| i mya ee die at € roe ‘ | i ~~ oS ? Twenty-Second Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1905 Number 1122 Centar) Credit Co., ta Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids — Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit ‘ Good but slow debtors pay upon receipt of our direct de- § mand letters. Send all other accounts to our offices for collec- tion. Collection Department R. G. DUN & CO, Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids Collection delinquent accounts; che -p, ef- | ficient, responsible; direct demanu sys- tem. Collections made everywhere for every trader. C. E. McCRONE, Manager. We Buy and Sell Total Issues of State, County, City, School District, Strect Railway and Gas BONDS Correspondence Solicited, H. W. NOBLE & COMPANY BANKERS Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich, Willlam Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, 1st Vice-Pres. William Aiden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres. M. C. Huggett, Secy-Treasurer The Wiiliam Connor Co. WHOLESALE CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS 28-30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Our Spring and Summer samples for 1905 now showing. Every kind ready made clothing for all ages. All our goods made under our own inspec- tion. Mailand phone orders promptly shipped Phones, Bell, 1282; Citizens, 1957. See our children’s line. Have Invested Over Three Million Dol- lars For Our Customers in Three Years Twenty-seven companies! We have a portion of each company’s stock pooled in a trust for the oe of stockholders, and in case of failure in any company you are reimbursed from the trust furid of a successful segue i The stocks are all withdrawn from sale with the exception of two and we have never lost a dollar for a customer. Our plans are worth investigating. Full information furnished upon application to CURRIE & FORSYTH Managers of Douglas, Lacey & Company 1023 Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. > ALUDE TUDE eat TE SPECIAL FEATURES. Page. 2. Big Infiux of Orders. 3. Criminal Contract. 4. Around the State. 5. Grand Rapids Gossip. 6. Window Trimming. 7. Wood Alcohol. 8.. Editorial. 9. Men of Mark. 10. The Price of Success. T. Shoes. 17. Clothing. 19. Merchants of the Future. 20. Good Business Maxim. Hardware. 24. Woman’s World. 26. Deliver the Goods. 28. Early Marriage. 29. Mathematical Grievance. 30. Butter and Eggs. 32. The Country Clerk. 33. Apple Romance. 34. New York Market. 35. The Grand Canyon. 36. The Age Limit. 38. Dry Goods. 40. Commercial Travelers. Drugs. | 43. Drug Price Current. 44. Grocery Price Current. 46. Special Price Current. THE SUN SPOT THEORY. During the past few months there has been a revival of interest in what is known as the sun spot. theory, which is in substance that there isa direct connection between spots on the sun and weather on the earth. There are a number of persons in various parts of the country regularly study the sun and as reg- ularly predict a result of observation atmospheric In some instances as that are to ensue. their prophecies have been and their success been enough to keep the attention of the credulous. So far as known, how- ever, astronomers of reputation take no stock in the sun spot theory. has sity says in an interview that “sun spots. no matter how . great diameter, have absolutely no effect | the weather, so far as astrono- have been able to determine. on mers their | conditions | who | fulfilled | just | bottom of the pot the extra heated | water rushes to the top, and there | finds vent in steam; that part which not escape in again and causes a continuous circu- of the which The hottest at center, and the hot particles of gas does steam water, sun is lation we boiling. its | | the falls back | call | GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. Further efforts of speculation in Wall Street succeed in bringing temporary reactions in many lines, but most efforts at profit taking result in quick support and a rapid markets j rally. This results in the general up- |; ward movement, with no apparent prospect of serious interruption. are being drawn constantly toward | the surface; then, as they cool, the} force of gravitation draws these par- | ticles back into the body of the sun this on again, and process goes in- definitely.” A tabulation made by astronomers covering the years from '740 . to Money continues easy, although a slight flurry carried call loans to 4 | per cent., but this is only a temporary incident of adjustment caused by an ; exceptional volume of drafts on the 1870 shows that the periods of great- est activity of magnetic storms and display or borealis the of the sun spots, but according aurora with greatest apparent coincide | activity | to |. fis’ Kept at Prof. Jacoby it has not yet been de-| termined by scientific men that the | sun spots are the cause of these dis- turbances on the earth; it has only coinci- been proven that they are great centers on account of interior requirements. While the spring is generally slow I in opening, trade in primary mar- |kets is being pushed with the |greatest activity and manufacture | with greatest activity. | ations lly the greatest volume Building oper- are especia urgent even |through the inclement weather. It is significant that in some of the | noticeable in dent. There may be a third and un- known cause which creates the dis- |! turbances on the sun and earth at} the same time. Finally Prof. Jacoby assures us that there is nothing in any way to from sun spots concerned. The fear from the sun or so far as the earth is sun has been busy for some thousands of years in the same way and is likely tc continue for a few There been no appreciable diminution in the size of thousand more. has | the sun and it is likely to give light their | The new immense group of sun spots | which have just been observed by John Brashear at Pittsburg will not affect our weather in the slightest degree. What they may do, as has been proven before, is to create mag- netic disturbances on the earth which affect the inclination of the compass, cause trouble with electric wires used for telegraphy and telephony, and correspond with the appearance of unusual aurora borealis.” What is the cause of sun spots? “The generally accepted scientific theory,” says Prof. Jacoby, “is that they are due to an uprush of hot gas from the surface of the sun. As this gas is projected away from the face of the sun it cools, and the cool par- ticles fall back into the sun, causing | It is this down- | a downward rush. ward rush which appears dark or black, and which is commonly called} a sun spot. A simple explanation is to compare the sun to a pot of boil- ing water. As heat is applied tothe and heat to the sons of earth as long i . a |as they need it. Prof. Jacoby of Columbia Univer- | i Suppose church members were to the support of the Government? This proposition was presented at a meet- ing of clergymen in Indianapolis the other day. In olden times it was the practice to pay tithes, but voluntary are now the rule. The proposition much contributions Indianapolis has few | | kinds | From great centers work has been pushed so rapidly that many structures are | collapsing as the frost suddenly re- 1 leases its hold on mason work. It is most small towns and cities that construction has kept un- winter. the opening rush of all improvement der way a good part of the present prospects such a of building and season will sce as the country has never seen. While inclement weather is delay- ing retail trade in many localities preparation for a heavy spring dis- tribution goes on with the utmost confidence. It is significant that be taxed for church support in ac- | |cordance with their means, in the same way that they are taxed for volume of transportation to commend it, but is not likely to| be adopted. The prevailing theory is that contributions should be given cheerfully and willingly, and_ that| those who are imbued with the| Christian spirit will contribute ac- | |cording to their means. But do they? Think what a power the Russians would be were they as united as the Japanese are! If the Czar were only like the a far different people. Mikado was be rule of the as absolute las that of the Czar, but he had the | | | | | wisdom voluntarily to give his coun- trymen voice in the government, and has been the leader in move- ment to advance their welfare. every [Of cotton is A while railway earnings in February were much interrupted and diminish- ied by bad weather the month broke all season in records for the corresponding the total reaching $103,057,052. This, of course, foreign import, is for distribution for spring trade, so it is not strange that the current month should show a_ tremendous business. Among the great industries iron .ons still Demand places as kinds. of productions keeps furnaces and mills at the height of activity, and it is only on account of the commendable keep their all and steel leaders. for conservatism on the part of the man- agers that a boom in the grey metal is avoided. The advance in the price disturbing factor in | domestic trade, but the large foreign Mikado the Russians would | Once the | | but orders are sufficient to keep the mills Woolen trade is still departments boot favora- the business active. ble in most and volume of and shoe continues heavy for current needs, future orders are becoming | SCarcec. The man who stands on his head | always thinks he is holding up the world. 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN CRIMINAL CONTRACT. Agency. Agreement Enforced by In- ternational Harvester Co. The Tradesman has been shown a copy of the agency contract promul- gated by the American Harvester Co., which is about as near the border line of criminal conspiracy as the infam- ous arrangement the wholesale gro- cery trade is compelled to accept in dealing with the Diamond Match Co. Two paragraphs from the agreement are sufficient to indicate the attitude of the Harvester trust and the char- acter of the document, as follows: 20. It Is Mutually Agreed, that said Company shall at all times have exclusive and entire control over all machines and attachments and all or- ders, contracts, accounts, notes, mon- eys or other property accruing and growing out of the sale of said ma- chines, attachments, stackers, sweep rakes, hay rakes, hay tedders, twine, repairs or other property, whether for this or previous years, and may at any time, when it considers its interests are neglected, or jeapardized, without no- tice, annul and terminate this and all prior contracts, and take possession of all orders, notes, accounts, mon- eys, machines, attachments, stackers, sweep rakes, hay rakes, hay tedders, twine and any other property in the possession or under the control of said agent by virtue thereof; and said agent hereby waives all right of ac- } tion for damages because of such can- cellation of contract and termination of agency. 22. Said Agent especially agrees not to accept the agency for or to be interested in the sale of any grain binder, header, corn binder, husker and shredder, reaper, mower, stacker, sweep rake, hay rake, or hay tedder, other than those manufactured by the International Harvester pany, either directly or indirectly, nor to permit any one acting for him as employe, agent or partner, so to do while acting as Agent for said Com- | pany under this contract, and said Agent agrees to pay said Company, on demand as liquidated damages, twenty-five dollars for each grain binder, header or corn binder; fifty dollars for each husker and shredder; ten dollars for each mower, reaper or stacker; five dollars for each sweep rake, hay rake or hay tedder sold in violation of this paragraph of this contract. Tt will be noted that the agent who these features virtually ceases to be a free signs a contract embodying agent and becomes a slave and vassal of the trust. How any men with a spark of independence or a particle of self respect can consent to place himself in such abject positions to one of J. Pierpont Morgan’s creations is inexplainable, to say the least. It is announced that the trust will handle wagons next season and han- dle plows the season of 1907 and that the contract will be made to include these articles as they are taken on by the trust. The tendency of this ar- rangement will be to destroy the wag- on and plow industry of the State and those manufacturers who plainly see the handwriting on the wall have joined hands in the attempt to secure legislation which will prevent the most greedy of all the trusts from driving the independent manufactur- ers to the wall. This movement has crystallized in Senate Bill No. 163, in- troduced by Senator Fyfe and refer- red to the Committee on State Affairs. Com- | The full text of the bill is as foliows: Section 1. That all contracts, un- derstandings and agreements, made |ies capable of making a valid contract, \the purpose or intent of which is to prohibit, restrict, limit, control or regulate the sale of any article of branch of productive industry; or to enhance or control or regulate the price thereof; or in any manner to restrict, limit, regulate or destroy free and unlimited competition in the sale thereof, shall be deemed illegal and void as in restraint of trade: Provid- ed, that nothing in this act shall be construed to impair or invalidate agreements or contracts known to the common Jaw and in equity as those relating to good will of trade. Sec. 2. Contracts, understandings and agreements of the following na- ture, whether written or oral, are hereby declared to be illegal and void under the provisions of section 1 of this act: First. Contracts compelling and requiring that any particular make or brand of any manufactured article or articles of commercial utility to any branch of industry, shall be dealt in or sold, by either party to such con- tract, to the exclusion of all other makes or brands of such article or articles. Second. Contracts providing for ithe exclusive sale of certain makes or | brands of manufactured articles of |industry, and stipulating certain sums to be paid as liquidated damages to |either party for every article so sold | of other than the specified make or | brand. Sec. 3. ing or agreement made illegal by the terms of this act or who shall do any act in pursuance of carrying the same |into effect in whole or in part shall | ment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. Sec. |to carry on business in this which shall make, execute- or agreement made illegal under the terms of this act, or shall do any act in pursuance of carrying the same in- to effect in whole or in part, shall be deemed to be guilty of a misuser and shall forfeit its charter and all rights thereunder. Sec. ‘5. ation in the nature of quo warranto, upon his own relation, or the relation of any person, on leave granted, against any corporate body when- ever it shall violate any of the pro- | Visions of this act. | Sec. 6. Any person who shall be | injured in his business or property, ithrough the making or operating of lany contract, understanding or agree- | ment, made in violation of this act, shall have a right of action against the parties to such contract, under- standing or agreement for all dam- | thereof, and may recover the same fs any court of competent jurisdic- tion. ——_>>____ How To Make Elderberry Wine. Gather the berries when very ripe and dry; bruise (with hands or a potato masher) and strain the juice. The best way of straining is to have or entered into by and between part- | commercial utility to any branch of | Any person making or en- | tering into any contract, understand- | be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor | and shall, upon conviction, be pun- | ished by a fine of not less than $10 | nor more than $100, or by imprison- | It shall be the duty of the | Attorney General to file an inform- | ages sustained by him in consequence | a large bag made of doubled cheese cloth of good and fine quality; put |strang loops of doubled muslin firm- ly stitched on either side of the | top, hang over a broom-stick and rest this between two tables on other supports; pour in the mashed berries, standing a | large crock under to : ‘ |catch the juice and let the bag hang | machinery, tools, implement or ap- | pliances designated to be used in any | all night. In the morning the juice |be very clear. settle; dip off, avoiding the stirring up of any possible settlings. To every pint of juice put 1% pints of water; to every gallon of this mixture add 3 pounds of moist brown sugar. Set over the fire, and when it comes to the boiling point clarify with the whites of two eggs to every gallon. Let it boil one hour. Pour into a keg or barrel and when al- most cold add 4 ounces of strong ale yeast, filling up the vessel from time to time with the same liquor, saved for the purpose, as it wastes iby working. The bung must be i laid on loosely while the wine is fermenting. In about a month it will be fit for bottling, and in a year | will be fine for drinking. vessel of any size and cover with | water; let stand for five days, mash- ing and pressing during the time occasionally. Strain the juice as di- rected above, mashing the berries thoroughly before turning them into [the bags. To each gallon add 3 4 every 4 gallons % pound of ginger, 2} ounces of cloves and I ounce of all-|} |spice. Boil three-quarters of an will be perfectly extracted and will | Set this liquor. aside | for twelve hours in stone crocks to 2. Take ripe berries; fill a tub or | pounds of good brown sugar, and to | ounces of yeast and a piece of toast; cover it over for four or five days, allowing it to ferment; skim and re- When fermentation has ceased, close the move to a cask. tightly, and after two months’ rest the wine | will be fit to drink, although it will cask improve with age. Before sealing the cask or bottling (which may be done when fermentation has ceased), a quart of brandy to each cask of wine will be a useful addition. 3. To make a small quantity, take 16 quarts of the stripped from their stems, cover with 2 gal- lons of boiling berries, and after twelve hours strain and press out all To every gallon of the water, the juice. juice add 3 pounds of good brown sugar, % an ounce of powdered cloves, and 1 ounce of cinnamon; boil for a few minutes, and set away to ferment in a stone jar, with a cloth thrown over it. When it stops fer- menting rake off carefully, not dis- turbing the lees, and bottle and cork. ——_.>-—- He Gave the Court Notice. In a rural Justice Court the de- fendant in a case was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail. He had known the judge from boyhood, and addressed him as follows: “Bill, old boy, you’re agwine ter |send me ter jail, air you?” “That’s what,” replied the judge. \“Have you anything to say ag’in it?” “Only thts Bill: God | you when I git out!” j here, help —
Don’t Grow Satisfied.
It is not so hard to explain how
All one has to do
and
note their method of doing work. The
man who comes to his office and dives
into a mess of papers which have to
be got out of the way in the shortest
space of time appears to be the hust-
ler Ele is,
so far as immediate re-
sults are concerned. But it is the
man who has certain work to perform
and who does it in a regular manner,
not crowding two days’ work into one,
that is really the best worker.
A manufacturer who employs more
and who has
and clerks day after day,
his work
to the fellow
accomplish a great volume
under
systematically
of work
high pressure occasionally.
