Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1904

 

 

Collection Department

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Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids
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ficient, responsible; direct demand system.
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of
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SPECIAL FEATURES.

Page

Representative Retailers.
Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
Window Trimming.
Editorial.

Songs That Thrilled.
Utilize Election Time.
Butter and Eggs.
Lost His Job.
Clothing.

Successful Salesman.
Woman’s World.
The Swell Head.
Among the Sioux.
Not All Thugs.

Don’t Cut and Cover.
Hardware.

Shoes.

Clerks’ Corner.

Tom Murray.

New York Market.
Snould Not Propose.

Dry Goods.
Commercial Travelers.
Drugs.
- Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery
46. Special Price Current.

 

 

THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR.
With the fall of Liao-Yang and the

|
| wounded and short of supplies, can |

| It would take iully that time for
Baltic

|
hold out for several months longer. |

|
the |

East |

fleet to reach the Far

|under the most favorable conditions. |

Had General Kuropatkin defeated |

|the Japanese at Liao-Yang he might |

| army
| but all possibility of such relief must
inow be
| squadron been able to start for the
| Far East months ago, so as to be
| able to co-operate with a sally of the
| Port Arthur fleet like that of Aug. |

| Japanese

| further

it send

to

found
south

to
Port

possible
relieve

have an j

Arthur, |

abandoned. Had the Baltic |

10, it might have been possible to
wrest control the
of

of the sea from
and raise the blockade
Port Arthur.

With the fall of the fortress all
need of the Baltic fleet in
the Far East will be at an end. There |

| will be no othe place for it to go but |

defeat of General Kuropatkin gener- |

al interest has for the present been
diverted from the situation in Man-
churia to the siege of Port Arthur.
With Kuropatkin disposed of for the
time being, the Japanese can devote
greater energy to the reduction of
the Russian stronghold, which is the

Viadivostok, which will soon be clos-
ed by ice. Moreover, the fall of Port
Arthur, by relieving the Japanese fleet |
of the further necessity of blockading |
that place, would enable Admiral |
Togo to lie in wait for the Baltic

squadron and cripple it before it
reaches the Far East.

Whatever may be said of the|
| Russian commanders for the way in

only remaining obstacle in the way |
of the full success of their plans. The |

fortress has now been cut off from
all communication by land for three
months and a half, and as no supplies

| have won great laurels.

have been taken in, provisions must |

now be running low. It is reported |

that meat has become exhausted and
that the compelled to
subsist on bread mainly. The ships’
supplies have also run short, and as

garrison is

the sailors have been sent ashore to

man the forts, they are an added bur- |

to the commissariat.
also running low,

den

tion is as

Ammuni-
the

incessant fighting has greatly drained |

the stock for the large guns.
Although repeated Japanese
saults have been repulsed, the
siegers have made steady, if slow,
progress. While the Port Arthur
garrison is being depleted by casual-
ties and disease, the Japanese are be-
ing constantly re-enforced. ‘The
process of attrition is undoubtedly
gradually telling, and as there is no

as-

be-

ionger any earthly hope of relief, it |

seems certain that the end must
come before very long. There
little purpose now to be served by

is

 

holding out longer at Port Arthur |

other than the protection of
remnant of the ill-fated Port Arthur
‘squadron. These ships would be of
immense value were the Baltic squad-

the |

ron ever able to reach the Far East, |

but that is a remote prospect now
and it does not seem possible that
the constantly harassed garrison, en-
cumbered as it is with sick and

|
|

| are anything but pleasant.

which the war has been managed on
their side, there can be no question
but that the garrison of Port Arthur
and General Stoessel, its commander, |
They have}
sustained unflinchingly hard
attacks from the finest infantry and
artillery in the world, and it will be

many

only exhaustion of supplies that will
finally force them to surrender.

 

Lots of apples means lots of cider.

More erder will be made in _ the
United’ States this year than in all
the rest of the world in five years.

Cider really deserves a place among
As the Bos-
“A beverage |
complexion

our national beverages.
ton Transcript
that improves the
brightens the eyes is certain to bea}
favorite, and cider is said to do both |
things. It not fattening it |
suits rheumatic persons better than |
wine, beer or punch.
cider old and

Says:

and |

is and
Of course when |
hard its effects |
Hard cid- |
er is responsible for a good deal of
trouble.

gets

 

The Japs have possession of two
of the three coal mines upon which
the the
tion of the Manchurian railway. The
third expected to fall their
hands This is a matter that
will be of great importance in future

Russians depend for opera-

is into

soon.

movements, as without coal to sup-|
ply their locomotives the Russians |
will be seriously hampered in trans- |
porting troops and supplies.

| prise many is

| tant

jing from hand to mouth.

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The sharp reaction of last week in
Wall Street markets has been fol-
lowed by another steady advance
til with
another reaction is in evidence. This
with
marking a decided gain in the general

average,

un-

’

now, no apparent reason,

weekly swing, each advance

is favorable to speculative
operations, and so activity is greater
than for many months past. A fea-
ture of the situation which will sur-
that the in
stock values during the season of re-
covery, amounting to about 20 per
cent., is fully one-half of the total
decline.

advance

This is the more significant
in that the decline was largely ac-
counted for in the elimination of fic-
titious or watered values.

While frosty weather has had its
influence in some localities the month
as a whole is more favorable to crop
maturing than generally expected.
This gives assurance of a large quan-
tity of corn and its products to keep
the railways busy. The phenomenal-
ly high price of wheat, apparently in-
dependent of any cornering opera-
tions, indicates that prices of all farm
products will be high enough to war-
profitable freight rates.

Fall trade is progressing steadily,

but not with undue haste. The crop

situation, interest in politics and
other hindrances are enough to in-
Sure conservatism. Yet buyine has

been liberal and in many cases there
lias been unexpected urgency in se-
The dominant fac-
tor in the situation is that there is an
abundance of money in the hands of

curing shipments.

consumers and there is the disposi-
tion to spend it freely for meeds and
luxuries.

Iron and steel industries are mov-
too rapidly.
Among textiles, woolens still lead in
activity. Cotton mills are still buy-
Footwear

ing steadily, and not

|shows decided improvement, the ad-

vance in prices seeming to increase

orders.
ee
Lord Kitchener, the famous BPrit-
ish general, prefers single men for
army service. He was twitted once

on being a woman hater. He answer-
ed smilingly that he was just the re-
verse. Then he became serious and
said that experience had taught him

| that single men, as a rule, make bet-

ter soldiers than married men. The
latter, he declared, are bound to keep
in mind the welfare of their wives

and children, and on this account are
apt to draw back from dangers that

would not cause them an instant’s
hesitation if they had only them-
selves to think of. Therefore, a

wife, although she may be very am-
bitious for her husband’s success, im-
pairs his efficiency as a soldier in
action.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. | cause the panic which © struck the |

G. H. De Graaf, the Pioneer Grand |

Rapids Grocer.
The basic force responsible-for all
energy. One
may have talent; but, lacking’ ener-
One may per-

self-earned success is
gy, may not apply it.
seize it.

The
energy, but he lacks

not Energy is

criminal

may

power. may possess
and
sense. Energy to be of value must
be properly applied. The lightning
bolt carries greater energy than the

wire cable, but the one brings oniy

integrity

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devastation while the other may turn |
a million spindles and serve a thous- |

and useful purposes.
The man oi talent
energy. The man of
possess other constituent
he must possess judgment that is
able to decide which way will be
best; must possess courage to
carry to a conclusion this judgment,
once determined, in the face of pre-
dictions of The
won

must
cnucrey

possess
must
qualities;

he

disaster. greatest
been by the
brave in the face of the fears of the
timid.

The man of energy must have in-
tegrity if his talent is not to be di-
verted into questionable channels.

Energy, after all, is merely a ca-
pacity and desire for hard work. A
practical simile is that of the control-
led electricity in contrast with the
unbridled lightning. And this simile
brings to mind the human dynamo
whose portrait and life story adorn
this page.

Gerrit H. De Graaf was born in
Buiialo, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1851. His
iather and mother were both natives
of the Netherlands, having come to
this country in 1846 and located at
Buffalo. When he was 5 years of
age his parents removed to Grand
Rapids, where he attended the pub-
lic schools, going from the primary
to the grammar grade and taking two
years at the high school under Pro-
fessors Daniels and Strong.

On leaving school his first em-
ployment was in the dry goods store
of C. B. Allen, where he remained
one year. Not having a particular
liking for the dry goods trade, he
concluded to learn the grocery busi-
Accordingly, he entered the
employ of McNaughton & Horton,
who were then located where Muir’s
drug store now is. A year later he
entered the employ of Voorhis &
Co., with whom he remained three
years. His next employment was
in the grocery store of Gilbert
Cook, on the corner where the Mor-
ton House now stands. He remained
in this establishment two years, when
he became connected with the staff
of the Chief Engineer of the Chica-
go, Saginaw & Canada Railway,
which was projected to run from
Fruitport to St. Louis. The promot-
er of the enterprise was Capt. Craw,
of Fruitport, and the financial backer
was Capt. Tom Scott, of Philadel-
phia. So sanguine was Mr. De Graaf
of the success of the project that he
permitted his wages to remain in the
treasury of the company, which he
afterwards had reason to regret, be-

successes have

ness.

 

country in the fall of 1873 wiped the
road out of existence for the time be-
ing and dissipated every penny of
his accumulated earnings. He there-
upon returned to Grand Rapids and

entered the employ of De Graaf,

: : . . | Vrieling & Co., who were then en-
ceive opportunity; but, lacking amb1- | : : ; :
: : | gaged in the manufacture of interior |
tion to begin and energy to further, | |

but |

on South Ionia the

partner

finish street,

senior his
father.
a cut off saw in the factory, applying
limself diligently to the task of re-
covering the ground he_ had lost
through his year’s experience in the
railway promoting business.

By the following year he had man-
aged to accumulate enough savings
to embark in the grocery business in
a small way, and on Jan. 9, 1875, he
cpened up for business at 229 South
Division street. He remained there

being

| bocker
esteemed |
Mr. De Graaf presided over |

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him in business; Minnie, who is now
Mrs. W. C. Price, and J. Arthur, who
graduates next year from the high

school on the German-English
course.

Mr. De Graaf is a member of the
B. P. O. E, which he has served

very acceptably as Exalted Ruler. He
the Knicker-
which he now

member of
Society, in

Hm also a

holds the office of Vice-President. He |

the First
Ward for ten years and was nominat-
ed for Comptroller on the Republi-
can ticket in 1900. He has been a
candidate for the nomination for
Mayor, and before many years will
undoubtedly realize
bition cherished

has been Alderman of

by himself and

friends that he may occupy the high- |
est office within the gift of Grand |

Rapids people.

Mr. De Graaf attributes his suc- }

 

 

 

 

 

G. H. De Graaf

until 1877, when he built the block | cess to careful attention to business,

which he has since occupied at 221
and 223 South Division street.

Mr. De Graaf very quickly became
heir to a prosperous and constantly
expanding patronage, due largely to
his energy and personality. He was
a good buyer, displaying his goods
well and satisfying his customers,
and he soon came to be regarded as
one of the foremost grocers of the
city. He continued the business un-
til the spring of 1903, when he dis-
posed of his stock to his son, G.
Henry De Graaf, in order that he
might accept a position as member
of the Board of Assessors, voluntari-
ly and unexpectedly tendered him by
Mayor Palmer.

Mr. De Graaf was married in 1875
to Miss Minniz Agters, of Grand
Rapids, and is the father of three
children—G. Henry, who succeeds

 

to taking proper discounts and mak-
ing prompt collections. No greater
tribute can be paid to his success as
a grocer than to recall the large
number of customers who started
with him in 1875 and who are still
patrons of the establishment. Ab-
solute cleanliness is one of the things
he has always insisted upon and
prompt attention to telephone orders
has also been a cardinal feature of
his establishment.

Mr. De Graaf is not only a natural
politician, but he is thoroughly vers-
ed in the affairs of the city, having
made a study of every municipal
problem which has confronted Grand
Rapids for several years, so that he
is very generally regarded as one of
the best-posted men on municipal
matters in the State—a man _ who
would do the city and himself credit

the laudable am- |

| .
las the Chief Executive of the municti-
| pality he has served so well and so
‘iaithfully in minor positions of trust

and responsibility.
| —
Review of the Poultry Crop of
West.
Chicago, Sept. 20—The reports this
year from our correspondents indi-

the

| eate a material increase in the supply
of chickens, a fair increase in the sup-
| ply of turkeys and ducks, and a fall-
ing off in the supply of geese. The
weather conditions have been rather
more favorable than for the past two
or three years. The season was
|rather cool, but on the whole quite
seasonable, but in some sections of
the Southwest, the Far West and the
North, the heavy rainfall caused a
rather heavy loss in the early hatch-
|ings, especially of turkeys, many of
the young birds dying of wet and
|cold. The fertility of the early eggs
also was somewhat affected by the
very cold weather during the winter,
| leaving the stock not in as good con-
| dition as when the winters were not
| so severe, but this was overcome lat-
er by more favorable conditions.
From Towa a number of reports stat-
led that rats killed off a good share
of the early hatchings.
Turkeys—The crop of turkeys is
estimated to be about I5 per cent.
heavier than last year. Our reports
in most instances claim large in-
creases in the flocks of turkeys, but
some points which raised a good
many turkeys last year report a ma-

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terial shrinkage this year. On _ the
whole, however, we look for more
\turkeys to come to market during

the winter. The season is unusually
late, and where in other seasons a
good many turkeys have been ship-
|ped in up to this time, so far this
year but few turkeys have been re-
ceived. Then, too, farmers are being
blessed with good crops, and in no
need for immediate money, can af-
ford to allow their turkeys to run un-
til fall.

Chickens—The reports generally
indicate a very material increase in
the crop of chickens, and it is fair
to state that the crop at least 1s
about 20 per cent. larger than last
year. The weather conditions were
generally favorable. Farmers being
in good condition financially, and
receiving good prices for their eggs,
have perhaps not marketed their
stock as early, nor as freely as usual,
and indications are that there is a
large quantity to come forward.

Ducks—Everything points to a
large crop of ducks—such, at least,
are the conclusions derived from the
reports received. The _ indications
are for an increase of about Io per
cent. over. last- year.. Late. _prices
have been more encouraging to farm-
ers to raise ducks.

Geese—The crop of geese is esti-
mated to be about the same as last
| year, ‘possibly 10 per cent. less. Of
late the raising of geese has fallen
off considerably, with perhaps the
largest shrinkage in Illinois, where
the enactment of a law prohibiting
geese from running at large has
made a very marked difference in the
number of geese raised.

P. H. Sprague.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

 

| | A Good Repeater

A prominent grocer, when re-
cently asked what kind of goods
: he liked to sell best, replied:

“Give mea good repeater like Royal Baking Powder; an
established article of undisputed merit which housekeepers

repeatedly buy and are always satisfied with.”

~~ baking powders and new foods, like
| new tads, come and go, but Royal goes
on forever. Grocers are always sure of a
steady sale of Royal Baking Powder, which
never fails to please their customers, and in
the end yields to them a larger profit than
cheaper and inferior brands.

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CoO., NEW YORK
EE CNTR ETL LTTE TT TE TE EE

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

   
    

TATE

Movements cf Merchants.

Grand Ledge-—F. S. Kebler
epened a new shoe store.

Clarksville—-J. A. Clum has engag-
ed in the grocery business.

Battle Creek—Ashley & Co. have
engaged in the harness business.

St. Johns—John Schneider has
sold his meat market to W. A. Hunt.

Cadillac-—J. H. Salt has succeeded
Howell & Salt in the grocery busi-
ness.

Marine City—T. W. Crow has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Geo. N.
Jones.

Eureka—Albert Green is closing
out his general stock and will retire
from trade.

Lansing—Fred H. Barteaux
purchased the grocery stock of Beas-
ley & Wells.

Ypsilanti—Frank A. Banghart will

 

 

has

 

has

succeed Vought & Rogers in the
meat business.
Detroit—C. H. Schroder has _ pur-

chased the boot and shoe stock of
jonn C. Kratz.

Wolverine—J. F. Holden & Co.
have purchased the drug stock of
Floyd G. Wagar.

Sebewaing—John Runnel & Co.

have purchased the general stock of
Marcus Blumenthal.

Petoskey—J. Welling & Co. have
purchased the Joseph Rosenberg gen-
eral stock, at Charlevoix.

St. Johns—Harrison Sherman has
sold his bazaar stock to E. C. Haga-
man and Harry Beers, of Hillsdale.

Linden—Bowles Bros. have dis-
posed of their bazaar, furniture and
undertaking stock to Austin Bowles.

Gaylord—John M. Brodie & Co.
kave purchased the men’s furnishing
goods and shoe stock of R. B. Qua &
Son.

Bloomingdale—M. T. Bruce will
continue the meat business formerly
conducted under the style of Bruce
& Fields.

South Haven—A. C. Randall &
Co. have purchased the grocery stock
of O. W. Lee and will continue the
business.

Oscoda—Geo. E. Hamilton will
succeed Mills & Hamilton in the
hardware and agricultural implement
business.

Jackson—Fulier & Kirtland, gro-
cers, and Fuller, Kirtland & Co., bak-
ers, have been succeeded by the Ful-
ler-Kirtland Co.

Eaton Rapids—W. E. Hanlon, of
Ohio, has rented the T. L. Teynolds
store and will occupy it with a stock
of confectionery.

St. Johns—C. A. Putt has sold his
shoe stock to John H. Darrow, of
St. Louis, who will remove the stock
to either St. Louis or Caro.

Harbor Springs—Clyde Wells has
sold his tobacco stock to Charles
Poyer and William Moore, who are
to take possession October I.

Alpena—Wm. D. Foley has _ pur-
chased a half interest in the jewelry
stock of A. J. Tulian. The new firm
will be known as Tulian & Foley.

 

 

 

Saginaw—The Metropolitan Dry
Goods Co. is succeeded by L. H.
Hayt, who will continue the retail
dry goods business at the same loca-
tion.

Caro—F. A. Turner has sold his
hardware stock to F. E. Kelsey, who
will continue the business at the same
location. Mr. Kelsey will retain his
elevator business.

 

Beulah—Frank L. Orcutt has pur-
chased the general stock of S. E.
Thompson & Co. and will continue
the business in connection with his
teed and potato business.

Plainwell—J. H. Clement has pur-

chased the interest of Fred F. Patter-
son in the dry goods firm of Patter-
son & Clement and will continue the
Lusiness in his own name.
The Rathfon Bros. dry
goods stock has been purchased at
auction sale by J. V. Farwell & Co.
and Stein & Co., of Chicago. The
consideration was $29,000.

Escanaba

 

Algonac—Horace Swartout will
start at once to build a large cement
building on his corner, one-half of
which will be used for a bank and
the other half for a meat market for
himse}f.

Bay City—Jesse Radford has pur-
chased the fish and oyster business
of Ben Fox and will conduct the busi-
ness under the name of the Bay City
Fish & Oyster Co., at 114 Washing-
ton avenue.

Detroit—The People’s Coal &
Wood Co. has filed articles of asso-
ciation with the county clerk. It is
capitalized at $5,320, of which $1,900
is paid in, and there are nineteen
stockholders.

Marquette—The sale of the A. T.
Van Alstyn Dry Goods Co. stock
will occur here on Sept. 28 under the
auspices of H. J. Lobdell, trustee.
The stock will be sold in bulk to the
highest bidder.

Albion—Harry Herrick, of Chica-
go, will open a fancy china and ba-
zar store about October 1. Mr. Her-
rick has been traveling for the Sam-
uel Cupples Woodenware Co. for the
past five years.

Edgerton—Ernest W. Bratt has
purchased the interests of Fred W.
Fuller and Charles Cline in the gen-
eral merchandise stock of Fred W.
Fuller & Co. and will continue the
business in his own name.

Traverse City—W. S. Anderson has
merged his undertaking business in-
to a stock company under the style
of the Anderson Undertaking Co.
The stockholders are Wm. S., Jennie
E. and Ralph A. Anderson.

Coldwater—Floyd George, who is
closing up his partnership in the
firm of Tripp & George, in this city,
has purchased the grocery and mar-
ket of M. P. Maxon, at Union City,
and expects to move there about Oc-
tober Io.

Buttrernut—A. J. Braman has sold
his hardware and implement stock to
Will Isham, who was formerly en-
gaged in trade at this place, but who
has been on the road as traveling
salesman for the J. I. Case Threshing
Machine Co.

Cedar Springs—Z. G. Birdsall &
Co. have sold their general stock to
D. A. Keech, who has taken posses-

 

sion. Mr. Keech will combine his
stock with the above, and will va-
cate his present location in the
Spooner building.

Ann Arbor—Mack & Co. are pre-
paring to install a private telephone
system in their store. Thirty phones
will be put in, and will be distributed
through their establishment. The
phones will be the Washtenaw Home
Telephone Co. instruments.

Saginaw—Waldron, Alderton &
Melze have purchased the entire
stock of leather goods, socks and
mittens of the Lacy Shoe Co., at
Caro, and removed it to this city and
consolidated it with their stock at
131-135 North Franklin street.

Conklin-—John W. Cazier has sold
his interest in the produce firm of
Cazier & Skeels to his partner, who
will continue the business under the
style of S. W. Skeels. Mr. Cazier will
continue the general store he has
conducted so successfully for several
years.

Detroit--The Puritan shoe stores
in this city and in Ann Arbor have
been sold under an order by Judge
Mandell, directing George E. Keith,
the receiver of the Puritan Shoe Co.,
to dispose of the four stores to the
Walkover Shoe Co., of this city, for
$11,900.94 cash.

Stanwood—J. B. Van Auken, man-
ager of the general stock of Cress
& Kuyers, died Sept. 6 as the ulti-
mate result of Bright’s disease, aged
56 years. Deceased is succeeded by
Fred Haist, who has been identified
with the store for some time in the
capacity of assistant manager.

Litchfield—A. J. Lovejoy & Co.
have merged their general merchan-
dise business into a stock company
under the style of the Bert Hickok
Co. The capital stock is $7,000, all
subscribed and paid in in property.
The stockholders are Albert J. Love-

goy, Frank EF. Church and Bert
Hickok.
Detroit—Articles of association

have been filed by the C. C. McDon-
ald Co. for the purpose of dealing
in wearing apparel for women. The
capital stock is $10,000, divided in
$10 shares, of which $8,500 is paid
in. John D. Mabley has 599, Myra
S. Mabley one, and C. C. McDonald
has 250 shares.

Manistee—William Hoops, who has
disposed of his interest in the meat
market of Kuehn & Hoops to his
partner, William Kuehn, expects to
leave in a few days for Dallas, Tex-
as, where he will associate himself
with Walter Baumann, another Man-
istee boy, who is at present operat-
ing a meat market in that city.

Ann Arbor—There is a scrap on in
this city over the right to the use of
the “Puritan” shoe label. William
Purfield, a former manager for the
Puritan shoe store’ here, returned
last spring and announced that he
had purchased the right for Washte-
naw county to the name of “The
Puritan” from President Jameson, of
the general company. The company
went into the hands of a_ receiver.
Now R. H. Hoffstetter, the manager
of the old headquarters of the Puri-
tan shoe store, is retaining the name,
while Mr. Purfield has another store

also lebeled “Puritan Shoe Store.”
Purfield says that he is backed up by
Pingree & Smith, of Detroit, who are
making some of the shoes. A legal
f.ght will probably result.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Lansing—The Hall Lumber Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$12,000 to $30,000.

Ironwood—The Scott & Howe
Lumber Co. has increased its capital
stock from $50.000 to $75,000.

Talbot—The saw mill and general
store of the Butts & Lillie Co., Ltd.,
has been closed under a chattel mort-
gage.

Caro—Van Sickle & Johnston have
succeeded J. D. Wisley & Co. and
will continue to operate the flour
mill at this place.

South Boardman—The Harvey
Lumber Co. has disposed of its mill
property here and is putting up a
mill in Springfield township.

Detroit—The Puritan Cereal Co. .
has been organized with a capital
stock of $24,000, of which $500 is

paid in in cash and $23,500 in
property.
Grand Marais—The Walker Ve-

neer & Panel Works has changed
its name to the Great Lakes Veneer
& Panel Co. and decreased its capital
stock from $100,000 to $80,000.

Holly—Joseph Olk has retired
from the elevator and implement
firm of McLaughlin Bros. Co. The
business will be continued by James
and Thomas McLaughlin, under the
same style.

Highwood—Mcellvenna & Kings-
ley, who have purchased the inter-
ests of the Highwood Manufacturing
Co., are making preparations to re-
build the mill which burned some
few weeks ago. They expect to be
doing business in a few weeks.

Cadillac—Murphy & Diggins have
begun operations in their new saw-

mill, commonly known as Cummer,
Disgins & Co.’s “httle’) oni The
property has been idle for four

years and has been transformed from
a pine plant into a mill for cutting
hardwoods and hemlock.
Talbot—The Oakwood Cheese Co.
has been organized with a _ capital
stock of $5,000 to erect and conduct

‘2 cheese factory. Construction work

Gn a stone factory will be commenc-
ed this week and it is expected that
the factory will be able to start oper-
ations next April. It will have a
capacity of 10,000 pounds of milk
daily. An expert cheesemaker | will
have charge and it is expected that
a high quality of Switzer cheese will
be turned out. Other varieties will be
manufactured, but a specialty will be
made of Switzer.

 

 

 

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Abraham Das & Co. will succeed
john T. Thomasma in the meat busi-
ness.

Fred W. Fuller has purchased the
quarter interest of Ernest W. Bratt
in the grocery firm of Fred W. Ful-
ler & Co., 152 North Division street,
and will continue the business in his
own name.

The West Michigan State Fair
is in full blast this week, with com-
plete exhibits in. all departments,
splendid weather and a large attend-
ance. The exposition reflects much
credit on the management and on
all who have in any way contributed
to its success.

The American Express Co. is the
only ene of the local express com-
panies which declined to enter into
arrangement which enables ex-
Libitors to receive and receipt for
their shipments at the West Michi-
gan State Fair grounds. Probably
very few shipments to the next fair

will be made by the American.
a

The Produce Market.
Maiden

an

Apples—Wealthy, Blush,
King and strawberry varieties com-
mand $¢1.25@1.59 per bbl.
is large, but the demand
equal to the supply.

is nearly

The supply |

 

Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch- |

es; $1.50@1.75 for Jumbos. The de-
mand is as gocd as expected at this
season and the receivers
trouble in getting all the
wanted.

Beans—$1.50@1.65 for hand picked
mediums.

Beets—5oc per bu.

Butter—Receipts of dairy are mod-
erate, and the market is little
stronger. Factory creamery

have
supplies

a

is

strong at 20c for choice and 2ic for}

fancy. Dairy is steady at 1o@tIc for
packing stock and 15@16c for No.t.
Renovated is also moving freely at
16@17¢c.
Cabbage—45c per doz.
Carrots-—5oc per bu.
Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz.
Celery—i1se per doz. bunches.
Crabapples—6oc per bu. for Siber-
ian; 50c per bu. for General Grant.
Cranberries—Cranberries are more
abundant, but the price is steady at
$7 per bbl. The stock this week has
a better color than that offered last.
The Cape Cod crop seems io be
abundant. Wisconsin stock has not
arrived yet.
Cucumbers—toc per doz. for large;
18c per roo for pickling.
Eggs—Receipts have been below
consumptive requirements during the
past few days, in consequence of
which local dealers have been com-
pelled to draw on cold storage sup-
plies. Dealers pay 17@17'%4c for case
count, holding candled at 18@1o9c.
Egg Plant—8s5c per doz.
Grapes—Delawares command 1I5c
per 4tb. basket. They cannot be ship-

ped, because the railroads will not
accept them unless the baskets

are

no |

 

active seasons in these fruits.

covered and no covers can be obtain-
ed. Niagaras fetch 15c per 8tb. bas-
ket. Wordens command 13c for same
size package. Blue varieties in bu.
baskets fetch 80@ooc.

Green Corn— Ioc per doz.

Green Onions—Silver Skins,
per doz. bunches.

Green Peas—$1 per bu.

Green Peppers—65c per bu.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 1to@
12c and white ciover at I13@I15Sc.

15¢

Lemons — Californias command
$3.75@4 and Messinas fetch $3.75@4.
Stock is °° movyme- slowly, — but

about as could be expected at this
season of the year.

Lettuce—6oc per bu.

Musk Melons—Home-grown osage
fetch 50@60c per crate. Small Rocky-
fords command $1.25@I.50 per crate.

Onions — Southern (Louisiana),
$1.25 per sack; Silver Skins, $1.25 per
crate; Spanish, $1.40 per crate.

Oranges—Late Valencias, $4.25 per
box; Mexicans, $3.50@3.75 per box.
There is no change in this division
of the market. The amount of busi-
ness is small when compared with the
Peach-
es, pears, plums, apples, etc., are too
cheap and oranges are too high to
allow much trade in the latter.

Parsley—25c per doz. bunches.

Peaches—Chilis, $1@1.25; Crosbys,
$1.10@1.35; Crawfords, $1.50@1.75;
Elbertas, $1.00@1.85; Champions
(white), $1@1.25.

Plums—Lombards are out of mar-
ket. Green Gages are scarce and in
active demand at 1.50 per bu. Blue
varieties, $1.25(@1.40.

Pears—Flemish Beauties and Sugar
fetch $1 per bu. Bartletts are out of
market.

Potatoes—Local sales range from
35@4oc per bu. The crop of late
will be large, unless bad weather
should continue long enough to cause
rotting.

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

Poultry—Live stock is dull and
featureless, owing to light demand.
Spring chickens, 11@12c; hens, 9@
1oc; coarse fowls, 7@8c; spring tur-
keys, 10o@12%c; old turkeys, 9@IIc;
spring ducks, 9@1oc for white; Nes-
ter squabs are dull and slow sale at
$1.25.

Radishes—Round,
China Rose, 15c.

 

1oc; long and

14

Squash—Hubbard commands 1%c
per tb.
Sweet Potatoes — Virginias are

steady at $2 and Jerseys are in good
demand at $3 per bbl.
Tomatoes—60@75c per bu.
Turaips——s5oc per bu.
Watermelons—1o@I5c
Georgia.

Wax Beans—75c per bu.
—_.+-~> —___

And She Took It All In.

Mildred—You belong to a men’s
club? How in the world do you
amuse yourselves?

Jack (gently stroking her hair)—
We don’t try to amuse ourselves,
dear. Men’s clubs are for the pur-
pose of study and mutual improve-
ment.

apiece for

—__++2—_____
Few poets know the price of pro-
visions.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar (W. H. Edgar & Son)—
Since we wrote you on Sept. 13
there has been practically no change
in the sugar situation. Spot raws
are firmly held at 4 5-16c, with
transactions. Meantime such sugars
as have been offered for shipment
from Cuba or elsewhere have been
purchased at equal to about 4.33c,
duty paid. The speculative market
abroad has varied from day to day,
the week opening with sharp ad-
vances’ yesterday, affecting both
cane and beet supplies. Recent es-
timates of the continental crop indi-
cate a shortage much larger than
earlier estimates, and it is now prac-
tically certain that we shall enter the

no

 

new campaign in October with bare- |

ly enough sugar to go around.
indications point to continued upward

movement. Refined is in active de-
mand with constantly increasing
oversales. Withdrawals on _ out-

standing contracts are heavy and the
volume of new business is gaining
steadily. A very heavy late season

demand is generally expected in view |

of the fact that as yet none of the
later varieties of fruit have put in an
appearance. It is reasonable, there-
fore, to assume that the heavy de-
mand will continue well into October

All|

 

with no materizl improvement as re- |

gards deliveries. Therefore, we con-
tinue to advise purchases well in ad-
vance of requirements.

Tea—Fine Japans are scarce, but
the scarcity not been felt
strongly there, as most of the sea-

has so
son’s business in new Japans has been
done. All fine teas are
in excellent demand at

scarce and
firm prices.

There will probably not be a pound! © ea
ca cal ena u _|for compound syrup is_ fair.
of surplus in these lines this year. | ca i
| syrup is in excellent demand for ex-

Under grades are plenty, however,
and will likely have a prosperous
season. Another feature in connec-
tion with the Japan situation is that
the fine grades do not compare with
the fine grades of last year.

Coffee—Retaiiers are

 

coming to the belief that there is|

little danger in buying liberally at
the present figure and are ordering
in larger quantities than previously.
Package goods show no change in
price nor much in movement. They
are sold at a figure at which the
bulk goods can compete easily and
the latter is getting rather more than
its ordinary share of the trade.
Canned Goods—While the corn
crop in the South appears to be
large and a pack of corresponding
magnitude is indicated in Maine as
well as in New York, prospects ap-
pear to be anything but satisfactory
from the consumers’ standpoint be-
cause of the prolonged cold weather.
From
for a full delivery on Maine or New
York contracts are not at all promis-
ing. In some sections of the West,
notably Illinois, estimates of the out-
put are being reduced, owing to the
uneven condition of the crop. At
present there is little disposition on
the part of either buyers or sellers
to enter into fresh engagements. To-
matoes are being held back by the
low temperature and, unless Old Sol
soon asserts himself, the pack will

 

be small. A California report
says that a week or ten days will
practically tell the story so far as
the fruit pack 1s concerned and can-
ners will then be able to know with
some definiteness what their deliver-
ies will be.
nounced

very

Many packers have an-
that they will deliver but
£0 per cent. in peaches, particularly
in everything below extras. Some
expect to make full deliveries on both
sizes of extra peaches and on pears
and apricots. Prices
peaches have been good and
crop conditions in the immediate vi-
cinity packing
have that Baltimore. and
other packers will not have as many
to offer as might
have been the case.

Dried Fruits-
bought the carry-over of raisins and

for Eastern

fresh
sections

of Eastern

been such

goods otherwise

-A new syndicate has
has named new prices on them. The
syndicate opened the way for shrewd
buyers to pick up a lot of raisins a
week or two in advance at much. low-
These offered at
about %c below the syndicate’s new

€t prices. are now
Currants are unchanged. The
the reached
the New York port during the past
week.

prices.
first of new crop has
Prunes are selling in a small
way at unimproved prices. Peaches
are scarce. The available stock seems
to be all bought up and the situation
is strong. Apricots are likewise in
« strong position.

Syrup and Molasses—Glucose has
declined I0 points during the week,
in spite of the advancing corn mar-
ket. Competition manufac-
turers is the cause. As yet no change
has been made in the price of com-
any
demand

among

whether will

he

pound syrup, and
be is quite uncertain.

Sugar

port, and fairly active for home con-
sumption. well maintain-

Molasses is quiet

Prices are
ed and unchanged.

and unchanged. The first barrel of
new crop cane juice has been re-

| ceived in New Orleans, and sold at
generally |

$1 per gallon.

Provisions—There has been no

change in smoked meats during the

week. The demand has fallen off
considerably, put is still large. Pure
lard is Searce, owing to the large

demand and the high price of hogs.
The price is likely to advance. Com-
pound lard unchanged, but will
naturally follow lard in whatever that

does.

is

Barrel pork is unchanged and

in good demand. Dried beef is in
good demand at unchanged prices.
Canned meats are unchanged and
quiet.

a

Horatio B. Lewis, formerly Mana-
ger of the Elk Rapids Iron Co., but

|for the past year engaged in exploit-
present indications the chances |

ing a new lumber, manufacturing and
Cuba, has
returned to this country and formed
with Wm. H. White &
30yne City lumbermen. Mr.
Boyne City his
continue

agricultural enterprise in

an alliance
Co., the
Lewis will make
but
reside in Ypsilanti, where his family
was located while he was absent in

Cuba.

headquarters, will to

—_~+~+.—____
It takes a man to draw the map of
a woiman’s heart.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Autumn Fancies Seen in Local Store
Fronts.

The time seems to have gone by

light in chewing chunks of, but for
these many deceased insects to be so
close to the ground drug—well, a
possible mix-up was really not a

| pleasant thought to thrust upon the
| passer-by.

Of course, it is hard to keep things
immaculate in a dusty town—every
one knows that-—but when the things

 

when one may not cast a surreptitious |
glance into a handsome store win-|

dow, and, judging by the crowds that
stand continually in front of
store fronts—crowds composed
all sorts and conditions of humans—
it must even be permissible to look
at the displays behind the glass

those
the |
of |

a |

longer time than a stolen glance im- |

plies.

Certainly, the merchandise of the

iooks with an intelligent eye at the

displayed in a window are intended
for the consumption of mankind,
either as food, beverage og drug,
who have the care of such
should see to it that nothing in the
nature of dirt is allowed to come
in contact with them. This should
go without saying, but I am sorry to
state that if one steps but casually
into any store that caters to the
inner man he is sure to be confronted

| with disgusting spectacles that cause
cry goods and kindred stores daily |
becomes more beautiful, and if one |

objects placed for his—mostly her— |
inspection much of interest may be|

learned.

Grand Rapids’ stores are paying

him to register a solemn vow—men-
tally, of course—-never to buy a pen-
ny’s worth of stuff in such-and-sucha
department again. These things ought
not be, but I suppose we must

|go on till the end o’ time and>eat

more attention to harmony of colors |

than used to be the case; and incon- |

gruous articles are not so often seen
im proximity. Also more care

Monroe street drug store exhibit of

different sorts of licorice, which al- |
lowed hundreds of dead flies to accu- |
all |

mulate on the window _ floor
around the powdered licorice. This
condition would not have mattered so
much as to the stick form, or
hard black stuff that the children de-

things with our eyes shut.
I heard a man say, the other day,

that if he ran an eatables store he

| would paste up a most rigid set ot

is |
given to the detail of cleanliness, al- |
though that was a faux pas, ina recent |

the |

rules as to personal cleanliness and
care of goods, on the part of his
clerks, and any one known to in-
| fringe one of them should instantly
| be discharged.

I am thinking this man’s store
| would look pretty lonesome behind
| the counters about 313 days of the
| year!

_ * *
| But I started out to speak of a

 

 

 

more agreeable topic than the aver-
age grocery store, and somehow the
trolly got off the wire.

* * *

Last week I mentioned the neat
jewelry exhibit of W. D. Werner, op-
posite the Morton House. To-day
the arrangement of his goods is even
more attractive. The larger part of
the window floor covered with
some soft white cotton stuff and one
section presents a patch of old-fash-
medium

is

ioned blue delaine, in a
shade. Boxes, four or five of them,
are placed underneath these mate-
rials, giving variety as to the way
objects may be placed. Men’s open-
ed hunting-cases to the number of
fourteen occupy one of the covered
boxes, while thirteen ladies’ watches
with similar cases are displayed on
the blue cloth. All are laid the
same position as to the beholder, giv-
ing the appearance of even a larger
number. Two clocks catch the eye
snd a small silver tray and things
for serving tea, also a unique card
holder, in shades of bronze and
green. Du Barry chatelaine
fobs for the Fair Sex are very pret-
ty, and one other is especially so,

in

Some

very dainty, made of gold in such a

manner that the little points shine
like jewels.
* * *

Several of Herpolsheimer’s  win-
dows were covered with white can-
vas, indicating that something was
doing behind it in the way of new
decorations. One of the large side-
walk contains beautiful
white drawn work,

show cases

doilies in hun-

 

 

 

 

dreds of “Tenerife wheels” being em-
ployed in the borders. These wheels
have sprung into great prominence
during the past year, both for use
with linen in articles for the dining
room and alone and in combination
with other designs for the embellish-
ment of ladies’ dresses, cloaks, un-
derwear. One even sees them on
hats. Said originally to be hand
made by the poorer of the
women inhabitants of Tenerife, one
of the Canary Islands, it is to be
doubted if the profusion now shown
on every side ever felt the touch of
Islander’s fingers. The
machinery another nation, or
nations, has probably been called into
play.

a Tenerife
of

Who that stopped to feast the eyes
on the glove display of the Herpol-
sheimer Co., fronting the
but just ached to catch up the big
pieces of white and cream real kid,
such as “handschuhen” are made of,
and softly stretch out the delightful

entratce,

stuff! The gray “undressed” piece
isn’t so “temptizing,’ owing to the

carker tint and the rougher feel. One
could envy the daily seller of the
peautiful finished product—if one
“forgot to remember” how tired her
fingers are at nightfall, from the
countless trying on—the working of
obstreperous big hands into’ gloves
that the buyer insists will be “big
enough.” One pair of white gloves
is fit for a duchess—such dear little
stitching on the back in green and
white! “Roeckl,” or some _ such
name, is given as that of the manu-
facturer.

The Smile That Won’t Come Off

The Smile that means delight and mirth,

The Smile that beams around the earth,

The Smile that smiles for all it’s worth----
The Smile That Won’t Come Off.

