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Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1904

 

Number 1108

 

 

We Buy and Sell
Total Issues
of

State, County, City, School District,
Street Railway and Gas

BONDS

Correspondence Solicited.

NOBLE, MOSS & COMPANY

BANKERS
Union Trust Building,

 

Detroit, Mich.

 

 

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

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING
MANUFACTURERS

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

Our Spring and Summer samples for 1905 now
showing. Every kind ready made clothing for all
ages also always on hand, Winter Suits, Over-
coats, Pants, etc. Mail and phone orders prompt-
ly shipped _ Phones, Bell, 1282; Citizens, 1957.
See our children’s line.

 

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DETROIT OPERA HOUSE ceele anol as ehae

Pron REINS):
rae pRoTect worTHLESS ACCOUNTS
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. B. McCRONH, Manage.t

  
   
  
    
   
   
 
 
 
  
   
 

Have Invested Over Three Million Dol-

lars For Our Customers in

Three Years

Twenty-seven companies! We have a
rtion of each company’s stock pooled in
a trust for the — of stockholders,
and in case of failure in any company you
are reimbursed from the trust fund of a
successful eae. 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withdrawn from sale with the exception of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, Lace & Company
1023 Michigan Trust Building,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF ALL KINDS
STATIONERY & CATALOCUE PRINTING

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

SPECIAL FEATURES.
Page.
2. Window Trimming.

4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Dry Goous.

8. Editorial.

9. The Credit System.
12. Poultry.

14. Annual Message.

15. New York Market.

16. The Heroic Age.

17. The Fight of Man.

18. Clothing.

20. Industrial America.

22. System in Saving.

23 The First Step.

24. Looking Backward.

26. Strongest and Strangest.
28. Woman’s World.

5-. Romance of the Body.
31. Avoid Undue Haste.
32. Shoes.

36. Clerks’ Corner.

34. A Brave Clerk.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

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

 

HEALTH DISCOVERIES.

The primary meaning of the word

discovery is to uncover, to disclose, |

to show, to make known. In a lim-
ited sense it means to find something

which was hidden or unknown. This

is now the most commonly under- |

stood meaning of the word. Hence,

a discoverer, in the fullest sense of |
the term, is one who not only finds |

something, some substance, fact,

principle or truth, but also makes it |

known to the public.

Discoveries are sometimes the re-
sult of accident, but more often are
attained after long and patient study,
careful research or extended experi-
menting. He who makes
discoveries in the field of

valuable

science becomes also a benefactor to |

humanity if he really discovers—dis-
closes, makes known—the results of
his findings. The ills of mankind af-
ford ample field for philanthropic ef-
fort along the line of research. Not
all the discoveries or attainments of
the medical profession are yet equal
to cope with the inroads of disease.

In contrast with the humanitarian
who devotes all his energies to al-
leviate the sufferings of mankind we
see those who proclaim themselves
discoverers of wonderful healing
agencies, it may be medicine or it
may be methods of treatment.
they do this for the sole purpose of
gain, without a care whether the sick

are benefited or not. These are a

prey upon suffering humanity—heart- |

less, mercenary wretches who -de-

serve the contempt of all who love
their fellow These

men. unprinci-

pled vampires fatten upon the sick, |

weak, ignorant and poor of the land.

In recent years a new field has been |

opened for their operation
the manufacture

foods and

of so-called
drinks. A great cry has
been raised against hitherto suppos-

medical |

And |

through |
health |

edly wholesome and nutritious

icles of diet.
authorities

| cation that State

taken up the matter and are issuing ; : : :
| : : | pectation of a serious reaction had be-
reports of chemists and others who | ;

|come very general. In

have been testing and analyzing

these health foods in order that the

|this health food (or fraud)

can be abated no class of people will}... .
| “Frenzied

rejoice more than the honorable mer-
sell cus-
|tomers reliable goods, wholesome and

chant who desires to his

economical foods.
| Common sense ought to teach peo-
the unreasonableness of

| ple some

use their full
The mind is

|times unable to rea-

| soning powers. sick

Spas 1s aeesictently adwertined. wet! _. :
ee = persistently udvertised, yet! of a panic than attended that reac-
in justice to the sick and suffering, |
we must admit that they are many | the disturbance, fell from $82 to $58,

arti- |
It is a cause of gratifi- |
have |

: : | precipitating incident, such as
public may no longer be deceived. If| | es
: | afforded by the statement of Thomas
nuisance | i

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

After six months’ steady apprecia-
tion in the Wall Street markets ex-
such a state
of the public mind it only lacked some
was
W. Lawson, noted writer

the on

Finance,” that a slump in
amalgamated copper was to be caused
by the copper operators. Immediate-
ly following this statement came a
disturbance in the market exceeding
any since the Northern Securities de-

cision, and even more of the nature

!months ago

las well as the body and the person |

direct or select

| proper treatment for himself.

| knows not how to

The friends of the one who is half
sick, half well, and all the time diet-
ing, and treating
should try to have him place himself
under the care of a reputable physi-

dosing himself

cian, who would endeavor to discover

the cause of ill health and apply
proper remedies.
Vea, coffee, meat and hearty

foods, although detrimental to some
| people, especially if excessively used,
may be not only harmless but high-
ly beneficial to is not

others, and it

|necessary for any one to

trials of
and

leng-continued various

health foods drinks or experi-

ments in dieting in order to discover

ithat ordinary foods, such as rice,
rolled oats, eggs, milk, toast and
|many others, are fully as_ healthy,

nourishing, more satisfying, easily di-
egestible and much more economical

ithan the “health foods.”

"| turbances are nearly eliminated

drink
|than is good for them, but as com-

Americans probably more
pared with other nations this indul-
gence in alcoholic beverages is slight.
According to statistics for the year
ending June 30, 1904, is far
ahead of any other country in the
;}amount of spirits consumed, her per
| capita being 2.51 gallons. The Unit-
led States is at the bottom of the
list, her consumption of spirits being
| 1.13
half
lead

France

a gallon. Belgium takes the

in beer and other malt liquors,

her average yearly consumption for

each inhabitant being 56.59 gallons.

The figures for other countries

las follows: England, 35.42 gallons;

Germany, 30.77. gallons; United

i States, 18.04 gallons.

Some fellows expect to get up in
ithe world without even getting down

| to work.

are |

tion. Copper, the leading element in
or $2 per share below its position six
Trading in the market
rose above all records in volume since

the panic of May, I90I, over 2,500,000

| changing hands on each of two suc-

undergo |

Call

per cent. during the excitement, but

cessive days. money rose to §
son returned nearer the normal. Since

the sensational fluctuations the mar-
ket is unsettled and irregular, but with
The near-
the

close of the year, however, will tend

a strengthening tendency.
ness of

the holiday season and

to retard any material advance.

Reports of general trade throughout

the country are increasingly encour-

Seasonable weather has made

aging

4 normal demand for winter goods

and the approach of the holidays is
good

bringing out an unexpectedly

demand for the better classes of
goods, showing that with plenty of
money the people are raising the

standard of quality in demand. An-
other encouraging feature is that

mercantile collections are being met
aS

with greater promptness. Labor dis-

cx

cept that few operatives are return-

ling at Fall River, many of these hav-

elsewhere.
this

ing found employment
The unprecedented drouth, at
time of year, in many sections, is in-
terfering with industries and threaten-
ing winter wheat to a considerable
extent. Textile manufacturing con-
tinues more encouraging every week,

prices of cotton finally coming low

| enough for a profitable parity in that

:
| pects are good for the

| still

| industry. Wool is still high, but prod-
gallons per capita, and of wine | i

ucts are in good demand at fairly
The persistent advance
leather
advance in boots and shoes, but pros-

1905 fall bust-

Zor cd prices.

in hides and has caused an

Iron and steel manufacture is

ness.

most encouraging, statistics
showing that demand is greater than
production.

“nesenn RUNES MA EN NaN CA

 

Many a woman thinks she has the
best husband in the world, but some
husbands seem too good to be true.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Silk Hosiery, Silk Petticoats and Sil-
ver Spoons.
Christm.s atmosphere is be-

The
ginning to get into the lungs of the
veteran and casual shopper alike, and
just as a few weeks ago politics was
in everybody’s mouth, so now. does
the subject of
attention of
clusion of

christmas engross the
all, to the practical ex-
every other topic.
There’s scarcely a window in town
that does not have at least le

one plac-

ard announcing the
of its

presents,

appropriateness

merchandise for Christmas

and some of these fairly
bristle with them.

If one stopped to read the Monroe
street placards there is one of them
that would

ment when he reached the last word.

strike him with amuse-
The window is full of the pretty and

costly conceits whose possession is

a delight to any woman, and right
mear the giass, where it can be plain-
ly read by every one, is a handsome
kand-lettered card which reads thus:
Gift Suggestions
Handkerchiefs
Scarts
Gloves
Collars
Hoes

“suggestions” are all in e

 

The
dence excepting one line of artictes.
there in

Dainty “handkerchiefs” are

profusion, filmy “scarfs” in chiffon

and the thinest of crepe de_ chine,

(eloves (eaiore, collars’ in the

shape of stocks and those enlarged
to reach the shoulder, but the “hoes”
the
fully over and not by the most dili-
gent could |]
thing that, by the wildest stretch of

—well, I looked window care-

search discover any-

the imagination, resembled those

very useful and indispensable farm
implements!

Hose may one observe in the ex-
libit, and very odd and beautiful ones
they are, too.
half is heliotrope in shade, while the
lower half is a dull yellow, joined to
the top diagonally. The
the

tint and the yellow is sprinkled with

soles and

toes are a duplicate of tops in
tiny dots of lavender. Two pairs of
the

veritable

hose—not “hoes’—exhibited

dreams, fit for a duct=zss!
30th pairs are of the finest silk—one
pair being cream white and the other

The
a spray of white lace flowers appli-

a pale shell pink. former have
aued from the instep for a distance of
ten inches. The pink pair have white
lace flowers appliqued at _ intervals
and these are joined by holly-shaped
leaves done in hand-work in the pal-
est of yellow silk. These two pairs
of stockings are as handsome as one
could ever wish to own and must run
up to—well, perhaps the $20 mark.

Certainly Milady must be hard to

suit if she can not this year find
something pleasing to her taste in

hosiery, for never were more fetching
things manufactured for her pretty

feet. And the dealers iu these luxu-

In one pair the upper |

ate i
ei

 

ries seem to appreciate that now—if |

ever—is the season to wring ducts
from unwilling moneybags, and every
try goods store is bringing to the

ples in this line.
fans, belts, gloves,

Handsome bags,

scarfs, waists and gowns are on dis-
play, but one thing surprises me, in
looking over the Grand Rapids win-
dows as a whole, and that is that so
few dealers exhibiting therein
silk
To be sure, elegant cotton embroider-
but

chere is nothing that is quite so com-

are

their most attractive petticoats.

ed skirts are having their day,

forting to a woman as the. knowl-

edge that she has on a silk skirt, and,
be its rustle a loud aggressive
soft

past

one

or that gentle swishy-swish,

every one whom she glides has
an opportunity to possess that same
knowledge.

If friends or relatives ever are go-
the
way of a silk skirt as a gift that time

ing to do something splendid in

is right now, and the wise drygoods-

man would do well to put some of

his very finest garments of this de-

scription where “he who runs. may

read’—right next to his plate glass
windows.

I can’t recall another year, since
silk underwear came into vogue, when
so few fine petticoats were shown in
the windows during the fortnight pre-
They are - to
the

store—they are brought

ceding the holidays.
inside
out

from drawers and boxes and display-

be seen in abundance on

of the

ed in most fascinating folds in show
cases and on high ledges out of the
way of careless indiscriminate han-

dling. Why not in the show window,
so that the buyers of rich raiment
may know you keep such merchan-

dise without the bother of going in-
side to ask the question?

The spoons displayed this year by
the local jewelers and other dealers
in the product of the silversmith are
exquisite in design and show great-
ever. I noticed
On the

relief.

er originality than
han-

Her

hair streamed down around her face

one especially unique.

die was a girl’s head in

and over h2r shoulders and her eyes

were closed in sleep. Encircling the
head were poppies, emblematical of
The
tor a that my atten-
tion was attracted to it instantly. I

unconsciousness. idea

unusual spoon

| suppose the pattern is to be credited

to Ff nouveau.

—_» 2
Review of the Hardware Market.
AS 2

cold

in winter

art

of the arrival of

snow the business

direct result

weather and

and holiday goods, espe-

cially skates, sleds and snow

els, has increased greatly, so that

of day its most tempting sam- |

| effect

was SO |

} and

shov- |

many of the jobbing houses are now |

Al-

though the manufacturers are inclin-

fairly swamped with orders.

ed to believe that they have supplied
the greater part of the jobbing trade
in these lines they are still receiv-
ing supplementary orders from many
and book more

quarters expect to

i'when the middlemen’s stocks become
| more depleted.

In many other lines,

{

i

including shelf and heavy goods, cut-
lery and grinding machines, the de-
mand that
the trade for the entire year is likely

continues excellent, so

to compare favorably with that of
any previous year, while pro pects for

a prosperous business in 1905 are

very favorable.

While the market is growing firm-
er along many lines directly affected
by the increased cost of the raw ma-
terial forms their chief

whicl con-

stituent, few actual advances are ex-

pected in prices before Jan. 1, when
higher figures may be looked for.

lor this resson many manufacturers

book

frequently

are reluctant to orders far

ahead and are limiting

their contracts to early shipments.
Wire nails and wire products are sell-
ing at the higher prices fixed by the

largest manufacturers, including the

\merican Steel & Wire Co., and an
advance in cut nails is expected to
follow in a few days. Galvanized

sheets are also selling at an advance
of $2 a ton on a basis of $3.35@3.40
in Pittsburg, while galvanized squares

are bringing $1.65@1.70 per square.
The cultivation of the holiday busi-
ness is one of the most prominent
features of the trade at present, and
much larger. vaiieties are being ex-
hibited The
arrangement of goods

daily by all dealers.
class of

the

this

in the windows of retail] stores
is proving a great attraction, and as
most of these lines are of practical
utility and directly related to. win-

ter needs and pleasures they consti-

ftute one of the most ‘profitable
branches of the business.
Pig JIron—The unexpected  pur-

chase of 40,000 tons of standard Bes-
semer iron by the United States Steel
Corporation from the Valley Besse-
mer Association and other indepen-
has exerted a decided

dent furnaces

upon the prices of Bessemer
and basic iron by causing an advance

1 about Several

50c per ton. nTO-

ducers have advanced their prices

on Bessemer from $16 to $16.5u_ at

furnace, while a few are asking $17

per ton. The general resumption of

operations in almost all the indepen-

dent steel mills as well as in. those

sitating the purchase of so much
steel-making iron that it is now gen-
erally predicted that Bessemer and

basic iron will soon be selling at $18

$19 per ton. Although

few new orders for basic were placed

iby the steel companies Saturday,
there were many new enquiries un-
der consideration which will probably
|lead to a big volume of business |
this week. The Steel Corporation, |
which has lately purchased no less
than 65,000 tons of basic for its ac-

tive plants, is still in the market for
additional tonnages, and it
that the

and the Jones & Lauglin Steel com-

several

is also known wackawanna

panies are anxious to place orders

for moderate supplies to supplement
the output of their furnaces. Foun-
dry grades are in good demand, pipe
makers and other foundry
prises being
ducers.

Foundry Co., alone, has bought al-

' though it

Only 2]

enter- |
among the largest pro- |
The United States Pipe &|

most 100,000 tons within the last
week from Northern and Southern
producers and intends to buy 50,009
more tons. There are also inany en-
quiries for heavy tonnages of forge
iron, including offers to buy about
30,000 the
half of next year, but supplies are so

delivery in firs:

tons for

scarce that it is almost impossible
to obtain large tonnages of this grade
at any figure.

Steel—The

steel-making iron by the Steel Cor-

continued purchases of
independent
the striking
evidence of the remarkable activity

poration and the com-

panies furnish most

in all the big mills, which are now
day to keep up
New

for big tonneges of piates, structural

running night and

with current orders. contracts
material, bars, sheets, hoops and wire
products ure being placed daily, and
producers are generally asking large
ad-
the

premiums on their offerings. In
dition to the recent advances in
prices of wire nails and other wire
products an advance of $2 a ton has
just been made in the price of gal-
vanized sheets, while quotations on

galvanized squares heve also’ been
raised $1 per ton. Although — the
change has yet been made in the
prices of black sheets, it is generally
expected that these quotations as
well as those on tin plate will also
be advanced within the next few

days. Billet prices will also be raised
ton at the
stillet Association, to be held on Dec
the
material wil! be
amount at that
is not expected that

$2 per the meeting of

20, while official quotations on

structural advanced
time, al-
the
the merchants’ steel pool

a similar

members of
will alter values at its meeting on
While the Steel Rail Asso-
ciation did not announce its reaffirma-
the $28 schedule for 1905 at
tts conference last
that
change in this quotation.

Dec. 15.

tion of
week, it iS now

understood there will be &>

the

for

just before

the

Copper—As_ usual

Christmas holidays demand

| all grades of American copper is con-

| siderably smaller than it was earlier

in the winter, before the largest con-
sumers in this country and abroad had

: : | filled their most urgent requirements.
controlled by the combine is neces- |

Although a moderate volume of Sup-

plementary orders is being placed
daily by brass founders and electri-
cal equipment manufacturers in Eu-
rope and China, the support afforded
from this quarter is not sufficient to
hold prices their
| high levels in the absence of the big

firmly at former

| domestic demand which was just be-
ginning to play an important part in

the consumption of the metal before

the market became upset by -wild
speculative manipulation.
a

Had Him on His List.

The customer was settiing his coal
bill and incidentally making a com-
plaint concerning the quality of the
last load.
the Mr.

said, “is there such an office as coal

“By way, Psinders,” he

inspector in this town?”
“If there is,” replied

“Eve never heard of it. Why?”
“Because there be—and

ought to be slated for it.”

the dealer,

ought to
| you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

| Us

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

A Good Repeater

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

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

repeatedly buy and are always satisfied with.”

— baking powders and new foods, like

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

 

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK
SEE ART ITAA Ea RENEE AEN ATER LITLE ATE AI LESS “ERR LEE AE AE AE A IR

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

   

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Movements of Merchants.

Grayling—N. P. Olson has opened
a new drug store.

Holland—Paul A. Steketee
close out his bazaar stock.

Marquette—John Berryman
opened a confectionery store.

Mason—F. L. Curtiss has purchas-
ed the drug stock of F. H. Glass.

Holly—Samuel G. Lobdell has en-
gaged in the cigar and tobacco busi-
ness.

Grayling—Peter E. Johnson has
disposed of his cigar business to
Louis Niles.

Plainwell—Charles Granger has
bought an interest in the lumber
business of C. A. Bush & Co.

Paw Paw—John E. Else, of Chica-
go, has purchased a half interest in
Will Strobridge’s grocery store.

Stanwood—Henry Andrie has sold
a half interest in his meat market to
Jacob Hangstoffer, of Big Rapids.

Crystal—M. N. Mason is succeeded
by the Crystal Mercantile Co. inthe
dry goods and grocery business.

Evart—H. D. Turner has purchased
the Walter Seath meat market and
will continue the business at the same
location.

Saginaw—W. H. Appenzeller suc-
ceeds the E. R. Gould Shoe Co., Ltd.,
retailer of boots and shoes and man-
ufacturer of hosiery.

Bellaire—H. R. Vaughan has_ sold
his drug stock to Alpha B. Large &
Co., who will continue the business
at the same location.

Hudson—H. L. Atherton has pur-
chased the interest of C. M. Russell
in the hardware and implement firm
of Russell & Atherton.

Benzonia—S. W. McDonald has
purchased the general stock of Moody
& Smith and will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Fenton—G. E. Beadle has turned
his stock of clothing over to C. L.
Yost & Co., of Detroit, who are con-
ducting a closing out sale.

Hancock—P. J. Downey and J. E.
Chevalier have opened a household
furnishing goods store under the firm
name of Downey & Chevalier.

Detroit—Walter Hiller, a dry goods
dealer at Kercheval and Concord ave-
nues, has uttered a chattel mortgage
for $3,100 to Burnham, Stoepel & Co.

Lowell—V. C. Wolcott has sold his
grocery stock to Chas. Alexander,
who was formerly engaged in the
grocery business with Charles Mc-
Carty.

Paw Paw—H. E. Ball has disposed
of his interest in the grocery stock of
Butterfield & Ball to F. A. Butter-
field and is again working in the store
of Martin & Showerman.

Paw Paw—Mrs. C. A. Van Fleet
has sold her millinery stock to Miss
Veria Sayles and Mrs. Pinkey, of
Lowell. They will move the stock
into the Grimes building.

Port Huron—A. Vanderburg, who
has conducted a grocery store on

will

has

 

 

 

Water street for several years past,
has closed his establishment and turn-
ed the goods over to Wm. Canham &
Son.

Belding—L. L. Holmes and E. R.
Spencer have formed a co-partnership
under the style of Holmes & Spencer
to continue the clothing business
heretofore conducted oy Ek,
Holmes.

Elk Rapids—Albert Bachi has sold
his meat market to Will Carry, of
Traverse City, and B. F. Steimel, of
Sutton’s Bay, who will continue the

 

 

business under the style of Carry &
Steimel.

Kalkaska—C. H. Personett, who
has been engaged in the mercantile
business at this place for a number
of years, has sold his stock to an or-
ganization known as the Kalkaska
Grocery Co., with L. R. Hughes as
manager.

Holland—Haan Bros., the Central
drug store proprietors, soon will
open a drug store at Zeeland in
the building lately occupied by Ci
Van der Heide, the grocer. John
Haan will have charge of the Zee-
land store.

Charlevoix—J. Welling & Co. have |
leased the store formerly occupied
by Joseph Rosenberg and put in
lines of dry goods, clothing, shoes,
notions and millinery. The business |
will be conducted as a branch of |
the Petoskey establishment. |

|

 

Sparta—C. A. Johnson & Co. have |
decided to build a modern bean ele-
vator in the spring. The building
will be erected near the depot and it |
is probable that part of the company’s
storehouse will be taken down to|
make room for the new building.

Port Huron—The creditors of John
Wolfstyn, bankrupt, have receiveda
20 per cent. dividend on their claims.

Mr. Wolfstyn’s liabilities amounted
to about $15,000. It is believed that
another dividend of from to to 15

 

per cent. will be paid before the final |
adjustment.

Imlay City—W. H. Hall has taken |
his son, William, into partnership
with him in the grocery business. The
senior member of the new firm has
been in business here nearly twenty-
six years. For sixteen years he has
sold goods in the building he now
Owns and occupies.

Eaton Rapids—Samuel Amdursky,
who has been engaged in the dry
goods business for the past nineteen
years, has sold his stock to -Fred
Mendell, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location. Mr. Men-
dell has been head clerk in the dry
goods store of Tucker & Gallery for
some years, and previous to that time
had been engaged in trade in this
city.

Kalamazoo—Mrs. B. F. Witwer,
well-known to the public of Kalama-
zoo from her fifteen years’ connection
with the Witwer bakery, store and
restaurant at 114 East Main street,
and since the sale of the store and
restaurant last April retired from ac-
tive business, has decided that private
life is too quiet for her and has pur-
chased the Underwood bakery and
lunchroom on South Burdick street
from Mrs. J. DeHaven.

 

Saginaw—The book, stationery, of-

fice supplies and wall paper business
conducted by E. St. John at 409 Court
street for more than twenty years,

 

 

one is authorized to go ahead and
untangle the matter there is no pros-
pect of any of the creditors receiy-
ing their just dues, and the Sugar

and established by E. St. John and | Co., an innocent party, would suffer

the late E. C. Newell nearly forty | thereby.

years ago, passed into the hands of
the E. St. John Co., a corporation

 

It was asked that the re-
ceiver when named be authorized to

| go ahead, complete the factory, and

with an authorized capital stock of | prepare to operate the same, being

$10,000. Capital stock subscribed and
paid in, $8,000. The stockholders are
J. E. Anderson, 430 shares; E. St.
John, 237 shares; Caspar J. Zeigen, 83
shares.

Manufacturing Matters.

Stave Co. has discontinued
tions.

Detroit—The Standard Shale Brick
Co. has increased its capital

from $40,000 to $60,000.

|
|
|
|
|

| West Front

stock |

| Amiotte
N ms— ex Hoop & : i ss
a a > iat lerection of a new candy factory to

authorized to issue receiver’s certifi-
cates that take preeedence over all
other paper or debts, including bonds,
the certificates thus issued being a
first lien on the property.

City
plans

sros. &
for the

Straub
ready

 

Traverse
have

be built in the spring at the corner of
and Hall streets. The
building will be of Keystone brick

| and three stories in height with base-

has been organized here to manufac- |

ture a substitute for meat.
go and local capital is interested in
the new concern.
Pequaming—Charles Hebard &
Son’s sawmill closed last week after

Chica- |

|}and will be occupied with the main
office, the clerk’s offices and sample ~

a successful season’s run. The mill |
was operated day and night. Hebard

of hemlock bark to Kenosha, Wis.,

| & Son shipped this fall 165 carloads |

The bark is brought from Port Ab-|

bey on scows and loaded on cars at |
| used as a storage room for raw ma-

the docks in L’Anse. The firm has
a large quantity of bark yet to be

| shipped.

Ontonagon—The Ontonagon Lum-
ber & Cedar Co.’s mill was closed

six months. Exact figures as to the

cut are not available.

room.

.1 trance
A number of |

improvements will be made. The com- |

pany still has many millions of feet

of logs on hand and after this year | | . .
: : | of the ground in the spring,
the plant will be operated continuous-

ly. Next season logs will be shipped |

to the mill over the Ontonagon &

| Southwestern’s new railroad.

Iron Mountain—Harvey England,
who owns a large amount of timber
near Brown’s spur, a few miles south
of this place, on the Chicago, Mil-
waukee & St. Paul Railway, will build
a modern and lath mill to re-
place the portable mill which has been
operated there for three years. The
machinery for the new plant has been
purchased and the old mill is being
removed. Mr. England will employ
a large crew of men this winter cut-
ting and hauling timber to the mill,
which he expects to have ready for
Operations next spring.

saw

Charlevoix—A receiver has been ap-
pointed for the Charlevoix Sugar
Company by Judge Mayne, on an
application made by A: L. Coulter,
one of the stockholders. Judge Mayne
named Samuel Marting, who has been
acting as Manager, as receiver. The
petition sets forth that the National
Construction Co., the concern that
had the contract to build and equip
the factory, is insolvent and unable to
carry out its contract: that $15,000
will complete the factory to a 350
ton capacity, ready to do business;
that the failure of the contractors to
complete the factory, and the result-
ing liens on machinery, have com-
plicated matters so that unless some-

ae i /is practically fire proof.
Friday and will not again be operated . . F

until next spring. The mill was run ail

 

 

 

Vicksb Tike Plante Viwds Co | ment, the shape of the lot making the
‘icksburg—tih é 2 ca

The
Front street side will be the front

building on the flatiron order.

room. This has a 29% feet frontage,
while the Hall street side will be

15614 feet long, 102 feet at the back
and 136 feet on the opposite side.
facing a vacant lot. The basement
will have a cement floor and a portion
will be set aside for the chocolate
room, the remaining portion being

terials and also containing the boiler
The two upper stories will be
utilized for manufacturing purposes
and will be of solid concrete which
The main
door will be at the corner of Front
Hail and a second
will be twenty feet further
down Hall street. The contract will
be let within ten days and work will
be begun as soon as the frost is out

streets en-

 

 

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Credit Co., ua

Widdicomb Building, Grand Petey tehy
Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit

  

Good but~ slow debtors oY

upon receipt of our direct de-
Send all
accounts to our offices for collec-
trom.

mand letters. foleetst ¢

 

A GOOD INVESTMENT

We have for sale 6,000 acres of land in
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This
land is well timbered with red birch, elm,
bass, hemlock, maple, cedar and spruce,
that will cut upwards of 6M to the acre,
50 per cent. of timber being red birch
and hemlock. 4.e land is. rich clay
loam, level and slightly rolling and con-
veniently located to railroads with ail2
cent rate to Chicago and Milwaukee on
forest products. Railroads pay 25 cents
for hemlock ties on their right-of-way.
The copper and iron mines consume vast
quantities of timber that can not be used
in the manufacture of lumber. There is
also a good market for cord wood. The
price we ask for our land is $10 per acre.
Men who are informed on prices of tim-
ber lands north of Grand Rapids and
Saginaw will note the difference in price
per acre. and we are able to obtain a
better freight rate to Chicago and Mil-
waukee than Lower Michig2n points north
of Grand Rapids and Saginaw to the
Same points. We have sold several
tracts of land to Southern Michigan lum-
bermen during the last year, and we can
furnish references in regard to our esti-
mates being correct.

CHOCOLAY LAND CO., LTD.,
Marquette, Mich.

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The Grocery Market.
Sugar—The American Sugar Re-
fining Co.’s quotations are as follows,
f. o. b. New York, subject to the usual
cash discount and an allowance of
5 points:

Ceystal Domine 0c $7.90
Paste Tamers ca 6.85
a 6.30
Cee 4.35
MOR A 6.05
Faslé powdered (0.000505... 2... 5-90
Ce eee a 5.90
RAM M powdered 220000000050 04 5.80
Coarse poweercd 62000005000, cas
Pri, powdered (20260 5.6
POCORN . S75
Paste fine granulated |......... 5.65
Ccarse granmiated 200000000 o. 5.65
Standard gtanulated 2.000005... 5.65
Extra fine erinpiated 6..05..4.. S6
Confectioners’ granulated ...... 5.85
2ib. crn, fine granulated: ...: 5.S0
21h. bacs, fme granmiated ... . 5.80
sib. bass, filme pranulated ..... 5.80
Peamede 8 oo 5.65
Contectioners: Alois os 5.50
(1) COnnnDIa AG 5 30
C2) VSO A 5.25
(3) Rid@eewooa A ooo 0.0... 5.25
(4) Puoenix Ae S15
5) pe A a Sone
CE wus 5.05
Fe se 5.00
ee 4.0
ee ABS
Cee 4.80
ae 4.79
MS ee es 4.05
ay 4.55
ee ee 4.56
uae 4.50
Ce. 4.60

Téa—The market is in the midst

business is doing all the time, how-
ever, and the situation is thoroughly
healthy. There have been no changes
in the market during the week. There
are no concessions offered, and prices
are steady throughout. There is
some expectation that the market
may do a little better after January I.

Coffee—The coffee market presents
no new features. It is firm, but no
one is prepared to predict that it
will go higher soon. The demand
As noted before, the
trade is shying at coffee and is tak-
ing only enough for current require-

is in small lots.

ments.
has fallen off considerably in the
cities and the country is leaning more
and more towards the bulk goods or
private brand packages. Statisticians
are busy on the 1905-1906 crop now,
but that is too far away to bother
us up in this section.

Canned Goods—Tomatoes show no
particular change. here 45. a
slightly firmer feeling in some packs,
but this does not pervade the whole
market. After the first of the year
considerably more business in these
lines is looked for. Dealers are not
stocking up on staples at present
with the invoice four weeks away

The sale of package goods |

 

and Christmas goods largely monop-
olizing the trade. Other vegetables
are in moderate demand. The new
prices on 1905 pack corn which have
been made, as noted some time ago,
are attracting but little attention. It
is too early to suit the trade. The
figures are slightly less than the
opening a year ago. Salmon is moy-
ing in a small way only. Sardines
are likewise rather slow. Lobster
is scarce and prices are very firm.
Dried Fruits—Peaches are in fair
demand at unchanged prices. The
coast and secondary markets are
still apart, the latter being the low-
er. Currants are in moderate de-

mand at unchanged prices. Seeded
raisins are about unchanged. The
secondary markets are still about
Yc below the coast parity. Loose

raisins, which are also in fair de-
mand, are likewise below the coast
by about %4c. Apricots are moving
fairly, but the high prices are inter-
fering with the consumption. Prunes
are in fair demand for small lots
at unchanged prices. In spite of the
light supply it is reported that some
concessions on 40’s have been made
during the week. Small and large
Sizes are very scarce and for the
most part firm.

Syrups and Molasses—The glucose
market is very. strong, although
without change for the week. An
advance is not unlikely. The refin-
ers are getting very uppish since the
formation of their working agree-
ment, and one has already removed
the guarantee. Sugar syrup is very
firm and the large demand and small
supply have advanced the market
2@4c per pound. Molasses is fairly
active at unchanged prices. The

;market has about settled down toa
| °
| fair value.

Pickles—The organization of the

| Independent Pickle Co., with a capi-
| tal stock of $500,000, is thus explained
of the usual midwinter dulness. Some |

by Henry Williams, of the Williams
Bros. €o., of Detroit: “Fhe com-
pany is in no sense a trust. It was
organized to take care of what we
call the. ‘raw stock’ and will not be
used to regulate prices. The pickles
used in our business are grown by
or for the manufacturers. Unless they
are used quickly they are carried over
until the following year, and this is
sometimes hard for some of the man-
ufacturers who have not large capi-
tal, as it ties up a great deal of
money. This Independent Pickle Co.
will pick up the surplus stock and
carry it over until needed and will
sell the raw stock to dealers wanting
it the same as dealers in any other
line of goods. The company will
not handle the manufactured product
in any way.”

Fish —- Mackerel is unchanged.
There is no demand, but prices are
firm and holders are not pushing sales.
The outlook is for higher prices. Cod,
hake and haddock are not selling in
the Philadelphia market, but Glouces-
ter reports a good movement. The
price is still high, and no concessions
are to be had. Sardines are un-
changed and still quiet. Salmon is
unchanged and very dull. The de-
mand for smoked bloaters has been

 

very heavy this season, at prices
higher than ruled last year. The ves-
sels got in about a month earlier
and the demand during that month
is reported greater than usually ob-
tains during the whole season.

Provisions—The provision market
is very dull. The demand is up to
the seasonable standard, but no bet-
ter. Hams and all other smoked
meats are very quiet at unchanged
prices. Lard is in fair demand, but
both pure and compound declined 4c
during the past week. The cause is
dull trade and a larger make. Barrel
pork is unchanged and dull. Dried
beef is selling in a small way, but
dull. Canned meats are steady and
unchanged.

en
The Produce Market.

Apples—Prices range from $2@2.25
per bbl., according to quality and va-
riety. The market is quiet and prices
are steady.

Bananas—$1@1.25 for small bunch-
es; $1.50(@1.60 for Jumbos.

Beets—4oc per bu.

Butter—Creameries are steady at
261%4c for choice and 27%c for fancy.
Receipts of dairy grades are larger
than are usual at this time of the year.
No. I is strong at 20@2Ic and pack-
ing stock is steady at 15@1I6c. Ren-
ovated is in active demand at 20@atc.

Cabbage—Soc per doz.

Carrots— 4oc per bu.

Celery—25c per doz. bunches.

Cranberries—-Cape Cods are strong
at $7.25 for Late Blacks and $8.25 for
Howes.

Eggs—Receipts are increasing and
the percentage of old held eggs is de-
creasing. Tower prices are looked
for, but not until after the holi-
days. Fresh command 24@25c for case
count and 26@27c for candled. Stor-
age are moving freely at 21@22c.

Game—-Dealers pay $1@1.25_ for
pigeons and $1.15@1.25 for rabbits.

Grapes—Malagas, $5.50@6 per keg.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12c and white clover at 13@I5c.

Lemons—Messinas command $3.75
per box; California fetch $3.75@4.

Lettuce—Hot house has declined to
12c per fb.

Onions—The price is strong and
higher, choice stock fetching 85c per
bu.

Oranges—Floridas fetch $2.50; Ja-
2.50; California Navels, $2.75.
Parsley—25c per dozen bunches.

Potatoes—The price ranges from
25@30c, depending on local competi-
tion rather than outside demand.

Pop Corn—goc for Rice.

Poultry—Receipts are light and
the demand is steady, in consequence
of which the market is strong. Deal-
ers pay as follows for dressed—drawn
and heads off: Chickens, t1@12c;
fowls, Io@I1c; young turkeys, 17@
18c; old turkeys, 16@17c; young
ducks, I13@14c; young geese, Io@IIc;
squabs, $2@2.50.

Radishes—25c per doz. for hot
house.

Squash—tc per fb. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois
fetch $2@3 per bbl.

Turnips—4oc per bu.

maicas,

 

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, Dec. 7—Creamery, fresh,
24@27c; storage, 224%4@24%c; dairy,
fresh, 16@23c; poor, 1I2@15c;_ roll,
18@2o0c.

Eggs—Candled, fresh, 30@32c; cold
storage, 21144@22c; at mark, 20@2Ic.

Live Poultry — Chicks, ro@11%c;
fowls, g@Ioc;_ turkeys, 16@I17¢c;
ducks, 13@14c; geese, 12@13c.

Dressed Poultry — Turkeys, 19@
20c; chicks, 12@13c; fowls, 1o@11%c;
old cox, 8@g9c; ducks, 14@16c.

Beans—Hand picked marrows, new,
$2.75@2.85; mediums, $2@2.15;_ peas,
$1.75@1.80; red kidney, $2.75; white
kidney, $2.75@3.

Potatoes—-Round white,
mixed and red, 40@45c.

Rea & Witzig.
——_.-

Position of Kalamazoo Grocers on
Premium Schemes.
Kalamazoo, Dec. 1o—At the last
regular meeting of the Kalamazoo
Retail Grocers’ Association a _ reso-
lution was adopted instructing the
members not to replace in stock any
package goods which contain coupons
for premiums, but to encourage such
goods only as rest solely on their

merits as trade promoters.

The Secretary was authorized to
write that sentiment of the meeting
to the trade journals and to the Sec-
retary of the State Association in
hopes that other associations may
take similar action and encourage the
manufacturers of package goods to
do a legitimate business.

H. J. Schaberg, Sec’y.
le

Lester J. Rindge, after being out
four or five days, is again confined
to his bed, where he will probably be
compelled to remain for a week or
more. His coachman was taken sick
last Friday and Mr. Rindge undertook
to care for his horses himself. In
doing so he caught cold, which re-
sulted in an abscess on one arm and
_a high fever which necessitated his
taking absolute rest.

43@50¢;

a

Geo. H. Reeder & Co. are refitting
their offices in ash with a dark finish,
which will give them a much more
handsome appearance. The changes
contemplate moving the book-keep-
ing department to the front end of
the store and the installation of a
private office for the head of the
house.

———-9—~»

J. H. Baker has sold his third in-
terest in the Mill Creek Mercantile
Co. to his partners, Dava Stowell and
C. W. Crossman, who will continue
the business under the same style.

Oe

H. B. Wagar, formerly engaged in
the hardware business at Cedar
Springs, has taken the position of
cashier for the Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.

——__».—__

Tiefenthal & Worms, who have
recently engaged in general trade at
Dorr, purchased their grocery stock
of the Lemon & Wheeler Company.

——_>2>
It will take more than gold-loving
hearts to make the golden age.
——_2-- + —____
No man gains anything until he is
willing to lose everything.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

cipal Staples.

Ginghams—After making a careful
the
season, sellers of ginghams announce |

review of business for present
that these goods are not in the de-|
pressed position that they are com-|
to The
have been placed gradually and after

monly reported be. orders

persistent canvassing; but now that

the season is at its close, the aggre-
gate yardage is found to be but little
under that
The well
uted and few mills are long on stocks. |

reached in normal times.

business has been distrib- |
Some of the standard patterns have
suffered the
has been an excessive production; but
the mills
curtailed

from what trade admit |

have for several months

on these goods and have

brought stocks down to a safe mar-

gin. The sale of standard staple |
ginghams for domestic consumption
would not in itself have sufficed to
clean out stocks that had gradually
been accumulating; but the c2ll fo-
ginghams for export has been. of

comfortable proportions and: has sup-
Fine
at
prices that made them desirable and

plemented home market sales.

dress ginghams have been selling

so far as the present season is con-
sound
they
been sold to advantage and are now

cerned, stand in posi-

they

tion. For spring trade have

receiving their share of buyers’
The

hams for spring delivery appear to

at-
tention. standard staple ging-
be working into better shape and a
reorder business of average strength
will suffice to make the season profit-
able for most mills. There has been
a large percentage of goods made this
of
as those used in ginghams, and

grade
the
mills that have adapted their looms

year from yarns the same

to special fabrics have done an ex-
cellent business.

Lace Curtams—fhe demand ior
domestic lines of lace curtains known |}
to

in

as the Nottingham continues in-

crease, and they are shown a

wide range of prices from 45c to $5
and the
the popular preference continues

largecenters
to
be given to designs and effects suita- |

upwards. In

ble for straight hanging curtains with
a comparatively simple body and a

border more or less elaborate. In the
smaller towns, however, there is still |
a beisk trade m face curtams. of}

heavily fiowered designs. One of the

this is |
The

a geometrical
the

regular meshes of lace curtains.

new patterns shown season

the
with

called fish net. curtain is

woven precision

ir-
The
body of the curtain is without orna-

in great contrast with usual

mental tracery, but with a border of
The popular

elaberate scroll design.

color of this class of goods is light
cafe au lait, but they are also shown |
in cardinal and green. They retail

at $3@6 and should prove a popular
moderate price curtain. Another nov- |
elty shown this season in draperies

preciative attention

| tiously.
| manufacturer

| quality

tiles.

| very light cafe au lait, with the orna-

mentation in a rich light brown. This
novelty in draperies is receiving ap-

from the

|of rich and artistic effects.

Worsted
Woolen and worsted hosiery

Woolen and

 

a |

|

| is a portiere of what is called irides- | him awny from the courage of his
icent lace. The pattern and general | convictions. It is possible that
effect is Moorish. These draperies! general advance in quotations may)
‘retail at $20. The body color is| not occur as promised by agent and |

/manufacturer, but that the indirect |
method of advancing prices may be
| preferred on many lines. It 1s very
easy, if the manufacturer is so dis-

lovers |

Hosiery— |
lines |

have been quiet, but the market has |
lean avoid adopting one or the other

been more stable than the cotton side.
Buyers have been taking goods
to

above

cau-
the

last

Prices in justice

be

and consumers

should
season’s quotations

| of

would be willing to pay something of |

an advance if they were assured the|_.. : 1 a
t |time or politeness on the shopper—

of standard. But

the prices so far have been govern-

goods was

manufacturers
to

ed largely by a few

who were so fortunate as have

a supply of
recent advances,
to 1]

Sei)

goods at last season’s figures.
This is good for the consumer, but

i the

i | signal
wool bought before the |

and who are willing |

the knitter who is not so fortunately |

situated as regards raw material is
not so appreciative.

Woolen and Merino Underwear—
Lines of this class of goods have

not been opened to any extent yet, |

but there are already indications that
this otf
in a similar position to the

division underwear trade will

soon be
woolen hosiery trade. Some knitters
have a good supply of comparatively

}

he benefit of

offering

the
by

to give t consumer

their fortunate position
him new lines at last season's prices.

We

which

have seen a few of these lines

to
have

were up standard in

respect, and we seen others

which had been skillfully manipulated

posed, to cheapen the quality in ways
that the great majority of consum-
ers would detect. It is difficult

to see how the carpet manufacturer

not

the methods referred to,
he is willing to run his mill without

profits.
——__~. > ___—_
The Shop Girl’s Signal.

To guard against wasting too much

looks
the entire stock and then says she'll

woman who always Over

call again—store girls have a sort of
code which sends a warning

all along the line when one of these

dreaded patrons makes her appear

ance in a department store.. The tip
number.
the

makes

iS a “Ten forty-nine” may
which
of the
lots

of women who make a habit of look-

word passed aiong

the

be

saleswoman aware

shopper’s approach. There are

ing at all sorts of finery in the big

stores without any intention of pur-

chasing, and they are the bete noir

The latter,

previous experi-

of a shop girl’s existence.
unless she has had a

ence with the particular shopper in-

| specting her wares, is apt to go toa
low-priced wool, and they are willing |

| she never had any chance o

every |

| been

great deal of trouble in the hope of
making a sale, only to find out that
doing so.
By quietly passing the signal along
the bore is speedily disposed of, with-
out suspecting the little deal that has
for her.—Philadel-

framed up

| phia Record.

or slighted in finish enough to net
the manufacturer an advance suff- |
cient to offset the increased cost of |

raw material.

Wool Gloves and Mittens—Jobbers

report an average season’s business
in this line of knit goods. All that

is needed to accelerate the movement

———+ +. ___
Make Pilgrimages by Rail.
Mecca is to be the Mecca no long-

er of saintly pedestrians but of steam

propelled passengers. Germans have

the steaminchargeandare building the
from Damascus to

Pilgrims Railroad

Mecca, a distance of 1,150 miles. Un-

ider the German chief engineer are
seventeen Turkish, twelve German,
five French, five Italian, two Aus-

is a little more cold weather. The
retailers already report an increase |
of business in the Northern sections
of the country. There is about the

same variety shown as last year and} °
11S
same |

the

goods

the purchaser gets about

value for his money on that
retai! at 50 cents and upwards.
Carpets—The carpet situation the
past week has been characterized by
Tatk ‘ot
prices is general, and the consensus
of that the talk
mere idle words. The advance

expected to materialize about January

a very firm tone. higher

opinion is is not

is

10, when a new general price list will} , 0 :
Le | Cape Colony railroads.
An advance in prices | _. :

| sion will be 3

go into effect.
seems to be the only action for the
manufacturer consistent with the pre-
vaili

rials which enter into his

the only weak spot at present being
The

may

in
the
unlike

of
“popular

cotton. expected advance

prices not materialize, as
carpet manufacturer is not

manufacturers of other lines tex-
He
prices” with a high degree of awe

and at times allows this awe to lead

often regards

ing high prices of the raw mate-
product, |

 

|
|
|
i

trian, one Belgian and one Greek en-
The southern terminus line
the

from

gineers.

now on Locomotives

and

desert.

have come Munich from

unless |

| looms.

