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Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1904

Number 1109

 

 

Willlam Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, Ist Vice-Pres.
William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres. Page.
M. C. Huggett, Seoy-Treasurer 2. Consistent Hebrews.
pee 4. s«round the State.
The William Connor Co.| & scene partes sossio.
6. Window Trimming.
8. Editorial.
WHOLESALE CLOTHING 9. Proposed Pharmacy Law.
MANUFACTURERS 12. State Inspection.
14. Dry Goods.
28-30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 16. Hardware.

: — 17. Representative Retailers.
Our Spring and Summer samples for 1905 now| 18. Others’ Experience.
showing. Every kind ready made clothing for all| 49, Fortune’s Foundation.
ages also always on hand, Winter Suits, Over- 20. Woman’s World
coats, Panis, etc. Mail and phone orders prompt- r o
7 shipped Phones, Bell, 1282; Citizens, 1957. 22. Braids and Buttons.

ee our children’s line. 23. Belts and Buckles.
24. Looking Backward.
26. Canned Salmon.

28. Getting Started.

30. Turkish Cigarettes.
31. Respect for the Law.
32. Out of Work.

34. Shoes.

36. A Baker’s Dozen.

38. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

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

SPECIAL FEATURES.

 

DETROIT OP

 

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aa eT aa ARP e ae TE THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED.
AND COLLECT

  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  

“The Tradesman is in receipt of the
following letter from J. C. Culkins,
General Chairman of the Order of

: .
Collection Department Railroad Telegraphers, with head-
R. G. DUN & CO. quarters at Albion:
i ae eg of ‘Nov. "30, headed “Inviting Disaster,”

and as a representative of the telegraph-
ficient, responsible; direct demand 3 ichi i ss
Collections ie ‘. h on” on ers on the Michigan Central, I wish to say

that this article does us an injustice as
Cc. B. McCRUNM, Manager | well as the Michigan Central Railroad

Company, inasmuch as it was at the
request of the operators that Sunday
work was dispensed with as much as
possible, and to compel the operators to
remain on duty all day Sunday would be
a great hardship. Further, I wish to
state that no accident can occur under
the Michigan Central System of running
trains by telegraph. If, for any reason,
a train snould require an order, such a
train would be required to remain at a
station until such an order was secured,
which might delay the train consider-
abiy, but under no circumstances could
it result in a disaster. I trust you will
correct this article, as it would give the
public a wrong impression as to the
probability of a disaster. Tt also might
cause the operators to remain on duty
all day Sunday.

In the light of this statement, the
| Tradesman feels that it was fully
justified in the severe criticism it of-
fered on the Michigan Central Rail-
way system for neglecting or failing
to maintain regular telegraph service
at the large towns on the line of the
system on Sunday. If the railroad
finds it necessary to run trains on
Sunday, either to satisfy the greed
of the stockholders or to cater to the
convenience of the public, or both,
it should maintain just as efficient
telegraph service on that day as it
does on any other day in the week.
The original criticism was suggest-
ed by the experience of the writer
while waiting for a west bound train
on a recent Sabbath day at Battle
Creek. The train was two hours late
om and eighty passengers anxiously
awaited its arrival. No one was able
to tell where the train was, whether
a wreck had occurred, whether west
bound connections would be made or
whether the train had been cancelled
altogether, and for two hours those

 

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BANKERS

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ilure in any company you
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withdrawn from sale with the exception of
two and we have never lost a dollar for a
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eighty people sat in suspense, listen-
ing to the predictions of disaster made
by the local employes of the system
in consequence of the trains running
without adequate orders, while
telegraph operator would have been
able to relieve them of their anx-
iety in a single moment.

The official explanation of the sit-
uation plainly shows that this annoy-
ance and uneasiness are due to the
action of the telegraph operators
themselves. In other words, it is
more important, in the minds of the
telegraph operators, that they should
have a day off to go fishing or hunt-
ing, than that eighty people shouid
have the information which justly be-

longs to them by reason of the pat- |

ronage they are according a road
which is willing to run Sunday trains.

Evidently the world-famous ex-
pression of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, “The
Public Be Damned,’ is shared by

the telegraph operators as well as by |

the originator of the remark and the
former head of the system.

The moral is plain to all:
arc we.! insured and preparec to meet
your Maker, make it a point to travel
on the main line of the Michigan
Central on Sunday.

AARNE RN ALND EAA ART
————————————

If you

It happened in Michigan many

years ago in the days when even the |

smallest village had its shoe manu-
facturer. Mr. A. was in more senses
than one a man of large understand-
ing. He called at the shoe shop one

day to be measured for a pair of)

boots. When he

foot and everything was in readiness |

the shoemaker, seized by a sudden de-

sire for fresh air or else realizing for |
once his cramped quarters, requested |

Mr. A. to step out on the porch to be
measured. The joke on Mr. A. was
one which never would down, and to
this day whenever the subject of
large feet is mentioned the story is

retold how the community once had |

a resident whose feet were so large
that the shoemaker couldn't get
around them in his shop and he had
to go into the street to be measured.
ED

 

A family for a business man is like
ballast to a balloon, prevent him from
rising too rapidly, thus rendering his
ascent steady and graceful. On the
other hand the bad habits or ex-

travagance which the unmarried may |
drag |

attach to himself is like the
which, catching on trees or vegeta-

tion, keeps the aeronaut’s car sway- |
ing and jerking about in imminent)

danger of pitching its occupant down
to destruction.

SAAT AE ETO NU ANTE

 

Pennies make dollars, if there are
enough of them; but some men grow
so near-sighted watching for the pen-
nies they are unable to see the dol-
lars.

had stripped his |

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.
As indicating the extent to which
the speculative markets may become
independent of the industrial condi-
tions upon which they are supposed

to depend, the present reaction and

semi-panicy spirit continue in the
face of almost universal improvement
in manufacturing and trade condi-
The fact that several of the

reaction are

tions.
heaviest losers in the
bringing action in the courts to pun-
ish the man whose alleged slanders

are claimed to be responsible for the

|reaction indicates a willingness to
|have the light of court enquiry turn-
ed upon the methods and conditions
of the great although
many will claim the action to be

merely a bluff.

| back the volume of trade has_ be-

companies,

Since the second set-

come very small and operators seem
| tc that
| nothing of importance will be doing
The injury
to the public, which had come into
the field to a than
for years, is too extensive to be soon
It is talked that when an-
dividend disburse-
ments are over the confidence of
buyers will be restored, and_ that
there is little to do meanwhile but
| make the best of the situation.

General trade continue

» have made up their minds
until after the holidays.

greater extent

OVercome.

inual reports and

conditions

favorable in nearly every field. Re-
ports of foreign trade for November

showed exports of merchandise to ex-

| ceed any corresponding period on rec-
lord. This is the more remarkable in
| view of the fact that the export of
food stuffs, on which that season us-
The
explanation is found in the unprece-
dented increase of manufactures for
foreign consumption, a most signifi-

ually depends, was very small.

cant indication for the future of our

industrial production.
Trade for the holiday
more than meeting all expectations.

season is

|Seasonable woolen and heavy wear
trade is good in all lines and the buy-
ing of holiday goods promises to
break many records. And with this
is to be noted that there is no dimin-
ution of preparation for the work of
the new year, orders in iron and steel,
for instance, indicating that railway
betterment and expansion will be on
the increase. Woolen manufacture is
more assured than for a long time
past and the outlook for cotton is
constantly improving. The Fall Riv-
er mills are still slow in resuming, but

 

prospects of a final settlement of the
|labor dispute are better than at any
Boot

land shoe orders have not been as nu-

|time since the trouble began.
merous since the advance, but this
is to be expected in view of the long
activity of past months.

|
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Time is a sacred thing.

 

    

2

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

CONSISTENT HEBREWS

Can Not Acknowledge the Ideas
Which Christmas Embodies.

No festival of the Christian church
has become so popular, none exerts
so great an influence upon the people
and makes itself felt so strongly in
business and_ social
life, as Christmas. It is therefore of
interest to festival
is regarded by so large an element |

all relations of
learn how this

of our population as the Jews, and

 

what position they take towards it.

While it can that
some of them do not hesitate to in- |
troduce it into their families, and to}
have Christmas parties and Christmas |
trees for their children, yet such are |}
rare exceptions,

not be denied

occurring among
those who regard their religion with |
the utmost indifference and are Jews
in little except the name. The over-
whelming majority of the Jews very
properly feel that, with all its de-
lightful features, the day embodies
thoughts and represents ideas which
the Jew who knows ‘Jewish history
and to whom his religion is a matter
of serious concern can not
tently entertain.

A hasty review of the origin and
development of Christmas will tend
to prove the correctness of this as-
sertion.

It is a well known fact that Christ-
mas is the latest of the high festi-
vals introduced by the Christian
church. Until late in the fourth cen-
tury it was not thought of even as
a church celebration, and until re- |
cently great opposition was made
against that part of the festivities
which appeals most strongly to the
imagination and makes the deepest
impression upon the human heart.

When Christianity by the force of
arms was spread among the heathen
nations, the latter were often unwill-
ing to give up their religious observ-~
ances, which were dear to them, but
an abomination in the eyes of the
Christian priests and missionaries.
When the latter saw that the objec-
tionable rites could not be extermin-
ated, they made a compromise, al-
lowing the heathen practices a new
lease of life on condition that their
significations must be changed and
that, instead of the old gods of na-
ture worship, Christian ideas and
events should be remembered there-
by. :
The 25th day of December was a
very ancient holy day, because most
of the heathen nations regarded the
winter solstice as the beginning of
the new life and activity of the pow-
ers of nature. The Romans, the
Celts and especially the Teutonic
races, celebrated this midwinter fes-
tival as the birth or regeneration
of the sun-god with great rejoicing
and frolic. Many symbolical customs
gave expression to the gladness felt
on account of the returning new light
after its threatened departure. When
it was found useless to attempt its
extermination, the festival of the win-
ter solstice was allowed to be kept
as before, but for the birth of the
sun-god the celebration of the birth-
day of the Christ was substituted.
This was done in the last quarter of

consis-

 

|it as heathenish.

|introduced in America only

 

the fourth century and not without
strong opposition. Some very prom-
inent Fathers of the church urged
the impropriety of such celebration,
as the birthday of none of the great
Jewish men had ever even been men-
tioned.

And even after the church festival
had been firmly established the pro-
test against keeping it as a day of

| merry jollification was continued with

unabated force. Strictly Calvinistic
Christians in England, Scotland and
America, up to recent years, decried
In Latin countries
it was formerly scarcely known. To
this day in France presents are giv-
en not on Christmas but on New
Year’s day, and the Christmas tree,
within
the memory of the present genera-
tion, gives plain evidence of the Teu-
tonic origin. Tree worship was com-
mon among all the Germanic tribes.
The great oak at Wetzlar, hewed

| down by Boniface, the Apostle of the

Germans, at the cost of his life, was
dedicated to the thunder god. And
when it was found that the Germans
could not be weaned from their love
of their sacred groves, many an old
tree was saved from destruction by
being decorated with images of the
Virgin Mary, some of which can still
be seen in many parts of Southern
Germany and Austria. The old An-
glo-Saxons were taught by the priests
to burn the holy tree of paganism

on the Christmas day, and so the
| burning of the yule-block was intro-

duced, which practice still survives.
Where the people tenaciously clung
to the ancient custom of placing the
tree in their houses, the priests chang-
ed its meaning, saying that it stood
for the seven-branched candlestick
of the Jewish temple, to which it
has some resemblance, and called it
Christmas tree. In the same man-
ner the old pagan knight Rupert was
transformed into the children’s patron
Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus.

But of greater importance than the
primitive ;character and root of the
feast is that which it now symbolizes.

It is true, in ever-widening circles,
Christmas is assuming the character
of a National holiday rather than a
religious celebration. Many eminent
Christian theologians admit that the
story upon which it is now founded
can not stand the test of critical in-
vestigation. Liberal Christians, in
many instances, observe the day asa
beautiful family feast without any
religious color. All this may be ad-
mitted. But stress must be laid not
upon the construction given to it
by the select classes of the highest
intelligence and of advanced liberal
views, but upon the impression pre-
vailing among the millions, which is
kept alive and strengthened by all
educational agencies.

The story of the birth of the babe
of Bethlehem which first proclaimed
peace on earth and good will to
men is rehearsed annually in every
church, is constantly taught in the
Sunday schools, is repeated in the
newspapers and the masses of the
people take it for granted that every
sensible and well-meaning person
must believe it, and take it for sheer

 

blindness or stubbornness and _-stiff-
neSs of the neck that.the Jews per-
sistently refuse to adopt it.

The' Jew themselves have a festival
corresponding in time, and some fea-
tures of its observance with the
Christmas day. It is the Feast of
Lights, the Chanukah, which falls on
the 25th day of the month of the win-
ter solstice. Although there. is a
strong probability that its origin al-
so sprung from the common root.of
pagan nature-worship, since the year
164 B. C. it has been observed in
memory of the victory gained by the
Maccabees for the freedom of re-
ligious worship against the persecu-
tion of the Syrian King, Antiochus
Epiphanes, which threatened to extin-
guish the Jewish faith.

For over 2,000 years the Jews have
shunned the method of compelling
others to accept doctrines and to con-
form with ritual practices. against
their own will and conviction. The
universalistic spirit of their greatest
prophets remained alive within them
insofar that they taught that salvation
does not depend on faith, but on the
practice of justice and love. While
therefore constantly developing their
own religion towards greater perfec-
tion, they were never faced with the
temptation of making compromises
with pagan religious practice, or with
opinions in conflict with their own.
They could stand by calmly and bide
their time until by the progress of
science, the growth of knowledge and
intelligence and the advancement of
civilization the human race would dis-
card old prejudices and superstitions
and approach that pure faith of which
they have been so long the living
representatives and the suffering mar-
tyrs.

The Jews take the utmost delight
in the growth of “peace on earth and
good will to man,” of which Christ-
mas is an expression to millions of
Christians; but they need not and
can not therefore introduce Christmas

into their families, because this very:
love and charity is the fundamental,

spirit of their own religion and was

its spirit before Christianity learned,
The same message:

it from Judaism.
of love, the same glad tidings, are
bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh. The universal peace and good
wiil was announced by the Jew-
ish prophets hundreds of years be-
fore Christ, has been expected by
them as their sweetest hope, not, how-
ever, as a sudden and miraculous ap-
pearance, as a supernatural birth, but
as the ultimate result of a slow evo-
lution to be achieved by the gradual
progress and education of mankind to
genuine religion.

The Jews will continue to celebrate

their own festival because it gives.

a clear expression to this their funda-
mental principle and bodies forth a
greater and more elevated charity
than even that advocated by Christ-
mas.

Christmas celebrates the birth of
him who is said to have brought
peace and good will as a new revela-
tion suddenly and all at once, while
the Jews by their Feast of Lights pro-
claim that sentiment which alone
makes those lofty ideals obtainable.

 

The Jewish festival is devoted to
that which is dearest to the Jew, to
freedom of conscience. For freedom
of conscience the Maccabees drew
their sword and their victory was the
first one achieved in the world’s his-
tory for independence of thinking.
This sentiment furthers the highest
charity, which proves that the love
preached is not confined by any lim-
itations, the charity for men’s opin-
ions, the charity for those who differ
from us in creed and dogma. The
peace and good will proclaimed by
the angels’ tongues has not yet been
extended to them who refused to ac-
cept the belief of its messengers, and,
in spite of the growing enlighten-
ment, such Christians are still the ex-
ception as, with heart and soul, are
willing to.include therein the de-
scendants of those in whose midst
the Christ is said to have lived and
taught.

Therefore the Jews may well con-
tinue to celebrate that glorious vic-
tory which opened the door to real
good will, to that most exalted char-
ity which is free from all exclusive-
ness and is truly universal.

The little unassuming Chanukah
candles of the Jews which have
thrown their beams so far may still
compete with the more pretentious
Christmas trees of their neighbors. If
anywhere on earth there is a propi-
tious soil for the growth of brotherly
love and kindly feeling for all men,
itis in our beloved country. Here
in America, where independence of
thinking is fostered, we have good
reason to hope that the light of true
humanity will soon be kindled in all
habitations, proclaiming glory tothe
Highest and good will to all men
without- any discrimination. When
that day dawns, then both the Jewish
and the Christian festival will have
fulfilled their mission, and a new
Feast of Light will be celebrated
which will unite all men in one cov-
enant of love under the protection
of the common Father.

Rabbi Max Landsberg.
>>
Recent Business Changes in the Hoo-
sier State.

Crawfordsville—Shaw, Fink & Co.
succeed Fink & Easley in the meat
business.

Farmers’ Retreat—M. C. Linkmeyer
is to conduct the general store for-
merly managed by-Chas. A. Opp.

Indianapolis—The stock of Geo. W.
Cummins & Co., commission produce
dealers, has been damaged by fire.

Indianapolis—Chas. W. Fryberger
succeeds Fryberger & Wilde, who re-
cently carried a stock of hardware, bi-

 

‘| cycles, etc.

Indianapolis — The Glosbrenner-
Dodge Co., wholesaler of butter and
eggs, has merged its business intoa
stock company under the same style.

Mitchell—O. R. Mathew & Co,
druggists, have: dissolved partnership
and the: business will be continued
by O. R. Mathew.

Oxford—M. J. Farrell, cigar manu-
facturer, is succeeded by G. P. Wil-
son.” en

Indianapolis-—Karstadt Bros., cloth-
iers, have filed a chattel mortgage for
$500.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2 3

WATCH IT GROW

We take pleasure in informing the trade that we have pur-

 

 

chased the stock and good will of Daniel Lynch, who has conducted |
the wholesale grocery business for the past ten years at this market,
during which time he has built up an established trade and secured
a growing circle of appreciative customers. In making the transfer
Mr. Lynch naturally selected a house which would treat his patrons
with the same consideration he has shown them in the past, and he
bespeaks for us a continuance of their esteemed patronage.

The merchandise will be immediately removed to our new
building, just east of the Lynch establishment, which will enable us
to fill all orders from Mr. Lynch's former customers, with the same
grades and brands they have been purchasing heretofore, without
interruption or delay.

We need hardly say that this acquisition not only strengthens

our position as a leading wholesale grocery house, but it enablesus

 

to serve our old customers, and the customers of Mr. Lynch as

well, more acceptably than they have ever been served in the past.

+ WORDEN GROCER COMPANY

(New Home)

 

Corner Island and Ottawa Streets

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISL
AROUND

THE STATE

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Sparta—-David Fonger has opened a
meat market.

Houghton—Croutch Bros. will open
a cigar store here.

Milan—Wanty & Wanty, meat deal-
ers, are succeeded by John Kerr.

Ann Arbor—C. A. Young is suc-
ceeded by Halber Bros. in the grocery
business.

Hilisdale—E. T. Parker & Son have
purchased the grocery stock of C. H.
Carter & Son.

Pontiac—John R. Welsh & Co. will
engage in the flour, feed and grain
business here.

Pontiac—Franklin S. Freer suc-
ceeds S. E. Voorhees in the boot
and shoe business.

Sault Ste. Marie—M. D. Monish
has moved his drug stock into his
new store building.

Hudson—John Brush has sold his
interest in the grocery stock of Brush
& Clement to L. C. Briggs.

Lansing—E. L. Smith has sold his
interest in the hardware stock of
Smith & Freeman to his partner.

Port Huron—R. C. Smith and R.
C. Jarvis have formed a copartnership
and engaged in the grocery business.

Boyne City—C. Argetsinger has
engaged in the grocery business. The
Petoskey Grocery Co. furnished the
stock.

Detroit—W. S. Corwin will con-
tinue the grocery and meat business
formerly conducted by G. W. Comer
& Co.

St. Johns—E. C. McKee has pur-
chased the stationery and book stock
of F. H. Bush and will take possession
of the store January I.

Ann Arbor—G. H. Bancroft, for-
merly general merchant and postmas-
ter at Highland Station, has opened
a grocery stock in his new building
here.

Shelby—O. Wylie has been ap-
pointed manager of the Co-operative
Association of Shelby to succeed M.
E. Stewart. The change will take
place Jan. 1.

Riga—Ollie O. Turner, dealer in
hardware and farm implements, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy, placing
his liabilities at $5,136.95 and his as-
sets at $5,301.

Hancock—Patrick Downey and J.
E. Chevalier -have formed a copart-
nership under the style of Downey &
Chevalier and ae in the furni-
ture business.

Lake City—Everett Steffe has pur-
chased an interest in the grocery and
feed stock of D. D. Walton & Son.
The new firm will be known as D. D.
Walton & Co.

Belford-—Albert C. Belford has sold
his general stock to Wm. H. Meach-
em & Co., who will continue the busi-
ness under the management of Will
Tuer, of Holly.

Saugatuck—Valentine Cooper has
purchased a lot and will immediately
begin the erection of a store building,

 

 

100 feet deep, in which he will engage
in general trade.

Alpena—C. B. Williams has _ pur-
chased Mrs. Frederick’s millinery
store, at Harrisville, and will operate
it as a branch of his Alpena ready-to-
wear clothing house.

St. Johns—M. A. Kniffin has pur-
chased the agricultural implement
business of Jules Sauvageot and has
been appointed agent for the Deer-
ing harvesting machines.

Middleville--John Carter has pur-
chased the interest of Mr. Culver in
the grocery and bakery stock of Wal-
ton & Culver. The new firm will be
known as Walton & Carter.

Homer—Geo. E. Bangham is now
proprietor of the Central Drug Store,
taking possession last Saturday. Geo.
has been associated with his brother,
Dr. A. D. Bangham, in the firm for
the past fifteen years.

Lansing—C. E. Cady, the Shiawas-

isee street grocer, has purchased the

grocery stock of the late W. A.
Sweazy on Turner street. Mr. Cady
will open the store at once and con-
duct both places of business.

Marshall—Patrick Hayes, the dry
goods dealer, has been adjudicateda
bankrupt by default by Judge Swan
on the petition of the Clawson &
Witison Co, Buffalo, N. Y¥. and
others, whose claims aggregate about
$1,100.

Lake City—S. B. Ardis_ recently
purchased the interest of E. W. Mur-
ray in the lumber firm of Ardis &
Murray, subsequently disposing of the
same to Wm. Keelean. The new firm
will be known as the S. B. Ardis Lum-
ber Co.

Shelby—Alex. Paton, who was for
many years a lumberman in this coun-
ty, but who for the past several years
has been in business at Phelps, will
soon open a furniture and crockery
store here, to be conducted under the
style of Paton & Co.

Monroe—Karl Fred Kaiser has sold
his bicycle business, stock and ma-
chinery to George A. Greening. Mr.
Greening’s son, Otto, will take hold
of the business next spring, but for
the present will retain his position
with the telephone company.

Hancock—J. R. Carroll, the dry
goods merchant, has decided to close
out his present business to engage
in the stock brokerage business at his
present stand in the Scott block. Mr.
Carroll has been engaged in the dry
goods business here for twelve years.

Pontiac—Joseph Barnett, dealer in
general merchandise at this place and
Flint, has filed a petition in bankrupt-
cy, placing his liabilities at $27,227.33
and his assets at $17,275. Barnett’s
voluntary petition followed a petition
filed by Burnham, Stoepel & Co. and
others.

Mancelona—The “Crescent Store”
is a new business establishment which
will be-opened under the proprietor-
ship of F. W. Clugg & Co. early in
January, with a new stock of cloth-
ing, dry goods, shoes, hats, caps, etc.
The head of the firm, F. W. Clugg,
was formerly with J. Barnett.

Lansing—The Grand Union Tea
Co., which has stores in several cit-
ies of Michigan as well as throughout

 

 

the United States, has established a
branch distributing house and retail
store at 122 Allegan street east. The
business here will be under the man-
agement of H. O. Raiche, formerly of
Marinette, Wisconsin.
Snowflake—Johnson Bros.
gaged in extracting the seeds from
the cones of the jackpine here. Dur-
ing the fall the cones are gathered
by the Indians on the plains in Kal-
kaska county and are shipped to this
place. Here they are subjected to
heat sufficient to cause them to open
and the seeds are shipped to nursery-
men, bringing $7 to $10 a pound.
Cadillac—Charles H. Drury has
purchased the shares of Mrs. Eva
Kelley in the Drury & Kelley Hard-
ware Co., the consideration being
$7,000, and Mrs. Kelley has retired
from the company. Frank B. Kelley,
who died about three years ago, be-
came a shareholder, an officer and an
active associate in the Drury & Kel-
ley Hardware Co. about nine years
ago and since his death his interest
has been retained by his widow. It
is Mr. Drury’s present intention to
retain the title of the Drury & Kel-
ley Hardware Co.,

are ch-

weeks. Mrs. Kelley has served as the

Secretary and Treasurer of the com- |

pany since the death of Mr. Kelley.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

South Haven—Dyckman & Jacobs |
succeed Jacob Niffenegger in the|

meat business.

Case

 

sawing this month and will run day
and night.

Cheboygan — The Embury-Martin
Lumber Co. suspended operations at
the mill a week ago, having manufac-
tured 18,000,000 feet.

Escanaba—The plant of the North-
western Cooperage & Lumber Co., re-
cently destroyed by fire, has been re-
built and is running.

Oscoda—The Hull & Ely sawmill
manufactured the last season 5,750,-
ooo feet of lumber, 21,876,000 pieces
of lath and 1,100,000 shingles.

Menominee—The Peninsula Box &
Lumber Co. is operating its factory
night and day. Several large
tracts secured recently
operation for a long time.

Cheboygan—M. D. Olds has shut
down his sawmill and will make ex-
tensive repairs, including an increase
of capacity. He has 5,000,000 feet of
logs in boom to begin cutting in the
spring.

Menominee—Work on the new
planing mill of the A. Spies Lumber
& Cedar Co. is progressing satisfac-
torily. The boiler house is nearly
completed and the plant will be oper-
ating by next spring.

Munising—A_ sawmill Soxttg_ feet

and equipped with machinery with a
capacity for cutting 50,000 feet a day
has been added to the Forster plant
here. A planing mill, 16x42 feet, al-
so has been completed.

Detroit—Judge Brooke has ap-
pointed the Detroit Trust Co. re-
ceiver for the E. C. Clark Machine Co.
This order was made in connection

con-
insure full

but a reorganiza- |
tion will be effected .within a few)

A. Gowen is erecting a small |
circular sawmill here, which will start |

with the suit begun recently by Min-
nie Clark and others for an account-
ing, etc.

Au Sable—Operations at the H. M.
Loud’s Sons Lumber Co’s mill will
continue all winter, logs being secur-
ed by rail. The-cut is mixed timber.
The company has opened a storage
yard in Buffolo near the one it occu-
pied some years ago and has a con-
siderable amount of its mill product
there.

 

Manistee—The Michigan Iron
Works Co. is in financial straits and
the assets are in the hands of N. W.
Mottinger and W. H. Nuttall, who
hold mortgages. W. E. Brown, the
chief owner of the company, is now
in Union City. It is likely that a
new company will be formed with
more capital to carry on the business.

Battle Creek—Edwin J. Phelps,
trustee, of Kalamazoo, has commenc-
ed suit in the Circuit Court to fore-
close a mortgage given by the Korn
Krisp: Co, itd) to Br. Phelps as
trustee, for $50,000, at 6 per cent. in-
terest. The mortgage was given in
1902, and but $3,000 has
leaving a balance due at
the time the suit was commenced of
| $54,266.67, and a solicitor’s fee of
$500.

 

November,
| been paid,

Escanaba—With the declaration of
la dividend amounting to $300,000 by
|the stockholders of the Metropolitan
Lumber Co. at the annual meeting of
that company, the operations of what
| was at one time one of the most ac-
tive lumbering concerns of this dis-
trict have come to an end. The com-
|pany has been reorganized into the
Metropolitan Red Wood Lumber Co.,
with headquarters at Eureka, Cal.,
and all of the property of the com-
pany in this district will be disposed
of at once.

Detroit—The filing of a notice of
dissolution of the Peninsular White
Lead & Color Works calls attention
to the end of a company which has
had nothing beyond a corporate exist-
ence for a number of years. The
company was organized some twelve
or more years ago, and later was
sold to John Moran and others. They,
in turn, sold to the Acme White Lead
& Color Co. a year or two ago. All of
the real estate held by the original
company at Leib street and the river
was not disposed of in the first sale,
and the recent disposition of this
has enabled a final dissolution. The
notice is signed by William C. Wil-
liams, Emory W. Clark, R. P. Wil-
liams and Jacob S. Farrand, Jr., a
majority of the stockholders.

 

 

Commercial
Credit Co., tt.

Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids
Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit

Good but debtors pay

direct de-

slow
receipt of our
other

letters. Send all

ices for collec-

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

5

 

 

 

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—All refiners are more. or
less oversold, the American being two
to three days behind, while Howell
is ten days and Arbuckle Bros. about
two weeks late in their shipments on
assorted orders. Prices are steady and
unchanged. 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:
Crystal Domino 20 e oll tl $7 90
Bact tablets (oo 6 3;
Cee 6 30
Cee sa es 6 35

Fe a 6 05
Pame sowdered (ooo, 5 90
Oe 5 90
MRAM poweered 650.002 0000. 5 80
Coaese powdered) (.0... 0.000 0.. 5 75
Pruitt powdered 2200 00.5.0.2..-. 5 65
Powdered 22.5000, 5 75
Eagle fine granulated ......... 5 65
Coarse grantlated: fool a 5 65
Standard sranmulatéd 2.0600 0.00. 5 6s
Extra fine granulated ....... ae oe
Confectioners’ granulated ...... 5 85
2 1. crn, fine granulated ..... 5 80
2 th. bags, fine granulated .... 5 80
5 ib. bags, fine granulated ..... . 5 80
DO ee 5 65
Confectioners A ...:.. Se 5 50
(t) Colembia Abo 5 30
(2) Wistisor ACL 5 25
(2) @iteewood Ae. S25
(4) Pioehm AD 5 15
(5) Panore A oo 5 10
Biss Cs ee ee 5 05
Fn ee Me | 5 00
Be ee 4 00
De ae 4 85
CD te 4 80
a. ia 4 70
ey 4 65
Ce a 4 55)
ee 4 50
CS Talay 4 50
oe 4 60

Coffee—Present indications are that
the estimates of 9,000,000 to 9,500,-
coo bags for the current Brazil crop
will be about correct. The strength
of the market has a new illustration
in a rumor among the trade that the
sugar or Crossman interests have
now taken the bull side of the mar-
ket. The Arbuckle interest, which is
the other large factor, has been per-
sistently bullish for months. This
means, if true, that there is no im-
portant bear interest left. Milds are
very firm on constant reports of crop
conditions, each showing a smaller
crop than the one next preceding.
Java and Mocha are firm and with-
The general demand for
Arbuckle and Wool-
son have both advanced their pack-
age coffee %c during the week.

Tea—There is some business doing
in the large markets, but the country
is quiet. The week has shown no de-
velopments of any character. Prices

out change.
coffee is good.

in all lines are unchanged. There is
a general expectation of a lively busi-
ness in January, as some buyers have

 

been out of the market since March
last. If the January trade proves as
good as is expected it will very soon
develop which lines are short and
which are not.

Dried Fruits—Currants are in fair
demand at unchanged prices. Seeded
raisins are not active. Probably the
entire holiday demand, however, is
about as good as usual. Prices con-
tinue to rule in secondary markets
much less than on the coast. Loose
raisins are in moderate demand.
Holders-on the coast are firm, on the
claim that only too cars of raisins
remain unsold in California. Apricots
are in fair demand at unchanged
prices. The coast is firm. Prunes
are only in fair demand, and are still
selling at low prices. Peaches are
gradually working up, and the out-
look is for a pronounced scarcity next
spring. No change in price has oc-
curred during the week.

Canned Goods—Corn is in fair de-
mand and the price is unchanged.
Tomatoes are quiet and without no-
ticeable change in price. Peas are
dull and unchanged. Salmon is show-
ing no change of importance. The
market is very strong in the face of
a light demand. Buying by the re-
tailers is very moderate. Sardines
are firm and fairly high.

Rice—Staple goods continue in
fair demand, but are somewhat neg-
lected, on account of the holiday
trade. After the first of the year
there will likely be a much better de-
mand. Stocks are in good shape and
excellent values are offered the trade.

Syrups and Molasses—Sugar syrup
is only in fair demand, and prices are
unchanged. Molasses is in fair de-
mand. The price of lower grades is
tending downward, as is usual after
the season opens, but choice grades
are scarce and the price is firmly held.
Glucose is unchanged. The situation
is firm, and will probably. continue to
be as long as the refiners are in work-
ing agreement. Compound syrup is
in fair demand at unchanged prices.

Fish—Mackerel is strongly held,
but barring a hand-to-mouth business,
is out of the game for the time being.
Sardines are unchanged and _ not
wanted. The independents seem will-
ing to concede prices, but even that
would not assist trade just now. Cod,
hake and haddock are firmly held at
high prices and in good demand. Sal-
mon is dull and unchanged. Smoked
herring are weaker. Lake fish and
whitefish are unchanged and quiet.

22s —_——_

L. E. Swan and Wm. Parks have
formed a copartnership under the
style of the Consumers’ Rating and
Collection Directory for the purpose
of compiling and publishing a direc-
tory of consumers, which will be sold
at $4. Mr. Swan is a former resident
of Grand Rapids, but is now connect-
ed with the Petoskey Provision Co.,
at Petoskey. Mr. Parks hails from
Detroit, where he was connected with
a printing establishment. The head-
quarters of the concern will be estab-
lished in this city.

——__.---.

See that to-day’s work contains
nothing that will rise up and accuse
you to-morrow.

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—Prices range from $2@2.25
per bbl., according to quality and va-
riety.

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

Beets—4oc per bu.

Butter—Creameries are steady at
26%4c for choice and 27%c for fancy.
Receipts of dairy grades are increas-
ing and the quality is generally good
No. I is strong at 20@z2Ic and pack-
ing stock is steady at 15@16c. Ren-
ovated is in active demand at 20@2Ic.

Cabbage—soc per doz.

Carrots— 4oc per bu.

Celery—z25c per doz. bunches.

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

Eggs—Receipts of fresh are grad-
ually increasing and the price will un-
doubtedly ease off after Christmas.
Holders of storage see the handwrit-
ing on the wall and are making des-
perate efforts to move their stocks.
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—Maligas, $4.50@5.50_ per
keg.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12c and white clover at 13@I15c.

Lemons—Messinas and California
fetch $3.50 per box.

Lettuce—Hot house is
12¢ per fb.

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

steady at

fornia Navels, $2.85.

Parsley—45c per dozen bunches for
hot house.

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

Pop Corn—goc for Rice.

Poultry—Turkeys and ducks are
strong and higher, due to Christmas
demand. Chickens, 11@12c; fowls, 10
@ltc; young turkeys, 18@20c; old
turkeys, 17@18c; young ducks, T4@
I5c; young geese, Io@I1Ic; squabs, $2
@ 2.50.

Radishes—25c per doz. for hot
house.

Squash—tc per fb. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois
have advanced to $3.25 per bbl.

Turnips—4ceec per bu.

ee tt ee
Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

The hide market is a sick one as
compared with last week. Hides have
ruled too high in price to be profita-
ble to tanner or dealer. Margins of
dealers were thrown away in the an-
xiety to do business and_ tanners
could see nothing but a loss in work-
ing them in. Prices had to slump on
most grades. Light hides have come

‘

in freely, while heavy hides were not |

up to the demand. Extreme light and
skins are still scarce. The trade is
in a good condition, but must be at
lower values, or as present market in-
dicates. The hustle is over and no
higher prices are looked for at the
present.

Pelts are scarce and demand good,
as both wool and stock are wanted.

 

 

Furs are in good demand at good
value for immediate use at home. The
export demand is not so promising.

Tallow is held low in price, with a
fair demand and an ample supply.

Wool shows some weakness on
the Eastern market on
light offerings. Prices are as high
as manufacturers care to pay, and
they hold out at any advance.

Win 2.

extremely

Hess.

ea
The Worden Grocer Co. Buys Out
Daniel Lynch.

Daniel Lynch has sold his whole-
sale grocery stock to the Worden
Grocer Co., the transfer to take effect
to-day. The stock will immediately
be removed to the new store building
of the Worden Grocer Co., adjoining
the Lynch establishment on the east.

This acquisition on the part of the
Worden Grocer Co. not only enables
it to serve the former customers of
Daniel Lynch more acceptably than
before, but strengthens its position as
a wholesale grocery house and will
naturally enable it to increase the vol-
ume of its business several hundred
thousand dollars per year.

The purchase of the Lynch stock
is the best possible indication of the
prosperity and stability of the Wor-
den Grocer Co. and the hopes the
management entertain concerning the
future of the institution.

——»- 2

At the regular monthly meeting
of the Grand Rapids Credit Men’s As-
sociation, held at the Peninsular Club
last evening, and attended by all the

| local Representatives and Senators in

: : . . | the Legisl Ps 0 hree from
Oranges—Flotidas fetch $2; Cali-| t egislature and two or three tro

out of town, the four legislative meas-
ures championed by the Credit Men’s
Association were discussed very fully.
Lee M. Hutchins presented the merits
of the Sale-in-bulk Bill, Charles E-
McCrone discussed the desirability
of changing the filing of chattel mort-
gages and bills of sale from the town-
ship to the county, A. B. Merritt
urged the des‘rability of restricting the

| use of corporate names to actual cor-
| perations and Robert Merrill set forth

the necessity of uniformity in legis-
lation on the subject of commercial
paper and negotiable instruments.
These presentations were followed by
brief and pointed remarks by L. J.
Stevenson, Andy Fife, Jos. T. Heald,
Deacon Ellis, Huntley Russell, C. B.
Yowner, Carl Mapes, E. A. Stowe,
Geo. F. Sinclair and others. The
meeting was one of the most inter-
esting ever held under the auspices
of the organization. Six new members
were elected, thus increasing the
roster to 106.  Ehe Iteasurer re-
ported a balance ot over $500 on hand.
The remarks of the legislators plainly
indicated that there would be no dif-
ficulty in securing the re-enactment
of the Sale-in-bulk Bill, which passed
both houses of the last Legislature
unanimously, but which was vetoed
by the pnerile Governor who has dis-
graced the State during the past four
years.

a ane

It is not necessary to lie to sell
goods. In fact, the liar is sure to
be found out, sooner or later, and
when he is his trade is gone, as well
as his respect.

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exceptional Display of. Gift Goods in
Hardware Store.

When Foster, Stevens & Co. set
out to have a fine window display of
art pottery they arrive at a result that
is highly pleasing to the artistic eye,
for they carry one of the
lines of these goods in the State and

their windowman, Mr. Arthur Haines, |

although he declares he is somewhat
new to the business, has become so

proficient that he has just reason to |

feel proud of his work.

Mr.
so ago to present an elaborate Christ-
mas window, of which he very kindly
lent the Tradesman photograph.
- Some of the articles have been dis-
placed from time to time by others,
but the general effect is the same as
was presented at first.

a

Country dealers do not, as

draw from for their window trims,

but they may study the symmetrical |

arrangement of this particular display
with profit.

The entire floor and background

are covered with a soft white cotton |

cloth of about the mesh of cheese-
cloth. even the mirror frame at
left being draped with it. The pic-

ture was taken in the evening and

the reflection of the electric light on |

the glass gives the misleading ap-

pearance of a second row at the rear |
In reducing the pho- |
tograph much of the detail is lost, |

of the window.

the goods showing up sharp and dis-
tinct in the original.

About the first object to strike the
attention is the lovely Parian bust on
the Carrara marble pedestal, both the
product of Sunny Italy. This coun-
try’s wares are also represented at
the right in the table vases with the
outstanding flowers, the larger of
which is priced at $18. The latter
pieces are from Neapolitan so-called
factories, these being described by
travelers as little more than a long
narrow passageway—‘a slit between
two walls,” as one expressed it. One
man—perhaps an old man—will be
dimly discerned away down at the
end of this shop busily engaged ona
single piece, and fearful that some

 

stranger may learn some secret of his
work. The ware like these vases is
done with a broad treatment, the
flowers always being crude in color-
ing and coarsely fashioned. Yet the
vases and plaques of this rough clay
are wonderfully decorative in effect.
They make good objects for the din-
ing room. Plaques are sometimes
literally covered with fruit, flowers
and vines that look so natural you
might easily imagine them growing
right on the china. They are like the
Weims ware—coarse and effective in
appearance. A little of it goes a
good way; but that little may show
taste in selection and in the disposal
at the home.

The pretty little Eros on the pedes-
tal at the right is of French bronzes

largest |

Haines started out a week or|}

the |

| In sharp contrast with the goods
|from Naples are the Teplitz vases.
| This pottery is made in imitation of

| the Royal Worcester, so closely that |
| sometimes even an expert can not tell |

|one from the other.
The clock on the right in the back-
|ground is an extremely beautiful

\thing, the works being enclosed ina|

swings
also

| Royal Blue sphere, which
| with the pendulum, which
‘round. The whole is apparently held

is

|aloft by a bronze female figure. The |

idea is unique, but a person in looking
|at the heavy clock so pities the arm

‘it up that he himself gets tired at
| the spectacle.
is $22.50.

The candlelabra at the right, each
holding five candles, are from Dres-
| den.

Next are plates of three varieties.
Those occupying the center of the
|exhibit, right in front of the glass,
smaller pieces, are
| part of a Cauldon (English) dinner

with other and

jset, which retails for $160. There is

of the lady who must forever hold |
| Vienna—are under the auspices of the |
The price of the clock |

the sand, her head supported by her
elbows, and is intently gazing up into
the face of the other. An open flat
handle by which to lift the dish is at
each end.

Beginning at the right of the five

iuprights (which are mere pieces of |

board covered with the white cloth)

| $60, $38 and $50.

The bust in the center on the mar- |
(Prus- |
It is said that all the foreign |
| factories which have the word “Roy- |
'al’” connected with their product—as |

ble pedestal is Royal Bonn
sian).

Royal Bonn, Royal Worcester, Royal

government.

The elaborate Florentine gilt frame
at the left encloses a Royal Vienna
valued at $50.

plaque—the whole

|The frame is procured from one im- |

porter, the plaque from another. The
unframed plaque at the over
| near the clock I mentioned is of this
It is a Sevres piece—price

right

character.
$20.