The Smile that widens in delight,

That makes all frowns fly out of sight,

th Quaker Oats smit—
that’s all right!
The Smile That Won’t Come Off.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

|

And the bags! Who can resist their
prettiness? But, my goodness, how
they cost! If one sets out to get
an appropriate money holder for each
of her gowns, or for the prevailing
color of the accessories of such

gowns, she can make more than a
hole in her monthly stipend—she |
can simply swamp it! A capacious
black sealskin bag is marked $12. |
It has a blatk lining of moire and all
the little pockets of folderols inside
—very nice for a dressy old dowager

but too sensible for a younger wom- |
an. Two of the bags are similar in |
size and shape, rather small and box |
like. One is a delicate sage green, |
the other a warm brown, really bor- |
dering on the burnt orange. And
that big alligator skin—big but not
too big! Ah, what a love of a thing,
with its smooth, shining edges and

its rough piny center! There is

something uibout this rich, coarse
ieather that one simply can’t get
away from—to see is to be seized
with the most maddening desire to
possess! This love of a bag is lined
with 2a white moire, sprinkled with
soft pink wild roses and the accom-
panying greenery of their delicate

foliage.

If only the kid skins and the gloves
and the bags had been put into this |
outside show case it would have been |
perfection, but some one threw in
two suede belts garish in color—
utterly at variance with the rest of)
the contents—one of them a dread-
ful green green and the other a/|
Royal blue, spoiling the whole thing.
‘Too bad.

eee

That boy who stands, sits or re- |
clines in Foster, Stevens & Co.’s al-
ways-interesting west window must

be something of an actor, for he
makes of himself whatever suits the |
caprice of his master, the window- |
man. Last week he was sleeping— |
with his eyes wide open—in a volum- |
inous canvas sack for hunters’ use. |
To-day he lounges on a box in the |
center of a display of goods of spe- |
cial attraction to devotees of the!

pigskin. Numerous deadly guns |

stand in a semicircle behind him,
which, even if known not to be load-
ed, would scare a woman dummy out
of her wits—if she had any to lose.
Men, women and children are always
to be found gazing at the sporting |
goods exhibited in this window. They |
seem to draw like a lodestone.
. << =

The Millard Palmer) Co. has a
quadrilateral space done in a quiet
ereen for the floor and background,
in which is on display a frieze of
popular magazines, while on the floor
iest copies of “The Foolish Diction-
ary” (Gideon Wurdz) and some forty-
odd copies of Melvin E. Trotter’s
“Jimmy Moore of Bucktown,” which
iatter is destined to be of help to|

 

boys—and older boys. |

——__2+..—__—_ |

Trying a More Plausible Tale.

The lady—_That ismt the same |

story you told me before. |

The beggar—No, lady; you didn’t |

believe the other one.

| |

Some men can’t even tell the truth
without lying about it.

     

 

      
  
 

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TRANSFORMATION OF JAPAN.
The transformation of Japan, from
the condition cf an Oriental despot-
ism steeped in Eastern superstition
and virtually enveloped in barbarism,
to be an empire with a constitutional
government, conducted on the high-
est principles of popular justice, with
the most modern enlightenment in
public and private affairs, the entire
wonderful change having taken place
in little more than a quarter of a cen-
tury, is one of the most astonishing
facts in the history of civilization.

The original government of Japan}
| fore the Court and the Assembly of

made it a sort of religious despotism.
The Mikado was theoretically an ab-
solute monarch having the power of
life and death over his people, but
held in such sanctity that he had vir-
tually no communication with them.
He reigned through the Shogun, an
official appointed by the Mikado, and
vested with supreme military power.
In the course of time the Shoguns
absorbed the whole of the governing
power, civil as well as military, and
the Shoguns being appointed from
among the powerful nobles or chiefs,
there grew up in the country a
governing class which regarded the
Shoguns as their immediate superiors
and the Mikado as a sort of sacred
individual who was kept in seclusion.

Thus it came about that the Mika-
do was the nominal ruler of the coun-
try, but, although he was treated
with the greatest respect, was in real-
ity a prisoner in his palace at Kyoto.
The country was divided into numer-
cus principalities, which were more
or less independent. Japan was an
empire in name, but no longer an em-
pire in fact. Thus the land was ruled
by a number of great feudal chiefs,
who were supported by their armed
retainers, the samurai, the soldier
caste of Japan. The autonomous ter-
ritories of the great nobles were ruled
on different principles—they possess-
ed their own laws, finances and regu-
lations. There was consequently, per-
haps, less unity in Japan then than
there is at present in China.

In the absence of a powerful cen-
tralizing influence, the country had
become divided against itself; the
formerly unquestioned authority of
the Shoguns had been shaken and
gravely compromised, the nobles

 

were intriguing for power, the people
were arbitrarily and harshly treated,
feudalism felt the ground heave and
give away under its pressure.

The numerous Daimios, the great
feudal lords of Old Japan, were gener-
ous patrons of literature and art, and
strove to make their residences not
only seats of power, but also centers
of learning. From these learned cir-
cles the ultimate revolt against the
Shoguns’ usurpation took its begin-
ning. In 1715 the Prince of Mito fin-
ished, with the assistance of a host of
scholars, his great work, “Dai Nihon
Shi,” or history of Japan. This class-
ical work was copied by hand by in-
dustrious students and eager patriots,
and was circulated throughout the
empire, being printed only in 1851.
It is characteristic of the spirit of
intense and reflective patriotism of
Japan that this celebrated compila-
tion, which gave an account of the
decay of the Mikado’s power and of
the usurpation by the Shoguns, be-
came the strongest factor in the
eventful overthrow of the Shogunate,
in the re-establishment of the Mika-
do’s power, and in the unification of
the empire.

The result of this agitation was
that in 1867 the ruling Shogun vol-
untarily resigned his position, and the
office was finally abolished. The
present Mikado, Mutsu Hito,
was then in power, was thoroughly in
sympathy with the reformers, and on
the 17th of April, 1869, he took be-

Daimios the charter oath of five arti-
cles, which in substance were as fol-
lows:

1. A deliberative assembly shall be
formed, and all measures shall be de-
cided by public opinion. ‘

_2. The principles of social and po-
litical science shall be constantly
studied by both the higher and lower
classes of the people.

3. Everyone in the community shall
be assisted in obtaining liberty of ac-
tion for all good and lawful purposes.

4. All the oid, absurd usages of
tormer times shall be abolished and
the impartiality and justice which are
displayed in the working of nature
shall be adopted as the fundamental
basis of the State.

5. Wisdom and knowledge shall be
sought after in all quarters of the civ-
iiized world, for the purpose of firm-
ly establishing the foundations of
Empire.

Thus the Mikado identified himself
with the cause of reform, pledged the
nation to progress, and made the suc-
cess of the movement towards the
modernization of Japan a certainty.
Henceforth the whole of the nation
strove for progress and_ enlighten-
ment with that passionate will-power
and singleness of purpose not
found outside Japan. It is not neces-
sary to detail the various steps of
progress made in organizing the gov-
ernment. It is enough to say thata
house of parliament was established
to which the members are chosen by
popular elections.

Colleges and_ universities
founded, and professors and teachers
were drawn from Europe and Ameri-
ca, while young men were sent to the
most advanced foreign countries to
study every branch of learning and
science, warfare on land and sea, and
whatever else could be of value to

were

who |

 

 

|

the country. To-day, Japan has its
own military end naval schools, it
makes its own cannon and small arms,
which are of superior quality, and its
ewn gunpowder and other explosives,
which are not surpassed in destruc-
tive power by those of any other na-
tion, while the Japanese armies and
navy have proved themselves to be
most skillful in war and wondrful
fighters.

Japan is the only Oriental country
in which constitutional free institu-
tions are incorporated in the govern-
mental system, and they have inspired
the people with most distinguished
sentiments of honor and patriotism.
It has been said in every age that a
true spirit of liberty and patriotism
based on a system of free govern-
ment is absolutely necessary for the
creation of the highest courage and
heroic love of country and sense of
duty. This certainly seems true with
regard to the Japanese. There are no
Asiatics like them in those respects,
and they are not surpassed by the
people of any of the Western na-
tions.

The transformation of Japan must
be considered one of the wonders of
the modern world.

 

In the ancient times Latin was the
language most recognized. In the
last century French was the tongue
most used in diplomacy and_ the
language most desirable for a trav-
eler to speak fluently. There is every
reason to believe this century will
see the general adoption and that
before its close English will be the
tongue of the business man and the
diplomat. Its adoption is spreading
rapidly. For years it has been true
that an American could go anywhere
in Europe and get along very com-
fortably with no linguistic attainments

| beyond the language of his own coun-

 

try. Great Britain has its colonies
around the globe and on them the
sun never sets. There of course Eng-
lish is the recognized language. The

| Americans in recent years have been

pressing forward very rapidly and
successfully and have still further in-
troduced the same language. The in-
crease of English speaking has been
very noticeable in the last decade or
two and is bound to press still fur-
ther forward. To-day the business
man who does not speak English is
at a disadvantage in the markets of
the world. Commerce and diplomacy
are the two influences which work for
the popular spread of any language
and they are both enlisted very earn-
estly. There are those who believe
that one day all the inhabitants of
the world will speak English, but of
necessity that day must be very far
distant. The growth, however, is
very perceptible.

 

In a number of the leading stores
of Edinburgh and Glasgow there isa
notice: “Americans not served here.”
Yankee shoppers used to cause the
proprietors and their assistants to
turn the shops topsy-turvy until they
looked like a rummage sale and then
would clevate their noses and “guess
we'll try somewhere else.” Hence the
notice.

CANADIAN CANALS.

The Canadians have been much
more progressive than Americans in
the construction of artificial water-
They are keeping at it right

They began seventy-five

ways.
busily.
years ago canalizing natural water
courses, but internal dissensions, lack
of funds and opposition for various
reasons in and out of Parliament
have caused deiay, but during the
last decade the enterprises have been
taken up with renewed interest. For
example, the Trent waterway covers
a total distance of 203 miles, 165 of
which are now navigated by steam-
boat and only three miles of actual
canal remain to be dug before it
will be open from end to end. It ex-
tends from the Georgian Bay to the
Bay of Quinte, which is an arm of
Lake Ontario, and will offer the
shortest water route for grain from
the Northwest to tidewater. It is
over 700 miles shorter than via the
Erie Canal to New York.

One of the great engineering feats
is the hydraulic lift lock recently
put into service at Peterborough,
Ont., where a fall of 65 feet has been
overcome by the construction of a
single lock operating automatically
and doing the work of five ordinary
locks. There are similar devices in
England, France and Belgium, but
this is the first cn this continent. The
Canadians are especially proud be-
cause it was designed and built en-
tirely by their own people. By
means of it steamers and 800 ton
barges are easily handled. The man-
ifest object of the Canadians _ of
course is to control the transporta-
tion of grain and other products from
the Great Northwest to tidewater,
realizing that the question of com-
mercial supremacy is involved in that
zchievement. The millions of money
spent in the province for these pur-
poses would lose much of its effec-
tiveness if there were a ship canal
from Oswego via the Mohawk and
Hudson Rivers to New York, so that
steamers of reasonable size could go
from Duluth to tidewater without
breaking bulk. That would be the
most direct channel and the cheapest
and hence, of course, it would do the
greater part of the business. The
United States is waking up to the
importance of water transportation
and in time will provide the facilities.

 

Sunday evening a man went along
Avenue B in New York, followed by
@ great concourse of cats of all col-
ors and kinds. They rubbed up
against him and manifested the most
intense delight. For a time the
crowds attractec by the unusual spec-
tacle could not understand how the
man had hypnotized the felines, but
it was soon discovered that he was
scattering catnip as he moved along.
_The fellow was taken to a police sta-
tion, all the cats following him, and
fighting their way into the cell to
which he was assigned. The police
had hard work getting them out. The
next morning the man paid a fine of
$5, which he seemed to consider a

small price for the fun he had ob-
tained.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

9

 

SONGS THAT THRILLED.

Famous Words and Tunes Produced
by the War.

One of the lingering superstitions

of the war is contained in a beautiful

little poem by Bayard Taylor:
“Give us a song,”’ the soldier cried,

The outer trenches guarding,

When the heated guns of the camp allied

Grew weary of bombarding.

It is not at all likely that the sold-
iers did anything of the kind. There
were isolated cases when they broke
into 2 song of triumph during battle
‘vhen the victory was coming their
be
counted on the fingers of one hand.
There too,

wounded men, in the supreme mo-

way, but those instances can

are instances, where

ment of dissolution, with the trans-
figuring glow of another world ir-
iadiating their faces, sang songs
which inspired their comrades and
sent them with renewed energy into
the conflict, but they also are few.
When a great conflagration threat-
ens human life and endangers vast
property interests men do not go with
songs on their lips to put it out.
When floods devastate populous dis-
tricts, rescuers do not set out on the
boiling singing triumphal
hymns, and the roar and smoke of
battle is ten million times more terri-

ble than either.

When the bugles sang truce
And the night cloud had lowered |
{

the men sank to rest almost where}
they stood. Exhausted nature could |
endure no more. If perchance they |
had themselves escaped the fiery mis- |
siles all about them were destruction
and death, Dr. Root, m Just After
the Battle,” gives a graphic descrip-
tion of the scene.

still upon the field of battle

I am lying, mother dear,
With my wounded comrades waiting
For the morning to appear.

Many sleep to waken never.

In this world of strife and death,

And many more are faintly calling

With their feeble dying breaths.

There were hundreds of people
who spoiled reams of nice white pa-
per with pieces they called “National
Odes” and “Anthems,” “Battle
Hymns of the Republic’ and_ ludi-
crously pathetic drivel of various
kinds. The trash in the song world, |
like drift in a nood, always comes to |
the surface at such times, and like
driftwood most of it piled up on the
shore and was buried in the sands
of oblivion. But very few of these
“pieces” ever got outside of the music
stores, and of those that did, the
good was speedily sifted from the
bad, and that worthy to live has be-
come part and parcel of the history
of the great conflict.

Much of the music now known as
“War Songs” was not written until
the war was almost ended. The most
popular writers of music at that pe-
riod were Dr. George F. Root, Chas.
Carro!l Sawyer and Henry C. Work,
and the most famous of the few war
songs was Dr. Root’s “Battle Cry of
Freedom.” It was written in 1861
and sung first at a big “rally” held in
Union Square, New York, just after
the first call for 75,000 men. It was
sung by a male quartet and took the
loyal throng by storm. It is said by
those who were there that the sing-
ing of the lines,

 

waters

 

We are springing to the call, your broth-
ers gone before,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom.
And we'll fill the vacant ranks with a
million freemen more,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom,

We will welcome to our numbers the

loval, true and brave.
Shouting the battle cry of freedom,
And although they may be poor, not a
man shall be a slave,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom,

So we’re springing to the call from the
east and from the west,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom,
And we'll hurl the rebel crew from the
land we love the best,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom,

caused a frenzied demonstration of
patriotism that was allied to insanity
and utterly indescribable. The flow-
ing rhythm of the melody was catch-
ing, and before the third verse was
sung the words of the chorus were
written in every heart present and a
great volume of rich melody went up
from the throats of the multitude, as
all joined in singing the grand rally-
ing chorus. The song was from that
moment enshrined in the heart of
every man, woman and child in the
North. The marching columns car-
ried it South and it became the one
great song of the Northern armies,
“John Brown” only disputing its su-
premacy. Of this nondescript father-

less song Mr. R. H. Dana, Jr., once |

wrote: “It would have been past be-

lief had we been told that the almost |

undistinguished name of John Brown

 

should be whispered among four mil- |

lion of slaves and sung wherever the
Englisk language is spoken and in-

| corporated into an anthem to whose

solemn cadences men would march to
battle by tens of thousands.”

It is to be regretted that so few of
the better class of verse writers de-
voted their talent to the production
of the songs of the war period. But,
poor as the poetry usually was, if it
had but a line or two which touched
a responsive chord in aching hearts

|it became popular at once, and the
airs being simple were easily learned.

Very soon everybody in the North

who was not too busy reading, writ- |
|one of the pathetic old songs and he|
will have a reminiscence ready for |

ing or asking questions about the
war, was singing about it or playing
variations on the popular melodies,
which even the bootblacks in the
streets were whistling.

The war songs sung in the North |

Those that penetrated
to the South were very few and not
many of those were generally sung.
The men close to the enemy’s guns
were too busy dodging bullets and
returning guerrilla fire to attend
“singing school.” The high falsetto
of rebel minie balls as they came
screeching through the air was much
more familiar to them than the “Star
Spangled Banner” or “America,” al-
though they in time learned those,
too.

It was in the North that most of
the songs were “made.” The cities
became vast recruiting stations,
where congregated the gallant boys
of all ages and from every section
of the country. Mighty mass meet-
ings were held nightly to discuss the
great problem of the war and to
arouse the spirit of patriotism in the
hearts of the people. Glee clubs,
brass bands and drum corps vied with
each other in entertaining the loyal
audiences, and the effect that these
songs had upon the people was a prac-

were legion.

 

tical test upon their popularity and
longevity of i:fe. Company after
company, regiment after
was formed, and as the brave boys

marched away the new-born songs
greeted them on every side. Tuneful |

tongues and retentive minds carried
those songs South. And how the
“old” boys love to hear them to-day.
They hear the bugle pealing forth

brazen notes,
They listen to the rolling of the drums,

its

The sounding call to arms, the battle |
clash and din, .
Like mocking echoes with the songs

they come.
The fire is burning low, the sentry lonely
treads

With slow and measured step his weary |

round.
All these he seems to see as he listens
to those songs,
Those songs they sang upon
camp ground.

“Wrap the flag around me, boys,”
cried a yOung soldier who fell mortal-

the old

ly wounded at Fort Donelson on Feb- |

ruary 14, 1862. His last words were
carried home to his friends, and on
that Dr. Root founded the song. Just
try singing,
Oh, wrap the flag around me, boys,
To die were far more sweet
With freedom’s starry emblem, boys,
To be my winding sheet.
In life I loved to see it wave
And follow where it led,

And now my eyes grow dim, my hands |

Would clasp its last bright shred.

Oh, IT had thought to meet you, boys,
On many a well-won field

When to our starry emblem, boys,
The trait’rous foe should yield.

But now, alas, I am denied
My dearest earthly prayer,

You'll follow and you'll meet the foe,
Rut I shall not be there,

ind you will open the heart and un-

lock the lips of the grimmest old vet- |

eran living. He will tell you of the
terrible battle of the Wilderness and
how his corps, the ninth, was driven

back with heavy loss, but, reform-

ing, confronted the enemy, and how}

in that second charge his messmate
went down with a bullet through his
lungs and only life enough to gasp,
“Wrap me in the flag, boys, and don’t
let the rebs get me.” Or mayhap it

will be a hero of Cold Harbor or a/|

survivor of South Mountain. Sing

to anv one of these war-worn veterans |

you.

“Just Before the Battle, Mother,” |

was one of the songs worn thread-
bare in the North. Like “Just After

the Battle,” the poetry as poetry was |

simply awful. There was a studied

effort at rhyme that was painful in|
its precision and a certainty of “Jjin- |

a

gle” that jarred horribly, but these

were two great songs of that day.

All the songs made for the *period |
covering the war were not sad by)
One of the notable comic |
C. Work |

1852 and sung on every concert |

any means.
songs,
in

written by Henry

stage in the North, “Babylon

Has

was

in war:

Don’t you see de black cloud risin’ over
yondah,
Whar de massa’s old plantation am?
Nebber you be frightened, dem is only
darkeys

}
| Look out dar now, we’s gwine to shoot!

regiment |

Fallen,” and marked the first |
general participation of the negroes |

Come to jine and fight for Uncle Sam. |

Don't you see de lightnin’ flashin’ in de |

eane brake,

Like as if we’s gwine to hab a storm? |

No! you is mistaken, ’tis de darkeys’
bayonets |
An’ de buttons on dar uniform

Way up in de corn field, whar you hear
de tunder,
Dat is our ole forty-pounder gun;
When de shells is missin’, den we load
wid punkins,
All de same to make de cowards run.

Look out dar, don’t you understan’?
Babylon has fallen, Babylon has fallen,
An’ we’s gwine ter occurpy de lan’.

It took like wildfire and was much

sung in the South to taunt the
‘Johumes,’ who hated it most
| heartily.

| One of the topical songs of the

| North, issued in ’63 by Henry Work,
| was “Corporal Schnapps.” It wasso
iiull of homely pathos and contained
such a graphic picture of the life
“down South” that everybody sang it:
| Mine heart ish broken into little pits,
I tells you, friendt, vat for,
Mine schweetheart, von coot patriot kirl,
She trives me off mit ter war.
I fights for her der pattles mit der flag,
I schtrikes so prave as I can.
Put now long time she nix remembers me,
Andt coes mit another man.

{I march all tay, no matter if ter schtorm
Pe more ash Moses’ flood,
I lays all night mine headt
schtump
Andt s-i-n-k-s to schleep in der mudt.
They. kives me hart pread, tougher as a
rock,
It almost preaks mine shaw,

upon a

I schplits him sometimes mit an iron
wedge
Andt cuts him opp mit a saw.
| They kives me peaf so ferry, ferry salt,

Like Sodom’'s wife, you know,

I surely dinks dey put him in der
Von hundred years acoe.
Everybody who can remember any-

{thing about the war wil! recall the
desolate Thanksgiving of 1861. Thir-
| teen stars in the Union blue had been
dimmed by treason and_ secession.
The federal troops had met with re-
| pulse and disaster in every direction.
The South was acting under its new
government the breach was
| growing wider each day, while all the
strength and manhood of the North
were rushing to dam the tide of dis-
loyalty

prine

and

and disunion. Then was born
a song worthy of the time and topic.
It was not sectional and was sung in
Southern homes as well as Northern.
Dr. Root composed and dedicated it
| to the homes made desolate by the
War, and it was sump at a great
Thanksgiving Gemonstration in New
York on that day:
We shall meet, but we shall miss him.
There will be one vacant chair;
We shall linger to caress him, ’
While we breathe our evening pray’r.

At our fireside, sad and lonely,
Often will the bosom swell
At remembrance of the story
How our noble Willie fell,
| How he strove to bear our banner
In the thickest of the fight
| And uphold our country’s honor
In the strength of manhood's might.

True, they tell us wreaths of glory

Ever more will deck his brow,

gut this only soothes the anguish
Sweeping o’er our heartstrings now.
Sleep to-day, O early fallen,

In thy green and narrow bed,
Dirges from the pine and cypress

Mingle with the tears we shed.

Then on Juiy 1, 1862, came the call
| for 300,000 more men! Hearts that
beat high with hope that the war was
about to end almost broke under that
stunning biow. Again the song writ-
er was equal to the occasion, and if
the measure was mixed and the poet-
|ic feet sprouted corns and bunions in
an effort “to get there” there was
nothing the matter with the feet that
| measured its music into marching
time. Right bravely the boys tramp-
ed away, and loyally they sung:

We are coming, Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand more,
From Mississippi’s winding stream and

from New England’s shore,

We leave our plows and workshops, our
wives and children dear,
With hearts too full for utterance,

but a silent tear.

with

| If you look across the hill tops that meet

the northern sky,
Long moving lines of rising dust, your
vision may descry,

| And now the wind an instant tears the

eloudy veil aside,

And floats aloft our spangled flag in

glory and in pride.

 

    

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

If you look all up our valleys where the
growing harvests shine,

You may see our sturdy farmer boys fast
forming into line,

And children at their mother’s knees are
pulling at the weeds,
And learning how to reap and sow
against their country’s needs.
You’ve called us and we're coming by
Richmond's bloody tide,

To lay us down for freedom’s sake, our
brothers’ bones beside.

Or from foul treason’s savage grasp to
wrench the murderous blade,

And in the face of foreign foes its frag-
ments to parade.

Six hundred thousand loyal men and true
have gone before,

We are coming, Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand more.

When at last the North had been
drained of its best blood and still the
gaping hell of war yawned for more
gore to feed its thirst the “draft” or
conscripting and pressing into service
was resorted to. Many and ludicrous
were the incidents of this method of
raising troops, and the crop of comic
songs with “drafting” for their theme
was unusually large. Only one,
“They've Gratted Him Into the
Army,” lived very long, however. An-
other which was sung almost exclu-
sively in the North and with most in-
sulting emphasis was, “How Are
You, Conscript?” The loyal North
had not much faith in “conscripted”
soldiers and the boys down South
had less, and the poor fellows led a
hard life until they demonstrated in
some way the misapplication of the
doggerel, which ran as follows:
How are you, conscript!

to-day?
The provost marshal’s got you in
A very tight place they say.

How are you

Oh, you should not mind it,
Nor breathe another sigh,

For you’re only going to Dixie
To fight and—mind your eye.

How are you, conscript? How are you
to-day?

You'll give us all a lock of your hair

Before you go away.

How are you, conscript? How are you
my boy?

I spose you take it rather hard,

Since you’re your mother’s joy.

How are you, conscript? How are you
to-day?

Have you got three hundred in green-
backs

To pony up and pay?

In :863, thinking that the war was
about over, and looking to the end,
the whole North was singing:
When Johnny comes marching

again,
Hurrah, hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrah, hurrah!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout,
The ladies they will all turn out,
And we'll all feel gay when
Johnny comes marching hcme

“When This Cruel War is Over”
was a much sung song both North
and South, and was particularly fruit-
ful in parodies.

Heavily falls the rain,

Wild are the breezes to-night.
and the chorus,

Brave bovs are they,

Gone at their country’s call.

And yet, and yet, we cannot forget

That many brave boys must ({all,
was one of the best songs of the
period and one of the best sung since
the war.

One of the grand old favorites writ-
ten in 1864 has been growing in favor
with the years, and half a hundred
grizzlzd old veterans will sing it all
night, alternating with “Marching
Through Georgia,” if you'll give them
half a chorus:

We've been tenting to-night
On the old camp ground.
Many are dead and gone,
Of the brave and the true

Who've left their homes
Others been wounded long.

home

Many are the hearts that are weary to-
night,

Waiting for the war to cease;

Many are the hearts looking for the night

To see the dawn of peace.

 

The song of all songs, however, to
the veteran soldier is “Marching
Through Georgia,” the production of
Henry C. Work, in 1865. Age can
not wither nor custom stale the infi-
nite variety of ways in which this
song is served up, from the newsboy
on the street to the tenore robusto
who sings campaign songs, and from
Gilmore’s band to Dago organ the
gamut of human and artificial instru-
mentalities is run with varying suc-
Since Sherman was “mustered
out” the “boys” have taken a melan-
choly delight in singing:

Bring the good old bugle, boys,

We'll have another song;
Sing with the spirit

That will start the world along;
Sing it as we used to sing it,

Fifty thousand strong,

While we were marching through Georgia.

cess.

How the darkies shouted
When they heard the joyful sound,
How the turkeys gobbled
Which our commissary found,
Hlow the sweet potatoes
Even started from the ground
While we were marching through Georgia.

Sherman’s dashing Yankee boys

Will never reach the coast,
So the saucy rebels said.

‘t was a handsome boast,
Had they not forgotten, alas!

To reckon with their host,
While we were marching through Georgia.
So we cleared a thoroughfare

For freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude,

Three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us,

For resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia.

The old general hated the song with
a holy horror. And in Boston, where
the 250 bands and over a_ hundred
drum and fife corps passed him in the
reviewing stand where he stood for
seven mortal hours listening to the
never-ending din, the tail end of the
tune played by the last band fairly
dove-tailing in with the same old tune
played by the next one in line, the
general got wild and swore a great
round oath that he never would at-
tend another National encampment
until every band in the United States
had signed an agreement to not play
“Marching Through Georgia” in his
presence. That was his last encamp-
ment. When next the tune was play-
ed in his presence it fell as a dead
march upon unheeding ears.

The muffled drum’s sad roll had beat
The soldier’s last tattoo.

Charles E. Belknap.
22...
Down With the Helm.

A man never drifts from worse to
bad—it is always from bad to worse.
No one becomes better from laissez
faire. No ship ever gains the harbor
with a free rudder. Good never comes
from natural development. Some who
read this know what giving loose rein
to desire, appetite or passion means.
A short time ago you would have
been shocked at the suggestion that
you would do some of the things that
are now a common part of your life.
You wandered farther and farther out
from the straight path until you
scarcely recognize in yourself the
man who walked in your boots a
year or two ago. Isn’t it time to
“hard down” the helm and bring her
up to the wind? Are you willing to
take the risk of running free like this
for another six months? Where will
you be if you continue the thoughts,
the acts that have made your life for
the past six months a walking night-
mare? Listen to the fog bell. Down
with the helm.—Canadian Shoe Jour-
nal.

 

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Bought Out an Entire
Jobbing Stock of Shoes

A few days ago The Lacy Shoe Co. (wholesale
shoe dealers of Caro who are closing up their af-
fairs) made us a proposition on their stock. So
our Mr. Waldron looked the whole thing over and
bought their entire stock of shoes and shipped
them over to our Saginaw warehouse.

 

 

This gives us an opportunity to offer some
very interesting bargains to our many friends
about the State.

Would also call attention to the fact that we
are State Agents for the celebrated Lycoming
and Keystone Rubbers and have an immense
stock of new fresh goods.

 

 

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

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

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Utilize Election Time for Advertis-
ing.

The time for talking politics is at
hand, and the spellbinders will soon
be amongst us, pouring forth impas-
sioned appeals to support their vari-
ous political candidates. Then is the
merchant’s opportunity to take ad-
vantage of the situation and turn it
to his profit.

One way is to obtain pictures of
the various candidates for the presi-
cency. Most of the magazines and
newspapers will contain their  por-
traits. Look up some of the principal
criticisms concerning the claims of
each for election and arrange them
by pasting them underneath their
several portraits. When this is done,
paste them inside the show windows
where they can be easily read. Above
all the line of portraits put a card
with the words in large, plain letters,
“Take Your Choice.”

Get a printed statement of the
pluralities by popular vote and elec-
toral vote of each state for President
for 1900. These will be found in the
newspapers and magazines. Paste it
in a conspicuous place in the window.
Such statements are eagerly read be-
fore election time, and the people will
stop to read them. All the passers-by
will be interested and by giving all
the candidates you will escape the
criticism of being partisan.

Of course, the end and aim of all
this kind of advertising is to draw
attention to the window display.

The windows should be decorated
neatly in red, white and blue, and
among the shoes there should be dis-
tributed cards with pertinent sayings
combining election and shoe talk:

You have a choice for President.
We have choice shoes.

We have footwear for followers of
all candidates.

Vote for your favorite. He’ll walk
easy if he wears our make of shoes.

To Voters—Republicans, Demo-
crats, Prohibitionists, Socialists, Pop-
ulists will march easy in the proces-
sion if they buy their shoes here.

Election Bets. Bettors will find our
shoes better than all others to pay
bets.

These cards can be written by
hand, in large letters, and often at-
tract more attention to them than if
they were printed in type.

Another plan is to use the cards
for distribution amongst the crowds
that gather at the various meetings.
Take each saying, print on small sep-
arate cards, with the firm name and
address at bottom and_ circulate
them at intervals. The cost of the
whole series would be trifling and
the results in increased trade would
undoubtedly be satisfactory—Shoe
Trade Journal.

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How Careless Habits Handicap Busi-
ness Men.

Did you ever notice a woman go-
ing about with an occasional hook
which was astray from its eye, or
feel an impulse to tell some man you
meet to keep his clothes buttoned up?
There are some people whose shoe-
laces are continually dragging, and
if they have strings about them any-
where they are always untied.

In mental and commercial habits

 

the number of business slovens who
neglect their work, leave it half done,
or by putting it off let the job get
so mouldy as to be not worth atten-
tion, is much greater than one can
appreciate who does not occasional-
ly handle the work of such botches,
sluggards and triflers.

Ask the head of any department of
a considerable business, and he will
confess that 90 per cent. of his trou-
bles are caused by people who never
have any better explanation than “I
didn’t know it would make any dif-
ference,’ “I thought this was good
enough,” or “Why didn’t you tell me
how you wanted it done?” These de-
partment chiefs will tell you that
they invariably instruct their clerks
and subordinates how things should
be done, that every thing must
be done promptly, exactly, and,
most of all, completed; yet it makes
little difference—slouches slouch‘ over
their work still; just enough is done
in an important matter to lead the
man in charge to believe that it has
been attended to, while the remainder
of the task left unfinished and
trouble is the result.

is

There is always a right way and a
wrong way to do everything, and if
one notices the easy-going and the
flighty they are almost certain to
take the wrong way. It is bad enough
to find those about you are complete-
ly lacking in initiative, but, under-
standing this, one expects but little
original cleverness.

It is when the executive details get
all mixed up that the man in charge
of several departments or a number
of people is driven nearly crazy. Men
in these responsible positions wear
out very quickiy, not in doing their

 

own work, but in everlastingly watch- |
ing that the work of others is prop- |

erly performed. Scores of these wor-
ried men have told me that after

struggling with new office and travel- }

ing help for months, sometimes for
years, courteous and really clever peo-
ple have to be discharged simply be-
cause they can never, figuratively
speaking, get the hooks, into the eyes,
the buttons into the buttonholes, tie

strings so that they will stay tied, or |

shut doors so that they will stay shut.

In offices these inaccurate people
get accounts wrong, dates mixed up,
put drafts and receipts in the wrong
envelopes, spell names improperly,
make mistakes in initials, forget to
push settlements when they should be
made, crowd customers when there
are many reasons why they should
not be crowded, and, if salesmen, get
customers up to the point of buying
yet fail to get orders, somehow miss
the people they go to see, miss the
trains in getting out of towns, miss
their appointments, and are continu-
ally traveling in bad luck. The per-
centage of these inconclusive and in-
accurate people who ever succeed in
reforming, after bad business habits
are once formed. is exceedingly small.

The number of men of all varieties
who go into business for themselves
and succeed, I have been told, is less
than 7 per cent.; the failures, of

course, include men who have capital
and no experience, experience and no
capital; but the great grist of business

 

humanity which is continually being
ground to commercial powder by the
stern laws, unsympathetic, unyield-
ing, which demand accuracy and con-
clusiveness is mostly made up of
those who only half do their work
and have no distinct and absorbing
purpose.

girls are home from school, give each
cne of them some little daily task
and see that it is well done before
the remainder of the day is theirs.
Don’t let them go wild or drift; life’s
sea is littered with driftwood, weeds
and light stuff, blown by the wind and
worn by the waves in going nowhere
and being nothing.
ce a a ne
Similar But Different.

“Say, pa,’ queried the village edi-
tor’s small son, “what is the differ-
ence between an amateur poet anda
professional?”
“The difference,
the old man,
glory and the other writes for cash.
“Then they have nothing in com-
mon,” said the youthful information |

my son,” replied

seeker.
“Ves.
mon,” replied his father,
their disappointment.
what he is after.”

have one thing in com-|
“and that 1s |
Neither gets |

they

 

 

Manufacturers of

Cloaks, Suits and Skirts
For Women, Misses and Children

197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

At the seasons when the boys and |

 

 

Percival B. Palmer & Company

 

JENNINGS

 

Flavoring Extracts

are known by the

Fruit!

The question of selling consum-

'ers and peddlers Flavoring Ex-

“is that one writes for |
7 | tracts has been brought to our at-

|tention, and we wish to state plain-
ily that we do not sell direct to
leither private consumers or public

| peddlers.

JENNINGS
FL AVORING EXTRactT co.

Grand Rapids

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates to Grand

| Rapids every day. Write for circular.
|

 

 

 

Overalls and

Coats!

 

 

STARUNION

 

BRAND

Registered Trade Mark.

 

 

330-332 Lafayette Ave.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Blue Denim from $4.75 to $10.00 per dozen.
All High Grade.

Get Our Prices on Your Requirements.
Plain Blue, White, Fancy Stripes.

Better Service.

Mm: &. STORTEL

Union Made.

Good Goods.

Best Prices.

Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

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‘ of Chicago, New York, Boston
* Philadelphia:

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

I give below a careful estimate
of storage accumulations in the cities
and

Aue. i, Sept 1, Sept. 1,

1904. 1904. 1903.

Cae 2... 775,000 760,000 455,000
New York 450,000 433,000 360,000
a 176,000 172,000 170,000
Philadelphia 161,000 161,000 32,000
"TO ese 1,562,000 1,526,000 1,117,000

The statement of storage stocks in
New York (inciuding Jersey City)
can be depended upon as very nearly
correct, as it is based upon exact re-
ports of more than 90 per cent. of
the holdings. The Chicago statement
is something of an average of various
reports; one source of information
trom that city, which ought to be as
reliable as any, places the quantity
held at more than 800,000 cases, while
other estimates range down to about
725,000, including the holdings at the
stock yards. From the table of re-
ceipts it appears that Chicago’s_ re-
ceipts since March 1 have been about
228,000 cases more than last year, so
that to account for the indicated in-
crease of over 300,000 cases in the
holdings on September 1 we must
suppose the city consumption to have
been less, or the proportion of re-
ceipts shipped East to have been
lighter. The latter is the more plaus-
ible explanation as, taking the season
as a whole, the avidity for storage
eggs has been much greater in the
West this year than last, and all re-
ports have indicated a relatively free
Chicago consumption.

In an editorial last week we took
occasion to comment on the Philadel-
phia reports of receipts, showing
quite conclusively that they must be
inaccurate. We think it quite possi-
ble that many eggs going directly to
Philadelphia storage houses are being
missed by the compilers of the daily
statistics; this is the most probable
source of an error in receipt state-
ments which is made evident by the
fact that last year, under reported
receipts of 85,500 cases in August,
Philadelphia reduced storage hold-
ings 23,000 cases, while this year, un-
der reported receipts of only 67,618
cases, the storage stock remained
practically unchanged. Of course, no
such decrease in August trade output
is conceivable.

The statistics of receipts and stor-
age accumulations in New York indi-
cate a considerable increase in total
trade output, in that with an increase
of some 238,000 cases in receipts since
March I we show now an excess of
storage holdings of only about 73,000
cases. But during the month of
March we had very unusual condi-
tions; we had previously, for several
months, had a very short supply of
eggs, prices were very high, and the
masses of our people used them with
great economy. In March our sup-
ply became very heavy, prices fell to
reasonable figures, and there wasan
ebnormal consumption; so that al-
though our March receipts amounted

 

to no less than 402,576 cases they
were all used for consumptive and
out-of-town trade, and we made no
permanent storage accumulation until
after the first uf April. To get ata
fairer relation of regular trade out-
put therefore we must consider the
period from April 1 rather than from
March 1; during the five months from
April to August inclusive our re-
ceipts this year were 1,964,685 cases,
against 1,781,113 last year; and de-
ducting the storage stocks remaining
each year on September 1 from these
figures we get an average daily out-
put this year of about 10,000 cases,
against about 9,300 cases last year.

During the month of August our
statistics show an encouraging gain
of trade output as compared with last
year; if our storage holdings madea
net decrease during the month of 17,-
000 cases our output must have been
equal to about 9,800 cases a day, or
about 68,600 cases a week, while last
year our August output figured only
about 58,000 cases per week.

The favorable influence of these
statistics is, however, offset by
the evidently greater scale of produc-
tion which has made the August re-
duction of storage stock very smallas
compared with last year, while the
outlook for fall receipts is for a mate-
rial increase.

I wish my readers to consider that
the above calculations of output are
not given as exact, but simply as in-
dications of the facts. I do not be-
lieve, for instance, that our August
consumption of eggs has shown so
great an increase over last year as
10,600 cases a week. To arrive at
exact figures the relative out-of-town
movement would have to be known,
and also the amount of accumulation
in trade channels outside of cold stor-
age. But the indication that  con-
sumption has been more or _ less
greater is perhaps fairly reliable—N.
Y. Produce Review.

—__+ 2
Co-Operative Marketing of Eggs in
Denmark.

Co-operative marketing of farm
produce is reduced to a perfect sys-
tem in Denmark. The Danish Co-
operative Egg Export Association
has a membership of 33,500 farmers,
divided into 500 local societies, or
circles, each circle being an integral
part of the central company and sub-
ject to the control and supervision
of the central organization.

Each circle has its own by-laws,
but such by-laws must conform to the
provisions of those of the central or-
ganization. Naturally, therefore, the
by-laws of the 500 circles are quite
uniform.

Each circle collects, at its own ex-
pense, the eggs produced on the
farms of its members and prepares
them for shipment to one of the eight
general shipping centers at its own
expense. After leaving circle (the lo-
cal collecting center) all expenses are
born by the company.

Profit sharing is absolute. To this
end the company guarantees to pur-
chasers that all eggs delivered by the
company shall be new laid and clean,
each egg being stamped by the com-
pany’s registered trade mark for new
laid eggs.

