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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1904

Number 1100

 

 

WID DICOMB BLDG. GRAND RAPIDS,
DETROIT OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, DETRO'T.
Sarat Diels y AGAINST
aie ane Ahrens ACCOUNTS”
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Collection Department

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

Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, ef-
ficient, responsible; direct demand
CoHections made everywhere—for every

trader. Cc. B. McCRONB, Manage.r

We Buy and Sell
Total Issues
of
State, County, City, School District,
Street Railway and Gas

BONDS

Correspondence Solicited.

NOBLE, MOSS & COMPANY

BANKERS

Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich,

 

 

Willlam Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, Ist Vice-Pres.
William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres.
Mm. C. Huggett, 8ecy-Treasurer

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING
MANUFACTURERS

28-30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Fall and Winter line for all ages on view.
Overcoats immense. Mail and phone
orders promptly shipped. Phones, Bell,
1282; Citz.,1957. See our children’s line.

 

IF YOU HAVE MONEY

and would like to have it
BARN MORMB MONBY,
write me for an investment
that will be guananteed to
earn a certain dividend.
Will pay your money back
at end of year if you de-
sire it.

Martin V. Barker
Battle Creek, Michigan

Oe

Have Invested Over Three Million Dol-
lars For Our Customers in
Three Years
Twenty-seven companies! We have a
portion of each company’s stock pooled in
a trust for the a of stockholders,
and in case of failure in any company you
are reimbursed from the trust fund of a

successful —e- The stocks are all
ew

withdrawn from sa ith the exception of
two and we have never lost a dollar for a
customer.

Our plans are worth investigating. Full
information furnished upon application to
CURRIE & FORSYTH
Managers of Douglas, Lacey & Company
1023 Michigan Trust Building,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page
2. Cool Weather and Glove Trade.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
7. Wirdow Trimming.
8. Editorial.
9. Changes in Book-Keeping.
10. Gems of Thought.
12. Meat Market.
14. Butter and Eggs.
15. New York Market.
16. Clothing.
20. Woman’s World.
22. Girls in Candy Factory.
23. Dress Goods for Autumn.
24. State Pomological Society.
26. Degeneracy and Insanity.
27. The Will Cure.
28. The First Billionaire.
36. Good Roads.
32. Fish as Food.
33. Sheep Without Wool.
34. Shoes.
36. Men of Mark.
38. Dry Goods.
40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.
43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery Price Current.
46. Special Price Current.

 

 

 

PREVENTION OF DISEASE.

A few days ago in the Internation-
al Congress of Military Surgeons,
held at the St. Louis World’s Fair,
Major Louis Seaman, a medical offi-

 

cer of the United States Army, pre- |

sented some most important facts
he had learned in a personal and pro-

fessional inspection he had made of | : i :

in : : i service of any other army or nation,
the Japanese military hospitals since | i ! i
| which is a matter of the very great-
lest importance,

| food

the present war has been going on.

Speaking of the hospitals at New-
Chwang, when he had visited them
in August he declared that in the
medical wards, distinguished from
those in which surgical patients were
treated, among all the thousands
gathered in those institutions scarce-
ly a baker’s dozen came under
head of diseases of the digestive sys-
tem.

“Conspicuous by their absence,” he
continued, “were cases
operations for appendicitis, hernias,
floating kidneys, cholectomies, etc.
Indeed, during the entire summer I
have not seen a single hernia or a
laparotomy. The Japanese soldier
has been taught how to treat his in-
testines, and consequently his intes-
tines are now treating him with equal
consideration. His plain, rational
diet is digested and assimilated. It
is not an irritating, indigestible, fer-
menting mess, acting as a local irri-
tant and producing gastritis, duodeni-
tis, enteritis-colitis, hepititis and the
long list of inflammatory intestinal
processes with which we were allso
familiar in the hospital wards at Al-
ger Camp, Chattanooga, Tampa, Cu-
ba, Puerto Rico, Montauk Point, etc.,
in 1898.”

Although this statement, so far as
the nonprofessional reader is con-
cerned, is made obscure by the tech-
nical terms, it is easily understood
that there was a remarkable absence
of the diseases so common among

requiring |

the |

|

 

soldiers exposed to great havichies
in unfavorable weather, and compell- |
drink and eat
wholesome food, while those internal
disorders common |
among our people who live at home |
in peace and comfort, and which are |
so generally treated by cutting open
the human body and
otherwise manipulating the

ed to bad water un- |

Which are so

removing
delicate |
interior organs, were comparatively
unknown among the Japanese sick.

or |

All the soldiers of the United |
States who served in the Spanish |
War in the camps in this country |

and in the field in Cuba and Puerto |
Rico doubtless remember the un-
wholesome and unpalatable food ma-
terial supplied to the army and char-
acterized by General Miles as “em-|
balmed meat,’ and the great amount
of sickness pervalent among the
troops. Every man who has_ ever
seen service in the field as a soldier |
knows how much suffering was en-
tailed upon the men by the too often |
unwholesome nature of the food furn-
ished to them and quite as often by
the failure of the commissary train
to arrive on time.

It is said that the supply depart- |

ment of the Japanese Army is more |}

thoroughly organized than is that

bat above all, the!
served to the Japanese |
soldiers is of the most wholesome |
and nourishing material compounded |
to give the best results in strengthen-
ing the soldiers for their severe serv- |
ice, and at the same time to main- |
tain them in health.

ration

All civilized people should learn |
lessons from the experience of the |
Japanese, not merely for military
purposes, but for the preservation of
health. It is certain that our course |
of living, and chiefly eating and |
drinking, brings on many diseases,
and that they could be prevented by |
a wise alteration of our diet.

The Japanese subsist largely on
rice and other vegetable products |
and dried fish, and are very sparing
in the use of liquors. It is entirely |
possible that a bill of fare which is|
best for them might not be so well |
suited to our people, but as. they |
have found out what is best for them,
we might also discover what would |
be best for our health. This might |
be established by experimenting with
our ordinary food and drink, leaving
off what seems to disagree with us.
The fact that the Japanese have suc-
cessfully solved the problem of |
health in diet should spur on our}
people to make similar discoveries.

NEPAL RNR A COATT

 

Doing things by halves is like |
planting something and then forget- |

ting to water it.

| channel.
| there to make trouble.

| lars.

| That is far the easier way.
|ing of the bridge it is interesting to

iment to

| worth of

There is not another twenty.miles
of any sea trip which has seen’ so
many seasick people as the English
The currents run_ right
The journey
is a short one, but to most people is
exceedingly unpleasant. Several prop-
ositions made for a tun-
nel from Dover to Calais and the va-
rious estimates of cost range all the
way from fifteen to fifty million dol-
The greatest depth of water
at this point is only 169 feet and it
would be entirely practicable to build
a tunnel low enough down to be
If the United States
was on one side, the tunnel would
be under way before this. There has
always been some talk of erectinga
bridge, but the cost of that would be,
much greater, being calculated at
from 140 to 180 million dollars. The
piers would be a menace to naviga-
tion, even if the road surface

have been

perfectly safe.

were
far enough above the water to allow
the tallest rigging to -pass beneath.
The tunnel would be exceedingly
popular and get all the patronage.
In speak-

note that before such a_ structure
could be erected it would be neces-
|Sary tO get an international agree-

which, besides England and
the United States, Japan,
Holland, Germany, Rus-
sia, Sweden and Norway would have
to be parties.

Prance,
Belgium,

 

The partisan papers are busy these

| days charging the other side with un-

fair practices and especially bringing
accusations of what goes by the name
of “fat frying.” This is the phrase
supposed to be descriptive of the
methods employed in raising money
for campaign purposes. Of course
the candidates are all assessed, but
their ‘contributions are a mere baga-
telle to the actual requirements.
Campaigning is costly and the na-
tional committees of necessity usea
lot of money. Just now each side
charges the other with getting money
from the corporations and in return
giving promises of kindly legislative
and executive treatment. All _ this
talk is simply the pot calling the ket-
tle black. Neither side is above get-
ting money from any source it can
and both sides are at it as busily as

|they know how and the more they

can extract the better they are
| pleased.
een
Out of every thousand dollars’

manufactured articles pro-

| duced in the United States about 29

sold to
home

worth is
the

cents’ foreigners

at less than price. ‘The

|reduction, when made, is usually for
| the

purpose of
Or to

catching new trade
dispose of surplus stock. In
either case, the American
man is benefited.

working-

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Cool Weather Makes the ilies |dectivat are defective, due to trim-

Trade Active.

The recent cold snap directed the
attention of the trade, both retail and
wholesale, to the need of complete
preparation in lines of winter mer-
chandise. A few orders were receiv-
ed through the mail immediately, and

the very active merchants hurry as-
sorting orders upon the first appear-
ance of broken assortments. Most
merchants, however, will wait a few
days or until they begin to receive
requests for merchandise which they
are out of. One of the first lines
to feel the effects of cold weather is
the glove stock. Every prospect is
for a good sale of handwear this sea-
son.

Most merchants find the selection
of holiday goods not the easiest of
their duties. Occasionally a mer-
chant will be found who says that
he does not bother with holiday
goods. That merchant is the excep-
tion, however. And the chances are
that his store is quiet both before
and during the holidays. The sug-
gestion is offered that merchants
carrying glove stocks add a few boys’
and misses’ kid gloves. The possi-
bility of making sales for presents
exists at the end of the season, while
many sales can be made during the
weeks and months that lead up to
Christmas. As a general rule, the
line of juvenile gloves is kept in first
class stores only. The popular de-
partment stores are adding them
now, however, and they should be of
interest to leading glove dealers
everywhere.

Kid gloves are made to fit chil-
dren one year old. That is pretty
close to a baby. They are cut broad
in both the hand and the fingers to
admit the child’s fingers without too
much effort. A child’s muscles are
soft and lax, which requires consid-
eration in selling and fitting. This
allows a merchant to sell gloves that
need not fit snug. Indeed, an out-
seam glove for women is not fitted
as snug as it used to be. Manufac-
turers now cut both the fingers and
hands broader than they formerly
did in this class of gloves. They are
broader and heavy—hence called
mannish. For driving and _ similar
pleasures the outseam glove is often
of easy fit. Reverting to juvenile
gloves, it may be stated that the same
line will sell to either boys or girls.
And it sometimes happens that a
woman with short fingers can best
be fitted in the boys’ and _ misses’
glove stock. Try it some time.

Caution is once more urged about
heavy domestic gloves ordered for
this fall. The strike at Gloversville
caused trouble which is not over
yet by any means. Manufacturers
are having any amount of trouble in
securing sewers. They can get all
the cutters they need, but the sewers
are a minus quantity. Some glove
factories are running only half time
in the cutting department, because
of the inability to employ enough
sewers. Incompetent help means
that some of the output will be ir-
regular. In fact, some lots already

mers serving as sewers.

The fall season has not advanced
sufficiently to determine what the
most popular colors will be in kid
gloves. It is pretty well assured,
however, that certain shades will be
much stronger than others. Just now

: ithe colors which will probabl be
more are expected this week. Only | ae ca a “cis ‘ou
: : ’ ’

and modes. While no pronounced
demand has been received for any-

one or all of these shades, enough

| interest has been centered in them

 

to confirm the statement that they
will be the best sellers. It will re-
quire a few weeks before anything
definite can be determined regarding
the pre-eminent colors. The enquir-
ies for blue deserve more than pass-
ing consideration. The city stores
will almost class blues to-day, par-
ticularly navy blues, as one of the
staple colors. A dark navy blue isa
regular seller with them. Kid glove
importers are receiving many _ re-
quests from customers to match cer-
tain shades of blue dress materials.
This is proving that out-of-town mer-
chants are having enquiries for navy
blue kid gloves. These mail en-
quiries are for single pairs only and
indicate that most out-of-town mer-
chants do not care to add an as-
sortment of navy blue kid gloves;
they exercise wisdom in not doing so.
There are not enough sales in this
color to warrant putting in a line of
sizes, unless the town is large. Such

needs can be supplied by mail for.

the ultra and extreme colors.

—_~+2—__
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is firm at unchanged price.

Morphine—Is steady.

Quinine—Is unchanged.

Carbolic Acid—Is very firm atthe
advance.

Balm Gilead Buds—Are scarce and
higher.

Russian Cantharides—Are still ad-
vancing.

Cod Liver Oil—Has advanced on
account of higher prices abroad.

Lycopodium—Has again advanced
and is tending higher.

Sassafras Bark—lIs very scarce and
high.

Juniper Berries—-Stocks are very
large and prices will be lower.

Oil Peppermint — Is_ unsettled.
Buyers and sellers are wide apart.
Distillers maintain high prices, while
buyers are looking for a decline.

Oil Anise and Oil Cassia—Are both
higher in the primary market and
have advanced here.

Oil Lavender Flowers—Crop has
been seriously affected by dry weath-
er and prices have advanced.

Oil Wormwood—Has advanced
and is tending higher.

American Saffron—Has again ad-
vanced. Stocks are small and ina
few hands.

Gum Tragacanth—Has advanced
and will be higher.

Goldenseal Root—Very high price
has advanced Goldenseal prepara-
tions. We note another advance of
25c per pound on Lloyd’s Hydrastis,
to take effect November I.

Blood Root—Is scarce and prices
are very firm.

Linseed Oil—Is dull and weak.

BALDWIN & CO.

Manufacturers’ Agents
TOLEDO, OHIO

Crockery, Glassware,
Lamps, Burners, Etc.

$4.50 per set
5.25 per set
5.00 per gross
5.00 per gross

100 Piece Plain Print Dinner Set, - -
100 Piece Handsome Decorated Dinner Set,
Decorated Oat Meals, - - - -

Decorated Bread and Butter Plates, - -

We have the best assorted package of decorated goods in America
to retail for 10 cents each—53 dozen in a package—80 cents per dozen,
net $42.40. No charge for package.

One line Gold Band Tumblers,
Two line Gold Band Tumblers, - -
Sold in barrel lots only.
In 5 barrels or more special prices.

35 cents per doz.
40 cents per doz.

No. 1 Sun Common Burners, 30 cents per doz.
No. 2 Sun Common Burners, 40 cents per doz.

Our assortment of Fine Jugs (or pitchers) in colors for $10 per
gross is great value and a big seller.

Pleased to quote you prices on anything in China, Crockery,
Glassware, Novelties, etc.

BALDWIN & CO.

 

 

 

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more thorough and convincing
manner than in

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It is made to please, and that it does so, under
the most trying circumstances, is evidenced by the
many words of praise to be heard on every hand.
When you want the best

YOU WANT OURS

Voigt Milling Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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AROUND

THE_STATE

5 >

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Schoolcraft—E. L.- Mosher will
shortly open a jewelry store here.

Cheboygan—Fred Steiner succeeds
Steiner & Reiger in the meat busi-
ness.

Calumet—Skelly & Co. have re-
moved their headquarters to Chica-
eo, TL

Detroit—John E. Voelkner, grocer,
is succeeded by the John E. Voelk-
ner Co.

Hastings—Geo. Newton has engag-
ed in the jewelry business on his own
account.

Howell—Walter Burke has sold his
implement and harness stock to H.
M. Brown.

Colon—Ray Arnold, formerly of
Port Huron, has engaged in the drug
business here.

Mayville—Geo. F. Dimond, prod-
uce dealer, is succeeded by Geo. F.
Dimond & Co.

Cass City—Neil Livingston has
purchased the restaurant business of
James Perkins.

Au Gres—Henry Reid, grocer, has
failed, with assets of $6,000 and lia-
bilities of $10,000.

Belding—W. C. Sheldon, Jr., has
sold his confectionery stock to Geo.
O. Tooley & Co.

Pontiac—Eugene Lawson and L.
D. Allen have purchased the Jay
Niles meat market.

Filion—Oliver Clark has purchased
the grocery, feed and produce busi-
ness of Desire Filion.

Ann Arbor—Rinsey &  Seabolt,
wholesale and retail grocers, are suc-
ceeded by Rinsey & Kyer.

Plainwell—James N. Hill, who re-
cently sold his grocery stock to J. A.
McRoberts, has repurchased it.

Spring Lake—Aloys Bilz is suc-
ceeded by Bilz & Slingerland in the
furniture and hardware business.

Midland—Cooley C. Anderson,
hardware and harness dealer, is suc-
ceeded by the C. C. Anderson Co.

Alto—E. Davis & Son will short-
ly place a bazaar stock in the store
building they are erecting at this
place.

Chesaning—August Bauer, who has
been for some years engaged in the
clothing business here, is closing out
his stock.

Holland—H. J. Fisher has sold his
drug stock to Geo. Lage, of Kalama-
zoo, who will continue the business
at the same location.

Bangor—B. K. Howell & Co. have
sold their grocery stock to Albert L.
Seebeck, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Union City—J. L. Mellor has sold
his stock of groceries to Geo. E. Bell,
who returned recently from a_ six
months’ stay in Seattle, Wash.

Mt. Pleasant—Jay Hart and Geo.
Hudson have formed a copartnership
and engaged in the grocery business
under the style of Hart & Hudson.

Detroit—F. L. Hyde and Marion
L. Hyde have formed a copartnership
under the style of the F. L. Hyde

 

 

Co. and engaged in the fur, umbrella
and linen business at 18 John R
street.

Tekonsha—Morse & Toland, who}

kave been engaged in the clothing
business here for a few months past,
will shortly open a clothing store in
Albion.

Kalkaska—-B. H. Ketzbeck & Son,
general merchants at this place, will
engage in general trade at Rugg as
soon as a store building can be
erected.

Allegan—Harry C. McAlpine has
sold his meat market to Herman C-.
Konkie and Charles Renick, who will
continue the business at the same
location.

Fountain—F. W. Reek has sold his
general stock to Samuel Burns and
Byron Rockwell, who will continue
the business under the style of Burns
& Rockwell.

South Haven—W. B. Reynolds has
purchased an interest in the Crown
drug store and will assume the man-
agement of the business in conjunc-
tion with Myron Wakeman.

Sunfield—-Harry Mapes, formerly
of the firm of Deatsman & Mapes,
has formed a copartnership with F.
N. Cornell, the Sebewa general deal-
er, to engage in the clothing and
furnishing goods business here.

Flint—Hoyt & Co. have merged
their dry goods business into a stock
company under the same style. The
capital stock is $10,000, all paid in.
Geo. R. Hoyt holds 600 shares, S.
W. Hoyt holds 399 shares and Jno.
G. Hoyt holds one share.

Sault Ste. Marie—Max Schoene-
man has leased a store in the New-
ton building and will open a new
clothing store about Nov. 1. Mr.
Schoeneman has been head clerk in
the Boston Store for the past year.

Ann Arbor—Lindenschmitt & Ap-
fel, clothiers and furnishers, will
hereafter be known as Lindenschmitt,
Apfel & Co. T. H. Corbett, who has
been employed in the store the past
ten years, has been admitted as a
partner.

Traverse City—John Fitch and E.
R. McCoy have formed a copartner-
ship under the style of Fitch, McCoy
& Co. to handle potatoes, hay, grain
and feed. The firm has purchased
the Keeney & Son warehouse, near
the G. R. & I. depot.

Howard City—J. W. Neumann &
Co., of Indianapolis, have purchased
the Pere Marquette potato warehouse
here and will make this a shipping
point. Cook & Collins, who have
been using the warehouse, will erect
a stone building for warehouse pur-
poses.

Detroit—R. Hirt, Jr., has enlarged
his produce building from 33x50 to
33x130 feet in dimensions. The ex-
tension is two stories and basement,
the same as the original building.
The enlargement has enabled the
owner to fit up a handsome office and
put in a fire-proof vault.

Iron Mountain—Margaret A. Sei-
bert has merged her drug and book
business into a stock company, under
the style of the Seibert Drug Co.
The capital stock is $6,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in—$4,500 in stock and $1,500 in cash.
Samuel Cudlip furnished the cash.

 

 

Bay City—-The retail grocers of the
city held a meeting for the purpose
of forming a permanent organization.
Charles Leikert was made tempor-
ary chairman and F. E. Tucker Sec-
retary. After some discussion of the
aims and objects of the organized ef-
fort an adjournment was taken until
October 19, when a permanent or-
ganization will probably be effected.

Adrian—Arthur _ S.

Baldwin has |

 

purchased the business of the Union |

tea store and will assume
ment Nov. 1. Mr. Baldwin has been
a resident of this city for tle past
eleven years, and for six years has

manage- |

been an attache of the Page Fence}
| been organized with a capital stock

Co.’s plant, beside putting in one
year, prior to going with the Page
people, at the Church Manufactur-

ing Co.’s plant.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The American’ Folding
Bed Co., Ltd. has filed a notice of
dissolution.

Detroit—The Morgan, Puhl &
Morris Co. has changed its name to
the Detroit Regalia Co.

Romeo—Thomas Mellon has _ pur-
chased the cigar manufacturing busi-
ness of F. Jordan and will continue
the business.

Cheboygan—M. D. Olds has taken
possession of the Nelson & Clark

sawmill, which he purchased a few|

days ago. The plant is still in opera-
tion.

Lansing—-The Weisenborn Wire
Fence Co. has been organized to
manufacture and sell wire fence. The
capital stock is $10,000, all subscribed
and paid in in property.

Three Rivers—L. J. Bickart, whose
flouring mill was burned at Leslie a
few weeks ago, has decided to locate
here, where he has been given a
good bonus.

Wooster — The Crystal Lake
Creamery Co. has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $2,000, of
which $1,000 has been subscribed and
$500 paid in. The stockholders are
Henry J. Redder, Henry Boeskool
and Gerrit J. Rotman.

Detroit—The Detroit Woodoleum
Co. has filed articles of association,
with $25,000 capital stock, of which
$6,500 has been paid in in cash and
$5,000 in other property. The stock-
holders are W. C. Beckwith, John A.
Wilde and Charles H. Lutz.

Holly—W. B. Nicholson will short-
ly engage in the manufacture of ex-
press wagons, air rifles and cultiva-
tors under the style of the Nicholson
Manufacturing Co. A new cement
building, 28x80 feet in dimensions,
will be erected for the purpose.

Cedarville—The sawmill of FR.
Haynes & Co., which has been idle
a number of years, will be operated
next season, the firm having purchas-
ed 1 tract of land timbered with pine,
hemlock, spruce and cedar which will
keep the mill in operation two years.

Pontiac—The Freeman Stamping
Co. has been organized to manufac-
ture and sell articles made from tin.
The capital stock is $10,000, of which
$5,560 has been paid in in cash and
property. The stockholders are John
Freeman, W. J. Brown and Josephine
C. Freeman.

 

 

Detroit A. t. Bees CB. Law-
rence, T. B. Williams and A. B. Du-
rant have organized the Perfection

Safety Elevator Floor Co. Patents
are controlled covering an_ attach-

ment which drops a steel and asbes-
tos door at each landing as the ele-
vator goes up or down.
Walkerville—The Walkerville Mill-
ing Co. has been dissolved by the
retirement of H. C. Schull, who will
succeed to the
hereafter conducted by the firm. Mr.
Gleason, the other member of the
firm, continue the grist
business under the same style.
Amy—The Amy Lumber Co. has

 

mercantile business

will mill

of $30,000, of which $22,500 has been
subscribed and paid in in property,
to carry on the sawmill
The stock is equally divided among
Chester R. Freeman and J. Frank
Dunning, of Pontiac, and James Gee,
jr., of Amy.

Detroit—The sale of the Simonetta
File Works, set for Monday, has
been indefinitely postponed, and the
stockholders are now trying to make
a new deal by which additional capi-
tal can be secured and operations re-
sumed.

business.

They believe there is a good
thing in the business if conducted
on business methods.

Sagola—The Sagola Lumber Co
has decided to at once build an addi-
tion 25x100 feet to its planing mill.
Three machines for the manufacture
of hardwood flooring will be install-
ed. A warehouse 40x80 feet, in which
maple flooring will be stocked, also
will be built. The company is re-
ceiving 40,000 feet of logs daily in
excess of the consumption at the
mill, which averages 50,000 feet a
day. The daily shipments of lum-
ber average 100,000 feet.

a
No Chance To Learn.

The family was planning at the
breakfast-table to attend, later in the
day, the funeral of a deceased neigh-
bor, but Isabel, aged 6, was, very
much to her distress, to be left at
home.

“But I’ve never been to a funeral,”
the little girl pleaded. “I want to
go to one just dreadfully.”

“Never mind, sis,” said the little
maid’s brother, consolingly, “ per-
haps you can go to your own some
cay.”

“Well,” flashed Isabel, indignant-
ly, “if I don’t have a little practice
I sha’n’t know how to behave even
at that one.”

—_+~—___

Some women can’t tell the differ-
ence in being girlish and being kit-
tenish.

 

 

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upon receipt of our direct de-
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M. E. Towne, formerly engaged in
general trade at Carson City and
Hartford, has re-engaged in general
trade at Carson City. The Worden
Grocer Co. furnished the grocery
stock.

S. Orwant & Son, some of whose
customers were garnisheed last week
by Geo. F. Cook, of Grove, on an al-
leged account for $203, have tendered
$160 in settlement of the claim. The
offer has not yet been accepted.
Other creditors have been taken care
of during the week by payments in
cash and check—sometimes by checks
dated ahead and payable in the fu-
ture. Orwant & Son claim that, not-
withstanding the losses they sustain-
ed during the spring floods, they have
2,500 to the good and that this
amount is ample to meet all of their
outstanding obligations and cover
any possible which they may
sustain on their eggs in storage.

loss

The first annual meeting of the
Master Bakers’ Association of Michi-
gan will be held in this city next
Tuesday, convening at 3 o'clock p.
m. at the Pantlind Hotel. The meet-
ing will be presided over by Robert
Morton, President of the Morton
Baking & Manufacturing Co., of
Detroit, who is generally conceded to
be the logical candidate for President
of the organization. In the evening
a banquet will be tendered the vis-
itors by local bakers in the banquet
hall of the Pantlind. The post pran-
dial programme is in the hands of
Benjamin F. Witwer, of Kalamazoo,
which is ample assurance that it will
be both varied and interesting.

The John Widdicomb Co., which
furniture at its
main plant and sewing machine tops
at the Kent plant, will discontinue
the manufacture of tops and utilize
the Kent plant hereafter for the pro-
duction of cheap and medium grade
chamber furniture. A dozen years
ago there were several factories at
this market making cheap furniture—
notably the Luce Furniture Co., New
England Furniture Co., Kent Furni-
ture Co.—but the peculiar conditions
which existed here at that time com-
pelled the abandonment of that field.
It has long been a cherished theory
with Mr. Widdicomb that Grand
Rapids ought to be able to furnish
anything required by the average
furniture dealer, which would render
it unnecessary for him to shop
around among outside manufacturers
to complete his purchases. It is
largely in pursuance of this theory
that Mr. Widdicomb has decided to
devote the Kent plant to the manu-
facture of cheap and medium grade
goods. A full line, comprising about
twenty patterns, will be ready for the

inspection of the trade in January.
—_—--- >a

Detailed Review of the Grain Mar-
ket.

The wheat market has been rather

steady for the past week, covering

manufactures fine

 

 

MICHIGAN

a range of about 3c per bushel. Cash
wheat to-day is selling at practically
the highest point on the crop, while
options are bringing $1.12@1.13, or
6c off from top, with December at
1%c over May. There is a good de-
mand for both wheat and flour, pra-
tically all for domestic markets. Ex-
ports of flour are light. Prices to
be had on the other side leave very
little margin for the manufacturer or
exporter. The Northwestern mills
have had a comparatively strong run,
with a ready demand, even in ad-
vance of their output. The free move-
ment of wheat continues to come
East from the coast, and the re-
ceipts at Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Duluth are heavy, while in the
Southwest wheat has been
very slowly. It is very seldom that
the mills of this country are able to
import wheat from the North and
pay an import duty of 25c¢ per bush-
el, but such is the case at present.
There is quite a movement of choice
milling wheat coming into the United
States at present from Manitoba and
at a fair profit to the unporter.

The demand for choice old corn
continues strong and prices have ad-
vanced 2@3c per bushel. New corn
is beginning to move slowly
the Southwest, but it is still soft and
unfit for milling. It is hardening up
rapidly, however, and will soon be
ready for shipment. The weather is
very favorable and, with a crop of
2,400,000,000 bushels practically in
sight, futures are largely discounted.

Oats are moving a little more free-
ly and prices are somewhat easier.
The visible supply is increasing at a
good rapid rate and there seems to
be little inclination to buy much in
advance of present needs. Oats are
certainly low as compared with other
coarse grains and will go into
sumption very rapidly.

L. Fred Peabody.
—__+-~<-___

Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market for country hides
is strong with slight advance on
light hides and skins. The country
kill is small from excessive  ship-
ments of low priced meats from
stock yards. Tanners despair of ob-
taining hides at less value and are
forced to buy to keep running. Sales
have been large from packers and
country hides are sold ahead. As
colder weather sets in the kill will in-
crease and lower values are looked
for.

Pelts have sold freely at an _ ad-

moving

con-

vance and are in good demand.
There is no accumulation.

Tallow is easier and lower, with
large sales at shaded prices. A furth-

er decline is looked for, and country
stock is dull of sale and lower.

There is no market nor wool to
make a market in Michigan. East-
ern markets show a firmness, with
some advance in price.

Wm. T. Hess.
—_—_+-<-—__

David Holmes, manager of the
mercantile department of the
Mitchell Bros. Co., at Jennings and
Stittsville, passed through the city
Saturday on his way home from Mt.
Clemens, where he had spent a week.
He was accompanied by his wife.

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TRADESMAN

The Grocery Market.

Tea—Low-grade Formosas have
advanced Ic per pound on this side,
because of strong cables from For-
mosa telling of advances there. The
general feeling in tea is healthy and
steady.

Coffee—Manufacturers of package
brands have been heavy buyers for
some time past, but it is understood

they have now got their holdings up |

to their desired limit, and will not be
important factors as buyers for some
time to come. The improved tone
may encourage heavier buying by the

average dealer. Local jobbers con-
sider the general situation satisfac-
tory.

Canned Goods—California canners |
have withdrawn from sale second
Royal Ann cherries, second water |

3artlett pears, gallon extra standard |

peeled sliced apricots, gallon Royal
Ann and gallon extra white cherries.
White standard Bartlett pears are
advanced toc and gallon extra stand-
ard apricots are
dozen.
new features.

that ample supplies will
when wanted.
light production in certain
have proven misleading, but it looks
now as though this condition would
have little, if any, effect upon future
values.

Dried

show up

Fruits—Peaches are un-

advanced 75c¢ per | likely to be a revival of cotton grow-
Corn and tomatoes show no}

|
i Jobbers are not wOr-| there on a considerable scale on the
rying over the prospects, believing |

Some reports of a}
districts |

 

 

    

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rather mixed. The Trust is asking
about 20c more per case than the in-
dependents. The spot demand is
light, however, since deliveries are
now proceeding. There seems to be
no doubt now that sardine deliveries
will be full. Cod and haddock are
still high and firm at ruling prices.
The demand is only fair. It is quite
likely that the main cause of the re-
cent advance is. speculation, since
only a short time ago the stocks were
ample, and the demand since has
not been phenomenal.
oe
Cotton To Be Grown in Many Coun-
tries.
The high price for cotton has en-

| couraged the revival of the cultiva-
| tion of that staple in many countries

cotton, but
which had to abandon the industry
because of the cheap price. Besides
the efforts being made in the Eng-
lish, French and German

which formerly grew

colonies,
the Dutch are now growing cotton
in Java. Even in Palestine there is

ing.

Up to 1866 cotton was grown
belt from Gaza to Tyre, 100 miles
long and five to twenty miles broad.
The export from Palestine during the
war averaged 20,000 bales. The Pal-
estine cotton is inferior to that of
Egypt, being shorter; but it is in-
digenous to the soil and flourishes,
whereas cotton from foreign seed can
only be grown successfully with ex-

changed and quiet, because so high.| pensive irrigation works.

Seeded raisins are in light demand at |
Loose are about | Beet Sugar Crop in Excess of Last

unchanged prices.

|

in the same position. The bad weath- |
er on the coast has undoubtedly done |

great damage to the crop and_ it

seems to be impossible to ship for |
| 1903-04 in Austria-Hungary, Germany

the present until a new batch of rais-

ins can be gotten through. One heavy |
element of damage was to the raisins |

in the driers.
reasons are refusing to quote.

Many holders for these |
Apri- |

cots are unchanged and firm. Prunes |
are selling with fair activity, usually |
| were exported 1,724,000 tons, or 336,-

at advances from the lowest point,
but prices are not at all
among the different holders.

Syrups and Molasses—Sugar syrup

is in good demand for manufacturing |
The grocery demand is |

and export.
light. Prices are unchanged. Mo-
lasses is slow and unchanged. In
spite of some damage to the growing
cane crop by dry weather the com-
ing molasses crop will still be much
larger than last year.

Fish—Salmon is unchanged and
dull. New herring has not yet re-
ceded from the opening high price,
as the receipts are still small. Ocean
whitefish is scarce and unchanged.
Shore mackerel shows no. change.
Prices have not advanced, as there
is little or no stock to advance on.
One large Gloucester concern’s stock
report shown during the preceding
week shows only about 400 pounds,
which is only a fraction of last year’s
stock. Norways are a little strong-
er, although not quotably higher.
The demand is fair. Irish mackerel
weakened still further early in the
week, but recovered somewhat later
in the week. Larger receipts seem
to be the only explanation. The de-
mand is fair, The sardine season is

uniform |
| season

 

 

—__~-.— >

Year.
The organ of the Central Union
of the beet sugar industry, in dis-

cussing the results of the season of

and France, reaches the conclusion
that the net production in these
equivalent to
3,892,000 tons of raw sugar, an in-
crease of 236,000 tons in comparison
with the preceding There

three countries was

season.

ooo tons less than in the preceding
a diminution
excessive exportation in the later
months of the season of 1902-03,
partly to the increased importation
of colonial sugar into England.
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Preparing for the February Meeting.

Lansing, Oct. 17—The Retail Gro-
cers’ Association has under consider-
ation plans for entertaining the Re-
tail Grocers’ Association of Michi-
gan, which will meet here in Febru-
ary. David Glenn has been elected
Secretary of the local Association, in
place of Hayes Wells, who resigned.
The grocers propose to entertain the
State organization with the best the
city affords and on an elaborate scale.

—_——_2--» ___.
The Low-Priced Hat.

Wife—I bought the loveliest hat

frame to-day for only 48 cents.

 

Husband—That is_ certainly rea-
sonable.
Wife—I should say so. And now—

Husband—Well, what now?
Wife—I want you to let me have
$20 to buy the trimming for it.
—_—__» +.
The rounds of pleasure are
quently dizzy paths.

fre-

due partly tom

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

TOP-ROUND

Retails $3.50 and $4.00
One Dealer in Each Town--Free Advertising

 

+ +

Guaranteed Spring
to be Styles
The Best Ready
on the Send for
Market Salesman
for the to
Money 3 Call

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One of our Stock Styles—No. 102—Prince Blucher, Corona Patent Colt
Box Kid Top, Single Sole, Potay Last.

Send for Catalogue.

 

We do more for our agent than sell him a bill of goods. (We
help him sell them.) Send for information and catalogue. Price is
only $2.50 a pair after discount is off, and we give ALL LEATHERS

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Prevalence of Brown Shades in Lo-| . i
| tive of cold weather comforts—flan-

cal Store Windows.

This is certainly a brown season.
Everything runs to that color, in
men’s, women’s and children’s gar-
ments, including even the knit under-
wear. Soon, instead of falling into
the doleful dumps of a fit of the
“blues,” we shall simply drop intoa
“brown study.”

Brown is a good serviceable color,
and the many, many tints and shades
of tints are beautiful, but I fear me
we shall get very tired of “that
same” before Winter gets weary of
“lingering in the lap of May.” Every
store shows the goods.

ee

Starr & Gannon have a creditable
display of Hawes stiff and soft hats
in brown and black, also underwear
in the prevailing brown. These peo-
ple never seem to commit the error
of crowding their windows and al-
ways have something of _ interest
therein. I do not like the large-fig-
ured ties they have in the sidewalk
showcase, but they are likely to find
favor with those whose taste does
not run to the quiet.

- = *

Steketee has a striking background
in the parrot shades of green
red. I went across the street to get
a different view of the elaborate pat-
tern from that distance, and it seem-
ed to me that the scrolls look top
heavy. When the paper chrysanthe-
mums and
these same scrolls the effect
much more pleasing.

In the west window are six hand-
some pieces of cloth bearing the fol-
lowing card:

was

Mohair Prunellas
Extra Values
$1 yd.

