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Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1904

Number 1103

 

Willlam Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, Ist Vice-Pres.
William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres.
M. C. Huggett, Secy-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.

 

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DETROIT OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, DETRO!T.
ATIC pent 1 Meare

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- AND COLLECT “ALL OTHERS

 

 

Collection Department

R. G. DUN & CO.

_ Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids
Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, ef-
ficient, responsible; direct demand system.
Collections made everywhere—for every
trader. Cc. E. McCRONHB, 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,

 

IF YOU HAVE MONEY

and would like to have it

BARN MORB 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

 

Have Invested Over Three Million Dol-
lars For Our Customers in

Three Years

Twentv-seven companies! We have a
portion of each company’s stock pooled in
a trust for the protection of stockholders,
and in case of failure in any company you
are reimbursed from the trust fund of a
successful company. The stocks are all
withdrawn from sale with the exception of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,
Geaed Rapids. Mich.

 

 

 

SPECIAL FEATURES.

Page.

2. Hardware Market.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Window Trimming.
8
9

Editorial.

On Wall Street.
11. Bea Man.
12. Fruits and Produce.
13. New York Market.
14. Preservation of Food.
16. Clothing.
20. Woman’s World.
23. The Divorce Evil.
24. Looking Backward.
26. Business Methods.
27. Can Man Create Life?
28. Rockefeller’s Right Hand.
32. Fulfilled Dreams.
33. Shoes.
36. Avoiding Litigation.
38. Dry Goods. |
40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.
43. Drug Price Current.
44. Grocery Price Current.
46., Special Price Current.

 

 

THE FATE OF THIBET.
While the indemnity exacted by|
the Younghusband mission from the |
Thibetans falls far short of the cost
of the expedition to the British gov-
ernment, it is already foreshadowed |
that it will serve the purpose of the}
indefinite occupation of the country
by British troops. The
the indemnity was placed at $3.750,- |
000, which the Thibetans agreed to
pay within three years in the terms
of the treaty which they signed. But
it was stipulated that British troops |
should occupy the Chumbi Valley un-
til the payment was made. That val-
ley constitutes the military key to
Thibet. Now the Thibetans declare
their inability to pay within the three
years stipulated in the treaty, and
the British government has propos-
ed that payments be made at the
rate of $50,000 a year. This proposi-
tion is said to be acceptable to the
Thiebetans, but China, the suzerain
of the province, is offering increased |
opposition to the ratification of the

amount of

treaty. She is suspected of being |
dominated by Russian influence.
Fears have been aroused that the

Dalai Lama and his Russian associ-
ate, who fled together from Lhassa
at the approach of the Younghus-
band expedition, may return to the |
sacred city and repudiate the treaty |
and renew the former trouble with
the British government.

The new British proposal practi- |
cally provides for a seventy-five-year |
occupation of the Chumbi Valley, as-
suming that no interest will be col-|
lected on the principal represented
in the indemnity. If the British oc-|
cupation of the province is undisturb- |
ed Thibet will be thoroughly Angli-
cized long before the termination of
that period by the industrial and com- |
mercial development of the country |
and its connection by rail with the |
railroad system of India. And the}
superstitious are already anticipating |

| retaining a

iin Morocco.

| kind or
| die of exposure and privation; 10 per |

| houses,

the annexation of the

the British empire, basing their be- |

lief on an alleged Buddhist prophecy
that thirteen Dalai Lamas would
reign in Lhassa and then the line of
Thibet’s religious rulers would cease.
The fugitive Dalai Lama is the thir-
teenth of the line and his flight from
Lhassa has been construed to mean
abdication.

FRANCE ACQUIRING MOROCCO

 

The recent treaty between France |

and Spain, although it has attracted

little attention, is nevertheless a
most important matter. It practi-
cally turns over to French influence |

| the whole of Morocco, Spain merely

portion of the coast

| provinces to safeguard her dignity.
| Even in the case of these provinces
lit is agreed that Spain will dispose |

of them to no. other power but

| France.

This arrangement with Spain prac-
tically assures to France the domina-

ltion of the whole of Northern Afri-
ica except Egypt.

In practically re-
linquishing her pretensions to Egypt
Great Britain, it
agreed with the British government
that France should have a free hand
Of course, that under-
standing was of small value until an
arrangement could be effected with

im favor Of was

| Spain, but now that Spain has been

placated and has agreed to France’s
claims in Morocco the full terms of
the bargain with England can be
carried out. The latter
disputed sway in Egypt, and France
becomes supreme in the rest of
Northern Africa. As no other pow-
interests in that part

Secures ul

ers have any

of the world it is safe to assume that |

there will be no opposition to the
carrying out of the understanding in

all its details. If the Sultan of Mo-

| rocco makes trouble he will be per-
| suaded forcibly to forego his objec-
'tions, or he will be deposed and a

figurehead set up in his place who

territory to|

| pansion in prices.

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

It was not because of any political
that the last
the campaign was attended by a re-

uncertainty week of
actionary and irregular stock market
—it was simply a natural gathering
of forces necessary to a healthful ex-
The upward move-

| ment had been so long, steady and
| rapid that it bade fair to develop in-

to a temporary boom condition, to
be followed by the inevitable reac-
tion. The irregular movement of

stocks was attended by activity in
that) it
such a movement to gain the atten-
tion of

trading, indicating needed
speculative bargain hunters.
Prices in many cases are found to be
about on a parity with the oft quoted
4 per cent., but that this will prove
a stopping place is by ao
probable.

means
Earning ability is likely to
keep out of the way of fixing values,
and the knowledge of this fact will
carry levels higher than earning par-
ity, as it always has done.

The distraction of the last days of
the campaign had little apparent ef-
fect on directions

frade. rom all

come reports of increasing volume

of distribution. Railway earnings are
on the increase everywhere, caused
by the

widespread supply and de-

mand in every line. There are large
crops to move and at good prices,
and this is reflected in a wide de-
mand for all farm and living supplies.
Middle West
there is complaint of too favorable
weather for retail

In Michigan and the

winter trade, but
this was needed to finish securing
| crops, especially corn.

Tron and steel manufacturers re-
port a steadily increasing demand all
along the line. This is reflected in
improving prices in many products.
The most gratifying indication is the
increasing demand for finished steel,
that
given up holding off in hopes of a
Textile manufacturers re-

which indicates buyers have

decline.

will be to Morocco and France what |

 

the Khedive is to Egypt and Eng-
land.
ee
Fifty per cent. of the men who

tramp up and down the country, it
is said, die accidental deaths of one
another.

cent. are found dead in barrel houses, |

cent. die in alms-
cent.

another 10 per
another Io per

accidental

while
are unaccounted for. In
deaths the railroad freight train is
the cause of first magnitude. More
tramps die under the wheels or in

the shock of collision, or from a train

jumping the rails at a switch than |
There is |

from any other one cause.
seldom a collision involving a
through freight in a general smashup
that
tim.

does not

Twenty per cent. |

number a tramp vic- |}

| port steady improvement, especially

las to wool products. Footwear fac-

tories are in good condition except

that the increasing cost of materials

some uneasiness.
eae aca

Wireless

kidnaped

causes

not to be
doing their duty. It
is reported that Herr Poulsen has in-

messages are

while

vented a way of rendering it impossi-
bie to tap wireless messages in course
of transmission. An_ international
|company is to be formed for the
purpose of acquiring and working the
patents.

re

Photographers have been reaping
Japan. Nearly all of
the men who have gone to the war
had their pictures taken before their

a harvest in

departure and also procured pictures
| of their relatives to carry with them.
|

 

    

2

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Review of the Hardware Market.

 

Manufacturers, jobbers and _ retail- |
ers are. now booking a volume of or- |
that of

record-breaker.

ders greater than last

which

year, |
While
all classes of winter goods continue
demand, the

was a
in excellent unusually |
early enquiry for snow shovels is
and

surprising both manufacturers

jobbers. Supplies of country as well

as city dealers in this commodity are

much larger than usual in view of the
general belief that this
winter.

will be an

extremely cold Trade in
and and

business in holiday goods is reach-

skates sleds is also good

ing remarkable proportions.

Pig ftron—Whuile consumers of pig
iron are manifesting an even greater
desire to cover requirements for for-
ward deliveries, most of the furnaces
are less willing to sell their output at
prevailing prices than they were dur-
ing the preceding week. The heavy

advances in values of all grades of

foundry, basic, forge and Bessemer

iron within the past two weeks have

caused them to look for a still|
further advance, which will carry
prices well toward the $20-mark, at |

which figure foreign iron will begin |
to be imported.
ize that such importations would al-
instantly check the
movement of prices, they believe the |
demand will be so great that they
will have no difficulty in booking or-

Although they real-

most upward

ders at the higher level before any
serious reaction occurs. They are,
therefore, not inclined to sell their

entire output at present values. The
possibility that the present
movement may be inspired by a false
boom which may collapse as sudden- |

upward

ly as it began is not regarded seri- |
ously by any but the most conserva- |
tive producers, and the declared in-
tention of the majority of furnace- |
men is to refuse any orders for far-

distant deliveries pre-
mium which they the
equivalent of the expected advance.
The natural result of the general
adoption of this policy is to limit

cacept at a
believe is

transactions to sales for delivery this
and next month, and as most of the
largest foundry and manufacturing
interests have already for
their needs throughout the remainder |
of the year, the volume of business |
now being booked -is very small. In
all, only 100,000 tons of all the grades, |
mostly foundry and basic grades, |
were disposed of last week at the |
present high level of prices, but or- |
ders calling for an aggregate tonnage
of about twice that amount are wait- |
ing to be placed.

Bar Iron—Is in excellent demand
and is selling at a premium of $1 per
fon, so that the quotation |
in Pittsburg is really $1.3914 per hun- |
dredweight. Scrap-iron and old iron
rails continue in good request at the
recent advances. Prices on all grades
of coke are steadily advancing. Con-
tracts on strictly 48-hour Connells- |
ville furnace coke are now _ being]
made at $1.85 per ton, while 72-hour |
foundry coke is bringing $2.35 for
nearby deliveries and $2.50 for ship-
ments in the first half of next year.

Steel—Although the proposed offi-
cial advance in the prices of billets
and sheet bars has not yet been made,

provided

|
|
|
|
|

average

 

| fair-sized

| taken in large tonnages.

| values of iron and steel.

consumers are generally compelled
to pay a premium of about $1 on
the present pool quotations. The de-
mand for bars continues good anda
billets is
finished
most

tonnage of

being taken. In lines steel

plates are the active

|though large tonnages have already

still
the construction of steel steamships
and

been used and are

pacity of the mills is still sufficient to

meet current demands. Structural

| material is in excellent request owing |
ito the resumption of building opera- }
| tions in all parts of the country and}
the erection of railroad bridges and |

terminal stations.
material
higher prices, but continue to be

other scrap are
In view of
the general advance in prices of all
lines of

largest producers are refusing to ac-

-| cept any contracts calling for ship-|

ments after April 1, by which time
they believe a higher schedule will be
in effect.
Axes—The recent advance in
price of axes has not curtailed orders
from retailers and
quotation

the

consumers, as a

higher was

follow recent advances in

vance in axe prices will be made

on Jan. 1, but the high level will be}

maintained only until April 1, when
prices will be lowered again to the

level of Jan. 1 and finally to the pres- |
lent

point they

maximum

which
to the

values, from

will be advanced

|again in a sliding scale.
Shelf Goods—Although the under- |

tone in shelf and heavy goods is

stronger in sympathy with advances

also |
and al-|
required in|}

freight cars, the producing ca-|}

Old steel rails and |
bringing |

steel products, many of the |

the |

expected toa |
the |
Another ad- |

|

| moment is small and naturally hold-
|ers have advanced prices and realized
| on some sales. But the new crops
|of Cuban larger than last
| year, and also the New Orleans and
will
offered freely and a decline in prices
will be in evidence.

sugars,

| domestic beet soon be

sugars

“At the moment refiners naturally
prices in order to cover
for the time being, but
sooner or later refined sugars will re-

| advanced
| themselves

act and will return to a normal basis
|for the dull season of the year. It
evident that jobbers
have speculated on this market, buy-
|ing considerably more than a _ 30
This not
healthy move for this season of the
deubtful in
the above conditions.
this market
disposed to

is very some

| days’ supply. has beena

year and looks view of

One refiner in

evidently been
speculation
kept his prices
| down to some extent and limited pur-

has not
encourage
'and therefore has
chases. .

“When we compare prices of one
year ago, granulated was selling then
at 4.55c less 1 per cent. cash, while
| to-day it is held at 5.20c cash less 1

| per hundred pounds, while raws show
an advance of 63c. Raws, therefore,
| show an advance of 8c per hundred

more than refined. We find the mar-
| ket in November, 1903, easing up and
that the lowest price for granulated
was 4.35c less I per cent., and raws
at 334c. On Janttary 27, 1904, gran-
| ulated was selling at 4.30c and raws

at 334c, and by March 1 had advanc-
ed to 4.45c, remaining stationary for

per cent., showing an advance of 55c}

 

z
some time. Raws at that time aiete
selling at 3.42@3.44c.

“While the conditions are changed
at present owing to a definite short-
age which will no doubt keep the
market higher than last year, still 2
reaction will
get down to their usual basis between

will come, and sugars
raws and retined.

“It is a notable fact that our large
refiners

have. not

Taws on

been heavy pur-
this advancing
European market, which shows con-

chasers of

clusively that they expect a reaction
later on. Taking this into considera-
tion, no reason can be seen for any
large speculation in either raws or
refined during a season between the
old and new crops.”
a

From the Cradle to the Grave.

Arthur H. Webber, the Cadillac
merchant who handles drugs, furni-
ture and house furnishing goods, has
lately added an undertaking depart-
ment.

The Tradesman suggests that, in
order to complete the line, he adda
doctor at end and a cemetery
at the other, thus demonstrating his
ability to meet the varying require-
ments of human existence from the

one

cradle to the grave.

(a

Too great an impression of your
own importance is repulsive in the
sight of others, and, besides, it doés
not gain you anything but a swelled
head.

——__ --.____.
The man who has no mind of his

own often has most of it to give
away.

 

 

in raw materials, manufacturers have |

decided to postpone making advances }

in official prices until Jan. I.
Wire Products—Wire and
and other wire products are in such

nails

good demand, however, that an ad-|
made |

vance in their values may be

by leading producers within the en- |
Lanterns and oil stoves |

VOIGT'S BEST BY TEST
CRESCENT

“The Flour Everybody Likes”

suing week.
are considerably more active than at
a corresponding period last year.
~~
Looks for a Reaction in the Sugar
Market.

New York, Nov. 8—Commenting

lon the present situation in the sug-

ar market Daniel C. Edsall, the well-
known sugar broker, says: “Sur-
prises in the sugar market seem to
be the order of the day and are the
more remarkable for coming at this
time of the year, when naturally we
look for an easing up on prices. The
cause can no doubt be traced to the
European market, where shortages
have been found in the various esti-
mates on both cane and beet sugar.

an actual shortage is apparent, as
shown by decreased yield, it has
caused a stampede of shorts to cover
and naturally prices are being forced
up above their normal basis by a
syndicate abroad which controls the
situation. That a reaction is bound
to occur is evident, as no such boom

can last long at this season of the
year.
“The supply of raws here at the

Flour Perfection

Is nowhere exemplified to a greater degree, or in a
more thorough and convincing

manner than in

 

 

 

 

 

many words of praise to be heard on every hand.

“Usually estimates when first made |
|are purely guess work, but now that |

When you want the best

 

 

It is made to please, and that it does so, under
the most trying circumstances, is evidenced by the

YOU WANT OURS

Voigt Milling Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Merchants’ half fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids

Send for circular.

 

   

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

WATCH IT GROW

 

 

 

 

 

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be teed

 

 

Our New Home

WORDEN GROCER COMPANY

Corner Island and Ottawa Streets

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 
    

    

STATE

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Detroit—Kiiken Bros. succeed Geo.
M. Cando in the grocery business.

North Star—J. A. Pettit & Co. have
sold their general stock to Quayle &
Hallock.

Detroit—Samuel Shapiro is suc-
ceeded by Wolf Barkin in the bazaar
business.

Calumet—A. Angrove succeeds Will
J. Trevarthen in the _ confectionery
business.

Alpena—Blodgett & Orman _ have
engaged in the fruit and confection-
ery business.

Clarkston—Henry L. Garter has
purchased the furniture stock of J.
A. Beardsley.

Essexvilie—Albert I. Sandorf suc- |

ceeds Jacob Feldman in the dry goods
and shoe business.

Bangor—Wm. Randall has purchas-
ed Chas. King’s interest in the imple-
ment stock of King & Paddock.

Sault Ste. Marie—The Blumrosen
Co. is succeeded by Blumrosen & Co.
in the department store business.

Central Lake—Dawson & Turner,
furniture dealers, have dissolved part-
nership, H. L. Dawson succeeding.

St. Louis—May & Smith are clos-
ing out their stock of implements,
harness, hardware, robes and blank-
ets.

Belding-—Morris Hines has sold his
bazaar stock to E. B. Gibson, who
will continue the business at the same
location.

Hubbell—McDonald. Bros. have be-
gun the erection of an addition to
their hardware store, 20x40 feet in
dimensions.

lonia-—Baker & Todd have purchas-
ed the Fred Longe meat market and

 

will continue the business at the
same location.
Stittsville—Godfrey Hirzel, of

Moorestown, has opened a _ general
store here in the building formerly
occupied by Miles Stitt.

Hudson—A. F. Nye and W. J. Eb-
bitt have established themselves in the
poultry buying business under the
firm name of Nye & Ebbitt.

Gagetown—W. W. Bender, who has
conducted a hardware business here
for the past three years, has sold his
stock to Golley & Bixbee.

Lowell—Chris. Klumpp and Wm.
Klumpp have formed a copartnership
under the style of Klumpp Bros. and
engaged in the meat business.

Shelby—R. B. Hanchett & Son
have purchased the general stock of
J. M. Wheeler and will continue the
business at the same _ location.

Mt. Clemens—W. C. Brandenburg
& Son have sold their shoe stock to
Otto Waltzer and Wm. Ullrich, who
will continue the
same location.

Lansing—Otto Schuon and George
C. Barnes, who have been conducting
a grocery store at North Lansing,
have dissolved partnership. Mr.
Schuon will conduct the business
hereafter.

business at the

 

Amble—W. M. Hill, of Coral, who
recently sold to his partner his in-
terest in the produce business of Hill
& Armitage, has purchased the ele-
vator at this place.

Muskegon—Dr. C. L. Fortier and
Mrs. Helen Mountain have opened a
drug store at 52 Pine street. They
have until recently had a drug store
in North Muskegon.

Ionia—-Chas. A. Ireland has pur-
chased the interest of Robert O.
Toan in the hardware firm of Toan
& Ireland and will continue the busi-
ness in his own name.

L. E. Reynolds, formerly engaged
in the retail drug business at St. Jos-
eph and at one time a member of the
State Board of Pharmacy, died re-
cently at Butte, Montana.

 

Kalamazoo—Frank F. Bergeon has
sold his stock of new and _ second-
hand furniture and stoves to Allen
& Porter, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Belleville—H. W. Potter has pur-
chased the grocery and_ crockery
stock of Robert A. Campbell and
will consolidate his furniture and
undertaking stock with it.

Detroit—Judge Swan has confirm-
ed the composition agreed upon and
granted an order of distribution in
the case of the Hub Clothing Co., re-
cently adjudicated a bankrupt.

Corunna—The Caledonia Coal Co.,
Ltd., has been organized with a capi-
tal stock of $50,000, of which $25,000
has been subscribed and $7,000 has
been paid in in cash and property.

Alto—The Farmers’ State Bank is
erecting a one-story brick building,
20x40 feet in dimensions, with a fire-
proof vault and directors’ room in
the rear. It is expected that the
building will be completed by Dec. 1.

Detroit — The Collins-Thompson
Co., Ltd., has been formed to engage
in the handling of farm _ property,
produce and merchandise. The au-
thorized capital stock is $5,000, of
which $1,000 has been paid in in cash
and $1,000 in property.

Plainwell—A. C. Masson has sold
his grocery stock to Geo. W. Town-
send and Peter Townsend, who will
continue the business at the same lo-
cation. Geo. W. had an experience
of nine years as clerk in the depart-
ment store of T. H. Shepherd & Bro.,
at Martin, and for the past nine years
has been in business for himself at
Watson.

Marion—The fire at this place last
week put several merchants out
of business temporarily. GS
Thornton & Co. suffered a loss of
$7,000, with $4,000 insurance; J. F.
Piper & Co. lost $6,000, with $2,100
insurance; P. J. Wangen sustained a
loss of $18,000, with $8,000 insurance.
Piper & Co. have leased the only va-
cant store building in the place and
resumed business.

Lake Linden—The David E. Toplon
dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe
stock, which has been in the custody
of the bankruptcy court for the past
four months, has been purchased by
C. J. Cudworth, of Romeo, for $19,275.
The next highest bidder was the E. F.
Sutton Co., of this city, which offered
$18,000. Mr. Cudworth also purchas-
ed the book accounts, which were ap-

 

praised at $2,400, for $150. The pur-
chaser has opened the store and re-
sumed business.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Lansing—The Peerless Motor Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$13.50 to $50,000.

Detroit—-The Norris Co., manufac-
turer of collars and cuffs, has in-
creased its capital stock from $165,000
to $200,000.

Newberry—Smithfield
putting in a sawmill near this place
which they expect to have in opera-
tion by December I.

Monroe-—The Boehme & Rauch
Co., manufacturer of binder and box
boards, has increased its capital stock
from $100,000 to $200,000.

Germfask—The Raber & Watson
sawmill has finished its cut of hard-
woods for the season. The shingle
mill will run on cedar for a few more
weeks.

Detroit—The Tilden Saw Co. has
been organized with a capital stock
of $60,000—all subscribed and paid in
—to embark in the manufacture and
sale of saws.

ERros. are

Port Huron—The Model Milling
Co. has organized with a capital
stock of $10,000, all of which has

been subscribed, to engage in_ the
general milling business.

Detroit—The American Color Co.
has been organized to manufacture
and sell dry colors. The capital
stock is $75,000, of which $5,000 has
been paid in in cash and $30,000 in
property.

New Dalton—The Dalton Lumber
Co. has been organized with a capi-
tal stock of $50,000—all subscribed
and paid in in cash—for the purpose
of dealing in timber lands and tim-
ber products.

Detroit—The C. H. Bloomstrom
Motor Co. has been organized witha
capital stock of $100,000—all  sub-
scribed and paid in in property—to
engage in the manufacture and sale
of gas and steam engines.

Detroit—The Straits City Manu-
facturing Co. has been organized with
a capital stock of $12,000, all of which
has been” subscribed and paid in in
cash and property. The company
proposes to manufacture egg separa-
tors.

Chassell--The Worcester Lumber
Co. has shut down its shingle mill
until early spring. The main mill will
be shut down soon for repairs, resum-
ing operations again by January 1
and continuing all winter with two
shifts of men.

Hillsdale—F. W. Stock & Sons will
in the early spring build a 160,000
bushel elevator at their mills in this
city. It will be 68 feet high by 22
feet in diameter and will contain six

compartments. Its capacity will be
about one month’s supply for the
mills.

Detroit—The American Brazing
Co. has uttered a trust mortgage to
John P. Antisdel, as trustee, for St2-
000, to protect creditors. The com-
pany, which turns out brazed cast
iron goods, has found itself in finan-
cial difficulties as a result of market
conditions.

Menominee—The J. We Wells
Lumber Co. will operate its plant

 

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steadily until the close of the rafting
gap, when a short stop will be made
for repairs. It has a large quantity
of timber to cut during the winter,
some belonging to Davis & Stitt, of
Marinette, and the remainder its
own.
Saginaw-—The Saginaw Mirror
Works has filed articles of associa-
tion. The purposes are the manufac-
ture of art glass, mirrors, frames and
art furniture. The authorized capital!
is $10,000; amount subscribed, $6,000:
amount paid in, $1,200. The stock-
holders John Stenglein, 200
shares; A. U. Stenglein, too shares:
Henry Zoener, Jackson, 100 shares:
Eugene Kanzler, 200 shares.
Detroit—The Wilson & Hayes
Manufacturing Co., maker of radia-
tors, tanks, automobile parts, forg
ings, etc., has filed articles of asso
ciation. The capital stock is $50,000,
of which $20,000 has been paid in in
property, including the old business
at 773 to 777 Bellevue avenue. The
stockholders are Thomas H. Wilson
and H. Jay Hayes, of Detroit, and
Edwin A. Stevens, Jr., of Cleveland
Detroit—The interest of Charles
Scheurer in the Peerless Manufactur-
Co.

Saulson,

are

has been purchased by
who intends to dis-
tribute a part of that stock among a
few valuable employes and intimate
friends. This company was

ized in 1893 by Wm. Saulson,
purchased the. stock of and
plant of S. Simon & Co., men’s furn
ishing goods, and elected the follow-
ing officers: Charles Scheurer, o
Richard B

organ-
who

goods

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i

New York, President;
Moore, Vice-President, and Wm.
Saulson, Secretary and Treasurer

They were the sole — stockholders
Sigmund Simon was engaged as cred-
it man, while A. Mendelson and Hen
ry Weissenstein took charge of the
office and order department respec
tively. Wm. Saulson looked after th«
finances and purchases, also the
manufacturing. Mr. Simon, who re
signed two months ago, was_ suc-
ceeded by A. Mendelson. New offi-
cers will be elected, and the business

carried on as heretofore, with in-
creased capital.
ences eo eeencnannnanene
Public Sale of Dry Goods Stock at
Petoskey.

The Sherman & Byram dry goods
stock will be sold at public auction
November 17 at 10 o’clock in the
forenoon. The stock and fixtures
are appraised at about $8,000. An in-
ventory can be seen at the _ store.
The location is a good one in one
of the best towns in Michigan. Rent
only $50 per month. Cash _ trade.
Investigation solicited.

Peter Doran, Trustee.

 

 

‘Commercial
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Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit ©
Good but~ slow debtors pay
upon receipt of our direct de-
Send all other

accounts to our offices for collec-

inand letters.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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The Produce Market.
Apples—Winter stock is moving
freely on the basis of $1.50@I.75 per
bbl. Some trouble has been experi-
enced in getting shipments of Michi-
gan apples past Chicago, as the East-
ern roads were loth to permit their
cars to go through that poimt, but
the situation has been relieved to a
certain extent and the stock is going
forward more freely. The movement
is still very large. Dealers that or-
dinarily buy by the barrel are now
takine cars and it looks as 1 the
market would absorb all the good
apples that are thrown upon it.
Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch-
es; $1.50@1.60 for Jumbos. Prices
have been steadily going up until the
jobbers have been forced to advance
their figures. The cause given by the
trust is a shortage of fruit. The de-
mand is very good.
3eets—4oc per bu.
Butter—Creamery is about 2c
higher than a week ago and_ the
market is strong and tending still
higher. Local dealers have marked
their selling prices up to 25c_ for
choice and 26c for fancy. The mar-
ket is now a cent above the corre-
sponding period a year ago, but is
still under the 10902 figure. Both
grades of dairies are also higher as
there is a good demand for this stock
on the basis of 17@18c for No. 1 and
12@13c for packing stock. Renovat-
ed is strong and active at 18@18%c.
Cabbage—35c per doz.
Carrots— oc per bu.
Cauliflower—8oc 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.
The demand is increasing and prices
have advanced this week. Stock is
plentiful, however, and it is not likely
that there will be any unusual prices

 

around Thanksgiving.

Eggs—The receipts of eggs have
not been particularly large this week
and it looks as if the market should
advance somewhat if the demand
continues to be good. The fair
weather has allowed the marketing
of all eggs and the demand is not so
brisk as it would be with a snappy
temperature. Added to this the fact
that storage eggs are being freely
drawn on whenever it is profitable,
and it is seen why the market does
not advance. Case count, fresh,
fetch 20@z2Ic and candled 23c. Stor-
age stock, 20c.

Grapes—Malagas, $5@5.50 per keg.

Honey-—Dealers- hold dark at 10@
t2c and white clover at I13@I5c.

Lemons—Verdillas and Californias
command $4.50@5 per box.

Lettuce—Hot house fetches 15¢
per Ib.

Onions—The price is strong and
higher, choice stock fetching 65@75c
per bu.

Oranges—-Floridas and Mexicans
are supplying the demand and doing
it very well. Reports from Califor-

 

nia are to the effect that the present
crop promises to be.a very good one.
The fruit is in excellent condition and
some new navels have been picked
already. These are the extremely
early ones, however. There will be
none on this market before the last
of next week and no great quantity
probably before Christmas. Floridas
fetch $3.25@3.50.

Parsley—25c per doz. bunches.

Pears—Keefers fetch 65c per bu.
Russets range around 85c.

Pigeons—Local dealers
per doz.

Potatoes—Local dealers pay 28@
3oc and outside buyers are taking in
large quantities, ranging from 25@
28c. Large dealers are storing stocks
in anticipation of higher prices later
in the season.

Pop Corn—goc for old and 50@6oc
for new.

Poultry—Live is in active demand.
Spring chickens, 1o@11c; hens, 8@
gc; coarse fowls, 6@7c; spring tur-
keys, 12@14c; old turkeys, 10@12c;
spring ducks, g@1oc for white; Nes-
ter squabs are dull and slow sale at
$1.25. Dressed poultry (drawn)
ranges about 2c per fb. higher than
live.

Radishes-—2z0c per doz. for hot
house.

Squash—tc per tb. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes — Virginias are
steady at $2 per bbl. Jerseys have ad-
vanced to $3.25.

Turnips— oc per bt.

——__+.2—___
List of Those Who Passed the Ex-
amination.

Cadillac, Nov. 9—At the meeting
of the Michigan Board of Pharmacy,
held in Grand Rapids Nov. 1, 2 and
3, the following candidates were
granted certificates as full registered
pharmacists: John Ahrons, Byron
L. Curtis, Albert F. Carrier, Vaughn
R. Francis, John Foster, Charles R.
Green, Arthur Hudnut; John N.
Haan, ©. B. Harper, A. Fred Lar-
mour, John Madson, Lou D. Nord-
heim, Charles Pickett, John Roberts,
Russell H. Reed, H. M. Rouse, John
C. Sauiers.

The following is a list of those who
were granted certificates as assistant
registered pharmacists: Wilbur L.
Brown, Grover H. Burk, Fred D.
Barnum, Charles E. Brown, Austin
C. Fanckboner, John Heyboer, Chas.
W. Hackney, George A. Mathews,
Stanley Wilson, Frank Zolteriski.

Arthur H. Webber, Sec’y.
a

John Kooman has sold his gro-
cery stock at 70 Houseman street to
Henry B. L. Elhart, who has been
connected with the Morse Depart-
ment Store for the past fourteen
years.

pay 60c

———_e +» ___-

A. Hyde has erected a substantial
building, 32x64 feet, two stories high,
to be used in connection with his
other buildings as office and ware-
house at 860 Madison avenue.

E. M. Smith, of Liberty Center,
Ohio, has purchased the’ grocery
stock of R. i. Hall at 3 Robison
Road.

—_>+>—____
E. J. Moore has opened a grocery
store at 776 South Division street.

 

The Grocery Market.

Teas—It is evident that the trade
will have to pay a considerably ad-
vanced price for its Japan teas be-
fore the next crop is on the market.
With the supplies well out of first
hands it is now easier to get a line
on the conditions and_ everything
points to a shortage of high grade
teas. Other varieties than Japan at-
tract little attention in the Northwest,
but they are in very fair supply.

Coffee—The coffee market is much
firmer and actual coffee shows an
advance of about %c. The receipts
at Rio and Santos show a sharp fall-
ing off and the increase in the world’s
visible supply for October has proven

 

when published much smaller than
was expected. The market is ruling
very quiet, however, as the large
holders are not pressing supplies on
the market, and the smaller buyers
are mostly working on a_ hand-to-
mouth policy.
unchanged, as are Javas and Mochas.

Canned Goods—It is becoming evi-
dent that the total corn output in

the country is larger than many

thought it would be when reports} . j !
: |from the high point recently report-
of shortages began fo come in so]

fast and thick from Maine and New|, ae i i
i i | | The demand is light. Hake are aiso
York, The truth of the matter 1s} - ~ i .
|firm. Salmon are quiet and_  un-
that there are too many small can-|

Minnesota, Iowa
and Wisconsin, among the
western States, have all a large num-

neries in operation.

ber of these concerns and some of
Their
total output is enough to cut quite
a figure in the canned corn situation.
Tomatoes show no particular change.

them are not so small either.

There will be enough to go around
without any doubt and the quality
seems to be about as it has been for
the past few years of big
Other vegetables are in good supply,
except aSparagus, which, as will be

North- | : :
| pack of red Alaska remains unsold,

 

Milds are quiet and|°_ : fat
| Situation 1S firm.

Syrups and Molasses—Glucose has
remained unchanged during the past
week. Compound syrup rules steady
and tinchanged. The demand is fair.
Sugar syrup is in fair demand at un-
The first new crop
cents.
The market will decline within the
next week.

changed prices.
molasses is in, averaging 35

The opening price this
year is about the same as last year.
There is a fair demand for molasses.
market
is very dull. The speculative, as well
as the spot price, is weak.

Provisions—The provision

Every-
thing looks like a decline, as the
consumptive demand is extremely
light. Pure lard has declined about
%c. Compound lard is unchanged.
Fish—The mackerel situation, so
far as Norways are concerned, grows
firmer. The Norway holders have
become exceedingly strong in their

|ideas, and refuse to offer at present

There has also been a slight
advance on this side, and the general

prices.

Irish mackerel are
demand _ for
Sardines are un-

general
mackerel is good.

easier. The

| changed and the demand is not large.

Cod and haddock have not receded

ed, and the situation is very strong.

changed. There is a general belief

that nearly the whole of the 1904

the stock on sale up to date having

| been the surplus of the 1903 pack. If

packs. |

| Tradesman a sworn

remembered, was cut down by the|
floods in the Sacramento River Val-
ley last spring. Peas and beans are|

moving fairly well.
in demand. Canned fruits are good
sellers, especially standards and ex-
tras.

Dried Fruits—Prunes are in fair

demand, and the market seems to be
in fairly healthy shape. Prices are
unchanged. The demand for peaches
is light, but still seems to be taking
all the stock that is coming forward.
Prices are firm. There will probably
be a better demand for peaches a
little later.. Seeded raisins are un-
changed. The packers are intimat-
ing now that the deliveries may be
short, on account of the crop failure.
The demand on spot is good, at full
prices. Loose raisins are very much
disorganized. Prices are received
from different packers on the coast,
on 2-crown particularly, varying al-
most a cent. Other sizes are also con-

siderably upset. The exact situation |

in raisins at the present time is not
known, and probably will not become
known for some _ weeks. Apricots
are slow at unchanged prices.

Rice—The demand is on the in-|

crease. Package rice seems to be
making some headway, but is new
to the trade and is consequently mov-
ing a little slowly.

Satter kraut is

this proves to be true, 1t means a
slump in the market or some masterly
financiering. Whitefish and lake fish
are quiet and unchanged.
=
Sworn Statement Made by Orwant
& Son.

S. Orwant & Son furnish the
statement of
their financial condition, as follows:

Assets.

1,160 cases eggs in cold storage
-=c ..................... | $7,590.00
MOCK Off BANG .................. 590.00
Empty ese cases and jars. ...... 200.00
moore Mxtiires ..................., 546.00
Three horses and five wagons.... 850.00
Accounts receivawlie. ............. 735.00
Cash on hand and in bank. ..... 500.00
(Posen, 200. $11,011.00

Liabilities.

Owing bank and on notes. ...... $4,290.00
Owing for merchandise. ......... 877.64
Oe ee $5,167.64
Excess of assets over liabilities. .$5,843.36

 

The statement is made for the pur-
pose of quieting the fears of the
trade, resulting from the $2,000 loss
the firm sustained on fruit last spring
and the protesting of some of the
firm’s checks during the past month
or six weeks. On the face of the
statement, it appears that Orwant &
Son are entirely solvent and they in-
sist that all checks will hereafter be
paid on presentation and all obliga-
tions met promptly.

——_»-+~-__

Henry D. Fairchild (Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co.) leaves Thursday
for New Orleans to attend the an-
nual convention of the National
Wholesale Druggists’ Association. He

| expects to be absent about ten days.

—_—_

A. F. Watson, Mayor of Cheboy-
gan, is in town for a day or two. He
was entertained at luncheon at the
Peninsular Club to-day by a party of
friends and acquaintances.

 

  

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Division Street Windows
Show Good Exhibits.
In a walk down - South
street would naturally
when he reached the Winegar Com-

Division

one pause

pany’s establishment, with its mam-

moth windows sure to be filled with

eye-catchy articles. This firm

gen- |

erally adheres to the wise method of |

having one article
The
the passer-by carries away one clear
impression, instead of a confusion of
ideas derived from many things, with

remembered. The

each window space. mind of

few

predominate in|}

object of |

good window advertising is thus at-|

tained.
The current windows of this firm
contain stoves and stands. The lat-

ter are resting rather too close to-
gether, but the former
enough
attractive. The prices of the furni-
ture run S175 to $16. The
woods employed are oak, bird’s-eye
maple and mahogany. ot the
stands are plain, some otherwise, so
that a variety of tastes may be
pleased.

But what receives the most atten-

just
exhibit

show
space to render the
from

Some

tion is the arrangement of the large |

which has
decorated with oak
a fitting accom-
paniment to an immense Acorn coal
stove, red-lighted at night. Red and
blue electric lights shine among the
trees, the current turned on
and off at intervals.
tising acorn some four feet across
is suspended from the ceiling over
the stove and a placard reading as
follows leans against the glass in
front:

outside exhibition

been elaborately

case,

trees and leaves as

being
A giant adver-

“The acorn planted long ago
Is now a mighty tree;
Its branches widen o’er the land,
Its offspring fair to see.”
Below is the line:
The standard of excellence since 1830.
recall that
2 card among the stoves in the first-
mentioned window
nouncement:

In writing the above I

bears this an-
Dinner served from
EE 2. m. to 2 p. m.
Saturday eve
§ to 7.30.

The serving of lunches or dinners
for the general public is carried on
by one or two other Grand Rapids
business houses, and seems to bea
means of trade-increasing for it is
quite a convenience, with many shop-
pers, not to be obliged to go outside
for something to eat at the noon
hour. In the smaller towns, however,
the idea might not be feasible on ac-
count of
great distances to travel in reaching
their homes.

customers’ not having so

The Winegars are having added a
row of six immense windows on the
north side of the store on the first

floor, which will give them more dis- |

walk, the goods that will be put in

may be easily seen.
* * *

 

Coming back to Monroe street, the |
quantity idea was noticed in the)
Candy Kitchen, kept by A. A. Aniba, |
where one whole window space is |
given up to chocolate-coated peanut |
slabs.

+ + +
Enos & Bradfield’s creditable dis- |
play of carriages, harnesses and

blankets should appeal to lovers of
fine trappings.
 £ +
Peck Bros., on Monroe street, have
a card in their round corner window
reading like this:
Hair Sole
Keeps the feet
Warm and dry.
Cures Rheumatism,
Callous, tender and sweaty feet.
1oc per pair
3 pairs for 25c
Several hundred of these foot-help- |
ers are to be seen. They look as if they
might be a good thing for those who |
require something of this sort.
“T) D D Remedy for Eczema” is

| placed to advantage, the yellow and |

white cartons beihg so laid as to}
form three large D’s.

Green toilet soap and “Tabac, the |
corn cure that cures,” occupy the en- |

| tire west window.

