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Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1905

 

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

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING
MANUFACTURERS

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

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

 

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WIDDICOMB BLDOG.GRAND RAPIDS,
DETROIT OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, DETRO!T.
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AND COLLECT “ALL OTHERS

 

 

Collection Department

R. G. DUN & CO,

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids
Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, ef-
ficient, responsible; direct demand sys-
tem. Collections made everywhere for
every trader. C. E. McCRONE, Manager.

 

We Buy and Sell
Total Issues
of

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

BONDS

 

Correspondence Solicited.

H W. NOBLE & COMPANY

BANKERS

Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich,

 

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

Twenty-seven companies! We have a
portion of each company’s stock pooled in
a trust for the protection of stockholders,
and in case of (aun in any company you
are reimbursed from the trust fund of a
successful cers. The stocks are all
withdrawn from sale with the exception of
two and we have never lost a dollar for a
customer.

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

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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ILLUSTRATIONS O
STATIONERY & CATAL

GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

 

SPECIAL FEATURES.

Page.

2. Window Trimming.
4. Around the State.
5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. The Food Fad.

8. Editorial.

9. Legal Procedure.

0.

1 Hardware.
141. New York Market.
12. Shoes.

14. Deadbeat Mullins.

17. An Old Stock.

18. Clothing.

20. Clerk’s Corner.

22. Butter and Eggs.

24. Looking Backward.
28. Mystery of Sleep.

30. Woman’s World.

32. Begging Donations.
33. Overdoing Success.
36. Food Show.

38. Dry Goods.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

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

 

 

 

 

BLOCKING THE WHEELS.

The Great Western Cereal Co. still
remains silent on the subject of aban-

doning the premium plan, as propos- |

ed by the American Cereal Co., much
to the disgust of the retail grocers
and to the perplexity of those trade

journals which have been doing their |
improvement in|

best to sectire an
present conditions in the cereal field.
Instead of meeting the issue openly
and manly and fairly, the Great
Western Co. apparently
subterfuge and circumlocution, with
a view to confusing the situation,
thus tending to perpetuate a perni-
cious abuse on the trade, instead of
using its best efforts to reach a rea-
sonable solution of the problem.

In the face of this condition, the re- |

tail grocers of the country will readily
draw their own conclusions and, un-
Tradesman is very much
mistaken, they will show their dis-
of the

less the

approval

refusing to handle any goods mantu- |

factured by that company until such

time as it is disposed to treat the |

trade with due respect and considera-
tion.

 

BUSINESS OR HEALTH.
The frequent remark, “I am not
in business for my health,” needs
no explanation for the ordinary per-
son to understand, and yet there may
be much more in the phrase than is

at first comprehended. The legitimate |
aim of every business man is money, |

and no one need offer any excuse for
such a motive. That business men
in general have more important ends
in view and that money and business
are only necessary steps thereto, are
no doubt true. The impression, how-
ever, that the life of a business man
is not always conducive to good
health must find a lodgment in the
mind of the thoughtful hearer.

It behooves every business man to

resorts to |

  

dog-in-the-manger |
policy of the Great Western Co. by |

| daieieider well this matter and a!
| a a * i u i
| cide what effects his business or his |
methods of doing business have up- |

on his health. Is he carrying more |

burdens than he is naturally capable

of doing? Is it his desire to outstrip

a competitor, to be the leading busi- |
ness man of his town or to accumu- |
late an enormous fortune, and is this |
study |

}

|incentive compelling him to

| :
land plan and hustle beyond his

strength? Does he not realize some- |
i . . . ue }
times that he is working himself to|
the utmost limit of his powers? If|

he does, is he assuring himself that |

he can stand the strain until certain

: cn
| results are attained and then he will

rest and himself?
Many a business man who would

enjoy

ibe glad to take needed rest finds |
jhimself in such circumstances that |

he can see no other way than to

toil on to the extent of his endurance.
Rut where there is not the necessity,
where a man could do a good, paying |

| business and take some comfort in
life as he goes along, and not live
on the verge of physical collapse, is

\it not folly to be ruled by pride or
lambition or greed? Is a man who
ruins his health in business in such

a way less culpable than he who |

does it by vicious dissipation?

| “ee ene EO ARES

Make it a rule to keep as much of

your earnings in your own locality
las you can. If you find that your)
home town can not supply all your}
needs keep your money in your coun- |

ty, and if you can not do this, by all
means keep your money in your home
state, and thus enrich your common-

wealth and keep down your taxation.
NS

Concentration of abilities and the

exercise of force in utilizing opportu-
The

good general keeps his men compact,

nities wins in the battle of life.

so he can best direct their move

| ments at the critical time. So should

lit be with the man who wants to
make a success of what he under- |
takes.

ee

The business man of a town can|
not well blame the other residents
of the place for buying goods some-
where else when his wife and daugh-
ters are above wearing dresses that |

can be purchased in the town, and go
|elsewhere for them.

|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Do not be so short sighted as to
| think that you are saving money by
|purchasing goods outside your own
| “bailiwick,” for by saving a penny in
| this manner you lose a dollar in
values in community

| keeping your

from advancing.

sR SNR EER IRE S

\
|
| If you can not say a good word for
| your home town, don't say anything,
| but quietly fold your tent and steal

jaway to some other place more in
| harmony with your sentiments. |

| interests, the

| tion.

| but they in no way

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

The unexpected activity in the Wall
Street
ing the holiday season proves such

markets preceding and dur-
an anticipation of annual reports and
dividend paying as to bring much
less than the expected advance and
increase of activity in the opening
Speculators and
agreed to

trade of the year.

the public seem tacitly

|await developments and become well

entering upon the

which

prepared before

active bull campaign seems
generally expected. Price changes in

leading properties have been gener-

| ally upward and in some notable in-

stances, as the Northern Securities
advance has been re-
markable. These, however, are Ow-
ing to individual interests and con-
ditions which take them out of sig-
nificance in the general situation. A

favorable feature in the financial out-

| look is that more profitable rates for

With records
Treasury

money are in prospect.

being broken in reserves

| and in per capita circulation it is not

strange that much of the time money
rates have been fluctuating and too
low on the average, but with increas-
ing demand from securities floata-

tion on many hands the outlook is

|good for a normal, steady rate.

In general trade confidence seems
to be gaining in every direction. Con-
tracts are being placed by the great
corporations in a way to assure a
steady prosecution of industry in ail
Some of the rail-
ways, notably the Pennsylvania, are

{

the great fields.
issuing bonds to an extent to excite
wonder, but these mean simply that
expansion and betterments must be
kept up to meet the constantly in-
Such
are enough to account for the con-

creasing demands. influences
stantly increasing activity in the iron
and steel trades.

The only unfavorable feature in the

| textile field is the desperate situation

of the strikers and mill owners at

Fall River. This, however, is out-

|side of the general situation in that

it is a meeting of competition in
the Southern field, where labor is
cheaper and there is less transporta-
The local effects in Fall River
deserve the commiseration,

reflect on the

greatest

general prosperity. The extremely
low price of cotton tends to restrict
goods

It ts
situation 07

buying, as dealers in cotton

think lower prices must ensue.
curious that with this
that staple, wool should be breaking
its record for high price for a long
time past, and the mills reporting
the greatest activity of recent years.

Seca 0 SE APR RRR

Success does not strike the man

very hard who hangs about the

streets with his hands in his pockets
awaiting something to turn up.

 

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Displays Are Assisting the Elimina- |
tion of Winter Stocks.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New!
Year's, the linen sales—and now the |

 

stores carrying dry goods are putting |
forth every effort to get rid of their
winter stocks in anticipation of the
epening of spring. One not in the
Lusiness would think that merchants
dealing in furnishing goods for both
men and women would get so tired
of this eternal
life would seem a burden and they

strenuous strain that |

would willingly lie down and die. |
But something keeps them agoing. |
* * * |

Now is the time for the prudent |
person—the one who cares for quali- |
ty just a wee bit more than for the |
very latest style—to consult the lim- |
its of her geldbeutel (pocketbook)
and lay in a stock of ready-to-wear
garments at one-half, one-third or,
it may be in some cases, one-quarter
the original price—if we may believe
the statements of the salespeople, |
statements made with apparently the |
utmost candor. If a lady has kept
her eye on a particular garment since
it first appeared in a particular stock
she does not have to accept these
statements but relies on her own
knowledge. Then, indeed, is her
heart glad if she may possess. the
article in question.

I noticed to-day in one window a}
lady’s tailormade suit with the “was”
price ticketed as $50 and the “now”
price as $15! One couldn’t examine
the quality, drop skirt (if there were
one) and workmanship through the
plate glass front, however, the gown
looked as if it never was worth more
than $25 at the very most. One
must be a good judge of these things
not to get taken in by these “wases”
and “ises.”

= + *

This week Leonard Benjamins pre-
sents two striking windows, one of
them especially so. The one at the
right shows what a pleasing effect
may be produced by just two sorts
of articles judiciously arranged—stiff-
bosomed colored shirts and collars.
The cartons of the latter are stacked
up “kitty-corner” at wide intervals,
the top one of each pile being left
for the inspection of the passer-by.
This arrangement seems to be quite
in favor now among windowmen. It
draws attention and at the same time
does not disarrange stock, and the

 

boxes are easily put in place in the
window and as easily removed when
the display is changed.

The left hand Benjamins window
shows what may be accomplished by
simple materials, ingenuity and neat-
ness and care in the carrying out of
details. At the back and for about
three feet at each side is shirred a
full curtain of white cotton that has
the appearance of sateen. Long nar-
row boxes—two at the back and one
at each side—have been covered with
Canton flannel of a dead white (not

 

cream white) and are placed above

the curtaining. At the end of each
side curtain is a large round pillar,

| also covered with the Canton flannel.

The smaller boxes extend some eight
inches beyond the tops of the col-
umns. This gives the appearance of
The boxes
so neatly, not a wrinkle or tack to

a parapet. are covered

be seen, and are placed so closely
together that it is with difficvlty one
can discover how the work was
done. Too many window trimmers

fail in a good result by a slipshod
details, sometimes a
whole window being ruined by this

course as: to

defect.

Overcoats and fur gloves are made
this window
with the pillars and the parapet.

A nicely-lettered placard reads:

the special objects in

Our 44 inch
Overcoats
Are the Season’s Favorites
Have One on You
* * *

“Now is the winter of our discon-
tent” as to chapped hands and faces
and the druggists are taking this in-

ito account by calling to the public,

through their front glass, to buy their
lotions and creams to soften the hard-

/ened cuticle.

Berand Schrouder takes advantage,

always, of local conditions in his

| window displays and has a high pyr-
|amid of boxes, or

what-not, cov-
ered with light yellow crinkly paper.
A card says:
For Face and Hands
Amsterdam Cream
I5c
Cures Chaps, Rough Skin
and
Facial Blemishes

Seely’s Rose Perfumes are adver-

tised in the background.
x * x

West’s drug store on Canal street
also invites the suffering public to
cure its chapped hands, but instead
of Amsterdam Cream West would
have you purchase Almond Cream.
The window card announces that its
price is 15, 25 and Soc, according to
size of container, and that there is
“none better for chapped hands and
rough skin.” Kirk's Witch Hazel
Soap is also displayed by this firm.

* * *

Show me the housewife who does
not love to gaze on a windowful of
immaculate kitchenware and I will
show you a housewife who does not
*tend to her knitting.

Foster, Stevens & Co. this week de-
light the eye of the thrifty home-
keeper by a whole big window of
enameled goods which possess most
delightful possibilities in the culin-
aty line—they make the mouth wa-
ter with ,anticipation just to look at
them. Each sort of this merchandise
is placed in a group by itself: White
with a narrow blue line at the top:
light blue outside with white lining;
Royal blue outside with the inside of
white; brown outside with white
within, these last the nicest little
dishes imaginable for cooking pur-
poses.

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One section of Spring’s immense
window space deserves special notice.
In it are two as handsome materials
for evening gowns as one could wish

 

to see. One is white chiffon with
dainty pink roses and pale leaves and
the other is a coarse-meshed pink
grenadine. Lots of wear is in the
latter, but the ‘perishableness of the
chiffon calls for a good fat pocket-
book.

. oe
Rindge, Krekel & Co. never make
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the mistake of crowding their  win-
dows. They show. always just

enough goods to allow the beholder
to carry away a distinct impression
of each shoe exhibited. In the men’s
window one sees samples of mocca-
sins made with a buckskin upper and
rawhide sole. They tell me they sell
quantities of these all the year
around—in the winter for housewear
for men, women and children, and for
“gym.” purposes, and in the summer
for boys and girls for out-of-door
use in place of tennis shoes.

In the ladies’ window Dorothy
Dodd shoes form a tasty exhibit.

The generous expanse of mirrors
at back and side adds much to the
beauty of the Rindge, Krekel & Co.
windows.

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“The Giant” clothing displays need
to be seen to be properly appreciat-
One section is entirely given up
to evening “togs,” giving useful hints
for correct dressing. Another win-
dow is devoted to new spring waist-

ed.

coats—and such beauties as they are,
22 of them, by actual count. A man
would be an old crank who couldn’t
find here something that would suit
his caprice.

In a third window is invisibly sus-
pended an immense sign—$ and then
a I and a §, calling attention to the
goods below, which are marked with
the former price and the present
reduction to $15.

A clever sign below reads as fol-
lows:

Our Stout and Tall-Slim Suits
and QOvercoats
Are Included in this Sale
at

Sis.
a
The New York Daily Tribune.

Of course, a great deal depends on
your own taste in the matter of news-
papers. If you want a_ publication
that serves up so much gore and so
many thrills in every it is
money thrown away to buy the Trib-
une. If, however, you are looking
for a daily history of the world, care-
fully collated and sifted and present-
ed in the most attractive form that
the facts and the laws of good taste
will permit, you can not make any
mistake in reading The Tribune every
day. But The Daily Tribune is more
than a continuous history. It contains
special articles on nearly every sub-
ject which is supposed to interest
intelligent and clean-minded people,
to say nothing of the illuminated
and instructive editorial articles and
reviews of books, music and_ the
drama. Just by way of experiment,
why don’t you invest $1 and get
The Daily and Sunday Tribune by
mail for a month? With The Sun-
day Tribune go a handsome illus-
trated supplement and a. magazine,
with colored covers, equal to any-
thing sold for, ten cents.

issue,

 

TIN AND COPPER QUIET.

All Other Staples in Iron and Hard-
ware Strong.

While the taking of annual inven-
tories and planning the general con-
duct of the various jobbing and retail
-nterprises for the ensuing year nat-
urally exercised a somewhat restrain-
the
buying and selling in hardware last

ing influence upon volume of
weck, trade is now beginning to as-
sume a more aggressive tone and an
excellent business is expected to be
reported this week and for many
weeks to come. Most of the lead-
ing concerns have now completed
their stock-taking and making
preparations to replenish their greatly
depleted supplies in order to be in
good condition for the big influx of
orders they believe will ex-
ceed all previous January records

are

which

The manufacturers, therefore, have
so far almost monopolized the busi-
ness and are still booking large con-
tracts for far distant deliveries. Hods,
elbows strictly
goods are being purchased by middle-
men and retailers for delivery as far
ahead as next fall, and an unusually
large volume of orders is _ being
placed for summer goods, especially
lawn mowers, grass_ shears,
spades and other agricultural imple-
ments.

and other winter

hoes,

The demand for these goods
is increasing rapidly in view of the
belief that prices in these
lines wil soon be advanced consider-
ably in sympathy with the repeated
advances in prices of iron, steel and
copper. Prices of axes have been
raised slightly in order to enable
jobbers to dispose of stocks left on
tneir hands from last season, but it
is not unlikely that these quotations
will be lowered later in the year to
their former levels. Stove pipe damp-
ers have been advanced about Io per
cent. Although the prices of wire
products have not been altered by
the leading manufacturers, many in-
dependent producers are asking pre-
miums of 5c and Ioc in view of the
increased cost of rods and billets,
while a few producers who find they
can scarcely pay expenses at the
present cost of raw materials have
advanced prices so far above those
of the leading manufacturers that
they have virtually debarred them-
selves from active competition on
new business.

general

Pig Tron—The demand for foundry
pig iron continues to increase daily
as many of the largest founders in
the New England and middle At-
lantic states are unable to obtain de-
liveries on time and are being com-
pelled to purchase tonnages in the
open market, while other consumers,
who are convinced that higher prices
will soon be established, are provid-
ing for their prospective reavirements
by placing contracts for shipments in
the first and second quarters. The
Eastern Pennsylvania producers are
still obtaining $16.75 to $17 per ton
for No. 2 X, the Alabama _furnace-
men $13.75 for their No. 2 Southern

ad the Virginia furnaces $15 to
$15.50. Forge iron is in excellent
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the pipe works and rolling m

ills to
secure large tonnages at any fi

gure.
The steel companies are buying large
lots of both and
grades for the second quarter, but al-

Bessemer basic

though the prices of foundry

forge iron are being held firmly, a

slightly weaker undertone has been

developed-in Bessemer owing to the

fact that many speculative interests

|]
and |

are opening all their available plants

and are also planning té increase their |

capacity. Prices on all classes oi

finished steel are being well maintain- |

ed with the exception of tin plates
which have been over-purchased by

|some speculative interests, who, hav-

ing furnished their specifications to |

|
|
|

|

|

| consumers.

|

the mills, now discover that they |
| have no immediate use for the ma- |
terial and are therefore selling it |

which purchased big tonnages at low |

take
profits at prices slightly under those
Although
very little basic is being carried on

figures are now beginning to

of the leading producers.

speculation, the undertone of
market is also becoming weaker in

sympathy with Bessemer.

and steel are in good demand at the |

recent advance in prices and coke is
well maintained by the leading ovens
in the Connellsville district at $2.50

this }

ums of 5c to Ioc a few weeks ago |
lis not affecting the other markets, |

- . |
Scrap iron |

per ton for furnace and $3 to $3.50 |

for foundry brands.

Steel_-Another indication of the

constantly increasing activity in the |

all
ducts is the announcement by Charles
M. Schwab that the Bethlehem Steel

Co. is planning to enlarge its produc-

market for classes of steel pro-

ing capacity in order to fill more ex-

big

which
last

peditiously the
boc rked
According to

contracts
the
Mr.
Bethlehem compary will expend

it fas within few
weeks
the
$5,000,000 in additions and improve-
ments. The plant formerly devoted
exclusively to gun making will also
engage in the manufacture of crucible
steel, high grade castings and springs
Many other steel

leading concerns

In Deference

to the

Schwab |

freight cars and other track

for early shipment at prices 5c to Ioc
the official
This development of weakness in a

under present figures.

however, and it is expected that tin

Copper—The | slight
in the European demand for Ameri-
the
last week was not apparent in Ameri-
markets
quiry from

can copper in first few days of

can and there was less en-

Chinese and Japanese

Domestic melters con-
orders to
but

they are not disposed to contract for

tinue to place. small

cover immediate requirements,

forward deliveries. Leading produc-

ers, however, hold their export prices

firmly on the basis of £70 5s for

| prompt and at £70 for forward ship-
| product which was selling at premi- |

plate prices will also reach high levels |

again as soon as the unloading spec-
ulations of disappointed speculators
cease.

New contracts for standard rails,

ment are being placed daily by rail-

| according to the quality.

ments. Electrolytic copper was well

lake at

15.3714c, and casting at 14.87%@I5c,

maintained at 15.15@1I5.25¢c;

Exports for

the week include 6,209 tons; total
shipments so far this month aggre-
| gate 8,326 tons. Although the out-

| put of the

equip- |

domestic mines is. increas-

ine at the rate ot t2t4 per cent. per

year, while the export demand ap-

improvement |

| ““There’s

ed at decidedly lower levels. The
larger arrivals from the Far East
and the liquidation of the London
cligue, which had formerly controlled

a small bull corner, sent prices tum-

bling downward early last week until

cpet prices recorded a net decline
of 50 points by dropping from 29.50¢
to 29c. From that point, however,
the market rallied under the heavy

covering movement which followed

and prices of spot supplies advanced

to 209.20c, at which figure they re-

mained until the end of the week.
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He Was Ready To Die.
A gay and handsome traveling man
Lay on a bed of pain;
All hope had passed, his life ebbed fast,
He would never rise again.
‘Hast thou no sweetehart fair and true?”
They whispered o’er his bed,
“Whom thou would tell a last farewell?”
The young man softly said:

 

Daisy back in
And Nellie up in Blair;

Burlington,

| There’s Millie down in Lincoln Town,

pears to be decreasing slightly, most |

| producers are not alarmed by present

| conditions, as they realize that for-

roads which are also buying the
heaviest tonnages of structural ma- |

terial to be used in the construction

of brigdes. Large building contract-

|ors in the West have already placed

+some

moderate-sized orders

eign buyers will soon require further |

| heavy tonnages, while the domestic

| consumers will be compelled to place |

for |

| beams, angles and shapes, but East- |

ern construction companies have not

yet ordered any large tonnages, al- |

| though it is expected they will soon

be in the market. Many consumers

| of billets and wire rods are experienc-

ing considerable dirficulty in obtain-

very large contracts in order to

their orders for finished products.

fill |

Tin—Depressed by the heavy un-|

loading operations of the Chinese and

| other foreign traders, which followed

the publication of unfavorable statis-

| tics, and stimulated by the scarcity

|of spot supplies in this country, the

ing their consignments, and big pre-

still obtained

mills on prompt shipments.

miums are being by

 

 

market for pig tin closed the week

with spot prices still firmly held, al- |

though nearby deliveries were offer

|
|

And Mary in St. Clair.

And at Des Moines there’s Esther, dear,
Whom I must surely see,

And Anna, too, at Waterloo—
Please bring them all to me.”

The watchers stared with wild surprise,
And then they said once more:
“Come, tell us, pray, without delay
The girl whom you adore;
The girl whom you have sworn to love
And bring both wealth and fame—
Your promised wife, your hope and life;
Quick, let us hear her name.”
“There’s Maggie up at Boone,”’ he said,
“And Mamie at Wapello;
There’s Violet at Winterset,
And Maud at old St. Joe;
And Genevieve at Davenport,
And Mabel at St. Paul.”
The young man sighed,
died—
I've sworn

‘its time I

to wed them all.”’
a
Mary and Her Lamb Again.
Mary had a little lamb,
But that is nothing new.
She’s gone and bought another lamb
And now got lamh stew.

she’s

 

Retail Merchant

We have abolished the ‘‘Cash and Coupon” premium scheme from every one of our cereal packages without

a single exception.
More than that—

We have abandoned premium coupons of every description from more than fifty of our brands. We have cut
them out lock, stock and barrel.
And we did not stop there—

We offered to eliminate the ‘‘wor

d-spelling” scheme now applied by us to two brands only (but without the

cash feature formerly a part of it), providing The Great Western Cereal Company would do so also.

This Offer Was Made December 14th, 1904.

It Has Not Yet Been Accepted.

 

tion:

ness.”

do, viz.
cereal companies.”

 

Mr. Ira B. Thomas, Secretary Iowa Association:
pressure is brought to bear upon the Great Western Cereal

Mr. T. A. Rock, Secretary Wisconsin Association:

Read the following extracts from official letters and resolutions:

Mr. Fred Mason, Secretary National Retail Grocers’ Associa-
“T agree with you that this is a mighty step forward, and
competitors must comply with the policy or put up the shutters.
I am confident the retail trade will stand by you, for they have
given abundant evidence they are tired of the frenzied efforts
conceived in certain quarters for the purpose of attracting busi-

“Tf sufficient

Company at once, we can accomplish what we have set out to
The entire abandonment of all cereal schemes by all

*Person-

ally and officially, I urge in the future as in the past, the pro-
priety of discontinuing business relations with any and all con-
cerns who resort to the premium, etc.,
Ohio

everything in my power to have the retail grocers of Ohio show

Mr. W. FH. Cook, Secretary

their appreciation to the manufacturer who is first to take this

step.”

Mr. J. Frank Wickens, Secretary New York State Association:

“I shall do all nm my power to

throughout the state to the facts as set forth in your letter, and
urge them to see that the sale of your goods is pushed in
preference to others who seem to have no mind or independence

of their own.”

call

plan of selling goods.”

shall do

Association: |]

attention of the grocers

 

 

The AMERICAN CEREAL COMPANY

SS a

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Pellston—A. M. Morrow succeeds
Morrow & Stealy in the drug busi-
ness.

Saginaw—Riter & Schuller succeed
John G. Schaefer in the meat busi-
ness.

Saginaw—Wmm. E.
gist, is succeeded by G. J. Watts
& Co.

Kalkaska—C. A. Hooker, of Evart,
has engaged in the confectionery
business.

Calumet—N. Reding is to succeed
Wertin & Co. in the general store
business.

Shepherd—John G. Fisher, furni-
ture dealer, is succeeded by Edward
S. McClellan.

Saginaw—Mrs.

Banister, drug-

Anna B. Gross-

man, milliner, is succeeded by Mc-
Gugan & Strieter.
Byron Center—Sterken & Sticks

will continue the general store busi-
ness of B. Sterken.

East Jordan—Frank Martinek has
been succeeded by C. C. Mack in
the jewelry business.

Saline—Charlies H. Schroen will
embark in the dry goods business
here the latt-r part of February.

Charlevoix—Welling & Co. have
closed their branch store at this place
and removed the stock to Petoskey.

Detroit—Isaac Van Baalen is to
continue the jewelry and trunk busi-
ness formerly conducted by Van
Baalen & Co.

Wayiand—Lee Deuel has sold his
interest in the lumber and grain busi-
ness of Wallbrecht & Deuel to Har-
ry R. Pickett.

Ionia—The hardware business of
li. B. Webber & Co. will be contin-
ued under the style of the Webber
Hardware Co.

Alpena — Schwartz Bros. have
opened a fruit and produce house
here as a branch of their Saginaw
establishment.

East Jordan—The Votruba & Bow-
en Co., Ltd., has been succeeded by
Bowen & Kenny in the market and
grocery business.

Allegan—George Christman, who
formerly worked in J. G. Stein’s store,
has moved his grocery stock here
from Grand Junction.

Boyne City—George Kirby has
purchased the Jubenville meat mar-
ket and will continue the business
at the same location.

Vermontville—Granger Bros. have
purchased the implement stock of
Powers & Andrews and will conduct
both stores hereafter.

Hart—Floren Fuller has purchased
the Billings interest in the Fisher &
Billings meat market and a half in-
terest in the building.

Clare—Mrs. A. E. Mussel] an-
nounces, under date of Jan. 10, that
she has admitted her son, Arthur R.,
to partnership in her drug and sta-
tionery business and that the firm
name hereafter will be A. E. Mussell

& Son.

 

 

Traverse City-—-Vic. C. Palmer has
purchased the meat market of Bing-
ham Bros. and will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Shelby—Henry Goodenrath has
been engaged as general manager of
the store conducted by the Co-opera-
tive Association of Shelby.

Breckenridge—Lemuel Waggoner
is succeeded by Gettleman & Co., who
will carry a line of dry goods, gro-
ceries and boots and shoes.

Wayland—Peter Ross  has_ sold
his grocery and crockery stock to
Mat Scheiern, who will continue the
business at the same location.

Lansing—Frederick H. Barteaux, a
Lansing grocer, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy, placing his liabilities
at $4,312.15 and assets at $2,394.

Grand Ledge——Will Pierce has sold
his interest in the Robinson Grocery
Co. to T. B. Robinson, who will here-
after conduct the business alone.

Tustin—L. P. Gard has purchased
an interest in the agricultural busi-
ness of Thos. Anderson. The new
firm is known as Anderson & Gard.

Calumet—The Wertin & Co. gen-
eral stock has been sold by the cred-
itors to N. Reading, who will con-
tinue the business at the same loca-
tion.

Charlotte—F. A. Ives has bought
an interest in the New York Racket
Store and hereafter the Racket Store
and Jumble will be under one man-
agement.

Eaton Rapids—D. D. Wheeler has
bought an interest in the grocery
and bakery of Klink & Briggs and
the firm name will be Briggs &
Wheeler.

Pinconning—Martin Naumes, who
has been employed in a hardware
store at Pigeon, has purchased a
stock at this place and engaged in
business here.

Muskegon—The Alberts Hardware
Co. has been formed to open a store
at 46 Pine street in the Newton
block. Abner Alberts will be mana-
ger of the store.

Lake Odessa—Ed. Shellhorn has
purchased the interest of O. C. Russ
in the clothing firm of W. Elliott &
Co. The business will be continued
under the same style.

Port Huron—The business’. of
Beard, Goodwillie & Co., wholesalers
of iron, carriage hardware, bicycles,
etc., will be continued under the style
of Beard, Campbell & Co.

Manistee—-The Loudon Clothing
Co., composed of John Loudon and
kis son, Roy, have bought the George
Davis stock and will continue the
business at 329 River street.

New Era—A. E. Norberg has pur-
chased the interest of O. Van Gorder
in the grocery firm of Norberg &
Van Gorder and will continue the
business at the same location.

Traverse City—L. E. Moore and
J. W. Oakley have formed a copart-
nership under the style of Moore &
Oakley and engaged in the meat busi-
ness at 404 East Front street.

Durand—tThe stock of groceries be-
longing to Convis & Convis has been
sold to Harry King, who came to
this place from Swartz Creek several
months ago and has been clerking
for Mr. Convis.

 

 

Lake Linden—Joseph Pearce has

has merged his furniture and_ hard-
ware business into a limited co-part-
nership under the style of the Pearce
Hardware and Furniture Co., Ltd.
fonia—-W. C. Peer & Co. have sold
their dry goods, cloak and carpet
stock to Thomas A. Carten, who has
removed the stock to his own store
and consolidated it with his stock.
Mendon—O. R. Baird has sold his
drug stock to C. E. Harvey, former-
ly engaged in the drug business at
Northport. The sale was made
through the Wants Column depart-
ment of the Tradesman.
Holland—Gerrit Tien, who moved
here from Graafschap some weeks
ago, has purchased the grocery stock
of W. Bouwsma, corner of Sixteenth
street and Central and will
continue the business at that stand.
West, who for

avenue,
Manistique—C. E.

Cedar street known as the “Racket”
store, has disposed of his stock to

| Eugene Carrington, who will contin-

ue the business with other additional
lines.

Newberry—S. N. Dutcher has sold
a half interest in his Newberry Bank
to De F. P. Bohn and Mrs. W_ G.
Fretz, each acquiring a quarter inter-
est. The business will be continued
under the old title of the Newberry
Bank, S. N. Dutcher & Co., bankers.

 

Durand—L. L. Conn, proprietor of |

the white front shoe store, has dis-
posed of his stock to L. & J. Scrib-
ner, both of near Bancroft. The lat-
ter gentleman has been clerking for
Mr. Conn. L. Scribner is well known
in Durand, having been a clerk in
the First National Bank at one time.
Harbor—Capt. Williams,
who sailed the Argo during the past
for the & Morton
Company, has purchased the meat
market on the corner of Pipestone
and Pleasant of James M.
Miller and has taken possession of
the same.

Quincy—H. A. Graves, who for the
past twenty-five years has conducted
the leading grocery here, has sold his
stock to Mr. Comstock (his son-in-
law) and Mr. Norcutt, who has been
in the grocery trade in Litchfield for
several years. The style of the new
firm is Comstock & Norcutt.

Detroit—Charles W. Hill, for a
number of years in charge of the
city department of the Michigan Drug
Co., and later manager of the Phy-
sicians’ Pharmacal Co., has resigned
the latter position to become manager
of the city department of the F. R.
Braun Drug Co., of Los Angeles, Cal.

Clare—Wilson & Sutherland an-
nounce the closing out of their cloth-
ing and shoe business, J. H. Wilson
has in in Clare for
fifteen years. He goes to Big Rap-
ids to be a partner in a big hardware
business. C. E. Sutherland will
enter the medical profession, taking
a course at some reputable institu-
tion.

Benton

season Graham

streets

been business

Big Rapids—Norcross & Wolcott,
have adopted the plan of the Mun-
cie, Indiana, man and are operating
their grocery store as “Christ would
operate it.” Tobacco and the like
have been eliminated from the Nor-

 

 

cross & Wolcott grocery and rules
have been adopted and are being en-
forced which, it is assumed, will be
in accordance with the plan controll-
ing the firm’s affairs.

Detroit—The limited partnership
formed for a period of five years,
Jan. 19, 1900, between Edwin S.
George, fur dealer, and Oren Scotten,
has been continued for one year from
the expiration of the term. The part-
nership exists under the name of Ed-
win S. the
only general partner and Mr. Scotten

George. Mr. George is

the only special partner. Mr. Scot-
ten, as special partner, contributed
$20,000 to the capital stock of the

partnership.
Marshall—Patrick Hayes, dry goods
has business,

R.

merchant, suspended
Fletcher, clothier,

>. V.-R. Lepper, one

and George
has closed up.

: lof the oldest dry goods merchants,
some time has conducted a store on}

is now closing out his stock, after be-
ing in the business 45 years, and John
Wiseman, one of the pioneer grocers,
he is going to It
rumored that Marshall’s oldest drug

says retire. is
gist is also going on the retired list.
The merchants declare that the elec-
tric roads hurt the town.

L. Lawton, a Han
cock attorney, alleging that Marshal!

Houghton—S.

 

‘ield & Co. and Guthmann, Carpenter

& Telling, wholesale shoe. dealers.
Chicago, have violated the bankruptcy
laws in accepting money on debts
due them from Lena Miller of Hough-
ton, being aware that their debtor
was insolvent, has filed suit against
concerns. The suits were filed
in the United States District Court

and ask for an accounting, a return

both

of the money paid and an answering
of certain questions. The position
of Marshall Field & Co. and the shoe
concern is that when they accepted
the money in payment of just debts
they were satisfied that Lena Miller,
the
solvent.

alleged bankrupt, was not in
Mr. Lawton was appointed

Referee Pearl Mar-
Mrs. Miller, in whose
name the business of the Miller de
partment store was conducted, wen:
into bankruptcy at the time the store
was destroyed by fire two years ago
It appears that Mrs. Miller paid in
full the claims of the two Chicago

concerns, which it is claimed she had

trustee by of

quette, when

no legal right to do. Being in bank
ruptcy Mrs. Miller’s

ing to Mr. Lawton, should have been

assets, accord-
turned over to him as trustee so all
creditors could be treated fairly. It
is alleged that by paying the two
Chicago firms in full the other credit-
ors were unfairly treated.

 

 

‘Commercial
Credit Co., “4

Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids
Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit

Good but’ slow debtors pay
upon receipt of our direct de-
Send all other

. 1}
accounts to our offices for collec-

mand letters.

 

 

 

 

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i

 

 

 

 

The Grocery Market.
Sugar-——Another Io point advance
has occurred during the past week
and the market has now reached a
higher point than for a number of
years past and there are some who

Others

think that the market is too high.
It is impossible to arrive at any con-
clusion in the matter as there are
so many conflicting opinions. One
thing is sure, however, and that is
that there was a large shortage in
the European beet crop and to that
extent the present advance is legiti-
mate. Some part of a bull movement
like this is always speculative, and
just where one effect leaves off and
the other begins is the problem.
Some think that fully 90 per cent.
of the rise within the past sixty days
is legitimate, while others assert that

insist that the end is not yet.

only 50 or 60 per cent. of it is. Be-
tween these two views. there is
enough difference to suit anybody.

Moderate buying is the safest course
market. The American
Sugar Refining Co.’s quotations are
as follows, f. o. b. New York, subject

m such a

te the usual cash discount and an
allowance of 5 points:

Cryatel Domine. .2..2...........0... 8.30
Wie tARete oe tl ee 7.25
ee 6.70
Ce Oe eae ee 6.75
ee A 6.45
OGG POWECTCE 22.0 o ees eee ee 6.30
ee eee ce 6.30
CE EE eee 6.20
Gearse poweerTce ............. 0,0, .00 6.15
liye nett oo 6.05
Peer oe 6.15
Mae, tne eranuiste? ............. 2. 6.05
ers S7Aniaiited. |... ke ei et eee ns 6.05
ee 6.05
Rete Gee crane .....:......... 6.05
Confectioners’ sranulated ............ 6.25
2-1). Cran, fre eranuiated. ..........; 6.20
2-%. bags, fine sranulated. .......... 6.20

5-Ib. bags, fine granulated
eee ®t 6.05
Confectioners’ A
(1) Columbia A
(2) Windsor A

(3) Ridgewood A
(4) Phoenix A
(5) Empire A

Tea—As the season when buying
must be renewed approaches, specu-
lation is rife over the possibilities of
the war in the East. Should there
be an import tax put on by Japan or
should there be a Russian
victory, prices would be promptly af-
fected. With the China teas Oolongs
and Ping Suey Gunpowders show
strength. Congous are also firm.

decisive

Coffee—Brazil is firm and active,
and the general situation shows no
from the firmness’ which
has characterized it for several weeks.
Mocha is very strong and shows an
advance of about Ic per pound com-
pared with the price ruling in the
early part of December. The market
is about %c higher than a week ago,
and as compared with the market a
year ago the total advance is about
31%4c. Javas are firm and unchanged.

recession

 

   

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The general demand for coffee is
seasonably light.

Canned Goods—The market is
quiet and some lines are positively
weak. The movement of tomatoes
and corn is weak. California reports
show no change on the coast. As
with the cured fruits stocks of can-
ned are in small compass and the
year will see a complete clean up.
Salmon holds firm. The supplies
were never before so light at this
season and when the heavy buying
commences in the late spring the job-
bers anticipate much higher figures.

Dried Fruits—Peaches would show
a good demand if could be
bought at a moderate price. It is
hard to get anything good, however,

any

below toc in a large way. Stocks
are very low everywhere. Currants
are dull and unchanged. Seeded
raisins are out of the running for
this time. Prices are unchanged.
Loose muscatels are in about the

same position. The coast is unchang-
ed on both lines. Apricots are in
good demand at an advance of about
Ic over the price at which goods
could be bought a week or ten days
The market has been steadily
advancing on the coast for

ago.
some
weeks. Nectarines are scarce. There
would be a good demand for them,
to offset the high price of apricots,
if they could be gotten, but very few
are offered. Prunes are in
mand and the market
healthy as it could be with prices as
low as they are. There is not the
slightest symptom of any advance as
yet.

fair de-
seems as

Syrups and Molasses—There would
be a good demand for medium grades
of sugar syrup if they could be had,
but they are extremely scarce. Fine
grades of sugar syrup are particularly
plentiful, as the refiners are working
on fine sugar. Sugar syrup is firm,
but shows no change for the week.
Molasses is fairly active and without
change for the week. Glucose shows
no change for the week. The situa-
tion is firm, as it has been ever since
the refiners got together. -Compound
syrup is unchanged in price and in
ordinary demand. The heavy winter
business, which usually follows the
holidays, has not developed up to
this time.

lFish—There have been no further
advances in mackerel during’ the

The demand is fair, as mack-
are generally considered good
property. Sardines are weak and
lifeless. There is very little demand
and holders are disposed to
concessions.

week.
erel

make
Cod, hake and haddock
are unchanged in price and in fair
demand. Lake fish and _ whitefish
show no change and are fairly active.
Salmon is unchanged and dull.
——_»~-.____

Elk Rapids—D. D. Wheeler has
bought the interest of John Klink in
the Star bakery and grocery and the
business will be operated under the
firm name of Briggs & Wheeler.

—_~+ > ___

Pellston—Bryant & Darling have
sold their meat market business to
G. W. Brown, who. will hereafter
conduct it at the old stand.

 

 

 

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—Prices range from $2.25@

2.50 per bbl., according to quality and
variety.

Bananas—Prices on this line show
no change and aside from the slight
let-up caused by the weather, busi-
ness is normal. Supplies are liberal
considering the difficulties of getting
them in unfrosted. The price hovers
around $1 for small bunches and $1.50
for large.

Beets—4oc per bu.

Butter—Creameries are strong at
29'%c for choice and 30c for fancy.
Receipts of dairy grades are restrict-
ed by the cold weather and bad
roads in localities. No. I is
strong at 22@23c and packing stock
is firm at 16@17c. Renovated is
steady at 22@23c.

Cabbage—soc per doz.

Carrots— oc per bu.

Celery—z25c per doz. bunches. |

Cranberries—Howes, $8 per bbl.;
Jerseys, $7.25 per bbl.

Eges—Prices are about ic

some

 

lower
than a week ago and dealers are so
confident that still lower prices are}
imminent that they are careful not |
to permit shipments to accumulate |
on their hands. Fresh command 22¢ |
for case count and 24c for candled. |
Storage, 20@z21c. Of the current re- |
ceipts it takes anywhere from three
make one of fresh
more storage eggs
was thought a week
ago and now some of the holders are

fo six cases to
laid. There are
in sight than

getting uneasy.
Game—Dealers pay $1@1.25_ for
pigeons and $1.15@1.25 for rabbits.
Grapes—Malagas, $5@5.50 per keg.
Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12c and white clover at 13@IS5c.
Lemons—Messinas fetch $3.25; Cal-
iiornias command $3.25.
Lettuce—Hot -house
12c per fb.
Onions—The market is strong and
steady on the basis of 85c per bu.
Oranges—Floridas fetch $2; Cali-
fornia Navels command $2.65 _ for
fancy and $2.50 for choice.
Parsley—45c per dozen bunches for
hot house.

is steady at

Pineapples—The supply is increas-
ing.

Potatoes—The market is weak and
unsatisfactory, country buyers paying
20@25c. Reports from the country
previous to the extreme cold said
that warehouses were full and that
the dealers would buy no more.

Pop Corn—goc for Rice.

Poultry—The market is strong on
all kinds of poultry, as is usual at this
season of the year. Chickens, 11@
1214c; fowls, lo@12c; young turkeys,
18@2o0c; old turkeys, 17@18c; young
ducks. 14@15c; young geese, 10@tIIc;
squabs, $2.25@2.50.

Radishes—25c per doz for round
and 30c for long.

Squash—11%c per fh. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois
are steady at $3.25 per bbl.

Turnips—4ce per bu.

——__-~» 2 2
The Grain Market.

While the gossip concerning wheat
the past week or ten days has been
of a decided bullish nature, markets
have eased off from top prices. Ac-

lany slight rally in the market.

