a a. ; } } SOT HE Pee NE GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1905 We Buy and Sell Total Issues of State, County, City, School District, Street Railway and Gas BONDS Correspondence Solicited, H. W. NOBLE & COMPANY BANKERS Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich, Wiillam Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, Ist Vice-Pres. William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres. M. C. Huggett, Seoy-Treasurer The William Connor Co. WHOLESALE CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS 28-30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Our Spring and Summer samples for 1905 now showing. Every kind ready made clothing for all ages. All our goods made under our own inspec- tion. Mailand phone orders promptly shipped Phones, Bell, 1282; Citizens, 1957. See our children’s line. Commercial Credit Co., us Milo MSY MCL Me Telte hy Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit o Good but slow debtors pay upon receipt of our direct de- mand letters. Send all other accounts to our offices for collec- 5 Sted ee 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. Have Invested Over Three Million Dol- lars For Our Customers in Three Years Twenty-seven companies! We have a portion of each company’s stock pooled in a trust for the protection of stockholders, and in case of jase in any company you are reimbursed from the trust fund of a successful company. The stocks are all withdrawn from sale with the exception of two and we have never lost a dollar for a customer.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 a Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. CUE PRINTING SCUDE TUDE ent D SPECIAL FEATURES. Renovated Butter. Around the State. Grand Rapids Gossip. Window Trimming. New York Market. Editorial. Some Strange Foods. Chain Badly Needed. Food Adulterants. Coarse Manners. Clothing. Taking Chances. Standard of Food. Mystery Mongering. Woman’s World. The Man Beautiful. Success in Life. Hardware. . Shoes. 36. Hiring a New Man. 40. Commercial Travelers. 42. Dregs. 43. Drug Price Current. 44. Grocery Price Current 46. Special Price Current. Recent Business Changes in the Buckeye State. Athens—G. L. Putnam is_ suc- ceeded by Millihan & Hickle in the jewelry business. Bowling Green—R. & F. & A. G. Mercer are succeeded in the grocery business by D. Mercer & Son. Cleveland—Wm. J. Schroeder, of 1 the firm of Sheahan & Schroeder, has | sold his interest in the metal works to his former partner, Martin Shea- | han, who will continue the business Columbus—E. J. Adams, grocer, is Adams Dayton-—Rueben ceeds Chas. C. & Watson. Schendler succeeded by suc- Francisco, druggist. ed his medicine manufacturing busi- | ness into a stock with authorized company an capital stock of | succeeded by B. | The Bowers Manufacturin; Lina g Co. and the Indianapolis Roofing & Corrugating Co. have formed a con- solidation and will manufacture sheet metal specialties. i verse Lucasville—C. J. Moulton is suc-} ceeded by Moulton & Kline in the general store business. Millersburg—Smith & Schott are| succeeded in the wholesale grocery business by the Smith & Schott Co. Peebles—W. W. Davis will continue the lumber business formerly ducted by Davis & Co. con- Ravenna—A. C. Williams, manu- terTests iseem to facturer of sad irons and house furn- | ishing specialties, is succeeded by the A. C. Williams Co. sold by John L. er, to John Morrow, John N. and George C. and Jacob Koblegard, of West Virginia. form a Garver Weston, The purchasers will stock company and continue Mr. been a druggist for over twenty years, the business. Morrow, who has will take the management of the busi | liberate than wo : un / | be better for Springfield—The drug store former- | iu ly conducted by A. C. Miller has been! Zimmerman, receiv- | GENERAL TRADE REVIEW. There flicting conditions in many fields af- have been enough of con- fecting speculative values to keep the average of prices from going much the Sensitiveness to reports of ad- either above or below general level. weather affecting seeding, to political complications affecting Eu- ropean nations in their far eastern in- and the various local dis- turbances, such as labor in Chicago, questions of rate regulation, etc., prevent any continued up- ward movement. However, the gen eral trend is toward a general recov- ery in prices, and if this is more de- some might wish it will general trade in the long There is nothing in the situation |to materially affect general trade dis- Lynch, of this place, | | structural ness. The stock was appraised at $6,700 and the purchase price was! $4,500. Springfield—Herman Kastens is B. Jones in the con | fectionery and grocery business. Dayton—Elwood E. Rice has merg- | Toledo—B. A. Stevens, of the B. A. Stevens Co., which manufactures re | frigerators and butchers’ supplies, is $10,000. | The new corporation will do business | under the style of the Indian Medi- cine Co. Dayton—The Irvin Paint & Glass Co. has increased its capital to $125,000. Dayton—The Pretzinger Catarrh & Balm Co. has been incorporated under stock the same style with a capital stock | of $200,000. Dayton—The Sachs-Pruden Co. has been incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing waters and The company has an au- thorized capital stock of $150,000. Medicine Co. has been incorporated under the same style. Findlay—P. W. formerly engaged in the grocery department at the C. F. Jackson store, and Ora Neeley, a clerk at the Ulsh grocery, An- drew Hartman at the corner of South mineral soft drinks. Findlay—Thz Glessner Harris, have purchased the grocery of ican dead. Cleveland—The creditors of the Eclipse Brass Manufacturing Co. have filed a petition in bankruptcy and a receiver has been appointed. Dayton-—A_ petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the creditors of A G. Myers, retail grocer. tribution beyond the slight interrup- 1 a wet month and its increase the tion of of attention to work of seeding when weather conditions permit. the highest and the work of increasing Railway earnings continue at railway equipment is being No factor in the railway situation is a general boomin urged , ae - ui everywhere smal] operations of all kinds. These are being pushed as the season advances without abatement