In the latter are four white mice, |
which amuse themselves and a cu-
rious public with their strenuous at- |
tempts to outrun a. revolving wire
The little animals will be re-|
membered for weeks after the Hair
Soles, the D D D Remedy, the green
and the Tabac have
moved from their present

disc.

been re-|
location.
The rodents won't sell a particularly

soap

| large amount of these druggists’ sun-

dries, but they will put the name of
Peck into people’s mouths, and per-
haps that is just as efficient.
ee
Every luxurious liver is fond of
the best in furs and in the Alaska
people’s window a lady—and her hus- |

| band if she can jolly him up to it!—

can feast the eyes on six skins of |
full-grown seals, draped around an|

|by itself or in
| other

animal of a brother species who al-
se once, like the others, drew the
breath of life. Sealskin, in garments |
combination with}
seems never to go
Its popularity may |
wane for a season or so, to be super- |

fine furs,
out of fashion.

|seded by something else, but its|

diminishes and the |
woman who possesses a whole coat |
or the merest scrap of a tippet con-|
siders herself one of the favored

beauty never

| ones of earth for she knows she will

always find use for the beautiful fur |
in one way or another.
x + +

Last week the Tradesman had oc- |}
casion to refer to the heathen Joss |
Sticks in the drug window of Berand |
Schrouder on Monroe street.

‘Twere well I spoke of them then |
for in the evening the whole exhibit |
went up in smoke. Three Chinese |
lanterns had been hung above the!
incense, and, although the proprietor |

/of the store questioned the expedien- |
play. space,-and, being about on aj}

cy of the move, still;.as- there were |

line with the eye of one on the side- | three men in the place to keep watch |

     
     

It Would
Be
Foolish

For us to make any claims for Lily White,

  
 
    
   
   
    
    
  

“the flour the best cooks use,” which the
flour could not live up to.

It would be a waste of money for us to
advertise it if it were not good flour.

It pays to call attention to a good thing,
but it’s mighty poor policy to advertise a
failure.

Were not foolish.

  
   
   
   
     
 
      
   
           
     
     
   
     
     

Neither are the thousands of people
who buy Lily White Flour and refuse to
take substitutes.

They know what they want and why
they want it, and they insist on having it.

We thank them for insisting.

And we assure them that,so long as they
insist on getting Lily White, we will insist
on making it worth their while.

We'll see that it continues to be the
best flour. We'll insist that it be kept
uniform, reliable and clean.

We'll keep right on making it so that all
competitors will continue acknowledging its
superiority by using that time-worn ex-
pression when trying to sell other brands,

“It’s just as good as Lily White.”

VALLEY CITY MILLING COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

after the lanterns were lighted, he
thought that there was reasonable
saiety to be expected. Bat “all ofa
suddint,” in less time than it takes
to tell it, one of the candles had
set a lantern afire and the whole win-
dow was one busy conflagration.

The strange part of the matter was
that neither the glass, the woodwork
nor anything but the Joss Sticks was
injured. But the Joss Sticks—'twas
clearly a case of

“The boy, oh, where was he?”

a os
Automatic Fire Alarm.

A Dane has invented a fire alarm |
which is automatic and acts only |
when a sudden wave of heat is gen- |
erated in an inclosed space, and is
not influenced by an evenly created
high temperature, such as that caused
by intense summer heat or the arti-
ficial heat used for warming buildings
or in drying rooms and other places
where an abnormal temperature is}
maintained. It is a little U shaped |
glass tube with closed ends. It is |
half-filled with mercury and_ the up- |
per part contains a highly volatile li- |
suid, seh as Sulphuric ether. One
end of the tube is inclosed with some

 

|
nonheat conducting material, so that |
a sudden rise in temperature affects |
only the exposed end. A wire is fus- |
ed into both ends of the glass so|
that it reaches the mercury when the |
latter is in its normal position anda |
continuous’ electric current passes |
through. 3ut when a sudden wave
of heat reaches the instrument it af-
fects only the unprotected end of the
tube and the volatile liquid expands
instantly, forcing the mercury into
the covered end, thus severing the|
electric connection and setting in mo- |
tion an alarm. The apparatus also|
indicates a break in the electric cur- |
rent caused by the batteries running |
down or otherwise, so that there may |
always be assurance that the service |
is in working order. It is said that |
a little fire of shavings in its vicinity
is enough to sound the alarm.
——_+.~>
Free Telephone Service at Marshall. |
The purchase of the Marshall Tele- |
phone Co. by the Citizens Telephone
Co. has stimulated the Michigan
State Telephone Co. to regain the
ground it lost under the Marshall
Telephone Co. regime, during which
time nearly every Bell phone in the
city was taken out. The Bell Com-
pany is putting in long distance
phones and making contracts for ab-

solutely free service.
oe
Equally Ignorant.

Bill Collector—The boss wants to
know when you're going to settle
this account.

Mr. Slingun de Munnaway—Please
tell your boss his curiosity in that di-
rection is no greater than mine.
Kindly refrain from slamming the
door as you go out. It jars on my
nerves.

—_> + + —___

Don’t pick flaws with the other
man’s methods. His light may not
be as good as yours, but under the
circumstances he may be doing the

better work.
+2 —___-
It takes a spinster to converse

knowingly on the art of managing a

   

 

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The telling feature of this cata-
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INFLUENCE OF CULTURE.

There have ‘been periods in the
history of mankind when the aim of
life was culture, but at the present
day, and particularly in America, the
aim of life seems to be the acquisi-

tion of wealth. The successful man |
in modern parlance is the one who}
Wealth is not prized |

makes money.
solely in and for itself, even in these
materialistic days.

the distinction, the indulgence in

luxury which can be attained through |
pro- |

money that attract. America,
fessedly a democracy, is drifting into
a misty form of oligarchy, and the
touchstone of leadership is gold.

The modern tendency of education
is to foster rather than to correct
this evil. The universities of the
land make the educational ideals.
All the school system must dovetail
into the curriculum of the higher in-
stitutions of learning, and it is there-
fore incumbent upon these colleges
to set the standard of culture. More
and more, as they answer to the
current demands of society, they are
failing in this. In order to make
the point clear it is necessary tosee
just what is understood by the word
culture.

To cultivate the soil is to make
it yield an abundant harvest. To cul-
tivate the mind is to make it bear
fruit in a realization of the best that
is latent within it. Human culture
means ideals realized in practical life.
It is acquired by an intimate touch
with the arts and sciences, civilizing,
humanizing, idealizing the man. But
culture is more than a personal mat-
ter. It is the epitome in the individ-
ual of race civilization.

What are our universities doing
with their students to-day? In a
large measure their end and aimare
the training of specialists to achieve
things in the world of affairs. We
point with pride to the wonderful
increase in attendance at the Univer-
sity of Michigan as an evidence of

the eagerness of our people for high- |

er learning. But in what departments
is this increase most in evidence? In
all the courses that offer specialized
training for practical results. The
woman students who are pursuing
courses in art and letters intend, with

 

It is the power, |
| They only know Gibson’s girls.
And yet with all this lack of con-|

 

almost monotonous unanimity, to
become teachers.

It is not in a spirit of criticism that
this practical drift of university pur-
suits is pointed out. All honor to
the men who are doing things. We
need engineers to delve in the
ground, to lay out roads and build
bridges and canals; we need chemists
and scientific farmers; we need high-
ly trained experts for all skilled work,
and, above all else, we need the very
best teachers that modern education-
al methods can train. The point to
be insisted upon is that specialized
training is not culture, which de-
mands catholicity of mind, and that
no civilization can, in the last analy-
sis, be great which has not this flower
of life upon its branches.

Go among seniors or recent gradu-
ates of the University and put some
simple tests of culture to them. How
large a proportion will be found
wanting! Can they read well? A
majority will prove to be as ill at
ease as an awkward schoolboy in his
teens. Talk to them about the in-
fluence of William Morris upon mod-
ern handicrafts. They have doubtless
never even heard his name. Ask
them for their opinion of the music
of Bach and Beethoven, and they will
answer you with a dissertation
songs.
chael Angelo most appeal to them?

coon

tact with the most important cul-
tural influences of the past, these
very students have received the high-
est expert training in their special-
ties. They go out in life equipped
to do their work well and to make
money for themselves or others by

developing the resources of the
land. But the life of ideals is as
far from them as ever.

Until the idealistic spirit retnrns |

hope to combat the materialism of
the day, unless, indeed, there should
be an unexpected vitalization of our
churches or some. other _ spiritual
awakening among the masses. The
old-fashioned college was primarily
an institution for acquiring culture,
and the old type of a cultured gen-
tleman was the result of such train-
ing. Ancient Greece, above any
other land a devotee of the arts, was
a living presence to the students of
these colleges. History and philoso-
phy were part of their daily life.
Men so trained became the intellec-
tual and moral leaders of the people.
A little of the ancestor worship of
the Chinese would not be a bad
corrective for modern materialism.
We need more reverence, more-touch

with the past, more balance and
poise. We are carried away with
the triumphs of achievement. Our
strenuous modernity needs _ toning

down.

tion. All that is fair and gracious,
all that is noble and inspiring in
other races and other times should
be wrought into the fiber of our
Nation, if it would realize its high
promise of greatness—if it would be-
come, in fine, a nation distinguished
for culture as it already is for
achievement.” Se

 

|miles of railroad or of telegraph in

on |
Does Raphael or Mi-|

| plored regions.

 

i ce | has
to our great universities we cannot |

Mellowing of the race comes |
of basking inthe sun of past civiliza- |

 

ONLY POLAR ZONES LEFT.

Two weeks ago the Tradesman re-
marked upon the fact that by means
of the wire, the rail and the steam-
ship, through the agency of steam
and electricity, driven by a desire of
the peoples of the nations to trade
those of each country with the oth-
ers, the world had shrunk, relatively,
to such small dimensions that all
the nations had come to be neighbors.
While all this has been going on
for the purpose of promoting com-
merce, which is an interchange of
products, a great work of exploration
and conquest has also been in prog-
ress. When it was found that it
was impossible, on account of the
lack of facilities or of the hostility
of peoples themselves, to establish
trade relations, such unwilling na-

 

tionalities and tribes were invaded
and conquered and forced to come in- |
to commercial relations. This was
done largely in the cases of Japan
and China, and it resulted in forcing |
these nations, from which foreign-
ers were once strictly excluded, to
open their ports to trade.

Fifty years ago there were few

the whole world and no cable under
the rivers, much less the seas. The
school children who studied geogra- |
phy at that time found on their maps
large vacant spaces marked
To-day, with the ex-
ception of the ice-bound regions at the
polar extremities of our globe, there
is no great extent of country which
has not been carefully explored. For
instance, on the map of Asia fifty
years ago, Independent Tartary oc-
cupied a large space; it is now incor-
porated in the Russian Empire under |
the of Turkestan.

“unex- |

name Georgia, |

| which lay south of the Caucasus, be-
tween the Black and Caspian

Seas.

a2 part of Russia.
Little Thibet, north of the Himalayas, |
is included India, which is
longer Hindustan, and the em-
pire of Burmah has become Farther |
British India. Anam has lost the
northern portion of its territory to
France, which now known
Tonquin.

also become

now in

no

is as

The geography of Thibet is at last |
no longer a thing of mystery. Sev-
eral travelers of late have entered and
even traversed this unknown coun-
try, penetrating its recesses in dis-
guise at the risk of their lives, en-
during a thousand sufferings and re-
turning broken-down men, but bring-
ing back with them fairly clear charts
of its general features. Its Forbid-
den City has been explored and our
magazines enriched, in recent days,
with accounts of its inhabitants and
their rulers, together with pictures
of its great monasteries—or lama-
series—where swarms of priests re-
side. More than this, a force of
British soldiery under competent
leadership has invaded Thibet and
has entered and occupied Lhassa. De-
spite the best resistance the indignant

| whole of Central
Las

i tive country.

 

Thibetans could make—and there has

been some lively fighting—the coun- |
try has fallen from its high and lone | await explorers in that field, not the
estate into a mere dependency of |

|

England.

been scaled and measured by sundry
British explorers—notably by Sir
William Martin Conway—so that our
geographical knowledge of those
peaks and table lands is far greater
than was dreamed of as attainable
ten years ago.

No portion of Asia has been al-
tered more than Siberia. From be-
ing a mere desolation of waste coun-
try, peopled sparsely, its mines
worked by political convicts who
there dragged out a mere death in
life, it is slowly becoming a valu-
able region. It has rich mineral de-
posits and a fertile soil. It is now
traversed by a great railway from
the waters of the Atlantic to those
of the Pacific Ocean, and it will be
opened up to. settlement and
velopment. Japan is now. one
the modern civilized nations, and the
awakening of China has’ com-
menced.

The map of Africa has undergone
numerous changes. The great Sa-
hara has been reduced one-half, and
is nearly covered with oases. In its
southeastern part is the great coun-
try of the Soudan. The ancient
Barca has disappeared, its territory
being divided about equally between
Egypt and Tripoli. In 1841 the
Africa was known
(land of darkness), a

de-

of

Ethiopia

| very appropriate name, as the most
|of it was unexplored. On the maps

to-day the same territory is included

in the Congo Free State, and in
Damara Land and Bechuana Land.
Zanguebar has been much reduced

and is now known as Zanzibar. The
Suez Canal has had a great deal to
do with the regeneration of Egypt,
which is now a prosperous, produc-
The greater part
the African Continent has come into

Or

ithe possession of European nations,

and is being traversed by railroads

|and telegraph lines.

The only part of North America

| which was unexplored was the north

ern part, belonging to England and
Russia. In 1867 the Russian territory
in North America was purchased by
the United States for seven million
dollars. Subsequently the  discov-
ery of rich gold mines there brought.
it an? the adjoining country of Brit-
ish America into prominence, attract-
ing settlers and forcing development.
South America has developed more
slowly than have any of the great con-
tinents, but the completion of the
Panama Canal will exert a powerful
influence in opening the country, and
particularly the western side of it,
to settlement and business of all
sorts. Thus it that the area of
the unexplored regions of our globe
has grown very small, and, with the
exception of the polar zones, there
is not much of the surface of our
earth left to the daring explorer.
After this the most important
field of exploration will be the pre-
historic nations and peoples, thet
cities, their languages, their history
and their relations to the other in-
habitants of the earth in their day.
The richest rewards of discovery

is

least important part of which will

|concern the nations and peoples of

‘The heights of the Himalayas have pre-historic America.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

 

pee ean anne ee ei

_to the few who were to be let in on

 

ON WALL STREET.

The Promotion of a New Industrial
Company.

|

It is the office of the Consolidated
Gluten Products Company, in an ob-
scure corner of a lower Wall Street |
building. The promoter and his two |
handy men, who are now Secretary
and Treasurer, respectively, of the
Consolidated Gluten Products Com-
pany, and also of its subsidiary con-
cerns, the Gluten Company of Amer-
ica and the Gluten Products Com-
pany of Ohio, are considering remov-
al to more pretentious quarters in a
skyscraper on Broad street.

|

They have recently settled with
the Hickey Financial and Mercantile
agency for a rating, paying a price
above the ordinary, because in tak-
ing hold of the Gluten Company of
America and the. Gluten Products
Company of Ohio they had the bad
taste to employ a rival banking and
rating outfit to launch the Consoli-
dated Gluten Products Company.

But that little slip has now -been
adjusted, so that the Hickey people,
through their allied
cern, are no longer flooding with
nasty market letters that part of the
country in which the Consolidated
guaranteed non-assessa-
ble 6 per cent. cumulative preferred
stock and is common stock, “for
which the earnings of the company

pose of its

have already justified a dividend re-
turn, which, however, has been with-
held for the purpose of accumulating

a substantial surplus in the interest | of Pe ee

lif possible, some little

of all

The Consoiidated Gluten Products
Company, it must be known, was
floated quietly and without blare of
trumpets. There was no “private and
confidential” preliminary prospectus

stockholders.”

the ground floor and out through the
cellar, and consequently no under-
neither venders,
nor any of the other accompaniments
of a promotion of “high” finance. It
was “low” finance in the case of Con-
solidated Gluten Products. The pro-
moter and his handy men belonged
then, and still belong, to the under-
world of Wall Street. Their “bank-
ing” firm, also their “registration and
transfer agency,” and all its attaches,
from stenographers to attorneys, are
of the same community, and they all
know it and respect their limita-
tions.

writing syndicate,

The Hickey Financial and Mer-
cantile agency and its “banking” firm
is quite of the same class. Its meth-
ods Of Operation are the same, as
well they might be, for C. W. Hickey,
until he was so unwise as to come
under the attention of the central of-
fice, had been a trusted member of
the aggregation that turned out the
Consolidated Gluten Products Com-
pany, strong in guaranteed non-as-
sessable 6 per cent. cumulative pre-
ferred stock, but a little hazy as to
the exact location and output of the
plants of its subsidiary companies,
the Gluten Company of America and
the Gluten Products Company of
Ohio.

That, however, does not make any
difference now that the Hickey Fi-

| tractive investment, and
| may

 

“banking” con- |

nancial and Mercantile agency is
ready to advise its “subscribers” that
the Consolidated Gluten 6 per cent.
cumulative preferred stock is an “at-
one that
be recommended to those es-
pecially who have in their hands the
funds of estates, churches and educa-
tional institutions.”

So the promoter and his handy
men are in a happy frame of mind
in contemplating removal to the
3road street skyscraper—particularly
as it will take the Consolidated Glut-
en Products above the “dead line”
that Pearl street, in its crossing of
Wall, draws against promotion insti-
tutions on the side toward the East
River.

There comes a knock on the door
of the thin partition that separates
the inner office from the four foot
square waiting room. When the
visitor is told to enter the officers
of the Consolidated Gluten Prod-
ucts are in the presence of the editor,

general manager and chief reporter |
Guardian, |

weekly Investors’

of the

 

which makes a specialty of investigat- |
ing nascent industrials and reporting |

upon them to the dear public on the |

same terms as the Hickey Financiai

ih £“|and Mercantile agency.
Gluten hopes most strongly to dis- |

“Gentlemen,” says the
al. of the weekly Investors’ Guard-
ian, “we have been exceedingly pleas-
ed to receive your order for a half
page advertisement. It appears in
our issue to-day and will be contin-
ued for two months at regular rates,

| according to the terms of your letter

I have called to obtain,
information

|about the Consolidated Gluten Prod-

|ucts Company in addition to

 

that
appears in the data accom-
panying the advertisement, for filing
purposes, and also in order to _ be-
come sufficiently familiar with the
great enterprise that the
company and its allied concerns rep-
resent, to be able to write adequately
concerning any news
that may affect its properties.”

which

developments |

editor et |

| vestors’

tations be recounted to the readers
of the Investors’ Guide. ~ t

So it is up to the promoter of the
Consolidated Gluten and his handy
men to decide whether they will fight |
or settle, as in the case of the}
Hickey Financial and Mercantile |
agency. They will probably be call- |
ed upon to make similar choices so |
long as they are selling the guaran-
teed non-assessable 6 per cent: cumu-
lative preferred stock of the Consol- |
idated Gluten and its promising com-
mon stock. For the methods of
Hickey and the editor of the In-
Guide are those of the under- |
world of Wall Street, methods com-
monplace to its members, but illus-
trative of the ways in which they
blackmail each other.

And now one may come from be- |
low the “dead line” to the luxurious |
offices of Gurney, Holzmann & Co.,
bankers and brokers, for whom the |
sign “Members of the New /York|
Stock Exchange” is rather a conces-
sion to an institution honored by
their long connection with it than a
guarantee that the firm may be de-
pended upon not to bucket its cus-
tomers’ orders. The building in
which its offices are situated is one
the of which is in itself suf-
ficient evidence that tenants within |

name

lits walls are to be found in the fi-

holding |

The promoter of the Consolidated |

Gluten Products and his handy men}

do not express any surprise at the
recital, despite the fact that they
have never seen the editor of the
Investors’ Guide before, and knew
perfectly well that no order had gone
from their office for an advertisement
valuable publication. Being
well versed with the ways and peo-
ple of the financial underworld, they
are prepared to meet the editor on
his own ground, and either show him
the door with small ceremony but
elaborate epithet or else write out a

in his

check for the amount of the two
months’ advertisement.
The editor of the Investors’

Guide, of course, lets his advertise-
ment run in one issue, anyway. Then
he writes about the company quite
according to the treatment that he
has himself received at the hands of
the promoter. The publication of
the advertisement does not bother
him in case he has to attack the en-
terprise; rather it gives him a basis
from which to conduct his opera-
tions, and the more elaborate and
fulsome the advertisement the more
viciously can its alleged misrepresen-

 

nancial social register.

The members of Gurney-Holzmann
are “Old” Gurney, “Young” Gurney,
Holzmann and Davison—the man on
the floor of the Exchange. At this
moment they are talking over the
peculiar actions out on the curb of
United Coupler, a stock in’ which
Gurney-Holzmann have some
siderable promoter’s in-
terest, in fact, that requires the regu-
lation both of the price of the se-
curities and of the outflow of infor-
mation about the properties which
have been promoted. In this respect
it does not differ materially from the
the promoter annd_ his
Consolidated Gluten Products.

There has been something special- |
ly queer about the behavior of Unit-
ed Coupler during the last two days,
culminating just before the close, a
half hour ago, when the common was
pounded down from 20 to 1434, hav-
ing dropped from 26% since the be-
ginning of the attacks. And most
perplexing of all, the selling orders
have come through a house respecta- |
bly ticketed “Member of the New)

con-
interest—a

interest of

| “private
| ary

|underwriters of

York Stock Exchange.” They have
volume that defied all
ordinary efforts to support the stock.

“Young”

been in has
Gurney, who got his first
training on the curb, has been down
there trying to find out from his
old associates what the matter was.
They were quite unable to tell him.
They knew that United Coupler was
a legitimate infant, and that it had
been brought into the world by those
celebrated the
well known law firm of Anthony &
Brown, with the aid of that excellent
nurse, the Trust Company for Cor-
United Coupler had its
confidential”

corporation doctors,

porations.
prelimin-
of them, im

and
prospectus—two

fact, one addressed to the original
the first mortgage
bonds and another to such of the in-
vesting public as was to be allowed
to subscribe to the stock remaining
after the underwriters had got theirs,
the
associates, clerks,

and promoters, their counsel,

close and office
boys each had received their rakeoff.
But despite all these signs of regular-
ity, the timid
United Coupler when a_ stock
change house began to pound it.
So “Young” Gurney has made his
unfavorable report, including the re-
mark that
friends

curb became about

cx-

none of his
the
and the firm has proceeded to can-

newspaper

knew what matter was,
vass the possibilities of interference.

While they talking a
comes in from front office

are
the
It reads:
A. B. HARDMAN,
Attorney at Law.
“Humph!” says “Old” Gurney, med-

be yV
with
a card.

itatively. “Perhaps now we. shall
hear something about United Cou-
pler,’ and then to the boy: — Tell
him to come in.”

There is no more wasting of words

in the interview which follows than
there was when the editor of the In-
vestors’ Guardian called the
promoter of the Consolidated Gluten.
Even less, in fact, ior Mr. Hardman,

being a busy man and one used to

upon

dealing with busy men, does not be-
gin his with a labored
rehearsing of the basis of his inter-
est in the stock under consideration.
“Gentlemen,” he “you
whom I represent.”
The firm of Gurney, Holzmann &

proposition

says, know

Co. and each member thereof do
know, and so do the majority of
other firms in the Street, surround-

 

 

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ing their knowledge, some with en- |

vy, some with fear, and some with
plain disgust. None, however, thinks
contemptuously of the connection be-
tween Mr. Hardman and E. R. Pullit,
chief crook of the underworld,
whose operations, punctuated by oc- |
casional vacations at State expense, |
have been the wonder of the Street |
for a dozen years. Everybody is |
familiar with Pullit’s record, how he |
was the man back of the raid on
Jersey Traction in the late ‘90s, and |
how, despite the sentence he had to |
serve for it, he came back to the |
Street to start another’ series of |
equally daring operations, of which |
the North Carolina Light, Fuel and
Power deal, that caught the bucket
shops at their own game, is a recent
sample.

And yet, although Gurney, Holz-
mann & Co. are quite aware that
several men, who in times past have
done what Mr. Hardman is now do-
ing, have gone to jail for periods
longer than their distinguished chief
ever spent behind the bars, the older
Gurney replies courteously:

“Yes, Mr. Hardman; be seated.”

Hardman, it may be said, feels per-
fectly safe. So much is mutually un-
derstood between himself and his
auditors that he not only need not
beat around the bush, as did the edi-
tor of the Investors’ Guardian, but
does not even have to make a sin-
gle proposition or suggestion in
terms that could be used against him
in court. Beginning with a pleas-
antry or two about the weather, the
conversation drifts by natural stages
into passing comments about United
Coupler, and winds up with the most
ordinary of remarks:

“Well, gentlemen, if you would like
to take the matter up with our peo-
ple you might drop a line to me to-
morrow.”

So the line is dropped, the firm of
Gurney, Holzmann & Co. not car-
ing to subject United Coupler, com-
mon and preferred, and the bonds of
the new company to the contuma-
- cious treatment they will receive un-
less Hardman’s principal is settled
with. The thought of fighting back
openly is never for a moment con-
sidered. When it comes down to that
there is almost nothing to fight, and
more than a single concern which has
undertaken such a battle in times
past has found itself striking vigor-
ously at the thin air.

The question is simply whether it
will cost more to settle than to
stand the losses consequent upon the
attacks which United Coupler is
bound to meet on the curb, and pos-
sibly, also, upon the floor of the
Exchange itself after the securities
are listed.

The next morning a letter to A. B.
Hardman reads:

“We would like to consider such
proposition as you have to make in
the matter under discussion yester-
day. Very truly yours,

Gurney, Holzmann & Co.”

And the answer comes back:

“The advertising in the Investors’
Watchman to which you refer iny
your favor of this morning will cost
$7,500. Very truly yeurs,

A. B. Hardman.”

 

These transactions also are com-
monplace in their method to the
members of the underworld of
Wall Street, and to many of the
upperworld as well, but they serve
to illustrate the second method of
blackmail — how the underworld
“gets” the upperworld.

Several months have passed. “The

ifortunes of United Coupler have not
|fared over well. Gurney, Holzmann
| & Co., to be sure, by one or two re-

newals of their advertisement inthe
Investors’ Watchman, have been able

| to protect the securities from further

attack by Pullit and his brokers, but
somehow the investing public never
enthused over that portion of the
stock which was offered it, and as
a number of the underwriters failed
to “come up,’ a second syndicate
was formed to take up the unsold
portion of the first mortgage bonds.
So the common stock has gone near-
ly out of sight, while the preferred
is not in much better’ state, and
there appears considerable question
whether the company can pay its
second half year’s interest on the
first mortgage bonds.

This has cost Gurney-Holzmann
severely. They were, to. be sure,
promoters of the company and in a
position to know its weaknesses from
the start. Nevertheless, with the
prospect of an enormous clean up in
case the public took properly that
portion of the stock which was pass-
ed out to it, and subsequently ab-
sorbed also, at a premium, the bonds

of the “original” underwriters, the

firm made a considerable investment
at the beginning and acquired more
or less additional bonds in trying to
support the general proposition in
its first slump. For some weeks past
the only way out of the predicament
has seemed a reorganization, which
would freeze out all of the old stock
and throw into the hands of Gurney-
Holzmann, as controlling a majority
of the bonds, the entire properties.
To this end the firm has been quietly
purchasing what bonds could be ob-
tained at bargain rates, and is now
of the opinion that the interest will
be defaulted.

Again the members are in confer-
ence, considering, not the behavior
of the securities, but the publication
in the Daily Wall Street Bulletin,
a financial paper of unquestioned
standing, of an attack on the man-
agement of United Coupler, which
charges that earnings sufficient to
pay at least the interest on the bonds
are being deliberately held up so as
to force a default and a reorganiza-
tion. There is talk aiso of a. re-
ceivership.

The article bears all the earmarks
of having been “passed out” by peo-
ple whose ultimate desire it was to
be “seen” by Gurney, Holzmann &
Co., and that is the conclusion at
which the members of the firm
have arrived. Hence there is no
surprise expressed when a letter 1s
received reading after this fashion:

“The United Coupler, Gurney,
Holzmann & Co., New York City—
Gentlemen: We beg to state that
our firm has been retained by a bond-
holders’ committee of the United
Coupler Company for the purpose

 

of taking such action at law as may
seem necessary to protect the inter-
ests of all bondholders.

“Should you care to meet a repre-
sentative of the committee in the
desire to reach an amicable adjust-
ment of the whole matter, a confer-
ence can probably be arranged
through our office.”

The letter is signed by a_ well
known firm of lawyers. The confer-
ence is accordingly arranged, and
with as little formality as charac-
terized the call of A. B. Hardman,
“Old” Gurney, beginning the talk,
says dryly to the lawyers, who are
the only representatives of the bond-

 

 

 

holders’ committee:

“Three questions are involved here,
gentlemen. First, how many bonds
have you got? Second, how much do
you want for them? And, third, how
much do you know?”

Whereupon the elder Gurney is in- |
formed that fifty of the bonds ought
to be worth somewhere in the vi-
cinity of $100,000, considering the}
fact that five of them have come
from one of the vendors, who is
ready to go on the stand and to tell |
what he knows about the organiza-
tion of the United Coupler Com-
pany. L

Of course, there is an amicable set-
tlement, not because the bondholders
threatening to bring suit would get|
any better treatment through a re-|
ceivership than Gurney-Holzmann
would get for their bond holdings,
but simply because Gurney-Holz- |
mann do not care to have the vendor |
go on the stand and tell what he |
knows about the organization of the}
United Coupler. And this is what
the law firm expected when the hold- |
ers of forty-five bonds sent it out
on a still hunt after the vendor who}
was willing to go on the stand. The|
transactions that followed are of a}
commonplace nature. But they may
deserve this recounting as illustrating
how, in instances fortunately of in-
frequent occurrence, certain members
of the upperworld of Wall Street
blackmail each other. Chas. Platt.

—_~+____

The growth of the cotton manu-
facturing in the South is impeded at
present by the scarcity of help. There
are not enough hands to operate the
machinery already in place. Wages
are accordingly rising and it is pre-
dicted that they must soon reach the
Northern standard.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

This is a picture of ANDREW
B. SPINNEY, M. D. the only
Dr. Spinney in this couniry, He
has had forty-eight years experi-
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medicine, two years Prof. in
the medical college, ten years in
anitarium work and he never
ails in his diagnosis. He gives
/ special attention to throat and
/ lung diseases making some
wondertul cures. Also all forms
of nervous diseases, epilepsy, St.
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, ae — to — piles.

ereis nothing known th:

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and by his cwn specia! methods he cures where
others fail. If you would like an opinion ot your |
case and what it will cost to cure you, write out
all your symptoms enclosing stamp for your reply, |
ANDREW B. SPINNEY, M. D. |

Prop. Reed City Sanitarium, Reed City, Mich |

 

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Makes change quickly |
and accurately. Used by |
the U.S. Gov’t, Banks, |
Trust Co.s and business |
houses generally. For
sale by principal sta-
tioners.

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BE A MAN.

Value of Personal Responsibility in
Business.

Students of the times and the man-
ners of the present will tell you that
more liberality marks the present
than ever before was tolerated by
the world. Yet business has been
slower to respond to the condition
than has any other branch of human
endeavor. Even the partisan news-
paper of the day has a scope of ex-
pression that would not have been
tolerated twenty years ago. The
church in general allows a freedom
to the ministry undreamed of inthe
days of Swing and Thomas. Society
at large has been condemned for hav-
ing lost its bump of reverence, but
in the criticism itself there is a dis-
tinct tribute to liberality.

Yet business goes along for
most part in the old rut of self-ab-
negation and spineless inexpression
of opinion. The old idea is abroad
that the man in business must have
no politics, no religion, and no part
in the problems that confront the
neighborhood or the municipality in
general. In a sense he mtst be a
subscriber to whatever charity or
catise is attracting the efforts of
those who would be his patrons, un-
til in many cases the thing that he
is revolting against most in life is
the consciousness that he has no lat-
itude of expression for the manhood
that may be his. As a matter of
fact such a man is essentially behind
the times and the victim of his own
conservatism. The young man start-
ing out in business needs to. be
shown these rocks that not only
menace his independence but finally
his chances of success itself.

With the censorship of the world
relaxed and still relaxing every day
there are persons needing to be re-
minded that the man not accepting
the condition is in line for another
sort of criticism from his patronage.
No man is ever too mean himself to
despise meanness of disposition in
another man. No man was ever too
manly himself not to appreciate the
slightest effort upon the part of a
weakling to assert his remnant of
manhood. Why, then, should any
man fear to stand by his opinions
and his rules of life so long as these
are worthy?

To the man of the world there is
no earmark that is more a danger
signal in business relations than isa
pronounced disposition of the busi-
ness man to shirk his personality.
It is his birthright; it may be a duty
in many circumstances for him to
declare himself. But where this duty
imposes and there is a shirking of it
manifestly because of ill-considered
principles of “policy,” the business
man can not hope to escape. the
odium of it. It must suggest sneak-
ing, to put the thought mildly. It
may mean that in a question where
the principles of unquestioned right
and wrong are concerned, the busi-
ness man is on the side of injustice
and wrong. To some extent it is
the vanity of a vulgar man to consid-
er as necessary a smug, effusive dodg-
ing of a personality in any such way.
Where such a man is prompted to
such a resort, there are strong

the

 

chances that his opinion one way or
another would be too weak and vacil-
lating to offend.
would call for commiseration instead.

The whole subject of a personality |

in business grows with the study of
it in the light of a necessity. Ex-
cept great corpora-
tions are eliminating the

as some of the

hind the business who
must stand for the business itself.
Materially, one store, one factory, or

one institution of any kind dominat- |

ed by the individual would be like
every other like business, only that
men differ in personality. The young
man may be deceived for a moment

when he enlists in the world’s busi- |
to conduct |
a house that shall be a replica of |
Until he is a physical, and)
replica of |
Jones the proposition will be impos- |

ness with the ambition

Jones.

intellectual, and moral

sible. If he does not discover this

truth he will be at the expense of|
paying the world for a demonstration |

of it.

There is no escaping the personal
responsibility in business. The great-
est aggregation of capital m the
world, behind the widest and freest
of charter laws, can not escape the
singling out of its black and blackest
sheep. “Who is responsible for this
condition?” is a growing question
with the world of the present time.
The spirit of publicity in all the
affairs of men is becoming more and
more insistent.

in the great corporation it may ask

something of the one man_ behind}
the individual business.

This demand for publicity in no
way is in dispute with the spirit of
liberality in the times. [t is a part
of it in every way.
tion in America of the rights
only of the man, but of all men. The
business house long has had an un-
questioned privilege in
the personality of his customer.

The

customer every day is more and more |

in the position of questioning the
business house.

The young man of to-day who ex-
pects to be the successful business
man of to-morrow is especially com-
mended to this question of a person-
ality in business. A reactionary pol-
icy is due. Impersonal business has

been boldly pirating or slyly stealing |

until the public patience is sorely
tried. The reaction, when it comes,
promises to leave once more as vital
principles those old qualities of in-
dustry and honesty, without which
no business ever can be put uponan
enduring foundation.

No successful business man ever
had the time for voicing and pursuing
the opinions of the reformer, but he

owes his business the background of |

a clean personality, devoid of an in-
sufferable, sneaking affability toward
all men and all things. He has a
right to his honest opinions. The

time is coming when he may have}

urgent need of them.

As one of the first qualifications
for the business of to-morrow the
business tyro of to-day needs to heed
the admonition, “Be a man.”

John A. Howland.

It is likely that it |

personal |
equation in business, it is the man be- |
personally |

When it has sought |

out the attitudes of the twenty men!
{2 and 14 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

It is the recogni- |
not |

seeking out |

‘A MEAN JOB
| Taking Inventory

| Send now for description of our Inven-
| tory Blanks and rem vable covers,
They will help you.

BARLOW BRUS., Grand Rapids, Mich.

AUTOMOBILES

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

Michigan Automobile Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

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

1232 [Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS

\FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

W. FRED McBAIN, President

Grand Rapids, Mich. The Leading Agency

 

New Oldsmobile

 

Touring Car $950.

|Noiseless, odorless, speedy and
\safe. The Oldsmobile is built for
|use every day in the year, on all
| kinds of roads and in all kinds of
'weather. Built to run and does it.
|The above car without tonneau,

|8850. A smaller runabout, same
|general style, seats two people,
$750. Thecurved dash runabout

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

Adams & Hart

 

  
   
   

We Are _ Distributing
Agents for Northwest-
ern Michigan for w

John W. Masury
& Son’s

Paints, Varnishes
and Colors
and
Jobbers of Painters’
Supplies

We solicit your orders, Prompt
shipments

Harvey &
Seymour Co.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion

Rates to Grand Rapids every day.
Write for circular.

 

 

ton,

Putnam’s

Menthol Cough Drops

Packed 40 five cent Packages in Car-
Price $1.00.

Each carton contains a certificate, ten

of which entitle the dealer to ONE FULL
SIZE CARTON FREE when returned to

us or your jobber properly endorsed.

PUTNAM FACTORY National Candy Co.

Makers
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

FOOLED ILE: ELLIE OIE TIN Do
Get Busy
wih Straub Bros. & Amiotte

Manufacturers of High Grade Confections

Traverse City, Mich.

and you will always

Get Proper Results

 

Get in touch with us for Holiday Stock

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

  

 

 

Cranberry Crop Considerably Small-
er Than Usual.
New York, Nov. 8

ering

Enquiries cov-
carload lots of
shipment to

 

several

berries for

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| kept pace with the increased produc-

qran- |
interior |

points, coupled with the fact that the |

active consuming season for _ this
fruit is drawing near, have induceda
materially stronger
holders, both here and at producing
points. Notwithstanding the
mates from all the principal growing
sections in the East indicate a light-
er production than that of last sea-

feeling among

son, the ruling prices are from $1.50]

to $1.75 per barrel lower than those
veer a
prevailing at this time last year, a

condition due, it is stated, largely to}
the fact that the active demand from |
the larger consuming centers is later |

a situation credited to

 

in developing
several causes, chief among which are
the abundance and cheapness of the

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various small fruits, the mild weather |

conditions and the attitude of buyers,
who in some cases have figured on
low prices as the result of frost dam-

age to the crop on Cape- Cod late)

in September last.

The receipts in this market for the
season to date have been 37,287 bar-
rels, compared with 42,249 barrels for
the same period last year.

inent dealer here said yesterday:
“The demand for cranberries at rea-
has evidently fully

sonable prices

tion as noted from year to year under |
normal crop conditions, and with a)
smaller quantity of berries than a
year ago, fair, if not good average
prices certain. It is evident
that growers. will later |
have to find a market for about 2,000,- |
ooo bushels, the present acreage ap-
pearing quite sufficient to produce |
that amount with favorable condi-|
tions in all sections throughout the |
growing season.

“The market here opened at about |
$6 per barrel for the _ best early |
blacks, but more fruit has been for- |
warded than could be promptly sold |
so early. There is now a good de-
mand for the fruit from points in|
the interior and we look for a market |
somewhat above the present basis.

A very considerable volume of}
the buying is done for Thanksgiv-
ing holiday trade, and it is safe to |
assume that the bulk of the entire)
crop is sold and consumed before the |

seem
sooner OF

middle of January.”
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Hot Pitch for Dirt Roads.
Dustlessness is the new watchword
for good roads, and dustlessness i
not only an ambition, but an accom-

s

plishment on some European high-

| ways which are not dustless by na-

Accord- |

ing to advices from other important |

distributing markets the volume of |
| made

receipts has been considerably below
that of last season. The
rivals in this market of any conse-
quence this season reached here on
Sept. 14, at which date prices were
$5.75 to $6.50 per barrel on fancy and
$5 to $5.50 on choice. The demand
from consumers opened slow and the
fruit was not moved freely. Later
arrivals—some showing the effects of
frosts—caused a decline in the local
market, and on Oct. 6 the price on
fancy Cape Cods had declined to
$5.25 to $5.50 on fancy and $4 to $5
on choice. There was a little im-
provement in the demand after Oct.
prices advanced steadily,
reaching on the last day of the
month $6 to $6.75 on fancy black,
$5.50 to $5.75 on choice and $3. to
$4.50 to $6 per barrel.

Some early fruit reached here late

 

15 and

in August, but the stock was mostly
light-colored and sold out at around
$4.5 oto $6 per barrel.