 

 

cording to Government figures the

5

wheat crop for 1904 was 552,400,000
bushels; for 1903, 637,800,000 bushels;
1902, 670,000,000 bushels and _ 1Igo1,
748,400,000 bushels, or an average
shortage for the four years of about
100,000,0c0 bushels. To be sure, our
exports have been comparatively
light, say about one-third of what
The demand for
wheat from millers has been
quite active, while the receipts of
good milling wheat in the West have
about one-half
as compared with last year. This,
together with the fact that stocks of

they were in 1903.
cash

been running light,

flour generally are rather low, would
indicate that every bushel of good
wheat be needed by
the mills of this country for domes-
tic trade before another crop is ready
for market.

There has been considerable inter-
est manifested of late in corn, mar-
kets having been quite active, al-
though the price has covered only a
range of 2c per bushel. The bears
are predicting 40c corn, holding up
the crop of 2,600,000,000 bushels as
their chief
time they run quickly to cover on
The
the other hand, are just
as sure of 60c corn, claiming that
although we have a large crop, it is
going into consumption rapidly and
will all be wanted at good fair prices.
Buying has been free, not only for
domestic trade, but

Oats are in much better
and prices have gained %4c per bush-

milling would

argument, at the same

bulls, on

export as well.

demand

el for the week. The movement has
been quite strong, both from farm-
The quality of
and

ers and grain men.
our State
a ready demand for all offerings.
L. Fred Peabody.
—_»-- 2

Wm. Graham, who has been engag-
ed in the business at 703
Madison avenue for the past dozen
years, stock to A. DD.
Vyn and Richard B. Vyn, who will
continue the business under the style
oo A.D Van & Son.

——_» >

A. D. Otis, who has managed the
mercantile department of the Cappon
& Bertsch Leather Co. at this mar-
ket for severa! years, has handed in
bis resignation and left the city. No
arrangements for a successor have
yet been made.

——_~+-2

E. C. Jenkins, who has clerked at
the Dettenthaler Market for a num-
ber of years, has bought the grocery
stock and meat market of Will
Brentner, at 388 N. Ottawa street.

——_~>~2-~»

K. & J. Lafferty have opened a
grocery store at the corner of Shaw-
mut avenue and West Broadway.
The Judson Grocer Co. furnished the
stock.

oats is fine there is

grocery

has sold his

th

The cigar manufacturing business
of the Geo. A: Rysdale: Cigar Co.
will be continued under the style of

A. |. Kern & Co.

——_+2>—___

J. E. Lewis has opened a grocery
store at East Jordan. The Clark-
Jewell-Wells Co. furnished the stock.

A. L. Morehead is succeeded by
S. S. Smith in the grocery and meat
business.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

THE FOOD FAD.
Some of the Humors of the Situa- |
tion.
The ever increasing number of

breakfast foods has’ so
competition that their
driven to more and more extraordin-

makers are

ary devices to catch the eye of the}

sharpened |

1
}
|

|
|
j

}
|

blase public.~ When a new food ap- |

pears it must proclaim itself in some
novel and unusual fashion, or it is
likely to be doomed to die unhonored
and uncooked. It must have a name

that not only strikes the mind, but

sticks in it.

There was a time when breakfast
food advertisements were as plain as
the ingredients which they claimed
to possess. Then some bright man-
ufacturer heralded his new product
in rhyme, and the hungry world read
and laughed. One after another other

breakfast food makers sought for--

tune by the help of the Muses, so
that now as many signs are in poetry
as in prose. Purity was long the
chief watch-word
food manufacturers, when some one
hit on the idea that strength would
The morn-

among. breakfast

be a still better slogan.
ing meal, he argued, was not intend-
ed to supply pleasure so much as
muscle and brain power.

It was the breakfast which prepar-
ed a man for business, just as the
late supper fitted his mood after the
theater or the club. Accordingly, he
made the countryside stare at great
portraits of a giant carrying the
world in one hand and a package of
his breakfast food in the other.

Another maker of an “already
cooked” food believed that
should result from the breakfast as
well as strength. For many years he
had sought the public’s appetite for
displaying the picture of a devout

mirth

and religious man, who was suppos-
ed to symbolize the purity of this
food. At last he saw a rival maker
coining money with a_ preparation
which was advertised to make a man
laugh all day long.
he immediately ordered his saint to
appear thereafter with a broad grin.

The most effective advertising is
that which the public absorbs uncon-
A joke on the stage, for
exampie, which throws out the name
of some brand of flour with apparent
inadvertence counts for a hundred
times more than a ten-foot bill
board poster, which the tired eye
looks at but does not see.

It is for this reason, perhaps, that
the maker of a recent food prepara-

sciously.

tion named a horse in its honor, so
that all the crowds at the race-tracks,
as well as all the sporting readers of
the newspapers, would talk and gos-
sip about that name.

The originality of breakfast food
makers was the subject of conversa-
tion between two. gentlemen who
were coming into the city on an
interurban car the other morning and
who had chanced to see through the
car window a particularly novel bill
board advertisement of a certain
food.

ingenious,” said one suburbanite, who

lconsent. I have no objections to|

Taking the cue, |

‘and they had the festival.

;ent way.

it does not compare with a scheme

“A new scheme?” queried the other
gentleman, who had moved into the
country to build up his physique by
shoveling snow and sprinting cars.

| to which I have fallen victim.”
|
|

“Why, yes,” was the answer.
“When I came home the other night |
my wife said:

“‘Oh, hubby, I want to attend that |
instantaneous food festival. It will |
be at the church next Thursday. All|
the women in Dream Valley are go-
ing.’

“‘My dear,’ said I, ‘you have my |
|
“instantaneous food,’ unless there is
danger of an explosion. It may be|
made out of dynamite and be self-
raising when you drop it.’

“‘Oh, that’s lovely!’ said she. ‘It
will cost only 50 cents apiece and
Bertha and Anna and Susie and Mat- |
tie and Jennie and Katie and Jessie
and Susan and myself all want to go.
It’s such a novel thing, you know.’

“Well, I figured it up, and I found
that if my wife and all my daughters
went I was stuck for just $4.50. Come
to find out it was all an advertising
scheme for ‘instantaneous food.’ You
see, this breakfast food
went to the rector of the church and
offered to furnish the festival if he
would guarantee that more than one

company

hundred women would attend. He
said that each woman should pay
50 cents for a ticket and that all the
money should go to foreign missions
and be used to convert the heathen.
The rector gladly accepted the offer,
I’ve been

eating ‘instantaneous food’ ever|
since. Don't nudge me or I will

blow up.”

“Do you think it has given you |
any more strength?” asked the other
commuter, as he took a deep breath
to test his lungs.

“T have been able to whip my
youngest boy a few more times a
week,” said the domestic man, with
a shake of the head. “That is about |
the only way it has affected me. But
as for my wife and daughters, they |
have talked about nothing else than |
‘instantaneous food’ ever since the
festival. Only this morning at the
breakfast table Bertha began telling |
again how many ways ‘instantaneous
food’ could be cooked. By the way
she talked I daresay you can mak>|
a cocktail out of the stuff, if you)
have the right recipe.”

“But what was the festival?” in- |
future man. |
“What kind of food did the company |
give the women?” |

terrupted the strong

“‘Tnstantaneous food,’ ” was the re- |
ply. “Every dish was ‘instantaneous
food,’ only prepared in a little differ-

Why, Anna and Susie were |
going over the whole list of dishes |

last night at dinner time. First, they |

had ‘instantaneous food’ with oysters. |

| creamed peas.

Then came ‘instantaneous food’ with |
After that there was |

| ‘instantaneous food’ soaked in stewed |

| tomatoes.

They had some French}

name for it. which I forgot. Finally, |

|for dessert, they had ‘instantaneous |
“Some of these bill board signs are

|

food’ built in a sort of raft and float-
ing on a small lake of soft custard; |

is the head of a large family, “but | and while the women were eating a

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young woman explained how each
dish was made. She made them think
that ‘instantaneous food’ was more
essential to health than clothes. Since
that festival I think I have paid out
about $5 for packages of ‘instantane-
ous food.’ All the girls want to ex-
periment with it, to see if they can
make all the various dishes they ate
at the festival Even Baby Susan
has stopped making mud pies and
uses ‘instantaneous food’ instead. I
found her emptying a box of it in-
to a mud puddle in the back yard
only yesterday morning.”

“Well, I should say that you were
pretty well up to your neck in this
breakfast remarked the other
suburbanite.

food,”
“T haven’t told you the worst,” said |
the family man. “The women atthe
festival asked to reg
giving both their names and address-
es. Now the circulars are pouring in.
Every
some

were all rister,

mail new recipe or
buy ‘in-

is still an-

brings a
inducement to
stantaneous food.’
other letter, which my
this morning,

new
Here
wife received
and which she handed
over to me. Just for the fun I'll. read
it to you.”
So saying, the Jerseyite spread out
sheet of
border of

a large writing paper, the
with
pictures of tempting
dishes, and read as follows:

Dear Mrs. Blank: We are now able
to make you an offer which will bring
you both happiness and health. To any-
one buying ten packages of ‘instantane-
ous food’ we will send an elegantly bound
book entitled “How to Coax Your Hus-
band.’”’ Any wife with this book will
never need for pin money.

Yours respectfully,
INSTANTANEOUS FOOD CoO.
me
Many Are Called, But Few Are
Chosen.
regular ex
of the Michigan Board of Pharmacy,
held at Ann Arbor, Jan. 3, 4. 5
6. there were thirty-eight candidates

full

Fourteen of the

which was covered

highly colored

At the

xamination session
and
for examination for registered
papers. candidates
passed the examination, as follows:

Chas. E. Bond, Detroit.

Angus De Kruif, Zeeland.

Wm. KR. Wyandotte.

Gordon,

Murray P. Harner, Buchanan.
Harvey A. Hall, Cleveland, Ohio.
W. C. Spring, Marlette.

Robt. E. Weeks, Augusta.
Arthur E. Crippen, Brighton.
Rudolf E. Fisher, Ann Arbor.
Frank M. Gute, Owosso.

Chas. F. W. Hansen, Ludington.

. A. Mathews, Grand Rapids.
“are A. West, Croswell.

rd X. Zinger, Detroit.

There were sixteen applicants for
assistant papers, of which fourteen
passed, as follows:

Harry Bennett, Big Rapids.

Tas. FB. Cain, Detroit.

J. Harry Dunbar, Grand Rapids.

Gordon W. Hill, Detroit.

Herman A. Mayer, Ann Arbor.

Claud C. Owen, Maple Rapids.

Stanley Wilson, Yale.

Fred D. Barnum, Cedar Springs.

Samuel R. Crabb, Big Rapids.

M. Guillermety, Ann Arbor.

Floyd C. Letts, Traverse City.

Florence M. Meek, Ann Arbor.

W. C. M. Scott, Detroit.

Frazer D. Wright, Tecumseh.

Subsequent meetings during the

Grand
and 2

Star Island—June 26, 27 and 28.

Houghton—Aug. 15, 16 and 17.

Grand Rapids—Nov. 7, 8 and 9.

Secretary Webber has gone to Cal-|
ifornia for a couple of months. The
work of the Secretary in the mean-
attended to by
who can be addressed at
Grand Rapids.

The new member of the

Rapids— March 21, 22]

|
|

time will be Treas- |

urer Muir,

Board, ap-
Stoddard, of
of Owosso, !

pointed to succeed C. B.

Monroe, is W. E. Collins,

|as a pharmacist and business
|The appointment is very generall |

who enjoys an excellent reputation

man.

| commended.

a
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is quite firm on

of reports of bad weather for the

growing crop.
Morphine and Quinine—Are_ un-
changed.
Chloroform—Shows another de-
cline of 5c.
ent process expires

next June,

|
|
|
|

| vanee the

ithe price wil

probably be still lower.

Cocaine—Is in a very strong posi-
tion and a good demand would ad-
price.

Sassafras Bark—-Is in very small

| supply and higher,

account |

| count of
The patent on the pres- }
and |

Wild Cherry Bark—Is also scarce
and higher.
Oil Peppermint—Shows another

decline and is tending lower.

Oil Cloves—Have declined on ac-
lower price for the spice.
Oil Wormseed—Is steadily

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E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

Wednesday, January 18, 1905.

 

 

THE WORLD WANTS PEACE.

Intervention is not the right word
to use in discussing the world’s ef-
forts to bring to an end the bloody
and now almost purposeless struggle
between Russia and Japan. Friendly
representations, followed if deemed
timely and expedient by tenders of
good offices, carry with them no im-
plication of constraint. So interven-
tion is not the word—at least not yet.

There is much to be hoped from
the discussion among peoples of civil-
ized nations of the desirability of
peace in the Far East. Public opinion
is in that way created which serves
both as a stimulus and as a support
to the efforts of Chancelleries to ac-
complish the pacific ends which Lord
Lansdowne has declared to be so
desirable. When Russia was last at
war with Turkey and had arranged
peace upon her own terms in the
treaty of San Stefano, the great Pow-
ers of Europe intervened, in a dip-
lomatic sense, and for the treaty of
San Stefano substituted the treaty
drawn up and agreed to by the Con-
gress of Berlin. Germany, England,
France and Italy had upon that oc-
casion a conventional right to
tervene, since the arrangements con-
cluded by Russia threatened a grave
disturbance of the balance of power.
The right which civilized nations now
have to interest themselves in the
speedy conclusion of peace between
Japan and Russia rests upon no con-
vention, but it is very solidly based
instead upon commercial interest and
upon grounds of humanity. For in-
stance, prior to this war we were
selling ten million dollars’ worth of
our cotton goods annually in Man-
churia; we had a large and growing
trade with Japan, and in spite of our
late misunderstanding with Russia
over the sugar bounty question we

in-

had well-founded hopes of increasing
our trade relations with the Czar’s
people. Our position in the East as
the occupant of the important insular
group of the Philippines gives us new
commercial ambitions there, and in
a just sense vests us with the title
of a party in interest when affairs
of this gravity are under considera-
tion. The relations with Eastern
Asia of the whole world are disturbed

 

 

by the bootless prolongation of the
war. No merchant ship can plow
those waters in safety. Moreover, the
peace of the world is threatened, for
questions of the utmost delicacy,
questions involving the instant strain-
ing of relations and the remoter
chance of actual war, are continually
arising. The world wants peace in
the Far East.

With Port Arthur in the hands of
her rightful owner, it is now indeed
time that civilization should begin
to apply what it would not be in-
appropriate to describe as the earlier
and politer forms of pressure, to ac-
complish the end desired. It would
be a pressure altogether friendly,
something falling very far short of a
command, and not going to the
length even of remonstrance. Italy,
for instance, might in the friendliest
possible way enquire of the govern-
ment of his Imperial Majesty whether
the time had not arrived when the

conditions of adjustment under dis-.

cussion when hostilities began might
not be re-examined with some hope
of finding a peaceful and fortunate
way out of the present military dead-
lock. Without offense the calm and
cool judgment of a friendly observer
might be given as to the unwisdom
of continuing a struggle which, if not
futile, would be at least of such
frightful cost that ultimate victory
would in itself be almost a disaster.
This suggestion proceeding from a
power so friendly and disinterested
as Italy would be almost certain of
a serious consideration at St. Peters-
burg, because the representations of
Italy would inevitably carry with
with the suggestion that -her
greater neighbors of the Dreibund,
Austria and Germany, were privy and
assenting parties to her action. Such
a representation from Lord Lans-
downe, implying as it would the as-
sent of Russia’s ally France, would
almost certainly have great weight.

them

Tact and delicacy are of obliga-
tion in matters of this nature, but
where no offense is intended none
need be taken. No government would
through its foreign office—at least
not now—go so far as to convey the
impression to Russia that if friendly
representations did not suffice, other
measures would be considered. Public
opinion has no such limitations. In
this country, in England, in France,
in Austria, Germany or Italy, men
are entirely free to express their be-
lief that the war ought to be ended,
by the voluntary coming together of
Russia and Japan if possible, through
the application of a gradually increas-
ing pressure if they would not other-
wise consent. The world wants peace
—it is very tired of the war. The
large and small incidents of the
fighting are now more revolting to
humanity than they are interesting
to the military critic. Each battle
is a horrible butchery, and the opin-
ion grows that the combatants are
forced together through these hor-
rors for nothing; that is, the time has
passed when Russia could hope to
achieve the end for which she is
fighting. It is time to end the war.

 

THE LESSON OF THE HOUR.

When the speaker of the House of
Representatives announced the other
day that economy was the watchword
of the nation from the four quarters
of the compass came a hearty
“Amen!” The Governor of a West-
ern State upon his induction into
office proclaimed the policy of his
administration to be economy and
retrenchment and from every corner
of that Western State came the hear-
tiest commendation. The city, the
town, the village are permeated with
the same great thought and if the
present indications stand for any-
thing the prosperity looming up be-
fore this country will surpass any
that has so far blessed it.

With the centers of influence thus
committed to a wholesome course of
action, it remains for the masses,
which these centers are supposed to
present, to carry out in daily detail
what has been so auspiciously be-
gun, and right there, among and with
the masses, the success of the great
undertaking depends. The spirit is
willing, but the flesh is weak and
upon that very weak flesh the pros-
perity of the next four years lies.

For the first time in years—if ever
before—the business of the country
is not obliged to “catch up” on ac-
count of the set-back supposed to be
an essential attendant upon a presi-
dential campaign. On the contrary,
the business world found itself ahead
immediately after the November
counting of votes, and thus encour-
aged it vigorously started out upon
wider plans and with larger re-
sources and corresponding assur-
ances of success. There is 10
doubt, even thus early, of the com-
ing result; there is considerable
doubt how it is going to affect the
people of the country when that day
of unparalleled sunshine begins.
There is something human and es-
pecially American human in thrusting
the hand into a pocketful of dollars
without any definite idea as to what
the pocketful is to be devoted. There
they are, there are countless more
where they came from, the future
is secure, the fortunate possessor is
no longer obliged to think half a
dozen times before spending a penny
and “after us the deluge.” It is fit,
proper and the bounden duty of na-
tion, state and municipality to look
out for the dimes and let the dollars
look out for themselves, but for
the individuals for whom the repre-
sentative few are legislating prudence
and providence are wholly uncalled
for because under the present cir-
cumstances they are wholly unneces-
sary.

It hardly need be said that exactly
here is the supreme danger. Legis-
lative bodies with us are wholly rep-
resentative. The members carry with
them to the council chamber the
home atmosphere, and if the meas-
ures there enacted hint even remote-
ly to what New Englandism calls
“close” the owners of the pocketful
have something very decided to say
about the wide difference between
prudence and parsimony, and_ that
the public official who does not know
this difference and, above all, does

 

not know enough to put it into prac-
tice, is not a fit person to carry out
the ideas of the constituents who
have elected him. So Podunk, a
prairie town a thousand miles from
the sea, located upon a creek seen
only in time of freshet, by persistent
lobbying gets an appropriation for
improving its harbor and chuckles;
so Pumpkinville, through the shrewd-
ness and misrepresentation of its
“member,” points with pride to its
postoffice, large enough for a city of
ten thousand, and apologizes for the
misfit with the statement that, like
the boy in the new suit many sizes
too big for him, the town will grow
into it—in time; so the country at
large, with prosperity before it reach-
ing fair and far, not only squanders
the dollars in its pockets but, irre-
spective of experience, rushes madly
into speculations which can end only
in ruin.

It speaks well for the times and the
people when its masters of finance
proclaim economy as the watchword
of the nation, but that watchword
will be of little value if the echoing
hills of their constituency do not
send back the word distinct and
hearty and strong. There among the
hills exist the conditions that
prevail. What a billion dollar con-
gress buys may be “wuth it,” but the
goods will be found too costly for
the men and the women whose gro-
cery bills remain unpaid—a matter
which the home settles, not “the
speaker of the House.” Never in the
history of this country have its pros-
been The earth- has
yielded its increase until barns and
bins are full and butressed with their
precious stores. Hammers are pound-

will

pects fairer.

ing and anvils are ringing the land
over and the products of their toil
are hought and paid for by waiting
consumers. Spindles
and the “gossiping looms” are never
tired of telling of the prosperity they
represent. The seven plenteous years
that Joseph dreamed of have come
again, men wise and discreet have
been set over the land, and all that
remains is for the country from
White House to cabin to “lay up
corn against the seven years of fam-

are humming

ine which shall be in the land,” when
the prosperous years are over.

It is the private garner, however,
that must be prepared for the com-
ing years of: want. It is the Ameri-
can kitchen that must stop throwing
into the garbage can what should be
used to feed the family. American
life is too full of ups and downs to
forget that abundance to-day
not mean necessarily abundance to-
morrow. It was the contents of the
peasant’s stocking—not its public
treasury—that paid France’s
mous debt in 1871; and it will be
the frugal home management during
these years of American prosperity
which will so prepare for the inevita-
ble rainy day that when it does come
the shining sun will not go down
and the clouds that darken it will be
suggestive only of the prosperity
which always comes after the rain.

does

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Signing a note for a stranger is
taking a leap in the dark.

 

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LEGAL PROCEDURE.

Some Reasons Why It Should Be)
Reformed.

The law’s delay, the condition of
the courts, now worse than ever con-
gested, the cry of despair heard on
every side from the people and the
lawyers, the enormous expense, nev-
ertheless, attendant upon this viola-
tion of the constitution, which, as if
in mockery, guarantees justice to all,
“freely and without being obliged to
purchase it, completely and without
denial, and promptly and without de-
lay’—must arouse the earnest con-
sideration
every thoughtful citizen.

Nothing is so conducive to good
citizenship as this guarantee, if car-
ried out; nothing does so much for
bad as the disappointment, the bit-
terness engendered by its violation;
hanging of a few anarchists is to
little effect, if the same jurisprudence
breeds numerous others in_ their

’ place.

The press has been in the advance
in battling against these evils, and
has insisted that a’change of system
should now be brought about.

Formidable as this may sound, the
entire matter may be
by adding to or subtracting from our
existing statutes less than a hundred
words.

Let us see what this may mean in|
the saving of time and money and |
in the performance of that highest |

function of sovereignty, the doing of
justice.

One hundred dollars per day isa|

estimate of the actual expendi-
for each court room

low
ture

ing also the cost of the “plant.”
ly one-third of the time of each
room is wasted in settling needless
“pleadings” and trying again issues
which had been tried before, not only
once, but two, three, or even four
times.
A simple computation will show the
possibility of saving the county $100,-
000 per year, and of expediting all
litigation. Numerous instances oc-

cur of causes being tried three or four |

times in the lower court and having
been heard equally often in the re-
viewing courts.

Barth vs. Rogers has been in the
courts for about three years, but is
now only in its incipient stage. The
original record consumes 100 closely
written pages in the trial court, and
an equal amount in the transcript in
the Appellate Court, which has just
reversed the lower court’s decision.
There are also about 100 _ printed
pages and fifty typewritten pages in
the Appellate Court; the actual ex-
pense of typewriting and printing is

over $200; the time consumed by the |

courts in hearing arguments on some
dozen of pleas, replications, and de-
murrers consumed over five working
days.

And what was it’all about? The
whole thing could have been, and
should have been, settled by oral
statements in ten minutes in the
presence of the court; the plaintiff
should have informed the court that
he had obtained a judgment for the
enormous sum of two hundred dol-

i _| certified copies and the entire
if not the resentment Oi |

accomplished |

with its|
judge, attendants and juries, comput- |
Ful- |

This should all be remedied. |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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‘ . | : |
PES ($200) before a justice of the} be ascertained and set for trial; the} It is confidently submitted that the

| peace; then his adversary had appeal-
|ed and the defendant had become
| surety on the appeal bond; that the
| appeal had been entered in the Cir-
jcuit Court and later dismissed by
| that court, and now this plaintiff
| wants his money from said surety,
ithe defendant in this suit. The de-
| fendant would then answer that in-
| deed such dismissal had occurred, but
—_ subsequently the court had set

aside the dismissal and had reinstat-
led the appeal. The court could have
|inspected the records or called for
mat-
iter would have been disposed of in

the Circuit and Appellate Courts in
| something like sixty minutes.
Similar illustrations may be drawn
|from other departments of our pres-
|ent antiquated and cumbrous  sys-
| tem, one which, by the way, is a cen-
lin England, although we pride our-

selves upon our possession of the jur-
| isprudence of the mother country.

In chancery we find bills of five to
fifteen long typewritten pages mnar-
rating the simple story
/complainant lent money to the de-
fendant, obtained a mortgage to se-
cure the same, that the money is past
due and asking that the mortgage be
| foreclosed.

Another bill of from ten to fifteen
similar pages informs us that the
|complainant obtained a judgment
|against the defendant, an execution
| was returned unsatisfied, certain par-
ties are aiding the defendant in se-
| creting his property and complainant
wants them to disclose its where-
abouts.

And so in the criminal law; an in-
dictment of from five to ten closely
written pages is at times used to tell
the simple and sad tale that John
Doe unlawfully killed Richard Roe.
|The accuser would have us believe
that the killing was done with a gun,
| with an ax, with poison, with a club,
land in several other manners, recit-
ing at times even as many as nine,
until we are at a loss whether to
marvel more at the atrocious persis-
tence of the slayer or the feline vi-
| tality of the victim.
| The indictment in cause No. 73354
of the Criminal Court would fill much
space; all it charges is that the ac-
cused embezzled twenty-four dollars
($24) from his employer.

What steps, then, it will be asked,
should this Legislature take to bring

about, at least in part, this much
needed reform? The answer is ap-
parent.

Adapt to all litigations the expedi-
tious processes which now by our
own statutes and practice are appli-
cable to some; among these we may
quote the following:

The defendant should se required
to come into court forthwith, and not
be allowed to await the convening
of a term of court at a distant date.

The parties should orally, in minor

important ones, state specifically and
under oath the detailed facts of their
respective claims or defenses, so that
the actual and precise point or points
of the difference between them would

 

that the |

matters, and in writing in the more |

|
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|
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|
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}

}evidence need then be prepared only |
| upon such point or points, thus sav- |
|ing the litigant much expense in ob- |
| taining proof on the undisputed parts

and the courts much time in hearing
the same. .

Allow appeals from all intermediate |
decisions, which can be seen to be}
practically determinative of the case,
thus in cases when the verdict is set |
aside, and a new trial granted, let
the party which won the verdict ap-
peal at once to the Appellate Court,

|and then the loser there may appeal

to the Supreme Court; such appeal |
would draw forth an expression of
the law of the case and directions to |

ithe first court concerning the applica-

ition of the same sufficient to
|the cause

tury behind the system now in use|
las are

|

 

 

bring |
forthwith to a final deci-|
Appeals from orders on de-
murrers, brief certificates
answers as to questions of law (such
submitted by the lower |
United States courts to the Supreme |
Court) and other similarly simple de-
vices would save a great deal of the
time and the expense of courts and |
of litigants. |

sion,
requiring |

now

Issues once correctly determined |
should remain undisturbed, although
the decision be set aside by the trial |
or reviewing court by reason of er-
ror occurring as to other issues. For
istance, when a judgment is re-
versed because the verdict was too
low or too high, the court having
erred in giving the rule as to dam-
ages, no other error having
made, the original decision of all the
other issues in the case—such as the
negligence of the defendant, the care-
fulness of the plaintiff, the validity of |
the “release,” the genuineness of the

been

signatures, the completion of work
within the time and in the manner
contracted for, the authority of

agents, the existence of the partner- |
ship in question, et id genus omne— |
undisturbed, and the
cause retried only as to the point or |

should remain

issue upon which error is intervened.
Establish a municipal court with}
jurisdiction of civil matters up to
five thousand dollars ($5,000), and no |
jury, reserving to the defeated party |
his constitutional jury trial by giv-|
ing him an appeal to a court which
does have a jury. Now, what will|
happen: This court will dispose of
business with great rapidity, as the
jury trials are the things which cause
by far the greatest portion of the de-
lays and the expense; the plaintiffs
(especially the merchants) will flock
to this court by reason of obtaining
quick action and thus diminish the
strain upon the other courts; the de-
fendants will come into this court |
because they are compelled to. In
the great majority of instances all
parties will abide by the decision;
they will have confidence in the
court; being paid a salary its deci-
sion will be without regard to “fees”
received or expected, and will be ex-
plained to the loser so that the right-
eousness thereof is appreciated; the
plaintiffs will be satisfied with the
judgment by reason of its promptness
and because the defendant, if he does
appeal, will be compelled to secure
the judgment with an appeal bond.

| priced courts and
i will, if brought about, prove a great’

iit into

| He somehow

inever. to

| he learns

i business engaging him,

| inside

above indicated reforms in the prac-
tice and the establishment of the
subordinate courts to take the place
in minor matters of the present high
expensive juries

step not only towards complying with
the constitutional guarantee, but also

| towards saving to the taxpayers even

considerably more than the round
above alluded to.

Andrew F.

—

Cultivate the Habit of Being Natural.

suin

Hirschl.

One of the errors most easily fall-
en into by a youth is pretension. He
thinks he must appear to be more
than he really is, and tries to dress
the part. He indulges in raiment
that is costly, even superb, and wears
strange places where he
knows no one and no one knows him.
possesses the notion
that he is creating an exalted opin-
ion of himself and improving his
worth, whereas he is in reality only
squandering his money foolishly and
pandering to his own sense of van-
ity.

Very early in life the boy should
cultivate the habit of being natural
and of comporting himself in accord-
with the position that he fills.
Gorgeous apparel will not help him
nor outward
trapping or show of superior qualifi-
Notable examples are offer-
the history of celebrated men
were first, last and all the
time devoid of pretense. They be-

ance

to advance, will any
cations.

ed by
who

| gan humbly enough as boys, possess-

ed of nothing except health and in-
telligence, backed up by a determina-
steadily toward cer-
tain high ideals. It will serve to cite
the famous libera-
Lincoln,

tion to strive

the example of

tor, Abraham who was as

devoid of affectation as a babe. Yet
his deeds and his personality stand
so clearly defined in the century and

are so indelibly impressed upon na-
history as to be ineradicable.
Passing time endears him the more.

The boy

tional

who begins with the de-
sire to be absolutely sincere and
become a devotee of the
game has made a good start
He affects no knowl-
does not possess, therefore
with more readiness; his
are not blinded by a false no-
tion of his worth; thus, he gets the
right perspective on life and speeds
the direct course to success unham-
pered. He learns to sink self. Being
untroubled as to what others are
thinking or saying about him; he
gives his undivided attention to the
and self-for-
getfulness makes life pleasant enough
until his reward comes by a call to go

“pink”
in his career.
edge he

eyes

| higher up.

>
Publicity is desirable to all who

have no skeletons in their closets.

The managers of trusts and combina-

|tions are generally among the classes
i that believe that

“silence is golden”
when it comes to making public the
workings of their concerns.
—_—__~>-2
To withold advice until it is sought
may be more helpful than to give it
as soon as the need is evident.

 

PRED RETR A BO:

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

How Steel Range Peddlers Transact
Business.

This is the time of the year that
the steel range man makes his ap-
pearance in sections of country that
are ripe for working. These peram-
bulating sharpers are always at work
in some sections, but make it a rule
never to work the same territory
within periods of five years or so, or
until their former operations are quite
forgotten. Like others who seek to
make money from operations among
the agricultural classes, their methods
are of the sure cinch kind, and there
is barely a bit of good agricultural

 

sold to the parties of the second part
Oe tae. Dee Cl.
and delivered the same in good order,
and in consideration of the same, the
parties of the second part have caused
to be executed their promissory note,
bearing even date herewith, for the sum
of sixty-nine dollars, payable to the

ee
without discount or offset and due on
ee ee Gay me 2.2.
es

Now be it understood that the .......
es i dl he Range Co. warrant said
range to bake, boil, and do all kinds
of cooking in a good, workmanlike man-
ner, and agree to furnish free of charge
any parts that may with ordinary use
get out of repair, sufficiently to injure
the working of said range during the per-
iod of twelve months from the date of
this writing, provided that the above note
is paid when due and presented, and that
the parties of the second part furnish
such flue and fuel as are necessary to its
perfect operation.

It is further agreed that the range is
not transferable until paid for, and re-
ceipts, discounts, or offsets will not be
accepted against the above note. This is
the only agreement or stipulation recog-
nized in the purchase and sale of said
range, and no alteration of above condi-
tions, or erasure by salesman, is author-

| ized, or will be recognized by said com-

country between the Atlantic and Pa- |

cific oceans, and the Canadian border

to the Gulf of Mexico which does |

not contain some residents who can
look back to the time when they were
“done up” by a sleek steel range
seller.

but their methods of doing business
and the high prices received are the
chief causes of complaint. The us-
ual methods of procedure of the
steel range peddler is to drive to a
farm house, interest the occupants
in the range—one is always on his
wagon—and his. persuasiveness is
such as would do credit to a revival-

ist. i i akin romises. |
ist He is free in m =P | of the company. Now, we

He will agree to take your old stove
in partial payment; will tell of the
inferior kind of ranges handled by

Tom, Dick and Harry in the neigh-
borhood, will promise to make the
payments easy, take part in board
while he is working in the neighbor-

he will promise.
the stove for trial anyway, and all
he asks you to sign is a receipt, per-
haps he may tell you it is a contract
if you show any signs of willingness
to purchase.

But be careful what you sign. His
so-called receipt, or contract, is iron-
clad, no way to get out of it, a note
that you must pay if you are able,
and he generally finds out before he
calls on you that you are amply sup-
plied with property or money to
“make good.”

Be sure that you examine the pa-
per he presents for the signature of
yourself and wife, and see if it does
not run somewhat after this form:

a ee Oe On
ee cee ee ey OF
1905, after date, we, or either of us,
promise to pay to the order of ...........
eee oe oe ca sk sixty-nine dollars,
value received, without discount or offset,
waiving our rights to all exemptions al-
lowed us by law, with interest at six
per cent. from date, if not paid when
due or when presented.

NE ee
Sata can ios RAR ee SE LAOS aan eR Oe Baye

Then there is more to it. Should
you read on you will find that di-
rectly following the note there is an
agreement that reads like this:

i County.

This memorandum of agreement made
mee emteron tte tiie 2.
Bi ae. toe. eeaeenm Te sass
on ce eet eee, oe
of the second part, witnesseth: That
me ......- chewan oo auc. ---has this day

pany.
(Signed in duplicate),

And on the other side of the “con-
tract” you will find reading like this:

Special Notice. Ranges must be sold
at prices regulated by the company, and
no other time for payment given than

| as instructed by the superintendent in
| charge. Any erasures or alterations up-

There can be no dispute regarding |
the merits of the goods they sell, |

| of our customers.

| tions to —_ printed condition.
| Stoves taken in part payment for .......
hood, and the Lord knows what not |

He wants to leave |

 

on notes or warrants, or any indorsements
allowing discounts, except for cash paid
on account or for payments on delivery,
are positively forbidden. We furnish our
salesmen with lithograph receipts, num-
bered and signed with a facsimile of name
as below. which are charged to them as
cash, and are used by them in payment
of bills to customers or for cash re-
ceived from parties who are indebted to
es fer ee ee ranges. We
are led to the adoption of this seript
partly for the protection of ourselves,
but more particularly for the protecting
It has occurred that
irresponsible persons, representing them-

| Selves as having authority from us, have

collected money on sales and given re-
ceipts for the same, signing the name
want to
caution all persons that no receipts or
money, bills or anything whatever will
be accepted, either in full or part pay-
ment of any note or claim held by this

|; company, unless indorsed on the note,
the local dealers, show orders from |

except the script above named, and it
only in the manner specified on its face.
Neither will we recognize any transaction
outside of the guarantee which is signed
with facsimile of company’s signature,
nor any erasures, alterations, or addi-
No old

eeeet aso ranges.

You can see that the contract is
binding. Therein is the note for $609,
a promissory one, without offset or
discount, bearing 6 per cent. or more
interest if not paid when due, and
you have waived all exemptions al-
lowed by law. The verbal agreement
of the agent is no part of the con-
tract. You can not evade payment.
The company can sue the giver of
the note, get judgment in any court
and even your household goods can
be held for the payment of the same.
You have no claim on the range until
the note is paid. You can not make
the plea that you did not know what
kind of paper you were signing.

It is a case of the buyer taking the
worst of the bargain. The best plan
to follow when you want a stove ora
range, or anything of the kind, is to
patronize a local dealer, whom you
know must deal with you fairly or
lose your trade. The steel range man
may never see you again. He only
looks for the handsome profit that
the single deal gives him. He charges
an enormous price for his range, per-
haps from a fourth to a third more
than one just as good could be bought
for from your local dealer.

—_—~--—__

A joy unshared is always short

lived.

THE LANES OF LOVE.
A little child comes running down the lanes of love to me,
And leaps with kiss of greeting on his lips that laugh with glee.
The hardship is forgotten, and the toiling sinks away
In the sunshine of his coming at the ending of the day.

I lift him and I clasp him, and the troubles seem to sleep:

The day-long cares and worries die to silence in the deep

Of the dark trail leading backward where the wheels of traffic roar—
The path of life lies golden where he leads me to the door!

There the music of his laughter and his chatter heal the strife,

The lanes of love are rosy for his sake, O heart-of-life!

They rim the world with blossoms, and we live the comrade-dream,
In the rose-light and the home-light and the tender love-light’s gleam.

A little child comes running down the lanes of love to me,
And I lay aside my burden as I lift him to my knee.

O, their hearts are surely lonely, and they walk a weary way
To whom no child comes running at the ending of the day!

 

 

Cold Weather Glass

During the cold winter months many window lights are

broken. Your customer wants a light replaced at once. At such
times there is no dispute over price. You must have stock to
carry you through the winter. Our winter stock proposition will
interest you. We sell everything in glass. Write us.

 

Grand Rapids Glass & Bending Co.

Factory and Warehouse, Kent and Newberry Sts.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

 

 

 

 

 

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four Kinds of Coupon Books

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same

basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination.
Free samples on application.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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TRADESMAN 11

 

 

 

 

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

New York, Jan. 14—Jobbers and
roasters of coffee seem to be well
supplied with material and the gen-
eral situation is a sort of “waiting”
one. Buyers are not, as a rule, pur-
chasing much ahead of current wants,
and sellers are seemingly not urging
buyers to load up, as they think the
situation rather in their favor. The
general tone of the whole market is
firm and quotations are well sustain-
ed. At the close Rio No. 7 is worth
S%ec. Of Brazil coffee in store and
afloat there are 4,386,004 bags, against
3,306,835 bags at the same time last
year. West India sorts are steady,
but the volume of actual business has
been light. Prices are practically
without change, good Cucuta being
held at 934@o7%c. East India cof-
fees are quiet but firmly held.

There has been a rather active de- |

mand for refined sugar on outstand-
ing contracts. The advance on Fri-
day caused buyers to “look about,”
and they seem to realize that the
sugar market tends upward and that
it is a pretty good time to lay in
fair stocks. Orders came in quite
freely by mail and wire and _ ship-
ments were made to all points.

There is some advance shown in
the market for Formosa teas and, in
fact, the whole situation has shown
steady improvement since the turn
of the year. Prices are generally well
sustained and holders seem to have
a good deal of confidence in the fu-
ture. Line business during the week
has been fairly active and some good-
sized lots have changed hands.

Quietude prevails in the rice mar-
ket. Quotations here seem to be
above those prevailing at the South
and buyers take very small quanti-
ties. Holders seem quite confident
and look for a good trade a little
later.

There is a complete lack of anima-
tion in the spice trade. Hand-to-
mouth lots are taken, but that is all
that can be said. Prices are, as 2
rule, very firmly sustained. Stocks
are not overabundant, but there
seems to be enough of every kind to
meet present wants.

An improving situation is shown in
the demand for molasses. Prices
tend to a higher basis and buyers are
consequently taking rather more lib-
eral supplies. Stocks are moderate.
Syrups are steady and_ without
change.

There is precious little interest be-
ing shown in canned goods and the
outlook is not especially encouraging
for holders, although matters might
be worse. There is an average sort
of midwinter call for tomatoes and
there seem to be fewer goods offer-
ed at 60c than’ was the case a fort-
night ago. Corn and peas are both
quiet, the latter being held at about
70c for reliable goods, but buyers are

not eager purchasers at that. Gallon
apples are doing better, so far as the
demand is concerned, but quotations
are without change. Peaches are
firm. Salmon is selling in a quiet
manner.

Butter is steady. The market ap-
pears to be fairly well supplied and
there has been little, if any, change
during the week. The very finest
grades are pretty well cleaned up and
quotations are 29@29%c. Seconds
to firsts, 25@28%4c; Western imita-

18c; renovated meets with fair call
and is well sustained at 18@2z2c.
Cheese remains without change and
sells at 12%c for fancy full cream,
small size, and 12c for large sizes.

ers are quite confident as to the fu-
ture.
The cold weather reported from the

causing an advance in the egg mar-

”

“rate card” will go to. Best Western
and graded; average best, 3Ic; sec-
onds, 27@29c; refrigerator stock, 22

| @23¢.

$1.7254@1.75; white kidney, $2.95@3.
a a
Recent

Buckeye State.

to New Cumberland, W. Va.

|ers in dry goods and groceries, have
incorporated under the style of the
Binns & Boothman Co.

Canal Winchester—The hardware
business of Kramer & Bolenbaugh
will be continued by Mr. Bolenbaugh.

Christianburg—Wm. Dobbins will
be succeeded in the sawmill business
by Bright & Dobbins.

Cleveland—L. N. Gross & Co,
manufacturers of ladies’ waists and
wrappers, have dissolved partnership
and will be succeeded in business by
Gross & Dallett.

have dissolved partnership.

and cap business.

Dayton—Mr. Meade, of the firm of
Graves & Meade, retail clothiers,
has retired from the business.

Dayton—Louis Traxler, retail dry
goods merchant, is succeeded by the
Louis Traxler Co.

Dayton-—The clothing business of
the Wilner-French Co. is to be con-
tinued by the Wilner Bros. Co.

Delphos—F. H. King, of the firm
of King Bros., druggists, has retired
from business.

Eaton—Alonzo M. Harshman, gro-
cer, has discontinued business.

Glouster—Wheeler & Patton have
closed out their meat business.

Jeffersonville—Jas. Haines, gro-
cer, is succeeded by the Jefferson
Merchandise Co.

Newark—-E. Doe, jeweler, is to
succeed E. F. Collins & Co.

Pemberville—A. W. Russell, deal-
er in drugs, announces his intention
of retiring from business,

 

tion creamery, 18@23c; factory, 15@ |

The demand is fairly good and hold; |

West and South has the effect of|
ket and no one can tell where the |

are quoted at 31c for finest candled |

Beans are steady. Choice 1904 pea, |

Business Changes in the)

Akron—The American Marble &|
Toy Manufacturing Co. is removing |

Bryan—Binns & Boothman, deal-|

Cleveland—Wertheimer, Haas &|
Co., wholesalers of notions, succeed |
Wertheimer, Heilbron & Co., who!

