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Page.

2 Pig Tin Weak.
4. Around the State.

5. Grand Rapids Gossip.
6. Window Trimming.
7. Butchers’
3
9.

Banquet.

. Editoriel.

- The Belding Banquet.
12. Shoes.

7. Value of Vacations.
18. Clothing.
20. Looking Backward.
22. Hardware.

4+. Concrete Bridges.
The Sample Fiend.
They Read Men.
30. Woman’s World.
Blighted by Riches.

ws

33. New York Market.

34. Closer Relations.

36. Children of Co-Operation.
38. Dry Goods.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

3. Drug Price Current.

44. Grocery Price Current.
46. Speciai Price Current.

 

 

WHOLESOME DECISION.
The

down a

Illinois courts have handed

decision to the

operation on a patient without the
patient’s consent, is liable to punitive
damages. The court goes farther and
says that the consent of the nearest

sufficient, provided, of course,
The

de-

the patient is of sound mind.
of the
upon what the
mind.

common sense situation
courts
If lu-

required,

pends wholy
be sound

unsoundness

construe to

nacy is the
there is not much common sense,
there may be the
If insensibility is included

of

then
although law in
decision.
the
there is less occasion for complaint.
It very often happens that a patient
to the
condition that a capital operation is

in unsoundness mind, then

is brought hospital in such

absolutely and quickly necessary and
at the time the patient is not
tally capable of passing opinion.

men-

It would seem as if a surgeon who

hesitated to make the attempt to
save a patient’s life because the pa-
tient was not able to give consent
to the operation, would be shirking
responsibility in failing to live up
to the requirements of his profes-
sion. No reputable surgeon would

perform any operation other than in
an emergency, without the patient’s
consent. Many amputations, opera-
tions for the removal of cancers or
for

tumors, operations

and the like, can all be talked over |

of the

class

beforehand and the consent
patient All that

operations following accidents usual-
ly finds the patient in a condition of
inability to realize the situation or
to pass an intelligent opinion there-
on. It is the plain business of
attending to what

secured.

surgeon do

judgment tells him the circumstances

require and not to wait, because the
patient may never regain conscious-
ness or consciousnes may return too

late to make the operation promising. |

Even if it is proven afterward that

responsibility,

| to exercise his best judgment,
| when

effect that |

any surgeon who performs a capital | : :
y a E |long line of May wheat hel

| both the bulls and bears

appendicitis |

of |

the |
his |
ithe unjust, and,
| both get stuck in the same mud.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1905.

| the operation was not absolutely nec-

essary, there ought to be no legal
all that

be asked of any professional man is

because can
and
done all
that can be required of him. In the
absence of the text of the court’s de-
cision it is perhaps unfair to discuss

that is done, he has

the Illinois case, but on the publish-
ed report of it the conclusion is in-
evitable that although it may be good |

law in Iilmois, it is not im accord

| with the best interests of those whom |
| exigency may put under surgical care.

ne
The Grain Market.
The market has been strong and
weak by turns the past few days.
|The general indications seem _ to

point, however, to higher prices; at
the May option is taken

There

until
of.

least
care is undoubtedly a

i by the
the

to be in strong hands.

Eastern trade and same seems

We

approaching the time of year when

are nOW

‘ s i |the growing winter wheat crop is in
relative to such an operation is not}

that |

its most critical state and, with plen-

ty of opportunity for crop
will be ac

likely

tive and we are to have more

fireworks and lively

or less markets.
choice

flour

for
the
anything extra,

There is a good demand

milling wheat and, while

trade has not been

the demand is increasing and the out-

look, from a milling standpoint at
least, is much improved.
The demand for cash corn is very

Receipts are a little more lib-

good.
eral from first hands and at the same

time prices have shown an advance

of about 2c per bushel for the week.
There is a large amount of soft corn,
and as spring approaches buyers will
do well to be very particular as to
this
sure to make trouble

grades, for soft corn is almost

by heating and

spoiling

Oats have shown some improve-
ment the past week. The movement
is not large; in fact, very seldom is|

May oats
past

on an advancing market.

in Chicago sold above 32c the

but

the

week, have declined nearly Ic
The

both

oats, with an unusually good trade on}

Fred Peabody.

demand |
and

from high point.

continues steady for corn

ground feed. io

i
Irish Eggs from Australia.

Australia is now shipping many
crates of eggs to Ireland, and the

keen Irish merchants are quickly re-|

shipping them to England, where
they sell as fresh Irish eggs.

eee ec li i A oe
The rain falls alike on the just aud
furthermore, they

>.>

Among men a wholesome fear of |
the gun often conduces to slow and}

careful speech. |

| ridge &

scares, |

| manufacture

Number 1120

Late State Items.

The Way Drum Co.
increased its capital stock from

Detroit
has

Ear

$10,000 to $25,000.
The

has

Detroit
Lettering

School of
its
stock from $5,000 to $10,000.

Detroit

increased capital
Detroit

Williams

pickling and preserving business, has

The capital stock of the

Bros. Co. which does (a

been increased from $500,000 to $650,-

000.

Owosso—The Pearce & Gerow Co.

has been incorporated for the pur-

pose of dealing in general hardware,

with an authorized capital stock of

$25,000, all of which has been sub-

Scribed and paid m in cash.
The
papers to the effect that

the De-
Pard-

Detroit, would

Pontiac in

troit

statement

Blackw ell, of

establish a in this

The members ot

department store

city was a mistake.

the firm state that they have no in-
tention of starting a branch store in
this place

Battle Creek—L. W. Willson has
disposed of a half interest in the
Michigan Rug Co., of which he was

formerly sole proprietor, to Carl Mill-

1
t

OT tne
»

ment of the Postum Cereal
Mr.

had
experience in rug manufacturing, hav-

som, late advertising depart-

Co. Ltd

)
Millsom has considerable

ing been formerly in the employ of
Mr. Willson, under whom he learned
kis trade.

St. Joseph-—John Wallace, Sr., a
pioneer lumberman of this city, was
stricken with apoplexy February 16,
while attending the funeral of an
aunt at Wayne. He was 70 years
of age, had resided at St. Joseph for
forty years and left an estate valued
at $25,000. The business conducted
under the style of John Wallace &
Sons will be continued by the heirs
under the same style.

Detroit—The Detroit Salt Co. has
| purchased the Hiawatha Salt Co. of

Wyandotte and now controls al! the
salt wells in Wayne which

salt
Hiawatha plant was erect-

county
for sale excepting
The
ed and equipped for the manufacture
of table salt
boom of a few
able to

of the keen competition in the busi-

One.

fine during the. salt

but
account

y¥Carts ago,

was

not carry it On on

ness

Battle Creek—Davis E. Van Ars-
dale, of Buffalo, N. Y., has begun
suit against the United States Food
Co., alleging traud. The company

is now in the hands of a receiver. Van
Arsdale says he invested $2,000 stock

on condition that he was to be super-

intendent of the company at a sal-
ary of $150 per month. After a few
months’ work the company released

him as superintendent, and he is out
his cash. He brings suit for $3,000.

 

    

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

PIG TIN WEAK.

All Other Metals and Hardware
Staples Strong.

While many of the hardware job-

bers have covered their requirements

for the next few weeks and have mod-

erate stocks in their warehonses, the |
demand for spring and summer lines |

continues to increase daily and large
orders are being booked by manufac-
turers for delivery throughout the
current month, April, May and June.
The continued hardening of the iron
and steel markets gives a firmer un-
dertone to all classes of hardware
articles and further advances in the
prices of metal goods which have
not already been changed are expect-
ed daily. There is present in the mar-
ket, however, a conservative senti-
ment ahout advancing official quota-
tions until the bulk of the spring busi-
ness has been booked, so
eral of the contemplated changes may
not be made for some time

Returns prepared by most of the
leading manufacturers and jobbers in
the East and Middle West show that
the last month
was much greater than that in the
The
falling off in the volume of orders in

that sev-

business transacted

corresponding month last vear.

the first two weeks of February was
more than compensated for by the
marked improvement in the last half
of the month. In the first few days
of the current month, nioreover, busi-
ness has continued to increase with
the belief that springlike conditions
About the only im-
in prices recorded

will soon prevail.
portant change
last week was made when the official
figures on merchant pipe were ad-
vanced $1 per ton.

Builders’ material is selling at slight
premiums in the West, and higher
prices will probably be made within
a few days. The demand for all
classes of builders’ hardware is brisk,
but the amount already booked is
thought to constitute only a small
fraction of what will develop in the
immediate future. Nails and wire
products are in excellent request, and
the mills are fully employed. Refrig-
erators are selling more freely, and
iawn mowers, garden hose and fix-
tures, together with other spring and
summer goods, are moving more free-
ly. The bolt and nut business is more
active, and with the exception of
stove and tire bolts, cut-thread ma-
chine and carriage bolts, which are
not being taken in large quantities,
the tone is growing stronger and
more confident.

Pig Iron—Though there was some
falling off in the volume of the orders
for foundry, forge, basic and Besse-
mer pig iron booked by manufactur-
ers, founders and steel makers to-
ward the end of last week, the ag-
gregate transactions within the last
seven days reached such proportions
as to assure the continuance of a big
buying movement this week. While
many large consumers in the New
England and other Atlantic coast
states have covered the bulk of their
require a-nts for the second quarter
of the year, and are now confining
their new purchases to second half
shipments, there are still many small

 

melters anxious to buy for immediate
or nearby deliveries so that the fur-
naces and sales agents are being over-
whelmed with new orders’ without
any solicitation on their part.

Steel—With
ders and the receipt of specifications

the influx of new or-
on old contracts leading steel mills
in all sections of the East and Mid-
dle West are compelled to operate
on full turn in an effort to make de-
liveries on time. Many manufactur-
ers of finished steel are still three to
four weeks behind in making ship-
ments, although they are working
under great pressure. With the ad-
vances in the prices of soft steel and

| chain bars, it is expected that the of-

ficial quotations on light black sheets,
hoops and tin plates will soon be
raised about $2 a ton, while changes
toward a higher level are likely to be

| made in several other lines.

 

doubt
al-
de-

Copper—While there is no
that the copper market is
most of a consumptive
the fact
that many leading manufacturers in

now
devoid
inand of any consequence,
this country and Continental Europe
are increasing the volume of their

contracts for finished products is
leading to the belief that a big buy-
ing movement in refined copper will
soon begin to make itself felt in this
Though the re-

negotiations between

city and London.

ported peace
Russia and Japan appear to
been prematurely circulated, it is
generally expected that the war in
the Far East will soon be terminated,
and with the ending of this conflict

| will come-a cessation in the buying

 

of American copper by Chinese melt-
ers who will then be able to purchase
supplies in the Japanese market.
Pig Tin—With the exception of
one or two rallies in the market which
followed the development of sudden
strength abroad, the trading in pig
tin last week was marked by declines
which carried spot and nearby prices
down fully 50 points. The effort of
the principal importers and dealers
to support the market in the face of
further arrivals from the Straits, Eng-

land and Holland were naturally
fruitless, and the undertone of the
trading became very weak.
—__-_-_—.>-<-<———
Many Business Women in Husbands’
Employ.

The wife who works at a salary
for her well-to-do husband is one of
the anomalies which one frequently
“bumps up” against, incidentally with
the result that he frequently has to
take his bearings of the business en-
vironment which he is entering over
again.

The fact that the wife is a willing
party to such an arrangement is more
easily explained when the position
is a lucrative one, but where, as is
often the case, she works for a small
salary and is treated in exactly the
same manner as the other employes
there are usually either strange traits
of character or unusual domestic re-
lations involved.

There is a large and rich mercan-
tile house in Chicago in which the
firm consists of several members of
one family. Near the door of the

have | '
| uation is that for years she has been}

office, among innumerable other typ-
ists, sits a pleasant faced girl whose
those

in any way from

around her.

than technical importance, she_ will
as likely as not say:
ute. I will go and speak to

about it.”

by a still greater one when you learn
that she is the wife of one
younger members of the firm, and
that she has kept the same place
there since she marri@d that she had
before’ that

works at the

occurred.
salary,

event
same

discord.
ity on the part of the wife to take
pleasure other than that of work and
without readjust
even to a wider scheme of economy
Another large house has a woman
occupying a similar position, and the
fact that she is the wife of the man-

power to

ed employes.

legally separated from her husband,
and not wishing to be dependent up-
on him for support she obtained this
position with the firm.

A more singular case still, which
exists in a large millinery house, was

his wife as
manager of his business, and pays
her a fine salary, but he treats her

The owner employs

as if no closer relationship
them. they
married she had the position, and, al-

between 3efore
though she resigned at the time of
their marriage, her life did not turn
out to be a happy one, and one day

place with another house similar to
the she
band. [In the
band’s business

one had

meantime her

did not prosper un-

woman and begged her to come back

looks and work do not distinguish her |
who. sit |

of the|

She |
and, |
strange to say, there is no domestic |
It is only the lack of abil-|

She consented and draws a

salary, but they

large

do not communicate
.*

except on business matters.

It remained for a Tawsuit not long

'ago to reveal one of the most unsus-

If you happen to pick her out°as 4 |
convenient person to ask what you |
want to know and at the same time |
your question is one of slightly more |

pected cases of this kind that perh1ps

ever existed. The wife had instituted

legal proceedings against her  hus-
band in order to recover some per-

{sonal property which she alleged he

“Wait a min-|
papa |

had appropriated for his use.

During the course of the trial it was

own

|stated that she was regarded as a

Your first bewilderment is followed |

simple expenditure, and she is totally
herself, |

domestic servant in the house and
nurse to the children of her husband
by his first wife.

Of quite another character is the
business arrangement which a prom-
inent man owns several large
city drug stores was unexpectedly led
to make with his wife. She
cashier in one of the busiest of these
places, and when his wife died he
The first wife had been
one of the most dependent of women
entirely domestic, and

with her sole diversion the spending

who

was

married her.

financially,

| of money in luxurious sums both up-

aging director of the firm is known |
cnly to one or two of the most trust- |
She comes and goes, |
and receives orders, in exactly the}
same way as the women with whom |
she works, and the secret of the sit- |

on her own needs and those of her
little family.
Wife No. 2 was installed in her

place, but quickly decided that this
life was not for her. She hired peo-
ple that she thought knew more
about it than she did to look after
her house and the children, and de-
manded her old position back inthe
drug store. Besides being pretty, she
has a decided business faculty, and

‘adds to the popularity of the place
| with the great number of men who

the result of an unhappy love affair. |

existed |
were |

are customers, and who haven’t the
least idea that she is the proprietor’s
wife. Besides this, she keeps a good
natured, but effective lookout
the business while her husband is at
his other stores. EH. Lee.
~~.

How She Broke the Ice.
“How do you like that?” he asked,

upon

|as he finished cutting his own name

| on the ice.

she suddenly forsook it and took a/|

filled for her hus- |
hus- |

der his own management and that of |
his new assistant, and he went to the |

“Put Mrs. in front of it and I’d like

it very much,” said the fair skater
with a shy glance.
a

A woman’s tears will drive a man
to drink, especially if he is the cause
of them.
tO

has to have some

A man roots

before he can have any worth-while

. . . - | .
as his manager, if not as his wife. | fruits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We sell a strictly high grade Delivery Wagon and ship it on approv-
al, subject to examination before paying for it. “It is finely finished in
red body and yellow gear and is an attractive serviceable wagon for light
delivery work. We have ten other styles, including open and top wagons
designed f6the Grocer, Meat, Furniture, Hardware and other trades.

Write today for catalogue and price list

ENOS & BRADFIELD, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3
) You have followed the development of our new building from the foundation to the

 

 

 

 

completed structure, where we are daily showing our friends of the trade the most modern

and up-to-date grocery establishment it is possible to erect.

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If you have not yet inspected our establishment and looked over our stock and _ prices,

you will please accept this as a hearty invitation to do so at the earliest opportunity.

WORDEN GROCER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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TRADESMAN

 

  
  

     

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TATE

Movements of Merchants.
Manton—Harry Averill succeeds J.
H. Chevois in the meat business.

 

 

Chelsea—-Glazier & Stimson have
solu their drug stock to L. T.
man.

Mt. Pleasant—A. A. Loveland has
been appointed receiver of the Wilcox
Furniture Co.

Sault Ste. (Mics 1)
Phillips has sold her furniture stock
to S. Wineberg.

Sault Ste. Marie—C. E. Davis &
Co. have opened a branch furniture
store at the Canadian Soo.

Mt. Pleasant—E. F. Burdick
shortly remove his furniture
from Rosebush to this place.

Williamsburg—Archibald D. Car-

Free-

Marie—_L.

will
stock

penter, the veteran druggist, died
Feb. 25 at the age of 63 years.
Ludington—Willard Fowler will
shortly engage in the bazaar and
men’s furnishing goods business.
Portland — Robert Ramsey will

shortly engage in the manufacture of
chairs in the Hathaway building.

Hubbell—Corbeille & McLaughlin,
general dealers, have dissolved part-
nership, Mr. Corbeille succeeding.

Adrian—R. W. Boyd & Son have
closed their branch grocery store and
meat market at 151 West Maumee
street.

South Boardman—E. C. Strickler
& Co. have purchased the hardware
and implement stock of the Hain-
stock Co., Ltd.

Pellston—H. D. Judkins has sold
his general stock to Tindle & Jack-
who continue the business
at the location.

Charlotte—Henry Heyman has
sold his meat market to Ed. McUm-
ber, who will continue the business
at the same location.

Elk Rapids—John Bachi has pur-
chased the meat market of Cary &
Steimel and will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Lowell—A. L. and E. R. Spencer
and Thos. Welch have purchased the
Mark Rubens stock of dry goods and

son, will

same

will continue the business.

Mancelona—B. D. Lee has_ pur-
chased an interest in the grocery
steck of L. G Van Licw © (o.

The firm name will remain the same
as before.

Quincy—Fred Ferguson has pur-
chased the interest of Mr. Hines in
the bakery establishment of Hines &
Berger. The new firm will be known
as Berger & Ferguson.

Port Huron—Trickey & Bannister,
dealers in hardware and_ general
merchandise, are offering to compro-
mise with their creditors on the basis
of 40 cents on the dollar.

Cadillac—William F. Bradford has
sold his Gotha meat market to A.
Carlson and Alexander Larson, who
will continue the business under the
style of Carlson & Larson.

Hudson—Henry Carmichael has
purchased Dewey Rhead’s interest in
the cheese manufacturing firm of D.

 

W. Rhead & Co. and will continue
the business in his own name.

Hesperia—Manley Seymour
sold his interest in the general stock
of Jacokes & Seymour to his partner,
who wili continue the business under
the style of Albert Jacokes.

 

has

Eaton Rapids—J. E. Crane has tak- |

en his brother, A. Crane, into part-

nership with himself in the implement |
business and the firm will operate un- |

der the name of Crane & Crane.

Bronson—The Clark
hardware stock has been sold _ to
John E.
roe, continue the business

under the style of Leidy & Monroe.

who will

Ludington—M. Zeif, has sold his |

clothing, shoe and dry goods stock
to N. B. Johnson, formerly with Corl,
Knott & Co., but for the past three
years on the road for Edson, Moore
& Co.

Chelsea--L. T. Freeman has sold
his half interest in the grocery stock

of Freeman Bros. .to his_ brother,
Chauncey Freeman, who will con-
tinue the business under the same

style.

Tecumseh--F. G. Heesen and L.
J Heesen, sons of John Heesen, have
formed a partnership under the firm
name of Heesen & MHeesen and
bought the clothing stock of Alva
Spayde.

Cassopolis—Thickstun & Arnoldis
the name of the new firm of lumber
dealers, F. E. Arnold having bought
an interest in the business of D. C.
Thickstun, in whose employ he had
been for the past three years.

Hastings—The Hastings Realty
Co. has incorporated for the
purpose of dealing in real estate. The
corporation has an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, all of which is sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

been

Alma—E. A. Bridge, of Detroit, an
old produce man who for a number
of years had charge of the produce
department of Phelps, Brace & Co.,
commenced duties March I as man-
ager of the Central Michigan Produce
Co.

Moiine—Eli Runnels, who recently
purthased the general stock of Me
Leod Bros. & Co., Ltd., has purchas-
ed the shoe stock belonging to that
company and will continue the busi-
ness in connection with the other
lines.

Negaunee—-Levin Bros. have pur-
chased the clothing, furnishing goods
and crockery stock of Jacob David-
son, at Green Bay, Wis., and remov-
ed the goods to this place, where
they have been consolidated with the
stock in the Savings Bank store.

Reed City—W. A. Covert, who for
twenty-six years has been connected
with the dry goods firm of M. Ruben
& Co., Lowell, has formed a copart-
nership with Benj. Jacobson, and they
have purchased the stock and fixtures
of the Reed City Mercantile Co.

Jonesviile—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Spen-
cer Hardware Co. for the purpose at
conducting a retail hardware and
implement business, with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, all of
which is subscribed, $7,000 being paid
in in cash.

& Tucker |}

Leidy and Wallace D. Mon- |

Battle Creek—Owing to unfortu-
nate investments and the slump im
|trade for the past year, W. J. Mul-
| ford, furniture dealer, has made an
lassignment to Lawyer Walter >.
| Powers; liabilities, $7,002.68; assets,
| $0,790.40. He promises to pay 100
lcents on the dollar.

 

 

| Saginaw—George Hemmeter has
| leased the store at 1205 Court street,
which C. W. L. Wartenberg has fit-
ted up for a drug store. Mr. Hem-
meter has worked in séveral drug
stores and has also followed the busi-
ness in Detroit and Battle Creek.
This will be his first venture on his

1own account.

Ann Arbor—-Edward J. Koch and
H. W. Nichols have purchased inter-
ests in the furniture stock of John
Koch and the business will hereafter

be conducted under the style of
Koch & Nichols. A stock of dry
|eoods will be added, which will be

under the personal supervision of the

new members of the firm.
Cadillac—John M. Cloud and
Frank K. Cloud, as Cloud Brothers,
| have leased the north first floor and
the Wilcox & Mather
building and will engage in the retail
hardware Cloud Brothers
|are now at Clio, but the senior mem-
liber of the firm has a warm spot in
lhis heart for Cadillac, where he was
| engaged in the hardware business for

 

basement of

business.

many

years.

Detroit—After nearly seven years

as manager of the law department of
R. G: Dun & Co., in Detroit, E. W.
Miner has severed his connection to
become active manager of the Detroit
Coal & Coke Co.
president of the company since its
organization in 1903, and succeeds L.
J. Paszke, who desires to give en-
tire attention to an automobile com-
pany in which he is interested.

Ypsilanti—-George Smith, of De-
stock of C. D. O’Connor & Co., will
take possession about March 15.
Mr. Smith is well posted in this line
;and has also had experience as a
traveling salesman for George  H.
Wheelock & Co., of South Bend, Ind.,
Mr. O’Connor will
retain his interest in the shoe busi-
ness and for the time being will be
located at his present stand.

selling crockery.

Pontiac—The rivalry between Wil-
lian: H. Coleman, butcher, and Frank
Barnett, clotheir, last Saturday night,
resulted in the purchase by each of
about a wagon load of soap, oil and
cure-all medicine from a medicine
company, which held forth at the
opera house all last week, giving a
free show and selling dope to as
many as would buy.
was offered to the most popular child
in town, the matter to be decided by
ballot, one vote being allowed for
the company. Saturday night the
contest narrowed down to Coleman
and Barnett and purchases of $5
and $10 at a crack began to pour into
the show’s coffers. During the ex-
citement that followed there was a
dispute and the head of the
pulled a revolver.

show
Officers were sum-
moned and quiet restored without ar-

 

 

 

Mr. Miner has been

troit, who has purchased the bazaar |

A gold watch |

every cent’s worth of stuff bought of |

rests. Coleman finally won out for
his four-year old daughter with a
total score of 18,750 as against Bar-
nett’s 16,075. The show reaped a
harvest.

Howard City—J. A. Collins has
sold his interest in the general stock
of J. A. Collins & Bro. to his broth-
er, who will continue the business
under the style of Wm. H. Collins.
The retiring member of the
came to this city in 1881 to
his brother, John, a member of the
firm of Collins & Bros. In 1886 he
became a partner in the business un-
der the style of J. C. Collins & Bro.
Just before this J. A. Collins & W.
| Hl. Robbie were in the grocery and
hardware business. In
802, John C.

firm

assist

February,
retired and in turn J.

A. assumed the senior partnership,
William H. becoming the junior
member of the firm. About three
years ago they acquired a_ large

farm at Borland and the latter as-
sumed its management, staying there
summers and assisting in the store
winters. Now he will spend all his
time here in the management of the
and J, A. will
tention to advancing the interests of
Cook & Collins, a new produce firm
organized here last fall, managing the

business give his at-

farm which he now owns, and other

 

interests.

Manutacturing Matters.
Detroit—The Detroit Cabinet Co.
| has increased its capital from $80,000
| to $130,000.
Hermansville—The

Viola
|Co. has removed its mill plant from
| Corinne to this place.
Detroit—The National Photo Pil-
| low Top Co. has incorporated witha
| capital stock of $50,000. The stock
{holders are Russell Huff, William L.
French and Walter Pushee, all of this
city.

Muskegon—Anticipating the re-
opening of navigation, Frank Alberts

Lumber

|& Sons have given their sawmill an
|overhauling. Counting the lands re
| cently acquired, the firm now has a
| timber acreage of pine, hemlock and
| hardwood running up into four  fig-
lures. A band saw has been installed
at the mill in place of the old circu
lar.

Muskegon Heights—The Diamond
Clothes Pin Co. has been organized
with a capitalization of $100,000 and
the following officers: President,
John C. Nolen; Vice-President, M.
P. Janisch; Secretary and Treasurer,
Alexander Sutherland. The
with Patrick Noud, of Manistee, and
Andrew Smith, of Traverse City.
form the directorate. The company
will occupy the plant formerly oper-
ated by the Automatic Wringer Co.

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The Grocery Market.
Sugar-—London cable advices re-

port beet’ sugar quiet, with little de-

mand at unchanged prices and cane}

is also quiet and unchanged.

changes of importance are noted. In
this country the market is very quiet,

but there is a | steady

undertone. |

No|

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

plus may be cleaned up better than
was anticipated. The consumption
has been very large, owing to the
cheapness of this vegetable, and be-
fore the new pack is available the
market will doubtless have strength-
ened considerably. It is also predict-
ed that the coming pack will not be

so large—that packers have become |

tired of making so little money on

ibe getting well cleaned up.

White-

i fish and lake fish are in fair demand

|at unchanged prices. Herring are
unchanged and in light demand.
———_- ~~ ___

this line and will curtail their opera- |

tions. lf this should be the case it

| will have an effect on the price a lit-
| tle later in the spring when the size

|
|

There have been fairly large arrivals |

of raws, but as refiners are well sup-

|change in price and the demand _ is]

plied for current requirements they |

show no disposition to take spot or

nearby supplies and according to

present indications they will proba-
bly hold off until they can find a
soft spot on which to buy. A
and uninteresting market is reported
for refined.
the call for deliveries

business and

| unchanged.

dull |

of the acreage is definitely known.
Dried Fruits--Currants show
Seeded raisins are lifeless and
market is unsettled.
for
stocks on spot are light.

light.
the There is

some demand loose raisins, as
Prices are
Prunes are selling fairly

at unchanged prices.

ithe trade through
| fruits
no}

|

If anything, the |

| situation is slightly weaker, and there |

There is very little new |

| any improvement.

on outstanding contracts reaches only |

very moderate proportions. Prices are |

unchanged on the basis of 5-.95c f. o.|

b: Wew York, less © per cash
for granulated in bags or barrels, and

4

cent,

it is not now anticipated that there |

will be any advance by refiners until |

they have succeeded in obtaining a
sufficient quantity of raw sugars for
later shipments.

Coffee-—The the
fee market culminated last week ina
decline of %ec in Brazilian
total
from the highest point, but leaves the

weakness in

grades,
which makes a decline of Ic
market still 134c above the point rul-
last The cause of
the decline is simply that the specu-
small

September.

ing

lative statements as to. very
found to
Predictions
are not wanting that after the trade
well at the
price, it will be shoved back up, but
the
Looking over the general

the aspect is bullish

stocks in Brazil have been

be greatly exaggerated.

starts to buying

thas is im future
tell.
situation

will
crop

cot |

lower |

| cut of about 40,000 in Eastern Louisi- |
and time alone |

seems no reason whatever to expect

Peaches are near-
The price is
About the cheapest

ly cleaned up.
high.

very
grade that

can be bought on the coast to-day

iunless the

to come forward will stand the buy- |

er 934c laid down in the East.
is 3%c

moving

above ‘normal. Apricots are

out at unchanged prices.
Rice Jourmal & Gulf

Rice The

This |

The Produce Market.
Apples—The market is steady and
unchanged bbl.
Some varieties are being cleaned up,
while -they

at $2.25@2.50 per
are all more
last fall,
indications

expensive
than they were
the that
there will be plenty of stock to carry
until

the

However, are

other
Stock

the

come on market.

 

| dozen.

5

so large that it has become the fash-
ion in many large grocery stores to

|sell them by the peck instead of the

The result has been that the

| consumption has been increased and

| the movement is increased.

naturally. !

thus far taken from the refrigerators |

has shown excellent keeping quali-

ties and it is probable that there will |

be little if any loss from this cause.

| t34@z2c per Ib.

Bananas—$1 for small bunches and |

$1.50 for large.
the
been large

and
this

reduce stocks appreciably.

cheap, although movement

week has enough to

The
mand is good and another week will
likely see the market back where it
belongs at this season of the year—
weather should

turn very

bad.
3eets-——4oc per bu.

ButterCreameries are about 3c

lower than a week fetching 30c

ago,

for choice and 31c for fancy. Dairy

|grades are also on the down grade,

Coast Farmer reviews the rice situa- |

tion as follows:

up the crop is concerned it is gen-

erally recognized that unless this is

done the new rice year will open in

ues, while if the old rice is disposed
better
impelling

of it is reasonable to expect
fall.
rice to

‘his is
turn

this
owners of

prices

loose

"Se far as cleanime |

No.
24c and packing stock to 18c.

1 having been marked down to

ovated has declined to 26c.

Cabbage—soc per doz. Cabbage is

/on asteady to firm basis, but advances
August on a depressed level of val-|

their |

holdings even at extremely low prices |

instead of holding for a possible rise. |

It is difficult to estimate
except in the most general way, but
it is fairly certain that there will bea
Southwest

ana while the

acreages, |

Louisiana |

| reduction will be considerable—prob- |
ably not less than 20 per cent. In|

and it would seem that any decline |

but temporary. Package

brands have been reduced 4c.

must be

Canned Goods—Fruits are moving
better than last week.

Texas the reduction will

| large as in Louisiana, but the difficul-

The spring- |

like weather has brought out more of |

a demand, beyond a doubt. Cherries,

ty of getting tenants this year will
probably result in some Texas reduc-
tion. One thing is absolutely certain,

and it is one of the hopeful features

| of the situation—this crop will be the

peaches and apricots seem to be fav- |

ored and they are selling freely re-

gardless of the high prices that most |

of them are held at.

Other varieties |

are doing fairly well. Apples are mov- |

ing steadily, as they nearly always do.
Gallons scarce, but the
taking the standards in

are
them. A very good demand is noted
Prices are firm, but un-
Other of canned

for salmon.

changed. varieties

ever raised on the Gulf
coast, even cheaper than that of last
year.”

cheapest

Syrups and Molasses—Sugar_ syr-
up is without change in price. Mo-
\lasses is in excellent demand, and a
good trade is expected in it from

trade is |
place of!

fish are mostly firm. Corn is. un-
changed. The market holds fairly |
steady, except where it has’ been

| The

somewhat upset by the offerings of |

cheap corn mentioned | last

week. |
However, these are being dodged by |

the good trade and will soon cease |

to be a disturbing factor.

Other veg- |

etables are mostly unchanged. There |
is a good demand for beans, peas |

and pumpkin. Asparagus is in de-
mand, but is scarce and high. There
are indications that the tomato sur-

now on. Prices are unchanged
throughout.

Fish
50c per barrel on some marks and $1
per barrel on

Norways are

the large count marks.

fair. Sardines
unchanged as to price, although the
situation is steady to firm.

demand is

There is

no special demand, and will be none |}

until the weather warms.

strong but unchanged.

not be as}

| heads downward during

ino exception.

They are still plenty |

de- |

Ren- |

\(@z2: red

demand is normal. New Southern
stock has been received in Chicago |
and will reach this market before
long.

Carrots—qoc per bu.

 

Celery—3o0c per doz. bunches for
Michigan; 75@ooc for California.
Cranberries—Howes, $8 per bbl.;
y
Jerseys, $7.25 per bbl.
a a —
Egges—A decline of 3c has taken}
place in the egg market. The re-

ceipts have increased steadily the past

ten days and the demand, while good, |

has not. enlarged

Almost invariably the egg market

March, and
this year starts out as
Stock coming now is

lof excellent quality and “case count”

-Irish mackerel has advanced

are |

Cod, hake |

and haddock are unchanged and_ in|

seasonable demand. Salmon is’ in
the

opening.

that rule. about on

as last season’s Outside

brands of red Alaska salmon seem to | excellent quality.

same. basis |

sells close to “new laid.” The sec-|
ond grade—“current receipts can-
dled”—has been withdrawn as there |

is little use for it with eggs

so good. Local dealers pay 20c for

they are

to-day’s receipts, but not

running |

| pewa

guaranteeing prices, except from day |

to day.
“Grape Fruit—Florida stock com-|
mands $5.75 per box of either 64 or

54 size.
Grapes

-Malagas, $6@6.50 per keg. |

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@ |

¥2c and white clover at 13@I5Sc.
Lemons—Messinas, $2.50 and Cal-

formias $2.75. The frait is m good

| three or

correspondingly. |

if it would be |

| the

i i | old
are hardly looked for at present. The| °°

Parsley—35c per dozen bunches for

hot house.
Potatoes—Country buyers are pay
ing I2@ise. The market is in a

deplorable condition.

Pop Corn—goc for rice.

Poultry—The market is_ strong
and high, live commanding the fol-
lowing prices: Chickens, 11@t2c;
fowls, 10@11Ic; young turkeys, 15@
16c; old turkeys, 14@15c; ducks, 12
(@1t4c; geese, 8@oc. Dressed fetches

2 more than live Broil

ers, 22c per fb.; squabs,. $2.50 per doz.

Radishes—25c per doz. for round
and 30c for long.
Squash—1%c per tb. for Hubbard.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois
are steady at $3.50 per bbl.
half box.

Tangarines—$2 per

Turnips—4oc per bu.

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

Buffalo, Mar. 8—( fresh,

 

reaniery,

290@3ICc; fresh, 25@28c; poor,

Es@22¢: roll,

3(@20c.

—Chicks, 13@13%4c;

fowls, I2144@13c; turkeys, 17@10c;

ducks. I5@@r1oc; seese, I2@13c.

Dressed Poultry—Turkeys, 20@

gac; chicks, ~4@i5¢; towls, 1aq@ise;

cOx, Tic; ducks, 16@ISc; geese,

LI@T4c.
Beans—Hand picked marrows, new

$2.75(@ 3:

Ags mediums, $2.25; peas, $1.90

$2.50@2.75; white

kidney, $2.75@3.

Potatoes—Round white, 30@35c;

mixed and red, 25@28c.

Rea & Witzig.

manager of the mer-
Mitchell
Jennings, is

David Holmes,
cantile department of the

Brothers Company, at

taking a much-needed respite from
business and
After the
Washington, he is
old friend and business associate, E.
B. Wrisht, 2t Hub N.C. Later m

will Hot

cares responsibilities.
l at

his

attending inaugura

now visiting

month he turn up at

| Springs, Ark., where he will hobnob

| Jamaica, wi

supply.
Lettuce—Hot house is steady at|
toc per th.

Onions—The market is strong and

| steady on the basis of $1.10 per bu.
rather better enquiry on steady prices |

|

Oranges — California navels
steady at $2.35 for choice and $2.50
They are plentiful and of

The supplies are

are

for fancy.

with Boyd Pantlind, Billy Phelps
other noted Michiganders.

——__~ 2.
Sheridan—A corporation

1
under

and

has been
the style of the Chip-

Co.

formed
Farm Ltd., for the purpose
ot general farming and stock raising.
The company has an authorized capi
tal stock of
subscribed and paid in in cash.

$10,000, all of which is

S. A. Sears lett for Bos
ton, whence he sailed on Monday for
1

Friday

1ere he expects to remain

four weeks. Mrs. Sears ac-

companied him.
Frank H. Smith,
eral dealer, is spending a few days in
the 5
the sights.

the Fremont gen-

city, resting up and taking im
Mrs. Smith accompanies
him.
a a os
The C. W. Mills Paper Co. has re-
Ss and 7 Pear!

moved from street to

87 Campau street.

 

  

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dry Goods, Fancy Work, Books, |
Philately, Raincoats.
“History but repeats itself,’ and so}
do fashions. ’Tis said that anything
one possesses in the way of clothes
or furniture and furnishings will |
again become “in style’—if he but
wait long enough. Everything now
points to a prevalence of old styles
for the coming summer. All the
silks for the shirt waist suits, which
already are showing in the windows,
are a revival of the patterns and col-
oring in which our grandmothers re-
joiced.

There seems. to be nothing special
in belts, most of those in the win-
dows being of shaded or plain soft
taffeta, either shirred at regular dis-
tances or simply to be worn crushed.

The coats in the windows are of |
the three lengths—short, three-quar- |
ters and to the ground.

 

The redin- |
gotes are becoming to both young
and old. If a woman has an attrac-
tive figure and carries herself likea |
queen she looks well in one of these |
garments; and if her shape is of the |
no-account sort and she walks like |
a cow the redingote a boon for |

|

|

is
it conceals her many imperfections.

All the stores dealing in millinery
are displaying “foliage hats”
“flower hats.” These will be liked |
by those dressers who prefer
parel that “everybody wears.” The |
shaded chiffon veils will also appeal |
to the popular taste. Some of them |

and |

ap- |

are really very pretty, with their
graduated chenille dots set on in
points at the lower hem, and one

shows these dots in combination
with large detached silk poppy pet-

als. This last is entirely in gray.

One is just the color of fierce flames
—such a red as a Spanish senorita
would revel in.

All the stores are having muslin
underwear exhibits, in anticipation
of the summer needs that
line. These articles grow more and
more elaborate each year. The dain-
ty things are lovely for the one who
hasn’t to do them up, but the laun-
dering of them spells hours of labor

along

and “that tired feeling that won't
come off.”

The diaphanous dimities, lawns,
mousseline de soies and what not

give one the shivers just now, but
their turn will come by and by in
“the good old summer time.” It
not a bit too soon to begin to think
of these dresses and many ladies are

is

laying in their stock now so as to
have their pick of the first arrivals.

Such queer names as these are tick-
eted on the new silks for shirt waist
suits shown by one of the leading
dry goods houses: Bunual, Rajah,
Khediva, Philos silk. With these go
beautiful Arabian-design laces em-
broidered with chenille and silk in

evening tints.
a. =. +
So much attention is given to house

decoration nowadays that one sees

 

| whole sections of store fronts de-
| voted to “fancy work” alone.

One
of the stamped pieces in Hardanger
cloth bears the picture of a man of

|ye Colonial time standing at a well- |
| spread board, glass in hand, a smile |
These lines accompany |

on his lips.

ithe picture at the top:
|“Fere’s to the Maiden of bashful fif-

teen,

Here’s to the Widow of fifty;
Here’s to the flaunting extravagant
Queen,
Here’s . to
thrifty!”
Below one reads this:
“Let the toast pass,
Drink to the lass;
I’ll warrant she’ll
prove an excuse

For the glass.”

the Housewife that’s

“ec *

Here are some of the books to

which the Millard Palmer Co. would |

The Home Coming of C. D.

call the attention of the
thinking public:

“The Life of Pope Leo XIIL,” an

reading,

illustrated memorial edition; “Judg- |

ment,” by Alice Brown; “My Appeal
by Charles Wagner,
author of “The Simple Life;” “Toasts

to America,”

for the Times, Pictures and Rhymes,” |

by John William Sargent, illustrated
by Nella Fontaine Buckley, the cover
announcing it to be “The only toast
book published in which every toast
is illustrated”—it should prove valua-
able after-dinner speakers looking
for something bright and witty for
banquets.

+ = &

The philatelist will be
interested the timbrological dis-
play in the window of A. J. Shell-
man, who is located on the north side
of Monroe street near the intersec-
tion of Ottawa.

On a large piece of shade cloth

in

 

especially |

 

|are pinned perhaps a hundred and
|fifty stamped and addressed enve-
|lopes that have come to this optical
| goods house from all parts of the
| world. The exhibit is worth the trip
of any dealer roundabout who buys
his wares in the Grand Rapids mar-
| ket.

*

* *

In one of Spring’s windows are

|some Arts and Crafts rugs—rag Car-
|

'pet affairs that take the beholder
| way back to his old aunt’s or grand-

'mother’s home. The placard says
| they are:
Pilgrim Rugs
for

Porches and Summer Homes.

They remind the observer of the
old-fashioned bedroom that Mrs.
Cleveland fitted up when she reigned
the White House.

*

in
‘

-axter is showing some generous-

Crittenden from California.

| proportioned raincoats for men and
| Spring for women. The former are
mostly of the “pepper and salt” va-
| riety, the latter a very stylish shade
| of navy blue, bordering on the Royal
| blue. The lady’s garment is the
i three-quarter length and is plainin
icut, which makes it all the
chic.

more

[ quote what follows from a high
| authority on modes:
| “In these latter days the business
| woman and the woman of wealth and
; fashion are both alike well equipped
|to fare forth in all winds and weath-
| ers, the one doubtless from choice
|and the other from necessity.
| “The vogue of the long coat and
|the full-length wrap has given anew
|impetus to the raincoat, as it is so
| often called, though in most cases
|the title is misleading.
“Not that the garments themselves
j are not rainproof or waterproof, for

 

all of the satins are now put forth
with nothing but an added luster
to tell the tale of their trip through
the waterproofing machines.

“But it is that the coats themselves
are smart, the lines so. fashionable
and the materials themselves so de-
sirable in every way that the so-
called raincoat is made to do duty
pretty nearly as much in fair weather,
when the sun shines, as on the rainy
days, which first gave occasion for
their use.

“For traveling, as an all-over aft-
ernoon or evening wrap, and, _in-
deed, for everyday wear upon any
and all occasions, these full-length
coats are eminently desirable. All
through the winter there were many
smart and clever dressers who used
their cloth raincoats as a street wrap,
meeting the vagaries of the ther-
mometer by the addition of a wool-
en sweater or waistcoat beneath the
coat, a contrivance that the prevail-

| ing looseness of cut favors.”

Then the writer goes on to say:
“The latest idea of Dame Fashion

that the curves and lines of the fig-

ure must be displayed is strictly ad-

|hered to in the very latest produc-

tions in the raincoat line.”

So much for this very popular wrap.

lorn . - - mi
| There is no more practical piece of
| apparel that a woman can purchase

than one of these serviceable coats.
They cost a penny or two at first
(just about 4,000 of them for the
best!), but the outlay is a good in-
vestment as they are adaptable for

iso many different occasions, even as

The creations
are

said, for evening wear.

coming from Paris veritable

| dreams!

 

a
Fruit Outlook Good in Georgia.
Atlanta, March 6—Reports

from the fruit sections of the State

Olds

are coming in and railroad men say
that the outlook
more encouraging.
show that a number
and some of the old
trees in the northern part of
State were injured, many of
young trees escaped entirely.
prospects from the Southern
chards are all of the brightest and
it is believed that owing to the large
number of new trees which will be-
gin bearing this year the crop will
reach, if not that of last
There were over 4,000 cars of
peaches shipped from Georgia nurser-
ies in 1904.

is growing
these re-
of the
Elberta
the
the
The

OT

daily
While
ports
buds

exceed,
year.

 

 

TYPHOID FEVER
DIPHTHERIA
SMALLPOX

_The germs of these deadly diseases mul-

tiply in the decaying glue present in all
hot water kalsomines, and the decaying
paste under wall paper.

_Alabastine is a disinfectant. It destroys
disease germs and vermin; is manufac-
tured from a stone cement base, hardens
on the wall, and is as enduring as the
wall itself.

Alabastine is mixed with cold water.
and any one can apply it.

Ask for sample card of beautiful tints.
Take no cheap substitute.