 

 

you ship.

It Will Only Cost You a Cent to Try It

We would like to buy your eggs each week, so dro
how many you have for sale and at what price an ;
Write in time so we can either write or wire an acceptance.

can use them all summer if they are nice.

L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers

36 Harrison Street, New York

a postal card to us stating
on what days of the “=
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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.
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.

Also Excelsior, Nails and Flats

 

returns.

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

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

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

I want track buyers for carlots.
every point in Michigan.
by express.

Can handle all the poultry shipped to me.

Poultry Shippers

Would like to hear from shippers from

I also want local shipments from nearby points

Write or wire.

William Andre, Grand Ledge, Michigan

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

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

Cc. 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.

Cases returnable.

 

 

 

and correspondence.

 

 

 

Henry Freudenberg
Jobber of Butter, Eggs, Cheese

104 &. Division St., Grand Rapids, Michigan
Citizens Telephone, 6948; Bell, 443
I am in the market for 5,000 Ibs. of Honey, and solicit consignments
Refer by permission 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 not handled by your jobber send orders direct to us.

 

 

 

No circle of less than ten members
is admitted to membership in the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

found that all will not be alike.
Turn the duck on its back, put its

company. Each circle on being ad- | head under your left arm, holding

mitted pays into the company 13%
cents per circle member. Each circle
admitted is obliged to deliver all eggs
collected from its members to the
company.

Eggs over seven days old must not |
be delivered, under penalty of a fine |

of $1.34 for the first offense and dou-
ble that for further offenses.

must not keep eggs longer than four |

days after collection before sending

of the company.

The eggs must be delivered abso- |

lutely clean. Each egg must
ber of the circle and with the number
of the member of the circle delivering

the eggs. Each circle must provide

its members with stamping ink and
1

rubber stamps bought of the survey-
or indicated by the company.
Each member of a circle must for-

ward all eggs produced, except those |

needed for home consumption and for
hatching. Eggs must be carefully
gathered every day and in hot sum-
mer days twice each day. Only arti-
ficial nest eggs must be used, and the
nests must be barred at night.

Each circle is governed by a circle
board, consisting of an uneven num-
ber of members. This board provides
for the expense of collection and sup-
erintends crating for shipment to cen-
tral stations. The eggs are shipped
by the 500 circies to one of the cen-
tral shipping stations in ordinary
cardboard egg crates set in_ pine
boxes of uniform size.—United States
Consul in Copenhagen.

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Best Way To Pick Live Ducks.

In the first “catch your
ducks,” and right here you can make
mistake. Don’t excite and worry
the ducks into a panic, as they get
terribly frightened when cornered
and will rush from side to side
an effort to get away.

place,

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its legs in your left hand. Be careful

|and not hold them too tight and close

together. Their legs are set quite
wide apart and are easily lamed and
hurt. Pick a few feathers out at a
time with quick, short jerks. Get
most of the feathers off the breast
and under parts, leaving the fine
down, not disturbing the back, for
the duck will be apt to sunburn and

| be a long time recovering. The nicest
them to a general shipping station |

teathers are on the breast.

Put the feathers into a flour sack,
rot too full, and hang them in the
wind cr by the stove to dry out be-
fore putting away. The Pekin duck
furnishes such beautiful white feath-
ers for pillows that if you can have
time to pick the old ones and those

vou intend to keep over several times

in the summer it will seem to ielp
pay for the feed. Addie Beardsley.
——__. + ~~. ___

The Iowa Cheese Industry.
According to the last report
the Iowa Dairy Commissioner, there
are now in that State 43 cheese fac-
tories, which is a decrease of 9 from
the preceding year. The largest fac-
tory in the State receives about 3,000,-
ooo tbs. of milk per year and pays
for it at the rate of 90c per Ioo fbs.,
averaging up summer and_ winter.

of

 

The most successful factory in the!

State receives about 2,000,000 fbs. of |

milk per year and pays for it an aver- |

age of $1.08 per too ths.

that one of them, the smaller, is in
a dairy district and the other is not,
and it costs more to get milk to the

The differ- |

ence between these two factories is |

large factory than to the small one. |

Other cheese factories

in the State |

pay a generally lower average, some |

|of them going down to an average

of 68c. per I00 tbs. It is estimated
that the 43 cheese factories
about 3,000,000 Ibs. of cheese per year,
and this sells for about $300,000. The

| cheese interest of the State does not

After you decide where you wish|

to pick them take some grain and
scatter little along toward the
building, finally a little thrown in
will
that
they are like sheep—where one goes
the rest will foilow.

Then close the door on what you
think you will have time to pick that
morning. Move around quietly,
throw only a little grain down at a
time, and pick up one while feeding.
If you can have a small lath pen in
one corner, all the better. Induce a
few into it at a time by throwing in
the grain, and you can then pick up
one readily without hardly disturbing
the rest.

Have a box or stool to sit on, also
a bushel basket to put the feathers
in, with a cloth thrown over the
basket when you come out in the
wind. Try the feathers by pulling out
a few; if they come out easily and
no blood follows on the quill, they
are ready. You also can notice when
it is time to pluck them, they often
sit around and work their feathers,
and you can see scattering ones on
the ground. If not ready, put the
duck out and try another, as I have

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get them, as they are so greedy |
they will rush in in a body, for |

 

seem to be in a growing condition,
the farmers and manufacturers being
interested in making butter
than cheese. This is due to several
causes. One is that the price paid
for milk for cheesemaking is less, as
a general thing, than that paid for
milk used for the purpose of making
butter. In the case of the cheese
factory also the farmer gets back
is a matter of
man who. has

more

no skimmilk, which
importance to the
calves, pigs and chickens to feed. If
this skimmilk is worth 20c per I00
tbs., as many claim it to be for feed-

| ing purposes, it will be seen that the

price paid for milk for cheese must
be very much higher than the price
paid for milk to be made into butter,
where the skimmilk is returned.
Whether or not a cheese factory can
compete with a creamery depends on
whether the creamery is so situated
and so run that it can pay a good
price for milk. We may say that
the unprofitable creamery makes
possible the cheese factory under the
present prices for cheese. Out of
the 43 factories reported in the State,
28 are known to pay by the test.
Perhaps others do but reports were
not received from all.

make

 

 

Butter

Same old story for three years: plenty
of rain, lots of feed, plenty of cheap
butter. Ship it along anyway, let's

get it out of the way.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

STORE YOUR

APPLES

with us and get top prices
in the spring. Liberal
advances made.

Grand Rapids
Cold Storage Co.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

LOST HIS JOB.

He Guarded His Employer’s Inter-
ests Too Well.

The clerk was atall, thin, some-
what sickly fellow with a_ high,
shiny brow and a narrow chest. He
had been a good boy from his youth
up. He was one of the ushers in
the Methodist church and had a
class of little girls in the Sunday
school.

His name was David.

David had never found his niche
in life. He agreed with his mother
and his aunt that he was fitted to
adorn a high place. Once, before he
had joined the church, he had squan-
dered a quarter on a palmist who had
visited the town as an adjunct of a
circus and, seeing that David re-
garded her as a solid-gold goddess—
a rare experience—she rewarded him
by prophesying that he would some
day be a great general with fierce
whiskers.

So David raised side whiskers, and
it came to pass that the palmist’s
prediction was fulfilled, for they cer-
tainly were fierce all right.

David drifted around the town un-
til he had reached the wise age of
22 years without settling himself. He
had done odd jobs—“filled various
positions,” as he himself stated it—
little sobs of copying, clerking and
so on, but he had never caught on
permanently.

Finally the town paper published
that Mr. David So-and-So had “ac-
cepted a position with Jones &
Smith, the well-known grocers
(whose advertisement will be found
on page 4), and would begin his
new duties immediately.”

As a matter of fact, David’s moth-
er had hunted the job and hunted it
hard.

Well, some months before this
David had joined the church and had
plunged headlong into sentimental re-
ligiousness. When he “accepted the
position” with Jones & Smith, the
grocers, he communed with himself
the night before he begun his duties
and resolved that fidelity to his em-
ploye:’s interests should be his re-
ligion.

That was all right, but David
should have remembered that there
is a limit to religion as well as_ to
the quantity of sugar that a woman
should get for a dollar.

Weil, David brought to the
lowly work of weighing lard a bland
and impressive dignity. He bent his
meek glance upon the lady custom-
ers, especially those whom he recog-
nized as fellow-members of the Meth-
odist church, and smiled gently upon
them as he gave them exact weight
and not a hair over.

Every grocery store is full of co-
quettes—fair ladies who dally with
the clerks, not because they wish to
ensnare their young affections, but
solely to the end that they may get
a couple of tomatoes or an ounce of
sugar over.

And it works, too. The grocery
bill ot the aged and angular female
is always proportionately greater
than that of her who is plump and
pleasing.

 

That, I believe, is mainly why com-
puting scales were invented.

All of these coquettes tried their
wiles on David, but in vain. He
wore the armor of religious duty to
his employer and the smiles of the
eager females glanced off his hollow
back hike blunt arrows.

They could smile and beam and
make goo-goo eyes to beat the band,
but David gave a pound for a pound
and a quart for a quart.

The first woman who kicked got
a soft answer, but it didn’t turn away
wrath.

“Why, Mrs. Simpkins,” said David,
in surprise, “you would surely not
expect me to give you more than
you pay for. If I were to do that
I should not be doing my duty to
my employer.”

The lady in question kept a board-
ing-house and had whiskers almost
as fierce as David’s. She could not
kick to the proprietor for extra meas-
ure, so she simply talked loudly
when he wasn’t around and boycot-
ted David.

Slowly David acquired the reputa-
tion of being a young skinflint. He
would not sort out the tomatoes and
give the best ones to an insistent fe-
male who stood over him, as human
clerks will, but would give every-
body the good and the bad as they
came. To all suggestions to do
otherwise he returned the same gen-
tle answer:

“The bad ones must be sold, since
they are a part of the basket, Mrs.
Knocker. If I were to pick out all
the geod ones for you I would not
be doing my duty to my employer.”

Of course, these are things about
which you can hardly kick to the
grocer, since they are really schemes
to defraud him, so the women sniff-
ed at David, insulted him by implica-
tion and refused flatly to be waited
on by him.

The worst thing he did, though,
was to charge the women for all
they ate, and that really precipitated
his finish.

Every grocer has to put up with a
lot of stuffing from his female cus-
tomers. To be sure, he don’t like
it, but he simply can’t help it. A
woman will stroll about, waiting for
somebody .to take her order. She’s
always hungry for free eats. She
nips up a bit of cheese or a peach or
cake irom an open box, while the
grocer looks on helplessly. He knows
that the slightest remonstrance would
drown him in indignant feminine de-
nunciation.

Not so with David, however. He
had a duty to perform and he per-
formed it. No woman who ate at
random had any right to eat free
of charge, and it was his duty to his
employer to make her pay.

One day, soon after he had reach-
ed this heroic decision, a woman took
a peach out ot a basket and said,as
she thought, with delicate humor,
“You can put this in the bill, David.”

David put it in the bill, all right
When she got it, the woman was so
mad she couidn’t hold pins in her
mouth. She came rushing to the
store, holding at arm’s length the
outrageous bill in which this item

stood out in ted fire—“‘One peach,
2 cents.”

It was on Saturday morning, and
the store was full. The offended
lady bore down upon the proprietor
waving her red flag, and let out a
cannonade of talk that held him
speechles for several minutes. “its
a pity if I can’t eat a peach after
dealing here for twelve years and
paying my bills on the spot every
Monday!”

And so on and so on, while a
horde of other sympathetic females,
themselves good eaters, stood by.
David, who recognized his handiwork,
looked on with the uplifted look of
him who does his duty well.

After the grocer had wiped the
debris of the lady’s talk off his face,
he said:

“Who charged Mrs.
this peach?”

“T did, sir,’ said David, remember-
ing the prophecy that he was to
be a great general.

Before the grocer had had a
chance to say anything further, an-
other lady proceeded to speak her
mind about David, and then the
whole bevy got their little hammers
out, and David got it good and
proper.

He had done only his duty, but
there wasn’t one in the whole gang
who had a good word to say for
him.

After the experience meeting was
over the grocer observed, curtly:

“All right, ladies, Til fix this. I
don’t think there’ll be cause for any
further trouble.”

That night, which was Saturday,
David got fired. The final inter-
view was somewhat interesting:

“How in the world have you come
to get all these customers down on
you?” demanded the grocer.

“T don’t know, sir,” replied David,
tremulously. “I have endeavored at
all times to do my duty. I have re-
fused to give more than the proper
weight and measure, because I
thought it would be robbing you,
and vwhen I saw customers taking
goods and eating them I thought it
would be wrong not to charge them.”

The grocer hadn’t the heart to
jump on him—he so_ manifestly
thought he had done right—so he
said he thought he wasn’t cut out for
a storekeeper, and David picked up
his neat little hat and went sadly on
his way.

Moral: What’s a feller to do?—
Stroller in Grocery World.

Pilligus for

—_2>-2—___
She Didn’t Chew Tobacco.

At one of the Grand Traverse Bay
resorts there is an old man who is
something of a character. He spends
a large portion of his time fishing
from the dock and it is noticed by
everyone that he hardly ever fails to
catch something, and even although
everyone else in the vicinity is hav-
ing bad luck. Recently a young wom-
ran approached this man and said in
a coaxing way’

“Mr. F., won’t you show me how
you bait your hooks, so I can do
mine that way, and then perhaps I
can catch something?”

The old man paused in his fishing

 

 

long enough to explain exactly how
he placed the bait on the hook. The
girl went away and fished and fished
and fished, occasionally rebaiting her
hooks in the manner shown. But
she didn’t catch anything. So again
she went to the old man.

“Oh, Mr. F.,” she said, “there must
be some other reason why the fish
won't bite on my bait. I wish you’d
tell me what it is.”

The old man looked up.

“Maybe,” he said in a drawling
tone, “you didn’t spit on your bait.”

The girl locked a little bit dis-
gusted.

“Ts that what you do?” she asked.

“Sure,” answered the old fisher-
man.

The girl went away and the old
man had ten minutes’ peace. Then
she came back again.

“Now, Mr. F.,” she remonstrated,
“do tell me why I don’t catch any
fish. Ive baited my hooks just the
way you bait yours. I even spat on
my bait and I’ve fished faithfully just
the way you do. And I haven’t caught
anything. Wiil you tell me just how
it is § don’t?”

The old man looked at her reflec-
tively.

“T don’t know, miss, I’m sure,” he
observed, after considering the ques-
tion for a few minutes. “If you bait
your hooks just so and if you spit on
your bait I don’t know why you don‘t
catch fish lessen it’s ’cause you don’t
chaw tobaccer.”

And then the girl gave it up

—>->>—___
Fall Silk Waist Styles.
In silk waists, the subject of fall
styles, which are now fairly well de-
termined, is of interest to manufac-

turers and retailers alike. It is nov-
elty which ensures success if the
change be not too radical. The early

models shown give an adequate fore-
cast of the permanent features for
fall wear.

A striking feature in the general
makeup is the fullness in the sleeve
at the elbow, not at wrist, as worn
last season. This undoubtedly af-
fords more ease and safety to the
wearers, preventing the soiling of
many choice materials while at the
table. Extension box plaits continue
now to the neckband, giving a more
dressy appearance. Soft collars and
cuffs ‘are rapidly taking the place of
stiff collars, because in many cases
where a waist is bought with a stiff
collar, the latter has to be discarded,
as it will not fit the neck.

The whole tendency is for plainer
and neater effects, having large box
plaits and tucks, which are replacing
pin tucks. The cheaper goods which
are in vogue are made in a shirtwaist
effect, while the better grades have
a good dress-making finish. If pos-
sible, the better class are more elab-
orate, and all show fuller waists. In
a word, manufacturers begin to take
cognizance of the fact that large sizes
with full waists are in vogue.

———>-->—___
Why She Was In.

The Lady—Willie, is your mother
at home?

The Kid—Yes; she is sick.

> >—______
Happiness is health of heart.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

A Stnking Proof of the Losses
Caused by Use of the Old Cash-Drawer

 

 

large general store not far from Toronto, Ontario.
At the express request of the proprietor we do
not use his name.

Through all change of systems from the time of its |
establishment when the proprietor only had access to
this cash-drawer, when all the clerks used it, and during
the period a cashier used it, the drawer was never
changed.

In the box-like arrangement where the cashier sat there
was a platform raised six inches from the floor. Recently,
when the proprietor tore out the cashier's desk and installed
a multiple National Cash Register an assistant gathered up the dust and refuse beneath this fee
An N.C. R. salesman who was present suggested that the refuse be sifted. Both proprietor and
assistant were amused at first. The N.C.R. man, however, insisted and the sifting was done.

EIGH 1Y-SIX DOLLARS, in small gold and silver coins of various denominations and
badly dilapidated bank notes, were rescued from this refuse.

Imagine the proprietor’s surprise! And yet he never had missed the money, never knew
it was gone! His assistants, too, appeared nonplussed and admitted that they had no idea
that such leaks and losses existed in the store. How much more was lost out of this old open
cash-drawer the proprietor was unable to estimate. The eighty-six dollars represented the
leaks occurring after the installation of the cashier—a very small fraction of the time of
service of the old cash-drawer.

This is an interesting instance of the oldtime methods of storekeeping with its suspicions,
temptations, lack of confidence, and losses.5 A NATIONAL CASH REGISTER, with
the system which it enforces, would have prevented the disappearance of even one penny of
that eighty-six dollars. Isn't it time for you to discard your old cash-drawer and stop the
leaks draining the life-blood of your business?

-ae old cash-drawer was in use for fifty years in a

 

 

 

 

 

TEAR OFF THIS COUPON AND MAIL TO US TODAY

N. C. R. COMPANY, DAYTON, O.

 

 

 

Name
I own a store.
Please explain what kind of a register is best suited for my Address oe
business.
This does not put me under any obligation to buy. a et Cle

Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Close of Men’s Wear Lightweight
Season.

It can be said with safety that ini-
tial buying of men’s wear for the
spring of 1905 has come to an end,
and that the season has been quite
satisfactory to manufacturers is pret-
ty generally conceded. Woolens and
fancy worsteds have been purchased
in large quantities, but on fancy wool-
ens there has been a smaller range
covered than in years past, although
the volume of purchases has been of
an average sort. Lines that have
been neglected by buyers are those
that as a general rule have lacked
merit or are passe, and are seen but
little in the market at the present
time. Manufacturers who have lean-
ed toward the production of browns,
in both woolens and worsteds, have
been generally favored as far as or-

ders 2re concerned. In fact, it is a|

common sight to see displayed in
windows of tailoring establishments
many patterns of brown goods.
The season, the tailors assert, has
commenced very early, but when ask-
ed to advance a reason they are puz-
zled. The fact that fancy woolens
have not met with the demand ex-
pected has caused some mills to be
shert of orders, much to their dis-
like, 2s they will doubtless be com-
pelled to stop some of their machin-
ery before the heavyweight season
commences. There has been some
surprise at the little influence that
prices have had on the disposition
of orders for the spring season. At
the opening of the season manufac-
turers figured their values down to
the minimum level, and about the
only point that competition could
be centered on was the comparative
value of styles. The attractive pat-
terns secured the bulk of the business
at higher tha: sample prices, and
these mills are as well situated as
their owners could wish, having about
all they can get out of the way be-
fore the next heavyweight season
makes its advent. There have not
been the cancellations that have
marked some seasons, and from a
canvass of the whole situation it can
be stated that the lightweight season
of 1905 has been fully up to the aver-
age in respect to volume.
Overcoatings are having a very sat-
isfactory demand at the present time,
both plain and fancy fabrics figuring
in the general movement. Sellers are
dismayed, however, at the slow de-
mand for cloakings. There appears
to be an indication on the part of
buyers regarding what to take, and
sellers are also at a loss to know what
to suggest, and until one or the other
or both determine what is going to
be the style, trade is likely to remain
at a standstill. It should not be in-
ferred, however, that there is noth-
ing being done by these mills, for few
of them are without enough business
to keep their looms at work, but the
orders on hand are not going to last

long, and new business is urgently
called for. Cloak manufacturers are
endeavoring in every possible manner
to get an inkling as to what is going
to be worn, but at present there is too
much uncertainty to warrant them in
going ahead.

Commission houses are in the
throes of making lightweight deliver-
ies. The trade has been calling for
their purchases, and manufacturers
have filled their contracts with re-
markable precision and celerity up to
the present time. But the same can
hardly be said with regard to heavy-
weights, as many of the mills are far
behind on orders, which is the re-
sult of attempting to make both light-
weights and heavyweights at the
same time, and keeping both buying
factors in good humor. The past has
demonstrated that such endeavors
have not only failed to please either
party, but have made trouble for both
as well as for the manufacturer. Many
manufacturing clothiers are waiting
for their goods, which must be at
once made up if they are to get them
|into the hands of retailers when cold
weather comes. In some sections of
the South the demand for heavy-
weights at the hands of retailers has
already made itself felt, and another
fortnight will see a general opening
all over the country.

 

Sellers report that the leading fab-
rics are those presenting a neat ef-
fect, which fortunately covers quite
a wide range—from the finest pin
stripe to the large but very indistinct
plaid effect, including many fancy de-
signs that are gained by the weave
of the fabrics and without the use of
a different colored yarn. Among the
best sellers is one line with two tones
of brown and several effects of gray
with 2 plaid of a mildly contrasting
color. Another is a modification of
the old herring-bone design. There
have been some good sales of fancy

      

25 Years Before the Public
is a good recommendation and that is the length of time of the
eauier of THE WILLIAM CONNOR CO. We ask retail
clothiers to see our line, who will soon see advantages in placing
orders with us, having such immense lines to choose from for Fall
and Winter trade. Then our Union Made Line is just as great,
especially in medium priced goods, none so cheap and few as
good. We manufacture all ages, Child’s, Boys’ and Men's, also
Stouts and slims. Our overcoats are perfection. Mail and 'phone
orders promptly shipped. If you wish, one of our representatives
will call upon your address.

See also our advertisement on first white page and first column of this paper

The William Connor Co., Grand Rapids

Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers
Bell Phone, Main, 1282 Citizens’ 1957

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mixture effects in both woolen and
worsted goods. In trouserings there
lis a great run on fine stripes, quiet |
and neat, with little display of the |
| loud effects that have in the past had |
| rather a good call. Mercerized goods |
are bright in tone, but the designs are
aimed to subdue them to a large de-
gree.

 

+.
Always Have Money.

A lady who was visiting the home
of a iriend had just given the chil-
dren a penny each. When the sav-
ings bank was produced and the coins
were deposited therein, the lady made
the remark that the children had a
lot of money.

“Oh, yes,” said little Mary, “Mam-
ma is very good to us. Every time
we take our castor oil without crying
she gives us a penny.”

“And what do you do with all the
money?” asked the visitor.

“Why, Mamma buys some more
castor oil with it!”

———_+ +2
Untimely Somnolence.

“He says he has so many business
troubles they keep him awake
nights.”

“Yes, but they don’t keep him wide-
awake during business hours, and
that’s the principal trouble.’-

104 Fall and Winter 1%

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Hat Factories Running To Their Full
Capacity.

All of the fall styles of stiff hats
are now on sale, the last to come out
having made its appearance late in
August. Ther: is nothing startlingly
novel in the shapes offered, but the
styles are attractive and will sell well.
It is a noticeable fact that the crowns
of derby hats are this season higher
in effect than has been the case for
several seasons, and the brims are
also a trifle narrower, thus giving the
hat a heightered appearance. The
effect of the fall hats is certainly
very pleasing. No extremes in style
have so far made their appearance,
for which the retail trade should be
duly thankful.

The chief topic of conversation and
argument in hat circles at the pres-
ent time does not, strange to say,
concern the style or shape of the
hat or hats that will prove the most
popular this season. The one ab-
sorbing thoughi is, “Will brown hats
sell?” Naturally there exist many
differences of opinion on this interest-
ing subject, and to the listener of
many arguments it all suggests an
attempt at picking the winner in a
horse race. There is no doubt that
brown stiff hats are entered for the
fall race for popularity. How well
up in the running they will be is a
matter yet to be determined. There
is also no doubt that the brown hats
will rank well among the favorites
entered and should show excellent
Staying qualities. They ought to be
well up in front and bring good
prices in the selling.

hat manufacturers to this season make
brown hats more popular than they
ever have been. Every order so far
taken calls for brown hats and in
auantities that vary according to the
customer’s trade. It is stated by the
manufacturers that the sales on brown
and black hats have so far been about
equal. This augurs well for the col-
ored goods. The shapes are practi-

cally the same as are shown in black }
In color the shades range from |

hats.
light to dark brown, the lighter shades

trasted color. The
now at hand for the retailers to in-
crease their business and profits by
pushing the brown hats. No special
effort is necessary to sell black hats,
and the majority of people who will
purchase a brown hat will also buya
black one before the season is’ over.
Consequently a little extra effort at
this time will surely result in a sub-
stantial increase to the business.

Soft fur hats offer to the manufac-
turers greater possibilities for novel
shapes and effects than do stiff hats,
which fact accounts for the wide va-
riety ot novelties in this line of
goods. Some of the latest styles
shown for fail have the usual low
crown, which is about five inches in
height and may be worn creased,
dented or in telescope style. The
brim is broad, about three and three-
quarter inches in width, and is raised
somewhat at the sides. The front is
intended to be pulled down as a
shade to the eyes. The particularly

 

 

Pe : | envelopes.
having bands and bindings of a con- |

opportunity is |

 

novel feature of the newest styles is
the band, which is figured in “jac-
quard” effects, being woven on a jac-
quard loom. The hats are shown in
the many shades of nutria and tan,
and have bands in matched and con-
trasted colors.

Straw hat manufacturers have, so
far, received most favorable results
from their traveling representatives,

who are now on the road showing |

the line for next season. The lines
present-all the old favorites in split
and sennit braids, and have a goodly
representation of novelties. A notice-

able’ feature in many lines of straw |

hats is the very wide bands that are
being shown, also that the yacht
shapes are smaller in their general
dimensions than were sold during the
past summer. The retail trade
throughout the country has enjoyed a
very good straw hat season, and are
said ta have carried over small stocks.
The outlook for next season is there-
fore excellent. There is every rea-
son to believe that woven hats will
meet with an extensive sale next sum-

| mer, and Panama hats are regarded

at present as being the only woven
articles that will be seriously regard-
ed. Every retailer should have some
Panama hats to sell.

While Panama hats have been sold
in this country from time immemor-

lial, the value of the hats was until

recently so great they never became
popular with many hat wearers on
that account. A few years ago Pan-
ama hats were introduced into this
country in great quantities, the sup-

i ply having the effect of bringing the
: , i | price withi ach n €0-
It is evident that there is a strong Seay — ~ —_ ans s

ee .,|ple. Since that time Panama hats
determination on the part of the stiff | i Vs :
| have found a fixed position in the

lines of summer headwear, and there
is no questioning the popularity of
this product of the tropics—Clothier
and Furnisher.
~~
Lick Only the Envelope.

A inan who had just purchased a
lot of postage stamps at a branch
office znd was posting a lot of letters
complained to the clerk in charge that
there was not enough gum on them
and that they would not adhere to the
“If yon would lick the
corner of the envelope as well as
the stamp,” replied the clerk, “you
would find that they would adhere
firmly.”

A woman standing by mailing let-
ters remarked, “That is correct. It
is not even necessary to lick the
stamp. I never do, for I dislike the
taste of the mucilage, and I merely
moisten the corner of the envelope
and never have any trouble in regard
to the stamp adhering.”

“Well,” said the man, “I have been
mailing letters in large numbers for
many years, in fact, ever since post-
age stamps came into use, but never
heard of this way of putting on
stamps before. I really believe that
the women know more than the
men.”

“Most women do, about many
things,” remarked the clerk, who was
a woman.

——_> ++

A girl who can’t sing and persists
in singing ought not to be allowed
to sing.

 

 

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TRADESMAN

 

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

Chas. W. Stone, Representing the
Puritan Corset Co.

side of the counter he may stand, a
first-class salesman is born with cer-
tain characteristics which enable him
to accomplish with seemingly little
effort that which the man without
inherent and God-given salesmanship

ability finds he can not accomplish, | | siete
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either to his own satisfaction or to| I

Sales- |

the profit of his employers.
manship is hypnotism. The “knack”
can not be taught in a
this
something which can not be describ-

salesmen. If a2 man possesses

ed and defined by a better word than} lis RS ke scld Gi ieee 4 his |

copartnership

“knack,” he is born with it. Constant

use and application will polish and}

: . , | house of Campbell & Linn.
It makes no difference upon which | :
later he removed to Ionia, where he

 

Dominion, he went to Detroit, where
he very fortunately obtained a posi-
tion as salesman in the dry goods
A year

sought and obtained employment with
different dry goods houses, including
that of L. D. & M. C. Smith, with

whom he remained seven years, be- |

ginning at the staple counter and
ending as confidential clerk and book-

In 1877 he formed a co-partnership
with his brother, R. C. Stone, and

: : : : . , | engaged in the dry goods business |
of selling goods is something which | ,

under the style of Stone Brothers.
school for |

| The firm started in a small way, but

| was

temper it, but no amount of coaxing |

 

or driving will develop it if the seed
and it must be larger than a mustard

seed—be not planted in a man’s head |

by the Almighty himself.
who sit in offices, draw salaries and
expense checks, sweat blood and are
called “the old man” realize that out

The men}

of the many thousands of traveling |
men there are really but very few|

salesmen. The old stories, “Too wet,”
“Too dry,” “Out of city,” “Will give
good fall order,’ etc. are familiar
phrases to every man who employs
any. number of traveling men and,
alas! too frequently take the place
of orders which are given to the sales-
man who possesses the “knack.”

The life of a salesman is not an
easy one, for however much sales-
manship ability he may possess, if he
is successful under present trade con-
ditions and with the fierce competi-
tion which prevails to-day, he must
be a hard worker, he must catch early
trains and stick to late trains, he
must copy his orders and write to
his wiie after all the stores are closed
and there is no opportunity to
take orders. He must have his
clothes pressed after he goes to bed
and he can not afford to wait twenty-
four hours in a town in order to get
a pair of duck trousers laundered or
spend his time and the firm’s money
drinking high balls and smoking 15
cent cigars in order to show that he
is a good fellow and one of the boys.

The life of a mere traveling man
is an entirely different proposition.
If he be fond of change—and most
of them are, judging from their fre-
quent demands for expense checks—
their life is a continual round of
pleasure. The hardest work they
feel called upon to do is to write an
occasional weather report to the
house which employs them, and, what
is, perhaps, still more laborious, make
out a weekly expense account, which
really requires considerable ingenuity
and is quite a tax upon their nervous
system.

Chas. W. Stone was born at Toron-
to, Ontario, April 5, 1851. His father
was a native of England and his
mother was descended from the fa-
mous Scotch-Irish clan. He attended
the common schools of Toronto,
graduating from the Normal school
at the age of 17 years. Concluding
that the States possessed greater op-
portunities for advancement than the

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brother and formed a

soon compelled to enlarge to |
|; more than twice its former capacity.

| covers Michigan with the regularity
| of clock work, but frequently is called
| pon to visit the trade in other states
|as far East as New York and as far
| West as Denver. He undertakes to
| see his trade every thirty, sixty and
| ninety days.
| Mr. Stone was marfied in 1876 to
| Miss Mary Merritt, and is the fath-
ler of three children, Mrs. L. R
Gault, of Detroit; Mrs. Chas. LaFev-
‘er, of Battle Creek, and Dr. B. C.
| Stone, who is now practicing medi-
icine in Detroit.

Mr. Stone is a member of the
Presbyterian church at Battle Creek
|and is a member of every branch of

Shrine.
cabees of Battle Creek and of the
| Royal Arcanum and the Knights of

 

 

 

 

Charles W. Stone

Masonry except the Consistory and |
He is a member of the Mac- |

 

with Thos. A. Carten under the style
of Stone & Carten. The firm dis-
solved six years later, both continu-
ing in business in their own names. A
year later Mr. Stone sold his stock
to J. L. Hudson and accepted a po-
sition on the road as a specialty sales-
man. A year later he was offered a
position as general salesman for the
Michigan Corset Co., which he filled
to the satisfaction of all concerned.
On the organization of the Puritan
Corset Co., four years ago, he was
offered the position of general sales-
man, which he very gladly availed
himself of because of his admiration
for the Manager of the company, W.
L. Brownell, between whom and him-
self there. have always existed the
strongest friendship and the highest
personal regard. Mr. Stone now

the Grip, being at present a director
in the latter organization.

Mr. Stone attributes his success to
industry and to the endeavor to do
the square thing by everybody. He
enjoys meeting and overcoming the
knotty problems which surround him
in the introduction of new goods. He
has never undertaken to secure any
business by driving or coaxing, having
found that his long-time experience
in the dry goods trade and as a re-
tail dealer behind the counter is of
great assistance to him in his present
occupation.

In the preparation of this biography
the Tradesman requested W. L.
Brownell, Manager of the Puritan
Corset Co., to state why Mr. Stone
has been so successful in exploiting
Puritan corsets in new and untried

 

fields. The reply is thoroughly char-
| acteristic of the man, as follows:

“We have in our employ twelve
traveling men and six salesmen. Mr.
Stone is one of the six successes,
and if you will tell me what enables
one horse to trot faster than an-
other when fed on the same oats,
traveling the same road and drawing
the same load, I will tell you what
makes one traveling man succeed and
another fail.”

—_—+_-+2.—___
Threw His Money Away.

When Mr. Locke returned to
Bushby after some years’ residence
in the West there was much specula-
tion among his old friends and neigh-
bors as to the extent of his present
| apparent prosperity.
| “Looks mighty well-to-do, same as
| if he wouldn’t trade in anything less’n
bobtailed horses,” said one man, “but
you can’t jedge by looks, not  al-
ways.”

“No-o.” said another old neighbor,
“though they count, looks do, and
/no mistake. But something he did
/in Nashuay the other day come to
|me, first hand, from Bill Saunders,
and I guess there’s no doubt about
Ezry being well off in this world’s
goods.

“Twas like this,” said the old
|man, after a sufficient pause for his
|audience to close in, “he took Bil)
over there for the day, paid all ex-
| penses, gave him a first-class dinner,
| bought him a couple of neckties and
a throw for Sar’ann to put on her
evenings. And last off he towed Bill
into a drug shop to give him some
| ice cream sody. ‘We’ve got just time
| before we take the train,’ he says to
| Bill.

“Well, sir, they drunk off the sody
with one eye on the clock, and Ezry
| he handed out a quarter to the clerk
| to pay for it. He put the quarter in
|
|

 

| the change machine, and then he jab-
| bed an’ jabbed to get the change out,
jand there was something wrong, so
\it wouldn’t open.

| “You wait a minute, sir, and I’ll
| get the five cents next door,’ says the
|clerk; but Ezry took his bag up, and
jest waved it at the clerk, careless
as if they’d been talking about a pea
or a bean.

““Keep it for good luck,’ he says.
“‘We’ve got to catch a train.’ And
Bill Saunders says that he didn’t any
more heed him saying that there was
another train in two hours than if he
hadn’t spoken. I guess there’s no
manner o’ doubt but what Ezry’s fi-
nancially prosperous.”—Youth’s Com-
panion.

———_+-+~.—___
How To Hear Plants Grow.

Two Germans have discovered a
method by which they can hear plants
grow. In the apparatus the growing
plant is connected with a disk, having
in its center an indicator which moves
visibly and regularly, and this on a
scale fifty times magnified denotes
the progress in growth. Both disk
and indicator are metal. and when
brought in contact with an electric
hammer, the electric current being
interrupted at each of the divided
interstices of the disk, the growth of

the plant is as perceptible to the ear
as to the eye.

 

 

 

 

 

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Which Loves the More—Man or
Woman?
Written for the Tradesman.
A correspondent asks me whether
I think men or women love the more.

I think that, taking the average |

married couple as a_ standard of
measurement, we find men love better

at the start of matrimony, and wom- |
en love better at the finish; men love |

more, and women love longer; that

with man love is a fever that can be}
easily cured, but with woman love is |

a chronic complaint from which she
never recovers.
foolish thing for love, but not infre-
quently love turns a woman into a
fool herself.

This is generally
vidual case where the relative affec-
tion of the man and woman must be
determined by their individual tem-
peraments.

than all men have the same financial
genius.

lers, and the same thing is true of

women. There are some women who |
are all heart, just as there are other |
women who are all complexion, or all |

conscience, but there is no standard

measurement of a woman’s ability to |
It is a sliding scale, and it}

love.
goes up or down according to the
woman.

In the majority of cases, however,
when a young man and woman get
married he is more in love with her
than she is with him, and there are

several good reasons why this should |
In the first place, when |
a man marries the act is one of ab-|
It is the |
realization of a dream, the flowering |

be the case.
solute volition on his part.

of a romance that he has conjured
into being himself, and it is because

ly things that he has become Bene-
dict, the married man.

No power, tacit or overt, constrain-
ed him to marry. For him there was
no obloquy in single blessedness. The

A man may do a¥J

speaking. In|
reality, every love affair is an indi- |

Not all men have the)
Same capacity for loving any more |

There are just as few Ro-|
meos as there ere John D. Rockefel- |

| vated facility for loving that enables
,; them to get up

 

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'room back to the chaperon chairs,| To a certain extent this sentiment

/and then crowd him into that outer| represents the mental attitude of the

darkness of society where one

is | feminine sex on the subject of love.

' neither fish nor flesh, nor good red A woman knows that it is so uncer-

|} and the pass-word to the young set,

|

and has not been put up for admis-|

| herring—where one has lost the grip | tain about the man she could love,

loving her, that she keeps her feel-
ings like a prudent housewife does

sion to the married set—for man’s| her preserves, bottled up and not to

|the warm welcome. Nor does man’s |
family gently and_ insidiously, but |
i firmly, try to push him out of the home
| nest, for a bachelor son or brother |
or uncle has ever been regarded by |
their relatives in the same light as |
Cordelia’s jewels—an ornament as)
well as a living asset, that one may |
be able to realize upon at any time.

Men do not have to marry for a}
living.

| into matrimony to find some outlet
| for their energies, and some occupa-
tion to fill their idle hands and pur-
poseless days, because for men the
whole wide world of interest is open,
and there is uothing that fires their |
fancy that they may not dare and do. |
Above all, in picking out a wife a
man can absolutely choose whom he |
| pleases. If he sees a woman whose|
beauty entrances him or whose wit
attracts him, or whose grace and
charm please him, he may seek her |
out, and woo, and generally win her. |
It is safe to say that when nine hun- |
dred and ninety-nine men out of a/
| thousand march to the altar they have

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world that they prefer

represents their ideal of

| when the bridal choir chants “Oh, |
Perfect Love,” the average bride- |}
groom feels like speaking up and say-
inp, “l am tf.

Now, the woman starts into matri-|
mony under no such auspicious con- |

| ditions, and while very few women |
| marry without being in love, the ma-|
he desired it beyond all other earth- |

jority of women have a highly culti- |

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enough sentiment |
‘bout almost any man to marry upon. |
‘Never marry for money, my child,” |
said an astute old dame, “always mar- |

. . . |
place in society is ever a reserved |
seat, and he is never too young or}
too old to receive the glad hand and | sentimental

be opened until company comes.
Thus is she always prepared for
contingencies, and so
marveious is her ability to love to or-
der that she has no difficulty in be-
stowing her heart upon the man who
asks for it, and living ever after asa
devoted wife. Women will deny the
assertion that they marry for any-
thing but the purest and most disin-
terested affection, but it is a fact, nev-
ertheless, that a good deal of the
skimmed milk of toleration and kind-

 

 

liness and gratitude masquerades as
the cream of devotion with women,
and that what they call loving is
merely liking.