in every the acilities section and demands on _ trans- portation f are something tremendous. period of Fortunately during the been meet all This has operated to aid in- speculative reaction there has plenty of ready money to needs. dustrial expansion as in structural in- crease and enlargement of plant and + to afford the means of keeping opera- tions in the greatest activity. In iron and steel the long contin- ued increase in production seems at St. Mary’s—A petition in bankrupt- | cy has been filed by the creditors of | H. J. T. Nietert, dealer in flour and feed. Springfield—E. L. Arthur has been appointed assignee for J. W. wood & Co., grocers. Most publishers take little interest in the advertising problem Har- |} | of activity and in further | than to manifest their desire to sell | white space. for very little, either bought or sold. It is the stuff in the space plus the circulation of the medium that alone make the ¥ ou, sir, good for advertiser. appear to be an exception, |} as is shown by your intelligent analy- Main and Lincoln streets. Mr. Hart- man has retired from trade on ac-| count of ill health. Defiance—Judgment on cognovit for $586 has been rendered against the Gold Leaf Baking Powder Co. Lima—C. A. Negelspach has filed a chattel mortgage for $1,800 in favor of the Metropolitan Cigar Co. the situation: but quite seem to see SiS of don't should send us your paper until Bro. Cven why you Somebody has begun largely to in- crease his space; in default, whereof, you not unnaturally suggest that we would better take a little space our- selves, Yet mere space counts you last to have overtaken the volume of demand, so that a slight increase in This is better for stocks is the reported. general situation as it gives as- surance of there being no undue in- the industries there is no the footwear crease) in, prices. In great tex- tile diminution manufacture and distribution of dealers are coming to accept the increase in prices as an inevitable condition of the trade and orders are being placed with the utmost freedom. lll When you go into mixed company, the air you should carry with you there is that of fearing no one and wishing to offend no one. —_—_2-e. ____ The homely girl with one beau usually gets married sooner than the pretty girl who has half a the string. —_.--2-. ___. The man who hates to see another dozen on happy is certainly safe from catching it himself, 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN RENOVATED BUTTER. culture Upheld. An important decision has face abundant evidence that one of : —_—_——_ . |its purposes is to prevent the inter- Regulations of Department of Agri-| . state transportation and sale of proc- | ess or renovated butter unless proper- been | handed down by the District Court of | the United States, Northern cf New York—U. S. vs. Mott Green-- on demurrer to an indictment charg- ing the defendant, a dealer in butter, District | with the crime of having removed, at | | process or renovated butter has left Binghamton, N. Y., the words “reno- vated butter,” alsc the stamps and caution notices from original pack- sold to the defendant in Ohio brought into the State of New York for sale and there sold after the re- moval of the stamps The defendant demurred on the ground that such act of removal of not consti- and brands. brands and stamps does tute a crime. The the indictment verified, writing the decision. Judge Ray cites from the Oleomar- garine Act of May 9, 1902, all sec- tions defining renovated butter, im- posing taxes thereon, prescribing the branding of the article and delegating to the Secretary of Agriculture cer- tain powers of supervision of manu- facture, formulation of rules, etc. He cites also the portions of previous laws referring to the inspection of live cattle, etc., by the Secretary of Agri- culture which were made applicable to renovated butter by the Act of May 9, 1902. Judge Ray declares it evident that the means of identification of all these articles and products—the marks, stamps, or labels—are to attend, go with and be attached to them until they have reached the hands of the consumer. He says: The Oleomargarine Act, approved May 9, 1902, not only provides that renovated butter and the packages containing the same shall be marked with the words “renovated butter” or “process butter,” but that it shall not overruled and Judge Ray demurrer was state or territory or any foreign coun- try other than that of its manufac- ture, until it has been so marked. Sec- tion 5 of that Act also imposes a pen- alty for the shipment, transportation or removal of such renovated butter to another state or territory if such provision for marking or labeling shall not have been complied with. Congress evidently had a purpose in providing in Section 5 that all parts of the act for an inspection of meats, etc., and above referred to, applicable to the subjects and purposes described in the Oleomargarine Act should ap- ply to process or renovated butter. The provisions in the Oleomargar- ine Act providing for inspection and the making of needful rules and reg- ulations for carrying the act into ef- fect, etc., correspond, as to purpose, etc., with the provisions of Section 1, 2 and 3 of the act for inspection of live cattle, etc., approved March 3, 1891, and as subsequently amended. In the Oleomargarine Act we find no provision making it a criminal of- fense to forge, counterfeit, etc., or to knowingly and wrongfully alter, de- face or destroy any of the marks, | | | | 1 j | ; s | butter. be transported or shipped into any) ly stamped, labeled, etc. Is it necessary, proper, or advisable that the stamps, marks, labels, etc., upon renovated or process butter or the packages containing same shali not be removed, altered or defaced until such article has reached the hands of the consumer? Evidently so. Otherwise at any time after the the factory on its way to another state or territory the labels and marks may : | be removed with impunity and espe- ages of that article manufactured and | and | cially after such renovated butter has reached another state is the person transporting it at liberty to remove all such marks. Its identity as proc- or renovated butter is then de- stroyed and it may be sold and re- sold in the state or territory to which shipped as