GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1904

 

We Buy and Sell
Total Issues
of
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Street Railway and Gas

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William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres.
M. C. Huggett, Seoy-Treasurer

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withdrawn from sale with the exception of
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customer.

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SPECIAL FEATURES.

Page

2. Successful Salesmen.
4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Window Trimming.

7. The Hardware Market.
&. Editorial.

9. Organized Labor.

12. Fruits and Produce.
14. Hardware.

16. Clothing.

20. Woman’s World.

22. Women as Chemists.
26. Shoes.

28. We Eat Too Much.
30. Making a Millionaire.
32. Mixed Diet.

33. Art Novelties.

34. New York Market.

35. Egg as an Important Food.
36. The Mountain Pink.
se. Ory Goods.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery Price Current.
46. Special Price Current.

 

 

DELINQUENT PARENTS.
The staff of the Juvenile Court of
Denver have compiled as part of the
exhibit of the Court at the St. Louis

let,’ entitled, “The Problem of

Children.” The booklet, however,

send 25 cents the clerk of the
Juvenile Court at Denver for a copy
of the document will receive one of
the most interesting books ever
from lt is. in) fact,
short and re-
evi-

to

is-
sued
composed largely of

any press.

markably entertaining stories,

which he has had to deal.

is situated, and is occupied with its
regular business, and up to the be-
ginning of the present year has been
the sole Judge. The national repu-
tation which he has_ achieved
Judge of the Juvenile Court has been
won largely at the cost of daily and
nightly labor not required by the
formal obligations of his office, and
which has had such marvelous re-
sults that the public gladly added an
additional Judge to the County Court
in order to permit Judge Lindsay to
spend more time with his delinquent
children. The nature of these results
will be indicated by the simple state-
ment that when, in spite of his ut-
most efforts, a boy continues to go
wrong and it becomes necessary to
commit him to the State Industrial
School, the Judge draws the warrant,
gives it to the boy, with the railroad
ticket, and the boy then goes direct
to the school alone, delivers himself
to the superintendent, makes his own

as

upon his confinement. There is noth-
ing to prevent his running away. He
simply does not do it. The question
yet to be determined is whether such

 

Exposition what they call a “book- |
the |

return upon the warrant and enters |

 

contains 222 pages, and we may re-|

mark incidentally that whoever will | , i
| the child who is dealt with.

B. Lindsay is a Judge of the County |
Court of the county in which Denver |

 

results as this are a product of the|

system, or whether they are

due |

mainly to the personal character and |

influence of Judge Lindsay.

wish
of

Just now, however,

deal with

we

a single feature the

thers make good the loss and noth-
ing is heard of it. The Judge states

that a Police Captain in one large

| city told him that within a single six

| weeks
to}.
four

work of the Denver Juvenile Court, |

and that is its dealings with “delin-
quent parents.” All juvenile courts
are created on the theory that the

state may deal with delinquent chil-

dren precisely as a parent may deal}

with them, and

have been guilty of what the law calls |

“crime” not. (ine
fact, is to prevent them from becom-
The Judge, therefore,

a or

ing criminals.

: | | gerous
object, in| 7

had

cases.

he investigated twenty-
in all which the
delinquents were of respectable fami-
the
This is

such of

lies and embezzlements “hushed

up.”
in all large

going on and increasing
We know very
little of what takes place all about
Jud

cities.

us. ge

S

Lindsay regards this class

that whether they | of well-to-do parents who do not con-

as the most dan-

of

trol their children

elements society to-day.

| They are rearing a class of citizens

uses his. discretion, and_ virtually |
makes his own law, just as a fa-
ther might do. But the Colorado}

with delinquent

For example, the child who

rather summarily
parents.

enters a saloon or a recognized vi-

cious resort of any kind is a delin-|

by
that
in-

Sut if he is sent there

parents, guardian or employer

quent.

person becomes the delinquent
stead the child. Or a
sends his child to

of a parent

: . : |not honestly obtain.
law also gives him authority to deal} ~ ae

without moral principle, prone to
vices which sap their moral and phy-
sical stamina, and which involve the
expenditure of money which they can
In the course
of his three or four years’ experience

in the Juvenile Court, it is said that

Judge Lindsay has had many such
|parents before him with their chil-
dren, where, with the assistance of

| complete

“sneak’’ coal from |

a coal yard, it is the parent and not}

not a special effort of society to save
a merchant or railroad company from

‘This is

losing a few baskets of coal, but to |

child from being edu-

thief.

the
a

prevent

cated as During the year

dently written by Judge Lindsay, in | persons other than parents dealt with

which he describes typical cases with |

Judge Ben |

by the Denver Juvenile Court for

“contributing” to the delinquency of

children, of which number forty were |

committed to jail. Of course, not a

jail. They are committed only to
schools. Besides this, there was a
much larger number fined in sub-
stantial sums. How many parents |

are reformed by the personal influ-

they never come before the courts,
can never be known.

3ut the class which sends __ their
children to the saloon for beer or to
the coal yards and new buildings for
coal and wood, by no means contains
all the people who contribute to the
delinquency of children. “In fact,”
says Judge Lindsay, “in my experi-
ence the most blameworthy of such

° | crime.
1903 there were 197 parents and forty |

| gins

single child has been committed to |

. . re. i and
ence of the probation officers, so that |

the probation officers who had been
investigating their children, such a
do-
ings was effected as covered their pa-

“show down” of their
rents with horror and shame.
The juvenile courts, in conjunction
with the school authorities operating
under a compulsory school law, are
the
ciety must rely

great agencies upon which so-
for preventing boys
and girls from drifting into lives of
Boys do not become crim-
For
the boy who subsequently becomes

not

environment

inals in a day. the most part

a criminal does in any respect
differ from
He be-
to
gets into jail and emerges

The duty of

he

except his
other boys of the same age.
with mischief, advances
“swiping,”
a criminal is
to him the
stage of mere mischief, improve his

society

catch before passes

environment or separate him from it,

allow him to have his normal

| development into a good citizen and

| lect

parents are among the so-called busi- |

ness men and prominent citizens.

with luxury and the free use

money. They permit him to fill his
life with a round of pleasure, and let
his appetite

him satiate

jan honest mang

AIR NALA TANNA SAA OI RA
Secretary Noekels,
of
last meeting of

of the Chicago
at the
organization:

Labor, said
that
“A year ago there were 240,000 union
men Chicago.
than 140,000
and

Federation

in To-day there are
affiliated the
half neg-
pay

with
those
their

less

unions over of
to

“seething

dues.”
ot

refuse
the

or

Evidently caldron

| hell” which the union leaders of Chi-
They seem to think their duty ended |
when they have debauched the boy

of |

without |

knowing what he is doing or whither |

he is drifting.”
a constantly increasing

embezzlements of small
clerks in business houses, whose fa-

of
by

number
sums

As a result there is|

cago gloated over so joyously a year

ago is cooling off.

n SO
thought
the

snatch
the

The Japanese might be
confirmed deadheads in view of

which
the

with they

of

avidity

passes from hands Rus-
sians.
ND

The broad and crooked road is also
paved with good intentions.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

R. C. Talbot, Representing Forest
City Paint & Varnish Co.

R. C. Talbot was born at Pontiac,
Aug. 30, 1871. His parents removed
to Chicago when he was an infant,
and subsequently removed to Chase,
Lake county, Mich., where fa-
ther established and
weekly newspaper. In 1875 his fa-
ther removed to Reed City and pur-
chased the Clarion, which he conduct-
ed for two years. In 1877 the fami-
ily removed to Toledo, where Rich-
ard attended school, graduating from
the High School with high honors.
In the meantime he had learned the
trade of carriage painting, working |
nights and Saturdays at the trade. |
On leaving school he went to Chi-|
cago, where he was employed at his}
trade for two years, when he re- |
turned to Toledo and_ spent two |

his

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

years decorating bicycles in the fac-
tory of the H. A. Lozier Manufactur-
ing Co. Mr. Lozier then sent him to
his Eastern factory in Westfield, Mas-
sachusetts, where he was foreman of
the decorating department for a year.
He then returned to Toledo to take
the position of master painter with
the Gendron Iron Co., where he re-
mained three years. He then remov-
ed to Cleveland to take the foreman-
ship of the Metal Goods Manufactur-
ing Co., from which place he naturally
drifted into the paint shop department
of the Sherwin & Williams Co. He
then opened a carriage and automo-
bile paint shop, which he continued for
one year, selling the business to ac-
cept a lucrative position as manager
of the paint department of the Cleve-
land Eastern Railway, where he su-
perintended the painting and finishing
of the passenger coaches. His next
connection was with the Colonial
Paint and Varnish Co., where he as-
sumed charge of the manufacturing
department and met his first experi-
ence as traveling salesman. During
a portion of the time he was con-
nected with this company he served
as Vice-President of the corporation.
He retired from this position to ac-
cept a flattering offer as traveling
representative for the Forest City
Paint & Varnish Co., his first terri-
tory being the retail trade of South-
ern Michigan and Northern Indiana.
On Jan. 1 of last year he dropped

conducted = a|

!

| his Indiana territory and was given
| charge of the entire State of Michi-
|gan, in which he endeavors to see
| his trade every ninety days.

| Mr. Talbot was married Dec. 22,
1892, to Miss Laurace Loy, of Fair-
mont, Indiana. They reside in Tole-
do. The husband is not much of a
“jiner,” being a member of only two
| organizations—B. P. O. E. Lodge,
No. 34. Detroit, and the Illinois
Commercial Traveling Men’s Asso-
ciation.

Mr. Talbot attributes his success
ito the fact that he can talk under-
standingly and intelligently to a prac-
tical paint man on account of his
knowledge of the business. He _ is
thoroughly versed in the science of
paint mixing, which gives him an
intimate acquaintance with the con-
tents of every package. There is no
branch of the finishing, painting, dec-
orating, frescoing or sign writing
business with which he is not famil-
iar, and because of this knowledge
he has manifestly an advantage over
a traveling man who takes up the
work from a commercial standpoint,
without knowing anything of the
practical side of the question.

——__.._____
Advantage of Keeping Private Infor-
mation to One’s Self.

Why in thunder is it that a man
can’t keep his good things to him-
self?

Especially when he ought to know
that blabbing ‘em is going to lose
’em for him?

A broker told me the other day
some of his experiences about this,
and they tally exactly with what I
know myself.

He said he never gave any buyer
a good thing yet that the chump
didn’t tell about it. Every broker
and every jobber has his preferences
among the people he sells to. Very
often he will be able to give some
particular friend a slice off a good
thing—a_ little concession off a
price or something like that.

Sometimes there’s a good reason
for it, like an unusually large order,
but other times there isn’t any rea-
son for it except that the broker
has offered his plum to the man he
liked best among the trade.

No matter which is the condition,
the recipient of the favor always
leaks about it.

Why? I'll blanked if I know, ex-
cept it’s to show that he’s just the
stuff when he comes to buying.

This broker buys his groceries of
an ordinary retailer—just the aver-
age neighborhood grocer, not big
enough to buy goods of anybody but
the wholesale grocer. I mean too small
to buy direct of the manufacturer
or broker.

This retailer and the broker got
very friendly in the course of time,
and one day when the grocer drop-
ped into the broker’s office and ask-
ed him if he wouldn’t sell him di-
rect, the broker consented. He sold
him a small order at the price that
the wholesaler paid.

Now, you’d think that the retailer
would have kept a good thing like
that locked under his hat with a
burglar-proof lock, wouldn’t you?

And yet I'll be dadburned if he

of

 

 

didn’t give it away the first chance
he got! I don’t mean that he told
the whole thing, but when a whole-
sale grocer’s salesman next tried to
sell him this particular line of goods
and quoted him a price, the grocer
let out a snort of contemptuous
amusement and said he could beat
it all to pieces. The salesman got
curious and pretty soon he had seen
the goods that the grocer could do
better on. That was enough—he put
two and two together, and when the
broker tried to get another order out
of the jobber whose salesman this
was, he had the thing thrown at
him good and hard.

So perished one retailer’s good
thing.

Another time the same broker
made a certain wholesale grocer a
very close price on a big order. It
was a closer price than he had made
the general wholesale trade, mostly
because of the size of the order.

He said he heard of it within two
hours from another jobber who had
been paying a higher price.

The jobber, to show another brok-
er that he could beat him all to
pieces, had let just enough out to
give the broker a clue. The latter
had pieced the transaction together
in his own mind, and had told other
jobbers that “So-and-So” had done
better by this particular jobber than
he had by them.

Result — trouble
bunches.

in large red

I have reason to know that every-
body’s experience is just the same.
Nobody seems to be able to keep
shut up when they have proven
their beautiful acuteness by making
a good buy. They have simply got
to show their competitors, or some-
body, what keen business men they
are. And the showing always kills
the goose that lays the golden egg.

There was a time when the price
of sugar was limited. In Philadel-
phia the jobbers, unable to trust each
other, put up $300 apiece to insure
each other’s honesty. In spite of
the chance of losing this $300, sev-
eral of them gave. secret rebates
right and left.

That is,.they thought they were
secret, but they were not.

I know a lot of cases where job-
bers who were honestly holding the
price knew perfectly well that cer-
tain other jobbers were not, and
knew who those jobbers were, whom
they rebated, and how.

In other words, they had them
cead to rights.

Did they blab? No. Why? Oh,
well, they didn’t want to get into it,
and the retailers had told their sales-
men in confidence and could not be
brought into it.

In this case the retailers’ telling
it did not always put a stop to the
good thing, but it might have. The
Gealers who got the rebates simply
had to show that they were up to
snuff. They couldn’t hold it to save
their souls! Maybe it was only a
wink, or a foxy look, but it let the
secret out, all right.

Why, I have actually known of
cases where a dealer who had man-
aged to get hold of something rich

 

in the way of a price, or a drive,
gave it partly away to his own com-
petitor.

That seems to me
idiocy!

If I were a retailer I’d be as stingy
about such things as a miser! IfI
were 2 member of a retail grocers’
association, and bought goods cheap
through it, it would be the last
thing I’d ever speak of to a man
who bought his goods through the
regular jobber.

Or if I took a trade paper that
gave me good ideas, think I’d say
so to my competitor?

Not on your tintype!

I would consider it only good busi-
ness to keep all such good things
as close to myself as wax.

To prove that, I know an angel
gentleman in Philadelphia here that
you can borrow money from just as
easy! Think 1!’d tell who? Not on
our life, for he told me if I did
he’d never lend me another cent.—
Stroller in Grocery World.

———_-++ 2 —__-
Repubiic of Panama.

Completes first year of existence
November 3, 1904.

Constitution follows lines of that
of the United States.

There are seven political divisions
or provinces.

Has three ports on the Pacific and
three on the Atlantic coast.

Boasts of one railroad, forty-seven
miles long, now owned by the Unit-
ed States Government.

There are m9 post roads, and
hardly twenty-five miles of road in
all over which a carriage could pass.

Population of 300,000 of various
nationalities.

Area, 31,500 square miles; greatest
width, 160 miles; extreme length, 400
miles; coast line, 1,000 miles.

Industrial development, practical-
ly none.

Length of proposed canal, forty-
seven miles.

Estimated cost, $200,000,000.

Living expenses and rents. high
and opportunities small—Philadel-
phia Record.

like simple

on
Process Employed to Reclaim Rub-

ber.
Rubber is recovered in _ several
large plants as follows: Old shoes,
tires, belts, mats, hose, etc., are

shredded to a fine wool. This is then
heated in massive iron cylinders un-
der high pressure for twenty hours,
with strong caustic soda _ solution.
The cloth packing, paint, fillers, oil,
grease, thread, etc., of the “shoddy”
is destroyed or altered in composi-
tion, while the rubber is not affected.
The mass is drawn off, washed with
water for several hours, -and pure
rubber recovered in fine needles or
threads. These are then pressed to
one solid mass between heated iron
rollers. H. C. Stiefel.
—_.>-.>——_____

A man is rich when he is content-
ed with what he has, although he
may not be sat sfied with his posses-
sions. :

>>.

It is a good deal better to live in
a glass house and take your chances
on stones than to have no windows
at all.

 

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.”

je" baking powders and new foods, like

new fads, 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 CO., NEW YORK
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Movements of Merchants.

Laurium—R. H. Rickard has open-
ed a new grocery store.

Johannesburg—Vernon Welsh has
opened a new grocery store.

Tower—Geo. Arrowsmith
gaged in general trade here.

Holland—-A. I. Kramer has uttered
a trust chattel mortgage of $10,539.

Marcellus—Wm. Thurkow has pur-
chased the meat business of Earl Sill.

Hastings—-Addie Parker has _ pur-
chased the South Jefferson St. cigar
store.

Mason—Cavender & Mehan, clo-
thiers, are succeeded by H. O. Hal-
stead.

Frontier—Henry Bailey has remov-
ed his general stock from Amboy to
this place.

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Hastings—Edward Huffman will
shortly open a cigar and _ tobacco
store here.

Owosso—Elton H. Green, mer-

chant tailor, has sold his stock to B.
F. Whitely.

Bay City—-Werner Von Walthausen
has sold his drug stock to James E.
McDonald.

Detroit — Samuel Goldstein has
been appointed receiver for the Hub
Clothing Co.

Jackson—Zerah
sold his grocery stock
QO. Freeman.

South Bay City—S.
opened a new grocery
Harrison street.

Midland—D. & J. W. Brown have
sold their stock of bazaar goods to
Will M. Evans.

Saginaw—Chas. H. Becker will suc-
ceed Mrs. C. H. Becker in the mil-
linery business.

Standish—J. H. Honey has conclud-
ed to put up a solid brick store build-
ing 18 by 40 feet.

Detroit—Collins & Schuler have
purchased the cigar and tobacco stock
of John J. Griffith.

Battle Creek—W. H. Staley has

Tomlinson has
to Theodore

Vallier has
store at 619

purchased the grocery’ stock of
Newcomb & Foote.
Pontiac—J. H. Bushnell will  re-

move his stock of men’s furnishing
goods to Imlay City.

Sanilac Center—Wellington War-
ner, of Elk, will open a new bakery
and confectionery store.

Coral—G. A. Armitage & Son have
purchased the warehouse and __ busi-
ness of Hill & Armitage.

Caro—Floyd A. Turner, hardware
and harness dealer, is succeeded by
the Kelsey Hardware Co.

West Bay City—The Monarch
Drug Co. has increased its capital
stock from $5,000 to $10,000.

Au Sable—R. A. Richards has
added a room 20x20 feet in dimen-
sions to his hardware store.

Port Huron—John FE. Wolfstyn,
tailor and dealer in men’s furnishings,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Bay City—The firm of Witmer &
Co., dealers in women’s wearing ap-
parel, has been incorporated under
the same style.

 

 

Johannesburg—Boice & McKenna
are opening a drug store in the corner
room of the new Hanson building.

Eden—-Rolland A. Fay, who has
been running a general store here,
was succeeded by Disenroth Bros. &
Co. on Oct &.

South Lyon—E. W. Fitzgerald has
succeeded Griswold & Fitzgerald in
the grocery and men’s _ furnishing
goods business.

Sault Ste. Marie—C. P. Haerle has
taken the management of the cold
storage department of the Mussel-
man Grocer Co.

Alma—E. A. Bivins has sold his
drug and stationery stock to S. Stan-
nard, who will continue the business
at the same location.

Saginaw—A receiver has been ap-
pointed to close up the business of
James C. Mills, dealer in books, sta-
tionery and wall paper.

Tecumseh—Alva Spayde, who has
been engaged in the clothing busi-
ness seventeen years, will close out
the stock and retire from business.

Cement City—The E. W. Brower
general stock has been purchased by
Culver & Parker, of Brooklyn. The
purchasers will close out the stock.

Rapid River—Ed. Hill expects to
add a meat market to his_ grocery
store in the near future. Arthur
Huxford will have charge of that de-
partment.

Niles—John Hilderbrand’s Sons
have sold their furniture stock to P.
J. and J. P. Troost, of Grand Rapids
and Ionia, who will continue’ the
business.

Sault Ste. Marie—C. S. McLachlan
has purchased the grocery stock of
C. P. Haerle at Algonquin and will
add a line of boots and shoes in the
near future.

Middleville—Loveland and Son, of
Prairieville, have purchased the Ack-
erson stock of clothing and will ship
it to Delton, where they will open a
branch store.

Lowell—Ecker & Foster have sold
their lumber yard to Charles Travis,
of Grand Rapids, who will continue
the business under the style of the
Lowell Lumber Co.

Davisburg—Frank G. Ely has pur-
chased the interest of his father, Ed-
mund Ely, in the general-stock of
Ely & Son and will continue the
business at the same location.

Ann Arbor—W. W. Wadhams,
Emanuel Stadel and Chris. T. Don-
nelly have formed a _ copartnership
under the style of Wadhams & Co.
and engaged in the clothing busi-
ness.

Holland—A. I. Kramer has utter-
ed a chattel mortgage securing ched-
itors to the amount of $10,539.91. The
stock will inventory about $5,000.

 

 

 

‘| The trustee is S. W. Krafner, of Cad-

illac.

Ionia—P. T. Bates, having dispos-
ed of his stock in the Ionia Pottery
Co., severs his connection with the
company and retires from the presi-
dency, which he has held for fifteen
years past.

Elmira—Abram W. Stein has pur-
chased the Fordham store building,
which is one of the most modern
buildings of its kind in Northern
Michigan, and will occupy it with his
general stock.

 

Oxford—Stewart Howser, of this
place, and Geo. Lindermann, of Pon-
tiac, have formed a  copartnership
under the style of Lindermann &
Howser and engaged in the produce
business here and at Pontiac.

Niles—P. W. Flandermeyer, of
Coldwater, expects to open a new
shoe store here within two weeks.
For a number of years Mr. Flander-
meyer has been connected with his
father’s boot and shoe store at Cold-
water.

Detroit the

A jury in

 

 

United |

States District Court has decided that |

the Hub Clothing Co. should
adjudged insoivent. The action was
brought by several New York mer-
chants who presented claims aggre-
gating $597.

be |

Schoolcraft—The Glass Drug Co., |
which has been doing business less |

than two years, filed a trust mortgage
last week, covering the stock and fix-
ines: Dr 1k E
as trustee and the business is being
conducted by him.

Big Rapids—Geo. F. Fairman has
purchased the Toan & Morton cloth-
ing stock and will continue the busi-
ness in his own name. The liabili-
ties of the firm amounted to $6,000,
all of which were acquired by Mr.
Fairman on his own terms.

Litchfield—-A. J. Lovejoy

Binning was named

& Co.,|

who for over forty years have been |

in the general merchandise business |
Bert |

at Litchfield, have sold out to

Hickok, who will continue under the |

name of Hickok & Co. Mr. Lovejoy
will continue his banking business.
Petoskey—S. A. Williams, who has
been in the employ of A. B. Thomp-
son, the Emmet grocer, for
the last five years, formed a
partnership with P. J. Howe,
Lansing, formerly of this city, and
they have purchased _ the
stock from L. W. Martin.
Howard City—C. R. Watson, fa-
ther of W. Frederick Watson,
absconding baker, has uttered a trust
mortgage on the stock for $1,630
covering the merchandise claims and
his alleged claim for $726.
3arker, of Grand Rapids, is named
trustee of the mortgage.
Nashville—E. M. Quick & Co. have
sold their grocery stock to George
and Gerret H. Brower, who will con-
tinue the business under the style
of Brower Bros. As will be noted
by the fac simile letter on page 47,
the sale was effected through the
Wants Column department of the
Tradesman.
Escanaba — The

Street
has

grocery

as

Rathfon Bros.
clothing stock has been purchased
by G. C. Meisel, of Port Huron, who
will continue the business under the
management of S. B. Rathfon. The
dry goods stock has been purchased
by Jorgenson & Blesh, of Green Bay,
for $15,500. The stock and fixtures
inventoried $41,000.

3ig Rapids—The property belong-
ing to the Pressburg estate has been
sold. The brick store building was
bought by Martin Holland, of Wood-
ville, for $3,000, and the grocery stock
by Bert Tenny and David McFarlane,
of Paris, for about $400. The new
grocery firm will open up for busi-
ness under the style of Tenny & Mc-
Farlane.

Perry |

of |

| has
the |

 

Marquette—At the bankrupt sale
Sept. 28 the stock and fixtures of the
A. T. Van Alstyn Dry Goods Co.
were purchased by J. H. Foster, of
St. Louis, Mo., for the sum of $24,-

250. The inventory totaled $41,576
and the appraisal was $22,000. As the
claims of creditors exceed $50,000

the probability is that the estate will
pay about 40 cents on the dollar.
Sault Ste. Marie—Arthur G. Baiiey
has filed a trust running
to Attorney
his stock of drugs on Ashmen street.
the
largest being the Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co., of Grand Rapids, $1,213.80,
and the Sault Savings -anl, $1,900.
By the of the he
is to pay $50 a month until the debt

mortgage
Hudsen, covering
zre named,

Sixty creditors two

terms mortgage
is wiped out.

Sanilac Center—Eighteen business
men of this place have written a let-
ter to the Detroit Board of Com-
merce asking that body to interest
itself to the end that better connec-
tions be secured between the Pere
Marquette and the Grand Trunk Rail-
ways at Port Huron. The signers
of the letter complain that when they
come to Detroit via these two roads
they are compelled to lose a great
deal of time in the Tunnel City. The
Board of Commerce has taken the
up with the two roads, and
a remedy will soon be reached.

matter

Manufacturing Matters.
Evart—Chas. C. Miller has engag-
ed in the manufacture of cigars.
Kalamazoo-—The Pray-Harris Bak-
ing Co. is succeeded by Pray & Dox-

| Tater.
Battle CreekThe Battle. Creek
Iron Bed Co. Ltd, has decided to

liquidate and retire from business.

Detroit—The Michigan
Yard has filed notice of increase
capital stock from $5,000 to $20,000.

3enton Harbor—Mrs. Moses Price
the Mantello cigar factory
to Chas. Hill, who will continue the
business.

Lumber

of

sold

Brown
Creamery

City—The Maple Valley
Co, which had
branches at Marlette and Melvin, has

also

filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Sturgis--The Utility Manufactur-
ing Co. has been organized by W. T.
Favorite and C. V. Schermerhorn to
manufacture an improved corn pop-
per.

South Haven—Spilky Bros., of
Chicago, are looking for a location
for a pants factory. They want a
brick building in which they can in-
stall fifty machines and employ fifty
women and ten or fifteen men. Their
terms are very reasonable, as they ask
only that their rent be given them so
long as they occupy the building.

 

 

 

Commercial
Credit Co.,

Widdicomb SICILY AOL sme Tele hy
Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit

Good but~ slow debtors pay

upon receipt of our direct de-
Yo
accounts to our off

inand. letters. nd all other

ces for collec-

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Geo. M. Kling, meat dealer, will be
succeeded by Jno. Cooper.

John Hudson has closed out his
grocery stock and will shortly re-
move to California.

The Cherry Street Hardware Co.
has closed out its stock at retail and
will discontinue business.

C. C. Day has opened a grocery
at Mt. Pleasant. The Judson
Grocer Company furnished the stock.

store

Otis Jones has purchased the in-
terest of D. W. Elferdink in the drug
stock of Elferdink & Jones, 343 East
sridge street, and will continue the
business in his own name.

—___.+~--.—___

The Grocery Market.

(W. H. Edgar & Son)—
Since we wrote you on Sept. 27 the
market has remained unchanged until
to-day, when certain refiners reduc-
ed prices toc per hundred. Raws are
firmly held, as before, at 4 5-16@
4%c for spots. A number of cargoes
of Javas have been sold at from a
shade under 4%4c to about equal
4.31c, duty paid, the price varying
with the probable dates of arrival,
sugar which can not reach New York
until about the first of the year
bringing the lower price. These pur-
chases indicate not only the strength
of the position, but refiners’ views
as to the value of raw sugar until
we into the Cuban

Sugar

get

ed slightly since the close of

September deal, October being quot-

with centrifugals. Refined is lower,

as noted, and without any apparent |

The principal refiners

nominal

justification.
yesterday reduced

day certain independent refiners re-
duced all prices ten points, making
the existing margin between raw
and refined very little more than “4c
per pound. The demand is good and
will undoubtedly be large during all
of this current month, although the
disturbance incident to the manipula-
tion of prices may have some effect.
It would seem, however, that the im-
mediate effect should be liberal pur-
chases to secure the advantage of the
low prices offered.

Tea—The market is not particularly
active and may rest some time at
the present level for lack of buying
support. Cheaper grades of tea are
in fair supply at unchanged prices.

Coffee—There is a steady absorp-
tion of coffee in Brazil for the large
interests in the market, who unques-
tionably now look for a gradual hard-
ening in values as the receipts of
primal points grow less. The maxi-
mum estimate for the present crop
is now 1,000,000 bags less than last
year, and other estimates show an
even greater discrepancy. Mild cof-
fees are firm at unchanged prices for
the week.

Canned Goods—Baltimore reports
that there have been frosts in that

 

 

vicinity and the packing season in
tomatoes is winding up a little earl-
ier than expected. The indications
are that the output will be fully up
to normal. Other vegetables are
packed, and the only interest they
have to the trade is as to how they
sell. The movement seems to be
about up to the average. As noted
before, there is no sauerkraut to be

had. Business in California fruits
may be said to be increasing. In
such lines as peaches and apricots

there is a slowness on account of the
high prices, but most of the other
fruits are reasonable and the fall
trade is under way in them. Salmon
is unchanged and shows no sign of
weakening. Reports from Maine and
New York that the frost
has. hit the corn badly and the output
will be curtailed. Every one knows,
however, that at this season of the
year all crop
be taken with
grain of salt.

now say

damage stories must

even more than a
They are of doubtful
value as a rule, because they do not
reflect the actual conditions of a
large section or becattse they reflect
only the opinion of some one man
and his judgment may not be good.
So it is not time to get scared about
another short pack of corn.

Dried Fruits—Peaches are very
high, and this fact is curtailing the
demand. A few are changing hands,
but buyers are only taking peaches
where they have to. There seems to
be every reason why the market
should remain high during the whole
season. Currants are in fair demand
and will improve from now on. Both

i |loose and seeded raisins are in bet-
cn | ae shape than they have been for
Foreign beet quotations have chang- | some time.
the |ly because of the new syndicate and

i i | partly because of heavy rains in the
ed at 113%4c, a parity of about 4.46c |

The market is firm, part-

|growing districts. An advance is
| prophesied. Apricots are quiet and
|unchanged. Prunes are unchanged.

|The demand is light, but shows an
quota- |.
i i |increase, especially on spot.
tions to the basis of actual sales. To- |

There
is very little interest manifested in
goods to come forward, however. It
would seem that prices
enough to warrant a better business
than is now doing.

Rice—The Southern States have
increased their production so rapidly
that importations are no longer need-
ed, although there is some
brought into the United States every
year. Some exporting is done to
Puerto Rico and Cuba, but there is
still a surplus left each year. Rice
has been very cheap the past year
or two and bids fair to be about as
easy to get the coming season.

are

rice

Syrups and Molasses—Sugar syr-
up is firm and in good demand. Mo-
lasses is quiet and unchanged. The
market will wake up a little as soon
as the cool weather comes. Glucose
is unchanged. Compound syrup isin
light demand at unchanged prices.

3eans—The market is stronger on
account of the unfavorable crop re-
ports, both from New York and Mich-
igan. In New York the crop of red
kidney beans is light and will not
be marketed early. Frosts and heavy
rains have injured the general bean
crop of the State to some extent, and
some holders have advanced 5 to Ioc

low |

 

per bushel. Secondary markets have
not advanced as yet, but probably
will. Rains in Michigan have also de-
layed the crop and strengthened the
market. Many packers refuse to offer
pea beans at all. Marrows are un-
changed, being strong and high.

Fish—The mackerel market is still
strong, on account of the small catch.
Sardines are unchanged, with
exception of mustards, which are
more plenty than oils and have shown
some concessions during the past
week. The catch is proceeding well.
Cod, hake and haddock have all ad-
vanced 4c during the past week. The
demand is excellent and the stock
light. Salmon is unchanged, being
quiet but firm.

+2 ____
The Produce Market.
Apples—Fall varieties are in large
supply, with demand nowhere equal
to the supply: Prices
$1.25@1.75 per bbl.
Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch-
es; $1.50@1.75 for Jumbos. Trade has
been fair, considering the quantities
of other fruits on the market. The
warm weather has hastened ripening
rather more than desired
cases.
Beans—$1.50@1.65 for hand picked
mediums.
Beets—4oc per bu.
Butter—Creamery is in good de-
mand, with supply hardly equal to
the demand. The market is steady
at 20c for choice and 2tc for fancy.
Receipts of dairy grades are not large
and the quality is generally poor. The
price is steady at 16@17c for No. 1
and 11@1z2c for packing stock. Ren-
ovated is in active demand at 17c.
Cabbage—35c per doz.
Carrots—45c per bu.
Cauliflower—$1.1o per doz.
Celery—i15c per doz. bunches.
Crabapples—6oc per bu. for Siber-
ian; 50c per bu. for General Grant.
Cranberries—$7 per bbl.
are arriving freely. They are good
color and good size.
Cucumbers—toc per doz. for large.
Eggs—Receipts of fresh continue
to that extent that dealers find it
unnecessary to draw on their stocks
of cold storage to any considerable

range from

in some

extent. Complaint is still heard of
eggs that are held too long and ship-
pers will get better returns if they

will send eggs promptly. Candling
shows a rather large percentage of
poor stock for the season. Case count
are steady at 1t8@1gce and candled
are strong at 20@z2Ic. Storage sup-
plies are going out on the basis of
19@20¢.

Ege Plant—S8sc per doz.

Grapes—Wordens, Concords and
Niagaras are in large supply and ac-
tive demand on the basis of 14c per
8 tb. basket. Bulk grapes, 60@75c

per bu.
Green Corn—toc per doz.
Green, Onions—Silver Skins, 15c

per doz. bunches.
Green Peppers—65c per bu.
Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12zc and white clover at I3@I5c.
Lemons—Messinas and Californias
fetch $4.50 per box.
Lettuce—soc per bu.

Onions — Southern (Louisiana),

$1.10 per sack; Silver Skins, $1. per

the |

 

 

 

Cape Cod |

 

crate; Spanish, $1.35 per crate. Home
grown are coming -in freely, com-
manding 60@75c per bu. Pickling,
$2.25 per bu.

Oranges—Mexicans are in moder-
ate supply and limited demand
the basis of $4 per box. Too much
other fruit in market.

on

Parsley—z25c per doz. bunches.
Peaches—Chilis, $1@1.25; Smocks,
$1.15@1.35. This week will
cally finish the crop.
Pears—Flemish
fetch $1 per bu.
Potatoes—Local
35(@40c per bu.
ly good in quality,. but the yield is
streaked. In Osceola
crop will be only about

practi-

Jeauties and Sugar

from
The crop is general-

sales range

somewhat

county the
40 per cent.
further north
large.

of an average yield, while
the volume will
The size of the tubers is gen-

be

erally large this season.

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

Poultry—Live is quiet, due to light
demand moderate receipts.
Spring chickens, to@1ric; hens, 8@
tur-
12@14c; old turkeys, 10@12c;

and

oc; coarse fowls, 6@7c; spring
keys,
spring ducks, 9@1oc for white; Nes-
ter squabs are dull and slow sale at
$1.25. Dressed poultry (drawn)
ranges about 2c per fb. higher than
live.

Radishes—Round, toc; long and
China Rose, t5c.

Squash—Hubbard commands 1%c
per 1b.

Sweet Potatoes — Virginias are
Steady at $1.75 and Jerseys are im

good demand at $3 per bu.
Tomatoes-—50@60c per bu.
Turnips—soc per bu.

—_—_»+»—__—_

Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market is strong.
do not advance and tanners hold off
from buying; but dealers can not buy
in the country to sell at prices tan-
Stocks are sold ahead
and are not
without a margin, which can not be
Receipts are in-

Prices

ners demand.
dealers anxious sellers
had to any extent.
creasing from South America,

tends to lower values on such stock.

which

No decline is likely to occur under
present receipts.
Pelts are taken
at good round prices.
ing offered as cold weather comes on,

as fast as offered

More are be-

but the supply is light.
Tallow is firm, with large amounts

changing hands. Prices are slightly

higher and stocks are in good de-

mand. There is little prime stock on
the market.
Wool is in a strong position in

the Eastern market, with no lots of
consequence held in the State.

Wm. fT. Hess.

—_2+ 2. ____
C. D. Crittenden has purchased the
handsome residence of Charles’ F.
Young, at 70 Paris avenue, and will
take possession of the property next
week. The purchaser is to be con-
gratulated on the excellent judgment
he has shown in the selection of a
permanent home.

W. R. Beyers & Co., shoe manu-
facturers of Columbus, Ohio, pro-
pose to change their location, and
have their eyes on some Michigan
city.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Some Dry Goods, Hardware and Sta-
tionery Windows.

Spring & Company, who had their
millinery opening last week, left the
same background decorations in for
this week, a dainty arrangement of

those of the grapevine, as there are
clusters of grapes attached to the
stems at irregular intervals. The
graceful white tulle drapery was also
allowed to remain over, and givesa
light, airy effect.

These people seem to be fairly out-
doing themselves on laces this fall,

they having shown some most exqui- |
Well, laces are |

Prices?
laces, anywhere you go, and good
ones are always costly. But there
is this about a fine piece of lace, the
same as about first-class furs and
good ostrich plumes—they all show
their quality so long as there is a
smitch of ’em left, and so it pays in

site samples.

this description.

Spring has two elegant velvet
dresses. at the right of the entrance.

| bounds, with all the proper and eye-
artificial autumn leaves, supposedly |

 

miliar with the firm’s name as with
their own, but the innovation is a
time-saving one for visiting country
dealers.

|
|
|

The Jewel range and two coal|
stoves in the other windew stand}
out conspicuously. The first-men- |

tioned is equipped with all sorts of |
modern cooking utensils—alluminium, |
earthen and enamel. The delight of |
constructing delectable dishes—dishes |

fit for the gods—can now know no}

pleasing conveniences for use in
and around the kitchen range. Every |
nice housekeeper regards her good}
kitchen accessories with a love second
only to that bestowed on her “best
chiny”—and that fells little short of
idolatry!

-_ = =

The Boston Store has a_ unique
arrangement of low-priced ready-to- |
hang muslin curtains, interspersed |
with cheap lace ones and green mad-
ras (this last by the yard). From
outside the glass one can not see how
the effect is produced, but rve cur
tains are hung straight-up-and-down, |
in an arch. about six inches or so}

| apart, and in front of the fve pairs |
the end to invest in good goods of |

| tooned.

| pieces of entirely white figured mad-
| ras at 30¢ per.

The country merchant who hath vel- |
vet galore need have no fear that he |

is going to have a hard time to get
rid of it, for velvet is to be a prime
favorite for fall and winter wear, in
cloaks, suits and millinery.

*x* x *

Foster, Stevens & Co. have a credit-

a door hanging has been taken from
its encasement for the eyes of those
unaccustomed to seeing such away
from its natural environment, and
perhaps many see the mechanism for
the first time. We are all more or
less afflicted with the Budge-and-
Tody desire—*Wansh to shee zha
wheels go wound.”

Here are to be seen big locks and
little locks; locks simple in design
and again very elaborate. The old-
fashioned glass doorknobs are liked
by many, but their use is incompatible
with peace of mind as to their safety
where dwelleth the Enfant Terrible,
and so they can not embellish the
doors of the average householder.
They are like pieces of expensive cut

glass—fine to contemplate if one di- |

vorces from his mind their extremely
nickable nature.

Door-thick of handsome
woods are shown with the appropri-
ate trimmings—handsome things!
The woods particularly noticeable for
their beauty are oak, sycamore, cher-
ry and mahogany.

A placard announces:

Our Line of
Door Trimmings
Is larger than ever.
Foster, Stevens & Co.

This seems a new idea with the
firm in question—that of adding their
name at the bottom of such placards.
Probably it is te save strangers the
bother of craning their necks to read
the sign over the door to discover
the ownership of the store. Of
course, this seems odd to those as fa-

sections

| Trotter’s new book, “Jimmie Moore
able exhibit of locks and hinges, and |

|

| struggles of the people of that pov-

is the green madras, gracefully fes-
There are also shown three

The one at the right
is especially pretty in design and
would make up beautifully.

+ +£.%

I passed The Millard Palmer Co.’s
windows more huriiedly than I like
| think I caught a glimpse, in the ex-
hibit at the right, of Mr. Melvin E.

of Bucktown.” I read a goodly por-
tion of that same, last Sunday, to
a shvt-in sick child and I became so!
interested myself in the troubles and |

erty-stricken settlement that I could
scarcely lay the book down. It

 

138

| more than a story—Mr. -Trotter says |

|; many curiosities in the way of adver-

 

that every word of it is true; thai |
all the occurrences he portrays ac- |
tually took place and are not exag- |
gerated in the least. All the people |
in the narrative are from “real folks” |
right here in Grand Rapids, with only
a change in names to hide identity.
The book is neatly gotten up, the type
is clear and it retails for seventy-five
cents. It has met with such phenom-
enal sale that the first edition is near-
ly exhausted and the publishers are
soon to begin on another.
oo
Gruesome Advertising.
New York has always had quite as

tising as any other large city, but a
firm of undertakers who are doing
up the outside of a building on a
main thoroughfare for their occupan-
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not to be equaled in the world. It
is a brick building of good size which
they have had painted black, the in-
tersection of the bricks outlined with
white, and to add to this funereal ap-
pearance they have painted across the
front in large letters, also in black
and white, the word “Undertakers.”
This structure is on Sixth Avenue
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Review of the Hardware Market.