In her secret heart a woman al-
ways wonders that a man should be
foolish enough to marry, even when
he marries her. She can not see her-
self being rash enough to burden her-
self with the support of a family, and
having to put up with another per-
son’s whims, if she didn’t have to.
With her the matter is different. In
a way,. matrimony is forced on a
woman. There is, to begin with, the
reflection of being an old maid that
not even the modern woman’s phi-
losophy has been able to rob of its
thorns. Then there is the necessity
of a support, for few women have
been taught any way by which to,

 

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other women, the one woman that |
feminine |
pulchritude, and virtues, and whom |
‘they believe, for the time being at |
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earn a competence for themselves,
and still fewer have a private fortune
of their own.
spinster is an anomaly in society, one
who is neither maid nor widow, and
who finds no niche to fit in, and in
the fourth place she is pushed into
marriage by her family, who frankly
show that they feel a spinster daugh-
ter or sister as an incumbrance.
Worst of all, woman may not seek
the mate she desires. She must mar-
ry the man who wants her, instead of
the man she wants. She must take
her opportunity in piace of her pref-
erence. Undoubtedly, in many mar-
riages the bridegroom is the one
man in the worid that the bride would
have chosen for her spouse, even as
she the one woman that he has
picked out for his wife, but I believe

is

in the great majority of cases the|

woman does not enter into matri-

mony as free-willed, and with as ro- |
mantic an affection as the man does. |

But marriage changes all this. Mat- |
rimony is a strange crucible in which |
a man’s love cools off, and a wom- |

an’s love heats up as a general thing.
Probably no man who married a
woman for whom he had a lukewarm
affection ever fell in love with her
after he was married, no matter what
her virtues as a wife, but any woman

will fall in love with a man after she |
is married to him if he is good, and |
for a|

kind, and considerate to her,

man’s love lives on illusions, and mat- |

rimony even with a good woman has

enough revelations to disillusion any- |

one, but a woman’s love grows strong
on deeds.
To my thinking, the fact that a

man loves the more when he is mar- |
ried than the woman does is a wise |

provision of nature, and the only way
by the sentimental
between a husband and wife could
ever be balanced. Taking it big and
large it may be said that the average
man starts out in married life with
the biggest supply of romance and
love and sentiment generally he is
going to have. All of the ordinary
affairs of life tend to deplete this cap-
ital. His wife loses her beauty that
captured his young fancy. The inti-
macy of wedded life reveals the

which

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woman’s love alive and burning, and

continual — study. keeps

if the husband will only throw a few
coals on the fire in the shape of com-
pliments and endearments he may be
always sure oi having a fire upon
the hearthstone by which to warm
himself as long as he lives.

That woman’s love outlasts man’s
we see funnily iilustrated in the large
numbers of middle-aged wives that
are solemnly hopping around on one
foot in physical culture classes, and
banting and massaging in order to
regain the waist measure of their
youth, and remain as attractive in
their husband’s eyes as when they
married, but nobody ever
bald-headed old man, with a fat fig-
ure, making any efforts to make him-
self beautiful to his elderly wife.

That woman’s love is more endur-
ing than man’s admits of no argu-
ment. Every day in the police courts
we see trembling wretches, with
bruised bodies, lying to shield the
hand of the brute that struck them;
we see wives toiling to support the
| drunkard that comes home to abuse
| them; we see women, outraged, be-
'trayed, degraded, forgiving the man
'that has dishonored them. Shame,
nor disgrace, nor ill treatment, nor
| neglect, have power to kill a woman’s
|love. It will not even drown in her
| tears, but a man only loves a woman
while she is on her good behavior.

In this way does man’s love differ
| from woman’s, and so if one might

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sum the problem of whether man or |
woman loved more, in prize fighter |
language, one might say that while |
man’s love is the stronger to start |
with, woman’s love has the greater |
staying powers, and the more ability |

Don’t Grit Your Teeth. |

“No teeth to fill,” the dentist said |
to the man in the chair, “but you |
are grinding off your teeth more than |
you ought to. Do you grit your teeth |
in your sleep?”

And the man said he didn’t stay |
awake long enough to know about |
that, but were they much ground |
off? |

“More than they ought to be at |
your age,” said the dentist. “You |
have worn the enamel off from some |
of them and got down to the den-|
tine.”

“What’s going to happen?” asked |
the victim: i |

“Why, if you keep on grinding}
them off,” said the dentist, “the teeth
will hollow out and we'll have to}
put plugs in them with gold tops|
to give them new grinding surfaces.” |

This wasn’t a very pleasant pros- |
pect, so later the man sought to
ascertain for himself whether he did
grit his teeth wnduly. And while he}
was still unable to stay awake long |
enough to find out, he did discover
that he had a habit at times of grit-
ting his teeth in his awake moments,

when he sat back from his work to).

think of something, for instance. |
And he made up his mind that he|
would stop that, anyway, and he hop- |
ed that he might thus stop grinding
his teeth in his sleep, if he did so)
grind them. For, fine as they might |
be, he didn’t want any of those nice
little gold-capped plugs put in his
teeth if he could help it.
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thousand faults he never suspected |
that she had concealed about her an- |

gelic disposition.

The affairs of the stock market be-
come more important than affairs of
the heart, and the very stress of busi-
ness and the necessity of making a
living take him away from her. He
has a thousand interests in which she
can not enter, and which if they do
not actually make him forget her
keep him from thinking about her.
She is no longer the whole of life to
him. She becomes merely a side is-
sue. Love is not dead, but it is drug-
ged and in a trance.

On the other hand, the circum-
stances of a woman’s life draw her to
her husband. Her world is bounded
by her home, and the sun and moon
and stars revolve around the man
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THE SWELL HEAD.

Narrow Escape of a Man Seriously
Afflicted.
Written for the Tradesman.

To crowd the entire fact into a
nutshell, Dan Elkins, the average six
teen year old boy, came into the Het-
tingtons’ office and asked for a po-
sition. The silent partner, William
Hettington, looked at the youngster,
took to him and told him, if he was
ready to accept $3.50 for a week’s
work there was a place for him
somewhere. Then came the answer
that fixed things:

“T’ll come at that rate for a week.
If at the end of that time I’m not
worth more than that you want some-
body else. If I can’t earn a dollar a
day here I can elsewhere. I’m will-
ing to begin low down. Sixty cents
a day for a fellow that weighs 160
pounds is too small a sum for me.
I’m good for two and a half a day at
home. I’m willing for a while to
come down to a dollar just to see
what I am worth. Can you make it
a dollar a day for a month?”

Aside from what he said, which had
appealed strongly to him, there was
a something in the voice that made
the man look out of the window at
the bit of the river that glinted off
there in the distance and it was some-
thing like a minute before his eyes
came back again and rested on the
boy before him.

“A good many things have to be
taken into account. We don’t really
need a boy at all; but we are always
on the lookout for what we may
want and you strike me as being that
sort of a boy. Have you been work-
ing out doors? You say you weigh
160 pounds and can do a man’s work;
kave you been working on a ranch?”

The questions were needless. The
young fellow from head to heels had
brought into the office the air found
only on the plains, and the man in
the office chair at the desk had asked
them for the purpose of looking the
youngster over. He found it a
pleasure and he determined to make
the most of his chance. Asking the
boy to be seated by the window,
where the river in the distance was
rippling on its way to the far-off sea,
he saw in the manly shoulders, the
well-poised head and the earnest, de-
termined face another well-grown lad
whom ten years ago that gleaming
river had seized in its’ relentless
hands and strangled. This voice was
certainly like his, the strong, well-
built figure was much the same and
the two young faces had in common
an earnestness of purpose’ which
meant much for the future should it
dare refuse however grudgingly the
best it had in store. For the first
time in ten tiresome years had a
young face so moved the man, and
had he yielded then to the impulse
that seized him he would have taken
Dan Elkin home with him and put
him into the room that for a decade
had been a mausoleum sacred to the
memory of as promising a young life
as the fair world has seen.

“T have always lived on a ranch,”
the voice began, “and that means
working out doors. There is always
enough there for a boy to do and

 

so I grew rapidly. Then father was
obliged to be often away from home
and that left me to begin early to
look out for things, and being the
only child—well, you know”’—the
“only” boy! They certainly had that
in common—“they have to take men’s
places early and that makes a big
difference. We get to be men be-
fore we know it. That and our be-
ing big does ihe business for us. I
guess we get the grown-up idea be-
fore we are ready for the thing it-
self.”

So the boy wandered on in his
talk, the ranch and his home there
giving him abundant material to talk
about, and long before he was done,
the young face of long ago in the
mind of the listener settled into the
features before him, and when the
story was ended the dollar a day
was promised, the boy was placed at
the foot of the commercial ladder to
climb or not to climb as he saw fit,
and William Hettington went home
to dinner that night to tell his wife
about a Dan Elkins hired that day
“who talks as Will used to talk and
who looks into your eyes as he used
to look when he was much in earn-
est.”

It goes without saying that Dan
Elkins earned his dollar a day and
that he is still working for the Het-
tington Brothers. He never knew
how he happered to “get in there!”
an exclamation which _ constantly
greeted him for days afterward. He
was too busy !ooking after his work
to think much about anything else,
and while he sometimes wondered
that sc much that was pleasant came
his way he could not know that
“Uncle Billy” for the sake of the boy

he could not forget was living his |
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pier by adding so much that was de-
sirable to his—Dan’s.

For the man life seemed again to
be worth living and more and more
as the days went by into his life the
old hope and the old joy seemed to
come. He went about the
every day to see that face and to
think of the other one behind it. He
found himself iooking into the store
windows and wondering what things
Dan would like to have. If anything
especially pleased him, it did not take
him long to step inside and buy it and
in due time the delighted Dan would
find it on his bureau, admiring it and
wondering from whom it had come.

A year of this went by and one Sun-
day in the early fall the merchant,
lighting his cigar, drove to Dan’s
boarding place and found him stand-
ing in the doorway, a little uncertain
what to do with himself. It did not
take long to induce him to get into
the buggy and away they went to-
wards the mountains, whose rugged
heads were thrust sharply up into
the blue September sky. The unex-
pected ride—above all the ride with
“Uncle Billy’—the glory of the au-
tumn day, the good road, the splen-
dor of the mountains, loosened the

young fellow’s tongue and the driver,
listening to “the sound of the voice
that is still,” began to dream dreams
full of kindness and good will for the
young man at his side, all the better

and the brighter because they ended
with the determination of realizing
the very dreams which Dan _ had
dreamed away back in his home on
the Colorado ranch. Why not have
this boy for his boy? Why not have
him living in the room over the din-
ing room, using “his” chair, “his”
table, “his’—everything? The home
would be cheery again with the old
voice sounding through it. The piace
so long vacant at the table would
again be filled and—and—when the
time came for these things to be left
behind, could they be left in better
hands than Dan’s?

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was for the man to get down into
the boy’s life and how pleasant this
was up to a certain point to the boy.
He knew now where all the surprises
had come from and he was not at all
adverse to the rides; but when in
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that sort of name. After the ride he
rapidly developed a violent case of
hatband contraction. He began to
be critical in regard to neckties. He
began to talk of the future with an
cver-confidence that awakened  dis-
gust, all of which might have been
put up with had it been accompanied
with even decent treatment of the
man who was thinking too much of
a boy who didn’t know when he was
well treated; so in time Uncle Billy
got more than enough of “the shab-
biest treatment of his life,’ and the
result was as sudden as the coming
of the cause had been. There weren’t
any more presents and any more
rides. There were few familiar
greetings and the undue familiarity
of the short-sighted clerk met with
a coolness that chilled; and when
one day that same clerk presumed to
go into the office without knocking
and with an at home air threw him-
self into one of the firm’s chairs he
was sent out with a flea in his ear,
concluding as he went to his place in
the store that he had possibly gone
too far. He guessed he had made a
fool of himself.

A fortnight later there was a Stir
in the clerk-family of the Hetting-
tons. Ben Burrill, “a unicorn who
didn’t know beans,” had been boosted
into Jim Watson’s posish right over
the heads of Elkins and Hardy. He
was only seventeen, but he was a
boy whom everybody took to and
was not sorry afterwards that he did.
Envy insisted that the promotion
was a mistake, but the new broom
not only swept clean but kept new, a
fine quality in brooms. Then, too,
the boy “hath borne his faculties so
meek” that he soon made the strong-
est friends of those who had frown-
ed upon his promotion. The keen
eyes of the office especially were on
him and when a month after his ad-
vance the reports showed that the
business of which he had charge had
unexpectedly and astonishingly  in-
creased there were congratulations
among the firm members over the re-
sult. With Uncle Billy the matter
went farther. It left him thoughtful
and in his quiet, unobtrusive way he
went into the store to look the boy
over.

He was prepared for the six feet
two that met his gaze, but it was
the open, thoughtful, earnest face
that gave him peace. The boy was
inclined to be handsome—would be,
in fact, when once the “pin-feather
age” had been passed. There was
nothing of Will’s voice in the tone
that answered the few questions ask-
ed, but there was something else
which satisfied, a deference and a
heartiness in his manner which call-
ed back certain lovable qualities,
buried now for ten long years. So
for another month he watched and
waited and then one day after din-
ner he and Mrs. William went over
for an evening with Brother John’s
folks.

The brothers had hardly settled
comfortably down in the den when
Uncle Billy unburdened his mind.

“John, I’ve been thinking a good
deal lately of my boy, Will. I want
another boy in his place, in his

 

room, at the table, with me when |

I want him, to send him to school,| vertising is not worth running.

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to college, to bring him up with the

idea of having him take my place in| another man’s destruction.

the firm when I am ready to give it|

up—in a word to have him my boy, | an investment, not an expense.

my own. I tried Elkins, but it isn’t |
in him, and now I have been won-|
dering if Burrill will fill the bill. |
Does he strike you as a gentleman?” |

OV ag 7?

“Does it seem to you that there is
anything in him at all suggestive of |
Will—the way he carries himself and

meets people and things like that? |

Will was quiet, and gentle, but he
was manly. Does Burrill strike
you so?”

wes

“Will he prove the intolerant cad
that Elkins did if I give him a
trial?”

“No. Go-ahead.
his not far back was a_ gentleman.
That’s what Burrill is. The other
fellow is a jack. He’s a good busi-
ness man; but cultured people don’t
want him, and the house of Hetting-
ton is made up of gentlemen.”

So the next day Ben Burrill was
surprised to be called into the office
and invited to dinner, and when after
dinner he was told what Uncle Billy
had in store for him, he sat as one
dazed. When the power of speech
came to him, what he said was, in
effect, that words were weakest when
wanted most, that he would do his
best to make Mr. Hettington glad
for what he had determined upon,
that the education was what he had
been working for—his father and
grandiathers for generations had
been college bred—and that if doing
his best was a guarantee of the future
he was confident that success was
ahead. It was not, after all, so much
what he said as how he said it, and
when he got through Uncle Billy was
satisfied that his successor in the busi-
ness firm would be a credit to him.

Ben Burrill did not go again into
the store as a clerk. The fall term
was beginning and the new _ pro-
gramme of his life was soon entered
upon. His chance had come and,
making the most of it, he was soon
in college, where he was graduated
after the full four years’ course. Then
with two years abroad he came home
ready for his place in the office. He
is there to-day and filling it to the
satisfaction of the firm and to the
great joy of the silent partner.

Dan Elkins still holds the same
place at the same salary that he held
when Ben left, and the other day
when he and a fellow clerk were walk-
ing up First street and the Hetting-
ton carriage with Ben Burrill in was
taking that gentleman home to din-
ner Dan, nudging his companion, re-
marked as the carriage passed them,
“That, Charlie, is where I would have
been if an aggravated case of swell-
head hadn’t prompted me to throw
away the best chance that a fellow
ever had.”

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AMONG THE SIOUX.

Work Accomplished at the Rosebud
Agency.
Written for the Tradesman.

I wish to acknowledge thus early
in this paper my great obligations
for the subject matter presented by
the Rev. A. B. Clark, of the Rosebud
Agency, whose life and labors for
many years have had no little influ-
ence among the Indians in bringing
them by precept and example to
whatever is commendable in their
daily life and character. With “the
pride of long descent” in his veins,
with the culture which comes from
the best training of Eastern school
and college, the valued rector of an
earnest, influential, prosperous parish,
he was asked whether he would give
up all these and do what he could to
brighten the life of the Indian and
fit him for the immortality of the
Beyond. A few weeks later found
him with his cultured manhood jour-
neying Westward; and there at Rose-
bud under the bright June skies I
enjoyed the hospitality found only in
the cultured Christian home.

It was in August, 1878, that Spotted
Tail, chief of a large band of Brule
Sioux, selected the location on Rose-
bud Creek and settled there with
7,000 Indians. The agency was es-
tablished first in tents and log cab-
ins, which remained in use for twen-
ty years; but for the past five years
all the Indians have been comforta-
bly housed and the agency water
works provide water and_ electric
light for a limited number.

Nineteen years ago the scattering
of the smaller bands began under
their various chiefs, who chose such
locations as seemed advantageous for
farming and _ stock-raising. There
were some good crops here and there
and a few successful herders, but
farming and home-building could not
succeed while the semi-monthly is-
sues of beef and rations were kept
up and the family were allowed to
continue their gipsy-like existence,
leaving their homes and gardens to
the coyote on four legs or two.

A fortunate provision with these In-
dians was the establishment of the
day school, where thirty children of
school age could be gathered, and we
find that the day school and the mis-
sion chapel have been the means of
holding these Indian villages togeth-
er. The issues of beef, rations and
annuities have been cut down or dis-
continued until two summers ago the
experiment of self-support was tried
by three-fourths of the population
and found much favor with the In-
dians.

The schools, both mission and day,
closed in early June; that of St.
Mary’s was the first visited. It was
begun in February, 1874, on the San-
tee reservation. Ten years later it
was destroyed by fire and re-built on
the Rosebud Reserve in order to
reach the large body of Indians there.
My notes say “heathen” and I do not
think it best to trifle with them.
Here the work of training Indian chil-
dren, surrounded by the influences
of a Christian home with as much of
the home feeling and sympathy as
possible, has been going on for more

than seventeen years by Mr. Clark’s | brains of the white teacher I am

tireless hands. Two miles farther
east is the Government Boarding
School, about six years in operation,
and between the schools is a large
stone church, opened about four years
ago. At these two schools the same
training is accomplished, the leading
idea being, How shall these children

be successfully taught practical les- |
With |

sons in household economy?
the regular lesson from the text-book
are taught those of the home. They
learn to keep house, to cook and to
sew. The making of beds, the clean-
ing of rooms, what washday and iron-
ingday mean; in fact, whatever per-
tains to making and sustaining hap-
py home life is made at_ these
schools a matter to study, to learn
and to put into daily practice. The
boy is taught to work. If it be
farming, then he learns to do at the
school what he must know how to
do on a farm of his own. So he
milks, so he plows and plants and

 

harvests, and so with his own hands
he learns how to get his living; and |
in our drives about the reservation |

frank to say I do not believe they
could have; but the fact that under
any circumstances they did it and
“the thing went” carries its own
story of encouragement. The prog-
ress of civilization at best is slow, and
from what has been done, under the
greatest discouragement, we may be-
lieve that more that is good must
follow. More than half the popula-
tion are Christians and as faithful as
professing Christians are elsewhere.
They are intelligent worshippers and
prefer to have books in hand so that
they may assist or respond at the
proper times. The responses and
singing of Indian congregations are
often startling in their full-voiced
earnestness and no less impressive is
their reverent attention to sermons
and instructions. At a convocation
of clergymen and catechists, I listen-
ed to two sermons by Indian speak-
ers in their language without fatigue,
the recurrent vowel sounds so dull-
ing the angular gutterals as to pre-
vent any approach to discord. Per-
haps the editor and the readers of

 

 

 

 

 

The Sioux Indians at Home

 

my attention was repeatedly called to
the results of Indian industry. Here
stood numerous shocks of corn in
large well-kept gardens and_ there
was the vegetable cellar, where such
roots as the children raised were
kept for use at the regular school
luncheon, a meal where, it is hardly
needful to state, the Indian child has
learned some very important lessons.

Hardly a structure visited failed to
show what the Indian boy can be
taught to do with his hands, and one
instance deserves special mention—
the making of a windmill at the
Whirlwind Soldiers’ Camp School.
The materials were pieces of packing
boxes, a cast-off buggy axle, pieces
of wire fencing, rejected water pipes,
s few pieces of scantling, some nails
and bolts, the last three the only
new materials made use of.

If now the question be squarely
put, What of it? I believe that the
answer can be as squarely stated. It
is more than we have any right to
expect. Whether the Indian boys
would of themselves made the wind-
mill without the guiding hands and

 

the Tradesman would like to join in
and enjoy, as heartily as I did, the
singing of “Nearer, my God to
thee!” in the Indian tongue. A sin-
gle stanza will answer, and here it is:
Mita Wakantanka,
Nikiyena,
Ka kis mayanpi sa,
He taku sni;
Kici cina wacin,
Mita Wakantanka,
Mita Wakantanka,
Nikiyena.

Among these agencies, which are
working a slow but certain change
among these inhabitants of woods
and wilds, it is not to be wondered
at that a bit of rivalry should now
and then appear. It is related, with
how much truth the reader himself
must judge, that Howling Coyote,
after killing or capturing all the mem-
bers of an emigrant train, as they
were celebrating their victory in
dance and revelry, was himself and
his turbulent band of two hundred in
turn surprised and captured. Howl-
ing Coyote and forty of his warriors
were sent to San Quentin, where for

three years they were imprisoned.

On returning to their people, Howl-
ing Coyote, in order to justify him-
self, boasted of his superiority, de-
picted the pleasures of those who
traveled the white man’s road and
feigned the deepest scorn for those
who clung to old customs. This cut
into the heart of his rival, Running
Elk. He thought his power was
slipping from him, but with deci-
sion he met the calamity. He stalked
into the agent’s office and sat down.

“Cut hair,” he said.

“Whose?”

“Mine.”

“What? Do you want your hair
cut oft short like a white man’s?”

“Ugh,” grunted Running Elk, “me
travel white man’s road now.”

When the locks were shorn the
chief asked for a pair of trousers and
« coat, which were given him by the
delighted agent. Then he walked to
the mirror and stared, his features in
the meantime fixed as if graven in

stone. Then turning to the agent
he said: “Howling Coyote no kin
laugh more. Me all same. Me betta.
Howling Coyote be takum three
years civilize. Me _ civilize three
hours.”

Two days later the agent, through
his window, saw Running Elk in the
rain and wading through a sea of
mud, his bare legs gleaming like half-
polished bronze, a hat on his head
and his trousers under his arm.

“Why don’t you wear your trous-
ers, Elk?” he asked with astonish-
ment.

“Me no want to git dirty,” replied
the warrior as he proceeded to dress
himself. “Me heap tired.”

“What's the matter?”

“No sleep nothin’ tall. Think all
time losum scalp.” Then after a long
| Silence of profound thought, “Mighty
| lonesome be civilized, my camp. Me
|one, that’s all. Squaws he laugh—
|laugh all time. Me no like civilize.
No like white man’s road. Make me
tired!”

Is it barely possible, or wholly so,
that Running -Elk’s reply contains
the conclusion of the whole matter?
Does the civilizing of the Indian sav-
age find its leading hindrances in
that “tired” feeling and in that
“Squaws he laugh?” For myself I
am convinced of this: that the Gov-
}ernment’s long-coming conclusion to
recognize manhood and let that rec-
ognized manhood take care of itself
and the constant encouragement
and help of the mission school and
day school are the only agents which
will ever overcome the “weariness,”
}and counteract the baneful influence
| of the squaw’s laughter.
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Constables Who Will Not Disgrace |
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that there are gentlemen to be found
among them they will laugh. How-
ever, let me say that there are consta-
bles who are entitled to this designa-
tion; that there are constables who
absolutely refuse to accept writs of
attachment or foreclosures whose exe-
cution will bring hardship to the de-
fendants of said writ and that there
are constables who refuse to serve |
warrants on women. The majority
of what may be termed the decent
constables will never arrest a woman
at night. Instead, we simply notify
her that she is wanted and she gen-
erally comes and signs a bond with- |
out being arrested.

I must say that most warrants
sworn out in Justice Court cases in
the city are instigated by some law-
yer, for if left alone people who have
a grievance will settle it generally
out of court if it is possible. Some-
times in settling out of court they
seriousiy disturb the peace of the
neighborhood and even black each
other’s eyes, but even this is better, |
if the people only knew it, than be-
ing dragged into a court and being
subjected to fines, court costs and
lawyers’ fees.

But when they go to a lawyer in- |
variably there is work for the consta-
ble. {t may be only a question of 50
cents or some dirty clothes that start-
ed the trouble, but there will be a
batch of warrants to serve if it goes
to a court. This class of cases is
the hardest to handle also, for the
parties to the suit are nearly always
foreigners, and when the constable
goes into their homes to arrest one
he is an object of suspicion, to say
the least, and is treated as_ such. }
Jews are the only people who will |

not fight to escape a warrant, but
they will lie until the constable does
not know whether he has the right

|man, even if the names agree. All
| others will fight if the occasion offers

it, and the colored man will turn and

irun, jump out of a window or do

anything desperate when he hears
that a constable is looking for him.
Personally I have more warrants
to serve in the Market street district
than any other place in the city, for

| there, no matter how trifling a mat-
'ter of dispute arises, the first re-
| course of both parties is the Justice

Court. It is seldom that the consta-
ble is met with force there, however.

Here, in the poor district of the
city, where the people for the most
part ere ignorant of the laws and
customs of the country, the disreputa-
ble type of the collection constable

|is seen at his worst. When one of

this class of men goes to serve a
writ or warrant in this district he
first begins by threatening to kill the
person he is after. He enters a
house and kicks the furniture and
scares the people so that they are
glad to do anything, even to bribing,
in order to save themselves from in-
jury.

The reputable constable must fur-
nish 1 bond, but there are constables
who have faulty bonds—bonds that

/no one would lose a cent by if they

were forfeited, and it is these men
who, not being afraid to lose reputa-
tion cr money, carry on their ne-
farious work with a high hand and
throw the decent constable into dis-
repute. They accept a levy for $2
and go to a man’s house and take $10
worth of stuff, and they take it, no
matter if they have.to commit as-
sault to get it. Then, when it comes
to returning for the same, not hav-
ing a bond that can be sued, they
falsely inform the one for whom they
made the collection that nothing of
value was secured and rob their cli-
ent as well as the victim of the writ.
These constables and the loan sharks
work much together, and they truly
rob the poor people that come into
their clutches.

Another source of revenue and
trouble for the constable is in the
securing of juries in the downtown
districts. While a man may be an

ardent supporter of all the anti-
|crime committees in the world and

a firm reformer, when it comes to
securing him to serve on a jury he
has a hundred excuses for not serv-
ing. Of course, there is a difference;

| some men, busy, prominent men, too,

will always serve when summoned.
Last winter, in securing a jury to
try a case arising from a family quar-

 

rel, I got a minister, a well known
bank President, two of the leading
gambiers of the city and a negro
hodcarrier. When I came to look
them over and get the other man I
decided that a professional burglar
was all that was missing to equalize
the morals of the jury. I went into
a building with a blank summons in
my pocket and stated my wants. To
my surprise a young fellow stepped
out and said he was the boy I was
after. “But if you’re a burglar you
don’t want to get into a court, ofall
places.” I said.

“Well,” said the boy, “if those gam-
blers can take a chance on it I guess
I can,’ and I accepted him.

This jury turned in its verdict and
went up and drew their 50 cents each,
the bank President and minister
being the most urgent in their de-
mands for their fees.

In serving levies sometimes. the
constable runs into some queer ad-
ventures, but it is seldom that the
reputable consiable is found throw-
ing furniture and household goods in-
to the street. I have had _ twenty
years’ experience as a constable in
this city and only once have I seized
what might be termed household
goods.

This was the case of a servant girl
who had secured judgment againsta
restaurant keeper for wages due her.
T went to serve the writ at night, at
the suggestion of the restaurant
keeper. who called me up on_ the

| telephone and said that he wished to

have the matter over with as soon
as possible.

I went to his place and found it
barren of chairs, tables or anything,
apparently, that might be seizable.
There was a crowd of the keeper’s
neighbors present to give the con-
stable the laugh. I looked about the
place and saw on the range in the

 

kitchen a choice assortment of roast
beef and roast chickens, with all the
trimmings. To the astonishment of
the crowd, I picked up a basket and
proceeded to stuff the roasts into it.
When the keeper became assured of
my seriousness in making the seizure
he hurriedly called quits and paid
the girl’s wages. What kind of a
sale I would have held on that choice
lot of chicken and beef I’m sure I
don’t know.

As io the money earned by a con-
stable in his work, he does fairly well,
but never gets rich. If he worked on
the allowances of the statutes he
would starve, because a_ constable
will frequently spend three times as
much tor car fare in effecting a serv-
ice as the legal fee amounts to. So
he charges slightly more and makes
perhajss on an average as much as
the police officer of the city. The
work is sometimes extremely disa-
greeable, but scarcely ever is there
any complaint that it is monotonous.

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DON’T CUT AND COVER.

Paternal Advice to a Son Inclined To
Be Wayward.

Written for the Tradesman.

Castle Rock, Colo., Sept. 2, 1904.

Dear Dillon—This letter is as much
a surprise to me as it will doubtless
be to you. Your mother, it seems,
got a letter from you yesterday and
this morning at breakfast she _ said
something about “Dill’s getting
homesick,” and then all at once I
remembered that she and I had a
big lumber heels of a boy in Denver
who is trying to make a standing
place for himself in that swift city.
It was easy to see that she had
something on her mind and I re-
marked, “Is that so?” im the right
place and off she went.

It looks as if you are trying to
widen the field of your financial oper-
ations just enough to include me, and
while it may be a little discouraging
I feel as if I must say that I just
wouldn’t if I were you. Six weeks
at the worst is the longest time to
begin the Thanksgiving dodge. Then
it is well enough to begin to quote
“How dear to my heart are. the
scenes of my childhood!” and_ to
ask ycur mother if she’s picked out
the biggest and the ripest pumpkins
for a batch of her good pumpkin pies
and to wind up with the heart-stir-
ring statement that six weeks is a
good long time to wait to hear the
sound of a mother’s voice and_ to
clasp a father’s ever-welcoming
hand! By beginning in August it
more than doubles the time and the
thing gets so confoundedly stale by
the last Thursday in November as
to suggest Lazarus’ condition after
he had been dead four days.

Now, Dill, don’t you begin _ that.
I’m willing to let your mother be-
lieve until she finds out to the con-
trary her own self that her dear
Dillon is the same cherub in curls
that used to repeat his “Now I lay
me” every night before he went to
bed. If you play your cards well she
may never know, and so far as that
is concerned I’m willing to help you;
but, Dill, when it looks as if you
were trying to bamphoozle me _ it
goes against the grain and I won’t
have it. So far as I can see the fact
ss this: You are mdulgme m a
whirl of what in my day we called,
“Bucking the tiger.” The first time
you had been “buying things’”—you
were so forgetful as not to_ state
what—and wanted a twenty to piece
out with. The next time you
“went” five “better” (!) and this
time I’m waiting with some curiosity
to hear what sum will relieve you
of your dire necessity; and I am all
the more curious about it because
your mother has sent you all the
ready money she has on hand and
she’s coming to me for it.

She won’t get it. I’m going to
tell her that I’ll write to you and
will see that you don’t suffer, and in
the meantime you want to stop two
little—_I hope they are just that—
practices before they get to be hab-
its. The first is gaming and_ the
second—to me far the worst—the
complete(!) covering up of tracks,
at which every boy from fifteen to

 

 

twenty-three is cock-sure that he is an
expert.

I don’t know—and I’m mighty sure
that I don’t want to know—how long
you’ve been at it, but the time has
come for you to stop. A fellow at
nineteen ought to have become fa-
miliar enough with the terms of the
game to use them intelligently when
he wants to intensify the idea that
he is “tough.” You ought by this
time at a card party to be able to say
with sufficient earnestness to produce
conviction, “Let’s change this game
to poker,” or, with a careless display
of your hand to the fellow at your
left remark, “How’s that for a
straight?” With this knowledge at-
tained that’s all you ever want—or
should want—to do from that time
forth with a gambling game. This
is the place for the sermon, but you
won’t get it any more than you’re
going to get any more money from
home to pay that sort of debt, and
for the same reason—you don’t need
it. You are nineteen and you have
brains. Use them.

Whai I must say is that the spirit
of gainbling is in the air and Denver
is no worse than any other town of
its size in that respect. It is the
fashion to consider betting as argu-
ment and the “nickel,” the “two bits,”
the “a v” or the “a ten,” paid or un-
paid, measures the belief or the unbe-

lief of the modern reasoner(!). Now, |

Dill, I want you to stop the whole
blamed business. Leave out of your
vocabulary the “I'll bet you” and
keep out of and away from the places
and the persons who are pulling you
to the “damnation hole” a good deal
nearer than you think you are. To
bring this thing to a head, I’ll tell
you what YH do. Hf yowll make a
clean breast of it and promise me,
as man to man, that you'll stop gam-
ing for money. I’ll get you out of
this last box. Now dont try to
play any dodge game. Meet me on

the level—the time is coming, I hope,”

when you can meet me on “the
square’—and I’ll be to you the dear-
est dad this side of “Kingdom Come.”
Will vou?

The trouble with the covering up
business lies in the fact that the
“he,” indulging in it, always believes
l:imseif smart enough to do what
no man ever has done or ever will
do, forgetful of the fact, if he ever
knew it, that the very covering is
sure to show that disturbance has
been going on. That thing bothered
me a good dea! and I finally made up
my mind to this: not to do any-
thing that I care much about cover-
ing up. You are going to find that
a tough doctrine to swallow and it’s
going to be a good many years be-
fore you swallow it, if you ever do;
but you'd better.

You know your mother and you
know how her hands go up when
she is horrified at the sins of the
world. From the first “Thou shalt
not” io the included tenth there are
no two ways about one of them.
Well, I early saw that I was going to
be kept in constant hot water or be
the saint I know I never can be—
you may get out of that all the com-
fort you can—and I tried the cover-

 

 

 

 

ing up trick until I saw it was no
go with her. It made her cry and
it made me mad and finally I gave
myself a good hauling over, decided
what 1 could cut out and what I
wouldn’t cut out and went at it.
I had got my growth and was going
to smoke when I want to. I wasn’t
going to do any more lying when I
came home at 2 o’clock in the morn-

ing and so through the whole list of |

the things you are
haven't any doubt.

doing now, I

At first there was the
“I. V."—my initials, you know—
“don’t you know”—and there I broke
in with “yes, I know all about it. I
know a great deal more about it than
you do or ever can and you'll have
to let me decide all these questions
as I think best.

 

I won’t keep any-

thing back if you’ll drop the lectur- |

ing business.” Here’s a sample: I

got heme last night at a little after |
1—“I. V., where in the world have |
you been?”—“At the Midway witha|

drummer. . We played billiards and
I had two glasses of beer—the last
one after we quit.’—That ends it
There isn’t any covering up and
that little “dred” we all hate is got
tid of. Make up your mind, Dill,
that you have got to face the music.

I told the truth |
and didn’t wait to be asked about it. |
inevitable |

It’s only a question of time any way
and the sooner it’s over the better.

Now, boy, drop the Thanksgiving
gag. Accept or reject my proposi-
tion like a man. Don’t try to work
either your mother or me and above
all things stop trying to cover things
up. From your Dad, I. V.

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How Mechanical Ingenuity Has
Worked Revolution in Farming.
These are the days of big things

because we are getting down to busi-

ness more and more: In other words,
we are realizing that so much can be
accomplished by observing labor sav-
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Perhaps the farmers have been among |

the most recent to realize it, as is in-

dicated by the actual revolution in| favneer eek an crcucel. aud 3 mania

agriculture in America which is tak- |

ing place.

The work of the farmer has been |

called an industry, but with the man
of to-day, who depends on the soil

for a livelihood, it is also a business |

Twenty-five years ago the man am-
bitious enough to attempt to culti-
vate I,000 acres would probably have
been thought idiotic, but such has
been our agricultural progress that
to-day one can find farms in the
West ranging as high as 10,000 acres.
In a single year the owner of one
containing 6,000 acres in Iowa has
placed in the bank $50,000—the prof-
its of that period after taking out all
expenses. In other words, every
acre of the farm netted him over
$8, counting in 400 acres of wood-
land, roads, and soil on which noth-
ing productive was cultivated. It

|may be needless to say that this

account, of every item of income and
outlay. An analysis of this account
is of interest, for it explains in part

| how he succeeded where others would

to become more productive to the|

extent that each phase of it is car-

ried out on progressive and system- |

atic lines, and this is why the expres-
sion “one horse” is regarded as con-

er is usually among those who can
not make ends meet at the year’s end,
and comes out with a balance on the

have failed.

The farm in question is called a
“corn farm.” This title is misleading.
In addition to corn, no less than 1,000
acres are planted in wheat each year,
and about 600 acres in oats. Corn

temptuous, since the one horse farm- | '* relied upon for the principal money

| return—-the cash crop—but if all the

| available soil

debit rather than the credit side of |

his account—if he keeps an account,
although he may be too negligent
even to keep ocne.

Success rests with man. Under
this heading is not to be placed the
small land owner, for he may get as
much net value out of fifty or I00

acres by economical agriculture as/|

his neighbor who pays taxes on dou- |
ble the area, but who has not appre-|

progress.
the farmer as to the merchant, the
manufacturer, even the banker—it
rests with the man himself to apply
judgment and method, as_ already
stated, in making a business out of
agriculture, or to
haphazard, trusting to nature to re-
pay him with the harvest.

But nature helps those who help
themselves by taking advantage of
mechanical invention and applying
processes which experience or possi-
bly the farm college has taught them.
The best proof of this fact is what
appears to be the wonderful results
which have attended agriculture on
a large scale in the great grain belt
beyond the Mississippi, as well as in
the Central West. Here the corn or
wheat field may be calculated by the
square mile—not the acre.

Instead of the one horse you hear
of four, six, sven a dozen hauling
the apparatus. The bushels of grain
are reckoned in 50,000 lots, and one
man may own a township. Yes, they
are one man iarms, not one horse
farms, Sut with this difference—the
man may not put his hand to the
plow or toss a bundle of hay from
one year’s end to the other. He farms
with his head—not with his body. He
devotes his ability and experience to
getting best results out of the men
he employs and the machinery he
owns, and wherever it is a question
whether the man or the machine will
do the more he takes the machine
every time.

plow and _= sow

 

were devoted to it
annually far more fertilizer would
be required than if another cereal
were occasionaliy planted, so the crop
is rotated by raising three successive
harvests of corn from a field, then
“putting” it in wheat or oats, and fol-
lowing this haivest with three more
of corn. The land is valued at $30
an acre, representing an investment
in the soil of $180,000. The improve-
ments, which include houses, barns
and buildings of all kinds, fences,

: : a | sewerage, machinery a ive stock
ciated the profit which comes from | & ~ y and lve stock,

The same rule applies to}

swell the total to $258,500. If the
farmer had this capital placed where
it paid him 5 per cent. interest his
income from it would be about $13,-
ooo—at 6 per cent. a little over $15,-
coo.

Here is the problem for him to
solve: Can he make his soil yield
sufficient in quantity and quality to
pay him $15,000 annually after meet-
ing all expenses? If so, his money
is a 6 per cent. investment. As al-
ready stated, he has cleared as high
as $50,000 in one year, and in a
period of ten vears his profits have
never been less than $19,000 at each
year’s end. The expense account
would stagger many a man who cal-
culates on 100 or 500 acres.

It would buy what would be con-
sidered a good sized farm in some
parts of the United States, for it
amounts to $25,000 a year—but it in-
cludes everything, even the deprecia-
tion in value each year of buildings
and machinery, which the owner esti-
mates at 10 per cent. Therefore
every harvest must yield him at least
$44,000 in order to make the smaller
profit recorded, but, as already inti-
mated, this kind of farmer estimates
by the 50,000 and 100,000 bushels, as
he calculates his outlay in tens of
thousands of dollars.

Here is what was put into his
granaries in one season: 215,000
bushels of corn, 20,500 bushels of
wheat, 28,000 bushels of oats. He
sold the corn for $64,500, the wheat
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to his animals reduced his year’s feed
bill to $200.

The expert corn grower who reads
this article will doubtless be surpris-
ed at the harvest to the acre—over
fifty bushels—but this farmer, who
makes it his business, does not waste
an acre of cultivated soil, and, after
it is plowed, gives one part the same
attention and care he gives to all—
through his machinery and the men
behind it. In the preparation of the
ground the gang plows come into
play, each drawn by six sturdy horses.
If the soil is heavy even the seeders

 

are drawn by four horses, never less |

than two.

You do not see the “man with the |
hoe” walking over a field and wasting |

a half dozen kernels where he plants
one; then another man following him
to bury the seed in the earth. These
machines drop just three grains in
every space allotted for a hill, be-
cause they can be adjusted to it, and
cover the grain automatically. In
planting time you can count thirty
of them in operation, so the thousands
of acres are seeded as quickly, if
not more quickly, than a hundred.

To harrow the surface the farmer
starts out a hundred harrows in a
morning. If they were placed side
by side they would cover a strip 400
feet in width as they move along. He
keeps the weeds from choking the
young corn with seventy-five culti-
vators, each drawn by two _ horses.
The “man with the hoe” exists only
in poetry on this place. Time and
space are too. precious for him.
When the crop is gathered seventy-
five four horse wagons haul the piles
of ears to the barns, placed here and
there at convenient points, to save
time.