I neglected to mention the delicate

 

a rule, |
have such expensive merchandise to |

 

 

no china used for the table that is
so pretty as Cauldon. The ware it-
the feel than velvet. The decoration
is always extremely dainty in design.

The group of plates at the right of
the dinner set are $48 a dozen, Havi-
land china. The six at the left are
also Haviland and fetch the price, to
the consumer, of $150 a dozen. One
means $12.50 gone to the
Everlasting Bowwows!

Directly -back of
luxuries, and a little to the left, is one
of the attractive of Christmas
hints to the one who prefers some-
thing removed from the ordinary. It
is an oval fern-dish from Holland—
white, with a marine on either side,
in one of which a sail is seen in the

smashed
these

most

guidly picking up seaweed, while the
child lies stretched at full length on

 

i - . |
self is a creamy white and softer to |

last-named |

middle distance, and on the shore of |
the other are a maiden and a child. |

The girl is in a stooping position, lan-/| ter’s art, some of the prettiest things |

 

little Coalport handled vase directly
| under the placard (which, by the way,
I think mars the exhibit most
cidedly). The top is a deep red, there
| is some gilt and the interstices around
the picture part are studded with
half-spheres of blue enamel, called
“jewels,” perhaps from their close re-
| semblance to the turquoise.

|

The Royal Sevres vase in the very
:center is marked $roo.
There is one pieec of Quezal—the

vase in the front left hand corner.

,of the rainbow tints first made
Tiffany Favrile, but now is in busi-
ness for himself. It seems as if there
| could be nothing ever invented more
beautiful than the iridescence of this
| fragile ware.

With all the expense compassed in
the foregoing examples of the pot-

on exhibit are the three little vases
| standing close together down in the

 

the prices per dozen are $85, $28.50, |

de- |

The man who manufactures this glass |
the ;

| foreground at the left. They hail
lfrom the Land of Dykes, and are
| ticketed all the way from 60 cents to
(a dollar and a half or so. They have
|a clear white background, with crows
| or mice or birds in one color on one
side—as simple a decoration as might
ibe thought out—and are a very good
limitation of the ‘Copenhagen

 

ware.
| These little vases are the cheapest
thing in the window and at the same
time are very desirable.

I am indebted to Miss Emma
Leichner, the pleasant and obliging
young lady in the art department, for
the information concerning the arti-

cles in this most excellent exhibit of
Holiday goods.
—_—-o<-o————
|Increasing Activity in Every Hard-
ware Staple.
\s a natural result of the increasing
| strength the iron and miar-
kes, prices of many lines of hardware
have been advanced within the past

in steel

week, and it is believed that the prices
of wire nails may be advanced furth-
er until the official quotation

has

 

|
; reached the $2 schedule, which was in

force during the greater part of last
year. in of the present ad-
vances in galvanized sheets, coal hods

view

and a few other goods most manufac-
turers are withdrawing extreme dis-
counts and refusing to make unusual
| concessions, while in some instances
| they are rejecting all orders for far
distant deliveries at present prices.

Although the volume of buying in
the winter and holiday lines is reach-
| ing even larger proportions, there isa
slight tendency among jobbers and
retailers to curtail purchases in other
lines until after the first of the new
year, when they will better under-
Many of
the jobbing houses are discussing the
results of this year’s business and
preparing for a general revision of
methods for next year.

The demand for skates, sleds and
| snow shovels is increasing daily, de-
spite the temporary lull in many lines

| stand their requirements.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

of shelf and heavy goods. Builders’ | still in the market for several large |

hardware also continues in good re-
probably be placed with local and

the Christmas holidays. The only

makers.

next year.

Wire Nails—Believing that further
advances may be made in prices of
wire nails before the end of the year,

many of the largest consumers are |
leading |
Most mills, however, |
refuse to accept orders for delivery |
Quotations are as |
follows, on the basis of f. 0. b. Pitts- |

placing heavy orders’ with

manufacturers.
beyond 60 days.

burg, 60 days, or 2 per cent. discount
for cash in 10 days: Carload lots,
$1.75; less than carload lots,

store, $2.

ing on Dec. 14 to raise the price of
its products to the same level as that
of the wire products.
mills are now holding quotations on

a basis of $1.75 per keg, one of the)
| ment in the production of coke is al- |

independent manufacturers will not

accept orders for carload lots at less |

than $1.80. The official quotations
are as follows:
less than carioad lots to
$1.80, and to retailers, $1.90, f. o. b.
Pittsburg.
follows:
than carloads on dock, $1.94; small
lots from store, $2.

Barb Wire—The recent advance in
the prices of barb wire has increased

the demand for all descriptions, and

many liberal contracts are now being |
Quotations areas |
lard rails, will be advanced soon, lead- |

placed with mills.
follows, f. 0. b. Pittsburg, 60 days, or
2 per cent. discount for cash in I0

: | tonnages in order to keep in active |
manufacturers who have had an un- |
profitable year are the refrigerator |
A large quantity of their |
products has been left on their hands |
and will have to be carried over into |

While most |

| supplies.
Local quotations are as|
Carloads on dock, $1.89; less |

t
|
|

|tonnages of steel-making iron and |
quest, and many big contracts will |

it is likely that the Carnegie Steel |

| Co. and many of its largest plants |
Chicago concerns immediately after |

will have to buy many supplementary |
cperation and fill all contracts for |
finished steel. Although the con- |
tract recently placed by the United |
States Cast Pipe & Foundry |
Co. for 15,000 tons of Virginia foun-
dry iron overshadows most tof the|
more recent foundry contracts, the
purchases by independent pipe found- |
ers have aggregated almost as much}
within the past week, while more than |
30,000 tons of standard and malleable
Bessemer has been taken by various |

Iron

independent mills which
purchased about 40,000 tons of basic.

The scarcity of available supplies of |
|forge iron is causing producers to
| hold prices very firmly, and many
$1.80.
Local quotations are as follows: Sin- |
gle carloads, $1.941%4; small lots from |
Following the latest ad- |
vance in prices of wire nails, the Cut |
Nail Association decided at its meet- |

large consumers are now unable to}
obtain any considerable tonnage of |
this grade at any price. The stimu- |
lus given to the pig iron market by |
the imecreased demand Has also
market for
iron and steel, prices of which have |

strengthened the scrap

been advanced in many instances as |
much as $1 per ton. ‘Muck bars are|

also being well maintained and are)

in moderate demand. The curtail-!

so resulting in still higher prices and |

|

L ‘ aging

IS threatening to cause the suspension |

Carload lots, $1.75; | |
: |

jobbers, |

foundries |
which are unable to secure sufficient
The ovens in the Connells-
asking

of operations in many

ville district are generally
$2.25 per ton for good furnace grades
and $2.50 to $3 for foundry brands
to be delivered in the first half of
1905.
and strong at the late advances.

Steel—Realizing that the prices of |
plates, structural material and other |
classes of finished steel, except stand- |

Cast iron pipe is also active

ing railroads in all parts of the coun- |

have also|

     
   
 
  
  
   
      
  
 
       
  
   
  
 

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You give your customer this full weight one lb. can absolutely
pure Midland Baking Powder and this beautiful Aquarium contain-
ing two Gold Fish, moss, pebbles, etc , for soc. Makes a magnificent
display.

 

 

 

Mr. Grocerman, can you conceive of anything that is better ad-
vertising for your store than to give your customers a globe of
live gold fish free? The gold fish craze has grown to an astonish-
ing degree in public favor. Everyone wants them in their homes.
You can not only give the Aquariums free, but, what is more to
the point, you can
MAKE BIG MONEY

doing it. Be Sure to Write To-Day for our proposition. We
know it will interest you—it will increase your sales, make you
satisfied customers. We excel all other similar offers in

1. Larger Globes and Gold Fish.

2. A Greater Number of Gold Fish.

3. We sell with or Without Baking Powder.

4. Requires a smaller investment and_ yields
profit of any other.

5. We guarantee delivery of Gold Fish in good condition.

Don’t wait for to-morrow—write to-day—be the first to dis-
play this proposition at your point. We know you'll reorder if
you try 1

double the

Midland Manufacturing Company, 1207 Adams St.. Toledo, Mhio
Manufacturers Midland Baking Powder,
Importers Gold Fish and Caye Birds and Dealers in Requisite Supplies.

 

 

Chicago, tine, Dece 14, 1904.

Michigan Tradesman,
Grand Rapids, Miche

days. |try have been placing heavy orders | Gentlemen:
Painted Galv.| for pressed steel cars, new bridge} We are just telegraphing you as
Jobbers, carload lots..... $1 90 $2 20 | work and various track equipment
Retailers, carload lots.... 1 95 2 25| during the last few days, so that the| follows:
Retailers, less than car- | market is now more active than at |
oad ots 205 2 35| any time since the boom period which | “In deference to the wishes of the retail trade resulting from

Smooth Wire—A large volume of| came to an abrupt termination in the |
1903. The railroads are |
ing placed with manufacturers in an-| also contracting for supplies of rails |
ticipation of further advances injof standard dimensions as they have |
Quotations are now as fol-| no longer anything to gain by defer-|

negotiations with National Secretary Mason and without waiting longer
for Great Western Cereal Company and H.O Company, we today act
independently and abandon the Cereta cash and coupon premium plan.
Also we propose abandonment word spelling schemes February first
provided Great Western Cereal Company do so.”

orders for smooth fence wire is be-| spring of

prices.

lows on the basis of f. 0. b. Pittsburg,
60 days, or 2 per cent. discount for
cash in 10 days: Jobbers, carloads,
$1.60; retailers, carloads, $1.65. The
above prices are for the base numbers,
6 to 9. The other numbers of plain
and galvanized wire take the usual
advances.

Pig Tron—Transactions in foundry
and basic grades of pig iron are
reaching unusually large proportions,
and as the demand from the pipe,
stove and steel makers does not ap-
pear to have been even temporarily
satisfied by the recent placing of
orders, it is generally believed that
the market will continue active
throughout the winter and well into
the spring. The United States Steel
Corporation, which has already con-
tracted for 40,000 tons of Bessemer
in addition to 26,000 tons of basic, is

 

ring their purchases now that it is |
known that the official price will re-
main at $28 per ton for at least six
months. In addition to the Pennsyl-|
vania’s order for 102,700 tons, the con-
tracts recently placed by other prom-
inent systems include more than 600,-
000 tons. Beginning with the meet-
ing of the Billet Association, at which
prices will probably be advanced $2
a ton. on billets, sheets and tin bars,
many other
scheduled to be made this week. It
is generally believed that the off-
cial quotations on plates will be ad-
vanced $4 a ton, while a similar ad-
vance is expected in beams, angles
and shapes. Steel bars are being
taken more freely by consumers and
several of the largest mills are al-
ready asking a premium of about $2
a ton on these products.

advances are also

 

We trust you will give in your
current issue as much publicity to this
statement from us as the importance of
it deservese It is a step far in
advance of that taken by any other
cereal manufacturer, and we trust the
day is near at hand when all premium
schemes in connection with cereals may
be done away withe

Yours truly,
THE AMERICAN CEREAL COMPANY.
Ce Ce Coldren,
Asste Sales Managere

 

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OF BUSINESS MEN.

 

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E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

_ WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 21, 1904

 

 

SAFETY ON RAILROADS.

The frequent recurrence of railway
accidents in the United States, in-
fiicting frightful loss of life and enor-
mous destruction of property, is one
of the most startling facts in the
railway history of the past few years.
Formerly such occurrences came at
long intervals, and they produced a
shock of horror throughout the coun-
try. Now they are announced so fre-
quently that they occasion little re-
mark beyond the friends of those
who are made the victims.

It is remarkable that there are no
efficient means of ascertaining the
causes of such terrible events, and
still poorer means of fixing any re-
sponsibility for them, and the only
recourse left to the surviving sufferers
or to the friends of the killed is to
bring suits at law for damages in the
courts and chiefly in the Federal
courts, when the railways carry on
inter-state traffic.

Some idea of the frightfully vast
extent of the railway slaughter is
seen by comparing it to that of a
battle. Hon. John J. Esch, a member
of Congress from Iowa, and a mem-
ber of the House Committee on In-
ter-state and Foreign Commerce, in
an article in the North American Re-
view for November, states the rail-
way mortality thus: “When the com-
bined losses of both the Japanese and
Russian armies for the five days of
awful fighting from Aug. 26 to the
fall of Liao-Yang were announced to
the world as amounting, in killed and
wounded, to over 30,000 men, all the
world shuddered. When the Inter-
state Commerce. Commission, in its
last annual report, made public the fact
that for the year ending June 30,
1903, the passengers and employes
killed and injured on the railroads of
the United States amounted to a
frightful total of 49,531, the statement
excited little comment. Wreck has
followed wreck with such regularity
during the last twelve months as to
make the reports of them in the daily
press no longer sensational, but rath-
er commonplace.”

Continuing this method of illustra-
tion of comparison with battles, the
figures for the year ending March 3,
1904, show 427 passengers killed, 8,006

 

injured, 3,479 employes killed and
43,025 injured, making a grand total
ot 54,937, being greater by almost
6,000 than the losses which resulted
from the three days’ fighting at Get-
tysburg. As a large proportion of this
bloodshed was suffered by employes,
and to a large extent by brakemen
and yardmen while engaged in cou-
pling cars, Congress enacted a law
requiring the use of automatic cou-
plings on all cars, and placed the en-
forcement of this law in the hands
of the Inter-state Commerce Commis-
sion. But there is no enactment for
the protection of passengers and train
crews from the dangers of train
wrecks, and while the Commerce
Commission is authorized to call for
reports of all such wrecks, it has
no powers nor jurisdiction of in-
spection and of contributing to se-
sure remedies and redress.

The reports made of accidents to
the Inter-state Commerce Commis-
sion for the twelve months ending
March 31, 1904, show the following:

Nine collisions, with a total of 38
killed and 35 injured, and property
loss of $77,770, caused by excessive
hours on duty, and the falling asleep
of enginemen, flagmen or operators.

Twelve collisions, with a total of 7
killed and 79 injured, and property
loss of $609,255, caused by the employ-
ment of young or inexperienced men.

Twelve collisions, with a total of
47 killed and 223 injured, and property
loss of $224,924, caused by the mis-
reading of train orders by enginemen
and conductors.

Thirteen collisions, with a total of
72 killed and 208 injured, and property
loss of $107,037, caused by ignoring
signals and disobedience of orders on
the part of enginemen, conductors
and brakemen.

Here is an account of 46 collisions
causing the death of 164, and the
wounding of 555 persons, all attribut-
ed to the employment of inefficient
and inexperienced men, or to over-
working train crews to such an extent
that they were incapable of taking the
precautions which they knew were
necessary for the safety of their
trains, and yet in no case was any
responsibility fixed, except in the
prosecution of lawsuits, which, on ac-
count of the almost inexhaustible re-
sources of the great corporations for
delay and defense, are but of doubtful
utility to those who thereby seek re-
dress for their losses.

There are conditions caused by sud-
den storms, or by other operation of
natural forces, or by the acts of crim-
inal enemies, that may properly re-
lieve the railway companies from lia-
bility, but it is safe to say that a col-
lision between two trains can not oc-
cur except through some failure on
the part of the company or its em-
ployes. Since the National Govern-
ment has assumed a large degree of
supervision over inter-state railways,
it ought to go still further and insti-
tute the same sort of inspection and
regulation in the interest of safety as
is in use for steam vessels. This
service could most properly be placed
under the direction of the Inter-state
Commerce Committee.

 

That body has already recommend-
ed to Congress the adoption on all
inter-state roads of the block signal
system, which undertakes to keep ac-
count of the movement and position
of all trains in a given distance be-
tween two designated stations, and
not to lose track of any of them until
they all enter upon other blocks of
distance where they are similarly
looked after in the new changes of
location. It is claimed that on nearly
30,000 miles of some of the busiest
railroads where the block signal sys-
tem has been in use there has been
no reduction in the number and de-
structiveness of accidents.

On the other hand, it is shown that
for the year ending June 30, 1902, ten
out of eleven of the worst collisions
occurred on roads not using the block
system. Great Britain has been mak-
ing use of it universally for years
past, and to its use may be largely
ascribed the remarkable fact that not
a single passenger was killed in train
accidents in 1901, and only 6 in 1902.
The slow but voluntary extension
of this system by some of the leading
roads in this country is the best evi-
dence of its efficiency. No system,
however perfect, whether automatic
or otherwise, can wholly eliminate the
human factor in the problem of safe-
ty. Trainmen will forget, flagmen
and towermen will fall asleep, repair-
men will become negligent, officials
will relax discipline, in short, someone
will blunder, and yet this system is
the most practicable method thus far
put in use to insure safety.

In view of the fact that it seems
impossible to eliminate these fatal
wrecks from our railway service, Con-
gressman Esch has taken note of the
fact that in the worst collisions and
wrecks the frailest and most slender-
ly-built cars are crushed, while the
strongest, like the Pullman, for  in-
stance, suffer but little damage and
usually preserve their inmates from
the worst dangers except fire.

It is proposed to require by law that
all cars be so strongly built as to
prevent telescoping and destruction
by fire in case of collision or derail-
ment or other accidents. It is a well-
known fact that, in the average wreck,
the passengers in the smoking car
and in the so-called “day coaches”
suffer most. In all collisions the cas-
ualties are almost wholly confined to
these cars and coaches, and even in
rear-end collisions the force of im-
pact, transmitted through the sleep-
ers, spends itself upon them. Steel
cars are now coming into use, and the
idea is to require that they or others
of equal strength shall be used for
mail and day cars to resist the crush-
ing and telescoping which happen
with such fatal effects on the passen-
gers of the weak and frail construc-
tions now in use.

Congressman Esch proposes that
legislation shall be adopted that will
have for its object (1) the increase
of the inspection force of the Govern-
ment and the repair and construction
crews of the railroad companies, with
increase of powers to Government in-
spectors; (2) the prevention of exces-
sive hours of continuous labor on the

 

part of railroad employes; (3) the
prevention of the employment of
youthful or incompetent or inexperi-
enced men; (4) the compulsory in-
stallation of the most approved
block-signal system; (5) the change
of specifications by the Government
for all mail cars from wood to steel:
(6) the compulsory use of passenger
cars with steel underframes and steel
framework for superstructure and ves-
tibules.

The enforcement of such laws un-
der competent authority, accompanied
by a vigilant system of inspection,
would go far to increase the safety
of railroad travel, and surely if Con-
gress can assume and exercise su-
pervision over the business opera-
tions of railways, it can also, with
quite as good reason, legislate for
protection of life and limb of the peo-
ple who travel and work on the trains.

 

SAWING WOOD.

During the recent political cam-
paign a well-known judge received the
nomination for Representative in the
State Legislature. In his letter of ac-
ceptance he stated as one of the
reasons why he might be expected to
be economical in the expenditure of
public money was the fact that when
a young man, trying to secure an edu-
cation, he many times sawed cord-
wood twice in two for fifty cents a
cord.

When you see the busy merchant
sawing wood occasionally when he
can get out of the store for a few
minutes, don’t imagine that he is do-
ing it for the sake of economy. He
has learned that it is a kind of exer-
cise that puts the blood in circulation
in a healthy manner, relaxes the men-
tal strain, aids digestion, gives him
needed fresh air and brings him in
touch with nature. Many a city man
might profit by the same kind of ex-
ercise without loss of dignity and
many a student who is more engros-
sed in athletic sports than with his
studies might find other avenues to
expend his strength and develop his
physical powers which would be of
greater benefit to the world about
him.

The Tradesman has no desire to
say anything against athletic sports
in themselves, but rather to throw out
a warning that the student should not
allow himself to be carried away with
them to the extent of neglecting his
studies and failing to make the most
of his school opportunities. His
standing in a college team would
hardly be a valuable recommendation
for a position requiring wise states-
manship. Should it be his lot to be-
come crippled for life, a well-trained
mind would be of inestimable ad-
vantage. The trained athlete who has
frittered away excellent chances for
a thorough education may some day
find no vocation open to him more
remunerative than sawing cord-wood.

scales lee

There are times when politeness
seems thrown away, but even at
such times better throw it away than
not.

 

A good merchant may be cast down
at times, but he is never cast off.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

PROPOSED PHARMACY LAW.

Draft Prepared by the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association.
i 6 6Fhe People of the
United States enact, that the Gover-
nor, with the advice and consent of
the Senate. shall within thirty days
after this Act shall take effect,
appoint the five persons naw con-
stittting the

Section

rr

3oard of Pharmacy for
annually
a list of
five names submitted to him by the
State Pharmaceutical As-
sociation from among such competent
pharmacists in the State as have had
ten years’ practical experience in dis-

their respective terms, and,
thereafter, one person from

Michigan

 

pensing physicians’ prescriptions and |
who have not, during such _ period, |

been charged with and convicted of
a violation of the State Pharmacy
Law, who shall constitute the Michi-
The term
of office of said five persons, consti-

gan

3oard of Pharmacy.

tuting the Board aforesaid, shall be

So afranged that the term of one
shall expire on the thirty-first day
of December of each year, and all

appointments made thereafter shall be |

for the term of five years.

| whose time shall be exclusively de-
| voted to the work of the Board.

Section II. The said Board shall, |
within thirty days after its appoint- |

ment, meet and organize, by the elec-
tion of a President and a Secretary-
Treasurer from members,
shall hoid for the
term of one year, and shal! perform
duties shall from time to
time be prescribed by the Board. The
Secretary-Treasurer shall furnish an

its own

who their offices

such as

| of the Board, five times in each year.

indemnity bond in an amount fixed |

by the Board, and the cost of which

shall be paid from the funds of the

Board.
Section

Ht: Fhe

point an Assistant Secretary, who
not be
Board, whose duties shall be

scribed by the Board, and whose sal-

who shall

ary and term of office shall be fixed |

by the Board.
Section IV.
urer of the

The Secretary-Treas-
3oard shall receive a sal-

a member of the |
pre- |

| shall from time to time be
30ard shall ap- |

Auditors and to the Michigan Phar-
maceutical Association of all moneys
received and disbursed by it under
the provisions of this act.

Section V. The Siate Board
Pharmacy shall have power:

of

To make such by-laws, rules and
regulations, not inconsistent with the
laws of the State, as may be neces-
the protection of public
health, and the lawful performance

of its powers.

sary for

To regulate the practice of phar-
macy.

To regulate the sale of poisons.

To regulate and control the char-
acter and standard of drugs and medi
cines dispensed in the State.

To investigate all complaints as to |
quality and strength of all drugs and
medicines and to take such action as |
may be necessary to prevent the sale
of all drugs, chemicals, or prepara- |
tions dispensed in physicians’ pres-
criptions or sold for medicinal use.

To appoint an Assistant Secretary,

To
Fo

employ an attorney.
employ inspectors of pharmacy

| and to inspect. during business hours, |

pharmacies,

all dispensaries, stores,
or other places in which drugs, medi-

|cines and poisons are compounded, |

dispensed or retailed.

To hold meetings for the exami-
nation of applicants for registration,
and the transaction of such other
business as shall pertain to the duties

said meetings to be held on the third
Tuesday of the months of January. |
March, June, August and November. |
and to hold such special meetings as
deemed
necessary by the President and Sec

| retary-Treasurer for the due perform- |
shall be the Clerk of the Board, but |

ary which shall be fixed by the Board.
but the same shall in no case exceed |

the sum of five hundred dollars per
annum; shall also receive the
amount of his traveling and other ex-
penses incurred the performance
of his official duties.
bers shall each receive the sum of
three dollars for every day actually en-
gaged in the service of the Board, and
also all their legitimate and neces-
sary expenses incurred in the per-
formance of their official duties. Said
‘salaries, per diem and expenses shal!
be paid from the fees received under
the provisions of this act. All moneys
received in excess of said per diem
allowances, salaries and all other ex-
penses above provided for, shall be

he

in

paid into the State Treasury at the |

close ofeeach year; but if in any year
the receipts of said Board shall not
be equal to its expenses, so much of
the surplus funds paid into the State
Treasury as aforesaid, as shall be
necessary to meet the current ex-
penses of the Board, shall be subject
to its order. The Board shall make an

annual report to the Board of State

The other mem- |

'a true copy attested by the seal of

 

 

ance

keep

of the duties of the Board; to}
a book of registration in which
shall be entered the names and places
of business of all persons registered
under this act, which book shall
specify such facts as all such _ per-
sons shall claim to justify their regis- |
tration. The records of said Board. |
or a copy.of any part thereof, certi-
fied by the Secretary-Treasurer to be

also

the Board, shall be accepted as com-
petent evidence in all Courts of the
State. Three members of said Board
shall constitute a quorum.

To examine all applicants for regis-
tration, and to issue two grades of
certificates, to be known respectively
as that of “registered pharmacist” and
“registered druggist.”

To investigate all alleged violations
of the provisions of this act or any
other law of this State regulating the
dispensing or sale of drugs, medicines
or poisons, or the practicing of phar-
macy, which may come to its atten-
tion, and whenever there appears
reasonable cause therefor to take and
to hear testimony with reference to
the same, and at the discretion of the
Board to bring the same to the at-
tention of the proper prosecuting
authorities.

To suspend or revoke any certificate
issued by the Board, for cause, and
after an opportunity for hearing as
hereinafter provided.

 

| ot
| registered pharmacist

To provide for and require the an-
nual registration of every registered
pharmacist and registered druggist,

and to charge and collect the sum of |
two dollars for each registered phar- |

macist’s certificate, and one dollar for |

each registered druggist’s certificate,
the limit of time for payment of such
be in the discretion of the

fees to

3oard.

To require every person receiving
a certificte under this act to keep the
his
place of business, and every register-

same conspicuously exposed in
ed pharmacist or registered druggist

his place of business or employment,
as designated by his certificate, notify
the Secretary-Treasurer of the
of his new place of business or em-

3oard

ployment.

| or neglect to procure his annual regis-

tration, or to comply with the otier
provisions of
te act as such registered pharmacist
or registered druggist
after the expiration of ten days from

this section, his right

shall cease

the time notice of such failure to
comply with the provisions of this
| section shall have been mailed

| pharmacy

| shall, within ten days after changing |

If any registered pharma- | a!
|cist or registered druggist shall fail |
| specified,

anv village of not more than five
hundred inhabitants when there is

no registered pharmacist doing busi-
ness within less than three miles of
such village, which said permit shall
not be valid in any village than the
one for which it was granted and
shall be subject to cancellation when-
ever the population of such villa

aor
shall exceed five hundred.

Section xX.
may be employed for the purpose of

A registered druggist

dispensing, compounding or retailing
drugs, medicines and poisons in any
the

a

or drug store under

management and sunervision of
registered pharmacist and during his
therefrom;

vided, however, that such temporary

temporary abserce pro-
absence shall not exceed six hours at
one time.

xr oe

no person shall be granted

 

  

Section <cept as hereinbefore
a certificate as a registered pharma-
cist, until he or she shall have made
application to the Board setting forth
by affidavit that he or she is at least
twenty-one years of age, that he or

ishe has had at least four years’ prac-

to |

him by the Secretary-Treasurer or |

Assistant Secretary of the

The

3oard. |
3oard shall preserve and keep |

a record of all certificates issued by |

former Boards, and keep a record of
all certificates issued by it, and such
at all times be open to
any citizen of the State.

records shall
inspection by

Section VI. Any person who shall,

lat the time this Act takes effect, law-

fully hold a certificate of registered
pharmacist or
pharmacist may apply to the
Pharmacy

assistant registered

3oard
for re-registration as
and registered
druggist respectively, and the Board
shall issue such certificates

on pay-

| ment of the fees, if any.

Section VII.
taking effect of this Act, every place
in which drugs, medicines or poisons

From and after the

are retailed or .dispensed, or physi- |

cians’ prescriptions compounded, shall
be deemed a pharmacy, or drug
and the shall
the supervision of a registered phar-

a

store, same be

tical experience in a place where

drugs, medicines and poisons were
dispensed and retailed and prescrip
tions compounded, and shall furnish
Board

12th
grade work in the public schools, or
its equivalent, and until he or she
shall fee as shall

be fixed by the Board, not exceeding

satisfactory evidence to the

that he or she has completed

have paid such
the sum of five dollars, and until he
or she shall have passed an examina-
tion said Board for
the granting of such certificate.
Section XII. In case of failure of
an applicant upon his or her first ap

satisfactory to

plication to pass a satisfactory exam-

ination before the said Board, all
subsequent examinations. shall be
granted upon payment of a fee of

three dollars by applicants for regis-
tered pharmacist and a fee of two
dollars
druggist.

Section XIII.

by applicants for registered

The Board may also

i grant certificates of registration with-

under |

out further examination to the li-
|centiates of such other Boards of
Pharmacy as it may deem proper,

macist or a registered druggist re-} '
| upon the payment of a fee of ten dol-

spectively.
Section VIII.
preceding
shall be granted a certificate as reg-
istered druggist, until he or she shall
have made written application to
said Board. setting forth in an affi-
davit that he or she is at least eigh-
teen years of age, and has had not
than two years’ practical ex-
perience where drugs, medicines and
poisons were dispensed and retailed
and prescriptions compounded, and
furnish satisfactory evidence to the
3oard that he or she has completed
the equivalent to tenth grade work
in the public schools, and shall have
paid such fee as shall have been fixed
by the Board, not exceeding three
dollars, and shall have passed an ex-
amination satisfactory to said Board
for the granting of such certificate.
Section IX. It shall be lawful for
the Board of Pharmacy to grant toa
registered druggist a permit to con-
duct a drug store or pharmacy in

Except as. specified
-m a section, no

less

person |

pact,

lars.
Section XIV.
a registered

It shall be lawful for
pharmacist under this
who shall conform to the rules

jand regulations of the State Board of

|

jon

 

Pharmacy, to take, use and exhibit
the titles “pharmacist,” “druggist”
and “pharmacy” and “drug store,” to
have charge of, engage in, or carry
for himself or for another the
dispensing, compounding or sale of
drugs, medicines or poisons, any-
where within the State, but no regis-
tered pharmacist or registered drug-
gist shall have personal supervision
of or carry on business in more than °
one pharmacy or drug store at the
same time.

Section XV. Except as prescribed
by the provisions of this act, it shall
not be lawful for any person to prac-
tice as a registered pharmacist, reg-
istered druggist, or avertise himself
by sign or otherwise to be such, or
to engage in, conduct, carry on, or

 

 

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

be employed in the dispensing, com- |
| Schedule “A” shall, before delivering

pounding or retailing of drugs, medi-
cines or poisons within this State.
Section XVI. Unless’ otherwise
prescribed for, or specified by
customer, all pharmaceutical prepa-

the |
the name and address of the

rations sold or dispensed in a phar- |
| poison, the purpose for which it is
be of the standard strength, quality |
|required, and the name of the dis-

macy, dispensary, store or place shall

and purity established by the latest
edition of the United States Pharma-
copoeia.

Section XVII.
a wholesale or retail drug store, phar-
macy, or other place where drugs,
medicines or chemicals are sold, shall

Every proprietor of |
ifive years after the last entry.

retail any poisons included under
the same, make or cause to be made
an entry in a book to be kept for
that purpose, stating the date of sale,
pur-
chaser, the name and quantity of the

represented by the purchaser to be

penser, such book to be always open
for inspection by the proper authori-
ties, and to be preserved for at least
Nor
shall any such person deliver any of

|such poisons without satisfying him-

be held responsible for the quality |
and strength of all drugs, chemicals |
or medicines sold or dispensed by |

him, except those articles or prepara-

tions known as patent or proprietary |

medicines.
Section XVIII. Any person who
shall knowingly, willfully or fraudu-

lently falsify or adulterate any drug, |

medical substance or preparation, au-
thorized or recognized in the said

Pharmacopoeia, used or intended to}

be used in medical practice, or shall
knowingly, willfully or fraudulently
offer for sale, sell or cause the same
to be sold, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof
shall be punished as hereinafter pre-
scribed; and all drugs, medical
stances,

sub- |
or preparations so falsified |

or adulterated shall be forfeited to/|

and be destroyed by the Board.
Section XIX. It shall be unlawful

for any person or persons to

at retail or furnish any of the pois-

sell |

ons named in the schedules herein- |
after set forth, without affixing or}
causing to be affixed, to the bottle, |

box, vessel or package, a label con-
taining the name of the article and the
word “poison” distinctly shown, and
the antidote therefor, together with
the name and place of business of the
seller, all printed in red ink, and
the name of such poisons printed or
written thereupon in plain,
characters, which said schedules are
as follows:
Schedule “A.”

Arsenic, cyanide of potassium, hy-
drocyanic acid, cocaine, morphine,
strychnia and all other poisonous

vegetable alkaloids and their salts, oil |

of bitter almonds, containing hydro-
cyanic acid, opium and ‘its prepara-
tions, except paregoric and_ such
others as contain less than two grains
of opium to the ounce.

Schedule “B.”

Aconite, belladonna, cantharides,
colchicum, conium, cotton root, digi-
talis, ergot, hellebore, henbane, phy-
tolacca, strophanthus, oil of tansy,
veratrum viride and their pharmaceu-
tical preparations, arsenical solutions,
carbolic acid, chloral hydrate, chloro-
form, corrosive sublimate, creosote,
croton oil, mineral acids, oxalic acid,
paris green, salts of lead, salts of
zinc, white hellebore, or any drug,
chemical or preparation which, ac-
cording to standard works on medi-
cine or material medica, is liable to
be destructive to adult human life in
quantities of sixty grains or less.

Section XX. Every person who
shall sell, furnish or dispose of at

self that the purchaser is aware of
its poisonous character and that the
said poison is to be used for a le-
gitimate purpose. Provided, how-
ever, that the foregoing portions of
this section shall not apply to the
dispensing of medicines or poisons
on physicians’ prescriptions.

Section XXI.

drugs, medicines,

preparations or chemicals shall affix |
or cause to be affixed to every bottle, |
box, parcel or outer enclosure of an |
| original package containing any of |

the articles enumerated in Schedules
“A” and “B” of this act, a suitable
label or brand in red ink with the
word “poison” upon it.
Section XXII. The
Pharmacy shall have authority to
add to either of the above schedules

|from time to time whenever, in the

discretion of the Board, such action
is deemed necessary for the protec-
tion of the public.

Section XXIII. Sections nineteen,
twenty and twenty-one shall not ap-
ply to the practice of a practitioner

| of medicine, who is not the proprie-
|of medicine who is not the proprie-

| retailing of

drugs, medicines and

| poisons, or who is not in the employ

of such proprietor, and shall not pre-
vent practitioners of medicine from

supplying their patients with such ar-

legible |

ticles as they may deem proper, and
except as to the labeling of poisons,
it shall not apply to the sale of med-
icines or poisons at wholesale when
not for the use or consumption of

ithe purchaser, or to the sale of paris

| green, white hellebore and other pois-

 

ons for destroying insects, or any
substance for use in the arts, or to
the manufacture and sale of proprie-
tary medicines, or to the sale by
merchants of ammonia, bicarbonate of
soda, borax, camphor, castor oil,
cream of tartar, dye stuffs, essence
of ginger, essence of peppermint, es-
sence of wintergreen, non-poisonous
flavoring essence or extracts, gly-
cerine, licorice, olive oil, sal ammo-
niac, salt petre, sal soda, and sulphur,
except as herein provided. Provided,
however, that in the several towns
of this State, outside of incorporated
villages, where there is no registered
pharmacist doing business within five
miles thereof, physicians may com-
pound medicines, fill prescriptions and
sell poisons, duly labeling the same
as required by this act, and merchants
and retail dealers may sell the ordi-
nary non-poisonous domestic reme-
dies.

Section XXIV. The State Board

Board of |

of Pharmacy shall have the power

cant whenever it shall be satisfied
that the safety of the public health
will be endangered by reason of the
habits or character of such appli-
cant. If any applicant shall have
| obtained a license by misrepresenta-

|
|

or incompetent by reason of negli-
gent habits or other cause to practice
az a registered pharmacist or regis-
tered druggist, or if any person, hold-
ing a certificate as registered phar-
macist or registered druggist, shall
have been convicted of a violation of
the pharmacy law in any of the courts
of the State, the State Board of Phar-
macy shall have the power to revoke

ble notice and an opportunity to be
licensed

heard; and if any person

|of this act, or the rules and regula-
tions established by the State Board
3oard may re-
|voke or suspend his or her license

|}of Pharmacy, such

| tion, in addition to any other penalty |
| by the law imposed for such viola- |

| tion.

| Section XXV. Whenever
Board shall revoke or suspend the
registration of any registered phar-

i macist or registered druggist, it shall |
| notify such licensed or registered per- |
son of such action and he or she shall |
immediately deliver to the Board or}

its representative his or her certificate
of license or registration.

XXVI. Any person who
| shall attempt to procure, or who shall
| procure a certificate or registration
| for himself, herself, or for any other
| person, under this act, by making, or
causing to be made any false repre-
sentations; any licensed pharmacist
who shall permit the compoundingand
dispensing of prescriptions of medical

Section

| business by any person or persons
|

| provisions of this act; any person not

pare or dispense a medical prescrip-
tion or physician’s prescription, or
dispense or sell a+ retail poisons or
medicines, except under the immedi-
ate supervision of a duly licensed per-
son, whose certificate, license or reg-
istration is displayed in the
where the same is prepared, dispens-
ed or sold; any person not licensed
by said Board, who shall open, con-
duct or have charge of or supervise
any pharmacy or drug store for re-
tailing, dispensing or compounding
medicines or poisons; any person
who shall fraudulently represent him-
self or herself to be licensed; any
person who knowingly refuses to per-
mit any member of said Board or In-
spector of Pharmacy employed by
said Board to enter a pharmacy or
drug store for the purpose of lawful-
ly inspecting 'the same; any person
who intentionally prevents or at-
tempts to prevent the lawful inspec-
tion of any place in which drugs, med-
icines or poisons are retailed or dis-
pensed, or physicians’ prescriptions

 

 

to withhold a license from any appli- |

tion or fraud, or shall become unfit |

or suspend such license or certificate |
lafter giving any such person reasona- |

. |under this act shall willfully and re- |}
¥ sk a — = | peatedly violate any of the provisions |
pharmaceutical |

upon sufficient evidence of such viola- |

the |

| Practitioners in his store or place of |
not licensed or registered under the |

licensed by said Board who shall pre- |

place |

 

 

 

| compounded; any person whose li-
i cense or certificate of registration has
| been duly revoked or suspended by
'said Board and who refuses to sur-
renderhis or her certificate or license
to said Board; any person holding a
license or certificate of registration
and who fails to display the same
as above provided; or any person
who shall violate any of the provi-
sions of this act, in relation to re-
tailing and dispensing of drugs, med-
icines and poisons, for which viola-
tion no other penalty is hereinbefore
imposed, .shall, for such offense, be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun-
ished in accordance with the terms
of the general penal clause of this
|act as hereinafter set forth.

Section XXVII. The sale of li-
quors for chemical, scientific, medic-
|inal, mechanical or sacramental pur-
poses by druggists and pharmacists
|who do not operate under a saloon
license shall be subject to the provi-
sions of this act, and all such liquors
sold by druggists or pharmacists
| shall be, for the purpose of this act,
considered as drugs, medicines and
| for use in the arts only, and the sale
of the same shall be subject to the
same regulations and requirements as
iare herein contained relative to the
dispensing of drugs, medicines
| poisons and the compounding of pre-
scriptions, and all violations thereof
shall be subject to the penalties pre-
scribed by the general penal clause of
this act.

Section XXVIII. It shall be the
| duty of the Michigan Board of Phar-
| macy, upon receiving bona-fide infor-

and

mation of any violation of the provi-
sions of this act relative to the sale
of liquors by any pharmacist, druggist
or other person, to bring the offense,
together with all information relat-
ling to the same, to the attention of
the prosecuting attorney under whose
jurisdiction the violation is commit-
‘ted, whose duty it shall be to cause
an investigation of such alleged vio-
'lation, and if sufficient evidence be
| obtained, to cause the prosecution of
other
provi-

;such pharmacist, druggist or
person, operating under the
isions of this act, under the general
liquor law of the State or under the
provisions of this act. Upon convic-
tion thereof the person so found
guilty shall be subject to the penalties
|contained in the general liquor law,
in cases brought under the general
liquor law, and subject to the penal
clause of this act where action is
commenced under the terms of this
act, and in addition to such penalty
lor penalties, if the person convicted
|shall be a registered pharmacist or a
registered druggist, he may have his
certificate of registration revoked or
suspended by this Board.

Section XXIX. Every registered
| pharmacist and registered druggist
| dispensing and compounding medi-
|cines, registered under this act, shall
; be exempt and free from al | yUury
| duty in the courts of this State.
| Section XXX. It shall be the duty
|
}

of this Board, upon obtaining suff-
cient evidence of any violation of the
provisions of this act, to lay the same
before the prosecuting attorney of

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

11

 

 

the county in which such violation | have enjoyed and profited by I feel |

shall take place, and to cause the|as though I had visited a genuine bar- |

prosecution of the same under
act or other general laws of
State.

this | gain counter every week. The many |
the | excellent articles in the Tradesman

| giving the views of different persons
Section XXXI. Any person violat-| on the various questions which con- |

ing any of the provisions of this act| front every merchant at some stage |

shall be deemed guilty of a misde-|of his career can not fail to be
meanor, and upon conviction thereof | great benefit to all who are willing |

of |

shall be subject to a fine of not less|to profit by the experience and sug: |

than twenty-five dollars, nor more
than one hundred dollars, and costs

ment of such fine and costs shall

| gestions of others.

Hardly a phase |

bare . .
|of business life but sooner or later
of prosecution, and in default of pay- |

be imprisoned in the county jail for |

not less than ten days, nor more

than ninety days, or both such fine |

and imprisonment in the discretion
of the court.
Section XXXII. All acts and parts

of acts in conflict with any of

the |

| of business.

comes up for discussion in its col-|
umns, and the new problems which |
arise as a result of the ever-changing |
conditions of our age and country |
call forth the views of the best think- |
ers and the most experienced men |
Any person who con-|

'templates engaging in business could |

provisions of this act are hereby re- |

pealed.
Section

MAXI. This act

most profitably employ the time re- |
quired to read its pages. Such a|

| paper is an absolute necessity to the |

shall |

take effect on the first day of July, |

A, DL, 605.
——
Good Words Unsolicited.