Wire Nails—While prices on wire
nails are being well maintained in
Eastern sections, buyers in the West
and Southwest assert that considera-
ble unevenness exists in quotations
of various manufacturers. The de-
mand is increasing greatly on all
sides. The largest manufacturers are
not anxious to book any orders call-
ing for shipments beyond 30 days.
Arbitrary differentials formerly exist-
ing between the jobbing and retail
trades are not rigidly enforced, car-
load prices being accessible to car-
load buyers of either class. Quota-
tions are officially as follows, f. o. b.
Pittsburg, 60 days, or 2 per cent. dis-
count for cash in to days; carload

lots, $1.60; less than carload lots,
$1.65. Local quotations are: Single
carloads, $1.79%4; small lots from

store, $1.85@1.90.

Cut Nails—As the demand for cut
nails is by no means as large as that
for the wire variety, a few manufac-
turers are making concessions
about 5c per keg in official quota-
tions to large purchasers. Quotations
are as follows: Carload lots, $1.60;
less than carload lots, $1.65, both on
the basis of f. o. b. Pittsburg. Inthe
territory west of Pittsburg, iron nails
are quoted at $1.65 in carload lots, f.
o. b. Pittsburg, with an advance of
10 cents in less than carload lots. Lo-
cal quotations are as follows: Car
loads on dock, $1.74; less than car-
loads on dock, $1.79; small lots from
store, $1.85.

Barb Wire—Western mills report
a decided increase in the demand for
barb wire, but only a moderate en-
quiry is recorded by Eastern manu-
facturers. The principal manufactur-
ers are refusing to book any orders
for deliveries later than 30 days from
date. The regular schedule tor prices
is as follows, f o. b. Pittsburg, 60
days or 2 per cent. discount for cash
in 10 days:

Painted Galv.
Jobbers, carload lots..... $1 75 $2 05

Retailers, carload lots.... 1 80 2 10
Retailers, less than car-
toad) Lots ey I 00 2.20

Smooth Wire—Orders for smooth
fence wire are increasing so rapidly
that quick shipments cannot’ be
made on all the business which is
being taken by the mills. Quotations,
however, remain unchanged at the
official figures on a basis of f. o. b.
Pittsburg, 60 days or 2 per cent. dis-
count for cash in to days. Jobbers,
carloads, $1.45; carloads,
$1.50. The above prices are for the
base numbers, 6 to 9. Other numbers
of plain and galvanized wire take the
usual advances.

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How He Pressed His Trousers.

The cashier in the candy store who
had married the telegraph operator
had just returned from her honey-
moon, and was receiving her friends
in a new flat.

‘Did he get on to the way you
crimped your hair, Mamie?” asked
the mischievous manicure girl.

“T don’t know whether he did or
not,” replied Mamie, “but I twigged
the way he presses his trousers.
When he used to call on me I no-

retailers,

every evening, and I knew he could-| the sandwich maintained at red heat
n’t afford that pace at a tailor’s. I} for a couple of hours, after which
noticed that before going to bed he| it was cooled in oil. At a distance of
straightened his trousers’ carefully | twenty meters the hardened sides of
and put the front edge of them into these plates received a dozen bullets
the jam of the bedroom door. Of) from a eGrman rifle, model ’98, with-
course he had to get up some time | uot showing signs of a rip.
in the night and change sides. But | >>
he told me he had been doing it oa : A Mutual Mistake.
many years he was accustomed to it. | Little Willie told his mother
“He had to be very careful putting |
them in, or the door wouldn’t shut. |
But I'll tell you, girls, in the morn-
ing he had a crease that had a tail-
or’s job whipped to a suspender but-
ton. Men saving up to get married
have their’ little tricks of making a
good appearance on little money, just
as girls have in making themselves
so pretty that men want to marry
them.”

when an investigation was made, it
was found to be the Newfoundland
dog which had been newly sheared.

“Now, Willie,” said his mother, “you
have told a very naughty story, and
you must go up to your room and
pray for forgiveness and remain there
until the Lord does forgive vou.”

Willie promptly obeyed, but he was
gone only a few minutes before he
came tripping back.

“Did the Lord forgive you?” asked
his mother.

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WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 5, 1904

 

 

 

THE WORLD GETTING SMALL.
A few score years ago this globe
of ours, which is about eight thous-

and miles in diameter and something |
more than three times that amount

of girth or circumference, could not
be girdled by a traveler
the greatest difficulty and danger.

Vast continental expanses inhabit- |

ed by barbarous nations would have
to be traversed on foot or possibly
on the back of an animal, while the
intervening seas could only have been
navigated by sailing vessels.

tween distant parts could only have
been accomplished by means of ve-
hicles drawn by horses over roads

that were often dangerous as wellas |
transmis- |

dificult. and therefore the
sion of news and letters was ex-
tremely slow, while the transporta-
tion of merchandise was still slower.
Goods were sold to country
chants on credits of six. nine
twelve months because the merchan-
dise and farm products had to be
wagoned hundreds and even thou-
ands of miles

and

Sixty or seventy years ago
planet was 2 big affair,
magnificent Some
esting revelations are obtained
the statistics of
United States in
operation a

distences.
from |
railroads. in the
1830 there
railroad trackway of
twenty-three miles. In 1902. the rail-
road mileage was 200,000. In Europe,
Asia and Africa to-day there is an
aggregate of railway mileage quite as
great as that in the United States.
In the Western Hemisphere there is
half a score of railroads crossing con-
tinental areas from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean, and there is also
rail communicatian across Europe and

Asia from the Atlantic to the Paci- |

fic. with lines running in every other
~- direction. The total railway mileage
in the world is put at than
500,000, valued at thirty-six billion
dollars.

A writer remarks that Jules Verne’s
story, “Around the World in Eighty
Days,” was deemed fantastic in 1873.
But in 1903, James Willis Sayre, of
Seattle, Washington, traveled com- |
pletely around the world in fifty-four
days and nine hours, while the Rus-
sian Minister of Railroads issues the

more

save with |

Even in |
our own country communication be- |

mc |

| preceding twenty-four
|all parts of the globe.
our |
a globe of |
inter- |

was in}

possibilities

|

| Fast.

an every-day affair in all parts of the
world, the use of wireless telegraphy
is spreading also. Russia and Japan
at this moment are making the most
xtensive use of it to transmit intelli-
gence of the great war in the Far
It is in the interest of com-

'merce that all modern inventions to

Days |
| St. Petersburg to Vladivostok...to
| Vladivostok to New York .... ..14%
iNew York to Bremen........-.- 7
| Bremen to St. Petersburg...... 1%
| ae
en een 33
Not only do railroads carry us to

| every ee city in every contin-
but swift steamers plow with
| their keels the waters of every sea,
and they are found plying on every
| great navigable river. In Northern
| Russia and Siberia ten steamers reg-
ularly run on the Yenisei, while the

ent,

Siberian Obi,
of the Little Altai Mountains, bears
302 steam vessels on
| of its 2,000-mile
Gulf, on the Arctic

various parts

Ocean. One

flowing from the snows |

journey to the Obi |

| may now go from Glasgow to Stan- |

lley Falls, in Africa, in
days. Already there are _ forty-six
steamers on the Upper Congo, and
the railroad running northward from
Cape Town is being pushed so rap-
idly that the British Association for

forty-three

annihilate time and space are being
used in all countries. The peoples
of the various countries are exchang-
ing products. They are all learning
from each other, and with their in-
terchange and increase in knowledge |
they acquire , new wants
ideas.

Thus it is that
people of the various nations being

brought constantly into closer com- |
but condi- |

munication and relations,
tions are growing so that the various
nations recognize more and
their dependence each upon the

others, so that they are thereby com-

. . « co
ing to be more and more neighbors |

and commercial friends. Geologists

tell us that our globe is shrinking in|
the |

size and becoming smaller at

‘rate perhaps of a few inches in a

the Advancement of Science has been |

| invited to meet in Igo05 at the Vic- |

toria Falls,

| Nile

on the headwaters of the |

But steam is only one of the in- |
| strumentalities that are making all |

the inhabitants of our planet neigh-
bors. This is, above all, the age of
The total length of all
| telegraph lines in the world is 4,908,-
| 921 miles, the nerves of our modern
| civilization. It is not merely that
Europe has

electricity.

2,316,548 miles and Australia 277,479
i miles, but that Africa has 99,409 miles
and Asia 310,685 miles.
wires belt the land in every direction,
and electric cables are laid under
every enabling not only the
| great city papers, but even the provin-
cial press to print the news of the
hours
The subma-
aggregate 1,75!

ocean,

rine cables in num-

and annually transmit more than
6,000,000 messages, annihilating
| time and distance
separated nations.

lliam IV.
| the
| reaching

which formerly
When King Wil-
of England died, in 1837,
thirty-five days in
America. But when —

news was
| Victoria passed away, in IgoI, at 2:30
| p. m., the afternoon papers describ-
| ing the event were being sold in the
| Streets of New York at 3:30 p. m. of
| the same day. Not only Europe and
| America, but Siberia and Australia,
| New Zealand and New Caledonia,
| Corea and the Kameruns, Burma and
Persia, are within the sweep of this
modern system of intercommunica-
tion. President Roosevelt gave a
significant illustration of the perfec-
tion of the system when, on the com-
| pletion of the new trans-Pacific cable
| between San Francisco and Manila.
| July 4, 1903, he flashed a message
| around the earth in twelve minutes.
while a second message, sent by Clar-
ence H. Mackay, President of the
| Pacific Cable Company, made the cir-
cuit of the earth in nine minutes.

While the electric wire is becoming

|} ing upward.
| of securities has been very

‘ ““*|and has reached a point that is a
1,764,790 miles, America |

Telegraph |

i | widely
trom |

| demands of crop moving are heavy

' i ae ce ' | Deposits of gold in the Treasury have |
yer and over 200,000 miles in le A 6
- . ngth, | more than made up for the canal and

; | other payments, so that
the j ,- :
| high records are being made, exceed-

 

century, but by means of constantly |
developing lines of intercommunica- |

tion the world in a business and social

sense is getting so small that practi- |

cally all its inhabitants are coming

to be neighbors.

TT TI,
GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.
While the volume of stock trading

during the week has not been large,

the course of values is steadily mov- |

The upward movement

surprise in many leading properties.

The new high record for the year is |

being made by sixty of the leading
railways.
in 1903, the advance is $12 per share.
The promising feature in the situa-
tion is that the activity is all along
the seldom’ having been more
distributed. Money continues
easy in the great centers although the

line,

now new
ing $708,000,000.

There is less of disturbance in the
labor reaction than could have
Many centers where union
inflation has carried beyond
the of continued opera-
tion are taking the bull by the horns
and are either reducing wages and
putting hours on a normal basis, or
are shutting down’ entirely and then
starting up with a new force and new
agreements. These movements are
going far to give unionism an effect-
ive quietus.

Among the industries iron and steel
take the lead in encouragement. Sales,
while not large as compared with two
years ago, are steadily increasing and
numerous inquiries indicate that the
expansion will continue
siderable time to come.
activity is also the rule among tex-
tile factories, the most idleness being
found in cotton, which seems slow in
resuming normal conditions. As the
price of the staple continues high
and stocks of goods are low in deal-

expected.
wages
possibility

for a con-

and new |

not only are the |

more |

gradual |

Compared with same time |

- | country.

been |
|

Increasing |

ers’ hands, prices are maintained in
spite of the dullness. Prices of wool
are also well maintained but as deal-
ers are able to get good prices for
the goods, factories are fairly busy.
Boots and shoes are showing a more
healthy movement again and _ the
prospect of spring business is most
encouraging.

 

 

BADLY ADVISED.
The controversy
| between the Country Peddlers’ Asso-
and the Grand Rapids Retail

 

which has arisen

ciation
Association is almost amus-
Simply
of the Grand
Grocers’

|

Grocers’

| ing enough to be ridiculous.
the members
| Rapids Retail

because
Association

the

whether

have always stood for enforce-
the

ito city or country peddlers, the ped-

ment of law, it relates

dling organization above referred to
issued for
the arrest of Edward White,
Albert Stein, the butcher, for
alleged violation of the State peddling
law they solicit
telephone and by

has caused warrants to be

the gro-

cer, and

license because or-

ders by house to

| house calls, to be filled from stock.

The Tradesman has no idea _ that
these arrests are caused im good
| faith, believing they have been pre-

cipitated spirit of re-
i venge, which will react upon the poor
dupes

cution.

solely in a

who. have authorized the prose-

The the attorney
who represents the peddling gang 1s
| not

name of

disclosed, but certainly no attor-

ney of any character or standing
would advise clients to embark in a
| prosecution of this kind,

not

which does

rest on basis Of law or
is inspired solely

stupidity and

any

eauity and which

by malice, ignorance,
general cussedness.
SNS
Very many people are sorry to
| hear the announcement that probably
Joe Jefferson will not again appear
jon the American stage. Despite his
| advanced age he has made short trips
|every season and delighted tens of
|thousands of hearers all over’ the
His Rip Van Winkle stands
unrivaled and never fails to draw and
entertain a crowd. It is not repre-
sented that he is on the brink of the
grave or any nearer to it than the
man of his years, but his
health is not such as will permit him
to endure the incident to
travel and nightly appearances,
for a few

average

fatigue
even
weeks continuously. That
been well  pre-
constitution
have been evidenced by the fact that
he has been able to keep before the
public so long. No other actor is
more endeared to the people of this
country than Joe Jefferson and _al-
though he bids farewell to the stage
the hope is generally expressed that
his life may be spared for years and
years to come.

he has exceedingly

served and is of strong

 

 

Frederick W. Job, Secretary of the
| Chicago Employers’ Association, re-
| cently Chicago as ‘a
boiling, seething pot of industrial hell,
where thugs assassination
to intimidate honest labor.” The
program of many of the unions, he
said, was to “organize to-day, strike
to-morrow and commit murder the
next day.”

referred to

FesOort to

 

 

ORGANIZED LABOR.

It Cripples Industry and Destroys
Our Industrial System.*

 

I have been asked to speak to you
to-night upon the subject of employ-
ers’ associations and the organized
labor problem, and having accepted
the invitation I shall speak from the
shoulder, presenting the question of
organized labor as it is, offering no
apologies for its cussedness or ex-
cuses for the shortcomings of its
leaders, whose heads the re-
sponsibility for the crimes commit-
ted in its name must lie.

upon

In speaking of organized labor,
however, I wish it understood that
my remarks are directed to that type
which favors involuntary membership
and resorts to the strike as a means
of enforcing its demands.

No problem has ever caused the
American people so much anxiety
annoyance. No question
ever kept the country in such a con-
stant state of chaos and unrest for
so long a time, and no organization
of men, not excepting the Ku-Klux-
Klan, the Mafia, or the Black Hand
societies, has ever produced such a
record of barbarism as has this so-
called organized labor society, which
through misdirected sympathy, apa-
thy and indifference has been per-
mitted to grow up to cripple our in-
dustries, and trample in the dust the
natural and constitutional rights of
our citizens. Nor has any body of
men in this country ever so openly
and so defiantly attempted to over-
ride and set at naught the laws of the
land. Therefore, these charges being
indisputable facts it is no time now
to deal with the question tenderly
or mince words in handling it.

and

Not only does it affect our manu-
facturing and other employing inter-
but reach out
into every avenue of life, and per-

ests, its ramifications

meate every community of citizens. |

Modern unionism is

Its managers are principally foreign-
s y

ers. Its methods and principles are

dominated and carried into execution |
by foreigners of turbulent, militant, |

socialistic and anarchistic
and it should therefore be treated by
Americans as antagonistic to Amer-
ican liberty. Moreover, it should not
longer be encouraged nor ought it
be tolerated on American soil until
it shall purge itself of that pernic-
ious corruption which now brands it
with the marks of Mafiaism.

Let the militant socialists, the
anarchists, and all the other elements
of society that desire and _ foster
chaos and prefer government which
not government at all, go by
themselves to some lone island in the
midst of the where they can
put into practice their ideas of lib-
erty and fight them out among them-
selves; not attempt and persist in
their efforts to break up and destroy
the pease and tranquility of the
otherwise most prosperous and hap-
py people on the face of God’s green
earth.

The persistency with which organ-

is

sea,

 

*Address by John Kirby, Jr., President of the
Employers’ Association of D»yton, before Michi-
gan Manufacturers’ Association.

ized labor continues to attack
|

has |

un-American |
and is not controlled by Americans. |

instincts, |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the
natural economic law of supply and
| demaead: and the conscienceless man-

potic and barbarous methods of en-
forcing its demands, are, or should
be, sufficient warning to the patriotic
citizens of this country as to what
its further growth and development
would mean to the nation, and the
embargo it would place upon the
rights of its citizens, be they labor-
ing men, capitalists or what they
may.

Organized labor began to assert
itself to a noticeable extent in this
country about fifty years ago, during
which time it has experienced many
ups and downs but, owing to selfish-
ness and cowardice on the part of
employers, who have permitted their
manhood to be shattered into frag-
ments to be devoured by workless la-
| bor agitators, its career has been one
of mostly “ups” until it has grown
from a small laudable beginning in-
to a gigantic law-defying labor trust,
with an avowed policy to rule or
lruin the industrial and mercantile
commerce of the country.

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It is a trust which, while proclaim-
ing its emblem to be the uplifting of
the toiling masses, has proved itself
to be a detriment and a curse to the
|name of labor, an obstruction and a

disgrace to the honest, industrious
wage-earner, and a_ miserable nui-

sance to all mankind save the shift-
less, indolent and noisy agitators
who control and manage its affairs
to their own ends and purposes—a
| trust that reflects discredit and
|shame on those of its dupes who,
ithrough the use of brass knuckles
and dynamite, have been forced
surrender their individuality and ac-
cept its yoke of bondage rather than
to endure its tyranny.

 

to

|in protecting self-respecting men in
their right to earn a living without
subjecting themselves to the servi-
tude of labor unionism, as they now
|are doing in many instances, we
| would not be confronted with union-
ism as it now exists.

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| Had the employers done their duty
|
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Therefore the manufacturer and
the merchant, more than any others,
are responsible for the present labor
for whatsoever a
man soweth that shall he also reap,
j}and when he permits those whom
lhe knows to be, not only his own
enemies, but enemies of the Govern-
ment under which he lives, to fasten
their fangs upon his natural and con-
stitutional rights, and upon the same
rights of those whom he employs and
who have a right to expect him to
protect them in the enjoyment of
those rights, and bit by bit tear those
'rights asunder without properly and
| manfully resisting the encroachment,
| he should expect to reap the “whirl-
wind” when the harvest time comes.

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considerations,
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| Animated by success, and conscious
'of their power, the attitude of the
labor agitators and _ leaders has
gradually grown bolder and bolder
until it has become analogous to that
of the pro-slavery agitators and lead-
ers of fifty years ago. And, like
them, not content to let well enough
alone, the labor leaders are trying to

 

 

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| ner with which it clings to its des-| that to which the negro was sub-
| | jected.

 

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force upon the American people a |
iniversal system of slavery even more |
degrading and more damnable than

In open defiance of the declaration
of independence, and of the constitu- |
tion of the United States, these men |
persistently and viciously hammer
away in their effort to break down)
and destroy those principles of equal
and inalienable rights which our fore-
fathers, after long years of sacrifice
and war, succeeded in establishing |
for the enjoyment of the generations |
which were to live after them, and|
which in their wisdom they _ safe-|
guarded to the greatest possible ex- |
tent against overthrow by the rabble |
element of society from foreign lands, |
which they foresaw would flock to|
our shores, bringing with them seeds |
of anarchy and discontent for propa- |

gation in our fertile soil.

The history of organized labor}
speaks for itself. Argument is no}
longer necessary to prove the right |

It has been |
and found |

or wrong of its policy.
weighed in the balance
wanting.

Organized labor is the same wher- |
ever you find it—it is no different in|
Colorado from what it is in Michigan.
Its diabolical acts are limited only |
by its opportunities and its belief |
in its power to evade punishment |
through its grip on politicians; its
ability to procure perjured testimony; |
the methods by which it coerces and |
brow-beats the public into fear of |
testifying against it, and its friends |
in the jury box. Its policy is
rule or ruin, and for it to rule is but}
to ruin.

to |

You have here in the city of De-|
troit, one, if not two, of the largest
manufacturing plants the |
established, in a small way,
many years These institutions
have, from their primitive beginning,
by wise and judicious management, |
through all the cares and trials in- |
volved in such enterprises, weather-
ed the storm of competition and in-

stove in
world,

ago.

dustrial risks, and risen to the prom-
inence they now occupy in the field
of industry.

Now let us for the moment place
these concerns at the mercy of or-
ganized labor and subject to its dic- |
tation, according to Gompers’ alleged |
idea of its right to control the man- |
agement of the industries of the |
country, and what condition of af-
fairs do we find to exist? Why, we
find two great manufacturing estab-
lishments, with their staffs of mana-
gers and heads of departments con-
fronted with the proposition that
they are not managers or heads. of
departments at all, and that they do}
not represent the owners af the
properties further than to provide
the money necessary to meet the pay
rolls and other obligations of the
companies. We find matters of dis-
cipline, output per employe, hours
and price of labor, and the question
of who shall and who shall not be
employed, together with numerous
other details of management, subject,
absolutely, to the whims and fancies
of some so-called executive board,
lacking in business experience and

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with practically no knowledge what-
ever of the details of the particular
business in question, none of whom
have a dollar invested in either of
the enterprises, sitting in pompous
dignity, perhaps hundreds of miles
away, framing rules and regulations
and adopting conditions under which
these great industries must operate
or go out of business. Not even is
the disposal of the product of these
plants under the control of their
owners, the conditions
which that great tribunal of labor
wise-acres sees fit to impose upon
them are complied with they assume
authority to say to the merchant,
“You shall not deal in that product;
we will ruin your business if you
do.” And woe to the workingman
who dares to violate the injunction
likewise placed upon him. A beauti-
ful gentlemen, neither vi-
sionary nor imaginary, but the real
thing, and worthy of your thoughtful
consideration.

for unless

picture,

Who, I ask, gentlemen, is respon-
sible for the headway the demand for
the closed shop has made this
country to date, and I answer, the

in

|employers and politicians who have

tolerated and indorsed it. When an

| employer contracts with a labor union

to employ none but members of the
union he closes his shop to all free
and independent workingmen; he
closes it to the boy who wants to
become a useful mechanic; he closes
it against his own management and
places himself in the light of a mere
tool in the hands of his enemy; he
his back on the constitution
of the United States and violates its
most sacred provisions.

turns

When an employer enters into such

1a contract he there and then becomes

a conspirator under the law, for our
courts have decreed time and again
that such contracts are conspiracies;
that they are in direct opposition to
the fundamental principle upon which
this founded, and
that they are discriminative in charac-
ter and antagonistic to public policy.

Government was

The closed shop contract is a crime
against honest labor; it destroys am-
bition: it breeds violence and crime,
and incites men to murder. It is the
thing which the rabid, lawless
element of the unions will fight hard-
est and longest to establish and main-
tain, and for which they will stop
at nothing to accomplish.

One

When employers sign the closed
shop contract they know it to be
and that they are signing
away their birthright for a mess of
pottage. They know they are boost-
ing a principle that should not be
permitted to get even a foothold on
American soil. They know that they
forcing thousands of true and
loyal American workingmen into an

wrong,

are

organization which robs them of
their liberty to think and act for
themselves, and which the employers
despise and condemn. They know
that when they enter into such a
contract they are putting their
shoulder to the wheel of socialism

and anarchy and increasing the dan-
ger to American institutions. And
they know, too, that if the law was
enforced they would not dare to en-

 

  

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

ter into such contracts, because they
are conspiracies, under the law,
against all who are excluded from
employment under them by reason
of non-membership in this associa-

tion or that, and they know, or

should know, that they can be held!
both criminally and civilly liable and |
punished by fine and imprisonment |

for participating in such contracts.

The declaration of
the constitution of the
States and our civil and
time man’s

and established for all

right to independence in all things |

not in conflict with the
others, and no man or body of men

has a right to demand that he or'|
they shall be permitted to enjoy the |

right to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness to the
law is

right. All that any

organization he may or may
long. If that protection is
him, then our whole system of Gov-
ernment is a mockery and a farce.

I have said before, and I now re-
peat, that were it not for the cow-

ardice and selfishness of the employ- |

ers we would not now be face to
face with the proposition as it is
presented to us.

Just so long as it is

jobs

we have organized labor, with all its

cussedness, with us, and its power |
and influence will be no greater nor |
less than the employing classes per- |

independence, ;

United |
criminal |
laws, formed thereon, have laid down |

rights of |

exclusion of |
other men; the law says this, and the |
citizen |
can demand is protection under the}
law, and that every citizen has the|
right to demand, no matter to what |
not be- |
denied |

possible, |
through agitation and the preaching |
of hatred and discontent, to create |
for trouble breeders who de-|
spise honest toil, just so long will |

mit it to be; the power is in their |

hands; it always has been and al-|
ways will be; they have to a great |
during the|

extent found this out
past few years, and by organization
have wielded their power to the ex-

combined resistance they have won
industrial peace and quiet, or are win-
ning it. Look back over the
few years, cast your eye over the
country and pause at the cities that
were hot-beds of unionism but which,
through organization of employers’
associations or _ citizens’
are now enjoying industrial peace.
The time is past when sentiment
should be permitted to enter into the
question of labor unionism. It has
grown fat on sentiment and public
sympathy. The time was when pub-

lic sentiment leaned toward the cause |
of labor unions because it was sup- |
and purpose |

posed that their aim
was to elevate the working people,
but it has become indisputably evi-
dent that such is not the legitimate
aim of those who dominate the

unions and whose real object is to}

build up a tyrannical system in which
they can figure as leaders and in-
sure for themselves occupations and
prominence whereby they may live
from the sweat of others’ brows and
by labor which they do not perform.
They are happiest when their dupes
are in idleness and distress, and they
busy themselves in

peace and harmony into chaos and
disorder.

When they succeed in stopping the
wheels of industry they feel their im-
|; portance and see their opportunity
| for graft, and with employers unor-
ganized their task is an easy one,
for single-handed and alone no em-
| ployer can permanently resist their
| onslaughts, nor can prosperity long
be with an employer whom they at-
tack except he have the aid and sup-
port of organization of employers. It
is, therefore, the duty of every em-
| ployer of labor to do his full share

toward suppressing the evils. of
unionism and keeping them _— sup-
| pressed.

The indifference displayed by em-
ployers with reference to employ-
ers’ associations is something almost
inconceivable. They have witnessed
the growth of present conditions with
passive indifference and until re-
cently took but very little interest
in the only possible means of check-
ing its progress, namely, that of or-
ganization and education.

However, just so long as organized
labor continues to preach and teach
ithe socialistic doctrine that labor and
| capital are antagonistic to each other,
and must necessarily be so; so long
as it teaches the doctrine of hatred
and discontent; so long as it employs
| the strike, with its pickets and as-
|saults upon independent workmen;
so long as it continues to breed trou-
ble and stir up turbulence and strife;
so long as it persists in depriving the
youth of America from learning
trades of usefulness, and so long as
its present general policy is pursued,
just so long must the sober, right-
minded, law-abiding citizens of the
country be thoroughly organized to
combat it, and that will be for a
long time to come.

The fact having become generally
recognized that organization is the
only means by which the tide of so-

| cialistic unionism can be stayed, the
tent that wherever they have shown |

question arises what form or forms

| of organization are or will be most ef-

fective?
past |

alliances, |

While organization of em-
ployers, and citizens, for the purpose,
|is of but recent growth, yet the ex-
| periences of the past few years dem-
onstrate: (1) that the various crafts
'should have their local state and na-
tional organizations; (2) that in every
|community there should be either a
| local Employers’ Association compris-
|ing employers of labor in practically
| all lines of business, or a Citizens’ In-
| dustrial Association or Citizens’ Al-
| liance, composed of law-abiding citi-
| zens, whether employers of labor or
not, and (3) that all these organiza-
tions should be federated into one
| national organization.

The cardinal objects of these as-
| sociations should be: First, to see
| that no man’s right to peacefully earn
a living, at honest labor, is in any
|manner abridged.

Second, to see that every man’s
|right to industrial pursuit, under the
| constitution, is not interfered with
by any man or any body of men.
Third, to mold public sentiment in
|favor of the rigid enforcement of
| law, and to influence legislation tend-

transforming | ing to uphold our American institu-

 

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“the flour the best cooks use,” which the
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

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tions and to prevent the enactment

of laws antagonistic to American lib-

erty, and
Fourth, to the

educate masses

against fallacious teachings antago- |

nistic to those principles, and _ to
counteract the evil influence of the
great mass of literature which is scat-
tered broadcast over this country by
socialistic trade unions.

Every employer should be a mem-
ber of his particular craft organiza-
tion. Every manufacturer should be
associated with the National Asso-
ciation of Manufacturers, which now
has an enrollment of over 3,000 mem-
bers and is an organization of great
“power and influence. It has accom-
plished a great work in educating the

manufacturers of the country, and

 

they need it, on the line of duty re- |
garding the labor problem, and its |

influence in our national legislature |
has already been demonstrated. But, |

as it is an association of manufactur-
ers its efforts to create a general pub-

lic sentiment antagonistic to union-|

ism are very naturally looked upon
as a class against class movement.
In order that organization may be

cemplete and the ground thoroughly |

covered, the Citizens’ Industrial As- |
sociation of America has been formed. |

“It is possible for this Association |
to create such a strong public senti- |

ment against the abuses of which we |

complain, as to teach the agitators,
who are putting forth such strenuous
efforts to undermine our institutions
and destroy our social and industrial

|
|

}

systems, a comprehensive and lasting |

lesson that this country is for Amer-
icans- and those who wish to become
Americans, and that no_ turbulent
body of hoboes and aliens will ever
be permitted to transform it into a

3edlam.”
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The Man Who Makes Mistakes.
It is by no means a new concep-
tion in commercial circles that the

man who makes mistakes, and who |

therefore finds himself an object of
censure from his employer, may real-
ly be a very valuable employe. Yet
it has probably occurred to but few
people who toil for success that there

is a corollary to the effect that he
who goes on in his placid business

way year after year, without being
guilty of a single error, is a positive
menace to the well-being of the one
who engages his services.

No American business man under-
stood this latter proposition better
than the late Eben D. Jordan, of
Boston, founder of the great dry
goods house of Jordan, Marsh & Co.

During one of his daily — strolls
through the store Mr. Johnson’s
glance fell upon one of his men

who, for ten years, had been at the
head of a certain department.

“That reminds me,’ mused Mr.
Jordan, “that I made a note yester-
day to look into the record of this
Mr. Smith. I’ll do so to-day.”

Returning to his private office he
sent for one of his head men and en-
quired:

“What sort of a fellow is Smith?”

“Thhe very best sort, I consider
him,” replied the subordinate.

“T am very glad to hear that,”
quoth Mr. Jordan. “He has_ had

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charge of his department for ten
years, I believe.”
“Yes, sir, and he has a unique rec-

ord. He has never made a mis- |
take’ |
“Eh? What's. that? Discharge
him at once.”
“Sir?” stammered the surprised
subordinate. |

“No, on second thought,” contin-
ued Mr. Jordan, “you needn’t dis-
charge him right away. I’ll give him |
another chance. Send him in_ to

2?

me.

Smith came, entering the private
office with some trepidation.

“Sit down, Smith,” said Mr. Jor-|
dan, kindly. “I have been told that}
you have had charge of your depart-
ment for ten years, and that you
have never committed a blunder.”

“Such, I believe, has been my rec-
ord, sir,” replied Smith, who now saw |
his way to certain promotion.

“I want you to mend your ways,
Mr. Smith,’ went on his employer. |

“But I don’t understand you, sir,”
was the astonished man’s reply. |

“JT dare say you don’t.. That’s what |
I wanted to see you about, Mr.|
Smith. I don’t like men who never |
make mistakes. What I need here
is a progressive man—one with plen-
ty of push and enterprise. Now, a
man who is full of zeal for me and
primed with ambition for himself is |
sure to make a mistake now and|
then. The man who never blunders |
is too cautious, too slow to be worth
much here. Recently I had a state-
ment made out showing me the per-|
centage of increase or decrease in the |
business of each department. I am
sorry to say that your department
is the only one that causes me any
uneasiness. I find the reason to be
that you are too infernally cautious.
You never make any mistakes! Un-|
less you can soon show me_ some |
changes in your methods, Mr. Smith, |
you will not be a candidate for con- |
tinued employment in this establish-
ment.”

“Then you want me to make mis- |
takes hereafter?” cried the amazed |
department manager.

“There, again, you have failed to
get the idea. The man who makes
a lot of senseless blunders is an
expensive luxury. The man who nev- |
er does anything foolish is equally
useless. Provided you blunder once
in a while, and yet show me that
your department is becoming increas-
ingly profitable to me. I shall not con-
sider you a valuable man. Think over
what I have said to you, Mr. Smith.
It is equally applicable to any busi-
ness that calls for progressive men
and methods. If at any time you
are in doubt, come to me for advice.
Remember that in my life of striving
and struggling I have made plenty
of blunders, and yet have made some

1
|

money, too. It is restless zeal that
counts. Go back to your department,
Mr. Smith. I will give you two

months in which to redeem yourself.”

It is worth while recording that
Smith lost, with reason, much of his
complacency about the absence of
mistakes in his work, but he showed
an improved balance sheet and re-
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Raising Cranberries on the Marshes
of the Middle West.

Perhaps there is no fruit or vege-

table that comes regularly to the ta-

| gates and water so the ground may |
| be flooded at frequent intervals, a|

process that is necessary everywhere |
| to the raising of a full crop.

The East is practically the

| place where the improving of the

ground through additions of sand and

| replanting of the moors is resorted
ito. Here in the Middle West, Wis-

|the order named, being the

ble of the householder of whose ori- |}

gin, manner of growth and cultiva-

tion and habitat the average person!

= so familiar as_ the
berry. With the advent of
and the cold weather which presages
Thanksgiving and turkeys, cranberry
sauce becomes an ac‘ive subject for
the consideration of the commission
men handle the fruit of
city as well as of the boy who glor-
ies in the contemplation of himself
lathered to the ears in the red juice
of this popular accompaniment of
the holiday turkey.
Tradition has marked the

cran-

who

Cran

Begin-
where the

ticles that go hand in hand.
ning in New. England,

berry was first cultivated, the cus-

consin, Michigan and Minnesota, in
only
States that produce this fruit to any
extent, the land which 1s at all

adapted to this kind of farming is

| sufficiently heavy to produce excel-

autumn |

this |

|far exceeds that of Michigan

artificial aid
ditch and

little
water

lent results with
that of the
sluice gate.

save

Wisconsin in particular, with its
many Swampy sections, has hundreds
of acres of unused marshes that could
be profitably utilized for cranberry
culture. While the crop of this State
and
Minnesota combined, its possibilities

iin this line have only begun to be

tom of serving cranberry sauce with}

the bird of Thanksgiving has spread

day gorge where turkey is served,
from one corner of the land of the
free to the other. But when it
comes to knowing what the cranberry
is, where and how it is grown, and
the many other things incident to
its culture and harvest, the average
person is quite ignorant.

No further than up in Wisconsin
there are a number of farmers who
devote themselves exclusively to
raising cranberries. Likewise in this
same State there are localities where

each other as the strength of the|

a good quality of the berries grow |
wild in the many marshes and are|
picked by whoever finds their way to}

them first.

This is perhaps more in |

accordance with the usual idea of the}
matter, for the cranberry is seldom |

regarded by the layman as a

vated agricultural product. Both

culti- |

of the instances cited, however, are |
facts in the case of cranberries et al. |

Cape Cod is the center of the cran- |
berry industry in this country. Here |
on the low lying moors the land is |
especially adapted for this kind of |}
farming, and years of experience and |
adaptation have resulted in the Cape |

Cod fruit being made the
rosiest and richest in appearance, and
as color and appearance are what
goes to make the cranberry popular,
Cape Cod is given the palm for ex-
cellence in this line.

In New Jersey also much land is

reddest, |

|
|

|
|

/ | developed.
berry and turkey as gastronomic ar- !

The limitless Horicon marshes,
near Berlin, Wis., may be set down

as the center of the industry in the

West. Here the berries originally
grew wild, but by cultivation and

: a ‘ -, | propagation of the best species of
until now it is an actual necessity | P™OP@S st species

: u i ee - | the plants
to the successful completion of holi- |

the farmers have raised
these giant marshes from ordinary
water covered moors with berries
growing only in occasional patches
to well ordered and managed grounds,
which in some places show solid
felds of vines a mile in length.

on vines about

Cranberries grow

the height of a blueberry bush, but)

possessing none of the strength in
their branches of that bush. They
grow like marsh grass, as close to

ground will allow, and in an old
marsh fairly cover the grounds with
their vines. In the autumn before
the pickers start work a fertile cran-
berry marsh is carpeted with a cover
of dark red which nearly obscures
the grasses upon which the berries
grow.

The first process in the forming of
cranberry ground in Wisconsin isto
dig canals and ditches from some
nearby lake or river, so that water

may be run on to the marsh when |

This in itself
Then

necessary.

pensive process. it will take

three years or more of careful, in-|
telligent and hard work before the|
marsh is ready to yield a profitable |
have be-|
gun bearing the woes and troubles |

harvest. After the vines

| of the cranberry farmer are over, as

|

| years
| propagate themselves and yield good |
crops on the same piece of ground. |

given over to cranberry raising, but |
the Jersey product does not approach
that of Massachusetts as to quality. |

The methodof raising this berry
vary with the land the farmer has
to work with.
have low lying and rich ground if he
is to make the business a profitable
venture.
of the bogs is so loose that it must

fit to receive the berry plants. In
other places all that is necessary is
to ditch the field and provide sluice

Invariably he must

In some places the earth |

there is apparently no limit to the
that they will continue to

All that he must watch is that the

marsh has enough water and enough |
drought and his crop is assured. It |

is necessary to keep the ground un-

der water for a week in the spring |
|and frequently for the same length |

of time in the fall to avoid frosts.
The harvesting of the cranberry

| crop affords a problem the success-
be given a coat of sand before it is |

ful solution of which through me-
chanical means holds out the offer
of a fortune to some one. At pres-
ent the work is all done by hand.

only |

is an ex-|

|

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The picking in the nearby states be-
gins in October, when the vines are
dead and the fruit ripe. The pickers
work on their hands and knees, or,
where the bushes are exceptionally
thick, they sit squatted. The mode
of picking is to take the stem of the
vine between the fingers and strip
it upwards, taking with the berries
leaves and small branches. The
picker works until the space within
reach has been cleared, then moves
to the center of another patch.

The work of picking is slow and
tedious and the cranberry farmer
must hire a great number of help in
order to get it done’ before cold
weather sets in. In a large marsh
at times 200 men, women and chil-
dren are seen crawling their way
over the ground, leaving behind them
a swath of green that contrasts
strangely with the red before them.

The yield of an acre of cranberry
marsh in good years compares favor-
ably with any crop. It is common
for a farmer to get 100 bushels from
one acre of ground, and the price of
the berries varies from $1 a bushel
to $2. However, as it costs abouta
cent a quart for the picking, it will
be seen that, computing the cost of
barrels, etc. the earnings of the
farmer are cut down considerably.

This year will be good for the
man engaged in cranberry culture.
The crop is fair and the prices will
be about the average. It is expected
that the prices will open at $6 to $8

a barrel, and maintain this standard |

There are a hundred
quarts in the barrel. Counting the
cost of picking and packing, the
farmer should this year clear from
$4 to $6 on each barrel that he sends
out. If he has much land that yields
100 bushels or £0 the acre
will make good profits. But it takes
years of cultivation to bring a marsh
up to the standard where it will yield
thus, and, besides, success in this line
requires a special knowledge of the
berry and its peculiarities.

Henry C. Powell.

for the season.

more he

Effect of a Sea Voyage on Cheese.

Liverpool, Eng., July 29—Some
time ago a well known firm in Bow-
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in Perth, Western Australia. The re-
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a most aristocratic condition,’ ” says
the recipient, “ it was so high that
when we took the lid off the box we
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a real Cheshire cheese, and about a
thousand people have walked past our
store in the hope of getting a sniff
of it. So far the grocers talk of hav-

ing it cremated, because they say that
now the Perth public have been let
into the secret of what cheese is really
made of they will never be satisfied
with the stuff they get

here and

| gain his ends.

 

 

call it cheese. When it landed here it
was a bit high. I expect the heat
of the tropics set it ripening. After
being exposed to the cold for a day
or two it is all right. We have treat- |
ed many of our friends to a taste, |
and they are all pleased with it; so|
are we.”

FORORS LUSCLOE OE OUECLOROCE 08 OF OR OS DEER ONONOK OEOEOR

———_+~2__
Try Diplomacy in Collecting.

To collect accounts from
quent customers whose trade the re- |
tailer desires to hold is a delicate |
operation and must be handled with |
care.

delin- |

Getting ‘delinquent accounts squar- |
ed up without losing the customer

calls for the usé of diplomacy,

“smoothness.” In writing letters to|
customers who are behind in their |
accounts the diplomatic merchant |

He knows that it}
is necessary to avoid it, if he would}

avoids bluntness.

methods, “coarse |
may make the customer set- |
tle his account the faster, Dut it|

means the loss of his trade, which is

Roughshod
work,”

sometimes desicable to hold, notwith- |
standing his known inclination to)
put off the day of payment.