The total yield of cranberries cov-
ering the important sections last
year was 1,275,000 bushels. This is
regarded as a very moderate crop,
some seasons having shown a yield
of from 1,400,000 to 1,500,000 bushels.
The output this year, according to
figures given by one of the leading
dealers in this market, is figured at
from 15 to 20 per cent. below that

of iast season, this estimate being
made subsequent to the September
freeze, which seriously injured the

Cape Cod and New Jersey bogs. The
1904 crop in round numbers, taking
all producing sections into account,
is given as about 1,000,000 bushels.
Referring to the conditions a prom-

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first ar-j|

 

ture, but dustless through the na-|
ture of hot tar or hot pitch. It ap-
pears that ordinary dirt roads when |
properly prepared and subjected to}
the application of hot pitch can be
practically dustless, and in
many respects as good as macadam
or asphalt streets at about a fraction
of the cost. The hot dry summer
months of July, August and Septem-
ber are the best time for applying |
the pitch since it must be done when
the road surface is perfectly dry. The
pitch is heated to a temperature of
140 to 170 deg. Fahrenheit, and not,
only plastered over the road surface,

i but thoroughly worked into it. It

is poured into the center of the road-
way and worked energetically over |
the surface and into it by means of
stiff brooms. This leaves a rough,
untidy aspect which vanishes shortly |
after traffic has begun. For a long)
time thereafter wear is imperceptible, |
and the application the |
roadbed from deterioration.
—_—_+->—__—_

Words Are Cheaper Than Stones. |
George Meredith,
deal with English high life, lives sim-

preserves

whose novels |

ply. He built himself a house not |
long ago. It is charming, but very |
small.

A young woman with a letter of in-
troduction visited Mr. Meredith as
his home was being completed. With
some pride he showed her over the
building, but she, a little disappoint-
ed, said:

“In your books you describe huge |
castles and spacious baronial | halls, |
but when you come to build you put |
up a little bit of a house like this. |
Why is it?”

“It is because,” replied the pit: |
“words are cheaper than stones.” |

_——o-o-o
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Count your mercies as you do your

money and you will never be poor. |

 

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. Sawed whitewood
and veneer basswood cases. Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit pur-
chaser. We manufacture every kind of fillers known to the trade, and sell same in
mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchas:r. Also Excelsior, Nails and Flats
constantly in stock. Prompt shipment and courteous treatment. Warehouses ana
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan. Address

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

 

   

Butter, Eggs, Apples, Pears,
Potatces, Beans and Onions

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.

Poultry Shippers

I want track buyers for carlots.

 

 

 

Would like to hear from shippers from
every point in Michigan. I also want local shipments from nearby points

by express, Write or wire.

William Hndre, Grand Ledge, Michigan

Can handle all the poultry shipped to me.

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

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

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

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

 

 

 

Fresh Roll Butter Wanted

Consignments solicited.
Highest Market Prices and Prompt Returns.

HENRY FREUDENBERG

104 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Citizens Telephone, 6948; Bell, 443
Refer bv Permission to Peoples Savings Bank.

 

 

 

 

     

You Won’t Have Trouble

IF YOU BUY

Ladd’s Full Cream Cheese

We guarantee the best quality of goods, prompt
shipments and right prices.

Manufactured and sold by

LADD BROS., Saginaw, Mich.

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

 
 
  
  

 

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

New York, Nov. 5—There is some-

thing of a lull in business generally |
this week as people seem to be tak- |
ing a long breath preparatory to the |

last days of the campaign. After

te hum again.

There has been a fairly satisfactory |

trade in the spot coffee market, and
the close is decidedly firm. Specu-
lation has been very active, and as
a general thing the trend of the mar-
ket is upward. At the close Rio. No.

- is worth Siée.

there are 3,801,414 bags, against
2,656,074 bags at the same time last
year. Inasmuch as the world’s ‘visi-
ble supply at last reports shows a
very little increase holders think they
are justified in holding on. Offerings
of West India sorts have been light,
but the demand was also of rather

limited proportions. Quotations are

about unchanged, with Good Cucuta |

held at 9%c and good average
ta 11%4ec. ‘East Indias are firm and
about unchanged.

30g0-

There has been a fair volume of

business done in the sugar market

and prices at the close show a slight
although the

advance, department

stores are all selling at less than re- |

finers’ rates. The general tendency
seems to be to a slightly higher basis.

There has been a pretty fair de-
mand for teas, although the orders
are generally for rather small lots. In
good
many of these and holders are pret-

the aggregate there were a

ty well satisfied with the volume of
trade done. Offerings are rather lim-
ited. Little has been done in in-
voices.

A ‘dull market for rice prevails.
Buyers are not inclined to pay more

for stock than Western buyers who |
purchase in New Orleans, and as a)
result no large transactions appear. |
_ Prime to choice domestic, 334@4c.

There is a steady trade in molasses.
Quite a little new business has been
done, as well as a fair
withdrawals under former contracts.
Good to prime, 18@27c:
tle, 32@36c.
Syrups remain firm, ex-
about all the

unchanged.
porters having taken
stock offered.
ra

_The distributive trade in

say it was never better. Canners are

busy making deliveries and clearing |
Gut stocks as far as possible. The|
situation is one that would seem to|
warrant the making of rather liberal |

purchases in some lines. Fancy corn
is almost sure to be scarce, salmou
is becoming depleted to a great ex-

tent, fruits generally are in light sup- |

ply, and with a good demand likely

to continue everything seems to fav- |

or the seller.
Prices on dried
maintained, especially for

fruits are well
peaches,

In store and afloat)

volume in |
open ket- |
Blackstrap is quiet and |

Good to prime, 17@ |

canned |
goods is most excellent; in fact, many |

| the offerings of which are very light.
| Prunes are fairly steady, but there is
| still considerable depression. Raisins
| are fairly steady, at about unchanged
Dates ‘are firm: Phere is
further evidence of a holiday demand
iin the call for goods in fancy car-
tons.

| rates:

butter and quotations show a steady
|advance. Best Western creamery is
worth 24c without any trouble; sec-

onds to firsts, 20@23%c; imitation

|for fancy stock.
Not a large volume of trade has

There is a growing scarcity of fine |

creamery is steady at 16@18c; fac-|
| tory, I2%4@15c; renovated, steady and |

Puesday all hands look for the wheels | supply is ample at 14@17%4c, latter |

been done in cheese, but the situation |

is in favor of the holder.

Quotations |

show an advance, and at the close}
fancy full cream is worth 10%4c for|

either large or small sizes.

mand good and the market is very
firm.

Nearby stock brings any fig-|

The arrivals of eggs are light, de-|

|

ure up to 35c or more; finest West- |

|ern are worth 26c and average best |

ase: thisds, 1o@2tc:
1914(@20¢.
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Moneys Burned in Ovens.

“This is what we call the oven pe-
tiod, remarked an officer in the
redemption division of the Treasury
Department. “About this period of

refrigerator, |

ithe year foolish housewives all over |

| the country start fires in stoves and|

ranges, forgetting that
they used the ovens of those

trivances as hiding places for money

They discover their mistake
too late to save the bills, gather up
the remains and send them to us for
redemption.

“Within the last two weeks we
have had a dozen cases of burned
money rescued from ovens.
always our experience at the begin-
ning of cold

weeks ago|
con-

when |
|

This is|

weather. It is really |

astonishing how many people, chiefly |

women, will hide money
Then the most. surprising
thing is that they will forget they
put it there, and go ahead and start
a fre,

Stoves.

“Here is a case.
that this blackened powder
| represents $252, of which $200 con-

pile of
sists of $5 bills. The novice looking
at the ruins would say it is hopeless
to attempt to identify money in the

j;mass. But our experts have discov-

ered traces of forty $5 notes, so that
the owner is sure of getting $200 at
least. It is 2 ettrious thing about
| burned money that the parts which
remain sound longest are the corners
| where the numerals occur. The fine
resists the flames longer
|other portion, and is responsible for
most of the identifications.

“Yes, we are still getting returns
from the Baltimore fire.

than any

from that
| gration, identifying $3,000 in national
| bank notes.”—Brooklyn Eagle.

| destroyed money

2-2
A Gift of the Sex.

|bad an arithmetician that she could
| not calculate how much her husband
would save if he did not smoke.

scroll work on that part of the note |

e |
confla- |

away in|

The owner states |

Last week |
we had one of the largest cases of |

|
|
|

|

There is no woman in the land so

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BUTTER

We can furnish you with

FANCY
FRESH-CHURNED
BUTTER
Put up in an odor proof one pound
package. Write us for sample lot.

If you want nice eggs, write us. We
can supply you.

WASHINGTON BUTTER
AND EGG CoO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

Good |
Michigan Cheese
rade

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

Fred M. Warner, Farmington, Mich.

 

 

 

Butter

I would like all the fresh, sweet dairy
butter of medium quality you have to

send.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

    

14

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

The Artificial Preservation of Food.

Fresh food stuffs deteriorate rapid-
ly, and methods for preserving them
have been in use since prehistoric
times, those first adopted being still
in use in various forms, namely, the
application of heat and cold. In
modern times we have not. only
these but others. The principles up-
on which they all“act are laid down
and discussed by Dr. Geo. Richter
in a paper read on June 6, before
the St. Louis Chemical Society, and

printed in American Medicine (Sep- |

tember 10). Says Dr. Richter:

“There are three causes of dete-
rioration of food: (1) The action of
vegetable and animal organisms,
mold, bacteria, insects; (2) a chemic
change of the compounds by the ac-
tion of the atmosphere; (3) fermen-
tation (zymases). Fat becomes ran-
cid, proteids also change their char-
acter. This latter cause of deteriora-
tion has been studied but very little—
I refer to those soluble  proteids
which after some time become insol-
uble without any known cause. An
instance is the yolk of egg, which,
after about six months of preserva-
tion in a dried state, becomes inso-
luble, and can not be reconverted in-
to an emulsion. Its solubility in di-
gestive fluids remains, however, the
same.

“The task of preparing organic
food stuffs for preservation would
consequently be to destroy present
and guard against intruding organ-
isms, to destroy ferments, to exclude
air (oxygen and moisture), and to
prevent other influences of harmful
nature, as, for instance, the action of
light. Concerning ferments, it must
be remembered that there are two
kinds affecting food stuffs: a native
one, like that in milk, which very
materially aids in the digestion of the
casein, and ferments
which decompose, e. g., sugar, and |

thereby diminish the food value. |
+ +£ * *

extraneous

“The exclusion of air is generally
effected by submerging the product
in some liquid which is indifferent to
the character of the product. Often
another substance is used to cover
the whole with an azr-tight body,
like sweet oil or paraffin, or by seal-
ing the container after any of the
many well-known methods. The ex-
traction of air in vacuo, or the re-
placing of it by some indifferent
gas, does not seem to be practiced,
ciearly because diffusion of gases can
not, as yet, be prevented. The ex-
clusion of air is of greatest impor-
tance, as the atmosphere usually con-
tains also other materials which are
harmful to the food—germs. This in-
volves the most important problem
of packing, and an untold number of
methods are in use. The package
must not only be secure, reliable, and
cheap, but practical, so as not to
make the opening of it too difficult.

“A very difficult problem is the de-
struction of adverse ferments with-
out interfering with the native, nor-
mal ferments, which are independent
of the known foreign organisms. So
very little is known about their in-
dividuality that only tentative experi-
menting can, for the present, give
hints as to their true nature. As

 

mentioned before, there is a distinc-
tion to be made between the casein-
digesting ferments and those, if there
are such, which cause the change of
soluble albumins into soluble modi-
fications. The fight against delete-
rious organisms has occupied experi-
menters lately more than any other
problem in this line. Mold and bac-
teria may be harmful, because they
alter food so that it gives a disagree-
able odor, a nauseating taste, and

'renders the product less digestible.

if not directly poisonous. These
are the primary causes of a decom-
position which culminates in putre-
faction. The chemic changes con-
nected with such
known in a general way, although,
scientifically speaking, we know next
to nothing about them. It was an
immense progress when the source
of the evil was pointed out—princi-
pally bacteria. But, as always is the
case with such new discoveries, there
arose a general tendency (which still
prevails) to accuse anything and
everything to the poisonous bacteria
of being harmful. A count of bac-
teria, so many millions per cubic
millimeter, was to decide the whole-
someness of an article, no matter to
what species the bacteria belonged.
The later discovery that some _ bac-
teria could change their character,
being poisonous only under certain
conditions, while absolutely harmless
at other times, has rendered _ re-
search so much more difficult. Un-
tiring experimenting has_ resulted,
however, in a number of practical
processes. We _ have learned that
sterilization will destroy poisonous

processes are

agencies ordinarily connected with
bacteria, and to sterilize a substance
effectually is rather easy. The diffi-
culty is that a perfectly safe steriliza-
tion will usually impart to the food
a disagreeable flavor and render it
less digestible, probably because it
annihilates also the useful, native fer-
ments.

“The study of the problem led to
the discovery of the so-called anti-
septics, and incidentally to the closer
study and knowledge of bacteria. An-
tiseptic bodies combine readily with
the protoplasm of those wild (or cul-
tured) micro-organisms which cause
their death. Some of the antiseptics
will naturally also. combine with the
proteids of the food, and, if such
combination is soluble in the diges-
tive fluids, they are quite apt to be
harmful to those who eat such food,
as the free body may now attack
the proteids of the organism, the
blood, the nerve cells, etc. Antisep-
tics of such a character can not be
used for the preservation of food.
Others which are not harmful to
such a degree possess a flavor which
is very repulsive.”

The writer does not agree with
those who unreservedly condemn the
use of antiseptic chemicals for food
preservation. He reminds us thatin
salting and smoking meat we have
long been using sodium chloride and
creosote, both of which are poisons
when used in sufficient quantities.
Alluding to Dr. Wiley’s _ recent
“boarding-house” experiments on
salicylic acid, he says in conclusion:

“Experimental investigations ona

 

 

   

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weight long horn or 1o inch brick cheese.
Write for prices and terms.

MANUFACTURED BY

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621-23-25 N. Main St. ANDERSON, IND.

 

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OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Has largest amount of deposits
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A. J. Witzig

REA & WITZIG

PRODUCE COMMISSION
104-106 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y.

We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Live and Dressed Poultry,
Beans and Potatoes. Correct and prompt returns.

REFERENCES
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Shippers

Established 1873

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS’

Highest Grade Extracts,

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS

MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS
AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,

TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON
Sold only in bottles bearing our address

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FLOUR

the kind you should sell.
manufactured by the

 

That is made by the most
improved methods, by ex-
perienced millers,
brings you a good profit and satisfies your customers is
Such is the SELECT FLOUR

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

that

 

 

 

poultry shippers

POULTRY CRATES

 

These crates are positively the lightest, strongest and best on the market for
They are made of seasoned elm, 3-16 inch thick and put
together with cement coated nails, which makes them the strongest and light-
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will build these crates any size desired. Prices on application.

. Wilcox Brothers, Cadillac, Mich.

Standard Sizes

For Chickens
36x24x10, each....$ .55
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For Turkeys
36x24x16, each....$ .65
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Bell Main 2270

 

We are distributors for all kinds of FRUIT PACKAGES in large or
small quantities.
Also Receivers and Shippers of Fruits and Vegetables.

JOHN G. DOAN, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Citizens 1881

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limited number of persons have a
limited value. The ‘wholesale’ ex-
perience proves undoubtedly more.
And that seems to show that a num-
ber of the preservatives in common
use are practically harmless. Dis-
eases caused by preservatives in
food are of most rare occurrence, es-
pecially when compared with the fre-
quency of diseases caused by the ab-

sence of preservatives in_ spoiled
food.”

te
Advice Which Was Taken Too Lit-

erally.

“My boy,” said the merchant, with
the air of a self-made uncle, address-
ing his nephew, “there is just one
piece of advice that 1 want to give
you, now that you are entering the
service of Githere & Co.

“As you know, I am giving you the
place because you are the son of my
favored widowed sister; but if you
are to reach a high position with the
firm you must do it on your merits.
You are beginning at the bottom of
the ladder, and if you prove yourself
worthy of a better berth than that of
mailing clerk you will find us appre-
ciative. I started where you are now
and I need not dwell on the success
I have made.

“But while I shall always take a
personal interest in your progress
you must not expect any undue as-
sistance or hope for different treat-
ment from that of the other clerks.
However, I shall depart from cus-
tom sufficiently to tell you the secret
of my success so that you may model
your conduct on the ‘same lines.

“I have no hesitation in saying that
my present prosperity is due to one
thing—politeness. Since
business I have made it a rule tobe
polite to every one with whom I
come in contact.
work hard and cultivate thrift,
future is assured.

your

“Now, my boy, I expect you to ap-
preciate the opportunity I am giving
you, and I may say that, although
while you are in my employ you will
be treated like any other clerk, you
may look forward to being invited
to eat your Thanksgiving dinner with
me or my family every year.”

“Thank you, sit,’ said the boy,
bowing politely and passing from the
presence of a great man.

A month later the business mana-
ger of Githere & Co. remarked cas-
ually to the head of the firm:

“T am worried somewhat about our
new mailing clerk.”

“My nephew?”

“Ves, sir’

“What is the matter with him?
Doesn’t he do his work?”

“Oh, yes, he does his work, but he
seems on the verge of a breakdown.
He seems to be living. a very irregu-
lar life. I don’t think he gets enough
sieep, and I doubt if he gets all his
meals. Some mornings he is late
and on others he is here before the
place opens.”

“Send him to me.”

A moment later the culprit stood
trembling on the Oriental rug in
front of his uncle’s desk. The great
man was startled at the change that
had come over the ruddy country

If you do the same, |

 

 

entering |

 

boy and asked in tones of real con-
cern:

“Why, Willie,
with you?”

“O, sir,” said the boy, on the verge
of tears, “I’ve been trying to follow
your advice—and—and it’s almost
killing me.”

“What do you mean?”

what is the matter

“Tm practice politeness all. the|
time, and although it is all right for |

the office where I have work to do
and meet few people, outside of the
office it nearly kills me.”
“How so?”
“Well, sx, Tm polite to

cause

|ahead I never get home until an|
|empty car comes

along, and that
makes me too late for dinner.
morning I found the
until I began getting up. early so as|
to get here before the rush, and_/|
that made me leave my _ boarding |
house too early for breakfast andI}|
don’t get sleep enough.
out to get lunch,
places are all crowded,

unable to proceed.

"O, hane it alll’
merchant, “when you are in
York you must not be so confound- |
ed literal. Here is a dollar. Go and|
get something to eat and if any one}

gets in your way knock him down|

and bite his éar.”

As the grateful boy was leaving |

his presence the great man added

with the air of a philosopher backing |

apd filling:

“And while I still maintain that |
busi- |
amend the |

politeness is a great factor in
ness success, you may

rule I gave you by being polite only |

when it pays.”—New York Sun.
+». ___-
To Attract Bargain Hunters.

Head Floor Walker (severely)—I |
heard you tell the lady she would |
find the ribbons at the third counter |

to the left.

New Floor Walker—That’s where}

they are.

Head Floor Walker

 

to the left past the stocking bargain
counter, then three counters to the
right past the silk skirt bargain coun-
ter, and so on. You'll never make a
floor walker.
oo
A Matter of Accent.

Two Irishmen went to an Episco-
pal church for the first time and
were shown into a pew near the door.
While they were waiting for the
service to begin one of them picked
up a prayer-book, and after examin-
ing it for a short time, he turned to
his friend: “Come, Pat, let’s slide
out of here: while we can. This is
no place for us; it’s only for rich
men. After every third prayer it
says Collect. 7

+

The Japanese language contains no
fewer than eighteen synonyms for
the personal pronoun “I,” one for
each class of people; and etiquette
makes it unlawful for a person be-
longing to one rank in society to
make use of the pronoun pertaining
to another.

people |
getting on the trolley cars and be-|
I step back to let others get |

In the}
pa |
same difficulty |

When I go |
the cheap lunch |
and—” but}
the half-starved child burst into tears, |

exclaimed the)
New |

Yes; but you |
should have told her to go to the |
right past the necktie counter, turn |

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MIOH. || !03 Monroe Street

PILES CURED

DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON
Rectal Specialist
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

WHOLESALE

 

Oysters

CAN OR BULK

| See our quotations in Grocery Price Current on page 45

‘DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.
WE ARE BUYERS OF

CLOVER SEED 4x0 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.

 

 

——We Carry

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

MOSELEY BROS. eranp rapips, MICH.

| Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street.

 

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

 

The Vinkemulder Company

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

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wanted

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.

 

 

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 scp upon
application. a

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Effort To Popularize Brown Stiff
Hats.

A great deal of talk has been em-
ployed and much printer’s ink has
been used during the past six months
in an effort to popularize brown stiff
hats. Every retailer was induced to
lay in a stock of sizes and shades
of the colored goods and much as-
sistance was given the storekeepers
by the manufacturers and_ trade
press to make the effort a success,
and it has succeeded. As there are
various degrees of success it i:
purely a matter of personal opinion
how great a success has been §at-
tained.
ed more than others.

At the opening of the season. the

 

  
 

black derbies are also the shapes of
the brown hats as well.

There seems to be no limit to the
variations in shape to which a soit
hat is susceptible, for certainly no
greater variety of styles of soft hats
has ever been seen than have been
presented to the public this fall. In
every city and town which can boast
of one or more colleges are to be
seen the extreme styles of headwear,
which seemingly delight the college
youths, and in the majority of cases
the soft hat is apparently the embodi-
ment of style and comfort.

The rakish styles of soft hats have
become so widely popular they are
now being sold everywhere in the
country. The best selling soft hats
are those having rather low round
crowns, which may be worn creased,
dented, telescoped, or in sombrero

|effects. The brims are wide and

Some manufacturers expect- |

brown derby was a negligible quanti- |
ty. They were to be seen in every |
hat store, and a few were to be not-|

ed on the streets. As the season
advanced the sales have increased,
and at the present time brown hats
are worn everywhere.
has been slow to respond to the
change to colored hats, which may
possibly be ascribed to the small
faith in the matter possessed by
most retailers. A few sales, how-
ever, have worked wonders, and the
retailers have taken an interest in
brown hats with results most pleas-
ing to behold. A fair estimate of
the quantity being sold is one brown
to about four black hats, or about
25 per cent. fi

Many brown hats are seen on the
. streets of New York, and a number
are of personal importation—return-
ing tourists, you know. The writer
noticed on an incoming steamer re-
cently the arrival of a brown hat on
a gentleman returning from abroad,
and who still had the dust of the
Strand -clinging to the bottoms of
his trousers. In color the hat re-
sembled an illuminated London fog.
In reality the hat was too light-col-
ored to be a brown hat and too dark
to be a light hat, still the band and
binding being dark brown the color
classification was immediately estab-
lished. The hat was quite attractive,
the trimmings offering a_ splendid
contrast. The traveler in question
brought the information that colored
“darbies” are extensively worn
abroad, which should be pleasing
news for the ultra-fashionable young
man.

Brown hats are to-day being sold
in every city in this country, and
furthermore they aré not being worn
only by the young men, but by mid-
dle aged and elderly men as well.
The sales on them should continue
brisk for the next two months at
least, and the retailer who does not
now “push” brown hats is losing an
opportunity of no mean importance.

There is little to be said at this
time concerning black hats. They
are as staple as sunshine and always
will be. No novel shapes have been
placed on sale since the fall styles
were produced. The shapes of the

The public |

 

rather flat set. The best selling col-

|ors are browns and pearls, the light

shades of brown being particularly
desirable. Fancy bands in neat stripe
effects are very popular.

The straw hat season for 1905 has

| started out unusually well. The trav-

eling salesmen have met with good
success and there still remain many
orders yet to be placed. To the
present time sales have been largest
on the split and sennit braid yacht
shapes and Panama hats. Fancy
braids have been shown, but the sale
on them has been limited.

The demand for Panama hats con-
tinues brisk and the sales on _ this
class of summer headwear have been
larger than for several seasons past.
Last summer Panama hats sold par-
ticularly well in the Southern and
Western States, but there are strong
reasons for believing that next sea-
son will find them worn all over the
country. Every retailer should have
an assortment of Panama hats in his
store, and when the season opens the
hats should be prominently displayed.
A few fine grade Panamas will at-
tract the attention if not the patron-
age of a most desirable class of
trade. It is a point worth taking
advantage of—Clothier and Furn-
isher.

2-2-2
Couldn’t Accept the Advice.

Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Chicago, tells
of a physician who had advised a
neighbor to cease smoking, as it af-
fected his heart.

“Seated on their adjoining porches,
these two men exchanged pleasant-
ries and discussed causes for the in-
creased valuation of their real estate.
As evening approached the Doctor
lighted a cigar, placed his feet upon
the porch rail and to the passerby
represented a picture of contentment.
The neighbor, however, was fidgety;
now making a dash for a mosquito
on his ear and now with crash and
violent word failing to locate one
on the back of his head.

“ “Smoke, neighbor, smoke,’ absent-
mindedly suggested the physician,
‘that will kill the miserable pests.’

““T would, Doctor,’ said the other
bitterly, ‘but you know that I have
Hot the heart to do: it! ”

———-

Opportunity is very unobtrusive.

It won’t force itself upon any one.

THEY FIT.

Gladiator Pantaloons

uf

Clapp Clothing Company

Manufacturers of Gladiator Clothing
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 Before the Public

is a good recommendation and that is the length i

founder of THE WILLIAM CONNOR CO. oe ae ce
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
will call upon your address, ' » one of our representatives

   

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

Citi .
Merchants’ —

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

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Plain Goods Season Ahead in |

Fabrics.

The present may be. designated as

the scissor season of the dress goods |

business. There is a lull in the

business of the jobbing houses. Fall

and winter buying is well along to- |
ward the end in wholesale houses. |
They are now preparing their spring |
lines for advance road business and |
within the next few days the early |
road men will be testing their cus- |

tomers with spring lines. The vol-

ume of fall business has been very |
good and few complaints are heard, |

but it is not so much the volume of

sales experienced in the dress goods |
stocks of the wholesale houses that |

is most encouraging, but rather the
excellent feeling among all dress
goods people regarding the present
condition of business.
dress goods is better throughout the

entire country.

Although the spring of ’o5 prom-
ises to be practically a plain goods
season, in the samples shown fancy
voiles and mohairs. are
strong features. Imported as wellas
domestic lines contain a percentage
of both sufficiently large to claim
generous attention. It is true these
fancies are mostly of a type so un-
pronounced and modest that they do
not differ widely in general effect
from the plain of the same texture,
but in that fact lie their strength
and promise of success. Some of

them are piece-dyed, the variation |

from the plain brought about by ir-
regularity in the weave; there are

mohairs with small checked or nar-|

row-stripped effects of weave and
voiles with lacy quadrilles or  pas-
tilles in these monotone goods. But
in most of the season’s fancies. the
fine double-and-twist yarn, black and
white. is usually found, sometimes
in the warp only, giving an indefinite
fine line stripe effect, or in both warp

and weft when a checked effect ap-|
: oe at
Pears; again, a Variety oF tancy €r- |

fects is achieved by the _ different

ways in which this useful twisted
yarn is thrown into the weave. Small
overplaids in hairlines of brilliant

color and stitch effects of the same,
even diminutive hubs, are not lack-
ing in the fancy mohairs. This is
true also, in a general way, of the
spring suitings.
so successful in fall lines, reappear
for spring with, perhaps, the differ-
ence of a preponderance of checked
effects or small indefinite plaids.
Shepherd’s checks of the smaller size
are largely represented in blue, red,
brown or green with white or cream,
in suitings of varied texture; also
fine-line, small plaids of the same
combination. The green and blue
combined colors remain a_ feature,
and are to be found in the color
range of nearly all the different lines.
In piece-dyed suitings there is a
wide range of weaves.

Men’s wear suitings,

The distinguishing feature of the
present season is the lightness in
weight of practically all dress mate-
rials. Fabrics of a light texture and
those which also possess a softness
have predominated so far. Attempts
to introduce other fabrics have been
disappointing so far. The light tex-

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decidedly |

| ture has been able to maintain its
| popularity chiefly because the season
lis not yet far advanced. The question
| naturally asked by some merchants
lis: . Will the popularity of these|
lightweight materials continue after |
cold weather—real cold weather—has
arrived? That question is as yet un-
answered. The better dressers are

wearing lighter materials than, per-

This- is true of
women’s” apparel. |
Even for the tailor-made costume the |
materials this season are very light. |
The broadcloth fabrics are the light-
est in weight that the trade has ever
known.

haps, ever before.

both men’s and

Other materials which are
popular for the coming season are|
also of very light weight, and for the |
social function—the dressy occasion |
—the material accepted by the trade |
is pre-eminently light, such as crepes, |
eoliennes, voiles, etc.

Lightweights are not, however, the
only material that will sell during
the season of 1904 and 1905. Mer-
chants who neglect to have a line of
heavier fabrics will certainly get in- |
to trouble. The farmer’s wife is not |
interested seriously in voiles for cold
weather. Broadcloths and mannish |
suitings will be bought to some ex-
tent at least; but the lightweights in
either of these weaves will not be
accepted quite so quickly by the
general trade as will the heavier fab- |
rics. Both broadcloths and cheviots
will be in demand by a certain class
of trade, but the weights of these|
|fabrics with which the trade have
| been acquainted in the past will be |
more likely to be popular. The buy-
|er from the North and Northwest |
lis wise enough not to put all his |
dress goods investments into light
materials. The Southern buyer who
arrived earliest in market favored
| chiefly the lighter weights, as they
are more suitable to his trade.
Among the selections made_ by the
Northern buyers there
more of the heavier weaves for the

 

 

 

 

have been
winter--those weaves which possess |
weight and are rougher in appear- |
ance.

The present demand for rain proof-
materials is greater than was antici- |
pated by most buyers. In the more
desirable numbers jobbers are com-
pletely sold out. It is quite likely
that the manufacturing trade will not
be able to supply the demand for this
line of goods. One manufacturer of |
ready-made garments recently receiv- |
ed an order for two hundred and fifty |
rain proof garments. He did _ not}
have the material and was unable |
to secure enough to complete the or- |
der. Deliveries of this class of goods |
are being made in small lots of four, |
five and six pieces and no considera- |
ble amount is promised by manufac- |
turers until late this month or the}
first of November. The principal use |
to which the materials are being put |
by the cutting-up trade is for coats.

For traveling and general utility
in inclement weather these rain -proof
coats are urged by some of the lead-
ing stores. Certain retail stores are
showing and advertising them very
extensively. The mannish effects of
plaids and checks allow the use of the
fabric for skirts also, but they are

 

| different

| tive flesh eaters, to which Professor

not expected to be
much favor, and for costumes they
are even less
skirts.

tern except the
structed by the salesman to have it
shrunk and sponged before it is
made up.

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Whale and Lion Sprung from Same |

Source.

As everyone knows, or ought to]

know, the whale is not a fish, but
mammal, and zoologists

pondered and disputed about its fam- |
ily tree. In Eocene times the ances- |
tors of mammals were beginning to|

take shape somewhat like those of

to-day and to lose the grotesqueness

inherited from their reptilian progen-

itors. To be sure, animals were very

from those of to-day.

Horses were no larger than dogs and |

had five toes, while cattlelike tino-
ceras, twice the size of an ox, with
six horns, tusklike teeth and_ five
toes, cropped the heritage of Wyom-
ing. Along with these peculiar plant
feeders there dwelt some very primi-

Cape gave the name of creadonta.

The scene shifts to modern times. |

Professor Fraas, of Stuttgart, Ger-
many, is delving in the rocks near

Cairo, Egypt. He is getting out huge

 

 

Eocene times, the

fossil teeth. Now he tells us in a
recent Abhandlungen that these teeth
of ancient whales are like those of

the ancient carnivorous

eater took to an aquatic life.

have been becoming more fishlike.
It is hard to believe that the rav-

enous lion and inoffensive and tooth- |
less whale of to-day had a common |

ancestor, yet they both have the same

| taste for blood, only the whale swal- |

lows his food whole.

 

 

received with}

desirable than _ for}
One retail dress goods mana- |
ger will not sell a waterproof pat- |
customer. be in-|

have long |

jaw bones that have been petrified. |
The jaw bones are those of whales |
and the rocks near Cairo were, in |
seashore. The|
| professor has studied his whale jaws |
and compared their teeth with other |

creadonta. |
From this he argues that in Eocene |
or earlier times some primitive flesh
| From |
these old times to the present whales |

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

 

|
News and Gossip Heard in_the Hat |
Trade.

The much-mooted question of |
whether brown hats would be worn |
this fall is being answered in a}
most satisfactory and practical man- |
ner. The answer is to be noted on|
highways and byways, and at every |
hat store and hat department in|
nearly every city and town in the|
land.

Brown hats are selling, most cer-
tainly!

The earnest endeavors of the
many hat manufacturers, assisted by |
the numerous and varied means of
publicity, have at last secured a re-
sponse from a none too fickle public,
and many men who for years have
clung to their black hats are now
wearing a brown derby.

It is to be hoped no one has imag-
ined that brown hats would super-
sede black ones. Such a thing never |
has been and never will be. But
brown hats are very much in evi-
dence everywhere, and in comparison
with the number of them worn in
recent past seasons they are now ex-
tremely popular.

Never has there been a time more
opportune than the present fall sea-
son for the popularizing of brown
Stitt fats. First of all, the time of
year itself is most appropriate, and
next, brown clothing is being worn
extensively, and the brown hat “tops |
off” the outfit to a nicety and main-
tains the harmony of color tone that |
marks the appearance of every well-
dressed man.

One of those “opportunities” of
which so much is talked and _ writ-
ten is at hand Byery retail hatter |
should grasp the opportunity and
“push” brown hats. If brown hats
are not sold and worn this fall in|
every town in the country, then some
one has missed his opportunity.

The fall styles of stiff hats show |
no marked changes in shape from the
styles of last season. The crowns}
have been heightened slightly and
the brims show a trifle more dip in|
front and rear than did last spring’s
shapes. The changes, although few, |
mark an improvement in the general |
effect of men’s headwear. |

The majority of stiff hat styles are
conservative in shape, and will doubt-
less be popular for that reason. As
is usual, a few extreme novelties are
offered, but as they have few fea-
tures worthy of consideration the
sales will be very limited.

Soft hat productions for fall offer
a most extensive variety. Colors,
trimmings and various shapes in
crowns and brims all lend their as-
sistance in producing the novel styles
to be seen in every sample line. Be-
cause of the wide variety of shapes
no one style may be said to be most
popular.

The majority of soft hats now be-
ing shown have crowns that may be
worn creased, dented or telescoped,
and all of these effects are popular.
The brims are usually wide. The
treatment of the brims increases the
variety of effects, which include the
flat set, rolled, curled and flanged.
Some of the latest productions have
the brim rolled at the sides and in
the rear, with the front dipped con-

| eyes.

siderably, affording protection to the |
The effect is natty, although |
somewhat “rakish.” Fancy bands are |
at present receiving much attention. |
The neater ones have narrow white |
lines through the center. The new-|
est and “loudest” bands have mottled |
or “snake-skin” designs woven in|
them. They are more _ properly |
known as the “jacquard” bands. The |
color range in soft hats is wide, and |
includes all shades of fawn, nutria, |
brown from light to dark, and shades |
of pearl and gray as well. It is diffi- |
cult to go amiss on soft hats this |
season.

The straw hat season of 1904 is |
being rapidly forgotten and the at-|
tention of the retail trade has been |
called to next summer through the |
persistent work of the _ traveling
salesmen, whose efforts have been)
very successful. Straw hat styles for |
next season have been more those
of dimensions than of varieties of |
braid, for there is every indication |

| that the yacht shape straw hats of!
| split or sennit braid will continue in
| popularity. There is no indication at |
| present that fancy and rough braids |

will receive more than a modicum of |
attention.

Panama hats will undoubtedly be |
worn in great numbers next season. |
Many orders have already been taken

|for these popular hats, and the firms

that make a specialty of dealing in

|them have prepared for a busy sea-

son. The demand for Java, Manila

and palm hats, which are varieties of |

tropical headwear, seems to be very

| limited, the sales so far made being

almost exclusively for the real Pana-
ma article.
department of

is assumed, every retailer desires, and

i consequently every retailer should be

prepared to meet the demand, if
indeed he does not create one by
reason of displaying them.

Now is the time to begin prepara-
tions for correcting a great and glar-
ing evil that exists in the hat trade—
the early cutting of prices on straw
hats. Every retailer knows _ that}

Retailers should not fail |
|to investigate this
| their straw hat business.
appeal to the better trade, which, it |

Panamas |

| straw hats can be made to yield a/

| profit, and yet nearly every retailer
lessens, or loses altogether, the prof-

\it he should have made, and all be-|

'cause of his cutting the prices early
|in the season.
| custom only, and no good reason ex-
lists for a reduction of the price on

The practice is a|

|any straw before August 1. Customs |

It can be accomplished far more eas-

to all business interests, prepare
a circular letter to that effect which
should be sent to every retailer in

the country.—Clothier and Furnisher.
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What is necessary to bring about the |
good results desired is a little unan-|
imity of thought and action. First of |
all, the straw hat manufacturers and |
dealers should “get together,” and, |
after having decided that early price- |
cutting is a nuisance and a detriment |

have been changed and can be again |
| changed, and now is the time to be-|
|gin the work of changing this one.

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Rights and Privileges of the Star
Boarder.
Written for the Tradesman.
Massachusetts has a judge whois,
in good truth, a second Daniel come
to judgment. The other day he was
called to pass upon the marital woes
of a young couple who testified that
they led a cat and dog life together,

and that they could only agree to
disagree. The case was complicat-
ed, as divorce cases are apt to be,

by the fact that there were children
whom both parents desired to keep,
and whom the father must
In this dilemma the wise judge ad-

support.

vised .that, instead of separating, the
warring parties go back home and
see if they could not get along more
peaceably with the man
the altered status of star boarder, in-
stead of husband.

occupying

The idea is one so luminous with
good hard common sense that it
suggests its extension, with modifi-
cations and alterations to fit the case,
into other households which are still
a long ways on the sunny side of
the divorce court, but whose bicker-
ings are sufficiently frequent to keep
them perpetual storm centers. The
greatest charm, as well as the great-
est misfortune, of family life is its
continual association, its intimacy
and lack of reserve. When this
means a love and sympathy so acute
that they divine, as if by instinct, our
every thought and feeling; when they
mean a comradeship so true and so
congenial that it doubles every pleas-
ure and halves our pains, heaven has
given us its best gift, and we may
well be thankful for it. When it
simply means that because a person
is kin to us, or married to us, they
feel that it gives them liberty to offer
us insulting criticisms and tell us un-
pleasant truths, as they would not
dream of doing to a stranger, it can
make the family circle about as good
an imitation of an  unmentionable
place as anyone need desire to. see.
There are many people who reserve
their bad manners, as they do their
old clothes, for home wear, and there
is no doubt that in many

an element of formality could be

introduced as a peace measure with

| beneficial results.

| ject there are various things to rec-!

| tic life—the financial problem.

From the woman’s side of the sub-

husband in the role of
star boarder. For one thing, it of-
fers a satisfactory way of laying that
specter that haunts so much domes-
Sor-

ommend a

| did as it seems, it is nevertheless true

that the money question is just as

disturbing in the home and just as

| provocative of a row as it is in na-

3enedict’s
persistent and continual demands for
money for the butcher and baker and
candlestick maker, and Mr.
dict’s tart replies in consequence, that
precipitate nine-tenths of the argu-
ments that end by Mr. B. jamming
his hat on his head and slamming
the front door behind him, and Mrs.

tional politics. It is Mrs.

