search. The Japanese chemist, in
fact, unites the power of originality
of the English chemist and the prac-
tical intuition of the German. At the
University of Tokio practical study
is much favored and splendid facili-

ties for work are provided in the
laboratories and workshops.
There are. several distinguished

Japanese chemists who are fellows of
the English Chemical Society and
who were elected to the fellowship
on account of the excellence of their
contributions to original science.
Many elaborate papers involving long
and patient laboratory investigations
are printed in full in the transactions
of the society. The Japanese chem-
ists discuss with a freedom which as-
tonishes the Western chemists all the
modern abstruse theories bearing upon
anatomic theory, the constitution of
matter, the theory of dissociation, and
so forth. They write powerful dis-
sertations on the views already ad-
vanced by such esteemed thinkers as
Ostwald, Arrhenius, Kelvia, Thom-
son, Lodge, Crookes and Ramyas,
and have offered valuable criticisms
on the methods of systematizing and |

| compiling atomic weights adopted by
| Western chemists.

Chemistry, of course, is a powerful
weapon in war and there can be lit-
tle doubt that among other things
which have so far contributed to
Japanese successes is a sound knowl-
edge of explosives, their composi-
tion, action and behavior under a va-
riety of conditions. When there is
no longer any need for the imple-
ments of battle, and may that soon
be, the same subtle insight which is
so marked a feature of the Japanese
intellect may turn with equal suc-

cess to the application of science to) o+ders and selling goods have done

peace pursuits.
—_.2++>—___

Buying and Selling an Art.

Being a good buyer does not al-

fact a real good crack-a-jack buyer
is seldom a good salesman.
merchant there should be
a combination of buyer and salesman.

a good

Especially is this true in a small
retail business. Large houses can af-
ford to have specialists as buyers and
specialists as salesmen.
not suffi-

retailer having resources

|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

!
to overcome the difficulties of buy- |
ing, for in these 20th century days |
buying is much easier than it used |
to be.

Prices are more stable. The house
salesman has an interest in taking |
care of his customer, and this being
the case there are fewer pit-falls for
the feet of the unwary buyer. Keep- |
ing quiet and wise

looking some-

times gives a man more reputation

las a buyer than by being mouthy and
i} knowing it all.

ling that selling is an art.

that
there is a distinction between taking

Retailers who have learned

in understand-
Custom- |
only to

much for themselves

ers nowadays expect not

|get what they ask for but to be sold
ways make a successful merchant. In |

To make |

It
man who can not add an item or two
to a customer’s list.

Your

something else. iS 2 poor

good salesman always has

;something in his mind for each es-

pecial customer and _ unobtrusively
and without undue persistence can

usually sell what he wants to sell.

The small

cient for this must to be successful
combine the two forces in his own |
person. The writer believes that

salesmanship is a gift, and unless a
man has it “in him” it is a hard job

to learn it. The same with buying.

But a man can take what he has and |

cultivate it until he accomplishes
something.
Of the two we should class the art

of selling as the more important.

It is possible for a good salesman |

 

   

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It is true that most everyb

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ody uses one of our Cash or Parcel Carrier systems, but we think that it ought to be everybody.

Customers like this attention—Gro-
Review.

————_.—————_
Told by the Furniture Salesman.

cers’

A Grand Rapids furniture drum-
mer just back from a Far Western
trip brings home this “tale of the
road:
he says, were an lowa
town station the other evening for
a train for Chicago. A fierce storm
was raging.

“This is a sorry night to be onthe
remarked the

waiting in

road,” shoe

sales- !

| front of the cigar man.

Half a dozen traveling men, |

| we had crossed it.

drummer. |

“Yes,” said the cigar man, “and
it was just such a night as this
last summer when a train on the

|road struck a bad place four miles

east of here and the next instant ran
off the bridge. I was the only pas-
senger on the train to escape with
his life:”

“What month
asked.

was that mi” he
was
“latter part of July.”

“TI fail to recall that wreck,” said

lone of the crowd.

“So do 1,” said another.
“How many did you say
killed?” asked the shoe drummer.

were

“Didn’t say any one was killed,”
replied the cigar man.

“You didn’t, eh? You said you
were the only passenger who escaped
with his life.”

“Certainly. That’s easily accounted
for,’ explained the cigar man, look-
ing innocent. “I was the only pas-
senger on the train.”

“Aha!
said the shoe drummer.

“Hold on, there!” said the only one
in the party who had not spoken up
to this time, he bustled up in
“You said
‘the train struck a bad place in the
road.’

“So it did, but it got over it all
right.”

“Tt did, eh? But how
ning off the bridge?”

“That’s all right. We ran off after
The story is all
You can’t find any flaw

That’s your game, is it?”

as

about run-

right, boys.
in) 16

Lamson Systems Draw the Cash
To the Central Desk, At Once
Centralizing It and Permitting
An Absolute Check #* #

 

 

     

Josh Billings says:

in not makin’ the same one twice.”’

«‘Success don’t konsist in not makin’ mistaiks, but

Merchants who have once adopted a Lamson Cash or Package Carrier

system never make the mistake of letting the cash get out of their control,

and in this way stop the leaks and keep the sales force intact for selling.

Isn’t it reasonable to suppose that ‘‘most everybody’’ has the right idea?

Lamson Store Service is always the best and latest.
instructions are to look carefully after the welfare of our customers.
We have done wonders for others who said the same thing. We

Perhaps you are saying, ‘‘These people can’t help me ”’

We have a large organization of skilled men all over the country whose

Our policy is broad and liberal and our clients are loyal.

like to write about Lamson and talk about Lamson because we believe in Lamson.

It will please us very much to send you illustrated de

scriptions of the latest ideas in our various forms of carriers.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1

 

pea could take its place. It
j}has been called mineral wool, and
| also the connecting link between the

| mineral and the vegetable kingdoms.

 

 

 

 

 

Cause of Advance in Price of Shel-
lac.

ceived from consumers. of

asking the cause or causes of the

advance in prices, I submit the fol-|
Lac is produced in al- |

lowing facts:
most every province in India, but

principally in the Central Provinces, |
|men’s helmets. jackets and leggings,
ob-
tained. That produced in other dis- |
local |
rings, |
beads, and other trinkets worn as |
ornaments by the women of the poor- |
in the manufacture |
of wood lacquer work, which seems |
to have been begun in very remote |
|utilized is in the work of surgeons

Bengal and Assam, from which the
largest amounts exported are

tricts is chiefly consumed in
manufacturers of bracelets,

er classes, and

Some very artistic work is
done in this line. Lac is

times.
now

sects .on the branches of certain
trees, and is collected, as a rule, by
the jungle tribes, who break off the

branches on which it is deposited. In |
this state it is called stick lac, and sold

by the gatherers to local
who sell
shellac or button lac, who put it
through various processes
Lecomes the !ac of commerce.
United States and the United King-
dom iurnish the principal
for lac,.taking by far the larger part

of all that is produced. Smaller

quantities are exported to continental |

Europe. Nearly all is shipped from
Calcutta. During the last fifteen
years there have been remarkable

fluctuations in the amount exported.
Since 1895 there had been a gradual

reduction in prices, but during the |

past two years the product has been
comparatively small, while the de-
mand has largely increased. This in-
creased demand is mainly due to the
use of shellac in electrical works
and in a minor degree for making
gramophone records. This increased
past two years, and the scarcity of
stock have attracted speculators,
which no doubt has tended to further
advance prices.
the recent advance in prices is the
fact that the lac dye, which formerly
represented the manufacturer’s prof-
its, has been replaced by

demand for dye. The present high
prices may stimulate production and

in prices.
_——so+ > ___—_
Increasing Usefulness of Asbestos.

life and property from fire, says an
exchange, there is a growing appre-
ciation of the value of asbestos and
a constant increase in its use. It has

the |
incrustation deposited by the lac in-|
| specially treated to be rendered abso-
|lutely clean and antiseptic, while as-
| bestos is naturally so.

dealers, |
it to the manufacturers of |

| manufacturer of sad irons.

until it to that individual has had the sym-
The |

| limitations with
markets |

| will

|has become expanded,
Another reason for |

aniline |
4 « : it . °
cycs, and the price of the lac has | losing tone—growing old, in fact —
been increased to make up for the| and if she would get the best eco-
losses due to this falling off in the |
| ought to be
| Ironmonger.
reduce the prices, or the increasing |

demand may cause a further advance |

 

y) | After the fibers of asbestos have been
| separated from their
| they have a fluffy softness and white-
|ness much like that of wool or cot-
'ton, and by a process very similar
In response to letters recently re- |
shellac |
| however, which. owing to its mineral

mother’ rock

to that of ordinary weaving they are
converied into cloth. It is a cloth,

origin, is impervious to fire, and here-
in lies its vaiue. It is more and
more extensively used in this coun-
try for fire-proof curtains, for fire-

and icr gloves and shields for-men
working at the mouths of furnaces.
The texture of the fabric resembles
that ot canvas. so it is too coarse,
as now manufactured, for such’ deli-
cate materials as those of lace cur-
tains and women’s dresses, for which
its use has been suggested, but an
interesting way in which it is now

in making — splints
Cotton

and dressing

wounds. and wool must be

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Even Sad Irons Wear Out.
I have a word of comfort for the
sad-iron maker, that is to say, the
Hither-

pathy of most of us because of the
which his trade is
invested. Sad-irons, for instance, are
not subject to change of fashion nor
do they readily wear out; “age does
not wither” them nor “custom stale.”
Hence it is not a bit of good piling

them into the window and labeling

| them “last season’s stock’ or “sweep-

ing reductions,” or anything of that
kind; nor is it any use offering them
at thirteen to the People
not rush to One

dozen.

buy them.

| flat iron at a-time is enough for most

people, and too many for some. An
American experimentalist has discov-

ered, however, that when iron is

| heated to a high temperature repeat-
| edly it increases permanently in bulk
demand, the small production of the |

and becomes
i 4s

porous. If that is so,
evident that when a_sad-iron
has been in use for some time and
and conse-
quently porous, its capacity for ac-
quiring and retaining heat must di-
minish considerably; hence, although
the housewife may not as yet be
aware of it, her sad iron is steadily

nomic results from

her (fabors. #
renewed.—Vulcan in

—__e--~.__
The leather goods man has many

|a clever novelty to show the up-to-
| date buyer, and the buyer who can

|not work up enthusiasm over
In the important work of protecting |

some
of the new goods this season is utterly
lacking in business perception. The

| bag field is a broad one and is one

which every buyer should carefully
investigate before placing his order,

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The Merchant and the Trade Paper.

Trade papers have for many years
played an important part in the de-
velopment of American business, and
every year finds them more widely
read than ever before. This is as it
should be, only it is to be hoped that
men in all lines of business will real-
ize the to be derived
from the careful reading of literature
of this kind, and that they will give
it the attention and support it so
richly merits. When one considers
what an immense amount of good
trade papers have done, it is only
surprising that so very few business
men,
of the
leges placed

possibilities

many advantages and privi-

at their disposal so

comparatively, avail themselves |

genercusly and at such a reasonable |

While there are, of course, and
always will be, papers of little or no
value, there are, on the other
a number which are really
helpful.

As a matter of fact,
man can really afford to be without
several good trade papers. It would,

price.

good and

indeed,

hand, |

no. business |

| prise has been expressed that
be well for him to subscribe |

ior at least half a dozen just as soon|

he will learn 40 discriminate between
as he can afford to do so, for then
he will learn to discriminate between
those which
which are not, and the money which

are good and those

he spends thereafter for the purpose |

of keeping in touch with the meth-
cds and doings of those in other
well

as
as in similar lines will be more
likely to be invested wisely.

One can not,

however, acquire wis-

dom er knowledge by simply enclos-

ing a check for the amount of the
subscription. If this were the case,
all men would quickly find them- |}

selves on an equal footing, business

papers would in very short order be

nothing more or less than insurers
of business success at premiums fri-
Which, interpreted,
trade papers point the
will only devote a small
part of his time to reading them.

that they
trade papers.
can not be

diculously low.
that
one

means
way, if
Few men busy
no time to
at
better
to
possibie success,

are so

have read
The evenings
spent to
who

home
advantage by him
achieve the greatest
than in reading one

wishes
more in an understanding
Right here comes the rub—in an un-
derstauding way. And it is because
2 great many men do not know how
to read a trade paper, that they do
not read them at all. They look for
something which will fit their partic-
ular case, and if it does not immedi-
ately appear, they come to the con-
clusion that the paper not worth
while, and lay it down, to their own
direct loss.

Now, the right way to read a trade
paper or any cther kind of paper, for
that matter, is to place one’s self in
a state of mind which may be term-
ed both perceptive and receptive. By
doing so, one will perceive that
which is of value and store it away
where it may readily be found when
wanted, instead of reading the arti-
cles as if they were just so much
reading matter which must be read
somehow or other. Then, that which

or way.

is

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

may be read between the lines, so
to speak, is often of much greater
value than that which is printed, and
the reader should always be on the
alert to see and feel such things. Be-
cause an article is supposed to inter-
est, primarily, retailers, is that any
reason why a mail order man should
not read it? Hardly, for it may con-
tain a suggestion worth dollars upon
dollars to him. To offset this, it fre-
quently happens that retailers

 

can |

learn much from what was intended |

in the first place for mail order men.

So it is in all lines. Everywhere
pointers abound. One _ need. only
train his powers of discrimination

and all the wealth of thought from
far and near is at one’s service at
nominal price. And this wealth
information not possibly
of decided
nsed.—Printers
——_+-~
Table Knives in England.

Seeing how

a
of
be
bene-

Ink.

can
than
properly

otherwise
fit,

extensively American

ideas are copied in this country, sur-
American style of table-knife has
never “caught en” here, writes a con-
tributor to the lronmonger. In
most of the hotels, and to a consid-

erable extent in the homes of the

the |

middle and upper classes in the Unit- |

ed States,

electro-plated blades, whereas in this

| country such blades are scarcely ever

 

seen. Not only the most wealthy
but even the British Royal
faimly, are content with ordinary un-
plated steel blades. Americans say
that they prefer plated blades  be-
cause they look nicer
to clean than are plain ones. When
asked why they do not offer similar

classes,

| cutlery in the home market, Sheffield |
would be a continual joy, and trade |

cutlery manufacturers reply — that
British people would never buy it or
use it. So far as we are aware, how-
ever, this point has never been put
to the test, for the British public

have no opportunity of trying plated |

knives. It is notable that British and

European people who settle in’ the

| United States soon fall into the way

of using plated knives, and ob-
vious explanation of this  circum-
stance is that they see such knives
in and sale. lf they were
pushed for sale vigorously who can
say that they would not gain a cer-
tain amount of popularity
Ironmonger.

an

tse on

here ?—

—_——_~.~+-2
Lansme, Mich., Aug. 24, 1904

To Whom It May Concern:

A recent decision of the Supreme
Court holds the law governing  ped-
dlers’ licenses valid, and as this law
makes it the duty of the State Treas-
urer to collect such taxes, notice is
hereby given to all peddlers that un-
less they at once provide themselves
with a proper license they will be
held to strict accountability. No li-
cense for less than six months has
been issued from this office by me
prior to above ruling, but until the
close of this year a license will be
granted for three months.

Daniel McCoy, State Treasurer.

—

You must keep books if you would

keep business.

and are easier |

the table-knives used have |

 

 

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general style,
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The Oldsmobile is built for

Built to run and does it.

A smaller runabout, same
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26

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE MAKING OF PERFUME.

The Art Likened To That of the
Cook.

A perfume has been defined as “a
caress to the nostril;” an odor is an
undue familiarity. Caresses and per-
fumes are matters of taste. Some
like them soft and some want them

 

strong. One is satisfied with a deli-|
cate touch, another craves a hearty

slap. One responds to an impress
that another does not notice, and
the vigorous taste of the second is
abhorrent to the first.

The perfumer must meet all tastes,
and satisfy them as far as he can.
And since there is much in a name,
he is expected to satisfy a variety of
tastes with perfumes of the same
name. One can see this illustrated
in the variety of “violet”
that contrast with each other in the
market.

There is no standard in taste that
applies widely, and there is no
standard in perfumes that is general-
ly acceptable, even for a single kind
of perfume.

Take a rose perfume, for instance.

There are extracts to be obtained |

that imitate the soft odor of a jac-
queminot rose fairly closely, and
there are those that are pungent and

more nearly resemble the geranium. |

But the verity of the one does not
hurt the popularity of the other.

Nor is price any indication of deli- |

cacy or trueness, for there is as wide
a range of tastes among the rich as
among the poor. A perfumer must
satisfy the buyer, whatever may be
the cost; and really fine and delicate
perfumes can be made to sell at a
low price. Price, indeed, is scarcely
an indication of taste, but appeals
to other qualities in the buyer.

The art of the perfumer is very
similar to the art of the cook. It
is very largely a matter of seasoning.
Odors, like foods, have to be sea-
soned to make them appeal. The
cook knows that beef needs plenty of
salt and a little butter; that pork is
relished better with a mild sour, like
apple sauce; that fish needs a sharp
sour—pickles or lemon; that lamb
wants a spicy sour—mint sauce; and
that desserts must be flavored and
sweetened right if they are to be
palatable.

And similariy the perfumer must
know the needs of his odors to de-
velop their characters and make them
appeal. He knows that rose must
have some spice; that violet requires
a little “pickling;” that heliotrope
must be sweetened, etc. But the cook
has this advantage—that the man
who prefers Worcestershire sauce on
his beef knows what he wants and
suits his own taste; that he who
likes the sharp Tabasco sauce on his
fish will use it; and that all will em-
ploy pepper, salt, vinegar, and sugar
ad libitum.