Belgium; passenger cars from Frank- |
f

ort-on-Main; and freight cars

The

also busy building a new railroad t

Belgium. German engineers are

oO
Southwest Africa,

work. An engineering party has been

sent to survey line for an exten-

to

a
sion of their two foot gauge line
Windhook to junction with

This

a

Colony gauge.

——_.--._
Absent at the Time.
Mabel,” the

“Miss said persistent

suitor, “I can’t help speaking to you
again. It is true you have said ‘No’

very emphatically to every proposal-

“Not at all,” interrupted the swee: | 1
| employs

girl.

“I said ‘Yes’ last Tuesday.”
Last Tuesday? Er—I wasn’t here
then.”

“No, but Jack Hansom was.”

from |

with 750 Italians at |

the |
CAten- i
feet 6 inches—the Cape |

| cording to the price of

loom.

| advantage

 

The Development of the Ribbon.

Many changes have come to pass
development of the
These are now capable of high
speed and show a great advance over
the Swiss and German types, which
were the ribbon looms principally in
The modern rib-
bon loom was first designed in the
United States. Under the old meth-
the it
employ on

in the ribbon

use ten years ago.

handling was
necessary to the
At present the warp is plac-
broad-silk

ods of warp

men

ed on beams similar to

looms, and every warp is let off au-
tomatically from each beam, making

it unnecessary for the weaver to go
behind the looms for this purpose.
The best type of ribbon loom, the

high-speed automatic, includes all the

latest improvements of construction.

lt is adapted to high-grade Jacquard

work, where high-speed has been
slow of adoption. It has the auto-
matic let-off system for the warps,

capable of a more uniform weave

than tl

he old machine and has great-
Attention

er productive capacity.

may be directed also to a very eff-
cient silk-velvet ribbon loom _ that
has recently come into use. Inciden
tally, it may be mentioned that no
where has inventive genius in con
nection with the power loom been

United States.
features

© notable as in the
The

the American power looms are light

most pronounced of

construction, ease in handling, sim-

plicity in operation, accaracy of

weave and moderate cost.

  

ariset thus comments” on

A lons. i

the supremacy of fashion acquired by

Paris. he itis

lue

"lo be just”
to
acquired in the matter of fashion and

says,

( in part the supremacy Paris

which was accepted in the eighteenth
ll the capitalists of Eu-

be-

coun-

century by a

and merchants

trom

Travelers
to
try to learn the taste that Paris pos-

rope.

gan then come every

sesses in all that pertains to the dec-
it is Paris that radiates
It at

season the makers of dress

orative arts.

the world. is Paris that each

goods and

the milliners find out the taste of the

con-umers and decide, following it
quickly, the qualities that should be
in the market. The manufacturers

at silk centers receive their impulse
from
the

satisfy tl
It

Paris and create the fabrics or

colors which are believed will

le capricious desires of the
buyer. is thus in turn reappears

with a certain periodicity, the vogue
of laces, ribbons, velvets, satins, etc.
France, with its competitors, has the
inspiration

of its

from the world.

getting
It sends its products
to

t

every market in Europe, to Asia.
Africa and Its success 1s

displayed by the figures of exporta

America.

tion of silks which fluctuate between
250,000,000 350,000,000 francs, ac-

silk the

raw and following the nature, low or

and
in

advanced, of the goods required for
consumption. France absorbs
great part of the silk raised by Asia
for the commerce of the West. It
4,500,000 kilograms of raw
800,000 kilograms of waste

a

silk

and

| silk.”

me cto neem

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WEDNESDAY

DECEMBER 14, 1904 °

 

 

NEW WAY OF GETTING THERE.

Commercial Europe is having an-
other spasm. As usual America is the
cause of it. In the very middle of
the growlings over the big American
foot which keeps an “open door” in
the Orient. in spite of the protests
constantly arising in regard to Amer-
ican invasion everywhere and_ to
China in particular, American push
and impudence with its eye upon the
Asiatic millions upon millions,
deliberately gone to work and

has
con-

 

already what the result is going

to be.

The great untaught of the distant
East are even now standing tiptoe
with expectation. With their own
eyes they are to see “the wonders of
the Western World!” The Nation
whose fleet sailed out of Manila Bay
a victor with the loss of a single man
is sending a-trading steamer to their
ports, its prow adorned with the
wreath of peace and its hull filled to
bursting with good will and the man-
ufactured blessing of the boundless
West; and then—but let disheartened
Europe tell her own despairing story:

The goods will be attractively dis-
played. The cunning and unprinci-
pled exhibitor will see to it that they
stand side by side with rival articles
of popular favor and. with, apparent-
ly, utter unconcern he will hold his
peace. The victim has a fair field
and without a hint looks and exam-
ines as much and as long as his own
sweet will dictates. Is it a shoe that
interests him? He looks at the Amer-
ican product with distrust. As he
looks he learns. For the first time
in his life he sees that a shoe is more
than mere foot covering. It is a
thing of beauty. He handles, he feels,
he—test of tests—tries it on and a
smile of unspeakable peace brightens

 

|his face as he learns by blissful ex-
| perience the American idea of a “fit-

| ting”

cocted a scheme for seeking that cov- |

eted field of commercial endeavor
which simply goes ahead of anything
that has so far entered the mind of
the trade-seeking tradesman. This
last terror-breeder is a floating expo-
uition. It bursts upon the astonished
world like a bolt from
noonday sky. On a recent Tuesday
the steamship Ohio left Seattle with
a cargo of American manufactured
goods upon a mission novel in the
history of maritime commerce. Itis
bound for the Orient and will visit
every port of commercial importance
in “eleven lands,” says the reporter,
a number which the American
commercial multiplication table

in

1S | novelties of American ingenuity. The

shoe. Last question of all is
the price and when he finds that to
be less than what he has so far paid
he walks off with his purchase upon
his feet and words upon his lips that
bring to the floating exposition a
crowd of eager countrymen who in
their turn proclaim what the rest of

| the experienced world has found, that

a cloudless |

j
|

| wear!

the American shoe is the only shoe
that living humanity can afford to
Will it be at all strange that
the American shoe “invades” Asia as

|it has Austria and the rest of Eu-
| rope?

It is much to be doubted if the
|Oriental experience’ differs very

/much from that of her sister contin-
| ent when brought in contact with the

as uncertain as the algebraic X. The!

goods constituting the cargo cover

America’s exports of manufactured
trade and have been arranged with a

view to the most effective exhibition.

China, Japan, the Straits settlements, |

the Philippines, South Africa, Aus-
tralia, the west coast of South Amer-
ica and, if we can place any reliance
upon the indignant and protesting
European trafficker, “any old place”
into which the floating exposition can
thrust its omnipresent, aggressive
prow will be given a most striking

produces, manufactures and sells, and
that in vastness and variety her out-
put is unexcelled the world over. In
every land where stops are to be
made the exhibition has been well ad-
vertised, while the American Consul
whose name and locality is legion has
for weeks been working to enlist the

anybody with common sense who has
seen samples of this “working” knows

writer was wandering about the

| Paris Exposition of 1889 and chance
| brought him to the electric display of
articles from a to z in the alphabet of |

the United States. A man of the

| Eastern Hemisphere with the look of
| the doubting Thomas on his face was

|

}
i
|
|

j

; to
object lesson that the United States |

examining with amused interest the
American telephone, evidently saying
to his not-to-be deceived companion
that the thing was a Yankee device
put together with the design of de-
ceiving the sight-seeing world. After
it was easy to be seen that he had
told about it and how he was going
put the American trickster to
shame, he asked permission of the
attendant through an interpreter
speak into the ’phone. The request
was promptly granted and into the

receiver was spoken a gibberish that |

would put out of order anything but
an American machine. Then witha
satisfied “There!” in his own tongue

| the man stepped back to await re-
interest of the Oriental merchant, and |

| peated

sults. Of course the telephone re-
the lingual conglomeration

and the man with face aghast hurried

to |

from the building, fully convinced
that the American genius and the Old
Harry were synonymous terms, and
that surrender at discretion was the
only resource available! Is it possi-
ble that a similar decision accounts
for the easy American invasion of
the European markets?

If the question comes to the curi-
ous, “From whose gigantic brain
sprang the earliest concept of this
before-unheard-of way of commercial
getting there?” the answer can only
be found in certain signs. Such
brains never herald or talk about their
achievements. There is a_ general
idea abroad that the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific are behind
the undertaking. With that, how-
ever, the world is not much interest-
It is the outcome now that is
That i

ed.
attracting attention.

is no doubt.

 

will result in the expansion of Amer-

that trade will find to their cost.

a novelty and an attraction and

way of “getting there’ which the

ingenious Yankee has hit upon.

 

United States as the Chinamen have
been not
not a very great many of them here
anyhow and conditions in their own
country are such that there will not
be very many for a long time to
come. But be that as it may, the re-
between the United States
and Japan are such that it would be
unwise and indiscreet to attempt any
such undertaking. Japan is a near
neighbor to the Philippines and
neighborly friendliness would suggest
that we should be on good terms
with each other. There really is not
a very serious demand for Japanese
exclusion and the only suggestion
comes from some radical labor lead-
ers who would like to see everybody
but themselves excluded. Their re-
| quest is not at all likely to be grant-
ed. The Japanese when they come
here are good workers and, as long
as they stay, good citizens. Theirs
is not parallel case with the Chi-
nese.

is a wise one.

lations

a

eT ARLES

 

There
quantity

was a falling off in’ the
but an improvement in the
quality of immigrants coming to this
country during the past year. The
number who came over was 812,870,

|as against 857,046 the previous year.

 

| They brought more money and were
}in every of a more desirable
Good people will be wel-
comed in this country as long as
there is room. If the foreigners
could only be persuaded not to stick
in the cities they would fare much
| better and would never present any
| problem.

way

| character.

SL
ace

One sin bears many seeds,

The suggestion that Japanese lab- |
orers ought to be excluded from the}

AWAITING THE INEVITABLE.

The Japanese keep banging away
at Port Arthur and at the Russian
ships in the harbor. There will be
little left of that part of the Czar’s
navy at the present rate of progress.
Perhaps when all the vessels are put
out of business Japan’s boats will
venture in and take a hand at bom-
barding the forts. That would be
rather a dangerous procedure, for
presumably the entrance to the har-
bor is very thoroughly mined. It
has been appreciated all along that
Gen. Stoessel must be finally over-
come. The date of his destruction
is the one uncertainty. He has made
a valiant and a remarkable defense
that will get the credit it deserves

 

will |
prove equal to all requirements there |
That it will acquaint the |
merchants of the Orient and the cus-}
tomers behind them what the mills |
and the factories of this country pro- |
duce goes without saying, and that it |

ican trade the foreign enemies of |
In|
itself the floating exposition will be |
as
an advertisement of our manufactur- |
ed products it will be found the best |

in military history. The loss of life
on both sides has been something
terrific. The horrors of life within
the beleagured city must beggar de-
scription. Relief can not come tothe
Russian within the fortress. Japan
expected to be in possession of Port
Arthur long before this, but persis-
tently they have kept at it and in
time their perseverance’ will be

rewarded.
2 TT

 

So reguiariy is Gen. Diaz re-elected
President of Mexico that it is con-
fidently expected and the possibility
of a change never excites any atten-
tion, because it is thoroughly under-

|stood that the possibility will not

There are |

‘be improved.

Gen. Diaz has_ been
inaugurated President for the seventh
time, having held that office continu-
ously since 1884. The other Central
and South American republics have
recurring revolutions. Mexico
tents itself with mere re-elections.
The administration of President Diaz
has been so uniformly excellent that
as long as he can be induced _ to
serve no other aspirant has a chance.
His country has progressed wonder-
fully under his rule and the’ people
have come to believe with good rea-
son that no one else could have done
so well and they are afraid to trust
any one else. Gen. Diaz is getting
to be an old man, but as long as he
lives it will presumably be as Pres-
ident of Mexico.

con-

Beware otf the speculative mania.
When your ready money is all tied
up in surplus goods there may arise
conditions which will cause you to
regret the investment. It is not only
the interest on money, cost of insur-
ance, valuable space occupied, but
what is most important, the added
care and anxiety which you must
You are carrying unnecessary
burdens without any surety of rec-
ompense, and risk the impairment of
your credit in case you fail to meet
bills promptly.

bear.

 

Those who stop to think will re-
call that there has been comparative-
ly little rain during recent weeks.
The result is that not only many
streams but many reservoirs are low.
Several places hereabouts have need
to husband their water supply. What
we usually expect in the way of fall

 

| rains failed to put in an appearance

this year and unless there is more

}rain the winter will see a drouth.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

THE CREDIT SYSTEM.

Part It Plays in the Progress of Civ-
ilization.

Every age has had its eulogists and
ideals—there has been no period of
history that has not called forth from
its thinkers expressions of their be-
lief in its superiority in many re-
spects over the times that preceded
it. Especially is this true of those in-
fluences that have been interpreted
as making for the advancement of
mankind in an ethical sense, and its
amelioration from those conditions
that tended to dwarf the abilities and
curtail the opportunities of man in
his quest for that state which prom-
ised the fulfillment of the ends of
pure reason and sound philosophy;
the changes thus indicated in man’s
estate may truly be described as the
progress of civilization; it has been
the privilege as well as the custom of
writers of every century to ascribe
this progress to those causes which
apparently appealed most strongly to
their particular predilections or tem-
peraments and each in his own some-
times narrow sphere found in_ re-
ligion, science, or in art, the special
It is
the purpose of this address, however,
but of the specific
causes of the progress of civilization;
fact which has’ been splendidly
summarized by Guizot as follows:

benefaction of the human race.

to discuss one

a

“It appears to me that the first fact
comprised in the word
is the fact of progress, of develop-
ment; it presents at once the idea of

change its place, but to change its
condition; of a people whose cul-
ture is condition itself, and amelior-
itself. The idea of progress,
of development, appears to me the
fundamental idea the
word, ‘civilization.’ ’

ating

contained in

’

We live in a time when this prog-

ress and development seems to im-|

press itself with majestic force upon
the of the world; this
thought is admirably depicted in the
by His the
Archbishop of Canterbury to the salu-
tation of his co-religionists in Wash-

conscience

response made Grace,

ington, when he said:

“No other period in Christendom
can compare with ours, in the possi-
bilities
reach.”

With this view of the Primate of
all England, there will be ready con-
currence, especially on the part of
those who have studied the progress
of the world during the past century
and who have observed that the few
brief years of the present suggest
an even broader development of the
agencies of civilization than any that

which are set within our

has passed into history.
When the
which have promoted “this era of

we search for causes
unequaled possibilities’ we are en-
joying to-day, we find one of surpass-
.o”"“oxothatphemfwycmfwyemfwemfw
that the
growth and spread of commerce; to
commerce the realms of science and
art and literature owe great allegi-
ance, and must pay their meed of
praise; commerce is the bond of rela-

tionship between nations; it has en-

ing prominence and is

 

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civilization |

couraged industry, inspired ambition,
created wealth, provoked discovery,
raised the lowly, made for civil and
liberty, established the
need of and advanced education and
culture and united the learning and
philosophy of the ancient world with
that of the new.

Commerce is defined as the “sci-
ence of exchanges,” but -there is an
influence, a method, a principle, ora
theory, whatever we may choose to

religious

designate it, which has been the
foundation and propelling force in
commerce, and without which it
would be impotent, and that is “the
theory of credit.” In his very  in-

structive and interesting volume on
The Work of Wall Street, S. S. Pratt
says, “Credit means expansion and
activity,” and it would be perfectly
true to say that the absence of cred-
it would be contraction and inertia.
Credit is the roadway along which
nations from barbarism to
civilization; is the light that
the world and en-
to prosecute its
great mission as not only the mate-
rial benefactor, but the evangelizer
of men: as an evidence of the high

advance

it
through

commerce

steams
ables

|place accorded to credit as an in-

strumentality in the progress of civ-
ilizations the following quotation
from “Macleod” will suffice:

“So long as nations continue ina
state of ant) Gere
money or credit is made of some ma-
terial substance—but when they ad-

vance in civilization they make use

low civilization

 

: |of credit of another form—this form
a people marching onward, not to|

 

 

the character of an order,
or promise, or right which is usually
termed credit, and although it is ofa
lower or inferior form, it is clearly
seen that it is of the same general
nature as money.”

In tracing the
upon civilization it is necessary

assumes

of credit
to
of the properties per-
great question and of

influence

consider some
taining to this
which it forms a part; there are cer-

tain properties, or quantities as they

are called in economics, which must
be well understood, especially in their
relation to credit, if we are to com-
prehend the latter in its complete
significance.

It is interesting to note that many
of the most substantial arguments
that obtain in the latest school of
economics are drawn from the writ-
ings of the ancients; ‘for instance,
Demosthenes

“Tf you were ignorant of this, that
credit is the greatest capital of all
of wealth,
you would be utterly ignorant.”

We introduced this
tation extremely important
qualities—capital and the
of these has
served to reveal some strongly vary-
ing opinions among the masters, but
none such as to impair their now
universal acceptation. Capital
said to be “any economic quantity
used for the purpose of profit” and
it includes all material things when
employed in the search of profit; it
is quite as true that a man’s charac-
ter, personal abilities, skill, energies
or his labor are capital, for they may
be used in the procurement of a

has said:

towards the acquisition

have in quo-
two
wealth;

discussion qualities

is

| ent. Macleod calls particular at-| despoil him;” this statement was ut-
| tention, however, to the fact, that it
| is only when thege attributes are
| utilized for the making of a profit
| that they are capital, for he says |
that:

“If a man digs in his garden for

his own amusement; or if he sings

f tered an economic truth, as one
“Bill
of Rights” of mankind; to-day this
truth battling its life;

economic bulwark is swaying under

as
of the principal features in the
is for this
the assaults of those who defy the
laws of political and social economy;

or acts or gives lectures to his) we are given to understand that a
friends gratuitously such labor is | man’s labor is no longer “his sacred
not capital; but if he sells his labor possession,” but the sacred posses-

in any capacity for money—such as sion of others, who, acting under no

a ploughman, an artisan, a physician, | warrant of law, human or divine, in-
an engineer, as an advocate, or in| form him that he must work under
any other way—such labor is capi- such auspices as they prescribe, or

tal”

And again, a man’s character and
| energy may be used “for the purpose
|of buying goods, materials and

}

not at all: when a man is in the full
enjoyment of this sacred possession
of his labor, then, and not until then,
industrial

is freedom realization—
the that

of industry to-day must be regretful-

by
giving his promise to pay at a future
time, instead actual payment in
‘poh with the intention of selling
|
|

a

cloud rests upon freedom

of

 

ly acknowledged as a shadow upon
those goods with a profit; this pur- the civilization of the age.
chasing power of character is called It is generally agreed that the sys-

credit.” tem of credit had its origin with the

We now turn to the question of Romans, and to them belongs the
wealth, than of which there has been distinction of not only evolving the
no clearer description ever offered principles of credit to a very great
than that of Aristotle, who said, extent in its relation to jurispru-

 

“and we call wealth all things whose | dence, but of doing much to develop

value can be measured in money;” | the practical features of the question;

under this designation we include it is evident that some means had
material things and also labor and to be devised to further the manifes-
credit; it might appear that it isnot tations of commerce, for with the
proper to enumerate intangible | growing tendencies to indulge in
things, such as labor, credit, charac- | trade and effect exchanges of goods
ter and knowledge as welath, but) and other things, material and imma-

they possess the quality of exchange- terial, it was patent that if men had
to depend on the archaic principle of

it that the

ability, and for that reason can be

safely regarded as_ belonging under | barter meant desire and

lthat head. J. B. Say, the famous cpportunity for trade would be radi-
a economist, referred to “la-| cally circumscribed; it was undoubt-
| bor and services as immaterial | edly this condition that led them to
| wealth” and an English writer | appreciate the efficacy. of trusting in
claims that “the intellectual and) each other’s characters and good in-

 

| moral character of Great Britain far | tentions, and thus opening illimita-

exceeds all the material capital;” al- | ble fields for the operations of trade;

| s° that, “knowledge has been called the qualities comprising this char-
| power—it is far more certainly | acter were mainly honor, or honesty
| wealth.” John Stuart Mill stated | of purpose and action, and ability
| that “the skill and energy and the|to perform or accomplish the end in
perseverance of the artisans of ajview: this principle has been subject
country are reckoned part of its|te a tremendous development from

wealth, no less than its tools and ma- | the period mentioned, until to-day it
is believed that at least 95 per cent.,
99 per cent., of all
transactions upon a
credit basis; it will be evident, there-

chinery.”

Labor and services are wealth; this| and some say

thought was no doubt uppermost in business are

the mind of one of the greatest econ-

omists of any time, Adam Smith, fore, that the great expanding proc-
when he wrote some one hundred | ess which has been applied to com-
and thirty years ago, “A man’s labor! merce and trade is the theory or
is his most sacred possession, of principle of credit, and that as_ the
which no person has the right to. stock or supply of money, using the

 

 

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word in the sense of actual currency, |

has never been adequate for the
regulation of business transactions, |

we must accord to “credit” the pre-|
eminent honor of being the agency
through which the expansion of com- |
merce has been
its accompanying

accomplished with

influence and ef-
fect upon the progress of civilization.
In proof of this Macleod has stated
that, “Paper as money has incompar-
ably more influence in the world than
gold and silver,’ and this paper to!
which reference is made includes not |
only the and bills banks
and bankers, but all the other forms

of paper indebtedness which business

notes of

transactions produce; as showing the
small
circulation

which in |
bears to the

ing of the banks of a nation.

percentage money

gross clear-

No consideration of the subject of
credit would be complete that did |
not cover, if only in the briefest way,
a reference to the question of prop- |
erty and its real place in the science

of economics; in fact, it has been
asserted that “the meaning of the
word property is the key to. the
whole sciences of jurisprudence and
economics;” it is necessary to re-
sort to Roman law, customs and
usages for many of the authorities |

we find it essential to invoke in ex-

plaining the application of a large
number of economic theories and
doctrines; for example, under the |

earlier Roman law, “a person’s pos-
sessions were called mancipium, be-
cause they were supposed to be ac- |!
if
grasp |

quired by the strong hand; and

not held with a very firm

 

No. 76 Weightless.

Even-Balance

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

nection

| “Credit

| they

would probably be lost.” This is an
of the customs of those
force held dominant
and improper place in the affairs of
men, and is at the same time an evi-
of the great changes which
the spread of civilization has wrought
in the relations of men, and the ten-
dencies of government in regulating |
the protection of individual rights.
It is also important and interesting

illustration

days when a

dence

to note the warning served upon us
by the economists in their desire |
that the real meaning of the word |
property should be misunder- |
this Macleod ex- |
“Most when they |
speak or hear of property think of |
some material things, such as lands, |
But this |
is not the true meaning of property. |
The word true and|
original sense does not mean a ma-|
terial thing; but the absolute right |
to use and dispose of something”— |
further,

not
stood—on point,

plains: persons

houses, cattle, money, etc.

property in its

as showing the intimate con- |

between property and cred-|
it we need only refer to that favor- |
|ite quotation from Demosthenes: |

“There being two kinds of property
and

—money general credit—our
and as
supplementary to this we may say,
the

who

greatest is credit,”

property
is therefore
to
commerce.”

greatest

wealth every man carries on!

Before departing from this phase

|of the subject we may also revert |
to the attitude of those who hold
Socialistic and communistic views; |

are invariably regarded as the}

would-be destroyers of property in|

these

| subject

; 3 tk
their views were ever accepted by a|

sufficiently large number of people to |
warrant an aggressive warfare; and |
it is no doubt true that the attempts
at the destruction of material prop- |
erty for the advocates of these
causes in the past have given ground |
for this conclusion, when in reality
inopportune and

unwise,
sporadic attempts at the destruction

|of property have in nearly all cases

due to the fatuous desires of
those overwrought by zeal to makea
cemonstration of
the reigning order; but in justice to
those who adhere to the doctrines of
socialism and communism it should
be said that their ultimate hope is to |
which

been

dissatisfaction with

destroy the exclusive rights
private persons have and exercise in
property, believing as they do, and
honestly in the majority of instances,
that exclusive in
their very nature destructive of those

these rights are

broad principles of humanitarianism

upon which the human race should
govern itself. Lord Erskine, that

most fertile and profound of jurists,
real
right is that of property, which is the
right

tells us that “the sovereign or

of using or disposing of a

a5 O8f OW, EXCEpt so tar

|aS we are restrained by law or pac-

and
disposal refers as identically to our
rights

tion” —+this sovereignty of use

in immaterial possession’ or

wealth as to those in material things;

|and therefore it has been held that,

“a banker’s, a merchant’s or a trad-

er’s mercantile character,

or credit,
as it is termed, is his property, which

 

40 per

branches

| cis seekeetal aeeee- thet is, providing | he has the right to enjoy uninjured;

* *

and if any one spreads slan-
derous reports about it, which dam-

ages his purchasing power or wealth,

|it is a serious imjury, or an infringe-

ment of a legal right, and # is
ground for an action.”
It is exceedingly fitting that due

tribute should be offered to the im-
portant and admittedly indispensable
part which banking has played in
the of the utilities of
trade and commerce, constituting as
the great fountain-head
PG

Modern

demonstration

it does of
credit. Fiske, in his treatise
The sank, that,
“Banking is the agency by means of
which credit made to effect the
bulk of the operations of production
and interchange;” there-
fore, so largely upon the institution
of banking, which is one of the two
of the credit it
not amiss, may we hope, to suggest

on states

is

depending,

is

system,

that a national duty rests upon those

charged with the care of that great

i

that
thoroughly
upon the needs of a currency system,

institution to see the public is

properly and educated
of that strength and flexibility and
that withstand the
enslaughts of commercial crises, and

permanency will
quite as important that the question
settled right,
and be no longer regarded as_ the

op-

be settled soon, and

plaything of maladroit political
portunism.
We set forth

some of the splendid utilitarian func-

have endeavored to
tions of credit and its influences asa
great uplifting force in society, but
it is quite as essential to draw atten-

cent. Gain

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TRADESMAN

11

 

tion to the abuses which may gener- |

ate in its exercise, and from which
there does not appear to be any
known means of escape, if we are
to accept the views of the great doc-
tors of economics who have diagnos-
ed the subject in every phase; these
abuses which inevitably
lead to commercial crises, and which
all

are those

authorities agree would be ob-
viated if men were simply to re-

gard the unwritten laws of prudence
and good management; but as_ hu-
man skill, energy, knowledge and ca-
pacity are and must be included in
the category of wealth, and their vo-
in through the
agency of credit, it is the veritable
inability of laws of any character to

cation economics is

control the exercise of these person-
al elements which renders the abuses
of credit an almost unavoidable oc-
currence; the following opinion writ-
ten on this branch of the subject is
fully descriptive of the difficulties in-
volved:

“All

originate

commercial crises, therefore,
in the of

credits and this is innate in the mod-

over-creation

credit.

“Suppose that at any time the com-
mercial world started with a perfect-
ly When multi-
tudes of persons are trading on cred-
it it must inevitably happen that a
considerable number speculate
unsuccessfully and -create an excess
of credit, which can not be redeem-
All of

credit may be considered as so much

ern system of

clean slate. such

will

ed by fair means. excess

virus or poison in the body commer-
cial. However, by various tricks and

       
   
   
       
  
   
   

Manufacturers of Quaker Oats,

The Malta Vita Pure Food Company,

Manufacturers of Mother’s Oats,

Would NOT Agree to do so

devices known to traders they can

keep themselves afloat many

| their tastes
years |

after they are utterly insolvent; and |

thus the poison continually accumu-
lates.

Then perhaps a fever of spec-|

ulation takes place, giving rise to the |
creation of vast masses of specula- |

tive paper, and then the poison hav-
ing accumulated to a sufficient extent
bursts forth in a tumor, an ab-
called a crisis.”

or
scess, commercial

A commercial crisis is the natural

precursor of a monetary panic, and |

the relations of one to the other form

|things wealth.

become cultivated
refined arises the demand for works
literature, for
painting, for sculpture, for architec-
tor the

of art and science,

music and

wants

ture, drama, for

those who minister to these

of the mind become wealthy, just as |

those who minister to the wants of
It is the demand of the
which makes

Hence, in order

the body do.
these
to
be wealthy a people must be inspired

public alone

with strong and various desires and
be willing to work to gratify those

desires, and this shows the great
|importance in an economical point

a most interesting study in_ the}
“theory of credit.”
Credit may justly be called the

/most powerful leverage to productive

capacity—through its operations the

labor, the character, the

lof view of national education. Heavy

'taxes can alone be borne by an in-

| dustrious
intellect of |

man is called into play and the forces |
| capital, multiplies incomes, multiplies

and riches of nature, physical and

psychological, are brought to that |
state where they meet the require-
ments of supply and demand and|

take to themselves the title of wealth

_-in summarizing the conclusions de- |

ducible from this necessarily super- |

ficial discussion of credit and its in- |
better than |

do
views

fluences not
to the
leod, when he says:
“We conclude, then, * * * itis
consumption, exchange demand
which constitutes a thing wealth; and

we can

incorporate of Mac-

or

we trace the progress of a nation in
wealth according as their wants and
desires increase and multiply.
the for the sustenance re-
quired by the body gives value

demand

and wealthy people; and
the multiplication of wants and de-
sires multiplies industry, multiplies
the number of persons able to bear
the of

the nation capable of great

burden taxation and renders
ments and of taking a leading posi-
tion in the councils of the world.”

of the

mist ring with prophetic force

These words great econo-

and
eloquence and are a reminder to us

lof the conditions of our national life;

First |

to |

the material products of the earth, |

food, clothing, shelter, fuel. Thenas

The Secretary of the National Retail Grocers’ Associati

we must not only be content with as-
suming but maintaining if we would
occupy and permanently retain a
place of distinguished honor and in-
the parliament the
affairs: the establishment of
high standards of social, commercial

fluence in of

world’s

and political morality, the reasona-
ble and needful restrictions of credit
within legitimate boundaries, the ex-
tension and upbuilding of the bank-

 

ereal Premiums

on has asked the cereal manufacturers of the United

States to abandon all premium schemes.

What was the Result?

The American Cereal Company

Avena, Banner Oats, Saxon Oats, Scotch Oats, Zest, Apitezo, Etc.,

The H-U. Company, The Force Food Company, The Ralston-Purina Company,
The Illinois Cereal Company and The Atlas Oats Company

Promptly agreed to do so if their competitors would.

 

Where do YOU Stand?

The Great Western Cereal Company

 

and

achieve- |

ing system until it shall not only be
the great avenue of credit, but an ir-
resistible safeguard against financial
calamity and heresy, the fruition of
these aspirations will be another
magnificent demonstration of Ameri-
can contribution to the progress of
civilization. Wm. A. Prendergast.
2
Penny Wise.
A certain woman prided herself on

and close bargaining.

Her husband sometimes bantered her

her economy
about what he termed her stinginess.
betterhalf
to go marketing with her and witness

One day she invited her
her prowess in the line of close buy-
ing.

At the market, after making sever-

al purchases she enquired the price

ot eggs.
“Sixteen cents a dozen,’ she re-
| peated. “hat’s too much. I’m sure

I saw them for less this morning.”
She dragged her reluctant husband
‘ to still

quiring the price of eggs and always

from one stand another, en-

receiving the same answer, until she

was near the end of the mar-
ket.

egee2s Were j
‘There, |

upper
Here she found a dealer whose
5 cents a dozen.

told you so,” she €x-
claimed to her husband. “Those
other men were trying to get the
advantage.”

Turning to the salesman she or-
dered half a dozen eggs, gravely
handing him 8 cents in payment, and
went away well satisfied with her

shrewdness.

el

Even a stove can be polished.

    

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Profits Made on the Crate-Fed Chick-
en Industry.

The business of crate-feeding
chicken is a simple business that can

be conducted by any poultryman,

farmer or packing house in the Unit- |
ed States. It is the most positive |
money-making branch of the poultry |

business. The chickens are placed in
the crates at an age when loss by
disease is practically unknown. They
are fed an economical and properly
balanced ration.
mitted to exercise—each chicken has

just sufficient room in the crate to}

stand up and sit down.

result the food consumed is used in

the formation of the highest quali- |

ty edible flesh and is not required ‘*o
repair muscular tissue.

The crate-feeding business can be
conducted by the poultryman = or
farmer previous to selling the chick-
ens, or afterwards by another indi-
vidual or firm.
find it more profitable to crate-feed
the chickens before they are sold or
slaughtered than to sell them in a
lean condition.
en industry corresponds to the stall-
fed cattle trade, and is to-day just as
essential.

The average cost of fattening
chickens in the crates is from four
and one-half to six cents per pound
of live-weight gain. In all experi-

ments of which we have seen the re- |
fattening |

sults, when chickens. in

crates were compared with chickens |
in ground pens to ascertain which lot |
economical |

would make the more

gain in flesh, the crate lots, when fed |
| than when they are fed on the range. |
|A lot of three hundred and _ fifty |

a palatable ration, made a greater
gain in the regular fattening period
of three weeks and at a lower cost
for food.

One crate of twelve three-months- |
old Barred Plymouth Rock cocker- |

els will illustrate forcibly the advan-
tages of the crate-feeding business.
The cockerels weighed 39 pounds

when they were placed in the crate. |

At the end of four weeks’ feeding
they weighed 7814 pounds, a gain of
39% pounds for the twelve chickens,
or an average gain of three pounds

five ounces. The cost of food per

pound of gain in live weight was 43

cents. These chickens put on more

flesh as a result of the four weeks’ |

crate-feeding than they had grownin
the previous. three They
were fed by an ordinary farmer and

months.

were not crammed.

In order to have tangible results so |

that we would know positively which

method of fattening chickens was the |

most profitable we determined to in-
vestigate the matter thoroughly and

to conduct reliable and impartial tests |
of the systems of fattening chickens |
in (1) crates, (2) in close confinement |
in pens on the ground and (3) onthe)

range.

Eight different lots of chickens (fifty |

and sixty in each lot) were fed in
the crates and in wire-fronted pens

They are not per-|

As a natural |

The poultryman will |

The crate-fed chick- |

|
}on the ground.

|

| floor space; the chickens in the crates
|; were confined as closely as possible.

The results proved conclusively that |
the gains in weight of the crate-fed |
|chickens were greater and the cost |

|of food consumed to
| pound of the gain was less than the

gains and food cost of the chickens |

in the pens.

One of these lots (fifty chickens)
gained 142
2.8 pounds per chicken.

the food consumed to make_ each

pound of live-weight gain was 5.6!

cents. The
fifty chickens fed in a pen on the
ground gained 83 pounds in the same
period, or 1.6 pounds per

The cost of food per pound of live-|

weight gain was 10.4 cents, or almost

crate-feds.
fed lot was a group of sixty chick-
ens. In this test the pen-fed chick-
ens gained 1.6 pounds each. The

crate-feds gained 2.2pounds each. The |}

| cost of food per pound of live-weight
gain was eight cents for pen-feds and
5.2 cents for the crate-feds.

These experiments were accurate-
carefully

lly and conducted with

chickens of uniform age, weight andj

' breed. They demonstrated that the
cost of the necessary food to in-
' crease the live-weight of chickens one
hundred pounds is three to
five dollars less when the chickens
are fed in crates, than when they are
fed in pens, and each chicken has
five square feet of floor space in
which to exercise. The results also
proved that chickens make a greater
gain in live-weight in the crates than
in the ground pens.

from

when the chickens are fed in crates

chickens three months old was divid-
jed; half were placed in the crates
and the remainder were free.to roam
around. The chickens in the crates
gained in weight more rapidly than
the chickens outdoors, and the food
| they consumed cost four dollars less
per hundred pounds gain in weight.

In this experiment the value of the}

vegetable and animal food gathered
on the range was not considered.
Had it been, it is safe to assume that

on flesh during absolute confinement
l/and on the range would be from
eight to. ten dollars per
pounds less for the confined or crate-
feds.

When a chicken is at rest and the
| nutritive constituents of the food

it is evident that more flesh and fat
will be laid on the carcass for a giv-
en weight or value of food than when
the chicken is at liberty and exercis-
ing vigorously. Muscle exercise ne-
cessitates the repair of the tissue
and the formation of new tissue.
These demand a portion of the food.

William Soules, of Bondville, Que.,
states that he made a net profit of

|twenty dollars on every hundred

| chickens he crate-fed. This handsome |

The chickens in the |
| ground pens had five square feet of |

make’ each}

pounds in four weeks, or |

The cost of |

corresponding lot of

chicken. |

five cents per pound more than the}
The most profitable pen- |

The cost of food consumed for each |
pound increase in live-weight is less |

the difference in the cost of putting |

hundred |

are used for the formation of flesh, |

 

 

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C. D. CRITTENDEN, 3 N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

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Butter, Eggs and Cheese

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.

We are the lar,est distrib :tors of eggs in this
part of the country. We can handle all the
eggs you willshipus. We want regular ship-
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Write us.

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Potatoes, 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.

        
    

 

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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.
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ippers

Established 1873

 

Poultry Shippers

I want track buyers for carlots. Would like to hear from shippers from

every point in Michigan. I also want local shipments from nearby points
by express. Can handle ali the poultry shipped to me. Write or wire.

William Findre, Grand Ledge, Michigan

‘No Market
'Excels
‘Buffalo

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: 4 |
profit was realized when he received |

only five and one-half cents. per|
pound more for the dead crate-fed |
or finished chickens than he paid |
for the lean or range-fed chickens |
alive. There is generally a difference |
of seven cents or more in these quo-|
tations. The twenty dollars profit |
realized at the five and one-half cent |
rate illustrates the substantial profit |
there is in the crate-feeding business. |

A direct authentic illustration of |
the importance of crate-feeding broil- |
ers and hens and of the profits which
will be realized when the business is |
conducted the actual results of |
an extensive fattening plant in Kan-
sas. The broilers increased 85 per
cent. in weight for the three weeks’
feeding and the cull hens 30 per cent. |
These are good, substantial gains of |
high-quality flesh. It is gratifying to |
learn that this plant turned in three
hundred and fifty dollars profit in
two and one-half months. Thirty per
cent. profit on the invested capital, |

is

when a great proportion of the fowls |
were cull hens, is indisputable proof
that individual fattening plants |
are money-makers.

the

Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and|
other large and progressive packing
houses are engaged extensively in the |
crate-feeding business.

Last week one commission house
in Los Angeles, Cal., imported 48,000
pounds of fatted chickens from the
East--mainly from Nebraska. Why
should not these chickens be reared |

and crate-fed in California? Suppose
there is a shortage of chickens in

any locality, it is not difficult to in- |
crease the production. In four years
Dundas & Flavelle (Canadian
packing house) increased the number
the farmers

Bros.

of chickens reared by
and sold to them from twenty
one hundred thousand. The fourth |
year the farmers crate-fed the chick-
ens before they were sold, at Dundas
& Flavelle’s suggestion. Why should
not all the profits go to the producer?
Why should he not realize from
twenty to fifty dollars more profit
on every hundred chickens sold, rath-
er than to market his chickens in a
lean condition?

The crate-feeding
practiced by the packing houses can
be conducted as successfully and with
as great profit by almost every poul- |

to

of chickens as

trv grower.

The necessary outfit for fattening
chickens consists of crates, shapers
and shipping boxes. All can be built

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Reasons for Raising Poultry.
The following eight reasons why |
farmers should raise poultry are giv-
en by an English poultry writer:
the ought to
convert a great deal of the waste of |
his farm into money in the shape of |

“Because farmer

eggs and chickens for market.
cause,
they

3e-
with intelligent
ought to
producers, with the exception of per- |
haps two months during the moult- |
ing season. poultry will |
yield a quicker return for the capital
in any of the other de-
partments of the farm. Because the
manure from the poultry-house will |
make a compost
in either vegetable garden or orchard. |
The birds themselves, if allowed to}
run, will destroy a large proportion |

management |

be all-year revenue

Jecause

invested than

vegetable for use

of injurious insect life.
“While cereals and fruits can only |
be successfully grown in certain sec-

tions, poultry can be raised for the |
table use or layers of eggs in all}
parts of the country. Poultry-raising |

is an employment in which the farm- |
er’s wife and daughters can engage, |

iand leave the farmer free-to attend |

to other departments, and it will!
. . . }

| bring him the best results in the |
shape of new-laid eggs during the}

winter season, when he has the most |
Finally, to start |
poultry-raising on the farm requires |
little or no capital. By good man-
agement poultry can be made with}

time on his hands.

little cost a valuable adjunct to the
farm
————__++.2—__—
Make Your Food Medicine.
The garden is a medicine |
3e your own doctor and look |

great
chest.
to your own slight ailments.

If you are wakeful, eat lettuce.

For affections of the skin and for |
yellow skin, eat onions. Onions are}
also good for colds, coughs and scro-
fula. |

For torpid liver, eat freely of as-
paragus. |

For malaria and general breakdown, |
eat cranberries.

If nervous and irritable, eat plenty

of celery.

For constipation, eat fruits, ripe}
and healthy fruits. Fresh fruits are
|sood; so are figs and dates. Rais-

ins are beneficial.

When the body is in good condi-
tion keep it by
denying the appetite what once in-
jured the body. One can do every-
thing for himself by eating the right
thing and not too much of it, and by

in good condition

Butter

I would like all the fresh, sweet dairy

 

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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 CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

For fifteen years I have worked to build up a

Good

 

 

at the feeding plant and at low cost.
It is not essential that high-priced |
grain be fed, as almost any ground |
grain can be utilized in formulating |

leaving alone the wrong thing and
all of it. He can do more than the
doctors can do for him when he is}

i i flat on his’ back in bed.
a profitable ration. |

ichigan Cheese
Trade

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

The average cost of crate-feeding a |
chicken is from seven to ten cents.
When the chickens are crate-fed by
any ma-

Thanksgiving, like all our holidays,
is fast losing its original character
and significance. It has become prac-
tically a day of feasting and enter-
ture member of the family can at-| tainment, with but scant attention to|
tend the chickens successfully there | its religious features. It is remarked |
is no expense for labor. One man | that the contributions for the bene- |
can feed from three to five thousand

the poultryman or farmer,

 

fit of the poor do not begin to equal |
chickens in one lot so that for feed-| the amount that is expended for the- |
ing the labor cost is a small item on atrical performances and foot ball |
an extensive plant. Additional help | games. |
is required for killing and plucking
the chickens. P. CL Hare:

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Fred M. Warner, Farmington, Mich.

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Character is the only true culture.

 

 

 

 

 

14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

ANNUAL MESSAGE

Of the Public-Spirited President of the Grand River Valley Horticultural
Society.

Clarence M. Burton, a public-spirited citizen of Detroit, at large ex- |
pense has secured for the State Pioneer and Historical Society copies of |
important manuscripts which are in the national archives at Paris and which |
In one of these re-|

give an inside view of the early history of Michigan.

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ports there is an expression from Cadillac, the founder Of Detroit, concerning |
the possibilities of the Michigan peninsula, in which he says that the natural |
forest and fruit products are of incalculable value and that, owing to the}
peculiar climatic conditions, there is a very wide range of trees and fruits |
native to this region, which indicates the great productiveness of the country. |
He called attention to the marvelous productiveness of the wild fruit trees |
and vines and the luxury enjoyed by wild animals during the season of ripen- |

ing plums and grapes.

was in’ charge of the village of Detroit.

~

This report was made early in 1700, when Cadillac |
There are other manuscripts made |

by the early Catholic fathers who traversed the borders of Michigan, ex-|

pressive of their wonder and delight at the fruitfulness of the country reach- |

ing far into the north.

growing boys and girls, but it would stir the blood of the older persons in our
Society and would be a most delightful innovation in the programmes of
our meetings.

Second, we ought to be able to awaken an interest in the objects of our
Society on the part of young people who are just establishing and fashioning
homes of their own. If we could secure the attendance of a goodly number
of these people how helpful we could be to them by making suggestions of
plans which have proved satisfactory in the homes already established. How
many questions could be answered that would prevent errors and lead to the
utilization of certain unnamed conditions, which are different with each new
home that is established.

Third, we have at various times deplored the barrenness of farm prem-
ises, and in some way we ought to be able to reach the owners of these rural
homes and awaken in them a desire to leave something better behind them
than exhausted soil and stubble. We ought to be able to awaken in the
minds and hearts of rural people in this vicinity a desire to begin life in the
Kingdom of Heaven on their own premises by bringing to them certain at-
tributes which will give continuous delight and be a preparation for partici-
pation in the attributes of an eternal home, which are so graphically pictured

| by those who have certain hopes in that direction.

The facts so early noted by the first settlers in Michigan have been to

this day the greatest advertisement of our commonwealth.

Uncle Louis |

Campau began the development of a horticultural area in Grand Rapids at |

the very beginning of the settlement of which he was the pioneer. His first
doned canoe, which was hauled up upon the bank of the river upon the site
cf the present Widdicomb building.

was then called, Kalamazoo Road. From the earliest years of his occupancy
of this land until his death he maintained a most beautiful and well-kept gar-
den of vegetables, in which could be found everything of interest and value
for the family that will grow in this latitude. Among the first people to ap-

Fourth, the suburban resident, who has stepped out of the congested life
of the city, having in mind the giving to his children better opportunities for
development than could possibly be enjoyed in the city, ought to unite with

| our Society and participate in its deliberations, having in view the double
iiower garden, he told me some years before his death, was made in an aban- |

purpose of securing suggestions that can be utilized in connection with his

| own home annd bringing to the aid of others the results of his own experi-

The first vegetable garden worthy of!
‘mention was that of Mr. Antoine Campau, on South Division street, or, as it

ment.