Dayton—Merdieth & Stolts_ suc-|
ceed Kerian Fitzpatrick in the hat)

‘ .
Pleasant Bend—H..W. Graver, of| We have just installed a first-
the People’s Store Co., retires from |

business.

Reedtown—-Nick Rock has sold his |
general store business to John F.
Finkler.

Sherwood—Miller & Co.,_ hard-
ware dealers, will continue business
under the new style of the Sherwood
Hardware Co.

Sugar Creek—A. Zahner & Co.,,
clothiers, have gone out of business.

Unionville Center—Fred J. Hinder-
er is succeeded in the general store
business by Jacob F. Hinderer.

Wapakoneta—F. E. Kolter will
icontinue the tinware and plumbing
| business of F. E. Kolter & Son.
| White Cottage-——-Dugan & Co.
druggists, have gone out of business.

Barberton —A petition in bankrupt-
cy has been filed by the creditors of
J. A. Riddell, tailor and furnisher.

Cincinnati—Suit for the appoint-
ment of a receiver for the Cincinnati
Chocolate Co., candy manufacturer,

class up-to-date

Horse
Collar

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ne

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| kas been begun.

Middletown—A petition in bank-
ruptcy has been filed by the creditors
of the Eidelman Hardware Co.

Montpelier—The creditors of Mil-
ler & Conrad, dealers in notions, have
filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Lima—The Lima Dry Goods Co.

will discontinue business.
!

—_—_—_-+<-__
First Quarterly Meeting of Michigan
Bakers.

Lowell, Jan. 16—The Michigan As-
sociation of Master Bakers held their
quarterly meeting on Jan. 11 at Ger-
mania Hall in Saginaw. Bakers from
| Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Bay
City, Flint, Mt. Clemens, Lansing,
Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Jack-
son, Milford and this place were pres-
ent. At the close of the business
session the visiting bakers were
treated to a fine banquet by the mas-
ter bakers of Saginaw, this feature
being a complete surprise. There’ [et us send you sample and
were fifty-four seated at the banquet
tables.

An address of welcome by the
Mayor of Saginaw was well received Ask for our new harness and collar
and a number of other bright and
witty speakers followed. The meet-
| ing was a great success.
| The next meeting of the Associa-
tion will be held in Jackson on
Weldon Smith, Sec’y.

142/43 114] 15] 16117
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We employ experienced work-
men and use the best
of material.

prices.

 

catalogue. It is a fine one.

|
|
1

| April 12.

Brown & Sehler Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

+
Happiness is the harvest of help-
fulness.

 

 

 

 
   

SINGLE INSIDE LIGHT |
600 CANDLE POWER |

SINGLE INSIDE LIGMT |
500 CANDLE POWER |

  

 

ONLY $30

At last we are in a position to offer the public a first-
class machine for only thirty dollars, consisting of

1 Wrench

1 Pressure Gauge

1 Lighting Stick

1 Box Wax Tapers

And all necessary connections.

1 Generator

1 5-Gallon Tank

3 500-Candle Power Ares
50 ft. Galvanized Iron Pipe
1 Pump

We will guarantee the above system for one year.
Thousands of these machines are in daily use giving
perfect satisfaction.
Manufactured by

THE NOEL & BACON CoO.
345 So. Division Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Big Orders Which Never Went In
To the House.

The representative of the Scheu-
zenfitter Footwear Co., who was a
regular visitor, removed the carbon
paper to a new location, one set
deeper down in the order book, tore
out the duplicate and handed it to
the proprietor, placed the book ten-
derly on top of the neatly packed
shoes in the tray, passed his cigar
case around and sat down in comfort
by the stove.

“TI think, Mr. Lacey,” he said, “that
this is the best order you ever fav-
ored me with, although you have
given me some very fine ones, but,
g00d as it is, it isnt a marker to
one that I got once from a total
stranger, without showing a sample.”

Now, to those who had had Mel-
ville D. French as a shoe store guest
for several years, these symptoms
were the sure indication of a new
story to come, and it was a severe
handicap to the junior clerk when old
Mrs. Foote came in at just that mo-
ment, and he was obliged to leave
the circle around the stove, and go
forward to humor her various whims
for an uncertain length of time.

Mr. French waited politely for a
few moments, thinking that he might
return promptly and so lose no de-
tail of the narrative, but Mrs. Foote
was “looking around for something
comfortable” that morning, and the
session was likely to be protracted,
so Mr. French continued:

“T never think of that order with-
out laughing,” and to prove it he
chuckled contagiously.

“TI was young in the business then.
In fact, I hadn’t been on the road but
six months for shoes, although I had
handled a local grocery route out of
Ithaca, N. Y., for about three months,
and previous to that had done service
in the shipping room. My shoe ex-
perience was confined to a couple of
years doing just what that young
man in front is doing now, but, then,
you all know the sad, sweet story of
my life, its struggles and triumphs,
etc., because I’ve told you all about
them so many times.

“I’d been doing pretty fairly well
for my first six months, and the firm
had sent me out to cover a patch of
new territory in Southern New York
and Northern Pennsylvania. Part of
it was old stamping’ ground for me,
and I had fairly good luck in landing
some new accounts along the Erie,
in Hornellsville, Corning, Elmira and
Waverly, but I took a run down into
Pennsy to Williamsport, and I struck
it good and awful. Why, it was
all I could do to get my cases open,
and nobody took the slightest inter-
est in the samples.

“I jumped the old Northern Cen-
tral up to Elmira, and out on the
Lehigh Valley, a pretty discouraged
youngster, now, I tell you. I thought
I’d make good old Ithaca and some
of those ’tween the lakes towns, that

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I knew about and see if I couldn’t |

change my luck, and one morning
I was waiting at Van Etten Junc-
tion for the northbound train.

“It was gloomy at Van Etten, and
I was blue, the train was thirty min-
utes late, it was foggy, and there was
a little drizzle of rain falling. When

sullied for a week nearly and the
possession of a letter from the firm
wondering why, you can see why I
didn’t enjoy that hour waiting at
Van Etten, and why I never got
acquainted with the operator so.as
to find out exactly how long it took
him to learn, as is my custom usually
under similar circumstances.

“T was just learning to smoke a
little’ then, so when the train came
I grabbed up my two sample cases
and my grip and hiked for the smok-
er. There were only a few passen-
gers in the car, so I pre-emptied one
seat for myself and another for the
sample cases, and lighted up. I car-
ried a little pocket order book in
those days, and I pulled it out and
began to figure out what the average
on the orders of the trip would be
spread over all lof the weeks, in-
cluding the blank one, when some|
one tapped me on the shoulder, and
I looked up and made room for a
pleasant looking, middle aged man
who was an elegant type of the
wide-awake business man. We told |
each other our opinion of the weath- |
et, and one thing or another. ‘I see
by your sample cases,’ he remark-
ed, ‘that you are in the shoe line.’ I
told him that I believed that they
were shoe samples in the cases, al-
though I told him, in a burst of boy-
ish confidence, I wasn’t sure about
it, for I hadn’t seen them myself
for nearly a week.

“Well,” he said, ‘this isn’t a bad
territory around here, but almost
everybody has stocked up, I fancy.
I’m just about opening up a new
general store down at Lockwood.
Everything new. I was in the shoe |
line at Waverly for awhile, but I
have found a splendid opening at
Lockwood. Big surrounding terri-
tory and great trading people all
around. I’m going to put in a $10,-
ooo stock, sir, in that little town.
Every bit of it new. I’m on my way
now to meet some grocery, dry goods
and clothing agents and as soon as
the new store is completed I shall
have the stock ready to put right in.’

“*Shall you put in a line of boots
and shoes?’ I asked, somewhat tim-
idly.

“Well, yes, I suppose so,’ he said,
‘but strangely enough, while that is
the line that I am the most familiar
with, that is the line that causes me
the most embarrassment. I don’t ex-
actly know what that country trade
will need, and although I intend to
make the shoe department an im-
portant one in time, I shall order
very cautiously until I know just
what I want. I haven’t ordered a
sole yet, although I have been pester-
ed to death by agents whose lines
I handled in Waverly and Elmira,’

““T am out for the Ware Shoe
Co.,’ I remarked.

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though I guess your people haven’t |

i2en covering this territory
thoroughly, have they?’

“I confesed that the line was rath-
er new in that section.

“General line?’ he asked.

*< ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘but the samples f
am carrying now are mainly “The
Wearer” line, that is a specialty with
our house.’

“When I get started,’ he said,
‘come down and show me your line.’

“T told him that I would. ‘But,’
I ventured, ‘why not let me put you
in a little line of staples as a starter
so that you can be stocked when you
start, and then I can come around
and fill in with the rest of our line
later?’

“Well, now, that isn’t a bad idea,’
he said. ‘I know your line is all
right. What have you got in a
woman’s serge congress with a ma-
chine sole?’

“*The greatest thing you ever saw
at Soc net,’ I answered. ‘I haven't
got a sample, but it’s a fine serge,
fresh, heavy gore and we have it in
E, EE and I guess some of the nar-
row widths if you want them; which
I don’t think you do in Lockwood,
I never was there.’ You
see I was getting into my stride.

“He thought a minute. ‘Make it
60 pairs of E, 3 to 6, and 60 pairs of
EF, 4 to 8, he said. I gasped a lit-
tle. ‘They’re staple goods,’ he said,

very

although

‘Tl can’t make a mistake on them. Do |

you have them in misses’?’

“TI looked up in astonishment.
‘Why, no; not serge congress, I
said.’

 

“ ‘Oh,’ and he smiled. ‘I was think |
ing farther along, about serge slip- |
pers.’

““Oh, yes. The same
|turn or machine, at 38c in the wom-
en’s. No, we haven’t them in misses’.’

“‘Make it 36 in D, 36 in E and 36)
in EE, on both soles,’ he said.

goods in |

 

“ ‘Now for misses,’ we have webs |
| at 16c, very good goods. Only one
| width.’
“‘Thirty-six pairs regular,’ he said. |
“And women’s at.tgc. All E.’
“ ‘Sixty pairs, regular,’ he said.
“T wrote it down. ‘Now, do you
think of anything else along that
|line?’ I asked. ‘For instance, serge |
foxed polish ought to go there in
| Lockwood, and we have splendid val-
|ue at $1.12, D, E and EE.’
| “Tm glad you mentioned it,’ he|
| said, ‘duplicate the serge order.’
“‘Now, something in fine wear for
| women e
| “He shook his head firmly. ‘Noth- |
ling but staples,’ he said. ‘I will want
la service shoe for men.’
“Veal calf, bellows laced,’ I said, |
\‘double soled and tapped, cap. or)
|plain toe, moulded counter, soft grain |
|top, nailed sole, at $1.23. In 5 and
16 wide. It’s a wonder. I can show |
| you that.’
| “‘Never mind,’ he said. ‘I can use|
|a sixty-pair case safely enough regu- |
llar. Half 5 wide and half 6.
“T jotted it down with joy. ‘Some-
|thing finer for men?’ I asked. ‘Some-
| thing for Sunday around Lockwood? |
| This satin calf blucher lace, with tip,

| goods.

|
thing,’ and I showed him a photo}

of it in our jobbing catalogue.

“Tt looks good, and I believe you,’ |
‘Are they in sin- |

he said, solemnly.
gle cartons?’
“Ves” 1 sas.
“<«Thirty-six pairs on each width—
no—make it a solid case on
width,’ he said.

opens.’

| “He was pouring over the cata- |
'logue, and he grew enthusiastic. At
levery tur? of the page he found
|something for his new stock and he

ordered with the greatest discrimina-

| tion, although nothing less than 36

to 60 pair lots, and of all staple
I was overjoyed. I had fin-
ished two pages in my book and
was beginning on the third when the
train whistled for Ithaca.
man who had been sitting near us

came forward and spoke to my seat- |

mate. ‘I think we better change cars

there and take the boat up to the

factories,’ he said, and my seat-mate
acquiesced at once. He gave me
minute directions as to shipping and

| billing, told me to have the firm look

up his rating in either Dun or Brad-

| street, and hurried away after shak-

ing me heartily by the hand, and in-
viting me, over and over again, to
call on him when his Lockwood store
was opened.

“There appeared to be two com-

mercial men with him and while one
of them walked along out of the

each |
‘We don’t want to |
iget out of sizes right off the first |
\thing when the big Lockwood store |

A quiet |

delayed a moment and stopped by my
seat.

“‘Thank you very much,’ he said.
‘You have helped us a lot. I hope
he didn’t trouble you.’

“Why, no,’ I answered, ‘what do
| you mean?’
| “Well, we expected to
good deal of trouble with him; he’s
violent at times, but he seemed to
get interested with you, and saved
us a heap of bother. He was quiet
las a lamb. What did you talk to
| him about—shoes?’

have a

| ‘Certainly,’ I said. ‘He’s going to
| start a big general store at Lock-
wood, and he ordered a nice bill of
| goods of me.’

| “The man smiled pityingly. “Poor
| old Smith, he said, ‘he’ll be out of
| business for some time, I’m thinking.

|

He went off his trolley after he fail-
led so disastrously, and his partner
and I are taking him up to Willard
| Asylum. Sorry he bothered you; you
|have entertained him wonderfully,’
'and he hurried along to join the
other two.

“T’ve got that order on my book
yet."—Ike N. Fitem in Boot and
Shoe Recorder.

—_-_-—~+

"Tt takes

tion accountable than an individual.

longer to make a na-

But in its longer period a nation is
held acountable for just exactly the
same things that.an individual is. For
a million men have no right, because
they are a million, to do what each
individual one of them has no right
to do, against a natural law.’”—Henry

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DEADBEAT MULLINS.

in a Business Deal.
Written for the Tradesman.

Although to one accustomed to city
ways trade at Wayback might have
seemed quiet to the point of somno-

lency, let it be recorded that the)

quietude prevailing in his store seem-

ed to have no depressing effect upon |
A copy of the)

Uncle Danny Briggs.
Bellaire Independent was spread be-
fore him, and so absorbed had he
become in its contents that it was
with a snort of displeasure and an
impatient gesture that he laid it
down when the door opened and Ab}
Mullins stamped noisily in.

There was a sweet smile of recog- |
nition upon the pink and white face
of Mr. Mullins and oiliness in his |
speech as he gave greetings to the
veteran storekeeper, but a_ certain
hesitancy marked his demeanor as
he half extended his hand to com-
plete the salutation, for seeing that
Mr. Briggs was not in a mood to
return his friendly advances, he com-
pleted the movement by raising his |
hand to his own face and pulling an
icicle out of his mustache.

“Pretty cold morning,” he ventur- |
ed, by way of drawing the merchant |
into conversation.

“Huh,” grunted Briggs unamiably.
“T’ve see wuss.”

“U-n-doubtedly,” admitted the
other, with a deferential duck of his
head. “Y-o-u know. I guess no-
body’s any better qualified to know
than you be. You’ve been here long |
enough—about thirty years, ain’t it?” |

Briggs nodded ungraciously.

“Yes, thirty years. Just think of!
it! Thirty years in one place. You’ve |
see this prosperous and smilin’ land |
hewed right out of the crime evil |
forests. You've see the hull country |
agroanin’ under the monster hand of |
oppression and want, and the chil-
dren cryin’ for bread, an’ then you've |
see the smilin’ face of prosperity and |
plenty stuck forth and spread over
the land like a ba’m. An’ you’ve been |
the underpinnin’ of the hull vast fab- |
ric—the key-log to the jam of good
times, the solid rock fer all these
old mossbacks to rest on in their
troubles an’ hardships, all other mer- |
chants bein’ to you but the sinking
sand of the desert, which toils not, |
neither does it spin. You—”

“How much be ye goin’ to pay on|
that book account o’ your’n?” inter- |
rupted Briggs irrelevantly.

Mullins waved his hand
cally.

“I don’t see how I can pay any-
thing this trip,” said he. “Not but |
what I want to bad enough. The’
hain’t anything would please me bet-
ter, but until such time as I have|
another scale and get myself and my |
folks rigged up a little, why, I could-
n’t spare nothing on that account. |

apologeti-

But it’s good, though,” he hastened |
to add, “and don’t you think it
hain’t; and I’ll pay it, too, every cent |
of it, and big interest to boot. I’d|
pay you something on it right now,
but if I do me an’ the folks’d have
to go destitute, an’ I couldn’t earn|

no money to keep ’em from starving.

to spend it, and that ort to show you

money when I do have it.

go somewheres else.”
At the mention of money Uncle
Danny pricked up his ears, and pres-

ently he and Mullins were in the}

midst of an interesting deal.

The customer was certainly in need
of wearing apparel. His Mackinaw
jacket was literally in tatters, his

|long socks, torn by brush. and thorn,
|seemed with difficulty to perform the

service of confining the bottoms of

| his trousers about his ankles, and his

rubbers were so rent and worn that
they looked ready to fall to pieces.
His first purchase was an outfit

|for his feet, and he no sooner had

it on than he walked to the door and
cast the old one as far away into
the adioining field as possible.
“There,” said he, “them can rest
there in peace fer all of me.

I’ve had to wear ’em twicet as long

/2as I ought to of wore a good outfit.
| That’s the last I ever want to see

of them fellers.”
After a while, when the purchases

'were all made, Uncle Danny figured
|out the bill and then looked expec-
|tantly at Ab as he announced the
| amount.

Mullins reached into his trousers
| pocket for his wallet, and an alarmed
| expression—whether real or feigned
it was impossible to tell—crossed his |
in an-|
other pocket, then in another, and as |

countenance. Then he felt
the search progressed the chagrin
on his face deepened, while a look of
suspicion and annoyance possessed
that of Mr. Briggs.

“Lost yer weasel skin, hey?” quer-
ied the merchant sarcastically. “Be’n

|a turnin’ summersets on the crime evil
wood pile an’ spilt yer money on the |
sinkin’ sands of the Sahary desert. |
|Or did ye leave it to home on the

pianny with yer gold watch and yer
sealskin wammus?”
“I crave yer pardon, Mr. Briggs,”

| said the customer humbly, confusion
| written on his face.

“T don’t know
when I ever made such a mistake be-

fore. I’ve left my money in my other

pants and I'll bet a farm somebody’ll

steal my wad afore I can get back
I’m awful sorry this |

to the house.
happened, for I know nothing I could
do now would satisfy you of my
honesty and good intentions. But
I’ll redeem myself.

teach meridian

my humble hut and back, and will
have retrieved my now sullied repe-

i tition. I go. Adoo.”
“Hold on there!” commanded
Briggs. “Does that mean that yer

| goin’ home after the spelter?”

“at doth”

“Then take off them socks a-n-d
rubbers.”

“Leave ’em here? You don’t mean
that, Mr. Briggs. Surely your heart
will soften at the thoughts of the

I got a small scale yesterday and | father of nine children, driven forth

 

They |
wa’n’t no good in the first place, and |

Before the glor- |
ious orb of day that is now wheeling |
its way so proudly in the heavens |
|has had time to
|height ag’in, I will have hied me to

| weather with inadequate feet kiver-
} ing?”
| “Take ’em off, I say.”

“Do you distrust me, Mr. Briggs—
me?”
| “Shed them things.
out of the trustin’ business.”
|

| blame you so much for your suspic-
|ions, however unjest they be. All
|is ag’in me. I will go fetch my old

| outfit from the buzzom of the unfeel- |
|in’ mantle that wraps Nature in its |
I will then leave with |
| you these here what’s on my feet |

|

| cold embrace.

I’ve jest gone

“Well,” said Mullins sadly, “I can’t |

‘Vm bringing the money right here into the inclemency of this Ar’tic | tell such times as I kin go home and
How Storekeeper Got Ahead of Him) f
|that I want to do the square thing
'by ye and give ye the benefit of the
Of course, |
if you don’t like it that way, I can/

| back ag’in as aforesaid.”
“No, ye don’t,” announced Uncle
Danny decisively; “ye don’t do noth-

in’ of the kind. Ye’ll take them
i things off right now.”
“Well, but Mr. Briggs,” remon-

strated Mullins, “I can’t go out in

this kind of weather in my bare
| feet.”
| “That’s yer own lookout. I don’t

intend to let a fifty-cent man out of
|this store with a four-dollar foot
rig.
“Do you mean that, Briggs?”
“Yer dum right I mean it,” growl-
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And the time to buy them for next fall is
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Our salesman will call soon.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

       
   
   
     
 
 

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that ever jumped a _ counter,” an- | hind his desk. He held his hands

“Then you’re the meanest skunk | sigh set the gun in the corner be- |
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nounced Mullins.

|
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over the glowing stove for a time and |

Briggs seized the poker. “A-i-r ye| rubbed them until they had absorbed |

goin’ to take off them things?”

he/a satisfactory amount of its super- |

demanded. “’Tain’t my doin’s that | abundant heat. Then he selected the |

yer rubbers is out in the cow pas-
ture, didnt told ye to put ‘em
there.”

Mullins saw the futility of argu-
ment upon the lines that he had
been following. Suddenly his face
was illumined as if by inspiration.

“By Gum!’ he exclaimed. “Say,
Briggs, I jest thought of suthin’. My

 

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woman and the youngsters sold a|
hull mess of berries last summer an’ |

got their pay in little dribs along,
and when it come fall, they was
afraid they’d spend it here an’ there
fer this an’ that, and that it would-
n't do ’em any good, so they got
it all changed into a ten dollar bill
so they could save it up.
want to git suthin’ er another fer
it, an’ the woman gi’n it to me to-
day to git it changed back ag’in, and

Now they |

blamed if I didn’t mighty nigh fergit |

all about i: Se if its all the same
to you I’ll jest pay ye fer the foot
rig an’ then settle with the woman
when I git home.”

So Briggs took the proffered bill,
walked around to his desk, and pres-
ently handed Mullins back an ob-
long piece of white paper and _ thir-

ty-seven cents in coin. “There ye
be,” said he.

“How’s this?” asked Mullins, |
sharply. ‘“Where’s the rest of my

change?”

growled Briggs. “The rubbers an’
socks come to jest four dollars, yer
book account is $5.63—there’s yer
receipt fer it,
makes up the difference.”

“But this ain’t my money.
told you it belonged to the woman,
and you’ve got to give me back the
balance,” and Mullins showed his
teeth like an angry cur.

“That’s all right,” said Briggs, with
“Ye jest said that ye
could settle with yer woman fer the
balance hetween the rubbers and the
bill, an’ if ye kin do that, ye kin set-
tle the other. too. I hain’t no spring
chicken. This ain’t the first time
ye’ve tried to do me, but I have an
idee mebbe it’ll be the last, an’ the

an ugly sneer.

|stormy weather shoes _ for

best cigar he had in stock, lighted |
it calmly, and after seating himself |
by the fire watched the blue smoke |
rings as they curled lazily toward |
the ceiling. Presently he slapped his |
knee. |
“By th’ Great Horned Spoon! I}
would of took a peck of ’bagies fer |
that blamed account,” said he.
Geo. L. Thurston.

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|The Dislike of Women for Clumsy |

Shoes.

A well-posted shoeman said _ the |
other day: “Dislike for clumsy shoes |
is inherent in womankind, and the}
determination not to wear them leads |
many to the verge of endangering |
their health by wearing thin shoes. |
We have remedied that by bringing |
out a woman’s shoe both graceful and |
protective, stoutly made, but not}
clumsy, good in contour, comfortable |
in fit, leathers of sufficient weight.)
and in models that are dressy. These |
women |
have damp-proof filling between the |
soles.
“With men it is different. A man|
cares little for looks in rough weath- |

'er shoes, if the shoes keep his feet |

|dry and warm.

We give him calf!

|lining, bellows tongue, double sole

| extending clear to the heel, making)

ia double shank, etc.”
“That’s all the change ye’'ll git,” |

and the odd change |

This is good convincing talk and
helps to sell shoes to people who
appreciate some explanation about |
the footwear they buy.

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| Picking the Flowers Out of an Occu-

I jest |

quicker ye fly yer kite outen here, the |

better it'll suit me.”

Mullins began to heap profane epi-
thets upon the merchant, but Mr.
Briggs made a threatening gesture
with the poker, and the customer
went out of the door, slamming it
so hard that it rattled the tinware
at the very back end of the store.

Presently there was a noise out-

side as Mullins ripped a panel from |

the merchant’s fence, which was
promptly followed by a deafening
crash as, thrown by an angry man,
the board struck violently against
the side of the store.

Briggs stepped to the door armed
with a Winchester rifle. He drew a
long bead on the now swiftly  re-
treating figure of his erstwhile cus-
tomer, toyed fondly with the trigger
for the space of nearly a minute, and
then stepped inside and with a deep

ito conquer as you go.
| :
leave the enemy a foothold in any

 

 

pation.

Everywhere we see youth, unwill-
ing to pay the full price for suc-|
cess, trying to pick the flowers out
of an occupation or a profession, but |
omitting all that is hard, ugly and|
disagreeable.

This is as if soldiers were to go|
through a hostile country leaving a)
stronghold, here and there, uncon- |
quered, to harass them perpetually |
by firing on their rear and picking |
off their men.

Theh only way to insure victory is |
You must noi |

part of your kingdom. Dread _ of!
drudgery must be overcome. Grasp |
the nettle hard, if you would rob it}
of its sting. You must destroy the |
weeds, as you go, or soon there will |
be no flowers; and without flowers |
you can not have fruit. |
———_+ 2 ~~
He Was.

Johnny—Papa, what does it mean)
to be apprenticed?

Papa—It means the binding one |
person to another by agreement. The |
person so bound has to teach the |
other all he can of his trade or pro-|
fession, while the other has to watch |
and learn how things are done to|
make himself useful in every way |
possible. |

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16

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Hard Knocks Responsible for Rise
in Business World.
Written tor the Tradesman.

Once upon a time there was a
young man who wished to be a
salesman in some large emporium.
What he did not know about busi-
ness would fill volumes, but with
egotism enough to fill a box car
he butted in and by a lucky chance
secured a position. Besides egotism
the young man had a large stock of
wise ways which he tried to palm
off on his employer as good common
sense. The young man was not a
good palmist—he failed to convince
the old man that he was the real
thing in the way of a salesman. The
wise one was given several tips by
various people, but he continued in
the non-cultivation of sense and
evinced no burning desire to learn.
Soon the love of his employer to-
ward him began to grow cold and
one day he was informed that the
firm would try to worry along in the
future without his valuable services.
The young man gave vent to his
enraged feelings by turning loose a

 

large and luxuriant crop of choice
bad language, but failed to take the |
lesson to heart. Moral: Don’t think |
that you were the recipient of the|
largest package of brains at the gen-
eral distribution, and when people
give you the benefit of a large and
varied experience utilize it. |

 

“The best and most successful

 

business men I know,” said a_pros-
perous business man the other day, |
“are men who learned what they |
know by hard knocks.”

This is a statement often reiterated |
yet the countless young persons who |
are just getting their start in busi- |
ness will not, or can not, see it. In- |
stead they take unphilosophically and
gtumblingly the hard knocks which
are coming to them, but even then
the hard knocks do them good.

One of the best illustrations of
the efficiency of the hard knock sys-
tem I ever saw came under my ob-
servation a short time ago:

It was the case of two boys who
were just entering their father’s busi-
One father said to his son:

“Now, my son, you are about to
go into business. The fact that it
is to be my business is not to make
the slightest difference with the way
you do your work or the amount of
work you will have to do. You will
get down in the morning at the same
time the other employes do and if
you are late you will be docked the
same as the other employes are. Un-
derstand, you are to receive no fav-
ors from the hands of the foreman
and, remember this, you are not to
come to me with any complaints of
hard knocks. If you get them—as
doubtless you will—take them like a
man and profit by them.”

The othet boy started with no un-
derstanding with his father and that
gentleman, with his fatherly but mis-
placed love, shielded his son. If the
boy came down late some morning
nothing was said to him about it. If
one of the men crossed him in any
way he knew that a visit to his
father would fix things up. That

ness.

 

boy, although he had more natural
ability than the other boy, never was
so successful as the one who had to
take the hard knocks. He was not
so self-reliant and he was not so
able to cope with the vicissitudes of
business life.

 

I heard a young man talking the
other day about his rise in life from
the humble position of office boy to
his present one, which, by the way,
is a rather responsible one for so
young a man.

“It was the hard knocks,” said he,
“that were responsible for my com-
paratively rapid rise in the business
world. I worked in my first posi-
tion for a man who was notably hard
his employes. I was warned
when I went to work for him that I
choosing a unpleasant
berth, but, having secured the po-
sition, I determined to stick to it.
Well, I stuck and,” he added with a
modest smile, “you can see the re-
sult for yourself. When I got a
hard knock I could not help remem-
bering it and, remembering it, I
never made that mistake again. This
man I was working for used to land
on me for some trivial mistake with
such withering scorn and sarcasm
that he was often positively insult-
ing, but, while this was a severe blow
to my pride and self-esteem. I bore
it because I was in love with my
work. While it was very hard to
bear it at the time, I am glad now
that I did it: First, because I learn-
ed those necessary business rules nev-
er to forget them; second, because

on

was very

iI learned to do that most necessary

thing in business—keep my temper;
third, because, as a general hard
business character-molder, that train-
ing was the best I could possibly
have gotten.”

This young man had a chance to

| get hard knocks and he embraced it.

Most wisely, too. The result was
plainly apparent and now that young
man’has a fund of good business
experience that has and will be of
inestimable value to him.

A business man told me the other
day about a young fellow in his em-
ploy that he liked greatly and was
much interested in. It was during
business hours and while I was there
the young fellow made some slight
mistake that came under his employ-
er’s notice. The way he berated that
young man I considered disgraceful
considering the slightness of the
mistake. When he was through and
the boy had gone I told him what I
thought about the transaction and
said that he had a queer way of
showing his liking for and interest
in the boy.

“That is the very thing that shows
my liking and interest in him,” said
my friend. “If that had been one
of the ordinary clerks I would have
simply called his attention to the
mistake and let it go at that, but
with Ralph it is different. He is a
bright boy and I would like to see
him make his mark in the world, so
I make the most of every slight mis-
take he makes. He feels these hard
words keenly and in the hope of es-
caping them he does his level best

 

at all times, and that is what I want
to get him into the habit of doing.
It is hard at times to be so cruelly
severe with him, because I like him
a great deal, but it is for his own
good. Some day he will thank me
for it and say that it was the best
thing that I could have done for
him.

Tf a doubter wants proof of the
efficacy of the hard-knocks system
he has only to look over the list
of great men—men financially great,
men great in letters, the famous au-
thors, the talked-of painters—nearly
all of whom have been knocked good
and hard at some period in their
life. it proves a man. The boy
who has the right stuff in him for
a great one will keep a stiff upper
lip under the most adverse of cir-
cumstances. He will not give up
When he gets out into busi-
his own hook he will
mind so much the buffets which he
will receive; he will have become
used to straight-from-the-shoulder
talk, and it will take a pretty strong
proposition to feaze him.

easily.
ness on

On the other hand, if a boy has
not the right kind of spirit he will
cringe under any harsh treatment
and go sniveling around trying to
dodge his superiors, always trying to
cover up his shortcomings instead
of doing away with them.

the hard-knocks system is a sure win-

it seldom if ever goes wrong.
Burton Allen.

not }

For trying out prospective workers |

ner, and the business man who trys |

| Makers of Shoes

Tim the Truckman

 

 

| Tim the truckman, who, trundles’ the
trunks,

Trying to thump them up into small
chunks,

With his trusty truck in shine or rain,

| He breaks up the trunks with might and
main

And if they don’t break with the awful
abuse,

He jumps on them hard ‘with his HARD-

| PAN shoes.

Dealers who handle our line say
we make them more money than
| other manufacturers.

Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

AN OLD STOCK.

How It Precludes the Success of the
Merchant.
Written for the Tradesman.

In a certain small railroad town in
Michigan a practicing physician had
for several years conducted a gen-
eral store. He finally sold out to
two men from another part of the
State. These men had been success-
ful in their former location; but for
some reason they did not make sat-
isfactory progress at the new point

and, after nearly a year, they gave
up the struggle and left town. The
writer visited the place once and}

spent a few minutes in that particu-
lar store, but knows only a little of
the facts in the case, his information
being gathered from _ conversation
with a resident of the community.
This man said they seemed fair and
honorable in their dealing and con-
ducted themselves in society as re-
spectable people should, and he could
not see, for the life of him, why they

 

 

|might be made the biggest possible

to his aid some one experienced ‘ic |
such matters. It won’t help much to |

ttempt a closing out or sacrifice sale |
cs it is done wisely and success- |
fully. Better sell the whole stock |
for whatever it will bring to some |
broker or auctioneer and begin all |
anew. A carefully planned and in-
telligently conducted clearing sale

advertisement. It would be just the |
thing to help get acquainted with |
the people and attract new _ trade.
However much people may _ decry
“that old stock,” they will buy it}

| just the same if they can get it at

reduced prices. They’ll buy things |
they don’t need and will never use|

|it they are offered to them _ cheap |
enough.
There are treasures in that old}

|

should not have done a good busi- }

ness there, unless it was on account
of that old stock, for which he
thought they paid too much.
Pondering the question as to how
much an old stock might affect a

favorable,

of consideration, especially to any

one who buys out an established busi- | wondering how you can get money |

If the stock is not up-to-date, |
not well adapted to the class of pa- |

ness.

| will not lose thereby.

stock which some have long earnest- |
ly desired to possess. Give them a
chance to secure those things at
their own price and so gain their |
friendship and _ future patronage. |
There are articles not worth the|
space they occupy. Give them away |
to whoever will accept them and you |

There are]

| goods ten or twenty years old that |

; oi, bei {the day they were put in,
merchant, all other conditions being | provements of the age have rendered |

it seems a matter worthy |

are in some respects just as good as
but im- |

them obsolete. Put them out of the |

| way at least and don’t spend time |

trons, or if it consists largely of odds |

and ends, the accumulation of many
years, the buyer certainly ought to
know before he purchases just how
he intends to handle it. If he thinks

he has only to step into the tracks |

of his predecessor and go right on
with the same volume of business
without making any decided changes

be sadly disappointed. He doesn’t
understand human nature and he has

not considered what the people ex- |

pect of a newcomer.

Some old customers, if they find
the goods they need and prices are
satisfactory and the
salespeople agreeable,
to patronize the store.
come at first out of curiosity, but if
special endeavor is not made to hold
their trade they will be very apt to
do most of their trading at the other

will continue

such. It will not be long after the
new merchant arrives before the peo-
ple will all at once discover that they

are tired of “that old stock.” They
want to see something new. They
will talk “that old stock’ to their

friends and prevent others from trad-
ing there. Competing merchants
will make use of the firm to dis-
parage their neighbor even when their
own might just as appropriately be
so called.

Whether there is much or little
foundation for this talk, or whether
it is all a great bugbear, the merchant
should at once set about doing some-
thing to improve matters. He can
not safely ignore the condition. That
stock and that store should be thor-
oughly renovated. If he doesn’t know
exactly how to do it he better call

| They can

: , : | profit.
or improvements he will very likely |

out of them.

Some merchants will hang on and |
try to get first cost out of an article
not bear to lose a cent,
not realizing that by so doing they |
are losing good profits from trade |
which they do not get but might have |
just as well as not. Get the old stock |
cut of the way at any price and put}
in goods that will sell and make a/
Better lose a few cents or a|
few dollars now and then than to}

i keep goods on hand until out of date |

or shop worn. |
And so we might enumerate, but)

|it is not the purpose of this article |
'to consider this feature—that is, how |

ito dispose of old stock—hints
proprietor or}

| frequent occurrence in these columns.
Others will |

| are needed to establish a new business.
stores or nearby towns if there are |

 

and |
suggestions along this line being of

For a merchant in a new locality
it may be necessary to adopt the
same hustling, planning, care and
constant study of the situation that

No merchant should expect when he
buys the stock and good will of an
other that the good will means any
more than that his predecessor yields
the location, the chance to do busi-
ness, and will not do anything to in-
jure his successor’s trade. He can
not transfer his customers nor their
patronage against their desires.

It is better sometimes to succeed
an unpopular merchant than a pop-
ular one. Better to secure a depleted
stock than an abundant one, espe-
cially if it contains undesirable goods.
Better to build up a business than to
buy one and, not knowing by what
methods it was established, fail to
maintain it.

In entering a new field one very
important thing should not be over-
looked, namely, the adaptability of
the merchant to the class of people

 

| convenience, distance, prices,

| does

| other trade union papers get a large |

|paid for by employers whose inter-
} ests are continually attacked in their |

found there. Race distinctions and |
differences of religion cut no small|
|figure. A merchant of the same na- |
| tionality as a majority of the resi-|
dents often has a bond so strong that |
quality |
of goods or almost every considera- |

{tion to be named, have no effect in |

winning trade for one of different |
birth. A successful merchant in one |
locality may be a misfit in another. |
And the strange part of it is that he

not know why it is so, when

|
|} others can see the cause so well.

E. E. Whitney.
2-9 ~~.
Episode in a Tunnel.

Maiden seated in the train,
Pocket full of money; |
Down beside her sits a man— |
Maiden thinks it funny. |
|

Quickly speeds the train along,
In a tunnel enters;

Maiden’s thought most anxiously
On her pocket centers.

Quietly her little hand,
Toward the money stealing,

Finds a hand already there,
Robbery revealing.

Fiercely clutches she the hand,
On hysterics verging,

Waiting till the train shall be
From the dark emerging.

Into sunlight now at last
Train shoots like a rocket;

Maiden finds she has her hand

In the stranger’s pocket.

oe
Furnish the Sinews of War.
Employers supply a considerable |
part of the funds which the unions |
use to fight with. The organ of the |
American Federation of Labor and

part of their support from advertising |a

| columns.

 

PILES CURED

DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON
Rectal Specialist

 

 

 

103 Monroe Street Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

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Facts in a
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WHY?

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

1904.

The year 1904 is memorable for the
state of that existed
throughout the country during those
twelve months.
however, encountered some interrup-
tions in the way of a few notable hap-
penings which have contributed in
no small part to the history of the
country and the annals of the cloth-
ing industry.

Prominent in the events of the year
were those notable gatherings of
representative clothing men
the festive boards set for the purpose
of bringing into closer social and

normal trade

around

ests, local and distant, in a common
brotherhood of industry and endeav-

|

|
|
|
|
|
j

idle class patterning after the

proud privilege to chronicle that the |
ready-made no longer needs a pace- |
maker, since it sets its own pace. It |

| is so well to the front that the tailor- |
| to-the-trade has long been distanced |
|}and the cheap made-to-measure tail- |
op | Ors Rave been elt at’ the post,’ the |
Review of the Clothing Trade of! ,., recording the demise, in the|

cities, of many of this class. |
To-day we find the tailor of the mid- |
inge-

large

|nious in the ready-made, which is

Its regular course, |

running more than ever an even |

pace with the productions of the ex-

| pensive and so-called “tailors to the |

| rich.”

It is not alone in the metro-

| politan cities that there is the call for |

high-priced ready-made apparel. The}

| best has found a foothold in the
| country towns, and it is because the
|country trade is doing more every |
| season with better qualities that the |

country man is better dressed to-day |

| than ever before.
commercial relationship those inter- |

or, which are becoming more per-|

fectly crystallized every year.
Reviewing the general business of
the year, it is best defined as normal
in growth and gains. Now and again
there was a month or so of dulness,
but dull only by comparison with the

With the demand for higher grades
at high prices it is but natural that
profits should have been better, and |
in this particular the year is more|
conspicuous for the added money

|that has been made through “trad-

’

So much in evidence is this
increasing call for better goods that |

ing up.’

|the year closed with more clothiers |

months in which an unusually good |

business was done. And these good
months more than compensated for
others less satisfactory.

| business on a year ago.

If the year records a number of |
large failures they are more the re- |

sult of faulty organization than of

poor collections.” At times it  has|

been hard to get money, but taking

the good with the bad periods, collec- |

tions for the year will aggregate uni-
formly good.

Such of the failures as have passed
into the records of the year did not
come as surprises. The more impor-
tant ones were simply illustrative of
the absence of good government in
mercantile affairs, bringing out more
vividly the need for perfect organiza-
tion as essential to cope with the

progressive methods of the advance |

guard. Failure to-day to have every
department of an organization intelli-
gently managed discloses a weakness.
A chain is no stronger than its weak-
est link.

The effect of judicious buying on
the part of retailers is apparent. As
clothiers become better able to
gauge their requirements and regu-
late their business season after sea-
son, according to the business they
have done, overbuying is less fre-
quent.

“Better in quality” has been the
slogan of the year. If in past sea-
sons there has been the shadow ofa
doubt about the sincerity of the
call for “better grades,” all question
of its import has been dispelled by
the experiences of the past year. So
well has this demand for
clothes been met by the leading or-
ganizations that the progress of the

is monumental in its
The year just closed is replete with
achievements in the way of better

workmanship and more scientifically | iers had little confidence in its sell-|
And it is our|ing well, it became so popular that

constructed apparel.

proportions. |

|than ever before talking proudly of

their increased sales of clothing at
prices higher than they had done)
It is there-

|fore certain that there is no better

time than the present to “trade up.” |
Begin with the new lines for spring

|and push the high-priced for the best

results.
Looking backward we find that
early in the spring the semi-frock

| coat came into greater favor for in-
|formal day and business dress, and

|
|

that braid binding was again intro-
duced with the morning coat. Col-
lars and lapels were increased in
width, marking the demise of the
long, narrow shapes previously worn.

 

| As the summer approached and negli-

| gee dress became necessary to com-
| fort, loose-fitting garments, introduc-

 

}of 1905, which will

|
|

better |

ed by the collegian, grew in popular-
ity. Worsteds for a time vied with
serges for the lead and finally gain-
ed the front, with tropical weights
so well favored that the supply was
inadequate to the demand. Browns
were introduced, but met with an un-
satisfactory reception, being distanc-
ed by gray, the summer favorite |
The strength attained by lightweight |
worsteds, gray cloths, flannels,
serges; loose-back coats, longer than |
had previously been worn; the sum-
mer popularity of the two-piece suit |
and the fact that the double-breasted
sack was numerically stronger than |
it had ever been, all furnish impor- |
tant cues for the spring and summer |
introduce the!
successes of last summer. |

A protractedly mild autumn made |
the rain coat a desirable overgarment |

 

and foreshadowed the popularity of|

|
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j

ithe long overcoat. The
ready-made in the way of betterment |

heavy de-|
mand that the rain coat met was|
. . . . |
similar to the run it had experienced |

| the year before, and from a garment |

suffering from neglect, because cloth- |

 

 

i Jice-Pres.
Will Connor, Pres. Joseph S. Hoffman, ist Vice
William Aiden Smith, 2nd Vice- Pres. M. C. Huggett, Sec’y, Treas. and Gen. Man.
Colonel Bishop, Edw. B, Bell, Directors

The William Connor Co.