P. T. H. Pierson, dealer in books
and stationery, crockery and
ware, Stanton: Enclosed please find
New York. draft for $3 for
years’ subscription to your paper, be-

merchant who is ever on the lookout
for new ideas and improvements. |

| However well one may have studied |
| a matter from his own standpoint, the |
ideas and experiences of others are |

glass- |

three |

ginning at the date my present sub- |

scription expires.
any easier, besides I must have
Tradesman. I
any

would
business without it.

I can not make $3 |
the |
dislike to do!
It stands |

unequaled by any trade journal I)
know of, no matter what the price. |
I admire its broad, bold, up-to-date |

policy, and enjoy reading it

each |

week from front to back cover. You |
will have your hands full if you im-|

prove its tone very much, and _ it}
does not need enlarging, even at}

the advanced price.

Wm. P. Baillie, traveling salesman,
Detroit: Enclosed find $1 for cur-
rent year’s subscription. As soon as
this payment expires I will renew on
the $2 basis, because every subscriber
to your valuable publication gets
It is a business com-

panion which ought to be on the

counter of every merchant. One page
alone is worth to me the subscription
price—that containing the Move-
ments of Merchants. I wish youall
the success you deserve for giving
your subscribers so much valuable in-
formation weekly.

Williams Bros. Co., pickles and
. preserves, Detroit: We take pleasure
in sending you our check for $5 for
five years’ advance subscriptions to
the Michigan Tradesman. We cer-
tainly agree with you in the state-
ment that the Tradesman is a first-
class trade journal in every respect.

E. E. Whitney, general dealer, Ann

Arbor: Fifty-two copies of the

Michigan Tradesman stacked up on
my desk! One silver dollar looks
insignificant in comparison. Two

dollars after Jan. 1, 1905, is better.

If I knew which would be most help-
ful to the publishers, to pay several
years in advance or the two dollars
each year, I would know just what
to do. However, being a conserva-
tive man, I’ll adopt the latter course.
When I think of the thousands of
pages of valuable reading which I

double value.

|

lof skill and competency.

 

still vastly helpful. Such is the opin- |
ion of a constant reader who only |
regrets that he contented himself |
with another trade paper for several |
years before he became acquainted |
with the Michigan Tradesman.

An old printer writes the Trades- |

man as follows:
ings of pleasure and regret I must
state my convictions that the public |
press has been held by the throat
so long by trade unionism that it is
refreshing to see a paper take the

With mingled feel- |

stand for right and justice as does |

the Tradesman.
thoroughly studied the matter must

Any one who has |

have seen that labor unions are far |

from being what the originators of
the organizations intended, which was
to secure employment for
petent workmen. Membership in a
trade union then meant a guarantee |
Reasona-
ble compensation and permanent sit-
uations followed as a natural result. |

com- |

Goodspeed & Hoard, general deal- |

ers, Bowen’s Mills: We find the
Tradesman a very beneficial visitor |
each week. Would hardly know how |
to get along without it.
Sturmer Bros., hardware

Port Huron: Your paper is
We always enjoy reading it.

D. Crittenden, wholesale dealer |
cheese, Grand |

dealers, |

Chas

Je
C
in butter, eggs and
Rapids: I take pleasure in sending |
you check for $5 to pay for my sub- |
scription to the Michigan Tradesman |
for five years. If I could make such |
investments as this every day I be-|
lieve that my business success would |
be assured.

Symons Bros. & Co., wholesale gro- |
cers, Saginaw: We take pleasure in
sending you our check for $5 for a
five year subscription to the Michigan
Tradesman, which we think is one
of the best trade journals published.
We enjoy the publication very much. |

John P. Hall, general dealer, Odell, |
Ind.: The Tradesman is the best pa- |
per I ever read for merchants.

—_+-2

The philanthropist generally man-
ages that some one shall catch him
im the act.

 

As a Rule

We do not take

very much stock in testimonials

 

“ITS 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 Corset 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.
MapDAME 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.

 

 

ih ha a ee atic -Rene ate

    

12

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

STATE INSPECTION.

Importance of Systematic and Fre-
quent Supervision.

 

For years citizens of our State,
deeply interested in the advancement
of the dairy interests, especially in
the cheese industry, have felt a lack
of organization and education for the
improvement of that important indus-
try. They have realized the hard
lot of the cheesemaker in his isola-
tion and strenuous round of duties.
Working in his factory, often alone,
or at best, with but a helper less
trained than himself, each day’s du-
ties of the cheesemaker have taxed
his powers to the utmost. When the
milk was good and all went well, sat-
isfactory results usually followed his
efforts; but if trouble came, and it
was sure to come sooner or later,
then his lot was indeed a hard one.
He could not shut off the incoming of
the milk that he might sit down and
think over the proposition. He could
not visit other factories, or get help
so sorely needed. It is true he could
apply to our State Dairymen’s Asso-
ciation and, if possible, Secretary
Burchard would send him an_ in-
spector to help him out of his trouble.
A vast good has been accomplished
through these traveling inspectors,
but their numbers are altogether too
small and their range of travels far
too great to be of the highest serv-
ice. Such persons were only called
on, as a rule, when troubles were well
on and the operator at his wits’ end.
Often they came when much harm
had already been accomplished: To
secure an adequate number of these
inspectors for Wisconsin seemed, in
the past, almost out of the question,
for our State Legislature could hard-
ly be expected to appropriate twenty
or thirty thousand dollars annually
for such a purpose when there were
so many other demands upon the
State Treasury.

At last there seems to be a rift
in the cloud hanging over the cheese
industry of Wisconsin. At the annual
meeting of the Wisconsin State
Dairymen’s Association, held in
Platteville last February, Dairy and
Food Commissioner J. Q. Emery pre-
sented a proposition more complete
than anything ever proposed before
covering the- situation. To Mr.
Emery all honor and credit are due
for his splendid suggestion, and one
which should bear fruit with the
coming Legislature, and which will
bear fruit if cheesemakers and fac-
tory owners only realize the situa-
tion and act promptly.

The substance of Mr. Emery’s
proposition is that each cheese fac-
tory receiving milk from several pa-
trans, and, therefore, a public factory,
be licensed and allowed to do busi-
ness only upon payment of a license
to the State of some sum, say $10 o0r
$15 per factory. This money should
constitute a fund for the payment of
educated traveling cheese inspectors,
who shall operate and give instruc-
tion to a circle of cheese factories
in a given district. Such a circle or
group of factories should not be too
large, say not over forty in number,
so that the cheese inspectors could

| legislation.

 

visit each factory several times

season, staying several days at he |
factory, if necessary. It seems to me|
that Mr. Emery’s proposition, in the
rough, covers the field

a|

splendidly, |

and that we have the outline of a|
campaign that can only end in add-|
ing millions of dollars to the wealth |

of our State.

Of course, our inspec- |

tors must be trained and must be ap- |
pointed by a commission that shall |

select men only upon merit, experi-
ence, ability and fidelity. i

Now, it will be seen that every-
thing in this line turns upon proper |
Such legislation can only |

be secured after much thought and

conference, through the united  ef-|

|
|
|
|
|

forts of a large number of intelligent |
men interested in the cheese indus- |

try of our State.

To this end there |

should be several conferences, the |

appointment of committees and a

vast deal of work in order that a/|
carefully framed bill may be ready |
for our Legislature when it convenes. |

Then, there must be the work of
education among the factories and
cheesemakers.
ested and supporting cheese factories

Those who are inter- |

must be willing to contribute, as a|
tax, $10 or $15 from each factory in}

the form of a license fee.

It is no}

small work to educate factory owners |

and operators to the
such a tax willingly, and to in turn

payment of} '
| Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers. Sawed whitewood

receive the benefits which will arise |

from it. There are two plans of pro-
cedure in this particular. One is to
force the tax upon each and every

| chaser.

factory by law, and the other is, like- |
wise by law, to issue licenses to/|

only such factories as pay the tax and

then allow licensed factories only to|
called a “State |

use what may be

brand.” Factories not paying the tax |
could be forbidden such brand. Pos- |
sibly the issuance of the brand might |
carry with it such inspection and

other benefits.

In any event something must be
done for the cheese industry of Wis-
consin more than is being done at

present, and, in my judgment, this |

Poultry Shippers

limited districts, under the closest |
surveillance, from a general authori- |

work must begin with the cheesemak-
ers at the cheese factories through
traveling inspectors, operating in

me

tative center.

done its work in its own way, the |

State Dairymen’s Association, which |
is the parent of the Dairy School, as
well as the Cheesemakers’ and But-
termakers’ Associations, have done a

great work, and are doing a great |

The Dairy School has |

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work, in the few inspectors it now |
sends out into the field. These men, |
however, are entirely inadequate to |
the great task before them. The|
Dairy and Food Commissioner’s of- |

fice does its work, too, in its proper |

field, but all of these factors for good |
fall short of completing the round of |

requirements essential to
ment.
taxing it a reasonable sum there will |

advance-
By licensing each factory and |

WE ARE BUYERS OF

CLOVER SEED 4x» BEANS

Also in the market for

Pop Corn, Buckwheat and Field Peas

If any to offer write us.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CoO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

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 largest distrib tors of eggs in this
EG ( part of the country.

eggs you will ship us. i

pers to send us any amount every week.

Write us.

L. O. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers

36 Harrison St., New York

We can handle all the
We want regular ship-

 

 

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

and veneer basswood cases. Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit pur-

We manufacture every kind of fillers known to the trade, and sell same in
| mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchas2r.
constantly in stock. Prompt shipment and courteous treatment.
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan.

Also Excelsior, Nails and Flats
Warehouses ana
Address

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

 

   

Butter, Eggs, Apples, Pears,

Potatoes, Beans and Onions

1 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.

 

 

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

Would like to hear from shippers from

I also want local shipments from nearby points

by express. Can handle all the poultry shipped to me. Write or wire.

William Andre, Grand cedge, michigan

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

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

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

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

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

Cases returnable.

 

 

 

——We Carry

 

be a large fund available for the em- FULL LINE CLOVER, TIMOTHY

AND ALL KINDS FIELD SEEDS

ployment of trained inspectors. For |

such purpose we should have at least |
$30,000, and should employ at once |

j

forty inspectors. Even then the)
work will be burdensome in many |
cases.

Orders filled promptly

MOSELEY BROS. eranp raps, MICH.

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street,

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

As to the good accomplished,
believe we could,
two, advance the price of Wisconsin
cheese from a half a cent to one and
cne-half cents per pound, according
to the size of the income and
thoroughness of the work done. Even

the |

if but a small fraction of such re-|

turns were secured the expenditure

by the factories in the way of the|

tax would be several
times over.
Canada is already

. these lines.

recompensed

moving along

| great many people being aware of|
| it.
| cheese have been made in Canada. In
Will Wisconsin become |

a leader on this side of the border |
line, or will it continue to travel the |

present road of partial indifference,

 

1| av ever
| ha Fe. neve heard of any infraction
inside of a ¥eal Of

of the law. Any tampering with the
cheese in this way would have to be
done at the ordinary cheese factory,
and as these places are very public |
and the process of filling cheese!
would require considerable machin- |
and material not found in the|
ordinary cheese factory, it would be|
impossible to carry it on without a|

ery

I do not believe that any filled |

any case, if an attempt is being made
to carry on the manufacture of such

cheese it will be a very easy matter
| to stop it.”
——__2~~+ + ___

advancement only in places, and ret- |

rogression at too many points? New

| The

York is slowly but steadily declining |

in her output of cheese. No state

has the opportunity to take her place |
and turn out as good, or better, prod- |

uct than Wisconsin has.

of our State is “Forward.” Let us

The motto |

Manufacture of Sage Cheese. |

Sage cheese, with its yellow sur-|
face mottled and flecked with small |
dark grayish green spots, is an old-
time favorite. Sage is a very old}
seasoning herb and sage cheese is|

very probably of old English origin. |

live up to our motto.—W. A. Henry |
| now carried on in a limited way only

in Cheese and Dairy Journal.

2 2.
Canadian Cheese Sent to England
Said To Be Adulterated.

“At Hastings,
Toronto Sun,
summoned

England,” says

were last month to an-

swer to a charge of selling margarine |
The defendant said that the |

cheese.
goods were sold in exactly the same
as received from the big-
cheese.

condition
gest importers of Canadian

iin the

The manufacture of sage cheese is}

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.

 

 

 

 

and is
localities, yet a}

United States,
to certain

re- |
stricted

| great many people are cxeediny ___

the |
“a local firm of grocers |

The analyst for the borough said he |

had analyzed a sample of the cheese

and found it contained 20 per cent. |

of fat not derived from milk. At the
request of the counsel for the de-
fendant, who said the Canadian gov-
ernment was anxious to make com-
was ad

plete enquiries, the case

journed to November 24 in order to}
permit the bringing of witnesses from |

Canada.”
Division of the Department of Agri-
was asked by the Sun as to
really going

culture,
whether witnesses
from Canada in connection with the

are

above case, and as to what foundation |

there is for the charges made. In
answer Mr.
as follows:
“Witnesses not going
Canada; there no necessity
this. The Department of Agriculture
is sending full information concern-
ing the cheeses complained of, which
were from a well-known factory.

are from

1S

ated;
sis or substitution. Everything pos-
sible is being done to protect the
name of Canadian cheese. This will
really afford a good opportunity to

advertise the purity of Canadian dairy |

products.”

In an interview in a recent issue

of the Globe, in speaking of this same |
oh ae |

matter, Prof. Ruddick said:

not clear as to what is meant by mar-|
garine cheese, unless it is the product |

generally known as ‘filled’ cheese.
Filled cheese, so-called, is made from
skim-milk, to which some inferior fat |

has been added as a substitute for |
The manufacture of |

the butterfat.
such cheese is prohibited in Canada |

by the Dairy Products Act, 1893. I | familiar sight in large markets.

A. Ruddick, chief of the Dairy |

Ruddick wired the Sun!

for |

1
am sure these cheese were not adulter- |
must be a case of wrong analy- |

fond of it, and will pay from 1 to
2c per pound more for it than for
ordinary cheese.

The Michigan Experiment Station
has siudied the subject of sage
cheesemaking and states that this
|cheese is prepared in exactly the|
same way as cheddar, i. e.. common
American factory cheese, differing
from it only possessing a sage
flavor, which is imparted to it
by adding sage extract or sage tea
to the milk before the curd is pre-
cipitated, by adding the extract to
the curd before salting, or by adding
sage leaves to the curd before salt-
ing. |
The addition of sage tea or extract |
|to the milk objectionable, _re-
quiring a large amount of sage, I0
to I2 ounces for 1,000 pounds of
of milk.

The addition of extract to the curd
gave entirely satisfactory results in
tests at the station when the extract
| was not too dilute, and when it was
added very cautiously to prevent
waste. The amount of sage re-
quired was 6 or 7 ounces for the curd

in

is

~

f
from 1,000 pounds of milk.

The most satisfactory method, how-
ever, was found to be the old-fash-
ioned way of adding the sage leaves
to the curd. This required the least
amount of sage, 3 ounces being suffi-
cient for the curd from 1,000 pounds
of milk. In following this method
the sage should be weighed, the stems
all picked out and the leaves finely
powdered and added to the curd just
before salting.

One of the important Swiss cheeses |
'resembles sage cheese in that the |
powdered leaves of a plant are add-
ed in its manufacture. This “schab-
ziger,”’ green, or “krauter”’ cheese
is made from sour skimmilk and
| buttermilk, the dried powdered leaves
| of rock clover (Melilotus coerulea)
| being thoroughly mixed with the
ground curd.. The small grayish
green cone-shaped cheeses are ex-
| ported in large numbers and are a

 

 

 

 

 

Butter

I would like all the fresh, sweet dairy

 

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

 

W. C. Rea A. J. Witzig

REA & WITZIG

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

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

Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Companies
Shippers

Established 1873

Trade Papers and Hundreds of

 

WHOLESALE

ysters

CAN OR BULK

See our quotations in Grocery Price Current on page 45

DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Hon etarh Paygerse Boe

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Weekly ‘Market Rieeiow of ‘the Pre

cipal Staples.

 

For a number of seasons

Silks

past the dress goods manufacturer |

has had things his own way, to a
large extent. Fashion decreed in
favor of dress goods, and the demand
for these fabrics was phenomenal and
greatly to the detriment of silks.
Manufacturers of the last mentioned
fabrics, however, turned their atten-
tion to producing striking and at-
tractive fabrics preparatory to the

time when demand would once more |
Dress goods have been |

turn to silks.
worn to such an extent the past three
years that women have turned toward
something else by way of a change
The novelties which have been put
on the market attracted their atten-
tion, and now those tailoring estab-
lishments which cater to the more ex-
clusive trade are busy filling orders
for costumes to be worn at the win-
ter resorts in the South. The en-

couraging feature of this demand is_

the fact that the higher grade fab-

rics enter more largely into the cos- |

tumes turned out. In addition to this,
what is termed by the piece goods
man the “cutting up trade” is taking
large quantities of silk goods, which
will go into the making of garments,
shirtwaist suits, shirtwaists, etc., for
ready-to-wear lines. Lining houses,

have secured a larger number of
orders than has been the case in
many seasons. Petticoats of silk
have come into vogue again, and so
on down the line the same revival
of the demand of silk fabrics is to be
found. The question of price has
been and continues to be a somewhat

serious one with the manufacturer |
Some have beef}

and his agent.
strong enough in their position to de-
mand higher prices and are securing
them. Others are following this ex-
ample, and to-day the silk piece goods
business is in a better position than
it has been for many months. For
current and spring use black and
colored taffetas hold a prominent
place. So many new effects in

changeable and novel colorings have |.

been brought out that the old-time
buyer would almost fail to recognize
the old and well-known staple fabric.

Crepe de chine and eolienne costumes |
will be largely worn for spring, favor- |

ed shades being brown, gray, and
what is termed hyacinth blue. Shan-

tung silks, both natural and dyed, are |
also good property; habutal silks are |

also likely to prove good = sellers
Tussahs, both imported and domestic,
are being used to quite an extent for

automobile costumes, to be worn dur- |

ing the coming stummer.
tic production has improved to such

an extent that liberal orders are now |
being placed for these fabrics, which |

a short while ago the buyer could
rot be persuaded to touch.

Ribbons—Taffeta ribbons are in the

The domes- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| ise |
‘lead and are now beginning to be)

taken to quite an extent for the com-
ing season. Warp prints are looked |
upon as good property. Plaids and |
checks in neat effects are also con- |
sidered good. In colors, grays, blues,
ombres and pale shades of pink and |
lilac are scheduled for a good de-
| mand.

Ginghams—To please the mill men
a more than average business for a
season has to be booked. It is a
good sign, therefore, to find that |
manufacturers of ginghams are mak-
ing no complaint over the business
they have thus far secured for the
coming spring. The call for stand-
ard patterns was not strong at the}
| outset of the season, but after prices |
had been placed at a level that met |
|the views of buyers sales began to}
increase in volume. It is now stated |
by agents that the business in hand |
assures mills of a successful season, |
and that an ordinary duplicate de-|
mand will put lines in first class posi- |
tion. The finer dress ginghams have |
fared well on initial orders for spring |
and are even now being called for |
in duplicates. As the fall season has |
practically closed, except for strag- |
gling spot orders, an estimate of the |
business done in ginghams is availa- |
ble. Most agents state that the fall |
demand did not reach usual propor- |
tions, so far as new business for the|
mills was concerned. Stocks had ac-}
cumulated over several seasons, and |
demand showed no appreciable  in-|
crease. This led to a reduction of |
goods to a 5c basis and at this level |

the sales have grown so that at pres- |

: : ae j;ent old stocks and goods made on
handling silk linings, report that they | . q :

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order represent a fair aggregate. The |
mills running on ginghams and cloths |
of their construction will enter the|
new year with stocks reasonably w ell
sold.
Carpets—-During the week several |
mills have announced price lists on |
34 goods and rugs slightly higher |
than those at the opening of the sea-
son, and others are due to follow. |
Ingrain manufacturers are in a worse
position than any of the other manu-.|
facturers. Last season they tried to |
advance prices, but were unable to|
de so. Notwithstanding this the de-|
mand was by no means good, and
the production of the mills was heav-
ily curtailed. This season another: at- |
tempt to advance prices was made |
|

|

and again proved unsuccessful, and|
jin spite of the heavy increase inthe

cost of wool prices remain the same
as they’ did two seasons ago. Own-
|ers of the larger mills manufacturing

|ingrains do not hesitate to say that
|they will shut down their entire
|plants if an advance is not secured
| before the first of January as present

| prices for the manufactured goods do
i not cover the heavy increase in cost
of production. Whether this: will be
adhered to or not remains to be seen.
| On behalf of the wool dealer and im-
| porter it can be stated that their po-
| sition is by no means an enviable one.
The cost of wool in the primary mar-
| kets has increased to such an extent
| that it is now practically impossible
|to bring it into this country under
|the low duty limit, except in an un-

 

 

Danger in the Real Thing.
Ernest Thompson Seton tells about |
a resident of a county in Western}
Texas who started a factory in which |
he manufactured wolf scalps. The}

| county paid a bounty of five dollars

each for wolves and accepted a scalp |

las evidence that the wolf was dead.

This enterprising citizen made a
which he could stretch |

model on
pieces of the skins of wolves, coy-

otes and dogs, and could make ad- |
|mirable scalps, which he deposited
| with the county treasurer and collect-

ed the bounty.

remarked: “Say, do you know

One day the man met Seton and
I
came near getting into trouble? !

took eighty-six scalps into the coun- |

ty treasurer’s office. I made eighty- |

five of them myself and some wolf
'grew the other one. Do you know,
the treasurer objected to the real
thing? He regarded it with suspic-
ion, and for a time I thought he was
|going to refuse payment. But the
eighty-five that I made were accept-
i without a question.”
—_+->—_—___

One touch of nature makes the

whole world skin.

 

A fool woman soon finds her fin-
ish.

PRIS Uae
ENGRAVINGS: TYPE FO RMS

TRADESMAN Co.. GRAND seieba anes

 

 

   

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7 Sort up Now

On Coats before you are entirely out.

We have a good line ranging in price

from one to four

dollars each. 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

other.

Grand Rapids

Give us an idea of your wants.

Dry Goods Co.

Exclusively Wholesale
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

 

 

 

| washed or unwillowed state.

 

 

   

 

\ PROMPT ATTENTION

 

P. Steketee & Sons
Wholesale Dry Goods

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good Month’s Business in Cloaks and
Suits.

Business at present in the wholesale
Some
special orders are being received, and
a few out-of-town buyers have been }

market is at its lowest point.

in town for the purpose of filling in
with stock which is absolutely
aired.

re-
Nevertheless, the business so
far done this month shows a decided
increase over that of the correspond-
ing time last year.

Manufacturers are by no means
idle, however, for every one is busi-
ly engaged in getting up the spring
The majority of these first
samples will be along the lines of the
late winter models, which have prov-

samples.

ed to be among the successful sell-
ers.

The fabrics which will be used for
the early spring will be largely the
lightest-weight of broadcloths, some
neat and unobtrusive effects in fancy
suitings, Panama cloth, a newcomer
among which is the chiffon Panama,
eoliennes, voiles and mohairs.

Voiles will be
but not to extreme extent
as was the case last spring. Chiffon
taffeta and linen will be among the

used considerably,

such an

leading materials a little later.
Green, brown, blue and, to a small
extent, gray will be the favored col-
The new shades of green are
not so vivid as the emerald hue, and
not so somber as the hunter’s green.
greens will be found becom-
ing to the average complexion, and
are cool and summery in appearance.

OFs.

These

It is largely because blue is a col-
or which imparts to the wearer a cool
appearance that it has really become
a style color for the spring and sum-

 

The shades of blue
which have been popular for several |
still hold good; then}
there are the new blues which are on |
the hyacinth shades, but which will |
be mostly found in the silk and wool |

eolienne is’ the}

nmier seasons.

seasons will

fabrics, of which
type.

The Panama cloths in plain colors
would seem to be of such a construc-
tion and durability as to give thema
fair chance against the long-favored
Then there are neat designs
in fancy Panama that should make
up well for the practical knock-about
suit, thus to some extent displacing
the mixtures, for the
spring season the demand is so gen-

vi viles.

fancy since

eral for a light-weight material.

Checks in the black and_ white,
brown and white, green and white
shepherd’s plaid, and in the small

blue and green combination, will be
used for both the separate skirt and
the suit. In these suits a_ large
amount of the style will depend up-
on the color and manner in which |
the jacket is trimmed.

The shirt-waist suit bids fair to,
be a big factor in the spring busi-
ness, for it is being prepared not
only of the wash materials and silks,
but also of mohair and Panama cloth.
The last two materials are well suit-
ed to the exploitation of the shirt-
waist suit, and when a lustrous mo-
hair is used, particularly one in the
neat designs, there will be a good
chance for it to be preferred by many

 

 

| this line if it takes all summer.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

women to a suit made of taffeta silk.

This applies particularly to the
popular-priced suit—one that whole-
sales for $7.50, or thereabouts. Some
good lines in these mohair shirt-waist
suits are nearing completion, and
show the general style tendencies in
an acceptable way.

In lines of separate skirts that
range in price from $3.50 to $10 there
will be many changes rung on
varieties of plaited skirt. The general
tendency being to the full, flowing
effect in skirts, there will be some
novelties in the way of plaited skirts
which may or may not have a suc-
cess.

One of these shows the plaits set
on just above the knee to a gored
upper portion. This has chiefly its
novelty to recommend it.

Of course, there are numberless va-
rieties of this type of skirt among
the new models, and as its virtue is
that it gives the full effect below the
knee, yet preserves the fit around the
hips, and still takes less goods than

if the full portion began higher up, |

it will possibly commend itself to
the discriminating buyer——Dry Goods
Economist.

——_+--.—____
Concentrate.

Focus your ability upon one point
until you burn a hole in it.

Genius is intensity. Digression is
as dangerous as stagnation. He who
follows two hares catches neither.

The best way to keep a gun from
scattering is to put into it but a sin-
gle shot.

the |

 

Field crossed the ocean fifty times |

to lay one cable.
Grant said: “I will fight it out on
In thirty-six years Noah Webster
wrote but one book. But that will be
remembered.
It is the single aim that wins.
Only by concentration
work out a satisfactory system.
your mind on it and keep it
take
Follow up

can you

Get
there.
Watch every care Of
every detail. your
Never stop pounding—never let up.
Hang on with a bull-dog grip until
you get the thing done.

No good system ever just happened.
It was wrought out by the hammer

 

point
men.

of concentrated thought on the anvil
of hard work.
A

A “Short Cut” in Correspondence.

Most business men read their mail
twice—once to get an idea of “what
it’s all about” and how pressing is the
demand caused by it and, again, de-
liberately to attend to the demands in
detail.
reached by one reading.

Go through a letter, says Clifton S.
Wady, with a blue pencil ora pen dip-
ped in red ink. Underscore the sig-
nificant words or phrases that indi-
cate matters for attention. Write a
word of disposition near each such
phrase.

When you dictate your replies you
save the time otherwise spent in re-
reading in detail and considering the

These two objects may be

letter before you. The gist of the
correspondence has already been
noted.

 

15

Our strict adherence to the policy

of “Quality First” entails obligations.
Among others right styles, materials,
tailoring, fit and finish. Bearing these
in mind, all comparisons emphasize our
low prices; per contra, no price is low

where quality 1s ignored.

Percival B. Palmer & Co.

Makers of the ‘‘Palmer Garment’ for
Women, Misses and Children

The “Quality First” Line

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Effective Way of Advertising a Hard-
ware Store.

What is the most effective way to
advertise the hardware business? My
idea would be by judicious advertis-
ing, in conjunction with good show
windows, an attractive store and an
obliging hardwareman with obliging
clerks

Judicious advertising in the news-
papers is, I think, the best method of
reaching the people. No fixed rule
on advertising can be laid down. Re- |
member that advertising is  invest-
ment, not expense, and it should be|
as carefully dealt with as any other
investment.

There is also a great deal of tact
to be used in advertising, as well as/|
in selling goods, and every time you
write an advertisement drive home
and clinch a point that will bring you
in dollars and cents.

Advertising is largely improved by
the use of cuts. Contract for certain |
space in your local paper, be it big
or little, and change your advertise-
ment as often as you can.

Be truthful in your advertising.
When a customer comes to your store |
and tinds the goods different than |
what he was led to believe they were
in the advertisement, he may buy at
that time, but nine times out of ten
you have lost a customer. On the
other hand, if people discover that
your advertisements are not fairy
tales, but a recital of facts told in a
simple, honest manner, you will find |
you are making new customers and |
firm friends.

A good advertisement does
need to be a literary gem. One does
not need to indulge in flowery lan-
guage to write an advertisement to
bring business to his store. Write as
you talk, avoiding elaborate language.
The simplest, strongest arguments
used over the counter are just those
which hold the attention of the read-
er. Imagine a hardware man saying
to a customer: “We’ve got a complete
line of hardware, tools, etc.” Hard-
ware men do not do that. More like-
ly they would say: “Yes, sir, that knife |
is just what you are looking for; it’s
a stiletto—if it breaks from a flaw you
trot it right back and get a new one;
it’s fully warranted, and the price is
$1.50.” It is the latter sort of talk
that sells goods, and the hardware
men know it; yet. for some reason,

not

j}samples of most of the goods in the |
| store, the mind will become confused |
land the effect diminished. The near- |

|your window advertising.

| time of year.

|to bring the best results. |

| for the dealer to have the article call-

 

they do not talk that way in their ad-

vertising. I take no stock in the style

of advertising that simply says: “We
carry a full line of hardware, tinware,
stoves, etc.” Why, if the reader never
saw your advertisement, he could
guess that every hardware dealer in
town could vouch for as much.

Do you make your show window a
dumping ground for odds and ends
of all kinds, when it should be given
more attention than any other part of
the store? Remember your front win-
dow is a free advertising medium and
brings greater returns, for the invest-

|

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| ment, than any other method of ad-
| vertising. Keep your windows clean,

and change the display at least once
a week. The more taste and original-
ity put into a window show the bet-
ter. Watch your clerks, and if you

Remember, that all the money
|spent for advertising, all the money
|spent to make the store attractive,
| and all the money spent for the goods
|that lie on your shelves for a long

period of time—all these things look

 

 

have one with ability for this work | forward to one end, and that is having |

encourage and aid him with sugges-| the customer come back.
J. A. Peebles. |who believed the rich man was a
|

tions.

The best results are secured by ex- |
hibiting several articles of the same
A window |

kind, or class, of goods.

|like this the eye will quickly catch, |

and the memory will retain the im- |
pression of it; while, on the other
hand, if you fill your window with

ler you come to “oneness” in window |
| displays the more satisfactory will be |

An occa- |
sional display without goods will re-
pay one for his efforts, and, if not

overdone, will interest the people. |

| The aim should be to have something

unique and different from the dis-|
plays of other merchants; also aim |
to be in keeping with the occasion or |
Any display in motion

is bound to catch the eye, but no win- |

dow display, no matter how attrac- |
tive, should remain over two weeks |
Advertising, both through the}
and by window displays, |
is to bring the people to your store.
Once they are inside the advertise-
ment has done its work, and done it
well, and your stock and your sales- |
men should be held responsible if |

newspapers

you fail to satisfy the caller. Keep/|
your stock up. It is more important

ed for than to be without it merely |

because he had not found a suitable | |
|opportunity to buy it at a price at| |

which he thought he should. It is a |
better advertisement to the |
goods wanted, even if you have to|
pay more for them. What is wanted,

have

when you get people inside the store, |
|is to have the interior such that peo- | |
| ple will see the useful and necessary | |
articles, and to supply racks for dis- ||
|playing, not hiding, the goods.

The interior display of goods on the |
counters, shelves and in show cases is | |
worthy of effort and care, and the aim || _
should be to arrange goods so that |
they will be attractive to the eye, so
that, whether people wish to buy or |

not, they will stop and look. Some

day they
saw them.
Every dealer should be obliging
and require his salesmen to be like-
One of the best, and, I would
say, the surest means of advertising

wise.

|is in the treatment of customers. No |
merchant should employ any one in |
any capacity, be he salesman or por- |
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ter, who does
with respect.

not treat customers

vertisement.
know-it-all demeanor on the part of
any employe will soon cause a loss of
trade. Let every customer leaving

your store be a walking advertise- |
ment for it, saying a good word toa |
|

friend about your treatment of him.

| money.

| him to buy the business, which was

will want these very same |
goods, and will remember where they |

A kind word to every |
one entering the store is the best ad- |
A surly, overbearing or |

The Way of the World.

was a man who had

Once there
| $250.
| ness that seemed hopeless wanted the |
So he took the man with the |
$250 aside and lied to him and induced

really worth less than nothing, be-
cause there were certain debts which |
the new owner had to assume. But |
the purchaser went to work iwth grim

Another man who had a busi- |

| determination and in a_ short time
| began to make money. In twenty
| years he was employing 900 men and
| had become a millionaire.

| After that the man who had sold
out went around sadly telling people
that he had given the rich man his
And there were many

| start in life.

| monster of ingratitude because he did
| not at least give a pension to the one
| who had intended to swindle him.
Moral: Never cheat a man who is
wiser than yourself. You may regret
it all our life.
—_——_>- ++ __-—_
Much that passes for wisdom is
nothing but owlishness.
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Life is a circus and Cupid is
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TRADESMAN

17

 

REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS.

A. F. Herron, the Veteran Boyne City
Hardware Dealer.

Ashbell F. Herron was born on a
farm near Gobleville, Van Buren
county, March 12, 1842. His father
was a native of Cayuga county, N.
Y. His mother was a native of the
State of Maine. Mr. Herron was
educated in the “little old red school
house” and bears a_ vivid remem-
brance of a certain school teacher in
the person of an old maid, whom he
recalls as being seven feet high and
who cut blackberry whips which she
used vigorously on his bare legs. In
looking back over his past life he
says this school teacher is the only
woman he never liked. On April 4,
1863, he enlisted in the 13th Infantry,
which rendezvoused at Jackson, and
saw plenty of active . service while
engaged on Sherman’s famous March

 

   

A. F. Herron

 

to the Sea. Mr. Herron was dis-
charged at Louisville at the close of
the war and went back to Gobleville,
where he worked on the _ parental
homestead until 1868, when he mar-
ried Miss Elanora Myers, who has
been his constant assistant and help-
mate ever since. After marriage he
worked the old homestead, which he
purchased of his father, until 1876,
when he sold out and began looking
for a new location. He had heard
of Boyne Falls and supposed it could
be reached by rail, but found to his
disgust that the rails had not been
laid farther than Walton Junction, al-
though the track was’ graded to
Boyne Falls. In company with two
other gentlemen, he started out to
make the entire distance of seventy
miles on foot, although the snow was
up to their hips. The first day they
managed to reach Mancelona and
the second night saw them in Boyne
Falls, where Mr. Herron visited a
brother-in-law, subsequently walking
the entire distance to Elk Rapids,
and from there to Traverse City,
where he took the train for home,
vowing never to visit Northern Mich-
igan again.

Two years later, however, he had
reason to change his opinion and he
bought out a homesteader three miles
west of Boyne Falls and cleared up
a farm, which he still owns. In the
meantime he bought the corner lot
on which his store is now located, and

 

built a store building, which he rent-
ed to John McFellin, who put in a
hardware stock, continuing the busi-
ness several years, when Hr. Her-
ron moved into town to take the po-
sition of Postmaster during Cleve-
land’s second administration. Onthe
expiration of his term of office he put
in a hardware stock, which he has
since continued with excellent results
from a financial standpoint.
years ago he admitted to _ partner-
ship his son, Clinton J. Herron, and
the business is now conducted under
the name of Herron & Son.

Mr. Herron’s family consists of
himgelf, his son and partner and an

elder son, Willis I. Herron, who is}

A few}

 

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employed as a clerk in the Custom |

House at Grand Rapids.

Mr. Herron is a member of the
Presbyterian church of Boyne City
and is one of the trustees. He was
superintendent of the Sunday school
for six years. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, the Maccabees
and the Orangemen. He was Town-
ship Treasurer for four years, High-
way Commissioner for two years and
has been a member of the local
School Board for the past six years.

Mr. Herron attributes his success
to attending to business, being honest
with his fellowman, never trying to
deceive him and to backing up what-
ever he may say to the limit.

ne

Don’t Attack Your Competitors.

There are many salesmen who do
not seem to have learned that attack-
ing the other man’s goods is not only
a waste of time but positively an in-
jury to their own argument. A busi-
ness man of experience has recently
been quoted as saying on this point:
I once knew a high-priced photogra-
pher who was continually having it
told him that a competitor down the
street took cabinets at about half his
price. He never lost his patience. He
would say pleasantly, “Yes, that’s
true, and I guess he does pretty fair
work for that money.” In four cases
out of five the customer would con-
clude that the high-priced photogra-
pher must be a high-grade man and
that his work was worth the differ-
ence in price.

Not only that, but a customer re-
sents your attack on the other fellow
when he is not there to defend his
goods. Human nature likes fair play.
I had a typewriter salesman insist on
exchanging one of his machines for
what he called my “old style” one.
It ruffled me at once. “Old style,” I
snorted; “you had better go downto
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any day.”
time I see him.

Between your machine |
and this one I had rather have mine |
And I feel that way every |

Don’t be tempted into talking about |

your competitors. Lawyers, politi-
cians and all manner of

is the admis-
The cus-

convincing argument
sion of immaterial facts.

logicians |
agree that the strongest avenue to

tomer expects perhaps that you will |

antagonize your competitors and is
impressed with your good nature if
you do not.

!
Tell people that the other man’s |
claims may be true for all you know, |
that his machine or his goods have |
merit, you suppose. Then tell your
own story, and tell it well. Liberality |
will never lose you anything. It is |
often the finest example of business |
sagacity.
Sateen e
Competent Testimony. |
Mrs. Nibbs—Why were you so ab-
surd as to tell Bibbs. at the dinner
table that you can tell an old turkey
from a young one by the teeth?
Nibbs—So I can.

Mrs. Nibbs—Nonsense. Turkeys
have no teeth.
Nibbs—Well, I have.
—_——_~+ +.
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18.

MICHIGAN

 

OTHERS’ EXPERIENCE.

It Doesn’t Pay To Depend Too Much
On It.

One of the discordant notes in life,
struck for the young man who is pre-
paring for entry into the world of
accomplishments, is that reiterated
cry of men who are already doing:
“No; I wouldn’t advise any young
man to enter into this business.”

It is a shock to the young man of

the roseate fancy and the congenital |
optimism—both of which qualities be- |
long to his age and his inexperience. |

The speech so often comes to him
in that untimely moment when, ad-

miring the accomplishment of one)

who stands for something in a spe-

cial line of endeavor, the untried one |

is moved to speak of his own am-
bition to emulate.

Let it be understood at once that |
the fault is not with the young man’s |

model for career building. The young ! ee é ame
|all phases of his particular calling |

may have the best or the poorest |

man himself needs to prepare for the
effects that come of asking for bread
and receiving, all unconsciously on
the part of the giver, a wholly undi-
gestible stone. Imagination that is
worthy the name has swift feet. For
the young man of ambitions, ambi-

tion already has run for him a trial |
He sees |

race to the goal of success.
himself as he would like to be, and
he sees no reasons why he should not

accomplish all of his ideal aims. On|

the other hand, he has turned to
seek advice of the man who has paid
the price of his

effort and, perhaps, here and there)

given concessions to temptations,

feeling in the end that these last pay- |

ments were at too high a price. For-
getting all this, the young man goes
to the world scarred veteran seeking
the rosy complexion of untried youth.

Tennyson was feeling for the

young man in this dilemma when he/|

asked:

Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
Should Nature keep me alive,

If I find the world so bitter
When I am only twenty-five?

He does not answer the question,
but Time answers it, if young or old
may be only schooled to wait.

average of Life’s matriculants knowl-

edge has overtaken the winged feet |

of ambition, and condition has replac-
ed theory everywhere in life.
Eliminating all show of egotism,
the young man needs to recognize
that he is a thing unique in all crea-
tion. No other being has duplicated
him, or ever shall this side of eternity
and the abolition of time. At the
same time he is only one of millions
of other unique beings, to whose tra-
ditions, beliefs, mannerisms, condi-
tions, hopes and fears he must yet
owe all that he can even hope to be.
All that he will ever be in life he must
owe to the fact that he, fortunately,
was not the first man; for Adam,
merely reappearing upon earth in his

innocence, would be in a patrol wag- |

on before he could pass one side of a
city block.

Conditions, therefore, are the vital
things of life confronting the young
man, and if even he should decide

later upon becoming a reformer he|

can not hope to work successfully

accomplishments; |
who has paid time, money, endeavor, |

Long |
before fifty years have come to the

without knowledge of these stubborn
things upon which he would wage

experience.
route to it to be pointed out it is
doubtful if the man who found it

the reason that the sudden shoulder-

 

would be fatal. Thus in the school

—easily and naturally if may be, but
by shock, if he must—that most of his
|idealities are to serve as mere land-

|marks along the way of life’s rugged |
years the}

in after
way by which he has come. And

road, showing

man to go into this business.”
The meat of it all is that the opin-
ion of a man who has gone through

judgment of that calling’s possibili-
ities. He has seen it as an individual,
ithe like of whom never before was

on earth, and he is expressing his |
| opinion of it to another unique per-|

sonage from that person’s remotest
point of view. It is a situation akin
to a man’s writing from San Francis-

|co to a friend in New York, saying: |
“T am out here at last; I don’t know|

|anything about the other lines of
iroad, but for goodness sake don’t
come by the route that I took.”

It is possible to the young man
|to take up almost any line of endeav-
|or, regardless of the experiences of
others. If he is to be a success in
|these times of competition he will
need to dominate his chosen work
| with the personality that is insepara-
|bly his. There are a dozen reasons
why he shouldn’t try to step in the
| footprints of a predecessor, and rea-
|sons why he couldn’t if he would.
| The young man who takes up a life
| work can not take the methods of
| another man into a legal partnership;
|in a last emergency he can not go
| with them into a court of record with
the hope of an alibi or plea of non
compos mentis.

There is no doubt that among the
| honorable occupations of men some
occupations are less honorable than
others. There are lines in honor so
| fine as to be invisible to many eyes,
| while to others they are steel cables,
| barring the approach of one who
_looks. But some price not measured
| by dollars or time or endeavor must
|be paid for success in most of its
| worldly phases. Let the young man
| recognize this at the start; it is not
| too much of unearned knowledge, and
it will save him the needless shocks
| that otherwise await him down the
|road. Give him the chance, if he
| wishes, to decide in what line of en-
| deavor he may be called upon to
|make the fewest concessions of con-
| science. He can not learn of these,
| however, from the mere words, “I
wouldn’t advise a young man to en-
ter this business.”