June and will average |
amount which |
of salesmen |
states that |
ihe prefers the man w i does
y
who can |}
“TJ have experience,”
“that the
his work rapidly is
found in my
| said this captain of industry,
man who can do
seldom the one on whom full reliance
can be placed. Once in a thousand
or more instances the man who has
genius is discovered, and he, of course,
dispatches work rapidly and well. But
the average employe who can finish
licks,’
one of the
his work by a few ‘hard as the
saying goes, is generally
type of men who work for wages and®
he is content to do so all his life. Such
men become satisfieu with their po-
they ‘hold
down’ a job, the easier it becomes for
them to do their
inclined
sitions and the longer
routine work, and
the less they become to
change and seek for advancement.”
The speaker went on to relate how
in his establishment the rule was en-
the clerical, sales
forced of shifting
and mechanical forces at stated inter-
vals so that none of the employes
would get in the rut of routine work
and lose ambition and effectiveness.
The boy who has a place in mill, store
work
attract
attention and get entrusted with more
important duties. It is the
or office and who will do his
with thoroughness is sure to
ragged
edges on work that show the disposi-
to be
and such a boy or man
tion of the operative careless if
not shiitless
is not in line for promotion.
Se iene
He is always a poor man. who
knows
money.
no more in life than making
Dissatisfaction is the mother of
| Progress
| Progress.
ON!
ONS
We have them; also all kinds of foreign and domestic
fruits.
THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY
14-16 OTTAWA ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
MAKERS OF
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AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,
TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON
in bottles es our address
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Established 1872
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This Extract of Lemon has double the quantity of the True Fruit Flavoring as compared with the strong alcoholic
and oil extract lemon containing the Terpenes, usually sold on the market.
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Mich.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Hart—R. DeVries has opened a
new dry goods store.
Hart—E. A. Noret has engaged in
the musical merchandise business.
® Owosso—J. R. Ketcham has _ sold
his meat market to Stephen Scofield.
Olivet—W. R. Goff has added a
line of bazaar goods to his shoe stock.
Kalamazoo—-Harry Hyman is suc-
ceeded in the grocery business by
John Domine.
Middleville—Etta Hubbard
ceeds Mrs. Emma Jocelyn in the mil-
linery business.
Traverse City—E. J. Fulghum has
purchased a third interest in the
Traverse City Iron Works.
Middleville—Mary Clever & Son
will be succeeded in the meat busi-
ness by Bondfield & Thompson.
Medina—The Central Citizens Tele-
phone Association has increased its
capital stock from $1,000 to $3,000.
Manistee—Herman Yankee — suc-
ceeds John Lemburg, dealer in con-
fectionery, tobacco and newspapers.
Alpena—Samuel Keston has _ pur-
chased the Chas. Hickey meat market
on First street and will conduct it in
the future.
Butternut—-Will Isham has pur-
chased the hardware stock of the late
Asa Martin and transferred it to his
own building.
Ypsilanti—C. D. O’Connor & Co.,
who formerly carried a line of ba-
zaar goods and shoes, are succeeded
by Geo. F. Smith.
Pontiac--Turk Bros. have sold their
grocery stock to J. H. Landon and
A. C. Harger, who will continue the
business at the same location.
Manton—G. J. Gibson has sold his
racket stock to Wint Vandercook and
gone to Belding, where he will join
his son in the same line of business.
Zeeland—Cornelis Roosenraad has
sold his furniture, carpet and wall-
paper stock to Wm. Baarman, who
will continue the business at the same
location.
Royal Oak—Mrs. Viola Stott has
rented the Kidder place on Main
street, now occupied by L. Levan-
seller, and will start a bakery and ice
cream parlor.
suc-
Nashville—The grocery stock of
P. H. Brumm has been transferred
to C. L. Glasgow, who has held a
chattel mortgage against the stock
for several years.
Croswell—The firm of Benjamin
Stern & Co., general merchants, has
dissolved. The business will be con-
tinued by Dorris Stern, Bertha Stern
and Julius Stern.
Eaton Rapids—The store vacated
by the M. L. Clark Cash Clothing Co.
will be refitted and decorated and will
be occupied by the Rochester Cloth-
ing Co. about May I.
Tonia—Frank W. Gardner has sold
his interest in the bazaar stock of
Tillison & Gardner to his partner,
who will continue the business under
the style of Eugene Tillison.
Ypsilanti—Eugene Millen, the les-
see of the Ypsilanti canning factory,
is meeting with good success in se-
curing acreage for tomatoes and corn
and is well pleased with the outlook.
Monroe—The iumber business of
the C. W. Beck Estate has been
merged into a corporation under the
style of the C. F. Beck & Son Co.
The authorized capital stick is $18,-
000.
Weidman—The general firm of J.
A. Damon & Son will be changed
to J. A. Damon on the 22d inst., H.
P. Damon retiring to take a place
on the road for the Cudahy Packing
Co., with headquarters at Duluth.
Milford—John E. Crawford, re-
ceiver for Stephens & Stark, has been
discharged from that position, the
court ordering a last distribution of
funds on hand. The firm formerly
conducted an elevator at this place.
Marine City—Delor J. Wood and
Harry A. Wood, partners in the
foundry business of Joseph Wood &
Sons, have petitioned to be adjudi-
cated bankrupt, setting their liabili-
ties at $8,714.51, with assets of $11,-
582.87, of which they claim $3,540
exempt.
Benton Harbor—A corporation has
been formed under the style of the
Michigan Cold Storage Co. for the
purpose of doing a general warehouse
and storage business with an author-
ized capitai stock of $300,000, all of
which is subscribed and paid in in
property.
Bellaire—Walter Flye has severed
his connection with the hardware
business of his father, at least tem-
porarily, and gone to Winnepeg,
Manitoba. Mrs. Flye’s father is in
the wholesale hardware business at
Winnepeg, and has offered Mr. Flye
a good position.
Cheboygan—J. A. Lancaster has
purchased the general stock of J. H.
Barrowcliff in Hebron township and
expects to move his family out there
and take possession about April 1.
He will ocntinue the business, han-
dling everything to be found in an up-
to-date country store.
Detroit—Harris Shapero, who has
conducted a clothing and dry goods
business at 1211 Michigan avenue
until last week, is alleged to have
transferred his store and stock to
Morris Cohn on March 14, when he
was insolvent. His creditors peti-
tioned that he be declared a bank-
rupt. Henry Eberlin was appointed
receiver in answer to their petition.
Rogersville—The general stock and
store building of Bert Kinsman were
burned to the ground Sunday even-
ing, together with most of the large
stock of merchandise and nearly all
the furniture in the family rooms up-
stairs. The postoffice was located in
the store and considerable mail was
destroyed. A defective chimney is
believed to have been the cause oi
the blaze. The loss is about $8,500
and is partially covered by an insur-
ance of $5,800.
Benton Harbor—James & James H.
Pound have iiled a petition of vol-
untary bankruptcy in the United
States Circuit Court. The firm is one
of the oldest established dry goods
houses in Berrien county and a few
years ago enjoyed the largest trade
of any store in this place. Liabilities,
$8,000. The store has been closed for
inventory. James Pound, the senior
member of the firm, came here from
Pontiac and is one of the veterans in
the dry goods business in Michigan.
Cedar Springs—The Grange Co-
eperative Store Co. has formed a cor-
poration with a capital stock of
$7,000 to engage in the sale of gen-
eral merchandise. W. H. and Ed-
ward W. Wheeler will hold half the
capital stock and the remainder will
be disposed of in small amounts
among the farmers. Thus far orders
have been placed as_ follows: Dry
goods, Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.;
shoes, Selz, Schwab & Co.; grocer-
ies, Lemon & Wheeler Company;
house furnishing goods, Butler Bros.;
men’s furnishing goods, M. M. Stan-
ton Co.
tig Rapids—A Mr. McLaughlin, of
store in the
opera house now occupied by the
Sharpe grocery stock and will take
Clare, has rented the
possession and open a grocery stock
therein April 1. The Sharpes are
having a special sale to reduce their
stock and will sell what remains to
& Wolcott. John Sharpe
will be employed in the Norcross &
Norcross
Wolcott store for a few weeks, when
he will take a vacation after his long
service. J. K. Sharpe, it is under-
stood, will engage in the meat busi-
ness here, and is looking for a suit-
able location.
Jennings—Henry J. Anderson, who
has been book-keeper in the general
store of the Mitchel] Brothers Com-
pany for the past nine years, has
been promoted to the position § of
Manager to succeed the late David
Holmes. Mr. Anderson was an apt
pupil and strong supporter of Mr.
Holmes in the creation of the mag-
nificent business which was built up
here under his supervision and is in
thorough harmony with the policies
The promotion is
regarded as a logical one under the
circumstances and meets the approv-
al and
of his predecessor.
commendation of
ron of the great store.
Northville--The Warner general
merchandise business, established by
P. Dean Warner in 1881, when the
present Governor of Michigan be-
gan his mercantile career, has been
sold to Pred L. Cook & Co. Mr.
Cook has been employed in the store
for the last seventeen years. The
other members of the firm are O
Grant Smith. general wholesale
salesman for Burnham, Stoepel &
Co., Detroit, and T. W. Kerr, travel-
ing salesman for Lee & Cady, of
Detroit. Gov. Warner has entirely
severed his connection with the busi-
ness and will devote his time aside
from the State’s work to his
extensive business interests.
every pat-
other
Marquette—Albert Grabower, of
Marquette, by his attorney, George P.
Brown, has filed a petition in
ruptcy in the United States
His schedule of
bank-
Court.
unsecured claims
amounts to $9,074.90, and his assets
are given as $35 worth of jewelry and
clothing. The petition recites that
the sum of $3,458.96 was realized from
the sale of a stock of goods owned
by Mr. Grabower at Munising by the
receiver, Adolph Fixel, of Detroit,
and that all creditors shared alike in
the distribution of the funds. The
petitioner formerly conducted a dry
goods and clothing business at Mu-
nising, and applied for a receiver in
July, 19004. Previous to going te
Munising he was in business in On-
tonagon county, and also had a store
here for a short time.
Kalamazoo—Fred Mesick, proprie-
tor of the Lake street Pharmacy, was
found dead in his bed at his home,
corner of Frank and Rose streets, one
morning last week. He had been ill
for the past two months with rheu-
matism, and on account of his rest-
lessness for the past week had been
sleeping alone. His wife arose that
morning and did not call him as his
room was quiet and she thought he
rest. About 9
she went to her
husband’s to rouse him
found him dead. She at once sum-
moned Dr. John Fletcher and Coro-
ner Verhage. The two men decided
that Mr. Mesick had died of heart
failure caused by rheumatism.
Mesick was born in Plainwell about
43 years ago and had always lived in
this section of the State. He gradu-
ated from the Department of Phar-
macy of the University of Michigan
was getting some
o’clock, however,
room and
Fred
when he was 2! years of age, and es-
tablished a drug business in Plain-
After a few years he sold his
business in Plainwell and was em-
ployed as drug clerk in different cities
in this section until a year ago, when
well.
lhe established the Lake street Phar-
macy in this city.
Manufacturing Matters.
Marion—Peterson Albert,
Villiam and Charley, who have con-
3ros.,
ducted a shingle and lumber manufac-
turing business seven miles northeast
of Marion during the past eight
years, have dissolved, Albert having
sold his interest to his brothers, who
will continue operations at the same
location, they having timber for sev-
eral years’ run yet.
Detroit—The Standard Coal, Coke
& Mining Co., capitalized at $200,600,
has been formed. The company owns
a tract in Carter county, Kentucky,
which is said to contain three veins
of bituminous coal. The capital stock
is divided into 200,000 shares of a
par value of $1 and the stockholders
are S.. M. Smith, President; 7. E-.
Tarsney, Vice-President; A. M. Sey-
mour, Secretary; A... PF. Gooding,
General Manager, and Thos. E. Bor-
den, Bay City.
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TRADESMAN
‘prices are unchanged.
The Grocery Market.
Tea—The market during the week
has shown no improvement. Sales
are quiet, but prices on everything |
desirable are fully maintained. A}
fair. volume of business has been re
ported from the public auctions. The |
weather has shown some signs of |
moderating during the week and a|
good business in tea should follow.
Coffee—All grades of package
brands were declined %c last Satur-
day.
This was not particularly sur- |
prising, although no one was _ look-
ing just then for any movement eith-
er way. The fact that the general}
statistical position of the market is |
strong had led some to believe that |
the market would remain where it
is or possibly go higher. However,
there are several factors at work in|
the market that have an influence
sometimes opposite to that of the}
some of these have}
recently work. Sales of
package goods ought to increase at
the new price. An authority says
that the consumption has overtaken
production and that is the whole
story. For several years there have |
been no new trees planted in the |
coffee growing districts and now the |
crop has dwindled and the demand |
has increased until the former—in- |
stead of being much larger than the}
latter—has reached the point where
it falls short of it. But these are}
“long that in-
terest the retailer little so long as
he can buy his coffee to sell at a |
reasonable profit, which he can do}
statistics, and
been at
range” speculations
now.
Canned Goods—Corn and_ toma-
The trade seems to}
toes are dull.
be well supplied and there is nothing
just now to stimulate the demand. |
Much speculation is being indulged |
in as to the probable acreage for this |
season, but this is idle guessing. |
Stocks of both tomatoes
are evidently ample and no material
increase in prices is looked for by the |
expert. There is a fair demand for
beans and peas and a good call for
pumpkin and sauerkraut. Other
vegetables show a moderate move-
Canned fruit stocks on the
coast are well cleaned up and the
general tone of the market is a firm
one. However, it will not be a great
while until the berry season and aft-
er that the canned goods begin to
take a back seat, so it is hardly like-
ly that material advances’ will be
asked this spring.
corn and
ment.
Dried Fruits—Prunes are in good |
demand, but the market shows no|
improvement whatever. Stocks are |
going into consumption rapidly and |
such a demand as is now being ex- |
perienced should surely add firmness
to the market soon. All sizes of |
prunes except the intermediate sizes |
are wanted. Peaches are extremely |
slow because of scarcity and high |
prices. Seeded raisins are dead and
Loose Mus-
i wanted and sell actively as fast as
| has advanced $1.25 per barrel, and
—_——_- es |
| Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-|
| geese, II@I3c.
$2.75@3; mediums, $2.25; peas, $1.90;
| red kidney, $2.50@2.65; white kidney,
| pressing my gratitude over the sym-
catels are quiet also and rule at un-
changed prices. Apricots are in fair
demand at unchanged prices, which
are still very high. Nectarines are
they come in.
Syrup and Molasses—The glucose
market is unchanged. Compound
syrup is in excellent demand and is
unchanged in price. Sugar syrup is
in fair demand for export, but quiet
so far as home demand is concerned.
As a matter of fact, there is only a
small supply of sugar syrup availa-
ble for home trade. Molasses is in
fair demand at unchanged prices.
Fish—Mackerel maintains its great
firmness. In Ireland the market
on this side dealers are working the
market up as fast as they can. Glou-
cester is absolutely bare of mackerel
for the first time in years. The
out-of-town demand for mackerel is
good, but the city demand light.
Sardines are unchanged but firm on
news from Canada that Parliament
intends to pass a law compelling
American fishing vessels to pay a
tax. If this bill passes the spot mar- |
ket will probably advance. Cod, |
| hake and haddock are unchanged and |
Lake fish
whitefish are unchanged and in fair |
demand.
in fair demand. and |
tatoes at Buffalo.
Buffalo, March 15—Creamery, fresh, |
253@2714c; dairy, fresh, 22@25c; poor,
17@20c; roll, 22@24c.
Eggs—Fresh, 17@109c.
Live Poultry—Chicks, 15c; fowls,
14@15c; turkeys, 15@1g9c; ducks 15@
16c; geese, I2@13c.