Wholesale Ready Made Clothing
Manufacturers

28-30 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Founder Established 25 Years.

da Summer line for 1905 includes samples of nearly every-
innate Gade for children, boys, youths and men, including stouts and
slims. Biggest line by long odds in Michigan. Union made goods if re-
quired; low prices; equitable terms; one price to all. References given to
large number of merchants who prefer to come and see our full line; but if
preferred we send representative. Mail and phone orders promptly shipped.
We carry for immediate delivery nice line of Overcoats, suits, etc., for
Winter trade.

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the stocks carried by manufacturers
were exhausted and the factories had
to make good the deficiency later.
Fall introduced browns in a maze
of doubt. Yet browns have met with

a fair amount of success, and if re- |
tailers are getting from under heavy |
stocks they have reason for selfcon- |
gratulation on having bought wisely, |
tempering the size of their orders ac- |

cording to their sales, trying browns
on the public in piecemeal fashion.

. The long and cold winter of last
year and the reduction it made on
heavyweight stocks influenced retail-

ers to liberal buying for the present |
It started in auspiciously on |
suits, and for a time all went well. |
3ut the consumptive period was too |

season.

brief to cause stocks to lower’ to

lightness, and the new year dawned |
with plenty of suits still owned by |

wholesalers and rétailers, the latter
not having had sufficient business, for

any length of time, to warrant heavy |

duplication.

The short overcoat, first in favor, |
enjoyed but a brief run, when it was |
switched to the long overcoat, the |
belted tourist and the skirted style |

running well ahead, the former get-
ting the best in the way of sales only

because it could be had at prices low- |

er than paddocks, the latter being

an expensive coat to make. Yet, with- |

al, it has been an unusually good

overcoat season, with every style and |
length of overcoat in request, the |

double-breasted model meeting with
sufficient favor to entitle it to con-

sideration as a desirable style for!

next winter. In the way of over-

coatings every style of cloth put out, |

from a plain kersey to extremes in
fancy plaids and stripes, has _ sold.
The successes in cloths of this season
also indicate the preferences for next
winter, and retailers are ordering in
advance accordingly.

The higher prices’ prevailing at

the close of the year in the cloth |

market are making it a problem for
the manufacturer who desires to get
Out a Src Hae of
prices are prohibitive.

offers a way out, and consequently |
ne : : |crop to the farm products of the|
mercerized fabrics are getting more|

from |

consideration than
concerns that
from putting out garments contain-
ing cotton.

formerly
previously

troduces for the new year mercerized |

and manipulated fabrics in greater
variety than ever before and into
places where heretofore they were
unknown.

The spring season with the manu- |

facturers is in a very healthy state.
Orders are well in hand, and the vol-

ume of business booked shows grat- |
ifying gains over last year up to this |
date. Retailers will begin the light- |
weight season with a normal amount |
of carried-over stock, which stands |

in no way as a menace to new busi-
ness, the incoming styles showing

sufficient changes to make new goods |

very desirable and yet leave an out-
let for the old that will not jeopar-
dize either. With all signs pointing
to a good spring and nothing visible
in the horizon of the future to in-
terfere, the outlook is most promis-
ing.—Apparel Gazette.

worsteds. The}
Substitution |

refrained |

Thus the old year in-|

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The Sweetness of Revenge.

| When a young and pretty woman
| with a solitaire flashing from her

feft hand goes into a store to look}
jat furniture for parlor, bedroom and |
kitchen, there is but one conclusion |

to be drawn. The salesman knows
secured and that the church organist
has been told that she prefers “Men-
delssohn’s March.”

maiden,

This particular however,

asked the prices with the sang-froid |
of a matron who had furnished half

|}a dozen apartments.
3ut a happy financee, be she ever
so careful, must surely betray her-

in burlaps. She looked at them calm-
ly and jadiciously as a
house mistress

might have done.

But when she asked sweetly, “How

many yards of this will it take for a
room?”
was vindicated and into his’ eyes
there leaped a flash of unholy joy.

She was furious. He had discov-
ered her secret and when her chance
to punish him came she seized upon
it quickly.

He was showing her a straight-
backed chair marked $3.50. Rapping
it on the back in a strictly profes-
Sional manner, he said: “It’s the
| best mahogany that’s made.”

And she answering, “I have no
doubt of i, but its not the best
|that grows,” tasted the sweetness
|of revenge.

~~

Raising Tea in the South.

Dr. Charles A. Shepard, of South
|Carolina, has proved on his own
jplantation at Summerville, twenty
miles out of Charleston, that the
growing of tea can be carried on
successfully and profitably. He has
been doing this for twelve years with
such good results that the Secretary
of Agriculture and the Congress of
the United States highly approve his
deeds and both are extending him
liberal assistance.

“My idea from the start,” said Dr:
| Shepard, “was to add an additional

country. Fhe road to agricultural
supremacy is through diversifying.
My friends seem to think I have
| been successful, and I have every
| reason to be gratified with what has
| been accomplished.

“Tea-raising in the United States
is certainly practicable. It is no new
|thing in this country, for in the old
days a French priest planted tra on
|the banks of the Ashley River. But
|cwing to the difference in the- cost
of labor the United States can not
|compete with the Orient in low-
|grade or cheap teas. It will pay us
ito produce only that of the highest
quality, which brings a high price
in the market. The tea grown on
| my place in South Carolina compares
| with the best that is imported from
| Eastern lands.”

—_>- ~~ ___
| When one has done all that can
| possibly be done in a matter there
lis no need to worry about results.

|
j se

It is better to believe everything |

than not to believe anything.

at once that a five-room flat has been |

self. This one found her Waterloo |

boarding- |
of long experience |

the young man’s judgment |

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‘*Clothes of Quality ”’

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Who Has First Choice, You or Your
Customer?

Pleasing the whims of a customer

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is not always a pleasant occupation, |

and when a clerk is very busy it
sometimes seems that the whimsical
customers are in the majority and
hover around to harass, annoy and
interrupt. At such times a clerk is
liable to forget some of the require-
ments of his business and do some-
thing that will gain the dislike of a
customer for the store as well as for
the clerk. We'll talk over a few of
the possibilities and probabilities and
see what might be the outcome un-
der certain conditions, as well as see
what ought to be done sometimes
and what has been done at other
times.

On a busy day a customer comes
to the counter to make some trivial
purchase while you are attempting to
make some important sale to a cus-
tomer you are afraid is going to get
away from you unless you give her
your entire attention. The whimsi-
cal customer interrupts your conver-
sation and insists that she must have
a couple of spools of cotton, or a
paper of pins, with all possible speed.
There is no use asking her to wait a
minute, for she says she can’t wait.
Your heart goes down and _ your
temper goes up; you get red in the
face and make a rush for the cotton
or the pins and don’t even ask the
hurried one if she wants anything
else, for you feel that you have
to get rid of her immediately.

With your mind on the customer
you have left you wrap the little pur-
chase with all speed, and then the
annoyer asks you if you won’t please
tie a cord around the several pack-
ages she has in her hand. While you
are doing that she interrupts you to
ask how much a piece of goods is
that is laying on the counter. Then
she makes a dive for some trimming
you have been showing and pulls it
almost out of the hands of the first
customer. The first customer makes
a move to pick up her belongings, and
you get squarely mad at the interrupt-
er. To her last question you answer
very sharply and she looks at you
with an injured air, picks up her
goods and goes out without saying
anything more. You know she felt
hurt, but you excuse yourself with
the thought that you were justified
in your shortness of speech because
there was the liability of losing a
good sale through the interruption
of a woman who wanted but a few
cents’ worth and whose questions
about goods had no particular pur-
pose attached to them.

How near were you right? What
would I have done? I don’t know,
but it may be I would have done the
same as you, although I know it was
not the right thing to do, and_ the
right thing to do under all conditions
is what we are searching for. Sub-
sequent events proved that you were

 

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wrong, for the interruption of met

annoying customer gave the first cus- |

thoughts, which you had helped to |

the time you had cooled down suffi- |
ciently to go ahead with the work |
she had decided to take one of the|
pieces you had shown her. Wasn’t |
it wonderful how rapidly your ruffied |
temper smoothed down and _ how)
soon you forgot the annoyances you |
had been forced to go through?

But you forgot all about the cus- |
tomer who bought the dime’s worth |
of goods, and you didn’t give her a}
thought until the other day when she |
again came into the store and stud-/|
iously avoided you,: giving her sale |

to another clerk. You wondered for |
a minute, and then you smiled to/|
think how sensitive she must have |
been to get her back up’ at you over |
such a small matter. Which, think |
you, was the more sensitive of the |
two, yourself or the customer? That |
matters little after all, for it is not
a part of your business to be sensi- |
tive at the whims and fancies and |
the annoying interruptions of cus-|
tomers who come into the store for |
something which you are compelled
to fetch out at a time when you think
you don’t want to.

You are a clerk for the purpose of |
waiting upon customers, and it is}
really not a matter of your business
how many whims and fancies a cus-|
tomer has. It is, however, your busi-
ness to train yourself to be able to!
handle such a customer in a manner
that will be satisfactory to the cus-
tomer and at the same time not be|
detrimental to the business you may |
be able to do with other people who
are standing at the counter at the
same time. How will it be done with
the customer used as an example?
There would be no way excepting
to excuse yourself to the first custom-
er and obtain what the second want-
ed without allowing the conversation
with the first one to be dropped en-
tirely. The questions of the second
customer need not absorb you, nor
need they annoy you unless. you al-|
low yourself to be annoyed by them.
She can readily be answered quietly
and without running the risk of in-
juring her feelings.

The trouble with you is that you
think you know her hurry when, in
fact, you know nothing about it, only
judging from your own haste that
her business has little importance.
The fact is that you don’t know the
importance of her business in her
mind and you are setting yourself up
as a sort of monitor that shall deter-
mine whether each customer has suf-
ficient business with you to warrant
your attention. Something similar is
liable to occur almost every day, and
you will dismiss every customer with
whims and queer demands in the
same manner, always running the
risk of offense which you try to make
yourself believe can not amount to
so very much after all.

The other day a man and his wife,
strangers in town, went into a store
to make a small purchase. The man
tendered a ten-dollar note in pay-
ment and received nine fifty in sil-

 

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| ticular brand of yarn.

ver for change. The weight and bulk
of the coin were a little too much for

|tomer an opportunity to collect her/him, so he asked the clerk if she
y

couldn’t give him some paper money |

| muddle through hard talking, and by | in place of a part of it. She was then

waiting upon two other customers
and tartly replied that the silver was |
good and lawful money and would}
pass anywhere. The two left the
store and agreed that their trade
would go to some other store in that
town. The clerk could have easily
told the man they had no_ paper
money, but she seemingly preferred
to show a little attempted smartness
for the benefit, as she probably
thought, of the customers who were
then in front of her.

A man went into a dry goods store
and enquired of the first clerk he
saw if he could buy an empty pack-
ing case. The clerk smiled and told
the man that he would have to hunt
up the porter at the rear of the store}
as selling packing cases was not in |
his line. The man left the store}
about as angry as men can be. He}
was justified in his enmity of the
store and especially of the clerk, aft-
er that. The clerk could have told |
him, as easily, that he (the clerk) |

 

| knew nothing about the cases, but |

the porter, at the rear of the store, |

| would show them to him if he would |

step down there.

A woman asked a clerk for a par- |
The clerk re-|
plied that they did not have that|
brand, but they had another brand |
just as good, and she insisted that |

the customer look at it. The custom-|

er replied she wanted to match some- | ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids

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thing already being used and prefer-
red to find exactly the same kind.
The clerk pointedly told her there
was no use in being so particular, be-
cause there was no difference. The
customer cared nothing about the
sharpness of the clerk beyond the
fact that she felt the clerk had at-
tempted to belittle her judgment and
her sense of what she knew _ she
wanted. Was it a whim of the cus-
tomer, or was it a whim of the clerk
that led to the customer always
avoiding that clerk whenever’ she
thereafter entered that store?

No two people are alike in disposi-
tions and tastes. What appears to
you to be whims and fancies and
disagreeable notions that are forced
upon you for the purpose of annoy-
ing you and making you as uncom-
fortable as possible at all times when
there are more customers about than
you can easily take care of are not
whims and notions at all in the minds
of the innocent offenders. They have
that manner of expressing their
wants, and to them their wants are |
paramount to the wants of all others. |
It may be they are selfish and it is
more possible that they are annoying, |
but they are customers of the store
willing to spend their money with |
you, and you have no business at-
tempting to dictate as to exactly how
they shall spend that money and ex-
actly how they shall comport them-
selves when in your presence.

 

 

What would you think of a store |
that would hang up signs here and |
there to the effect that customers
must wipe their feet on the doormat |
before entering, that customers must
use proper language when asking for |
goods, that customers must not cross |
their legs when they sit on the
counter stools, that customers must |
perfume their breath with sweet herbs
before they begin to talk, that cus-
tomers must know exactly the sizes |
of the stockings they want, as no |
risks will be taken by the store and
no exchanges made, and a lot of
demands? You would
think them the most absurd and un-
reasonable things possible for a store |
to demand, yet they are practically
the demands you are making and the
rules you are laying down at the|
present time, when you find fault with
the customers who “annoy” you with
requests that you think are absurd
and demands that you consider un-
reasonable whims at times when you
are not in a mood to be annoyed by
such things.

When you demand, mentally, that |
a customer shall do thus and so and
shall not do thus and so you virtual-
ly put those demands in the shape
of signs, and rules that are hung
about the store. Perhaps no one but
yourself sees them, yet you see them
all the time and you are all the time
putting them before your customers
through your actions and manners.
You are attempting to compel cus-
tomers to do their business your way,
no matter how they prefer to do it. |

I am not attempting to say that |
customers are never annoying and
never exasperating excepting in =
minds of the clerks, for I know bet-
ter, but I do say that three-quarters |

similar wild

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/on the morning newspaper at break-

| tomers’ autographs in the lower right-

'than the breakfast table

|a string.

of the annoyances suffered by clerks
are exaggerations in their own minds |
just as half of all our troubles are half |
our invention. You are a clerk to
serve the customers and the custom- |
ers are not buying goods to please
you entirely or to keep you going as
a clerk. Customers want things as
they want them, and it is your busi- |
ness as a servant hired for the pur-
pose to please those customers to
the utmost possible. What you are|
unable to do now, you should learn
to do at the earliest possible time. |
The customers are paramount to you, |
always.—Drygoodsman.
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Waste in Salesmen’s Time.

A good many salesmen begin to
waste time as soon as they roll out
of bed in the morning. It takes them |
longer to get agoing on a day’s work!
than it takes a played-out freight en- |
gine to start a train of forty coal
cars on an up-grade. The conscien- |
tious study that these men bestow |

fast would make the proofreader’s in-

spection seem like a mere casual |

| glance.

Now, prolonged study of the news-

| paper in the morning never helped a |

salesman to secure a collection of cus-

hand corner of his order blanks. A
glance over the headings and the
reading of an article here and there |
is all that is necessary to keep an|
intelligent man in touch with prog-
ress. There is only one worse place
to spend
an hour or two reading a paper or

|discussing its contents, and that is

down at the office. When a salesman
hits his office in the morning he}

'ought to grab his sample case and fly |

out again as a rubber ball bounces |
out of a barrel. The place for him |
to put in his time is where the money
is—among his possible customers.
His chances for making money are
all outside his door. He should get |
out on the street and stay there—
unless he can bring a customer to the
office with him.

Yet the average salesman haunts |
his office as if he were tied to it with
His first act on his arrival
in the morning is to anchor himself
at his desk and plunge into a mass|
of details. A clerk at seven or eight
dollars a week would relieve him of
all this work and sift the mail mat-
ter that comes in so that only essen-
tials would be called to his attention.
The extra commission he could earn)
in the time saved would pay the |

'clerk’s wages and leave a good-sized |

balance to salt down in the bank. But |
the salesman can not see it. He}
never has done this, so why should |
he make a change now? The good |
old way is good enough for him—the |
same old gait is fast enough—a quiet, |
easy jog like that of grandfather’s |
mare. What’s an hour or two in a/|
whole day? The salesman lights a |
good cigar and wades through his |
mail—all of it—business letters, per- |
sonal letters, advertising pamphlets, |
stray magazines—everything that he |
finds on his desk. |

Then he answers a few telephone |
calls, writes a couple of personal let- |

| house

| hours spent in learning new sales ar- |

| transformed that agent inside of six |
'months into a selling wizard, able to |
| coax money out of a customer’s pock-
lets as easily as Herr Hermann draws
| rabbits and coon babies out of a top

; seem

| and everything to lose.
| ful salesman
| hours as a miser hoards gold. The |
| spendthrift of time is a sure candi- |

| tempests.
| count.

ters, asks a friend who drops in how | The salesman who lets the habit of
he liked the show the night before/| killing time fasten on him is assas-
and gets his opinion of the weather,| sinating his main chance of getting
converses at length with Tom, Dick! on in the world.

and Harry, who call to ask him to Worthington Holman.
buy something or do something or
sell something, and hears the court-

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clock clang out nine jong A MEAN JOB
strokes before he finally puts on his | Taking Inventory

 

 

/hat and goes out to make some! Send now for description of our Inven-
| money. 'tory Blanks and rem vable covers.
They will help you.

Only two hours gone! But two}

BARLOW BRUS., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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hat. The loss of two hours a day |
means before the end of the year |
two whole months crossed off the |
calendar and the loss of two months’
entire commission. Sitting in an of-
fice chair ought to be a dull sort of
amusement to a man who is losing
money. But a good many salesmen
to be fitted out with an ab-!
normal sense of humor.

Your time is your capital, your
stock in trade. It is the only kind of |
capital that costs you nothing to get |
The success-
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date for failure. Boring crawfishes |
have ruined more dykes than sudden
It is the little things that
The loss of ten minutes here, |
an hour there, a day there, will sink

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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-
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Manufacturers Midland Baking Powder,
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How to Make Your Own Butter for
Your Table.

 

Why not make the butter for your
own table?

An ingenious scientist has invent-
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that any housewife can be her own
buttermaker. If you care to try you
can do it easily enough.

The term “invention” usually im-
plies mechanical apparatus, but in
this case the only outfit required con-
sists of a sheet of clean blotting pa-
per, a spotless towel, and a china
bowl—things which every housewife
has ready at hand. With these es-
sentials supplied and some everyday
cream you go to work.

You cover the china bowl with the
towel, and on top of that place the
sheet of blotting paper. Then upon
the paper you slowly pour the cream.
When the blotter and the towel be-
neath it have become saturated the
more fluid part of the cream (skim
milk) will gradually dribble through
into the bowl, leaving behind on top
of the blotting paper all of the but-
ter fat that was contained in the
cream. This butter fat, when you
have stirred it just a bit with a ta-
blespoon, is sure enough butter—nev-
theless, sufficiently -different from or-
dinary butter to be a gratifying die-
tetic novelty. It is butter, and yet
it is not—that is to say, not quite—
but, spread on bread or
used, it serves the -same_ purpose.
There is a delicious creamy flavor

otherwise

about it that suggests the home
dairy and the cow.
Now, if it so happens that you

relish this fascinating butter-like
product less than actual butter you
can easily make the real and veritable
stuff every day for your family table
by utilizing a diminutive churn, such
as may soon be bought—it is a new
invention—at any big department
store. The churn is of glass, and the
paddle is actuated by a toothed wheel
turned by the hand, working much
after the fashion of a_ patent egg
beater.

You turn the handle for a few mo-
ments; the paddle revolves at a great
rate of speed and, almost before you
know it the cream you have put into
the receptacle begins to turn to but-
ter. Scientifically considered, it is
the bunching together of the fat
globules of the cream that produces
the butter. When the butter
“comes,” as the phrase is, you fish
the lumps of it out of the “butter-
milk” (which is the residue), manip-
ulate it with a spoon for a few min-

 

 

utes and, lo! you have a fresh “pat”
of the most appetizing food luxury |

on earth. (

The butter you make in this way is
remarkably different from the butter
you buy in the market. In the first
place, it is not yellow, but white, or
nearly so. Secondly, it seems, when
you first try it, to be objectionably
To supply the salt is easy
enough, but one should remember
that the taste for salted butter is
purely artificial, and a matter of hab-
it. In the most expensive hotels
and restaurants to-day the butter
served is white and not salted, the
coloring substance which the “trade”
ordinarily demands being omitted.

saltless.

The product of the household churn
above described has the flavor of
fresh dairy butter, which one com-
monly seeks in vain. It is the verita-
ble article. undoctored and devoid of
the dye which (derived from the seeds
of a Mexican plant, and known under
the trade name of “anatto”) is used
so freely nowadays that much of the
“cow print” on the market actually
Adulteration of
this kind has been carried so far as

has a reddish hue.

to bring about a tendency to return
to the, old fashioned creamy. butter,
like Aunt Susan used to make, and
the housewife who employs a glass
churn of the kind described may have
the satisfaction of knowing that the
output of her little machine repre-
sents the most fashionable as well as
an extremely palatable brand.

The great dairy concerns at the
time their
cream before churning it with bac-
teria of particular species, pure cul-
ture of which they buy in little bot-

present are inoculating

tles. Each kind of germ thus put
up is guaranteed to produce a cer-
tain flavor in the butter, the best

known of such microbes being the
famous bacillus 49, discovered by
Prof. Conn. But the everyday house-
wife will be content with the pro-
duction of appetizing pats of the

|

plain, old fashioned stuff, that goes |

so well with a slice of home-made
bread.

Butter, however, is not the only
dairy product which the housewife
may manufacture in an offhand way,
if she knows how. The potted cheese
that comes in porcelain crocks she

can make for herself quite easily by |

mixing with

cil.

ordinary cheese

and in
the

if desired,
not handy

just as well case

olive oil is butter

olive |
It may be put up in jelly glasses |

fresh from the glass churn will serve.

excellently as a substitute.
You can make the kind of cheese
known as “schmierkase,”

like

which is
“Neufchatel,” in a chafing
All you have to do is to boil
sour milk in the receptacle until the

much
dish.

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the whey. Then pour off the whey,
and what remains needs only to be

salted in order to be ready for use. |

Unlike cheeses of most other sorts,
it needs no ripening.

In earlier times housewives were |
better acquainted than nowadays with |
such arts. They knew, for example, |
how to make “sage cheese” by adding |
to common cheese a judicious quan- |

tity of ground sage. Sage cheese,

which is distinguishable by the green- |

ish specks scattered through it, has

a peculiar flavor that is much relished |

by many people.

Manufacturers in this country are
now reproducing successfully some of
the most famous foreign cheeses,
which were formerly supposed to
defy imitation. Thus an American
“camembert” has been placed onthe

market quite equal to the European. |

It is made by inoculating milk with
pure cultures of the veritable mi-
crobes which are so efficient in the
ripening of the imported article.

The housewife may now purchase
cheese in cans, which will last for-
ever, the sealed tin rendering the con-
tents proof against dampness, ver-
nmin or mold. It is put into the cans
in a fresh state (the milk from which
it was made having been inoculated
with the proper germs) and ripens at
leisure. Thus packed it can be ship-
ped conveniently, and for army use
or the export trade is especially desir-
able. Most of it is “cheddar” cheese,
and the canning is being done by
packers in Utah. Rene Bache.

——_2+-___
Why the Grocer Mourns a Lost Pa-
tron.

A certain grocer on the West Side
is trying to explain and a certain
housewife still breaks into tears when
the subject is mentioned. It all has
to do with a fruit cake which the

woman, who may be called Mrs. |

Tompkins, made for the New Year’s
feast.

together the ingredients for the cake
when her neighbor, Mrs. Smithers,
came in at the kitchen door to bor-
row a cup of sugar. The sugar was

given, but the visitor lingered. The |

conversation turned on the fruit cake
that was in the making. Recipes
without end were discussed, and then
Mrs. Smithers said:

“Well, I never think a fruit cake is
right unless it has a teaspoonful of
mace in it. My sister—”

“Oh,” exclaimed Mrs. Tompkins,
pausing with a big spoon in the air,
“do you use mace? I never tried it.”

“Well, of all things,” said Mrs.

Smithers. “Never use mace? I sup-|
posed everyone used mace. I don’t |
see how a fruit cake would be fit

to eat unless it had that in it.”
Just then Mrs. Tompkins’ small
son entered the door.

‘Jimmy, said the mother, “you|

go right down to the grocery store

and tell Mr. Jenkins I want to cents’ |
worth of mace-—m-a-c-e—mace, be)

sure you remember, now.”
“Yessum,” said Johnny.
The fruit cake was baked, and at
the New Year’s feast it was cut.
“Fine.” said Mr. Tompkins, in a
smothered voice, as a great section

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| of the brown-black delicacy disap-
|peared in his mouth.

| “That is good,” said Mrs. Tomp-
|kins, nibbling daintily at the edge
| of a section.

Then over the face of the Tomp-
kins family came a look of wonder.
The wonder changed to startled sur-
prise and then to pain.

“What—in-—”’ gurgled Mr. Tomp-
kins.

“Gosh, I’m burnin’ up,” yelled little
| Johnny.

| Mrs. Tompkins. “That wasn’t mace
at all, 1 was red pepper. didn't
know what mace was like. I never
used any before. O-O-O—that gro-

cer”

That is why two fruit cakes went

into the garbage box, and that also
is why the grocery man mourns lost
patronage.
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Shortage of Sheep Indicated.

The sheep stock of the country is
greatly reduced, and the next wool
clip will be many million pounds
short of this season’s clip, which it-
self was considerably short of the
two or three preceding clips. The
same causes that are making mutton
and lamb scarce and light, viz, a
marked shortage, are strongly influ-
encing the wool market, and it is
quite impossible to forecast next

I’s—it’s RED PEPPER,” wailed |

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spring’s prices, except to say that |

they are likely to go higher than

| present quotations. The offer of|
one and a third cents over last sum-|

mers prices and 2 two cent per |

pound advance on the next New

Mexico clip, are alike insignificant in|

view of contracts already closed in|

three, four and even five cents over

last summer’s prices, with very hand- |

|some advances, have been secured.
Two of the large Idaho clips are con-
tracted at twenty and twenty and a

| quarter cents over June and July|
Mrs. Tompkins was busily putting |

| sales for the State is seventeen and
nineteen cents. It is the same in
Utah, Washington, Oregon, Wyom-
ling, Montana and, indeed, all along
the line, the sales in the latter State
ranging from seventeen to twenty-one
|cents. When Eastern buyers are
|tumbling over each other to secure
|all the clips in sight on the sheep’s
| backs half a year in advance of the
shearing season, at such unusual fig-
lures and liberal advances, it means
|that, in the opinion of experts, the
supply of lamb and mutton is likely
to be very much decreased in. the

coming season.
oe

News comes from London _ that
wine cellars have gone out of fash-
ion. Proud fathers no longer lay
|down pipes of port for the coming
lof age of their infant.heirs and no
| longer enjoin upon their successors
ithe sacred duty of keeping the family
cellar replenished. People have not
lost their taste for wine. Whenever
ja good cellar comes into the market

)

as ever to secure the best lots, and |

faney prices are often reached. None |

|
|

| DETTENTHALER MARKET, Grand Rapids, Mich.

‘the less, the day of the private cellar
jis practically over.

most of the range states, where two, |

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

LOOKING BACKWARD.

 

Boy’s First Journey Into the Great
Wide World.

Chapter XII.

~ All things come to him who waits
and saves his coupons and his pawn
tickets, if any. During a short ration
campaign in Texas I wore pinned in
my scanty attire two pale green
slips. These were coupons issued by
a pawnbroker at New Orleans. They
represented one silver watch and my
faithful $2 bark trunk filled with fair
to middling raiment. The game was
for me to keep on guessing until I
struck a job strong enough to amass
$12 in one vast lump. Thereupon
the pawnbroker would remit my
chattels on receipt of the tickets and
money.

The contest lasted about six
weeks. By sticking to the job in a
Houston livery stable, which paid $3
per week and food, but no sleep to
speak of, I squeezed $7 from a hard,
unyielding world and sent for the
watch. I hung it on myself for a
couple of days and felt tolerably
good in possession. But as I was
not out for any records requiring
accurate time, and as my working
clothes had gone about the limit, I
found another berth for the watch
in a Houston pawnshop, and had the
trunk shipped from New Orleans.
That was financiering some on small
capital.

About the time my boiled shirts,
collars and Sunday suit arrived the

foundry foreman hunted me up at | Vork a dinate:

I had left a call in case}

the stable.
anything happened, and he was there
to tell me about it.

 

A railroad shop |

in another town had burned and the |

work was transferred to Houston.
The local shop would blaze forth in
all its sulphurous glory the next
week and needed hands in a hurry.
In negotiating with me the foreman
said a livery stable was the last place
to look for iron molders. He had
his doubts when he beheld me in
tattered overalls and a 40 cent un-
dershirt manicuring a lean hack
horse. But he was up against it. So
was I, and we agreed to give each
other a trial.

With mingled feelings of joy and
sadness I resigned from the boxstall
Sunday night and bade farewell to
my fellow chambermaids in the sta-
ble. The liveryman gave us all a
little coffee supper at the restaurant
and sent me with a note to the
keeper of a mechanics’ boarding
house. Thus I returned to an abode
of luxury at $4 per week. That night
T slept in a real bed with sheets and
pillows—the first spasm of downy
ease that had soothed my youthful
frame in more than two months. At
that I didn’t sleep well. It was too
easy. I missed. the rumble of car-
riage wheels on the barn floor and
the pensive snorts of the red stallion
who shared my apartment at the sta-
ble. Then I worried some about
the new job on which I would debut
in the morning at the magnificent
stipend of two bucks per day. All I
cared for was to hold it down long
enough to earn a getaway stake and

Bia ae Saar lca er ete eee ee

fade forever from the Texas land-
scape.

While the job lasted I was a great
success at making brake shoes for
freight cars. At the expiration of a
week malaria fever hit me, and I
took the count. The shop was lo-
cated on a stagnant lagoon, and one
week was sufficient to fill me up with
germs. I spent the next week in my
new bed and got up dizzy and wab-
bly and busted. My prospects made
me think of the fellow who said if
he owned Texas and hell he would
rent Texas and live in the other
place. Too sick to work and with
my name stricken from Dun’s and
Bradstreet’s, the hotel man said the
North was the place for people with
fever and no money. I agreed with
him, and he accepted my trunk and
overcoat as the first move on a start
in the right direction. With the
board money thus saved, by once
more divorcing my goods and chat-
tels, I bought a cheap valise and a
cut rate ticket to Galveston.

My scheme was to make New
York by water, and a steamer from

that port was due at Galveston the}

day I blew in. It was anchored out-
side the bar waiting on the tide when

I reached the wharf with my little |
gtipsack, one chill and 50 cents in|

ready money. The fare was $50, but

that small discrepancy didn’t jar me. |

I wore my best clothes, a new hair
cut and a silk cap.

and knew the ropes. If the steamer
had a vacant berth, it was me to New

When the big black hull swung in-
to its slip I met the end of the gang
plank coming ashore. There might
be other boys desirous of sidestep-
ping Texas and I was taking no
chances. But there was no need o
hurry. The steward had all the
cabin boys he wanted and he fired

|me ashore again almost as soon as

 

the gang plank made connection.
That was my finish, I thought, as I
sat on a mooring pile and gazed
hopelessly at the steamer. Bankrupt,
sick and friendless, death would find
me in Texas. In a grand burst of
mental agony I beheld my bones
bleaching in an unkempt alley be-
hind some livery stable and my folks
at Mudville awaiting tidings from the
absent one. I even tried to sing,
“Oh, Where Is My Wandering Boy?”
but choked on the plaintive melody.

It was indeed a doleful picture, with
but one ray of comfort. In case I
lived and escaped to the North I
would consecrate my life to warning
foolish boys away from the Lone
Star State. My own Texas experi-
ence, if related on the lecture plat-
form with me starring as the Horri-
ble Example, or published in tract
form, might save many a boy the
hardship and misery I had under-
gone. While I still sizzled with these
noble thoughts a bullet headed boy
in a blue cap and short alpaca jacket
came off the steamer and posted a
letter across the street. He took a
sharp look at me as he passed and
on the return trip he paused to con-
verse.

“Do you live in Texas?” the boy

I had made one}
| voyage across the gulf as cabin boy

enquired, with a sort of loving accent
on the “Texas.”

“Been here a couple of months,”
was my answer. :

“What kind of a place is it?” he
asked in a whisper, at the same time
casting a furtive side glance at the
steamer.

There was such an eager tone in
the query that I tumbled at once.
Here was a New York cabin boy
fatally stuck on Texas, and my ten-
der scheme to save such giddy-youths
blew up in a flash of new hope. I
lured him to his doom the best I
knew how.

“Texas is-God’s own country,” I
said fervently. “More real sport and
adventure to the square inch than
all the Northern States in a bunch.
I’ve had the time of my life here,”
I added, and which was strictly true,
but I omitted details.

| straighten things out.
1 . °
share toward the improving and up-

 

| “Well, I’m thinking of—” he hesi- |
tated and blushed, “of stopping off |
here awhile. Slinging hash at sea)
is too slow for me. I’ve got a
| Smith & Wesson self-cocker. Think |
| 1’ll need it?”
| “You certainly will,” I assured him, |
| having seen self-cockers hung up|

 

| among the unredeemed pledges for |
| sale in pawnshop windows.

| “Good-by, old pard,” said the cabin |
| boy, wringing my hand warmly. “I |

|must be going. Mum’s the word,|
| you know.”
| What he meant by that was not!
| clear to me, but it must have sound- |
led good to him. As the future train |
| robber disappeared aboard ship I
sneaked into the wharf shed and
| watched the gangway through a
|crack. What if he should balk? I
|asked myself in a torment of doubt.
| Things had started my way, and I
|clung to the crack like a nervous |
‘gambler waiting for the turn that |
| would make or break him. In half |
jan hour the bullet headed boy pop- |
| ped out of the cabin. He wore his |
'go ashore clothes, carried a small
bundle, and held one hand on his hip
pocket. That must have been the
revolver ready for instant use. To
an outsider this scene might have
suggested humorous features, but it
was a sad and serious piece of busi-
ness. Heaven help the other bullet
headed boy! And yet he had more
to start with than I did in launching
on a Texas career.

No sooner was he clear of the
ship than I broke away from the
crack, went on board, and_ stood
around so that the steward could
fall over me every little while. It
was plain to observe that the chief
steward was disturbed about some-
thing. He conferred with his assist-
ants, and they seemed to be search-
ing the ship. Finally, the chief in-
terviewed me.

“Ain’t you the boy that wanted to
ship a while ago?” he asked.

“Sere,” 1 sand. ;

“Well, bring your dunnage aboard.
We need a boy. One of the crew
has skipped out.” All of which was
ancient history to me.

The upshot of it was I sailed for
New York impaired in health and
pocket, but vastly better off than the

| Since then

 

 

boy who succeeded me in the task

of swinging Texas around by the
tail. I trust he potted a few wicked
cowboys and rescued some imperiled

| maidens from the lair of the robber
| chieftain.

Texas is full of just such
jobs waiting for intrepid boys to
come down from the North and
I’ve done my

lifting of that benighted common-
wealth, and if ever I return to Texas
it will be on a writ of habeas corpus.

All the cabin crew, with the excep-
tion of a fat stewardess, built like a
Bartlett, treated me _ kindly. That
good lady had little to do but fret
about me, although I didn’t suspect
her secret at the time. My pallor,
due to sickness, and closely cropped
hair interested the stewardess in my
past. She was forever dragging re-

form schools and penitentiaries into

the talk when I was around and then
watching keenly to see me blush or
display other symptoms of guilt. Be-
yond doubt she took me for a jail-
bird. She made it a point to hasten
up and lock her stateroom door on
seeing me near it, and had a habit of
slapping her skirt pocket and feeling
to see if her watch had departed. Not

juntil I had been around the world
| more did the conduct of the steward-

ess smite me, and then I blushed.
I’ve had little use for

| stewardesses, and read with interest
|newspaper accounts of them falling
|overboard in midocean.

I always wore my hair cropped
close in those days in a style called

| “shingled,” and it looked pretty good.

Now I would look even better with

the top of my head shingled, weather--

boarded or tar roofed. And there are

| others.

We carried but one male cabin pas-
senger, and he was a whole shipload
of people, according to his tell. Mr.
Evans was a retired charcoal burn-
er, and a bad man from the piney
woods of Texas. For twenty years,
he said, Mr. Evans had been reducing
dense forests to charcoal at 22 cents
per barrel, and leaving a trail of un-
marked graves among the stumps.
What was in the graves Mr. Evans
did not say, yet the way he spoke
of them made our blood run_ cold.
Between the bad man and my myste-
rious prison record the stewardess
yielded to spells bordering on the
hysterical.

The bad man from the charcoal re-
gions certainly looked bad, but not
in the sense he wished to inspire the
public. He wore a slouch hat, col-
larless flannel shirt and a suit of rust
colored jeans. His brogan shoe tops
and trouser legs lacked several inches
of meeting, and the gaps exposed a
pair of stockingless ankles looking
like two sticks of charcoal. The bad
man carried his trademark, all right.
Dressed up and drunk, Mr. Evans
wandered about the ship day and
aight, enquiring in a soft Southern
dialect if any one desired to be kill-
ed. We had a score or so of female
suffragists—fat and lean women with
aggressive chins, heavy brows and
funny bonnets—on the way to a con
vention at New York. The bad man
didn’t offer to kill any of the women.
He was polite and asked them to

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drink with him, and promised to ex-
pose the innermost secrets of the
charcoal burning business.

When not thirsting for gore, Mr.
Evans dozed in a steamer chair on
the forward deck, resting his heels
on a camp stool. This attitude of
extreme nonchalance widened the
gap between trouser legs and brogans
and placed the charcoal ankles prom-
inently before the public. No one
minded this exhibit but the female
suffragists, and they pestered the cap-
tain mightily. It was a shame, they
said, for a man to invade polite so-
ciety with his ankles in that condi-
tion.

“All right, ladies,” said the captain,
who was a gallant gentleman, “I’l!
have ’em scrubbed for Any-
thing to oblige the sex. It will take
place at 10 o’clock to-morrow morn-
ing.”

That was the third day out from
Galveston, and, sure enough, at 10

you.

o'clock next morning the bold skipper |

and four deck hands surrounded the
bad man where he sat dozing, with
his heels hung up on the camp stool.
The captain stood directly in front
of Mr. Evans, wearing his hands in
the side pockets of a large pea jacket.
At a the the

signal from skipper

four deck hands yanked off the bro- |

gans and set in to scour the charcoal
ankles. Mr. Evans
The few spots
fuzzy whiskers turned a dull white,
then red, beneath the shadow of his
drooping sombrero. To appear whol
ly at ease the bad man ground outa
feeble snore, which deceived no one.

never

moved. |
on his face bare of |

He slept throughout the operation,

silent approbation; and when the
deck hands had finished the ankles
of Mr. Evans resembled peeled beets.

The captain and his accomplices
withdrew. Mr. Evans _ slept on.
When out of sight and earshot the
captain removed his hands from his
coat pockets. In one he held a
match; in the other a cigar, which he
lighted and went about his business.
The scrubbing incident was closed.
That was a new
tame a bad citizen. Mr. Evans was
heard of no more on that voyage.

certainly way to

|The possession of clean feet broke |
lurked in}

his proud and he

obscure

spirit

corners—sober, sullen, mo-
rose and unhappy.
I have withheld the name of the

ship and its captain, both of whom

are still in commission, lest the scrub- |

bing incident should hurt the traffic
in charcoal burners, retired
The skipper exceeded his
authority, but Mr. Evans was new to
the sea and didn’t know it.
awed.

otherwise.

Charles Dryden.

———_><-__
The Effect of Rural Free Delivery on
Roads.

At a recent good roads convention
Hon. Frank E. Nevins, of the U. S.
Postoffice Department, @elivered an
address in which he said:

The establishment of the rural free |
| delivery of mai! throughout the coun-
try has produced a marked improve- |
ment in the condition of the high-|

ways. When there is a prospect of
rural free delivery in a community,
work immediately begins on the

'roads. There are now in operation!

and |

He was |

| 23,000 rural routes over which  car-
while the suffragists looked on in|

riers travel 550,000 miles delivering
mail to about 0,000,000 people. More
| than 15,000 bridges have been  con-
structed. that would not have been!
built if it had not been for the estab-|
\lishment of the rural free delivery}
| system. Nearly every portion of the
country, where road conditions will
| warrant it, is now supplied with this
| service. But in many sections. the
| bad condition of the roads, or the}
| lack of bridges, prevent the extension
|of the service. The rural carrier of
| a standard route is now expected to
| travel about twenty-five miles each)
| day to earn his salary of $600 a year. |
| He is required to furnish and main-}
| tain his own outfit and team, and to
| give a bond of $500 for the faithful
performance of his duties. Experi-
ence has demonstrated that this dis-
| tance is too great on account of the
| bad condition of the roads. So many
carriers have resigned, thereby caus-
ing much confusion and labor in the
Department, that the Congress just}
adjourned has been compelled to add
$170 a year tc the salaries of the
carriers. ‘This increase amounts to}!
$4,000,000 a year additional that the
Department has to pay to maintain)
this service on account of bad roads. |
Over a2 good graveled or macadamiz-
ed pike road a carrier can easily make |
twenty-five miles a day six times a|
week. With the roads as they are, |

it is a question whether the next Con- |
gress will not be called upon toadd |
another $4,000,000 to the salaries of |
the carriers.

Under the road laws of most of the |
Western States at the present time}
work is done upon the roads in the
fall by the various road _ districts, |
when there is no work to be done on)
the farms.

mains, and the roads are in as bad |
condition as they were before. The
cost of $2,000 te $6,000 a mile for the |
| construction of hard roads in this

|

ithe right thing in the end.

; movement

Western country is too great, in most | sition.

instances, for road districts, town-
ships and counties to bear; neither is
it right that they should bear the
entire cost. The public at large,
which shares directly or indirectly in
the benefits, should contribute to the
expense. There never will be good
roads in this country until the Na-
tional Government takes the initiative
in this movement, and the respective
States of the Union join in with lib-
eral contributions, and this again is
supplemented by local enterprise.
Continental Europe, England and Ire-
land are covered with hard, broad
pikes, built at government expense.