Fifth, we have been for years calling attention to the betterment of the

| conditions in the congested parts of the city, and public-spirited citizens have
| taken hold of the work of bringing about conditions more favorable to giv

preciate the fruit possibilities of this region and enter practically into the}

growing of tree fruits were the Nelsons and Pages,
could be found in a very early day the most beautiful fruits.
duce an array of historical incidents concerning the evolution of horticultural]

upon whose premises | . ae . : ; ie He

I : “e | selves with our Society, and through the discussion of the conditions which
might pro-j| : c : : . :

ght Pro"! have appealed to them bring out facts that will be helpful in carrying on the

industries in Michigan which would support the early prophecy of Cadillac |

and his associates concerning the possibilities of this region for the prosecu-
tion of horticulture.
Recent statistics show that Michigan stands at the head of all the states

in the yield per acre of corn; it leads them all in the copper industry; in no} : ice : : i a : i ee
ee | per « ' es ; ' —— 5 | bellishment and the utilization of horticultural effects in rendering life more

state in the Union are grown finer peaches; our own city, because of its suc-
cess in the manufacture of furniture, has come to be known as the Furniture
City. But all these attributes of our State touch the commercial side of life.
It is of far greater import that we should rightfully claim the truthfulness of
the statement that ours is a commonwealth of attractive and happy homes,
and our Society has to do with this feature of Michigan’s position in Amer-
ica. There are plenty of organizations devoted to the different phases of
life which have to do with acquiring property and getting a living. There

are other organizations which profess to have for the great object of exist-| ,. . i : :
| To this end the preparation of our programmes should be given a great deal

ence the helping of people into the Kingdom of Heaven. Both classes of

ing enjoyment to the lives which seem to be permanently located in these
unfavorable circumstances. These philanthropic people who desire to do the
best they can for this part of our population ought certainly to connect them-

work they have undertaken.
Sixth, the broad-spirited manufacturer, who in these days sees something

more in his employe than a simple machine to help him make dividends for

| his stockholders, ought to be attracted to the meetings of our Society, in

which we have such improving discussions along the line of factory em-

| attractive in connection with the every-day humdrum work of the manufac

organizations fill important places in our part of the world and are accom- |

plishing very worthy efforts in behalf of humanity. We will not entrench

upon the ground of either class nor admit that we are in any way inferior | : ig eg ’ i i :
| which the individual makes in the interests of the Society by opening his

to them in the obiects which we subserve. Our mission is to take the world
as we find it and carry out a most impressive injunction of the Almighty;

developing our resources and showing our appreciation of the wonderful gift

which came from God by becoming deeply interested in the wonderful crea- |

tions which form an intrinsic part of this legacy. We will strive to show
and utilizing to the best possible extent the delightful conditions which make
existence here a continuous satisfaction. We aim to assist the utilitarian
organizations by making people happier and more hopeful, and in so doing
aid them to acquire a goodly portion of this world’s goods and use some
artistic discrimination in distinguishing which are the most valuable. We
also aim to aid the theologian by awakening a deeper interest in and desire
ior knowledge of this one world that God has placed largely at our disposal,
and thus preparing the people for possible life in a bigger world with wider
views and more promising possibilities if they are so fortunate as to be in-
habitants thereof.

In accomplishing these purposes we should think carefully and wisely
of the best possible methods we can pursue; in this category allow me to
name:

First, the awakening of an interest in the objects of this Society on the
part of the children of our families. We have shown our interest in the em-
bellishment of school premises, in the proper treatment of back yards, in
the setting aside of play grounds and in awakening a love of horticultural
art in little people. Now, suppose we have these little people tell about the
results in their own language at the meetings of our Society. What a treat
it would be to listen to some small boy or girl tell the story of the attractive
shrubs and trees and plants and flowers which have been artistically arranged
on some school premises. How it would awaken our sympathies to have
some little man tell us of his efforts at gardening and the financial results
which he had attained. A move like this would not only be of help to the

 

  
 

turing establishment.

Our Society certainly fills a place in the community not otheriwse occu
pied. We are not wasting time in the few hours each month given to the
deliberations upon these matters connected with living in this world. We
have the right to expect the support of our best citizens, and in the character
of our discussions and in the thoughtfulness put into the work of the So-
ciety we must make ourselves worthy of the assistance which we demand

of careful thought that they may fit into the needs of our part of the world.
Our homes should be opened freely for the use of the Society in its monthly
nieetings. There is such complete reciprocity in the work that any sacrifices
house for its use will be more than requited by the values which are received.
In our papers and discussions upon these most important subjects, which |
have suggested, there should be put an amount of thought and work which

comports with their importance. The suggestions and counsel should be

d a : : i 3 in well thought out by people who are willing 5 “ir recreati f .
people their responsibilities in caring for this part of a most beautiful world | i . e willing to find their recreation from the

every-day toil of getting a living in bringing to our Society hints and advice
matured by careful study and thought.
In doing this kind of work, and doing it well, we can not help but make
a strong and effective appeal to the people for the support of the cause which
we have espoused, which is nothing less than the betterment of that unit in
HOME. Chas. W. Garfield.

It happened long ago, when Mark |
Twain was an editor in the West. | TYPHOID FEVER
The morning’s mail had brought a | DIPHTHERIA
bill from his tailor, not an unusual | SMALLPOX
_ The germs of these deadly diseases mul-
tiply in the decaving glue present in all

hot water kalsomines, and the decaying
paste under wall piper.

cceurrence. The boy who went
through the mail called the future

humorist’s attention to it
“A a. . Alabastine is a disinfectant. It destroys
And,” adde > y > has i i :
da, added the boy, “he has|]| disease germs and vermin; is manufac-

written on the back that he wants a|| ‘red from a stone cement base, hardens
i on the wall, and is as enduring as the
settlement at once.

wall itself,
“You should know what to do with |

Alabastine is mixed with cold water,
| and anv one can apply it.
such copy without asking,’ said Mr. | Ask for sample card of beautiful tints.

: - i : | Take no cheap s»bstitute.
Twain. “Enclose it with the regular | Buy only in 5 lb. pkgs. properly labeled.
printed slip stating that all manu-|

' : i ALABASTINE CO.
script written on both sides of the, | Office and factory, Grand Rapids, Mich.
paper is unavailable.”—Exchange. New York Office, 105 Water St.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

15

 

 

 

 

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

New York, Dec. 10—This week we
have a somewhat stronger coffee
market, caused somewhat by higher
speculative prices. There has been
a fair amount of trade among dis-

tributers and they seem to be quite}
|

confident as to the future. In store
and afloat there are 4,130,198 bags, |
against 2,987,365 bags at the same

time last year. The receipts of cof-
Rio and Santos from July 1

to Dec. 8 amounted to 7,195,000 bags,

fee at

against 7,533,000 bags during the
Same time last year. At the close

Rio No. 9 is well held at 85c. There
is a rather better call for mild grades

and Good Cucuta seems to be well
fixed at oc. About the same old
story is heard regarding East India

grades—firmly held and an average |

amount of business being done.

There is a firm market for refined |

sugars. The business, however, con-

sists almost altogether of withdraw-
als on old account and very little in

new trade. Prices are very firmly

maintained and the advance made is |
not only well sustained, but is quite |
|average best, 30/@3Ic; seconds,
| 29¢.

likely to be further increased.

Teas continue neglected and are|
very likely to remain so until after
the turn of the year. Of course, |

something is being done all the time, |

but sales usually are of small lots

to repair broken assortments.

Some business is going forward in
domestic rice, but, as a rule, matters
are quiet. Of course, no great amount
of business is ever looked for at this
the year and no
disappointed; but must cer-
tainly wish for a little better move-
Prime to choice, 334@4c.

season of one is

sellers

ment.

There is a fairly active trade in
New Orleans
lasses and the market generally is
There is little,
if any, and the situa-
tion is in favor of the seller. There
is very little high grade molasses and
it fetches full quotations. Syrups are
firm and supplies are running pretty

medium sorts of mo-
fairly well sustained.
accumulation

short.

The chief item of interest in the
canned goods market is the opening
quotations on New York State corn—
Soc for standard and 95c for fancy.
These prices are 5c below last year’s
and said to be made so on account
of Western competition, which this
year has been “too active to be in-
teresting”—to the New York State
packers. Now that these official fig-
ures are established, they excite little
or no comment, as the rates are
made to small buyers.
desirable Western brands are selling
at toc per dozen less than the fig-
ures mentioned. It is thought that
Maine stock, futures, will be started
at $1. Actual business in the canned

goods market is quiet and no change

|fruits and are disposing of

 

 

is anticipated until after Jan. 1, 1 |
there is any then. Tomatoes deliver- |
ed here are worth about 62%@65c. |
Some fruits, especially peaches of the |
lemon cling and pie sorts, are very |
firmly held, as the supply is decidedly
limited. Salmon with
call and the outlook is steadily im- |
proving.

meets steady

FOTATOES

 

Buyers and Shippers of

PILES CURED

DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON
Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe Street Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

in carlots, Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. |

 

 

 

 

WE ARE BUYERS OF

There is some improvement in the CLOVER SEED BEANS
dried fruit trade and this is espe-| AND

cially true of prunes, which seem|

once more to be “coming to their |
i :

own. Apricots and
fetch full quotations.

having a

peaches. also}

Retailers are
good demand for fancy |

great |

quantities.
The butter market is very quiet. |
The demand has been of moderate

proportions. Supplies are

onds to. firsts, 22@26%c; imita-
tion 16'14(@20c;
1544@17c; renovated, steady at 15@
20¢.

There is a fairly active market for

creamery, factory,

ty well reduced. At the close
York State full

quotable at 12c for the very top sorts

cream small size is
and 1134c for large sizes.

Eggs are in little freer supply, but
there is still a scarcity and nearby
are worth 38@4oc; best Western, 32c;
27@

ooo,

Brought Back the Bell.

Congressman Sam. Smith, of Mich- |

igan, was counsel for the defendant
in a criminal trial in which the main
witness for the opposition was known
as a man of ill-repute.
Naturally Smith’s

idea was to

make as much of this fact as possi- |
stand |

ble. So he had called to the

a stalwart blacksmith known to have |
had dealings with the witness refer- | Office and Warehouse znd Avenue and Hilton Street,

red to.
“Tell us,” Mr. Smith,
you know of the reputation of the|

said “what

complaining witness.”

“He had a bad reputation in this |
locality,” responded the blacksmith.

The prosecuting attorney then took
the blacksmith in hand to cross-ex-
amine him.

“Ts it true that you have had trou-
ble with the father of client?”
asked he in an impressive manner.

“No,” answered the big blacksmith |
decidedly.

“Are you sure that you never had
any trouble with him?” persisted the |

my

prosecuting attorney.

“Nothing of any importance,’ re- |

i |

sponded the blacksmith.
i ee

“Ah!” exclaimed the prosecuting |

attorney exultantly, “then there was |
some trouble, after all?”

“Oh, well,” said the blacksmith |

| carelessly, “I simply accused him of |
thought by many to be simply those |
At this time

stealing a bell off my cow.”
“But he denied it, did he no
“Yes,” replied the blacksmith, “but |

he brought back the bell the next |

day.” |

|
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> |
t!

ge |
A little cant can spoil a whole lot |
of consecration.

Also in the market for
Pop Corn, Buckwheat and Field Peas

If any to offer write us.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CoO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

seeming- |
ly sufficient to meet all requirements |
and at the close the situation is rath- |
er in favor ot the | buyer. | Extra |
Western creamery, 27@27'%4c;_ sec- |

WHOLESALE

sters

CAN OR BULK

See our quotations in Grocery Price Current on page 45

| cheese and stocks have become pret- | DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Ne Ww}

 

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS

MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS

AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,
TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON

FOOTE & JENKS’ Sold only in bottles bearing our address

JAXON |Foote & Jenks

Highest Grade Extracts, JACKSON, MICH.

 
    
    

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——We Carry——

FULL LINE CLOVER, TIMOTHY

AND ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS
Orders filled promptly

MOSELEY BROS. cranp RaPIDS, MICH.

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

 

 

 

 

ONIONS

We have them. Also all kinds of foreign and domestic fruits.
goods a specialty. Christmas decorations, etc.

THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY
14-16 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Holiday

 
 
  

 

 

 

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Standard Sizes

For Chickens
36x24x10, each....$ .55
42x26n12, edch.... 65

For Turkeys

86x24x16, each....$ .65
42x26x16, each.... .7%

These crates are positively the lightest, strongest and best on the market for
poultry shippers They are made of seasoned elm, 3-16 inch thick and put
together with cement coated nails, which makes them the strongest and light-
est for handling, effecting a great saving in freight and express charges. We
will build these crates any size desired. Prices on application.

Wilcox Brothers, Cadillac, Mich.

 

 

 

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16

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

THE HEROIC AGE.

Noble Deeds More Common To-day
Than Ever Before.

It is passing strange that modern

society, which is much given to self-

examination, has not yet discovered

that it is dwelling in an age of hero- |

ism surpassing any ever commemo-
rated by epic poem or recorded in
written history.

During the past hundred years
standards of character have been
steadily advancing, and the finest
traits have found their fullest de-
velopment in our own country. Ifit|
seems a little vain to advance this
claim it must be remembered that

it can be in no sense a racial boast,
for the population of this United
States is an amalgamation of peoples,
and splendid deeds, almost daily re-
corded, are performed by men, wom-
en and childern of foreign birth, or
whose parents are natives of Great
Britain.
age, new fortitude and assurance have
been born into them in this land of
freedom, and if we recognize in them
the progenitors of a grand race which
is still to be, that is another matter—
a bright hope for the future, which
only time can put to the test. To be-
lieve this is to compliment every race
which has planted its colonies amid
our modern civilization, as well as the
sturdy New England blood, which
comes down from a pioneer ancestry.

The modern hero does
doublet and hose. He is not always
found wearing military buttons. He
is not necessarily well clothed or well
fed or accustomed to the usages of
‘good society.” He is often without
ideals beyond the inherent instincts
of a soul that, by virtue of its unsel-

If we believe that new cour-

not wear |

| :
lin the presence of cheering crowds,
ithe other more commonly meeting

| grim fate in the darkness of the

|

/in time of disaster that trainloads of
| travelers may be saved. To award the
|palm of heroism to these men is to

 

| high heroics.

}
|

| American

fishness, takes rank with the elect of |

the earth. His face, it is true, is not |

always clean washed; his hands are
far more immaculate. But—and it is

 

pass no reflection upon army or navy.

Never were soldiers braver than to- |
| day, but the average of casualty in
'

any war our country has ever waged

is much less than the risk encountered
in these two professions, as figures
tell.
courage and the capacity for self-sac-
rifice lacking in the upper circles of
society.

ing off the dust discovered on

ing reception, may have won those
honorable scars rescuing some little
street urchin from under the wheels
of a trolley, but we may be sure he

would never forgive Tommy Trad-| on : d
jlast analysis its simple daily record

dies, who witnessed’ the occurrence,
should the latter make the fact
known. Women of every class, fash-
them, are
showing themselves capable of meet-
ing accidents and great crises with
cool courage, and of giving up their
lives for others if need be. Yet little
cognizance is taken of these events.
It is not “good form” in society, as
all the world knows, to encourage
Now

mane society’s distinguished badge of

ionable women among

Nor is this fine development of |

ibe
oe | fiction.
knees of his fine trousers at an even- |

inight, standing sublimely at his post |-

 

Young Van Antwerp, who}

is covered with confusion when flick- | ; : ; oe
upon the ideals held forth in classic |

When the child leaves school |
| this training is continued through the |

 

and then a hu-|

a leather medal is conferred in some |
notable case of life-saving, as a rule|

where some unfortunate

is rescued |
}

from a watery death, but acts of he-|
roism in general go unrewarded and |

unnoticed.

We are coming to accept |

it as a matter of course that men—|

men—and American wom-

 

en and boys and girls, shall be brave |
fact |

and self-forgetful. This very

| arouses suspicion in our consideration |

time that we realized it—the deed of |

heroism has nothing to do with dress |

or lineage, or social rank, with heredi- |

ty, with condition or with spectacular |

effect. For that matter we have no
absolute proof that the heroes of an-
tiquity kept their finger nails mani-
cured or lived up to the social cus-
toms of the times. We do know that
many of them were of obscure origin
and poor before the performance of
the great feats which made their rep-
utation.

It is in the ranks of industry, among
the toilers of the land, that modern
heroism is in choicest flower.

in the factories and

 

Daily, |
workshops of |

the land, in times of casualty, lives |
are willingly laid down for others, |
their only epitaph a line in the tele-|

graphic columns of the daily newspa-
per. Superb acts of heroism signal
almost every stage of advance in the
working of deep mines. If any one

class of workers more than

one in its very nature heroic, then
this honor may be evenly divided be-
tween the fire fighters of our great
cities and railway engineers—men
who daily take their lives in their
hands in the service of humanity, and
among whom the rate of mortality is
appalling; the one going to his death

another |
may claim to pursue a heroic calling,

of the history of the past. Can it be
possible that the average ancient ran
from a warlike enemy, permitted the
ravages of wild monsters to go un-
checked, or held on to his own exist-
ence when it came to a question of
sacrificing it for a friend, when a little
handful of men of his day who did

| differently were so canonized in song?

If we are gaining in courage to
the point of heroism it becomes in-
teresting to ask to what this develop-
ment is due. The answer is plain to
the thinker. In every public school
of the land lessons of heroism
daily taught, and these lessons
based in part upon history, in part

os ideal of action, and stirs the

are |
are |

mediumship of the modern novel and |

of the daily newspapers, which every-
body reads.
people’s greatest educator, and in the

The newspaper is

of splendid deeds actually performed

the |

keeps ever before the people the high- |

hearts of the young to a noble emula-
tion.
cen ne penn ae nrae

 

 

 

 

 

Te Kent County
Savings Bank

OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Has largest amount of deposits
of any Savings Bank in Western
Michigan. If you are contem-
plating a change in your Banking
relations, or think of opening a
new account, call and see us.

34% Per Cent.

Paid on Certificates of Deposit

Banking By Mail

Resources Exceed 2¥4 Million Dollars

 

 

Me | |
PRO |

 

 

 

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BLA

 

 

 

Every Stock Owner

Uses Stock Food

Think, Mr. Merchant, how many of your
customers are stock owners and how naturally
their trade would come to you if you handled

Superior
Stock Food

which is conceded by all the first-class stock-
men in the country to be unequalled in quality.
Put up in attractive packages which are easily
handled. Let us quote you price.

Superior Stock Food Co., Limited

Plainwell, Mich.

 

 

E. M. SMITH

Merchandise and Loans
WAAR EG

The Tradesman Coe,
Grand Rapids,
Gentlemen :--

@edar Springs, Mich., Dec, 1, 1904.

Miche

Yours of to-day at hand, reminding me that my

subscription has again expireéde

For sixteen years your pub-

lication, "The Tradesman," has been welcomed at my office and
home, and could not think of doing business in Michigan

without ite

 

I promptly accept of your most liberal offer, and
herewith hand you my check for Five Dollars, being five years
advance payment for the paper.

Extending you congratulations, and wishing you con-
tinued and deserved success,

I beg to remain as ever,

Yours very truly,

Ee Me

SMITHe

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

THE FIGHT OF MAN.

It Is Meant To Develop the Muscles |
of the Soul.

I think it would be true to say that
when man in the far distant and un-
recorded time began first to think
of the mystery of lite and to use|
the awful term God, the idea of a
deity who was above all things good,
man concluded that his way with man
was to recompense right living in
his creatures and to punish evil con-
duct. Such would appear to be the
theory of the moral world, which was |
the basis of the patriarchal system.
How long that system lasted none
of us can say, but among the docu-
ments that come down to us from
the earliest times we can see evi-
dences enough that already the theo-
ry of the world was utterly breaking
down.

Man had begun to realize that it
was not true that if he did right God
rewarded him and that if he did
wrong God punished him. Life was
constantly giving the lie to this old
story. It was seen that the wicked
were allowed to prosper in this world,
while the just were reduced to beg
their bread. The righteous man, con-
scious of his own rectitude, as inthe
Book of Job, is seen protesting his
And thus the
old patriarchal system, based exclu-
upon the promises of the
earthly life, ceased at an early period
to satisfy the heart of man.

innocence before God.

sively

The next thing we are conscious
of is man’s effort to explain the in-
ner nature of the mystery of sin and
suffering that was hidden from his
What was sin? Sin was rebel-
lion and lawlessness against higher
powers, and, speedily recognizing
man set about accounting for

eyes,

this,
his sufferings by the failure of his
If he exposed himself to
disease he accepted without too much
murmuring the penalty of death. If
he violated natural laws in any meas-
ure he submitted, reluctantly but fin-
ally, to the consequences of his trans-
He realized that a penalty

deserts.

gression.
must follow every inharmonious ac-
tion, and in the patriarchal times he
went so far as to bow to the relent-
less necessity that the penalty should
not fall on the wrongdoer alone, but
involve the innocent also, and hence
the sins of the father might fairly be
visited upon the children.

But, having submitted so far, the
revolt of man against unmerited suf-
fering was as strong as before. While
sin involved suffering, suffering did
not always imply sin. It might be
right that sin should bring suffering
in its train but what about the suffer-
ing that was quite sinless? That
suffering can exist without sin has
been made clear to us once for all
by the sinless suffering of the cross,

and, although in a far lower degree, [

yet in the same sense, throughout
all the ages man has been made to
feel that he may suffer not merely
without having sinned but because he
bas not.

Job rebelled against the old patriar-
chal conception that God punished
and rewarded us according to our

ited misery of man brought
near to the verge of despair. As

Renan shows, the Book of Job is the |

expression of the incurable trouble

which seized the conscience of man)

at the epoch when the old patriarchal

| theory became insufficient to account

for the facts of life. Then in the
course of the ages philosophy and
poetry set themselves to explain the

problem of man’s place in the uni- |
verse, and the form which the ex-|

planation takes in the Greek dramat-

thing of almost devilish powers

which do not shrink from exposing

him to their caprice and even wick-
attribute of
and

edness. Every pagan

jealousy, malevolence anger

looms large in the tragedies of the}
Greek dramatists as an explanation |

of the gratuitous suffering which man
endures.

Naturally, humanity could not keep
its soul alive on food like that. It|

had to find some better sustenance in
some other system. Then
very slowly, the idea of
state, a state of blessedness, ap-
pears to have been evolved. This ter-
restrial life could not be the

one. There was another to come aft-

er death, in which man would be re- |
warded for the pains of the present |

existence.

The system of future rewards and |
with the}
sublime theory of another and im- |}

punishments which came

mortal life must have been the grand-
est and most precious. gift which,
down to that hour, had been offered
to suffering man.
tion of another world that was to

right the wrongs of this one helped

mankind to bear the heavy load of |

life.

All this, no doubt common to every

faith which accepted the theory of |
the immortality of the soul, was lift- |

ed to a still grander altitude in the
gospel of Christ.
Christianity went farther than Brah-
minism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
He not only told mankind to be in-
different to suffering and temporal
loss but to glory in it, to count it as

him |

| ists is that man is the sport and play- |

|
slowly, |
another |

only |

The grand concep- |

The founder of}

gain and as the firmest assurance of
blessedness in the life to come. He
seems to tell mankind not only that
he must suffer because he sins but
that he will sin if he does not suffer.
Thus it would seem to be the theory

of Christ that the patriarchal world

was wrong—primarily and fundamen-
tally wrong—in supposing that be-
cause they lived a right life they
would be rewarded, and that they

would only suffer if they lived wick-
edly.
When

theory

forward this
sealed it with the
triumphant seal of his own innocent

Christ put
and

ceath upon the cross, he achieved a
tremendous victory over the human
soul. Thinking of what that message
is to the modern world, how it helps
it to bear its burden, it is nearly im-
possible to conceive by what means
the patriarchal world, subject to the
same human losses, the same human

sufferings, and confronted by the
same mysteries, lived without it.
But what is the solution of the
problem of suffering for all earnest
and believing souls?
pose are we sent into the world to

To what pur-

endure its evil and wrong? The only

answer I can see to these questions,

which have been the subject of eter-
nal dispute, is that suffering is good
that it is good for the world
that pain and sorrow should exist in

for us;

it; and that God uses sin and suffer-
ing to his own great ends. Take
suffering out of the world and what
is left of the great human virtues?
| What of heroism, courage, patience
self-sacrifice? Is it not a fact
that without suffering none of these

and

| virtues would be called into being?
When, therefore, we ask
| why man suffers, always has suffer-
led and

ourselves

always will suffer, is it not
sufficient to say that it is in order
that he may attain to the highest?
The pilgrimage of this
earth may be said to resemble, in its

man on

| multitude of troubles, the struggle of
a swimmer against a powerful tide.

It is natural that the swimmer should
|ask himself why the tide is against
| him, but when he reaches the place

of safety he knows that the struggle
for life has developed his muscle, his
brain and all the finest faculties of his
Then may it not be that the
ight of man against the suffering of

body.

this life is meant to develop the mus-
cles of his soul?

Therefore, if in a last word I am
asked the question, “Do we get our
deserts?” I will boldly answer, “No,
we do not; and we never shall, speak-
ing of humanity as a whole, and tak-
ing account of the preponderating
multitudes to whom life is only an-
other word for misery.”

But if - am asked, “Do we) set
what is best for us?” I say, “Yes, al-
ways and everywhere, taking our
lives through and through, and hav-
ing account not merely for our mate-
rial but also for our spiritual wel-

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Status of the Underwear and Hosiery
Markets.

The closing twelvemonth estab-
lishes a record for prosperous trade
conditions alike among retailers and
wholesalers. Probably in no branch
of haberdashery has such conspicu-
ous success been achieved during the
passing year as is in the departments
of hosiery and underwear. Thus it

is under exceptionally favorable cir- |

cumstances that spring sets in. As
an indication of how important gen-
eral lines of underwear are commer-

cially regarded, the fact should be|

considered that to-day there are
wholesale firms carrying this stock
exclusively. Wholesale houses con-
fining their business to hosiery have
long been in existence, but never be-
fore now has there been in the Unit-
ed States a specialty retail hosiery
shop, as is conducted by a certain
firm in New York. Orders for cus-
tom-made undersuits and hosiery are
on the increase, particularly with
dealers serving the fine trade. Com-
paratively few manufacturing plants
ate equipped for this character of
work. Retailers are often in quandary
as to the proper handling of such
commissions. Those in doubt as to
where to place special orders to the
best advantage are invited to com-
municate with this department.
Current demand in some sections
favors these styles in  undersuits:
derby ribbed balbriggans, finished in
medium weight fleece lining; fancy
effects in wool garments having self
fronts; camel’s hair numbers, ribbed-

cuff; natural wool. Heavy-weight lin- |

en mesh is also a prominent seller
in two pieces as well as union suits.
Request is frequent for chalk white,
pure silk underwear, and for spring-
needle worsted ribbed combination
suits and separate garments. Greys,
tans and blues are included the
high colorings receiving approval.
Cashmere underwear continues in
demand, always receiving attention
in more or less degree. Much inter-
est is shown in novelty cross stripe
imported merino and lisle underwear
with silk figures jacquarded on the
horizontal lines. This should be
watched for it is suggestive.

in

Sober treatments rule throughout
the realm of hosiery. Copper brown
and Japanese tan grounds are offered
in black silk side clockings. Fine
gauge black lisle grounds are intro-
duced with pearl steeple embroidery
in silk. Wine, plum and burgundy
lead in red shades, while cadet, navy,
coventry, Dresden and
come in blue. Geometrical designs
are in the forefront, the choice
ing divided in the range .of blocks,
checks and diamonds. Harmonious
blendings in chintz mixtures are ac-
corded due notice. Embroidered in-

turquoise

be-

step patterns are presented in artis- |
Reindeer |
| world—force of character and great

tic and extensive variety.
hair and wool compose a bathing

suit fabric which is now being ex- |

| fancy

hin
| terns.

| designs in

| class

!

|perimented with and which
| well thought of.
| Verticals in spring hose are dis-

| played in fine gauzes with two-color |

effects as well as in a multiplicity of
patterns. Spring bath robes
of foreign importation come in new

dark and light colors and mixtures, |

including cinnamon, tan, brown
blue, wine and blue and so on, and
<oman and Egyptian tapestry pat-
Bath mats are just as pretty

and |

|

 

as the robes, revealing raised or flat |

Jacquards of white, flesh
blue and white, tan and
and pink.
have animal designs such
phants, dogs, owls and
These, of course, are not taken by the
upper trade, which leans to
bath which are reproductions
of the designs appearing on _ fine
Turkish The price 1s $24 a
dozen and they wash.

and
blue,

ecru,
and olive

as

class
mats

rugs.

Others |
ele- |
butterflies. |

| and

In spring hose the drift toward tan |

is still marked and plain shades will
be in large request.

is ony a nothing to say to men of this kind |

except ‘don’t abuse your gifts.’

“The ordinary man has ordinary
ability, and he is the one who needs
First, I would

industry—

example and advice.
say: Integrity, honesty,
no deceit. Get a line on every prop-
osition and analyze it from a prac-
tical standpoint. Study the needs of
your empioyer and supply them. To
ride, not to walk, always means that
you should try to get into business
That is where the big
Don’t be a toiler in

for yourself.
money is made.
the vineyard all your life, but while
you are toiling do it with all your

might. Don’t be afraid you'll do too
much. Save your money and start
your own business, if it is feasible, |

then be a just master and all is well

with you.”

The the
refused brandy with his black coffee
left his dry-wine turned
down and his auditor noted these cir-

man with gray whiskers

glass

| cumstances.

High-class trade |

will take tan, navy blue and choco- |

late.

A feature of more than ordi-!

nary note is the resurrection of lace |}

effects in solid colors like champagne,
ecru, beaver, nankeen, mode, bistre,
cadet, olive and Quaker grey. Lace

2
Obeying Orders.

“The doctors have ordered Bilkins
to be quiet and under no circum-
istances to use his brain.”

hose have been out of the running for |
the last twelve months, but the de- |

mand for socks that are light and
cool has led to their revival. They
are shown thus far only in fine goods
and the delicate workmanship is far
advance of anything
brought out.

in

{as

és

But how does he pass the time?”
“T believe he is writing a novel.”

ee

It Would Seem So.
He—I don’t believe men are as bad

women would have them.

She—Oh, I don’t’ know.

Some

| women would have them no matter

hitherto |

Wool hose, both long and short, |
are in brisk demand just now, espe- |

cially in the college towns. The sales

waned during the last few seasons |

and the renewed vogue this winter is
worthy of comment. Young men

favor thick hose for wear with low |
shoes until snow falls, and many deal- |

ers who had a few goods left over

from a year or two ago moved them |

auickly during November and order-
ed more. Unfortunately, the stock

ly disappointment in
are unavoidable just now.

Knit gloves of the seamless Scotch
command better sales’ than
ever. Mercerized Angora’ gloves
with cashmere fleeced lining find
ready outlet. Full-fashioned
ers and Jersey guernseys are rated
high season. Sleeveless
shirts and knickerbocker drawers are

a
sweat-

for next

| developing unwonted strength. These

abbreviated lengths, which represent
absolute and rapidly
winning converts, come in woven or
knit cotton and linen and are
well made.—Haberdasher.

—_> ~~ —__

“To Ride, Not Walk.”
The the gray
quietly brushed the crumbs off the

comfort are

very

man with whiskers
table-cloth and made room for his el-

bows. Then he leaned over and
talked confidentially.

“A good idea for a young man to
develop is that he is determined to
ride, not walk. In life certain quali-
fications are necessary inherently to

him who makes a big success in the

mental and physical strength. There

;on hand is very low and consequent- |
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19

 

Style Tendencies in Little Folks’

Wearables.

When the foremost manufacturers
of clothing exclaim as with one
voice that business for present and
future delivery leaves nothing
them to complain about it is proof
that orders are coming along satis-
factorily. This is so true of
dium and better grades of juvenile,
boys’ and youths’ clothing that the
markets are not plentifully stocked
with goods for immediate needs.
Cheap stuff, however, is to be had
in quantity at a price.

If we look into the retail situation
we find that the stocks of the stores
handling the best qualities are low-
er than is usual at this time of the
season. They have had a very good
season.

‘this desirable opportunity and “trade |

|

???

| up:

A successful department chief, who}
recently took hold of a department |

and has done a much larger business |

for | L
continuously “trading up” and sell-|

me- |
| department, and who is at the same}

|; may reap success if they have

;etor comes along

Trade came to them quite |

early and the season has fewer dull |

spells than last fall.

In the large cities the fine trade
shows an early interest in wash suits,
and some retail departments began
with this month to open their new
lines.

inere 1s
on the part of buyers over the new

In style the jackets
differ somewhat from former models
in cut and pleat effects.

and grass linen.

The fact that popular-priced stores
and those that formerly went heavily
into cheap goods have this season
sold very much more higher-priced
merchandise than formerly explains,
perhaps, why the wholesale market
is carrying heavier stocks in cheap
truck than in medium and high-grade
clothing. The people, in buying
clothing, are particularly critical re-
garding fit and style and seem to

know that

| is

than was done before, who has been}

ing more and more _ higher-priced
clothing than ever before entered the

time increasing the business through
special sales, says that others, too,
the
backbone.

He says: “Every time the propri-
and says a word,
implied or direct, to the effect that
the department is not making a sat-
isfactory showing, the buyer quakes.
Then in his eagerness to ‘make a
good showing’ he buys ‘dreck’ and
goes in to fool the people. Now it
a boomerang to advertise a $5

| suit or overcoat for $2.49 if it is not

| a $5

|

considerable enthusiasm |

suit. The people know merchan-
better to-day than ever and can
not all be fooled by such fictitious
price comparisons. Give them a $2
suit for $1.49, or a $3 suit or overcoat
for $2.49. But if you advertise that

dise

 

tl | it is all wool it must be all wool. De-|
Norfolk styles in khaki, pique, duck, |

fine pure white linen, butcher’s linen |

| misrepresentations

scribe the merchandise just as it is,
and if
scription then it is ‘dreck.’

customer comes into your store he

it won’t stand accurate de-|
Make no|
and then whena|

or she can not get away from you)
because things are not as they were}

said to be.
people all the time; a very great many

| of them will sooner or later discov-

synonymous with good quality and |
that they can be obtained by paying |
a little more money than they former- |

ly spent for cheap clothes. Stores
that up to and including last year
did most of their business on clothes

up to $5, which price was then con- |

sidered good, have this season done

better on grades from $4 to $7.50, |

salesmen now estimating the sale
of a suit or overcoat at $4 a cheap |
sale. The same stores have been

,

putting out ‘specials’

around $3, and |

while these have been responded to|
they have not met with the success |

had in former seasons.

The same conditions apply

much consideration.
to |}

youths’ clothing, the stores that sold
lower priced merchandise now doing |

a better and larger business on suits

and overcoats at $9.50, $12 and $14, |

the better prices before being $5
and $7.50. Here and there will be
found an exceptional instance where
the store is doing more business at

higher prices than before, and like- |
managers of the departments doing

satisfactory re-
Where such

wise getting
sults from special sales.

very

is the case we find that the funda- |
mental reason for success is because |
thehead of the department is carry- |

ing out the policy of the store, which
is to give every customer a “square
deal.” And since it is the disposi-
tion of the people to buy better

clothes, why not take advantage of | —Apparel Gazette.

|

er it.
upon shifting sands.
easy to play it right.
buyers have done for themselves and
their firms:

Fogarty, with the May}
|Company, St. Louis; Bellow, with B. |
these characteristics are |

You can not fool all the |

Then your reputation is built |
lt is jast as!
See what these |

Nugent & Co., St. Louis; Blum, with |

Mandel Brothers, Chicago;
with Rothenberg, New York,

Levy, |
and |

Henry, while he was with Hearn’s. |
Their reputations and successes have}

been built on legitimate business

methods, and they are only a few of|

the many who are playing business
right and getting crowning results.”

There has been very little enquiry |
| for boys’ three-piece suits for spring.

Manufacturers, of course, include

them as a staple item in their spring |

sample lines, and make them up as|
ordered, but orders received to date |

show that buyers are not giving them
In the opinion
of buyers interviewed the three-piece
suit is logical for fall and winter,
but not for spring and summer. Even
this present season they appear to
have been neglected. Retailers deal-
ing with the fine trade in large cities
are selling some three-piece suits in
single and double’ breasted _ styles
with knickerbockers, in sizes from
II to 16 years. In the opinion of the

business in fine grades the three-piece
suit is less common to-day than
formerly, and this is corroborated by
the leading manufacturers, who say
they are doing a little business
three-piece suits now in the way of
duplicate orders for immediate wants,
but that the selling for spring is light.

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INDUSTRIAL AMERICA.

 

Impressions and Criticisms of an In-
telligent Englishman.

It was my exceptional good for-

tune to accompany the British Iron

and Steel Institute in 1890, when it |

made its first tour of Industrial
America; and again to go with it
this winter, when three
members of the most cosmopolitan of

British scientific and industrial so-

cieties, which boast Royal Charters, |
made a tour of Ohio and Pennsylva- |

nia and were welcome visitors at the

nimerous and various plants at Phil- |
adelphia, Baitimore, Pittsburg, Cleve- |

land and Buffalo. A period of four-

teen years makes many gaps in an|

Steel
Institute, whose members are usually
well on in middle life before they

essociation like the Iron and

attain distinction in the iron and}

steel-making craft in England. There
were, however, many members. of
the 1904 party who were in the coun-
try in 1890. In the meanwhile Eng-
land and America have grown much
nearer, socially, industrially and po-
litically; and to me, as an English-

hundred |

man who has thrown his lot with|

the newer country, the pleasantly
notable feature of the 1904 tour was
the greatly changed attitude of the
English visitors towards America and
American industrial development and
enterprise.

| gards skilled artisans the

| that of the Steel and Wire Trust at
|Newburg, near Cleveland—the men
|at the rolls in the rod mill are paid

Even in 1890 everything in the|

iron and steel world here, excepting
ship-building, was on a larger scale
than in England, although the scale
in this country fourteen years ago
was not the magnificent scale of the

the steel plants in England, as_ in
| those of this country, many of the
|men are paid on tonnage.
|rates in this country are uniformly

iron and steel plants of to-day. In|!

1890 the attitude of the British iron
and steel men was distinctly reserved
and critical. At Philadelphia, Pitts-
burg, Birmingham,
and at the ore mines at the head of
Lake Superior they questioned how
it was all going to turn out.
had doubts whether the great plants

|a week is a good wage for unskilled
South Chicago} jaborers; and there are few artisans
| who are paid more than nine dollars
ia week.

They

| prised superintendents of English and |

they then saw would survive the fi- |

nancial strains which come to most
vast undertakings; and they wonder-

|rates at the plants which are equip-

ed where American daring and inno- |

vation in the iron and steel world
would stop.

On the 1904 tour the attitude of
the visitors was different. It was a
change of which no one must have
been more pleasantly conscious than
those of their hosts who had also
entertained them fourteen years ago.
The visitors realized and freely ad-
mitted that American development,
great as it has been since 1890, must
still go forward; and they were
brought face to face with conditions
and figures at Pittsburg, Cleveland
and Conneaut which convinced them
that there is no likelihood of Ameri-
ca’s losing the lead which she has
now taken in the world’s production
of iron and steel.

The difference in attitude towards
America generally was to me_ the
remarkable feature of the visit. It
was noticeable when we were no
further on our journey than Philadel-
phia, where the great surprise for the

visitors was the new and marvelously | thousand women and girls in the
equipped ship-building plant on the | Westinghouse Works at East Pitts-
it| burg, and there the British visitors

Delaware River at Camden; and

| saving

;}ances which in nine instances out of

| grew more noticeable as we worked
| through our long itinerary and de-
| voted day after day to visiting the
|plants at Pittsburg and Cleveland.
| This is my own outstanding impres-
|sion of the tour.

| If IT were asked to summarize the |
|impressions of the visitors as I heard |
/them expressed and reiterated on our |
fifteen hundred miles of travel I}
‘should name seven points in Ameri-|
can industrial life and economy which |
These were!
(1) the vast scale on which the iron |
'and steel industry is carried on; (2) |
the high quality and comparative |
cheapness of Ainerican ore and coke; |
(3) the extent to which labor-saving |
machinery is everywhefe called into|

most impressed them.

| service; (4) the large and ever-grow-
|ing output of the plants; (5) the!
|cheapness and efficiency of rail and|
water transport as compared’ with
transport cost and efficiency in Eng-
land; (6) the extent and character
of the home market for the products
of the steel plants; (7) the high}
wages of skilled and unskilled labor.

We were at no plant at which lab-
orers were paid less than fourteen or
fifteen cents an hour; while as_ re-
wages
ranged from thirty to forty cents an
hour; and at one plant we visited—

as much as eight dollars a day. In

These

higher than in England; while as re-
gards men working by the day—un-
skilled laborers and artisans—in Eng-
land four and a half to five dollars

 

It will readily be imagined how sur- |

Scotch works were at American
wages; and especially at the high

ped with the most wonderful labor-
devices—mechanical _appli-

ten are still unknown in England.
The visitors attributed these wages
to the tariff and to the enormous de-
mands of the home market. Labor-
saving appliances, as I gathered from
the Englishmen with whom I talked,
are not introduced in England be-
cause labor is cheap; because Eng-
land has not so large a market for
the output of her steel plants as
there is in this country; and because
in England it has not been found
practicable to raise the vast capital
which is required for installing plants
of the scale in this country, and
equipped as these plants are at every

 

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| increasing the output, lightening la-
| bor and saving wage charges.

| Only one great factory in the iron
| and steel industry at which women
|and giris were employed was in our
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21

 

were much surprised at the well-set- |
up appearance and bearing of the|
girls, in contrast with the women in|
nail-making and other industrial |
plants in England. Factory-workers
in England form a more distinct class
than they do in America; and in and

out of the factory they are stamped |

as factory girls. Their appearance,

their demeanor and their place in so- |
cial life are determined by their oc- |

cupation, all much more than in this
country, where the girls and women

who work in plants like that at East |
Pittsburg are not distinguishable on |

the street from school teachers or
typewriter girls.
Even as regards the pace, the drive

and rush of industrial life in this |
country the visitors found some sur- |
prises. Conditions in this respect |

were not quite what they expected—
not what is so frequently asserted in
the English newspaper press. Ex-

cept in the wire-rod mills at Cleve-|

land, where the men earn the high

the work is so hard and demanding

that they work for half an hour and |

then rest for half an hour, we saw
comparatively little of the killing pace
that in England is thought to be char-
acteristic of American industrial life.

There is now so much machinery—
electrical power is called into service
here, hydraulic power there, pneu-
matic power in another place and
steam where these newer powers are
not practicable—that the work, even
where pig metal is being made, steel
ingots molded and blooms and bil- |
lets rolled, is much less exhausting
than it was ten or fifteen years ago.
So much is done by the pulling of a
lever; and while it is an object to
keep the machinery perpetually go-|
ing, and while men working on ton- |
nage rates will everywhere push the |
pace, everything moves with so much
order with such absence of!

and

plants “2 England, where American
ideas and innovations have yet tobe |
introduced. Again and again they |
admitted to me, as we discussed the
mechanical equipment of the various
plants, that the pace for the work-
men was not what they had imagin-
ed; and that much of the gain from |
the almost universal introduction of
machinery had accrued to the work-
men and had made their daily lot
much easier than the lot of men at
work in English plants where the
older methods of iron and steel man-
ufacture are still followed.

At the large plants we saw but
little of the sordidness of industrial
life; none, in fact, that was especially
noticeable. There was, on the other
hand, much of order and of thought
for the comfort, convenience and ed-
ucation of the employes that was re-
marked upon as commendable and
worthy of introduction in England.

In the immediate neighborhood of
several of the plants there were sor-
did features which did attract com-
ment from the visitors. The tumble-
down dwellings of the Poles and
Hungarians at Homestead made them

 

ask whether sanitary inspectors |
not appointed to look into |
the economy of urban _ industrial |
|communities in this country; whether |

|there are any regulations as to air|
and whether |

| space in living rooms;

| building permits are necessary. be-

be built.
At Cleveland, where
wretched shanties,

|is locally known as the Triangle, in

and ship-building yards, I was asked
| by a county magistrate from Wor-

| cestershire what the licensing magis- |

trates were thinking of to permit such
an aggregation of saloons. I could

ferent body from the licensing bench-

es in England, where the “aim for |

twenty years has been to restrict the

him our host of the ship-yard, who
was driving us back to the hotel,
struck in with an explanation. The
saloon licenses in the Triangle, he
said, were practically settled by the
breweries. Almost anybody who
could find a shanty and make terms
with a brewing company could open
a saloon in the pathway of the la-

borers who go to and from the ore |

docks and the ship-yards.
Little of the
America seen

real social

was by the visitors.

They were on the go all the time, |
visiting plants in the daytime andat |
receptions and banquets in the even- |
They were housed in the new- |
est, most magnificent and high-priced |

ing.

social impression

iwth them

and the
will

hotels,
which stay
It is an altogether erroneous

pression that they have taken back,

fore houses for working people can |

scores. of|
occupied as sa-|
loons, are huddled together in what |

the neighborhood of the ore docks |

only reply that the licensing authority |
in a city like Cleveland is a very dif- |

number of drinking shops; and while |
| I was endeavoring to explain this to |
wages I have mentioned and where |

lite of

longest |
is the high cost of living in America. |
im- |

due chiefly to the hotel life of New |
Washington, |

York,
Pittsburg,

Philadelphia,

Cleveland and _ Buffalo.