Poultry — Turkeys,
I4@I15¢c;
15 @17¢;
Dressed 20@
22c; chicks, 15@16c; fowls
old cox, to@tic; ducks,
Beans—Hand picked marrows, new,
$2.75(@2.90.
Potatoes—Dull. Round white, 30c;
mixed and red, 25@28c.
Rea & Witzig.
—__»--
Card of Thanks.
Jennings, March 21—Permit me,
through the columns of the Trades-
man, to express the heartfelt thanks
of myself and family for the many
loving favors which were shown us
in connection with the death, funeral
and burial of our beloved husband
and father. I shall cherish the re-
membrance of these kind acts as
long as life lasts and my only regret
is that words are incapable of ex-
pathy and assistance we received in
the great affliction we have sustained.
Mrs. David Holmes.
a
Hopkins Station—W. F. Nicolai
has gone to Schoolcraft and Battle
Creek to examine the electric lighting
systems in those towns and others
in Michigan. He will also look over
the lighting plants at Sandusky,
Oberlin, and Youngstown, Ohio. If
everything is satisfactory Mr. Nicolai
will install an electric plant here in
connection with his elevator which
will be built in the early spring.
The Produce Market.
Apples—The market is steady and
unchanged at $2.25@2.50 per bbl.
The stocks are naturally decreasing,
as the season advances, but the quan-
tity of apples stored last fall was}
large and they have kept fully as well
as usual. As a result there will be
apples as long as anyone wants them,
and prices will not be particularly
high. They always advance at this
season, anyway, except
stances, and this year is proving no}
The |
very |
exception to the general rule.
demand from the country is
good.
compared with a week ago.
Bananas—$1 for small bunches and
$1.50 for large.
No price changes are noted as
winter when the cold weather tied
things up and it must now get it
back. As yet the jobbers are absorb-
ing the advances, but if they become |
i|much more pronounced
they will
have to pass them on. The demand
Warmer
keep up. well.
| would help it, however.
Beets—4oc per bu.
Butter—Creamery grades
choice and 27c for fancy.
of the market has upset the calcu-
of the experts. The weather
is partially to blame for this.
thought with the spring
hand and the
tions
drop from now on. However, the
| weather turned colder and the New|
York market advanced, pulling this |
one along with it. But the advance
is regarded as only a temporary one.
The market may even go
| higher if conditions should be right, |
but a reaction must come before
many weeks. The demand is excel-
lent. Receipts of dairy are small.
No. t commands 22c and_ packing
stock 1I5@t6c. Renovated 1
small demand at 23c.
Cabbage—a4sc per doz.
Carrots—4oc per bu.
Celery—30c per doz.
Michigan; 75(@9oc for
Cranberries—Howes,
is im
bunches _ for
California.
| Jerseys, $7.25 per bbl.
Eggs—The market is steady at 13
@t4c for case count and 14@15c for
candled. The demand is very good,
but it has not increased in the same
proportion as the supply. The stock
coming now is of excellent quality.
Packers and storage operators insist
they will not touch eggs this season
unless they can be taken in on a
basis of 12@13c.
Grape Fruit—Florida stock com-
mands $5.50 per box of either 64 or
54 size.
Green Onions—65c per
large bunches from New Orleans.
Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12c and white clover at I13@I5¢c.
Lemons—Messinas, $2.50 and Cal-
ifornias $2.75. Lemons are firm and
higher prices are possible within a
few weeks or less. The demand is
steady.
Lettuce—Hot house is steady at
12c per fb.
Onions—The market is strong and
in rare in-|
The trust is report- |
ed to have lost a lot of money last |
weather |
have |
been marked up Ic during the past}
week, being now quotable at 26c for |
This phase |
It was |
close at]
large production of |
| milk that the market would gradually
slightly |
$8 per bbl.; |
doz. for |
steady on the basis of $1.25 per bu.
Oranges — California mnavels are
steady at $2.35 for choice and $2.50
for fancy. There is a very good de-
mand for oranges, increased, to a
considerable extent, by the excellent
offerings that the trade has been able
to make. The public has been eating
| Cranges up to the limit. As noted
| last week, there is some softness ob-
‘served in the fruit coming now, but
this is not serious enough to cause
any trouble.
Parsley—35c per dozen bunches for
| hot house.
| Potatoes—Country buyers are pay-
ling 12@15c. The trade is very dull.
| There is a demand for table stock,
but that is only
normal and_ the
The mild weather
\last week brought out a part of the
| stock that the farmers were holding
market up,
the price. The demand for seed stock
supplies are large.
and leaded the bearing
1is about over.
Pop Corn—goc for rice.
Poultry—The market is_ strong
jand high, live commanding the fol-
Chickens,
fowls, I11@12c; young turkeys,
16c; old turkeys, 14@15c; ducks, 12
(M1 4c. 14@2c per
tb. more than live.
lowing prices: I2@I13¢c:
I5@
Dressed fetches
Broilers, 25c per
tb.; squabs, $2.50 per doz.
Radishes—z25c per doz. for
and 30c for long.
Squash—2c per th. for Hubbard.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois
are steady at $3 per bbl.
Tangarines—-$2 per half box.
Turnips—soc per bu.
round
—_—__.2.—~»
Paul J. Hake, formerly city agent
for the Voigt Milling Co.,
fh. Hake, Secretary and
Treasurer of the Light,
Power and Railway Co., have rented
the north half of the first floor of the
Daniel Lynch building and will con-
duct a flour business under the style
of Hake Bros. They will handle the
output of the Muskegon Milling Co.
| in this city, making the New Silver
| Leaf their They will also
| handle all the Grand Rapids brands.
and Louis
formerly
Sheboygan
leader.
——_—_—_» +» —_—_
Moses Dark, the old stand-by of
the Vinkemulder Company, left Mon-
|day for a fortnight’s vacation, Texas
being the objective point. Mr. Dark
is a hard worker and richly deserves
such a respite from business cares
and responsibilities.
Lee M. Hutchins,
| Treasurer of the Hazeltine &
| kins Drue Co,
Secretary and
Per-
who has been very
low with typhoid fever for the past
two weeks, is convalescent, greatly
|to the satisfaction of his numerous
| friends.
|
|
|
|
—_—_—_. +
Geo. Coburn, who recently sold his
| grocery stock at Ludington to John
| Murray, has erected a
| building and will shortly re-engage in
| the grocery business. The Musselman
|Grocer Co. has the order for the
|
stock.
|
|
new store
—_2. > —————
Mackinac—The Bay Mills & Lum-
ber Co. has been incorporated for the
pees of dealing in real estate and
|
lumber with an authorized capital
stock of $250,000, all of which is sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.
et a hake
paeerenent
MICHIGAN
A Local Merchant’s Ideas on the
Subject.
“T never bother my head about the
“Then, in the matter of fixtures.
| This is a poor place for the merchant
to begin
i fixtures
are now
to economize.
and lifelike wax dummies
considered indispensable.
Few stores making any sort of pre-|
tense to up-to-dateness expect to be
niggardly when it comes to an out-
|lay for these very necessary acces-
window trims,” said the Manager of |
a large retail store.
for the special work of
to the beautifying of the store front
“We hire a man}
i |
attending
and the displaying of utilitarian mer- |
chandise, and I
I should ‘butt in,’ as
see no reason
the kids say.
why
i rule
Although I have a general supervi- |
of the entire establishment, I
should consider myself as exceeding
my prerogative did I assume to dic-
tate in any manner whatsoever as
to the store decoration. I
consider it a rank impertinence on
sion
The best is always cheapest
and things
last as long as the store itself.
sories.
in the long run, these
“It goes without saying that the |
taken of all)
background designs, draperies and |
should be
utmost care
if 3t 15 made a
carefully
floor covering used.
tha
away they will be found of service
these are
time and time again.
in very handy in cases where there
| has not been adequate time for the
should |
my part—I should find it hard to}
overlook such a thing in a Manager |
were our positions reversed. I have
alone than if he was continually sub-
jected to criticism of those above
him. Of course there are window
preparation of certain exhibits or in
other cases of emergency.
“‘Spare no pains to humor the|
wants of the window trimmer,’ is a
good maxim to go by. His interests
|are the store’s interests and he needs
always found that a windowman did |
twice as good work if he was let|
lis at his best under encouragement |
| pre me to
trimmers and window trimmers, and, }
of course, they are of all sorts and
To be sure, if we take
put him
dispositions.
a man from the ranks and
at this work, one who seems to!
possess an aptitude for it, that is
different. We rather expect, in such
a case, to suggest schemes of deco-
ration and ways of betterment, and
if the fellow is of the right sort he
accepts these hints in good part. But
I am speaking more especially of
the fully-fledged window dresser, the
one who has made a long study of
the subject and whom we hire as
an expert. Such an
dicious to meddle with, for it is like-
ly that he knows more in a minute
about his subject than we know in
heard of more
than one young fellow’s threatening
to ‘throw up his job’ because of
what he termed the ‘unwarranted in-
the partner.
speaking, this is ‘no
one it is inju-
a fortnight. I have
terference’ of senior
And, generally
bluff,’ either.
“And I don’t know as I blame the
windowman. He usually plans his
trims weeks beforehand and if these
plans are changed it is quit
‘throw things off the track.’
“No, the best way all around is
to hire a first-class man for this pur-
pose, pay him first-class
act first-class
and that
verely alone. If he
of the under these
tions I wouldn’t keep him in my em-
ploy.
wages, ex-
him—and let
first-class
made a
work of
him
fizzle
business condi-
“A ‘botcher’ is never needed in
sort of business, and least of
He has a
any
all in a general store.
| commercial
apt to}
co-operation on the part of his su-
periors, not antagonism. Every one
and praise—unless he be a
swell-headedness,
person
sort
They are a
cemoralization to any working force
in every department.
and the sooner their places are fill-|
ed with fellows of good caliber the
better for all concerned.
“So my advice to storekeepers is:
Secure the services of a bright, level-
headed window dresser who is thor-
cughly conversant with his trade (or
perhaps it might better be called pro-
fession), assist him by _ providing
proper fixtures and the like, pay him
commensurate with his abil-
consequence of all this
exact results—then let him
work out his and the store’s window
a salary
ity, and in
cood
salvation.”
———_+> 2. ___
Mental and Physical Culture.
n observing the giant frames and
superi strength of college athletes
and the plaud
f
oo
o
4
4
i
i is better
1 ne ne ee >
than mental development? The an-
obtrudes itse
ts they win the question
f physical
swer has little to do with college ath- |
letics, for they are not of the serious
pt life. It
traveler
business
wotla call a
mere “side line” of the years devot-
led to the acquirement of an educa-
| tion.
from every available standpoint, the |
the |
work se-|
|mental faculties by
thousand advantages over the one-|
line store, for he has it in his power
to conjure up all sorts of fine com-
binations. He never lacks for quan-
tities of material of one sort, and he
has an endless variety to select from.
If his. work, therefore, does not spell
success it’s his own fault; his re-
sources are unlimited.
investigator is confronted with
query, Which availeth more?
All the world’s work is done by the
The perfection of the
education and
men of brains.
constant exercise, by the friction of |
thought with thought of
minds, isa first duty It
the constant effort, but
not to the
neglect of the physical, for that is |
Good health means
active, vigorous mind. A
man can not enter the contest for the
also necessary.
a good,
world’s best prizes in the strength of |
his muscle alone. To be a prize fight- |
er or champion heavyweight thrower
is not among the desirable ambitions
The physical strength required to
keep the machine going is all that is
Handsome |
put |
They will come |
and that |
should gradually be weeded out |
Then, considering the question)
brighter |
should be}
TRADESMAN
He actually earns noth-|
| necessary.
ling with his muscles. Physical la-|
| i. - |
bor is the lowest paid. Correct)
| breathing, plenty of open-air exercise
|and conscientious observance or 2
simple diet maintain the health that
is necessary to make a success in any
vocation requiring steady use of the
mental powers.
Athletics as a diversion and amuse-
iment are to be commended, but the
| development of the intellectual facul-
ties, the acquirement of an education
and the mastery of the business or
profession that is to be the man’s life |
iwork are of consequence. |
Therefore while both physical and/|
| mental culture are necessary the lat- |
ter must be given the precedence, for |
incidental |
more
|the former can be made
to it and still exercise its usefulness. |
2-2
Nations to Exchange Professors.
Educators have long recognized the |
'advantage gained by students who
spend part of their collegiate years
abroad by reason of hearing lectures
and witnessing demonstrations at}
first hand. But since comparatively |
few can avail themselves of this ad-
| vantage, Harvard and Berlin are ne-|
gotiating for an exchange of profes-
This plan, if followed through- |
out the world, should result in bene- |
fit to the students of all highly civ-|
The chief difficulties |
will arise in that no country will de- |
sire to import professors when it has |
better in the same lines at home, yet
no university will freely let favored
professors off, even for a short time.
But the difficulty is not insurmounta-
sors.
ilized countries.
| sance.
icurtly and intimated
ble, since the conviction has arisen
among men of science that they are
under international -obligations and
| this may carry the plan to success.
The simplest means of inauguration
is to invite distinguished professors
to give four or eight lectures abroad.
While a six months’ tour would be
much more advantageous, operation
of the plan must be begun on a mod-
est scale, and if the idea is sound it
will grow of itself.
—___~>-~ 2. ___
Impoliteness Proved Costly.
It pays to be polite, and sometimes
impoliteness is quite expensive. The
smoke from a gas and electric plant
in a Western city annoyed a local
millionaire. He complained to the
President of the company, politely
requesting an abatement of the nui-
The President responded
that nothing
would be done in the matter.
The millionaire, at an expense of
$4,000,000, started a rival
electric company and brought down
the price of these illuminants to one-
quarter what they had been.
Then the President of the original
company begged for mercy, and the
now pacified millionaire sold his
plant to the penitent company for
$6,000,000.
He thus made $2,000,000 by the
transaction, and the company had to
pay $6,000,000 for the impoliteness of
its officer.
ee
gas and
Ag a rule the more a man has to
say about women the more he does
|not know about them.
is what an old}
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os... $1.00
Two of our best selling
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Price, $1.00 each
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Ltd.
20, 22, 24, 26 N. Division St.
(irand Rapids,
Mich.
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New Spring Catalog
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WOOD ALCOHOL.
It Is an Active Poison
Form.
The toxic effects of wood alcohol
have been brought recently to our
notice by several able articles on this
subject, especially those of Dr. Buller
and Dr. Wood. Many individual
cases have been brought to light by
the medical and daily press.
Wood alcohol (or, more properly
speaking, methyl alcohol) is known
by a great variety of names, which
has often led to confusion and even
mistakes, many of the latter being
followed by serious results. The fol-
lowing are some of the synonyms by
which wood alcohol is known and un-
der which the same product may oft-
entimes be found in commerce: Un-
der the head of “spirits,” as Colum-
bian, colonial, cologne, wood or green
methylated, py-
roxylic, and pyroligneous; under “al-
cohol,” as wood, methyl, burning, or
“for external also, as
naphtha.
Wood alcohol, as it was formerly
manufactured (with
tions) was a dark yellow or brown-
ish liquid, having an unpleasant or
rank odor and a nauseous and bitter
taste. This product was, by virtue
of its odor and taste, excluded from
in Every
wood, eagle, lion,
”
use;
wood |
but few excep- |
| intoxication
use in any preparations intended for |
few cases of
But this is no
longer the case, as vast improvements
in its manufacture, with the resulting
elegant product, nearly
tzsteless and colorless, have given a
product not very different in appear-
ance, etc., from ethyl alcohol, for
which it has been much substituted
As a result many unsuspecting per-
sons have been duped and many in-
jured.
use, and thus
poisoning resulted.
internal
Wood alcohol is used in the arts to} i
| Ge >.
odorless, |
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
samples of cheap whisky 95 per cent.
of them contained wood alcohol, and
some as high as 75 per cent. The
New York Health Board examined
two hundred and fifteen samples of
ginger from various parts of the
essence of ginger from various
the State,
varying amounts of wood
Mr. Patch examined two hundred and
twenty-five samples of spirits of cam-
parts of
many containing |
alcohol. |
|}from 7.5
Peted Tt
| beyond this limit it is
phor and found that forty of these |
contained varying amounts of wood
alcohol. ° The same was true of es-
sence of lemon.