These are all plain goods. I am
ignorant as to whether they come fig-
ured. The colors are blue and red,
medium brown and seal brown, dark
Nile green and gray. They look very
pretty in the piece but as if the col-
ors would fade; but if Steketee says
they won’t, they won’t, that’s all! I
have yet to hear of this old-establish-
ed firm’s misrepresenting goods in
the slightest particular.

Ruchings, medallions and accord-
ion plaiting are meeting with favor
in the way of trimmings, both alone
and in combination with other con-
ceits. Jetted black lace (in the form
of “circular” lace, “all-overs” and sep-
arable trimming) and lace with white
net for the background, with a pat-
tern worked out in iridescent sequins
and silver-lined beads, are popular
with the trade and are seen in the
next section of Steketee’s west win-
dow. An entire dress of either of
these light-appearing but _ really
heavy goods is simply magnificent.
Either one made up over pearl-white
silk makes an elegant evening gown.

 

| template
and | mila : ‘
|exhibit, and that is the uncertainty

It is really more attractive than any
amount of mere silk.

The next window contains nothing
bat fancy collars, to retail at 25c.
Here ruchings at the upper edge form
part of the ornamentation.

The entire east window is sugges-

nelette nightrobes, men’s fleeced un-
derwear (the colors of which are
gray, baige, dark mode, fawn, red,
blue and salmon pink—surely enough
to choose from) and the card accom-

panying the articles in the extreme |
| by. Spencer, Brown & Co.

right of the window

them as:

proclaims

Fall Wearables

for
the Children.
* *k x

I am glad to see an effort being
made by more than one Grand Rap-
ids business house to push the fine
goods of our own country.

The dainty gold and white card
which catches the attention the
handsome display of cut glass in one
of Herpolsheimer’s front
reads like this:

Productions
From the Best
American Factories.

Old rose velvet (or you might call
it a dull petunia) is tastefully draped
over the glass shelves that support
the different pieces and along the
floor. This heightens the richness
of the ‘sparkling cut glass. There is
one most unpleasant feature to con-
in this otherwise perfect

in

windows

one feels in regard to the proper bal-

|ancing of the articles on the glass
shelves, which are placed on oak
pedestals. In the center of each shelf

the broad white taffeta §
i : : : Or
ribbon were used in conjunction with | \ a ee
| designated the “candlestick.”

| glass shelves are, in reality, a teeter,

is a tall heavy vase and this serves
what, in children’s parlance, is
These

|and you feel an uneasiness, in con-

|templating it, as

 

to whether either
end may not be too heavy and dire
consequences be the result. If I

owned that exhibit I wouldn’t want |

to tempt Fate “thataway,”’ as they
say in Dixie Land!

The dove-colored suit, the golden
brown one with the touches of bril-
liant orange and the champagne suit
with the lattice work of green vel-
vet ribbon in the “baby” width are
notable examples of what beautiful
creations may be purchased in ready-
to-wear merclrandise.

woe €

You remember I referred recently
to Foster, Stevens & Co.’s use of
their name at the bottom of a win-
dow card. I note that Herpolsheimer
has adopted the same method. Also
Steketee this week makes a similar
employment of their name. I have
not asked any of them in regard to
the innovation, but, as I said before,
I am of the opinion it is to save
transients the troublement of cran-
ing their necks for the sign over the
door.

——_+-.____
Recent Business Changes
Indiana Merchants.

Bringhurst—Hinkle & Snyder,
dealers in agricultural implements,
are succeeded by Hinkle & Woods.

Among

 

Correct—F. E. Poulter has
chased the general
Day & Livingston.

Hebron—Smith & Lewis have sold
their general stock to Crawford &
Miller.

Muncie—W. L. Little, hardware
dealer, has merged his business into
a stock company under the style of
the W. L. Little Hardware Co.

Petroleum-——Carl Cotton has
continued the meat business.

Russellville—Spencer & McCutch-
en, hardware dealers, are succeeded

pur-
store stock of

dis-

Spencer, Brown & Co.

South Whitley—S. Weimer & Son
are advertising a closing out sale of
their general stock.

Stone Bluffs—Stuart Bros.
purchased the agricultural implement
business of W. D. Coffing.

Terre Haute—Jay Mace, grocer, is
succeeded by Reynolds & Mace.

Van Buren—Hamrick, Whitecotton
& Co. have purchased the general

 

stock of Wm. L. Duckwall.
, Elkhart—The Lakeside

 

| five-eighths inch wide, is used.

Co., of Michigan City, has moved its
entire plant to this place, and the
plant will commence operations this
week. Between 400 and 500 women,
girls and boys can get employment.
CR te
Lampblack Used for Fuel.

Lampblack is now being used for
fuel, and is burned in a manner simi-
lar to that employed in disposing of
breeze. A grate bar having slots
one-half inch wide in three sections,
each eight inches long, and spaces

The

llamp black is allowed to drain be-

fore being burned and is mixed with
heavy tar and the partially consumed

|and coked lampblack from the ash-

| pit.
have |

It contains 30 per cent. water

when ready for firing. When thor-

|oughly dry the lampblack is ascrib-

|ed a heating value of 14,200 b. t.
| per pound.
| lampblack

u.
Sixteen pounds of dry
are produced with each

| 1,000 cubic feet of gas made.

a
A lie is a labyrinth the builder of

Knitting | which never gets out.

 

 

 

 

OUR LARGE FALL AND WINTER
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CHICAGO, ILL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GET AFTER THE MEN

Sell them one pair of gocd shoes and they’ll
always come back for another pair.
the kind of trade that pays.
shoes that make such trade is the

BRADLEY & METCALF

$2 NULINE $2
GOODYEAR WELTS

We make them in three leathers—Velour,
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.

‘‘Where Quality is Paramount”
201 East Water St., MILWAUKEE, WIS.
Try “Our One Day Mail Order Department” for service.

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The Michigan Tradesman has been
published for twenty-one years with-
out change of editorial or business
management. It is said to be the
oldest trade journal of its class in the
West. During the above mentioned
time seven trade papers have started
and died in Detroit and four have
started and died in Saginaw. In the
1904 issue of the American Newspa-
per Directory the publisher of the
Tradesman asserts that during 1903
no weekly_issue was less than 7,000 |
copies and the same circulation as-
sertion is maintained since 1899.—
Printers’ Ink.

FAMILY PRESERVATION.

The General Council of the Protes- |
tant Episcopal church, assembled at |
Boston, was engaged much of the}
time last week in considering the
subject of divorce.

The canon of that church forbids |
any minister of its service to per-|
form a ceremony of marriage be-|
tween any persons either of whom |
had been previously divorced, unless
such divorce was granted on account |
of the marital infidelity of one of the |
parties. In such case marriage would |
be allowed to the innocent party of |

 

the divorced couple. |

The Catholic church decrees that |
there may be no marriage of a di-j
vorced person so long as the other |
member of the couple remains alive.

Other religious denominations fol-
low generally, but not invariably, the |
rule of the Episcopal church. Inthe}
eyes of the civil laws of the United
States marriage is a civil contract,
and the ceremony may be performed
by any civil magistrate, while mar-
riages may be dissolved by the civil
courts. The laws sanctioning divorce
are different in the different States.
In some, as in South Carolina, it is
extremely difficult to secure, while in
others, such as South Dakota, almost
any pretext is a valid excuse for dis-
solving the marriage tie.

The object of making the marriage |
relation the subject of many legal |
safeguards and sanctions, and sur-
rounding it with religious ceremonies
and benedictions, and making the
parties to it come under special ob-
ligations is for the protection of the
family and the conservation of the
morals of society. Plato, one of the

 

tion whic

wisest of the Greeks in what has been
denominated a heathen age, deploring
, On account of the low

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norality and the looseness
hat held wedded pairs
1 conduced to
of selling

f which

the evil

   

iad become exc
all children sh

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d cared for by the
ic asylums and regarded

as children of the state.
His plan was never adopted, be-

it desirable to protect and preserve
their offspring so that they might in-
and probably there
in many cases no lack of affec-

drew parents to their chil-

 

   

was

dren. But there is no question that
the abandonment of children inthe
Grecian cities had Become so great

an evil that the statesmen and phi-
hers of that period believed that
relief was necessary.

Gre in the height of its intel-
republic.

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lectua istinction, was

hereditary

a
There were no

degrees |

and ranks of dignity among its peo-|

ple, nothing but material
that could be handed down to chil-
dren, who were in many instances
burdens and clogs to their parents.
The family, as an institution, did not
cut a very serious figure in their so-
cial and political system, and it never
did among any people who did not
have rank, station, privileges, powers

|or something of value that could be

transmitted to posterity.
While the Jewish commonwealth

existed, and before there were any

property |

| all doubts and difficulties, and if such

kings and princes among the people, |

there was an hereditary priesthood
handed down from the of
Egyptian captivity,
doubtless tended largely to
the sanctity of the family,
insure the rightfulness and surety of
the succession. In other nations
where kings, princes and others held
hereditary rights and _ privileges
which they could transmit to their

time the
the fact
establish
SO as 10

and

| posterity, the protection of the fami-

ly became an important care, and the
Old English laws are filled with

provisions to safeguard those rights.

In this great Republic of ours we
have nothing that we can hand down

to our children save material wealth, |

and probably the greatest
have little of that.
pend a great deal on sentiment to

numbers |
Of course, we de- | :
| social morality is becoming a subject

keep up the family life, and it is a|
well-known fact that among the poor- |
er classes of the honest people the |

is nota-
In the same way the

affection for their children
bly strong.

| that—it destroys the family and fam-

standard of family morality is high. |

These two characteristics make
rule for the American people general-
ly. Family life in the United States
is in the main of an admirable type.
Religion, in addition to the noble and
pure sentiment it creates, also exer-
cises, through the sanctions and obli-
gations it established, great moral
restraining power.

a i

| zation realized at different

Nevertheless, among what are con- |

sidered the highest social classes

 

 

these sanctions and obligations are |

manifestly growing weaker.

The |its noble sentiment and its idea of

| gree of the disorganization of

teachings of science are dispelling |
what are now called unworthy super- |
stitions, while the accumulation of |
vast wealth has created a leisure class |
which has no object in view and no |
other means of employing the men-
tal and physical faculties of its mem-
bers, than in the pursuit of pleasure.
Feeling themselves above human reg-
ulation, and probably no longer be- |
lieving in the existence of any di-|
vine authority and laws, they appear
to have little regard even for the
ordinary social conventions of de-|
cency and propriety.

In this connection it was reported
some weeks ago with staring head-|
lines in some of the papers that there |
had been at Newport, the summer
gathering place of the multimillion-
aires, a house party in which there
dozen couples that had been |
twice married and had married a|
third time, and they were all divorc-
ed wives and husbands of other mem-
bers of the party, and in the com-|
pany were three young ladies, chil- |
dren of first marriages, whose moth- |
ers and fathers were present, mar- |
ried for the third time to other per- |

SOS.

were 2a

Evidently it was this sort of pro-
miscuity (that had aroused the}
churches on the subject. So far, no
remedy has been reached. If cler-
gymen will not celebrate marriages
of divorced persons, civil magistrates |
will and do. In the eye of the law/|
a judicial decree of divorce settles

a

a state of things should continue at

|the rate at which it is occurring, it |
| will work an extreme demoralization |
(in regard to the marriage tie.

It is not strange that at such a/|
juncture a radical thinker like George
Meredith, a poet and _ novelist of
some distinction, should have  pro-
posed that since marriage is a civil
contract, it be limited, like other con-
tracts, by time and conditions. At
the present time people are married |
until death or divorce do part them, |
but Meredith proposed that persons |
contract marriages for one, five, ten |
or any term of years, and that any |
violation of the contract shall not |
only terminate the relations, but sub-
ject the parties to other penalties.

Of course, such a proposition is not
seriously considered, but that it has
been made by a person of some ce-
lebrity, taken in connection with ex-
isting social conditions, shows how
of serious discussion. Any proposi-
tion that leaves children unprovided
for perpetrates a crime against these
innocents, but it goes farther than
ily life. It converts the association
of the sexes into a mere pursuit of
pleasure without any idea of duty or
obligation. To destroy the family is
to destroy the foundations of moral-
ity and religion, and, by consequence,
of the state.

But in the history of the world, de-
spite the extremes of social demorali-
periods,
matters have never reached the de-

so-

ciety. Sooner or later religion, with

 

analogy there were numerous
| dictions

|is more of general interest by

| time

| cotton
| this field would seem more favorable,
| but the spirit of waiting on the part

| pally for

spiritual authority and obligation, will
triumph and hold a large body of
the people to social virtue and hon-
esty. Society can not exist without

|some standard of right and wrong,
{honor and truth, with authority to

enforce its requirements. These have
always been present among menand
always will be.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The encouraging features of trade
noted last week are continued
nearly all Reasoning

in
from
pre-
of temporary setbacks in
the stock markets, but as yet the
upward course seems to run remark-
ably smooth on the average. There
the

lines.

| public than for many months past

and the volume of trading exceeds
a million shares daily, a most unex-

; pected condition just in the climax
| of

political activities. Temporary
setbacks are still freely predicted, but
that the upward course will meet no
very serious hindrances for some
to come seems to be conceded
by all careful observers. Indeed, so
gradual and general a resumption of
activity in all lines that have suffer-
ed from the reaction of past months
gives assurance for the future unless
some unexpected and unprecedented
calamity should transpire.

The slowest industry to come into
the procession of advancement is the

manufacture. Conditions in

of operators seems hard to
shake off. Cotton demand is princi-
export, domestic buying
continuing from hand to mouth.
Woolen conditions continue encour-
aging, with the exception of carpets,

Wery

|and other textiles are sharing in the

improvement. Boots and shoes are
still encouraging in all branches,
spring orders coming in with the

greatest assurance.

Steel and iron manufacture shows
better conditions than for
months past. The encouraging fea-
ture is that the improvement comes
all along the line. Not least

many

ch

| couraging is the demand for structur-

al shapes, which indicates that the
tide of building is going to keep up.
Then the demand for rails and other

transportation material shows that
the companies are coming into the
field with renewed activity in both

betterments and extensions.

Another encouraging feature of the
situation is the fact that the public
is ready to take hold of railway ex-
tension enterprises. For a long time
past few bonds have been offered, as
the tendency to reaction has kept
buyers aloof. The consequence has
been a cessation of railway extension
which seemed likely to continue. The
willingness with which sound enter-
prises are taken up indicates that
another era of extension is on hand
that with conservatism may be car-
ried far into the future.

LL TT

If you would climb into the heart
of a man, little sister, get you a

 

stepladder of flattery and persuade
him to let you prop it against his
ear,

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

9

 

CHANGES IN BOOK-KEEPING.

 

Duties More Severe Than Twenty-
five Years Ago.

Book-keeping in its relations to
business involves two of the giant
“Bs” of this age of materialism. As
an art the work of writing the his-
tory of business has progressed be-
yond the details of business itself.

“You may put it this way,” said an
old book-keeper of wide experience
who is now an auditor of accounts:
“improved methods in book-keeping
have savedthe head book-keeper of
the modern establishment 50 per cent.
of clumsy routine, while business ex-
actions over the business methods of
twenty-five years ago have im-
posed another 25 per cent. of new
routine upon him. Thus the
work of the book-keeper in an es-
tablishment doing a business of $r00,-
000 twenty-five years ago is 25 per
cent. harder to-day in a house doing
that same amount of business.

“One may wonder how improve-
ments in book-keeping may reduce
the work of the head book-keeper 50
per cent. and yet business leave him
25 per cent. more work; for a book-
keeper is a book-keeper and has been
since the perfection of the princi-
ples of double entry. The point is
here:

“Twenty-five years ago the book-
keeper was required once a year to
make a trial balance, showing profit
and loss. Perhaps he was so trusted
and the management of the place
so depended upon by the individ-
ual owners that the profit takers of
the business had no need to know in
what departments of an establishment
there were profits and where losses,
so the general profit figured at the
end of the year was enough. Then,
the customer of the establishment

was so close to the place and its

management that he paid bills un-
questioned, even if those bills were
three months old and submitted in
sum total. But nowadays both the
business house and the customers of
the house are imposing details upon
the book-keeper that could not have
been considered possible twenty-five
years ago.

“Largely it has come about through

the expansion of business and_ the
sharp competition that marks the
business of the great cities. The ex-

pansion of business means the en-
largement of capital stock and the
multiplying of individuals who must
invest in the stock and draw divi-
dends from it. These investors must
know what is done with their money.
As an institution grows to modern
dimensions it is not enough to assure
stockholders and directors that a rich
dividend is certain; they demand to
know whether a still larger dividend
is not possible if only the best brains
of the corporation may be brought
to bear upon conditions.

“In this matter it has come about
that in some of the great retail
and wholesome! businesses it is not
enough to show that the horse and
wagon department costs a certain
amount each year; through the sys-
tem of book-keeping those interested
in dividends must know what the
wagon repairs have cost, what is the

bill for horse-shoeing, and even know
in just what proportions oats have
been fed to hay at the barns.
“When the book-keeper has faced
these exactions of his employers, the
customer in turn attacks him on the

gard to bills.
send a bill to John Smith reading
‘To merchandise, $500,’ and Smith
would send a draft by return mail.
Nowadays Smith may get a bill for
one-tenth of that sum and the ex-
actions of business may necessitate
that the whole fifteen possible items
in the sum total be enumerated, de-
scribed, and the date of purchase
labeled upon tie bill.

“Tt is all logical. These changes
have been made necessary because of
the wide distribution of business, its
magnitude and sharp competitions.
i have known some
business houses, through head book-
keepers, to

to give in.

“Now, as to the book-keepers of
yesterday and to-day:

“They are the same officials in the
establishment, whether it was a busi-
ness of $100,000 twenty-five years
ago or a business of $1,000,000 to-day.
The difference is while the book-keep-

the whole system of books for the
$100,000 business the head _ book-
keeper of to-day has perhaps twenty
other book-keepers under him in or-
der to keep the accounts for the mil-
lion dollar business. At the same time
the head book-keeper is the one per-
son in the business establishment of
the present who has the rounded
knowledge of the firm’s business to-
day; his twenty assistant book-keep-

the books through which the lump
records of the business come to
him for final and systematic record.
“There is no difference between
the two head book-keepers in the
knowledge of book-keeping princi-
ples. Long ago, however, the
book-keeper kept in his cash book an

ness of the cash windows. If some
one might have remitted Io cents in
pstamps for the balancing of an ac-
count, the head book-keeper had that

To-day the head book-keeper of a
big corporation has no more idea of
such an individual item than he has
of a set of books two blocks down the
street. His assistants have handled
such things.

“Perhaps the letters of the alphabet,
as initials, have had to be cut into four
or five or ten groups in order for
cash-keepers to handle the receipts
and disbursements of a great corpo-
ration. Customers from ‘A’ to ‘C’
in many great concernscould keep
certain of these assistant recorders
busy in footing cash totals and turn-
ing them in to the head book-keeper.
The man who is doing this, too, is
utterly ignorant of the bearing of his
cash totals upon the cash totals of the
firm’s general cash book.

“The ‘loose leaf system’ in modern
book-keeping has done more for the
book-keeper than any other one thing
in the evolution of the work. A good

 

|

 

|

other side, asking ‘show me’ with re- |
Once a house might |

against this detail, but they have had |

er of a quarter of a century ago kept |

account of everything in the busi- |

 

protest and hold out}

 

| able leaves.

deal of mystery hangs about the sys- | tal by the assistant responsible for the

tem in the popular estimation.

initial letters in it and the head book-

“The time was when the ledger of a | keeper enters the results in his gen

business concern carried an account
with every individual account neces-
sary to a business. The volume was
stiff bound and unwieldy. It might

have had in those days 500 separate |

accounts in a $100,000 business. When
the volume was full it)became neces-
sary in opening the new one for each

|of these ‘live’ accounts to be trans-

ferred to the new volume. The old
letter index at the front of the book
was used in turning to an individual

account, and in each of these accounts |

there might be fifty entries before
the account was paid and closed, or

| before the folio was full and the live

account had to be transferred. Un-
der these conditions there were times

| when a ledger in use was four-fifths
old-fashioned |

full of closed and dead accounts, but
had to be lifted and turned and
searched for the remaining live ones.

“The loose leaf has changed this.

| When an account is closed it may be

lifted from the ledger and placed al-
phabetically in its proper place in a
dead ledger, yet indexed in such a
manner that it may be turned to as
easily as it ever was.

“But before the loose ledger leaf
is concerned, the same leaf has over-

turned some of the intricacies of ac- |

count keeping among the assistants

to the head book-keeper. For in-
stance in individual accounts the
loose leaf in the individual ledger

is perforated near the middle and
folded back upon itself until the per-
forated edge becomes the finger edge
of the folio made up of these mov-
The imsertion of a

| sheet of carbon paper between these
|folds and the passing of the doubled

ers are the cogs in the machinery of |

|account, the figures are entered and |

leaf into a billing machine allows the
filing of the ledger page in dupli-
cate for a period of thirty days.
“Back and forth into one of these
machines, day after day, as charges
and credits are to be made on an

| fall in duplicate in parallel columns
(on the other side of the sheet under

| this individual

the carbon. When the page is full,
the doubled sheet is inserted into the
ledger form, alphabetically, the folded
top is torn off at the perforations and
Lecomes a bill, duplicating the ledg-

stamp credit upon his cash book./ er page, while the ledger page itself

is filed as-a fixture. Once a month
ledger is footed in to-

eral ledger, which is loose leaved and
j still more elaborately indexed.

“The cash book is really a cash sheet
'with the assistant cash accountant,
and when the sums of these sheets
are entered by the book-keeper in the
general cash book, his book is made
up of loose leaves. But in ledger,
journal, or cash book, the accounts
are acccunts for the reason
that the dead ones may be removed
so easily and so safely to where they
may always be ready for reference.

“Of all the innovations in book-
keeping in the last twenty-five years
nothing has done more for the book-
keeper than this loose leaf. The car-
bon sheet in book-keeping is scarcely
ten years old, but in that time it has

| worked a revolution in our methods.
The billing machine is one of the
| wonders of the counting room, and in
some of the greatest houses in Chi-
cago a young man or young woman
| sitting at one of these machines may
render every bill that goes out from
the house.

“With it all it may be said that the
head book-keeper to-day has burdens
that the head book-keeper twenty-five

| years ago did not feel. It is no hard-
er for him to delegate an entry upon
a certain supplémentary book in his
jestablishment to-day than it would
have been for him to have entered it
himself twenty-five ago. But
details have been forced upon his office
work, and in the multiplying of these
through a multiplicity of supplemen-
tary books, his own cash book, jour-
nal, and ledger—whether loose leaf
not—becomes intricately in-
with other men’s work and
cther men’s folios that when an error
fias crept in and has to
be sought out, the responsibility for
the situation lies heavier with him
than it ever lay with the old-time
head man.

living

years

OT so

volved

somewhere

“As business grows and as accounts
are kept, methods must simplify. But
this simplification will not keep down
the steady increase in the number of
i in bringing to the
head book-keeper the aggregate mem-
oranda of the business, and as these
men increase in numbers the burden
of the head book-keeper must keep
pace with them.”

men necessary

Arthur Lambin.

  

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

 

Herman Randall.

Religion isn’t something to be
theorized or philosophized about. It
isn’t running after the name of Christ |
makes a Christian. It isn’t the man
who can talk most loudly, but the |
man who lives most humbly.

The essence of Christianity
righteousness.

The world’s need to-day is not loy- |
alty to any philosophy or creed, but |
loyalty to life. Life precedes _ phi-
losophy, for experience comes before
theory. I think ministers and others |
have made a mistake by reversing
the order of things. Jesus always |
works in strictest harmony with life. |

The essence of idolatry is the sub-
stitution of the symbol for the real-
ity.

It the |
head or bend the knee than to cleanse |
the heart. We need more
and love in the home.

The main thing, after all, is not)
worship—that is not the essential
thing. If you know that anyone has |
ought against you, stop your pray- |
ing and sacrificing and go at once
and get right with your fellow man. |
Your brother first and worship after-
ward. I can not think of anything
that would more revolutionize society
than if we would begin to practice |
the precepts of Jesus.

There are prophets who are_ to-
day, as in the past, leading the peo-
ple back to God.

Jesus Christ gave no new laws—
he did not originate the moral laws— |
he simply reaffirmed them.

He loved the birds and the flowers
and the people—and we read that
he wept—but we read nowhere that
he smiled. And some would have us
think that his was a life of sadness |
rather than of joy; but it is, in my
opinion, an erroneous idea, and I
wish that this conception of Christ
that has so long obtained might be
swept from the pages of Christian
history.

Extracts from Discourses by Rev. J. |

is

is sO much easier to bow

kindness |

People can endure anything, can
endure any kind of trouble, if only
somebody loves them. That was just
the work which Jesus did, showing
people that he had confidence’ in
them, that he loved them, and get-
ting people to love one another.

The soul never grows old.

We are not giving enough time |
to our children, and wives go wrong |
because husbands do not give them

 

years of growing life are the most
important. The nurse may be good
enough, but can never take the place}
of the mother.

A man needs to have faith in God,
but needs just as much to. have!
faith in himself.

There is no such thing as a self-|
made man in the true sense of the}
word. We are the recipients of the}
great legacy which has come down
to us, and can not be too grateful |
to our ancestry. One of the finest |
flowers of true culture is that of!
gratitude. The church, the school, |
the public library, all these and 3

the time they ought. Parents are)
not the absolute owners of their |
children, but their trustees. The first |
|
|

hundred other things combine to
make the man who has come up out
of poverty and ignorance.

Think of that cross of Jesus, which

lis the eternal symbol of man’s in-
| gratitude.
| I look with pleasure upon the
|movement to pension old age for
faithful service.

The whole universe, with all its

wealth, belongs to me.

There is no such thing as a prayer-
less life.

——_>-2 > ____
Over-Specialization’s Effect on the
Worker.

Our superstructure of modern busi-
ness is built upon the principle of
minute subdivision of labor and a
specialization of work, which,  car-
ried to the extreme, as it everywhere
is, produces pernicious results upon
the worker. To realize fully the
meaning of specialization in industry
and to see its effects one has only

to look into the lives of factory

workers in any of our great manu-

facturing centers. In these centers

| thousands of human beings grind out

a daily existence doing purely me-
chanical processes in which by spe-
cialization they have attained great
proficiency. None of them has a
whole trade, but a tenth, or a twen-
tieth, or even a hundredth part of
one, according to the amount of sub-
division of which his particular in-
dustry permits. In doing his frac-
tional part he sees neither the begin-
ning nor the end of the work; he
knows and is encouraged to know

| only the small part which he can

manage most dextrously.

A strict confinement to one or two
small processes hides the utility and
the true purpose of the whole, nar-
rows and degrades the worker’s_ in-
dividuality until his business life is
one monotonous, dull, uninteresting
grind. For this system the manufac-
turer is often blamed. He is
wholly at fault.
cheaply as possible, being forced to
do so on account of the competition
which he meets on every side and
the worker, who accepts conditions
as he finds them, is obliged to do so
on account of the pressure brought
to bear on him and the chaotic con-
dition of the labor market. “Society
through the markets coerces the indi-
vidual, narrows and distorts his in-
dividuality by enforcing specializa-
tion,” but going back still farther it
is the consumer who determines what
sort of work shall be done, and, as
the producer is also the consumer,
with him in part at least the matter
rests.

The results of specialization upon
the worker are manifold, and good
as well as bad.

comes from working daily and giv-
ing heed to business, the increase of

| power afforded by the application to |
and the accomplishment of a set task |

by the intensity and concentration
required to do a certain amount of

| work within a limited time, and by

the discipline of putting forth contin-
ued effort. Also the co-operation
necessary teaches man’s dependence
on man, consideration and toleration
of others; and finally, the mingling

not |
He manufactures as |

On the good side |
| we have the regularity of habit which |

with many people gives opportunity
of finding congenial companions and
having a wider social experience. All
these are things which, if not car-
ried to extreme, have a value to the
individual worker in forming habits
and character and in giving power
and efficiency.

Of the bad influences, first of all
the system reduces work to a dull,
monotonous routine. To illustrate
the effect of this monotony a social
worker of repute tells the story ofa
man of 34 who had spent his life
from earliest childhood in a factory,
his daily task being the lifting of the
arm of a certain machine. The work
was not difficult, but its deadly mo-
notony was sufficient to produce ut-
ter weariness. The thought of the
moving arm came to be with the
man day and night, almost driving
him to madness. He grew to loathe
his task, and from loathing that par-
ticular one, work in general, which
had associated with it, so far as he
was concerned, only the deadly mo-
notony of the factory. One morning
he rose possessed of the idea that
he could not go back to the shop. He
was not really sick, but utterly worn
out. At 34 his working energies
were exhausted, and there being
nothing else to do he turned tramp.
His is perhaps an extreme case, but
not so extreme that it is not, at least
in part, the experience of many.

In the second place factory work
brings great exhaustion and_ also

esses require arduous labor and near-
ly all are attended to a greater or
less degree with danger. With some
of the dangers from gases, poisons,
explosions and bad air science has
been able to cope, but not with all.
| Still so largely does this element of
risk of life enter that twenty-two dif-
ferent trades are specially designat-
ed as dangerous. In these in particu-

| due to disease and accidents, andas
the diseases contracted affect not
only the health of present factory
workers, but the coming generation,
the matter is one of serious moment.

A third bad effect is the apathy
which follows as a necessary conse-
quence of long hours of dull, monot-
onous labor. When people have no
time for anything but work to satis-
fy the barest necessities of life, how
can they help being indifferent to
less pressing matters?

From the social point of view the
gravest evil from this system is the
dependence which it engenders. In
the shop the worker gets accustomed
to having all planning and managing
done for him; he is required only to
make a machine of himself, and, hav-
ing acquired the habit, he carries it
outside the shop.

 

of interest in political, social, and
religious matters; a dependence upon
the leadership of some local magnate
for all initiative in such matters.
Pittsburg is a city in which this is
seen most pronouncedly. Instead of
the local self-government which our
|New England ancestors gave us asa
| precious heritage—the foundation
perenieie of our democracy—we have

much waste of life, for many proc- |

lar there is deplorable waste of life, |

| It manifests itself |
|in a lack of public spirit and a lack |

 

*

 

 

something widely different~from it,

something savoring of the paternal-

ism. These are but a few of the re-

sults of the factory system -of labor.
M. R. Gray.

—_++>—___
New Bank To Be _ Established
Alto.

Frank E. Campau, who has been
engaged in the mercantile business
at Alaska for the past twenty-eight
years, will shortly retire from trade
to take the management of a new
bank which he has succeeded in or-
ganizing at Alto, with the assistance
of John D. Morton, Assistant Cash-
ier of the Grand Rapids National
Bank. The new institutiom will be
known as the Farmers’ State Bank
of Alto. The capital stock will be
$20,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed by the following named per-

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waceo Monkle ....-.:........00 02... 100
a. -. oe 100
Ciirist Sclwawer: |... ..05.2.00.00 07. 100
Ciarence b. Miereanm ....2..05. 045. 100
Wara W. Presto... 100
BE. Davis & Som .........50. 0... 100
aumes A. Bush .........-.......2... 100
Ee 2) Pe 100
Beate Meise 8... 100
cc W. tee... 100
Olat Johnson ......... 100
Chas. A. Rollins 100
Osborn & Mrony ..-...2.20 00.4. 100
Wm. Themes ...... 100
Aahert Ti, Praser .................. 100
Esabelic & Mrasee ........ 0 ......... 100
The directors will be Frank E

Campau, Edson O’Harrow, John Q.
Watts, John D. Morton, Geo. E-.
Bartlett, John A. Ellis and Volney
C. Walton.

The officers will be as follows:

President—Geo. E. Bartlett.

Vice-Presidents—Edson O’Harrow
and John Q. Watts.

Cashier—Frank E. Campau.

The incorporation papers- will be
filed this week and business will be
begun as soon as a temporary loca-
tion can be secured and fitted up. A
permanent building, constructed of
either brick or cement, will be pro-
vided before the close of another
season.

Mr. Campau will continue his re-
lations with the State Bank of Cale-
donia—which he assisted in organiz-
ing about six months ago—as direc-
tor, Vice-President, chairman of the
Discount Committee and manager of
the mortgage loan department.

—_+~+-___

Theories are all right, but are of

little value until tests have demon-

| Strated that they are practicable. For-

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mulate your theories upon the most
reasonable bases, and then put them
to actual trial.

—_—_>-___
No house is dark in which a little
child smiles.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

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

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

EIGHTY-SLX DOLLARS, in small gold and silver coins of various denominations and
badly dilapidated bank notes, were rescued from this refuse.

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

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

 

service of the old cash-drawer.

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

 

 

 

TEAR OFF THIS COUPON AND MAIL TO US TODAY

 

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

 

EE non ai Ce
I own a store.
Please explain what kind of a register is best suited for my iia
business.
This does not put me under any obligation to buy. ates.

Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

rip inch Paci aad ce RO i Bain aR En ales

TRADESMAN

 

Mize
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Bacon.
Denmark and Canada are the great
the English market
for the highest quality bacon.

competitors in
of
They do not furnish all of it by any
means, for quite a considerable per
cent. of the English
from the Chicago Stock Yards, the
product of the well bred pigs g
ing from 150 to 175 pounds, and
about as fat as the purchasers of the
lard hogs like to have them when
they put them into the pen for a
six weeks’ finish. The best qualities,
however, and those which bring the
highest price, come from Canada,
from Denmark and from _ Ireland.
Prof. G. E. Day, of the Ontario Ag-
ricultural College, at Guelph, has
recently visited Denmark in_ order
to study the methods of production
there, and especially the method of
co-operative packing which has giv-
en the Danish bacon such a high
standing in the markets of the world.

He finds in comparing bacon in
the Smithfield market that Danish be-
con is remarkably uniform in quali-
ty and has a larger proportion of
lean to fat than even that sent from

bacon comes

Canada. This seems to be the re-
sult of two causes: First, uniform
methods of breeding; the establish-

ment of breeding farms of the large
Yorkshire hogs, and using the sires
from these farms on the ordinary
Danish hog, which is very similar to
the Yorkshire in body, bone and col-
or, but has a long, narrow head, very
light jowl, heavy, drooping ears, and

a light neck and shoulder, is of
strong constitution and an _ easy
feeder.

The second cause is the abundance
of skim milk and buttermilk which
is furnished by the dairies in that
country, for it must be remembered
that Denmark is a country given
over to intensive farming, every avail-
able foot of soil being under cultiva-
tion. For concentrates these hogs
grown on skim milk are given bar-
ley and oats, and in some sections
American corn.

The curing factories are mainly co-
operative, although there are inde-
pendent’ factories also in existence,
and the same method of disciplining
co-operators prevails there that pre-
vails among the co-operative eleva-
tors here. If the independent fac-
tory offers a higher price to the
farmer and he accepts it he is fined
from $2.50 to $3 for every hog he
to the independent factory.
Each man’s hogs are killed and grad-
ed separately, and he is paid accord-
ing to the price agreed upon for the
different grades, and the profit divid-
ed proportionately among the inter-
ested parties at the close of the
year.

Professor Day, however, finds that
it costs about 6 cents per pound, live

sells

weight, to grow hogs in that coun-|
that |

try, and he holds the belief

 

MICHIGAN

whenever hogs drop to less than 6)
cents per pound the Danish farmer |
will cease to be a competitor in the
world’s market. If hogs can not be|
for than 6 cents per
pound in Denmark the American hog
grower need not fear losing his prac-
tical monopoly in the world’s mar-
ets, so far as pork products are con-
farmer of the great

will furnish the
lard hog, because he can furnish it
cheaper than any other country in
the world, whether corn is high or |

1
i€SS

grown

7

cerned. The

cOfrm States

always

The sections outside the corn belt
will always produce the bacon hog
to the best advantage. The very fin- |
est bacon the world over is grown
outside the corn belt, for two rea-
sons: One, that the corn belt farmer
finds the lard hog more profitable;
and the other is because a large use
of corn makes a soft and inferior ba-
con. The Minnesota farmer grows
better bacon than the Iowa or Illi-
nois farmer, because he has a better
bacon food. He grows better ham
and better everything, not because
he tries to do so, but because he can
not help doing so. The same may
be said of the farmer in the alfalfa:
belt. He can not grow corn, but he
can grow alfalfa and wheat and bar-
ley, and wheat with alfalfa will pro-

duce better hams and bacon than
can be produced on corn. The best
bacon which we ever tasted, not

even excepting the best Irish or Dan-
ish, was grown in the mountain re-
gion of Kentucky, where hogs were
grown on bluegrass and clover and

fattened largely on mast, with a
very little corn to finish them.—
Butchers’ Advocate.

—_———_?--o--=——_———

Origin of the Pig—Advantages of
the Camel.

The three animals that are most
widely spread over the earth are the
cow, horse and the pig. These ani-
mals did not spread through their
own efforts, but were developed by
man, and gradually rendered adapta-
ble to practically every place where
man himself can live.