This was inevitable from the magnifi- |
cent scale on which the tour was or- |

ganized and the one regret that I
have concerning the tour is that the
visitors saw practically nothing of
ithe home life in this country—not
even of the home life of the men
of work. They certainly saw noth-
iing of the home life of the less
wealthy people of America, which to
my mind is seen at its best in such
cities as Albany, Rochester, Hartford,
Springfield or Worcester—cities
which, for some unaccountable

son, unless the blame can be laid on

the guide-books, are so often missed
by visitors to this country who have
| more leisure than the men and wom-
en who were of the Iron and Steel
Institute party.

The tour was distinctly a business
undertaking. The men of the party
here to

were learn

exactly
Aemica is doing in 1904 in the iron
steel world, and they
this object with all the
which they push business at home.
The New York Reception Commit-
tee and the local committees at Phila-
Cleveland, Con-
3uffalo co-operated to af-

and
zeal

deiphia, Pittsburg,

 

neaut and
ford them every opportunity for see-
ling what is being done. It is not
the fault of the reception committees
if any of the visitors failed to learn
what American conditions in the iron
and steel trade actually are—the na-
ture and extent of its magnificent nat-
ural opportunities; how far mechani-
cal appliances have been developed
and how rail and water transport is
managed; and, finally, how American
labor compares with that of England.

A brief paragraph is sufficient to

| state what in the main were the con-

| aN
conditions.

who are engaged in the same line

5ea- |

what |

pursued |
with |

clusions of the British visitors on the
most important of these American
was a general
agreement among them, often com-
municated to interviewers for the
local newspapers of the cities we
visited, that the iron and steel trade
in this country is peculiarly well sit-
uated in three important respects. It
natural re-

It has coal
metallurgical
coke, ores which carry high percent-
and can be
brought the greater part of the dis-
tance from the mines to the furnaces

There

has almost unbounded
sources at its command.
which makes splendid

which

ages of iron

by water; limestone which is easily
obtained and which fluxes well; and
natural gas, which can be used with
economy in the later stages of steel
production.

Moreover, the American trade has
a vast and growing home market; and
have available
capital which can always be drawn

Americans of to-day

upon to equip an iron or steel-making
plant on the most modern scale, with
all the latest labor-saving machinery,
whenever such an investment can
be presented in an attractive prospec-
This last feature was especially
noticeable in the number of inde-
pendent iron and steel concerns. The
Steel Trust sets the pace in
It is the greatest factor inthe
But,
as the English visitors discovered, it
They
realized this when they visited the
Jones & Laughlin plant at Pittsburg,
and again when they were informed,

tus.

equip-
ment.
American iron and steel trade.

is not quite the whole trade.

later on, that only a little more than
one-half of the twenty-two or twen-
ty-three million tons of ore which
in the Lake season of 1904 were ship-
ped to Lake ports from the
mines at the head of Lake Superior
were taken by the Steel Trust—Ed-

ward Porritt in the Outlook.

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brutalizing than in the old-fashioned |
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SYSTEM IN SAVING.

Must Beat Human Nature To Gain
Bank Account.

The man who finds it difficult to
save money is in need of a “system.”

Most of the systems for beating the |

board of trade or playing the races
are fore-ordained failures, and

Given an equal amount of study in

planning a system to beat one’s own |

human nature, and saving money be-
comes a matter of interest

his income is too small to admit of

laying aside anything for a bank ac-|

count simply needs an incentive.

All forms of gambling have a fas- }
element of |

the
hope

cination because
chance stimulates
it to rise superior to obstacles.

On

the other hand, saving is prosaic busi- |

ness. To bring it into competition
with a man’s propensity to get rich

quick it must somehow be invested |
with conditions which lift it from the |

plane of mere plodding.

Such was the purpose of the little |
dime savings bank, so extensively ad- |

vertised by certain banking institu-
tions. The system of putting away
every dime that came into a man’s
hands had in it an element of chance.

To some it appealed almost with a/| :
. =P | that I spent too much on cigars, and |

fascination. A man would seek or
shun dimes religiously, and nine times

out of ten his wife, if he had one, |

was aiding and abetting the little
steel box in its campaign after dimes.

The heads of the savings depart-| 444 the cost of running the house. |

ment in one of the banking institu-| 74.2, she made me give i a a |
s P g

tions in this city stood out for a
long time against the “toy banks,”

maintaining that they were undigni- |

fied, but when it was found that a
rival institution was increasing its
savings deposits at the rate of several
thousand dollars a month by the use
of the little steel boxes conservatism
gave way to a willingness to meet
human nature halfway. The dime
banks have been the means of sav-
ing over a million dollars within
three years for people who otherwise
would not save.

The best systems, however, are
those devised by depositors them-
selves, for it then becomes the man’s
own game, and he takes an individual
pride in it. That many depositors
have such systems is borne out by
the statements of the receiving teller
in the savings department of one of
the smaller banks of this city.

“This matter of schemes for saving
has appealed to me,” he says, “and
in many cases I have engaged depos-
itors in conversation during § slack
hours with a view to. discovering
some of the motives and methods that
stimulate saving. The other day a
small depositor told me of an agree-
ment he had made with his wife. She
had been trying to get him to swear
off smoking with indifferent results.
Her contention was that he spent too
much money on tobacco, to say noth-
ing of its effects on his health. He
accused her of spending as much on
candy and useless things in general as
he did on cigars.

“She made the proposition to sell

still |
people sit up nights to devise them. |

in more |
senses than one. The man who thinks |

and causes |

Dike his cigars, keeping him supplied
| with his favorite brands. He agreed
| to it, and now she buys the cigars by
|the box and he purchases his supply
|from her every day. He finds that
|a box of fifty lasts just a week.

“They cost his wife $6 a hundred
j}and she makes him pay 10 cents
| straight. Her part of the contract

| dy money to a savings bank account
'and add to it.the profits on the ci-
Their account is now running
up into handsome figures.
is getting the habit. He told me
further that when he saw in black and

| gars.

| cigars it scared him, and he is just
about ready to quit smoking alto-

|}extent. It was a case of playing the

|
|
|

ous. The woman must have several |
hundred dollars to her account here |
up to date. She deposits about $10 |
or $12 a week on the average. You
see, the women play a prominent part

|in this game of beating human na-|

| ture.”

was that she was to give up the can- |

That man |

white how much he was spending for |

gether, or at least slow down to some |

| saving habit against the tobacco habit. |

“We have another depositor whom |

I always remember because of cer-|

tain
late
was
| him.

““No credit to me,’ he said.
my

I have noticed how his account

wife.

little. My wife thought it was

marked facial characteristics. Of |
increasing and I congratulated |
‘It’s |

We managed to save a}
not |

William E. Danforth.

—_++>——_

Any Name Would Do.

Dr. Patten, the famous Princeton |
theologian, while traveling recently |
by rail, called the porter to bring |
him a table or something.

As the colored official disappeared
the reverend doctor ‘took from his |
valise a bundle of papers preparatory
to sorting them. The porter  re-|
turned at once, eyed the doctor know-
ingly and finally sought the end of|
the car.

When he came back, so the story |
goes, he carried with him a bottle, |

a glass and decanter.
“What’s this?” said the reverend |
gentleman.

The porter grinned from ear to
ear and winked.

“T told you to bring me a table}
or something,” said the clergyman.

“Wes, sir. Exactly, sir. You said
‘or something.” I knew what you

wanted all right, sir. We call it by

‘lots of different names.”

enough. Neither of us could figure |
|out where all my salary went to. I
|thought she spent too much on

iclothes and the house. She retorted

—well, liquid refreshments.

personal expenses, and in return gave

“*“To make a long story short, she |
| made me give her an estimate of my |

/me a statement of what she spent |

salary except what I had estimated |
as mecessary to keep me going. I}

tion, for I took out what I had esti-
mated as fully enough to keep me
going, and it was only fair to let her
try her hand at financiering with the
rest, since I had not made any suc-
cess to boast of myself.

“You see, I was virtually on an
allowance. I guess I put my estimate
too low, but I had to stick to it
However, our savings account, as you
see, has increased materially. You
bet my wife keeps tab on that pass
book.’

“Another plan I happen to know
about is that of a minister’s wife.
Her husband’s pastorate is in a lo-
cality where a good many wedding
ceremonies come his way. He gives
the fees to his wife, and she is sav-
ing up the money as a fund to edu-
cate their boy. He is about 4 years
old now, and the mother has a good
snug sum laid by already.

“She tells me that by the time the
boy is old enough to go to college
she hopes to have the funds to see
him through in good shape. She says
|she can do it if she can save $100 a
year until the boy is 18 years old.

“At the restaurant where I take my
luncheon is a waiter in whom I have
become interested. He has a savings
account at his bank. His wife gets
|all the 10 cent pieces he receives in
tips. He works in a restaurant that
is supposed to be as swell as any
in town, and the tips, especially in the
evening after the theater, are gener-

 

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“T used to know a man who came
here for the good of his health. His
name was Jones.”

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a card from the bottom of the deck |
one evening and then he left for the |

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Once Yielding To Temptation the
Pace Is Rapid.

“There is nothing in stealing from
a financial standpoint. Suppose I

And suppose I get pinched and get
sent up for three years. Ten dollars
is pretty small wages for three years’
work. Let’s see. If I was honest and
worked I suppose I could get $2 a
day at my trade. That would be
goo days or $1,800 I’d earn.”

Thus reasoned Lewis Meyer, known
for over fifty years to prison officials
as “Dutch Charlie,”
ted a few

as he was admit-
days ago to the Missouri
State Prison under sentence of three
years for grand larceny, the twelfth
time he has been committed to the
prison where he has spent nearly for-
ty years of his life. Not that he
holds a horror of imprisonment, for,
“I like it here. This pris-
on is my home, for I was brought up
But yet—yet, I would like to
get another start and be honest.”

as he says,
here.

“But do you believe you could leave
watches alone?”
“Well, I don’t
years 1s

he was asked.

Ninety-one
pretty old to get out and
starve when you haven’t any
or friends. A watch will always get
me a good clean home here, and, be-

know.
money
I love a good watch. I know

to build one, and I just can’t
help stealing one whenever I see it

sides,
how

lying around. Every time I get out
of here I say to myself I’ll never steal
another watch, and I mean it, too.
But when I get hungry and there
lies a watch my fingers go toward it
and I pull away and try not to see
1 Phe back atid close
over it, and as soon as I get the feel
of it’ T can't let go. Stealne is a
can no more control
any

fingers go

disease which I
than # it
chronic ailment.”

were rheumatism or

Seventy years ago Meyer’s mother

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

What good is wealth |

to a thief? A man risks years of his |

| life in making big hauls and then he

spends it all in keeping hid. Pretty
soon he blows it all in, and when he

;comes out the police are watching
steal a watch that brings me $10. |

| honestly believe

He starts out to find a new
plant and perhaps he gets pinched. I
that no matter how
much a man steals, or how successful
in thievery he is, big or little, he is
far worse off than the: poorest honest
man alive.

him.

“When I am out of prison I al-
ways get a hankering for the coun-
try, and 1 start off to tramp tt.
never have any trouble getting along
out im the country.
suspect me out there,
try to be on the square. Of course,
when I get hungry I steal a little

grub. But I go on my way enjoying

| cents remained to him.

“So you can see that, bad as it al-
ways has been as a trade, stealing|
is getting worse and worse all the
time.”

pte
A Lesson in Life.

Fallen from affluence’ to
and despair, the poor unfortunate re-

solved to put an end to all his trou- |
estate but five}
What would |
As the thought revolved in |

bies.' From all his
he do?
his mind he walked on and on, he

knew not where. At last he meta

| peanut vender and invested his five

|cents in a bag of peanuts.

People don’t }
and I really |

| fresh his

Then he
plodded his way up a high cliff over-
looking the broad expanse of ocean,
and seated himself that he might re-

weakened body and con-

isume his bag of roasted peanuts. As

|one by one the

i life until I run across a watch, and |

then I go all to pieces. It’s in here,”

tapping his forehead with his claw-
like finger,
I stole that first watch in New

Orleans.

since

| them

“and it’s been there ever |

| waves

“That’s what brought me here this |

time—that and the modern

against us. I was passing a farm-

house that looked pretty comfortable, |
thought I’d work an old con}
and supper. My |
but pretty good, |

and |
for a night’s lodging
clothes were dusty,
like an old, close-fisted farmer,
when the farmer
I pretended that I
wanted to sell his farm.

had heard he
He invited

me in to supper, after which we sat | needs only

and talked farm until oclock Of}
9

‘course, I was undecided about buying
| until I got the farmer wanting to sell

started with him from Germany to}

America to give her son a start in

life. She was buried at sea and he|

landed in New Orleans with $1,800 in
gold. “I had just finished my appren-

ticeship as a jeweler and watchmak- |

”

er, he says,

“and intended looking |

for work until I learned enough Eng- |

lish to open a little shop.
I would have a good time. I met an-
other young fellow who could speak
German, and he introduced me to his
pals. We spent the money, every
dollar of it, and when it was all gone
they taught me to steal.
their business.

“Now,
those fellows I’d
as a watchmaker and lived a peaceful

I suppose if I’d never met
have gone to work

‘That was |

But first |
|$10 to me in any fair sized

sort of life and perhaps got rich. I’d|

have had a wife and children, maybe,
but—-I would never have known the
thrill of stealing. I’ve heard of the

|phone. |

feeling gamblers have, or that sports- |

men get out of shooting, but it is
nothing like the thing that goes

through you when you get your fin- |

gers on a good watch and there’s the |

owner not three feet away and may
turn around any second and catch
you.

“But it’s a bad trade with all its

isays, ‘You're “Dutch

and believing me with a bank full of
money. Then I said I must be going,
but the farmer insisted I should stay
all night so he could show me over
the place next day

“Now, that was all I stopped at the
place for, but when he pulled out a
fine watch, wound it up, and placed
it on the parlor table as he said
good-night I nearly spoiled the whole
thing right there. I lay awake nearly
all night thinking about that watch,
and about 4 o’clock I got up easy and
went in to take a look at it. There
it was, ticking along as comfortably
as ever you see a watch. I took it to
a window and saw it was worth about
town
Then I crept back, got my shoes and
sneaked. It looked easy, but farmers
are getting too scientific for us.

“When I ambled into town the
sheriff says: ‘Hello, here you are at
last. Kind of late, ain’t you? Must
be a slow walker.’

“Was you expecting me?’ I asked.

“‘Oh, yes; they telephoned over
that you might be along. Now, let
me have that watch!’ Well, I gave it
to him. I hadn’t figured on that tele-
never could beat a tele-
phone. It’s things like that that beats
us old crooks. And, then to rub
in, how chances there are
against a thief nowadays, he locks me
up and comes back pretty soon and
Charlie,” eh?’
He’d gone in and looked over his old
stock of gallery pictures, and, of
course, he had me.

many

and |

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LOOKING BACKWARD.

Boy’s First Journey Into the Great
Wide World.
Chapter VII.

Owing to a hitch in the programme
the good people of Memphis, Tenn.,
were not quite ready for me when I
arrived there on the inside of a train
during a tour of the world in 1880.
The mayor had mislaid the key to
the city, and the iron foundries hoist-
ed the cold wave flag. Not a single

 

foreman wanted a boy to raise, and |

before a week ended I sassed my-
self for side-stepping Omaha. There

I had a job and friends, and entree |

to the whirlpool of social gayety as
portrayed by Polish weddings among
the shop hands. Memphis was chill
and sloppy. All hands turned me
down, and my money sped swiftly,

an who is too excited to whistle.
When the hope of becoming an em-
ploye at Memphis blew up I
about the levee
river.

and looked at the

to turn pirate I affected the stream
for pastime only. The season was
late in the winter, and the unlaun-
dered Mississippi rippled along re-
plete with chunks of honeycombed

hung | onions and stuffed bread in the re-
| maining space.

Being too old and cowardly|., victual the cruise of at least a

 

hostelry at 15 cents per day, which
did not include meals. These South-
ern cities know how to boom prices
to the embarrassment of Northern
tourists.. My $2 bark trunk that had
set out from Mudville with me was
at the hotel, and I assayed about $1.40
in white metal—all that lay between
us and the next town,
The

was the distance, which is said to

lend enchantment at a high rate of}

interest.

So Carl and I plotted to beat the
river out of a pass to New Orleans,
and herein is that scheme laid bare.

For 90 cents I purchased a black
tar paper valise with tin hasps and
trimmings. In size, shape and gen-
eral trimmings this purchase looked

| more like a gas meter than anything

like the last car deserting a fat wom- alee ft can noe verell.

Into the valise
we put a chunk of bologna sausage
bigger than a bootleg, a bag of raw

My last cent went

week. The comedian voted the bo-
logna into the-grip, and I prescribed

ithe onions, having read in nautical
| tales that the onion is the best pre-

ice, the soil of adjacent states in so-|

lution and an_ occasional
steamboat. Another boy, who said he

us in the town.
We met by the river, he and I, and

there was much that bound us_ to-|

gether. Carl was but a detached unit

streaky | : :
| put on my shop clothes, including a

: : He al . |blue flannel

had been bottling wine in California, | : : :

: |rest of my outfit in the faithful bark

helped me look at the river and the | i

ie le Bs she tis | trunk. With the help of Carl I car-
€ C rOsts d . s

4 PP&C | ried the trunk to an express office and

ventive of scurvy known to mariners.
To properly dress for the part I
stowed the

shirt, and

| shipped it C. O. D. to New Orleans.

in this great problem of ours involv- |
ing 80,000,000 fatheads and some that |

had subsided.
than a week under adverse conditions,
yet even now, as

I knew him little more |

restless push, hustling and striving | :
| good to us, so one evening at dusk,

for the dollar and the quick, unsatis-

fying lunch, I often think of that sad, |
hungry boy alone on the bum until |
|stanchions from the boilers forward
‘carried a canvas covered steampipe
|to the engines aft, and the hay was

he met me.

Carl was one of eleven, he told me
in our calmer moments. I, too, had
sprung from poor but prolific parents,

and an unconscious bond of misery |

linked the busted wine bottler to me |

in a sort of brother stunt. Each was
welcome to what the other did not
have.

Against his will, let us hope, Carl
had costumed himself like a German
comedian, in a little fried egg stiff
hat, short trousers, low shoes and
white socks. Whenever we ranged
about the town Carl’s socks awoke
languid interest in our movements,
and that was the best we got. Like
myself, he had abated his finances,

quitting a good job for the hunting |

of another in a_ strange place.

and was then eager to starve to death |

in a warmer climate,
could reach one.

I coincided in this view
pooled an issue.

The German comedian roomed un-
der a high sidewalk in the purlieus
of the city, and took Window Board
standing in front of a restaurant that
displayed steaks, chops and delicacies
of the season behind thick glass. I

provided he

| piled over and around the pipe.

An immense stern wheel boat—the
U. P. Schenck, from Cincinnati—of-
fered inviting exit to a warmer clime.
It carried furniture on the hurricane
deck, baled hay on the lower, or boil-
er deck, and nails in kegs in the

I gaze upon the | Hold.

Carl and I thought the hay looked

when no one was looking, we burrow-
ed into the new mown. A row of

We
crawled into this steam heated flat,
taking the food hamper along, and
settled down for a nice, quiet voyage.

Things went pretty well until the

| gentleman who chaperoned the hay

sold us out. He had a vulgar habit
of telegraphing ahead to riverside
dealers who purchased hay in bunch-
es. Negro roustabouts with cargo
hooks disturbed privacy at all hours
of the day and night, digging out
consignments of baled hay. Layer
by layer the coons peeled our happy
home away. Farther and farther ait
we burrowed, until, at the end of

| the second day, we fetched up against

i stacle, so,

and we}

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the engine room bulkhead. There
was no way to gnaw through that ob-
rather than jump over-
board Carl and I admitted that we
were discovered.

A red necked mate who had killed
a dozen stowaways, he said, laughed
at Carl’s°white socks, after which he
took us before the purser, in the
white and old gold cabin on the
upper deck. In that gorgeous tribun-

occupied apartments in a river front-|al-we heard our doom pronounced. It

which we}
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was either pay fare to New Orleans— |
$3.50 each, deck passage—or get off |
at the next landing. I glanced ahead |
through a window at the next landing |
a muddy, oozy stretch of Arkansan |
shore, clouded into a misty rain and |
sloping away into a swamp.

Night was coming on. Here and |
there a live oak tree wearing long, |
gray whiskers—Spanish moss, I be-|
lieve, is the tonsorial name—stood |
like a lost Rip Van Winkle in that |
moist and forbidding wilderness. The |
only living being in sight was a
rickety Uncle Tom seated on a bale |
of cotton in a two-wheeled cart, wait-
ing for the steamboat. His mule ap-|
parently had died standing in shafts. |
And that was the place for us_ to}
get off, not.

My heart ceased to beat and I}
could hear a funny clicking noise in |
the comedian’s neck, like a duck)
choking to death.

“Mister,” I said to the purser, “we
haven’t any money, but wealthy rela- |
tives will meet the boat at New Or-|
leans and pay all charges.”

The purser peered out of his little
box office, laughed brutally and said |
he couldn’t do it. Too many bums
tried to work him on that gag.

“Well, ll put up my baggage for
security,” I pleaded.

“Let me see it,” said the purser,
without looking up from his work.

When I requested Carl to go below
for the valise he seemed about to
throw a fit. He was even more ofa)
Dutchman than his costume would in-
dicate, and the way our affairs were
being dented all but paralyzed him.
All the same, the valise was bought
with my money. Carl held an hon-
orary membership in the sausage and
onions, but I had a right to invest |
the gas meter as I saw fit, and he
knew it. Capital is mighty and will
prevail.

During the absence of Carl I gazed
at the negro porter who stood guard
—gazed at him with an intense and
overwhelming Rock-of-ages-cleft-for-
me expression. -If I did get by the
purser with my little game, it was
up to the porter to either make or
break me; but if he saw or under-
stood, the black man made no sign.
He kept me guessing.

Meanwhile the purser was busy |
writing in his coop, which had a
little window ledge like a theater box
office, opening into the main cabin
When my limp partner returned I
took the valise, stood in the middle |
of the cabin and held up our only|
asset for the inspection of the purser.
It looked pretty brisk and shiny in
the half light, and my soul was up-
lifted when the man in the coop
said:

“All right; give it to the porter.”

Carl’s eyes bulged, and he would |
have wept, only his mouth monopo- |
lized all of the moisture in his head. |
He thought only of the sausage and |
onions, without a spark of pity on
compassion for the nervous strain I |
had undergone, saving his life and |
mine up to that point, with the porter |
yet to hear from.

“There’s a little light lunch in the |

grip I would like to take out if you |

 

| person.

i ward off scurvy.

silly.
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don’t care,’ I ventured to remind the
purser.

“| dont want “your -miserable
lunch,” he gruffly replied, at the same
time handing over a couple of deck
passage checks he had made out
for us.

Having so far succeeded as a strat-
egist, I circled about with the valise
and placed it on the deck directly
under the office ledge. The purser
couldn’t see me unless he rose and
hung himself across the opening, and
I saw no reason why he should do
that, being, as I have said, a busy
When I opened up the meter
the flow of gas choked the purser; at
least I heard him cough and splutter.
Quickly passing what was left of the

| bologna, bread and onions to Carl |

motioned him to sneak, and_ then,
looking the negro porter firmly in the
eyeballs IJ handed him the empty 90
cent tar paper valise and offered up

ia silent prayer.

He took that hollow, scented mock-
ery in his strong right hand and ac-

| tually walked lopsided out of the
| cabin, for the purser might be look-

ing. Noble negro—fairest of his sex!
I never saw my meter
Neither did Carl.

transaction

any more.
By the time this
ended we had taken on

| the bale of cotton and were steaming

away from that sloppy Siberian shore
—from the whiskery live oak trees,
Uncle Tom, and his moribund mule
—$7 to the good in trade on a legiti-
mate deal. Little did I think at Mem-
phis about laying up a cheap valise
against a rainy day—and the drizzle
was fierce.

Carl and I huddled together that
night in a coil of rope on the dismal
lower deck devoid of sheltering hay.
Ever and anon Carl ate a slab of
sausage, with a side of raw onion to
My mind was too
full for food. I thought of Abraham
Lincoln and the great and lasting
good the great emancipator had done
for posterity on the pork. Next day
I hunted up the negro porter and told
him, with vast pride of voice and

| gesture, that I hailed from the same

State—Mudville, Ill. He didn’t know
what I was talking about.

The rest of the route to New Or-
leans was fraught with hardship and
hunger. Long before our commis-
sary exploded damp weather coaxed
out on the bologna a crop of soft blue
whiskers half an inch long, and which
greatly enhanced the menu’s appear-
ance.

When the last fragment was gone
the midnight lunch of hardtack set
out for the negro rousters kept us
alive. Like alley rats we sneaked
from gloomy recesses to the table
back of the boilers, grabbed some
crackers and went away to nibble

|in the dark. Water is included ina

deck passage, which is a good thing
to know should you ever decide to
take one.

At New Orleans I went to the bad
proper, and, single footed and alone,
pulled off a march to the sea that
knocks Gen. Sherman’s little stroll

Charles Dryden.
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STRONGEST AND STRANGEST.

The Most Wonderful Metal in the
World.

Strongest and strangest”—what do
these words imply? We usually as-
sociate strength with size, as when
we say that a horse is stronger than
a dog. Judging, however, by the

 

force which even a small dog can ex: |
ert, it is probable that if a dog were |

as large as a horse it would be a| en
A flea is perhaps | readers to the strongest thing in the
| world;

stronger animal.
able to jump 500 or 1,000 times its

own length; if a flea were as large |

what a prodigious| ~. :
| thing in the world,

as an elephant,
jump it could make!

Strength is measured by power of
doing work in proportion to weight.
And work is measured in one of two
ways, either by lifting a weight or
by setting an object in motion.

One |

works when he lifts a stone by turn- |

ing the handle of a crane, or by

starting a railway truck by pushing |

it. To perform work of
kind the expansion of steam in the
cylinder of a steam engine affords a

the first |

much greater capacity for work than |

the power of a man, weight for

weight; and for work of the second |

kind,

matter,

the propulsion of a mass of|
the greatest power of work |

for the least weight is derived from |
| compounds are similar to those of

| barium, and these are the properties of

the explosion of smokeless gunpow-
der.

The power to do work is attrib-
uted to the posses
is the energy of the coal burned be-
low the boiler of the steam engine
which raises the steam
its expansion in the cylinder, drives

which, by |

sion of energy. It|

forward the piston and does the work |

of the engine. It is_ the
stored up in the gunpowder

energy |
which, |

when liberated, heats the gas pro-|
duced by the decomposition of the}

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powder, and expels the shot with |
prodigious velocity from the muz-
zle of the gun. Of all fuels, the!

oil exploded in an oil engine con-

tains most energy in proportion |
to its weight; but if it were feasible |
to construct an engine driven by |

the explosion of gun cotton it would |

be more economical as_ regards

quantity of energy obtainable for a_|

given weight of fuel, although
economical as regards price.

The energy of a fuel may be meas-
ured by
off when burned.
weight, hydrogen gas is the most en-
ergetic of fuels. One pound of
hydrogen, burned so that no heat
should escape, would warm no less
than 340 pounds of water from the
freezing to the boiling point. The
total amoust of heat set free does
not depend on the rate at which the
hydrogen is burnt; if mixed with
half its volume of oxygen and ig-
nited it explodes; the heat is libera-
ted rapidly, and the resulting steam
expands almost instantaneously, hence
the explosion. But the mixture may
be burned slowly, issuing from a small
jet; the temperature of the jet is
high, and such metals as iron, cop-
per and gold can be boiled by aid
of the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe.

The adjective “strange’’ is gen-
evally applied to things which aston-
ish us by their power of changing.
What can be stranger than the for-

un-

gives

the amount of heat which it
Weight for |

 

mation of pure clear water from two
invisible gases? Unless, indeed, it
be the phenomena exhibited by liv-
ing plants and animals: the shoots
growing from the seeds, the chick
from the egg, the butterfly from the
chrysalis. These have become less
strange because they are so familiar,
but they are none the less wonder-
ful.

Now I am going to introduce my

that is that which contains
most energy for its weight, and it
is at the same time the strangest
for it undergoes
the most wonderful change which has
ever been known. It is a gas, a heavy
luminous gas, which escapes contin-
uously from compounds of that mys-
sterious metal named radium.

Radium itself has never been pre-
pared as a metal. The reason is that
its compounds are so scarce and pre-
no one cares to risk the
putting them through the
troublesome processes which would
lead to the production of the metal.
Yet an alloy of radium with mer-
cury has been prepared, and it is
known that radium must be a white
hard metal quickly tarnishing in air,
and attacked by water because its

cious that
loss by

is extracted from
contain uranium, a
rare metal; its chief source is named
pitchblende, which has the appear-
ance of a heavy black rock. It has re-
cently been shown that the amount
of radium in minerals which contain
uranium is exactly proportioned to
the amount of uranium in them.

barium. Radium
minerals which

When a salt of radium, preferably |
sol- |
.
unlike common

the bromide, which
uble substance
salt, is dissolved in water, a gas slow-
ly comes off the solution. This gas
is found to be a mixture of oxygen
and hydrogen, nearly in the propor-
tion necessary to form water. Now,
water can be resolved into its con-
stituent gases by an electric current.
If a current be passed through water
acidified with a little weak sulphuric
acid, hydrogen appears-in bubbles at
the negative pole and oxygen atthe
positive, and the proportions are two

is a white,
not

volumes of hydrogen for each of
oxygen. These are the proportions
of these gases which form water;

for if two volumes of hydrogen and
one volume of oxygen be mixed and
exploded nothing but water is formed,
and there is no excess of either gas.
A salt of radinm, then, behaves like an
electric current: oxygen and hydrogen
gases are given off from its solution.
At the same time the luminous gas,
nentioned is evolved.

Liquid air has of recent years been
a common laboratory reagent; it is
a clear liquid, not unlike water, but
it has a bluish color and a low tem-
perature. It is kept in glass vessels
with double walls, and boils away
slowly; the temperature is that of its
boiling point, 185 degrees below zero
centigrade, or 356 degrees Fahrenheit
below zero. An object immersed in
liquid air beconies cooled down to
this exceedingly low temperature.

above,

If the mixed oxygen and hydrogen

gases and the emanation from radium
be cooled in a glass tube by means of
liquid air the emanation turns solid,
freezes, and sticks to the sides of the
tube, but the oxygen and hydrogen
still remain gases. They can be
pumped away by help of an air pump,
while most of the emanation is left
in the tube.

If, after they have been removed,
the liquid air is allowed to boil away,

perature of the atmosphere, the ema-
nation again becomes gas, but there
is so little of it that it can not be
seen in an ordinary wide tube; it re-
quires a specially narrow tube, like
the stem of a thermometer, to make
it possible to see and to measure it.
A tenth of a gram, or a little more
than a grain of radium bromide, gives
about one-thirty-thousandth part ofa
cubic centimeter in a week, say the
amount of
about four
an ordinary
excessively small quantity, but it has!
an enormous store of energy in it.

divisions on the stem of

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For if water is let into the tube
which contains it, it decomposes that
water into oxygen and hydrogen gases
and these gases possess nearly 100,-

tion. Now to decompose the water,
as much energy must be put into it
as the gases of which it consists would

give out on being exploded. So that |

one volume of the luminous emana-
tion must give out as much energy
as 100,000 times its volume of oxy-
gen and hydrogen mixed in the pro-

 

portion of one volume of oxygen to |

two of hydrogen.

But this is only a small part of
the energy contained in the emana-
tion. It has been found that a grain
of radium gives out continuously as
much heat as would heat a grain of
water from the freezing to the boil-
ing point every hour; it is also known
is given off by the emanation, one-
quarter being given off by the radium
in changing into the emanation. And

| hydrogen excepted.

it is helium, a gas existing in minute |
amount in our atmosphere, but in

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| ing and evening the sending operator |

| keeps his line at work almost contin- |

| greater abundance in the atmosphere |

! | of the sun and numerous stars; and |
000 times the voiume of the emana- |

helium is, in ordinary parlance, an/

element, and has never been resolved
into anything simpler.
is difficult to see how any simplifica-
tion could occur, unless

it were to]

|advantage of accuracy,
Indeed, it!

uously. No operator is needed at|
the receiving end, and, as compared |
with the telephone, there is also the'|
the person at |
end not giving any

the receiving

| particular attention to the apparatus. |

change into hydrogen: for it is al- |

ready the lightest of all substances,
During the time
that the emanation is

With a sending operator that writes |

a clear, legible hand the apparatus as- |
|sures clear and legible bulletins at

“decaying,” los- |

ing its power of giving off heat, and |
decomposing water, it is changing in- |

to helium; and after about a month
the change is nearly complete. It is
true that helium is not the only prod-
uct, but little or nothing is known of

appear to be solids which adhere to

| the sides of the tube which contain
that about three-quarters of this heat |

the decaying emanation; for they, too,
are luminous for a short time. But it

/is an undoubted fact that in radium we

as heat, as explained above, is a form |

of energy, the total energy evolved |

from the emanation can be calculated. |
During its comparatively short life |

of twenty-eight days, one grain of
the emanation gives off enough heat
to heat 350,000 grains of water from
the freezing to boiling point: if this
energy were all utilized in decompos-
ing water, it would yield about three
and one-half million times its volume

only a comparatively small fraction |
energy accordingly is |
used in this manner—about one-thir- |

of its total

ty-fifth part; the rest is probably giv-
en off as heat.

have an element in the act of decom- |
posing; the process of decomposition |
| lasts about 1,000 years; and the first

stage is the change into its emanation,
which in turn changes to helium. Is

|not this the strangest thing in the

| than

world?
with an
any

it parts
greater

And in its changes
amount of energy
conceived of before.

| problem before us is to utilize this

| energy,

Oia ed | still remains an unexplored field.
mixed oxygen and hydrogen gases; |

|'engineers have invented an

We have here been dealing with |

volumes; the density of the emana-
tion is not accurately known, but it
is probably about Ioo times as heavy |
as hydrogen. Reckoned by weight,
therefore, it is probable that one part |
of emanation would do as much work |
as 200,000 times its weight of mixed |
oxygen and hydrogen gases. Com- |}
pared with dynamite it is considerably
Over 400,000 times as powerful.

Just think of what this means: a
pound of emanation, if we could get
it, or if we could utilize its energy,
would be equal to at least 160 tons
of dynamite! Is it not the strong-
est thing in the world?

This emanation apparantly is to
be found everywhere, in earth, water,
and air; but only in minute quantity.
It is more abundant in underground
waters; and that leads to the suspi-
cion that it is being produced in the
depths of the earth, possibly from
buried compounds of radium. As yet,
little is known of the changes which
it can produce, but it is known that
the emanation itself undergoes the
most astonishing of all changes.

It was the dream of alchemists to
transmute lead into gold; transmu-
tation of baser metals into gold still
remains a dream. Lead and goldare
termed “elements” by chemists; that
means that they have never been con-
verted into any simpler forms of mat-
ter. But the emanation renders us
less skeptical of the wisdom of the
ancients, for it undergoes such a
transformation of its own accord. It

 

is true that the product is not gold;

William Ramsay.
a
Naphthaline for River Launches.

Not ‘naphtha but

 

The |

but how this is to be done |:

naphthaline |

launches float in French waters. Two}

ment by means of which a solid hy- |

arrange- |

drocarbon in the form of small balls |
| of refined naphthaline is used as fuel
for internal combustion engines. The |

| naphthaline is made into small white

balls of the size of marbles, and they |

are held in a tank the outlet of which

is opened or closed by a valve actu- |
ated by a float, which rises and falls |

with the liquefied naphthaline.

der by a special injector, and is a
liquid resembling molasses.

The sup- |

This |
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ply of fuel and air may be easily ad-|

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thought that |

this molasses like liquid would cause}

the inlet pipes or valves to clog, but, |

on the contrary, the action, it is stat-
ed, is a cleansing one. The balls are
made from the waste product of gas
works, which hitherto has only been
used for disinfecting purposes. It is
said there is less danger with this fuel
than with petrol, and it will probably
be used for engines for river
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Compensating Advantages in Marry-
ing a Poor Man.
Written for the Tradesman.

The managing mother as she ex-
ists in European countries is not a
common figure in American life. Our
national matrimonial policy is “hands
pou,” for the a girl

and most part

is left free to make her own choice |

of a husband without help or hin-
drance from her mother. The spec-
tacle of a young and tender maiden
being sold for gold to a husband she
hates and loathes, that the
themes of so many novels and plays,
is something that we seldom see in
life in this

Yet, although the American moth-
er does not arrange a good match
for her daughter openly and as a
matter of course, as a French mother
would, or force her to marry the rich
suitor for whom the girl has only
toleration, instead of the
whom she loves, she is not always

forms

real country.

the friend to Cupid that she is reput- |
ed to be, and the road to the altar |

of the damsel who elects to choose
a life of bread and cheese and kisses
with an impecunious youth is not
strewn with roses by the maternal
hand.
whom

The very rich girl can marry
she pleases on the ground
that she can afford it, and the very
poor girl is equally untrameled in
the choice of a husband because you
can not make a bad matter
but in the middle grade of society—
among people who live in a perpetual

worse,

struggle trying to keep up appear-|
ances and to make the ends meet— |
nobody but the girl herself knows |

what pressure is brought to bear upon
her to induce her to marry what is
euphoniously known as “well.”
When a woman sees her daughter
marry a man, no matter how worthy

and charming he is, who still has his |

fortune to make the most you can
say of her is that she is reconciled.
She is not triumphant and jubilant
as she is if the girl is marrying a rich
man, who may have a past or who
be dull and boorish and
every attraction except that of being
able to provide automobiles and dia-
monds. This does not
mean that the mother is sordid and
avaricious. Oftener than not it is
just a mistaken mother love, a de-
sire to protect her daughter from the
struggles and strivings that she has
known.

may

With age there is apt to come to}!

every one and especially to the wom-

an who has had a hard struggle with |

poverty a cynical disbelief in love

She has seen the gilt wear off of her |

own ginger bread. She has felt the
poetry of love’s young dream turn
into deadly prose under the necessity
of having to get up in the morning
and cook breakfast and patch Ro-
meo’s trousers, and so when she de-
sires her daughter to make a rich
match she is honestly fostering what

she believes to be the girl’s happiness.

poor one |

 

lack |

necessarily |

lr is with the conviction that in the
|summing up of things the luxuries
a sort

 

| of life outweigh its sentiments
|of feeling that you'll be romantic a
| very little while anyway, but you
|can be comfortable a long, long while.
| Thus the mother who, “with her
| little hoard of maxims, preaches down
|a daughter’s heart,’ does it with the
| purest of motives. It is not the vul-
| gar love of money for money’s sake
|that makes her want to see her
| daughter marry a rich man. She
| wants to shield her from work, from
| privation, from worry and care, and
she forgets how many things money
does not buy.

If the average woman

| could have her way she would put her
| daughter in a nice satin-lined wed-
ding cake box and “There,
| there, dear, you are so nice and com-
| fortable.
sonable

Say:

You have everything a rea-
woman could want. Now
just keep still and be good and do
|not worry about your husband not
| being just what you prefer. Nobody’s
| husband is just what they wanted
lafter they got him. You would have
| been disappointed anyway, and now
| you have plenty of money to console
|you. Believe me, marrying for love
|is a terrible mistake, and thank Heav-
en that it gave you a mother that
| kept you from making the mistake
| that she did.”

It may be said that no one can
|make a girl marry anyone but the
{man she prefers, and that the good
|old days are past when a refractory
daughter could be locked up in her
room and fed on and water
|until she was in the proper frame of
|mind to accept the suitor her parents
had selected for her. Nobody would
dream of doing anything of that kind
now, but there moral thumb-
|screws that are just as agonizingly
effective as the physical ones’ ever
| were, and it takes a deal of courage
jand a backbone like a_ telegraph
|pole to brace up a girl to the point

bread

are

|of defying her family and marrying
the man she chooses when he is not
|the man that her mother selected.

Take the case of a girl who be-
to. a family, but which
is not well provided with this world’s

goods.

longs good
They have made sacrifices to
her and her so that
She knows
| of all the pinching economies hidden
\from the public gaze by which this
|has been accompli-hed.

educate dress

|she can go in society.

She remem-
bers how often her mother’s standby
black silk made over in
order that she may have fresh chif-
fons to wear to parties. She knows
many comforts her father has
done without to buy her satin danc-
|ing slippers. It is the custom
sperk of girls as heartless
|wretches who, without compunction,

has been

| how

to
society

| their bills, but this is not true.
Often and often it
| girl’s doings.

of the
She would far rather
live simpler and not attempt to keep
the pace of the rich and fashionable,
but her mother is ambitious. The
girl is pretty or clever or has some
charm that makes her sought after,
and a rich man falls in love with her
jand wants to marry her. Nobody
puts it into words, but she knows as

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|
well as she knows anything that she | riage to a poor man—the man who |
is expected to marry him and that | | has youth and health and ability and |
only by doing so can she repay her |

family for what they have sacrificed
for her.

It is not easy for a girl like that
to marry a poor man no matter how
much she loves him. She sees
mother’s face with the tired,
look that Struggling and striving have
placed there. She lcoks at her fath-
er’s bent shoulders, stooped with the
weight of the load he has borne so
long.

worn

Perhaps she has a younger sis-
ter that would benefit by her making
a brilliant match. Sympathy, affec-
tion, gratitude, her duty to others are
all urged on her, openly or tacitly,
and she knows that if she goes her
own way and makes her own choice
she is but adding another sorrow to
burdens that were already crushing.
Truly, she is called on just as much
as any martyr to walk to the stake.

And the strange part of all this is|

that it is nothing but
that makes the mother willing to
sacrifice the girl. She would die for
her, but the more she has struggled
and been denied the more she is de-
that her daughter shall
have all the physical comforts that
money can buy. If there is any-
thing beyond or above that she shuts
her eyes and will not see it.

One could better
mother’s desire for daughter to
marry rich if rich people were inva-
riably happy, or to make a brilliant
match if brilliant matches
turned out brilliantly. But they do
not. We have all known of brilliant
marriages, the splendor of whose de-
tails was telegraphed all over’ the
country, but whose sequel was a
broken-hearted woman coming
to her own people after a few years
of intolerable misery. We have seen
young girls arrayed in bridal white
walk up the church aisle with men
old enough to be their fathers and
heard the whispered comments of
how lucky Lucy Poorgirl to

illjudged love

termined

her

was

understand a}

always

back |

catch that rich railroad president and |

“later on we have sat in judgment

on the poor girl when her heart, re- |
belling against its fate, strayed across |

the border land of conventionality and
found the mate mother denied
her.

her

No one will advocate a girl being)

| worth it.

her |

who has already gotten a foothold in|

the world.
work

His wife may
struggle and
for a few
She

and
luxuries

do

years, but he is

will find

|

have to|
without |

nothing but |

sweetness and happiness in fighting |

the battle
mother

of life by his side,
to think a
raises a finger
daughter in
joy and the privilege of helping the
man

and any
ought
before she

long

her from sharing

she loves. For there are no

other marriages so happy and

time |
to prevent |
the |

so |

complete as those in which a young}

couple labor and plan and achieve
together. Dorothy Dix.
co epee
Found a_ Fortune in a Mastodon’s
Skeleton.

the millionaire lumber-
Alaska, found his fortune
the tusk

Harry Hill,
man of

when he discovered
mastodon.

Although a young man,
to

to

fortune
Russell

reputed have a

enough make even Sage

of al

Mr. Hill is|
large |

sit up and take notice, and he made |

it all out of lumber.
which he
of lumber furnished by him.

Nome City,

hails,

went to
failed to make

Seven years ago he
aS a prospector. He
a strike,
the
of

When

great forests there,

States.
Nome he

traveling
saw
and knew that a fortune greater than

from |

was practically built |
Alaska |

and was about to return to}
north |

any gold mine existed in them. Put- |

ting a knowledge of the lumber in-

dustry to work, Hill soon acquired

the right to cut unlimited timber, but |

lacked the to do it.
had no money to pay the enormous

he means

He |

cost of a sawmill in that territory, |
and he saw no chance of getting it|
until one day the mastodon’s tusk
appeared on the scene.

In the heart of a dense forest}
through which the young man was

wandering and making plans for the
future, but at the same time keeping
his eyes open for new species of tim-
ber,
against what he thought was an enor-
mous bowlder. As he did so there
he felt himself falling
and when, much

was a crash,
in a cloud of dust,

surprised, he picked himself up again,

|it was to find that the bowlder was

perfectly free and unguided in making |

her selection of a husband, and a
mother is justified in doing anything
she can to prevent her daughter from
throwing herself away on a man who
is idle or dissipated or worthless.
Any girl with a grain of sense in

| he discovered

her head knows that the man who}

has never supported himself is not

going to be able to support her and |
matrimony with him will be the kind |

of grinding poverty that would kill
the most robust case of sentiment
that ever lived. That is the poverty

and hard times that has no hope to}
to |

gild its horizan and no respect
make its present endurable, and the

skull of an ante-dilu-
Investigating further,
that skull
of a mastodon, with its tusks buried
in the ground, just as it had fallen
thousands of years ago in some great
battle with its kind. Securing tools,
he dug downward and unearthed on:
perfect tusk and the broken half of

the
vian monster.

in reality

it was the

| another.