The appetite for alcohol among
noted.
This has led to much trouble in army
posts, reservations, etc., the
regulations limit the supply of alco-
holic liquor. These conditions often
amusements has often been
where
| cohol in
| time and the only bad effects notice- |
| able
| Professor
persons cut off from civilization and |
i tone
iclearly when he experimented
lead to many complications hard to}
deal with. One army surgeon reports
three cases of men who, after being
on a spree in a near-by town, sobered
up at their quarters next morning on
| wood alcohol, nothing else being ob-
Cases are also reported of |
tainable.
Indians drinking red ink, believing it
contained alcohol.
These may be best described under
| this
mild cases, exhibiting symptoms of |
with nausea, vertigo,
vomiting and disturbed vision, and
severe cases, having not only
above symptoms, but in addition
muscular weakness, severe gastro-
intestinal disturbance, partial or com-
Fatal
death, the
plete blindness and delirium.
cases result in coma and
death from 5 c.c-
Coal oul
would
Raub reports one
and another from 18
appear that in this
poison, as in all others, the system
can eliminate a certain amount, but
powerless.
While it is a general belief that wood
alcohol is not poisonous when used
externally, several cases of mild pois-
oning and eye trouble have been re-
ported.
Many persons may drink wood al-
small for
quantities some
will be progressive blindness.
Puckner believes that the
poisonous effects are due to the ace-
present, but this
be so, as the better samples of wood
alcohot contain no acetone whatever.
Dr. Hunt demonstrated this last fact
with
acetone in the wood al-
and puts his results in
“No
how pure wood alcohol may be, it is
an active poison; the presence of im-
and without
cohol used,
brief statement: matter
purities only increases its toxicity.”
The which is a
inent symptom of this
blindness prom-
poison is the
result of optic neuritis and atrophy,
with degenerative changes in the ret-
ina. The poison seems to have a Se-
'lective action on this particular nerve
| ihe
the |
tlatter being due to cardiac and re-|
2 great extent, and has displaced ethy] |
alcohol as a solvent for resins,
ishes and
yarn-
the manufac-
ture of paints, metal polish and clean-
ing fluids.
fuel
oils, and in
lt has a large use as a
in alcohol lamps, cigarlighters,
etc.
wood alcohol
have been practiced on a large scale,
both in those preparations which are
used internally as well as those used
externally. It has been found in
many samples of witch-hazel, bay
rum, liniments, tinctures of iodine,
rub-downs, and the like. All manu-
facturers of wood alcohol claim that
it is harmless when used externally,
but Brundage and Wood both report
cases of eye trouble resulting from
its external application.
Adulterations with
The real danger comes from using
wood alcohol internally. It has been
frequently found in essences of gin-
ger and lemon, extract of vanilla,
paregoric, spirits of camphor, brandy,
all wines, highballs, punches, bitters,
and several popular patent medicines.
Often it is found in whisky, also.
The New Jersey Board of Health
found wood alcohol in four out of
eight samples of paregoric. Dr. War-
ren, of the Pennsylvania Food Com-
*Paper read by Haydn M. Simmons, Ph.
G.. M. D., before the Alumni Associa-
tion of the College of Pharmacy, Uni-
versity of California,
spirtory failure. When collapse or|
coma occurs in any case, recovery is
unusual. The blindness may come}
on within three hours, or be delayed |
as long as, im ome case, seventeen
In most cases it occurs inthe |
first twenty-four or forty-eight hours.
In the hopeful cases the eyesight re-
The toxic
symptoms in nearly all cases are de-
veloped in two or four hours, but a
few have been as long as twenty-four
hours in developing.
that he proved by experiment
and demonstrated that wood alcohol
is not only more slowly absorbed, but
also that it is more slowly eliminated.
turns in two or three days.
has
Dogs have been given daily small |
doses of wood alcohol
three weeks, which produced in them
a comatose state. When, on_ the
other hand, ethyl alcohol was given
under the same conditions for several
months, no coma was produced and
nothing in particular was noted. It
is also stated that wood
Dr. Hunt states |
for two or|
|
|
alcohol is |
only partly oxidized in the economy, |
and forms first. formaldehyde, and
finally formic acid, the latter
highly poisonous and
eliminated in the urine.
vision has been
fact.
very
The loss of
attributed to this
The non-elimination of any
nerve poison like formic acid must be
dangerous.
The Birch-Hirschfeld
show that monkeys
experiments
were rendered
blind in three days by daily doses
of wood alcohol. Only a few fatal
cases if are reported from a
small dose—-say under 60 c.c. Bur-
man
being |
slowly |
conditions that
govern the ac-
tion of all poisons are also true of
wood alcohol—that is, that the con-
dition of the patient’s constitution,
age, sex, contents of stomach at time
of ingestion of poison, time elasped
before medical aid is called, etc., are
factors in the effect produced.
The fatal
go c.c. Much less has destroyed life,
dose can be placed at
and some have escaped from larger
doses. This, however, is true of all
Buller
of all cases of poisoning escape per-
When death or blind-
ness results suddenly during an al-
poisons. Says that so per cent.
manent injury.
coholic debauch, wood alcohol pois-
oning should be
ethyl may be
taken, and even cause death, but such
suspected. Large
quantities of alcohol
cases are extremely rare.
No specific antidote has yet been
brought forward. The treatment is
similar to that of ethyl alcohol pois-
oning. Stimulating emetics, such as
mustard and zinc sulphate, are of
great value. The stomach-pump is
most important, as washing the stom-
ach out with warm water has proved
very beneficial. Hot baths and quick-
acting purges promote elimination
and rid the system of the poison.
Cardiac and respiratory stimulants
should be freely used: digitalis,
strychnine, atropine and coffee being
useful. Ethyl alcohol is highly
recommended and should be used in
all cases.
most
3uller reports forty fatal cases and
fifty-four resulting in eye trouble.
Wood states eighty-two fatal and 153
cases which developed some eye trou-
could hardly |
7
Le : |
mission, found that in one thousand | nett reports a case of blindness and | ble. About 390 cases of all -kinds
| have been reported, 182 deaths and
207 recoveries with trouble re-
instances have
been reported in the daily papers—
one in New York where twenty-five
persons died of wood alcohol poison-
ing by drinking liquor which had been
diluted with that poison; another case
eye
sulting. Two recent
|
occurred in Kentucky, where twelve
were poisoned in the same way by
whisky, and ten of them died. Of
all the reported,
have escaped without some injury.
In conclusion, it is clear to see that
wood and de-
grees of purity is an active poison;
that) it 1s
size
cases only seven
alcohol in all forms
dangerous to life in any
fatal:
and that it should not under any cir-
cumstances be
dose, 5 c.c. having been
used internally, and
even in its external use should be
used with great caution.
a
Speaking Postal Card.
Postmasters of the Bill Nye type
may soon be unable to read the pos-
tal cards passing through their hands
unless they have a phonograph equip-
ment in the if the latest de-
velopment of the post card announc-
ed in Vienna meets popular favor. An
ingenious Teuton, who has invented
a speaking postal card, plans to
spread a thin layer of gramophone
office,
“plaque” on an ordinary postal card.
To this the sender confides his
munication, the
the post ‘n
Arrived at tits
con
and card goes
through usual
the
message by
a special phonograph appa-
the
destination,
way.
card
is made to deliver its
means of
ratus constructed by the inventor of
the card.
Cleaning Tarnished Silver.
Silver
new
become much
tarnished may be restored, it is said,
which has
by immersion in a warm solution of
I part potassium cyanide to 8 parts
of water. (This mixture is extremely
poisonous). Washing well with wa-
ter and drying will produce a some-
what dead white appearance, which
may be quickly changed to a bril-
liant luster by polishing with a soft
leather and rouge.
A fresh concentrated solution of
hyposulphite will dissolve at once
the coat of sulphide of silver, which
is the cause of the blackness produc-
ed by mustard, eggs, etc., or anything
containing sulphur.
9
There is no virtue in the one day
sprint that requires the seven day
snooze.
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THE RIVAL FLEETS.
Orders to discontinue must | E é
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
lever, the Russians will probably have
|nearly twenty armored ships of great-
ler or less strength.
| anese fleet is not known, it is pre-
| sumably composed of four first-class
| battleships and eight first-class arm-
| ored cruisers, all of the most modern
While the composition of the Jap-|
itype. To this force must be added a |
inumber of protected cruisers and
| auxiliary vessels, as well as a large]
| flotilla of torpedo boats. All the
hauled and placed in good condition.
They have, moreover, the advantage
| under fire.
The issue of a hostile engagement |
to be long in doubt. The Russian
Japanese ships have been lately over- |
| was interviewed by
| fleet is composed of vessels of vary- |
| ing speeds
and of many
| types, while the Japanese ships are
|all new vessels of about equal speed
Now that the campaign in Man-|
churia is practically over for months
to come, interest in the progress of
the war in the Far East will shift
from the land to the sea.
ported from St. Petersburg that or-
It is re-|
ders have been sent to the Admiral |
commanding the Russian fleet in the |
Indian Ocean to proceed to try con- |
clusions with the Japanese fleet. It)
is also reported from Singapore that
a large Japanese fleet has
through the Malacca Straits into the
Indian Ocean. It will not, there-
fore, be very difficult for the Russian
Admiral to carry out his
tions.
it may be doubted if
passed |
instruc- |
| the risk of the balance of her effec-
Based upon their past experience, | UV® M4VY-
the Russian |
fleet enters with any enthusiasm in-j
to the hunt for the enemy. It is|
Japanese |
morally certain that the
fieet will lose no opportunity of get- |
ting to close quarters with the on-|
coming Russians.
even probable, that Admiral
It is possible, and |
Togo |
may decide not to venture too far |
into the Indian Ocean, as he would
then be too far away from a con-|
venient base for refitting in case of |
|twenty-nine clocks in his residence
need or for obtaining coal.
It is rather difficult to compare the |
| of them strikes the hour at the same
two fleets which are now getting clos-
er together, for the reason that the |
exact
composition of the Japanese |
}
fleet is not known, while the fighting |
quality of some of the Russian ships |
is difficult to gauge.
The third sec-|
tion of the Russian fleet, now on its |
way from the Baltic, has hardly had |
time to join the main body.
modern ships.
overhaul this squadron before it joins
the main fleet it would prove an easy |}
prey.
The strength of the Russian fleet
is numerically somewhat greater than
that of the Japanese, but aside from
four modern battleships, most ofthe
other vessels are either of antiquated
pattern or belong to the cruiser class.
As the ships have not been docked
in some time, they must now have
foul bottoms. The personnel is gen-
erally described as poor. With the
addition of the third squadron, how-
It con- |}
sists of several battleships and cruis- |
ers, but none of them are strictly |
If the Japanese could |
and equal maneuvering power. The
option of accepting or declining bat-
tle or choosing the battle ground
must of necessity lie with the Jap-
anese on account of their ability to
travel faster. The Japanese com-
manders have also the advantage of
greater familiarity with the waters in
which a combat is likely to occur, | - i ease cia We're |
-| coast is ; ov
and they have also the advantage of | eee genes
knowing that they have a base not
very far
the Pescadores Islands.
to return to Europe, as the chance
of success is too small to warrant
All great men have some method
a f | . . |
cupation and the modes of some of | country that is worth anything. Such |
them have been so novel as to €x-| people are incapable of a grand, all- |
cite attention. Gladstone, it will ee national feeling or of a/|
recalled, loved to chop down _ trees
during his leisure and found rejuven- |
Bishop Coleman, |
}of the Episcopal church, finds the|
ation in the labor.
desired relief from the cares of his|
office in tinkering clocks. He has
at Wilmington, Del., and every one
time. It is the Bishop’s boast that
their equal for correct timekeeping
1s not to be found outside of a clock
store. The repairs to the timepieces
he always makes himself, and the
study of the mechanism of clocksis
one of his principal modes of relaxa-
tion.
The British people are now’ very
proud of their alliance with the Jap
'anese. They have been called upon
to give nothing but their moral sup-
port to the Japanese cause, but they
rightly feel that, m their read-
iness to join hands with the Japanese
in case any government should come
to the aid of Russia, they have ren-
dered important assistance. The al-
liance is for a period of but five
years, but there is no doubt that any
British ministry happening to be in
power will be glad to renew it, for
whatever the Japanese gain will ben-
efit British interests in the Far East.
distant in Formosa and in|
Were Rus-/|
sia wise, she would order her fleet |
different | :
|} youve got
Creator stopped work when he fill-|
ed the Hudson River with water, and |
all the rest of the country out be-|
Nothing |
|
| are.
}
ireally great thought.
and limited ideas and sentiments re- |
|
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1
NOBLEST AMERICAN TYPE.
Captain Seth Bullock, who, in the
strenuous times of the “Wild West,”
was a pioneer in the rough settle-
ments of the Rocky Mountains, and
made himself famous as Sheriff of
Deadwood, the leading mining camp
of Wyoming Territory, went to the
Presidential inauguration at Wash-
|ington at the head of a company of
cowboys. He spent some time tak-
ing in sights of Washington and New |
York, and in the national metropolis |
newspapers. He is reported to have
said:
“Do you
think of this town?
want to know what I
taken altogether, you are the most
provincial outfit in the whole coun
try.
f+ alt You
yond just happened so.
counts unless it is done in New York}
and by New York except to laugh at. |
“Now, out in our country we know
New York is a good town.
that the East is all right. We know
we're all right, too. We think the
country. But
itself and
whole
is proud of
proud of the
New York
thinks the rest of the country in luck |
I’m |
to be on the same continent.
not speaking in harshness or bitter- |
ness.
cans.”
It is a new idea to the New York-
ers that they are provincial, but they |
: : Any people are provincial when |
of relaxation from their regular oc-| they think they make up all in a/|
volve around themselves, and they
regard with contempt all outside that
little orbit.
The metropolitan press must have |
been astonished at the opinions ex-
pressed by this broad-minded, self-
poised and intrepid, if uncouth, son
of the wide region known as_ the|
West, who is a big man with broad
ideas gathered in what was formerly
a boundless wilderness, free to every
living creature as to the winds of
heaven, and in which civilized men,
savage beasts and still more savage
men were all engaged in the strenu-
ous and bloody strife of the survival
of the strongest. It was in such an
arena and amid such strife that this
newcomer from the old States of the
Fast nourished his broad
vision and tempered his nerves of |
steel.
can than are they whose ideas and/|
lives have been limited to great cities,
As for the backwoodsman from
Wyoming, he saw another sight
which drew from him some further
emphatic remarks. He = said:
“A man from out our way can’t
help seeing certain things. He can’t
help seeing the way a lot of sheep-
faces along these subways and street
some of the|
Never mind, I}
know as well as you that there are |
| go neople in New York City. But, |
| between these two fleets ought not} good people in New J
You've got so much, you think |
think the|
We know |
But sometimes I think you!
miss a lot of the joy of being Ameri- |
Their narrow }
mental |
Such a man is a truer Ameri-|
| cars of yours crowd the women and
stamp on their feet to get ahead of
them. Great God A’mighty! I came
over from Washington yesterday on
the Congressional Limited, and things
they call men pushed their way by
women who were there before ’em
into the dining car, and when they
|
|
|
j
|
|
j
|
|
|were through with their dinners
'these same critters sat there and
| smoked cigars, and let the women
|
wait.