Rather, the refusal to advise as
|much is to advise him not to do so.

| In this advice of negative emphasis.

reasons may be called for. Manifest-

war. Knowledge that is deserving |
of the name, however, must come of |
If there were a shorter |
would be alive to show the way, for |

ing of all knowledge of all things |

of experience the tyro needs to learn |

he, too, will be ready to advise with |
the ardent youth who seeks his coun-|
| sel, “Well, I wouldn’t advise a young |

l
ly the advice based upon the knowl- |
edge of having had to pay too dearly
oi the ethical and the spiritual can not

apply to the young man who has |
|
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not have your son, for instance, fol- |

low your path in the commercial or |
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John A. Howland.

2-2

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FORTUNE’S FOUNDATION.

 

Success Consists in Always Maintain-
ing a Reserve.

“Success simply consists in always
maintaining a reserve, whether of
money or intellect or spiritual power,
and in allowing that reserve to in-

crease,’ says Dr. Harper in one of|
his talks to students, which he has |

just put into book form. The suc-
cessful man, declares this conspicu-
ously successful man, is one who has
niade a practice of saving part of his
income, whatever its nature—one who
has always a balance to credit in
money, in physical strength, in intel-
lectual power or in moral force. This,
his capital invested, is the foundation
of his fortune.

What is true for the college man
is true for all men. The task of
hewing one’s destiny out of the solid
rock of the future is as much a mat-
ter of muscle as a matter of tools.
An ax in your hand is only an inert
combination of wood and metals un-
less there is force enough in your
arm to wield it.

A few years ago a young fellow
just out of college, who had attained
among his class a reputation for bril-
liancy, obtained an office position with
a wealthy house, where, because of
the friendliness of his chief, he had
the best chance in the world to work
up. But after several years he had
not made a single rung of the ladder.
And the head of the firm, a Scotch-
man, when asked by an interested
relative of the young man for an ex-
planation, replied laconically: “Bob’s
all right, but he wasn’t brought up
on oatmeal.”

The failures of “promising” young
men are often a matter of “oatmeal.”
In other words, they are meat eaters;
they have a great deal of surface ener-

gy, but they have no staying power. |

They lack the essential of a reserve
of strength on which to draw in
kours of need.

The rocket type of man is another
variety of the same general class. He
starts off finely, flashily, making a
magnificent show to the eyes of the
admiring multitude. But his burst of

glory is literally a burst. He uses up |
all his powder on his first spectacu- |
lar performance. A shining light up-|

on the horizon in the beginning of
his career, he ends—a stick.

There is another side to the ques-
tion. Many a young fellow starts out
in business life with all the dynamic
qualities which effect success; he has
ability, enthusiasm, and is thorough-
ly on to his job. And he has like-

wise the static attributes of conscien- |
tiousness and loyalty to his employer. |

Yet he fails. Why he should do so
is a mystery to many who look on.
He works early and late. He never
rests. Business is food and drink to
him and not infrequently it takes the
place of sleep.

Why is it that at the end of a year
or two he has settled into a position
from which he will never rise a sin-
gle step so long as he lives? So far
as his chances go he is an old man.
It is just because he has spent his
reserve. He is played out, except
so far as routine work is concerned.

| He is too tired to be able to look

|at things in a new way. He is no
| longer qualified to meet emergencies.

| For the man who succeeds in the |

| competitive business life of to-day
| is the one who is able, in addition to
| doing his daily stunt creditably, to
Work is_ really

|meet emergencies.

far as it increases his reserve.

Emerson defined character as lat- |

‘

ent power, as “a reserved force which

netism of a great man’s personality

he has not put forth.” He has a pow-
er behind his deeds which makes his
talent trusted. To the appreciation
which other men accord to his work
well done is added a confidence on
their part that he can do as_ well
again.

What is the reason that often from
cut a half dozen applicants for a

of equal weight, one man will be
selected from decided preference—not
from mere necessity of choice? There
is something in the bearing of the
man that makes the employer believe
in his ability. His individuality is
stamped with the hall mark of suc-
cess, reserve.
could meet emergencies.

Recently a young woman stenog-
tapher went into the office of a type-
writer agency to use one of their ma-
chines, use of which was open to
operators free of charge. The place

positions as stenographer. The young
woman herself had advertised for a
place and, while waiting for answers,
was putting in her time polishing
up her technique. Presently the pro-
prietor of the agency came up to her.
“Do you want a position?” he asked.
“Ves,” she answered, “but I have ad-
vertised for one.” “Well, I have a first

have it for nothing. I’m up against
it, for they want some one right away,
and not one of that bunch over there
could fill the bill.” He told her after-
wards that he did this because she
| looked as if she herself was her luck,

 

| which was his way of saying that she
carried about with her that atmos-
phere of reserve which showed her
to be one of nature’s capitalists, an

credit.

Is is not the reserve of preceding
generations that makes civilized man
|the heir of all the ages? To-day we
| begin life as capitalists, because our
| forefathers left to us a well invested

| capital; they did not spend either ali
they had or all they earned. A part
of it they put out at interest; they
always maintained a reserve and _ al-

mercy of the seasons and living mis-
erably from hand to mouth.

Look upon the physical world
serve is the underlying principle of
nature’s economy. Dame Nature,
most generous of housewives, is least
spendthrift. She is always garnering
her forces, saving up for to-morrow.

John A. Howland.

 

productive for the worker only so}

acts directly by presence.” The mag- |

lies in the fact that “half his strength |

was filled with girls who had regis- |
tered with the office applications for |

class place,” he said, “and you can|

individual who had a balance to her |

lowed it to increase. Otherwise man |
| would be to-day a savage, at the}

about you and you will see that re-|

 

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With.
Written for the Tradesman.

There is a prevailing mania among |

the young girls of to-day to pose as
unconventional. They scorn the cus-
toms of polite society. They affect |
bizarre fashions, such as going with-
out hats in the daytime, rolling their
sleeves up to their shoulder and culti- |
vating a complexion like a saddle
skirt. At coilege they ape what they |
fondly believe to be the hoodlum |
manners oi college boys. They make
themselves ill smoking cigarettes that |

they abhor in their “dens,” they drink |
cocktails with men in public restau- |
rants. They are never so happy as
when they think they have shocked
somebody and they loudly proclaim |
that they are going to play the game
of life according to their own sweet
will, and not according to the Hoyle
rules of civilization.

This they call being unconvention- |
al. Now, whenever a woman tells |
me that she is thoroughly unconven- |
tional I always put a_ black mark |
against her name on my visiting list. |
No matter how charming she may be, |
no matter how desirable she is in|
other ways, I know she is bound to}
be a trouble and a worry, and had
better be avoided. She is the wom-|
an who never can be depended on to}
do the right thing at the right time. |
She aggravates your soul by neglect-
ing to reply to invitations, and ruins |
your temper by coming when you |
don’t want her, and going when you |

| she decided to come after all.

| kind of a woman she is.

| upsets other people’s plans. You ask

| her to dinner, for instance. All over
| the civilized world a dinner invita-
;}tion is a sight draft on politeness
that must be honored at once. But
the woman who prides herself on her
| unconventionality declares she will
ruled by the hide-bound
laws of society, so she does not re-
ply to your invitation until it suits
her. The days go by and you agon-
ize over your table, not knowing

| never be

j whether she will come or not. Per-
| haps on the last day she telephones
| that she will not come.
|and in deadly fear of giving offense

In hot haste

you ask a substitute to fill her place;

| then just at the last minute she walks

serenely in and calmly announces that
You
conjure up a sickly smile of welcome,

|rush out and interview the waitress
|and count the entrees, put on an-
| other plate and wish to goodness you
|; could make the laws for about five
| minutes while you fixed a penalty fit-

ting the crime for such an offense. It
does not make a bit of difference what
Although
she were the Venus de Medici in
looks, an Aspasia in wisdom and a
Madame de Stael in wit, she has ruin-
ed your dinner party, and all because

 

she refused to recognize the laws laid |

down for such occasions.

Then there are those delightfully
unconventional people who take the

liberty of revising your invitation list. |

In their opinion an invitation is a
family affair and transferable from
one member to another. They accept
with alacrity and send whom they

| please, so that at your dinner of cer-

emony to a scientist you may have
addle-pated Cholly, who does. not
know a blessed thing above a two-

wish her to stay and imperils the | Step, in place of his learned father,

peace of the community by saying
the things that should be left un-
said. She is a boomerang in _ so-
ciety that is continually flying back

and knocking down innocent people. | With joy.

Just why a woman should account
it unto herself for virtue to defy the
usages of good society is something
I have never been able to understand.
You often hear some woman describ- |
ed as “conventional” in a tone of
voice that implies a criticism. It
would be quite as just to attempt to
throw obloquy upon a man because he
was accused of being a good citizen,
who respected and obeyed the laws.
When mankind decided to cease be-
ing wild beasts and become civilized
they made for their guidance certain
regulations, which they mutually
agreed to conform to for the general
good. That is precisely what the
conventions of society attempt. They
are the laws we have evolved to pro-

tect ourselves from the tender mer- |

cies of indiscreet friends and the
machinations of our enemies. They
are simply the “keep off the grass

signs” with which we warn trespass- |

ers off our individual liberties.

As a matter of fact the attitude of |

the woman who is thoroughly uncon-
ventional is one of utter selfishness.
She never takes anything but her own
desires into consideration, and it nev-

or at your butterfly luncheon to a
debutante Maud’s elephantine mother
may appear in her place as a substi-

| tute that is expected to fill your heart

It may be taken as a
rule that a hostess generally knows
what she is about, and has given some
thought to the people she is to bring
together. A tactful woman arranges
such a matter with as nice sense of

| shading as a painter does a picture,

and it is an unpardonable imperti-
nence for a guest to presume to al-
cer it

Another thing the unconventional
woman triumphs in is in disregarding
the hours on her cards of invitation.
Many of us have houses built on the
contracted Queen Anne style of arch-
itecture and a hospitality designed on
the roomy old colonial order. To
reconcile these two we invite some
| of our friends to come from 3 to 5,
say, and others from 5 to 7. If they
would do it all would be well. We
have probably spent sleepless nights
trying to arrange our invitations so
that certain congenial cliques would
come at the same time, and miss
|other uncongenial factions. At any
| rate it would give everyone plenty of
|room and not overcrowd the dining
/room. It is a lovely theory, but the
/unconventional woman knocks it sil-

| ly because she would rather die than

 

er troubles her in the least that she | go just when she is expected. She

 

waits until the women who are receiv-
ing have grown limp with fatigue and
the other people are coming, then she
rushes in in her might and packs the
little dining room to suffocation and

turns what you had hoped would be |

a lovely little reception into some-
thing that is a pushing, scrambling
mob.

We all know the woman

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who |

proudly proclaims she never does any

ceremonious visiting, or goes to see
people on their “at home” day. It
is nothing to her colossal conceit that

you might be pleased to see her on|
that day, and very sorry to see her|

at any other time.

your rooms comfortable, you

Then you have}
have |

donned your pretty house frock and}
have a smile and a welcome for all |

who come.

is entirely different. Every woman

On another day the story |

has plenty of work at home to take |

up her time. You may be busy mak-

ing pickles, darning the

children’s |

stockings, doing a hundred household |
odds and ends of jobs, with your hair

in curl papers and your working frock

on. Here comes the unconventional |

woman who will call when she pleases
and you must put down everything
and go and see her. There is a fic-
tion that we are always glad to see
our friends. We are not. There are
times when their visits are an unmiti-
gated nuisance. Familiarity breeds
contempt, says the old adage. The fa-
miliarity that is always popping into
your house at all times of the day
is the fruitful parent of gossip, hat-
red, malice and all uncharitableness.

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an scorns the weakness of dress. To

is to her an evidence of a tottering
understanding and a weak intellect.
She is never so happy as when she
looks like a figure of fun. Give her
the opportunity to appear at an even-

be suitably gowned for an occasion | “I agree!” |

iug reception in bicycle leggings and |
a short skirt and her cup of bliss |

overflows.
rudeness to her hostess. She fails
tc comprehend that one’s ciothes are

She does not mean any |

|

the subtlest sort of a compliment and |

that they may either say, “Oh, I don’t
think much of this.
will do to wear to your house,”
else, “I have put on my bravest and
best, as is only fitting when I am your

guest.”

I do not deny the frequent charm
the unconventional woman. She
has the absorbing interest we all feel
in a thing that is angles in every di-
rection,
know how to handle.

of

There is even

a charm in her blunt speech and the}
| pendent,

uncompromising directness with
which she tells us the truth, but, like
certain pungent sauces,
will flavor a great deal of society. Aft-
er all,

| proclaimed servility can be imagined.
Any old thing |
or |

|sessed a birch;

and that we do not quite}

who is the one with whom it is easy |

to get along. She may not be ex-|
citing, but she is satisfactory. She

does what you expect her to do. She

recognizes your rights and insists on |

| sometimes
She knows what to see and | :
| sometimes the old boys lose,

her own.
to be blind. She never looks
under the crust to see the under-side
of things and accepts your polite fibs
in the spirit in which they were of-
fered. She never makes you uncom-
fortable. She never brings up for-
bidden topics. If you lived at the
top of a tenement house and she went
there to see you she would never
complain of the steps, but insist upon
the magnificence of the view.
served her fricassed cat she would eat
it and talk about the ancient civiliza-
tion of the Chinese.

when

It takes a great many things

If you |

to |

|and approaching the age when they
| have the inclination to be desperate
| blades
| where recklessly,

| be found there.

make this a comfortable world and |

chief among them is conventionality.
Dorothy Dix.
——__~--— >
Discussion on Spoiling Children by
an Unbiased Bachelor.

A bachelor can approach this ques-
he may |

tion with an unbiased mind;
be wrong, but he is at any rate
partitl. Moreover, the judgment giv-
en here is not final; a court of appeal
household, and there

im-

exists in every
my decision can be reversed or up-
held. Let me say at once that in
my opinion the methods of parents

are greatly improved and the spoil-

| nimity,
ithe road that leads to a sane disposi-

ing of children becomes less common |

as the years go on.
not so much of the “Go and see what

baby is doing and tell her she must- |

rt,” on the other hand the sentimen-
tal mother no longer permits her Io
year old boy to wear long cruls, which
some of us used to pull in school
days with a cry of “Shop!” Let us
argue the matter and see whether
we are at one in regard to reasons.
Three judges some time since had to

sions as usual in order of seniority;

Whilst there is |
i that a father can make is to omit to

i |of reverence for their elders.
a little of her |

i : | should envy the child of 1854.
it is the conventional woman |

hear a case, and they gave their deci- | ceding to these applications.

Henn Collins, coming second, said,

Romer, the third, remarked:

“I agree also!”

“Pardon me,” said Henn Collins,
“I wish to give my reasons.” And |
having stated these at considerable |
length, he bowed to his colleague |
to intimate that he had finished.

“T still agree,” said Justice Romer. |

There was a time when children |
called their fathers “sir;’ what the |
fathers called the children who thus |

Those were days when no house was
completely furnished unless it pos-
when governesses
used a ruler mainly for application
to little knuckles; it was considered
right and indeed indispensable thata |}
child should be shaken’ regularly;
nurses with the tact and intelligence
of hens told their charges grisly stor-
ies that came back to terrified young
minds in hours of sleep. Girls were
brought up to be clinging and de-
with a nice taste in faint-
ing; boys were cuffed into a show
I see
no good reason why the child of 1904

What is the general spirit existing
now between father and son? So far
as) |) can it of increased
comradeship; fathers are younger
than ever and join in games in which
the old boys win, and
to the
good sportsman this matters little or
There are indoor recreations

see is one

nothing.
nowadays in which all the family can
join, and sons, who are growing up

make their mark some-
can be induced
(given discretion to parents) to see
that home has the attractions pos-
sessed by fully licensed premises,
some of the drawbacks to
No better way ex-
ists of training children to be good
once a boy can even

and

without

tempered; lose

a mere game of bagatelle with equa-

he has been brought far on

tion. The father generally takes
charge of his boy at Io, that being the
age when the lad brings serious tasks
from school in regard to which the
mother, goaded by appeals for ad
vice and assistance, generally replies
that children bother

about subjects which mothers learned

who mothers
years ago at school but have since
debarred,
going

by a special

are
from

forgotten
regulation,
This where the wise father who
knows his own children comes in. If
he can the affection and
respect at this age he will never real-
them. he greatest error

to heaven.

is

gain boy’s

ly lose
note the year that is at the top of
the current almanac and to forget
that his sons grow older each year.
There comes a time when they feel
they have the right to smoke in-
doors, to take a glass of claret with
their meals, to go on their own ac-
count to the play. Happy the father
who knows the right moment for ac-

The mothers’ boys are of the age

 

ler

when they can be placed in corners |

if their behavior comes short of ab-|
are
I

suppose some little children are still

solute perfection, whence they

released on giving their parole.

punished severely, but the general
trend is certainly in the way of mild-
_correction; for my own part I
would as soon think of whipping a
lamb. Even the fiendish parent
now fearful of public opinion, and of

the excellent society which prosecutes

is

| in such cases.

Occasionally a fear is expressed by
fathers that mothers spoil an only
child; the mothers always retort that
is being done by the fathers. Cer-
tainly recital of the infant’s repartees,
description of his extreme goodness
the first thing in the ac-
count of his excellent behavior when
company present—these are |
sometimes enough to turn heads and
give a idea of importance, |
but if this should be the case in early |
days, the impression is carefully re-
moved so soon as the only child steps
into the world and meets his|
peers. I would rather this overpraise |
than encounter the perpetual nagging,
the deeply rooted conviction that |
whatever the child desires to do be- |
comes, ipso facto, wrong and deserv-
ing of reproof. The artful child, rec-
ognizing the defects of this system,
conducts himself as Brer Rabbit did |
after the struggle with the Tar Baby, |

wildly against the thing|
to done. Some}

morning,
is

no

swollen

out

}

protesting
that he desires
parents have a special voice for their|
just as people shout to for-|}|

be

children,

| Grand Rapids, Mich.

eigners. I can not think this neces-
sary; children have powers of hear-

ling that are quite as good as they

need be.

For the youngsters themselves, I
don’t know any better counsel than
that given by Mr. George to Wool-
Bagnet: “The time will come,
boy, when this hair of your
mother’s will be gray and this fore-
head all crossed recrossed with
wrinkles. Take while you are
that you think those
‘I never whitened a hair of her
dear head,
ful
many

wich
my
Ss
l and
care,
young, can in
days,
I never marked a sorrow-
line her face’. For of all the
things that you think of
a man, you had better
Woolwich!’

W. Pett Ridge

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BRAIDS AND BUTTONS. |

 

|
Some Novelties Shown Now for the
First Time.

Silk braids have come to their own |
again, and buyers are stocking with
them. -Women demand high-class
novelty silk braids for their winter |
gowns and these braids form the best
trimming possible.

The spring braids are in the daint- |
iest shades imaginable. Chenille |
braid with a serpentine pattern is es-
pecially pleasing, and as a general
rule the ground is pure white with
the color laced through. Chinese blue |
is one of the prettiest of the new}
shades, and the woman who can pass
it by is indeed lacking in percep- |
tion of the artistic.

Diamond braid about two inches |
wide forms the background for the |
ever-popular Greek key design, work-
ed out in soutache in richest color-
ings. With a black ground soutache
in burnt onion it is very effective.
This braid is pleasing for collar and
cuff sets, and will doubtless find its
place in the trimming of revers and
in fact there are few places where it |
can not be used to advantage.

Persian embroideries are popular,
and this season they will probably
be very good property. While these
have had some vogue for some time,
still every season sees some new ef-
fects, and combinations of color
which should place them in the front |
rank as favorites.

These come in the form of a bot-|
tom finish for skirts of ombre tones.
These same embroideries can be
employed to advantage in artistic
scrolls and individual designs which
stamp a woman as well gowned.

The ever-popular flower designs
are with us this season in the braid
lines. In the line of novelty braids,
perhaps, none come qute up to the
peacock feather design, which has the
identical coloring and «shape, 2
braid which should be popular with
lovers of the beautiful.

The suit and coat men are using
great quantities of the pearl buttons.
These are strong in public favor and
the manufacturers of ready to wear
clothing have infinite possibilities in
the molding of fashion. Medium sizes
are most popular although some of
the elaborate suits show odd buttons,
so handsomely designed that they are
almost exclusive in style.

for these manufacturers.

| pression, and the buttons which

i mings.
| introduction into the trimming world,
|and we are promised some very star-
| tling things.

The number of women who dress
well, and still buy their suits and
coats ready made, make a big field
They de-
mand styles which are just as careful

|in execution as the best of the tail-
|ors, and in many instances they get

them. If a woman is willing to pay

|a good price for a ready made gar-

ment she can get better value for her
money than if she has the garment
made to order. Of course there are
any number of women who under-
stand this clearly, with the result

| that the manufacturers have to use

the best of trimmings. There the
most popular styles always find ex-
the
manufacturer’s employ are the ones

| which will be most popular during

the season.
The belted coats of the fall and
winter had to be trimmed with hand-

/some buttons, and they added mate-

rially to the appearance of the coats.
For the spring the manufacturers re-
port that there will be any number
of buttons used, so that it bids fair

ito be a button year all right.

It is reported that there will be
considerable demand for leather trim-
This month will mark their

There is no reason why
leather trimmings should not find
favor with the trade, and it is pre-
dicted that during the late winter
and early spring they will be very
popular.

Large square buttons come with
various designs. Perhaps the very
handsomest of these buttons are per-

'fectly plain with the beauty of the

stock showing to a greater extent
than would otherwise be _ possible.
These buttons are much in favor for
trimmings, but as they are awkward
to slip through a buttonhole, their
usefulness is somewhat impaired, and
they are sold strictly on their merits
as ornaments.

Burnt leather for some time has
had a vogue, and that it has reached

ithe button field is in no manner sur-

prising. Large buttons come with
their leather faces handsomely de-
signed, and the rich effects obtain-
able by the use of the pyrographer’s
needle can hardly be surpassed.
Fabric covered buttons are popu-
lar with women who desire to match
the fabric and color of their coats

 

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and gowns perfectly. With the enam-
els it is possible to get somewhat the
same effect, and some of the plaid
enamels which are brought out this
season have all the appearance of the
real fabric.

The shapes are very similar to
those in use for the past year. While
there are some few oddly-shaped but-
tons which always find favor with
the lovers of the odd, still the general
demand centers pretty closely upon
the regular goods.

Enamel has once more come _ to
its own, and the various forms in
which this old friend can be found
are interesting even to the outsider.
It seems as if the manufacturers were
making special efforts to produce ef-
fects which were in vogue several
generations ago. The most popular
designs have been taken bodily from
authentic copies of famous buttons
and buckles, and they form a pretty
and dainty accompaniment for the
quaint costumes on which the present
styles are modeled. The dainty shades
which are in favor this season have
received very skillful treatment at
the hands of the workers, and the
results are creations of art, and hap-
py the woman who can afford one
of the gems.

The miniature buttons which were
so popular during the past season
will not be readily relinquished by
the woman of taste. They are in-
conspicuous little things, but they
have the ability to make a belt dressy
which would otherwise be too plain
for fine use. They come in so many
tones that it is possible to match al-
most any of the popular colors.

The pearl buttons which come in|
the various tints and shades help |
wonderfully to make belts handsome.
The rich shadings in these little but-
tons give them an air of life which is
very attractive, and while the cost
is not inconsiderable, they are easily |
worth it.

In the tiny buttons which find so|
many appropriate places on the mod-
ern gown there seems to be a prefer-
ence for the dainty enamels. While |
this may prove wrong later in the|
season, still the demand the latter |
part of the season pointed that way,
and the newest designs have novel
enamel effects.

Handsome pearl buttons are in|
favor this season. Some of the fin-
est and most expensive of these show |

 

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| type or not.
gown

delicate designs in the gold deposit
and they are particularly fine work.
These are called “Auto” buttons by
men who have an eye to the ultimate
use of them, and they should be es-
pecially handsome in this connection.

Leather covered buttons for heavy
outside coats should prove attractive
to people who love the eccentric. The
buttons are so designed that they
show a large portion of the leather
or kid or whatever is intended to
match the coat, and this is framed
in the gun-metal or gold frame of the
button. They are durable and make
desirable novelties.

The only thing which is especially
worthy of note in the novelties this
season is the tendency to popularize
the “Louis” styles. The Pompadour
buttons, as they are called this year,
have gone very well. These, for the
most part, had designs of tiny roses,
the kind commonly known as “Pom-
padour,” and dainty in every detail.
There is a big field opened up tothe
manufacturers and importers in this
mode, and button men will be quick
to grasp it.

From present prospects it appears
that gilt is to be popular during the
coming season. The domestic manu-
facturers of buttons say that there
is considerable demand for this ever-
popular finish, and they are turning
out great quantities of it. Last sea-
son buyers simply could not get
enough of the gilt goods, and the
stock which they were able to secure
was sold almost on delivery. This
season, while conditions will not be
quite as bad as that, still there is a
general belief that gilt will be good
and buyers are loth to discard it.

Queer spirals in the enamels are
much in favor and remind one sus-

|piciously of the funny little cakes
'with the spiral icing which our
grandmothers used to make. At any

rate the spiral designs are in favor,

;and buyers are in no wise particular

as to whether the spiral be true to
The woman with the
taken almost directly from
some French fashion plate will wear
buttons with pure Greek designing.
Automobile buttons are much in

|favor and are used on almost every-

thing. The designing is good and

|the buttons are essentially new.

The button vogue this season ap-

| pears to run to handsome enamels.

These enamels are to be found in

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both the glowing tones, rich
colors, and the pastel shades.
pastel shades are much

high

in demand

and harmonize well with the styles

of the present day. The gowns
which are much betrimmed with rib-
bons and other ornamentations need
but little decoration in the form of
buttons, and as a result the buttons
are designed in such a way that they
simply seem a part of the whole, and
attract but little attention on their
Own account.

Dainty hat ornaments come inthe
form of elaborate enameled buttons,
and the milliners find that they are
exactly what is needed to give the
finishing touches to a fine creation.
The highly colored enamels have
been superseded to a certain extent
by the dainty pastel shades.

Spiral effects in the gilt and enam-
el are handsome and in the larger
sizes are especially effective.

The demand for high-class laces
is rapidly increasing and the retail
selling of handsome hand-made laces
is better than for several seasons past.
There is a heavy demand for French
and Irish elaborate
and costly patterns, and also acces-
of all kinds with trimming
laces to match in the hand-made net
different
which are Irish point and Carrickma-

crochet laces in

sories

variety of webs, among

cross, Brussels applique and_ point

daiguille.
Curious

new hat decorations are

of the valley, formed of tiny

arranged on a

lilies

straw buttons, stem

so as to simulate these pretty flowers

with considerable accuracy.

The.

BELTS AND BUCKLES.

Some New Things in Both Lines
Shown This Season.

In the belt market things have not
quite rounded themselves into shape
for the spring lines to find ready ac-
ceptance. Few people know what the
trend of the fashions in separate belts
is to be, and as a result the few sam-
ple lines which are being shown de-
pend for their new styles upon the
styles shown in Paris
European centers of fashion.

already

manufacturers prophesy the dropping
of the shirt waist by the modern
American woman, and of course with
it the odd belt.

This opinion has but few backers,

kowever, and most manufacturers are |

banking on the fact that the Ameri-

can woman knows a good thing when |

she gets it, and is not going to drop
the shirt
come, at least.

waist for
It is a practical utility
both for the

article, and

woman and the dame of leisure, it |

forms a pleasing change from the
gowns and suits demanded for ex-

tremely dressy occasions.

One rather eccentric belt is shown |

with a simply tremendous buckle. It

is at least six inches in height andj

proportionately wide. It almost re-
minds one of the old-fashioned gir-
dies which were so stylish in our
erandmothers’ days.

Many of these belts have

pieces formed of several strips of the |

leather, and tacked to the belt proper
with buttons of different sizes. These

i belts are made with the tongue, and

and |

Some |

some time. to}

working |

the back |

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the tan shades are quite popular. The
large buttons in the dome and conical |
shapes are the ones which are seen}
con most of these belts.

 

Jeweled buckles are much in favor, |
and the buckles are somewhat less
showy than hitherto, for the simple
reason that the belt itself is coming
in for a larger share of the attention
and is elaborately made, so that the
decoration in the form of a buckle
is oftentimes superfluous.

It is to be a good buckle year, and
the buckle men report that finer buc- |
|kles, and more expensive ones, were
ordered than is usually the case. The
vogue of the art nouveau buckles is
| still with us, and the buyer who can|
inot make a fine showing with a
| strong art nouveau line is indeed out
lof the running. The brilliant enam-
|els and the pastel shades both make |
| showings which can not be surpassed
by anything in the line of metal work, |
and some of the designs are almost |
enough to go on the jewelry)
counters. The buckles are plentifully
adorned with imitation jewels.

fine

A beautiful shade of green 13 shown
in the retail stores especially for the |
holiday trade. It is one of those rich |
melting tones which can not but har-
|monize with other colors, and the
| belt is a bit less ornate than the ma-|
[jority of the holiday goods.

Oriental embroidered belts and gir- |
dles remain and as_ the}
prices are away out of the reach of|
with limited means, the |

in favor,

|the person
designs are about as
possible to have them.

exclusive as |
The colors |

|the holiday trade.

| for the real Christmas trade.
| buyer saves a certain number of ex-
| clusive novelties until late in the sea-

23

are somewhat more subdued than was
formerly the case, and as a result the
belts harmonize with the styles of

| the season.

One store.in this city which makes
a specialty of fine belts for critical

| people has made some very elaborate

displays of these Oriental belts for
Both gold and
silver thread is used a great deal up-
on them, and the designs are about
as captivating as anything on the
Chinese and Japanese can well be.
Each belt appears as if it might be
the work of an artist, and the prices
are gauged accordingly.
Fitted belts, with their molded
forms, adapted to wear with almost
kind of a gown,
favor. These belts have to be ex-
ceedingly well made to wear well and
the slight boning must be of the best
quality if they are to keep their
shape.

any are much in

The most stunning designs of the
winter season are now being shown
Every

son and then springs them upon his

| customers, with the result that they

are far more readily snatched up than
they would have been a month ago.

| Several of the new belts for this sea-

son show effects a great way out of
the ordinary. Price no longer isa
euarantee of novelty in design, for
some of the moderate priced belts
show extreme designs and are very
popular with the most discriminating
people.

 

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LOOKING BACKWARD.

Boy’s First Journey Into the Great
Wide World.
Chapter VIII.

At Morgan City a lime of vessels
running to Vera Cruz, Mex., and Gal-
veston connected with the Morgan
railroad, which I had hoofed a dis-
tance of ninety miles. There was one
steamer in harbor, the Whitney, bound
for Vera Cruz, and it only awaited
a flash at me before making an au-
spicious and dignified start. A huge
affair was the Whitney, wide and flat,
with a walking beam engine—one of
those river relics that burn, blow up,
or sing as a side issue to Sunday
school excursions. With vague ideas
of what might be doing, I limped
aboard and asked the first.man for a
job.

This large, hairy person bossed the
genteel pastime of lowering freight
into the forward hatch, swearing
in a florid style all his own. When
I spoke about bounding away on the
laughing billows with him he regard-
ed me hopefully and wanted to know
if I had a pair of scissors. I said
I had not.

“Because if you had you might get
a berth down below trimming coal,”
he said.

“Maybe I can borrow a pair from

the other fellows,” I ventured, “and |
if you'll show me how to get down)

there I'll try.”
That subtle seaman pointed out an
iron ladder leading into the lurid

bowels of the ship, and I was mak-!

ing for it when a young man in a
blue cap, probably a freight clerk,
headed me off.

“Don’t try, sonny,” he cautioned.
“That place would kill you. Nothing
but niggers can stand the fireroom.

See the steward. He might fix you.” |
I did see the steward, a fat negro |

resembling Billy Rice in stage make- | ' ' :
ble while helping to set the cabin

steamer was due to sail in an hour | board.

or so with 200 cabin passengers. Sev- |

en of the ten coon waiters had struck | : ,
| equal eclat while on the double quick.

up, and he fixed me plenty. The

and gone ashore because they didn’t

esteem the Hon. Billy, promoted to|

chief steward from among their ranks
on the previous trip.
won the epaulets. In a tempest of
rage, grief and mortification
blighted seven jumped the ship, and,
moreover, they boycotted Billy Rice
so that all well disposed coons af-
filiated with the Food Passers’ union
kept away from the usurper in the
hour of his greatest need.

The idea of putting to sea with the
three black dubs who stuck handling

the table service for 200 people fill- |

ed the mind of Billy Rice with fright-
ful forebodings. He would look worse
than the steward on a sampan,
Billy knew it. So he fell upon my
neck as the savior of his reputation
when I said I could handle more
€ooked grub than any six men, white
or black. It was necessary to tell

Billy something of a cheering nature
in order to debut as the only white

food passer sailing in those troubled
waters.
Under certain stress a fellow is jus-

Each of the|
malcontents thought he should have |

the |

and |

ter of self-preservation. It was im-
perative the Whitney should go to
sea. I had to go somewhere, and, as
we needed one another in our busi-
ness, what was more natural than
that the Whitney and I should form
a diplomatic alliance? And yet I
was a hollow mockery; or, to put it
even stronger, an empty fraud about
to bunko a confiding steamboat.

In a hazy sort of way I understood
the duty required of me was to dally
with real victuals, and I was willing
to learn all over again. Mr. Rice
was too absorbed in his own troubles
to take much notice of my general
fuzzy, sleeping out, rained on, flea
bitten, half starved aspect until the
steamer was well down the bay. Billy
then gave me a lovely white jacket
that buttoned up to my chin. After
scouring my face and brushing my
hair my upper works took on a
beauteous form, quite pleasing to be-
hold, until I looked at my feet, which
were all to the peacock. My fine
feathers drooped and I felt like a
bird of low degree among the ladies
and gentlemen in gay traveling plum-
age. However, my mind was not
permitted to dwell on the outer man.

It midafternoon when the
Whitney cleared and the scant cabin
force tackled the prodigious. task of
laying the tables and serving supper.
Billy Rice, his three black food pass-
ers and myself toted great loads of
| dishes from the pantry to the long
saloon. This work kept us on the
broad jump, but I found time for keen
side diversion at once profitable and
soothing. Connected with the pantry
was the officers’ messroom, in which
supper was already laid for the dog
watch. A narrow table placed against

was

 

| the wall was stacked with cold meats,

fowl, sardines, salads and pastry suf-
ficient for five men. In one hour,
passing in and out, I cleared that ta-

I won something each trip,
and sometimes a double portion, de-
vouring pie and smoked salmon with

My fellow food passers regarded
me with superstitious awe common to
the negro. Billy Rice, although he
said little, seemed depressed by the
| knowledge he had signed and ship-
ped for that voyage a living, breath-
jing famine. My skinny legs were hol-
| low, and I couldn’t stop eating until
| the bones ceased to rattle. Two weeks
}on a desultory diet of bananas, three
| days in the dry gingerbread class, and
|one night and the greater part of next
| day at Morgan City without food had
geared me up to the mean voracity
'of a threshing machine. Billy Rice
| at length viewed my case in a proper
‘light,
| “White boy,” he said, “you shore
jam hungry.”

I confessed to a faint gnawing in my
vitals.

“But if you can feed other white
folks like you do yourself,” the chief
steward continued, “the ship is saved.”

Blushing with pride, I said my
aim was to give the passengers a run
for their passage money after get-
ting myself filled up. So when I

tified in lying, if only for a mere mat-| slowed down we spread another Jay-

out for the dog watch, and pretty
soon a grand free for all foray opened
in the main saloon.

Waiting on table is easy enough
when you know how. Slender maid-
ens with their thumbs immersed in
hot soup have been seen to glide se-
renely and never spill a drop, but
that was done onan even keel. Aboard
a rolling ship it is different. There
the food passer requires a_ steady
brain and eye, sea legs and the trick
of juggling perfected to the highest
possible art. All these qualities I
lacked, and it wasn’t long before the
passengers and even B. Rice discov-
ered me to be a four-flusher of
first water. The cabin resounded with
the wails of the maimed and hungry.

I made a hideous mess of things on
my station—anointed myself, the cab-
in, and its contents with soup and
gravy; took an order from one person
and served it to another—ever and
anon chipping chunks off the gilded
wainscoting with my moist and burn-
ing brow. Because of my color, per-
haps, and the manner in which I
strove to please the more fastidious,
our passengers yielded to the not
unnatural belief that I owned the ship.
One red headed pilgrim to Vera Cruz
addressed me politely as Mr. Whit-
ney, to the annoyance of my black
contemporaries, and as Mr. Whitney
I was known throughout the voyage.

Somehow we struggled along and
fought that first meal to a bitter fin-
ish. I was covered with shame and
prune juice and other things, and the
grand saloon resembled the lunch
hour on a chowder steamer. During
a lull in the havoc, when passengers
and food passer paused for breath, the
ship gave a lurch. She sidestepped
on me. I was standing at attention
at one side of the saloon. My heels
struck the side or combing of an open
state room door, and in I fell on the
flat of my back. The jar rocked the
ship and shook a shower of glass
pendants from the grand chandelier
above the table.

That stunt was the best thing I
ever did on any vessel, for the intro-
duction of vaudeville at a critical
stage in the tragedy dispelled the
dark looks and muttered threats
which portended open mutiny. The
scalded, gummed and streaky passen-
gers broke into cheers and merry
shouts of laughter. They thought I
was killed. Even when the white
ghost of Mr. Whitney crawled out
of the stateroom to haunt them some
more the general good feeling was
such that no one thought of report-
ing to me any incivility or inattention
on the part of the waiters, and there-
by conferring a favor on the manage-
ment.

Over night our noble ship wheezed
its way into the fussy waters of the
gulf, and in consequence the eating
force was vastly diminished. The
ill ones seemed glad because we did
not have enough waiters to go
around. Less than half the cabin
complement appeared at _ breakfast,
and while that meal was on Billy
Rice made a discovery which tickled
me. as well as himself. Wheat cakes
are one of the few edibles that will

 

the |
|the manner of the fellow dealing pok-

 

not slop over or spill at sea, and, as
our cook made them, the cakes clung
to the plates like patent medicine
stickers. My career at once took
shape.

I could serve the wheats without at-
tracting undue notice, so they pro-
moted me to pancake editor, in which
capacity I issued three editions daily,
with an occasional fried egg extra.
Thus, in a way, I got a taste of yel-
low journalism long before my time
in Park row. Ina short time I grew
quite pert and could gallop into the
grand saloon—the hollow of my left
arm piled high with little plates,
which I shot around the tables after

er to experts who desire one card on
the draw.

Furthermore, in recognition of my
ene deep sea talent, B. Rice published
pancakes for every meal just to help
me along, and I'll never forget him
for that.

No matter how poor, humble and
worthless he may be a boy will do

| one thing properly, and if encouraged

in that one thing his confidence is es-
tablished and he eventually aspires to
something ennobling and_ uplifting.
Less than two weeks later I earned
40 cents shoveling oyster shells at
Galveston, Tex.; but, as Rudyard
once said, that’s another item. Just
the same, I look back with pride to
my career as pancake editor.

All days look alike in the busy rou-
tine on board a crowded vessel, and
I really fell into the way of going
shipshape. Food, sleep and excite-
ment soon rounded out the hollows
in my boyish cheeks, and Mr. Whit-
ney, with the cares of a large steam-
boat on his mind, fared well.

One of the black boys gave me a
shirt and collar, another trimmed my
hair, and a passenger whose heart
was large and his feet medium tipped
me to a pair of shoes. The condition
of my old ones was wretched in the
extreme. Run over at the heel and
turned up at the side, they gave my
feet the appearance of being set in
italics. These italicized feet always
emphasize a hard luck story.

While the ship lay at Vera Cruz
they kept me on board to. scrub
things. On the way back it stopped
at Galveston. There I spurned B.
Rice, tendered my resignation as pan-
cake editor, and went ashore to swing
Texas around by the tail.

Charles Dryden.
——_+~-~»—___

There is quite a general movement
on the part of cities throughout the
country toward building good roads
through their suburbs to connect the
well paved streets of down town sec-
tions with the country roads. This
movement in several cases has been
caused by automobile clubs, but in
this instance at least the farmers
should make common cause with the
automobilists.

Sane coe oe meee

Many a boy is sent to college be-
cause he does not seem to be good
for anything else.

——_+-+-2

No matter how ugly a baby is you
can not offend the mother by saying
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26

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

CANNED SALMON.

 

Some of the Peculiarities About the
Run of Fish.

The crop of canned salmon on the
Pacific coast is worth about $12,000,-
000 a year, and therefore that fish
outranks allothersinits direct value
to mankind. The average crop is
3,500,000 cases of forty-eight cans
each, or a total of 168,000,000 cans;
an average of two to every inhabi-
tant of the United States. An ordin-
ary fish will fill four cans; hence the
average annual pack represents about
42,000,000 fish.

This year’s pack is a failure, as it
is every year in which a President
of the United States is elected. The
returns are not all in yet, but the

best judges estimate a total of only |

2,250,000 cases, the smallest crop since
1896, which was also a presidential
year.

It is also a remarkable fact that
salmon run in the greatest abundance
in the year in which the President
of the United States is inaugurated.
The year following the inauguration
only a fair run is expected, while on
the third year of the presidential
term the fish are out in reasonably
large quantities. During the period
of presidential elections the fish are
exceedingly shy and scarce. They
are only seen in small schools, and
keep out of the way of traps, nets
and all fishing devices. Dr. Jordan,

 

President of Leland Stanford Uni-|
versity, who is a famous ichthyolo- |
gist and ichthyophagus, says that, |

assuming the year of the inaugura-
tion, which is the big year, to yield

100 per cent., the next year may be|
expected to produce 50 per cent., the |

third year 65 per cent. and the year
of the election 35 per cent. This
singular proposition is borne out by
the statistics, and is something more
than a coincidence. °

This is especially true of that
species of salmon known as the “sock-
eye,” an Indian term which has no
reference to the organ of the vision
of the fish, found in great abundance
in Puget Sound. The catch of
sockeyes is always twice as large in-
auguration years as it is on the years
of presidential elections.