Cattle entered America simultane-
cusly with its discovery, for Colum-
bus introduced Spanish steers and
cows in 1493. In 1525 they were in-
troduced into Mexico, which offered
ideal conditions for them. From
Mexico they spread into Texas,
where the new conditions of range
and feeding developed a race of cat-
tle that became known as Texas cat-
tle, and these animals are typical of
the range bred cattle of America
now.

The pig had its origin in India, and
its first conquest was that of Eastern
Asia and the archipelagoes of the
Eastern seas. China fell an
victim to the love of the pig.

early
Rec-
ords show that the cultivation of the
grunting porker was a high art in
that land as long ago as 3,000 years
before Christ. One of the greatest
of the Chinese feast days is known
by the name “Pig.”

The Koran forbids the use of
pork, just as the Mosaic law does;
hence the pig is not raised in the

countries where the Mohammedan)
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Fresh Eggs Wanted

Will pay high+st price F. O. B. your station. Cases returnable.
C. D. CRITTENDEN, 3 N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Dealer in Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Produce
Both Phones 1300

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

 

 

 

HONEY WANTED

ALSO JOBBER OF BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE

HENRY FREUDENBERG

104 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Citizens Telephone, 6948; Bell, 443
Refer by Permission to Peoples Savings Bank.

 

 

 

 

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You Won’t Have Trouble

IF YOU BUY

Ladd’s Full Cream Cheese

We guarantee the best quality of goods, prompt
shipments and right prices. :
Manufactured and sold by

LADD BROS., Saginaw, Mich.

If not handled by your jobber send orders direct to us.
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If you are shipping five to fifty cases

FRESH EGGS

each week, we will buy them if price is right. Check day of arrival or after
exchange of references will honor sight drafts, Bill Lading attached.

L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers

 

36 Harrison Street, New York

 

 

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

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

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

Sawed whitewood

 

      
       
    

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

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

R. HIRT, JR.,. DETROIT, MICH.

oultry Shippers

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

William Andre, drana ceage, michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

law rules. But in all other parts of | well boxed goods command a Cite |

the world the porker is as popular
as the cow or the horse; and there
are aS many varieties of pig, due
to local causes and to different ways
of breeding in different countries, as
there are varieties of horses and cat-
tle.

It has always been a matter of
wonder to naturalists and economists
that the camel did not become as
widely spread as any of these three
animals in the course of its thousands
of years of existence as a domestic
animal.

The camel combines the advantages
of ox and horse as draught animal
and burden carrier; it is of high
food value; it gives excellent milk;

its demands in the form of food and |

water are exceedingly modest, and
its hair is of great value. While the
camel could not probably bear all the
extremes of climate that the horse
or cow can bear, it is by no means a
difficult animal to acclimate, as_ is
shown by the fact that it is used as

a draught animal in the colder parts |

of Siberia, on the Russian and Turke-
stan steppes, in the Himalayas, in
Africa and in Australia.

It is well known that wild camels,
which had descended from domestic
camels that had been turned loose,
were to be found in some of the
Western sand plains of the United
States until recent years, and occa-
sionally there are stories that a herd
of them exists in Arizona.

The dromedary is the plains camel,
while the beast with the two humps
is the favorite for mountain use. In
Sokotora the latter camel climbs up
steep steps hewn in the face of the
rock, and in all places where they are

used as mountain climbers they are |

almost as sure footed as mules.

Prscewalski, the Russian explorer, |
found wild camels in the worst}
mountain regions of Asia, in places |

so dangerous that the “human foot
could not find a hold.

—_~--2—__—__

Some Canadian Trade Methods Dis-
cussed.

“The Canadian High Commission-
er’s annual report, just issued, affirms
that during the past year the quality
of Canadian cheese has been uni-
formly satisfactory.

“There are, however, a number of
minor points that should receive due
consideration and attention at the
hands of those concerned, and among
these may be mentioned the boxing
of cheese, which, while greatly im-
proved as the result of repeated rep-
resentations, still leaves something
to be desired. One importer in a
large way of business reports that
it is still difficult to obtain boxes
in sound condition after the close of
navigation; in one shipment, out of
8,000 cheese, 55 per cent. had broken
and corded boxes.

“New Zealand shippers have been
sending their cheese for some time
past in strong crates, containing two
cheese, each crate being partitioned.
This method is favorably regarded
by many as being preferable to the
use of frail boxes, which are obvious-
ly not of sufficient strength to carry
the weight. There is no doubt that

price than those arriving in a dam-
aged condition, and it would be to
| the general advantage if all shippers
| were to follow the example of the
Ingersoll and Perth districts in ef-
| fecting a much needed improvement
|in this respect. As regards weight,
lit has been suggested that factory-
| men should allow at least one pound |
in the hundred when invoicing their
cheese, and that the importer should
have the benefit of such allowance, |
whether he buys direct from the fac- |
tory or through a recognized im-|
porter. |

“While waxing the coats of cheese |
serves its purpose insofar as loss in|
| weight is prevented before the re-|
itailer cuts it up, experience has |
| proved, so it is stated, that a waxed |
|cheese cut in halves will lose two}
pounds in two days. Moreover, the |
rapid emission of moisture has a|
bad effect on the curd and flavor.
For these reasons it is thought by
some that the custom should be dis-}
couraged. The stenciling of the|
| weights on boxes is regarded with |

saving disputes when the cheese ar-

ce

Some of the cheese from the
Brockville and Belleville sections ap-
pear to have been boxed too tightly,
i with the result that in turning out

The reason appears to be that the

| approval, and is especially useful in|
y

rives in broken packages. |

the cheese for the purpose of aver-|
aging, it has often been found neces- |
sary to knock the boxes to pieces. |

| product has been put into the boxes |

cause for complaint can, therefore,
be remedied without difficulty.
“Complaints have reached me from

before it has properly set, and this |

several quarters as to the selling of |

| July and August made cheese as|

adopted in giving greater care to the
early stages of curing have resulted
|in a much more uniform quality be-

‘September.’ The improved methods |

{

|ing produced during the warmer and |

cheese as ‘September,’ and this must |
of necessity be to the detriment of |
the patrons of the factories, as well
as a loss to honest traders, who sell
| cheese on their merits.

“To remedy this grievance, and to
protect the small buyers, whose
knowledge of actual ‘September’
quality is not sufficient to detect the
difference, it has been suggested that
skin branding the date of make
should be adopted. The large im-
porting houses here having branches
on the other side can look after
their own interests, but smaller buy-
ers want to be certain that they will
receive what they have bargained
for.”

—__~>-~. 2

Don’t hand yourself bouquets asa
continuous performance, and don’t
become impatient if others are slow
to pat you on the back.

——_.2>——__—

All men should marry when they
are I9. That’s the only age when
they are dead sure that they under-
stand woman.

 

| more risky months, and thus buyers)
have more confidence in purchasing |
the earlier makes. Advantage how- |
ever, seems to have been taken of |
this to dispose of the earlier made |

 

 

 

 

 

 

STORE YOUR

APPLES

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

Grand Rapids
Cold Storage Co.

 

 

 

I have it.

cent of my total output.

Cheese.
age if desired.

SEOROE ORCROER VEOUTRSUSCECH EK ONSHOL DARE ROSGRSASUSROH

For fifteen years I have worked to build up a

Good
Michigan Cheese
Trade

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
I solicit trial orders from
trade not already using Warner's Oakland County
Stock paraffined and placed in cold stor-

x

Fred M. Warner, Farmington, Mich.

 

  

butter I can get year around.

Butter

Is certainly at the top for the present.

I always want all the receipts of fresh

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

A prominent shipper of Tennessee
eggs was in New York |
He said that there was a 1

 

tity of poultry in his secti i
the hens had about finished moulting,
and that receipts of fresh eggs in
State tending to
Speaking of the relatively hi
ruling at country points in compari-
son with selling values here he said
that it would be better if N
quotations were reduced so_ that
goods could be bought in the coun-
try on a more profitable re to
their selling value.

  

 

were

New York

lation

I have also seen some correspond-
ence from Western shippers which
explains, in some degree, the
upon which country prices are so
often maintained at this p
on too high a basis in relation to
their selling value. This correspond-
ence includes some letters from East-
ern distributors, speaking of the
scarcity of “fancy fresh eggs” and

basis

quoting, as obtainable for such, rela-
tively high prices.
I propose to discuss here the

question of egg quotations and quali-
ties for the benefit of shippers who
base paying prices upon th New
York quotations and upon _ private
cuotations for “fancy i
the fall, and believe
understanding of the
have a beneficial effect.

In the first place it should be con-
sidered that the variation in quality
of egg receipts here is vastly greaté
at some than

e c 9
iresn Cees in

that a clearer

matter may

seasons at others. In

the spring when nearly all the eggs
are fresh and reasonably full the
New York quotation for “firsts” rep-

resents the value of a very large pro-
portion of the eggs arriving; but as
summer comes on and the receipts
contain
take a wider range and

more heated eggs values
the
tion salable as firsts becomes

>

propor-
small-
again, in the fall, when the re-
ceipts are apt to be seriously mixed
with stale, farm held, shrunken eggs,
and when these have to compete with
refrigerator stock, the range of val-
ues becomes still wider and the pro-

portion salable at the quotation for |

firsts falls to a much smaller percen-
tage.

Now it is evident that while many |

collectors can take the spring quota-

tion for firsts as a fair guide to pay- |

ing prices they can not do so at a
season when that quotation repre-
sents a very much smaller proportion
of the receipts and when quality to
command that price can be obtained
only by a careful grading of the
goods before shipment.

It is the failure to realize this fact
that leads to so many serious losses
in the summer and fall, particularly
when market conditions are unfavor-

able.

In the spring there is often a dif- |
ference of only about two cents per |

dozen between the value of the finest
and poorest fresh gathered eggs ar-

lities and safer operations for all.

is a dif-
a dozen |
at the

very |

riving; but in the fall there
ference of five or six cents
and the proportion salable
quotations becomes

At this season of year
in their all

de-

 
 

collections
all
1ess—and the value of!
depends alto-
the
grades. Here in the distrib-

sorts;

and of

> Iressa,

“Oo

.
Market

a
the proportion of

different

  

   

that a market quotation for a stand-
ard i prime eggs should rep-
resent smaller proportion of
he than when qualities are

1 uniform and it is fol-

naturally more
i their paying
for

to base
ic quotation

private quotation
f time
when these qualities can only be met
by a

of the goods they buy.

ly for shi
yrices upon a publi
"OF Upon 2
egos at a
careful selection

less

more OF

 

If shippers will
tion
and

study the classifica-
used in quotations more closely
learn to judge more accurately
of the grade of eggs they are ship-
ping—whether they are salable in the
grade of firsts, seconds or
thirds—and having learned this base
their paying prices accordingly, they
will save many a loss——N. Y. Prod-
Review.
——_>- 2
The Advantage of Organization.
Nashville, Tennessee, papers have
recently announced a proposition by
egg dealers of that city to form an
association for the purpose of regu-
lating from time to time
to be paid for egg receipts and secur-
ing unformity in this respect among
the various dealers. We regard itas
an excellent suggestion and one that
could profitably be put into effect at
any center.
There is frequently a failure on the
at
points to properly estimate the value
of stock coming in in relation to the}
quotations sent out
distributing markets, and losses often |
result. There is little doubt that |

extras,

uce

he prices

part of buyers of eggs interior

for eggs from |

organization on the part of buyers |

in a given locality would tend to-|
ward a better understanding of qual-|

Speaking to a reporter for the
Nashville News, one dealer _ said: |
“We ought to make money in this |
business and there is no reason why |
we should not if some such agree-|

ment as is suggested were substitut- |
ed for the present system of close
competition reduces profits |
sense or reason.”
Co-operation is the watchword
success and
far more profitable
than blind individual competition.
Furthermore, through unanimous |
action in discriminating as to quali- |

which
and is withou
of |
business

modern asso-

ciation work is

ties at interior points an association |
of buyers could do much toward dis- |

couraging the holding of eggs by|

farmers and thus improve the aver-!
age quality of the supply. |

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS
MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS
AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,
TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON

Sold only in bottles bearing our address
FOOTE & JENKS’ %

      

        
 

    
   
 

EAU Ps
JAXON [Foote & Jenks Afrestaimse
Highest Grade Extracts. JACKSON, MICH. Sa ES a

 

 

 

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

FLOUR 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.

 

 

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Quality !

Is the main thing in flour making today. How to do business
at a better profit, that is the thing. Nothing aids to do this
more than quality. - And you get quality in

New Silver Leaf Flour

When selling this flour you have the satisfaction of knowing
that you are selling the best winter wheat flour on the market.

MUSKEGON MILLING CO.

MUSKEGON, MICH.
SOE EE 8 BB. 8 BTS RR

SR aR a ee a ee a. s,s SA.
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Sell Quaker Flour

Don't pay too much for a name,
but be your own judge of qual-
ity. Quaker flour is made from
the best winter wheat by expert
millers who have had years of
experience. It gives satisfaction
wherever sold and we guar-
antee it to continue its present
high standard. The ever
creasing demand
argument.

Buy Quaker Flour

in-
is our best

WoRDEN GROCER COMPANY
Distributors
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

Send for circular.

 

 

 

 

i under the combined
| better weather, rather lighter supply |

| Western creamery, 20/4@2034c

 

 

Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Nov.
market exhibits a

15—The coffee

decidedly

and,
concerned, sales are made of
the smallest quantities possible.
store

In
and afloat there are 3,886,260

bags, against 2,531,434 bags at the|
same time last year. The close finds |
Rio No. 7. worth 83%@8%c. Mild |
grades, in apparent sympathy with
Brazil sorts, have been dull and good |
Cucutas are not quotable at over |
9'%4c; good average Bogotas, 11Mc. |

Not much is doing in East Indias,

but all grades are firmly sustained.
There is a very dull market for re-

fined sugars. Receipts of new beet

sugar at the West are, of course, nar- |

rowing the demand for refined from
the Eastern refineries, as the price

to be in favor of the buyer.

are in a better frame of mind than
for some time.
have been received from widely-sep-

tone is firm.
There is a slight improvement in

the rice market, but too slight to give |
the holders delirious joy. Fancy head |
From now |

rice is worth 44@5\4c.
on a better trade is likely to exist.
There is a firmer feeling in

this accentuated. gente
pepper is worth, an invoice way,
1234@13¢; ae cloves, 16@16%4c,
probable within a day or two. It is
a good time to buy.

The market for New Orleans mo-
lasses is very firm and sales are made
at full rates. The demand is all that
could be expected at this time of
year.
and blackstrap is especially
Good to prime centrifugal,
fancy Ponce, 35@390c.- Syrups
steady. Prime to fancy, 20@29c.

In canned goods there is little ani-
mation and quotations tend to a low-
er basis. Tomatoes, especially, are
and some packers are naming
very low prices. Some orders, it is
said, have reached here from the
Northwest at a low range—as low as
6214c, f. o. b. Corn is firm and hold-
ers are indisposed to make conces-
sions, as the pack is likely to fall
short of expectations. New York
State, $1.05@1.10. Other vegetables
are quiet, as are salmon.

Quietude prevails in the dried fruit
market. Prices sag and neither buy-
er nor seller seems to care which way
the wind blows. Dried peaches are
about the only exception, and they
are pretty well sustained.

strong.
18@27c;

are

quiet

: | Creamery,
Special Features of the Grocery and)

easier |
tendency at this writing and this is|
simply in accordance with the inevi- |
table law of supply and demand. The |
demand for spot stock has been flat |
so far as the grocery trade is|
only |

| sell

| demand.
of these,
| those

Some good orders |
jare largely
arated points and the general under-

|from late hatched B
the |
market for spices and every day sees |
black |
| twenty- five, and fed continually for a |
| quick, heavy growth.
and a further advance is altogether |

Foreign grades are well held)

 

 

MICHIGAN

Butter is firm and slightly higher
influences’ of
and an Extra |
sec- |
firsts, 16@20c; seaiaaion |
15@17¢c; factory, 1244.@14¢; |
renovated is plenty, but trade is mod- |
erate within a range of from 12@I5c. |
Quotations on cheese remain about |
unchanged. Receipts have been quite |
large and, in fact, the supply is rath- |
er larger than can
sorbed. Small size,
large, 934c |
There is a strong market for near- |
by fancy eggs and the market
pretty closely sold up.
from 29@30c. Western stock is fair-
ly firm and the most desirable grades |
at 23@23%c and from __ this |
down to 20@2tIc for seconds and 14 |
(@17c for discolored.
ce me el we ee j
Grades of Roasting Fowls.
Roasters, as they are called in the |
market, are growing considerably in
There are several
but the most desirable and |
that bring the highest prices |
the city market dress at from 4|

to 514 pounds.

improving demand.

onds to

ab- |
10ol4c; |

readily be

full cream,

is

The range is

in

are out of |
in the abdomen,

or

do

In addition to these there is what |

lis termed the soft roaster. These are |
There is a better feeling from week |
to week in the tea trade and holders |

and |
as possi- |

young fowls that are hatched
grown like capons, fast
ble to the proper. roasting size. |
3rahmas and the American varieties |
used for this purpose. |
These roasters, when of the proper
character, bring good prices in the |
market, no matter what the weight
or size may be.

Then, again, there
cockerel. These are

as

is virgin |

the
usually made |
rahma cockerels |
that are divided off from the pullets |
as soon as they can be told, then are
raised or grown in lots of about
These cocker-
els are quite as desirable for table use
as are capons. In fact they are used |
both as capons and roasters. When
the market is right, and the best|
prices paid for capons, they are ca-
pon dressed, as the saying goes, and
thus sent to the market. When it

is unfavorable, they are dressed as

| roasters and sold.

The interest in growing this kind
of poultry is largely on the increase, |
and many they much prefer |
this kind of a capon or roaster to
the real capon itself. Truly there is
nothing finer for a roasting fowl than
a fat, well-finished’ young Asiatic,
dressed and roasted as are turkeys.

The pullets from this same grade |
of fowls are set apart and grown by |
themselves in the same manner as |
are the cockerels, fed on cS rich, |
fattening foods, as. to
their growth. These sell
as much as do the others.

claim

 

so hasten |
quite |
in, fact,

these high class pullets—plump and |

for

kets as roasters for a price about the

same as must be paid for capons.
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Luck is ail right if Pluck picks | ©
her up. |

grades |

Those that are over- |
| fed and are too heavy,
| proportion
is several points lower, and the gen- |
eral situation seems at this writing |

not |
sell as well as do the others.

|
bright are sold in the Eastern mar- |
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TRADESMAN 15

——We Carry——

FULL LINE CLOVER, TIMOTHY

AND ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS
Orders filled promptly

MOSELEY BROS. acranp rapIDsS, MICH.

Office and Warehouse znd 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

 

 
    
 
       
    

anted

Daily
Shipments of

Poultry, Eggs and Butter

It would pay you to get our prices or telephone us at our expense.
Both Phones.

  

Lansing Cold Storage Co., Lansing, Mich.

 

WHOLESALE

OYSTERS

CAN OR BULK
DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

WE ARE BUYERS OF

CLOVER SEED 4x» BEANS

Also in the market for

Pop Corn, Buckwheat and Field Peas

If any to offer write us.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

It Will Soon Be Time for
Calendars

Wouldn’t it be better to place your order early than to wait until the
last moment and then have to wait? Remember, we are the largest calendar
manufacturers in the West. We will send you samples and prices upon

application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

    

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another overcoat that will be much
}in evidence is the double-breasted
style. This is built for comfort, and
yet is extremely stylish if correctly
|made. These garments are made
from roughest goods, such as Scotch
cheviots in fancy effects, as plaids
and checks, also plain black and dark
gray, and generally have a plain black

: z 5 As with the belt-back
wholesale clothing business is Prac- | overcoat, ie: Miaiie > Seceee © eeaek

tically over as far as the selling end | these overcoats are made are lighter
is rep — a =— | in weight than the ordinary overgar-
made their final visits to the markets See g
and are through with their purchases oe tanto on enetiapaige —
except for such filling in as their
stock may require, or to renew
stocks through duplicate orders, as
the goods are sold later in the sea-
son. The busiest season of the year, |

 

 

 

 

 

Clothing Manufacturers at Work on
Spring Goods.

The fall and winter season in the | velvet lies

| kle, and are quite full, they will prove
| very warm and comfortable. The la-

however, is at hand in the clothing |
factories, for the goods on order are |
to be made up and shipped to their
destination. Manufacturing depart-
ments have been engaged on their
part of the work for many weeks,
but early fall deliveries do not begin
until Sept. 1, and are finally complet-
ed about the middle of October. With
this work well in hand the manufac-
turer has already begun to turn his
attention to the coming season.
Within the past few weeks he has
inspected thousands of samples of
lightweight woolens, and from them
has made many selections, which will
appear in the sample lines for spring |
and summer. During the coming
two months manufacturers of cloth-
ing will be engaged with their design-
ers in creating new styles and in
making preparations for the season
which will open with the departure
of the traveling salesmen about
Nov. I.

It is expected that within the next
two weeks the lines for spring and
summer will be ready for the in-
spection of the trade. Visiting buy-
ers have been numerous in the whole-
sale section this season and manufac-
turers generally express satisfaction |
with the season’s business for fall
and winter. Many of the factories
are being run overtime in order to
manufacture the goods needed to
fill orders already on hand.

Retail business has not been up to
the standard during the past month.
Weather conditions have not been
favorable, for one reason, and an-
other is that September is usually a
poor month in clothing owing tothe
warm weather which keeps summer
clothing still seasonable. The fea-
ture in business has been the extra-
ordinary number of special sales, and
nearly all retail establishments from
the department stores to the small-
est dealers made special offerings in
their efforts to stimulate trade.

Fall orders show that the populari-
ty of the raincoat is on the increase.
More of these serviceable coats are
being worn, and they are shown in
almost all styles, although the long
coat, which hangs straight from
broad shoulders is the most popular.
These garments can be worn on al-
most any occasion, as they are suita-
ble for rain or shine, or for day or
evening wear. For one whose duties
take him out of doors the raincoat is
an indispensable addition to his
clothing equipment.

of the rough effects of the old-style

but
This

representatives of these ancient,
most comfortable of garments.

in rainproof fabrics, of fancy patterns
generally.

For automobile wear
many styles devised.
very full and might be termed baggy;

there

| fort while sitting in the car. The
long loose overcoats mentioned
above, however, are worn to a con-
siderable extent for this purpose, es-
pecially those made from the water-
proofed cloths. The double-breasted
| coats in particular are good for this
use, and will be among those most
worn for autoing by men who do not

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special outfit for the purpose.

swell styles from which
this season and among the best is the
blouse suit in| many novel

Among the most popular are

are modified and altered until they
no longer have the crude appearance

ance.

seem to be the browns.
sian overcoat will also hold sway for
the long garments, and reefers for
short play coats.
to 16 years of age, two of the best
styles are the single-breasted Norfolk
coat suit and the double-breasted
plain coat. The former are made up
in both plain and fancy fabrics. The
double-breasted suits are made from
a wide range of cloths, both plain and
fancy, with the tendency leaning to-
ward the latter.
——_>+<___
Pretense of Knowledge.

“I hate to see a man pretend to
know more than he actually does,”
said the habitually severe man.

“So do I,” said the unassuming
friend; “so do I. But when your
wife insists on having you read the
war news out aloud and the chil-
dren are sitting around listening,
what are you going to do when you
come to all these Japanese and Rus-
Sian names?”

—_+2__

Men who are pushed to the top
of the ladder usually fall back if they
have no one to hold them there.

 

 

| within two or three inches of the an-|

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| pels of these coats are rather deep |
|and sharp, which gives a very smart |
| air to them, and they have nothing |

ulster, although they are the neatest |
same style of coat is also made up |

are |
They are cut|

| this is necessary for complete com-|

do enough of it to warrant having a}

The juveniles will have some very |
to choose |

forms. |
the |
Russian blouse suits, that have been |
in favor for some seasons now, but |

that characterized their first appear- |
These are made up in a Va- |
riety of plain fabrics, but in many |
colorings, among which the favorites |

The Rus- |

For older boys, 8|

 
   

  

READY

FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY

Overcoats

All Lengths and Styles

Suits

Of Every Description, Also

“Browns”

Write for Samples---Express Paid

    
  
  

 

 

 
 
  
 

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WILE BROS. & WEILL

MAKERS OF PAN-AMERICAN GUARANTEED CLOTHING
BUFFALO, N. Y.

 
 

 
 

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In the selection of a boiler for your Heating System
you want to be sure to get one that has passed the experi-
mental stage. Buy a Rapid Heater and you will not be in
doubt.

Within the last two years we have been unable to
improve upon our boiler. It is simply perfect.

Economical, responds quickly, and thoroughly con-
sumes the fuel. These are points which cannot help but
commend it. Send for our booklet just off the press ‘‘An
Investment Backed by Strong This tells
the story in a simple and It’s
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Endorsements.”’
straightforward manner.

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

17

 

Season of Special Colors in Cravats to 234 inches, the broad unfolded |

and Mufflers.
Novelty effects in both special and
staple weaves do not go abegging

for takers, but the colors and com- | losing its vogue, has increased

binations must be unmistakably fresh.
The present autumn and holiday sea-
son is remarkable, not for the bold-
ness of patterns, but for the richness
obtained by mingling brilliant
subdued tones into one harmonious
ensemble. Highly

colored grounds)

|large cravat will keep it

and |

square. the capacious 4-inch ascot |
and the full 2%4-inch tie are in com-|
mand. The wing collar, far from |
it, |
and as long as the wing stays the!
company.
Retailers are throwing their full |
strength in favor of the wing and|
all standing collars, and this, together |

i with the fact that they have fashion |

with neat small figures are gaining. |

Exclusiveness is rigidly demanded in

high-class goods, and the newer silks, |

particularly from French and English
looms, are in designs that absolutely
. thwart the copyist. The range of

on their side, pushes the wing collar |
to the forefront among sellers. |
Needless to add, the silk weaver is |
seen at his best in large cravat forms, |

|which allow an originality of treat- |

|a plentitude of color impossible
We believe that the|

special weaves now put out by man- |

ufacturers is broadening all the time,
and the silk men find it hard to keep

| sons, although some reaction against |
not |

pace with the demands upon them |

for confining lines.
pects for retailers are favorable. The
continuing vogue of wide forms
means better goods and larger prof-
its. It is not amiss to reiterate here

Holiday pros-

ment, a distinctiveness of design and
in
small shapes.

large cravat will stay for several sea- |

the excessively wide forms is
unlikely in the spring. Two and a

| half inches is as full as a cravat may |

comfortably be; when one goes be-

‘yond that the problem of graceful
tying becomes a bit of a puzzle to|

that the wing collar is the best friend |

the cravat clerk has, and that he
should lose no opportunity to com-
mend it to a customer’s good graces.

For weddings annd afternoon wear |

suede and dark grey are the approved
shades in ascots and _ once-overs.
Plain mats, brocades and jacquard
effects are also prominent. Biscuit
is a hue in the warp that is to be
reckoned with. Dark ombres, jac-
quards on ombre grounds and semi-
Persians are factors in sales. The
last named are in Persian colorings,
but the designs are rather of
Moorish order. Very rich results are

'flers already described, guiltless

most wearers.

New forms in mufflers are not

greatly in evidence this season, the.
accepted standards being generally |

followed.

The large evening muf-|
of |

| stitching or lining, come in fine Eng- |

| lish Macclesfield twills.

the |

achieved in so-called “subdued fire” |

patterns, which, as the term implies,
reproduce tongues of flame. Ve-

culiarly dull luster with designs of
many-colored disks, squares

triangles has been introduced into

They are}

crushable into the smallest compass, |

and fit the pocket without trouble.
Simple spots and stripes and solid

colors, checks and Persians comprise |

the assortment of high-class goods.

The French scarf-muffler folded once |
in |

in the center has been so copied

cheap cravat silks that it has forfeited |

much of its vogue.
tartan stripes, neat hairline stripes
and figured grounds in heavy rads-

loute, a satin-finished silk of a pe-|™eres are favorably regarded by the

| upper-class trade.

and |

fine goods, and is immensely effec- |

tive in large shapes.

Buyers are keen after new things |

for the holidays and everything both
in color and design that is quaint
and out of the traveled road findsa
ready demand. It would seem as if
color had been done to death, but
recent experiments undertaken at the
instance of a leading cravat manufac-
turer have accomplished results in
silk weaving and color blending far
in advance of anything heretofore
brought out. There has been a won-
derful improvement, too, in solid col-
or and changeable warp effects, and
the output of special lines with spe-
cial names has thereby been greatly

broadened this season. Beyond a
doubt, sales to the consumer are
much facilitated by branding silks

with a distinctive name, either on the
part of the maker or the deéaler.
Nothing could be more effective than
a cravat window of a single range
of novelty silks pleasingly named.
The practice of showing cravats ad-
justed to the collar, which they
should properly accompany, is now
followed by all the best shops. It is
the right way.

Large forms, in accordance with
early forecasts, predominate this
season. The wide four-in-hand up

| last.

Ties are in sparing request, the

four-in-hand, folded-in, being

English stripes, |

the |

premier form this season. as it was|

Terra cotta has enjoyed

Among colors, brown is keep- |
|ing well in front with burnt orange, |
and bronze as other candidates for |
| favor.

a |

| bit of a run in cravat silks, and cur-|

 

rant, canary, olive, rosewood, garnet |

and emerald are also prominent in
the demand at present. It is clearly
a season of special colors of one kind
or another.—Haberdasher.
>

One of the latest improvements in
weapons of war is the hyposcope, be-
ing introduced to the military author-
ities of Europe, and making it possi-
ble for a soldier to sight and fire
over a parapet without exposing any
portion of his body. It consists ofa

 

light metallic tube, made L shape,
which is clamped to the side of the |
barrel, with the long part of the “|
vertical and the level part lying)
across the top of the barrel. A se-
ries of mirrors within the L tube ac-
curately reflect the image of the ob-
ject aimed at in conjunction with
the rifle sights to the eye, although |
the soldier’s head may be five or six
inches below the breastworks.
—__+--<-___

Many men run so hard to win the
cake life offers as a prize that they
shake out all their teeth long before
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Have achieved a fame as lasting as
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Our Salesmen Will Soon be in Your State
Do You Want to See One?

He will show you the very best that
is produced in clothing. These justly

famous ‘‘Clothes of Quality’’ are

the best investment.a merchant can
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Sample Garments Cheerfully Sent Prepaid

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High-Grade, Moderate-Priced Clothes for Men and Young Men.

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

2

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

The William Connor Co., Grand Rapids

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

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

Write for circular.

 

 

THEY FIT

Gladiator Pantaloons
oe

Clapp Clothing Company
Manufacturers of Gladiator Clothing
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

    

 

18

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Some Facts About Angora Fashions | on the average, or twice the cost of

and Fabrics.

Angora fur has a place in the glove
trade as a fabric for gloves, mittens,
wristlets and similar articles, being

employed either alone or as a lining |

material. Angora gloves have

be- |

come something more than a novel-

ty in the last decade, but those re-|

tailers who have never had a request |
for this fabric can see it upon the|
heads of infants in every part of the|

country, the yarn being
from France in large quantities and
knit into hoods by mothers.
German population, in particular, is
much given to Angora.

There is probably no more curious
textile known to commerce, nor any
more costly. Angora fur is a fine,
soft, fleecy down, plucked from the
stomachs of live rabbits. The Ango-
ra rabbit is maintained as a domestic
animal and pet in many parts of Eu-
rope, and in France is reared as a
fur-bearer. Angora, the territory in
Asia Minor whence come the goats
and cats bearing its name, is note~
worthy for the fine long fleece borne
by all its animals, but the Angora
rabbit, although often confounded
with Angora, does not come from
this district. It is the result of care-
ful breeding from strains of animals
native to Europe. Two varieties are
kept for fur production. One is a
slatish grey. The other is a _ pure
white, coming from animals that are
the albinos of the grey strain. These
two breeds of rabbits are scrupulous-
ly kept apart to prevent interbreed-
ing, which would destroy the value
of both. Great pains are taken in
rearing them for fur bearing. They
are tended like children, and are of
considerable value, selling on _ the
average for $25 a pair. Climate al-
so enters into the problem of fur
raising. Efforts to rear the Angora
in the United States have resulted
only in failure, the fur produced be-
ing harsh and of short length.

On the European Angora farms
the rabbits are plucked four times a
year, the individual fibres of the fur
being from four to six inches long.
Only the soft fur from the stomach

is taken. What would seem at first
glance a cruel operation is really
quite painless and natural. The

young of every breed of rabbit in the
world are coddled in nests made of
the soft fur from their mothers’
stomachs, plucked for the purpose
by the animal itself. After the de-
livery of young, this fur is plucked
easily and without pain. The four
“crops” a year obtained from the
Angora are yielded during almost the
whole life of the animal.

Angora fur comes to this country
in the form of yarn, ready for knit-
ting, in its natural grey and white.
It is never dyed. The fibres have no
minute hooks, as in wool, nor any
degree of tensile strength, like cot-
ton or linen. A secret process is
employed by the French in spinning
the yarn, which is sold in small balls
in dry goods stores, or delivered on
long cones to glove knitters, being
sold by weight in the latter case.
The price for this raw material va-
ries greatly, but is about $8 a pound

The |

imported |

 

silk.

This fabric is not durable, but in
warmth and softness is duplicated by
no other material. Gloves and chil-
dren’s mittens are knit from it in
the only factory in this country,
which is in Brooklyn. Angora hasa
peculiar electrical quality, attributed
to its being “live” fur. An article
of this material held in the hand for
a few moments gives the peculiar
tingling sensation associated witha
mild electric battery. On this  ac-
count it is valued as a relief for rheu-
matism. Wristlets, chest protectors,
shoulder pieces and knee-caps are
regularly sold for the purpose. Hose,
stockings, bed slippers, leggings, in-
fants’ shoes and comforters, hoods,
caps, Tam O’Shanters, night-caps
and so forth are also made.

Underwear in union suits and sep-
arate pieces was woven from _ the
material experimentally in this coun-
try a few years ago. but did not
meet with a demand on account of
its excessive warmth. Angora is a
singularly warm fabric, and sells well
during a cold winter. Last season
the uniform severity of weather ex-
perienced everywhere in the United
States caused stocks to be quickly
exhausted. A new use for Angora
has been developed with the com-
ing of the automobile. The fabric
is nOw woven into sweaters and auto
coats for motorists, and has devel-
oped a small but healthy demand in
New York City and a few other cen-
ters. These garments are, of course,
very costly, being made to order at
a wholesale price of $150 a dozen for
sweaters and $240 a dozen for auto
coats. Glove prices range from $7.50
a dozen for children’s sizes to $28 a
dozen for adults’.

In the Brooklyn factory small
French knitting machines that du-
plicate hand work are used exclusive-
ly. Mr. Walter Giddings is the in-
ventor of the process whereby silk
gloves are lined with Angora fabric.
This factory has been in operation
about ten years, and its output of
Angora novelties is considerable. An
attempt to establish an Angora farm
in the Adirondacks some years ago,
however, raised a storm of protest
from the vivisectionists when it was
learned that the fur was plucked
from living animals.

The haberdasher who discerns a
demand for Angora goods will find it
advisable to close out his line at the
end of each winter. The quality of
Angora as a “live” fur is peculiar to
itself alone, and makes it irresistibly
attractive to moths. These pests will
desert wool or fur to rifie a box of
Angora. In the manufacturer’s ware-
rooms the fabric is kept in large ce-
dar chests, imported from France,
which are hermetically sealed when
the cover is down. Moth balls and
camphor have no power to keep the
insects from Angora, but by wrap-
ping articles to be carried over the
summer in newspapers that are heav-
ily inked, the retailer will be likely
to escape loss or trouble.

Angora is a material that must be
carefully cleansed when soiled, being
too fragile to withstand ordinary

 

laundry processes. The decree
ers give the following directions for |
washing: First. Make soap-suds |
with pure Castile soap and cold wa-|
ter, it being important to have the |
water cold; add a tablespoonful of |
ammonia, and soak the articles in|
this solution for several hours. Sec- |
ond. Squeeze the articles gently in
the hands until clean, using a soft |
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Art of Trying To Get Something for
Nothing.

It is announced that the fashiona-
ble dressmakers of New York have
formed a protective trust and
henceforth no credit will be given,
and that the woman who desires to
disport herself in fine raiment

have to settle for it in cold, hard

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we give a reception to our dear five |

hundred friends.