Bene-

| B. sobbing out that she wishes she

families |

had never left her mo-mo-mother.

in no other thing are men so un-|

logical and unreasonable as in the
money.

way they treat their wives about

name, expects to support his family |

In reality, he
object
it. He is perfectly well aware that

when he gets married.
probably does not

servants must be paid, supplies for |
the table purchased, clothes bought, |

and that children are apparently born

for the sole purpose of enriching the |

shoemaker and the school book pub-
lisher. Yet, knowing all this, about
half the men you know seem to take
it as a personal injury and grievance
when their wives come to them for
money for the common family needs.
“Great snakes, you want wash money
again?” they cry. “What, the ice
You need half a dollar to
pay for getting Johnny’s shoes mend-
ed! By George, I believe you think
I am made of money!” and, alas for
human frailty, the woman is more
than apt not to return the humble
answer that money and
turns away wrath, but to remark, in-
stead, that if she were a miracle
worker and could run a house with-
out money she would not be work-
ing for any man for her board and
clothes—she would be Secretary of
the Treasury.

There are plenty of such homes—
and the menin them are not necessar-
ily mean, only thoughtless and in-
considerate—where every single item
of expense is argued out at as much
length as if it were a government ap-

out again!

extracts

 

Every man, worthy of the|

to doing |

|

propsiation bill, and where a pair of lit first—and discuss it afterwards. Saw

shoes can not be bought for
baby or a calico frock for the wife
without a debate that is hot enough
to leave a blister. The inevitable re-
sult is continual friction that spells
disaster for the family, and the very
best thing any woman under such cir-
take her
him

cumstances can do is to
husband as a boarder, charge
enough to run the house

|

on and|

spend the money in peace and as she |

pleases. So long as she makes him
comfortable he has no more right to

interfere in her management than he |

would with any other  landlady’s
methods.
There is no earthly use in

everything one

anyway.
telling beforehand
thinks she is going to do, particular-
ly if it is liable to be objected to. Do

| her sentiments.

Women confide too much, |

the | wood and say nothing, is a wise mot-

to for wives as well as politicians.
Another advantage that many
women would gain if they could in-
duce their husbands to regard them-
selves more in the light of a board-
er and less in the light of a boss
would be a very superior article of
manners to that to which they are
now accustomed. No man_ would
think, for a minute, that because he
paid his board it would give him a
right to sneer at his landlady’s opin-
deride her views: and ridicule
These are privileges

ions,

that matrimony alone bestows upon
a man, and many a woman’s fondest
dream of happiness is to wish that
her husband was as polite to her as
he is to other ladies. He will listen

 

  
 
   
  
   
    
 

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buy other goods also.

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with apparently absorbed attention
while another woman airs her views
on the Japanese war, he is quick
enough to respond to another wom-
an’s witticism, but let his wife un-
dertake to expound the political sit-
uation or tell a story and he has not

the slightest hesitation in shutting |

her up by telling her that she does
not know what she is talking about
and that he read that joke in Punch
before the deluge.

Likewise, as a boarder, he might
even be roused to express some grat-

itude and appreciation for the tire-

less devotion to his interest, the un-
ceasing study of his pleasure and
comfort, the love that never fails

 

fact that the landlady does not foal |
free to lecture the star boarder. That |
way lies peace. She may perceive |
his faults, but she does not consider |

it her duty to call his attention to}
them. She notices his mistakes, but |
refrains from saying, “I told you |
so.” She has heard his old stories
time and again, but it is her busi- |
ness to laugh at them—and she does |
it. She defers to his tastes, she stud- |
ies his whims, and so the star board- |
er stays on and the establishment |
prospers.

The moral of all of which seems |

|to be the rather cynical one, that, in|

|order to get along harmoniously and |

| peaceably

that now, as a husband, he takes for |

think
when _ he is
sick. He feels that he is at perfect
liberty to reward his wife’s sleepless
care, with
grumbles and growls and ill temper.
but he would never dare to treat in
that way an angelic landlady who
He would feel that

granted and does not
mentionine. So, too,

nights, her worry and

was nursing him.

worth |

he never could repay such self-sacri- |

ficing goodness, and besides he would
be afraid that if he didn’t behave
himself she would turn him over to
a hired nurse, and go off and leave
him.

Nor would all the advantages be
on the side of the woman. Many a

man would have everything to gain}

in being promoted from the rank of
the husband to that of the star board-
er. It can not be denied that if there

talking now not of the happily mar-
ried, but of the disgruntled of both

sexes, to whom

with one’s family, it is
only necessary to treat them with
the same courtesy, the same consid-
eration and deference that we show |}
to strangers. Dorothy Dix.
pe ce
Why Goods Should Be
Wrapped.

Here is a little pointer worth re-

Properly

membering by every retail clerk who
has not already learned it. A short
time ago I was waiting on a custom-
er who was in a hurry. Accordmg
to custom I called his attention to)
the article which we were pushing. |
We always try to have something
new for the people, and in this in-|
stance it was fine-cut tobacco, pound
packages for 25 cents. The customer |
cut in before the story was half told,
bought the package, and left without |
giving me an opportunity of doing |

| the goods up.
are cantankerous husbands—and I am |

The proprietor, who is also an
adept in the persuasive art of selling

| goods, was a witness of the sale.

matrimony has

brought more kicks than ha’pence— | i .
7 a eer | goods until he said he would take |
there are also neglectful wives. There |

are women, good women, who throw |

away their bait as soon as they catch

a husband and never try to charm}
| have looked better.

him again. There are wives who

exist for society;
their husband to death; wives whose

philanthropy begins everywhere but

wives who club|
| looks,”

|

|

at home: wives who, after the first |

baby comes, are nothing but moth- |

ers and spend their evenings holding
a child’s hand even: at the risk of
having some other woman hold their
husband’s.

To such and tiere are
plenty of them—the husband merely
exists as a kind of animated cash
register. He is of no consequence
None is so poor as

women

 

in the house.
to do him reverence, and he is right
to strike for the position of star
boarder—the gentleman who pays the
rent and who is entitled, on that ac-
count, if on no other, to the best of
everything. “Ah, Colonel,” says the
lady in one of DuMaurier’s cleverest
cartoons, “after all, the liver wing
is the choicest bit of the fowl, isn’t
it?” “I don’t know,” replies the poor
colonel, “I have never tasted it. In
my youth they gave it to the old
people and now the children get it
all.’ The liver wing and other per-
quisites, like the best of his wife’s so-
ciety, her prettiest manners and pret-
tiest looks, the colonel might claim
as no more than the star boarder
has a right to expect.

A small matter, but still worth
mentioning in this connection, is the

| may go into another store before go-

 

|he would not be able to draw com-

“You should have hung on to the|

them,” he said, “and then wrapped |
them up for him, hurry or no hurry.”

I admitted that it would certainly |

"it is mot so mitch a matter of |
he continued, “although a_|
proper pride in the appearance of
our bundles would be sufficient, but
there is a deeper motive. That man

ing home. What then? What would |
I do if he came here from some other |
store? I would see what he had, and |
then proceed to find out what he
paid, where he bought it, etc. If I
could show him something a little |
better for the money, I would do
so, and if not, I would look around
to see where I could get a stock of
goods that my competitor was scor-
ing on. That’s what I would do, and
that is what I expect my competitor
to do. If he could not see the goods

parisons. To top it all off, he will
kindly offer to wrap a paper around |
the package, and whether the man |
permits this or not, he will be fav-
orably impressed with the other’s
thoughtfulness and courtesy, and}
probably draw comparisons between
the two stores. Yes, sir, always wrap
a paper around the goods, even if|
your customer is trying to catch a}
trai.”

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This seems such good logic that I
fell to wondering how many clerks
ever look at it in this way.—Retail
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_ MICHIGAN

Girl Behind Counter Tells Her Trou-| other particularly exasperating cus-

bles.
One has to get behind the counter |
to realize the number of ways in|

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which a shopper can make life a|
burden to the saleswoman. The wom-
an shopper, at least the rich one, is |
also an adept in the art of making |
her feel like 30 cents.

A favorite complaint of the shop- |
per is that the saleswomen stand be- |
hind the counter and talk of their |
own affairs while ignoring her pres- |
ence. There are times, however, in|
which it seems to be her chief aim |
to have her presence ignored. When
goods are displayed on tables and
she wishes to saunter about and
admire only, this is a touchy subject
with her. You scan her critically to |
see if she is one of the class who
wants instant attention, and for fear
of being accused of neglect you go
up to her at once. “Do you want
to be waited upon, madam?” No an-
swer. You retreat. “If I had want-
ed to be waited upon I would have)
asked you,” she snaps.

Now, there is a type who will an-
swer you that they are “just looking”
when you put this question. The
“Sust lookings” are a_ cheerful set
usually, although their numbers are
so great that they are sometimes the
despair of the salespeople. But the
woman who resents being approach-
ed and ignores your advances com-
pletely is enough to take the starch
out of anybody.

The worst of these rebuffs is that
you are not in condition for the next
customer. If you are not superht- |
man you are liable to meet her with
at least a ruffled expression, which
may call down upon you the reputa-
tion of being disagreeable. That is
one of the hardest things about it,
that, no matter how great the rebuff,
you have to recuperate quickly
and go at it again with as cheerful
an expression as possible.

One of the peculiarities of

|nmever seem to understand

| telephone conversation

tomer is the young woman who has
a man trailing after her. She hasa
way of showing off her expertness in
shopping which generally makes us

take down everything but the shelves |
and then she goes out without buy- |

ing, usually.
the woman who shows the goods is

In this kind of a deal |
' the

ignored by all parties except when |
her attention may wander for a min-|
ute, and then it is apt to be recalled |

with an air which is evidently in-
tended for the admiration of the
shopper’s companion.

that people
in a de-
partment store, and that is that it is

There is one thing

| possible for you to be other than

at their command as long as your)

hat is off. Clerks are allowed a little
time to go to other departments for

shopping of their own, and it is im-|
possible to stop anywhere a minute |
without being asked as to the cost}
of something. Of course, this is per- |

fectly natural, but if you say that
you are in another department and

|do not know people always seem to

|she is through.

take it as a grievance, if not worse. |
| however, never stops to see who is

If you are not at their service they
think something is wrong instantly.

The telephone is another thing
which arouses antagonism. They are

| busy or who is not.

TRADESMAN

“What business has this girl talk-
ing through the telephone, anyhow,
he says, “with customers waiting
here all along the aisle?” |

Of course the girl clerk is liable |
at any time to experience the man |
customer who expresses his admira- |
“IT know I am getting these in|
wrong size,” said a man_ the)
other day who was buying stockings
for his children. “But you see I ad-
mire you so much that I'll be glad
of an excuse to come. back and
change them.”

The man who is “fresh,” however, |
is comparatively rare now in the|
better class of stores, and the man
‘Jollier,’ who goes home and tells
what he has said to the clerk quite

tion.

as often imagines more than _ he
really said. He may be annoying
through a false sense of gallantry,

but he is far less apt to vent his ill
temper on the clerk than the woman |
shopper. And another thing about
which he is more considerate is in
interrupting her. He _ usually sees
when a clerk is busy and waits until

The woman who is in a_ hurry,

In fact, # she

| wants to ask the way toa department
she goes to the nearest clerk she

placed near the ends of the counters, |
;may happen to be doing or saying, |

where they are conspicuous. Of

course, the only way in which we |

are permitted to use them is to call

|idle just a step farther on.

up the stock room and give our or- |

ders for whatever we are out of.

Perhaps it is some particular order |

we are trying to fill at the time and
the customer is waiting. But
has caught
the eye of the customer who has
not been able to find somebody else
to wait on him—this is one of the
cases where it is just as apt to be
a man as a woman.

the |

can see and interrupts anything she |

even though there are a half dozen|
It never
occurs to her that this is anything
to apologize for, and it is just the
same when she wants somebody to
wait on her.

Perhaps she is somebody you have
served before. She will rush up to
you breathlessly right in the middle

|of a sale you are trying to make to

somebody else. “Oh, Miss So-and-
So,” she says, “can’t you wait on
me? You know exactly what I want.

2 |

/one is heard from.
|I won’t take this to-day,” she says

 

You’ve sold them to me before.” The
customer I have already now as-
sumes an icy expression and I say
hastily, “If you will wait a minute,

miadam, Til be thronen.” “No, |

|can’t possibly wait,” is the answer.

“T’ve got to catch a train. Couldn’t
you just wait on me first?” At this
point in the conversation the first
“T have decided

| stiffly, and departs.

By this time J am near nervous
prostration, but with what haste I
can muster I get things out for No.
2. Ten to one she finds that what

'we have now is not quite the same

as she got before, and she has not
time to decide after all. “She is so
afraid she will miss her train,’ and
“She will wait until she comes again.”
Of course the thing that probably
tries our patience more than any-
thing else is the time people take to
decide. In my department I have to
average $40 worth in a day. I count,
of course, on making half of this
m the mornmg. ff | have not
reached it yet and somebody takes
the whole of the last hour before
lunch time in deciding something
and then goes out without buying,
why, of course, I’m handicapped for
the afternoon. In the meantime it
is not any comfort to know that the
other clerks have been writing
checks at the same time which you
apparently at least have wasted.
Another customer in the same
class is one who sends things out
and then has them called for later.
This is even worse than the other
kind, for you think you have made
the sale, but when the article is re-
turned it is taken off your month’s
sales and you may be low in your
average without even knowing it
yourself. Saleswoman.

woman shopper is that she pce The Trade can Trust any promise made

ly refuses to believe that you have
not something that she

say. “I saw it here yesterday. I[
guess you will find it if you just take
the trouble to look.”
with a determination to get it or die,
as much as to say that you don’t |
want to sell it to her if you can pos-
sibly help it.

think if you did not that you were
not taking any interest in them. But
the other day I expressed my opin-
ion about something being pretty to |
a woman who seemed to be in doubt. |
She turned to her companion with |
such a sweet air that I thought she |
was going to say something charm- |
ing. “Do you know there is nothing |
in the world that I object to so|
much as having clerks offer me ad- |
vice? If they will just wait on me |
that is all I require.”

We often get such a knock. An-

 

“Why, I know *you have,” che wit #10 the name of SAPOLIO; and, therefore,
this ste sos There need be no hesitation about stocking

Another time in which a shopper
delights in calling a  saleswoman
down is when she has somebody with
her. She will “talk at” you in a way
that she would not talk to you. For
instance, some people want you to

express your opinion and make sug- :
gestions. about things, and would
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It is boldly advertised, and
will both sell and satisfy.

HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap—superior to any other in countless ways—delicate

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Costs the dealer the same as regular SAPOLIO, but should be sold

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23

 

THE DIVORCE EVIL.

How Most Effectually It May Be

Combated.
Written for the Tradesman.

In a Chicago paper some time ago
the idea was brought out that not
enough church-going women in our
land to-day is the cause of the nu-
merous divorce cases.

It would be far better if every one
attended services on the Sabbath, de-
voting the day to such work. But

simply attending church will not be}

sufficient to stop the domestic dis-
cord which ends in divorce.

It is true religion that must be
acquired. Christianity is the truest
philosophy of life.

pressive of the greatest
which can fill the soul of man: rest,
joy, peace, faith, love.

It is not a movement that has laid
hold of weak and worthless students
but one that is maintained by the
best people in every walk of life.
Christian people alone save . the
world from utter destruction.

But is it necessary to go into the

church to find it? No. Practical relig- |

ion is easily to be obtained by those
who desire it. The home
first place in which to seek it.

So many enter the bonds of matri-|

mony ignorant of its true meaning.
If you are gomg to matry, you
should understand what self-denial

means, and realize that you are not |

the only one to be pleased. Do
your best to make your husband pre-

fer your society above that of|
others.
Don’t drive your husband from

home by your frowns but encourage
him with deeds of love and kindness.

Overlook his faults and help him to |

overcome them.

Make him feel that his home is
a dear place where he may find rest,
comfort and sympathy. Be as neat
in the attire in which you entertain
him as you were when you were un-
married lovers. Be as glad to wel-
come him home from his work as
you would be to welcome some
other friend.

We see the young wife whose pa-
rents denied themselves the com-
forts of life, in order to adorn and
polish her, going to her husband with
the same view of life for the future
that she enjoyed in the past. Parents,
you are doing your daughter an in-
jury, as well as yourselves, for when
her husband fails to meet her re-
quirements domestic discord is cer-
tain to follow. Girls, if you would
but make a resolution to accept your
husband’s lot and sacrifice some of
the hitherto-enjoyed luxuries, in
order to help him to success, instead
of being a barrier in his way, your
lives would be the sweeter.

Do not consider matrimony a sec-
ondary affair in life. How often have
I heard mothers say to their daugh-
ters, “If he doesn’t do just so and
so come home.” What a mistake!
Girls should be taught that marriage
is a serious undertaking and before
entering into it should guard well
every step, should study carefully the
nature of people and choose one with
whom their own natures best can

It possesses the |
noblest words of our language, its |
literature overflows with terms ex- |
emotions |

is the|

harmonize.
| thing to cause you to regret the

| course you are following.

Then there is the young mother
| who mourns the death of a child to
| such an extent that everything is
| draped in sorrow, and the home con-
| stantly filled with a cold and gloomy
atmosphere, so that the husband is
led to believe that she buried all her
love with her child and has none
left for him. In consequence he
ceases to think home a pleasant place
|and seeks sunshine elsewhere.

A great many women desire tobe
an angel in society. Let me add, be
one at home and you can’t help but
be one outside.

Do not forget that being a good
wife is the noblest profession ‘one
can have. But why is it so few
|master this art? If such were the
case there would be less discord be-

hopes and anticipations for the fu-
ture.
| On the other hand, man has as
| much power to stop domestic discord
/as woman. Is it right for woman to
| practice harmony alone? No.
| Men, do not treat your wife as if
| she were an inferior being but con-
sider her your equal. Do not de-
| ceive her.

Allow her to know the true state
of your affairs.

Praise your wife for her good
| qualities, overlook her faults. Do not
| always be quoting to her what some

| other women do or say, how much
| better they understand different
ideas, for in this manner you lead
|her to believe that. you care more
|for the other women than you do
|for her. Show her that you desire
| her society and appreciate her kind-
ness.

| In so many instances are
lleft to entertain themselves, and
| denied the society of their husbands,
that they seek sympathy elsewhere.

wives

evil. There are husbands who desire
their wives to move in high social
positions who are not able to sup-
port them in such, and the wives,
being ignorant of their true situation,

|

And never allow any-|

tween husband and wife and brighter |

Here we find the root of the divorce |

go on living in this sphere until fi- |
nancial ruin stares them in the face.

What happens then? Separation.
There are many ways in which
to view the divorce question, it being
one of the most important issues of
the day. On every hand we see

examples of the sorrow it creates.

It is one of the greatest crimes in
our land, and has an immense
throng of followers.
and women would but

study the

philosophy of how to live, and prac- |
| explain matters after he gets sober.

tice it, this evil would be turned

| bring

If both men|

from our land.
Let this be our religion: Strive to

heaven in our homes and
there. let its angels abide.
Lucia Harrison.
a
The man who is always talking

about himself as a poor worm of the
dust is not likely to have a great deal

of power to lift the world.
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LOOKING BACKWARD.

Boy’s First Journey Into the Great
Wide World.

Primitive man dug holes in the

earth, being too dopey to build sky-

scrapers, and boys of every genera-

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|/and marking the spot.

| pop-eyed, while I trailed about the!

tion since that epoch have burrowed |
under the crust in order to succeed |

as smuggler chiefs and bandit kings.
Mudville harbored a bold and hardy
race of cave dwellers, whose reper-
toire had about petered out when the

Mudville Mining and Manufacturing |

Co. got busy on a flat
prairie near the village.

That concern sunk a mine. shaft
and took out fire clay and coal which
blended in the harmonious produc-
tion of brick, pottery and drain tile.
The black smoke could be seen for
miles, and it painted fresh ambitions
in budding minds. At the age of
12 I promoted two wildcat mining

deals, the first of which proved a|
'search of the mother lode.

boomerang. The second assayed one
mild mannered cow belonging to a
widow, and a series of short school

stretch of |

vacations on which I could draw at}

sight. Moreover, the stockholders

prosperity struck the town.

The amateur mining
broke out in our own back
There was nothing to it, I thought,
but a neat little coal business at
home, and perhaps a pottery onthe

: |from the family woodpile.
in my company declared themselves | ) Pp

yard. |

side. When the idea blossomed [|

spoke to my younger brother, Bill,
about it.

“What’s the use of digging where |

there ain’t no coal?” enquired the
practical Bill.

That is where the promoter gets
up against it always. The trouble
with Bill was he lacked imagination.
Why shouldn’t there be coal in our
back yard if we only thought so?
Bill was a peppery kid, full of force
long before Sunny Jim’s time, and
would make a valued assistant in the
mining venture.

“If I prove there is coal in the
lot will you help me dig?” I asked
Bill.

He said he would, and I soon con-
vinced that easy mark, being a nat-
ural born promoter myself. Reading
was any only vice at that date. In
order to get at the books I buncoed
the Library Association in the most
cruel and sordid manner. Twice each
week in winter I toted half a ton of
coal in buckets up three flights of
stairs from a cellar under the side-

walk. The librarian was an old man

with two cork legs, and on that ac- |
count he was ashamed to be seen |

carrying the coal himself.

In return for my trifling service
the librarian gave me a book privi-
lege ticket, good for six months and
worth $1.50. It makes me blush even
now to think how I swindled that
poor old man. My being thirsted for
choice miscellany, useful facts worth
knowing and light summer reading
in winter. A deep and soulful long-

ate and I soon picked up a lot about |

coal—in buckets.

|awful work filling up the
| pushing in the dirt with a hoe, and}
|when that job was completed a pe-|
| riod of depression fell upon the ama-

|second venture. One
| lived two Wilson boys, who, luckily,
|had no father to butt into their vast
|and worthy enterprises.

|salted the onion bed just west of the

raspberry patch by planting a flat
lump of coal six inches underground
Then, with
an apple twig in the form of a Y I
led Bill to his doom. He followed,

garden, holding the divining rod by
the double ends, with the stem of the
Y pointed straight ahead. At the

proper place the magic stem bent |

 

downward and I whispered hoarsely |

to Bill:
yp

“Dig here for treasure!

I allowed him to dig and when Bill |
uncovered the lump of coal he _ be-|

came lighted up with the

most

gorgeous blaze of enthusiasm I ever |

beheld in a human being.

That was |

promoting some, all right. Bill want- |
|ed to dig on the night shift, too, but

I wouldn’t let him.

In a few days |

we sunk a shaft five or six feet deep |

port the roof of the

jand ran a drift off to one side in|
To sup-|
tunnel we}

knocked the rain water barrel to|

pieces, sawed the staves in half, and
braced them up with timbers taken

The tunnel had drifted in all of
ten feet when our male parent and
provider came home. His little boy
miners led him forth and _ pointed
with pride to the hole. He looked
about at the yellow clay smeared
over half the fertile garden spot on
which he had lavished money and
manure. We expected loud outbursts
of praise. Instead father
quietly:

“Did you boys dig out all this

dirt?”

“Yes, sir,” we chortled, “it was my
idea and Bill, he—”

“Mery good, tather broke 1m.
‘And now let me see you put it
all back—-every grain—-or I[’ll burn

the pants off both of you.”

That was the bitterest jolt of my}

young life up to date. Biull all but
collapsed, for he believed in the coal
fiction and my superior divining-rod
wisdom. We buried the dirt in the

grave of blasted hopes and directed |
the obsequies all alone, for no other |

boys had been let into the digging
and we couldn’t expect help. It was

teur mining industry at Mudville.

Later on in the season, being a|
launched the |

resolute promoter, I

square away

The Wil-

'son boys readily believed the coal

vein I found at home extended to|
their place, and a new company was |
formed to mine the stable lot of!

the Widow Wilson without securing

|from her a concession to the mineral
ing for knowledge made me desper- |

1

|mammoth scale, rating a

rights.
The new company proceeded ona
president,

Well. I had read of the divining | board of directors and a row of num-
rod and with that bit of witchery I | bered pegs in the barn on which to

worked Bill to the limit.

First I| hang our mining clothes.

A com-

asked |

tunnel, |

This was |
in on the dividend and an era of | the only time eo tackled the
| bucksaw in the role of little volun-

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mittee appointed to steal a batch
of miners’ lamps from the pottery
made good with a dozen, one for
each stockholder. Although all the
digging was done before and after
school in the broad glare of an ef-
fulgent Illinois sun, we wore the
lighted lamps on our brows just the
same. Nothing was too good for the
Dryden-Wilson Mining Co., Limited.

In a short time we sunk a square
shaft sixteen feet deep, using a wind-
lass and bucket to hoist out the dirt
and coal—when we struck it. The
tough clay sides of the shaft needed
no boxing, else the world might have
lost a bunch of bright intellects in a
premature mine horror.
of accident to the hoisting gear the
shaft boss rigged an emergency lad-
der, built of two sixteen foot fence
boards—borrowed from the widow.
These boards were set. upright
against one wall of the shaft and fit-
ted with rungs nailed on.

At this point in the development

 

In the event |

of the mine, the lamp’ committee be- |

ing unable to steal any powder, the
stockholders
enough to

were

blast out a

assessed for |
tunnel. By|

unanimous vote blasting was deemed |

more romantic than digging, and the
price of one pound of fine rifle pow-
der fairly flowed into the treasury.
A broomstick drill was used to
bore a pointing downward at
an angle of 45 degrees in the south

hole

|er was doing a Paul Revere ride on

wall of the shaft, two feet above the |

bottom. We tamped dirt on top of |
the powder and left a string of fire-
cracker fuses hanging out for the}
match. Then arose a_ question of|

nerve to touch off the blast. Marsh
Sloats, a husky lobster, six feet tall
at the schoolboy age, said he would
do it ma jiffy.
in and hauled up the bucket, his idea

So we lowered him

| her horns.
lent it was apparent that dead
| have no value, while live boys

being to escape via the safety ladder, |

after firing the fuse.

While the daredevil Marsh was be- |
low the stock company withdrew to}

a vacant lot across the alley.
plied the match and climbed the lad-
the which were bits

der, rungs of

He ap- }

| of the pit.

of lath, securely spiked to the up-|

rights with tacks and second hand
shingle nails. Just as the head of
the intrepid Sloats piked out of the
hole the rung on which his fat feet
rested broke. The fall jerked loose
the slat in his grip, and down he
went, with an awful burring sound,
clutching at and kicking and ripping
away every rung from top to bot-
tom.

Silence more appalling than sound
followed the thud when Marsh hit
bottom: then came an anguished

shriek of terror and calls for help.
The shaft erupted the agony of
young Sloats entombed with the
blast, while we stood paralyzed

watching for his atoms. Marsh beg-
ged his father and mother and an

uncle who lived in Nebraska to save |

him. He cursed the company for
not lowering the bucket, but mortal
fear held us in a pallid group across
the alley. The fuse had burned in
beyond the reach of his fingers, and
it was up to the boss blast toucher

to take what was coming to him.
When it came a_ whirling spiral

cloud of white smoke, punctured by

 

one hideous yell, shot up from the |
shaft. At the summit of the Mead |
twenty feet in air, rode Marsh’s limp |
straw hat. That was all. Nothing |
more—not even a sound—boiled out |
of the shaft, so the more courageous |
directors sneaked to the edge and |
looked in.
Sloats sat with his back braced
against the wall and was mining dirt |
out of his eyes, mouth, and
ears, using his fingers for picks. The
language that flowed from him dis-
pelled the sulphur fumes and deadly
afterdamp. As the frenzied blaster
could see well, the company took a|
desperate chance, hoisted him up—
and scattered like a flock of quail.

nose

He was able and willing to lick
the whole bunch we knew it.|
The tough clay confined the loosely |
tamped powder and the bulk of the|
discharge, like that from a gun, had |
passed above him, so that Sloats was |

and

not damaged, except in his pride.

- Our fest and last blast failed to

uncover any coal, yet the powder
was not wholly wasted.
Next morning, before daylight, |

Roger Wilson, the mine boss, routed |
me out. His mother’s only cow had |
fallen into the shaft overnight and |
broken most of her legs, her neck,
and her spine in three places, so/|
Roger said, in tragic whispers. Any- |

 

how, the cow was a corpse and Rog-

foot, passing a hurry call among the |
directors for an urgent meeting at
the mine.
In the pale gray light of dawn a;
terror-stricken kids stood

about the hole and peered in at the

crowd of

cow, who seemed to be standing on|
To the dullest mind pres- |
COWS |
must |
look to their future. Therefore, since
the Wilson cow was dead and buried
—all but the covering up—there was
no sense getting her out and creat- |
ing needless sorrow scenes among
the women and children at the mouth |}
So we filled in’ the shaft
without pausing for breath, and took
the oath of secrecy on a tin dagger |

above the unmarked grave of that}
careless but worthy bovine.
Of course the widow missed the}

cow, and a lot of diligent, self-sac- |
rificing boys were willing to
up their studies and help the widow’s
sons seek that which was lost. The
board of directors, to a _ boy, re-
sponded nobly, and for weeks parents
wrote excuses to teachers on behalf
of the cow. Singly and in groups
the reformed coal diggers spent
whole days in the bosky dells and|
sylvan glades adjacent to Mudville, |
carrying popguns, lunch and angle}
worms in tireless search—but so far}
as I know the cow was never found.

At the same time the mishap at
the mine thwarted my career as a|
mining promoter, and I’m glad of |
it. The love of fishing acquired and |
fostered during the futile probing of |
the Mudville Cow Mystery is now}
the one solace of my declining years. |
I had rather fish and lie than be}
rich. One day, perhaps, in future
ages, excavators will come upon the
skull and bones of a prehistoric

give

| and

| Such
| world.

Mudville cow buried sixteen feet un-|

derground.
preserved it may aid the archaeolo-
gist. Charles Dryden.
2 -e-2
Queen Bees Worth Money.

Just as there are valuable strains

iin horses, cattle and other stock, so
| there

are varieties of queen bees
hundred
gold. The
the ltahan,

farmers de-

worth
their weight in
most valuable-

which
times

are many
Straim is
bee
without

many Italian

mand and receive question

| prices ranging from $50 to $200 for a

kind.
the
The owner of a bee farm near

single queen bee of a certain

bees are sent all over

| Ottawa, Canada, goes to Europe an-

nually and brings back with him bees

of an value of thousands

aggregate
of pounds. He is enabled through
the agency of an Italian firm to ef-
fect an insurance upon the most val-
uable of his queens.

This bee farmer has many strange

experiences in connection with the

| assistants he is obliged to engage. Of

course all beekeepers must

Should this narrative be |

submit |

to a certain amount of stinging. But |

in some cases the poison in the sting |

acts directly upon the assistants and
makes them alarmingly ill.
are immune, although stung hundreds
of times.
plied to by persons

Bee farmers are often
suffering from
rheumatism, who wish to place them-
the

Strange as it

selves in way of being

And,

stung.

may seem, the

| virus of the bee sting does often act
as a cure to persons suffering from

serious attacks of rheumatism.

Others |

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BUSINESS METHODS.

How They May Be Applied to Ad-
vertising.

A great many advertisers seem to
think that the only thing necessary
in carrying out an advertising cam-
paign is to prepare an advertisement
and insert it in the proper mediums,
and then wait for results.

A great deal has been written re-
garding the necessity of certain qual-
ities which an advertisement should
contain. While it is conceded that
an advertisement should be attrac-
tive, interesting and convincing, the
typography neat and clean, andthe
placing in proper mediums impor-
tant, yet there are several other
things upon which the success of an
advertisement depends. This is es-
pecially applicable to the mail order
branch of advertising.

Among the more important requi-
sites may be named honesty, prompt-
ness, reliable goods, a guarantee of
quality, refunding money where a
customer is not satisfied, attention
to details, and buying goods for cash.

A careful study of these different
essentials, and not only a study but
a strict adherence to them, will ena-
ble the advertiser to attain such a
degree of success as can be accom-
plished in no other way. This is an
age of business, and in order to
achieve the greatest success, it must
be conducted on sound business prin-
ciples. The principles underlying
the successful enterprises to-day are
the same as have always been used,
but there is no doubt that their ap-
plication is more effective and better
understood than ever before.

Taking up the different parts’ in
order, we will endeavor to make
them a little more specific.

Honesty: One of the most im-
portant features in a business of any
kind, and especially so of the adver-
tising business. In advertising an
article be honest in your description
of it, let your illustrations represent
your goods exactly as they are. Let
your advertising be so constructed
that it will give your prospective
customer a good, clear idea of the
goods you are offering for sale. If
your propositions are exaggerated or
overdrawn, the result will be a dis-
satisfied customer. You should ever
bear in mind that “a satisfied cus-
tomer is the best advertisement,”
and the best way to satisfy them is
to give them all or even more for
their money than they expect.

Promptness: Another important
point that tends to the success or
failure of a mercantile business sell-
ing goods by mail is the promptness
with which orders are filled. A great
many mail order houses make it a
point to fill all orders the same day
they are received. Nothing pleases
an out-of-town customer better than
to receive the goods he orders
promptly, and if you are negligent in
this respect you need not be disap-
pointed if he places his future orders
with some one who will fill them
promptly. If, for any reason, you
are unable to fill an order at once,
you should write your customer a
jetter to that effect, giving reason
for not shipping at once and stating

| petent correspondents,

 

 

when the goods will be shipped. This
will leave your customer in a better
frame of mind and you will be more
likely to secure his future orders.

Reliable goods: It does not pay
to handle cheap, shoddy goods, al-
though the price may be even low
for the quality. Shoddy goods nev-
er give satisfaction, and you should
always endeavor to have entire sat-
isfaction go with all the goods you
send out if you expect to retain the
customers’ trade.

Guarantee of quality: It is good
business policy to guarantee the
quality of every article you sell or
offer for sale. And see to it when
you place a guarantee on your goods
that it is a guarantee in every sense
of the word. If you fail in the least
respect of making your guarantee
good you may surely count on that
customer losing confidence in you.

Refunding money: “Satisfaction
or the trade doesn’t go,” is a motto
that might well be adopted by every
business man in the country. When-
ever a customer is dissatisfied, in
any respect, with a purchase he has
made, refund his money cheerfully
and without quibbling. It is a strong
factor in the establishment of the
utmost confidence in you and your
goods.

Attention to details: There area
great many little things, insignificant
within themselves, but upon which
a great deal often depends. These
details as to the customer’s wants
should be left in the charge of com-
who should
endeavor to fulfill eevry requirement
demanded by the customer.

Buying for cash: This is an argu-
ment that always has and always
will appeal to the independent, thrifty
class of people. To them it means
bargains, lower prices for the same
goods, or a better quality of goods
for the same price. Goods that are
bought for cash can be bought cheap-
er and consequently sold cheaper
than those which are bought on cred-
it. The cash system makes a strong
feature in advertising and is one
which every person who does a cash
business can use to great advantage
in many different ways.—Advertising
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Value of System in Business.

D. Lorne McGibbon, general man-
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“The greatest successes in business
life have been due to concentration
of purpose, energy and action. These
points are attained by system. Dur-
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organization—two of the _ principal
factors in modern industrial life—
have had my just thoughts. I not
only appreciate the value of business
method myself, but I impress my
staff with the same idea. System in
modern industrial life should reflect
the personal element of the leader. It
should work on comprehensive lines,
sufficiently elastic for aggression or
defense. And system should be eco-
nomical.”

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CAN MAN CREATE LIFE?

 

The Old Problem of Creating Living |

Organisms.

The recent work of certain British
chemists has again called attention

to the old “problem” of creating liv- |
ing organisms by chemical synthesis. |

The gentlemen in question seem to
have succeeded in producing com-
binations which appear to be slimy,
apparently automatic lumps of wat-
ery matter, which are said to resem-
ble living cells. All of which, if it
proves no more, proves that some
men of science, at least, have not

yet given up the hope that “life” can,

be produced by artificial means with-
out the agency of previously existing
living parents.

It should be obvious that in order
to produce living matter in this way

the would-be creator must know
what life itself really is. Experi-
ments conducted in a_ haphazard

method seldom yield profitable fruits.
In order to produce life the experi-
menter must have a fairly definite
knowledge of the nature of the
thing he is desirous of manufactur-
ime. Does the present state of
knowledge warrant a large amount
of faith or hope in the success of
such experiments? To manufacture
life what must the manufacturer do?

Many years ago the German phy-
siologist, Pflueger, advanced a theory

that the process of life could be ex- |
plained by the constant building up}

and the constant breaking down of
certain highly complex and highly

stituent of which
bon atom, with its four bonds
affinity; and Loew further suggested
that the whole process might be
considered as being dependent upon
the peculiar conduct of the aldehyde
radical.

This theory is enticing and seems,
at first glance, to be a highly rational

and satisfactory explanation of the |
chemical reactions going on in the|
living body. Thus far Pflueger, no}

doubt, is perfectly right. If life were
nothing more than chemical reaction,
if it were no more than the building

up and breaking down of mere chem- |

then the so-called
of life would be safe

ical composition,
“chemical basis”

and sound. But the truth is that life |

is a different thing. It is a good deal
more than mere chemical composi-
tion and decomposition. It is chem-
ical composition and decomposition
plus the mechanical structure in
body of which these reactions take
place. Not only must the _ highly
complex and highly unstable mole-
cule be built up and broken down, but
it must be built up and broken down

by a certain peculiar method, and by |
If built up by!
any other method the reactions do}

that method alone.

not constitute life.

What is this complementary meth- |

od which marks off life from non-
life? In a word, it is the method

which is furnished by the mechani- |

cal structure of the cell. In order

that you have life you must have not |
only the complex molecule, but, the}

complex molecule so clustered that it
forms an organized machine, the re-
actions of which are physical as well

| vigorously,
unstable molecules, the principal con- |
would be the car-,
of |
| stack; perhaps even

| hazard way.

|own test tube produced,

the |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

27

 

|
| i" i “
| as chemical. This machine—the livy-

one kind of stimulus will
janother kind of reaction—in which

|
| down certain chemical compounds,

ing cell—is a complex one in which |
produce |
| Still more than this,

chemical responses are given to phy-|

are given to chemical stimuli; and in
which the complexity of these con-
versions of one order of stimuli into
another order of response is a long
way
present time.

from being understood at the!

sicai stimuli and physical responses |

ithe reproduction of

3ut even if we suppose that this |
complexity were understood in all its |

| parts—-that this convertibility
understood as well, for example, as
similar convertibility in simpler proc-
esses is understood, say
a gun by percussion or
of an automobile by an
tery—yet the difficulty
life would be as great as ever.

the running

 

In

Were}

the firing of |

electric bat- |
of creating |

order to create life the creator would |
| such as a sponge, let us say—not even

first be called upon to produce the

molecule of Pflueger, and next to or- |

ganize that molecule into a
identical with that of the living cell,
or to accomplish both of these things
simultaneously. Lookme at that
comparatively simple organism, pro-
tomyxa, as an example,

form | :
ite something

it is easy to]

fancy the bewilderment of that ex-|

perimenter who, with his
molecule ready,
with the problem of arranging it in
clusters on a plan similar to that of
protomyxa!

The throwing of a mass of such
molecules into a test tube

shaking up of them,

philosophical proceeding, to say
least. It would probably be more
akin to looking for a needle in a hay-
more
still; and it is doubtful if any im-
portant discovery were ever made by
that method.

It nature

may be contended that

| produced life in much the same hap-

That, in some haphaz-
ard fashion, the Pflueger
was naturally got together, and that

complex |
would be confronted | ;
| known to win.

course,

the exact nature of which, me
cases, noOE yet even cca at.
it will be neces-
Sary to create a machine which wi
do all this in such an extraordinary |
manner that the content of the ma-|
chine will grow as to the cube while
the surface grows as to the square}
of the diameter of the machine itself; |
for it is upon this peculiar law that |
the cell de- |
pends. This two-fold necessity isa)
problem which, in the present state |
of physiology, should stagger the |
boldest and most wildly enthusiastic
amateur.