But the perfumer must do all the
seasoning for his customers, and his
success will depend upon how accu-
rately he gauges their tastes. He
can not explain to them that some
will like more spice in their rose
than others, that a delicate violet
may be sharpened to suit any taste,

| and that seasoning can be added to
| odors as to foods, to please all. For
‘there are many more varieties of
| spices in perfumes than in cooking;
| there are a large number of sweet
|odors, and there are several of the
| sharper odors. And in perfumes a
| proper choice must be made, and
| then only time can “cook it in.”

| Broadly speaking, the art of the
|perfumer lies in a proper use of the
| seasoning odors that may be likened
to the pepper, salt, sugar and vinegar
| of cooking. The perfumer knows his
| odors much as the cook knows his
seasoning.

| The fundamental odor of a_ per-
_fume is a simple matter. For instance,
| oil of rose is the basis of a rose per-
|fume. But every druggist knows
| that oii of rose and alcohol will not
make a perfume. It would be flat,
|like an unseasoned meat. First it
| needs “salt.” Here come in the
things that impart stability and de-
velop flavor or odor. Such sub-
stances as musk, civet, benzoin, co-
paiba, Peru balsam, ambergris, cin-
namon, etc., are in this category.
| They “fix” the odor and hold _ it.
They must, like salt, not be prom-
inent of themselves, but their effect
|on the perfume must be marked.
Most perfumes must be well “salted,”
| and some to a delicate taste are dis-
agreeably “salty,” but others like
them the better for this quality.

Then a rose perfume needs a lit-
tle “pepper”’-—used sparingly, of
course. There are a variety of spicy
odors that permit of a selection:
clove, mint, vetivert, patchouli, cam-
phor, geranium, guaiac wood, winter-
green, and a host of the aromatic
odors. The results here will depend
more upon a proper proportion of
the one selected than upon a fine
ciscrimination in selecting, although
the latter will be apparent also.

Finally, a dash of “vinegar” will
brighten the whole and make it a
charm to the nostrils. Here again
a selection is to be made from such
odors as almond, sandalwood, cedar,
hyacinth, heliotrope, lavender, ligna-
loe, terpineol, etc. The perfume
must not be “pickled,” but enough of
one or more of these is needed to
brighten the whole.

Rose, being 2 sweet odor in itself,
needs no sweetening, but some odors
would need more of the “sugar” and
less or more of the pepper or vine-
gar, to develop them into acceptable
perfumes. :

So the perfumer must. know _ his
seasonings and how to select them,
as the cook knows his. He must
know their qualities, their applica-
tion and their power. But his art
is far more complicated than the
cook’s, for not only has he a much
larger variety of agents to choose
from, but time is his only test of
judgment.

extracts |

Soft odors develop on standing; the
“pepper and vinegar” odors grow
mellow, and may disappear; the “salt”
blends and loses its individuality; but
all this takes  time—weeks and
months. Then. after standing for
several months, if the perfumer is
not satisfied, he must decide whether

 

 

an error has been made in the selec-
tion of some ingredient, or in the
proportions used.

Familiarity with odors enables him
to judge pretty accurately whether
he has too much pepper in his com-
bination, or the wrong kind of spice
is present; whether it needs more
vinegar, or is already pickled too
much; and whether he has enough
salt in it to blend well, or whether
it is lacking in these qualities.

It is easy to spoil a perfume bya
wrong selection of seasoning, or an

unbalanced combination. Even to
the consumer that likes everything |
highly seasoned, only a_ proper)

blending of salt, spice and vinegar
will appeal. And in perfumes, a
single erroneous selection may spoil
an entire combination, and puzzle the
perfumer for a time to learn where
the trouble is. Odors may neutralize
each other, or a dull or heavy odor
may smother 2 soft and delicate one,
whereas a brighter and stronger, per-
haps even a ranker odor, may de-
velop the delicate one. The perfumer
may not hit the most effective of
some class of seasoning in a combina-
tion, and yet may succeed with the
public to a good degree; but if he hap-
pens upon a “salt” that smothers the
pleasanter quaiities in the combina-
tion, the public will be quick to re-
ject the product.

The secrets of perfumery, then, lie
in the proper seasoning of odors.
The development of synthetic and
artificial floral odors in recent years
makes the fundamental odors a very
simple matter. Every one knows
that cil of rose is the basis of a
rose perfume; ionone or oil of orris
of a violet perfume; heliotropin of a
heliotrope perfume; terpineol of a
lilac, etc. But these of themselves
are flat. They need just the proper
seasoning to make them tasteful. And
the “strength” of the perfume will
not depend upon the quantity of the
basal odor used, but upon its develop-
ment by the seasoning odors.

Much that is misleading has been
written about perfumes—about spe-
cial facilities for getting basal odors,
extreme precautions in qualities, and
special facilities for combining or for
ripening perfumes.

 

Quality counts in perfumes just as
it does in foods. The best is inimi-
table, but the public is often content
to take secondary grades. Whatever
quality they may choose, the season-
ing is imperative. And the higher
seasonings, the more pungent or
“stronger” effects, cover the finest
qualities and make them less neces-
sary. The more delicate the odor,
the finer must be the qualities of
all the ingredients. But whether the
public really wants delicate or vigor-
ous odors is a matter of observation.

And as soon as some qualified writ-
er shall analyze the effects of the
seasoning odors, and shall establish
some simple rules to govern their
selection and use, the retail pharma-
cist will be in a position to make
satisfactory perfumes for himself.—
Wilbur L. Scoville in Bulletin of
Pharmacy.

 

 

THE NOTION PEDDLER.

 

He Has Practically Disappeared.
from the Cities.

The wandering peddler who, with
his wonderful pack of wonderfully
assorted goods, used to come around
to homes in the residence portions of
the cities, has in the last few years
diminished rapidly in numbers until
he is now almost, if not quite, ex-
tinct except in the country towns and
rural districts. Occasionally there
comes to the back door a woman cr
girl or even an old man selling
matches or needles or some other
small articles, but the real peddler—
he who spread out his pack and
showed an assortment of goods rang-
ing from a bar of tar soap to a small
melodeon-—is seldom seen.

Department stores, it is alleged,
are the force that has driven’ the
wandering merchants out of business
in the city. The gradual cheapening
of small goods and notions, extensive
advertisement of the same and the
establishment of innumerable small
general stores throughout the city
have all helped to make the peddler’s
vocation unprofitable here. But the
peddler is still at his trade. Depriv-
ed of the opportunity to make a live-
lihood by following it in the city, he
has not abandoned it and gone into
something else. as do many. He has
taken himself and his pack away
from the influence of hostile stores
and now does his peddling in the
country.

Where before his district was lim-
ited by streets it is now measured by
counties and even states. He knows
that the city housewives will have
none of him because of the bargains
that may be had at the department
stores, but he knows also that the
farmer’s wife, out in the country
where department stores are un-
known, is ready and even anxious to
look at his stock and, being a thor-
ough business man in all instances,
the peddler wastes no time in the
city, but goes countryward when his
pack is complete.

The amount that the prospective
peddler is forced to invest before he
has sufficient stock to take the road
varies with what he intends to sell,
the country he is going into, and the
state of his finance. There are ped-
dlers’ stocks in which the average
cost of the items contained is only
I cent apiece. The variety that ob-
tains in this stock will surprise the
layman, and its cost is sometimes as
low as $5. To prove the shrewdness
and business capacity of the men who
take cut these small packs an out-
fitter said it was not infrequent for
one of them to be gone one month
and come back with $50 to show
that he had disposed of his stock prof-
itably.

From the $5 packs, which are sel-
dom taken out unless as a side line,
the peddlers’ investments run up to
$200 and $300; but when one of them
goes out with such a stock he has a
wagon and generally a helper to as-
sist him in his work. These ped-
diers are the aristocrats of the pro-
fession and the envy of all those who
have not yet attained to the dignity
of a horse and wagon. They leave

 

 

 

  

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may be along the road. i a
Not all peddlers who go out pay | ey eas eee 25 tbs.
for their own stocks. Each of the | Drop. all sizes smaller than B...... 1 75
houses who outfit peddlers has’ in} Augurs and Bits
. : [Sgt 60
its employ several peddlers who sell |Jennings’ genuine .... oe
goods from house to house, much | Jennings’ TECIOM os 50
after the manner of traveling sales- | Axes
men. They receive a commission, and | First Quality, S. B. Bronze ........ 6 50
oe 7 | First Quality, D. B. Bronge ........ 9 00
it is in this way that the peddler gen- | First Quality, S. B. S. Steel ........ 7 00
erally enters the business when his | Quality, D. B. Steel ........... 10 50
capital is depleted. Sometimes their | Barrows
earnings would be considered good | Garden ..2222..cc ccc 08
wages by most workers; again they | Bolts
come home with only a few dollars | stove ..........-.cssceececeeeeeeeeees 70
to their credit. So far as profits on | i mew Het -......-... 0.2.0. =
the goods sold go, it is doubtful if Suiseiei
there is any business that pays the | wen, plain ...............0ceceeeeee 4 50
percentage that the peddler’s does. A| Butts, Cast
paper of assorted needles bought for }Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ 70
25 cents a dozen sells for 10 cents | Wrought Riareow ¢ oe. 60
each. This is a little more than the | in, 16 : .
oa n. 5- . 6 ;
average profits of the peddler, for in | common 72 “af =
= : | BB. 8\c. a e...6 ¢
the sections of the country adjacent BBB Bye. Ty ++ 6iKe.. a
to large cities the price on all arti- | Crowbars
cles is cut lower than it is in the | Cast Steel per Mos 5
sparsely settled regions. | Chisels
The percentage which the “com- | meen eiesner ee 65
mission peddler” receives is all that | Socket Corner ...c..lssscscssesusss 8B
is left after he has returned for the | Socket i 65
oods at the outfitter’s price. The | Elbows
8 1 P | Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz. ..... net _=
outfitter fixes a price to the peddler, | Corrugated, per doz. ..............+-
ek A ee ees cetieee om: all ceeds EE ne ais.“ dato
i : “re Expansive Bits
sold. The rest is his own. This| 4.45 small, $18; large, $26 ........ 40
makes his percentage of profit en-|Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 .......... 25
tirely dependent upon the prices he Files—New List
will charge, and the peddler is never | Nitholton's no. coco eet
weak hearted when it comes to a/|Heller’s Horse Rasps ................ 70
question of profits. The advantage a is sos —. aa als
i i 2 : : os. Oo 20; an > > al,
in this kind of peddling lies in the | pigt 12 13 14 a6 16. =
fact that the outfitter will take back, Discount, 70.
2 ovided Gauges
such goods as _ unsold, pr sn | Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s 60&10
they are returned in good condition, | Chin
the peddier not losing by taking out | single Strength, by box .......... dis. 90
fh large check. - — =. take We ee oc = -
The peddler of this year is mer- Si .
chant of next. Nearly all of them Baile & O15 a new list =<: 2r
save money and go into business in| yason's Solid Cast Steel ......30e Mat 70
a more stable form. These wander- Hinges
ers generally find the best fields for | Gate, Clark’s 1, 2, 3............ dis. 60&10
their endeavors when they decide to as Hollow Ware uae
2 . MEE See ecateeddceedsccasacocenence
quit the road in the small country | kettles (/2/7/22000NVIIIINII. 50&10
town. The town recently founded.in | Spiders .......ccececececcccoccee -.- 50810
1 and HorseNallis
Lae ety ae Oe, OF ae. dis. 40&10
they betake themselves and their He iF Furnishing Goods -
families there. Harry B. Eldridge. Japanael TIMWOPO oe occ cone ccs 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iron | ry as
eet, POO as 2 25 e rates | Crocke and Gl sware
Piet Bane .....02........... 3 c rates |
Nobs—New List | oe
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings ...... 75 | M%
wal OOF Gee .. ww... 48
Door, porcelain, _ co I 1 to $ gal. per a, J
evels | @ wee Chee ee
Stanle Rule and Level Co.’s ....di 10 gal ee 66
' a eigen ona ecaE 78
etals—Zinc [15 gal meat tubs! each ...........- 1 20
COG found CAaEN . 2.0... 7% | 20 gal. meat tubs, cach .............. 1 60
Per peune@ —..25 0 ec. es 8 23 gal meat tube, Geeh ............ 2 25
Aleceeenus | 30 al. mest (ibe, eneh .............. 2 70
: Churns
eee tues Co ae, oe os es = 12 t) Gieak per gat... 6%
Screws, New List ................., 86 | Churn Dashers. per doz ............ ™
Casters, Bed and Plate ........ —| Milkpans .
Dampers, American oo... ol, | 4 gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
Mol Gc | 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each . 6
olasses Gates Fine Glazed Milkpans
SECuOIN Ss Pattern oo... 60&10 | 1% gal. flat or round bottom, per mae 60
Enterprise, self-measuring ........... 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each . 6
Pans Stewpans
EA 60&10&10 | | % gal. fireproof, bail, per doz. ....... 85
Common, polished) (0060000000000 00 70&10 | 1 gal. fireproof, bail per doz. ...... 110
: Jugs
Patent Planished tron
“A” Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80. \% oe :
“B’’ Wood’s _— plan’d, No. 25-27. a 80| 1 to 5 gal., per gal.. 1%
Broken packages \%c per Ib. extra. | Sealing Wax
Pianes 1S te. in package per WH. .......... 2
Onto Taol Cos faney .............. 40 | LAMP BURNERS
Setoea ewe oo Se No © See coe 35
Sandusky Toel Co.’s fancy .......... ee 38
Bench, first quality .o.0 6... 45 No, . a ee =
Nalls ie 2 oe... 5
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire oe Ee
Wire nails, ee ee 2 38 MASON FRUIT JARS
0 to 60 advance ..........--.----..-Base | With Porcelain Lined Caps
16 to 16 ddvance (ool oi. Per Gross.
8 agence as 10 | Pits ooo en 4 00
; aaeenee Se 20 | py of 6
i | .
De ie | Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
SU 70 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Bene © advances oo 56) Per box of 6 doz
Casing 16 davanee ooo 15 | No. 0 Sum -............ 2.2... ee 1 60
Cusing © advances .... 2... ll... a i(me f+ Sam ... 172
Casing ee TF i ee 2 54
Mime 36 advatice ................... 25 | Anchor Carton Chimneys
Menten © advance _.................... 35 | Each chimney in corrugated carton
on + ee See eee ceca es SG Ne © Crip ooo 1 80
arre’ OVEN oo. SG | No. 1 Crimp ....... Se ea ealas asccues 2 on
Rivets | No 2 Cri coe el. 2 78
iron) and | Tinned 200000000000. First Quality
Copper Rivets and Bure 2.2200001011! 48 | No 9 Sun. erimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 31
: p * e -
Roofing Plates No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 60
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ....... . 268 XXX Flint
— x Gaocue Peme o.... 9 00 | No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 25
x arceal Dean ............ 15 00 | No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 7 50 | No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled. 4 25
— rx. Charcoal, — Grade .. 9 00 Pearl Top
x arcoa away Grade ..15 60 ¢
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00 No > a eg aaa labeled aoe 30
Ropes No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled .. 5 10
Sisal, % inch and larger ........... 19 | No. 2 Sun, ‘‘small bulb,’ * globe lamps. 80
La Bastie
Sand Paper No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 00
Diet sce 38 ee a dis 650 _ 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. .... 1 =
oO. wip, per gem. ..............-. 1 35
Sash Weights No. 2 Crimp, per dag. .00 0.1 1 6¢
Solid Hyes, per ton ................ 30 60 Rochester
Sheet Iron = . _— re — eee ewe cee : -
Nos. 10 es mF a eee a
2... 33 79 |No. 2 Flint (80e bot sttteceeteeees 4 60
ee PR to oe 3 90 Electric
mies. 22 ta 26 wl. 410 % og | Ne. 2. Eime (Ge dex) .............. 4 06
Mee 2a to 2 ...... 2... 4 20 4 66 No. 2 Witt (80e doz.) ................ 4 60
a 30 410) OIL CANS
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30/1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 20
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. | 1 gal. glav. iron with spout, per doz. 1 33
Shovels and Spades sot St oe ee ee ee
First Grade, Weg oo 6 00/5 gal. galv. fron with uk tied doz. 4 05
econd Grade, Dem -..... 2) ol. | 5 50 | 3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 70
sie Soider | 5 gal — iron with faucet, per doz. q 2
ee es 8. 21/2 Sal. LUCINE CANS ....... ee eeeeeveee
The prices of the many other qualities |5 gal. galv. iron Nacefas ............ 9 00
of solder in the market indicated by priv- | LANTERNS
ate brands vary according to composition. | No. 0 Tubular, side lift .............. 4 65
Squares ag oe see eee ao 7 25
Steel) andi From) oo) 60-10- o. ubular, dash ............... & 50
Tin—Melyn Grade -s Ne. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ............ 7 7
16x14 IC, Charcoal .............. eit to oe oo
14x20 IC. Charcoal .......222222122: 10 59 een ee eet sro snr t “
1Gy14 3% Ciharesal 2 00 LANTERN GLOBES
Each additional X on this grade, a 25.|No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each,bx,10c. 50
Tin—Allaway Grade No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx, 15c. 50
10x14 IC. Ch “a No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl. 2 25
oe oe Gee es ee ae ee 1
Mais UE, Clmpeees ................ 10 50 BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
1ex30 FX Chiaredag 50 Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. | No. 9, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 25
Boller Size Tin Plate No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 30
14x56 IX. for N No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll.. 45
x , for No. = § boilers, per tb. 13)/ No. 3, 1% in. wide, per gross or roll. 85
raps
Reece, GMMAG oo 75 |
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40810 COUPON BOOKS
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’ 8. | 50 books, any denomination ...... 1 60
Mouse, choker, per dos. ............ $ 100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
Mouse, delusion, per doz. ............ 1 25 | 500 books, any denomination ....... 11 50
Wire 1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00
Bright Market 60 Above quotations are for either Trades-
Atnesied Markee (0 69 | man, Superior, Econemic or Universal
Coppered Market |... 50@10 grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered
Tank dake 50810 /at a time customers receive specially
Coppered Spring “Steel os 9 | printed cover without extra charge.
Barbed Fence, Galvanized .......... 3 00 | Coupon Pass Books
Barbed Fence, Painted .............. 2 70 Can be made to represent any denomi-
Wire Goods jnation from $10 down.
Bright g0-10 | B. oe fle ica he aio ge wee ed a a 1 =
COCO OHHH HHH HOCK CC CHRO BOO O eo <6 aug 1 OoKS ik la gh a
Serew Hyes --..... 20... ee) G06) De 11 50
ee waiaie aida ‘ies eee ung oa cues ae aa a 20 00
sere eee sene eee [ Credit Checks
Wrenches 500, any one denomination ........ 2 00
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled ..... 30 | 1000, any one denomination ........ 8 00
Coes _Genmmume 2.6... . 6... 4@ | 2000, any one nie Sodio ce 5 0
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought. 76410 | Steel punch .............. 00.000. _<.  -

 

 

 

  

38

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

LEATHER GOODS.