genuine butter, or, as ap- plied to this case, the renovated but- ter manufactured in Ohio, and being a subject of inter-state commerce and having entered into inter-state com- merce, having been shipped to and received in the State of New York by a dealer in butter and not a consumer, is with the marks removed placed up- on the market as genuine butter, and. with the marks to identify it as proc- ess or renovated butter removed, may be transported to the State of Con- necticut or any other state or to a foreign country as genuine butter. If the marks, etc., “for identification” have been removed the Government can not follow it even while remain- ing an article of inter-state commerce. If such stamps, labels, etc., may be removed then the purpose of the law, aside from the payment of the orig- inal tax imposed upon such a product, is absolutely defeated. It is evident that Congress intended to incorporate and has incorporated into the Oleo- margarine law, the act approved May 9. 1902, Section 4 of the act approved March 3, 1891, being “An Act to pro- vide for the inspection of live cattle, hogs and the carcasses and products thereof, which are the subjects of in- ter-state commerce, and for other pur- poses,” as amended, so far as appli- cable, and Section 4 as amended is applicable and pertinent and _ neces- sary to carry into full force and effect the purpose of the Oleomargarine law which applies to renovated or process Applying the provisions of Section 4 of the Act of March 3, 1891, as amended, to the Oleomargarine law and we would have that section incorporated therein read as follows: “That said examination shall be made in the manner provided by rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and aft- er said examination all process or renovated butter found to be whole- some, sound and fit for human food shall be marked, stamped or labeled for identification as may be provided by said rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture. Any per- son who shall forge, counterfeit, sim- ulate, imitate, falsely represent or use without authority or knowingly and wrongfully alter, deface or destroy any of the marks, stamps or other de- vices provided for in the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture of any such process or renovated butter, or who shall forge, counterfeit, simu- late, imitate, falsely represent or use without authority, or knowingly and wrongfully alter, deface or destroy any certificate or stamp provided in said regulations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- viction thereof shall be punished by a ess stamps or other devices provided for | fine not exceeding one thousand dol- in the regulations of the Secretary of|lars or Agriculture or in the law, but we must] one year, imprisonment not exceeding or by both said punish- conclude, and it is evident, that there | ments, in the discretion of the court. is as much necessity for such a pro-|* vision in regard to renovated or proc- ess butter as in reference to meats, etc., intended for human consump- tion. Butter is used largely for hu- man food, and the act bears on its * * *? Substantially the only change nec- essary to be made in Section 4 in order to adapt it to the Oleomargarine Act is to strike out the words “car- casses or other products” wherever they occur, and insert in lieu thereof the words “process or renovated but- ter.” It seems to this court self evident that the plain intent and purpose of Congress was to make it a criminal ‘offense and punishable to forge, coun- terfeit, simulate, imitate, falsely repre- sent or use without authority, or knowingly and wrongfully alter, de- face or destroy any of the marks, stamps or other devices provided for in the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture of any process or reno- vated butter, or to forge, counterfeit, simulate, imitate, falsely represent, or use without authority, or to knowing- ly and wrongfully alter, deface or de- stroy any certificate or stamp provid- ed in said regulations, and to declare either of such offenses a misdemeanor and to provide a punishment on con- viction by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both in the dis- cretion of the court. Instead of in- corporating the language of the act of March 3, 1891, as amended March 2, 1895, into the Oleomargarine law, said act was referred to, and it is ex- plicitly provided that “all parts of an act providing for the inspection of meats for exportation, approved Au- gust 30. 1890, and of an act to pro- vide for the inspection of live cattle, hogs and the carcasses and products thereof, which are the subjects of in- ter-state commerce, approved March 3. 1891, and of the amendment thereto approved March 2, 1895, which are ap- plicable to the subjects and purposes described in this section, shall apply to process or renovated butter.” It follows necessarily that, if the purposes of the Oleomargarine law are substantially the same as the pur- poses of the meat and cattle inspec- tion law above referred to, the provision above referred to making it a crime to remove or deface the stamps, marks, etc., has been incor- porated in and must be read into and as a part of the Oleomargarine law. Congress is not supposed to have used the language it did in Section 5 of the Oleomargarine act without a purpose, and the language used either incorporates the criminal provisions referred to into that act, or fails to incorporate any part of the cattle and meat inspection law into the Oleomar- garine Act, and the language of Sec- tion 5, referred to, becomes meaning- less and inoperative. Judge Ray later considers the bear- ing of Section 1 of the Oleomargarine Act upon the circumstances under which process or renovated butter is to be regarded as an article of inter- state commerce. Section 1 provides that all articles known as oleomargarine, butterine, process, renovated or adulterated but- ter, ___ The Produce Market. Apples—Spies and Russets com- mand $2.50, while Baldwins and Ben fetch $2.25. While the season for apples is fast waning Davis varieties there is still a fair business in some lines. The demand is better than the average for the season and with berries so cheap. Asparagus—65c per doz. bunches. Bananas—$1 for small bunches and $1.50 for