To make a long story short, he sold
the great tusk to the Canadian gov-
ernment for $8,000, and through this

|sale met people who financed him

mother should use just as much ef-|
fort to keep her daughter from mar- |

rying that type of a man as she would |
to prevent her committing suicide in
any other way.

But there is another kind of mar-

:

in his lumber project.

From the broken half he has had
different small objects made for use
as presents, and Edward VII., of
England, plays billiards with the only
ivory balls ever made from the tusk
of a mastodon.

—_———_. 2. ___.

No soul was ‘ever

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saved by a

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

ROMANCE OF THE BODY

 

Not Excelled In Interest by Any
Other Narrative.

Romance in_ ordinary
stances may be said _ to
where the hard facts of existence
end. It may be represented by the

process of seeing even these same | : : .
| As in human society, these cells, rep-

hard facts themselves through the} : i :
: | resenting collections .of
medium of the rose colored glasses |

of fancy. In the case of science, how-
extend. well nigh throughout all its
investigations.
hension would be extremely dull
which could not invest with a halo

of poetry most of the otherwise so- |

nature but of the world around us.

One may find within the domain
of one’s own frame material for writ-
ing not a single romance, but a whole
series of volumes regarding the cu-
rious and even startling fashions in

circum- |

commence |
|at every turn.

|

til a large number of cells are so |
| formed.

When we come to consider the for-

| mation of the body thus built, We’ it. Cells found in the substance of

| bone and also in what is named the

find the cell constitution meeting us
In the first instance |

| collections of cells may be regarded |

Indeed, that compre- |

: | The cells which form the outer layer
ever, we find a vein of romance to)

as forming each organ of the frame. |

individuals, |
are not of equal importance or rank.

of the skin are probably the least |
important of all. They are perpet-|
ually being reproduced by the upper |

layer of the under skin. At first liv-|

| scales which in the form of invisible

| the act of washing and by the fric- |

which the work and actions of the)

living body are carried on.
quately deal with this subject would

To ade- |
|highly important organ, the

require the compass and space of not |

one but many articles. I have there-
fore chosen to tell of the microscopic
constitution of our body.

Taking, however, a broader view of
the human body, a view it may be

| body are of vast importance.

added which will apply to the frames |
of other animals as well, we find the |

first touch of romance in the state-

‘millions in

ment that the body itself may be)

regarded as a country composed of

colonies or collections of individuals |
inerve cells found in other parts of

or units. Just as the nation is essen-
tially made up of individuals, but
also as these individuals
different functions or duties, and
moreover as they exhibit relative
ranks and degrees of importance in
the nation, so the constitution of the
body may be regarded as ordered
on similar lines.

The individual unit of the body is
a microscopic structure we terma
“cell.” It may truly be said that the
whole body to start with originates
from a single cell, the diameter of
which is about the one hundred and
twentieth part of an inch. In the
building of the body out of this sin-
gle cell the mind, intent upon discov-
ering the wonders of nature, may find
romance enough; for we find this
single cell to divide and multiply un-

discharge |

| ties of workers.

 

dust are perpetually passing off from
the skin surface, being removed by

tion of our clothes. On the other
hand, a collection of cells each about |
the one thousandth part of an inch
in diameter,

which go to form that |
liver, |
may be regarded as constituting a/|
bodily colony or community of high
importance. Again, merve cells,
which constitute the units of the gov-
erning and controlling system of the
More
especially so are our brain cells, ex-
isting to the number of hundreds of
the outer layer of our
brain. These last may be regarded
in turn as assuming a higher rank in}
the bodily society over the ordinary

the nervous apparatus.

But it is evident that in the ordi-
nary constitution of a nation the
work represented must be performed
by the individual units or communi-
In the case of the
body’s romance this idea may be,
shown to be thoroughly paralleled.
For every group of cells discharges
its own share in the body’s work,
and we thus come to see that the
life of the whole body is of a com-
pound nature, inasmuch as it is only
capable of being carried on through
the-co-operation and mutual help of
all the
senting its active working elements. |
Thus the cells we find in the glands |
supplying the tears to wash the eyes |
are makers of tears alone. Those}

communities of cells repre- |

| we notice,

cells found in the walls of the stom-
ach are manufacturers of another
fluid, gastric juice, poured out upon
the food to further alter and change

| “bone sheath” are responsible for the

nourishment and also for the growth
of the bone and for its repair when

‘it happens to be injured. All of
| these cells may be regarded as the
| veritable workmen of the body, each
| set being engaged in its own special

labor of manufacturing, from the

{common raw material represented by
| blood, substances or fluids necessary

3 : | for the carrying out of the bodily

|ing they die off as they pass to form! See ae

: : : |the upper layer of the outer skin. |

ber stories which science constructs | .,, & : a4
- ;.-...| When they attain to this latter posi-

from her study not merely of living) .._ : :

| tion they appear as mere microscopic

More extraordinary still is the
work of these cells, which live in
our blood and which are known as
white blood corpuscles. They have
the duty of attacking disease germs
which gain admittance to our bodies,
and of destroying them. They con-
stitute thus a veritable sanitary police

| force, ever on the alert to arrest in-
| truders.

When we regard society at large
as already has been in-

| dicated, different degrees and ranks
‘of the individuals comprising it. If
| we assume that the governing body

represents the best minds of the na-

| tion, we find a parallel to this fact in
‘the romance of the body in respect

to the fact that nerve cells present
us with a higher type of living bodi-
ly units than do other cells. We
might compare the ordinary nerve
cells to government officials, and
brain cells more especially to those

 

individuals who constitute the con-
gress. Beyond these bodies, however,
we have a yet higher body known as
the cabinet, the members of which
may be regarded as representing the
essence of national wisdom. Now, in
the case of the brain, we do not find
all its cells of equal importance in
the government of the body. Some
exercise the duty of governing mus-
cular actions. Other groups receive
impressions from eyes, ears and other
organs of sense, whilst a third group
is devoted to the reception of mes-
sages coming from the outer world
and to the ordering of such impres-
sions, with the result that we become
conscious of the meaning thereof and
are able to adjust our actions accord-
ingly. It is these latter groups of
cells, exercising the highest functions
of the body in the way of conscious-
ness, that may be said to represent
the cabinet of our frames.

Throughout this story we therefore
discover a veritable romance, which
possibly is not excelled in interest by
any other narrative dealing with liv-
ing beings. Andrew Wilson.

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AVOID UNDUE HASTE.

quires Caution.

There is a medium in all things.
Happy are they who find it! Ex-
tremes are dangerous, and, although
the proverb assures us that they
meet, when they do so it is usually
abel the common ground of dissat-
isfaction and regret. The “safe mid-
dle course” is, with few exceptions,
the one which is to be recommended
in most of the affairs of life; in love
and in marriage no less than in other
things, and an engagement of mod-
erate length is advisable for most
lovers.

“To marry in haste and repent at
leisure” is an old, old proverb, abun-

|
| than too short a one; in some cases

dantly proved by the bitter experi- |

ence of many and brought home to
us often and over. Few weeks pass
during which we may not read in the
daily newspapers the pitiful story of
some confiding woman beguiled into
with plausible stran-

marriage some

i that

ger; brought to the city and abandon- |

ed, friendless and alone,
band
much;

by the hus-
she has trusted too
of some foolish man who, car-
ried away by passion, has fallen a
victim to the wiles of some designing
woman of whose antecedents he knew
practically nothing until she was his
wife. Often the unfortunates
“old enough to know better,”
mistaken saying goes; “settled wom-
en,” well to do in the world, who have
given their money as well as them-
selves to the charmer; men past mid-
dle age who justify the caustic saying
that love in an old is like fire
in a hay rick and burns up

thing, including commonsense.
that this is a peculiarity of age; they
have a proverb in Scotland which
says: “A lad’s love is like a. busk of
broom, hot a while and soon done,”
so that honors are easy.

in whom

are
as the

man

Sulwer says

every- |
Not |

end of one by no means deserves

a lover is a man who in his eagerness |

to possess another loses possession of
himself, and the eagerness to marry
as speedily as possible is generally
regarded as the undeniable truth of
sincerity upon the lover’s part, which
for the time
will endure

of question.

how long

perhaps,

it is being;

that
be matter

time may,

Also, a woman who marries hastily

herself to much unpleasant
The fact that it is nobody’s
no dif-
al-
the

condi-

exposes
criticism.
business but her own makes
ference to the there
those

gossip; are
with
and the

the:

ways who meddle
concerns of

tions of life

others;

render opinion of

society a thing of moment to every |

member thereof. Independence of
character must be kept within
limits, or it degenerates into

tricity.

due
eccen-

Moreover, it is a far cry from the
too little to the too much; from the
breakneck speed of an unbroken steed
to the rapid walk of a good rondster
who can do his five miles an hour, as
stablemen say, without turning a hair
It is wisdom to wait until fruit is ripe
before plucking it; it is folly to wait

}it may

Time of Life When Prudence Re-|

| to one’s

One’s

be the greater.

and pains to become acquainted with |
him or her whom one accepts as a_/|

partner for life,

but there is such a|

thing as waiting until delight grows |

love
it freezes to
that
other during an

cold,
until
say

leaving

death. One may

engagement they

would in all probability have done so |

had they married, which is far worse.
But this does not always follow; the
mutual interests of married life bind

the husband and wife one to the
other, and they grow together. It

the difference
between carefully selecting and keep-
ing seed and the sowing it promptly

is in some such sort as

there are some
famous Egypt-

True,
like the

in due season.

seeds which, 1

upon the doorstep |

fremts af
if people weary of one an-|

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

31

 

 

 

| power of the world, and it is a pleas-
duty |
self demands the taking time |

ant sight to see a young man devoting
all his energies to the task of making
that which is the pride

sleasure of every self-respecting unit
OL a

home
great nation.

The obstacle to true love in former
the stern authority
guardians
amounted to tyranny.

days was of pa-
which _ often
In these days
the young people
have things all their own
None the less, no sensible nor

of personal liberty
practically
way.

| listen to the gently urged objections

ian wheat that was found on a mum- |

2,000 years old, retain their vitali-
ty practically forever, but the rule is
seed, properly matured,
brings the best and surest crop.

my

fresh

There is a popular fiction to the|
effect that the woman fixes the wed-

ding day; in fact it is

man who does so, since

point of

the |
she can make |}

no move in the matter until her lover |

urges her to do so. There are cases

of her relatives; still less will

consent to engage

and |

| self-respecting woman will refuse to|

she |
herself to any man |}

who asks her to do so without ask- |

ing their consent.

The girl who mar- |

ries a man whose moral character is |

objected to is inviting certain misery |

and possible disgrace.
object to a deserving

because of his poverty

When parents |
lover merely |
or from pure- |

ly personal prejudice a girl may be)

excused for making her own choice

when she is of legal age to do so. If|

a man will not give up bad habits,

intemperance, gambling, or whatever

it may be, for the sake of the woman |

whom he professes to love and wishes

to marry, she may be sure he will|
|not do so when she becomes his
wife; and she will, if wise, put him

in which the lover is to be commend- |

ed for the impatience.

When a friendship of long standing

display of

has ripened into love there is no
need to wait longer than mutual con-
venience demands. Delay is unneces-
sary; and if a man knows that mar-

will release his inamorata
a painful or irksome
admired for rushing things.
Every one is supposed to admire the
constancy of Jacob, but the man who
elects to wait fourteen for his
wedding feast when there is no rea-
son that he not marry at the

riage
from position

he is to be

years
may

proval.

It is sad for true lovers whose mar-
riage must be indefinitely postponed
from a cause beyond their control; it
is far sadder for a woman to feel that
her youth is passing, her freshness
fading, her courage beginning to fail,
she waits for
but

while
she is pledged, who makes’ no
sign.

It has been said that no man has
the right to make an offer of marriage

until he is in a position to provide

| fitly for a wife in accordance with the

|} manner to

until the fowls of the air devour it, |
or it withers upon the stem. Too long |
an engagement is only a less mistake.

accustomed.
both

which she is
little hard
a man is worth hav-

fr, and this

THs i a upon men

and women. If
ing he is worth waiting fo
is a question which the woman should
decidé. Still he
speak until he has some definite pros-
still
purpose to

has no business to
in view, less if he has
full do best to
make marriage possible at no distant
for

pect
the his
day. It is a dire mistake
woman to waste her youth,
her heart out, as the promised wife
of a man who lives merely
to dav, and has apparently
‘~ hasten the date of their
The young men who, as a

upon probation to test his sincerity |
of purpose in amendment. Consider-
ing what a vital and immense change
marriage is obliged to make in the

lives of those who enter into the

Coir |

| tract, it would seem the part of com-|

ap- |

the man to whom |

not |

any |
and wear |

from day |
no desire |
marriage. |
rule, suc- |
ceed best in life are those whose chief

object and end is to make a home)

and a name for some woman.
to hunger love is the grarid motive

Next |

|

mon prudence to avoid hurrying into
it with a person of whom one knows

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

but little. But it is better to investi-
gate before the engagement, whereby
much unpleasantness may be prevent-

ed. The mutual attitude of lovers
during their engagement is not cal-
culated to enlarge their knowledge

of each other, especially if the wed-

ding is to take place while their rap-
ture is at fever heat. The father who
made his son promise not to propose
to any girl until six months after he
concluded that he was in love with
her was a wise man in affairs of the
heart. Helen Oldfield
———_—-e-~»

Golden opportunities usually turn

out to be nothing but gold bricks.

ee
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Suggestions on the Management of
Store and Employes.

It will pay you to have a window |
dresser. Put your windows and store
in charge of one man and hold him
responsible for their appearance. Let
it be his duty to see that they are
kept clean and that the displays are
attractive. Supply him with tools
and the necessary material and give
kim time to do his work well. When
he is arranging a display do not call
him off to do other work, as this |
will take his mind from the work and |
he is apt to lose interest and you
will not get the best results. Do not
allow him to sweep out the window
and wash the glass. ~His services and
time are too valuable for such work.
You had better let him spend that
time planning what he is going to do,
while a porter or boy, whom you
should be able to hire for half the
pay, does the cleaning. Have it done
quickly. The curtain should be}
drawn the shortest time possible or |
people may think that your store is |
closed, and those who are shopping |
and want some of your goods may}
pass you by and go to your compet- |
itor. So never mind what the por-
ter is doing, that window must be
washed before the display goes in
and the display must be on exhibition
just as soon as possible. (It is bet-
ter to hurry the porter than the win- |
dow dresser, who might, in his haste, |
put in a poor display or a good dis- |
play behind a dirty glass, just be- |
cause the porter was busy sweeping |
out your office.) Should your store
be small and you can not spare aj}
clerk during business hours and can
not employ a man exclusively for dis- |
play work, it would pay you to have
it done evenings, even if you have to
pay overtime. You will find this
good investment in several ways.

If he should work at night, as|
many window dresser shoe clerks do,
do not insist upon his being at work
when the store opens in the morning,
but give him time to recover some
of his lost rest. Allow him to come}
in reasonably late in the morning
in proportion to the time he worked
the night before, for in order to give
you good services, he must have good
health, and for this rest is necessary.
Give him time to think. Do not think
because you do not see him busy
every moment that some new work |
must be thrust upon him. If he has |
stopped because he was somewhat
ahead of his regular work he is
entitled to this time to use in rest
and study. The earning of his sal-|
ary should not be a matter of hours |
of actual labor so much as the skill
he shows in planning his work. His
work is not all inspiration. The orig- |
inal idea may be an inspiration, but |
its practical form reaches perfection |
only through thought, study andj
planning, not by chance.

Give him the necessary fixtures. |
These can be bought very reasonably,

 

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and will prove economy in saving
time which would otherwise be re-
quired to build unsatisfactory home-
made ones. Give him the amount
of material he desires. He wants it
for use in your window and would
not ask for it unless it was required.

Encourage him occasionally. Give
him kindly criticism for his faults
and friendly admonition. But if, aft-

er fair trial, you find him ungrateful,
unappreciative and morally bad, with
no tendency to reform, with no in-
terest in your welfare, or that he is
incompetent, then discharge him.
This holds good not only with the
window dresser but with all of your
employes; but in all cases act delib-

|erately and justly.

As stated before, your show win-
dow is the preface to your store, so
that the inside should not be neg-
lected, but kept in harmony with the
window. If your store is not large
enough to warrant employing a man
especially to decorate the interior,
every clerk can do and should do his
share towards improving the general
appearance and arrangement.

Goods attractively displayed are
half sold. Any window dresser of
experience will tell you that he has
known women to refuse to believe
the statement of the clerk that the
shoe he is showing is positively the
same as that shown in the window,
and the explanation is to be found in
the simple fact that that in the win-
dow is always neatly and properly
formed and, in most cases, of a small-
er size. There may be certain lines
in your store which for various rea-
sons are not selling; probably they
are passe or too high priced, and
they are therefore laid away. Bring
them out; make a proper display of
them; put the right card on“the dis-
play, and you will be surprised to see
them move. In order to assure this,
avoid old, soiled or mussed price tick-
ets, or anything which will suggest
that the goods have been on handa
long time. Have the tickets of uni-
form size and all neatly marked. In
fact, always have the goods look as
if they have just arrived. This may
take some time, but, like all good
management, “it pays.”

Here it might be well to speak a
word for the customers, also. Look
to their comfort; provide comfortable
chairs, and, if possible, a place to
rest and to wait for friends, if they
so desire. Make them feel at home
and that they are welcome. Do not
forget that you are spending money
to attract them to your store, and
when they arrive do not overwhelm
them with undesired attention or chill
them with indifference, but make the
treatment a happy medium, and the
results will be certain.

Merchants will find that it will pay
to educate their employes. By educa-
tion I mean instruction along the
lines presented in this article. Some
years ago it was customary for clerks
to serve an apprenticeship in almost
all lines of business, but in this day
of department stores, little attention
is paid to this branch, and too often
people are hired as salesmen without
any instruction whatever. The re-
sult is that their progress is very

 

slow and that their work is very un-
satisfactory, both to themselves and
to their employer.

Make a study of your business.
Study what is right and best to do.
Having decided upon this, impart the
information to your employes. That

is, study how to keep your stock | |

looking fresh and clean, and how to
do up packages so as to have them
neat and easy to carry. Study the
comfort and desires of your custom-
ers. There is no doubt that a great
many in your store could be improv-
ed. You spend too much of your
time looking after small details
which your employes should be able
to handle for you. Less work and
more study will be found the better
way and will make you capable of
instructing your clerks how to con-
duct your business properly, and you
will find that all time spent in such
instruction will bring very large re-
sults—Shoe Retailer.

——__e«- -___

His Character.

“Do you know Blank?” asked one
friend of another, referring to a gen-
tleman famous for his fondness for
malt liquor.

“Yes, I know him very well.”

“What kind of a man is he?”

“Well, in the morning, when he
gets up he is a beer barrel and in the
evening, when he goes to bed, he is
a barrel of beer.”

in

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When a man has fame he does not
know it.

——. > ————
Borrowed trouble always comes to
abide.

Charley the Cobbler

 

Charley the cobbler, whose corn-making
day

Has passed in the history, for business
doesn’t pay,

He thinks he will put on a white wing
suit,

For the HARD-PAN people are getting
the fruit

With the HARD-PAN shoe of endurance
and style,

But Charley the cobbler is lost by
mile.

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Dealers who handle our line say
we make them more money than
other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Makers of Shoes Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

5 and 5

Per Cent.

Below prevailing trust prices have made our stock
of Lycomings, Woonsockets and Keystones go

some the past week.
Speak quick if you are
gains. Terms 30 days.

A good assortment left.
looking for genuine bar-

As we are now State Agents for the Celebrated

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 wav to Union Depot and we are always pleased
to see our friends and customers.

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What Is a Valuable Shoe Clerk?

A valuable shoe clerk is one who!

has the business of the store by
heart; one who can discern instant-
ly the grade of shoe a customer de-
sires. He should be able to impress
upon the customer, at the start, that
he is conversant with his business.
He is not from ten to twenty min-
utes late every morning,
that disregard of little things does not
facilitate promotion.

;ed quickly.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

thing that people like more than an- |

other, it is to be catered to and serv- |

A good clerk does not
expect plain sailing every day;

knows that he is likely to run up

| against a hard proposition any time; |
but he consoles himself when he has |

knowing |

has the “big book” is not always the |
ithey will be glad to trade with you

most valuable. It is he who makes
business for the store, treats
customers in such a pleasant way
that they gladly come again. It is
not necessary to tarry too long with
customers.

who

Give them decent atten-|

|clerk is, not how long he can hold |

tion and it does not take long to fit |

them.

| ness.

A case was observed a few weeks |

ago, where a thoughtless clerk sold |

two right shoes to a man, who wore |

them out of the store.
ed of one feeling uncomfortable, but

He complain- |

the clerk insisted that it would come |
| doubt, aware, and presume the retail

all right, and when, in a few minutes,
the customer returned, having found
out the trouble, the clerk blamed the

one in charge of the stock, saying |

that the shoes were from the
box; but when the boys looked up
the mates, they found them in the
cartons
shoe in a box.

where they belonged, one

same |
fon

The clerk who | of

“learned something,” and
loaded for the next fellow.

will

be |

There is no business that requires |
|a bright face more than the selling

shoes. If you are pleasant and

take pains to please your customers

again. It always pays to be good

down his job, but how much vim and
spirit he can infuse into the
Merchants hustlers,

busi-
want not
sleepers.
kind—Shoe Retailer.

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Time To Reduce the Duty on Im-
ported Hides.

Saginaw, Dec. to0—You are, no

shoe merchant is beginning to be
somewhat posted, on the present con-

dition of the leather market, and are

Be one of the “get there” |

| to say.

For evening weddings, balls, recep- |

tious, formal dinners and theater—
or patent leather pumps.

For informal dinner, club, stag and
at home dinner—patent

 

leather or
ties.
A
Spare Men Not Wanted.
Pierpont Morgan is not what might
be called garrulous. In fact, he sel-
dom speaks unless he has something

On one occasion he wanted

' | to get a superintendent for a certain
natured, whether you feel so or not. |

| The question with a valuable shoe

new department that he had estab-

| lished. He thought he knew the man

 

beginning to expect some advances |}

shoes that are made of

leather, |

|especially that class of shoes where |
ithe product is largely raw material,
rather than the high class of labor, |
which necessarily would affect men’s |

A good clerk may make his cus- |

tomers feel that he is interested in

them, and by gaining their confidence ;

he can make sales much easier.

He |

will move forward quickly when pa- |

trons enter, greet them pleasantly,
whether they want shoes or to look
the city These
amenities count. bad _ habit

to be “gabby.”

directory.
It

in

is

a

little |
|foreign hides out of the market, or}
A clerk who talks too |

much runs to “emptings” quickly, and established by the packer, who, to-

patrons are not so destitute of per-|

ceptive faculties as many imagine.

The inside of a carton needs atten- |

tion as much as the dust on its top. |

A stock of shoes can not be too or-
derly, and the ambitious salesman can
always find something to do.

A val- |

uable shoe clerk will not waste time |

in pleasantries with other

while serving trade. Customers like
attention; they want to be waited on

clerks

jare quite

heavy goods of medium and

low |

price, such as Kangaroo calf and oil|

grain goods, more perceptibly.

The for these conditions
In the first
place there is a duty of 50 per cent.
on imported hides, which keeps all

reasons

numerous.

else puts them on a basis of prices

gether with the U. S. Leather Co,
controls the entire market on leath-
Next comes the heavy exporta-
year,

er.
tion of hides during the last
which still more reduces the already

/scanty supply, and the recent strikes
have had some effect at this time, and |

the tanners claim to be tired of do-
ing business for glory, but the writer

| does feel that there should be some

at once, whether in a hurry or not. |
A short time ago a man went intoa|

bank to make a deposit, a duty which,

to. The teller was busy counting a
stack of bills, and when he did not
drop everything and wait upon the

visitor, the latter became angry and |

threatened to see the President. The

| manipulate and control

teller was all attention in an instant, |
but, being of an observant nature he |

noticed that no sooner had this de- |

positor left the window, than he met
a man with whom he stopped and
chatted for fully half an hour. Which
shows that if people do have time
to burn they want quick service.
An article in the press a few weeks
ago told of the starting of a quigk
lunch room in London, England—one
of those places where they cook
wheat cakes in the window, while
you wait, in full view of the street.
It attracted such a crowd on the
walk that the “Bobbies” had to be
called to disperse it. If there is one

| duty

as a rule, one of his clerks attended | hides and believe that such a revi-

concerted action on the part of the}

manufacturers and jobbers of boots
and shoes toward a reduction of the
of 50 per cent. on imported
sion in the tariff schedule would be
in the interest of the masses—the
consumer—instead of the few pack-

|
|
|

 

ers and the U. S. Leather Co, who}

the leather
E. P. Waldron

2.

Correct Styles in Men’s Footwear.

market.

For styles in footwear the Haber- |
of |

dasher, an authority on matters
dress, gives the following:

For day weddings, afternoon calls, |

receptions and matinees—patent
leather or patent kid buttoned.

For business and morning wear—
laced calf, high or low.

For wheeling, golf, outing
country wear—laced calf or russet,
high or low.

For afternoon teas, shows, church
and promenade—patent leather or
patent kid buttoned.

and

 

|/new department.
|superintendent. |
patent kid buttoned, or patent leather !

Morgan,

  

33

for this superintendency assist-

 

an

;ant to one of his colleagues.
| patent leather or patent kid buttoned |
he |

He sent for the colleague and said:

|] am setting up, you know, a certain

I shall want a new

think Brown, in
your office, would fill the place well,
indeed.”

”
.

sure he would,” said the

“The only trouble Mr.
3rown can’t be spared.”

“T don’t want a man that you

replied Morgan.

Brown was appointed.

——__> 2

"1. am
other. 1S,
can

Spare,”

This thing called Duty is a kill-joy
forever.

 

 

 

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SARE ERNIE RA ROR

34

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

How a Chicago Shoe Dealer At-

tracted Trade.
Dear Charlie—I tried a novelty in
window dressing last week and found
it to be a good one. You know the

floor of my north window is slightly |
raised, giving a terrace-like effect. I |

covered it with a red fabric and plac-

ed six shoes in a row upon it.
shoes, and not another one in the
window, the sides and back being |

trimmed with the colors of the Uni-
versity of Chicago. But each
was tagged, and that was one of the
most interesting features of the dis-
play. The first was an old-fashioned
brogan, or plough shoe, which was
tagged, “For Men Who Work.” Next
came a substantial looking shoe ofa

slightly better grade, which I called, |

“Another For Men Who Work.” The
third

shoe

in order was a machine-sewed
marked,
Then

Business

with a double _ sole,
“For Work or Dress Wear.”
came the the
Man,” a Goodyear welt, retailing at
$3. The fifth
on the fourth, selling at $3.50, so I
tagged it, Business or Dress
Wear,” and last was a patent colt
blucher, marked, “Suitable
Occasion.” I tell you what, Charlie,
that little display attracted attention.
I think the odd titles were the novel
features, although some people told
me that a window with

shoes in it attracted them.
you can make use of that idea.

shoe “For

was an improvement
“Bor

For Any

only six

Perhaps

I’ll confess it was an accident which
put me on to the trick of having a
few shoes in the window. One day
we were changing the trim, and the
floor had just been cleaned cr the
old display when somebody ca.led me
from the rear of the store. 1 had
one of the new styles in my hand
and laid it on the floor of the window
while I went back to see what was
wanted. Well, when I came forward
again I noticed three women looking
through the glass. A moment later
there were six, all gazing at
I had carelessly left in the window,
and evidently thinking it was on dis-
play. They speedily passed on, but
the incident gave “yours truly” an
idea. “The public is so accustomed
to seeing windows filled with shoes
thet one, or two, or a half
attract an unusual amount of atten-
tion,’ I told myself, and have since
profited by the knowledge on several
occasions.

the shoe

dozen

We are all in business for the same
thing—to pull trade,
to the fellow who makes the cleverest
bid for it. Street car advertisements
all look alike to me, as a general
thing, but Swope, over in St. Louis,
4s using one which made rub
my eyes and take a second look, the
first time I saw it.
the two words displayed prominentiy,
and the letters were so large that I
involuntarily looked to see what was
for sale. And under it was, “A good
home for your foot, at $1.75 per foot.
Swope Shoe Company, North Broad-
way.” That is one of the catchiest
street car shoe advertisements I have
seen in a long time. ‘It would also
be effective as a window card.

and it comes

me

“For sale’ were

Brandt, over in St. Louis, has a

Six |

shoe |

j}cents for every coupon that he

 

handsome case of men’s hosiery as an
auxiliary to his findings department,
and a few weeks ago he added men’s
garters to his line. I have not both-
ered with because

hosiery our big

stock and rather small quarters give

|no room for any such innovation, but

if I carried hosiery I certainly would |

include garters. And if my _ trade
was unsatisfactory and all things

seemed propitious, I certainly would
carry hosiery.

There is a shoe man on State street
who has a unique method of attract-

ing business.

He has a sign in his
window reading:
YOUR DOLLAR

has greater buying power

here, this week, than. ever
before.
In order to draw an_ unusual

|}amount of attention to his shoe dis-
play he has fifty crisp new one dollar
| ° .

| bills attached to his window,

de-
| scribing a double circle, above which
| the card may be seen. As a special
| feature the display of bills is a de-
cided success, as nearly every pedes-
trian stops to take a look at it.

i don't go in for bargains to any
extent, because they hurt the reputa-
t20n of the the ‘better
classes of trade, but if I did I would

!
store with
adopt the system now practiced by
Dohan, of Cincinnati. He

bargain every

has a
day in
Monday,
children’s on

Thursday,
children’s on |

ofr
the week——-men’s shoes on
women’s on

special

 

Tuesday,

Wednesday, men’s” on

women’s on Friday and
Saturday.
it speedily

The idea is a good one, as

the public to
call at the store on certain days to

obtain best the kind of

educates

values in
shoes they want.

I see that a New Yorker is using
a “free photograph” scheme in con-
nection with his shoe store, much the
same as a Chicago retailer used ita
the idea in
make an

few years ago. Here is
a nut-shell: You
ment with a photographer who is on
the lookout
which he is

arrange-

for new business, by

to honor any coupons
that your customers may present, and
take

without charge.

one

 

customer
him five |
re- |
He money by the
deal, because no man or woman will

each
pay

picture of
You
ceives. makes
be satisfied with a single photograph
if it happens to be a good likeness,
and the that two
three order a half dozen or a dozen
photos at
them. However, you have nothing to
do with that. You boom the scheme
at your end of the line with a big an-
;nouncement in the show
something on this order:
YOUR PHOTOGRAPH FREE.
Every purchaser of a $3
of shoes will

result is out of

 

a price which he quotes

window

pair

receive a coupon,

good for one handsomely finish-
ed, cabinet size photograph,
free.

Present this coupon at Blank’s
Gallery, 1629 Main street, and
have your picture taken without
charge.

In order to exhibit the “goods”
have several of Blank’s cabinet pho-
tos in your window. They will draw

 

 

| . =
|attention to your offer and to the
|

| the 5

'taken to the photographer, and itis
/a matter of fact that many of these
they get

make

shoe display. Your only expense 1s

cents you pay on each coupon

coupons go before
Even if
payment on seventy-five out of 109
that give out, profit
handsomely fifty of
trade.

astray

there. you have to

you you will

since probably

those people new

And

represent

apart from the new_ business

the

it gives his studio, which is another |

point in his favor—Bob Merrill in
Boot and Shoe Recorder.
——_.- -

 

It is well to look on the bright side,

| but it is better to have a look at both |

sides.

which the photographer derives from |
scheme there is the advertising |

- Attention, Merchants

| The Rapid Sales Company can reduce or close
|out your stock for spot cash without loss; we
| prove our cla'ms by results; shelf-stickers, slow-
| sellers and undesirable goods given special atten-
tion; our salesmen are experts. Address

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Percival B. Palmer & Company

Manufacturers of

Cloaks, Suits and Skirts
For Women, Misses and Children

197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

 

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| with top, Toledo steam carriage, four passenger,
dos-a-dos, two steam runabouts, all in good run-
ning order. Prices from $200 up.

| ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids

 

Another good thing to remember:
RUBBER CO. we have the largest

price.

No. 131-133-135 Franklin St.

 

Opportunity to do Business

With us every day in the year, on a fair and square basis.

Do you know that our

Custom Made Shoes

are the “Shoes to Choose” for hard wear.

Footwear in the State, all fresh new goods. Old rubbers are dear at any

WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
Shoe and Rubber Jobbers

P. S.—You ought to see our New Spring Sample Line, it’s out.

As State Agents for the LYCOMING
and most complete stock of Rubber

Saginaw, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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Market

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Our Wool Boot Combina-
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Why? Because the Wool Boots are the best the market affords—
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The overs—either duck or gum in Banigan or Woonasquatucket
brands—make the best combination obtainable.

When you have a customer for combinations why not sell him the
best? Not only the best looking but the best.

 

 

GEO. S. MILLER, Selling Agent

133 Market St., CHICAGO, ILL.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Recent Business Changes in the |
Buckeye State.

|

Cleveland—Benton, Myers & Co.,|
|

wholesale dealers in drugs, are suc-|
ceeded by Benton, Hall & Co.
Dayton—Amos Abley is succeeded |
in the boot and shoe business by L.
J. Abley.
Dayton—Mrs. E. S. Houts, yeast |
manufacturer, is succeeded by Wal- |
ter Osterday.
Dayton—L. W.
facturer, is succeeded by L. W. Nees|
& Co.
Dayton—Shumaker

Nees, cigar manu-

Bros. are to

continue the retail grocery and meat
business formerly conducted by Sam- |
uel D. Sears. |

Hamilton—N.
ed by O. J. Cutler, who will carry a|
line of wall paper.

New

& Reid Bros., dealers in agricultural |

|

B. Tubbs is succeed-

oo : .
Paris—The business of Auld}
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implements, seeds, etc., is to be con-|
tinued under the management of Reid |
3ros. .

Swanton—The Wales Pulley Co. is |
succeeded by the Keasey Pully Co. |

Sowling Green—A _ petition in
bankruptcy has been filed by the
creditors of Samuel Strauch, who}
lately conducted a dry goods busi- |
ness.

of Edam

Cleveland—The creditors «
Pfeil, dealers in cement, lime, etc.,

&
have filed a petition in bankruptcy.
Dayton—Arthur D. Black has been
appointed receiver for the Walter A.
Caverly Co., wholesale
Sandusky--The creditors
National Valve Co.,

have filed a petition in bankruptcy.

confectioner.
of the|
manufacturer,

W ooster—A petition in bankruptcy

has been filed by the creditors of
Zimmerman & Co., dealers in whole-
sale groceries and wholesale and re- |

tail drugs.
Pleasant City—A receiver has been

appointed for the Ohio Valley |
Glass Co.
>>
“Study Yourself.”
A New York silk merchant with
years of experience and_ unlimited |
success behind him said recently,

when asked to what cause he attrib-
uted his phenomenal success in life: |
“I just studied myself to ascertain
doing and,

what I was capable of

when I decided that I was able to do}

anything for which I had a natural
liking, I accepted that idea as an
indication of a natural gift. I com-
menced to work with every bit of
genius nature had given me, and I
‘never said fail.’

“Some men have marvelous intui-

 

tive gifts which, from lack of knowl-
edge, we often style genius. These |
men are frequently unaware of their |
own ability; their courage seems to
be hypodermically thrust into their
mentality; and they often astonish all
beholders by tearing the flag of vic-
tory from the fort of phenomenal
success. It has been said that Henry
Ward to
greatness was in recognizing genius
in others. It is better to be a fine
diagnostician than a prescription
clerk. We must twist the tail of cir-
cumstances and tie it with a knot so}
tight that it can not get away.
on an iron girdle of courage, and let

3eecher’s principal claim

|
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j
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|
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|

| to
|conducted by B. B. Brannock.

| He

| notions.

j you to join us.

it be welded with honesty and _ per-
severance. Then the climb up the
of success will take care of
itself, provided the bump of egotism

ladder

| does not make one top-heavy. Again,

I say, study yourself. Don’t look be-

{yond your capabilities, but work
yourself up the ladder by strict atten-
tion to details in whatever line of |
Eusiness you may engage.”
—_-2 -@ -~
Recent Trade Changes in the Hoo-|
sier State.
Crothersville — The Crothersville

Milling Co. is succeeded by James W.
Cunningham.

B.
the

Jasper—M.

carry on business

Marion—The Marion Fruit

South

carry on the grocery business former-

|ly managed by Byron A. Staley.

South Whitley—S. Weiner, of the

duct a general store, is dead.

formerly |

 

Holly, druggist, is |

Jar &
Bottle Co. is succeeded by Ball Bros.
Bend—Saelhof Bros. are to|

firm of S. Weiner & Son, who con- |

Washington—Joseph Simon is suc- |

a ! i i
| will carry a line of clothing, etc.

Wynkoop—Wm. is dead.

Heinley

was a dealer in groceries

|ceeded by Hugh L. Cox & Co., who}

and |

Indianapolis—A receiver has been}

appointed for the Capital

bile Co.
Elwood—The creditors of

Wm. J.

Bull, grocer, have filed a petition in

| bankruptcy.

——_———_—_—_
Call for the First Quarterly Meeting.

Lowell, Dec.
notified that the quarterly meeting of

the Michigan Association of Master

Automo- |

Gas or Gasoline Mantles at

|
|

| MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS

12—You are hereby |

Bakers will be held at the Bancroft |

House, in Saginaw, on Jan. II, 1905,

fats p.m) Vow) are urged to be
| present to continue the good work |

so well begun at Grand Rapids Oct. |

|25 and 26, 1904.

If you are not a member our As-

| sociation will welcome you and urge |
r el. et
The fee is only $5. |

It is worth that much just to get ac-
quainted. i
progress and association.
with us in this effort.
Weldon Smith, Sec’y.
ee
Casting Its Cheer Before.

3etter join

At your plate now and then is a
sprig of holly;
The landlady, too, condescends to

be jolly;

On the face of the waiter girl a smile
we see

And the janitor’s as gracious

Abstainers on Railways.

“All employes who are not total
abstainers will be discharged at the
earliest possible moment,” is the an-
nouncement of the General Superin-
tendent of the railway system in Ger-
many. “No moderate drinkers will be
retained in any position of trust.
Temperance men with clear brain and
steady hands are the only ones who

for positions.”

The spirtt of the age 15 |

 

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line of fine Christmas Umbrellas and
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you on short notice one-half dozen or
more on approval if you state the
style, size and price of umbrellas
desired

Thousands of styles to

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we Offer.

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will serve your best interests by consult-
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Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counse! to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
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What Came of Taking Himself in
Hand.
Written for the Tradesman.
Swanson and Swanson were alone
in the office discussing a letter thal
James the senior had just been read-

ing.
“My idea is what it always has
been: we can’t afford to play reform

school for the wayward sons of the
Toms, Dicks and Harrys that live in
Ashton, because we were unfortu-
nate enough to be boys together and
were switched by the same stick at
the old district school. I’m inclined
to make short work of the whole
business and say kindly enough that
we are not in a condition to accede
to Heston’s request. It’s to be the
same old story over again. The boy
has got into bad ways and needs a
change of scene. That will give the
good in him—‘Bob isn’t a bad boy’—
a chance and in a short time the good
will assert itself and we shall be the
means of saving him! It’s all poppy-
cock and I don’t believe it'll pay.”

“It’s true enough, John, and yet
it isn’t going to cost us anything.
This is what he says: ‘I’m willing
tc pay him any wages you conclude
to give him and if there is any trouble
occasioned by his coming, I'll be
only too glad to straighten out the
account. I don’t want the boy to
feel that I’m not on his side and so
long as there is a single hope _ for
him I want to make the most of it.
help feeling I’m
somewhat to blame for the condition
of things, and nothing can please me
more than to find out that I didn’t
put off too long the effort to start
him fairly in the life-calling he has
been looking forward to for a good
many years.’ If you haven't fully
made up your mind, Jim, I’d like to
Joe
Heston was always a good fellow
and I believe both of us still like
Milly Wentwood well enough to do
this for her boy. Why not just give
him the chance Joe asks for? Let
the boy come with the idea that he
has simply a chance—nothing more—
to stand on his own feet, that his
going up depends upon his own
climbing and that if he goes down
we are in no way to be responsible
for it.”

 

It was quiet for some minutes in
the office, but the time was made
the most of. Both wandered as boys
again over the fields of far-off New
England — “Barefoot boys with
cheeks of tan’—taking good care of
the strawberries ripening in the old
pastures, playing with the waterwheel
at the brook under the big chestnut,
coming back from the snares inthe
woods, each the exultant bearer of
partridge and quail their cunning had
caught, whistling as they came, hap-
py and glad to be out of the clutches
of the old school house at the edge
of the woods frowning upon them,

 

 

 

 

as they thought, that Saturday was
cheating it of its own.

At the end of the silence and of the
journey it was John Swanson who
said, “If you don’t mind, Jim, I guess
we'd better say yes and let the boy
come. It won’t put us out any and
if the thing is a failure we'll have the
satisfaction of trying to do the right
thing and feeling that we can look
Joe and Milly in the face if we ever
see them again.”

So in due time a well-put-up fellow
of 19—a delightful composition of
stalwart John Heston and Milly, his
wife—came into the office one morn-
ing, looking down from his six feet
upon them from his father’s earnest
eyes and talking to them with his
mother’s smiling mouth with a tone
in his voice, heavy although it was,
that reminded them strongly of the
pretty Milly Granger of twenty-five
years ago.

“Well,” remarked the senior part-

ner when the greetings were over
and the young fellow was_ seated,
“you’re not a lunger. That’s’ the

first thing in Colorado we expect to
see when a young man comes to us
from the East. Was it just a want-
to-come that settled the question and
brought you here?”

“Tt was just that, only it was fath-
er’s and mother’s ‘want’ rather than
mine.”

“No trouble I hope.”

“Well, none that I’m not to blame
for. I did not do the best I could
is the sum and substance of it all.

class and I stood third. That rather

upset me and I came to the conclu- |

sion that fun was all that I was cut
out for. The folks didn’t seem to
agree with me and I took things into

my own hands. Then there were

what father calls ‘goings on’ and he |

got mad and mother got to crying
and here I am. It might have been
a good deal better and it might have
been a mighty sight worse. They
laid it all to the other fellows; but
I’m no bull with a ring in my nose
and a rope to it to be led around with.
I didn’t make the most of my chances
and I guess father told you all he
wanted was for me to have another
chance. That’s what I am hoping for
and it’s all I want.”

“Third in the class isn’t bad stand-
ing. Don’t you think you’d better
go back and try it in the same _ old
places and the same old lines? If
you were my son I should be proud
of a boy who stood third in his
class. My next move would be to
send him to college and let him try
for the first place there.”

“Not if you had my father’s son to
deal with. You couldn’t get him to
do it. The fact is I’m ashamed of
myself for not getting there when I
had a chance. I ought to be taken
in hand for it. I won’t let anybody
eise do it and I’m going to do it my-
self. I don’t know what arrange-
ments have been made for me; but
whatever they are I want to begin
on the lowest round of the ladder
and be allowed to climb as fast as_ I
can. Father thinks my _ schooling
ought to keep me from the lowest
round; but I don’t want to be kept

 

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I ought to have stood the best in the

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from it. He has a way of putting it
that fits my case exactly. Give me
‘the hot end of the poker!”

“When are you ready to start in?”

“Now. I looked up a room before
I came in. Denver is a city of res-
taurants so I am provided for.”

There was no more to be said. The
manager was called in and Rob Hes-
ton went out and went to work. The
door was hardly closed when the
brothers looked at each other.

“Well?”

“Well.”

“Tt won’t last.”

It did, though. The first ten days
were hardly over when the manager
came to say that young Heston was
deserving of a_ better place. He
seemed to have a head on him and
was using it to the best possible ad-
vantage. He was a climber and the
house couldn’t afford to keep him
back. He worked clean, and when he
got through there was no need of
going to see if the job was done.
From his point of view, the mana-
ger’s, it would be better to jump the
fellow around and see how long it
would take for the next move. It
was all there and not a risk in sight.

By this time the boys in the estab-
lishment began to look and wonder
who this Heston was. They wanted
him with them and made the usual
advances. There was to be a bit of
a jamboree at “Old Bill’s;” would he
small dance was on the
tapis for Thursday night; would he
light fantastic?
Euchre at that season was the rage;
he had only to say the word and the
swellest parlors on Upper Ten ave-
nue would swing in for him and the
sweetest hands in Denver would ex-
tend to him the joyous. Could he

“Nay, nay, Pauline, to that?” To
the astonishment of everybody that’s
exactly what he did say. In a word,
tc the social world he was not at
home. The boys found him “all
right;” but he didn’t seem to “want
to” and after awhile they let him
alone. To the Swanson brothers he
was a mystery. For the old time’s
sake of Joe and Milly they had the
boy to dinner. He was all right. He
brightened the dinner wonderfully
and without a bit of restraint he
went away, taking the heartily ex-
pressed wish that he would come
again soon. He did; but only to
make the conventional call, and after
that the boy might have been dead
so far as the Swanson families were

concerned. He was evidently not de-
sirous of accepting their proffered
friendship.

The brothers were not contented
to allow this to remain a secret and
hoping for the best they called in
the manager.

“We are a bit anxious about Hes-
ton. His parents are friends of ours
and we want to be his keepers, at
least as much as the law allows.
What is he about from supper until
bedtime? Is it the old matter’ of
‘still water runs deep?”

“Yes, but not in a bad sense. On
Tuesday nights he goes to the Brown
Palace billiard room and plays bil-
liards alone from 7 to 8 and then he
goes home. On Friday nights he

 

goes alone to the Broadway if there
is a good play on the boards; if not
he stays in his room. The rest of
the time he’s in his room when he
isn’t at the store. He seems sort of
uncanny. I can’t make him out”

“What does he do in his room?
Where is it?”