Collecting is really an art, andthe
good collector must be something of |
a diplomat. Ask for the money that
is due you; keep after it until it is|
paid; but, unless you are convinced |
the customer is a dead beat, whose
trade you do not want, ask for it in
the right way, not too aggressively |
and not in a way to give offense— |
that is, unless you do not wish the
delinquent’s custom any longer.

~~
Recent Business Changes Among
Indiana Merchants.
Marion—Tudor & Strange, retail
cigar dealers, are succeeded by Le-
roy Tudor.
kochester—Trickle ros. have
purchased the grocery stock of A.
Clifton. |
South Bend—M. P. Runyan, fur-|

niture dealer, is succeeded by Runyan |
& Lee.

South Bend—Schuler & Kingel,
wholesale dealers, are succeeded by |
Jas. A. Schuler.

South Bend—R. H. Woods & Co.,|
druggists, have changed their style}
of title to S. Scott & Co.

Indianapolis—Andrew Hermanny
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Indianapolis—A
appointed to close up the business of |
the E. T. Kenney Co., dealer in ag-|
ricultural implements.

Valparaiso—A receiver has been ap-

receiver has been

pointed to close up the drug busi- |
ness of Newland & Collins.
SE

Successful have
made in various forests of France in
cutting trees by means of electricity. |
A platinum wire is heated to a white |
heat by an electric current and used |
like a saw. In this manner the tree!
is felled much more easily and quick- |
ly than in the old way. No sawdust |
is produced and the slight carboniza-
tion caused by the hot wire acts as a
preservative of the wood. The old/
sawing methods took eight times as |
long for the same work as the new |
process,

experiments been

For fifteen years I have worked to build up a

Good
Michigan Cheese
_ Trade

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

Fred M. Warner, Farmington, Mich.

 

Butter

It looks now as though the markets would do a little bit

 

better than they are at present on ordinary fresh dairies or fresh
packing stock. Probably next week they will be a half cent
higher but they are getting pretty near to the top, in my opinion.

There is nothing in particular to warrant any more advance.
Pastures never were better. Stocks in storage are about as
they were last year. With the present good demand the coun-

try will consume a great deal of stock, but prices have got to be

ke, t reasonable to ever unload it all.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

     

|

ible for the small hardware man of
| this city to exist and make a little
| money besides.”

While much of this wail of being
| crowded out by superior competition
is undoubtedly true and just it is al-
| so true that there are plenty of pros-

(ey

 

 

Small Hardware Dealer Relies on Re- |
pair Work.
If there is any business that is es-

perous small hardware stores to be
found in the outlying districts of the

ecially adapted to the man who has | city. Some of them have been estab-
eo i “5 | lished in the one place for years, and

a knack for doing “odd jobs” it is the :
: | these seem to hold their custom de-
business of the small hardware deal-| _. : ‘
: | spite the effect of the before-mention-
er. Although the complaint among ae
oe 3 ed conditions. Many of them have
the storekeepers of this type is that} '
: _ **| stocks that represent a total outlay
the great part of the business is in|; :
a of several thousands of dollars, and if
the hands of the department stores, | wo :
: : agsie all visible signs are to be taken asa
there is still a field in it for the man} : :
: : i . .,,| Standard of judgment they are decid-
who makes the repair and “odd job :
edly profitable establishments.

department the main issue in his en-|
terprise. |

One store situated on a prominent
| thoroughfare does a business that re-

A hardware dealer of the West! "- :
Side, in speaking of the business | quires the constant services of two
? : = . o> > | : ul ee
said: “If the man in this line to- clerks besides the proprietor. This is

day was to depend upon his ordinary a small store, and wee began
sales for sustenance his business | Several years ago with only himself
etl tees The ccllee of bora. (| for the store and the outside
ware of all kinds is now largely in | Work combined. The sales in a hard-
the hands of the big department | ware store do not run up in numbers
stores and the easy payment houses. | as they do in a grocery or a meat

i market, but the percentage of profit
is considerably higher. The stock to
begin with will cost considerably
more, and before a trade is worked
up that will yield substantial returns
in one particular place
must be maintained for several years.
Trade comes slower to the man in|
this line than in many others.

For instance, in the matter of stoves.
A few years ago one of the princi-|
pal sources of income for the hard- |
ware man was in the sale of these. |
Each fall he could surely depend up- | i
on selling enough stoves at a fair |* location
profit to make the fall trade a big)
thing to look forward to. Now he}
doesn’t bother even to keep his stock
up, for he knows that he won't sell |
stoves enough each year to pay his |
light bills with.

There may be said to be two sea-
sons to this business. One is when
the people of a city are preparing for

“The stove business, besides the | the summer with screens, ice boxes,
inroads that furnaces and individual | ¢te- The other is when preparations
heating plants have made into it, has | being made for the winter. How-

are

 

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Send us your mail or-

ders. Our stock is com-

plete. If you failed to
receive our 1904 Cata-
logue let us know at
once. We want you to

have one as it illus-

trates our entire line of

 

tackle.
Shakespeare’s Level Winding Reel.

Nilesh

113-115 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Michigan Agents for
Warren Mixed Paints, “White Seal” Lead, Ohio Varnish Co.’s “Chi. Namel’’ at wholesale

 

 

 

 

been spoiled for the small dealer by | Ve! all through the summer his busi-
the installment house people. Folks | "€SS is better than in the winter, for
don’t buy a stove more than once with building operations the call for
or twice in a lifetime, and one of | Mails, tin and other incidentals cre-
those times is sure to be when they | ates a volume of business that yields
are first married and beginning to | 8Teater results than the winter de-
keep house. Where they used to| mand. Also in the summer there is |
come to the small dealer in their own |@ greater call for the tinfitter.

Most |
neighborhood and buy one or two} hardware men do this kind of work. |
stoves they now go downtown and

There is a good profit in it, and |
get their complete outfit at so much | ™40y of the larger stores employ |
month. That

they do unless | two oF three men and take contracts
they are going to put in a furnace.

a is,

for fitting large buildings from roof

“The department stores have cut to cellar.
woefully into all branches of the! With the advent of cold weather
business. In the matter of screen | comes the overhauling of stores and

furnaces. Frequently there are re-
pairs to be made and new parts to
be fitted. There are stoves to be
set up, pipe to be cut and fitted, and
chimneys to be prepared for the
winter’s smoke. In all of these oper-
ations the work of the hardware man
enters to a considerable extent. For
these things people seldom go down

doors, once a sure source of profit |
for the small dealer each spring, the
large stores are able to keep in
stock constantly an amount and va-
riety of screens so large that evenif
the small storekeeper could sell as|
cheap he could hardly compete suc- |
cessfully with the big fellows. All
the way through the line the same |
may be said to be true; the big estab- | town. It is much more convenient
lishments have killed or at least se- | to call in the nearby dealer and have
riously wounded the smaller. | him measure a room to ascertain the
“The only place where the smal] | amount of pipe to be used before the
man holds over the big one here is | Same is bought. He is kept busy in
in the matter of repairing and in odd | this season, but the work is not so
job work. This is something neither | profitable as the building lines of the
the easy payment fellow nor the de- | business.
partment store can take away from) To be able to do this kind of work
us. We are near the customer in| to the satisfaction of one’s patrons
those matters, and we get their busi-| it is necessary that one is apt at per-
ness. Then, of course, there are the | forming the difficult little jobs inci-
lines of pipe, cornices and general tin- | dent to the fitting of a stove pipe and
smithing. These develop with athe proper equipping of a_ furnace.

Buy Glass Now

Stocks in the hands of jobbers are badly broken and jobbers are
finding difficulty in getting desirable sizes. Glass factories have
stopped for the summer and will not resume operations until
September or October. This means glass cannot reach our terri-
tory until the middle of November. In 30 days glass will be
higher. The time to buy is NOW. Send in specifications and
let us quote you.

Grand Rapids Glass & Bending Co.

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Factory and Warehouse Kent and Newberry Streets

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

man’s energies, and make it possi- | The average man engaged in the an-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

 

 

Use Tradesman Coupons

 

15

 

 

nual custom of establishing the house-
hold stove for the winter is more apt
to invent new and wonderful exam-
ples of profanity than to complete the
work satisfactorily. However, the
man who makes a specialty of this
kind of work comes to the house,
tackles the tangle of stove and pipe
cheerfully and finishes the work with
a smoothness and expedition that are
exasperating to the layman who has
struggled with the same articles in
vain.

This necessitates that the hardware
repair man be one of the handy ones
of the earth. He must be able to
handle all kinds of light tools well,
and, above all, he must know the
trade of the tinsmith before he can
hope to make a success in his busi-
ness. The capital he will need to
get a start need not exceed a_ few
hundred doliars, as he can begin ona
small scale, depending upon the out-
side work he gets for his living, and
gradually work up trade and add
to his stock at the same time. How-
ever, there is apparently little open-
ing for new men in this business com-
pared to many other lines.

Joseph Houghton.

— cow
Demonstration of Wireless Telegra-
phy in Many Fields.

The Oriental war has established
the utility of wireless telegraphy as
a valuable means of maintaining com-
munication during times when other
methods of conveying intelligence
between a belligerent and its base
may be severed. The naval squad-
rons of both nations have found it
invaluable in their operations. The
scouts of the Japanese fleets have
been able to inform their flagships of
the movements and position of the
Russian ships which they were de-
tailed to locate, at distances far too
iemote for the employment of ordi-
nary signals used at sea. The fleets
of both belligerents have also used
it in action to direct the maneuvering
of the various vessels engaged. Port
Arthur was also able to keep in touch
with Chefoo after telegraph land lines
and cable were cut by the Japs, until
the equipment at the Chinese port
was recently dismantled by the au-
thorities on the Japanese representa-
tions that it was being used by the
Russians as a military base in viola-

tion of the laws of neutrality.

The Russians demonstrated, how-
ever, in the last sortie made by the
Port Arthur squadron, that it was
possible to confuse the Japanese mes-
sages and thus hamper the move-
ments of their ships by the simple ex-
pedient of continuously repeating the
Russian alphabet on their own instru-
ments. The United States Navy has
forestalled such a_ possibility by
adopting a system which can be va-
riously attuned at pleasure and thus
prevent interference by the enemy.

Wireless telegraphy has been found
exceedingly useful also inthe naviga-
tion of the oceans by the big liners.
The monotony of the passage across
the Atlantic has been largely destroy-
ed by its employment. Passenger
steamships are in almost constant
communication with one another, al-
though not within sighting distance,
and their approach to port is report-

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

|

ed long before the loom of the land |

is visible. It has been found useful
at sea likewise in other ways. An

instance was recently reported where |
the mind of a passenger crossing the |
Atlantic who had lost valuable jewels
ashore was set at rest by receiving a |
wireless message from a passing ship |
that his property had been found; and |
still another case is on record where |
a merchant afloat on the Atlantic re-|

ceived information of the absconding

of a defaulting partner, which enabled |
him to form a plan to straighten out |
the confusion in which the firm’s ac- |
counts had been left and transmit it |
by cable on arrival at his destination,
in time to prevent serious business |

embarrassment. Wireless telegraphy
is evidently here to stay, and its im-
provement for more extended use

than that in which it can now be suc-

cessfully employed is merely a mat- |

ter of time and experience.
—_—_+ 2.

Electric Savings Bank.

Electric pocket savings banks are |
The coin |

among the new inventions.

to be deposited is placed in a slot!
immediately above a revolvable disk, |
which has been given a form imita- |

tive of the combination
knob of standard safes. A
revolution of the knob
coin to the

partial
draws the
interior of the bank,

operating |

from which it can by no possible |
means be extracted through the en- |

tering slot.

This is a distinguishing |

feature of the banks, and insures that |
only when the proper operating key |

is employed can the coins be re-
moved. Each bank is provided with
a hinged bottom, held in place by a
spring catch, which is immune from
any attack by a blacksmith’s key and

from any external or interior influ- |

ence of a mechanical nature.
to the catch is a mass of soft iron
arranged to be attracted by a mag-
net when placed in the proper posi-
tion. In one device the core is so
cesigned that when the bank is clos-
ed its two prongs are flush with the
surface of the rear of the bank, and

}

Joined |

since the opening of the bank re-|

quires that the prongs be drawn out- |

ward no device other than a magnet
is capable of releasing the catch.

sary for overcoming the force of the
spring, so that the catch is not re-
sponsive to magnets other than those
of the proper strength. Being pur-
posely covered with several turns of
wire conspicuously arranged, the
magnet has received the appropriate
name “electric key.” Another type
is arranged to be opened by the heat-
ing efféct of current, from a cell or
several small cells upon a_ fusible
wire, which serves as a mechanical
means of holding closed a catch
which a conveniently located spring

tends to throw open at all times. The |
fuses are designed so as to be easily | ;

replaced, and additional ones may be
kept on hand for relocking the bank
after its contents have been remov-
ed. The amount of energy required
to melt the fuses is comparatively in-
significant, so that the cells will be
2dequate for all service to which the
bank will be put.
——_+>
The shallow head soon gets sore.

A |
relatively powerful magnet is neces- |

 

 

 

 

 
  
  

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of all Havana Cigars

3 for 25c; 10c straight; 2 for 25c
could not be better if you paid a dollar

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Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard Nut to Crack in the Boys’

Clothing Department.
Written for the Tradesman.

“One of the hardest propositions
we run up against in the retail cloth-
ing business occurs right here in the

back part of the store,” remarked, |

recently, the head of that section of
a certain Grand Rapids establish-
ment known as the Boys’ Depart-
ment.

“Yes, in the rear of the store are}

fought—and more often than not
won—some of the hardest battles we
have to encounter.

“Tt’s not the selling of suits, over-
coats, underwear, etc., to the man
with ‘the kid’ that I dread, but what
rattles me the most of any part of
my work is to see a raft of female
relatives trotting along with the
mother of a young hopeful and head-
ed for the part of the store over
which I am employed to preside.
Then it is that 1 am seized with a
severe attack of ‘heart failure’ and
wish I were in Gehenna—or some
other equally as delectable a spot.

“T have not, under these disagree-
able conditions, to suit simply the
boy and his nearest relative, but
I must try to please the whole bunch
of their companions.
everyone, you know, and so
main endeavors always are directed
toward the two most intimately con-
cerned. Of course, I am obliged to
listen politely to all the suggestions
and arguments of the bothersome
‘extras,’ but I find out, the first thing
when they come in, as nearly as
possible, what is wanted and then
show goods accordingly.

“The women accompanying the
mother and her child are usually a
precious lot of old maids or people
who have no youngsters of their own
in the house and the whole caboodle

of them don’t know any more about |

a boy’s outfitting than a rabbit.

“Naturally, I must be courteous to
the mother’s relation, for who knows
that by such treatment I may not
make these into regular patrons of
the store? One really comes, in deal-
ing with the public, to obey the
Scriptural injunction to be ‘wise asa
serpent yet harmless as a dove.’

“As T said before, the situation cit-
ed is one of the most difficult with
which the clothing man has to deal,
and it is here that strategic. sales-
manship finds full scope.”

Jennie Alcott.
—_——_—->——————

Cool Weather Improves the Trade in
Gloves.
Business is showing improvement

in wholesale glove stocks. Merchants |

are now considering their future
needs, that is, those who have not
already provided for future require-
ments. What will be the favorite
glove with the shopper for cold
weather chiefly concerns the trade at
present. Many merchants in small-
er cities and towns have again pin-
ned their confidence to golfs, Ad-

One can’t suit |

vance business in golfs is reported
|to be good, but the demand is no
|longer a craze. To-day golfs are
considered a staple rather than a
fad, and a healthy demand for this
line is expected by merchants. The
introduction of the cashmere is a
probable feature for the coming sea-
ison. This glove is already accepted
| by the city shopper as a favorite. |
The silk lined cashmere has become
popular with a neat, careful dresser
| because it possesses merits which the
golf glove does not.

 

 

i

The golf glove is undesirable be-
cause it does not retain its shape.
Both silk and fleece lined cash- |
meres fit better. Cashmeres resem- |
| ble suedes in appearance and there-
fore have a style which is desirable
for and particularly sought by shop-
pers. Golfs never look artistic. They
are heavy, unsightly and coarse. The |
neat dresser does not and never has |
liked them. Cashmeres to retail for |
50 cents and up have the glove shape |
and look more genteel on the hand. |
They have the appearance of the |
kid glove. Fit is the acme of de- |
sire on the part of all women look- |
ing for gloves. Golf gloves are |
warm, yet cashmeres are just as |
warm, and have supplanted golfs in |
the estimation of the better trade. |
| There exists an apportunity for |
| glove dealers to urge the merit of |

on |

 

 

| cashmeres the coming season
4 : el
| their trade. The offerings are choice. |
| |
As a result of last season’s demand |

y | for silk lined mochas and glaces, |

manufacturers have reproduced ex- |
cellent lines of both in women’s |

 

| gloves. They are shown with both |
plain and fancy silk linings. With |
|the fad for golfs gone, the better |

| - .
| class of shoppers is expected to turn)

| to leather goods as a_ substitute. |
| Much is expected of silk lined kids.

Mochas are given. preference by
; most dealers over glaces in silk lined
| goods. The most popular lines of
ware and glaces with a silk lining
| job at $9.50 and $13.50, making the
| price $1 and $1.50 retail.

The relative demand for capes and
| glaces is a study for the best glove
| people. With the city trade, capes
| were in request last season and they
|are expected to be in much better
demand this season; but for the aver-
| age trade outside of the cities there
lis not so much interest in this line.
| Glaces are endorsed by many _ be-
cause they take the dyes _ better.
Dyers are able to secure just the
right shade they want. Capes and
mochas are often unsatisfactory in
this regard. Nevertheless, when the
trade want a certain glove they will
have it whether it is as satisfactory
|in wear as some other or not. A neat
glove which avoids a loud and wide
embroidery is being produced by
manufacturers. The best makers of
embroidered gloves who put skill, fit
and texture into their product use
one row of silk embroidery. These
styles are appealing to the elegant
and refined dresser. Wide and fancy
embroidery on the gloves is made
to appeal to the cheaper trade. For
fasteners the snap is the most popu-
lar. They are seen in neat metal.
vegetable ivory and pearl.

|
|

 

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He takes the dealer's word for tt.
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the user. Make your
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money, The Starunion is “it.” Union made, of course.

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BUFFALO, N. Y.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

New Designs in Men’s Autumn Ap-
parel.

The tendency in market purchas-
ing contains a lesson for clothiers
who will place their filling-in orders
a little later on. There has been
quite a change in demand since the
first period of such purchasing. As
to styles most favored at present,
coats are decidedly roomy and trous-
ers are a little wider at the hips than
was anticipated before active buying
began. Instead of last season’s ex-

 

| ning

tremely broad shoulder we now have |

the graceful contour showing
natural width of the shoulders.

lars and lapels are _ considerably

broader and shorter, to conform to |
the increased length and width of the |

coat. Cuffs vary from blind to open
vents, the number of buttons rang-
ing from one to four, some buttoning
through while others are made with
blind buttonholes. Cuffs on the most
favored style coats fit a trifle snug.
On one of the late coat produc-

tions there is a decided cuff novelty |

in that it is sewed on

and turned |

the |
Col-

 

: |
over with an open vent, two buttons |

buttoning through. This is
order of a lounge coat and promises
to be quite popular next spring and
summer.
lapels are rounded and in some in-
stances are quite blunt.

are considered
Steel grays are next in or-

3rowns
ionable.
der.
autumn are an_ exceedingly
checked ground, composed of a dark

on the}

The notched points of the |
| boys’ clothing engages the most ex-
| pert designers, who spend
ultra-fash- |
| The
The mixtures most favored this |
small |

chocolate brown with a little sprin-|
kling of black; also small squares of |

brown with a sprinkling of dark wine

red. Since brown has become

| garment.

| cutting the cloth for boys’ clothing

so |

popular in men’s clothing lines, man- |
ufacturers of shirts, hosiery and cra- |

into line.
Belted raincoats are popular, particu-
larly for ‘The
box

vats are rapidly falling

young men’s. wear.

overcoat style is
middle-aged men. Fur-trimmed over-
coats are very fashionable.

In sack suits the demand
about equally divided between
new box sack back and the new
sity The double-breasted
’*varsity, which goes under almost as
many names as there are manufactur-
ers, is being bought in large quanti-
ties for young men—ages from 18 to
26. A double-breasted overcoat to
retail for $15 best liked in the
striped fabrics. The double-breasted
frock is selling fast, in qualities to
retail at $18. For young men from 28
to 30 the straight front regular style

seems

style.

is

is considered quite the thing. The
double-breasted overcoat and _ the
topcoat in fancy mixtures are in

most demand.

Dark brown frock coats are more
in favor than was anticipated earlier
in the season. Long waistcoats are
rapidly becoming popular, although
they are not made quite so long as
when the movement first set in.

Even in those towns where the au-
tomobile is seldom seen there is nev-
ertheless a growing demand for this
style of apparel. Features intended
especially for the autoist must be
eliminated from garments intended
for ordinary wear. Cravenette lines
have felt the influence of the single

| men’s

favored for |

ithe shoulders, the putting on
ithe shaping of the collar are fea-
the |
*var- |

 

and double-breasted auto ulster to a
marked extent. Black and whites
and grays are thought well of for
next spring.

More attention has been given to
fall and winter lines for boys than
heretofore. Styles for the most part
are new and since the most expert
tailoring and furnishing are being
employed, boys’ toggery for this fall
is far ahead of the standard a year
ago. Many manufacturers are run-
overtime in order to keep up
the demand. Sailors, Norfolks
Russians have unquestionably
the leaders. One of the novelty
styles is a modification of the Rus-
sian and has an Eton collar. The
fall and winter seasons offer excep-
tional advantages to the retailer in
getting better prices for his boys’
clothing. Aside from the demand for
better grades, he has a stock the
value of which is apparent in every

with
and
been

 

While it is a little too early to
make any authoritative statements
regarding lines for the spring sea-
son, the present tendency seems to
favor more striking colors. Brown
will probably be worn to a consid-
erable extent.

The

up-to-date manufacturer of |

months
over the details of a single garment.
most common objections to
clothing heretofore has been}
that the fit was poor. The work of

 

boys’

is done from patterns _ scientifically
cut and drawn by expert designers |

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who work on average shapes. There,
are no more inequalities in boys’ |

clothing as turned out by the best |
manufacturers than there are in the |
Ime. The retailer can now
fit the sons of his men customers
in clothes as easily as he can fit their
feet ready-made The
shaping of the coat, the making of
and

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in shoes.

tures which are as carefully carried
out by manufacturers of boys’ cloth-
ing as by those firms specializing in
men’s clothing.

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Appearances Are Sometimes Decep-
tive.

The two. strangers who were

standing at a downtown corner cross-
ed the street and accosted a young
man on the opposite corner.

“Will you please tell me,” said one
of them, “which is the best way to

go from here to Seventy-second
street?”
“Well,” replied the young man,

“the best way, of course, is to take
an automobile. If you can’t do that,
I suggest a street car as the next
best.”

“Thank you,” said the stranger, “I
was so certain from your appearance
that you would give a civil answer
to a civil question that I bet a $2
bill on that proposition with my
friend here. I see I have iost. One
can’t always judge from  appear-
ances. Good morning, sir.”

a

A wrong is always worth forget-

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and Wintertrade. Then our Union Made Line is just as great,
especially in medium priced goods, none so cheap and few as
good. We manufacture CLOTHING for all ages and also
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Linens and White Goods

Well.

Doing |
| not but win their way to public pat-

|

Decided improvement has been no- |
ticed in the linen market during the |

last few days. Prices of all kinds

are very firm, as just now yarns are |

at the highest mark experienced in
many years. Although the flax mar-

| erable

ket at the other side is not quite as |

firm as it has been, the reduction in
values is so inconsiderable that
would make but little difference
when it comes down to actual value
of manufactured goods—that
the flax in the lower and medium
goods breaks from 3 to 5 per cent.

There large
ness in plain lines,
manufactured dress
everything points to a
son in this line—as, in fact,
other line, including housekeeping
goods. Several Irish and Scotch
manufacturers are in the market with
a view to import orders for next
season. Wiseacres consider this
sure sign that a large business is con-
templated.

is,

volume of busi-
especially in the

2

in every

Domestic trade in huck towels,
crashes, etc., etc., is brisk, and sever-

spring delivery. The burlap trade is

of the Indian crop might have led) and the market is quite firm for all |

consumers on this side to believe.
There are abundant indications that

goods trade, and |

brisk sea- | *" :
| of their

| of

| in

a 1

it |
| ducers.
if |
| pieces.

of all that is common, that they can

ronage. Dotted Swisses have been
«mong the most successful lines in
this year’s market and are likely to
hold their own for a long time.

A novelty that is attracting consid-
attentioa “Heather Eta-
which comes in white and
The demand already for this
line has somewhat surprised the pro-
The orders, especially from
the West, have been extraordinary,
one large jobber having taken 5,000
Irish dimities are shown in
many new designs, there is every in-
dication that an exceptionally large
business will be done in these goods
in spring and summer. These fabrics
always seem to be salable on account
durability and neatness.
There is a brisk drive in all lines
art linens. Real lace tablecloths

is
mine,”
colors.

extremely

innumerable designs are shown at |

| prices that are moderate |

Sateens, Dimities and Batistes.

Mercerized sateens reappear for
spring with a claim to favor and are
shown by importers in such attract-
ive guise as will insure their success.
The designs are conventional, and
some in white on black, navy, brown,
dark green and other popular colors.
A very light-weight, highly mercer-
thin sateen is called “Sevilla
cloth,” and comes in small to medium
floral effects, especially adapted for
wear.

3atiste brilliante is an exquisitely
fine fabric with small mercerized jac-
quard dots and a neat little printed
moss rosebud design, and the same
popular design appears on some of the
dimities of the finest
possible cloth, which comes also in
range of special designs.
Embroidered batistes are among the

ized,

misses’

genuine Irish

an extensive

 

for the excellence of the work. There |

are, too, some lines of real Bruges
tablecloths, the beauty of which can
not be too much praised. New

Tapanese drawnwork in doilies, etc.,

al large orders have been booked for is now being placed before the buy-|

ers, and many orders’ have_ been}

| taken.
also much firmer than the abundance |

the worst has passed and trade is}

coming back to normal conditions,
which will undoubtedly be more fully
realized in the course of a very short
time.

General stapie lines of embroidered
and lace handkerchiefs are
property, and the trade expects
busy fall and holiday season.
market is in good condition, and no
doubt need be entertained that one
of the busiest seasons on record is
approaching. Irish hand-embroider-
ed shirtwaist patterns are
growing in public favor.
surprising when such a

a

large and

beautifully designed class of fabrics is |

shown. No more beautiful or ac-

|that the product is oversold,

|the trade has during the
good |

The |

co eae:
steadily | Those who have watched the move-
This is not |

| less
ceptable holiday or Christmas pres-| cace cite

ent could be made to a lady and the}

demand will probably tax the manu- note that the best-gowned women at

jacturers to supply it:
Mercerized iall waistings,
for a time were not much in demand,
now seem to have become
more popular, probably due to the
fact that prices are not so high. One
of the largest jobbing houses in this
line has had a great run on these
goods, and it would appear that the
big houses are buying freely now
while prevailing prices are conducive
to sales. In white goods solid white
effects and white and black mixed
fabrics are selling quite as freely as
at this time last year. Plain white
goods are also excellent sellers; there
is, in fact, an unprecedented call for
these lines. Jacquards are still pop-
ular, large orders being taken for

them, and all the big jobbers speak} that there will be a return in demand

well of them.

Lenos are so much in demand that
there are those who think it will be
somewhat difficult to keep up the
supply. This is no doubt due to the
fact that the designs, in most cases
at least, are so neat, with avoidance

Thi | :
which | cream-colored fabrics than
| son.
much |

The trade in blankets is very good,

wool, both in white and colored, no
doubt due to the fact that there has

been an advance in the raw materials. |
te cs
| Cotton warp, wool fillings made in|

the East have had an extraordinary |

demand, indeed,
and
last few
days witnessed the buying of these
lines, which usually does not take

place until October.

to such an extent,

~ Dress goods makers are somewhat |

divided regarding the position of
cream and white dress goods for the
spring and summer _ season.

ments of these fabrics in the large
retail centers of the country are con-
fident that the ultra trade is paying
attention to cream than is the
some
shades and

tints. It is worthy of

|the Eastern resorts wore fewer fine

 

last sea-
An increasing number of even
the evening shades was noticed at
the most fashionable gatherings.
The late fashieon development at the
prominent watering places gives the
best possible advance suggestions in
the dress goods and silk world, and
it seems reasonable to believe that
white and cream fabrics will share

their popularity with a number of
the light shades, not that either
cream or white woolens. will be}

passe, but they will not be of ab- |

sorbing interest in the collection of
lightweight or heavy fabrics. It is
predicted by one of the largest im-
porters of French cotton dress goods

—along with organdies, tulle and such
sheer cloths—for the old-fashioned
Erinted dotted Swiss (plumetis), of
course, in new and especially adapted
patterns. There is no cotton cloth
more serviceable for general wear,
and none daintier in suitable designs.

 

of the light neutral |

most attractive of high-class goods,
and there are sheer cloths of fancy

weaves with a color design in the
weave.
The revived interest shown during

the past spring and early summer in
high-grade Irish dimity cloths (cords,
cluster cords and fancy checks) has
i@nduced importers of these dainty
jand serviceable goods to arrange large
and attractive collections for next
spring, comprised chiefly of Dresden
and floral designs, imitating substan-
tially the best French printings.

In the advance spring collection of
woven novelties in cotton seen so far,
it is decidedly noticeable that all-over
embroidered and woven effects are
expected to be called for in variety.
No more attractive fabric is likely to
be shown for the coming season than
a double-width mercerized muslin,
with small and medium figures em-
broidered on white and_ colored
grounds.

—_—_+ 2+.

Remedy for Her Cold.

She was extremely pretty and well
dressed, but there was a trace of
petulance about her manner _ that
somewhat marred her appearance. It
hot, tor a tact, and that may
had something to do with it, but
when one is speeding along Division
street in open trolley car the
breezes somewhat mitigate against
the and it was evident
something else was wrong, too.

“What’s the trouble; you
rather angry?” her escort said.

“I’m not,” she answered firmly.

“Anything wrong?”

“No, only I don’t feel good.”

“What’s the matter?”

“Everybody asks me that,” she re-
plied; “let us talk of something else.”

“Headache?”

“No; please iet’s drop
jcet.”

“T can tell you something to help
if you'll say what’s wrong.”

“If you must know,
and I have a bad cold.”

“That’s too bad.”

“Yes.”

“Are you taking anything for it?”

“Wes.”

“What?”

“Advice.”

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Educated Woman the Preferred Risk |

in Matrimony.
Written for the Tradesman.

A Western college professor, in lec-
turing to an audience of
the other day, is reported to have
warned the young gentlemen against

young men

falling in love with ladies of literary

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We teach our boys how
and protect their

| encounter.

| to earn money

| property, but our idea of kindness to
|a woman is to keep her in ignorance

|of all the practical affairs of life, in

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i of knowledge of business.
| observation shows that it is woman’s

consequence of which she may fall
the victim of anybody unscrupulous |
enough to take advantage of her lack |
Common |

|ignorance that spells continual disas- |

belief

tendencies, and to have wound up|
his fervent admonitions by saying,

“Heaven help the man who marries
a college bred woman!”

Whether the professor spoke from
theory not
He may suffer from dyspepsia as a
result of marrying a wife who takes
a deeper heart interest in the classics
than she does in her cook book, or
he may merely be one of those prej-
udiced individuals
tions conjure up bogies whenever you
mention woman and _ education
the same day, but in any event the
subject is of great interest to every-
one. i

or experience is

whose

Many of us have daughters whom
we are making
under the belief that we are thereby
adding to the sweetness and light of
iife.” If, instead of this, we are dis-
qualifying the girl as a matrimonial
partner and bringing sorrow on some
innocent young man who may marry
her, we want to know it in time to
snatch her away from school
prevent the catastrophe.
deny that there altogether
much domestic discord in the world,
that it
having too

and
is

but it is a brand new theory
is the result of the wife
much sense.
that it was the lack and
not the preponderance of it, that led
silly women into ways that end
the divorce court.

of sense,

Nothing has died a harder or more

imagina- |

| thing to gain it.
| Adam,
| apple.
stated. |

ter for herself and other people, but
we continue to hold to the cherished |
that it is for her happiness and |
90d not to know things.
Yet it was woman who
craved knowledge and risked

gC
earliest
every- |
It was Eve, and not |

who took the first bite of the |

So far as a college education for |
girls concerned, it seems to me}
that it admits of exactly the same

is

|arguments, pro and con, that the
question of a college education for |
| boys does: First, the individual’s |
desire for it; second, the parents’ |

iability to afford it, and,
on |

/a son who
i and

sacrifices to educate |

No one can!
too |

isity f

| column, and I ascertained that he had |

last, the ca-
reer that the individual, whether boy
girl, means to follow. If I had
naturally studious
desired to be a doctor, or a|
preacher, or a lawyer, or follow any |
learned profession, I should certain-
ly send him to the very best univer- |
could find... Tf he had no
taste for books, and never read any-|
thing in the papers but the sporting |

or

was

traded all the other boys in_ the,
neighborhood out of their jack knives
and white rabbits, I should waste no
money on sending him to college. |
Just as soon as he was through the |
high school I should put him in a/}

| store or office where in the next four |

Most of us had thought |

in

| her

lingering death than the old idea that |

ignorance is bliss, as far as women
are concerned, anyway. We feel that

it is our duty to prepare a boy for |

the battle of life by arming him with

knowledge of all the difficulties he is |

liable to meet. We think the best

|and melting blue eyes,

way to safeguard a girl’s innocence |

is by keeping her in absolute ignor-
ance of the dangers she is bound to}

or five years he waquld be grounded |
commercial knowledge instead of |
football, and learn the vital details of |
business instead of a college yell.

If I had a daughter I should let
looks decide the college ques- |
tion for her. If she were ugly and_|
unattractive I would move heaven
and earth to give her something to|
offset her lack of beauty, and at least
provide her with the way of making
a living for herself. If she were a
dimpled darling with rose leaf skin}
on the con-}
trary, I” would know that matrimony
and not the higher mathematics was
her predestined career, and I should |

in

| has to face.

| desire

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ture by making her a blue stocking. Fae whose grammar is not a stand-
For, in considering this question, it| ing reproach to his and ae oe

is well to bear in mind that for a

girl to be highly educated—and for
the dreadful fact to be known—is

about the heaviest matrimonial hand- |
icap that can be put upon her. There |
One is |
‘that in this country our young men |
They |

and |

are several reasons for this.

are not, as a class, college bred.
go to work and not to school,
this produces a curious condition of
affairs that the college bred woman

man who can
support her.

and the
not

tertain her,
entertain her can

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“Bedelia” and “Hiawatha” “Tann-
hauser” and symphony concerts.

Nor is the college bred girl partic-
ularly sought after as a wife by the
college bred man. Half the extreme-
ly clever men you know are married
to women so dull and stupid it keeps
you wondering how they ever came
to do it. There are exceptions to
all rules, of course, but if mothers
and fathers are bent on keeping
their daughters hanging on the pa-
rent stem they can take no method

| that is so likely to achieve this result

las by sending

Nor does the average business man |

marry a highly educated
He wants a jolly girl whose

to
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higher education for women disin-

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The real reason
that college bred women so seldom
marry is because they so seldom get
the chance.

this is nonsense.

There is also another, and a pa-
thetic, phase to the question of a
college education for girls: If the
college bred woman marries a man
who has spent all his life in busi-
ness, and who has not had the op-
portunity for the wide culture she
has, she must always be, to a certain
extent, lonely. She has thoughts he
can not follow; her mind browses in
pastures he can not enter; life means
things to her it can never mean to
him. No matter how good and kind
is, or how fond she is of him,
there is always just that lack. She
goes through life intellectually starv-
ed, and she knows that it would be
better and happier for them both if
they were on the same mental plane.

Do not think, though, that I op-
college education
far from it. It may be a good thing
for a pretty girl, for an ugly one it
is an absolute necessity. It undoubt-
ly lessens a girl’s chances in getting
married, but if she does find a man
with sense and courage enough to
escort her to the altar I am convinc-
ed that she is better fitted to make
him a good wife than the girl whose
mind and character have not been
disciplined by thought and study. If

he

pose for women;

I were a girl and Heaven had bless-
ed me with a passable nose and a
good complexion and
of to dance the two-step I

should not go to college, because I

a knowledge
how

should prefer a husband to a diplo-
but if I man I should
choose a college bred woman for
wife every time.
tradictory, but it is the two points
of view of the question.

Other things being the
chances are that the educated woman
a better housekeeper and

If the lack of knowledge
of books predicated a knowledge of

ma, were a
a

That sounds con-

equal,

will be
manager.

domestic affairs there would be some
reason to make a mad rush for girls
who have never read anything but
Marie Corelli and the Duchess, but
it not. of the worst
housekeepers in the world are women

does Some
who are just as ignorant of cooking
as they are of Greek, and who can
no more add up a butcher’s bill than
they can do a problem in geometry.
It is ignorance in every line that is
at the bottom of failure. The wom-
an who understands chemistry is not
liable to accept the luck theory about
her bread turning out light or heavy.

The woman who has mastered the
science of mathematics is going to
know enough to grapple with the

household expense account, and after
she has studied the germ theory you
may depend upon her not letting her
family be poisoned by _ defective
drainage or her baby be slain by the
bacteria in a sour milk bottle.

The educated woman is also more
apt to be reasonable than the unedu-
cated. The only absolutely hopeless
people are those who are so narrow
and so prejudiced that they can never
see any side of a question but their
own. This is the peculiar province of
ignorance, and especially of feminine

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ignorance. That sort of a woman’s |
town, although it is only Bird’s Cen- |
ter, is the biggest place on earth and |
its ways the only proper ways. Her |
religion is the only true faith, her |
political party the only patriots. To|

try to change her is like beating your-!

self against a stone wall. Now, the}
only way to keep. believing that
Bird’s Center is the metropolis of the
universe is never to get outside of
it. The educated woman has broken
down the walls that shut her off in

her own particular Bird’s Center and |

her views are as liberal and broad
as the horizon her eyes scan.

In marrying a highly educated
woman a man also casts an
to windward and comes as near as
he may to taking out an accident

policy against those evil days of
matrimony that are sure to come

when the flush of youth and beauty
are dead on a woman’s cheeks and

the gold in her hair has turned to|
had |

i | Boston custom house at salaries ap- |
only their personal charms to recom-| ” at salaries ap

ashes. Too many women who

mend them have nothing left when |
that is gone, but the educated woman '!
interesting, |
and if it was the beauty of her mind |

can never be less than

and soul that charmed a man in the

first place, he may count on all suc-|
ceeding years adding to the delights |

of her companionship.

In spite of the learned professor’s

warning the educated woman is the
preferred risk in matrimony for

man. As for the risk the woman runs }

of not getting a husband by going to
college, that is, as Mr. Kipling would
say, “another story.”

—_»+.____

What Night Study May Do.

Frank Palmer Speare, educational

tian Association of Boston, gives ex- |

in comparatively humble work, found |
|

anchor |

a |

Dorothy Dix. | |

that their evenings were better spent
at the Association building than in
saloons or places of amusement. Two
the other
of

men, one a carpenter, a
clerk, instead
with their
union associates in the saloon, enter-

the

grocery

their evenings trades

ed school three y
voting their time to mathematics and

drafting. These

Pars ago,

two recently took
the examination in the

navy yard as

New

draftsmen,
and were both admitted to positions
giving them $1,600.

structural

A Charleston boat-builder special-
ized naval architecture and is now a
ship drattsman at $5 per day. A
young factory fireman studied elec-
tricity and is now at the head of a
lighting plant in a Maine city.

From the civil-service department
fifteen men from one class have been
appointed to the Post Office Depart-
ment at $1,500 per year.

 

Five young
men have recently been placed in the

| proximating $1,000 per annum each.

spending |

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'Noiseless, odorless, speedy and
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weather. Built to run and does it.
|The above car without tonneau,

'$850. A smaller runabout, same
‘general style, seats two people,
\$750. Thecurved dash runabout

with larger engine and more power
ithan ever, $650. Oldsmobile de-
livery wagon, $850.

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intervening territory, the

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towns in Michigan, besides connecting with all the
principal cities east of the

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New stations constantly being added.
Contract now. Call the local Manager for information, or address

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~ You have had calls for

HAND SAPOLIC

If you filled them, all’s well; if you

didn’t, your rival got the order, and

may get the customer’s entire trade.

HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap—superior to any other in countless ways—delicate
enough for the baby’s skin, and capable of removing any stain.
Costs the dealer the same as regular SAPOLIO, but should be sold at 10 cents per cake

 

  

    

 

22

ie MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

WOMEN AS CHEMISTS.
They Are Peculiarly Well Suited to
Laboratory Work.

The recent spread and increase of
college training for women has cor-
respondingly multiplied those women
students who, having acquired a fine
scientific or semi-scientific education,
are at a loss how to apply it to money
making endeavors. From all sides
may be heard the “college wail” of
“no place for intellectually trained
women, outside of the medical and
legal professions’—long lamentably
overcrowded. In bacteriological
work and the various’ chemical
branches may be found good fields
for scientific feminine efforts and
skill.