In all the vagaries of the feminine |
character there is nothing so utterly
inconsistent and inexplicable as!
woman’s attitude towards honesty,

|for every day of our lives we see}
women who pride themselves upon
| their probity, yet who not only com- |

mit thefts openly and shamelessly, |

| but actually boast of their pilfering.

that |
| unto

will |

A woman, for instance, counts it
herself for righteousness to
smuggle goods in through the cus-|
tom house, and she will calmly and |
with a serene countenance stand up|

| and perjure herself to save the duty |

cash instead of rosy promises. These |

purveyors of frills for the frivolous
claim that they are
robbed, year after year, by women
who order gowns that they

on a half dozen pairs of gloves. Nor

| does she feel the slightest obligation |

systematically |

have |

neither the means nor the intention |
of paying for and who depend on/!
their high social position to protect |

them from the consequences. of
their dishonesty.
When Madame Modiste_ charges

to pay her fare on the street car
unless the conductor forces her to
do it.

-A still more pertinent illustration |
of the oblique way in which women |
look at honesty is found in the)

| wholesale thieving that goes on un-|

| der the euphonistic name of collect-
|ing souvenirs.

her dead-beat customers with what |

is vulgarly known as running a con-
fidence game, it is pretty much a

should steal at all is strange; it

case of the kettle accusing the pot |

of being black, but the question thus
raised is an interesting one, for hon-
esty is the star virtue upon which
woman most plumes herself. She is

|tian rich women should steal

never weary of boasting of her su-!

perior honorableness to man, and of

pointing out that it is the stronger |

sex that furnishes the defaulting
cashier and produces the festive
burglar and keeps the path to Cana-
da and Mexico hot, while incorrupti-
ble woman faithfully guards
trust given her and seldom plays
pranks with the cash register.

This is true. A cynic might ex-
plain it by saying that until now

the |

That a woman of
elementary principle and morality
is
stranger still that women who have
no need to steal should do it, but |
it is strangest of all that these Chris- |
and |
brag about it. Women who are so!
well off that they patronize the
most fashionable restaurants and
the best hotels and who are invited
to fashionable functions make a habit
of bringing home with them silver)
tableware, glass, china, and even tow-
els and pillow slips that they have
stolen from their hosts and so far
from concealing these things they

_brazenly parade them as souvenirs of
| places they have visited.

woman’s opportunities of becoming |
an embezzler have been few, but it |
is a fact that woman’s awe of money

is so great that she seldom steals
it, just as she seldom commits any
other sacrilege. Besides, her talents
do not run in that line.
by nature a highwayman.
tend towards petty larceny. You
might leave a million dollars in a
woman’s keeping and when you re-

She is not |
Her gifts |

turned she would hand over every |

penny of it, but those of us who
have cut our wisdom teeth

ciety lock up our silver trinkets when

in so-

Last summer a_ wealthy young)
woman who was a globe trotter calm- |
ly told me that she had a marvelous
collection of towels that represented |
every railroad and hotel of conse-
quence in this country and Europe,
and it was a matter of comment in
the public press that not long ago,
after a swell men’s club gave a la-
dies’ day, they did not have a single |
coffee spoon left.

Another common and flagrant in-
stance of feminine dishonesty is
shown in the way that women cheat
at cards. The ugliest word men have |
for another man is the epithet they |

| apply to him who plays a dishonest |

game of chance, but all of us. have
seen women who, for the sake ofa
$1.50 imitation cut glass prize, would
do things so badly dishonest that
they deserved to have the door of
society shut in their faces as_ it
would have been in a man’s under
similar circumstances. That it is not
—that women who are known to
cheat at cards, who have been actual-
ly caught punching holes in _ their

| score card and surreptiously helping

themselves to cards to which they

are not ostracized, but are invited

 

everywhere, is a Scathing commen- |

tary on woman’s ideal of honor and | exclaimed:
A man caught! But after they had known him fora

honesty in her sex.

cheating at cards is kicked out of | while they would ask:
A woman caught cheating/he dress?”

his club.

at cords is elected president, as likely
as not, of hers.

It is, however, when it comes to
the gentle art of grafting—of getting
things by one’s wits—that women
loom up. great and unreproachable
at the head of the confidence profes-
sion. Strangely enough, this vice,
like that of the souvenir collector,
belongs almost exclusively to the
rich, and those who attempt to live
like the rich. In) one ot Henry

| James’ novels he tells of a man who
were not entitled—that such women | rolled

|income of nothing a year.

luxury and style on an
When
people first saw him they always
“How he does dress!”

in

“How does

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could answer that question. So also
could the fashionable dressmakers
of every city in the land.

The gentle grafter has only two
articles in her philosophy. The first
is that it is her business in life to
get everything she wants. - The sec-
ond is that it is other people’s busi-
ness to get paid if they can. She be-
gins by running up bills at the shops,
paying a little on account now and
then. This puts the merchants who
trust her at her mercy. They are
bound to give more credit to her in

 

order not to lose what she already |

owes them, and so she_ goes
triumphant way, adorned like Solo-
mon in all his glory, while the en-
vious cry out, “How she does dress!”
and the knowing ones ask,
does she dress?”

This system applies equally as well
to her servants and the

her |

lend me two dollars or five or ten,’
she cooes, “I simply must have this,
and I will hand the change back to
you when I see you next.” Alas and
alack, you might as well kiss your
money good-bye, for never more will
you behold its face again.

These are not extreme instances.
Any poor sewing woman will tell
you that her rich customers are her
worst pay, and as for the balance of
us, there is not one of us who does
not number among her acquaintances
some woman who continually works
her whole social circle, and so com-

mon is the custom women have of|
| borrowing and not paying back that |

|most women have learned that itis

“How |
\if they are going out with a woman!
| who is better off than themselves, for |
it is not our poor friends who rob|

smaller | Aig i i
us—it is our rich acquaintances who/|

tradespeople with whom she deals, |
and by dint of continually changing |

sewing women and cheap dressmak-
ers she avoids many of the expenses
of the honest. But she treads on
hearts. Poor dressmakers have told

me of having walked for miles, lack- |
| ways, but in nothing more than the

ing even car fare, to the houses of
rich women who owed them bills,
merely to be turned away withouta
cent, and with a vague “Call some
other time.”

The gentle grafter does not con-
fine herself, however, to imposing on
tradespeople. In the language of the
profession, she works both sides of
the street and holds up her friends
and
ty.
the

Indeed, one never realizes what
cash value of friendship is until
one observes her methods. She never
pays hotel bills. Oh, dear no. Wher-
ever she goes she knows somebody
on whom she foists herself as an
uninvited guest. Neither does she
spend any money on her lunches. In-
stead, she has a playful habit of drop-
ping in on a family just as they are
sitting down to the table when, of
course, she must be invited to eat
no matter whether it is convenient
or inconvenient.

Nor does she waste her substance
on carriages, although like the Irish-
man in the song, she always rides
in chaises. The way she manages
this is a triumph of artful simplicity.

“Are you going to Mrs. A.’s ball?”
she asks guilelessly and effusively of
Mrs. B. Mrs. B. replies that she is,
whereupon the gentle grafter says:
“Let’s take a carriage together then,
cabs are so frightfully dear. You
order it and just drop by for me.”
Mrs. B. agrees and orders the car-
riage. She also pays for it, for never,
never does she see the color of the
gentle grafter’s money, for that as-
tute lady has never contemplated
contributing her share of the _ ex-
pense.

Still another wile from which most
of us have suffered is the practice
the gentle grafter has of getting us
to buy something for her when we
go down town, and which she in-
variably forgets to pay us for. Still
more fatal is it to go shopping with
her, for she is sure to see some arti-
cle for which she never has quite
enough money to pay. “My dear,

acquaintances with equal assidui- |

 

prudence only to carry car fare in|

their purse. This is especially true

are expensive luxuries.

The curious part about all of this |

is that the women who do all of
these things still esteem themselves
models of honesty. The feminine
point of view is peculiar in many

slantwise way at which they look at
this subject. Before, however, love-
ly woman shies any more bricks at
her brother for stealing she ought
to amend her own ways in the mat-
ter of souvenir collecting, progres-
sive euchre, and, above all, give up
the gentle art of trying to get some-
thing for nothing. Dorothy Dix.
Se ee

Never Touched Him.

One should display patience when
foreigners are to be dealt with, par-

ticularly when they are newcomers
and not familiar with our language,
but there are times when
ceases to be a virtue.

to the limit of endurance by his stu-
pidity.

Finally a tenant, thoroughly arous- |

ed by some-repeated offense, berated
him up the banks and down again

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in true American fashion, calling him |
a senseless Swede, a stupid dolt, and |
so on.

When the storm of words had sub- |
sided a fellow workman said: “I’d|
never let any one talk to me like}
thats?

The man who had received the |
scolding phlegmatically replied: “Oh, |
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Girls in Candy Factory Never Tire
of Sweets.
“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
Further it can be said that he who
sees an article in the making loses
all interest, respect, and favor for
the same, for it is true. But there
is one line of manufacturing wherein
the persons who help to manufacture,
pack and sell the goods do not form
an aversion to the goods they handle,
and that is the manufacture of candy.
“T have heard of barkeepers that
never drink and many other in-
stances where the man or woman
handling one thing as a means of
making their Gaily bread conceives a
genuine dislike and contempt for the
same,” said a prominent confectioner,
“but I never saw or heard of a

‘candy factory girl who did not like

candy. Not that the tastes of the
girls who are engaged in the manu-
facture of sweets are developed toa
cGegree that might be called abnor-
mal or unusual. They do not in-
dulge in indiscriminate eating of the
goods they handle or anything like
that. They gradually develop a
taste for one certain kind of candy
and eat little of anything but that,
but they certainly do like that candy.

“T should say that the tastes of the
girls in the candy factory, so far
as quantity is concerned, are
cn a par with those of any other
class of young girls. They do not,
as many suppose,
while at work. in fact,
scarcely any then, not because they
do not care for it then, but because
the rules of most candy factories are
that the employes shall not indulge
their tastes while working, and _ be-
cause much candy which they have
the chance to handle is not in edi-
ble shape. The impression seems to
prevail that the sight of candy while
being manufactured is such as_ to
cure the candy eater; it is even be-
lieved by some that most candy com-
pounds are a nauseating mixture, but

there is nothing further from the
truth.
“When a girl first comes to work

in a candy factory, and before she
has become entirely familiar with the
rules, she invariably starts in to
feast upon the article that she is
handling. Of course, she is stopped
in this, but this proves at least that
the ingredients of good candy are
such that no one will stop eating
candy because of a closer acquaint-
anceship with the stuff it is made of.

“After a gir! has worked at the
business for a short while, she soon
develops a taste for one particular
kind of goods, and strictly adheres
to her favorite when eating candy.
Nearly all of ihem get to be experts
in telling good candy, connoisseurs
in fact, and when they take homea
box to eat they take only the best
in the stock. This is the way the
candy factory girl does her bonbon
eating—just like any other girl, at
her home and not, as is supposed, at
her place of work. Of course, there
is more or less candy eating here in
the factory by the new girls, but the
older girls seldom indulge except at
their homes. As to quantity, if you
can tell me how many pounds of

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eat much candy |
they eat |

 

bonbons, glaces and other kinds of
sweets the average American _ girl
consumes in a year, then I will tell
you how much the candy factory em-
ploye eats in a like period. It is
only in the selection of the best kinds
of candy that her taste is exception-
ally developed.”

What this one candy man says in
regard to the candy eating of the
candymakers is substantiated by the
opinions of other manufacturers. All
agree on the one point that the candy
factory girls “iike candy,” and eat
it as long as they stay in the busi-
ness, without getting tired of the
same. So far as is known, there has
vever been a candymaker among the
girls who did not delight in sweets,
and some of the girls who have been
employed in this work for many
years still take home their pound of
favorite sweets as regularly as they
did when first they began. Apparent-
ly age does not wither nor constant
indulgence stale their liking for candy,
and it would seem that their con-
stant handling of the same while in
the making has absolutely no effect
upon their tastes.

Among some of the older girls the

liking for their favorite candy
amounts to a habit—one which de-
mands that its followers have

each day a little candy if they are to
be entirely satisfied.

“It’s just like tobacco to a smok-
er with some of the girls,’ said one
factory superintendent.
not become slaves to the habit, but
they acquire a liking for candy that
causes them to indulge in a little of
their favorite each day. There are
girls who have been employed at the
business for years who have each
day regularly eaten
candy. They don’t

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piece or two, but they miss it if for |
any reason they are forced to go)

without the same.
“Nor is it 2 harmful habit.

The |

theory that candy 1s injurious to the |

general health, and the teeth in par-
ticular, is a complete fallacy. Candy
is like anything else that is extreme-
ly sweetened or flavored; it must be
eaten in limited quantities and with
reason, and when this common sense
1ule is observed there is absolutely
nothing harmful about it. On the
contrary, it is a food, and many
times contains an extreme amount of
nourishment, considering the small
quantities eaten; and as it costs the
candymakers little to satisfy their
habit, there is no good reason why
they should not do so.

“I scarcely believe that you would
find any class of factory girls in the
city who are in better health general-
ly than the candy girls. They have
just as good complexions as any girls
whose work keeps them indoors for
a great part of the day; they have
good teeth, and invariably they are
plumper, an excellent recommenda-
tion for candy, as a flesh increaser.
They stay at the work, when they
have once learned it, for a considera-
ble time, too; longer, perhaps, than
is the case with most kinds of work,
because they like the work, it being
decidedly pleasant, and they like the
candy.

“At the holiday season is the time

ment in picking out candies.
buy more then any other class of
customers of an equal number, and
they only buy the best kind of goods.

average consumption of sweets,
From

their
would be hard to estimate.
my casual
among them, and without going to
any figures, I would say that the

average two pounds of candy

begin to compute at fifty-two weeks
in the year,

represent any considerable amount
of daily consumption.”

Ralph Kennedy.
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when the girls in the factory may}
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The quantities they buy then, and |
observance of the habit |

girls in this factory consume on an)
each |
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Popular Dress Goods for Early Au-
tumn.

Several weeks ago attention was
called to the probable popularity of
mohairs for fall. Since then mohairs
have been selling very strong. In
fact, the demand has been remarkable
this season. No other fabric has sold
better. They have been reordered
by merchants who expect to sell
them up to a late date. So far this
season heavy wool materials have
lagged. Stocks in retailers’ hands all
show more or less mohairs; whole-
sale stocks have been drawn upon
heavily for them, and there are none
too many to be had at present.

No more mohairs can be expected
from manufacturers for 1904. The

latter are now busy with fabrics for |

mohairs will
come from
stocks of wholesal-
if iS not for
merchants to sacrifice, in any partic-
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1905. What additional
be secured must
present limited

ers. Therefore, wise

is better to advance prices on

more popular sellers. The shortage

in mohairs this fall is bound to have |

its effect on sales for next spring,

as women who are disappointed in|
buy |
It |

is not too much to expect that next |

getting desirable mohairs will
them quickly and eagerly later.

spring will be the heaviest mohair
season ever experienced.

One of the best hits made in the!

dress goods stocks of city stores
the introduction of plaids. In all
probability they are the finest crea-
tions seen in fancy mohairs.
the retail used
to display these goods, and a sec-

store windows was

tion of the firm’s display advertise- |

ments in the daily papers called at-
tention to them. These mohairs are
produced in bright tartan plaids. The
color combinations include the
ors of the tartan plaids. Some have
brighter colors than others, but all
are lustrous. The color combination
with green showing conspicuously
is especially popular, and is shown in
more than three dozen styles which
come in 48-inch widths and retail for
St.2s.

They are intended especially
misses’ and children’s* dresses and it
is very evident that they are particu-
larly adaptable for this purpose.
Manufacturers are now producing
mohairs in high luster and it is these
which prove most acceptable to the
trade. They have the high luster
of silk and are more serviceable than
woolen goods. It predicted by
most dress goods authorities’ that
fancy mohairs will sell up to Dec. 1,
if not later. The more recent crea-
tions in mohairs bear a strong re-
semblance to silks. A New York
store recently made exhibit of
the new fancy mohairs and fancy
taffetas in adjoining windows. The
designs and finish were so similar
that only the closest examination
made it possible to determine which
were silk and which were mohair.

Much is expected of broadcloths,
particularly in black, with the general
trade. Colors in broadcloths are al-

col-

is

an

so well considered, but more particu-
larly with the
broadcloths

city trade. Black
are one of the weaves

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which most merchants consider prac-
ticable and fashionable. A _ tailor-
made suit of black broadcloth is most
attractive. The soft dress goods
weights of proper finish in broad-
cloths are very neat and it is diffi-

material.

Attention was called last week to
black voiles as a stronger favorite
than colors. This was without dis-
paragement to colors, which are also
|in much demand. But the fact is

 

| black voiles are strong, and in broad- |

|cloths-—-which are also selling in
| browns, blues, modes and tans—
| blacks are most popular. It is ex-

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cult to think of a more elegant cos- |
tume than a tailor-made suit of this |

| pected that silk warp crepes will take |

precedence over voiles. The
| will be in demand and stocks should
| be kept well assorted, but the pres-
| ent tendency is to silk warp crepes
|aS a weave which is likely to sup-
plant voiles. The silk in crepe
| weaves supplies that luster which isa
desirable quality in fall goods, partic-
ularly in materials dress occa-
sions. The silk warp crepe also pos-
| sesses a clinging characteristic which
is desirable. Silk warp. eoliennes
give the same lustrous effect, but do
not, however, have the crepe appear-
ance.

for

Many dress goods authorities be-
| lieve crepons are a possibility in the
near future. Silk warp crepe is tak-
| en to mean the introduction of crep-

/ons, perhaps, for the fall and winter |

|of 1905 and 1906. Silk warp crepes
have the plain smooth finish and also
the clinging and sheer qualities to-
| gether with the luster. It will be
difficult to get a richer material for
| dress events than silk warp crepe.
If chiffon voiles are going to be good
the coming season, then blacks in
these will be the strongest sellers.
There are three weaves picked for
favorites the coming season, namely,
| broadcloths, crepes and voiles. The
| point of interest is that all three of
| these weaves promise to be strongest
jin blacks. This fact is significant; it
|means that merchants should watch
| their black goods stocks especially in
| these three weaves. The black dress
goods stock that has a good showing
of these will in all probability receive
a large share of the attention of
shoppers. To broadcloths and _ silk

nish suitings. That can not be avoid-
ed. Some of the neatest tailor-made
suits exhibited are the exact imi-
tation of men’s suitings. A. tailor
made garment of dress goods mate-
rials in mannish effect is

are conspicuous.
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South Africa has not recovered
from the effects of the Boer war.
There was something of a boom im-
mediately following the close of hos-
tilities, but it has apparently  col-
lapsed. American trade has fallen off
nearly one-half and the trade of other
countries has suffered proportion-
ately.

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|
Early History of the State Pomologi- | Noah P. Husted and his brother,

cal Society.

James D., of Lowell, who were valu-

In recalling the memories of men | able members of the Pomological and
who were among the pioneers of the Grand River Valley Horticultural
horticulture in the Grand River Val- Societies, were at one time largely

ley, my mind centers naturally upon
the year 1870, because the State Po-

|
|
|

engaged in the nursery business in
the township of Lowell. One of the

mological Society was organized Feb- | most interesting papers read before

ruary 11 of that year. .Samuel L.
Fuller, Sluman S. Bailey, A. T. Lin-

the Pomological Society during the
first year of its existence was enti-

derman, George W. Dickinson, Eras- tled, “The Influence of Stock on the

tus U. Knapp, L. S. Scranton

and | Graft,”"by Noah P. Husted.

Johna-

 

Edward Bradfield were among those | than P. Thompson, of Grand Rapids, |

who were present.

A temporary or-| who succeeded Dr. Saunders as the)
the fact that Asa W. Slayton and j. |

ganization was effected, with S. L. | President of the State Pomological
Fuller as President, S. S. Bailey as | Society, was a newspaper man who |
Vice-President, A. T. Linderman as|had given much attention to horti-|

Secretary and E. U. Knapp as Treas- | culture in his early manhood.
26 of the same| Was a very industrious and intelli-| us that Mr. Slayton is still an active

urer. On February

year the organization was completed | gent worker in the interest of horti- and valuable member of this
and a new election for officers was| culture and filled his position with | ciety.
Dr. Henry G. Saunders was | honor and distinction up to the day| served this Society several years as

held.

elected President, S. S. Bailey Vice-| of his death. Early in his incumben- |

President, S. L. Fuller Treasurer and |
A. T. Linderman Secretary. A cas-|
ual examination of the records of the |
Society recalls the fact that Henry |
Holt, of Cascade, engaged in the cul- |
tivation of a fine farm many years |
ago, was not satisfied with the prod- |
ucts of the field alone, but the or-|
chard and the garden claimed his at- |
tention. He was especially success- |
ful as a producer of apples. Al- |

though well advanced in years when |

this society was organized, he ever

}
esteemed it a duty to attend the meet- |
|derman early in the history of

ings and his presence gave pleasure
to us all. He was a practical horti-
culturist and the benefit of his skill
and experience was enjoyed by many
fruit growers of the present

| ples representing a dozen

cy of the presidency he read before

| hold that office.

the Society a paper which was high- |

ly commended, urging fruit growers
not to attempt to produce all

|

known varieties of apples, peaches or |

other fruits, but, for commercial rea-
sons, to limit their production to a
few of the standard varieties. He was
of the opinion that a farmer could
realize more from a hundred bushels
of either Northern Spies or Baldwins
than from the same quantity of ap-
varieties.
An important paper read by Mr. Lin-
the

| State Pomological Society urged the

establishment by the State of a test
garden for horticulture. The sugges-

| grapes and as a winemaker.
the idents remember the splendid exhibits

he made at the fairs between 1870 and |

when, a few years later, Mr. Linder-
man was elected a member of the
Legislature, he evidently had forgot-
ten the plan, as he did not undertake
to give it a practical test by secur-
ing the legislation necessary to
do so.

The first fair of the State Pomo-
logical Society was held in Grand
Rapids with the Kent County Agri-
cultural Society, September 27 to 30,
1870. The display of fruit, flowers,
wines, preserved fruits, jellies and
garden products was very large and

A. Duga, of Grattan township, car-
ried off the premium for the best

He | township collection serves to remind

So-
Edward Bradfield, of Ada,
its President, he being the first to

grower of

Old res-

great distinction as a

'the year in which he died, and of his

| generosity in dispensing

the fruits
and wines constituting the same. Mr.
Bradfield was firm in the belief that

|a grape first propagated by Dr. Grant,
|at his Island home in the Hudson

| River, was the best ever grown for |
the |
'fairs referred to he produced sam- |
|ples of wine made from twenty-five |

varieties of grapes and, after testing |

the maker of wine. At one of

them all, it was strange indeed if the

|tester did not agree with Mr. Brad-

day. | tion was generally commended, but | field, that Iona wine was the wine of |

Mr. Bradfield won |

the Gods. Mr. Bradfield propagated
a grape which promised well and
called it the Bradfield Seedling.
Nothing has been heard of it of late
years. George S. Linderman, of
Grand Rapids township, was a valua-
ble member of this Society. He was
not only successful in growing fruit,
flowers and garden products, but he
is entitled to a great deal of credit
for beautifying our city. Many hun-
dreds of the most beautiful shade
trees growing in the city were taken
from the forests in their natural
state and replanted by Mr. Linder-
man. In this work he was ever con-
scientious. Those who favored him
with their orders obtained the best of
stock, which was so planted and car-
ted for by Mr. Linderman that it
was seldom indeed that one died. An
evidence of his work in this direc-
tion is furnished in the splendid col-
lection of trees to be seen on the
|Government lot surrounding the
Postoffice. George Kendall and Mrs.
R. W. Morris will long be remember-
ed for their efforts to propagate
| French grapes in this city. Very
|creditable exhibits of black Hom-
'borgs and White Fontainebleaus
| were made by these persons at the
fairs of the early seventies. Thomas
| R. Renwick and John Suttle, the pio-
ineer florists of Grand Rapids, were
regular attendants during their lives
upon the meetings of this Society.
George W. Dickinson, William Rowe,
Perley W. Johnson, Rev. Mr. Waring
|and Thomas Wilde should not be for
gotten. Their presence was ever wel-
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brought before the monthly pectin |
their advice and experience were of |
great value. The tables of the Pres- |
ident and the Secretary were usually
decorated from their gardens. Wil-
liam Haldane will be remembered for
his success as a grower of grapes|
and a maker of wine. His home and_|
his vineyard occupied the grounds
upon which now stands the office}
building of the Michigan Trust Com- |
pany. He was for many years engag-
ed in mercantile business and manu-
facturing, but the growing of grapes
was his diversion and pleasure. He
attended the meetings of this So-
ciety and much benefit was derived |
by the members from his experiences
in the vineyard. At one of the early
meetings of the Society Mr. Haldane |
read a paper treating of the subject |
in which he was most interested, and |
tipon its conclusion the President en-
quired: “Mr. Haldane, can you give
tis an idea of the profit derived from
winemaking?” Mr. Haldane replied,
“IT realize $4 a gallon for wine from |
four to six years of age. Wine in-|
creases 10 per cent. per annum in|

value. I should not like to treat my |
temperance friends to wine made}
without sugar. To keep well wine}

must have spirit, and wine of a good |
quality must be a stimulant and sugar
produces it.” Mr. Bradfield enquir-
ed, “Is not wine made without sug- |
ar of the most temperate character?” |
Mr. Haldane replied, “I claim to be a/|
temperance man, and if I thought |
wine would injure the temperance |
cause I would plug my barrels.” |

The President enquired, “Would it
not be safer to pull the plugs out, ,
Mr. Haldane?”

To mention all the prominent hor-
ticulturists, to speak of the qualities |
that endeared them to us, would re-
quire more space than I have at my |
command. I can not refrain from |
speaking, however, of Charles W..|
Garfield, who has given a large part |
of his life to the interests of horticul- |
ture and as yet is not weary of well
doing. Many beautiful spots in our |
city attest his value to the community.
Although engaged in many enter-|
prises he finds time to give to the
service of the State in an effort to}
reforest its barren plains.

At one of the meetings in the early
seventies a young farmer named
Buell surprised and greatly interest- |
ed our members with an exhibit of
figs, grown in the township of Ada.
A paper read by Mr. Buell at a sub-
sequent meeting of the Society, de-
scribing the process employed in cul-
tivating figs, was greatly enjoyed for
the novel information it contained.

I can not close this brief and hur-
riedly written paper without referring
to John Ball. He was one of the
first to join the State Pomological
Society and was the first life member
of the Grand River Valley Horticul-
tural Society. He was a lover of the
field and the garden and among the
varied interests to which he devoted
his time and means during his life,
horticulture was not the least. But

the most notable act of his long and
useful life was the provision made in
his last will and testament by which

|loved his fellow men, purchase a

|your name as long as one costing
| $1,000.
| would preserve your name forever.

|action of reducing gases, which bring

 

the city of Grand Rapids became pos-

 

sessed of the splendid tract of hill-_|
side, valley and plain known as John|
Ball Park. His generosity and fore- |
thought in providing a place where.|
thousands living and yet unborn may |
study and enjoy the beauties of Na-|
ture, freely and as often as_ they|
please, have endeared his memory to}

|the people of our city and of our|

State. Men seek to perpetuate their
names by providing for the erection
of costly monuments over their re-

| mains in the cemeteries, but chiseled
| granite wears away and the names
\inscribed thereow are forgotten. If
| you would write your name on the

scroll of the people’s benefactors; if
you would be regarded as one who}

suitable tract of ground and give it
to the city for park purposes. A
hundred dollar monument would bear
A public pleasure ground
Remember that the rippling waters
on the western hillside, the birds, the
flowers, the sun glints and_ the
zephyrs whisper the name of John
Ball, and if you should emulate his
example the same forces of Nature |
and hundreds of thousands of grate-|
ful people would whisper yours.
A. S. White.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

DEGENERACY AND INSANITY.

 

Methods By Which They May Be aera

Prevented.
When we examine into the causes

|

|

rents frequently brings out strange
characteristics and unfavorably influ-
This may be due

to the difference of the thought life

of wrong doing and enquire into the |

nature of moral degeneracy evinced
thereby, we find room for interesting
scientific research, both by the phy-
Sician and metaphysician.

Among the many causes may be

enumerated hereditary predisposition, by senaies in 0 lovee ence ok wee

intemperance of all kinds, mental
anxieties uncontrolled, worry and
fear in their protean, their ever-chang-
ing aspect, in conjunction with an
extremely weakened will, environ-
mental and psychic influences. Con-
sanguineous marriages and great dis-
parity in the ages of parents unfav-
orably influence the children, as do
morphine, cocaine and similar drugs.

Hereditary influences or tendencies
in causing insanity seem to prove a
powerful factor. The tendency may
be strong or weak and not so as to
be noticeable until something has
brought it out and the will, becom-
ing weakened, gives way.

Reckless marriages of people with-
out duly considering their mental
and bodily defects, and the tenden-
cies of both in this direction, with
no sense of responsibility for the
children brought into the world and
the miseries and infirmities entailed,
would lead one to think that man in
this respect does not reason about
these matters as carefully as he does
in breeding a high class of animals.

While it would be useless to lay
down rules for marriage according to
more sober’ reasons, nevertheless
there is definite knowledge we must
make use of, for we know that if
care is not exercised degeneration
takes place through the coming gen-
erations if there is not training and
the tendencies go unchecked.

If mankind in general were to give
up alcohol and other excesses and
live temperately there would soon be
a vast diminution of insanity in the
world. Its indulgence occasions
misery, crime and disease, and the
evils in higher and lower social life
that can be brought back to its door
can hardly be computed. It
taste which, once acquired, takes
hold of the young and old in the
most insidious way and gets a grip
that is hard to shake off, weakening
the will and leaving the victim unable
to say no. It is no wonder its ef-
fects are so great when we consider
it is carried into our business and so-
cial life.

Marriage of near relatives, on ac-
count of the accentuation of family
weaknesses, leads to trouble, espe-
cially if the weakness or defect is
the same on both sides of the pa-
rents. This risk increases as the de-
viation from normal does and_ the
weaker rather than the stronger ten-
dencies are apt to be transmitted to
the children. Many marriages of
near relatives have not proven so in
the. absense of family weaknesses, and
the offspring has grown up healthy,
both mentally and physically. On
the other hand, persons of no kin-
ship, but both inheriting morbid ten-
cencies alike, should not marry.

Great disparity in the age of pa-

is a

of ‘the individual.

The frequent and careless giving of
morphine and cocaine for the relief
cf pain by physicians, forgetting the

| consequences tc those who get into

 

the terrible so-called “drug habit,” is
a factor in forming a habit that year-

ful instances of depravation and in-
sanity being made public. Many evil
minded people give these drugs for
the purpose of weakening the will
power of young persons and bring-
ing them under their control. Chica-
go has had several samples of drug-
gists dealing out these deadly com-
modities to any who ask for them,
unmindful of the consequences, and
these are by no means the only pois-
cnous drugs that can be obtained
in the same way. Our laws can not
be too severe on these matters.

Among environmental and psychic
influences may be mentioned the
places in which young children are
reared and the vicious influences by
which they are surrounded, such as
one sees in the slums of the city, sa-
loons and dance halls. Places of
vice are certainly not calculated to
bring out the best in life, when we
consider the low character that fre-
guent such places. C

Crime often occurs, perhaps oft-
ener than otherwise, from a diseased
brain or body and bad external con-
ditions. It is a sort of neurosis,
grown as criminals are into an al-
most complete absence of moral
sense and evoluted by the environ-
ment with nothing to check it. Many
criminals are begotten and live in
scenes and surroundings that encour-
age this growth from their youth up,
so that the mind is molded in this
way. Any one who has looked into
it can see the low mental and physi-
cal characteristics of such people.
But these unfortunate creatures are
not so from sheer choice, hereditary
influences, special natural affinity,
end the inclination of their natures
and environment drawing them in-
to it, and so the growth goes on if
unchecked.

Life in this, our hustling, bustling
age, is not conducive to the best
growth of our mental, moral and
physical nature. The young as well
as those of more mature years are
greatly affected by the unrest. Im-
pure atmosphere, continous noises
day and night, and insufficient nutri-
tion and the demands made on hu-
man beings are accountable for many
of the conditions discussed. If the
intense noises of Chicago alone could
be mitigated, as they might, there
would be a great lessening of ten-
sion and nervous diseases and pro-
longation of life.

In training for the cultivation of
the degenerate and weak mind shall
we take the optimistic or pessimistic
view? Decidedly the former. The
pessimistic philesopher says he is
conscious of a fate in life and that
fate is man’s inheritance, it is the
destiny of man’s ancestors.

The optimist believes in the posi-
tive and greater power of the good.

 

Spencer said before his death that
the balance was decidedly in favor of
2 qualified optimism.

We must look to education in its
higher sense to lead out, to unfold,
to train mentally, morally, physically
the evolution of a higher individual.
Education at present deals too much
in external routine, running in old
beaten tracks, and too little in de-

veloping the power of the individual

and his individuality.

Continual
exercised in the environment
good physical surroundings and airy

buildings.

the mind for growth and control than
by music of the higher order.
in we find a source of training and
control that is most powerful

beginning to focus attention.

To develop and bring out the indi- |
vidual fear alone will not prove effec- |
tive, but by suitable education dis- |
positions that iead to crime and dis- |

order can be checked in early life and
many ways can be found to spur on
the growth in preference to corporal
punishment.

They must be imbued with new
ideas of stronger life and better prin- |
| ciples which will take root and bring |

forth a new individual built over by
time and preseverance. In this way

we will succeed in eliminating  vi-

| cious propensities and dispositions of

cruelty, stealing and anger, for the

evil tendency or craving in the brain |

we must watchfully substitute the op-
posite kind of thoughts and feelings,
znd keep them active, often each day,
until they take hold of the being and
awaken new memories and build new
structures and cells in place of the
old ones.

By dint of purpose and persever-
ance coupled with pleasurable mem-
ories must we succeed in the work.
Better control can be secured over
the mind thus and by degrees the
evil motives can be eliminated and
new ones grown in their place.

William D. H. Brown, M. D.

watchfulness should be |
that |
wotld help out, such as cheerful and

Probably there is no bet- |
ter way direction can be given to!

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THE WILL CURE.

It Is Particularly Recommended for
Nerve Troubles.

There are few sayings so often |
quoted as “There is no such word |
as Impossible in my vocabulary.” |
Whether the great man ever said it |
or not, it remains the highest testi- |
mony to belief in the supremacy of |
the will we have. “I will if I will”’—|
it seems a simple gospel of success. |
That it is able to supply proofs of
its efficacy few will venture to deny.
A little look around will bring many
of its disciples before one—men and |
women so handicapped by surround-
ings, by fortune, by circumstance, |
that the mystery of their coming to
riches or to fame can only be solved
by their possession of an indomitable
will.

 

The latest development of the be- |
lief in the power of the will is shown
by doctors. Two French physicians
have just written a book describing |
their treatment of disease by merely |
strengthening the will of their pa-|
tients and giving them the desire |
and determination to get better. This |
treatment is entirely free from any
suspicion of hypnotism or faith heal- |
ing. Quite the contrary. In cures
made by hypnotic suggestion the pa- |
tient’s will is entirely suspended |
while the more energetic one of the |
operator reigns supreme, and so far |
from the actions done while in the |
sleep strengthening the mind and
repairing brain waste as well as bod-
ily infirmity, it is well known that
the effect of hypnotic treatment is
often mentally injurious.

So evident, indeed, has this become
that one famous physician has aban-
doned hypnotism in his treatment of
nervous and mental diseases. For the
tyranny of suggestion he has substi- |
tuted the different influence of per-
suasion. I was interested in the ac-
counts of the new experiment and |
departure in medicine, especially as
there is so much in it that one’s own |
common sense and observation seem
to have already found out.

There are few things more com- |
forting in illness than a good talk |
over its symptoms and its inconve- |
niences. And do we not also know |
the difficulty of finding a sympathetic
ear ready to listen to our jeremiads? |
Now, the first principle of this new |
school (may it soon be here!) is that |

the doctor should take the place ofa |

confessor, get at every detail as to |
the origin, the progress, and _ the}
present condition of the malady. He |
then confides to the patient that
which has hitherto always been com-
posed for a doctor’s own private ref-
erence or for a consultant’s informa-
tion, viz., a history of the case.
Just think of the new and delightful
sensation for a sickroom of reading |

over the history of your own case!
But that is not all. After being
put in full possession of all the)
pros and cons of your ailment you |
are brought into collaboration as to |
the remedies. If you need medicine |
you are told its constituents, its prop- |
erties, and the effect it is likely =
|

produce on your constitution. Ina
word, instead of being put “into the |
hands” of a doctor you are made ne

| correct

MICHIGAN

auxiliary, you learn the why and
wherefore of everything connected
with your illness; you are led to
take, as it were, a professional inter-
est in its progress, and that leads to
the professional pride which renders
you anxious to make a “good case”
of yourself.