Buy only in 5 th. pkgs. properly labeled.

ALABASTINE CO.
Office and Factory, Grand Rapids, Mich.
New York Office, 105 Water St.

 

 

 

BUTCHERS’ BANQUET.

One Hundred and Fifty Meat Deal-
ers Touch Elbows.

The second annual banquet of the
Master Butchers’ Association of
Grand Rapids which was held at the
Livingston Hotel Monday evening,
March 6, was by far the most suc-
cessful affair of the kind ever given
by any local organization of meat
dealers, both in point of attendance
and interest. Last year there were
102 present. This year 152 partici-
pated in the affair. The menu and
service were both in keeping with the

excellent reputation of Landlord Mac- |

Lean, who had given special attention
to the music and decorations, with ex-
cellent results.

The invocation was pronounced by
Rev. W. John Hamilton, and after
the discussion of the material portion
of the programme, President Kling
called the assembly to order and de-

livered the following introductory re- |
marks, at the conclusion of which he |
turned the gathering over to Geo. G.|

Whitworth as toastmaster:

By way of apology, permit me to!

say that my speech, like the sausage

we sell, is strictly home made and!

that a little goes a good ways.

There was a time when the privi-|
lege of attending a banquet was en-|

 

 

W. J. Kling

 

joyed only by those who were fortu-
nate enough to claim membership in
some society of the select. To-day
the greatest and most successful
banquets are those given under the
auspices of business men. At these
functions the orators are at their
best, important issues are presented
and discussed as they can be at no
other time, impressions are made
which furnish food for thought for
many days to come. Our toastmas-
ter and the speakers who have kind-
ly consented to address us are men
who long since have made a reputa-
tion as being among the best after-
dinner speakers in our State, and I
hope that we may be able to measure

up to the standard as it will be pre-|
Pleasing |

sented by them to-night.
as has been our feast thus far,
best still to follow.

We have a purpose in coming here
and gathering around the festive
board. We hope to establish more
of confidence in each other, for con-
fidence is the bridge that spans many
an abyss and leads us on to the
pleasant places that lie beyond the
canyon of doubt and despair. We
need to know each other better and
become closer friends. We need to

the

is

become more familiar with our busi- | [iS

j
|
|
|

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

: : | : |
|ness, for the meat business is one of| properly, give patrons honest and

|the leading avenues through which

the public gets its food. Do we stop |

| to think how near we are to the peo-|

| ple’s health?

jer part of the food we handle and

ed, but must be used as we send it.
We need to realize the importance
of properly caring for meat food. We

the meetings of our Association
where these questions are consider-
jed and by the interchange of ideas
|come to adopt better methods. We
|need your attendance at our pleas-
lant monthly meetings, so that you
may be able to assist in placing the
| meat business upon a higher plane—
iI might say the _ highest
| plane consistent with its importance

| sumption.

possible

of supplying so particular and deli-|
cate a food as meat for human con-}
We owe this to the peo-|

We almost hold it in|}
ithe hollow of our hand. The great-|

sell can neither be washed nor par-|

need to come in touch with the men|
who think about their business, that |
we may give better service. We need}

| ple and, ‘when we give to the people|
| that which is their due, then and not}

| until then shall we be counted worthy
|to occupy a place among
men.

Ours is an important mission and
only he is worthy to follow. it
who will not betray his trust, and

| business

‘us to keep well to the front orthere
| will come those who will take
places and we shall be among the
| “have-beens” of the past.

| Mr. Whitworth made the usual pre-
| liminary remarks in happiest
called

his

}manner and upon
i dress, in which the meat business and

municipal affairs were. strangely
blended.
Ek. A. Stowe responded to the topic
of price-cutting as follows:
elevate the
business?”

price-cutting
or the meat

“Does
standard

tO give answer to, and [| can
help smiling as. I contemplate
magnificent insolence that goes with
such a query. Accordingly, you gen-
tlemen of the knife, the steel and the
cleaver, must pardon me if, in turn,

sciously impertinent.
The question asked is on a par
with the enquiry: Does it help the

or chops or roasts?

good meats, handle those’ meats

in this day of progress it behooves |

leading |

prompt service and put as little of
the business “on the books” as pos-
sible. Incidentally, other details too
well known for mention are required.
As a general proposition the business
of a dealer in meats, be he a jobber
or a retailer, is no different from the
business of any other wholesaler or
retailer. The one thing not neces-
sary in business—business of any
kind—is a deliberate and sustained ef-
fort to reach the bankruptcy court
at the earliest possible moment. A
calamity such as this comes all too
easily and may be avoided only
shunning every practice or

by |
device |

which is not only unfair to your com- |
petitors, but unjust to yourself. My|

observation is that a meat dealer
who cuts prices almost invariably
finds it necessary to liquidate. Nor
is this all.

While the cutting mania}

is rampant, every other dealer in the|

vicinity finds it exceedingly difficult
to do business.

The price cutter not |}

only deprives himself of the profit |

he must have to do business success-
fully, but he places an effectual em-
bargo on the prosperity of every deal-
er who tries to do business within

ithe sphere of his influence.

our |

| and

Thus runs the enquiry I am expected |
not |
the |

I am equally guileless and so, uncon-}

meat business to sell putrid steaks |
| me

The meat business depends, chiefly, |
upon the ability of a dealer to select}

First among the essentials to be
possessed by every man who engages
in the meat business—or any
standard business—must be
realization of the fact that there is
an ever-increasing amount of busi-
ness to be attended to—enough at
all times for all who conduct their
business with discretion,
with a devotion

7

ed up on the counter of a meat mar-
ket in a nearby city, left there unin-
tentionally by a man who, after buy-
ing what he came for, went his way,
carrying two large baskets filled with
groceries, produce, meats, etc. This
order is explicit. It says:

I pound of M. & J. coffee—at Mark-
ham’s.

20 pounds gran. sugar—at the Peo-
ple’s Store.
West & Sons

Go

“OOS
eggs.

to for 4 doz.

Get 5 pounds leaf lard at the Cen-
tral.

Roast of beef, six pounds,
shaw’s, 60 cents.

3 pounds Porterhouse, 35
Bleazby’s.

6 cans corn, 25 cents, at the Grange
Store.

Now what does this prove? It
proves that the public is quick to
"eatch om; that “leaders” are a sign
of weakness and are creators of
weakness. Here was a man who had
visited seven distinct establishments,
buying five dollars’ worth of stuff,
approximately, saving perhaps Ioto
20 per cent. of the cost to himself
and imposing an equal loss, propor-

at Hen-

cents, at

| tionately, upon seven different deal-

other |
a clear}

honestly |
single to that |
__| business. When conditions are other- |
Mayor] —. ane ee : a
ne ' | wise, it is not the fault of the meats, |
i Sweet, who delivered an excellent ad- |

the prices, or the public one caters |

to. It is the fault, usually, of either
the location of the business or the
manner in which it conducted.
Price-cutting is but one among
many tricky devices evolved from the

is

brain of lazy human excrescences
who are continually fastening such

warts on the face of business by de-
luding thoughtless and = avaricious
merchants into the belief that they
help business. Not so.  Price-cut-
ting does not help. Trading stamps
do not help. Guessing contests, lot-
tery distributions and all similar
fakements can not be classed as bas-
ed on the elementary principles of
business and so, can not, legitimately,
be of any permanent value in busi-
ness.

I fancy I hear some one of you ask
if it is not legitimate and wise
to once in awhile run a “leader” or
two, and in reply to that permit me
to read to you an order recently pick-

 

  

purposes.

 

      

Spas

“There’s Another Reason’”’

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Jennings Extracts Established 1872

The burning of Flavoring Extracts, especially lemon, seems to have been a line of warfare
on the Jennings Brand during the past year, as the Jennings Flavoring Extract Co. uses as little
grain alcohol as possible and produces an absolutely pure, full strength Extract for flavoring

Now, Mr. Grocer, if you will stop and reflect, wood alcohol will burn as readily and as clean
as grain alcohol, and if you will read carefully the Annual Report of the Dairy and Food Com-
missioner of Michigan for 1904, you will find therein listed some well-known brands that are now
on the market and reported as having wood alcohol present.
will burn because the test has been paraded up and down the state during the past year, trying to
injure our well-known and reliable brand’s «Jennings Terpenless Extract Lemon,” «Jennings
Mexican Extract Vanilla,’’ which have bezn standard in quality for more than 30 years.

Yon know these brands of Extracts

Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.

ers without doing one of them a
cent’s worth of benefit.
Whenever I see a tradin stamp

opportunity, a guessing race, a prize
contest, or leaders offered at prices
showing no profit, I seem to see the
public take the form of that im-
possible mule we see pictured in the
Sunday newspaper supplements. She

is laying her ears back, looking at
her victim out of the corners of her
eyes and drawing her heels away up

abreast of her shoulder blades pre-
paratory to sending her prey through
the courts of law and into the
livion of failure, “And her name
Maud.”

A. E. Ewing discussed the subject,
If I Were in manner
which added credit to his already well

ob-

is

a Butcher, a

won laurels.

Lev: Pearl was assigned the sub-
ject, Is
it ample justice.

Business Business, and did |

clos-

then
of

‘Toastmaster Whitworth
ed the
cellent

program with his

talks

one
to elevate the
thoughts and lift the aspirations and

cA

calculated

ambitions of those present, when the
affair closed with the singing of Auld
Lang Syne.

     
       
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
       

    

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

RICHIGANPADESMAN

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OF BUSINESS MEN.

 

 

 

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E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

Wednesday, March 8, 1905

 

 

THE THING TO DO.

It is well-nigh three good months
to far-off June and yet the talk has
already begun of the event that is
coming off then. The all-important

 

longing eyes into a most attractive
store window on Monroe street were
not of the world’s financially favored
few. Dress and speech and manner
pronounced them in every way the
simply well-to-do, and in the pres-
ence of the silks and satins and laces
they had to talk of the surely com-
ing day. “It’s well enough to think
of,” said the coming bride, “and papa
can afford it; but Jimmy can’t. The
and the lace are fine; but we
are going to be married for years
and years and these things last only

satin

He is going to marry me, not
these. It isn’t going to lessen the
temperature of the kitchen or the
stove where I am cooking griddle-

a day.

| cakes to be married in these, and a

|

question has been tremblingly asked |

and as trustingly answered,

and |

mother and daughter are deeply in- |

terested in all that pertains to the | en you Mary to keep house for you
/and here you are talking about three- |

getting breakfast.

ringing of the wedding bells.

If fortunate transactions at the
stock exchange, recent or remote,
have rendered the matter at all pos-
sible the programme is
easily carried out. The

easy

four

| ply

five-hundred-dollar dress packed

away in the wardrobe will never har- |
| . . ° i |
|monize with our little sitting room |

all

and

with
very well for those who
will; but for Jim and I it isn’t the
thing to do.”

“You are talking nonsense.

carpeted three-ply. It is

can

Your
father has provided for you hand-
Jim is going to have a raise
Your house

somely.
in position and _ salary.

will be finished and furnished and
|ready for you to go into when you
come back from your trip. I’ve giv-

carpets and

| Perhaps you intend to do your own
| washing!”

and |
hun- |

dred and a constantly increasing plus |

informed and
fine trousseau from the famous

are
city
across the sea is nearing completion,
the bridal veil, sacred to the memory

of a long line of have-been brides, |

also of a long line to be, is brought
forth with tender recollection
passed along, the home is placed in
the hands of skillful experience with
the admonition, purely American,
“Never mind the expense,” the church
authorities have timely warning of
the florist’s coming,
the rector are spoken to in time, the

organist, sure of satisfactory recom- |

pense, practices to perfection the
well-known wedding march and then
at the appointed day and_ hour,
through the be-spangled and all-see-

ing crush, daughter and

liantly heralded and attended, pass |

and |

the bishop and}

father, bril- |

“requested,” a'|

| . .
i ple one, simply carried out.

“Why shouldn’t 1?) You did;’ and
the talkers passed on.

The young couple will have a wed-
in June it will be a joy to at-
The programme will be a sim-
It will

ding
tend.

| be a church wedding with no ostenta-

tion. The friends of the two will

ibe there and at the appointed hour

the young man and the young wom-
an, unattended, will meet the minister
at the altar rail; man and wife they
will leave the church, by all odds
the best place to solemnize the wed-

| ding ceremony, and if the house is

|

up the aisle, a figure in black takes |

his place beside the vision in white,
a circlet of gold—too often the only
thing simple and true in the throng—

completes the circuit of groom and|

priest and bride, “I charge ye both”
is said with fervor, and an
after man and wife, with God’s bene-
diction upon them, pass out to the
waiting carriage, and after a tour in
Europe the pair come home to re-
ceive their friends
surroundings, thence to travel on to-
gether to the bourn from which no
traveler returns. It is the thing to
do if they can and will, and it ought
to be done without envy, hatred and
malice by those who are there to
see and especially by those who can
only hear and read.

among

The mother and daughter, however,

instant |

splendid |

ready they will go home and so be-
gin their married life that way be-
cause that is the thing to do and the
way to do.

There are young people in Grand
Rapids, not on the fine residence
streets, who have looked into each
other’s eyes and have seen there what
they rejoice to know. There is
money with them or behind them,
but long before

no

“The cuckoo-buds of yellow hue

Do paint the meadows with delight,”
they will go to church in the simple,
respectable clothes they have paid for

and with the triangle-traveled ring on

the bride’s finger will have their first
meal in the little home which they
set up that day, “An ill-favored thing,
sir, but my own.” There is no car-
pet on the floor; but they love each
other. There are steel forks and no
silver spoons; but they
His

her gown is

love
a hand-me-down
self-made; but
Adam and Eve were in Paradise and
they “got along” with fig-leaf aprons.
So the little home is their paradise
and the song of the morning stars

other. suit is

and

is not so joy-burdened as theirs. It
who stood on Saturday looking with|was the one thing for them to do
0 gs

each |

and they did it; and in the whole
round of homes and wedded life, for
that very reason this last promises
the best.

It will be found to be always so.
The simple is the first law of nature,
for this underlies order, which Pope
declares to be the first law of heav-|
The million-dollar wedding is |

en.
well enough for the millionaire—it is |
the insignificant part of a most sig- |
nificant whole—but it is only the
magnificent setting of the simple “I |
will” then and there pronounced. The |
happy home life of the well-to-do |
may be brightened by “Rings and |
things and fine array,” but the sim-
ple living will be found to be the}
best living whether the wife’s hand
blesses the food she prepares or not:
and more than one happy man and
woman who read these lines look
back, from their abundant prosperi- |
ty, to that time when they two, poor}
as the traditional church mouse, be-

gan life together in scanty rooms |
with scanty furnishings as the hap-
their Of this

The simple in love |

piest days of lives.
we may be sure:
and marriage, faithfully and strenu-
ously followed, will go far to inten-|
sify the home the |
home influence which a lax civil iaw |

is doing its best to undermine and |

sacredness and

 

| destroy.

elaine
In 1870 the tropical products im-
| ported into the United States were
valued at $140,000,000.
aggregated $465,000,000, including re- |
ceipts from Hawaii and Puerto Rico. |
The principal items were sugar, cof-|
fee, tea, rice, rubber and silk. The
per capita consumption of tropical
products by the people of the United
States has also increased since 1870,
having been in that year but $3.63, |
while in 1904 it was $5.69, and this,
too, despite the great decline in prices |
during this thirty-four years.

Based
upon the high prices prevailing in
1870, the importations of tropical
| products last year would representa |
| total valuation quite
$1,000,000,000.
such

 

of nearly or
Inasmuch as

we are
good customers the people of |
the tropics ought to be very good
friends of ours, reciprocating by tak- |
That they |
do not trade more largely with us|
is chiefly our fault, for little has been |
to encourage

ing more of our products.

done their patronage. |
Uncle Sam is shrewd, but he has not
yet made himself a factor in many
markets to which he could

Casy access.

 

There is no danger that the Rus-
sian government, if it survives its|
troubles, will not inflict the severest |
punishment upon those

|
|
|
|
obtain |
|
|
|

who have |
contributed to the present unpleas-
antness. It will wait for the acute
stage of the disturbance to pass be-
fore beginning reprisals, but they are
;sure to come. Those who had ex-
pected the authorities would showa
spirit of magnanimity and tolerance
have an indication of what to expect
jin the release and the instant rear-
rest of Maxim Gorky. Participants
in the present revolution should!
make it successful if they would es- |
cape the vengeance that is otherwise |
inevitable,

 

 

lly anticipated. It
| lative

| movement

the labor question.
lof the

In 1904 they].

| for spring.

lin securing deliveries.

 

GENERAL TRADE REVIEW.

For many weeks there has been a
feeling that the long continued ap-
preciation of values must meet an
interruption, and this feeling has fin-
ally to bring the effect de-
sired by the element which benefits
but fortunately to a
much less degree than was general-
would that
the failure of several promised specu-
combinations,

served
by reaction,
seem

which
upward

schemes
the
progressing in

have served to keep
several
with the

of the unusually slow spring

leading lines, combined

waiting

season, is giving an opportunity
which the reactionists could ill af-
| ford to. lose. Before the reaction
the level of sixty leading railway
stocks came within $2.50 per share
lof reaching the highest on record.
While it is generally considered that

the the advance is

no more than a healthy stopping to

interruption in

gather strength for a further advance,

lat the same time serving to shake

out the usual proportion of reckless
operators, the effect is to materially

llessen the volume of operations un

til advancing spring and growing in-
dustrial activity serve to set the ball
rolling again.

The
ment in the industrial world is again
While the effects
market

most serious disturding: ele-

strikes on conditions
as yet are hardly perceptible, there
doubt that a long continued
struggle in either the New England

or the subway strikes will exert a

1S” T1O

serious influence on trade in the me-
tropolis.

In most parts of the Northern

| country the condition is one waiting

Operations are being pro-

| jected on the largest scale and the
|slow opening gives opportunity to
| perfect plans so as to push enter

prises with the greater activity when
the time comes.
ing large orders
and equipment, and as a consequence
of this and the demand for structural

Railways are plac-

for improvement

| materials iron and steel furnaces and

mills are maintaining the greatest ac-
better
even

Textiles are also in a
than in
cotton goods beginning to look as

tivity.
condition years past,
though buyers would have difficulty

Wool has fin-

ally come to a standstill in price, but

mills are reported fully active. The
higher prices in footwear and mate-
rials still operate to hold off fall
business, but current work is. still

steady.

Communistic enterprises have ne\
er proven successful beyond a_ few
vears. The Amanites of Iowa, one
of the strongest co-operative compan-
ies in America, are to break up their
society and go out in the world. The
tules of the community were too
strict and the serpent has entered the
Eden and inflicted an incurable bite.

 

Poland has suffered an oppression
that would have sniffed out the
light of countries less hardy. But the
present indications are that the day

| of judgment for the oppressor is not

very far in the future,

eed

=

eear enter

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

THE BELDING BANQUET.

First Annual Spread of Business
Men’s Association.

The first annual banquet of the
Belding Business Men’s Association
was held at the Hotel Belding Friday
evening, March 3, and like everything
else in which Belding business men
or the Hotel Belding have a hand,
the affair was high grade-and up-to-
date from start to finish. The menu
was superb. The service was excel-
lent and the decorations and music
were all that could be desired.

At the conclusion of the repast
President Ireland, who had been. se-
lected to act as toastmaster, introduc-
ed the literary portion of the  pro-
gramme by the following remarks:

As President of the Belding Busi-
ness Men’s Association, I greet the
ladies who grace this occasion, the

heads and managers of our splendid
factories and milis, and also my

brother merchants, who have made}

possible this very pleasant occasion.

_These are days of clubs, associa-
tions, combinations and _ trusts. I
have felt for a number of years that
Relding has, in one respect, at least,
been a little behind our progressive
and up-to-date cities in not having
a live and active Association or Board
of Trade.

T hesitated about taking the ini-
tiative—for reasons well known to
my most intimate friends, who know
of my modest and retiring disposi-
tion.

3ut the Association was formed,
and almost to a man the merchants,
professional men and factory mag-
nates have joined and helped to push
it along. No mention of prices.

In the short time since the organi-
zation, we have accomplished much
for ourselves in abolishing certain
abuses, in curtailing undesirable cred-
its and in awakening to the danger
to us of the large catalogue houses—
the large amount of goods that is
being bought outside our city.
Through the efforts of our Associa-
tion an ordinance has been passed
by the city council requiring a li-
cense for peddlers before they can
canvass the city, although I am sor-
ry to say that this ordinance was op-
posed by some members of the Coun-
cil who are members of our Associa-
tion, and some of our city officers
fail in their sworn duty to enforce
this righteous law.

But, to my mind, the best things
accomplished are the better feeling
engendered between our fellow mem

bers of both different and similar
lines, the cultivation of our social
natures and, last but by no means

least, this delightful evening, made
possible by the organization and
work of our Association.

Our work is far-reaching. Com-
paratively little do we comprehend
the amount of good accomplished by
our organization. Those of us who
have been in Association work can
see the changes and have some
knowledge of the betterments in
business relations, but none can tell
the full benefit to merchant and busi-
ness man. In legislation we are a
power. In our social relations, one
with the other, we are now men in-
stead of competitors with the one
idea of winning success by crushing
our rivals. Each merchant respects
his business rival; he realizes that
he has the right to do business, even
in the same line of trade. Friendly
relations are maintained and the two
meet with no rancor or_ hatred.
Hence the business life is more sat-
isfactory from the standpoint of
the Golden Rule. Whereas, perhaps,
we used to endeavor to “do” our
neighbor, we now make it our aim
to do unto him as we would he
should do unto us. This, I say, is

is scattered all over the lot

 

 

far preferable to any one who hasa
spark of manhood. It insures a
peace of mind that is elevating, it|
is the ideal of business life.

A son of Erin who believed in the |
Golden Rule had a disagreeable task |
to perform. He was selected to in-|
form Mrs. McCarty that her husband |
had been killed by an explosion at}
the quarry. Finnegan said to him-
self: “Now, me mon, do to the poor
woman as you would have McCarty
do to Mrs. Finnegan if you had been
blown.to atoms.” With this firm re-
solve he rapped at the door of the
lowly cottage. A plump woman an-
swered the summons. “And is the|
Widow McCarty in?” said Finnegan. |
“And shure she is not,” came the re- |
sponse, “for there is no Widow Mc- |
Carty. I am Mrs. McCarty, if you}
want to see me, I am at your service.” |
Here Finnegan lost his bearings, but |
with the quick wit for which the |
race is noted he replied: “Ill bet)
you tin dollars you're the Widow |
McCarty--your husband is kilt and
? Now

town. If they are hustlers and up
to date so is the town. If they are
slow, slack in their collections, lax
in their methods, loose in their hab-
its, the town and its inhabitants suf-
fer correspondingly. I have often
said that our customers are what
we make them.

The merchant can often do more
in instilling into the mind and heart
of his customers common honesty
and right methods than can the min-
ister. Brother merchant, do you real-

| ize what is expected of you, and what

responsibility are you willing to shoul-
der?

The average merchant is optimis-
tic. He can not afford to be other-
wise. Still we must admit that each
year the average merchant’s expenses
are more and profits less, and our
only salvation is in increasing busi-
ness. Centralization is hurting the
small merchant. The large catalogue
house is our competitor, and, while
it has as good a right to do business
as we have, still we do object to

 

 

 

 

 

T. Frank Ireland, President Belding Business Men’s Association.

 

Finnegan meant to do the job very
pleasantly, but was swerved from his |
course by an unlooked-for gust that}
blew across his brow. Let us take)
warning and keep to the course re-|
gardless of contrary winds that are
liable to confront us in our business |
relations with our neighbor.

It is an easy matter to dismiss the |
claim of the ideal by the assertion,
“Business is business.” It is easy to}
repudiate the claims of practical life
upon the men and women who con-
cern themselves with ideal relations |
and sanctions by declaring that no
programme is necessary to the aca-|
demic reasoner.

Business is not heartless. The)
teachers, the preachers and all others |
who serve the ideal life of Belding |
are as necessary to its welfare, and|
are doing as real business in the to-
tal productiveness of life, as are the |
men who make and sell our mantu-|
factured products around the world. |

But, to return to the practical: On|
the business men more than on any
other class depends the success ofa

land seventy sell them only

its dishonest advertising and dis-
reputable methods.

Speaking for the hardware trade,
| will say that we have State organ-
izations in nineteen States, as well
as a National Association. Through
the efforts of the Joint Hardware
Committee, 490 manufacturers refuse
absolutely to sell catalogue houses
under
price restriction. We feel that, had
the other lines of trade accomplished
as much, our troubles in this direc-
tion would be lessened.

Through the kind efforts of Au-
eust W. Machin all the lists of the
R. F. D. routes were furnished the
large catalogue houses, and now you
will find one of their catalogues in
every farmer’s house, as well as a
good many in city residences and

 

| also find Mr. Machin in prison.

While the cheap stuff bought of
the catalogue houses in the country
districts hurts our trade, it does not
compare with the damage done our
business by city people going out
of town to trade, under the plea that

 

they can not find what they want
here. The men or women who habit-
ually do their trading outside their
own town are traitors to their city
and not worthy to receive its school,
church or social benefits.

We might speak of the Parcels
Fost Bill—whose passage we _ have
succeeded in preventing up to the
present—and other measures which
help the city mail order houses to
the detriment of the small retailer,
but this subject is too large for one
evening, and, lest I tire you, I will
close with this admonition to all the
members of our Association:

Let us constantly make deposits in
the world’s bank of honesty, straight-
forwardness, sincerity and honorable
deeds, and destroy all checks of bad
faith, deception and hypocrisy. In
this way we shall cultivate and ac-
cumulate a fortune of confidence
which reverses produced by condi-
tions over which we have no control
can never affect; and the credit bas-
ed upon such a capital will never be
reduced unless we forfeit it our-
selves.

W. D. Ballou presented a talk on
Our Ruler, which was interspersed
with humorous stories and_ timely
comparisons. The effort was an able
one, reflecting much credit upon the
speaker.

iC
ject, Our Neighbors, in a way to add

Sheldon discussed the sub-

many laurels to the fame he enjoys
as a brilliant advocate and after-din-
ner speaker.
E. B. Lapham spoke on the sub-
ject, Our Citizens, as follows:
Occasions like this are always a
source of much pleasure, gratification

|and amusement to me, as I have no

doubt they are to all the remainder
of you. It is a pleasure to sit and
listen to the words of wit and wis-
dom that emanate from the speakers,
especially the gentle zephyrs that
come soughing like the notes of the
whispering pines through the lips of
our stately roastmaster; gratifying to
the appetite, especially if the spread
is as fine a one as we have been dis-
cussing to-night; and extremely amus-
ing, because it affords the toastmas-
ter an opportunity to usurp the au-
thority of roastmaster and lay it hot
and heavy on us poor fellows, like
Ballou and Sheldon, who are practi-
cally the whole thing, so far as furn-
ishing the real entertainment of the
evening is concerned.

Now, this is a business men’s ban-
quet and I am to speak on the toast,
Our Citizens. I take it that those
terms, business men and citizens, are
pretty closely connected. You speak
about one and you mean the other,
and when you are talking about the
other, you mean the one. Many of
our citizens are business men and all
of our business men are citizens.Now,
I desire to register my convictions
that there is not another city in
the United States that has a finer,
better looking, better behaved class
of citizens than you will find right
here in Belding; and this excellent
citizenship, I think, may be attribut-
ed in a large measure to the fact that
many of them own their homes or
are paying for them in such a way
that it is not burdensome to doso,
and usually home owning and
good citizenship go hand in hand.

Our industries, the factories and
mills and business houses, also play
an important part in the making of
good citizens by their systems, ac-
tive methods, their requirements for
promptness and the scrupulously neat
and clean surroundings they require
of their employes. All these require-
ments are educators and serve asan
incentive to become better men, bet-
ter women, better sweethearts.

Then there are our’ schools and
churches and fraternal societies—all
of them important factors in round-

 

 

10

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

|

ing out character, which makes good |}
citizens.

Then there are our old pioneer cit- |
izens who settled here in the early |
days of underbrush, log heaps and}
pine stumps and brought with them |
sturdy characters and business tact |
and ability that have lent a charm |
to the situation and shed a whole-|
some influence that has been felt all |
through the life of our city from its|
infancy to the present age, among}
whom are our honored Mayor, Robert |
M. Wilson, and his sweetheart, whom |
I am pleased to note are able to be}
with us to-night.

There should be the greatest good |
feeling and harmony existing be-|
tween the business man and the cit-
izen. They should stand by each
other loyally and all work for the
best interests of the city and the
common good.

The only way to build up a town
is for all to go hand in hand, every|
man to the wheel. Banish all feel-|
ings of discord, if any, let harmony |
prevail, and you are sure to prosper. |
Talk about your town, push it, speak
well of it, encourage your people at
the head of municipal affairs, choke |
the croakers, beautify the streets in|
every way, patronize its merchants, |
refrain from sending outside for
goods.

Keep your dollars in circulation
in your own community, and you are |
likély to find a few of them in your
own pocket quite frequently; send
them away and they are gone for
good.

Advertise in the newspapers, fav-
or home enterprise always, and if
you can not say something good,
keep quiet. You are all hustlers—
keep it up. Be courteous to stran-
gers who come among you so they
will go away with a good impression.
Always cheer up the men who go
in for improvements. Don’t kick
about “unnecessary” improvements
because they are not right at your
door, or for fear your taxes will be
raised a few cents. Let everybody
labor in sympathy and harmony.

Rey. J. W. Sheehan discussed Our
Wives in a manner that was calcu-
lated to arouse the enthusiasm of the
audience and demonstrated that his
reputation as a pulpit orator is fully
deserved.

E. A. Stowe spoke on the Advan-
tages of Co-operation. His talk will}
be found verbatim elsewhere in this
week’s paper.

The affair was a happy one from
start to finish. Nothing occurred to
mar the pleasure of the
Each speaker confined himself to his
subject and did not encroach upon
the prerogatives of the other speak-
ers, nor was there any attempt on
the part of anyone to Say anything
that reflected on anyone, either pres-
ent or absent.

+2

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

The “cleaning up” process in the
wholesale egg market, which began
when our receipts dropped to such
small proportions two weeks ago, has

occasion.

'tual momentary requirements. For |

| - .
|come in during the day and on

 

 

continued to the close, the market |
having been very well cleared of ac-
cumulations in the meantime. The
decline from 35c to 30c in the price
for fresh firsts placed the market in
an apparently healthy position. Ar-
rivals were running light—consider-
ably below the consumption needs
even at the full prices ruling—and as
jobbers had worked out their own
stocks pretty closely a larger share
of the trade requirements had tobe
supplied from the wholesale market.

 

During the latter part of last week

the trade was sufficient to use not |

lonly the light current arrivals but |

most of the remaining stock in first |
hands, and as this was generally of-|
fered freely the supply and demand |
balanced, and
with some}

were pretty evenly
prices were sustained
steadiness.

At the opening of this week the |
market was in an interesting and |
somewhat critical position. _Warm-
er weather had prevailed in the prin-
cipal producing sections for rather

more than a week and advices had

|indicated a gradual increase in pro-|

duction From some sections there

were offers to sell fair sized lots for |

current shipment at considerably |

'lower prices than lately ruling here, |

but while these indicated a_ break
here before very long there was a |
possibility that supplies might, in
the meantime, run short of the ac-

some time past our trade needs had|
averaged more than the receipts, the |
deficiency being supplied from accu- |
mulations on hand; these accumula-
tions were about exhausted, current
receipts were still very light, and
with the slow movement of freight
there was a question whether the ar-
rivals for a few days would prove
sufficient for urgent requirements.
On Monday there was barely enough
fresh stock to go around and on
Tuesday there was a shortage. Deal-
ers had very little stock to fall back
upon and some of them had diff-
culty in finding an adequate supply
in the market. Official quotations
were allowed to remain unchanged
on the basis of 30c for firsts, under |
the belief that enough stock might |

Wednesday to prevent an advance
which no one wanted to see just on
the eve ofplarger supplies; but while
some of the regular trade were thus
able to get a moderate quantity of
eggs at 30c they could not be very
particular as to quality and some buy-
ers who were unable to get enough
were compelled to pay 1@2c more.

The market closes bare and while
it is certain that arrivals will  in-
crease enough to force prices down-
ward in the near future the time
when this will occur is as yet uncer-
tain, and in the meantime our market |
is likely to be more or less seriously
short of goods.

 

But the markets are now nearing
the spring break and it is quite prob-
able that the long abeyance of pro-
duction in the Southern and South- |
western sections usually reaching
a full volume of supply in February
may result in phenomenally heavy
supplies later on, by bringing the
flush lay of a larger territory on the

| markets at about the same time. If

the quantity of poultry in the country
is as large as generally reported the
April egg movement this year ought
to be unusually heavy

The wind-up of last year’s storage
operations, in which a comparatively
heavy stock carried over the turn of
the year—in spite of previously very
moderate and_ often unprofitable
prices —found a market at the high-
est prices of the season, must be re-

 

garded as accidental. It needs only

a little thought to realize how very | speculative

unusual has been the shortage in egg |
| existing prior to January should have

production this winter. It ts sate

to say that in three years of every)

four the holding of some 300,000 cas-
es of eggs over Jan. I in Chicago,
New York, Boston and Philadelphia

jalone would be followed by a dis-

astrous wind-up on a large part ol
such supply. In the formation of the

sentiment this spring,
therefore, the unfavorable conditions

the greatest influence. It should al-
so be remembered that the very late

| beginning of production this year in-

dicates very heavy spring receipts

land an unusually late season of free

production—New York Produce Re-

view.

 

 

We want to buy all the fresh eggs you
can ship us.
FEGS highest market price F. O. B. your sta-
tion. Write or wire.

Henry Freudenberg, Wholesale Butter and Eggs

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

We will pay you the

 

 

 

e Want Your Eggs

We want to hear from shippe’s who can send us eggs every week.
We pay the highest market price.

L. 0. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers

36 Harrison St., New York

Correspond with us.

 

 

 

Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Beans

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

 

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

 

 

r—MARSH HAY

FOR HORSE BEDDING
AND PACKING PURPOSES

Straw is a scarce article this year.
and the quality generally poor.
The best substitute for straw is Marsu Hay. It is more ec-
onomical than straw, is tough and pliable and contains prac-
Marsh hay will easily go twice as far as straw
for bedding purposes AND IS CHEAPER.
Write us for car lot prices delivered.

WYKES-SCHROEDER CoO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

tically no chaff.

    
  
 
 
 
 
   
   
   

The price is unusually high

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

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

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

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

 

 

 

Citz. Phone 3365

 

Whole, clean, full-sized

Potato Bags
at 534 cents F. O. B. Chicago
Can make immediate shipment

The Davenport CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Bell Phone 2265

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ae

 

Recent Trade Changes in the Hoo-
sier State.
Clifford—W. H. G.
ceeded by Moley Bros. in the general

store business.

Columbus—-W. W. Mooney & Sons, |

tanners and dealers in leather, have

formed a corporation under the style |

of the W. W. Mooney & Sons Co.
Crooked Creek—Wm. H.

will discontinue business.

Columbus—The American Harness |

& Leather Co. has
poration under the same style.
Eaton—Morris & Aspey, dealers in

formed a_ cor-

hardware and queensware, are suc- |
ceeded by Aspey & Haynes.
Elizabeth—The Elizabeth Imple-|

ment Co. succeeds Huston & Knight, |

formerly conducted an

ment business.
Frankfort—Hedgecock

who

& Elder,

boot and shoe dealers, are succeeded |

by Hedgecock & Clark.

Georgia—Isom Bros. will
ue the general store business former-
ly conducted by S. M. Isom,

Indianapolis—The_ retail grocery

business formerly conducted by Mar- |
tin & Spering will be continued in|

future by Fred H. Spering.

Indianapolis—The Rotenstein Man-
ufacturing Co. will be succeeded in
the tinning business by the Horn-
brook-Price Co.

Indian Springs—Inman
succeeded by Inman & Co.,
conduct a general store.

Jeffersonville—Edgar D.
shot, men’s furnisher, has transferred
his stock to I. C. Hendershot.

Kokomo—Moorhouse & B

ceed Hutchings Bros. in the sale of
vehicles and harness.
Ligonier—Wm. B. Knapp, who

formerly conducted a bazaar store,
is succeeded by Knapp Bros.

Michigan City—-Emil Klopsch has

sold his interest in the hardware busi- |

ness of Otto Klopsch & Son.
Michigan City—Rudolph J. Krue-
ger will continue the business of the
Krueger Dry Goods Co.
Michigan City—Morris
succeeded in the dry goods business
by M. Levine & Sons.
Morristown—H. M.

Levine is

Rogers” will

carry on the business formerly con- |
who

ducted by Rogers & Hargrove,
sold implements and buggies.

Waldron—-Mrs. Chas. Heck is suc-
ceeded by Heck & Shoup, who will
carry a line of millinery and notions.

Andrews—Wm. F. Mills, furniture
dealer, has removed to Harlan.

Whiting—Wm.
is succeeded in the hardware business
by the Whiting Hardware Co.

Goshen—A receiver has been ap-
pointed for the Cosmo Buttermilk
Soap Co.

Indianapolis—A receiver has been
appointed for the El Rio Tropical
Planters’ Association.

Indianapolis—A receiver has been
appointed for Martin C. Specht, re-
tail grocer.

Valparaiso—Wm. Freeman, pro-
prietor of the dry goods firm of Wm.
& | Co,

Freeman
signment.

Monroeville—The
Adam C. Robinson, dealer in vehicles

creditors of

Butler is suc- |

Hobson, |
who formerly conducted a flour mill, |

imple- | |

contin- |

Bros, are]
who will |

Hender- |

rand suc- |

Schneidewendt, Jr., |

has made an as-|

|

| and harness, have
| bankruptcy.

{

filed a petition in|

New Albany—The grocery store of |

Geo. Davis has been closed on at-|

tachment.

——__>-

Business
Buckeye State.
Avondale—W.

as

| formerly

| Recent
A. Schmaltz, who}
conducted a general
business, is succeeded by the Schmaltz |
| Dry Goods Co.
| Canal Dover—Jurgens &
| shoe dealers, are succeeded by the
| National Clothing & Shoe Co.
| Cincinnati—Bradford & Co., manu-
iby the Ohio Refining Co.
Cincinnati—S. J. Price & Co. suc-
ceed the Levy Price Co.,
er and wholesaler of notions.
| Cincinnati—The Twentieth Cen-
itury Color Co. succeeds the Wicker
Color Co: im) the
| paints.
Cleveland—Witkowsky

manufactur-

Changes in the |

store | |

Scheu, |

facturers of novelties, are succeeded |

& Mahrer, |

| manufacturers of clothing and caps,|

| will dissolve partnership, Mr.
| kowsky retiring.
| Dayton—G. F.
will continue the grocery and meat
business formerly
BF. Clemmer.

Dayton—Graves & Meade,
clothiers, have formed a corporation
|under the style of the Graves &
Meade Co.

conducted by G.

| ceeded by the Arcade Grocery Co..
which will carry

| a line of groceries
|and meats.
|

Wit- |

Clemmer & _ Bro. |

retail |

Dayton—Kretzer & Needles are suc- |

Findlay—F. A. Holliger & Co,
| wholesale confectioners, have form-
| ed a corporation under the same}
| style. |
| Kingsville—B. E. Matson, who|

formerly conducted a flour mill, will |

discontinue business.

Lima—tThe stock of the J. W. Orr
& Jackman Co.,
| gars, has been sold by a receiver.

Malta—Wortman & Kuntz are
succeeded by Kuntz & White in the
| general store business.

Negley—F. A.
i dealer, is succeeded in
|F. A. Bricker & Co.

Quaker

manufacturer

Bricker,

ducted by the Jason Drug Co.
Van Wert—H. V.

ner, Olney & Richards.
Zanesville—W. H.
cer, is succeeded by Geo. L. Stanton.
Barberton—W. A. Straub, dealer in
boots and shoes, has made an as-

signment.

pointed for the Ferrokraft Co.,
specialties.
Shaw,

ufacturer of hardware
New Richmond—Wm. A.
dealer in extension tables,
an assignment.
Sherodsville
been made by W. PF.
ware dealer.
Cleveland—A receiver has been ap-

 

An assignment has
Allman,

 

has made |

hard- |

of Ci- |

hardware |
business by}

City—-H. B. Law will con-|
tinue the drug business formerly con- |

Olney is succeed- |
ed in the clothing business by Feld-|

Patterson, gro- |

Cleveland—A receiver has been ap-
man- |

| poised for the People’s Home Pur- |

| chasing Co.
—_-_-. >< ———————
|

slippery places than it is to turn

around.

It is always easier to go ahead in|

a . | Office and Warehouse and Avenue and Hilton Street,
mantracture Of}

W. C. Rea A. J. Witzig

REA & WITZIG

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

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

| Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Companies
Shippers

Established 1873

WANTED CLOVER SEED

We buy BEANS in car loads or less.
Mail us sample BEANS you have to offer

Trade Papers and Hundreds of

 

with your price.

MOSELEY BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1271

 

 

BUTTER

Ne can furnish you with

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

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

WASHINGTON BUTTER
AND EGG CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

Butter

I would like all the fresh, sweet dairy

 

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

Printing for Produce Dealers

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Way To Make Friends and Increase
Sales.

|
| keeps on an even keel all the time,

|and offends in neither extreme.
| One of the first truths to be learn-

ied is that no two men or women

|see a thing from actually the same

| point of view.

The clever salesman |

| knows the uselessness of disputing
jabout tastes. He may state fairly |

True kindness, a sympathetic atti- |

tude of mind and real courtesy are

the basis of good salesmanship. It |

is a straight, hard business proposi-
tion that fine-grained, genial, sympa-
thetic people, hu-

who understand

i volunteer some pertinent

man nature, are needed nowadays to |

Retail salesmanship de-
the

sell gC ods.

mands an observance of ameni-

thinking themselves.

ties of life, combined with an even |

a clear mind and a sincere

We may know some success-

temper,
spirit.
ful salesmen who seem to have these
qualities, but really do not have
them. Their cordiality is feigned and
their sympathy simulated. They are
merely clever actors; and as’ few
people are good actors, it is better
to strive after the real thing and not
the appearance of it.

The power of pleasing is born to
some, by others it must be acquired.
of infinite growth. The cultivation
of this power in its highest degree

is often a thing of study and effort; | :
. }ence or vulgarity.
and toil—|} :

but it is worth the time
intellectually, because it refines and
broadens the man, teaches him con-

| behind the

trol and makes him a better member |

it increases his personal influence and
widens his sphere of activity. In
this narrow sense we consider the
art of pleasing here—in its applica-

the customer. i
This faculty gets and holds busi-
ness. Smartness, pure and simple—

the smartness with a sting like a

bodily hurt—is too often extolled by |

the typical salesmen who boast of

They are not representative sales-
men. The best American salesmen
do not bamboozle their customers
and never lie.

The self-control, clear sense of
propriety and kindly good will creat-
ed by a sweet, serene temper and

: : : | money
It is an art, and like arts is capable

; : : : |or the thinly veiled
of society in supplying more of the | oi .

: ca | superiority.
lubricant of courtesy to social inter-|  - '

course; in a narrower sense, because | ee
'and tangled are the threads of life,

: : : : ; ary
tion to the clerk in his relations with |“ -

an opinion, if asked; but he j
upon it.
duty. to offer a
unasked, or to

statement,

from insistence
It may be his

fruitful: suggestion

will refrain

but he will do well to plant the seed
and avoid trying to force its growth
in the customer’s brain.

hike to do a little
Officiousness is
but

Some pec ple

sometimes the result of a raw
generous
often arises from the silly sense of
superiority so common to some half-
baked minds. If Solomon were alive
to-day he could say with propriety,
“An officious clerk is an abomination
to his employer; but he that retireth
behind his own modesty is a blessing

counter.”

wisely |

impulse in youth, but it}

The even-tempered salesman knows |

that it is the customer’s want which |
lis to be filled and that the customer’s

for the
unusual or
he knows

y will pay
matters not how

that want

absurd

may be; that

filling. It}

it is not for him to show impertin- |

The man stamps

himself unfit for his place who greets |

the peculiarities of his customers

with the rudeness of boorish wonder
sneer of cheap

The wise clerk knows how mixed |

and that there may be any one ofa
thousand good and sufficient reasons

for the most unusual and extraordin- |

wants. The needs of the

sick,

the crippled and the aged, the indul- |
| gence in little whims and eccentrici-
\ties, the very ignorance of the last |

and most agonizing of agonies in
style—all these the wise clerk knows
to be ample in justification of queer

: | orders.—Boot and Shoe Recorder.
their skill in bewildering or befog- |
ging customers, and pride themselves
upon their skill in petty deception. |

—_—_+2s——_—_
Fortune of $150,000,000 Built from 15
Cent a Day.