The profession of dispensing chem-
ist—the keeping of a pharmacy—can
not be sincerely recommended to
feminine attention, or so, at least,
say those who have tried it. The ad-
vantages and opportunities of this
work for women seem pleasantly nu-
merous and alluring upon first inspec-
tion; but the reasons against pharma-
ceutical work for women are also
effectively varied. Small pay, long
hours, the difficulty of securing a
chance to begin work, these are
among the most glaring objections.
Miss Jean Gordon, who has main-
tained a successful pharmacy in Chi-
cago for thirteen years, says that
she never recommends the _ profes-
sional study ot pharmacy to any
woman who has not sufficient capi-
tal to set up in business for herself
with at least one assistant from the
beginning. Even then, in the opinion
of Miss Gordon, quicker and surer
returns might be secured from a
given sum invested in other ways.

“The work is all right,’ says the
woman who has so long performed
it, “and it is work to which women
are well adapted. But the public is
slow to consider women in this ca-
pacity, and the ordinary drug store
keeper is not sufficiently wealthy to
risk any innovation that might be un-
popular. This renders it difficult for
the feminine graduate of a college
of pharmacy to secure the four years
of practical experience demanded by
the State Board of Pharmacy before
allowing an applicant to register, and
which the college authorities usually
forget to mention to the student.
The course here calls for but two
years of study, but the four years of
actual experience—even where this
can be secured—practically lengthens
it to a six year term, which meansa
long time of preparation for a low
salary when it is completed. No, I
would never advise a woman to take
up pharmaceutical work unless she
could manage to get some of her
practical work either before or dur-
ing her college course, and unless
she possessed sufficient funds to
cpen her own shop, with at least one
assistant, when the course came to
an end.”

The work of the commercial or
analytical chemist, on the other hand,
is highly recommended for womanly
endeavor, although, curiously enough,
few women have yet embraced this
particular opportunity. The various
branches of “food” chemistry are

considered suitable and promising for
womanly fingers and brains.

A young woman, whose work as
an analytical “food” chemist has been
notably good and encouraging, be-
lieves that in this work a new com-
paratively untrodden and_ desirable
field for college women may be found.
The prospective establishment of

 

state food commissions all over
America in the near future will mean
much to scientifically trained wom-
en with a liking for chemistry. The}
fact that the entire subject" of food
znalysis, hygiene and composition |
possesses growing interest to the)
public presents a most encouraging |
view of the case. Of the members|
of a laboratory firm—composed of a)
trio of eminent physicians—it is re-|
lated that they commenced opera-,
tions with the idea of medicinal |
chemistry uppermost, but quickly)
found that this kind of work scarcely |
paid for the doing, so vastly superior,
both in point cf numbers and finan- |
cial rewards, were the “food” cases
continually brought to their attention. |
Nearly every large manufacturing |
house or firm turning out edible prod- |
ucts employs one or more analytical |
chemists. For such work women)
with 2 natural trend toward neatness, |
dexterity, love of detail and interest |
in the food question are well fitted |
rfom every point of view.

“Women would not find the work)
of mineral chemistry easy or lucra-|
tive, I think,” says the young woman |
“food” chemist just mentioned. “Nor |
does dispensing chemistry appeal to/|
me as a good field for women. But |
for the tasks of an analytical chem-|
ist they are excellently suited. There |
are no heavy objects to handle, as in|
some other chemical branches, and |
conscientious work, although there
are few really handsome salaries in|
the profession as yet, is fairly well |
rewarded—with wider opportunities |
the higher the worker mounts. And |
the work of ‘food’ chemistry, while |
daily developiag and widening, calls
for no extraordinary scientific train-|
ing. I prepared for my duties with |

 

 

the ordinary four years’ course at
college.”

Bacteriological work, also, is con-
sidered by thoughtful students of
times and seascns as well worthy the
attention of scientifically _ inclined
women. Dr. William K. Jaques
some years ago publicly wondered
why more women did not take up
work of this order. Still firm in his
conviction of their fitness for such
work Dr. Jaques is glad to find that
they have become widely conscious
of the offered opening. Numbers of

 

young women physicians now engage
in bacteriological work, instead of
starving while waiting for a practice.
Dr. Jaques also believes in the fu-
ture of the feminine analytical chem-
ist, and this for reasons as simple as
obvious and sircere.

“The food question is particularly
important at present,’ so runs_ his
opinion, “so important that the Unit-
ed States Government is in several
ways recognizing and acknowledging
the necessity of official efforts in this
direction. More than a year ago 100

 

 

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graduates of the different agricultural |
colleges, after being drilled and)
trained for a certain time in the Gov- |
ernment laboratories in Washington, |
were sent abroad to study food prod- |
tcts, processes, and so on, with —
official standing equal to the young |
graduates of West Point. This force
is being enlarged constantly, and in
other ways the food problem is re-
ceiving official attention—as it should.
“Proper and sufficient nutrition is
now everywhere recognized as the
most important factor in the cure or
relief of consumption; good air, out-
door life, and other hygienic  ele-
ments are, of course, necessary, but
good nutrition must form the basis
of the upward movement, just as poor |
nutrition—the lack of nutrition—pri-
marily causes the downfall. For|
many other reasons, all good and
sufficient, the food question is just
now uppermost in the public mind.

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“Women are. peculiarly suited |
to laboratory work in the food con- |
rection. The work can be brought to |
them: they are naturally neat and
dexterous. And one of the most en- |
couraging features of the feminine
outlook along this line is found in the
tact that the opportunity is both new
and growing, while it would seem
that it can scarcely become over- |
crowded or nonlucrative for a num- |
ber of years.” |

From other reliable sources come
similar opinions, none the less valua-
ble, interesting and encouraging be- |
cause the new opportunity has not |
yet been brought to the attention of |
many feminine students.

—_—__2-->
Some New Things in Millinery.

At iast the plateau is seen to be dis-
tinctly on the wane, its employment
being more or less limited to the
construction of toques, and, since
crowns are distinctly “in,” this proc-
ess must inevitably continue for some
time. A much-needed relief will be
afforded the milliner in this fresh ad-
vent of crowns, and she will doubt-
less be not displeased to have less of
the tiresome and difficult twisting and
general manipulation of flat pieces
of felt and other thick materials.

It seems reasonable to suppose that,
in sympathy with a similar gradual
movement in other sections, millinery
will take a turn toward simplicity of

build in the not distant future. Shad-
ed ribbon ruchings for the high-

crowned hats are expected to enjoy
a lively favor. A favorite method is
the employment of two or three
shades, gauged, standing round the
crown, with frills lying upon the
brim. Ombre ribbons, also, are being
used tor this purpose.

When, at the beginning of July,
attention was directed to faded flow-
ers, it was scarcely thought that these
goods would attain to such impor-
tance in the autumn season as they
now seem likely to reach. They are
represented principally in velvet, and
the most important blooms are chry-
santhemums, dahlias and roses. They
are made with a great deal of skill,
and judging by the prominence which
their rich shows obtain in the whole-
sale departments, good business in
them should result.

 

| largely combined with steel.

The leaning toward the beautiful
effects that can be obtained from
the employment of grain as the mo-
tive of a design, which has been ap-
parent all through the year, has
probably suggested another feature
which is worthy of remark in the
same section. Barley is prominent, |
constructed from either velvet or
silk. In some instances, the whole
article stalk, ears: and beard —4is|
green, whatever the shade of the ears.
Beards, too, run to. great length. |
Heads of barley are used to obtain |
an osprey effect on a hat or bonnet,
and the goods have already been taken
up well.

 

Ornaments of horn are placed well

forward for millinery purposes. A|
| few are real horn.

The majority are
not. Shading in graduated manner
is indulged in in these goods as in
so many others, and the material is

coronets of horn bordered and deco-
rated with steel studs comprise some
typical patterns. It is asserted the

liking for horn will not be disregarded |

by the dressmakers, and that there
is some likelihood of the taste being
developed into future seasons.
2»
Demand for Art Linens.
Each season finds a larger and
growing demand for linens to be

|used in art work and this fall prom-
|ises to be one of the greatest in the
| history of the art linen business. Per-
haps it is safe to say that in every |
|community two-thirds of the women |
are interested in fancy work, and, |

such being the case, they all vie
with each other in trying to produce

the best examples of the needle. The |

plain linens are used most for hem-
stitching and drawn work and it is
said that the sales of the plain
weaves have been almost equal to
the supply. Every department
should carry a line of these plain
linens in order to supply the wishes
of the women of the city, who will
undoubtedly make many calls for the
line before the season has far ad-
vanced.

It is surprising, considering the
qualities of the imported tulle sold
during the past season, to hear noth-
ing but expressions of satisfaction
regarding the handling of it, both by
importers and retailers, and _ there
seems no doubt that a very important
business will again be done on the
imported cloth for 1905. Indeed,
some large orders have already been
placed for December delivery. A
number of leading retailers will show
it during the early fall for evening

wear.
2 2

Just Like a Woman.

Husband—My dear, did you notice
that gentleman who just got off the
car?

Wife—Do you mean that dark,
heavy-set man in the light gray suit,
brown derby hat and low tan shoes,
wearing a turn-down collar with a
narrow black tie and diamond pin,
carrying a book and silk umbrella
with a gold-mounted handle?

Husband—Y-yes, I guess—

Wife—No; I didn’t notice
Why?

him.

Little |

 

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Kisses

 

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the quart.

The more you sell the easier it is

to pay the rent---See.
Ask about them.

 

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TRAVERSE CITY, MICH.

 

 

  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
  

There are catsups and
also a ‘*tomato”
Columbia, «*The Un-

colored Catsup,”’ has

catsup.

Nature’s color and flavor.
Other catsups are dyed
with cochineal, coal

tar, etc.

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GRANG RAPIDS, MICHIDAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Piles Cured

Without Chloroform, Knife
or Pain

Indisputable evidence of the superiority of the Burleson Painless Dis-

solvent Method over all others

 

Suffered Twenty Years—Cured In Thirty
Minutes—Now Brings His Friends
to be Cured.

Wilcox, Mich., Oct. 10, 1903.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

I was afflicted with piles for over twen-
ty years and for the past six years had
not been able to do any heavy work. I
had tried many different remedies and
several different doctors without any
help. A friend called my attention to your
treatment and advised me to take it. I
did so and was cured in thirty minutes.
I can not speak too highly of your treat-
ment and would recommend anyone af-
flicted with this terrible disease to take
the treatment without delay. It is prac-
tically painless and I was able to work
the next day after the treatment. I
would not be placed in the condition I
was before taking the treatment for any
amount of money. I expect to be in
Grand Rapids next week and will bring
a friend with me to take the treatment.

Hoping that this will lead some suffer-
ing fellowman to find relief, I remain,

Gratefully yours,
M. M. Deake,
Postmaster and Dealer rn General Mer-
chandise.

 

A Pleasure to Answer Enquiries.
Grandville, Mich., Oct. 5, 1903.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

I feel so grateful for what you have
done for me I hardly know how to ex-
press myself other than say: Without
any exaggeration whatever, that I have
been saved from a fate worse than death.
I feel that I have a new lease of life.
It has given me new energy to cheerfully
bear all other calamities that may fall
to my lot in life to come.

I will cheerfully give in detail to any-
one asking for it what I have suffered
for years with one of the worst cases of
piles it is possible for any person to have
and how perfect and painless the cure.
Please call on me at any time, Doctor,
for reference. I am as ever,

Your grateful friend,
Mrs. Milton Velzey.

 

Suffered Twenty Years—Cured in 30
Inutes.
Millbrook, Mich., Oct. 8, 1903.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

I wish to make acknowledgment of
your successful treatment of my case. I
suffered twenty years with protruding
piles; you cured me in thirty minutes
and I am now as sound as any man of
my age in Michigan. I went to you
against the advice of my physician and
am thankful that I did.

I recommend your treatment to any
person afflicted as I was.

Respectfully yours,
Wm. Bragg.

 

No Faith In Salves and Ointments.
Speaks From Experience.

PALMITER, THE CLOTHIER,
Phone 40—2 rings.
Good Clothing Ready to Wear
Custom Made.
Furnishings Too.
Hart, Mich., April 13, 1903.
Dr. Burleson cures piles. I suffered for
ten years with a most painful case, tried
all sorts of salves and ointments with-
out relief, to say nothing of cure. I
do not believe these patent mixtures ever
cured a genuine case of piles. Dr. Bur-
leson has cured me completely and 1
have every reason to believe in him and
his method of treatm me
- PALMITER.

 

Took 50 Treatments Without Benefit.
Cured in 30 Minutes by New Method.

Grand Rapids, Mich., July 1, 1903.

I suffered for years with a bad case
of protruding piles and prolapsus, which
disabled me so I was unable to work a
good deal of the time. I could get no re-
lief at home (St. Louis, Mich.) so de-
cided to go to Grand Rapids and be
treated by a specialist. On inquiry I
found a rectal specialist, who claimed to
cure piles by what he called the injec-
tion method. I consulted him and he
assured me that he could effect a cure.
So I commenced treating with him, con-
tinuing same twice weekly for about six
months. He used the injection method,
until it could be seen to be an absolute
failure. He then claimed that he knew
about the use of electricity and so he
tried that for a few weeks, with no bene-
fit whatever, until I got disgusted and
began to give up all hope of being cured.
With all these treatments I had not re-
ceived a particle of benefit. At this
point I thought I would go and have a
talk with Dr. Willard M. Burleson, the
Rectal Specialist, and he told me that
he could easily cure me and that it would
cost me nothing until I was satisfied that
I was cured. He treated me once by
his New Painless Dissolvent Method and
to my great surprise and joy he cured
me and I have not had a sign of pro-
lapsus or protrusion since.

I do not know whether the fault was
in the man or the old-fashioned injec-
tion method, but in my case I know that
both were dismal failures. I took about
50 treatments by this old-fashioned
method with no benefit whatever, and
Dr. Burleson by his New Method com-
pletely cured me of all protrusion and
prolapsus in one treatment lasting about
30 minutes. If I had gone to Dr. Bur-
leson in the first place ana received hon-
est, intelligent and up-to-date treatment
I would have been saved six months of
suffereing and the annoyances of about
50 useless treatments.

I had an extremely bad case and Dr.
Burleson’s pronounced success in my
case leads me to believe that he will have
but few failures.

Dr. Burleson accomplished much more
than he promised in my case, while the
doctor who used the injection method
promised everything and accomplished
nothing. W. A. GREEN,
197 Mt. Vernon St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Fremont, Mich., June 20, 1903.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson, Grand Rapids,
Mich:
Dear Doctor:

You are welcome to use my name in
any capacity in which it will do good. I
suffered for years with protruding piles
and you cured me in one short treatment
by your New Painless Dissolvent Method.
I was in a very precarious physical con-
dition when I went to you to be treated,
but my health and appearance have so
much improved that my old friends are
surprised. I have advised numerous
friends to call on you and will do so
from time to time as opportunity pre-
sents itself.

I feel confident that you have the only
treatment for this class of trouble. I
had been advised by surgeons, in whom
I had confidence and supposed were up-
to-date, that the only way I could be
cured was to have them cut out. How-
ever, I know better than this now.

Thanking you for the great service you
have rendered me, I am, yours truly,

GEO. E. HILTON.
Postmaster.

P. S.—I expect to be at your office
Thursday, with a friend —

 

Suffered Ten Years—Cured In One Treat- |
ment.

Petoskey, Mich., Oct. 12, 1903. |
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

I have no reason to believe that I am
not perfectly and permanently cured of
my piles by your treatment. I suffered
all the tortures that accompany these |
conditions for eight or ten years, and
tried a number of different remedies, but
still suffered. Last June I heard of your
wonderful success in curing Rectal Dis-
eases and went to Grand Rapids and was
treated on July 6th last. The treatment
was painless and caused me no incon-
venience and I have had no trouble with
piles since that treatment, and, it is
needless to state, am well satisfied with
the results.

It gives me great pleasure to recom-
mend your treatment to my afflicted
friends. I am,

Yours truly,
Thomas Quinlan,
Real Estate and Insurance.

 

Felt That He Was Condemned to Death.

Fremont, Mich., Oct. 5, 1903.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

I hardly know how to express the grat-
itude I feel towards you for the great
service you have rendered me. I never
realized that piles could cause so much
disturbance, and make such a complete
wreck of a man. When I went to you
for treatment I was in a pitiable condi-
tion; I could not sleep nor could I think,
my back ached so bad that I was in
misery all the time; I was unable to
attend to business and felt that I was a
doomed man. I felt like a man condemn-
ed to death. I had very little hope, and
the horror of submitting to a barbarous
surgical operation aggravated my nerv-
ous condition not a little. Every doctor
whom I consulted before coming to you
could advise nothing but the knife and
if they had recommended the gallows 1
would have accepted it as cheerfully.

I had heard of your wonderful cures
of Rectal Diseases and resolved to con-
sult you. Your diagnosis was ulceration
and hemorrhoids, and I began to improve
both locally and in general health as
soon as you commenced treating me and
soon my hope began to return, and in
about two weeks you had the rectal
trouble cured and I could see that I was
on the road to rapid recovery. My im-
provement has been phenomenal and I
am to-day as well as I ever was I have
recommended many others to go to you
to have rectal troubles cured and you
have been equally successful with them
all. Your treatment caused me no Pain
or inconvenience whatever and my case
was an extremely severe one.

I believe your fame is assured: and in
a few years your reputation will be na-
tional. I am,

Gratefully yours,
Wm. Hilton,
Wm. Hilton & Co., Lumber i
Cement. a

 

A Bad Case Easily Cured.

Grand Rapids, Mich., April 25

Dr. Willard M. hee easily a
me of a very bad case of piles. [I was so
bad that I could not work for a week
at a time. I suffered all the tortures of
the damned. I had piles just about as
bad as any person could have them and
my experience demonstrates to me that
Dr. Burleson and his New Painless Dis-
solvent Method are a decided success.
The treatment causes no pain or suffer-
ing, but it does the business.

 

JOHN SEDARD,
84 Center St.

Came All the Way From Florida.

Orlando, Fla., Oct. 6, 1903.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dear Doctor—It gives me pleasure to
thank you for the many courtesies, kind
attention and careful treatment received
while under your care in Grand Rapids a
month ago. And for the benefit of others
afflicted as I was, I would add my tes-
timonial to the many others, the reading
of which led me to go two thousand miles
to get your treatment. I have been
troubled with piles for about twenty
years. After much suffering I was treat-
ed five years ago by the ‘Injection Meth-
od,”’ which nearly resulted in my death
and left me worse than before. I grew
steadily worse until last spring, when I
found myself about exhausted both phy-
sically and financially and having no
alternative but the knife. I again sub-
mitted to the ‘Injection Treatment,”’
with the result as at first. For three
weeks after this treatment there were
times when, for hours, I was in an agony
of pain, and thought I should die, but the
Lord graciously raised me up and soon
after, as I believe, put it into the mind
of a friend to send me Dr Burleson’s
pamphlet telling of his treatment. It is
now a Jittle over one month since I took
his treatment by electricity. I reached
home one week after the treatment and
have been hard at work for nearly three
weeks. Were I ten thousand miles away
and had a case of piles, I would try and
get to Dr. Burleson, and I advise you
who are suffering to do the same. I will
gladly answer any enqurrtes.

Yours respectfully,
J. B. Finley.

Suffered Sixteen Years.

Fruitport, Mich., Oct. 17. 1903.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dear Doctor—After three treatments by
you I feel like a new man—better than
I have for years. I suffered with the
bleeding and protruding piles for the last
fifteen or sixteen years. I suffered some-
thing awful and could not work most of
the time. Now for months since you
cured me I can do as good a day’s work
as I ever could. At the time I went to
you for tredtment I was so bad that I
could not do anything at all. I am,

Ever your true friend,
Walter Carrick.

 

Cured in One Treatment.

5 suffered for eight years with pro-
truding piles, which at times bled pro-
fusely; was so bad that I was in misery
all the time. Could not do any work
without having them come out. I had
to put them back about every ten min-
utes when I was trying to work.

lL was cured in one treatment by Dr.
Willard M. Burleson, by his painless dis-
solvent method. I have not been troubled
at all since that one treatment and have
every reason to believe that I am per-
fectly cured. :

N. Tubbs,

c
Contractor and Builder,
311 Junction St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

@
In Bed Eight Weeks Following Knife
Se Soon Worse Than
ver.

. was terribly afflicted with protruding
piles. Had knife operation six years ago,
suffered terribly and was in bed eight
weeks. Was soon worse than ever.
am now well, however, having been cured
by Dr. Burleson’s New Painless Dissolv-
ent Method. Did not suffer any and was

not in bed one day. Foolish to suffer

when you can be cured so easily.

: H. D. DAVIS,
Belmont, Mich.

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Told That Dr. Burleson Was a ‘Fake.’
A. J..WHIETE,
General Merchandise.
Bass River, Mich., April—1903.

Dr. Willard M. Burleson, Grand Rapids,
Mich.

- Dear Doctor:

I suffered for fifteen years with a very
aggravated case of piles and kept getting
worse until I was almost a_ complete
physical and mental wreck. I lost thirty
pounds in weight and was so nervous thta
I was unable to sit still for more than
a few minutes at a time or sleep more
than two or three hours a night. I
would go to bed about midnight and
would sleep a troubled sleep for about
two hours, when I would wake and would
have to get up and walk. In two weeks
I knew every street sign and every night
policeman in Grand Rapids, where I was
at a sanitarium being treated for my
nervous condition. Before coming to
you I got no benefit whatever from the
treatment, but from that time on I com-
menced to improve and in about four
weeks from the time you first treated me
I was a well man physically and men-
tally, and to-day weigh more than I ever
did before in my life.

I had been advised that I could not be
cured without a surgical operation and
taking chloroform, and one of Grand Rap
ids’ oldest physicians and surgeons went
so far as to tell me that you were a
“fake.”’

As every physician whom I talked to
about my case wanted to use the knife, I
am satisfied that you are far in advance
of any of them in the treatment of these
troubles, as you cured me easily and
quickly without any pain and without the
use of chloroform or knife, and caused
me no inconvenience whatever.

I feel very thankful for what you have
done for me. I think I was in a fair way
for something worse than death.

I am gratefully yours,
A. J. WHITE.

The above shows how little dependence
can be placed in the word of some physi-
cians when asked for an opinion of a
brcther practitioner. All physicians are
not so unprincipled, however, as there
are many honorable men in the medical
profession. Think of trusting your
life in the hands of such an unscrupulous
person.

 

A Well-Known Druggist Easily Cured,
After Failure of Every Known Remedy.

Grand Rapids, Mich., April 25, 1903.

After suffering the most intense agony
for years with a very severe case of
piles and trying every remedy known to
medical science with no relief and get-
ting worse all the time, I was easily cured
by Dr. Willard M. Burleson by his New
Painless Dissolvent Method, without any
pain or inconvenience or losing one day
from my work.

I was in a terrible condition and on the
verge of physical breakdown. From my
own experience I know that Dr. Burle-
son’s treatment is everything he claims
for it, and language cannot be made
strong enough to praise it as it deserves.
No person can speak honestly of this
wonderful treatment without recommend-
ing it. It is a Godsend to those who
have this terrible affliction.

FRANK ESCOTT,
With Geo. L. Warren, Druggist, 75 Canal
Street.

 

Gives Testimonial for Humanity’s Sake.

I was afflicted with the piles for over
thirty years and have suffered terribly
from this horrible complaint. For the
last three years my suffering had been
severe and I have used a bushel of ‘‘Sure
Cures,” without any relief whatever. Last
spring I happened to see Dr. Burleson’s
advertisement in the paper and called
upon him a short time after, took treat-
ment and must say the benefit received
from one treatment was almost beyond

belief. It hardly seems possible to me,
even now, that piles can be cured so
easily. I heartily endorse his method

and will alweys have a good word for it,
either at home or abroad.

I dislike to have my name appear in
public print, but feel as though it
would look a little cowardly and unjust
to withhold it; if it will only do you and
suffering humanity some good, I will
stand the publicity part. With best
wishes, I am,

Respectfully yours,
D L. Harden,
Newaygo, Mich.

 

 

 

Willard M. Burleson, M. D.

Rectal Specialist.

Originator of the New Painless Dissolv-
ent Method of Treatment for the Cure
of Piles and all other Diseases of the
Rectum.

103 Monroe St.

 

Charges and Terms

My charges are always reasonable and
are for a complete, permanent and guar-
anteed cure. The exact amount can
only be determined upon a complete ex-
amination. Any person who is not pre-
pared to pay the entire fee at once will
be allowed to make payment as his con-
venience permits.

Any person who is too poor to pay will
be cured absolutely free of charge and
will receive as careful attention as though
he paid the largest fee. .| want no person
to be kept from the benefits of my won-
derful discovery for financial reasons.

Write any of the people whose testi-
monials appear here and ask them if
they were satisfied with my charges and
terms.

 

The Method

I eure Piles by a NEW PAINLESS
DISSOLVENT METHOD, which is my
own discovery, no other person using it
or knowing what it is. No hazardous
operation of any kind is employed and
no knife or chloroform used. Many bad
cases are cured in one painless treat-
ment and few cases require more than
two weeks for a complete cure. The
PATIENT CAN ATTEND TO BUSINESS
DURING THE COURSE OF TREAT-
MENT.

I have a booklet explaining my method
more fully than I can explain it here,
and [ am pleased to send this booklet to
anyone who will ask for it.

Any sufferer solicitous for his own wel-
fare would not think of submitting to
any other method of treatment, afte~
investigating my Painless’ Dissolvent
Method for the cure of Piles and all
other Diseases of the Rectum.

SEND FOR BOOKLET. IT CONTAINS
MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION.

How to Find Out

Ask some one who knows, some one
who has been cured, some one who has
tried everything else without relief. Write
to any of the people whose testimonials
appear here. They will tell you truth-

fully of their experience and _ without
prejudice.

 

 

|

Don’t ask some one who knows no
more about it than you do. Don’t ask
some doctor who is trying to get you |
to submit to the knife. He is all one- |
sided and can see nothing but the knife |
and a small prospective fee. The ex-|
perience of A. J. White, as told in his}
testimonial, is a good illustration of |
this. He investigated for himself, how- |
ever, and then did the only thing any}
sensible person could do—come to me
and was cured without submitting to a
barbarious surgical operation.

Any person who investigates honestly
and carefully would not think of submit- |
ting to any other method of treatment. |

 

Guarantee

| guarantee to cure piles and all other |
diseases of the rectum or accept no pay
for my services. Any person who doubts |
my ability to cure need not pay one cent |
until satisfied that | have done _ all |
claimed. IF | FAIL THERE WILL BE
NO CHARGE. | REQUIRE NO DE-|}
POSIT OR WRITTEN CONTRACT. |

Write and ask any of the people whose |

testimonials appear here if my guarantee ; method is

is not good. if your trouble ever returns
after | cure you, | guarantee to cure you
again free of charge.

i] The best

Testimonials and References

I have hundreds of other testimonials
of cured patients which I have not room
to publish here. I can also refer you to
many prominent people who have known
me for years.

I would say for the benefit of out-of-

| town people that I am a permanent resi-

dent of Grard Rapids and have practiced
medicine in this city for years.

The enormous practice I enjoy is con-
clusive proof of my success

 

Beware of Fakes

Every successful institution and method
have their imitators, and mine is no ex-
ception to the rule. Every day I hear of
quacks, and even doctors of some merit
rizht in this city, claiming that they have
my method and can apply it just as

| successfully as I can

These claims are all false, as I have

never instructed anyone in my method
and | am the only person who has ever
successfully applied electricity in the cure
of rectal diseases.
proof I have to offer of the
above statements is the results obtained
by these imposters. They either get no
results at all or nearly kill the patient.
From one to three treatments by my
ill that is necessary to cure
a case of piles. If they cannot complete
a cure in this number of treatments, it
is conclusive proof that they are faking.

 

Dr. Burieson is Editoriaitly Praised

In a Leading Medical Journa

CHICAGO JOURNAL OF HEALTH

THE AMERICAN AUTHORITY

Matters of Sanitation and Hygiene.

 

BUSINESS OFFICE, 263-269 DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO.

 

The Chicago Journal of Health seeks the advertis-
ing of reliable houses only, and asks that prompt no-
tice be given by any reader who has cause for com-
plaint against an advertiser, that the matter may be
investigated ‘and the advertisement discontinued,
should the advertiser be proved untrustworthy.

 

Svumscarrtiom Raras: $5.00 rex reaz mx U.S
£1 2s. rm Evrops.

WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR.

An Editorial Report Made Frem the Vantage Ground
of Absolute Independence for the Protection of tle
Public.

BY G. A. WARNER, M. D.
(Copyrighted 1904, by A. F. Leopold.)

“All toads lead to Rome.” This was true in the
time of the Roman Empire. Rome was the center
of civilization and all roads led to it. But we are
living in the time of American civilization and we
live far differently from what they did in the Roman
times. Competition is greater; the strain of life is
more intense ; social demands are more exacting and
household cares are more trying, and from out of it
all we find that all roads of modern existence lead
but to one end.

While the fiat of life is inexorable, and from ulti-
mate death there is no escape, many a one is sleep-
ing the long sleep under the leaves to-day, who
would have been well and healthy had they consulted
some reputable specialist, in chronic diseases, be-
fore the hour when the final breakdown came. Thou-
sands of brave men and fair women are dying to-day
even here in Grand Rapids, who longed for life and
yet did not enjoy it, and over the graves soon can be
written the words: “Died Because They Had a Pre-
judice Against Consulting a Specialist.”

In medicine, as in everything else, it is the special-
ist who devotes his time, his energy, his intelligence
and his skill to the study and cure of certain dis-
eases; who applying to their treatment all the new
remedies, appliances and apparatus, begotten of the
progress of the age, who succeeds, and whose cures
of cases, given up by the family physician, border on
the miraculous. All this being true, the Chicago
Journal of Health offers no excuse for introducing
to its thousands of readers the eminent medical ex-
pert, Dr. Willard M. Burleson. That he is master
of his profession is universally admitted. Having
had years of training and experience in the greatest
hospitals of the world, besides being a graduate of
medical colleges of unquestioned authority. In his
extended and successful treatment of piles, the repu-
tation he enjoys, not only with his brethren of the
profession in Grand Rapids, is as flattering as it is

1 on the Merits of His Work.

AUGUST 23 1904.
well deserved. Dr. Burleson has probably treated a
greatcr number of patients during his residence here
than were ever before treated by any one physician.
His success has been phenomenal, but richly merited.

The thorough knowledge of anatomy and thera-
peutics possessed by Mr. Burleson, acquired through
his practical experience in the great hospitals of the
world, enables him to diagnose and treat piies with
greater success than those who profess to, but do not
possess the foregoing qualities. ee

In the interest of suffering humanity, this editorial
is written. It is not a paid advertisement ; im fact,
Dr. Burleson was not even consulted before this was
written. What we have said here has been called
forth from a personal knowledge of the greatness of
his skill and ability, and on inclination to benefit the
thousands of our readers, who may desire to enjoy
perfect health and the blessings of life.

 

SPECIAL FEATURE OF THE CHICAGO JOURNAL.
OF HEALTH.

During the ten years of its existence this publica-
tion has at all times adhered to its early declaration
that the editorial columns of a newspaper belong ex-
clusively to its readers, and that it is an imposition
upon the rights of subscribers to permit advertise-
ments or paid matter to appear in such a way that
deception is practived upon those who receive such
statements as coming from the editorial department.
Our advertising columns are open to all legitimate
concerns. Such space is for sale and may be ob-
tained for the purpose of advancing the interests of
any reliable product. Upon the other hand, we have
no space for sale in our reading columns, and all
Suggestions contained therein reflect our unbiased
and candid opinions made after thorough investiga-
tion, and may be implicitly relied upon. At no time
have paid puffs or “write ups” been admitted to the
editorial columns of the Chicago Journal of Health.

WORTH TRYING.

Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour
stomach.

Try taking your cod-liver oil in tomato sauce if
you want to make it palatable.

If the air of the cellar is damp it may be thor-
oughly dried by placing in it a peck of fresh lime
in an open box. A peck of lime will absorb about
seven pounds, or more than three quarts, of water,
and in this way a cellar may soon be dried, even in
the hottest weather.

Unbiased Advice.

Readers may rely implicitly upon the fairness of
these reports, as paid advertisements are not al-
lowed entrance in the reading columns. All sug-
gestions made are based upon facts and not upon
the selfish interests of anyone.

 

Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and
butternut stains.

. Willard M. Burleson

Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Glazed Kid Shoes Regaining Popu-
larity.

During a recent trip among shoe
manufacturers I learned that glazed
kid shoes are rapidly regaining their
This ought to
be welcome news to manufacturers

old-time popularity.

of glazed kid leather, who have had
rather a hard time of it during the
reign of other leathers demanded by
fashion.

Not that the shoe business is spe-
cially lively. Not at all. Shoe man-
ufacturers in Buffalo, Rochester, Sy-
racuse and surrounding towns are
complaining of dull trade for the
time being, and many are curtailing
their
Many have no interest in leathers for

operations in cutting room.

fall work, and visiting leather sales-
men, in order to gain a hearing, have
to produce samples of the leathers
which will be used next summer.

On light leather interest centers in
colors, mainiy calf, but a goodly
portion is kid. All shoe manufac-
turers agree that the consumption of
colored leather next season, begin-
ning December, will be prodigious.
Although the majority of shoe sales-
men have only just started upon their
trips, many orders for colored shoes
have been received with deliveries
to be made from November 1 and
forward. Numbers of travelers have
not yet gone out, but they expect
to do well on their trips.

Black glazed kid is coming on top
again and no mistake about it. This
handsome and _ satisfactory leather
was bound to assert its value and
economy sooner or later, but I con-
fess I was quite surprised in my
journeys among shoe factories to no-
tice the quantities of black glazed
kid that were being cut. For in-
stance, Rochester has always been
famous for the excellence of her
shoes, and this thriving city has al-
ways been a favorite market with
manufacturers of glazed kid. For the
past year or two shoe manufacturers
in Rochester and elsewhere have had
to allow patent kid and coltskin to
divide honors with glazed kid. This
season, however, glazed kid has
jumped to the front again, and as
one shoe manufacturer said to me,
“J gave more pages this season in
my catalogue featuring black kid
shoes than for five years.”

I print this information for what it
is worth, but I know and feel it will
interest manufacturers and sellers of
glazed kid leathers and give them
something pleasant to think about.

The demand for black chrome calf
is very light, but there is impressive
call for colors, and orders for many
thousands of dozens of colored calf
have been placed on a basis of 25¢,
23c and 21ec for selected small, fine,
prime skins. No others will do at
any price. Shoe manufacturers, with

 

a reputation, are a critical set, and
demand the best.—Shoe Trade Jour-
nal.
——_>—__
The Man With a Hobby.

The man with a hobby is the man
who enjoys life and helps others to
enjoy .it. The man with a hobby
is apt to be cheery in nature, wide
in sympathies, charitable, broad in his
judgments, ready to spread good
times about him. He will seldom,
as is too often the case with ardent
workers, be too busy, in getting
ready for some future day, to get
the best out of the life of the pres-
ent. :

A Chicago business man not long
since confessed, regretfully, that he
had always intended to love and mar-
ty, feeling that only in this way
could he extract all of life’s sweet-
ness, but—he had never had _ time.
Another man recently admitted that
he had been so busy piling up dol-
lars for the future enjoyment of the
girl he loved—but was too busy to
tell of his adoration—that a poorer
but wiser rival had married her out
of hand. Yet another successful busi-
ness man, whose proud boast it is
that he has been forty-three consecu-
tive years “in harness” with but
two weeks of vacation in all that
time, scarcely knows his own chil-
dren; his wife, lavishly provided for
in all material details, bitterly de-
clares that business has robbed her
of her husband. Such cases might
be multiplied by almost every observ-
ant individual of the present day.
The enjoyment of a hobby—any hob-
by that would have prevented the
slavish absorption in business—would
have rendered such mournful tales
untrue. Charles Melrose.

——_+<-.___
Read Your Trade Paper.

Some of the veterans in the busi-
ness are inclined to pooh-pooh the
idea that a trade paper can do them
any good.

They point to the editor as a man
who has had little experience and
whose theory will not work out.

They forget that the best trade pa-
pers are now edited by men who
have had much experience with mer-
chandising methods, many of them
men who could take charge of a
store and make it show a net cash
profit each year if any one could.

Another point they fail to make
note of is that the ideas advanced by
the leading trade papers are boiled
down from information obtained
from merchants over a wide area who
are working under various conditions.

The trade paper thereby becomes
an exchange where information on
merchandising methods is gathered
at a central point and then distribut-
ed to the thousands of interested
readers.

The merchants who do not read
trade papers to-day are in a small
minority.—Commercial Bulletin.

 

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Triumph of the English Tongue.

An English-speaking nation has
grown up on the west side of the
Atlantic which has done and is doing
more than the parent country to
give the tongue a world vogue. Two-
thirds of the people who speak Eng-

lish live in the United States. The |

industrial and commercial conquests
which this country is gaining tell

in favor of its people’s tongue. A |

centurv ago French, Spanish and
German were far ahead of English

in the number of persons who used
them 2s a vehicle of speech. But in
the lapse of time English has passed
all of them and is spoken by more
people to-day than is any other civ-
ilized tongue.

 

 

  
  
  
  

STAR LINE

RINDGE, KALMBACH, LOGIE & CO., LTD.
-GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Merchants’ half fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids. Send for circular.

‘‘In boys’ shoes they
make styles that actually
stand the grief that any
kid can subject them to,
and this is saying a
whole lot.”

Quotation from the Grand

Rapids Evening Press, Sept.

2rst, 1904.

 

 

 

 

BANIGAN

  

 

Made for Wear

 

The Banigan Rubber
itself has demon-
Strated the quality of
materials used in
manufacturing
through constant in-
crease of yearly sa'es,

To get all the good out of a shoe, get one with all the good in it.
We would like to send you one of our new illustrated catalogues.

es

GEO. S. MILLER, Selling Agent

131-133 Market St., Chicago.

WOONASQUATUCKET

 

      
  
   

The satisfaction to be
derived from sales of
Rubbers is entirely
dependent upon the
quality cf the shoe.

LP

 

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

Jobs in Kid Gloves Are Hard to Se-
cure.

One condition of the glove market
is the absence of broken lots. Many
leading retailers this season of the
year visit importers’ stocks for brok-
en lots—jobs—with which to incite
greater interest in their stocks. Jobs
with which to supply special sales
are said to be scarcer than usual this
season. Importers of kid gloves have
confined their orders to straight stuff
—regular merchandise. One cause of
this is reported to be the lack of busi-
ness during the past season, and not
a large amount of kid gloves has
been imported. Orders for. regular
staple lines and a decreased volume
of business have left the market bare
of jobs.
if other glove dealers have as much
difficulty as himself in picking up jobs

in kids there are going to be some |
sorely disappointed glove buyers this |
|vance of one-half a mark has been

fall.

|
Merchants are criticising the prac- |
tice of American manufacturers who |

sacrifice quality for quantity. Some
seasons ago there was a strong de-
mand for chamois gloves. At first
the supply came from Europe, then
the American manufacturer started in
to try his hand making them. This
he did at first in a limited way, not
having any difficulty in selling what
he made. While he was manufactur-
ing a limited quantity he produced
a glove of quality acceptable to the
trade. As the demand increased the
American manufacturer became care-
less. It was not long before his
product was so unsatisfactory as to
kill the sale of this line of gloves.
Later there was a demand for mocha
gloves. The supply was produced in
Europe, but it was not long before
the American glove manufacturer re-
ceived his orders for some. At first
he accepted these orders and filled
them with credit to himself. But it
was not long before he dropped into
his old habit of scheming to get
prices down and in this particular in-
stance he substituted a Japanese ma-
terial which closely resembled mocha,
but the substitution was unsatisfac-
tory and of short duration, and the
demand was killed. Then the Ameri-
can manufacturers tried to get back
to the real mocha, but it was too late.
The customers had been deceived,
and as they were not able to distin-
guish between the real mocha and the
Jap substitution they declined to try
again.

A similar experience is expected in
capes. For three years American
manufacturers have been doing what
they could in capes. The quality has
been getting worse all the time, as
they have been trying to get prices

down. Manufacturers are trying to
increase their sales by _ sacrificing
quality. It is not unlikely that the

cape glove demand is going the way
of the chamois and mocha gloves.
The American manufacturer hasan
organization for a certain output, and
if the demand goes beyond this he
must secure help from outside, which
help often mis-sews and makes an
eighth to a sixteenth seam for a
The quality is forgotten in
In

quarter.
demand to get out quantity.

the

One retail glove dealer says |

 

 

women’s kid gloves foreign materials
excel the American. American manu-
facturers are not able to successfully
compete with the foreigners in the
ever-seam and pique. As a general
thing glove dealers would like to sell
more piques, as they give better serv-
ice and wear much longer.

The leather market is not particu-
larly active just at present, but a
decent demand is expected at an early
date. It will not be long before
women will ask for kid gloves. Al-
teady they are showing signs of wish-
ing to get rid of “rags,” summer fab-
rics. The demand for lisles this sea-
son has been noticeably better among
the better class of shoppers, but the
sale of silks has been of sufficient
size to get out the “baggy” glove. The
average shopper enjoys turning from
the sloppy fabric to the fitted glove.