“Now, you don’t see doings like
ithat out in our country. If that’s
typical of the Eastern gentlemen,
then the real American gentlemen
are to be found out West.”
Here is the backwoods teaching
chivalry, courtesy and manly be-
havior to the great city of the East.
After all, which is the better type of
Americanism? Let the
cide. Above all,
and manliness.
Ordinarily comparatively little
prominence attaches to the office of
Secretary of the Interior. The Sec-
|retary of State figures in the news-
papers almost every day. The Sec-
retaries of War and the Navy, the
i Attorney General and the Postmaster
General are all of them more prom-
inent and talked about, more
ir the public eye than the Secretary
of the Interior. The present Secre-
Mr. Hitchcock, until very re-
cently was even less heard about than
most of.his predecessors. He was
|content to go along about his work,
women de-
they love courage
more
tary,
| doing it faithfully and honestly with-
out blowing any trumpets or beat-
ing any drums. He is getting his
reward, however, in very general ap-
proval of the way in which he has
managed the uncovering and_ the
prosecution of the gigantic
frauds in the West. Jt was not an
easy undertaking. There were some
very prominent men involved as well
as some very shrewd who
thought they had concealed _ their
tracks successfully. Secretary Hitch-
|cock kept plodding on and succeed-
|ed, so that now everybody familiar
with the facts is bound to praise him.
ee
land
ones,
It is an old saying to refer to
money as the sinews of war. Rus-
sia appreciates that definition of it
just now very keenly. War is an
exceedingly expensive undertaking
and those who indulge in it must
The French bank-
ers have politely but firmly notified
the Russian financiers that
ed loans must be postponed and the
general acceptance of it is that the
postponement will be indefinite
Neither American nor English bank
ers will care to make any very big
|loans in this quarter and it is thought
be big borrowers.
propos-
{that the Germans will take the same
In that event the Rus-
|sians must sue for peace and_ take
| Practically whatever terms the Jap-
}anese are willing to offer. The Czar
a not carry on the war without
|
|
i'view of it.
funds and if he can not borrow he
must make peace. That is the sensi-
ble thing for him to do anyhow. It
jis a wise man who knows when he
| has been thoroughly whipped and
that has been the Czar’s experience
on land and sea.
meee + ah inca sppmagane” Wei giishin staan ZY
ee
MEN OF MARK.
Irvin Butterworth, President Grand
Rapids Gas Light Co.
Success is a varying achievement.
Where one man shall reach the goal
for which he
award
set out and receive the
given in of
the
obstacles
token
tion for difficulties
and the overcome,
who may try just as earnestly but
who with
from
hindrances
the
meet greater
are barred entering into
|
apprecia- |
surmounted |
others |
pleasures to which seemingly they are |
justly entitled.
It is not for the multitude to say |
that this has been
that one a
man
failure.
later environment and the individual
Early education, |
tendency or disposition of the builder |
do with the
Perhaps the best description
successful the
moral and fi-
nancial obligations promptly and to
the OF all
contact.
have much to
reared.
of the
who meets
mafl iS
his social,
whom
attri-
with
These
satisfaction
he comes in
structure |
successful; |
MICHIGAN
three years and a Director for a sim-
ilar length of time of the Western
Gas Association. He served the Co-
Board of Trade
dent during the last year of his res-
lumbus Presi-
as
idence there, and was also President
for one year of the Columbus En-
gineers’ Club. In 1900 he resigned
the Presidency of the Columbus Gas
Co. and went to Denver, Colo, as
General Manager of the Denver Gas
and Electric Co., later being made
President. In 1903 he was appoint-
ed General Manager of the Detroit
City Gas Co, and served. as such
for nearly one year, coming to Grand
Rapids last summer as_ Vice-Presi-
dent and General Manager of the
Grand Rapids Gas Light Co., and
recently being made President there-
|Gas Light Association, the Ohio Gas
one |
butes hold good, whether applied to |
the rank and file of present day men
or to the captains who in greater
measure are responsible for the in-
dustrial progress of the country be-
cause of the active part they take}
in the development of the particular
section of country in which they may
reside.
It is not enough that a man shall
amass a fortune, for money never
yet of itself constituted success. The
interests of the people and the ex-
the of any
locality must be duly considered by
ploitation of resources
that individual who sets about to im-
life, and
tor
before
part . new new. spirit
vigor—who takes de-
the
unappreciated
newed up
neglected or
ot
might
velopment
resources any
trict. In such manner Irvin
Putterworth and the part he has had
in developing the gas business be
summarized.
Irvin Butterworth was born on a
farm in the southwestern part of
Ohio—Mainville, to be exact—on
July 7, 1860. His antecedents were
English on his. father’s side and
Scotch-Irish on his mother’s side. He
spent his boyhood days on his fa-
ther’s farm near Wilmington, Ohio,
and graduated from the high school
at Wilmington. He learned short-
hand writing at home, and at 21 went
to Columbus and obtained a position
to the General Mana-
as secretary
ros |
dis- |
Irvin Butterworth
| Light Association, the Western Gas
|
| Association and the Michigan Gas!
| Association, He is also this year
ger, and later to the President, of the |
& Tole-
latter po-
Columbus, Hocking Valley
do Railway Co., leaving the
sition at the end of. three years to|
go into the gas business as_ book-
keeper at the works office of the
Columbus, Ohio, Gas Co. In two
years he was appointed Superinten-
dent of the works, remaining in that
position for five years, being elected, |
in turn, to the offices of
General |
Manager, Vice-President and Gener-|
al Manager, and President and Gen- |
eral Manager of that company. Dur-
ing his residence in Columbus
was for nine years Secretary of the
Ohio Gas Light Association and
President of the Association for one
year. He was also Vice-President of the
American Gas Light Association for| boys, who are now at school in the! tail.
he |
1
|
|
|
President of the McMillin Gas Com-
panies’ Association.
associations
‘EO the foregoing gas
he has from time to time contributed
papers on the _ following
Natural Gas, A Half-Depth Furnace
Adapted to a Small Works,
Ohio Want a Gas Commission? Gov-
A Curious
plosion, Still Another Purifying Box,
The Ventilation Lighted
Rooms, Street Main Vit-
subjects:
Does
ernor Burners, Gas Ex-
of: Gas
Pressures,
rified Clay Pipes Instead of Iron for
Gas Mains, Isolated Producers, The
Prevention of Service Pipe Stop-
pages and three annual reports of
Technical and Mechanical Progress
in the Gas Industry.
Mr. Butterworth has three fine
yf. He is a member of the American |
TRADESMAN _
with his
1208 Jefferson
East, and is now hying
parents and sister at
avenue, this city.
Mr. Butterworth likes Grand Rap-
ids and thinks it the prettiest city
west of the Alleghany Mountains, and
its business men the most enterpris-
ing and public-spirited he has ever
Met.
face all met | are connected
with the McM syndicate, Mr.
Butterworth is compelled to be at
home wherever his hat is hung, and
no man ever succeeded in worming
his way into the community and
learning its likes and dislikes better
than he has. This remark applies
with equal force to his career at Co-
lumbus, Denver and Grand Rapids.
Personally, Mr. Butterworth is one
}
most companionable of men.
He makes friends quickly and
the
O1
i
retains
them permanenily. makes few
p
faculty
enemie? and has the
, +] ,
ot ultimate ly COnvcriing
happy
these few
riends. He is accessible to ;
much,easier to get an audi-
him than to tear one’s self
his presence, so interest-
conversation, so pleasing
personality
mistress.
Success is an. eéxactine
She demands strong faith of the man
the
achieves
the
loved his
in himself and faith in business
through which he success.
No has ever
has
man won greatest
reward who not work.
These
the eas
S
principles apply with force to
When
man in the gas industry who
business. we find a
has won
chosen
to be
distinction and money in his
he is always found
alling,
one who has put his whole mind to}
the work and has mastered every de-
In this way only can a man
win, for this is the only method by
which he can make himself stronger
than other men who are traveling the
same road as his competitors
Many striking instances of success
ful careers in the gas business have
been made by men who started with
nothing except their two hands and
their willingness to work and deter
mination to
succeed. Nearly all
PSSitli CAFCCTS I
have been made in this way. It
business that brings one in
f
con-
tact with every class of men: it re
quires a broad mind, a careful knowl-
edge of all the details of the business
and a disposition that will not be
disheartened OF discouraged by
seeming failure. Such a man is the
subject of this sketch, who has con-
ind at each step
plane in the busi-
ness and the commercial world, until
1 he stands at the head of one
to-day ne
f the largest gas corporations inthe
country.
> +»
Business Chances To-Day.
The co ial age TEports
show that a large perc of the
men who engage in business are fa
es said ie ol group of severa
men dining together the other even
ng m an twptoOwn restaurant
‘lL have no doubt they are accurate,”
commented a second
ihey are believed to be so,” said
the first speaker, “but they do not
ily carry the discouragement that
Ippears on the face of them.
‘Some time ago I desired my son
© engage in business instead of en
ering an rerowded = profession
One of his objections was this, that
too many men failed in business
more than in the professions. I be
gan an investigatiaon of the
yusiness failures. A Jarge percentag:
are of very small concerns that carry
little influence in the trade. They are
confined to no locality. The reasons
for these numerous failures in busi
ness in ordinarily prosperous times
ire principally ck of knowledges
ind « l
‘That is the point I wish to make
| never neglect to urge my employes
to aspire to become independent citi
zens by getting into a business of
their own, but I invariably qualify it
by the injunction that they must
understand every detail of the busi
ness they undertake to conduct. After
that they must exercise the greatest
economy, care and industry to make
1. a
but all things become
SUCCESS
Nothing is easy in itself,
easy when the
proper torce is apphed to them. That
others have failed need not act as a
discouragement to the ambitious.
Chere are better opportunities for the
young man with the proper qualifi
cations to succeed in business for him
self to-day than ever before.”
The group agreed that there was
iogic in the speech of the merchant
they listened.
——— ~~
Knowledge acquired by the
to whom
~oll
college
graduate often hampers him in _ his
efforts to earn a living.
_—_— —
Eloquence is Rhetoric’s bombard-
ment to deafen the ear of Reason.
10
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
THE PRICE OF SUCCESS.
Have a Definite Aim and Give Up
Smaller Ambitions.
Many people do not succeed in
business because they are living in!
They |
the shadow of their ancestors.
are like the conservative Englishman
who said to Seymour Eaton, found-
er of the Booklovers’ library, on his
recent visit to London:
“Your style |
of advertising may be all right in|
America, but it won’t do in England.”
“I can’t argue on that point,” said}
Mr. Eaton, “for I don’t know.
arrived yesterday and I sail back next
I only |
Tuesday; but in the meantime I’ll find |
out.”
eu a oS .
You may ask every advertiser in
London,” he was answered, “and they
will all tell you the same thing. It
won't do.”
ideas that come into your own mind
with as much sincerity as you do
those of an Edison or a Rockefeller.
Do not be limited by the achieve-
ments of others. Use their knowl-
edge merely to push your own.
The greatest achievement was once
merely an idea; then it became a
plan, then a reality, and finally a fact
as strongly established as the rivers
and hills.
Fix this truth firmly in your mind: |
You are but one of many handfuls of
animated dust, through which a life
current passes.
You are in no way |
Getting More For Her
Flour Money
different from the men whose names |
top the play bills of modern finance. |
cells as did that of Napoleon, but if
| you choose to allow three-fourths of
i these cells to remain unused youcan
;not expect to
“But I shall ask the British public,” |
said Mr. Eaton.
tisement and paid $500 for space in
which to print it; the result, three ex-
tra postmen were required to deliver
his mail and he brought away over
$5,000 in cold cash.
To-day the man who succeeds is
not the one who asks Tom, Dick, or
Harry of business fame his opinion
of a venture, nor is he the one who
obeys the precepts of a past genera-
tion; rather, he gives his idea to the
great public.
“Tt can’t be done,” says Conserva-
tism, who has never seen it done.
“It can -be done,” says Modern
Progress. °
The whole world will stop to lis-
ten if you have a new idea and the
will power to back it.
This is not : whit less true of the}
man who is the center of a small cir-
cle of influence than it is of the mil-
lionaire who gambles in railroads.
Yesterday thhe catchwords of the
business world were thrift, honesty,
punctuality, neatness, obedience. It
was said that any “steady young
man” who possessed these priceless
traits would “get ahead.” To-day it
is the exceptional man who hasn’t
these traits. Their possession causes
no comment; only their absence. An
employe who has them not will soon
find himself out of a job. But if he
would do more than merely “hold a
job” he must in addition be alert, he
must use his brains, and he must see
his opportunities.
You may jog along at a safe, sure,
slow pace, relying on the old fashion-
ed virtues, but they will not help you
out of the beaten path. All the nega-
tive virtues in the world will not
put you among successful men. The
steadiness of a sphinx will make you
about as progressive as the sphinx
itself, unless it be combined with an
intelligent purpose. The steadiness
of inertia is only stagnation.
A horse with a good disposition
that will stand without hitching and
is safe for a woman to drive is all
well enough for country roads and
simple demands, but it will never be
tried on the racetrack.
On the firm foundation of solid re-
liability originality must erect a
structure. To this end you must re-
spect your own ideas as fully as those
of another. You must accept the
He wrote an adver- |
| be denied.
compete
| Your head may contain as many brain |
successfully |
with men who exercise all their brain |
power.
Exercise of brain power makes the
whole difference between Andrew |
Carnegie and the clerk who has}
grown old, always a clerk. Achieve-|
ment comes from original thinking, |
from looking forward instead of back,
from planning new ways of
doing |
things rather than basing action on |
threadbare precepts.
Every unknown path is full of mys-
tery. In proportion as you venture
in does the mystery vanish. Every
unexplored continent is a dark one.
Nothing you really want need you |
If you want it earnestly |
enough you will get it; if you fail,
you did not really want it, else you)
had found a way.
Success is the only possible result
of intelligent concentration. . Living
is not a blind game of chance, it is
a mathematical proposition. You have
the problem and your task is to solve
it. You must find the answer.
You can not win success as an-
other would do it; you must win it
in your own way. There is no exact
rule by which you can successfully
lay siege to the heart of the woman
you love; the method which would
prove successful with another would
defeat your ends. You must take in-
to consideration yourself, the woman
and the environment. So it is in
business. You must know yourself
thoroughly, and have confidence in
your ability to find the right way.
You must know the field, the environ-
ment; and you must above all things
know just exactly what it is you
wish to accomplish. You must de-
termine your goal, then make your
plans and follow them out assidu-
ously.
Twenty-five years ago in the then
small town of Seattle, an editor was
sitting at his desk one morning wish-
ing something would happen to stir
things up a bit. Suddenly the door
opened and a young man stood be-
fore him, bowing extravagantly. The
editor stared in amazement. The
young man was dressed with great
care and when he spoke his drawl
labeled him a Southerner.
“T have come from Georgia, my
dear sah,” he said, laying a card be-
fore the editor. “I am a lawyer, and
I intend to go to congress. I shall
be grateful for any notice you may
flour.
makes 40 pounds mo
the barrel than other
Certainly you ha
sota.
an unusual amount
is bread that will keep moist longer than other breads.
These are two sharp points when you're
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Minneapolis, Minn.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11
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give me in your valuable paper, sah.” |
The Western editor had never be-|
fore encountered anything just like |
this. On his rim of the continent |
they had not begun to appreciate the
value of publicity. Before he could}
recover from his surprise, the affable
stranger had gone. The editor laugh- |
ed; then he laughed some more; then
he had an idea. He came out of his |
lethargy and taking up a pencil wrote |
for a good half hour.