The ratio of

can remember, and as far back as
Indians traditions go. Next year a
rousing big catch is expected, and
the canners along the coast are mak-
ing their preparations accordingly.
Indeed, this phenomenon is so well
understood that it enters into the
calculations of dealers as well as
packers, and they manage, if possible,
to buy heavy reserve stocks in inaug-
uration years, when prices are low on
account of the supply, and hold them
over in storage until the lean years
bring higher figures. A few weeks
ago in Bellingham, where the big-
gest salmon cannery in the world is
to be found, I saw a mountain of
canned salmon which has been ac-
cumulating since Igor in the expecta-
tion that this would be a very lean
year, and prices are higher than ever
before. The crop of 1904 has been
largely oversold, and the stocks in

variation has  pre-|
vailed as long as the oldest inhabitants

| presidential election in the

 

the hands of the jobbers and whole-|
salers are pretty well exhausted al-|
ready.

I was not able to find anyone who}
could explain why the catch should |
be so very small on the year when |
Theodore Roosevelt and Alton B.|
Parker are running for President, and |
it may be a reflection upon them, but |
the packers feel worse about it than |
they do. :

The explanation of the lean and
fat years as given by the highest au-
thorities is as follows: All sockeye |
salmon go out into deep salt water |
when they are one year old, and re-
main at the bottom of the sea for,
three years. When they are four)
years old, by some instinct which na- |
ture has implanted, they return to
the river or the lake in which they
were born, to spawn, and then die. |
Salmon never spawn more than once
in their lives, they always spawn in|
fresh water, and when that function
is performed they commit suicide
with savage desperation. Their en-
tire nature changes. They seem bent
upon self-destruction, and after they
have laid their eggs they often throw
themselves out of the water upon)
the banks.

A theory, based upon these facts,
is that, generations ago, a_ great |
flood at the spawning period ofthe}
year filled the rivers and the lakes |
along the Pacific coast, and swept
the spawn which the fish had left out
into the ocean, so that very little of
it was hatched.

This took place as far back as In- |
dian traditions go, and the aborig- |

| ines, having learned this phenomenon

by experience, never set their nets on
the fourth anniversary of that great
tragedy. It so happened that the first |
United
States took place on one of these
lean years, and has followed the cycle
ever since. The year following, how- |
ever, which happens to be the same)
as that on which we inaugurate our
President, there is always an unus-
ually large run, which carries with
it the stragglers from the year be-
fore. This applies only to

certain |

kinds of salmon; those which run in
the summer months. The Steelhead,

| which is almost the same as the Ken-

nebeck salmon, and those are found
in the rivers of Canada East, run in
the winter and are not affected by
presidential elections. Nor is the royal
chinook or king salmon, which runs
in April; nor the cohoe or silver
salmon; nor the log salmon, which
runs in October and November.

There are five kinds of salmon, and
each has its own remarkable individ-
uality. The king, or chinook salmon
is the largest species, averaging
twenty-two pounds in weight, and of-
ten running as high as eighty pounds.
It is of a bright silver color, with
black spots on its back and tail when
it is young, but its color grows dull
as it gets older. The flesh is red,
firm and oily, and superior to that

| of any other salmon, but when the

fish is four years old it begins te turn
white, although the change in color
seems to make no difference with the
It spawns only in large rivers
fed by show, and gets as near to
their source as possible. In order to

flavor.

| do so it is compelled to start on its

y In the
Yukon of Alaska it runs nearly 3,000
miles to spawn at Caribou Crossing,
at the foot of Lake Bennet, where
every season hundreds of thousands

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27

 

of dead chinooks can be found lying

where they commited suicide upon the
banks. It also runs in large numbers
in all of the other Alaskan rivers, and
it follows the Columbia, the Saera-
mento and other southern rivets to
their sources in the mountains. An
average value of $2,000,000 of king
salmon is caught and canned on the
Columbia river every year, and $300,-
000 or $400,000 worth are shipped
frozen to market.

The red salmon or sockeye has a
very bright blue color on its sides and
back, and a silver belly when it is
young. Later it becomes a deep crim-
son and the head is a bright olive
green. At all times the flesh is a bril-
liant red, firmer and drier than that of
the king salmon, with almost as fine-a
flavor. The red salmon will average
about eight pounds in weight when it
is four years old. It never spawns
except in a river with a gravel bottom
just above where it flows into a lake.

Dr. Jordan says: “The red salmon
never runs in a river which does not
flow into a lake. The stream may be
large or small. Frazer river is more
than half a mile across, and the Boca
de Quadra stream one may _ step
across. It may be long or short. The
Yukon is nearly 3,000 miles long, and
the red salmon ascends to its lakes,
1,800 miles up stream. The Boca de
Quadra, noted for its red salmon,
flows out from its lake at a point
within ten rods of the sea. Large or

 

small, clear or turbid, a stream without |

a lake never carries red salmon. For
this reason, if not for others, it is un-

known in the Sacramento, and in the |
Ketchicam, Skaguay, Dyea and other | i
iseek fresh water they naturally fol-
|low the coast to the nearest stream,

streams of Alaska, which would other-
wise be available.”

Mr. Hunton, manager of the Pa- |
cific American Fisheries Company, at |
3ellingham, told me that the sockeyes |

in Puget Sound average about eight
pounds in weight. They travel from

twelve to fifteen miles a day, general- |

ly keeping close to the shore until they

find their parent river.
year like 1901 they sell, big or little,
for twelve cents each. Last year,

During a big |

which was a poor run, they were twen- |

ty-two cents.
been thirty cents apiece.

This summer they have |

The silver salmon is rather a poor |

fish, and sells at low prices. When
canned it is worth only about half as
much as the red salmon. The hump-
back is still cheaper, but is regarded
as a food for the poor who can not
afford the better grades, and is sold
largely in the Southern States among
the negroes, in Japan, China and other
countries of the East, in the mining
camps, to Indian traders and a consid-
erable quantity is shipped to Central
and South America. The humpback
salmon is -quite as nutritive as the
higher grades, but lacks the flavor.
Dr. Jordan says that the dog salmon
should not be canned at all, because
it will not keep, but large quantities
of it are put up by packers when
no other fish is running in order to
keep their plants in operation. The
wholesale price of dog salmon is $1.60
per case of forty-eight cans, although
it costs at least $2 to put up a case
of fish. The tins cost 65 cents, the
boxes II cents, the labels 5 cents, the

 

labor §2 cents, the freight 30 cents per
case of forty-eight cans, and other
charges accordingly.

The humpback salmon is worth
about $2 or $2.25 per case; the silver

salmon from $2.60 to $2.75; the red |

salmon from $3 to $4 and the chinook
from $3.50 to $5.50.

The hunchback salmon comes only
every other year, and nobody seems
to know why. It is a most ex-
traordinary fish. So long as it is
in salt water it is shapely and beau-
tiful, but as soon as it strikes fresh
water a hump begins to grow on its
back, and then from five to ten days
later, after it has cast its spawn, the
hump sloughs off and the fish dies.

Fishermen believe that salmon al- |

ways return to spawn and die at the
very place where they were born.
Scientists dispute this theory in detail,
but are willing to admit that it is gen-
erally true. Dr. Jordan, for example,
who, as I have told you, is the high-
est authority, says that nearly all
salmon return to the region and, gen-
erally speaking, to the same stream
in which they were spawned al-
though he declares that there is no
reason to believe that the fish are
aware of the fact. At the same time
he admits that this subject is much

in need of further investigation, and |

he is willing to change his opinion if
convincing evidence is presented.

He explains that the lives of the
salmon, between their first and fourth
years, are spent in deep sea water, but
they seldom get more than thirty or
forty miles from the mouth of the
stream in which they were spawned.
When it

and the chances are that they will
find the one in which they happened
tc be hatched. “Undoubtedly,” Dr.
Jordan says, “many salmon ascend

or try to ascend streams in which no |
In little |
brooks about Puget Sound, where the |
water is not three inches deep, are}
often found dead and dying salmon |
which have entered them for the pur- |

salmon was ever hatched.

pose of spawning. It is said of the
Russian river and other Californian
rivers that their mouths in the time
of low water in summer generally be-
come entirely closed by sand bars
and that the salmon, in their eag r-
ness to ascend them frequently fling
themselves entirely out of the water
on the beach. But this does not
prove that the salmon are guided
by a marvelous geographical instinct

which leads them to their parent]

river in spite of the fact that the
river can not be found. The waters
of Russian river soak through the
sand bars. The instinct of the sal-
mon, I think, merely leads them to
search for fresh waters.”—William E.
Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald.
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He has invested a portion of his
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He had completed a course in
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I saw where his methods could be
improved upon I made a mental note
While always striving to do
my own work in the best manner pos-
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the methods of the man above. When
that man was moved up a notch and
‘the old man’ asked me if I thought
I could fill that place, I was able to
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

GETTING STARTED.

Some Difficulties Encountered by the
Young Physician.

 

I am a doctor of medicine.
born on a farm, reared on a farm and

it was from a country schoolhouse |
at a crossroads that I started out, |

practically penniless, for the acquire-
ment of a_ higher education
should be the basis of a medical train-
ing.

Well, I am regarded as a fairly suc-
cessful general practitioner, but I will

say that, as compared to becoming |

the fairly successful practitioner that

I am, counting only from the receipt |

of my diploma in full from the medi-
cal college, all the other hardships
and heartaches, footsoreness and

weariness leading up the educational |
hill to that diploma are dwarfed until |
the path of education lies white and |
smooth beside the miry way of a/}|

young doctor’s experiences.

I am not a “sorehead,” to use a
slang expression. There are a hun-
dred others in this great city who
will echo all I shall say in this auto-
biography of experiences. But what
shall they do? What shall I do?

I might go far enough to say that
the medical college falls short of pre-

paring the young graduate for the|

rough school of experience into which

he is tumbled without preparation and |

without suspicion of the necessity of
self-defense.

he must go towards success.

Ethics, of course, is one of the|

great preachments of the medical
school, but it is the ethics of the stu-
dent-doctor toward the established

practitioners, with nothing of word|
or warning regarding the ethics of |
the older doctor toward the new prac- |

titioner. No mention is made of this, |
perhaps, because there is no such:}

code in reality.

in the smaller centers of population.

On one occasion when a dollar was |
phenomenally large to me I received |

an emergency call while I was out of
my home office.

an hour and responded to the call, |
administering to the needs of the pa-|
tient, giving him far more time than |

I would give such a case to-day, and

leaving him resting easily. I had been |

told that I was so long coming that
a call had been sent in for another
doctor in the neighborhood, but that
he, too, had not come.

This physician had an established |

practice in the neighborhood where
I was then struggling for existence. |
met him on the stairs of the flat
building as I went down.
ed markedly as he bowed and started
to pass me.

“T have just been to see Mr. Blank,”
I said, in explanation; “they said they
had called me first and I seem to have
beaten you.”

He scarcely grunted as he went on
up the stairs as if I had not spoken.
“Ethics,” as I had been taught, re-
quired him to acknowledge my ex-
planation in a civil manner, to go on
upstairs and make his explanation,
then to leave and distinctly not to

I was |

that |

In a measure he is dis- |
‘ . .

armed for the overwhelming ethical |

dragons that line the road up which |

And if there is none }
in the city, there is aggressively none

I returned within |

He scowl- |

|

/send in a bill for services. In stead,
|

| however, my telephone rang an hour
|later and a woman’s voice informed
| me that she was Mrs. Blank.

“You needn’t come any more, Doc-

|tor; Dr. Boneset has the case.”

Presumably he got all the fees; I
|remember that mine was never paid!

In such a case as this the ethics of
the profession might easily be laid
aside and the commonest interpreta-
tion of the word charity still suffice.
The youth, inexperience and newness
to his environment are hardships
enough on the struggling young phy-
sician without the “ethics” of the pro-
| fession becoming a weapon toward his
undoing.

I was still new to the business of
| administering to the ailing when I
was called in to see a young girl
| suffering from a case of St. Vitus’
dance that was not at all _ typical.
Perhaps I showed the lingering doubt
I felt at the first call, but I looked
up every authority possible and con-
sulted my physician friends, and al-
together worried and spent time and
nursing on the little patient. The
father showed some signs of dissatis-
faction, and I called in a physician
|in consultation, who backed up my
judgment and my treatment in every
I paid the fee for the consulta-

| way.
tion.

But I found that a meddlesome
neighbor was at the bottom of the
dissatisfaction. She had diagnosed
the trouble as spinal meningitis, and
she wanted her doctor called in on
|the case. They called him in after
|awhile, too, after I had made half a
| dozen more trips to the little sufferer.
Perhaps he took his cue as to the
disease from this neighbor friend.
Certainly he did not observe that
ethical principle which would have
| forbidden his seeing the case without
my presence at the bedside.

| At any rate, he was _ established
| physician, and in his opinion the child
had spinal meningitis. He shaved the
back of the child’s head, applied Span-
ish flies, blistering the back of her
head and causing the skin to puff
with water, This water, as I learned
from the father, was pointed out as
having come from the child’s brain
| in proof of the meningitis theory. The
child died, and I begged the father
to allow an autopsy, but he refused.

My point in this case is that if the
attending physician had had the least
| medical knowledge he knew at the
time he was called in that it was a
But he took the case
from a struggling young fellow who
had nursed it along in an intelligent
way, according to the best authorities,
| knowing that he took it in an unrec-
ognized way from one who needed
|the money for the wants of his fami-
ly. He took it in such completeness,
too, that I never got a dollar for all
the work I had done.

It does not require a professional
sense of the fitness of things to rec-
ognize that in such an experience as
this the young practitioner, educated
to a thorough appreciation of all he
owes to the profession that is estab-
lished, gets a supreme shock in feel-

| case of chorea.

 

 

ing how little the established pro-
fession seems to owe him.

Another of my early shocks and
surprises came to me in a case of a
man who developed cancer of the
liver. Soon after I was called in he
contracted a severe case of pneumo-
nia. Between the two diseases I saw
there was no hope for him. As I
had entered the profession determin-
ed to practice it as honestly as I had

was no hope; that death was a mere
matter of time—that at the best I
could serve only in making his last
hours less painful than they other-
wise might be.

The result was that in an hour I
received a call at the telephone, tell-
ing me that I need not come any
more—that a new doctor had been
called in. Afterward I had occasion
to enquire under what conditions the
new physician had taken the case. I
was told that he had held out several
kinds of hope to the family, although
expressing fears for the reason that
he had not been called in sooner;
there was no cancer of the liver in
his diagnosis, though, as I had made
prognosis, the man died within a
week.

Will the lay public consider for a
moment just what this attitude of “if
you had only called me in sooner”
means to all concerned? In the first
place it is a cover for the man using
the phraseology; he may hide behind
it if the worst is realized, and he
may bask in its light if by any means
the patient recovers. For the physi-

lived, always, I told the wife there |

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cian from whom he has taken the

case, however, there is only undoing |
as far as that family and its circle of |

acquaintanceship extends; at the best
the new physician has been called in
just in the nick of time, while
worst the same practitioner has made
it impossible for the
to save the patient.

new

This particular family is still re-
siding in my immediate
hood; the doctor who replaced me
on that occasion is the family physi-
cian, and—well, the reader may im-
agine just what my honesty cost me
on that one occasion.
jt was m this one case that |
learned my first lesson regarding di-
agnosis and prognosis. It will not do
to diagnose a case and make the prog-
nosis of its hopelessness and its fatal
ending; if a doctor in his honesty does
this the family or the friends at once
call in another physician. If one will

not hold out this hope that is wanted |

another and another doctor is called
in until some one does so. Then the
honest physician beholds the result
of his scruples.

The least worthy of all the physi-
cians called in has taken the case,
fortifying himself behind the fact
that he has been called in late in the
course of the disease, and more than
secure when it has terminated fatal-
ly, as he knew it would in the begin-
ning. The question here for the hon-
est doctor is:

Why should I make prognosis that
unfavorable in order that I

iS may

distress the family and cause them to |

discard me for some other physician
not nearly so conscientious? Will the
layman attempt an answer?

Another phase of the same proposi-
tion confronted me not long ago. A
woman came to see
once that she was hypochondriacal,
and aiter examination as to het
symptoms I told her that she had |
nothing the matter with her, as she
supposed.

The net results?
her for life and I do not know where
and when and how her influence may
not arise to my undoing.
time a friend of mine

me. 1 saw

told me_ the

other day that she is coming to his |
“ |
office twice a week for treatment and |

at the |

physician |

neighbor-

at |

At the same |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

i at a first or second or third
| visit may determine which is which.
But would the physician dare tell his
patient’s household? Or after the
|disease has manifested itself, could

the physician afford to say to his pa-

| tient that in all medical research there

is not more than a mere experimental
specific that particular trouble?
It is a well established family physi-

for

| he recognized my face, I saw he did
| not recall my trouble.

I waited until

| he virtually confessed the fact, then I

told him. “Ehat pam m my leit
shoulder is still there, doctor.’ ‘Oh,
well,’ he said, ‘we’ll fix that in no
time,’ and he dashed off a prescrip-
j tion. IT paid my $2, tore the prescrip-
tion up outside the door, and have
{never been near him since.”

Without color and without

| dice the young physician takes up his

; troubles when he leaves school with

cian in a level headed family who!
can answer the question: “What is
the matter?” with even the guarded,
‘lL am mot sure;’ and as to the
| Other possibility, I can imagine two |
‘or three such possible confessions

serving to plant a new family physi- |

cian in that particular household, bul-
warked there under the conditions
that he know all things and have all
specifics therefor at the point of his
pen.

The young physician, taking hold
of this unexpected world of fact,
where theories of all kinds have giv-
en place to conditions, is open to a
change of front from that strict sense
of honesty that otherwise might have
been a life influence.

I have in mind a successful physi-
cian according to the full measure of
Notoriously he keeps
no record, of his patients’ ailments.
His long list of patients makes the

the profession.

time of each short in his office; he
gives them a moment, dashes off a
frescription, and turns one out to

'be replaced in a moment by another.
So far as I know only one person has
sounded his methods. She is a wom-
an and a patient of mine.

“T had been going to him for dys-
| pepsia treatment,” she told me. “The
‘second time I called I had an impres-
sion that he did not even recognize
ime. Time and again J went, at $2 a
visit, feeling that I was slighted each

itime. One day I called, and, while

It has cost him
deal of money in preparation for prac-

his diploma. a great
He must
to settle
wherever this

tice and he has no practice.
fix upon a field in which

down, however, and

;may be he will feel the presence of

| of him

|other’s calling,

 

the older practitioners who are ahead

His own academic knowledge
“ethics of the
One of these ele-
mentary observances is that two phy-

the profession” is

fresh in memory.

ot

sicians, meeting and recognizing each
at the least shall share

the courtesies of a “Good morning.”

I wonder how many young physi-
cians of a year’s experience have
numbered half a dozen smiles from

as many established physicians in all
that time?

Whatever this young man entering
the in
physical privation will be
his sufferings because profes- |
ethics.” His of the
ethical always will outweigh his sac-
rifice of the material
a skin supplied by a nature immeas-
urably kinder than is his profession.

I know for I have been both hurt
and hungry in my time.

medical practice may suffer
discounted
of

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ies harbors some industry that is pe-
culiarly its own, and while the sale
of this product is limited, it is sought
after by those who colonize in these
sections. As the Italian quarter has
its spaghetti makers, the German
their eier rudeln shops, and the Sy-
rians their pastry and candy produc-
ers, so the Yiddish have the cigar-
ette and artificial flower makers, who
are adepts at their various callings.
Often these girls earn higher wages
than the American born workers, who
are not so quick to learn the trades
nor such rapid workers once they
have been mastered.

 

In the cigarette factories of the
east side of New York the greater
part of the workers are Yiddish and
Russian Jews, who speak but little)
English, some of them none, but who |
are capable of earning the |
wages of a saleswoman in a depart-
ment store, and who are rapid and |
skillful workers in the art of cigar-|
ette making. They toil from 7:30 un-
til 12, and from 12:30 until 5:30 every |
day but Saturday and Sunday. The
orthodox Jew will not work on the
Sabbath—that is, the calendar Satur- |
day—and as the shop is shut down |
no work is done on Sunday, making |
but five working days in each week. |

twice

The expert worker will earn from
$9 to $15 a week making the cigar-
ettes, and as the work is counted by
the piece it rests with the operator
what her wages shall be at the end}
of the week. Few of them earn less
than $9 and most of them make more
than $12. And on this they fairly
bloom on Saturdays and Sundays, |
their holidays from work, for the cig-
arette maker is a lover of fine plum-
age, and a large part of her money
goes for that.

The tobacco from which the cigar-
ettes are made is imported from Tur-
key in canvas wrappers or bales.
These bales are tightly packed and
drawn together with strings. They
range from 50 to 100 pounds each,
and the leaves are small and of

a
light yellowish brown -color. The
first operation is the sorting and
stripping of the leaves. The stems
are removed and the thin leaf is
thrown on a pile. From this, after

curing and treating, handfuls are tak-
en and fed into the shredder cross-
wise, so that the long strings of to-
bacco can be prepared for the cigar-

ette.

These leaves are dry and would |
break in small fragments if passed |
through the machine in this state, so |
they are treated and moistened before |
being cut.

 

|
Each bale will produce a heaping
basketful of cut tobacco. This is then |

| the finishers, who slip them into

|the union gets

covered with cloths until called upon
by the weigher.

On the floor with the cigarette mak-
ers there is a large metal lined bin,
dustproof, and away from the mov-
ing throng of workers, wherein sev-
eral hundred pounds of finely cut to-
bacco is kept. From this bin the
weigher deals out from three to five
pounds to each girl as she presents
her empty tin box and record ticket
to be filled. About four pounds is
the average quantity dealt out at one
time, and the boxes are filled twice
a day, one lot making an average of
800 to 1,000 cigarettes.

The girls work at tables divided off
into compartments and some of
them are so dexterous that one can
barely follow their movements’ with
the eye. They do not make the wrap-
pers; that is a separate business by
itself, and the factory can buy the tis-
sue slips or tubes cheaper than they
can be made by hand.

As each girl works away filling the
wrappers a_ collector going the
rounds picking up the cigarettes and
giving each one credit for the num-
ber she has made. This is charged
up against the weight of tobacco and

is

| number of wrappers she has had, and

in this manner a check is put upon the
goods, otherwise there would be
shortages that could not be explained;
at least, the girls would fail to ex-
plain, and they and others would reap
the benefits.

It keeps the weigher busy in a fac-
tory where a hundred girls are at

| work, and between weighing timesa
| vigilant eye is kept on the several de-
partments through which the cigar-

ettes pass.

After the covers are filled the par-|

tially complete cigarettes are taken to
the
mouthpiece. This work is done rap-
idly and skillfully by men who roll a
small piece of cotton within a strip
of paper and slip the small tube into
one of the covers. The cotton is em-
ployed to filter the smoke, so that no
particles of tobacco or dust can be

| drawn into the mouth.

The cigarettes then pass in bulk
to the sorters and packers, located in
a separate room, and here the small
box packing is done. Here the Amer-
ican born girl is employed. She finds
the task easy, and she gets $6 per
week for her work, and is not de-
pendent on piece work, but she, as
well as the cigarette maker, is a mem-
ber of the union.

If she is smart she can pack 25,000
cigarettes a day, but if she falls be-

low 18,000 to 20,000 she loses’ her
place and another girl fills it. for
there are ready and willing hands

awaiting all vacancies in these over-
crowded lines of industry where
bor seeks capital continually.
From the packers the boxes are
taken to the label paster, and here
its advertising, for
every box has to be decorated with a
union label, pasted on by a union
member, and finally inspected by a
union worker before the small boxes
are placed in the large ones that hold
50 and Ioo each. One or two girls
can label all the boxes packed in
day, where the working

la-

a

force is

 

about 100, and for this they get $5 a
week.

Each box must bear a_ revenue
stamp also, and a boy is kept busy
sticking these little coupons, repre-
senting Uncle Sam’s part of the prof-
its, on this article of luxury or neces-
sity, of which hundreds and hundreds
of millions are used.

And why do the makers of cigar-
ettes prefer hand to machine |.bor?
Simply because it is less expensive,
there is no risk from possible de-
rangement of machines, no cost for
power and no rental or first expense
of machine Or, as one maker put
it, with a shrug of shoulders and an
elevation of hands, palms up: “Be-
cause it costs us cheaper.”

Nicholas Munster.
—_—_~+-.

His Ideals Too Low.

Out at the stockyards in Chicago
there is a quiet, soft-voiced little Ger-
man, August Vandernack, who _ re-
gards the world through kind blue

eyes and who frankly tells the reason |

for his being a failure in life. He
is running well up toward the three-
score and ten in years and his posi-
tion now consists of catching
at night in one of the large packing
plants. The age of opportunity has
passed by him and brought him noth-
He says he never earned over
$60 a month in his life.

“Why didn’t I make $1,000,000 be-
fore I got too old?” he _ repeats.
“Well, that’s pretty hard to answer,
but the reason I never got to be at

ing.

all well -off or never held a high po- |

rats |

ed in life with the intention of getting
them. I didn’t start with high ideals.
I was satisfied with poor pay and
poor positions. I didn’t think of ris-
ing when I was young. Now it is
too late. My advice to a young man
would be to start with the idea of
some day surely becoming a rich or
a great man. Ambition should be his
motto. It never was mine. I went
through life with never a hope for
big things, and I never got them. The
fact is, I never tried for them, so I
don’t deserve them.”

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

RESPECT FOR THE LAW.

 

It Furnishes the Highest Proof of
Patriotism.

As a branch of social science law

has been a most potent factor in pro- |

moting human welfare. Ever since
the first promulgation of the princi-
ples which lie at the foundation of
the system of jurisprudence which the
people of this country and of England
are enjoying to-day it has in large
measure determined the growth of
other branches of social science. It
is through social relations in their
larger sense that human advancement
has been made possible, and it is law
which makes possible permanent so-
cial relations. The best thought and
the best effort of modern civilization
have been devoted to its development
and in the direction of ite perfection
For eight centuries of
growth the sages of the bench and
wise legislators, with keen
tion of private right and distributive
justice, have given the best of their
lives to its And yet
there are well meaning people who
profess a contempt for the law, and,
on an occasional miscarriage of jus-
tice in its administration, are quick
to denounce it as utterly inadequate
to effectuate justice between man and
man. They lose sight of the fact that

continuous

construction.

we live in security of rights of per- |”

son and property because there is
law; that because of its stable and

beneficent principles and a general be-

lief that when violated those princi- |

ples will be vindicated we are permit-
ted to enjoy the fruits of our labors.
They forget that the rules of conduct
prescribed by law are recognized and

observed every day by men in their |

relations with one another and that |
as compared with such observance
a violation is of rare occurrence. |

Should they take time to enquire they |
would learn also that, where the ma- |

chinery of the law is called into
requisition to vindicate invaded rights,
the case of miscarriage is exceptional.
They do not stop to consider the
dire consequences’ to that
would follow an abolition or total
_disregard of the rules of law which

is now so

society

constantly, universally

and involuntariiy recognized by men. |

another class of people
who profess to recognize the rules
of law as right and proper, but who
consciously violate them. The viola-
tions are usually those which affect
property rights. They are prompt-

ed by personal greed and are by no

There is

means confined to acts of larceny and |
kindred offenses known to the crimin- |
for |

al code. Unlawful combinations

the purpose of destroying competi- |
tion, unlicensed encroachments upon |
and |

the property of others, reckless

extravagant management of corpor-|

ate property for the purpose of in-

concep- |

31

 

| excepting violence and intimidation,

their acts are about as reprehensible
|as those of the footpad. They are

;men who own and control vast prop-|

|erty interests; and when they com-|
that |
| they can not get justice in the courts |

plain, as they frequently do,

| because of the prejudice of juries they |
|ought to be told that they are the|
| ones who, in large measure, have bred |

| that prejudice in the jury.
There is who

no respect whatever for the law as it

another class

now exists and who refuse to recog-
nize its rules as just and proper, so
far, at least, as they relate to proper-
ty rights. Confiscation is their chief

jtenet. Fortunately their number is
| small, and because of that and the
| me .

|abhorrent character of the doctrine

taught, their
lumited. I do not
alarm of those prognos-
the
vote of one of the smaller parties in

masses is
| share in the
| ticators

eral

who see, in increase oi

That mm
more to dissatisfac-

tion with the nominee of one of the

dency toward anarchism.

crease was due
greater parties than to an increase in

anarchic sentiment. No such danger

;number of the laboring masses will

are patriotic and law abiding.
fully realize that their welfare

They
de-

 

| pends upon the preservation of prop- |
erty and that its destruction will bring |
While they |
will at all times vigorously insist up- |
on a fair share of the profits resulting |
from the joint operation of capital |
will |

to them want and ruin.

the vast majority

which

and labor,

stand for the law

have

influence upon the gen-|

confronts us as that any considerable |

“he great mass of American laborers |

the recent election, discontent in the |
laboring masses and a growing ten- |

| become anarchists or even socialists. |

Preserves |

| capital for the enjoyment of its own- |

ers.

I have mentioned the three princi- |
pal classes who, aside from the real |

| criminal, are lacking in respect for the}

| law.

They include the reformer, who |
| believes the present arder of things |

lis all wrong and thinks that the prop- |

| ° . - |
ler way to bring humanity to an ideal |

lexistence is to clear away existing |

| dence on the lines of his fertile imag-
|ination; the “property grabber,” who,
| while he professedly stands for the
| law, consciously violates the princi-
ples ef right and justice which lie at
its foundation; and_ the
ianarchist, who stands in defiance of
all existing law and government. As

p-ofessed

| compared with those who have high

respect for the law and veneration

for its principles their numbers are
small. Fortunate, indeed, it is so
The recognition which the great mass
of the common people in their daily
intercourse constantly and involun-

tarily give to the law and its exi t-

 

ling institutions is the safeguard of |

viting mortgage foreclosures and se- |

curing the appointment of receivers,
corrupt acts of boards of directors un-
der the dictation of large stockhold-

ers for the purpose of squeezing out |

small holders are violations of  fre-
quent occurrence in this day of|
strenuous commercialism. These men |
do not belong to what is popularly |
designated as the criminal class, but, |

social peace.
ity are necessary conditions to human
advancement.

If times of peace the ordinary citi- |

zen can furnish no higher proof of

| patriotism nor do more for the ad-
|vancement and happiness of humani-

ty than by teaching, by precept and
example, high respect for the law.

Oliver A.. Harker.

Social peace and secur- |

|

|
|

|

. . - . . |
institutions and construct a jurispru- |

  

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Occasionally a manufacturer will say that he uses
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all sheet glass is affected with waves to some degree.

We use extra thick glass without a
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in the “buy today, regret tomorrow” kind.

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not a make-believe.

Ask for more information.

 

 

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32

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

Sa TT RT EET

 

 

OUT OF WORK.

Experience of a Western Man in the
Chilly East.

“T had had a good place in a West-
ern city, but the concern for which
I worked was consolidated with an-
other, and I was thrown out. I had
a friend who continually had been
telling me that it was much easier
to get a place in New York than in
the West, so when I was numbered
with the unemployed I concluded to
go over to Gotham and see what I
could do.

“T had saved up some money, was
in need of a little rest, and I thought
I would take things easy for a few
days, thinking from what my friend
told me that all I would have todo
was to go out and pick a job off a
bush.
ited train, went over the mountains

in style, and stopped at a fine hotel. |

I loafed around for a week without
making any effort to get a_ place,

thinking that it would be an easy)
When I found that my funds |
were getting low I then went about |

matter.

the work that had taken me away
from my native city.

cessful, but even then
unduly concerned.
cheaper lodging place, and finally set-
tled in a room in the residence dis-

I was

trict, paying $4 down for the use of}

the room for two weeks. Then I
started back to the hotel to get my
luggage out of the hotel. On my
way a stranger caught up with me,
and soon we were talking with each
other like old friends. All at once
a blue coat hove in sight and swoop-
ed down on the man that had been
walking along with me. He was a
confidence lad. He was taken in,
and I was arrested as an accomplice.
I did not have a friend in the big
city, and, despite my protestations of
innocence, I was railroaded through

an alleged court. The other man
was given ninety days and I got)
thirty to Blackwell’s Island. My)

new made friend managed to say to |

me that I was lucky.

“T had no other alternative than to}
Finally I was|
released and set out to get the lug-|

serve out my time.

gage that I had left in the hotel. The
check man wouldn’t believe I
the owner, said that I had stolen the
checks, but when I described the

contents of the grips he turned them |

over to me. I was now
friends and without money. In
urgency of the circumstances I con-
cluded to go to the woman whom
I had paid $4 for the room, but when
I reached the house she pitched on
to me in an awful rage.
asked her if she wouldn’t- refund the

money, not having used the room, she |

was furious, saying that I had al-

ready kept her out of renting it for |

a month. Of course, I couldn’t tell
her why I had not kept my part of
the agreement. Finally I was forced
to make tracks out of the place. Then
I began trying to get work. There
wasn’t a thing to be had. I ‘soaked’
everything I could spare to get
enough to eat.

“One night when I was putting up
in a cheap lodging house I happened

I bought a ticket on a lim-|

I was unsuc- |
not |
I looked up a!

was |

without |
the |

When I}

to think of an aunt of mine who lived
in Philadelphia. I believed that ifI
went to her she would stake me. |
got it into my head that if I could
show her that I was not the only
one who had suffered hardships she
would be more apt to help me out.
There was another fellow in’ the
house who was as bad off as I was,
although he had not had the same
experience. I laid my plan before
him. We would tramp to Philadel-
phia, hunt up my relation, and put
up a good story for aid. When we
reached the Quaker City, after having
tramped, slept out, begging our way
from town to town, we were the
worst looking pair that ever counted
ties. When we finally found the
| house of my aunt the windows were
| boarded up and I learned that the
|eccupants had been away for some
|'months, but soon were expected
back. We laid around waiting forher
|arrival. When she came she took
|enough stock in my story to give us
baths and a square meal. By that
time our clothes were an awful sight.
My aunt went up into the attic hop-
ing to fit us out in some kind of a
rig that would make us presentable.
My aunt gave me a pair of lavender
pantaloons, a white vest and a Prince
Albert coat. She also fished out a
pair of tan shoes and a silk hat.
When I hitched up the trousers they
|were above the tops of the tan shoes.
When I. let them down there were
two inches of space between the
trousers and the vest. The only way

 

 

I could do was to keep my Prince |

Albert coat buttoned up close to my
neck.

“The outfit of the other man was
'scarcely less unique. I have neglect-
ed to say that when my aunt turned
us out of doors she gave each of us
a $5 bill. With this money we rented
'a room and then started out to find

a job. Just thing of it, we actually |

had the face to ask for employment
while dressed in a raiment that was
'truly wonderful.

“At one time I believed that I had
struck something that would tide me
over for a spell. I went into a cloth-
ing shop and asked for a job as
floor man. The man eyed me from
head to foot and finally told me to
come back on Saturday, when he
would give me a trial. I went away
tipping my silk tile to him. Satur-
| day morning I started to hunt up the
place. While crossing a street a
scavenger ran into me with his push
cart. I lost my balance, fell into his
| cart, and my silk hat went whirling
‘along the street. It landed on the
| car track and was promptly run over

| by a train of cars.
|

“T mangaed to fix myself up and
|then spent the last penny I had on
earth in something to wear on my
| head. It was a small gray cap. When
‘the Jew clothier beheld me coming
| into his door he stood aghast. Final-
ily, when he was sure he knew who
'I was, he came up to me and told
'me he knew I was a hobo the first
‘time he had set eyes on me, and
| ordered me out of the building.

was going along the
| Street, a passerby stopped and looked

|

| “While I

 

back at me. Then he came up_ to
me, offered his hand, and said: ‘Hel-
lo, Banks; what on earth. are you
doing here in that rig?’ I told him
all that I dared. He asked me to
take a drop with him, and I did.
Then he looked me over and asked
me if I wanted a job. You may im-
agine that my heart jumped up into
my throat. Then he offered me a
dollar a day to carry about the town
an advertisement for a corn salve.
Then he added that I would have
to carry a grip that would be lettered
with the salve advertisement. I told
him that if I had to carry a grip it
would be worth $1.50 a day, and he
said he would pay it.

“I hunted up my partner, who had
joined his fortunes with mine in
New York. He got a chance at the
same thing. We walked the streets,
saving all of the money we could.
Finally, I was offered a commission
to sell the stuff, and I added to my
income considerably.

I had left the West. Carrying a con-
trivance that made a walking adver-
tisement out of myself, I worked
away until I had a ticket for my home
city in my pocket, and a small wad
of cash besides.

“To-day I am as well dressed as
any man in the place, and the first
man that tells me that it is dead
easy to get a job in New York will
get it straight between the eyes as
hard as I am able to drive it, and I
have been having three square meals
a day for six weeks.” J. L. Graff.

 

I worked on}
and on, sticking to the only thing |
that had brought me a red cent since |

 

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Direct and Indirect Result of Leppy’s
Christmas Carol.
God rest ye, merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.

It was the voice of Leppy Sanders,
errand boy for Hardman & Son, who
was practicing a carol for the choir
boys’ Christmas festival at St. Luke’s.
Leppy had the sweetest of voices, the
most restless of bodies and the most
freckled of faces. The first had won

him a place in St. Luke’s vested choir; |
the second had kept him from learn- |
ing his carol until he was in danger |
of being discharged by the long-stf- |
fering choir master; and the third had |

won him the name of Leppy, which
is the diminutive of “Leopard,’ and
was given him by his friends because
of the spots which he could not
change—those enduring freckles.

i |
As he opened the door of Hardman |

“God Rest
the sense of

& Son’s. office, and sang,
Ye, Merry Gentlemen,”
humor which sometimes accompanies
freckles brought a whimsical look to

his face, for the idea of calling Hard- |
was |

man & Son “merry gentlemen”
distinetly incongrtious.

Hardman sat at his desk looking |

his name to the last letter; and Son
Sat at his looking about
merry as anxiety and hidden terror
usually make a man look.

desk as

Hardman was rubbing his eyes and
saying to himself, “To be blind—
blind! To be shut in darkness, and
one’s life work not half done.
never Get the cotiragce tO see ar octu-
list and hear that doom pronounced.”

Son, at his desk, was looking fixed-
ly out of the window, and saying to
himself, “To be dishonored! To have
gotten the firm’s affairs into such a
muddle that there’s no clear way out
throw myself on father’s
mercy, and I shall never get the cour-
age to tell him.”

unless T

“Tet nothing you dismay,’ sang
happy Leppy, stumbling on, boy fash-
ion, toward the rear office.
Hardman ‘suddenly looked up, and
with tnusual interest in his voice, said:
“Come back here, Leppy. Can you

sing the whole of that?
“Don’ know if I can, Mr. Hardman,

but I’m tryin’ to get it, ’cause if I|

don’t have it straight by to-night, I'll
be discharged from the choir.
last rehearsal, you see.
to get bounced, because I get a quar-
ter a week, and that helps out.”

“Well, ’ll give you a quarter now

if you'll sing it through for me. I

used to sing that thing myself when IT}

was a kid, and—”
Hardman _ had
and seemed to have forgotten

stopped

about Leppy, who hardly knew what |
to do, until Son nodded to him, and |

said kindly,
“Sing it, Lep, if you can.”

Then Leppy began, and—marvel of |

marvels—he sang it perfectly from
beginning to end. What would the

choir master have said if he could |

have heard it?
pressed with his

Leppy was much im-
achievement,

when he stopped, his look of mingled |

pride and astonishment would have
been funny, if there had been any-
body to see it. But Hardman’s eyes

were hidden by his hand, and Son

I shall |

It’s the |
I don’t want |

speaking, |

all |

and |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

l

| «
| was staring out of the window harder
| than ever.

|

| Hardman partially roused himself,
}and handed the boy a silver dol-
| lar, then turned back to his desk with-
| out a word.

“Shall—shall I get it changed, Mr.
| Hardman?*

There was no answer from Hard-
man, and Son, coming once more to
the rescue, said:

“No, Leppy—it’s all right. Run
| along.”
“Gee!” exclaimed the boy. And

| then, without thinking to say “thank
| you,” so appalled was he by this sud-
| den affluence—he went out of the of-

| fice, and soon his silvery tones could

| be heard echoing down the wide hall:
| God rest ye, merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Son rose suddenly from his chair,
and, laying his hand on Hardman’s

shoulder, “Father,” he said, “I have
something to tell you.”
“Son,” said Hardman, unsteadily

but bravely, “I have something to tell
| you.”

It doesn’t matter who began first,
or how much each one hesitated and
out of the witidow to hide
‘the embarrassment of a man’s confi-
dence to a man. At last, both stories
were told, and when
Hardman & Son started out to lunch
together, they looked several de-
grees more like “merry gentlemen”
than they had two hours before.

Hardman was. saying, “We'll
straighten that out in a week’s time,
|Son. You did right to tell me now.
And in the meantime—”

| looked

somehow,

“In the meantime, Dad, we'll see
that oculist together, and I

your sight can be saved.”

know
And so it was—not only the physi-
cal sight but that finer sense which
see the struggles of those
love, and understand help
them. At that moment
‘only the hope of this in Hardman’s
eyes, but that was enough to make
the world already brighter, and when
they encountered Leppy near the
street door, Hardman said: “Oh, by
the way, Leppy, I forgot to give you
and to the

makes us
and
there

we
was

that quarter—here it is,”
| boy’s astonishment, another silver
coin was slipped into his hand.

Son smiled broadly, and said: “It’s
‘all right, Leppy, and here’s another,
| for Christmas.”

This time, Leppy fairly choked with
amazement; but he
away, he found voice to trill
again, in a veritable paean of joy:

God rest ye, merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
| And nothing did dismay them!
Myrtle Koon Cherryman.
——_+- >
Two Kinds of Salesmen.

Every one who has had occasion
to buy knows the difficulty experi-
enced at times in procuring certain
Of the thousands of sales-
men in New York how many are
there who owe their advancement
to the keen observation that they dis-
| play in detecting the simple or the
| dificult wants of customers and in
| supplying them!

This is a matter thought less of in

scampered
out

as

articles.

purchasers, than in another
trade is not so extensive and where
buyers are on terms of acquaintance
with merchants, whom
season after season with their patron-
age.