Lambskins and Schumaschens are
likely to be higher. Already an ad-

made. England and the continent
have been using more of these goods.
A firmer and in some instances a
higher market has resulted because
of the converting of these goods to
other purposes. Lambskins are be-
ing converted by notion manufactur-
ers in a number of cases. For the
foregoing reason both schumaschens
and lambskins are very firm.

>.

Japan’s Increased Trade.

The dullness of trade experienced
in Japan during a large part of the
past year owing to the imminence of
war and the necessity for preparation
has now passed to a marked degree,
and for the six months of the pres-
ent year there has been a gain of
about 9% per cent. in activity over
the corresponding period of 1903.
Purchases of war material, which
have been very large, particularly in
this country, would explain partially
for this improvement, but in exports,
which naturally would be decreased
rather than otherwise by war, there
is an improvement of about a similar
amount as the imports, or 9 per
cent.

A feature of the imports was that
they consisted largely of raw mate-
rials intended for the manufacture of
articles at home, and in some _in-
stances importations increased more
than it00 per cent. fhis large’ in-
crease was in phosphatic manure,
which was for use in the fields to
give a larger yield of agricultural
products, which clearly demonstrates
that peaceful occupations are not
being neglected, notwithstanding the
heavy drain upon the country in men
and money. Although imports. of
coal increased trom about 49,000 tons
in 1903 to 382,755 in 1904, this was
not owing to the cessation of min-
ing in Japan, as more than 1,500,000
tons of other grades than those im-
ported were shipped to foreign coun-
tries.

—_—__>-e—___

Is this not iife’s tragedy—to be

condemned by Fate to wear drab bar-

gain-counter garments when _ one’s
soul is sobbing for pink silk and
spangles?

——_»+ 2.

The best balm for broken hearts
is a preparation labeled “Work,”

 

Business Opportunity

For Sale—The stock and good will of a pros-
perous, well-established wholesale shoe business of
highest reputation, in one of the best cities of the
west. Parties wishing to consider such an open-
ing will please address C. C., care of this paper,
when full details and an opportunity to investigate
will be given. Capital required, about $100,000.

 

 

 

 

    
  
    
   
 
  
  
   
 
  

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GET AFTER THE MEN

Sell them one pair of good shoes and they’ll
always come back for another pair. That’s
the kind of trade that pays. The kind of
shoes that make such trade is the

BRADLEY & METCALF

$Z NULINE $2
GOODYEAR WELTS

We make them in three leathers—Velour, f:
Box Calf and genuine Kangaroo—in three
styles, Bal, Blucher and Golf cut.

We are the only manufacturers making gen-
uine Goodyear Welts at $2.00 per pair.

Bradley & Metcalf Co.

 

 

 

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‘Where Quality is Paramount”
3 201 East Water St., MILWAUKEE, WIS.
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Speak Quick

It will be necessary for you to hurry up if you want some of those warm
shoes made by the Scheurmann Shoe Manfg. Co., whose stock we just bought,
as they are going fast. These are all fresh goods, made in the best manner,
consisting of Felt Shoes, fuliettes and Slippers, fur trimmed and fancy
ornaments, with flexible McKay sewed soles, and we can give you some
genuine bargains, if taken soon.

We are also making some lively prices on The Lacy Shoe Co.’s stock.

WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers

No. 131-133-135 No. Franklin St. Saginaw, Mich.

 

 

 

 

    

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

WE EAT TOO MUCH.

Evils Which Ensue as the Result of
Overindulgence.

The discussion which periodically
takes place on this subject, as is
naturally to be expected, evokes a
large amount of public interest. We
are all more or less directly con-
cerned with the important function
of nourishing our bodies, seeing that
to nourish ourselves is the first duty
we perform on entering this world
and the last duty we discharge on
leaving it. The subject of the
amount of the food required is, of
course, a strictly scientific one—in
other words, we can only arrive at
definite conclusions in the matter
through an appeal to scientific knowl-
edge concerning the quantity of food
required under different circum-
stances of life.

The science of foods and feeding
has of late years been considerably
advanced through researches made
not merely into the composition of
foods and the duties they discharge
in our living economically, but also
concerning the amount of food re-
quired to produce a given amount of
“energy” or working power. It
should not be forgotten, in the first
place, that the functions of food in
the body are of a twofold character.
If we compare the body to a loco-
motive engine we find an accurate
parallel between that complex piece
of machinery and the still more com-
plicated organism we ourselves own.

As the structural material of the
engine differs materially from its
energy producing fuel, so it may be
said the foods upon which we sub-
sist exhibit a like difference, even if
it is one of not so rigid a character
as regards tissue forming foods and
energy producing articles of diet.
The line between these two classes
of foods is not a sharply defined one,
seeing that the two classes of foods
may, under certain bodily conditions,
overlap as regards their functions.
Thus the body building foods may,
and probably do, contribute to the
development of “energy,” whilst the
energy producing foods are regard-
ed by many physiologists as capable
of giving origin to substances which
may be employed in the building up
of our tissues. All the same, the
division just alluded to is a thorough-
ly scientific one, and in the main
may be regarded as separating the
articles on which we subsist into two
clearly defined classes or divisions.

The first class of foods—those
which go to build up our bodies—are
termed “nitrogenous foods,’ for the
reason that amongst the chemical
elements of which they are compos-
ed nitrogen forms a_ conspicuous
item. Such foods are represented by
white of egg, juice of meat, curd of
milk, gluten of flour, legumin of
peas, beans, and lentils, and like sub-
stances. These are typically our
body building substances. They go
to form the basis of our living tis-
sues, and therefore correspond in a
direct sense to the structural material
of which the locomotive engine is
composed.

The second class include “non-ni-
trogenous” foods. These are repre-

 

 

 

 

sented by fats, starches and sugars.
It may here be mentioned that all
the starch we consume, in the shape
of bread, potatoes, tapioca, rice, etc.,
requires to be changed in the prog-
ress of digestion into sugar before it
can be utilized by the body. Hence
starches and sugars in respect of our
nutrition mean practically the same
thing. They represent our energy
producers. There can be little doubt
that out of the starches and sugars
we consume—and of this materiala
considerable amount is taken each
day—we develop the power of doing
muscular work. Fat is also an ener-
gy-producing food. Its chief func-
tion, however, is the development
of heat, but as we may regard the
production of heat as being synony-
mous with the development of ener-
gy, we may include fats, starches,
and sugars together as the foods out
of which and from which is developed
our working power.

In addition to these foods we de-
mand a large quantity of water each
day, this fluid being necessary for
the digestion of other foods, and
because, being perpetually parted
with by lungs, skin and kidneys, it
requires replacement as an essential
item in the composition of our liv-
ing matter. The human body, in-
deed, consists by weight of two-
thirds of water.

Minerals also form an important
part of our diet. They discharge cer-
tain important functions in connec-
tion with the digestion of foods, and
are required in order to promote the
due and proper passing of the blood.
An excellent example of the necessity
for mineral foods is found in the
fact that we require phosphate of
lime when growing, in order to form
our bones. Similarly we place com-
mon salt on our tables because that
mineral is a necessity for the perfec-
tion of the gastric juice of the stom-
ach, while it also discharges other
functions in the body. The absence
of salts of potash from the _ food
causes that disease formerly only too
well known amongst sailors—namely:
“scurvy.”

Turning now to the amounts of
food which are required under dif-
ferent conditions of life, we find that
the quality as well as the quantity
of food necessarily varies according
to age, while sex plays an important
part in the determination of the
amount of food required. Occupa-
tion is also another condition which
has to be taken into account in con-
nection with not merely the quanti-
ty but also the quality of the food
consumed. Hence no rigid rule can
be drawn with regard to the quanti-
ty of food consumed unless circum-
stances of the individual life are tak-
en into. account.

It is the omission of this latter
feature which renders’ unscientific
discussions regarding the amount of
food required for our healthy support
valueless. An excellent example of
the regulation of the quantity of
food consumed and of the selection
of a particular quality with reference
to the work a human body has_ to
perform is found in the case of pris-
on dietaries. The scale of feeding

 

naturally varies according to the la-
bor the prisoner is called upon to
perform. The application of this
principle to ordinary life can be
readily estimated, seeing that two
men living utterly different lives re-
quire not merely a diet of a different
quality, but likewise require their
food to be supplied in different
amounts.

A comparison of the food required
per day for the support of a man
doing ordinary work reveals certain
interesting features. If we take the
mean or average calculations derived
from food tables compiled by three
of the most distinguished physiolo-
gists who have investigated this
question, and making no allowance
for water either taken as water or
as contained chemically in the
food, and likewise neglecting the
question of any waste, we find the
average amounts required by the man
per day to work out as follows: Ni-
trogenous food, 4.31 ounces; fats,
3.53 ounces; starches and_ sugars,
11.71 ounces, and minerals, I ounce.
The total water free food per day
thus amounts to 20.55 ounces.

If the man is put, on the other
hand, to hard work and the diet cal-
culated under the same circumstances
—that is to say, the amount of nutri-
tive material which must be placed
absolutely at the service of his
body—it would represent a total of
from 26.7 to 31 ounces. Nitrogenous
foods would be given to the extent
of 6 to 7 ounces, fats from 3% to 4%
ounces, starches and sugars from 16
to 18 ounces, and the minerals from
I 1-3 to 1% ounces. Here we find
illustrated the general principle that
where the human engine is called
upon to perform a greater amount
of work we must stoke it according-
ly. Having thus obtained a standard
of average for ordinary and hard
work, it is obvious that the answer
to the question “do we eat too much?”
will depend materially upon the cir-
cumstances of the individual life.

The sedentary man does not re-
quire the same amount of food as the
hewer of wood or the drawer of
water working hard with his mus-
cles, but what is of vastly greater
importance is the recognition of the
fact that the brain worker and sed-
entary liver requires his food pre-
sented to him in a shape much more
readily adapted for easy digestion
than the man who may be described
as the toiler and moiler. Your coun-
try plowman may make a hearty and
substantial meal off bread and cheese,
a form of food which, both as_ re-
gards its quality and its quantity,
would be utterly indigestible by the
city man. We see that the question
of feeding, therefore, does not re-
solve itself so much into a question
of quantity as really into a question
of quality of food, but that condi-
tion, which certainly operates most
definitely in so far as the question
of overeating is concerned, is that
represented by the question of age.

A wise physician, dealing with the
question of age and with the occur-
rence of extreme stoutness or cor-
pulence, remarks that many persons
neglect the important physiological

 

rule that the need of food naturally
diminishes with advancing years, just
as the capacities for digesting and
assimilating and duly utilizing food
diminish also. He adds that “it is
dificult to make a man of 40 under-
stand that he can not properly utilize
and adequately dispose of as much
food as he used to when 30, or a
man of 50 as much as when he was
40; so that a diet which would not be
in any way excessive at the former
age becomes distinctly excessive and
productive of undesirable corpulence
on the liver.”

It is of importance, therefore, to
recognize the great law that with
advancing age the quantity of food
required diminishes simply because
the working power of the body itself
decreases and the human engine
therefore requires less stoking. We
may also note that a wise selection
of foods forms another important
item in connection with the question
whether or not we eat too much. For
example, if a person takes each day
only half an ounce of sugar over the
amount which is necessary for him,
and this sugar be stored up in the
body as fat, we should find him to
represent an increase of weight per
annum of over eleven pounds, amount-
ing in five years to four stones of
increase. Here, again, we find illus-
trated the important principle that
the quality of food should be regu-
lated by the circumstances of the
individual life. Just as the thin,
spare and lean person may take a
fair allowance of starch and sugar,
and especially fat, as a heat forming
food, so the person who is inclined
to make flesh, so to speak, on little
food will require to adopt the oppo-
site regimen, and a spare dietary in
the latter case will be found to be
that which is most productive of
health.

After all, it is the wise individual
regulation of life connected with
foods and drinks which alone can
guide it in the pathways of health.
Each person is a law unto himself
or herself, not merely in the matter
of foods and drinks, but even of the
drugs by aid of which the physician
treats our diseases. It is undeniable
that the tendency of our age lies in
the direction of luxury, overfeeding
appearing naturally as part and par-
cel of the luxurious mode of living
in which too many of us_ indulge.
Those who have experienced the in-
creased vigor both of body and mind
which results from the adoption ofa
dietary which is just sufficient for the
due development of their bodily and
mental work, and no more, will readi-
ly testify to the fact that the man
who overeats loses much of the ra-
tional enjoyment of life.

Andrew Wilson.
—_—_ > oo
More Likely to Get It.

Nocash—Wonder where I can bor-
row some money?

Hardupp—What do you want it
for?

“Oh, I’ve got a sure thing in the
fifth race to-morrow.”

“You don’t want money; you want
to borrow trouble.”

 

 

 

 

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Yet, where do you put that money when you get it---the money
#2— for which you have invested your savings, the money for which you
have worked so hard? What do you do with it? Do you put it away carefully
where nothing can happen to it---where you can be sure of getting every cent
of the profit you have earned? Or do you put it into a common cash-drawer,
an ordinary box under the counter, used, maybe, by your great-grandfather along
: with his hour-glass, his tallow candle and other ancient fixtures >
ae You put your hard-earned money into this relic of antiquity
unchecked and practically unprotected. Ashes are dumped into

a barrel in much the same careless way.
You use a scale in order that you may not lose money by
giving a customer more of your goods than he is entitled to.
You weigh these goods with infinite care.
: aie Yet the hard-earned money for these same #
¥ goods is dropped into the ancient makeshifi 24
under the counter with much less thought than you expect
your clerks to take in splitting an ounce of sugar. oor
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

MAKING A MILLIONAIRE.

Wood Cutter Who Became an Em- |
pire Builder.

 

Business success, measured by |
money, is always comparative. One|
man conducting a candy store may
clear $5,000 a year from the business
and yet not measure in business acu-
men with another dealer in candies |
who out of his limited opportunities

is clearing orlly $500 a year from the |

business.

“There are two types of success-
ful business men,” is the dictum of
an observer of men. “One goes along
carefully, takes the minimum of risk,
and succeeds moderately well. The
other judiciously takes large risks,
embarks on bold projects after
lengthened and careful consideration
and probably becomes a millionaire.”

It will be noted that the observer
of men and things considers both
the types successful. His own judg-
ment in the observation may have
been on the side of the man who
takes the minimum of risk and reaps
moderateness in his success.
same time the world’s
will be with the other type, which
makes the Napoleonic moves of the
financial world.

been born to it, the hero of business;
the capable conductor of the small

affairs of life may enjoy his comfor- |

table fortune with half his acquaint-

ances referring to the commonplace |

route by which he came into it.

Yet to the philosopher, Sir Isaac
Newton tackled as great a problem

WE

At the | “
admiration |

In public opinion | “
this doer of great things will have |

|
|in attempting to discover the reason

for the apple’s falling down instead
of up as Columbus did in starting on
| his first voyage in proof that the
| earth was round.

There are few doubters of the
——— that in the Napoleons of
|the business world inspiration may
| cut as large a figure as it has cut in
the histories of men famous in the
|arts and sciences and revolutions of
the world. Columbus started out on
his Western voyage to the East for
the reason that he had figured the
route as possible in his own mind.
James J. Hill, President of the Great
Northern Railroad, for instance, left
off cutting wood and rails in the
Canadian woods to become an “em-
pire builder,” not because he had

>| ever done any building of the kind,

| but because somewhere in his sub-
| conscious nature he felt the impulse
calling.

Hill’s case is strikingly illustrative
of this greater type spoken of by
the philosopher.

No doubt it was the first of Hill’s
judiciously taking large risks,”
when his brother and the friend of
the two, restifig upon their axes in
|the Canadian autumn woods, heard
Jim” announce that he was done
cutting rails. Kinsman and friend
| united to dissuade him from the
|step. Both of these dissenters are
still small farmers and James J. Hill
|is said to be worth $100,000,000. They
could not see, as- Hill saw, nor did
| they have the Hill inspiration, which
| was more. To doubt the Hill inspir-
| ation is to throw meaninglessness

 

into his accomplishments. That a
boy, born in a log cabin in the
North woods and unfamiliar with the
ways of the world, ignorant of the
first principles of railroading even
when railroading had few developed
principles, and yet nursing in his
heart the necessities for transporta-

tion into the heart of the Red River |

country of the North, should finally
accomplish that which the financiers
of his time called madness is some-
thing bordering upon the prophetic.

Oddly enough, Jim Hill has been
called one of the pioneers of the
country. Students of the railway
problems of the country have said
that he could not have ventured into
the developed and developing East
and made the success that came to

 

him in the track breaking to the |

Pacific coast country.

But pioneer |

as he was, he saw the necessity for |
more than the trails of the Red Riv-|
er carts, and in 1862 he was behind |
the building of the first ten miles of |

railway in Minnesota. This line con-
nected St. Paul with the riverside at

St. Anthony, and the Hill expecta- |

tions are seen in its title of
Paul & Pacific Railway.

the St. |
| pany.

Always it was the need of the Red |

River country for transportation that
appealed to Hill.

When the St. Paul |

& Pacific showed itself inadequate |
and when further building was slow, |
he saw the advantages of river trans- |

portation to Winnipeg
tion with the steamers of the Hud-
son Bay Company.
steamship lines were consolidated in

in competi- |

road project, seeing plainer than
ever the needs, present and future,
of the Northwest country.

But the St. Paul & Pacific Rail-
road, although a little longer in
miles, was tremendously deeper in
debt, the figures placed at $30,000,000
at a time when $30,000,000 meant
more than ten times that sum would
mean now. ‘The track and rolling
stock were in bad shape and the
credit of the company was almost
nothing. The Canadian Pacific Rail-
road on the north and the Northern
Pacific in the United States, both to
be competing roads, had received lib-
eral subsidies from their two gov-
ernments, but Hill meant to build
without help.

He knew every future township in
the north country. He was antici-
pating the time when the treeless
Central West no longer could do
without the immense tracts of tim-
ber which he designed -his road
should tap in Washington and Ore-
gon.

It meant five years of consecrated
work for the Northern rail splitter
to organize the Great Northern Com-
Its stockholders were for the
most part in Holland and the shares
had gone down until they sold fora
song. Hill’s road was building after
the timber of the Northwest, seem-
ingly regardless of the proposition
of sending the cars back empty for
2,000 miles. When he was building,

'too, the rate on lumber from _ the

When the two |

1872 Hill turned again to the rail- |

coast to St. Paul was 60 cents a
hundred pounds.
When. the road was completed in-

——- *

 

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goods.

teaching Cash Engineering—Mechanical, Electrical and Pneumatic.

name.

Our carriers earn a little interest on every dollar they carry. Not only that, but in most cases
they are almost as necessary as a pair of trousers.

We have opened a Correspondence School for

Tuition free.

Send in your

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MICHIGAN

 

to Puget Sound in 1893, Hill discov-
ered that there was no profit to the
lumbermen in shipping at such a
rate to the East. He asked what

rate would leave a profit, and was |
told 50 cents a hundred. Hill went |
to Chicago, made his investigations, |

and returned to the coast, announc-
ing a flat rate of 40 cents to
Paul
Madness?
widely circulated against him. Here
was his road, completed without
subsidy of any kind,
new country for the most part where
freights could not originate, and yet
at the outset making a lumber cut
one-third under
with the prospect of sending

to the coast for reloading!

describes one who “judiciously takes
large risks, embarks on bold projects
after lengthened and careful consid-
eration, and probably becomes a mil-
lionaire.”

Hill’s judiciousness was to. be

proved. This proof was

the thing to fill his West bound cars.
The awakening of Japan and

hopes for China and for Russian ter- |
ritory in Asia led first to the estab- |

lishment of a Japanese company
operating steamships to the Pacific
coast terminal. Later, as this busi-
ness grew, the company banked
more surely upon this Asiatic trade
by floating its own ocean

Sti |

The charges were more |

traversing a/|

the existing tariff, |
his |
empty cars from the East, 2,000 miles |
But the |
philosopher quoted at the beginning |
of this article, referring to the type, |

conceded |
by some of the wiser critics when |
Hill turned to the Oriental trade as |

his |

carriers |

TRADESMAN

31

 

 

| that should develop the trade of the

| the chief attraction in the purchase. | The Partridge as the Farmer’s Friend.

| Orient and make the railroad an in-|

| rier.

ternational as well as interstate car- |

| new property,
But that a man may see big things |

|and yet not overlook some of the!
smaller essentials is shown in the |
character of Hill. Just when his

the Northern Pacific
he discovered that the farmers who
| had followed the
‘into the wilderness

| completion of

line
of the Dakotas

wheat crops.

| $20,000,000 for the mine.
whole soul was wrapped up in the |

Within a week, it is said, Hill re-

ceived an offer of $10,000,000 for his | .
. ——s OF 71S | or as a breakfast food, and as splendid

and since that time
the new croppings of ore and the
increasing riches shown in the Ma-
honing have led capitalists to offer
The Hill
system is said to control Mesaba ore
tonnage in excess of 250,000,000 tons,

| due to the long headed judgment of

of the road |

were discouraged over the failure of |
His remedy for the |

condition was diversity of interests |

on-the farms. To encottrage

thoroughbred polled Angus and
shorthorn bulls and more than 9,000
thoroughbred hogs, which he caused
to be distributed among the farmers
along the line.
lated interest
until to-day it is

in
with

and cattle come into St. Paul

the |
spirit he bought nearly 900 head of |

this man, who has seemed to bring
all things into the dividend produc-
ing methods of his company.

From the 437 miles of complete
road of which Mr. Hill first became
manager the Great Northern sys-
tem to-day has grown to 6,000 miles,

land in spite of the “large risks” on

This at once. stimu- |
the cattle business |
satisfaction |
that President Hill sees more hogs |
over |

| his line than over any of its competi- |

| tors.

attracted Hill’s attention in 1899. The

purchase of the logging road of

The iron ores of the Mesaba range |

| Wright & Davis on the Western Me- |

saba made a connection for his
Northern division with the chief
iron town of Hibbing. The logging
i road was of standard gauge, and the

| man

his “bold projects” it is said that
the Great Northern never once has
defaulted in interest on a bond or

Daniel H. Barrow.
——_>-- 2

One On Dr. Mitchell.

Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the eminent
aerve specialist of Philadelphia, tells
an incident of his early

of career

Ever since then

there has been one question which he |
An elderly |

never asks his patients.

was ushered into the doctor’s

| office one afternoon. After telling him
lto be seated, the doctor asked in his

Great Northern at once invaded the |

territory just in time to
harvest. Several thousand
barrens went with the road,

these acres the Mahoning

reap a
acres of
and with

mildest manner:
“Well, sir, what’s the matter with
you?”

mine as|to find out.”

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,

rhe Quaker Oats smite
that’s all night!
The Smile That Won’t Come Off.

| and ~renown

| proud, high-flying eagle.

i though he is

| the crow.
| wild

| weed
which taught him a lesson he has}

|always remembered. | pig

The partridge has long been in fav-

nourishment for the sick and well, but
he is now coming into wide favor
as the farmer’s friend.
Hle is a candidate for the high perch
of National His partisans as-
sure us that he is a stout ally of the
American husbandman, and a much
more defender of American
agriculture and prosperity than the
Ornitholo-
Government

bird.

active

gists who, under aus-
pices, have been studying the part-
ridge, say that he is a winner. Only
about one-fourth of his food is grain,
EO pert cent. corm, 3 per cent. wheat,
and the balance millet, barley, sorg-

hum, rye, and oats. He does not steal

|this, but gathers it after it has been
passed a dividend due a stockholder. |

lost in the field. He never pulls up

|sprouted grain after the fashion of

He does not rob orchards,
fruit,
and
Suit 1S
He is
a glutton for seeds of the smart weed,

fond of eating

dewberries, wild

His
insect eater.

grapes,

strawberries. long

as
seed and
weed, sheep sorrel, and rag weed.
has a passion for the pctato bug,
ladybird bug, the chinch bug, the
bean beetle, cucumber beetle. boll
weevil, caterpillar, cut worm, army
worm, wire worm, cotton worm, lo-
In

He

the

cust, and other crop destroyers.

| many States the partridge is now be-
ling taken into close communion by

The patient quickly replied, “If 1)
knew, doctor, I would not come here |
multiply.

the farmers instead of being treated

is an outlaw. May he flourish and

The Smile That Won’t Come Off

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

MIXED DIET.

 

Why It Is Best for
Family.

the Human

The strict vegetarians have a hard
task to prepare from purely vegetable
materials a ration in which the three
food elements, protein, fats and car-
bohydrates, are in their proper pro-
portion. The proportion of carbo-
hydrates, the starches and sugars, is
apt.to be too great, and the protein,
or nitrogenous matter, too little. It
requires a great deal of ingenuity in
the use of such protein-rich vegeta-
bles as beans, peas and nuts to
vent overfeeding with the fat
heat producing carbohydrates,
starving for tke flesh-forming  pro-
tein. Besides the numerous com-
pounds roughly grouped by chemists
under the name protein are not alike
in nutritive value, and it is not at all
certain that the protein of beans, for
example, is as digestible as the pro-
tein of meat. Herbivorous animals
have a much more complicated and
efficient digestive apparatus than
man. The energy required for di-
gesting food must be subtracted to
get its net value. But it must be

pre-
and
and

admitted that our dietary standards |

are not altogether conclusive. They

are for the most part merely calcu- |

iated from the averages of well-fed
persons and nct worked out experi-
mentally, as has been done for those
of the lower animals.
customary, rather than the optimum.

 

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|

They are the}
|

Professor Atwater will have to feed |

the man in his box for many years
before science is able to dictate au-

No. 76 Weightless.

We build scales on all the known principles:

Even-Balance

thoritatively our diet. One does not
bave to subscribe to the vegetarian
creed to take his meals at a vegeta-
rian restaurant.

If it were so they would have fewer
patrons, for the fallacies and exag-
gerations of the vegetarian propagan-
da are somewhat. discouraging.
There the constant assumption
that the vegetable kingdom is the
most beneficent of the three realms of
nature, just as medicine rec-
ommend their remedies as harmless,
Lecause purely vegetable, regardless

is

men

of the fact that our most violent pois- |

ons, such as opium, strychnine and
prussic acid are “purely vegetable.”

Nor can a vegetable diet be recom-
mended on the ground that its propor-
tions are arranged by nature. The
man who cracks up the raw wheat
on which he lives is not eating a nat-
ural food. Our modern grains are
as artificial in structure and composi-

tion, as much as the product of the in- |

genuity of man, as bicycles and dy-
namos. Within very wide limits it
has been found possible to vary at
will the ratio of protein and carbo-
hydrates in wheat and corn.

Vegetarians devote much time to
depicting the disagreeable processes

involved in the preparation of meat |
| foods, even going so far as to say

in print that none of us would eat
meat if we had to procure it, a queer
statement when you think
many of us have at one time or an-
cther killed and dressed our own
meat and fish. Nor have we_ ob-

how

| served the moral degradation which,

 

 

according to the vegetarians, is inev-
itably connected with such acts. Our
friend the butcher of our village is
as mild a mannered man as if he
had never cut a throat, and we know
some very kind-hearted and estima-
ble ladies who wring the necks of
chickens whenever we call.

The humanitariun argument is all
on the side of the meat eaters. It is
they who are the true friends of do-
mestic animals, which they feed, pro-
tect and care for at great trouble and
expense, satisfying their wants much
more completely than in a state of
pure nature and terminating their
happy though abbreviated lives by an
undreaded and painless death. If
there were no. great eaters there
would be no cattle and sheep, except
a few in zoological gardens. Wecan
not contemplate without shudder
what the vegetarians propose, name-
ly, the extinction in this

a

country |

 

alone of over 70,000,000 cattle, about |

the same number of sheep and 250,-
000,000 chickens and all their posteri-
ty throughout the ages to come.
Such destruction actual and
tential life is worse than the dying
out of the buffalo. We will eat meat

of po-

every day rather than by our sin of |

to become
to the extinction of the several spe-
domestic animals lead-
ing peaceful and contented lives on
our farms and ranges.
——_>-+___

Good Coke from Poor Coals.

omission an

cies of now

Carbene is the name of a substance |

accomplice |

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latter a good coking coal, and which,
it is thought, may open up a new
field in the of high
class coke from poor coals. Starting
that a good

manufacture

from the observation
coking coal will not make good coke
when suddenly heated in small quan-
that
must have been present which was
driven away by the sudden heating,
the discoverer looked for the some-
thing in the tars produced, and ul-
timately found that it was not de-
stroyed by being driven off, but re-
mained in the tars. After investigat-
ing he succeeded in isolating the new
in x State of purity. It
looks exactly like bituminous car-
bon; it is black, solid, friable, and

tity, and infering something

substance

shows a tendency to crystallize.
With bromine, fuming nitric acid,
concentrated sulphuric acid, and

similar reagents, it atts energetically,
forming a series of curious additions
—properties of which the nitration
products seem worthy of particular
attention. When a grain or so of
carbene is heated in a test tube the
whole interior of the tube becomes
lined with a tenacious, hard, bright
black varnish; and in the retort it
is the varnishing that does the work
of sticking the particles of coal to-
gether, always a little in advance of
the travel of the higher temperatures,

which effect the actual distillation.
That this explanation is correct is
shown by experiment, for a poor

coal, with the addition of 2 per cent.

claimed to be discovered, the pres-| carbene, makes splendid coke even in

ence of which in coal renders

the | the crucible.

40 per cent. Gain
Over Last Year

This is what we have accomplished in
the first six months of this year over the
corresponding months of last year.

MONEYWEIGHT SCALES

have from the first been the standard of computing scales and when a merchant
wants the best his friends will recommend no other.

Beam and Pendulum, all of which will

Save Your Legitimate Profits

Even Balance, Automatic Spring,

A short demonstration will convince you that they only require to be placed in

operation to Pay for Themselves.

Manufactured by

Computing Scale Co.

Dayton, Ohio

Ask for our illustrated booklet “Y.”

47 State St., Chicago

Distributors

Moneyweight Scale Co.

No. 63 Boston. Automatic Spring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

33

 

 

ART NOVELTIES.

New Things Which Yield the Dealer
Good Profits.

Attractive little novelties are paper

creased greatly, and they are being
sold in large quantities. They are
made in any number of different
shapes and sizes, and there is a large

 

‘ ie variety of new designs. apanese
cutters in the form of miniature | i : “ er J r

i novelties of every description are
swords. They are supposed to be :

sought after this season. Japanese

 

exact reproductions of swords —
by Sherman, Grant and other —
known generals.

designs are appearing in burnt wood
and leather novelties, jewelry and

many other lines.
Dance fans have had the largest

season ever known for these goods. |
The fans serve also as a programme |
for the summer hops.

From Japan we have Mount Her-
mon beads made of shells carved to
represent animals, and they are very
quaint. These are plenty large
enough to encircle the neck.

One of the newest things in glass
paperweights is in the form of a
globe mounted on a base of plaster
of Paris. The globe is not open at
the top, but is filled with water and
contains several small fish, which ap-
pear to be in and out
among branches of sea weed of some
| sort. The idea is very clever, and

swimming

There is a remarkably fine line a ee deedd sce the saticle tc seen]

Hinoke grass baskets for every con-| |. :
: ? | ciate its real beauty.
ceivable use to be had at very rea-

a a Very large is the assortment of
conable figures. The baskets are k 7 ck b TI ' i
" yocket match DoOxes. ney come i
hand painted in Oriental colors and i : 7
leather, silver and metals. Those of

designs. This line comes three in a
set, costing at wholesale $1.25 a set.

All kinds of fancy baskets are sell-
ing well this season. There are many
pretty shapes in work baskets. Waste
paper baskets are also shown in a
variety of fancy shapes.

There is an increasing demand for
rustic wood novelties from the Adi-
rondack Mountains, frames and novel
shaped boxes, odd calendars, sweet
grass baskets and birch bark canoes.
There are a number of firms that deal
in these goods exclusively, and they
do a very large business. Burnt wood
and leather novelties, shell, horn and
bead work are also to be found in
this collection.

The Buster Brown collar has be-|
come quite popular this season. Like
all the other articles bearing this
name, its fame spreads rapidly; every
girl wants one of these dainty neck

metal with a Japanese design are par-
ticularly_attractive. The burnt leath-
er boxes with silver top and silver
cigar cutter are also good sellers.
These match boxes make excellent
advertising novelties, and large num-
bers of them are used in this way.

Not content with dyeing leather
to every imaginable shade and color
for belts, there seems to be no end
of devising further novelties. One
progressive individual has instituted
painting the leather in delicate de-
signs, while another has introduced
some beautiful effects in polka work.
Everywhere are the painted belts ac-
counted the highest novelty.

Lace collars were so popular this
spring that the wholesalers did not
have enough to supply the demand.
They had been good the previous
spring and consequently it was not
expected that the call would be so

pieces. Stocks of heavy linen em- :
broidered in colored silks are also large. It is predicted that net top
very good, while various sorts of | laces will be very good in the fall,

to trim the evening gowns. There
seems to be no definite idea as to
what will be used for trimming such
as opera coats.
—_—_~++>—____
Why Some Folks Are Poor.

Their ideas are larger than their
| purses.
| They do not keep account of their
| expenditures.

stocks of other materials of a non-
wash description are meeting with
considerable success. The demand
seems to be particularly for fancy
forms of the Buster Brown collar.
The fluted collar is well liked, while
the lawn edged with Val. is another
very large seller.

Many beautiful novelties in hand-
kerchiefs for the fall holiday
trade can now had.
ally fine is the line of children’s col-| fore pleasure.”
ored initials embroidered on all linen They have too many and too ex-
These goods pensive amusements.

They try to do what others expect

garments

 

and

be Exception- They reverse the maxim, “Duty be-

cloth of good quality.

are much better than the ordinary

children’s goods, and should prove of them, not what they can afford.
excellent sellers. In the corner of They do not think it worth while
each handkerchief is a pretty design | to put contracts or agreements 1n

writing.

They have not been able to make
much in the business they understand
best, but have thought that they
could make a fortune by investing in
comething they know nothing about.

—_2+>—__

A man knocks around and does the
best he can until he gets married.
After that his soul is in his wife’s
hands, and it’s up to her to get him
to heaven if she can.

—+s>_—_

It is better to be an old maid and
your own darling than to pour your
love at the feet of a man who adores
himself.

of small size printed in two colors,
and the variety of designs is very
large. One design shows a girl roll-
ing a hoop, and in the center of the
hoop the initia! is embroidered in a
harmonizing color.

There are Foxy Grandpa, Buster
Brown and the Real Children series
in the newest handkerchiefs for the
young folks. The latter series is
probably the most artistic line of
children’s picture prints ever pro-
duced.

Japanese trays have always been
very popular articles, especially dur-
ing the holiday season. This year

 

the demand for these goods has in-

 

 

 

Dl Ll hl ae

sRUGS *

OLD
CARPETS
THE SANITARY KIND

We have established a branch factory at

Sault Ste Marie, Mich. All order#from the

Upper Peninsula and westward should be

sent to our address there. We have no

ents soliciting orders as we rely on

Printers’ Ink. nscrupulous persons take

advantage of our reputation as makers of

“Sanitary Rugs’’ to represent —s in our

employ (turn them down). Write direct to

us at either Petoskey or the Soo. A book-
let mailed on request.

Petoskey Rug M’f’g. & Carpet Co Ltd.
Petoskey, Mich.
EN ee ee

Bill the Brakeman

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We Are Distributing
Agents for Northwest-
ern Michigan for #%

John W. Masury
& Son’s

Paints, Varnishes
and Colors
and
Jobbers of Painters
Supplies
We solicit your orders.
shipments

Harvey &
Seymour Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
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

 

Bill the brakeman, who twists up the
brakes

Whenever his train gets wabbly and
shakes,

Gladly he trumps himself from car to
car

With no thoughts of danger his pleasure
to mar.

Safe and sure-footed in new HARD-PAN
shoes

His accident policy is no earthly use.

Prompt
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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

A Genuine Box Calf Shoe For School
Boys--Solid Throughout

No. 6512 Boys 2. to
ee $1 50

No. 6412 Youths’ 12%
fo 2at...----..-. $1.35

No 6612 L. G. 8 to 12
Se $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.

 

 

OY. OOOO VOD ODOODO ODDO@ODOQOOKM

FOUF Kinds of Goupon B00

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis,
irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free
samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

   

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

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

New York, Oct. 1—The spot coffee
market has ruled quiet all the week
and buyers seem to be quite indiffer-
ent. They take small lots and re-
gard present quotations as_ higher
than the situation warrants. Sell-
ers, however, are firm in their views
and make no concessions. As stocks
seem ample there is not likely to be
any particular change in the near
future. In store and afloat there are
2,668,556 bags, against 2,654,686 bags
at the same time last year—an ex-
cess of over a million. It is costing
a pile of money to carry this big
stock and holders must have a good
deal of confidence in the future. The
receipts at Rio and Santos from July
T to Sept. 28 aggregate 4,402,000 bags,
against 4,069,000 bags last year. At
the close Rio No. 7 is worth 8%@
8t%4c. Mild grades are firm and show
some improvement. Good Cucuta,
90%@o03%c, and good average Bogo-
tas, 11%c. East Indias are firm.

The _ better grades of tea are in mod-
erate supply and the situation rather
favors the seller. Demand is fairly
active, and with strong advices from
abroad a higher range of values may
be quite confidently looked for before
the end of the year.

We have had a satisfactory trade
in sugar all the week, and each day
has shown improvement. A slight
advance has taken place in granulat-
ed and a fair volume of new business
has been transacted.

Little of interest has developed
in the market for rice. The supply
seems ample, demand moderate and
the general situation practically un-
changed.

All spices are strong in tone, and
it is probably as good a time to buy
as we shall have, as foreign advices
are all favorable to a higher basis.
Singapore pepper, 12!4@13¢c.

There is a steady and improving
call for molasses and quotations are
firmly maintained. New stock will
be rather late, and is not looked for
much before Nov. 1. Prices are firm-
ly maintained. Syrups are steady.
Prices are unchanged and firm.

There is a more active market for
some canned goods, and this is es-
pecially true of corn. Tomatoes show
rather more strength, too. The
frosts of a week ago have checked
but not stopped canning operations
and the output will probably be sat-
isfactory.

There is a better demand for dried
fruits, but orders are mostly for
small lots. Prices are practically un-
changed.

There is a good demand for top
grades of butter and prices are well
held at 20%4@2tIc, and possibly more
for very choice stock. Other grades
are quiet. Western imitation cream-
ery, 14@17c; factory, steady and firm
at 134%4@14c; renovated, firm at 13%

@16c.

 

 

The market for cheese maintains
its strength and primary markets are
above those here as 10%c is named
at Cuba, N. Y.,. for full cream, and
1oc here. The situation generally fav-
ors the seller.

Eggs are moving in a satisfactory
manner. There is a big supply of
almost every sort, save fancy near-
by stock, and the market has sag-
ged. Extra Western, 22%4@23c;
average best, 20%4@z2ic, and from this
down to 14@15c for dirty stock.

—_>+»—____

Fattening Chickens for Market.

Chickens can be fattened most
profitably in fattening crates. They
should be placed in these crates when
three months old. Older birds can
be profitably fattened also. Chick-
ens with a good constitution, which
is shown by a short, strong beak,
head wide between the eyes, lively
appearance, medium size, broad,
square shape, with short, straight
legs set well apart, will fatten best
in crates. The fattening ration
should be palatable and should pro-
duce white colored flesh, especially
if the English market is catered to.
Finely ground oats with the coarser
hulls sifted out should form the ba-
sis Of all grain mixtures. Ground
corn fed in excess will result in yel-
low flesh of inferior quality; ground
peas impart a hardness. to the flesh
that is not desirable. In addition to
ground oats, ground buckwheat,
ground barley, and low grade flour
are suitable meals for fattening.
Some good rations are: (1) Two
parts ground oats, two parts ground
buckwheat and one part ground corn.
(2) Equal parts ground oats, ground
barley, and ground buckwheat. (3)
Two parts ground barley, two parts
low grade flour, one part wheat bran.
The ground meal should be mixed
to a thin porridge with thick sour
skimmilk or buttermilk. On the aver-
age I0 pounds of meal will require
from 15 to 17 pounds of sour skim-
milk. A small quantity of salt should
be added. If buttermilk or skimmilk

is not available some animal or raw |
vegetable food should be added to

the fattening ration.

The chickens should remain inthe
fattening crates for twenty-four days,
more or less, depending upon the
condition of the birds. Dust well
with sulphur before putting in the
crates, and also three days _ before
they are killed.

Feed the chickens lightly the first
week they are in the crates. Feed
three times a day, and after feeding
the troughs should be cleaned and
turned over. Give fresh water twice
a day and grit two or three times a
week while in the crates. During
the second week give twice a day as
much food as they will eat. At the
commencement of the last period of
ten days one pound of tallow a day
should be added to the mashes for
every seventy chickens. The quanti-
ty of tallow should be gradually in-
creased so that at the latter part of
the period one pound of tallow is fed
to fifty chickens. The chickens should
receive the fattening food twice a
day.

— +2.
To-day is your day and mine, the

 

only day we have, the day in wien /|C LEVELAND SELLS

we play our part; what our part may Your Real Estate or
signify in the great whole *we may Business for Cash

 

 

not understand, but we are here to No matter where located I can
: 3 : aa find a ready cash buyer for
play it, and now is the time. This your property or business. =
_ s - h tly b

we know: it is a part of action, not eee a ce are head
oO shining. is ar love, not | quarters for cash buyers. Sen

: —_ ing -s apt of | me full description of what you
cynicism. It is for us to express | offer for sale and lowest cash price. Write now.