Throughout it all the idea is
keep every man, every animal, and
every machine doing what can be
done to the best advantage—each
forming a part of a system of which
the farmer is the director. Conse-
quently the same thoroughness is
noted in one part as in another, and
the farm is as carefully divided into
departments as an up to date fac-
tory or store, each one knowing
what he has to do, and how and when
to do it.

It is not strange that this man may
“make” his corn for Io cents a bush-
el where it costs his neighbor, who
does not believe in “new fangled”
methods, nearly twice this amount.
When a farm can be conducted as a
business, and the cost of plowing,
planting, cultivating, and every other
expense sum up less than $5 for
every acre, while the corn from every
acre sells for two or three times this
amount, the business of agriculture
is worth thinking over.

Ingenuity has been displayed in
few inventions more notable’ than
those which concern the soil and its
products. The inventor has so re-
duced actual human labor in field and
garden that a man can perform about
every operation required by merely
the turn of a wheel here and the pull
of a lever there with one hand, while
he guides his horses with the other.
He can actuaily plow, cultivate and
seed 100 acres without walking a

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step, and with his two or four horses
and machine will accomplish as much
as a dozen or a score of men with
hand tools.

Even when the corn is ready for
cutting, no longer is it necessary to
swing the sickle blade and get the
backache gathering and binding the
stalks. One reason why the West-
ern corn “patch” may extend a mile
or more in length is because it can
be cut and grasped by fingers of steel
and bound like a bundle of wheat
without a touch of the hand. The

|corn binder and shocker moves along

as rapidly as the horses drawing it
can walk, cutting every stalk of the
hill close to the roots. Held in the
shock former the stalks are wrapped
into a compact bundle ready to be
carried to the barn or stacked amid
the hills.

When it is time to separate the
ears from the husk the farmer does
not call in his neighbors. One of
the hands pitches the stalks and ears
into a machine that strips every
piece of covering from the ears and
piles them into the wagon or on the
ground. Then it takes the husks and
blows them through a pipe into the
barn loft, to be stored for fodder
Here again a steam engine having
the power of two or three horses will
do as much in a day as forty or more
human huskers, and the only wages
are water, oil and fuel.

The “husking bee” has gone like
the man with the hoe, and even the
haymaker is rapidly becoming a
memory. We are all familiar with
the horse rake, which gathers the
hay into long swaths. At last appa-
ratus has been designed that gath-
ers up the swath as it moves along,
raises it to the top of a wagon, where
the man with the pitchfork adjusts
the load. As the vehicle moves for-
ward it is filled by this hay elevator
attached to its rear and the hay ad-
justed, ready to be hauled to the
market without another touch.

The grain field at harvest time
presents an animated scene, especial-
ly when the wheat is threshed on the
spot where it is grown. The old
time thresher with its horses in the
treadmill was considered little short
of marvelous, but it was long since
discarded for the one driven by the
traction engine which hauled it from
place to place, and now the visitor
to a California wheat field can see the
climax of the agricultural engineer’s
effort-—-a mechanical giant, which, as
it passes through the mass of waving
stalks, cuts them, separates the ker-
nels from the sheaf, and binds the
straw.

Actually the only manual labor per-
formed with the wheat itself is to
remove the bags of grain as fast as
the machine fills them, and to load
the straw bundies on the wagon to
be hauled away, yet cutting, raking,
binding and threshing are continually
being done from the time the man
at the lever starts his motor until
he stops it. In fact, steam power is
utilized in Pacific coast farming more
extensively than elsewhere in the
world.

Tractors representing the power of
fifty horses are substituted for ani-

sia in plowing a field, making a se-
ries of furrows twenty feet wide and
dragging from twelve to

plows after them. When the
is ready for harrowing, they are at-

The steam har-
use.

cially built for them.
vester is in common

it mows 2 feet

wide.

swath twenty-two
The tractor draws its plows

conception of how machinery is aid-

red to. The invention of it has been
stimulated by the demand for labor

sire of the agriculturist to apply
of human activity. As he has studied

his vocation he has realized the great

advantage if he has adequate facili-
ties.
Ht a

man believes he can

modern methods will give him the
desired results without

of many of the Western farms
their present size.

to

done so, and the stories of the rural
capitalists who direct

operations |
from their automobiles and drive over |

twenty |
earth |

tached to harrows fifty feet wide spe- |

With it}
150 acres of grain can be cut, thresh- |
ed, and sacked in twelve hours, for |
|ting brains

over fifty to sixty acres in a day, ac-|
cording to the character of the soil. |
When one stops to consider what |
these figures mean he can get some |

ing in the revolution we have refer- |

and time saving appliances, but this |
demand has originated from the de- |

their places behind teams of thor-
oughbreds have more than a grain
of truth im as the
proves. But they are of the class
who use their heads more than their
hands, bearing the same relation to
their property that the president ofa
cotton mill or of a foundry does to
his industry.

Undoubtedly the advantage of put-
into farming has
greatly developed by the work of the
agricultural colleges of this country.
Their graduates have shown-beyond
question that the scientific cultivator
is no longer to be ridiculed as an
impractical theorist. The thousands
of young men and young women as .
well who have had the benefit of
study at these institutions have per-
haps done more in furthering Ameri-
can agricultural progress than any

them, camera

been

| other medium, because education has

methodical ideas, as in other channels |

opportunities of which he can take |

caused them to appreciate that true
economy lies in applying modern and
systematic ideas in caring for tree,
It can be asserted
that

shrub and shoot.
without fear of contradiction

ithey are numbered among the most

make |
$1,000 or $5,000 more by adding to}
his acreage he is strongly tempted to |
make the addition, especially when |}

overwork. |
This is the secret of the expansion |

prosperous of rural citizens, for they
have made their calling not only an
industry but a business. S. Ryder.
ee
Jorgenson & Son, general dealers,
Grant: We have been regular sub-
scribers to the Michigan Tradesman

lever since the paper was established

Not all their own- |
ers have succeeded, but many have}

in 1883 and would be lost to be
without it. It affords us much pleas-
ure to authorize you to enter our
order for a five year subscription, ac-

companied by a remittance of $5.

 

 

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MICHIGAN

  

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Overcoming the Abuse of Bargain
Sales.

“T paid Kansas City a visit last Jan-
uary,” remarked a shoe retailer to the
writer, “and I found the papers full
of advertisements calling attention to
the great reduction in the price of
heavy weight shoes. All the retail
stores had their windows full of at-
tractive bargains, and it struck me at
the time that it was a shame to cut
the prices of shoes right at the begin-
ning of the season in which they
were needed.

“We are not so quick to cut our
prices in the smaller cities, and I be
lieve that the entire system of selling
goods should be reformed in that part
of the country. It is not the shoe
dealer alone, but it runs into. all
branches of trade.

“In the first place we all try to
start the sale of heavy weight goods
while the weather is still hot, and
when low shoes are still worn. Then
we advertise and work to get our
goods out as quick as possible, know-
ing that if the stock is left on our
hands the first of February there will
be no profit in it.

“Then, as soon as the buds begin
to swell on the trees in the spring,
we are trying to sell the light weight
goods a good month before there is
need for them, and by the middle of
summer we are giving all our profits
away on the balance of the stock so
it will not be left on our hands.

“Now, it strikes me that we retailers
are working square against the sea-
sons, for we begin showing our
goods too early, and then cutting
prices too early. There should be a
reform in this direction, especially
as to the time when the cut is to be-
gin. No man will be able to make
this reform, but dealers in all lines
should get together and decide on
concerted action. I would be glad to
see a movement of this kind go over
the country, for it would be of ma-
terial benefit to all dealers who handle
seasonable goods.

“There may be many ways of edu-
cating the people up to the fact that
they should do their buying early in
the season, so they will be the first
ones to show themselves in new
styled garb, but in our city it is only
the very few who delight to be taken
as patterns by the rest of their ac-
quaintances who indulge in early buy-
ing. The great bulk of the sales are
made when the season of the year ap-
proaches in which the goods are need-
ed for the comfort of the wearer. It
appears to me to be a great deal more
sensible to cater to this larger number
of people than to the early birds, and
for that reason I would be willing,
in my city, to not open the fall goods
for a month later than we usually do,
and the same thing in the spring,
and to delay the cutting of old stock
for about the same period. Merchants
in other cities might not think this
plan a good one, but they could at

 

least agree on the delay in offering
their old stock at reduced prices.

“It strikes me that the merchants
of a city should get together at a
general meeting, or a few. general
meetings, and agree on a delay in the
time to cut prices this coming season,
say at least one month later than usu-
al, when they could outline a campaign
which would be to their own bene-
fit.

“Every merchant will acknowledge
that he has a line of customers, and
they are among the well dressed and
sensible people of his city, who al-
ways look well dressed, but not in
the very latest fashions, who make it
a practice to come in just after the
cut prices go into effect each season
and stock up for the coming year.
These people are able to spend the
regular price for their wearing ap-
parel, but they know they can make
a considerable saving by buying a
little late and carrying the goods over
on their own account, and they take
advantage of the conditions. This
class is growing larger all the time,
and nothing but the delay of the cut
price season will break them of this
habit.

“Suppose the dealers of a city agree
upon this delay of a month in price
cuiting, just for a starter on getting
together, and then each merchant, in
his advertising, as the season ad-
vances, continues to call attention to
the fact that there is so much more
of the season left, that winter will
last three months longer, etc., which
will remind the reader that there is
still a long season in which the goods
offered in the advertisements can be
worn before others will be needed.

“T believe that the continued pound-
ing of these facts into the minds of
the people, by all the merchants of
a city, would bear good fruit and
would keep the buying season open
a good deal longer than would
otherwise be the case, and then at the
very last of the season all the stores
could throw their remnants and odd
sizes, etc., into a big sale, and thus
clean up their stock as thoroughly
as usual. Even if they had to cut
their prices a little more than usual,
on account of the advanced season,
they could well afford to do so, when
the fact is considered that the larger
part of the goods which would ordi-
natily have been cut have been sold
at regular profits.

“| am going to try and interest the
balance of the dealers in my city in
a movement of this kind, and hope
merchants in other cities will take up
the movement, for I am tired of dis-
posing of so much of my stock each
year at a cut price, merely on accoynt
of fighting the seasons, instead of
falling in with them and selling the
goods when they are needed _in-
stead of months in advance of that
time.

“My ideas may not be the right
ones to remedy the trouble, and T
would be glad to hear from other
dealers as to what plans they can
advance, and think this is the right
season to agitate such a matter, so
that we will have plenty of time to
get a full understanding before the
season approaches for action. Then,
possibly, we will be able to profit in

 

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-
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when full details and an opportunity to investigate
will be given. Capital required, about $100,000.

       
 
  
    
   
  
  
   
  
  
   

   

 

 

 

Please The Women

 

A satisfied woman customer is a dealer’s |:
best advertisement. One sure, easy way of [:
:{ permanently pleasing the women of your
town is to sell them the

Bradley & Metcalf
Duchess Shoe

It is the most comfortable and stylish $1.50
shoe made. Hasan elastic gore, flexible sole
and is hand turned. Write us for samples.

Bradley & Metcalf Co.;

‘Where Quality is Paramount”
201 East Water St., MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Try “Our One Day Mail Order Department” for service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sse eg site bee Sestak

 

How About Hunting

Boots? Is your stock in shape for the season? Ours
is, and there is no doubt about our being head-
quarters for everything in that line.

We have a black grain lace boot at $3.50 and
a tan one for $3.75 that are as good as can be made.
Then we have others for less money.

Just let us show you.

Waldron, Alderton & Melze

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

 

 

    
 
 
    
      

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

our own business, instead of letting
our customers do all the profiting.
I believe in selling good goods for
the money, but I want the money. I
do not want to sell goods at a profit
for one month, and then give the
same goods away for cost the bal-
ance of the season.”—Shoe Retailer.
ee
Dealers Not Asking Enough For
Rubbers.
salesmen
the other day:
“Retailers should not be afraid to ask
better prices for rubbers. They are
paying more now itor rubbers than

the
house

One of for 2. local

jobbing said

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The Habit of Talking Shop.

the man who is in search ior the curi-
ous. “Talking shop is a curious habit,
and it would be interesting to know
iust how far one’s calling influences
the matter. Or is the habit
purely one growing out of individual
bent? It may be vanity, or self-suf-
ficiency, or it may be a commendable
pride in one’s calling.
for talk
they leave the office they are more or

one in

Men who write

newspapers shop.

iless excited by the events of the day.

ever before, yet some of them have |

This is foolish-
easy Matter to ex-
why rubbers cost
Everyone knows that the sup-
ply of crude rubber is
while the

not raised prices.

mess. '¢ 1S an

plain to people
more.
diminishing,

rubber

tor
hundreds of uses that it

demand
to several years ago is increasing.
Prices of rubber boots have not ad-
vanced, while dealers are paying 50
per cent. more for these goods. They
make a profit of about 25 cents on a
pair of rubber boots, where
should make 50 or 75 cents.
most dealers will ask 60 and 65 cents
for women’s rubbers, which is simply
an advance of five cents in the best
grade. Last season nearly all dealers
asked 60 cents straight for rubbers.
Formerly these grades sold at 40 and
45 cents.”
+> 4

Cheap Shoes vs. Higher Grades.

The man who deludes himself into
the belief that he is getting as good
a shoe for $3 or $3.50 as he can get
for $5 is buncoing himself. He could
make himself that a
‘> hat is as good as a $3 or $s hat

easily believe
and a $15 suit of clothes as good:as
a $25 suit. Undoubtedly, some of the
cheaper grades have some of the good
points of the higher grades, says the
Shoe Workers’ Journal, but they have
not all the good qualities. The cheaper
shoe may wear as long, but it does not
wear as well. It may not rip or give
out, but it does not stand up as well
as the higher grade shoe. The longer
it is worn, the more apparent its
cheaper grade becomes even to the
inexperienced eye. The cheaper shoe
has not the workmanship of the other,
and, even though the stock was equal-
ly good, the construction is not.

2 >
President’s Boots Are Having a Hard
Time.

Every nail and screw in the soles of
the boots which President Roosevelt
wore when he was a cowboy in North
Dakota, and which are on exhibition
at the World’s Fair, has been re-
meved by souvenir hunters. There is
hardly a spot on the outside of the
which one has not
placed his autograph. A placard near
by requires visitors to place their
names in the register provided for
that purpose, not on the President’s
boots, but the boots have an attrac-
tion for names not possessed by the
register.

boots on some

—_~++-——_
It’s the stage electrician who has
the lightest job of the play house.
——_++ >
It requires more than a stroke of
luck to win a sculling race.

me they |some sort, truthful or otherwise, con-
"as: fall | i. ue Siig
j cerning some happening to thera out

lon the road.

for |
was not put |

| They are full of the day’s happenings,

often full of their own little part in
But

the list of world-events. news-

paper men generally talk shop to their |

own kind. Outsiders would not under-
stand, and they would have no. sym-
pathy with the Jittle notuings which
made up the day’s business of the
man who keeps his ear to the world
and his pen to the paper. Lawyers
talk shop, but not so much as doc-
tors. Clerks talk shop, and traveling
men, while given much to telling of

itheir own, generally tell a stery of

|
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Public men talk shop a
great deal.
is business. They are talking poli-
tics, and putting forward those things

| which are calculated to aid them in

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holding on to the good things they
have. But what class of men talk
shop more than any other class? I
do not know.
suess at least. if you care to make
it, and your facilities for arriving at

You are entitled to one

a correct judgment are just as good
as any other man’s, so blaze away.”
—o--s————
The Secret of Gladstone’s Power.
Mr. Gladstone’s Christian example

| made his Christian testimony power-

ful, and there is much in Mr. Mor-
ley’s book which shows how habitu-
ally he practiced the presence of God
and lived under law to _ Christ.

Above all, he was a Christian states- |
He spoke habitually to men’s |

man.
souls. The signal splendor of his life
is that he did not appeal to men on
the lower and baser side, but spoke
to them as capable of great and no-
ble things. He called on them to
walk in hard paths. When he achiev-
ed his great triumphs in the country,
it was because he appealed to the
generous wrath of the people against
wrong. He never pandered to what
is little and low and mean among
men. He believed that there was that
in the human spirit which would an-
swer the heavenly call, and he was
there to speak to it, the friend of free-
dom and righteousness and peace. No
detraction on the part of his enemies,
no weakness or blunder on his own
part, can rob him of the magnificent
eulogy that he so lived and wrought
among us as to keep the soul alive
in England.—British Weekly.
——_+- > ____
Japanicity.

Japanicity is a new term.

Japanicity describes a phase of the
justly celebrated simple life; the
other phases being rusticity and pub-
licity.

At bottom japanicity consists of
looking like 30 cents, but 30 cents

Talking shop with them

| :

| being a much larger sum_ in the
“Do you talk shop? Do the men who| Orient than with us, the term has

follow your calling talk shop?” asked | become more and more relative

When |

 

much as $50.

Many of us are really too large to

go in tor japanicity much.

, until
now a kimona may easily cost as

—Puck.
nal
Greed is the foe of gain.

 

 

HIGH HUSTLER

 

 

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This shoe is eight inches

high, double sole
and tap, and made through
out of genuine old fashioned

kip.

Stands the hardest kind of
hard wear in wet weather,
and is the best value to retail

at $3.00 made in America.

This is only one of a va-
riety of high cut shoes we
make especially adapted to
fall trade.

RINDGE, KALMBACH,
LOGIE & CO., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

 

  
   
    

   

 

complete line of

 

 
   
  
 

of the most critical.

DOUBTLESS

evidence, that to satisfy your customers, you should carry a

Banigan Rubber Boots
And Shoes

the line to be depended upon to please, not only in Style, Work-
manship and Fit, but in points that will meet all the requirements

the thought may not
have occurred to you,
but the very fact is in

If you have never handled them it may be suggestive of
other than fairness if you do not place a trial order.

GEO. S. MILLER, Selling Agent

131*133 Market St., CHICAGO, ILL.

 

  

However, we are not to despise the
| day of small things, which, after all,
do very well if we are caref:1 not
to sit on them with our whole weight.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Qualities Scan To Become a)
Good Salesman.

Written for the Tradesman. |
Of course, it is easier to tell how |
to do things than to perform them,
but, having had experience, I can say
that I have learned some of the es- |
sential qualities required to become |
a good salesman or a successful mer-
chant; therefore I am certain that |
the things I would suggest are those |
which the average person can do.
First, put your soul into your work. |
Cultivate for it a liking. Do not|
let the idea prevail that you are work-
ing merely for money, but let your-
self as well as your customers know
that you enjoy it, that your pride lies |
within it, your entire ambition being |
to do the right thing by all.

Study human nature; by so doing |
you obtain an idea how different char- |
acters must be handled. Never leave |
until to-morrow that which should be |
accomplished to-day. Do not use
flattery for deception has brought |
misfortune to many a door. Culti-|
vate kindness and courtesy. Control |
your .temper, so that you can bear |
possible rebuffs with ease. Never at-|
tempt to gain favor by giving away |
your profit for then you will fail. To |
be successful have only one price for |
all. Then be firm and square. Make
your store attractive by cleanliness |
and order. Make ali who enter wel- |
come: Do not be more anxious to}
wait upon Mrs. Daniels because she |
is wealthy and trades more extensive-
ly than you are to wait upon Mrs.
Wright who is not rich. Avoid mak- |
ing any distinction between your ben- |
efactors as the same respect is due |
to all. Never allow customers to
think that you ure weary or that your
time is very valuable so that they feel |
that they are imposing upon you}
while they hesitate in the choice of |
an article. Show them the new goods,
make them feel at ease and let them
know that it pleases you to attend to
their wants. You should never be in|
a hurry except for your patrons’ ben- |
efit and to step forward to meet a |
customer. If you happen to be con-|
versing with a salesman or other a]
ploye and some one enters excuse |
yourself and immediately greet the |
newcomer and give to him or her|
your undivided attention. Use per-}
ception and, instead of selling cus- |
tomers some fancy article which only |
through your influence they would
purchase, sell them that which will
give them such satisfaction that they
will return to your place of business. |
At the same time remember not to
induce them to take the article sole-
ly on its merits but also because it
pleases in a general way. Remember
that the methcd of selling to a lady
is somewhat different than to a gen-
tleman for the latter relies more on
a clerk’s advice than the former.
Consider your word as binding as
your note. Never cast an insinuation
toward your contemporaries, but if
you haven’t a certain article which

 

|

the little ones welcome.
|; most essential qualities of being suc-

‘things to contend with.
| may be hurled at you through a mis-

z patron desires tell him where he
can obtain it. Make of your custom-
ier a friend instead of a money grab.
| Above all be polite and attentive to

| children for that is one of the essen- |
| tial qualities of a business person for |
ithe people whom children are fond |}

of are very likely to win the parents’
favor. Where a child is pleased it

| will return, and don’t forget that the |
inattention
;more keenly than their elders. Al- |
though their purchases may not be |

little folk will notice

Over a penny spare no pains to make
One of the

cessful is the cultivation of your own |
nature from that of a pessimist to that |
Remember that in}
all business, in all successful under- |

of an optimist.

takings, you will find disagreeable
Something

| take or ignorance may lay it at your

feet, which can not be helped. Un-
der all these difficulties you must

| keep in mind the sunshine which will

attach itself to your life and environ-
ment by keeping sweet.
after feelings will be brighter and
better by treating your troubles with

| smiles instead of frowns, then Mrs.
| So-and-So who has made an attempt

at wounding you can see by your

| countenance that she has failed. She |

goes home ashamed of herself and

decides that your spirit is so much)
infused with goodness that you are|
the loveliest person she ever met. |

Why? Because you did not get an-

gry at her and tell her that she could |
not be suited and you wished that)
she would go somewhere else. You}
simply told her that you were sorry |

ishe was displeased and hoped that

/in the future it would not be re-|
| peated.

Conseguently she concluded
that you were just the kind of per

son that she wished to deal with, |
temper |

while if you had lost your

Your own}

|

'adversity keep the sun shining and
| fill your soul with happiness and con-
tent, thereby achieving life’s great
| aim, Success.” Lucia Harrison.
—_——_.-2—~» ___

Business Changes Among
Indiana Merchants.

Recent

|
Auburn—Culbertson & Boland,

(hardware dealers, are succeeded by
the Culbertson Hardware Co.

| Bloomington—G. H. Clark has pur-
'chased an interest in the general
| store of J. B. Clark, and the business
| will be conducted in the future under
ithe style of J. B. & G. H. Clark.

| Converse—Bond & Powell, hard-
ware dealers, wre succeeded by the
Powell Hardware Co.

Evansville—Louis Bissel has pur-
chased the drug stock of V. M.
| Shively.

Geneva—Aspy & Dietsch will con-
tinue the drug store formerly con-
ducted under the style of Aspy &
Miller.

Hamilton—F. D. Farnsworth has
discontinued his general store.

Huntington—Frank P. Tuttle, of
the firm of Tuttle & Hubbell, gro-
cery dealers, is dead.

Liberty Mills—W. A. Baugher has
removed his stock of dry goods and
notions to Claypool.
| Montpelier—The Little Lumber Co.
lias moved to Parker.

 

 

Liberty Mills—C. McCutcheon has
sold his stock of hardware and gro-
ceries.

Linton—Benj. F. Holscher, dealer
in boots and shoes, is succeeded by
Holscher & Harris.

North Manchester—C. Fanning has
retired from the bakery firm of C. &
E. Fanning. ,

Joe Station—F. A. Zeigler,
harness dealer, will remove to Los
Angeles.

—_+22s—____
Found Another.

A iew years ago a well-known law-
yer remitted, in settlement of an ac-
count to the publisher of a paper in
the West, a $2 bill, which was_ re-
turned with the brief statement:

“This note is counterfeit; please
send another.”

“Two months passed before hearing
from the lawyer again, when he apol-
ogized for the delay, saying:

“IT have been unable until now to
find another counterfeit $2 bill, but
hope the one now enclosed will suit,
professing, at the same time, my ina-
bility to discover what the objection
was to the other, which I thought
was xs good a counterfeit as 1 ever

”

Saw.

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It takes a wonderful play of the

imagination to believe some men gen-
tlemen.

 

 

and talked to her unpleasantly the |

| your place of business. Let your

| motto in life be, both in and out of |

business: “Through all the clouds of |

| consequence would have been that
she would never again have entered |

 

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Cash and Package Carriers

Modern and up-to-date in every way. A
careful investigation will convince you that
the Air Line is the only correct system.

AIR LINE CARRIER CO.

200 Monroe Street, CHICAGO

  
    
 

 

Karo Corn Syrup, a new delicious, wholesome syrup

A syrup with a new flavor that is
finding great favor with particular tastes.
light, appreciated —* noon or night—an appe-
A fine food for feeble folks.

made from corn.

tizer that makes you eat.

Ghe Great Spread for Daily Bread.

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

CORN SYRUP

a guaranty of cleanliness. Three sizes,
loc, 25c and 50c. At all
grocers.

 

A table de-

 

 

 

 

ee a ees,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOM MURRAY,

One of the Most Unique Advertisers
in America.

For some weeks past the Trades-
man has been publishing fac similies
of the advertising placards of Tom
Murray, the Chicago furnishing goods
dealer, who has certainly created a
new form of store advertising in the
shape of window bulletins of a unique
and original character. When Mr.
Murray engaged in business he occu-
pied a comparatively small room with
his haberdashery at the corner of
Jackson Boulevard and Clark street.
At that time he handled men’s fur-
nishing goods exclusively, but the
business grew rapidly and more room
was needed soon. After several en-
largements of his store, he took an
adjoining room on Clark street and
added a line of clothing.

the clothing department did not pros-
per as it should have done and it is
now being closed out.

On the Jackson Boulevard
the windows were covered with large

written various messages.
the bulletins were of

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reason (Mr. Murray ascribes it to the |
location and he is probably right), |

Many of |
considerable |

length, yet thousands of people read |

every word of them. One of the
windows was entirely covered with
the following, which we print as an
altogether unique piece of advertis-

ing:

My ups and downs for the last six}

years I will now briefly give you:

I have had three ups and one down. |
I started in a store where my hats|
are now—1in two years I went through |

the rst wall—in one year more
through another wal!. That year
made more money than I ever made
in my life. Same as most men I was
not satisfied—inside of a year I went
through one more wall. I commenc-

ed to think I could not lose—did not |

know but in the course of a very

few years my south entrance would |

be on Van Buren street. A store one
block long was seen in my dreams.

My dreams would have been realiz-
ed had I been located on State street
—-on the east side of street. This may
sound to you a bit conceited—let me
tell you that if you do not think well
of yourself, you can not expect
others to.

Did you ever make a mistake?

I made a mistake when I thought
I could sell first class goods on Clark
street. It took me one year to find
cut my mistake—it took me one more
to give it up. I am not a quitter
never was. | have a partner—my
wife. She is not a quitter—sticks to
me alright. I have fifteen more part-
ners—my salesmen—and they are not
silent partners. I tell them to tip me
any idea they think is for our good.
They, I tell them, can make or break
me.

In a few short years I will want to
take it a little easy. They will get
the balance of their just reward.
When the time comes, and it will,
they can have more than half of it.
I have no children and I think it a
cinch I never will. I can afford to
take care of my boys; in doing so, I
take much better care of myself.

Now. in my. defeat—my failure to
do a clothing business—I appeal to
you—yes, YOU, friend or stranger
you may be. It is you who can help
me and help yourself. September Ist
I must give up my Clark street store.
All clothing, soft shirts, pajamas and
underwear must be sold. The cut in
prices is packing the store! Some
hours we can not wait on you. Some
wait on themselves. Caught a man

 

 

 

 

| friends, don’t stay out on account of

|me when you receive your bill.
sheets of red paper on which were |

| show their patterns to the best ad- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

helping himself—opening an account
with me without my consent.

To ask a man to charge goods is
more than I can stand in my present
frame of mind. Weeping Tom.

* * *

Go home if you are out of sorts.
Your men can take care of your busi-
ness for the day better than you can. |
When you get home, ask your wife
how you are fixed for winter under-
wear. If in need, stop here in the
morn—I will send you to your office |
happy. Tom.

 

* * *

I tell my men never fo urge 2}
customer to buy. Not to talk much—}
talk a trader to death and he is not|
a live one. Give a customer a chance}
to think and he will think more of|

Tom.
My customers are thinkers. Just |
now, so am | Tom. |

* *

If you are one of my many monied

these signs of distress. I do not
want to borrow your money. I want |
to give you a better value for it than
you-can get any place else. Tom. |

x = * |

Don’t kick me when I am down by |

| asking me to charge goods when sold
front |

less than cost. Better to give a hand|
of help by paying me what you owe)

‘Tom, | |
oe ae ee

They are talking about me—I know |
it and am glad. They tell you the)
truth when they say, “He is selling |
underwear too cheap.”—It is my af- |
fairl pay the bill. Tom.

ee

Fault finders wanted. We can}
please any man in this store. You)
can not if you are half civil get any)
man in my employ to treat you any}
way but civil. Tom.

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A very good collar button—a_ new}
one for every one you break. War-|
ranted not to roll under the bureau.
3 for 25c. Tom.

—_—_++>—___
More Color in Neckwear.

The tendency in fall neckwear is
most decidedly away from the staid
pattern which has held sway for so
long. City buyers are purchasing the
large forms, of course, yet it is al-
most an assured fact that the country |
merchant will find them his best sell-
ers also. There is more profit in them
and the silks for autumn almost ne-

cessitate the large shape in order to

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vantage. Merchants who do not like
the de Joinville will be up a
stump, so to speak. Probably the
trade of these merchants is ripe now
for the loose knot. Two-and-a-half-
inch four-in-hands are figuring con-
spicuously in all the displays right
now, and this demand for fall
authentic as far as the city man is
concerned. Country dealers who have
already purchased the bulk of their
fall neckwear registered their approv-
al of the wide four-in-hand.

Gray has had its day. Browns are |
better liked than ever before and the
high-class haberdashers are buying
heavily of the summer browns with
the intention of holding them _ for
fall selling. Golden brown lights up
some very attractive cravats of royal |
purple of myrtle shade.

The silks liked best are quite heavy.
“Anything to make a_ big, knot is
what haberdashers and country mer-
chants are calling for,” said a neck-
wear manufacturer. “Dark grounds
are already favorites with market

is

 

No. 6512 Boys’ 2% to

No. 6412 Youths’ 12%

No 6612 L. G. 8 to 12

buyers, yet they are topped off with |
combina- |

some very striking color
tions—they are plain and staid, yet
they are not. Madeup shapes will be

|more popular than heretofore for the

simple reason that it is an exceed-
ingly difficult matter to tie a cravat
of large shape. Soft silks are grabbed
at by buyers from both city and coun-
try. Never in our experience as man-
ufacturers have the wants of the

| city and country buyer been so iden-

tical. Squares are being bought in
liberal assortments for the holiday
trade. The time is here when the 50-

cent square is not a bad looker and |

country merchants are getting a dead-

|ringer for the looks.”

“The country merchant is now mak-
ing good for his long delay in plac-

“We never sold
such large neckwear bills as weare
selling to-day. From the bills sold
during the last two weeks I find that
bright greens, orange browns and
dark purples are selling best.”

—_—__- > ____
Noblesse Oblige.

A small newsboy, who had made |

the find of a half-finished cigar on
the pavement, stepped into a small

  

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corner bake-shop to obtain a match.

“Say, give us a match, will you?”
he asked of the woman behind the
counter.

“We don’t give matches, we sell
them,” she replied.
“How much?”
“A cent a box.”
“Give me a box,’

penny.

The box was produced. With a
grave air the small boy took it, drew
out a match, struck a light with all
the grace possible, and puffed ener-
getically upon the discarded  cigar-
stub; then, leaning confidentially over
the counter, he extended the box of

,’

handing her a

| matches to the woman and said:

“Say, you jest take this box of

ie : | matches, will yer, and put it in some
|ing neckwear orders,” says a high-|

| class manufacturer.

place where you can lay hands on
it easy, and when some other gen-
tleman steps in and asks for a light
don’t sell him a match, give him
one on me.” And with a lordly nod
the young American made his way
back to the street.—Lippincott’s.

—_——__-_.-o-o—__—_—_

Two hearts that beat as one! Ah,

But remember four knives and
forks, dear boy!

yes!

 

 

Geo. H. Reeder

H. L. Keyes

J. W. Baldwin

Our Business is Moving
Briskly

How can it help it when we handle the best lines of leather shoes possible
to produce at the price, and are state agents for the celebrated

Hood Rubbers?

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

Our store is on the wav to Union Depot and we are always pleased
to see our friends and customers.

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

Write for circular.

Not a Bad Shoe For a Good Boy

BUT JUST THE REVERSE

A Genuine Box Calf Shoe For School

Boys--Solid Throughout

BG BE. eae a ao 3 $1 50
102 ae. .o5--... $1.35
Ae ee et $1.15

Our Own Make
Guaranteed

 
  

Hirth, Krause & Co., Grand Rapids

16 and 18 South Ionia Street

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

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

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

New York, Sept. 17—The coffee
market is firm, with little real busi-
ness being done. Buyers seem _ to
think the rate rather too stiff, and
holders are equally strongly impress-
ed with the idea that they should
make no concession, and the matter
stands with simply an average
amount of trading. At the close Rio
No. 7 is worth 84@8%c. In store
and afloat there are 3,459,240 bags,
zegainst 2,461,502 bags at the same
time last year. A little speculation
has been indulged in, but, as a rule,
the trading is of a legitimate charac-
ter. Some increased «interest is
shown in mild sorts and buyers are
rather inclined to purchase West In-
dias rather ahead of current require-
ments. Central American is firm,
with Good Cucuta 934¢ and 11%c for
good average Bogotas. East Indias
are firm, but transactions are of
rather a small character.

The tea market continues to show
some encouraging features, and
while no especially large orders were
received there are a good many of
minor character, and in the aggregate
there is a handsome total. Prices are
well sustained and holders seem to
look with confidence to the future.

The sugar market has been fairly
active and many orders were receiv-
ed for deliveries of old contracts.
The National refinery is said to be
oversold two to three weeks. New
business has been rather light, but,
upon the whole, the week has been
a good one for the sellers.

There is a steady market for rice
and the situation shows regular, if
slight, improvement almost daily.
Prices are about unchanged and are

still on a low ievel, choice domestic |

not bringing over 37%@a4c. A little
new crop rice has been received, but
not enough to attract attention and
quotations of the same have been
rather above the views of buyers.

Spices continue firm, and pepper
especially shows an advancing ten-
dency. Singapore black, 12@12%c.
Supplies in the East are said to be
<bout exhausted and it is doubtless
a good time to purchase fair quanti-
ties. The whole line of spices is well
sustained.

Grocery grades of New Orleans
molasses are steady, and with the
advancing season there comes more
and more call. Good to prime, 18@
27c. Low grades are in light supply
end quotations are firmly sustained.
Syrups are steady at full rates.

Canned goods generally show some
improvement and there is a good
call, especially for California canned
peaches, the supply of which is lim-
ited. Gallon apples are moving with
more freedom, and are rather easier
as there is promise of a big pack. We
still hear stories of a short crop of
tomatoes, but packers in the South
are willing to take orders at 65c; but

 

 

even at this buyers do not seem to
tumble over each other to obtain sup-
plies. Corn is doing well and the
output may be fairly large—if—and
it’s a big one, we do not have early
frosts. Some Maine packers are run-
ning night and day and hope to be
able to meet contracts. The range for
the latter is $1.50@1.60; New York
State, $1.20@1.z5. Peas are dull, and
with a huge pack coming on the mar-
ket the chances are rather in favor
of comparatively low rates.

For high-grade creamery butter
there is a better demand and quota-
tioris range at about 19@19%c. Other
grades are in ample supply and the

situation is rather in favor of the
buyer. Seconds to firsts, 154@

18%c; imitation creamery, 14@16c;
factory, 12%4@1334c; renovated, 14@
{6c, the latter for fancy stock.

Sales of cheese consist of small
lots and buyers take little interest
in the situation. Little is doing in an
export way. Not over 834c can be
quoted for full cream stock of small
sizes.

While there is a steady call for
fresh-gathered near-by stock and
quotations are steady at 27@28c,

there is an ample supply of other
grades and fancy Western are work-
ing out at about 22@23c; average
best, 21@21'%4c; seconds, 19@2oc, and
from this down to 13@14c.

— ++. —__
Have Abandoned the Sale of Produce.

Armour & Company have sent out
the following letter of instructions to
all its branch houses:

We have decided to discontinue the
fruit and produce business, as there
seems to have grown up recently
some opposition to us on the part of
fruit and produce commission mer-
chants. This feeling was particularly
brought to our attention by remarks
made at a recent convention of the
National League of Commission Mer-
chants in Louisville. We have, there-
fore, concluded to discontinue’ the
handling of all produce of this de-
scription and it has been decided that
hereafter when the Armour Car Lines
are employed in the transportation of
fruits and other produce, the contents
of these cars will be owned by others
and not by Armour & Company.

This is welcome news to the prod-
uce trade, which has been discriminat-
ed against by the unfair methods of
Armour & Company for some time
past.

a
Toads as Insect Killers.

The wonderful insect-killing capac-
ity of the toad is known in a general
way to the enlightened few. An im-
ported colony of toads may be the
salvation of a flower garden. Many
gardeners give their children a cent
apiece for every cutworm destroyed.
From May 1 to Aug. 1 a toad may de-
stroy 2,160 cutworms, which it would
cost $21.60 to destroy by hand. Eng-
lish gardeners are said to pay as
much as $25 a hundred for toads for
colonizing purposes.

——_.->_____
The Requisite.

Briggs—Mrs. Pacer is a very bright
woman, judging from my interview
with her.

Griggs—What did she say?

Briggs—Nothing much. But
approved of what I said.

she

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

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

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- ee

pondence invited. ‘Michigan Automobile Co.
1a3a [Majestic Building, Detroit, am. Grand Rapids, Mich.

WANTED

Daily shipments of Butter, Eggs and Poultry. We will pay the h'ghest merket
price F.0.B your station. Write or ‘phone us at once for prices.

S. ORWANT & SON, ecranp Rapips, micu.

Wholesale dealers in Butter, Eggs, Fruit and Produce.
References, Fourth National Bank of Grand Rapids and R G. Dun.
Citizens Phone 2654. Bell Phone, Main 1885.

CLOVER
TIMOTHY
ALSYKE

If in the market to buy or sell write us.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
50c on the Dollar

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

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-

 

 

 

 

We Carry——

FULL LINE CLOVER, TIMOTHY

AND ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS
Orders filled promptly

MOSELEY BROS. cranp rapips, MICH.

Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street, Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 121

 

       

The Vinkemulder Company

Fruit Jobbers and Commission Merchants
Can hindle 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.

 
    
 

 
   
 

 
    

 
        

 

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

JOHN G. DOAN, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Bell Main 2270 Citizens 1881

 

Wanted

Daily shipments of

Butter, Eggs and Poultry

Will pay highest market price F. O. B. your station. We
can make you money. Write or phone us at once for
prices. Both phones.

Lansing Cold Storage Co.
Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

How Capon Raising Can Be Made
Profitable.

It is surprising, in view of the de-
cidedly great advantages of castrat-
ing males, that there is not a great
deal more of it done; and it seems al-
together probable that if poultry
growers knew how great the advan-
tages are and how simply and easily
the operation is performed, there
would be comparatively few cocker-
els allowed to grow beyond broiler
size uncastrated—excepting the few
needed for breeding purposes.

The uncastrated male bird grows
up to be coarse, “staggy,” and his
coarse flavored, hard, stringy meat
is worth less than half as much per
pound as it would be if the tender,
delicate flavored chicken condition
had been continued by the birds be-
ing castrated. There is the greatest
gain of castrating the males, in keep-
ig them “soft,” tender and fine flav-
ored, and if poultrymen would but
realize the greater profits to be se-
cured the coarse, “staggy” males sent
to market would be decidedly fewer.

A remarkable thing is that there
is ever a short supply of the best
fine tender chickens, and there are
so many of the coarse, “staggy”
things the marketmen have difficulty
in getting them off their hands. The
simple operation of castrating would
change all this, and give the buying
public the fine quality it prefers and
is well able to pay well for.

Tt ought not to require much argu-
ment to convince readers that grow-
ing chickens to five to eight (or ten)
pounds weight (alive), and getting
32 to 35 cents a pound for them paid
a good profit. When a poultryman
can sell his birds for $1.50 to $2.50
apiece, alive, he can see a substantial
profit in growing them; and the es-
sential thing to attaining that good
price is to have the fine, large soft
roasters and capons that the public
wants. It is of no consequence wheth-
er they are dressed as roasters or
as capons. Indeed, sometimes capons
are changed into large soft roasters
by simply stripping off the feathers
left on as the distinguishing mark
of capons.