All this discussion assumes, o
that the “life” discussed i
the simplest conceivable kind of a}
cell. As to the possibility of creat-|
ing multicellular organisms of any
considerable degree of differentiation, |

is

hr

wn

mentioning still more complex organ- |
isms—we may as well turn at once
really practical and
useful, and quite easy by compari- |
such as the conversion of old
paving blocks into virgin gold.
Meanwhile it is to be hoped that
the vigorous shaking of test tubes
will go gladly on; for, upon occa-
sions, one chance in infinity has been
M. A. Lane

son,

al
Some men adapt themselves to cir- |

| cumstances, while some others adapt |
| circumstances to suit themselves.

and the}
no matter how |
would not be a highly |
the |

fatuous |

molecule |

a haphazard shaking up in nature’s |

in
way or other, the mechanical struc-
ture which enabled the organized
product to build itself up and break
itself down, and reproduce itself,
quantity for quantity and quality for
quality, by the method which is now
called ‘dite’
agree with and no

will this view;

some |

No doubt most people |

doubt most people will be vastly im- |

pressed when they are told that some
one has succeeded in “creating life.”
Prot, Exley
icovered “the beginnings of life”
deep sea mud, and a name—bathy-
| bius huxleyi—was given the substance
by admiring friends in Germany. But
bathybius huxleyi turned out to be
plain mud; all of which goes
show the great need of caution in
| pronouncing upon the probability of
truth in newly made claims and an-
nouncements, no matter from what
source they come.

chemical
called life it will be necessary to cre-

was said to have dis- |
in |

to |

*In order to produce the two-fold |
and physical phenomenon |

ate a machine which, even in its sim- |

| plest conceivable form, will have the |
| property of spontaneously, or auto- |

matically, building up and breaking

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|

ROCKEFELLER’S RIGHT HAND. |

Most Active Agent in the Money
Mills of the World.

Has John D. Rockefeller abdicat- |
ed? Has succeeded |
to the throne before which men have |
been salaaming and burning oil and |
incense for a generation or more? |
Has indeed the world been  hood-|
winked into paying tribute to an
overlord in whose name and

some one else

shadow |
another has for years been pulling |
the wires and playing the buttons as |
the power behind the Standard Oil |
throne?

One who is perhaps as well quali-
fied as any man living to prove his
affirmative answers to these startling |
questions declares that John D.|
Rockefeller has stepped down and |
doffed his crown—that Standard O11 |

has a new king whose name-is Hen-
ry H. Rogers. For years, according
to this excellent authority, |
Henry H. Rogers has been the real |
master of the most perfect and stu- |
pendous monopoly in history.

He is to-day the most powerful |
active agent in the money mills of!
the world and yet so oiled and silent |
are his movements—as are those of
the mills themselves—that few are
aware that H. H. Rogers generates |
the directing energy of the huge ma-
chine of which he is the head and
eyes—if not the soul.

If nothing else is accomplished by
the Thomas W. Lawson-Rogers- |
Rockefeller conflict now being waged |
on the plains of print, this startling
revelation will have been made.

Hence men_= are What |
manner of individual is this supposed
employe—albeit himself many times |
millionaire—who is bearing the
torch and wielding the scepter of a)
Rockefeller? How has he avoided |
the public gaze so long, and how |
has the secret of his enormous power |

same

asking:

 

suc- |

and prestige been guarded so
cessfully?
As an instance of the secrecy |

which hedges about this real master
of Standard Oil, it was not until
Vice-President Rogers returned from |
abroad a few days ago, in such poor
health as to be unable to attend the
dedication of the $1,000,000 memorial
church which he presented to his na-
tive town of Fairhaven, Mass., that
the public was even made aware that
he was ill. His hurried hegira for
Europe created no small furore in
financial circles, yet it remained to
be simultaneously revealed that H.
H. Rogers was not only an invalid,
but was one of the most remarkable
and open handed philanthropists of
the day.

Other philanthropists have
their good deeds in many respects.
H. H. Rogers has chosen, so far as
known, to gather his surplus millions
in one pile and donate it in resur-
recting Fairhaven—the place of his|
birth annd early struggles. Owing |
to his present illness the dedication
of his million dollar magnus opus—
a memorial church to his mother— |
has been temporarily postponed, but
when the magnificent edifice is turn- |
ed over to the town authorities it |
will be only the last of a series of |
gifts approximating. nearly $3,000,000

sown

| another

emanating from the same bottomless
purse.

Three millions seem and are more
in New England than anywhere else
in the owing to a native
frugality of soil and mind, so that
as yet New England has not fully
awakened to the spaciousness of the
Rogers bounty.

country,

3ut, having given
a whole town, the giver has spent
another million on his magnificent
mansion overlooking Buzzard’s Bay,
from whose verandas the one time
Fairhaven newsboy and_ grocery
clerk can look abroad and compare

| the past with the present.

He can gaze upon the fine Rogers
High School, the first of his gifts,
which cost $75,000 and which is one
of the most complete institutions of
the country. Turning in
direction he can the
$250,000 Millicent libtary—a memor-
ial to a daughter who died while still
a school girl—a model library even

its sort in

see

 

 

in book paved New England. Hav-
ing given the town a_ library the

practical millionaire gave the library
a $100,000 water works system.

By means of this system Fairhav-
en is better equipped in kind than is
New Bedford, its neighbor, or any
town of its size in New England. It
provides the library with an income
more than sufficient for its
Hardly had work begun on the wat-

needs.

er works system when the oil mag- |

decided that the town needed
better streets.

To think is, with him, to
he started in to lay out the town

anew and paved it after the best met-

nate

act, so

ropolitan pattern—an undertaking
which cost another $100,000 or so.
Besides these monuments, and

H. Rogers then
gave Fairhaven its $1,000,000
church, parish house, and parsonage
in memory of his mother.

So the town reflects one side of
this many sided man. Another side
has been revealed by Thomas W.
Lawson, who says that when Vice-
President Rogers enters his office,
when his will is thwarted or his
course obstructed in his onward race
for the man becomes the
marvelous machine. That his willis
law unto his associates is evidenced
by his square jaws, telling of bull-

crowning them, H.
new

millions,

dog fighting power, and his high,
full forehead, revealing tremendous
intellectual force.

His eyes, according to one who
has seen them in action, are red,
blue and black, brown, gray and

green, according to his passing mood.
His friends have seen them when
they were restfully blue as the skies
of August and September afternoons
His
enemies describe being as
somber as the thunder cloud when
the elements are angry or when they
were of that fiery red and that glint-

or as green as the ocean levels.
them as

ing yellow they were like unto
the light which one observes at
night when the doors of a great

roaring furnace are opened.

At 26 East Fifty-seventh street, in
New York, where the Rogers town
house is one of the least known man-
sions in the millionaire district, or
at his million dollar Massachusetts

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lin Boston

country home at Fairhaven, or at the
many exclusive clubs to which this
ostensible second fiddler but real
leader of the Standard Oil orchestra
revealed the one
At 26 Broadway, the home of the

belongs, is side.

 

 

so-called octopus from which radiate |

its countless miles of railroad and
to all parts of the continent and from
which its emissaries go to levy trib-
ute wherever the
heard, is revealed the other side.

voice of

Probably no
in the financial

Rogers. Beginning as a newsboy in

New

risen, risen, risen. But only now

3edford and Fairhaven he has |

| stated that he
pipe lines, tapping and burrowing in- |

but there is no more misdirection in
the management of trusts than there
is in the combined management of
the individual merchants and work-
ingmen of this country—no, not as
much.”

Continuing, Vice-President Rogers
was in his_ forty-
the oil business and

fourth year in

| would like to know what he had done

man 15 |
| contrary
man of equal stature |
arena has had a more }
tremarkable career than has H. H.|

in taking advantage of the people,
statements of certain critics to the
notwithstanding. An _ oil
well is drilled, he said, in Pennsyl-
vania or West Virginia at an
pense of $10,000, the oil brought to

cx

|New York and shipped to all parts

and then has he appeared upon the)

His

the scenes.

stage. place has been

behind

But when he has chosen |

to court the limelight and make a)

hit in a momentary role other actors, |

thrown aside

and run

cast with him, have

their dummy swords

their financial lives.

Yet thousands who have

hand in business competition pass

New York, he
sold cheaper than
spring water can be sold after being
the distance.

of the world. In
continued, oil is
transported same

Answering a question as to how
he got his start in business, the new-
ly discovered oil king said that he

| had worked as hard for what he had

for |

felt his |
| battles
him by on the streets without recog- |

nizing in the tall, broad shouldered, |

athletic figure, with eyes hidden un-

der shaggy brows and with preter- |

naturally long arms—a heritage from
his seafaring ancestors—the author
of their discomfiture.
goat of the unfamiliar is
his figure among the bulls and bears

of the money cages.

street—so

He is the blue |

The writer was present a few days |
ago at a public meeting in the Fair-|

haven High School when this para-
doxical man exhibited a lively inter-
est in a debate on the duty of the
teacher, the thinker, and the citizen
to his country.
occasion during the debate to attack

A young lawyer took |

as any one of whom he had ever
heard or read.

the memory of those early
with the that has
transformed the ideal husband, fath-
er, and grandfather of private life
into the alleged pitiless moneymak-
ing machine—the accredited driving
of the Standard Oil Company?

Gazing from the veranda of his Fair-

Is tt
world

rod

haven mansion, this no less strange

than successful man, who in_ his
sixty-fourth year can write his
check for $75,000,000 and get the

money at any bank big enough to
the the
union grocery store where he worked

honor paper, can still see
and accumulated enough money to
defray his expenses to the Pennsyl-

vania oil fields.

He had graduated at the age ot
16 at the Fairhaven High School
}and then peddled papers on_ the

the trust and created considerable
embarrassment among those’ who}
sat near the oil king. When _ the

young man had concluded there was |

and apprehension

when Rogers arose and said:

general surprise

“We are al! monopolists in a way |

if we desire to be, for every one of
us, if a valuable idea strikes us, can
have it patented and secure exclusive
control of it for a term of years. We
will, under such circumstances, make
all the out of that
idea.

“If any one can convince me that
there is more evil than good in a
trust, I will gladly forego my present

money we Can

opposite belief. Bub what is: 2
trust? Nine-tenths of the lawyers
and newspapers can not define one

--and they are the critics who find

the most fault with the so-called trust |

evil. The first trust was the savings

bank trust. Have they been improy-
ing or have they not?

"is there
bination of

ample

anything evil in a com-
good ideas backed by
capital? I worked
five years in a union grocery store,
and by buying our stock of a union
we were enabled to sell
our competitors.
Pennsylvania Railroad carry on the
immense amount of traffic it does
if it were not for a combination? Of
course, combined energy and ideas
may be misdirected energy and ideas,

below

for |

Could the}

 

streets of New Bedford as a stepping
stone to the
wagon which he drove for five years
at $3 a week and his board. To-day
a number of Fairhaven persons treas-
ure receipted bills for bags of flour

grocery counter and

and other staples which bear the

signature of Henry H. Rogers.
One of these receipts bears’ the

date of November, 1859, and it was

shortly after that date that young
Rogers burned his Fairhaven bridges
behind him and started on his Penn-
sylvania hazard of new _ fortunes.

This is how the Fairhaven grocer
boy drifted to the oil fields.

In those days the news of Fair-
haven village circulated around the
stove and cracker barrels in_ the
union grocery and it was there that

the future Standard Oil king first
heard of kerosene oil. Fairhaven res-
idents had become interested in 2
small way in the oil wells. One of
them was Bartholomew Taber, who
kept a paint shop and who was a
customer of Charles Pratt, the New
York of refiner. Pratt told Taber
one day when the latter was in New
York that he was looking for a
young man to enter his business and
would prefer a New England boy.
Young Rogers had at that time
gone to Pennsylvania and Taber rec-
ommended him to the New York re-
finer. Six weeks later young Rogers

 

 

 

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.

' THIS old cash-drawer was in use for fifty yearsin a, f

 
 
 

Through all change of systems from the time of its fi

establishment when the proprietor only had access to i
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 besifted. Both proprietor and
assistant were amused at first. The N.C.R. man, however, insisted and the sifting was done.

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

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

This is an interesting instance of the oldtime methods of storekeeping with its suspicions,
temptations, lack of confidence, and losses. 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?

 

 

 

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Se reeset nS ISO AS SE a MARES INSEE MRIS TS

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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entered the firm of Charles Pratt & |
Co., and embarked upon a career |
almost without a parallel in the ro-
mance of riches.

Recently there came to light in a/|
suit for $50,000,000, brought by the
widow of an inventor named Benja-
min Greenbough against the Stand-
ard Oil, a hidden and_ interesting |
chapter in the romantic rise of Rog- |
ers. In 1874 Rogers and Pratt were
humble men in the oil world. They
had for some time been experiment-
ing with a view to purifying crude
petroleum and particularly the manu- |
facture of kerosene.

Benjamin Greenbough, it is sworn
by his widow, went to them with his |
invention upon which is based the
present commercial utility of kero-
sene. They accepted it and agreed |
to pay the inventor a quarter of a|
cent a gallon royalty on all the oil!
manufactured. Then began the sun-|
ny era of oil. Greenbough received |
huge profits. When he died more!
than $500,000 in royalties had been |
paid him.

His widow knew nothing of the
contract her husband had with Rog- |
ers and Pratt, and she alleges that
she was never enlightened by them. |
She recently ran across the missing |
contract while sorting some papers
in the garret of her New England
home and at once began proceedings
to collect the enormous accumulated
royalties.

When Mark Twain, the great
American humorist, awoke one
morning nine years ago, following |
the failure of a publishing house in
which he was interested, he found
himself $150,000 in debt. That Hen- |
ry H. Rogers came to his assistance
and, violating a previously unbroken |
rule of his career, acted as his trus-
tee and benefactor in recouping the
Twain losses is one of his shining |
monuments. |

| Copper companies,

| National
| Union Bank, Staten Island Electric

ino blue food?

recorded of sugar trust stock and it

/is now a dozen points higher. He

has since been wondering what the

| oil magnate really meant.

Besides his Fairhaven benefactions,

| H. H. Rogers recently purchased the
|old Morris homestead at a cost of

$150,000 and gave it to the Messiah
Home for Children in the name of
his wife. But in his benefactions, as
in his home and office, he is an
enigma to all save the initiated.
Besides being the big man in
Standard Oil and the right hand of
John D. Rockefeller, he is President

| of the Amalgamated Copper Co., the

Huntington and Big Sandy Railway,
the National Transit Co., the New
York Transit Co., and the Ohio River
Railroad Co. He also is Vice-Presi-
dent of the Anaconda and Arcadian
Atlantic Coast
Electric Railway Co., Chesbrough
Manufacturing Co., East River Gas
Co., New Amsterdam Gas Co., Fed-
eral Steel Co., International Naviga-
tion Co., National Dry Docks Co.,
Storage Co. National

Co. and Rapid Transit Ferry Co., and

| trustee of the Atlantic Trust Co., and

is probably worth $75,000,000.
John Gordon.
—

Odd Facts About Color.

Did you ever notice that there is
We eat things green,
red, yellow and violet; flesh, fish or
plants in all the colors of the rain-
bow, except blue.

Many deadly poisons are blue in
color, such as bluestone or the dead-
ly nightshade flower. The _ color
stands in our slang for everything
miserable and depressing.

But this is only one of a thousand
queer facts about colors.

Heat a bar of iron and the parti-
cles of the metal are set in motion,
shaking violently one against an-

| other.

He has never been known to im- |}
part any market movements save in
this instance, when, by investing the
proceeds forwarded to him by Mark
Twain during his lecturing tour
around the world, he enabled the
American Cervantes not only to li-
quidate his debts but to store away
a comfortable fortune for his declin-
ing years.

As a contrast to his relations with |
the eminent man of humor, a young}

man close to the Rogers family hap- |
pened, in a friendly chat a few weeks
ago with the oil king, who is known
to be interested also in the sugar |
trust, to mention that he had several |
hundred shares of sugar trust stock |
which, as it stood, netted him about
$900 profit.

“IT am told,’ he ventured, after
stating that he had a profit, “that
it is going considerably higher. What
do you think, Mr. Rogers?”

The magnate chewed the cud of |
silence for a moment before answer- |
ing:

“Well, $900 is quite a sum of|
money for a young man like you.”
The young man took what he con- |
sidered to be the hint conveyed and |
hurried to dispose of his stock. All
that remains to be said is that he
sold out at the lowest price since |

| heated,

|} waves, smaller and

|untried fields of work,
| never fully expose their weakness

Presently the surrounding ether is |

set in motion in large, slow waves

| through the air, like the waves of the

sea, until they break upon our skin
and give us a sensation of heat. As
the iron gets hotter other waves are
set in motion in immense numbers,
traveling at more than lightning

| speed, and these break upon the eye,
| giving us the sensation of red light.

The red-hot iron, getting still more
throws out other sets of
still smaller and more rapid
more rapid—
vellow, green, blue, indigo, vio-

waves,

orange,

| let, all the colors of the rainbow. The

eye can not tell one from another;

ithe whole bundle of rays mixed up
| gives us an impression of white. That
|is the glow from white-hot iron, and

such is the light from the still great-
er brightness of the sun. Sunlight
is a bundle of rays of light—red,
orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo
and violet all mixéd together. The
mixture of all colors is white light.

| The absence of all color is utter dark-

ness.
———> e>___
Some men never develop their full
strength until they strike out for
and others

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Complimentary Speeches Necessary
to Hold Certain Customers.

Written for the Tradesman.

“Don’t I get tired standing on
my feet all day behind the counter?

“Of course I do,” said a young}
lady recognized as one of
clerks of the Furniture City. “Most
certainly I get tired—so tired that
it sometimes seems as if my feet
would drop right off. But then,
that’s part of the business merely,

and if one takes up clerking he must |
not expect that life is going to be|

a bed of roses.

“T don’t mind doing anything rea-
sonable for a customer—I will in-
convenience myself greatly any time
to be accommodating to them—try
to find for them just exactly what
they want. I know that if I suc-
ceed in pleasing them they will come
back again and again and again to

this particular store, and if they|

want something in my department
they are pretty certain to pass up
the other clerks in my section for
me. My aim is to get a personal
followine. That is good for me,
first, as far as my bread and butter
and jam are concerned, and, in the
second place, the store gets the ben- |
eft. If I go to another establish-
ment I can take with me the people
who like me, and if I stay where [|
am this goodwill is valuable to my
employers.

“I make a personal study of all
my regular customers. I learn their
likes and dislikes, their good traits
and their little foibles. In doing
so I know just how to handle them |
to bring the shekels to the cash-
ier’s desk. At the same time I seek
to guide their purchases so that they |
will not hate me as well as them-
selves for buying something ut-
terly inappropriate for their style or |
figure.

“You see,” she continued, “it would |
never do to let people make fools |
of themselves if by a little invisible |
tact I can prevent them. By a bit
of management I am often able to
sidetrack them, so to speak, when
they come in fully determined to}
make a ridiculous investment.

“One particular girl I have in
mind. Her figure is of the lanky
and angular variety, and she has
‘a face like a horse and buggy’— |
*tis everything objectionable as to
complexion, with enough wrinkles
to make a spider web. It’s the hard-
est thing in the world to induce this
girl to take what she ought, in order
to counteract the influence of her |
facial blemishes and not make her |
look old enough to be her own}
grandmother. She insists on wear- |
ing some of the most impossible |
shades and always selects a tie the |
lines or figures of which simply ac-
centuate the ugly crows’-feet and the
deep lines around her mouth. I nev-
er attempt to sell this young woman
a tie without first holding it up in
front of her. Only by so doing am
I able to know whether what she
wants to buy is going to be becom- |
ing to her difficult face.

“You may be very sure I don’t al-|
low her to see through my artifice, |
however. She must be induced to |

think that such and such a tie is ‘not | the bottom.

| times
this other tie.’

the good |

;customers to look at haberdashery

| has deprived the Mojave desert from

|sengers dread the ride across the|

| said, “Good morning,

'on that they looked at each other

| navigated the globe in safety, only to

 

 

becoming to her style, or I some-
say, ‘You look prettier in|

“By tickling their vanity a little—
very adroitly, the suggestion must
be insidious—you can accomplish a
great deal with people whom _ you'|
otherwise could not touch. The lit-
tle doses of flattery I administer are
absolutely harmless, are wonderfully
easy to take and generally the re-
sult is all I look for.

“You see, if I allowed everyone to
follow his bent, many would have
my hair to pull as well as their own.
When they came to get a tie home
and saw what an unhappy combina-
tion it made with their face, they
would be more than apt to go some-
where else for the next neckwear
they wanted and I might lose a
good customer for all time by their
leaving me but that once.

“On the other hand, I must not be
too insistent, but gently lead my

through my eyes.” Jessica Jodelle.
>.>
Leaving a Trail of Oil.
Crude oil from California’s wells

the Needles to Barstow of the dis-
comforts which for years made pas-

 

dreary waste. Even into Pullmans |
in other years the fine sand of the|
desert which was raised in clouds by |
the passage of the train percolated, |
although double windows were clos- |
ed. There was no escape from _ it. |
Ii a passenger retreated from the |
stifling air of the car to the rear|
platform he was blinded not only by|
the flying sand but also by showers |
of hot cinders from the locomotive. |
Driven back into the car, the pas-|

o . ae
sengers prayed for the quick transit |

of the desert.
3ut the blistering Mojave has lost|

its greatest terror. Only the heat}
remains, and this is uncomfortable |

only in the summer and may be}
avoided then by a night ride across
the plain. One of the Pacific com-|
panies has bathed its roadbed all the |
way across the desert with crude}

|oil. The California oil has an as-|
|phaltum base and it has soaked in

and bound the sand together in a
compact mass, so that not a particle
of dust can be raised, no matter how
swiftly a train is traveling. The
storms of the desert sweep the sand
on the right of way, but the smooth
oiled surface affords it no resting |
place and it is swept off.

—_—_——_. 2 >

Mistaken Identity.

Mike, while crossing a long bridge
one morning, met a man who hailed
him, “Good morning, Dennis.” Mike
Pat Pat
said, “My name is not Pat.” Mike
said, “My name is not Dennis.” Up-

again, and declared it was “nayther”

of them.
—_-___@—a————

Many a gallant sailor hath circum-

come home to get drowned in a
dimple.

—_—_~>--2

There might be less room at the

top if there were fewer cushions at

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

FULFILLED DREAMS.

Creatures of the Imagination Which
Proved True.

“The root of all superstition,”
says Bacon, “is that the affirmative or
active strikes us more than the priv-
ative or negative; and that, therefore,
a few times hitting or presence coun-
tervails ofttimes failing or absence.”
The number oi fulfilled are
to the numberless dreams which are
meaningless as April
clouds—as a handful of sand to the
sands of the seashore. On the other
liand, there is this to be said for the
superstition of those who believe in
the forewarning of dreams, that there
are cases where the affirmative or ac-

dreams

shadows of

tive outweighs naturally and incom-
mensurably the privative or negative.
“Two men distinctly saw you take
the spade,” said the magistrate to
the Irishman in the dock for the theft.
“Two men! Sure, yer honor, I can
call twenty men who didn’t see me
take it.”

3ut the few times hitting, or pres-
ence, naturally outweighed with the
magistrate the ofttimes failing, or ab-
sence. A single circumstantial dream
which is fulfilled in all its details rea-
sonably outweigh a million that mean
nothing. Take Mr. Rider Haggard’s
dream about the death of his dog,
or the dream the young woman told
toe four of her fellow passengers on
board the Norge when that ill-fated
steamer was passing Rockall in a fog
on its home trip from New York to
Copenhagen: “It was late one after-
noon, and we were in midatlantic. I
liad noticed that the young woman

 

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lad been looking sad for some days,
and at last I asked her why. At the
time I spoke to her the vessel was
supposed to be close on Rockall and
was expected to pass it that night. A
dense fog set in, and this seemed to
make the young woman more sad
than ever.

“After some hesitation she told me
that she had on three _ successive
nights a terrible dream, and it had op-
pressed her spirits greatly. She
dreamed that the Norge had run
ashore on Rockall and that many lives
had been lost. I tried to cheer her
up by pretending that we had by
that time passed Rockall. But it was
no use; she only shook her head and
insisted that some terrible disaster
was coming. I then spoke to the
captain about it, and asked him how
many corpses he thought would be
lying on Rockali that night. He said
he could not tell, and I then asked
him if Rockall dangerous
place. He replied that it could not
be expected that Rockall would be
zs safe as a place in a smooth river,
he added that he thought the young
woman would soon get over her fears,
and when they reached Christiania
they would ail have punch together.
We reached Christiana safely, and we
had the punch together; but, as all
the world knows, the Norge was
piled up on Rockall on its next voy-

was a

age exactly as in the woman’s dreams.
Blackwood guarantees the truth of |
told to Lady |

the following story,
Clerk of Penicuick by
Dacre of Kirklington: Young Dacre,
in order to attend classes in Ebinburg,

her

 

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father, |

|

itested of all

lived with his uncle, Maj. Griffiths.

of commons, saw a small man enter

One night he got his uncle’s and | dressed in a blue coat and white

aunt’s consent to join a

fishing | waistcoat.

Then he saw a4 man

party which was to set sail the next | aressed in a brown coat with yellow

morning from Leith.
Mrs. Griffiths screamed out
sleep, “The boat is sinking!
them!” The major
and asked:
the fishing party?” “Oh, no,”

Save

she re-

in her |

awakened her |
“Were you uneasy about |

plied, “I had not once thought of |

them.” She then fell asleep again

In about another hour she cried out
ir a dreadful fright, “I see the boat
going down!”
her, when she said: “It has been
owing to the other dream I had, for I
feel no uneasiness about it.” After
some conversation they both fell
sound asleep, but no rest could be ob-
tained for her. In extreme anguish
she then exclaimed: “They are gone!
The boat is sunk!” When the major
once more
“Now I cannot rest; Mr. Dacre must
not go, for { feel that, did he go,
I would be miserable until his re-
turn; the thoughts of it would al-
most kill me.” Indeed, upon
strength of this dream Mrs. Griffiths
induced her nephew to send a note
of apology to his friends, who went
without him, were caught in a sud-
den storm and drowned.

light.

|
|

Again the major woke |

But that night | basket buttons draw a pistol from un-

der his coat and discharge it at the
former, who instantly fell, the blood
issuing from a wound a little below
the left breast.

Hereupon he awoke and told his
wife of his dream, of which she made
Even he dreamed it a
second time she observed that he
had been so much agitated by his for-
mer dream that she supposed it had
dwelt on his mind, and begged him to

when

try to compose himself and go to
sleep, which he did. A third time
|the vision was repeated, on which,

| notwithstanding

her entreaties that
he would be quiet and endeavor to

|forget it, he arose, it being between
ir and 2 o’clock, and dressed himself.

awakened her she said: |

the |

At breakfast the dreams were the
sole subject of conversation, and in
the forenoon Mr. Williams went to
Falmouth, where he related the par-
ticulars of them to all his acquaint-

ances whom he met. Six weeks later

| Williams—who had never, except in

these dreams, seen either Spencer

| Percival or his zssassin—went to Lon-
| don and to the house of commons and

| pointed

Of course, the best known and at- |
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|:eached when he was struck by the

these historical dream

visions is that of the assassination of

the prime minister, Spencer Percival, |
by John Bellingham in the lobby of the |

house, as seeninsleep by John Will-
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with the description given by Will-
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When Shoe Deformities Will
Prevented.

Be

| thin in the waist and narrow in the
| shank.

A distorted position of the smaller

| toes, either confined to one toe or|
| affecting many similarly, is not un-

{common in the wearing of shoes
which check the natural spread of
the front of the. foot.- The first

| phalanx is flexed dorsally upon

The deformities of the human foot |

are either congenital like club foot, |

those resulting from. disease (viz.,

the distortion

The lat-
ter class has not always been clearly
understood, some of the

tions so caused are frequently
sidered the result of
redity. Hallux valgus, out-toe,
and the irritation of the
head of the first metatarsal are often
considered to be rheumatic, while the
crumpled, hammer-toe,

those caused by footwear.

distor-
con-

as

disease
or
exostoses

or is fre-
quently regarded an inheritance.

A better understanding of the de-
formities to can had
after a comparison the normal
shapes and flexibility of the feet as
the feet of and of
races with conditions
with
people and by an examination of the
construction of boots and
usually worn.

due shoes be

of

babies
the
shoe

seen in
shoeless
universally seen wearing
shoes

To meet fully the demands on the
foot incident to human activity in
walking, running, jumping, climbing,
freedom of action is needed not only
in the larger joints of the lower ex-

tremity, but also in the small articu-

lations of the foot itself, the impor-
tance of which is frequently over-
looked.

In the normal untrammeled_ foot

there is a pliability comparable with
that the Viz... 2
flexion and extension of
spreading of the front of the foot,
Hrst mudtarsal ar-
in walking or run-
uneven surface.

seen in hand, free

eocs, 2

especially of the
ticulation
ning

needed
upon an

This freedom of action and pliabili-
ty in the foot are interfered with by
the stiffness of heavy shoes and the
pressure of footwear not made to fit
the varying
foot, but to fit the conventional shape

size and shape of the

Gf a iast.
An examination of an adult, where

shoes have been worn since infancy,

or he-/| and closely fitting upper, and by the |

|

following paralysis or |

osteitis), those following injury, Or|in the metatarsophalangeal articula-

|

the
the second and
third are contracted in a position of |

metatarsus, while

| plantar flexion.

A loss or impairment of mobility |

tion is caused by a stiffness of the
sole of the boot which prevents the |

plantar flexion of the toes bound |

| down to the stiff soles by a strong

upward rock of the front of the sole

pressing the toes upward, holding

'them firmly in a position of slight |

as |

| an

dorsal flexion. This immobility of
the toes causes in time a loss of mus-
cular strength in the flexor muscles
of the phalanges, and under certain
circumstances a loss of elasticity oi |
the toe
joints, so that instead of a flexibility
which should be as great as that of
the the arc of the motion|
at the metatarsophalangeal joints
limited to a few degrees.

The amount of the damage to the
strength and ease in walking inflicted |

the capsular ligaments of

fingers,

is

in this way is greater than is sup-|
posed, and can only be estimated by |
a comparison of the walking efficien- |
cy of shoeless and shoewearing races.

The most conspicuous illustration |

of the superiority of the barefoot |
races in this respect was afforded in|
the campaign in Abyssinia. The |
marked superiority in agility and |

ileetness of the barefooted Abyssin- |
This has also been |}
wherever the are |
matched in marching against shoe |
Many of the United |
States officers have found moccasins

ian was evident.
seen shoeless

wearing people.

to wear
moccasins help in}
the pursuit of hill Indians.
The plantar flexion of the toes is|

action needed in the backward}

and the training necessary

with comfort 4

| push of the front of the foot, at the |

shows usually many variations from |

the normal standard. There is_ al-
most invariably an impairment in the
motion the
joints, especially the first. There
isually also a loss or impairment of
movement in the first metatarsocu-
neiform articulation, or a limitation
of the power of voluntary spread and
arching of the foot. In addition to

this there is a_ relative

of

is

|tion is not so strong as among. the
barefooted, a greater amount of
work in the backward push of the

metatarsophalangeal |

end of the stride. The strength of
this effort depends on the muscular
strength of the muscles governing |
this motion as well as the freedom of
this motion.

Where, usually the
among shoe-wearing people, this ac-

as 4s case

foot comes at the ankle joint, the
calf muscles become developed, and
the in the sole of the foot
are It seen

muscles

small. is commonly

 

'among barefooted peoples not sub-|

muscular |

weakness of the muscles of the sole |

of the foot, including those attached
to the first metatarsal (correspond-
ingly to the volar muscles of

jected to great demands in the way |
of climbing or hill work that. their

feet muscles are large and their calf |

| muscles small, the reverse being true |

| of shoe-wearing people.
the |

thumb), and in consequence of this |

often the development of a weak and
flat foot and the lack of strength in
the movement of the toes.

the metatarsals in relation to the
transverse axis of the front of the
foot often results from boots that are

The normal
condition is well seen in the Japanese |
Jinriksha runners, who have well!
muscled legs and feet.

This disability, due to an impair-|

|ment of the strength and freedom of |
Misplaced position of the heads oi |

motion of the metatarsophalangeal |
articulation, is increased if the great |
toe is distorted from its normal po-|
sition in the line of axis of the foot |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| and is turned outward, presenting the
common deformity known as out-toe.

Boots and. shoes are usually made
with their narrowest part at the toes,
while the foot is broadest at the toes.

The spreading strain of the boot is

Ler

33

greater at the middle than at the toe
end of the boot, and it becomes loos-
there. The result follows that the
great toe is subjected, as it is pushed
forward in the boot at each step, to
amount of lateral

a certain pressure

 

 

  

  
  
 
 
 
  
  
 

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at the toes, crowding the end of the
great and little toes toward the mid-
dle line of the foot. Where this
pressure is great or the resisting
power of the articulative ligaments
small, a disabling deformity of con-
siderable importance results. In a
slight degree the deformity is so
common among people wearing or-
dinary and not ploughman’s_ shoes
that the deformity is almost univer-
sal, so that in anatomical works and
in modern art it is frequently pre-
sented as representing the normal
shape.

No less common than this deformity
is the loss or limitation of the power
of side motion at the metatarsocunei-

ly raised position. If the boot is also
closely fitted at the sides the first
metatarsal is crowded toward the
center of the foot, and not only is
inward motion at the metatarsopha-
langeal articulation impossible, but
any up and down play at the joint
is checked. Weight at the end of
the step can not fall freely on the
head of the first metatarsal, as_ it
should normally, but comes chiefly
on the head of second, third and
fourth metatarsals. What is termed
flattening of the transverse arch re-
sults. This can be easily recognized
by the callosities on the sole of the
foot which are under the middle of
the fore front of the foot instead of

 

form articulation.

a foot is examined, it will be seen | sal.

that considerable side movement is
provided for in the metatarsocunei- |
form articulation of the first meta-|
tarsal with the metatarsocuboid artic- |
ulation. Muscles of considerable |
strength are furnished for the first
of these movements, which is com-
parable, although in a limited degree, |
to the movements of the thumb. Mo-
bility in the articulation exists in in-
fants and in all bare-footed people, |
and is developed by training to be
of practical use to those born without
arms and in persons with occupations |
requiring the free use of the foot. In|
all persons this motion is of value}
in giving firmness of foot and in en-
abling people to stand with greater |
stability on one foot. In all adults |
wearing modern shoes’ voluntary
movement of this articulation is eith-
er wanting or rudimentary, diminish- |
ing considerably the strength of the
foot and making possible the com-
mon accident familiarly known = as
“turning the ankle.” The ankle is
more liable to strains the less there
remains of the power of spread and |
grasp in the front of the foot.

How boots and shoes injure the}
power of motion in this part of the |
foot can be readily seen. In the or-
dinary vocations of civilized life
there is little need of spreading of
the front of the foot beyond the
slight amount possible in
boots and shoes. Boots and shoes |
providing for an unusual spread of |
the foot, such as would be necessary
in climbing and tramping, would not
be marketable. Individuals who
tately walk on anything but a
smoothly paved sidewalk can wear
without discomfort a snugly fitting
boot which would be extremely un-
comfortable in a rough cross country
tramp. The snugly fitting boot,
comfortably fitted to the foot in its
least spread shape, would exert a
distorting pressure whenever the foot

ordinary

| known,

|}out of commission

| broad

|ligaments of the

If the skeleton of | under the head of the first metatar-|

tortion is inevitable, if the individual
is active as a walker.

The disadvantages of the flattening
of the transverse arch have been al-
well described and are well

both in the neuralgic
of pinched nerves and in the miider
form of strained and aching liga-
ments. The impairment in walking
ability is evident; the great toe is put
almost as much
The finish of the
step comes the foot, and not
upon the toe, as it normally should.

Where the shoe is not pointed, but
at the toes, if the upper is
cut so as to give but little room over
the heads of the metatarsals or the
toes, and is inelastic, with but little

ready
form

as in hallux valgus.
upon

| flexibility of the sole, flexing of the

toes is interfered with and the power
of strong plantar flexion is lost from
weakness of muscles.
There is inevitably a slipping of
the foot forward in the shoe in walk-
ing or running. As shoes are or-
dinarily constructed the toe portion
is the narrowest part, while, as the
undistorted foot is made, the line
across the toe is the broadest of the
lines foot. More or less

crumpling of the toes results.

across the

muscles and
and the de-
gree of the distorting character of
the shoes. The form of the distor-
tion varies with the degree. The
toes either remain permanently flexed
or, having been crowded, one lying
over or under the other, remain per-
manently so. The inward crowding
of the little toe and the crumpling
of it are almost universal even among
sandal-wearing or _ slipper-wearing
people, provided the sandal is furn-
ished with a cross toe strap, as is the
case with the Greek and some of the
Oriental sandals.

sistance offered by the
foot

 

was spread by an occasional unusual

step, besides exerting a cramping
and atrophying influence on the mus-
cles of the foot.

An evening glove, comfortable or

even loose in ordinary wear, will be |

found too small if worn when driv-
ing a hard bitted horse, in bicycling
or golfing, and if worn wouid weaken
the grasp of the hand.

When the front of the boot fits
very closely plantar flexion of the
toes is impossible, and if the sole
is stiff and rolled slightly upward at

The amount of disability caused by
| these deformities varies neces-
sarily with the deformity, its extent,
jand the weight of the individual, as
well as the use the foot is given.
In the attempt to support the
weakened arch of the foot shoes are
; usually made arching up under the
|cuneiform and matatarsals, rather
than the head of the astragalus and
scaphoid, which especially need sup-
|port in weak feet. This Supposed
jarch support becomes in reality a
| binding of the waist of the foot

shoe

the front the toes are held in a slight- | which atrophies the muscles of the

Where high heels are worn on|
| pointed, snugly fitting shoes the dis-

The

- . |
amount of this depends upon the re-

sole, and as these muscles are oii]
tar flexors of the toes, the power of |
flexion of the toes and the downward |
push needed in walking are lessened. |
The individuals become he@l walkers |
or use the ball of the foot more than
the toes for the final propelling |
force. This weakening of the mus-|
cles of the sole of the foot is aided |
in deforming the foot by the press- |
ure of the upper of a
shoe upon the dorsum.
irritation,

thin-waisted |
This, by its
especially by the
seam on the upper, causes a contrac- |
tion, drawing up the toes, which, if |
extensive, makes

cross

the toes compara- |
factor in gait.
This is helped by the shape of the
shoe rocking up to the front, which
checks the normal plantar flexion of
the toes.

tively useless as a

earnest effort |
dealers to check the
deformity of the feet by the shoes
is evident in the shape of shoes, es-
pecially for men, offered for sale. It
is evident, however, that the purchas-
ing public requires to be thoroughly
informed of the needs in shoe wear,
and that the necessity of improve-
ment is urgent is shown in the great
prevalence of foot deformity. Even
gymnasium workers cramp the feet
in a way which prevents the develop-
ment of the most used
the body.

That there is an

among shoe

muscles of

A boot is not made in the shape of
the foot, but on a last. The last
maker caricatures the normal shape
of the foot as the fashion plate ar-
tist caricatures the

 

figure.
to an extent necessary in the art of

This iS | Makers of Shoes

Felix the Farmer

 

Felix the farmer, who furrows his fields,

Is not a man who easily yields

To the judgment of others of things that
will wear.

He knows what will stand both wear and
tear,

For he bought one day some HARD-PAN
shoes,

And now, ‘‘by-gosh,’’ no others he'll use.

Dealers who handle our line say
we make them more money than
other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich

 

 

 

5 and 5 Per Cent.

Below prevailing trust prices have made our stock

of Lycomings, Woonsockets and Keystones go
some the past week.
gains. Terms 30 days.

As we are now State Agents for the Celebrated

A good assortment left.
Speak quick if you are looking for genuine bar-

Hood Rubbers |

We will close out all our stock of

Lycomings, Woonsockets and Keystones
At Once

Hustle in your orders and get them filled while
: our stock is large.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Our store is on the way to Union Depot and we are always pleased
to see our friends and customers.
Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids.
Send for circular.