; Established 1881. Bank references.
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love in terms of human helpfulness.— Frank P. Clevelarid, Real Estate Expert,
David Starr Jordan. 1261 Adams Express Building, Chicago, Ill.

 

 

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

CAN OR BULK
DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLOVER
TIMOTHY
ALSYKE

If in the market to buy or sell write us.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CoO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

——We Carry

FULL LINE CLOVER, TIMOTHY

AND ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS
Orders filled promptly

MOSELEY BROS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street,

 

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

 

The Vinkemulder Company

Fruit Jobbers and Commission Merchants

Can handle your shipments of Huckleberries and furnish crates and baskets

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Shipments of

Poultry, Eges and Butter

It would pay you to get our prices or telephone us at our expense.
Both Phones.

Lansing Cold Storage Co., Lansing, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

¥,

 

 

The Egg as an Important Food.

As an article of food the egg is to
the housewife
speech.

passes through the digestive tracts |

without fatiguing them, and that be-
comes assimilated in
without leaving any residue therein.
The egg is a necessary adjunct of
the majority of sauces, of all the

stews, and of a large number of side |

dishes.
It contains, within
elements of our

itself, all the
meals

what verbs are to}!
It is a nutritious food that |

an organism |

and consti- |
tutes a true bill of fare in miniature, |

in which bread and cakes are rep-|

resented by the glucose and extrac- |

tive matters, in which the albumen |

takes the place of a roast, in which,

butter abounds in the form of fatty |

matter, in which chlorides of lime,
magnesia and iron are not wanting,
and in which occur in small quantities
the phosphates that concur in the
development of the bones.

It is, like milk, the material

that |

enters into the composition of the |

blood.

The newly-laid egg is entirely fill- |
ed with yolk and white enveloped by |

It is at this moment
that it possesses its highest alimen-

a fragile shell.

tary qualities.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

even parts of cholesterine, chloride
| of ammonia, soda, potassa, phosphate
| of lime and magnesia.
| The white, or albumen, exists asa
| liquid in the lymph, chyle, milk, in
ithe blood, in the humous of the eye
and brain.

As a solid it is a constituent of the
| skin, brain, nerves, glands, hair, nails,
| feathers, wool and silk.

of most vegetables, as of the pota-
to, carrot, turnip, cabbage, asparagus,
etc.

It is a constituent of the seeds, of
| the cereal and of the al
most of the

grasses,
filberts and
oily nuts, etc.

It is not generally known that all
parts of the contain a certain

| monds,

Oo
ess

quantity of arsenic, the yolk contain- |

ing the greater part.
B Schafer, M. D:
os

Less Demand for Ale.

One of the oldest ale breweries in|

It is found
in a soluble form in the sap, or juice |

 

New York, after having been estab- |

lished more than half a century, has
gone out of business, owing to the
competition of the lager beer brewer-

ies. This is ir line with a general|

diminution in the sale of ale through-

| out the country.

These it would be capable of pre- |
serving indefinitely if the tightness of |
the shell equaled that of a metallic |

box. But, unfortunately, such is not
the case. The calcareous shell is pro-
vided with pores, through which is
soon established a
of water and
leaves the albumen
the exterior in

cross
The water
and passes to
the form of
while legions of bacteria enter and

microbes.
vapor,

fill the air chamber formed by evap-

oration. This latter causes the egg

daily to lose, on an average, half a

grain of its weight.

We can assure ourselves of this by
immersing it in a quart of water con-
taining four ounces of salt.

to so great a depth, on the third it
will remain near the surface; it will

finally project above the surface so |

much the more in proportion as it
is older.

Such a behavior of the egg in salt
water may, up to a certain point, be
used as a means of control.
of weight would not be of so much
importance if it did not keep pace
with the entrance of microbes.

We all know that the egg con-
sists, first, of an exterior covering

called the shell; second, a_ white,
semi-opaque membrane; third, the
white, and fourth, the yolk.

The shell consists of carbonate of
lime, animal matter, phosphate of
lime, carbonate of magnesia, iron and
sulphur.

The semi-opaque membrane con-
sists of albuminous matter.

The white—albumen ovi—contains

eighty-five parts of water, twelve of|

pure albumen, two of mucus, three-
tenths of saline matter, including
soda, potassa, sulphur, The
yolk contains about fifty-two parts
of water, fifteen parts of an albumin-
oid principle denominated  vitellin,
twenty-one parts margerin and olein,

etc.

circulation |

On the |
first day it will descend to the bot- |
tom, on the second it will not sink |

The loss |

American lager beer brewers have

adapted their manufacture of beer to |

comply with the demand of the pop-
ular taste
by ale, and there are many thousands

that was formerly met |

of gallons of strong beer or winter |

beer brewed each year as a substi-
| tute for ale.

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS

MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS
AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,

TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON
FOOTE & JENKS’ Sold only in bottles bearing our address

JA XON)|Foote & Jenks fiecssinse>

 
    
    

  
    

 

 

 

Highest Grade Extracts. JACKSON, MICH. Sasa
That is made by the most
improved methods, by ex-

perienced millers, that
brings you a good profit and satisfies your customers is
the kind you should sell. Such is the SELECT FLOUR
manufactured by the

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

So long as the immigration from |
England, Ireland and Scotland con- |
tinued to be large the newcomers in- |

sisted on ale and would not accept
beer ac a substitute.

immigration, lager beer, in some of
its new forms, has been
and the demand for ale has been
steadily declining, except among the
old-fashioned persons who still fre-

patronage gets less important
less profitable each year.

in moist and humid localities.
| proportion of alcohol is great and the
| heating qualities of ale are undoubt-
led. The countries from which, for
the most part, ale drinkers come are
damp, a condition which is not dupli-
cated in New York.

Ale is, moreover, a winter drink,
|and recent winters have by their rig-
lor made a greater demand on the

those of ale. The larger expenses of
saloonkeepers, incident to the  in-
crease of their liquor tax expenses,
incline them to push the sale of bev-

supplies of whisky in saloons than on |

But with time |
and {cllowing the decline of such}

accepted, |

quent New York saloons, but whose |
and |

Ale 1s essentially a drink for those |
The |

|erages for which there is an ail-the- |

year-round demand—beer and whis-
| ky are two of these—rather than a
drink for which there is call only
during some months in the year, as
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THE MOUNTAIN PINK.
Her Prowess in Rescuing Potatoes
from a Soldier.

When a couple of old soldiers get
together these wet fall evenings
they like to tell stories of their ar-
my life, and while watching the fire
in the grate, the Lieutenant told this
one of John, a Holland youth, who
was not a success as a forager.

The Lieutenant said: I met John
away back in 1861, when I was a cab-

 

‘in boy on a lumber raft on Grand

river. There were a few hours’ time
between the “snubbing” of the raft
at the mouth of the river and the de-
parture of the train that would take
us back to the “Rapids” for the next
fieet, and in a ramble down the shore,
to pass away the time, I met John,
who was then the captain’s mate on
a fishing boat, and had just come
into port with a big catch of white-
fish. Captain’s mate was a very re-
sponsible position in those days, as
nearly all crews were made up of
the captain and the mate. But it was
not his official position that attracted
my attention and made a lasting im-
pression upon my mind. John had
been over but a few months from
Amsterdam or Rotterdam, and _ he
was Zuidam good sailor, having been
brought up on the sea, where most
of the active work of the sailor con-
sists in sitting around waiting for
something to happen. It might have
been this sitting around that caused
John to grow up in greater circum-
ference than in height. A chalk line

.around John’s waist would develop

more length than it would strung
up and down from head to foot. In
fact, I was at first sight convinced
that John was built more on the sit-
ting down than on the running plan.

John was about 20 years of age,
and about 45 in actions, and it is
doubtful if any man in the country
was built upon a more stocky pattern
than he. He had handsome, rosy
cheeks, a pug of a nose, and a fringe
of hempen, flaxen hair cut on the
bang style, straight around his head,
which was protected from the sand-
flies by a flat Dutch cap. What at-
tracted my attention, after his bod-
ily make-up, was his trousers. They
were from the “land of dykes’—
good strong corduroy planned ex-
pressly for John’s form. The tail-
or (?) who planned those trousers,
having this in view, made them alike
both front and back, upon the old cel-
lar door style, to open down in flaps,
and as they were worn both ways—
that is, the front door was often on
the back side—they never got a chance
to bag in the knees.

I don’t know what I said to John
about his form and his clothes, but
he hit me on the side of the head with
a four-pound white-fish, and war was
declared at once, and without con-
sulting the State Department. The
war was cartried into Holland. I
would have licked him in good style
if he had not fallen down on me;
but that mishap caused a drawn bat-
tle—that is, the captain of the fishing
schooner drew me out from under
John, and threw me in the river.

The next time I met John he was
in a suit of Uncle Sam’s blue, in the

 

summer of 1862. A year had given
him some American manners’ and
looks, but had not changed his form,
which could not be disguised by the
ill-htting clothing dealt out to the
boys whose blood boiled hot for war.
A pair of blue trousers, with a gore
spliced in both front and back, from
the pieces cut off the legs to shorten
them up, had taken the place of the
corduroys.

A thousand men, brought together
from a hundred localities, contained
many strange characters, and John
got along with the best of them. He
soon became a jolly good soldier and
a favorite in the company. He
went through three great battles the
first year, never shirked a duty, and
never got a scratch. But the boys
did say that when we lay down in
front of a battery in a cotton field at
Stone River, he flattened out as thin
as a board; and now, when 1 look
back upon my old army comrades,
I can think of none who did more
faithful service for three long years
than did John.

Chickamauga had _ been fought,
and the army was penned up in Chat-
tanooga, with very few rations. All
had to be drawn over the mountains,
a hundred miles or more, and starva-
tion was staring us in the face. In
fact, there was but one thing to do to
keep the mules and men alive, and
that was to get the corn that had
grown that year in Sequatchie Val-
ley sixty miles away to the north and
west, over a great range of mount-
ains, and forage trains must go out
for it. It was in the enemy’s coun-

try, but when a man is hungry he

laughs at danger.

Sequatchie Valley—would that I
could portray its beauties, its homes,
its people, hidden away in the heart
of the Cumberlands! Proud I am
that I tramped its winding roads, that
I waded its sparkling streams, and
climbed its mountain sides. While
‘tis true that I went out of it twice
on the run, it was but to return. Na-
ture made it a veritable Garden of
Eden. War made it a slaughter-pen.
Twelve hundred mules and _ horses
were killed m one day, by Joe
Wheeler’s men, upon one short piece
of its roads.

The valley was rich in corn and cat-
tle that must be secured to feed the
starving army in Chattanooga, and
it was with thanks that I received an
order to take fifty of the best men in
the regiment and all the wagons of
the brigade and go for this corn. The
order read that none but good, strong
men, of tried service, should be de-
tailed for the duty; that the people
were nearly all good, loyal Union peo-
ple, and that the men must not pil-
lage homes or destroy property.
Everything taken must be paid for,
and the commanding officer would be
held strictly responsible for the acts
of all his men. So it came about
that four men from each company
were detailed for the guard, and the
want of food in camp made many ap-
plicants for positions that seemed to
afford a chance for a square meal.

In the detail from one of the com-
panies was our John. John said he
had never been out on a foraging

 

squad, and he ought to have a chance
to go; so he went for his first (and
his last) foraging expedition. This
one time seemed to convince him, as
it did me, that a man might be a good
soldier in battle and on the march,
and still be an utter failure as a fora-
ger.

We were out on the road before
daylight, and out of sight of the
“Johnnies” on Lookout Mountain be-
fore the fog lifted from its top. For
two days and nearly two nights we
pulled ourselves through the mud
in the valleys and over the rocks of
the mountain, where we found our-
selves in a region of corn and plenty.
The wagons were drawn up along-
side of the great cribs of corn, and
willing hands were soon loading up,
spurred on by thoughts of the hungry
boys who were facing the “Rebs”
on Mission Ridge, and the positive
knowledge that old Joe Wheeler was
in the valley only a few miles away—
and we had no desire to risk a fight
with him.

While the corn was being loaded in-
to the wagons, the quartermaster and
I made arrangements to pay for what
we were taking; that is, the quarter-
master did most of this, while I was,
with my other duties, arranging with
the young lady, the heiress apparent
of all the wealth in sight, for a din-
ner of some kind. I had not seen a
minute during the last thirty days
that I was not hungry.

The place was that of a prosperous
farmer, a Union man, serving in the
ranks of the first Tennessee cavalry
—Col. Jim Brownlow’s “Hoss-crit-
ter backs’—and no one but the wife

and only daughter was at home. Be-
me an only daughter, the sul was

somewhat spoiled in the bringing up.
She would have her own way. They
were willing to accept our vouchers
for their corn, if we would leave
enough to supply their own wants.

I can see that mother now, as she
walked about the house, clad in a
Fomespun dress, with home-made
cloth shoes on her feet, and sucking
solid comfort and clouds of smoke
out of a corncob pipe filled with
home-grown tobacco. It was real
fun to let the quartermaster settle for
the corn, while I urged the speedy
preparation of our meal with the
daughter.

And the daughter was a “Mountain
Pink.” She might have been 20, but
who could tell—who cared to know?
Grown up in such a heaven-blessed
spot, how couid she be otherwise than
beautiful—the very prime extract of
good health, with its accompanying
rosy face and brilliant eyes? I will
rot try to describe her beauty, lest
you will think that I was “gone” on
her; but I did think she was fine, and
I could not help but notice her dress
as well as her face and form. Now
this was away back a long time ago
—long before Jenness Miller attempt-
ed to abolish those beautiful under
garments that some men see
only as they flap and swing in the wind
pinned to a clothes line on washing
day. My eyes are witnesses that this
“Mountain Pink” was away ahead of
Tenness in dress reform. Her dress
was of the same piece as her moth-

 

er’s; was cut short at the bottom—
and not any cloth wasted. She had
home-made shoes and  home-knit
stockings, and that’s about all she
did wear.

Hungry as wolves, we were in a
hurry for dinner, and we were to
have potatoes and bacon and corn
and “hard tack” and “sow-belly,” and
the prospect of a meal of potatoes was
almost too much to believe.

The girl got a bucket full out of
the log smoke-house, and sat herself
down, with the pail between her
knees, to clean them for the pot
that I hung in the great open fire-
place, when some other duty called
me away for a few moments. When
I came back and rode round the cor-
ner of the house on my old sorrel
horse “Dandy,” I was just in time to
see that man John engaged with my
“Pink” in a fierce fight for the pos-
session of my potatoes, and John got
them. Then the fellow who had nev-
er disgraced himself or his company
by running tried to make up _ for
time Jost. He ran out of the yard,
through the gate, and down the road,
clutching that bucket of potatoes. As
he ran, his feet pounding the mud and
giving out a thumping sound like that
produced by the blows of a pile driv-
er, he uttered not a word; but the
good Lord only knows what was pass-
ingin his mind. He was carrying, not
only my potatoes, but a guilty con-
science as weil, and those legs sud-
denly developed unsuspected speed,
as my “Mountain Pink” uttered
threats and curses behind him. Sure-
ly, he had missed his calling, and he
never could find it on foot.

The “Pink” did not see me, and she
felt herself equal to the occasion. As
she ran down the path to the road
she gave vent to her feelings in
language only fit to be used when you
are fishing among the logs and brush,
alone, in the wilds of Michigan. I re-
member, once, while whipping a cold,
icy stream for trout, I attempted to
cross it on a pole, about eight feet
above the water. Well, the first step
I made that pole rolled over, and that
part of a man’s anatomy which an
enemy should never be permitted to
see was the first to reach the icy wat-
er. That mishap produced just such
expressions of regret as did my
“Pink,” as she sailed along after John,
who seemed to have the advantage of
dress; for, built as he was, he could
outrun the girl, whose only garment
was too narrow to give full swing
to her legs, and that home-spun
home-made dress tangled up about
the running machinery in such a
manner that it was impossible to make
any speed.

I was anxious to see fair play, as
there had been no pools sold onthe
race, and I followed at a respectable
distance in the rear, as John was run-
ning straight toward the train. Well,
that dress began to crawl up out of
the way of the feet, and higher and
higher it went, until tightly clasped
about the waist with one hand, and
the “Pink” was transformed into a
“Greek Slave,” a la Powers, on a tear.
My horse, “Dandy,” then slacked his
pace and wanted to go back; the
trees by the roadside sighed that

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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they were not supplied with fig leaves;

and the goiden-rod in the fence cor- |
ners nodded to the ox-eyed daisies, |

and they all blushed crimson.
And John--he was _ losing ground
and wind.

Forgetting all about Lot’s wife, he |

turned to look back, and, like me, he
was paralyzed. Talk about a pillar of
salt—why, he was two pillars of salt—
ard even saltpetre wouldn’t
saved him.

‘Laat was a fatal momentto him
for with a jump that would have done
credit to a mountain lion, she was on

him, with both hands in his golden |!

curls; and amid a series of howls,
caths and yells, they all went down

together—the “Pink,” John, and my |

potatoes. I don’t know how many

bills of fare fleshed before my eyes |
John for- |
got his English, and could only re- |
spond to her hot blasts in broken |

in the next few moments.

Dutch. Legs. and arms were flying
in the air, as if stirred into life by
a whirlwind, and soon the “Pink” in

all her glory completed the tragedy |

by sitting down on John’s head.
At last, after two years, I had got-

ten even with John for the way he|

“The Hav-|

had sat down on me at
en,” and I yelled with delight that my

wrongs were avenged.
But soon my hunger got the bet-
ter of my revenge and modesty, and

I joined with the victorious heroine, |

in picking the potatoes out of the
dirt, while John, with some of his
comrades, sought the river to wash
the mud and blood off his face.

As I made the rounds of our little

camp that night, I found John try- |

ing to patch up his shirt and blouse
and he said: “Lieutenant, you get

me back to the regiment at Chatta- |

nooga once more and I will never go

foraging again.” Chas. E. Belknap.
——_»-~»
Plan To Dam the Thames.
A royal commission is considering
the damming of the River Thames at
London. As there is a difference be-

tween high and low tide of eighteen |

or twenty feet, all larger vessels must
be handled in docks which
closed by tidal gates. The object
of this commission is to devise
means for doing away with this in-
convenience, and thus increasing the
shipping facilities of the port.
Among the plans presented is one of
constructing a great dam across the
Thames from Gravesend to Tilbury.
This would convert the river into a
great inland lake extending from
Gravesend to Richmond. At the
point selected for the dam the river
bed is of fine chalk, and the structure
would give a navigable depth of thir-
ty-five feet at Gravesend and thirty-
two feet at London bridge, without
«ny dredging. The proposed dam
would be of concrete, granite faced,
and the four locks 300, 500, 700 and
i,000 feet, and from 80 to 100 feet
wide. The estimated cost is $18,290,-
ooo. As all the locks could be left
open there would be an annual sav-
ing of $250,000 in the cost of operat-
ing the gates.
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After a man has been married about
so long he begins to understand why
love is blind.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

Silks—-From all reports a notable
revival in the silk business is taking
place. In some of the large retail
centers sale prices have not failed}
to attract, and quantities of goods
have been unloaded. The most en-
couraging feature at this juncture is
the widespread optimistic feeling con-
cerning the season. Large retail buy-
ers who, three weeks ago, could not
be induced to consider additional sup-
plies of fall silks are now placing
supplementary orders. Some prom-
inent manufacturers who have come
out with spring lines also report an
improved feeling. Contrary to ex-
pectations,. the market is now over-
crowded with goods seeking an im-
mediate outlet, and the fall buying
season is still active with the first
hand market remarkably clean of sur- |
plus goods. The black taffeta market |
is a barometer of the silk trade, and |
is in remarkably good shape. Dur- |
ing the past month the demand for
this class of goods at retail counters
in all sections of the country has un-
dergone an encouraging revival. Pes-
simists can no longer point to the
supposed over-supply of black taffe-
tas, and state with long faces that
the surplus is a fair indication of
what the rest of the season will bring
forth. At the present time even the
medium grades of 30-inch black taffe-
tas are reasonably scarce. Prices
of these goods are well maintained.
Plain pongee silks and rough novel-
ties made too favorable an impression
upon best-dressed women to be laid
aside, even in the fall season. Do-
mestic manufacturers brought out
these rather heavy silk novelties and
the present demand is one of the
principal features of the first half of
the season. This class of goods is
designated by different
manufacturers, but the salient fea-
tures are contained in each. These
novelties are dyed in all of the tints
and street shades, and promise to
be one of the important retail articles
during the entire course of the sea-
son. Rigi failletine, peau de soie
weave, stockinette weave, fine cords
glace ombre, with cordonnet edges.
in crayon shades shot with blue, pink,
yellow and faille glace are the princi-
pal new weaves. Warp prints on
quadrille grounds with satin border
and satin stripe in center; printed
warp designs on gray grounds with
border in colors; dark gray shades,
marbleized, with satin stripes in col-
ors and jacquard dots; quadrille or
checked ribbons in all colors, dark
and light; glace taffetas with Roman
warp-print jacquard Marguerite ball
in granite weave with shadow back-
ground; warp prints over which isa
large broche design in vari-colored
effect; these are the most conspicuous
numbers in fancies.

 

variously

Sweaters—lInterest in this class of
knit goods is growing constantly.

 

People have found in these garments
qualities that make them valuable ad-
ditions to the wardrobe at any sea-
son of the year, and that they are
Every
season finds a need for these popular
wrappings, and the individual must
be impossible to please who can not
make a satisfactory selection from
the endless variety of up-to-date
styles offered. In the high-grade
stocks examined one marvels at the
perfection of shape and finish that
has been attained. Not only in the
higher priced goods, but in medium
grades it is difficult in some of the
numbers to distinguish in appearance
between the machine and the hand-
knit goods. In the highest grade
goods a new basket pattern with con-
siderable silk mixture is the acme of
elegance, particularly in the all-white
sweater for women and _ tthe © silk-
sleeved golf vest for men, carried by
high-grade haberdashers. Norfolks
are more popular this season than
last, and there are many new weaves
and combinations that are very smart
in these longer garments. There is
a decided demand for a sweater ex-
tending below the wrist, and one of
the newest types is -the Standard
blouse model with a_ tight-fitting
basque. This is very smart on trim
figures, but a style to be avoided
where there is any tendency to em-
bon point. A plain Shaker-knit heavy
ribbed sweater with contrasting col-
ored cuffs and collar and belt, with
buttons and buttonholes has become
decidedly popular with the athletic
young woman. It is smart, sports-
manlike, and with all its elasticity
very trim in appearance.
style, known as the Lawn Tennis
Jersey, is lighter in weight and par-
ticularly adapted to basket ball and
similar sports; a third garment of this
type is an exact reproduction of a
man’s sweater, only the collar is so
elastic that the garment can be ad-
justed without disturbing the coiffure
in the least. Some of the lighter
weight sweaters come in very ornate
styles. White ones have touches of
the pompadour colors, pink and pale
blue, in line effects and in fancy
stitches, and there are many fetching
styles in white with black; Lincoln
green with embroideries of red and
of brown; lace effects in one tone, etc.

Brocades—A few foreign manufac-
turers have made a strenuous effort
to introduce black brocades for the
coming season, but, so far, American
buyers have not given such materials
a favorable reception. It is stated
by the best fashion authorities that a
few very elegant black brocades will
be worn in Paris this fall; this is not
at all surprising, as the moderate re-
vival of black crepon weaves and jac-
quard figured wool goods _ indicates
that a substantial revival of figured
blacks is only a question of time. A
few manufacturers and retail buyers
who have recently returned from the
other side predict a renewed demand
for black brocades for spring, 1905.
The drift of fashion during the next
two months, however, is likely to dis-
close some interesting developments.

Hosiery—This is the time of year
when attention is directed by many

adapted to innumerable uses.

 

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buyers to fancy hosiery for holidays. |

eG vs. Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
A fair business has been done by
wholesalers and the market is in ex- 50c on the Dollar

cellent condition. There is no over- | GLOVER’S WHOLESALE MDSE. OO.
i i RS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
production. In some lines of staples | WANUFACTURERS,
aa 2 3 : a | ; N UN DRIES
difficulty in duplicating is said to be} 5. or"

: / : Grand Rapids, Mish.
experienced. This is attributed to|

the uncertain cotton market. Prices | AUTO MO B i L ES

7 hardening - hosiery as well god We have the largest line in Western Mich-
in other lines of knit goods, and or-| igan and if you are thinking of buying you

| ill e your best interests by consult-
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advance over present prices. Some | : :
lines are already quoted higher; others | Michigan Automobile Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

are withdrawn until the cotton situa- |
CURED

tion clears. The demand in novel-|
ties seems to be running to neat ef- | P IL ES

DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON
Rectal Specialist

fects in embroidery goods, and a!
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

large sale of these is reported. The |
sale of tans has particularly inter- |
ested the hosiery trade. For a while |

|} 103 Monroe Street
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Reversible Corduroy and Leather Coats,
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Our line can’t be beat as to quality and price. See it before placing
your order. Our agents will be pleased to show you their line.

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the only work coat that is.
really waterproof. We have
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tans at $18.00 and $24.00

per dozen.

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Exclusively Wholesale

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids.
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siderable annoyance. It is believe |
this line will continue popular; they
will be good next spring. The de-
mand for tans is not expected to in-
terfere with the sale of blacks. The
tans for spring will probably be a
little darker than they have been this
season.

Ribbons—Browns that shade from
dark to champagne, and from dark to |
the coq de roche colors; blues of the |
indigo, navy and ciel shades; greens |
that border on the myrtle, also emer-
ald and Nile; strawberry, vieux rose,
and rose des Alpes are the principal |
shades, and there is a fair sprinkling |
of mauves and violines. Blue and|
green combinations in both light and
dark are present in every color range |
and weave of ribbon lines.

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Laces and Embroideries Used More |
Than Usual.

Embroideries are going to be used |
a great deal this season as a trim-|
ming for ladies’ undergarments. The |
demand for embroideries for this
purpose is much larger than that of
lest season, and manufacturers are
turning out the goods in large quan-
tities. When embroideries can be}
obtained cheaper than lace, they are |
given the preference, as they wear
much better.

The lighter makes of embroideries
are the most popular ones to-day, |
and among these are included those |
that possess novelty in their con- |
struction. Dealers who have taken |
great care in selecting their goods, |
and who have not failed to accept |
novelty lines as_ striking features,
have done an excellent business so
far, and the outlook is very bright.

For the past few seasons embroid-
eries have played an important part
as trimmings on washable gowns and
waists, and from the fact that novelty
effects have taken well and are clos-
ing this season in a stronger condi-
tion than they have ever done be-
fore, it is reasonable to expect that
success is assured for them next
spring.

Considering how late in the sea-
son it is getting to be the immedi-
ate demand for embroideries is
quite good. All classes of embroid-
eries have sold well, and dealers are
pretty well satisfied with the busi-
ness they have done.

There has been some falling off in
the popularity of Tenerife designs,
but the same thing is not true of
button effects, which sell in all the
new designs that are shown.

Not a little interest is being shown
in lace veils. Some of the. large re-
tailers have taken a good stock of
these goods in the latest models, and
are showing them for immediate use.
These veils are being used by women
who can afford to pay a good price
to drape on their hats. Women who
can afford to pay a good price fora
veil are draping these on their hats
in place of the chiffon. This style
has already become quite popular, but
there is little danger of it affecting
the call for chiffon, because the lace
veils are sold at such high prices.
The demand will be confined almost
exclusively to the high class trade.

Many novelties in automobile veils

 

| present.

lent time.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

are being shown and they are meet-
ing with considerable success. This
veil should be worn only by people
who run automobiles, as they look
very much out of place if worn other-

| wise.

The veiling business is only fair at
There is a falling off of the

' demand for chiffon veils as the sea-

son advances. Of course, there is
some business being done, but it
could not expect to be as heavy as

in the early summer months. Re-

_tailers are not buying in anything but

small quantities, and only in those
goods absolutely necessary to keep
in stock. The demand is almost en-
tirely for staples, including black,
white, brown, blue and myrtle
the plain hemstitched veils.

With the importers fall business
zmounts to verv little up to the pres-
The showing of Tuxedos
is unusually large and comprehen-
sive this season, and although there
is little real novelty to be noted in
the offerings, many of the patterns
wre very beautiful.

A good many of the prominent lace
importers have now returned from
the foreign markets, and they all
agree that the coming season will be
an exceptionally good for all
classes of laces. There are, of course,

in

one

certain lines that will sell better than |

others, but anyone who has brought
out a general line will undoubtedly
do a very good business.

If there is to be any one particu-
lar favorite it will be net tops, in
both the old end the new patterns.
For the past few seasons net tops
have been used almost exclusively as
a summer lace or for indoor wear,
but they will be used next season as
a trimming on nearly everything, ex-
cept millinery, where heavier laces
are necessary.

It is important to note in connec-
tion with nets that the repousse style
None of the represen-
tative contain more than
three sets of these, and very few im-

has gone out.
lines. will
porters have gone beyond this figure.

Buyers are unusually late this sea-
son, and business is not very lively
at present, but the importers do not
worry at all, for they well know that
the coming lace season will be ex-
cellent. Buyers are holding off some-
what, but when they do come they
will operate with great liberality, and

dealers have therefore made very
elaborate preparations.

The blind embroideries are. still
fashionable, but for dress and fine

underwear trimmings the newest ex-
amples show a delicacy of design
that suggests the art of the Japan-
ese. They are far removed from the
stereotyped machine product of the
times.
—_+~2>—__

The New Japanese Colored Leather.

Coq-de-Roc is going to be the ultra
fashionable color in leather next year
—in honor of the Japanese pheasant
—a bird with dull brown plumage,
breaking out into the most vivid
orange. Coq-de-Roc, then, is really
a burnt orange shade that promises
great things in the way of popular
favor, and the gamut of it will run
from hats to footwear in women’s
dress.

 

 

Percival B. Palmer & Company

Manufacturers of

Cloaks, Suits and Skirts |
For Women, Misses and Children

197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

GRAND RAPIDS |
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

W. FRED McBAIN, Fresident
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

The Leading Agency

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

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

1232 [Majestic Building, Detroit, [ich. |

 

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connection therewith.

We Act as Your Factory and
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Inventions perfected.

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Designers and Constructors of
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209-213 N. Rose St.
Kalamazoo, Michigan

 

 

 

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Puritan Corset Co.

 

Frightened at a Goose

 

Puritan Corsets

Wi 1 drive the blues out of a merchant’s system quicker than
any other line he can place in stock.

 

find a

merchant who has a bad

Occasionally we

case of ‘‘buck fever,’’ he is
always looking for trouble,
and usually finds it. If we
have an extra shower or
two, or if the ground gets
a little dry, there isn’t go-
ing to be any business and
the entire country is ‘‘go-
ing to the dogs.”
Marshall Field never
studied the almanac in or-
der to become posted on
stormy days.

Send for sample line.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

 

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 way 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.

 

 

 

 

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Michigan Knights of the Gri
President, Michael Howarn, _ oit;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, H. B. Bradner, Lansing.

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 232i, U. Cc TF.
Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

Advancing Salesmanship To One of
the Fine Arts. °

This is the day of advanced sales-
manship. The old avays of selling
goods are being discarded. A man
no longer goes to the place of busi-
ness of another and simply makes
the statement that he has a new
style clothespin to sell at a new price.
The day of the direct statement in
salesmanship is gone or going. The
lightning rod man to-day goes out
after the shekels of the rural cousin
under the guise of a benevolent man
of science; the soap salesman is only
interested in the sanitary conditions
of the town he visits.

But it remains for certain men in
different lines of metropolitan busi-
ness to introduce methods, or rather
a method, for selling goods that makes
the efforts of the lightning rod man
and the dispenser of soap seem akin
to the rough, coarse bungling of the
amateur compared with the bright,
glistening product of the finished
artist. This method is known in the
few circles wherein it is known at
all as the “human nature system.”
It is called thus because its first and
last principles of operation are based
upon a thorough knowledge of hu-
man nature. It might be called any-
thing else, but the fact remains that
it is called effective by the men who

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mse 1%.

So far the originator of the idea is
unknown. It is unlikely that he will
ever step into the breach to claim
the fame that his conception would
bring him. Also it is positively cer-
tain that no firm or business house
using the “human nature system” in
making sales will own to the fact.
The reasons for this are many and
obvious.

The system is fairly bewildering
in its simplicity. It calls for two
principals, one of them at least pos-
sessing the qualities of a good ama-
teur actor or actress. It is beautiful
to watch in its operation for the one
who is initiated, and there are no
doubts as to its results. And the
crowning beauty of it is that it sends
the person who has been sold any-
thing on his or her way rejoicing in
heart and thoroughly satisfied.

This is the modus operandi in a
high class jewelry store, for instance:
A woman, for it is averred that wom-
en in particular are susceptible to the
system, comes and asks to look at a
valuable pearl necklace. The obliging
salesman shows her the finest in
stock. She looks and admires or
condemns, as the case may be, and
asks the price. As- pearl necklaces
run high when it comes to the price,
the buying is one that a woman will

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not have over with in a few minutes.
Perhaps she will ask to have the jew-
els laid aside. She will come in next
day, possibly accompanied by a
friend, to give her opinion of the
pearls.

So far the system has not made
its appearance. Only the usual meth-
ods of selling goods have been em-
ployed. It is not until the last mo-
ment, when the sale is hanging in
the balance of the woman’s indeci-
sion, that the new method is intro-
duced. Then it comes with a swift-
ness and certainty of results that are
wonderful. It comes in the shape of
a woman, the theory being that a
woman is much better than a man for
this kind of work. She is well dress-
ed and refined in appearance; in fact,
to judge from looks, she moves in
exactly the same circle of society as
the woman who is examining the
pearls.

The success or failure of the
scheme depends entirely upon the
skill and finesse of the woman
“booster.” She must know just when
the proper time to approach the cus-
tomer has arrived and how to make
the approach. She does not step up
and recommend the purchase of the
jewels, nor comment upon their ex-
treme beauty. Far from it. She
steps hastily up to the counter where
lie the jewels. She is apparently
troubled slightly over something.

“Pardon me,” she says, graciously,
in the most cultured and pleasing
voice imaginable, with just a note of
haste in her tones, “are these pearls
sold?” There is a world of implica-
tion in her tones that she has been
longing from her innermost heart for
the jewels for a long time; there is
a hint in her voice that if the answer
is “No,” she will promptly snatch
the pearls to her heart, no matter
what the cost, and fly away. Then
it is time for the clerk to look hesi-
tatingly from one to the other and
to pause suggestively before reply-
ing.

3ut it is the woman in the case
thatdoes the work. The idea that
the pearls are so desirable—that an-
other woman wants them—instilled
in the mind of the real customer, is
the sole end and purpose of the sys-
tem. “What? This woman to get
these pearls and come dangling them
before my eyes wherever I go, a
constant reminder that she beat me
in getting them?” thinks Mrs. Cus-
tomer. “O, no.” Then she says lan-
guidly to the clerk: “Yes, you may
send these out to my house.” At
least that is what she says often
enough to make the system a profita-
ble one.

The jewelry line is not the only one
wherein this method is pursued with
success. The exclusive milliner or
gownmaker has a good opening for
the woman “booster,” and in the
renting or selling of real estate she
is also a well considered member of
the business force.

In the renting business she makes
her appearance while the prospective
tenant is inspecting the rooms or
house. She is greatly chagrined to
find that there is any one ahead of
her. Her admiration of the premises

is boundless, and she points out their
best points delicately while indulg-
ing in her appreciation. If, as is
generally the case, the person who
is really inspecting the place is a
woman, the effect of another woman
going into ecstasies over the same
is sure to have some influence, and,
besides, it is asserted that woman is
just cruel enough to delight in tak-
ing away something that happens to
be coveted by one of her own sex.
Whether this is true or not, the
fact remains that the gentle impetus
which the arrival of the woman at
the opportune moment gives to a
nearly completed transaction is
enough to warrant congratulating the
founder of the system, whoever he
is, upon his ingenuity. O. H. Oyen.
—_.2 2s

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Every merchant should pay himself
a salary large enough to live on and
confine his living expenses to that
salary. It is better to pay that sal-|
ary in cash every week or every |
month, just as he pays his clerks.
Mixing household purchases into|
the affairs of the store without re- |
gard to system is poor business. |
The store system should be clean
cut.
If the family needs merchandise |
give them the cash and let them buy |

it over the counter like any other
customers.

Declare the dividend at the end of
the year in cash.

Make net cash the motto of the
store.

System and a well defined store
policy will do the work.—Commercial

Bulletin.
—_—_. 2+ >—_—_

It is a mortifying moment truly
when a belle finds that after she mar-
ries she must share her throne in her
husband’s heart with the dinner bell.

—_+2+>——_-

Cash could cancel most of life’s

cynicism.

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LIVINGSTON
HOTEL

The steady improvement of the
Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large and beautiful lobby, its ele-
gant rooms and excellent table com-
mends it to the traveling public and
accounts for its wonderful growth in
popularity and patronage.

Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.
GRAND RAP,DS, MICH.

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For $4.00

send you printed and complete

5,000 Bills
5,000 Duplicates",
100 Sheets of Carbon Paper
2 Patent Leather Covers

We do this to have you give them a trial.
you use our Duplicate system you will always use it, as it
pays for itself in forgotten charges alone.
For descriptive circular and special prices

large quantities address

A. H. Morrill & Co.,

105 Ottawa Street,

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Gripsack Brigade.

A. Moore has opened the Hotel Im-
perial at Bay City. It is located op-
posite the P. M. depot. The travel-
ing fraternity report that the service
is excellent.

E. W. Weston, for the last ten
years with D. M. Amberg & Bro.,
has accepted a position with Mayer
Bros. & Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr.
Weston will cover the same territory
as in the past.

John A. Sherick (Rindge, Kalm-
bach, Logie & Co., Ltd.) has return-
ed from Saranac, where he attended
the funeral of his son-in-law, Ward
H. Ellis, who was book-keeper for
the Grand Rapids Brewing Co. up to
the time of his death.

Flint B. Aniba, who formerly cov-
ered the Upper Peninsula for the
G. |. Jebuson Cigar Co, bat who
has been representing the company
in Kansas for several months, with
headquarters in Topeka, has return-
ed to Grand Rapids and resumed his
former territory.

W. B. Dudley (Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.), who is showing his sun-
dry line in the Blodgett building as
usual at this season of the year, will
pack his twenty trunks and box up
his expansive smile on Oct. 15 and
start out on the warpath among those
who could not make it convenient
to visit him at this market.

P. H. Carroll, Michigan representa-
tive for Selz, Schwab & Co., was un-
expectedly called upon to respond to
“Twenty-one Years With One
House,” at the recent annual banquet
tendered the traveling men of his
house and acquitted himself so cred-
itably that he has been given to un-
derstand that he will never be per-
mitted to duck on the occasion of
future banquets. This incident sug-
gests the statement that but for Mr.
Carroll’s modesty he would long ago
have become noted as an after din-
ner speaker. His choice of words is
superb and his appearance on the
floor is inspiring.

as follows: Christ White, a former
Negaunee man, succeeds R. G. Quinn
as the Upper Peninsula representa-
tive of the hat firm of Parrotte, Beals
& Co. Mr. Beals was with the con-
cern for some years and assisted in
the management of the business. Mr.
White has been with a wholesale
cloak house for the past few years.
Both Quinn and White obtained
their first mercantile experience in
Negaunee, and strange to say they
were employed in the same store,
both having been with M. C. Quinn,
now manager of the Champion Co-
Operative Society’s store at Beacon.
Mr. Quinn was the first to go on the
road. Both have been successful as
traveling salesmen.

Negaunee Iron Herald: RG.
Quinn, formerly of this place, who
for the past few years has made his
home in Milwaukee jand has covered
the Upper Peninsula in the interests
of some well-known hat and _ cap
houses, has joined forces with Tay-
lor, Kirk & Co., corner of Market
street and Jackson boulevard, Chica-
go. Mr. Quinn will represent the

new house in this section and also
has a financial interest in the com-

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

pany; in fact, it was this latter con-
sideration that prompted him to
make the change. The head of the
new company was the senior mem-
ber of the Taylor & Parratte Com-
pany, for whom Mr. Quinn formerly
traveled, and the latter undoubtedly
had excellent opportunity to acquaint
himself with the standing and busi-
ness prospects of the new firm. There
is no need to bespeak orders for the
new firm, for “Dick” is abundantly
able to look out for that part of the
enterprise himself, but his Negaunee

friends will join in expressing the

bit as remunerative
led to expect.
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Organization of Auxiliary Posts.
Flint, Oct. 3—We wish to call the
attention of members of the Knights
of the Grip to the following Article,
adopted at the sixteenth

as he has been

held in Flint in December, 1903:

Section 1. Auxiliary Posts of this
Association may be i
connection with any
ized in any city or village, to which
the wives of all members of the Post,
their daughters over sixteen years of
age, their mothers and sisters, and
widows of deceased members. shall
be eligible to membership.

Sec. 2. They shall adopt a Con-
stitution and By-Laws in harmony
with that of the Post to which they
shall be attached, and_ shall have
such rights and benefits as may be
accorded them by such Post.

Sec. 3. They may organize a

State Association of their own mem- |

bers, under such rules and regulations

| as may be approved by the State As-

sociation of Michigan Knights of the
Grip, and may hold an annual con-

vention at the same time and place |

as the parent association. | i
A meeting place will be provided in

Detroit at the time of the seven-
teenth annual convention to perfect
this organization.