Perhaps here I had better quote
the words of Drs. Camus and Pag-
niez, who have initiated this new prin-
ciple: “We think,” they say, “that
many patients would be able to
pull themselves together, and even

cure themselves, did they know the |

exact nature of their illness; but be-
ing ignorant of it they often exagger-
ate; get to believe they are seriously
ill and give themselves up to sick-
ness as if it were fatality.”

A great change, certainly, from the

cabalistic authority and the sibylline |

utterances which were considered the
“bedside manner” for the
fashioned doctor. Yet there is
nothing new under the sun—this sim-
ple idea of a sick person assisting in
his or her own cure, which it has

old

taken a couple of Frenchmen several |

hundred pages to elaborate, has oft-
en been seized on by doctors when
dealing with intelligent patients.
One doctor in particular whom I
know, without ever thinking of claim-
ing any originality or system for his
treatment, has been most successful
with what he calls a logical and nat-
ural way of dealing with a patient.
He lets a patient know as much of

| the pros and cons of the case as him-
| self,

is confidential as to the compo-

sition and action of his medicines,

| which, by-the-by, he uses sparingly, |
'and a favorite phrase of his is, “You |
| have far more to do with this ques-

tion of getting better than I have.”

Unfortunately, such common sense
methods do not pay. People still
like to surround the doctor with the
mystic cloak of the medicine man,

‘and, in a poor district particularly,

the doctor of plain speech and a be-
lief in nature as his most powerful
assistant has a hard and generally a
losing fight against the solemn head
shakes, the portentous technical
terms, and the confidence in medi-
cine which. distinguish his col-
leagues. “He don’t know nothing;
I know’d all that about my baby my-
self as he told me. And he wouldn't
give me a bottle of medicine!” is the
grateful verdict a doctor will often
hear passed on his common sense
methods. And he will, moreover, see
the baby taken to a brother practi-

| tioner with less brains and less scru-
' ples, and the mother will be indulg-

ed with the luxury of a “good” cry
on the strength of a new diagnosis
and made happy in the possession of
two bottles of medicine with a prom-
ise to change them if they do not do

‘the child good.

Apropos of the public’s love of
hanky-panky, and, indeed, of quack-
ery in all its shades, I read an amus-
ing instance recently: A man in a
certain neighborhood was having a
vogue for his remedies and cures
for certain diseases. He indulged in
great display and was making plenty
of money. At last a health official,
suspicious of his qualifications, had

TRADESMAN

| hhien brought before the authorities
|and charged with practicing without
| qualification. The prisoner asked to
| be allowed to make a private explan-
|ation to the judge. This was grant-
|ed and he proved that he had medi-
| cal qualifications—and most excellent
| ones, according to diplomas from
i leading colleges.

| He made the curious request, how-
| ever, that the judge should not make
his secret known. And he gave as
his reason that for years he had
| tried to work up a legitimate prac-
tice and always failed. He was on
the verge of starvation when he re-
solved to see what he could do by
posing as a quack. His success was
so great that he feared the prejudice
which might arise through his pa-
tients finding out that the drugs they
had from him were all compounded
|on the strict lines of the pharmaco-
| poeia. Indeed, the love of being daz-
| zled, whether by a silver tongue or
| a gilt card case, is so strong in hu-
|man nature that simplicity in any
|art has generally the hardest fight
for recognition.

 

The will cure, which we must call
‘it for want of another name, al-
|though claimed to be helpful in all
| diseases, is particularly recommend-
|ed for nerve troubles. And here the
“doctors differ’ maxim is seen once
more exemplified. To arouse the at-
tention and interest is, of course, the
first step in nervous attacks, but in-
stead of a patient being advised to
seek distraction in change of scene
and in variety of amusement quite the
opposite course is adopted.

The pa-

20

tients are once more put to school,
as it were. In severe neurasthenia,
for example, concentration of atten-
tion causes extreme fatigue. So con-
versations, lectures, mental  exer-
cises, and writing are all included in
the earlier stages of the cure. The
steps taken to gradually build up the
character until the “I will’ and “I
will not” become dominant and as-
sured factors in life are too compli-
cated, too lengthy, and too meta-
physical to go into in the confines
of this article. Indeed, a description
of the treatment reads like a mixture
of the curriculum of a truant school
and a book of spiritual meditations.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE FIRST BILLIONAIRE.

 

Story of the Richest Man in the
World.

John Davidson Rockefeller to-day
is credited with being the _ richest
man in the world.

By the same token he is one of
the baldest men on the globe, desti-
tute of hair, beard, eyebrows and
even eyelashes.

But to the extent that he is proud
of his financial pre-eminence and
ambitious to become the first billion-
aire in the history of the world, he
is extremely sensitive as to his un-
usual hairlessness. Yet, as if in the
irony of fate, not all the uncounted
millions in his possession and under
his control will sprout one eyelash
for his keen, gray eye. Surely there
may be the ring of genuineness in
the epigram credited to him, “The
poorest man in the world is the man
who has nothing but money.”

More columns and more pages of
printed matter have been devoted to
the subject of Rockefeller and Stand-
ard Oil and to the octopus of all oc-
topi, than have been devoted to a
single combined subject for a thou-
sand years. The word Rockefeller
has a significanse in the English
speaking world beyond the name of
any other one man living, and be-
yond most of those dead. Yet the
question, “What and who is this man
Rockefeller?” could not be smiled at
indulgently by anybody to whom it
might be addressed.

Nobody in the offices of the Stand-
ard Oil Company at 26 Broadway,
in New York, will profess or confess
to knowing.

“T have worked in the office of the
company for five years as the mana-
ger of a department, and I never
saw John D. Rockefeller,” is one
man’s testimony.

“T never saw him in the twenty-six
years I have been with the com-
pany,” said a chief clerk of a depart-
ment. “It might be suspected that
he comes to the office frequently, but
if he does, nobody knows it.”

But, according to tradition, it is
the strict duty of every employe in
the gloomy building in Broadway not
to know of the comings and goings
of him who has earned the magazine
appellation of the “human mole.”
This tradition has it that one of the
fundamental propositions in the con-
duct of the general offices is that an
employe, leaving the company for an-
other trial at life, is impressed that
he may return to the service of the
company at any time thereafter, pro-
vided he has been “discreet.” Why
should an employe know anything?

Rockefeller himself does not know.
Time and again he has not known
ii the Standard Oil Company keeps
books. He has been under a mere
impression that it does keep “rec-
ords,” but frequently he has_ not
known where they could be _ found.
He does not know how much money
he is worth. Not long ago he said
in answer to a question that he did
not know James R. Keene, the man
with whom his business _ interests
have clashed time and again. His
brother Frank, in Cleveland, close as

 

the tie of blood might be, is un-
known to him.

There is a light on the man Rocke-
feller in this estrangement from his
brother. For years there has beena
Rockefeller lot in a Cleveland ceme-
tery. At the time of the estrange-
ment of the brothers over a money
matter, two children of the brother
Frank were buried in the family lot,
in which John had erected out of
hand a monolith costing $60,000.
Four years ago Frank Rockefeller
moved the bodies of his two children
from their graves to a new lot, and
the bitterness between the brothers
seemingly was beyond even the
powers of time to sweeten. All over
a deal of money, the amount of which
would not be missed from the purse
of the man whose income is said to
be $2.06 a second and $65,000,000 a
year.

But if this be considered a light
on the character of the man, it does
not harmonize with an incident in
which a friend of the writer a few
weeks ago figured near Tarrytown.
This man, in company with a friend,
of New York, was walking over the
hills, regardless of fences and sud-
denly found themselves in a_ beau-
tiful golf ground. They were admir-
ing it when a man of peculiar general
appearance approached, asking if they
did not think it a fine ground. They
said they did.

“But you can’t appreciate it from
here—I wish you would go up to the
house and go into the tower; it is
worth while.”

The visitors suggested that it
might not be agreeable to the pro-
prietor of the grounds, or to the
club, or to whoever owned the links.

“Oh, that’s all right; just tell the
man at the door what you want.”

The visitors rang the bell, were
shown to the tower, looked over the
wide sweep of hills, lakes, river,
roadways—and as they left the house
discovered that the richest man in
the world had invited them to the
outlook.

Ray Stannard’ Baker, passing
through Chicago the other day, spoke
of McClure’s expose of the Standard
Oil Company and of the Rockefeller
personality.

“Looking at the man, the impres-
sion of the head and face is like
nothing so much as a clean Early
Rose potato,’ siad Mr. Baker. “The
comparison is instinctive, and_ it
grows upon one as he studies the
face.

“In spite of all that we have shown
against the man and his methods, it
is the impression of those in touch
with Mr. Rockefeller that he thor-
oughly believes in himself—that he
finds no moral lapses in himself or
in his methods. Certainly the credit
has been given him that he is the
power and the brains of the organiza-
tion.”

Yet in spite of this, too, it has been
charged against Rockefeller that he
has designs upon thousands of acres
of Sleepy Hollow, made famous by
Washington Irving and classic to
American literature. Blacksmiths,
saloonkeepers, farmers, millers, and
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advances and have surrendered atthe
last, while the interested and still dis-
interested lovers of Irving and the
traditions of the Dutch of New Am-
sterdam have been shocked at the

possibility of Rockefeller’s finally ab- |

sorbing the old cemetery in which
Brom Bones found horse for the pur-

suit of Ichabod Crane and where Irv- |

ing himself lies buried. It is set-
tled in the minds of his critics that
the village of Pocantico Hills will be
razed to the ground and that even

Tarrytown hangs in the balances of |

the billionaire’s whims.

Why should he not be feared in
this connection? Rockefeller’s  su-
premacy in the industrial world is el-
oquent of the possibility if the man so
wills. Starting with the refining

exceed $4,500, it is shown that to-
day he has a controlling influence in
organized institutions having a capi-
tal of $5,239,008,802, as follows:

Batroaas, ..000.70.... Saser sos oe
Industrial companies 1,835,872,300

Banks and trust com-

Pages oe, 181,062,399
Safe deposit companies. 609,531
Telegraph and telephone

eompamies 1.0.0.0... .: 182,870,000
Insurance companies 3,200,000

Mining companies
Gas, electric light and
power companies
Traction and transporta-
tion companies
Navigation companies

195,000,000
110,763,700

166,750,000

ea $5,239,008,802

In spite of these figures, John D.
Rockefeller is known as a director
in only four corporations. At the|
same time he is suspected of domin- |

“ating more than’ 150 corporations, |
big and little. He controls 25,000 |
miles of pipe line, controls 75 per |
cent. of the crude petroleum of the
country, owns every tank car in the
United States, has 200 vessels en-
gaged in transportation, owns 75,000
delivery wagons, and hires an army
of 25,000 men. Incidental to his own
success he is said to have made at
least I00 men associated with him
millionaires. As to the number of
men he has ruined, count presuma-
bly has not been kept.

But this man, whom Jay Gould
described as possessing the “finest
organizing brain of this generation,”
was once described by an unexpected
caller in his office as “wearing a $2
sack coat and the air of a $10 clerk
in a corner grocery.” This same
man, described by a great financier
as “unable to remember more than
six years back and yet capable of
seeing fifty years ahead,’ also has
been pictured by a judge of clothes
as a man whom nobody in New
York could think of asking for the
address of his tailor.

This man, who plays the violin
with feeling and skill, has been re-
membered by Wall Street since the
episode in 1903, when he tnhorsed
the brilliant Morgan and squeezed
a billion dollars in water from the
stock markets. Wall Street, perhaps,
can not pretend to understand this
man, who gives away an average of
$750,000 a year and employs a sec-

 

of |
oil when his combined assets did not |

41,447,800 |

| has been able to eat.

freeary at a $75,000 salary to see that |
| the gifts are well placed and worthi- |
ai
| thank offering at his escape from the |

ily. It may have smiled when as

| fire that destroyed his home in Po-

| College.

But this man, who has done these
things and is still doing them, either
|regards the tasks
| tism looks upon
|only to Rockefeller. A few years
ago he came out with an offer, which

is still standing, of a salary of $1,000,- |
| 000 a year to the man who will man- |

age only the affairs of the Standard
| Oil Company—and presumably
shoulder the onus of the task. But

terms. In the past some hard names
;and some hideous charges have been
| directed at the head of the Standard
Oil Company.

In February, a year ago, some-
thing new in the accredited methods

covered in Washington, when certain
senators blazed up against the tele-
gram signed Rockefeller and de-
manding that trust legislation be
stopped. The Standard Oil counsel,
appearing in person in Washington,
was snubbed and turned down. It
could not have been pleasant work;
even a million dollar manager must
have gone far to earn his salary in
such an expose.

life? might be a question. It is
only within a year or two that he
Nervousness
had wrecked him before the same
trouble became responsible for the al-
most freakish
beard. His city home at 4 West
Fifty-fourth street in New York is

 

: at
commonplace by comparison. with |

cantico Hills two years ago he gave |
| $500,000 in a lump to the Teachers’ |
| only a few years ago that he and his |

aS onerous to 2|
stupendous degree or out of his ego- |
them as possible |

|other thing in life.
there were no applications under the | ing he acknowledges

tary pleasure greater than the initial |

of the Standard Oil magnate was un-:

 

What does Rockefeller get out of |
| Columbia University was tagged with

 

loss of his hair and |

OU ARE A

the mansions of less wealthy men. If |
he shall have a private park of 1,500 |
acres at Pocantico Hills, it will have
been at the cost of irritations mak-

|ing it dear beyond money. His sum-
mer home near Cleveland is a for- |
tress in its impregnability. It is|

own brother William were at dag-|
gers’ points. His hatred for the|
town of his birth in Tiogo county, N. |
¥., is well known, and is in sharp |
contrast with the love of Henry H.
Rogers for his birthplace, Fairhav-
en, Mass., to which Rogers has given
millions in material benefits.

Perhaps giving that which he has |

no personal use for appeals to Rock- |
efeller more strongly than does any |
But in this giv-

a

one. It comes from the spirit that

prompted him to say he dearly loved |
the |

to force a man to give when
whole heart of that man was set up-

on holding on to his wealth. Rocke-|
the |

feller has.accomplished this in
method of giving, requiring the re-
cipient of his charity to raise a cer-
tain amount commensurate with his
own gift.

In his giving Rockefeller has made
the University of Chicago his largest
beneficiary, and the $11,000,000 which
he has put into that“institution has
haps unwillingly, from their own
money.
$500,000 to the Teachers’ College of
the condition that the school raise
an equal sum. But even on
condition some one_ has
that the donor has something

ard Mayo-Smith, of Columbia Uni-

versity, when the professor was mov- |
| man.

ed to say:

supplemen- |

| of
| pocketknife I scraped a small amount
i ; | of concentrated lye and then placed
panel 4 Sot aeaey oer Per. See |the old shingles around under the

: | | stable floors and under the cribs. The
Even his thank offering of |

| left for parts unknown.
*“|ed many farms of the pests in the
this |
remarked |
to |
show in an utterance of Prof. Rich- |

“No alarm ought to be felt by the
community in this concentration of
wealth. Mr. Rockefeller gains this
immense wealth by performing serv-
ices to the community, and the com-
munity gains in increased cheapness
of commodities, in better service, and
in cheaper transportation. However
wealthy he may get, the advantages
to the community are still greater.”

“Perhaps Rockefeller himself be-
lieves this,” is the comment of a
man known to the literary world
who, in the midst of the Tarbell se-
ries of papers, one day was riding in
a Pullman car in conversation with
the subject of those papers. “We
were talking when the news agent
came through announcing the issue

iof McClure’s containing the latest
roasting of Standard Oil. I was em-

barrassed, but Rockefeller called to
the boy, put his hand into his pocket,
and bought two copies of the maga-
zine, handing one of them to me, say-
ing, ‘You want to see just what they
are saying about me.’”
Jonas Howard.
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Getting Rid of Rats.

A farmer says he rid his farm of
rats in the following manner: “On
a very large number of old shingles
I put about one-half a teaspoonful
molasses and on that, with my

next morning I found forty dead rats
and the rest vamoosed the farm and
I have clear-

same way and have never known it
to! fail”

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GOOD ROADS.

Why the Government Should Aid in
Building Them.

This subject is as old as the Gov-
ernment itself. The improvement of
the common roads engaged the atten-
tion of our ablest statesmen from
1802 to 1832, and during that period
about $14,000,c00 was appropriated
for road purposes. All the great
minds of that period were one in
conceding this question to be of the
highest importance and of the most
far-reaching effect in determining the
happiness and prosperity of the
American people. It is to-day, as it
was then, a question which demands
the earnest consideration of every
American citizen. The mud tax, lev-
ied on our people by the miserable
condition of the common roads, is
the highest and the most enormous
that we have to pay. It costs the
people of the United States every
year three hundred million dollars
more to transport the surplus prod-
ucts of the farm and forest to the
shipping point than the total cost
of transporting all of the freight, |
passengers, mail and express over |
all the railroads of the United States.
In 1896 the railroads received from |
all sources a little over $700,000,000. |
Every dollar of this revenue was re-
turned to the people in the employ-|
ment of labor, the use of material, in
taxes to the States, and in interest
on invested capital. The one billion
dollars or more spent in cost of |
transportation over the dirt roads
was a total loss, not one cent being |
returned to the people in taxes or |
as interest on invested capital.

 

 

And yet this is only a small pro-
portion of the loss caused by the
poor condition of our roads. The
loss of surplus product which can
not be put on the market; the neces- |
city of maintaining millions of draft |
animals which would otherwise be
unnecessary; the loss of capital in ve-
liicles; the depressed and dissatisfied
condition of our agricultural classes
on account of hardships and isolation
and the consequent falling off of
production and the decrease in values
are ali sources of loss of millions to
the people.

 

In this enlightened age no one
questions the stupendous advantages
which would follow a complete sys-
tem of improved roads. The esti-
mated savings of one year would be |
sufficient to pay the total cost of
macadamizing every road in the Unit-
ed States.

On the improved roads of Europe
the cost of transporting a ton per
mile is from eight to twelve cents,
while in the United States the cost
averages twenty-five cents. A_ re-
duction of the cost by one-half would
save to the American people $500,-
000,000 per annum.

The practical question which con- |
fronts us to-day is, How is this con-
dition to be met and overcome? Up-
on whom must the burden of this
great undertaking fall? We have
tried the present system, which was
inherited from England, and it has
not resulted in much improvement
in the past 100 vears. In every other
respect we have cast off ancient

 

 

isumers of raw material
| products

methods, introduced new ideas, ma-
chinery and skill, and by a combina-
tion of these with American brain
and industry we have eclipsed all
other nations, making the whole
world our market and all nations to
pay us tribute. But in road improve-
ment we are still warning out the
people to work from three to ten
days a year on the roads under the
direction of men who know but lit-
tle of modern road construction, and
the result is that a few shovels of
dirt are thrown upon the road to be-
come mud, or to be washed away
altogether by the next rain. This
condition is out of all proportion to
cur civilization, and is a standing re-
proach to our intelligence and pat-
1iotism

It is evident that some change in
our method of road improvement
must be adopted. The local commu-
nity is not able to construct roads
unaided. Many of the states are not
able to do so, and even if they were
there is a feeling which, in my opin-
ion, is justly founded, that it would
be an unequal burden laid upon them
to be compelled to do it., The con-
and food
throughout the United
States are equally interested with the
producer in lowering the cost of

| transportation, for they in the end

have 10 pay this heavy tax. Realiz-
ing that this burden cannot be
equitably distributed except by plac-
ing it on all the people, and that the
most remunerative powers of raising
revenue, originally held by the
States, are now in the Federal Gov-
ernment, it is only by an appropria-

| tion out of the Federal treasury that
ithe improvement of our roads can
| be accomplished with justice to all

the people.

The next question is the power of
Congress to make such an appropria-
tion. I think the power exists by
express grant in the constitution. Bas-
ing my opinion on the views of such
eminent men as Madison, Gallatin,
Webster, Calhoun, Clay and Adams,
and taking into consideration the
legislative history of the country, I
hold that the power is clearly estab-
lished. The power has been exer-
cised whenever Congress thought it
wise to do so, and the only question

| which is really important is whether

or not this is a proper subject for
Federal aid. All that is asked by
the bill introduced by me is the ap-
Lropriation of a fund for road pur-
poses. The States are to furnish
the right of way, maintain the road
after it is built, and pay one-half of
the costs. Congress is not asked to
invade the Statés, but simply to ap-
propriate money as an aid to an ob-
ject for the gereral welfare and hap-
piness of all the people. This is an
object which appeals to the wisdom
and patriotism of Congress not only
on account of the great benefit to
our people socially, but also as an
investment of the public funds. There
could be no better investment of
the public funds than in road im-
provement. It would enhance the
value of farm lands from 10 to 50
per cent. There are over 600,000,000
acres of land in cultivation in the
United States, and an increase in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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value of $5 per acre would aid three |
billion dollars to the wealth of the |
country in this item alone. By im-|
proving and shortening the road to!
market millions of dollars’ worth of |
products that are now a dead loss|
would be turned into money, and the
price of all commodities would be
reduced to the consumer, giving the
producer a greater profit than he is|
now receiving. The congestion
business during the winter months |
would disappear, and our _ people
could go to market at all times. The|
introduction of advanced methods
and enlarged ideas of business, which |
would follow the improvement of the
roads, would extend business along |
all lines and secure greater profits
to all concerned. The doing away
with unnecessary animals and vehi-
cles would be a saving of millions of
dollars to the people. The employ-
ment of labor and the distribution of |
money from the congested centers of |
wealth, the purchase of materials and |
products, and _ other advantages, |
would come from the improvement of
the roads. The material advantages
which would follow are too numerous
to mention and too great to estimate.
He would be blind indeed who could
doubt the wisdom of such an invest-
ment.

|

of

|
|
|
|

It is contended by many who op-
pose this appropriation that it would
bankrupt the Federal treasury. Let |
us see if this contention is based up-
on sound judgment. During the last
five years we have spent more than
$600,000,000 in the Philippine Islands, |
$168,000,000 on rivers and_ harbors, |
and have more than doubled our ap-
propriations for the army and navy,

znd still we have a surplus in the
treasury of over $200,000,000. With
the war over in the Philippine Is-|

iands there ought to be from $40,000,-
coo to $70,000,000 annually above the
necessary expenses which will go to
the surplus if prosperity continues.
An expenditure of $500,000,000 annual-
ly for road purposes would not be a
heavy drain upon the treasury, but, |
on the other hand, as I have shown,
would tend to enrich the people, en-

abling them to become larger con-
sumers and thereby reimburse the
treasury.

There are other considerations

more important than any financial ad-
vantage which would follow the im-
provement of the roads. The unrest
and dissatisfaction of our agricultural
classes is attributed in a large meas-
ure to the condition of our roads.
They are cut off from the centers of
progress. Life on the farm is unat-
tractive and means mental and social
isolation. The brain and manhood
of the rural communities are seeking
opportunities elsewhere. All the
lines of trade and industry are be-
coming congested, and in some sec-
tions the farms are becoming de-
pleted and left to the thriftless and
unambitious. The mere statement of
the case is sufficient to arouse our
aeepest apprehension. Upon that
class of our people depends, in the
last analysis, the happiness and pros-
perity of the country. It is impor-
tant, therefore, that something should
be done to revive their interest, en-
courage their labors and brighten

 

 

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will
| neighbor; no section
| section.
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their lives. They have asked for few
favors, but have always been the bul-
wark of the Government in peace and
war.

There is no element of paternalism
in this matter. It is a public work
No individual
advantage over his
Over another
It is an improvement which
aid the Government itself by
strengthening the bonds of union
and uplifting its citizenship. It will

reap an

| make prosperous and contented the |
| masses of the people, and it will set

no bad precedent of legislation.

| There is no analogy between it and
| the socialistic propositions which are

urged against it.

What will we do with the propo-
sition? Will we go on for the next
one hundred years as we have dur-
ing the past, or will we arouse our-
selves and make this question a
burning issue before the people un-
til the result is accomplished?

I have attempted to show the de-
sirability of good roads; that they
will be beneficial to all classes of our
people; that they will pay as an in-

| vestment, not only to the local com-

munities, but to the states and the
nation at large.

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FISH AS FOOD.

Below Meat in Bulk in Nutritive
Value.

Fish, with few exceptions, is be-
low meat in nutritive value in pro-
portion to bulk, but the same _ ele-
ments are contained in both. It is
only necessary to eat enough fish to
secure the same amount of essentials.
The nutrients of the human body are
proteine, fat and carbohydrates. Be-
sides these practically all foods con-
tain a large percentage of water and
a small percentage of mineral mat-
cr. .

The fish containing the most nutri-
ment are Spanish mackerel, salt wa-

ter eels, salmon, shad _ roe, _ salted
mackerel, salted and _ dried cod,
“boneless codfish,” caviare, salted,
smoked and dried herring, salted,

smoked and dried halibut, and of the
canned fish sardines, salmon, fresh
and salt mackerel, tunny, haddock,
lobster, crab and shrimp. Nearly all
of these mentioned are equivalent in
nutritive value to an equal amount of
veal. California salmon, No. 1 salt-
ed mackerel, caviare, salted, smoked
and dried halibut, canned _ sardines,
canned salmon and canned salt mack-
erel are equivalent to the average of
beef, veal and mutton. Caviare, in-
deed, contains twice the nutriment of
almost all meats, and is almost equal
to side pork, which contains the
highest amount of nutritive elements
of any meat. The large proportion
of the nutriment in pork, however,
it may be incidentally remarked, is
fat, it being the lowest in the scale

 

as regards proteine, the most valua-
ble nutrient.

According to Government publica-
tions based on investigations made
by Professor W. O. Atwater and the
New Jersey Fish Commission, the
percentage of actual nutrients in pre-
served fish is much larger than in the
corresponding fresh fish, while can-
ned fish, which in effect is cooked
fish, compares favorably with fresh
fish.

Shellfish resemble meat and food
fish in general composition. A quart
of oysters, roughly estimated, con-
tains about the same quantity of ac-
tual nutritive substances as a quart
of milk, or three-fourths of a pound
of beef, or two pounds of fresh cod-
fish, or a pound of beef, or two
pounds of fresh codfish or a pound
of bread. Oysters come nearer to
milk than almost any other common
food material as regards both the
amount and the relative proportions
of nutrients. Many oysters are “fat-
tened” after being taken from the
beds and before being sold, by float-
ing them about forty-eight hours in
fresh or brackish water. By this
process the oyster acquires plump-
ness and its bulk and weight are
profitably increased. Oystermen
commonly believe that the oyster by
this process actually does become fat-
ter and gain in flavor. Careful ex-
periments indicate that what the
fresh water actually does is to dis-
solve salt from the tissues of the
oyster and distend them with water.
This increases the weight and re-
duces the nutritive material from

 

one-eighth to one-fifth, Many con-
sumers think the improvement in
flavor compensates for the decrease
in nutritive value. The “fattening”
also decreases the vitality of the
oyster. Green oysters are not in-
jurious, as some suppose. This col-
or is due to the green plant life on
which oysters sometimes feed.

Experiments indicate that in the
case of man fish and beef are about
equally digestible, and that salt fish
is less thoroughly digested than
fresh fish. Most physiologists  re-
gard fish as a particularly desirable
food for persons of sedentary habits.
The widespread notion that fish con-
tains a large proportion of phosphor-
us, and is therefore especially valua-
ble as food for the brain, is not ac-
cepted by many physiologists. There
is no experimental evidence to war-
rant this assumption.

There are several species of fish
which are actually poisonous, but
few of them are found in the United
States, and the chances of their be-
ing offered for sale are small. Fish
may contain parasites some of which
are injurious to man. Thorough
cooking, however, destroys these. To
insure freedom from ptomaine pois-
oning care should be taken to eat
fish only when it is in perfectly good
condition. Fish which has been froz-
en and, after thawing, kept for a
time before it is cooked is especially
likely to contain ptomaines. Canned
fish should never be allowed to re-
main long in the can after opening,
but should be used at once. Oysters,
when “floated,” or “fattened,” should

 

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American railways. A marked sav-
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ends for eight inches, and the body
is corrugated in spirals of three and
three-quarters inches pitch. These
corrugations render the tube elastic,
so that expansion annd contraction
are taken up within the tube itself
without throwing heavy stress on the
tube sheets. It is related that a six-
teen foot tube was stretched three-
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connections with the tube sheets is
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the tube, but it is claimed that there
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from the fact that there is an in-
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corrugations and their angular pro-
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33

 

 

SHEEP WITHOUT WOOL.

 

Peculiar Animals Which Flourish in
Barbadoes.

During a call at the Department of
Agriculture in the fall of 1903 Sir
Daniel Morris, K. C. M. G., Imperial
Commissioner of Agriculture for the
West Indies, directed the attention
of officials of the Bureau of Animal
Industry to the breed of woolless
sheep which flourish in the Barbadoes
and which are there highly esteemed
for their mutton. They are raised
in the Barbadoes and other parts of
the West Indies and are thought to
be of African origin, although little
definite information is available on
this point. They are said to be very
hardly and in dry districts are prof-
itable.

according to Sir Daniel, nearly every
peasant proprietor in the drier dis-
trict$ around the coast has afew
head. They are tethered to a peg
while pasturing during the day and
are placed under cover at night. It
was also stated that their habits are
very much like those of the goat,
zs they browse to a considerable ex-
tent and are thus very easy keepers.
These recommendations seemed to
indicate that the introduction of this
breed might prove useful to the farm-
ers of the states in the extreme
South. Accordingly the Department
opened negotiations for the purchase
and importation of four ewes and one
buck, which was successfully accom-
plished. The sheep landed at New
York on Saturday, July 9, and were
shipped to the Federal quarantine
station at Athena, N. J.

The writer was ordered to

New |

 

 

York at once to examine and report |

upon them.
The sheep were found to be in thin
but otherwise excellent condition.

Apparently they had been well han- |

dled during the shipment and had}

stood the change nicely. The

em-

ployes at the quarantine station re- |
ported that no ticks had been found |
on them and that the skin was ap-

parently healthy.
This is a medium-sized, upstanding,
fawn-colored breed, practically with-

out wool, and hornless, or nearly so. |

In general appearance they
what resemble at a distance diminu-
tive hornless Jersey cattle or deer,
the color being exactly the shades of
fawn seen in Jerseys except that the
mouse-colored fawn is not apparent.
The sheep are decidedly “leggy,” but
have fairly deep bodies .and quite
well-sprung ribs. They appear tobe
hardy and of good _ constitution.
There is fair width of back and
loin, but a very deficient hind quar-
ter. The rump is quite steep from
the hips to the tail-head and the tail
is set very low. The thighs are “cat-
hammed;” there is little rotundity of
buttocks, very little depth of twist
and the flesh is not carried down on
the hocks as one sees in the best
mutton breeds.

The legs are generally quite well
set and the sheep are active and live-
ly. Ears are somewhat large and
drooping, much like those of a Suf-
folk or Hamoshire. There is also a

sonire-

| joins the back
They are not kept in large |

flocks in the Island of Barbadoes, but | missing or displaced by a black spot

 

slight tendency to a Roman nose, es-
pecially in the buck.

The color of these sheep strikes
one at first glance. This is either
red or yellow fawn, marked with
black, which shades into brown on
the hind quarters of one of the ewes.
The black is confined to the inside of
the ears, a spot on the poll, two spots
cn the forehead near the eyes and
znother below each eye, reaching to
the lids. There is generally a spot
on the top of the nose, which is
black, and there is always black un-
der the jaws running back at least
as far as the angle of the jaws. In
one ewe this is continued on the
under side of the neck to the bris-
ket in a rather broad line, where it
of the belly, but in
cthers the line is indistinct or is

near the jaws, Fhe black color
spreads over the belly and the inside
of the legs, and_ reaches partly
around the thighs, entirely up to the
anus and on the under side of the
tail, generally reaching to the ex-
treme tip of the tail. It never
spreads higher than the flanks on the
body. In one case it fades into
brown on the outside of the thighs.
In the buck the legs below the knees
and hocks are entirely black and
there is considerably more black on
the head and black hairs on the top
of the neck. In the ewes the fawn
color spreads down the outside of
the legs somewhat evenly to the fet-
locks. In the ewes, also, there are
fawn-colored hairs around the anus
and vulva, which in one case form
into a fawn-colored band which ex-
tends to the udder. The teats in the
ewes and the lower end of the scro-
tum in the buck are marked with
tawn-colored hairs.

The ears are peculiarly marked
with a light fawn-colored line close
to the outside edge, and extending
about two-thirds of the way around.
They also generally have black hairs
emong the fawn-colored ones on the
outside and a few fawn-colored hairs
near the head on the inside.

The markings which seem to be
constant are the black coloring of
the belly, the inside of the ears, and
the poll, the spots on either side of
the eyes, above the nose, and under
the jaws, the black line under the
tail, and the fawn-colored line on the
edge of the ears.

The body is covered with a thick,
pliable and generally soft skin, which
carries an abundant coat of coarse
hair. The hair seemed coarser on
the light-colored sheep than on the
darker ones. In three of the ewes
there are traces of wool. One shows
white wool fibers over the tops of
the shoulders, over the crops and up-
per ribs and extending about halfway
over the back. The second shows the
same tendency, but with a more lim-
ited area. The third shows brown
wool fibers on the back and outside
of the hindquarter, about halfway be-
tween the hock and the point of the
buttock. The hair always lengthens
in this part in all specimens. The
buck has a decided beard, which ex-
tends from the angle of the jaws al-
most to the brisket, at which latter

point it is quite prominent. The col-
or of the beard is black, with a few
brown hairs. The hair fibers are
about three-fourths of an inch long
over the most ot the body, increasing
in length on the back of the hind-
quarter to as much as one and one-
half inches. Where wool is present
it is longer than the hair.

The skin is thicker over the upper
part of the ribs than in other parts
of the body and becomes thicker to-
wards the tail, the difference on the
rump being quite perceptible. Inthe
buck, loose skin (not folds, however),
may be seen on the top of the neck.
The bone is rather large but gen-
erally clean. The ewes average a
little over 75 pounds and the buck
weighs 80 pounds. They are year-
lings.

 

Whether these sheep will prove
valuable for mutton purposes. re-
mains to be seen. They will be
carefully tested by the Department
and their adaptability to Southern
conditions studied. It is thought that
they may be useful in extreme South-
ern parts of the country, where a
heavily wooled sheep may suffer on
account of his covering.

James Buckingham.

 

A man is as big as his thoughts.

 

 

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-
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Wilcox Brothers, Cadillac, Mich.

Standard Sizes
For Chickens

36x24x10, each....$ .55
42u26x12, cach.... .66

    
    
 

For Turkeys

36x24x16, each....$ .65
42u2inlG, cach.... .i0

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‘That’s on Life’s schedule seen,
If vou’ve fire beneath the boiler
Of Ambition’s strong machine;
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With a rate of speed that’s grand
If, for all the. slippery places
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Gloves and Mitts as Side Lines in
Shoe Stores.

Many shoe merchants are putting
in gloves and mitts as a side line.
They require but little room and
usually sales are quickly made. Es-
pecially is this true of working
gloves and mitts, for which there is
an ever increasing demand.

The profits on mitts and _ gloves
will average 33 1-3 to 50 per cent.,
men’s heavy working gloves and
mitts costing from $4 to $4.50 per
dozen selling readily at 50 cents per
pair, and men’s fine lines, costing
from $8 to $9 per dozen, selling at $1
to $1.25. Those costing $12 sell for
$1.50.

One shoe merchant in the West
commenced by introducing a few
staple lines of gloves and mitts suit-
able for heavy work, which retailed
at from 25 cents to $1.50, and even
yet these form the bulk of his stock,
but he has also added a few lines
of finer goods. His mode of- calling
attention to the gloves might be ob-
jectionable to the majority of shoe
dealers for several reasons, but it
proved successful in his case, and,
of course, he is quite satisfied. He
strung wires across the store, from

gloves, with signs attached, calling
attention to the kind and the price.
The scheme proved a great attrac-
tion, and the first month or two aft-
er he introduced it the profits war-
ranted a considerably larger stock
being laid in. At the present time
the glove and mitt department, he
states, is a very important factor in
his business. In addition to the ac-
tual profits netted from the sale of
gloves and mitts the advertisement
is a good one. People who had nev-
er been in his store before have fre-
quently come in to buy gloves and
mitts and have been led to buy
shoes at the same time.

This is the testimony of only one
man, and although his method of dis-
play has been primitive, it might be
followed in some stores with suc-
cess. The point to be observed from
his experience is that of display. As
soon as he had placed the gloves
prominently before the public the
sales increased considerably.