The next issue of the paper con-|
tained a story of the “young Lochin- |
var’ who had come out of the South.
It was read and laughed at, and the
name of the aspiring youth stuck
like a burr in every reader’s memory. |
Again he called on the editor; again |
he was all suavity, all gratitude for |
the attention which had been paid}
him. The editor had expected some-
thing different.
As the years passed the Southerner |
continued to furnish copy for the |
Western paper. He continued to do
and say things that got his name
into print; but this wasn’t all he
did. He was an indefatigable worker.
When the Far Western territory |
became a state he was nominated for |
congress. His name was known to
every mountaineer, logger and ranch-
man in the State, and they voted for
him. He went to congress. To-day
he is a power in national politics.
Other men who worked just as
hard, who began the struggle for su-
premacy with him, who had as much
native ability—perhaps more—are
still working hard, and their names
are not known.
He won because he had a definite
plan, from which he never deviated;
because he had a_ fixed goal. His
methods were peculiar—decidedly not
the methods of a past generation; de-
cidedly his own. They might not
win for you. The story merely serves |
to illustrate the point at issue. You
can’t win as your father won; you
can’t win as your neighbor wins; but |
you can win in your own way, if
that way is the result of original
thought, of looking into the future}
instead ofthe past, and an apprecia- |
tion of ever changing conditions and
methods.
You are here; that is your problem. |
Decide upon what position you want |
to occupy in the world; that is the |
answer; thén bend every intelligent |
effort to the working of the prob- |
lem. The answer is way at the back |
of the book. Turn the pages and|
look at it often. If you don’t solve |
it correctly or in full it will be your |
own fault. At some point when it|
will have been of vital importance |
that your faculties should be wide |
awake they will have slept. |
Remember that you will get just}
what you earn, not what you think}
you deserve. People say, “I ought |
to have good luck, I’ve had a hard |
enough time of it.” Prosperity is the |
|
result of intelligent endeavor, not a |
prize awarded those who have been |
unsuccessful. |
You can attain the end you most |
desire, but you must pay for it; the |
price is giving up smaller ambitions, |
disappointing those you love who}
can not always see as you see, fore- |
| to pay the price?”
| Recent
|tinue the wholesale and retail meat |
| cliff are succeeded in the
ling business formerly conducted by
going indulgence, and, above all, hav- |
ing a definite line of action and stick- |
ing to it. There is just one question |
to be answered: “Are you willing |
A. S. Monroe.
—_——_-~>~____
Business Changes in the|
Buckeye State.
Cincinnati—John H. Vonderhae, |
Sr., of the firm of D. Hoppe & Co., |
commission produce dealers, is dead. |
Cincinnati—George F. Otte, of the |
| Geo. F. Otte Co., wholesale and retail |
carpet dealer, is dead.
Cincinnati—Jos. F. Walther is suc- |
ceeded by George Atkinson in the |
grocery and meat business.
Dayton—H. H. Hall, jeweler and
dealer in trunks, is succeeded by John |
R. Cotterill. |
Dayton—Geo. A. Lause will con-|
formerly conducted by
Lause & Boeckman.
Dayton—Mr. Lewis has withdrawn |
business
|from the firm of Mallon, Lewis &
Long, dealers in brick and tile.
Gillespieville—Geo. & J. B. Rat-|
general |
store business by Geo. Ratcliff & Co. |
London—Van Cleve Bros. succeed |
Geo. W. Kauffman, manufacturer of |
tile
Hillsboro—-Calvert Bros. will con- |
tinue the business formerly conducted |
by Wolf & Calvert, dealers in hard
| ware and stoves.
Mendon—A. W. Copeland has sold |
a one-half interest in his arene
| business.
North Hampton—Overpack & |
Wones succeed J. W. Ryman in the|
general store business.
Milford Center—Robinson, Con-
nor & Co. are succeeded in the hard- |
ware business by the Robinson &
Richter Co.
South Solon—Jas.
Redmond suc-|
iceeds M. C. Price in the general store |
business.
- ‘ . |
Springfield—Louis Stern will con- |
|tinue the clothing and men’s furnish- |
Stern & Tittle.
Swanton—Bick & JEBratton, gro-
cers and meat dealers, have adver- |
|tised their closing out sale.
TVithn—t. 0. St. John, druggist, 1s
| succeeded by Frank L. Bridinger.
Wapakoneta—The Colonial Cigar |
| Co. is succeeded by the Perfecto Ci- |
igar Co.
Wapakoneta—Lizzie C. Tarusch is |
succeeded in the millinery business
by Tarusch & Frische.
Yellow Spring—Jacob Deal suc- |
ceeds O. D. Bethard, retail grocer |
and meat dealer.
Dayton — Bankruptcy proceedings
have been begun against the Carney
Seed So.
New Bavaria—The creditors of
C. S. Hornung have filed a petition in |
bankruptcy.
eee cee ft nt Alpen a |
Firmness is often only the deter- |
mination to remain in error. |
Saves Oil, Time, Labor, Money
By using a
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Full particulars free.
Ask for Catalogue ‘‘M”’
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The Only Thing
That retards our speed in
making shipments is the
fact that we cannot ship by
telegraph instead of rail-
roads. It doesn’t take long
to load an order for
New Silver Leaf Flour
after we get it because we
always aim to keep enough
on hand for quick orders.
If you are troubled with
slow shipments, try us.
Muskegon [lilling Co.
Muskegon, [Michigan
*““You have tried the rest
Now use the best.’’
Do you want the best that money can buy?
Then you want
Golden Korn
Flour
For it is the most scientifically milled flour on the market today.
We have recently built an absolutely new mill—pronounced by
experts ‘‘The Finest Mill on Earth’’—equipped with the most
improved milling machinery and operated by men who have
spent their lives in the study of scientific milling. Flour simply
cannot be made better than Golden Horn. Compare it with any
other in the country and judge for yourself. We always sell
Golden Horn for just what itis actually worth. Right now is
the time to buy. Wecater to buyers of mixed cars of flour
and feed.
Manufactured by
Star & Crescent Milling Zo., Mhicago, Tl.
Che Finest Mill on Earth
Distributed by
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MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
Story of Shoes for the Little Ones.
“Look here, I
he rtd
stop doing business down
you crusty
you don't out. better
ments, [ll
said the stork to the
“Now,
posies of paradise for a
old
Vasut Pye a
your street,”
shoe man. don’t dodge I
haven't any
worthless bachelor like you.
word to say to you in
a business way, and you sit down
there until I’ve said it,” went ona the
stork. “I want my product treated
well in your store. Do you under
stand that?
“] want the babies to have a fair
show. I want to see your window
filled up solid, for one solid
with footwear for the little
of the home When these. spring
es - ]
days come, and
1
the
the
the sun shines bright
leaves blossom gloriously and
sing merrily,
birds
people that |
‘ f Nowhe a an
ing journeys in the carriage
bring fr
me out for
the proud mother’s side
you to get right into lin
up the best you have {
ceneration.
“Toss those ‘has beens,’ those com-
fort slippers, those fireside favorites,
those warm goods into the store
room. Their time may come again
in the autumn. But- now is the. time
f the rising generation, that of the
(
little people who in the
spring time
Mrs; COme out into the worid tnat
they are to conquer as the years roll
While the
blown, and the storm king has raged,
by. wintry winds have
they have romped by the warm
hearth. But now nature is warm and
smiling and has invited them in that
language known only te childish fan-
cy to come into the sunny air
and fl
warm,
ourish and be happy.
“Now,
have I
inspire in you the spirit of the occa-
you tmnromantic bachelor,
preached enough to you to
SiOon!
beens,’ I say
‘Little
Greeting,’
oT se 4] ‘1
Toss out those ‘has
In their place make a Fairies’
Paradise, a little Ones’
‘The
appropriate name _ that
Footstool,’ or any other
Infants’
appeals to
you. Make your display attractive,
rascal, if
iInduce-
| studying the pink little toes,
lmuscles of
impressive and emphatic—something |
that will draw the baby carriages
around until the police send out the |
riot call, and the mayor talks of or-
dering out the militia to disperse the
mob.
cal that the adoring ‘mammas’ will
bring around the proud ‘papas’ the
5 I pa]
Better still, make it so practi- |!
Mr.
to you.
Roosevelt
“Is there money in infants’ goods?
Well, wake up, you old fossil. Didn't
you know that a couple of proud pa-
rents will go barefooted for the sake
of buying a handsome pair of ‘boot-
ies’ for their heir to carelessly fill
with ink and then thrown down the
parlor register.
“oLhhs
half
hasn't
It’s still
the point? You,
ought to be able to remem-
baby shoe business
been worked up yet.
in its infancy. See
yourself,
ber the time when a pair of crocheted
‘hoc ties’ or
a pair of cowhides that
fitted like a college boy’s cap on his
i ]
football crop of hair was good
enough for the rising generation.
There’s a million new babies a year,
ind they have to have shoes, because
they came barefooted into this cold,
stormy world.
“But, since they have begun to raise
youngsters on card index systems,
teach them physical culture, feed
them on scientific foods and. dress
them according to the fashion plates,
there has been a big change in mak-
ing and selling footwear for the com-
ing generation.
“iume was when a could
man
scrape up a handkerchief bundle of
scraps in a shoe factory, take them
home, and make them up into ‘cacks,’
selling them at 25 cents a pair, and
in the long run making profit enough
to spend ten
v¢ fifteen years in luxu-
rious idlemess. But that was in
the good old days.
“To-day it takes a scientist and an
artist to make children’s footwear.
’'m not joking now. The lines of
the infants’ shoe have got to be
scientifically correct. Since Ed-
ward bok, :
Walker
questi mn,
McFadden, John Brisben
others have tackled the
the
strong
and
race race must begin
on 2 and foundation,
sure
which necessarily means good _ foot-
wear.
“And so
studying
the footwear
feet, |
the soft |
you will see
experts children’s
5 the
span of the
the toot. To
started growing right
the bottom, curves
of the instep, the arch,
and everything about
get that foot
is an important question to the shoe |
man.
“The walk of the child and the
man, the barefooted savage Afri-|
can, the stride of the beast, the step |
the the
athlete are all studied by the shoe ex- |
pert with the hope of settling that |
of the soldier and leap of
all important problem, what is the|
proper way to walk? So you have the |
ishoes, ail
next day to buy a pair of those lovely |
pink and white silk and lace adorned
tiny ‘shoosies’ for ‘sweetness’ at
S250 a pait.
“There, you flint hearted old ras-
cal, I knew that the clink of money
would strike sparks in your
went on the stork.
“Do what I ask as a business prop-
money in. it,
enough
osition, because there’s
if you can’t raise courage
the natural,
host of
the regulator,
the orthopedic and a
educator,
other
intended as absolutely!
COTTect, scientifically,
hygienically, |
physically and otherwise for little
|people. One shoe expert of to-day
actually hopes to make a shoe that
|will fit the foot, both on sole and|
soul,” |
| direction,
the hand,|
and he is making progress in that|
upper, as a glove does
especially on children’s |
| goods.
|
}
|
in- |
Look at these sam-
“And there’s art. in
fants’ shoes, too.
making
from what I and the distinguished | ples, pink and baby blue, a delicate |
have been preaching |
Your Next Innings?
Solicit the Trade from BASE BALL CLUBS and
WIN new customers to your store.
Order sample pair of Base Ball Shoes at once
Sizes in stock April 1.
Sholto Witchell
Everything in Shoes
Local and Long Distance Phone M. 2226
Majestic Building, Detroit, Michigan
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, ’o5, will get right prices and fair
and square treatment.
WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers
State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co. SAGINAW, MICH
Right
In
The
Swim
Is the dealer who has a line of Top=Round Shoes
for Men. When he sells to customers they return
with smiles, asking for the same name and price.
Our Top Round shoes have a character. Once
worn always worn—and to prove these things will
give a more liberal guarantee than any other manu-
facturer in the world. Send a postal and our sam-
ples will reach you.
$3.50 Top-Round Shoe
$4.00
White-Dunham Shoe Co.
Brockton, Mass. Dept E
host of
of
tanner. Here is a
wonderful creations leather,- silk
Get a catalogue, read it over and you
will the
made for infants, you
amazed at wonderful
that
crusty old bachelor, who never have
be
shoes are
for babies.
“Now to come back to business
again. I hope you see that there is
a big trade to be had in children’s
Specialties this spring. Get your
window fixed up to please the little
Put plenty
dolls.
Or a
their mothers.
\ or color into it and lots) of
: Make it a fairy land scene,
for
to children.
ones and
doll’s party these things appeal
especially
“Advertise your display, too. If
you have the courage, try that plan
that to
many a offer free shoes for a
has worked perfection in
town
year to every baby bron in town.
much.
It won't cost Besides it will
give you a reputation as a philanthro-
And that An-
Carnegie is giving away
pist. you remember
drew now
libraries in order to get a reputation
as a philanthropist.
“T suppose it is a hopeless case for
to
foot-
forlorn individual
to fit
S wear consecutively
Dont try to
as you
to
getting
ij such 4
ever try two children
without
do it.
young lady. She may not know much
the but
you minutes
Hire 2
Cross.
about shoe trade, she can
give points sixty
hour on pleasing children, and their
too
and take in the money while
the
“Now, |
your mind
Week’ at
cording
mothers, You can pass out the
coods
shoes
think I’ve on
the
impressed
Value of a sabies’
your store. Arrange it ac-
to | the the
warm spring sunshine brings out the
the
the
carriage
the street
the The
a dandy to catch a family trade. Buy-
weather, when
flowers and babies, preferably
before Easter opening. Do
let
ribbon
just
the
all
is
not the dealer and
man across get
babies’ trade. scheme
ing babies’ shoes will bring grown-
And if you
in business twenty years longer
be than
fellow who will point out your gray
up people to your store.
are
there will more one young
haired head and say, ‘He sold me my
first pair of shoes. 7
So saying, the stork flew away and
left the shoe man thinking it over.
Fred A.
Recorder
>
Passing of Cowhide Boots.
Fi The
pride
Gannon in Boot and
sturdy boot of cowhide, the
land grandfathers, is disappearing
from shop and store. lt may
be seen here and there upon the
farm, but it has no place upon the|
polished parlor floor nor in the trol- |
{man’s go
ley or cab of the city.
The boot came to these rocky New
tngland shores with the Pilgrims. It]. : i :
: 1 ge tl cay ; ,| in his youth too often weds her in
roke the brush of the virgin forest|,.
aceeti . ae |his old age.
for hardy pioneers, and it trod down}
the seed of many a harvest upon the |
homesteads.
Glover’s men of Marblehead march-
green, red, pure white and a dozen |
other leathers, all made up especially |
an}
Shoe |
and comfort of our New Eng- |
still |
}
|
i for the children’s trade by an expert |
patterns, |
and laces, befitting the little fairies. |
realized what pretty things there are |
| Crs,
| fe Otwear
ed off to follow Washington in ’76
wearing fishing boots, shiny with oil
from the cod and salt from the spray
the Whittier, the
poet, hammered upon thick boot soles
oi sea. Quaker
and
Henry Wilson, “the Natick cobbler,
pondered
to the measures of his rhymes,
on questions of state as
he pulled his good waxed ends taut,
and dreamed of future greatness.
Walt Whitman
legs inside his high boots and went
out and
tucked his trousers
made friends with the boat-
and
donned
diggers. Politicians
toil at
‘lection time, just as the officeseeker
men clam
boots that betokened
of to-day puts on a glad smile and
puts out his glad hand. A clergyman
of high fame attributed early suc-
cesses to his cowhide boots, which
he wore tm his pulpit so that his
congregation would feel that he was
one of them.