large. The supplies are lib- eral and nothing but the abundance of strawberries limits the trade as much as it is, as the figures are at- tractive enough. Beets—4oc per bu. Butter—Creamery has declined to 22c for choice and 23c for fancy. Receipts are large, especially of dairy grades, which are running fine as to quality. No. 1 is firm at 20@2tc. Packing stock is steady at 15@16c. Renovated is firm at 21@22c. Cabbage—Home grown is in mod- erate demand at 65c per doz. South- ern is now in market, commanding $2 per crate. Celery-——$1 for,. California. Cucumbers—The market is steady at $1 per doz. Eggs—Local dealers pay about 1414@15¢ for case count, holding can- dled at 16c. The receipts are. run- ning liberal, but the storage people are still picking up the good stock for putting away and they keep the price at about the same level. The consumptive demand is large, also. Enough poor eggs are coming in to necessitate the candling of nearly all the receipts. Grape Fruit—Florida stock mands $5.50 per box of either 64 or 54 size. Cahtornia) stock) | is $1 cheaper. Green Onions—t5e per doz. bunch- es for home grown. com- The stock is _ fine. Green Peas—$1.35 per bu. box. Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@ 12c and white clover at 13@I5c. Lemons—Messinas have advanced to $2.75@3 per box. Californias have declined to $2.50. Lettuce—Hot house is in large de- mand at 8c per fb. New Potatoes—$1.25 per bu. for Southern. Onions—$z2 per crate for Bermudas. Oranges— California Navels are steady: $3.25 for choice, $3.50 for fancy and $3.65 for extra fancy. Strawber- ries have cut into the orange trade in some degree the past week, but there is still a very fair movement. Several cars of excellent fruit have been received during this past week. Their flavor is unusually good and the jobbers anticipate no trouble in moving them. Prices are unchanged all along the line. Assortments are ample as far as sizes are concerned. Parsley—25c per doz. bunches. Parsnips—$1.25 per bbl. Pieplant—6oc for 40 fh. box. Pineapples ——Prices are steady, Crate of 18, $3.75; 24, $3.60; 30, $3.35; 36, $3.25; 42, $3. Plants—Tomato and cabbage fetch ranging about as follows: se per box of 200. Pop Corn—ooe for rice. Potatoes—-The fairly steady on the basis of 15@2oc per bu. Poultry— high, live commanding the following Chickens, 12@13c; fowls, 11 @t2c; young turkeys, 15@16c; old turkeys. T4@isce; ducks, r2@rdc. Dressed fetches 1'4@2c per tb. more market is The market is strong and prices: than live. | Broilers, 25¢ per 1.; squabs, $2 per doz. Radishes—2oc per doz. bunches for either round or long. Sweet Potatoes—$3.50 per bbl. for kiln dried Tllinois. Strawberries—$2@2.25 per case of 24 quarts for good stock. There have been heavy rains in the Southern strawberry district and the fruit got wet. arriving in this market in more or less damaged condition. This is not to be taken as indicating that all the fruit is bad, however, as some very good stock has come in, but the abundance of the poor stock has a bad effect on the whole market. Tomatoes-—$2.75 per 6 basket crate. Wax Beans—$2 per bu. hamper. New Beets—$1.50 per bu. box. The Grocery Market. Sugar—As foreshadowed by the Tradesman last week, a decline has occurred, although the suddenness of the change caused some excitement. Were it not for the fairness of the refiners this decline would have been a heavy blow to the jobbers, who} have large quantities of contract sug- | ar still undelivered. All this sugar was bought about six weeks ago at the high price, and the refiners could probably have compelled the buyers to take it had they chosen to do so. | Contemporaneous with the decline, | however, came a notice that the job- bers would be allowed to take their undelivered sugar at the price, provided they take it at once. How much of a concession this is becomes evident when it is known | that the refiners hold between 500,- | 000 and 1,000,000 barrels of sugar still undelivered. There are two reasons why the refiners have not before seen fit to reduce the price of refined sug- ar. One was in order to protect them- | selves, as they bought large quanti- ties of high-priced raw sugar, which is now coming in and being worked up. Until this was used up the low prices now prevailing could do the refiners little good. The other rea- son was philanthropic—the protection of the wholesale grocery trade, al- though there was an element of self- | About the first | interest here also. of April the Trust represented that the sugar market was about to ad- vanee and advised large buying. The jobbing trade accordingly bought sugar so heavily that the aggregate sales around that time are believed to be a million barrels. True to prophecy, the market did advance, but a large part of the sugar sold) then is still unsold or undelivered, | and the Trust felt that if it declined prices with this unsold sugar still charged against the jobbers at the high price at which it was bought, a tremendous hue and cry would go up, for nearly all jobbers would be | affected. At the end, however, the| decline had to come with the sugar still undelivered. Tea—There have been no develop- ments of any character except possi- bly a little better feeling all around on account of the larger distribution. May is showing a much better de- mand for tea than April did. There is a strong undercurrent to the mar- ket and will be until the naval situa- tion is decided. Coffee—There have been no devel- opments of particular importance, ex- cept that some of the jobbers have advanced their low grades wc Or so to conform with the package eoods and the generally higher tone to the market. The movement is ex- cellent. The advance of a half last week, coupled with the strong talk that has been indulged in, has given the trade confidence in the market and coffee is being bought more lib- erally, perhaps, than at any time for several months. Canned Goods—Corn is doing well, but not so well as tomatoes. The de- mand for corn is not influenced by the presence of the green vegetable just now, as is that for tomatoes and reduced | peas. Peas are selling very well. This is the time when the trade that can not afford the green peas takes to the canned goods and the demand is thus made large. The same is true to a certain extent of string