The writer sometimes thinks that
the reason so many lines of shoes
turn out to be poor sellers is because
each pair is enclosed in a carton and
left on the shelf. The public do not
know what are there. The staff of a
store become convinced that they are
not good sellers and they are _ left
there instead of being shown as they
ought to be. When the time for cut
price sales comes along they are
then brought out and displayed and
sold at a loss of profit, if not at a
loss of part of the original invest-
ment. It is the same with any line
of stock that is put in the store. Peo-
ple must be shown the wares. Nine
times out of ten where this is done

 

the goods prove attraction enough to
make the sale without any extra ef-
fort on the part of the clerk.

In these days of artistic decoration
there are many neat and serviceable
overhead fixtures manufactured that
can be used for the display of gloves
and mitts, hosiery, etc., that can be
used with profit in any up-to-date
store. Show the goods and they will
sell of themselves.

One hundred dollars will be suffi-
cient to open a profitable department
of gloves and mitts. This sum should

| be divided about as follows: One

quarter for fine lines, the balance,
three-quarters, for the working varie-
ties. Of course, it should be under-
stood that this provides for men’s
lines only. A glove department for
women can not be successfully put
into a shoe store unless the stock
carried is very large. It also requires
a special salesman to serve at the la-
dies’ glove counter. There is_ the
constant trying on, and the person
who undertakes to fit a glove toa
woman’s hand must be experienced
or the customer will not be satisfied.
Leave the women’s gloves to the dry
goods stores for a while at _ least.
Perhaps later you can install that
line to advantage also.

There is one thing in favor of the
ladies’ glove department, however,
and that is the fact that there is
something doing there all the year
around, while in men’s gloves there

|is comparatively nothing doing after
front to back, and on these hung the |

the spring trade is over, until the fall
season opens up. The wearing of
gloves in the summer time is being
largely discontinued except for for-
mal occasions, but there are always
a few driving gloves sold during the
summer season. Working gloves and
mitts have a certain sale all the year
around, but in summer only the
lighter ones are demanded.

The fall is the best season to open
a glove department, as it is then
that the big run on these goods com-
mences. During the winter the quan-
tities of warm lined working mitts
and warm street gloves sold is enor-
mous. No one not accustomed to
handling the line can form an idea of
how many working mitts especially
are sold. Some workingmen require
from three to five pairs to tide them
over the cold season.

For men’s fine wear the choicest

| glove is now made from mocha, orig-

 

 

inally used in the manufacture of
shoes only. The colors that will be
most popular for next season’s wear
will be in the various shades of tan
and brown, with the medium shade
leading in popularity, as far as a
forecast can now be estimated. Real
mochas are high priced goods, but
are extremely good sellers when a
trade in gloves is once established.
The material has a soft, velvety fin-
ish, and in harmonizing color with
a good silk lining is a fitting addition
to the costume of any gentleman.

There are many imitations of moc-
ha and some of them exceedingly
good value. These are also made in
the fashionable shades and_ colors.
Dog skins and their imitations will be
very good sellers the coming fall and
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ment and then have to wait? Remember, we are the largest calendar manufacturers
in the West. We will send you samples and prices upon application.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 35

. .
If the merchant decides to invest | not always boast of. The lined gloves |
only a‘hundred dollars or so in a/are always worn a trifle looser, and |
glove department it is best that but | do not require so much attention, and |

three or four lines
gloves be put in as a starter. The | with them.
working gloves and mitts are the| [pn
ready sellers, and the stock in these |
should be as complete as it is possi- |
ble to make it with the small amount
of money to be invested. These are |
made from almost every conceivable
skin and the best of them have their
imitations. Horse hide is now being
extensively used in the better grades
of working gloves and mitts. This | will give you the size of the glove.
leather is tanned in such a manner |
as to resist fire and water, and while |
higher in price than many of the |unless the buyer is thoroughly post-
other lines will give the utmost sat-| eq in stock and qualities.

isfaction to the customer. | waerchants addcd

fine lines the
trom 7 to 10.
however, 7% should be the smallest

The sizes run in quarter inches. In
| place the tape around the

too tightly.

have working

i : | :
in men’s fine|there is very seldom much trouble |

|

sizes will run}
In an opening order, |

| purchased and about 9% the largest. |
| measuring a man’s hand for a glove, |
knuckle |
joints and measure it firmly, but not |

The number of inches |

In adding a new line like  fine|
| gloves it is always wise to go slow|

Many shoe |

The popular mitt for the winter! gloves and mitts and the more staple |

season will be made with a woolen | lines of men’s ‘fine gloves to their
inner mitt and a covering of some/ shoe stocks and find that they go
kind of leather. The popular price! yery nicely together.
will be 50 cents. | i i

There is not

The coverings of| the slightest danger of loss in the|

these mitts will be found in almost! staple lines, even if poorly bought, |

every color; black, brown and tan/ but the finer lines, even in the very
being the best selling colors of the | highest qualities, require the greatest
lot. Buy freely of these lines, but} care and study to make a profit on
do not buy too many different lines, | them.
just enough to make up a good as-| prevailing styles and the foibles of
sortment. | fashion to make a large venture in
If the fine glove, especially the un-| the fine lines profitable.
lined ones, are being placed in stock, |

Where a_ glove

It requires a knowledge of}

department has}

great care should be taken in their) been opened it should be thoroughly |

. : e ° }
sale. So many gloves are ruined by | advertised in the papers and by every
The show window |

the careless manner in which men} means available.

handle them when trying them on}is a wonderful advertising medium |

that it might be a wise thing to give| for these lines.
here a few hints on this matter. | played there will soon bring in cus-

The glove stock should be kept} tomers. Do not be afraid to put the

An assortment dis- |

near the door if possible, and instead | prices on all these lines you display |

of a counter case being used there|in the windows; men like to know
a wooden one should be had, made/|the cost of these articles without
having to ask too many questions.
You must cater to their wants by
studying their peculiar characteristics.

low enough for a man to comfortably
rest his elbows on it when sitting
down. Two or three stools should be
provided for the seating of custom-| Always show the workingmen who
It should also be, are purchasing shoes any of the new
narrow enough so that the salesman | gloves you have in that will be suita-
will have no difficulty in reaching | ble to their work. By doing so you
over it to try the glove on the cus-| can make a lot of extra sales.

ers at this counter.

tomer. Write to some good house _ han-
Gloves should never be put on for | dling gloves and mitts, tell them how
the first time in a hurry, nor should much you want to invest, and have
they be pulled and jerked as though | them send you a set of samples, pick
they were made of cast iron. Very | out a dozen lines and order them
often when a man pays a good price| Sent on for fall—do it now.—Shoe
for a glove he thinks that a safe- | Retailer.
guard against its splitting, but this
is a great mistake, as the delicate
skins and fine silk sewing can very
easily be pulled to pieces. Great care
should be taken to get each finger
in its place perfectly square and
straight, with the seams of the fin-
gers running up and down the finger
in a straight line. After the glove is
on snugly the wrist should be gen-
tly and carefully pulled straight and
the buttons slipped through the
holes, or the fasteners snapped. In
taking the glove off pull the wrist
down over the fingers and take hold) §

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The road to the poorhouse is pav-
ed with gold bricks.

PILES CURED

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lamson
Coin Cashier

Makes change quickly
andaccurately. Used by
the U.S. Gov’t, Banks,
Trust Co.s and business

of the ends of the fingers through | houses generally. For
sale by principal sta-

the wrist. A little care when first | ae

putting on the gloves will affect the | Lamson Con.S.S.Co., Gen.Offices, Boston, lass.
shape afterwards and will naturally | 4 i
help to preserve them and rent Saves Oil, Time, Labor, Money
losses from splitting. By all means, |

if you decide to handle fine gloves, Bowser ae Oil Outfit

a ft
have a man to look after that busi Full particulars free.

ness all the time, as it requires clean | Ask for Catalogue “M”’

hands, which a shoe salesman can 'S. F. Bowser & Co, Ft. Wayne, Ind.

 

 

 

  
       
   
   
  
 

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.

   

 

 

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, Juliettes 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.

 

 

 

 

 

The Test of Quality

Some Rubbers are Good, others are Better, competent

 

 

judges proclaim Banigan’s the Best. This inspires more
confidence in our salesmen, seems flattering to us and is very

encouraging to the factory.

 

It is to be hoped you profit by experience of others and
augment your rubber sales by putting in Banigan’s Best for

your leaders. Shall we mail you our illustrated catalogue?

 

GEO. S. MILLER, Selling Agent
131-133 Market St., Chicago, III.

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

MEN OF MARK.

David E. Uhl, Manager of the Fancy
Furniture Co.

A fact that is liable to be overlook-
ed is that cause and effect are invaria-
bly associated. It is known that if a
ball be tossed into the air the law of
gravitation will pull it down to earth.
This law is so patent that it is under-
stood by all; there is not an effect
which does not hinge indubitably up-
on a cause, the cause often being so
hidden, however, that it is not easily
understood. It is said that such and
such an event happened, but in the
true sense of that word nothing hap-
pens. Nature is not at all disturbed
because her laws are not’ under-
stood; none the less, though, are they
ever exacting, irresistible and un-
changing.

A deep enough delving will explain
the success or failure of any man.
There is a key note to it somewhere;
in the case of failure a disregard of
the essential requirements; in the
case of success the recognition and
adoption of these requirements.
Mathematics is law reduced to our
understanding by the means of nu-
merals, but there are an addition, sub-
traction, multiplication and division
of life, the rules of which are as exact
as are those which govern the ma-
nipulation of numerals. These laws
cross and recross, but are never con-
tradictory.

These facts are practically axio-
matic; a comprehension of them is
an essential part of rudimentary edu-
cation and the initiation of the bar-
est education must inevitably—con-
sciously or unconsciously—embrace
them. It is in their application, how-
ever, that they are of practical value.
Most—practically all—sane beings
who have reached their majority have
acquired them, but the unsuccessful
retain them only subconsciously; the
successful put them to practical use.
An excellent example of the latter
class is a gentleman who is the orig-
inal of the portrait that ornaments
this page of the Michigan Trades-
man.

One does not have to look far be-
neath the surface to account for the
success of David E. Uhl, whose home
and place of business are in Grand
Rapids, and who is regarded as a
bright light in the furniture trade of
the Wolverine State. That Mr. Uhl
is robust physically may be set down
as one reason, this health condition
creating a buoyancy of spirit that
gives him courage to grapple with
large propositions. To this good
health in no small way may be at-
tributed his good nature. While never
boisterous—indeed, he may be called
quiet—he has a keen appreciation of
the humorous and never loses an op-
portunity to get a pleasant joke on
his associates. He is one of the
most agreeable of companions in that
he has high respect for the feelings
and rights of others. On the other
hand, he insists that others shall re-
spect his feelings and rights. The
fairness in his nature is known by all
with whom he comes in contact. He
assumes no credit that should goto
others. In thought and action he is
as independent as a man well can be.

He is David E. Uhl to-day, to-mor-
Hypocrisy he de-
tests, and he has the charming quali-

row and always.

ty of acknowledging that he is hu-
man. He neither speaks nor oper-
ates behind a_ screen, apparently
proud that his friends shall know
him as he is.

David E. Uhl was born in Ypsi-
lanti, July 23, 1870, being the eldest
son of Hon. Edwin F. Uhl, who was
an honored resident of this city for
over a quarter of a century, during
which time he served the city as
Mayor, the Grand Rapids National
Bank several years as President and
was conceded to be one‘ of the lead-
ers of the bar. Under President
Cleveland’s second administration he
served his country as Assistant Sec-
retary of State and afterwards as
Ambassador to Germany. His ante-

Fancy Furniture Co. He was then,
and has been ever since, the sole
owner of the business, starting in a
small way in the brick building just
south of the Voigt Milling Co. He
was soon compelled to seek larger
quarters, which he found in_ the
Powers building, at the west end of
Pearl street bridge. He remained in
this location until Feb. 1, 1899, when
he removed to his present factory in
the south end of the city, which at
that time was considered the most
up-to-date in arrangement and equip-
ment of any factory in the city. The
business was. gradually increased
from year to year until 125 employes
are now on the pay roll. The product
is sold all over the country and an
export trade is gradually being de-
veloped.

Mr. Uhl was married on April 11

 

 

 

David E. Uhl

 

 

cedents on his father’s side were |

Teutonic, his great grandfather hav-
ing emigrated to this country from
Germany. His mother’s antecedents
were Yankee, she being able to trace
her ancestors back through several
generations of sturdy New England-
ers.

Mr. Uhl removed to Grand Rapids
with the family in October, 1876. He
attended the public schools of Grand
Rapids and after three years in the
high school spent a year in the pre-
paratory school at Sewanee, Tenn.
He subsequently pursued the literary
course three years in the University
of the South, returning to Grand
Rapids to take a clerkship in the
Grand Rapids National Bank, with
which institution he remained three
years. November 14, 1892, he engag-
ed in the manufacture of furniture,
under the style of the Grand Rapids

of this year to Miss Sarah B. Harmon.
They reside in the Miller homestead,
at 15 Madison avenue.

Mr. Uhl is a member of St. Mark’s
church and is affiliated with the Elks,
Maccabees and Modern Woodmen.
He is serving his fourth year as a
member of the Board of Fire and Po-
lice Commissioners and is President
of the Board. He ran for alderman
of the Second ward some years ago,
being defeated by only eighty-five
votes, which is the closest any Dem-
ocrat ever had of being elected alder-
man in that ward. He is the candi-
date of his party for the State Sen-
ate, and it goes without saying that
his personal popularity will assist
him very materially in reaching the
goal of his ambition.

Mr. Uhl was for several years a
director of the Fifth National Bank,
and is at present Treasurer of the

 

 

Century Fuel Co. About six years
ago he became interested in oil wells
in Geneva, Ind., and is now a three-
fourths owner in about sixty-five
wells, which are producing enough oil
to render his returns from that in-
vestment very satisfactory.

Mr. Uhl inherits from his parental
ancestors the bull dog tenacity of
purpose which has enabled him to
surmount many obstacles and turn
defeat into victory on more than one
occasion. The greatest crisis which
ever confronted him—one of the
greatest which ever confronted any
man—reached its culmination in the
spring of 1901. The manner in which
he met and overcame disaster is thus
described by the Evening Press of
Feb. 13, 1903:

A typical instance of the indomita-
ble courage and energy, coupled with
keen business management, which
have marked the rise of Grand Rap-
ids manufacturers was revealed to-
day in the cancelling of a large mort-
gage.

On May 14, 1901, heavy notes
which bore the endorsement of Hon.
Edwin F. Uhl, who was then dan-
gerously ill, forced David E. Uhl.
Manager of the Grand Rapids Fancy
Furniture Co., to give a mortgage
for $50,500 on the furniture com-
pany’s property. This mortgage
was to protect the seven banks car-
rying the notes and was designed al-
so to protect the promising business
which the younger Uhl had built up
and permit it to pay off its own in-
debtedness. A provision to the effect
that the business should be continued
and under Mr. Uhl’s direction was,
in fact, inserted in the mortgage.

That the banks acted wisely in
agreeing to this was shown to-day,
when David E. Uhl discharged the
mortgage in full. In less than two
years the Grand Rapids Fancy Furni-
ture Co. has dug its way out from
under an indebtedness of almost $60,-
ooo. Mr. Uhl and his associates are
receiving many congratulations from
those who know how plucky and de-
termined has been the fight to clear
the company from the mortgage in-
debtedness, while at the same time
developing and expanding the busi-
ness.

Mr. Uhl does not know what it is
not to work. At the start he knew of
no way of reaching the top except
on the ladder of labor, and he has
gone from rung to rung. Every
morning he is at his office at 7
o’clock and is there until closing time
in the evening. It is his policy to
set an example to the employes in
the factory by showing them the
way. It is his desire to have only
sober, industrious men in his employ,
and he believes in paying them all
their services are worth. He pays
them well and expects they will re-
turn value received in industry and
loyalty. While he raises no objection
to unions, insisting that labor as well
as capital has a right to organize, it
would be time lost for the members
of any union to attempt to dictate
to him regarding the management of
his business. With him it would be
either an open shop or one that
was closed in the strict meaning of
that word.

The business methods of Mr. Uhl
are closely allied to those which have
been practiced by the majority of the
furniture manufacturers who have
made a marked success of their call-
ing. In his opinion a man should be
liberal and broad-minded in business;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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it is his belief that the narrow-minded
and bigoted man does not make
friends, and that the more friends the
business man has the larger will be
his volume of trade.

— ++.
A Social Problem Difficult of Solu-

tion.
Written for the Tradesman.
Of late the newspapers have been

filled with editorials concerning
breach of promise cases daily pend-
ing in the courts.

The evidence brings to light the
weakness of both parties. It seems
that some girls will never become
sufficiently wise to know the true
characteristics of a lady; that they
are never wise enough to keep the
emotions of their souls locked with-
in their own minds. How can a girl
allow herself to gush over with love
to such an extent that the only
thing in her mind is that? Then to
write it to the adored one until he
finally becomes tired of the monot-
onous tone and casts her off!

Why does she center her affec-
tions so greatly in one that her
faith and trust are placed in him to
such an extent that she loses all
. power to resist that which is
wrong, for with such weakness she
can never hold the love of any
man?

What a man should desire in his

loved one is modesty and firmness. |

Do not allow him to think that he
holds your entire life’s happiness
within his grasp, for there is where
you lose.

Have principles based on morality
and retain them with firmness, then
do not fear but that you will be
coveted.

Ah, shame and disgrace to such
as allow their fair selves to be
laughed at and scorned in court—
their weakness. published to _ the
world, their name and life career
to be sent broadcast over the land,
all for money which may be grant-
ed in a breach of promise suit!

What is money compared with
a fair name? It should be nothing.
What can a girl want of a husband
who cares nothing for her? Why
does she continue to love the wretch
who has ceased to care for her?
That alone should cause her to
be thankful that she has escaped the
terror of becoming his wife. How
can she bring herself to have such
an affair—one that should be merely
personal—made public?

All for money! With many in our
land to-day the Almighty Dollar
claims first recognition—comes be-
fore character, before self-respect,
before honor. The thought is ap-
palling to the elevated mind that in
this age of culture, of education,
such views should obtain. It would
seem that a person reared in a land
containing so much refinement could
not be so void of self-respect. It
is to be hoped the future state of
civilization may be such that the
courts will be a place where such
discussion is unknown.

Lucia Harrison.

——++> >

Ever notice how quickly time flies

when you are trying to make up

your mind to begin a particularly
hard job?

 

 

 

  

Galvanized Iron

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and a 25 = 26: 2
13

dS

List 12 ie) | a7
Discount, 70.
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s - 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box .......... dis. 90
Double Streneth, by box «...-.-. dis 3
By the Hemet 2... ....-. dis. 90
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s new Hst. ...... dis. 33%
Workes & Plamiys ...........42. dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ....30c list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clarkes 1, 2 3--...-...... dis 60&10
Hollow Ware
oe 50&10
ee 50&10
SS i sic vies wi oes ai
Horse Nails
Bi See ee dis. 40&10
House Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list. ......

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Hardware Price Current —
ope Neon -..0 ee 2 25 rate
bee Ee 3 00 rate
AMMUNITION Knobs—New List
Caps Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings .... 15
@ D., fall count, per m............ 40 Deor, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings .... 85
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m........... = Levels
ea ae — Se a a | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis.
ly’s SCCEpEOOL, Per Mi....-........ Metals—Zinc
Cartridges (GGG pound caske 9....... 20... i
Ne '22) Skowl ner da 2 50 | eos CC... ............
_ = —— Wer Wi... ss. 3 | Misceilaneous
NO. o6 Short, Per M...........-..---- 9 Dre Ce 40
me. s2 lone, per Moc... 5 75 | Pumps, ite ee 75&10
Primers | Screws, a. ee 85
a (Casters, Hed and Piate ......... 5O0&10&19 |
No. 2 U. M.¢., boxes 250, per m..... t GO| p ars Tm
No. 2 a Rn a a boxes S68, por m..1 8 | Dampers, American. ................ 50
é ei aa Molasses Gates |
un ads | Stephins Fatierm ................. 60&10 |
Black Wdee, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C... 60} Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30 |
anes — _— S & 20, per m_.... 70 | Pans
ac oes oT oer m.......... se;
[ery Bee ..................... 60&10&19
Loaded Shells Common, polished .................. 70&10
New Rival—For Shotguns Patent Planished Iron
Drs.of oz.cf Size Per | ‘‘A’’ Wood’s pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100 | “B” Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80}
i 1% . 10 $2 90 Broken packages W%c per fb. extra.
2 i 10 2 90 Planes
2 1
bi Z re : - : = Ohio Tool Co.'s fancy............... 40
135 4y 1% 5 10 2 95 a. ras.lltlttCdiC.............. 50
154 44 ii 4 10 3 00 Sandusky Tool Co.’s faney.......... 40
200 ig 1 10 12 2 50 eee 45
2 314 6 1 BL
-_— & @ «= & ‘Sian eae ee
264 3% 1% 4 12 S00 Wire wails Nase | 2 10
Diseount, one-third and five per cent. | 20 to GO advanee..................... Base
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 7 oo Meee eee so cec ewes 5
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72) 6 Geen 20
, 12, pas a boxes 100, per 100. 64 rane
No. 12, pasteboard box 1 D 4 advance 30
Gunpowder 3 —— Ss
Kegs, 25 tbs., per keg............... 490) tae 3 aawatice. ...... 5.0.0. -s. 5500 50
% Kegs, 12% Ibs., per % keg ........ a 90) Gacine 10 (advanee (0 ou. 15
% Kees, 6% ibs., per 4 Kes .......- 1 60 a 8 ——_ a. 2
Shot asing 6 advance.................... 35
ee C CO ee
In sacks containing 25 Ibs Finish 8 ames ee 35
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... i | Winish @ a@ennce ......---.......... 45
Augurs and Bits Barrel % oo deem eeecteeee 85
Snes 60 vets
| Jenmings genuine .....-............ 25| Iron and tinned .................... 50
Jennings’ tlitation .................- 50 | Copper Rivets and Burs ........... 45
Roofing Plates
Axes
“a ae u tauce 1C. Charecoel Dean ........... 7 oe
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ......... 6 50 | 14x20 ¥X Charcoal, Pleaw ........... 9 00
First Quality, D. GB. Brenze. ..... 9 00 20x28 IC, Ct LD 15 00
First Quality, S. B.S. Steel. ...... 7 be Ge ee ee ae ae
First Quality D. B. Steel 10 50 14x20, ic, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50
Toe Coo ene 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00
Barrows 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00
MMMM co coe oe te ec eal te 09 | Sones SX, Coeret Abawey Grade ..18 0
PON 33 00 Ropes
Bolts Sisal, 4% tach and@ Eirger ........... 9
Stave oo 70 Sand Paper
Cartinge, new Hat. ..........0....... 70 | East deet. 19 "a6 2.22.2... dis 50
es 50 Sash Weights
Buckets wold: Dives, per tem ...-. 1... 28 00
Well, pain os. 4 50 ~ Sheet Iron
Butts, Cast 2. UU I
Cast Loose Pin, figured ...........- NGS ee ee ee 3 90
Wrought, narrawW. (......-..5..5... GOi Wes 2 la ot 410 3 00
Chain — = iO Se oo: 4 20 4 00
: pF a IS a SSE Te es 4 30 410
x 7 = 5-16in. %in. % in. ou asia: No. 18 and lighter, over 30
Common, .... cat 6 ¢....6 €....te i id 1 I 3-10 CL
ee 24 ize. | ize. ee inches wide, not less than 2- extra.
ee oc SHe.. 1%c....65,¢ -644c Shovels and Spades
Crowbars birst Graec, Pee ...-...- se. 5 50
Cast Sted per Wo 5 peoome Geage, Pee ....... 5 00
' : - Solder
dike whee —— Be ee le ee a6 |
eckact eae 65 | The prices of the many other qualities |
Socket pene i i 65 | of —_— — market —— by pri- |
Saciet Sieks C—O Se
ao Squares
Com. 4 ie . per doz. net. . = Steel and) fron 60-10-5
Corrugate per Oe «Ck. ....-.....-. i
pe reo a cE nT dis. 40810) i ic a Grade
< ~, Charcoal.
Expansive Bits 14x20 IC. Charcoal
Clark’s small. $18; large, $26. ...... 40 | 10x14 IX, Charcoal
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 .........- 25 Each additional X on this grade, $1.25
Files—New List Tin—Allaway Grade
New American ee el Su weg 70&10 | 10x14 1C, Charcoal
Nicholson’s i 70 14x20 IC, Charcoal
Ficlier’s Horse Mage. .............. 70 | 19x14 IX, Charcoal

14x20 IX, Charcoal

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50
Boiler Size Tin Plate

14x56 IX, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ib 13

Traps
Rieot Game .......1...-.... 2... 7
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40&10
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s. 65
Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ...... 11 25
Mouse, delusion, per dow. ........... i 2%
Wire
oe eee «.§........ 60
Bueotes Mareet .....--............. 60

Coppecrca Miarnet ...---............- 50&19
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Coppered Spring Steel ...... =
Barbed Fence, Galvanized ........... 25
Barted Pence, Pumted .............. 2 23
Wire Goods
ks
Gate Hooks and Eves ............... 80-10
Wre

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STONEWARE
Butters
— ool per Gee Ck... eau... 48
§ to 6 eal per dom ........... 1. 6
S sal cae oo ee
1. 2 heeeCCttCstCi«(‘i‘ Lj
i 2a Caen ou.
15 gal. meat tubs, each
oe Gal. meat Ge cao .............-
25 gal. meat tubs, each
30 gal. meat tubs, each
Churns
2 to G ea) yer 2a). oo... a 6%
(Charm PMahers, per Geom ........... 84
Milkpans
| % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Fine Glazed Milkpans
¥% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 60
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Stewpans
% gal. fireproof, bail, per dom ...... 85
1 gal. Greproof ball, per dom ...... 1 iG
Jugs
(a6 Sak per Gem 20. lo. 60
OO OE eee 45
- te & eal, pee eal.........-...5... 7%
Sealing Wax
So Ss. in package, peor WH. ........... 2
LAMP BURNERS
No. 35
No. 38
Ne. = S 50
Ne 2 Se... 85
eee 50
PCeeee 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
Per gross
i eee ete eee ee 4 25
ea ae 4 40
CE 6 00
Fruit Jars packed ‘1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of 6 “~.
eee 1 60
Ne § Sam oc ee i is
riWG 2 Sue ...-. 2 54
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Bach Chimney in corrugated carton
No. 9 Chin oo. 4 2
mo tf Cee i... I 90
Po Ee Cela ww, 2 90
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 91
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 00
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 25
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
No. 2 Sun. hinge, wrapped & labeled 4 25
Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled ....4 60
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled ....5 30
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled ....5 10
No. 2 Sun, ‘small bulb,’’ globe lamps 80
LaBastie
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ......
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...
ING. © Criep, per dow = ....-. 2... -..
ING. 2 Crimp, per dem -........-.....
Rochester
Wo. 1 Line (Gace Ge) ........... 2 of
No 2 Pome (ide Gee) ........... 2... 4 00
ING. 2 Wit (90c dex) <............,.. 4 60
Electric
mo. 2 Eee (706 dom) .......-..-... 4 00
| No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz.) ................ 4 60
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 20
1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 28
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 10
| 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 15
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 15
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 75
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 75
& pal Ditime eans .-..0. 8 7 00
& gal. eal. trou Macefas ............ 9 00
LANTERNS
Mo, © Tualaikar, sie ie .............. 4 65
Ne 2 B Pater... ow 6 40
mo. 12 Vober, Geen ............... 6 50
Mo. 2 Cold Biist Lantern ........... ‘s
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp ........... 12 60
Mo. 3 Strect bimp, Gach ......... 3 50
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 50
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. 15c. 50
No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. eachl 25
BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
No. 0 3% in. wide, per gross or roll. 25
No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 320
No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll 46
1 No. = 1% in. wide, per gross or ro ron 8d
COUPON BOOKS
50 books, any denomination 1.
190 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
590 books, any denomination ...... it 50
1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00

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

Coupon Pass Books

Can be made to represent any denomi-

nation from $10 down.

WO ee 1 50
ee Pee .....1.......,......... 2 50
mam BOOMS cocci ce 11 50
eGG0 beck ......................... 20 09

Credit Checks

506, any one denomination ........ 2 00
1000, any one denomination ........ 3 00
2000, any one denomination ......... 5 00
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cipal Staples.
Silks—Silk stocks show no sign of |

diminished interest or
sales. The condition in every silk
department is. particularly bright.
Not only have silk people experienc-

ed a most satisfactory business up!

to the present, but the outlook is
growing better. Chiffon taffeta isa
line that is causing some _ trouble.
Jobbers who have a stock of chiffon

taffetas on hand are considered for- |}
to make|

tunate. Mills are unable
deliveries of any consequence within
the next thirty days. Retail trade
conditions are equally good. Silk
roadmen report stocks broken inan
encouraging degree. This means that
merchants have been silks
freely this fall, and the orders re-
ceived, both mail and road orders, in-
dicate that merchants expect to sell
more silks the coming season.
Plaids — Prejudice should be

selling

thrown to the wind when a_ mer-|
chant’s trade wants certain mer-
chandise. It must be acknowledged

that the general ‘trade has not been
favorable for some time past to

plaids either in silks or wool goods. |
There has been a suggestion of plaids |
for several seasons, but nothing of |

Merchants
This

interest has developed.
have looked askance at them.

season they can not afford to do this, |
and |

as plaids are both prominent
popular with the city trade to such

a degree that it will be difficult for |
shoppers outside the cities to ignore |
them. Plaid silks are in strong de- |
mand in the larger stores, and the|

demand is spreading rapidly all over
the country. They promise to be
the feature for waists during the fall
and winter. Now and then a
plaid costume is seen, but the
portant consideration is
waists. Everything in plaids which
the large stores have in stock is out
on exhibit. So strong has the de-
mand for plaids become that there
is a distinct scarcity. Scotch plaids
in toto are selling. There seems to
be a general clan demand.
green-red combinations are strongest.

Taffetas—There is no division of
opinion about the position of plain
soft fabrics in a variety of weaves.
The bulk of fall business will be
done in goods which have taken and
are worthy of the name chiffon on ac-
count of their extreme pliancy and
drapy quality. Taffetas of this char-
acter are the direct antitheses. of
those in demand a few seasons ago,
when stiffness, rustle and a “cry”
that could be heard at a_ distance
were indispensable. When one con-
siders that stiffness, rustle and “cry”
can be produced by the use of chemi-
cals and only pure silks of pure dye
can be made with the chiffon finish,
the value of the latest production will
be appreciated. The belief in the
continued leadership of taffeta for
two seasons at least is supported by
the testimony of orders booked, in

im-

 

=jvery well taken.

decreased |

full |

plaids for |

Blue- |

tick it is far in advance of other
| weaves. Blacks have had a very sat-
|isfactory run, but all varieties of taf-
| feta—piece-dyed colors in the fash-
|ionable light and dark shades, chame-
|leon, glace and shot taffetas—all are
Checks and neat
| jacquard designs will retire with the
|shirtwaist suit for street wear, but
will probably return with it next
spring. Manufacturers are already
busy with checks, and it is quite pos-
sible the check epidemic which swept
| Europe in the past season will cul-
minate here in the summer of 1905.
Fancies—Some domestic manufac-
turers have developed novelties in
| fancies that are attractive enough to
| sell themselves. Two or three num-
bers in warp-printed satin brocade,
cream with pompadour design and
coloring, are as beautiful as anything
| produced by foreign looms. Taffetas
| with warp-printed bouquets or gar-

 

‘lands in shadowy pompadour colors |

| on white are traversed by black satin
| stripes of graduated widths or black
Peking stripes in groups. The same
grounds have wide satin equi-distant
stripes in white, pale blue or pale
irose. As the fall redingote and coat
| of velvet and all kinds of high-class
fur garments will be lined with light
| brocades, there will be a considerable
|outlet for those in that direction.
| The showing of black and shot taf-
|fetas in dark shades with large me-
dallion designs in Roman colors’ or
| with large discs in a contrasting col-
or, are extremely chic; also some ex-
quisite warp-printed crepes de chines
and printed chiffons for evening
wear.

| .Ribbons—The handsome ribbons of
|the season are attracting the atten-
and it
|appears that ribbons are to be used
in greater quantities than fr some
years. This is not so much due to
the favor with which ribbons are re-
| garded by conservative buyers. of
millinery, but simply because’ the
|regular course of trade has _ once
|more swung their way. For some
time past the ribbon industry has
|not been experiencing the most fav-
orable conditions, and they are in
line for any fad or fancy which blows
their way. Polka dots or ball ef-
fects are quite attractive on ribbons,
/and have a good sale. These de-
signs are so popular that they are

| tion of the millinery trade,

| brought out in various weaves and
|ground shades. They appear not

only on regular silk ribbons, but also
on gold and other gauzes.

—__2-~.
Usefulness and Comfort of Sneakers.

“Sneakers,” said the man from the
| woods, “that’s what you want, sneak-
ers.

“Not that everybody has them. We
found plenty of people walking the
trails in leather shoes, and, as a
matter of fact that’s what I would
have done myself if my friend who
knows a heap more about such things
than I did hadn’t warned me to get
sneakers. You want the sneakers big
enough, but not too long; no long
end sticking out in front of your
toes to catch in things as you walk.
The soles of leather shoes soon wear
smooth in the woods, and if the trails
are dry you slip on leaves and pine

 

 

needles and twigs and roots, and|knowing the comfort and usefulness

your hard heels, of course, don’t give |
you any foothold whatever; but |
sneakers, with their flexible rubber |
soles extending the whole length of |
the foot, and their equally flexible |
cloth tops, permit the foot the freest |
play, and permit it to settle and grip |
on whatever you step on.

“And with sneakers you can, so |
to speak, wrap your feet around the
logs you have to walk in crossing
brooks and marshy spots, and there
is nothing like them for climbing and
walking down hills and so sneakers
are the thing for comfort and safety.
Of course, this is all old to people |
accustomed to them, but, as I said, |
we found plenty of people walking
the trails in leather shoes, not yet |

of sneakers. My friend tells me that
there is a sort of moccasin that is
better for walking than sneakers, and
that may be; but sneakers satisfy
me, as far as I’ve got, and next year
when I go to the.woods I take along
sneakers, and I take two pairs. The
soles of them may tear loose, and
you want a pair in reserve, and one
or two extra pairs of laces.

“Take off your suspenders, if you
wear them, and put on a belt, and
give your body a freedom that will
be astonishingly delightful if you
have never experienced it, and put
sneakers on your feet; and then you
can walk the wood trails, not only
with safety, but with joy unlimited
and unrestrained.”—-New York Sun.

 

 

leums.

Wholesale Dry Goods

 

Floor Coverings

We carry a complete line of Mattings, Oil Cloths and Lino-
Mattings at 10%c per yard and better.

Floor Oil Cloths at 17%c per yard and better.
Linoleums at 35c per yard and better, also a nice line of Stove

Oil Cloth Rugs.

Our goods are new and the patterns are neat and desirable.
P. Steketee & Sons

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

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

After All

We must concede that the

rubber lined

duck coat is

the only work coat that is

really waterproof. We have

good values

in blacks or

tans at $18.00 and $24.00

per dozen.

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.

Exclusively Wholesale

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids.
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Satisfactory Autumn Trade in Men’s
Furnishings.

Manufacturers have but little
complain of in their season’s busi-

ness, although many say they wish |
|may be upset before the new season

the retailers would be a little less
conservative in their estimates

their probable trade.

of

|

to |
| opinion in regard to the ultimate out-

They realize, |

however, that they have taken the |

wiser course, aS was proved in the

spring and summer trading, when the |

same conservatism marked their pur-
chases, and although these purchases

were repeated, sometimes quite fre-|

quently, this very caution

served |

many merchants from loss undoubt- |

edly, and the reports of business con-
ditions show that there have
fewer failures during the past season
than usual.

The manufacturers have been com-

been |

MICHIGAN

equal proportions, with, it is ile |
ed, a slight preference for the lighter
tones. There is much diversity of

come of this point and all calculations

gets really into full swing. There}
promises to be a demand for soft
collared flannel shirts, and many rich
flannel effects are being shown by |

the manufacturers.

Generally speaking, tan, gray and |
blue promise to be the leading col-

ors for spring. Greens, pinks and}
helios are to be bought conservative-
ly. Champagne and tan are viewed |
with much approval and they have |

made appreciable the

inroads on |

long popularity of gray. White neg-|

| liges, after a two years’ eclipse, come |

plaining of the slowness of mer-
chants in placing their orders for|

neckwear, but now they seem to be
better satisfied, for beginning with
the middle of August country
chants began placing orders, and one

mer

manufacturer said that he had never |

sold such large bills of neckwear as
he did the last part of August and
Sept. 1. They have sold chiefly silks
that include a good proportion

of |

green, orange, brown, purple, etc. All|

of the colors mentioned have been
shades that appear popular and in
the various combinations have given
a rich variety.