Sixty per cent. of the population
of this country live in the cities and
villages; 40 per cent. live in the coun-
try. It is not fair nor just to place
the entire burden of good roads upon
the shoulders of the farmer. The gen-
eral public shares directly and indi-
rectly in the benefits and should bear
the expense of an equitable tax for
this purpose on all assessable values.
While this spectre of taxation may
frighten some of our skittish country
friends and cause them to rear and
plunge a little, they will find on clos-
er inspection that the goblin is a
harmless creation of the imagination.
They will get back in benefits ten
times more than they will pay out
in taxes.

This Government never fails to do
It will
not fail to do the right thing in this
instance. The impetus given to this
by a few progressive
statesmen who introduced measures
in Congress last winter authorizing
National aid in the construction of
highways, will ultimately produce the
results aimed at. It can not fail ta

In the spring this work} do so because the public interest de-
washes away. Nothing permanent re-| mands it; the progress of the age de-

mands it; the welfare and develop-
ment of the country at large demand
it, and it is bound to come in spite of
those who raise their voices in oppo-

     

  

   

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Trolley Sounds Knell of Isolation
on the Farm.

Should the United States be des-|

tined to return to that more uniform
distribution of prosperity, the loss

of which is so continually bewailed |
by economists because of the con-|
stant crowding of the country-born |

to the cities, to the men who have

improved the trolley car to its pres-|

ent high state of perfection will be
due in large measure the credit for
so fortunate a change.

Ambition is not born in cities alone.
It falls alike to the city-born andthe
country lad, but in its development

it must needs gravitate to the city, |

and that for one reason—the rural
isolation which
all chance for the expansion of the
brilliant brains which have been rein-
forced by the vigorous constitution
gained only on the farm.

But of late years there has arisen
in the minds of many who
striven for success in the city the
idea that the game is not worth the
candle. Not that they are unsuc-
cessful, for with comfortable homes,
happy families and assured incomes
they could not be called that. What
is missing is the lack of the close
friendships of youth, that impossible
attainment in the turmoil and hurry
of city life. With that longing
ways at heart what man reared in
the country has not after the excite-
ment of a day at the store, office or
on ‘change turned wistful eyes to
the peace and quiet of the paradise
of all city toilers of the male sex, a
chicken farm? Day by day he prom-
himself that such content shall
be his until the time for the realiza-

tion of his dream nears. Then drops

ises

the curtain of dreary isolation before |
his eyes and he buckles on the har- |
|time as competing steam roads the

ness anew to continue to the end his
same old city drudgery.

But the development of the inter-
urban electric railway promises a re-
vision of this cast of life in the fu-

ture. The bright brains of the coun-

try will probably always be attracted |

in their youth to the crowded city
with its seemingly limitless opportu-
nities, but when the time comes that

their possessor realizes he is founder- |
ing because of their multitude, and, |

unable to grasp any of them, he turns

his eyes to the peaceful valleys of |

his youth, he will no longer be ap-
palled by a dread of loneliness. In-
deed, he will eagerly grasp the chance
to withdraw from the fierce heat of
action to a vantage point from which
he can seize these opportunities of
city life. And the interurban lines
will be the means by which this will
be accomplished.

First, he will have learned in the
city the value of specialization. Next,
he will have realized how much small-
er a whale in the ocean is compara-

tively than a bullhead in the mill
pond. Combining the two, he will

decide that his city acquired knowl-
edge applied in the smaller commu-
nity will build for him a name and
position he could never
attain in the city, at least until the
time spent in labor had robbed the
fruit of leadership of its delicious

crispness, Then, proving the adage

have |

al- |

hope to}

 

|

{that “familiarity breeds contempt,”
|comes the knowledge that perspec-
tive is needed to decide which of the
city’s opportunities he wishes -to avail

ous it is beyond the power of man
to avail himself of all. Then comes
the suburban trolley to his rescue,
with its low fare and frequent serv-
ice enabling him and his children to
|dip into the advantages of the city
| just so frequently that the appetite
for knowledge remains unjaded and
|yet may be filled to its complete ca-
pacity.

Nor will his income be impaired
to an extent exceeding the economies

| effected by his return to the simpler |
has hitherto cut off |

life. For the trolley will stop at his
door to take produce to the
city, avoiding the tedious drives to
the railway station, taking valuable

his

|; time needed for his work, and will |

| carry his freight at cheaper cost than
he could handle it in any other way.
The popularity of this service
| been frequently demonstrated since
the first days of the Detroit, Ypsilanti
and Ann Arbor Railway, one of the
oldest high speed interurban lines in
the country.
opened more freight was offered than

could be carried, even although the |

rates at that time
higher than those of the railroads.
This same road
tion the readiness of the
tage of rubbing up against the world.
Where the towns through which a
competing steam line had
day, the
door was so

furnished
use of
at-

200 passengers a
ithe trolley at the

|tractive that the first year’s average |

for the latter was 4,000 daily. Run-

ning on almost the same schedule

average fare of the trolley lines

| throughout the Middle West is about

| one-half that of the former, and this,
in connection with their more fre-
| quent service, is the cause of many
houses being built in the small towns
| along the route, and of the rapid de-
| velopment of market gardening,
chicken raising and dairying in the
country traversed.

Nor is this the only benefit the in-
| terurban lines have conferred on resi-
dents along their routes. Many a
| farmhouse is now lighted by electric-
lity, drawn from interurban wires and
| rails, and in a number of farms in
| the Fox River valley small motors
| have been installed to do work about
|the farms which was formerly done
| by treadmill, windmill or back break-
|ing manual labor. Power for the cut-
iting of fodder, the turning of big
| churns, the pumping of water, or the
isawing of wood is now obtained by
ithe turn of a switch. His daily
| paper comes to him, too, by the same
/means and, all in all, he is rapidly
lcoming to the point where he. will
lead an existence to be envied.
rapid
has checked the tendency to concen-
tration in the city by the creation of
suburban districts, so in the farming
| districts the high speed interurban

Hor, just as transportation

| line has had a similar influence, great- |

i in effect, if anything, in building up

has |

| Five

were two-thirds |

demonstrated ina _|
remarkable manner at its inaugura- |
American |
farmer to avail himself of the advan- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

small centers of population.

the old bugbear of isolation on the

|farm is passing into the past, and
' | with the quiet of the country for con-
himself of, since they are so numer- |

templation of the enlightened mai’s
needs and the trolley keeping him

| within reach of the benefits the city

holds out, it is little wonder the move-

ment of city folk to farms near large |
cities is so great that a veritable net- |

lines is
over the Middle West.
Fred J. Matteson.
——_> +
Pity the Druggist.

work of trolley

The druggist’s night bell rang fu- |
riously and, with a much ruffled tem- |
per, the worthy dispenser came down |

in his pajamas and opened the store
door.

“IT want a bottle of ginger ale,

please,” requested the complacent in-
dividual who stood without.

the
inclined to be personal, but then he
reflected

For a moment druggist was

| he might as well do business.

“Twenty cents, please,” he

cents will be allowed on

| bottle when returned.”
When this line was first

Two hours later he was awakened
by another ring.
ed, to find the same complacent cus-

Again he descend-

tomer at the door.
“Here’s your bottle,” he remarked.

“Gimme my five’ cents.”—Philadel-
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MYSTERY OF SLEEP.

Science’s Attempts To Learn Its
Meaning.

“Blessed be the man,” said Sancho

Panza, “who first invented sleep. It

covereth a man like a cloak;” but the

>

him alone and keep quiet, and cries | he will at least move uneasily, there- |
The | by showing that the retinal activity |
'of the eye is unchanged, while a bad |

phrase says more for the Governor |

of Barataria’s gratitude than for his
powers of observation. A cloak does
not descend upon us at inconvenient

| before he resumes his usual

times of its own accord, nor does it |
leave us suddenly when we most de-

sire its presence. Neither does it re-
turn to us periodically with such per-
sistence that, it has been calculated,
we spend one-third of our whole
lives in sleep. If we look for further
holes in the analogy, we might find
them in the fact that sleep seems to
be the peculiar appanage of the be-
ginning and end of life, so that both
children and old people sleep con-
siderably more than the middle aged.
Yet little is really known about
sleep, and Mme. de Manaceine, the
talented Russian lady who has col-
lected many curious facts on the sub-
ject, has to confess that it has hith-
erto engaged the attention of physi--

and twitches grow still.

sleep has passed into its third and |
| smell will often have similar effects.

deepest stage, and from this it re-

quires an appreciable effort to arouse |

him. When he does awake he will

probably be found heavy and lan-|

guid, will

stretch himself strongly, |

and will take two or three minutes |

ness.

alert- |

What now has taken place, as we)

may say, inside the dog, to bring
about these changes of appearance

|and function? Thanks to the observa-

ologists to a less extent than almost |

any other vital phenomenon.
Let us watch now the house dog—

ifor all the phenomena.

the cat, besides being an unsympa- |

thetic subject for scientific experi-
ment, is so used to “playing pos-
sum” that it is not easy to say wheth-
er she is asleep or awake—preparing
himself for a nap in front of the
fire. Sometimes he yawns, some-
times he stretches himself, both of
which actions have a _ physiological

tion of cases where either by the
operation known as trephining, or by
gunshot wounds, some portion of the
skull has been removed, we know
that during sleep the brain becomes
pallid, and almost discharged of
blood. Also the beating of the heart
gets slower and less energetic, and
the respiration, or, what is the same

thing, the rate of exchange of the in- |

breathed oxygen for the expelled car-

bonic acid, decreases, so that the per- |

centage of the latter falls from 58
to 42.

Yet this in itself does not account
The blood
departing from the brain only goes
to give increased activity to vital
processes elsewhere.
in-
creased liability to get chilled during
sleep—the digestion goes on_ with

| greater rapidity, and although heart

meaning; then he turns round three |

times in the same spot, which is
said to be a reminiscence of the

and lungs, as we have seen, do not
work at the same pace as in our wak-
ing moments, it would be a bad thing
for the sleeper if either organ stop-
ped for one second in its regular and

| ordered toil.

time when it was necessary to brush

away the long grass, and to search
the “yard” thus made for snakes and
scorpions. But always, when he has
finished these preliminaries, he
throws himself down on his side with
outstretched head, legs and _ tail.
Looking at him carefully you no-
tice that this attitude is contrived

so as to repose at once all the mus- |}

cles used in

locomotion or in a|

standing attitude, while at the same |

time it allows the air to pass freely
into his lungs with as few turns and,
therefore, as little expense of energy
Then he shuts both eyes
and mouth, so as to shut out com-
munication with the external world,
and now his deeper and
breathing tells us that sleep has be-
gun.
awakened.
to his feet without a sign of having

as possible.

Call him, and he jumps

Yet in this stage he is easily |

to “shake off” sleep, and the same |

to the
noises

effect can, until he gets used
trick, be produced by making
suggesting the scratching and
ing of a rat.

Soon, however, this
As his sleep becomes sounder—a
state that may sometimes be induced
by tickling or stroking the soles of
feet—his limbs often begin to
twitch a regular motion, and
he will sometimes even utter low
cries as if in chase. Evidently he
is dreaming of his natural pursuit of

gnaw-
stage passes.

his
with

hunting, and, like Mr. Kipling’s
Brugglesmith, in his magnificent
mind is furiously running. But let

|

}
|

Neither can we say that there is
any arrest of what are called the
“higher” functions of the brain.
Flash a light in a sleeper’s eyes, and,

even if he does not wake with a start, | which goes to make up consciousness. |

The skin be- |

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| seems

 

The sense of touch retains its sensi-|
| tiveness, so that a hand laid ever so}

gently upon the shoulder will awak-
en us, while the powers which are
within the veil of sense are appar-

ently not even dulled.
ing mother, says Mme. de Mana-

ceine, however fast asleep she may
be, always remains alive to the slight-

est movement on the part of the in-!

fant.

That people have sometimes com- |
pleted trains of thought or calcula-|

tion in sleep is notorious, even with-

cut the classic case of Coleridge and |

Kubla Khan, while everybody who

chooses to set himself seriously to}

the task can acquire the habit of
waking at any specified hour. Clear-
ly, therefore, neither the attention nor

the will shares in any but an imper- |
| fect manner in the sleep of the body. |
The only mental faculty of which the |

suffers the temporary loss
to be that of

What, now, ts the
phenomenon which plays so_ large
a part in our lives? Up to a short
time ago no answer could have been
suggested to the question, but now
the neuronic theory, with which
newspaper readers should, by this
time, be familiar, has given us at
any rate a working hypothesis to fit
the facts. M. Mathieu Duval has
shown with much skill how probable
the tentacles or lateral pro-
longations of the neurones of the
sleeping brain droop and react like
those of the sea anemone when the
water recedes from it. Hence they
are no longer in free communication
with each other, and we thus lose that
faculty of association and comparison

sleeper

cause of

it. is

The nurs- |

consciousness. |
this |

| But, it should be noted, not all the
neurones sleep at one time. For sleep,
which, as we know from the ex-
'ample of daisies and other flowers,
extends to the vegetable world as well
as to the animal, is itself a reflex ac-
|tion brought about by necessity in
‘the first place, and perpetuated by
iheredity. The blood leaves the
brain at regular times, as M. Clap-
others have shown, not
so much because its functions are
exhausted, as to prevent them from
becoming exhausted. Now, the con-
ciousness is kept alive during the
whole of our waking hours, and there-
fore requires a rest to enable it to re-
gain its pristine vigor more than any
other faculty. The same can not be
functions like the attention

arede and

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and the will, which are only exer-
cised at irregular intervals, and which,
therefore, can well remain on guard
while the others sleep.

Mr. Wells’ suggestion that sleep
is dispensed with by ants is nega-
tived by the researches of M. Pic-
tet, but it is, perhaps his millennial
vision that has led to the formation
in America of a club which pledges
its members not to sleep more than
four hours a night, all told. As in-
dividual needs in all cases differ, this
is about as sensible as if every mem-
ber should agree to wear boots only
ten inches long; but there can be lit-
tle doubt that excessive sleep has an
injurious effect on the organism. The
muscular strength is less on waking
than that before sleep—as can be
proved by the measuring instrument
called the dynamometer—and does
not fully recover for two or three!
hours. Hence, too much sleep in
time leads to the permanent impair-
ment of the muscles, and no doubt of
the other vascular tissues as well.
Luckily this supplies us with an easy
method of finding out whether we
sleep too long.

If, on waking, the eyelids of a
healthy person not exposed to acci-
dents like excessive eye strain, bad
air, Or constant cigarette smoke, re-
main for some time swollen and red, |
he may be sure that he would do
better with less of the “balmy sleep,”

which is, in moderation, “Nature’s
sweet restorer.”
~~».
Hard Nut For Business Man to)
Crack.

Written for the Tradesman.

“There’s a boy in my employ that |
I am troubled about,” said a promi- |
nent merchant who is regarded by his |
business associates as model in|
every respect. |

Tradition hath it that this particu- |
lar model was not always wont to |
wear a halo. Time was, about eigh- |
teen or twenty years ago, so ’tis said
by those who should know what they |
are talking about, when there were |
many, many things about his life out- |
side of his school hours which would |
not bear investigation.

a

{
|
Once in a while the merchant re- |
fers to that early period of his ex-|

istence. This is when he gets in a}
confidential mood with a special |
friend. Such an occasion was the

other evening when I had gone to
call on him and we had fallen into
talk about incidents that occurred in
our boyhood days.

“In my younger years,’ mused the
merchant, gazing at the fire in the
grate, which threw fitful shadows
about the big room (he had turned
down the lights so that we might get
the full benefit of the open fire, as
we both enjoyed this better), “in
my younger years,” he repeated, “I
got into a bad way. This wayward
clerk of whom I speak brings my
past up vividly before my mental vi-
sion.

“T was an only son—not an only
child, for I had sisters—and you know
what that generally means in a fam-
ily. Such a boy gets no end of pet-
ting, and comes up regarding him-
self a lord of creation—and he isn’t

>

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

|@ particle slow in acting out this
opinion. Spoiled at home he is handi-
capped when he begins to go out in
| society and when the time comes that
he must start to the earning of his
own living. I was no exception to
the universal rule, and when I left
the high school at the age of 17 I
was as conceited a little prig as you
might run across in a month.

“My father had some money, and
he had always been most liberal with
his family. We never expressed a
wish in reason that was not gratified.
| With us children money ‘came easy
and went easy.’ And it was this
very generosity that welnigh proved
my ruination. Unaccustomed to earn-
ing money I did not know its value—
a boy never does know the value of
a dollar until he has earned it by
hard knocks.

“Before I left school I had fallen
in with a set of boys whose fingers
were constantly familiar with the
deadly cigarette, whose lips nightly
touched the wineglass, and whose
knowledge: of poker and pool—and
worse—would stagger even a ‘man

|} about town!’

“To what extremes, by this time, I
would have gone I know not, but I
was brought to my senses by the
sudden death, before my eyes, of one
of my boon companions, the year I
left school.

“The young fellow had been ‘one
us’ in every form of dissipation,
and the time came that he had to pay
the penalty. That brought some of
the crowd to a realization of whither

of

i they were drifting, while there were

others upon whom their companion’s
carly death had not the slightest in-

fluence. I was one of those who
‘straightened up,’ and I have been
thankful enough that I got some

| sense knocked into me before it was

too late to ‘turn over a new leaf,’ as
it proved in the case of one of us.
Some of the fellows turned out
‘fiends in human shape’—went on
from bad to worse until, seemingly,

there is absolutely no future for
them. They .are mental and physical
wrecks—mere cumberers of the

 

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ground.
their fate and that I, too, might now
be one of their number.

“When my father realized the
lengths to which I had gone, and that,
in a measure, he was to blame for
the condition of affairs, he ‘right
about faced’ and charged into- the
enemy. Between us we came off vic-
torious, and to this day I can not be
too grateful that he did not turn me
adrift, as I deserved.

“I am not the man, to-day, that I
would be had I not lived the way I
did in the ‘formative years’ of a
fellow’s life, but I’m glad I stopped
my folly before the time was quite up.

“Of course, of the world’
would say, ‘Oh, let the boy have his
fling. You had yours, and yet you
would deny him the same privilege.’
But it’s like this: Supposing a man
had lost way in the mountains
and afterwards had found the right
paths. Supposing then another also
lost his way and the first one knew
it. Wouldn’t it be the most natural
thing in the world for the man who
knew the right way to point it out
to the second wanderer when he saw
him taking the wrong direction?

“And when I see another treading
the devious paths that I did my heart
goes out to him and I long to save
him from himself. I have had several
talks with that boy in my store who

a ‘man

his

is going to the devil as fast as his

™eKent County

two legs will carry him, but my ad-
vice doesn’t seem to have any effect
him. Each time he promises to
do better and each time he fails to
make good his word. He thinks I
don’t know it, but I have kept close
tab on him and know pretty well what
he is up to.

on

I tremble when I think of |

He told me, not longer |

than a week ago, that he had ‘cut it|

out’ on the cigarette business, and
that same morning, with my

eyes, I saw him ‘smoking like a bad

own

chimney.’ I was coming down

work behind him. The kid never saw
He tossed his cigarette into the
street as he reached the corner this
of the the
door with a confident, nonchalant air.

hie.

side store, and entered

to |

turned back and purposely came to
the store a half hour late.

“Now, I confess I don’t know how
to deal with that boy. I’d feel a
heap better towards him if he lapsed
and owned up to it man-fashion, but
when a fellow lies--well, the one lied
to simply ‘doesn’t know where
at.’ He’s ‘up against a hard proposi-
tion,’ in the language of the day.
Goodness knows—and don’t I1?—how

he’s

hard it is to keep straight, but a fel-
low needn’t add to his other sins that
o! lying. a
liar; and it won’t be many more days
before a.certain young fellow clerking
in a certain store will hear something
drop and drop hard if he persists in
his course and then tries to lie
out of it. I can stand anything but
that. I’ll help a fellow in every way,
shape or fashion that is in my pow-
er, but he shall keep faith with me.”
And there ended
far as this young chap was con-
cerned.

I’ve no earthly use for

evil

the conversation

SO

The merchant is a man not to be
of
the

trifled with—he has a stern sense

justice—and I am curious as to

the matter.
Ph. Warburton.
2. —_—_——_—_
A bed of roses soon wears down to

the thorns.

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Revival of an Old Remedy for Mod- |

ern Evils.
Written for the Tradesman.

The other day a willful 15 year old)

girl in a neighboring city disobeyed

ing. Whereupon she went promptly
forth and had her stern parent ar-
rested for assault and battery, in
which she was upheld by the magis-
trate before whom the case was tried,
who contended that fifteen was past

shaki age limit, < fined the | :
the shaking age limit, age ined a |she have even the slightest concep- |
dience a ea a : r
— € °Y| tion of the work of the hard-driven |

man for inculcating
physical force.

Perhaps the magistrate was right. |

If the girl had been spanked suffi-
ciently when she was little she would
not have needed a shaking so bad
when she was older, and it ought to
be a solemn warning to all parents
to begin in time on their children,
but the incident calls attention once
more to the hardships of having to

treat as reasonable and sensible hu- |

man beings those who are nothing
but spoiled children—who never out-

grow the shaking age in mind and}

character—and who ought to. be
dealt with on that basis. We all

know so many people who are ruin- |
ing their own and other people’s lives |
and who might be regenerated and |

made agreeable members of society
if only there was somebody who had
the right to give them a good shaking

every now and then, and make them |

behave themselves.

And, oh, wouldn’t you like to be
the lord high executioner?

Think of all our discontented, dis-
gruntled friends who with all the ma-
terials for happiness in their hands,
deliberately throw them away and
get nothing but misery for them-
selves and others out of life, and let
us, brethren and sisters, heave a sigh

over the fact that custom and law)

put a time limit to the age at which
people can be forcibly reminded of
their blessings, if they can not be ap-
pealed to in any other way.

There is the domestic woman, for
instance, who has a good
and a.comfortable home, and little
children, yet who is always bemoan-

ing the slavery of her lot and exalt- |

ing and envying the freedom of the
bachelor woman. She complains that
she is forever ordering meals and

darning stockings and cleaning up

the house and washing little faces
and tying up hurt fingers. “Is this
an adequate way for an intellect like
mine to expend itself?” she demands
tragically. “What do I get for my
labor beyond my food and_ clothes
and perhaps a trip to Bay View or
Mackinac Island in the summer, and
things like that?” The idea of such
a woman making a bid for public
sympathy on the grounds of her
misfortunes in life is a public out-
rage, yet there is not a week we do
not hear one do it, and the queer

husband, |

thing about it all is that she is in
dead earnest and considers herself
a poor, put-upon, down-trodden
| member of the community.

|give her a good shaking and make
|her remember her mercies? She

because it means that nobody cares

comes back or not.

Does she not need somebody to)

talks about the liberty of the bache-|
|lor woman and never stops to think |

that liberty’s other name for a wom- |
an is loneliness. The woman who|
,|can come and go as she pleases is|
bet parents, and when, she refurneG | the most forlorn creature on earth, |
home her wrathful father emphasized |

is rebuk , giving her,a good shak- | |
his rebuke by giving heya g | when she goes or whether she ever |

The housekeep- |

ing woman complains of her drudg-|
ery. Does she not have time every |

feels bad? Does she not have leis-
ure to gossip with a neighbor? Does

day of her life to lie down if she|

| woman in a store or office who can}

[time to be sick? As for the pay,

not even afford herself the luxury of |

count upon your fingers, my dear, |

discontented, domestic
the business and professional women

woman, all)

you know who earn enough to en-|
|able them to live in the style you)
| do, and tell me if you do not think |
| you have a pretty good-paying, soft |

job? Any woman who has a good
husband and a good home has drawn
Ss

ithe capital prize in the lottery of

|thing but happy herself and
|other people happy.

flicted.
piano,

Sometimes she plays on the
sometimes’ she
things with paint; sometimes’ she

messes up

life and she has no right to be any- |
make |

Then there is the wall-eyed genius |
with which so many families are af- |

| writes verses and does not comb her |

hair; sometimes she haunts the mati-
nees, buys actors’ pictures and re-

in a hollow voice, at evening enter-
tainments. Whatever her special

turn, she 1s

home.

erary” to learn how to sew.

not wash the dishes.

cites Kipling with fits and starts, and |

never any account at |
Mother has to make all of |
her clothes, because she is too “lit- |
She can |
because that |

| would ruin her hands for piano play- |

ing, so

have to do that, too. You could not

| trust her to clean up a room, because
she is

mother or the other girls |

° ° dl
too artistically attached to|

dust to sweep under the bed, and|

|you could not think of calling up a
| future Lady Macbeth to get break-
| fast, for while her eyes were rolling
jin a fine frenzy she would be sure
| to overlook the fact that the pota-
| toes were burning and the steak was
| still in the ice box.

So far as my experience of the
family genius goes she does nothing
but loll around the house in an un-
tidy wrapper and let everybody else
| wait on her—-and when, finally, as
only too frequently happens,

some

ly shifts the scene of her incompe-
tency and laziness and general good-
| for-nothingness to another home, to
|make that uncomfortable.
| you just enjoy seeing somebody give
| her colossal vanity a jar and make
| her see that one good loaf of bread
; is better than a barrel of slushy poetic

| yearnings; that Wagner is all right

See een a

   

| misguided man marries her she mere- |

Wouldn’t |

YEAST
FOAM |

received

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St. Louis Exposition

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On December 15th we ceased packing premium
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Quaker Oats
Saxon Oats

Banner Oats
Hower’s Oats Tea Cup Oats
Prize Oats
Pettijohn’s Apitezo Zest Go
Saxon Wheat Food

All Schumacher’s (F. S.) Cereals

Word-spelling coupons, without the ‘‘cash”
feature, are for the present packed in Scotch Oats

and Avena packages, buton February rst, 1905,
they, too, will go if our proposition of De-

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as a side issue, but that it is a poor

substitute for a clean hearth and a/}

well-cooked dinner for a hungry man,

and that the domestic stage affords |

ample room for all the histrionic
ability any woman is likely to have.

She will need to know how’to cajole

and coax and weep when it is effec- |

tive, and take high tragedy attitudes
when it is necessary, if she wants to
get along peaceably and comforta-

bly with the average man.

Another woman who would be
benefited by a good shaking is the
married woman who clings to the
idea that she is a fascmator. 1 do
not mean the wicked women, who

may be trusted to look out for them-

selves, but just those mushy, silly,/ of all the virtues, a good provider, in

sentimental creatures who carry on|

mild flirtations with any man they
meet and who are always talking

about affinities.
away, pathetic look, and their strong
suit is being “misunderstood.” Their
husbands never understand them by
any chance and they vaguely hint
that they are pining away under the
withering blight: Poor, dear, John
is good, of course. They do not
criticise him (here they heave a sigh),
but Ae is so natural. He is not soul-
ful as they are. He could not simply
Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
could not repeat a single passionate

live on

| and
| forget his irritability they do justice
They wear a far-

| generally

MICHIGAN

men’s.
good shaking up that will teach you
that business is business, and that if
a man did his work as poorly as you
are doing yours he would be fired
the next day. Men do not expect as
good work from women as from men
and

petticoats

our are at once a
shame and a protection to us.
Nor is this childish conduct con-

fined by any means to women. There
are just as many men who need to}
be pulled up in their career of folly
and made to act sensibly and behave |
themselves as there are women.
There is the man who lets his tem-
per all his |
He may be otherwise a model |

ruin the happiness of

home.

a loving husband and father, |
when

reality

his wife and children can |

to his good qualities. This is not |

until he is dead, and then!

ithey put him up a beautiful monu-

| ment and people speak of how brave-

ly they bear up under their afflic- |
tion. There are plenty of men like |
| that, who say things to their wives |
so sneering and so insulting they |

he |

line from Swinburne to save his life, |

and the only thing that would really
thrill him would be a raise in his sal-

would

not dare to say them to a
man of their own size. Their chil-|
dren fear them. Their coming is a|

blanket over the household. |
Does not such a man need somebody

to take him up short and make him

wet

|see the folly and the wickedness of |
| throwing away all the beautiful love |
|and pleasure he might have himself

ary. This type of woman lives most-
ly in hotels and boarding houses,
where she has nothing to do but}

feed her ill-regulated mind on prob- |

and
does not

novels erotic

that she

lem poetry,
grief must be attributed to the long-
that
that watches over children and imbe-
She is

suffering mercy of providence
ciles.
heart.
do

not

She is
mental and vain, but she has wreck-
lt is

merely

any harm.
ed homes and caused murders.
not the criminal
do the most harm in this world. It

intentionally

is the silly fools.
has boarded about much knows doz-
ens of such
person ever sees one without wishing
they could take her by the shoulders
and give her a good shaking, and set

and | i ft
|men and women, are but children of
Orence come 10

ja larger

and of which he is robbing others?

The of all of which would
seem to be that inasmuch

moral
as we all,

growth we should be treat-

fed as children, and when we will not

| behave

ourselves we. should’ be

| made to.

a bad woman at}
She does not really mean to}
senti- |
who
Everybody who}

women, and no sensible |

her feet once more on the straight |

path of honest living.

There are plenty of other women

who need a good pulling up, and to|

be made to look things squarely in
the face. Among them is the work-
ing woman. There is the shop girl
who chats with Mamie or Sadie about
what she did at the ball last night,
and who answers customers over her
that
without, ever taking the trouble to

shoulder “we haven’t got
look.
never learns how to spell or write a
letter, and the woman who
thinks, just because she belongs to
the once rich and blue-blooded De
Smythe family, instead of the plain
Smiths, that ought to

decent

anybody be

| withers,

He, ||

There is the stenographer who |
| spirit—is on the way to matrimonial |

glad to pay her any price for any}

of work. Yet these women
wonder that they get

wages and loudly prate about the in-

sort

|
justice of women’s pay not equalling pan |

|

starvation |
saw the advertisement in the Trades-

Now, will you be good?
Dorothy Dix.
2 @
The Curse of the Permanent Job.
It is interesting-—and possibly im-
portant—-to note that the chief cause
of matrimonial the
directions
the
Give a man

failures is chiei

cause of failure in other
called

“permanent job.”

It is what may be curse
of the
be,. a}
permanent job, and he begins to go}

Ambition
skill

too late transfer him to a job where

what is, or seems to him to

to seed. dies, industry |

dries up. Before it is|

there are but two certainties—that he |

that

At |
and |
into |

can keep it if he does well, and
lose it if not.
once there is an amazing change,

he will he does
the man who was degenerating
a sour, querulous failure is develop-
ing into a cheerful, useful success.
The “Now I’ve |
got her,” and ceases to try to please
wife

husband who says:

-or the who acts in the same}

disaster. Whether or not the mar-
riage was made in heaven it’s got
to be lived on earth Not are the}

laws of human nature suspended for |
the benefit of the married.
~~ ____

|

When you write Tradesman adver- |
tisers be sure to mention that you |

|

TRADESMAN

|
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

BEGGING DONATIONS.

 

Usually Given Through Fear of Of- |

fending Customers.

It is safe to say that a majority of |

the large business houses through-
out the country are in receipt of nu-

merous appeals to contribute money |

or merchandise to various more or
less worthy causes. These letters,
whether typewritten or in
form, usually bear the endorsement,

in some manner, of an esteemed cus- |
tomer, thus adding to the embarrass- |

ment of their recipients.

Many of the requests are for church
purposes and are signed by the mer-
chants of the town for the commit-
tee, who in turn send them out to

firms who sell to the various dealers. |
Frequently the signers have no per- |

sonal interest in the matter whatever

and endorse the appeals as a matter |

of policy, fearing that a refusal might

offend their patrons and lead to un-|
Few mer- |

pleasant complications.

‘chants have the courage to refuse to

co-operate by endorsing the appeals,
even although they are otherwise in-
clined. In this they can hardly be

biamed, as they are naturally anx-|
ious to retain the goodwill of their |

customers, and fellow townsmen.
The ladies of the various churches

are usually the active workers in such |

and this makes it doubly
While most of these
great

matters,
hard to refuse.
appeals are for churches, a

many are sent out for other purposes, |

where local subscriptions only should
be solicited or accepted. We have
seen letters asking for contributions
for building cemetery fences, defend-
ing a man on trial for murder, furn-
ishing the local band with new in-
struments, to build a monument ior
an honored and respected citizen, to
paint the country school house, to
assist in local option fights, to pur-
chase votes for the most popular
young lady and for various other
purposes of no special interest to the
persons who are asked to subscribe.

Several years ago, when street fairs
were popular, thousands
were sent out asking for donations
of merchandise or samples, but the
novelty having worn off these letters
have either diminished
have ceased altogether.

There is a phase in
which is,
looked by the solicitor, and that is,
in nearly every case the petitioner
is placing himself in a humiliating
position by asking for help or en-
dorsing such appeals. A person or
community should be self-supporting,
and if they have the proper pride will
not accept outside assistance unless
tendered voluntarily.

The habit of indiscriminate
ging has a demoralizing effect
society, and consequently it should
not be encouraged. As an illustra-
tion that our views are correct we
recall two instances where civic pride
and independence prevented the ac-
ceptance of voluntary contributions,

this matter

beg-

although the conditions were excep- |

tional.

On May 27, 1896, the city of St.
Louis was visited by a disastrous tor-
nado, which resulted in the loss of

circular |

of letters

greatly or}

perhaps, frequently over- |

upon |

|

over 200 lives and millions of dollars’
'worth of property. Many cities vol-
untarily proffered material assistance,
/both financial and otherwise, which
was gratefully declined, although the
citizens of St. Louis have always re-
|sponded quickly on similar occasions.

About one year ago Baltimore was
visited by a great conflagration, caus-
jing a loss of nearly $100,000,000.
| Other cities responded quickly with
|proffers of aid.
| In both cases the mayors of these
respective cities declined to accept
| outside assistance. Their civic pride
would not allow them to accept these
| contributions, knowing that the citi-
| zens of their own community would
|respond promptly and generously.
In these cases individual losses
| were not made good, but where actual
relief was required it was freely ex-
tended, and thus real suffering was
avoided.

Begging should not be resorted to
| except in cases of dire necessity. We
|apprehend that asking for assistance
|in the cases alluded to in the begin-
ning of this article is not so consid-
|ered, yet it is nothing less; and it

| should be discouraged for the reason
| already stated, and for other reasons
| we could mention did our space and
| time permit.
| In addition to the requests for do-
| nations such as previously mentioned,
|jobbers and manufacturers are asked
'to contribute to the various associa-
tions in their respective lines, both
| by cash subscriptions and by adver-
tising in programmes and _ proceed-
|ings of the meetings. Prizes are giv-
|en at these meetings for the various
|events, and these prizes are also do-
inated by the wholesale houses and
manufacturers, who contribute liber-
ally and cheerfully to the associations
without expectation of receiving any
'direct benefit. If this association so-
‘liciting is not overdone, as it has
| been in some instances, it has a ten-
dency to draw the several branches
'of trade closer together, and the re-
sults are beneficial to all concerned.
There is no reason why donations
|should be given solely through fear
|of offending a customer. It is pre-
sumed that the benefits arising from
business relations are mutual and
that the customer is given every pos-
sible advantage in the way of prices
and service. Surely a retailer would
not deal with a wholesaler or manu-
facturer to his disadvantage. If the
| merchants who endorse these appeals
| would only stop to think of the num-
| ber of similar requests that are sent
|to various firms they would hesitate
| before placing their house in a posi-
| tion that seldom fails to prove annoy-
ing and embarrassing to all con-
cerned.
| The majority of houses are willing
| to contribute to the support of the
| Various charitable institutions in
| their home cities, and it seems un-
|reasonable to expect them to make
| these contributions all over the coun-
| try, however worthy the case may be.
| The matter has been discussed in
| various publications from time to
| time, and the consensus of opinion in-
dicates that a great many people look
upon these soliciting letters as some-

 

thing which, on general principles,
should not be encouraged.

It would be the utmost folly to
attempt to pass upon the worthiness
or unworthiness of the causes repre-
sented, for these appeals are usually
only considered when a refusal would
jeopardize pleasant business relations
and offend a customer. In exception-
al cases donations are made freely
and willingly, but generally speaking,
the facts are as above stated.

We know of instances where mer-
chants have insisted that their whole-
saler make a donation of é¢ither mer-
chandise or money, threatening to
transfer their patronage should they
fail to do so. One firm kept a very
accurate record of their donations
and contributions to ascertain wheth-
er the results had any influence on
future business or not. We are told
that they could not cite a_ specific
case where a contribution increased
their business relations with their
customers or had any influence on
increased business from any particu-
lar locality. It is also hardly likely
that any sensible business man would
withhold his patronage for refusing
to contribute to something he has
endorsed, hence little fear need be
felt on this score.

We hope the time will come when
the various associations will take up
the matter and discountenance the
indiscriminate soliciting of donations
from jobbers and manufacturers,
which appears to have increased very
materially during the past few years
—so much so that some houses have
adopted the policy of ignoring these

appeals altogether. By making
exceptions they give no

Meyer Brothers Druggist.

no

offense.—

 

 

 

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DIPHTHERIA
SMALLPOX

The germs of these deadly diseases mul-
tiply in the decaying glue present in all
hot water kalsomines, and the decaying
paste under wall paper.

Alabastine is a disinfectant. It destroys
disease germs and vermin; is manufac-
tured from a stone cement base, hardens
on the wall, and is as enduring as the
wall itself,

Alabastine is mixed with cold water,
and any one can apply it.

Ask for sample card of beautiful tints.
Take no cheap substitute.

Buy only in 5 lb. pkgs. properly labeled.

ALABASTINE CO.
Office and factory, Grand Rapids, Mich.
New York- Office, 105 Water St.

 

 

 

 

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The Winter Resorts

of

Florida and the South
California and the West

Are best reached via the

Grand Rapids &
Indiana Railway

‘and its connections at

Chicago &

Cincinnati

Two Through Cincinnati Trains
Three Through Chicago Trains

For time folder and descripti

ve matter of Florida, California and

other Southern and Western Winter Resorts, address

Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, G. P. & T. A.
G. R. & I. Ry.,

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MICHIGAN

 

OVERDOING SUCCESS.

|

|
be well to pause a moment. It would |

How Too Many People Make Them- | be well to consider for what purpose |

selves Miserable.
~ There is danger in overdoing suc-
cess.
but it is true nevertheless. Success
is the by-word of modern times.
is the goal of all workers. It is the
stimulus of present day business. But

it has its dangers; there is peril in it. | back to his desk when he would not |

And what is the
What really

pinnacle of suc-
cess? constitutes suc-
cess?

A Western man whose career is
epitomized in the word
and who counts his wealth in
of millions, recently bemoaned
stupendous riches of Eastern mag-
nates, such as Rockefeller and Car-
negie. “What chance have we men
in the West?” he asked. “Look at
those Eastern millionaires are
accumulating money. What’s the
use of trying, anyway?”

how

What are we to judge by this?
What is really the measure of
cess? Is it ever full? Here is a
man whose wealth is so great he
has difficulty taking care of it
is dissatisfied because the Eastern
millionaires are getting more money
than he is.

This may sound paradoxical, | : |
y Pp “? | be another three or four minutes lat- |

It |

“success,”
tens |
the |

we are doing all this hurrying. A man |
will run a block to catch an elevated |
or suburban train when there would |
er. He will wait for an express train |
five minutes to save two he would |
have lost by taking a local. He}
will devour a quick lunch and rush |

have lost a thing by eating less |
speedily. Yet he thinks nothing of |
his body, the machine that is suffer- |
ing the effects of this strenuosity.
Or he will fill his house—or his |
wife will for him—with furniture that |

/1s useless, that is only in the way, |
}and that requires maids to dust it. |

| tail values astound the ordinary in-
suc-

, yer
inice as his millionaire employer or

Other moneyed men are |

like him. They organize vast corpor- |

ations; float unlimited quantities of
watered stock They do it all to
make more money. They have more
than they could possibly
spend. It would bother them to give
it away, and give it away justly and
properly. Yet the mad chase for the
dollar goes on.

money

be
to

conclusion can
that there is no measure
success; it is a ladder without end.
The further up one climbs the high-
er one wishes to be.

Therefore the
drawn

Who, then, are the moderately suc-
cessful people?
ple who compose the middle class
of the nation.

the people who live in nice comforta-

They are the peo-|

In the cities they are |

ble houses in pleasant portions of |
|to hardships and despair; the other

the town; who are bringing up chil-
dren in paths that will bring them
The bank messenger who
has been promoted to be teller after
half a score of years’ faithful service
is called so is the book-
keeper who, by
and the display of executive ability,

SUCCESS.

@ Success;

He will buy the best of everything |
“just to keep up a front,” and never

| think that a time might come when
| this money might be of untold value |
|to him.

are filled with |
rich and elaborate wares. Their re-

The stores

dividual, yet they are on sale and they |
are sold. And the moderately suc-
cessful man is the main purchaser.
He yearns to have things just as
chance acquaintance.

Yet, while this is going on, he is
forgetting the future. He thinks
not of the morrow when he may be

deprived of his high salaried posi- |

TRADESMAN

tion to make way for some man}
who his employer thinks would do}
just as well for considerably less |
money. He fails to realize that |

sickness is apt to strike him or some |
of his family—a fatal or at least an}

He would
live within his

expensive illness.
hard with
his newly acquired costly tastes and
habits. He may be neglecting his
church and his God, but he thinks
not of that in his hurry up the lad-
der of success.

to means

Therefore, success, like every good
thing, There is
false is true suc-
cess. The one is dangerous and leads

can be overdone.

success and there

leads to true happiness and satisfac-

| tion.
Just a little story, to illustrate one
phase of false success... It is not

dint of hard work |

has been made manager of a busi- |

| the Southern

ness. It is the man, in fact, who has |
proven himself worth while.
And his rewards? He draws a|

good salary. He finds that it costs
a good deal more to live now than
it used to when his wage was $1oa
week.

|

He is probably saving less |

money and having less enjoyment in |

life than when he was
along on his small stipend, and when
his ambition was only to succeed. He
has more pleasures; he has more
friends, but he finds it costs more
to “keep up a front.” And he feels
ke must “keep up a front.”

And this same “keeping up a front”

has led many a man to the wrong |

path. If it has not led to destruc-

tion or to a cell, it has led to devious
steps. He may have contracted bad
habits to undermine his health.

In this mad rush of to-day it would

struggling |

 

about the mad city; it is about a
quiet, peaceful village, showing that
false success exists even away from
the rush and din.