beans Canned fruits are doing about as well as and some other vegetables. usual. This applies particularly to cheaper grades of apples, peaches, cherries and berries for pie material. Gallon apples, which were scarce a while ago, are once more abundant in this market. Opening prices on Columbia River salmon have been made and they are practically the The situation is same as last year. very interesting, however, as_ the | packers have already booked as much as the whole pack last year. Sar- dines are selling fairly well at un- changed prices. The market is firm Dried Fruits—Peaches are dull and unchanged. Some packers have named future prices. Seeded raisins are very quiet at unchanged prices. I.oose raisins are still firm, by rea- lson of generally light stocks. The demand is quiet. Apricots are scarce on spot and the situation is steady. Futures are quiet, but slightly high- er. Currants are unchanged and in slow, fair demand. Prunes are in hand-to-mouth demand. There is no |change as to price, the firm future outlook having had as yet no effect on spot values whatever. No future price has as yet been named, except la 2c basis price, which was. with |drawn when the crop scare came. Only a few were sold on that basis. Molasses and Syrups—The situa- tion is utterly devoid of any exciting taken in | their summer supplies pretty well and features. Retailers have the movement is confined to smal! lots. Corn syrups are steadier than two weeks ago, as the market has adjusted itself to the new level of Maple syr- prices. Demand is good. up is selling freely, comparatively speaking. Rice—-The market is a shade firmer, | but not enough so to affect seriously the prevailing prices. Demand is lighter as he season advances. Stocks are of ample dimensions and the outlook for the summer’s_ busi- ness is good. Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are dull and easy. Salmon shows noth- ing new, except that some of the Columbia River packers have with- drawn prices, having sold as much as they care to. Lake fish and white- fish. are both quiet and unchanged. Mackerel is unchanged for the week and dull. ed, however. Prices are fully maintain- Sardines are quiet and nominally unchanged, although some sales are said to have been made by outside packers at slight concessions. rn Wm. G. L. Vincent, dealer in hard- ware, staple and fancy groceries, hay, feed and seeds, Luther: I enclose check for $2 for one year’s subscrip- tion. Your paper is worth more than that amount per year to any live merchant and T have always consid- ered it a welcome visitor at my store. ee It is a noble thing to die, but it is usually harder and more noble to live. MICHIGAN Sporting Goods Exhibit of Interest | To Hardwaremen. When the man on the Rialto has experienced that tired feeling that comes along with spring days, the en- nui that makes him out of love with the continual strain of much accumu- | lation of stocks and bonds, when his | mind reverts unceasingly to the old farm home of his boyhood, and par- | ticularly to that fishpole up in the at- tic, or on the wall out in the wood-| shed, with which he was sneak off to the lake, accompanied } with his faithful dog and an old tin can of angleworms he had surrepti- | tiously unearthed behind the barn—1 | say, when the business man gets this irresistible feeling for the old amuse- |! ment of his childhood days, he utters ' wont to} | articles calculated to gladden_ the | heart of the aquatic sportsman. One often hears the expression, |“He’d rather fish than eat!” The etiaos addicted to the pleasures of | the table but not to those of the ; stream finds it impossible to enter into the enthusiasm of the devotee |of the rod, who, perhaps, furnishes him with toothsome samples of the delicious edible. The former will not concede that there is any other sport ion earth half so enjoyable as this one. I was on an excursion, two or three years ago, which took in the northern points of interest, and among the party were a number of the most ardent of lovers of the di- version, who, at every possible op- occasions narrowly missing connec- tion with train or boat, so preoccu- pied were they with their pleasure. Four square dipnets 12x12 and one 14x14, all being of 1% inch mesh, are festooned across the entire front of the window and back and forth to the L “SSR as (BAINES Busing} Lhe amar 440 & AGE TINE a jerrymiade on his present deplora- ble condition and again “makes a sneak” for the “haunts of Nature in her mildest mood,’ where he essays te entice the “wily denizen of the lim- pid deep.” Mr. Arthur A. Haines must have had in mind this predilection when he so cleverly arranged the west win- dow of Foster, Stevens & Co., down on Campau Square. All the dummies are not women, as here we see a handsome brunette man-dummy, arrayed in the comforta- ble togs of fishingdom, with rod in hand, as if in the act of casting the line. He is supposed to be a man indefatigable at his desk—in fact, one who “was chained to business.” But he “broke away and is going fishing!” | There are also other sporting fea- tures introduced in the window: base ball goods at the right—chest pro- tector (looks like two, but one is the reflection of the other in the large | mirror on the wall), bats, gloves and | Then come tennis things— netting, racquets and_ balils—tempt- ingly disposed. All the rest of the space is given up to the display of mitts. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'extreme background, making a most attractive “stage might call it. 1 At regular intervals all along the front edge of the net | are different sizes and sorts of troll- ing hooks, giving the appearance ofa fringe. The voluminous rubber coat inthe center of the picture ensures protec- tion against inclement weather. Near }it is a large tin-lined lunch basket, to provide for the sustenance of the inner man, and in front of it rests a wicker fishbasket, in which to bring back something to verify the length and breadth of the stories to be told At the rieht of this is a handled rodholder. In the _ fore- ground at the left is a flybook and later on. cotton flannel, which is also employ- ed at the right behind the base ball outfit. Immediately in the rear of the |sportsman’s right leg is a big min- nowpail, and above at the left is a receptacle for fishingtackle. Hang- |ing above these are placards bearing reference to the Saturday base ball | game—Terre Haute vs. Grand Rap- | ids. But the “piece de resistance” of portunity, dropped a line, on several | setting,” as you] above it is a landingnet. This hardly | shows against the drapery of brown) TRADESMAN | the whole window is the sleeping- blanket below the innings oar | wool-lined, the outside made of mate- | rial impervious to moisture, so that | a man encased therein could sleep} in a marsh if the opening around the | neck were above the waterline. A| hood covers the head, just leaving | |room for the face. It fastens close- | ‘ly under the chin with a substantial | ) The sheep’s-wool lining is | button. so arranged that it can be taken out of the when the | weather is too warm. Scattered on | the desk are small articles consider- | ed necessary for a_ fishing trip—nu- | merous time-cards, maps and resort | pamphlets, to assist in laying out a sleeping-blanket route. Altogether the window is such as ito appeal especially to the longing | | Izaak Walton; and it even enkindles | jin the breast of the layman an em-| | phatic affirmative response to the per- | | tinent interrogation: “Why don’t you?” Queer Facts About Steel. Although the steel and iron indus- | | try is one of the mightiest of the | |world and offers such rewards that | | some of the greatest chemists and | | other scientists study nothing else. | |there are lots of apparently simple puzzles about it that no one has been | |able to solve yet. The man who| discovers the right answer to one or more of them may make $1,000,000 out of it. | Everyone who handles steel knows | that it gets “tired” at times. After| a piece of steel has been subjected to a severe strain for a certain period | it may suddenly show a_ decided} weakness. Then the experts say that | it is tired; and so it is, for if it is| | allowed to rest a while it regains its | | old strength. Recently it has been found that a steel beam can be made stronger by increasing the load on it gradually— |in other words, by exercising it just las a man exercises his muscles when | he wishes to make them stronger. Very often new steel will not pass tests that it should pass, but after a |few weeks it is found that it has grown better and passes the tests beautifully. Then, again, steel that was perfect when it was tested often wets “Sick.” | | | It cracks or becomes brittle, although other steel made at | the same time in the same way re- perfectly sound. No man knows to-day why these things hap- pen, but lots of people are trying to find out. | mains We face you with facts and c - educated gentlemen who are ctype good habits. Experienced in all branches of the profession. Will conduct any kind of sale, but earnestly advise one of our New Idea’”’ sales, independent of auction sume an — and boom business at a , Or entire seri eo tee es to get out of busi- G. E. STEVENS & CO. 209 State St., Suite 1114, Chicago yg You may become interested in a_300-page book by Stevens, entitled ‘Wicked City,” story of merchant’s siege with bandits. 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If you would like an opinion of your case and what it will cost to cure you, write ou! allyour symptoms enclosing stamp for your reply. NDREW B. SPINNEY, M. Prop. Reed City sanitarium, Reed City, Mich Merchants, Hearken We are business builders and money getters. We are ex- perienced We succeed with- out the use of hot air. We don’t slaughter prices. If we can’t make you reasonable profits, we don’t want your sale. Nocompany in our line can supply better references. We can convert your s'ock, including stickers, into cash witho t loss. Everything treated confidentially. Note our two places of business, and address us RAPID SALES CO. 609-175 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Or 1071 Belmont St., Portland, Oregon. a a acest is sethantes ancien seat NO eet is sethantes seen spaaeithe pesos oti ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 er drop. Special Features of the Grocery and Produce Trade. Special Correspondence. New York, May 13—Speculators in Wall Street have been li- quidating during the past few days and the volume of stock offered has been greater than the buying public could easily digest. The result has something of a decline, and when such an event takes place buy- ers hesitate, thinking the reaction will be still European advices were weaker, and this did not} help matters here. No trading of done with roasters and the market is simply a coffee in been greater. too, importance has been waiting one. The decline seems to be | a speculative move, purely, as sup- plies in Brazil continue moderate, and prices there for roasting grades are fractionally higher than here. At the | close the rate for Rio No. 7 is 8c. In store and afloat there are 4,072,673 bags, against 2,517,493 bags at the same time last year. Sympathizing | with Brazil grades, milder sorts have | suffered some reaction and buyers show less interest, although prices are practically without change—good Cucuta, 9'4c and good average Bo-| gotas, 1034@11%c; East Indias are | quiet and unchanged. Teas are doing a little better this week, interest is being) shown by both local and out-of-town quite well and some buyers. Formasas. are sustained and offerings are becoming more and more limited. Line busi- ness is fairly active. The big drop in sugar, instead of creating any rush for the article, has caused buyers to hold off for a furth- | The little done consisted almost exclusively of with- drawals under old contracts and new | limited to the smallest possible proportions. business business has been The rice market shows steady al-| though slight improvement, and hold- ers feel more encouraged than for several Prices remain on about the same level as last noted. There are no changes in_ spices. | weeks. Pepper is well sustained on the basis | of the last quotations, but sales of al- | most all sorts of spices are limited tc the smallest possible lots. Grocery grades of New Orleans molasses have quite good | call and with no great supply in sight, the situation being in favor of the} seller. Foreign grades are at the moment in quite limited supply, and it would be very difficult to fill orders