Neckties are large and attractive.
The new neckties are wide and made
of silk of many colors. The silks
are heavy and are figured in various
patterns. The best color is red, or
wine color, or a claret shade. And

| by the generality
| the plain or pique

| one-stud garment belongs in the ex-

there is a tie which combines red and |

green in changeable silk with

good effect.

very

Scarfpins are varied and very ec-

centric. Indian arrow heads, quaint

| request than they were at the open-

arabesques, odd designs carved out |

of wood and small spring flowers
are all seen in natural lines and in|
pretty shapes. A carved head in

black wood is very taking upon

: sie ge ee cn
imperial tie of many colors, and there |, aers

| will return to much of its old favor

are jeweled pins which look fine

against a background of subdued silk.

Haberdashers buying
freely of autumn novelties, including
underwear, hosiery, gloves, shirts,
etc., yet it is noticeable that they
use extreme care to select only such
articles as have genuine merit and are
likely to appeal to the good taste of
consumers.

are quite

Spring shirt lines are now complete
and many salesmen are out on their
early trips. It will be a season with-
out any great changes either in fab-
rics or patterns. There is plenty that
is bright and attractive in weave and
design, but still only variation of the
“things gone before.” Tans promise
to rather more than hold their own;
gray effects are plentiful; the corn
and biscuit shades are looked upon
as doubtful; and pinks and helios are
but little more sure. In the designs
there are some novel Persian effects,
intermittent stripes, clipped figures in
jacquard weaves, besides the usual
showing of stripes, single and group-
ed, detached and grouped designs,
flowered, geometrical, etc. Light and
dark grounds are shown in almost

lation shirts are all right if bosoms

 

| and

| °
| but violent contrasts have done much
an |

again to the fore and will probably
be fully as strong as they were this|
summer. The sale of white softshirts
is not especially to be encouraged
by the dealer, since they mean fewer
sales than those of grounds in which
the pattern is pronounced and shows
the effects of laundering. Black
grounds were remarkably sought for

autumn, quite surprising manufac-
turers who brought them out.

Evening shirts with embroidered
bosom edges have been introduced,
but will not acquire much vogue this
year, if they ever do. The idea is
scarcely be taken
of men who favor
bosom without any
ornamentation. Possibly this innova-
tion will develop strength a twelve-
month hence. The two-stud evening
shirt is the standard this season; the

extreme and will

 

The best model
of any evening shirt has narrow,
rounded cuffs and made the
now familiar coat style.

Stiff bosoms appear to be in less

clusive custom class.

is in

ing of the buying season. Combin-

bodies are tastefully matched,

to kill the fad.

believe

Many custom shirts-
that the stiff bosom
this autumn and that well-dressed
men are tiring a bit of the soft shirt
for January to January wear. The
undoubtedly has it in his
power to influence the sale of stiff
bosoms by pushing them, and it is
assuredly to his interest to draw a
sharp line between summer goods
and winter goods. He thereby
creases his sales of both and virtually
forces the. consumer to buy fresh
garments at the opening of the sea-
son.

The very attractive outing shirts
will sorely tempt the man of the
he
and

dealer

in-

season to purchase more than
needs. They come all tucked
laid in plaits and many of them are
so arranged across the bosom that
they will accommodate themselves to
the figure of any man, thin or stout.
Scotch madras, cheviot, heavy linen
and good washable cotton stuffs all
make handsome shirts.
—_+-
Call-Boy “on the Side.”

Acting as “call-boy” is the profita--
ble spare time occupation of night
watchmen in a number of towns and

TRADESMAN

smaller cities. It is only human na-
ture to be prone to lie abed “just a
little longer” in the cold, small hours
of the morning, and the alarm clock
has little effect on the man in the

|slow going country town whose du-

ties demand that he shall be at work

long ahead of others. To him the|
services of the night watchman as

‘call-boy” are well nigh indispensable.
As he walks through the streets of
district the
customers at whatever hour they may
order, receiving from fifteen to twen-

his watchman calls

| ty-five cents a week for his efforts,

bit of pin
money to his regular salary without
at all interfering with his regular du-
ties.

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Tim the truckman, who trundles_ the
trunks,

Trying to thump them up into small
chunks,

With his trusty truck in shine or rain,
He breaks up the trunks with might and

main

And if they don’t break with the awful
abuse,

He jumps on them hard with his HARD-
PAN shoes.

Dealers who handle our line say
we make them more money than
other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

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Makers of Shoes Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

Grand Rapids Council No. 181, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, 8S. H. Simmons; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

urer, H.

 

 

 

 

Result of Being Too Much a Good
Fellow.

In a squalid cell in a San Francis- |
co police station sits Joseph Mulhat- |

tan awaiting trial for the theft ofan
overcoat.

get bonds. Since the day of his ar-
reporters and policemen. He hasno
friends at hand. He is a mystery to
the police and he makes good copy
for the newspaper man. That is why
both visit him. He has no good stor-
ies to tell now; he is not merry; he
can not rattle off a good song. He
can hardly remember the strange, ro-
mantic incidents of his own past.

Yet this outcast, ragged, stuttering,
downcast man is the same Joseph
Mulhattan who ten years ago was
the richest, most popular and _ best
commercial traveler in the United
States. For years before that he
was looked upon by “kid” drummers
as the beau ideal of their calling. Ten
years ago it was something of a dis-
tinction to shake hands with Mulhat-
tan and call him “Joe.” He was the
star salesman of the country. His
salary was $15,000 a year and his ex-
pense account in proportion.

He was proud to be known by all
men as the “biggest liar on earth,”
and he invented yarns that went
around the world coupled with his
name. That was a manifestation of
humor with Joe Mulhattan and prob-
ably they harmed nobody but him-
self. He thought they helped him
in those old, palmy days, and it is
true that he was the most widely
known commercial traveler of his
time. Merchants would welcome him
when they did not need his hardware
but wanted to hear his latest story,
and some of those preposterous stor-
ies of Joe Mulhattan’s are going the
rounds yet. Now he wags his tousled
head and tries to remember his
name.

Good fellow! That was where Joe
Mulhattan shone brightest. Nevera
friend who could not borrow his
money; never a drinking bout in
which he could not outstay his com-
rades; never a spender who surpass-
ed him in prodigal generosity. No
drummer of his day was more popu-
lar. His brethren of the sample case
would miss trains to ride in the
same car with him. Joe was al-
ways “the life of the party.” He
was the man to “set the table in a
roar.” He was the “dead game
sport” of those days. Not to know
Joe Mulhattan was to argue one-
self unknown. Now nobody calls on
him except newsgatherers and de-
tectives.

He was used to set the fashions

The prisoner is unable to land fine linen of his

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a decade ago. He was a bit of a
Beau Brummel, something of a
Sybarite, an epicure. He made or
damned the latest brands of wine.
Railroads gave him passes just to
get him to ride on their lines. He
was never quite a handsome man,
but he had style, dash and presence,
and, in his own way, he lived up to
his gifts and his limitations and, per-
haps, a little past them. He went
an awful gait and the neophytes who
made him their paragon tried in
vain to keep up with it. Probably
some of them long ago landed where
Joe Mulhattan is now, but they were
not so famous as he, and their his-
tories will not be written except by
jailers, keepers and sextons.

As for Joe Mulhattan, the purple
heyday are
He sits
on a rickety bench, his smeared face
in his dirty hands, his bleary eyes
staring at the mud daubed shoes in
which he has been tramping the
streets and alleys of San Francisco.
His nose is red and shriveled, his face
and body bloated, his limbs dwindled
and shaky, his hands like talons. For
drink, his keeper gives him water,
good water which he can not drink.
For food he gets coarse bread and
boiled beef, but he can not eat
much of such stuff. He never did
like simple viands.

A man who knew Joe Mulhattan
well in the old days of his ascend-
ency was asked what had brought
him to his present state.

“Oh, he was too much of a good
fellow! That was the only trouble
with Joe.”

“Too much of a good fellow” is a
felicitous line if you stop to think
about it. Some wag has said that
“a good fellow” is a modified way of
describing a d—d fool. However, this
definition may hardly be applied to
Mulhattan. There was a time when
he was nobody’s fool except Joe
Mulhattan’s. He was a good fellow
in every foolish interpretation of that
vernacular. He was generous tothe
poor and cheated himself. He must
have believed the old saying that
“Every one was his friend,” for he
was open handed, loyal and unselfish
with every one heh knew. He used
to say, “I haven’t an enemy in the
world,” but he overlooked himself.
His “friends” have forgotten Joe
Mulhattan, but he alone has not—
can not—he is all alone with his
mortal enemy, himself.

He says himself that he began to
drink whisky to show that he wasa
good fellow. He did not like it at
first any better than he likes water
now. But you can not be a good
fellow and drink water with your
friends. Water costs nothing.

Steve Brodie once said: “Nobody
can’t be a good fellow unless he un-
belts and blows himself. See!’ Mul-
hattan did, and he was. Now he
can’t, and he isn’t. So Brodie must
have been right.

Mulhattan admits that his first se-
rious trouble came from whisky. It
got on his nerves first and then on
his digestion. He began to muss up
his business transactions and do
things “that he would never have

 

done if—,” etc. Then he began to
get muddled in his stories. He would
forget the climax or couldn’t just re-
member “how it goes.’ Cudgel his
brain as he might, he could not in-
vent any more outlandish yarns quite
as good as that one about the South-
ern planter who imported monkeys
to pick his cotton. That was printed
in newspapers all over the world, and
Joe Mulhattan’s name was to _ it.
Merchants quit inviting him to “stop
over” another day. His friends, those
other good fellows, began to
him, saying: “Poor old Joe!”

He lost his $15,000 position and the
next one was not as profitable; nor
did he hold any place for long after
that. With the dwindling of his for-
tunes his habits did not change. Be-
ing a good fellow he continued to
“hold up his end” as well as he
could, but that was not very well,
becauses his income no longer kept
pace with his expenditures. Then he
began to tell the same stories over
and over again to the same people.
That settled it with his “friends.”
They began to say: “I guess Joe is
ali in.”

He is all in. All in the Frisco po-
lice station—all that is left of him.

He was “too much of a good fel-
lew.” J. H. Raftery.

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Foor Lo Never Got Tired.

A robust Indian asked a farmer
to give him work, but was refused
on the ground that the Indians were
no good—that they always got tired.
This particular Indian said that he
didn’t belong to that class and had
never been tired. So he was put to
work hoeing corn. An hour after-
ward the farmer went around to see
how he was getting on and found him
asleep under a tree. “Here, wake
up here,” he cried; “you told me you
never got tired.” “Ugh,” said the
other, yawning, “this Injun don’t. But
if he not lie down often he would
get tired, just the same as the rest.”

———>-_ 2.
The Sleeping Car Pillow.

A Grand Rapids man recently re-
turning from the East was about to
get into his berth on a sleeping car,
when he heard the voice of a huge
Kentuckian, who was holding up a
pillow between his thumb and finger
while he roared out to the porter:

“TI say, you boy, come back and
take this away.”

“Wha’ for, sah?”

“Because I’m afraid the
thing will get into my ear.”

None other, however, was to be
had, so, placing his head on _ the
feather or two inserted in the tick.
he was soon asleep.

——_+-.___

The retaii trade shows a disposi-
tion to worry about the mail order
houses. Why? If it were not mail
order houses it would be something
else. There are few items indeed
that the retailer can not sell out of
a store as cheaply as the mail order
house, transportation and all consid-
ered. There is a class, however, who
like to patronize mail order houses
because they think they save some-
thing. You must show them that
calling an article cheap does not al-
ways make it so.

derned

pity |

— ee
LIVINGSTON
HOTEL

The steady improvement of the
Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large an& 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.

 

 

 

TYPHOID FEVER
DIPHTHERIA
SMALLPOX

The germs of these deadly diseases mul-
tiply in the decaying glue present in all
hot water kalsomines, and the decaying
paste under wall paper.

Alabastine is a disinfectant. It destroys
disease germs and vermin; is manufac-
tured from a stone cement base, hardens
on the wall, and is as enduring as the
wall itself,

Alabastine is mixed with cold water,
and any one can apply it.

Ask for sample card of beautiful tints.
Take no cheap substitute.

Buy only in 5 lb. pkgs. properly labeled.

ALABASTINE CO.

Office and factory, Grand Rapids, Mich.
New York Office, 105 Water St.

 

 

 

 

Forest City
Paint

gives the dealer more profit with
less trouble than any other brand
of paint.

Dealers not carrying paint at the
present time or who think of
changing should write us.

Our PAINT PROPOSITION
should be in the hands of every
dealer. :

It’s an eye-opener.

Forest City Paint
& Varnish Co.
Cleveland, Ohio
SOEORO HORORC SOLOHeReROHGE

 

 

We get cash
out of
your goods

Cost out of ‘‘un-
desirables” and
a profit out of
better goods, by
our

NEW IDEA SALE

C. C. O'NEILL & CO.
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CHICAGO.

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Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
50c on the Dollar

GLOVER’S WHOLESALE MDSE. CO.

MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS

of GAS AND GASOLINE SUNDRIES
Grand Rapids, Mish,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review of the Hardware Market.

Iron and Steel—Not since the be-
ginning of the period of depression
in the iron and steel industries have
these markets displayed such activi-
ty as was exhibited last week in all
grades of foundry and basic
and finished steel. Sales of foundry
grades alone amounted _ to
100,000 tons, while almost as large
an amount of basic iron was disposed

iron

of to the steel-making enterprises, |

which were kept busy _ supplying
needs of manufacturers in all sections
of the country. Prices were firmly
held by both Southern and Northern
producers and there was little or no
shading by the furnacemen who
formerly made liberal concessions in
order to obtain small contracts which
were then in the market. The re-
cent advances in prices of all grades,
including the Virginia foundry iron,
forge and Bessemer, now
about 50c per ton. Ohio furnacemen
are figuring upon several large en-
quiries for 2,500 tons of gray forge,
20,000 tons of mixed grades, while
several producers in that district are
submitting bids on 50,000 tons of
forge grades wanted by cast iron pipe
makers. Besides these
three or four pump, pipe and machin-
ery manufacturers are in the market
for round’ lots, aggregating 8,000 to
10,000 tons.

enquiries

Wire Nails—Business in wire nails
continues to improve and prices are
being maintained more firmly at the
official quotations. Most of the re-
cent orders have been for shipment
within the next 30 days and few
contracts are being booked calling for
deliveries beyond that period. The
shortage of cars is interfering slight-
ly with prompt shipments, but it is
hoped that this difficulty will soon
be removed. Carload prices are still
accessible to all buyers whether job-
bers or retailers. Quotations are as
follows on a basis of f. o. b. Pitts-
burg, 60 days or 2 per cent. discount
for cash in 10 days: Carload lots,
$1.60; less than carload lots, $1.65.

Cut Nails—While the demand for
cut nails continues good the increase
in volume is not as marked as that
in the wire varieties. Consumers are
pursuing a more conservative course
in placing orders, refusing to make
any contracts for any but early ship-
ments. While the official quotations
are generally observed, a few manu-
facturers are shading prices about
5c per keg to large buyers. Eastern
quotations are as follows, f. 0. b.
Pittsburg: Carload lots, $1.60; less
than carload lots, $1.65. In the ter-
ritory west of Pittsburg cut nails
are quoted in carload lots, f. 0. b.
Pittsburg, at $1.65, with an advance
of toc in less than carload lots.

Barb Wire—The necessity for re-
pairing old fences and erecting new
ones in agricultural sections where
harvesting is in progress has greatly
increased the sale of barb wire. The
leading mills continue entering or-
ders for shipment only within 30
days from the date of the contracts.
Regular schedule prices are as fol-
lows, f. o. b. Pittsburg, 60 days or Io
per cent. discount for cash in 10
days:

about |

average |

 

MICHIGAN

Painted Galv.

Jobbers, carload lots... .. $1 75 $2 05)
Retailers, carload lots.... 1 80 2 10|
Retailers, less than car-
load Tots. i g0 2 26
Smooth Wire—The demand for
smooth fence wire shows decided |

improvement in all sections and mills

are entering orders only for ship- |

ment within 30 days. Quotations are
as follows, f. o. b. Pittsburg, 60 days,
or 2 per cent. discount for cash in 10
days: Jobbers, carloads, $1.45;
Sr.50: The
prices are for base numbers, 6 to 9.
The other numbers of plain and gal-
vanized wire take the usual advances.

re-
tailers, carloads,

a
Propose To Get Along Without Re-|

porters.

Port Huron, Oct. 15—What is left
of the M. & M. Association held a
meeting and oyster supper on Thurs-
day night. “It is the same old boy,”
said President Canham, a few days
ago, “but with another name.” He
was right. It is now the Grocers’
Association, and the star chamber
sessions have begun. No more will

newspaper reporters darken its door- |

ways. This was fully demonstrated
Thursday night. A reporter visiting
the hall was imvited by a
ber to go in and partake of an oyster
stew. He was curious to know just
what was doing, although the busi-
ness session was ended, but he was
not given the opportunity. L. A. Mc-
Carthar, one of the most strenuous
kickers of the grocerymen who have
guided the doings of the Association
for the past two years, was nursing
his wrath against newspaper menin
general. Jumping from his chair he
grabbed the reporter by the neck and
shoulder and, dragging him out of
the room, pitched him down the hall-
way, exclaiming as he did so, “You
reporters get out of here, our busi-
ness will be of a private nature from
now on.”

Those present at the meeting were
nearly all the grocerymen of the city
and no one else.

mem-

Bay City Times: Bay City is com-
ing right to the front as a shipping
center. E. C. Gould, traveling sales-
man for Gustin, Cook & 3uckley,
was in the northern part of the State
this week on a Michigan Central
train and met David Beatey, sales-
man for a Detroit house. The lat-
ter is known to possess proclivities
for spinning yarns and when he told
Mr. Gould that he had just made a
sale of two cars of soap at Pine
River Gould was equal to the emer-
gency by asserting that he had just
sold a carload of nutmegs to an Os-
coda firm. Neither salesman crack-
ed a smile, either.

—_—_++>—____

Over in Indiana a young man who
wanted to enlist in the army was
rejected because his height fell short
a fraction of an inch. One hour lat-
er he returned and suggested thata
mistake had been made. On another
trial it was found that he exceeded
the regulation height by a small frac-
tion. Then it was learned Johnson
had employed his hour in butting his
head vigorously against a wall to
raise a bump large enough to admit
him to the service,

above |

TRADESMAN

|

THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA.
| Were it only the war that Russia
_had to contend with the situation
| would be bad enough, as the main-
|tenance of a large army at so great
|a distance from home, and_ the
transportation of troops and supplies
|to the seat of war involve enormous
| expenses. Again the events of the
| war have, so far, been anything but
| helpful to Russia’s prestige as a
| great power. Russia, however, has
worse things than a foreign war to
contend with. There are constant
turmoil and unrest among her teem-

| groaning under the burdens that the
| war has placed upon them, and are
| discontented with their political
status.

The unrest which exists in Russia
is such as to cause the Czar and his
Ministers keen anxiety, and it is be-

the Far East come from the regular
establishment of European Russia.
| Practically all the troops now in
| Manchuria are Siberian soldiers and
levies. The new troops that
are now going out to the Far East
from European Russia consist mainly
of reservists called to the colors from
civil life. The withdrawal of so
many men from the agricultural dis-
tricts is causing much hardship and
suffering, and the number of
killed in the Far East is adding to

| fresh

men

the distress of the people whose
breadwinners have been taken from
them.

How to provide for this growing
depression in agriculture and com-
merce, and how to provide for the
widows and orphans resulting from
the war, are problems which can not
be put off until the conflict is over.
The suffering is pressing, and the risk
of popular upheaval is real, hence to
the expenses of the war will have to
be added the cost of the various
methods of relief which the govern-
ment has been compelled to adopt.
While the financial burden is thus
increased, the country’s revenues are
cut down by the depression in trade
existing as a result of the war.

It will thus be seen that thé task
of the new Minister of the Interior,
Prince Mirsky, is by no means an
easy one. While his duties have lit-
tle to do with the conduct and cost
of the war, the alleviation of distress
among the people and the revival of
trade and industry are within the line
of his official duties. To provide for
these wants, and at the
same time maintain internal peace
and order, form anything but an easy
task. Prince Mirsky has entered up-
on his duties with pluck and confi-
dence, and it must be admitted that
he has been welcomed by the masses
with every mark of approval. There
is a general feeling that a new order
of things is dawning for Russia and
that an honest attempt is to be

emergency

made to correct the long standing
abuses of which the masses. have
complained heretofore without ob-

taining redress. Prince Mirsky makes
splendid promises, and his sincerity
appears not to be doubted by his
countrymen, but even if he does not
succeed in consummating eyerything

 

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that he has set about accomplishing,
no great amount of surprise will be
occasioned, but should his plans all
succeed he will make for himself a
lasting name in the history of his
country. He has the gift of courage
and energy, and he, no doubt, has a
clear idea of the obstacles in his
path, and to such a man almost any-
thing is possible. Certainly lovers
of human liberty and progress every-
where will wish him every success.

—_.—.-————_
Surprise Dinner Was on the Sup-
posed Giver.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 15—‘“The
why not we show our appreciation
by giving them a little dinner?” This
was what George McGlaughlin, man-
ager of the yeast department of
Fleischmann & Co., said to Louis
Winternitz, and so a dinner was serv-
ed Friday noon, but, to the abundant:
surprise, instead of its being a treat
by Mr. Winternitz to the “boys,” it
was one by them to him, and at the
same time they took occasion to
present to him an elegant loving cup
bearing this inscription:

Presented to the Official

Photographer,
Louis Winternitz,

3est Wishes of Members of the

Stony Lake Fishing Club,
October 14, 1904.

Mr. Winternitz is an enthusiastic
amateur photographer, and when the
members of the club are on their pre-
serve at Hackensack, Minn., he im-
proves the opportunity to take many
pictures. His home is at Chicago,
but he is connected with Fleischmann
& Co., as are the donors of the cup.

With

Those present at the dinner’ were:
Louis Winternitz, Chicago; Truls
Tybering, St. Paul; R. H. Dickey,

Minneapolis, and Joseph Adams, Ben.
Adams, John Bryant, Dr. Schultz and
Ed. Meyers, of Covington.

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The Boys Behind the Counter.
Cadillac—Victor Roussin has a

new pharmacist in the person of T.

W. Creech, of Alma.

Houghton—A. D. Bohrer, of Ne-
gaunee, formerly employed in Scott’s
drug store at Hancock, has takena

position as pharmacist in F. W.
Kroll’s drug store at this place.
Grand Ledge—Len Marshall has

returned from Detroit and taken his
old position in the dry goods de-
partment of Stanton & Son.
Beaverton—A. E. Widdifield, Ph.
G., who has been with Ray & Co,
of Detroit, for a number of years, is
superintending the prescription de-
partment of Pierce’s drug store.
Flint—The clerks employed at H.
N. Bush’s store recently gave a fare-
well party to Louis Smith, who has
gone to Beaverton to take the posi-
tion of manager of the Ross Mercan-
tile Co. store. A course dinner was
served at the Flint cafe, and the only

| drawback to the thorough enjoyment

of the occasion was the reflection that
the affair marked the severance of
relations that had been of the pleas-
antest character. Mr. Smith goes to
his new field of work with the best
wishes of his former fellow clerks.

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary,—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
C. B. Stoddard, Monroe.

Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.
Sessions for 1904.
Grand Rapids—Nov. 1 and 2.

 

Michigan State er Associa-
tion.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice-Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Charles P. Baker, St.
Johns; H. G. Spring, Unionville.

Secretary—W. H. 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.

 

Pharmacist and Physician—New As-
pect of the Case.

Some of the articles that have re-
cently appeared in medical, as well
as in pharmaceutical, journals would
appear to indicate that the relations
existing between pharmacists and
physicians are in an unsatisfactory
and altogether unsettled condition.
While it is true that the subject-mat-
ter under discussion is not new, and
that many of the questions that are
now involved have arisen over and
over again for upwards of a century,
some recent developments in connec-
tion with the trade in nostrums, or
patent medicines, have added a tone
of bitterness to the controversy that
will not tend to bring about more
amicable relations in the near future.

Unfortunately, too, there is, in
nearly all of the printed articles, an
evident tendency to hold up _ the
shortcomings and frailties of a few
as an evidence of the tendency and
ideals of all. That there are members
in beth professions who do not live
up to the prescribed principles or
codes of ethics, and whose technical
training or skill does not compare
favorably with the best that is at-
tainable, all must admit. But to say,
on the other hand, that all of the
members of these respective callings
are guilty of any or all of the accu-
sations that have recently been made
would be overstepping the bounds
of truth very materially. Over and
above the evident falsity of any se-
ries of general accusations, we should
always remember that crimination or
recrimination will not, and can not,
of itself bring other than discredit
to all concerned.

It will be much more in keeping
with a genuine desire for progress,
therefore, if we as pharmacists, rec-
ognizing the shortcomings of physi-
cians, also recognize our own, and
honestly strive to correct existing
abuses by the gradual elimination of
objectionabte practices.

In the following I have tried to
outline what I consider the underly-
ing causes of many of the present
differences of opinion, and also to
indicate the position that I believe
pharmacy will hold in the future. In
addition to this I have attempted to
indicate how we as individuals can,
now and in the near future, contrib-

 

ute very materially to bringing about
a better understanding between phar-
macists and physicians, and inciden-
tally contribute no little to a better
knowledge of drugs and medicines
on the part of future graduates in
medicine.

The retail pharmacist of to-day oc-
cupies rather an anomalous position,
being, or attempting to be, a con-
glomerate of small tradesman, arti-
san and member of a liberal profes-
sion. In this varied calling he has
acquired interests which are at least
partially, if not wholly, antagonistic
to each other, and which have cer-
tainly tended to keep him within dis-
tinctly narrow bounds. As a profes-
sional man he has not developed as
rapidly as was confidently asserted
he would half a century or more ago.
Among the reasons for this lack of
development may be mentioned that
as a whole he has become too numer-
ous, and that the system of education
which has been provided for him is
entirely too inadequate to develop
the principles necessary for the evo-
lution and growth of a professional
spirit.

It should be mentioned, however,
that despite the meager training of
the earlier apothecaries, or “pharma-
ceutists”’ as they were sometimes
called, American pharmacy has con-
tributed no little to the sum total of
our knowledge of drugs and medi-
cines. Such men as Procter, Parrish
and Bedford, although restricted al-
most entirely to the limited educa-
tional facilities of the pharmaceutical
schools of their day, have accom-
plished work that we and future gen-
erations of pharmacists may point to
with pride.

It has been frequently predicted,
and for apparent good reasons, that
in the future economic arrangement
there will be no need and no place
for the retail druggist of to-day or
of yesterday. Be that as it may, so
far as the purely-commercial inter-
ests of the retail druggist are con-
cerned there can be no question re-
garding the necessity and consequent
continuance of the professional
pharmacist. With the constant  in-
crease of specialization in the prac-
tice of medicine, and the accom-
panying realization that the human
body is not a machine and that its
ills can not well be treated on gen-
eral principles, there must be an ac-
companying increase in appreciation
of the competent pharmacist, who is
willing and able to act as an assist-
ant or adjunct to the medical practi-
tioner. While it is true that the fu-
ture pharmacist will not be as nu-
merous as he is at the present time,
he will occupy a relatively higher po-
sition in the social scale, and will in
addition be in a position to accom-
plish much that will make him hon-
ored and respected at home _ and
abroad.

For us as pharmacists it would ap-
pear imperative, then, that we bear
this possible development along pro-
fessional lines in mind and see that
the proper material is available when
the expected change is brought
about. The proper foundation for
this rational development of profes-

 

sional pharmacy can be laid at the
present time, and, in addition to this,
we may aid in the pharmaceutical
education of future physicians if we
can, by any means at our command,
improve the present status of hospi-
tal pharmacy in the United States.
In the education of future genera-
tions of physicians hospital training
will necessarily play a most impor-
tant part. Even at the present time a
medical education that does not in-
clude at least some hospital experi-
ence is considered inadequate. This
being true, it becomes evident at once
that the impressions a recent gradu-
ate receives during his hospital ex-
perience—impressions of drugs and
druggists—must be lasting ones and
ones that will largely control his
future ideas and practices.

How woefully deficient and unsat-
isfactory the drug service in many of
our hospitals must be becomes evi-
dent when we realize that in this
great country, with hundreds of insti-
tutions to supply them, we have had
but one solitary instance of a hospi-
tal pharmacist who has become wide-
ly known through his_ professional
and scientific work. I refer to the
late Charles Rice, of Bellevue Hospi-
tal, New York, who, I am sorry to
add, was himself a foreigner by
birth and early training. Compared
to what has been accomplished by
the pharmacists of European hospi-
tals, particularly by those of France,
this is indeed a poor showing. Much
of this deficiency of the past, how-
ever, could be corrected in the future
if members of this Association, who
are influential in their communities,
will direct the attention of hospital
authorities to their shortcomings in
this respect.

One of the most widespread abuses
in hospital! and dispensary practice is
due to. the fact that, apart from a
rather limited number of routine
stock mixtures, the medicines. dis-
pensed consist largely of proprietary
preparations that have been donated
by charitable manufacturers with a
view to having them brought to the
attention of the medical men con-
nected with the institution and, if
possible, securing from them suita-
ble endorsements for publication. It
need not surprise us, therefore, that
physicians who have had _ hospital
experience are frequently more hope-
lessly dependent on the use of pro-
prietary remedies than graduates
who have not had the so-called ad-
vantages of a _ hospital training.
Much of this could and would be
changed if hospitals, particularly the
larger and more influential institu-
tions, were to employ competent
pharmacists who could secure and
hold the confidence of the visiting
as well as of the resident staff of
physicians, and who could and would
be consulted on the probable stand-
ing of new remedies.

This brings us to a consideration
of the intellectual needs and wants
of men capable of holding such posi-
tions. If the hospital pharmacist of
to-day, or the professional pharma-
cist of to-morrow, is to have andto
hold the confidence of medical prac-
titioners he must be at least the equal

of the medical man in education, in
ideas and in ideals—so much so that
with the increase in the requirements
made of medical students there must
be a corresponding increase in the
demands that are made on the gener-
al information possessed by the fu-
ture pharmacist. He must be a
well educated, thoroughly scientific
and altogether capable man, _ well
versed in all the branches of knowl-
edge connected with his own profes-
sion. M. I. Wilbert.

 

 

 

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Our line is now complete
Comprising everything desirable in

Druggists’ and Stationers’
Fancy Goods, Leather Goods, Albums,
Books, Stationery, China.
Bric-a-Brac, Perfumery, Xmas “Goods,
Games, Dolls and Toys.

OUR LARGE SAMPLE ROOM
(25 x 125 feet)

Is completely filled with one article of a kind.

One Visit

Will make you a permanent customer, as our
line and prices are sure to please you.
eS" A liberal expense allowance will be
made on your holiday purchases, Write for
particulars.

All goods in stock for prompt or future
shipment. Terms liberal. Gia

FRED BRUNDAGE
Wholesale Druggist
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WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
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Decl ned—
Acidum Exechthitos ..... 425 Tinctures
Aocoticum ........ o- 3) eee ......... 10 Soot se 10 | 4. .
Benzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 75 | Gaultheria ......! .-8 00@3 10 conitum Nap’s R 60
Boracie Soe _o 17 Gonstpoih Sein gai, = oo =
arbolicum ..... a a sSipp oe eee cee Sel ss! hl 8 l eS
Citricum ......... 38@ 4¢|Hedeoma ........ 3061 80 50 peel Myrrh .. =
Hydrochior ...... 3 5 Jusigera. ae aes e ogi 20 a 50
Nitrocum ..... --- 8@ 10|Lavendula ....... wo: 7 Atrope Belladonna 60
Oxalicum ........ 12@ 14| Limonis ......... 90@11 ‘Auranti ao 50
Phosphorium, dil g 15 | Mentha Piper. ..4 50@4 75 Bensain - é
Salicylicum ...... 42@ 45|Mentha Verid.. - 5 098 se ao a =
ulphuricum ..... 1% @ 5 | Morrhuae, gal. ..1 50@2 Ravan ne 50
Tannicum ....... 11 ¥ me) msremm § .......... 4 00@4 80 Cantharides _.".. 75
Tartaricum ...... 38 0} Gtive ....-... - T5@3 00 Capsicum 50
mmonia Picis Liquida .... 10 Sl eavdanon m5
Aqua, 18 deg..... 4 6| Picis Liquida gal. 35 | Gardamon — 76
Aqua, 20 deg..... 6 ee 90@ 94| Castor .. " 100
Carbonas ........ 18@ 15|Rosmarini ....... OO Otenhn |. ose 50
Chloridum ..... 12@ 14) Rosae, oz ........ 5 00@6 00 | Ginchona 1.1.7 "*
nilin OE nsec cee 40@ 45/Ginchona Go.” ‘ 60
ek ....-. 8... 2 00@2 25 | Sabina 10 ‘oO . =
Brown .....-- o--- 80 Santal 275@ 5
WE iciud ences -- 46@ 50 i 5@ 90 50
Welew ..050.-24.. 2 50@3 00 a ess »
& :
Cubedan, po. 38 BQ el thyme opi co: OB eo rs
uniperus ........ ; Opt oo...
sng :I21 80@ 85 | Theobromas *! 111! 5@ 20 BES chic 36
alsamum Potassium Gentian sia
— .-po. 20 12 an ase Dooce eee 15@ 18 | Guiaca se Sealey $0
OE inc tect esse chromate ...... 13 15 | Guiaca ca
Tamia. Canada.. 60 4 Bromide oe 40@ 45 Hyoseyamus -.... 50
Sutin ...:...... Fe Si Cars ............ 12 qa ilogme .. 8... 75
Cortex Chlorate 017@19 16@ 18 Toa 2...
Abies, Canadian i3 |S Cyan Ssidinpi 22 ae Kin » seis 50
assine .......--- . 123] Todide .......... aa,
Cinchona Fiava.. 18 po rag Bitart pr 30@ 323|Myrrh_ .1.1 1.7777" =
Buonymus atro.. 80/ Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10 — Vomica ..... 50
Myrica Vitgin = Potass Mitras a é Op Se rr
nus ee ee il,
Quillaia, gr’d..... 12 | Sulphate po ...... ito 18 Opi, acne 1 50
Sameedres a 20 is ie Guassie 000. 50
mus ..36,

ESE suq 20) Acie. 2000 BQ BY Rhee oc z
Giycyrrhiza a... 24@ 80; Althae .......... ee a nrac tr sae
Glycyrrhiza, po... 28@ 80|Anchusa ......... 10@ 12 tha creees
Haematox ....... 11@ 12)Arum po ........ aaa =
Haematox, is.... 183@ 14} Calamus ........ 2@ 40|Tolutan _ “ a
Haematox, %s.... = = eis. Po 3 13 1 7 69

tox. %s.... 16@ 17|Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18|V2lerian ....-....
ee eee Hydrastis, Can. @1 75 oe Veride.. Z
Carbonate Precip. 15 | Hydrastis Can. po. @2 sd} tweet
Citrate and Quinia 228 | Hellebore, Alba.. iso 15 Miscellaneeus
Citrate —— é = ase po Seuss te ga 22
Ferrocyanidum 8. . Pe cna ae Aether,