The opinion that New York has a
floating population and that regular
residents not deal at the
place twice is well grounded among
salesmen. Some are very careless. A

do same

conversation between two of them is
related for illustration. It took place
immediately to the
parture of an unsuited customer, who

subsequent de-

had been treated not any too polite-
ly by a salesman.

“Why do you drive away custom
like that?” asked a fellow-clerk, half

this great city, with its thousands of |
where |

they favor |

33

in jest.

“Oh, look at them!” replied the
first, “the store is crowded uncom-
fortably now.”

“Blank & Co.” have a large patron-
age, but the listener wondered how
long it would require to thin out even
such a daily crowd of patrons if five
were offended every day and went
elsewhere to return no more.

The successful salesman is he who
wants to get and retain all the trade
By that means he
is certain to create a better position
for himself.

oo

for his employer.

How rich are they who are out
looking for advice!
2-2
Many a green parrot can converse

a blue streak.

 

 

 

To Everybody

A Merry Christmas and
A Prosperous New Year

May you live as long as you want and never want as
long as you live.

Putnam Candy Factory

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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Distinguished by Goodness

 

 

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Comparison proves all we claim

Chocolates
Caramels

 

 

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STRAUB BROS. & AMIOTTE
Traverse City, Mich.

 

 

 

Our Assorted Chocolates

Put up in very attractive boxes in ¥,
1 and 2 pound sizes you will find to
be one of your best se lers. We have
been very busy working nights on the
holiday rush for our fine candies, but
are still prepared to fill all orders
quickly, large or small.

HANSELMAN CANDY CO.

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Right Kind of Shoes to Buy.

Most people understand little about
buying shoes and stockings that are
suitable to their feet.
lected primarily for its appearance
and tried on with the hope that it
will fit.

A shoe is se-

Sometimes it does fit, but oftener
it is absolutely unsuited to the foot.
This is in no way the fault of
person who sells it, but rather due
to inability on the part of the purchas-
er to know her particular needs.

the

The shape of one’s foot should be

 

ithan the very high.

studied carefully and attention given |

to the sort of shoe that is found to}

be most comfortable. While it is
true that every one’s feet are different
from every one else’s, there is enough
general resemblance in feet to make

| safely stated that injury from

it possible to find ready made shoes |

which are both comfortable and smart | i
ilatter the harm done is deep seated,

looking, if one can not afford to have
shoes made to order.

Shoes made to. order
more or less of a fad.

happens is that the shoemaker takes

a careful measurement, which is turn- |

ed over to his workmen, who proceed
to make up a stock shoe on the last
that most nearly accords with the
measurements taken.

The customer comes to try onthe

 

To insure a perfect support for this
arch one should be certain that there
is no extra fulness in the leather be-
tween it and the heel. Just in that
spot the shoe must fit most snugly,
and it is here that is the test of wheth-
er a shoe fits or not.

Only a narrow shank will give this
desired close fit at this spot, and
whether one prefers a high or a low
heel it is the most important thing
in buying a shoe to be sure that the
shank is narrow enough.

A moderate military heel is to be
preferred to either the very low or
the extremely high. It is more grace-
ful than the low and is better taste
Nothing could
be less appropriate for street wear
than these extreme heels, which
should be used only for slippers and
dress shoes.

The actual present discomfort of
such heels in walking is very great,
but, although it is denying the truth
of a time honored belief, it may be
them
is not nearly so much to be feared
as that from a heel too low. In the

and affects the bony structure, where-

l'as the former results only in corns,
are really | : : : e
| bunions and ingrowing nails—not to
As a rule, what |

mention the disastrous effect upon
dispositions—which, while not exact-

ly to be desired, does not injure the

| general health seriously—Shoe Trade

shoes and makes a few suggestions |
that it would be impossible to carry |

out. The shoemaker gravely makes
a note of them, allows suggestions
may be forgotten and sends the shoes

home, generally to the satisfaction
of all concerned, certainly of the
shoemaker, who receives a fat sum

for his work.

Some people have firmly fixed in
their minds the idea that the only
healthful shoe is that with a broad,
flat sole, low heel, long vamp and
wide shank. This ought to be a sen-
sible shoe, it sounds so hideous, but
it is not necessarily healthful.

On some feet such a shoe is little
short of agony, not always while it
is worn, as the harm it does takes
some time to develop, and often is
not
out.

shown until the shoes are worn |

so few, in fact, that it is a wonder that |
any are made with it, and yet all the}

so-called health shoes make a point
of having the widest possible

The chief support required of a
shoe is for the arch under the instep.

shanks.

body comes and where the shoe
should fit the foot perfectly.
Hundreds who think there is no
other shoe than the flat heeled won-
der why their feet ache, and they are

tired after walking, never dreaming

that slowly but surely they are break- |

ing down the arch of the foot by
wearing unsuitable shoes, and_ that
some day they will find themselves
suffering from what is called flat
foot, the only relief from which
found in a steel brace insole.

Journal.
———_~+- >

How To Restore Velours Calf.

“Foreman,” in American Shoemak-
ing, gives the following advice about
treating spots and stains on velours
calf: This may not be new to a great
many, but still I have found a few
who were troubled’ with spots and
stains on

their velours calf uppers,
and I have given them my remedy
for restoring such stock. On the

turned shoe we experience more diffi-
culty than on the welt or McKay.
The moisture from the box toe gum
will be very apt to stain through and

leave a stain on the upper similar
to water stains on the soles. Some-
times if the soles are quite damp

when turning the shoes the moisture
from the soles will stain the upper.
Drops of will
they strike

water stain wherever
the upper. My remedy
is simple and thus far it been

When I find an

has
perfectly successful.

iupper stained I take a elean sponge
Very few feet require a wide shank, |

and clean water and wet the upper
evenly and thoroughly all over. If
the sun is shining so much the bet-

iter, for the sun is a great bleacher.

Let your uppers dry thoroughly in the
sun, and if you-have as good suc-

| cess as I do you will be pleased with
There is where all the weight of the}

j;and becoming water stained.

the results. If the uppers are stain-
ed badly don’t be at all sparing of the
water. Spread it right on in good
shape. I have taken leather
which had a tendency to show water
stains and have taken a coarse sponge
and rubbed each sole quite hard on
the grain side. It would seem to
spread all of the coloring matter in
the stock and prevent its streaking
This
and if it

sole

is very simple and safe,

is| does not help you I will warrant it

not to hurt you.

Placard Didn’t Reform Her.

upon her back declaring:
thief,”

him so many times that
and having her paraded around the
square. Saturday she was sent up for
thirty days for again stealing shoes,
it being the second complaint within
the week.

 

Although Sarah Jones, of Wilkes- |
barre, Pa., has been paraded around |
the public square with a large placard |
“an al
it has not stopped her thieving.
She has a mania for taking shoes. |
Two years ago, when Mayor F. H. |
Nichols was in office, she was before |
he finally |
adopted the method of labeling her |

 

TYPHOID FEVER
DIPHTHERIA
SMALLPOX

The germs of these deadly diseases mul-
tiply in the decaying glue present in all
hot water kalsomines, and the decaying
paste under wall paper.

Alabastine is a disinfectant. It destroys -
disease germs and vermin; is manufac-
tured from a stone cement base, hardens
on the wall, and is as enduring as the
wall itself,

Alabastine is mixed with cold water,
and anv one can apply it.

Ask for sample card of beautiful tints.
Take no cheap substitute.

Buy only in 5 lb. pkgs. properly labeled.

ALABASTINE CO.
Office and factory, Grand Rapids, Mich.
New York Office, 105 Water St.

 

 

 

 

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| wanted the Glove Brand Rubbers, do
you understand?

 

 

 

Your trade wants the best.
It’s the Glove Brand.

HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS,

il
SAVM1V

   

 

 

We Extend to You Our
Heartfelt Christmas Greeting

Whether you sell our shoes or wear them.

ought to do both.

Our trade mark, whether on the sole of a child’s
shoe or a river boot, guarantees perfect shoe satis-

faction.

 

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    

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Comfort in Women’s ine and | boots for within made of gun metal |

Slippers. | leather, atid there ate also shoes that

'lace up on the side. This is a style
that will appeal to few, as there is

Nothing so proclaims the gentle-
womati daintiriess atid freshness
in the details of her toilet, and prom-
inent among these must her
footwear: Individuality be
shown in shoes as well as dress, arid
no higher praise need a woman Crave

as

the foot an odd appearatice.

Shoes with bands of perforated pat-
terns are also seen, but are undesira-
ble; apart from the question of taste,
as dust colleets in the perforations
and it is impossible to dislodge it.

Pretty ties and slippers ate made of
bronze kid, some embroidered in self-
colored beads,
ing.

come
may

for her personal appearance than that
her feet are always neatly and taste-
fully dressed.

The greatest license may be allow-
ed in the selection of slippers and
house shoes. Here may be used all
the novelties that the
fancy can conceive, but in the opin-
ion of some the woman who wears |
fancy or colored shoes on the street
sins against good taste. Tan
summer wear and shoes to match the |
if in a carriage, are perfectly |
permissible, but champagne colored
ties on Broadway or patent leather
vamps with light uppers worn to
church may be considered a crime.

Far and away the best shoes for
street wear for general tise are the
light weight calfskin, laced. This isa
neither too thin

and some in contrast-
Gray suede is always attractive
for a house slipper, especially so- if
made with a vamp strapped with nar-
row ribbon stitched on in strips.

A becoming house shoe
fastened in front by straps from top
to toe. These straps are laced to-
gether, each one being embroidered
in jet beads.

An attractive satin slipper is made
with two big rosettes of chiffon, each
having a single rhinestone in the cen-
ter. These rosettes are held together
a stout thread and sewn to the
in stich a matiner as to form a
bow when viewed from the front, the
rhinestones being visible only from
the
Owl eyes:

Another pretty slipper has a patent |
‘leather vamp, with quarters of faney
black and white vesting. This

shoemaker’s

very is

for

gown,

by
toe
comfortable leather,
nor too heavy, and it does not get
shabby neariy so quickly as_ the
softer kid, and being laced up gives |
a certain elasticity to the shoe in
walking.

Such shoes as these may be found |

side,

______— MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

| nothing to recommend it and it gives |

where they shine forth like

fas- |

in all the shops for from $3.50 to| tens over the leather tongue by two
$ro. straps ending in brass buckles.

For street wear, for dress, patent, The average woman is satisfied to
leather and patent kid are in the best | wear nothing but black shoes, with
taste, and for this purpose a but-| perhaps a pair of slippers or ties to
toned boot is prefered. Such shoes | match some favorite evening gown.
have fine kid tops, and are strictly For her, two or three pairs of calfskin |
hand made, and consequently rather | for street wear, two or three pairs |
more expensive. But as cheaper | of patent leather or kid for dress, a|

pair of ties or low shoes and a pair
of handsome slippers, with a pair or
two of plainer makes are enough for

grades of patent leather and kid are)
it is more eco- |
get the)

| two or three seasons,

absolutely worthless,

nomical in the long run to
best quality. |

True economy in footwear lies in|
having two or three pairs of each
sort of shoe worn. Three pairs worn
alternately outast worn
otherwise.

For instep skirts walking boots are
made of extra height, at least six
inches above the ankle being prefer-

red, as this gives protection to the |
lez and great comfort to the quire the right tone in speaking, and |
wearer on a muddy day, when skirts | guard yourself carefully from falling |
are apt to be blown about into careless and bad habits of voice.
No shoe is harder on the feet than |
the fashionable pump. It is always
too big when it is comfortable in the
vamp, and it slips at the heel, giving | ak :
a most untidy appearance, and call- | they ' him " y€ 1 —_
: sagrees ; asy to
ing on the wearer for great muscu- | and fai hee ee
lar effort to keep it from going flop | pick up a sharp and snappish manne:
i s 5 rs |
flop at every step. If by any chance |
it is the right size it has to be slit|
down in front because it cuts the foot. |
so it flop-flops, anyway——Shoe ifrade||
Journal, |

en off.
—_._ +22
Watch Your Voice.
Kind hearts are more plentiful than |
gentle

will six

| persistently kind and

when the voice is sharp and
Try, therefore, most earnestly to

is 2

ill-will than the heart feels; but peo- |
ple do not know that the speaker’s
“bark is worse than his bite,” and

believe
is

of speaking.

 

 

—~-2sso-—- |
Fashions in Women’s Footwear.
Fashions in footwear change much
less frequently than in anything else, |
although even they have their sud- |
den recolutions. This year there is a |
decided pointing of toes, which of | Bg Scape sat
course means longer shoes, as | IRCULARS

foot can stand the narrow toe in the | AMPLES poney oMPANY.
same length as one that is broad. TRADESMAN a RAPIDS. M MIC!

Among the novelties are ties and

   

We make four grades of boot

   

hard. |

provided they |
are dusted and put on trees when tak-

voices,

and yet love loses much of its power |

|

ac |

|

Often a sharp voice shows far more |

|

 

 

35

Luke the Lineman PILES CURED

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

 

 

 

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

IT PAYS TO SELL
GOOD GOODS!

Walter Baker & Go,’
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Luke the lineman, who hikes up_ the}
pole, eoumasenmns AAG TO) smirmomcen
Is a dare devil fellow who trusts to the |
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Of the shoes he has worn for over a | 6 u 0 6 0 | AT FS
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That made a man of him unknown to yf
io. i h Are Absolutely Pure
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Grocers will find them in the
long run the most profitable

Dealers who handle our line say |
to handle.

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other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

 

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ESTABLISHED 1780,

DORCHESTER, MASS.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.

Makers of Shoes Grand Rapids, Mich. |

 

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.

Another good thing to remember: As State Agents for the LYCOMING
RUBBER CO. we have the largest and most complete stock of Rubber
Footwear in the State, all fresh new goods. Old rubbers are dear at any

price.
WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
Shoe and Rubber Jobbers

No. 131-133-135 Franklin St. Saginaw, Mich.
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MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS
AND OF THs GENUINE, OFIGINAL, SO: UBLE,

TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON
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We have them. Also all kinds of foreign and domestic fruits. Holiday
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14-16 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

    
    
  

    

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

A BAKER’S DOZEN

 

“Thrown In” That Made the Number
Complete.
Written for the Tradesman.

They were a delightful lot of fine
fellows—just a dozen of them—they
all fitted in one with another without
a bit of friction, twelve good families
of the upper ten had furnished each
a first-class specimen of twenty-some-
thing manhood to the house of Dan-
ielton & Co., and a happier, jollier
crowd .of young fellows never con-
stituted what they decided to call
themselves—“the gang.”

They used to wonder how they
happened to get together, born as
they were in such remotely-different
parts of the country. New England
was fairly represented by a college-
trained scion of May-Flower stock;
the Pacific coast had its representa-
tive in a robust specimen of brain
and brawn; the South looked proudly
out of the handsome eyes of the son
of a Stuart cavalier; the big Middle
West pinned its faith to the level
head and the tender heart that in-
haled its American manhood where
the winds blow free from the mighty
fastnesses of the Rockies, and so from
these and the intermediate points of
the compass with the fancies and the
ioibles of their respective sections
they had come to be bound together
by that common idea of cultured man-
hood which recognizes its fellow
vherever found and which is getting
o be more and more the type which
humanity, irrespective of political
boundaries, recognizes and admires
and loves.

Into this company one _ bright
spring day exacting trade introduced
a jarring element. Greg Gorham came
in to fill a growing vacancy and that
meant he had come to stay. The fel-
lows met him on the level; but they
soon saw that their glances to take
him in were on the downward slope
and he in describing them to his
friends used offensive nouns,
strengthened by some very lurid ad-
jectives. The fact of the case was
they had no use for each other, and
as the days went by it was easy to
see that trouble was not far off.

To their credit, be it said, the gang
to a man met the newcomer more
than halfway. They had a club room
—of course it was first class—and
without fuss or parade they asked
him to come in. He at once showed
that he was not equal to the com-
monest requirements and he translat-
ed their hearty “Make yourself at
home” into his idiom which was
nothing more and nothing less than
domestic lawlessness. He kept on
his hat and took off his coat. He
needed two easy chairs to be comfor-
table in and he allowed no such tri-
fling circumstances as dirty boots to
prevent him from placing them on
Richard Raleigh’s favorite velvet
cna, “Sir Richard,” as the
dubbed him in honor of the cavalier
blood in his veins, of which he boast-
ed. He ‘helped himself to the ci-
gars, liberally placing three in his
vest pocket for future emergencies,
looked scrutinizingly under the dav-
enport for a cuspidor and, finding

 

gang

 

none, pushed his chairs to the open
window as a substitute and would
have so used it had not “New Eng-
land Hemingway” repeated to him
the essential part of a city ordinance.
Taking that as a reproof he com-
mended the ordinance to a favorite
locality of his, supposed to be located
at or near the center of the earth,
and impressed upon his hosts the
need of the article in question by
sprinkling his cigar ashes on the
handsome carpet, together with such
other refuse as the smoker is from
time to time inclined to dispose of.
It is barely possible that this might
have been overlooked with only an
exchange of glances, but when the
conversation, irrespective of topic, be-
came a reminder of some remin-
iscence of which Greg Gorham was
the leading character and which he
related with a candor which was only
surpassed by a minuteness of detail
described only by “disgusting,” “Cal-
ifornia Jack,’ famous among his fel-
lows for being “up” in his English
classics, at the pause where the laugh
was supposed to come in—and didn’t
—in a silence which under other cir-
cumstances might have been painful,
repeated Milton’s description of Be-
lial, brief and sharply to the point, as
he watched the graceful floating up-

| ward of his Havana’s fragrant blue,

—His thoughts were low;
To vice industrious, but no nobler
deeds
Timorous and slothful.

Then there were a general breaking
up and scattering to the various en-
gagements for which they were sev-
erally booked and Greg Gorham went
home after lighting one of the ci-
gars his prudence had _ provided,
aware of the fact that he, to use his
own phrasing, “had cut off his own
nose” in trying to make filth funny
“to a crowd of upper-crusts who had
to have the point of a joke hammer-
ed into ’em and riveted on the in-
side.”

It need not be stated here that
Greg Gorham was not soon again a
guest of “The Gang.” They met and
they parted, but only as men with
nothing in common ‘daily meet and
part. Gorham was a good salesman,
in many respects he was superior to
“the immortal twelve’ and so won
favor with the house; but the twelve
were simply civil to the thirteenth,
and so the summer drifted into au-
tumn and the leaves began to fall
before a change came.

A sudden illness fell upon Gorham
and three days went by before “Mid-
dle West Windom” gave way to his
concern in regard to “Iste Catalina,”
as the gang were wont to call the
man from the mining camp. The
fourth day came and went and that
night after supper Middle West went
out on a voyage of discovery, which
ended late in the evening in a down-
town rooming house at the bedside
of Gorham with the slattern and volu-
ble housekeeper almost thwarting her
earnest desire to say that the boy was
badly off and needed the care and
the treatment which she was sorry
to say couldn’t be found in that house
and that neighborhood.

 

From that bedside Middle West
went to the club on Sherman avenue,
where the big heart of the Great
Northwest at once asserted itself.

“See here, fellows, Gorham is in
bad shape, in a hole that we .can’t
afford to have him in. He’ll die if
he stays where he is. Why not put
into shape that room we hardly ever
go into and have him into it by to-
morrow night? Say what we may he’s
one of the twelve if he is the ‘throw
in’ that makes us the baker’s dozen;
and I'll tell you right-straight I can’t
have any kind of Thanksgiving with
that poor fellow away from home
and sick; and I wouldn’t give much
for a man in this crowd or any
other that would be willing to let
him. It isn’t going to take much to
put the thing into good shape with
an extra or two to make up for the
home part he’ll have to get on with-
out and the hardest part of the day
for him is the very part when we
can cheer him up.—Well,” a long si-
lence made that last word essential
as well as emphatic, “sphinxes! speak
up! Pagan or Christian, which is it?
The turkey stuffed with Pagan
lead or Christian kindness? How is
it, Cavalier, are your Virginian preju-
dices equal to the requirements?”

There was a contraction of the
Southern aliquae nasae—nose mus-
cles—but the voice was honest and
the words were true: “He’s a cad
all right. The change will hasten his
recovery; let him come.”

Then there was a hearty, “Let
him;” and at the end of the next
twenty-four hours there was a white
face in the club room that it was
worth while to be sick in; and you
and I know, my reader, from a little
blissful experience, that the dozen
were all the better for their little
self-denial and on account of it had
a more enjoyable Thanksgiving din-
ner.

The early hoped-for improvement
in the invalid did not come. The
white face grew whiter if anything
and when the stores on Sixteenth
street proclaimed the dawn of the
Christmas morning, the gang began
to look each other in the face and
with glances towards the sick room
wonder what had better be done
about it.

“T think,” said “Baltimore” Calvert,
“that the best thing to do is to ar-
range for him at the hospital. He’s
getting better slowly and they will
hasten that there and get him on to
his pins a good deal quicker than he
can do that here. Put me down for
the amount and get him out so we
can get ready for our usual Christ-
mas jamboree.”

There was a little hesitation about
agreeing heartily with that, and. as
usual Middle West Windom took the
floor at such times.

“T’ve but one word to say to that
and the rest of the poppycock behind
t. D-a-m-n to the whole dry rot,
for that is just what it is. I tell you,
fellows, we are above it. You of
the May-Flower, and you of Ritten-
house Square and we of the magnifi-
cent West, fortunate in our ancestry
and in the dollars they have left us,
with our college training and our

 

post-academic travel, have only one
thing to be proud of, and that is the
cultured Christian manhood _ throb-
bing in your heart and, I hope in
mine. I needn’t tell you, fellows,
what I think of Gorham; but I will
tell you that any one of us with his
birth and lack of training would show
up no better than he, so born and so
trained, and I don’t believe that we
are going to add any luster to what
we are pleased to consider ‘our po-
sition’ if we fail to make the man
in us recognize the man in him,
enough at all events to let him feel
in full the shininz radiance of the
coming Christmas Star.

“Now, I’m going to tell you some-
thing. Gorham isn’t adamant. Our
doing our duty by him has touched
him clear through. The nurse told
me the next morning that he never
saw 2 man cry as he did Thanksgiv-
ing night. ‘For the first time in his
life” the nurse said, ‘had anybody
used him white,’ because, I suppose
for the first time in his life he had
come in contact with a class of fel-
lows who know how. Now, I don’t
believe it’s going to hurt our man-
hood to keep right on with this thing
—until after Christmas, anyway. Let
us have our jamboree with Greg Gor-
ham in it—he’s going to be. well
enough —and let’s give him the
Christmas of his life. Let’s give him
that one more chance that every man
with a genuine heart in him always
wants and abide by the result. Now,
then, who says ‘Aye!’ ”

Well, you ought to have heard that
ave! It came all the way from the
battle field of Naseby, where, you re-
member, the Cavalier got licked. It
came tearing in from Plymouth Rock,
and you know what happened there
in 1620. The Rocky Mountains join-
ed in and the prairies shouted and
the Jamestown shout was recognized
and, last of all, his heartiness making
up for his tardiness, Wyoming put
out his hand—big as the hand of
Providence!—and exclaimed with the
voice of a blizzard: “Put ’er there,
pard!” and it was put, you can bet
your life!

Then there were busy times with
the Gang. Every blessed one of
them “caught on” to the Christmas
idea until the “Glory of the Lord,”
above the Bethlehem plains, blazed
in their hearts and shone refulgent
from every beaming face. The club
rooms were overhauled and brighten-
ed. They were garlanded with pine
and holly and the banquet spread.
Silver glittered and glass sparkled and
eleven mighty good-looking fellows
in dinner toggery waited for the com-
ing guest. Open came the door and
on the threshold for a moment they
stood, Middle West Windom, the
Chief of the Gang, and Gregory Gor-
ham, their honored guest. They were
well worth looking at. Middle West,
with his towering height and his big
chest—he was the “best looker” of
them all; but, let us be candid, they
were not exactly expecting to see
what they did in Greg Gorham. In
spite of their opinion he knew how
to wear a dress suit, and the face that
looked at them was so different un-
der these conditions that they hardly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

37

 

knew him. His features had lost
their coarseness, the eyes had chang- |
ed their defiance for an expression |
in harmony with the Christmas Star

and when they advanced to meet | &

him with the cordial greeting each |
had for him, something in the “glad |
hand”
them satisfied that they were hav-
ing the Christmas dinner
lives.

I can bear witness that it was for
one. I can testify that under the
benignant rays of that shining star
the prejudices that had too long

of their

they gave one another made |

swayed me melted wholly away and_|
I saw, knew and acknowledged the |
man and the brother in the guest of |

that never-forgotten dinner.

I know |
that the eleven felt as I did, for they |

said so and I know, too, to the ever- |

lasting joy of the Gang that

from |

that night he was one of us, making |

indeed a Baker’s Dozen.
Richard Malcolm Strong.
a
Disgraceful Deficiencies.
To half do things.
Not to develop our possibilities.
To be lazy, indolent, indifferent.

us

To do poor, slipshod, botched work. |

To give a bad example to young |

people.

To have crude, brutish, repulsive |
manners.

To hide a talent because you have
only one.

To live a half life when a whole

life is possible.

Not to be scrupulously clean in per- |

son and surroundings.

To acknowledge a fault and make}

no effort to overcome it.

To be ungrateful to friends and to}

those who have helped us.

To go through life a pigmy when |

nature intended you for a giant.

To kick over the ladder upon which |

we have climbed to our position.

To be grossly ignorani .. the cus-
toms and usages of good society.

To ignore the forces which are im-
proving civilization in your own coun-
try.

Not to be able to carry on intelli-
gent conversation upon current topics.

To know nothing of the things we
see, handle and enjoy every day of
our lives.

To be ignorant of the general his-
tory of the world and of the various
countries.

Not to know something of the
greatest leaders, reformers, artists and
musicians of the world.

Not to have intelligent knowledge
of the general affairs of the world
and the interrelations of nations.

Not to know enough about the laws
of health, about physiology and hy-
giene to live healthfully and sanely.

———_. ~~.

A. B. Clark, shoe dealer, Riverside,
California: Enclosed find check for
$5 to credit on my account. I find
the Tradesman as valuable in Cali-
fornia as it was in Michigan and my
family read it almost as closely as
I do.

_—_— 2
Life’s daily grind reduces
complexions to powder.
——
A girl is usually taken at her face
value.

most

Hardware Price Current

 

 

tron
ar Tron 2202 0200. . 2 ee. - 2 25 rate
Paent Band .2) wo... 3 00 rate

Knobs—New List

Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings 75
Deor, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings .... %&%
Levels

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis.
Metals—Zinc
| OUl Pound e€xsks ooo 8
Ect pound --- 3. 814
Miscellaneous
[tira Capes .....7 otis. . 0
| Euaes, ©iStcrm «2... 3c. l kt. 75&10
|} cerews, New tdet .................. 85 |
| Casters, Bed and Plate ......... 50&10&109 |
Dampers, BvmewCAm on 50 |
Molasses Gates |
preppens Palterm ................. 60&10 |
Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30
Pans
Yl lvoe lstisCdésC(i‘(C(‘#C............ eee |
Common, aioe See eee eae ece 70&10

 

 

AMMUNITION
Caps |
_D.,. full count, per mi...) ... 40 |
| Hicks’ Waterproof, per m........... 50
MGRMeG HCr Woe 75 |
Ely’s Waterproof, Ber Me... 60 |
Cartridges
No. 2a SUCHE, Per me 2 50
No. mo lone Per mM 3 00 |
ING. 22 Short, per Mme) 5 00
NG. 32 lone, perm... 5 75
| Primers
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m..... 1 |
i Ne. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60
Gun Wads
| Black Edee, Nos. 11 &€ 12 U. M. Cc... 60
Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m..... 70
Black Edge. NG 7. per me. 80
Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns |
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
2 . 1\% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 1 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 7 2 360
236 REA 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
| No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
| No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64
' Gunpowder
| Mess, 25 Wis. per kee... ok... 4 90
%@ Wees, 12% Ibs., per % kee ........ 2 90
; 4% Kees, 6% tas., per % Kee ........1 66
Shot
In sacks containing 25 tbs
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 85
Augurs and Bits
Pe 60
semnition fenwine ...:.............. 25
Jennings’ imitation ....... Sees eee a. 50
Axes
First Quality, 3. B. Mrowme ......... 6 50
| Pirst Quality, I EB. Bremte. ..... 9 00
Pirst Guality, &. BB. &. Steck. ...... 7 00
| Pivst Quality, BD. & Steel. ..........- 10 50
Barrows
Beeivoad. .....-.. te . 15 00°
Guim, ooo. 33 00
Bolts
OMS oe 70
PCa Few TR jk cea eee 70
os 50
i Buckets
weal ra «se. 4 50
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, fisured ............ 70
Wreeeet «06m. C.........-..... 0, 60
Chain
| % in 5-16in. %in. % in.
ee) Looe €....@ €....6 e... Bae
eee 2s, SMc....74c....60c....6 ¢
BBB. "8%. ...14C....6566....656E |
iateia
ast Sieel per mm. -.................. 5
Chisels
Poetet Mirince oo 00000 08, 65
O_O eee 65
ogre: Corner (oo c... le 65
Socmet Sticks... ss... 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6in., per doz. net. 7
Corrieates, per dem. ...:....... eine 1 2
Adpetapie -:2 2.2.0.0... dis. 40&10
Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, $18: larec, $26. ...... 40
Ives’ 1, $18: 2, $24; 3 $e6 .......... 25
Files—New List
ae ~— |
ee eee
Heller's Horse Raspes. .............-- 10

 

Galvanized Iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, -s
List 12 13 14 15 16 17

Discount, 70.
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s - 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box .......... dis. 90
Double Strength, by, box ........ dis 90
By the Hight ..-....2..--......-... dis. Ww
Hammers
isk. 2... dis. 33
iste se a dis’ 40810
Mason’s Solid raek Steel ....30c list 70
Hinges
Gate Clarks 1, 2 S.....-.....-. dis 60&10
Hollow Ware
Kettles Dee cteeecetecuneus
Spiders .......
Horse Nails
Aw Sable ......................Gi, S000

House Furnishing Goods
70
/&10

Patent Planished Iron

| “A’’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80
“B”’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 $0
Broken packages %c per Ib. extra.

Planes

Ghia Fool Cas finey..............- 40

Sete, Eenem oo 50

Sandusky Tool Co.’s faney.......... 40

Benen, Grsat quaiy....02. 1. 45
Nails

Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire
Steel nails, base 23

o

  

Each additional X on this grade, 7 25
Tin—Allaway Grade

felt KC Chapeost ... cl 9 00
t4eee 0 Clmiveast .. 3... 00
| s0u4 IM Cherecent 2.2.2... a 50
'4uc0 EX: @Ciavees! .... 0005... 5

 

 

Stamped Tinware, new list. ......
Japanned Tinwar

50
Each additional X on this grade, = 50
Boiler Size Tin Plate

   

15

Wie AMS fase ok lo 2 15
ne tO GO agwanee. cl. Base |
1@ to 76 aevaiice. 8... 5
SS agwaies oe ee
G a@vamee ... 20
4 e@einee _.: 8c... 30
Ss MOUUMCe oo ce le 45
Ce 70
Bape 2 SONAMCC.. 6. cece cease ee 50
ae A ............. 15
Casing $ dadvance......... 25
Casing G Amvanee.................... 35
Pinish 10 advwance................... 25
Bini 8 advance ......:............ 35
Dimith G se@vanes. -. 2.2.6... ll. 45
Basrvel % aevanee ... 0... oll .. 85
Rivets
irom ahd timed .......:............. 50
Copper Rivets and Bure ........... 45
Roofing Plates
‘4x20 IC Ciharegal, Bean .....:..... 7 50
24x20 IX, Chareoal, Dean ........... 00
zexzs EC. Charcoal, Dean ......... 5 00
14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50
14x20 LX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00
Ropes
Sisal, 4% inch and larger ........-.. 916
Sand Paper
OE eee dis 56
Sash Weights
Solid Mycs, per tom ................. 28 00
Sheet Iron
Moe 16 to oC ec. 3 60 |
Nos 16 to We . oe 3 70 |
Noe tS te 2)... 3 90 |
INOS. 22 06 24 <3) 4 10 3 00
Nos. 25.60 26 ................ 4 20 4 00
PING 2) 30 4 10
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30
| inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Shovels and Spades
Poet Geese Tee... ....-...... 5 50
mecoma Grage Pee 2... cl. 5 00
| Solder
Co) 21
| The prices of the many other qualities
of solder in the market indicated by pri- |
vate brands vary according to compo- |
sition.
Squares
Steel avid tee... 60-10-5
Tin—Melyn Grade
mets 1 Ciiarecal 2.06. c oes. 10 50
e420 IC: Cliarecat oe  , = 50
f0sie EX Charcoat .-.............. 00

Crockery and Glassware

 

 

  

 
     

STONEWARE
Butters
Ma Sel, Per Gee co. 48
iL to G 2al per dow... wo 6
8 gal. each 56
10 gal. each _
12 gal. each =
15 gal. meat tubs, 1 20
20 fal meat tubs, cach ...2......... 1 60
Zo fal meat tubs, each ............ 2 25
30 gal. meat tube, eae ...-....... 2 70
Churns
oto G eal ner wal ow. es . 6%
Churn Dashers. per doa ........... 84
Milkpans
% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. fiat or round bottom, each .. 6
Fine Glazed Milkpans
4 gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 64
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Stewpans
1% gal fireproof, bail, per doz ...... 85
i gal fireproof bail, per dow ...... 118
Jugs
% gal. per doz. 60
% gal. per doz. 45
© to 5 gal per gal... 7%
Sealing Wax
lis. I package, per Wh. ..:......-. 2
LAMP BURNERS
Mo. O: Sum --.... ee 3t
pau 2 Se ee 38
Ne 2 Sin oe 50
oso... 8+
PURE ee 5v
a. «|. 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
Per gross
ite oo 20
ee 4 40
ee 6 00
fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of 6 doz.
mo. @ Sim .. oe. 6U
ne. | oo... 1
POO DO i 2 54
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each Chimney in corrugated carton
ING. DS Cetmep 2.00. ee a
mo. t Criggp -..... cs. 1
ING. 2 Crime... 2 90
First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 9.1
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 00
XXX Flint
No. i Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 2%
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled 4 25
Pearl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled ~.£ 60
No. 2 Suh, wrapped and labeled ....5 30
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled ....5 10
No. 2 Sun, ‘‘small bulb,’”’ globe lamps 80
LaBastie
No. 1 Sum, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 00
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 25
No. 1 Crimp, Der Gie <1... 1 So
ING. 2 Crimp, per dom .............72. 1 60
Rochester
mo. | Eaee (656 Gow) ........... 2 oo
POO. 2 RAG CT GOR) owe ew ect cee 4 00
mo. 2 Vi (eee Gee) .......-......... 4 60
| Electric
me 2 time (Me @doa) ;:...........2. 4 00
Pio. = Viint (8Ge Gow) _.............., 4 60
OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 20
1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 28
2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 10
3 gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 15
5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 15
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 75
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 7
ocak VeRne cane .................. 7 00
& gal. sally. iron Nacefas ............ 9 00
LANTERNS
No @ Pubedar, side Tt... . 4 65
Ne. 2 Volley ooo. s 6 40
Bio. 15 Tubular, Gash ........... 6 50
No. 2 Cold Binet Lantern ........... (8
No. 13 Tubulsr, side lamp ............ 12 60
No. 2 Strect lamp, cach ......... . a ot
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx.10c. 50
Neo. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. Ibe. SO
No. © Tub., bbls. & “doz. each, per bbl.2 00
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 is eachl 25

BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
tall contains 32 yards in one piece.

No. © % in. wide, per gross or roll. 25

 

 

i No. 1, % in. wide, per eroes or roll. 30
14x56 [X, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ih 13] No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll 45
| No. 3, 1% im. wide, per gross or roll 8
Traps |
Steel Game §.... 1. i. 75 |
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..40&10) _ COUPON BOOKS
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65 59 books, any denomination -1 50
Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ...... 1 25) 100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
. p 9
Monse, delusion, per dom ........... 1 25 | 500 books, any denomination ...... 11 50
Wire | 1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00
: | Above quotations are for either Trades-
Bright Market .-.--..----+2+-+++++++ 60 | man, Superior, Economic or Universal
Annealed eee Ce 60 | er: ides. Where 1,000 books are ordered
Coppered Market ........--.-+..+++- 50&19 /at a time customers receive specially
ened Gaeta tec oc es a | printed cover without extra charge.
op ah a a |
Barbed Fence, Galvanized ..........2 75 | Coupon Pass Books
Barpea Pence, Famted ............. 2 45 _ = eo represent any denomi-
| nation from own.
a ee CT eee 1 50
EOS a a Rc ea a a Ne ae 30-10 | 100 books vteeteereseeeeeesseeeseee 2 50
i. 500 ee eed ae cece aces ae f
HOOKS ..--+-+.--:- “* =n eae 20 00
Gate Hooks and Byes -....2 20200200: 80-10 a Credit Checks a
Wrenc 500, any one denomination ........
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled eet oe = | 3008; any one P cingaxor-oportminy ees : =
Chee Gemeee 202 ee any one denomination .........
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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Michael Howarn, Detroit;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, Bradner, Lansing.

United Commercial Traveiers of Michigan

Grand Counselor,. L. Williams, De-
7 Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,
int.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Sec-
retary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

Some Qualities a Successful Traveler
Must Possess.
Saiesmanship is the business of the
world; it is about all there is to the
world of business. Enter the door
of a successful wholesale or manufac-
turing house and you stand on the

threshhold of an establishment repre-
sented by first-class salesmen. They |

 

are the steam—and a big part of|
the engine, too—that makes business |
move.

I saw in print the other day the

statement that salesmanship is the |
It is not; it is|
| John W. Gates sold barbed wire be-

“fourth profession.”

the first. The salesman, when he

starts out to “get there,” must_turn |
more sharp corners, “duck” through |

more alleys and face more cold, stiff
winds than any other worker I know

of. He must think quickly, yet use

judgment; he must work hard and}

often long. He must coax one min-
ute and “stand out” the next. He
must persuade—persuade the man he
approaches that he needs his goods,
and make him buy—yes, make him.
He is messenger boy, train dis-
patcher, department buyer,
man, actor, lawyer and _ politician—
all under one hat!

To the position of traveling sales-
man attach independence, dignity, op-
portunity, substantial reward. Many
of the tribe do not appreciate this;
those do so best who in time try
the “professional life.’ When they
do they usually go back to the road,
happy to get there again. Yet were
they permanently to adopt a profes-
sion, say the law, they would make
better lawyers because they had been
Were many profes-
sional men to try the road they would
go back to their first occupation be-
cause forced to do so. The traveling
man can iell you why. I bought, a
few days ago, a plaything for my
small boy. What do you suppose
it was? A toy train. I wish him
to get used to it, for when he grows

traveling men.

up I am going to put him on _ the}
ae
sity,

road hustling trunks.

My boy will have a better chance
for success at this than at anything
else. If he has the right stort of stuff
in him he will lay the foundation
for a life success; if he has not I will
soon find it out. As a_ traveling
salesman he will succeed quickly or
In the latter event I shall
profession.

not at all.
set him to studying a

When he goes on the road he may |
|them have been drudges.

save a great part of his salary, for
the firm he will represent will pay
his living expenses while traveling
for them. He will also have many
leisure hours, and even months, in

 

credit |

 

oleh to study for a profession, if

he chooses; or if he will he may spend
his “out of season” months in for-
eign travel or any phase of intellec-
tual culture—and .he will have the
money of his own earning to do
it with. Three to six or eight months
is as much time as -most traveling
men can profitably give to. selling
goods on the road; the rest is theirs
to use as they please.

Every man who goes on the road
does not succeed—not by any means!
The road is no place for drones;
there are a great many drops of the
honey of commerce waiting in the
apple blossoms along the road, but
it takes the busy “worker” bee to
get them. The capable salesman may
achieve great success not only on the
road but in any kind of activity. “The

road” is a great training school.
Alderman Milton Foreman, chair-

man of the Transportation Commit-
tee in the Chicago City Council, only
a few years ago was a drummer. He
studied law daily and went into poli-
yet the largest
salary of any man in his house. Mar-
shall Field was once a traveling man;

tics while he drew

fore he became a steel king. These
three men are merely types of suc-
cessful traveling men.

Nineteen years ago, a boy of 15,

quit picking worms off tobacco
plants and began to work in a whole-
sale house in St. Louis at five dol-
lars a week—and I had an even start
with nearly every man éver connect-
ed with the firm. The president of
the firm to-day, now also a_ bank
president, and worth a- million dol-
lars, was formerly a traveling man;
the old vice-president of the house,
who is now the head of another firm
in the same line, used to be a travel-
ing man; the present vice-president
aud the president’s son-in-law wasa
traveling man when I went with the
firm; one of the directors, who went
with the house since I did, was a
Another who trav-

 

traveling man.
eled for this firm is to-day vice-pres-
ident of a large wholesale dry goods
house. One more saved enough re-
cently to go into the wholesale busi-
ness for Out of the whole
lot of us six married daughters of
wealthy parents, thirty more,
who keep on traveling, earn by six
months or less of road work from
$1,200 to $6,000 each year. One of
the lot has done, during his period
of rest, what every one of: his fel-
low-salesmen had the chance to do—
taken a degree from a great univer-
obtained a license (which he
can not afford to use) to practice law,
learned to read, write and speak with
ease two foreign languages, and got
a smattering of three others, and has
traveled over a large part of the
world.

himself.

and

Of all the men in the office and
stock departments of this firm only
two of them have got beyond twen-

ty-five dollars a week; and both of.

One of
them has moved up from slave-book-

| keeper to credit-man-slave and part-
jner. The other has become a buyer.

And even he, as well as being a
i

 

stock man, was a city salesman.

Just last night, on leaving the
street car, an old schoolboy friend
told me that he was soon going to
try his hand on the road _ selling
bonds. He asked me if I could give
him any pointers. I said: “Work
and be square—never come down on
a price; make the price right in the
beginning.” “Oh, I don’t know about
that,” said he.
breast and answered: “I do!”

I would give every traveling man,
every business man, every man, this

same advice. Say what you will, a
square deal is the only thing to
give your customer. You can doa}

little scaly work and win out at it
for a while, but when you get into

fair the short horses will beat you
under the wire.

The best customer on my order-
book came to me because I once had
a chance to do a little crooked work
—and did not. I had a customer who
had been a loyal one for many years.