Prevailing Fads and Fancies of the
Season.

It is still rather early to show the
leather lines, there being few buyers
in town, and those few not being par-
ticularly anxious to buy so early in
the season. The manufacturers have
been busy getting ready for this fall
trade, and it may confidently be as-
serted that the offerings are good
value, and some of the novelties no-
ticeable for their merits.

The fall and holiday lines are now
ready and the visiting buyers are
glancing over them in a critical man-
ner. Although the manufacturer is
largely fashion’s creator, the effect of
the buyers’ opinions is very strong,
and while the manufacturer may think
that a certain novelty is especially
worthy he will be likely to modify
and change it. if it receives unfavor-
able comment from buyers upon its
initial showing.

 

Judging from the lines now ready |

and selling it seems as if it were pos-
sible to tell with a certain degree

|

of accuracy what will be the prevail- |
|

ing fads and fancies of the season.

seal, walrus, sea lion and some fancy
grain effects. Shapes are greatly
modified, with a return to the smaller
and medium sizes in handbags and
leather goods in general. The ex-
tremes of last season are conspicu-
ous by their absence, although there
are several novelties of the season
which are eccentric in their way and
are sure to attract attention from
discriminating buyers.

In bags it is said that the most
favored shape will be the long narrow
bag. In this class the envelope and
the Vanity and in fact most of the
new bags of the season appear with
with decided variations.

Retailers are not making the im-

mense profits in tourists goods which }

they confidently expected to early
in the year. Many of the stores which

do not ordinarily carry goods of this | : -
ee eee ~ |handles of the braided sort and strap
class, this year have laid in good}

stocks and are selling them at low
prices, so as to keep them moving.
The prices are lower for this reason
than it was expected, and there are
fewer of the goods sold than was ex-
pected. People are not rushing to the
Fair in such numbers as they might
do, and this rather helps in the gen-
eral depression.

Coque de Roche is the name of
the line shown by a prominent manu-
facturer in town. The goods show
‘up beautifully and are sure to attract
attention everywhere they are exhib-
ited. All the season’s novelties are
made in this finish and the novelty
and exquisite coloring of the leather
is something which every woman of
taste will readily appreciate.

The cost of natural grain calf is
considerably less than seal, a_ fact
which is of vast importance this sea-
son in view of the rumored rise in
the price of seal.

At the present time there are strong
indications of considerable activity in
Tapanese leather, including a slight
revival of the netsuke. This is ac-
centuated by a remarkable price in-
ducement for genuine native. goods.

 

 

It is reported that these goods are of-
fered the trade at less than half the
former prices, whole dozens going for
less than one article in former times.

Fitted bags seem to be the vogue
this season, and some of the latest
inodels are shown with such a multi-
plicity of fittings that only a woman
could find the article desired among
such a superfluity of silver and cut
glass.

One fitted bag of origiral construc-
tion is the “Reniew.” It is modeled
somewhat on the order of the “En-
velope,” without the triangle flap, but
more like a large card-case or bill-
book. Double straps are attached by
means of rings to each corner, mak-
ing a double handle, and serving to
keep the bag closed when carrying.
It comes in all leathers, and contains
mirror, scissors, file, powder puff,
ec.

A rather bizarre novelty in the

|shiny leather class is “Spotted Ecru-

see,” a fanciful effect in enameled

calf of all colors, with spots in gold

|or silver irregularily covering the sur-

face. ft has a dainty Parisian ast,

jand is likely to take its place among
Leathers will be the staples. such as }

 

the extremes of the season.

Collar and cuff sets have not met
with the approval expected. Perhaps
they were introduced at the wrong
season, as they were not well adapted
to hot weather wear, having. too
heavy an effect, besides the leather
is apt to steam from  prespiration

|and this does not improve its appear-
lance. It is expected that they will be

popular for fall wear, however.
The newest styles in initials is
seen in the application of a circular
gilt metal plate on the front of the
bag, usually in one corner. The pur-
chaser’s initials or monogram is en-
graved on this by the dealer. It is
claimed that this innovation is simply
the outcome of the enameled medal-
lion effects so popular recently.
Leather covered frames with both
lock and snap fastenings and leather

handles will be the prevailing styles
in the bag world.
——_+»+.___

The button trade has not enjoyed
the phenomenal prosperity any more
than some of the other branches of
the fancy goods and notion business.
People are bound to use a certain
amount of buttons every year, and
this year has proved no exception in
this. Early in the year it was con-
sidered dubious concerning the fate
of the novelties brought over from
the other side, but later it was fully
demonstrated that the American peo-
ple want good quality and are will-
ing to pay for it. The Pompadour
buttons are perhaps the newest things
in the button line, and have’ met
with the approval of buyers and dis-
criminating people generally. These
come in all sizes.

2

Dress shields, which had a’ poor
season earlier in the year, are now
selling briskly, for buyers must make
a good showing for their fall and win-
ter trade, and the only manner in
which they can do this is to lay in
a good clean stock of desirable goods.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 39

  

 

 

DOLLS AND TOYS. |
Novelties Now in Readiness for the |
Holidays.

The idea of the “Whirl-a-mobile” |
seems to be an entire new novelty. |

These little automobiles are equipped | . i i

|in the toy line this season. It is|
|made up to resemble the shape ofa|
pipe crgan, and has good tone. It|

with wheels on wires from which |
the autos hang.
idly down a wire curved around a|
pole, and have wheels to run on the |

They run very rap-

floor when they reach the end of|
their spiral course.
four sizes to retail for 10, 25 and 50}
cents, and one to retail
for SE.

The shoo-flies in the form of do-
mestic animals made big hits when

These come in

large one

they appeared, and buyers are look-

ing for first-class goods made so|
well that they can guarantee them
for a cestam time. the time of
cheap goods like those fomerly so
popular has passed, and the toy store |

or department which is now able to

supply the demand for high-grade |
articles is the one which is doing the |

business. While many buyers ob-

ject to paying good prices for fine |
shoo-flies, still more and more of |
them are beginning to understand the
increase of the demand for fine
goods.

In the lines of odd furniture fort
children perhaps none are quite aj
eccentric as the rustic designs. These
pieces are made of wood, with the
bark on, and the designs are in the
Quaint
little settees and chairs, which look |

oddest patterns imaginable.

as if they might have come over in|
the Mayflower are among the offer- |
ings in this line.
contests |

The recent endurance

should inspire every child with the

desire to own ¢ first-class touring car |
of his own. Thanks to the ingenuity |

of the manufacturers of children’s |

automobiles, it is now possible to se- |
sure machines which are perfect min- |
iatures of the larger vehicles, and |
which are geared so that pretty re-

spectable time can be made. This |
auto-touring car is equipped with
baskets and all the modern fittings |
and, in addition, has lamps with the
flaring fronts “just like big folks.”
The seats are finely upholstered and
altogether a fine article is manufac-
tured to stand good wear and which
will please childen.

The Japanese tea house is a new
number in the domestic line, and is
made on the same lines as_ the most
approved tea houses from that pro-
gressive land of the Orient. These
houses show up well when the lit-
tle sets of Japanese furniture are
placed on the wide verandas and
the little Japanese dolls would not
go amiss, helping to carry out the
Japanese idea. Novel
this one keep a stock up-to-date, and |
oftentimes help very materially in the
sale of the staple goods. This house |
has the roof in the Japanese fashion,
which is characteristic, and as Jap-
anese goods are going so well this
season, this should prove a ready
seller.

 

houses like

A musical toy in the shape of a
street organ can be retailed for a
dollar and a half. The music resem-
bles the far-famed music of that in-

lout very cleverly.
|ed to

strument, and children should find | |

great pleasure with this toy. It has
straps to go over the shoulders and

| turns with a handle in the same man-

ner as the real article.

A pipe organ is also to be found

has keys, and in fact puts up a very

| good bluff for a toy.

|
|

|

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|

One of the most novel musical toys |
ever invented is brought out this |

[year in the form of the —Musical|

Rattle Drum.”

|

All tunes which can!

be played by an experienced drum- |

mer on any drum can be played on
this instrument without sticks with

but littl: practice by any one. A|
| child can play it and produce better
| results than most people could on an
| ordinary drum with sticks.

J Instruc-
tions are printed on each drum, as
follows: “Any tune can be played
by drawing out the cord, more or
less, and allowing it to return, fast
or slow, according to the notes de-
sired.” This should prove a winner
as a sO-cent proposition.

seven 2nd one-half inches in diameter

and decorated with the national col-

lors. The heads are of sheepskin.
Buyers in search of a distinct novelty |
| should not pass this, as it is bound

to sell for campaign and_ holiday

| trade.

The newest things that have ap-
peared in doll’s underwear are the

|union suits of knit goods just like

those made for grown-up people. It

|looks very amusing to see a little
| baby doll dressed in one of these

suits. It is claimed to be a perfectly

|new idea, and it is certainly worked |

They are intend-
retail from 50 cents to $1, and
come in seven sizes.

———_——_~» 2

It is neatly |
| gotten out in one size, metal shell, |

 

The toy season is now well under |

way and dealers are jubilant over |

the prospects.

i were a greater number of desirable

novelties upon the market than for

|/some years, and the buyers this sea-

W ood- |

son bought well and largely.
en toys have been improved and al-
tered until they would hardly be rec-
ognized as the toys of a few years
past. There has been a radical inno-
vation in the line of children’s auto-
mobiles, and the prices run anywhere
within and out of reason. Some of
the finest pieces imaginable come for
compatatively low prices, and the
buyer who passes this line will suffer
for it during tne holiday season.
—__> + > —___

The belt world has been wonder-
ing all summer what course the
styles would take this fall, and that
question is not settled as yet. One
thing is sure, and that is that fabric
belts will have a good year, and that
buyers will stock largely with them.

—_~-~- 2.

The fancy goods business is look-
ing forward to the fall season to re-
cuperate from the spring. It is con-
fidently expected that there will be
big business done, and from present
indications there is nothing to dis-
pute it.

In the first place there |

 

 

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

 

 

The Only Secrets of Selling on the
Road.

One of the misbeliefs_ that
great mischief in business is the no-
tion that a salesman is “born.” Born
he is, of course; but not born a sales-
man any more than a good penman,
or a fast runner.

does |

 

Yet I have known |

young men who had an instinctive}

knack for acquiring the sort of in-
formation a salesman makes his stock

in trade, who would assure me they |

could never sell goods because it
was not born in them.

verted several such, however, by first

I have con-!

assuring them that salesmanship isa |

matter of brains and manners,

and |

then asserting that they had neither |
brains nor manners to learn the art. |
They were thereby put on their met- |

tle, and succeeded—which was the
chief end in view.

I presume the queer notion that 2
salesman is “born” arises
popular conception of the traveling
“drummer.” In the comic papers he
is depicted as a flashily dressed per-

| ground more or less
|after that he is practically
| friends, with here
from the |

son, loud of voice, with an uncontrol- |

able guffaw; and it is commonly
thought that his ability to sell goods

rests largely on a knack for telling |

broad stories. In other words, sales-
manship is regarded as a species of
hypnotism, and the salesman per se
as one who can sell merchandise to
the shrewdest merchant even against
his needs or wishes.

Now, the “drummer” type of sales-
man may. have existed once. But he
exists no longer. The road salesman
of to-day is a different person, quite,
and by setting forth some of his
aualifications and certain principles
of his art I hope to demonstrate to
many a capable young fellow that
salesmanship of the highest order is
wholly within his abilities.

The road salesman, stripped of all
mystery, is simply a convenience to
the retail merchant—the personality
of the manufacturing or jobbing house
he represents.
he has, and the better service he can
render the retail merchant, the great-
er his success. How can he render
service to the retail haberdasher?

The more personality |

 

Why, by helping him make money— | gestions and remedies. Like the trav-
by bringing him goods that will sell |

to his trade, and knowledge that will

help sell them, and news of the trade |
that will enable the merchant to plan |

for the season six months and a year
ahead. The most valuable asset of
the road salesman is a knowledge of
his goods, both from his own stand-

| point and that of the retailer. He/|

must also know how the public re-|

gards this new article, and that, and
the other.

He must be a reader of |

trade papers, an intelligent observer |
of people in every walk of life, a
thinker who forms opinions of his

own, a man quick to see a subtle

point affecting his trade and as quick |

to put it to pratical use.

Next to knowledge the most desir- |
able quality is tact and a pleasing |

personality. And

next to that the)

greatest advantage is to representa |
good house—an alert, aggressive firm |
that gives him the very latest and |
best to sell, at right prices, and one}
so ably managed that he can place in |
| his employers all the confidence in|

the world. These three qualifications.

with an intuitive knowledge of hu-|

man nature,
man needs for success. The hardest
season he puts in on the road is the
first, when he is getting acquainted
The next season he goes. over
familiar, and
among

and there, otf

are all the road sales-|}

‘out deftly.

course, the odd merchant upon whom |

he has as yet made no impression.

The road salesman of to-day, far|
|from being the typical “drummer” of
| 5 7
our pioneer era, is extremely quiet |

in demeanor—sometimes even. shy
to outward appearances. But he is
thoroughly grounded in his trade and
goods, and his first few words with
a shrewd merchant show that he is
a man worth talking to, and from
whom

something is to be learned. |

He is never over-dressed, yet dress |!
is an important detail in his equip- |

ment. Business men have confidence

neither in the underdressed man nor |

the fop. The impression given by a

capable road salesman is not anxiety |
to sell, but anxiety to interest in his |

goods, and to maintain the good
name of his house. He bears in mind
that a first sale is easily made, and

NA

that by trick work it is possible to |

unload anything upon a_ merchant.

The second sale—the third, fourth, | *

tenth, twentieth—these are the ones |
that count in business, so his sole |
effort is to establish permanent re- |

lations.
Every retail
“troubles.”

merchant has_his |
These the salesman must |

listen to, not with assumed interest,

but with genuine desire to offer sug-

eling tinker of olden times, he sees
many men and many methods.
tailer in the town he visited yester-
day may have solved just the prob-

lem that is worrying his customer of |
He must have enthusiasm, |
and be full of his subject, yet I do}
not believe that he should be a volu- |
In fact, the talkative man |
His |

to-day.

ble talker.
usually makes a poor salesman.
conversation is wordy, diluted, un-
convincing. The man who says lit-
tle, in so far as words are concerned,

but much in purport—he it is who}
listeners. A|

wins confidence and
skillful salesman rather likes to hear
his customer talk, and can draw him

talks who learns, but he who listens.
I think the test of the road sales-

iman is not so much in the quantity |

of goods he can sell as how well he

can sell them. Goods well sold are}
those fitted to the retailer’s particu- |
move off his|
shelves quickly, creating a demand_|
salesman’s |
knowledge of people, picked up on!
his wide circuit through many towns |

lar clientele. They

for more. The road

and states, soon teaches him to pre-
scribe for the retailer, as it were, the

kind of goods that will best please!
| his customers. On the

outside
the inside of his shop, on the people

who come in, on the merchant him- |
self, are written indications that are |
very plain to the experienced trav- |

eler. He knows when to prescribe
ten-cent collars, and when to

quarter goods.

urge

These are the only secrets of sell- |

A re-|

It is not the man who}

and |

it clear that the successful salesman
has no inborn advantages. The
knowledge of goods and of the haber-
dashery trade essential to the call-
ing are lying dormant in many an
earnest retailer’s clerk. Be interested
in what you work at, and the gather-
ing of knowledge is instinctive, and
Tact is nothing in the
one’s

|
| ing on the road. I hope I have made

a pleasure.
world but confidence in
and a gentlemanly respect for others
—the will to win them over by the
quiet force of courtesy and self-pos-
session. Tact is  sincerity—mnever
flattery. It is the ability to take a
rebuff gracefully, to bear no malice,
and eventually to make one’s point.
It is good temper, not only when the
sun shines, but under discouragement.
It takes advantage of all things and
it quietly point.—Haber-
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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.