The scene is in a little village on
Minnesota’ Railroad,
and the incident happened nearly a
quarter of a century ago. The sec-
tion of the country was noted for
its production of wheat, and the prin-
cipal industry of the town was a
flour mill. The mill employed some
twenty men and furnished an ex-
cellent market for wheat, bringing
the farmers to town and aiding in
the support of the village stores.

The mill was owned by a man nam-
ed Heaston, an oily individual but
none too keen a business man. His
head miller’s name was’ Bunting.
Bunting was an industrious fellow,
with a wife and five children to sup-
port. He held one of the best jobs

in the village and drew $100 a month,
an unusually large wage in so small
He was kind and generous

a town.

find it |

 

Who
- Buys
Your

Goods?

Your goods are sold, or should
be, by the retailers. Then why
not advertise your goods in a paper
which reaches the best retailers of

Michigan, Ohio and Indiana?
The Tradesman

is 22 years
old, has steadily increased in size,
and has advertisers who have been
with it from the start---all of which,
in our opinion, is positive proof- of

its value as an advertising medium.

re

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

to his family and was highly respect-
ed in the community.

Heaston began losing money,
through unfortunate purchases of

wheat and the big crop and, being |

| the future. The whole might be
/summed up in the thought: Pursue
|success with thought of the far dis-
'tant future as well as the near fu-
|ture, and remember that the goddess

able to hide the true state of affairs, of fortune may not always smile on

went to his head miller and made this | you.

proposal:

“Bunting,” he said, “I have been |
considering for some time the ad-|
visability of taking you into the con-|
At present I am}

cern as a partner.

Do not overdue success.

Frank M. Welch.
—_+3->—__

sier State.
Columbia City—O. N. Hayden is

 

a little pressed for money, owing succeeded in the cigar business by B.

to market conditions with which you |

are familiar. Now, I’ll tell you what
I’ll do—have you any money saved

up?”

“Why, yes,” replied Bunting,
“about $1,000.”
“Well, here’s what IT’ll do with

you,” Heaston went on in a pat-
ronizing way. “You put in this $1,000
of yours, and in addition draw out
only that part of your salary you
think necessary to keep your family,

Warren.

Columbus-—The business of W. H.
Newsby, dealer in agricultural _im-
plements, will be continued by N€ws-
by & Wagner.

Covington—Coleman & _ Reeves
succeed W. G. Boyd in the grocery
business.

Eiberfeld—Ziegler & Kampe, un-
dertakers and dealers in hardware and

 

'for the welfare of the wheat crop of
Recent Trade Changes in the Hoo- |

Country’s Fruit Product Is Over a tent of several millionaires’ fortunes,

Billion Dollars.

The extent and value of the fruit |
crops. of the United States have nev- |
er been entirely appreciated. Every
spring and summer for a certain time
the press of the country at large
grows very tender and_ solicitous |

the country. A rumor that the win- |
ter wheat “winter killed” badly will
cause telegraph wires from Maine to
California to sing woeful accompani- |
ment of the frenzy of operators who |
have played the crop for a big one,
and even Europe will know that the |
wheat yield of the West and the|
Northwest is to be below the average. |
Later, when the rust begins to make |
its appearance, the situation grows |

| more tense and a certain part of the |

implements, are to continue the busi- |
ness formerly conducted by Skinner |

& Ziegler.

 

say $40 or $50 a month, and put the
rest in with me.

a year if you’ve put in, say $1,000)

more, why, I’ll give you a half inter-
est in the mill.
$6,000, you know, and you'll be get-
ting a pretty liberal deal.”

“T’ll think it over,’ answered Bunt-
ing.

He did think it over, and he decid- |

ed to accept Heaston’s proposition. |

He put in his $1,000 savings and

then the first thing he began to pinch |
Instead of the generous |

his family.
sums he formerly gave his wife he |
limited her allowance to $10 a month. |
On this she was expected to feed the |
family and keep the children in J
clothes. The burden was too great |
for the woman, and the children, in- |
stead of being the neatly dressed, |
well groomed children of the year |
previous, showed signs of poverty |
and neglect. Bunting denied him-|
self many things and managed to put |
about $80 a month into the mill prop- |
erty, all the time being encouraged |
and patted on the back by Heaston.
He soon lost the respect of the
community, for the whole town was

well aware of the tactics he had as- |

sumed, and his wife grew ill.

The upshot of the affair was that |
thing |

after he had continued this

: |
for seven months Heaston failed ab- |
went |

solutely. The mill property
over to a man to whom
had secretly mortgaged it after mak-
ing his deal with Bunting and Bunt-

ing lost every cent he had put into}

it. He was in a village where he
could get no other employment at
his trade, with a
health, and five growing children.
That man, in his mad hurry _ to
accumulate wealth rapidly, is an ex-
ample of the woe false success can
bring.
had, he eagerly plunged his all into
something he would have found un-

stable had he investigated carefully | wholesale commission merchant, has
and weighed with foresight and judg- | |

ment.

He is merely an example of many |

persons to-day who are following the
god of false success. In their haste
to gain this world’s goods they are
not conservative and_ considerate.
They fail to look far enough into

 

Now, at the end of |

It’s worth about | ' t
| of Chas.-Acton is to be continued by

Heaston |

wife, broken in}

Not contented with what he |

Frankton—A. Wise & Son are suc-
| ceeded in the hardware business by
| Wise Bros.

Freetown—The dry goods business

Acton & Smith.
| Kendallville—J. Deibel & Co.
|ceed John Deibel in
and lumber business.
Kokomo—G. M. Kelly, Sr., of the
firm of G. M. Kelly & Son, grocers,
lis dead.
Kokomo—Reynolds
grocers, succeed E. E. Reynolds.
Lynn—Barnes & Isenbarger,

suc-

im-

& Umbarger, | jaughter—it is “the same old joke.” |

| tion.

‘the dispatches tell of the thermometer

population stands breathless to await |

news of the extent. of the blight.
In the fall, when frost threatens

the corn crop with destruction and

|in Nebraska and Iowa near to the}

| freezing point,

| cator.

the hardware | the West.

|
|
|
|

half of the country |
sits up nights and watches the indi- |
The newspapers send special |
correspondents to investigate condi- |
tions and lengthy editorials come from |
the pens of the editorial writers of |
But when the news comes |

jin that the Delaware fruit crop is|

frozen or Georgia peaches destroyed |
for the season or Florida or Califor-

|nia oranges short it is received with |

|of Delaware, the peaches of Georgia,
plement dealers, are succeeded by |
| Barnes & Mills.

Martinsville—The grocery business |

formerly conducted by W. H. Carlton |

will be continued by Carlton & Mul-
lis.
North

|of a thousand million dollars.
Salem—-Smythe & Hanna, |

hardware dealers, have discontinued |

business.
North Vernon—Collins

dealers in flour and feed, have dis-

|solved partnership, John E. Collins
| conducting the business in the fu-
ture.

Oolitic—A. C. Clark is succeeded
in the grocery and meat business by
| Robert Gallaway.

| Gordon & Stephenson is to be con-

| Gibbs Bros. has been taken posses-
|sion of by a creditor.

| Rochester--Wm. H. Deniston will
|continve the grain business formerly
| conducted by Deniston & Caffen.
South Bend—The clothing business
| formerly conducted by Thos. Skelton
| & Son will be continued in the fu-
'ture by Thos. Skelton.
Swayzee—The shoe business of D.
iL. Spears will be continued under
the style of D. L. Spears & Co.

| Richmond — Henry W._ Loehr,

| filed a mortgage for $1,200.

| South Whitley—A receiver for the

| Ely Medicine Co. has been applied

| for.
——_>->—____

It is quite possible for a young

man to be handicapped by too many
ancestors,

 

SANNA

Pennville—The drug business of}.
we . - ling annually $300,000,000 worth of |

| ducted in the future by H. L. Ste-|
| phenson.
Portland—-The grocery stock of

|and the oranges of Florida and Cali-
| fornia and other fruit raising districts |

jannually out of Florida.
one learns that it will require 33,000 |

 

Yet if the peaches and strawberries

were one season actually destroyed |
by frost it would mean a loss to the
total crop production of the country |

One has long been used to the ap- |
palling statistics of the wheat, oat |

|and corn reports, but it is surprising |
& Byron, |

to read that over 1,000,000 boxes of |
oranges, valued at $4,000,000, come |
And when

refrigerator cars to move the Califor- |
nia crop this year the figures begin
to assume startling proportions.

The country is raising and market-

apples. Its strawberries are worth
$100,000,000. Its peaches approxi-
mately three times as much. Melons

are marketed each year to the ex-

and even the lowly  huckleberry,
which can be hardly classed among
the marketable fruits of the country,
is picked and sold and paid for with
$5,000,000 of good United States
money.

And these are only a few of the
items of the grand total of the fruit
production of the country. In fact,

| the growth of production and market-

ing of fruits of all kinds in this coun-
try has developed to such an extent
the United States is now emphati-

cally the fruit country of the world.

California is at the present time sup-
plying every market in the United
States with oranges at a price which
precludes all possibility of foreign
competition. Ships are bearing
thousands of boxes of this fruit from
the Golden Gate halfway around the
world to the markets of Europe, and

|yet forty years ago orange growing

as a commercial pursuit was unknown
here.

Fifty years ago practically all the
fruit which was consumed in the
country was imported. Now little
is, save that which is brought from
the countries of South America and
some exceedingly fine lemons from
Southern Europe. Ninety years ago
it was impossible to find more than
half a barrel of raisins in the City
of New York. Now California alone
raises 103,000,000 pounds of grapes
which are dried into raisins, and Cal-
ifornia is not alone in this produc-

There is practically no popular fruit
which is not raised in this country
in amounts sufficiently large for the
needs of the United States, and, with
the growing demand for more fruit,
which is evidenced in all classes in

ithe country, and the profit at which

agriculturists can raise and supply
the same, there is little doubt that
a few years will see the United States
covered with orange belts, lemon
belts, apple belts, peach belts, straw-
berry belts, etc., and will accord them
rearly as much distinction as is at
present accorded the wheat, corn and
|oat belts. The population at large
|is learning to value and eat fruit.
The development of the industry
during recent years is phenomenal.
|The orange groves of California are
i|famous already, but few people are
| aware that Arizona and other South-
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line and, with the help of irrigation,
will soon have to be reckoned with.
Missouri leads in its apple orchards
and in the production of this fruit,
but the entire West and Northwest

are becoming an apple raising section. |

Montana, generally considered the

home of blizzards and cold, is forg- |

ing to the front. Some of the Mon-
tana orchards number from 60,000 to
100,000 trees, and the productivity of
each tree compares favorably with
those of any apple region. South

ner that must be listened to. Last

year the product of one

the trees are all young there and the

industry is strictly in its infancy.
Wisconsin is already, and Michi-

gan is rapidly becoming, one of the

banner apple states of the country. In|

Wisconsin thousands of hills which
with difficulty could be profitably
planted with other crops, are mad-
to yield small fortunes annually. The
agricultural experiment stations
both of these States are devoting spe-
cial efforts to adapting trees to the
soil and climate. While peaches are

still Michigan’s main contribution to |
the fruit of the country, it is predict- |

ed that apples will one day rival this

fruit here, both in acreage and value. |

Wisconsin’s banner crop is potatoes,
but each year thousands of apple
trees are set out and the total pro-
duction of the State is steadily grow-
ing.

“Apples a large item in the receipts
of the Western farmer?” repeated a
commission “Well, I should
say so. People are learning each day
the many uses to which the apple
can be put, despite

man.

to the fore. There is a growing de-

mand for good apples all over the}

country, especially in the West. This
that more farmers will
orchards to their farms as business
propositions, and that more people
will go into the business of raising
them on a large scale. The apple is
still the main fruit of many people,
and many more are learning to make
And this is as it should be.
is, first of all, cheap, it is wholesome
—but a recital of the apple’s virtues
would be long.
American fruit.”

But it is in the raising of oranges
that the progress of this country is
most’ remarkable. In 1870 such
orange trees as were in the country
were planted more curiosity
than from any hope of ever making
them bear fruit in paying quantities
All oranges sold were then imported
and the price was consequently high.
In 1873 the first grove of trees was
of growing size and condition. Ex-

means

it so.

from

periments were made in Florida and |
California with this fruit with star- |
fruit |

tling results. The grade’ of
grown early began to approach that
of the imported product and the first
small starts were soon made. Now
orange growing in this country is
an industry of national importance.
So large is the traffic in oranges
shipped from California to the East
that during the shipping season en-

orchard |
alone amounted to 10,000 barrels, and |

in |

the fact that |
more fancy fruits are rapidly coming |

add |

It |

It is decidedly an}

 

tire train schedules on certain rail-
roads are arranged with a view of
| handling the orange crop in a Satis-
factory manner. Special express
| trains, composed exclusively of

are rushed direct from the grove in
| California to the market in Chicago
or the East.

dled swiftly by grower, shipper and/|

jobber and brought to the consumer
with topmost speed if there is to be

|a profit in their handling. To further |

Dakota is beginning to contribute to this end there are growers’, shippers’ |

the total of the apple crop in a man-|

all possible expedition and,
be here when the industry will have
| developed to such an extent that
threatened failure of the orange crop

will affect the country nearly as

much as a rumor of rust in the na-|

tion’s grain fields.

“The extremely low. prices of

oranges during the glut of the market |

two years ago did more to educate

the people of the United States to the |
possibilities of the orange as a popu- |
lar fruit than anything that has oc- |

curred in a decade,” said Mr. Harris,
of the Fruit and Produce News. “It
was during this period when oranges
could be had nearly as cheap as ap-
ples that we, as a people, began to
get familiar with the orange. House-
wives learned that it is a better fruit
tc handle in serving, peeling or pre-
serving than the apple and that it is
much more tasty. Since then
growth in the orange demand of the
| West has been enormous. With the
demand still growing, the orange
crop seems apt to rise to a position
as one of our leading crops,
plane with the corn and
tions of the country.

| ginning to produce the fruit in consid-
erable quantities. Irrigation opens
;up an illimitable tract of
suitable to the raising of oranges,
and the next generation may
what were once desert wastes trans-

| formed into bountiful orange groves. |

| Then this country will surely do what

California alone now gives promise |
| of doing—supply the entire world
| with oranges. This section of the|

|to produce lemons enough to supply
| this country and to spare, although
at the present time many lemons are
imported.”

spreading in both width and breadth |

| fully as rapidly as the “apple belt.”
| Michigan, Delaware and Georgia are
ithe traditional peach States. To these

State, with the exception of Florida
and Indiana. The last decade has
seen a remarkable development in
the peach orchards of the southern
part of Illinois. But it is in the
| states south of Mason and Dixon’s
iline, the old cotton states—that the
peach as a big crop has been serious-
ly taken up. Alabama, both as for
quality and quantity, is beginning to
clamor for recognition in this line,
and Tennessee, Texas and Missouri
are also States where the peach is

 

re- |
frigerator cars filled with the fruit, |

Oranges must be han- |

and jobbers’ associations galore. Spe- |
cial effort is made by all railroads |
concerned to handle the fruit with |
with |
growing facilities, the day will soon!

a |

the |

Om 4a)
grain produc- |

“New Mexico and Arizona are be- |

territory |

see |

United States may also be looked to |

| The “peach belt” of the country is |

must now be added every Southern |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

being scientifically cultivated with an
eye to developing orchards to supply
| world markets.

In fact, in the South ever since the
| civil war the old order of plantation
| farming has changed to a certain ex-

force, with the fruit industry serious-
recognized and_ pursued. In
Georgia the crop is so_ large
packing houses, canning factories
and similar industries have sprung up
in certain sections. One _ orchard
| there contains 120,000 trees.

| ly

The same statements in regard to
rail and shipping facilities which hold
true with the California orange crop
hold good here.
| of the State alone 1,786 refrigerator
cars were shipped. In the picking

|every fruit of importance
| household
| with

tent, and a new one has come into |

iin 1878 to> 4,000 carloads at the pres-

ent day.

Figs, pineapples, pears, in fact,
in the
and commercial world,
the exception of bananas, are
all raised here in the land of the
free in such quantities as to warrant

| the prediction that soon the United

that |

From one section |

States will be in the same position
in regard to the world’s fruit crop as
it is at present in regard to the corn
crop—absolutely independent of all
other countries of the earth and ready
and even anxious to export a little
of the home product: O. H. Oyen.
a
Eggs Not So High as Last Year.

Dexter, Jan. 16—A year ago this

| month I sold fresh eggs for 33 cents

| per

| season special trains are made up of |

to await the convenience
of the shippers. In one instance a
railroad has built a spur track twen-
|ty-five miles long into a _ country
where the orchards are just coming
| into bearing age. The Michigan crop
slightly exceeds that of Georgia, but
| the quality of the Michigan peach
| does not approach that of the best

| these cars

| Georgia varieties.

As regards a rapid and sensational
development of any one fruit culture
the popular little Rocky Ford canta-
|loupe is a remarkable sample. Seven
| years ago several farmers in the Ar-
| kansas valley of Colorado shipped a

few crates of this fruit out of the
| State as an experiment. The East
bought the fruit, tasted it and knew
|that it was good. Witness the won-
derful result of a suddenly created
demand.
only a few acres under cultivation in
Colorado, raising a few Rocky Ford
cantaloupe for home consumption,
|there are now 23,000 acres of land
solely devoted to this crop in the
| nineteen states where it is grown. In
1807 a few crates were the sum total
of the crop. In 1898 1,500 cars were
|produced. In 1899 Texas alone rais-
|ed 700 cars of this luscious little mel-

| + : m

ion. Now in its season the Rocky
| Ford cantaloupe is known every-
| where.

In 1881 a few growers in Califor-
|nia produced a few tons of prunes
each year. Now.,the total production
of the country exceeds 100,000,000
pounds of the cured fruit per annum.
The effect of this remarkable rise is
shown in the subsequent falling off
of the importation. Ten years ago
annually 65,000,000
pounds of prunes. Now the importa-
tion of this line amounts to less than
|600,000 pounds. Raisins have

we imported

lozen, the most anxious buyers
being the bakeries. Last Friday, 13th
inst., I made my regular fortnightly
trip to the city with butter and eggs
and visited four bakeries, four gro-
and two restaurants to
eggs. Three bakeries were well

ceries sell

my

| supplied with eggs and did not want

Where in 1897 there were |

| the

ad- |
| vanced in production from 6,000 boxes |

to buy; at one the significant remark
being made that they packed eggs
for their own use ‘this year. One
restaurant keeper, two grocers and
one baker would buy only guaranteed
strictly fresh eggs. One grocer would
not buy at all—had all he cared for. I
sold strictly fresh at 24 and 26 cents,
and some fine September eggs which
had been packed in salt and could
not be distinguished from ordinary
fresh eggs, either by appearance or
candling, at 23 cents. I know
number of families who took the pre-
caution to buy eggs in October for
I guess as
and from what I
learn these parts I would
that even with continued
weather prices will not reach those

W.

a

their winter’s
as
in

Use. can

well others,
say
Severe

of one year ago.
ee
Food Department
Colored Noodles.
have been sent to many
wholesale and retail grocers in Ohio
advising them that samples of egg
from their stocks
have been found, upon analysis, to
be colored and that the same can not
be sold without danger of subjecting
dealer to prosecution. In one
case prosecution of a jobber has been
begun on a charge of selling adul-

Ohio Against

Notices

noodles secured

terated egg noodles.

 

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATCGES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & Co.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

 

 

 

 

Profit?

“Tanglefoot” Sticky Fly Paper

Is really the only device known that will catch and
hold both the fly and the germ and coat them over
with a varnish from which they cannot escape,
preventing their reaching your person or food.

Tanglefoot is Sanitary
Ask for Tanglefoot

Over 120 per cent. to you.

 

   

 

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of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

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37

 

The Man Who Cheats His Work.

An employer of thousands of men
was asked what thing in all his large
operations gave him the most con-
cern. “The man who does a little
less than is expected of him,’ was
the reply. “He is the dangerous fac-
tor in all business. The absolute fail-

ure we readily discover and dis- |
charge, but the ‘almosts’ escape de- |
tection for months, and often for |

years, and they make our losses as
well as our fears,” and with a very |
serious smile he added, “The drip in|
business is worse than the leak.”
Thousands of men fancy they are |
fulfilling their duty to their employ-
ers and to their tasks by keeping |
hours and performing just enough to |
hold on to their positions. They |
have an idea that to do more would |
be to give larger service than their |
compensation required. They object |
to what they believe would be extra
values. “The old man sha’n’t get
more than he’s paying for,” is the |
vernacular.
Possibly it never strikes these trim- |
mers that in cheating their work they
are doing double damage;
injuring their employers
they are robbing themselves more;
they are, in fact, losing everything |
life that is worth while. They |
fare worse than if they did nothing
at all, for time with all its values
slips entirely from them and leaves
no substance or satisfaction. Half |
doing soon brings undoing. It is the}
nine-tenths doing or the ninety-nine |
one hundredths doing that bleeds
business and saps character—Satur- |
day Evening Post.
—_>-~- |
The Tonic of Goodwill Kills Selfish- |
ness. pp
The consciousnes of a feeling of
good will and love toward others is
the most. powerful and most
healthy tonic in the world. It is a
wonderful stimulant, for it enlarges,
sustains and ennobles life. It kills
selfishness and scatters envy and jeal-
ousy.

they are
much, but |

in

A habit of thinking generously and
kindly of everyone has a marvelous |

power of transforming one’s life. It |
harmonizes all faculties.
Nothing small or mean, stingy or

despicable, can exist in a mind hold-
ing such thought. It is lifted above
the petty differences which are the
curse of small, narrow natures. Good
will is a great panacea for selfishness;
it preserves the freshness of youth,
and prevents dryness and barrenness
of heart.
——_>~~____
Truthful Boy.

Hearing a noise in the pantry Mrs.
Jerrums opened the door softly and
went in.

Her youngest son was standing on
a chair, with his back to her, helping
himself to the contents of a glass
jar.

“What are you doing, Clifford?”
she asked.

Clifford turned around.

His face was smeared from chin to
cheek bone with something deeply
and darkly red, but the light of truth
shone in his blue eyes.

“T can not tell a lie, mamma,”
said. “I’m eatin’ raspberry jam.”

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_Hardware Price ice Current |

 

  

|

 

 

Iron
ee 2 25 rate |
Peet Ee 3 00 rate |
| Knobs—New List |
| Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings .... 75
| Deor, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings .... 85
| Levels
| Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis |
Metals—Zinc
Con patna codtis = .............
See DO 8%
Miscellaneous
pers CMOS 40
Paps, Cite 75&10
merews, Mew Edst ....5............. 85
Casters, Bed and Pilate ...... -50&10&10
Dampers, American. ................ 50
Molasses Gates
Stepps Pattern |... :....0......- 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30
Pans
ery, Aemc ......... 8. “a
Common, DO ee 70&10
Patent Planished Iron
“A’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27. .10 80
“B Woed’s pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80
Broken packages Wc per Ib. extra.
Planes
| On Tool Co’s fancy... .. 1.05... .. 40
Leteen Bere 50
| Sandusky Tool Co.'s fancy.......... 40
Benen, frat quality..-............... 45
Nails
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire
mrcet Haile Base — ................. 35
Wite mais base _................... 215
Ze tO Gm Aaveamee.. ke. Base
mG t@ 46 advance... 8. et 5
8 SOVANCe |
GS a@vatee <... ls... 20
a amvagee ..... tl... 30
eee 45
2 aOwemee 2.8 ee 70
Bane 5 agvatice..... 1... 5.16... 50
Castine 10 advance ................ 15
Cues 8 Sestice |. ........ 1.1... 25
Causing G advanec.................... 35
Finish 10 advance....... 25
| Wintee S ativatiee .-. 8. 35
Hamish 6 adwance _.................. 45
Eearrel 7% aidivanee .................. 85
Rivets
Iron amd tumed §............ 2.1... 50
Copper Rivets and Bure ........... 45
Roofing Plates
I4uce iC, Chareoal, Bean ........... 7 50
i4m20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ........... 9 00
20xzZe IC, Chareoal, Dean ........-. 15 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% teh and lareer .......... 916
Sand Paper
Ease acet 19 Seo... 8... dis 50
Sash Weights
Solel. Paves. per tom .........0....... 28 00
Sheet Iron

AMMUNITION
Caps
G 2 fal eount, per wo. 40
Hicks’ Waterpreef, per m........... 50
Mesket, per wi 1
Bays Waterproct, por mil... 60 |
Cartridges
NO. 22 chert per mo. 2 50
No. 22 long, —-— = .............,.. 3 00
NO. 32 ShOtl, Ber mie 5 00
Ne 32 loge, fer mi. 5 75
i Primers
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m..... 1 60
| Na, 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60
Gun Wads
Black Edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M.C... 60
| Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m..... 70
| Black Pidze, No. 7, per mil...) ..... 80
Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns
Drs. of oz.of Size Per
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 1% 10 10 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
28 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 41 1% 4 10 3 00
200 3 i 10 12 2 50
208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70
264 3% 1% 4 12 2 70
Discount, one-third and five per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64 |
Gunpowder |
[Meee 2 is. per kee... 1... 4 90
1% Kegs, 12% Ibs., per % keg ........ 2 90 |
% Kees 64 he, per % kee .......- 1 60}
Shot
In sacks containing 25 tbs
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 85
Augurs and Bits
[ee ee 60
aenmminues senwine .................. 25
| Jennings’ finitatiog .. 0.0.2.0 6 0.6... 50
Axes
Pirat Quality, S. & Bronse ......... 6 50
Miret Quality, D. ©. Bromge: ..... 9 00
Pirst Quality, & ES. Steel ...... 7 00
Bist Quality, 1. & Steel... 2... 2. 10 50
Barrows
a 15 00
[Goes see 33 00
Bolts
SOW coe ee 70
(Canriege, new Hat. ................. 70
Ewe 2 50
Buckets
Wer. pistin |... 4 50
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ....-....... 70
ble ee 60
Chain
%in 5-16in. %in. % im. |
Common. -.f. @....6 €....6 €....495ce
Be sll 8i4c.. “Tie. .-.656....6 ©€
Bee. _.......-8%e... 7%6....6%¢....6%e
Crowbars
Cast Steal per WH. ........5-...5.2... 5
Chisels
| Socket Firmer. 65
Socket Framing. 65
Socket Corner. _. 65
eee 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, Gin., per dos. ....net. 75

 

Nos.
Nos.
ae

 

All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 3
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels and Spades

Birst Graee, Ee |... 8... 5 50
Second Grade, Wee cee cc 5 00
Solder
Te 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 and Irom _.. 7... . 60-10-5 |
Tin—Melyn Grade
minis 3 Ciareoat 2.02.2. . c 10 50
izce 1@. Charcoal) . 2... el 10 50 |
; 10x14 Ex, ee 12 00
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25

Corrugated, per Be 1 25
Mapetae ec. dis. 10810
Expansive Bits
Clark’s amall, 918: targe, $26. ...... 40
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, $24; as soe -.-..... 2. 25

Files—New List |
OE eee 70&10
INIGHOIION SS Coe eo 70
Peetler 6 PeGweG TARR, «4.22. .e eeu ec. 70

Galvanized Iron

Nos. 16 to 20; 2 and a” 25 a + ot, od
List 12 by
Discount, 70.

Japanned

t0s02 IC. Ciiatcoal .................. 9 00

ixo0 HC. Charcoal ................. 9 00
}iuxtt FX. Clarecoat ......-.......... 10 50
rouge 2m. @hareeat .....0 1... 2... 10 50

Tin—Allaway Grade

Each additional X on this grade, $1.
Boiler Size Tin Plate

| 14x56 IX, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ib 13 |

Gauges Traps
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s SO ie Cea 5
Glass | Oneida Ses aa _—— |
5 . ; | Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 6
| Sees cece ak <2 ee _ ben | Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ......1 25 |
ay ts MO dis. 90 | Mouse, delusion, per doz. ........... 1 25
Hammers ts eee : Wire e
i | rig. ee a

vent = oes ‘ye Pe an: = = 0 | ‘npered aoe eae. ae
a fe oppere ee el a i
Mason's Solid Cast Steel .1..30e list | eee 50&10 |
Hinges Coppéred Spring Steel .............. 40

Gate, Clarks 4, 2 g......0..-..; dis 60&10 | Barbed Fence, Galvanized .......... 2 1S
Hollow Ware Barhea Wenee, Patited --..-.......- 2 45 |

ee 50&10 | Wire Goods

Moree oo... 504... ae aleele 6 cue 4 ciciuiee eee | Oe 80-10
PEGE oc. ae ee =n |
cae Nalls a pa = aati nc eee avert sy ie |
1 ais. 40&10 ate Hooks an Oe
Au Seble ..:..........-. oe oe
House Furnishing Goods Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled ...... 30
Stamped Tinware, new list. ...... OCOee COMI occ cee ke 40

Coe’s Patent ‘Agricultural, Wrought,70&10

Crockery and Glassware

 

 

 

 

 

 

STONEWARE
Butters
|} % Sel. per doz ..........c..L.. 48
i €6 G6 ab per dog. 3... ol. 6
| & Mee Chel oe, 56
110 Sal eden jel 70
fic Sak ene . =
is Gal meat tubs, exeh ........... 1 20
20 Gal meat tubs, each ............. 1 60
oo fal meat tube, each ........_._.. 2 25
ou fal. meat tbe, eaxeli ...:.. 2... 2 7
Churns
“10 © Gal per fae |... 6%
Churn Dashers; per doz .......:... 84
Milkpans
Ye gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Fine Glazed Milkpans
4 gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 60
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Stewpans
% fal. Greproof, bail, per doz +..... 85
1 gal. Hreproof bail, per doz ...... 1 10
Jugs
a @ab per Goer |... ¢
ma fa) per doz. |. ...:...
1 te GS eal pee eal... .. cl... ie
Sealing Wax
13 tbs. in packarze per Wh. ........... 2
LAMP BURNERS
i No. 0 Sun 3t
No. 1 Sun 38
No. 2 Sun 50
No. 3 Sun 8>
PoubuInr -..:........ 5b
Nutmeg 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
Per gross
CT 4 25
eee ce 4 40
SOO ee 00
kruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP as
Per box of 6 doz.
No. 0 Sun 1 60
No. 1 Sun .
No. 2 Sun 2 54
Anchor Carton Chimneys
iach Chimney in corrugated carton
[No © Cry |. 2 |
i INo. 1 Crimp ................-........ 1 9
[mo Cyne... i... 2 90
| First Quality
No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 1 9.
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 2 00
| No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 00
XXX Flint
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 3 25
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 4 10
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & labeled 4 25
Pearl Top
| No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled 4 60
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled ....5 30
| No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled ....5 10
No. 2 Sun, “small bulb,” globe lamps 80
j LaBastie
No. I Sun, plain bulb, pér doa ...... 1 00
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz ...... 1 26
mo. £ Crimp. per dom .....-......... 1 36
fNG. 2 Cramp. per daz ...-..-........ 1 60
Rochester
NO. - Line (Gie Goa) ........... -3 50
ING. 2 Eamie (ibe dam) ............... 4 00
mo. 2 Vint (866 Ga) ................ 4 60
Electric
INO. 2 Eime (0c daz) ..........5... 4 00
NG. 2 Wit Coee Gos) ................ 4 60
OIL CANS
it 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 76
do gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 75
> Sak Tite e€ans o.oo 7 00
® Sab galy. tron NMacefas ............ 9 00
i LANTERNS
No. @ lulular, side te ...-.......... 4 65
No 2 EB PTupglae .........2..8........ 6 40
| iNe. to DPulular, Gish ooo. lc: 6 50
No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern ......:.... 75
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp ..... oo. oo
No. 3 Street Kimp, cach ......... : 50
LANTERN GLOBES
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 566
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. 15c. 50
No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
No. 0 Tub., Bull's eye, cases 1 dz. each1 25
BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
No. 0 % in. wide, per gross or roll. 26
No. 1, % im. wide, per gross or roll, - 36
Noa. 2, i in wide, per gross or roll 46
No. 3. 1% in. wide, per gross or roll 8
COUPON BOOKS
59 books, any denomination ......1 50
100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
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Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

Ribbons—Continue to improve.
Salesmen just back from the road
report one of the most successful
seasons they have had in_ several
years. The millinery trade has
adopted ribbons for the spring and
summer hats, and are now busily en-
gaged in getting their lines ready for
the early Easter trade. Costumes
for dress and evening wear also show
considerable in the way of ribbon
trimming, and the latest reports from
Paris are to the effect that all spring
costumes show that ribbons occupya
prominent position in their make-up.

Silks—Silk piece goods manufac-
turers are already beginning to lay
plans for next fall, and the design-
ing departments are busy getting up
new ideas for the fall campaign. Al-
though little can as yet be said of
what will be done for next fall, the
very fact that so early in the year
plans are being laid indicates pretty
plainly the confidence manufacturers
have in silks this year. As outlined
ever a month ago, advances on re-
orders for spring delivery were be-
ing asked and secured. These first
advances ranged from 5 to 7 per
cent., but gradually better prices have
been secured, and at the present time
these advances amount to from 8 to
to per cent., and little difficulty is
found in obtaining them. Many of
the popular goods placed on the
market have been oversold, and late
buyers are more than likely to find
much difficulty in securing deliveries
on anywhere near contract time.
Some of’ the heaviest orders have
been received from large Western
jobbing houses, each order being ac-
companied by requests for prompt
shipment of same. Retailers all over
the country are confident of a_ big
demand for all-silk fabrics, and this
has induced jobbers to increase their
orders to quite an extent. Certain of
the larger manufacturers withdrew
their lines from the market last week
and are refusing, for the time being,
to accept any more orders for early
spring delivery. Mills in Paterson
which have had many idle looms for
months past are now running full
and taking on extra operatives wher-
ever they can be used. Most of these
mills turn out fancy goods, and this
serves to show that the demand for
fancies has not been backward. Taf-
fetas continue to lead in spring or-
ders. Plaids, which began to show
signs of a return to favor late last
fall, have advanced steadily until at
the present time buyers are finding
great difficulty in getting satisfactory
deliveries, as stocks have been prac-
tically cleaned up and can not be re-
placed for several weeks. The cut-
ting-up trade is using quantities of
plaids for shirt waist suits, and even
the most pronounced Scotch effects
will be worn to quite an extent. Pon-
gees and Tussahs are also popular,

 

women wearing these fabrics during
the past two summers having found
that they are one of the best and
cheapest investments that can be
made for a summer costume. Do-
mestic manufacturers have been suc-
cessful in turning out goods similar
to the imported pongees and Tus-
sahs, the wearing quality of which is
stated to be fully equal to the im-
ported fabrics.

Carpets—In spite of the recent ad-
vance on carpets, already reported in
these columns, buyers are taking fair
quantities for early deliveries, and the
demand taken as a whole shows an
improvement. Retailers and jobbers
throughout the country have begun)
to understand the situation regarding |
raw material and are proving easier |
to deal with. They now understand |
the position of the carpet manufac- |
turer, that prices are not being put |
up for the purpose of giving larger |
profits, but to enable him to cover |
the heavy increase in cost of raw
material. In addition to this, indi-
cations strongly point to a marked
shortage which has assumed _ such
proportions as to cause the manufac-
turer, who is not well supplied, much
anxiety. Buyers are also aware of
this possible shortage and are conse-
quently getting orders in now to
insure prompt deliveries. Carpet
salesmen returning from trips |
through various sections of the |
country report that buyers are show- |
ing more confidence in the general
outlook for future business, while talk
of poor trade, etc., is rapidly disap- |
pearing. Stocks which presented |
such a formidable appearance early |
last fall have been cut down to quite |
an extent. Reports from Philadelphia
ingrain manufacturers show that this
division of the carpet industry has
not improved. Lack of demand, high
prices for raw material, and inability |
to secure advances sufficient to cover
the increased cost of manufacture
have placed these goods in an un-
satisfactory position. Carpet yarn
spinners claim that they have been
compelled to pay heavy advances for
their wool, but can not secure any
better price for yarns. Ingrain man-
ufacturers, on the other hand, state
that they have been compelled to pay
high prices for yarns, but have been
unable to get any better prices for
the manufactured goods. Judging
from reports made by jobbers and
retailers the trouble will be found
in the fact that demand for ingrain
carpets during the past two years has
shown a steady decline. With a brisk
or even normal demand in evidence
little trouble would be found in se-
curing better prices.

 

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Ginghams—As jobbers throughout
the country review their stocks of
fancy and standard ginghams, they
find that their assortments are not |
full enough to carry them through |
the spring season. Reorders are be-|
ing placed, and the entire complexion
of the market on this class of goods
is much brighter than it was a
week ago. The old goods have been
cleared out of the way by mills, the
impetus to trade being gained by re-
ducing goods to a price that attracted
the buyers. Now that the new sea-

 

 

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goods stock is a good line of hosiery.

We have an immense line of Ladies’,
Gents’ and Children’s Hosiery in plain black,
plain colors, split sole, moca foot, fancy
stripes, drop stitch, and in fact, anything to
be had in the hosiery line.

We have them in all prices.

Write for samples.

 

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We have a good line ranging in price
We
have Covert and Kersey Coats, Duck

from one to four dollars each.

   

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. Give us an idea of your wants.

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son’s output is coming into demand
the mills are able to get their price

on goods to be delivered within six |
The leading lines |

or eight weeks.

are well sold up and by the time job-
bers have concluded the placing of

their duplicates, it is estimated that |
an average business will have been |

scored.
Rugs—The new rug season is now

fully under way and excellent results |

are reported by importers of rugs.
Afghans, although expensive, are in
good request, while good orders have
also been secured on Mossoul
Iran Persian rugs,

modern patterns.

>
New Fashions for Men Shown in|

New York.

There is so little change in the)
fashions of this season that it is not |

surprising that the exclusive haber-

dashers are making early introduc- |

tions of spring shirts, cravats, waist-
coats and hose.
man news that is welcome is tidings
of novelties in shirts. Fashion in
shirts has stood in acute need of
breaking away from the stereotyped
styles in fancy colored goods that

have not only characterized but ab- |
the productions |

solutely dominated
of the last few years. The custom
shirt makers have cause to be jubi-
lant that with the coming spring we
shall witness the beginning of an era
ot freshness and life in shirt styles.

Design spots, spot effects, checks,
plaids and cluster cords are going
to be well favored, and there will be
quite a fillip to the colored shirt
vogue.
with woven square check spots, form

the most pleasing change one can |
imagine, and such designs may be}

looked for upon the
the process these fabrics will
small demand outside the best shops.
For that very reason, perhaps, the
fashion will be the more acceptable.
The new spot and broken bar effects
will be a factor in strengthening the
hold of this new fancy shirt vogue and
infuse new life in it, for the woven
effects are at present beyond the

reach of the vendors of ready-to- |

wear shirts.

Never were scarf silks prettier or
more diversified than are the new se-
lections shown for spring. The cra-
vat of the season is again the broad
four-in-hand of medium weight or
heavy silk, and for the most part
in dark colorings, including exquisite

shades of brown in oak leather tones, |

dark greens and purples, with reds

galore and a new series of blues vary- |

ing from light Dresden to deep navy.
There is some possibility of a change
to narrow scarfs later in the sea-

son when the fashionable high-band, |
turn down collars with their narrow |

openings come into more general
vogue.

Some of the exclusive shops are
already showing folded — scarfs
graduated width, varying from two
inches in width to three inches at
the ends. This, be it understood,
does not refer to the imperial or
flowing end scarf, which has

and |
Daghestans, |
Guendjes and Kazaks in ancient and |

To the well-groomed |

Green grounds and tussores, |

best-dressed |
men, for owing to the costliness of |
find |

| think

of this

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TRADESMAN

 

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l
| favored by many good dressers be-
| Cause it ties into a graceful puff, and
may also be worn as a knot.

Bows have been
| tle worn,

comparatively lit-
fact does not in

but the

lout of fashion.

| son.

is one
Brown, too,

Green in very dark tones

of the leading colors.
less in

though fashion than last

| spring, is shown in an almost endless
variety of shades.

According to the fashionable tail- |

| Ors the covert coats for spring are
|to be a little longer than usual, about

| 38 inches in length for a man of|
The reason for this |

| average height.
|increased length is because the
length of the sack coat has been in-
creased to 31 inches, and the covert
| must, of: course, cover the jacket,
| with an inch or two to spare.
|it is a great mistake to have too
imuch length to the covert coat and
thereby to mar its distinctive style.
| The collars are to be broader, about
|two inches wide at the back center,
jand the lapels will be of the usual
single-breasted sack coat shape,
| neither too long and narrow, nor too
short and broad, but of moderate di-
The garment should be
cut full and easy in the back and
front, draping somewhat at the bot-
tom all around.

| mensions.

The covert for riding and driving
may be made as sporty in appearance
as one likes, but for street wear there
| should be no double rows of stitching
at the cuffs and around the collars.
The smartly made covert will have
|a long slit in the middle seam of the
| back. There is more tendency than
before of covering the buttons with

is no button so becoming as
horn button in mottled brown shades.

| i
|New Method to Concentrate Fruit
| Juices.

Somewhat recently advantage has
| been taken of the fact that the wa-
|ter in fluids submitted to low tem-
| perature under favorable conditions
| became ice crystals, entirely free
from admixtures which the fluid
|contained. Therefore, wines submit-
ted to this process parted with a
large share of their bulk, without loss
|of their alcoholic or other essential
qualities. Fruit juices submitted to
ithe same process are easily concen-
| trated in the most remarkable degree,
and there is every reason to believe
that in this way very many additions
can be made to our table delicacies.
| Most delicious beverages which many
are preferable to our most
costly wines can be manufactured in
way, preserving without detri-
ment the exquisite flavors and colors
of the carefully ripened fruit. That
such beverages are beneficial, no one
can question, and they may be des-

much | tined, in a degree at least, to sup-

greater breadth at the ends, and is| plant our enormously excessive use

| the least imply that they have gone |
All of the leading |
shops are showing them for spring |
|and seem to agree that ties of mod-|
erate width and pointed rather than |
| Square and rounded ends will be de-|
| cidedly fashionable this coming sea- |

will continue in vogue, and. gray, al- |

Yet |

cloth of the coat material, but there |
the |

| of tea, coffee and alcoholic
| lants.

|may be instructive.

perature below freezing, and
crystals as formed are mechanically
broken up. The resulting product
may be considered an
fruit sherbet
to a centrifugal ‘machine of
power, and the ice crystals are driv-
| en out so forceftilly that they resem-
ible snow ice, and
|up with a hammer.

unsweetened

The uncongealed
concentrate diminished 60 to 80 per
cent. of its original bulk is ready for
preservation. Such a process is not
an expensive one, and can easily be
installed at places convenient of ac-

lars.