It is earnestly requested that
brothers call the attention of those
ladies of their families who are eligi-

. | ble to membership to the provisions
A Negaunee correspondent writes |

of this Article. C. J. Lewis. Sec’y.
—__> >

Detroit—Articles of association
have been filed by the Way Ear

Drum Co., with a capital stock of
$10,000, of which $7,000 has been paid
in patents and stock and $1,000 in
cash. The stockholders are George
P. Way, Asbury O. Leonard and
Walter S. Conely.

—_——_.-->—___

Caro—W. A. Forbes has purchas-
ed the interest of J. D. Wilsey in the
planing mill and lumber yard of W.
A. Forbes & Co. The business will
be continued under the same style.

—_+->——_

Quincy—Moreau__ Etheridge
purchased the interest of F. P. Field
in the feed mill business of Etheridge
& Field. The new firm will be known
as Etheridge & Son.

——_-oo.——_—
Suttons Bay—C. D. Stanley has
formed a copartnership with Gerhard
Nordham, of Glandorf, Ohio, and will
shortly engage in the manufacture
of pail heading here.
—_>+ >
The dying words of Buddha were
these: “Decay is inherit in all com-
ponent things but truth will remain
forever.”

has

*

annual |
meeting of the Knights of the Grip, }

organized in|
Post organ- |

Should Not Stop at One Book.

Melvin E. Trotter—better known
as Mel Trotter, the evangelist—has
written a book, entitled Jimmy Moore
of Bucktown, which is based onthe
personal experience of the writer in
Grand Rapids. All of the charac-
ters are live people who are readily
identified by those familiar with the
lower strata of society in the so-
called Poverty Row district. While
the author lays no claim to literary
excellence in his production, he has
succeeded in presenting an array of

 

 

 

Melvin E. Trotter

| characters which for variety and gen- |
hope: that the volume of business and |

the financial returns will prove every |

 

eral cussedness has seldom _ been
equaled and probably never excelled.
character than
Fagan, the saloon keeper, was ever

No more repulsive

put between the covers of a book,
while some of the female characters
are equal to the principal factors in
the famous Cabbage Patch.

The Tradesman has no desire to

make Mel Trotter dissatisfied with
his present occupation of saving
souls, reforming drunkards, reunit-

ing families and converting paupers
and prostitutes into respectable peo-
ple, but it is very evident to those
who have had the pleasure of perus-
ing Jimmy Moore that he has struck
his gait as a writer of the slum and
that he should not permit his descrip-
tive powers to languish until he has
added at least a dozen companion

 

pieces to his initial effort.
The price of the book is 75
cents.
—___2.-—-a——_——_

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Alpena—Joseph H. Bradley, for-
merly in charge of the cloak depart-

ment of Pardridge & Blackwell (De-

troit), has taken a similar position
with I. Cohen

Lapeer—Frank J. Mann has en-
tered upon his new duties as man-
ager of the Lapeer Hardware Co.

The store is owned by J. B. Sperry,
of Port Huron.

Battle Creek—Frank Colemand has
severed his with W. N.
Gleason, the grocer, to take a position
with the Peoples Co-operative Gro-
cery.

connection

Calumet—Joseph Goldsworthy has
salesman with
Mr. Goldsworthy

taken a position as
Albert Ruttenberg.
was employed by that firm some time
ago.

Johannesburg—S. S. Claggett is
about to remove to this place from
Grayling, where he will conduct a
dry goods store for N. Michelson.

 

41

Albion—Senator A. D. Bangham,
one of Albion’s leading druggists, an-
nounces some changes in his store. C.
A. Fisher, his right hand man, has
gone to Bremen, Ind., where he has
purchased a drug store in partnership
with his brother. Dr. Bangham has
secured the services of Thomas Arb-
ran, of Detroit, who has had several
years’ experience in the drug busi-
Tom Ramsdell has also
tered Dr. Bangham’s employ.

Ann Arbor—Charles Stocking, of
Stockbridge, has taken a position in
the Calkin drug store.

Baraga—Charles J.
| signed position as
the Baraga store, to take effect Oct.
1. Mr. Boyle has been in the em-
ploy of the Nesters for the past fif-

ness. en-

 

Boyle has re-

his manager of

been one of their
prized employes,
health he

teen years and has
trusted and highly
but owing to poor deems
a change advisable.

Decatur—H. R. Macdonald, former-
ly a pharmacist in Abel’s store, in
South Haven, has taken a clerkship
in the drug store of E. S. Peterson.
Charlevoix—W. D. Jacobs, who has
| been employed at Berry’s. clothing
taken Will Campbell’s
3edford’s grocery and shoe

 

store, has
place in
store, Mr. Campbell having resigned
to take a position as rural carrier on
route No. 4 to Norwood.

Charlotte—Fiske Bangs will man-
age the new drug store soon to be
opened here by the Drs. Weaver.

a ae
A Very Smart Man.

Two Hebrew merchants, living on
the great East Side of New York,
were dickering over a sale of goods,
The price at which the seller offered
to dispose of his wares was so fri-
diculously low, that Joe Welch, the
actor, who was in the locality study-
ing types for the new play he is to
star in the coming season—this anec-
dote is new and a fact—was surpris-
ed when the proposed purchaser re-
fused to take them. After the ven-
dor had left, he asked the other man
why he had not snapped at such an
evident bargain.

“Vell,” was the answer, “Dot man
Isaacs pe a very smart mans!”

“But what has that to do with it?”
asked Welch.

“Vell, I pe afraid of him.”

“Afraid of him? Why?’

‘By golly! He’s such a_ smart
mans! He’s mooch smarter dan me!
Say, dot mans could haf married my
und de didn’t. He’s smarter
mans dan me, py golly.”—-Era Maga-
zine.

 

vite,

nen eaten

A. E. Howell, Secretary and Treas-
urer of the “Sanita” Comb Manufac-
turing Co., Grand Rapids: Enclosed
find check for $5 in payment of five
years’ subscription to your “yellow”
journal. Mrs. Howell and I think
we could not keep house without the
Tradesman. I know of no other trade
paper that contains so much valua-
ble information for the business man,
as well as interesting reading for the
home.

——~.

There are two kinds of people in
this world, the croakers and_ the
workers. The croakers never work
and the workers never croak,

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

  

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary,—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
Cc. B. Stoddard, Monroe.
Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

Sessions for 1904.
Grand Rapids—Nov. 1 and 2.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice-Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Charles P. Baker,
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 H.
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

Improved Methods in Production of
Formosa Camphor.

The Treasury Department has de-
cided to carry to the courts the
question of whether camphor from
Formosa is refined or not. If refined,
the duty on it is 6 cents a pound. If
crude, as is claimed by the import-
ers, it is free of duty. The Board of
General Appraisers has deécided that
it is crude, but the Department has
refused to accept that ruling, and has
instructed Collectors to continue
classifying it as refined.

This issue is the result of the im-
proved methods in the production of
camphor introduced by the Japanese
government. Practically all the
world’s supply of camphor comes
from Formosa, and when the industry

monopoly agent, in this case an Eng-
lish firm. :

As the camphor tree grows in un-
explored forests there are no reliable
statistics as to the supply in sight,
but it is roughly estimated that there
is enough for forty or fifty years at
the present rate of consumption.
Since the government took over the
industry millions of young trees have
been planted, end this work is con-
stantly carried on, so that the supply |
is practically inexhaustible. |

————_++ 2 ___
What Is Chymosin Composed Of?

Chymosin, or rennin, as it is now
usually termed, is a ferment of
enzyme contained along with pepsin
in calves’ and pigs’ stomachs, it be-
ing more abundant in the calf’s stom-
ach. It causes coagulation of milk,
and this property distinguishes it
from pepsin, which has no such co-
agulating property. Pepsin, as for-
merly prepared, did coagulate milk,
but this was due to contamination
with rennin; the purest forms of pep-
sin (scale and powder) of the present
day market are devoid of this con-
taminant, and hence do not coagulate
milk. Chymosin is soluble in weak
salt solutions, while pepsin is not,
and advantage is taken of this prop-
erty in obtaining chymosin. Accord-
ing to the specifications of a United
States patent, granted in 1886, chy-
mosin is made by macerating the
stomach of the calf or pig ina %
per cent. salt solution and acidulating
with a mineral acid, when the mu-
cous matter rises to the surface of
the licuid and may be skimmed off
and vejected. The solution is then
filtered and the filtrate saturated with

 

was in private hands the methods
used in extracting it from the trees
were so crude that large quantities
of impurities were mixed with it.
Now the camphor as prepared for
shipment in Formosa is practically |
pure, and the Treasury Department
holds that it ought to pay duty as
such, although it is admitted that it |
has gone through no additional proc-
ess of refining.

Prior to 1899 the camphor industry
in Formosa was in private hands. It
was very wastefully conducted, and
it was found that the production was
usually much in excess of what the

fore were so low as to be unprofita- |

|
|
market needed, and that prices there- |

ble. The private producers also de-
stroyed almost as many trees as they

|
used, and made no effort to supply |
| The Drug Market.
|

the loss by replanting. Although
large quantities of camphor

oil, which is a very valuable com-

modity, was very small, all this ma-|

terial being allowed to go to waste.

When the government took hold
of the industry it put a limit on the
season of manufacture, the quantity
to be made, and the number of kilns,
and defined the district in which the
industry could be carried on.
producers are compelled to sell all
their production to the government
at a fixed price, which is regulated
according to the supply and the mar-
ket conditions. A standard of qual-
ity is fixed, and the producers are
rigorously compelled to live up to it.
The product is marketed through a

|to the surface of the liquid, and may
|then be collected, washed and care-
| fully dried. The various extracts and |

| before adding the coagulant.

|
|

were |
produced, the production of camphor |

The |

salt {sodium chlorid) when, upon
standing, the ferment chymosin rises

Gum Camphor—Is very firm and
an advance is looked for.

ed and is tending higher.

Linseed Oil—Is dull.
es
How to Find Tapeworms.

A certain specialist in a

worms.

twenty-five feet long, to the great

| relief of the patient and financial re-

lief of the specialist.

His method is simplicity itself. It
is based on the old _ principle of
planting what you want to find, and
then with much spectacular effect
finding it. The patient is given a
large capsule and admonished to re-
turn the next day for further treat-
ment. Upon doing so he receives a
liberal dose of a brisk cathartic and
soon passes a voluminous amount of
silk tape which has been jointed to

patient has. swallowed in the rather
large capsule given him the previous
day! Pzra J: Ware.

—__~+-—.——____

tisers be sure to mention that you
saw the advertisement in the Trades-
man.

 

 

 

 

essences of rennet owe their peculiar |
properties to the presence of chymo- |
sin or rennin. This ferment acts in|
neutral, acid or alkaline solutions,
most slowly in alkaline solutions, an
excess of the latter impeding its ac-
tion entirely. In using the ferment
or an extract essence containing it to
coaguiate milk the latter should be
warmed to about 100 deg. Fahrenheit
A much
lower temperature will prevent the
action of the ferment and a much
higher one will destroy it altogether.
Thos. Willetts.

—__ 2+.
Opium, Morphine and Quinine—
Are all steady at unchanged prices.
Carboiic Acid—On account of very
large demand and higher foreign mar-
| ket has been advanced Ic per pound.
Balm Gilead Buds—Stocks
small and prices are advancing.
Cantharides—Stocks are  concen-
trated and prices very high.
Chloroform—Price has been reduc-
| ed 5¢ per pound by manufacturers.
| This reduction was unexpected and
no reason is assigned for it.
Lycopodium—Is_ scarce
vancing.
Oil Cloves—Is firm and_ tending
higher.
American Saffron—Is in small sup-
ply and high prices still rule.

are

and ad-

 

 

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Wholesale Druggist
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Coriander Seed—Has again advanc- |

near-by |
State built up a large business on his |
wonderful success in removing tape- |
Nearly every patient treat- |
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GRAND RAPIDS

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates
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Dealers not carrying paint at the
present time or who think of
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Camphorae 75@ 80! Lini, gerd bbl 4 3@ Corks list d p ct. 15
Suphorbium me £5) Lobelia —.... 5@ 80} Creosotum ....... @ 45
Galbanum ... @100} Pharlaris Cana’n. 9@10 Crete ... 2. - bbl 75 @ 2
Gamboge ....po...125@135 | Rapa ............ @ Creta, prep ...... @ 6
Guaiacum po. 35 @ 35|Sinapis Alba .... 7@ 9/|Creta, precip 9@ 11
@ Sinapis Nigra ..... 9@ 10|Creta, Rubra S 8
@ Spiritus Crocus ..2. 0.0... 175@1 80
Cudbear .......... @ 24
Frumenti W D....2 00@2 50} Cupri Sulph 1.2! 6@ 8
Pram! ........ 1 25@160)} Dextrine ........ 7@ 10
or ba oO =? oo = Ether Sulph ...... 783@ 92
" Juniperis Co --: 16@ Emery, all i
pagum : 00 Saccharum a 4 T3a6 = jaar po — 3 :
uh Spt Vini Ga .
Absinthium, oz pk Mie Gases .!) ce oe a * sq 90
Eupatorium oz pk 20/ Vini Alba ........ i 22 00|Galla ... aoa
Lobelia ..0Z pk 25 ea -—s
Majorum ..o0z pk 28 Sponges Gelatin, qe
Mentha Pip oz pk 23 | Florida sheeps’ wl Gelatin. F Pp a. @ 60
Mentha Vir oz pk 25 Carriage ...:... 2 50@2 75 cao n, —~) are 35@ 60
Hae ........ oz pk 89 | Nassau sheeps’ wl Ta . ox 75 & 5
Tanacetum V..... 22 Carmmiage ....... 250@2 75 an + an box .. 7
Thymus He .oz pk 25 | Velvet extra shps’ | OFOwm ...... n1@ 13
wool, carriage @1 50 Grae, white ...... 15@ 25
Magnesia 5 go | Extra yellow shps’ Giycerina, .......16 @ 30
Galen’ oF Pat... 18 20| Wool. carriage . @125 a - ae Bs
Carbonate K-M.. 18@ 20| Grass. sheeps’ wl, oe ca g ss
Carb t ce 18@ 20 carriage ......- @1 09 ipa on
ee ae Hard, slate use... @1 00 Hod s © or . @ 390
Ole Yellow Reef, for ‘a a Ru’m @1 06
Absinthium . 3 75@4 00 elite use |... @1 40 ydrarg Ammo’l. @1 15
hoe ‘so@s 35 Syrups ieee ==
Ama. ‘
— uae cate 1 75@1 85 aoe. eee g > ee Am 2091 a
rtex ..2 20@2 40 | Aurant estes .  @ GO| indice ........... 00
—oe ae O38 26 | Zingiber ......... @ 60 Todide, Resubi 3 85@4 00
Cajiputi - 10@115 | Ipecac_.......---- @ ©6| tedoterm ......., 10 20
Caryophylli 140@1 50| Ferri Iod ........ @ 5@|Lupulin ..-...... @ 50
Cotes ........ 35@ 70|Rhei Arom ...... @ 560} Lycopodium 1 00@1 10
Paanenael 2 Smilax Off’ Gee 60; Mace -........... 85
Cinnamonil .. 110@1 20 | Senega .......... @ 60;Liquor Arsen et
Citronella ... 40 me i Semme .........-. @ 50 Hydrarg Iod 25
Conium Mac. - 80 96 | Sciline Co ....... @ 650/ Liq Potass Arsinit 109 12
Copaiba ...-..c--- 116@1 25 | Tolutan ......... @ 560|Magnesia, Sulph.. 2 3
Subebae weececes: 2 2901 85 | Prunus virg .... @ 60 | Magnesia, gulh bbi 1%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mannie, & F .... 16@ S@\ Sano. M .......... ~ Sitter, extra .... oom 80
Mental 2.2... 3. 4 00@4 50 Sapo. OG ic. cae 15 Lard, Me. f...:.. 60 65
ecuad P & W235 Seldlitz Mixture... 20@ 22)| Linseed, pure raw 41@ 44
a. 4 - 2 55@2 60 S| Simapis ....-..... @ 18| Linseed’ boiled .. 42@ 46
ae a © os = Sinapis, opt ..... @ 30/Neatsfoot. wstr.. 65@ 70
orpnia, 35@ Snuff, Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine.. 60@ 65
Moschus Canton . 40 De Voes ' @ 41
Myristica, No. 1. 38@ 40|snug, shDeVos @ 41 Paints = bbi L
Nux Vomica.po 15 Soda, Boras 9@ li Red Venetian....1% 2 @8
Os Sepm ........ 25@ 28 | soda’ Boras, po.. 9 41 | Ochre, yel Mars 1% 2 @4
Pepsin sane. H& Soda et Pot’s Tart 280 39 | Ochre, yel Ber ..1% 2 @3
2 PD Ce _....... @100|soga Carb ...... 1%@ 2 Putty, commer’l.24% 2%@3
Picis Lia NN% Soda. Bi-Carb .. 3@ 6 Putty, strictly pr.24%4 2%@3
Gal Gon ........ @2 Soda. a 3%@ 4 Vermillion, Prime
Picis Lig, qts.. @1 00 | goaa’ Sulphas in 3 American ...... 1 15
Picis Lig, pints.. @ 85|Spts’ Cologne @. 69 | Vermillion, Eng.. 70@ 175
Pil Hydrarg .po 80 @ 50 Spts. Ether Ca. 50@ 6d Green, Paris oe 14@ 18
Piper Nigra .po 22 @ 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom 2 00 | Green, Peninsular 13@ 16
Piper Alba ..po 35 ae 30 Spts. Vini Rect bbl g lead, red :....... 6%
Plix Baran oo... Spts. Vi'i Rect % b @ Lead, white ..... 6% 2
Piambi Acet ..... Spts. Vi'l R’t 10 gl @ Whiting, white S’n @ 90
Pulvis Ip’e et —_ 1 3091 50 Sp ts. VPIR'tS gal @ Whiting, Gilders.’ @ 95
Pyrethrum, bxs H cae plain. Crystal 90@1 15 | White, Paris, Am’r @1 25
& Co. dou. @ 75 Sulphur, Subl . 24@ 4 Whit’g, Paris, Eng
Pyrethrum, pv = 30 Sulphur, Roll .. - 2%@ 3% Ce eo @1 40
Quassiae ........ 8@_10|Tamarinds ...... Universal Prep’d.110@1 20
Quina, S P & W. 23@° 33|Terebenth Venice 23 30 Varnishes
Quina, S Ger... 23@ 33 | Theobromae 50
Guia NY .... B@ 33 Cant coe No. 1 Turp Coach. : << 20
Rubia Tinctorum. 12@ 14 | gino Sulph en 7@ Extra Tarp ...... 1 70
Secenarem tas . ta 2. UCU CU Coach Body ..... 2 a3 3 00
Semen <......... 450@4 75 Oils No. 1 Turp Furn.100@1 10
Sanguis Drac’s. 40@ 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar..155@1 60
Sage, We... 5... 12@ 14} Whale, winter 70@ 70| Jap Dryer No iT T0@
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You are invited to

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Holiday

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on exhibition on and after

Sept. 12, 1904

in the Blodgett Building

opposite our office

Hazeltine & Perkins

Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,|50 ft. er 1 30 ion oe eid 16
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia- | 8 fi. eeeeeeeceeeo eens 1 44/ Lemon Snaps ......-- 13
ee hove cadcuacaon 1 80| Lemon Gems ......... 10 '
ble to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at | 80 ft. sects ted eras vos OO (Lem Yen 2...50.05..
marke: prices at date of purchase. 40 ft. jotton Sraided 95 poe seme Cream. . is i Wt % or aa. o
2 e sereenresers eee = Rariunatow wuinut. - Bamboo, 18 ft., pr dz. 86
voce eseenacen sine ea a Oe oe,
ADVANCED DECLINED a aes as 10 | FLAVORING EXTRACTS
No. 20, each 100 ft long.1 90 | Mich Coco Fs’d —— 12 Foote & Jenks ;
No. 19, each 100 ft long.2 18 | Wie ~Biscult ........ -' Coleman’s Van. Lem. ‘
COCOA Mich Frosted Honey ..12 oz. Panel ........1 20 15 :
eer oe a 38 | Mixed Picnic ........ 11% | 30z. Taper ....... .2 00 1 50
Cleveland | .-...-...---- 41 ee — Sclo'd § | No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 1 60
: Colonial, $5 ae Muskegon Branch, Iced ey Se tg y
Ne eg er Ce ae wien oe erpeneless mon
: ee ee eas = Oatmeal Crackers .... 8 |No. 2 D. C. pr dz .... 15 *
Mi “ |
Van Houten, %s ...... 12 ee = secisiceree 16 = x a re ° + = :
Fange GCM .ccrcce a“ | INO. 6 DD. UG. Pr GZ ..wcee :
i index to Markets i Van pod hs pen <0 a pore Cakes. ‘ Taper D. C. pr ds ....1 5 :
3 | CBG cw cc ececes
By Columns AXLE GREASE ee | Pineapple Honey aha 15 | No. che nn it
a |
Coil ee 5 Witbur, , cele = Pretzels, hand made .. 8 | No é = S ed = : ; o0 7
alee TO Lee 65 : my Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8 | Taper D. C. pr dz ....2
Diamond eA se ea a NUT ee Pretzelettes, mch. m’d i
TAZCI'B ....000. eee unham’s %8 ...... REVETE ....6..e0eeeceee
' IXL Golden .......75 Dunham’s %s & \%s.. 26% | Rube Sears ........... 8 | Knox’s oe 1 20
4 BAKED BEANS poe ae 2 oo ee -----s 10 | Knox's Sparkling, gro.14 00
ith. oa ae . 90 2 25 Bk ae 12 Spiced ae Sues ag praca fae” gro i =
5. con par Gow. --..-- 2 S| sent ae - oO on ee — Cakes, scalloped § IE secant eee enn a
; an per oe. ..... eres bOI cise cecees SRL Se iPiymouth Hock ..... 1 20
BATH BRICK \% Ib. Russian Cavier 375 | Less quantity ........ 3 ae reg ctesteeee ae ee ea 1 50
Ameren |... 5... _ % ‘as socerececccs 700 Pound packages ...... 4 Urchins neers “19 «| Cox's, 2 qt. size ..... 1 61
PE oe cbccse be cuc. 85 fon ae COFFEE Shee ie ' | Cox’s, 1 qt. size ......1 10
: + — 275 | Cora Rivesimen i. Rio Vanilla Wafer ..... - 18 | ten ee =
je  NMTPCL cc eeceee ‘ol’a ver, tails. Bverly ...0- eovccsees ’
No. 2 Carpet .......... 2 85 | Gol'a River. flats.1 85@1 90 | COMMON. ------- eee ica |... 9 | Amoskeag, less than b. 19%
Ba. 3 Garett 220. 215 A oe ew ee sin 13
No. 4 Carpet 222022005: ore ----*** a: 3s Chotce 00. se. ee es 15 parr (REAM TARTAR og, GRAINS AND FLOUR
Parlor Gem. ......++..+ 2 40 oe dines Eerre Shee mene ey OME coco sieves eet
omen: A gag sowie = Domestic, -» 34@ 3% |, Santos 1g | Sduare cans. .......+.-. 321 No. 1 ae 115
ancy BK wn cceeeeee Domestic, Ps 5 Common. ues ee ce eae . Fancy caddies. .......... So ta :2
Warehouse ............ 3 00|Domestic. Must’d.. 6@9 | Fair. -------+ eee eres % DRIED FRUITS Tela ai ea dato de a
—— California, 4s eo "Neu Zonsoiiy st teeeeeeee sees 7 Apples | Winter Wheat Flour a
a ‘ornia, | é ie tina hes ol Suudricd ... ....+.-
Sod Bese Siac: [Erma Been gue] Po ae [Boerne 2s NOT | patonet a Bees 8
Cae OA oc. ench, %S ...... araca’ allfornia Prunes | Se ants
Pointed Hinds «.-..0..: : 5 een = oo 15 | ag9-388 35mm boxen, @ 3% Second Patenta."<111.16 00
Standard ........ 120@1 40 | Choice ...............-. 90-100 25 th.bxs.. oe et eo
NO. 3 ....+--+eeeeeeeee 7 Succotash Mexican 80-90 25 Ib. bxs. elias) ao) oe
NO. 2... .seeeeeeeeeee oP ede «00. + sess ie se es 1.16% | 70:80 25D. bas, OB | Glee eee .
No. 1 . ists --1 75 Good aia 1 se Fancy oo 19 — _ — ca eee 5 00
ARCY ccoccccece uatemala 50- . xs. | Rye. le 4 20
No. $ ..-.----0- srereeeE 8 Strawberries Choice .........--.-0- 15 40-50 25 Th. bxs. alg a ah a dames ta
aie F ‘ 2 ee 130| Standard ......-. 110 Java 30-40 25 Ib. bxs. @ | ,,Subject to usual cash
Fi “y d ‘O: ti a BO. 4 .---20--+s0eee o+--1 70 | Pancy .....2....-. oo) Ateteam 20)... 12 ¥4c less in bv ww. cases | discount.
a x = — : me. 2 oe 1 90 Tomatoes Pancy African ......- 17 Citron Be our in bbls., 25c per
ose *° r e oc L eee cee eccccccccce Corsican. ......-- eis |
Flavoring extracts ..... 6| Ww. Bh & Gem, ike eel al ~s . 3 , “ Gurranta 6: Coa ‘ae Co.'s Brand
y Paper ...---- ai W., R. & Co.'s, 25c size.2 00 | Fancy 0. ......1 15@1 50, Mocha | Imp’d. ke. . @ 7% | Quaker, paper. .......5 80
co Meats .. ** - aes co 9 ——— 2 5003 Re oo nce ae eee bunk 1.8%@ 7. | Quaker, cloth. 22.222: 6 00
ee ae whectrte Light 168 oo CARBON OILS | Package | eel | Spring Wheat Flour
i G aa Barrels New York Basis. | emon American cee 12 Pillsbury’s Best, &s ..6 60
Hy Paraffine, 68 ...---+--- © 1 ties 12% | foe =, | Orange American ..... 42 | Pineh Beet is le se
M i 8% | Grater White... 1a” | Arbuckle. ‘oe ee Ralsins | panes ae Ge
Pe i sevse seonses see |i ilworth _ | London Layers Zecr 190) s s 725 «+
: , aa. Deodor "d Nap’a.. ois% pee “42 al | London Layers 3 cr 195| Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s
. 3 Ib. Standards.. |75@ 80 | EUGine, 77222777 $32 | McLaughlin's XXXX ee naa de: Un | Wines, 6 80
BN hick cuit enk~oahy 5 | Gals, Standards ..200@225 | Engine .......... i @2_ | McLaughlin's XXXX sola | [cose Muscate® § or €" | Wineold. he [2
| Hides and Pelts ...... 10 Blackberries Black, winter .. 9 @10% |to retailers only. Mail all | rose Museatels, 4 cr.. 6% | Winsold. ts 1000011! oo
} 1 Standards ......-. 85 CATSUP orders direct to W. F.|1 wi Seeded, 11D..7K@7%|. 0 0
t an 5 a Beans 30@1 30 —. = oe McLaughlin & Co.,, Chi- | | L. M. Seeded. %tb. 546 Judson Grocer Co.’s Brana
} OO Pee. .-. ‘olumbia, p cago. | Salbamean, bulk. . | Cevesora, se .......... 7 00
Red Kidney ........85@95 | Snider’s quarts ....... 3 26 | Sultanas. ackage. | ou i fenresota WS _......... 6 90
- ee 70@1 15|Snider’s pints ........ 2 25 Extract S | Geresota, ¥%s° 2212121216 80
Se ere 6) Wax ..---.--.... 7%@1 25 | Snider's te pints --.:.180 Holland. % gro bores. 95 name a
eberries CH Felix ereee .......- Bra) :
L Standard : ee @ 1 40} Acme @ii Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85 Dried Lima ............ 5 Laurel, 4s, cloth ....7 06 ‘
oe... Situation ||... @ 5 75 shou tein i ae @l1 Hummel’s tin, % gro.1 43 Med. Hd. Pk’d. ..2 00@2 1v/ Laurel, 4s, cloth ....6 90 &
Oe 5 Brook Trout Carson City @10% CRACKERS Brown Holland | evcccce 2 50/ Laurel; %s & \%s paper6 88 }
2arst ey uae ,Q10% np. | waurel, les oo 6 80 :
M 7 —— 7 Elsi oe ee 10%@ ~. | National — Company’s | 24 1Ib. packages. ....1 75 Meal
Meat Extracts ........ 5 | Little Neck, 1 Tb.1 00@1 25 — @11% | rands Bulk, per 100 Ibs. ..... 7 eee 2 90
Meorasses -........_.....4 6 | Little Neck, 2 Ib. Sas @l1it een Flake, 50 Ib ee 1 00 | Golden Granulated. ...3 00
eS ee 6 Clam Boullion Fercag | i @11% Seymour Bulters ..... 6 . . sees
i Jersey, 2... =. b, Pearl, 200 Th. sack ...4 00 Feed and Milistuff.
ne pao _ ee 3 80 | Riverside. ....... One |Euek Bates 1... 6 | Pearl, 100 Tp. sack ..2 00) st. Car Feed screened 22 50
a ni |Burham'e, Gia 2000007930] Narpes iz | Family Butters cc-c-: 6 | Macearont ang Yermlealt | No. 7 Corn and Oats 22 62
Che ee 2 oda . orn Meal, parse. 22
” Red Standards. "18061 » . Apeechaeaaee ee WB C Sodas ........- 6 | Imported, 25 Tb. box ..2 60! Oil Meal. ........... 28 00
i Mives .......-. 2 eee e eens Siwats 20. Eaibureer. 1.) ras poke 8 i Pearl Barley Winter wheat bran ..20 00
i - Pp Corn Pineapple ......40 @60 | Saratoga _— ue 13 ee settee eee ees : = a wheat raid’ngs23 ee
‘ eee 1 25 | Swi omestic . gis yster og aedeagal lx ue ; C Pee ;
a ee eee ee ee . Sone See e ecco ces -—s 4 = Salee imported . aie 23 poet tee Cee . Empire .. oe oc cee 3 50 “ Oats :
ee nuns br ge ema ld a ANCY .- sees ee seeeceee CHEWING M quare ysterS .----- : ae Me oe 33
ee eee --2- ¢ French Peas se tee Ge, 0 7% | Green, Wisconsin, bu.1 35 %
i Potash ......---.---++-- 6|Sur Extra Fine........ 22|Beeman’s Pepsin ..... ei hte co Le 7 Green, Scotch, bu...... 1 40 Corn
| Srevmiens Spee bees 6 | Extra Fine ............ Wink tok 55 Extra Farina ........ 7% | Split, th. .............. SCS ee
R je ee cee c ces eee 4 Largest Gum Made .. = , NO aa Goods oe as — _ i Hay
: os ————————————ee SUN ooo as olen we oy ih --4 9r
i oe ...... ee ee eee sees 6 Gooseberries @.100| Assorted Cake ....... 10 Steel Cut, 100%. sacks 2 25 No. 1 timothy car lots.16 60
; : aa 90| Sugar Loaf s:+..----. 58| Bagley Gems... : | eee ee Ye
+p Salad Dress Homin Stee ee Belle Rose ..........-- Monare Sacks .2 Uo
cc ag latte ‘| standard ...... ae a5 | *UCatan Oo icoRY Bent’s Water ...-.--- 16 | Quaker, ‘cases ........ er. -
eae q Lobster dee gas a AI 5 | Butter Thin .......... 13 Sago —
ee 7 Star, 4 as "SIIIINIETIED qg| Chocolate Drops ....16 | Wast India ........... 9 | Toure Leaves .......
an ae 1 So SU mate, k| Goce Bar ooo... 10 |German, sacks ........ 3% | Senna 0 at
if ee ee 7 Picnic. Talls. seer Si maake 2... 7 —- — coe eue 12 | German, —— _. acco seeece &
ee ee eee accor #8 |. .jBehbencres ...........,- innamon Bar -......-
| —_. Blacking ......... : in ee: 180 nk ati 6 | Coffee Cake, N. B. C. 10 | Flake, 110%. sacks .... 4% | Madras, 5 Ib. boxes .. 55
: ee oo ’ > 10 Pearl. 130%. sacks ..3%/S. F., 2,3.5%b. boxes... 65
Soa: 7 | Mustard, 2 Ib.......... 2 gf Walter Baker & Co.’s | Coffee Cake, Iced >
: a ec ek ew enae ; ae [imu Haak ....... 23 | Cocoanut Macaroons. E 38 Pearl, 24 ace a. .
‘ 8 Premium ...-.--++++-++ er | Ceneieell, bull oseses: 3H
; g Lo 41 ee. — ine = 242 Tb. pack
ae: lll | et ee, Sno nese ee EP RORE oo owe cee ents Chocolate ainty .
| : — 28 |Cartwheels .....---0- i. FaCKLe
CLOTHES LINES | Dixie Cookie ......... 8
| Fluted Cocoanut ...... 10
60 ft. sae extra..106 Frosted Creams ..... 8
72 ft. : thread, extra . 4 40 | Ginger Gems ........- 8 iS
. 90 ft, 3 thread, extra ..170| Ginger Snaps, N B C7 x
Vv Cove, 1 a a. 100 | ¢0 ft! 6 thread, extra ..2 29 | Grandma om . =
k Vinegar ....-.----++++. 9| Pie on1 10 a Honey “Fingers, Iced..12 | No. 1, 10 feet 5|Gondensed, 4 de 1.21.8 00
f Yellow"! ms ms ; * see Cinn .__ ee 75 |Honey Jumbles ...... iz |No. 2 is feet - 7 | Condensed, 4 dz ......
§ Washi Powder 9 Pears 72 ft 99 | Iced Happy Family ...11 No. 3, MEAT Pa baaiteatc:
zi ee ee g| Standard ....... Ottis BS 105 | Iced Honey Crumpet .10 (No. 4, 10 | Armour’s, 2 oz ..... oe
WICKINE «owen nonce enee 2 00 ee eee SL 4. chan +s ..8 |No. 5, 11 | Armour’s ic. 8 26
Woodenware g| Fancy .....---.. @ 120 ft. 150
i a... 10 Peas Cotton" Victor” Indiana Belle 222/12... i5 {No. 6, 12 | Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 on. 75
t Ce ee eee Marrowfat ...... 90@1 00 | ga 1 10 | Jersey Lunch ......... Ss {Ro 7, 15 | Liebig’s, icago, 402.5 50
t Vv Barly June ........ 506. Cimn -...:: vere ttt 36 | lady Fingers ........ 12 |No. £1 18 | Liebig’s, paseen 2 ond 55 ;
Yeast cake .............,10 Barly June Sifted.. ae. Lady Fingers,hand md 25 |No. 9, 20| Liebig’s, imported 4 oz 8 50 P

 

 

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Barrels, 2,409 count
Half bbis. 1,200 count ..

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Corned beef, 2 .
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MOLASSES
New Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle ... 40) Ic
bce ce cae see
eee ...65... ae 36 | Durkee’,
| Snider’s, large, 1 doz..2

  

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Good
Half barrels 2c extra
MINCE MEAT

Columbia, per case. ...2 75 |

MUSTARD

Horse Radish, 1 dz ...1 75
Horse Radish, 2 dz ....3 50)
Bayle’s Celery, 1 dz ..

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Bulk, 5 gal kegs. . 90 |
Manzanilla, 7 oz . 80
ueen, pints -2 35
bueen, 19 oz .4 50
ueen, 28 oz .. 7 00
tuffed, 5 oz - a
Stuffed, 8 oz -1 46)
Stuffed, 10 eee 2 30
PIPES |

Clay, No. 216 tO ne

Clay, T. D., full, count 65
a

PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count ..6 59 |
Half bbis., 600 count ..3 7

Small

> 00

PLAYING CARDS

No. 90, Steamboat ... 5
No. 15, Rival, assortedl 20

. 20, Rover enameledl 60
. Gee, Bpecink ...... i?

. 98, Golf, satin finish2 00 |
a 808, Bicycle ..... 2 00 |

POTASH
8 cans in case
Bape e .2...-....... 4 00 |
Penna Salt Co.’s ...... 3 00
PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork |
BROS ce cae cae 13 25 |
Tick fab -..-<......... 15 75
Dat Pack .........2.0. 15 50 |
Pore Ce oak ee 14 75
Se a 18 00
ae is 00
ye 16 50 |
tear Woamily ........ 13 00
Dry Salt Meats
ae 946
Re og keen ee 10% |
Moutrsn Gborts ......... s |

Smoked Meats

Hams, 12 Ib. average..12
Hams, 14 Ib. average. .12
Hams, 16 Ib. average..12
Hams, 20 Ib. average. 11% |
Seinned Tams. ....... 13
Ham, dried beef sets.15
Shoulders, (N. Y. cut)

Bacon, clear. stl @i2
California Hains ees es 2
Picnic Boiled Ham. ..14% |
Moved Fame. ......... 18% |
Berim Ham pred ... 9
Mince Ham .-......... 10
La “”
OO een ee 6% |
ee 8%

Tb. tubs..advance. %
> | White Hoop, bbls8 2:

. tubs..advance. %
Th. tins..advance. A
. pails..advance.

. pails..advance. 1
E i aimee. z

Ib

Tb. pails..advance. % |
5 Ib

tb

Sausages a
— eee ae 5%, |
Se cee a cs 6% |
Frankfort. Secs oe ase 7%
a a ee 8% |
Beet. s. 8
PS oe we 9% |
Headcheese .......... 6% |
Beef
Extra Mess ......... 10 50}
oneness =. 8c, nc 11 50 |
im, ew... i |
Pig’s Feet
ee 1 10 |
bee, 40 Tee........ 1 85 |
bbis.

Beef middles, set .....
Sheep, per bundle .....

Uncolored aera

Solid, Gairy. ..... |
Rolls, dairy cael

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Potted tongue, 4s... Sic
Potted tongue. %s .. 85

RICE

Screenings ....... et
Fairy Japan ....... 3u%
Choice Japan .... @4
Imported Japan . @4%
Fair Louisiana hd. @3%
Choice La. hd..... @4%
ov | oa... Oat
Carolina ex. fancy. 6%

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a DRESSING

olumbia, i pint:

Arm and Hammer

| American Family 05
| Dusky Diamond, 50 802.2 80

Granulated, bbls 8
Granulated, 1001b cases.1 7

Lump, 145%b. kegs
cre Crystal

| Big Master ... 00
Snow Boy Pd’ r. 100 pk. ‘ 00 |
| Marseilles 40

Proctor & Gamble ae |

|Good Cheer

Butte
| Brls, 280 Ibs, bulk. .

Linen bags, 10- -28 Ibs 3
Cotton bags, 10-28 Ibs 2
632, Tournm’t whistz 25

5 barrel lots, 5 per cent.

Above prices are ¥. ©. EB.
— Grades

56 Ib. dairy in drill bags
28 Ib. dairy in drill bags

 

Granulated, fie ......... 80 | a |
; ; ~ | Pepper, Singp. white . = | Air Brake

|Ginger, African
Y | Ginger, Cochin

|Ginger, Jamaica
[eiaece |...

ie @ 5%
Strips -or bricks. 41010
@

| Pepper, Singapore, blk.

| Pepper, Cayenne ......
| Sage

% | White Hoop, %bbl4 2
White hoop, keg.
| W hite hoop mchs

| Half barrels

a
| Hemp, Buseian ....... 4

> |Mustard, white

SHOE BLACKING

| Handy Box, large, 3 dz.2 50 |
|Handy Box, small ...
| Bixby’s Royal Polish .

| Miller’s Crown Polish.

Scotch, in ——— oe

 

eee ae ca. 35
J. S. Kirk & Co. brands
4

Acme, 100-%Ib. bars.. 3 10

Lenox

A. B, Wrisiey brands.

00
Ad Country .......... 3 40
Scouring
Enoch Morgan’s Sons.
Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00

| Sapolio, half gross lots.4 50

Sapolio, single boxes ..2 25
2

Sapollo, hand ..... waco
| SODA
BOMCe 200s ble
| Kegs, Bighsh ........ 4%
| SOUPS
Cotumbia, (0.0 0.,..... 3 00
Med Letter, ........... 90
SPICES
Whole Spices
ee eee tec ee ea a. 12
China in mats. 12
Canton, ....... 16

Batavia, bund. 28
i Saigon, broken. 40
a, Saigon.inrolls. 65

Amboyna. .... 22

OE — a 20

eee eee eee . oo
Nutmegs, 75-S0 ...... 43

| Natmers, 105-10 ..... so
Nutmegs, Eio-20 ..... 30

Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15
Pepper, shot

Cassia, Saigon
Cloves, Zanzibar

 

Mistara 0000000 cin
Pepper, Singp. white .

Common Gloss

-|2D. packages, ...... 4@5
lai. DPUeKAwes ... 8... 4
[GID packages ........” 5

40 and 50 Ib. boxes 3%

| Batrels. ... ds.