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Gripsack Brigade.

Jackson Citizen: Edwin H. Snow
has gone to Worcester, Mass.,
where he has engaged to travel for
the Case Shoe Manufacturing Co.

Lansing Republican: W. W. Arm-
strong, who for three years has held
a position in Jewett & Knapp’s dry
goods store, has accepted a position
on the road with the McGee Shirt
Co., of Jackson.

Edwin T. Gillette, who has repre-
sented the Moser Paper Co. in this
territory for the past ten years, has
transferred himself to the Pilcher-
Hamilton Co., jobbers of paper at
Chicago. He will continue to cover
the same territory as before.

Ionia Standard: A. O. Freeman,
who has been having a quiet time at
home for two months, started out
on a trade trip this morning. The
Lowell Specialty Co., in which he
principal stockholder, is
manufacturing a new fire extinguisher.

Frank J. Durling, formerly district
manager for the H-O Company, the
Force Food Co. for Michigan, Ohio,
Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee, is
now Assistant Treasurer and General
Manager of the Cadillac Grain Co.,
which handles oats, corn, hay, straw,

is 2 now

horse, dairy, poultry and breakfast
foods.

Detroit Free Press: A. B. Love,
traveling salesman, who was run

down by a runaway horse Saturday
evening, is dead at Emergency Hos-
pital. He never regained conscious-
ness. Mr. Love was 60 years of age
and for over twenty-five years he
had traveled through Michigan in
the interests of the Oliver China Co.,
of Sebring, Ohio.

Hillsdale Standard: Saturday
evening President and Mrs. J. W.
Mauck entertained the traveling men
of this city with their wives. About
fifty were present and a thoroughly
enjoyable evening was spent. One
object of the reception was to inter-
est the traveling men in the college
and urge them to use their influence
to help the college. There is no one
who can do so much for an institu-
tion like this as the “boys” and, if
they start help,
there will be a great deal of good
done for the college.

Kalamazoo Gazette: If there is
one men who more than
another dread a national campaign
it is the traveling men, the “drum-
mers.” They hear enough of political
argument and butt into enough po-
litical animosity on the road to make
them heartily sick of it long before
election day. It is not so easy to
sell goods, either, when a campaign
The distractions of politics
cut into business to a considerable
extent and it is a difficult task for
the knight of the grip to preserve
a sunny disposition through it all.
“You can put it down that I favor
a six year term for the President,”
said one Kazoo traveler. “When the
campaign is once on I fairly dread
to go out on my trips. There is con-
fusion in business, merchants plead
fear of unsettled conditions and their
orders are small, and then on top of
this are the torchlight parades and
shouting and speechmaking every-

out in earnest to

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where, to say nothing of trips on
trains with coaches full of noisy pa-
raders carrying ill-smelling torches.
I get my fill of it quickly and I am
interested in politics, too. The days
of our troubles will soon be here and
it is a great big sigh of relief that
comes from me when the curtainis
dropped on the eloquence and_ the
fireworks.”

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Successor to Grand Rapids Veneered
Door Co.

The Lindner Interior Manufactur-
ing Co. has been organized to succeed
to the plant and business of the
Grand Rapids Veneered Door Co.,
Ltd. The capital stock is $150,000,
one-half preferred and one-half com-
mon. All of the common stock is
held by Chas. A. Lindner, who retires
from the management of the Ocker
& Ford Manufacturing Co. to assume
the management of the new corpora-
tion. The holders of the preferred
stock, so far as it has been subscrib-
ed, is as follows:

Clark H. Gleason, trustee. ..$15,000
Claw Fi. Hlelhster 0g. 9,000
Charlies AL Eimdner, o 2.0.0... 7,500
Charlies T. Berkey. 205.1... 7. 3,000
Dee M. Hutchins. 900500000... 1,500
BA Stowe ae 1,500
Richard M. Schornstein...... 1,500
Peank Chickering .........-. 1,500

At the first meeting of the stock-
holders held Monday forenoon at the
Old National Bank, Clay H. Hollis-
ter, Charles A. Lindner, Clark led
Gleason, Chas. H. Berkey and Lee
M. Hutchins were elected directors.
The latter subsequently elected the
following officers:

President—Clay H. Hollister.

Vice-President—Chas. H. Berkey.

Secretary and Treasurer—Chas. A.
Lindner.

Mr. Lindner has made a remarkable
record with the Ocker & Ford Manu-
facturing Co., and it is expected that
he will repeat it with the new com-
pany.

—_—_~+++—_—_
Second Bargain Day at Manistee.
Manistee, Aug. 31—To-day has

been the second Bargain Day, and
it has been such a rousing success
as to stimulate the hopes of all con-
cerned, and convince the most skep-
tical of the feasibility of the idea. All
day River street has been crowded,
looking quite iike a fair.

The M. & N. E. excursion was most
successful, although many people
came by other routes. This illustrates
the cumulative force of the advertis-
ing employed. The country travers-
ed by the M. & N. E. has been twice
placarded. The people there have
had one opporthunity before to try
Bargain Day. The Northeastern ex-
cursion train brought in 206 passen-
gers, znd the P. M. 142. A number
came on the Dewar and many farm-
ers drove to the city.

The success of Bargain Days, and
more practically of the means em-
ployed this time to insure low excur-
sion rates, is strongly exemplified and
arrangements for the Third Bargain
Day will go forward with confidence.

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Big words are of little worth in

business.

 

 

Proposition To Disband the Associa-
tion.

Port Huron, Sept. 6—A resolution |
to disband the Merchants and Mant- |
facturers’ Association was fathered |
by L. A. McCarthar at the last regu-
lar meeting. He stated that the at-|
tendance was falling off and that |
many grocers did not dare admit that |
they were members of the Associa-
tion, on account of the feeling against |
it being so strong among customers. |

President Canham, L. B. Rice, W. |
D. Brown others made_ short
speeches opposing the motion.

“The Association,” said President
Canham, “is not in the best of condi-
tion at present. If all the members|
could be induced to come and take |
part in the meetings, and I think they
can be, we will soon be on a solid
footing again. The has
spent hundreds of dollars the |
good of the city and has been influen- |
tial in bringing several factories here. |
It would be a shame to disband, be-
cause there is a slight falling off in

and

Association

for

interest.”

After consideration, Mr. McCarthar
withdrew resolution for a few|
weeks.

Frank C. Woods, chairman of the

his

Excursion Committee, made his re-|
port cn the recent excursion. The}

sum of $638.60 was received for tick-
ets. After all expenses were paid
over $100 was left in the treasury.

A vote of thanks was extended to
the Committee for the good work
done, io the business men in the city |
who closed on the day of the excur- |
sion and to Saunders & Co. for furn-
ishing the badges.

The Comfort Produce Co., having
produce houses in different parts of
the country, is desirous of locating a |
warehouse in Port Huron. The com- |
pany contemplates buying the land |
lying between Court and Wall streets |
and Third Second streets. Its)
officers want a permit from the Com-
Council to run a branch track |
from the Grand Trunk yards across |
Court street and along the east side |
of Third street. As such a plant will |
be of much benefit to the city and
farmers, the M. & M. will send a reso-
lution to the Council asking that the

and

mon

!
company be aliowed this nei |
—__+ 2.

Portland Business Men Propose To |
Touch Elbows.

Portland, Sept. 6—Local business |
men have taken the preliminary steps |
looking to the material advancement |
of the village and have organized a|
association, whose |

duty it shall be to induce manufac- |
ing and other and various businesses |
|

|

|

|

business men’s

to locate here; a move that will no
doubt prove beneficial to Portland, |
for there are many which will locate
here with proper inducements,
it is hoped to be able to offer these |

and |

if the plans of the committee can be |
carried out.

Other places have these organiza-
tions and they have been successful |
and have accomplished much for |
their towns, any of which have not |
near the natural advantages Portland |

|
|
|

has. With the exception of railroad
facilities there are very few towns in

| Such a

| then
| check.

tages for business and as a place of
residence as our own village.

There are many industries which,
for one reason and another, are seek-
ing new locations; and with what
Portland +o offer them in the
way of water power, cheap lights and
water, low etc., there is no
reason why, with proper and united
effort, not get our
of them.

The meeting was attended by the
largest representation of
men ever called together for a simi-
lar purpose, and this in itself is a
The gathering was pre-
sided over by D. Kennedy, and F.
C. Hathaway was made Secretary.
The object of the meeting was stat-
ed as being for the advancement of
the business interests of the village,

has
taxes,

we may share

business

good sign.

and a general discussion of plans and
ways and means was had, and propo-
had

sitions of various sorts which

been tendered the village were pre-

| sented.
On motion the temporary officers
were made permanent until some

further action is taken, and also up-

cn motion the chairman was_ in-

| structed to appoint seven as an execu-
| tive committee to forward the move-

ment. Mr. Kennedy named Robert
Ramsey, G. W. Allen, Lew F. Cutch-
eon, O. E. Robinson, Dr. Whitmore,
W. D. Crane and M. J. Dehn as such

| : . i
| committee, in whose hands the furth-
|ering of the

will lie until
other arrangements are made. A
committee, consisting of E. M. Al-
len, J. L. Sutherland and G. W. Bur-
hans, io draw by-laws was appointed.

It was the sentiment of the meet-
ing that petitions be circulated among

scheme

|the taxpayers of the village asking

the village council to call a special
election to vote upon the proposition
to bond for $5,000, to be used for pub-
lic improvements, something
the charter permits.

which
There is no

| doubt it would carry, for in an indi-

rect wey it would benefit all classes.
proposition, to be carried,
however, must receive a two-thirds
vote.

the Latest
Scheme.
A new fake game has been dis-

Beware of Swindling

| covered and is being worked with
| considerable success in Michigan cit-

ies. A man walks into a store and

buys $5 to $10 worth of goods, tells

| the storekeeper to keep the goods un-
| til he calls for them at a certain date

and gives a $50 to $75 check on a
bank in payment. The check is
taken to the bank and returned mark-
ed N. G. At the date given the

| man comes for his goods, and is in-

formed that the check is not honor-
ed. He cusses the bank but pays

|for his goods, starts for the door,

walks back and asks for his

He gets it with the mer-
chant’s endorsement. In a few days
the merchant is notified by the bank

|of a check cashed bearing his en-

The

dorsement. merchant’ then

weeps.

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When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary,—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
Cc. B. Stoddard, Monroe.

Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.
Sessions for 1904.
Grand Rapids—Nov. 1 and 2.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Assocla-
tion.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice-Presidents—-W. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Charles P. Baker, St.
Johns; H. G. Spring, Unionville.

Secretary—W. H urke, Detroit.

Treasurer—E. E. Russell, Jackson.

Executive Committee—John D. Muir,
Grand Rapids; E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor;
L. A. Seitzer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal-
amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit.

Trade Interest Committee, three-year
term—J. M. Lemen, Shepherd and H.
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

How Weightman Laid the Founda-
tion of His Fortunes.

It has long been a matter of com
mon report that the bulk of the late
William Weightman’s fortune ac-
crued from the profits of Powers &
Weightman on the sale of quinine
while the civil war was in progress—
not alone because of a supposed mon-
opoly of the drug, but also because
of profitable contracts with the Fed-
eral Government and immense con-
signments purchased on behalf of the
Confederate Army. The Government
at the beginning of the war pronounc-
ed quinine contraband, so that smug-
gling was necessary to get the manu-

 

factured product over the Mason and
Dixon line.

Asked by a Public Ledger repre- |
sentative for an outline of the con-
ditions that rendered the making and
marketing of quinine so immensely
profitable at the time of the war, the
head of a long-established drug manu-
facturing house said:

“There were then only two con-
cerns in the country engaged in mak-
ing quinine from the Peruvian bark—
Powers & Weightman and Rosengar-
ten & Sons, both Philadelphia houses.
They began to manufacture the drug
about the same time—in 1823—when
the latter firm was known as Zeitler
& Rosengarten. It was not until 1820
that the French chemists, Pelletier
& Coventon, perfected a process of
separating the quinine from the other
alkalis and salts of the cinchona bark.
Previously, the medicinal benefits of
the bark had been obtained by a pro-
cess of suffusion. So, you see. Ameri-
can enterprise was quick to seize upon
an important contribution to materia
medica.

“The beginning of the civil war
found the two Philadelphia firms
without successful rivalry in the man-
ufacture of quinine. The imported
drug, in the form of crystals—what
we call quinine sulphate—carried a
heavy duty. Alcohol, costly because
of the internal revenue tax, was then
the essential solvent of the bark, so
that the duty was necessary for the
protection of American-made quinine
if it were to compete with what was
imported from other countries—prin-
cipally from Germany—where alcho-
hol was free. The unit of sale then,
as now, was an ounce, which in lots

|in the economy of trade.

 

of 100 cost $2.10 at the breaking out
of the war.

“Our Government placed a_ war
duty of Io per cent. on the bark then
brought here by way of London.
That, of course, sent the price soar-
ing. The bullish effects of a great
civil strife did the rest. The duty then
on imported quinine was 45 per cent.
So far from giving either Philadelphia
firm a blanket order, the Government
bought immense quantities abroad
for its own use. Of course there was
no duty on what was bought by the
Government, which thus got its quin-
ine far cheaper than it cost Powers
& Weightman or Rosengarten & Sons
to make it, bearing as they did the
internal revenue tax on alcohol and
the war duty on the crude bark.

“But not a grain of quinine left
either laboratory throught purchases
known to be for the Confedracy. Mr.
Powers, in exclusive charge of the
business of his firm, was an ardent
and devoted Unionist, while Adolph
G. Rosengarten, a member of his
father’s firm, enlisted with Anderson’s
Cavalry, rose to the rank of Major,
and was killed at the battle of Mur-
freesboro. That the South and the
Confedracy got their quinine is not
to be denied; but it was obtained
‘under cover,’ so to speak, by agents,
sympathizers, and speculators. The
last named must have made an im-
mense profit, for there are records of
the drug having sold as high as $15
a nounce below the line. But the
highest price in Philadelphia was
never above a figure logical and fair
The two

firms of manufacturers here had a

|monopoly, it is true; but it was a

monopoly by virtue of successful
business enterprise, and not by reason
of favoritism of any kind. Competi-
tion was open, but they were with-
out competitors.”

“Could such a condition again come
to pass?” was asked.

“Hardly. Cinchona was transplant-
ed to Java, Ceylon, and India, and is
cultivated so successfully in those
lands that the supply is now far in
excess of the demand. The war duty
on bark was lifted in 1870; in 1872 the
duty on the sulphate was reduced to
20 per cent., where it remained until
taken off entirely under the Dingley
tariff. Moreover, the scientific culti-
vation of the bark has resulted in
doubling the yield of quinine to the
pound of cinchona. The quinine of
commerce is to-day 21 cents. the
ounce—just one-tenth of the $2.10 I
quoted you at the beginning of the
war.”

“Is the process cheaper?”

“Immeasurably. Solvents other
than alcohol have been discovered.
Fused oil—the first run of alcohol—is
one; coal tar is another. The use of
these means, of course, is an immense
saving in the process. To a French

| Government experiment, entered up-

on with a view of making an artificial
quinine, we owe the discovery of the
aniline or coal tar dyes. So far, how-
ever, we continue to make quinine
from cinchona bark. You know, I
suppose, that it takes its name from
a Spanish Countess who was cured
of fever in South America by an in-

 

fusion of the bark made by Indians?”

“And the profits nowadays?”

“Small. The removal of the duty
led to a general abandonment of the
plans of many to enter into the man-
ufacture of the drug. The two Phil-
adelphia houses survive. There is
one other in all the United States—
The New York Quinine and Chemical
Company.”—Philadelphia Public Led-
ger.

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Pine Stumps Yield Oils.

A new proof of the fact that what |

is wasted one time becomes a valua-
ble material under other circum-
stances is given in the success of pine
tar plants that have been started up
near the head of Lake Superior. That
the industry is no experiment and of
no doubtful value is shown by the
fact that the Weyerhaeuser syndi-
cate, the largest lumbering concern
in the world, has taken it up, has
just bought out the plants already
established and is installing more.

All the region about the head of
Lake Superior is, or was, covered
with pine timber, and when this was
cut the stumpage remained on the
ground. Pine stumps do not rot as
do those of hardwoods and the pres-
ence of these stumps was a serious
obstacle to the spread of farming in
the region.

Now comes the pine tar company
and offers to clear a farm of all its
old stumps or to pay the owner $3
for every cord of them that he will
pull himself. For farmers, through-
out thousands of acres, this is an ines-
timable boon and it will open hun-
dreds of thousands more acres as
fast as the stumps are got out.

The company has invented or ap-
plied existing processes of destructive
distillation of wood to the pine
stumps and is securing a combined
product of great value. There is a
large amount of turpentine in these
dry stumps, also a high grade of lu-
bricating oil, tar and, finally, excel-
lent charcoal. The discovery that lu-
bricating oil was to be secured from
stumps by carrying the distilled prod-
uct to its last analysis is quite new,
and no machines for producing this
have yet been installed, but they are
to be put in at once in the company’s
first plant, a few miles south of Du-
luth.

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Formula for Zinc Ointment.