From an income of 15
day to one of $47,222 was the financial
road traveled by Charles Lockhart.

cents a |

It is rare in a financial career that |
the course of the tiny spring which |

starts the golden current can be fol-

|lowed with as few deflections as in

sincere spirit enable the salesman to}

practice both the positive and the
negative ways of pleasing a purchas-
er. He learns to do the things which
ought to be done. He pleases by

the making of the Lockhart fortune. |
| When, however, the other day the|

estate, as bequeathed, yielded four

|
|

|

|inheritances which were estimated at |
| $37,000,000 each, its immensity seem- |

things left unsaid as much as by the}
|ness with which the wealth had ac-
he is in his place to supply, if possi- | |
ble, the wants of some one else, and |

spoken words. He understands that

that for the time being the relative
worth of his own personality and
that of the customer is supplanted

by a fictitious relationship which has |

nothing permanent about it. Know-

ing this he is saved on the one hand |
and on}

from servility and fawning,

ed out of all proportion to the quiet-

cerned.

Throwing a certain light upon this
circumstance, and at the same time
barring accurate estimate of the val-
ue of the estate, is a sentence of the

|is entered as “clause sixth.” It says:
“T order and direct that no inventory
of my personal estate be filed with

the other from bumptiousness and| the register of wills.”

impertinence.

He knows that civili- |
ty is not servility, and that there is fect of this measure, those who knew |

Even in spite of the prohibitive ef-

nothing “fresh” in true courtesy. He | Mr. Lockhart best estimate his for-

will of the elderly financier, which |

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 18

 

tune as at least $150,000,000. As far |
back as ten years ago his wealth was |
known to be from $30,000,000 to $40,- |
000,000. He was’ considered the}
wealthiest man in Pittsburg, with the
possible exception of H. C. Frick,
and until the formation of the Unit- |
ed States Steel corporation and the
conversion of the Carnegie partners
into multi-millionaires he was known
to_lead Carnegie in wealth. Addi-
trons to his fortune, however, since
that time have been steady, and the
result, if his investments were

any-
thing more than the most conserva-
tive, together with his great  hold-
ings in “Standard” stock, easily would
place its sum at perhaps even more
than that of the “laird of Skibo.”

It lately has become known _ that
Mr. Lockhart’s from the
Standard holdings alone was $4,250,-
060 quarterly, or $17,000,000 a
That this investment alone brought
him $1,416,666 a month, or over $47,-
222 daily, is easily calculated.

income

year.

Each
hour it amounted to nearly $1,551, or,
in other words, every moment of his
life brought to him a
times as

sum many
great as the amount he
earned daily when he began his ca-
reer.

The story of how Lockhart devel-
oped the oil industry is usually dated
from the day in 1860 when he started
to introduce it into Europe, with his
sole equipment contained in a satchel
in which he carried two gallons.
who would seek the
inspiration in the life of the old
Scotchman, which is not to be found
in his later financial dealings, would

Those, however,

wonderful
faith, both in himself and in the idea

need to go back to his

which he formed of oil, at an early
period.
Two circum-

apparently _ trivial

stances seemed to point to the fact

that fate singled him out from the
first for the part he played in the oil
industry. One was, that he made

for a boy of his age the strange de-

cision to stay back in Pittsburg and
support himself on 15 cents a day, in-
stead of going on with his family to
Ohio. The other, that these
were offered him in a big warehouse |
to which came the products of the
first attracted |

wages

salt wells, where oil
attention.

The McCully bought _ salt. |
Owners of the salt wells brought in |
samples of the oil which oozed from

firm

the ground at the wells. Samuel M. |

ae : :
Kier, a druggist, became interested |
and bottled the oil as a cure for rheu-

matism, aches and pains, under the
name of “Seneca Oil.” |

During these years young Lock- |
hart the estimation of his |
employer and saved money. At the)
same time he, too, was watching the
oil. He saw a wider field in it than
a “cure,” however, and already
dreamed of lighting the world. He
tried to enlist the interest of his em-
ployer in the product, but old James
McCully was not to be led away by |
any such idle fancies.

Young Lockhart decided to makea |
venture on his own account. He had
been working sixteen years, and with
part of what he had saved he pur-

rose in

|advice of McCully, Lockhart

| purposes.

|his well known trip to Europe.

|

he sold at a profit, and he conceived |
then that a fortune awaited any one|
who would enter the oil business and |
energetically develop it. Against the
pur-
chased an interest in what was known
as the Huff well, and from that time
until his death he was an oil produc-
er. He gave away five barrels of the
oil from his Huff well for
ments in refining and for illuminating
There was no demand for
it, however, and_ the _ possibilities
seemed slim to most men, but Lock-
hart believed implicitly in his own |

experi-

judgment and was confident that a/}
great future awaited him.

In 1855, just nineteen years after
he had started to work for the Mc-
Cully firm, Mr. Lockhart became a
partner. Soon after he
himself with A. V. Kipp, who became
the active

associated

manager of the oil and
salt business, Mr. Lockhart staying
with Mr.
time and attention to the

McCully and devoting his
general
store business. He watched the de-
velopment of the oil trade and gave
his spare time to a study of what he
might be able to do with it, feeling
that he would see the day
when petroleum would be sold out-
side the narrow limits of a drug)
In the meantime the McCully
firm bought largely of land on the|
outskirts of the city and built houses.
The city grew rapidly and reached}
this property, and the members of
the firm secured a nucleus which en-
abled Mr. Lockhart to become an oil

assured

Store.

| millionaire later.

Then came the great year 1850,
when Col. Drake discovered oil in
large quantities in Oil Creek. Mr.

Lockhart investigated the find and
at once organized the firm of Phil-
lips. Frew & Co., remaining a silent
partner in the venture. How dom-
inant he realy was was shown in the
activity with which he planned the
purchases of large tracts of land, the }
leases of other tracts, and the active
drilling operations. Oil was. struck
right away, and Mr. Lockhart him-
self brought sixty-four barrels of it

ito Pittsburg.

Two made |

He|
took a sample of both the refined and |
the crude oil, and sailed confident in|
the expectation that Europe, of all}
places, would prove a splendid mar- |
ket. He placed the proposition be- |
fore the Dry Salters Company, a |
firm of chemists in Liverpool. They |
never had seen the oil before, but |
one who had been in Russia declared |
that it was not unlike a 4Muid that |
came out of the ground on the edge |
of the Black Sea, for which no prac- |
tical use had been found. He show-|
ed them what could be done with it, |
and declared that he would light the |
world. They were skeptical.

“Tt will not be long before you will
be ordering it by the shipload,” he |
said. “It will bring you wealth of |
But they |

months after this he

which you never dreamed.”

|refused to order, and Lockhart went |

back to find his field in the United
States.

Five years after shipload after
shipload was discharged ‘at the docks

 

 

A Certain

Wholesale Rubber Boot
and Shoe House

In Chicago

enjoys the distinction of occupying more square
feet devoted exclusively to the sale of RUBBER
BOOTS and SHOES (created by the demand)
than any known house in similar line of business.
Modesty prevents our mentioning the house—suffice
to say that we occupy seven floors at 131-133 Mar-
ket Street, carrying a stock sufficiently large to
meet the demand of a critical trade—devoting our
undivided attention to

Banigan and Woonasquatucket Rubber Boots
and Shoes
exclusively—working in our shirt sleeves winter
and summer taking care of the orders—in short
giving you the BEST rubber made, with same
measure of service and treatment. Critical com-
parison with others regarded as best test. TRY.

BANIGAN RUBBER CO.

GEO. S. MILLER, Pres. and Treas.
131-133 Market St. Chicago, Ill.

 

     

 

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None genuine without this
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is the main essential in men’s Heavy Shoes.
Ours are very strong. They are carefully made
to stand the strain of extra hard wear. The material
in both uppers and soles is of the very best leather.
Every purchaser of our shoes always remembers
their splendid wearing qualities and can be counted
on to come back for another pair.
Do you see our line?

Do you want to?

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

chased three barrels of the oil. This | of Liverpool for consumption through | es

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

the British empire. Lockhart was
interested with half a dozen firms in
building warehouses in Philadelphia
to supply the demand from Europe for
the oil.
made to the Dry Salters people, and
which they imagined was a dream,

The prophecy which he had

had come true sooner than he even
anticipated.

Lockhart was the first to enter
into the plan of John D. Rockefeller
to harmonize the warring oil inter-
ests in a gigantic consolidation, and
when the Standard Oil Company was
formed in 1874 Lockhart merged his
refineries into those of the Standard.
He became one of the heaviest stock-
holders, and up to the time of his
death was one of the potent but re-
tiring figures in all of

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vested the bulk of his great wealth

There is another if
ment in the Lockha
effect that “no friend

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: :
that could be prosecuted ex1

which, with the habit of conservative

  

investment and expendi I
the fact that the estate has not been

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the finest church in Pittsburg d
the making it possible for.the minis-

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A Young Idea.

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some answers given by bovs in her

 

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The night before
Name two things we import from
Africa
‘Ivory and ivory soap
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OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

The Kind of Workman Who
Achieves Success.

A labor official, speaking to the

writer, said recently: “For the or-

hinist in a shop there is

a
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no chance. For the ordinary metal
worker, for the ordinary shop worker
of any kind, there is no chance.”
The fact that the speaker took the
pains to use the adjective “ordinary”
every part of his statement saves
it from the odium of sheer falsehood.

Possibly it renders the whole state-

™
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ment a trutn. surely 11 would necd
little qualifying to be a verity of the
foundest sort. For the use of

 

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nictnure fF shen cl - mediocre plodder
picture OF the siow meaiocre pioddet,
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the man who works at is trade

 

m to make so many dollars per
diem id i looks nor
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means of

 

 

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no intelligent American

 

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man st t be if he is to win
success worthy of the name.

 

   

  

 

 

 

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sme Trace 0
as they are to-d
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—_ ‘ £
att 2 nythi
ny sphere of work save by his own
efforts In the world commerce
id industry is doubly so. The
price of success there, as in no other
place, 1s continuous striving, contin
vous effort. He who would win in

 

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complete stock of

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constantly on hand and can ship at a

moment notice. Telephone or write.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

State Agents
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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will have a salesman call on you.

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Distributors

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

15

 

place his work before his personal
pleasure and convenience, and must
key himself up to work at a pace
which comes perilously near spelling
breakdown in the end.

To those who work thus come the

rewards. Therefore, the man who
“lays back in the harness” has no
right to bewail his lot because the

good things of the successful fail to
come to him. He _ has not paid the
price, and successes are not bandied
about the world without being amply
compensated for.
The average worker will wail that
is hard he can
every day of his life now in order
to hold his job. This is probably
true, because most employers
work distributed that
none of their employes stays on the
pay roll unless there is enough work

he working as as

quite

have their so

to keep him busy every minute of
his working hours. But a man might
kill himself working without making
an impression if he worked and had
eyes for nothing but the work before
him.

The worker who amounts to some-
thing—the extraordinary
may not exert himself physically as
much does his companion who
stays at his work until the end, but
while he works he keeps his eyes

as

open and learns something besides
his .own job. This is the difference.
He sees that it is not in the per-

formance of the one job before him
that success is to be won, but in the
things that he masters from the van-
tage point of the good workman. If
machinist he learns his ma-
He
go through his hands day
and if there is any possi-
to
Then, if he is of the right

he is 4

chine and the things he makes.
sees them
after day
bility of improvement he is sure
find it out.
kind he begins to study ways and
means to make the needed improve-
reckon

ment. Employers begin to

seriously with the men under them |
|old firm.

as soon as they see they have ideas

at their own that are worth some-
thing.
‘There is a junior partner mm) a

downtown firm of printers who is
there because he kept his eyes open
while working at a trade.
pressfeeder in the printing
ten His pay
$10 a week. He kept his eyes open
as a pressfeeder, so in a few years
Among the print-
ing done by the firm was one style

depart-

ment years ago. was

he was pressman.

which caused endless trouble and de-
lay, both in the makeup and in the
printing. To do this printing  suc-
cessfully it was necessary to reduce
the speed of feeding to 300 an hour,
the regular speed being 1,500. Doing
the work on a printing press also
made it necessary to keep a girl at
hand to take the work from. the
hands of the feeder. Thus the work
of one press was decreased five times
and one employe’s time consumed ex-
tra.

The began to
think on this subject. He took his
ideas home with him from the shop
and worked with them evenings. He
deprived himself of the privilege of
smoking or playing cards for a half
hour after luncheon in order to work

young pressman

He was a|

 

worker— |

 

on his ideas. As a result he one day
brought to light a smali and inex-
pensive machine whereby this special
printing was done at a rate of 1,000
an hour by one boy. His employer
was looking for just this kind of a
man, so he is in the firm to-day. Yet
this man began with no acquired ad-
vantages over the average workman.
He had less than a grammar school
education and his start as
was

a feeder
lowly

of

surely
enough to place all advantages
Start against him. Stull
cause he was not ordinary.

In a large Western city there is a
firm of manufacturers, the two lead-
ing partners of which were working

of a job press

 

he won be-|

for day wages less than fifteen years

aso. One was foreman of a shop,

the other
Their

him.
of
a

machinist under
was the manufacture
The toreman had

fairly good start in the business, be-

a
work
telephones.

ing in a position to see and under-
stand the manufacture of the instru-
The

one

ment from beginning to end.
machinist, had only
small attachment of the complete in- |
strument to deal with. If he had|
like his fellow workman _ this |
is all he would ever have learned to |
make. But he kept his eyes open |

 

however,

been

plied the idea that made his and the}

and it was he who ultimately sup-

foreman’s rise possible. |

The instrument was not perfected |
in the shop where they were employ- |
ed. One part could be so simplified
the

decreased.

that the cost of manufacturing
whole would be greatly
The
open, discovered how this improve-
ment might be begun. He took the

machinist, by keeping his eyes

foreman into his confidence, and
those two, working into the early}
morning after the day’s work was|

done, finally perfected the improve- |
ment. The foreman, through his po-
sition as confidential employe, man-
aged to interest one member of the}
He supplied capital enough |
a small shop to be established
Now there are 300
employes in the factory of the new
firm, the old one having been absorb-
ed a few

for
as a beginning.

years ago.

These are only two of many _ in-
stances that might be cited from
many. The worker who works in}
the manufacturing department of any
establishment the advantage of
being to see if the
product can be bettered in any
or the process of manufacturing
plified. That is, he can see if he will,
and if he will he has the best oppor-
tunity in the world to prove that he
is entitled to some measure of suc-
cess because he is not an “ordinary”

worker. ’ O. H. Oyen.

has
in a position
way

sim-

Some Curious Occupations.

Placards and sign boards in New
York disclose some strange ways of
making a living, says a New York
daily.

In East Thirty-fourth street a sign
in the window of a house informs the
public that “Birds are boarded there
by the day, week or month.” A lit-
tle farther down town a sign in a
basement window announces that
“Dogs’ ears and tails are cut in the
latest fashions,” and a sign in the

 

same locality reads: “I educate cross

cats and dogs to be. gentle and well |

behaved.”

Young ladies are invited to come

in and learn the name and calling of |

| In Catharine street

>
a

piece of valuable in-
East

“Babies are hired

cured here,” is

formation given in Broadway.

|or exchanged,” and in Division street

their future husbands in West Twen- |

ty-third street, near Eighth avenue.

}eyes are artfully

“Round shouldered people made
straight,” is an announcement’ on
East Nineteenth street, and _ near

Nineteenth

‘periect

street on Fourth avenue

grace is taught in twelve les-
> and “satisfaction guaranteed.”
thin
the
and
in

sons,’
“Beauty pads for ladies”
be obtained on

not, far
wardrobe

Houston street;

deficient

away

“ladies are

| fashionably dressed on easy monthly

installments.

“Sore eyes in poodles

may
3owery, near |

“Old sets of artificial teeth are bought
“Black
painted over,” and
and

and sold In Hester street

“false noses as good as new

warranted to fit” are advertised near
Chatham

pression that mayhem is not an un-

square, conveying the im-

common crime in some quarters.

In Chatham street the wayfarer is
told:
dine anywhere else,’ and in Mulber-

“Dine here and you will never
ry street an undertaker makes a bid
for business with a sign in his win-

dow which reads: “Why walk about

lini misery ‘when I can bury you de-

effectually j cently for $18?”

 

 

 

and square treatment.

 

Quality the Foundation

on which successful business can be built, applies
especially to Rubbers, and we all know that
Lycoming stands at the head in this respect.
Do not get frightened at the present flurry which
some wholesalers are creating, as there might be
some hitch later that might make you sorry.

All customers who detail their fall orders with us
by April rst, ’05, will get right prices and fair

 

WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers
State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co.

SAGINAW, MICH

 

 

 

‘‘Top-R.ound :
Foot Fashions”

For fall 1905 we still have two more new lasts,

making now thirty styles of lasts, all fitters.

famous

Our

Pike

is a winner—best that ever came down.

word about our leather.

Now just a

We do not own any cattle

ranches out west and raise cattle to get their hides

to make shoes; we just simply have an iron clad

specification which we show our leather man, and if

he can tan the leather
trade.
rant the leather in it.

our way we give him our
Our business is to make the shoe and war-
Just notice every Top Round

shoe; see the extra fine grain oak in bottom stock.

Our Corona Colt in bright leather is warranted not

to break through before sole is worn out.

tell if you drop a postal.

retails at $3.50 and $4.00.

More to
Top-Round Shoe for men
One dealer in a town.

White-Dunham Shoe Co.

Brockton, Mass.

 

 

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16

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

Passing of the Writing Teacher of
Early Days.

The itinerant, unsophisticated “pro-
fessor” of penmanship who up to
within a few years made his peren-
nial winter pilgrimage throughout ru-
ral district and village, town and
city, clad in a long tailed coat and
wearing a coachman’s plug hat, has
passed away.

The sound of his dulcet voice in
“one, two, three,” “up, down, up,”
is no longer heard in our land. An
echo of his former self directing the
hand movements of future knights
of the pen, maybe, lingers reluctant-
ly to this day in the recesses of peas-
ant territory which yet remains un-

 

disturbed by the quickening touch of |

progress.

But exit the “professor” of scrib-
bling. Your business is no longer a
trade to conjure with. He who would
hereafter “find him must seek him
in the grave.” As a living genius
the instructor in handwriting is a
type as rare as the oasis in the des-
crt.

The old time teacher of penman-
ship gave lessons in ornamental pen- |
work if he were to be classified |
among the most aspiring and suc-
cessful of men. His dexterity inthe
doing of fancy pen-skating, that re-
sulted in fanciful birds, chickens and |
other animals of a forgotten geologi-
cal age, added handsomely to his |
success in the business of gathering
in tuition fees.

 

Our commercial schools, together
with private and public schools alike,
have relegated the flourish in hand-
writing to the final resting place of |
the obsolete. To the student seek- |
ing the practical in business the|
fanciful is never heard of and much |
less taught.

What is the cause of this attitude
and change? The answer is simple.
The demands of the world in com-
mercial life have put the impracti-
cable in a category along with the
impossible.

Another answer to the query is:
There is a drifting away in the uses |
to which handwriting is applied.
Likewise, a transformation has been
evolved from ideals in the spelling
of good old times. The public views
with alarm the prospect of an era
of poor spellers. School and college
professors are losing their grip on
orthography. Colleges and universi-
ties have filed a plea for better spell-
ing.

The typewriting machine gnaws at
the vitals of public skill in its mode
of recording thought. Speed of ex-
ecution and facility in reading the
typewriten page are elements which
bring the stenographer and her type-
writer into the field of business as
queen of the correspondence turf.

.For the book-keeper and clerk a|

handwriting clear, accurate and brief
retains its hold as a necessary quali-
fication for a successful commercial
career. Penmanship, however—so
manufacturers of book typewriting
machines are attempting to verify for
the business public—is to take a back
seat here, too, because a proficient
operator will do neater book work

| penmanship, which

| scribed as something good for any
|thing except being useful.

jamong pupils engaging in business

|the struggles of to-day.

!year’s discussion of conditions exist-
|

 

at much greater speed than we may |
ever expect of the old time book- |
keeper. Book typewriters (which |
rest over the open book upon the)
page to be written) already are sup- |
planting the pen in much work hith-|
erto done by it, but for purposes of |
posting into books of account the pen |
promises to hold the fort for some}
little time, however.

In the meantime the fine penman
with a murmur sees his means of|
earning a livelihood largely reduced |
to the work of engrossing, filling in|
of diplomas and insurance policies. |
This about enumerates his usefulness |
in a commercial way, yet much of
this work is done by the typewriter.

Nevertheless, the utility of hand-|
writing has not absolutely faded into
a sentiment, nor will schools elimin-
ate instruction in the art while pen- |
manship retains a glimmer of its}

}
| usefulness. |

There seems to be a unanimity of |
opinion, I believe, among contempor- |
ary proprietors of commercial colleges |
and those of schools of penmanship |
that some type of plain writing that |
resembles the time honored systems |
affords the chief advantages. It must |

ibe conceded that few, if any, of the}

institutions mentioned advertise  in-
struction in the so-called “vertical”
system already |
has received a body blow from the}

| business world. This system of curb |

roof, or circular pen work had for its
birthright “fad.” While in swaddling |
clothes it obtained favor among}
school boards. A fad may be de-|

It is believed educational boards
among all large cities of America ex-

periencing a drawback to success

careers are dropping vertical writing
from school studies. The teaching
of this method of penmanship is
training a generation of young peo-
ple to be unfitted for office clerical]
work. None learn better by sad ex-
perience than do the young men in

Although this fad handwriting may
receive more favorable consideration
from the public in Europe, it certainly
meets popular disfavor in America.
Probably it may with safety be as-
serted that this child of the faddists
never originated within the writing
schools. Boards of education are
taking a wise course, as many city
schools have done already, when they
abandon vertical writing.

Startling revelations marked last
ing in commercial correspondence.
Many believed they could see evi-
dences of “degeneracy” in the pen-

manship of their friends. Business
and professional people excused
themselves by flippantly charging

the decadence to the typewritist. Un-
less “practice” is kept up our handi-
work must deteriorate.

Despite this frenzied work, for so-
cial purposes handwriting is likely
to remain in the field for some time
to come; but tradition that is so
firmly set upon us may be swept
away somehow, at which time the
typewriter or something else shall

 

work itself into the graces of so-
ciety.

The “Ode to the Pen” is destined
to be supplanted by an ode to the
typewriter.

When spelling and writing by hand
shall become too “shaky” another
means of recording thought likely
will be substituted.

Until time — shall
comething better, a system

have

bling the writing of telegraph opera- |
tors, whose penmanship is speedy and |

legible, may successfully attain pop-
ular acclaim.

Some variation of the English lan- |
| guage may likely become triumphant |
jas a world language; or else a com- |
bination of several tongues may, for |

use alike in both vocal and recorded
speech. This is a prophecy as clear
as the handwriting on the wall seen
by King Belshazzar. A realization
of the hope would receive a cordial
welcome from an appreciative pos-
terity.

In the meantime, may not a writ-
ing alphabet be devised which would

be a happy medium between long- |
After a cen-|

hand and stenography?
tury or more, such a device would be
supplanted by a higher

tem of recording thought by pen
might continue in vogue until the
genius of invention should have dis-

| covered a more acceptable way.

Elmer E. Rogers.
—_—_+-o<.— —_____

Popularity is nearly as expensive

las running for office.

invented |
resem- |

ideal. By|
overcoming objections urged by self- |
| centered people, such a universal sys-

Luke the Lineman

  

 

Luke the lineman, who hikes up the

pole,

Is a dare devil fellow who trusts to the
sole

Of the shoes he has worn for over a
year

And made a man of him unknown to
fear.

They are HARD-PAN shoes so popular
now,

So take off your hat and make them a
bow.

Dealers who handle our line say

we make them more money than
other manufacturers. |
Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co,
| Makers of Shoes Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

THEY FIT

Gladiator

Pantaloons

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Clapp Clothing Company

Manufacturers of Gladiator Clothing
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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ae William Connor, Pres.
William Alden Smith, 2nd Vice- Pres.

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Our Spring and Summer line for

slims.
quired; low prices; equitable terms;

J We invite the trade to visit us a
q out scores of suits per week.

4 Bell Phone, [ain, 1282

 

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

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Joseph S. Hoffman, 1st Vice-Pres.
Colonel Bishop, Edw. B. Bell, Directors

The William Connor Co.

Wholesale Ready Made Clothing
4 Manufacturers

28-30 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Founder Established 25 Years.

thing that’s made for children, boys,
Biggest line by long odds in Michigan.

large number of merchants who prefr to come and see our full line; but if
ail and phone orders promptly shipped.
nd see our factory in operation turning >

preferred we send representative. M

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M. C. Huggett, Sec’y, Treas. and Gen. Man.

Se ee ee ee

1905 includes samples: of nearly every-
youths and men, including stouts and
: Union made goods if re-
one price to all. References given to

 

Citizens’ 1957 »

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

 

 

VALUE OF F VACATIONS. |

Few Survivors of the the Dark Ages of |
Labor.

I heard a great story the other day |
of a wonderful sort of business man,
who might be set up as an ideal fig-
ure anywhere in the conventional
world of business. It was the story
of a man who had achieved all things
in the line of his ambition. For
twenty-three years, some months and
some days he had appeared every
morning at his place of business, nev-
er a minute late, never a working day |
absent, never wasting a  minute’s
time in office hours, never failing in
an appointment, never taking a day’s
vacation from his business either as |
employe in the house, or as its gen-
eral manager, or as its final head and
chief owner.

But he was dead at 51 years old
at the time I heard the story. The
doctors didn’t know just what was
the matter with him. Lack of exer-
cise had something to do with it;
there were kidney complications; for
years he had never been able to eat
save according to the strictest sys-
tem of dieting; he had suffered from
insomnia in late years; but his in-

 

domitable will had kept him at his
business, with hitch until
the last,
mated at $7,650,000 and a widow who
had talked about a good deal
for several years.

Trever 2

been

“Weill,” I said to my friend who
was talking, “if I had lived in the
time of that man’s father, and that
father had been given insight into his
son’s after life, and in consequence |
_ strangled that son at the age of|

5 years—why, I, as one of a jury of|
that man’s peers, would have voted
to the end for his acquittal of the
charge of murder!”

One of the most vicious types in|
the modern world of civilization is |
that frequently quoted type of busi-
ness man who “never had a vacation
in his life.’ He regards it as a su-
preme virtue rather than an intolera-
ble vice, based in all the viciousness
of degeneracy and perverted impulse.
This imagined virtue, being the only |
virtue which he feels to possess, at |
once becomes the living, emphasized |
personality of the man in whatever
sphere of life that personality may
occasion to touch. Imagine
an influence!

have
such

There are few survivors of the
dark ages of labor who deny the
economic value of the vacation or
who dispute its necessity under the
pressure of modern business. The
influence of the man referred to, it
at least those twenty-three years and
odd months and odd days, must have
been always evil in its relation to the
rational fellowship with which he
came in business touch. Imagine how
his fellow employe regarded him
when he refused the vacation andthe
holiday that might have been accord-
ed employes! Imagine how the
man’s employes must have felt when,
as employer, he gave grudgingly the
holiday that he himself refused to
take! In fine, what an inhuman bear- |
ing had all this virtue of the success-
ful man upon his associates, who

—

 

| authoritatively

when he ieft a fortune esti- |

sanely might have tried to live and
|enjoy that life which, at the most,

old!
In this age of academic information
| and experimental propositions

bere was to kill him at 51 years |
| casion
the writer.
that |

are at the most the mere exploiting |

of a conventional mediocrity,
is a growing need of horse sense as

there |

a measure between the false andthe |

true. The mere fact that there is a
Standard Oil university and a Stand-
ard Oil Company is more than
enough to suggest the need. Out of
such conditions as these there is a
growing disposition to discount any-
thing approaching academic
edge and assertion. Not so _ long
ago one of the lights in the United
States Navy took occasion to
liver himself of a great business prin-
ciple regarding appointments and
the keeping of them. He advised
every man who made an appointment

| place.
i the
| no
ithose men be there at

tween a good and a bad business man.

“The worst period of nervousness
I ever went through was on one oc-
in London,”

to promote that I knew was
right, and I had an appointment for
a Monday morning at 11 o’clock with
some of the moneyed men of the
British capital. It was the longest
morning I had ever seen, in the first
I hadn’t been able to sleep
1 had
of.
II

eaten

Would

night before, and
breakfast to speak

o'clock? |

said a friend of |
“T had a business scheme |
all |
| be embodied

| Would I better get there on the min- |

knowl- |

ute and thus perhaps show my per-|

|turbation? Could I risk being
quarter of an hour late? It would
help my front, I felt, but would

de- |

these men of international reputation | 7

a |

|sit there fifteen minutes after I had |

| promised

| risked

to get there fifteen minutes ahead |

of the time!

To the business world this
silliness emphasized. In the
place, a business appointment, with
business results likely to follow _ it,
is one of the possible necessities of
business of which no one can speak
in general terms.
There are appointments in business

first

was |

|ity of the impeccable type?

which are made studiedly and advis- |

edly with never an idea in the head

of either party that they shall be|

kept. There are other appointments

made for a fixed minute, when for |
one of the parties to be there onthe}
minute or earlier perhaps would men.- |

ace all that he might hope to accom-
| plish in the meeting. At the best, an
|appointment in business life is an

appointment which can best be kept |

on the minute.
than the minute one should be
something that in the determining
frequently

is

Just how much later |

marks the difference be- |

|with the heart of

to meet them? Well,
it; I waited fifteen
past the hour and then went in
easily and steadily as I could. They
were there,
sight of them I was master of the
situation in a moment! I closed
deal there inside of thirty
which, except for my ‘front,’
have held off a fortnight.”
What promptness

a
might
or
broader,

for virtue of that wider,

more human type, one might ask of |

i}
minutes |

as |

fuming, and at the first |

minutes |

punctual- |
Looking |

the impeccable one how it was that

year after year he had never’ been

absent, or late, or out of time and_/

place? One may readily imagine cir-
cumstances under which only a man
Herod could
fail to be absent or tardy. How far
may such a man have failed in sym-
pathies, charities, friendships, loves
and duties only that he might be the
plaything of the clock?

In all the possibilities of man
the intricacies of modern civilization

a

in |

|there is no lower ideal than time
serving. Honor, courage, manliness,

and the category of the virtues may
be demanded of the person who on
occasion dares or late;
every despicable

to be absent
quality in man may
the one who al-
ways “on time.” And always
lowest type of the time server
that one who, working for mere sor-
did gain, never has had time for
vacation or for a holiday, and who,
if he has granted one, has done
with depressing to the re-
virtue in the conces-
John A. Howland.
——_ ~~» ___

The only one who lived above all
sin was the one who lived for all sin-
ners.

in is
the

iS
a
so

a
cipient past

spirit
all
sion.

 

 

 

Our salesmen are now on the road
with the finest line of

Fur and Fur Lined
Coats

Plush and Fur Robes and
Horse Blankets

ever shown in Michigan for
next season.

They will soon call on you. Do
not buy until you see what we offer.
In the meantime send in your or-
ders for what you need now, we

still have a good stock. Our line
of harness and collars is better
than ever.

Wholesale Only

BROWN & SEHLER CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

IF A CUSTOMER

asks for

HAND SAPOLIC

and you can not supply it, will he
not consider you behind the times ?

HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap—superior to any other in countless ways—delicate
| enough for the baby’s skin, and capable of removing any stain.
Costs the dealer the same as regular SAPOLIO, but should be sold at 10 certs per cake,

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

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Show Cases Hung from Ceiling. |
In this day, when the tastes of
men are so varied, every merchant |
is compelled to carry a large assort-
ment of everything he handles. The
natural consequence of this is that
his store becomes encumbered, and

he is obliged daily to trespass farth-
er upon the space set apart for the}
moving about of his customers. He
sees his aisles growing narrower, his
counters becoming cluttered, and the
whole apartment gradually taking |
on a stuffed appearance. Of course,
if he is conducting a bazaar, this may
be desirable; but bazaars are the ex- |
ception. Elegance is what the pub-
lis is demanding more and more, and
the real essence of elegance is 4
feeling of space, an impression of
roominess. How can the merchant}
reconcile this increasing demand for
space with the larger call for a more |
varied and consequently fuller stock, |
or at least a wider display? This,
perhaps, is the most annoying prob- |
lem connected with store manage-
ment. And, like all other such prob-|
lems, it is to be solved not by any
one man, but partly by one merchant
and partly by another. And it is
only by bringing together these par-
tial solutions that a perfect arrange-
ment can finally be secured.

An important contribution toward
the clearing up of this knotty ques-
tion has lately been made by Mr.
Albert Hoefeld, corner Madison and
La Salle streets, Chicago.

Mr. Hoefeld is a haberdasher, and
nowhere, perhaps, is the problem we
are treating more exasperating than
in such a store. For it is in the
smaller articles of dress that the
tastes of men are most fluid, and
many who are conservatives in their
clothes are faddists and innovators
in their shirts, their neckwear, etc.
In short, the great majority of buy-
ers can stand a little of the new
thing, and these naturally find their
way first into the haberdasher’s, and
the merchant who shows the widest
assortment will have the widest trade.
To display this assortment he must |
have space, and that space can not|
be taken from the aisles.

Recognizing that there must be|
ample aisle space for the customers,
and room behind the counters for the
clerks, Mr. Hoefeld and his manager,
Mr. Meginniss, saw that the increas- |
ing stock could invade only the
space occupied by the showcases,
and together they worked the prob-
lem out. The showcases they pro-
ceeded to remove. Instead of these
they put counters divided up_ into|
box-like compartments large enough

to contain six or eight shirts, and
opening with drop fronts upon the |
aisles. The space in the back of the
counters is used for overstock. Coun-
ters of this description are on both

sadet OF the store. In the rear 1s

|apart for different styles of shirts, |
isuch as the white stiff, the colored |

lare indicated on slips attached to the |
ifront of each compartment.

| the country is

| 750,000,000.

Seance sce }
shirts. The compartments in this be- |
ing deeper, there is no space in the|
back of it for surplus stock. Differ- |

jent sections of these counters are set |

|
|
|
|

stiff, the negligee and the dress shirt, |
the compartments of each being ar-|

'ranged according to the price of the |

garment contained, running regular- |
ly from the cheapest at one end up|
to the highest priced at the other.

| These prices, together with the sizes, |

|

“By this arrangement,” said Mr. |
Hoefeld, “I have doubled my aisle |
space and almost doubled my stock |
There are, moreover, many |
minor advantages. I never have any }

room.

| soiled and broken shirt boxes around. |
| Then, too, my clerks can wait upon

customers much more easily, and,
during rush seasons, a new salesman
needs but a word of instruction to
be able to handle the stock.”
“What about the showcases you
took out?”
“That was the question. At first!
I did not know what to do with|
1
i

them. I knew that if I should sell |

'them I could get little or nothing for

Then an idea struck me and
settled the matter. You see where
they are. It occurred to me to sus-
pend them from the ceiling. I was|
afraid, though, that this might have
a tendency to make my store look
smaller. But I tried it, attaching}
them bottom upward to the ceiling. |
And on entering the next morning
after they were put up, it struck me
that the store really looked larger. |
This impression has been confirmed
by numerous customers who have |
come in and remarked upon the en-
larged appearance of the store. As
for display space. you see I lost noth-
ing. Im fact, | saimed, for up there,
the place being more unusual, my ex- |
hibit calls more attention to itself.
And, hung up there above the coun-
ters they are entirely out of the way.

“The scheme pleases me. In fact,
1 am so delighted with it that I have}
let the contract for elegant new oak
counters somewhat on _ the

them.

cabinet
order, preserving, however, the idea

of the compartments. For I do noi

| believe that can be improved upon.

It is a capital thing.’—Apparel Ga-
zete.

—_—__++>—____
Cigar-Making States. |
The leading cigar-making state of |

Pennsylvania, which |

| manufactures nearly 2,000,000,000 ci- |

| gars.

New York makes 1,000,000,000
a year and Ohio, never far behind in|
profitable and productive enterprises, |
Virginia manufactures in
a year 500,000,000 cigars, and is in
fact the only one of the big tobacco- |
producing States which makes cigars |
in large numbers. About one-half of |
the product of Virginia factories is in
the form of cheroots.

a

’ There is something wrong with the

home that is not the happiest place
on earth.

—_—__» ++ _____

Many a sister spoils her testimony |

another similarly divided, which is|in the church by her tongue in the|

used for the long pleated bosom

kitchen.

 
   
   

 

 

        

Wake U
Mister

Clothing
Merchan

Fine Clothing for Men, Boys and Children. Medium and
high grade. Strong lines of staples and novelties.

         
     
     

             
   
     
     

Superior Values with a
Handsome Profit
To the Retailer

If you are dissatisfied with your present maker, or want
to see a line for comparison, let us send samples, salesman,
or show you our line in Grand Rapids.

     
    
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    
       
      

 
 

Spring and Summer Samples
For the Coming Season
Now Showing

  

Mail and ’phone orders promptly attended to. Citizens
Phone 6424.

We carry a full line of Winter, Spring and Summer
Clothing in Mens’, Youths’ and Boys’, always on hand for
the benefit of our customers in case of special orders or quick

deliveries.

       
    
     
    
       

We charge no more for stouts and slims than we do for
regulars. All one price. Inspection is all we ask. We
challenge all other clothing manufacturers to equal our
prices. Liberal terms. Low prices—and one price to all.

       
      
    

     
 
 
      
    
     
      
         
        

Grand Rapids
Clothing Co.

Manufacturers of High Grade
Clothing at Popular Prices

Pythian Temple Building
Opposite [orton House

Grand Rapids, Mich.

One of the strong features of our line—suits to retail at $10 with
a good profit to the dealer.

            
       

  
 
  

 

 

  

  
   
    

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

A Safe Merchant To Do Business
With.

A man of great business acumen

and extensive experience was com-

tain merchants and the means
by them to create a selling interest
in their merchandise.
as his opinion that although many
retailers sought by the use of - the

guarantee or money-refunded policy |
great |
difference in the results accruing to |

to sell goods, there was a

merchants.
the

the
view,

his
right or money

According to
“zoods

back” method of doing business, to}

bring the best results, must be back-
ed by a reputation—the public
must first feel it is safe to do busi-
ness with the merchant making the
guarantee.
lem or East Side merchant who makes
liberal use of billboards

and other

methods of advertising, and strongly |
type,

asserts his guarantee in bold
setting forth that the blue
serge suits is fast dye
against

in his
and proof

weather and wear so
the fabric endures, has

time at best convincing the public

as a

of his sincerity, unless he has first
builded a reputation which has won

for him the confidence of his pub-|

hie.

“But once let the public know that
it is safe to do business with you,
and it becomes surprising how little

of your word, whether in exploiting |

a selling idea or a publicity scheme,
is necessary for you to use,” said this
“The confidence of the public
necessary for the small it
is for the large merchant.
withont jit if
have not got to that point then you
must have realized that you
have continually

man.

is as as

reap success
often
to keep
are bona fide, that your purpose is

an honest one, that your third-off

sale is an honest reduction, and that |

you will actually refund the
prove unsatisfactory.
your most successful merchants told
me the other day that, notwithstand-

ing he has advertised the fact far |

and wide, and that every one of the
cash slips accompanying a purchase
carries the statement that money is
refunded where there is any dissat-
isfaction, only a few days ago one
of his customers expressed the ut-
most surprise because his money had

actually been returned to him. Now|

that merchant
safe to do business with.

that customer knows

is

“But we will compare the hard|
road of our Harlem merchant, his |
spread eagle guarantee and strong |
advertisement of his honesty and
purpose, with the intent to deal)
square implied by the merchant who |
has inspired the public with a be-|

lief in his safety as a business prop-
The latter is every now and
announcing

osition.
then
scheme, whether
of merchandise

some

in the
down

it 1s

marked from

the regular selling price, the offer- |
ing of merchandise as good as the|
best at prices much lower, or any ot |

the many efficacious means
which the so-called honest merchant

| trust in him.
menting upon the methods of cer-|
used |

He expressed |

In his opinion the Har- |

long j
hard |

None can |
you |

pounding |
on the fact that your selling schemes |

|
pur- |
chase money should the merchandise |
Why, one of |

selling |
form |

'makes use of to sell his wares. By
ithe judicious use of a little sublime

finesse he keeps augmenting public
His guarantee carries
it no more than does that of
the Harlem merchant; it is not put
|in any better faith, but—and here
is the point—it is couched in such
|shrewd terms that only good intent
|toward the public is apparent.

ll go further
my meaning
Some years ago I was connected in
|a responsible way with a large re-
| tail clothing house, and I tell you this
by way of making known to you
that, having been on the inside
affairs there, I know whereof I
|speak. We had a sale of overcoats.
pit a successful sale, yet the
stock was not entirely depleted, and

with

and _ illus-
clearly:

“Now,

trate more

was

after the lapse of time the store made |

The

morning

|ready for another sale. adver-

tisement stated one
melton overcoats had _ been
|sold, and it had just come to their
knowledge that one of these over-
coats—returned by a
| showed fading, and if every customer

| blue

who bought a blue overcoat would |

it tO the store his
be refunded. Now,
|not matter if a faded. coat
|returned, or if there were
sold in that sale.

return
would

money
it
was
no blue
| coats

and said, ‘Why, here’s a firm that’s

honest about its merchandise and

by anything that isn’t right’ That
advertisement and its statement
spired trust. It made a good send-
| off for the next sale.

An

in-

old-time merchant

ness for myself, ‘As soon as you can
j}and by any method let the public
know that you are a safe proposition

ness.’
read the ad-
| vertisement of a store that had been
| advertising waterproof shoes for sev-
|eral days, and finally announced that
had to them

“Some weeks ago I

they returned a

all

shoes,

purchasers of their

who found they
them back and
be refunded. Now,
whether you call i a
| selling idea or business intelligence,
|

waterproof
leaked, to
their money

bring

I

would
care

but such
| beget public confidence.

advertised, announcements
They com-
| pel a sense of safety in that business
| free It is intelligence
that among thousands
shoe It

shrewdly exploited. I
that such things were
stand plays upon the
I said before, a business must have
the reputation to back it up in order
to get the best results.

the public.
|
spreads of

wearers. is

have heard

|the statement it was not necessary |
|for a leaky pair of shoes to have
|been found, any more than it was

necessary to discover the faded blue
overcoat.”—-Apparel Gazette.
——«2 ~~»

| Throwing sand in another’s eye is |
| no proof of your own grit.

of |

that |
during the previous sale a number of |

customier— |

does |
not |

The public |
read that advertisement and saw that |
it put the guarantee in a new form. |

doesn’t want its reputation smirched |

to me as 1 was embarking in busi-|

to buy from you will get their busi-|

pair |
of the shoes that leaked, and invited |

don’t |
clever |

the guarantee |

termed grand-|
public, but, as |

In making |

There is
No Risk
Selling

‘Clothes of Quality”

 

because we stand behind the
merchant with the promise to
replace every unsatisfactory
garment.

Such
pleasing to the purchaser also.
No matter

becomes

an assurance is very

where the defect

apparent — we will

make it good.

It so much what we
say about ‘‘Clothes of Quality’’
as what they prove the wearer.

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LOOKING BACKWARD.

Bow’s First Journey Into the Great
Wide World.
Chapter XIX.

When a spotless maiden offers her
heart and hand to a wandering ho-
bo love is either blind or wears one
eye in a sling. At least, this is my
belief, founded on painful  experi-
ence with the tender passion. Being
obliged to resign from a canal boat
at Keokuk, Ia., on account of ice,
in the winter of 1885, I went South
to save the price of an overcoat, and
accepted the position of assistant pi-
lot on a furniture wagon at New Or-
leans. Another fellow drove, and I
steered bureaus and bulky bedsteads
up flights of narrow stairs built like
well augers. In this genteel manner
I amassed a neat but not gaudy
sustenance in fair weather, for when
it rained my salary and meals paused
at the same moment.