Common Corn

20 lib. packages .......
40 1Ib. packages . ak @T |
| SYRUPS
| Corn
5 | Barrels 23

Z0ib cans \% dzin case. i 60

i 10Ib cans %2dz in case..1 55
|5Ib cans 2dz in case....1 65
: |2%tb. cans 2dz in case.1 75

Pure Cane

'Geee .......... —
° PeHetee, oo 25 |
| TEA
Japan
|Sundried, medium ....24
| Sundried, ehoice ...... 32
i Sundried, faney ...... 36
| Regular, medium ..... 24
| Regular. cheice ........ 32
| Resuiar, fancy ........ 36
| Basket-fired, medium .31
| Basket-fired, choice ..38
| Basket-fired, fancy . 1143
(Nite 22@24
Sitti (1) i
| Fannings ci 12@14

Gunpowder
| Moyune, medium ....30
| Meyune, choice ....... 32
| Movune faney ....... 40
| Pingsuey, medium ....30
|Pingsuey, choice ..... 30
Pingsuey. fancy ...... 40
Young Hyson
[Oheiee .. oo. 30
Meaney ooo 36
Oolong
Formosa, fancy ........ 42

Amoy, medium ........25
Amoy, choice ....... .82

| Self Binder ....
| Silver vee

| Armour’s
| Nine O’clock
|; Wisdom
0 i Se canine ee

English Breakfast
7 | Meditmm 20.05.0000... 20
Central City Soap Coa | Choice 2.000000. 3) 30
| brand. ieee ei akee 4
tiie a 2 85 | Indla
| Jaxon, 5 box, del......2 80 | Ceylon, choice ........82
| Jaxon, 10 box, OT = Tener -. 48
“s Johnsor: Soap Co. bran
|Silver Ling .......... 3 65 TOBACCO
Calumet Family . ....2 7% Fine Cut
—— Bawaiy 06)... a 30) Cadillae oo) 54
Cuba

sweet Loma _.........
Hiawatha, 5tb. pails ..56
Hiawatha, 10tb. pails .54

Delegram .... 0... 29
Dusky D'nd., 100 6oz..3 80 bay Car... 31
Jip HOSG 250.00... .. 2. & (| Prairie Hese ........- 49
savon imperial ...... 3s 10| Protection |... ........4
White Hussian ......- 3% 10 | Sweet Burley .......... 42
Dome, oval bars...... 2 eo) SIR 40
| oMeeaebere. OWA .......... 2 15 | Plug
Ss OGWrN 200 |
a me , a ee Crees 22202. 31
LAUIZ BROS. & CO. — oe
ceawatne oo. 41
me Aeme 8... Battle Ax sn

: ood
American Eagle wccocme
Standard Navy

eeevece

Spear Head 7 oz. ...47

0| Spear Head 14 2- 3 oz. -44

NoObey Twist .o. |
IG Tae 39
Ott Honesty 20.000.) 4g
Tr adh ese Secee le ee
eeceee 37
Pp iper | "Heidsick * «1 6G
Boot Jace 0... 8

«ceae
Honey Dip Twist ... 140
Black Standard

nee fe 38
i 30
Nickel west -. 50
Smoking
Sweee @ore 00) 34
Mit Car | ae
Great Navy 000000) 34
Warpate 26
oeee. " oe 2... 25
tx mn 27

ir x L 16 2 0Z., Pails ..31

Honey Dew 060 ge
Gold Block eee
Flagman

Citpe 1... eles. 33
me Died 21
Dbuke’s Mixture ...... ae
Dukes Cameo |...) | -43

Myrtle Navy ee
Yum Yum, 1 2-3 oz. 2-39
Yum Yum, 1tb. — 40
Yea oo oo. - 38
Corn Cake, 2% 02. 2.

Corn Cake, tm ©). +122
Plow Boy, 1 3:3 oe 2
Plow Boy, 3% igs . =

Peerless 3% oz... || |
Peerless, 1 2- 3 “oz. as 8

ivi
Pure Ground in Buik | Caine) Heo
|Alispice ... Country Club _..... 32- 34
ee 16 F
Cassia, Batavia |... || 2g | Horex-XXXX 2

Good Indian

 

VINEGAR

| Malt White Wine, 40 gr. 8

Malt White Wine, 80 gr.11

|Pure Cider, B&B 11

Pure Cider, Red Star. po
Pure Cider, Robinson.10
Pure Cider, Silver .. -50

WASHING POWDER
Diamond Fiake
Gold Erich
Gold Dust, 24 larmwe. _.4

Gold Dust, 100-5¢ ....14 00

| Kirkoline, 24 4m. ....3 90
Pearline .... Stcccace acl
[Seapine ......

Babbitt’s 1776
Roseine

Rub-No- More

| No. 0 per gross .......30

No. 1 per gross ..... 40
| No. 2 per gross ......50
| NO. 3 per groge _._...
WOODENWARE
| Baskets
oe 0
| Bushels, wide band . oot 2p
| Markee oo. 35
icant large .. 6 00
splint, medium ...._.. : 00
Splint, small... 4 00
Willow, Clothes, large.7 25
| Willow Clothes, med’m.6 0
| Willow Clothes, small.5 50

_ Butter Boxes
2tb. size, 24 in case ..

3Ib. size, 16 in case .. 68
5Ib. size, 12 in case .. 63 |
10Ib. size, 6 in case .. 66/

Butter Plates

| No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate. 40 |
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate. 45

| No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate. 50 |

| No. 5 Oval 259 in erate. 60 |

Cc
Barrel, 5 gal., each

bo

 

|Common Straw
| Fibre Manila, white .. 2
| Fibre Manila, colored . 4
biINeG. 2 Mania ......... 4
| Cream Manila ......_. 3
|Butcher’s Manila .... 2%
| Wax Butter, short e’nt. 13
| Wax Butter, full count.20
| Wax Butter, rolis on

 

o | FP Ht Ceunts

40 |
Barrel, 10 gal., each 12 55
Barrel. 15 gal., each 1.2 70

Ciothes Pins

| 20-in., Standard, No. 1.7
| 18-in., Standard, No. 2.6
| 16-in., Standard, No. 3.5
| 20-in., Cable, No. i ..
| 18-in., Cable, No. 2

Ne. 3) Wipe 8

Wash Boards

Bronze Globe ..........2
oe oe 1
Double Reme .......... 2
omigic ACME .......... 2
| Double Peerless ...... 3
Sineie Peerleas ........ 2
Northern Queen ....... 2
| Double Duplex ..:.....
|Good Luck

| Universal

2 te |... ee leee.. i
im ....... J. 1
ei ooo. 2
| Wood Bowls

jf. im Batice -. 1... ....
| iS im Batter ......5. 1

[16 tm Better |... || .3
[it t Batter ....:. 8

19 in. Batter .....

4 75
| Assorted 13-15-17 as
| Assorted 15-17-19 .....3

WRAPPING PAPER

YEAST CAKE
Mastic, 3 dom .......... 1

| Sunlight, 3 doz ...... 1 00
| Sunlight, 1% doz. ..:.. 50
| Yeast Foam, 3 doz. ...1 15 |
Yeast Cream, 3 doz ..1 06)

Yeast Foam, 1% doz. ..
FRESH FISH

| Per Ib.
Jumbo Whitefish ..11@12

No. 1 Whitefish @9
| White fish ...: 2... 10@12
fare... @ 9
| Black Base .......
(Erasie 2... . 10@11
| Ciscoes or Herring. @ 5
|remeneh 1. aan
| Live Lobster. :

Boiled Lobster.

Perch, dressed sen
Smoked a

38
; Perfection Standards... 36
[ RrecMMCENESS, 0 2

Bulk Oysters.

| Pxtra Selects ....... Mr
ots ................ 1
mtanegards ... 0... 6... 1
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green We £.........-. 8
Green No. 2.......... 7
1€red No. f.......... 3
(Cured Ne. 2.........5 8%

| Calfskins, green No. 1 i

| Calfskins, green No. 2 9146]
Caliskins, cured No. 1 12%

Calfskins, cured No. 2 11

Steer Hides, 60tbs. over 9%

 
 

|Mottoes ..4..

 

elts

| Round head, 6 gross bx. §5 Old Wool ........-.
|Round head, cartons .. 758) Lamb ............ 15@1

| Egg Crates | Shearlings .......... 25@

| Humpty Dumpty ....2 40 allow
| No. t; complete ....... 32; No. 1 ..... deceae @4
| Noe. 2 compicte ........ NO ee @ 3
Faucets | idea eae.

Cork lined, 8 in ........ 5 Washed. medium - i oe
| Cork lined, 9 in ........ Unwashed, fine ..14@20
Cork Hned, 10 mi ....... Unwashed, med. ....22@25
Cedar, S im .:......... |
Mop Sticks CONFECTIONS

Trojan spring .......- Stick Candy °
— patent spring .. Pails
| No. COMmM™SOM .....--. (9/| Standard .............
| No. 2 pat. brush holder. rie pie ne... ae
12T. cotton mop heads.1 25 | Standard Twist ..... 8
Ideal No. 7 ............ Cent Bose 9

| Pails | cases
2-hoop Standard ...... 1 ae 7

| 3-hoop Standard ......1 Mutra £2. £F 2.6...
2-wire, Cable ......... 1 Bosten Cream .:......
2-wire, Cable ......... 1 90 | Olde Time Sugar ae
Cedar, all red, brass ..1 SO Tb. CABG < cc ccccco od
Paper, Mureka ........ 2 2

Oe 2 Mixed Candy
Toothpicks [Grocers oo, oe

| Mardwoed .............2 @ [Commettion 000000
PSOSEWOOG .............. |Sneeat oo Le
Hangeee 1 @etiserve . 2.0.00... 2 3 q
ooo) .4...,.... ...... 1 Rowen .........5......- 8

Traps Ribbon 2.0... as SS

| Mouse, wood, 2 holes .. Broken ee a

| Mouse, wood, 4 holes .. Cut Leet. oo. @

| Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. English Rock ..... ce

| Mouse, tin, 5 holes ... Kindergarten .......... a
| Rat, wood ..... se eeeee Bon Ten Cream .......

| at, spring |... French Cream ........ 9

Tubs (Star _.. 5... 11

Hand made Cream....14
Premio Cream mixed. .12%

Fancy—in Pallis

O F Horehound Drop..10
Gypey Flearts ........
Coco Bon Bons .
Fudge Squares .
Peanut Squares ..
Sugared Peanuts ..
Salted Peanuts .......12
Starlight Kisses ......10
San Blas Goodies ..... 12
Lozenges, plain ....... 9
Lozenges, printed ....10

   

|Champion Chocolate ..11

Eclipse Chocolates ...13
Quintette Chocolates...12
Champion Gum Drops. :

= | eee Toros ...........
i\temon Sours ......... 9
PU oo ec ates 9

iltal. Cream Opera ...12
|Ital. Cream Bon Bons.

| 20 >. pats _.......:. 12

Molasses Chews, 15tb.
Came 12

|Golden Waffles ....... 12

Fancy—Iin 5tb. Boxes

| Lomon Soure ......:... 50

Peppermint Drops ....60
Chocolate Drops ...... 60
BH. M. Choc. Drope ...%

\ Me Chee. Lt. and
Dark Ne, i ........ 1 oF

Brilliant Gums, Crys.60
O. F. Licorice Drops ..80
Lozenges, plain ........ 55

| Lozenges, printed ....60

Reapers (22°... 55

Cream Bar ....
Molasses Bar 55
Hand Made Cr’ms..80@90
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and Wintergreen ...65
String Hock «........@
Wintergreen Berries ..55
Old —— Saar 25

 

ca
| Buster Tenn * Goodies

eee seeene

case
| Up- to-Date Asstmt, 32

Mm. Game occ.

Pop Corn
Dandy Smack, 24s ...
Dandy Smack, 100s ...
Pop Corn Fritters, ‘was

Pop Corn Toast, 100s.
Cracker gage ........- 3
Pop Corn Balls, 200s ..1 <
NUTS
Whole

Almonds, eae -16

Almones, TvVice .......

Almonds, California sft
shelled, new ..14 @16

Red Snapper ...... é — Reece es caeee a.
| Col. Eieer’ aut aa6 (fiver | 12
| Mackeres) 0000.10) 14@15 | Walnuts, soft shelled, _
‘OveTEnS [tak Ne feo... 14@15

ans |Table Nuts, faney ....

Per can | Pecans, i io. =
- EF Counta |... 7. 9 | Pecans, Ex. Large ...10 i
Pxtra Selects. ......... Pecans, Jumbos ........ 12

|Hickory Nuts per bu.

Onio new ..........1 %&
COCcOmBGES ............. 4

| Chestnuts, per bu. ....

Shelled ii
; Spanish Peanuts. 7 @ 7%
“| Pecan Halves ...... . 38
| Walnut Halves ........ 33
| wiipert Meats .........25
Alicante Almonds .....36
| Jordan — a
Peanu

4 | Fancy, H P, oe 6% @7

| Fancy, H. P., Suns.

lRinasted |b ul 7%@

8
Choice, H P, J’be. @ 8%
Choice, H. P., Jum-
be, Roasted

 

   

46 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds.

 

 

 

aN rected

HARNESS

We want your harness and collar

AXLE GREASE SOAP

Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

For
Easy -
Business

orders. Wehave out some new

styles and prices. Send us sample

  

orders. We have got our co!lar

factory going and can give you

the best on the market. Our new

= since ee eee 65 6 00
BAKING POWDER

Jaxen Brand ule HA aor
Sch Gas

“ «+ Cores
#n: cans, : _ ease = — =

- cans oz. case

' case White House, 1 Ibh......

1 Ib. cans, 2 dos. id White House, 2 Ib.......

ONDER,

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

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Paragon

catalogue is nearly revdy. Send

for one,

the one solid month of it Wholesale Only

 

that’s only a few weeks away

—what preparations are you

 

e ~~ : - Mxoelstor, M * 3. ‘ ».. making?
Kibeans 135 | 1D Top, M@ J, i Bb...- I] BROWN & SEHLER CO.
Royal Java .......... a Remember last year you kept

 

6 ozcans 190 | Royal Java and Mocha..
259 Java _and Mocha Blend. .
14Ib cans Boston Combination ....

talking “time: enough” and West Bridge St.

 

 

  

 

 

 

Micans 815 | Distrionted Py, a winiht nein: ei ene the first thing you knew it GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
1 Mcans 480 National Grocer Co., De- | Black Hawk, five bxs.2 40 | was December ist with noth- Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion
; | troit and Jackson; F, Saun- | Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25 | |# Raterevery day to Grand Rapids.
fees * TDcans1800 | Gers & Co., Port Huron; | ing done. |f@ Send for circular.
= 5 Ihcans 2150 —— 2 Co., —_ | TABLE SAUCES
BLUING Bay’ City; Godsmark, Du- | Halford, large ........ 3 75

Arctic 4 0z 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

   
   
 

 

rand & Co., Battle Creek;
Fielbach Co., Toledo.

COFFEE SUBSTITUTE
Javril

 

 

 
    
   

Halford, small ........ 2 25

 

Place Your

 

 

If it’s this year’s December

profits you want to depcsit in

your bank begin now the pre-

parations that will make trem

i yours. e
Business National Bank
ona First get GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Cash Basis |
ng . ‘| Our certificates of deposit
Ȣ Our October
Per a. a 00 by — ur C 0 eC r are payable on demand and
Cases, 2 ait. erie. te 00 our if draw interest at
| craane atalogue
Coupon Book
H System. . ; 3%
: y which points the way
We '{ Our financial responsibility is
ee \f almost two million dollars—
ag ee manufacture both in goods and methods, to | a solid institution to intrust
500 or more........... 32 90 f : : |
«,000 or more......... 31 00 our kinds both the easy business for ‘| with your funds.
Somes CONDENSED MILK |

December ard the more busi-

 

 

| The Old

 

 

 

 

 

    
 

  
 

 

 

 

4 doz. in case
Baker’s Brazil Shredded | Gail Borden Eagle....6 40 of The Largest Bank in Western
: . Coe 5 90 ness for now.
; Cong So : = Coupon Books Michigan
RIBY cccoe
Magr olia --4 00 In other words, our October Assets, $6,646,322.40
allenge .. | :
Di 38 and catalogue shows all our goods : : :
| sell them —Holiday and regular. And
| all at the every department has con- QtOnOn SuCRON OR SaGZ0n CuOROR
i tributed its quota of “yellow 2 gC
1 : q = ake Your Uw Uas Sah @
' same price page” things for retailers’ use s From Gasoline fal a
aes irrespective of in booming trade right now. Ml @ Sas uy) ests 5 hours giving MEM
; > “m pes. = ome. -3 - | 7 h 3 BRILLIANT Gas Lamps | 4
ry 38 tb pkg. per case..2 60. Size, S ape Get our October catalogue. @ Anyonecanusethem. Are bet- |S e ’
é 16 %Ib pkg. per case..2 60 | i @ ter than kerosene, electricity or | s 5
Ht FRESH MEATS = or Use its goods and hints for $ gas and can be run for . e
# Beef - 7 . iat o less than half the ex- s >
a : . more business now. n ense. 15 cents
i Coseass 250). 4 @1% owed ogg’ the B ggg concen vd denomination. . 4 ' ee a oma is ‘the ananane BS
PE Forequarters. .4 @ 5% €bDo: re an urgiar i @ cost. Write forour M
Hindquarters ‘2 ia. soe ‘ ee er eer @ T. Catal Every s
] . - . alaiogue. Livery
A Loins. ee 9 @13 ag ‘eae ieee We will plays choose the things for 5 Jamp guaranteed. S
i oe = sizes on hand at all times ; ; Brilliant Gas Lamp Co.
Hy Chucks 22201 eG § | twice’ as ‘many ‘safes. as be easy business in December. © 42 State 8. «hcago, I s
f OU rhe ences : eS Ve oe sORORO RO CUOROD CHOROR EOFORO
e. If you ve :
s Pork ,, |are unable to visit Grand ry Mention No. J516.
i Dressed. ..... 2 pi @ 6% | Rapids and inspect the
ea eS @12 line personally, write for pleased | AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS
E ane ate a @u quotations. | 1903 Winton 20 H, P. touring car, 1903 Waterless
L. Ss ae oo @10 | Knox, 1902 Winton phaeton, t Oldsmobil . -
; int in @ 7% STOCK FOOD. to | ond hand electric runabout, 1903 U.S. Long Dis.
in Mutton _ peatee Superior Stock Food Co., d 1 a =a oe ee ae carriage
(ECS cee sr cee 0 W 3%, E | wt Op, ioledo steam carriage, fo ’
e lambs ree taeseoe € @ 3° io ‘ ee i ei a sen you Samp es ———- ne a runabouts, sie PR
; ea : -50 carton, n box.10. . | ning order. Prices from $200 up.
3 Carcass ..-..--.-. 5%@ 8 | 1.00 carton, 18 in boxtose| if you ask us. Butler Brothers  § s0ams «wart, 12W. Bridge St., Grand Rapid.
12% th. cloth sacks... .84 They are |
25 Yb. cloth sacks... 1.65
Wholesalers of Eyerything | F ° R s
4 50 Tb. cloth sacks.... 3.15 |
t aro 100 tp. cloth sacks.... 6.00 free. By Catalogue only | reignt . ecel pts
4 Peck measure ...... oo | ept in stock and printed to
CORN SYRUP % bu. measure...... 1.80 New York Chicago St. Louis | order, Send for sample of the
12% Tb. sack Cal meal .39 Tradesman Company NEw UNIFoRM BILL LaDING.
7 eee 3 34 25 Ib. sack Cal meal 75
SONS 63.6 : . os 8 : b
© Sc cans ..........3 80|F. O. B. Plainwel, Mich. Grand Rapids BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids

 

Brion

 

 

rey
Sal

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

47

BUSINESS-WANTS create!

Advertisements

No charge less

inserted under this head for two cents
subsequent continuous insertion.

a word thie first insertion and one cent a word for each

than 25 cents

. Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Kirst class drug store doing a prescrip-
tion business Good thing for young man
with energy Best reasons for selling. Ad-
dress No. 911, care Michigan Trades-

911

 

man.

 

 

For Sale—Store building, dwelling and
barn, $1,800. Stock of goods about $2,700.
Might take part income real estate. Ad-
dress No. 912, care Michigan Tradesman.

912

Special
ranches,
my free
Scott,

For Sale—Hardwood Island, one of the
group of Apostle Islands near Bayfield,
Wisconsin. Island contains 1,330 acres,
and is heavily timbered with 1,500,000
feet of hardwood and 10,800 cords of cord
wood. lLGeautiful place for summer re-
sort,9and will make fine farm after timber
is cut. Frice, $10 per acre. Will con-

Bargain—500
Kansas or
ie =F.

Kan.

farms, stock
Missouri. Write for
H. Humphrey, Fort

914

 

sider improve sd property in part payment.
Address Hazen & Kuehnow, Duluth, Minn,
ee i. o5
incorporate for $2 0; use the federal

laws enacted by Congress for the District
of Columbia; no annual tax and no
personal liability; expert service guaran-
teed. Write for full particulars to W.
W. Fentress, 12 Twelfth St., S. E., Wash-
ington, BD. C. S17

 

 

For Sale—Good, clean, up-to-date stock
of groceries. Fine location, good trade.
Address No. 889, care Michigan ‘Trades-
man. 8389

ror Sale—Fiurst-class grocery, meat
market end fruit stand; an old estab-
lished stand of thirteen years;
cation;
for selling; price reasonable.
Wiiliams st., Dayton, Ohio.

We have some good farm lands for ex-
change on cash Sects for stocks of gen-
eral merchandise. C. N. Sonnesyn & Co.,
Butterfield, Minn. 897

sell your real
cash. | can get
promptly.

estate or
a
My methods are distinctly dif-
ferent and a decided improvement over
those of others. It makes no difference
where your property is located,
full description and lowest cash price and
I will get cash for Write to-day.
Established 1881. Bank ss references

  

Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Expre Ss

 

 

Building, Chi ago. See
Natural Gas Plant for sale or rent.
Cheapest power in the city. Desiring to

build a new plant at our Jackson street

location, we otter for sale our present
factory at Gth and A streets, with or
without ground. One 75 H. P. and one

35 H. P. gas engine with 4 gas main and

line shafting to suit purchaser. Can be
divided irto two small plants. For full
particulars apply to Gernert Bros.
Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky. 900

 

For Sale—Country store and. dwelling
house, also $1,780 stock general merchan-

 

dise. Address No. a0, care Michigan |
‘Tradesman. : 901
Wanted—A large second-hand fire
prceof safe; must be cheap. Mi. Perry,
‘Tustin, — oof
Wanted—A stock of merchandise in |
exchange for a well located improved |
farm. Address No. 906. care Michigan |
Tradesman. 906

 

 

- For Sale—Ore of the best outside gro-
cery stores in biint dcing a good bisiness
Inventory $1,9C0. Good reasons fer se li-
oe. Wree or call “313 N. a a
Flint, eee

 

              

ry, confectionery ar 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
Wanted—Stock of merchandise. We |

pay cash and rent store.
ticulars, J. A. Becker, St. Charlies, a
00

For Sale—At invoice about $7,000. The
best hardware store in best location in
a city of 25,000 in Western Il.
good business; a money maker.
other business. Address’ Safety,
Michigan Tradesman.

Harness Business For Sale—A chance
for a harness maker with small capital.
I must sell. Address No. 869, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 869

Furniture and Undertaking for Sale—
Undertaking alone nets $600 per year. A
chance for a man with small capital.
Address No. 870, care Michigan ——
man.

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan Trades-
man, 89

 

 

 

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always made money; good reason |
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868

For Rent—An up-to-date meat market;

fine fixtures; steam egtaee works; cor-
ner brick store; low rent; good establish-
ed trade. Address d. - ‘Miller, Benton
Harbor, Mich. 879

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—A good dlean drug business
in one of the best towns of Michigan.
Gocd reason for selling. Address No. 873,
care Michigan Tradesman. 873

Look at our advertisement No. 735. We
have Wayland and Bradley mills left.
Give us an offer. We want to sell them
at onze. Henderson & Sons Milling Co.,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 875

For Sale—Stock of dry goods and gro-

ceries; new stock; old established trade;
best town in Michigan; other business
and ili health reason for selling. —
Box 138, Durand, Mich. 76

‘y,anted—Location for stock of. dry
goods. Would buy general store. Small
place preferred; invoice $3.000 or = tag
kK. EK. Tice. Paw Paw, Mich.

 

"For Sale—20 shares of ist Sretonesa
stock of Great Northern Portland Cement

Co. stock for $1,200. Address Lock Box
265. Grand Ledge, Mich. 835
F. M4.
D.A t
c. a jek

|. I want to buy and pay top prices for |
lot of Douglas,
| cliffe,

Walkover,
Queen Quality,

Sorosis. Rad-
Dorothy Dodd and

other trade mark and specialty lines of
shoes, also entire or part stocks und2-
| sire ible goods, odd liots, -cte. rr ©

: | Or town property.
| Corning, Iowa.

 

Feyreisen, 167 Dearborn Sc.,

 

To Exchange—Fine bearing orange
grove in Hiverside, Cal.: value $15,000.
Clear. Want stock of merchandise, farm

Address Drawer J.,
852 _

To Exchange—My equity of. $11, 400 in

a 360 acre Iowa farm; good location; fine

pani Mar can use dry goods or a

general stock. No traders need apply.

Address Frank E. Jones, Corning, Ia.

 

For Sale—A modern eight-room house
Woodmere Court. Will trade for
of groceries. Enquire J. W. Powers,
Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Phone_ 145 455. 49

 

For Sale—Best paying stock
eral merchandise in Northern Indiana,
with store building and living rooms ad-
joining. Owner wishes to go out of busi-
ness. Address R. H., care Michigan
Tradesman. 859 9
Bakery—I will sell my bakery with or
without property, a good chance. Write
to Raymond Riede, Apen, Colo. 854

 

Citizens’ Phone,

No. 94

F. M. QUICK & Co.,

Shoes and Dry Goods.

 

out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce your stock.
| Write for information. C. L. Yoat & Co.,
577 West Forest Ave.. Detroit. Mich. 2

A firm of old standing that has been

business for fifteen years
reputation as to integrity, business meth-
}ods, etc., is positively established, de-
sires a man who has $5,000 to take an
j active part in the store. This store is
|a department store. Our last year’s busi-
|ness was above $60,000. The man
| understand shoes, dry goods or groceries.

| in

| be a man of integrity and ability.

dress No. 571, care Michi

Ad-

571

| The person who invests this money must |}

 

| For Sale—Farm implement business,
established fifteen years. First-class lo-
|cation at Grand Rapids, Mich.
|or lease four-story and basement brick
| building. Stock will inventory about
| $10,000. Good reason for selling. No
|trades desired. Address No. 67, care
Michigan Traaesman. _ or .

|
|
| Wanted—Will pay cash for an estab-
io profitable business.

 

r shoe store, stock of general merchan-

dise or manufacturing business. Give
full particulars in first letter. Confiden-
tial. Addres3 No. 519, care Michigan
Tradesman. 519

 

Will consid- |

Nashville, Mich., “**

Cash for your stock—Or we will close

| care Michigan

and whose |

must |}

Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St., Grand Rap- |-
| ids. 835
For Sale—Good up-to-date stock of

|} ern Michig:
| Michig:
Will sell |

Staple and Fancy Groceries,

   

es “A

 

hotel,
near Petoskey

For Sale—Fourteen room

new
and newly furnished, Fin2
| trout fishing.
account of poor health. Address No.
Tradesman.

601,
501

Chicago. 887 |

of ny

 

For Sale—480 acres of cut-over hard-
wood land,
sonville. House and barn on premises.
Pere Marquette Railroad runs across one
corner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.

 

ee od : | general merchandise; store building; well
gan Tradesman. | established business.

Stock will inven-
Located in hustling North-

an town. Address No. 744, care

an “Tradesman. 744

Restaurant—Finest stand

tory $3,000.

| W.

| county

| kins

| our
stock |

| & Sons Milling

| Mich.

| good country

| man.

| best town

| macist

| goods
| must be

Immediate possession On |”

| position
three miles north of Thomp- |

| cutlery

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. 646

 

For Sale—A 25 horse-power steel hori- |

zontal boiler. A 12 horse-power engine

| hundreds

with pipe filtings. A blacksmith forge |
with blower and tools. Shafting. pul-
leys, belting. All practically new. Orig-

Will sell for $600.
50 Ma-
537

inal cost over $1,200.

Address B-B Manufacturing Co.,
sonic Temple, Davenport, Iowa.

 

Rubber Culture in Mexico. Safe and
profitable. Good opportunity for large or
small investors. Creates increasing in-

come for life and longer. Address Ch: arles

Calkins, Grand R apids, Mich. oe
For Sale—A fine bazaar stock in a
| lumbering town in Northern Michigan,

Good reasons

at once. Ad-

Greyling, Mich.
606

seat. Price right.
for selling. Must be sold
dress Rogers Bazaar Co.,

Attention,
wheat mills and
one of the finest
State; elevator
Station
together

Kor Sale—Flour, feed, buck-
elevator at Wasland;
mills of its size in the

and feed mill at Hop-
and Bradley, Mich.; will

or separate; all are first-

paying busine s and buildings
machinery in Beak dane condition;
fast-increasing business in this city
is the reason we want to dispose of our
outside mills at a bargein. Henderson

Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

735
I desire
residence,

Will divide

Address J. Aldrich
Holmes, Caseville, Mich. 848
For Sale—Bazaar stock $4,900 te $5,000.
Building and barn $1,100 cash. Land and
lots to trade for farm. “Foor Health,”

care Michigan Tradesman. &E2
For Rent or Sale—Two-story
building, also small stock of goods.

sell cheap. Address Box 387,

sell
class
and

 

On account of failing health,
to sell my store, merchandise,
two small houses and farm.
to suit purchaser.

brick
Wii
Portland,
860
Trade for small improved
and stock of groceries at
location. Everything new.
No. 850, care Michigan Trades-
850
2,500 will “buy a good “‘gen-
merchandise locate d in the
Michigan. Business paying

For Sale or
farm—Building

Address

 

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eral stock of
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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

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.,

Me smpnis. Tenn. 736

POSITIONS WANTED.

Registered phe irmacist de:
Single, 27, five years’ experience.
Can furnish excellent references regard-
ing and ability. Ad-

character, habits
dress No. 890, care Michigan Tradesn:an.
890

by registered phi el
years’ experience as
of retail drug stores.
Want lots of work and good wages. Ad-
dress Lock Box 214, Marion, Mich. 893
Wanted—Position as bookkeeper or
stenographer with wholesale shippers
preferred. Address Competent, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 903
Wanted—Position as salesman in retail

sires ‘position.

 

age

~ Wanted—Position
of twelve
clerk and proprietor

hardware store. Have had ten years’
experience. Address Box 367, Kalkaska,
Mich

 

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HELP WANTED.

 

lesman_ “Wanted—Experienced dry
salesman who can do trimmir};;
good salesman and stock-keeper;
one from medium sized town who wants
position in city of 15,000. State salary.
Address He rbert N. _Bush, Flint, Mich. 915
Wanted at Registered | clerk to
take charge of drug stock in country
neral store; good wages and steady
for right man. Telephone or

write, stating wages

and experience.
Arthur Steere, McBrides, Mich. 918
es Men—New

Traveling thing staple;

unique method; carry pocket; 1: >

commission. Address M. Wood,
Chicago. ¢

Wabash Ave., (
Wanted—Salesmen to handle our table
to hardware and

as side line
bazaar trade. Goods are quick sellers
commission liberal. Rodgers Bros. Cut-
lery Co., Muskegon, Mich. son (C,
Wanted—Drug clerk with
perience. Address Drugs, care
ir adesman.

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AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS»
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auc-

Cc F erry the hustiing
tioneers. Stocks closed out or reduced
anywhere in the United States. New

methods, original ideas, long experience,
of merchants to refer to. We
have never failed to please. Write for
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
pash Ave., Chicago. References, Dun’s
Mercantile Agency. 872

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Some Annoyances Which Attend
Co-Operative Distribution.

Ishpeming, Oct. 3—It is expected
that the Scandinavian Co-Operative
Society, which has conducted a gen-
eral mercantile business here for the
past six years, will soon be dissolved,
and that the stockholders, or at least
two-thirds of them, will organize a
stock company, continuing the busi-
ness at the old stand and under the
present management.

The stock company idea was sug-
gested by John Eman, the manager,
who thinks that the stockholders will
be better off with the proposed new
organization than they are under the
laws governing the Co-Operative So-
ciety. The proposed company will
be formed under the Michigan liabil-
ity laws, with a capital stock of $30,-
ooo, divided into 6,000 shares, at a
par value of $5 each.

Since the failure of the Finnish
Co-Operative Society about a year
ago many who have money invested
in the co-operative stores have less
confidence in that plan than they
had previously. About the time of the
failure the demand for a refund of
money invested by the stockholders
was greater than the Scandinavian
Society could afford to meet. All it
possessed for the support of the en-
terprise was the money invested. If
all were allowed to draw out their
money the foundation of the concern
would fall away. Finally the Board
of Directors decided to defer pay-
ments until such time as the financial
condition of the Society was improv-
ed, there being a clause in the by-
laws by which the Board had this
right. The excitement soon subsided
and conditions resumed their normal
state. There was a slight falling off
of receipts, due principally to the fact
that a number of customers had mov-
ed away. This caused a further cur-
tailment on the part of the manage-
ment, resulting in a most satisfactory
showing in the statement at the
two subsequent meetings.

The proposition to dissolve the
old Society and reorganize as a stock
company, to be known as the Ish-
peming Store Co., started another
period of excitement among some of
the stockholders. Many of them call-
ed at the store demanding an explana-
tion, and asking for their money. As
Manager Eman produced his books
and statements, showing that the pro-
posed move would be beneficial to
all concerned and that a number of
the shareholders had already signed
an agreement for the change they
gradually began to fall into line. Up
to yesterday 160 of the 260 stockhold-
ers had signed. Among the signers
are most of the Society’s heaviest
shareholders.

Under the laws of the State the
Co-Operative Society can be dissolv-
ed as soon as two-thirds of the stock-
holders agree to the change. Mr.
Eman is certain that more than that
number will sign the list. As soon
as the required number of signatures
have been secured an organization
will be perfected, and steps will be
taken to buy in the stock of merchan-
dise and real estate at a sale to take
place later. Any stockholder, or any

 

party of stockholders, can bid at the
sale. If the stock is bought at seven-
ty-five cents on the dollar the stock-
holders not included among those
favoring the change will be paid off
on a basis similar to that represented
in the purchase price.

Some of the shareholders are so
well pieased with the new plan that
they have agreed to invest more
money than they have in the present
organization. Under the co-operative
plan the shareholder who has $300 in-
vested has no more to say than the
man with $5. Each has but one
vote. Under the new organization a
shareholder will have one vote for
each share of stock he holds. Thus
it is thought that the affairs of the
company can be handled more satis-
factorily than is possible under the
present plan.

According to the last financial
statement, issued in July, the Society
is in good condition. Its stock of
merchandise inventoried $17,823.01,
and the accounts receivable footed up
$7,825.17; the cash on hand was
$849.49. Several other items, includ-
ing real estate, horses, wagons, fix-
tures, etc., brought the total to $40,-

038.04. The liabilities were: Capitai
stock, $26,345; accounts payable,
$4,623.38; notes payable, $2,515;
bonds, $3,020; interest and dividend,
$212.82; personal accounts payable,

$310.67; surplus on hand, $3,011.17.

The Society skipped its last semi-
annual dividend, it having been deter-
mined by the Board of Managers that
the earnings might better be applied
to the payment of -outstanding ac-
counts. The annual dividends paid
prior to the last semi-annual meeting
have amounted to 5 per cent., while
the reductions in the liabilities will
show that the earnings have been be-
tween 15 and 20 per cent. Mr. Eman
figures that under the new organiza-
tion the dividends will be even larger.

——_.--2—__
Detailed Review of the Grain Market.

The wheat market has been com-
paratively quiet the past ten days.
While fluctuations have been sharp
at times, the range in values has
been narrow, covering a spread of
about 3c per bushel.

Exports of both wheat and flour
are light.
basis. Cables command very little
attention. Our domestic markets, ad-
vancing or declining as the case may
be, are entirely independent of the
foreign situation.

Taking into consideration the facts
set forth from the official figures of
this crop, as compared with last year,
we have a deficiency of practically
105,000,000 bushels of wheat in the
United States this year. From a sta-
tistical standpoint we have not a
bushel of wheat to spare for export,
and the few millions already sent out
of this country will have to be re-
placed by importations.

The exports from the United States
and Canada of both wheat and flour,
figured as wheat, since the first of
July have been, according to Brad-

street’s, about 19,000,000 bushels,
as compared with about 40,000,000

bushels for the same. period last
year. On the other hand, the visi-

We are above an export,

 

ble supply, as given by the same
journal, is only about one million
bushels less than last year.

There is a good demand for choice
old corn and the cash market has
shown an advance of 2@3c per bush-
el in ten days. The bulk of the new
crop has matured and was not hurt
by frosts. There will be some poor
corn in the northern tier of states,
but the bulk of this corn is used for
home consumption and is not put
upon the outside markets.

The trade in oats has been rather
lighter than usual. Farmers have
been busy with fall work and re-
ceipts at country points have been
light. Prices are practically un-
changed.

The new bean crop is coming for-
ward in fine shape. The bulk of the
crop has been harvested and is under
cover. The quality is fine, the beans
are white, even in size and unusually
free from colored beans. There has
been a fairly good demand for both
prompt and deferred shipment, No-
vember and December shipments be-
ing at about 5c per bushel discount.

L. Fred Peabody.
a
Gas Company Purchased by Grand
Rapids Men.

All of the bonds and $92,000 of the
$100,000 capital stock of the Cheboy-
gan Gas Light Company have been
purchased by a syndicate of Grand
Rapids gentlemen composed of C.C.
Follmer, Guy W. Rouse, L. T. Wil-
marth, Erank T. Halswit, Ralph
Child, Howard Thornton and E. A.
Stowe.

The bond issue will be increased
from $50,000 to $75,000, but only $50,-
ooo of the bonds will be issued at this
time, the remainder being reserved
for future extensions and improve-
ments. The amount of the capital
stock will not be changed. The offi-
cers of the new corporation are as
follows:

President—E. A. Stowe.

Secretary—Guy W. Rouse.

Assistant Secretary—Ralph

Treasurer—L. T. Wilmarth.

The company began furnishing gas
to the consumers of Cheboygan Sept.
1 and already has about sixty cus-
tomers. It is expected that this num-
ber will be increased to 150 consum-
ers before snow flies. The plant is
located at the head of navigation on
Cheboygan River and a dock will be
immediately constructed, on which
coal may be gotten in by cargo, in-
stead of by rail, as heretofore. The
company owns five miles of street
mains and one of the best and most
modern gas plants in the country, the
construction having been conducted
under the personal supervision. of
Fred W. Freese, of Ft. Wayne, who
enjoys the reputation of being one
of the best gas engineers and gas
works constructors in the United
States. Mr. Freese will remain with
the company for several weeks in an
advisory and managerial capacity and
will probably purchase a block of
stock and consent to act as one of
the directors.

About twenty Cheboygan business
men are already stockholders in the
company and an opportunity will be
given others to acquire stock on an

Child.

West.

 

advantageous basis. At least two di-
rectors will be selected from among
the Cheboygan contingent and prob-
ably the Vice-President of the cor-
poration will be located there.
The company has numerous exten-
sions and improvements under  ad-
visement and will undertake to make
the plant the most complete of any
plant of its size in the State.
Se eee
Detroit—The Detroit Bent Goods
Co. has been organized with $25,000
capital stock, of which $2,500 has
been paid inin cash. The stockholders
are William C. Duffers, Detroit; John
Hartnett, Elihu Wigle, John Wigle,
Andrew W. Davidson and John Hart-
nett, trustee, Windsor, and Albert L.
Fox, Walkerville.
—_—_> 22> —_—_.
Detroit—The McDonald-Sheeran
Cigar Co. has been organized witha
capital stock of $10,000, of which
$7,500 has been paid in in property, the
new company taking over the D. A.
C. Cigar Co. The stockholders are
Robert McDonald, James E. Sheer-
an, Edward Totte and Henry Totte.
ee
Leroy—Frank Smith has purchas-
ed the grist mill property here of
the administrator of Marilla E. Hugh-
ston and will continue the business
under the style of the Leroy Milling
Co. Additions and improvements to
the amount of about $1,500 will be
made by the purchaser.
ee
Detroit—The American’ Electrical
Heater Co. has filed notice of in-
crease of capital stock from $50,000
to $115,000. Of this amount $100,000
is common stock and $15,000 prefer-
red stock.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Only Cigar and billiard parlor
in town of 6,000. Doing good business.
About $2,000 needed. Reason for selling,
sickness. Will exchange for part prop-
erty. Address No. 919, care Michigan
Tradesman. 919

For Sale—-Small manufacturing  busi-
ness in best town if 10,000 in Michigan.
This business is free and clear and pays
60 to 70 per cent. on capital invested.
Will inventory about $4,000. Will bear
strictest investigation and is an excel-
lent opportunity for a moderate sum to
afford an excellent income. Address No.
920, care Michigan Tradesman. 20

 

 

 

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS.

J. L. MecKennan & Co., ‘The Hoosier
Hustlers,”’ the noted merchandise auction -
eers, carry the largest book of refer-
ences of any firm in the United States—
now selling $8,000 general stock at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa. For terms and reference
book, address Box 457. 9

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 terms and
date. The Globe Traders & Licensed
Auctioneers, Office 431 E. Nelson  St.,
Cadillac, Mich. : 445

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 hundreds of merchants and
the largest wholesale houses in the
_ Write us to-day for further _in-
formation. J. H. Hart & Co., 242 Mar-
ket St., Chicago, IN. 871

To Exchange—80 acre farm 3% miles
southeast of Lowell, 60 acres improved,
5 acres timber and 10 acres orchard
land, fair house, good well, convenient
to good school, for stock of general mer-
chandise situated in a good town. Real
estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
dence solicited. Konkle & Son, in”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mich.