The Pharmacopoeia directs’ the
ointment of zinc oxide to be made
by sifting the bolted zinc oxide upon
the surface of the melted lard and
stirring until cold. According tothe
reports of several pharmacists, the
powdered zinc oxide is apt to form
lumps with the melted lard, which
become so distributed that they can
not be easily disintegrated. The fol-
lowing method is advised by H. A.
B. Dunning for the preparation of
the ointment: Rub the powdered
zinc oxide in a mortar with sufficient
hot melted lard to make a smooth
paste; then add the remainder of the
melted lard, and allow to stand a
short time for any lumps which may
form to settle. The upper homogene-

ous mixture is then passed off intoa
hot dish, and allowed to stand. The
lumpy portion remaining in the mor-

 

tar is rubbed to a smooth paste with
the homogeneous mixture formed
from the hot dish. Any lumps
remaining in the dish should be
treated in the same way as those in
the mortar. This procedure may be
continued until a perfectly smooth
mixture is obtained, when the whole
is stirred in the mortar until cold.
oe
The Drug Market.
Opium—Is unchanged.
Morphine—Is_ steady.
Quiinine—The expected advance did
not take place, as Amsterdam sale

went off at about the same as the

‘last one.

Alcohol—Has advanced 3c per gal-
lon.

Cantharides,
ly advancing.

Menthol—Continues to decline.

Santonine—-Has_ again ad-
vanced on account of higher prices
for crude material.

Sassafras Bark—Continues firm at
the advance.

Oil Anise—Is advancing.

Roman Chamomile Flowers—Are
scarce and have been advanced.

Coriander Seed—Is _ steadily
vansing.

Feonugreek—Is very firm and tend-
ing higher.

Canary Seed—Is very scarce and
higher.

Russian—Are steadi-

been

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Pharmacist’s Paste.

Some remarks on the making of
paste for the pharmacist’s use were
made by Professor Lowe at a recent
meeting of the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy. He recommended a
paste consisting of equal parts ot
the following: Powdered acacia, trag-
acanth and dextrin. It yielded a
paste which, although adhesive, per-
mitted the labels to be easily re-

moved. He also recommended the
flour paste, the formula for which is
given in Remington’s Practice of
Pharmacy. He stated that in his

store some trouble had been experi-
enced recently in making this paste
from some of the commercial flours,
as it would not properly thicken, and
it was found that Millbourne flour
was the most satisfactory for the
purpose.
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When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-
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Acidum Exechthitos ..... 425
Acoticum .......: S| Mrigeorenm ......... soot to * ——
Benzoicum, 75 | Gaultheria ....... .-3 00@3 19 Aconitum Nap’s R 60
— coe al 17 paar én ie oa Nap’s F =
arbolicum zs | Gossip em 50@ 60|Aloes ..-.........
Citricum ... 40 Hedeoma zai, so@ 88 50 | Aloes & Myrrh .. 60
Hydrochlor 5 | Junipera. : i dog » Arnica ..--....++. 50
Nitrocum ........ 10 | Lavendula . if Assafoetida ...... 50
Oxalicum 12@ 14|Limonis ........: 3001 10 | Atfope Belladonna 60
Phosphorium, dil. g 15| Mentha Piper ...435@450 | Auranti Cortex .. 50
| alicylicum |..... 42@ 45|Mentha Verid....5 00@5 50 | Benzoin ......... 60
Sulphuricum ..... 1%@ 5 | Morrhuae, gal. ..1 50@2 50 | Benzoin Co ...... 50
Tannicum ....... 116@120|Myrcia .......... 400@4 50 | Barosma ......... 50
Tartaricum ...... 38@ 40|Olive ............ 75@8 00 | Gantharides ..... 75
Ammonia Picis Liquida ..:. 1e@ 12|Gpglcum = -----.- 50
Aqua, 18 deg..... 4 6 | Picis Liquida gal. g > nese Seceues 75
Aqua, 20 deg..... 6@ 8|Ricina ........... 90@ 94 | cardamon Co .... 75
Carbonas ........ 13@ 15|Rosmarini ......: ae 1 00
Chloridum ....... 12@ 14|Rosae, oz ........ 5 00@6 00 aoe CO 60
niline ee — 4 =: 50
ik 200@225|Sabina 11..22117! $9@1 00 | Guchona Co 60
Meee oe ceec ya 80@100|Santal ....... 2... ——e.. 7-: 50
ee 159 50 | Sassafras ........ oe 2 -- 50
Wellow 2005.00.) 250@3 00 | Sinapis, ess, oz Sica Acutifol .. 50
e ME ioe 1 5091 oo 50
Cubebae ...p0.25 22@ 24|Thyme .........: =e 5d
Juniperus ........ 5 ¢@| Thyme, opt ...... 160] 7 _ Se ecs sass. 3 50
Xanthoxylum 30@ 35|Theobromas ....: 15@ 20 Fern Chloridum. . 35
Balsamum Potasslum aan Seeeecoae 50
Cubebae «..-p0. 20 12@ 18) Bi-Carb eninea =
st teteseeseeee 150} Bichromate ...... 13@ 15|Guiaca ammon .. =
Terabin, Canada.. 60 65 | Bromide ......... 0 46 | Ex mmon .. 60
Tolutan’ .-....-.-- 48@ 60 | Carb 2222 m4. _
ortex ik wee ae el SS
Abies, Canadian.. 18 | Cyanide Liebe 34 33 Kino” — =
Cassiae .......... Site... 2 75@2 85 | Lobelia HR =
Cinchona Flava.. 18| Potassa, Bitart pr 30 32 yrrh 50
Buonymus atro.. 30 | Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10 Nux Vomi 50
Erin Comes. - 30|Potass Nitras ... 6@ (8 oe ae =
runus Virgin Prusciste ... 22... 23@ 26/0 4 Condesa
Quillaia, gr’d..... 12 | Sulphe i pil, comphorated 50
Sassafras — = en ee een 15@ 18 Opil, deodorized .. 1 =
Ulmus ..26, "da. a... Cl wl CUCL.
al Arca Aconitam 1.0... _. 20@ 25 — Te 50
Glycyrrhiza Gla... 24@ 30|Althae .......... 30@ 383/¢ CL wees sere ees 50
Glycyrrhiza, po... 28 Sei Anehuaa ......... 10 12 re tao bee. 50
Haematox ....... 11@ 12|Arum po ........ 25 a eae 50
Haematox, is.... 18@ 14| Calamus ........ 20@ 40/ vag um ...... 60
Haematox. %8.-.- 14@ 15|Gentiana ..po 15 12@ 15|youran --:-+---- 60
Haematox, %8.... 16@ 17|Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18| yoo, Wayas 50
Ferru Hydrastis, Car... @1 75 —— Veride.. 50
Carbonate Precip. 15 | Hydrastis Can. po. @2 .a|Zingiber ......... 20
Citrate and Quinia 225 | Hellebore, Alba.. 12 15 Mi
Citrate Soluble & 6 —, BO .-.-.-.- 23 22 scellaneous
Ferrocyanidum 8. Cc; pe ....-...
Solut. pore la a6) lris plox |......- 3 40 J. Spts Nit3 30@ 36
Sulphate, com'l.. 2|Jalapa, pr ...... 25@ 30|4fther, Spts Nit4 34@ 38
Sulphate, com’l, by Maranta, \%s @ 35 aoe gr’dpo7 3 4
bbl, per cwt.. @ | Podophyilum po.. 22@ 25 ia a 40@ 50
Sulphate, pure .. 7 ae 75@1 00 Anti ni, po i 5
cies Wael. cat... -.- Sai 6 Tt oe SO
site we wine *----- 75@1 36 | Antifebrin 122. =
Anthemis .......- a i+: - = 85@ 38 | ‘Argenti Nitras, oz a3
Matricaria a 30@ 35 Sanguinari, po 24 22 Arseni — 48
ns Serpentaria ...... 65 20 cum ....... 16 12
Folla es ..... 85@ 90 | Balm Gilead buds 45@_ 50
Raroama ......... 30@ 83|Smilax. off’s H’. @ 4 Bismuth S N ....2 20@2 30
Cassia Acutifol, Satay Mo. @ 2% Calcium Chlor,is @ 9
Tinnevelly ..... 20% 25/Scillae ...... po 35 10@ 12 Calcium Chlor, %s 10
Cassia, Acutifol.. 25@ 80|Symplocarpus .... @ 2 Calcium Chlor, {s 12
Salvia’ officinalis, Valeriana Eng... @ 25 | qautharides, Rus. @1 30
¥%s and %48.... 12@ 30! vValeriana, Ger 15 29|CaPsic! Fruc’saf.. @ 20
Uva Urstl..:....- 8@ 10|Zingibera ....... ‘o 16 on eg 22
Zingiber j ........ 186@ 20 oe 45
Gumml Caryophyll woe
Acacia, 1st pkd.. @ 65 Semen case Ne 40... 25 one
Acacia, 2d pkd.. 45) Anisum ....po. 20 @ i¢| Cera Alba........ 50 55
Acacia, 3d pkd.. 35 | Apium (gravel’s). 13@ 15|Cera Flava ...... 40@ 42
Acacia, sifted sts. 381 Bed, is ....... 4 @) Crocus. ......... 1 75@1 80
Acacia, po........ 45@ 65|Carui ...... po 16 108 11}Cassia Fructus .. @ 35
Alge,; Harh....... 12 34) Cardamon ....... 70@ $0|Centraria ........ @ 10
Aloe’ ‘Cape........ 25|Coriandrum. . 10@ 12) Cetaccum ....... @ 45
Aloe, Socotrt - @ 30|Cannabis Sative. 7@ 8 on cee 60
Ammoniac ....... = 60 | Cydonium .-...... 75@100|Chloro’m, Squibbs ae 10
Assafoetida ..... 85@ 40|Chenopodium ... 5@ 80 /| Chloral Hyd" Crst.1 —_— 60
Benzoinum ....... 50@ 65|Dipterix Odorate. 80@100|Chondrus ........ 20@ 25
Catcchu, I8....... 33 Foeniculum ..... @ 18|Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Catechu, %8...... 14| Foenugreek, po .. 7@ 9/{|Cinchonid’e Germ 38@ 48
Catechu, %s...... @ @ilint |... ......... 4 Gaede |. 405@4 25
Camphorae ...... = 80 | Lini, grd bbl 4 30 6 | Corks list d p ct. 15
Euphorbium ..... A) i topeta .......... 75@ 80|Creosotum ....... 45
Galbanum ........ @100/| Pharlaris Cana’n. 9@10 Crete, ...... bbl 75 g 2
Gamboge ....po...1 25@136 | Rapa ............ 5 Creta, prep ...... @
Guaiacum ..po. 35 S36 Sinapis Alba .... 7 9|Creta, precip .... 9@ 11
— eeege po. 75c @ é0 Sinapis Nigra .... 9 10 Creta, Been .... g
Me eee eos ae roces ._.........
= te po. ow Cudheear .......... — BY
pil “8 09 343 |Frumenti W D....200@260| Cupri Sulph 6
Cri gcceeeee hg 65|Frumenti ........ 125@160| Dextrine ........ 70 10
Shellac, bleached io 79 | Juniperis Co O T.166@2 00| wther Sulph ...... 18@ 92
Tragacanth ..... 70@1 00 Juniperis Co ....175@350| Bmery, all Nos.. 8
H Saccharum NE ..190@210| Bmery, po
erba Spt Vini Galli ...175@6 50| Brgota .....po 90 .
———— oz = = Vini Oporto | 1 25@2 00 Fiche aaa = ae =
a oz Pp cs Wh soe
Lobelia oe ok 25 Wen Ale ......-.. E202 CC (Gana oo: @ 23
Majorum ..oz pk 28 Sponges Gambler ......... s@ 93
Mentha Plp oz pk 23 | Florida sheeps’ wl Gelatin, Cooper .. @ 60
Mentha Vir oz pk 25| carriage ....... 250@2 75 | Gelatin, French .. 35@ 60
Ree oz pk 39 | Nassau sheeps’ wl Glassware, fit box 75 & 6
Tanacetum V..... $2| carriage ....... 2 50@2 75 | Less than box
Thymus 7 .0z pk 25 | Velvet extra shps’ Glue, brown ...... ae 13
Magnesia wool, carriage .. @150 Glue, white .....: 15@ 25
Calcined, Pat 65@ 60 | Extra yellow shps’ Glycerina. .......16 @ 20
Carbonate, Pat... 18@ 20| , Wool, carriage . @1 25 Grana Paradisi .. g 25
Carbonate K-M.. 18@ 20|Grass_ sheeps’ wl, ee ge 25@ 55
Carbonate Ee 18@ 20 Carriage <...... @1 00 Hydrarg Ch Mt. g 95
sna pA Hard, slate use... @100|Hydrarg Ch Cor . 90
Oleum Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ox Ru’m =  @105
Absinthium ..... 3 00@3 25 i Hydrarg Ammo’l 1
Slate use !..... @1 40 s : 115
Amygdalae, Dulce. 50@ 60 Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
—_ dalae Ama..8 00@8 25 Syrups Hydrargyrum . 15
a. 175@185| Acacia .......... @ 50 — lia, Am. 90@1 00
pe Cortex ..220@2 40 | Auranti Cortex @ SO \indizo ...-....... 15@1 00
Bergamii ........ 2 85@3 25|Zingiber ......... 50 fodide, Resubi ..3 85@4 00
Cafiputt ..-...... 110@116 | Ipecac_........... 60 | Iodof eeesoncn 410@4 20
Caryophylli ...... 150@160|Ferri Iod ........ 50 prog oe @ 50
Come wee 35@ 70|Rhei Arom ...... @ 60/| Lycopodium ..... 85@ 90
Chenopadii he @2 Smilax Offi’s .... 50@ 60|Macis ........... 65@ 75
Cinnamonii ......110@120 | Senega .......... 86; Liquor Arsen et
Citronella .. 40@ 46 |Scillae ........... 50| Hydrarg Iod @ 25
Conium Mac 80 90 | Scillae Co ....... 50 | Liq Potass Arsinit 10@ 12
Copaiba .... 115@1 26 | Tolutan ......... $ 50 | Magnesia, Sulph.. 2 3
Cubebae 22.22.:11180@1 88 | Prunus virg ".... bo | Magnesia, Sul bbl -@ 1%

 

 

 

 

Mannia, SF. W6@ Si Sapo. M .......... “— 12} Lard, extra - W@ 80
Menthal ........ 4 50@4 60 = otha ice. ’ 206 = —_. ge 1...... = 65
5 e ure. uinseed, pure raw 41
eee AS Singtel @ 18| Linseed, boiled .. 45@ 48
Sceenan al Q “7 ae 60 | Sinapis, opt ..... @ 30|Neatsfoot. wstr.. 65@ 70
= -235@ Snuff, Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine.. 60@ 65
Moschus Canton . 40 De Voes 41
inn, we t OO Bla Shwe 8 a Paints bb! L
Nux Vomica.po 15 10 | Soda, Boras 9 11 | Red Venetian....1% 2 @8
Os Hepa ..-..... 25@ 28) Soda. Boras, po.. s li Ochre, yel Mars 1%2 @4
Pepsin Saac, H & Soda et Pot’s Tart 28@ 30 | Ochre. yel Ber ..1% 2 @%
Pe Ce ......_. @100| Soda. Carb ...... 1%@ 2 Putty, commer’l.2% 24%@3
Picis Liq NN % Soda, Bi-Carb ... 3@ 65/|Putty, strictly pr.2% 2%@3
gal doz ........ @2 00 | soda’ Ash Bae 8%@ 4 Vermillion, Prime
Picis Lig, ats. ... @1 00 | soda’ Sulphas ... @ 2 American ...... E 15
Picis Liq, pints. @ 85 Spts, Cologne : @2 60 Vermillion, Eng.. 70 75
Pil ae -po 80 @ 650 Spts. Ether Co 50@ 55 Green, Paris .... 14@ 18
Piper Nigra .po 22 @ 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom 2 00 | Green, Peninsular oun 16
Piper Alba ..po 35 @ 30 Spts Vini Rect bbl e bead rod ........ @ 7
Pisa Borgen ...... @ Spts. Vi'i Rect % b @ Lead, white ..... seo 7
Plumbi Acet ..... 10@ 12 Spts. Vii R’t 10 gl @ Whiting, white S’n @ 90
Pulvis Ip’c et Opii.1 30@1 50 Spts. Vii R't 5 gal @ Whiting, Gilders.’ @ %5
Pyrethrum, bxs H Strychnia, Crystal 90@1 15 White, Paris, Am’r @1 25
&FPDCo. dou.. @ 75 Sulphur ‘Sub! oe %@ 4 Whit’g, Paris, Eng
Pyrethrum, pv .. 25@ 30 Sulphur, Roll .... 2%@ 3% Ce 2.405. -. @1 40
Quassiae . ~2@ 10 Tamarinds et 8@ 10 Universal Prep’d.110@1 20
Quina, SP & W. 23@ 33|erebenth Venice 28 30 Varnish
Quina, S Ger.. 93 ¢0) | 23) Faw carecariag arnishes
Quima, NY . cag Seiwa oe No. 1 Turp Coach. 1 = 20
Rubia’ Tinctorum. 1 @ = Zinci Sulph nese) ae 7@ 8 Mintra Ture ..-.... 60@1 70
Saecmsram tas . 226 2) [Ud |Goseh Body .-..- 2 75@3 00
ee 4 a F a Oils No. 1 Turp Furn.1 00@1 10
Sanguis Drac’s. 40@ 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar..155@1 60
Sapo We 4... 12@ 14| Whale, winter 70@ 70, Jap Dryer No 1 T a

 

     
   
  
  
  
 
  
 