When not cruising in the wagon I
roomed at the home of a German
woman in a humble quarter of the
city. She had a grown family, two
of the girls being at home. Lulu was
19, and reveled in a beau—a thin,
pallid person, who wore in his shirt

and a tearful family council decided |
on Henrietta. I never had assassin-
ated any swine, but, with the pres-
tige of my warless war record and
the silken star gleaming like a halo
en my brow, I agreed to shed blood.
So they brought the doomed Hen-
rietta to me in the kitchen, where
the family assembled, a prey at
once to furtive pain and fresh pork.
Grasping the piglet around the mid-
dle in one hand, as though she were
2 sausage, my faithful penknife flash-
ed, and Henrietta yielded up about
one spoonful of life’s crimson fluid. I
scalded the remains in a small dinner

| pot, scraped and dressed them, and |

split the immature spine from snout

'tc tail with the penknife, the only

i From that moment. the

‘the ancients with the

what I believed at that time to be a)

diamond. Sadie had seen but six-
teen summers and waded in_ the
muck of as many winters. Plump and
rosy, and with a great rope of yel-

low hair hanging down her back, she |

pined in secret. The mother drop-
ped the flag on anything that looked

like a beau, and in the sanctity of |
home Sadie dreamed of the misty fu- |

ture, when she would trot in double
harness, with her ideal. Poor, de-
luded maiden!

dwelt in a cracker box in the back | the furniture wagon palled on my

yard two sickly runt pigs—Henriet-
ta and Myrtle.
a joyous one. Stunted in body and
mind and fretful in confinement Hen-

Their abode was not | oo9k on a Northern tugboat bound

weapon employed in crime. The job
was done beautifully, if I do say it.
love-stung
Sadie worshiped at my shrine. I was
her unconscious hero in everything, |
pig sticking included; and none but
her modest self knew the sweet story
of untold love.

As an ideal I struck high C intwo}
long jumps. Any man who could in
a single day merge the fine arts of}
abattoir in-
stincts of Armour & Co. stood out
from the common herd a beacon of
love and hope and happiness eternal. |
All I knew was that from day to
day Sadie sat as usual in the home
circle, listening to my lies, jokes, rep-
artee and bonmots, mostly about
furniture in misfit houses. I never
saw her alone, and never thought of
doing so, for that matter; but all the
while the silken star stunt and the

| autopsy I held on Henrietta were get-
iting in their fatal work.
As an annex to the family there |

rietta and Myrtle grew peevish, mo-|

rose and melancholy. They fought
and squealed like married sisters liv-

|
|

At length there came a day when
thirst for conquest, and I shipped as

upriver. A farewell party in my hon-

| or was pulled off in the German fam- |

ily. The mother, Lulu, and her pal-
lid beau, his alleged diamond, the}
married sister, her baby and _ hus-

ing in one house, but the tragic fin-| hand, who worked in a shot tower, |

ish was drawing on apace.
On Sundays, in the evening,

on rainy days, when the furniture

wagon hit bottom and stuck fast, I

loitered in the bosom of the German |

family. We always were there in a
bunch, and I batted .300 or better in
the entertainment class. My reper-
tory included a cruise in a United
States warship, and the marvelous
tales of hairbreadth

en plait a shade lighter.

great magnitude and beauty, such a
star as the naval bluejacket wears
on the crown of his flat cap. With a
set of tin hoops brought’ from the
ship and some colored silk thread
I built a multi-pointed star that made
the entire household blink. At the
same time I enmeshed Sadie’s bud-
ding passion, but was not wise to the
fact I had started something that
wouldn’t stop.

On the afternoon of that same day
the mother invited me to murder
Henrietta. The pigs in the cracker
box could go the route no longer,

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t
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and a few social neighbors assembled |

and | to see me off. We lapped up several

scuttles of suds and I never was in|
better form. Not until later did I
recall Sadie was not among those
present. In fact, I failed to note her
absence. At the breakup of the par-
ty I dispersed to the tugboat and}
slept in a bedless bunk below the}

| wash of the tide.
escapes and/|

things that oozed from me won Sa-|
die’s admiration and turned her gold-|
Also, 1}
embroidered for her a silken star of i :

|o’clock in the morning. The reason |

Early next morning a sad faced |
messenger arrived with a note from
Lulu concerning her little sister. Sa- |
die had cried all night and until 2

she sidestepped the farewell party
was because she loved me and fear-
ed she would break down and show
it. The note wound up with a re-
quest for me to return at once to}
Sadie. This great trouble, sprung so}

|suddenly, inspired me to show the |

note to the coarse able seamen on}
the tug. I wanted advice. Some of |
them looked curiously at me _ and
others laughed; but when I proposed |
to go back they grew alarmed and|
tried to dissuade me. Just the same, |

| went, and found the old lady alone |

|om when she saw me.

|

in the sitting room. She treated me}
with deference and respect. |
“What seems to be gnawing Sa-|

| die?” I asked, being impervious to}

Cupid’s dart, and therefore fluent of |
speech.

“I don’t know,’ said the mother. |
“Sadie is such a funny girl. She did |
not appear to care for fellows until |
she had the spell last night.” |

“You don’t think I’ve trifled with
her?

“No, indeed,” replied the mother, |
much distressed. ‘“She’s in the|
kitchen. Go and talk to her.”

In the kitchen Sadie stood at the)
table with her bare arms reposing |
on a pile of dishes in the center of a
large pan. She had been weeping, |
and a smothered sob racked her bos- |
Being aware |
that washing dishes exercises a mor-
bidly unwholesome effect on girls of |
16, I took Sadie by the hand and
towed her gently into the back yard.
This was indeed a bad break, for
maiden beheld
Myrtle biting splinters in the bottom

when the troubled

of the cracker box, the scene conjur- |
ed up visions of the departed Hen-}|
rietta and the part she had played|
in our young lives.

The poor child broke down utter- |
ly. She laid her head on my shoulder
and cried. In me there arose a series
of sensations, the exact location of
which I do not now recall. I felt!
shocked and foolish by turns, and yet
guiltless of intent in bringing about
such a calamitous episode. For want
of better action, I feebly stroked Sa-
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begged her to cheer up. Sadie ae |
pretty and nice, and all that, and
her distress filled me with vast an-
guish. How I mentall:; cursed the |
silken star and Henrietta, the vic- |
tim of those subtle wiles will never |
know.

“Why don’t you stay here?” she
asked, commandingly. ‘“You’ve trav-
eled enough and seen all the world;
and we like you. Some day a boat |
will sink, and that will be your end.” |

I explained the reasons for shift- |
ing of operations, but the}
plan did not suit Miss Sadie.

my base

“If you will stay here in New Or-
leans,” she went on, softly, sweetly,
and tenderly, “my brother-in-law will
get you a job in the shot tower,
where you can earn enough to keep
us both.”

Had 2

the back of my

large shot tower fallen on
neck it couldn’t have
My works stop-
dropped
and when the works
to me I
The first
of marriage

jarred any more.
ped, like
from a height,
resumed it occurred
confronting a crisis.
only formal proposal
ever slammed at me had landed, and
taking the full count. Holy
With the skill of the quick
liar I handed the girl a

those of a watch
was

and

I was
smoke!
and ready
fragrant bunch of paper flowers.
“Sadie,” I said, “it makes me dizzy
toil in shot towers. Moreover,
I’m under contract to go in the tug-|
boat, and if I desert now Tl] be
hanged by the neck until dead. Could
stand that?”

to

you

A mist of tears clouded the blue
eyes, quenching the lovebeams there,
and I hastened to pass another bou-
quet over the footlights.

“But when I’ve cooked everything
the boat, then will I
” I promised.

they have in
come back to you,

She took that as my pledge to be|
sturdy oak, and Sadie would be
clinging vine. Then I plastered
and rapid salute upon her
blushing cheek, deeming it my duty,
and hiked out for the river front,
bound to the maiden who loved me}
for my alone.

At this point,
jump a of
ing which I heard
A few
New Orleans,
the little

her
my
a chaste

deeds
we
dur-

gentle reader,
twenty years,
no more of Sadie. |
straggled back to
fell to thinking of
girl with the gold-
en braid. Somehow, men will do
these things. Maybe it’s. vanity.
However, I set out digging up the
past. The old home was broken up,
but I found Lulu in the neighbor-
She was pleased and likewise
scared to see me, since I was sup-
posed to be dead. A boat that sailed
the day I left twenty years before
went under with all hands. My
friends thought I was the derelict,
and had mourned me all those years.

Still, with my corpse eliminated,
the meeting was a happy one. A
spasm of pain crossed Lulu’s face |
when we shook hands and she got |
a flash of my $18 diamond ring. Did
that sparkling gem remind her of the |
pallid beau, who, like myself, proved |
fickle? Heaven forbid! It shocked |
me some to learn that Sadie had |
married two years after my death,

lapse
days ago I

and
blue eyed

hood.

| children came whooping in,

| perhaps,
| tower

| years.

|
but I couldn’t blame her for that. |
| Lulu directed me to the place,
| I went to call for old time’s

and
sake.
Sadie knew me, in a minute, and
blushed as she led me by the hand,
as I had led her into the back yard

itwenty years ago, only our senti-
| ments, time tempered, were vastly
different. For an hour we. talked,

| avoiding the shot tower, and then the

subject of love’s young dream came
up, and we both laughed.

“My! but I was stuck on the men
those days,” she said.
From the tone I inferred

in

Sadie was

|not stuck on them now, since she
had married one. That’s. different.
Meanwhile, Sadie dispatched fleet
couriers into the neighborhood to

round up the children for my inspec-
tion. She brought out the silken star
I made twenty

years ago,

sight of it pleased me much. Iwas

| glad about the star, and a warm spot

glowed in my breast for the woman
who had not forgotten. Soon
led bya
plump and rosy girl with the golden
braid down her back—the Sadie
twenty ye My thoughts grew
lumpy, and.a wistful look stood in
the mother’s eyes when I took
little fat hand and caressed it.
“This 3s

woman

of
ars ago.

the

”

Henrietta, the

said,

my eldest,
simply.

Like one stricken dumb, I bent my |

head in silent awe and wonder. That
wellspring of human
too.deep for my rope. Right there
dawned the conviction that the first
opening buds of true love, larded with
pork and mustard
breast, can never,
rietta,

in the virgin

c never die; for Hen-
you remember, was the name
of the pig whose death gave
And, Oh, how light-

aside the fitful god,

to my romance.

ly Had ! cast

i who comes not at set command!

At once I became a Blighted Be-|
ling and waddled

without an-
other word or one more look at the
shot tower. ‘There old, and
beefy, bald, alone
through life. Twenty years of bliss
gone forever, and
yet

away

was I,
and plugging on
misery,

shot
it
and ivy

of

The
still stood spurned
in the burning past. Moss
draped the tall stone shaft, and the
base had gone to ruin. A policeman
told me the institution on

years
to come.

where [

been closed

and yet I am not satisfied.
there in the shadow

Dimly,
fog, I saw a_ phantom
Above the door a phantom sign:
Dryden, Esq., Fancy Sewing and
Pork Butcher.” Beyond the portal
a circle of little faces and a glowing
fireside at $11 a ton.

as

Too soon the picture faded,

front room for a single gent; refer-

ences given and required; bath op-|

tional, where these bleeding lines |
were written. Oh, well, what’s the|

use?
T don’t care.

Either I am nota

and the|~

the |

devotion was}

birth |

which 1}
might have reared a happy home had |
down more than fifteen
Of course, that helped some, |
Lurking |
of that busted |
shot works, the might have been rose |
|up to reproach me. in a|
doorway. |

“C. |

giving |
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Let the dead past stay dead. |
There must be some- |
thing wanting in the sentimental side |
jof my makeup.

Which is it?
In the next, and concluding,

to take a chance.
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Avoided.

No stove or range ever. made has
of itself what is called a draft; that
must be furnished by the chimney
or flue, and even when the draft in
chimney or flue is perfect, that is
not all that is wanted to insure good
work or good bread or biscuit; the
setting up, good fuel, good material
and last but least, a
I had a customer years
would
bake well,
“Why won’t you
stove to bake well, after
know the stove to be a good baker?”
his answer would be: “I know the
stove is a good baker, but I do not

not good cook.

ago who
stove to
would

the

never guarantee a
and when the lady
ask, guarantee

saying you

know if you know how to bake or
not,” and there is a lot that hinges
on knowing how, in baking as in!

everything else.

On old-timer told me that when a
lady bought a cheap cook stove the
chances were that she was going to
use it herself, and if the top part
of the oven got too hot, would place
a paper over the bread or biscuit un-
til enough ashes had gathered on the
top oven plate or if the bottom of
the oven got too hot,
a stove cover under the pan.
other hand,

she would put
On the
a lady bought a
high priced stove the chances were
she a servant to run it,
and if breakfast was late because she
had been late in getting up start
the fire, her that
the stove would on
the other hand,
too hot,

when

would have
to
be

if,

oven

would
not draw.
she the
forgot to take out the
bread or biscuit time and they
were burnt, the excuse would be
the stove could not be regulated and
at times I have found these excuses
used under conditions

cxmCuise

got
or
in

mentioned.

So, in making a sale, do not make
do not say this stove
range, as the case may be, will do
good work set up. to any kind of
an old chimney and with kind
of fuel; because will
not,

promises; or

any
you know it
or who may be its maker.

To obtain the best results there
is needed a good flue or chimney,
proper setting up with pipe full size
of- collar on the stove or range

good fuel and, as stated before, a
good cook to run it.
When possible the dealer should

set up every
and the man doing this work should

man about the place or shop. He

should know enough about the busi- |

ness to know if the flue he is
to use has a good draft or not,

the stove or range and if
correct the trouble before leaving the
job. If this were always done there
would be fewer kicks afterwards.
When the stove or range goes in-

aed = be sent to set

| overhanging the chimney,
|times the case,

| floor

| flue

} Can

no matter what may be its name |

better (in my

|fire box by drawing out the
and |
ito the bottom of the
| belongs.
, to combustion,
stove or range he sells, |
| thing.
not be the cub or the poorest work- |

going |
and |
if not, should so tell the party buying | h
possible

jadmitted to keep the fire
to the country where a man can not | well.

it up, instruct
| them as far as possible how to set
|it¢ up and what faults to avoid. Many

of the manufacturers have booklets

|or circulars on this subject that they

Fs etd be glad to furnish if they
Y | os they would be used.
A good chimney should be 8x8

inches inside and the top of it
should be a little higher than’ the
highest part of the comb of the

house, and should not have a tree
as is some-
and flue should end

from 4 to 6 inches below the open-

|ing into whoch the stove pipe runs,
other things necessary being propet |

the
per-
said

not run down to
into the cellar where
haps there is an opening into
cover or stopper of
putting up
one flue is

and should

or

without a
and remember
stoves

kind;
two three
like hitching up two or three wagons
to a single team just enough
to handle one wagon

any
or to
large
easily.
I suppose as long as stoves and
sold there will at times
be complaints made, and when they
come in they should be looked after
at once and it is well to go yourself
or send a man who knows the busi-

ranges are

ness. The first thing I do in such
cases is to fire up the stove or range
to see for myself how it burns.

If you find the fire does not burn
well, examine the flue and
that has a good draft. If not, lo

the trouble and remedy it if possi-
ble, because a good draft is abso-|
lutely necessary to good work. Next,

look to the fuel and remember you
can not get a hot fire from wet or|
rotten wood, as the heat used _ in
evaporating the water in green. or
wet wood is lost to the oven: nor
can you get a hot fire from poor
| coal, especially when mixed with
dirt. Then see that the ashes are|
kept away from the bottom of the}
fire and from under the grate, allow-

ing the air to pass freely through the
fuel, as air is to a fire
the and a fire
no more burn without any
you can live without air.

as

necessary
as is ‘wood or coal,
aid
than

pass under and through the fuel,

any air that passes over the fire

checks it and at the same time cools |

the oven, so I would say always|
| keep the damper slide in the front |
fire door closed, and it would be|

opinion) if no damper
slide was put
Get all the into the

hearth

air necessary

slide, as in so doing the
fire, where _ it
But while air is necessary
as in everything else,
may be too much of a good

Only one-fourth of the
entering the fire box is oxygen,
only thing that counts, while

three-fourths is made

there

other
neutral
towards

up
combustion, but have to be
1eated at the expense of the oven:
so that while it is necessary to ad-
mit all the air into the fire box that

|is needed to make the fire burn well,

no more than is

necessary should be
burning
And as no two flues draw ex-

 

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every day, but changes as does the |
weather, the amount of air to be|
admitted to do the best work can}
only be learned by experience, as any
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When Tubal Cain first turned out
his products of iron it is probable
that buyers who had skins or meat
to exchange for what he made were
so numerous that “Mr. Cain” found
ready sale for his goods.

In Western New York is a very|
successful hardware merchant who |
who prides himself on the fact |
that he has never advertised. In

seeking for a cause of his success I
found out that he knew every man,
woman and child for miles around. |
He had a hearty handshake, and a|
genial salute for each, also that same
atmosphere pervaded his entire force. |
He has reduced it to a system and |
it excellent,
novel of advertising,
the all and

regardless of their station in life, are
more susceptible to an appeal that |

| considered an 11.62
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women, |

method

fact that men

is addressed to them _ personally, |
than they are to one made to the
world at large. The tongue is an|

It |
can give more or less emphasis as

excellent method of advertising.

may be needed for each individual. |
It may put each hearer in a good
humor, so that the hearer will be |

more receptive. But, says some one, |
it is not my way to be sociable. If
feels that way he should
forget it and take as his doctrine |
that man be. what he}

wants to be if he wants to be what

any one

every can

he ought to be.

People are every day becoming |
more fastidious. <A dirty, gloomy,
poorly arranged store; that store

where the dust is on the goods and
where vou bump your knees against
the nail kegs under the counter; is
not |

patronized only of necessity,

from preference. It should become |
‘“Warrenized” or the trade goes |
somewhere else. Not only do the|
people like clean stores, but they |

like clean salesmen to wait on them. |
They do not like to see either the |
collar finger nails in mourning
In these days of abstinence practical-
ly every woman and many men ob- |
ject to tobacco. Your customers are
frequently with peculiar-
There money in each of
these individuals pleased. A man
whose annual business runs into the
millions said, “The best advertising
is in giving the biggest bunch fora
dollar. That does not always mean
the goods of the lowest price. You
may give value and service, courtesy
and attention. If the store is dirty,
unpleasant, badly managed, nothing |

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individuals

ities. is

 

is paid for service.

It is such a novelty for a salesman
to say to me as I pay for a purchase |
and am leaving, “Thank call
again,” that I appreciate it and do
return when I can. This novelty |
costs nothing and is appreciated by
go per cent. of buyers.

Some years since my wife sent |
me to purchase some bakery goods. |
I was instructed to go to a shop|
about two blocks further than the |
one which we had generally bought
at. Of course I obeyed, but I could
not help but meditate as to why we
should constantly wear out so much

you,

| can

| attitude of every one, from

| will make it worse.

| maton

| intelligence

| loafers

| your

|store, one which must be passed by

Lalli,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

|
shoe leather in covering the two ex- |
tra blocks. After a careful and adroit |
investigation, I found out that the
real reason for changing our trading
place was because of the cheerful, |
pleasant smile which was given with
each cake without extra charge. The
pulling powers of a_ genial atmos-
phere in any business establishment
not be over-estimated. I have
been in hardware stores where the
the pro-
prietor clear down the line, was as
repellent as a London fog. There
is no excuse for “grouchyness,” not
indigestion, for it can be cured, least
of all poor business, because sulking
It was the one
weak link that made the chain break.
Inattention to customers is the weak
link that loses business.
A million dollars in factory equip-
ment and a hundred years of experi-

lence in bringing an article to perfec-

tion is frequently neutralized by in-|
difference and ignorance of an auto-
in trousers behind the coun-
ter. The employes in no other line}
of business will average as high in

and _ ability those
the hardware It |
is the boy vigorous in mind and body
who takes to hardware. Each one
shall understand that unless he con-
centrates his mind and heart on his

as

found in stores.

business so as to know it from pin-
pans and from to
rasps, he will never get into the pros-

cers to razors

| perity class.

Is space in the hardware store too
valuable for some not for
clerks

chairs;
but

or achair for

|a customer who is not in a hurry to

If she can sit down and study
washing

leave?
machine restfully
as she can study the mail order cata-

as
logue she is more likely to see the
points of advantage in your machine. |
Resides some people like to go to the
expected |
spending

stores where they are not
to leave immediately after
their. money.

At a convenient location in the}
article

also

have each week a new

which will interest the women,
one that will interest the men, then}
let the merit and utility of these ar |
ticles be given in a most condensed |
form to each salesman. Make
point not to let any one out without |
securing at least a passing notice of |
these new things. This may not re- |
sult in immediate sales. But the peo-|
ple will appreciate your courtesy and)
You establish a reputation
for enterprise and having new goods.

The woman who saw the beautiful |
serving dish in March will remember
it when she has to buy a

attention.

wedding
But you say it
Let us

present in October.
is difficult to keep this up.
that

in

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of |

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

CONCRETE BRIDGES.

 

Two Recent Examples of Steel Arch
Construction.

Among the many cities that have
been built on the banks of our beauti-
ful Kalamazoo River, the one most
conspicuous for permanent brick-
paved and macadamized streets with
concrete sidewalks and_ reinforced
concrete-steel arch bridges to cross
the rivers is the city of Battle Creek.

built at the junction of the Kalama- |
zoo and Battle Creek Rivers, where |
one of the most bloody Indian battles |

between two native tribes was fought
across the tributary stream

name. The main business streets and
principal avenues cross the two rivers

at their junction in the heart of the |
concrete-steel arch |
bridges made it possible to carry the

city, where

permanent brick pavement or macad-

amized- street with its concrete side- |
rein- |
forced arches, spanning the river with |
the same uniform, even crowned con- |
struction as elsewhere in the street. |

walks across the permanent

The change from brick. asphalt or

macadam to wood or other material |
in the driveway of a bridge will cause |

a break in the construction. The
overhead trestle and under steel
arches and piles will rust out and en-

from |
which the river and city derived their |

prising business men, the judicious
administration of the city council and
the scientific principles employed by
| the city engineering corps, together
| with the vast amount of wealth in-
vested by her millionaire capitalists
to provide the public tax that has
pushed forward the permanent pub-
lic work of building well and eco-
|nomically five new _ concrete-steel

 

| of the best construction of reinforce-

jment of steel, which makes the re- |
|placing of the wooden bridges with |

|reinforced concrete much cheaper
'than could be Ict by contract. Battle
| Creek during the last five years has
| built five new permanent concrete

| bridges at a cost of about $12,000 |

| each. Three of the old wooden bridges

| were replaced by reinforced concrete-

 

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tail an expense for paint and repairs | ! i :
| Method of Constructing New Bridge at Battle Creek, Mich.

which if neglected shortens the life
of the bridge that at best has been

The trestles obstruct the view in the
middle of the street and the under

arches block the ice and floodwood. |

Such construction might perhaps do! : '
= . | and influential men of the cities will- |

for a cheap bridge in the suburbs of

the city or on country roads with |
where the}

our present local tax,
towns are too poor to build a per-
manent concrete bridge without the
aid of the State and Government.

Such aid would give the poorer towns |

the necéssary funds and the same en-
gineering and a better administration
and supervision than the cities have.
When they get such aid the perma-
nent construction should be advised
as the frail wood or steel bridge is

liable to be swept away by water |

spring, |
making the concrete bridge the cheap- |

flooding the rivers in the

est when well built.

This fact was well demonstrated
last spring by the two reinforced con-
crete bridges, one over the Kalama-
zoo River, on South Jefferson ave-
nue, and the other over the Battle
Creek River on West Main street,
which were strong enough to dam
partially the flood water of the two
rivers above their junction, letting
the water through slowly, protecting
four of the old wooden bridges on
the Kalamazoo River in the city and

adjoining towns from being swept |

away by the flood. These demon-
strations should lead people to take
forethought and make appropriations
sufficient to build well with reinforced
concrete-steel that will stand the
storms for ages.

The writer has kept in close touch
with the municipal improvements in
Battle Creek, and he is prepared to
state that the forethought of its enter-

| people of the city. He is also pre-
| pared to state that in canvassing the
| cities of Calhoun
| counties he found the representatives

ing and anxious to petition for State

 

stated to be thirty to forty years, | Pridges. are a great honor to the

and Kalamazoo |

steel arches, full width of the street,

| The first two were reinforced with
steel-arched I beams and the last

‘chored in the abutment and pier at

 

 

 

 

 

 

| and Government aid to the local tax
| for permanent road and bridge con-
| Struction. The city men and the cor-
| porations are willing to share the ex-
|pense of aiding the building of the
| country roads.

Battle Creek has a competent en-
|gineer, E. U. Hunt, and builds its
Own concrete arch bridges, paying a
royalty of Io per cent. on the use

New Concrete Arch Bridge at Plainwell, Mich.

 

each end and adjusted in the center

| inforcement which is similar in con-
| struction to the Plainwell bridge, and
|is preferable to the arch beams.

In the construction of improved
| Toads the building of permanent
| bridges is of importance. If we can
ijafford to build permanent roads it

consisting of two 50 foot spans each. |

one, which has just been completed, |
was reinforced with round rods an- |

with turnbuckles to take up the slack, |
|making a complete network of re-|

lis certainly good economy to build
the very best of bridges  pos-
sible. It is not the purpose of this
| article to take up in detail the various
kinds of highway bridges, but rather
|to present an example of concrete-
| steel bridge construction, on the ad-
vantages of which in modern road
engineers are pretty

| improvement
well agreed.

The foundation of the concrete-
arch bridge should be placed far
;enough below the bottom of the
|stream or ditch to admit being im-
| proved by deepening, and the arch
| should be made long enough to con-
|tinue the regular grade of the road
|surface over it without narrowing
‘it. This makes it possible to keep
the road surface in repair over the
| bridge as easily as elsewhere. It is
the impossibility of doing this that
is one of the greatest objections to
wood and steel bridges. The earth
| wears from the edges of the wood and
| steel bridges, making it impossible to
| maintain a uniform level between the
|road surface and the bridge floor.
|The depressions thus caused require
frequent filling, are therefore ex-
| pensive, and are unpleasant to ride
over. The arch bridge on the con-
|trary is so designed that the road
| material is carried over it, the crown
lof the surface being so maintained
| that there is no sudden change from
| the material of the road to the wood
‘or other material of the bridge, and
|therefore no formation of ruts. The

| worn places at the sides of the wood-
|en and steel bridges have to be re-
|paired by tamping gravel, broken
|stone, clay and other material by
hand process which is very slow and
‘laborious. The road level cannot be
maintained over such places with the
road machine as it can over the arch
| bridge, concrete tile and steel tubu-
lar culverts that have an earth cover-
|ing. Concrete as a material for such
| bridges and culverts it is scarcely
| necessary to commend, as engineers
have conclusively demonstrated that
it is stronger than stone, more dur-
able, and one of the cheapest ma-
terials that can be used for the con-
struction of solid foundations, large
| sewers, abutments and sidewalks. It
has displaced brick and stone for a
| multitude of such purposes. In the
concrete-steel bridge we have one of
| the latest developments in bridge con-
| Struction combining the advantages
| of both steel and concrete.

One of the best illustrations of an
|improved concrete-steel bridge for
country roads that has come under
the observation of the writer is that
| recently completed over the Kalama-
|zoo River at the village of Plainwell.
By an act of the Legislature of 1903
| the township was given the right to
bond in the sum of $20,000 for the
purpose of building a new bridge.
Good management was shown by the
township board in employing an en-
gineer of well known ability. Sealed
| bids were advertised for, and twenty-
| three proposals were submitted for
| different types of steel bridges vary-
|ing in price from $14,000 to $26,000.
| For a concrete-steel construction six
bids were received ranging from

 

 

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$16,000 to $27,000. A concrete bridge
was favored by the board, but the
only bid within the appropriation was
rejected on account of faulty design
of plan. The volume of the work, i
was therefore evident, would have to
be reduced in order to meet the de-
sire for such a bridge. It was in con-
sequence decided to reduce the width
five feet by leaving off one sidewalk.
A new call for bids was issued, and
three proposals were received varying
from $19,900 to $20,500.
tract was awarded to a construction
company for $19,900. The plans sub-
mitted by this company were for a
bridge 446 ft. long over all with seven
arches of 54 ft. opening and 8 ft.
rise. Work on the bridge was begun
on May 4, 1903, and completed on
November 2 of the same year. The
following description of the work of
constructing the bridge is presented
through the courtesy of the engineer:

“For foundations, piles were driven
to an approximate depth of ten feet
below the bed of the stream. Coffer-
dams were built, the water pumped
out, and the excavation carried down
until one foot of gravel was left
above the quicksand. The piles were
sawed off one and a half feet above
the bottom of the excavation, and
the concrete carried up to the spring
line of the arches. Piles were driven
until the penetration did not exceed
one-half inch, with a two-thousand-
pound hammer falling thirty feet.

“The specification for concrete pro-
vided: for arches above spring line,
Portland cement one part, sand two
parts, gravel four parts; for founda-
tions of abutments and piers below
spring line, Portland cement one
part, sand three parts, gravel six
parts; for spandrel and parapet walls,
Portland cement one part, sand three
parts, gravel seven parts.

“Owing to the natural mixture of
the sand and gravel in the pit, it was
decided to change the proportions as
given above, by making the founda-
tions, one of cement, and eight of
sand and gravel; arches and spandrel
walls, one of cement, and six of sand
and gravel. The parapet wall being
so light and of such length it was
strengthened by making the propor-
tion one of cement to four of sand
and gravel. The proportions for the
concrete were determined by meas-
ure; the wagon beds being built to
hold a cubic yard of gravel, a sack of
cement taken as one cubic foot.

“For foundations, the gravel was
used without screening, stones over
four inches in diameter being thrown
out at the pit or on the mixing board.
For the arches and spandrel walls,
the gravel was passed over a screen
having a two-inch mesh, used on the
wagon. The material for parapet
walls was screened to one inch largest
dimensions.

“Concrete was spread in layers of |
a | Skyscrapers, some having been built
|

from two inches to four inches
thickness and _ thoroughly
with iron tamps. Two men were em-
ployed tamping for each man shovel-
ing.”

The cost of building this great
concrete-steel structure had to be
paid for by the township board giv-

The con- |

rammed |

ing a bond running 17 years for $20,-
ooo on the township of Gun Plains.
Now if our State was employing
State and Government aid, as_ set
forth by the Brownlow bill, the peo-
ple of the local town would only be
taxed to pay one-fourth of $20,000 or
$5,000, which they could easily pay in
one or two years, while in the case
of bonding for 17 years, the interest
will amount to more than first cost,
making the debt for the town over
$40,000, to be paid on this permanent
structure, which however is a monu-
ment to the community and no less
a monument to Allegan County and
the State of Michigan. It is some-
thing that never has been undertaken
before by a town so poor and I think
never will be again by local authori-
ties until we have State and Govern-
ment aid with local co-operation for
permanent road construction.
. OAL. Sager:
——_+-+—___
Took the Doctor’s Advice.
Dr. William Osler, formerly of

of medicine at Oxford, was talking
during his recent Canadian tour
about the importance of precision in
the writing of prescriptions.

“Wherever a sentence may have
two meanings,” said Dr. Osler, “rest
assured that the wrong meaning will
be taken. Hence, it is important in
prescription-writing and in directions
to patients that the greatest clarity
and precision be obtained.

ed a physician and described a com-
mon malady that had befallen him.
“*The thing for you to do,’ the phy-
sician said, ‘is to drink hot water an
hour before breakfast every morning.’

forget it,’ said the patient.

“Accordingly the physician wrote
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morning.

“The patient took his leave and in
a week he returned.

“Well, how are you feeling?’ the
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“‘Worse, doctor, worse, if any-
| thing,’ was the reply.

“‘Ahem. Did you follow my ad-
vice and drink hot water an hour
before breakfast?’

“<‘T did the best, sir,’ said the young
man, ‘but I couldn’t keep it up more’n
ten minutes at a stretch.”

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27

 

THE SAMPLE FIEND.

 

Heavy Losses Which Result from
This Source.

We have heard of all sorts and con-
ditions of shoplifters—from poor chil-
dren trained by dishonest parents to
visit department stores and come
away with substantial souvenirs to
the wealthy woman of high social
connections who helps’ herself to
goods simply because she can not help
yielding to a mania. But a new and
astonishing state of affairs is reveal-
ed in the casual remark of the mana-
ger of a big department store, who
said to a reporter a few days ago:

“Do you know that during the holi-
day week at Christmas we lost one
hundred pounds of candy through
petty thieves who have acquired a dis-
agreeable habit of sampling every- |
thing they can without attracting un- |
due notice?”

A questions put by the
porter brought out the fact that this
constant loss at the hands of habit- |
ual samplers is not confined by any
means to candy alone. A casual ques- |

 

few re- |

tion put from time to time at different |
kinds of stores elicited the informa- |
tion that fruit stands, dry goods|
stores, cigar stores and saloons had
all suffered from the ravages of the/|
petty sampler.

Recently storekeepers have _ been}
taking steps to put a limit to the|
game of sampling. Business men have
quite recently been a little less gener- |
cus with their offers of samples to}
Tom, Dick and Harry, and the women
members of these illustrious families,

hoping thereby to save something for |
the profit side of the business.

In discussing the matter of the
hundred pounds of candy lost inthe
mouths of samplers during the Christ- |
mas week the manager of the store
in mind said that the “cool cheek of
some women was mainly responsible
for the shortage of returns on|
weight.”

“Some women,” said the manager,
“make a point of visiting the store |
during the rush of holiday business— |
particularly around Christmas and_|
Faster, when the stores are crammed |
with people who come and go with-
out our having a chance of noting |
whether they are mere sight-seers or
purchasers, to whom we do not, of
course, grudge temperate sampling of |
the goods.

“Those women to whom I refer|
just butt in with no other intention |
than that of seeing the crowd and
the display. From the amount of
sampling that they do would
think that they were going to buy
something in every department.

“Moreover, they bring the family,
and I have seen a case where a4|
woman would give two or three can- |
dies to each child she brought along, |
and then calmly walk off to another |
department.”

A manager of a dry goods firm,
when asked about this petty form of |
shoplifting, said that what the mana- |
ger of the candy department said was
as true in his case as in others. He
further made the statement that this |
form of theft was actually conducted |
by mail. |

one

| beer,
free lunch counter with a businesslike |

“Have you ever heard of
quilts?” he asked.

The reporter, who once had had
sisters of his own, admitted that he
had a dim notionn of what a crazy

crazy

quilt was, whereupon the dry goods |

man said:

“Well, that is where we lose, prin-
cipally. Persons in town and out of
it—women mainly—write to us fora
bunch of samples of some particular
color. That is the last we. hear of
the samples or the supposedly pros-
pective And if we had
any means of checking it we would
probably find that the same women
were procuring samples of other col-
from other stores. These

customer.

OFS

and satin samples cost money, and |

the loss occasioned by this deliberate
theft amounts to something consider-
able in the year.

“Another form of petty larceny is

of the same class, practically, but

| really more expensive to us when you
iknow that the samples that go in
| this case are fine cloths, such as are
| used for trouserings and coats. These
| samples are those used in the making
| of fireside rugs.”

Even the fruit stands on the streets

{and around railway stations do not

escape the sample fiend. Just as the

| Smith family takes a handful of can-
| dy and distributes it among the chil- |

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

dren, so the samplers try the plums—
“to see if they’re sour’—and, having

| eaten quite a quantity, announce calm-

ly that they are quite impossible for

consumption. Nuts and grapes, say

ithe fruit-stand keepers, are the usual

preference of the fruit-sampling fiend.

Cigars used to be a favorite “graft” |

silk |

|

|

 

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showing how our cutters are used andin what
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Grocery Co., of Phila., and twenty in use by the
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For Women, Misses and Children
197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

 

 

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of men samplers, as one may learn|

by asking the cigar store man. A
new cigar comes out. The customer
discovers it—particularly as he
for it—just after he

bought a five-cent package of cigar-
ette tobacco. He smells it; he holds

is

looking

it up to the light; he criticises its |
| color; swears it can’t be good for the |

price and eventually drives the cigar |
| store man to such distraction that he |

Says:
“Well, try it, then.”
And it is promptly tried. But
recent months the cigar store man
has become wary, especially as there

|are not the same profits in individual
i cigar stores

that there used to be,

j}and no matter how much you may

criticise a cigar now, you will have
to pay for it if you “try it.”

Perhaps the most interesting spe-
cies of sampler fiend is the free lunch
“grabber. He makes a bhoardme
house of the free lunch counter. He
comes in every day, buys a glass of

and forthwith sails into the

air that appals the saloonkeeper.
tt
Had a “Tobacco Heart.”

Church—I see a man in a Connecti- |
sued for breach |
of promise by two women, one liv- |
ing in Havana, Cuba, and the other |

cut town has been

in his own State.

Gotham—That fellow must have a}
“tobacco heart,” with a Havana filler |

and a Connecticut wrapper.
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28

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THEY READ MEN.

 

How Famous Money Makers Justify
Their Leadership.

How the foremost money makers
in the world justify their leadership
is never so apparent as in their judg-
ment of the man who comes to them
with a business proposition. Sena-
tor Clark attributes his success in life
te a cultivation of the ability not
only to judge men but to seize quick-
ly upon the essentials of whatever
knowledge may be submitted to him,
to weed them out, to retain them, and
to make use of them.

One who is held to be a master
of the art of judging both men and
projects with incredible swiftness is
J. P. Morgan. “He knows to the
last degree the psychology of meet-
ing and dealing with men,” says Ray
Stannard Baker in a story of this fi-
nancier.

“The man who sits in his office a
citadel of silence and reserve force
and makes his visitor uncover his bat-
teries is impregnable. That is Mr.
Morgan’s way—the way he dealt with
a certain owner of coal lands in
Pennsylvania, who knew that Mr.

Morgan must have his property, and |

so had come down to exact a good
price, to ‘thrash it out with Mr. Mor-

gan” Mr. Morgan kept him waiting |
a long time and then came out, bulky,
cold and impressive, looked the coal |
man in the eye, and only broke the |

silence to say, ‘I’ll give you $— for
your property.’
gain closed.
“Until recently any man might
walk up to his desk, which stands
in plain view from the outer office,
without the formality of presenting a

card; but, while approachable, it |
indeed, |

would be an intrepid man,
who would call upon him without
definite business in hand.

“He is a man of few words, always |

shortly and sharply spoken. When
a man comes to him Mr. Morgan
looks at him keenly, waiting for him
to speak first and his decision fol-
lows quickly.

“A young broker who had never

met Mr. Morgan before went to|
him not long ago to borrow a mil- |

lion dollars for a client. He told

Mr. Morgan what he wanted in half |

a dozen words, and handed him the

list of securities to be deposited as |

collateral. Mr. Morgan looked sharp-

ly at his visitor, ‘looked at me as if/|

he saw clear through me,’ as_ the
broker expressed it, then glanced
swiftly down the list. ‘I'll take the
loan,’ he said, and passed the borrow-
er on to one of his partners. That
was all. The whole transaction, in-
volving a loan larger than the yearly
business of many a small bank, had
taken a minute and a half, and Mr.
Morgan’s side of the transaction had
dozen
words.”

It is related of a New Englander | ‘idaaicty ik Mbit wah cals

of note, who is excessively polite and

garrulous, that he once called upon

Thomas Dolan to interest him inthe
forming of a gas company. He went
into details at great length, much to
the disgust of his bored listener. Fin-
ally he came to the question of fi-

And there the bar- |

| nancing the company and said with a
| flourish, “Of course we can do this
ourselves, but we wanted some
one—”

“You say you can do this your-
self?” sharply interrupted Mr. Do-
lan.

“Oh, yes,” was the smiling answer,
“and—”

“Then,” was the curt rejoinder,
“you have no use for me. John,”
turning to the messenger, “send in
the next gentleman.”

A man who once had a business
transaction with James R. Keene
thus describes his first interview with
him, which was made through a
friend by Mr. Keene’s appointment:
“When I entered my friend’s office
Mr. Keene was sitting on the lower
end of a leather couch, near to the
| stock ticker, the stock tape between
|his fingers. He half rose when I
| was presented to him, and, without
| speaking, presented a hand that was
damp and limp. He flashed at me a
single glance when I gripped his
hand; then his eyes fell again upon
the tape, as he resumed his seat on
ithe couch. Nevertheless, I felt that
my photograph had been taken, and
that it was being closely examined.

“The broker began to speak of a
six months’ London call on Louisville
and Nashville stock (then selling at
17 in the home market, I remember).
The price seemed low to me, and I
discussed the possible profit in the
call’s purchase. Still the eyes of the
| man were bent on the tape, and still
|I could have sworn was my _ photo-
graph under inspection. Could I be
used in the game? Was there enough
in me to make worth while the both-
er? Where might I be placed on the
chess board? Was I pawn, knight,
| bishop or castle?
| “Well? said the broker, ‘if you
think the call is cheap, I’ll buy it
with you on joint account.’

“‘Done,’ said I, and again turned
toward the man I had come espe-
cially to meet, and whose look was
now fixed upon me without any at-
tempt to disguise his endeavor to
estimate me. He might as well have
voiced his conclusions as to speak so
| plainly with his eyes, as_ follows:
‘Young, energetic, enthusiastic; a
little soft yet. Shrewd? Well, may-
be, in a way. Humph! we'll see.’

“My subscription to the pool which
was afterward made was 3,000 shares,
| but the proportion which I was com-
| pelled to accept from Mr. Keene
| was but 1,400 shares (if I recollect
| correctly), for when he had purchas-
| ed less than one-half of the entire
|amount subscribed by the pool he
| was in a position to manipulate the
| market to the pool’s benefit without
| buying any more stock.”
| Mr. Keene is known to be a hard
| man to get at, and rarely sees any-
body until after the market closes.
| There are times, however, when his

 

asserts it-
self in giving an unexpected inter-
view, but when his wonderful alert-
ness, which amounts to a sixth sense
in discovering the man or thing that
he needs, has been of inestimable
benefit both to him and to the per-
son who came at the lucky time.

 

 

W. PRED McBAIN, President

| Grand Rapids, Mick. The Leading Agency

 

 

 

One day the stock of a ers AUTOMOBILES
eral superintendent of these mines | igan and if you are thinking of buying you
came in a hurry to San Francisco | will serve your best interests by consult-
and reported a find of a wonderful a
number of “bonanzas” full of almost —— — Co.
rand Rapids, i.

capitalists that they should quietly |
get hold of all the stock they could}
before the knowledge of the “strike” |

|
was made public. This was Thurs-| FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY
three-fifths of all the stock. Keene,
shrewd and sharp, felt that some-
of him he could not find out what it
was.

One afternoon a little woman in) The Id

| e
asked the clerk timidly if she could) N t | B k
see Mr. Keene. The young man ad- a iona an

Grand Rapids, Mich.

i 7 en-
mine was extremely low. —_s We have the largest line in Western Mich-
ing us.
pure gold. He proposed to certain |
day. By Saturday evening they had
thing was in the air, but for the life
rusty black came into the office and)
dressed was busy just then telling |

 

 

an interesting story to the clerk near-
est to him. He looked over her head
and everywhere, and finally saw that Our Certificates of Deposit
it was only a shabby looking wom- | are payable on demand
an. He supposed it was some one | and draw interest.

who was begging, and insolently an-|
Blue Savings Books

swered her that Mr. Keene was |
are the best issued.

 

busy and that he could see no one. |
She waited a moment, and then said:
“Will you take my name in to him?” |

Just then a tall, slender man came Interest Compounded
out of the office, and hearing a word
of the conversation, said, “I am Mr. |
Keene. Did you wish to see me?|
Come into my office, madam.” She}
went with him, and he offered her a)
chair with as much courtesy as if}
she had been a reigning belle, and}
waited for her story.

Through a remarkable combination |

Assets over Six Million Dollars

Ask for our
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Fifty years corner Canal and Pearl Sts.

 

 

 

 

 

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 descriptive matter of Florida, California and
other Southern and Western Winter Resorts, address

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G. R. & IL. Ry.,
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of circumstances she had heard
private conversation relative to the

|

|
a

gold find, and had come to him with |

it in the hope of getting something
out of it.
had vainly sought for, and it came
just in time. He made several

mil- |

lion dollars out of the deal, and the!

little woman in black was al-

lowed to go unrewarded.

not

Perhaps the most unusual attitude |

toward people who tried to get an
audience with him was expressed by
David R. Francis while he was Presi-

dent of the St. Louis Exposition.