——_2 2
Keeping Apples Sweet for Years.
A’ farmer near Union City amazes
his neighbors by keeping
pears, peaches, grapes, etc., in their

natural state for several years. He

' a .

|ed from this year’s product. He now
|

which is very simple,
selects well-developed fruit with good

ately dry and cool cellar.
He who does not give does
live.

stimu- Percival B. Palmer & Company
A brief description of the process |
The fluid to be)
; concentrated is subjected to a tem-|
the ice |

This is transposed in- |
high |

require breaking |

 

cess at the cost of a few hundred dol- |

apples, |

now has apples and grapes grown in|
1901 which can hardly be distinguish- |

gives out his method of preservation, |
as he merely |

stems, picks it carefully and sears the |
end of the stem with a lighted match. |
Then he wipes the fruit perfectly dry, |
places it in a piece of dry wrapping |
paper and lays it away in a moder-|

|
| Method of Keeping
|

not

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Cloaks, Suits and Skirts

For Women, Misses and Children
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pairs of corsets.

preference

your home town

 

We Receive

A great many mail orders from ladies for single
Whenever we have a merchant
in the town who is handling our line, we invariably
turn the order over to him. We are anxious of
cours: not only to sell every pair of corsets pos-
sible, but particularly anxious to please and ac-
commodate any lady who gives our corset the

Your Home Merchant

is entitled to all the business you can give him;
his expenses are hesvy, and a very large amount
of the money he receives in the way of profit is
paid out by him in taxes, and other calls made
upon him for the building up and beautifying of
Stand by your home mer-=
chant and give him your patronage. Of course
if he does not have what you want in our line and
refuses to order it for you, we shall be pleased to
receive your order direct.
Respectfully yours,
PURITAN CURSET CO,,

Kalamazoo, Michigan.

 

 

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we never try to unsettle a man in his political or religious be-
liefs, we shall be glad to ‘‘talk corsets’’ with you at any time.

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TRADESMAN

 

| “We note that your expense account
| Is running far too high.

| We must have this curtailed at once
| Or know the reason why.”

| Now, if his overcoat’s at home
The mercury doth drop,

 

 

moth may lay its eggs, which it | The mere citation of achievement
usually does in the open eye of the | has its good effect. It is an example
fruit. |that inspires. When we see what.

There are now 2,000 of these core- | one man can do in public or cominer-
less apple trees available for propa- cial life it gives us faith in the theory
gation, to supply the orchards of the | that many can do likewise, and in the
world. It is estimated that by 1906) excess of struggle that ensues there

 

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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Geo. H. Randa.., Bay City;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, W. V. Gawley, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan |

Williams, e-
Tracy.

Grand Counselor,
troit; Grand Secretary,
Flint.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Sec-
retary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

The Traveling Man.
Consider, now, the traveling man,
That gay and festive blade,
Who goeth up and-down the land,
In sporty garb arrayed;

Who playeth havoc with the hearts

Of many country belles,

And stoppeth, like the prince he is, |

At all the best hotels.

Now mark him as he sits him down
Outside the tavern door,

And lighteth up his good cigar
Which cost ten cents or more,

And with his comrades gathered

’round

He swappeth sundry lies,

Or at the village maidens fair
Doth make the goo-goo eyes.

And presently he to the bar
With others doth repair,

And many highballs will he take
To drive away dull care.

Now would not such a life of ease
Appeal to any one?

And would

men—

Nay; wait a bit, my son.

For in the morn, ere dawn hath come,
From bed ariseth he,
And dresseth in a chilly room
To catch the five-nought-three.
As breakfast is not ready yet
He getteth on the train,

And rideth down to Green’s Cross- |

Roads,
Perhaps an hour or twain.

And there before the tavern stove
He warmeth up his legs,

And presently he sits him down
To hash and ham and eggs.

And when to work he goeth forth
He finds, to his amaze,

His customer hath gone to town,
To be there several days.

He rushes back unto the inn
To make his get-away,

And there, with sinking heart, he

hears

The landlord calmly say:

“Was you a-going East, my friend?
Well, you are left all right.

There ain’t no other train that way
*Till nine-eighteen to-night.”

So when at last the weary day
Hath dragged its leaden round,

Again the happy traveling man
Is at the station found.

And to him comes the ticket man
And cheerfully doth state:

“Jest make yourself at home, old man,
Your train’s three hours late.”

When on the morrow he awakes
Again at work to start,

He gets a letter from his house
Which cheereth(?) up his heart:

we all were traveling |

| But if he’s clad in winter clothes

It hovers near the top.

| And all the nicest days come when
He’s traveling on trains,

But if he has ten miles to drive

| It either snows or rains.

At length the weary trip is done,
And he is home once more;

| He sees his wife an hour or so,
Then drops down to “the store,”

| And pleasant words like these he

hears:

“What, Jimmie! Home so soon?

We'll get your samples up in shape
To start to-morow noon.”

Ah, envy not the traveling man,

| For though his job seems gay,

| Despite his efforts, now and then
Some work will come his way.

| And when to you it seems his lot
Is one of joy alone,

Remember that the drummer has
Some troubles of his own.

nn rd

|The World’s Greatest Discovery in)

Horticulture.

_ The coreless apple has at last been
| produced. It is regarded as_ the
| world’s greatest discovery in horti-

}culture, and in fruit-growing circles |

is called the “wonder of the age.”
|If the fruit is of high quality, of
good saleable size and color, and a
|late keeper, then it will revolutionize
|the commercial apple-growing indus-
i tries everywhere. If it is not a full-
| sized apple, then, despite the fact
|that it possesses one-fourth more
| solid flesh than the seedy apple of
|equal proportions, it can not be ex-
| pected to supersede such mammoth
although seedy varieties as the Blen-
heim Orange, Golden Noble, Bis-
marck or Peasgood’s Nonsuch.

| The flavor of the coreless apple is
| beyond question. If it
|large as its rivals, trees producing
|the new wonder, which is a winter
| variety, will be planted by the million
|in the commercial fruit fields at home
'and abroad. Even if the seedless ap-
|ple justified all that has been said
| by its best friends in its praise, there
lis little likelihood of its impeding the
| profitable sale of ordinary apples of
high grade. Its introduction would,
liowever, ruin the sale of common
out-of-date varieties of fruit, and en-
;sure the destruction of millions of
| worn-out, moss-covered and profitless
|trees, which for years have encum-
bered thousands of acres of some of
the richest and most productive lands
in the country. In that sense the
coming of the coreless apple would
do untold good to many landowners,
cultivators and public consumers
combined.

| The tree is described as blossom-
less, the only thing resembling a
blossom being a small cluster of tiny
green leaves, which grow around the
newly formed apple, and shelter it.
Being devoid of blossoms, it is claim-
ed that the fruit offers no effective
hiding-place in which the codling

proves as

 

| 2,500,000 of these trees will be put
|upon the market.
a coreless apple would commend it-

would prove invaluable.
Sampson Morgan.
—_»+.
Living Like a King in a Modern Ho-
tel.

while his money lasts. If he would
be a king for a time, let him go to
extrava-

latest expressions in hotel

gance

 

he experiences.
What, then, are some of the sur-

one seeking regal luxury?
| with Gobelin tapestries and spread
with the most costly Persian rugs.

lice

which every microbe has been taken.
He can regulate the light to his
mood.
He can sleep in a bed of carved
tulip wood—an art treasure, an heir-
loom from an old French castle, mar-

after the ancient style, yet
|senting the latest ideas in comfort
|and ease.

| He can eat—what can he not eat?

posal.
He can be attended by a retinue of

every wish. And incidentals?

is no modern convenience which is

place.
His clock is

Washington Observatory. He talks

home, but of the world.
—__>~+ > ____
Strong Men as Models.

The wide publicity given to strong

good thing in many ways.
theories, their early career,
plans and high-sounding ambitions,

guidepost to those who come after.
The President is the most conspicu-
ovs example of the busy American
citizen. His strenuousness is. only
a modern designation for the sum-
ming up of a marvelous variety of
forces. He has shown himself capa-
ble of rising and dominating in many
ventures. While all men are not
qualified for such unusual aptitude,
there is in his example that which
impels every man to lead out and
seek that particular channel in which
he can excel.

 

For domestic use|

. . |
self to every housewife in the coun- |
try. For evaporating purposes it|

The most obscure man in the most |
obscure corner of the United States |
to-day may live better than a king— |
New York and put up at one of the!
te management will do the'|
rest. His wildest dreams of luxury |
will be obliterated by the surprises |
prises which money can give to the}

He can live in apartments hung |

He can eat from a solid gold serv- |

He can breathe filtered air, from}

velously carved, and hung with silk |
repre- |

The world’s bill of fare is at his dis- |
|trained servants who anticipate his |
There |
not at hand and in exactly the right |
regulated by the!
through a private telephone and exe- |

cutes business over a private wire. |
He has all the comforts, not  of|

men and leaders in public life is a}
Their |
their |

even their failures are valuable as a/|

‘are many that rise conspicuously
above the commonplace. There is
|inherent in the race a desire to emu-
late. Men select the successful as
models and by analyzing their meth-
|}ods of achievement make them to
apply

The study of the Carnegies, the
Fields, the Armours and scores. of
this line famous in various walks is
| profitable to the young man. In the
life of each there is something that
stirs the enthusiasm, something that
|rouses the spirit to action and pleads
for accomplishment. Biography,
therefore, for the familiarity it brings
of ways and means, is profitable.

——___+-.>___
No Occasion for a Scare.

Having settled the last of his
| Christmas bills Mr. Ferguson was
sleeping the sleep of a man with noth-

ing to fear.

Mrs. Ferguson shook him vio-
lently.
| “Wake up, George!” she exclaimed.
|“There’s a burglar in the house! I

can hear him moving around in the
| basement!”

“Ask him if he’ll be kind enough
|to put some coal in the furnace be-
fore he goes out, will you?’ said

George, composing himself to sleep
again.
———_~>->___
Distrust of one’s ability, although
not as offensive to others, may be as
detrimental as over-confidence.

 

] LIVINGSTON
HOTEL!

The steady improvement of the
| Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large and beautiful lobby, its ele-
| gant rooms and excellent table com-
mends it to the traveling public and
accounts for its wonderful growth in
popularity and patronage.

Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.
GRAND RAP.DS, MICH.

 

 

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ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counsel to manufacturers and
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ithe Food Laws of any state. Corres-
| pondence invited,

| 1232 Majestic Building. Detroit, Mich

| GRAND RAPIDS

|
|

FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

W. FRED McBAIN, President
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

The Leading Agency

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Geo. Gibbons succeeds Joy McCor-
mick as traveling representative for
A. E. Brooks & Co.

Meade Allen, of Parma, has taken
a position as traveling salesman for
the Page Wire Fence Co., of Adrian.

L. E. Buss, who has represented
the Columbia Conserve Co. for the
past year, has joined the city sales-
men force of the Clark-Jewell-Wells
Co.

Adrian Times: Elmer
has resigned his position with

Cutlery Co.

Wm. H. Downs has signed
the Star Knitting Works for
year. His territory comprises
gan, Northern Indiana
western Ohio.

F. E. Scott, of Petoskey, who has
been. with the R. L. Baker
house for the past year, has secured
a position with a Chicago house and
will travel in the Southwest.

F. D. Miller has taken the position
of Southern Michigan salesman for
the Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. Mr. Mil-
ler resides at Galesburg and will con-
tinue to make that place his head-

with
a fifth

North-

and

quarters.

J. F. Reed, the well-known travel-
ing salesman for H. Leonard & Sons,
who has been sick for a week, is
now convalescent at his home and
will shortly be able to resume his
duties on the road.

W. C. Peer, who sold his dry goods
stock at to Thos. A. Carten,
has engaged to travel for Mane &
Bernstein, manufacturers

Tonia
and im-
porters of dress trimmings, laces and
buttons, at New York.
tinue to reside at

E. A.
of the butter and egg department of
Fhelps. Brace & Co. (Detroit), has

He will con-
Tonia.
Bridge, formerly in charge

taken the position of Michigan repre- |
sentative for Libby, McNeal & Lib- |

by. of Chicago.
his trade about four times a year.
Allegan Press: Will
traveling salesman for James S. Kirk
& Co., of Chicago, has been promoted
to district manager, with territory in
Western Indiana. He
banquet given to the by
the company in Chicago last Satur-
day night.
Freeport Herald:
who has been with the Star Paper
Co., of Kalamazoo, a few years past,
left their employ January I to accept
a like position with the Grand Rapids

Hoisington,

attended a
salesmen

Stationery Co. and made his first visit |

to this place Tuesday in the interest
of his new house.

W. F. Berner has been transferred
to the territory formerly covered by
Hub Baker for the Clark-Jewell-
Wells Co. The territory thus vacat-

ed will be covered by John McKen- |

zie, who has been house salesman for

the same house for some months
past.

Fred Van Bloois, who has been
connected with the Grand Rapids

Dry Goods Co. for the past nine
years, has gone on the road for the
house, taking Northern Indiana ter-

ritory.
getic young man who is working very

Knowles |
the |
National Express Co. and will travel |
in the interests of the Golden Rule |

Michi- |

paper |

He expects to visit |

W. W. Cushing, |

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ree to achieve success in his chosen
| calling.

| East Jordan Enterprise: A. D.
Otis, Jr., who for several years past
has been employed as traveling sales-
man for the Cappon & Bertsch Leath-
er Co., Grand Rapids, has closed his
| business relations with that firm and
taken service with the Benj. Young
| Saddlery Co., of Milwaukee. His ter-
ritory will probably be the State of
lowa.

Eaton Rapids Chris.

first
trip for the new firm he represents—
| the Farr & Bailey Manufacturing Co.,
| of Chicago.

Journal:

3arnes has returned from his

This firm has its factory
at Camden, N. J., and is one of the
|largest linoleum, oil cloth and cork
carpet makers in the United States.
Mr. Barnes has the whole of Michi-
| gan and part of Indiana and Wiscon-
| sin in his territory.

L. W. Atkins, who has sold cloth-
ing on the road for thirty-three con-

| secutive years, has concluded to re-
tire from the occupation of commer-
cial traveler and take up the active
management of his clothing store at
Marquette, which is conducted under
the style of Ormsbee & Atkins. Dur-
ing all this time Mr. Atkins has rep-
resented only four houses—D.  L.
Newberg & Bro. (New York), nine
Heavenrich Bros. (Detroit),
nineteen years; Henry W. King &
Co. (Chicago), four years, and L.
Loewenstein & Sons (Chicago)

years;

the past year. During all this time
Mr. Atkins has never lost a friend
and seldom lost a customer. He

comes pretty near to being the ideal
commercial traveler—-courteous, gen-
erous, energetic, progressive, stead-
himself and house,
far-seeing,
Mr. Atkins resided in
this for about a dozen years,
removing to Detroit about twenty
years ago, where he has since made
home. Under the new arrange-
ment he will take up his residence
|in Marquette—the abode of a multi-
fellows—and that he
i will make his influence felt in that
community and that his example will
be an inspiration for the young men

fast, loyal . to
truthful,

and patriotic.

liberal,

city

his

tude of good

 

of the Upper Peninsula, go with-
| out saying.
| Petoskey News: A_ very pretty

home wedding took place Tuesday
|evening when Miss Helen M. Olin
land Evert C. Kortenhoff, of
Rapids, were joined in marriage at
ithe home of the bride’s mother, Mrs.
|V. M. Olin, of 610 Kalamazoo avenue,
Rev. F. R. Godolphin, of the Eman-
uel Episcopal church, officiating. The

Grand

| beautiful Episcopal ring service was
The pretty home was_ hand-
J the occasion
with chrysanthemums. The table on
which the dainty wedding supper was
served was decorated with smilax and
lroses, with a beautiful centerpiece of
|roses. The bride, who was unattend-
'ed, was very becomingly gowned in
|a wedding dress of white organdie.
| She needs no introduction to Petos-
| key residents, being one of the most
| popular and accomplished members
lof the city’s young society set. For

used.
somely decorated for

Mr. Van Bloois is an ener-| several years she has been cashier

at the Cushman House where, by her

 

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for |

thrifty |

 

charming manners and sweet disposi-
tion, she has made many friends. The
bridegroom, too, is known to Petos-
key people, being the well known
traveling salesman for the firm of
A. E. Brooks & Co., of Grand Rap-
ids, a position which he has earned
by courteous manners and business
At the conclusion of the
wedding supper Mr. and Mrs. Kor-
tenhoff left on the night train on a
short wedding trip to Detroit. They
will be at home after January I5 at
151 Cass avenue, Grand Rapids, and
their large number of friends, includ-
ing the News, wish them much joy
in their married life.
>.»
Annual Banquet Tendered the Sears
Force.

ability.

Manager Sears and Assistant Man-
Plumb officiated as hosts at a
banquet tendered the traveling force
of the local branch of the National
Biscuit Co. at the Peninsular Club
last Saturday noon. The following
traveling representatives were pres-
ent:

J. P. Oggel, Holland.

A. E. Curtiss, Ludington.

H. H. Herrick, Elkhart, Ind.

Cc. C. Collins, Sault Ste. Marie.

Fred Hanifin, Greenville.

ager

_A. H. Wise, Petoskey.

W. C. French, Lansing.

A. H. Scholtens, Muskegon.

©. E. Rasmus, Kalamazoo.

C. E. Hall, Grand Rapids.

H. R. Bradfield, Grand Rapids.
W. P. Townsend, Grand Rapids.
B. L. Bartlett, Grand Rapids.

C. W. Anderson, Grand Rapids.

A. C. Rockwell, Grand Rapids.

J. E. Dean, Grand Rapids.

A. Hollway, Grand Rapids.

W. A. Smith, Grand Rapids.

P. H. Davies, Grand Rapids.

This is an increase of three sales-
men compared with the number em-
ployed one year ago—C. W. Ander-
son, who has Central Michigan terri-
tory; A. H. Wise, who has Northern
Lower Michigan territory, and_ J.
E. Dean, represents the com-
pany in the capacity of special In-er-
seal trade-mark package
with general territory.

The also entertained
the occasion referred to M. J. Moore,
who was formerly one of the travel-
but who was promoted
about eighteen months ago to the

who
salesman,

company on

ing force,

sales management of the company’s
agency at Jackson.
—__+~+ > ____—.

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Shelby—J. S. Bennett has taken
a clerkship in the store of the Co-
operative Association of Shelby.

Traverse City—W. Cook, who has
been in the shoe department of the
Boston store some months, has gone
to where he has taken a
position G. A. Johnson, shoe

Manistee,
with
merchant.
Bear Lake—Ray Maker, who has
head clerk in Jim McGuire’s
store for several years, has left to
position in G. A.
store at Big Rap-

been

accept a similar
Pierce’s hardware
ids.

Port Huron—D. A. Fraser has se-
cured the services of John Strick,
from Ironwood, who will take up the

 

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management of the stock and sales
in the Fraser Clothing Co.’s Huron
avenue store.

Battle Creek—M. O. Cleveland, for
ten years with the Hoffmaster dry
goods company, after an absence of
three years in Climax, has returned
to the city and associated himself
with the L. W. Robinson Co.

Sault Ste. Marie—E. N. Earley
has taken a position with a dry goods
house in Piqua, Ohio, and will move
there next week. Mr. Earley is well
known in local mercantile circles.

Mt. Pleasant—Paul Garvin has tak-
en a desirable position with the Cen-
tral Michigan Cigar Co., of Owosso.

Cadillac—A. W. Lind, who has
succeeded S. W. Kramer in the re-
tail dry goods business, will continue
the present force of employes, with
Elton A. Rogers as the manager. Mr.
Kramer had acquired a_ force of
clerks, including Mr. Tabor and Mr.

Kahn, with whom his’ customers
could find no fault and Mr. Lind’s
decision, to. retain their services

means a continuance of present cour-

teous and satisfactory service.
—_—.-¢ +

Unqualified Endorsement
Board of Trade.

At the last meeting of the directors
of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade
the following resolution was unani-
mously adopted:

Whereas—It has been made known
to us that the Grand Rapids Retail
Grocers’ Association is making prep-
arations for holding an annual pure
food show May 1 to 13 and that the
officers and members interested in
the educational as well as material
development of the city have volun-
tarily assumed all responsibility that
is attached to the undertaking; and,

Whereas—The annual food and in-
dustrial exhibits given under the
auspices of this Association for the
past few years have largely contrib-
uted to the entertainment as well as
to the practical education of a large
number of people; therefore

Resolved—That the Grand Rapids
Board of Trade, having the best in-
terest of the city at heart and believ-
ing that the annual pure food show
for 1905 will constitute an event of
great benefit to all, heartily endorses
the project and commends it to the
liberal support of all.

Resolved—That, as an evidence of
our appreciation of the importance
of these annual exhibits, we hereby
recommend to the manufacturers and
jobbers of food products and _ appli-
ances and utensils that they give the
Retail Grocers’ Association their in-
dividual support in making the show
an attractive as well as a representa-
tive one and in keeping with the
public-spirited enterprise exhibited
by our merchants on so many other
occasions. Abraham May, Pres.

H. D.C. Van Asmus, Sec’y.

a ae

Detroit—The Detroit Trust Co.
receiver, reports to the Wayne Cir-
cuit Court that the total indebtedness
of the E. C. Clark Machine Co. is
$13,797.68, exclusive of the mortgage
on the plant, which is in litigation.
There is due for wages and salaries
$1,573.23.

of the

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MICHIGAN

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Harry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.

Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

W. E. Collins, Owosso.

Meetings for 1905—Grand Rapids, March
2, Ze and 23;
and 27; Houghton,. Aug. 16, 17
Grand Rapids, Nov. 7,

 

and 18;
8 and 9.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion.
President—W. A. Hall,
Vice-Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Charles P. Baker,
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;
I.. A. Seitzer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal-

Detroit.

amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit.

frade Interest Committee, three-year
term—J. M. Lemen, Shepherd, and H.
Dolson. St. Charles.

 

 

Men Killed and Blinded by Wood
Alcohol.

Within the last six years the De- |

mon
alcoholic impersonator beside
the Rum Route to
meral or eternal, becomes
team to a limited passenger train.

“Deodorized this
to
fingers of this methylated spirits tak-

oblivion,

as, af -OX

alcohol” is new

vehicle dreamlessness.

en within a period of three hours by |
the railroad and started him for Chi- |

a single person in four drafts at the

most threatens to involve the coroner |

and the undertaker and at the least
promises the oculist one of the most
difficult of eye complications.

within
three hours forty will die and of
these twenty will blind before
death; sixty out of the 100 will recov-
er, finally, but twenty of the sixty
will be permanently blind.

this deodorized wood alcohol

go

Five hundred people in the United |

States have died or.gone blind from

the effects of this deodorized wood
alcohol, which in its semi-odorless-
ness is often so closely related in

smell-to grain alcohol as to prevent
the average person’s detecting
difference. At the present time
people every year are sacrificed to

its poisonous influences through
death or total blindness.

Until 1898 the commercial wood |
alcohol was such that a sniff at a/|
bottle containing it was enough to |
send the inquisitive one after the
smelling salts. To-day one of the

specialties of a wood products com-
pany at Buffalo is 100,000 barrels of
deodorized wood of
2c,000 barrels
any sample of
temptation to Indian
temperament to a lumber
forty miles from the nearest
office.

The deodorizing of this wood al-

which
abroad

alcohol,

are sent and
be
of thirsty

jack

post-

which would

an

a

or

cohol has made possible the appall- |

ing loss of life and eyesight all over
the country. The raw spirit, taken

with the intent to produce intoxica- |

tion, the use of essences of various
kinds that may be
chemicals and wood alcohol and the
indiscriminate use of patent
and liniments of the cheaper
grades have been the means to this

poisoning, death and blindness. Oc-

composites

cines

Star Is.and, June 26 and |

i

Xum has been displaced by an/
which |
ephe- |

Twelve |

Out |
of 100 persons taking four ounces of |

the |
100 |

medi- |

| casionally, however, a saloon of the

| lowest order so mixes its drugged li-

ito cause déath or blindness to its
i victims. One of the most dramatic
|of the deaths from intoxicants that
|have come to the medical profession
|in Chicago was reported to Dr. W.
A. Evans.
The victim
|}alone on the Poudre River in Mon-
tana, miles from any other person.

On

was a rancher living

one occasion

awoke at home one morning, deathly
sick.

violent

and the
symptoms continuing for three days.

nausea vomiting,

{On the morning of the fourth day
the that
thing was unusually dark.
sation of darkness
the afternoon the
that the trouble was not with
daylight but with his eyes.

rancher discovered every-
This sen-
increased

man

until in
discovered

| He went out and saddled his horse,
setting off for his nearest neighbor’s,
He could scarce-
ly follow the trail, it had become so
dim, and the last few miles traversed

fifteen miles away.

| were left to the instincts of the horse.
| At the neighbor’s ranch it was dis-

|covered that sight was almost gone, |

and within two days the man was
| totally blind.
Friends in Montana took him to

and, arriving there, a messen-
to take
1 was
could be done, but, still
went
in Great Britain to look

cago

| ger was summoned him

lan. oculist. Hhere
that nothing
hopetul, the
former home
for relief. It has not come, however,
and the man

man over to

is blind for life.
Since the first deodorizing of wood

| blindnesses that first were caused by |

the spirit were attributed to the Ja-
|maica gingers that were served with

The

| drinks in the cheaper saloons.

| drinker began to look with distrust |
|} upon ginger, with which he had been |

|heating his whisky, and the analyti-
cal chemist for a time was at sea to
know why one ginger was poisonous
and another harmless.

|names was being substituted for the |

such
Since that first discovery this poison

grain alcohol in

tion and in many of the medical com-

ufacturers.

But the danger does not stop with
the stuffs designed for the stomach.
One the chief the
odorous wood alcohol as 2

of uses for
sol-

this

was

Where

 

vent for varnish gums.

edor was pronounced in the varnish |

the
| the

ing its fumes. Now that the sub-

{less form only an expert can detect |
ot |

whether the varnish mixture be made
of the grain alcohol or of the methy-

The be-

lated spirits. difference

illustrated strikingly in Milwaukee

|last summer.

he visited a Mon- |
tana city and went upon a spree. He |

All that day he suffered from |

the |

to |
decided |

his |

alcohol in quantities the deaths and |

Not until 1898 was it determined
satisfactorily that deodorized wood
alcohol under several descriptive |

preparations. |

has been found in almost every va- |
tiety of beverage producing intoxica- |

pounds put out by unscrupulous man- |

old |

painter and decorator could avoid |
possihility- of poison from breath- |

stance has taken the insidious odor- |

tween the use of one or the other was |

| A i"
| In one of the big breweries a great

| beer vat needed to be varnished in- |
iquors with this methylated spirit as |

side. Five men were sent into it for

the work and it was completed by |

them. But the deodorized wood al-

cohol had been used in mixing the |

varnish and in the vat there had been
On the way out from
the men
drink of whisky, but only one other

no ventilation.

work one of proposed a
man of the five took the liquor. These
two men lived; the other three died.

Prof. Frank Buller, of the
of opthamology in McGill University
Montreal, and Prof. Casey A.
Wood, of the same chair in the Uni-

versity of Illinois, have been recog-

chair

| at

nized as authorities on the subject of
wood alcohol poisoning, having delv-
ed into every detail of wood alcohol
Both of op-
posed to the sale of the deodorized
for
and in the arts.

history. these men are
domestic purposes
In the United States

lthe solution proposed by Dr. Wood

wood alee vhc »]

is an untaxed grain alcohol which
shal! make the deodorized wood alco-
hol superfluons.

One of the most insidious of these
ot

It is of the peculiar clear-

poisonous alcohols is a product

sawdust.

ness of the best grain spirit and its

odor is so closely akin to that of the
grain liquor that the ordinary person
would not hesitate to take it for

| medicinal purposes in an emergency.
Just what
|in general may mean to public health
than
Kentucky,

these deodorized alcohols

has not been better illustrated

in the recent story from

| where the crews of three push-boats

in the Big Sandy River, consisting
, of seventeen men, fell into the water
{and were chilled through. The}

“moonshine” whisky in the neighbor-

hood was insufficient to the needs

of the men and, as a jug of alcohol
had heen saved with other freight,

this jug was opened in spite of the
| fact that it was labeled poison. Ten
i of these seventeen men are dead and

| trial

blindness may be the living death |
|of several of the others.
| Some of these commercial alco-

ij hols are so poisonous that with the |

person who may be predisposed to

the poison a tablespoonful may be
sufficient to

| of who

cause blindness. Some

those are most
effect the
A case m Chicaso is that of

of the irritating

eyes.

upon

a woman who used alcohol for whit-
}ening and cleaning the keyes of her
She was told that methylat-
ed spirit was as the
rom grain, but in

piano.

good as
I

expensive alcohol

using it, putting only a small quan-
tity upon a cloth, tl
not only the eyes but produced head-
1
i

She went back to
not been

ache and nausea.
the alcohol
troubled since.

and has

grain

found d
bottle labeled alcohol at his

A druggist’s address was on the

with a

| side.

bottle and in tracing it the discovery
was made that the man had bought
| alcohol there the day before, explain-
jing that he wished to use it in
| thinning varnish. Unsuspecting the

mn

susceptible |
to the poison can not use it because |

drink habit in the man, the druggist
had sold the odorless methylated spir-
and death followed the drinking
of it.

With this poisonous alcohol enter-
ing legitimately and illegitimately so
largely into the domestic and manu-
facturing and art uses of the coun-
try, the danger increases every year.
It is all the more so since it has
been settled as fact that there
little more harmful effect from pure
alcohol than there is from pure
whisky. It the tax that makes
the deodorized methylated spirit pos-
for much The cost
of grain alcohol of good grade does

it

a is
crain
is
sible so harm.
not exceed 15 cents a gallon until the
tax is put on, raising the retail price
of the grain product to $2.60 a gallon,
regardless of the use to which the

alcohol is to be put. In competition

with this tax-ridden liquor the un-
taxed wood alcohol, deodorized, re-
tails at only 50 cents a gallon. In

this saving of $2.10 a gallon one may
see the temptation of the unscrupul-
ous to substitute the active poison

for the relative poison of ethyl al-
cohol.
Few people suspect the universal!

tastes of the drunkard for alcohol. In
the lower classes among the whites,
and especially among the Indians
living on reservations, anything with
the tang of alcohol in any form and
of an irresistible
the appetite. A cheap

of

any color may be
temptation to
“Florida water,” a. concoction
“witch hazel,” bay rum, cologne
ter, lemon
methyl

ink,

wa-

vanila and extracts of

and
which

alcohol base, even red

are liquids serve when
Because
of the fact that whisky is forbidder:
the Indians, there
of wood alcohol poisoning from these

people’s drinking concoctions made

whisky is not obtainable.

are Many cases

from the spirits.
of Illinois,
the

an

3outell,
bill

providing for

Congressman

has presented a to present
untaxed
grain alcohol, denaturized for indus-
Germany of all Eu-
liberal
to untaxed alcohol for industrial pur-
poses, keeping out the wood spirits

in great In

Congress

purposes.

ropean countries is most as

measure. England and
the American
wood product is finding its way, and
in the mobilizing of the Russian
armies last summer dozens of sold-
to the methylated
spirits, which was so new to them

in Russia, however,

iers fell victims

jand at the same time tempting to

more |

1e fumes affected |

A case in Chicago under the ob-
servation of Dr. Wood presents an|
junusual interest. A preacher was

lead in his bed one morning |

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Wholesale Druggist
Stationery and School Supplies
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ecae T hyme oe 40@ 50 Pistitialis ........ 50
Cubebae pa 20 15@ 18| Thyme, ‘opi... sa ee 50
Juniperus foe = a Theobromas .... 15@ 20 Ferri Chloridum. 35
Te yt oe a Potassium Gentian Co. |... =
Copatbe ......... s@ 50| Bi-Carb ......... 15@ 1g|G@uiaca .......... 50
OR eee ta ee — ei oe Be Si ane be
‘Terabin, Canada. 60@ 65| Bromide ........ 40% 45 | Hyoscyamus 50
Tolutan’ ' 36@ 40| Carb ........... 12@) 15|lodine .......... 75
ooo. Chlorate .....po. 12@ 14 Iodine, colorless 75
: Cortex Cyanide ....:... 34@ 38 me oo 50 |
Abies, Canadian.. Mita ........... 3 05@3 10 | Lobelia .......... 50
Cassiae ......... 20 | Potassa, Bitart pr 30@ 32|Myrrh ........... 50
Cinchona Flava.. 18| Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10 |NUX Vomica ..... 50
Buonymus atro.. 30| Potass Nitras .... 6@ | QPil --........... 75
— —— = Prossiate 2M 26 oo Pe ggg 50
Prunus Virgini .. 2 | Sulphate po 15@ 18 | QOPil, deodorized.. 1 50
Quillaia, erd .... 12 7 = 5
aes ..po 25 24 Radix a, ae 2
Cimes .........- 40 — ao M0@ 35 | Het _........... 50
Aae 30@ 33 | Sanguinaria 5
aaa sig 20) omchusa ........ 10@ 12] Serpentaria ..... 30
Glycyrrhiza, po.. 28@ 30 Arum pO)... 2... @ 25 | Stromonium 60
Haematox ....... 11@ 12| Calamus ........ 20@ 40|Tolutan ......... 60
Haematox, is... 13@ 14| Gentiana po 15.. 12@ 15| Valerian ........ 50
Haematox, %s .. 14@ 15 Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18| Veratrum Veride. 50 |
Haematox. 4s .. 16@ 17 ae astis, = anada. 1 96 | 2imstber -. 21... 20
ydrastis, Can.po @2 00
Ferru Helleb I 2 5
Carbonate Precip. 15 | mula. goto = ve — = Miscellaneous
Citrate and Quina 2 0G | Tecac, po. ...._. 2 00@2 10 | Aether, Spts Nit 3f30@ 35
Citrate Soluble -. Silke won ....... 35@ 40| Aether, Spts Nit 4f34@ 38
Ferrocyanidum §S. i Jalana. pr... 25@ 230|Alumen, grdpo? 3@ 4
Solut. Chloride 1 2. GS
ba hat sc 3 Maranta, %s .. @ 35) 28matto 1... 0@ 50
= Se sgt c — +‘ Podophyilum po. 15@ 18 |Antimoni, po 4@ 5
s " - e, com'l, by o0 nia = .s  . 75@1 00 | Antimoni et po T 40@ 50
»bl. per ewe .. ict cut |... 1 00@1 25 | AAtipyrin ........ @ 2a
Sulphate, pure .. © her oe 75@1 00| Antifebrin ... @ 20
: Flora Spisecla) ......... 30@ 35 | Argenti Nitras oz @ 48
Araiea 2.5.2... 15@ 18} Sanguinari, po 24 @ 22|Arsenicum ...... 10@ 12
Anthemis ....... 22@ 25|Serpentaria ..... 50@ 55 | Balm Gilead buds 60@ 65
Matricaria ...... S0@ 95) Sencea ...-..... 85@ 90| Bismuth SN ..2 80@2 85
“i olla a Smilax, offi's H. @ 40 poe seonae a @ 9
MIeIAe . 2... 45. Suilax Mo... @ 25 | Calcium Chlor,%s @ 10
Cassia Acutifol, Seillae po 35...- 10@ 12 Calcium Chlor 4s @ 12
Timnevelly .... 15@ 20|Symplocarpus ... @ 2 oo oe Rus. @1 75
Cassia, Acutifol.. 25@ 30] Valeriana Eng .. @ 25|Capsici Fruc’s af @ 20
Salvia peat. ac 4 Valeriana, Ger 15@ 20 at ob po @ 22
%s an s @ 20| Zingiber a... ... 12@ 14|Cap'i Fruc’s B po @ 15
Ova Orsk ool. 8@ 10| Zingiber j ....... 16@ 20} Carophyllus ... 20@ 22
PR ge Semen Cera Alta ---..-. 60Q. 58
Acacia. 2nd pkd.. @ 45|Anisum po. 20... @ 16] Cera binva ....- 40@ 42
Acacia, 3rd pkd.. @ 35|Apium (gravel’s). 13@ 15] Crocus_......... 75@1 80
Acacia. sifted sts. @ 28| Bird, Is ......... 4@ 6 Cassia Fructus .. @ 35
Acacia, po -...... 45@ 65 ee po 15 ao = ae ee @ 10
Aloe Bare 2...) 12@ 14 ardamon ....... 7@ ¢ Cataceum ....... @ 35
hae Coe @ 95 | Coriandrum . i2@ 14) Chioroterm ....- 42@ 52
Aloe. Socotri .... @ 45|Cannabis Sativa. 5@ 7) Chloro’m, Squibbs @ 9%
Ammoniace ...... 55@ 60} Cydonium ....... 75@1 00 | Chloral Hyd Crst 1 35@1 60
Asafoetida ...... 35@ 40| Chenopodium ... 25@ 30] Chondrus ..... 20@ 25
Benzoinum ...... 50@ 55 scare! Odorzte. s0@1 — oe P-W 38@ 48
Catect on 1 foeniculum ..... @ i! inchonid’e Germ 38@ 48
esucees “ae ai g Foenugreek, po.. 7@ 9|Cocaine .......... 05@4 25
Catechu, (4s @ 16 tie... 4@_ 6] Corks list d p ct. 15
oe aeaa G - | Link, erd. bbl. 2% S@ 61 Crecsotum .:.... @ 4
amphorae ..... 90@ 95 Lobelia, ani cues aaa > 5
Euphorbium ... @ 4) 4 Gh ese ee a eee i) Q UFCUR ... 0s ‘ @ é
elucwins geass @1 00 ae Cana’n s@ . — prep <.... @ 5&
Gamboge . o..1 25@1 35 2a 5@ sreta, precip ... 9@
Guaiseam os  @ 35|Sinapis Alba 7@ $|Creta, Rubra... @ 8
hing |. po 45c @ 45| Sinapis Nigra Og 20) Croces ........ 1 75@1 80
Masiie | 0000.0. @ 60 Spiritus os cea re 62 *
= — ote 45 | Frumenti W D..2 00@2 50 a.” hte ae
Shells cnt a atisinas 2 60@ g5 | Frumenti ....... 1 26@1 50 eene an Weel || as
RRCUAG ...++-+-« 65 | Juniperis Co O T.1 65@2 00] 7 ig :
Shellac, bleached 65@_ 70} Juniperis Co “1 73@3 50| =mery, Po @ 6
. 5@3 ! : ae
Tragacanth ..... 70@1 00} Saccharum N E.1 90@2 10 Ergota _. ;.,Po. 65 — =
Herba -| Spt Vini Galli ..1 75@6 50 oe cH geen ae
A bsinthi k 2 Flake White 12@ 15
Eupatorium oz pk | rt Oporto ....1 eee O° | celia a
— Ving Alba ...... 1 25@2 00 ami le de a rg
Colca. on oe 25 ° Came ........ s@ 9
iaorans he x 28 Sponges Gelatin, Cooper . @ 60
Mentha Pip oz pk 93 | Florida Sheeps’ = Gelatin, French . 35@ 60
Mentha Ver oz pk 25 carriage .......: 00@3 50] Glassware, fit box 75
Bee eae 39 | Nassau sheeps’ = Lese than bex .. 70
meee oT 22 . —, mare .3 50@3 75] Glue, brown it@ 13
mG ate | 2 Jelvet extra shps’ Glue, white ..... 15@ 25
ee 2 5) “wool, carriage. @2 00|Glycerina .... 1! 16@ 20
Calcined, Pat 55@ 60 | Extra yellow shps’ Grana Paradisi .. @ 2%
Carbonate, Pat:. 18@ 20], wool carriage.. @1 25) Humulus . 35@ 60
Carbonate K-M. 18@ 20| Grass sheeps’ - @1 25 a ch Mt. e >
* wee) a. ; Carriage ....... @ 5 ydrarg or @ 90
Carbonate Oleum — * Hard, slate use. eal @1 00 | Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @1 05
Absinthium ..... 4 90@5 00 Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ammo’) @1 15
Amygdalae, Dulce. 50@ 60| Slate use. . @1 40|Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Amygdalae Ama.8 00@8 25 Syrups Hydrargyrum .. @ 175
Rae eg 1 75@1 85 | Acacia .......... @ 50|Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1 00
Auranti Cortex .2 2002 40 | Auranti Cortex .. @ 50| Indigo ...... :-++, T5@1 00 |
Bereanit .. 2004, S$ Ss@e 25 | Zingiber ........- @ 58 —. Resubi 7 aa _ |
Cajiue ....-...- 5 @ 90|Ipecic .......---- ee a 2
Cc ae eophilli es 1 10 Gt 201 Ferri tod ....-.- @ 50] Lupulin ......... eG
Bae a 50@ 90|Rhei Arom ...... @ 50} Lycopodium. ....1 15@1 20
Chenopadii ...... @2 50| Smilax Offi’s 50@ 60) Macis ........... 65@ 75
, Crmagiond: 0... 1 10@1 20|Senega ......--- @ 50| Liquor Arsen et
Bene ...--..--.- @ 50 Hydrarg Iod . @ 25
Citronelia ....... 50@ 60
Conium Mac . :ae = Semme Co ....-- @ 50{|.Liq Potass Arsinit 10@ 2
Capatha ........ @1 25} Tolutan ......-- @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph. 2@
Cubebae ........ i 2091 30 | Prunus. vire @ 60 | Magnesia, Sulph bbl. @ 1

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We are dealers

Varnishes.

Sundries.

We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,
Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

in Paints,
We have a full line of Staple Druggists’
Weare the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s

Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We always have in stock a full line of

Whiskies, Brandies, Gins,
Rums for medical purposes only.

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

We give our personal attention to mail

Oils and

Wines and

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

day received. Send a trial order.