“On Grant with the Bentleys.
swell all right.”

3entleys! Well, I should say so.
Do you know how he spends his
time?”

“No, and he doesn’t seem inclined
to say anything about that or any-
thing else. I’m satisfied that he’s all
right and that is as far as I care to
go. He doesn’t seem to encourage
investigation.”

It’s

There the matter rested. There
was nothing to complain of in work
as to quantity or quality. He was

never late and he was never anxious
to get away if there was anything
to be His promotion was
rapid and it was never followed by
the conscious or wnconscious en-
largement of the hat-band; and long
before the end of the year the Swan-
son brothers were very sure that they
had found a man they wanted to
keep and were making up their minds
to tell him so with certain other
statements which young men of that
age are delighted to hear.

Rob Heston, however, proved to
be the exception. He did not want
the place with the flattering future
held up to him, and when the offer
of promotion was tendered to him
and the brothers plainly showed
their astonishment, the young fellow
with gladness in his face said sim-
ply and to the point, “Gentlemen, I
appreciate your kindness and I heart-
ily thank you for it.” Just that and
nothing and three days later
he was on his way home with bag
and baggage.

done.

more,

“Well, Bobbie, what is the next
move? for your mind is evidently
made up.”

“To-morrow I’m_ going to take
over again my examinations which
I fell down on a year ago. After
I got settled and the store work

started I went to work with my se-
nior studies and now I know them.
I'll challenge any teacher to flunk
me. I’m going to give them the
chance of their lives to do it. After
that I’m going to get the principal
to give me the rank I failed to get
a year ago and with that I’m going
to the University. I don’t care ‘to
lead my class in college, but I’m go-
ing to stand well.

I believe now,
Father, that I’ve made up my
chance. You said that I had thrown
it away. I did; but I’ve picked it up

and am ready to make the most of
it. Beside that I’ve learned some-
thing else. It doesn’t follow, if a
fellow fails to make an examination,
that the only thing left is to makea
fool of himself, and I think that and
the getting back my chance are
worth the year that I’ve given to
them.

“There’s something else I’ve found
out: the young fellow who goes in

for a good time isn’t having half the
time that his friends think he is.
He’s playing a losing game and he

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

37

 

 

knows it and the harder he goes in
the worse he feels about it. I
not have half the ‘goings on’ that
you thought I did and many a night |
I’ve walked up and down and around |
the common to come in late so
make you think I was ‘calaroping,’ as
you call You used to think that
Will Rogers and Jim Johnston were
doing the business for me; but a
good many times they were at home
and asleep when I was_ walking
around alone with my hands in my
pockets playing the smarty! Call that
a good time! i
everybody else and when I went to
Denver I brought myself
and here I am.

“Another thing my trip
for me and that is finding out what
I’m going to be. It takes enterprise
and brains to be a first-class_ mer-
chant and both have got to be train-
ed to be first class. That’s why I’m
going to college. I haven’t been
spending my mongy and I’ve about
$300. That I’m going to keep until

to |

 

|

hated myself and}

up sharp |

has done}

Hardware Price Current

AMMUNITION

Caps
|G D., full count, per w.....
| Hicks’ Waterproof, per m

 

 

MiMSEct, Ber Me ee |
| Bly s Waterproof, per mo... 60
Cartridges
NO. 22 Short) per mi. 2 50
Me. 22 10ne, per mo... 3 00)
NG. oc SHOVE Ber mo 5 00
ING: So tone per mo 5 7
Primers
No. 2\). M. C., boxes 260, per m..... 1 60
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60

Gun Wads
| Black Edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C... 60
Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m..... 70
Black Edge. 0. 7, oer mi... 80

Loaded Shells
New Rival—F'or Shotguns

c Drs. of oz.of Size er
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 1% 10 10 $2 90 |
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90 |
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
12 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 Z 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 by 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70
264 3% 1% 4 12 2 70
Discount. one-third and five per cent.

Paper Shells—Not Loaded

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tron |
Bar Om 2 25 rate | Crockery and Glassware
Egene Bane 2.20 3 00 rate |
Knobs—-New List | STONEWARE
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings | Sot Butters
Deor, Porcelain, Jap. trimmnes .... 31% Sab per dow. 48
Levels | : “7 oe Om ci es
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s ....dis. [19 gal. each .....2...0c2llocou, 10
| Metals—Zinc [is 28) 40m 0 =
| GOO Domi) Cae 8 15 gal. meat tubs, eac 1 20
Der Boe oi. | 20 @ak ment tubs, caen ............. 1 60
| M i" oi go Sab meat tube each _........... 2 25
rs a 30 gal meat tubs, each ........... 2 70
Pea Cas. Ee “ato 2 to 6 gal, per Paap 6%
}oerews, New Uist. 00. o ol . Churn Dashers, per doz .......... 84
oe Hed and Pilate ......... S0&10&10 | ‘hon ee a
| Pampers, American ....:.........-. 0
| " se ss " ¥% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
Molasses Gates 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
ee ~~ ................. 60&10 Fine Glazed Milkpans
nterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30 1% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 60
| Pans | 1 gal. fat or round bottom, euch .. 6
[teyw. Acme . ol 60&10&109 | Stewpans
| Commion, polished .......5......0../ 70&10 | % gal. fireproof, bail, per doz ...... 85
Patent Planished Iron I gal. fireproof bail, per doe ...... 10
"A'’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27. .10 80/| ,, ld oa Jugs 0
| eee pak, peers, Mee ear. SE Oe ~- «eee enn mtn oon ;
Broken packages %c per tb. extra. + a Ss vas poe ard
oT , — : i Sealing Wax
OCnie Tool Co's fancy... ......_. 4015 tis in packare per Th. ........ 02. 2
Selot Bete... cL... 50 | LAMP BURNER
Sandusky Tool Co.’s Piney... 40, Ne. o Sun ERS a
Bench, first wae ee ceca 49 NG. eee ae 38
alls Se eee 50
Advance over base, on both Steel & = NO. 3 Sum -..... 2... eee eee ew ene 8+
Sicel mame Haase |. 2... ll, eee 5v
Wire wate base ll. 3 15 DE 50
- _ = — eee — | MASON FRUIT JARS
$ advance ---...s.ssssiicccissscss | (With Porcelain Lined Caps
G Seas 20 | pints Per gross
eg agi Oe ec 4 25
~ AOVoCe i 30 | Eaee
SAGAS Fb a Gf TT a 4 40
2 advance 70| #2 gallon eed ee cee ee 6 00
Fine 3 advance.......2.000IIIIII. 50] Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
Casings §0 agyvance (............... 15 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Cima) |S AGVANGe 25 | ae Per box of 6 <
Casing 6 afivamee... 35 | No. UM ee eee eee cece eee eee eee ee 6
Minish 16 advance. 6)... ll. 25 | NO. 1 Sun ...... se ee eee ee eee eee eee 1 72
Hain © aaweee 35 PO. 2 Oe wick 2 54
Mimish G advance .. 21... 45 Anchor Carton Chimneys
Borel % advance ..- 2... 85 Each Chimney in corrugated carton
Rivets fos : aan ease emcees ea ca = =
| No OE
Iron and tinned ..................-. 50 | No. 2 eae Bee 2 90
Copper Hivets and Pure ........... 45 | First Quality
Roofing Plates | No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 91
14x20 IC, Charceal, Dean ........... 7 50} eg 1 aaa crimp top, ee - og a
14x20 EX, Charcoal, Dean ........... 9 00 | No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrappe ab. ¢
20z28 IC, Chis lL Dean _........ 15 00 | i
14x20, i, aaa penal Grade. 7 50 | No. 1 Sun, cee ce aan & lab. 3 25
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00 | No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
ae nS psa yin a 415 = | No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled 4 25
x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 | Pearl Top
Ropes | No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled 4 60
Sisal, % inch and larger .......... 914 No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled ....5 30
eS | No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled ....5 10
a Pp | No. 2 Sun, “small bulb,’ globe lamps 80
Lit acer, TF Oe .........4....... dis 50} LaBastie
Sash Weights i No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 00
Par yy . INO. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 25
Sold Myes, per tom .. 2-2... ... 3... 28 00 |No. 1 Crimp, per doz .............. 1 35
Sheet Iron , mo. 2 Crimp, per doze .....-......... 1 60
mee. 30 to wf oo cca as 3 60 | Rochester
a = pa “a eg ce we ded oe ee oe : . No 1 Lime (65¢ =) oo 3 50
= a eo eee es No. 2 Lime (i5e doz.) ..............-.
a 22 - tet et eee tence ees 4 = : ms No.) Stat) (306 a eee 4 60
—S te IS. a
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 ae z Jane od dOZ.) ....... eee eee ' o
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. No. 2 Flint (80¢ doz.) ......-.+++.+-- v
OIL CANS
Shovels and Spades | 1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 20
Biret Grade, Pee oo. 5 50| 1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 2
Second Grage, Pee. ...........-..... 5 00 | 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 10
| 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 135
—_——- 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 15
0 OT Ol a aon eG ath fi " i
a The prices of the many other qualities | 5 = a rrksee with oe ee = ; 2
of solder in the market indicated by pri- | - ally "Nilting cans ......... ne 7 00
es brands vary according to compo- 15 gal. galv. iron Nacefas ............ 9 00
: | LANTERNS
Squares | Nou. 0 Tubolar, Side Hie (000000050000. 5
ed we Bee 8... O6Utt. sagas. 40
Tin—Melyn Grade | No. 15 "VY, Gg wo 6 50
FOSEL IC, Chareday 10 50 | No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ........... 7 7%
£iue0 1 Charcoal oo 10 50 | No. 12 Tubular, side lamp ........... 12 60
(eee PN barcea 00 | Ne. 3 Street lamp, each ......... 3 50
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25 gs ails ee a.
An | No. Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 50
141C ao . ee Gate 9 00 | No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. 15c. 50
ee ae Ce rt = | No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
1dn4 Ix. Gnarceal ee 10 59 | No ° Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. each1 25
inte 05. Chareeel .................10 00 BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 | sa eae ee ee gg Aig S .
iN O. “3 . j ’ Ss r _
Boiler Size Tin Plate | No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 30
14x56 IX, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ib 13/| No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll 4
Traps | No. 3. 1% in. wide, per gross or roll 8d
Set, Game oe 75 | aaa ‘cra
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..40&10|) _ COUPON BOOKS ‘
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65! 5% books, any denomination -1 50
Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ...... 1 25; 100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
Mouse, delusion, per doz. ........... 1 25; 390 books. any denomination ...... 11 50
Wire | 1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00
. Above quotations are for either Trades-
Bright Market ee ee eee ect 60} man, Superior, Economic or Universal
Annealed eee oo ie 60 | grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered
Coppered Mamet ooo 50&19 lat a time customers receive specially
pee ee es soi 6c aioe a emo ee | printed cover without extra charge.
Barbed Fence, Galvanized ..........2 75 | _ Coupon Pass Books
Paried Pence, Painted ............. 245; Can be’ made to represent any denomi-
Wire Goods | i $10 down. ia
OO OE te 46k beeen 2 50
Screw EyeS .....--.-eeeeee eee eeeees BO G0 Be 11 50
ee S90) idee ok 20 00
Gate Hooks and Byes .....-205... 3. 80-10 Credit Checks
Wrenches 500, amy one denomination ........ 2 00
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled ...... = 1000, any one denomination ........ 3 00
Coe’s ON oe cee es °60N anv ene denomination ......... 5 00
Coe’s Patent “Agricultural, Wrought, 70a10 OGE WARIO coc cc cc ccc cccccsecces | | UM

‘ ’ No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
I'm through study and then I’m go-| No: 12° pasteboard boxes 100, aor ae Gh
ing abroad for a year. Then [’m| Gunpowder
going to Denver and from what the} Kegs, 25 Ibs., per keg............... 4 90
Swanson brothers told me when I ! 3 ee, ee — or Z = oe
came away I can go in there and| Shot
work up into the office.” In sacks containing 25 Ibs
ee a i el ok spinning eheis | Drop, all sizes smaller a iB. ..... 1 85
- 4 , i Augurs and Bits
out much longer. The boy did vai ——. ll... 60
actly what he said he was going to —=— —_— ee =
do, and the firm of Swanson Brothers ee ae 1 a ana ¥
aes i xes
& Co. are cesT to-day over the First Quality, S. B. Bronze ......... 6 50
Company part of the house, which| First Quality, D. B. Bronze. ..... 9 00
Le Pest Quality, = © S Steck -....- 7 00
stands for Robert Heston; and I have | First Quality, D. B. Steel. ..........: 10 50
written this story with the single Sea
purpose Of telling the youne fellows | Raflroad. .............0..0....0. 0... 15 00
i ; Garter oe 33 00
who read it that the only sure way ner
olts
for the paige oe sa old, who gets De 70
“off’ is to take himself in hand and Se. mew Met Coo =
. . ° i. HIE Seed seccewows ene aseeee see e 6 cic
give himself the grind of his life. ee
What if he has fallen down? It i8| wey, plain. ...........ceccceeeceees 4 50
the man who lies there that is the Betts, Cask
nincom., and the chance he loses, oft-| Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ 70
en the chance of his life, is the one | Wrousht, ee oa a 0
there offered of springing to his feet | a ins ae aH. % in. %4 in.
: al 2 S ahi ri i Common. . e. =... oe c
and, with the past behind, with stiff oe <3. | GS
upper lip and stiff backbone make/ BBB. ......... 8%c....7%C....6%C....644C
up, as Robert Heston did, for the Crowbars
good chance he did not lose  but| Cast Steel, per th. ............-.-+.-- 5
threw away, an sheer fighting Chisels
oe 2 hy . ee ee a et 65
and indomitable persistence pass at/| Socket Framing. ..............-.--- >
. . : : Soemee Commer «23... 8: 5
last the examination that floored him. | Socuet Slicks. |....1....1stiscssseee- 65
That is te: that is living; that 1s Elbows
manhood and the kind of manhood | Com. 4 piece, 6in., per doz. net. 75
" Comprtisated, per doz .............. 1 25
that Christ crowns when the battle | Adjustable’ .............++++++- dis. 40810
of life is done. Expansive Bits
. Z 1 ce eee ...... 40
Richard Malcolm Strong. a ak i. 3. 330 eas 35
oe Files—New List
She Stocked Up on Prayers. New Amenieam ) 0000 ul 70&10 |
‘ : ~ presenolIson ese _-...-.-...-..._.....
One little girl that I know of is! Heller’s Horse Rasps. .............. 70
so sleepy when she starts for bed Galvanized Iron
 : . ek £ Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and = 25 2 26; 27, _o
that it is occasionally hard wor for | List 12 13 16°17
her to make up her mind to finish| Discount, 70. “
ue auges :
the good night prayer. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s - 60&10
A few nights ago she dropped her Close
head upon the pillows earlier than! Single Strength, by box .......... dis. 90
. . | and Double Strenseth, by bex ........ dis 90
usual. She wasn’t very sleepy, and | By the light .............200ee0e: dis. 90
at once began to dash off a prayer Hammers
i Frechi . » Gere sr | Maydole & Co.’ Ss ar Met ..,... dis. 33%
in refreshing style. The first prayer | yo\es @ Plumb’s .......----+:- dis. 40&10
over, along came another one, and| Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ....30c list 70
sti i his time her Hinges
—_? oe ee: : eh Chetre 1 & Oc... dis 60&10
mother, surprised at the turn pro- Saati Walia
ceedings had taken, asked the little | pots .......... ce Ce i 50&10
one what she meant by so many] Berson 122.00. pogo
prayers. “Why,” explained the little Horse Nails
girl, “I’m going to say twelve prayers | Au Sable ..........-------- ...-dis. 40&10
’ h I can go House Furnishing Goods
aoe fs awake — sn ee S Stamped Tinware, new list. ...-.. 70
two weeks without saying one. Japanned Tinware .........+see0++-20K10

 

 

 

 

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38

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

A BRAVE CLERK.

self.

Written for the Tradesman.

The following .is what a young
woman clerk said to me in a local
store the other day:

“I suppose you are beginning to
think seriously of the near approach

of Christmas. *Twill soon be here,

with its love and good cheer,  its|

gifts, its many happy family re-

unions. Oh, those reunions!
“Do you know, I just abominate
Christmas time? Oh, you needn't |

open your eyes in that wide fashion. | :
| counter became a reality.

Of course, Christmas is beloved by

| familiarize myself

Story of Her Life as Told by Her- |

iin an unfailingly courteous manner.

those sheltered in joyous homes, but |

for others, situated in life as I am,
the holiday spells only mental mis- |
ery.

‘life: but I soon found that people |

If I tell you that I am all alone | giq not like to trade with me when |

in the world—absolutely so, for 1)

haven’t a relative on earth—you will | : i
i = | pear lively whether I felt so or not. |

So I made an effort to put my own |
|gloomy thoughts in the background; |

a “rtaini ae . i |
entertaiming | and the more I tried to do this the |

understand the merest trifle what life |

means to one at this season, when
people everywhere are
glad anticipations of
part of all the year.
"Oace 1 merry,
gay not only at Christmas time but
Then I had my parents
Then I had my brother

the merriest

was too. |

at all times.
with me.

and my sister.
tiful home.

“We lived on the outskirts of To" |

My father owned twenty acres
Now it

ledo.
just beyond the city limits.

with business
methods and I treated all customers

Each one who came in I endeavored
so to affect that he or she would
remember me pleasantly and _ then
they would be likely to look for me
the next time they came to my de-
partment for anything. As I said, |
was only 15 then, but I was always
an observing child, and had
figured it out how I would do if I
were working in a store.
I had formulated in

often

The rules

my own mind

las an imaginary clerk I now sought

to carry out when life behind the
a certain course of

adhered to it rigidly.

I was feeling depressed. I must ap-

| better impression I seemed to make

|/on customers.
was |

Then 1 bad a beau-|
lincidents that came under my ob-|

servation, to tell her snatches of at|
i/noon and more of at night, so
would have something laughable to}

is platted into little 40-foot lots and |

all built up.

Once since those happy |

days I went back there, and oh, how |

changed it all was.

ize that it had ever been the home|

where my careless childhood was
spent. The man

our property came had turned our

into whose

hands |

fine old home into a modern apart- |

would
the

ment house and
have recognized it
building.

¥ ou

for same

never |

| I had regained composure.

“And everything else is so chang- |

And it was not long before my only
sister took sick and we lost her aft-
er only a week’s illness.

er and I were all that were left of
the once happy family.

“Gathering the remnants of
fallen fortune together we came to
Grand Rapids.
some sort of employment. In
prosperous days I had _ always
thought I should like to be a clerk,
and, now that the necessity for ac-
tion was pressing, I applied at one
of the local stores for a position.

“Here I did not succeed; they ‘had
all the help they needed.’ At the
next and the next and two others
I fared no better—all were ‘well sup-
plied with help.’

“By the time I had

our

gone the

Here I hoped to find |

| gayety, to

oe thinking that my life in the store was |
was followed by that of my brother |

half a year later, and then my moth- | im a

our |

rounds and reached this store I was |

completely discouraged. Despairing
of getting work I presented myself
to the proprietor of the place, and
you may imagine that I was quite
overcome when I was told there was
a vacancy in the notion department.

“In that section I remained a year.

In that year I tried my best

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to | lighten her burdens.

Sorrow had come to
me, but I must be no seek-sorrow.

“Then, too, it was my duty to act
cheerful for my mother’s sake. I
used to save up all the funny little

think of while I was away. Many and

many a night, in the winter, when I}
would be within a block of the house |

I could not real- | # lump would come in my throat and

I adopted |
conduct and I|

At first it was |
|hard to be cheerful when I had gone |

through so much to sadden a young |

she |

store I had all the excitement that
goes with a busy place and so my
mind was taken somewhat off my
different—she had all the day long
to brood over the loss of our fami-
ly and our other misfortunes.
“When my father was
made it. He was what is known as
a ‘good provider,’ and everything he
did was on a generous scale. This
fine while it
what was the result?
to die we had nothing—almost
solutely nothing.

was all lasted.

 

He had carelessly

home proper and all the surrounding
land was mortgaged for all it
worth, so that all we got out of the

troubles; but with my mother it was |

alive we)
‘lived out’ everything as fast as he}

 

 

 

But
When he came |
ab- |

allowed the last premium on a large |
insurance policy to slip by, and the}

was |

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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.

**Qldest and most reliable in the line.’’

 

 

 

   

ase yf

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Wholesale Dry Goods

 

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

Useful Xmas

(joods

Suspenders, Neckties, Brushes,
Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Rugs,
Lace Curtains, Ribbons, Fancy
Socks, Perfumes, Fancy Shirts,
Umbrellas. Also a large assort-
ment of sterling silver novelties

Will be pleased to show you
our line.

We also carry a nice line of Furs, Boas and Scarfs.

P. STEKETEE & SONS

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Send for circular.

 

 

my eyes would get so dim I could |

Then I

brush the

the
hard

mOt Sec way.

swallow and

lightly away, so as not to show traces |

of crying. I would

along, sometimes going a block or)

two beyond the place we lived, until

Then I

would recall the most ludicrous oc- |

ed. My father died when I was 15 |currence of the day and burst into}

| the house in a whirlwind of apparent

deceive my mother into

easy and jolly. We had three rooms

‘wing,’ and the bedroom was

would |
tears |

saunter slowly |

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large enough comfortably to contain
a > ~ 1

a bed and cot. It is needless to say
I slept on the latter, and many and
many a time I would listen and lis-
ten to see if my mother was asleep,
and if so I would allow my grief full
You not cry in
the store morning, after-
noon: Sundays I must not cry be-

must
noon or

vent. see, I

cause my mother would know it, and
in the morning before I went to work
would never do for I could not go
to the store with red eyes, so the
nights were my only time to give way
to my feelings.

“i steamed every make
my mother’s dreary life pleasant. We

did ‘light housekeeping’—and

nerve to

every

one who has experienced that knows |

the inconveniences and privations of
existence. I used to go without ac-
tual necessities so that I might get
little luxuries for her. Of course,
they could not be very costly, but
I did everything I possibly could to
( Being in the

other.

 

from one to four dollars each.

Sort up Now

On Coats before you are entirely out.

We have a good line ranging in price

We

have Covert and Kersey Coats, Duck
Coats with and without rubber lining,
Duck and Covert Coats with sheep
pelt lining, and Reversible Coats with
corduroy on one side and duck on the

Give us an idea of your wants.

| Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.

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Exclusively Wholesale
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

estate was the little to be made by

farm and of the
household furnishings. Of the latter
we sold off all our best, as that would
bring a better price, just
enough to get along with in a poor,
mean way here.

implements most

keeping

“Oh, when | contrast my life now
with what it was in our Toledo coun.
try home it seems as if I can’t stand
it—as if I can’t have it so. We had
every luxury that wealthy people en-
qoy. I
school,

was

my brother was in college

and my sister was in society, a beau- |

We had
the

tiful girl and great favorite.
carriages galore
for

besides
had

and,

horses those, we each

saddle horse.

bitter end, my father’s death—which, |
in reality, was but the beginning of |
our calamity—the hardest thing on}
the place for us to give up was our!

personal horses. We all cried and)
cried and cried, but there was. no|
help for it—they had to go. Do you!

know, even after all these years that |

I have been deprived of riding, which
I love most of any pleasure, I can’t
ever see a person on a horse without
feeling the bitterest of
them—TI actually feel as if |
kill them! I know that is a wicked,

hatred
could

wicked thought to harbor, but I can’t |

help its coming over me. I loved my

horse more than some people love
their children; but wishing will never
bring him back.

“And come to the
part of my life—the
my dear mother four years ago. She

before Christmas, so

now | saddest

whole loss oft

died the night
that
Christmas day.
L had
to dwindle into nothingness compar-
the without
“Soon after the funeral

she lay dead in the house on
All the of the
gone through seemed

Fest
sorrow
ed with living her.

| moved in-
to other quarters—I could not bear

so

longer to live where everything

reminded me of the emptiness of life |

without her. Perhaps I would have

been happier to have stayed on
the same place—I don’t know.

time.

“l have a room in the

district. The lady I rent of is a dear |
motherly soul, who does all she can}

for my physical comfort; but

isn’t one’s ‘own folks,’ you know, and |

there’s a marked distinction.

“And now you will have a

idea of why I hate Christmas, and |

how, each year, as the time draws

nearer and nearer, I dread the living |

through of the day.
“Of course, I have many and very
friends. They know I

dear how

am situated now and my past be-|

reavements and they are exceedingly

kind to me, and especially so at the |

an
the

holiday season. I always have
to out, which

senders make include the staying all
night, as they realize how lonely my

room is to me on that day.

invitation dine

“But still, all this is not like hav- |
call

ing relatives—people you can
your very own, people you have
right to look to in case of emer- |
gency.

“Sometimes I feel so utterly alone

af

sent away to boarding}

our |
When we came to the}

for |

in |
At
any rate, I thought differently at the |

downtown |

she

faint |

 

 

:.
: i |in the world that I want to give up}
disposing of the livestock, carriages, |

the struggle against Fate
down and i all Sut I realize
the cowardice of such an act and |
fight against the desire.”

and
end

Here a customer came to the coun-
ter and that ended the girl’s story.

An awful look had come into her
eyes when she referred to
st was utterly amazed
in

self-de-

Fuction, and |

tO see the way which she choked

down her emotion and turned to wait

and
even smiling countenance, showinga

on the new arrival with a calm
wonderful degree of self-control.

The life that the
girl gave me was purely accidental,
and all told in time than
it the repeating here No
one happened in just then, so there
the

sketch of her

it was less
seems in
was no neglect of duty in
cital.

re-
I had known this clerk for several
years, and she is so invariably sweet
in disposition that it is a delight to
meet her. She has waited on me, as
I say, for a number of years. I never

had known anything of her life out-

side the store environment and the
above narration filled me with = sur-
prise at her outside situation and

pity for the loneliness of it.
As |

possible to believe the girl had pass-

looked at her it seemed im-

ed through so much affliction and

still, seemingly, could be of such good
I

cheer; aud wondered how many

more girls there might be, among

| those we so speak with

the

sacrifice

frequently

behind who are livinga
of

who ever turn to the world a bright

cCOURTEr,

life for others and yet

land smiling face. Jennie Alcott.
a
Solving the Problem.

 

When the head of the concern ar-
at his

|room was cold.

rived his office on Monday

“Is the steam on?” he asked.
The girl stenographer said it was.
"AR. I “The
pipes are and
with that he unscrewed a small plug

see!’ he remarked.

filled with cold air,”

from one end of the radiator. The
cold air came whistling out, and aft-
ef came a trace of steam. “Vl wait

luntil it heats up,” he said.
The steam began to blow through

the hole, so he started to screw the
plug in again.
“Ouch! Gee! MThunderation!” he

screamed as he danced around on one
| foot.
his fingers.

\like a locomotive and spurting water
across the carpet.

“Run for the janitor!”
“Somebody get that plug and put it
iin! Go tell the engineer!’
The

por as he pawed around on the floor

he yelled.

room

| he burned his fingers.
“leant find it,”
| jumped up again.
| What can we do?”
The girl stenographer looked
him and said frigidly:

“Why not turn off the steam?”
+... -—___-
is the rosy veil

i terrible.

is

|

Silence behind

| which hides much unsuspected stu-

pidity.

lie |

The steam had scalded two of |

The radiator began “blowing off’ |

was clouding with va-|
for the plug he had dropped when}

he gasped, as he}

at |

As a Rule

We do not take

very much stock in testimonials

 

“TT's GENUINE”

 

 

 

Madame Grant is the leading dressmaker
in Kalamazoo, and as you know “a prophet
is not without honor save in his own country”
we feel that the following extract from a letter
received by us carries with it a little more
than the usual weight:

‘‘PurITAN Corser Co.,
Katamazoo, MIcu.

Gentlemen:—I have demonstrated to my entire
satisfaction that the Puritan Corset, Style No. 79, is
for all classes of figures the best corset manufac-
tured today in this or any other country. It gives
a certain style to the figure not obtained by any
other garment. I insist upon my customers wearing

them when being fitted.
MADAME GRANT.’’

Write us if we have no representative in
your town. We may be able to do you some

good.

Puritan Corset Co.

| Kalamazoo, Mich.

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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. illiams, De-

— Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,
nt.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Sec-
retary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

Mutual Relations of Salesmanship
and Advertising.

It is to be expected, when one un-
dertakes to speak on salesmanship
and advertising, the two most im-
portant departments of business en-
terprise, that he should know some-
thing of the subject, but I must
confess that I know definitely very
little of it. In order to make clear to
you how I acquired what I do know,
I will go into past history and re-
late my experience.

When I was a boy of about
eighteen I was sent out on the road
with a sample case. I have often |
thought it may have been a plan on
the part of my employer to get rid
of me for good, but somehow I man-
aged to secure a sufficient number of
orders to keep me going and re-|
mained in the position for several
years.

Now, while I obtained some busi-
ness, | observed that there were
others in the same line who sold
about as much or more than I did.

This didn’t worry me, for I was
doing fairly well, but the fact that
another man could sell certain buy-
ers right along, while I could never
succeed in establishing much more
than a bowing acquaintance with
them, notwithstanding all my efforts,
caused me to believe there was some-
thing the matter with me.

I began to make enquiries of those
of greater experience. I asked them
what a salesman should do besides
work in order to be successful.
“That’s easy,” they said. “Study hu-
man nature.”

I had been told that experience was
the best teacher, but I couldn’t wait |
for experience; I had to do business |
right away and all the time. ‘

So, concluding that the experience |
would come anyhow and_ that r|
might profit more by it when it did}
come if I gained some knowledge of |
human nature from the experience of
others, I began to read books.

I waded through works on phren- |
ology, physiognomy and palmistry. |
read up on theosophy, spiritualism,
Christian Science and philosophy, |
and a thousand and one other things,
making notes as I went along.

Failing to find in all these the so-|
lution of the mystery of salesman- |
ship, I then attempted to find it by |
the method much employed by phy- |
sicians in diagnosis—that is

|
clusion.
I soon learned that high foreheads |

in }
<lid not indicate salesmanship, be- |
cause some of the best salesmen had |
low ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

some men with low foreheads do not
know enough to get in out of the
rain.

It wasn’t in the big head, nor in
the little head, nor in the eyes, the
nose, the ears, nor the mouth.

It was not dependent upon the size
of the man, as I knew good salesmen
who were giants, and good ones who
were almost pigmies in stature.

It wasn’t in dress, as I have seen
good dressers fail and untidy ones
succeed.

I found that the oily talker was
not always the best salesman. I had
seen men who in conversation rarely
got beyond “yes” and “no” do an
enormous business.

A thorough knowledge of his
goods doesn’t make a salesman, be-
cause it is often the case that the
greatest greenhorn sells the most
merchandise.

Earnestness, alone, offered no
hope, for many earnest workers fail
utterly.

Enthusiasm does much, but many
enthusiasts are the greatest bores in
the world and do not succeed.

Persistence is a good quality, but I
have observed seemingly lazy, don’t
care a rap fellows walk off with the
best orders in their territory.

Self confidence isn’t the whole of
it, for I have known the most con-

| fident men to meet disaster after dis-

aster.

It is least of all in the price, for
it is demonstrated every day that one
man with the same line in the same
territory can get better prices’ than
another man can get.

It is not in the house, for many
men fail with the strongest houses
supporting them.

And it is not altogether in the ad-
vertising, for many well advertised
articles do not yield enough to pay
the printer.

It is neither in adhering to the
truth nor in being a liar, nor in tell-
ing lies part of the time and the
truth now and then.

It is not luck, because advertising
men say there is no such thing as
luck, and we must believe our adver-
tising men.

It is not a combination of all the
good qualities, for to be them all is
to be almost a god, and I have never
found a god among either advertising

imen or salesmen.

That little spirit, the genius of
salesmanship, is known to us only
by his works. The moment we try
to get our hands on him to analyze
him, presto, he is gone!

1 believe the secret of salesman-
ship lies covered deep down in the
soul, for—it’s all in the man.

I will tell you where I think it is—
it is in that feeling of wholesoulness
that warms you up to every human
being, which makes every man a
brother. It shows in the smile, the

laugh, and in that quality of cheer- |

fulness which makes them ring true.
I have seen the cheerful, cheering

manship.
other qualities put together.

It does not mean that a man must | ©¢¢ding thought is hung on

be a laughing jack, but I believe a

|man may cultivate thoughts which | T@pidly growing chain. It

his soul, that when he does laugh
it will ring in harmony with all that
is best in human nature, and bring
the business.

It is, of course, impossible to find
in any man a combination of those
qualities which we might select as
making the perfect salesman, but if
I were to choose I would say that,
given ordinary cgmmon_ sense, a
cheerful, kindly spirit, earnestness,
moderate enthusiasm, a fair degree
of persistence, with a self confidence
born of the knowledge that all men
are human, and you have about as
good a groundwork for a salesman
as we may hope to discover. Provid-
ed, of course, that he is backed bya
good advertising man.

A salesman should regard a buyer
pretty much as he would a fretful
porcupine, with all his quills set for
a fight, and before proceeding to
business he should do something or
say something that will smooth down
the points and make the buyer com-
fortable and receptive.

Scientific salesmanship, as I under-
stand it, involves a knowledge of the
dual nature of man’s mind, of the ob-
jective and the subjective, and of the
law of suggestion.

Hudson’s formula, or working
theory, is that the subjective mind is
constantly amenable to suggestion
by the objective. The most impor-
tant part of the knowledge of the
| subjective mind lies in the fact that
| it is incapable of inductive reasoning,
|that while its operations are nearly
| perfect and it will reason logical-
| ly from established premises, it does
| not investigate or seek to secure new

ata. Now, we are governed in our
| thinking and acting largely by the
| subjective. The work of a salesman
| or advertising man is to implant
'such suggestions, or establish such
| premises in the subjective minds of
| prospective buyers as in action will
| result in conclusions favorable to the

| seller.

 

 

| 1 will compare the subjective mind |

to an adding machine which records
|an absolutely correct sum of the fig-
| ures on the keys struck by the opera-
ltor. If a wrong key is struck, it
| makes no difference to the machine;
| it does not investigate, but does its
|own work perfectly. It all lies with
| the operator. —

Now, it is pretty well demonstrated
that a new thought in its entirety
can not be comprehended quickly
by the mind unless there has
been previously established another
thought which has an affinity for the
new one—-that is, there must be a
hook in the rack of thought on which
to hang the added impression—an as-
sociation of ideas with older
ones.

To illustrate, let us assume that
the human mind at birth consists
simply of a hook such as you might
fasten in the ceiling of a
and each new thought is,

 

|
|
|
|
|
|
new
|

|

|
|
room,
we will

» by €X-| spirit accomplish wonders in sales- | say, represented by an iron ring.
It does more than all the}

The first thought is hung on the
| hook in the ceiling, and each suc-

either
| the first hook or to some link in the

is very

it wasn't in low foreheads, because | i) so form his character, so attune | plain that a thought can not be add-

ed to the chain unless you attach
it to a link already there.

Now, if this chain were formed so
that each link would be added to the
last one, it would hang down to the
floor in a regular straight line—a
thing of beauty. But this is not the
case; these links or rings of sugges-
tion generally form in bunches and
cause the chain to present an irregu-
lar outline. '

Take the “dyspepsia” idea or ring,
for instance—it is a large one. The
patent medicine advertising man
hangs his little suggestion that you
buy Smith’s Dyspepsia Tablets or
some other remedy on this ring, and
the more rings he hangs on it the
more weighty do that ring
its bunch become in the individual’s
life chain—in governing his actions.

Very often either a salesman or
an advertising man hangs his sug-
gestion on the wrong link; the re-
sult is failure.

I do not believe that the advertis-
ing man who gets the biggest con-
tract is always the best advertiser,
but it may be assumed that he is
the best salesman.

and

Certain observa-
tions that I have made have led me
to believe that some advertisers are
great philanthropists and believe in
helping others in the same line. |
may be wrong, but let me tell you
how I get at it.

I asked ten different men if they
ever read the “Sunny Jim” advertise-
ment. They all answered “Yes.”
“What does it advertise?” I asked.
Seven said a breakfast food, and did
not know which one, and three said
it advertised Force. [I asked ten
other men if they read the advertise-
ment, “The Smile That Won’t Come
Of” “Ot course,’ everybody  re-
|plied. “What does it advertise?”
| Not one single man could tell me.
|] then asked if they had seen the
| “Quaker” on the. billboards and
|every man said “Quaker Oats.”
| ]T concluded that the “Sunny Jim”

 

 

LIVINGSTON
HOTEL

The steady improvement of the
Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large and beautiful lobby, its ele-
gant rooms and excellent table com-
mends it to the traveling public and
accounts for its wonderful growth in
popularity and patronage.

Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.
GRAND RAP.DS, MICH.

 

 

 
 

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Write for prices.

DETROIT FUR CO.
253 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

W. FRED McBAIN, President
Grand Rapids, Mich. The Leading Agenoy

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

41

 

man had placed his suggestions on
the breakfast food ring plentifully
enough, but did not get Force attach-
ed firtnly. “The smile that won’t
come off” seems to me to be one
on the other fellow, but “Quaker
Oats” is “Johnny on the spot.”

Advertising is a profession, equal
in dignity to that of a physician or
surgeon or that of the law.

It is like that of a physician  be-
cause an advertising man can and
does cure a sick business. A prom-
inent physician said a few days ago
in an interview that 80 per cent. of

the people who were sick would get

well if “they were let alone” with-
out any medicine.

I have often wondered who is the
better judge of an advertisement—
the advertising man or the man who
foots the bills. Many surgical oper-
ations are pronounced “perfect”
surgeons, but kill the patient.

by

Advertising pays. No man will dis-
pute that. He can not. It is a sub-
jective force that he dare not try
to overcome. The two words have
been linked together so firmly by
advertising men that one finds it im-
possible to utter the first without the
last.

The similarity of the profession of
advertising to the profession of
law may
positively—may come in here.
practice of law pays the lawyer, and
advertising pays—the advertising
man.

 

It will readily be conceded by ad-
vertising men.

It wilk readily be conceded by ad-
vertising men, from what I have said,
that I do not know much about ad-
vertising.
took a course in bill posting once. It
cost me, or, rather, it cost that very
convenient thing, the advertising ac-
count, $983.67 to learn the difference
between a one sheet and an eight
sheet poster.

I had been writing circulars and
bookets, etc., for a number of years,
and in my own mind had concluded
that I “knew where I was at,’ so
far as our business was concerned—
except in bill posting.

We had imported a large quantity
of the finest German horehound drop
—and it was the most perfect pro-
duction of which a confectioner could
conceive. It was just the right size
for a pleasant mouthful, a beautiful
amber brown and shone like a piece
of satin. Strong? It was so strong
with the true remedial virtues of
horehound that to cure a cold you
would simply have to gaze upon it.
We had taken that horehound herb,
made a powerful tea, then distilled
and redistilled it. That horehound
drop was ten times as strong as any
horehound drop on earth.

Common, everyday circulars would
not do. I must let the world know
of it, and I hied me away to a bill
poster. I found him, gave him my
card and stated briefly the object of
my visit.

Why, why, why! He opened his
arms to me, welcomed me as a long
lost brother, invited me inside the
railing-—-me, mind you. He told me
that my ideas were perfect, that they

mind you, I have not said |
The |

But I ought to know. [|

were nearly as good as those of
real advertising man.

Said he: “You have come to the
right place. I am truly glad that you
did not fall into the hands of that
man over the way. You see, we do
things scientifically here. We
made a life study of publicity. We
will, for you, cover St. Louis from
Bremen to Carondelet, from the riv-
er to DeHodiamont, at a low rate;
every available spot (and we control
them all—that is, the good ones) will
show your posters. Sell your hore-
hound drop? Why, that’s the only
way to sell it.

“Cost? You must never consider
advertising a cost. The advertising
account and expense account are ab-
solutely distinct. Only fossils speak
of advertising as a thing that costs.
Why, man’”—and here he hurled at
me that one resistless projectile—
“advertising pays.”

That settled it. I was convinced.
The gentleman fulfilled his contract
to the letter. About a year after-
ward we melted over, as scrap, in
the kettles, 2,000 boxes of the finest
horehound candy the world ever pro-
duced, which we had made up in an-
ticipation of the rush that
came.

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never

He did the right thing, however—
he finished my education—when he
told me that I-must never expect
results the first year and sometimes
not until the second or third.

I had read somewhere that adver-
tising is long range salesmanship, and
it looked that way to me.

vertising that many overlook or to
which they do not attach sufficient
importance or give much attention,
and that is advertising in such a
way that its most effective power is
through the stimulation given sales-
men.

A salesman is the strongest adver-
tisement. I do not believe we will
ever get a stronger one. The influ-
ence of personal force, in direct con-
tact. is about one thousand times
greater than the printed form in
most lines of business, and unless it
be possible to alter natural law, will
always remain so.

The advertising man who wishes to
conduct business into certain chan-
nels may write his advertisement so
that it is really directed toward the
salesman. Now, by mailing to cus-
tomers a few days ahead of the trav-
eler, he impresses the salesman with
the importance of the _ particular
goods advertised without the sales-
man realizing that it is intended for
him. It is, in fact, a lesser advertise-
ment operating on a greater one—in-
directly. Once a salesman gets the
thought he will unconsciously  re-
spond to the stimulus.

I do not think that all salesmen can
be advertising men, but I believe all
advertising men should be salesmen.
And I am sure that most of them
are.

I will say, in conclusion, that the
advertising man need feel no alarm
at what I have said. He has the
commercial world on the hip, and it
can not do without him, for advertis-
ing pays. W. N. Aubuchon.

 

There is a field for short range ad- |

Gripsack Brigade.

Wm. P. Baillie has entered upon his
tenth year with Geo. H. Wheelock &
Co. Mr. Baillie is just as proud of his
house as his house is proud of him.
Will Bowen has parted

National Grocer Co.

a Chicago tea house.

on his eighth year with Hecht &
Zummack.
of his new residence, 643 Madison
avenue, which has been in process of

season.

and traveling representative of the
firm of Dehinden & Gallasch, manu-
facturers of vinegar at

the Sherman House, at Saginaw, Mon-
day evening. Heart failure
signed as the cause of death.

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as follows: CC. A. Young, who re-
cently sold his grocery stock on
State street to Helber Bros., will go
on the road for the Cudahy Packing

©. of Omaha, atter January 1.

the city, as his son, Raymond, is
member of the medical class of the
U. of M.

After this week the traveling rep-
resentatives of the leading clothiers
will be turning their steps homeward,
so as to be off the road during the
holiday season. They have been more
than usually successful in interesting

a

the distribution of business has been

wide enough to put nearly all

are concerned. That the spring sea-
son will develop strength as it pro-
gresses is the opinion of manufactur-
ers, and on duplicates it is expected
the tide of orders will be in the di-

 

| rection of fancy woolens and fancy
| worsteds. From the fact that for
‘two seasons plain goods have been
popular, it was thought by the trade
that for the new spring season re-
tailers would be ready to consider
fancy suits with more liberality than
they did last year. The sales of
tions, but clothiers had counted up-
on doing much more than an average
business on such goods. With this

season’s offerings including larger as-

Nicholas Dehinden, senior member |

/sortments than ever before the road-

| . ° .
|men impressed buyers with the im-

portance of taking a generous assort-
ment of initial orders. In suits that

/are sold in low and medium ranges

company |
with the Traverse City branch of the |
It is reported |
that he intends taking up the line of |

prices have been kept at or near old
levels. On many of the styles that
have sold heavily the clothiers will
have to pay advances on the cloths

|from which to make the garments,

Dr. D. S. Hatfield has entered up- |

He has taken possession |

and this will reduce the profits of the
season’s business. With clothiers it
is a custom to maintain their level

| of prices, unless absolutely compell-

construction during the past summer |
| vanced

| the

Milwaukee, |
dropped dead while eating supper at |

as- |

An Ann Arbor correspondent writes |

Mr. |
Young’s family will remain here in

lines |

retailers in the lines for next spring; |

in safe position so far as initial orders

fancy goods were of ample propor-

ed to increase them, and in almost
all cases where cloths have been ad-
24%4@s5c per yard the gar-
ments are not changed in price to
retailers. Where advances in
cloths have been from 74%4@r§c per
yard a proportionate increase has been
made in the price of clothing. Retail-
ers do not hesitate to order attrac-
tive styles at the higher valuation, for
it is recognized that the well appear-
ing clothing will be in demand with
A large percentage of
for spring has been done
on mercerized lines.

consumers.
business

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Belding—Chas. Hammond, who for
a long time past has been employed
in Robinson & MHudson’s_ grocery
store, is now assisting in M. E. Peck’s
shoe store. Verne Snyder is the new
clerk in Robinson & Hudson’s store.

Charlevoix—W. G. Friend is mana-
ger of the new dry goods and cloth-
ing store opened here by J. Welling
& Co., of Petoskey.

Casnovia—-Dorr Westcott has been
engaged as salesman in F. H. Bitely’s
store.

Allegan—Cornelius Bolear, of Zee-
land, has been engaged to take A. J.
Colburn’s place in the hardware de-
partment of the grange store.

Cassopolis—J. A. O’Leary has re-
signed his position at the W. B. Hay-
den & Son hardware store, where he
will be succeeded by Mell Brown, of
Nappanee, Ind.

The proposed bill lading, about
which the shippers of the country
have raised a storm of opposition,
has been practically withdrawn by the
railroads, owing to the showing made
by the shippers at the hearing before
the Inter-State Commerce Commis-
sion at Chicago, at which time it was
readily apparent that the railroads
did not have a foot to stand on.