  
  
    
   
 
     
   
   
     
 
     
       
 

 

 

 

 

bootmaking, for as the foot varies in
size and compressibility according to
the strain put upon it, the last rep-
resents the compromise. A_ boot
which would be comfortable to an
individual climbing a mountain would
be loose for the same individual in
his arm chair, and therefore unsale-
able to those whose time is passed
chiefly in muscular ease.
promise is a conventional type. The

| forms

os | been freed from restraint.
1€ com-| ural foot can be quickly crippled in- |
| to inefficiency by high counters, cor- |

maker and the boo r f bo i :
boot mi and t t buyer often | set shoes, arch raisers, wedges and

overlook the fact that there is need |

of avoiding pressure of certain parts
of the boot, not because this causes
pain to the foot, as the front of the

| when
| chanics, is rendered weak, and there- |

foot can be compressed without dis- |

comfort, but because distortions are
favored by pressure on certain parts
of the foot. These distortions
velop gradually, and in old age,
where all possible suppleness is to

de- |

| A boy training as a baseball pitcher |

be preserved, deformities are caused. |

Boots and shoes made ready
sale are fashioned according
shapes which are popular
mand. The statement of a shoe deal-
er expresses the fact: “A shoe
sold almost entirely on style.”

in

y i rarying antity :
Style being a varying quantity, the | Boots and shoes should be straight

shape of the shoes varies, often with
exaggeration, as seen in the absurdly

for |
to |
de- |
| 1S injurious if
is |

square-toed shoes of the period of the |

thirty years’ war and the “tooth-pick”’
shoes of a decade ago.
ation gives the advertising note, the
er. This may be harmless, like the
exaggerated curve on the outer side
of the boot or the unnecessary pro-
jection of the sole beyond the bor-

ders of the foot. But the tendency of |

fashion will always be toward shoes

of the leisurely rather than the work- |

ing people.

The exagger- |

The boot for the plough- |

the top, and should give sufficient
play to the toes. Boots should not |
| bind the lower instep (that is,

| front of the mediotarsal articulation), |

cri d’affiche, which attracts the buy-} put should allow a certain amount of |

| spread to the front of the foot as the |

man will not be popular among pa- |

A
an

at the
used,

trons of the Pullman
fitting the natural shape
fant’s foot and broadest

will

car

of
toes
and

never be generally

boot |
in- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

30

 

{
but spread to the utmost extent. The | money as they ought to, and as they/| that a certain percentage of these
mistake of tightly binding a child’s| have hoped to. |

ankles has been well spoken of by
the President of our (American Or-
thopedic) Association, Dr. H. A. Wil-
son:

“The natural human foot best per-

its functions when it

‘The
by

anklets.
burdened

elastic natural

misapplied

fore susceptible of sustaining injury,
such as sprains and the formation of
bunions, flat foot, wabble joints, ete.’
Low are naturally preferable
for children, as they avoid the con-

shoes

has |
The nat |

foot, |
me- |

|

And if they are not selling as

|

| is something wrong somewhere. And
that something is not the weather.
| There altogether too much talk
j about bad weather or good weather
| affecting business. There are too much

is

| “conversation” and too little hus-
|tling. It reminds one of that old
| story of the man who could not shin-
|gle his house when it rained, and

| who did not need to when it did not
to contend
that it is too wet one day, or too dry
the next day, or too hot or too cold
And
they come really to believe this sort
of thing.

rain, hear shoe dealers

some other day to sell shoes.

striction of the ankle, which weakens. |

does not bind his forearm, a girl
pianist does not lace her wrist, and
in the same way binding the ankle,
perhaps necessary in rough walking,
constant.

For active exercise the front of

the foot should not be compressed.

on the inner edge, should be suffi-
ciently long, should not rock up at

weight falls upon it.

Children need shoes which slip on|
| easily, but which are as unconstrict- |
ing as the boot of a plough boy, if |
their parents wish them to avoid the |

| weakening of the muscles of the}
| foot which furnishes a condition § in

which distortions may develop. Chil- |
their |

dren should not be robbed of

| birthright of strength.

shoe constriction of the foot will be |

the desire to avoid the
appearance of a clodhopper. But it
is desirable that this constriction
shall be as small as
The fitting of a new shce on a weak-
ankled child, with the necessary

common, in

is

practicable. |

poundings on the sole and pullings |

on the upper, illustrates an amount
of injurious and unnecessary
pression of some portion of a boot

which is to be avoided in a child.

In protecting his feet a man of
fashion need not avoid fashionable
boots. If he becomes a man of ac-

tivity he needs boots which suit his
occupation and are not suited to a
ball room, just as he would not drive
a four-in-hand with evening gloves.

A lady of leisure, if as leisurely as
an odalisque, can wear such. footwear
as she wishes, but if she plays golf
or tennis or walks actively in shop-
ping, she should wear shoes which
will not bind her feet, or she will
suffer by deforming or weakening
the feet.

A growing child is necessarily ac-
tive and needs shoes which never

constrict, and every intelligent effort
should be directed to supply children
with shoes which are nearer to the
moccasin or sandal than to the fash-
ionable boot of adults, and which not
only fit the natural shape of the foot,

com. |

 

Shoe deformities furnish a subject |
of practical importance to the sur-

geons of to-day. It is to be hoped,

however, that, as in savage communi- |

ties they are unknown, the surgical

| writer in the next generation will
|refer to them as curiosities, the un-
necessary disabilities of an unthink-

ing period.

Shoe deformities will be prevented
the wearing public has
been taught that the boot should
suit the use of the foot. leisure
adult can fashionable
shoes he . wishes, no
should walk actively in dress boots
or boots shaped like them. If he
does his foot suffers. He should wear
boots allowing a free spread to the
front of the foot.

A

when shoe
In
as

but

an wear

as one

normal young child is always

active in its waking hours and should |

never wear shoes cramping the feet,
which should be as free as those of

an Indian tracking game—E. H.
3radford in Medical Journal.
—_—__>--2—__—_
What Is the Matter?
Winter weather is not far away.
Every day that passes brings us to

a closer realization of the changing
seasons. The time when substantial
shoes should sell has arrived. And
yet, we venture to say, there are re-
tail shoe merchants who are not
converting as many shoes into

in |

If any shoe dealer really feels as
if the weather to blame, can
| knock out. that idea by just going

is he

ditions were exactly ideal in
respect. He would figure it out that
the two hundred or five hundred or
one thousand people in his locality
would buy shoes of some sort before
the of real winter

arrival weather.

|
;

| many shoés as they ought to, there |

after business as if the climatic con- |
every }

He would know for a positive fact |

| “What

to
would realize

buy
that
might

would have
And

footwear

people
shoes.

simply
he
these requirements
be anticipated if he got right after
hustling and
And would
and would

them by advertising,
personal solicitation.
of this
for

he

get some trade,

understand sure that no ~ other
shoe dealer. would cut in—because he
would have the bird in hand instead
of the

in bush.
The old saying that “everything
who waits” does not
retail
1
hustles

comes to him
to the
man who

apply shoe business.
The the hardest
finds things coming his way. If busi-
ness is dull, at a time when we are
on the threshold of a new season, is
it not pertinent to ask
the matter?’

ourselves,
is "Shoe Re-
tailer.
2».
Let Himself Out.
“I constructed a fire escape yester-
day in about two minutes.”

‘“Dan’t talk nonsense!”

“Fact. | heard the boss say he
was going to discharge me, so I
wrote a letter of resignation and

handed it in at once.”

 

 

 
 
 
     

We Guarantee

Every Pair

HARDWEAR SHOE

FOR MEN

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36

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

AVOIDING LITIGATION.

Legal Advice Most Sought by Busi-
ness Men.

In China, it is said, the physicians
are not paid for curing their patients,
but are paid an annual or monthly
rate as long as their patients (or,
rather, their patrons) are well, and
ceasing whilst they are sick. Thus
it behooves a physician to keep the

patient well. Prevention is better
than cure; hygiene is better than
physic.

The time will come—indeed, may
now be at hand—when a similar prin-
ciple will be applied to affairs of
property as seems above to be ap-
plied to affairs of person. Business
men and all property interests are
more in search of that legal advice
which keeps them out of litigation
than that which extricates them from
litigation. A broad course of public
education should include instruction
aiding the pupil in his or her ulti-
mate business career to avoid litiga-
tion. Irving makes one of his char-
acters say, in substance, that his fi-
nancial ruin was in great part pro-
duced by a lawsuit which he lost and
was thereafter entirely completed by
one which he won.

It is not practical in the course ofa
short newspaper article to give an
instruction in what may be termed
popular law—that is, so much of the
ordinary application of law as may
be expected to be encountered in
every day business or property af-

fairs. Let us reverse the saying of
the river pilot. The captain having
asked him whether he was __ sure

whether he knew where all the snags
were, he said he did not know where
all or any of them were. The cap-
tain, then being surprised at his un-
dertaking to run a ship, he answered
further: “Well, I reckon I know
where they ain’t.”

The acquisition and disposing of
property, lands or chattels, that is, by
all such things as deeds, mortgages,
wills, or contracts, must be under-
stood, so, also, actual possession,
state of the title, what are or are not
fixtures, otherwise money to a large
amount may be expended and _ the
paper obtained therefor may be ut-
terly worthless. The laws of the
various states contain many provi-
sions which must be observed in
these cases, nor is it sufficient to
know, even accurately, the law of one
state when the transaction is to oc-
cur in another state, as the laws of
the states differ, and, furthermore, it
is not sufficient to know, at any one
time, the law of the one state, as the
legislature of that state may change
the law, or the courts in passing upon
it may give it a meaning not ordi-
narily expected, consequently, inces-
sant attention is needed, and it is ad-
visable in all these transactions to
consult a lawyer before going into
them, rather than to ask his assist-
ance after becoming involved, per-
haps disastrously, in them. For in-
stance, in one state the statute re-
quires, when buying property which
is then a homestead, that a deed be
obtained from the husband and a

deed from the wife; any of us might
deem ourselves capable to carry on
so plain a transaction, and yet, if

 

 

the money be paid, and even a large
sum, say $50,000, it would be lost
unless both husband and wife “con-
curred in and signed the same joint
instrument.”

The relations of the parties to an
undertaking are of the utmost im-
portance, and carry with them se-
rious consequences; the various ca-
pacities of indorser, guarantor, sure-
ty, or bondsman involve many tech-
nical distinctions and niceties as to
fastening any liability upon these par-
ties, or as to retaining them thus lia-
ble thereunder. Among the most
common may be mentioned the giv-
ing of “an extension.” By this, the
maturity of the obligation is placed
later than it was, perhaps only fora
day, or even for a portion of a day,
still, it is altogether likely that these
various parties are entirely freed from
the obligation.

Whether a contract exists at all
or not is a common question sub-
mitted to the profession; the parties
often think they have a contract, and
even invest with. reliance thereon
large sums of money, only to learn
to their sorrow that the supposed
contract is not obligatory upon the
other party, and that no remedy ex-
ists either to enforce the terms
thereof or to be recompensed for ex-
penditures thereunder; defects most-
ly found in these cases relate to the
consideration, the capacity of the par-
ties (individuals) to make a contract,
the authority of agents, partners, or
officers of corporations to bind, by a
contract, the persons whom they rep-
resent, or the power of the party, for
instance, corporations, to make any
contract whatsoever relative to the
particular subject in hand.

As to the capacity of individuals to
enter into a contract, reference must
be had to age and sex, to mental ca-
pacity, and whether same has been
found insufficient by some court, the
condition, for instance, as to intoxi-
cation, etc., of the individual at the
time contract is made, to the fact
whether the party is a married wom-
an, and, if so, under many disabili-
ties, and, again, as to whether there
is other disability, as, for instance,
Indians, who are not allowed to make
contracts relative to their lands.

The consideration back of the con-
tract must, of course, be for lawful
and proper purposes and mutual; the
forms of the contract require much
consideration, as many of them, es-
pecially those of matters of impor-
tance and nearly all relative to lands,
must be in writing. Provisions are
also found requiring contracts or
other writings to be recorded, neg-
lect of which may invalidate the mat-
ter altogether, especially as to rights
of other persons which may fasten
on the subject in question.

The question of “entirety” of con-
tract is of the greatest importance,
and, indeed, of danger, so to speak.
Thus, a book-keeper engaged for one
year at $1,000, can not draw any of
his pay until he has put in the en-
tire year; and so it has been held with
strictness and almost cruelty, that if
he becomes sick in the twelfth month
and thus fails to serve the entire
year, nothing can be obtained by him
for all the time he actually served.

 

Familiar instances of transactions
which are attempted to become con-
tracts, but which fail in whole or in
part, are found in any case where
the subject is reprehensible, and in
other cases where the subject is
questionable, as, for instance, in the
latter cases gambling or wagering
contracts, usurious loans, dealings in
options, contracts made on Sunday,
those in restraint of trade, contracts
affecting the rights of the public, as,
for instance, attempting to defeat the
revenue by smuggling, restraints of
marriage, contracts relating to intox-
icating liquors and lotteries; in some
of these instances the subject matter
is affected by statute, and in others,
not.

It should not, however, be suppos-
ed that the merger analysis hereinbe-
fore contained covers, or is intended
to cover, the entire field of all or
even a considerable portion thereof.

Great care is necessary as to iden-
tifying the parties who enter into a
contract; thus, whether it be the in-
dividual himself or whether simply
as agent he is binding some princi-
pal; that is, some other individual or
perhaps some corporation, or bind-
ing himself and the other; it is sur-
prising how many and even highly
educated business men and _ bankers
themselves err in this regard, signing,
for instance, an obligation thus, “John
Doe, president,” intending thereby to
make liable the corporation of which
the signer is president, but, in fact,
making liable the signer himself as
an individual.

Negotiable instruments, that is to
say, checks, and bills of ex-
change, furnish a fruitful source of
litigation. The person first
signs them may think that if there
be any wrong or mistake about it
he is not held to the paper, and if
sued by the one to whom he has
given the paper, he would be releas-
ed from the obligation by showing
such mistake or other matter; but all
of these papers have the peculiarity
of being “negotiable,” by which is
meant not merely that they are “sal-
able,” for any subject matter, a horse
or a watch, is salable, but it is meant
that, having been sold, the person who
receives them, provided he buy them
in good faith and before maturity
and for a_ sufficient consideration,
then obtains them wholly freed from
any defense and can enforce them
against the first signer.

And this technical branch of the
law involves errors both ways: first
that the person who signs is often
held to the paper, as above indicat-
ed, when the same comes to the
hands of a subsequent party, usually
spoken of as the “third person,” but
second, much litigation is  engen-
dered from the fact that the third
person himself, in buying papers of
this kind, errs as to whether the same
are “negotiable” or not, and if it
prove that the paper itself is not a
negotiable one, then the third person
has no better right than the first
holder and may lose the money which
he has invested in the paper.

As remarked before, there can be
no attempt made to teach the entire
substance of the law in an article of
this kind, and to illustrate we may

notes,

who

 

say that in order to determine wheth-
er the paper is or is not negotiable,
reference must be had to the numer-
ous decisions of the courts. That
this would present an extensive re-
search may be noted from the fact
that the American Digest of Law
devotes nearly 1,500 large, closely
printed pages to it, each page in
turn simply containing a digest that
is a brief analysis of decisions of
the courts upon some points involv-
ed. some of which decisions them-
selves being thus referred to, when
found, may in turn cover, and often
do cover, numerous and even hun-
dreds of pages of printed matter.
The formation and participation in
any manner in corporations is attend-
ed with considerable risk; the mem-
ber, although owning but a small in-
terest therein, say, one share of $10,
may find himself liable for the entire
debts of the concern; if the corpora-
tion be not regular the members are
held as partners would be, and con-
sequently must respond to all the ob-
ligations. The obtaining of the stock
itself, even in a perfectly organized
corporation, may entail serious com-
plications, inasmuch as there may be
a liability upon the stock as such, al-
though the same may profess to be
“full paid and non-assessable.” And
yet again in a corporation entirely
regular and with fully paid stock
there may still be a considerable lia-
bility over and beyond, as some laws
provide that the stockholder shall be
liable for an amount equal to his
stock, other laws provide that the
stockholders liable for all
unpaid wages, quite an
item in the great industrial
and railroad where the
weekly pay roll may come to, say,
$30,000. A marked illustration as to
the importance of correct corporate
organization is shown in the Johns-
town flood. It appears that a dam
broke and the loss of life and proper-
ty exceeded $100,000,000; the owner
of the dam was the South Forks
Fishing Club; it has been asserted
that this club was not so organized
as to protect its members from indi-
vidual liability and that consequently
any one of the members is subject
to being held for the liabilities.
Statutes of limitations—that is,
statutes by which time is fixed in
which a suit must be brought if it
should be brought at  all—present
many disappointments; here, too, the
matter works both ways, the person
who is entitled to bring a suit may
not know anything about such stat-
utes and hence delay too long be-
fore bringing his suit; the periods in
some instances being short, even as
short as six months, by statute or
perhaps by the terms of the contract,
insurance policies and such matters.
And again, the person to be sued
may think he knows all about such
statutes and congratulates himself
upon the period having run in his
favor, and thus that he has become
exempt from suit, whereas, by some
writing or talk or act’ upon his part,
he has brought about a state of
things under which the statute is
said to have no application or under
which the period of the statute is
extended and he is_ surprised to

may be
important
present

concerns

 

 

still subject suit.

All matters relative to the course of

himself to

find

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Hardware Price Current

 

 

litigation itself demand the most se- AMMUNITION
rious consideration, as they may be Caps
of the utmost importance; no mat- Hick? Waite. aa 50
ter how absurd or groundless may be oS etc tin sos 15
the claim brought into a suit, yet the | ees TT Sr arr =
party sued must see to it that he is| No, 22 short, fRiaais EE 2 50
defended in the suit; otherwise, judg- _ 22 long.’ et ca 3 00
ment is entered against him by de-| No. 32 long. por mE
fault and it is thereafter practically | Primers
impossible for him to get rid of the ~~ 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m..... 1 60
judgment, no matter how erroneous, 0. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, —= +
unjust or wrongful the same may be. } pic, ied eo. U.MC.. 60
And, too, the results of any suit | Black Edge, — 3 & 10, per m..... 70
must be considered most carefully | een ee Me YB «2 -
before they are relied upon; for in- | arene as
stance, a divorce, the decree and all | Drs. of oz.of Size Bu
proceedings must be examined and | No er = — —— ou
that, too, by persons skilled in the | 139 : 1% 9 10 2 90
law before it can be determined that | 126 4 i z 7 a
the divorce is sufficient to allow the | =. i = : = 2>
divorced party to remarry. Grave | 200 3 : 10 12 2 50
complications arise by the different | 33 3% i” : = oo
views entertained by the different | aa si eo] : 2 - =
courts in these regards, some court| piscount, one-third and five per cent.
may hold a divorce legal and an- | Paper Shells—Not Loaded
cther court hold the same divorce | No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
illegal, and so it actually has happen- | No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64
ed that a divorced woman _ subse-| eg ea vale egg a
quently remarried has been found! % Kegs, 12% ths., per % keg .......-2 90
while in one state to be the lawful; 4 ess. 6% Ibs., per % keg ........ Le
wife of a man there residing, and the | RISES eae sae
same woman going thence into an-| Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 85
other state is the lawful wife of an-| Augurs and Bits
other man there residing; what would | — OL ogame ee 60
happen were the three parties to meet | Jennings’ imitation ........2200....1. 50
in, say, a third state, is hard to con- | fees
jecture; whether there she would be! First Quality, S. B. Bronze ......... 6 50
the wife of one, or the other, orl eee be ame a a ee ae : =
neither, or both, we are unable to say. | Fist Quality, D. B. Steel. ........... 10 50
Under all of the topics that have | an Barrows jl
icka seacbeed epee in thus anticke Ges Gee ae
the principle that ignorance of the | Bolts
law is no excuse; this principle is | Stove eee a 70
founded en necessity, as otherwise | Plow. ot. nen. crtt-soocccccncccee 50
there could be no system of right Buckets
Gr wrone, the principle is severe’ in| Well, plain ool 4 50
its application at times, and disas- Butts, Cast
trous in its results, but nevertheless a =
adhered to in nearly all cases; the Chain
courts at times try, in cases present-| — ; 5-16 in. %in. % in.
ing great hardship, to depart from it, | Ga7™°"- ee ae -s
so much so that they will construe a| BBB. ......--. 8%c....7%c....6%c.. “bie
matter of ignorance to have been eed ae — Be 5
that of fact rather than of law; in the| ~ ns Chdeste
former case a court will grant relief, | socket OT cca aoa aa 65
wheres, is the later, WM (BS Bee oot
This exception is stretched, at | Socket Slicks. ...........---.+ee--ee- 65
times, so much that a quaint anecdote ee a, fe
is related of one of the greatest chan-} Gorrugated, per doz. ..........2.5: 1 25
cellors, who had before him a litiga- | AdJustable pees i 40&10
tion in which it appeared that an il-| qines small, ais large, ae a 40
literate woman had invested the sav-| Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 .......... 25
ings of a lifetime in the purchase of Files—New List ros
a property and, having a lawyer to| Nicholson's tocssclcccsleslle.
aid her in the transaction, obtained | Heller’s Horse Rasps. So 70
the wrong papers, so much so that weet 44 én eo ae 26; 27, 3
the money was practically lost un- = 2 a 14 15 G6 1
less she could have the benefit of oe iia
more appropriate papers. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s . 60&10
The lawyer opposing her in the Glass
litigation argued that the mistake in ee es series “ =
question was one of law; that she! By the light .................-.+. dis. 90
and-her lawyer had taken the papers Hammers
in question and were bound thereby; mere & SS Sfeeeuee oan
the chancellor, however, is said to| Mason’s Soli@ Cast Steel ....30¢ list 70
have avoided this argument by stat-) oo. cark’s 1, op axtid a dis 60&10

ing that this mistake was not one
of law but one of fact; the poor wom-
an at the time of making the pur-
chase supposed she had a lawyer to
advise her, which was a mistake, for,
in fact, she had a fool.

Andrew J. Hirschl.

 

Hollow Ware

 

ero Nails
wae. ee.
House Furnishing Goods

Au Sable ...

Stamped Tinware, new list.

Japanned Tinware a ae

707

 

  

fron
Ban Prom ee 2 25 rate |
Faeht Bane o.oo os et. 3 00 rate |
Knobs—New List |
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings 7 |
Deor, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings .... 385}
Levels |
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis. |
Metals—Zinc
G0@ pOURG GASES J..00..0........... TY, |
eg s
Miscellaneous |
Birad Capes --.- i... 8. 40 |
Pues, Cistery. ............... 1... - ae 4
merews, New Fast .2 0.20.25... 0.1... 5
Casters, Bed and Plate ........- 50&10&19 |
Damipers, American ............-... 50 |
Molasses Gates |
stebning; Pattern 221.0502 .0.5..... 60&10 |
Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30 |
Pans |
ey, Bema 60&10&10 |
Common, vciinied en ei 70&10 |
Patent Planished Iron
“A Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80
“B” Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80
Broken packages 4c per Ib. extra. }
Planes
Ohio Pool Cos faney. 6.060001. 0 0... 40 |
Semete Semen oo, 50
Sandusky Pool Co.’s faney......:... 40 |
Benen, tirst quality.................. 45
Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire |
Peer Oe ce ee 2 25 |
i... eee 210|
oe to OO) a@vemee. Base |
$0 fo 06 Bevanee cs 5 |
S a@vamee |
@ Agvance {...........61....4. : 20 |
a eedeee 30 |
me GOVABEG foo 45
a MPS 70
Pine @ mG@vemee...................... 50 |
Cee TO Bevenece ...... 2.1... es. 15 |
Casing mS SOvaee. we wc le 25
Cisige G a@vaiice.......... 2... 35
Iimieh 10 achvamec.. 2.21... ll... 25
Finish 8 advance 35
Finish 6 advance 45
Barrel % advance 85
Rivets
Ison and tiusied .-.-2..- 3... 50 |
Copper Hivets and Burs ........... 45
Roofing Piates
oes TC. Charcoal Mean .-.......... 7 oe)
i4u20 1%. Charcoal, Dean .........-.. 9 00 |
20x28 2¢ Chareoal Beam .....:... 15 00 |
14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50 |
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00 |
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00)
Ropes |
Sisal, 4% inch and larger .......... 946 |
Sand Paper |
Hist acet, 19 “86 ...00 dis 50}
Sash Weights
Solid Byes, per tom ......:.......... 28 00
Sheet Iron |
Noe 10 ta 14 22s... 3 60 |
Mos 6 to foci s 20}
Nos 18 to St _- js. 3 90}
Nes, 22 ta 24... 4 10 3 00 |
Nes, 25 te 26 ...... 005, -0.. 0. 4 20 4 00 |
7 a 4 30 410
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Shovels and Spades
Birt Grade, Pen... 2)... 5 50
EE EE Oe 5 00 |
Solder |
Be eae cee ee ae 21 |
The prices of the many other qualities |
of solder in the market indicated by pri- |
vate brands vary according to compo-

sition.

Squares
Siete ae oe ................. 60-10-5
Tin—Melyn Grade
'Onlt JG. Charveoa! -................ 10 50
i 1, Ce .................. = 50
1onit (Ge) | Chercean =|
Each additional X on this grade, 2 |
Tin—Allaway Grade
SOnt4 3C, Cuareoal .................. 9 00
1 Che i................. 9 00
tts fe. Chareaal 2.2.51. 1... 10 50
e200 EX. Cipireeel ............. 0 50

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50
Boiler Size Tin Piate

 

14x56 IX, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ib 13
Traps

Steel Game .-.-.....:.....-.... 2... 75
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40&10
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65
Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ...... 1
Mouse, delusion, per doz. ........... 25 |
Wire |

Brent Marect ee 60 |
Avumenicd Miarmet .................... 60 |
Commerce Misrice ...... 2.2... 50&19 |
eee 50&10 |
Coppered Spring Steci .............. ae |
Barbed Fence, Galvanized ........... 2 Go |
Marbea Mence, Painted .............. 2 25 |
Wire Goods
eee a ea eo 80-10 |
ee 80-10 |
Elgoms  ...............:.-.. et ... 80-10 |
Gate Viogks ang Eyes ............... 80-10 |
Wrenches |

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickelea SC euace 30
@oes Gomuiie ....-................ 2, 40 |
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought,70&10 |

“ No.
5 | No.
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37

Crockery and Glassware

 

 

  

STONEWARE
Butters
~~ oo oe Gee... 48
1 to 6 gal. per doz. 6
$ gal. each 56
10 gal. each 70
12 gal. each a
is gal. meat tubs, cach ........... 1 20
20 #al. meat tube, cach ............. 1 60
25 gal. meat tubs, a 2 25
30 gal. meat tubs, a 2 70
Churns
2 tO 6G gal per eal |... 6%
=~ | (norm Deshers, per dem .....-...-. 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 hottom, per doz. 60
1 gal. fat or round bottom, each .. 6
Stewpans
1% gal. fireproof, ball, per dow ...... 85
i gal fireproof bail, per doz ...... iL 36
Jugs
eee 60
1 eal per Gee. wo 45
i te 5 sak per gal... ..... 7%
i Sealing Wax
> es. mn packiee, per MW. .........., 2
| LAMP BURNERS
Na @ Sum .-...-- 3t
PG ft ee 8g eee, 38
CO ee 50
ho tf oe ........................... 8.
SS _ eee 5v
ee ce, 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
| Per gross
PE cc eeu cade aeteeuseeegeaa. 4 25
ON 4 40
ee 6 00

fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of 6 doz.

 

 

© Sam oo... 1 60
eee Li
2S ee 2 54
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each Chimney in corrugated carton
iio. 9 Coley ..........,......., _. 7¢
(No. t Crimp .. 3. ne cane 1 90
NG. 2 Cri oe 2 90
i 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 ‘cam 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 dow ...... 1 00
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 25
ING: | Crime per des —.............. I So
ING. 2 Crimp per dem ............... 1 60
Rochester
No. 1 Lime (65e doz) ..-........ 3 50
No 2 Lime (ise dem) .........5....- 4 00
ho f Peo (eee Gee) ................ 4 60
Electric
mo 2 bime (ide daw) ............., 4 00
ING: 2 Plint (Sle Goa.) ..........2. 5.4. A 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 73
h pak Vite enms 2... se. 7 00
& gal. ealy. iron Nacetase ............ 9 00
LANTERNS
Neu © Tabula, side GE .............. 4 65
Noe 2 Ph Wibian 6 40
Ne, ib Topilear, dash ...........-... 6 50
Ne. 2 Cold Biast Lanterm ........... 7 &
| No. 12 Pubular, side farap --........- 12 60
Na. 2 Street lamp, Gach ......... . 2 oo
LANTERN GLOBES
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Weekly “Market Review. of the Piin-|
cipal Staples.
White Goods—The

demand _ for

the spring season of 1905 in white |
goods has taken definite form and/|

sellers now regard the business -com-
ing forward as indicative of the final

course that fashion will follow. Or- |
ders placed by leading jobbers made |

it clear that plain sheer fabrics will

stand at the head of the list. Next |
in strength are the sheer fancy cloths |
that were popular last year and still }
hold their place with many buyers. |
Prices do not stand at levels that |
repel the trade and this accounts, |
agents declare, for the really liberal |
orders now being booked. For goods |
in pronounced color effects the de- |

mand is conservative.
Ginghams—In the acknowledged

inability of sellers to move ginghams

for nearby delivery, a condition is |

brought to the surface that is inter-
esting to buyer and_ seller alike.
Throughout the present year agents

have found it difficult to interest job- |

bers in either standard staple ging-
hams or fine dress ginghams. The
orders for this fall represent a

smaller

year ago when sales shrunk far be-|
low the records of the season of |

1902. On the spring business’ for
1905 agents say they have not secur-

ed the average initial business. These |
circumstances have caused standards |

to fall to 5c and stay inactive at this
low level. Agents are now convinc-

ed that the demand for ginghams is |

undergoing a period of dulness, such
as marks the merchandising of all
lines. Ginghams were in strong de-

mand three years ago, then for aj}

spring and season they showed up
This year they are
slow sellers. It is said by selling
agents that they
ing of their stocks

moderately well.

do not fear dispos-
at present prices,

for the general curtailment in the

print cloth mills has cut off the
source of supply for prints. In the
estimation of large holders of ging-
hams the movement of their stocks
will be improved immediately after
election. They say the fact that job-
bers get instant delivery will mili-
tate strongly in favor of ginghams
when the goods market gets under
way next week.

Woolen Goods — The American
Woolen Co. has advanced many num-

bers in its lines in department I, di-!

visions A and B. The advances
range from 24%@3c. Lines of the
Washington Mills have been ad-
vanced from 24@7\%c.

Carpets—The attention of all buy-

ers of carpetings is now fixed on the}

opening of new spring lines, and the
announcement of prices. In view of
the past unsatisfactory carpet season,
and the coming auction sale, the
question is, Can manufacturers se-
cure an advance on spring lines? As
an answer to this it may be stated
that conservative authorities in the
trade are confident that good prices

will be secured at the Alex. Smith &
Sons’ sale, beginning Monday, Nov.
14. In addition to this others claim

on time, but such cases are exception-
al and indicate that the obstacle to
a large volume of business at pres-

Attention, Merchants

The Rapid Sales Company can reduce or close
out your stock for spot cash without loss; we

aggregate than those of a}

that there will be a revision of prices| ent 1s the prices.
in velvets, while still others look} ladies’ hosiery in lace effects are, as tion; our salesmen are experts. Address

for an advance all along the line.}a rule, running their mills on full Rapid Sales Co., 609, 175 Dearborn St., Chicago
In the meantime all sorts of rumors] time and with a full complement of

| are afloat as to what will or will not} operatives, although as yet the de- ‘val B. Pal &C
| be done next week, and what has} mand does not justify such a course, Perciva - Faimer ompany

already taken place. Certain of| when the caution displayed by man- Manufacturers of

these reports have it that orders have | ufacturers of other lines is taken into Cloaks, Suits and Skirts
been placed with March 1 dating, in| consideration. But the lace goods For Women, Misses and Children
order to offset the Jan. 1 dating to| men believe it to be safe to stock

| be given on goods to be bought at} up moderately as the stock on hand 197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

the auction sale. =
ed for some little time and many

7 DSA ep lls Bed Blankets

although principally on plain goods. id an nd

This is because the later fall busi-
Comforts

ness has been along these lines. The
advanced prices, which are from 2%
higher than a year We are headquarters for Bed
ago, do nat seem to be any real bar Blankets and Comfortrbles and
| to business, except that buyers are always carry a complete line for
j}a bit more cautious in making their -
hotel, camp and family use. Cot-
ton, wool ania warp), all wool blankets. Knotted and stitched
comforts, prints, satines, silkolines and silk coverings.

selections, which is a good thing.
P. STEKETEE & SONS 4
Wholesale Dry Goods GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

Manufacturers of | prove our cla ms by results; shelf-stickers, slow-
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Cloakings—There is considerable
|interest in the new spring lines of
cloakings which have now been open-

      

 

 

 

@7*% per cent.

Skirtings — Are now attracting
| more attention, although it will prob-
|ably be another week or two before
| buyers become really interested.

Hosiery—Knitters of hosiery are,
las a rule, in a fairly good position,
|so far as a supply of yarn is concern-
ed, as nearly all have bought freely
| during the past month. At present
| the demand is not such as to tax their
full capacity, but nevertheless they
|are running full time. Some _ few}
| who were exceptionally fortunate or |

 

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PAPER BOXES

OF THE RIGHT KIND sell and create a greater demand for
goods than dimost. any other agency.

 

| far-seeing and bought yarn when it | WE MANUFACTURE boxes of this description, both solid and
folding, and will be pleased to offer suggestions and figure
with you on your requirements.

Prices Reasonable.

Grand Rapids Paper Box Co.,

| was at its lowest level have sufficient |
| orders to keep them running to their |

| full capacity until New Year’s, and | Prompt. Service.

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Tradesman,

Grand Rapids, Miche
Gent'n:- ,

Check inclosed $5, which pays for your paper for three
yearse Please credit and send a receipte
we like your papere We have extracted much good from
ite We have taken it ever since it was first issuede
Yours truly,

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is light and the probabilities,are that |

the demand will be strong within a |
short time. Makers of light-weight |
hosiery are not taking such chances |
as the lace goods men are, as the|
stock of light-weight goods in the
hands of jobbers and retailers is com- |
paratively large and they are waiting |
for those goods to be moved before |
stocking up in anticipation of future |

trade.
2.

Developments in Dress Fabrics for
Spring.

The development of spring business
with domestic manufacturers and for-
eign agents has been encouraging and |
for the most part entirely satisfac-
tory. Prices are generally acceptable
to the large retail buyers who are
now in the market for spring assort- |
ments. In a few cases foreign lines |

show a slight decline, but this feature
is exceptional, and should not be|
taken as a gauge of the market’s con- |
dition. It is more apparent to dress
goods manufacturers than ever be-|
fore that the style of a fabric has

more influence in its successful mar- |
keting than has its real or intrinsic
value. This fact has recently dawned |
upon manufacturers here and many |
of them are making a closer study |
of European fashions and are trying |
to bring their lines nearer to the |
level of the European product. In |
this connection it might be well to
call attention to the excellent lines
domestic manufacturers are showing.
It appears each year that the zenith
has been reached as regards quality |
and assortment; but the novelty wool |
ens, mohairs, and worsteds placed on |
the market for 1905 by domestic man- |
ufacturers show that the needs of|
the American trade are now more ful- |

ly understood than in any previous |
year.

The general belief is that the vol-
ume of the dress goods business
throughout the entire country has not |
been up to past records. Many mer- |
chants have delayed making their se- |
lections for a number of seasons.
Others have ordered fewer lines and
smaller amounts. There has _ exist-
ed a feeling of uncertainty regarding |
the future which has depressed and |
discouraged the regular normal buy-
ing. But in the face of this condi-
tion, dress goods’ stocks have a

sale equal to that of last season.
The lines shown have been those
which the trade consider to be right.
At least, they have been selecting
from local stocks in a very liberal
manner. In one dress goods depart-
ment of a jobbing house the percent-
age of increase fs announced as con-
siderably above that of a year ago.

This experience was hardly antici-
pated even by the most enthusiastic
dress goods buyers. The lines this
year are conservative. It is doubtless
due to this fact that merchants have |
given close attention to them. There |
has been little use for the ultra and
freak lines. The departments have
sought to supply what the general |
public wants, and it has been a sea-
son in which merchants do not care
to take chances on ultra colorings
and patterns. There has been more
of an, effort to hold to staple lines.
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whether in the retail or wholesale |

house, is to learn what the trade
wants and to supply that want.

It is not expected that full assort-

TRADESMAN

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| main in the local dress goods depart- |

ments. If the assortments at this]
date were complete there would be|

fairamount of mailorder business is

|something wrong in the stocks. A|

expected during the rest of the}

present season. The up-to-date mer-
chant knows that new things are al-

| ways appearing, and these become |

more pronounced as the season ad-|

Vanees on certain. colorings and
weaves.

The combination of blue and green}

iis a deservedly popular consideration

for fall and winter. Visitors from
Paris report that blue and green brok-
en checks and plaids are a prominent

feature in certain quarters of Europe. |

Particularly in mohairs is this com-|

| bination well received, but it is also|
| found in silks and wool. These blue

and green effects in the broken checks |

are worn for full) suits. It is not
unlikely that the craze for this com-

bination may reach this country this |
fall and winter, and that the combi-|
nation in plaids and broken checks |
will be a distinct feature of the dress |

goods business.

li a merchant wants to make a!

these blue and green effects’ for
waists. They make a most attract-
ive waist and if suits of these com-

| hit let him be in a position to supply |

binations are popular in cities of this |

country and Europe it is very easy to

understand that the waist is a sug-|

gestion for the general trade. In mo-|

hairs of a green and blue plaid or)

broken check the _ possibilities are}

strong.

With the better trade black contin-
ues to show improvement. The lead-
ing retail black goods stocks are
showing some very beautiful crea-

tions. The newest and best crea-|
tions in black this fall are in high-|

priced fabrics. This fact will have

an influence in limiting sales. In}

eoliennes, voiles and grenadines, the

line of blacks is rich. Both grena-|

: iu :
dines and crepe effects appear in a}

| great variety. One line of grena-|

dines seen this week contained 150|
different effects. They appeared in|
stripes and broche patterns, and are

accepted by the fashionable trade as |

very correct. As has already been |

intimated the crepe effects, both in|

black and all the colors as well |

are now very prominent and are ex-|

pected by some authorities to develop

into crepons by at least next fall. |
Early deliveries of mannish effects |

in black goods have already been

| broken in some cases and immedi-

ate deliveries have been asked for
by some handlers of black goods in

order to supply the demands of their |

trade. It is noticeable that the

mannish effects in blacks are being

taken quickly by the cutting-up trade.
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Don’t get mad when things don’t |

go just right. It is demoralizing and
doesn’t do any good. Use the sur-
plus energy trying to find out how
to avoid other difficulties. It pays

better.

 

Have You a Good Line of
Soft Hats?

 

If not, then look over our line. We have several styles in
blacks at #4 50, $9.00, $12 00 and $18 oo per dozen, also seal,
side nutria, pearl and navy at $4.50 per dozen. We show the
cowboy hats in two grades, $4 50 and $6.00, and in two colors,
greys and browns. We also have a fine line of winter caps for
men’s and boys’ wear. Prices range from $2 25 to $13 50 per
dozen. Give us a trial order.

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
Exclusively Wholesale
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

 

 

 

$2 Corset Retailing
at One Dollar

 

The sooner you get
away from the idea
that Price Repre-
sents Value the
more money you will
make and the great-
er satisfaction you

will give your trade.

 

 

 

 

‘PURITAN CORSET CO.

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Michael Howarn, Detroit;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, H. E. Bradner, Lansing.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan

Grand Counselor, L. Williams, De-
a Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy.
Flint.

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

 

 

The Salesman Who Preferred Glu-
cose to Honey.

I wonder what in thunder it is in
the taste of a political job that makes
a man willing to sacrifice infinitely
better prospects in business to get it.

There must be something in it, all
right, but I suppose you
be initiated into the unholy of un-
holies before you can find out what.