of much extent from stocks on hand | here. Syrups are steady and without | change in any particular. Canned goods are not being specu- lated in. Oh, no! The man who spec- ulates is lost, and of all times it| would seem as if the present was | about the worst time in the history of the trade to carry a stock greater than the every-day demand needs. | So many things have operated “agin” | been in |dance of really desirable | ern, i17%4@18c and from this down to 14 | good logic. years that it would seem as if there would be some halt in the building of factories, but there is a sort of fascination about “seeing the wheels go round,” and the output of “tinned” stock this year will be as large in al! | probability as ever. Standard Mary- iand tomatoes in carlots are being offered at 65c delivered in New York. Low grade peas and corn are seem- ingly in lighter supply than a_ few weeks ago, and this is well. The less goods sold at 47%4@s5oc per dozen the better for all concerned. Salmon is unchanged, but there seems to be increasing confidence in the article. Little interest is displayed in dried | fruits and quotations drag. We are having freer arrivals of but- ter and the market is easier. Best Western creamery is worth seconds to 24@25'4C: Western imitation creamery, 23@25c; factory, 22@24c and reno- thought that 2614 26'4¢c; firsts, Western vated, 22@25c. It ts | next week we shall have still larger |receipts and prices will be lower. Old cheese is in very limited sup- ply, and it-is impossible to name any correct figures on the goods as it is a matter of “dicker.” New the about for small full cream goods. While ingly ample, there is no stock is selling on basis of 1234¢ arrivals of eggs seem- ees are over-abun- stock, and such goods are selling fairly well at 20@2I¢c for near-by stock; best West- 1i8@18t4c; seconds to firsts, 4 (@15c. 22» —___ Be Decisive, But Not Deceptive. A retail hardware dealer cent convention said, “In its broad- est sense sticcess, whether it be mer- cantile or professionel, depends onan | intelligent and decisive disposition of |a subject when presented,” and this is This dealer gave an il- lustration as follows: “When I show Mr. Black a iron hammer for 25 cents, he says: cast i‘This is guaranteed?’ I say, ‘No, sir, | it is cast iron and you may break it in driving in a 30d nail.” If Black takes the hammer he will never re- turn it if it breaks. If I had said in | reply to the same question, ‘Well, I i think you will find it all right,’ three out of six would return the hammer if broken.” If all dealers would be as deci- sive they would not only save them- selves much annoyance, but gain the | confidence of the people, and the con- fidence of the people of the commu- nity is one of the most valuable as- sets of any man’s business. The de- sire to make a sale too frequently in- duces the salesman to, if not exact- ly misrepresent goods, at least make a reply which is in effect the same thing. The salesman who gains the confidence of his customer can usual- ly induce him to buy an article that the salesman can recommend.—Im- plement Trade. Chicago Freight. The Graham & Morton-Holland In- terurban combination makes the fast- est time with perishable freight be- canned goods during the past few | tween Grand Rapids and Chicago. at a fe-| Invincible Fo As good as cigars can be made for $33 and $30 respectively. If you are not handling these brands include a sample lot in your next order. Handled by all jobbers and by the manufacturers Geo. H. Seymour & Co. Grand Rapids as a powerfor pumping, grind- ing, Sawing, ete. Reap the bene- fit of all the power furnished by purchasing a Wind The one that responds to the slightest breeze and stands in Cannot buckle or Proven best by 26 years test. Sold on a positive guarantee. 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THE YOUNG:‘RUG CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. in price from $8 up. safe on an hour’s notice. Tradesman Comp Fire and Burglar Proof Safes Our line, which is the largest ever assembled in Michigan, comprises a complete assortment ranging We are prepared to fill your order for any ordinary any, Grand Rapids 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN AICHTIGANAPADESMAN DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price Two dollars per year, payable in ad- vance. No subscription accepted unless ac- companied by a signed order and the price of the first year’s subscription. Without specific instructions to the con- trary all subscriptions are continued in- definitely. Orders to discontinue must be accompanied by payment to date. Sample copies, 5 cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; of issues a month or more old, 10 cents; of issues a year or more old, $1. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice. | E. A. STOWE, Editor. Wednesday, May 10, 1905 TWICE-TOLD TALE. The May number of the Review of Reviews tells a straight short story of ungarnished fact and the world, commercial and uncommercial, reads and wonders at it. Thirty-four work- men, dissatisfied with the returns of their labor, took each a $100 share and went into business for them- selves. The thirty-four shares are now in the hands of five of the orig- inal stockholders, the others having taken up other business enterprises of their own. The other day the firm of five were confronted with their striking workmen and the five ut- terly refused to grant the demanded conditions; and the reading public look at each other with expressions of wonder and because the complaint of the workmen was the same as that which made pro- prietors of the old-time strikers and which those same proprietors utterly refused to grant. astonishment, have 1 To the public who are over-weary | of these costly strikes, every one of | which they have to pay for in money and in inconvenience, amounting to suffering, this labor story has little It is more than an old and tiresome narrative with “trim- min’s” and like trimmin’s generally they beget disgust. In free and inde- pendent America the plain fact can never be covered up. many instances. consolation. We have here Poverty places her gaunt hands upon the hut-born boy, not unkindly. She gives him scant food and a hard bed and _ thriving upon both a robust boyhood comes and