 

 

 

 
   

 
 
 

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
Cc. B. Stoddard, Monroe.

Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-

President—W. A. Hall,
Vice-Presidents—W. C.

Detroit.
Kirchgessner,

 

Grand Rapids;.Charles P. Baker, St.
Johns; H. G. Spring, Unionville.
Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.

 

E. Russell, Jackson.
Executive Committe John D. Muir,

Grand Rapids; BE. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor;

L. A. Seitzer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal-

 

amazoo; LD. S. Hallett, Detroit.

Trade Interest Committee, three-year
term—J. M. Lemen, Shepherd, and H.
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

Increase in the Use of Granular Ef-
fervescent Salts.
The

lar

increase in the use of granu-

effervescent salts has been sv

marked within recent years, and the

 

process of manufacture so _ gr¢
simplified, that every retail pharma-

cist should be independent of the

manufacturer of this class of prepa-

fataons. The fact that a

nauseous

dose of medicine be taken wit

 

 

 

comparative ease when mixed wi
an effervescent drink or one highl
charged “with carbon dioxi¢ has

introduc

long been known, and the

Fervescent salts has made

mn OF ¢

  

it possible to take advantage of this

principle without the inconvenience
of obtaining a previously carbonated
water. This fact was soon recogmiz
ed, but for years the price was al

most prohibitory because of the ex-

pensive method of manufacture, and

 

since it required elaborate

apparatus
for recovering the alcohol, its prep-
ration was entirely outside the prov-
ince of the retail pharmacist.

In the former method the powders,
consisting of tartaric acid and sodium

bicarbonate in the proper proportion,

tozether with the medicaiting ub-
stance, are thoroughly dried and
powdered, and when uniformly mix-
ed, moistened with alcohol and forc-
ed through a suitable sieve, to di

vide the pasty mass into granules;

they are then thoroughly dried.

As the powders are only moisten-

ed with alcohol, in which they are
practically insoluble, the finished

preparation retained its property of

effervescence when dissolved in wat-
er; but leohol, much of

the use of a

which was lost in the process, in-

creased

j T.
prevented tte

the cost and
preparations from
ularity.
Within a comparatively short time,
this
tirely superseded by

pensive and

however, method has been en-

:
much less ex

more simple process.

which takes advantage of the one
of

molecule of water « crystallization

the de-

supplying

Enough of the tar-

in citric acid by

sired moisture.

taric acid is replaced by citric acid

to make a pasty mass of the powders

when they are subjected to a tem-

perature which will liberate the wat-

er of crystallization. In the large

laboratory, when a suitable formula

has been selected, the mixed powders

are placed in a steam-jacketed, porce-

lain-lined kettle, kept at the proper

temperature, and the whole mass ma-

nipulated until it becomes uniform-
ly moistened; it: is then. passed
through a suitable sieve and finally

Gried in hot-air closets.

When the retail pharmacist, how-

ever, attempts to make a granular
effervescent salt by the same method,
but the

hand, he meets with the difficulty of

with isually .at

apparatus

securing a properly regulated heat,
and the salt does not become uni-

formly moist; the surfaces which are
exposed to the air become dry before
the remaining portion is moistened,
and the resulting granular salt is oft-

satisfactory.

en tof
While

nicely

the expert may obtain a
granulated preparation by the
fire, yet the
the
laboratory has shown that it is
that

results can be obtained by this

use of a dish and open

experience with classes in col-

ere
rather the exception uniformly
good
1ethod, while the modifed manipula-

od

novice,

tion, suggested here, yields re-

sults, even in the hands of a

and is adapted to the use of a retail

pharmacist.

Numerous experiments have shown

that a mixture of sodium bicarbonate,
tattaric acid citric 2cid, im 2

and
proportion which will produce a so-
lution of neutral sodium tartrate and
sodium citrate, and so adjusted that
will be

just sufficient moisture pres-

ent to produce a pasty mass, without

marked efferve. cence when the whole

is heated, may 6c taken as the
basis of many medicatel granular
effervescent salts, and good results
obtained, even when the proport.on

of medicating substance varies

con

iderably, the precaution always be-

ing observed, however, to thorough-

ly dry every addition. The follow-

ing mixture fulfills these conditions:
Basis for Effervescent Salts.

Sodium bicarbonate, dried

and powdered 2200005000. 530 gm.
Tartaric acid, dried and pow-

dered eae ai
Citric acid, uneffloresced cry-

ee ee 180 gm.

Powder the citric acid and add the
tartaric acid and sodium bicarbonate

This basis may be mixed with

many of the medicaments commonly

used in the form

cent salts, in the proportion which

will properly represent their

and

such substances as sodium phos-

phate, magnesium sulphate,

  

caffeine, potassium bromide, lithium

citrate, potassium citrate, and others,

will produce satisfactory products. A |

typical formula would be as follows:

Effervescent Sodium Phosphate.

Sodium phosphate,  unefflo--

rocea Crystals (ooo 500 gm.

Sodium | bicarbonate. dried

and powdered 650.405.0573 477 gm.
Tartaric acid, dried and pow-

eee oo eae a
Citric acid, uneffloresced cry-

Biase ee. 162 2m. |

Dry the sodium phosphate on aj}

water-bath until it ceases to lose
weight: after powderivg the dried |
salt, mix it intim-\tely with the cit-|

ric acid and tartaric acid, then thor-

of granular efferves-

doses, |

oughly incorporate the sodium bicar-
bonate.

The mixed powders are now ready
The
which is suggested to re-}
that usually followed

for granulation. change in ma-

nipulation
place requires |
blue-tlame

the

which

either a= gas stove or a

coal-oil stove, and one of small

tin or sheet-iron ovens are so
The

almoct

largely used with these stoves.

stove itself will be found in

every drug store, and the oven costs

i

but from $1 to $2.
The

deg.

about
use of a

heated to
(the
mometer is desirable at

oven is 200

Fahrenheit ther-
first, but one
will quickly learn how to regulate |
the flame to produce the desired tem-
perature), and the previously mixed |
powders are placed on, preferably,
a glass plate, which has been heated
with the oven, about one-half pound
being taken at a time, dependent up- |
on the size of the oven. The door of
the oven is now closed for about one

minute, and, when opened, the whole

mass will be found to be uniformly
moist and ready to pass through a
suitable sieve, the best kind and size
beins a timed iron Ne. 6 Thi
moist, granular powder may then be
placed upon the top of the oven,

where the heat is quite sufficient to
thoroughly dry the granules, and the
proceed immediately

operator may

with the next lot of mixed powder,
easily granulating ten or more pounds
within an hour.

Sugar has often been proposed as
an addition to these salts, but exepri-
that the

taste, which is

ence has shown slight im-

provement in some-

| times questioned, does not offset the

likelihood of darkening, which is apt

to occur when the salt is being heat-
ed, or the change in *color after it
has been made several months.

It should be

remembered, too. |

that in making a granular efferves-
cent salt by the method which de-
pends upon the liberation of water

of crystallization, a loss in weight

amounting to about 1o per cent. will

be experienced. This is due, in part,
to the loss of water which is driven

of, and

aiso to a trifling toss 0!
carbon dioxide when the powder is
moistened. E. Fullerton Cook.
EE Se TE
The Drug Market.
Opium—Is firm but unchanged.
Morphine—Is steady.

Quinine—Is in seasonable demand, |

| but unchanged in_ price.
citrated |

Balm Gilead Buds—Supplies are

very small and another advance has
taken place.
Russian Cantharides—-Show a slight
decline.
Cocoa Butter—Is lower on account
of reduced price abroad.

ie

from England and France show in-

Glycerine very firm. Advises

creased price for crude.

Hops—On account of short
are very firm.
last year.

Menthol—Is much firmer.

| prices have advanced.
Strychnia—On account of the ad-

lvance in Nux Vomica has advanced
|5¢ per ounce.

Prices are higher than |

| that they so often strike the

crop |

|

Nux Vomica—Stocks are small and}

smal]
High-
er prices are looked for in the spring,

Sassafras Bark—-Is in very

supply and higher prices rule.

when there is the heaviest demand.
Cotton
on the market and prices have been

Root Bark—-New crop is

reduced.
Wild Cherry Bark—ls

higher.

scarce and

Oil Sassafras—Is scarce and prices
are very firm.

Gum Camphor—Is very firm at

the last advance on account of un-

‘certainty of shipment of crude from

con-
Another

Refiners will not enter

Japan.

tracts at present price.

|advance is probable.

Goldenseal Root—Has advanced 5c

per pound and higher prices are
looked for as there is very little for
sale.

Dutch Caraway Seed-—-Is_ higher

abroad on account of small crop and

}econcentration of stocks.

Coriander Seed—Has again ad
vanced and is very firm.

Linseed Oil—Is firm on account of
higher price for seed.

——————————
Blue Light as Pain Destroyer.
The latest
tistry, whose painlessless henceforth
i lights. After

research Prof

revolution is in den-

is to arise from blue

three years of patient

Redan, of Geneva, has found a new

anaesthetic. Knowing that the nerv

influenced by col red

ous system 1s
light the professor experimented with
each hue in turn, and soon perceived
that

soothing

blue has an _ extraordinarily
the Put-

to practical. G@ ¢

effect on nerves.

ting this discovery
he now shuts up a patient in a dark

room and exposes his eyes to a blue

hight of fifteen candle power for
three minutes, causing him to lose
all sense of pain, although at the
same time he may be fully  con-

scious.

A tooth may then be pa§$-
es_ly extracted with none of the aft-

er effects on the system which somec-

times follow ether or chloroform.
—_—___. +.

It’s as essential to say the right
thing at the right moment as to
know what not to say all the time
Sometimes a surplus of words loses
when a judicious silence might have
won the sale and the profit.

The trouble with opportunities is
wrong
people.

 

 

 

You will make no mistake if you reserve your
orders for

Valentines

Fishing Tackle
Base Ball Supplies

Our lines are complete and prices right. The
boys will call in ample time. Late
orders and’re-orders for

Holiday Goods

promptly filled. We can supply your wants
till the last hour.

 

FRED BRUNDAGE
Wholesale Druggist
Stationery, School Supplies and Fireworks
32-34 Western Ave., Muskegon. Mich,

 

 

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WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

 

 

 

 

 

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Benzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 175 Gaultheria _..._. 2 40@3 60 a onitum Nap’ 'sR 60
Horaete oc... @ 17| Geranium ....oz 75 | wyane itum Nap’sk 50
Carbolicnm ..... 26@ 29| Gossippii Se m gal 50@ 60 Ai tic a, a
Citriogm ...-..- 4. 38@ 40| Hedeoma. .......1 40@1 50 | Abooc @ asco : 50
Hydrochlor ..... 3@ 5|Junipera ........ 40@1 20 Ales & Myre | 60
Nitrocum ...... &@ 10} Lavendula ...... 90@2 75 gfoetida ...... 10
Qisncdes 10@ 12|Limonis ......... 90@1 10 att ppe Belladonna 60
Phosphorium, dil. @ 15 | Mentha Piper ..4 25@4 50 | RUT@nt Cortex .. 50
Salicylicum ..... 42@ 45| Mentha Verid ...5 00@5 50 bse ae ae 60
Sulphuricum 1%@ 5|Morrhuae gal ..1 50@2 50 pe CO ees 50
Tannicum ..»..-.. 7%@ 80| Myrcia ..........3 00@3 50| Gartnanides 50
Tartaricum ..... 38@ 40 sar Cnn) Tiga 75@3 00 ao. S ....-. v5
i cis Liquida ... ) 9] ~apsicum ....... of
Ammonia Picis | a baa oy 10@ 12 Cardamon ...... 75
Aqua, 18 de 4@ 6 Jiquida zal @ 351@€a : (0
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Aqua, 20 dee ..: 6@ 8i 5 cg 90@ 941 Castor 1
Carbonas 13@ 15 a a @1 00 Cate cl ee >
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Baccae i hve 0a 0) Dieiialis ........ 50
Cubebae ...po.20 15@ 18] Thyme, opt .. @1 80 Breet oe. 50
Juniperus .....- 5@ 6 | Theobromas ce 15@ 20) Ferri Chioridum. 35
Xanthoxylum ... 30@ 35 Ae Gentian ........ 50
ial Potassium Gentian) Coe.) |)... 60
Copaiba me eel ee er .-...-..- 15@ 1g|Guiaca ....... ae 50)
Ber Ce @1 50 Bichromate Le 13@ 15 | Guiaca ammon .. 60
Terabin, Canada. 60@ 65| Bromide ........ a 6 50
Tonitan .2...... 35@ 40 Carats en ae rat pe = Tc dine aes —
e ate a 2@ = , Colorless. . 15
a ; Cortex 1 Cyanide _ 34@ 38 Kino eee tee ee 50
Abies, Canadian.. 8 | Iodide ... cial 3 05@3 16 | Lobelia -.-..... 50
Cassiae odeww ea 20 Potassa, Bitart pr 30@ 3? — i... 59
Cinchona Flava.. 18] Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10|NUX Vomica ..... 50
Buonymus atro.. 30 | Potass s Nit aS 6a e1 ORE -.-ee i
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runus Virgimi -. a Sulph: e~ 49] Opil, deodorized. 1 50
Quillaia, ord... 12 Sn b@ 18 Quassia en 0
Sassafras ..po 25 24 Radix Rimtany _.......- 50
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Extractum Ae 30@ 33|Sanguinaria ..... 50
Clycyrrhiza Gla.. 24@ 30| Anchusa ........ 10@ 12) Serpentaria ..... 50
Glycyrrhiza, po.. 28@ 30 Arum po .......- @ 2 |Stromonium .... 60
Haematex :.0.-.. N@ 12| Calamus ........ 20@ 40) Tolutan ......... 60
Haematox, 1s . 13@ 14 Gentiana. po 15.. 12@ 15| Valerian ........ 50
Haematox, %s .. 14@ 15| Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@_ 18 Veratrum Veride. a0
Haematox, 4s .. 16@ 17 Hydrastis, Canada 1 75 | Seneiber ........ 20
as r oe Can.po @2 00
s1lebore ‘ 2@ 5 :
Carbonate Precip. 15 a Alba. ed 15 Miscellaneous
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ly hg epic 2 8. = galana, pr. ...... 253@ 30|Alumen, grdpo7 3@ 4
solut. Cnic te 9 | Maranta, 4s @ 35 | Snnetto ..... 40@ 50
Sulphate, com’l .. 2) odo a oe eee Se a oe me
> > : odophyilum po. 15@ 18 Antimoni, po .... 4@ 5
Sulphate, com’l, by Rie ce A = he
: nat bee gs... 75@1 00 ntimoni et sai T 40@ 50
_ bbl. per cwt .. 12) Bhat cut |... 1 00@1 25 | Autipyrin -..-. @ 25
Sulphate, pure 71 Behe. py 75@1 00| Antifebrin ... @ 20
Flora mpieela ......... 30@ 35| Argenti Nitras oz @ 48
Arnica. .......... 5@ 18} Sanguinari, po 24 @ #)|Arsenicum ...... 10@ 12
Anthems ....... 22@ 25) Serpentaria ..... 50@ 55| Balm Gilead buds 60@ 65
Matricaria ...... S6@ 261 Seneea 2... 85@ 90| Bismuth SN ..2 8002 85
Folia Smilax, offi’s H. @ 40 | Calcium Chior, 1s @ ¢
PAGS S006. oe O@ Soi Smilax, M ...... @ 25 | Calcium Chlor,%s @ 16
Cassia Acutifol, Scillae po 35.... 10@ 12]|,Calcium Chlor 4s @ 12
Tinnevelly .. 15@ 20] Svymplocarpus ... @ 25 |jCantharides, Rus @t
Cassia, Acutifol. 23@ 30] Valeriana Eng .. @ 25 |\Capsici Fruc's af @ 20
Salvia officinalis, Valeriana, Ger .. 15@ 20 Capsici Fruc’s po @ 22
4s and 168 13a i Zineiber a ..-... 12@ 14||Cap’i Fruc’s B po a@ 5
iva Urei ......- a See 20) Paneer J). 4. 16@ 20 rset erga re: 28
Acacia, ial ae. @ 65 Semen Gers, All Ya a Suk 5
Acacia, 2nd pkd.. @ 45|Anisum po. 20. @ 16 }iCera Fiava ..... 2
Acacia, 3rd pkd @ 35 — (gravel's). = io ereeus «20... 1 ;
Acacia, sifted sts. @ 28) Bird, Is ......... a 6 ||Cassia Fructus .. @ 35
Acactw,) PO... .... 45@ 65| Carui po 15 t6@ i iCentraria ._|._.. @ 10
Aloe Bars ...... 12@ 14 co cee: (0@ S30 iCataceum ...-... @ 35
Aloe, Cone ...... @ 25 oriandrum ... 12@. 4 uChioroform ..... 42@ 32
Aloe, Socotri .... 45 eae Sativa. 5@ 7 iChloro’m. Squibbs @ 95
Atmmoeniic .....-. 65o 60 | Cydonium ....... 75@1 00 |jChloral Hyd Crst 1 35@1 60
Asafoetida ...... 35@ 40| Chenopodium ... 25@ 30 ||Chondrus .... 20@ 25
Benzointrm ...... 50@ 55 | Dipterix Odorzte. 80@1 00 | Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Catechal is. ... @ 13|Foeniculum ..... @ 18|Cinchonid’e Germ 38@ 48
Catechu, %s .... @ 14|Foenugreek, po.. 7@ 9/Cocaine .......... 4 05@4 25
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Camphorae ..... S8S@ |_| tint era bbl 2% S@ 6] Creosotum ...-.. @ 45
Euphorbium ... G@ 40 Leesa .......... Tog 3801 Creta ;:.:.-. bbl 75 @ a
Saibaneyn oo lc... @1 00| Pharlaris Cana’n 9@ 10{Creta, prep ..... @ 3
Cc k 1 25@1 3 Rapa 5@ 6 | Cret ee 9 11
sambore ....p0..1 25@i 35 | apa .----------- 5@ § | Creta, precip @
Guaiacum ..po 35 @ 35 1 simapis Alba .... 7@ 9{ Creta, Rubra @ 8
Kind of. po 45¢ @ 45 Sinapis Nigra .-.. S@ 0) Crocus ...-..-..- 1 75@1 80
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Meee 5. es on Ole ee 1 25@1 50) Emery, all Nos @ 8
Shellac, bleached 65@ 70 —— ris poe 0 a SQ? = Emery, po .... oe 6
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Frazaeanth ..... 70@1 00] saccharum N E.1 90@2 10 a ota - DO 65 60@ 6:
Herba Seen To -i gees oo | mther Sulph .... 70@ 80
Absinthi 95 |5 ‘ D@6 O01 & 2@ 15
Aabsinthtom or pk 25 | Cini “posto. Syms an| Eigee White 0° 12
I obelia oe om 25 Vina Alba ...... 1 25@2 00| Gambler ......-. s@ 9
Majorum. ..oz pk 28 Sponges Gelatin, Cooper . @ 60
Mentha Pip oz x 93 | Florida Sheeps’ wl Gelatin, French . 35@ 49
Mentha Ver oz pk 25 Carriiee .......¢ 3 00@3 50] Glassware, fit box 75
oie... oz pk 39 | Nassau sheeps’ wl Less than box .- 79
Tanacetum V ... 92 earriaze ....... 50@3 75 | Glue, brown tt@ 8%
Thymus V oz pk 95 | Velvet extra shps’ Gine. white ..... 1b@ 25
Magnesia wool, carriage . @2 00| Glycerina ....... 16@ 20
Calei he @ Extra yellow shps’ Grana Paradisi .. q
: med, Pat .. 65@ 60 7 a
Carbonate, Pat .. 18@ 20 wool carriage... @1 25! Humulus ........ 25@ 60
Carbonate K-M. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps wl, _| Hydrare Ch Mt. @ 95
Carbonate ....... 8@ 20 carriage ..-..-- @1 25| Hydrarg Ch_ Cor @ 9
Oleum Hard, slate use .. @1 00] Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @1 05
Absinthium ..... 4 90@5 00| Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ammo’'l @1 15
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Amygdalae, Dule. 50@ 60| Slate use. @1 40 | Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Amygdalae Ama.8 00@8 25 Syrups Hydrargyrum .. @ 15
AMIE oo 1 75@) Si Acacts ..--...-.. @ 50|Ichthyobolla, Am. 99@1 00
Auranti Cortex .2 20@2 40] Auranti Cortex .. @ 50| Indigo ...... ---.  G@t 06
Bergamiy .......- 2 S5@3 25 | Zingeiber ........- @ 50| Todine. Resubi ..4 35@4 40
Caneucl ......... Som SS linceie ........... @ GO| lodoform .......-. 4 10@4 20
CAryvoonyill ;..+-« 1 S0@i 40:| Werri Iod .....--. @ 50] Lupulin .......-.- @ 40
eee ol == 90 | Rhei Arom ...... @ 50] Lycopodium 1 19@1 29
Chenopadii ..... @2 25| Smilax Offi’s ... 50@ 60|Macis ........--- 65@ 75
Camo 2... 2. i 1091 201 Seneea ..---..-- @ 50] Liquor Arsen et
Citwanetia ....... Go@ Go iSelice ........... @ 50 Hydrare fod .. @ - 2
Conium Mac S6@ 901 Seiliac Co ..-.-. @ 50] Liq Potass Arsinit 199 12}
Copetye: ....5... a 15@1 261 Tolutan ......-- @ 80| Magnesia, Sulph. 2@ 3
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Morphie L,. phe W2 35@2 60 | Seidlitz Mixture.. 20@ 22 s:anseed, pure raw 4154 45
Morphia, SN Y Q2 35 @260|Sinapis ...... o. @ 18| Linseed, boiled .. 46@ 49
— Mal. © so@c GO| Sinapts, opt ..... @ 30 Neat’s-foot, w str 65@ 70
\loschus Canton. @ 40} Snuff, Maccaboy, | Spts. Turpentine. 58@ 63
Myristica, No. 1. 28@ 30 r @ 51| ae i
Nux Vomica po 15 @ @ st) Paints bhE L
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De ........ @1 00/c . : ee .
” Boda, Caro ..... 1%@ 2| Putty, commer’l.2% 2%@3
Picis Liq NN i Soda, Bi-Carb .. 3@ 5] Putty, strictly pr24% 2%@3
Ba, don... ..... G2 @i Soda Ash _..... 3144@ 4} Vermilion, . Prime
Picis Lie gts .... @1 00| Soda, Sulphas .. @ 2 Armorican ..... i@
Picis Lig. pints. @ 60] Spts, Cologne .. @2 60 | Ve -rmilion, Eng. 715@ 80
Pil Hydrarg po 80 @ 50|Spts, Ether Co.. 50@ 55} i Paria 2... 14@ 18
Piper Nigra po 22 @ 18 | Spts, Myrcia Dom @2 v0 n, Peninsular 13@ 16
Piper Alba po 35 @ 30{|Spts, Vini Rect bbl @ rea 2... 6% a 7
Pix Bureaus ..... o2 7iSpts, Vii Rect %b @ Le white 6% @ 7
Plumbi Acet San 15 | Spts, Vii Rt 0 ‘el @ ing, white Sn @ 90
Pulvis Ip’e et ‘Opiil 30@1 50 |Spts, Vii R’'t 5 gal @ Whiting Gilders’ @ 9%
Pyrethrum, bxs H Strvehnia, Crystall 05@1 25 | White, Paris Am’r @1 25
& P BP Co. doz. @ 7 | Sulphur Subl .....2%@ 4 big r Paris Eng
Pyrethrum, pv 20@ 25 Sulphur, toll 214@ 3% i eee ae @1 40
ASSIS) 8@ 10 a ie ena 8@ 10} Univers: saul Prep'd 1 10@1 20
4257 & WwW 25@ 35 benth Venice 28@ 30 :
Quinia, S Ger... 25@ 35 a a 45@ 50 Varnishes
Quina, NW. Y¥.-... 2o@ 353 Vani ._....8 060 No 1 Turp Coach 1 10@1 20
Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14 | Zinci Saas ae 7@ 8| Extra Turp -1 60@1 70
‘accharum La’s. 22@ 25 Coach Body ..2 13@3 00
bein... ... 4 50@4 75 Oils No 1 Turp Furnl op 10
Sanguis Draec’s ... 40@ 50 ybl gal | Extra T Damar .1 55 @1 60
Sage Woo... 12@ 14| Whale, winter .... 70@ 70 | Jap Dryer No 1 T 70@

 

 

 

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We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

are dealers in Paints, Oils and

We
Varnishes.

We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

Sundries.

Weare the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s
Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We always have in stock a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines and

Rums for medical purposes only.

We give our personal attention to mail
orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

day received. Send a trial order.

 

 

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia
ble to change at any time, and ccuntry merchants will have their orders filled a1
marke. prices at date of purchase

 

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

 

Index to Markets

 

 

 

By Columns
Col
A
Axte Grense ............ i
B
Bath Brick 1
Saas <...... 1
Brushes ....... 1
Butter Color 1
c
Confections cot cecce ae
ae keene &
Garbon ae ke
en Oe .......2 8
Chicery 3
Chi 2
Clothes Lines . 2
Coceanu : 3
Genehers Ce
D
Dried Fruits ........... 4
F

ore Goods .... J
sh an ysters ......
Fishi aoe ........ 8
Flavoring extracts .....
tt
aah weeete ........... &
Fruits

ees ae
G
Gelatine ...........0..0. §&

aon eee ............ ©
Grains and Flour ...... 6&

   

 

 

H
fides and Pelts ...... 10
{
J
aw ..... lac eecenes ae
L
ceantes 2... 8
SS ee
M
Meat Extracts ........ 5
es 4... co. oe
een
N
oe oo
°
Ec ai cce cece
P
Pinkies Socks ecpee oe
Cards 6
6
6
6
cbc tees Se
on eee, 2... 2
Salt Fish ..... oes ;
Shoe Blacking ......... z
BU ccs nce
eee ic 8
8) 8
Sugar 8
Syrups 8
ee eee
Vv
w
Washing Powder ...... 9%
Wrapping Paper ....... 10

Y
VYourt Cue ..::52:5..-: 3

 

AXLE a

az gro
BMA ool. cc 55 «66 (00
Coscer OF J... 55
eee 4s 50 4 25
a 75 9 00
Xt, Golden ...... am 5 0

BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand
-. Cn, oer ae .....
2p. can, per dos ....1 0
aD. Can, per dot .....1 80
BATH BRICK

Avpertean 2.5506... 75
MGM 2205. 85
BROOMS
a 275
oO. © Cree ......... 2 30
ho. = Cree 4... Lo.
ao 8 Coreet ss . a
Paro Ge 2a. 2 40
Common Whisk ....... 85
Pumey Whisk. ....... 1 20
ae... 3 00
BRUSHES
Scrub
Soe Back © mm ..... 75
pee, Eee, SE in... 95
Pomted ends ......-... 85
Stove
Toe S oe et. oe
Me eee cece 110
me 2 i va
Shoe
- @ 235552... 1 09

7 ooo. ee 1 39
No Mm 2 ee 7
oe. 1 90

BUTTER COLOR
W., BR. & Cos, besize 1 2
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size.2 09

CAN.cES
Electric Light. 8s .... 9%
Fiectric Light, l¢s ....18
erates Ge... 9
Pasaiee, Teo 2. cues. 9%
“iki. 2 23

CANNED GOODS

Apples

3 Th. Standards... 75@ 80

Gals. Standards .1 90@2 00
Blac erries

Sien@ards .. 2... 85
eans
OO 80@1 39
Red Kidney 85@ 95
So 7O@1 15
i. a 75@1 25
Blueberries
Stamtera ....... @ 1 49
Brook Trout
alien. ........ @ fi 75
2tb. cans, s.piced 1 90
Clams
Little Neck, 1th. 1 09@1 25
T.ittle Neck. 2Tb.. @1 50

Clam Boullion

Burnham's 4% pt .....1.99
Bernheim 6. pte -..... 3 6%
Borman s. at ...... 7 2
Cherries
Red Standards ..1 39@1 50
Witte —..._.... 1 50
Corn
i ene 85@90
CO ee ceaa ks cece 1 00
Pay ec 13
French Peas
eur Extra Wine .....-. 22
Oe 19
Pee ee 15
Pe cee ete 11
Gooseoverries
Sianiere «2c... 90
Hominy
Pee jw. ee 85
Lobster
ae See foe ee 2 15
ae, 3.4... -.....8
rie Tee i .w. ce. 2 69
Mackerel
Mustard, tip. ....-...- 1 80
Mosier 7a. ......--- 2 80
ee, ER. ox eo 1 80
Pee, Fe ee ee 2 89
Tweste t <..-2-...- 1 gn
‘Teenie. TH. «.--:- +. 2 8A
Mushrooms
i 1s@ 20
eee oss. ee 22@ 25
Oysters
Coe, 1tb. Boas @ 90
Cove, te... @1 76
Cove, 1tb. Oval @1 00
Peaches
ie 52. ss. - @1 15
ee 1 65@2 00
Standard ......-- 1 00@1 35
Pee ok
Peas
Marmeret. ...... 99@1 00
warty June ....- 90@1 69
Early June Sifted.. 1 65

 

Plums
Ce 85
Pineapple
ireree -. oS. 1 25@2 75
Ree 1 35@2 55
Pumpkin
Does ok. 790
Gee oo 89
ee 1 09
Re oe ea ae 2 00
Raspberries

Rina oy.
Russian Cavier
ae Clee J... eee 3 7%
Te, Oe a, 7 09
Oe oe cs 12 00
Saimon
Col’a River, talls @1 75
Col’a River, flats.1 85@1 90
Red Alaska ..... 1 35@1 45
Pink. Alaska .... @ 9%
Sardines
Domestic, 4s 3%4@ 2%

Domestic, Bes i
Domestic. Must’d 6 @ 9
California, 4s... 11@14

California, 36s...17 @24
Preen, Fe ..... 7 oie
French, %s ...-. 18 @28
Shrimps
Diener |... 1 20@1 40
Succotash
ae 95
Geen 25... 1 10
PAMSy inc 1 25@1 40
Strawberries
poe eG a 2 36
base 220.2. 1 4¢
Tomatoes

 

25
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection ...... @i1%
— a White .... @
S. Gasoline . ea

 

oma d Nap’a.. 12
Cyiip@er ....... 29 @34%
eee 2c. 16 @22
Black, winter .. 9 @10%
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts...... 4 50
Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60
Snider's quarts ....... 2 oe
Snigers pints ........ 22
Snider’s as pentc .. -1 30
HEESE
Bees 5c... @13
cares Cy... - @14
Peerless ........ @14
@15
@
@14
@13%
— 12144@14
Riv erside ele ota wai4
Warnetr’s ai4
aoe @14
em... : 5... @90
Pree ss @15
Limbureer ...... @13
Pineapple ....... 40 @60
Swiss, domestic . @14

Swiss, imported . @20
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce. 55
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 60
a 55
largest Gum Made .. 60
Sen Sen . 55
Sen Sen Breath Perf.1 00
Sauer teat ....-....-2 55

TORN cee ek, 55
CHICORY
ae 5
Mee os 7
es 4
Paes 7
Le 6
CHOCOLATE

Walter Baker & Co.’s

German Sweet ........ 3

ee ee 31
WO ei ee 41
a 35
Re oc a ee 23
CLOTHES LINES
Sisal

60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
7zft. 3 thread, extra..1 40

9uft. 3 thread, extra. 1 70
6¢ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29
“2ft. 6 thread, extra..
Jute
ee ee Z
Pr ee eee ee 2
i oe ee eae 10
a ek 1 50
Cotton Victor

BO eee ce kee ne <i 2o
as, ivaliete are ele aca 1 35
SR es caste ee e- 8 OO

Van Houten, >
Van Houten,
Van Houten,
Van Houten,

 

Cotton Windsor

Galvanized Wire
No. 29, each 100ft.
No. 19, each 100ft. long2
COCOA

COCOANUT

Putman = 36 2...
Dunham's ¥%s & \4s..

ws

Dunham's 365 .......

COCOA —-

i ess quantity .. ly eee 3
Pound packages ....... 4

COFFEE

Pane so

PAE |... we chs ee
Maracaibo

Package
New York Basis

oie eee 14 00

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin's ‘sae or a
to retailers only.
direct
McLaughlin &

Extract
Holland, % gro boxes. 95
ix we eroee .....7.. 1s
Hummel’s foil,
Hummel’s tin,

National Biscuit Company’s
Brands
Butter
Seymour Butters
Y Butters
Salted Butters
Family Butters
Soda
N B C Sodas
Saratoga Flakes ...... 13
Oyster
Bond Oysters .......- 6
Square Oysters ....... 6
i ee ee 7%
ee we ok ae a.
Extra Farina
Sweet Goods
Assorted Cake
Bagley Gems
Belle Rose

Cocoanut Tafy ..-
Cinnamon Bar
Coffee Cake, N.
Coffee Cake, Iced ..
Cocoanut Macaroons 2
Currant Fruit
Chocolate Dainty
Cartwheels
_.xie Cookie
Fluted Cocoanut
Frosted Creams
Ginger Gems .......... 8
Ginger Snaps, N.
Grandma Sandwich — 7
Graham Crackers
Honey Fingers, !
Honey Jumbl
Iced Happy
Iced Honey Crumpet .
imperiais ....-.s-.+-~+; 8
Indian Belle
Jersey Lunch
Lady Fingers 12
pLady Fingers, hand md 25

 

ees 6

es
Familv

 

4

Lemon Biscuit Square. -

Lemon Wafer ......-. :

Lemon Snaps .......--. 12
Lemon Gems ... cc ceee
emi Mew oc. cs 10
Marshmallow ......... 16

Marshmallow Cream...16
Marshmallow Walnut. ~
Mary Ann i..c....5...-.%

EN ee id
Mich Coco Fs’d honey. -
Mik Biscuit .........>

Mich. Frosted Honey. 12,

Mixed Picnic ........- lp

Molasses Cakes, Sclo’d 8
Moss Jelly Par ...... 12
Muskegon Branch, —
OMOOR cc ies ck

Oatmeal Crackers .... 4

Orange Slice ........4 16
Orange Gem .....-+++» 8

Penny Assorted Cakes. 8

Piet Breag cic... ce 7
Pineapple Honey ...... 15
Ping Peet . 24). 2.65. 9
Pretzels, hand made .. 8

Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8
Pretzelettes, mch. m’d 7

ewe |... ke 14
oe eee «ns... 8
Seoten Cookies -...... 10
Smewnrrons ose. 2k 16

Spiced Sugar Tops .. 8
sugar Cakes, scalloped 8
Sugar Squares 0 8
CTO a ee we 15
Spiced Gingers ........ 8
i ee aa ee 10
Vienna Crimp
Vanilla Wafer .
TOR
OE 9
CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or Grums ....-... 2

 

Re 30
Sre COME .. 1... cs 32 =
Faacy cogiye .......... 395

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sindgried. ..-.....
Evaporated ..... 5%@ 7
California Prunes

100-125 25tb boxes. @ 3%

90-100 25Ib boxes. @

$0- 90 25Tb boxes. @ 4%

70- 80 25tb boxes. @ 5
60- 70 25tIb boxes. @ 6
50- 60 25Ib boxes. @ 6
40- 50 25Ib boxes. @ 7
30- 40 25 boxes. @

\%ec less in 50Ib cases.

Citron

Cueeas. ...2.. 5. @15
Currants

bup'd. 1) pee .-. @ 7%

Imported bulk ..6%@ 7
Peel
Lemon American
Orange American
Raisins
London Layers, 2 cr
London Layers 4 cr
Cluster 5 crown ...
l.oose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5

bobo

DH Re

Loose Muscatels, 3 cr.. 5%

— Muscatels, 4 cr.. 6

M. Seeded, 1 lb.6%@7%

i M. Seeded, % 1b5 =
Sultanas, bulk ....

Sultanas, package . . a%
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
eee Te. oe ae 6
Med. Hd. Fra. .1 5@1 85
Brown foiang ...... 2 50
Farina
24 1%. packages. ....1 75
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. ..... 3 00

Hominy

Flake, 50% sack ....1 00
Pearl, 200% sock ....4 00
Pearl, 100% sack ..... 2 00
Maccaroni and Sa

Domestic, 101b box

Imported, 25Ib box ..2 f0

Pearl Barley

Common. .6...056...508 Oe

a 2 75

Meee: 3 50
Peas

Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 25

Green, Scotch, bu...... 1 35

Split, WM. .--.-+----.-.6 a

Rolled Oats

Rolled Avenna, bbls ..4 25
Steel Cut, 100Ib. a =

Monarch, Dek ........:
Monarch, 10M. sacks .1 90
Quaker, cases ......... 3 10
Sago
Mast India 22.5... 3%
German. sacks ........ 3%
German, broken pkg. 4
Tapioca
Flake, 110% sacks ... 4%
Pearl, 130fb sacks .... 4
Pearl, 24 1Ib = aa oe 6
Whea
Cracked, Balk -........ 3%
94 9% packesed ......2 50
FISHING TACKLE
% to bk mm ....-- +51
1%. te 2 Mm .-. 8s, 4s 7
o% to. 2 Mm 2s ass. 9
1% to 2 im 25.20... . ss 1
SEE 15
S Oi cee a0
‘No. 4,
No. 2,
No. 3,
No. 4,
No. 5,
No. 6,
No. 7,
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Linen Lines

Seaen 20

Medium Ske eee?

DAO eae 34
‘oles

Bamboo, ve ft., per doz. 5

Bamboo, 16 ft., ier doz. 0

Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

FLAVORING ‘EXTRACTS
Foot & Jenks

Coleman’s Van.

oom. Pamek ©... 1 50 ns
sen. Taner ....- 2 09 1 50
No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 2 00 1 50

ei sens

i erpeneless —

No. 2 D. © per doz.. 75
No. 4D. C. per doz.....1 50
No. 6 DC. per doz... .2 00
Faper D. C. yer doz. .4 50

Mexican Vanilla
No. 2 D. C. per a@ez.....
No. 43%. © per dog ..
No. 6D €. per dos... .
Paper D. C. ner doz... .
‘i GELATINE
Knox’s Sparkling, doz.1
Knox’s Sparkling, gro14 00
Knox’s Acidu’d. doz. 1 20
Knox’s <Acidu’d, gro 14 00

Nwwhoe
>w
>

Oxted  .. 6. L. 75
Piymouth Rock ....... i
Neen se 6. 1 50
Cores 2 of. sea 1 61
Coes * at. sme ... 2. 1 2

GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100 in bale19
Amoskeag, less than bl 19%

GRAINS AND FLOU

Wheat
L Ola Wheat
NO. t Wiite -- 0... 1 44
Ne 8 Mee oo: i i

Winter Wheat Flour
Local Brands

Poremts te 6 20
Second Patents ......- 5 80
Pareignt =... 2... += sD OO
Second Siraicnt .......5 26
RCA 4 69
rete oc co
SCE weene ..... .4..,-) 5 29
Pee oe 4 60

Subject to usual cash dis-
count.

Flour in barrels, 25¢ per
barrel additional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Quaker, paper ..:.,....5 69
uaker, Cloth :...:.... 5 89

spring Wheat Flour
Piilsbury’s Best, %s ..6 50
Pillsbury’s Best, 4s ..6 40
Pillsbury’s Best. 6s ie 30

Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s

Brand

“eee «6... .. 6 50
Wile Se 2. 6 49
Winkog, es 2.2.35, 6 30
Judson Grocer Co’s Brard
Ceresota, ss Sow ce 6 70
Cercsata te 2 io 6 60
Crresots, Se... 6 50

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, %s, cloth -6 69
Laurel, %s, cloth ....6 50
Laurel, %s & \%s paper6 49

Eure, 6 -. 53. 6 6 40
Meal

Moen oo a 2 90

Golden Granulated 3 00

Feed and Milistuffs
St. Car Feed screened 22 99
No. 1 Cornand Oats 22 00
Corn Meal, coarse ...22 00
cae Meee 2. 29 00
Winter wheat bran .19 00
Winter wheat mid’ngs22 00

iw Seen oe 21 00
Oats

Cur tees . 331%
Corn

Com. pew 2... 48

ort, GIO. ice cee nn 60

Hay
No. 1 timothy car lots 10 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 50

HERBS
OO ce ak 15
eee be
Laure: leaves ........ 15
Senna ar ee ee eS
IN DIGO

ore Si) Doxes .. 95
S. F., 2, 2, oo bores ..