The average man, that is, if he has
any leaning towards politics at all,
would rather have a political job at
$1,200 a year than run a grocery busi-
ness out of which he could
$1,500.

have to

 

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make |

day, explained what he had in view,
and then said this:

“I know you are a sort of politi-
cian, Bob, and I want the people I
take in here to be free of outside
entanglements. In other words, I do
not want anybody but employes to
hold stock here. So before I assign
you any share in this business I will
have to ask you to sign an agreement
to give up all idea of taking this po-
litical job you are after.”

Bob asked for a day or two to
think it over, and then what do you
think the darned fool did?

He told the old man he appreciated
the offer, and so on, and so on, but
he thought he had a good chance
now to get really into politics. That
it was not the salary, but the fact
that it would probably lead to better
things, and that he had his eye on a
State senatorship, and so on.

The man was such an ass that it
actually made me mad when I heard
of it! I forgot to say that this par-
ticular little grocery business was one

of the tidiest jobbing businesses in

| Ohio, and paid 20 per cent. on the
capital invested.
Well, the plan was put through

In spite of the fact that the head |

could be cut off his political
half a minute’s notice,
was his own and would last
him all his life!
Pll be darned if it isn’t funny!

a friend in the
grocery business out in Ohio. He
is an old man and has made money

the

ness
wholesale

I have

live

enough to rest of his life
without working. He got an idea
in his benevolent old head that it

would be a nice thing to turn his
business into a corporation and give

some of the stock to about five em-
ployes who had been with him a
long time. One of these was his

head book-keeper, another his buyer,
and the three
Generosity like that covers a mul-

others salesmen.

titude of sins in my eyes.
The best one of the three sales-
men was a_ semi-politician. By

“semi’’-politician I mean one of these
fellows who
sixty years hoping to be struck by
the lightning of but
never are.
They are

serve their country for
political choice,

political lightning rods.
It is terrible how some of these gen-
tlemen expose themselves when there
is going to be political lightning.
But they bear charmed lives—they
never get struck.

This had been on the
ged edge of local politics for
with a keen, unsatisfied
an office.

man rag-
years,

hunger for

Out of his job as salesman he made
about $2,600 a year. Just about the
time this incorporation scheme was
coming to a head he thought he had
a chance to get an appointment in
one of the local city departments. I
don’t know just what it was—a clerk-
something like that. The
salary was $1,500.

The idea of my friend,
sale grocer, was to make sure be-
fore he gave them any stock that
these employes intended to stick by

ship or

the whole-

the business for the rest of their
lives. He was afraid of his head
salesman, so he called him in one

job at|
while the busi- |

|a share,
| Twenty per cent.

 

and Bob did not get
other four got ten
straight gift. The
or $1,000

shares

for the whole.
on that meant an
extra income of $200 a But the
best of it was that they were mem-
bers of the concern.

Bob still held his job under the
new regime, and acknowledged his
old fellow-employes as his employers.
After working and worrying himself
half to death, toadying most sicken-
ingly to the political powers that be
and licking their dirty shoes _ for
weeks, the job he was after was giv-
en to another man.

The poor ass had lost the one
chance of his life to get fixed in a
business of his own.

He went to the old man and threw
himself on his mercy, but it did not
work. The old had given
away 40 per cent. of his business
already and he did not care to give
any more. So he turned Bob down
with a few plain, if gently-spoken,
words which gave the fellow a sore
head for days.

I will bet a thousand dollars that
experience won’t cure that man of
around the fringe, hungering
and thirsting for some cheap political
office. The lust is in his blood and
to his dying day he will probably
have that famished longing for a
seat at the public table.

He has really a splendid job. The
trade he has he largely controls and
he makes good money. But he will
run away from it any minute to mad-
ly chase the political will-o’-the-wisps
that seem to him the sum total of
all that is desirable on earth. _

if Stich an ass as that I
would go hang myself! I can not
understand the condition of a man’s
mind who looks at things this way. -

If I had room in this paper to let
myself go I could write a week about
cases just like this.

I will bet I could sit down now and
reel off the names of at least fifty
grocers known to me who have neg-

year.

fellow

hanging

was

 

any stock. The|
each—a |
par value was $100

 

lected their business badly to chase
politics. And they never got any-
thing!

All that saves some grocers who
do this is the possession of a good
wife. I know one case in particular
a grocer in  Pittsburg—who has
been after every local office out there.
Night and day he hangs around the
political headquarters with his lamp
trimmed and burning, but the bride-
groom never cometh. Half the ener-
gy he has wasted on politics would
have given him one of the best gro-
cery businesses in Pittsburg.

 

This man wouldn’t have a shred of
business to-day if his wife had not
sized him up and practically taken

the whole thing over on her own
shoulders. She runs it and runs it
successfully. Her husband considers

it his, but he is being supported by
his wife just as surely as if it was
hers outright.

 

I used to feei sore that none of}
the political leaders seemed to see}
that I was the ideal candidate for

Congress. But, by golly, I have got
over that! I am durn glad now they
never did—Stroller in Grocery

World.

—
Great Prize.

Towne—I thought your pastor was
opposed to lotteries in the church.

Browne—So he is.

Towne—But I understand your)|
church gave an oyster supper and|
that the one who got the oyster re- |
ceived a prize.

Browne—Of

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oyster ;

The

was the prize.

course.

 

LIVINGSTON
HOTEL

The steady improvement of the
Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large and beautiful lobby, its ele-
gant rooms and excellent table com-
mends it to the traveling public and
accounts for its wonderful growth in
popularity and eee

Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.
GRAND RAP,DS, MICH.

Gas or Gasoline Mantles at
50c on the Dollar

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

 

 

 

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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 wien _— cold water,
and any one can appl

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.
Wm. J. Marshall, Representing the
White-Dunham Shoe Co.
Wm. J. Marshall was born in Ca-
lais, Maine, May 2, 1872. His father
was a carriage maker by trade and

when the company was discharged.
This took him out of the military
field, but he still retains an active
interest in military matters and his
favorite pastime is the discussion of

military maneuvers and tactics, on

his antecedents on both sides were| both of which subjects he is very
English. He lived in Calais until | fully informed.
he was I5 years of age, when he| Mr. Marshall attributes his success

moved to Brockton, Mass., and en-
tered the employ of the White-Dun-
ham Shoe Co., beginning at the low-
est round of the ladder. In taking |
up this work he decided that he
would never leave the employ of the| may be, with a full understanding
White-Dunham Shoe Co. until he had | of what he is talking about.
learned every detail connected with |
the manufacture of fine shoes. He
worked on many different machines | line, but seldom has occasion to de-
and finally was promoted to the po- fend either, because his frank manner
sition of Chief Engincer of the fac-|and open countenance are in them-
tory, which placed him in charge of| selves a sufficient assurance of his
every machine operated by the com-| ability and disposition to make good
pany. | his promises.
After occupying this position four | : ———
years he came to the conclusion that | Traveling Men Form League Against
he had reached the apex of his ambi- nn Treating Habit. |
tion in that direction and, therefore, “o So ee ee oe,
to teach men

to the fact that he is thoroughly ac-
quainted with the manufacture f
shoes every branch of the busi-
ness, so that he is able to talk to any
dealer, no matter how technical he

 

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Chicago has
with

movement.

| another, come to

| front a promising temperance
Tt is called the
| Treating League of America. Head-
LaSalle street, and the President is

| Albert K. Draper.
It is not exactly a new movement,

in |
i their daily social relations with one}
the |

quarters have been established at 189 | i i
treating habit and that the men who

 

 

 

 

Wm. J. Marshall

 

sought and obtained a_ position

traveling salesman for the house, be- |
ing assigned the trade of Michigan, |
which he has now covered with reg- |
ularity for the past two years and|
in which he has worked up a large |
and constantly expanding trade for |

his house.

Mr. Marshall was married Sept. 6,
1894, to Miss Henrietta Wilson, of
Brockton. They have one child, a
girl 8 years old. The family has
resided in Brockton until recently,
when they removed to Detroit, tak-
ing up their residence at 144 Second
street.

Mr. Marshall is a member of the
Episcopal church and also owes alle-
giance to Massasoit Lodge, No. 69,
I. O. O. F., of Brockton, with which
organization he has been identified
for several years.

Mr. Marshall was for many years
a member of Battery I, 1st Massa-

chusetts Heavy Artillery, every mem- |

ber of which enlisted in the regular
army on the breaking out of the
Spanish War. The company was
summoned to Fort Warren in Bos-

as |

'for the benefits of an anti-treating |

pledge have already been known and

appreciated in various corners of the}

| world. Even in Chicago an

the best results in the Jesuit Fathers’

 

He has |

|
|
|

necessity of respecting his ee
and the financial prudence of having |
a regard for his pocketbook.

So well did they work that within |
six weeks the League numbered 300,
and a meeting was held in Chicago
to effect a permanent organization.
A button bearing the motto of the!
League was adopted as an emblem,
and this now numerous
It is a gold and enamel
the name of the|
League, with the “arms” of the or- |

is seen on

coat lapels.
button, bearing

if in protest at an invitation to im-|

bibe—and the motto, “Excuse me,
please.”
It is useless to offer a drink to a

man wearing such an emblem; it is

| his armor of proof against the stand-

lard temptation of the barroom and

Anti- |

of
the

is

a member
promote

he
to

that
association

announces
the

|cause of temperance among all men

by refraining from indulging in the
pernicious custom of treating any

friend or friends to intoxicating li-

quors, and to refrain from accept-
ing all so-called courtesies from
| others.”

There is a vast field and good work
cut out for the Anti-Treating League.

| No doubt the drink habit is acquired

anti- |
| treating society has flourished with}

| parish or that of the Holy Family |

lon the West Side. And there is
similar society in Ireland. Recent-
ly, when Seamus McManus, the Irish

a

the old

promptu way by exhibiting the in-

him entertainment in

| signia he
| declaring his inability under the rule
| either to give or receive a “treat.”

is now about to have in America, the
great home of treating, general and
widespread application. It
tainly ripe time for it, for it has be-

is cer-
come an actual necessity.

Although Chicago is its headquar-
ters, the new anti-treating movement
appears to have been first sprung in

St. Louis. In a hotel there a couple
of months ago the nucleus of the
Anti-Treating League of America

was formed by twenty-five traveling
men, who had each and all experienc-
ed the evil consequences of repeated,
prolonged, indiscriminate
Since then each of these anti-treaters

cess to drum up recruits.

When they met acquaintance
on the road who gave them the usual
| convivial invitation to approach the
| shrine of Bacchus they declined and
| gave their reasons for declining, and
labored to bring their genial ac-
|quaintance over to their way of
ithinking. They did not appeal to his

an

 

| religious sentiment, nor did they in-

dulge in moral platitudes. Their ar-

author, visited Chicago, he surprised |
many who greeted him and proffered |

treating. |

has proceeded with energy and suc- |

ton Harbor, April 26, 1898, and re- | gument was to his common, worldly
mained in service there six months, | sense, and dealt with the physical

im- |

wore in his coat lapel and |

It seems that this same principle |

 

chiefly through the very prevalent
thus acquire it are often among the
most social and kindly, men who love |

ito mix and mingle in friendly inter- |

Quarterly Meeting of Board of Di-
rectors, M. K. of G.
Port Huron, Nov. 5—At the regu-

lar quarterly meeting of the Board
let Directors, M. K.. of G, all the
directors were present except Mr.

Klockseim, of Lansing.

The Secretary’s report showed to-
tal receipts of $2,442.50, all of which
had been turned over to the Treas-
urer.

The showed

Tréasurer’s report

ithat he had sent nine $7 checks to

| ganization—two hands thrown upas| J Matson, leaving

a balance of
$155.84 in the relief fund; also dis-

bursements of $375.95 from the gen-

ieral fund, leaving a balance on hand

of $362.71; also four $500 checks is-
sued against the death fund, leaving
a balance on hand of $4,561.40.

The claims of Russel E. Bartlett,
of Kalamazoo; William A. Gavitt, of

Detroit; Chauncey K. Fuller, of
Flint, and Frank Coon, of Albany,
N. Y¥., were approved.

An assessment:-was. ordered for

Dec. 1, to close Dec. 31, together with

jannual dues for 1905.

Five per cent. of the death fund
was ordered transferred to the gen-
eral fund.

An order was ordered drawn on the
Treasurer for $56 in payment of eight
weeks, at $7 per week, for Brother
Matson.

An order was ordered drawn on the
‘Treasurer for $3) to pay No. 4 as-

'course with their fellows. It is this| sessment and annual dues for 1905
class of men who usually fall victims | for Brother Matson.

| when one “round” comes fast upon Are ei gheee | eager e eeleea real gfe ia ay
|the heels of another and each man the Treasurer for $50 in favor of C.

|insists upon being “as good as an-
other,” when a group, large or small,
meets casually at a saloon bar.
Thus man
goes in with a friend he finds himself
in a crowd of acquaintances, and in-

J. Lewis for stamps.

An order was ordered drawn onthe
Treasurer for $50 in favor of M. J.
for stamps for the
convention.

shen : occasionally
when a ccasl Y | Howarn annual

An order was ordered drawn on the

| stead of one drink there are many, T fe o
: a reasurer for $50 avo .
|meaning loss of time, sense and i il > lay sly fof MG
: owarn for printing fo » 2 ,
| money, with perhaps a subsequent printing for the annual

convention.
The following bills were presented
and allowed:

penance of gastric affliction and im-
paired ability for business.
The League does not expel or cen-

sure a member for breaking his res- Bi . Piesson, primtimg (0000 $ 29 00
olution, but as a deterrent it has an| C. J. Lewis, sundries... .... . 25
accident insurance feature, and the|C. J. Lewis, salary.......... i122) 52
policy contains a clause making the C. J. Lewis, Board meeting.. 6 64
same void if the holder should be in-| H. G. Bradner, Board meeting 7 85
jured or killed while under the influ- | James Cook, Board meeting. 8 20
ence of drink. C. W. Stone, Board meeting. 8 go

“Be good,” says Mark Twain, “and A. A. Weeks, Board meeting 11 95
you'll be lonesome.” “Be lonesome | H. P. Goppelt, Board meeting 5 85
in your drinking (if you have to|C. W. Hurd, Board meeting. 6 03
drink at all),” says the League, “and | M. G. Howarn, Board meeting 4 99
you'll be good.” The great Amert-| Et. G. Bradner, salary... 0...) 48 85
can treating habit is a disease that; A vote of thanks was extended to

And }

in

requires a stringent remedy. Mr. Stewart, of the Harrington Ho-
this remedy seems to be found tel, for courtesies shown.
the Anti-Treating League—Chicago| Adjourned to meet in Detroit, Dec.

Record-Herald. | 26. C. J. Lewis, Sec’y.

 

UNSURPASSED POULTRY MARKET

Actual sales—Fancy live Turkeys, young, 12@13. Chickens, 12@13. Fowls, 1o@11.
Geese, 9@10. Dressed Turkeys, 14@15. Chickens, 13@14. Fowls, 12@12%. Ducks, 14@15

For fancy (scalded) poultry Buffalo will equal any market—no exception—for Thanksgiving and
Christmas. We are not prophets, but predict, just the same, as we have safely for years, that no
market excels us on holiday poultry this season, because Buffalo has places for it. First, aiwarvs big
holiday demand; second, the canners want very large quantities—1,oc0,000 lbs.; third,” aan
speculators, any amount; fourth, live, raffling trade, carloads; fifth, factory proprietors’ trade, thou-
sands as gifts. Hence no danger of sticking us on any poultry, "

Thanksgiving can do justice to very liberal amount fancy turkeys, ducks, chicks—and many more
alive. Buy conservative—better sure margin on moderate shipments than loss on large ones
Unsurpassed service, promptness, integrity, responsibility, conservative quotations and we believe
an unexcelled poultry market, light freight, quick time, etc.

We predict for Thanksgiving, Fancy Turkeys will sell dressed 20o@22, Chix 13@14, Hens 11@12
Dux 15@16, Geese 12@13. Live Turx 16@18, Chix 12@13, Hens 10@11, Dux 12@13, Geese 10@11.
Should supply be very short, 1 ct. more would be easy. Buffalo will pay up with any market in United
States when she has to.

References: New shippers to old ones and Western shippers to Berlin Heights Bank, Berlin
Heights, Ohio, or Third National Bank, Buffalo; or anywhere on demand. Our 36th year.

BATTERSON & CO., 159 [lichigan St., Buffalo, N. Y.

Ducks, u@
12.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
Cc. B. Stoddard, Monroe.

Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-

President—W. A. Hall,
Vice-Presidents—W.
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,

Detroit.
Cc. Kirchgessner,

 

| prescriptions of the modern doctor.

Grand Rapids; E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor; |

L. A. Seitzer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal-
amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit.

Trade Interest Committee, three-year
term—J. -M. Lemen, Shepherd, and
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

| powders and fluids that was in vogue |
| years

;manner of estimating the

Why the Drug Business Does Not!

Pay.
I want to call your attention toa
phase of the drug business which
very materially affects the profits. It

is one which has been entirely over- |

| expensive

there must necessarily be a big leak
in his profits.

Prescriptions to-day include such
products as_ phenactine,
duotal, protargol, sodium cacodylate,
sulfonal, trional,’ etc., while some
equally expensive articles in the line
of proprietary medicines that are con-
stantly specified are Gude’s_ pepto-
mangan, Schlotterbeck’s
compound, mixture hydrastis, Triti-
palm, Cascara evacuant, etc., not to
neglect to mention such costly phar
maceuticals as papoid, suprarenal cap-
sules and a number of other items
that are constantly mentioned in the |

neurosin,

 

Again, the system of charging for

in our busi-
entirely different
price at
which such articles should be sold |

still obtains
whereas an

ago

|
|
|
|
ness,
|

| must -be introduced if the profits of |

looked in searching for reasons why |

there not the
formerly.
some twenty years ago the discov-
ery is made that where twenty con-
secutive prescriptions,
random, costing the druggist $2.29,
and selling for $8.65, gave him a

are same

profits as |
In looking over a file of

selected at|

profit of 277 per cent., or $6.36, twen- |

ty similar prescriptions of to-day
bring a profit only of 182 per cent.
The ingredients of the prescriptions
of the present time cost $4.69 and
are sold for $13.25, profit of $8.56.
Now, some one may say that there
is no argument, since on twenty pre-

| did twenty years ago, owing to the
|} archaic system of charging that had

scriptions a score of years agothere |

was a profit of $6.36 and on twenty
ordinary prescriptions of to-day there
is. a profit of $8.56, nevertheless ona
prescription that formerly cost $1

a profit of 277 per cent. was realized, |
while to-day on the same investment |

but 182 per cent. profit is made, a
net loss in profit on a dollar invest-
ment of 95 per cent.

in the face of the fact that he
endeavored to obtain an  avérage
profit of 200 per cent. Had he, like
most druggists, charged per quanti-
ty or figured on a basis of I00 per
cent. profit, then his receipts would
have been $9.38, his profits $4.69, or
a net profit of $1.67 less than two
decades ago.

It must also be remembered, as
every experienced druggist will ad-

_ | onds and estimate the price of the
Right here let me suggest that this | ceyera] ingredients) it is
had |

|to my knowledge, selling a prescrip-

| amount

|
|
|
}
|

mit, that at the present time doctors |

are writing more frequently for coal
tar products and proprietary articles.
In the twenty prescriptions selected
from the file of twenty years ago but
one coal tar product specified;
but in the twenty prescriptions

was
se-

|and allowed to stand on the shelves

iected from the files of the present |

time five expensive coal tar products

and six proprietary articles are call- |

ed for. Now. with the numerous and

constantly increasing varieties of coal |
tar products and proprietary articles |
which are being constantly put on|

the market, the druggist is compell-
ed to keep an unusually expensive
steck on -his shelves, much of which
after a few months is never again
called for, and ‘it is easy to see that

e- . - ~ “ee _- +--+

/in many
| cents, and even more, yet he is not
| receiving one

|new materials that are daily being

former years are to be made to-day. |
For instance, we used to!
charge 40 cents for a dozen pow- |
ders that cost but 8 cents we still |
charge 40 cents for a dozen powders
that cost perhaps anywhere from 15 |
to 40 cents. Any business man will |
quickly tell you that such methoas |
and systems can not but result disas-
trously for the retail drug trade.
Take, for instance, fluid prescriptions.
Where formerly a 2, 4, 6 or 8-ounce
mixture that cost the druggist 8, 12,
18 or 20 cents to-day will cost him}
instances 20, 30, 40, 60)

where

cent more than he

been allowed to exist.
ask
mix-

four-ounce mix-

continue to
a two-ounce
cents for a
cents

Why should we
only 35 cents for
ture, so
ture, 65 for mix-
ture, and 75 cents for an eight-ounce
mixture, when the cost of the pre-
scription is very those
amounts and frequently (if the drug-
gist would only stop for a few sec-

a six-ounce

nearly

the
druggist actually, as I can testify in
a number of cases which have come

more,

smaller
the

tion at a loss, receiving a
for the medicine than
wholesale cost of the ingredients?
To sum up‘the whole question:
First, it must be borne in mind that
prescriptions which contain expen-
sive ingredients must be charged for
accordingly, no matter what the size
of the mixture or the number of
powders; and second, the cost of

introduced and put on the market

without being used up must like-
wise be included in fixing the cosf
of prescriptions. There will then be
no need of asking: “What becomes
of the profits?”
Frank E. Falkenberg, R. P.
—_—-e-+
Cultivate Medicated Vegetables.

Will the doctor of the future,

 

in-

| stead of prescribing some unpleasant |

drug, order a course of medicated |
vegetables? This may be the result

of the present attempts to cultivate
plants containing abnormal quantities

of certain medicinal substances. It
is well known that the amount of any
characteristic element in a plant va-
ries with its richness in the soil, and
it is also known that the assimilation
of mineral elements of the body is
much more readily
when these are partaken in the form
of food. In the past, if the body
needed an excess of iron, it has been
supplied by tinctures taken through
glass tubes.

accomplished

The modern idea is to supply this
want by such vegetables as medicat-
ed spinach.
grown in

Experiments with plants
soil enriched by
of iron proved that they contained a
much larger percentage of iron than

those grown in natural soil. This
opens a whole vista of interesting
possibilities. The iron, the potash,

the manganese, the nitrogen needed
by the system can be supplied more

effectively and more palatably
through vegetables than through

medicines. Already many vegetables
Cel-
ery is generally held to be good for
disorders;
for in-

are known to have properties.
rheumatism and
lettuce for
digestion; onions for liver complaint;

nervous
insomnia; peanuts
carrots for scurvy; tomatoes for the
for diarrhea and
apples nervous dyspepsia and
rheumatism. Certified milk, with its
stated proportion of fat, sugar and
solids, would have seemed improba-
Will the future
see certified vegetables?

blackberries
for

liver;

ble some years ago.

Will the modern druggist furnish
daily all kinds of medicated
vegetables? There are evidently a
field much
idea. The great importance of the
mineral constituents of the
body is in its infancy, and very little

fresh

great and money

human

understood.
——_.- >

The Drug Market.

Opium—Is very firm on account of

hydrate

in this

tents by the appearance of a package,
try my products rather than those

of my competitors, who use ordi-
nary packages.
Because my packages are handy

and durable they are used long after
the contents are consumed, and thus
I get free and continuous. advertising
from the consumer as well as from
the storekeeper-—and get it, too, with-
Out any
ers’ Ink.

additional expense.—Print-

 

 

 

 

Election is Over
Now for Business

If you have not visited our

Holiday Sample Room

there is yet time, as our lines are still
complete.

The best assortment to be seen. Druggists’
and Stationers’ Fancv Goods, Novelties, Al-
bums, Leather Books,
China, Bric-a-Brac, Perfumery, Xmas Cards,
Dolls, Toys and Games. A liberal expense
allowance will be made on vour holiday pur-
chase. All goods in stock for prompt or later
shipment. Terms liberal.

Goods, Stationery,

Valentines

Complete sample line now ready
The best ever

FRED BRUNDAGE
Wholesale Druggist

32-34 Western Ave. Muskegon, Mich.

 

 

 

higher prices in the primary market. |

Morphine—Is unchanged.

 

Quinine—Is steady.

Carbolic Acid—Is very firm and
advancing.

Chloral Hydrate—Has been ad-

vanced by importers 5c per pound.
Cocaine—Is in a very firm posi-
tion, but is unchanged in price.

|
|

Hops—Crop is small and very high |

prices will rule the coming year.

Menthol—Continues to weaken and |

is tending lower.
Nux Vomica—lIs in large demand
and has advanced.

|
|

Strychnine—On account of higher |

prices for nux vomica a higher price |

for strychnine will be named in a
day or two.

Oil Peppermint—Is still unsettled;
the growers and dealers are apart as
to the market value.

Oil Sassafras—Stocks
firm and prices have advanced.

Camphor—Is very firm.

_—_—_. <=
How to Succeed with a Preparation.

A large manufacturer recently said:
I attribute much of my success to the
great care taken in selecting attrac-
tive, handy and durable packages for
my products. The retailer is only
too glad to display my goods, because
they add_to the attractiveness of his
store, and customers, judging

are very

 

con-

 

 

 

Two Special

PERFUMES
SoroTHy VERNoy

Distinctively new in character.
Standard demand.
Sold by the leading drug houses.

\saflal|
Kases

This new rose odor is now having
a splendid ‘sale. The advertising is
effective. Urder one pint bettle
Alsatian Roses with samples and rose
art plates, also window display, all
packed in box for shipment. The
Yards Roses, Basket Roses and Art
Plates Roses will make a handsome
window trim for the holiday line.
Place your order at once. H. & P.
Drug Co. carry stock of Alsatian
Roses.

“Jenne PERFUMERy(

GRAND RAPIDS

Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates .

 

every day to Grand Rapids. Send for
Circular... ee ae

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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erahin. Canadas. @1 50 | Bichromate it) eo@) 3S Guiaca : _ winter... 70@ 70'Ja ra T Damar .1 55@1 60
acacia i som a eeuMc ........ 13@ 15 | Guiaca a. 10 Jap Dryer No 1 T '
ens 4s 35@ 49| Carb a 40° 45 Neaaceueae
Abies, C Cortex coe a po. et 15 lodine ... : uae
Pia anadian.. 18 oo oc re J oo 14 o— colorless. . |
Cinchona Flava.. 20} Po crseceereeed OO@S aa OO ett e |
a Plave tas 5@3 10} L li: so |
Buonvmus po bh 18 | pr i diye Bitart pr 204 10 ot oy
os B atro.. 30 itass Nitr 32 | Myrrh i a0
Myrica Cerifer ‘ eis | hae asopt 1G Nase :
Pr © Tera... 9 yitass Nitras 10 | Nux Vomic; 50
Quillai: Virgini.. ‘3 Mice 6@ = 8 | Opil @-ssee 50
uillaia, gr’ : Cea 934) 9¢)| Opil, camphorate 7
Goddafras d .... 12 Miphate po .... 154 6 pil, camphorated Le
a ras ..po 2O ; 5@ 18 | Opil, deodoriz 50
Fimus ....., 18 Radix Gouceuia orized. . 1 50
oo 40 | Aconitum mo, =
Cis. Extractum aes 20@ 25 latany ..... oY
Gireyetaees Gla ‘ie sn A ost CL 304 aie oe... 50
ravrrhi _ ot a 4 Ci Si oo ae at ola al 5
‘lyeyrrhiza, po.. 284 a0 Aa Le 10@ 12 Sanguinaria 50
Haematox .. 2@ 301 a, Im pO ........ @ 12 |Serpentaria i 30
Haematox, is ... io 2 oe teeta 0a 25 | Stromonium .... 50
Haematox, 1s .. 14 14 foceen po 15... 12a 40] Tolutan . a 60
Hacmatox, Ys a 5 | WG Botan 15 | Valerian 22 50
_ <° r 1 ydrastis ‘. oer de Marida 50
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' arbonate Precip i Helleb i , Can.po @2 00 Zingiber ........ By
Citrate and cena i 15 tks ore, Alba. V@ & 4
Citrate Soluble . 2 001 tnecac De 18M 22 Miscell
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Sulphate, com’l ‘ 15 | Marant: Peis 35@ 301 Alumen Spts Nit 4f34@ 38 |
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ie ace ons. by odophyilum po. 15@ = Annatto it 3@ |
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poe sit a, Acutifol. 36 Symplocarpus ' p- x2 Calcium Chlor 1 it G@ time to stock
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ae and W%s io Valeriana. Ger . _@ 95 | Capsici Fruc’ us. @l
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Benzoinum ...... ae 40 |‘ henopodium i 90 | Chloral H Sauibbe @
oe da 2 55 “hse sey Odorate 80@1 re Chondrus iad ie pre I ql
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amphorae 794 Pn Cini sete eeee ia 6 Cocaine 4 oe
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Coi | Aurora... gre, Plums Vv: outen, %8 ..... range Gem ....... | FLAVO
Castor Oil .....12! 55 6 00) Pitas ‘ Web * uasener oc. 4 | i Assorted Cakes. rd aig EXTRACTS
eae 65 le Pineappie cn 0 ie cee 3 Pi ot Bread ... Cole oote & Jenks
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—_" a lee wo OcOn SHELLS Spiced Sugar Tops ... Ss itmenh ieee” 22
ek. . 1) % bh. avier | Tb. bags Sugar Cak a. 2 | Cc. pr dz 00
chal eetaaia 85 | % Ib. — sai quantity ........ 2% | Sugar Cakes, scalloped 8 Mexican Vanills oo Oe
No. 1 — 1 Ib can MB wcceceseees 700) Pound packages eeecees 3 / Sultanas S sec eeee 8 | No. s+ c. pr anilla a
No. 2 os ge 375! cor eet 12 00 | COFFEE 4 — mma is _ ‘ D. C C or ae ssood 20
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Parlor — eteteban 175 Red B acta only flats.1 85@1 90 | Common. iG Vanilla Wafer <b ae g ' a... oi
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came -~ 3 Domestic, ’s . * 3%@ 3% | s cet eee eee 18 Parrels or @ TARTAR Knox’s Acid ling, 0.14 00
ae coe . eo: | Common. — |Boxes. ... rumis oo... 99 | Knox’s Aciau'a.” loz. 1 20 €
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No. 2 a pie sineees 15 Standard ne Fair. Maracalbo Sundriea Apples qt. size Ls 7.
a fc secre on se 110 : Su eee ee Chleee . ous... se. 15 Wvaporated .. 10... @_ | Amo GRAIN BAGS
baccien ia Mair . Le Cc *- 5%@7 skeag, 100
Fa: . No. 8 Shoe Mae et 95 | Choi Mexican i week ae] Prunes | Amoskeag, less ans 4
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-— £4-oon ont Wie... . Stand C Deod 7 2 ee @14 j ee ae 50 | Peel cn ar ate 4 80
Hides and Pelts ...... 5 | on. orc” aaa Dvtinales oline -- BU, [Jersey ---ece esc a8) | Buckwheat. Rte sh ens an 5 50
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ndards . ak <a ., 2 aughlin’s XXXX_ in: hdclUa | ee ls ea 4 20
re 5 | Baked Beans 85 _— yee 9 OaK t "MeLaughiin’ — tx sold | ——_ cae on a one to usual cash d
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| La . ae 5 String i i ol eae ‘oof 83 Snider's coca pts.. 3 60 pron ughlin & Co., Chi- | pares a AN | — Grocer Co.’
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i St Reten tele 5 | Lit ‘clams 190 a rie a ae a >A Hummel’s _ ff a. B fa nas. package. gy, | Pillsbury’s - pose ‘4s 8 50 :
t ae... . Little Neck, 3 orem & Emblem... es @14% | CRACKERS ek ee Lemon & Wt a <
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; Good heros ee ehieert 85@90 ® | Bineapnie oa @13 a thaigg Setee oe 6 Pearl, 200 mee ++ +e 00 | Worden G ie 6 70
Potash . §) Fancy oo. .-s Tel ae —oe Flakes ..1..: s ee ee re as | teat 4S, el Co.’s Brand
{ ecuarbecr ls a gan 6\s French Peas a oe, aus ge le Oyster ” ee and Vermicelli Laurel, %4s, clot! nae 6 80
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Gecccbarticg 15 | Largest Gum Made .. a ake 3% | Common, | ...+.-++-++- = de | een Saae
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i PN oe a cinkec peek g | Soused, 1 th.........2.. 280 w CHOCOLATE ee nang NE 12 | Monarch . 100%. sacks? 10 Car lots Oats
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ewe — ae +0215 P: oan: 2 cs = ia ve ettteeee. 85 aed SEE a UT a se patent ee | il
B es Seer. @ 1k Arm and rg hg -2e Ga ae > Hiawatha | Ser tb. “Peon Pe = hon
ul ae “an ela or 3. Counts eae Agnes crete, : | Id 2 pat. brush hold Sie i yo
Bulk BP ag dx a 50 Dwiaht 7 Hammer box sountry °F braids - American at ++ 35 eal eT a holder. 15 — “-
Bulk, 3 gal kegs itmblem a” 2 Enoc 2d eae 4 00 Spear i — S be ae heads.1 = Lamb ossececes
Manan, a ae - P. m baile ie 3 z Sapolio, oe 2. eared Head 7 ae 3-hoop eee oe a Nc ings cesses ss 15@
so ge os : ie ic g an’ ee ase = -wi mak on
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Queen gente ee a0 ae SAL 60 “et 20 ee an ow ice eo vd Hones st sea a 4a Cedar, a Pd seed 60 Wa ea : )
Stuffed, oz. ‘Granulated, bb DA .-3 00 ‘hand es 50 a ee y ised hice | Paper. = red aa 1 ae ieee avo @ ai
Seated. 8 oot ce io bbls vot He | Boxes sop 4 = a “Shei SEIN si _Bureka brass" 211 = Unwashed Saale @ be
, 10 ie p, 145tb. ke cases.1 85 Kegs, Enel A alte Sidsibie 34 | Hard etc a “2 33 ashed, m a ia i
he : ecg! 00 Y ie Bl ney a sick se. 38 | Soft wood prereuritaa 2 5 | nediu 140 27
lay, No. PIPE 1 c as He 731 C el, 5 Cadill Stands itwiee 22 66 | eee” ana ati eg CONF om 22
Clay, 7. rT. ple 00 common . |. 96 Columbis oa aa can” ndard ce ia. prea Soret 50 poe 2 a
a ir. . full coun lk 13 5Ib. sacks rade | ed Lette i. Nicke yoseeeeeetteress i o | ne ey ae Stand Cand .
Sa. count ac” a ' | Hee Lagi oe = ee 1 = | aes Y
PICKLES 65 = a SACKS 602.0. 1 90 Sa 3 00 oo Mouse. aa mera 1 a Snaeae Paes ag Pai
Barrels sedi ES . = 8 tb. — LOE en 1 80 Al iw a. 90 «© Smoki a Seas wood. 2 hol 9 j Cut oo ty TT 4
nrrcls, 00) 0 in, oe : aoe rs toe. a2 Sumb act
Barr Oe ceed > - oo - 80/Ca ssia, China on Great Navy . a aor aoe in, 6 holes + Etre fe er
. Half bois” Small ed ao ean : 5 Cassia, a iia i soso Warpath ena 32 c spring ©. a. el Boston. i. a!
ls L: ) cou +3 79 | y ind ill ba B 1ton mats. 12 rx oe 2 heereuame see 65) Old oi Cc a) ace
-4 apenas . te 16 Le ana Nice. me e He eeesceeees 7
_ 09 count ..8 ¢ | s ail ‘Batavia, bu Tae 00, 16 oz... io 4 Tim es
' No. 00, Stearn count 4 56 1. sacks oo = I Honey a coo Ac standard af . co Sugai” 3
o. ig mb D _ st i gon. oken. 9g Gol Dew at onena pier nd » No “ ae ck
ae 20. Rival, boat ye ial <a Amboyna par 40 Has Block” —_ ome oo Standard, No. 1.7 @& | Groce Mixed C wecacal
No. $5 Siz, Speciat ——— = —. fs — vos 22 eg aa: — = Chips gucci edo Gable, = 35 00 | Competitio a
o. it edl eT Satan oe nes i SEIS eee es. veeeeees ey Cable ane 00 | Speci ia...
No 808, ie 60 s e. oak N megs, 75-80 "| : 39 /P eg +40 oO. 1 Cable, No. oT ; Co al . oT
. 632, Bic tin fi “a. inet ee 84 utm gs, i -80 “se 30 0 uke’ ceg ci |N Fib e, N vl 50 | R = mallee 6
Tou ycle nish2 75 FI sees y| Pe egs 05-1 see 5d Duk tea ot ao | hh 2 Fi re 0. 3 --6 50 Oy: LU eceseeeetees oo
ate aa oe | ot c SH 85 Poe , 15-2 ; mie e's dance eens 33 No Fibre ... 225 Ribbe aac 4
oa ae. : S ca nis epp Ci ce #9 yrtl Cam re eae | 2k eo. See 5 50|/B fal ee eeeeeeees woe 8
Bab 48 TASH iste 0 Small : a Pep er, Si oan LS . = Yum e Na eo oo ak | fee 40 38 a 2
P wa pe 25 trips et per, ngp. e, bik: 30 Yu Yu ee ey -39 Bro es 9 45 Cut n sis aa aneat 7
cae Gant Go’ case | Pollock ‘na oo. @ 6} a shot white 15 ecu Yuu 2 4 bi iow Bo vee 8 45 | En ae ale uate : 8%
a ore : icks. @ 6 SiC Spic Gro an - 26 C lib. 30 --44 |D a ai _ = |= t Load. ao-eoens i 3
PRO 0.’8 oe 4 0 ae ag T%@ 6 Cassi ce oy und i ee 1 Ge Cc wate 3 a Le eD | inder Rock |... Ll 8
— VISIONS 3 0 Strips Halibut g'3 Cassia, ae a oa Cake, Fis "40 | ea inane ‘asl ee ee ey a
Back Barreled ) Chunks... eo Cloves Saigon egal 16 Bow ag i ‘a oe Double “Peer os 75 Fea oS :
Fat gore ork Heaune Nata Ginger, aigon -...-.- 16 Pe ~ oe a on me .2 75 |F natn Aspe 4
eo wa ll Le , zibar ... an | Poon y, PS | Nor Cacteen "ae Stare aes coe
Shor — Ge 13 00 | tne — Siaeee African” caer Peerless, 7S al “2 | Double Z Gane ca = Prem wena Greene vo -
ae vo white — eee So So pote Pe puaee ae oan 4
} “eee v0 | White Hoop, and “Mustard Naa a D nceesace = aa rae... le | ceecaa’ re Enea 1c ¥ abies ea 14%
a 2 RIE 00 White hoop, eon ssoe ho veoeteeettens 25 Forex-x Clu cae m (eS Win oes = Gypsy. Hea << a
isket oi eeeeesce = "| Nor S| he p, Ke 4 23@5 25 aa. singapnte “bie: 65 Good ee so jit in oe 2% | Coco E He ound D Is
: agiig = te = eein op a — D5 00 Pepper, Sin an 7 Self ai x : aoe 116 in. Seaes Clean cocm 2 Fud Bon mae rop
Bellies ry 2 aoe 16 50 Bona. ra Lay s 6 70 age Gave ae re Self Binder oe “3s | ine eee ers ae Se —-
i aterm 50 | s\ nd ett _ 2 e = nde i . ae talee quares 1... ig
E hie” eats 50 | Sea _ 4 Nm econ 28 | der «....-..-20- eo é Salted 2 ne a
Bey — | ind, 40 Ibs. 2... - Bia = ma 20. : la ‘ai 1 8 Salted 1 Desens aD
Shor a. ce 60 AR -: Ce os S| as utter og tarlight nuts ...
rts a oo c | Gott, T vee 145. in . on po -
pe Smok No. 1 ae -2 00 — eee 2 Cotton, 3 WINE = 1 in Butter ... : a Blas Kisse hee 1
j iams, 12 Ib ed Me. 33 No. _ ioe out _./ 38)) - oa Glos. Jute n, 4 ply ... 7 in. Butt ee eee a Goodie ous
Hams, 14 Ib. : =. Ibs <i. pecks acaee ao “Seip (19 in, Be ae 15 Lozenges odies .. 0
< tans, a Ib. average _ 1, 2 Ibs. . : 40 | packages ear 4@5 Flaw ply veeeee ett 22 | Assort Gua vee B teol ee . beat
oe, ee : heme 3 ae 8 8. eevee 59 | Barre Kages os; ‘wank a y geen pon : ae i ion =
Sei sins si _* erage i pS. sete 3 25 oo eer 4% ool, i a aa rte 13-15-17 °°: .8 % | Qui pse = see Lae ‘
Ham, .; ce rage. 11 | Mess fo collet ga ae | 20 pe es |3@ 514 tb. ba seers c WR Ee eg 15 pope eek — ae
Shoutzers, oer 11 at 100 .ckerel Co eae 1tb. mmon Corn 3% |M co ‘Common’ Stra 9 ns 25 | Mo mpion Chocolat a
os ci sakes | NO oe i packages <-- git ute wales wine, ees eo PAPER eer ake: monty
a 7 a @ No. i J0 Ws. sees: fp s ages 11.143 5 re vite Wine, 40 a > Manila, ooo a Amperials ... sea ws
= ed Boiled 2 Te 12 No. ‘ DS pes 1 70 B: YRUPS "4% @? Poe — a 80 gr. 8 | Cream Manila colo oe .. 1% | Ital. eo 9
eee Bee sd oa Coa re pie Ger Bed fal Eorig ot ia. Bt |e Rh ad
teeeee ...25e a co 1 = ca oo e & ; Wa. s ta i. i.
as Ham... sd ae o. I, 8 Ibs ee 5 10 oo Barrels --.. mi re Cider. obinaon i Wax Butter shor eee 3 classes “Ch es Bons.
— i" ia on 15 ) Ib ce ae ean vee 22 iar HI ve n.1 | Wax tte sho si Go es a ae i
ure nd d 2 Ww tees 50 5Ib aaa Ea b= in ca: ‘ G mo NG lls 0 B tr, f a 2% | Id — S, soe
E " - Siw aia ee shisaiy ds in ca + +24 old nd Fi PO a utter ull —~ a" | on “Wael 15%
- © aoe 0 tb No fish 25 Si Ib s 2dz i mo Bay hoe sea 65 Gold Brick ake WDE M Y , roll ount. ly Fan eee .
Ib wnat 6Y, 50  . 1 aN cans inc ase dd | Gt Du me R Magi EA S - 20 sem FT Deas 12
| 60 ib. tubs: advance. 4 50 Ibs. ..-+.. oo. a - ay byago 1 50 pres — Wie a.) one 3 — ou CS Peaaer ._- oe 12
« 20 = tubs. advance z | 8 B= oo 4 i 2 onl ure a case 1 S Kirkoline, 100- awe. 14 25 Sunlight: oo E Earn Boxes
1 Q Ib. pails. . vance. i | Po. 10 2 1 (Good eevee: . 75 | Seeman “4 4b. 14 50 | sata ge ac Se Tops ... 50
: + an i. *| seer 0 10 Od evveeeeeeeees apir 4Ib. a | Ye Fo % d os 1 H MC ro . .
5 Ib. Ss % | Opie aie 82 b2 seetersteetiee ea Babbitt's . 2203 90 ort Cream, eo. vee] 08) Dark eae p80
. ac [ ‘ Ot ee oe i “oO; te * . ‘a
Bolo. ils: ‘advance. % bowen sects: TEA = 8 Armour er ase 4 ce Pr oie Brilliant G oS aid
‘ Liver sausages : ‘Cardamo rte a ._ Jap Wisd Orel -a- fe FRESH doz. °.' 58 ‘Lozeiiges, o1 uns." Give 8 0
VOR wagtersceee: ardamon, M aaa wo ——— » an oe ock jee FISH ‘ — a rya.40
ete "| He nie 4/8 _ medi Sen, “pri me
Veal ort. ses. oni 5Y% ‘Hemp, Russi alabar .. 3 ‘Sundried, —— Rub-No- sein oo P Imperials prin sepia
= ios 6% | Mixed Russian | 1 © itegular. ena i ae o-Mor | Trout a: tte Mottoes | a gt ted ronal
neice acne a oe Regular, “taney 101.536 ee : $B ck aa. ae Molass Seatac 188
= eos seesteress 3 ‘Rap py .. _ eae : | Regular, choice «. ee No. . per IcKING | Halibut ss “_— ‘Hand Mi os
tre eo ei ee | Bas et-fi lee ....0.. vo pe ‘oss 5 Filta ee | Crea ad s* 5
ae einen = ae ai 8 ceketsaned ined as. | No. ‘oe i Bluefish ler m Button:
iia Sig | Bone | Ba Cae a setee eo Gas ul | feee te Herring. | eee Buttons,
Boneless --..+ +... le SHOE CAE a ‘Basket-fired, a 3H 7 gross, oe | Boil a ee | Sao Winterere —
a ow eee ay |Handy Bo seni ieenag Sings 2" a | woop ~ p 50 | ee bbster. 2... ‘ie | Wintergreen. green 6
i Al ¢ x | Me He SIRE Eben: re
bbl mh oo ‘Bizby's Box, small pl = a — —" . oie case peo:
TE oes oi ele oval Polish Se Bei Market a. ‘Ber : ge ple at
Ki vereteteeereees 1 L0 | wn Polish. 5 | Moyu — 4 | Spli et ide band .. is — Yb. - n Goodie ,
Kits, cooomeeaens : 80 | Seoteh SNUF olish. 85 | acoamner a edium Splint goo and .1 00 | By Se “Date oo ies be
4 bois. 40 — | eee bladde 7 Pingsuey a. seas ‘Splint, sea oe “1 25 | Gol. Snapper = a | Da gor stmt, 32
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; Is., &0 i. i] 3 aula jer en inca medium |... = | bk acy mall 6 slant ene 13% | Dendy an Cor oe 5
‘ BS. ---+- ‘ AB gg 2 gsuey choic : 0 Willow Chet.” el moni ¥% | Po ys ack n 0
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5 = oy mT Cit Bai a. g Hy 40 | radl es, 8 m.6 5 TER | Po er J Toas a, 16 -2 75
heep. iddles, WU: soca 26 Jaxon Soap C ee bataiy | bi pag But mall .5 o0| FH Cans - | p Corn —_" 100s 50
cot naole = Cee 15 | Jaxon, ee o’s | Fo TG 30 SID. size, * a Boxe 8) ce poe P Ss 3000" 1 oe
Rolls. —— But ca 45) axon, 1 Has dal. A rmosa er 36 | LOID. size = in — : r a elects er oe Alm Ts wae 30
8, dairy / Butterine 70 esohnisor box, lous ao a, fancy. . size, ; im aan i 72 | Perfcctior ore 35 | Almonds, oe "
Corned Canned “iIln0%@11 ie ek lel. «5-2 75 y. medium ........ 42 |e 4 “Butter F case |. 2 Seman n Standards «. | ‘Simonds, —
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Pot t ft eS | 7 << mily ; is say hoic a reakf. No. Oval, 50 i crate nH clan 20 | “ilbe : we 14 sft
Fotted "ham, sy eae so | Am e ieinie a Gi iy 2% Choice «+02... ast oot ae in — = Extr foe nooe BB] ne a oe
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« oon — = oo 50 “ad an Family sis Ceylon. ssn oT 30 aoe Chu nerate oF oe ie eee | Walnuts, ~ sheitea,
Potted i es 45 Jap Vv Sa gag oie 05 Vevex chol dla ~ +> fe | Barrel, 5 gal rns ” Plain Sta St: es a 60 en N new (
ted tongue .. .... = Bavon a ean a aa | ce... oa gal. each ..2 Slams oir “Siaadards 1 40 | oe :— ao hilt
. i | Wh A 3 | ae gal. ac oe Si “t 16 co fed. ay 12
— fe =o | Dome, mussian rr 3 75 | TOBAC ” Round Clothes on 3 5s a 1 10 Pecans, Ex. Large oe
Ss .. 3s | Satinet. oval . <atieie 10 | Cadill Fine co ound — 5 ome “*3 go | cams ell Good -1--8 2 ickory aes
Ss A AN 3 10 ua A Cut A e aa TORS | br. Scien ee s ae on et
Oval eens ses a as | ee eens it: gg Cra SF | i eeeeds. Per 10 ‘Chestnut, Bh a bu.
aessrrech 5 | Hiawatha, Be tig 54_ | No- 1, co emotes pana eae 1 00 eae eecert aey 1
1114 00 sae 1 alae | 2. oa a ae i 00 | a ew Yo :
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ea ils . |Co Se | cen eae EL | Spani ee
BA : 54 rk F -: mi ner 43 chit: ea ++ +5
ape aig ED 3 Co lined, aucet C een No. 1 Ss ; Pec: oh | elled -.o OC
aneny ay pe lined, 8in s 18 | Cured ag eS Sa ater H: Sb ‘
: ; a | Cure No. 2 seceeeee aan faint es 1
an 8 tig CoN 65 | Galfsk ‘No 4, ne : Filbert oo aoe 6@ 7
, 8 in eu ea 76 | | Calf an 2 licant falves ...... 40
eee cenit: =| C altskins, greet ae 10% | Jorda e eae sera P
seeeee 5) C fskins, green No. 1 gig | . Almonds’ <1.
_ a al 1s en N 419 oO
5 tski , cur No. 2 12 ; Fan P nds ...
Ste ns ea Wa FE cy ea
eel ERG havo wa 4 101% | aney. HP nuts
ca eee oe 2 13% Hoasted aire 6°4
Be [one ae
one e see! 87
oasted nm- @7%
@8%