It was the clew that Keene |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

{
pestered so much with unimportant |
details that he can not give proper |
attention to the really important fea- |
tures of his work.” G. R. Clarke.

—_+-____

Another Young Woman Who Es-
poused a Business Career.
Orient, Mich., Feb. 28—The_ ex-
perience of Miss Lucia Harrison, of
Harrisburg, Mich., printed in the|
Tradesman February 8, is so much
like my own that it has inspired a

| desire in my mind to write a sketch |

“One of my rules,” he says, “is nev- |
er to make any definite engagements |

to see people.
I will be about a certain time, but

I tell a man wher-|

he must take his chances of finding |

me at his disposal.

est strain in anticipating interviews.
That is to say, the real nervous strain
comes not so much from listening
to the man with whom you are en-
gaged at the time, but from the con-

sciousness that other men are wait- |

ing in their turn for an interview.

“If you dispose of each case as
anticipate the cases to follow, as is
necessary when you make definite
engagements, you escape the greatest
waste of nerve force in the conduct
of large enterprises.
need to see you must know when it

is the best time to see you, and you}

| should be

Throughout all!
my public life I have found the great- |

}

| business.
| of three children, necessity demanded

|that I should do my utmost, and the I geass emai

of my own business experience:
I was bet 55 years of age
I commenced taking upon myself |
cares and duties pertaining to busi-|
ness, my father, J. H. Loucks, at the |
time being in the mercantile business |
at Sylvester, and also postmaster.
When I was 17 my father was tak-
en with sciatic rheumatism, render-
ing him unable to attend to his
Then, I being the eldest

when |

whole, by carrying out my father’s |
dictations and suggestions until he
able to resume the work, |

| which transpired to be about three |
it comes up without endeavoring to!

months.

Later, I begin to think, “Were I
left to conduct the business
could I master the position?’ and

alone |

| from that time determined to qualify |

The men who|

need not worry about their present- |
ing matters to you unless they need

your attention. As a general rule,
the man in an executive position is

 
 

|in book-keeping

My only drawback seemed

myself.
to be insufficiency in book-keeping
But fortunately Providence came to |
my rescue: One of our gentlemen |
boarders, being a graduate of the |
“Ferris Industrial,’ formed a class |

Sylvester, of

 

at

The complete

| any

| costa,

|sisting of store, postoffice and t

| ful

which I eagerly became a member,
proving the most successful in the

common work.

book

I began at once in the store
keep double entry, covering the en-

|tire business, my trial balance meas-

|class, and continuing until my teach- |
ler pronounced me competent to do}

29

in People in whom we

confidence,

pleasure.

can place implicit who

Experience has taught us are good

as gold—these can not be too highly

esteemed or appreciated.

to}

uring one yard and a fourth in
length and containing too acts. 1}

|also do the invoicing and make out
| balance sheets.

We moved from Sylvester to Me-
where engaged in
mercantile for

we were

the business

While
are

look,
1ence, a feeling of
make

But there is a vast contrast.
attractive, others
by a fretful

some are re

pulsive, casting,
presence and infit
displeasure and dread. They

one feel like walking out the back

door while they are entering the
front way. 3ut I usually manage

to find the best side of these unfortu-

three |

years, at the end of which time we|

like Miss

”

to Orient. Ftlere,

Harrison, “We are all of it,

came
ele-
phone office, located on two hundred
land, mostly

acres of

timber.

con- |

hardwood |
My father and brother are}

interested in the timber, while Iam}

1 am care
lést

wing.

manager of the business.

soar too high we

with a broken

not to

beings

nate inhumane beings, if possible. If
not, and they insist ‘upon finding
fault with goods and prices, I advise
them not to purchase, even if they
are inclined to do so; or say, “Per-
haps you had better take just enough
supply until you

These chronic
ariably obstinate

of the article to

elsewhere.”
are

can go

fault-finders inv

and must.be dealt with ac-

| cordingly.

There is certainly a foundation for |
a vast amount of wealth in this un- |

developed country and it is hoped

ithat more will take advantage of its

rich possibilities.

The mercantile affords
boundless opportunities for the study
of human nature, and Experience

business
is
the competent teacher.
pecially, waiting upon the children,
who brighten our life
ngelic presence, and
rown people, too, who always have
am

with
those

2

cheery

°o
5

a smile and make me forget I

serving the public, service being lost |

exhibit of the

at St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904, received the
Highest Award and Gold Medal

 

received the
Gold Medal—Highest and Only Award

Manufactured by
Computing Scale Co., Dayton, Ohio.

Moneyweight Scale Co.
47 State St., Chicago

I enjoy, es-|
the

their |

3ut not only in a business way have
As
everywhere

I made myself useful: much as
possible I have been
present in hours of need, housework
At times when sickness has
entered our f acted
doctor, nurse, servant girl and chore

included.
home have as
boy, often wishing I were two per-
sons instead of one.

Like Miss

floor

Harrison, I, too, keep

store as immaculate as I

possibly can.
“Diligent

service,

to
what-

in business, devoted

is consolation,

my

lever may be the reward.

First Highest Award

Dayton Moneyweight Scales

from the jury of awards and their decision has been approved and sustained.

The Templeton Cheese Cutter

The Grand Prize was awarded to our scales and cheese cutters as a store equipment in connection
with the “Model Grocery Exhibit.”
We have over fifty different styles of scales and four different cheese cutters.
scales are now in use in the United States, and foreign countries are rapidly adopting our system, realizing that
it is the only article which will close up all leaks in retailing merchandise.
Send a postal to Dep't ‘‘Y” for free booklet.

Tinnie M. Loucks.

      
 
   
     
   
     
     
     
    

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Nothing So Pathetic As the Fears
of Women.
All women live in a state of per-|
petual fear.
You, madam, who read these lines,

are afraid of one thing; I, who write
them, fear something else; but for
all women life is like an old nurse’s
tale, filled with bugaboos that keep

them in shuddering dread from the
cradle to the grave.

It is their fears that stand _ be-|
tween women and happiness. The
actual misfortunes of life we have
courage to face and fight, but the

bogy man our fancy
keeps us in a state of misery
fright that is as
weak and silly.
We fear—we know not
apprehend—unimaginable
phes. We dwell forever on
watch tower, with our eyes
the horizon looking out for trouble.
If we sit down to a feast we can

pitiable as it is

not enjoy it properly for fear at some
possible time we may lack food.
If we are blessed with devoted hus-
bands, we torture ourselves with the
that
they

some day in

neglect us

thought
future
younger and more beautiful women.

If we have strong and healthy chil-
dren we lie awake nights agonizing
over the awful grief it would be
should they sicken and die.

There is never a mother’s daugh-
ter of us who waits for trouble to
We have always been
fears—have

may for

come to her.
out to meet it with our
discounted and double
sufferings in our imaginations. Noth-
ing as bad as we expect ever hap-
pens to us. To
plains why women always

discounted its

this ex-
bear = a
great calamity with courage and for-
titude. It is because we have always
been looking cut for something ter-
to befall us, and when a

a degree

rible real
less dreadful than our fears had pic-
tured it that it
We had apprehended being burned at
the stake or being flayed alive, or
something lingering with burning oil
in it, and when fate merely adminis-
ters a back-handed slap at us, it does
not seem worth mentioning.
We get neither consolation

Scrais 2

nor in-

mon experience. As soon as we lay

one ghost we raise another, and go}

on shivering with terror as before—
and the curious and ludicrous thing

is that all this agony of apprehension |
if |a woman

is wasted. To fear a thing seems to
be a kind of lightning rod that turns
that familiar brand of trouble away.
The misfortune we are always look-
ing for never occurs, or else it comes
in such different guise that it is rob-
bed of its terrors, and we find that
there was
dreaded it

But this

no necessity of
at all.

fer through their
Their fears are the real griefs o

| ment in anticipating
| loss,

| herself
| i spends her life on a still hunt for a
conjures UP| 4) who
and |

what. We |
catastro- | : Ho.
rn | the sex, and, indeed, it is only wom-

he, yg. ‘ :
: the | an’s highly developed talent for bear-
glued on |

the tat i

mere trifle. |

iup to her ideal.
|nothing to offer
ring, for this is
woman

| dead than without its portals.

_ 1s a tatlere
does not abate the poig- |

nancy of the misery that women suf- |

apprehensions. | ' i
f dreading to be an old maid, yet the

| life to them. The poor wretch con-

demned to death dies daily and hour-

| ly in his anticipation of the moment

when he will be strapped in the

| electric chair or feel the noose about
| his neck, so a woman suffers in an-
| ticipating all the things she fears.

It is nothing to woman that the

| misfortune she dreads never happens

to her. Many a woman who has

| been stuffed like a Strasburg goose
jall her life has gone through
|agony of slow starvation; many a
| mother who has reared a big family

the

has suffered every shade of bereave-
every possible
from the death of her eldest
son to being left old and childless,

|and many a woman with a husband

as domestic as the house cat keeps
green with jealousy and
does not exist.

It is their fears that make earth a

| purgatory to which every woman has

a pass key.

This is the greatest misfortune of

ing misery that enables her to en-

|dure her fears and remain sane. If

men worried as much over the possi-
ble misfortunes that might _ befall
them as women do, the entire male
population would be locked
padded cells.

The first fear of woman is the fear
of being an old maid.

This terror comes originally to a

up in

girl when she is starting to her first
ball, and it never entirely leaves her
until she stands before the altar.
Conditions have nothing to do with
it. A girl may be as beautiful as a
houri and as fascinating as a siren.
She may have lived in an atmosphere

of flattery, but when she stands be-|

I
her coming-out gown she is smitten
with a sudden stage fright lest no
one should ask her to dance and she
should be that feminine failure
wallflower.

At 24 or 25 this fear of spinster-
hood grows acute, and only too oft-

ore the mirror in all the glory of

 

a

r is ien by the time she is 30 it throws
misfortune does come it is so much

her into a panic that makes her rush

headlong into a foolish and _ill-as-
sorted marriage.
She is not in love. The man may

He
He
her
the
the

does not come
may even have
but a wedding
period when a

impecunious

not attract her.

marries

é i : | clerk or the poor widower with seven
formation, however, from this com- |

small children.
She has no earthly reason for mar-
rying, except her fear of being anold

| maid.

Why the fear of this should drive
to the mental and moral
suicide which an uncongenial mar-
riage is passes comprehension. Cer-

tainly the average married couple

|do not suggest that matrimony isa
| paradise, and that one had better be

Nor

..|is the average husband such a prize
having |

that a woman that life

not capture

should feel
if she does
one.

There is no reason for a woman

them
mar-

fear of it drives thousands of
into loveless and _ unsuitable
riages every year, and becomes one
of the most potent causes of domes-
tic discord.

If this fear could be eliminated and
stood in as little terror of
being old maids as men do of being
old bachelors, it would make tremen-
dously for matrimonial bliss, for then
a woman would only marry when and
whom she chose, and she would have
the courage to wait until the right
man came along.

The second deadly fear that tor-
ments women is the fear of growing
old and losing their good looks.

This is the real specter that makes
every woman shake in her _ shoes
when she thinks of it, and afraid to
look over her shoulder at her birth-
days.

women

Just how universal, how harassing
and how poignant is the fear women
entertain of growing old and _ less
good looking is abundantly proven by
the time and labor and money and
suffering they expend in trying to
ward off the catastrophe as long as

possible. “How to Keep Young,” and
“Be Beautiful Though Ugly,” are

topics of such burning and perennial
interest to women that almost every
newspaper in the country finds _ it
profitable to publish columns of ad-
vice on the subject.

Beauty parlors

flourish on every

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sessed of such a consuming horror of

j

losing their youthful attractions? No-|

body knows. They do know
themselves.

Do they think beauty is the best
bait with which to angle for a hus-
band? Men admire beauty, but they
seldom marry it. If only the good
lookers got husbands there would be
an enormous increase in the old maid

crop.

not

Do they think that they will be
more apt to retain their husbands’
affections if they keep young and
good looking? As a general thing,a
man takes his last look at his wife at
the altar, and
tices what she has on or how she
looks, but only what she does. Deeds
and not good looks are cables with
to hold a husband.

never afterward no-

which

Does she think youth and beauty
will help her if she wishes to be
working woman? They are oftener
a hindrance than a help, for there is
a deep-rooted belief in commercial
circles that beauty merely
parlor ornament that is out of place
in an office.

a

a is a

Does she think that youth and
good looks will make her popular
with her own sex? Women do not

object to ugliness in other women.
They prefer it.

Does she think that her youth and
good looks make her more interest-
ing? There is nothing else on earth
more deadly dull to talk to or listen
It takes
and experience to broaden the mind

to than a young girl. age
and ripen the sympathies enough to
make a woman really interesting as
a companion.

And then, when the inevitable hap-
and woman old
and loses the bloom of youth, she

pens, a does grow
finds that the goblin she feared is an
angel in disguise. For the first time
in her life she knows peace and rest
for no woman is free until she can
be as homely as nature made her and
look as old as she is.
Men not suffer

of growing old, which i:

do the fear

one

from

s of the

reasons they stay young longer than
women.
which

Another fear from

| his own way in the world was hardly | - :
. i Yj are even more acute, for there is no

ne |
To a casual observer it would seem |

that a big, husky fellow who had ar- |
rived at man’s estate and had made|

a subject for anxiety, but he never]
looks that way to if
loves him. It never ven occurs to}
her that he is amply able to find his}

his wife she

way about, and look out for himself;
wherefore she spends her time in bor-
rowing trouble imagining catastro- |
phes that might happen to him.

Of course, all of this is laughably
absurd, except to the women them-

selves, who really, honestly and ac- |

tually undergo a perfect martyrdom |
of anxiety about men who are safe, |
well and able to cope with any sit-
uation.

The worst fear of all, hoavever, is |

'that some dreadful thing will befall

| of mind.

ity may happen to her children, or

| could

women |

suffer is the continual apprehension |

that the men they love will get lost

| matter,

on the streets or run over by a milk |

wagon, or be the victim of some
other untoward accident. This

fear |

. . . . |
is a mania with the entire sex, and}

enough tears have been shed

husbands who were fifteen minutes

|
OVET |

late to dinner to have floated them |

safely home by water.
Women take this. old
about woman being man’s guardian
angel seriously, and the one thing no
wife can ever understand is by what
miracle her husband kept out of the
poorhouse and the hospital before he
had her to take charge of his pocket-
book and his person. Poor thing!

He does not know his own handker- |
chiefs, or what dishes give him indi-|

gestion, and he has not enough in-

telligence to change his shoes when |
|may have to be divorced.

he gets his feet damp! It makes her
tremble to think of the dangers he
ran before he had a wife to take care
of him.

of

metaphor | " ann
|she has quit waiting at home to re-

her children. From the time her first

baby is born until her youngest child

dies of old age a mother never knows
one moment’s tranquility and peace |
She is always possessed of |
a consuming dread that some calam- |

might happen to them, or possibly
could happen to them, and, in conse-
quence, she lives on a nervous strain |

|
that fills asylums with maniac moth- |
ers and homes with stepmothers. |

Of course, the place where a moth- |
er’s fears have most basis of reality |
is in the sickness of children, but if |
every child had as many deadly dis-
eases as its mother thinks it has, and}
many escapes from the |
grave, it would have more lives than |
the proverbial cat.

as narrow

Give an anxious mother a clinical
thermometer and enough money to
pay doctor’s bills, and there is no |
ailment known to the science of med-
icine that her children do not have.
All of us know sturdy youngsters
who, according to their mothers, have |

a continued round of brain fever, gas- |
tritis, pneumonia, typhoid fever and_|

incipient diphtheria, but who still sur-
vive.

his is that the
If an-
other woman’s child was ailing
it had a disordered |
a sore throat, and that
there was nothing more serious the
it her
own her heart is just as much torn

The pitiful part of

mother believes her fears.
she
see that
stomach, or

but when comes to
with anxiety and she goes through
just as much agony of apprehension
over a pin prick as she does over a
desperate case of blood poisoning.
Nor do
themselves

mother’s fears exhaust
the physical welfare
children. By the time the

mumps over, and

a
on
her
measles and are
ceive her boy’s remains from the
football game, she begins worrying
about whom he may marry when he
grows up.

When she looks at her little girlin
short and with her hair in
pigtails, she can scarcely refrain from
tears, thinking how sad it will be if
Sallie marries a drunkard who beats |
and neglects her and from whom she

frocks

There is probably not an old maid
in the world whose mother has not
lain awake nights worrying over the

 

 

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husband that never appeared on the
scene,

And with her sons a woman’s fears

other dread greater than her dread
This takes in
the whole range of matrimonial ca-
lamity, and for years before the boy

/is grown she is miserable about it.

She fears that her son will marry |
| young; that he will marry beneath
|him; that he will be taken in by a

designing woman; that he will marry

an extravagant woman; that he will)

marry somebody of whom she does

not approve, and then, when he does}

marry, she settles down to the life-

long fear that his wife will henpeck |
| him.

It is the mother’s groundless fears |

that turn motherhood into an_ al-
most insupportable burden of appre-
hension—that make so many wom-
en prefer pug dogs to babies.

In all the world there is nothing
so pathetic as the fears of women,
for they are wasted misery.