JELLY
5Ib pails, per doz. ..1 70
lo wee 33
sem pews. a. |
LICORICE
ee 30
Comte ....5-...,.-.. 23
Be acces ee ane 14
Roe 2a es 11
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz ....1 60
“ondensed, 4 doz ..... 3 00
MEAT EXTRACTS
Aro: S&S 2 O68. <i... 4 45
Avisoers 4 of .:.....- 3 20

Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 0z.2 75
Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 02.5 50
Liebig’s. Imported, 2 02.4 55
Liebig’s, Imported. 4 02.8 59
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .. 40

Ce 35
ae ec a ees 26
Se te 22
Half barrels 2c extra.
MINCE MEAT

Columbia, per case ..2 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MUSTARD inion .......... ....3 00| Snow Boy Pd'r 100 pk 4 00
Horse Radish, 1 dz ...1 75) wisnts Gow 2 a. UU 4 00|
Horse Radish, 2 dz ....3 50) ninuiem ..... Iu | Procter & Gamble Co.
Bayle’s Celery, 1 dz .. a oe ccccesed W | HCHOX ~~... 2-2 sen 2 85
OLIVES | Wyandotte, luv &s vv | —, Gag. 4 00
Bulk, 1 gal. — os eae SAL SUDA too mo ee
Bulk, 6 gal Keen, 2.2. ge| Granulated, vow... (OF vere rice I
Manzanilla oe... 0 Graluialed, ivuib cuses.1 vu [seed heap 00 00
Queen, pints 35 | ime ise, oe = (Old Coontiy oo... a
ueen, 19 oz 50) ° : —— _ Soap Powders
ueen, 28 02 ... 00 | SALT | Central City Soap Co.
tuffed, 5 oz 90 | Common urades | J2ehso0n, 16 oz...) 40
Stuffed, 8 oz ..... voccok Mm} t00 Sip. Sacas 11.0... 1 95 | aca
Stuffed, 10 oz SO OU OM sacks oo. 4 so | Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50
PIPES | z3 1042. PRES dics os ao 1 ja | Gold Dust, 300-Gc ....4 00
Clay, No. 216 ........170| 50 Ib. sacks .......... gy | Kirkoline, 24 4m. ..... 3 90
Clay. T. D., full count 65| 46 Ib. sacks .......... 16) a ese cece cue. 3 75
° ae ae kaa aang 85 | Warsaw | SOAPINES .....-......20. 4 10
Cob, Po. Poem 166 Ib. dairy in url bags 4u | Babbitt & £06 <2... 3 75
|28 ID. dairy in drill pags zu | Roseine| ee, 3 50
Medium | Solar Rock ; Armour’s ............. 3 70
ee a. — —_ = [66 Rh sae 23 | ape pret ome 3 80
Half bbis., count ..3 75 | oap Compounds
. Small < " Common Johnson’s oc" _.. 5 10
| Gramulated, tine ......... 80 | 1 ee no
Barrels, 2,400 count ..8 00 |Medium tine. 0125557; 5 | a» XXX ......, 4 20
Half bbls. 1,200 count ..4 75 | SALT FISH pond O'Clock ......... 3 35
PLAYING CARDS | Cod | Ru ING-MOFe ......... 3 75
No. 90, Steamboat ... 85 | Large Whole .... @6%/| __. Scouring
No. 15, Rival, assortedl 20 | Small Whole .... @6 Enoch Mor;an’s Sons.
No. 20, Rover enameledl 60 Strips or bricks. 7%@10 | Sapolio, gross lots :...9 00
No. , Special ...... a | Pamece o.oo. @ 3% | S polio, half gross lots 4 5u
No. 98, Golf, satin finish2 00 Halibut Sapolio, single boxes ..2 25
No. 808, Bicycle ......2 00/ Stri eeccee ceccceee L4H | Sapulio, hand ......... 2 25
No. 632, Tournm’t whist2 25|Chunks ............... 15 | Scourine Manufacturing Co
POTASH seein ‘co = — ae
48 in case Holland | rine, cakes ...3.5
Babbitt’s .............4 00) White Hoop, bbls8 25@9 25 | SODA
Penna Salt Co.’s ...... 3 00 aaa — gg #e° = — oe eee &¢
aoe pk |White hoopmchs @ 75 | ea
arrete 13 00 Norwegian ces teas 6 «oie SOUPS
B = ae. es ie 00 Hound, 100 the ...°... 360) Columbia. .......... |: 3 00
a 14 50 Round, 0a lL 2 90 | Red Tetees 0000 Jo) go
: eee >» 77 | Sca ee ede ee oe
= Ome 42... 265s... 7 hen Trout | SPICES
ae a ee oe 7 50 | _ Whole Spices
noe ES 15 50 No. 1 = _ temecers 3 = ee para sepa itry -12
vce oe 9 § o, 1, oo | Cassia, Chinain mats. 12
Clear aa hire 1S ae 75 | Cassia, jo. ea 16
Mackerel | Cassia, atavia, bund. 28
oa cc aN 3% Mess, 100 Ths. ..... 13 00 | Cassia, Saigon, broken. 46
pepo See gy, | Mess, 40 Ibs. ........ 5 70 | Cassia, Saigon, in rolls. 55
‘Smoked Meats Bess, 20) Tbs.) 0000.01 1 60 | Cloves, Amboyna. .... 22
Hams, i2 Ib. average.1u% — . «¢ cece a = ; Ena Zanzibar ...... _
i : : - | we. 4, Ss 22.0. A 5
cree ee ee ee | Se. 2 20 en |. 22 22: 5 10 | Nutmegs, 76-80-1111.
se : i No. 1, eeu 150; Nutmegs, 105-10 ..... go
Hams, 29 Ib. average.10% N Ls 1 25 | Nutmegs, 115-20
Skinned Hams ....... 11 o 4 Scene e+e es, 110-20 ....- 30
Ham, dried beef sets.13% Whitefish Pepper, Singapore, bik. 15
Shoulgers (N Y cut) Nol No.2 Fam | Pepper, Singp. white . 26
con clear. ae @12 100 Ibs. 8 5 - 4 Fepper, Smee ........ i
California Hams ...... 7% i | Pure Ground in Bulk
Picnic Boiled Ham ....12 52 Alege oo ae
Boiled Hams .......... 1642 44 | Cassia, Batavia 11.27: 25
Berlin Ham pr’s'd ~s | | Cassia, Saigon 4s
Min Ham Peeee ee 15 ¥
wes oe pate |Canary. Smyrna. ..... Th | Cloves, Zanzibar 23
‘i s cu | Cueneeay 3 | — aan 15
OIpOenG ........-...- OM | ee se ince sae inger, Cochin .... 18
Pee el. 7%@s  |Cardamon, Malabar ..1 00 |Ginger, Jamaica 25
60 Tb. tubs..advance. % Celery .......-........ | (eee .. 66
80 Ib. tubs..advance. % Hemp. Russian ....... . eee 18
= = ee. é eal cea “o~sso ; | Pepper, — bik. i
. pails..advance. | : ee eee. | Pepper, Singp. white . 28
a Pee oc. oo = |e MG ;
pails P Rape nee ceeeceecees —
pails [VME DONC cece eenee |
SHOE BLACKING | STARCH
a — — 3 — = i Common Gloss
Handy Box, sm oa 1 | PACeagee ...... wi
Bixby’s Royal Polish .. 85|3ib. puckages ......... 4%
Miller’s Crown Polish RE | bib. eo ol She
N Fe oe 3 i < @3:
Tongue 9% | Scotch, in bladders a 7 a ee
Pe cea s cae. | accaboy “es Ms
xtra Mesto g gy | teem Bema ere. HL ay sp oem COM
ere BAO oo. | 5 1 ii. packages 4% @7
Bomciees - ts 10 50 SOAP | 4
Rump, wae satan tt 10 50 Central City Soap gee | SYRUPS
g’s Feet Oe 2 3 c
DIS. «2.0. e eee eee a 20) Boro) Naptha 0.0). . eek 22
% bbis., 40 Ibs. ....... 1 80 Johnson Soap Co. | Half Barcels |) 00000007 24
— sees . . : = ane sitet e teens ee eeee ; = | 20 lb cans % bz in case 1 55
aoe teers AGSET «eee see tee eeee 2 12 | 10 lb cans % dz in case 1 50
ripe Oe 3 40/5 cans 2dz in case....1 65
Kits, 16 Ibs ..... seer ~|Salumet Family ...... 2 30 | 93% 1b Gans 2 dz in case 1 76
% bbis., 40 %s 1 65 | Ghi Riis es = oo le 2 dzin case 1 70
-» - reer. ‘hina, lar cakes ....a.70
bbls., §0 Ibs. ..... 3 00/ China, small cakes .3 75|,., Pure Cane
: Casings Bena Saal 2 26 oo oat ciciale alas ala a =
ose, oer HH. ...:....- 26 ae Se 2 30 ee eee beccacas =
roun eet ..... 35 Sina 60 cakes _......2 19 | Ceice -..-.--.. 2. none.
a eg —_ sence = Gatvamie 2000000000) 4 95 TEA
jeep, ndie ..... Mary Aun ...._......- 5
Uncolored Butterine Mottled German ...... 2 25 __ Sapan
Solid, =. = 1 Mow Gra oo 2 45 aoe —— =
ry .... Scotch Family, 60 undried, choice ......
Canned eames (Co U 2 3)|Sundried, fancy ...... 36
Corned » 3 oe jnack Family, 100 Regular, medium ..... 24
Curned. beef, 14 . eee 3 80 | Regular, choice ........ a2
Roast , 2@ . MM oes ek 2 85 | Regular, fancy |....... 36
Potted ham, Ks 45 | Acsorted Toilet, 50 car- Basket-fired, medium .31
Potted ham, %s ange ee 3 85 | Basket-fired, choice ..38
eee wou is sees = Assorted Toilet, - ie a ae
am, AS ..-- CAPeOns oo. tll. OO nee ewes ae
Potted tongue, %s .... 45) Cocoa Bar, 6 oz ....3 25|Siftings ....... wee. 9@11
Potted tongue. %s .. % | Gocoa Bar, 10 oe 5 25 Fannings ....... ...12@14
RICE Senate Castile ........ 5 onus
— . powder
Screenings ....... e74 Palm Olive, toilet “a = tan a
a. _— ceccece 34 — pera — foot. 10 50 | Moyune, choice 32
oice apan ....- alm ive, ba ae , Jeeeece
nee, —— Gin Rose es a soar 40 ee — Seema =
r Louisiana . S&S Kirk & Co. * oc
Choice La. hd..... @4% | American Family ....4 05 Pine — oe toe =
Fancy La. +--+ @&% | Disky Diamond, 50 802 2 80 tae
ex. fanev. Dusky nd., 0 60Z.
a ee ea. 30
SALAD DRESSING Jap ee st Pamey 2. cl 36
Columbia, % pint 2 25 | Savon Imperial
Columbia, i pint. 1/214 00 | y"hite Russian - Oolong
Durkee’s, large, 1 doz.4 50| Dome, oval bars ...... = Formosa, fancy .......42
rkee’s small, 2 doz..5 25 aero «wee .......... © Amoy, medium ...... 25
Snider’s, large, 1 doz..2 35 | Snowberry ............ 400 | amar ~hotar a
Snider’s, small, 2 doz..1 35 Lau’ Bros & Co English Breakfast
au Z ro . e
SALERATUS Medium ....... as cots aie
Packed 60 Ibs. in box Pie Acme 2)... 3. 3. 400 (Chelee |........4:525.. 90
Arm and Hammer ...3 15| Big Master ...........4 00 Fancy ..........,...-..40

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Willow Clothes, med’m .6
Willow Clothes, small.5
Bradley Butter Boxes
2Ib. size, 24 in case ..
3M. size, 16 in case ..
atb. size, 12 in case ..
iOIb. size, 6 in case ..
Butter Plates
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate.
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate.
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate.
No. 5 Oval 259 in erate
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each
Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2
Rarrel. 15 gal... each ..2
Clothes Pins
Round head 5 gross bx.

ci.

Egg Crates
Humpty Dumpty ....2
No. ¥, complete .......
No. 2. complete ........

Faucets
Cork Hned, Sim ........
Cork timed. 9 ti ........
Cork lined, 10 in .......
Come © We .. - 3 ..

Mop Sticks
rei Siete |...
Eclipse patent spring ..
No. 1 common ........
No 2 pat. brush holder.
12% cotton mop heads 1
Ideal Mac 7.5.2... eae

 

 

 

10

India Palls
Ceylon, choice ........83 2-hoop Standard ...... 1 60
Femer a —— —— deceue : S
TOBACCO [oe -wire, Cameo...
(o-ware, Canle ......... 1 90
Fine Cut | Cedar, all red, brass ..1 25
| Cadillac eee 4 Eo com Bureka ........ : |
wee Po ee or DE eee wim ee eae ola
| Hiawatha, 5b. pails ..56 | Toothpick
Hiawatha, 10%b. pails .54 | tesa = 4 50
Z oe ttt e eee e eens = Softwood 0000000000! 2 75
oc eh SRNR GS —- gape aera 1 30
Protection culo us Ae TT ves “ aa
tn Burley ......... 40. | Mouse, wood, 2 holes .. 22
ee 40 Mouse. wood. 4 holes 45
Plug | Mouse, wood, 6 holes .. 70
mee Crome 2.13... 31 Mouse, tin, 5 holes ... 65
Fe eae piace. wee ooo 80
Sear schesee ina Hat: Spring -... 22... ... 75
a a
rhs er hs a as ad | Tubs
American = Bagie’ "212113 | 29-i.. Standard, No. 1.7 00
Standard Navy .......37 | /%-1., Standard, No. 2.6 00
Spear Head 7 oz... 147 16-in., Standard, No. 3.5 00
Spear Head 142-3 oz..44 20-in., Cable, No. 1 ..7 50
Nobby Twist ......... 55 | 18-in., Cable, No. 2 ..6 50
Jolie Tae as 39 | 16-in., Cable, No. 3 ..5 60
yid, Honesty ae lla ja oo tt tte eee ees 7 =
Oe ge | No bre .......... 6
ae ey 40 | No. 3 Wire ._.._.... 8 55
Fiper Heidsick ._._. 66 Wash Boards
Hoot Jace so |
Honey Dip Twist ::1140 pe pee eer i "
Black Standard ........ 48 | Doublo dome 5
es Double Acme ........ «a 0
Pe tt eee cess ees = {Single Acme .......... 2 25
ine Caled ae |S ee
Smoking | Northern Queen ....... 2 50
Sweet Core ... a4 «|| Deeble Duplex...) .. 3 00
Wat Car .....2. 20.11 ilgg | Good Luck ............ 7=
Great Navy oe | Ceiversay 2 25
REDAS 26 Window Cleaners
ae * -— ...... 25 ee 1 65
ee 27 oa :
rio iL. =. Pails ..31 Ce 2 30
ney o.oo
a en .......... 1 te eee
Vigan ee 40 | | aa _
‘aes : jaa ie Botte (200... s a
a ee 33/15 in. Butter 11.2217! 2 00
Beet Mi co ete ee ceees 21 | 17 in. Butter .3 25
rae oe ee oo | 19 th Pitter 00), 475
Mayen —" — Assort 2-17 |... 2 25
Yum Yum, 4 io ca a Assorted 15-17-19 .....3 25
Yum Yum, lib. pails | 140 WRAPPING PAPER
Cream el -38 Common Straw ...._. . i&%
— a 2% Oz. _ Manila, white 2%
orn Cake, ts cescoeeaa | Fibre Manila. colored . 4
tod —. Ee. en .S0 (Nao t Mania 4
w Boy, ;: om. ....99 (Cream Mania ..... 3
no 7 = ee 35 ioe Manta .... 2%
eer. . 2-3 oz. ...38 | Wax Butter, short e’nt.13
aaa... 36 | Wax Butter, full count.20
Cant Hicok ||...” ++...80 | Wax Butter, rolls
Country Ciub |. || 32-34
Forex-XXxXx __| YEAST CAKE
Good Indian ......17"" pe - saci 15
Self Binder 3). || | 20- eee? irl 1
Sliver Foam... |||. “a peg \% 7 cs .
| Yeas oam, ox .. 15
Cee 3 — - | Yeast Cream, 3 dos ..1 06
ia tae | Yeast Foam, 1% doz. .. 58
hata. FRE
Hemp, ia. oe oh | ae res Ib.
SIAx) mcdieg | ||) 20 Jumbo Whitefish ..11@12
Wool. 1tb. balls. |... : 6% | No. 1 Whitefish @ 9
VINEGAR | Trent @ 9%
Malt White Win. 40 gr.3 | Black Bass .......
Malt White Wine, 80 grll | oo ae 12%
vure Cider, BE & i -iscoes 0 rHerring. @ 5
tue Ge ioe Gea | eh --11@12
Pure Cider, Robinson.19 | Live Lobster ...... @22
Pure Cider. Silver ae | —— Lobster .... @23
ie .......... @12%
WICKING | ita ae ae
No. 0 per gross ....... 30 | No. Piexerei 21.2. §
No 2 Ft ae i ree oe. @7
: ; Perch, dressed .... @ 7
No. 3 per gross Smoked White .... @12%
WOODEN Ked Snapper ...... D
: — Col. River Saimon.13014
Boshiie 0 uooc. 8 Ge | Maeckeres .... 3@16
oe wide band ....1 265 | OYSTERS
oe s wl
Spliet, lace | 6 00) Cans
Splint, medium .. -.6 66]
Splint, small .....2222! 400; F H Counts
Willow, Clothes, large.7 25 Extra Selects

 

PReleCees ee

| Perfection Standards ..

  

0 | Lozenges,
als

| T
|

| Wool
Washed, fine ..... «
| Uinwasked, medium22@ 27
| Unwashed, tine ..liwzv
| Washed. medium .. Ww 32
CONFECTIONS
Stick Candy
Pails
StanGivra 2... 52.5.2... Te
mandarg Hi. H........ 7%
Stundard Fwist ...... 8
Cit beet oo 9
cases
dumbe, 22m). ......... 7
Mutce Em £3. lel
Boston Cream ........ 10
Ulde Time Sugar stick
ae W. cage ....... oud
Mixed Candy
Grocer .........-5.... 6
Comepetittos —...... 2... 7
| Seeiee one aac 7
Cimnerve 1.0... le... 7
ee 8
HivGem ...0....... sa. 2
(ExOMem 2 8
Cut Leaf ....... caeea a

English Rock ....

Bon Ton Cream ..
French Cream
| Star

 
 

‘Hand made Cream..

| Mindergarten ........

il
--14%

Premio Cream mixed..12%

Fancy—in Palis

O F Horehound Drop..10
Gypey Hearte ........14
Coco Bon Bons ........ 13
Pudge Squares ........12
| Peanut Squares —
Sugared Peanuts .....11

salted Peanuts ........1

| Starlight Kisses
San Blas Goodies

Lozenges, printed

Champion Chocolate i ‘H

| Eclipse Chocolates

ns
Lozenges, plain .....

Quintette Chocolates...12
Champion Gum Drops. &

| Meee Prange ........... 9
Lemon Sours ......... 9.
Tapers (1. 9
Ital. Cream Opera 12
Ital. Cream Bon Bons.
a0 Te pelle...
Molasses Chews, i15tb.
CARER oo. 12
Golden Waffles ....... 12
Fancy—in 5tb. Boxes
| Lemon Metre .......... 50
Peppermint Drops ....60
Chocolate Drops ...... 60
Hi. hoc. rops ...85

|H. M. Choc. Lt. and

| Dark No. 12
| Brilliant Gums,

Lozenges, plain ..

| Imperi .
| Mottoes

Crys.60
| A. A. Licorice Drops :
printed -:: 60

--90

|'Cream Bar SE aE
Molasses Bar .........55
Hand Made Cr’ms..80@90

Cream Buttons, Pep.
and Wintergreen ...65
String Hock .........@

Wintergreen Berries

: 165

| Old Time Assorted, 25

Tb. case

Buster Brown Goodies
| sere Came 2)...
Up-to-Date Asstmt, 32

Case _...... g

| Kalamazoo Specialties

3 25
50

Hanselman Candy Co

| Chocolate Maize
Gold

Almonds

| Chocolate Nugatines
Quadruple Chocolate

8
Medal Chocolate
oa 2 ccc. ke

Loko
25

| Violet Cream Cakes, bx90

|Gold Medal Creams,

| pals 13%
Pop Corn

| Dandy Smack, 248 ... 66
| Dandy Smack, 100s ...2 75
| Pop Corn Fritters, 190s 40
| Pop Corn Toast, 100s. 5¢
| Cracker Jack oe oe
| Pop Corn Balls, 290s ..1 30

eer eT 20 NUTS
a seanearas oo 18 “rhole 1
€5 | PAvorites 2.602... 1.) 7| Almonds, Tarragona ...15

| Agmonas. Lvica i
= Bulk Oysters. | Almonds. Califorvia sft

[EP fH Counts (.. |. --195) shell? new ....15 @te
a at Selects . 2 GO| piace 12 @13

( oceechs 22... -1 50 | Rilberts @13
45 | Standards | 9 miter i. 1. wanes
i Perfection Standards. 1 251 w hai. (eae ahead

OE 2 | Walnuts, new Chili @12

| Table Nnts, fancy @1i2%
40 | — eee 190 | Pecans, Med. ......... 10
ie 25 | Pecans, Ex. Large ..11
7 | Oysters 7 96 | Peeans, Jumbos ........ 12

ee “| Hickory Nuts per bu.
ES HIDES AND PELTS Cele new <....... |. 1 7%
r Hides Coconuts | |_|... 4
Green Mag 9 | Chestnut, New “York
a0) Green Woo) 00 00) as State, per bu. .. ..
ee1 Cured Nao fo 103, | Shelled
Se Cured No.2 ol 9% | Spanish Peanuts 6%@ 7

| Calfskins, green No. 112 | Pecan Halves ... @42
65 | Calfskins, green No. 2 10% | Walnut Halves .. @i0
75 | Calfskins, cured No 1 13% | Filbert Meats sae
85 | Calfskins, cured No. 2 12 Alicante Almonds ..... 33
55 | Steer Hides. 6014s. over10% | Jordan ——— oe 47

| Pelts | eanuts
0 Old Wolk... .. | Fancy, H. P. Suns 6%
$6 | fem ca 15@1 50 | Fancy, H. P., Suns,
76 | Shearlines ......... Z2o@ 380) Roasted .........- G7 b,
85 | Tallow |} Choice HF, Jbe @7%
Aa Ge es. @ 4% | Choice, H. P., Jum-
Ota 2... @ 3%! bo, Roasted ....-.. @

 

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46 MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

!

COFFEE

Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.'s Bds

AXLE GREASE

   

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 0v |
Parepenm «.......-.- 65 6 0A

BAKING POWDER ©
igib. cans, 4 doz. vase 45) 7 '
Ib. cans, 4 doz. case 85 white House, 1 Ib......

 

1 tb. cans, 2 doz. casel 60
Royal

. 10c size. 99
Y¥%tbeans 135
6 ozcans 190
%lbcans 250
%Ibcans 375
i Tecans 480
2 3 Ihcans13800
mae 6 Ibcans 2150
BLUING

Aretic 40z ovals, p gro 4 00
Arctic 8 oz evals, p gro 6 00

 

Arctic 16 oz ro'd, p gro 9 00 |

BREAKFAST FOOD

Walsh-DeRoo So.’s Brands |

 

POP CARD 6 nce c scenes $4 06
Wheat Grits
Cases, 24 2 tb. pack’s.$2 00

CIGARS

  
     

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd.
Less than 500........ 3 00
600 or more........... 32 00
«,000 or more......... 31 60
COCOANUT

Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

   

core Cees ie
= as

70 %Ib pkg, per case..2 60
85 4etb pke. per case..2

88 %tb pkg, per case. .2
16 %ib pkg. per case. .2 66

Caneero: i ial

 

| White House, 2 Ib.......
Excelsior, M & J, 1 Ib..
Excelsior, M & J, 2 Ib..
‘Lip Top, M & J, 1 tb....

| Royal JAVA ..wcsccrvces-
Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Biend..
Boston Combination ....

Distrivuted by Judson

Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer Co., De-

| troit and Jackson; F. Saun-
ders & Co., Port Huron;
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel & Goeschel
Bay City; Godsmark, Du
rand & Co., Battle Creek

| Fielbach Co., Toledo.

 

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz. in case

| Gail Borden Eagle....6 40

| Crown ......--.---+2+- 5 90 |
ee 4 62
io). ee 4 79
Ceiaseene $4... 2.5... 4 60
| Challenge ...........-- 4 40
3 85}

SAFES

j

|

 

| Full line of the celebrated
Diebold fire and _ burglar
ro safes kept in stock

y the Tradesman Com-
pany. Twenty different
| sizes on hand at ail 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.s¢
| 12% tb. cloth sacks.. .84 |

| 95 t. cloth sacks... 1.65

| 50 Tb. cloth sacks.... 3.15 |
| 100 th. cloth sacks.... 6.00 |

| Peck measure ....... -90
|% bu. measure...... 1.80
| 12% tbh. sack Cal meal .39

| 25 Tb. sack Cal meal.. .75 |
5|F. O. B. Pisinwel. Mich

SOAP
reaver Soap Co.’s Brands

FRESH MEATS

Beef
fe 34%2@ 6%
Forequarters. 4 @ 5%
Hindquarters ....5 @ 8
Pee oc. 713@12
————— 7 @i0
ee 5 @6
CeMee oo eS 4 @ 4%
Piekes ooo @ 31%

Pork
RepesseG ee: - <= 5'!4@ 51
ee. oes @ 8
Boston Butts ... @ 615
Showers .. 2... . @ 7
Leaf Lard ...... @ 7%

Mutton |
Cartass ..-...... 5 @ 5%
[oe =... .-.- se € .- 3
Carcass ........- 54%@ 8

aro

CGRN SYRUP

24 10c cans
12 cans
@ Se cans ..........% 88

HHONDER,

cakes, large size..6 50
0 cakes, large size..3 25
.00 cakes, small size..3 85
® cakes. small sise..1 95

iDime ......-...<-----
| Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 0v |

[

Tradesman Co.'s Brand

 

| bl ck Hawk, one box..2 50)
| Black Hawk, five bxs.2 40
| Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large .......-- 3 76
t.atford, smaail ....-... 2

 

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
ke,t 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 toany merchant

who will ask for it Send for Catalogue J.

 

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Rverything---By Catalogue nly

new York Chicago St. Louis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘his is a picture of ANDREW
B. SPINNE}, M. D. the only
Dr. Spinney inthis coun.ry. He
has had furty-eight years experi-
ence in the study and practice of
medicine, two years Prof. in
the medical college, ten years in
sanitarium work and he never
fails in his diagnosis, He gives
special attention to throat and
lung diseases making some
woudertul cares. Also all forms
of nervous diseases, epilepsy, St.
Vitus dance, paralysis, etc. €
never fails to cure piles.

. There is nothing known that
| he does not use for private diseases of both sexes.
i and by his cwn special methods he cures where
others fail. If you would like an opinion of your
ease 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

 

 

Forest City
Paint

gives the dealer more profit with
less trouble than any other brand
of paint.

Dealers not carrying paint at the
present time or who think of
changing should write us.

Our PAINT PROPOSITION
should be in the hands of every

dealer.
It’s an eye-opener.

Forest City Paint
& Varnish Co.
Cleveland, Chio
<@5OUO TORDEO TOTORC BOEOHO

SL SNUn OAOS9R CHOer ee ORO cneGaw. GHURY

 

‘A MEAN JOB
Taking Inventory

Send now for description of our Inven-
tory Blanks and rem vable covers.
They willhelp you.

BARLOW BRUS., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

We make Calendars
which will please your
customers.

prices and samples.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids
Mich.

Write for

 

 

 

 

 

 

= —_—e — — eager — eager
ree ew rng en gg, ee) ee rene grr ee Le |

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inse
subsequent

 

continuous

insertion. No charge

 

——— ao

Ww anted. ‘to buy for ‘eash, food. stock

general merchandise. Particulars in re-

ply. Address No. 999, care Michigan
‘Tradesman. 9Yy

 

For Sale—Farm implements © stock.
Only stock in town of 500. Splena op-
— unity for hustler. Invoices 900
Address No. 78, care Michigan
sen. 78

Cotton. Cloth For Sale—Lot No. +1
about 500 pounds, open weave, Egyptian
about 40 inches wide in rolls of

 

 

 

color,
about 135 yards or say about 2%, varus
per pound. Price 15c per pound, f. o. b.
cars here, in bales for shipment. Sam-
Dles sent upon ee atic n. ft ts a f0p
lot. Who wants it? W. Becker, Az

Address Dept. 45, Amsterdam, N.

kor Sale Stock general merchandise.
consisting of shelf hardware, boots,
and groceries. Will inventory about
$4,000 or less; property consists of
uouble store building, grain elevator, cold
storage warehouse with capacity of 15
carioads and seven acres of land: every-
thing in good repair. Specialty of this
pliuce is produce dealing. Can be
ehbt. Owing to change in

ness would like to sell at once
at all. For particulars address H.
0x 16, Brunswick, Mich. SO

Wanted—T) buy small

       

shoes

 

 

 

   

wood manufac-

turing business. Sddress Lock Box 25

Lowell, Mich. 85
For Rent we ” Holl: ind, Mich.. brick

store in busine bast 8th

 
  

 

S center at 47
St. Dimensior 2x80. Plate glass front
Freight elevator. Will rent with or with-
ont second floor. Exceilent location for
any business. Address C. J. DeRoo, Ot-
ind Gr: ind Sts.. Lansing, Mich. 928

 

 
 

mn |

 

le—Drug business, established
14 years—good suburban location, reason-
able terms to right party. Address P. R.,
care Michigan tradesman. 83

For Sale or Rent—Store
living rooms overhead, including
house and barn. Good location for
eral stock only two other
town, which i situated in
good farmi1 district

building with

 

stores in
center of
Investigation so-

 

 

licited. Willis Green, Byron Center

Mich. 82
For Sate—Whole or part of 93x130 ft.
t on Main street in Holland, Mich.

ood MA yn tor business. \ddress E.
i Central Ave., Holland. 79
~-PDrug Stock: soda

 
 

fountain,

keen: up-to-date fixtures. Write Box
500. Elk Rapids, Mich. SH

For Sale or Rent—Two-story corner
brick building in Iowa tcwn of 3.0060.

suitable for grocery and feed store. Will
sell cheap. teasons given. Address Dr
Ee. B. -Rogers, Waterloo, Iowa. 65

Drug stock for sale in one of the best
towns in Michigan; price $2,000; will in-
voice $3,500. Write or call ©. C. Harner,

115 Pipestone, Benton Harbor, Mich. 66

For Sale—Old estab lished dry goods
and grocery business in the liveliest town
in Michigan. Population 3,000. County
seat and rich farming territory. Stock
invoices $8,000, but can be reduced to

 

 

 

 

 

suit purchaser. Best location in town.
Best of reasons for selling. An unusual
opportunity to the party who means
business. No ‘trades considered. Cash
deal only. Address No. 69, care Michi-
gan Trades 69

 

 

 

  

change for farm, gona
meat business in good town, county seat.
Also some real estate in same town. En-
quire of No. 77, care Michigan Trades-
man. qT

ror Sale r ex

 

 

For Sale — Grocer ory and “meat “market, in-
voicitg about $2,500. Slaughter house,

 

team, harness, wag ron, etic. Location in
hustling town 1206 population, in

Southern Michigan. Reason for selling,
other business. Address No. 74, care
Mic higan Tradesman. 74

Money Wanted—$300 to obtain patents
on valuable inventions. Will give five
for one—that is, will give the first 1,500
realized from au the patents. Balance
to be mine: €. S. Langton; Olney, HL
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For Sale—Stock of groceries. will in-
voice $500. Will rent store and fixtures.
Good reason given for selling. Address |

No. 72, care Michigan Tradesman. a2
‘For Rent—First-class store, easuy fitted

ha any kind of business. Address par-

tie ulurs to M. E Davey, Imlay City. 52
~ For Sale-—Fresh stock groceries, lo-
cated in best shop town in Southern |
itchieka. Good trade location Other |
Address No. 32, care |

 

 

business,
gan Tradesman.

 

For fale—Farm implement and buggy
stock, lots and buildings. No_ better
farming country in Michigan. The only
business of the kind here. I will sell for
ash or its equivalent. A first-class busi-
ness chance. Volney St:ong, Clarksville,
Mich. 46

tare Opportunity Department store—
one of syndicate business, mostly cash—
29 years’ successful history. Can place
two active drygoods men with $15,000
each in control of this store. Location,
riRvifty City” near New York. Great

 

 

  

   

opportunities for profitable buying. E.
S. Stl with Tet. Weller Co., 330
Broadway, New York. 44

For le—The new Walloon Hotel:

 

modern in every respect; located on Wal
loon Lake, one of the most popular re-
sorts in Northern Michigan; sixty rooms,
water works, electric light plant, good
trade established. Call or address A. E

 

Hass, Walloon Lake, Mich. 62
For Sale—-Boilers 1 to 125 H. P., tanks

all sizes. Address John Crowley, Jackson,

Mich 40

For Sale—A well-located drug store in
Grand Rapids. Good trade. Clean stock.

Invoice about $4,000. A _ bargain. In-
vestigation solicited. Address No. 50,
care Michigan Tradesman. 50

Wanted—Fireproof safe. J. E. Hyames,
Gobleville, Mich. 49

For Sale—Old established drug, paint,
oil, boot and shoe business. Only other
drug stock in a town of 850 population,
located in the southern portion of Michi-
gan. Good clean stock, located in brick
Iding. Rent reasonable. Will = sell
cheap. Other business demanding at-

 

 

 

 

      

tention, reason for selling. Address No.
48, care Michigan Trad man. 48
We can sell your propert for cash
and do it quickly. We have offices in

800 towns and cities. We have thou-
sands of buyers monthly. We sell $15,-
000,000 worth of property yearly. We
ean sell your store, your stock of gocds,
\ mill. your mine, your factory, your
farm; in fact, property of any Kind, any
price, anywhere. We want to do busi-
ness ‘for you and can convince you that
we Know our. business. Write to-day
for Our plans Do r now. Ef you want
to buy any kind of property write us
your Wants ani we will tare plc:
in filling them. Address Central /
ciation, LaGrange, Ind.

   

 

 

 
 

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For Sale—A good paying feed business,
including corn meal mill. Will sell or
lease property. Address Leidy S. Depue
Washington; D. C 39

For Sak Shares of ist preferred
stoc k of Great Northern. Portland Cement
» Stock for $1.200. Address Lock Box
5 Grand ledge. Mich 835

Wanted—To buy stuck of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan Trades-
man. Rg

 

 

 

 

For Saie—A clean new stock of- cloth-
ing, shoes and furnishings in a hustling
town of 1,300. Two good factories and a
rrosperous farming country. Trade last
year over $15,000 cash. Stock will invoice
about $9,000. Hl health the cause of
selling and must be sold quick. Cash
deal. Address No. :61, care Michigan
Trade sm mn 9461

 

~ For Sale—Shoe — store, all new goods.
es the best. Write or see John
Gysie, Columbus, Indiana. 976

ell your real estate or business for

  

   

i cash. §E ean get a buyer for you very

promptly. My methods are distinctly dif-
ferent and a decided improveinent over
those of others. It makes no difference
where your property is located, send me
full description and lowest cash price and
I will get cash for you. Write to-day.
established 1881. g3ank references.
Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express
Building, Chic ago. 899
For Sale—480 acres of cut-over hard-
wood land. three miles north of Thomp-
rile. House and barn on premises.
Pere Marquette Railroad runs across one
eorner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St., Grand = ov
ids.

son

 

 

 

 

  

For Sele—Stock of hardware, gos
and wall paper, invoicing $1.5¢0. Town
600 population, surrounded by best farm-
ing country in the State. Best of reasons
for selling. Address No. 969, care Michi-
gan Tr<edesman. 989
Cash for your stock—Or we will close
out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce your ——
Write for information. C. i. Yost & C

j 77 West Forest Ave., Detroit, Mich 2

tS

| Mercantile Ageiicy. $72 |

rted under this head-.for two cents a word the first. insertion and one cent a word for €ach

than 25 cents. .Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

Wanted—To buy clean stock general

 

   

merchandise. Give full particulars. Ad- a we
dress No. 999, care Michigan Tradesman. rte
999 100
tor Sale—Farm implement business, on
ablished fifteen ye: First-cl: lo-
ion at Grand Rapids, Mich. W sell | t} lirges

   

or lease four-story and basement brick! Write us

       

        

 

          
       
 

1 irihe?
building Stock will inventory about} 1. H. Hart & Co., 212 Market St.. Chica;
$10,000. Good reason for selling. No } fi. S71
trades desired. Address No. ) care .
Michigan Tradesman. 67 _ desirous of ¢
: having a reduction
For Sale—Foundry and _ cider’ mill. guarantee a profit
Everything in running order. First class | on all Thy tion $s ind 100 cents on
location. Harrison & Moran, Chelsea, | the doll a
Mich. 945 ut
ere!
Wanted “ash for an estab- | the

    

profit: ible

      

lis] siness Will consid- 3 y tor further
e store, stock of general mer H & Co... 242 M
dis manutfacturi business. vi ne ‘
full particulars in first lette Confiden-
Trede ma No. 519, care Michi MISCELLANEOUS

i s! i

 

For S ale ‘For Cash Only—Stock of
eral merchandise with fixtures. i
lished ten years. Good country
Reason for ling, other business
write unl you mean business.
Mattawan; Mich.

    
   
    

  

 

Hosmer,
For Sale—A 25 horse-power
iital.bowler, A 12

with pipe fittings.

with blower and toc

belting. All practically new.

Original
over 35.200. Will sell for $600
Address B-B Manufacturing -Co., 50 Ma-

 

sonic Ten. dle. Davenport, lowa. 53%

 

estate is worth bout

ice solicited.

POSITIONS WANTED.

 

Position as salesman in retail
1ardware_ store. Have had ten years
xperience. Address Box 367, Kalkaska
Vi at.
Mich. 166

Wanted

eontinned on next page

 

Modern Money Making Methods

HELP WANTED.

 

 

 

      
 

   

salesmen Wanted—We want men ec -
inz on grocery trade to take orders, as a
sid ine, for Midland pelite Powder.
giving lirge sold fish ; al two full
size gold fish with each a um
F; S rot buys on t; hav
the } 1

st proposition ever offered.
e for ~setlaeagae betore
this paper dow! ral

é Adams

 

 

   

ivel-—References required;
week; expenses advanced.
& Co a Dearborn St., =
63 j. S. TAYLOR F. M, SMITH

  
  
  
   

alesmen to carry our brooms
Good goods at low

Liberal commission. Ad-

Absolutely Perfect Satisfaction Guaranteed

Hrices
prices,

lina Co., Jefferson City, ‘*Merchants’’ wishing to reduce or close out
51 entirely their stocks, our up-to-date methods of
3 d—Brieht energetic ladies or advertising and selling are unequalled. We leave

an attre
France.

Owosso,

no *fodds and ends,”’ it costs you nothing to ascer-

 

tain this fact; write us at once for particulars and
dates. =FTAYLOK & SMITH, <3 River St,
Chicago. ‘Bank references.”

 

Association,
An experienced sal smal
@ hat, cap and furnishin
An American, unm: awed

 

 

 

     

a good salesman and_e stock-

whe is apt in decoration and

window trimming. a bri genial, ac-
i worker. Address re

 

ting salary expected,
milton Clothing Co.,

Mich.

   

Auction Sale Fac

 

 

Special and —We
sell the stock. We get you cv dol-
lar your stoek is worth. <A record of
thirteen years that stands pre-eminent.
We do not tell you one thing and do
another. Our reputation is at stake
therefore good. service. We are in-

structors of merchandise selling at Jones’
College of Auctioneering at Davenport

 

Iowa, therefore we must be thoroughly ‘Gi 7
competent. Look us up there as well oneeit
as the hundreds of merchants for whom

wt: have sold. Our free advertising sys-
tem saves you many a aollar Write

=" (EG.
we can litt the buruen. The A. W. \ aothine
Thomas Auetion Co., 477 Wabash ave. S Pro, ie

 

us

 

 

 

HL €. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
tioneers. Stocks closed out or reduced
anywhere in the United States. New
methods, original ideas, long experience,
hundreds of merchants to refer to. We
1ave never failed to please. Write for
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-

|} bash Ave., Chicago. Reference, Dun's

Tradesman Com ee ry
LEANGRAVYE
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Detail Review of the Grain Market.

The Government Crop Report is-
sued Saturday indicates a seeding ot
3I.t£5,c00 acres to winter wheat in
the fail of 1903. The average con-
dition of the wintcr wheat vrowimg
crop is given as 82.9, taking the
Government figures of the past ten
years as an average. The condition
shown Nec. I, 1903, was 86.6; Dec. 1,
1902, 9.7; Dec. 1 for the past ten
years, 92.1.

The report as usual, seems to have
been construed as bearish, at least
wheat has sold down from three to
four cents ner bushel in the past two
or three days, that is the December
and May optivns, but we notice July
wheat holds firm, having lost only
about Ic, and cash grain, especially
choice milling red winter, is steady
and finds ready market from all di-
rections.

The world’s shipnients of wheat are
reported as about nine and a quarter
million bushe!s as compared with ten
and a half million bushels last week
and nine and a half million bushels
a year ago. (General reports of snow
through the winter wheat territory
have for the time being at least, put
a stop to drought and fly damage re-
ports, and the bears seem to have beer
taking advantage of this condition by
pounding the market on every corner.

The receipts of corn are extremely
hexvy, at the same time the market
is holding its own comparatively
well Corn is improving in condition,
the weather has ben favorable, so that
there is very little chance to take on
shipmerts of ccrn from the West
and Southwest at present. There is
a 200d demand for corn from export
trade. and it is generally predicted
that our exports of corn will run
from three to five million bushels per
week by the first of January.

There is no material change ‘n the
oat market. Cptions continue steady,
fluctuations within a, range of one-
half cent per bushel for the past ten |
days. Cash oats are in fairly good |
demand, receipts at country points are
lizht. although there is plenty of oats
back in fariners’ hands, and we predict
free movement.a little later on.

There scen:s to Le a general ten-
dency to bear the bean market.
Choice hand-picked stock is selling
at a loss of about five cents per bushel
for the week. Offerings from country
points are literal Pickers have all
the stock on hand and arriving that
cen be cared for to advantage.

| delay, and after treatment the powell-

communication did not state, but it | Foolishness of Speculating on Bor-
is understood to refer to the Thanks- rowed Money.

giving, Christmas and New Year’s| “I once knew a young man in the
affairs that come off in a large ma-| town where | came from,” said a re-
jority of the saloons and some social | tired merchant the other night, “who
organizations in dispensing turkeys, | believed that he had discovered an
geese, chickens, ducks and pigs by | infallible way to get rich by stock
the “keno” scheme. The meat market | speculation without taking any seri-
men claim this hurts the business ous chances. I was a director of the
which should be legitimately in their bank through which he worked his
line. They asked the Council to issue | scheme—the bank was in a good-
an order demanding that people who | sized town—and consequently I know
are engaged in that kind of business whereof I speak.

desist at once. In the event of their} “The young man had been left a
not doing so, the petitioners demand | legacy of about $2,000 by some rela-
that they be arrested and dealt with | tive and was a bright, go-ahead, like-
according to law. lable fellow. One of his friends was

AGA Se AE :
Coat Timber With Sugar. the cashier of the bank that I speak
of. The first use the young man made

While English do ne ae : i

: : agi ctors sugarcoat| 4¢ his little fortune was to invest it

their pills English lumbermen sugar- | ; . -

ee dee eee a in ten shares of good dividend-pay-
an n€ NapPy T€-| ing railroad stock that bore a con-

sult in the latter i i : : inl :
: : — is stronger, | cderable premium. With this stock
heavier and more enduring woods of | ;, ahi : :

e went to the cashier in question

all sorts, while the softer woods be-
and got a-loan of, say, $1,200; and
come more useful and ornamental | |; .
: re with this money, he turned around
when worked. Besides this it is pos- ¢
: and bought ten shares of another
sible to put fresh and  unseasoned| ,._- : :
eT ae eae a dais dividend-paying stock, on which he
§ ee ee got another loan, his idea being that,

inasmuch as the dividends that these
stocks paid would nearly cover the
interest on the loans that he made,
this would enable him to make a
profit on the stocks when their mar-

ized wood—so christened after one
Powell, the inventor of the process—
is ready for immediate use, as there
is no danger of shrinking or warping.
The timber 7 placed a oe which | ket value rose. In this way he man-
are wheeled into a boiler, and after | .

: : |aged to secure loans amounting to
this has been closed a solution of| . .
|some $10,000 or $12,000, all on an

beet sugar is pumped in, although ap- | original capital of about $2,000.
parently an open tank can be utiliz-
ed. The solution takes the place of
the air in the timbers, and is absorb-
ed by the individual fibers. After
being taken from the receiver the he held he would go to the bank and
wood is dried in ovens by artificial | CTder it to be sold, the proceeds
heat, the temperature varying with | thereof to be used to pay the loan
the kind of wood. When subjected | 4gainst which it had been hypothe-
to a breaking strain powellized wood | cated. But the day came when busi-
recovers itself to a greater extent ness all over the country grew dull,
than untreated wood, and is able, | money became ‘tight’ and banks be-
even when broken, to support a} to reduce their loans. Our bank
greater weight without collapsing. It was among the rest, and among the
is also claimed that timber so treat- first whom it called upon to ‘pay up’
ed is not subject to “dry rot,” and was our young friend. Stocks, of
by the addition of some poison it is course, had fallen in value mean-

hoped to make it withstand the tee while, and when he was forced to sell
mites of tropical countries. the collateral that the bank held

———_222>—_—__ against his loans, their value had

Editor Misunderstood. shrunk something like 50 per cent.,

A Missouri paper wound up = aj although they were still paying their
compliment to a young schoolma’am | usual dividends. The result was that
with a good word about “the reputa- his original capital of about $2,000
tion for teaching she bears.” The | ‘panned out’? about half of that sum.
next day the schoolma’am met the; “Now, if he had owned these stocks
editor and chased him down the| outright, he would eventually have
street with an umbrella, and at every | lost nothing, for after a time the mar-

 

 

 

| “For a time he made a little money.
| When he saw a chance to make a
| profit in some particular stock that
|

 

L. Fred Peabody.

—__22s———_
Want All Raffles Prohibited.

Saginaw, Dec. 12—If John Bier-
waltes and 84 others, butchers and
citizens, have their way, there will be
no more raffles in Saginaw, according
to a petition presented to the Com-
mon.@6uneil at the last meeting.
This is a unique move, but one that
seems to have a good deal of strength
back of it. The petition itself was
very ambiguous. It spoke of raffles
which were characterized as an evil
and detrimental to the business in
which the signers are engaged, and
at the same time is a violation of the
law.

Just what these “raffles” were the

jump in the road she screamed that ket reacted and they commanded
she had never taught a she bear in|eyven a far higher price than that
_ life. which he had bought them at. But
—_——_—-a—————_—— : . °

i e : : while he did not seem to realize the
| Sagoia—-J. N. Valincourt, of Utica, fact. he had practically been specu-
|N. Y.. was here recently looking up ot a eee oe sP

; lating on a margin—in other words,

|
| se bird’s-ey :
ome bird’s-eye maple logs for export), somebody else’s capital—and when
he was called upon to ‘make good,’ he

shipment. He has an order for four

loads i

jearloads to be stipped to England. was unable to do so. He supposed
he had guarded himself against any

 

 

| Mr. Valincourt is an expert in that
va! ~ ras — — oe a possibility of loss, but as a matter
a . a s-eye maple logs from of fact he had ‘bitten off more than
Michigan this year. he could chew,
The man who is looking for trouble “Now, I am not opposed to reason-
as a rule does not have to go away able speculation in stocks, cotton,
| from home to find it. real estate or anything else that has
—_—_2- : actual value, so long as one has
Yes, Lavinia, it is poverty that| money enough to back up his ven-
leads most of us to heaven. ture. Nothing is more foolish, how-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ever, than for anybody to speculate
wholly or almost wholly on bor-
rowed capital. One never knows
when some sudden emergency will
leave him high and dry.

“The young man I mentioned,” the
speaker concluded, “learned a les-
son, I think, from this experience.
He dropped speculation, went into
the manufacturing business and _ to-
day is a rich man.”

22>
Don’t Mark Both Sides.

The clerk in the express office was
just about to toss the package back
of the counter when he noticed that
it was addressed on both sides. ° “It’s
good I saw that. Charles might have
been collected twice,” he said. “That
is funny,” remarked the shipper. re
just paid the charges, you know.”
“Ves,” responded the clerk, “and |
marked it paid, but the second ad-
dress might have caused them to
collect at the other end. You see I
checked it off ‘Paid’ on one side, but
when it reaches the other office it
might be that the prepaid mark
would be on the bottom. That would
bring the other address up, and, see-
ing no check mark there, the receiv-
ing office would mark it ‘Collect.’
The chances are the package would
be handled that side up, without the
other address and prepaid mark be-
ing discovered, and the party to
whom it is addressed would pay the
second express charges.” “And I
thought I was doing something to
expedite matters in putting the ad-
dress on both sides,” commented the
shipper. “You weren't,” said the
clerk. “It’s all right to address let-
ters on both sides for the convenience
of mail clerks, but don’t put two ad-
dresses on express packages, unless
you want to run the risk of paying
double.’—Philadelphia Record.

—__~+ +>
Carpenter Would Be Useful.

During the inspection of the hos-
pital corps of the Fourth Maryland
regiment recently one of the mem-
bers was asked his occupation.

“Tl am a carpenter,’ the man re-
plied.

“Why, what can you do for the
corps,” enquired the inspector, “as
the hospital corps of a regiment is
generally composed of pharmacists
and medical students?”

“T can make coffins,” was the re-
ply, and it was eminently satisfactory.
—_~+2s——_

Cheboygan—W. P. Sterling, of
Monroe, one of the heaviest cedar
operators in the State, is opening a
cedar yard at this place and will ship
extensively from this point. He buys
cedar at many points along the Mack-
inaw division of the Michigan Central
and Detroit & Mackinac roads.

——_—_..-—-——————
Many a girl “out on the carpet”

would feel more at home on the
shelf.”

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

For Sale—The best corner grocery in

Montpelier, Chio. Fstablished over twenty
years. Present owner is engaged in other
business and must sell by first of year.
Excellent chance for the right man. No
ents need answer. Stock and fixtures
will invoice about $2,000. Will sell right
F.. Mirsen, =.

to right man
Ohio.

 

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