 

 

 

 

46

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Paragon cheese e 55 «66 00

BAKING POWDER
Jaxon Brand

JAXON

%tb. cans, 4 doz. case 45
lb. cans, 4 doz. case 85
1 Th. cans. 2 doz. casel 60

Royal

   
  

Wee? § th cans 1300

BLUING
Arctic 4 oz ovals. p gro 40°

Arctic 8 oz evals, p gro 6 00 |
Arctic 16 oz ro’d, p gro 9 00 |

BREAKFAST FOOD
Walsh-DeRoo So.’s Brands

Pee wate . 22... $4 00
Wheat Grits
Cases, 24 2 th. pack’s.$2 00
CIGARS

 

J. Johnson a: _—

Cie than 600.......: 33 0

600 or more........... 32 o:

«4,000 or more......... 31 09
COC@ANUT

Baker’s Brazi] Shredded

 

= %Ib pkg, per case..2 60
tb pkg, per case. .2 60

i Zip pkg, per case. .2 60

Tb pkg, per case..2 60.

FRESH MEATS
Beef
(erase. oo 4 @7T%
Forequarters. ... 4 @ 5%
Mindguaricrs ....5 @ 8
[oe ...-.... 714@12
Pe ce 7 @io
es |... 5lady 6A |
Clicks -:-... 0.2. 4 @ 4%
Pee a @ 3%
Pork
Pease ..>.-- 2. 54@ 5%
CO ei @ 9¥
Heston Butts ... @ 8
mnowlders ..... eb @i7
ioe tan... a
utton
Carcees- ....5-... 5 @5%
eS she cs, ce € @ 8

Veal
Corea 2.5... -.<. 54%@ 8

 

10c size. 90)
\ ib cans 135 |
6 ozcans 190
Ylbeans 250 |
&%Ibcans 375 |
1 Tecans 480 |

6 Ihcans2150 |

4 | 12% tb. sack Cal meal .39

 

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.'s Bds

ELL~WwRIGHT
ems asta
Rese
<< Come
| White House, 1 Ib......
| White —. BD WP cesses
| Excelsior, M & J, 1 Ib..
Excelsior, M & +; . >
‘Lip Top, M & J,
Reeel che oo.
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
Symons Bros. &
naw; Meisel & |
| Bay City; Godsmark, Du. |
|rand & Co., Battle Creek |
Fielbach Co., Toledo.

 

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz. in case

Gail Borden Eagle....6 40
as eS lee 5 90
eee 4 52}
a eee 4 79
| Deeeeien ..... cee 4 00
[cee oe 4 49
Pe 3 85
Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 ov
SAFES

 

 

Full line of the celebrated
Diebold fire and _ burglar
| proof 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.s0
12% Th. cloth sacks.. .84
25 Tb. cloth sacks... 1.65
50 tb. cloth sacks.... 3.15
100 Tb. cloth sacks.... 6.00
| Peck measure ....... -90
| % bu. measure...... 1.80

|
|
|
|

| 25 tb. sack Cal meal.. .75
FF A R Pletewe! Mick

SOAP
| Peaver Soap Co.’s Brands

|. cakes, large size..
50 cakes, large size..
/09 cakes, small size..

 

100 comm
RRRS

50 cakes, small size..

Tradesman Co.'s Brand

 

BI -k Hawk, one box..2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs.3 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES
Halford, targe .......: 3 75
aiford, small ........ 2 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

 

 

We sell more 5 and 10
Cent Goods Than Any
Other Twenty Whole-
sale Houses in the
Country.

WHY?

 

 

Because our houses are the recog-
nized headquarters for these
goods.

Because our prices are the lowest.
Because our service is the best.

Because our goods are always
exactly as we tell you they are.

Because we carry the largest
assortment in this line in the
world.

Because our assortment is always
kept up-to-date and free from
stickers.

Because we aim to make this one
of our chief lines and give to
it our best thought and atten-
tion.

Our current catalogue lists the most com-
plete offerings in this line in the world.
We shall be glad to send it to any merchant
who will ask for it Send for Catalogue J.

 

 

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Everything---By Catalogue nly

New York Chicago St. Louis

 

 

 

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.
270-272-274-276 Wabash Ave.
CHICAGO.

‘*Oldest and most reliable in the line.’’

 

 

 

 

 

‘ament 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

 

 

 

It

We are the largest calendar makers in

Were

the Middle West.

Thinking

TRADESMAN COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Mich.

About

Ordering
Calendars

For

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 47

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word tlie first insertion and one cent a word for each

 

 

subsequent continuous insertion. No charge less than 25 cents. Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES. | kor Ssle—Stock of herdware, paints Wanted—Will pay cash for an estab-| 10 cents buys Williams’ Price Computer;

— | and ae paper, invoicing $1,500. Town lished. profitable business. Will consid- | it tells at a glance how many pounds and

For Sale—Finest general stock in fruit | 590 population, surrounded hy best farm- | er shoe store, stock of general merchan- | ounces to give for a certain sum of money
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% belt. Stock and building worth $6,000. | inf country in the State. Best of reasons | dise or manufacturing business. Give | up to one dollar; every grocer should have
Can be had for $5,000. Address No. 9, | for selling. Address No. 969, care Michi- | full particulars in first letter. Confiden- | one Address Allen Williams, Bloomfield,

care Michigan Tradesman. 9 | gan_ Tri desman. 969 | tial. Address No. 519, care Michigan | Ind. 964

een fe Se a: rll, ag < 5 € |

: For Sale—$4,500 stock of groceries and | “Best cash prices paid for coffee sacks, | proee a : - - CLA Wanted—Everyone troubled with As-
meats. Illinois town of 8,000. Doing | flour sacks, sugar sacks, etc. William| For Sale—-480 acres of cut-over hard- | thma to send 15 cents for a sample bottle
i profitable business of $45,000 a year. Good | Ross & Co., 57 So. Water St., Chica- | wood land, three miles north of Thomp- |. of Asthma Remedy. It has never failed
y location. Address No. 998, care Michigan | 50, Ih. 938 | sonville. House and barn on premises. | tg give relief. Address W. S. Widerfelt,

x Tradesman. 998 s e 4, | rere Marquette Railroad runs across one | piorence, Color: ido. 962
: — | | or Sale Custom feed and four mill) corner of land. Very desirable for stock |— Nadel
Wanted—To buy clean stock general | for sale. Located at Mancelona, Mich. | raising or potato growing. Will ex-| To Exchange—80_ acre farm 3% miles
i merchandise. Give full particulars. Ad- Plenty of custom. Address A. Kimball, | change for stock of merchandise. C. C. | southeast of I owell, 60 acres improved, 5
9 dress No. 999, care Michigan. Tradesman. | Mancelona. 947 | Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St., Grand Rap- | acres timber and 10 acres orchard land,
. a ee a ee For Sale—Fine stock of staple and fan- | ids. 83 | fair house and good well, convenient to

au | good school, for stock of general mer-

For Sale—A_ comple te “stock of house | cy groceries in the best location in Mus- | For Sale—A 25 horse-power steel ce | chandise situated in a good town. Real
furnishing goods, located in a Northern | Kegon. An established business of 37} zontal boiler. A 12 horse-power engine | estate is worth about. $2500. Correspon-

 

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4 Michigan town. Population 6,000. A | years. Address Box 57, Muskegon, ig with pipe fittings. A blacksmith forge | gence solicited. Konkle  & Son, Alto,
; foud trade and no competition. Good| St | with blower and tools. Shafting, pulleys, | mich. Ou:
reasons for selling. Address No. 6, care Bor Sale Hilierd and pool tables, a belting. ae practically new. — Original | i ge Gane We Gas Ge
Michigan Tradesman. © lf , . a cost over $1,200. Wil sell for $600. D
2 5 __| fit with lunch supplies, cigars and to | Address B-B Manufacturing Co., 50 Ma-
‘ i For Sale—New York Racket Store. One | baccos. Terms reasonable. Apply C. T. | conie Te smple, Dave nport, lowa. ra 537
> of the best businesses in Saginaw, of its | Braidwood, Lock Box 18, Capac, Mich. 946 | ——_-~ "8 —— ——

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size. Reason. for selling, poor ‘health. |... |__ Wanted_—To buy stock of general mer= |Modern Money Making Methods
310 Genesee ‘St. Saginaw, Mich. | For Sale—Foundry and_ cider mill. | chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for ¢ ms |
ee dig ae Everything in running order. First class | Address No. 89, care Michigan Trades- |

For Rent The best located store in aj} location. Harrison & Moran, Chelsea, | m: in. 89
ean ce i Scolm yo te pap oesnel [a 945 _|~ For Sale—20 shares of ist preferred
eee F ace Mn oe aii Shoe stock, invoicing $3,006. | stock of Great Northern Portland Cement |
cery man. Address No. 2, care Michi- : 9 ae a
: sco ' a 00. Address Lock Pa
gain. Tradesman. Mi :

ee ats ore a hardware | care Mic higan Tradesman. 955 —————— : a
store. i muy StCOCK OF PUL IN new One. | eine POSITIONS WANTED
Nor.hern Michigan preferred. Address at | For Rent at Holland, Mich.—Brick | / is
once with full particulars, Box 102, or store 20x80 inside. Plate glass front; ex- é oSitio: as clerk
ber ille, Mich. | cellent location on main business street. - grocery store. Six years
~ For Sale—Shoe store, all new oa | No. 47 East 8th St. Has freight ele- | Best of references. Address S.
Location va noe Write or see" John | vator; now occupied by 5 and lvc store.|R. F. D. No. 2, Clare, Mich.
Gysie, Columbus, Indian: 6 Possession given Nov. Ist. Address C. | ~ Wanted-
is chi a eects iJ. DeKoo, Cor. Ottawa and Grand Sts.., ‘nt
Will, pay cash for ge sneral or bazaar | Lansing, Mich. 928
stock, with established trade in good| il

 

 

For Sale
Splendid opening in good city. Best of | Co. stock for $1
reasons for selling. - Address No. 955, | 265, Gr: — Leds

   

 

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town. Address No. 977, Care Michigan |, “4 desirable party to invest from $5,000 | 82) ne: HT
Tradesman ' r 977.._+| to $20,000 in a business that nets 100 oS | Young man wants to learn hardware
a a -| cent.; no chances, no competition. Ad- | business. Has some knowledge of busi- | Coc : S
} Firm of old standing that has been in| dress Box 117, Ypsilanti, Mich. 929 ness. 3est references. Address No. 7, J- S. TAYLOR F. M. SMITH
business 12 years, established 30 years. |~ j, -| care Michigan Tr idesman. | |
Stock un 2% times ¢ i ;|. For Sale—$8v0 drug stock. Only stock | fe SO :
a eo tie oe note ge cpg tg |in town. A bargain. Address No. — | Wanted—Position in grocery or gen-| Absolutely Perfect Satisfaction Guaranteed
i respond with an honest active business | C@™ Michigan TVradesman. _ Rid | paige ib eS ae 2a 2g a Tn a | ‘*Merchants’’ wishing to reduce or close out
man, with $3,500, who wants best op-| | Well improved farm of 320 «cres - exo | Sites oe tt Nee ee Oe | entieely their stocks, (our ap- to-date methods cf
i portunity to get best returns for his in- | change for hardware, general merchan- | Wanted—Position as salesman in retail | advertising and selling are unequalled. We leave
vestment Address No. 979, care Michi- | dise or income property. F. W. Reagan, | hardware store. Hlave had ten years’ | no “odds and ends,” it costs you nothing to ascer-
gan Tradesman 975. | Clinton, Mo. 924 experience. Address Box 367, Kalkaska, | tain this fact; write us at once for particulars and
For Rent—In Battle Creek, large second | Cash for your stock—Or we will close| Mich. 0 a. ee ee SMITH, 53 River St.,
floor store in best location, on main | out for you at your own place of busi- Coa [oe ah rb
street, in city. Used for Credit Clothing | ness, or make sale to reduce your stock. | HELP WANTED.

 

 

business. Will be vacated shortly. A. E. | Ww rite for information. C. L. Yost & Co., | Wanted—Agents to handle maple syrup
Poulse -n, Battle Creek, Mich. 986 | “West Forest Ave., Detroit, , Mic D2 lasa wae “Alsing, e& N. Kersten, Flint, Mich Let Us Act as Your Factory

 

 

ft — - oe _— —— Sr | a some good a a a 994 That is our business. We make nothing of our
stock inventorying about $6,000, located at | change on cash basis f . -| Wanted—A good sober and industrious : r ; , : , eetli

; Silverwood. Oid established business, en- | eral merchandise. C. N. Sonnesyn & Co.,| man with small capital to take half in- own for sale. You a make more money selling

@ joying a profitable and gradually increas- | Butterfield, Minn. 897 | terest in well éstablished business. For | Your product than trying to learn the manufactur-

ra Neen ks baggy Roe! ee ee Sell your real estate or business for | further particulars address No. 967, care ing business. ‘*Manufacturing is a Science.”

1S : L -ericMgan aa MS} cash. I can get a buyer for you very | Michigan Tradesman. 967 You can’t afford to experiment. We will furnish

 

 

part of Tuscola county. This is an ex- =e eT TTT fecal
cellent opportunity for the right man, be-
cause I find it impossible to conduct two
stores. - I. S. Berman, Kingston, Mich.

promptly. My methods are distinctly dif-
ferent and a decided improvement over
those of others. It makes no difference

Wantec i—Agents to handle our pre- | exact cost of production. No more pay rolls to

mium line of framed pictures for gen- | worry over. Our plan is unique. Try it. Addres
eral stores as a side line; good commis- 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ where your property is located, send me| sion: samples not necessary unless want-
jh cn 99% full description and lowest cash price and | ca. * haa TWeucHice | Pcs. Mte. =. P ol MICHIGAN NOVELTY WORKS
For Sale—Good stock food business, | jactabiehed Sen Ban to ay: | St- and Washtenaw Ave., Chicago, Ill. Cor. Burdick and Rose, Kalamazoo, M'ch.
good stock, a money maker Address | Established 1881. Bank references. | 949
Box 312 Flint. Mich i 7 hae Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams E:xpress | eS Sa SSR ee ee ————
ae . bale 3uilding, Chicago. 899.
‘ ie o ‘ Ce eee ot mest, a AUCT A T POS 999000000099 96600666

' Wanted—$2,500 to $5,000 merchandise |“ For Sale—A good clean drug business PE onli ND TRADERS
or cash, uM ill put rietit in a Paying} in one of the best towns of Michigan.; Merchants, Attention—Our method of

e business. a welve miles from competition. | Good reason for selling. Address No. 873, |:closing out stocks of merchandise is one | @ ®
Address No. 996, care Michigan Trades- | care Michigan Tradesman. 873 | of the most profitable either at auction im e
a 996 _|"A firm of old standing that has been | 0T at private sale. Our long experience

For Sale—Good paying restaurant in| in business for fifteen years and whose | &2d_ new methods are the only means,

town of 8,000 inhabitants. For particu- | reputation as to integrity, business meth- | "0 matter how old your stock is. We

lars address Lock Box 84, Cadillac, Mich. | ods, etc., is positively established, de- | employ no one but. the best auctioneers
983 | sires a man who has $5,000 to take an | — Write us ~ oe Account File

For Sale—A we équipped .cockery | 2ctive part im the store. This store is | C4°%. ie om —— atcerise

store recently fitted up with very. fine re | a department store. Our last year’s busi- | Auctioneers, Office 431 1 —

' tures, located in a city in the Middle West | Re€SS Was above $60,000. The man must | C2dillac, Mich. 445
of 150,000 inhabitants. Will sell fixtures | Understand shoes, dry goods or groceries.| H. C. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
only ar lose > stock i > ver | The person who invests this money must | tioneers. Stocks closed out or reduced i
nly and close out the stock if the buyer | : : iat ; sie impiest an

} wishes to move them. Or will sell fix- |e a man_of integrity and ability. Ad- | anywhere in the United States. New
tures and any part of the stock to a| dress No. 571, care Michigan Tradesman. | methods, original ideas, long experience, | ®
party who wishes to continue the busi- | a 571 __| hundreds of merchants to refer to. We Most Economical @

; ness. Address ‘Good Opportunity,” care|~ For Sale—Farm implement business, | have never failed to please. Write EOE .
Michigan Tradesman. 975 __| established fifteen years. First-class lo- | terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa- Method of Keeping

For Sale—A clean new stock of cloth- | cation at Grand Rapids, Mich. Will sell | ngeeeodli Fi pera gaa Reference, —_ ae
ing, shoes and furnishings in a hustling | Or lease four-story and basement brick | *ercanule : idem *
town of 1,300. Two good factories and a | building. Stock will inventory about | Auction § , conducted by The A. W. Petit Accounts
rrosperous farming country. Trade last | $10,000. Good reason for selling. No | Thomas Merchandise Auction Co. New g

‘ year over $15,000 cash. Stock will invoice | trades desired. Address No. 67, care | System, modern methods, quick service, - 000 :

} about $9,000. Il health the cause of | Michigan Tradesman. 67 mercantile experts. Best staff of pro- ® File and I, printed blank
selling and must be sold quick. Cash; For Sale—Good up-to-date stock of —— a a — bill heads..0000.5.. 205. 6296
deal. Address No. $61, care. Michigan | general rchandise: store building. well | #uction, or special sales in any part o i :

i Tradesman. 961 |S atiichca j erie a Gee the United States or Canada, guarantee File and 1,000 specially

For Sale For:Cash Only—Stock of gen-| tory $5,000. Located in hustling North- | the highest ue Ww — roe — Bnorigge printed bill heads...... 3.00
eral merchandise with fixtures. Estab-| ern Michigan town. Address No. 744, | factory results. Seen eee ete a . ;
i meta ae ee ch = ah = successful sales for reference. We furn- | Printed blank bill heads
lished ten years. Good country trade./ care Michigan Tradesman. 744 ich A Brand new svstem of advertising :
: ag = selling, other a ss For Sale—Fourteen room hotel, new Pate ty brings the crowds. eo ta | per THOHEANE a. TF 25
; write unless you mean business. ‘. i.) and newly furnished, near Petoskey. Fine | day é T i i i
sulci é a ai 5 | si 7 ae : ay for date. The A. W. Thomas Auction |
Hosmer, Mattawan, Mich. #59 | trout fishing. Immediate possession on Co., 477 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Specially printed bill heads,
For Sale—Only harness and horse goods | account of poor health. Address No. 601, - a per thousand... 2.004... '.§ So
store in best town on Grand Trunk be-| care Michigan Tradesman. 601 MISCELLANEOUS.
tween South Bend and Battle Creek. For- | For Sale—A fine bazaar stock. in a We can sell your business for cash and | T d Co
merly three stores. Lease included. = ; lumbering town in Northern Michigan, | do it quickly. We have offices in more | racgesman mpany,
dress J. H. Fletcher, Marcellus, Mich. 958 | county seat. Price right. Good reasons|than eight hundred towns and cities. |
200 Ferrets For Sale—RBest stock. Write | for selling. Must be sold at once. Ad-| Write for our plan and do it now. Ad- Grand Rapids.
jot pers Lewis DeKleine, eS dress Rogers Bazaar Co., Grayling, Mich. | dress Central Association, LaGrange, Ind. >
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Novel Window Attraction in a Char-
lotte Shoe Store.

Charlotte, Nov. 4—We are send-
ing you herewith a description of a
window attraction we had fair week.
We consider it one of the best spe-
cial advertisements we have ever had
and give it to you to print, if you
so wish, that others may profit by
it. It kept a crowd in front of the
store interested and spellbound every
moment of the day. We will be glad
to answer any questions and give any
information needed by those who
may be interested.

Harmon & Pennington.

Those who peeped in at the win-
dow of Harmon & Pennington’s shoe
store in Charlotte during fair week
saw a short, solid man of perhaps 35
years carving potatoes.

A No. 1 is an expert at carving
and with his pocket knife carves out
funny heads and faces from small
fresh potatoes, which as they dry and
wrinkle present a most grotesque and
novel appearance. The potatoes are
not only excellent souvenirs of the
work of this peculiar traveler, but
they are really works of art wel!
worth preserving and will last for
years. Many of these funny little
heads are preserved by his friends
-and always attract attention.

These he sells for a small sum,
thus more than paying expenses, as
his friends in different towns give
him board and lodging and he never
pays out money for railroad fare.

But this carving is simply a meth-
od of making his way. His history
is a romance. No. 1 was born in
British Honduras, of French and Ger-
man parentage. At an early age he
came with his parents to San Fran-
cisco, and soon developed a wander-
ing disposition. He was not longin
gaining a reputation as a train beat-
er. In 1894 the Police Gazette of-
fered a medal and $1,000 in cash to
the man beating his/way from New
York to San Francisco in the short-
est time without spending a cent. A
No. 1 made the trip in eleven days
and six hours, and the medal which
he wears always wins the respect and
good will of such train men as are
not acquainted with him.

This should be honor enough for
an ordinary tramp, but A No. I is
not a tramp. A memorandum book
which he has carried through all his
journeys shows that since 1883 he
has traveled 475,000 miles, 90,000 of
which was by water, and for all these
miles his entire traveling expenses
amounted to only $7.30. He has been
in Europe seven times, Cuba _ four
times, twice in Alaska, once each in
Ceylon, Calcutta, Venezuela and Co-
lombia, and when but 12 years. of
age walked from Belize, in British
Honduras, to Guatemala City, and
thence to the City of Mexico, an
even 1,200 miles. Besides this he
has visited nearly every town ofim-
portance in the United States and
Canada.

A No. 1, although he has not been
in school since his r1th year, is not
ignorant by any means and shows
remarkable intelligence as the result
of his travels. He reads and speaks
fluently four different languages and
many pages of his memorandum book
are written in German. Personally
he is a man of good habits, he uses
neither liquor nor tobacco, does not
gamble nor steal nor does he asso-
ciate with ordinary tramps.

Our boss tramp is a neat appear-
ing fellow, for when he is ready to
travel he puts on his jumper and
overalls and rides the brake beam
or head baggage in becoming style.
and yet he is the friend of the rail-
road people, even the detectives, for
onlv a short time ago he took supper
with Erie Detective Wheeler, of Sal-
manaca, N. Y., who is a terror to
every tramp on the line of the road

Here are his rules and regulations

 

which he has written in his memo-
randum book, and which he diligently
observes:

Rules and Regulations.

Keep good company or none.

Always tell the truth.

Never be idle.

When you speak to persons look
them in the face.

' Drink no kind of liquors.

Never gamble nor steal.

Never go with blanket stiffs, dy-
namiters, tin can or alcohol tramps.

Read daily.

Now, this man is trying to break
himself of his roving propensities
and has decided that, of the thous-
ands of cities which he has visited,
Charlotte beats them all.

He will make Charlotte his head-
quarters, and all his trips in future
will terminate there. As fast as pos-
sible he will settle down to steady
work, beginning, as he quaintly puts
it, by “work a week, rest three weeks
-—work two weeks, rest two weeks—
work three weeks, rest one week,”
etc., showing that he intends, system-
atically, to rid himself of the globe-
trotting habit. As a final tribute to
this remarkable and decidedly lov-
able man, we wish to report his last
act before leaving for San Francisco:
Handing Mr. Harmon some import-
ant papers which he wished to leave
in his care, No. 1 called his atten-
tion to a paragraph written on the
outside of the document, the sub-
stance of the paragraph being, that
in case he (No. 1) was not heard
from for a year, $50, which he has
deposited in a Charlotte bank, was to
be used as a starter for a fund for the
erection of a marble drinking foun-
tain in that city. And it was only
after persistent urging that we obtain-
ed his consent to the publication of
this incident. How many men are
built of that material?

“What is his name?” do you ask?
He has gone by the name of “A No.
1” the world over, and his real name
is known only to intimates, and then
only under promise of strict secrecy.

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Detailed Review of the Grain Market.

The wheat market the past week
has been quiet, with the range of val-
ues rather narrow. The general news
is bearish. The world’s shipments
have been very heavy, Russia alone
contributing avout 6,000,000 bushels.
The cash demand for both wheat and
flour has been light, with heavy re-
ceipts, both in the Southwest and
Northwest, and foreign markets have
shown a material decline. The visible
supply of wheat shows an increase of
nearly two million bushels, the pres-
ent visible being over 28,000,000 bush-
els, against 25,000,000 bushels for the
same period last year. Snow’s crop
report shows the winter wheat acre-
age already considerably
larger than was harvested last year,
but dry weather has greatly retarded
the late sown wheat, and_ the early
wheat is suffering more or less from
insects. Speculation the past few
days has been just about at a stand-
still. The general inclination seems
to be to wait until after election. The
milling trade seem to have full con-
fidence in the market, and, as a rule,
anticipate a lively trade for the next
two months at least.

Corn continues in good demand,
especially old corn, which commands
a premium of 1o@1I2c per bushel over
the new. New corn is beginning to
move quite freely and the grade is
improving rapidly. The yield is, as
a rule, much better than has been an-
ticipated, running about 27 bushels to

sown is

 

the acre, indicating a crop of 2,500,- | Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

000,000 bushels.

The oat market is practically life-
less. The demand is fair and receipts
are not heavy. Quotations are un-
changed for the week. The quality
of the new oats is extra good, the
bulk of the receipts grading No. 2
white.

The bean market has been drag-
ging a little heavily, but receipts con-
tinue liberal, and the demand is fair.
The quality, as a rule, is fine. Some
of the late beans are picking a little
heavier, four to five pounds.

L. Fred Peabody.

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Gripsack Brigade.
Crawford (Hazeltine &
Drug Co.), who has_ been
somewhat indisposed for the past
two weeks, has entirely recovered and
resumed his visits to his trade.

The merchants of Nashville are
having no end of fun nowadays over
the possession of a new bird, which
is kept in the custody of a livery-
iman there. Every

Cornelius
Perkins

traveling

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| The new clip to come

man |

don si . . - . |
who visits the town is invited to in-}

spect the bird, with a view to identi-

fying the species it belongs to. Max |
Mills, Jim Powers and about a hun-|

dred
riers have inspected the animal and
paid the penalty—the purchase of ci-

 

gars for the crowd at the neighbor- |

ing grocery store.

Referring to the most recent ac-
quisition of L. W. Atkins, the Mar-
quette Mining Journal says: L. W.

Atkins, who assumes Mr. Gooding’s |

interest, is a clothing man of ripe! olq cox, g@1oc; ducks, 13@15¢c.

experience. For the past thirty-three
years he has been on the road for
some of the leading manufacturers

of clothing in the United States, at

present, as for some time past, being |

the Michigan representative of a big
Chicago house. He is also largely in-

terested in the business of L. W. At- |
kins & Co., at Ishpeming, having, in}

fact, established that institution in
March, 1888, and in this connection
is no
people.
remove his place of residence to
this city, but meanwhile he will con-
tinue on the road in his present ca-
pacity and the active management.
Recent Business Changes Among
indiana Merchants.

Burnett--S. E. Brown _ succeeds
Melton & Markin in general trade.

Decatur—G. Buglin, produce deal-
er, is dead.

Fortville—Randall Bros. succeed
Randall & Brown in the hardware
business.

West Baden—Hart & Co. are suc-
ceeded by Hobart Hart in the res-
taurant business.

Wolcottville—Jas. W. Brown has
retired from the restaurant and bak-
ery business.

Indianapolis—John A. Hook has
uttered a $1,450 mortgage on his drug
stock.

other good natured grip car- |

 

stranger to most Marquette |
Eventually Mr. Atkins will |

| Buffalo Market on Butter,

The hide market is strong and

/some excited, with a slight advance.

There is a big advance among local
buyers, some of which seem to think
prices are going out of sight, and
are bound to throw away some prev-
ious margins while they please the
butchers. Prices on hides and skins
are high as compared with previous
years, and the conservative dealer is
fearful of a slump, especially so as
cold weather approaches and the kill
is likely to be greater.

Pelts are a scarce article, high in

|value and strong in demand, espe-

cially so for large size and well taken
off skins.

Furs begin to come in without
prices being established by buyers.
A good market at low prices is look-
ed for.

Tallow is some stronger in price,

| with large sales.

Wool is strong and firmly held on
light stocks for still higher value.
is being con-
tracted for on sheep’s backs.

Wm. T. Hess.
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Eggs,
Poultry and Beans.

Buffalo, Nov. 9—Creamery, fresh,
22@25c; storage, 20@22c;
fresh, 16@2Ic; poor, 12@I15c.

Eges-—Candled, fresh, 26@27c; cold
storage, 19(@20c; at mark, 18@19c.
Poultry — Chicks, 10@12c;
fowls, 9@toc; turkeys, 14@17c; ducks,
1244@13!4c; geese, IO@I2c.

Dressed Poultry — Turkeys, 15@
20c; chicks, 12@13c;, fowls, 11@i2c;

dairy

Live

Beans—Hand picked marrows, new,
$2.75€@)2.85; mediums, $2@2.15; peas,
$1.80@1.90; red kidney, $2.75; white
kidney, $2.75@3.

Potatoes—Round_ white,
mixed and red, 40@45c.

Rea & Witzig.
—_—_++.

Detroit—H. W. Schmidt, Henry A.
Tilton and Alexander J. Groesbeck
have incorporated as the H. W.
Schmidt Co., to make art novelties,
frames, etc. Capital is $15,000, of

43@50¢;

| which $10,000 is common and $5,000

 

preferred stock. Of the common
stock $9,000 has been paid in in prop-
erty, consisting of the business at 23
te 27 Brush street.

oe

Detroit—The Look Furniture Man-
ufacturing Co. has filed articles of
incorporation with the county clerk,
stating that $2,500 of its $25.000 cap-
ital stock has been paid in in cash, and
$15,000 has been subscribed for. The
incorporators are Frank J. Look, with
1,100 shares of stock; A. M. Myers,
with 390 shares, and George H. Look,
with to shares.

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—Up-to-date stock of staple
and fancy groceries in best location in
city of 3,600. Business established for
over 20 years. Cash sales annually from
$22.000 to $25,000. Reason for selling,
other business from city. Address X.
Y. Z.. care Michigan Tradesman. 10

 

NO MARKET EXGELS BUFFALO “ “Sten *°

CHIX and DUX.

Looks like 20 and 22 cents for fancy scalded dressed Turkeys for Thanksgiving.
Dux 15-16, Chix 13 14 and Fowls 11-12 will do well in consequence of high Turkeys.
UNSURPASSED SERVICE.

36th year.
Ref.—Third Nat. Bank and :
Berlin Heights Bank, Berlin Hts., O.

Batterson & Co., Buffalo.

 

 

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