Solut. Chloride.. 15 | Iris plox ........ 0 | nether, oo més = =
Sulphate, com’l.. 3|Jalapa, pr ...... 25@ 30 | alumen, gr’d po7 23 4
Sulphate, com'l, by Maranta, \¥s ... @ 35/annatto ......... 50
bbl, per cwt.. ” Podophyitum po.. aa. = Antimoni, po 5
Sulphate, pure ..  =7|Rhel ............. a Ant
. ce — a... @12 es et Bo 100 50
NE Losses nes oa wie ------- ee SS | Antiichwin ... 20
Anthemis .....-.. 22@ 25 ad oe 24 $ 22 | Argenti Nitras, oz 108 48
Matricaria ....... 30@ 385 Serpentaria ' 65@ 20 — gre == 12
a > ead buds i
_ Fella s0@ 33 | SemeEe cae er’ 85@ 90| Bismuth 8 N 2 200350
arosma .......-- Smilax, off’s H - @ 49/Gaicium Chior. is .
Cassia §Acutifol, Smilax, M ...... @ 25| Calcium Chior, % a
Tinnevelly ..... 20% 25/Scillae ...... po 35 10@ 12 Calclum Chior. Zs a
Cassia, Acutifol.. 25@ 30 Symplocarpus | @ 25 Cunthanides |G ni oe
Salvia’ officinalis, Valeriana Eng... @ 25 Capsici Fruc’s af. @ 20
%s and %s.... 12@ 20| valeriana, Ger 15@ 20|Gapsici Fruc’s po. g fo
Uva Urst......... 8 16 |Zingibera ....... = 18 Cap’! Frue’s Bp = @ is
Gummi Zingiber 7... 16 20 Carvoehyiue 25@ 38
Acacia, ist pkd.. @ 66 — ——— No 4 300
Acacia, 2d pkd.. 4% | Anisum ... . @ i16|Cera Alba........ 0@ 655
Acacia, 3d pkd... 85 | Apium nue 8). = 15|Cera Flava ...... 0@ 42
Acacia, sifted sts. 25) Grd, ts ....-.-.- 4 @| Crocus, ......_.. 75@1 80
Beecia, B6.......-. 46@ 65|Carui ...... po 15 10@ 11 a Fructus .. @ 35
Alpe, Bard.....-- 12 14|Cardamon ....... 70@ 9)|Centraria ........ @ 10
Aloe, Cape........ 25 | Coriandrum ..... 12@ 14 Cetaceum Seeeus y 45
Aloe, Socotri @ 30| Cannabis Sativa. 7@ 8) Chloroform_..... 47@ 57
Ammoniac ....... 55 60 |Cydonium ....... se 00 | Chloro’m, Squibbs @110
Assafoetida ..... 35 40 | Chenopodium .. 25 $0 | Chloral yas Crst.1 35@1 60
Benzoinum ....... 50@ 65|Dipterix Odorate. 80@100|Chondrus ........ 20@ 25
Catechu, I1s....... 13 | Foeniculum ..... @ 18|Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Catechu, %8...... 14| Foenugreek, po .. 7@ 9 ars Germ 38@ 48
Catechu, %S...... ite ............. 4@ 6 pn “ eodweaee. 405@4 25
Camphorae ...... 75 $0 | Lini, grd ...bbi 4 7 6 | Corks list d p ct. 75
Euphorbium i teeta .......... 75 80|Creosotum ....... @ 45
Galbanum ........ @100| Pharlaris Cana’n. 9@10 Creme ...... bbl 75 @ 3:
Gamboge ....po...1 25@135| Rapa ............ 5 €/| Crete, prep ...... @ 5
Guaiacum po. 85|Sinapis Alba .... 7 9 Creta, precip . 9@ 11
‘ Zo Sinapis Nigra .... 9@ 10 Creta. Rubra ... ee 8
Spiritus Cree ........... 1 80
45 | prumenti W D....2 9092 50 aaa a
Shellac ne 60 Erumenti .......- 1 25 : = Destine |... 7 10
Shellac, bleached $5@ 70 a ed roe = Mther Sulph ...... 78@ 92
Tragacanth ..... 710@1 00 | Juniperis Co * Emery, all Nos.. 8
Saccharum N E ..190@2 10 Emery, mo le 8
Herba 9, | Spt, Vini Galli ...175@6 50| Breota ..... 85@ 90
Absinthium, ez pk 2 | Vint Oporto ..... 1 25@2 00 Flake a < wen
— = oe 20 Vini Alba ........ 1%@20iGalla .......'° 23
Ceumwer | 8c. 8 9
Majorum ..oz pk 28 Sponges
Moctha Pip oz = 23 | Florida sae wi Gelatin, Cooper @ 60
i 2 50@2 75 Gelatin, French 35@ 60
Mentha Vir oz pk 25) carriage .....-. Glassware, fit box 75 & 5
Bue .......:. oz pk 89 | Nassau sheeps’ w fase Gees Bee 70
Tanacetum V..... 22 Carriage ....... 2 50@2 75 Gian toon ee 3
Thymus V ..oz pk Sve eae aoe 150 | Glue, white -..:°. 15@ 25
Magnesia wees | ces. a eS
Calcined, Pat. 55@ 60 ao carriage @1 25 | Grana Paradisi .. 25
Carbonate, Pat. .. 18 20 Grass sheepes’ ae Fiuaaias .. 5... 4. 25 55
Carbonate K-M.. 18 20 ue Pp , @100 Hydrarg Ch Mt. 95
Carbonate ....... 18 20 Seco alae pea @100 Hydrarg Ch Cor. 90
Oleum ss ss | Yellow «Reef, for ae Ox Ru’m @105
Ansinthium ....- 450@5 00 alate ume ...... @1 40 ydrarg Ammo’l. 115
Amygdalae, Dulc. 50@ 60 eee are 50 60
yer _ _— 4 73 oes Acacia —— @ 50 Ichthyobol _ Am. 90@1 o0
nisi ............1 75@1 85 | Acacia .........-
Auranti Cortex . “+2 20@2 40| Auranti Cortex 2 SO lin@iea _.-. 0.2... 75@1 00
Bergamii ........ 85@3 25 | Zingiber ......... 60 Todide, Resubi ..3 85@4 00
Cajiputi ..-...... i 10@115 |Ipecac .... @ 6@|Iodoform ........ 410@4 20
C: 1 140@1 50| Ferri Iod . © Ge Lupulin ..-...... 50
ae 5@ 70|Rhei Arom @ 60| Lycopodium .....1 0N@1 10
Chenopadii 200|Smilax Offi’s SO@ Ohi Mackie ..:........ 85@
MONCGER ....-5--i~ 60 | Liquor Arsen et
Cinnamonii ... ga i
Citron 40 a 50 ydrarg Iod @ 2
Conium Mac . Scillae Co ....:.. 50 | Liq Potass Arsinit 10 12
CAME acces 115 OMNIA icine cee. g 50 Magnesia. Sulph.. 2 3
Cy hehae 1 us vicga i) esia, Sulh bbi 91%

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are invited to
inspect our

Holiday
Line

Sept. 12, 1904

in the Blodgett Building
opposite our office

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

REE Em.

Mannia, S F .... T56@ 8@ i -_ ......... ~— 12! Lard, extra 70 80
Menthal -......:; 4 00@4 50 Gc... ..... ij Lard, No. 1 ..... 60 65
Soldtits Mixture. i. 22 Linseed, pure raw 41@ 44
Morphia, 8 P & W.236@2 6 |Sinapis .......... 18| Linseed’ boiled .. 42@ 46
Morphia, SN Y Q.2 35@2 60 | Sinapis, opt ..... @ %0|Neatsfoot, wstr.. 65@ 70
Morphia, Mal ....236@2 60 | snuff, ' Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine... 60@ 65
Moschus Canton . aT ha Vosk 0. @ 41 Paints bbl L
Myristica, No. 1. 38 = Snuff, S’h De Vo’s @ 41 fa a ea 1% 2 @8
Os Sepia as 28 | $0d% Boras ...... 9@ 11| Ochre, yel Mara 1% 2 @4
2 Soe 8 Soda, Boras, po.. 9@ li om a B 1% 2 @3
eS Co TE 9100 | $092 ct Pot’s Tart 28@ 30) Ditty’ Commer'l.2% 2%@3
Picis Liq NN % Soda, Cotare 12. 3G § | Putty, strictly pr.2% 2%@3
ein oe Soda, Ash ...-.--8%@ 4) VoTetean en 8g 15
Picis Liq, pints... g5 | Sods. Sulphas ... @, .3| Vermillion, Hng.. 09 15
i 50} a5 en 5 Green, Paris .... 18
os 80 Spts. Ether Co... 50@ 65 |G os i 3 a
iper Nigra .po 22 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom 200 . or — nsular :
oan as Alba ..po 35 "1 Spts. Vini Rect bbl — ee os a :
ie ogee @ Whiting. white $1 a 90
Pulvis Ip’c et Opii.1 3001 50 Spts. Vii R’t 5 gal hse | . : =
Pyrethrum, bxs H 75 | Strychnia, Crystal 9091 15 war mace —
&PDCo. doz.. @ Sulphur, Subl . - 240 a s- aris, Eng ei
Pyrethrum, pv 26 30 Sulphur, Roll ... - 2% @ 8% 34 ee a S
Quassiae_ ........ 8@ 10|Tamarinds ...... @ Universal Prep’d.110@1
> ag “. oo =e = Terebenth Venice 38 30 Varnishes
Cnn. ta Bi eee No. 1 Turp Coach.1 10@1 20
joa oo. Bg 25 | Zincl Sulph ..... "10 Gaach Body 221.2 16@8 00
Parse . 46.2.8... 450@4 75 Olls No. 1 Turp Furn.1 00@1 1¢
Sanguis Drac’s... 40@ 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar..1565@1 6¢
Sepe Wo... 12 14| Whale, winter 00 7® | Jap Dryer No | } T 70@

 

 

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B faa Mich Biscuit honey. 12 FLAVOR pr dz. 65
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SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes oan oo
Paragon .......... 65

BAKING Gaacee
Jaxen Brand

JAXON

%Te. cans, 4 des. ease 45
lb. cans, 4 doz. case 85
1 th. cans, 2 doz. casel 60

Royal
10c size. 90
%tbecans 135
€ ozcans 190
%ibcans 250
%Ibcans 375
1 tecans 480
= 3 tmcans i800
3 & Ihcans 2150
BLUING

Arctic 40z ovals, p gro 4 09
Arctic 8 oz evals, p gro 6 00

 

Arctic 1% oz ro’d, p gro 9 00.

BREAKFAST FOOD
Walsh-DeRoo So.’s Brands

fecbaeae Flakes
oe Oe ts ce $4 00
Wheat Grits
Cases, 24 2 tb. pack’s.$2 00

CIGARS

 

Cc

 

@. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd.

Less than 600........ 33 00

S08 or more........... 32 00

«,008 or more......... 31 00
COCOANUT

Baker’s Brazil Shredded

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one

 

70 41D pkg,

per case. .2 60
i = gr pes. per case..2 60

3 ap .» per case..2 60
Tb a3 per case..2 60

FRESH MEATS
Beef
Parra oo 4 @T7T%
Forequarters. ... 4 @ 5%
Hindquarters. 6 @ 8%
ee ee 714,@12
ee ee ceca ee 7 @ie
Hommes ......... oe 6%
a 4 @ 4%
eee iis @ 3
Pork
Drease@ ...;. ack @ 6%
cae oo ee @10%
Boston Butts ... @ 915
Snceders ...,... @ 8%
Peer teed ws ce @ 8
Mutton
Cercase ..... —~ + 2.5
RE chickens culls € @8

Vea
CAPCOM once cats 54@ 8

cans ‘0
© Bc cans ..........38 36

3 8
Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 vv

 

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds.

 

White House, 1 oe oe
White House, 2 Ib.
Excelsior, M & J
Excelsior, M & J,
‘lip Top, M & J, 1
Hoyel J@Va ..2..........
Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....
Distrivuted by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer Co., De-
troit and Jackson; F, Saun-
ders & Co., Port Huron;
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel & Goeschel,
Bay City; Godsmark, Du-
rand & Co., Battle Creek;
Fielbach Co., Toledo.

COFFEE SUBSTITUTE
Javril

 

CONDENSED MILK

4 doz. in case
Gail Borden Eagle....6 40
pe, el ERNE 5
ee © a ca an 4
eee sg. 4
PEMROOS nc ceca nu ss 4
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—————————

SAFES

 

Full line of the celebrated
Diebold fire and _ burglar
— safes kept in stock
y the Tradesman Com-
pany. Twenty different
sizes on hand at all times
—twice as many safes as
are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
are unable to visit Grand
Rapids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.
STOCK FOOD.
Superior Stock Food Co.,
Ltd.

$ .50 carton, 36 In box.10.80

1.0® carton, 18 in box.10.s6
12% Th. cloth sacks... .84
25 Th. cloth sacks... 1.65
50 tb. cloth sacks.... 3.15
100 tT. cloth sacks.... 6.00
Peck measure ....... .90
% bu. measure...... 1.80
12% Tb. sack Cal meal _ .39
25 Tb. sack Cal meal... .75
F. O. B. Plainwel. Mich

 

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

 

100 cakes, large size..6 50
50 cakes, large size..3 25
100 cakes, small size. 7 =
50 cakes. small size..

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

 

Black Hawk, one box. .2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs.2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES

Halford, large ........ 75
Halford, small ........ : 25

 

Place Your
Business
ona
Cash Basis
by using
our
Coupon Book
System.
We
manufacture
four kinds
of
Coupon Books
and
sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape
or
denomination.
We will
be
very
pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us.
They are
free.

Tradesman Company

Grand Rapids

 

 

The Look Ahea

The successful merchant booms business now
and takes The Look Ahead often enough to

make sure there is no let-up in the booming.

To such a merchant the ideal presentation of
goods is that which suggests things for his
use now and things for his use say a month

or six weeks from now.

It’s the successful merchant we like to
deal with and it is to his needs we cater.

Hence you'll find

In Our October Catalogue

1. Our regular lines of Fall and Winter
goods quick selling merchandise in

more than fifty departments;

2. Hundreds of those ‘‘yellow-page’’
leaders new things we provide month-
ly for use in the “this” month’s trade

booming;

3. Our entire line of Holiday goods—
and the men who know refer to ours

as “the big Holiday line.”

For The Look Ahead at December’s easy busi-
ness—the greatest profit opportunity of the
year—as well as for trade stimulators to use

now, get our October catalogue.

No. J516—for merchants only—and free

for the asking.

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Everything—By Catalogue Only
NEW YORK CHICAGO ST. LOUIS

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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this
subsequent continuous

head f

insertion.

for two
No charge less

cents

a word tlhe first insertion and one cent a word for each

than 25 cents.

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—Stock of groceries, located in
Grand Rapids. Annual sales aggregate |
$22,000. Fine location. Will sell for
eash only. Address No. 950, care Mich- |
igan Tradesman. 950

 

flour sacks, sugar sacks, etc. William
toss & Co., 57% So. Water St., Chica-
eo, HL. 938 ©

For Sale Cheap—Lamson cash carrier

railway, three stations; used three
months. Cost one hundred and five
dollars. Address Carrier, care Michigan
‘Trade sman. 940

If you want a stock farm “whe re horses,
cattle and hogs live the year around
without attention, or if you want timber
lands at prices that the timber will pay
for the lands, call on or address J. HK
B. Moore, Clarendon, Ark. 941

For

 

Sale—Custom feed and flour mill

for sale. Located at Mancelona, Mich.
Plenty of custom. Address A. Kimball,
Mancelona. 947

 

For Sale—Billiard and pool tables, out-
fit with lunch supplies, cigars and to-
baccos. Terms reasonable. Apply C. T.
Braidwood, Lock Box 18, Capac, Mich. 946

 

For Sale—-Fine stock of staple and fan-
cy groceries in the best location in Mus-
kegon. <An established business of 37
years. Address Box 57, Muskegon, Mich.

944

 

For Sale—Foundry and
Everything in running order.
location. Harrison
Mich.

For Sale—Shoe stock,
Splendid opening in good city.
reasons for selling. Address
care Michigan Tradesman.

cider mill.
First class
& Moran, Chelsea,

945

Best of
No. 955,
955

 

80 acre
stock
W fhittemore, _

farm for sale or
of merchandise.
Mich.

For Sale—Grocery
Gwuod location,

exchange for
Jno. W. Curtis,
Se
stock and fixtures.
good trade, cheap rent. In-

 

voices from $800 to $900. Going South
reason for selling. Address Lock a 6,
Franklin, Warren Co., Ohio.

General stecok, new goods, aoe to
$5,000 cash. Can reduce stock to $4,000.
tent building. Address Poor Health,
care Michigan Tradesman. 951

 

Wanted—Good
live country
Michigan

Now no resident physician,
good location for one in a village of
twelve hundred people, and good farming
country outside. Address Box 348 for
information, Montague, Mich. 5

For Rent at Holland, Mich.—Brick
store 20x80 inside. Plate glass front; ex-
cellent location on main business street.
No. 47 East 8th St. Has freight ele-
vator; now occupied by 5 and l0c store.
Possession given Nov. ist. Address C.
J. DeRoo, Cor. Ottawa and Grand Be
Lansing, Mich.

yt desir: ible party ‘to invest. fro om = 000
to $20,000 in a business that nets 100 per

merchandise business in
town. Address Wing, care
Tradesman. 952

 

 

 

cent.; no chances, no competition. Ad-
dress Box _ 117, Ypsilanti, Mich. 929 |
On account of poor health, I will sell

my drug stock and fixtures located in
northern Kent county, at a bargain if
taken at once. Business_~ established
twenty-five years Stock and fixtures in-
voice about $2,000. Address No. 930,
care Michigan Tradesman. 930

200 Ferrets For Sale—Best stock. Write

 

 

for price. Lewis DeKleine, Jamestown,
Mich. 936
For & Only stock

                          

in town. <A bargain.
eare Michigan

For

Address No. 932
Tradesman. sS.

stock books,

 

wall
about
curios-

Sale—General
paper, China, sporting goods, etc.,
$3,500; clean; bears investigation;
ity seekers please not answer. Muncy,
Three Rivers, Mich. 922

Well improved farm of 320 .cres to ex-
change for hardware, general merchan-
dise or income property. F. W. Reagan,
Clinton, Mo. 924

First 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-
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 rr,

invoicing $3,000. |

Cash for your stock—Or we will close
out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce Pay stock.
Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,
577 West Forest Ave.. Detroit. Mich. 2

Sale—Hardwood Island, one of the

 

For

| group of Apostle Islands near Bayfield,

Best cash prices paid for coffee sacks, |
|} and is

Wisconsin. Island contains 1,330 acres,
heavily timbered with 1,500, 000
feet of hardwood and 10,800 cords of cord
wood. Beautiful place for summer re-
sort, and will make fine farm after timber
is ent. Price, $10 per acre. Will con-
sider improved property in part payment.
Address Hazen & Kuehnow, Duluth, —

 

We have some good farm lands for ex-
change on cash basis for stocks of gen-
eral merchandise. C. N. Sonnesyn & Co.,
Butterfield, Minn. 897

Sell your real estate. “or. ‘business for
cash. I can get a buyer for you very
promptly. My methods are distinctly dif-
ferent and a decided improvement over
those of others. It makes no difference
where your property is located, send me
full description and lowest cash price and
I will get cash for you. Write to-day.
Established 1881. Bank references.
Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express
Building, Chicago. 899

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 6th 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 into two small plants. For full
particulars apply to Gernert Bros.
Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky. 900

 

For Sale—Country store and dwelling
house, also $1,720 stock general merchan-

 

dise. Address No. 901. care Michigan
| Tradesman. : 901
Wanted— stock of merchandise in

 

 

exchange joe a well located improved

farm. Address No. 906. care Michigan
Tradesman. 906

 

Harness Business For Sale—A chance
for a harness maker with sfnall capital.
I must sell.
igan Tradesman.

 

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.

For

 

Sale

 

A good clean drug asians

}in one of the best towns of Michigan.
| Gocd reason for selling.

| care Michigan Tradesman.
and a

Adress Noa

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 _—. —
Grand Rapids, Mich.

For Sale or Trade for small <n
farm—Building and stock of groceries at
good country location. Everything new.
Address No. 850, care Michigan “a”
man.

 

Special Bargain—500 farms, stock
ranches, Kansas or Missouri. Write for
my free list. F-. Humphrey, °§ Fort
Scott, Kan. 914

A firm of old “standing | ‘that has been
in business for fifteen years and whose
reputation as to integrity, business meth-
ods, ete., is positively established, de-
sires a man who has $5,000 to take an
active part in the store. This store is
a department store. Our last year’s busi-
ness was above $60,000. The man must
understard shoes, dry goods or groceries.
The person who’ invests this money must
be a man of integrity and ability. Ad-
dress No. 571, care Michigan Tradesman.

od

For Sale—Farm implement business,
established fifteen years. First-class lo-
eation at Grand Rapids, Mich. Will sell
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. Ge

For Sale—A modern eight-room house
Woodmere Court. Will trade for stock
of groceries. Mnquite J. W. Powers,
Houseman Building, Grand Rapids, ae
Phone 1455. 498

For Sale—Good up-to-date stock of
general merchandise; store building; well
established business. Stock will inven-
tory $5,000. Located in hustling North-
ern Michigan town. Address No. 744, care
Michigan Tradesman. 744

For Sale—Fourteen room hotel, new
and newly furnished, near Petoskey. Fin?
trout fishing. Immediate possession on
account of poor health. Address a te

care Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

Address No. 869, care a" “
6

 

Mercantile stocks of
and good towns for sale.
for mercantile stocks. We
for good small

all kinds in. city
Farms to trade
have customer
grocery in good town.

Stores to rent and more stores wanted. |

Clark’s Business Exchange, Grand Rapids.
925

 

Wanted—Will pay cash for an estab- |
Will consid- |

lished, profitable business.
er shoe store, stock of general merchan-
dise or manufacturing business.
full particulars in first letter. Confiden-
tial. Adsirea3 Nea. &19,
Tradesman.

 

For Sale—480 acres of cut-over hard- |

wood land,

three miles north of Thomp-
sonville.

House and barn on premises.

Pere Marquette Ruilroad runs across one |
Very desirable for stock |

corner of land.
raising or potato growing. Will
change for stock of merchandise. C.
— 301 Jefferson St.,
ids.

ex-
Cc

 

For Sale—A 25 horse-power steel hori-
A 12 horse-power engine |
A blacksmith forge |

zontal boiler.
with pipe fittings.
with blower and tools. Shafting pul-
leys, belting. All practically new. Orig-
inal cost over $1,200. Will sell for $600.
Address B-B Manufacturing Co., 50 Ma-
sonic Temple. Davenport. Iowa 537
Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan —
mitt S-

"For Sale—A fine bazaar stock in a/|

lumbering town
county seat.
for selling.

in Northern Michigan,
Price right. Good reasons
Must be sold at once.

 

Give |

care Michigan |
519

Grand Rap- |
835

Ad- |
dress Rogers Bazaar Co., Greyling, Mich. |
606

 

Attention, For
wheat mills and elevator
one of the finest
State;
kins Station and Bradley,
sell together or separate; all are first-
class paying businesses, and buildings
and machinery in first-class
our fast-increasing business in this city
is the reason we want to dispose of our
outside mills at a bargain. Henderson

Sale—Flour, feed, buck-
at Wayland;

elevator and feed mill at Hop-
Mich.; will

& Sons Milling Co., Grand Rapids. Mich. |

735

 

On account of failing health, I desire |

to sell my store, merchandise, residence,
two small houses and farm.

to suit purchaser. Address J. Aldrich
Holmes, Caseville, Mich. 848
For Sale—29 shares of ist _ preferred |

stock of Great Northern Portland Cement
Co. stock for $1,200
265, Grand Ledge,

The Mempnis Paper Box Co.
established, fine-paying business;
sell the business for what it

Mich.

 

proprietor is old and in feeble health.
Address Jack W. James, 81 Madison St.,
Mempnis. Tenn. 736

 

POSITIONS WANTED.

 

Wanted-——Position in a general mer- |
chandise, clothing or shoe store; eight
years’ experience; can furnish the best

of references; speak German and Eng-
lish. Address C. H. Zimmerman, La
Valle, Wis. 937
Wanted—aA position in a dry goods or
grocery store, by a competent
man. Can furnish best of references.
Address Box 97, Barryton, Mich. 943
Wanted—Position as bookkeeper or
stenographer with wholesale shippers
preferred. Address Competent, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 903

Wanted—Position as salesman in retail
hardware store. Have had ten years’
experience. Address Box 367, Kalkaska,
Mich. 466

 

 

 

 

 

HELP WANTED.

Wanted—Man who is a
good salesman, and has
dollars to invest to buy
tatlished business and

 

hustler and
a few hundred
interest in es-
take charge of

 

an office in Detroit. No risks attached.
Nets nice income. Address China, Glass
and Brass Goods Manufacturer, 914 Lin-
coln Ave., Toledo, Ohio. 948
Wauiee Agents to handle our pre-
mium line of framed pictures for gen-

ersl stores as a side line; good commis-
sion; samples not necessary unless want-
ed. Apply Mueller Bros. Mis. Co.,. Polk
St. and Washtenaw Ave., Chicago, Il.

 

Wanted—An all-round man in hard-
ware, harness, implements, pumps, etc..
with ability to conduct business in any
of the above lines, and who has had ex-
perience as tinner Must be temperate
and not afraid of work. Man from small
town preferred and who is familiar with
farm trade. J. H. Whitney, Merrill, —

mills of its size in the |

condition; |

Will divide |

Address a |

is an old |
_will |
invoices; |

=| to good school,

young |

Druggist Wanted—For position asad.

|
| writer and manager of large retail drug
| store carrying complete stock and vari-
| ous side lines. Have good equipment for
advertising and plenty of material to work
| on for special sales, ete. Must be man
| of good address, character and habits,
a worker, and have good references. A
| steady place for the right man, with op-

portunity to purchase an interest, if mu-
tually agreeable, when ability is proven.
Address with particulars as to age, ex-
perience and salary expected. Address
No. 942, care Michigan Tradesman. 942

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

yants Jant to reduce stock? Yes.
| W ant to dispose of stickers? Yes. Want
more money in the bank? Yes. Then
| try a reduction sale, by my new and
} novel methods—or if you want to close
out your stock—my plan will do _ it.

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

| Write for terms and list of references.
| W. A. Anning. the Hustling Salesman,
Aurora, MHlinois.

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

ithe largest wholesale houses in the
| West. Write us to-day for further in-
| formation. J. 4. Hart & Co., 242 Mar-
| ket St., Chicago, NL 871

H. CG. Ferry & Co.,
| tioneers.

| anywhere
methods,

the hustling auc-
Stocks closed out or reduced
in the United States. New
original ideas, long experience,
| hundreds of merchants to refer to. We
| have never failed to please. Write for
| terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
|vash Ave., Chicago. References, Dun’s
| Mercantile’ Agency. 872

|” 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 auctieneers
j}and salespeople. Write for term: and
date. The Globe Traders & Lice: sed
| Auctioneers, Office 431 E. Nelson 3t.,
| Cadillac, Mich. 445

 

‘MISCELLANEOUS.

Cards and Price Cards—Over 400
| varieties of show cards kept in stock;
also neat and inexpensive price cards.
| Any sign you want made to order. f
want to send you my free descriptive
| booklet. It will pay you to write for
to-day. KF. H. ERoys, $56 Hailway Ex-
ehange, Chicago. 939

| To Exchange—80 acre farm 3% miles
| southeast of Lowell, 60 acres improved, °
15 aeres timber and 10 acres orchard
|land, fair house, good well, convenient
for stock of general mer-,
| chandise situated in a good town. Real
estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
dence solicited. Konkle & Son, Alto,
Mich. 501

“Want Ads.

 

| Show

 

 

continued on next page

 

We Will Furnish the Factory

| Also the Tools, Dies, Patterns and Machinery.
Will manufacture your invention or specialty and
ship direct to your customers It is our aim to
assist you in every way possible in all Patent-
Mechanical matters.

Consult us free. Estimates furnished. Can
furnish lists of every line of business and pro-
fession. Wecan reduce cost of production.

Miniature and full size models constructed
along manufacturing lines For prompt attention
address, Estimate Dept. “J,”

Michigan Novelty Works,

Kalamazoo, Mich

 

 

77, MCCURACY
PROFIT

We CONTENTMENT
make f f ¢
in the different ccnominaions,

sampces® ON INQUIRY ——
COMPANY,
TRADESMAN Bien RAPIDS, MICH

    

 
 

 

 

48

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Good Results of Associated Effort in
Marauette.

Marquette, Oct. 1&3—The Marquette
Business Men’s Association, formed
some months ago, has disappointed
the croakings of some black plum-
aged prophets, and has existed in
peace and harmony, and with a rec-
ord of good works, even unto the
present day. What is better, there
is every indication that it is a per-
manent organization and that it wil!
continue to have the co-operation
and support of all good Marquette
merchants. The activity of the busi-
ness men here also had the effect of
stirring the Negaunee merchants to
emulate them, and now there is an
organization in that city which in-
cludes all the leading tradesmen and
which is being well supported.

The Marquette organization meets
regularly and is very active in all
matters in which the interest of the
members is concerned. Much of the
work that has been accomplished is
of a nature that does not admit of
public comment, consisting as it has
of “getting after” various abuses,
small and large, which have in past
years cost the business men a_ dear
price. It is claimed that a_ great
many valuable concessions have been
secured and that the business men
are already gainers, materially, from
their organization; this apart from
the harmony and good feeling pre-
vailing among them as a result of
their participancy in association af-
fairs.

It is said that the credit system
has been regulated better since the
latest Association was formed than
ever before in this city. The Asso-
ciation is making a gradual curtail-
ment of credits, one of its prime ob-
jects, and is, for one thing, doing
all it can to shut off bad accounts.
There is maintained in the Secre-
tary’s office a record of all people
likely to ask for credit concerning
whose responsibility there can be
any doubt. In this matter the co-
operation of the merchants is neces-
sary and has been freely given. When
a business man is “stuck” and finds
that his customer has no intention
of trying to pay, if he ever had such
intention, the case is reported, anda
proper record made. The records
are open to members of the Associa-
tion. By calling at the office, or
calling up the Secretary, any mer-
chant can ascertain whether he is
safe in advancing credit to a given
applicant. If there are a bunch of
dead accounts against the applicant
he is judged a good person to do
business with only on a cash basis; if
his record is clear, he usually gets
the credit. Sometimes, when the
merchant’s kind heart or poor judg-
ment runs away with his discretion,
he gets it anyway; then presently
there is another black mark against
this particular “rounder.”

This system is naturally very dis-
tasteful to people who conduct them-
selves on the theory that the world
owes them a living, and who want
to levy a fair share of it on the mer-
chants. They have sputtered
and loud and have threatened all
sorts of dire things.

 

 

 

 

 

long

ground for protest, however, and the
merchants are going merrily on
weeding out the dead ones, while
their bank accounts wax fatter and
their good pay customers possibly
get somewhat better prices now that
they are to some degree _ relieved
from the necessity of supporting the
parasites.
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Take Strong Stand Against Trading
Stamps.

Saginaw, Oct. 15—The Retail Mer-
chants’ Association advises its mem-
bers and merchants in general to
bave nothing to do with proposed
business schemes outside of the fold
of legitimate competition. This
briefly was the action taken at the
last meeting and the framing of a
formal resolution and its issuance to
members were left to the Secretary.

 

The origin of the call for the meet-
ing was found in the reported can-
vassing of the city by solicitors for
the proposed Detroit paper, the U.
S. Daily. Some time ago the agents
of this daily had a hearing before
the Association and the action then
taken was unfavorable to their cause.
It was believed that an official ac-
tion of the Association condemning
the scheme, which in the eyes of the
merchants is largely the trading
stamp evil revamped, would flatten
out any business which might be at-
tempted in Saginaw, hence the un-
equivocal action of the Association.

There is no question but that the
Saginaw merchants are strongly op-
posed to anything of this kind and
that none could be interested in it,
were it generally understood that no
one else would become so. This
critical stage has been passed in the
present scheme as the larger re-
tailers absolutely refused to take up
with the proposition, despite the fact
that there were many very favorable
or rather so-called favorable rates.
It is conceded that all merchants will
gladly follow the advice of the As-
sociation in this respect.

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Scientists say that it is absurd for
a man to part his hair in the middle
and explain why when women at-
tempt it they so rarely succeed. The
brain, it appears, is not “ambidex-
trous,” if the expression is permissi-
ble. If it were an organ of bilateral
symmetry, it is asked, who would
decide when the two halves disagree!
Just as in government, matrimony or
war, there must be a head; so must
one-half of the brain rule the other,
and it is generally the left half that
rules, which makes most _ people
right-handed. The right half some-
times makes suggestions, as one’s
“better half,’ but the left half rules.
Just as it is natural, therefore, for
people to use one hand more than
another, and not both equally well,
it is natural a man should part his
hair on one side or the other, and

pe in the middle.

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If you are not able to think for
yourself you can never aspire to
the greatest things, but if you are
capable of carrying out the thoughts
of others you will be far above the

They have little | average.

 

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—Fall stock is practically all
marketed and winter varieties now
have the call. The crop of winter
fruit is heavy, but the demand is only
fair.

Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch-
es; $1.50@1.75 for Jumbos. This sta-
ple commodity continues to hold its
place in popular favor, but shows no
features of note.

promptly.
Beets-—40c per bu.
3utter—Creamery is about Ic high-

 

The supply is run- |
ning steady, and all orders go out |
g y. |

er than a week ago and the market |

is strong and tending still higher. Lo-

cal dealers have marked their selling |

prices up to 2Ic for choice and 22c
for fancy. Dairies are in good re-
quest, but the supply of extras is
somewhat uncertain, and
find it difficult at times to pick up
just the goods they want. Country
shippers are somewhat at fault in this
manner, as most of them make no
effort to sort out the good from the
bad, and the receiver does not know
what he is getting until he has gone
thoroughly over each lot, which isa

retailers |

tedious job, especially when a large |

shipment is in small packages.
call for fresh, sweet goods, suitable
for table or cooking purposes, is ac-
tive, and the market not only keeps
well cleaned up at full quotations,
but some lots bring a shade higher
when well handled. The price is
steady at 16@17c for No. 1, 15@16c
for common and 11@12c for packing
stock. Renovated is in active de-
mand at 17c.

Cabbage—35c per doz.

Carrots—4oc per bu.

Cauliflower—S8oc per doz.

Celery—-15c per doz. bunches.

Cranberries—Cape Cods are in am-
ple supply at $6.50 per bbl. Home
grown are in moderate supply at $6.
Stock averages good size and very
fine color. Such quality as is now
in sight offered around Christmas day
would bring big money.

Eggs—Case count are steady at
18@1gc and candled are strong at 20
@2tc. Storage supplies are going
out on the basis of t9c, but Chicago
handlers are offering storage eggs at
17c in carlots for present or future
shipment, giving ground for the fear
that the losses on storage eggs this
season will be severe. Receipts of
fresh eggs still contain a large pro-
portion of held stock, which tends
to make local dealers suspicious of
country shipments until their actual
condition has been ascertained.

Egg Plant—75c per doz.

Frogs’ Legs—Local dealers pay 5

@b6oc per doz. according to size.
To obtain top prices legs should
weight not less than 2 fbs. to the

doz. Small are hardly likely to
bring express charges, and had bet-
ter be kept at home, or be at least
allowed to jump until they have
worked up sufficient meat and mus-
cle to be desirable.

Grapes—Blue varieties fetch 1I4c
per 8 tb. basket, while Niagaras com-
mand 16c. Bulk stock has advanced
to 80@goc per bu.

Green Onions—Silver
per doz. bunches.

Green Peppers—65c per bu.

Skins, 15c

The |

 

 

 

 

Honey-—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12c and white clover at I13@I5c.

Lemons—Verdillas and Californias
command $4.50@5 per box.

Lettuce—Hot house fetches I5¢
per Ib.

Onions—Home grown are mov-
ing freely on the basis of 55@65c per
bu. Pickling fetch $2.25. Spanish are
a little higher, having advanced to
$1.40.

Oranges—Supply is running low on
California oranges, but there are fair
offerings of Jamaica goods to take
their place. They seem to be a little
out of season and are not as well
taken by the trade as will be th>
case a little later on. The price hov-
ers around $4.50 per box.

Parsley—25c per doz. bunches.

Pears—Keefers fetch per
bu. Russets range around 85(@95c.

75(M85c

Pigeons—Local dealers pay 60c per
doz.

Potatoes—Local dealers pay 30c,
but most outside buyers are paying
only 25c. The crop is large in nearly
every portion of the potato belt, but
the stock is too large in size to be
If the frost had

or two earlier it

choice. come 2
week would have
been a good thing for the potato
crop. Michigan appears to have the
best crop of any of the potato states.

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

Poultry—Live is strong and in ac-
tive demand. Receipts are increasing
Spring chickens, 10@
IIc; hens, 8@oc; coarse fowls, 6@7c;
spring turkeys, 12@14c; old turkeys,
1o@i12c; spring ducks, 9@toc_ for
white; Nester squabs are dull and
slow sale at $1.25. Dressed poultry
(drawn) ranges about 2c per fb. high-
er than live. Shippers at country
points should urge upon their grow-
ers the importance. of fattening up
turkeys intended to be marketed at
Thanksgiving.

almost daily.

The experience of
years has proven that the best prices
prevail at Thanksgiving time, and
that a plump young turkey will bring
more money at that date than around
Christmas or New Years.

. Radishes—2o0c per doz. for round.
Squash—tc per tb. for Hubbard.
Sweet Potatoes—Virginias have

advanced to $1.90 per bbl. and Jer-

seys to $2.90.

Tomatoes—-50@60c per bu.
Turnips—4oc per bt.

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the establishment of a Monte Carlo
on its shores by a professional Amer-
ican gambler who is a fugitive from
justice in his own country, it. will
scarcely commend itself as a pro-
moter of good morals.

 

 

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