 
    
   

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and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia 00 — ~~ —— Ceccuee sccuuee =
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at “~ = Lem Ra Lie Pelee oa
- : .- Marshmallow | Bamboo, » Oe Bie
market prices at date of purchase. oe --1 65 | Marshmallow Cream..16 | Bamboo, 16 ft., or dz. 65
“ so a oan 198 ee wainut. . |Bamboo, 18 ft., pr dz. 86
oO. eac ong. Mar MG icc ee oe |
ADVANCED DECLINED No. 19, each 100 ft long.21°| Malaga ...-....s--- 19. | FLAVORING EXTRACTS
' Mich Coco Fs’d honey. | Foote & Jenks
ui os | Mie Biecelt .......... 8 | Coleman's an, tam.
| Pacorhnil eee ie ees 41 ee oe Honey ..12_ | 90g. Panel oe 2 3 %
a. a ixe oe (Sac. ‘Taner 26.65.
' Colonial, is ae 35 Molasses Cakes, Sclo’d 8
Ss. No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 i 50
— TAB verre eee 33 Moms Jelly Bar......-. 1 Jennings
H = Sa aa alia id 45 Muskegon Branch, Iced -
Ven Hi eee 43 | Newton ............-. __ Terpeneless Lo
sania] ecaemienag polled Oatmeal Crackers 5 No. 2 D. C. pr
— ae 7 fete = Orange Slice ......... 16 i No. 4 D. E Dr as
oe earee Gem .......5. \No. € D. C. pr iL
Index to Markets j | 2 Van Houten, is seeeeee = Penny Assorted Cakes. : Taper D. C. pr dz a
By Columns AXLE GREASE Pineapple ee We woe es Oe eee pee Mexican Vanilla ....
| pple Honey No. 2 D. C. pr dz 1 20
gro | ia... 126@2 75 | Wilbur, Ws 2.2.0.2... el Gene Mone le mine co.
wore, See eee ...... 21... | : a v0. - & sees
Col | Castor Oil 2212212: 55 —=—=_ , °° = | er cour ane & 2 ae
Deen ......... 50 426 | Fair 79 |Dunham’s 4s ...... 6 ip hatton, cee aper D. C. pr :
eee -— oi go |Dunham’s %s & \s 26% retzelettes, mch. a |
hiss iain . | nin ae Sebi pee 77 10¢|Dunham’s &s ...... eee lee CULATION ow
ee eee —_ “os Gallon rn 2 25 | ‘Bulle. 8 %S ...--- = Scotch Cookies ...... = Knox’s Sparkling, gro.14 00
: olumbia_ Bran aspl vader) | cesium pin ong Snawdrops | .......... |Knox’s Acidu’d., doz. 1 20
Bath Brick : 1 2Ib. can a 1 20 a ian Cavi COCOA SHELLS a — Tope si : caer Acidu’d, gro .14 00
tate eceeees alana dagig ussian Cavler | 20 Th. bags .........-. 2% | Sugar Cakes, scallope Ontere |... ec.
ae 1 | 3%. — Gok. .-.+ 2 001% Oi. cams... 375 | Less onuuaty es 3 Sugar Squares a Pienneutis Sok 1 20
— been reer es are 4 cae H B re a. aoe eee oe “ | Pound packages ...... 4 np | Melee... ce ecacn i Bo
ieee Seen . le el Salmon COFFEE Urcaum .....-. Cox's, i = pr IG |
Cc BROOMS Col’a River, tails. @1 75 | Rio Vienna Crimp op , oe a
eetectioms ...........: aie 2 Carpe ........ 2 75 | Col’a River, flats.1 5@1 ea i, css 11% | Vanilla Wafer GRAIN BAGS
eee Ai No. 2 Carpet .......... See Hed Alsska _. 2.6.0: ea 13 Waverly ..... | Amoskeag, 100 in b’e. 19
Canned Goods ........ Sie. 2 Cree ow 215 | Pink Alaska .. @ 9% | Migs oo ee ania |; Amoskeag, less than b. 19%
Carbon Oils ..... ec Zi No. 4 Carpet .......... 17 ardines meee Co 18 Cream Tartar. | GRAINS AND FLOUR
toup eee. Lolo ee eee ee cs 240) Domestic, %s .. 3K@ 3% | nl Parrels or drums .. 29 | Wheat
;}Common Whisk 85 | Domestic Santos Boxes
ecw ewcescccoscos . ’ seeeee —_ sot ws re eee eae : Old Wheat. f
Ponies Gum 2 | Fancy oe 1 20 | Domestic, Must’d.. 6@ 9 | a, 13%, | Square cans. ...-.. No ft Whe oo. 05
icory Wesehouis o.oo 00 | California, %s ... 11@14} Cc Deke Stee ee eee a | Pancy, caddies. | 2000... eS eee 1 05
Choeolate —— California, %s ... weit | eo os o Te ee ae DRIED FRUITS |
Clothes Lines French, 4S ....... ee ee Apples Winter Wheat Flour
sc EN Solid Back % ‘in Stal 75 | French, %s ...... 18@28 | Peaberry ....-.+ +--+ Sunded 0 oll. toeet Mens
Cocoanut son Hack, if in ..... 95 mps Maracalbo Evaporated ..... HOM Ve en omen i 6 40
soon Shells Pointed Ends seteee 85 oo einer 0@1 40 [Patr, eet meaaondine tery! = Coltfornta Prencs, 3% | Second Patents. .......6 00
steteees uccotas oe 100-125 - _ boxes. Straqehe. |... Se
} le No. Mate | Mexican 90-100 25 th_bxs.. @ 4 ot wa 5 40
No. 2 Good . | Cees ics cece cee 16% 20-90 25 Ib. bxs. 4% Cl . 00
No. 1 ee 19 ul : nee tm es :
Dried Fruits Guatemala 60-70 251m. boxes. 3 . ies S bo
No. 8 | Choice ...-.ccersee-s- 15 a 2 on gy | buckwheat. ....-....-.§ 0
No 7 | a 50-60 . o : 4 eC 3 50
As in (bo 170 [African os seseeeees 2 [3 sta.” Ss |g Stblect_ to usual cash
oe es 90 | Fancy an... Ve less in b cases | discount.
Fish and Oysters ...... 10 BUTTER COLOR Be 25 lis ae nd | Flour in bbls., 25¢ per
Si mans el - Ree e8 els ae ” lee on oo additional.
i waa St core W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size.2 00 Mocha Currants | Worden | Grocer Co.’s Brand
y h + oer e 5 CANDLES CARBON OILS hain ee 21 Imp’d. 11D Cusaker, paper, ......2
Fres ae 11 | Electric Light, 8s - 9% Barrels Package Imported bunk ‘ 6M = Quaker, cloth. "... 1.1118 70
dentate aati Electric Light, 16 10° | Perfection ...... 12%
Paraffine, 6s 9 | Water White 12 ee Te i ee o | pee ee ..
cocconseens eee Awake = | : eceece | ilisburv’s ‘ _ oe ..6 5
a ees 5 Parafine, sctsebigpenerses ae ae wen. Oisxs | | eee 5.858 13 00 | Orange ae ----s 18 | Pillsbury’s best, 4s. 8 20
a —_ ene = : CANNED GOODS Cylinder iat @34 |ison” seen rh a Leute: kaa $ or 190) Pilisbury's Best, %s. ..6 1
Se i les ,| Engine .......... 6 @22. | McLauahlin’s XXXxX - |Qondon Layers 3cr 1 = | Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s
.- Standards: Se 2 | ack. water .. 3 OME | Mc! cagkiin’s XXXX sold | Cluster 4 crown. . | Brand :
eee 5 |=. Standards ..2 00@2 - CATSUP 'to retailers only. Mail 4 Loose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5% | Wingold, “4s. ........ 7
Hides and Pelts ...... 10 g5 | Columbia, 25 pts...... 450 orders direct to | Loose Muscatels, 3 cr.. | Wingold, 4s. ........ ; 5
Standards ee Columbia, 25 4%pts....2 _ |McLaughlin & Co., “ont | | = en * or ty Wingold, %s. 1.1.0.1) 6 40
Snider’s quarts ....... 3 25 | | L. M. Seeded, --T%4@T%
eS 5 ed iidiey ane 808s Snider’s sae LEE : 4 [eae 1. M. Seeded. %I. 54 O° Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand
ace Snider’s % pints ..... | Extract | Sultanas, bu eee €So eee
eee kee. [20@1 15 Ceresaia, 4s. .._.....-6 20
Jelly 5 Wax. oe ee en 1301 25 Acme — @ 9% | Holland. aoe a 18 | | a Goons’ | Ceresota, WBS. verre eee 6 30
eee eee ee wim 4 @p| Pecttess._.------- @10% | Hummels foll, % sro. 85 | SE Beans | Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
5 Brook Trou Giste OY 222 Qiby, | Hummel’s tin, % gro.1 48 | esa pid. 1.2 0062 av | Laurel. es & is paper.6 60
— oa ee Ss 190|/imblem ........ @ 9%| CRACKERS hoon ae. ae 2. ee 6 70
ae x oe eee eo @ | | Farina e rel. Ss chk a > 8
— ao s 1 a 100@1 = Fades cece be cuescs @ 9 ros: Oe . 24 lib. packages. 7, 76) Laurel, %s a -++-6 80
Meat Extracts ........ & Jersey, ...-+++++- @10% | Bulk, per 100 Ibs. .....3 00 a
Clam Boutiton a @10% | Butter Hominy a 2 90
ee rahe nN : Burnham's, i Pt...... i 92 — ae @10 | Seymour Butters ..... 6 Flake, 50 th. sack ....1 00 | Golden Granulated. ...3 00
gee reine canst lla ae Str imeeee coc. @11 |N Y Butters ......... one Se ee eee
N oe ee ee Cee i - | aan ge eee : Pearl, 100 Tb. a 25 = 1 Gt Gas BRdd Bcreenaaee 00
ee eee ee il Seetem ...... |Family Butters ...... Maccaroni an ermicelll | 2: ;
_ /. Bad, Standards.-.1 3001 §0| Lfmburgs oo...) Gu | Bc Sone | ama BB eee ig $a” Smt 3 8
oi iat at red la neapple ...... ams ....... 54. ted. a ca = ag o-
ee 6 i Corn Swiss, Pp omestic ct mm 6Seteee 8 ceuscsilh Pearl lh eee ees piacere oe
_. ee eee ee ‘ = Swiss, imported . 23 Sa ek Fiakes ...... 13 ioe 2 60| winter wheat mid’ngs23 00
P ee oc er eereeee HEWING GUM | Oyster eee 2 5 ee aaa cc ie 21 00
Pi eg Taney ..--..... 2.2... 150| American Flag Spruce. 4 Empi 3 50 | oe
eile see eecceserccsccees > Round Oysters -....... 6 eee
Pickles .-......----+++++ 6) sur E —s _ 22 —— _— eng — | Square Oysters ...... 6 Peas i sis Oats a1,
ur Mxtra Mine........ 22| Black Jack ..........- . iin Use 33¥4
Playing Paris oc... : Extra salad 19 cee , oe a 60 | | pemat oe --evecsnon tame = SS = e ei
- 2 i Ben Sen ...........;.-, 55| gst ‘Faring wo... nee Sl cee
Provisions 2.0.20.0.. ®| Moyen": 221) 11|Sen Sen Breath Per’: 100 | | Extra Farina % | Split, ae eons Se 58
8 Stand.  anceicag 90 Sugar Loaf ........... cet | a BP as —_ 10 Rolled Avenna bDbis...5 00 | Hay
eee i 6 NGATG «1... seeeeeeee Veretee (ool. nimals .....-.+.++++- 0 Steel Cut, 100Ib. sacks 2 70 | No. 1 timothy car lots.10 60
aicaites “ CHICORY a. [_ oo a, 75 No. 1 timothy ton lots.12 50
Salad Dressing ........ 7 Lobster ce Bulk ....----+ eee eee eee 5 | Belle Hose .........-.. Monarch, 10tb. sacks.. 2 33 HERBS
Saleratus seuss C1 eer. 2D RED were eeeeeeeeeeeeees Tl Bent’s Water ....---- 36 | Quaker, cases -....... 10 | sage cay 1b
ng ei Hint ia oe . oo ica once ce £ Butter Thin .......... 18 Sago | ss sec ene
Soda ........... : — Se a ag eee 2c 7 | Chocolate Drops 16 Most tudinal... Mm io 8 prpasee tess oo 3
eee beet eee icnie Talls. , ee German, sacks 3% | Laurel Leaves .......
ee ewe a 7 Schener’s _...... (Gene War :...........@ | Ge steseecs espe
Set — Se wpicaiiss fine Te ..<:: 180 CHOCOLATE | | Gococanut Taffy ...... 12 |German, broken pkg . 4 | Senna Leaves 7
7 ' o| . Walter Baker & Co.’s |Cinnamon Bar ........ 9 Tapioca | dade © oe ae
- rman Sweet ....... 23 | Goffee Cake, N. B. C.. 10 | Flake, 110%. sacks .... 4% | Y@dTaS, & sa. 65
Premem .... 2... 31) Tood _... ¥0 Pearl, 130%. sacks ..3%| 5- » 2 3, . -°
2 41 Coffee Cake, Ic y
8 ees ent 35 | Cocoanut Macaroons .. 18 Pearl, 24 a i aa nee =r
sere ee er rere one | Cracknels sete eee eeeee : . . -
: Oe ee io a 0 | Cracked, bulk ........ 8K ISD. pails eeeeeeses BS
8 a a Dainty .... = Te —. ae 20%. patie ......, es
sa Carters .... 6) 2c.
. 60 ft, 3 thread, extra..10@| Dixie Cookie ......... 8 *™ to t mm --.......... 6 a a oe 80
72 ft, 3 thread, extra ..140) Fluted Cocoanut ...... 10 i te S & ..0o 7 aa 23
_ = : — — --1 : | Frosted a ee : 1% 73 -.- eee eee - ae 14
60 ft. 6 thread, extra ..1 29 | Gi ie Cees oe ete 1 ..... 6...
72 ft, 6 thread, extra .. | Gaenee Snaps, N B C7 CN 15 | Root .......+--seeeeeee 1
Jute |Grandma Sandwich .. 10 3 in 30 LY&
80 ft. 75 | Graham Crackers .... 8 Condensed, 2 dz ...... 1 60
: . .. “ant Honey — Iced... a a L ———- So... 2 3 00
90 ft. --105 | Honey Jumbles ...... co. &,
eo 150 | Iced Happy Family ...11 | No. 3. aon aera o
.... Cotton wae |Iced Honey Crumpet .10 | No. 4, Lg Peptrnsencl nh) lon ogee 8 36
: St EEE or erials -- No. 5, : Liebig’s, Getenen, 208.3 15
Wrapping Paper ....... 1@| Barly June ........ 90@1 60 | 60 ft. ........... 1 35 iana_ Belle ......... 5 No. & 2 | Liebie’s, Chicago, (ons 50
Eariy J fatted 1 DO UE bons eee kee hte ne 5 60 Jerseyet Lunch . . No. 7, 1 455
y y June %¢ i ngers 12 No. 8 18 | Liebig’s, imported, 2 oz.
Yeast Cake ........... 10 ' giums ums ane ‘Windsor a oof Fingers sical -s Liebig’s, imported. 402.8 50

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ae 4 50 | L a Ibs. i John 0 box ao i | 45
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Gueen, pints 02000 80 oe ids” Ms *. aiierieat a oe 5 c — i Rouna Clothes Pins "2 65 | Tambo. Pelts
Stufted, ok cere 2 35 | Gran AL SO 7 Di Family. br — ine Cut te ptt min Lamb sees

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Stuffed 7 gate eae : 50 Granulated, bbls Jap R D’ —< aes 4 08 psutal Beers | Humpt Egg Cr one _. 5s ae oo 15@1 5
futled, § om 2000000) | Ee a ic * |e a edsoct | uae ae Rod ys Bumper” ae e:
ean aa 1 | VT eae | ee es.1 0 hit mperial . 80 egr 10Ib. ails 0. 2c plet ae i"
Clay PIPES = Ib. kegs .. Sita ae oo | ee a am as a oo ee @

_ PE ++:23 egs .... 73(S a ao cl 75 | Prai a... ils i a 0; Wa Weel” @ 4%
lay, TD. f . 20 95 es, tate 10 Eri ae $4 Cork mel oe i 18 Washed, fine» @ 3%

oe . ull count 70 amon vberry Gc a et w Rose -e+....0. 41 | Cc ined. in ; Inwas} ” medium ..

oe un Via dc Lau Oval -....0.+. 2 85 a of hy ae | Cork li ca. Unw: shed. fi eee
ecto ' 65 Cases, 2 Tab rystal Big ae Bros. a 45 iger wr oe | | Gee ee 10 4, oe 65 ashed, = iis @25
Ba a ” Barrels, 100: a Be as. cE oo = en = co bd. 1121023

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H. co Lo ' Tb. ags a arsel Par 100; i o Ky Oe | | No. pate oo Stand: and
= es ee on giage BG Ea B - rede. oa ae r. 100 pk. 00 dean ae 31 |No: 2 cme spring .. 90 oe ’

rrels, 2 ,200 co ene 39 utter -2 75 Ivory, De Gael 4 00 Batt atha bn “35 12tb pat. br ot aaa NE 35 | ec — ai Pails
on BLAYING OR a 0 tb. bulk ‘Wors, olga bt Ameria Bal =| Sion mee eal 2 Suangang eo its