He would not even look at another |

salesman’s goods—and you know
that it is a whole lot of satisfaction

door where you know you are “solid.”

The man on the road who does not |

appreciate and care for a faithful cus-
tomer is not much.
My old customer,

the business belonged to him, and
he tried to run it: But Herman
wouldn’t stand for this sort of work
and “called him down.” The clerk
became “toppy,”’ and Herman  dis-
charged him.

But still, Pred bad a fairly good |
standing in the town, and interested |
iwanting, then, of course, to buy of
a nephew that he wanted to start in |
He furnished Fred and his |
nephew with $10,000 cash capital; the |

an old bachelor, a banker, who had
business.

three formed a partnership to open
a new store and “buck” Herman.
Well, you know, it is not a_ bad
thing to “stand in” with the head
clerk when you wish to do business
with an establishment. So I had al-
ways treated Fred right, and he liked
me and had confidence In
fact, it is a poor rule to fail to treat
everyone well. I believe that the
? on the road are the most tol-
erant, patient human beings on
earth. To succeed at their business
they must be patient, and after a
while it becomes a habit, and a good-
one, too.

in me.

“boys’

You know how it goes! A mer-
chant gets to handling a certain
brand of goods no better than many
others in the same line. He gets it
into his head that he can not
without that particular line. This
is what enables a man on the road
to get an established trade. The
clerks in the store also get interest-
ed in some special brand because they
have customers who come in and ask
for that particular thing a few times.
They do not stop to think that the
man who comes in and asks for a
Leopold brand hat or a Knock-’em-
out shoe does not have any confi-
dence in this special hat or shoe, but

 

 

| laid
Herman, hada}
little trouble with his head clerk. The |
clerk, Fred, got it into his head that |

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do |

 

he has confidence in the estab-
lishment where he buys it.

So, when I was in Herman’s town
to sell him his usual bill, his clerk
hailed me from across the street and
came over to where I stood. He told
me that he had quit his old job and
that he was going to put in a new
stock. 1, of course, had to tell him

‘that I must stay with Herman, but
I slapped him onthe |

that out of appreciation of his past
kindness to me I would do the best
T could to steer him right in my line
of goods. I gave him a personal let-

|ter to another firm that I had been
| with before, and who, I knew, would

deal with him fairly.

Fred went in to market. Whenin

ithe city he tried to buy some goods
the stretch, unless you have played |

of my firm. He intended to take
these same goods and sell them for
a lower price than Herman had been
getting and thus cut hard into Her-
man’s trade. But the big manufac-
turers, you know, are awake to all
of these tricks, and a first-class estab-
lishment will always protect its cus-
My house told Fred that be-
could sell to him’ they

tomers.
fore they

| would have to get my sanction. They
to get into a town and walk into aj

wired me about it, and I, of course,
had to be square with my faithful old
friend, Herman. As I was near by
I wrote him by special delivery, and
the case before him. He, for
self-protection, wired my house that
he would prefer that they should not
sell to his old clerk who was now go-

ing to become his competitor. In
fact, he said he would not stand
tor it.

The very next season things came
around so that Herman went out of
business, and I knew that I “was up
against it” in his town—my old cus-
tomer gone out of business; Fred not

me. But I took my medicine and
consoled myself with the thought
that a few grains of gold would pan
out in the wash. Up in a large town
above Herman’s I had a customer,
named Sam, who had not secured the
location. Say what you will,
location has a whole lot to do with
business. Of course, a poor man
would not prosper in the busy streets
of Cairo, but the best sort of a hus-
tler would starve to death doing busi-
Sahara. A. big store in
town failed. Sam had a
sell out the stock at 75
cents the dollar. He wished to
do so; but, although he was well-to-
do, he did not have the ready cash.

ness on the
Sam’s new
chance to
on

One night I called on Sam and he
laid the case before me. He told me
how sorry he was not to get hold of
the “snap.” I put my wits together
quickly, and I said to him: “Sam, I
believe I can do you some good.”

The next morning I went down to
see a banker, who was a brother-in-
law of Herman’s, and who had made
enough money merchandising and out
of wheat down in Herman’s old town
to move up to the city and go into
the banking business. The banker
knew all about the way that I had
treated his brother-in-law, and I felt
that because I had been square with
Herman he would have confidence in
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case before the banker. I told him
I knew Sam to be well fixed, to
have good credit, to be a good rustler
and strictly straight.

In a little while I brought Sam up
to meet the banker. The banker im-
mediately, upon my recommendation,
told Sam that he could have all the
money he needed—$16,000. The bank-
er also wired to the people who own-
ed the stock—he was well acquainted
with them—and told them he would
vouch for Sam.

The deal went through all right, and
Sam now buys every cent’s worth that
he uses in my line from me. He is
the best customer I have. I got
him by being square.

One of my old friends, who wasa | sega !
| got out of sight I added up the items

leading hat salesman of St. Louis,
once told me the following experi-
ence:

“Several years ago I was in West-
ern Texas on a team trip. It wasa
flush year; cattle were high. I had
been having a good time; you know
how it goes—the more one sells the
more he wants to sell and can sell. I
heard of a big cattle-man who was
also running a cross-roads grocery
store. He wanted to put in dry
goods, shoes and hats. His store was
only a few miles out of my way, so
I thought that I would drive over
and see him.

“How I kicked myself when I drove

up to his shanty, hardly larger, it}

seemed to me, than my straw-goods
trunk! But, being there I thought I
would pick up a small bill, anyway. I
make it a rule never to overlook even
a small order, for enough of them
amount to as much as one big one.
When I went in the old gentleman
was tickled to see me and told me

to open up—that he wanted a ‘right |

smart’ bill. I thought that meant
about seventy-five dollars.

“T had to leave my trunks outside—
the store was so small—so I brought
in at first only a couple of stacks of
samples. I pulled out a cheap _ hat
and handed it to him.

“*That’s a good one for the money,’
said 1; ‘a dollar apiece.’ I used al-
ways to show cheap goods first, but
I have learned better.

“He looked at my sample in con-
tempt, and pulling a fine nutria hat
off his head he said: ‘Haven’t: you
got some hats like this one?’

““Ves, but they will cost you eigh-
ty-four dollars a dozen,’ I answered,
at the same time handing him a fine
beaver quality.

“*The more they cost the better
they suit us catthemen; we are not
paupers, suh. How many come ina
case?’

“<Three dozen come in a case, Col-
onel.’

“Well, give me a case.’

“I had never sold a case of these
fine goods in my life, so I said to
him:
usually sell of that kind, and I don’t
want to overload you; hadn’t we bet-
ter make it a dozen?’

“Tyozen? No, suh, no. You must
think that there’s nobody in this
country, that they haven’t any money,
and that I haven’t any money. Did
you see that big bunch of cattle as

you came in? They’re all mine—
mine, suh; and I don’t owe the bank
a cent on them, suh. No, suh, nota
cent, suh. I want a case of these
hats, suh—not a little bundle that you
can carry under you’ ahm.’

“T was afraid that I had made the
old gentleman mad, and, knowing him
by reputation to be worth several
thousand dollars, I thought it best to
let him have his way. I went through
the two stacks with him and then
brought in the rest of my samples.
He bought a case of a kind right
through—fine hats, medium hats and
cheap hats for Greasers. He bought
blacks, browns and light colors. I
was ashamed to figure up the bill be-
fore his face. But just as soon as |

and it amounted to $2,100—the best
bill I took on that trip.

“T sent the order in, but I thought
that I should not have to call there
again for a long time. The house
shipped the bill and the old gentle-
man discounted it.

“Next trip I was intending to give
that point the go-by. I really felt
that the old gentleman not only need-
ed no more goods, but that he would
shoot me if I called on him. But

 

when I got to the town next to -his
my customer there, who was a friend
of the Colonel, told me that the old
gentleman had sent him word that he
wished to buy some more goods, and

|for me to be sure and come to see

him.

“When I came driving up to the
Colonel’s store the back end of it
looked peculiar to me. He had got
so many goods from me that he had
been obliged to take the wooden cases
they were shipped in and make out
of these boxes an addition to his
Lumber was scarce in that
country. The Colonel came out and
shook hands with me before I was
cut of my wagon. I was never greet-
ed more warmly in my life.

store.

“*T_ ook heah,’ he began, ‘I owe you
an apology, suh; and I want to make
it to you befo’ you pass my threshol’,
suh. When you were heah befo’ I
feah that I allowed my indignation
to arise. I am sorry for it, suh, sor-
ry! Give me yo’ hand and tell me
that yo’ will pahdon me. I can’t look
you squah in the face until yo’ do.

“Why, Colonel, that’s all right,’
said I, ‘I didn’t want to abuse your
confidence, but I fear that I myself
was impertinent in trying to show
you that I knew more about your
business than you did. I want to beg
your pardon.’

“*No pahdon to grant, suh; and I
want you to accept my apology. The
truth is the cowboys in this country
have been deviling me to death, near-

 

‘That’s more, Colonel, than 1 |

ly—ever since I started this store—
ito get them some good hats—good
'ones, suh. They told me that they
couldn’t get a decent hat in this
| whole country. I promised them that
I would buy some of the best that I
could find. When yo’s came some of
the boys saw the wagon bound foh
my store ten miles out of town. They
fo’med a sort of a procession, suh,
|and marched in with the team. Every
one of those boys bought one _ of

 

those finest hats you sold me. They
spread the news that I had a big
stock and a fine stock, all over the

country; and, do you know, people |

have come two hundred miles to buy
hats of me. Some of my friends
laughed at me, they say, because I
bought so many that I had to use the
cases they came in to make an ad-
dition to my sto’. But the more they
laughed, suh, the more necessary they
made the addition. If you canonly
get people to talking about yo’, yo’
will thrive. Believe me in this, suh.

If they say something good about |

yo’, that is good; if they say some-
thing bad about yo’; that is better—
it spreads faster. Those fool mer-
chants did not know, suh, that they
were helping my business every time
that they told about how many hats
I had bought until one day a fellow,
when they were laughing about me,
said: ‘Well, if that’s the case I’ll buy
my hat from him; I like, anyway, to
patronize the man who carries a good
stock.” Now you just come back and
see how empty the addition is.’

“I went back into the addition and
found that the Colonel’s hats were
nearly all gone. He had actually sold
—and out of his little shanty—more
of my goods than any other custom-
er I had. When I started to have
my trungs unloaded the Colonel said
‘Now just hol’ on there; that’s
entirely unnecessary. The last ones
sold so well, you just duplicate my
last bill except that you leave out
the poah hats. Come, let’s go up to
my house and have a julep and rest
a while.’ ”

to me:

Although a man’s friends will not
buy from him if he does not carry
the goods, he will yet get their pat-
ronage over the other fellow if he
has the right stock. Here’s wherea
man’s personality and adaptability are
his stock-in-trade when he is on the
road.

One of my musician road friends
once told me how he had sold a bill
to a well known old crank, now dead,
in the State of Montana.

“When I used to work at the
bench, years ago,” said he as we sat
in the smoker, “evenings when I was
free I studied music for relaxation.
Our shop boys organized a_ brass
band. I played the trombone, and
learned to do fairly well. I never
thought then that my music. would
fatten my pocketbook; but since I
have been on the road it has served
me a good turn more than once—it
has sold me many a bill.

“You've heard of the ‘Wild Irish-
man of Chinook,’ haven’t you?”

“Old Larry, the crank?” said I.

“Yes, old Larry, the great. Well,
sir, the first evening I ever went in-
to Larry’s store I hadn’t been in a
minute until he said to me: ‘Oi’m
all full up; Oji’ve got plinty iv it; I
don’t give a dom phawt ye’re sill-
ing.’

“T paid no attention to him, as I
had heard of him; instead of going
out I bought a cigar and sat down
by the stove. Although a man may
not wish to buy anything from you,
you know, he is always willing to
sell you something, even if it’s only

hs cigar. I’ve caught many a mer-
|chant’s ear by buying something of
ij him. My specialty is bone collar-but-
tons—they come cheap. I'll bet that
I bought a peck of them the first
time I made a trip through this coun-
try.

“T had not been sitting by the
stove long until I noticed in a show
case, a trombone. I asked Larry
please to let me see it. ‘Oi’ll lit ye
say the insthrumint,’ said he; ‘but
phwat’s the good of it? Ye can’t play
the thromboon, can ye? Oji’m the
only mon in this berg that can bloo
that hairn. Oi’m a mimber of the
brass band.’

|) took the her and, as. 1 san
the scales a few times, Larry’s eyes
began to dance. He wouldn’t wait

on the customer who came in. The
instrument was a good one. I made
‘Praties and fishes are very foine

Samt Patrick tm | the
mairning’ fairly ring. A big crowd
came in. Larry let business drop en-
tirely and danced a jig. He kept me
playing for an hour, always some-
thing ‘by special rayquist’—‘Molly
Dairlint, ‘Maggie Moorphy’s Hoom,’
and everything he could think of.
Finally he asked me for ‘Hairt Booed
Doon,’

dishes for

“As I played the ‘Heart Bowed
Down’ tears came to the old Irish-
man’s eyes. When I saw these |!
played yet better; this piece was one
of my own favorites. I felt a little
peculiar myself. This air had made
a bond between us. When I fin-
ished the old man said to me: ‘Thank
ye, thank ye, sor, with all my hairt.
That’s enoof. Let me put the hairn
away. Go-hoom now. But coom
around in the mairnin’ and Oji’ll boy
a bill of ye! I doon’t give a dom
phawt’s you're silling. If Oi’ve got
your loine in my sthore Oji’ll boy a
bill; if Oi haven’t O7’ll boy a bill
anyway and stairt a new depairtment.
Good-noight; give me yer hand, sor.’

“Not only did Larry give me a good
order, but he went to two more mer-
chants in the town and made them
buy from me. He bought every dol-
lar’s worth of his goods in my
line from me as long as he lived.”—
Chas. N. Crewdson in Saturday Even-
ing Post.

—_2+.____

Would you have a man stop lov-

ing you? Love him!
—__2.-2.____

A miser’s sweetheart is the lady on

the dollar.

Pa

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Regulations For the Safety of the
Traveling Public.

Ann Arbor, Dec. 20—A recent edi-
torial in the Tradesman entitled, “In-
viting Disaster,’ which criticised the
Michigan Central Railroad for its
short-sighted policy in removing tele-
graph operators from certain import-
ant points, might have been more ex-
plicit in stating that in so doing the
management trusts to the perfect
working of the block system.

This block system consists of a ser-
ies of electrical devices which auto-
matically operate signals tipon the
passage of a train and keep them
displayed until the train has passed
to a point one mile further on, thus
warning the engineer of a train which
may follow if at any time he arrives
within that distance of
one.

preceding
When it is considered that the
winter season is mtich more liable to
cause these mechanisms to be sud-
denly thrown out of order by the ac-
tion of frost, ice, snow, flood or storm,
the foolhardiness of entire depend-
ence upon this system is the more ap-
parent. Not one less watchman, flag-
man or operator should be employed,
and the vigilance of track inspectors
and section men should be redoubled
in winter.

a

The published statistics of loss of
life and injury to person each year
in the United States, although small
in comparison with the great number
of passengers carried, are great in the
aggregate, and are appalling when
compared with the records of some
European countries. Wise legislation
and prudent regulations there tend to
reduce accidents to the lowest possible
minimuni. In those a
railroad seldom crosses the highway
on the same level, either a bridge or
tunnel being used to obviate the ne-
cessity. In England the laws are
very stringent against anyone going
or being upon the railroad right-of-
way, and any person found violating
such provision is subject to severe
penalty.

When one stops to consider the
fearful risks that are constantly be-
ing taken to rush passengers across
the country to their respective desti-
nations in the least possible time, the
lack of legal restraint upon railway
officials and the difficulty in locating
the responsible parties when accidents
do occur, it would seem that the peo-
ple would be aroused to agitate and
keep agitating the matter until there
should be established permanent State
and National and pre-
cautions for greater safety in railway
travel. E. E. Whitney.

countries

regulations

——__--->————
Enjoyed a Pedro Party On New
Tables.

Grand Rapids, Dec. 19—Saturday
night was a gala night for Grand Rap-
ids Council, No. 131, U. C. T., and
their ladies. They gathered at their
rooms on Ionia street to enjoy a
pedro party and to use the twelve
tables which had been presented to
them by the genial, whole-souled liv-
eryman of Belding, Oscar F. Webster.
The tables are fine ones and were
much enjoyed, being used for a couple
of hours for card playing. Then light
refreshments were served on them.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Bro. R. E. Dewey entertained the
compatly for a short time with some
of his sleight-of-hand and legerde-
main, after which the crowd dispersed
to their several homes, all agreeing
that the U. C. T.s, O. F. Webster and
the Committee on Arrangements—
Brothers W. S. Lawton, Frank Pierce
and R. E. Dewey—were all right.
Nuff Sed.
—-»-2--¢
Programme For the Annual Conven-
tion.

Detroit, Dec. 20—Our sixteenth an-
nual convention will be held in the
city of Detroit, December 27 and 28.
Make an effort to attend this meeting,
that you may renew old acquaintances
and niake new ones.

The attendance of the ladies is es-
pecialiy desired at this meeting that
they may assist in the organization
of a State Auxiliary of the ladies of
the M. K. of G.

It is to be hoped that this organi-
zation may be perfected and launched
on the highway of success before the
sixteenth annual meeting adiourns

Your attendance and co-operation
are respectfully requested.

The following programme will be
observed:

Tuesday Morning

Reception Committee meets all
trains.
Registration of all members at

headquarters (Griswold House), and
distribution of badges.
Tuesday Afternoon.

Convention called to order and also
Ladies’ Auxiliary for State Associa-
tion at Golden’s Hall, 32 Michigan
avenue.

Prayer by Chaplain J. W. Seeley.

Address of welcome by His Honor,
Mayor Wm. C. Maybdury,. and re-
sponse.

Roll call of officers.

Regular order of business.

The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Post C.
will hold a reception for the ladies
in attendance at Griswold House par-
lors, 3 to 5 p. ma.

Tuesday Evening.

Reception and ball at Strassburg’s
Academy, 56-58 Adams avenue, East.

Wednesday.

Closing up business of the conven-
tion and election of officers for the
ensuing year.

Michael Howarn, Pres.
——_2.-2-2———_

Crawford S. Kelsey is being pushed
forward by his friends as a candidate
for the position of Treasurer of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip, which
will hold its annual convention at De-
troit next week. Mr. Kelsey states
that the bank with which he does
business in Battle Creek will sign
his bond and that the clerical work
connected with the office will be as-
sumed by the bank in exchange for
the account. As the office pays about
$200 per year in commissions, and
as Mr. Kelsey is entitled to the con-
sideration of his fraters in his pres-
ent physical condition, his friends feel
as though the members of the organ-
ization could afford to do a gracious
act by electing Mr. Kelsey unani-

mously to this office.
——_.2>—_—_
The master secret of sttccess is con-

centration.

 

Recent Trade Changes in the Buck-
eye State.

Byesville—Arthur Davis is succeed-
ed by Davis & Donnelly in the furni-
ture business.

Cardington—-H. H. Dean & Co
have contracted to sell their stock of
notions.

Cincinnati—Ochs, Goodman & Co.,
manufacturers of men’s clothing, have
gone out of business.

Coshocton—Walker & Cantwell ar¢
succeeded in the boot and shoe busi-
ness by the Cantwell Shoe Co.

Dayton—Politz Bros. succeed Geo.
Politz & Co., wholesale and
dealers in confectionery.

Dennison—Creger Bros. are to con-
tinue the grocery business formerly
conducted by H. E. Beck.

Edison—-W. E. Sergent has bought
the general store of J. G. Miles.

Greencamp—Johnston & Co., hard-

ware dealers, are succeeded by|
Tohnston & Court.
Hillsboro—Miss L. E. Pence has

purchased the furniture business of
J. W. Pence.

Mount Gilead—The Mount Gilead
Pottery Co. is closing out its stock.

Napoleon—Pontius & Cowdrick are
to succeed S. O. Pontius in the gro-
cery business.

Zanesville—H. A. Schervish, fruit
dealer, is succeeded by Schervish &
Emrod.

Akron—The creditors of Sam
Maschke, clothier, have filed a peti-
tion in bankruptcy.

Cleveland—A petition in bankrupt-
cy has been filed by the creditors of
Newman Bros., dealers in clothing,
furnishings and boots and shoes.

Dayton—Young Bros. succeed Geo.
Taylor in the retail grocery and meat
business.

Cleveland—-Shaw dealers
men’s furnishings and clothing, have

Bros., in
made an assignment.

Greenville—The department store
conducted by Minnich,
Schreel & Minnich ; to continue
business under the management of
Minnich Bros.

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The Boys Behind the Counter.

Detroit—Frank M. Osborne, drug
clerk, has started suit against his
former employer, Jeptha Doty, the
Woodward avenue druggist, claiming

formerly
is

Doty accused him of taking money |

from the cash drawer and withheld
part of his salary. He asks for $10,-
000 damages. Recently Osborne ob-
tained a judgment in the
courts for the amount of his ‘salary.
Saginaw—Hugo A. Werner has re-
signed his position with Morley Bros.
and leaves next Monday for Fenton,
where he will take charge of the hard-
ware store of L. B. Curry, which he
has recently purchased. Mr. Werner
has been connected with Morley Bros.
for about nine years, beginning at
the bottom of the ladder and gradual-
ly working his way up through the
various stages of office boy, order
clerk, foreman of the packing room
to that of assistant manager of the
retail department. As a token of the
esteem in which he is held by his
former associates, Mr. Werner was
presented by the employes of Morley
Bros. with a suit case and watch fob.

justice

retail | 7 i
manufacturers are regaining their for-

| weakness

lis not affecting conditions

 

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His removal from the city will be
greatly regretted by his many friends,
who, however, join in extending to
him best wishes of success.

Central Lake—Richard T. McDon-
ald succeeds David Clapp as clerk for
Thurston & Company. Mr. Clapp has

taken a position with A. B. Davis
& Co.
—__2+2 2.
Copper—While the domestic de-

mand for copper is very limited at
this time of the year owing to the
approach of the Christmas holidays
and the necessity of taking stock, or-
ders from European and Chinese
mer large proportions, and the pros-
pects for excellent business
through 1905 are excellent. The lead-
ing producers are now succeeding in
their attempts to check the declining
tendency of the market, which has
resulted from the continued unloading

an

by speculative interests, and prices
are now becoming steadier at 1475c
for electrolytic, 14.87%4c for lake and
14.62%c for grades. Ihe
of standard warrants and

casting

| best selections in the London market

this
country to any appreciable extent, as
the most prominent producers and
dealers realize that the production in
1405 will prove insufficient to meet
the prospective demand of both do-
mestic and foreign consumers unless
the product of the mines is greatly

in

laugmented within the next few
months.
——_—_.»—————
Tin—After a desperate effort to

cause a manipulative rally, which was
not sustained by a genuine consump-
tive demand, the bull leaders in the
I.ondon tin market who held a corner
ii spot supplies for several days last
week have been compelled to allow
trading to take its natural course.
The recent increase in available sup-
plies has caused a sharp reaction in
the English market and the easier un-
dertone which pervaded trading for
several weeks has returned and will
probably remain until consumers de-
cide to place large orders.

Ludington Record: The friends of
A. E. Felter, who made his head-
quarters at this place while traveling
for Roundy, Peckham & Dexter, will
be pleased to learn that he has re-
cently located at Oconto Falls, Wis-
consin, where he has engaged in the
retail grocery business. Mr. Felter
has the only grocery store in that
place and starts his new business with
flattering prospects.

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Hirth, Krause & Co. are distribut-
ing to their customers a handsome
calendar in colors illustrating their
line of Rouge Rex shoes, which are
manufactured in their factory at
Rockford. They kindly offer to send
of these calendars to any shoe
dealer who is not already on their list
of customers upon application.

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Henry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
C. B. Stoddard, Monroe.

Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

 

Michigan State ee Associa-
tion.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice-Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Charles P. Baker, St.
Johns; H. G. Spring, Unionville.

Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.

‘Treasurer—E. E. Russell, Jackson.

Executive Committee—John D. Muir,
Grand Rapids; E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor;
L. A. Seitzer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal-
amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit.

Trade Interest Committee, three-year
term—J. M. Lemen, Shepherd, and
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

Adulteration of Cod-Liver Oil.

* Consul-General Bordewich has the |

following to say in regard to the
adulteration of cod-liver oil:

“The foreign fish oils
adulteration by some
mostly those from coalfish, cusk, ling
and haddock. It is claimed that no
adulteration is practiced by the manu-
facturers in Lofoten during the win-

dealers are

ter fisheries, and that the oil made|

there at that time is exclusively ex-
tracted from the livers of cod, for
the reason that no fish is caught
there after those fisheries begin, it
appearing that the cod drives all
other species away from the banks.
“Chemicals are not used for adul-
teration, as far as I can learn, except
that some few manufacturers employ

a very small percentage of sulphuric |

acid during the steaming process in

order to facilitate the extraction of |

the oil.
“Tf cod-liver oil is mixed with oils

from livers of fish nearly related to)

the cod, such as oils from coalfish
haddock, ling and cusk, and the ad-

mixture is Io per cent. or less, the |

adulteration is difficult to prove by

analysis:
“The genuine medicinal cod-liver
oil is ofa light amber color; the odor |

is slight.

liver oil is
known, at least in Norway, prior to
the last couple of years. Oil from
coalfish brought very moderate prices
in the Lofoten Islands prior to 1993,
but that year it was in great demand
by buyers from Aalesund and Ber-
gen, who paid at one time $40 per
barrel for the refined article. The
oil of cusk has been refined in prior
years also, but it was in much greater

demand in 1903 than formerly, bring- |

ing as high as $64 per barrel. These
oils are refined in the Lofoten Islands
mostly in the summer season, and the
genuine cod-liver oil in the winter.

“It is no secret that these oils are
largely used for adulteration of cod-
liver oil.”

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Blindness and Death from Wood AI-
cohol.

Some time since Buller and Finch
undertook an investigation, under the
auspices of the section of ophthal-
mology of the American Medical, As-
sociation, of the effects of wood al-

used for|

The adulteration of cod- |
said to have been un-|

lected and tabulated most of the pub-
lished cases of blindness, partial and
total, that could reasonably be im-
puted to the absorption of wood alco-
hol preparations, whether by the
stomach, or through the lungs by
breathing air charged with the fumes.
Dr. Wood, after much correspond-
ence with the principal oculists and
other physicians of the country, at-
tempted to obtain histories or de-
scriptions of cases of wood alcohol
poisoning not hitherto described in
| print. He also had the co-operation
of the surgeon-general of the army,
the pure food commissions of several
states, and many chemists who have
janalyzed and experimented with
;methylated preparations. In addition

 

H. | to these a large number of coroners

| have permitted him to have access
|to their records. As one result of
| these labors it has been found that
wood alcohol, refined and_ crude,
|adulterated essences and extracts, as
| well as other preparations containing
it, have during the past seven’ or
|eight years been directly responsible
| for 142 cases of blindness and sixty-
two cases of death This report
| shows anew the grave danger of in-
troducing wood alcohol in any form
into the system, whether by inges-
tion or by breathing the vapor. To
j}use liniments, cosmetics, etc. in
which it is present of course exposes
one to the latter risk, and some per-
/sons might have their vision affected
more or less by even small quanti-
ties, to say nothing of the grave risk
of entire loss of sight.—Druggist’s
Circular.
—__. +.
Hot Clam Juice for the Fountain.
Clam juite may be served in the
| proportion of one-half to one ounce
itc an eight-ounce mug, filling the
| latter with hot water and serving
with a spoon; also giving the patron
|celery salt, salt and pepper cellars
and soda crackers. The Soda Dis-
_penser thinks the clam juice is served
more acceptably by adding an ounce
oi milk, better yet by using half wat-
er and half milk, and still better by
using all hot milk. A small amount
of butter causes a marked improve-
Clam juice, like beef tea, must
always be served hot. It spoils very
readily and must be kept on ice. Ii
a distinction is desired between clam
bouillon and clam broth, serve the
latter with a spoonful of butter and
| the former without it. A good way
ite keep the names apart is to have
| your clam juice with hot water; clam
| bouillon is the same with a dash of
lemon juice added, and clam broth
is clam juice mixed with cream or
}milk. Clam juice with hot water and
| seasoned well may be known as clam
nightcap. Clam-juice cocktail is made
| with one ounce of clam juice, two

ment.

|drachms of lemon juice and_ hot
| water.

| Se

It isn’t always the loudest noise

that indicates the most business. The
| rooster can beat the hen at crowing,
| but he can’t lay an egg to save his
neck.

|

| 2-2
| Stand up for your own rights, but

cohol on the system. Dr. Buller col-| don’t do it too conspicuously.

Degradation of the Drug Store.

Medical editors generally attack
drug stores when they need a sen-
sation. Most of their remarks are
based on ignorance.
from American Medicine is a recent
sample: There are in every city and
village drug stores that only can be
called pharmacies by a stretching of
the meaning of the word beyond the
recognition of etymologists.
as concerns business, the drug part
is a ludicrous fraud made up as the
articles on sale are of a homeopathic

soft drinks, bric-a-brac, china, silver-
ware, and everything conceivable and
inconceivable that will sell. Looked

physician, these stores fill their win-
dows, advertising spaces, newspapers
and bill-boards with advertisements
of every nostrum which cupidity and
quackery can devise, all in sharp com-
petition with the physicians who are
supposed to patronize them. And
not content with this, these concerns

by manufacturing the
concoctions them-

syndicates
“same kind” of

not satisfied with killing the doctor
in these ways, they prescribe for any
ailment the self-treater may describe,
mix the dose and give it in “fruit-
syrup” soda-water to the walking pa-
tient. From the standpoint of the
temperance reformer and the citizen
they also enter into competition with
the saloons, and under the name of
“batters,”

the name of medicine. And we all

submit, perhaps patronize! What a
farce and a disgrace!
-_—__~.>-~>
Draft of Proposed New Pharmacy
Law.

It naturally affords the Tradesman
niuch pleasure to be the first publica-
tion to present to its readers the draft
of the proposed new pharmacy law,
prepared by the Legislative Commit-

tee of the Michigan State Pharma-
ceutical Association. Readers will
note that this. dratt embodies

many new features not provided for
in the old law, while some of the pro-
visions of the old law that have prov-
en to be unwieldy. and obnoxious
have been modified and in some
cases eliminated. This draft will be
presented to the Legislature under
the auspices of the Association and
every effort will be made to secure
its enactment early in the session. No
opposition has yet developed to any
oi the features of the proposed meas-
ure, giving ground for the belief that
it will prove to be acceptable, not
only to pharmacists as a class, but
to the public in general.
+ 2-2
Putting Powders in Capsules.

J. S. wants to know what deter-
mines when, in dispensing mixtures
in capsules the mass or the dry
method should be used. It is rarely

ever advisable to make a mass unless
the ingredients consist in part of li-
quid bodies which can not be ab-
sorbed to form a powder without an
undue increase of the bulk. Jf pow-

 

The following |

So far |

dose of genuine drugs and a huge)
oceanic mass of the ‘“menstruum,” of |

at from the professional aspect of the |

rival the businesses of the norstrum |

selves, all “cheaper and better.” Still |

cough-cures,” and all that, |
they sell the vilest of alcohol under

|

| ders alone are involved, the mixture
| should always be put in the capsules
in the dry form. Some powders lack
adhesiveness and can not be filled in
capsules in the customary way—that
is, by plunging the capsules down-
ward into the powder. Such powders
; may be dampened with a little’ alcohol!
or water, as in making triturate tab-
| lets, and the damp powder will usual-
ly adhere. Or the powder may be
'pucked into the capsules with a spat-
ula.

Sugar prevents the oxidation § of
certain salts, like that of ferrous io-
dide in the syru>. for instance, by
/mechanically protecting the salt from
ithe oxygen of the air. As a matter
| of fact, sugar only retards the oxidiz-

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ing process and does not entirely pre-
vent it.

—-—_-+ 4-3
The Drug Market.
Opium—The market is very firm
and tending higher.
| Morphine—Is unchanged.
Quinine—At the bark sale at Am-

|
| sterdam last week sales were made

 

}at a very slight reduction from the
i price of November. No
| expected in the price of quinine.

change is

Cocaine-—-Higher prices abroad in-
dicate an advance here, but prices are
as yet unchanged.

Glycerine—Crude is higher and re-
fined quite firm.

Menthol—Is in very large supply
and weak. There are rumors of an
export tax by the Japanese in a short
time.

Spermacetti—Is scarce and advanc-
ing.

Oil Wormseed—Has advanced 25c¢
per pound.

Oit Bergamot—Is tending higher.
Gum Camphor—Was again advanc-
ed 3c on Friday. This takes a total
advance of 15c since the first of No-

vember. Higher prices are looked
for.
Goldenseal Root—Has again ad-

vanced and is tending higher. There
is very little obtainable.

ee ll a
Never deny that you make a profit
in the sale of your goods. It arouses
suspicion in any sensible mind to be
told that the shoes are going for
cost price or less.

~~
Confidence begets confidence; but
never try a confidence game.

 

 

 

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Base Ball Supplies

Our lines are complete and prices right. The
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Holiday Goods

promptly filled. We ean supply your wants
till the last hour.

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Wholesale Druggist
Stationery, School Supplies and Fireworks

 

 

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Aloe, Barb ...... 12@ 14|Cardamon ....... 70@ 90|Cataceum ....... @ 35
Biee, Gane 0... @ 25|Coriandrum .... 12@ 14 Chloroform ___.. 42@ 52
Aloe, Socotri .... @ 45| Cannabis Sativa. 5@ 7|Chloro’m, Squibbs @ 95
Aramonine ed 55@ 60 Cydontum oe 75@1 00 | Ghioral Hyd Crst 1 35@1 60
Asafoetida ...... 35@ 40 | Chenovodium 25@_ 30|Chondrus ..... 0@ 25
Penzoinum ...... 50@ 55|Dipterix Odorzte. 80@1 00 | Cinchonidine P-W 38@ 48
Catechu, e u @ = Seo ont c " = e Germ 38@ 48 |
vatechu, 3S .... G 0e1 » po.. ocaine .......... 4 05@4 25
Gatechu. Me ---- @ 18) Tin grd WU 2K 3 S| Crcosotum | @ AS

é me cee. 904 95 4 . Sra. - 74 . reosotum: ....:- 5
Euphorbium @ 4)|Lobelia .......... To@ S80) Creta .._..- bbl 75 @ 9
Galbanum ...-..-. @1 00| Pharlaris Cana’n 9@ 10) Creta, prep ..... @ 5
Gambous i saspe. 1 250e) 35 ee oa < : Creta, precip 9@ 11
Jnaiacum ..po 35 @ 35] Sinapis a @ Creta, Rubra @ |
Mine . 4...) po 45¢ @ 45|Sinapis Nigra... 9@ 10) Crocus ......... 75@1 8
Myrrh os. ae g . Spiritus a secs <2 24 |

Vocus 5 1 5 ° Sri Suiph -... @

OM essences 3 0093 10 | Erumenti W D..2 00@2 50) nextrine ....-... 7@ 10|
Shellac Mae et 4 oF 25@1 50] Emery, all Nos.. @
Shotag oaenca 65@ 70 Juniveris Co O T.1 65@2 00 E . g
Pecans $e 00 | uniperis Co ....1 75@3 50 eos ll ae

é mete 4s a i ry > orgota po. 65 60@ 65}

ces Saccharum N E.1 90@2 10 Eth Sa 70@ 80|
POE grasa g5 | Sot, Vini Galli ..1 75@6 50) » her Sulp ‘ea eer

s i p Bee evict 1 25@2 00 Flake White .... 12@ 15
Eupatorium oz pk 20 Be See ii te cee Galla ee a
I obelia ..0Z pk 25 cee 7+ 1 25@2 00 Gambler ee ee "
Majorum ..oz pk 28 Sponges Gelatin, Cooper . @ 60}
wenths > Oz = x Florida Sheeps’ 7. iui cai Gelatin, French . 35@ 69}
Mentha Ver oz 5 carriage ....... @ Ylassware, fit box Ta
Bue .. 020s. oz a 39 | Nassau sheeps’ wl ° ae ies ' jon 70 |
‘Tanacetum Sn 22 carriage Cee do 3 50@3 75 | Glue, brown te 13)
Thymus V oz pk 25 | Velvet extra shps’ Glue, white ....- 15@ 25

: Magnesia wool, carriage ., @2 00/ Glycerina ....... 16@ 20
‘Calcined, Pat 55@ 60| Extra yellow shps Grana Paradisi .. @ 2%
‘Carbonate, Pat .. 18@ 20| _ wool carriage.. @1 25) Humulus ........ 35@ 60
Carbonate K-M. 18@ 20] Grass sheeps’ wl, Hydrarg Ch Mt. @ 9
COPDOMALE 2 .cree @ 20 carriage .. o° @1 25 Hydrarg Ch Cor @ 90

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
Amygdalae, Dulce. 50@ 60} Slate use. @1 40 |Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
pe fet SS os Syrups so ltantnyobolia Am. 90@1 00

OE eke ha ae es Acacia .......... c yobolla, Am.

Auranti Cortex .2 ans 40 | Auranti Cortex .. @ 50| Indigo .........-- 75@1 00
Berean ........ 2 85@3 25 | Zingiber .......-. @ 50 ieaine. Resubi ..4 35@4 40
Cajiputi ......... See SO} inceic ........-.- @ 60|Iodoform ........ 0@
Caryopuyli ..... 1 30@1 40] Ferri Iod ......- @ 50] Lupulin ......

cedar --.......- . 50@ 90] Rhei Arom ...... @ 50} Lycopodium

Chenopadi ..--.-. @250| Smilax Off’s ... 50@ 60} Macis ......----.
Cinnamoet 125... 1 10@1 20|Senega ...------ @ 50] Liquor Arsen et
Civonela, ....... 50@ 60 |Scillae ......----- @ 50 Hydrarg jod . @ 25
Conium Mac oe 90 | Scillae Co ....-- @ 50] Liq Potass Arsinit “ q
Copaiiar si... 5 4 96 | Tolutan :......-- @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph.

Cubebae ..... a 20 1 30 | Prunus virg @ 650| Magnesia, Sulph bbl. ° 1%

 

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We are dealers

in Paints,

Varnishes.

Oils

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

and

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

All orders shipped and invoiced the same
day received. Send a trial order.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hazeltine & Perkins

  
 

 

 

 

 

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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 at
market prices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

 

Index to Markets
By Columns

Col

A
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1
1
1
1
Confections ............ i
Ee eee |
Canned cleascc om
Clothes Lines .......... 3
— —  ————
coeoa Shells ........... 8
ee
Dried Fruits ........... 4
FE

Farinaceous Goods .... 4
oe and Oysters ...... =

Pai
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Sani se cecereescece

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Fresh cess |
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Grate TASS... 2.2.00.
Grains and Flour ......

H
Herbs ickkscwscecce
Hides and Pelts ...... 10
1
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Lye

M
Biest Wixtracts -........ &
Peewee ...... 8... oon
ee es 6
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Pe ee
Provisions ............. 6
R
Shoe Blacking ......... 7
Sn 7
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8
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Washing Powder ...... 9
6

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Wooden
Wrapping Paper
v
Teast Coke ....5..cc...

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AXLE GREASE
dz

gro
Barn 55 «66 «(00
Ceeter 0H ......:. 55
Deamon 2... 33: 50 4 25
Paes |. 7% 9 00
XS Golden ...... Zo. 8 00

BAKED BEANS

Columbia Brand
Tb. can, per doz 9)
2ib. can, per dog ....1 4
sip. Can, per Gon ...:2 8b

BATH BRICK
Sree 75
eee ea 85

BROOMS
Mo. 1 Carpet 2... ..: 2 is
ee 2 Serpe 2 33
a 3 fret. Le iS
Bro. 4 Cerpet . +... le
Passer Gem .... 5. 2 40
Common Whisk ...... 85
ramty Whisk . ....:. a 20
Wearchomee ........... 3 00
BRUSHES
Scrub
fe Saek £ fe . i... 15
Mole Pack, 11 in ...... 95
Fomted ends .......... 85
Stove

 

BUTTER COLOR

 

W., BR & Cos, ic sizet 25
w., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.2 09
CANe.cES
Electric Light. 8s .... 9%

Flectric Light, 1€s ....10
Poors, Ge ..2......; 9
ravens, Io ....-..-- 9%
"ieee 23
waponae > agg
es
3 th. inners. 75@ 8s0
Gals. Standards .1 90@2 00
Blac erries
Seis 2... 5... 85
Bean
Peo. ee 80@1 30
Red Kidney 85@ 95
a 7O@1 15
wee oo. 75@1 25
Blueberries
rr @ 1 40
Brook Trout
aon co @ 5 75
21b. cans, s.piced 1 90
Clams
Little Neck, 1th. 1 90@1 25
Tittle Neck, 2tb.. @1 50
Clam Boullion
Burnham's % pt .....1 ©
Perehaw Ss. bis .....- 3 6%
Burhans. atk ...... 72
Cherries
Red Standards ..1 39@1 50
Witt ..... .... 1 50
orn
een 85@90
Good -1 09
Fancy 1s
French Peas
Sur Metra Pine .. 2: 2
ard Pee 4... 13
PO eee e eee ne 15
meee ck a. 11
Goosenverries
Pn 90
ominy
Oe 85
Lobster
star, S69. - 22.2.2 ..<5 25
sane. 908 oe ce eS. 3°35
Pate Tale... 2 69
Mackerel
rs te ......... 1 8a
og ee 2 80
eae 1 80
ISO, se a 2 89
Toes. TS. ss 1 80
Teens: FS... 2 gn
Mushrooms
ieee a ce 15@ 20
Pees oo 22@ 2
Oysters
ton, ib. |... @ 90
Cee, Phe. co @1 76
Cove, 1tTb. Oval @1 00
Peaches
i ee 1 19@1 15
ee 1 65@2 00
Stamdara ........ 1 00@1 35
TO bien 0
P.
Marroetst ...... 90@1 00
Early June ..... 90@1 69

Early June Sifted. . 1

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Piums
Pee 85
Pineapple
Grenene. oo. 25@2 7d
Sere 1 35@2 55

Q Pumpkin
eee... 790
CONE oe eb sae 89
Paes 09
OR 2 00

Raspberries
Pramas i.