Dorothy Dix.
~~~» <<

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BLIGHTED BY RICHES.

Careers Which Have Been Given Up |

for Wealth. |

A lawyer the other day hazarded |

the remark that there were more for-

tunes made by deliberately blighting

one’s hopes for a career than by
carrying them out.

 

“Our firm drew up a contract re-|
cently,” said he, “by which a young |
woman was given $100,000 outright |
to renounce a vaudeville career of |
which she had made the beginning |
of a great success. She had been|
married, having made a_ runaway |
match against her parents’
From that time on her family dis- |

wishes. |

owned her, and although the hus-/}
band was taken ill and the young}
couple were generally unfortunate, |

they were left to work it out alone
as best they could. Finally the
daughter decided to go on the stage. |
She had unquestionably great talent. |
Her first appearance was an over-
whelming success and she received
offers for engagements that promis-
ed her affluence compared with the
poverty she had been living in.

“It was now that the parents step- |
ped forward with the long delayed |
offer of assistance. She had been ad-|

vertised under the name she _ had
borne in girlhood, and it was. un-
doubtedly this circumstance rather

than the fact that she was obliged to|
earn her living that influenced her |
father and mother. To see _ their!
proud name advertised upon the
vaudeville billboards too much |
for the old couple, and they made
over to her the sum mentioned upon
the condition that
at once and forever to private life.
“This was, perhaps, unfortu-

was

she would retire
less
nate than the case of a young man
I knew of who had an absorbing
passion for machinery. He had tak-!
en a position in a machine shop and
was never so happy as when he was
at work im his overalls. His father |
encouraged him in his plan of becom-
ing a practical machinist, and he
would have undoubtedly made a suc-
this line if it had not been
for the interference of his mother.

cess in

“The family had some considerable
social position, but it was the moth-
er who had most of the money. From |
the first she seriously objected to
the

appearance of the young man
when he came and went from the|

house in his working clothes, and she |
made it so unpleasant for him that |
he finally had to give up staying at
home entirely. Housed in a cheap
boarding house, he became tired him-
self of the life he had picked out, and
when his mother constantly visited
him, with protestations of affection. |
begging him to come home, and of-|
fering him a large income if he}
would study law, as she had hoped |
for him, he finally yielded. He has |
never made any success as a lawyer, |
although he has been in receipt of |
a comfortable income, and probably
will be all his life.

“These incidents are only in line |
with that a few years ago of a¥/|
young fellow who had great musical |
talents and a highly artistic tempera- |
ment. He was not without a certain |

| himself as a business man.
|at this opportune time gave him in-

| ous disapproval which became

. . : |
conscientious business faculty also, |
and this his father—who was a prac- |

tical business man, the owner of a
brewery—was making
by putting him to work early.

the most of |

One|

day an organist of some note who|

had a good business clientele in the
profession of music offered to give

He pointed out how
start with what knowledge. of music

|him musical training free of charge. |
even at the|

he already possessed he could put!

him in the way of earning his living

for the years that he was studying.
“It was now that the young man’s

father stepped in not only with a

warning as to the utter impotency |

of the musical career as a business.
but with strict injunctions as to
his duty in making something of
He also

whelmed with the responsibilities ofa
business, part of which he has in-
herited and of all of which he has
been made trustee. He has no time
for the music that his soul loves, even
as a recreation, and it is the regret
of his life that he did not take his
opportunity when he had it.
“Another case was that of a family
who had certain false standards of

| what constituted a useful position in

life. One of the sons had made

| creased responsibilities and a sub-|
stantial increase in salary. The re-|
sult is that now the man is_ over-

something of a career for himself in|}

athletics. He was not only good in

his line to the extent that he could |
command a professional career but '

he was well known and liked and
had good friends among people of
his profession. At such times, how-
ever, as he would return home after
periods of work, especially if he had
been called upon to do anything ina
business way upon Sunday, he was
met with a coldness and sanctimoni-
un-
bearable. Finally his father offered
him substantial reward and the prom-
ise Of something better if he would
stay at home and help him in his
business. The result was that he set-
tled into a business in which he was

made from corn.
finding great favor

entirely without initiative, and among
a class of men with whom he did
not either affiliate or make friends.
“Only recently a man of not un-
kind motives wrecked what promised
to be a fine artistic career. His
nephew only needed a little timely
help and sympathy to develop intoa
successful painter. His uncle, how-
ever, considered that he was going
to the limit of irresponsible Bohe-
mianism.
but when the struggle was at_ its

hardest and he was handicapped by |
|an ailing wife his uncle died and be- |
/queathed his fortune to him upon the |
condition that he give up art alto-|

gether.
more for his wife’s sake than
but the loss of his life
and the -abandonment of his
tions broke his heart.”
Marcus Hapgood.

Streak of Hard Luck.

“Oh, John!” she exclaimed, as she
observed him getting into his over-
coat, “I hope you’re not going to
be out again to-night.”

“I hope not,” he replied,
mindedly, “but it’s quite likely.
cards have been running very badly
for me lately.”

own,

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Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, March 4—There is cer- |
tainly a steadily improving coffee |
and good. sized lots. are
changing hands with frequency. Rio.
No. 7 is well sustained at 734c and |
brokers and jobbers tell of an in-
creased volume of business. Instore |
and afloat there are 4,277,184 bags,
3,207,804 bags at the same|
million

market

against
time last year—over
crease. The receipts of coffees
Rio and Santos from July 1, 1904, to |
March 2, 1905, aggregated 8,791,000 |
bags, against 9,085,000 bags
the same time last year,

a in-

at |

during |
and 9,739,000 |
bags two years ago. The volume of |
business in mild sorts has been rath- |
er limited, as buyers are taking only |
enough to meet current needs. Good |
Cucuta closes at o44c and good aver- |
age at to%c. East Indias}
have met with the usual average de-
steady.

Bogotas

mand and quotations are

With better weather comes in-
creasing call for refined sugar
by comparison the week might
most be called active. Most of
business is of under
contracts, but there is some new busi-
ness, and dealers
hopeful. It is generally thought we |
shall well-sustained
throughout the

an
and
al- |
the
deliveries old |

too, Sec Very |

have rates
scason.

A rather limited supply of Formo-
sa firmer feeling |
in that particular quality, and
is a slight improvement also in other |

teas has caused a

there |

grades. The volume of trade is not |
large, but it is consoling to think |
there is likely to be an increasing |

demand from now on.

The rice market here is rather quiet
and dealers seem to be looking to
other centers for profits. Sacasties |
are not overabundant and there oug oa
to be some advance in rates. Prime |
to choice domestic, 33%4@4c. ee
rice is quiet and unchanged.

Spices have been about the most
uninteresting thing on the whole gro-
cery list. Sales have been of very
limited proportions and the tenden-
cy of prices is to a still lower mark.

There has been a steady call for
molasses and prices have
Grocery are
are firmly adhered
active and

low-grade
advanced 4c grades
steady and prices
to. Syrups are fairly
quotations are about unchanged.

In canned goods it is said there
“an increasing enquiry” for cheap
corn; that is, for low-priced goods—
about soc. It is sincerely hoped that
the people who eat this will live long
enough and keep well enough to clear
it all out of the market. There
zn abundance of it and it is all corn
~-at least it is labeled so on the can.
True, there is a large amount of cob,
but this is only an incident. You
can not expect a bunch of safety-
pins in such cans. The better quali-

is

is

ties are not in great supply and yet
there seems to be enough to

go

 

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Case.

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| here

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

around. Good State stock is need
at from 7oc up. Maine, $1.05@1.10,
and scarce. Tomatoes are about un-
changed. Supplies seem ample at
about 62%c. It was hoped a month |
| ago that quotations would be pretty
| well established at higher figure |
} than this, but such has not been the |
Peas are quiet and little, if

a

; anything, has been done in the way

We have the
usual number of reports this spring |
of new canneries to be established.
Dried fruits show little animation.
The demand has been lighter than |
usual and prices are inclined to sag

|in almost every article.

3utter remains very firm. Supplies |
and the way, however, are
rather liberal and it is hardly thought
there

on

advance. |
31@31%ec

will be further
Best Western
seconds to firsts, 28@3o0c;
20(@3Ic, latter
imitation creamery,
24(@27¢, latter for iresh extras;
ovated, 23@27c, with an easier feel-
ing in the market.

any
creamery,
held cream-
goods; |
factory,

ery, for fancy
25@29¢;

ren

The cheese market is very strong |
and find the market |
Factories
extra

will
closely sold up.
be
as quotations are at-
stock. Fuli}
York State |

new stock
very
will probably sending us
supplies,
for

small

early
tractive desirable
cream size New
1334¢.

market pretty
up, but at the moment the
that lower

is well |

The
cleaned

ese

feeling is rates are inevi-

table. Best Western are still quoted
at 33c; seconds, 30@32c; low grade,
| 28@30¢.

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The discomfort attending reading |
on cars under the best conditions of |
gas lighting now in vogue has been |
largely obviated in England by |
toughening gas mantles to such an |
lextent they will withstand the vibra- |
ltion of the cars. The mantle is of

| the inverted pattern, with a wire cage

beneath arranged to catch and retain
fragments of the mantle. The frag-|
being still played upon by the
continue to give a fair light, |
failure of  the|
car into}

ments,
flame,
that the sudden
mantle does not plunge the
darkness. Not only is the traveling |
public afforded a better light, but the |
operating company effects an econo-
Instead of light of eight candle
power with a of one
foot of gas an hour a light of twen-
ty-five to thirty candle power is pro-
duced with only six feet of g An
average life of two months is antici-
pated for the mantles, but one month
will make their installation profitable,
as no substantial change in the work- |
ing of the present system is required

so

my.
consumption

as.

 

by the departure.
—____-__.@~-—————
The boy who is afraid to strike

back will never make the man brave
enough to turn the other cheek.
>>

It’s a good thing to have

but there’s no sense in keep-

ing your bread im a balloon.
———_> >>

Many are willing to give the Lord
seed corn if only they can have a
mortgage on the crop.

high

 

88
Do You Sell Bakery Goods?

 

Write for the
Portable Oven Catalogue. It pays.

Are they baked on the premises?

Middleby

Middleby Oven Manufacturing Co.

60 and 62 Van Buren St., Chicago, Ill.

 

AA RES RR MEE

Our Double A Candies Have the Highest
Rating Possible

how cheap but how good is our motto all the

Not time.
drive your customers to DRINK by
Do Not by selling poor candy

PUTNAM FACTORY, National Candy Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

“Chicken Bones”

 

Is the name of a delicious confection which we have
just placed on the market. It is proving a winner.
Fifteen cents a pound in any quantity. Ask our
travelers to show you their samples or send your orders
Don’t delay. Be the first to get in line.

Straub Bros. @ Amiotte
Traverse City, Mich.

to. us.

 

 

 

If It Ever Happened

that our traveling men overlooked you in showing their
line of candies

Don’t Let It Happen

 

again. They are now on the road and we don’t want any
retailer of good candies to miss seeing our line.

It Won’t Happen

if you just drop usa line indicating your willingness to
see the best line on the market.

Hanselman Candy Co.
Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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34

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

CLOSER RELATIONS.

Their Advantages Among Indepen-
dent Telephone Companies.

In proper organization is strength,
and in its absence is weakness. This
well recognized fact is especially true
of the independent telephone busi-
ness, owing to the common interests
existing between so many companies,
and all being largely interdependent.

While the topic assigned me is a
broad one, touching many and, in
fact, all sides of our business, the
treatment of it will be necessarily
brief and limited in scope.

All recognize the advantages oi
thorough and complete organization
within each company and between
neighboring companies. Thus. at
conventions, by visitation and
through the valuable electrical jour-
nals, constant seeking after the best
methods is taking place, and as all
are naturally looking for this phase
of organization it is unnecessary to
do more than mention it.

That which has not been so con-
stantly and persistently sought after
is that which should receive atten-
tion that we may discover what is
lacking in organization, which, if
adopted and applied, will strengthen
our cause and mutually benefit all
of our companies.

The State organization should be
of such character as will result in
an association recognized to be hon-
estly and actively working in the in-
terests of all independent companies,
the smaller as well as the larger, and
for mutual benefit. Both the
and the large are essential to com-
plete success, and only through the
independent movement can the small

small

company permanently exist profit-
ably.
The weakness of this and other

State associations, as a rule, has been
in permitting the pressure of busi-
ness to so crowd each company that
little attention has been given to as-

 

history, has been a little slow in per-
fecting that successful organization
which protects against the intrigue
of our common enemy among those
who should naturally and permanent-
ly be our friends.

Largely through the efforts of Mr.
J. B. Hoge, of Cleveland, the inde-
pendent companies in Ohio have sys-
tematically organized the State, not
in name only, but the officers and
members are active in behalf of the
common interest. I was very glad
to learn that Mr. Hoge was expected
to be present to-day, for in a masterly
way he could explain his method of
State organization and its splendid
results. I can not but believe our
Michigan companies will awake to
the necessity of following the suc-
cess of the Ohio plan, as to the State
Association work, and will promptly
take steps at this convention which
will quickly put said plan into active
operation throughout the State. This,
of course, requires work, but far less
work is now required than will be
later to accomplish desired _ results.
The old motto as to a “stitch in
time” is just now eminently appro-
priate.

Among various states, throughout
our country in fact, a practical or-
ganization, businesslike rather than
theoretical and social, is needed, and
fortunately has already been estab-
lished. The single Association pro-
vided last fall by the consolidation
of the two largest Associations in-

 

to the organization known as_ the
National Inter-State Telephone As- |
|sociation furnishes exactly what is |
|needed. The new body is to~ be!

composed of

telephones and miles of toll line cir-
cuits in operation. This’ should
lead to securing annually a meeting
of active, practical telephone men
who would meet for profitable busi-
consultation, with results that

ness

 

sociation interests, except when cir
cumstances force such attention.
The result has been that, through
lack of a close, complete and active
organization in a state, there has
been an honest ignorance among
certain companies and. individuals as
to what has been and even now
to their best advantage; and this, to-
gether with a lack of education
to the duty each company owes to

is
as

the other and to the general move-
ment, has resulted in ignorance as
to loyalty and honor.

Through systematic effort and
searching the Bell interests have here
and there found, not accidentally
found but as a result of careful
search, the companies and individuals
unacquainted with the true conditions
and facts, as before indicated. They
have, by means questionable
even disgraceful in cases,
cured alliances, each of which tends
to weaken our movement, at some

and

some a

point, to injure the community af- |

fected, and eventually to destroy the
local company.

This lack of education has been,
of course, the result of improper and
ineffective State organization. Mich-
igan, first in many things in telephone

   

|
j
|
og that, while there are oc-
|

nust necessarily be for the general

| good. We are fortunate in having
| Mr. J. B. Hoge for the President of
|this National organization. The de-
tails as to the general policy and
plans of the new Association have
been published and will result to
our great advantage.

In conclusion, I wish simply to

casions where mere talk is interesting
and sometimes profitable, still I am
impressed the of
greater study and effort along lines
of closer organization for the general
This very advantageous,
therefore essential at this time for
|the protection of what we have, and
|to secure a continuation of the suc-
|cesses of the past. In what I have
said I do not wish to be understood
as expressing the slightest alarm or
|forecasting even limited disaster. I
| am more convinced than ever that
|our cause is right, beneficial to all
citizens and bound to continue to
| succeed. Its growth has never been
more substantial, in this and other
states, than during the past year. It
has proven profitable and _ popular.
The quality of its service has con-
stantly improved until the indepen-

with necessity

good. is

 

dent companies by utilizing the
most modern apparatus (and _ to
which Bell companies do _ not
have access) can furnish service

recognized to be better than can pos-
sibly be given by any Bell licensee.
The old Bell rates have been demon-
strated to have been extortionate, and
where experience has proven in a few
instances that we established rates a
little too low, in view of the remark-
able and unlooked-for telephone de-
velopment, a reasonable increase in
rates the
proval of those communities affected

has been made, with ap-

when the facts were fully known. It}
| ful root grew more rapidly than the

is quite remarkable that the changes
exchange

in the price of telephone

and toll rates among independent
companies, during the past nine
years of their existence, have been

far less than in almost all other lines
of business.

There is a permanency, a com-

mercial value and general benefit in}

the independent telephone
recognized by both subscriber
stockholder, to
average honest business man, and its
future unquestionably to
Gibraltar of strength to the commer-

and
which appeals

is be 4

cial world and an increased necessity |

home and social life of

This happy consummation

to the
country.

of our hopes will be largely secured, |

I believe, through the proper and ef-
along the lines
to which I have briefly referred.

J. B. Ware.

fective organization

~~
The Passing of a Boom.

A newspaper published at Tully, N.

| pound

 

business, |
la pound.

the |

our |

i at

Y., which is in the heart of the On-
ondaga ginseng regions, recently pub-

lished the following about ginseng:
“The ginseng market is more than
dull at this time, especially when
compared with the activity of the
past four or five years. The high
price paid for dried root induced a
few this vicinity to go
into the business in this section about

persons in
ten years ago and the cultivation of
ginseng became an actual craze. The
local demand for plants and. seeds
actually inflated the price and the
prospective growers of the wonder-

seeds and plants, and the prices con-
tinued to climb out of all reason to
value. Seeds sold during the

few years as high as $1.25 a

actual
past

and in some instances $125
and The prices
placed upon plants were very high,
while the dried root sold last fall
for $12 and even as high as $13.50
The craze, however, is rap-
idly subsiding and the price for seed
plant and dry root is finding its lev-
el. The dried root is now bringing
$8 to $8.50 a pound. While a few
have made money in this speculation,

higher was paid.

a large number have lost, while many
will come out with just about what
money they invested in plants. While
there is money in ginseng, the enor-

mous profits which speculators re-

ceived for a time when the craze was

its height could not, every

thoughtful person knew, hold out but

a short time, yet hundreds were

caught in the get-rich-quick scheme.

 

representatives elected |
| by and from the several State Asso- |
ciations according to the number of|

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Strenuous Rules of Storekeepers Re-
garding Tobacco and Drink.

Written for the Tradesman.

to say about a friend of mine, a
Grand Rapids merchant, who stands
high in the business world.

disappointing experience he had been
undergoing in the of
likely young fellow whom he had
hired with the express understanding
that he quit the cigarette habit with-

discharge

in two weeks from the time he start- |

ed in to work.

‘What |

I related was the disagreeable and } jy cild’ dais Yicit ssike « feller wish

|

|
er. I know I’m called all sorts of |

agreeable epithets,’ my friend smil- |

|ed grimly, “but each of us has his
A few weeks ago I had something |

a |

life to lead, and I’ll not cast my in-
fluence on the side of wrong.”
“ ££ &

The other day—one of those bitter-

he’d had sense enough not to ven-
ture out of his comfortable office—I
stepped into one of the city’s large |

stores to Three or four
blocks lay between me and the cozy
comfort of my “den,” as the boys dub

my private office, and it seemed as}

get warm.

i sepeat here that my triend the| i; ] would freeze to death ere I could

merchant is one of the worst cranks
I ever knew on the tobacco
tion in general and the
branch of it in particular.

cigarette
Likewise
against drinking, in form
whatsoever.

Most firms draw
men openly
habit.
men who tipple themselves don’t es-

set any

the line on
addicted to
They know that even

ing

booze

pecially enjoy being waited on by a
clerk whose hand trembles painfully
takes the pay for their
and whose _ bleary

as he

pur-

chase eyes

| reach it.
ques- |

' | cold shins against their radiator.
I might add that he is just as dead|

To the nearest clerk I dep-|
recated the fact that I had not come
in to buy anything but to bake my
He}
smilingly acquiesced in my request |

to be allowed to change my tempera-

hir- |
the |

|ture from zero to normal, and then
we quite naturally drifted into a
little conversation, his counter being
| bare of customers just then.

“You’ve been with this store quite

I remarked.
‘tS al OF

a while,”

"yes, seventeen years

| since I began to work for these peo-

and |

beery breath tell their own tale with- |

out any verbal assistance of

owner.
But I hardly believe that many em-

their |

ployers of clerks bother their heads |

very much over the smoking _ pro-
clivities of those under them, be i
civar, pipe or cigarette. They may
prefer that a clerk’s clothes and

breath should not betray bondage to
the weed, but but few of them carry
the idea so far as to require a com-

it |

| you

plete abandonment of the use of to-|

within couple of weeks or

so after acceptance of a position un-

bacco a

der their mercantile roof.
“They thank me for my inexorable-

well,”
| if

ness in this regard,’ says my friend |

when broached on the subject, “aft-

er they have worked for me a time. |

I’ve had a man  ac-
knowledge to me, with pent-up emo-
tion that

the road—if

many young

in tone, he was

hadn't

cvery

downward he

already slid to the bottom—when he}
came to me and that my strict stand |
on the tobacco evil saved him from |

complete moral destruction.
absolutely no use for smoling em-
It's
money that runs
money that put bread and butter in-
to their mouths—and I propose that

the young fellows who work for me

ployes. my store, and it’s

the business—my

shall be just as clean a lot as it is
possible to get together in this world
of temptation and sin. I'll not dally
with the matter. Any one who wants
a job in my store shall choose no
middle ground-—’tis to be complete
surrender to my rules or out they
When a man or boy applies to
me for work he is the arbiter of his
own fortune. If he is what a fellow
should be as regards business qualifi-

go.

cations and keeps faith with me in}

his promise not to smoke, chew or
drink I push him along and do my
best for him financially. But, if he
prevaricates to me, off goes his h ad
-—and off it stays, so far as I’m con-

cerned. I never could abide a liar—

I’ve}

my |

he replied, “all of seventeen
That’s a long time to be with
I’m |

shall

ple,”

years.

“and
I

be 62, come my next birthday.”

one house,’ he went on,

getting along in years, too.

“Sixty-two!” I exclaimed in aston- |
Why, man]
alive! you must have made a mistake

ishment. “Sixty-two!
in your calculations.”
“No, I shall be 62 the 25th of next
May.”
“Well,
told
they'd have no reason

certainly,” L declared, | “if |
only 45]

to |

others you were
whatever
statement.”

tell

the

doubt

“People

your
101d

observation.

met my own |
"Well, |
Pi |

my

was
I do look younger than I
don’t
bad i)
care of myself, and I al-
That fact: makes

am

tell you why it is I show

ase: 1 haven't any habits.

good

Ss

take
ways have done so.

la vast difference in a person’s looks.”
On|

I glanced at the speaker and could
but that
would his

not wish more young men

walk in footsteps. Erect

of figure, tall, well -ailt, a clear eye, |

red cheeks—this young-old man}
seemed the exemplification of the}
| idea of a “sound mind in a sound!
body.” His hair is what is called |
‘Iron gray,’ and that is all that is}
against him as regards a youthful |
appearance. And yet that can no}

longer be considered an indication of |
“advancing years,” for witness how}
many young people, nowadays, be-|
gin to have their hair “turn” before

they have reached the age of 20,|
even.
“Ves” explained the clerk, “my|

years are many, but they have been |
years devoted to right living—not |
filled with all sorts of dissipation— |
I have conserved my strength  in-
stead of dissipating it. I take good
care of myself, as I remarked. I
don’t smoke, chew nor drink and I
keep good hours. I go to bed early |
and I rise with the lark—perhaps I |
should say, ‘with the chickens,’ for I}
where I have two
flock of forty hens.

live out
lots and keep

a ways,

4

e

| : tl
any more than a smoker or a drink- | IT attend to these myself entirely, ex-

iat

cepting at noon, when my _ little
I do
not go home to my luncheon, there
not being time. ‘I look too young
tc have a granddaughter?’ Well, but
[ have one, and she’s the dearest lit-
tle

granddaughter feeds them, as

grandchild that ever romped her
way into a granddaddy’s heart! Car-
ing for my poultry gives me outdoor
exercise, which is what a man needs
who is confined behind a counter all
day long in a store.

“My mode of living has been condu-

When |
don’t know

cive to long life. to
think of it,

as | am entitled

come
however, |
to

any enormous

 

amount of credit for my correct hab- |

“What
| maw done tole me

its, for I never had any desire for |
anything different.

‘But, take a fellow who has to
wrestle with terrible temptations in |

order to be anyways decent, and he|

knows the cost.

“There’s a man I know who keeps
That
ever there was

a hero,
With a nat-

a drug store. man is

one!

| “Sick

ural taste for liquor, a taste coming |
| doctah tole her she have to diet!”

to him by heredity, coupled with the
fact that it was always on the side-

board of his boyhood home, he yet |

has strength of character enough to|

leave it entirely alone.

stuff he yet resists the

desire to help himself at any and all

Continually |
surrounded by barrels of intoxicating |

consuming |

| cool.

times. There is a man who deserves |
all the credit in the world for self-
denial. No especial praise should

come to the fellows who are merely
negatively good, and have no desire
for evil, but those are the conquerors
who, through stress of utmost temp-

tation, and with which they are con-

tinually surrounded, still live for the
right.

“So,” concluded the old-young
clerk, “you see my healthy young
face is mot, after all, due to any

great special effort on my part.”
Ph. Warburton.
nettle
Wanted the Most Fashionable Dye.

A. little entered
down-town drug store the other day.
suh, ah wants some dye.”
What kind of dye?’ ask-
“De mos’ fashernable

most fashionable
for the hair?”

“No. Suh.”

want?” “My

colored girl a
“Please,
‘Dye, ele
the clerk.

“The
Do you want it
“Bease”
do you
foh to git de mos’
“Well, what do
“Sick stummick.”

never of

ed
kind.”
kind?
“Ne, sub’

color

kind.”
for?”
I
such a thing. I guess you’ve made
mistake. You surely don’t want
dye” “Yes, soh. You see, my maw
done git sick to her stummick, an’ de

fashernable
it
stomach?

you want

heard

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

CHILDREN OF CO-OPERATION.

All Great Results Due To United
Effort.

According to the theories of mod-
ern students and philosophers in
their effort to unravel that ultra
esoteric science known as psycholo-
gy, man in his normal condition does
only those things which he is ob-
liged to do and, paradoxical as_ it
may seem, he performs a majority of
these inevitable, unavoidable acts un-
consciously.

We sleep, eat, walk, traverse cer-
tain routes, sit down, lift or throw
an object, and so on and so on
through a multitude of actions in-
volving all members of our body and
requiring mental co-operation, with-
out being conscious of the efforts,
mental and physical, and, if we are
normal men, we do these things be-
cause we are obliged to do them.

In other words, abandoning the
complicated involutions and evolu-
tions of the enthusiastic analysts
and coming down to the forceful,
plain vernacular of the street, we are
creatures of habit—that is, if we are
normal.

What is it that causes us to be-
come abnormal, thus compelling us
to do the things that are not neces-
sary; that forces us to a realization
of the fact that we are doing things
which, if we willed it so, we might
avoid?

I will answer that enquiry by ask-
ing, Yankee-like, how are we_ to
recognize those acts which, being
worthy and desirable, are unneces-
sary and adventitious?

Having the most profound admir-
ation and respect for the wondrous
entity we call the human mind—the
soul of man—I declare to you that I
know nothing of the tenets of psy-
chology and I am just enough of a
bigot to entertain the conviction that
no man has lived or is living now
who has solved that mystery of mys-
teries, that Divine force and immor-
tal influence which sets up for our
contemplation and choice the right
methods and the wrong; the neces-
sary and the unnecessary; the good
and the bad. Neither am I able to
even suggest the impulse, the initia-
tive and the action which, co-operat-
ing, cause us to become, as claimed,
creatures of habit. And, as I view
the problem, it is not necessary that
we should know intimately and ac-
curately each one of the multitudi-
nous processes that have developed
through all the ages to the end that
we shall know the right from the
wrong. It is sufficient that we know!
And when it comes down to a last
‘analysis—if we who are not learned
are asked to give one—we will give
an adequate, correct and comprehen-
sive reply if we charge it all to co-
operation.

What is co-operation? It is har-
mony, fairness, unity of action, rec-
titude and good will at its zenith. It
is inevitable, positive and _ all-suffi-
cient and, unfortunately—although
the most common factor in human in-
tercourse—is but slightly compre-

*Address delivered at annual banquet
Belding Business Men’s Association by
E. A. Stowe.

 

hended and applauded for its worth.

Were it not for co-operation it
would have been impossible for us
to enjoy the excellent feast that is
this evening set before us for our
delectation. The man who tilled the
soil that raised the grain, the other
one who fostered and cared for the
fruits, and those others who made
the flour and who hauled the prod-
ucts from the mills and_ factories,
who constructed the vehicles upon
which the hauling was done, who
built the highways and the railways,
the ships and the elevators, and so
on through the long and interesting
list down to the chef, the bakers, the
cooks and the waiters who have serv-
ed the feast so well—not forgetting
the admirable work performed by
your own local committees—are,
each one, necessary factors in the
beautiful story of co-operation; of
doing things we are obliged to do
and of doing them unconsciously—
so far as is concerned their relation
to the science of the mind—the sci-
ence of the soul of man.

T am reminded, by my somewhat
extended preface, of an eccentric col-
ored man, Henry Clay Ford, who,
after making his way from Kentucky,
“befo’ the wah,” by means of the
“anderground§ railway,” settled in
Lenawee county and, during my boy-
hood, was known as a thrifty, easy-
going and comfortable small farm-
er. Among his possessions was a
span of mules, which he called Sha-
drach and Meshach, and he was par-
ticular to pronounce each name_ in
full when addressing them. Early
one summer the local authorities de-
cided to move a district school house.
bodily, about half a mile to a site
more central to the school popula-
tion and engaged Henry to be on
hand at a certain hour with his mules
to aid in the haul. The building was
adjusted on logging trucks, and a
miscellaneous crowd was on handat
the appointed hour to assist, but
Henry and his mules were not in
sight. Half an hour passed and no
mules, then the wait extended to an
hour, and the officers of the school
district became impatient and_ the
crowd noisy and sarcastic. Just at
the point when the affair became un-
bearable Henry’s voice was heard ad-
dressing Shadrach and Meshach, but
in a direction exactly opposite from
the one from which, naturally, he
was expected.

Utterly serene, but with a broad
and impressive grin wreathing his
black face, Mr. Ford drove his mules
to a position in front of the school
house, the crowd bestowing all sorts
of jibes and reprimands meanwhile,
but Henry never once lost the great
grin he wore. At last Mr. Wakefield,
who was to superintend the job, said,
“T’ve a blanked good notion to move
the thing without your help, Ford.
What on earth sent you way around,
two miles out of your way, when you
knew we were waiting for you?”
“Thet’s jes’ it, Mistah Wakfeel; I
knew you'd wait ’n’ I jes’ nachully
thought I’d wuk Shadrach and Me-
shach up to knowin’ they hed a big
job on their hands.”

You see, Mr. Ford had an adequate

 

 

 

 

appreciation of the value of co-oper-
ation.

All great results are the children
of co-operation. Try as we may, we
can not avoid co-operation. Even

who,
ven-

unutterably lazy individual
thinking to wreak a_ terrible
geance upon the wide, wide world,

the captious and morbidly selfish and| ago to notice that

|
|
|
|
|
|

decides to become a recluse and hides |

himself as a hermit in some cave or

bark-made shack in the forest, is un- |

able to get away from co-operation.
Your abnormal hermit, with his long
hair, dirty person and vacuous mind,
is like the ostrich who wriggles his
head underneath the sand and chuc-
kies over the lie he tells. And there

are multifarious degrees of hermiti- |

cal expressions the results of which
are in exact proportion to the de-
gree.

The business man who is suspi-
cious, envious, jealous and petty in
his estimates as to the methods and
doings of his competitor or neighbor
in business is 2 business recluse; the
citizen who is eternally and some-
times peevishly differentiating be-

tween what he estimates as his por- |

| kets of the world.

|
|

 

tion in the public welfare and the|

part taken by his neighbor is assured-
ly hermitlike in his views. What is
done by one’s neighbor or by one’s

competitor in business is of impor-| mour Co.—are the result of co-oper-

tance only as it influences you for |

good, and vice versa.

For a more personal illustration
of the point I hope to make—the val-
ue of co-operation, the need there is
for such organizations as the Belding
Business Men’s Association—permit

| throughout the United States,

we are making for deep water navi-
gation, we should have the support
and encouragement and best wishes
f every town in Western Michigan.

I was greatly pleased some weeks
the Common
Council of Belding had granted a gas
franchise to a local citizen, instead
of bestowing it on some stranger
who might be attracted by the pos-
sibilities offered by the growth of
your to obtain the franchise
and dispoce of it in the money mar-
The franchise has
no value except there are put back
of it an investment of from $40,000
to $50,000—which capitalists are us-
ually loath to furnish in towns no
larger than your own—and experienc-
ed management which may possi-
bly place the business on a dividend
paying basis at the end of a half

town

dozen years. The granting of the
franchise to a local citizen speaks
well for the broad mindedness of

your Council, because it is an indica-
tion to the world that you seek to
build up within yourselves and do
not propose to be made a mark by
tricksters and schemers and specula-
tors.

The present agitation and assault
upon private car and terminal asso-
ciations—particularly upon the Ar-

 

ation upon the part of the associa-
tions of commission merchants
and

|prominent in that co-operation has

me to refer briefly to the Grand Rap- |

ids Board of Trade:

This organization is great only as
its work is broad and liberal. Natur-
ally, the efforts of the Grand Rapids
Board of Trade are primarily in the
interests of Grand Rapids. And this
is entirely fair and right. And yet,
while it is manifestly a home institu-
tion, it is one which, also, secures
concessions resulting to the advan-

tage of every town and city in West- |
| sociation

ern Michigan.

For instance, this Board worked
for a number of years to obtain 2
Chicago rate on soft coal from the
Indiana coal fields. We finally suc-
ceeded in securing the concession,
amounting to $2 per car; but at the
same time this concession was grant-
ed to Grand Rapids it was given, al-
so, to every other town in Western
Michigan which purchases soft coal
in the markets of Indiana. Prob-
lems such as these are continually
offering themselves and they may be
solved correctly upon the application
of the principles of harmony and
united action.

It is not unusual for neighboring
towns to poke fun at Grand Rapids
for the effort she is making to secure
a deep water channel in Grand River,
but the criticism falls flat when it is
remembered that, if Grand Rapids
is able to secure a Jower base of
freight rates, every Michigan town
lying in the same zone as Grand
Rapids will receive the same conces-
sion at the hands of the railroads.
Instead of belittling the work and
undertaking to circumvent the effort

been the Grand Rapids Board of
Trade, through its Fruits and Farm
Produce Committee. The evidence
collected by that Committee and

| presented at the hearing before the

| Inter-State

 

Commerce Commission
in Chicago last summer was, perhaps,
the most perfect and unassailable of
all the great volume of evidence then
presented, and all Michigan gets the
benefit of the effort. So, too, have
we contributed our share in defeat-
ing the uniform bill of lading propo-
sition. I mention these things to
show you that a business men’s as-
has valuable work which
it may perform other than the mere
getting of new industries for its
town. That is important, but most
important and the greatest triumph
that can be recorded by you is the
development of a broad and perma-

nent spirit of harmony and_ united
purpose.
And so, with full faith in your

broad, fair-minded and genuine ap-
preciation of the meaning and value
of co-operation, and grateful if, by
what I have tried to present to you
this evening, I shall have, even in a
slight degree, kindled a feeling of
enthusiasm for public spirit and loy-
alty to your town, your State and
your country, I thank you for the
honor you have conferred upon me
and the privilege I have so thorough-
ly enjoyed.
—__>-+—___

Of the Many Successful Men.

Sometimes the rise of a man fam-
ous for his deeds and conspicuous
in a certain walk of life reads like a
romance, but usually it is observed
that the successful man gets there
by the force of his own efforts earn-

 

 

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37

 

estly applied. Writers and orators
have a way of holding up for emu-
lation of youth the very great and
eminently successful men of the na-
tion whom the average boy can never
hope to equal or surpass.

Nature has supplied in every child
just so much brains and native abili-
ty. It can be cultivated to a certain
degree, no further. It is as futile to
say that every school boy can be-
come a great warrior as to assert
that every boy can be a great musi-
cian, a great orator, or a great writ-
er with a burning message to be de-
livered to the world and waiting only
the opportune moment. The genius
that is said to be closely akin
madness and that produces
possessors the masterpieces
to the very few. But we have count-
less thousands of good men of sterl-
ing integrity and robust common
sense—men of affairs who daily pur-
sue their vocations without
seldom or never appear in the public
prints, who are not known beyond
their relatively small and
social circles. But their names are
“good at the bank,” they pay their
rear their children in an in-
telligent atmosphere of good citizen-

in

noise or

business

taxes,

ship, know the trend of political and |

 

TO}
its |
is given |

 

|

|
economic affairs, are devoted to their |

families, are odeet with their neigh-
bors and with themselves.

These are the citizens the “aver- |
man,” whose name legion,
must strive to emulate and when he
reaches that sphere of “comfortable
comfort”
he is fulfilling his duty in the world
and is doing all that destiny mapped

age is

|
|

and independant citizenship |

out for him in the beginning when |

the grand scheme of things was ar-
ranged. To rise with the tide and
be a successful average man implies
hard work, hard study, economy,
thrift and sterling integrity and who
pursues faithfully along these lines
will achieve success. The examples
are many, but they are not often dis-
closed on public parade.
a a or ad
Pointers for Salesmen.

Know the value of a good person-
al appearance; do not think that any
detail of your attire will escape no-
tice.

Spend wisely your time;
count every hour golden,
ment an opportunity.

All fixtures and property of the
house should be treated with the
greatest care; the first scratch paves
the way for carelessness.

Avoid being influenced for the
wrong by other persons, have a pur-
pose of your own, weigh counsel,
but act from your own best thought.

Each day should find doing
things better than previously. <Ac-
quire the habit of promptness in
every matter, large or small, which
is left to your care.

Learn to show a thorough interest
a customer or any person ap-
proaching you; try to look at the
matter from his standpoint as well

spare
every mo-

us

in

as your own.

Make memoranda of little points
while you think them;
various subdivisions of your
to recall any points you may have
forgotten.

run over the
work

Iron
Ee OM ee. a peeewue s008 = =e
Light Band 2..-......, Le gece rate
AMMUNITION Knobs—New List
Caps Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings : .
G Ty tall count: per m.....2...:.. 40 Door, Porcelain, Jap. trimmings ....
Hicks’ Waterproof, eer Me. 50 Levels
Mipseee Per tee 5 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis.
Miys Waterproef, per mi... 2...) 6... 60 | Metals—Zinc
° Cartridges | 600 pound eacks ....... oe eee aaa = |
Ne (2c enone per mae 250| Per pound ............ ae eae 8% 15
Me. 22 lene per mw... 3 00) siieketiancun
1 oe Oe, er Ma 5 00/| Bira Cages 2. a
te 32 ae per ms 5 75 | Pumps, Cistern, ..... 75&10
Primer. | oerews. New dst ..................- 85
be | Casters, Bed and Plate . 50610810
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m..... 1 60 | Dampers, Seeing oo ee
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60 | Riciicues Gates
Gun Wads | Stebbine’ Patter ......50....0.0.. 60&10 |
Black Edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C... 60/| Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30
Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m..... 70 | Pans |
Black Edge, No. 7, per m............ li Baie 60&10&10 |
Loaded Shells Common, OO 70&10
New Rival—For Shotguns | Patent Planished Iron |
Drs. of oz.of Size er | ‘‘A'’ Wood’s pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80 |
| No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge —100| “B’’ Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 25-27.. 9 80 |
120 4 10 10 $2 90| Broken packages %c per Ib. extra.
on 4 1% 9 10 2 90 Planes
126 7 it : Fo : = a oe =
ci CU le
= aa in : PH 3 a Sandusky Tool Co.’s fancy.......... 40
200 3 1 10 12 3 50 | Beneh, firet quality................. 45
208 3 1 8 12 2 50} Nails
= FE 1% : = 2 = Advance. ce base, on both Steel & Wire
2 | Steel nails, ee
264 3% 1% 4 12 a 040) Wilke: matia, Base eee ld oe oe
Discount, one-third and five per cent. | = - = advance aces ueet ca ae os |
| MAMOGi ooo. oc
Paper Shells—Not Loaded : 3 ane ee
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72| 6 advance ......................... 20
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64 | ee eee wees co gecice ee uae as « =
| 2 QUANG occ
Gunpowder eC a ee eae eo
Memes 2a ibe. per Heg............... 4 90 | Hine 3 advance................. ie. 50
% Kegs, 12% Ibs., per % keg ........ 2 90| Casing 10 advance ................ 15
m Kegs, 6% tbe., per % keg ........ 1 60 | Casing 8 advance...... ee ee cece co - 2
baht —- oe lew iaehecuse cece 35
‘inis advance...... tena ee oe a 290
In sacks containing 25 tbs Hinteh § advance ................... 35
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 85 — 6 ——— Bee sice cacao u cuca on =
Augurs and Bits abre m mevemee 26...
: Rivets
Miers 2.05... bere teenies ener = ‘eiisie:’ Scie ai 50
Jennin Be a ee
| Jocneaaer imitation eo, 60 | Copper Rivets and Burs .........1: 45
Aes Roofing Plates
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ......... 6 60 | 14x20 = Gee t=. a Rae =
First Quality, D. B._ Bronze. .... 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean .........15 00 |
First ea co Pi _— 10 50 | 14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50
First Quality, Sear recs sass 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00 |
| Barrows 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00 |
De 15 oo | 20x28 1X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00
ecw 33 00 Ropes
Bolts Sisal, % inch and larger .......... 91%
Te 70 Sand Paper
Cheriags, mew Wi. -.2-222.0c-2 70 | List acct. 19, "86 ................ dis 50
ee ee a ceca Sash Weights
Buckets Seltd Mvcn per tom .........0....... 28 00
Wel wale .-.............. 4 50 i Sheet Iron a
Butts, Cast oa Cae
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ Oe le 3 90
Wrought, narrow. ..........-.++-+- SOU Nos 22 te ee £10 «63 00
Chain ag a te 26 .............. 4 = : .
OG 28
% in oo in. % — ae | All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30
ee _ ' inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
eee ates 8440.. “Tike. oo aye: 4 e|
BBB. ea aa 8%c....7%c....6%c....6%6C | Shovels and Spades
Crowbars | Bivet Grade, Doe oo 5 50
gk ee ee 5 | secoma Grama, Dem ................. 5 00 |
Chisels ou Solder .
Socket Firmer. .......-.-..-...-...- S | " The prices el the cane ailien cueiaiiice: |
Socket Framing. ....--------++-++-- 65 | of solder in the market indicated by pri- |
ae anus a 65 | Vate brands vary according to compo-
cee oition,
Elbows Ss
quares
Com. 4 — = per doz. net. ‘ = Steel aud ben 60-10-5
Corrugate pee @Om ...... Tin—Melyn Grade
eee ee dis. 40&10
er ! 0u4 3C, Chesteed. ........:....6:.. 10 50
Expansive Bits 14x20 IC, Charcoal ............. +++ 5-10 50
Clark’s small, $18; —~, $26. ...... 40) 10n84 EX. Charcaal 2 00
Ives’ 1, $18; 3, $26; & S80: -...... oo Each additional X on this grade, A 25
a eee List Tin—Allaway Grade
Row Awierieanm -.................... ~ a IG, Charcoal, ooo
Nicholson’sS ....-...-.-eeeeeeeeeees . | 14x2  Charcoa!
Heller’s Horse Rasps. ........... oes 70 | 10x14 = Charcoal
Galvanized Iron 14x20 I arcoa
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 265 27, 3 Each additional X on this grade, i. 50
List 12 14 7 Boiler Size Tin Pilate
Discount, 70. 14x56 [X, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ib 13 |
Gauges Traps
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s - GOMSG Steck Game .2000 oe 75
Glass Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40&10
di go | Cneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65
Single Strength, by box .......... ois 99 | Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ...... 25
Double —— by box ........ — 99 | Mouse, delusion, per doz. ........... 25
By the lig — Sea ce aie
Breet Maree 60 |
rae sea hy Boca bs new list. ..... _ ann ‘Acoeaien ee a 6
Yerkes ee at ce rae? GCoppered Market 0000000000000. -++ -5OE10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel ....30c list 70 | Ti0heg Market .........2.c02. 150&10
Hinges ———. ag © — seereee> ts a =
tat 2 Sse dis 60&10 | Barb ‘ence MAMINOGG ..........
a - prone a Barbed Fence, Painted ............. 2 45
Pots .50&10 Wire Goods
MRD. ooo caccoceccsancccceacce MMII kc aeshnnts seeseeseeseeees 80-10
Spiders ........sccececccecccccee ss SOMO i Hyes pes eeeinecrsetnitee ere =
Horse Nails Gate Hooks ‘and iyea 22200000000 80-10

 

Hardware Price Current |

 

 

 

  

 

 

Au Baeble ...........+-.c<..-...0m S020
House Furnishing Goods
Tinware, new list.

Tinware

70

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Japauned Tin

   

  

Baxter's Aman “Nickelea doecus =

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Crockery and Glassware

 

 

 

STONEWARE
Butters
% gal. per doz.
1 to 6 gal. per doz
8 gal. each
10 gal. each
|12 gal, each :
1S gal. meat tube, cach ........... 1 20
BG @al, ment tubs ekeh .....-.2.-.2. i 60
oo fal meat tube, each ............ 2 25
30 @al. meat fils, each <.......... =
Churns
2 tO G6 oak per oat 8. 6%
Churn Dashers; per daze ........... 84
Milkpans
| % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Fine Glazed Milkpans
| % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 60
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Stewpans
% gal. Greproof, bail, per dos ...... 85
I gal fireproof ball, per dom ...... 1 10
Jugs
156 Gal per Geom 2.8. cl a. -
. oot oer aoe i...
t to & gal, per gab... is . ell. 1%
Sealing Wax
& te in package, per WH. ........... 2
LAMP BURNERS
oe. 0 Sum 17 e ‘
Cee © Sem... 38
Pie, 2 ee ee ee 50
PING. S Sm ow 8>
PP cc ee. bu
INR i 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
Per gross
PS ee eo 4 25
Ct, eee 4 40
Le eeu age a 6 00

fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of 6 doz
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in corrugated tube

 

 

 

Me. ¢ Crenp top .........7..- oa. 1 70
Ne. i. Crimp top. —.....-..2........., 1 %%
ING 2 Celmp top. ............7....... 275
Fine Flint Glass in Cartons
Neo @ Crimp top. 26.0. ioctl. 3 00
ye. ©, Crimp ton... 4. cs. 3 25
Ne 2 CV¥rimp tem. ..2...-.-. 81... 410
| Lead Flint Glass in Cartons
fio. @ Cemag too. ............. wees 3% 30
No. t, Crimp tom 2.6. il... 4 00
ING: 2 Crimp tog. 5.:..0.....:...... 5 00
Pearl Top in Cartons
No. I, wrapped and labeled, ......... 4 60
No. 2, wrapped and labeled. ........ d 30
Rochester in Cartons
No. 2, Fine Fimt, 10 in. (85¢ doz.)..4 60
No. 2, Fine Fitnt, 12 in.. ($1.35 doz.).7 606
No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (95¢ doz.)..5 56
No. 2, Lead Flint, 12 in. ($1.65 doz.).8:75
Electric in Cartons
No. 2 time. (i5e dom) ............ 4 20