 

 

 
   
     
 

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

2. 4a SOI Sane, Oo. 10@ 12) Lard, es
Menthot 0.0.) 3 00@4 00] Sa =i ee. @ 15| Lard, “a 3 oe 309 $s
Morphia, S P & W2 35@2 60 Seidlitz Mixture. 20@ 22{| Linseed, pure raw 42@ 45
| Morphia, °SN Y¥ ¥ Ssogpe ee i omapis ....-..-.. @ 18} Linseed, boiled 42@ 46
| Morphia, Mal. 2 35@2 60 Sinapis, opt ..... @ 30| Neat’s-foot, wstr 65@ 70
Moschus Canton. @ 40) Snuff, Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine. 58@ 63
| Myristica, No. 1.. 28@ 30 Devoes ........ @ 651
Nux Vomica pols @ 10|Snuff, S’h DeVo’s @ 51 Paints _—_ bbl
| Os Sepia 20. 527:. 25@ 28 | Soda, Boras ..-.. 9@ 11} Red Venetian 1% 2 Fe
| Pepsin Saac, H & Soda, Boras, po. 9@ 11] Ochre, yel Mars. 1% : @4
ft BPpeea le @1 00 Soda et Pot’s Tart 28@ 30] Ochre, yel Ber ..1% 2 @3
a Li Soda, Carb Doe 1%@ 2 | Putty, commer'l.2% 2 14% @3
io iq NN%¥% Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ 5 | Putty, strictly pr2% 2%@3
gal Mom 668s. @2 00| Soda, Ash ...... 31%@ 4] Vermilion, Prime
Picis Lig gts -... @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas @ 2 American ..... 13@ 15
Picis Lig. pints. G0; Spts, Cologne .. @2 60| Vermilion, Eng... 75@ 80
Pil Hydrarg po 80 @ 50] Spts, Ether Co.. 50@ _ 55/ Green, Paris 20... 14@ 18
Piper Nigra po 22 18 | Spts, Myrcia Dom @2 00 |Green, Peninsular 13@ 16
Piper Alba po 35 » 30] Spts, Vini Rect bbl g Leag, red ...... 6%@ 7
Pix Bureun ..... 7|Spts, Vi'i Rect %b I.ead, white . 6%@ 7
Phimbi Acct .... 12@ 15|Spts, Vii Rt 10 gl @ Whiting, white S’n @ 90
Pulvis Ip’c et Opiil 30@1 50 |Spts, Vi'i R’t 5 gal @ Whiting Gilders’ @ 9%
Pyrethrum, bxs H Strychnia, Crystall 05@125| White, Paris Am’r @1 25
|. & P D.Co. doz. 76 | Sulphur Subl ..... 2%@ 4] Whit’g Paris Eng
Pyrethrum, pv .. 20 26 | Sulphur, Roll ... "2% @ 3% Cum .........-.- @1 40
Quassiae ........ 8 10 | Tamarinds ...... 8@ 10] Universal Prep’d1 10@1 20
Quinia, SP & W. 25 35 |Terebenth Venice 28@ 3 :
Quinia, S Ger ... 25@ 35 Theobromae a 45@ 50 Varnishes
Quinia, N. ¥. |... 25@ 351] Vanilla |" ........9 00@ No 1 Turp Coach 1 et 20
Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14| Zinci Sulph Loe. 7@ g| Extra Turp ....1 60@t 10
Saccharum La’s. 22@ 25 a Coach Body ....2 75@3 00
Seem 50@4 75 Oils Wo 1 Turp Furni 00@1 10
Sanguis Drac’s .. 40@ 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar .1 55@1 60
sane, We 42... 12@ 14! Whale, winter 70@ 70| Jap Dryer Not Tt t0@

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are mtended 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
markei prices at date of purchase.

 

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Index to Markets

 

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Col
1
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Coectionn ............ i
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Canned Se
Coceen O88 ........... 8
Se ee
Chewing Gum ........ 3
Clothes gs ee
Coceanut ...... i occcc.
Seen SRO .....<..... 8
Crees 22.4... a
D
Drieg Praits ........... 4
F
Farinaceous Goods .... 4
Fish and Oysters ...... 10
—_ TEs «oc... &
voring extracts ..... 5&
rh Pa oes
a eee ........... &
a sceceee ae
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Grain cco ese.
Grains and Flour ......
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OE ieee ice eee 7
Shoe Blacking Cee ee 7
dn ceo ss a |
cts cenapescdeecs ve 7
ik depos eke bes 8
eee 5. es. ccseceneas |
ee ec 8
Sugar 8
8
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9
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Vv
Vinegar co ee $
w
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eS ae 9
Woodenware ........... 9
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AXLE GREASE Piums
eo. Views ...:...).... —
Ore ce 55 60 Pineappie
Cumtor 08 . 2.65. .2 55
aoe 4. os 50
hin a ee 75
iXi, elem 2... - 5

BAKED BEANS

Columbia Brand
sam. Con, per Gon .... j
2mb. can, per doz -.1 49 Raspberries
stb. can, per doz <8 68 Siamese ... 2...

BATH BRICK Russian Cavier
Ammereene 2... kes ee | 75
eee i ce et Sere. OR oa cca, 00

BROOMS ry COMBS cn. 12 00
Bio. 2 Aearpet 2c: 2% Salmon
Mo. S Carpet .......... 2 35 | Col’a River, talls @1 75
No. 3 Carpet 2 15] Col’a River, flats.1 85@1 90
mo. 4 Cagpet .. ss 1 Ta} Red Alaska ..... 1 35@1 45
Pare ee. 2 40] Fink Alaska ‘ @ %
Common Whisk ...... 85 Sardines
taney Wik .-:..... 1 20} Domestic, 4s %~@ 3%
Warchoume (.. 0... 3 00 Domestic, ws . 5
BRUSHES Domestic, Must’d 6 @ 9
Scrub California, es .. 11@14
oun Back & im ..... 75 | California, 365. ..1% @24
oes Pec, 11 ie ...... 7 i French, es ..... 7, @
Pointed epgs .......... 85 | French, 4s ..... 18 @28
Stove Shrimps
mee: 1 73 1 peaneare =... -.. 1 20@1 40
Succotash

 

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BUTTER COLOR

W., R. & Co’s, 15c size.1 25
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size.2 09
CANLcLES
Electric Light. = .... 9%

Flectric Light, 1€s ....10
Paws, Se .:....... 9
Params, 12s .......:. 9%
nce ee 3
mae GOODS
ples
3 tb. Senders 75@ 80
Gals. Standards .1 90@2 00
Blac -erries
anmieres .......
ans
Pee 4... 80@1 30
Red Kidney 85@ 95
Saree 70@1 15
ae 5@1 25
Blueberries
Panter ......- 1 49
rook Trout
ee chee @ 5 75
2T. cans, s.piced 1 90
Clams
Little Neck, 1th. 1 90@1 25
T.itthe Neck, 21b.. @1 50
Clam Boullion
Burnham’s % pt ..... 1 99
Bornhem's, pis ...... 3 69
Burbham's. qt= ...... 7 29
Cherr -
ined peanaraceze -1 @1 SO
eee oo 1 50
orn
Pee 85@90
WOE oo a oe chek n 1 00
Pee 13
French Peas
Sur extra Wine ...... 2
I 13
a pt
Ree oe eek cee Cease at
Gooseverries
90
Hominy
Pe oe en ee 85
Lobster
Peer, See nce ete 215
Peee, 6 ee 3 7
Piente Were ..-...-... 2 69
Mackerel
Mester, Th ......... 1 80
oer Fe. ..--s>-s- 2 80
oe ee ee 1 80
ee 2m
Toe Se. as ne ce 1 80
GQ aa 2 8A
Mushrooms
eee oa es. 5@ 20
(a 22@ 25
Oysters
Com Tm. ..:. @ 90
wee Se ....s.- @1 70
Cove, 1tb. Oval .. @1 00
Peaches
Pee.) 1 10@1 15
aw. 5. 1 65@2 00
eee oe. 1 00@1 35
Fancy “or ages: 2
Marvowiat .....-. 90@1 00
Karly June ..... 90@1 65

Barly June Sifted.. 1

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Strawberries

 

Stameaard ........ 10
Poesy -:.: 1 4¢
Tomatoes
meee @ 80

eee Ce @
es ee 1 15@1 45
taees ......-.-- 2 50@2 60
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection .....-. @i1
Water White .... @10%
D. S. Gasoline . @13
Deodor'’d Nap‘a .. @11t-
ee 29 @34%
mee 5k 36 @22
Black, winter .. 9 @10%
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts...... 4 50
Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60
Snider’s quarts ....... 3 25
Snider's pints ........ 2 25
Snider’s é oo oo ad 1 30
HEESE
Bees 2 @14
Carson City . @i4
Peerless ‘. @i4
ee cua... @15%
Oe @i4
ee eee @14
ee a cyl @13%
eee ec @14
Miveraige ....... @14
Were es .o..2.. ail4
eee oo @14%
eee oe @90
re @15
Limbureer ....-. @13%
Pineapm@e ....... 40 @60
Swiss, domestic . @14
Swiss. imported . @20

CHEWING GUM s
American Flag Spruce. .

Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 6
Peeck Jarek =... 6-5 55
Largest Gum Made .. 60
ee ne we ee 5

Sen Sen Breath Perf.1 -
Sugar Loaf

Were ...-..e-.-s5- Be
CHICORY
ee 5
ee ee aie 2
meee eee 4
i ee ne oe 7
a 6
CHOCOLATE

Walter Baker & Co.’s

German. .Bweet ........ 22
I ce ecw d an 28
AES, ces co haces 41
CN kc hi cuice cen 35
Ue eee oes 23
CLOTHES LINES
Sisal
60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
72ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40
9ft. 3 thread, extra. 1 70
60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29
“2ft. 6 thread, extra
Jute
ee oe ee 75
MO, eset ecksice cu oeoen ae 9
WO cece ec ee akeees 1 05
fs a Maen ee ee a eae 50
Cotton Victor
Oe ee cct pense ccessek a

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Galvanized Wire -
No. 29, each 100ft. leng1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long2 10

  
   

COCOA

Eee se ek. 35
Clevelan® ...... Leite eae 41
ene S08 8... 35
Colonial, %s .. ae

ee cae eee - a2
ee ese 45
Van Houten, 3 12
Van Houten, 20
Van Houten, 40

Van Houten,
Webb

eer. 6 41
TE ce 42
COCOANUT

Dunham’s %s .......
Dunham's ¥%s & tis 26%
Denkam's %s ...... 27
Desnhanrs 6: ....... 28
eae 13
COCOA SHELLS
_ 2%
Deas quantity .......-. 3
Pound packages ....... 4
COFFEE

 

Peaberry -. a
Maracalbo
oi Ccecebicees 15
(woce .. 18
Mexican
a 16%
ee 19
Guatemala
Choice _. <5... on
Java

ON oie ce dw cee cs 12
a Sree 20. 17

ee a ee 25
F. bees pode 2

Mocha
Arama ....... eS |
Package
New York Basis

Arbuckle ..
Dilworth ;
vice ued cus 14 00
Cae ce eee eee es 14 09

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold

to retailers only. Mail all | y’4,ce Muscatels, 3 cr..6

orders direct to W.. F.
McLaughlin & Co., Chi-
cago.

Extract

Holland, % gro boxes. 95
Mex, 56 eress ....-.-. 13

Hummels foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin, ™% gro.1 43
CRACKERS
National Biscuit Company’s
Brands
Butter
Seymour Butters ...... 6
oe ates ........- 6
pence Batters ........ 6
Family Butters ....... 6
Soda
2 oe . aes -..... 6
ee cee &
Saratoga Piaker .....-. 3
Oyster
Round Oysters ........ 6
Square Oysters ....... 6
ee ce 7%
ee os eee ae bs 7

Extra Farina
Sweet Goods

oe eons 10
Aseosted Cake ....<..- 19
Bagicy Gems: ........> 8
ee 8
Bents Water ......... i6
Petter TR 2 6. cscs oa 13
Chocolate Drops ..... 46
ieee Bar .....-.---.-- 10
Cocoanut “Tay ....... 12
Cinnamon Bar ......... 9
Coffee Cake, N. B. C..10
Coffee Cake, Iced ....10

Cocoanut Macaroons ..18
CREED no. 8s ce eos 16
Currant Fruit .....-. 10
Chocolate Dainty ....16
Cartwheels

ee CORED oe el 8
Fiuted Cocoanut ...... +0
Frosted Creams ....... 8
Ginger Gems .......... 8
Ginger Snaps, N. B. C7

Grandma Sandwich ...10
Graham Crackers ....
Honey Fingers, Iced

Honey Jumbles 1

int
to bo 00

Iced Happy Family ..i1
Iced Honey Crumpet .10
Tr oc ge 8
logue Bee 4...
Jersey tunch ........

Lady Fingers 12
jLady Fingers, hand md 25

 

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Lemon Biscuit Square. 8
Lemon Wafer
Lemon Snaps ...
Lemon Gems ....
Lem Yen
Marshmallow
Marshmallow Cream...16
Marshmallow Walnut. .16

 
 

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Mich Coco Fs’d honey.12
moe Sipe .........- 8
Mich. Frosted Honey.12
Miced Piewic ....n.- <3 il
Molasses Cakes, Sclo’d 8
Moss Jelly Par
Muskegon Branch, iscaia
Newton
Oatmeal Crackers .... ;
Orange Slice .........16
Orange Gent ..........

Penny Assorted Cakes. :
Pilot Bread

Pineapple Honey ...... 16
oo 9
Pretzels, hand made .. 8

Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8
Pretzelettes, mch. m’d 7

WOE fi ccc s cece eee 14
Bue Sears .......... 8
scotch Cookies ....... 10
a 16
Spiced Sugar Tops .. 8

Sugar Cakes, shea 8
Sugar Squares oo ee
SGOT ok. ws -<.ie

Spiced Gingers ........ 8
REA ee eens cass 10
Vienna (inp .......- 8
Vana: Wafer .......- 16
Eo a es os ce 9
eo ag nae i 9
CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or Grums .......
hs cee ree ete ses ..30
Bourse Come .... 2.2... 32
Pancy cadtes ....5.--2. 35
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sumdrica ... 0... -. @ 4%
Bvaporated ..... 5%4%@ 7
California Prunes
100-125 25tb boxes. @ 3
90-100 25tb boxes @ 3%
80- 90 25tb boxes @ 4
70- 80 25tb boxes «2 4%
60- 70 25tb boxes 5%
50- 60 25Ib boxes @ 6
40- 50 25Ib boxes @7
30- 40 25tb boxes @ 7%
%ec less in 50Ib cases.
itron
EO @15
ee
Imp’d. 1Ib aa @ 7%
--6%@ 7

Imported pone
Peel

Lemon American ....12
Orange American ....12
Raisins

London Layers, 3 cr 1 50
London Layers 4 cr :
| Cluster 5 crown ... 2 60 |

Loose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5

Loose Muscatels, 4 cr..6%
L. M. Seeded, 1 lb.6%@7%
L. M. Seeded, % Ib 5 6
Sultanas, bulk ....
Sultanas, package . @8%
FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Dieiem fame ..s.... 2.
Med. Hd. Pk’d. .1 — =
Brows owand .......
Farina
24 1%. packages. ....1 75
Bulk, per 100 Ths. ..... 113 00
Hominy
Flake, 50Ib sack “7 00
Pearl, 200%. sack 2 7
Peart, 2008). sack ....1 3
Maccaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10tb box .. 60
Imported, 25tb box ..2 50

Pearl Barley
CN, ec eee wees 2 2
ce heee 2 35
I ik ists cage 3 50

Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 25
Green, Scotch, bu......1 35
oe, Ok 4

Rolled Oats
Rolled Avenna, bbls ..4 00
Steel Cut, 100M. sacks2 00
EE 3 70
Monarch, 100% sacks .1 2

Quaker, Canes ....... i
Sago

Mont tee .. ee 3%

corman, Shee .......- 3%

German, broken pkg. 4
Tapioca

Flake, 110% sacks
Peart, 1301 sacks .... 4
Pearl, 24 1% pkgs. .... 6

Wheat
Cracked: Dik .1:...... 3%
24 2 packases ...... 2 50
a TACKLE

io. 2, 10 feet ......... 5
No. 2, 15 feet eal ub 7
ho. S$, 6 feet ......: 2
ha. 4, 50 CO oo teaus OO
No. 5, 15 feet . aL
No. 6, 15 feet oe

no. 7, tS eek .......5.

 

 

 

mo. S&S to feet... ..... 26
No. $, 15 feet ......... 30
Linen Lines

 

Poles

Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Foote & Jenks
Coleman’s Van. T.em.
fun, Panel ...: 12.
soz. Taper . -2 00 1 50
No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 1 50

Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon

No. 2 D. C. per doz...
No. 4 D. C. per doz..
Noe. 6 D ©. per doz. :.
Paper D.C per doz..
Mexican P Vanilla
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No. 4 D. C. per doz ...2 00

No. 6 D. C. per don... .2 00

Paper D. C. per doz....2 00
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

cee cal 15
Fiymouth Hock ....... p a <4
MCIOG SS 63 se 1 50
oe 2 et. See ..... 1 61
Caoce 1 of. site ....... 10
GRAIN BAGS

Amoskeag, 100 in balel19
Amoskeag, less than bl 19%
GRAINS AND FLOUR

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Old Wheat

No. 2 Wore .......-. 16
NG. 2 Bee |... 16
Winter Wheat Flour

Local Brands
tCGR os iw ca ae 20
Second Patents ....... 5 80
a 5 60
Second Stenient ....... 5 20
eeeee. oe 4 6)
ee ec 5 20
a ONE oo ewe : 7 65

Cee ae eee ee 4 40

Subject to usual cash dis-
count.

Flour in barrels, 25¢c per
barrel additional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Guaker, paper ......... 5 69
Quaker, cleme ......-.. 5 89
Sp pring Wheat Flour

Piilsbury’s Best, %s ..6 50

Pillsbury’s Best, 4s ..

Pillsbury’s Best, %s ..6 30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s

 

Brand

Wirmeold, %S .....
Wingold, 4s

Wines, A... 6 50
Judson oo Co.’s Brand
ore: SAS ok ew ck 6 70
Ceresota, ae a 6 60
iCerenoee, 8 ...:...0. 6 50

Worden Grocer Co.’s —
Laurel, %s, cloth ....6 70
Laurel, 4s, cloth ....6 60
Laurel, %s & \s paperfé 59
tore, Wa 2.2... Le 6 50
Bolted
Goldex G anuwiated ....2 Tv
Feed and Millstufts
St. Car Feed screened 19 00
No. 1 Corn and Oats.. 19 00
3
Corn Meal coarse ....18 50
Oil Meal 9
Winter wheat bran. ..20 00
Winter wheat mid’ngs21 00

iw Peee ............ 20 50
Oats
aa 34
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Cee, BOW... ewe

Hay
No. 1 timothy car lots 10 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 50

Pe ca ts 15
de 15
Laurel Leaves ........ 15
Sem Peeves . ..-... 25
INDIGO
Madras, 5tb boxes .. 55
eS. F., = . 5Ib boxes . 65
5Ib pails, per doz ..1 70
joe PORE, f.ccsc eS
Sem) OMe... 65
LICORICE

Se eee eec oh sca 30
Calabria oe 1 23
ee oe. oe
Re gece aes uae i

LYE
Condensed, 2 doz ....1 60
Condensed, 4 doz ..... 3 00
MEAT EXTRACTS

Armour’s, 2 Of ......; 4 45
Arcs 4 OS... 8 20

Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 0z.2 75
Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 02.5 50
Liebig’s. Imported, 2 02.4 55
Liebig’s, Imported. 4 0z.8 50
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .. 40

Coe oe cs ces a ee
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Half barrels 2c extra.
MINCE MEAT
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

SPECIAL PRICE CURRENT.

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00
Pee ow ccd 65 6 00

JAXON
%. cans. 4 doz. case 45

%tD. cans, 4 dos. case 85
1 tb. cans, 2 doz. casel 60

Royal |
10c size. 90)
¥%Ybecans 135

6 ozcans 190

1 heans 480

 

BLUING

Arctic 4 oz ovals, p gro 400 | Ta
Arctic 8 oz evals, p gro 6 00 |
Arctic 16 oz ro’d, p gro9 00)

BREAKFAST FOOD
Walsh-DeRoo So.’s Brands

   

or eee ..:.......... $4 00
Wheat Grits

Cases, 24 2 th. pack’s.$2 00
CIGARS

 

G. J. See ere. *sbd.
Less than

eee ee 83 00
600 or come Beane o-oome OO
<,000 or more......... 81 60

COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

a" %Ib pkg, per case..2 6
fe pkg. per case..2 6
tb pks. per =

w%ibcans 250 |
&%Ibcans 375 |

COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Bds.

 

White House, 1 Ib......
White House, 2 Ib.......
Exceisior, M & J, 1 Ib..
Excelsior, M & J, 2 th..
| lip Top, M & J, 1%....
Royal a ce ns
Royal Java and Mocha. ‘
| Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....

Distriouted by

 

National Grocer Co.,

ers & Co., Port Huron;
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel &
a, City; Godsmark, Du-

d & Co., Battle Creek
Fielbach Co., Toledo.

 

CONDENSED MILK

4 doz. in case
Gail Borden Eagle....6 40

Re oe 90
Se 4 52
wees 4 - cee. tcl 4 70
oe 4 00
— cs pclee ce fun 4 49

2 ce Bes cowie 3 85
Peathocs Evap’d Cream 4 ov

SAFES

 

 

Full line of fire and burg-

|lar proof safes kept in
| stock by the Tradesman |
|Company. Twenty differ-

|}ent sizes on hand at ail

| times—twice as many safes |

| as are carried by any other

| house in the State.
are unable

| Rapids and

to visit Grand

inspect the
| line personally,
| quotations.

STOCK FOOD.

| Superior Stock Food Co., |
|

Ltd.

|
1.0@ carton, 18 in box.10.s0
| 12% tT. cloth sacks.. .84
25 Tb. cloth sacks... 1.65
| 50 tb. cloth sacks.... 3.15
| 100 tT. cloth sacks.... 6.00
| Peck measure ....... -90
% bu. measure...... 1.86
12% Th. sack Cal meal .3¥
a Th. sack Cal meal... .7§
| F- O. B. Plainwel. Mich

SOAP
| enver Soap Co.’s Brands

1. cakes, large size.
50 cakes, large size.

i$ %m pkg. per case. .2 60
FRESH MEATS |
Beef
Ce 54@ 7%
Forequarters. ... 4 54
Hindquarters .... 64%@ 9% |
Rae fc 10 @16%
ee & @ 14
oo os wie . 27
Cees. Se. 4@5
ae nee @ 3
Pork
a e @ 5%
aes @ 9
Boston Butts. ... @ 7%
Seowieers. «..... @ TY
Lest tere <:-... @ 7%}
Mutton
a @ Tk
Sees 22.2 e ees @12¥
Veal
COPOORN 665520655 54%@ 8
CORN SYRUP
ONMD .222..20-0 1
i$ ee GOS ..64..-5, 2 80
6 Se cane ..........3 8

 

6

-3 25
‘90 cakes, small size..3 35
50 cakes. smal! size..1 95

Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Soe:

. troit and Jackson; F. Saun- |
8 Ibcans1800 | d

6 Theans2150

If you |

write for |

Tradesman Co.'s Brand

 

Blick Hawk, one box..2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs.2 40
Black Hawk,

TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ........ 75
t.alford, amam ........ 2 25

 

 

Place Your
Business
ona
Cash Basis
by using

| our

Coupon Book

System.
We
manufacture
four kinds
of
Coupon Books
and
sell them
all at the

 

same price
irrespective of
size, shape
or
| denomination.
We will
be

very

| $ .50 carton, 36 in box.10.80 |

pleased

to

send you samples
if you ask us.

They are

free.

Tradesman Company

Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

 

We sell more 5 and 10
Cent Goods Than Any
Other Twenty Whole-
sale Houses in the
Country.

WHY?

 

Because our houses are the recog-
nized headquarters for these
goods.

Because our prices are the lowest.

Because our service is the best.

Because our goods are always
exactly as we tell you they are.

Because we carry the largest
assortment in this line in the
world.

Because our assortment is always
kept up-to-date and free from
stickers.

Because we aim to make this one
of our chief lines and give to
it our best thought and atten-
tion.

Our current catalogue lists the most com-
plete offerings in this line in the world.
We shall be glad to send it toany merchant
who will ask for it. Send for Catalogue J.

 

 

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Kverything---By Catalogue Ouly

New York Chicago St. Louis

 

 

 

Gonvex and Flat

Sleigh Shoe Steel
Bob Runners
Cutter Shoes
Delivery Bobs

Cutters and Sieighs

Write for our prices.

Sherwood Hall Co.

Limited
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

SROROR ONOROE oUCKOR ORE 4ER

Forest City
Paint

gives the dealer more profit with
less trouble than any other brand
of paint.

Dealers not carrying paint at the
present time or who think of
changing should write us.

Our PAINT PROPOSITION
should be in the hands of every
dealer.

It’s an eye-opener.

Forest City Paint
& Varnish Co.

Cleveland, Ohio

 

eee

 

Coupon
Books

are used to place your business on a

cash basis and do away with the de-

tails of bookkeeping.

We can refer

you to thousands of merchants who

use coupon books and would never

do business without them again.

We

manufacture four

kinds of

coupon books, selling them all at
We will cheerfully

send you samples and full informa-

the same price

tion.

Tradesman Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

dvertisements inserted under this head-for two cents

subsequent continuous insertion.. No charge less

47

a word the first: insertion and one cent a:word for each

than 25 cents. Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

pal of 800 with g

City. tent reasonable. Inventory $3,
Central Michigan.

No competition.

eral me namie.”

 

 

in UE". -., re —

 

 

Stock in good con-

 

for Sale— Stock of shoes, all new goods
one of the best locations in Traverse

 

Address No. 152, care Michigan Trades-

 

 

152
Wanted—A jewelryman with small
stock. Location in a drue store in 2a

good town in Central Michigan. A rare

opportunity. Address No. 122, Michigan
Tredesman. 122

Wanted in Waterloo, im. a wholesale

woodenware house and a second fruit and
commission house. This is a fast growing
city of 18,000, a jobbing center, only com-
petition is Chicago. ‘Four states to work
from this point. I have just the building
for the business with 130 feet of track-
age. You'll ‘find this worth investigat-

me. Address A. J. Cole, Waterloo, Ia.
123

For

 

le—General merchandise business
including clean stock and real. estate.
$14,000 yearly business. Investment
$4,500. Address E. R. Williams, Collins,
Mich. 212
For Sale—A stock of groceries and fix-
tures. Ail cash trade, not a cent sold
on time. Corner store, manufacturing

and river town. ..eason for selling, death

family. Address R. Sahel. corner Eu-
reka and Biddle, Wyandotte, Mich. 116
For Sale—Stock of hardware, harness

and tinners’ tools, all in tirst-class con-
dition. One of the best manufacturing
towns in Northern Michigan, situated on

the Lake. The advertiser wishes to take
up road work again. Address No. 131,
sare Michigan Tradesman. 13]

' he es and fine nate: s

 

 

 

 

and grocery business in the liveliest town

 

Best of reasons for

Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

Sale F or, Cash “Onily=

 

   

uk and millinery

 

 

— clean stock of clothing and
i Good farm house :

 

House and store.

 

7-o~ hh enueew owe ner aww - >

 

gan Tradesman.
Sale—At Vicksburg,

 

QO. R. BAIRD

Dealer in
Drugs and Station:ry

Mendon, Miche, Jane 10--Please discon-
tinue my advertisement in the
department of your papere
means of my selling my stock,
you are entitled to my hearty
experience in this matter has
that the Tradesman is the only paper in
Michigan in which it pays to advertise
mercantile stockse Please send me my bill
and I will remit at oncee

Wants Column
has been the
for which

convinced me

 

 

Pre

 

 

Sellers of business
particulars to E. J.
Transfer Specialist. Cadillac, Mich.,
24, Webber- McMullen —

~ Wanted to buy
general merchandise.

send for further

eare Michigan | Good location for business. Addre
9

For Sale—The Spring Bluff

Schulz & Pixley. St. Joseph. Mich.

 

 

mile from school. .
m or
Talus Lock Box 64, Worth- | d

2 vg Sipaibaitsosse=

bushels capacity

ete agate

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.,
77 Ww et Forest \ve. Detroit. Mir’ _

  

For Sale—Whole or part of 93x130 ft
lot on Main street in Holland, Mich.

 

H eringa. 359 Central Ave., Holland. 79

For Sale or exchange for farm, gona

meat business in good town, county seat.
Also some real estate in same town. En-

quire of No. 77, care Michigan Trades-
‘a

man.

For Sale—20 shares of ist preferred

stock of Great Northern Portland Cement
Co. stock for $1,200. Address Lock Box
285 trand l.edge, Mich. R35

2 ¢

A $3,800 stack of eood staple drugs
a good Michigan town, well located,
$3,000. Must be sold before Feb. 1.
ferms easy.. Address Drugs, care Mich-
in Tradesman. 140

For Saie—A clean new stock of cloth-

 

 

| ing, shoes and furnishings in a hustling
town of 1.300. Two good factories and a
Erosperous 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

 

Reason pg re carr eth
care ealemnne.
137

Wanted—To buy clean stock general

merchandise. Give full particulars. Ad-
dress No. 999, care Michigan Tradesman. |
999

 

stock = gener: ul mer-

miles north of Thomp-

 

desirable for stock

 

“of merchandise,

My methods are distinctly dif-

It makes no difference

full description and lowest cash price and

moore in running order.

For Sale—Fine two-story store with
barn, well situated on street car line.
Good residence and factory section. Ap-
uly 482 Washington Ave., Muskegon,
Mich. 148

POSITIONS WANTED.

“Wanted—Position as registered phar-

 

 

  

macist. 22 years’ practical experience,
city and country. Small town ee
Reference. Address No. 752, care. Kent
Hotel, Grand Rapid Mich. 172
Wanted—Position <¢ ‘lerk in store, out-
side of Grand Rapids. Five years’ ex-
perience Address 8S. F., care Michigan
Tradesman. lis
Young man, age twenty, wants position
as book-keeper. Can furnish good ref-
erences Address No. 165, care, Michi-
gan Tradesma 165

 

 

 

inted——Position as salesman in re-
tail grocery. Have had ten years’ ex-
perience. Address Box 147, Middleton,
160

Mich.

HELP WANTED.

“Wantead—s

ulesmen to. sell Asphaltum
Bilnek Varnish

to the drug ‘trade. Good

commission Samples - furnished. Ar
mitage Miz. Co., Richmond, Va. 164

Wanted—Experienced shoe clerk. tef-

 
 

rrenices required. - Address No. 145, care
lichigan T'radesman. 145

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

J. i. MeKennah &:° Co., “the Hoosier
Hustlers. The noted merchandise auc-
tioneers carry the largest book oz refer-
ence of ar auction. firm in. the {Jnited
eeates. Now selling stock for J. .
Richards, Columbus, Nebraska. For
terms and reference book, address Box
765, a7

  
 

167
College of Auctionéering—Special in-
structor in saga andise auctioneering and
1 .

special sa Graduates now selling in

 

 

nine differe nt States. No instruction’ by
correspondence. Auctioneers furnished on
short notice Next term ‘opens April 8.
Address for pias ues, Carey. M. Jones,
Pres... Library all, Davenport. Ia. 168
Special and auction Sale Facts—We
sell the stock. We get you every dol-
lar your stock is worth.” “A recdrd of

thirteen years. that stands pre-eminent.
We do, not tell you one thing and do
another. Otr 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
compete:.t. 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 da lar. Write us,
we can litt the buruen. one A. OW.
‘Thomas Auction ’Co.. 417 Wabash ave.,
Chieago 20

H. ©. Ferry &. Co.. the hustling anc
tioneers Stocks closed out or reduced
anywhere in the United: States. New
methods, original ideas, long experience.
hundreds of merchants to refer to: We
have nev2r failed to please. Write fo
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa:
bash Ave., Chicago. Reference,
Mercantile. Agency.

 
 

 

Want -Ads. continued on ‘next ‘page

 

 

1/Our Experience Your Gain

 

F. M. SMITH

 

MERCHANTS, “HOW: IS TRADE? .. D.
you want to close out or reduce your stock by
closing out any odds and ends on hand? “We

| positively guarantee you a profit on- all reduction

Fr: a P. ' Clennam. 1261. Adams Express |
hitntleencl Chieaga aq

sales over allexpenses. Our plan of adverti+in;.

| is surely a winner; our long experience enablés us

to produce results that will please you. We can

. | furnish you best of bank references, also’ many
eaten jobbing horses; write us. for, terms,
| dates and full part’culars, TAYLOR & SMITH,

53 River St., Chicago.

 

 

  

48

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

An Incident That Hampered a
Cierk’s Usefulness.
Written for the Tradesman.

If more haberdashers realized the
power of a store’s personality—not
only that of the establishment as a
whole but of each particular depart-
ment—there would be fewer beetled
brows at the end of the year’s work,
fewer depressed spirits as the totals
are footed up that determine whether
a store is forging ahead or whether
it is dropping behind and coming to
be looked upon as a no-account con-
cern that doesn’t care a rap if the
public is pleased or not with its
business methods.

A store’s personality is just as
strong as that of a living being and
is just as potent a factor in getting
people to like it or the reverse as
a person’s individuality attracts or
repels.

I remember reading, years ago, this
sentence: “The charm of a gracious
presence is an acknowledged power
in the social world;” and I have oft-
en thought, as I have encountered
the surly looks and egregious man-
ners of certain store employes that
if the idea embodied in the quota-
tion could be, in some way, brought
home to their inner store conscious-
ness, it might work wonders in the
way of a change of heart, a reforma-
tion in the attitude of certain help
towards the buying public, that public
through whom come their bread and
butter, not to mention the jam
thereon.

As I write, within my radius of
vision looms a mansion that over-
shadows every other house on the
avenue. Under its broad roof live
two of the finest people I ever knew.
To-day everything pertaining to
their lives bears the stamp of luxury.
There is nothing within ordinary pur-
chasability that may not be com-
passed by the purse of this worthy
pair. Yet a dozen years ago they
were on the verge of starvation, al-
most penniless. But a small good
investment in the oil fields, followed
by another, and yet others, equally
successful, brought in an ever-in-
creasing store of ducats, until—well,
at the end of the dozen years the
husband is a man of leisure, although
he presents the anomaly of never be-
ing idle, and his wife has all the
time in the world to devote to social
life and philanthropic endeavor.

But let me tell you of a little in-
cident that transpired before the oil
wells had spouted their money-bring-
ing abundance. Mind, the lady was
just as cultured in those days of
misery as she now is in her days
of plenty. But there was dire need
of practicing the very strictest of
strict economy, and the clothing of
both must be made to last as long
as it was possible for clothing to
hang together with the proverbial
timely stitch that saves the nine.

Christmas was coming. Kriss Krin-
gle’s pack wasn’t likely to be very
heavy by the time he reached the
pair and only actual necessities might
be expected to be left here by the
good old saint.

So the frugal housewife would pur-
chase for her husband’s only gift

 

two suits of heavy underwear to
replace the garments that by con-
stant wear were getting too thin for
comfort. There still remained one
suit in good condition, nicely laid
away in the drawer with the rest of
his “Sunday clothes.”

This suit the good wife wrapped
up with the care demanded by the
articles and started out to match
the garments as to weight and qual-
ity of mesh.

She went to many strictly dry
goods stores but was unable to find
the object of her search.

With inward quaking she entered
the vestibule of the finest haberdash-
ery in town. As she stamped the
snow from her feet she would even
then have drawn back, so awed was
she by the glimpse of the elegant
interior.

But it was too late, a boy in fine
livery was already opening the inner
door for her.

Why had she come here? It was
preposterous, she thought, to imagine
she could find anything in so fine a
place within the limits of her slender
purse.

She made her wants known and
was directed to a far counter.

Everywhere polished mirrors re-
flected her shabby attire and made
her feel poorer than ever. “I’m a
fool, I’m a fool,” she kept repeating
to herself as she walked to the de-
partment indicated.

With trepidation she told the ob-
ject of her entrance.

Slowly she undid her package, and
the husband’s suit no sooner saw
the light than the haughty clerk flip-
ped it along on the shining counter.

“Wuhl he ejaculated disdainfully,
“you can’t match those old duds—
nobody wears such heavy old stuff
nowadays,” and he gave the gar-
ments a careless toss that sent them
sliding off the counter at the lady’s
feet.

The jackanapes made no move to
help her and she was obliged to
gather up the underwear as best she
might, which she did with a flushed
countenance. If the truth were told
a tiny tear dropped on “those old
duds.”

But the clerk was absorbed, by
now, in contemplating his curly locks
in the mirror behind the counter and
didn’t see through his back.

My friend with trembling fingers
tied up the despised garments and
made her way as straight out of the
store as the dimness in her eyes
would allow.

Arrived outside, the cold cleared
her vision and she hurried on home
through the slush and snow.

Something else had to take the
place of the contemplated present—
seeing “such heavy old stuff” could
not be duplicated!

That handsome young man still
clerks in that haberdashery, but now,
when Milady rolls up in her magnifi-
cent barouche and the clerks fall all
over themselves to show her only
their choicest goods, she does not
single out this coxcomb to wait on
her—-she can not live down the re-
membrance of the chilly atmosphere
around his department on a certain

 

day approaching the Christmas ofa
dozen years ago.

And ’tis said that the fellow, on
these occasions, is wont to say under
his breath that which sounds very
like—well, it sometimes has some-
thing to do with a river!

Jennie Alcott.
——_+2>—_
Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Charles E. Wain
Manufacturing Co. has incorporated
with a capital stock of $30,000, for
the manufacture and sale of iron,
brass and metal goods. The stock-
holders are Charles E. Wain, Alfred
F. Morency, Albert Terrieu and John
H. Pray, all of this city.

Detroit—An increase of the capital
from $40,000 to $150,000 will be made
by the McClure Lumber Co., dealers
in hardwood lumber, for the purpose

of providing additional funds for an |

extension of operations. Present of-
ficers will remain and C. F. McClure
has been elected Assistant Secretary.

Detroit—The Thos. Forman Co.,
Ltd., has been merged into a corpora-

tion under the style of the Thos. For- |
man Co., with an accompanying in- }
crease of capitalization from $120,000 |

to $200,000. Under the new arrange-

ment, Salling, Hanson & Co., of Gray- |

ling, become large stockholders of
the company, to the mutual satisfac-
tion and advantage of both parties.

Detroit—The R. J. Rutledge Co.,|
organized to handle on commission |
the output of the Stimpson Comput- |
ing Scale Co., has filed articles of in- |
corporation with the county clerk. |
The capital stock is $10,000, which |
has been paid in a contract with the |

Stimpson Company. Robert J. Rut-
ledge has 98 shares of stock and

Levi J. Robbins and Charles E. Hil- |

ton 1 share each.

Detroit—The American Arithmom- |

eter Co., which recently moved here
from St. Louis, has been succeeded
by the Burroughs Adding Machine
Co., under which name the firm went
in St. Louis. Accompanying the an
nouncement of the new incorporation
comes an increase of capital from
$500,000 to $5,000,000. The officers are
Presidetit, Joseph Boyer; Vice-Presi-
dent, Henry Wood, St. Louis; Sec-
retary-Treasurer, B. G. Chapman;
General Manager, Alvan Macauley.
The company will manufacture add-
ing, listing and calculating machines
and typewriters.

Saginew — Stockholders of the
Herzog Art Furniture Co. have de-
cided by a unanimous vote to in-
crease the capital to $200,000 and to
buy the stock of the Herzog Table
Co. and consolidate the two concerns.
To accommodate the combined busi-
ness a main factory building, 208
feet by 50 feet, five stories high, will
be erected on South Michigan avenue,
on land now owned by the company.
An addition 60 by 60 feet, two stories
high, a brick boiler and power house
40 by 60 feet, a detached oil house
and dry kiln will complete the build-
ings which are contemplated imme-
diately. The plant will be operated
by electric power on the unit plan,
that is. a motor for each machine.

——_-—-o————
Friendship is never allied with flat-
tery.

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and
Potatoes at Buffalo.

Buffalo, Jan. 18%—Creamery, fresh,
26(@30c; storage, 24@28c; dairy
fresh, 16@23c; poor, 12@15c;_ roll,
18@2Ic.

Eggs—Candled, fresh, 28@29c; cold
storage, 23c; at mark, 21@21%c.

Live Poultry—Chicks, 12@13¢;3
fowls, 11144@12c; turkeys, 17@18c;
| ducks, 14@15c; geese, 12@12M4e.

Dressed Poultry — Turkeys, 18
(@20c; chicks, 12@14c; fowls, 12@
12%4c; old cox, 9@toc; ducks, 16c;
geese, IO@I2c.

Beans—Hand picked marrows, new,
$2.60@2.75; mediums, $1.90; peas
$1.75; red kidney, $2.50; white kid-
ney, 92.75-

Potatoes—Round white, 43@45c;
mixed and red, 40@42c.

Rea & Witzig.
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New Bank at Cheboygan.
Cheboygan, Jan. 16—James F. Mo-
| loney is having articles of incorpora-
tion drawn for establishing a State
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of the stockholders and Detroit capi-
talists will also be interested, but he
proposes to dispose of as much of the
| stock at home as possible. The Bank
will occupy temporary quarters until

| building, with cement walls, vaults,
|etc., for a banking office.
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Arthur H. Webber, the Cadillac
merchant, was in town last week on
his way to El] Paso, San Diego and
Los Angeles, where he expects to re-
miin until about March to. He is

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|accompanied by his wife and son.

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| L. M. Wolf, the Hudsonville gen-
| eral dealer, leaves Jan. 30 for the
| Pacific Coast, where he will remain
|a couple of months. He will be ac-
| companied by his wife.

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It is much easier to make love than
to make a good husband.

BusinssNons

EUSINESS CHANCES.

Wanted—A stock of merchandise in a
good location. Stock not invoicing over
$2,500. Address No. 176, care Michigan
Tradesman. 176

For Sale—Stock of clothing, shoes and
men’s furnishings in Clare, Mich. Best
location in town of 1,300. New _ stock.
Write for particulars. Wilson & Suther-
land, Clare, Mich.

For Sale—Bakery and candy kitchen.
No. 5 Black Diamond oven, hot water
tank and prover attached. Soda fountain,
gasoline engine. All ice cream and candy
tools. Good reason for selling. Address
No. 175, care Michigan Tradesman. 175

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Wanted—Position by an _ experienced
shoe clerk. Best of references given. If
interested, address No. 146, care Michigan
Tradesman. 146

Wanted—-Position as salesman in re-
tail clothing and gents’ furnishings.
Married. Age 29. Six years’ experience.
Best of references. Address Box 171,
Dexter, Mich. 147

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W anted—Position by competent. ex-
perienced woman book-keeper. Under-
stands typewriting. Can furnish ma-
chine. Address No. 141, care Michigan
Tradesman. 141

 

 

 

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To Exchange—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-
chandise situated in a good town. Real
estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
dence solicited. Konkle & Son, Alto,
Mich. 501

 

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