Russian Cavier
Cans lS 3 75
oe CO 7 09
7 came .. ys: 12 00

Salmon

Col’a River, talls @1 75

 

 

 

Col’a River, flats.1 85@1 90
Red Alaska ..... 1 35@1 45
Tink Alaska . @ 9%
Sardines
Domestic, 4s %@ 3%
Domestic, ¥%s .. 5
Domestic, Must’d 6 @ 9
California, %s .... ligt
California, 34s...17 @2é4
French, 4s ..... 7 @14
French, 28 oe. 18 @28
Shrimps
Standard ....... 1 20@1-40
Succotash
eck ce cane 95
ee ee 1 10
weeey oo cs. 1 25@1 40
Strawberries
Soneer .. 26... 10
ae oc. 4¢
Tomatoes
Peer... @ 80
ce eae @ 8&5
eo ee 115@1 45
Gales 2... 2 50@2 60
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Pedectioa ...... @11%
Water White .... @i1
D. 8S. Gasoline @13
Deodor’d Nap’a.. @12
Cylinder 23 @G
Engine 2
Biack, winter ..3 @is%
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts...... 4 50
Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60
Snigers qvarts ......-. 3 2
Pweers is... 2. 2 25
Snider’s = ors 1 30
HEESE
Bre ..... 3... @13
Carton City ....- @1
Perea oo, .. @14
Meee foo. @15
ae @
ee ce @14
oe 4.2... @13%
a 13144@14
Reverse... 2. a4
a ai4
ee i on ces @14
Te @90
Leiden @15
Limburger . | @13
Pineapgie ....... 40 @60
Swiss, domestic . @14
Swiss, imported . @20
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce. 55
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 60
Biack 2486. 2.255. oo 55
Largest Gum Made .. 60
ee: GN ee oe cee 5
Sen Sen Breath Perf.1 00
Sur Deel. .....:.2.22 55
kk eee ce 5d
CHICORY
ee 5
ee ee ce, 2
Pe oe 4
Franck’s 7
Schener’s 6
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s
German Sweet ........ 23
Pee So wn 3t
ee Ss ge 41
Cane 35
Pee ke
wenagici \LINES
60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
W2ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40
9ift. 3 thread,- extra. 1 70
60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29
“2ft. 6 thread, extra
Jute
WE es et 75
BO ee ee 90
eee eee 1 05
OP. aa ee eee 1 50
Cotton ieee
Meee. Sees es es iw
OEE. ce cece se ee. 1 35

TRE seep a ec cceccccasck OD

Cotton Windsor

Galvanized Wire

No. 29, each 100ft. long1 90
Ne. 19, each 100ft. long2 10

  

 

COCOA
aa 38
Ree 41
coer, 860. ....... 35
Colonial, ee 33

ee ee 4
Huyler Peco eco kame ce 4
Van Houten, ¥%s ...... 32
Van Houten, 4s... 20
Van Houten, 16s . oe
Wan Houten, ta ....... a2
oe oe 31
Meee, Be... 41
ever, 28 23... 42

COCOANUT
Dunham’s 148 ....... 6
Dunham’s %s & lis 26%
Denkam'’s Ws ....:- 7
Denham’s %s ....... 28
Wee Sng cc ee 13
COCOA SHELLS
aon beset... 2%
Less quantity ......... 3
Pound packages ....... 4
COFFEE
Rio
Cee isc oe =

Oe ee
Choice
Pee... ce
Common
Fair.

Choice.

Fancy.

gs a nan ea
Maracaibo

WEE, cca ccee ee es 15

COR oe ee a 18

Mexican |
Ramee 4.8. :. 16%
a 19

Guatemala
CRONE oa c,d 15

Java
BICAR -ococ.  ca ee 12
Fancy African «......; 17
Seay 2g

Mocha
BVO. 666 21

Package

New York Basis
Awckie _.. ob i5e ss 14 00
SMiWOrth 2.028 ss las 13 00
POTSEe oes e sce. ossede oO
DIOR os nk eke ewe 13 59

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers only. = >

 
 

orders direct to . .
McLaughlin & Co., Chi-
cago.

Extract
Holland, % gro boxes. 95
Pen, % rose ........ 1st
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, % gro.1 43

CRACKERS

National Biscuit Company’s

Brands

Butter
Seymour Butters ...... 6
mm SY Sees ow cc. 6
Salted Batters ....:.... 6
Pamiy Butters: ....... 6

Soda
= BS € Somes ...:..:; 6
Sele oo ee &
Saratoga Fiakes ...... 13

Oyster
Round Oysters ........ 6
Square Oseters .......-6
Peet oe wet << ooh
ic cet ost
xtra Parton .......<: 7%

Sweet Goods

eee 10
Asserted Cake ......-. 19
Bastey Gems ...-..:.. 8
ease eee... at 8
Beats Water ........- 16
ee 13
Chocolate Drops ..... I6
ee Fe ew etl 10
Cocoanut Tay .-..<:. 12
Cinnamon Bar <....:.. 9
Coffee Cake,.N. B. C..10
Coffee Cake, Iced ....10

Cocoanut Macaroons ..18

Ce eee ee 16
Currant Pyuit .....-.- 10
Chocolate Dainty ....16
Ceriwhertis i220. 9
wee Cookie -<..i..... 8
Fluted Cocoanut ...... +0
Prosted Creams ....... 8
<aaeer Gems .......... 8
Ginger Snaps, N. B. C7
Grandma Sandwich ...10
Graham Crackers .... 8
Honey Fingers, Iced 3
Hioney Jumbles .....- 12
Ieed Happy Family ..11
Iced Honey wenger’ -10
Pomperials 003.05: 2

  

Indian Belle ..
Jersey Lunch
tage Finer ...-..-.

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Lady Fingers, hand md 2B

 

4

Lemon Biscuit Square. oe

evaon Warer ......--

Lemon Snaps ......... 12
Lemon Gems ..:.....-- 10
Be VO noise ee ees 10
Marahimalow .....<..- 16

Marshmallow Cream...16
Marshmallow Walnut. <a
Mare Awe oo
Malaga
Mich Coco Fs’d honey. 12
Milk Biscuit
Mich. Frosted Honey. 3

moored Picnic ........ 11%
Molasses Cakes,
Moss Jelly Par

Muskegon Branch, Iced10
Peete... ... 12
Oatmeal Crackers .... 8
Oranmwe: Slice -........- 16
ea GCM ncn 8

Penny Assorted Cakes. :
Pilot Bread

Pineapple Honey ...... 16
Cee Pe ck a lc 9
Pretzels, hand made .. 8
Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8

Pretzelettes, mch. = a
Revere —-
nube Sears ...
Scotch Cookies
Smowerons .s.......-.» 16
Spiced Sugar Tops .. 8
Sugar Cakes, scalloped 8
Bums Sauares ....-. 2. 8
ne er ~
Spiced Gingers ........
Je ee ee 10
Vienna Crimp
Vanilla Wafer
Waverly
Zanzibar
CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or drums
Boxes
Square cans
Piney camtice ......... 33
DRIED FRUITS

Apples
puneried ........
Evaporated

 

%
ees 5%@ 7
California Prunes
100-125 25Ib boxes. @ 3%
90-100 boxes. @ 4

80- 90 25tb boxes. @ 4%
70- 80 25Ib boxes. @ 5
60- 70 25Ib boxes. @ 6
50- 60 25tb boxes. @ 6%
40- 50 25Ib boxes. @ 7%
30- 40 25tb boxes. @
%c less in 50Ib cases.
Citron
Commiban, 2... ....: @15
Currants
Imp’d. 1%b

pee .. @ 7%
Imported bulk 6% @ 7

Lemon American ....12

Orange American ....12
Raisins

London Layers, 3 cr 1 50

London Layers 4 cr 1 9

Cluster 5 crown ... 2 60
loose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5
Loose Muscatels, - = 5%
Loose Muscatels,

L. M. Seeded, 1 1». Sark
L. M. Seeded, % Ib5 @6
Sultanas, balk... @s
Sultanas, package .

@8&%
FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Erica Tima ........+-- 6
Med. Hd. Pk’d. .1 @1 85
Brown Holiand ...-.. 2 50
Farina
24 1b. packages. ....1 75
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. .....3 00
Hominy
Flake, 50tb ck a
Pearl, 200% sock ....4 00
Pearl, 100Ib sack ..... 2 00
Maccaroni

and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10Ib box .. 0
Imported, 25tb box ..2 50
Pearl Barley
COMmmMOR. .....060 icin oe
Sass Gee e 2 75

Me 26 ks ese 3 50
Peas

Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 25

Green, Scotch, bu...... 1 35

Spat, Gs. <.....-.--- . 4

Rolled Oats

Rolled Avenna, bbls ..4 25
Steel Cut, 100Ib. sacks? 10
Mromalen DE, ...55-.-5 4 00
Monarch, 10%. sacks =o

Quaker, cases -........ 0
Sago

ee ee. ee 3%

German, sacks ........ 3%,

German, broken pkg. 4
Tapioca

Flake, 110% sacks ... 4%

 

Pearl, 130Ib sacks .... 4
Pearl, 24 1%) pkes. .:...6
Wheat
Cracked, baie ......... on
24 2Ib packag oie os
FISHING ee ACKLE
me 20 2 oe 5 cl. 6
1. f0'2 oe... ic
a £0.02 Th) i ce owen 9
1:80 2 Bh ise ss os bai
ON a oe ne 15
es ces oe 3)
cote Lines
No. 3, 20k 2... ...- 5
No. 2, ig CO bie wee 7
he S. 30 Peet occ 9
Oe 10
Me. &. to feet ..5.2.-5.. 94
Mo: 6, 48 Moet: .2....... 32
No. (7; 8S Terk. vs..-.~s,. 2
Wo. S$ 15 feet ...--...:
No, 9, 15 feet ......... 20

Linen Lines

 

Sean 2. 20
Meee cc 26
APRS os Se 34

Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55

Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60

Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Foot & Jenks

Coleman's Van. I.em.
com. Panel. ....-: 120. aS
coe. “Laper: ...4... 2 00 1 50
No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 1 50
Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon
No. 2:2). €. per doa; 75

No. 4 D. C. per doz. ... -1 50
No. 6D €. per dog...
Taper. D. C. per doz: .
Mexican Vanilla
No. 2 D. C. per doz... :
No. 4 D. C. pet doz -..2 6
3
2

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No.6 D> CC. per daz. ...
Paper D. C. per doz. ...

GELATINE
Knox’s Sparkling, doz.1 20
Knox’s Sparkling, grol4 00
Knox’s Acidu’d. doz. 1 20
Knox’s Acidu’d, gro 14 00
Cerra 4g ee 75
Piymouth Bock ....... [fs
PSO Ss oc. i SO
Cone, 2 ot sire ..,.. 141
“oes 1 oe oe... 1

Amoskeag, 100 in balel9
Amoskeag, less than bl 191%4
GRAINS AND FLOUR

Wheat
Old Wheat
wae. 2 Were oo)... 114
No..2 Hee os £34

Winter Wheat Flour
Local Brands

eee 6 20
Second Patents ....... 5 80
Sereient |. o......- = oo
Second Straight .....:.5 30
CORE oe eG 4 69
Graham 22.2... -» se
— ee eee 5 29
Be oe 4 6)

‘Subject to usual cash dis-
count.

Flour in barrels,
barrel additional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Quaker, paper ......... 5 69
iaker, ciate ...:..... 5 89

Spring Wheat Flour
Piilsbury’s Best, %s ..6 50
Pillsbury’s Best, 4s ..6 40
Pillsbury’s Best, %s ..6 30

Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s

rand

25c per

Wineoia 442 _.......2 6 50
Wingold, Ms es 6 40
Winsor, %66 .......-.- 6 30

Judson een CO."s Brand
Ceresota, %s 67

Ceresets. ea 2: . 3... 6 oo
(eon, Te ........ 6 59
Worden Grocer Co.’ s Brand
Laurel, \%s, cloth ....6 69

| Laurel, 4s, cloth ....6 50
Laurel. %s & \s paperé6 40
Deawel, 6 ... 3. 6 40

Meal
OMee oe 90

2
Golden Granulated ...3 00

Feed and Millstuffs
St. Car Feed screened 22 09
No. 1 Cornand Oats 22 00
Corn Meal, coarse . — 0)
Oil Meal
Winter wheat bran rt 00
Winter wheat ee =

Row feee .....5. 50... 0
Car lots 338%
Corn
Oe 48
On, GME ccc. cue ee 60

Hay
No. 1 timothy car lots 10 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 50

HERBS
Re ee oe ee ce 15
Pe ce eet 15
aurel: Leaves ..2.3... 15
Benna Teaver . ....-, 25

INDIGO

 

Moa@ras, 53) boxes .. 55
5S. F., 2, 3, 5 bexes ..* 85
JELLY
5Ib pails, per doz ..1 70
Oe WO ces eae ey 33
Sere WAS as 65
LICORICE
MME oo occ 30
Calabria 23
Sicily a 14
Boek ... 2. 11
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz ....1 60
Condensed, 4 doz ..... 3 00
MEAT EXTRACTS
Areoers, 5 ON pews ns 4 45
Brmours 4.08 i356: 8 20

Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 oz.2 75
Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 02.5 50
Liebig’s. Imported, 2 02.4 55
Liebig’s, Imported, 4 02.8 50

 

MOLASSES
New Orleans
Faney Open Kettle .. 40
CO icin. eae es 35
ee ee ee 26
OO ee 22
‘Halt barrels 2c extra.
MINCE MEAT
Columbja, per case ..2 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT

 

AXLE GREASE

   
  

Mica, tin boxes — 9 00

Paragoe ......... -65
BAKING POWDER

$2: cans, 4 doz. case 45

Th. cans, 4 @oz. case 85 |

1 tb. cans. 2 doz. casel
Royal

10c size. 90

Y%ldcans 135

6 ozcans 190
w%rbcans 250
&%Ibcans 375
i fheans 486
2 3 Ibcans1300
3 6 Wheans 21 5

- ‘BLUING

Arctic 40z ovals, p gro 4 0"
Aretic 8 oz evals, p gro 6 90
Arctic 16 oz ro’d. p gro 9 0°

BREAKFAST FOOD

Walsh-DeRoo So.’s Brands |

 

   
  
 

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, Sunlight Flakes
Per case ..... oe. .-$4 00
Wheat Grits
Cases, 24 2 th. pack’s.$2 00
CIGARS

   
 

@. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd.
Less than 600........33 00
600 or more...........32 00
«4,000 or more......... 31 00
COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

70 %Ib pkg, per case..2

60
85 +eIb pkg. per case..2 60 |

38 %tb pkg, per case..2 60
16 %t pke. per case. .2 60

 

FRESH MEATS
Beef
PeEcese: Cs oo: i. 3%@ 6% |
Forequarters. - 4 @ 5%
Hindquarters ....5 @7
oe. vce Geis
eee ts 7 @w
Rounds 5 -@ 6
Chucks 31%@ 4% |
Plates @ 3
Dressed 5'!4@ 5%
oe. @ 7%
Boston Butts ...-. a 6%
Bhnoulders .....:..< @ 6%
Rieal ard. .-.-- @ 7%
Mutton
Carnes .oe.csle @ 6
CAMS 6 cen 84%4@ 9
Veal

Careses. ...5.4..5-

24 10c cans ..........1 84
18 25c cans .........2 30
@ Se cans ........--3 80

6 00

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.'s Bds

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Mi [a een a= ch se
BOSTON, MASS
| S el _
White House, 1 Ib......

i Wuite House, 2 Ib.......
Excelsior, M & J, 1 Ib..
Excelsior, M & J, 2 tb..
‘Lip Top, M & J, 1 tb....

| Reyal Java .........- a
Royal Java and Mocha..

| Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....

Distrivuted by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer Co., De-

| troit and Jackson; F. Saun-
|ders & Co., Port. Huron;
| Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
|naw; Meisel & Goeschel
Bay City; Godsmark, Du-
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CONDENSED MILK
4 doz. in case

| Gail Borden Eagle....6 40|

PT oe bosses ee 5 90
Chammon ..... ieseee 4 62
| Daisy .........- Ee
| Magnolia 4 00
| Challenge : 4 40
Pore. aka eee 3 85

 

| Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00

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Diebold fire and _ burglar |

_ safes kept in stock |
y the Tradesman Com- |
| PD

any. Twenty different |
| sizes on hand at all times |
—_ ce as many safes as |
|are carried by any other |

house in the State.
are unable to visit Grand

| Rapids and inspect the
line personally, write for
| quotations.

STOCK FOOD.
| Superior Stock Food Co.,
| Ltd.

| $ .50 carton, 36 in box.10.80
| 1.0@ carton, 18 in box.10.s0
12% Yb. cloth sacks.. .84

25 th. cloth sacks... 1.65

50 Ib. cloth sacks.... 3.15
100 th. cloth sacks.... 6.00
| Peck measure
| % bu. measure...... 1.80
| 12% th. sack Cal meal .39
| 25 Tb. sack Cal meal.. .75
| EF. O. B. Plainwel, Mick.

SOAP
Peaver Soap Co.’s Brands

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Tradesman Co.'s Brand

 

Bl.ck Hawk, one box..2 50 |

Black Hawk, five bxs.2 40

TABLE SAUCES

Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

Halford, large ........ 3 75 |

t.alferad, small ........ 2 25

 

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Cash Basis
by using
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System.
We
manufacture
four kinds
of
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and
sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape
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denomination.
We will
be
very
pleased
to

send you samples
if you ask us.

They are

free.

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Grand Rapids

 

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It sells more goods than any other three
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Its prices are guaranteed and do not
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and work off his firm’s dead stock.

Ask for catalogue J.

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Wholesaiers of Everything—
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New York

Chicago St. Louis

A MEAN JOB
Taking Inventory

Send now for description of our Inven-
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They will help you.

BARLOW BRuS., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

This is a picture of ANDREW
B. SPLNNEY, M. D. the only
Dr. Spinney in this country. He
has had furty-eight years experi-
2) ence in the study and practice of
medicine, two years Prof. in
the medical college, ten years in
sanitarium work and he never
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of nervous diseases, epilepsy, St.
Vitus dance, paralysis, ete. He
never fails to cure piles.
= Thereis nothing known that
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and by his own special! methods he cures where
others fail. If you would like an opinion of your
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allyour symptoms enclosing stamp for your reply.
ANDREW B. SPINNEY, M. D.
Prop. Reed City Sanitarium, Reed City, Mich

 

 

 

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a
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.
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Cleveland, Ghio
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Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents

subsequent continuous insertion.

No charge less

a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each

than 25 cents.

Cash must accompany all-orders.

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

Small stock in booming little market
town. Slight opposition. Cleared over

$1,500 last year, could easily be doublied.

Manufacturing business takes all my
time. Address No. i00. care Michigan
‘Tradesman. 100

 

Manufacturers,
ancially embarrassed. needing iramedi-
ate cash, can secure assistance in
fidence from trustworthy

Merchants, jobbers fin-

 

Address No. 99. care Michigan Trades-
man. 99
For Sale at bargain all the fixtures of

' Montpelier, Ohio. Mstablished over twenty

| business and must sell by first of year.

the Metropolitan Dry Goods store in Sag- |

inaw. All practically
cheap, as I am closing
stock and fixtures of the

new.
out the

above concern,

Will be sold |
entire |
| licited.

| lot on Main street

will sell in lots to suit purcheser. Ad-
dress L. - Hayt, 118 North Frank _n,
Saginaw, Lic *h. 88

\ eollecto: ‘of sassafras “bark, balm |
gillead buds, oil of wintergreen, black |
haw bark, also other cils and barks,

wishes to get in touch with largest con-
sumers of these goods. Address Box 413,
Bristol, Tenn. 90

 

For Sale or
chandise, house and
lot in Grand Rapids,
EE Heyt, 118 North
Mich.

trade for stock of
lot and one
Mich. Address 1.

Franklin, Saginaw
89

mer

 

Wanted—Will pay cash for
business in live town of 1,000 to
lLabitants. Address Cash, care
man.

profitable

3,000 in-

Trades-
91

 

goods
cation.
Saeyion,

and sewing
County seat,
Hart, Mich.

machines. A
Oceana Co. C. W.

93

 

| complete up-to-date fixtures.

vacant |

| business.

| deal

eon | 14 years—good suburban location,
-On-
business man. |

For Sale—The best corner grocery in

years. Present owner is engaged in other
Fxcelient chance for the right man. No
agents need answer. Stock and fixtures
will invoice about $2,000. Will sell right
to right man F. Hirscu, Montpelier,
Ohio. 87

For

 

established
reason-
Address P. R.,
tradesman, 83

Sale—Drug business,

able t
care

terms to right party.
Michigan
ie or

living
house

Sale or Rent—Store building with
rooms overhead, including ware-
and barn. Good location for gen-
eral stock, only two other’ stores in
town, which is situated in center
good farming district. Investigation so-
Willis Green, Byron Center
Mich. :

For Sate—Whole or part of 93x130 ft.
in Holland, Mich.
Good location for business. Address E.
Heeringa. 359 Central Ave., Holland. 79
For Sale—-Drug Stock; fountain.
Write —

 

 

soda

Mich.
established dry goods

500, Elk Rapids,
For Sale—Old

 

of |

and grocery business in the liveliest town |

in Michigan.
seat and rich

Population 3,000.
farming territory.
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
No trades considered. Cash

only. Address No. 69, care —_

| gan Tradesman.
for Sale—A good stock jewelry, musical |

1ine lo- |

 

For Sale or exchange for farm, gona
meat business in good town, county seat.

| Also some real estate in same town. En-

A small block of stock still left of the |

Kentucky Coal Company, of Union
County, Kentucky, at 25 cents per share,
par value $1.00, fully paid and non-assess-

 

| Quire of No. 77, care Michigan Trades
man. a
For Sale—Stock of groceries, will in-

abe; when sold, this stock will be ad-
vanced to par; the output August 1, 1905, |
will b: 2,000 tons per day. We have con-

tracted for one-half of this entire product
and are about closing a deal for
other half, when the company
able to guarantee 12 per cent.
An oppertunity of a lifetime.
want it? Act quickly. Address
Altland, Secretary, 716 Fraction
Building, Indianapolis, Ind.

for

In either
me. Address Box
95

Do

 

Wanted—Good location
or I will buy a stock.
must ke right. Show
25, Vickeryville, Mich.

 

 

Yor Sale—A clean stock of general mer-
chandise in a good Northern Michigan
town, stock will invoice from $4,000 to
$5,000. Doing a cash business of $16,000
to $17,000 a year. Address No. 96,
Michigan Tradesman. Jey

 

A cigar store and retail manufacturing

 

 

care |

| for any kind of business.

the |
will be |
dividend. |
you |
W. 2a
Terminal |
94 } ness chance.
——-| Mich.
hardware, |
case it | :
all sizes.
| Mieh

voice $500. Will rent store and fixtures.
Good reason given for selling. Address

No. a, eare Michigan Tradesman. 42

 

Wor “Rent—First- class store, easuy fitted

ticulars to M. E. Davey, Imlay City. 52

For
stock, lots and_ buildings.
farming country in Michigan.
business of the kind here. I will sell for
eash or its equivalent. A first-class busi-

 

 

Address par- |

County |
Stock |

Sale—Farm implement and buggy |
No_ better |
The only |

Volney Strong, —s |

For Sale—Boilers 1 to 125 H. P., tanks |

Address John Crowley, ———.

For Sale—A well-located drug store in
Grand Rapids. Good trade. Clean stock.
Invoice about $4,000. A _ bargain.
vestigation solicited. Address No.
care Michigan Tradesman.

For Sale—Old established drug, paint,
oil, boot and shoe business. Only other
drug stock in a town of 850 population,

In-
50,
50

 

 

 

 

business for sale. Good trade, good lo- | located in the southern portion of Michi-
cation. Address No. 97, care Michigan | gan. Good clean stock, located in brick
Tradesman. 9% building. Rent reasonable. Will sell

ee ee ee eee : cheap. Other business demanding at-

For Sale Cheap—New ice plow. Ad- | tention, reason for selling. Address =
dress Lock Pox 24, Lowell, Mich. %8 48. care Michigan Tradesman.

Wanted to buy for cash, good stock For Sale—A good paying feed ee
general merchandise. Particulars in re-| including corn meal mill. Will sell or
ply. Address No. 999, care Michigan {lease property. Address Leidy S. Depue.
Tradesman. 999 Washington, D. C. 39

For Sale—Farm implements _ stock. For Sale—20 shares of ist preferred

Only stock in town of 3800.
portunity for hustler. Invoices $2 000.
Address No. 78, care Michigan Trades-
man. 78

Cotton Cloth For Sale—Lot No. 41162
about 500 pounds, open weave, Egyptian
color, about 40 inches wide in rolls of
about 135 yards or say about 2% varas
per pound. Price 15c per pound, f. o. b
cars here, in bales for shipment. Sam-
ples sent upon seeatee. It is a job
lot. Who wants it? W. Becker, Asgt.,
Address Dept. 45, hictincioan N.Y. Si

Splendia op-

 

 

For Sale—Stock general merchandise,
consisting of shelf hardware, boots, shoes
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
place is produce dealing. Can be rented
or bought. Owing to change in busi-
ness would like to sell at once or not
at all. For particulars address H. & S.,
Box 16, Brunswick, Mich. 80

 

Wanted—To buy small wood manufac-
turing business. Address Lock Box 24,
Lowell, Mich. 85

 

stock of Great Northern Portland Cement
Co. stock for $1,200. Address Lock a
265. Grand Ledge, Mich.

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
chandise from $5,000 to $25,000 for cash.
Address No. 89, care Michigan Trades-
man. 9

 

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. Ill health the cause of
selling and must be sold quick. Cash
deal. Address No. :61, care Michigan
Tradesman. 961

For Sale—Shoe store, all new goods.
Location the best. Write or see —
Gysie, Columbus, Indiana. 976

Sell your real estate or business for
cash. I can get a buyer for you very
promptly. My methods are distinctly dif-
ferent and a decided 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 81. Bank references.

Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express
Building, Chicago. 899

 

 

| ried man

 

For Sale—480 acres of cut-over ‘oa |

wood land, three miles north of Thomp- | | tioneers.

sonville. 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.

 

Tuxbury, 301 Jefferson St., Grand Rap- |

ids. 335
For Sale—Stock of herdware, |

and wall paper, invoicing $1,500. Town |

600 population, surrounded by best farm- |

ing country in the State. Best of reasons
for selling. Address No. 969, care Michi-
gan Tredesman. 969

 

Cash for your stock—Or we will close |
out for you at your own place of busi-
ness, or make sale to reduce your stock.
‘Write for information. C. L. Yost & Co.,
577 West Forest Ave., Detroit. Mich 2

 

Wanted—To buy clean stock general
merchandise. Give full particulars.
dress No. 999, care Michigan Tradesman.

999

 

For Sale—Foundry and
Everything in running order.
lovation.
Mich.

or Sale For Cash Cate Sheek of gen-

cider
Harrison & Moran, Chelsea,
945

eral merchandise with fixtures. Estab-
lished ten years. Good country trade.
Reason for selling, other business. Don’t

write unless you

Hosmer, Mattawan, Mich.

Ad- |

 

For Sale—A 25 horse-power steel hori- | |

zontal boiler. A 12 horse-power engine
with pipe fittings. A blacksmith
with blower and tools.
belting. All practically new. Original
cost over $1,200. Will sell for $600.
Address B-B Manufacturing Co., 50 Ma-
sonic Ten.ple, Davenport, Iowa. 537

 

 

POSITIONS WANTED.

 

Wanted—Position as salesman in retail
hardware store. Have had ten years
experience. Address Box 367, Kalkaska
Mich. 466

 

 

HELP WANTED.

 

Wanted—An_ experienced
salesman in a dry goods,
and furnishing goods store.
preferred, of good
good salesman and stock-keeper
apt in decoration and wind«oy
A genial, active worker, one
be willing to assist in other
if necessary. Town of 1,600.
stating salary expected,
No 92, care Michigar

demon Ww ‘ded We want men
inz on grocery trade to take orders, as a
side line, for Midland Baking Powder,
giving large gold fish globe and two full
size gold fish with each can as premium.
Every grocer buys on sight. We have
the best proposition ever offered. Be sure
to write for particulars before you lay
this paper down. Liberal commission.
Mid.and Mfe. Co., 1216 Adams St.,
ledo, Ohio.

dry
elothing,
An

goods
shoe

who is
who
experience,

Tradesman. 92

 

84

 

Wanted—Salesmen to carry our brooms
as side line. Good goods at low prices;
plenty of styles. Liberal commission. Ad-
dress Central Broom Co.; Jefferson City,
Mo. 51

 

Wanted—Bright, energetic ladies or
gentlemen to represent an attrac tive
proposition in fraternal insurance. Ameri-
can Equity Association, Owosso, Mich. 56

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

 

 

Special and
sell the stock.
lar your stock
thirteen years that stands pre-
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
competent. Leok us up there as well
as the hundreds of merchants for whom
we have sold. Our free advertising sys-
tem saves you many a dollar. Write us,

We get you
ie worth. <A

we ean litt the buraen. The A. W.
Thomas Auction Co., 477 Wabash ave.,
Chicago, 30

| methods,

H. C. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
Stocks closed out or reduced
in the United States. New
original ideas, long experience,
| hundreds of merchants to refer to. We

anywhere

 

 

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| terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
bash Ave., Chicago. Reference, Dun’s
, Mercantile Agency. 872
MISCELLANEOUS.
iy Ww Wanted—E veryone troubled with As-

thma to send 15 cents for a sample bottle
of Asthma Remedy. It has never failed
to give relief. Address W. S.. Widerfelt,
Florence, Colorado. 963

 

To Exe hange 80 acre farm 3% miles
southeast of Lowell, 60 acres improved, 5

| acres timber and 10 acres orchard land,
| fair house and good well, convenient to
good school, for stock of general mer-

i chandise situated in a good town.

| Mich.

mill. |
Pirest class |

Real
estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
dence solicited. Konkle & Son, Alto,
501

 

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jJ- S. TAYLOR F. M, SMITH

Absolutely Perfect Satisfaction Guaranteed

‘*Merchants’’ wishing to reduce or close out

| entirely their stocks, our up-to-date methods of

advertising and selling are unequalled. We leave
it costs you nothing to ascer-

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

New York, Dec. 17—We have had
a firmer and more active coffee mar-
ket this week, and this is true not
only of spot stock but of the specu-
lative market. It may be only a
“flash in the pan,” as so often is the
case; but reports of bad weather in
Brazil and a probable short crop next
year seem to have exerted an influ-
ence. Rio No. 7 is quoted at 83c. In
store and afloat there are 4,166,095
bags, against 2,952,307 bags at the
same time last year—a supply that
precludes any idea of immediate scar-
city. In sympathy with Brazil stock,
West India coffee has shown some
advance and at the close is firmly
sustained, while the demand shows
some ‘improvement. Good Cucuta is
worth 934c. East Indias are well sus-
tained at about the recent range of
rates.

There is not an item of interest to
be picked up in the tea market. Hold-
ers seem very confident that a better
condition will prevail after the new
year, and it is quite likely that more
attention will be paid to the article
when attention is distracted from the
rush of the holidays. Such sales as
are made are showing a pretty firm
range of values.

Refined sugar is firm, although the
actual volume of business is moder-
ate. The one item of interest was
the announcement that the Arbuckles
had withdrawn their special arrange-
ment with the trade in Ohio and
West Virginia, so their prices are
now uniform everywhere.

Stocks of rice are not overabun-
dant and there is what might be
called a fairly good volume of win-
ter trade, so that prices are fairly
well maintained, albeit on a low range
of values.

Offerings of spices are limited and
quotations are steady and _ without
change. Singapore pepper, 124@
12%c; West Coast, 11%@11%ec.
There is a little Honduras offered
at: 3c.

There is a scarcity of strictly high
grade New Orleans molasses and full
values are obtained with every sale.
Business is not especially active, but
there is a steady call and holders are
firm in their views. Good to prime
centrifugal, 18@27c.

There is little to chronicle regard-
ing canned goods at this. seagon.
Trade is probably as active as it us-
ually is, but there is room for a good
deal of improvement. Tomatoes show
some signs of improvement. Low
prices have enabled retailers to dis-
pose of large quantities and the out-
look is for some slight advance. Six-
ty-five cents delivered here repre-
sents about the real value of Mary-
land stock. Corn hangs fire _ for
some reason. There is certainly. no
overabundance of extra stock and the
great bulk of offerings is not of the

 

sort to make lasting friends. Peas
are in ample supply and almost any
buyer can pick up some choice lots
at seemingly very low figures.

In dried fruits, currants show
some advance, owing, perhaps, to the
holiday demand and limited supply.
Raisins move slowly and low figures
do not seem to attract buyers. Other
goods are quiet.

It has been an awfully slow week
in the butter market and the de-
mand has not been sufficiently active
to prevent some accumulation. This
oversupply is not desirable in winter-
made butter. Best Western cream-
ery, 27@27%4c; seconds to firsts, 23@
26c; imitation creamery, 1644@2oc;
factory, 1534@17c; renovated, 15c
through every fraction to 20c for ex-
tra stock.

Cheese has done fairly well and
the demand has been sufficiently ac-
tive to keep the market pretty well
cleaned up. New York State full
cream small sizes are worth t2c and
large sizes 4c less.

The egg market is hardly as firm
as last noted, although for the best
nearby stock 4oc continues about the
official figure. Medium and _ lower
grades are quiet. Finest Western
candled stock, 32c; average best, 30

(@31c; seconds, 27@29c.
—_—_2. +>
Failure of Hoffman & Skeels, of
Brunswick.

Hoffman & Skeels, general dealers
at Brunswick, uttered a trust mort-
gage December 13, securing creditors

as follows:

Muskegon Milling — Muskegon. .$232.07
George Hume & 62.60

Snyder, Thayer & W: alker, = 18.35
Towner Bros, ns 55.08
Moulton & Riedell, - 5.72
Fred Brundage, es 10.78
National Biscuit Co., Grand Rapids 21.44
Lemon & Wheeler Co., 54.97
Valley City Milling Co., re 26.15
Brown -& Sehler Co., saa 103.00
Judson Grocer Co., ie 159.19
Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co., 2 18.65
Musselman Grocer Co., — 52.21
H. Teonard & Sons, ss 14.30
Waidron Shoe Co.. . 263.88
Noel & Bacon, 31.15
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.. ‘ 134.49
W. B. Jarvis Co., . 26.62
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., © 152.92
Smith-Wallace Shoe Co., Chicago. 67.80
H. Van Tongeren, Holland......... §.25
Georee Burns. Fremont........... 18.50
Secs Cer Co., Caoiceeo......... 17.50
M. M. Fenner & Co., Ciitcago..... 8.00
Gerber & Sons, Fremont.......... 90.20
Ant Mie. Co, Coleeeo......--.- 5.435
International Stock Food Co., Min-
MONI oe ec aces cae S
EB. B. Weed, Dowkias —.......5..5- 36.78
W...W.  Puteey, Bent (iy 3.6 22:. 200.00
Oo -—

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

Buffalo, Dec. 21-—Creamery, fresh,
24@26'%4c; storage, 22%4@24'4c; dairy,
fresh, 16@23c; poor, 12@15c; roll,
18@2oc.

Eggs—Candled, fresh, 30c; cold
storage, 21@22c; at mark, 20@20%c.

Live Poultry—Chicks. 9@1oc; fowls,
8@o9c; turkeys, 16@18c; ducks, 13@
ise; geese, 12@13¢.

Dressed Poultrv--Turkeys. 19@2o0c;
chicks, 12@13c; fowls, to@11%c; old
cox, 9c; ducks, I14@15c; geese 13@1I4c.

Beans—Hand picked marrows,. new
$2.6042.75; mediums, $1.85@i.90; peas
$1.75@1.80; red_ kidney, $2.50@275;
white kidney, $2.75@3.

Potatoes—Round_ white,
mixed and red, 40@4S5c.

Rea & Witzig.

—_——— <><

“Dear Santa Claus,’’ the baby prayed.
The mother leaned to hear.

“If you don’t bring the , things I sayed
I'll hit you on the ear!’

43@50¢;

Diamond Match Co. Ceases Opera-
tions at Ontonagon.

Ontonagon, Dec. 19—F. H. Hotch-
kiss, Northwestern manager for the
Diamond Match Co., announces that
the operations of the company are
practically ended in the vicinity of
this place.

The Diamond Match Co. has oper-
ated lumber camps and mills at On-
tonagon for twenty-two years. Its
mills were the principal industry of
the place and had much to do with
the prosperity of the village. On-
tonagon suffered the greatest calam-
ity in its history when in 1896 the
Diamond Match Co.’s mills burned.
They were not rebuilt because the
company at that time had seen the
beginning of the end.

The pine had been gradually cut
away until all of the larger timber had
been cut and it would not be profita-
ble to build mills to cut the remain-
ing small timber. Since the fire the
timber has been cut at the Ontonagon
camps and then shipped to Green
Bay. Mr. Hotchkiss. does not _ be-
lieve that this method will be profit-
able after this season. For matches
only the most perfect portion of the
pine is taken and this means a great
waste from the small logs. The logs
are first sawed into the ordinary two-
inch plank of commerce, which, aft-
er having been cut up into smaller
boards of the same thickness, to do
away with knots, is run through ma-
chines which cut it up into match
blocks. A match block is two inches
thick, two wide and about four long
and it is from these blocks’ that
matches are made, the blocks being
run through a machine which punches
the matches out.

The timber from Ontonagon no
longer provides a sufficient number of
match blocks per log and the com-
pany is thus forced to leave the terri-
tory. The Diamond Match Co. has
just completel a large mill plant in
the pine forests of California and
practically all the company’s lumber-
ing will be done in that section after
a season or two.

Detailed Review of the Grain Market.

Cash wheat continues in fair de-
mand and the price is somewhat
stronger, December options selling at
an advance of about 3@4c per bushel
for the week. Receipts of wheat in
the Northwest continue quite heavy—
much in excess of last year—but other
sections of the country have not con-
tributed quite so freely. Bradstreet’s
reports indicate changes in stocks for
the week, as follows: Decrease in
wheat of 1,477,000 bushels, increase
in corn of 794,000 bushels and a de-
crease in oats of 12,000 bushels. The
growing winter wheat crop is. at
rest, so far as damage reports are
concerned, as practically the entire
winter wheat belt is covered with
snow, while rain has given relief to
the extreme Southwest and Southeast.
The cash grain situation is somewhat
puzzling. Chicago reports sales of
wheat for shipment to Kansas City,
Kansas City reports sales of wheat
for shipment to Minneapolis, while
Minneapolis reports quite liberal sales
of cheap frost damaged wheat for

 

 

shipment to Kansas City. Our mar-
ket is entirely domestic, as there are
practically no exports of either wheat
or flour. The receipts of wheat in
the four principal spring wheat mar-
kets, Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago
and Milwaukee, since August I have
been 85,000,000 bushels, as compared
with nearly 89,000,000 bushels for the
same period last year, and over a
100,000,000 bushels for 1900 and Igot.

Receipts of new corn continue lib-
eral, but the demand seems to be
sufficient to care for all offerings and
the market has shown considerable
strength the past few days, selling up
about 2c per bushel. Corn is improv-
ing in quality and considerable is
now being booked for the Eastern
States, with the usual guarantee of
arrival cool and sweet.

The demand for oats is fair. Prices
are strong, while receipts are not
large, but sufficient to care for all or-
ders. L. Fred Peabody.

——_—_2>- 2
Failure of E. Flewelling, of Nashville.

E. Flewelling, who succeeded the
former firm of Greene & Flewelling,
clothiers at Nashville, about a month
ago, uttered a trust mortgage De-

cember 16, securing the following
creditors, whose claims aggregate
$8,151:
Mick 2 Oo 8 we le $2,000.00
Lo. Pevne, Moston... 2.6.2... } 68.39
C. E. Smith Shoe Co., Detroit..... 500.00
Wm. Connor Co., Grand Rapids.. 57.00
L. Margulus, New TO aie ee 73.62
Perry Glove & Mitten Co., Perry.. 70.88
7

A. C. Staley Mfz. Co., South Bend 121.
United Shirt & Collar Co., Troy... 131.65
Parrott, Beales & Co., Chicago... 148.65
3urnham, Stoepel & Co., Detroit. 300.92
Becker, Meayer & Co., Chicago.. 5321.50

Crowley Bros., Detroit........<.. 279.00
Duck Brand Co... Chicaro.......- 112.55
Clapp Clothing Co., Grand Rapids 150.00
Mishawauka Woolen Mfg. Co..... | 767.30
Wm. T. Briggs, Johnstown, N. Y. 175.00
Michigan Cap Co., Detroit ..-.... 180.50
North Chicago Knitting Mills,
CAMO eee a ats 71.50
New England Hat Co., Detroit... 300.00
Peerless Mfg. Co., Det mae, 18.00
Three s:vers Robe Tanning Co... 85.40
Joserh Rosenberg, Detroit....... sig
Scott Mu‘fier Co., Portsmouth, O.. 4.50
Goshen Shirt Mfg. Co., Goshen .. 24.50
Mm. M. Stanton & Co., Detroit.... 568.36
ten -Woeller ©o,, BF. se... 65.15
Matamaroo Pant Co.........- ces Ceo
Hmenuid Bros. Toledo, O......... 14.95

The inventory of the stock figures
up $5,887. The trustees of the mort-
gage are A. H. Corwin, of Detroit,
and Len W. Feighner, of Nashville.

——_~..—___—_
Around the Christmas Board.

A dozen seats at the Christmas board,
But onl eleven surround it.

And a vacant chair is prettily draped
With the stars and stripes around it.

And the plate in front of the vacant seat
Is heaped with the table’s treasure,
W nile the children wonder in childish awe
At the grandsire’s generous measure.

But the old man speaks as the dinner ends,
And he tells the thrilling story
Of a woy who marched at his otuneey” s call,

And fell in the ranks of glory.
The Benjamin of the household, he,
Who kissed his mother and started
And waved his hand from the distant hill

A last farewell as they parted.
And now as tne years go by, and round
a the day that their darling left
em,

They deck his chair with the flag he loved,
And his sword which is all that’s left
them.
et Gee
Midland—Olmsted & Somerville
have moved their grocery stock into
new quarters in the new Baker bank
block.

 

 

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tent to buy space, select media, compile
mailing lists, arrange catalogues, pam-
phlets and circulars. Motto: Maximum

results with minimum expense. Address
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