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ae = boat =, 85 ee 85 | cosa Pons fe * Spear Head 7 ome | Sheer cee “++ 90 xtra Ht “29
No. 7 Spec Sy orn 20 ‘tees Shal an Old ~Wrisiey b SS 5 | Jol bby a sar 14 oat ae i= in. Seal : 3oston gt a a ases
No. 98, Sr oa meledi | gg fae 7 noe —* — 2-3 oz. | 3-wire, Cabl a Hin un 1 60 Olde Time Su ease eka 7
No. 308. oe a 1 60 Bri oy =H ppepnnad 4 as ea ote “44 | Cedar, a | las 30 Ib. me Sus ce

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4s POTAS ane feng — te ee a $2 Sapolio, coaae kee So 2 "ite ppseians: Lone = ae +3 = | Groe “Mixed 12
Babbitt’ cans H 5 ton me 10-2 Ibs 3 5 | Sapoli , half lots ns. H ot asia 4 |Ha aa 2 25 CC ers Cand
ee a i in case o ags, 10-28 Ibs 2 00 | Sapolio. single box Pa Honey. Dip “Evwist “60 tawedi = 2 70 | Zompetition va... :

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ess arrel Ss ount. ts, 6 a aes | ne ce A snl Ee Pe 5/\R mon My
Buck! gat. ed Pork oe barr + ee a oe ak | wiet | | | Mouse, seh a i -1 50 a ae
Fat ERE caso et ance _ po barrel lots, 7 | Col = veseeees 5% | Sw at oe | Mouse, wood. Ph ‘de eae a oe
<< eae 14 50 ve! prices ar % per Red. Lette ch G aa oking P | Mouse wood, & — Kinderg
Sone Ha 14 5¢ 100 omm e ©. | fe re Ee Noe |Rat, v tin, § poles | | 2; Bon T art
— 14 30 60 3Ib. sa sepia O. B.| ee so ae BE wees esecsecees ag | Rt ces lly —— i . Fret ee ee
ean ceetesceseses 1 50 | 2 dIb cks es sp coee 0 B rpath y . «es spri a. s . O;s nch C Hee
Brie cverecwer nn 8 00 28 101d hig ICES -- 90 amboo,, Sa oe ae +» 65 ve Cream... 8%

ee Tae ee (sacks ..0000.. go | Alls Who x se ms foe See De ae bicaae 8%
Belli a on meus 16 00 28 tb. —— So : 80 a a le Spices LX = > ea 26 | reste Standard, Co ae Hand made ia Hau 2
Ss lies . i enaie | } . sack Lea 9 | Cassie ae: ton 4, 16 ++ 25 i6-in.. tand: 7 rea aa
xt eres ma" ' Rc escns 20 | Cassia, (China in mats: 1 pe gl ope von. 27 | 20-in. ae 74 a re aa -: ie

xtra se 56 Wa i C: sia, iton mats 2 Fla. Bloc 1 in. C ndard — ei. F H y—in , oe

lies (oe seesee. 916 | tb. dai rsaw assia Batavi oe 12 oan i | 18-in , Cable , No 7 00 Gyps oreho Palls

Hams shorts 3 10% 28 Ib. d ry ind Cassia, Saigo ia, bund. 16 | 7 tees | 16-in., Cable, No. 1 "5 00 | Oe y He und D
 amnage-r ge Meats | | airy in =——— ; (Cloves, Saigon, ae oe Duke a Loe 1 Gable, —: --7 50 ude ba ae rom 2e
Hams, 14 Ib. average. 5 Sol bags oc mbo in rolls. 49 | D Dried... i lo. 2 Fibre , No. 3 16 50 | £e ze Squ s sreseesae
ae 16 i age. .12 56 Ib. 8 ar Rock go | Mace wae S. 5d men Mixture crete i iNo. 3 Mee ‘is 66 eae conan ce 12
Sk s, 20 av i a sacks Naoee aes 2: yrtle Jame cress eBd Fibre ........0. ais gared eee 1
fiom a Hocvan ae age. .12 moomegommon | Wecteee 75 i iN a = Jum ¥ Navy ee «39 oe wa Co 9 re aoe Rima wegy : ;
fo psa ge-aie prage.1 zranul Com ae 1egs gas y Yum um, 1 2.37 ae lee ze Gl Boseda|| 8 el eanuts ....
shoulders, “sal eget LY Me a — Be tmegs, 105-10 oo 55 til age i 2-3 ge sion liebe _. ards 65 — ab Kisses cae
noe 8. (N. Y. sets. “13% n fine. ic... | Po Si Pero la it #5 Corn ie th. he: +39 | Si uble i et 2 Lozenges, Goodie gs =
California Ha jut) 4 ae esa 89 oo singapore “ei * Corn Cake “Sie ts 3. |r — eeeeeread 50 Lozenges, —" ae
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Mince a a 18 Small Whole sees oa eo in Buik 17) foun 3% om. x | Double D Queen ee .= Champion Chocolat 13
c ao sd... _* Pollock or bricks. o* Gane Batavia ....... 1 | Air —y — Ha aoe a oo nF spate oe eaate cs
commen earns i NBL eks. 7} 5% oa a a 16 | Cant a Ipepanamon lex sees oe | ee ops .. Drops.
Pure na. ee 010 Gi ger, Zanziba a 2g | Cou a a “Ta en 3 00 Imperiz oe tr 8
= tb. - oo | seri H @ 3% pel C oe a 48 male Be ances. ‘s 142; gre 3 9 Ital. ae Sees eee 9
50 Ib Gia advance 6 | Chunk nr ase” deni 22020 23 Good | ¥ Club ......38- = \t in. .. Clean a | ae = Sout 9
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10 pails advan : & pee Te 4% Sean 95 | er F oe | me 65 ses C Coos Ss.

5 DP. palis: ‘advance. 4 | Whi E — +15 Pepper, Singapore big: 65 Oe occas pg - in. uo Bocce 1 85 Golden | Chews, +aaaaeee
3 tb. pails: acvanee, % ee He iolland | coe” prog Bie. ig|C ii 23 | = in. oe owls ---2 30 len Waflles . 5Ib.

. Pails: advance, % a Hoop, bbis§ 25 | Sage Cayent “a. = 2 WINE #igea Butter 2.02.2. ‘ Fancy— ose la 12
— a i hog hite hoop. vabblt a te a =a ee: - 28) beg Aa 19 in. teteer seeeeeeeed = iia : Sib. See
Liver e.2scs0: ied [Norwegian mehs gee oe oe 20 fyemp, ply: ee | Assorted 5 or ae Chovol: mint Drops —
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a 6 | se Slee YS 3b. pe ckages Gloss ool, a aL ny 14 WR 15-17_ 17 ie 15 ao hoc. Dr c -60
- 71, caled 00 Ths se... 3 | 6Ib. ackages | ee | m gti: 13 Com APPI 19 2 35] Tile Choe rops -- -60
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E ish Nea 3% No. 1, 10 Trout 18 ike | boxe ewe bi ere wl ite Wi No. e wanda gas 1 | hozer -peeiineseig goa,
oo aaa 6% No. 1, 00 Ibs 20 11 Saacma i S .3@3 nt ae ne, 40 g alg yo a colore 28 a cae me
soneless ess % No. 1 oa BO yes aoe a. .| Gan ae eee = Rance | eeernis a
Rump ‘a re 10 i No 7 = ths a 7 50 1Ib. ib ce orn 3 i Poe = & B gr.11 | | Wax Bo 7 teteeee i ; Imperials printed |... 56

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1s TER ae 90 SY 4 Ww er, bin Hi |v : Bu sho Mol: ag ttt 55
a? ee. Mackerel ig Barrels UPS ir » Washing Wer vax Butter, full eount iy Hand i tei 2

. : s. | 41¢ . G nd i Y roll nt? ‘ree Bat ae

— - s 1 Pog lanl i | 04 f bar ! old B Flak WDE Ma EAS s 0 ie Cr’ms..804 55

‘ . 40 Is. wees 12 00} on C barrels eee 2 | Gold i Se . R | Magic. 34 T CA ie | and Butto s..80 -
a rere es oe Sunii oz. KE Sst Winterere @90
ts 8 ang ie 5 30/5 Ib ca i ao in eae! 3 Gold TiC oe s-oeeee es 3 75. | oo ight, ee rin ntergre Pe
i, pba. 40 1 ee ae 50 yp ane ope 160 Kirkoline, 2a ange. 4 28 Feast TO 3 dos. o+:+- 115 | a - a 65

is... tbs 1 Ds. a 6 | cans 2 n case eC... arlin 24 ee 50 reast Foam ae 00 | ‘im aaa 6

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oo SNE ! See ne : it ea aay i m, oz... 5 3 pte ces

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cere N | seeteeteeerens 6|N =2lhunaa u is i: CT ee e A

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solid, day. 5 ; ie e530, Sundried == p= oe “3 70 | Black Witenes Dandy Pte —

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Corned beet, —, Gomes ie — 44 | Beeaies. a AE = | —_ 0 _ WICKING -+208 78 | an ges ween 1 @9 156 a 3 Britters., 1005" 5
Roas' be > : ic ry. s Ce allie IR ar, ch m oe | a. 1 r gr C Fn efish erri: se 9@1 | Pop C aek 100: 50

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tted beet 14.22. -1 50 | Ca ay -- A see. 15 | Bas r, fa hen 4 ‘2. 2 sees | Bo eee | @ 5 ae ne 0
— 4 $0 | Celery Migighar : “Facket oes No. 3 per gross. lie ifed “Lobste se H@12 a t 3
Devilea ham %s 80 Mixed’ aie 100 | NDS fred, ‘choice. = | ae vee BO “Hadaock — 23 | Seon Whole

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Sereeni a . ie Cuttle le ceeeeetteess sl | ao Ean “saan 11 | ae a sia Agee —- st ' @ 7 ae a ow ..14 sft
aan sre lg - Bone § | Moyune, unpowder @i4 | pli et pile aS oe hite as ON eles =
See to... \H ee : po came ‘medium | Spl nt, large .. i 2 Ma fives cada @1 Cs Inuts, soft : nibh
Fa ice Japan ---. Oats = : ACKING | Pingsue: i -30 ‘Splint, large wees... 32 ackerel_ Salmonis @ des | Soa ee soft shelled,

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Sener Ta. lana ‘hd. 4% | Bixby's Koval mail od 38 | Pingsuey. ——— 40 Willow Giotnes ct OYSTERS (Bis | Pecans. ate, taney <I
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gels | Maceaber, bladders ce Ji aise” of cane [es ea cocoanut per bi
se Ray + 21 neeceneeens | . Si ae ee cae es | HI Beoteee ards... 38 ants. o.. a ee
pple, in for -. po amg Sees 86 | 10Ib. ian 12 = case .. 72 | DES AND ce 30} S, per te a
re ‘“* moy , fancy | , © in case |. gg | Gree H PELT 2514 panisl Shell .
Amoy, medium Ca Eom 1 Butter aco + 83 | Green No ides Ss = | Peanuts
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portent No. ia a od | Cu en No. 2........ ae a
seve BB 0.30 , 250 i crate ore No. Bee eeeeeees g | Ali nut Halves ....+... 38
No. ol, Sen oe ens ~ 40) teed No. 222207 : a fae 33
5 Oval, 250 in — 5 | Galfsking, 2S Hicante Almonds .---. 2%
in . 60 alfskins. greer o tf 8% | Fa mds . 36
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60 Calfskins, — No 2 9% ana H P, ean -+-47
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insertion. . No charge less

this head for two cents

 

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than 25 cents.

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For Rent—In a live Upper
town, a. store; best location in town;
grandest opening for a hardware or gro-

 

: | eon ranch,
Peninsula |

cery. Address No. 829, care Michigan |

Tradesman. 829
Mr. Merchant—Do you want to sell |

out and give some one else a chance? I

want an established merchandise
eral merchandise business
to $25,000. Nill give in
ties in two first-class
stores and flats. Well
paying. These are

or gen-
from $10,000
exchange equi-
brick buildings,
rented

 
 

 

 

and good |
not trading properties |

For Sale—A very fine chicken and pig-
well equipped with all neces-
sary conveniences for raising squabs
and chickens; fine location, fine neigh-
borhood; a bargain for somebody. =
& Pixley, St. Joseph, Mich.

National Campaign Button eu
Detroit, Mich., wants agents to sell cam-

 

 

paign buttons and lithographs. Send for |
price list. 781
For Rent—Country store and dwelling
house. Located in one of the best farm-
ing sections in Michigan. Address W.,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 809
For Sale—Our stock of general mer-
chandise and farm implements, located

in one of the best trading points in
Northeastern Michigan. Stock will in-
| ventory about $6,000. We sell annually

| about three ¢

but a first-class investment. Will ive |
a good trade. Address owner, J. Salo-
mon, 236 E. Division St., ¢ ‘hicago, til. 830
Ginseng roots and seeds for sale. Book-
let free. Ozark Ginseng Co., — oe
~ Wanted—Do you want to trade your |
business for farm? Address sox | 278,

Frankfort, Ind.

 

 

 

 

ear loads of implements and

machinery. Soil around the town is
| good and farming is carried on exten-
| sively in all directions. Stock will be

| in.

A Great Opportunity—Only 1 bakery and.
ice cream business in Peillston, Mich.,
(population 1,100 and growing fast). Con- |

fectionery and
Everything new
buildings, delivery wagon and horse,
Doing a good profitable business
mer and_ winter. Deal must be
Address Seaman Co., Pelliston,

restaurant in
and first-class.

connection.
ete.

cash.
Mich.
834

per cent. a month

&

Safe Investment—One
for five years, paid monthly. Write for
particulars to Cloverleaf Dairy Farming
& Poultry Company, Valley Junction, Ia.,
R. i. Me. : 8

For Sale—20 shares of ist
stock of Great Northern Portland C ioe ca
Co. stock for $1,200. Address Lock Box
265, Grand Ledge, Mich. 835

For Sale—Hardware stock, lot and
building, for cash; in city of 20,000 popu-
lation. Stock at $3,000, lot and building
2,500. Established seven years. Address
Hardware, care Michigan Tradesman.

Rubber Culture in Mexico. Safe and
profitable. Good opportunity for large or
small investors. Creates increasing in-
come for life and longer. Address Charles
W. Calkins, Grand Rapids, Mich. 837

Timber limit and saw-mill, for sale, at
low price. Mill in first-class running
order, 20,000 ft. daily capacity, with all
belongings, including lath and_= shingle
mill, improvements, 20 horses, 20 set log
sleighs, wagons, carts and all other mer-
chandise, buildings, good piling grounds
with siding on C. P. R. main line,
etc. Limit surrounding mill with 3 or 4
years’ supply of timber, principally good
white pine, with practically no
of logs. Price $42,000, partly cash, balance
to suit purchaser. Inspection invited.
Pine Lumber Co., Pine, Ontario, near
Cartier. 838

For Sale—Cheap but
complete millinery stock, entirely
just the outfit for start in small
or choice addition to stock. Address Box
44, Saginaw, W. S., Mich. 839

For Sale—First-class bakery with Hub-
bard oven, lunch room, small grocery
stock, 2 wagons, one horse, located in
Owosso, Mich. Full particulars, address
Ress & Cheney. agents for all kinds of
stocks, Kalamazoo, Micn. 815

Wanted to Exchange—Good paying real
estate (in, Asheville, N. C., the finest
health resort in the United States) for
stock of shoes, clothing or general mer-
chandise. Address Stoner Bros., Ashe-
Vile, WN: C. 816

For Sale—44,000 shares stock Gold Pan
Mining Co., property located at Brecken-
ridgc, Colo. Apply to W. M. Clark, 1101
Downing Ave., Denver, Colo. 818

Fine timber, 2,800 acres stumpage in
west Virginia two miles from railway;
good route for train; will cut 14 million
feet. 1,000 acres adjoining if desired.
asainly oak, suitable for quarter sawing
and ship timber. Much fine stave timber.
Favorable shipping rates. Easily logged.
Strictly first-class. Guaranteed as rep-
resented. Moderate price. Send for com-
plete details to Box 282, Lynchburg, Bog

819

 

 

 

 

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A paying grocery stock for sale. Will
inventory about $2,400. Will sell for less
money. Very centrally located in the best
city in Michigan and it is a money-mak-
ing stand. No dead stock. Business will
speak for itself by looking at the books.
Woolfitt & Macomber, Flint, Mich. 820

For Sale—Fancy grocery, doing cash
business, hustling town Kent County. Ad-
dress No. 824, Michigan Tradesman. 824

For Sale—Profitable hardware business
in prosperous city, Northern Illinois. In-
voice $4,000. Half cash, balance gilt-edge
real estate. Address No. 788, care =

 

gan Tradesman.

Business, |

sum- |

| building
| machine

| Springfield,

| to-date
| fixtures and shop tools.
| city
| Bverything paid for;
} sion given;

| stock

836 |

 

| established trade,

| chandise,

larries, |
driving |

| kins Station and Bradley,
| sell together or separate;
| elass paying businesses,

new; |
town |
| outside mills
| & Sons Milling Co., Grand Rapids, —

 

sold at inventory,
good will

100 cents on the dollar,
and established trade thrown
3uildings can be rented for $20 per
month or can be bought for fair price
on reasonable terms. Address No. | -
care Michigan Tradesman.