Everett Dunbar, who still makes
boots by hand down in Lynn, has the
wedding boots of a now prominent
Lynner, worn twenty-five years ago.
The Lynner wore them only to _ his
$16
paid for
He wouldn’t dare to wear them
wedding, although he
them
although they are
of
comfortable
to-day, a splendid
specimen bootmaking, for they
have a broad toe, and
crimp tops, and are made of cowhide,
all of decidedly
fashion for full evening dress to-day.
which are out of
\ few grandfathers of to-day still call
for their high boots, considering them
of “rheuma-
pneumony and other pesky ills,”
a sovereign preventive
tiz,
especially if worn with the trousers
legs tucked into the boot top, so that
the cold and dampness can not creep
beneath the clothing and reach the
body.
Even from rough mining camps,
and the trail and the ranch of the
West, the boot is disappearing. Col-
lege boys struck Western camps with
heads full of ideas and feet in laced
high ankle boots, like the storm boots
“Dudes
yaller boots,” sniffed the veteran min-
but it long he
veterans themselves found
seen in Boston to-day. in
before t
the
fitting laced high boots of much val-
wasn’t
snug-
in supporting the ankles and in
And
and cowboys and ranchmen learned
the same thing,
So the sturdy boot of
ue
keeping out stones. hunters
too.
cowhide is
| passing and civilization is marching
onward in lighter and more scientific
Boston Globe.
——_.- >
On the Stand.
(in
Lawyer cross-examination)
| Have you ever been arrested?
Witness
past
Only three times in the
week.
Lawyer—Where were the arrests
made?
Witness—In my automobile.
—_—_» 2-2 —___
A woman’s of her first
love are preserved in briny tears—a
memories
up in smoke.
——_>
He who is not introduced to Folly
~~ _____
The way to measure a man’s char- |
acter is to note the little things he |
does.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Banigan and
Woonasquatucket
Rubbers
still maintain their pre-eminence in Popularity
for their exquisite style, fit and fine wearing
qualities.
The same degree of satisfaction is experienced by cus-
tomers wearing our light rubbers—Croquets, Storms, etc.—
just the thing for spring—as is desired by the necessary hard
usage of our heavy rubbers—Lumbermen, Perfections, Duck
aud Gum Boots, Etc.
That’s all.
BANIGAN RUBBER CO.
GEO. S. MILLER, President and Treasurer
131-133 Mark t St. Chicago, Iil
Right
up-to-the-minute
“Gadlllac”
1.00
Quality—The Best
Style—None Better
Fit—Perfect
Stocks—Vici Kid,
Velour Calf,
Box Calf and
Colt Skin
Half Double Sole, McKay Sewed.
The Best Style, Best Wearing and Best Fitting Line
of Men's $1.50 Shoes Offered To-day.
Stock No.
SOS Men’s Box Calf Sluicher, Custom Cap toe.......... 5 wide
S16 Men's Vici Kid Gals, Essex Cap Foe......... 5 and 6 wide
911 Men’s Velour Calf Bals, Lenox Cap Toe, Glove Top 5 wide
S12 Mens Box Calf Gals, Lenox Cap Toe............... 5 wide
S18 Men's Box Calf Bals, Custom Cap Toe......... --- Wide
920 . Men’s Bright Colt Skin Bals, Essex Cap Toe......... 5 wide
921 Men’s Bright Colt Skin Bals, French Plain Toe.... 6 wide
922 Men’s Bright Colt Skin Congress, French Plain Toe 6 wide
That is why
We want your business on this grade of goods.
we are making this low price on the line.
Send us a mail order and get a good thing.
C. E. Smith Shoe Co., Detroit, Mich.
Mention this paper when ordering.
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14
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Easter Window Trim Out of the Or-
dinary.
There are too many retail shoemen
who, while realizing that Easter af-
fords a rare opportunity to push
many medium and better-grade shoes,
wait until it is time to trim the win-
dows and the store before planning
the style of display, and who enter
upon the work with no well-defined
plan for making such trims. Easter
will soon be here, and now is none
too early to lay plans for it. You
may take it for granted that most of
your competitors will duplicate their
previous trims, and I propose some-
thing radically out of the ordinary;
simple, it is true, but effective:
Buy the largest sheet of heavy
“mat-board” that your local stationer
sells; it should be dark in color, a
pray or a rich brown. If you can
not get a sheet which is at least three
feet high and a few inches narrower,
have a carpenter make a panel of
rough, thin boards, as large as I have
said. Perhaps one of your sales
force can make it, using box boards,
and cleating it across the back. If
the wood panel is used, cover it with |
sateen or felt, or, if the store win-
dows are handsome ones, use velvct.
The cost is not great and the mate-
rial can be used afterwards for many |
purposes. The fabric should be of a
deep purple, for no other color is
more appropriate for Easter use. .
Now buy a large sheet of the heav-
iest sort of artists’ paper; if you can
get the kind which has an extremely
rough finish (cartoon paper), so much |
the better. This sheet will cost you}
not less than 4o cents. As to the;
lettering: If some one in the employ |
can letter neatly, all right; if not,
get the local sign painter to do the}
work, for the words must be as}
smoothly and well written and shap- |
ed as if they were printed.
As the card is to be somewhat |
dignified in tone, a sentence or two}
like the following may be used:
Easter Will Soon Be Here.
We have made full preparation
for that event—have purchased
the best of all the new spring
styles for your choosing. On
ey this window will be
filled with them. You will see
the nattiest and daintiest of foot-
wear, all new, all fresh, and
bright and worthy. There will
be shoes here which will add the
finishing beauty-touch to Easter
suits and gowns. We shall be
‘glad to have you see them.
As f have said, this should be
printed with great care, and the ini-
tial letter E should be at least four
inches in height, colered paints or
inks being used to give a bright ef-
fect. The other letters in the word
“Easter” should be about twice as
large as the rest of the letters on the
card, and all the letters, except those
forming the first word, should be
black. This should be written so
that a broader border of white space
may entirely surround the wording.
Now glue the paper to the mat-
board, or fasten it on the face of the
covered wooden panel, leaving it
loose at top and bottom, so that you
can so roll the paper as to give it a
| window shall not be spoiled.
DO YOU WANT
scroll effect at both ends. Pin or
paste a couple of pieces of broad,
purple satin ribbon to the lower
right-hand corner of the scroll, so
that when the paper is rolled up at
the bottom the ribbon will fall loose-
ly over the roll, as if it were attached
to a seal, as on a diploma. When you
have done this, you will admit that
you have a very striking and beauti-
ful window card, one which will
attract the attention of every person
who comes within seeing distance.
If you have two windows, clear out
one four or five days before you make
your Easter shoe display; have it
bare of shoes, showing goods, as us-
ual, in the other window. Puff cheese-
cloth or sateen all over the bottom
of the empty window, and place in
it the big card I have described. The
effect of the great, formal scroll,
rolling away from the purple or gray
background, will be very fine. The
card may be made to lean against the
window back, or if your window is
too deep for that, stand the panel
halfway, supporting it by an attached
leg, like an easel.
If you will then get a large bowl
from a china store, fill it with jon-|
auils, lilies or roses, and place that |
in front of the card in the window,
not in the center, but near one front
corner of the window floor, your “ad- |
vance Easter trim” will be one that |
will arouse interest in your store and |
goods through its very beauty. |
If you have only one window, and
still wish to show goods, you may
use wire display brackets, showing
shoes up and down the sides of the
window—but be careful to have but
a few, that the simple effect of the
“Not much like any other shoe win- |
| dows”—do you think? So much the |
| better. Novelty is what pays best, |
and the window display on the date |
specified on the card will show}
jenough shoes. to satisfy you and}
|every one else.
I forgot to say that in the space |
left blank in the wording to be used |
on the card, you should insert the |
date on which the Easter shoes will |
be shown. Next week I'll tell you
how to put in the next trim. Better
start at once to get this one ready— |
it will pay—Shoe Retailer. |
Kings go to war for the same rea-
son that fools go to law.
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MORE BUSINESS
That’s Our Business
We are quick sale specialists
with an unequalled record. We
conduct business-building sales
--stock reduction sales--close out
stocks entirely—at a less cost to
you than by any other firm in
our line Our long suit is in
making things lively for stores
that wish to grow. Wewant to
explain our plans to you in full.
If interested, write us in confi-
dence, now, stating size of stock.
C. N. HARPER @ CO.
ood Rubbers
Last year there were more Hood
Rubbers made and sold than any
other one brand. Last year we
bought and sold more Hood rubbers
than any year in our history.
Why?
Because retailers to whom we sold
Hood’s in 1904 made larger sales
and more money than ever on their
rubber business, because they had
The Best
After all money’s what we're all in
business for. Why don’t you get in
line? We've got the goods.
Geo. H. Reeder & Co.
State Agents
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Don't
Forget
That we want a mer-
chant in each town
to handle the
Skreemer
Shoes
which are the best
popular priced shoes
on the market.
We are distributors for these shoes and we wil]
send a salesman with a full line of samples to see you
if you will drop us a postal.
Michigan Shoe Co.
Detroit, Mich.
Room 210, 87 Washington St., CHICAGO
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Diversity of Shoe Styles.
Although the calendar does not say
spring is here, nor nature give any
considerable evidence of having done
with winter, shoe retailers, who be-
1 catches’ the
vorm,” are already showing spring
l ling them to a
shoe stytes and sel
few early buyers.
Window displays
|contain practically nothing new in
many ways if there was, among the |
many freaks and other lasts, one that
was acknowledged as standard, be-
cause of its good fitting qualities,
and sensible as well as nice appear-
ance.
Kick and fight against it as they
may, all lasts and shoe manufacturers
who think of it at all, must know that
we are destined to have a standard
last before many years have passed,
not only standard in shape but stand-
ard in measurements, and standard
places in which to measure those
Wouldn’t it be fine if a
wholesaler could order, season after
strappings.
|
the shape of footwear. Variety rath-
er than originality will no doubt be
the characteristic of the year 1905 in
the shoe world. This is a cosmopoli-
tan nation and its shoe manufacturers
and shoe sellers. have apparently
agreed that, for a season at least, they
will make and offer for sale every
thing that could possibly be
asked
for by anyone. An enterprising re-
.
tailer, who sells only the grades
bringing $3.50 the pair or more, said:
“T aim to put at least one shoe of
every style in stock into the window
display and in former years have oft-
en put several shoes of one kind in
to complete the display. In arrang-
ing my window last week with — the
new goods for spring, using but one!
able to dis-
shoe of a style, I was un
different
kinds.” He undoubtedly spoke the
play more than hait’ the
truth and what he said would be en-
dorsed by many other dealers.
\ single window display contains a
pointed toe, closely resembling the
tooth-pick of a few years ago, as
well as the wide custom last which
never fails to find friends. Between
these two can be found a variety of
models sufficient to satisfy those who
eschew extremes. Men’s shoes are
shown with common-sense, _half-
military and full
Women’s shoes are made with com-
military heels.
mon-sense, opera, the numerous
Louis heights, as well as heels of the
military mold. Vamps are cut in
all known patterns. You may select
from button, Blucher or bals: in
boots, or if you prefer, slippers or
oxfords.
An abundance of finishes abound
in leathers. Patents and enamels, |
. i | =
lull and bright blacks in calf, cow, T th T k
ae ae cea oy im 2 ruc man
Colors are shown in several shades,
the more popular being ian, brown, |
chocolate and champagne—a few 0i|
these in patent finish. At some of|
the stores they are already selling |
many tan oxfords and a prominent |
member of the trade predicts that |
there will not be enough of these to|
before the season is
through. White and |
shoes and oxfords are also expected |
a1) round
gray canvas
to sell in large numbers later in the}
season.
A few years ago when a determined
effort was being put forth in certain |
quarters to forever relegate the point- |
ed toe to oblivion the proprietor of |
one of the largest retail shoe stores |
in the world was asked to give his
“T attribute such
opinion, He said:
success as I kave attained to the
fact that I have invariably endeavor-| tim the truckman, who trundles the
ed to give the people just such shoes trunks,
When frying to thump them up into small
: | chunks,
the people are again ready to buy| With his trusty truck in shine or rain,
and wear narrow toes, and I believe} He breaks up the trunks with might and
main
And if they don’t break with the awful
abuse.
It is possible this man may prove}! He jumps on them hard with his HARD-
to be a prophet and the time is here PAN shoes.
as they thought they wanted.
they will want them again, I shall |
be prepared to supply the demand.”
when manufacturers will make and !
ul Dealers who handle our line say
dealers will sell what people want, in-
stead of trying to compel the public} W® make them more money than
to buy that which is made to satisfy | other manufacturers.
the opinions of a few individuals Write us for reasons why.
who, in times past, have imagined
I
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co,
| Makers of Shoes
rey were called upon to prescribe
‘tain shoes for their fellow beings
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Shoe Trade Journal.
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SINGLE INSIDE LIGHT
500 CANDLE POWER
SINGLE INSIDE LIGHT
600 CANDLE POWER
SINGLE INSIDE LIGHT
600 CANDLE POWER
i
25% Discount
For the Next 30 Days
Of course you want a lighting system and we have
the kind you want. Write us to-day and get prices cn
the wonderful
N. & B. Automatic Gas Machine
IT HAS NO COMPETITOR
ar Noel & Bacon Co.
345 So. Division St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Both Phones
Increase Your Sales
A barrel of Decorated Nappies and
Teas for $13.50 sell for $21.60, you make
$8.10.
Twelve Decorated Dinner Sets
for $50.00 sell for $63.00, you make $13 oo.
We are manufacturing one of the best
high grade semi-porcelain bodies produced
in this country and we offer the above in-
ducement to give you an opportunity to
prove same.
The American China Co.
Toronto, Ohio, U. S. A.
Cut this out and write us, mentioning the publication
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MICHIGAN
purchases of these have been larger |
than usual it is because they have |
placed most faith in the soft plain
front style and believe it will be the |
largest seller this coming summer. |
| As the plain front has been a ready
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, seller all through the winter with the
| custom trade, as well as in all other
| grades, and is talked of by the best
News Things in Shirts, Collars and
Cuffs.
Following the early efforts of furn-| tage as the spring and summer lead- |
ishers to get their spring lines well |
introduced, there should be a good|
duplicate business in shirts this sea- |
son. Furnishers have not consider-
ed the weather, but having their new
stocks ready, and no old goods to
push out, they have made early ef-| There is a note of warning, however,
forts to get trade on the new and|
iby in past experiences which should}
= SS results, all! serve the factories well as a lesson
things considered. |for this season, and as stocks have
Should March prove as interesting | peep ia the noted state now for!
a retail month as February was, he | ia time, they should be kept well
salesmen for manufacturers, when) regulated that tee auae Ge an eee
they start out in April with fall lines, | ace to good profits, ae the votes |
should reap a harvest of duplicate begins to get a good share of busi- |
spring orders. Although retailers | , oc. i i |
In a previous issue we showed two |
er, the factories may be expected to!
anticipate the demand by doing the
usual thing when prospects are good
on a particular style—overproducing
and glutting the market with more |
merchandise than can be consumed.
bought more liberally on initial or-
ders for spring than has been the | itlustrations of the then latest novel-|
case in the past few years, the lack
; ' ties in hand-embroidered fronts and |
of old stock to do business on forced | wigs Recently there has been in- |
them to push the new to the front at | troduced, to be worn with day dress, |
once, and as new goods are alwayS| white pique fronts in ribbed goods |
10re or less an incentive - | : . c
more or less an incentive to the COn-| embroidered with floral sprays, fleur- |
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>. to thas the iieapsp sin SPring | de-lis and Grecian designs in three |
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' rey ere an ened interest, 4nd | colors, the cuffs matching. The body |
with the same amount of interest sus- fabric is a white madras in granite |
2 > 0) g 2 s . 7 a a |
ay eine ia Se month | shown in the figures. A style so ex-|
there will be early duplicating. treme as this is naturally limited to|
Since the first showings of spring| 4 small number of wearers, the few |
lines there has been a fair sale Of men who do not consider anything |
pleated-front shirts, contrary to e€x-|to9 showy so long as it is a novelty
pectations; in fact, they have gone! and different from the ordinary.
better than plain fronts. The fact is! The latest importations of high-|
. :
that . . si ee tne | priced shirtings show solid color |
ee cement ee ee. °F! grounds in plain weaves, marled |
the souiiig pleated fronts. natig 4 grounds, pebble weaves, double-and- |
a Ee ey eu bap :
— a — oT pares: ini twist weaves and granites, Over-run
to which time — Ww ° lave | with woven patterns in self color, all
~e rei rs osoms : ! | i !
been bless tiff — me 2 of which fabrics are shown with sin-
1e ay 6S r ter’s >» r ae. . . |
them se a page Ce gle and group cord stripes at wide
oi eae apie cigs = still OF | intervals and heavy or Bedford cords
So —— amet gnsnanne €S~|in contrasting colors. Also in white|
pecially true of the trade in large cit- } grounds with similar stripe effects. |
eee there has been _ better de- Although these recent introductions |
mand for pleated shirts right along) y,y¢ been described to the writer as
=> a ~— deal- the latest tendency in shirtings, there
ers. The pleated front is still a fav- are buyers who have little faith in
ored style with the best trade, and
i stripes and great confidence in fig-
n a+ = y a . Ss . . .