No. 2, Fine Wiint, (S5e dos.) .......- 4 60
No. 2, Lead Fiint, (Sse doz.) ........ 5 50
LaBastie
No. tf, Sun Plain Top, ($1 daz.) ..... 5 70
| No. 2, Sun Plain Top, ($625 doz.) ..¢ $¢
| OIL CANS
gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 %
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 2i
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 1(
gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 1:
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 li
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 7é
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4 75
Sab Tiiime cane oe 7 00
Gal. ealy. tron Naceice .... 2... 6. 9 00
LANTERNS
No. 0 Tubular, side lift .. 4 65
Ne. 2 BE Tubuler ........ 6 40
No: by Wabtilse Gash... 2 3... ec. 6 50
No. 2 Cold Bisst Lantern _.........-. a %
INO. 12 Tubular, side lamp ........... 12 60
No. 3 Street lamp, COGN 6.6... oe oo
LANTERN GLOBES -
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 56
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. 15c. 50
No. Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases i dz. eachl 2&6
BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
No. 0 % in. wide, per gross or roll. 25
No. 1, % i. wide, per gross or roll. 30
No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll 45
| No. 3, 1% in. wide, per gross or roll 8%
COUPON BOOKS sip
50 books, any denomination ...... 1 5¢
100 books, any denomination ...... 2 50
390 books, any denomination ...... 11 50
1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00

ss

Above quotations are for either Trades-
Superior, Economic or Universal

Where 1,000 books are ordered
at a time customers receive specially
printed cover without extra charge.

Coupon Pass Books

Can be made / ee any denomi-
nation from $10 d

man,
grades.

ee 1 50
SOG OGM co ee ck 2 50
Me i ce ue tw woe «coke Oe
BOOG DGOMM. oo. 20 00

Credit Checks

500, any one denomination ........ 3 0@

1000, any one denomination ........ 3 0@
2000. any one denomination ......... 5 6@
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

OODS

Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

 

 

Cotton Fleeced Underwear—Cot-
ton fleeces and ribs are well sold
for the heavyweight season, but
mills as a rule are in a position to
take considerably more _ business.
Standard 12. and 13 pound fleeces are
still quoted at $3.25. The situation
in standard lines is -better than in
sub-standard lines. Manipulation in
garments is likely to have bad ef-
fects later and knitters are not tak-
ing any more chances than they are
obliged to. New business is not
sought for where concessions in
prices are intimated. In jobbing cir-
cles the spring rush is under way
and a fair amount of goods is going
forward. In several instances can-
cellations which were made some
time ago are now being sought and
jobbers are showing a disposition to
accept goods wherever obtainable at
prices they refused to accept before.
On spring underwear colors are look-
ed upon with much more favor than
has been the case in several seasons.
Swiss goods are selling well in blues,
light tans, grays and a few brown
shades. Some business was report-
ed done for export account, which
is unusual with American knitters.

Cotton Hosiery—The hosiery situa-
tion is somewhat better than it wasa
week ago, owing to the fact that
considerable business was done in
lightweight goods. On heavy goods
a few late orders were placed, but
little of interest can be reported re-
garding these lines until the time ar-
rives for the placing of duplicates.
Jobbers have a better feeling regard-
ing the outlook for fall and winter
goods and some are looking about
to replace the cancellations they made
some time ago, at prices higher than
those they turned down. It is confi-
dently believed that a higher scale
of values will go into effect on all
heavyweight goods when the dupli-
cate season opens, and knitters as a
rule have made up their minds not
to accept further business at the old
rates. In jobbing circles hosiery lines
have shown a distinct improvement
within the past few weeks and some
very sizable spring orders have been
booked. Orders have been placed for
lace and gauze goods in_ blacks,
whites and tans, as well as split foot
and standard blacks. In half hose
blacks and tans are in order. .

Woolen and Worsted Underwear—
Late buyers are gradually falling in-
to line in woolen and merino under-
wear circles. During the week consid-
erable business was done in the way
of small orders. Knitters are firm
as to values and in some cases slight
advances were made. Worsted goods
are practically sold up. Merino goods
of the better grades continue to be
pushed, many manufacturers resort-
ing to special marks and to special
advertising. Worsted hosiery as

 

well as woolen hosiery is sold up in
fair shape.

Sweaters and  Jackets—Sweater
manufacturers report a very fair vol-
ume of business, but are in a posi-
tion to handle a great many more
orders before the close of the esason
Notwithstanding the considerable in-
crease in the cost of raw materials,
prices remain the same as last season
and manufacturers have been unable
to get jobbers to agree to any ad-
vances. For ladies’ knit jackets, in
both woolen and worsted, considera-
ble business is being done, with a
promise of much activity a little later

 

on. As regards values, jackets are |
in the same position as sweaters. |

Stockinette and Eiderdown—Flat |
goods, such as stockinette and eider- |
down, are in fair request from the |
manufacturing trades. Rubber boot |
makers are very active and are using |
large quantities of light stockinettes. |
The majority of makers
cut up their own goods, but neverthe- |
less they are very busy getting in|
shape for what promises to be a|
very active season.

eiderdown

Carpets—There has been a fairly |
steady demand in evidence during the |
week for carpet lines, and the amount |
of business transacted is reported as |
satisfactory. New prices are being |
firmly maintained, while in addition |
to this comes the statement from |
certain quarters that still another ad- |
vance will be announced to-day, |
March 8. This advance is not an}
unexpected one, however, since it has |
been looked for during the past three
or four weeks. It will take place on|
a well-known line of goods on which |
advances have not as yet been named.
With the opening of new fall carpet |
less than weeks |
manufacturers are

eight
naturally

lines, now
away,
anxious regarding the raw material |
With the holding up of |
Russian wool shipments, as announc- |
ed previously, the question of supplies |
serious |

situation.

has assumed an even more
phase. It is true that the
of wool held up owing to the railroad

amount

strikes in Russia amounts to a little |
less than 5,000,000 pounds; but this
same wool is badly needed now to
fill up depleted stocks. Had the ship-
ments to come forward consisted of
worsted and not filling wool, the po-
sition would serious
one. What manufacturers, as well as
wool importers, are now anxious to

not be such a

long the
what the
shipments.

ascertain is, how present
strike will last and out-
look is for future An-
other question which is also being
asked is, What will the new fall
prices be? Some are positive that
there stiff while
others are just as firm in the belief |

that prices will stand as they are. |

will be advances,

curtain mak-
The sea-

Lace Curtains—Lace
ers are busy on late orders.
son has been a very active one and
on the whole a very profitable one.
Jobbers are complaining of the light-
ness of stocks in hand, which ren-
ders it quite probable that they will
be heavy purchasers for next season.
Arabian and Nottingham effects are
in the largest request.

 

 

 

 

of soft hats always proves to be a good investment. We are at
present showing a very complete assortment for the spring and
summer trade. Prices range as follows:

Men’s soft hats, medium width brim, @ $2.25 per dozen.

Men’s cowboy style @ $4.50, $6.00, $7.50 and $9 00 per
dozen.

Men’s soft hats, both high and medium crowns, in black,
brown, pearl, navy pearl and side nutria @ $4.50 per dozen.

Boys’ soft hats, black or browns, (@ $4 25 per dozen.

Men’s soft hats in black or browns @ $9.00, $12.00 and
$18.00 per dozen.

We also have a fine assortment of caps for spring trade @
$2.25, $4.50 aud $9.00 per dozen.

Place your order now while the assortment is complete.

Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.

Exclusively Wholesale
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

Rugs—Many. mills would have ex-

House cleaning time is near at hand and
there will be a demand for Window Shades,

Lace Curtains and Curtain Swiss by the yard.

Our stock is now complete and have them at
all prices.

Ask our agents to show you their line.

P. Steketee & Sons

Wholesale Dry Goods
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

perienced some. big losses, but this| towns. We like to do business with

branch of the trade has kept active

at all times. The rug trade to-day
has a promising future and_ rug

weavers as a rule are sold for some
months ahead. It is more possible
to get advances in rugs than in car-
pets, and easier to manipulate quali-
materials have ad-
of
prices. On pieced rugs the trade for

the season is centered. Smyrna and

ties where raw

vanced beyond the basis goods

| business

|

|ness outside the city.

jewelers in the city, and do doa large

here, but we can not sel!

goods on the same terms as we do|

to the man who is starting into busi-

We

can

| afford to do it.

| jeweler in the city.

other cheap rugs are also in fair}
shape.
White Goods—Medium and _ fine}

count goods are moving fairly well. |

Long cloths, nainsooks and a large
variety of white goods are particular-

ly active and are well sold. The large |

makers have

lingerie bought very
freely of nainsooks, cambrics, etc.,

and waist makers are largely interest-

ed in goods of this fine order.
Ginghams—One of the effects of

the gray goods market being firmer

“The reasons are many, but proba-

bly the large jewelry stores, includ- |

ing the pay-when-you-can _ establish-

ments, are the prime ones.
and the department stores have put

big holes in the trade of the small

advantage to help them put the small
man out of business, they have the
stores where goods can be shown to

the best advantage, the stocks, the lo- |

cations and the money that enables

|them to advertise and get the great

| bulk of the business.

ithe small fellow and the big down- |

is an increased demand for ginghams. |

Buyers of the finished product dur-
ing the present week have taken
larger volume of standard staple
than before in equal
time jandary. ‘The
movement of goods in the gray may
be taken as a sign. It is said by
agents of leading gingham mills that

~»

ginghams an

since

prices on well-known ticketed goods
and on goods of reliable make gener-

forward |

ally will remain at present value for |

the balance of the season.

Jeweler Business Good Field for Pa-
tient Man.

To the average the stock-

ing of a jewelry store means the out-

person

lay of a fortune, yet there is possi-
bly no business wherein it is so easy
for the man with a good credit and
small capital to embark. Not but
that the stock of a well equipped jew-
elry store represents more, often
many times more, than is usually tied
up in the stocks of other stores; but
with other kinds of business it is in-
variably necessary for the beginner
to buy outright his initial stock, or,
at the best, contract
and in the jewelry

ble for a man to get a complete stock

with only a small deposit if his credit |

is gor vd.

There are several

firms who make a specialty of plac- |

for sale
limit

stocks of their goods
with retail jewelers. A time
is fixed on their sale, at the expira-
tion of which the retailer returns the
items unsold along with his remit-
tance for the goods he has disposed
of. In this way it is possible for a
person with credit to stock a com-

ing

plete store with little outlay. This
method of beginning has the ad-

the retailer in no
up with poor and

vantage of placing
danger of stocking
unsalable goods.
“However, it doubtful whether
the young man with energy and am-
bition who is looking for an open-
ing where he can whittle out his own
success would be wise in going into
the jewelry business in a large city,
said the head of a firm of wholesale
jewelers. “In fact, his prosperity and
ultimate success are so doubtful that
we refuse to place goods with new
men in the city as we do in small

is

metropolitan | a | !
| poor store is like jewels in a pig sty, |

and there will be little trade for the |

  
 

with a jewelry stock he must get a|
good location, he must get on 4}
central street and he must rent a|
|good store. A jewelry stock in a

 

a short time bill, |

line it is possi- |

is little difference between

those of

town retailers; in fact, sometimes the
sell
cheaper than the bigger one.

smaller store is able to
Sut the
bigger fellows have the ‘edge;’ they
have the where they can
show them their goods, and this is

crowds

nearly the whole thing.

“Of course, with the craze for buy- |
ing on easy payments what it is to-|

the installment

houses,

day, plan

and their name is now

gion, are in a position to do more
business than any one handling the
Dur-

same kinds of goods as they.

ing the holiday season one Chicago |
firm took in $6,000 in first deposits |

on goods during one day. Then

again the jewelry repair business is |
not what it was some time ago. Re-|

airing of all kinds is going out of
é z S

date, and with it goes the repair de- |

partment of the small jewelry store.

| Not of course that there is no repair-

ltailer as

ing in this line, but where once oft-
en it was an item that paid the oper-

ating expenses of a store and left the |

profits
is nothing to be depended upon.
Between these the

who starts in this business in the city
hard time of it.

of sales as clear gain now it

things man

is going to have a

To make the least kind of a showing }

one who goes into the business thus-

wise. He must have good fixtures
and a good stock and $5,000 in a
store that is going to make any

money for a man will not be oversuf-
ficient. On the whole, it can scarce-
ly be picked as the best line for the
young man to embark 7
However, there is another side to
the story: On the cheaper kinds of
jewelry the of profit
sometimes runs as high for the re-
If there
this amount

percentage

150 15

line

per -cene.

any other where

| may be made in the selling of goods

it has not been made known as yet.

The retailer in this line who can
“set the trade” is. sure to make
money even with the large stores

and easy payment houses in competi-
tion with him.

Out on the extreme edge of Chi-
cago there is a startling example ofa

not |

These |

They have every |

In prices there |

goods |

jewelry |
le- |

1
|jeweler who “got the business.” Six
|years ago this man was a working
| jeweler in a large establishment. He
| was an expert workman and _ saved
j;money. However, he saw that he
might work a thousand years and yet

|not grow rich. He lived in a new
|and growing residence district where

solved that there room for
of His
place of business was half of a store,
ithe other half being occupied by a
His first stock repre-
He did

not have much to begin with, and his

was
this kind there.

a
store

barber shop.
| sented a total outlay of $500.

first |

no jeweler had located, and he re-|

sign read, modestly, “Jewelry and Re- |

pairing.”

}some other line.”
Now he occupies the entire store, |

|has a stock that occupies a roomful |

of glass cases and shelves, and the

|letters on his window read, in addi- |

tion to the usual lettering, “Watches
Diamonds.” He
>usiness, and now he is growing rich.

i and secured

He has a repair department, which

the |

| of

keeps one man busy all the time, and |

it takes himself and two assistants
|to attend to the retail of the
| business. His store at present repre-
than

end

sents an expenditure of more
ten times the amount he originally
put into it. There are probably few
in other lines have made

men who

| while

more of a success in this length of |

time. And yet this man is not en-
| thusiastic the of
beginner inthis line.

over chances

have been in
“More firms

have gone into this line on the easy

the short time that |

the business,” says he.

the |
|ago he occupied a very humble

“Conditions have changed even in|
| unexpectedly came elevation and

| payment plan and more department |

stores have added really well equip-
ped jewelry departments to their es-
tablishments. More people are buy-
ing goods on the easy payment plan
down-

and more people are going
town to buy goods, especially in this
As it
| harder for any one to get a start in
it.
lis unexcelled for this kind of a store,
| I doubt if a beginner could start to

line. a consequence, is much

Even here in this location, which

make money.
“It takes time to work up a profit-

able trade in this line, more time, pos-
sibly, than in other lines of retail
selling. People do not go out and

see jewelry in a window and buy it
like they do groceries or dress goods.
A purchase in jewelry often repre-
considerable and the

sents money

39

storekeeper must have a wide trade

acquaintance before enough people

will know him to come to buy their

jewelry to yield him a_ substantial
profit. To get such a circle of, ac-
quaintances will take time, not a

few months, nor a little advertising,
but years, and a whole lot of adver-
tisinge. In the the
keeper will be in the position of ac-

meantime store-
tually losing money or making little.
When he does get his trade worked
up to a paying basis he will be in
clover, for the profits are most satis-
But
it is a question if rewards would not

factory when a sale is made.

come to him surer and quicker in

Ernest Delahon.

—__-»- >
“Disappointment of Success.”
A relates touch-

ing little story on the saddening dis-

contemporary a
appointment of success, which, while
it is interesting to read, will hardly
act to the
sees himself,

as hindrance ambition
the
picturesque fancy, riding horseback
the walk the
wide public ways. story follows:

“You that over there?’
said Senator Burrows, pointing to a

a

youth who in

multitude in
The
see man
was sitting  disconsolate
the corridor at
“Well, that’s the most
Congress and you

man who

and alone in house
Washington.
unhappy man in
would think he would be one of the
most Only short time

sta-

pleased. a

tion in life and then suddenly and

po-
But dis-

appointed him, as it does everybody.

litical preferment. success
It wasn’t near as fine as he imagined
and he was never so unhappy in his
life as he is now after having reach-

|ed a position he never even dreamed

| fish pond at Marly,

of obtaining.

“It is a singular thing that eleva-
tion of station in life is nearly al-
ways accompanied by depression of
I suppose he now is longing
the little
clerk.

spirits.
few hours in
where he
that

when looking into a beautiful marble

for a grocery

It
Maintenon,

used to be is

Madame

a
said de
said to her com-
panion:

See the
They are like me—they regret their

how languid carp are.

mud.’

“I imagine that’s what’s troubling
this new congressman. He regrets
his dirt!”

 

 

 

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Seeds

Peas, Beans, Seed Corn and
Onion Sets

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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Sn a a eae ements

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

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
Grand Counselor, L. Williams, e-

So Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,
nt.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, S. H. Simmons; Sec-

retary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

 

Ginger Talks of a Sales Manager To
His Men.

The chief quality of a successful
salesman is earnestness. The reason
you are not selling more goods to
merchants is that you haven’t all sold
yourselves yet. You've got to be-
lieve in your product yourself before

you can make anyone else believe
in it. It’s no use to try to start a
flame of enthusiasm in somebody

else if your own mind is full of icy
doubts.

Why did that man over on the ave-
nue turn you down yesterday morn-
ing? Because he could tell by the
look in your eye that you half ex-
pected him to do so. And the fel-
low you called on in the afternoon

sized you up the same way. You
didn’t get anywhere near him. He

listened to what you said—but it was
with a cold and fishy eye.
nodded his head in assent as you
talked-——but two minutes you
started his mind was wandering. And

after

True, he |

 

 

on him at the end to get the order
signed, he was like the Dutchman’s
famous flea—he wasn’t there.

You had lost him. You hadn’t im-

pressed him—why? Because you

|hadn’t been impressed yourself. And

he knew it. You couldn’t fool him.
He didn’t feel any electric sparks of
enthusiasm jumping the space from
your mind to his. Nothing but a
live wire could give him a sensation,
and you were trying to magnetize
him with words of wood.

You put up a smooth-enough line

of talk, yes—but there wasn’t any
| conviction back of it. It takes be-
| lief, earnestness, enthusiasm, warm

 

| human personality, to sell goods. If|

it didn’t we’d discharge all our sales-
men and enlist a force of phono-
graphs, or a troop of wooden Indians.

Now here’s our word to you:
Don’t you try to sell any more goods
You go off around
a corner somewhere, where youcan
be alone, and sell yourself a line of
Think over its
burn it into your
Enumerate its good qualities,
one after the other; get a realizing
each one. Consider what

to business men.

the article we make.
value; realize it;
mind.

sense of

jour product will do for a business
| man, the money it will make for him,

the saving it will effect. Sweep out
mind, many cob-
webs, any apologetic feeling regard-

of your like so

jing it. You are not trying to per-
suade the business man to waste
money. You are not trying to trick

or cajole him into doing something
that he can not afford to do. You

needs. You are helping him to in-
crease his profits. You are doing
him as great a favor as he does you.
Say these things over to yourself.
Think them in your heart; realize
true. Light the
flame of your enthusiasm and fan it
into a good brisk blaze. Then, when
you’ve sold yourself—when you be-

them—they’re all

lieve in your own proposition, heart

and soul—go back and tackle that
same man a second time. Greet him
quietly and courteously. Tell him

that you don’t believe you made your
proposition quite clear when you saw

him before—and begin again. You
are in earnest this time. He'll feel
the change. There'll be an atmos-

spect. He'll listen to you. His mind
won’t wander any more than _ the
‘mariner’s needle wanders from _ the

pole.

Make your arguments actual and
personal.
Stab every point

Bring them home to him.
mind so
that he can’t miss it or forget it.
Make him feel each one.

There’s difference _ be-
tween understanding a thing theo-

into his

as much

retically and having a practical sense
of it as there is between a boxer’s
love-tap and a prize fighter’s deadly

punch in the solar plexus. And it
takes solar plexus punches to sell
goods these days. Merchants are
hard-headed and thick-skinned, and
they’re all in training against you

salesmen. You can hit as smilingly
and as gracefully as you please, but

you've got to hit hard to get inside

 

phere about you that will carry re- |

 

You haven’t half made your point
with your man if when you get
through he looks upon our product
merely as something he would do
well to use in his business.. Make
him feel that he can’t get along with-
out it. Make him see that he’s los-
ing valuable time and labor in his
place of business—that real dollars
are slipping through his fingers every
day he is without it. Many a man
who won’t reach out very hard for
an extra dollar will grab hold mighty
hard of the dollar he already has, and
holler murder if anyone tries to take
it away from him.

If you can once show a man that
he is actually losing money, and
that you can stop the loss, you won't
need to supply him with any enthu-
siasm—he will take fire himself like
a lace curtain in a gas jet. But you
will have to be in earnest in making
these facts plain to him. Enthusiasm
—conviction—earnestness—these
the qualities that sell goods, and do
everything else worth doing. “Noth-
ing great was ever done without en-
thusiasm.”—-Worthington C. Holman
in System.

——__> +. ____

One of the great changes needed in
the city church is to take the exit
signs off the doors and put them on
the collection plates.

sn

At least be thankful! If you didn’t
get what you wanted, be thankful
that you didn’t get what you didn’t
want.

 

are

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There are times when it is better

 

 

when you came to put your finger |are selling him something that he|an up-to-date business man’s guard.!to be blind than beautiful.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Quarterly Meeting of the Board of
Directors.

Flint, March 6—At the regular
quarterly meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Michigan Knights
of the Grip, held at Lansing March
4, all the directors were present.

Secretary Lewis reported receipts
since the last meeting as follows:

Death fe ole $306 00
General tne 75 00
Entertainment fund ......... 37 00 |

A Committee consisting of J. A.
Weston, M. S. Brown, Geo. H. Ran-
dall and C. J. Lewis was appointed
to interview Jas. Houston, joint
agent of the Northern Interchangea-
ble Mileage Association, concerning

the checking of baggage on Northern |

mileage books.

The death claims of W.
of Detroit: Edgar C.
NY
Goldsmith, of Chicago, were present-
ed and
tO pay

The
and orders drawn to pay same:
EF. J. Pierson, printing.) ....

iE.
Jamestown, and
allowed and warrants
same.

following bills were allowed

$109

Tradesman Company, printing 20 50
Ct emis, Salaey oo. a5 AS
C. J. Lewis, board meeting. 6 25
C. W. Hurd, board meeting. 6)
Geo. H. Randall, board meet-
CS aie ia 5 84
H. P. Goppelt, board meeting. 5 Ic]
Jas. Cook, board meeting.... 3 95
A. A. Weeks, board meeting. 6 75
Chas. W. Stone, board meet-
me 6 28}
W. V. Gawley, board meeting. 63

Moved by Brother Hurd that the |

chair appoint a committee to draft
amendment to. the
instructing the President and Secre-
all vouchers
drawn by the Treasurer. The chair
appointed as such committee H. C.
Klocksiem, H. P. Goppelt and C. W.
Hurd.

The

ommended the

an constitution

tary to countersign

following

In article 5, Section 3, in line 6, aft-|

er the word “Secretary” the

tence, “All vouchers shall be signed |
i
by the Treasurer and countersigned |

al-

be

by the President and Secretary,”
so in line 8 the figures $4,000
changed to $6,000.

Moved by Brother Cook that the |

Secretary be authorized and instruct-

ed to pay M. M. Matson $42 ($7 per |

week for the past six weeks) and $7
per week until June 1; also to pay
current bills until the Board
Carried.

next
meeting.

Moved that 5 per cent. of the death | .

fund be transferred to the general
fund. Carried.
Moved that Mr. Langley be al-

lowed $10 for reporting the annual |
|

convention. Carried.

The following resolution was of- |

fered by Director Weeks:
Whereas—It has come to the no-

tice of the Board of Directors of the

Michigan Knights of the Grip that

methods of paying out funds of the |
accordance |

Association are not in

with the best business methods, as
the funds at the present time are
subject to the personal check of the
Treasurer only; therefore be it
Resolved—That all moneys of this

 

Crane, |
Livingston, of |

Philip J. |

drawn |

At
‘

Committee subsequently rec- |
changes: |

Scr |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

our next annual convention be paid
only on proper vouchers signed by
Treasurer and

President 1

i
|
|

the countersigned by

| the

| this

and the Secretary of
Association. ;

| A vote of thanks was extended to
| Mrs. Nellie the very
| pitable manner in which she

Field for hos-
enter-
tained the members of the
Carried.

Board

soard and
| their ladies.

The be
held in Hillsdale on June to, at the
|same time as the U. C. T.

next meeting will

convention.

| el

a
| Annual Election of Officers of Grand

Lewis, Sec’y.

Rapids Council.
At the annual meeting of
FSi,

Grand

| Rapids Council, No held last

|

 

Thomas E. Dryden

|Saturday evening, the following off

cers Were elected:
Senior Counselor—T. E.
W. HL.
| Conductfor—John H. Taylor.
Page—John Hondorp.

Sentinel—Walter
| Secretary

Dryden.

Junior Counselor Simmons.

Ryder.
Q@ F

and Treasurer
| Jackson.
| S.

i.

Committee—Frank

Past Counselor Simmons.

Executive Sim

|mons and George Alexander.
a

|To Circumvent the Traveling Fakirs.

March 7—The

have inaugurated a

Lansing, local

gro
|cery retailers

lcampaign against the so-called “‘box

car” merchants, claiming that they
furnish goods fully as cheap as do
ithe “box car” merchants, when the

lauality of the articles is considered.
| Further, they say that they can furn-
ish goods of the box car quality at a

lless price than these dealers charge.

|Comparison of prices at a near by
ltown bears out this statement.
| The price of sugar seems to be

| the bait which the traveling fakirs
| use attracting customers. This
ithey place, in some cases, lower than
lthe regular merchants are able to
| quote, and then make their profit on
| other articles.
—__->—__—_-
Muskegon—The Alaska

in

|
lator Co. is operating some mills and |

| camps this season for the production
lof hardwood lumber.
——--_ «<-->
Braggards are always laggards.

Association during the interim until

Refriger- |

Gripsack Brigade.

A. S. Doak (Worden Grocer Co.) is |
confined to his house with an attack |
of the grip. His territory is being

remain idle as to disport himself on
the road. One thing that helps him
while the time away is his wide ac-
auaintance among the business men
of the State and his ability to locate
the identity and retain the names of
men he has met, even casually, years
ago. These qualities naturally place
him among friends, no matter where
he may be or what conditions may
surround him.
2 2

The Thirty Traveling Men of Three

Rivers.
There are thirty traveling menin|
Three Rivers. Their names and the |

houses they represent are as follows: |
J. M. Shafer, Ainsworth Shoe Co.,
Toledo.
O. G. Bond, Duck Brand Co., Chi-|
cago.
S. C. Heimbach, Wilcox Bros., Jol-

ret.

A. L. Walker, Western 3ottle
Manufacturing Co., Chicago.
Geo. R. Skeer, J. J. Deal & Son,

Jonesville.

covered in the meantime by Perry; ww. B. Francisco, Noyes Carriage
Barker. | Co., Elkhart.

Harry Rindge (Rindge, Kalmbach, | Ww OG Bolt Loli Camise Com
Logie & Co., Ltd.) left last week for | ae ce er
Cig : | pany, Kalamazoo.
the South, where he will spend about ie i
iat cis Ge te qubcnest ok Bs! O. FH. Dickinson, International
house. He will cover six or eight | >>*tt & Collar Co., Chicago.
states before he returns. F. W. Eagleton, Gray, Toynton,

Grand Rapids Council, No. <3,|° Detroit. |
United Commercial Travelers, held} E. C. Tucker, Cotton Spinning
its annual banquet last Saturday | Company, Chicago.
evening. It is understood that| L. J. Knauss, Studebaker  Bros.,
speeches were made by Rev. J. Her- | South Bend.
man Randall, S. H. Simmons, W. S.| S. C. Amlie, Three Rivers Robe
Burns, T. F. Dryden, O. F. Jackson! Tannery, Three Rivers.
and Mayor Edwin F. Sweet. J. H. Pratt, American Photo Ac-

Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. write the | cessory Co., Cleveland.

Tradesman that they have secured J. B. Burns, Smith Lubricating Co.,
A. E. Jamieson to succeed W. H.| Chicago.

Waring, who has covered the towns B. R. Wheeler, Three Rivers Robe
on the G R. & | from Grand Rap- Tannery, Three Rivers.

ids to Mackinaw City for the past % © tides Tet Tee Pe
four years and who recently sent in|. ae

his resignation in order that he might Company, Three Rivers.

assume the active management of the Sam Franklin, Three Rivers Iron
dry goods stock at Dundes which he & Metal Co. Three Rivers.
recently purchased from Miss. M. Duane Arnold, National Fur &
Pobre. Tanning Co., Three Rivers.

cc fC Lockwood informs the ©. T. Avery, Three Rivers Robe
Tradesman that at the next meeting Tannery, Three Rivers.
of the General Passenger Agents he Carl Klocke, Klocke’s Cigar Fac-

| will move that the signing of the slip | tOTy, Three Rivers.

by the holder of Northern mileage F. A. Rohrer, Rohrer’s Cigar Fac-
books in checking baggage be dis- | tOTy: Three Rivers.

renced with, the baggage master to G. W. Watkins, Watkins’ Cigar
fill out the slips instead of the pas- Factory, Three Rivers.

senger, as heretofore. Mr. Lockwood F. L. Francisco, Best & Russell,
savs he does not know what action Chicago.

will be taken on the motion, but he Clark Potter, Clark Potter Com-
thinks it will be adopted. pany, Three Rivers. i

P. H. Carroll, the debonair shoe J. F. Card, Three Rivers Electric
salesman, who has as many friends Works, Three Rivers. ,
io the square inch as any man who c. G. Deal, formerly with Sprague,
ever wrestled with sample trunks, is Warner & Co., Chicago. :
taking a month’s respite from the J. M. Pauli, formerly with Cohn
road and finds it about as hard to Bros., Chicago.

F. A. Place, formerly with Todd,
Bancroft & Company, Rochester.

E. B. Linsley, Sheffield Car Com-
pany, Three Rivers.

P. T. Caldwell, formerly with Joel
Baily Davis Philadelphia.

oo
VG.

 

 

 

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.

ass

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers. Sawed whitewood

and veneer basswood cases.

Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit pur-

chaser. We manufacture every kind of fillers known to the trade, and sell same in

mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchas2r.
constantly in stock. Prompt shipment and courteous treatment.
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan,

Also Excelsior, Nails and Flats
Warehouses ana
Address

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Harry Heim, Saginaw
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapi
Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

W. E. Collins, Owosso.

Meetings for 1905—Grand Rapids, March
21, 22 and 23; Star Is.and, June 26 and
and 27; Houghton, Aug. 16, 17 and 18;
Grand Rapids, Nov. 7, 8 and 9.

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.
Vice-Presiderts—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Grand Rapids; Charles P. aker, St.
Johns; H. G. Spring, Unionville.
Secretary—W. 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-
amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit.

Trade Interest Committee, three-year |
H.

term—J. M. Lemen, Shepherd, and
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

CRUDE DRUGS.

Interesting Specimens Prepared by
Chemist Timmer.

minute granules and tablets, as the
alkaloid represents the medicinal vir-
tures of several times its weight of
the parent drug.

 

to which their potent activity is due. |
These active principles are peculiarly | tinct.
adapted for exhibition in the form of | the Department of Agriculture calls|of the bundle,

| offered by
cular contains statistics proving that |

ently in danger of

attention to the scarcity of golden
seal and sets forth the possibilities
its cultivation. The cir-

becoming ex-
A circular recently issued by |

|
|
|
|
|
|

|of the bean.

} trom

The various causes enumerated | a crop of this plant, at present prices,
have combined to bring about our; would be worth about $3,000 per
present era of elegant pharmacy and_| acre!
palatable medicines. But, while this| The exhibit also includes a num-
state of affairs is, doubtless, emi-| ber of drugs which are not used inj
|nently satisfactory to all concerned, | their natural state but are the source
|it does not tend to foster intimate ac-| of- oils or resins which are in com-|

quaintance with crude drugs on the
part of the dispensing pharmacist.
Prior to the institution of this
| collection, the stock rooms of the
|Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
|frequently visited by students of
pharmacy who wished to examine
drugs which they found described in
their textbooks. As these
became numerous it

visitors
de-
as-

more was
for their convenience, to

samples of the various drugs

cided,
semble

; mon
|

use.

|
Among these drugs may |

| be mentioned castor beans and choc- |
|olate nuts, the latter being the source |

werc i

in one room, and the present collec- |

tion is the result.

Candidates for examination at the}

next session of the State Board of |
which will be held in this |
city on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of this |

Pharmacy,

month, may put their knowledge of
pharmacognosy to a practical test by
a visit to the laboratory of the Haz-
eltine & Perkins Drug Co., where a
collection of crude drugs will be on
exhibition.

A generation or two ago the prac-
tice of pharmacy involved an inti-
mate acquaintance with many plants
and plant parts, but crude drugs in

bulk no longer form so important a

part of the pharmacist’s stock as they

once did.

Various factors have combined to
bring about this change. The
tice of retailing drugs in “pressed
packages”
late years.
drugs was originated by
community of Lebanon,
more than forty years Their
output, was limited to
tive herbs and leaves, such as bone-
set, catnep and lobelia. The

has grown exceedingly of
5S 3

the Shaker
New
ago.

however,

list- and- many roots and barks: are
now supplied in this form. The in-|

troduction and general adoption of |

fluid extracts and elixirs has been an-
other factor, these and similar prep-

aration having to a great extent su-|
perseded the infusions and decoctions |

which it was formerly the especial
privilege of the pharmacist fo pre-
pare. Finally, the discovery and iso-
lation of the-alkaloids and proximate

principles to which many drugs owe |

their medicinal activity has contribut-
ed to the practical retirement of the
crude drugs from which they are de-
rived. Many of these alkaloidal drugs

wéreknown-to the ancients. Thus, ac- |
onite, henbane and conium were used |

by the Greeks. and Romans; col-

chicum was known in the sixth cen- |

tury, and cinchona bark was, doubt-
less, used by the natives of Peru long
before the discovery of America. But,
while these drugs have for ages con-
stituted a part of the armament of
therapy. it was reserved for modern |

science to isolate the active principles

prac- |

This method of preparing |
York, |

na- |

of the well-known “butter of cacao.”

A number
trating
ferent
so shown.
hibit

structive

of colored plates illus-
various drug plants in dif-
etc., are al-
Taken as a whole, the ex-
interesting and in-
to an experienced pharma-

stages of growth,

will prove

cist, and can not fail to be doubly so
to the “pharmacists in embryo” for |
whose especial benefit it was. ar-|

ranged.

 

 

 

 

 

Jacob B. Timmer and G. F. Timmer Gathering Native Plants.

large |
dealers in drugs have ~extended this |

| The collection has been assem-
|bled under the direction of J. B.
| Timmer, who has bestowed great
care upon the selection of the speci-
i|mens. Recent additions bring the
total number of specimens to 250,
every official vegetable drug being

represented, together with many not
|recognized by the U. S. P. A num-
ber included,
|; while the animal kingdom is repre-
sented by beaver castor, civet, can-
tharides, etc. The drugs were plac-
ed in glass containers, which facil-

of chemicals are also

itates examination.

During the past summer the sur-
rounding country was explored for
drug plants, and
Timmer now points with pride
|to a number of specimens as the re-
sult of the excursions. The pho-
|tograph reproduced on this page was
| taken during one of these botanical

some indigenous

Mr.

| r .

|forays. Very good specimens of
| leptrandia, trillium, skunk cabbage,
lete., were obtained, but unavailing

;search was made for golden seal, a
| native drug plant which is appar-

i
|
|
|
|

|

 

|
To

| species of fraud.

Distinguish Between Vanilla

Beans.

It is a fact that but very few drug-
gists-are able to distinguish one va-
nilla bean from another, and why?
Simply because they have never giv-
en much thought to the matter,
the amount that the druggist general-
ly buys is small, and he thinks it is
not of importance enough to study

as

up on, said J. H. Dow, in a recent
paper. But with the increasing de-
mand for extract of vanilla the mat-
ter of buying good beans is impor-
tant, and druggists should be better
posted on the quality of the goods
they buy. Mr. Dow had seen some
rank specimens of beans sold to
druggists for prime Mexican beans

at high prices that were nothing but
Tahiti beans. Stripping is
It is done by cut-

ting the beans on the inside with a

very sharp knife nearly the whole
length of the bean, then laying it in
alcohol for several hours. After the

bean has soaked it is taken and rub-
bed over with oil, the incision care-

another [|

| declined about $10 per barrel.

ys

| described above

fully pressed together, more oil rub-
bed on, and the bean put in the center
and the article will
bring a higher price than if it had
not been manipulated. Always ex-
amine your beans carefully if you
have any doubts as to quality. Beans

|that have been split in the manner

will open very easi-

ily by pulling slightly from both sides

Tonka beans should be

In making an extract
it clear,
be used
as a blend in extract of vanilla.

used carefully.

these beans never use

as it is poisonous. It can

> > +.
The Drug Market.

Opium—Is less firm, but not quot-

ably changed.

Morphine—Is steady.

Quinine—Is in a very firm posi-
but the expected advance has
not yet been made.

tion,

Citric Acid—Has been advanced 2c
per pound by manufacturers. As
crude material is very firm and ad-

higher prices are looked for.
Oil, Norwegian—Has
Lower

vancing,
Cod Liver

prices will rule during the coming
season.
Iodine Preparations—Are very

firm and advancing.

Oil Wintergreen—lIs in better sup-
ply, of the
ing into market, and the price has de-

clined.

on account new crop com-

Linseed Oil—Has advanced.

 

 

 

80 Ton
4 Carloads

Our record on the sale of
Tablets for 1go4.

Our line this year will be
larger than ever.

Wait to see our line before
placing your orders.

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
29 N. Ionia St.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

You will make no mistake if you reserve your
orders for

Hammocks
Fishing Tackle
Base Ball Supplies
Fireworks and Flags

Our lines are complete and prices right.

The boys will call:in ample time.

FRED BRUNDAGE

Wholesale Druggist
Stationery and School Supplies
32-34 Western Ave., Muskegon, Mich.

 

 

 

 

ELECGROTYPES,

cre! GRAVINGS S-TYPE FORMS,

   

 

TRADESMAN CO., GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 43

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT “Mannia, SF... 45@. 60 | Sapo, M ....-.--. 10@ 12| Lard, extra .... 70@ 80
Menthol .......N2 85@3 00 | Sapo, G ......... ae 7 5.
= Morphia, S P & W2 35@2 60 Seidlitz Mixture. : 209 22 Poss “eae Se $60 9
Deciined— | ree = oae = Simapie ......... g 18 | Linseed, boiled .. 47@ 50
foes a os re ge — @ 30 Neat’s-foot, w str 65 70
Acidum Evechthitos ....1 00@1 10 TI ee) as ae hve | :hlUC CC
Aaablinih cicccs 6 3|Erigeron ........ 1 00@1 10 nctures Nux Vomica po 15 @ 10| Snuff, S’h DeVo's @ 61 Paints bbe L.
Benzoicum, Ger.. 10 76 | Gaultheria ees 25@2 35 Aconitum Nap’sR 60 | Os Sepia . 2 Soda, Doras ..... 9@ 111! Red
A Pa oo... 5@ 28 ed Venetian ...1% : 3
Warnele 6. ees 417| Geranium ... 75 — Nap’sF 50 | Pepsin Saac, H & Soda, Boras, po. 9@ 11] Ochre, yel Mars. if 3 4
Carbolicum 26@ 29 Gossippii Sem pe 50@ 60 ee 60 Bie @1 00 Soda et Pot’s Tart 25 28 | Ochre, yel Ber .. 2 3
Citricuom $= ....- 46a) 442 | Hedeoma ......- 1 40@1 50 — ee 50 | pj Li Seda, Carh ..-.. 1%@ 2] Putty, commer’l. at 2 ous
Hydrochlor 3@ 5|Junipera ........ 40@1 20 | Asare & Myrrh .. 60 | Picis Liq NN % Soda, Bi-Carb .. 3@ 5/| Putty, strictly pr2% 2%@3
Nitrocum 8@ 10|Lavendula .....: 90@2 75 Asaroetida ae 59, sal doz........ @2 00| Soda, Ash ...... 3%@ 4] Vermilion, Prime
Oxalicum 10 12 ar oo 90@1 10 yee noe mara 60 Picis Lig ats .. @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas ; & American ..... 15
Phosphorium, dil. @ 15 entha Piper ..4 25@4 50 Re ant ortex ., 50 | Picis Liq. pints. @ 60] Spts, Cologne .. 2 60 | Vermilion, Eng.. 80
Salicylicum 42@ 45| Mentha Verid ...5 00@5 50 a oa. 60 | Pil Hydrarg po 80 @ 50|Spts, Ether Co.. 50@ 55 | Green, Pavia) 1... 18
Seo 13 - a gal ...1 50@2 25 a eee. = — — po ’ g 18 —— — Dom 2 00 | Green, ee a 16
annicum ......- abtencet ae eee cee 3 00@3 50 sma ........ 0 iper a po 30 | Spts, Vini Rect bbl D Lead, red ......
Ls Tartaricum ma POuve ou 7303 00 oe eel 75 | Pix Burgun ..... | a Spts, Vi'i Rect %#b D Lead, white .. 7 }
‘ieahe ie Liquida ... 10@ 12 > a nana eee ae 50 Plumbi Acet . Spts, Vil R’t 10 gl @ Whiting, white gn 90
Mae 2 ta he a oo . 75 ipa & = : Opin 3001 50 me co ystall, ova DA 25 white PB a 2
“T. g@.) og | Bicina .......... @ aoe yehnia, Crysta ite, Paris Am’r 1 25
—. deg Be “ Deans Cyebee 10) &P Dp a doz. @ 75| Sulphur Subl ..... Whit’g Paris Eng
Chioeiaats re 3 1s Rosae oz — geek 50| Pyrethrum, pv .. 20 25 | Sulphur, Roll .. 2@ a4 cue ..........- 1 40
eee Susewe 0 G amen occ eas 6 50 | Quassine |... - 8 36 | Tamarmdas ...... aver Prep’d 1 1091 20
wii 2 00@2 25 Sabina .. menhona Co .... 60 | Quinia, SP & W. 25@ 35) Terebenth Venice 08 30
re 00@2 25 | Santal ... Columba 00... 50 | Quinia, S Ger ... 25@ 35 |Theobromae ..... 45@ 650 Varnishes
’ ee 45 50 Sassafras — ce 50 | Quinta, N.Y. .... 25@ 3 Vantia .........9 @@ No 1 Turp — : =e 20
oe eee saat 2 5093 00 | Sinapis, ess, oz... @ 65 — Acutifol .. 59 | Rubia Tinctorum 3g 14 | Zinci Sulph ..... 7@ §8| Extra Turp .... 1 70
sen Bit 1 108s ge | SRST ACU Co ee ee Bee : See ee yc OST
Whee oll L. = ) S 22k. Se eee e ene ee ils o 1 Turp urnl 00@1 10
Cubebae ...po. 20 15 18| Thyme, opt ..... wi = WOE cect ee ees. 50 | Sanguis Drac’s .. 40 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar .1 5§@1 60
ae or = = Theobromas |... ise 30 oe 95 | Sapo, W_......- 12 14 | Whale, winter... 70@ 70! Jap Dryer No1T 70
3 : ae = 4) | Gomme ........ 50 —————
Potassium Gentian Co. ....
Copaiba a 45@ 50| Bi-Carb ......... 1sq@ 18 | Guinea ....-..... 50
Pera yc eueswes - 50 a ae 2 si -- 60
Terabin, Canada. 60@ 65| Bromide ........ So SO eeee oe nn 50
a  .... 7 fogmie _......... 75
Tolutan 2 et 35 40 Chlorate ain po. 136 = ee. colorless. 75
Oe ee 34@ 38 ee ae 50
j Abies, Canadian. . 18 Tidide = | Lobelia 0
Cassiae s...---.. Oe was 3 60@8 65 | vivre... -- 30
’ Cinchona Flava.. 18 ee wee pr 30@ $2 | Nux Vomiea ..... 50
! Buonymus atro 80 ras opt 7@ 10 : 5
aaeeicn Cerifera. 30 Potass Nitras .... 6@ 8| Qpil ------.-..... 75
at cue Vase . °° 15 Prossiate ....... 23@ 26 — camphorated 50
liek. ae ig | Sulphate po .... 15@ 18 SS 1 -
Sassafras ..po 25 24 Radix Rhatany ne 0 ;
Ulmus ...eeeeees 40 Jom eed 20@ 25 — ey 50
Extractum pe |... 30@ 33|Sanguinaria ..... 50
Glycyrrhiza Gla.. 24 ee | Anchusa) .......- 10@ 12|Serpentaria ..... 50 :
Glycyrrhiza, po.. 28@ 80] Arum po........ @ 25|Stromonium .... 60
Hacmatex .....-< 11 42 Calamus ........ aoe0 46) fOlutan ......... 60
Haematox, Is... 18 14 | Gentiana po 15.. 12@ 15 Valerian ........ 50
Hacmatox, 40 .. 140 18 | Glychrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18 | Veratrum Veride. 50
Haematox, 4s .. 16 17 | Hydrastis, Canada. | 49 | Zaneiper ........ 20
lee, Hydrastis, Can.po @2 00
Carbonate Precip 15 | Flellebore, Alba. 12@ 15 Miscellaneous
Citrate and Quina 2 00 seo oes 2 002 tn| Aether, Spts Nit 3f30@ 35 -
Citrate Soluble =. g5 | meen BO ++ 7-2 $082 It | Aether, Spts Nitats@ 83 We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,
Solut. Chloride .. ei eo 2 Cds ht . as
ee a 5 |Maranta, 4s @ 35|Annatto ......... 40@ 50 Chemicals and Patent Medicines
Sulphate, com’l, by Podophyilum po. 15@ 18 | Antimoni, po .. 4@ 5 :
a ee aa ag | Bnet -------.---- 75@1 09 | Antimoni et po T 10@ 50 |
Sulphate, pure .. 7| Rhel, cut ...... 1 00@1 25 |Antipyrin ........ 25
a at oF rere —— 2 a es os @ =| We are dealers in Paints, Oils and
£ eee 5 r
AVee 06.14... 15 18 | Sanguinari, po 24 @ 22|Arsenicum ...... 10@ 12) |
eee 32@ 32 | Sermentaria ----- §0@ 5 | Bismucn 8 N'..2 A002 85 Varnishes
MG cee eee 0@2 8&5} :
“ Smilax, off’s H. @ 409} Calcium Chior, 1s @ 9!
Berens eee 30@ 33| Smilax, M ..... @ 25 | Calcium Chlor,%s @ 10
cassia Acutifol, Scillae’ po 35.... 10@ 12| Calcium Chlor 4s @ 12
Tinnevelly .... 15@ 20} Symplocarpus ... @ 95 | Cantharides, Rus. @1 75 We have a full line of Staple —
cassie acu BO $0/ Valtane Hae” 4.8 H[eibeel Racers Bh
a n Valeriana, a 5a vapsic ruc’s po @ 22
¥\%s and ¥s .. “s 20 Zingiber g ne os 120 it Capi Fruc’s B po @ 15) Sundries.
Uva Urel........ 8 10 | Zingiber j ....... 1s@ 20|Carophyllus .. . 20@ 22
pag a as np oe No. 40.. @4 25 |
cacia, ist pkd.. orn Bio ....... 0 F .
' Acacia, Ast pkd-- @ {48 | Anisum po. 20... @ 16| Cera Flava ..... 10 42 | Weare the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s
Acne, ona -.- g * — (gravel’ 8). = 15 oe pees ess 1 75@1 80} y
eacia, sifted sts. r a 4 6 assia Fructus .. @ 33) : 7
Acacia, GO ...... = 65 | Carui po 15 .... 10@ 11 Centraria eee @ 10 Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
Aloe, Barb ...... 12 44 + Cargqanion ....... 76@ $6} Cataccum ....... @ 35
i, — pears g * —_ ane ia = 14 —— Le. 42@ 52
oe, Socotri .... annabis Sativa. ( 71 Chloro’m, Squibbs @ 9
Ammoniac ...... 55@ 60|Cydonium ....... 731 09 | Chioral Hyd Crst 1 3501 60. We always have in stock a full line of
i i = _ cerca agg oem a 25@ 30 be ne a 20@ 25}
enzomum ...... 5 pterix orate. 80@1 00 nchonidine P-W 38@ 48 : . : bl
Catch, ts"... q 13 | Foentoulum "@. 18| Cinchonid’e Germ, 380 48 Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines and
atechu, oa oenugreek, po.. ¢ are «(C........ 4 30@4 50
Catechu, %s .... a eS 4@  6| Corks list d p ct. 75 i
Camphores ..... 9341 00 | Lint, grd. bbl. 2% 3@ 6|Creosotum ...... @ 4 Rums for medical purposes only.
Euphorbium g Ao) Lopeta... 6.56. 75@ 80|Creta...... ww @ 2
ee Ce : gt 4 zyetioris Cana’'n $0 10 oo prep oo... a &
amboge ....po..1 25@1 Mie o.c.235..... 5@ 6 reta, precip S@ i! : . .
Sage oss @ «88| Sinapis Alba |... 7@ 9|Creta, Rubra @ 8 We give our personal attention to mail
fe 2 po 45c g 45 | Sinapis Nigra ... 9@ 10} Crocus .......-- 1 75@1 80
WiteGe ......... 60 7 Cudbear ........ @ 24} = m
—. a Spiritus os. a orders and guarantee satisfaction.
; 5 Frument! W D..2 00@2 50 | :
2 3 25@3 35 | 5, Dextrine ........ 7@ 10
eas 40@ 50 Frumenti ....... 1 25@1 50 Emery, all Nos.. a ai
Shellac, ‘bicached 45@_ 50 | Juniperis Co O T.t 85@2 00| Emery, po @ 6| . . .
Tragacanth ..... 70@1 00 Baccara wet — = Ergota |; .p0. 65 $0@ 65 | All orders shipped and invoiced the same
Absinthium oz pk gs | Spt Vint Gall! ..1 75@6 50| Flake White ©... 12@ 15) ; =e :
as Cee 3 | Vint Oporto ...:1 25@2 00 | Gala «2.2021, S day received. Send a trial order.
Lobelia ....0z pK 25 Garbler ......-.- s@ 9
Majorum ..oz pk 238 Sponges Gelatin, Cooper . @ 60
Mentha Pip oz pk 93 | Florida Sheeps’ wl Gelatin, French . 35@ 60]
Mentha Ver oz pk 25 cCorrtaee ......- 3 00@3 50| Glassware, fit box 75 |
’ Mie - oz pk 39 | Nassau sheeps’ af Less than box .. 70 |
es wv aa = BF yg ae 50@3 75 sa =" ne a. 13 |
ymus oz elvet extra shps zlue, white .....- Z 25
Ginnie wool, carriage . @2 00| Glycerina ....... 16@ 20
Calcined, Pat .. 55@ 60| Extra yellow shps’ Grana Paradis! . @ 2 e e
Carbonate, Pat .. 18@ 20 oe aici gay @1 25 — oe “ae se | = | H Z
arbonate, Fats’ 1s@ 20 | Grass sheeps’ wl, vararg Ch Bt! @ 95, azeitine erKins
Carbonate ...... g 20 CATTIAZG ....... a: 1 25| Hydrarg Ch Cor @ 90)
eum Hard, slate use .. 1 00 | Hydrarg Ox Ru’m @1 05
Absinthium ..... 4 90@5 00| Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ammo’l @) 15)
Amyedalae, Dulc. bg 60| slate use. ..-. 1 40|Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Amygdalae Ama.8 00@8 25 Syrups Hydrargyrum  .. @_ 75 | rug O.
Aye ee 1 45@1 50} Acacia .........- 50 | Ichthyobolla, Am. 99@1 00 <
Auranti Cortex -2 20@2 40 Auranti Cortex .. 50 | Indigo ...... :--+, 15@1 00
Bergamil . 2 85@3 25 | Zingiber ........- 50 | Iodine, Resubi ..4 85@4 90 |
Cajiputi asressers Stee 00 | ipecac .......-..- = —— sceeees 4 90@5 = e °
Caryophilli ...... 85@ 90| Ferri Iod ....... supulin ......-+. G d R d M h
Cedar. .; «eee. 50@ 90| Rhei Arom ...... 60 | Lycopodium. ....1 1501 20 | ran a I S ic '
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Chenopadii ...... 2. 50 | Smilax Offi’s ... 60 | Macis .......---. 65@ 75 |
Cinnamont ...... 1 = 110} Senega ......... 50| Liquor Arsen et |
Citronema. ...... 60 |Scillae ......-....-- 50 Hydrarg Iod .. @ 25)
Conium Mac .. eg 5 Scillae Co ...... 50 | Liq Potass Arsinit 00 +
CODSIIA | ou. s ses t Tolutan .....-.- 60 | Magnesia, Sulph.
Cubebae ...... if Prunus virg ... 60 | Magnesia, Sulph bbl. 7 1% |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  

 

   

       