The larger the capon the higher
the price, hence the largest breeds
make the best capons, make those that
fetch the best prices. As a rule the
Asiatic varieties are preferred by
growers of capons; the Light Brah-
mas, being the largest variety of all,
being the ones most generally grown.

Capons are most in favor and com-
mand the highest prices in late winter
and early spring, February and
March being the months of top notch
prices. There is some call for capons
in other months, and they sell at such
time at prices that pay a good profit
to the grower, but the best profit is
in those marketed in February and
March. As a rule, it is June hatched
cockerel$ caponized in September
that come to market then, and it is
evident hat the birds have to be
housed and fed all through the win-
ter to come to market at that time.

Capons should be killed by sticking
in the mouth, and dry picked, with
tail and wing feathers, the upper half
of neck feathers and the feathers of

the lower third of the thigh (just
above the hock joint) left on. The
feathers are the distinguishing mark
of capons in all markets. The shrunk-
en head and undeveloped comb and
wattles should always be left on, and
all traces of blood upon the head and
mouth should be removed by washing
in cold water. Absolute cleanliness
should be observed in the dressing,
so that the birds shall be “clean,”
without the necessity of washing;
the skin has a better, more attractive
appearance if it has not been washed.
Be careful to not tear the tender skin,
and if it is accidentally torn put the
torn part back in place and secure it
with a needle and white thread, until
the bird is cold, when the thread
should be removed.

Pack in new, clean boxes, placing
the birds in layers, with backs up, and
pack them firmly into the boxes, as
firmly as possible and yet not bruise
them. Line the boxes with clean
white paper; mever use paper with
printing on it, as the printers’ ink will
come off upon the skin, marring the
good appearance so much desired.
Make the packages as well as the
capons look as neat, clean and _at-
tractive as possible. Keep in touch
with a reliable dealer so he may know
what stock you can supply and you
may be kept informed as to prices
and the needs of the market. Re-
member that in promoting the inter-
ests of the dealer you are working
to your own advantage also, for what
he can sell best pays you best. You
will have no difficulty in finding a
market for first quality capons, and
at prices which pay well. If they are
large, fat, well dressed and packed
they will be the kind the buyers want,

and they will sell at profitable prices.
——_2-+___

Could Eat Cereals.

A certain man who was not of the
cultured classes had made a fortune
in the wholesale grocery business and
was persuaded to furnish the capital
to start a magazine. He went to a
big book-printing office to arrange
some of the details and put in a bad
half hour because of his ignorance
of the technicalities of his new enter-
prise.

The printer soon dropped such talk
as that about names of type and the
methods of printing and asked:

“Now, what would you have in the
magazine? A short story or two, I
suppose, and a serial—”

“All the cereals,’ he broke in.
“There’s nothing pays like advertis-
ing. Good rates to the big advertis-
ing people will boom the thing. We
want the breakfast foods, soaps, cof-
fees and the whole thing.”

 

 

 

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‘RUGS %....5

CARPETS
THE SANITARY KIND

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

ents soliciting orders as we rely on

rinters’ Ink. nscrupulous persons take
advantage of our reputation as makers of
“Sani Rugs” to represent being in our
employ (turn them down). Write yar _
us at ek er Petoskey or the Soo.
let mailed on request.

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

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SR OO OR a

 

PILES CURED

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

OHOROE OROROSS ON CUSROROLOHOR
Make Your Own Gas ;

From Gasoline

one quart lasts 18 hours giving
100 candle power light in our

BRILLIANT Gas Lamps

Anyonecanusethem. Are bet-
ter than kerosene, electricity or
as and can be run for
ess than half the ex-
pense. 15 cents a
month is the average
cost. Write forour M.
T. Catalogue.
lamp guaranteed.

Brilliant Gas Lamp Co.

42 State 8t., Chicago, Ill. 100 Candle Power

     
      

Every

 

A Bargain in Every
w Sack

is the unanimous verdict of those who are using

VOIGT'S BEST BY TEST

 

Lamson
Coin Cashier

Makes chan uickly
andaccurately. Sead by
the U.S. Gov’t, Banks,
Trust Co.s and business
houses generally. For
sale by principal sta-
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Saves Oil, Time, Labor, Money
7. ig a

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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.

    
   
   
    

 

FOOTE & JENKS

MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS

AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,
TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON

Sold only in bottles bearing our address

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SHOULD NOT PROPOSE.

Why Women Should Leave Proposals
to Men.

There is no subject which has been
so exhaustively discussed in the pa-
pers, neither any other upon which
advice is so frequently asked, as that
concerning the degree of activity
which a woman may fitly and with
due maidenly modesty manifest in
courtship. Still another phase of the
question has come to the fore, and
women ask, apparently in all truth
znd sincerity, whether it is “all right”
for a woman to make a proposal of
marriage to a man in leap year.

No sensible woman would for a

moment entertain the faintest idea
of such a proceeding, unless she had
good and sufficient reason to feel sure
that the man in the case returned her
affection and was desirous of marry-
ing her; in which event it ought to
be easy to lead him to say or do
something which may at least be con-
strued into a proposal of marriage—
which would surely be in all respects
the better way, whatever the number
of days in the February of the cur-
rent year.
* Moreover, every woman not a fool
knows, or ought to know, that the
tradition of leap year is merely a jest,
and in no way alters the actual rela-
tions between the sexes regarding
love and marriage. True, one must
amuse oneself, and leap year dinner
parties and dances afford an agree-
able variety. Also, such entertain-
ments may give a woman the oppor-
tunity to encourage a bashful suitor;
but even so, the opportunity must be
handled with discretion, since it is a
sort of unwritten law that no girl
must be too attentive at a leap year
party to the man for whom she cares
gost. it ts bad form, just as, at a
dinner of the usual sort, no man must
be seated at the table next to his
wife. Indeed, so far is this theory
carried that custom demands that the
woman who proposes in leap year
must be answered “nay” in order fit-
ly to carry out the jest. No man
would dare to display such egregious
vanity as to believe the offer made
in sober earnest. Many sins may be
forgiven a woman, but not that of
asking a man ir plain terms to marry
ber. Nor would the man who was
asked at all appreciate the compli-
ment paid him. Men, no less than
women, are “kittle cattle,” and there
are sound wisdom and understanding
of the heart of man in the refrain of
the old song:

The fruit that will fall without shaking
Indeed is too mellow for me!

Man retains many of the character- |

istics of his prehistoric ancestors—
none more.so than that of the cave
man, whose method of courtship was
to run with all his might and main
after the woman who ran away from
kim the fastest. Ethnologists tell us
that the idea that the woman must be
sought by the man dates back to the
old barbaric times when a man took

-his bride captive by deeds of arms,

and she, however willing to be cap-
tured, was. expected to defend her
own dignity by a vigorous show of re-
sistance. Centuries, which have _ al-
tered so much, have but strengthened.
while modifying, this tradition. “A

 

man may choose, but a woman must
wait to be chosen.”

Nevertheless, a woman gifted with
tact may do almost everything ex-
cept actually propose. Not for naught
is the proverb that “one may steal a
horse where another must not look
at the stable.” It is merely another
way of saying that one man is gifted
with the tact which accomplishes his
ends satisfactorily and surely, while
another man blunders and bungles,
hopelessly and irremediably. There
is no gainsaying the fact that many
men would never marry the wives
whom they do were they not skill-
fully beguiled into matrimony. But
the snare is not spread in sight of the
bird; the man is led sweetly and gen-
tly into the toils, drawn on so that he
fancies himself the hunter, not the
hunted. Not for a moment would he
submit to be rudely dragged to the
goal.

Many men, also, are dilatory in
making a proposal, even although
they be really in love, and put off
the fateful question for one cause or
another—some from _ nervousness,
some from 9ure procrastination, some
from diffidence, and some because of
a lingering doubt as to whether it is
not better to let well enough alone,
and because of the haunting sense of
the incurableness of marriage. It is
just such men as these who are fright-
ened off, never to return, by too great
eagerness on the part of the woman
whom they admire. When a plant is
endangered by frost astute gardeners
douche it with cold water instead of
applying heat. Women have no mo-
nopoly of vanity, and most men like
to believe that the attractive woman
admires, or is even in love with them,
but not one man in ten thousand
wants a woman to tell him of her love
until he has declared his for her. No
woman who has the usual allowance
of mother wit will ever profess more
than friendship for, and a due appre-
ciation of the wonderful gifts of the
man whom she wishes to ensnare.

Moreover, it must be remembered
that a downright proposal upon the
woman’s part would place the man
in a most awkward position. It takes
some moral courage, not to say hard-
ness of heart, for a man to assure a
woman that he does not return her
affection, and has no desire to marry
her, and if he be on good terms with
ker family and friends the difficulties
of the ‘situation are materially in-
creased. It may easily happen that
the offer of her hand and heart is not
a welcome one, in which case he
must choose between wounding her
or sacrificing himself. Of course one
may say that the woman has only her-
self to blame for her mortification, but
even then the episode is among those
which one, if not both, of the persons
concerned would prefer had not hap-
pened.

 

If a man is in love with a woman
and wishes to make her his wife—
states of mind which, it may be re-
marked in passing, are not always
identical—he usually manages to ap-
prise her of the fact. “Love and a
cough,” says the Spanish proverb,
“can not be hid.” Most women of ex-
perience in love and lovers will bear

 

testimony that it is far and away eas-
ier to encourage a timid suitor than
it is to discourage an unwelcome one
without actually snubbing him. “Ifa
man has a tongue in his head he finds
it easy enough to prate of love to
any woman who will listen to him,”
says a cynical bachelor in a recent
novel. And it may be mentioned, al-
so, that the percentage of deaf mutes
who marry is not small.

There is no better rule for the
conduct of life than that which for-
bids one to do anything for which
one must make excuse to oneself or
to others. This old and tried maxim
holds doubly good in affairs of the
heart. Whether there are any women
who avail themselves of the supposi-
tious privilege of leap year is a ques-
tion which can only be answered by
those who probably prefer to keep si-
lent. It is at best but a sorry joke
when a man says in his wife’s pres-
ence that “she married him,” but, alas,
for any self-respecting woman who
may possibly have to endure the hu-
miliaticn of such an accusation with
the stinging lash of truth in it, flung
zt her in the heat of passion or de-
livered, cut and thrust, in the cool
contempt of scorn! Helen Oldfield.

2-2-2

The Japanese Will Grow Taller.

“Even if they should lose the war,
and haven’t that to make them feel
big, remarked the doctor, “in all
probability the next generation—or
the next but one—of the Japanese
will be as tall as the average Ameri-
can or European.

“It is the custom of sitting on the
enkles on the floor, instead of on a
chair as we do, that explains the
shortness of the Japanese ieg. The
arteries are kinked by the cramped
position, and are therefore not prop-
erly nourished. As a matter of fact,
however, the Japanese spine is just
of a length with the average Ameri-
can or European one. Indeed, we all
differ in height rather by reason of
leg than of back, and the spinal col-
umn is singularly constant among
various individuals. Now the chair
has gained a place in Japanese life,
and soon the length of the Japanese
leg will become normal.’’—Philadel-
phia Press.

——_++-____
Blood Will Tell.

The young man from New Haven,
Conn., had come to his row’s end. He
had exhausted his vocabulary; he had
lost his temper, and regained it. Now
he was trying to influence her by
reasoning.

“Chothilde,” he demanded of the
unsophisticated Southern maiden,
“what do you want me to do next2”

“Nothin’,” she replied in her plaint-
ive drawl.

“Well,” very — much
“will you marry me?”

There was a long silence, which he
knew only too well meant that she
wouldn’t.

“Why won’t you marry me?” he
demanded, savagely.

“Because,” she replied, with a brave
little gurgle, “I couldn’t risk my life’s
happiness with a man whose grand-

fathers perpetrated wooden nutmegs
on the public, Mr. Smithers!”

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FALL CLOTHING.

Buyers Demanding Immediate Ship-
ment of Orders.

Market buyers of clothing contin-
ue their purchasing in the most lib-
eral manner. In many instances they
are demanding that the goods be
shipped immediately. Manufactur-
ers generally are able to comply with
these requests. Local houses are
stimulated by the favorable reports
from buyers in the market and lead-

|ing wholesalers in clothing expecta

very succesful season. The design-
ers are working to produce catchy
new effects, although they say it
will not be a season of many radical
changes. One manufacturer, who
does his own designing, says he ex-
pects a larger demand for double-
breasted suits in lightweights, and is
making new patterns for both the
long and the short lapel, and will
retain the narrow collar because he
believes it has a much neater effect
than the wide ones. Loose draping
shoulder effects will be retained, the
time having passed when men want
suits that fit snugly.

Summer stagnation has prevailed in
the retail branch of the trade, reliev-
ed a little by the cut-price of two-
piece suits. As one retailer said, “It
is difficult to make people buy what
they don’t need, and most of the
sales this month are to people who
take iiold because prices are low.”
There is a much improved demand
for good fabrics in the summer suits.
The day of chean flannels and crashes
that wrinkle and shrink in a_ day
seems to have passed forever. The
light shades in fancy weaves, I2-
cunce goods with smooth surface and
well made up, are meeting with ready
sale, because they are sure to do
good service and keep their shape.

In the men’s clothing line both the
Chesterfield and belted back overcoat
will sell. The tendency now seems
to favor the Chesterfield. The new
covert top coar, which falls straight
from the shoulders, is selling best in
the old tan shades. The lining, trim-
ming and finishing of these styles are
far above the average, and market
buyers will be enabled to get better
values than in seasons past, and all
this in spite of the labor situation.
Dark browns are favored in suits for
fall. Conservatism rules, of course.
The trousers are quite loose and con-
servatively wide at the bottom.

In the neckwear line there is noth-
ing particularly new outside of the
campaign novelties. The two-inch
four-in-hand is thought well of by
country merchants, and not a little
purchasing is being done in the small
midget shapes. The already register-
ed approval of the fold collar for fall
and winter speaks worlds for the
popularity of the small tie. The
two-inch four-in-hand will be worn by
those men who favor the wing collar.
Some of the newest cravats brought
out are those with the fringed ends
for wearing with rings. Browns

seem to be taking the best now, al-
though such combinations as black,
scarlet and white, black, white and

canary, and myrtle and white are
taking exceedingly well.
In children’s clothing for fall there

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is a new Style of suit. The jacket is | Hardware Price Current |

on the order of a Norfolk, yet com- |

bining the good points of the Norfolk
and double-breaster jacket, and is to
be worn with knickerbockers. Nor- |
folk suits in medium and high-priced |
goods, all sizes, are scarce.
mand exceeded the supply, the style
having met with a better run than
was expected by buyers and manu-
facturers. They have been better sell-
ers than for any season before, and

the fact has put the Norfolk well up |

in the front rank for fall, although
it is less seasonable than for spring.
The demand for outing suits for boys
is increasing more and more each
year, and this would seem to open

up an opportunity for manufacturers |

to specialize along this line.

Bloomers have sold much
this year than last.
merly cried if their parents bought
them bloomers, saying that

“othe: boys in school poked fun at}
are now crying for bloomers. |

them,”

There is a diversion of opinion
among buyers regarding Eton
sailor collar styles for fall. Some
are of the opinion that the Eton linen
collar has seen its best days

the sailor style and dickey, and by
the velvet and leather collar on
styles buttoning to the neck. Some
clothiers are showing velvet
leather collars in their full lines.
overcoat style with Eton collar is
also shown; as if it were not sufficient
to encumber a youngster with one
collar when wearing two garments, is
the argument used against the intro-
duction of the Eton collar overcoat.
But in putting the Eton collar on the
overcoat, it is not intended that the
little rellow is also to wear a white
linen collar with the suit jacket. The
velvet and leather collars in
shapes have been introduced as a
substitute for the linen,
tion being that they do not soil so
readily and that they fill the desire
for a change.

From present indications it ap-
pears that browns and bright reds

will be the favorite colors in sailor |

and Russian blouse suits for fall.
Suits for juniors made in the Rus-

sian blouse style have ben received |

for fall. A leading maker of little
folks’ clothing has introduced a new

conception on the order of the ves-|

tee or continental suit for dress wear.
The style is admirably suited for
Sunday, party and evening
The jacket and bloomer trousers are
in velvet, trimmed with soutache and
silk buttons. The jacket is worn un-
buttoned over a full white eae)
vest.

——_+~++___
Worse Than Hanging.

During a celebrated murder trial |
in New York City two Irishmen were
among the many interested specta-
tors.

“Sure, the evidence will convict the |
prisoner,” remarked one.

“Not only convict him, but will |
hang him,” returned the other.

“Man alive! They don’t hang mur- |
derers in New York!”

“Well, what do they do
them?”

“Kill them with elocution.”

with |

The de- |

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Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

Dress .Goods—This week has
shown a splendid increase in the ac-
tual business transacted on the dress
goods end of the market and the in-
terest that buyers are taking in the
various lines open for their edifica-
tion. It is to some extent possible
now to see the probable future of the
different fabrics and designs, and to
determine with something like accu-
racy what are likely to be the lead-
ers for the spring. There is little
doubt that fancy lines have increased
in interest during the week past, in
spite of the promises of a few weeks
ago, and even up to two weeks ago
for the plain goods, although the lat-
ter are not by any means out of it
now. As a matter of fact, the sales
of the two divisions as reported show
that where all grades are taken into
consideration, the plain lines are still
far in the lead. Fancies are being
bought chiefly in high grades by the
cloak and suit cutters. The jobbers
are of the opinion still that the plain
lines are the ones for them to bank
on, and are buying their supplies with
that end in view. Certainly the mills
that have made the lightweight
goods, such as broadcloths, which are
so popular and have been for some
time in imported lines, have little to
complain of in regard to the amount
of business they have accomplished so
far, and have every reason to believe
that their business will continue with-
out interruption until the season
closes.

Ginghams—Staple ginghams have
been reduced 34c during the past
week, but otherwise quotations are
practically unchanged. Print cloths
are a trifle firmer, this being particu-
larly the case with wide goods, cer-
tain qualities of which are in greatly
reduced supply just now. In fact,
stocks are said to have been mate-
tially reduced within the past fort-
night. Narrow goods are not in good
demand, but prices rule steady.

Underwear—Uncertainty in the
spring underwear situation has been
removed by practical settlement of
prices. Lists that appeared to be un-
satisfactory four weeks ago are now
acceptable to the average buyer,
which accounts for the increasing
number of orders. Generally the quo-
tations of knit goods depend entirely
on the relation of supply to the de-
mand or on the position of raw ma-
terial at the time the goods are pro-
duced. The style feature seldom en-
ters into the consideration, which
means that quality controls the price.
In some cases cotton underwear for
the present fall season is slightly
higher priced than that shown in the
sample for next spring. This is due
to the fact that all of the cotton un-
derwear now finished and ready for
buyers was made from cotton consid-
erably higher than the present quota-
tions of the staple indicate. There is

 

no certainty that the price of cotton
will be very much_ cheaper. A
“bumper” crop of good quality cotton
would, of course, mean a reduction,
but the ravages of the weevil have re-
duced the acreage in some _ cases,
which has given a different tone to
the market. The prices for next
spring, it is reasonable to suppose,
are low enough, and manufacturers
have bought their yarns a little cheap-
er than for a corresponding time of
last year. This offers an explanation
to the skeptical why the market has
been slightly disorganized by a dis-
crepancy in the price of fall and
spring goods. During the last few
weeks more interest has been disclos-
ed in a duplicate way than had been
noted since the beginning of the sea-
son. This development is not dueto
any change in the situation. Jobbers
have naturally been shipping goods,
and in some instances find it neces-
sary to replace staple numbers.
Further complaints are made that
the fall deliveries are in many cases
unsatisfactory. One large buyer says
a delivery just received by him is
about the worst he ever saw. He
makes a point that the goods are
not even seconds, for while seconds
are mended before leaving the fac-
tory, these goods have not even been
mended, and the buyer says his depart-
ment would have difficulty in selling
the shipment for seconds. This is
typical of other similar cases and is
indeed a bad commentary on _ the
product of many American mills.
The temptation to deliver inferior
goods has been greater this year than
almost any other year.. For the rea-
son that the indications are for a
large cotton crop, the natural infer-
ence would be a much lower price
for cotton. Some mills have specu-
lated on lower cotton and made
prices with this thought in mind.
Some of the lower grades of knit
goods are the worst. Manufacturers
in certain cases could not stand the
loss to deliver goods according to
sample. To do so would mean that
they must lose considerable money,
for it is a fact that some were made
on a basis of 7%c cotton.

Velvets—Warp prints in __ taffetas,
gros de Naples or satin duchess, in
large, bold floral designs covering
cream or pale-tinted grounds, are
shown in imported lines; also hand-
tinted broche designs and hand-tinted
velvet designs on the same grounds.
A high novelty shown is warp print
or broche silk with Venice lace in-
serts in certain parts of the design.
These appear in the Louis XVI. gar-
land and basket pattern, the basket
being of lace. The same pattern is
carried out with gold spangles in
place of the inserted lace. These
goods are all marked with prices pro-
hibitive to a moderate purse, but indi-
cate the ultra-fashionable trend and
offer suggestions that may be of fu-
ture service.

There is a growing confidence in
a velvet season that will round up
satisfactorily, since rumors from
abroad have confirmed belief in an
extensive use of velvet for gowns,
costumes and coats next winter.
Blacks will dominate, but the dark,

 

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Madame Grant is the leading dressmaker
in Kalamazoo, and as you know “a _ prophet
is not without honor save in his own country”
we feel that the following extract from a letter
received by us carries with it a little more
than the usual weight:

‘“‘PuRITAN Corset Co.,

KaLamMazoo, Micu.

Gentlemen:—I have demonstrated to my entire
satisfaction that the Puritan Corset Style No. 79, is
for all classes of figures the best corset manufac-
tured today in this or any other country. It gives
a certain style to the figure not obtained by any
other garment. I insist upon my customers wear-
ing them when being fitted.

MapaME Grant.”

Write us if we have no representative in

your town. We may be able to do you some
good.

PURITAN CORSET CO.

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

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rich brown, myrtle and wintergreen
and some of the dark blues and terra-
cotta shades will also be in demand.
Narrow velvets will be used again for
accessories and as a foundation for
the fashionable embroideries of all
kinds. Pash velvet will be used for
millinery. It is probable that velvet-
eens of the best quality will replace
velvets for costumes even for’ the
best class of trade. They have the
zppearance of silk velvet, and wear

to infiuence practical women in their
favor. Evening gowns will be made
mostly of chiffon velvet, and it is ru-
mored there will be a demand for it
for theater waists of dressy tendency.

by the best customers, and it will
be used also for accessories and cer-
tain styles in millinery. In fancy
velvets broadtail is far in the lead and
comes in all of the popular dark and
medium shades, and all of the bright
relieving colors as well. A manufac-
turer of velvets is showing a Parisian
costume of medium shades of golden-
brown broadtail, the trimmings and
buttons of which are of onion brown,
and a hat is of the same combination
with a touch of coq de roche broadtail
in the trimming. A fac-similé of this
toilette is exhibited at the St.
Fair. Fancy waisting

Louis

fiber, are a line well taken by manu-
facturers of waists and suits. These
are sometimes called embroiderettes.
Shadow effects in impress goods are
also meeting with success.

Knee Drawers—Have been attract-
ing a good deal of attention during
the past season.

to be selling many of these goods,
but later on the public seems to have
“warmed up” to them considerably,
and the chances are that next sea-
son’s sales will be fairly heavy, as the
public is brought to realize the advan-
tages possess2d by this style of un-
derwear at a season when outdoor
sports are “the thing.”

Cloakings—The cloaking end of the
trade is moving along fairly well,
considering the manner in which it
seems necessary to buy such goods
now. The promises for the season
are good and some excellent orders
have been booked during this last
week for kerseys, covert cloths, tour-
ists’ cloths and similar lines, from the
cloakmakers. It will take a little
stronger showing of fall weather to
put this part of the goods market
where it ought to be.

Mercerized Lines — Among the
quick and reasonably satisfactory
sellers for the spring of 1905, the
mercerized lines stand pre-eminent
with many—those mills that under-
stand how to make them right. Such
mills have had a big business in these
iabrics, while those that have missed
the vital points are complaining of
unsatisfactory business in the mer-
cerized end.

2
Demand Is Good for Colored Dress
Silks.

The popularity of silks seems of
sufficient momentum to carry through
the winter. The number of yards of
silks sold this season has been un-

 

velvets with |
dots, cubes or other small designs in

At the beginning of |
the summer merchants did not appear |

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| rant this belief.
like cloth, which combination is sure |

usually large. The surprising thing
is the lack of enthusiasm on the part
of the silk dealers. The city retail
branch of the silk business is enthusi-
astic regarding the present sale of
silks and is willing to give expression
to its enthusiasm. But the distribut-
ing trade is more stoical. The convic-
tion has been growing that the sea-

son of 1905 is going to be a hummer |

All conditions war-
Just now the large
cities are realizing a marked demand
for silk tabrics. This popularity
should reach throughout the entire
country next spring and summer if
the fashions favor silk. The well

in the silk trade.

| posted authorities say the shirt waist
As a trimming velvet it is endorsed |

 

suit is on the programme for next
year. Granted that and the sale of
silks in large quantities is assured.

The tendency of colored fancy silks
is the feature with the general trade.
Jobbing interests were concerned to
know early what their customers
were going to do for fall. Some main-
tained that it was not wise to follow
the second season with the same de-
signs that were so successful this
summer. The wise silk manager,
however, stuck to the colored fancies.
Even those who placed liberal orders
for colored fancies are finding their
early orders of insufficient propor-
tions. One concern reports an order
for 400 pieces given last week to be
shipped at once. Neat effects in
small patterns are wanted. In a few
instances merchants who placed their
orders early for colored fancies be-
came frightened and cancelled. They
have since found that they are unable
to secure other silks that are so pop-
ular.

Silk counters of the retail stores
show colored fabrics. The managers
admit their inability to supply any-
thing more in demand. One large
window of a department store this
week displayed the new novelty silks
for fall. There were thirteen styles
draped in the large double window,
and every pattern in the window was
brown. The price on all was the
same, $1 per yard.

Plaid silks are being favorably con-
sidered by the trade at the counters
of the city stores. The trade is buy-
ing them for waists. One department
reports quite a number of sales of
plaid silks every day.

Velveteens are expected to engage
more of the attention of shoppers
than velvets. For the dressy dress
chiffon velvet may be chosen, but for
service velveteens are more practica-
ble. Some of the velveteens shown
to-day have the effect of a_ velvet.
The glazed appearance of the old vel-
veteen is absent. Velveteen for the
manufacturing trade is a_ feature.
Manufacturers of novelties, belts, etc.,
are considering a quantity. The cut-
ting up trade is also asking for them.
Broadtails continue to be an impor-
tant feature of this line. The sale is
reported to have been large and is
continuing. Full costumes of broad-
tails are exhibited in the city sales-
rooms.

—_—-o

When you write Tradesman adver-
tisers be sure to mention that: you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-
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President, Michael Howarn,
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, H. KB. Bradner, Lansing.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan | : i
| shaking hands and keeping our hats
| on, and most of the handshaking that

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.| . ; ;
| is done is as much pro forma and in-

Grand Councelor, L. Williams, Detroit;
Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy, Flint.

Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

troit; |

 

 

Polite to Women.

Can politeness be overdone? The

|

tulous persons who are continually
butting in, whether they are encour-
aged to do so or not. A wholesome

| rebuff won’t hurt this kind of indi-

|
|
|
|
|
|

| viduals.
| posed to converse are not in that

But all men who are dis-

category. To be overpolite to women
and surly to men is as reprehensible

| as the other extreme.

other day a man met a lady in a}

prominent street. They stopped to

/and bow.

chat. The man removed his hat. He|

struck an attitude of humility.

They |

chatted for ten minutes. All the time |

the man held his hat in his hand and
stood there in an acquiescent atti-
tude while the lady talked animat-
edly and evidently in a radiant humor.

the act of being polite. He was mere-

flunky.
We have heard it announced asan

We have the Indian fashion of

trinsically as cold and unsympathetic

oe | : 'as that same form of politeness be-
Tendency of Men To Become Too) as

tween two pugilists preparing to maul
each other. In continental Europe
when men of breeding meet or are
introduced they remove their hats
The act of shaking hands
is reserved for warm intimates. Even
good friends doff their hats in salute
on meeting. This form of polite-

| ness may be mere sham, if it is not
| prompted by a courteous sentiment
|that springs from the heart. But
| why not cultivate manly courtesy as
The man was overdoing himself in|

a creed and elevate the tone of gen-

|uine politeness, without either mak-
ly acting the part of a well-dressed |

| to one sex?

axiom that the predominance of the |

schoolmarm in our public school sys- |
tem is doing a great deal to effeminize |

our boys. If it is responsible for the

tendency to overstimulate our desire |
to appear politc, the point is perhaps |

well taken.

dogmatic on this subject. Perhaps

It won’t do to be too!

better views may offset this conclu- |

sion.

But the fact remains that a/|

tendency does exist among us to be|
overpolite, and the case cited bears |

witness to this belief.

There are}

men who always have their hats in|

their hands when ladies are about
and who conduct themselves, broadly

speaking, in a servile manner that |
comports ill with the dignity of good |
breeding and can hardly appeal to'|

the good sense of a woman of taste
and refinement.

But there is one point in our uni-
versal bearing in respect to which
most of us might profitably seek im-
provement,

Here we often find a glaring deficien-
cy of politeness. In a majority of
cases it is dangerous for a man_ to
risk a conversation with a stranger.
In numerous instances a polite re-
mark is met with a frown and a
reproving stare from the person ad-
dressed.

Out in the wild and woolly West
and down South men still preserve
a primitive form of politeness in their
relation to strangers. One is permit-
ted to ask questions and is reasona-

bly sure of receiving a courteous re- |
ply. In some sections the person ad- |

dressed is apt to know all about your
family before he leaves you. In the
West the wayfarer is expected to be
communicative and to dip in like an

old friend, whether it is a game of |

seven-up or a discussion of crops and
politics. But in this particular part
of the United States unless one has
enjoyed a formal introduction to the
person whom he wishes to engage in
conversation he is prone to come off
with a severe rebuff. There are gar-

That is the relative de- |
portment of men toward one another. |

|

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ing it servile or confining it strictly

Let there be enough

politeness to go around.
———_>2+—___

Why Luck Should Be Spelled Pluck.

Spell luck with a capital “P” be-
fore it. This is the kind of luck that
is unfailingly good because it supplies
its brave beneficiary with the courage
that lightly surmounts most of life’s
difficulties and trials. No individual
who spells luck with a “P” can ever
be a coward. And it is the coward
usually, other things being equal, who
falls and fails.

The most careless analysis proves
the luck spelled with a “P” is best
worth having. Fear is a depressing
force always; habitually indulged it
means almost certain death to the
highest possibilities for success and
happiness. The saddest aspect of all
the countless, varied fears that op-
press humanity is found in the fact
that so many of them are unnecessary
and groundless in the extreme.

“My life has been full of troubles,”
mourned the much quoted old woman
whose plaint teaches so valuable a
lesson, “and half of them _ never
came.” A brave and cheery deter-
mination not to fear the future, never
to worry about the “troubles” until
they were actually in existence, to
make always the best of things, would
have transformed a sad existence into
a happy life.

“The coward dies a hundred deaths;
the brave man dies but once.”

“No one can be really brave unless
he is afraid.”

Here are two bits of indubitable
wisdom, one old, the other newer,
well worthy the attention of those
who would spell their luck with a
“P.” Anticipated sorrows and trou-
bles, to continue the line of the first
a little longer, are usually much
more distressing than real ones; few
trials are as bitter in the actual bear-
ing as in prospect. And, if the hard
thing must come, why wear out the
powers of endurance and recuperation
by premature anxiety? The luck that
is spelled with a “P” is usually mark-
ed by a cheerful doing of to-day’s

duties, with a determination to let
to-morrow take care of itself, at least
in regard to its troubles and woes.
It is small credit to take up the
second suggestion, to face life’s prob-

yet who bravely goes into and
is the hero. This man, beloved of
his fellows, approved by his own con-
science—although he may not sus-
pect it—spells his luck with a “P.”

 

the joy of life, the exhilaration of
victory, than twenty
know.

obstacle is his fullest measure. So,
too, with the light hearted, trium-
averted. The man who spells his
career that many of the

trouble clouds that shadow the work-
ing horizon are shadow clouds mere-

enemy slain pass into the life of the
slayer.

resources and cheer.

All of which would be
“P” mode of luck spelling is so easy
and desirable of acquirement.
about, fretters, cripplingly anxious
Spell your luck with a “P,” and do
to-day’s duty bravely. Then when
the dreaded “hard month of the
year,” the autumnal examinations,
the spring house cleaning, the impor-
tant payment are really due, full
strength with which to meet them
will be at command rather than the
nervous depletfon resulting from long
days and nights of unnecessary, su-
perfluous worry, and the grave crises
will bring you but triumph.

For the luck that is spelled with a
“P” will never fail you. To meet and
greet it will come all manner of good
things in due time and season, while
the calm mind, sleep, and faith born

lems calmly if one is naturally cour- |
ageous, if there is nothing to fear. |
|The man who sees and recognizes |
| danger, who inevitably fears it with |
the “pure human” part of his nature, |

through it for the sake of duty—this |

For the rest, the man who spells |
his luck with a “P” knows more of |

cowards can}
The clear joy to be obtained |
only through the surmounting of an|

phant gladness born of a hindrance |

luck with a “P” learns early in his |
blackest |

ly. Certain savages believe that the |
strength, vitality and power of the|

It is easy for the man who}
spells luck with a “P” and his friends |
to regard this belief as at least meta-|
phorically veracious, he is so indomi- |
table, so optimistic, so seemingly fav- |
ored of fortune, so full of hope and |

empty |
preaching but for the fact that the!

Turn

to-day about the luck of to-morrow. |

| of its wholesome courage will discov-
|er and bring about opportunities for
| thrift, happiness, money making and
| varied accomplishments, unnumbered,
| surprising, undreamed of.

Frances Byrnes.
>
Bombastic Eloquence.

The late James T. Lewis, War Gov-
ernor of Wisconsin, took a deep in-
|terest in bombastic and_ hifalutin
rhetoric. He knew by heart a number
of political speeches of the absurdest
kind, and to hear him quote these
speeches was amusing, for he inject-
'ed into their delivery not a little mock

fire and fury.

One of the speeches in Mr. Lewis’
| collection was made in the Lincoln
campaign. Its climax ran:

“Build a worm fence around a win-
ter’s supply of summer weather; skim
the clouds from the sky with a tea-
spoon; catch a thunderbolt in a blad
der; break a hurricane to harness;
| ground sluice an earthquake; lasso,
an avalanche; pin a lid on the crater
of an active volcano; hide all the stars
in a nail keg; hang the ocean on a
grape vine to dry; put the sky to soak
in a gourd; nail up eternity in a wood-
shed; and paste ‘To Let’ signs on
ithe sun and moon; but never—-never
for a moment, sir—delude yourself
with the idea that any ticket or party
can beat ourn.”

a

A man that persists in coming to
see a girl who has a small brother
| means business.

—____
The meanest thing about a mother-
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Gripsack Brigade.

The initials of the gentleman who |

has engaged to cover the Saginaw
Valley for the Worden Grocer Co. are
O. C. Parsons—not W. S. Parsons,
as stated last week.

F. E. Miller, of Ionia, succeeds
Will Isham as traveling representa-
tive for the J. I. Case Threshing
Machine Co. Mr. Miller was former-
ly on the road for the International
Harvester Co.

Big Rapids Pioneer: Royal Street-
er has taken a position as traveling
salesman for James H. Dunham &
Co., a New York dry goods firm. He
will travel in Michigan and expects
to go out the last of the month.

Cornelius Crawford (Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co.) is staying in to-
day to witness the 2:20 trot for which
the Grand Rapids Brewing Co. put
up a purse of $500. His mare Ca-
mille is entered in the race and he
confidently expects she will win first

money.
——_.->—_____

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Flint—Bert Freeman has resigned
his position with the Saginaw Dry
Goods Co., where he has been for
several months, to return to the em-
ploy of Smith, Bridgman & Co.

Ann Arbor—H. F. Frost has tak-
en a position with Mack & Co. in the
furniture and carpet department.
This is the same line of business in
which Mr. Frost was engaged at Du-
rand for a number of years.

Bay City—Wm. Beck, of Evart, has
engaged to manage the domestic de-
partment in the H. G. Wendland
store. :

Big Rapids—C. M. Barry, pharma-
cist in the drug store of Geo. F.
Fairman, was married recently to
Miss Edith Wessels, of St. Louis.

Lansing—Ed. Retan, who for the
past four years has been employed
by the Robinson Drug Co., has re-
signed his position and gone to De-
troit, where he will take up work in
the Detroit College of Medicine.

Flint—Wm. C. Carr, who was con-
nected with the Palmer store, in this
city, for many years, is now asso-
ciated with Warrick Brothers as as-
sistant manager of their dry goods
establishment.

Hastings—Frank Gillespie, former-
ly prescription clerk for A. L. Ed-
wards, of Hart, has taken a similar
position with W. H. Goodyear, at this
place.

Traverse City—Geo. W. Smith, of
the clothing department of the Bos-
ton store, was recently united in mar-
riage by Rev. W. L. Laufman at the
First M. E. parsonage to Miss Bes-
sie Noyse, of Chicago, formerly em-
ployed in Siegel & Cooper’s store
there.

Kalamazoo—Rhenious Bell, at the

Sheid Table Market, has won the
first prize offered by the Malta Vita
Co., Battle Creek, for the person in
Michigan who sold the most pack-
-ages of Malta Vita in two months.
The prize was $100. The contest be-
gan June 1 and ended July 31. In
that time Mr. Bell sold 5,002 pack-
ages. The second and third prizes
went to clerks at Detroit.

Clarkston—S. E. Morgan, who re-
cently accepted a position as druggist

 

 

for J. A. Loan, is at Detroit taking
treatment for the injury which he
received while packing his household
goods preparatory to coming here.
Mr. Morgan fell through a trap door,
injuring his limb, which is giving him
considerable trouble.

Lansing—Alired Wise has resign-
ed his position in the Rose & Burton
shoe store and gone to Grand Rapids,
where he will be connected with the
National Biscuit Co.

—_——.-wa————

The valor displayed by the Japan-
ese will never be properly described,
although the results attained by it
will, of course, be fully recognized.
The reports from the scenes of battle
have thus far been of the most mat-
ter of fact nature. The newspaper
correspondents have not been allow-
ed much freedom at the front. They
have personally witnessed but few of
the important engagements and have
not been permitted in many instances
to forward such information as they
have gathered in anything approach-
ing detail. The only authoritative ac-
counts of the operations in Man-
churia have come almost exclusively
from the officers in command. They
are necessarily brief statements and
do not have any literary adornments.
It is the studied purpose of the Jap-
anese generals not to make known the
significance of their movements, nor
to give publicity to any fact that will
enable the enemy to anticipate their
plans. Enough reaches the outside
world to produce the conviction that
the Japanese have performed, indi-
vidually and collectively, deeds of
heroism that have never been excel-
led in the history of modern warfare.
The spirit they manifest is nothing
short of marvelous, and although the
literature of the war may be inade-
quate, history can not fail to accord
the Japanese a glorious chapter.

———_+->—__—_.

A new device has caused a boom
in hardware in the prohibition State
of South Dakota. It is a spirit level,
ruler, calendar and pencil holder
combined, and in South Dakota sells
two for a quarter at the best regu-
lated hardware stores. Where there
was one hardware store in one town,
there are now three, and all are doing
a big business in spirit levels. The
most interesting thing about the de-
vice is the spirit level, with empha-
sis on “spirit.” In the center of a
square piece of wood about eight
inches long is a hole running length-

wise, into which fits very neatly aj

glass tube, tightly corked, containing
two ounces of spirits. Another hole
running lengthwise is just large
enough to hold a lead pencil. In the
middle of the piece of wood are two
holes running at right angles to the
aperture extraordinary containing the
tube. One can look into these small-
er holes and see the spirits in the
glass tube. The owner of the de-
vice may, if he chooses, extract the
tube from the frame, uncork it and
proceed to the work of putting down
liquor according to the manner in
vogue in  non-prohibition _ states.
Thereupon the possessor has no more
use for the spirit level, nor the lead
pencil, nor the calendar, nor the
ruler.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Caro—The flour mill owned by J.
R. Sissins burned to the ground
Sept. 20. Five hundred bushels of
wheat and fifty bushels of flour were
consumed. There is $4,000 insurance
on the mill.