. leader with the ee makers, and | ures, and, believing figures will sell
continuing in fashion with the best better, will push them up front.—|
dressers there is sure to be a fair |
boing | Apparel Gazette.
demand for it, at least in high-priced
a lf ben a |
ready-made shirts. Whenever pleats Two Miles of Track in a Day. |
have been in style they do much bet-
A new railway track layer, with a/|
ter in the high-priced lines than in| Grew of forty men, will lay two miles
the lower grades, because it is SO| of track a day. The track layer has|
much easier to turn out a handsome |, huge crane sixty feet long, which |
pleated shirt at a good price than| projects forward over the road sai
at a popular one. One of the com-| hauls behind it a train of sixteen flat |
plaints hitherto lodged against the | cars loaded with ties and rails. A|
pleated shirt by the consumer is that) continuous double line of cars moves |
the bosoms have been made toolong/ constantly over rollers and carries |
and when worn crush up about as| the ties with it. Both rails and_ ties |
quickly as they are put on. Realizing | are seized at the proper time by|
that a shorter bosom would take well|the machinery and placed on the|
some makers have shortened their| ;oad in front of the train, where they |
pleated bosoms and retailers report| shortly form part of the track ove
that they find them very satisfactory, | which it passes. This device is said |
as customers complain less about!t ) be the most expeditious as well |
them. as economical track layer in the|
world.
Immediately after Easter, when the
fold collar comes into general use,
there is certain to be a large demand The safest way to conceal stupidity |
for plain front shirts, and if retail/|is to remain silent. |
nena tft ffi ences |
|
There is
No Risk
Selling
‘Clothes of Quality”’
because we stand behind the
merchant with the promise to
replace every
garment.
unsatisfactory
Such an assurance is very
pleasing to the purchaser also.
No matter where the defect
becomes apparent — we will
make it good.
It is not so much what we
say about ‘‘Clothes of Quality’’
as what they prove the wearer.
M. Wile & Company
High-grade, Moderate-priced Clothes for Men and Young Men
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
The Sheep as He Appears in His-
tory.
Of all domesticated anmials the
sheep, from time immemorial, has
been most closely associated with
man. It can not be ascertained when,
if ever, they existed in a wild state,
for as far back as historic records go
sheep were the faithful companions
of our race and utilized both for food
and clothing. Naturally gentle, they
were easily petted, and it is easy to
imagine that long before the dawn of
civilization savage children had either
favorite lambs for companions, while
the older ones herded the flocks as
their principal reliance for
tence. When literature appeared and
records began to be kept, universal
and frequent mention of the sheep is
found in all the sacred and profane
writings of antiquity. Biblical his-
tory, from the time of Abel, is full of
ailusions to the flocks which formed
the chief possessions of the Jewish
people and their neighbors. The
spoils of war and the tribute of vas-
sal kings largely consisted of sheep.
Thus we read that Mesha, King of
Moab, was a skeep master, and ren-
dered unto the King of Israel 100,000
lambs and 100,000 rams, with the
wool. Ruth, the heroine of the love-
liest of love stories in the Old Testa-
ment, was a native of Moab, and itis
subsis-
easy to picture her spinning cloth for
her family in the affectionate house-
hold of her mother-in-law, the faith-
ful Naomi. When Moses, toward the
close of his weary wanderings inthe
wilderness, gained his great victory
over the Midanites he obtained as
loot no less than 675,000 sheep.
Sheep were familiar to every coun-
try of Asia, and long before the Chris-
tian era they were cultivated in
Western Europe. Spain and Italy pos- |
sessed them from an unknown pe-
riod, they were extensively owned in
all the Greek states, and there is
barbarians of the North, in what is
now Russia and the Balkan States,
source of food and clothing. Theoc-
ritus, the sweet singer of the Grecian
Isles, who flourished long
of the master for his flocks.
the Roman poet, at a later period,
herd Tityrus. In fact, the finest of
both the Greek and Latin lyric poetry
was composed in honor of the humble
animal so familiar on all farms in
ancient, as well as modern times. It
is difficult to ascertain just when the
custom of shearing the fleece orig-
inated and what people deserve the
credit for this valuable discovery. It
is known, however, that long after
the founding of Rome the inhabitants
thereof continued to obtain the wool |
by plucking it from the skin, and this |
unsat- |
wholly |
abandoned until the time of Pliny. It |
comparatively awkward and
isfactory method was_ not
‘from the beginning and has held it)
before |
hrist, z esse nany of his_ beau-| : : :
Christ, addressed ma y - — c | brains—energy, intelligence and con-
tiful pastorals to depicting the joys |
and sorrows of the shepherds, the do- |
cility of the lambs and the affection |
“~.. |higher.than the same men
Virgil, |
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: | modest capital. The way to them is|
made the woods re-echo with the} P y j
aises autiful Amaryllis and | : : .
praises of the beautiful Amarylli and | the trust question that is of value|
her faithful lover, the gentle shep-|
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through all the subsequent genera- |
tions. Valuable as food always, it |
was invaluable for clothing purposes, |
especially to a primitive people, un-|
acquainted with the fine arts that pre-|
vail in a higher state of civilization. |
The savage’s only resource for a cOv- |
ering was in the skin of beasts, but |
stupid as he was, he could not long |
overlook the superiority of the|
sheep’s wool over all other animal
It was doubtless a long
time before he discovered the art of
spinning the fleece into yarn, and still
longer before he found out how to
weave the cloth. These, however, are
very ancient inventions, and ‘it is im-
possible to over-estimate their value |
in lifting men from barbarous to civ-
ilized conditions. As the race could |
make no intellectual advance until
suitably clothed and fed, and as the
sheep supplied both these needs as
they were supplied by no other ani-
mal, it is but a fitting recognition of
this lowly creature to give it high
integuments.
place among the world’s benefactors.
2
Climbing the Ladder.
“There is plenty of room at the|
top of the ladder of success, but the
rnes on the way up
crowded.”
are well
The quotation is only a new word-
ing of an old saw by a modern wise-
acre. It was called forth in a dis-
cussion of the chances of the young
man of to-day as compared with
those of the last two decades and the
last generation. Invariably in such
discussions there is more or less to
say of the trusts and how they have
crushed the small competitor out of
existence in the business world, giv-
ing the average man less of an op-
portunity for an independent living. |
There is another side to the trust |
| question, however, and this time and |
this column are appropriate for its}
ie iparade. In the formation and de-}
every reason for believing that the)
velopment of these big corporations |
|a better chance has been provided for
|the young man without capital, who
relied upon the sheep as their chief | 5. starting absolutely at the bottom
of the ladder, than at any other time |
in the history of our country. Prizes |
are offered for brains—cultivated |
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scientious effort. The salaries paid |
to men of ability are enormous, much |
could |
make in business for themselves with |
That is the side of|
straight enough.
to the ambitious young man. That |
| the rungs of the ladder of success are |
| well crowded need not deter any one |
|from starting to climb.
|culiar lader and a good climber is|
It is a pe-|
not impeded by those ahead, nor does |
he need to knock them off. He will)
find it easy to climb right past them.
Discovered.
“Oh! George!” murmured the sweet |
thing, reproachfully, “what would pa- |
pa say if he knew that you’ ever|
touched liquor?”
“He has discovered it already, dear-|
est,” admitted her fiance, sadly.
“Mercy! And what did he say!” |
is easy enough to see why the sheep | “He said: ‘Well, George, I don’t |
obtained so strong a hold on manjcare if I do!”
Wake Up Mister
Clothing Merchant
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 Morton House
Grand Rapids, Mich.
One of the strong features of our line—suits to retail at $10 witha
good profit to the dealer.
H. H. Cooper & Co.
Our Garments Always Handle with Satisfac-
Utica, N. Y.
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
Medium
and
Fine Clothing
Perfect Fitting
Well Made and Good Materials
tory Results
The Right Kind of Clothing at
Right Prices
Represented by
J. H. Webster
No. 472 Second Ave., Detroit, Mich.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
MERCHANT OF THE FUTURE. |
He Certainly Is the Salesman of To- |
Day—
Who has character.
Who is always cheerful.
UAT
Who endeavors to be correct al-|
ways.
Who does the very best he can
at all times.
Who never fails to be polite and
courteous.
Who learns from the open book of |
experience.
Who makes business success in a}
business way.
Who with the boss “pull together” |
for business.
Who does not dream, but finds and
does his work.
Who never thinks of failure, but |
hopes for success.
Who although he makes mistakes
will stand corrected.
Who attends well to business dur- |
ing business hours.
Who willingly listens to adivce and
profits thereby.
Who is an up-to-date man, but is
not prone to be fast.
Who does not constantly keep his |
eyes on the clock.
Who knows “success
life,’ and hustles.
manners and dealings.
Who knows “time is a sacred
thing” and does not waste it.
Who aims at something and never
lets up until he has it.
Who is not a victim to the vices
that beset all young men.
Who keeps everything in the store
neat, tidy and orderly.
Who has a well defined character
and desires for business.
Who is not content with being just
the average salesman.
Who strikes out with a real
termination to win success.
Who endeavors to know the busi-
ness “from the ground up.”
Who rises early and is at business
when the store is opened.
Whodoes not jump at conclu-
sions, but feels them out first.
Who is always on trial and always
the same to all persons.
Who waits on all customers as he
would like to be waited on.
Who does not try to grab the
earth, but works to acquire his
share.
Who can “think twice before you
speak;” but thinks quickly.
Whobelieves system
makes it easier and better.
Who saves time and money
spend, or invest, at the proper time.
Who trains his tongue to utter
only pleasant words for everybody.
Who does not make everyone his
confident, but makes them his
friends.
de-
in business
to
Who has enthusiasm for his mo-|
tive power to help him to success.
Who in his work has a place for
everything and keeps it in its place.
Who remembers: Eternal vigi-
lance is the price of business suc-
cess.
Who enters into the confidence and
plans of his employer—his adviser.
Who never allows himself to be-
| pearance.
Finally, an accident deprived the
world of a useless man, and then it |
Who is an aggressive hustler and|came out what a snake in the grass |
leaves a lasting and favorable im-/| he had been for a quarter of a cen-|
: | |
come slouchy and careless in hisap- |
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A Safe
10 per cent.
is the law of |
| pression.
| Who saves his energy, ambition
and enthusiasm for things that are
| worth while.
Who carefully plans and executes
|his employer’s business as if it were
his own.
Who knows true success is getting
|the better of yourself, not the other
| fellow.
Who keeps his nerve and temper
under control in trying and vexing
moments.
Who observes that life
is a con-
| ed victories.
| rection.
Who studies the trade papers and)
commits all valuable information to
memory.
Who is a student of human nature,
in business.
Who knows money is essential to |
as well as brains |
business success,
and management.
present scope.
Who is methodical and punctual.
| Method is the very hinge of busi-
punctuality.”-—Boot and Shoe
corder.
Employer.
Written for the Tradesman.
How often do we see or hear of an
employe disloyal to the man or firm
that furnishes him with the work that
enables him to draw money
Saturday night to keep the wolf from
mayhap, put by something for
Sometimes the ungrateful one is an
employe of long-standing. He owes
| his daily bread to the one whom he
|reviles behind his back. On every
possible occasion—and,
some impossible ones—he comes for-
ward with some. sarcastic remark
concerning his employer, some slur
intended to do him injury in the mind
of the listener. The wonder often
is that these remarks—these stabs—
do not reach the ears of the one they
are intended to wound.
ing years of his life who was an
example at once to be pitied and
scorned. ”*ITwas known that he had
been in the employ of the same house
and its successors for some twenty-
| five years.
that time, all the people he worked
|for. This was well known to others,
but for some unaccountable reason
those against whom his venom was
directed were in complete ignorance
of his attitude toward them. Had
they been aware of the existence of
this rancorous feeling on the part of
'the underling his presence in their
not have
|place of business would
been tolerated. Even to comparative
strangers
he unbosomed himself.
stant battle, and enjoys his hard earn- |
Who has a fixed purpose “to suc- |
'ceed” and heads himself in that di-|
and has the qualifications to use them |
Who discovers new ways of improv-
" : ! i | ing and extending business beyond its |
Who is straightforward in all his |
ness and there is “no method without |
Re-
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The Matter of Personal Loyalty to |
every |
the door the following week and, |
the |
proverbial rainy day that comes at |
one time or another into most lives. |
seemingly, |
Once I knew a man in the declin- |
He had hated, during all|
| tury. There was nothing that could
'be done then—punishment had pass-
|ed out of hands that, all unconscious- |
| ly, had been fettered for years. They |
tried to put his memory out of their |
a
|minds, but at every turn they were)
Investment
|Nothing to look after except cut-
ting off the interest coupons.
Write us
: vere | C. C. Follmer & Co.
|confronted with objects that remind-| iin oie Visetese Weds
| ed of the treacherous one. After|gy44 Michigan Trust Building
|many years of prosperous business | Grand Rapids, Michigan
| life the firm retired and all traces of |
‘the man were obliterated for the|
|partners. But his very name
|one to loathe whene’er they heard it.
AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS
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-
was
This is an extreme case, I am | tance with top, refinished White steam carriage
a . co : | with top, Toledo steam carriage, four passenger,
| aware. Usually the employe’s disloy- | dos-a-dos, two steam runabouts, allin good run-
| ning order. Prices from $200 up.
|alty becomes known—leaks out—and
| ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids
then it’s all up with him. He gets
| his conge instanter and his place is| a i
filled with some one else, who the Don't Buy an Awning
employer has reason to think will |
have the interests of the place at}
| heart. |
Of course, a man may go to work |
for another and neither like him nor |
ithe job. If so, let him still be loyal
to the person over him, and if he|
doesn’t like the place let him hunt |
Until you get our prices.
|for another position and step down
and out when he finds one more con- |
| genial. But, while he is there, let
| him be loyal. Harry Harris. We make a specialty of store, office
os 'and residence awnings. Our I9o05 Im-
| proved Roller Awning is the best on the
|market. No ropes to cut the cloth and a
sprocket chain that will not slip. Prices
on tents, flags ard covers for the asking.
| CHAS. A. COYE
|I and 9 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich
You may have a rubber conscience
and still find it hard to erase your
sins.
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