‘For Sale—Substantial building.
10 acres on Tlinois Central, track through
lengthwise, partly equipped for
shop. 200 acre farm in Newton
Missouri. Choice proven oil
in Kansas. Edwin A. Wilson,
Illinois. 826

 

County,
territory

 

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A Great Bargain—$1,500 buys new up-
stock of electrical goods, office

Growing, active
Central Michigan.
immediate posses-
profitable business. Address
No. 800. care Michigan Tradesman. 800

For Sale—We have no old bankrupt
to sell, but if you are looking for
a location, will sell you one of the clean-
est stocks of staple dry goods, clothing,
hats, caps, shoes and groceries in Michi-
gan. Here is a chance to step into an
the best in town. Stock
will invoice about $11,000. J. A. —*
& Bro., Howard City. 802

For Sale—$1,800 stock general mer-
shoes, dry goods and groceries.
Box 217i, ashville, Mich. 763
Wanted—To buy a part interest in a
good drug business by registered phar-
macist. Experienced in both city and
country trade. Best of references. Ad-
dress No. 738, care Michigan 7

27,000 population,

 

 

 

 

Attention, For Sale—Flour, feed, buck-
wheat mills and elevator at Wayland;
one of the finest mills of its size in the
State; elevator and feed mill at Hop-

Mich.; will
all are first-
and buildings

and machinery in first-class condition;

our fast-increasing business in this city |

is the reason we want to dispose of our
at a bargain. Henderson

 

~ For Sale—Stock of groceries and staple
dry goods and boots and shoes, located
in good trading point, nine miles from
the nearest city. Annual sales aggre-
gate $15,000. Good location to handle
poultry and farm produce. Property in-
cludes half acre of land, new store build-
ing, good barn, store house and oil house.
Good church and school privileges. Wag-
on can be run in connection with store
to advantage. Will sell for cash only.
Address No. 687, care Michigan Trades-
man. 687

Restaurant—Finest stand in Northern
Ohio; doing a $28,000 to $30,000 business
each year; 40 years’ standing. Will take
farm or good city property for part pay-

 

 

 

ment. Jule Magnee, Findlay, Ohio. 666 _
For A fine bazaar stock in a
lumbering town in Northern Michigan,
county seat. Price right. Good reasons
ior selling. Must be sold at once. Ad-
dress Rogers Bazaar Co., Grayling, Mich.

606
For Sale—Good up-to-date stock of

general merchandise; store building; well
established business. Stock will inven-
tory $5,000. Located in hustling North-
ern Michigan town. Address No. 744.
eare Michigan Tradesman. 744

For Sale—A 25 horse-power steel hori-
zontal boiler. A 12 horse-power engine
with pipe fittings. A blacksmith forge
with blower and tools. Shafting, pul-
leys, belting. All practically new. Orig-
inal cost over $1.200. Will sell for $600.
Address B-B Manufacturing Co., 50 Ma-
sonic Temple, Davenport, Iowa. 537

 

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan Trades-
man, 89

 

Coffee Roasting Machinery For Sale
Cheap—Consisting of one 5 foot cylinder

Knickerbocker roaster, stoner, cooling
box, exhaust fan, coffee milling or
scouring machine. Whole outfit cost

over $800. Wholesale grocers and large
retailers can afford to own this ma-
chinery and roast their own coffee at
price we will make for it. Also one |
dried fruit cleaner for renovating old
raisins and currants. Robson __—siBrros.,
Lansing, Mich. 756

 

For Sale—Or exchange for farm. Good | —

House
and

meat market doing good business.
and two lots, barn and ice house
poultry house.
acres wild land fenced and small dwelling.

Address No. 776, care Michigan Trades- |

man. 776

 

Wanted—Experienced
man or energetic young man to take
position on the road. Address No. 767,
eare. Michigan Tradesman, giving quali-
fica ions. 767

grocery

 

Slaughter house with 40 |

sales- |

For Saie—Bargains in dirt—five farms, |

160, 303, 105, 205 and 3,860 improved,
improved.
tentions come South and_ buy.
me for particulars.
kana, Texas. 678

Uun-

POSITIONS WANTED.

 

Wanted—Position in dry goods or gen-
eral store. Nine years’ city and country
experience. Best references. Address
822, care Michigan Tradesman. 822

Wanted—Position as salesman in retail
hardware store. Have had ten years’
experience. Aadress Box 367, Kalkaska,

466

Mich.

 

HELP WANTED.

Boat Builders, for work on small wood-
en launches. Best rate of wages and
steady work throughout the winter guar-
| anteed. No_ strike or labor trouble of
iany kind. Fred Medart, 3535 De Kalb
1 St. St. Louis, Mo.

Wanted—Experienced varnishers and
rubbers; steady work all the year. Ad-
| dress 'The Hamilton Manufacturing Co.,
Two Rivers, Wis. 786

‘Wanted—Salesman to earry — ~ double
| tipped gloves as_ side __ line. Address
Manufacturer, No. 51 E. Fulton  S8t.,
| Gloversville, N. ‘a 27

If you are honest in your in- |
Write |
M. C. Wade, Texar-

For Sale—I wish to sell my grocery |

business. P. W. Holland, Ovid, Mich. 737

For Sale—Clean drug stock, good busi-
ness, in county seat town. Reason,
owner not registered. Address ws —
care Tradesman.

For Sale—A modern eight-room ious
Woodmere Court. Will trade for stock
of groceries. Enquire J. Powers,
Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, ie
Phone 1455.

 

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Wanted—Will pay cash for an aa

lished, profitable business. Will consid-
er shoe store, stock of general merchan-
dise or manufacturing business. Give
full particulars in first letter. Confiden-
tial. Address No. 519, care Michigan
Tradesman. 519
Wanted—Good clean
merchandise.
farm, nearly all fruit, close to Traverse

City. Address No. 670, care Michigan
Drageeman Ge)
For Sale—Fourteen room hotel, new

and newly furnished, near Petoskey. Fine
trout fishing. Immediate possession on
account of poor health. Address No. _
eare Michigan Tradesman. 60
For Sale—480 acres of cut-over
wood land, three miles north of Thomp-
sonville. House and barn on premises.

 

 

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how old your stock is. We
oy no one but the best auctioneers
salespeople. Write for term ~nd
The Globe Traders & Licé. sed
ioneers, Office 431 E. Nelson  sat.,
Mich. 445

C. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
ers. Stocks closed out or reduced
in the United States. New
original ideas, long experience,
of merchants to refer to. We
never failed to please. Write for
s, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
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corner of land. Very desirable for stock |
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St., Grand Rap-
ids. 835
For pale—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

 

A firm of old standing that has been
in business for fifteen years and whose
reputation as to integrity, business meth-
ods, ete., 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 ————

 

For Sale—Farm implement
established fifteen years.
cation at Grand Rapids,
or lease four-story and
building. Stock will
$10,000. Good reason
trades desired. Address
Michigan Traaesman. 67

Shoe Store—Splendid opening; clean
stock; established business; thriving city
of 10,000 inhabitants; invoices about $2,800.
Other interests reason for selling. Ad-
dress No. 770, care Michigan ee

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The Memphis Paper Box Co. is an old
established, fine-paying business; will
sell the business for what it invoices;
proprietor is old and in feeble health.

Address Jack W. James, 81 ——— —"
Memphis, Ten.

Cash for your stock—Or we will ase
out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce your stock.
Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,
577 West Forest Ave., Detroit, Mich. 2

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EFFICIENCY OF THE GUN.

Although the war in the Far East
has by. no means reached its final
stage, it has already furnished more
thorough examples of the relative
cficiency of modern armaments than
any of the more recent wars. Mod-
ern weapons and military methods
have been given a thorough test, and
it must be admitted that, in every
case, they have accomplished fully
what had been claimed for them be-
fore they had been subjected to the
one supreme test of battle.

Battleships, guns, high-powered
military rifles, field artillery of the
rapid-fire type, torpedoes, mines, and
many other modern inventions have
all stood the supreme test, and all
have accomplished everything that
had been claimed for them. The
one great surprise has been that
archaic weapon, the bayonet. It has
been held that, owing to the advent
of high-power guns, troops would
never again get close enough  to-
gether to make the bayonet of any
use. That notion is a complete fal-
lacy, as the experience of the present
war has proved. There has been
use for the bayonet, and plenty of
use, at that. Every fight has devel-
oped its final charge, accompanied
by the use of the bayonet in hand-to-
hand collisions. The military ex-
perts will, therefore, have to revise
their ideas as to the bayonet, and,
instead of abandoning it, as nearly
everybody proposed, they must find
an honored place for it in the sold-
ier’s outfit, just as has been the prac-
tice ior severa! centuries.

The greatest lesson of the war
has been the great efficiency of the
modern high-power gun. Whether
it be the great 8, 10 or 12-inch guns
of the battleships or the light field
guns of the armies, all have done
terrific execution, amply proving that
the modern gun is quite as formida-
ble an engine of destruction as has

“been claimed for it. The Japanese

have worked wonders’ with their
modern guns. The way in which the
Russian trenches were swept by ar-
tillery fire at the battle of the Yalu
was one of the most surprising de-
velopments of the war. Their work
on that occasion showed that the
gunners had mastered the art of
using field artillery to its fullest ca-
pacity. Not only did the Japanese
serve their guns with deadly accu-
racy,- but they made the Russian
trenches, supposed to be protected
against gun-fire, absolutely untena-
ble.

In the earlier stages of the war
some brilliant exhibitions were given
of what could be done with torpedoes
and torpedo boats when handled
with interpidity and skill. So great
and complete was the success of the
torpedo craft that many well-mean-
ing people hastened to sound the
death knell of the battleship. The
torpedo soon had its day, however.
Once the element of surprise was
eliminated, the function of the torpe-
do was at an end. For a considerable
time it was believed that the war
would fail to present the long-ex-
pected fight between fleets in the
open sea, which alone could furnish

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an exact test of modern armaments.
Such a battle finally came on Aug.
1o, and a test was furnished which
is so conclusive that there can no
longer be any doubt as to the exact
efficiency of modern guns and armor
protection. The Russian ships, al-
though they were well and valiantly
fought, were simply riddled, and their
decks turned into veritable slaughter
pens.

The Japanese employed mainly 12-
inch and 8-inch guns, and the Rus-
sian lzrger guns were of practically
the same calibers. In order to pre-
vent their ships from receiving seri-
ous injury, the Japanese elected to
fight at long range, varying from
two *o four miles. At such great
distances the Japanese shells told
with frightful effect. The immense
12-inch shells were used with deadly
accuracy, plowing up the decks of
the Russian ships, demolishing fun-
nels and bridges, dismounting guns
and searching out every portion of
the ships not protected by the thick-
est armorplate. While the Krupp
armorplate, with which the Russian
battleships were protected, resisted
the shells, the ships were struck so
often in their upper works and along
the sides where the armor failed to
reach, that the whole Russian fleet
was soon disabled. Of the fleet of
some thirty vessels, not a single one
escaped scot free. The battleship
Czarevitch, the finest ship in the
Russian Navy, lies in a German har-
bor on the Chinese coast, utterly dis-
abled and dismantled. The cruiser
Askold is at Shanghai, also disabled,
and the cruiser Diana, which is now
in French Indo-China, is so badly
injured because of shot holes, that
she will also be dismantled. The
cruiser Novic, which at first escaped,
was destroyed by the Japanese a
thousand miles away from the scene
of the Port Arthur battle. The Rus-
sian torpedo-boat destroyers were
either destroyed or driven into neu-
tral harbors. The battleships other
than the Czarevitch crept back, dis-
abled, into Port Arthur, and are still
there. All this was the work of the
high-powered,  large-caliber naval
gun.

The Japanese showed the efficiency
of the large gun again in battle with
the Vladivostok squadron in the Ko-
rean Strait. The Russian armored
cruisers were the best vessels of
their type, yet they were literally
riddled and one of them—the Ruric
-—was sunk by the Japanese gun-fire
at long range, whereas the Japanese
ships were not seriously damaged.

The gun has, therefore, fully vin-
dicated itself, but the lesson was also
taught that, to succeed, it is neces-
sary to be able to use guns with ac-
curacy. Target practice in time of
peace is, therefore, indispensable. It
was because the Japanese knew how
to use their guns, whereas the Rus-
sians did not, that victory perched on
the banners of the former. The ob-
vious lesson is that, in order that
modern guns may be effective in
time of war, money must be spent
freely in target practice in time of
peace.

 

Lost Coins in the Mail.

Ordinarily no man is rich enough
to escape that certain sense of ela-
tion which comes from picking up a
nickel on a sidewalk; but when a rail-
way postal clerk finds such a coin
in a mail pouch where it has worked
out from insufficient wrappings, not
only does he miss this elation, but
it may provoke profanity.

For a nickel lost in a pouch of mail
in transit becomes a matter for na-
tional concern. It comes to view,
perhaps, just as a pouch of mail is
emptied upon a sorting table; and
when it has broken away from the
bunch of letters and cards and cir-
culars, rolled to an open space on
the table, and there settled down,
heads or tails, with a noisy spinning
dance, the clerk who first sees it
is “it

A necromancer could have no more
idea than the man in the moon as to
what particular package it rolled out
of, and if he had and should tell the
postal clerk the clerk wouldn’t dare
try to restore the coin to the original
package. That would be too easy
altogether.

No, it is a lost nickel from the
moment the clerk has to see it spin-
ning there before his eyes; and ac-
cording to the tender governmental
conscience the clerk has to get ready
for the inauguration of about $18.43
worth of fuss over it.

For himself he doesn’t dare to go
to bed for a short nap until he has
got rid of his 5 cents’ worth of re-
sponsibility to the Government for
the action of the fool persons from
whom the nickel was parted. He digs
up his printed form for such dcca-
sions printed and provided, and at
once fills out a long blank, describing
the coin, telling the circumstances of
its being found and whether it landed
heads or tails on the table, naming
the pouch from which it was emptied,
the number of the train carrying it,
the date, and a few other little de-
tails, zeny one cf which in hot weath-
er would have cost a mug of beer.

This report, with the nickel, goes
to the headquarters of the postal di-
vision in which the car was operated,
and from these bonded officials, by the
same general red tape route, the
small coin finds its way to the seat
of the National Government and_ to
the fund representing the great con-
stituency of the Postoffice Depart-
ment, which persists in sending money
through the unregistered mails of the
service.

—_—_---—_____
The Boys Behind the Counter.

Saranac—Leon McVeigh has again
accepted and is occupying his old po-
sition as chief clerk at C. E. Huhn’s.

Grand Rapids—Charles_ Bryant
succeeds Glenn E. Denise as buyer
and manager of the grocery depart-
ment of the Wurzburg Dry Goods
Co. Mr. Bryant has worked for E.
J. Herrick and Frank J. Dettenthaler
and also managed the Wurzburg gro-
cery store at Ottawa Beach.

South Haven—Burr Rockwell is
clerking for Jay Roberts in his new
shoe store.

Union City—Charles Woodruff has

taken a clerkship in Minta’s clothing
store.

Bay City—O. E. Aubertin, who has
been manager of the clothing de-
partment at the High Art, has gone
to Milwaukee to take a position with
Adolph Sempliner.

——_. +2
Feel the Necessity of Co-Operative
Effort.

St. Johns, Sept. 6—The organiza-
tion of an effective association of the
business men of this city now seems
almost a certainty. Its importance
and desirability have long been rec-
ognized, but although often discuss-
ed no active steps have been taken
until recently.

It is the general opinion that such
an organization should be modeled
on lines that have proven practical
and effective in other places, and
when the organization is completed
it will be of a kind to accomplish
something for the city’s interests. A
number of plans have been informal-
ly discussed, ard several of St. Johns
business men recently went to Lan-
sing to confer with the Secretary of
the Lansing Business Men’s Associa-
tion regarding the manner of its or-
ganization and its methods of work.

>>

The good foik of Berlin are on tip-
toe with pleasurable expectation, for
in a very few months now, without
their even being aware of it, they
may be experiencing the glory of
inhabiting a city with more than two
million inhabitants. A census taken
at the beginning of July, by the Em-
perors commands, gave the exact
population at that time as_ being
1,967,707. Since the beginning of the
year the increase had been more than
12,000. If this ratio of increase be
maintained the second million will be
reached in less than a year from now,
while to the optimistic Berlinese mind
the happy hour may be expected to
be reached at almost any day be-
tween now and then.

———_+-2>—___

Grand Marais—The Manistique
Lumber Co.’s railroad, running from
this piace south through Alger coun-
ty into Schoolcraft, where it termin-
ates at Germfask, is to be extended
four or five miles southeast into
Portage township, Mackinac coun-
ty. Construction work is already in
progress.

—_>-+>—___

When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-
man.

—_++.>___

Satan is always in sympathy with

the self-satisfied man.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

_Merchants—Want to reduce stock?
Yes. Want to dispose of stickers? Yes.
Want more money in the bank? Yes.
Then try a Reduction Sale by my new
and novel methods—or if you want to
close out your stock—my plan will do it.
Write for terms and list of references.
’. A. Anning, The Hustling Salesman,
Aurora, Illinois. 841
For Sale—Good 40-acre farm, fine lo-
cation; splendid land; 8-room house;
good barn; good well; apple orchard, pear
and cherry; horses, harness, wagon; 2
cows, hogs, chickens; all farm tools, hay,
corn, etc.; fine timber, maple; tools for
making sugar; will sell all for $2,400, part
time. C. M. Burlingame, Decatur, Mich.
842

 

For Sale—Small amount of stock and
fixtures. Retiring from clothing business.
Good proposition. Address Stock, Box 65,
Chesaning, Mich. 843

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