Lowell—-Ecker & Foster, proprie-
tors of the lumber yard and planing
mill here, are embarrassed and have
uttered a trust mortgage to Porter

Carr, trustee, securing creditors to
the amount of $10,000.
Petoskey—The Petoskey Block

Manufacturing Co. has been organ-
ized for the purpose of manufacturing
lumber and woodenware. The capi-
tal stock is $30,000 common and
$5,000 preferred. Three hundred and
twenty-six dollars has been paid in
in cash and $18,474 in property.
Detroit—The
which has been
rame of the Phoenix Perfumery Co.,
at 23 Jefferson avenue, has filed ar-
ticles of association without chang-
ing the name, with $2,000 authorized
stock, $500 of which is said to be
paid in. Edward A., Charles D.and

perfumery business

Marie Weber Fiske are named as
stockholders.

Hillsdale—The Fleming Screen
Works, manufacturer of a patent
sliding screen, has sold its patents

and business to the Hillsdale Screen
Works, which will consolidate the
business with its own. The new

building for the Hillsdale company, |

on the site of the one destroyed by

use.

Kalamazoo—The Illinois Envelope
Co., of Centralia, Ill., seeks a location
in this city. The company recently
completed a $12,000 factory building
at Centralia and since has decided to
make a change. Four hundred men
are employed and a million envelopes
are made a day. The company asks
for a building site and $4,000, the ex-
pense of moving.

Lake Odessa—The Verity Manu-
facturing Co. will remain at Lake
Odessa, $4,000 in preferred stock hav-
ing been subscribed at par by local
investors.
organized with $10,000 common stock
and $5,000 preferred. E. D. Verity
is President of the new corporation,
C. C. Verity is Secretary and W. J.
Percival is Treasurer. A new build-
ing, 30x50 feer in dimensions, will
be erected at once for use as a store
room end finishing and packing room.

Bay City—Frank Buell, associated
with the J. T. Wylie Manufacturing
Co., has purchased 20,000 acres of
hardwood timber land in Otsego and
Cheboygan counties of the Haak
Lumber Co., estimated to contain
175,000,000 feet of standing timber,
which will be lumbered and the logs
railed to Bay City, where they will
be manufactured in the Hall mill, re-
cently bought by Mr. Buell and in
which H. A. Batchelor and J. T. Wy-
lie are also interested. It is calcu-
lated this mill has twenty years’ stock
already provided for. It will be of
decided advantage to the lumber in-
dustry of this city.

Kalamazoo—-The flour and _ feed
store owned by. Merrill & Ogden has
been sold to Zinn & Little, who have

 

running under the |

 

ps ol S |
A new company has been | producer

been in the grain business since Jan-
uary I. They bought the grain ele-
vator owned by J. L. Sebring for
many years. They remodeled it at
that time, and put in a feed grinder
and added a stock of flour and feed.
Mr. Zinn also operates a flour mill
at Galesburg, milling the flour known
as “Our Standard.” Messrs. Merrill
and Ogden have been in the flour and
feed business for the last four years
at 230 East Kalamazoo avenue. They
ere both old feed men. Mr. Merrill
was for a long time head salesman
for Miller, Ryder & Winterburn. Mr.
Ogden was for a number of years
connected with W. E. Mershon & Co.
The former will act as head salesman
for Zinn & Little.
Detroit—Frederick A. Turney has
filed a bill against the National Ce-
real Co., Ltd., of Battle Creek, man-
ufacturer of X-Cel-O flakes, alleging
fraud in the sale of $1,000 worth of
stock to him last April. Eugene Mil-
ler, Walter H. North, Lewis B. An-
derson, George W. Taylor and C. A.
Boyle, all of Battle Creek, are made
party defendants. Turney alleges that
in April he was offered the agency
for the company in the State of Mas-
sachusetts, with headquarters at Bos-
ton, providing, however, that he take
$1,000 worth of stock. He sets up

i that he accepted the proposition, but

declares that the food found no sale
and that he was forced to abandon
the business. He avers that his $1,000
was obtained under false representa-

i : ' | tions and that of the $400,000 claimed
fire last spring, is nearly ready for |

as capital stock $200,000 was rated
as the value of the formula for the

flakes. He asks for the return of the
$1,000.
a lp ae
The furriers report that the de-
mand for furs this season is much

more active than it was at this time
last year. There are several reasons
for the increased demand, one being
that the long, cold winter of last
year caused more furs to be worn
than formerly. The between
Russia and japan was expected to
curtail materiaily the production of
furs, as Russia is the greatest fur
in the world, and many
hunters have enlisted. Thus far, how-
ever, there has been no perceptible
talling off in the offerings of furs
trom Russia.
—_—.-e--2___

“Yes, I think I am growing in
grace,” remarked the flippant woman
to her pastor. She didn’t explain,
however, that she was giving two
hours a day to physical culture.

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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 ae Associa-
tion.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice-Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Charles P. Baker, St.
Johns; H. G. Spring, Unionville.

Secretary—W. Burke, 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
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

PHARMACIST AND PHYSICIAN.

New Aspect of Their Mutual Rela-
tions.

Some of the articles that have re-
cently appeared in medical, as well as
pharmaceutical, journals would ap-
pear to indicate that the relations ex-
isting between pharmacists and phy-
sicians are in an unsatisfactory and
altogether unsettled condition. While
it is true that the subject-matter un-
der discussion is not new, and that
many of the questions that are now
involved have arisen over and over
again for upwards of a century, some
recent developments in connection
with the trade in nostrums, or patent
medicines, have added a tone of bit-
terness to the controversy that will
not tend to bring about more amica-
ble relations in the near future.

Unfortunately, too, there is, in
nearly all of the printed articles, an
evident tendency to hold up_ the
shortcomings and frailties of a few as
an evidence of the tendency and
ideals of all. That there are members
in both professions who do not live up
te the prescribed principles or codes
of ethics, and whose technical train-
ing or skill does not compare favor-
ably with the best that is attainable,
all must admit. But to say, on the
cther hand, that all the members of
these respective callings are guilty
of any or all of the accusations that
have recently been made would be
overstepping the bounds of truth very
materially. Over and above the evi-
dent falsity of any series of general
#ccusations, we should always re-
member that crimination or recrimi-
nation will not, and can not, of it-
self bring other than discredit to all
concerned.

It will be much more in keeping
with a genuine desire for progress,
therefore, if we as pharmacists, rec-
ognizing the shortcomings of physi-
cians, also recognize our own, and
honestly strive to correct existing
abuses by the gradual elimination ot
objectionable practices.

I shall try to outline the -under-
lying causes of many of the present
differences of opinion, and also to
indicate the vosition that I believe
»harmacy will hold in the future. In
“ddition to this I shall attempt to
ivdicate how we as individuals can,
now and in the near future, contribute

 

very materially to bringing about a
better understanding between phar-
macists and physicians, and incident-
ally contribute no little to a better
knowledge of drugs and medicines
on the part of future graduates in
medicine.

It has been frequently predicted,
and for apparent good reasons, that
in the future economic arrangement
there can be no question regarding
the retail druggist of to-day or of
yesterday. Be that as it may, so
far as the purely commercial interests
of the retail druggist are concerned,
there can be no question regarding the
necessity and the consequent  con-
tinuance of the professional pharma-
cist. With the constant increase of
specialization in the practice of medi-
cine, and the accompanying realiza-
tion that the human body is not a
machine and that its ills cannot well
be treated on general principles,
there must be an accompanying in-
crease in appreciation of the compe-
tent pharmacist, who is willing and
able to act as an assistant or ad-
junct to the medical practitioner.
While it is true that the future phar-
macist will not be as numerous as he
is at the present time, he will occu-
py a relativeiy higher position in
the social scale, and will in addition
be in a position to accomplish much
that will make him honored and re-
spected at home and abroad.

For us as. pharmacists it would
appear imperative, then, that we
bear this possible development
along professional lines in mind and
see that the proper material is avail-
able when the expected change is
brought about. The proper founda-
tion for this rational development of
professional pharmacy can be laid at
the present time, and, in addition to
this, we may aid in the pharmaceuti-
cal education of future physicians if
we can, by any means at our com-
mand, improve the present status of
hospital pharmzcy in the United
States. In the education of future
generations of physicians hospital
training will necessarily play a most
important part. Even at the present
time a medical education that does
not include at least some _ hospital
experience is considered inadequate.
This being true, it becomes evident
at once that the impressions a recent
graduate receives during his hospital
experience—impressions cf drugs
and druggists—must be lasting ones
and ones that will largely control
his future ideas and practices. ;

How woefully deficient and unsat-
isfactory the drug service in many
of our hospitals must be, becomes
evident when we realize that in this
great country, with hundreds of in-
stitutions to supply them, we have
kad but one solitary instance of a
hospital pharmacist who has _be-
come widely known through his
professional and scientific work. I
refer to the late Charles Rice, of
Bellevue Hospital, New York, who,
I am sorry to add, was himself a
foreigner by birth and early train-
ing. Compared to what has been
accomplished by the pharmacists of
European hospitals, particularly by
those of France, this is indeed a poor

|
showing. Much of this deficiency

of the past, however, could be cor-
rected in the future if members of |
this Association, who are influential |
in their communities, will direct the |
attention of hospital authorities to |
their shortcomings in this respect.

One of the most widespread abuses
in hospital and dispensary practice
is due to the fact that, apart from |
a rather limited number of routine |
stock mixtures, the medicines dis-
pensed consist largely of proprietary
preparations that have been donated
by charitable manufacturers witha
view ‘o having them brought to the
attention of the medical men con-|
nected with the institution and, if |
possible, securing from them suita-
ble endorsements for publication. It
need not surprise us, therefore, that |
physicians who have had hospital ex- |
perience are frequently more hope-
lessly dependent on the use_ of pro- |
prietary remedies than graduates |
who have not had the so-called ad-|

vantages of a hospital training. |
Much of this could and would be!
changed, if hospitals, particularly |

the larger and more influential insti-
tutions, were to employ competent
pharmacists who could secure and)
hold the confidence of the visiting |
as well as of the resident staff of |
physicians, and who could and would |

| to-morrow. ML.

cessful from a monetary point. of

| view, but he will be assured of a

comfortable existence and the op-
portunity of doing considerable orig-

| inal work that may in turn revert to

the material advantage of himself and
his fellow-workers in the same field.

Those of us, however, who have
not had the educational advantages
that must be provided for the men

|of the future, and who probably feel

that we can not aspire to fit in ex-

; actly with the demands that will be
|made of the
| pharmacist, can, in _ the
|conduct ourselves and our business

professional
meantime,

coming

iti such a way that we will gain the
trust and confidence of physicians of

| to-day, and in this way establish a

precedent that will be of incalculable
value to our more professional and

| scientifically more able successors of

Wilbert.
—_>~+.___
Might Be True.
Wife—This paper tells about a man
who says he never made love to a
woman in his life. Do you believe it?
Husband—Well, I have no reason
to doubt it. Perhaps he didn’t

| have to.

Wife—Didn’t have to?
Husband—That’s what I said. He
probably made a specialty of widows.

 

be consulted on the probable stand- |

 

 

ing of new remedies. |

This brings us to a consideration |
of the intellectual needs and wants |

of men capable of holding such po- |
sitions. If the hospital pharmacist |
of to-day, or the professional phar- |
macist of to-morrow, is to have and |
to hold the confidence of medical |
practitioners, he must be at least the |
equal of the medical man in educa-|
tion, in ideas and in ideals—so much
so that with the increase in the re-
quirements made of medical students
there must be a corresponding in-
crease in the demands that are made
on the general information possess-
ed by the future pharmacist. He
must be a well educated, thoroughly
scientific and altogether capable
man, well versed in all the branches
of knowledge connected with his own
profession, and_ gifted with a/
breadth of view that will readily
place him above the average of his
tellow-men. In .return for his

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Acacia, 3d pkd.. Apium (gravel’s). 13@ 15|Cera Flava ...... 40@ 42
Acacia, sifted sts. Bid tas. oe € Crocus 2)... 1 75@1 80
Acacia, po........ Carag 0! po 15 10@ 11|Cassia Fructus .. @ 35
Aloe, Barb....... Cardamon ....... 70@ 99|Centraria ........ @ 10
Aloe, Cape........ Coriandrum. .--- 10@ 12 Cetacoum ....._. @ 45
Saenae ee, ee 8 ee aca, a
Ammoniac ....... 55@ 60/Cydonium ....... uibbs
Assafoetida ..... Chenopodium .... 25@ 30|Chloral Hya. Crst.1 35@1 60
Benzoinum ....... Dipterix Odorate. 80@100|Chondrus ........ 20@ 25
Catechu, 1s....... Foeniculum ..... @ 18/}Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Catechu, 448...... Foenugreek, po .. 7@ 9/|Cinchonid’e Germ 38@ 48
Catechu, \4s...... ae 4@ 6 — ecieec cas 405@4 25
Camphorae ...... Lint, grd ...bbl 4 3@ orks list d p ct. 75
Euphorbium ..... Bobet 0 i 75@ 80|Creosotum ....... @ 45
Galbanum ........ @ Pharlaris Cana’n. 9@10 Crete oo. bbl 75 e@ 3
Gamboge ....po...1 25@ Wepa. ... S@ 6/|Creta, prep ...... @ 65
Guaiacum ..po. 35 Sinapis Alba .... 7@ 9/Creta, precip .... 9@ 11
Kio: ...... po. 75c Sinapis Nigra .... 9@ 10} Creta. Rubra .... 8
antic oo oe Spiritus =. ie dedcuees 175@1
es .. eas O Frument! W D....200@259| Cupri Sulpti...) 6@ 8
ee, ‘en os Juniperis CoO 7.1 i eeo2 00 i aa api Oo os

7@1 Juniperis Co ....175@3 50 es

Tragacanth .....

Herba
Absinthium, oz pk
Eupatorium oz pk
Lobelia ....0z pk
Majorum ..oz pk
Mentha Pip oz pk
Mentha Vir oz pk
Hae... ...:. oz pk
Tanacetum V.....
Thymus V ..oz pk

Carbonate, Pat.
Carbonate K- M..
Carbonate .......

Oleum
Absinthium ..... 3 00@83 25

Amyegdalae, Dulc.

@ 6
Amygdalae Ama..8 00@8 25
Ani 1T5@1

en ecee

Chenopadil
Cinnamonili .
Citronella ...
Conium Mac.

Copaiba .........115
“ubehen .. 1.5.0) 88

   

 

Saccharum N E ..190@2 10
Spt Vini Galli ...175@6 50

Vel Gporto ..... 1 25@2 00
Vini Ara .......: 1 25@2 00
Sponges

Florida sheeps’ wl

CHITINNe =... 2... 2 50@2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wl

Carriage ....... 2 50@2 75
Velvet extra shps’

wool, carriage .. @1 50
Extra yellow shps’

wool, carriage . @1 25
Grass sheeps’ wl,

carriage —...... @1 00
Hard, slate use... @1 00
Yellow Reef, for

mate use ...... @1 40

Syrups

(eaee 2... cs @ 50
Auranti Cortex e 50
Zineiner ........<. 50
aperec ........... @ 60
Wer foo .....-.. @ 50
Bei Arem ...... @ 60
Smilax Off’s .... 50@ 60
Gemeee 2... sic... g 50
Gempge ........-.. 50
Geftiae Co ....... @ 50
Tolutan tales Oe 50
Prunus virg .... @ 5e

 

@

@

@
Emery, all Nos.. 3 8
oO
Gece enc. . @

@

Gelatin, Cooper .. @
Gelatin, French .. 35@ 60
Glassware, fit box 75 & 5
0

Less than bes .. 70 -
Glue, brown ...... H@ i3
Glue, white ...... 15@ 25
Glycerina. auc ce Gt ae
Grana Paradisi .. 25
Humuhis ........ 25 55
Hydrarg Ch Mt. 95
Hydrarg Ch Cor . 90

Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @1 05
Hydrarg Ammo’. @1 15
Hydrarg Ungue’m 50 60

Hydrar; 75
ohthy obolla, Am. 90@1 00

a 75@1 00
Toate, an 3 85@4 00
Togoform .......... 410@4 20
tae Sai aul ots ace 50
Lycopodium ..... 85 90
Macht: ........;. 65 75

Liquer Arsen et
Hydrarg Iod .

1

25
Liq Potass Arsinit 10@ 12
3

Magnesia, Sulph..
Magnesia, Sulh bbi o 1%

35002 60 Simapis, opt .....
Moschus Canton . a = ee
Nux Vomica.po 15 10 snuft, ‘3 "h De Vo's
25@ 28 Soda, Boras, po..

@100 Soda, Sulphas ...

Pil Hydrarg .po 80
Piper Nigra .po 22

Pix Bureun ......
Pulvis I Opil. 3001 60 5

ulvis Ip’c et pa 1 30@1 60 t
Pyrethrum, bxs H Spts. Vint

Gane’ a’ da” eS 3 | Terchenth Venice 28@ 30

3@ 33|Theobromae .....

Hehte Tinctorum.
Saccharum La’s .

Sanguis Drac’s.
=

715@ 80 — : | ees 10 12 | Lard,
a —* 34.52... Lard, No
2 60 Se falitz Mixture... 20 Linseed,
PAIS oo cscs 18 | Linseed

~~ em

Soda, Boras ...... :
Soda et Pot’s Tart 28

@1 00 Putty,
Soda, Carb Pceue 1% Putty. strictly
Soda, Bi-Carb ... 3&8 5

@200| Soda; Ash ....... 3% 4 | Vermillion,

@ 85) Spts, Cologne ... 260 | Vermillion,

@ 7 Spts. Ether Co... 50@ 55 badinng Paris

@ 30 Spts. Myrcia Dom 200 - ey ed

g " Spts. Vini Rect bbl aoe? ee
Spts. Vii Rect % b ead, white

Spts. VViIRt z =

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Ne
bw woo

@ 75/Sulphur, Subl ...2%@ 4/| Whit's, Paris, Eng
25@ 30) Sulphur, Roll .... 24%@ 3% | __ cliff
8@ 10|Tamarinds ...... $@ 10 | Universal

 

23@ 33 | Vanilla 9 00@
a, 2. | Veen -.. i a
3@ 2¢|Zinel Sulph ..... oe ti >
oa 450@4 75 Olls
40@ 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar,.155@1 60

 

 

 

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You are invited to
inspect our

Holiday
Line

Sept. 12, 1904

in the Blodgett Building
opposite our office

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

80 | Neatsfoot, wstr..
Spts. Turpentine..

1 | Red Venetian....
11 | Ochre, yel Mars 1
39 | Ochre, yel Ber ..

2 American

_
~

ree 13@
6%@

Whiting, white S’n
Whiting, Gilders.’

aecienin, coed 90@1 15 | White, Paris, Am'r

Prep’d.1 1091 20
No. 1 Turp oe joe 6 20

No. 1 Turp Furn.1 00@1 10
12@ 14| Whale. winter .. 70@ 70 | Jap Dryer No 1T 70@

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.

 

 

 

Index to Markets

 

 

AXLE ——

IXL Golden ....... 75 900; Fair
BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand

1tb. can per doz.

2b. can per doz.
3tb. can per doz.

— Cavier”

 

 

Sage cae

 

-

9 DS BD BO OS BS OD 4 pt bt

Salmon
Col’a River, tails.
Col’a ae flats.1 85

Sa INE RHEE Poe Pooler oneness tare ectordee tengo ere renee

      
 

Solid B a St uk
0) ack, n
Kk ili French, %s etek aoce

No. 3

eee COLOR
R. & Co.'s, 15c size.1 25
R. & Co.’s, 25c¢ size.2 00

ANDLES
Electric Light, 8s
Electric ‘Se ‘ht, 1és ;

Soe Seer eR

CARBON OILS

CAN NED , GOODS

ppies
3 Ib. Standards..
Gals, Standards ..

Deodor’d Nap’ is

CA
Columbia, 2S ete... 332 450

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wet ee ee eee er eces

 

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Cla
Meat Extracts Little Neck, 1 "D. * oer 25
eck, 2 150

 

-40
,| puis” domestic’ .

 

emacania Flag Spruce. 55
Beeman’s — =

Largest Gum Made

ee ee ee 55

Sen Sen Breath Per’e.1 =
Loaf

 

teem ewww een rereeee

4'Coco Bar

 

 

6 | Cinnamon

ed

ee ee wearer sees weese

ee

eee meme newer ceeree

 

Oyst
oom 70

2mb
a 1 Th. Oval .

Se

eee emer eee eeneee

 

 

Vv
Weept cake... cotsscc. ; 10

 

Barly June ........90
Early June . 1 69 !Lady Fingers,hand md 25

— eee een ee

. Cotton Wndsor

Oe ee 1 39
Oe ee sicecdceneeeey sk ae
- ee Se
OO oye. --3 00

Cotton Braided i
me Oe oe es - a
50 ab dee epee ceab oak ae
fe. ...... oaks sk ae

Galvanized ‘Wire
No. 20, each 100 ft long.1 90
No. 19. each 100 ft long.2 10

 

 

  

 

COCOA
No iat 3
Cleveland ............. 41

ee, 26M oe oe 35
Colonial, %s .......... .
uyler ~- 4
Yan Houten, %s ...... 12
Van Houten, \%s ...... 20
Van Houten, %s - 40
Van Houten, 1s . _ <a
Weem *...<¢.... 31
Wilbur, %s ... 41
Wilbur, Mee occas 42
COCOANUT
Dunham’s ss ...... 26
Dunham’s %s& \s.. 26%
Dunham’s Xs ...... 27
Duntam'’s 3s ...... 28
I ee cies 12
—- AS
ae eee... a. ee. 2%
Less aes aoe. se 3
Pound packages ...... 4
COFFEE
Rio
Cet ee cic 11%
cacy « cet oo 13
Penne cock ee sae
POUCH seeds ‘acini one

Santos
CS 2. ee oe we 12
bees a tee 13%
ee 15
PN a i 18
NE once ne: anion

Maracaibo
Pee 15
eee oc 18

Mexican
Choice ...... Seuceee 16%
Faney ..... pecce ae

Guatemala
ene 15

Java
MSPae. i ce 12
Rancy Afrieah ....... 17

i bas ceca eae 26
6 31
ocha
Aree 8 cS 21
Package
New York Basis.
Arbuckle.
Dilworth
oer 1.8.
BO cdc casoeeen eke 12 50

McLaughlin’s XXXX

McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers only. Mail all
orders direct to W._ F.
McLaughlin & Co., Chi-
cago.

Holland, nt = tne 2 ane i
rox, & orem ........
Hummel’s foil, eae
Hummel’s tin, % gro.1 43

CRACKERS

National Biscuit Company’s

Brands

Butter
Seymour Butters ..... 6
mF ee Cees 6
Saltet Butters ....... 6
Family Butters ...... 6

Soda
- te Bee 2... cs. s es 6
Ne ia cc cl case 8
Saratoga Flakes ...... 13

Oyster

Round Queers
Square — cS
—

   

Chocolate Drops ? ld
Cococanut Taffy .. ae
Coffee Cake, NBS. 10
Coffee Cake, Iced - 10

Cocoanut Macaroons .. 18
POEROOIE 265 cco ccas 16
Curren: FPO .....0<+ 0
5 | Chocolate Dainty 16
Cartwheels ........... 9

Dixie Cookie
Fluted Cocoanut ..
Frosted Creams
Ginger Gems .........
Ginger Snaps, N cw
Grandma Sandwich .. *
Graham Crackers ..
Honey Fingers, Iced.. "3
Honey Jumbles ......
Iced Happy Family .
Iced Honey Crumpet
Imperials ...... i Re pr
Indiana Belle ....... - 15
Jersey Lunch ........ a
LiLagy Fingers ....,..- 12

g | Mixed Picnic

 

4

Lemon ae Square. 8

teamon Weafer _....... -3
Lemon Sena eee

Lemon Gems ......... 10
Di TOR. cwccsecis cou
Marshmallow ........ - 16
Marshmallow Cream.. 16

Marshmallow wausnut. 16
ll MOR cel sheen =
Mich” Coco {Fed honey. 12
BNE Biscuit ....cccces

Mich Frosted Honey . =
Molasses Cakes, ‘Scio’a 8
Moss Jelly Bar........ 12

3 |Muskegon Branch, Iced 19

re a es

Ontinenl Crackera .... 8
Orange Slice ......... 16
Orange Gem ....... “
Penny Assorted Cakes.

Pine Sreaa | .... 1... ea
Pineapple Honey ..... 115
ree Pee on. nc ewe 9

Pretzels, hand made ..

Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8
Pretzelettes, mch. m’d 7
ee

Soon Cookies
SmOwarops § «2.6.5 ess 16
Spiced Sugar Tops ...

eee ewe eee ewes

8
‘| Sugar Cakes, scalloped :

sm ad ,Sauares cnae es
RO gt sc esc *
Ss iced C Gingers

ee eeeeee

Pp
Vanilla Wafer ........ 16
Waverly ..... 9
Zanzibar
CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or drums
Boxes.
Square cans.
Fancy caddies.
——_ FRUITS
Apples
Peirtee i... . 62. g
Evaporated ..... 16% 7
Callfornia Prunes
100-125 25tb. boxes.

50- -60 25 Th. bxs.
40-50 25 Tb. bxs.

30-40 25 tb. bxs. @

wc less in bv wv. cases

Citron

Corsican. .......5 @15

I d. 1, bks @ 7%

mp’ pkg.

Imported = -. 6%@ 7

zemon ancanes ion 12

Orange American ..... 12
Ralsins

London Layers 3 cr 1 90

London Layers 8cr 1 9

Cluster 4 crown. 2 60

Loose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5%
Loose Muscatels, 3 ecr.. 6

a a 4 cr.. 6%
ed, 1%b. ei ig
i M. Seeded. %b. 5%
Sultanas, bulk. ...
Sultanas, package. 8%
FARINACEOUS GOODS
———
(OE
Med. Hd. "Pp k'd. - ce =
Brown Holland .......
Farina
4 i. peciaees. ....1 76
Bulk, per 100 ths. -.... 3 00
Hominy
Flake, 50 Tb. sack ....1 00
Pearl, 200 Tb. sack ...4 00

Pearl, 100 Tb. sack -2 00

Maccaron!l and Vermiceltt

Domestic, 10 tb. 60

Imported, 25 tb. coer. ..2 50
Pearl Barley

OOM es ete cc 60

ONG. coc e csc ays 2 75

WOES oie ioc sion 3 50
Peas

Green, Wisconsin, bu.1 35

Green, Scotch, bu......1 =

i kets sande
Rolled Oats

Rolled Avenna bbls...5 00

Steel Cut, 100%. sacks 2 70

Monarch, DM. .........

47
Monarch, 10%. sacks..2 25
Quaker, cases 310

go
West TAR eck cccccen we
German, sacks ........ 3

we eweeee

German, broken pkg . 4
Tapioca

Flake, 110%. saeks .... 4

Pearl, 130%. sacks .. %

Pearl, 24 1tb. p 6
Wheat

<redeet. —_

 

6

7

9

11

se iced peat <>. oe
is ee 30

Co.ton Lines

No. £ weer .. 5
Wo. 2 35 feet .......- 7
No. 3. 18 feet ..... sue 9
Wo. 4, 15: feet ........: "30
No. 6, 16 fest ........5 2
me. 6, 36 fot ...,...
No. 7, feet neck ae
we I ee 18
No, 9, 15 feet -........ 29

 

 

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Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., pr ds..
Bamboo, 16 tt., pr ds.
Bamboo, 18 ft., pr ds.
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Foote & Jenks
Coleman’s Van.
202. a

 

3o0z. Taper ........ 1 50
No. i Wich. Blake.2 00 1 50
Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon
No. 2 D.
No. 4 D.
No. 6 D. G prdz.
Taper D. C. pr dz ..

Mexican Vanilla

 

   

No. 2 D. C. pr dz ....1 20
No. 4 D. C. pr dz ....2 00
No. 6 D. C. pr dg ....3 00
Taper D. C. pr dz ....3 00
ee

Knox’s enna - 120
Knox’s .14 00
Knox’s yy gt 1 20
cneey Acidu’d, gro .14 00

ONE ei cs oe sc. oe
Pes Rock - 120
MemmensS 5.2.1... 1 50
Cox’s, 2 qt. size ..... 1 61
Cox's, 1 ot sie ...... 110

GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100 in b’e. 19
Amoskeag, less than b. 19%

GRAINS AND FLOUR
Wheat

Old Wheat.
mo 1 Walte ... 2)... 110
oe: 2 oe ee 7 0
Winter Wheat Flour
Local Brands
Ce ee 6 40
Second Patents. ...... 6 00
Peregene 2.0. eae
Second Straight. .....5 40
Celera ee 4 80
Pere. ooo. ee
Buemwheae oo 0650... 5 00
ee gc 4 20
Subject to usual cash
discount.
Flour in bblis., 25¢ per

bbl. additional.

Worden Grocer Co.'s ee
Quaker, paper.
Quaker, cloth.
Spring Wheat peeve
Pillsbury’s Best, %s ..6 80
Tillsbury’ Ss Beat, %
Villsbury’s Best,

ran
Wines 4a 4.8... 6 75
wae, $5 tes 6 65
Mined, aes 6 55
Judson Grocer Co.’s Brana
Ceorerers, 168 00... 6 75
Ceresota, Ws ...:... |. 6 65
Ceresota, 6a 02.0. 6 55
Worden Grocer Co.’s Nera
Laurel, “BS, aon oS 80
Laurel, %s cloth .... | 8 7
Laurel, Eve & %s paper6 60
Pores eS 6 60

Meal
ene 2 90
Golden Granulated. ...3 00

Feed and Milistuffs
St. Car Feed screened 22 50

No. 1 Corn and Oats 22 50
Corn Meal, coarse. ..22 50
Ca eee. 28 00
Winter wheat bran ..20 00
Winter wheat mid'ngs23 00
Cow teed... oo 0
ats
Car t0te.- 2.0 33%
Corn
ee 57
Hay

No. 1 timothy car lots.1@ 60

5| No. 1 timothy ton lots.12 56

  

HERBS
BR ooo wt oesee ae
BOO cciciieae ches ikcus. ae
Laurel Leaves eosepag! ae
Senna Leaves ........ %
INDIGO
Madras, 5 tb. boxee .. 66
8S. F., 2,3.5 i. boxes.. 65
JELLY
fib. pails, per dow ..1 70
151b. pails oinneconee:: ae
COPD DOI occciccccnes 5] Ow
or
80
23
14
11
LYa
Condensed, 2 dz ......1 6
Condensed, 4 dz ......8 00
MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour’s, 2 0% ........4 46
Armour’s 4 oz <n oe

Liebig’s, Ghicaso, 3 2 08.2 75

Liebig’s, 408.5 50
Tdehig’s, imported. 2 os.4 55
Liebig’s,

imported 4 oz 8 50

  

 
 

Fancy Open Kettle ...

eee nee ereeerrns

barrels
MINCE MEAT
Columbia, per case.

rse Radish, 1 dz...
pores Radish, 2 dz ....3
Bayle’s Celery, 1 dz ..

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs .
Bulk, 3 gal kegs.

‘ ee
“Im bo

17
Clay, T. D., full count
_ 7 a2

Halt “Dols. "600 Sgt

Half bbis, 1, 200 count .
Barrels, 2, 400 count

PLAYING CARDS
teamboat

= 15, Rival, assortedl
, Rover enameledl

Special i
8, Golf, satin finish2
No 38. Bicycle 2
2, Tournm’t whist2

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Cr)

 

1
Dry Sait Meats

12 Ib. average. .12
14 Ib. average..12
16 Ib. average..12
20 Ib. average. *

13%
fae dried beef sets..14
Shoulders, (N. %. cut)

California Hams
Picnic aoe Ham.

fy hate

Berlin see “pr *s’d
| ee 110
—

irene

60 tb. pas ———.

 

Potted tongue, 4s cs
Potted tongue. :

 

7

SALAD DRESSING

28 Th. sacks a a
Warsaw

0 re
56 Ib. dairy in drill bags 40 Cloves, Amboyna .
28 tb. dairy in drill bags 20/ Cloves, Zanzibar .

White Hoop, %bbl4 25@5

White hoop, keg. 57@
White poe mechs @
Morwegeam ..........-..

ag AE ar

  

15 1b. packages.

 

46 | Amoy, choi

 

MICHIGAN
8

Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28
Cassia, Saigon, broken. 46
Cassia, Saigon. in rolls. 655

Maee 2...
Solar Rock Nutmegs, 75-80 ..
SE Th. sacks J0........ 22| Nutmegs, 105-10
Nutmegs, 115-20 30
Common Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15
Cranutated, (5 ......... 80 | Pepper, Singp. white .
Medium fine. ........ 85 | Pepper, shot ........ 1
Pure Ground in Bulk
SALT FISH Allspice ...... a
Cod ee. Batavia . deccace oe
Large Whole .... @6 sassia, Saigon ....... 48
9% | Smail Whole ‘::! _ @ 5% | Cloves, Zanzibar ..... 33
Strips or bricks. 7%@10 | Ginger, African ...... =
Polisck eos. @ 3% Ginger, Cochin 2... ... 18
—* Jamaica ...... 25
Halibut a ee 65
Strips 14% DEO 18
a aeons ee Pepper, Singapore, blk. 17
i) a lt Pepper, Singp. white . 28
Herring Pepper, Cayenne .,.... 20
Holland i Se ee 20 |
White Hoop, bbis8 25@9 = STARCH

Common ww

slb. packages ... -

 

  

R. 2308 tha 0020.5 3 60 | Sib. packages
— “aa... 1. agi
Sealed ......-...- ae Risse ses Sa
Common Corn
Trout 20 lib. packages ......
Me.-4, WO We .....-.. 7 50 | 40 1b. packages .. KOT
Me; 4, WO We noes ees 3 25 SYRUPS
mo. 1, 0 es ....... 90 iii Corn -
No. 1, § Is. -..-..... 7 ie ES cebomeeie: - 3
Mackerel 20Ib cans % dzin case. 7 60
Mess, 100. ta. .....- 12 00/10tD cans 14dz in case..1 55
Mess, 40 Ibs. ........ 5 30|5tb cans 2dz in case....1 65
Meas, 10 Is. -........ 1 50 | 214m. cans 2dz in case.1 75
Mess, 8 Ibs. 1 Pure Cane
No. 1 Hae 16
No. - Gee 6.06... a i.
No. : 2 Chelios 2.002000. 25
—_ TEA
Sundried — 24
eS les 850 3 50/|Sundried, medium ....
-< _ weeeee4 50 210) Sundried, choice ...... 32
10 he. 4.54.1 0 52|Sundried, fancy ......36
S We ...3.. 82 44| Regular, medium ..... 24
SEEDS Regular, choice ........ 32
Regular, fancy ........ 36
Ce 15 Basket-fired, medium .31
aor. Siyersd. ..... i comet —— a: =
ATAWAY ..ccccccseece . asket-fir ancy ..43
Cardamon, Malabar ..1 00|)Nibs 22.0000. 0.0.0. 22@24
Celery ....-.-2+-+ee++ 20 | Sifttags ol 9@11
Hemp, Russian ....... 4) Favinings | 0000! 12@14
ine Bee .......... - Gunpowder
Mustard, white .....- g |Moyune, medium ....30
a ae Moyune, choice ce 32
fae tee Se Ss ‘
gsuey, medium 2
SHOE BLACKING Pingsuey, choice ..... 30
Handy Box, large, 3 dz.2 = Pingsuey. fancy ...... 40
Handy Box, smail ....1 2! Young Hyson
Bixby’s Royal Polish .. 85 Chalee cu a) 30
Miller’s Crown Polish. 85| Fancy ................. 36
SNUFF oa bas Dolens ~
ch, in bladders ... ormosa, fancy .......
ieacenbe . 86 | Amoy, medium ........ 25

 

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TRADESMAN
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Columbia, % pint. 2 25 — a veins
Coteeneia. 2 pint. Pay 0o0| Central City Soap Co’s | Choice vost BO |
urkee’s, large, 0z.4 50 brand. at?

Durkee’s smat, 2dos..5 246: Jaxdnm .......0.......;: 2 85 | India
Snider’s, large, 1 doz..2 35| Jaxon, 5 box, del...... 2 80 | Ceylon. choice ........82
Snider’s, small, 2 doz..1 35) Jaxon, 10 box, _ 2 75 | ewer -..4
SALERATUS am oa ee TOBACCO
Packed 60 Ibs. in box Calumet Family . ....2 75 | Fine Cut
— Hammer ... . —" Mamily ...:... : S| ee sees aloo. 54
EE oa! ie Sweet Lemme o.oo 6...
Dwiguts Cow ........ 15 J. S. Kirk & Co. brands | Hiawatha, Sib. pails . Se |
mee 10; American Family ..... 4 05 Hiawatha, 10%. pails” —
ee oe 3 00 | Dusky Diamond, 50 80z.2 80 | Telegram .... .........
Wyandotte, "100 Xs 66 Pesky Dind., 166 Gon. 3 S0/ Pay Car 3
SAL SODA dap Rese .. 00... oo: + % | Prairie Hose ...:...... 49
Saven Imperial ...... 3 0) Pretectian |... 1.5... . 40
Granulated, bbls ...... S53 | White Russian ...... 3 10) sweet Burley .......... 42
Toe eee. 100% cases.1 = Parone —_, Dare... > eo a 40
mrmap., Bila. 50... oo 2 ® | Satinet. oval .1..03.3:. |
Lump, 145Ib. kegs .... 95| Snowberry. ........... 4 00) Plug
nite : _ | Rea Crease oo =
SE x LAUIZ BaUS. & GU. BRANUS ESAG sect i
Table ¥ Big Acme . 4 00) ou ee =
ST ae ee ee Mite Ae
Cases, 24 aib. poxes «1 40 waa bars.. 4: American Eagle ....: 33
arrels, peg 5 OG | re ins os simnic cle Standard eae sae 37
Barrels, 50 6Ib. bags ..3 00; SnOw Boy Pad’r. 100 pk-4 00) Spear Head 7 oz. ...47
Barrels, 40 7Ib. bags ..2 75 sir Spear Head 14 2-3 0z..44
tale Proctor & Gamble brands T Wwist .. 1c. 55
fee ae. a an i
Barrels, 320 Ib. bulk ..2 65 Gane <a Old Honesty” oe |
Barrels, 20 14Ib. bags ..2 8 Ivory, 10 of ........ 4 an Fedde oo: ee
Sacks, 36 We ........ 27 a EN NE ee ‘ “i
sacks, 56 De. ........ 67 . A. B. Wrisley brands Biper | Heidsick eae =
Shaker Old Country 2222020228 $8 | Honey ‘Dip “iwist” 8
Bemes, 24 2 ........ 50 Pe Black Standard ... . “38
Butter Enoch — Ss Cadillac oo .38
Bris, 290 Iba, bulk.... 3 95./ s.nclio, grout lots 3 00 a ---30
Linen bags, 5-56 Ibs 3 00 | Sapolio, half gross lots.450| ~~” | ViSt ----++++-- ™
Linen bags, 10-28 Ibs 3 00 | Sanolio, single boxes ..2 25 Smoking
Cotton ee 10-28 Ibs 2 75 | Sapolio, hand ........ 2 25 Sweet aes
heese SODA PING Cae
Pile. 300 ee. Gelk....3 0) tomes .............. 5% |Great Navy .
= eee lots, 6 per cent. | Kegs, English ........ = a we
ce lots, 7% per Columbia. SOUPS 3 au 1x Tok 4 a
cent. discount. oe ce (2 x EL, 36 on.: — 31
Above prices are F. O. B. | Red Letter. ........... 90 | Honey Dew . uh
ia: Wkedla SPICES Gold Block .
100 $i). sacks see | ane .
60 5Ib. sac SS 20s +++} - <
28 10%. sacks . Cassia, Chinain mats. 12) Kiln Dried .. --21
56 Ib. sacks ... Cassia, Canton. 2.0). | ig | Duke’s Mixture —

Duke’s Cameo .
Biyrtle Navy...) 144
Yum Yum, 1 2- ee Om, ..o0

 

: es
Plow Boy, 1 2-3 oz. ..39
Plow Boy, oi Of. |... 39

Peerless, 3 — ......
‘Peerless, Ss 3 oz. 38

Air Brake 000 .
a Hook .... aa ac
Ountry Club ...... 32-34
Forex-XXXX Wea ag ice
Good, Indian a 23
ie Pe
Silver eae Secale. |
INE

Cotton, 2 pig 23
Cotten) 4 pig... 23
wate 2 pig 14
emp, GO oie 13

Flax, medium

 

|
| Pure Cider, B&B -..
Pure Cider, Red ak 11

Wool, 1b. balls.

oo a ee
a ite Wine, 40 gr. 8
Malt White Wine, 80 ot iz

Pure Cider, Robi

Pure Cider, — io
WASHING POWDER
| Diamond Flake
— — eee coco:
oO ust, 24 large, ,
Gold Dust, 100-5 a dees

Kirkoline, 24 4!b
rem
Seapine ... |.
Babbitt's 1776
Roseine
Armour’s
Nine O'clock
Wisdom
Scourine

   
 

 

seer

eecee

No. 2 per gross ...... 50
WOODENWARE_
Baskets
Bushels

Bushels, wide band -. ce on
Market

Splint, large parte crs
Splint, medium ....... 5
Sit: small... 4

Willow, Clothes, large. 12
Willow Clothes, med’m.
Willow Clothes, small. HN
Bradley Butter —
2Ib. size, 24 in case .
3Ib. size, 16 in case ..
5Ib. size, 12 in case ..
10tb. size, 6 in case ..
Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate.
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate.
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate.
No. & Oval 269 in erate.
= .
-. Gad
gal., each ..
gal., :

Barrel, 5
Barrel, 10
Barrel, 15

 

. .
bebo

Round head. ca

| Cork lined, 8 in ...
| Cork lined, 9 in .
| Cone! lined, 10 in ..