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing — : ee 6 ss Pol
<iuik sat inci on Me : : ' ’ arshmallow Cream ..17 Bamboo, 14 a
o be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are lia- Marshmallow Walnut .17_ | Bamboo, 16 ft., "per doz. 80
ble to change at any time, and ccuntry merchants will have their orders filled at |‘ aan. Paes ee
market prices at date of purchase. 8 Mich Coco Fs’d honey.12 eee —
Milk Bisculted’ Honey.1z, | Coleman's, Van, Lem.
ADVANCED DECLINED Mixed Picnic ......-: 4 ia Sees — Si.
; : eae ee olasses es, Scol r Rink
s ao Moss Jelly. Par — se 2 — Rich. Blake. 2 00 1 50
0. 29, eac t. lengli 90 | Musk *
No. 19, each 100ft. fomet 10 a — a No. tec oe me 75
A Oatmeal Crackers 4 To. oo. a.
WN oo... no5ecece 35 | Orange Slice : No. 4 D. C. per dos.....1 50
eeeee . No. 6 D Cc. da
Cleveland ...... Cees 41 | Orange Gem 9 pa ee. + 8 OS
i - BO TCM .. cece ne : | Taper D. C. per d
Colonia Sooo icS AB | Benne, score’ Gales 3 “°° yohican Pantin
Ee Ee 42 Pineapple Honey ...... ale a 4 = * — = ca 1 20
Index to Markets i 9 ae at ie - — none sear esas a iINo.6DG aed te on po
(ae. retzels, hand made ..8% | p .C wet
Ven Houten, 45... Sala : : aper D. C. per doz....2 00
By Columns AXLE GREASE Van Houten, 1s 11.11! ironies. ack. we 1 ae
_ aoe aa Plums ee Van Houten, eee 2 | Revere ........ : 15 | i. See: ni 30
_ xrazers | Plums ..-.-----.-..... Be 2§ [nine ng, srol4 00
nite Ge eae ae eae! Pineapple Wilbur, %s .... a some Godin 8 | Knox's “Acidu’d.” doz. 1 20
ith. tin boxes, 3 doz. 235 | Grated .......... 1 25@3 75 | Wilbur. 4s ........ ieee 10 | Knox's Acidu’d, gro 14 00
Setb. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25) Sliced .. 12.00.27. ines 'coeeas leet es 16 | Oxford | ..... 75
ti meen | Oxford ..... 2... se eeee
| Ib 4 per dos. ..600| Pumpkin | Dunham's igs 2... 26 ee ee oe : | Plymouth Rock ....... 1 25 i
i win verse eiGet......” ea 80 Dunham's %s &%4s.. 26% | Sugar Squares ........ 9 | Cox's, 2 qt. size ...2. : 50
BAKED BEANS Fancy ... a eee ae S loos 18 | Cox's 1 at. size... 110
Columbia Brand Galion O:@ bux... ee en she GRAIN BAGS _
i ; can, per dex ..... 92 Raspberries COCOA SHELLS UPCHINE «wes eeeeee + u | Amoskeag, 100 in bale19
. can, per doz ....1 49 | Standard ........ @ 20Ib. bag Vienna Crimp ........ 8% | Amoskeag, less than bl 19
Th. can, per doz ....1 80 Russian Cavier ae 3” eat ne St 16° “GRAINS AND FLOUR ~
naan erick ct. y Jp | Pound packages _---... 4 anaibar 22201) 10 ola Whe
ee ces emeensice: i asa ak t
=. ;| i om ........ wo CREAM TARTAR y 7 me
BROOMS 85 aici on -++-12 00 icici Rio a Barrels or drums ....... No 5 a Oe 1 i:
No. 1 Carpet ......... 2 75|Col’a River, talls @15|Fair ............c.000., Se | ee a tesseresaes beet 30| Winter Wheat Flour
No. 2 Carpet ......... 2 35 | Col’a River, flats.1 85@1 90 | Choice .............-.. et eee eee penne ett = Local Brands
b No. 3 Carpet 22222021. ie | ek Seen ....-1 OE Bi teees tS! ts | "9 See ents 35 | Patents « .--s...-. 20
H No.4 Carpet 102.00... 175 | Fink Alaska ----°  @ 95 —_—— stray pas po Patents ......-5 80
‘ ¢ oe 6 Q ardines i es | Strat ee create |
Common Whisk ...... 85 | Domestic, %3 .. 3%@ 3% — ee ue Sundried ......... 4 @ 4% | conan ‘straight tees 20 q
Fancy Whisk ........ 1 20| Domestic, %s . BS oR: oe a it | Clear ......---..-. ie |
Warehouse ........... 3.00 | Domestic, Must'as$ @9 | Fancy. .......0.2...°°18 | 100-196 Se bee ee SE pnbniaeniehine 7
i BRUSHES Callfernia, Ge... 11014 | Peaberry ........... 0-125 251 boxes. @3_ | Buckwheat. ..... 4 65
i Scrub Hl California, %s...17 @24 Maracaibo. __ 90-100 25Ib boxes ‘te ee
E Solid Back, 8 in ..... 75| French, \s ..... 7 ae ae 15 80- 90 25th boxes @4 | Subject to usual ns dis-
i Solid Back, 11 in ...... 95 | French, %s ..... $8 Se l@heice 68: 18 70- 80 25tb boxes 4 4% | count.
‘| Pointed ends .......... 85 Shrimps Mexican : 60 -70 25tb boxes @ 5 Flour in barrels, 25¢ per
i" ec Stove | Standard ...,... a SO SO Chites 2. 16144 | 50- 60 25% boxes @ 5% | | barrel additional. .
u a ee co. oe Succotash Pelee ee 19 | 40 -50 25tb boxes @ 6%} Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
i No. 2 Se ee 1 20 Fair Poon uaoe ‘ 95 Guatemala . . _ hanes @ 7% Facey pager oli. 5 70
Ss ee Patios oe 15 ec less in 50Ib cases. uaker, cloth. ...... 5 90
A Shoe eee 1 25@1 40 J Citron | Spring W ju
3 ee 1 00 Strawberries African Pe varee eee. 12 Corsican. ........ @15 | Pillsbury's oo ass 60
= . Sle ee cee i 30 Standard ........ 4 20 fancy African .......- 17 : Currants | Pillsbury’s Best, 4s ..6 50
«lt Bapeeapgegarseient a. S. Paes ....5.-.... er Ge 25 Imp’d. 1tb pkg .. 6%@ 7_ | Pillsbury’s Best, ee | .6 40
A eo ae 1 90 Tomatoes ee 3 Imported bulk ..6%@ 7 | Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s
‘ w. Rac a Per... @ 80 Mocha Peel Bran
i o's, 15¢ size.1 25 | Good ............ @ 06] Arabian (00000) 1 | Lemon American ....12 | Wingold, %s ....... 6 GO ‘
4 W., BR. & Co's, 2c sine 2 00 | Fancy ........... 115@1 45 Package Orange American ....12 Wingold, \%s "6 50
: Blectrie ANTES es IO: 2 50@2 60 New York Basis Raisins |Wingold, %s 1.712... 6 40
‘ lest - ian . 8s .... 9% CARBON OILS Artackio, 200s. 13 50 | London Layers, 3 cr 1 50| Judson Grocer Co.’s ‘Brana
: = ectric Light, 1€s ....10 arreis teats oo. 12 50 | London Layers 4 cr 1 95 | Ceresota, %s 6 50
; aie oS. 9 Porfoction |... Gey | Jersey ...--.--0-05+5+ 14 00 | Cluster 5 crown ... 2 60| Ceresota, %s 1......2! f 40
i <a es 4... 23% Rates Mitta me Ra es, 12 50 peso i a : : | Ceresota. ibs ea
i Ab mee le ele oe wee D. S. Gasoline . @13 | McLaughlin’s XXXX | Loose uscateis, cr... | Worden Grocer @ a
i CANNED GO0bS Deodor'd Nap’a |. .@lli- McLaughlin's XXXX sold | Loose Muscatels, 4 cr..6%/| laurel, \%s, +s
i :- see ino ee 29 '@34% | to retailers only. Mail all | L. M. Seeded, 1 Ib.64%@7% | Laurel, 4s. cloth...... 6 70
* Gals. Standards .1 90@2 00 Mupine 22.0.) 16 @22 orders direct to W. F.| lM. Seeded, % Ib5 6 | Laurel, %s & \s paper6 6n
"Blac _erries Black, winter .. 9 @10% | McLaughlin & Co., Chi- | comin ma Oa% eee bo 2
: — Beans - cumbia. ae pee. cece 4 50 — Extract FARINACEOUS GOODS quacn Taore = is, rand
i mie s0@1 30 | Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60 Holland, % gro boxes. 95) 5,5 Beans | Golden Horn, bakers .6 05
Red Kidney .... 85@ 95| Snider's avarts ....... 9 95 | Felix, % sross .....-.. 1 15| Dried Lima ........... 6 | Pure Rye, light .4 70
String ae OR eee 3 2 | Hommes foll, % gro 25| Sot He Exe -1 Ot S| Pure Rye, dark........ 4 55
i Wax knees enter @1 33 Snider’s % pints oe 1 30 ads te. arnt 43 Brown ~~. eons © 2 25 Pale, ee at 2 vt p
’ ies FA oneal aR eo a
q ma oo @140 Ane eG @14_ | National Biscuit Company's 24 1%b. packages. ....1 75 | eisai ‘Meal alata
Brook Trout Carson City ..... @14 Brands Bulk, per ee tees 3 00) Bolted. ..... 259
| poe 14 utter olde anulated _..2 60
Gallon. «=. OS Bll , A ESE | ike ee eke ee ee
ie oe ton . 19] Emblem... @14y¥,|N Y Butters .... Pearl, 200Ib. sack -8 70) st Car Feed: ome 5
Little Neck 11> 1 00@1 253 | Gem ...-.-..--.. @14. | Salted Butters ........ Pearl, 100%. sack ....1 85) no 4 cre uae Gale 19 =
Little Neck, 2t.. @1 50 | Hdeal_ ............ ee eee 6% | Domestic, 101 "Wsrmiel Corn, cracked ........19 09
Clam Boulllon Jersey. oo @15 at Soda Im orted. 25tb * dn : 0 Corn Meal, coarse es 09
Burnham’s % pt .....1 90| Riverside ....... @14 |N_BC Soads ........ 6% . : ox .-3 50) on Meal 29 00
i Burnham’s, pts | 2 eat warmers |...... @15i% | Select .......----seeeee & Cc waert Gartey Winter wheat bran .118 50
ea Burnham’s, = ooo 7 29 _—. ae bo ——— oe ae 13 caer ae 2 = Winter wheat mid’ngs19 50
t corr . BEE ee ee i me gsl9 |
I Rea standart on 1 Lo... 8. err Round Oysters ........ 6% Borers. ct. 350|0CW Feed aa 19 00
— "1.50| Limburger. ..... @15 | Sauare Oysters ....... 6% Peas Car lots . or
oa —...... 40 @60 eee ee Tz oleae oe bu. .3 25) s eee re 35
ST rir 75@90 Sap Sago ....... @20 Argo ..... rts eee ee ee 7 Split, Ib ee ee re 185) corn, new .... 50%
; 6] Good 22ND 90 | Swiss. domestic.  @ 14% | xtra BAe aos 1% | SPI Maolied Oats i :
See oo 1 25 Swiss, imported . @20 eeu weeds 19 | Rolled Avenna bbls ..4 15 No. 1 timothy car lots 10 50
6 French Peas MG GUM | fies pest rr | Steel Cut, 100%. sacks2 00 No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 50
6 Sur Extra Fine 22 American Flag Spruce. 55 Aceortec Came ..-..... i | Ic by
Sur Extra Fine ..... 22 | Arata Popsin os Bp | Bagley Gems. 200000 . ae ee ae 15
en ee coo ng eke Baek dy 5 | Belle Rose .........-- ase” een: 5
6 eae rettte teeter eee es = Largest Gum Made .. = Bent’s Water ......... 17 | Quaker, cases ......... ” faa SE ns 13
q "diane See oe gs | Butter Thin ....... 2... 13 | wast Indi Sago Senna Leaves | ...... 25
‘ iii s go | Sen_ Sen Sireath Pert i 00 Chocolate Drops ...... 17 poo ndia garrenentt 3% ae 5
: e ae sts 7 fone BOOF 22... Cees Bar 2.0... +. 5 = | coerce’ a . age : Madras, 5!) _boxes 55
7 | Standard . get WOR taco 33 | Cocoanut Taffy... ... eT Se Loe Ee. S
| - Uopster 7” CHICORY Goftee Cake, NB. C10 | mane, 110me oC —.
1) star, ym se BNE gps 5 | Coffee Cake, Iced ....10 | Bewti’ 1301. sacks 11. 3 |,5ID Pails, per doz ..1 70
iio t .....c Be OE ok raed ota cect 7| Cocoanut Macaroons .-18 | pearl’ 94 11. ohes . 3 | 75% pails’... 1 ee
i ae ae eerste ei Crackaela ......---..-. So oe te © Te OA coc. 65
, : aecak eminent 7) Currant Proit ........ 11 Cracked ae LICORI cE a
7| Mustard, 1fb. ........ 1 g9 | Schener’s -.......-.... 6| Chocolate Dainty ----17 | 94°31 packages ...... 33 | Pure si
g| Mustard, 2%. 2..22.2..2 80 CHOCOLATE ena ge a gale ah 10 | “" FISHING Tac KLE [mig 23
=| Gomeed, 1%. .........- i 30| , Walter Baker & Co.’s___ | Dixie Cookie .......... > 1% & 3 ose Oo ppalearersesedctet 14
: 8 | Soused. 2 eee 2 9 | German Sweet ........ 22 | Fluted Cocoanut ...... pa 1% to 2 cs . Root EOE Sa a a
‘ g| Tomato 1M. ...2222 1 g0| Premium ............. ee “tht 9 1% to 2 in ee — Z
L | Tomato. 2%. 2......22: 2 gn | Vanilla .... 41 | Ginger Gems ......-..- 9 18 fo 3 in 1 11| Condensed, 2 doz 1 60
¥ Mushrooms Caracas 35 | Ginger Snaps, N B C 7% ‘ : Cond : Gey
: ie. tee i Lol. D> a6 | Con@ensed, 4 Gos ..... 3 00
a eae es fom oo.) Maes 93|Grandma Sandwich ...11. |3 in 39 MEAT EXTRACTS
8| Buttons -......:. 22@ 25 CLOTHES LINES Graham Crackers ..... 9 "Cotton Lines cee: Armour’s, 2 0z 44
9 _ Oysters Sisal Honey Fingers, Iced .12 No. 1, 10 feet Armour’s 4 0z ........ 8 20
; o Coe. 1h 2: @ 90| 60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00; Honey Jumbles ...... 12 No. 2, 15 teet ie Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 oz. 5
z v : ages oe . go, 2 on? 75
ee ee, ee 8 3 thread, extra..1 40 | Iced Honey Crumpet .12 No. 3 Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 0z.5 50
. § thread, extra. 170 |Imperials ............. 9 No. 4. Liebig’s Seared, 2 ox
. 0z.4 55
. 6 thread, extra..1 29 | Indian Belle No. 5 Liebig’s, Imported, 4 8 50 ‘
6 , extra.. Jersey Lunch No. 6. MOL. oo.
No. 6, MOLASSES
Lady Fingers . 43 | Me. 7 New Orlean
dady Fingers. hand md 25 No. 8. Fancy Open Kettle 40
; Lemon Biscuit Square 9 No 3 * Chatsa .._ i ee
Lemon Wafer ........ 16 i Bate ae 26
: 2 Re eee osteo Vigkox 2 Lemon Snaps .. 12 | Small No civciseca sc) i:
ea or mon Gems .. -10 f barrels 2c extra
' Teast Gam ..........-: 8! Eee ae. 90Q1 6) [SOF ons nneeenensenees Sahl teuk Wee :52.. 0... oe. <a HalINCE, MEAT
F Barly June Sitied.. 1 65 erccecrcccccccccccoh OO Columbia, per case ..2 7§ 7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 
 

 

 

  

 

 
 

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MUSTARD | |
Deland’s . a |
— — 7? a 4 30 em ight’ oo c= = | eee wae hone 6 | = 10 il
; , . ...8 50| Emblem ..... c es White |
Bayle’s Celery, as) |, EN a : 10 | Snow Boy Wash Pwr 00 | ae Pails
ae Ss | Wyandoiie, ee 09 rep roctor & Gamble Co. cee Cut i ie hoop Standard .....1 60 | CONFECTIONS
es ak. kegs ...1.00 | SAL SODA ERR oo wsets no eee 3 g5 | Sweet Loma .......... 54 |$-hoop Standard wesoek TL Stick Candy Pails
os sl — ee 95 Granulated, Bus | 3 rived oe a 4 09 | Hiawatha, a 1S ae a cccccceeed 70 Stomiand anes Tn Oo
Mansanills. 8 oz. . oo 100Ib casesi 00 | Star ----:.. Li Pn : a a 10% pails 1.54 | Cedar, all aoa ‘ee 2 | Standard Twist ve ‘
Queen, a 3 | Lump, 145tb kegs |... = Good ae Wrisley i eT a ee = | Fibre’ Sn tones) 2 25 | Cut Loaf ......00.0.2 9
coo. oS TOOG Cheer ......... esa eee ce wee | BEEC, stesso vscceees cba ra
queras. 28 oz SALT Old Country 4 a come | ex Toothpicks 2 (9) Jumbo, 23th o.oo... asa
ae ed, 5 oz 100 3 ommon Grades Soap Powders Sweet Burley ........ Hardwood eg = so | Extra H. H .......-. 9
uffed, 8 oz Vay im Saens |... |. 1 95 Central City Coap Co. Tiger ey 2.21... . 44 | Softwood .......... 2 75 Boston Cream ae
Stuffed, 10 om ......... 2 30 | = od sees ---------4 Mi Jncknan, 16 on -. oo Bigg 40 | Banquet Oe ee 275 Olde Time > cables 0
ee 2 ack . Se ee . Se eG a
ee ue PIPES | 56 1b nae eer 175 | Gold Dust, 24 larg i bo Cross ae oct eeas 21 | - oa 50 | 301 se Gs ess
of. aia 6) S sitist1 80| Gold Dust, 100-3e Aa 31 | Mouse, wood, 2 holes . 22 | Grocers igs **: —
cn wee ss ee a Warsaw | Kirkoline, 24 41. ..... oS ete 35 | Mouse, wood, 4 holes . 45 Competition. 222220002... 7
seas ae : . dairy in drill bags 40 Pearene)| 00) 0700. oo i Ae 41. | Mouse, wood, 6 holes 70 aoe |
aoa Ss SS See Stee 2 Secping «-.-.. 3 7) | Americ SE 37 | Mouse, tin, 5 holes - 70 | Conserve ........... i”
aia 4 i. um iry in drill bags 20) Babhitt’s 1776.20.00. 15 | ower an Hagie ....... 33. | Rat, wood ..... =~ El Magal -.....-2---25---. 7%
Barrels, 200 count 8 50 <a a Htoseine hated : 3 is oe ay ue s; | Rat, spring —....... ‘t+ 32 | Ribbon Seemann sen 3%
cs "3 95 | foes mene ol, 35 ‘a ad, 7 oz. ....47 | i! Tube | ee A A a
i cade: 2 Small | Granulated, — : UC Ss 70 ee are 14% oz ..44_ | 20-in., Standard. No. 1.7 00 or ee eeccceee 8
Half bbls. 1 — ..7 25 | Medium fine. ...0..°2. =| Soap ro a 80 Jolly ¥. WASG ole. 55 18-in., Standard, No. 2.6 00 Pee ou aa 2
PLAYING pH my 25 | ‘mii Johnson} : Sere Gla oo ey 39 — Srendors. No. 3.5 00 | Kindergarten FAG Sa He
c | Johnson’s XXX _....... A imaqae i nine -in., Cable, No. | Bon Ton Cream ......
wo Manes alia mas. gt |Miieea en a Sate Beg 2 | Eisen rte
: oo . | a “i eee eee ee geen erent: 8 -in., Cabl ma See ee en
jy geo enameledi 60 | Strips or ices. ane 8% No -ecatils ec ceeee = il Piper Heidsick : .66 | No. 1 Cable, No. 3. “a = tind Made Cea |. j1
eee ek eee «..._: | Enoch Wacean’ a ee SIIIIEg0. | No. 2 Fibre °<00...2. 9 80 Premio Cream ae ee
No. 808 Bi an Se Se i cir Halibut @ 3% | Sapolio, gross lots Ores | Black Stan Twist 1.1149 | No. 3 Fibre i aaa 8 5B Fancy—in —
No. 632 bate eet aae m O96 Strips. .......... 14 Sapolio, half gross ns 00 | Cadilla er 40 Wash Boards °|Q F Horehound Dr
: ee eet toe 14% | Sapolio, single noe 3 2 | Forg a a oa Globe ...... 2 50 | Coney Hearts — =
Herring | Sapolio, h oe ee wee ie | gic | Coco Bon Bons .....-
omer in case Hollana Scnutine ee piogr aa 2 25 | Nickel Twist 120.6... 5 | Double Acme 4 = | Fudge Satan.
ae seat ead pees 4 00 | White Hoop,bbls 8 25@9 25 Seourine, 50 cakes ng Co | a ide Bees woe eee wes 9 | Single Acme ......... 2 25 Peanut Squares iy
ees. +O | Boe toe ee 25@9 25 Scourine, 100 cakes “13 50 | go ie i | ake Pucrioos =o--=-8 0 | Galtem Peat «.
ite hoo ant Te mokin | e Peerless ..... 6 oo) oe Pea
Mess eas: yee | White acer ware — #0 | Boxes 1 | Sweet_Core king —_g,_-| Northern Queen ...... 2 ~ | Starlight ae pmia =
i eR ee te 13 00 | Norwegian . ' @ 75 | Kegs, a. 5% | Flat Cae 32 | Double Duplex “3 001 San Blas Goodies ..... =
pack i eee eat 14 00 | Round, 100tbs .. | ooo ay | Wath 2... 28... 26 | Good Luck ..... ""5 75 | Lozenges, plain sence
— 14 50 | Round, 40Ibs . 3.75! Columbia .. | Bamboo, 16 oz. er Universal ............ "9 65 | Lozenges, printed .... we
5 og ee a et 13 00 | Scaled’ ......... iit URed Getter (00000) sa:% 2 hom 2... 27 | Window Cleaners | Champion Chocolate .- %
— ee rae ro f SPIGES seen 90 | 1X L, 16 ox. pails | |.31 [io tm .2 ew 4 65 | Eclipse Checcakes —
n,n eae 18 00 | No. 1, 100tbs Whole Spl | Honey Dew -....... 40 ‘Ce oo 1 85 Eureka Chocolates. ... :
ao ae 13 50 | No. 1, 40tbs uaa a ce iesiiee is ae oe comne
’ dey oles 1175 |No. 1, 10ts ee a 12) Bigeman) fool. 40. | Wood Bowls Chainpion Gum Drope
sP Sine Meats No. 1, sibs a Coke ee: 12D Le AN 33 ia in. Butter . 75 Moss Drops na 3%
seal 8 ae ee 5 | ae) | eas) | Baal 2) Site Cite 1 th teeeee 5... Timon! Sour 0
Bellies w% . Mackerel | Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28} Duke’ ee oS inn aoe 16 n Sours .......- 946
a A |Mess, 100Ibs. _ | Cassia, Sas : . 28|Duke’s Mixture . | in. Butter .... ;Imperials . :
Extra Shorts 87 : b paces nine beckon, a6 | Dees Cees... ee ees eee 2 00 ae a 9%
ea 814 | Mess, 40Ibs | Cassia, Saigon, i . 40 | Duke’s Cameo .........43 | in. Butter ...... 3 95 | ital. Cream Oper
Smoked Meats Mess ay | Cloves, gon, in rolls. 55 | Myrtle Nav ny | 19 in. B ere ‘ pera ..12
: 4 ce | s a oves, | swN< a EV cece esicins | aH a 7 al. Crea
Hams, 12Ib. average 10 co sae | 1 65 | Gloves: ‘Amboyna ......1S| Yum Yum, 1% oz --44 | Assorted, 13-15-17 "71°39 | 20% a...
woe 141p. average 10 | No. 1, foomhe LL! . 1 36| Mace .... eee a 20) ee Yum 11d pails ..40 Assorted’ 15-17-19 |...3 25 | Molasses Chews * si.
oe 16i. average 18 ,|No. 1, 4tbs. .. 00 | Nutmegs ca 55 | — ee ee 38 le WRAPPING PAPER | aoe, Wafhes” Ca ee
Skinned — average Noo) aoe! Uo 5 20 | Nutmegs, 105-10 45 | Corn Cake, 24% 02 .... | Common Straw ...... 1% Golden Waffles ....... 12
a es eae ae 10% No. 1, 8tbs. _ 55 | Nutmegs, 115-20 35 | — Came, 1B ....... 33 | Fibre Manila, white .. 1% | Topazolas. .........-.. 12
— iN Y = nna 1. : Pepper, Sinaamore. ink = i ean eg eS oz... gal | age — colored . 4 ; ‘ aoe 51b. Boxes
, 2 Me | Pepper, Si eee ae | Oz. .. : Be newer eee on sou .
ee ee as ie 9%2@10% 100tb No. 1 a y a Posece. py white. = Salon ig 6 a = —— —— Loe ; ae os et vn
a 1) | ae p eee c ea. | be s a . | r’s ania .. ‘hocolate Dr ue
Picnic Boiled Ha | BOIDS 6... eee ee i seis ee tig al ane a 38 | Wax Butte oo oe gg iets 60
Boiled Ham - i 1 00 Q| Alispice .......... ic Sees 36 | Ww. e erteweis (tS Me cats Teena
| Saag a 16 woe Bo | Guast : ; [Ll 1¢| Cant) Eloek .-... | Wax Butter, ful 9 a.
wins mm wed ...3 | — ype oS BiGean ee eee . ee = wee x 4 | Wax omer a lr Dark woe -— a
oc eccccoss 0: i . Cloves. Z: oes ; Horex- me a AST CAKE 3itter Sweets a .
‘ ‘Anise (Lo . loves, Zanzibar ..... 99 | Good oe Magi siz ets, ass'd ..1 25
Camda ard a ia 15_ | Ginger, African 2.0...) = | Selt Pg Ll ge | as aes. oo 115 | Brilliant Gums, Crys.60
ee Car a MYINA ....-.- 7%, | Ginger, Cochin a Sil inder, 160z, 80z 20-2218 lic ft = Gon .-.... 1 00 A. A. Licorice Drops ..90
iene: 1% c WWAY 2.............- 3 | Ginger, Jamaica ...... 18 | fiver BPoam ........ aa | sunlight, 1% dog... - 50 | Lozenges, plain ayers
oa: tubs. advance If | ardamom, Malabar ..1 00 | Mace , Ca ...... 95 | Sweet Marie .......... 33 | Yeast Foam, 3 doz ....1 15 | Lozenges. printed .... 55
_ tale ladcaues 2 Celery jae NLT | ee et 65 | Royal Smoke Sete Yeast Cream, 3 doz ..1 00 Imperials .... see 5
OID. a. . aavenee 7° Hemp. Poa ail a a . ee dae 1S]. TWINE ..42 | Yeast Foam, 1% doz... 58) Mee oe, 5
ae. pails ..advance % ae 7 | Peoeer, ae, Se. 17 | Cotton, 3 ply ..... | FRESH FISH et ees 53
bie. pails ..advance % | Mustard, mnece ....... 8 Pepper, Coane white . 28 | Cotton, 4 ply ......... 20 | P |G. M. Peanut Bar .... s
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ao 6% a. in bladders 37 rete —— Oe ae 5 Pues an Robinson.10 | Faddock eee o oe @12% oo Asstmt, 32
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fa SRR! 10 ee Rappie, in jars. 3 SYRUPS anon 7 WICKING 7 | — Cen oF nae oe —— :
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ca 10 50 Central City Soap C arrers: ......... 29 No. 1 per gros : | @ressed .... @ 7 rike No. 2 ....6 06
\% bbis ig’s Feet. ioe pul ainaadl p . ca Maik Powe 3 No. 2 per oan ce 40 fog White .... @12% | Kalamazoo Specialties
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gle gee 2 8 | SRNR Se “San og #8 | Cee oo a ee 9 ie | Extn, Selects soo 8 | Ota ee ee
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op bundle .... 70 | Mary a Cc : = | Sundried. —— +24 Hew Cth, aussi. co Sou 19 | — Corn Fritters, 100s 50
samt mene uttering | Mottled German 2 25 | Sundried, ane na rn sig ee ee Boxes EF. H. en [ng Bee, _—, oo
f tees ee MB once 45 | Regule ee | in case .. 72) EH SL a ae oie aacian oa | | 3 0
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Coban DRESSING | Jap Rose, 50 bars 2-2 75| Formosa, fancy .....42 Cork lined, 8 in. . 65 | Pelts Catcntedl Shelled
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Mica, tin boxes ..
Paragon 55

BAKING POWDER

JAXON

\%Ib. cans, 4 dos. case 45
%lb. cans, 4 dos. case 85
{ Th. cans, 2 dos. casel 60

Royal

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\Y%lbcans 135
6 oscans 190
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COFFEE
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Royal ian and Mocha.. |
Java and Mocha Blend.. |
| Boston Combination ... |
Distrivuted by Judson
rocer Co., Grand Rapids:
| National Grocer Co.,

| troit and Jackson; F. Saun- |
| ders & Co... Port Huron;
| Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
|naw; Meisel & Goeschel
| Bay City; Godsmark, Du
jrand & Co., Battle Creek
| Fielbach Co.. Toledo.

 

 

 

 

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4 doz. in case

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Wheat Grits | Champion “4 62

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CIGARS | Magnolia 4 00

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36 > pkg. per case..2 60
88 %Ib pkg, per case..2 60
16 %b pkg. per case. .2 60

FRESH MEATS
Beef

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| Full line of fire and burg-
|lar proof safes kept in
| stock by the Tradesman
| Company. Twenty differ-
| ent sizes on hand at all
times—twice as many safes
as are carried by any other
| house in the State. If you |
|are unable to visit Grand |

| Rapids and_ inspect the |
| line personally, write for |
| quotations.

STOCK FOOD. |
Superior Stock Food Co., |
Ltd.

$ .50 carton, 36 in box.10.80
1.0@ carton, 18 in box.10.s¢ |
12% th. cloth sacks.. .84 |

25 tT. cloth sacks... 1.65 |
50 Tb. cloth sacks.... 3.15 |
100 tbh. cloth sacks.... 6.00 |
Peck measure ....... -90 |
% bu. measure...... 1.80 |

12% tb. sack Cal meal .39 |
25 Tb. sack Cal meal.. .75 |
F. O. B. Plainwel, Mich. |

SOAP
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Black Hawk, one box..2 50
Biack Hawk, five bxs.2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs.2 25

TABLE SAUCES

Halton’, tecee ........ 3 75
ialtora, ee .......- 2 25

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Business
ona
Cash Basis
by using
our
Coupon Book
System.
We
manufacture
four kinds
of
Coupon Books
and
sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape
or
denomination.
We will
be
very
pleased

to

‘send you samples

if you ask us.
They are

free.

Tradesman Company

Grand Rapids

 

 

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THE successful one.

It sells more goods than any other three
catalogues or any 400 traveling salesmen
in the country.

It lists the largest line of general mer-
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lt is the most concise and best illustrated
catalogue gotten up by any American
wholesale house.

It is the only representative of the larg-
est house in the world that does business
entirely by catalogue.

It quotes but one price to all and that is
the lowest.

Its prices are guaranteed and do not
change until another catalogue is issued.

It never misrepresents. You can bank
on what it tells you about the goods it
offers—our reputation is back of it.

It enables you to select your goods
according to your own best judgment and
with much more satisfaction than you can
from the flesh-and-blood salesman, who
is always endeavoring to pad his orders
and work off his firm’s dead stock.

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Wholesalers of Everything—
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Write us

C. C. Follmer & Co.

Gas and Electric Bonds
811 Michigan Trust Building
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Arc Mantles

Our high pressure Arc Mantle for
lighting systems is the best money can
buy. Send us an order for sample

dozen.
NOEL & BACON
345 S. Division St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

PILES CURED

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1903 Winton 20 H. P. touring car, 1903 Waterless

| Knox, 1902 Winton phaeton, two Oldsmobiles, sec
| ond-hand electric runabout, 1903 U.S. Long Dis-
| tance with top, refinished White steam carriage
| with top, Toledo steam carriage, four passenger,

dos-a-dos, two steam runabouts, allin good run-
ning order. Prices from $200 up.

| ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

 

 

 

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For Sale—Stock general merchandise
in one of the best Southern Michigan
towns of 800 population. Stock clean and
up-to-date, consisting of dry goods, gro-
ceries, boots and shoes, notions
gents’ furnishings. Best of reasons for
selling, other business occupying my time.
Store room, 120 feet deep, well lighted,
best of location. Value of stock
$7,000. Reasona
general store in the town.
care Michigan Tradesman.
Young lady desires a position. ‘as book-
keeper. Best of references. Address No.
342, care Michigan Tradesman. 342
For Sale For Cash—Small stock of
hardware and tinners’ tools. Will in-
voice about $2,000. Will discount to suit
purchaser if sold at once. Reason for
selling, other business. Address No. 341,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 341
For Sale—Good paying drug
Grand Rapids. Centrally located, invoices
about $38,800. Daily average cash sales
for February, $23. Expense of store for
rent, telephone, light, heat, insurance,
taxes, etc., $2.75 per day. Stock in good
condition. Reason for selling, have other
business. A bargain. Address No. 3:
higan Tradesman. 338
For Sale—Stock general merchandise,
invoicing about $7, 500, in manufacturing
town Southeastern Iowa. Will sell for
75 cents on dollar. Cash. Must be sold
at once. address Box 65,
Low: ic
Wanted—I can
real estate for cash.
sell or exchange any
or real estate, no matter
I can save you time and money. Strictly
eonfidential. Write to-day. Track F&F.
Cleveland, Real Estate Expert, 1261
ams Express Building, Chicago, Ill. 336

Ad@ress “CC,”
344

 

 

 

    

sell your business or
If you want to buy,

 

 

and |

|; to draw
about |

ble rental. Only one other |

| with

For Sale-
liveliest
1ome of
tion five

A well equipped saloon in the
town in southern Michigan,
the Round Oak Stove; popula-
thousand. If interested, ad-

the |

| courted.
| aed tunity.

dress B., 111 Commercial St.. Dowagiac,
Mich. 322
For Sale—General store, all or part—in |

good condition, small town. Good farm-
ing community.
from. Will stand investigation.
Address C. & C., care Michigan Trades-
man. 313
Sale—Ehysician’s office
equipments. Also fine dwelling in
city of 100,000. Reason, ill health. Would
take part trade for }.roperty
town. Address No. 292, Michigan =
mi in.

 

I have the best business sTopOSItION
in America for a person who will aid me

| with money and services to organize stock

| company.
| offered me
store in|

| best I

Bonaparte, |
337

| business for business or

| dreds of listings,

kind of business |
where located, |

Ad- }

Long Island Cabbage Seed—Spring. |
Summer, Fall and Winter. Catalogue and
— free. Four 10 cents. Francis |
Brill, _ Hempstead, = =. 334 |

“For Sale—Clean stock of general mer-
chandise with fixtures. Railroad town.
Population 400. Good country trade.
Must sell at once. Address No. 331, care
Michigan Tradesman. gah a

 

Bakery—The best bakery,
candy plant in the state of Kansas. Ad-
dress James P. Divine, Salina, Kas. 330
For Sale—One of the best located drug
stores in Grand Rapids. Cash price $4,000.
address *Drugeist,”” care Michigan
Tradesman. 314

  

 

ice cream and

 

Wanted—Parties with moderate sums
to join me in ground floor proposition in
drilling several oil wells on 800 acres in
famous second sand deep-pay oil fields
neur Muncie, Indiana. Am an experienced
oil producer. This land will prove very
rich. 20 acre tracts in Muncie field have
proven bonanzas, paying 50 to 100% per
month. This 800 acres will pay _ better
still. Address Charles E. Russell,
LaPorte, Ind. 328

Druggist with small capital wants to
purchase drug stock. Address “Stock,”
care Michigan Tradesman. 321

For
groceries.
Located best corner in
town in Western Michigan.
Box 114, Hart, Mich.

For Sale—Soda fountain,
been run four summers. Cost about $3,000
complete, will sell for $2,000. Address
Johnson Drug Co., Traverse City, Mich.

326

 

 

Cash business past six years.

town and best

Address Lock
327

 

 

Stock of general merchandise
shoes. Give full particu-
Cash,” care Tradesman.

4

Wanted—
or clothing or
lars. Address

 

For Sale—$2,000 drug stock in summer
rescrt town on Lake Michigan, only 63
miles from Chicago. Two railroads. No
competition. Reason for selling, ill
health. Address Lock Box 53, New Buf-

falo, *Mich. 323

 

| e@Ver
| made in

i Edge ley, ™. ¥).,

Sale—Small stock dry goods and |

| cation

I have shops and $20,000 cash
already. Address L. Box No.
14, Station C, Toledo, Ohio. 299

“We bring buyer ‘and seller together,

placing them in direct communication.
Our plan new and successful. ‘‘One of the
have ever seen,’’ writes patron.
That is why we have business offerings
in many states. 2akeries, creameries,
cheese factories, grocery and hardware
stores, hotels, etc., also farms of ail
kinds and prices throughout country, in-
cluding many in Michigan, Northern,
Southern, Eastern and Western parts.
One of the finest cheese factories, popular
summer resort, hotels in Michigan. Ex-
change list large. You can exchange
for farm. Hun-
all from owners direct
vwners only. If you
exchange, write for plan.
& Myers, T75 —— WS
Wis.

to Manufacturers.

offers free sites and

Ve deal with
to buy, sell or
It will pay. Hiles
B sldg., Milwaukee,
Inducements
ville Mich.,

 

N: mane
other

Unusually large territory |

practice |

 

For Sale—Twenty-five shares (par
value $2,500) stock in the Carbide Fire-
proofing Co. cheap; full investigation

This is a rare investment op-
Address E. R. Stowell, Port-
land, Ind. 287

For Sale—A clean general stock of dry

| goods, shoes, groceries and _ provisions.
Invoice about $1,800. Railroad town.
Population 250. Good farming country.
Rent reasonable. Do a cash _ business.
Good reasons for selling. Will sell for
cash only. Apply for information. Ad-
|dress “Bon Marche,’’ care Michigan
Tradesman. 181
~ For Sale—Drug store, Northern Indi-

in small |

| Rapids, 1 Mich.
wish |

inducements for manufacturers to locate |

there. If you contemplate changing
write Sec’y Nashville Board of
Nashville, Mich. 296
‘For Sale—Hotel, saloon in connection;
been in business 22 years; on the
of Lake St. Clair; land and outbuildings;
good fishing and hunting. Mrs. A. Van
Tiem, Anchorville, Mich. 295
Washington Timber Lands—Did
think how many fortunes have been
timber lands? Let
how to make big money on a small in-
vestment. Write to S. V. Christ, 614 Pa-
Block, Se attle, Wash. 305
Wisconsin Lands For Sale—Timber
farming lands in large tracts to investors
er saw mills. Land advances steadily
in price. I offer one tract of 2,700 acres,
considerable timber on it, at $4 per
$5,696 cash, balance on time.
of good timber land for saw mills,
per acre. Address €. FP. Crosby,
lander, Wis.
For Sale—Fine

Trade,

cific

half section
good soil, 144 acres broken;
$16 per acre, $5.50 per acre cash, rest on
crop land. Address Lock Box 327, Sa-
bula, Ia. 393

Agents can easily make $1.00 an hour.
Wi now for full information. Edwin
Gillis, Kalamazoo, Mich. 312

 

 

For Sale—-A drug stock and a bargain.

| Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins —_— ta

| Gr: ind Rapids,

24 syrups. Has |

|

Mich.
For Sale— Undoubtedly
eleanest stock of drugs, groceries.
oils and wall paper in a town of 1,000
inhabitants. Located in Southern Michi-
gan. Owner not a druggist and has other
business. Full particulars. Yearly sales
over $20,00U. Address No. 310. care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 310
For Sale—Clean,
groceries, crockery, china and glassware,

the est ana

of Grand Rapids. Doing a good business.
Stock and fixtures will inventory about
$2.000. No trades. Address “B,’’ care
Michigan Tradesman 216

 

Parties having $100 to $500 to invest in
ground-floor oil. proposition should cor-
respond at once. I have option on
acres. of splendid oil leases in the great
Muncie, Ind., deep-pay or second sand
oil field, one piece being entirely sur-
rounded by big 150 to 300 barrel wells;
my purpose is to organize a syndicate to
take over these leases, drill two wells and
then organize a stock company, to whom
the syndicate will sell the improved prop-
erty at a large profit; I am an experienc-
ed ‘oil operator; am positive this deal w ill |
make big profits for all the syndicate

members. Address for full particulars,
Operator, 307 Faurot Blk., Lima, _

| large
500 |

For Sale—Manufacturing “site, adjoining
industries; unexcelled location; all
railroad connections; 11% acres, level and
without doubt one of the best locations
as to shipping facilities that could be de-
sired. J. W. Douthett, 351 Spitzer Bidg.,
Toledo, Ohio. 291

Oklahoma Farms—For sale in Coman-
che county, from $1,000 to $3,500 for 160
acres. Write for list and descriptions of
same. M. A. Wert, Lawton, Okla. 290

Big Money—$10 buys, puts or calls on
10,000 bushels wheat; no further risk;
movement of 5 cents makes you $500.
Write for circular. The Standard Grain
Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 289

 

 

north of

practically the only crockery stock in a |
good live town of 1,500, within 50 miles |

lo- |
banks |

you |
| sale
us tell you |
| out all old dead stickers
| profit.
| Xost & Co.,
‘and | ae

Sere. | os.
Other tracts | ee
$12 |
Rhine- |
304

| will inventory about $1,500.

| chandise,
$5,500.

paints, |

| dollar,
‘up-to- date stock of |

ana at a bargain if sold by March 15. A
snap. Address .No. 282, care Michigan
Tradesman. 282
For Sale—For cash;
clean stock groceries and queensware;
monthly sales $2,500; good location, low
rent; reason for selling, owner must quit
business on account of health. Address
Lucas & Co. Oelwein, Iowa. 317

~ For Sale — Cash Only—sStock of gen-
eral merchandise with fixtures. Estab-
lished ten years. Good country trade. Don’t
write unless you mean business. C. F.
Hosmer, Mattawan, Mich. 959

For Sale—480 acres of cut-over hard-
wood land, three miles north of Thomp-
sonville. _House and barn on premises.
Pere Martjuette Railroad runs across one
corner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
ehange for stock of merchandise. C. C.
Tuxbury, 28 Morris Ave., South, Grand
835
Sell your real estate or business ‘for
eash. I can get a buyer for you very
promptly. My methods are distinctly dif-
ferent and a decided improveinent over
those of others. It makes no difference
where your property is located, send me
full description and lowest cash price and
L will get cash for you. Write to-day.
Established 1881. Bank references.
Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express
Rildinge Chieagn @qa

$5,000 up-to-date

 

cider mill.

First class

Chelsea,
945

For Sale—Foundry and
Everything in running order.
location. Harrison & Moran,
Mich

‘Cash for. ‘your stock. Our business is
elesing out stocks of goods or making
s for merchants at your own place of
oe. private or auction. We clean
and make youa
Write for information. Chas. L
Detroit, Mich. 250

only Ameri ican

 

 

meat
with over

For Sale—The
market in the city of Mexico,
14.000 English speaking people. Sales
$300 to $500 per day, 25 per cent profit.
ear orders from $300 to $1,000.
Established 15 years. $15,000 required.

 

The California Market, 2a Independencia

N. 4. Mexico. PD. F- 267
For Sale—Stock of groceries, notions,

flour, feed, hay. e¢tc., in good sgrowmeg

young town in Northern Michigan. There
are three mills here, plenty of timber
and a nice resort. Stock and fixtures
Address No.
Tradesman. 278

Exchange—A good paying
coal yard and two
for a stock of general
drugs or hardware.

Address 53 Duffield Ave.,

278, care Michigan

For Sale or
interest in
operation, mer-
Value

bure, I.

Qceana is the most "productive county
in Michigan, fruit, grain, clover, alfalfa,
potatoes, stock poultry, fine climate. Send
for Hst ef farms. J. DD. S. Hanson, Hart,
Mich. 154

For Sale—For cash 100 cents on the
good clean stock of groceries,
shoes, notions and store fixtures, in good
business town of 1,500. Invoice $3,200.
Established business. Fixtures discounted

277

 

15 per cent. Other business claims at-
tention. Address No. 196, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 196

For Sale—Stock of “gener: ul hardware in

small town in Central Michigan. Best
of farming country. I wish to £0 into
other business. Address No. 276, care
Michigan ' Tradesman. 276

560-acre improved farm; price right;
title good. Address owner, Ira D. Smel-
ser, Kellerton, Iowa. 210

For Sa le—Drug Store;
ed business in good manufacturing town;
5,000 inhabitants; in Missouri; expenses

 

light; full price for patients. E. W. Gal-
lenkamp, Washington, Mo. 307

For Sale—Clean, up-to-date shoe stock
in a hustling Western Michigan town of
2.000 population. Good business. Best
location. Address No. 272, care Michigan
Tradesman, 272

 

mines in |

Gales- |

an old establish- |

 

-nts inserted under this head for two cents a word the first. insertion and one cent a word for each

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

   

‘Vanted—-To buy stock of merchandise
from $4,000 to $30,000 fpr cash. Address
No. 253, care Michigan Tradesman. 253

Sale or trade for small improved
farm, store buildings and stock of gro-
ceries and dry goods et govod county
stand, 4% miles — R. R. Address No.
255, care Michigan radesman. 255
For Sale—No 8 } Nations 21 Cash Register,
as good as new. $125 machine for $70.
Addison’s Bazaar, Grand Haven, Mich.
221

Wanted «at once for cash, a general
stoca, or stock of shoes or clothing. Want
location, give full particulars in first let-
ter. D. H. H., Bradley Station, St. Paul,
Minn. 224

‘$10.000 (50% of real value) will pur-
chase an old established manufacturing

business in good running order. Sales-
man wanted. A. C. Whiting, Burlington.
ve 2h2

oNnS

Bargain—Drug stock
town: invoice $2,500.
Other business.

 

and fixtures; live
Annual sales $5,000.
Address 263, care Michi-

gan ‘Tradesman. 263

For Sale—Michigan Carpet Cleaning
Works, Grand Rapids, Mich. Good es-
te tblishe “d trade. 269

For Sale—Stock ot groceries, crockery
and shoes in good town of 1,400 inhabit-
ants. Two good factories. Stock all
new, invoicing hetween $4,000 and $5,000.
Can reduce sto:k to suit purchaser. Ad-
dress No. 163, care Michigan Tradesman.

163

For Sale—General merchandise business
including clean stock and real. estate.
$14,000 yearly business. Investment
$4,500. Address E. R. Williams, Collins,
Mich. 112

Want Ads.

 

continued on next page

 

Our Experience Your Gain

 

1. S. TAYLOR F. M, SMITH

MERCHANTS, “HOW IS TRADE?’ Do
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
sales over all expenses. Our plan of advertising
is surely a winner; our long experience enables us
to produce results that will please you. We can
furnish you best of bank references, also many
Chicago jobbing houses; write us for terms,
dates and full particulars, TAYLOR & SMITH,
53 River St., Chicago.

 

AN APPEAL TO
REASON!

Are you in trouble?

Are you in despair?

Are you in disgust?

Are you in need of
cash?

Are you ready to quit?

We are ready to help—
with the BEST Service.

AUCTIONEERING

That’s our business.

 

Special Sales too
We are always short on promises, but long on
results, Write to-day.

A. W. Thomas Auction Co.
477 Wabash Ave. Chicago

 

THE AUCTIONEER
WHO NEVER HAS
HAD A FAILURE.
We get the ready cash you
need in your business and
do not lower your stand-
ing in the community.
Write to-day.
R. B. H. MACRORIE
AUCTION CO.,
Library Hall, Davenport, la

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Death of Mrs. W. B. Holden.

The sympathy of the fraternity
will go out to Wm. B. Holden in
consequence of the death of his wife,
which occurred on March 3, after a
lingering illness. The funeral was
held Monday forenoon at the family
residence, 763 South Lafayette street,
the interment being in Fulton street
cemetery.

Grand Rapids, March 6—“To know
her was to love her’ might most fit-
tingly be said of Mrs. Anna Dett-
man Holden, wife of W. B. Holden,
who departed this life March 3, 1905.

Born and reared in this city she
had won many friends who, with the
bereaved family, mourn her death.

Hers was a sunny nature that shed
its beautiful rays upon all with whom
she came in contact.

Her last illness was of long dura-
tion and the patience with which she
bore her great suffering might be a
lesson to us all.

A faithful friend, a loving sister,a
devoted daughter and a helpful and
affectionate wiie—-truly hers was the
highest type of womanhood whose
sweet influence can never die.

Mrs. Holden was confirmed in the
German Lutheran church and was
educated in the school of that de-
nomination.

She leaves beside her husband, x
father and mother, a sister and two
brothers. W. S. Burns.

Grand Rapids, March 6—At a
meeting of Grand Rapids Council,
No. 131, U. C. T., the following reso-
lutions were unanimously adopted:

Whereas—It was the will of the
Almighty God and Supreme Coun-
selor of the Universe to take from
the home and fireside of our esteem-
ed brother, Past Counselor W. B.
Holden, his dearly beloved wife;
therefore be it

Resolved—That we as a Council
and as individuals extend him our
most sincere and heartfelt sympathy
in his hour of great sorrow and sad
bereavement, hoping that we may
help to brighten his desolation by a
warmer grasp of a friendly and
brotherly hand and contribute by
some word and deed some ray of
light and comfort to him in this his
darkest hour.

Resolved—That a copy of
resolutions be sent to our esteemed
brother and to the Sample Case and
Michigan Tradesman, and the same
be transcribed on the records of the
Council. O. F. Jackson,

Wilbur S. Burns,
John G. Kolb.

———_+2>—_—_

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Kalkaska—Oscar Forsberg, of Man-
istee, an experienced dry goods and
clothing salesman, has been engaged
to succeed Upsall Hobbs at Palmer
& Hobbs Co.’s store.

Jackson—Benjamin Stern. who has
conducted a general store at Leslie
for the past twelve years, has made
a ten year lease of the three-story
block formerly occupied by the
McConnell Hardware Co. and will
open a department store as soon as
the stock can be purchased and in-
stalled.

Cadillac—Elmer A. Anderson has

these

 

 

resigned as the manager of the Cad-
illac Pharmacy and will leave, as
soon as his successor comes, for
Newberry, where he will become the
manager for the Perry & Bohn drug
store.

Bay City--Leo Miller, formerly
with C. R: Hawley & Co. in their
carpet department, has taken a po-
sition with M. L. Milner & Co., of
Toledo.

Charlotte—Weaver Bros. have se-
cured Walter Jones to manage their
new drug store. Mr. Jones clerked
in the Morton House Pharmacy in
Grand Rapids for a period of six

 

years and the past year he has been |

manager in the drug store of Frank
Heath of Middleville.
City—Frank E.

Traverse Oyer,

manager of the cloak department of |

the Boston Store and an all around
salesman for the past eight years,
will in a few days resign his position.
Mr. Rosenthal is closing out and in
the cloak department the sales have
been so rapid that there is not enough
left to keep a salesman busy.

Pellston—Clarence Clapp, who for
some time has been in charge of H.
D. Judkins’ general store, will be re-
tained as manager of the store.

Adrian-—Clauda & Meyer have se-
cured a new clerk for their hardware
store in the person of E. S. Beadle,
of Anburn, Ind.

——__. +. ___
Ishpeming Business Men Getting To-
gether.

Ishpeming,
meeting of the business men of the
city last Friday evening, when the
matter of completing the organiza-
tion of the Ishpeming Business Men's
Association was taken up. The by-
laws committee had its report in
shape and it was a most excellent
report, the committee having gone
over the ground in a careful manner
and decided on a very excellent set

of by-laws. They were read before

Death of Frank W. Bedee, of Chicago.

Frank W. Bedee, who had been a
familiar figure at the office of W. F.
MeLaughlin & Co. for many years,
died Feb. 26 and was buried on March
1;

Mr. Bedee was born at Joliet, IIL,
aiay 18, 1845, and removed to Free-
He went to
Chicago when 14 years old and work-

port a few years later.

led for G. W. Flanders & Co., corner
lof Wabash avenue and River street.

He afterwards was taken into part-
nership in the firm. He went with

W. F. McLaughlin & Co. nearly
thirty years ago and continued with
them until his death, which was

caused by la grippe.

 

Mr. Bedee is survived by a wife |

and daughter.

Those who knew Mr. Bedee knew
one of the choice spirits of the earth.
He was one of the most genial of
men, as well as one of the most de-

Christian followers. His
an example of uprightness

voted of
life was
without bending, and yet was totally
lacking the austerity of the Puritan.

He was kindness itself to all those |

with whom he came in contact, and

many a poor family has_ excellent
reason to feel thankful for his having
lived.

In the home Mr. Bedee was the

| ideal husband and father, wrapped up

|in the interests of his family. His

March 6—There was a|

irresistible; his
stead-

good humor was

gentleness marvelous; his
fastness in high ideals exemplary and
admirable.
—_
From Firm to Corporation.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co. have merg-
ed their business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with a
capital stock of $50,000, all of which
is subscribed and paid in in property.
Mr. Reeder holds 450 shares; Harry
L. Keyes, 25 shares and J. Wesley

Baldwin, 25 shares. The officers of

|the corporation are as follows:

the meeting and, while they were not |

finally adopted, they were practically |

approved by the meeting and at the |

j

next meeting there will be no op- |

position to their adoption with the
few amendments which were made.
The matter of a credit box or re-
port on trading qualifications of the
people of the city was made by the
Secretary; he outlined an
plan and one which it is believed will
work better for the community than
the one which is in use in Marquette

excellent

and Negaunee.
instructed to arrange for carrying out
the system as outlined by him.

sider the matter of entertaining the
business men of Negaunee and Mar-
quette. While this invitation will
be extended for an early April date it
was thought that it would not be
too soon to get the matter under
way and make everything as it should
be for the proper reception of the
neighboring townspeople
prior to the holidays put so much en-
thusiasm into the Ishpeming business

men at Negaunee.
2s

J. R. Dumont has opened a gro- |-

cery store at Mears.
Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

The Secretary was |

Busines im

A committee was named to con- |

who just |

| Surrounded by fine

| voices $6,000.

| No cut prices.
|ing. Don’t write unless you mean busi-

|

The Worden | city and

President and Treasurer—Geo. H.
Reeder.

Vice-President—Harry L.

Secretary—J. W. Baldwin.

—_—» -

Peter Jaspers, formerly engaged in

Plainfield

Keyes.

the grocery business. on
avenue, has opened a grocery store
on Grand avenue. The stock was

furnished by the Worden Grocer Co.

— —_ +. 22>.
Light heart seldom goes with a
light head.

 

 

For Sale—A clean new stock of hard-
ware. will invoice about $2,500. In a
hustling railroad town. No competition.
farming country.
Good reason for selling. Write for par-
ticulars. Address No. 260, care Michigan
Tradesman. 260
For Sale—Ciean stock of general mer-
chandise in one of the best business towns
in Michigan; population 1,000. Stock in-
Must sell at once on ac-
Address Lock
271

 

count of failing health.
Box 6, Manton, Mich. : c

For Sale—Good paying stock of drugs
in the best town in Southern Michigan.
Best of reasons for sell-

ness. Address No. 225, care Michigan
Cae 225
~ «POSITIONS WANTE ae
Registered pharmacist wants position,
country experience. Address
Cc. L. Smith, 63 S. Division, Grand Rapids.
348

 

Wanted—-Situation at once by an ex-
perienced drug clerk now at school of
pharmacy. Address No. 343, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 343

Wanted at Once—Position by experienc-
ed registered pharmacist, best of refer-
ences. Address Ichthyol, Box 332, Lowell,
Mich. 335

Wanted—Position as salesman in gen-
eral store or on road. Best of references.
Address J. Rodgers, 216 Ist Ave., Manis-
tee, Mich. 332

Wanted—Position in general store. I
have had three years’ experience with
good references. Address R, Box No.
106, Barryton, Mich. 325

 

 

 

 

HELP WANTED.
Wanted—An experienced shoemaker,
bright young man, single, who can as-
sist in the store also. Good wages. Ad-

| dress No. 346, care Michigan Tradesman.

346

around dry
experience in

 

Wanted—Competent all
goods clerk with some
cloak and carpet lines. Young man pre-
ferred. State salary and experience had.
Address Lock Box 28, Alma, Mich. 340

Salesman to carry a good side line that
will pay traveling expenses. Sells to
house furnishing, general and hardware
stores. Pocket model free. Season now
on. Novelty Mfg. Co., Ottawa, Ill. 339

Wanted—Successful established sales-

 

i/man, now working city groceries and

general store trade in Nashville, Tenn.,

|could handle several other good accounts

|on commission.

Have thorough knowl-

| edge of credit and standing of the trade,
;ample storage room and the best delivery

| facilities.
|erences. John C. Quinn, 158 North Mar-
| ket St., Nashville, Tenn. 333

|

Can furnish all required ref-

~ Wanted—Carpet salesman. Young man
21 to 30 years old, strong and vigorous.

 

| One who has had considerable experience

iin selling carpets’ preferred. Address
Business, care Hudson House, Lansing,
Mich. 345

 

Wanted—Good reliable man who has
had several years’ experience in general
store. ‘Must be a registered pharmacist.
German preferred. P. O. Box 169, Pigeon,
Mich. 319

Salesman: Sideline uf specialty. Sam-
ple or circulars. $10 a day. Little Giant
$20 soda fountain. Write quick. Grant
Mtg. Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 294

Wanted—Grocery salesmen traveling on

 

ja commission basis who can, with the
|consent of their firm, handle a side line

| tion sales.

of our “Premium Saving Assortments”
for users of premiums. None but reliable
men need apply. The American China
Company, Toronto, Ohio. 300
Wante “Salesmen te sell to the hard-
ware, paint and drug trade, and also to
manufacturing plants. Good commission.
Samples furnished. Armitage Mfg. Co..
Richmond, Va. 309
$75.00 upward monthly and expenses
selling premiums to retailers everywhere;
$10.00 deposit for samples. Universal
China Co., Carrollton, O. 274

 

 

 

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS

All merchants that are overstocked
should write us at once, relative to our
plans for condueting 10 day stock reduc-
Our methods must be right

 

|and results satisfactory or we could not

 

; others.
| size of stock.

refer you, by permission, to Chicago
wholesale houses, such as: Wilson Bros..
Cluett, Peabody & Co., John G. Miller &
Co., Sweet, Dempster & Co., and many
When writing give estimate on
Cc. N. Harper & Co., Mer-
chandise Sale Specialists, 210-87 Wash-
ingston St., Chicago, Il. 347
Ww. A. Anning, the hustling salesman.
Merchants write at once for particulars
of my reduction or closing out sales, con-
ducted by my new and novel methods,
means money in tne bank. Bills paid,
stock cleaned up. Every sale shows a
profit to the merchant above all expenses.
I conduct all sales personally. Big list
of references. Address Aurora, Ill. 308

College of Auctioneering—Special in-
structor in merchandise auctioneering and
special sales. Graduates now selling in
nine different states. No instruction by
correspondence. Auctioneers furnished on
short notice. Next term opens April 3.
Address for catalogues, Carey M. Jones,
Pres., Library Hall, Davenport, Ia. 168

MISCELLANEOUS.
Merchants wanted to send for our com-
plete catalogue of premiums, advertising
novelties, etc. Stebbins-Moore Co., Lake-
view, Mich. 306
H. C. Ferry & Co., the hustling auc-
tioneers. Stocks closed out or reduced
anywhere in the United States. New
methods, original ideas, long experience,
hundreds of merchants to refer to. We
have never failed to please. Write for
terms, particulars and dates. 1414-16 Wa-
bash Ave., Chicago. Reference, Dun’s
Mercantile Agency. 872

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, nm

 

 

 

 

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