 

is

, wood, 2 holes .. 23| Broken .....
wood, 4 holes .. 45/| Cut Loaf.
wood, 6 holes .. 70| English Rock

| at Sprime ............

, Standard, No.
, Standard, No.

 
  
   

1
2
2
| Double Peerless ...... 3
| Single Peerless ........ 2 50 |
| Northern Queen ....... 2
ore Epis 8... 3
2
2

tee eww www ewes

 

111 in. Butter ...
13 in. Butter °.
15 in. Butter eee
a = Per 3

se aa Z| | Peppermint Drops. 1. 60

 

| Yeast Foam, 1% doz. .. 58 |
| FRESH FISH

a a | teed
50 | Jumbo Whitefish ..11@12 "| U -to- Date Asstimé, ae

00| No. 1 Whitefish .. @ 9
96 White figh ......... -——

 

75 |Halibut gaa
a or Herring. @ 5
11

= Bol b gepom yas 22

oile onster. ... 23
ee 12% NUTS
Se @ 8 Whole
| Perch, dressed ....

Red Snapper ......

> | m. £2, Commis .........
| Rerfection Standards... .30 | Hickory Nuts per bu.

| Gultekins green No.
eee green No.

Steere Hides, 60IDs. over

45
10 | if

    

 

Clothes Pins Pelts
Round head, 5 gross = SS Old Wool ..........
peo. TH) Va 15@1 50
Egg Crates | Shearlings ae 25@60
| Humpty Tenants éeccal 40 | allow
| No. I, complete ....... 32) No. 1 ..........- @ 4%
| No. 2 Gomplete ....... 18 | fa 8 aeae® @ 3%
Faucets 6 | Washed, an Seca
ben 75 | Washed, medium .. @25

85 | Unwashed. fine ..14@20
55 | Unwashed, med. ..21@23

 

 
     

“ae Sticks CONFECTIONS
| | ‘Trojan spring ........ 90 | Stick Candy
bgp patent spring . 2 Pails
No Cen 6 «Tl Sanders | 1
No. 2 pat. brush holder. 85 | | Standard E PE i
| 12l. cotton mop heads.1 25 | Standard Twist ...... 8
tersereeeees * Gas EME whee nncanecces &
Pails cases
-2-hoop Standard ...... 1 60) | Jumbo, Some. oe. ss. 1%
| 3-hoop Standard ...... 2 75 Metra Fe cc 9
| a-Wire, Came ......... 1 70 | Boston Cream ........ 10
| 3-wire, Cable ......... 1 90 | Olde = _—— a.
| Cedar, ai red, brass ..1 26; 30 TD. came ~<.........
| Paper, Einreka ........ 2 25 |
| _—— eee ee ge ee ae ae 2 70 | Mixed Candy
Toothpicks [Grocers .......
a SE 2 50 | Competition
| Baréros Sy 2 75| Special %
VEINS 1 50 | Conserve 2
rhicae ..... 1 50} | Royal
Tra | Ribbon

@ 00 GO © G0 9 WOO INIAIM

5 holes ... 65 | Kindergarten .... i
tte e cece eee 80 | Bon Ton Cream .......

75 | French Cream ........
Tubs POOP ogc aca 11

00 Hand made Cream....14%
00 | Premio Cream mixed. -12%

00 | Fancy—in Palls

/ whe

eet
COOSMAUMAN
or
o

|O F ——— Eran.
| Gypsy a
= Coco Bon Bans ........ 12
: 45 | —— —< eueweaee "
eee eanut Squares oe
ine 2 Wie .... 2. 65 | | Sugared Peanuts ..... li
| Wash Boards | Salted Peanuts ....... 12
| Bronze Gagee .....0..., 2 50 | Starlight Kisses ...... 10
| Dewey .............4.. 75 | San Blas Goodies ..... 12
;Doume Meme ........,. 75 Lozenges, plain ....... 9
;oiugse Acme... |... 25 Lozenges, printed ....10

25 Champion Choeolate ..11
| Eclipse Chocolates ...13
50 | Quintette Chocolates...12
00 | |Champion Gum Drops. &
75 | Moss Drees wo. 4c. 9
25|Lemon Sours ......... 9

a 9
[2 6} |Ital. Cream Opera ...12
..1 85 | ital. Cream Bon Bons.
2 30 | “aa Tb. ee oe. ‘ aa
olasses ews,
bebo — 7 | .CAaSCS ....- ee eee eee 12

15 | Golden Waffles ....... ¥2
+} Fancy—in 5tb. Boxes
| Lemon Sours ..........50

 

47. 3 25 Chocolate Drops Sale! alata 60
WRAPPING PAPER | eS = “Choe, “ee and
'Commoen Straw ....... 1% 3

oot 1 ut

i |

Fibre oa —— .. 286 | ai ay he Crys.60
| Fibre Manila, colored . 4 uicorice Drops ..80
[as eee... 4 |. eo —
;Cream Manila
| Butcher’s Manila oie 2% |
| Wax Butter, short c’nt. 13
| Wax Butter, full count.20
| Wax Butter. rolls

YEAST CAKE
[MiAste S den... 115|Cream Buttons, Pep.

  

| Lozenges, plain ........ 55
a ag | Lozenges, printed ....60
| Imperials -55

| Mottoes
| Cream Bar ...
|Molasses Bar .
Hand Made Cr’ms. 80@90

| Sunlight, 3 aoe 2), 106| and Wintergreen ...65

6 dom. :... GO) Striee Hoek 2... 60

| Yeast Foam, 3 doz. ...1 15 | Wintergreen Berries ..55
| Yeast Cream, 3 doz ..1 00} | Old a Assorted, 25 “

CASO wesccccceees

Pop Corn
Dandy Smack, 24s 65
Dandy Smack, 1008 ...2 75
Pop Corn Fritters, ‘aac 50
Pop Corn Toast, 100s. 50
Cracker Ja06 ...5. 0 oo
Pop Corn Balls, 200s ..1 39

Almonds, Tarragona...16

 

a 7 +|Almoends, Ivica .......
7 Almonds, a sft
Smoked White .... 12% | _ shelled, new ..14 @16
Lea coreenevenesery
Col. River Salmoni6 | 16 | Fi .
Po . 15 be sae 4 ‘soft "shelled. -
(Cab Ne foo. 3
ovsrens |Table Nuts, faney . se
Per can | Peeanm, Med. ...cccece
0 ; Pecans, Ex. Large .. "1
| i Mutra Selects. ......... 3g | Pecans, Jumbos ..... li

2 ee 95 Le Ohio ave edness ese
Bulk Oysters. | Gocoannts .............
H. “Bulk “Oyaters. 00 | Chestnuts, per bu. ....
| |E xtré a elects 2... 1 7 Shelled
a 1 60 ; Spanish Peanuts. 7 @ 7%
Pests 1 35) Pecan Halves ........38
“HIDES AND PELTS | Weaint Pitives ........ 33
Hides | Filbert Meats .........25
; eae g |Alicante Almonds .....36
Ss (llll) = | doddem Almeade 2... .. 47
ees 93% Peanuts
hel el cg oe 8% | Fancy, H P, Suns. 6% @7
13 | Fancy, # . ae
S See | OGRE 5 eee 5
cured No. 112% | Choice, 2 = be. - 3%
cured No. 2 11 Choice, H. um-
9% be, Roasted ....9 @ %

 

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46

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT |

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Paragon ..22 5.55.2 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER
Jaxen Brand
JAXKON
Yb. cans, 4 dos. case 45

= cans, 4 doz. case 85
tb. cans, 2 doz. casel 60

Royal
10c size. 90
Y%lbecans 135
6 ozcans 190
%lbcans 250
&%lbcans 375
5 1 Iecans 480 |
= & Ibcansi300
Bi 5 I)cans 2150

BLUING

Arctic 4 oz ovals, p gro 4 00

Arctic 8 oz evals, p gro 6 00
Arctic 16 oz ro’d, p gro 9 00

BREAKFAST FOOD
Walsh-DeRoo So.’s Brands

 

 

een Flakes

Per nee 2. $4 00
eSWheat Grit

Cases, 24 2 tb. pack’s. $2 00
CIGARS

J. ee tteerOe *s bd.
. = than 600 33 00

-..32 00

«,000 or more... +1131 00
COCOANUT

Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

aS
eng a PA

 

70 %Ib pkg, per case..2 60
= 2b _ per case..

 

ie tn , per case..
Ib a , per case. .2 60
FRESH MEATS
Beef
Pee 4 @7T%
Forequarters. ... 4 @ 5%
Hindquarters. ... 6 @ 8%
Loins. : 3
Ribs.
MES. Fl re (
Res oe oo 4%@ 5
Peeeee ce @ 4
Pork
i oe @ 6%

Loins.

Derten Butis.. : .. @10%
Snegiders. ...... @ 9%
Per... << @7
Mutton
ea i a @ 7%
Rees 6 ss 6 @ 7
Veal
Cre 54%@ 7%
24°10c cans ..........
12 25c cans .........2 30

|e Ge ........:.5 ©

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds.

 

White House, 1 Ib......
White House, 2 tb.......
Excelsior, M & J, 1 tb..

Excelsior, M & J, 2 ”
‘ip Top, M & J, 1 tb.
Royal aoe Oe

Royal Java and Mocha. /
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....

 

National Grocer Co.,
ders & Co.,
naw; Meisel & Goeschel.
Bay City; Godsmark, Du- |
rand & Co., Battle Creek; |
Fielbach Co.; Toledo.

COFFEE SUBSTITUTE
Javril

 

 

 

 

| troit and Jackson; F. Saun- |
Port Huron; |
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi- |

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

 

100 cakes, large size..6 50
50 cakes, large size..3 25
| 100 cakes, small size..3 85
| 50 cakes. small size..1 95

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

 

 

| Distrivuted by Judson |
Grocer Co., Grand a |

Black Hawk, one box..2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs.2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES

| Piaitord, taree ....;.:. 3 75 |
Halford, aman ........ 2 25 |

Place Your
Business
ona
Cash Basis
by using
our
Coupon Book

 

System.
We
manufacture
= four kinds
CONDENSED MILK
4 doz. in case of
Gail Borden Eagle....6 40/|
ss 4. 5 90
ae. 48 Coupon Books
Peewee cc 4 00)
a ie econ eee : = and
| sell them
all at the
same price

Full line of the celebrated
Diebold fire and _ burglar
— safes kept in stock
y the Tradesman Com-
pany. Twenty different
sizes on hand at all times
—twice as many safes as
are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand
Rapids and inspect the

\line personally, write for
2 | quotations.

STOCK FOOD.
Superior Stock Food Co.,
Ltd.
$ .50 carton, 36 in box.10.80
1.0¢ carton, 18 in box.10.s0
12% %. cloth sacks.. .84
25 Th. cloth sacks... 1.65
50 Ib. cloth sacks.... 3.15
100 Tb. cloth sacks.... 6.00
Peck measure ....... -90
% bu. measure...... 1.80
12% Tb. sack Cal meal .39
25 tb. sack Cal meal.. .75
F. OC. B. Plainwel, Mich.

 

| irrespective of
size, shape
or
denomination.
We will
be
very
pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us.
They are
free.

Tradesman Company

Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

7

Ask for
No. J516

The October Number

of our monthly catalogue, then,
will surely be the issue sent—pro-
vided, of course, we find you rated
as a merchant.

The Specials

we regularly provide for mer-
chants’ use in show windows and
other advertising are listed on the
yellow pages in every monthly
number.

These Yellow Page Items

naturally will pull hardest in the
very month fcr which we have
provided them.

Other Reasons

there are why the man who knows,
and that is every merchant who
has once tested our values, likes
to make sure he gets the very
latest issue of our catalogue. One
present reason is a Holiday rea-
son.

Easy Business

is the Holiday trade, if you have
the goods the people want and let
enough of ’em know what you
have. It’s “Easy Business” to

have the goods the peop!e want.
Our line of Holiday Goods is the
largest and most varied. On the
pink pages of our October cata-
logue are a picture, a description
anda NET price for every item
in the immense line.

One cent for a postal card, a
Minute to write ‘Send me cata-
logue No. J516"—

Do It Now

Butler Brothers

Wholesalers of Everything
By Catalogue Only

New York Chicago _St. Louis

Cae

 

 

|Iuke the lineman, who hikes up the

pole,

| Is a dare devil fellow who trusts to the

|
|
}

sole

| Of the shoes he has worn for over 2

year
And made a man of him unknown to
fear.
They are HARD-PAN shoes so popular
now,

| So take off your hat and make them a

 

bow.

Dealers who handle our line say
we make them more money than
other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Makers of Shoes

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

We are
equipped

to print
everything
froma
hundred
postal cards
toa

million
catalogues.
Correspond
with us
about your
requirements
in this
direction.

Tradesman Company

Grand Rapids

 

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subsequent continuous insertion.

ertisements inserted under this head for

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

No charge less

two cents a word the first insertion and one

than 25 cents.

47

cent a word for each

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

 

. Zauanze,

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

Excellent stock general merchandise in

 

good shape; farming town 1,200 popu-

lation. Invcice about $4,600; good reason

for. selling. Correspondence — solicited.

Address 863, care Michigan Tridesman.
863

For Trade—Merchandise stock, inven-

tory $6,700; about $1,900 cash required, |

balance trade
jewelry store, anything traded anywhere;

 

 

for good land; drug stocks, |

| without property,

To Exchange—Fine bearing orange
grove in Riverside, Cal.; value $15,000.
Clear. Want stock of merchandise, farm
or town property. Address Drawer J.,
Corning, Iowa. 852

 

To Exchange—My equity of $11,400 in
a 360 acre Iowa farm; good location; fine
improvements; can use dry goods or a
general stock. No traders need apply.
Address Frank E. Jones, Corning, Ia.

853

 

Bakery—I will sell my bakery with or
a good chance. Write

to Raymond Riede, Apen, Colo. 854

WwW; anted—Fifty to sixty horse horizontal
boiler; must be in good condition and

| complete with full front and fixtures, but

no charge for listing. W. Mottershead, |
Manhattan Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. 865
Wanted—Stock of merchandise. We
pay cash and rent store. Address par-
ticulars, J. A. Becker, St. Charles, Mich.
a ee a! 2 ae
- For Sale—My "stock of general mer-

chandise,
mond, St. Lawrence
cleanest stocks in
Good reason for

one of the
New York.
selling; store can be
rented reasonably. For particulars call
or address C. C. Forrester, Hammond,
Nx, 867
For Sale—At invoice about $7,000. The
best hardware store in best location in
a city of 25,000 in Western Tl. Doing
good business; a money maker. Reason
other business. Address Safety, care
Michigan Tradesman. 868
Harness Business For Sale—A
for a harness maker with small capital.
I must sell. Address No. 869, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 869

for Sale—
nets $600 per year. A
chance for a man with small capital.
Address No. 870, care Michigan Trades-
man. 870

For Rent—An up-to-date meat market;
fine fixtures; steam sausage works; cor-
ner brick store;
ead trade. Address J. J.
Harbor, Mich.

For Sale—Good established money -mak-
ing confectionery and wholesale ice
cream business; an exceptionally good
bargain; investigate this. Confectioner,

30x 786, Ludington, Mich. 880

For Sale—Stock of drugs in good town
of 2,000 ‘population, 40 miles from Chi-
cago; only 2 drug stores in town; stock
invoices $1.450 at fair values; will sell
for 80 cents on the dollar to settle es-
Address J. A. Ketring, Chester-
a 881

; yy usive clothing and
men’s furnishing store in haiti county
geut town. Court investiration. Noth-
ing but 100 certs considered. Cause of
selling, sickness. Clethier, care Michi-
gan ‘Tradesman. 872

For Sale—A good clean drug business
in one of the best towns of Michigan.
Gocd reason for selling. Address No. 873
care Michigan Tradesman. 873

‘For Sale—Book and Office “Supply busi-
ness, also stock of wall paper and —
BE. Mann, Owosso, Mich. 74

Look at our advertisement No. oo We
have Wayland and Bradley mills left.
Give us an offer. We want to sell the m
at onze Henderson & Sons Milling ts
Grand Rapids, Mich. 875

For Sale—Stock of dry and gro-

new

county;
northern

 

chance

 

Furniture and Undertaking
Undertaking alone

 

Miller, a
879

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

“ge rds

 

 

 

 

ceries; stock; old established trade;
best’ town in Michigan; other business
and ili health reason for selling. Tock
Box 738, Durasd, Mich. 876
+ anted—Location for stock of dry
goods. Would buy general store. Small
place preferred; invoice $3.000 or $4,000.
KE. Tice, Paw Paw. ‘Mich. si;
For Sale—Bazaar stock $4,900 to $5,000.

Building and barn $1,100 cash. Land and
lets to trade for farm. ‘‘Poor Hea!th;’
care Michigan Tradesman. &&2
For Sale—New cash fancy grocery busi-
ness, bakery and confectionery goods a
specialty; stock, fixtures and store up-
to-date; one of the finest in iron mining
country; free rent for two months; reason
for selling, expect to open a shoe store
at once. Address G. L. Huhlman, Ne-
Mich. 845

On account of failing health, I desire
to sell my store, merchandise, residence,
two small houses and farm. Will divide
to suit purchaser. Address J. Aldrich
Holmes, Caseville, Mich. 848

For Sale or Trade for small improved
farm-——-Building and stock of groceries at
good country location. Everything new.
Address No. 850, care Michigan os
man.

 

 

 

35 cents invested to-day in our coal
mine will be worth $1 in a year. You
ean't lose. Your investment is guaran-
teed by railroad bonds. Write Carl Hegg,
Box 270, Minneapolis, Minn. 851

located in the village of Ham- |

low rent; good establish- | paving. These are not trading properties
| but

|} no stack.

| Co-Operative Investors’

 

 

Address Van Bochove & Sons,
Kalamazoo, Mich. 856

 

For Sale—Bakery, confectionery and ice
cream business; nice trade, good location;
only bakery in city. Good chance for
man looking for a small business. Ad-
dress Jos. Hoare, Elk Rapids, Mich. 857

 

Fifty per cent. profit from income-pay-
ing real estate in New York city. Amounts
as small as $25 may be advantagiously in-
vested. No risk. Profits large and sure.

Association, 108
Fulton St., New York. 858

For Sale—Best paying stock of gen-
eral merchandise in Northern Indiana,
with store building and living rooms ad-

 

joining. Owner wishes to go out of busi-
ness. Address RR. H., care Michigan
Tradesman. 859

 

Mr. Merchant—Do you want to sell
out and give some one else a chance? I
want an established merchandise or gen-
eral merchandise business from $10,000
to $25,000. Will give in exchange equi-
ties in two iirst-class' brick buildings,
stores and flats. Well rented and good

a first-class

a good trade.
mon, 236 E. Division St.,

investment. Will give
Address owner, J. Salo-
Chicago, Ill. 830

 

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. 836

 

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

 

Apple Barrels—We have a few car-
loads of apple barrels for sale. For prices
eall or address Darrah Milling Co., Big
tapids, Mich. 861

 

Rent or Sale—Two-story brick

also small stock of goods. Will

Address Box 3887, Portland,
860

For
building.
sell cheap.
Mich.

Safe Inve stment—One per cent. a month
for five years, paid monthly. Write for
partic ulars to Cloverleaf Dairy Farming
& Poultry Company, Valley Junction, Ia.,

%. No. 2. 833

R.

 

For Sale—20 shares of ist preferred
stock of Great Northern Portland Cement
Co. stock for $1,200. Address a

 

265, Grand Ledge, Mich.
For Sale—44,000 shares stock Gold Pan

Mining Co.,
ridge, Colo.
Downing Ave.,

property located at Brecken-
Apply to W. M. Clark, 110i
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.
wainly 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, ae.

 

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 Michi-
gan Tradesman. 788

For Sale—Small amount of stock and
fixtures. Retiring from clothing business.
Good proposition. Address Lock Box 65,
Chesaning. Mich $43

For Sale—Good up- “up-to-date stock of
general merchandise; store building; well
established business. Stock will imven-
tory $5,000. Located in hustling North-
ern Michigan town. Address No. 744, care
Michigan Tradesman. 744

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 Sale—$1,800 stock general mer-
chandise, shoes, dry goods and groceries.
Box 2177, Nashville, Mich. 763

 

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

 

For Sale—A fine bazaar stock in a
lumbering town in
county seat.
for selling.

Price right. Good reasons
Must be sold at once.

Northern Michigan, |

Ad- |}
dress Rogers Bazaar Co., Greyling, Mich. |
' 606

 

Attention, For Sale—Flour,
wheat mills and elevator at Wasland;
one of the finest mills of its size in the
State; elevator and feed mill at Hop-
kins Station and Bradley, Mich.;
seil together or separate; all are first-
class paying businesses, and _ buildings
and machinery in first-class condition;
our fast-increasing business in
is the reason we want to dispose of our
outside mills at a bargain. Henderson
& Sons Milling Co., Grand Rapids,

 

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
leys, belting. All practically new.
inal cost over $1,200. Will sell for
Address B-B Manufacturing Co.,
sonic Temple, Davenport, Towa

 

Orig-
$600.

537

feed, buck- |
will |

this city |

Mich. |
135

pul- |

50 Ma- |

 

Wanted—To Luy stock of general mer-

 

 

chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan Trades-
man. 89
Kor Sale—Clean drug stock, good busi-
ness, in county seat town. Reason,
owner not registered. Address No. 618,
eare Tradesman. 618
For Sale—A modern eight-room house
Woodmere Court. Will trade for stock
of groceries. Enquire J. |, Powers,
Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Phone 1455. 428

 

for an estab-
Will consid-

Wanted—Will pay cash
lished, profitable business.
er shoe store,
dise or manufacturing business.
full particulars in first letter.
tial Addres3 No. 5139, care
> nan.

Give

Michigan
519 )

 

Wanted—Good clea an ‘toc k “of
merchandise. Want to turn in forty-acre
farm, nearly all fruit, close to Traverse
City Address No. 6€70, care Michigan
Tradesman. 670

 

 

stock of general merchan- |

Confiden- |

‘ge neral |

 

tor Sale—Fourteen room hotel, new
and newly furnished, near Petoskey. Fin2
trout fishing. Immediate [ossession on
account of poor health. Address No.

eare Michigan Tradesman. 601

601, |

 

For Sale—480 acres of cut-over hard-
wood land, three
sonville. House
Pere
corner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C
Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St.,
ids.

and barn on premises.

miles north of Thomp- |

Marquette Railroad runs across one |

Grand Rap- |

 

Cash for your stock—Or we will “Toss |

out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce — stock.
Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,
577 West Forest Ave.. Detroit. Mich. 2

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 ae

od

 

The Mempnis 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 Madison St.,
Mempnis. Tenn. 736

For Sale—Farm implement business,
established fifteen years. First-class lo-
eation at Grand Rapids, Mich.
or lease four-story

building. Stock will inventory about
$10,000. Good reason for _ selling. No
trades desired. Address No. 67, care
Michigan Traaesman. Ga

 

Will sell |
and basement brick |

 

POSITIONS WANTED.

Position Wanted—Clothing salesman;
five years’ experience, also experience as
department manager; age 24;
references. Address No. 862, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 862

best of |

Wanted—Position as salesman in retail

hardware store. Have had ten years’
experience. Address Box 367, Kalkaska,
Mich. 466

 

 

HELP WANTED.
Wanted—Registered assistant
cist. Good place for a bright,
young man. State age, salary
ind references Address No.
Mic higan Tradesman.
Wanted—Ambitious, energetic.
who are interesting and convincing
. If you have ability, you can
your financial condition in our iegitimate
business, requiring no capital; all we
want is your time. Address P. O. Box 60,
Grand R apids, Mich. 864
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
any kind. Fred Medart, 3535 De Kalb
St., St. Louis, Mo. 811

 

pharma-
energetic
expected
“84, care
__ 883
men,
talk-
bette:

  

   
      

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

Merchants. Attention—Our method of
closing out stocks of merchandise is one
of the most profitable either at auction
or at private sale. Our long experience
and new methods are the only means,
|no matter how old your stock is. We
}employ no one but the best auctioneers
and salespeople. Write for term: ‘1nd
date. The Globe Traders & Liceézsed
Auctioneers, Office 431 E. Nelson  St.,
Cadillac, Mich. 445

m. CC. Perry & Co,
tioneers. Stocks
anywhere in the
methods, original

 

 

the hustling auc-
closed out or reduced
United States. New
ideas, long experience,
hundreds of merchants to refer to. We
have never failed to please. Write for
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
vash <Ave., Chicago. References, Dun’s
Mercantile Age ney. 872

 

MISCELLANEOUS.
Oddfellows. K. P’s,

 

Redmen, wanted to
sell our gold plated, enameled emblem
| buttons. Send 25 cents for sample and
catalogue. Fraternity Emblem Co,
| Brockton, Mass 878
Merchants—Are you desirous of clos-
| ing out your stock or having a reduction
sale? We positively guarantee a profit
on all reduction sales and 100 cents on
the dollar above expenses on a closing
| out sale. We can furnish you with ref-
erences from h'ndreds of.merchants and
| the largest wholesale houses in the
| West. Write us to-day for further in-
| formation. J. H. Hart & Co., 242 Mar-
Ket St., Chicago, II. 871
Wanted—I will pay one cent each for
| lion Heads taken from Lion Package
| Coffee and 25 cents per 100 for clerks’
|} coupons; send by mail before Oct. 20.
Address W. H. Gentner, General Mer-
|; chant, Farmington, Iowa. 846
To Exchange—8s0 acre farm 3% miles
southeast of Lowell, 60 acres improved,
5 acres timber and 10 acres orchard
land, fair house, good well, convenient
| to good school, for stock of general mer-
chandise situated in a good town. Real
| estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
| dence solicited. Konkle & Son, Alto.
Mich 50

Want

 

 

 

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TRADESMAN
¢ |TEMIZED | EDGERS

SIZE—8 t-2 x 14.
THREE COLUMNS.
2 Quires, 160 pages... ...$2 00
3 Quires, 240 pages........ 2-50
4 Quires, 320 pages. ...... 3 00

5 Quires, 400 pages........ 3 50
6 Quires, 480 pages........ 4 00

2

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| 8o double pages, ——— = 880
|
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invoices

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

48

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Review of the Hardware Market.

_ Wire Nails--Small supplies and the
recent reductions in prices have re-
sulted in the booking of unusually
large orders in wire nails. Prices ap-
pear to have reached rock bottom
figures and there are no further in-
stances of shading. Manufacturers
are therefore holding their quotations
firmly on a basis of $1.60 for carload
lots and- $1.65 for less than carload
lots, both f. 9. b. Pittsburg. The
most prominent manufacturers are
refusing to accept orders for execu-
tion after thirty days. There is a
tendency to abandon arbitrary differ-
entials between the jobbing and re-
tail trade and the quotations of $1.60,
Pittsburg, are now accessible to car-

-joad buyers of either class, so that

jobbers are doing their utmost to
retain their business by ‘selling nails
at prices closely approximating those
of manufacturers. Quotations areas
follows, f. o. b. Pittsburg, 60 days, or
Io per cent. discount for cash in Io
days; carload lots, $1.60; less than
carload lots, $1.65. Local quotations

are as follows: Single carloads,
$1.79%4; small lots from store, $1.85
@1.90.

Cut Nails—The recent reductions
made on cut nails by many manufac-
turers without the sanction of the
Cut Nail Association have now been
made official by the members of that
organization. The present official
prices are therefore as follows: Car-
load lots, $1.60, less than carload lots
$165, f o. b. Pittsburg. In some
cases it is believed that even these
prices may be shaded 5c to large
buyers. Quotations on cut nails in
the East are at the same figures as
steel nails, but in the territory west
of Pittsburg they are quoted at $1.65
in carload lots, f. o. b. Pittsburg,
with an advance of Io cents in quan-
tities iess than carload lots. Local
auotations are as follows: Carload
lots, on dock, $1.74; less than car-
loads, on dock, $1.79; small lots from
store, $1.85.

Barb Wire—Although there has
been some increase in the volume of
orders for barb wire, the bulk of the
contracts now being booked are only
for nearby requirements and buyers
appear to be adopting a conservative
course in regard to future purchases.
Leading mills refuse to accept orders
at current prices for a period longer
than thirty days. There is also a
marked tendency to do away with the
former differentials between the vari-
ous classes of trade. The _ regular
schedule of prices is as follows, f. o.
b. Pittsburg, 60 days or Ito per cent.
discount for cash in Io days:

Painted Galv.
Jobbers, carload lots..... $1 75 $2 05

Retailers, carload lots.... 1 80 2 10
Retailers, less than car-
load lots. .... ian iat i. 90 220

Smooth Wire—The more attractive
prices asked by the manufacturers of
smooth ‘fence wire are also resulting
in an increase :n the volume of busi-
ness in this line, although some or-
ders are being withheld by members
of the trade who fear that lower
prices will develop. Quotations are
as follows, f. o. b. Pittsburg, 60 days
or 2 per cent. discount for cash in Io

tea cnnieat incaeeaeeiine

 

days; jobbers, carloads, $1.45; re-
tailers, carloads, $1.50.' The above
prices are for base numbers, 6 to 9.
The other numbers of plain and gal-
wanized wire take the usual ad-
vances.
—___ 2-2
Recent Business Changes Among
Indiana Merchants.

Auburn —A receiver has’ been ‘ap-
pointed to sell the manufacturing
plant of the Modern Buggy Co. —

Edwardsport—C. M. Wright has
purchased the hardware and imple-
ment stock of David C., Villwock.

Elkhart—Zeisel Bros. have  pur-
chased the department store of Hugh
McLachlan.

Evansville—The Novelty Furniture
Manufacturing Co. has changed its
style to the Evansville Bookcase &
Table Co.

Indianapolis — The American
Chemical Co. is succeeded by the
National Chemical Co.

Indianapolis—Tongret & Robin-
son, retail piano dealers, have been
incorporated as the Capital City Mu-
sic Co.

Kewanna—E. H. Cook has pur-
chased the grocery stock of Enyart

& Son.

Logansport—The O. A. Means
drug store has been closed by cred-
itors.

Loogootee—i*. S. Smith has
chased the drug stock of J. E. Smith.

Mitchell—J. B. Boyle will continue
the meat business of A. A. Arnold.

Terre Haute—H. P. Lenhart has
purchased the furniture stock of Guy
Underwood.

Vigo—Austin Stranahan has _ sold
his grocery stock to Hiram Mater.

Walton—Bishop Bros. have ~ pur-
chased the grain business of Hurd,
Owen & Son.

Huntington—Marshall J. Purviance
has assigned his dry goods stock
to protect his creditors.

Indianapolis—A receiver has been
appointed for the Indianapolis. To-
bacco Works.

Rosedale—The Cadwell-Langton
Lumber Co. has filed a petition in
bankruptcy.

South Bend—A receiver has been
appointed for the Sandage _ Steel
Skein Co.

—_ 2-2
Good People To Patronize.

Two new boycotts have been pro-
mulgated by the labor unions during
the past week, as follows:

B. Kuppenheimer & Co., clothing
manufacturers, Chicago.

Macbeth-Evans Glass Co., lamp
chimney manufacturers, Pittsburg.

Both houses are reputable ones—
leaders in their respective lines—and
the Tradesman bespeaks for them the
cordial support of all
merchants.

—_++._____

Lake Linden—The David E. Top-
lon general stock will be sold at
bankrupt sale Sept. 29. The stock
was appraised at $30,000. The liabil-
ities are $58,000. Toplon offered his
creditors 26 cents on the dollar, but
subsequently withdrew the offer.

———_+-—_

A man’s love before marriage is as
deep as the seas, after marriage it is
shallower than his “change” pocket.

pur-}| w

fair-minded ‘

 

Status of the Deatsman & Mapes
eau _ Failure.
The estimated assets of Deatsman
& Mapes, the Sunfield general deal-

ers, are $26,000.98, distributed as fol-
lows:

Merchandise at cost price ....... $19,645.31
Store fixtires at cost .......... 807.67
Teena UTE. 5 Boss Pest qussse 738.00
Book accounts, face value. ..... 3,610.00
ate TOE DPORREC. 2.5). obese son 1,050.00
Gaia On BANG sei ees tes 150.00

The liabilities are $24,375.40, di-
vided among fifty-five creditors in the
tollowing amounts:

Biten: Feurnia, Sunfield.  :....... $ 567.64
conn . Dey, Ges. «.......-. 207.04
meee ee, Drkineen, ce cS. 818.80
Gay Leapo, Lake Odeesa. ......,.. 158.49
James Cure, Sunfield. ... 317.34

Joseph Marshall, Mulliken. ...... 512.50
Homer, C. Barber, Vermontville. ..
Rachel Welch, Sunficild. ... .....
Sunfield Banking Co., Sunfield. . 1,248.72
Burnham. Stoepel & Co., Detroit. 8,726.61
Worden Grocer Coa., G’d. Rapids.. 553.81
H. Leonard & Sons, G'd. Rapids. 342.99
Musselman Grocer Co., G'd Rapids 910.93
Rindge, Kalmbach, Legie & Co..

ian. Grane tapes... ........ 1,667.98
Schloss Bros., Detroit.
Litman & Hoffstadt, Toledo. ..... )
Crowley. Brbe.; Detroit: ok os. 3 5 1,401.36

Woodland News, Woodland. ...... 45.50
Bower trod.; Chicano. .-. -: x... 128.33
Eee teen © Oe cic ks 496.82
Ideal Clotning Co., G’d. Rapids. 117.71
W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago 53.50

E..J. Kruce & Ca, Detroit. ..... 113.3

Puritan Corset Co., Kalamazoo. .. 59.00
Lowell .Mfg. Co.. Grand Rapids. 36.00
Chicago Candy Co., Chicago. .. 33.92
Walden Shoe Co., Grand Rapids. 142.80
Ween cc eas 30.75
Otto Weber & Co., G’d. Rapids 58.23
Beifield, Hinch & Cline. ........ 744.20
Stein & Bloch, Toledo. .......... 469.00
a, eer. CSOVOIMI, oS a. 305.00
bacy, seen Ce. Cara: 2.15... 41.60
Grohe Tobacco Ce., Detroit. ...-. 45.92
sorosis Garment Co., Tonia. ..... 47.50

Ramee Heber Co. ........-..- 35
Clapp Ciothing Co., G’d. Rapids 36.00

a EE i ae ses ua a 84.00
Sprague, Warner & Co., Chicago. 43.36
Mishawaka Woolen Mfg. Co. .... 914.71
NN ET 52.08

Toledo Coffee & Spice Co. ...... 7.00

Mint Paint Co., Fiint. -

Cleveland Neckwear Co. ......... 12.33
OE 19.80
Fred: M. Warner, Farmington. .. 11.07
Ewans Candy Co... Lancing. -..... 14.17
Howard & Solon, Jackson. ....... 55.75

Johnson Poper & Supply Co., Kal-

em a ee
1 ansing Cold Storage Co. ........ 4.50
Hulett Bros., Sunfield.

Michigan Knitting Co., Lansing. 121.97
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo...... 10.62
Thread Agency, Chicago. ........ 61.84

36.00

A. H. Morrill & Co., Grand Rapids
——_——--* + 2

Lining Up for the Coming Conflict.
The whole employing class of the
United States is lining up for a new
campaign against the unions. In this
fight. it is backed by the press, the
middle classes, public opinion gener-
ally and the highest labor arbitration
tribunal in the country. The struggle
is momentous. It will decide not
only the industrial but the social and
political future of the United States.
If the employers’ campaign is suc-
cessful, it means the elimination of
the trade unions as a factor in Amer-
1can industry. If it fails, nothing
short of direct Government control
can prevent the unions’ steady prog-
ress toward industrial domination.
Employers are almost completely
organized for the fight. The public
has not realized how much has been
accomplished since the coal strike.
The organized manufacturers and
contractors are no longer alone. They
zre supported by commercial inter-
ests, railroads and banks. Evidence of
their co-operation can be seen on
every side. In Chicago and St. Louis
emergency funds of $1,000,000 are
ready for immediate use. The banks,
I was told by an officer of the St.
Louis Association, are at the bottom
of that organization. In Chicago the
railroads played a similar part. The
Chicago Employers’ Association
grew up out of the freight handlers’
strike. The Chicago, Burlington &

 

Quincy Railroad furnished one of its
first organizers, and the great com-
mercial interests the other three. Re-
cently a transcontinental railroad
conveyed strike breakers from New
York to San Francisco at an $11
rate, at the request of a powerful
employers’ association. The move-
ment is spreading from city to city.
Since Philadelphia and New York
joined the fold a few weeks ago,
every important city has its powerful
federation of employers’ associa-
tions. Some time ago associations
were formed in most of the important
rational industries, and now every
trade which has not already been
formed into a trust is organized to
deal with labor. All of these associa-
tions, local or national, industrial or
federated, with one or two excep-
tions, are moving openly or secretly
to force the unions to the open shop.
But the open shop, say the unions,
means an open warfare against or-
ganized labor—W. FE. Walling in
Independent.

The Drug Market.
Opium—lIs unchanged.
Morphine—Is steady.
Quinine—There will probably be

no change until the Amsterdam bark
sale on October 6th. The article is
rather firm.

Cantharides—Continue to advance
and are getting very scarce.

Cocoa Butte:--Is very firm and
shows a fractional advance.

Menthol — Touched bottom last
week and is rapidly advancing. Laid
down cost is now said to be 50c
higher than present price.

Santonine—Has again advanced on
«ccount of higher market for crude
material.

Canary Seed—Has been again ad-
vanced and is tending higher.

—~> > ____

All Germany is talking about a
learned horse named Hans which ex-
hibits the intelligence of a human be-
ing. The animal comprehends hand-
writing, performs mathematical calcu-
lations, distinguishes colors and dis-
criminates as to musical selections.
A scientific commission has investi-
gated the horse’s performances and
decided that there are no tricks in-
volved in them. The case arouses
fresh interest in the question wheth-
tr animals possess reasoning power.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—The stock of dry goods, car-
pets, millinery, ladies’ cloaks and suits
and the store and office fixtures, belong-
ing to the A. T. Van Alstyn Dry Goods
Co., bankrupt, of Marquette, Michigan;
also the letters patent of the U. S. for
a safety belt, being patent No. 706,457. be-
longing to said estate, will be sola in one
parcel to the highest bidder on Sept. 28,
at 10 o’clock in the forenoon. H. J.
Lobdell, Trustee, Marquette, Michigan. 885

Look Here—$2,500 will buy a good gen-
eral stock of merchandise located in the
best town in Michigan. Business paying
a handsome profit. This will bear your
inspection. If you mean business and
want a good thing, address at once, Box
156, Boyne City, Mich. 886

I want to buy and pay top prices for
lot of Douglas, Walkover, Sorosis. Rad-
cliffe, Queen Quality, Dorothy Dodd and
other trade mark and specialty lines of
shoes, also entire or part stocks unds-
sirable goods, odd lots, ete. > ee
Feyreisen, 167 Dearborn St., Chicago. 887

 

HELP WANTED.

Wanted,Tinners—Will pay $2.50 per day
for 9 hours to capable men used to fur-
nace and other job work. Kalamazoo’s
percentage of growth exceeds that of
any other city in Michigan. A good open-
ing for the right men. The Edwards &
Chamberlin Hardware Co., Kalamazoo.
Mich. 884

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