goes, leaving. him a strong frame and lusty sinews. Better than that she has taught him to depend upon himself for whatever he have. hopes to There is but one way to suc- cess and he wants no other. So with his hope and strength he begins. He works and saves. In time the money earned increases and, still working, he turns his savings to practical ac- count. In due time comes his chance. He improves it. He “sets up for him- self.” He has his own little front office in the back room. His business thrives and grows and he grows with it. His working force grows, too, from one—and that one himself—to ten—twenty—to two hundred and fif- ty—to a thousand men. Success has crowned him and his and his busi- ness is looked upon as the mainstay of the town, which it has helped to build up. Then his thousand men come in a body to inform him that they have decided upon an increase of wages and a decrease of time, and he finds to his astonishment that his men are going to run his business with his money; that they are going to take charge “right now;” and that he has either to give up or shut down. He gives up and his exultant thousand find when too late that it is the old way only that succeeds; that through toil and sweat and anxious experience thrift, and then prosperity, come and that the modern methods, little less than robbery, end only and can end only in the very ruin they jare determined to avert. It is not the intention to discuss here and now any particular phase of this question that seems destined to be always with us; but it does seem desirable to emphasize the fact that the sooner the party most interested in the outcome understands that work only, plodding, persistent, old-fash- ioned work, with intelligence enough to turn to practical account the re- sults of that work, the better it will be for the workman and the commu- nity in which that workman _ lives. nobody wants him to be down-trod- den. Everybody on the contrary not only wants but insists that he shall exercise to the utmost limit, unhin- dered, every sterling quality he pos- sesses to win the success he longs for, whether he works with muscle or brain or both; but one of eighty millions he must remember the equal rights of others and depend for his success alone—what success has al- | ways depended on—on those qualities which must always be depended upon for the rewards which the applauding world bestows. | It is, as it has been said already, |}more than a twice-told tale, as the workman in the story found and as the workman will always find if he enters the lists for the world’s prizes; they are there and he can get them if he will, but he must get them ac- cording to the old order of things, and not by the highway-robbery processes which are resorted to to- | day. As was to be expected. the wreck at Harrisburg, Pa., has suggested the question whether railroads should haul as ordinary freight high ex- plosives such as that which made the accident mentioned so great a cal- amity. The agitation which will in- evitably follow will doubtless result in some changes. Already a number urge that explosives should be carried by special trains and with extra pre- cautions. The information is given that crews of freight trains are al- ways averse to handling cars contain- ing dynamite or other explosive ma- terial and that the risk taken is a |hazardous one. It is certain that if i the dynamite had not been present the Harrisburg wreck would been much less fatal. ee Faith can not feed on fireworks. have Nobody wants him to be oppressed, | AN UNLEARNED LESSON. A few years ago the President of one of the largest banks in Ohio got up a corer on wheat and went to the penitentiary for wrecking the bank. Not so very long ago one of the lake cities opened the morning paper to find in startling headlines that a distinguished citizen had made an attempt at the cornering business and had escaped the righteous con- sequences by an_ extensive check from his father’s check book. Now Wisconsin comes to the front with another bank president who has set up a corner and tried to get around it at the expense of the men and women who trusted him and he is} going to see how the world looks through prison bars. Each of these cities with a head-toss has exclaimed defense—“There are others,” and the world waits with anxiety for the “Next.” ts only They who feel this anxiety most are asking with an ominous head- shake, “Will men never learn?’ Can| it be that they, who have by pain- ful exertion clambered to the tower- success and _ have supposed to have carned that these heights are gain- | ed and kept only by constant and de- } termined well doing, have forgotten that stealing is just stealing—noth- ing more, nothing less—and_ that even-handed justice with blinded eyes | ng heights of i learned or are 1 |administers the merited punishment | irrespective of persons? It would} seem so, and yet the roll-call of theft | for lo! these many years has been constantly increasing and they who head the list were, until the crime was | discovered, the leading men in the| community whose citizenship they have so shamelessly disgraced. Public opinion is not now troubling Ss itself much over the reason. It is known already and has been for a long time. The man whose income is a good many millions a year is the Napoleon of finance. double-decker. His brain is a He has the rare ge- nius of making other men work for him. He screws the wage-point down to the lowest living notch and_ sells their wage-product at fabulous prices. Understanding the full force of the proverb, “There is nothing so. suc- cessful as success,” he pushes him- self and gets himself pushed into commanding where his greed gains sway, and then with other people’s money he “corners the market,” and another thief furnishes | an illustration to the lesson that dis- | honesty is determined not to learn. The result is that the people are lighting up their lanterns and, Diog- enes-like, are searching every corner | for an honest man. They need him. | He is in constant demand. They | want him in their business and out of | it and more than all, in season and out of season, they want him where | they can put their hands on him. The | woeful fact is that he can not be | found. He js not. He has become | extinct and high finance and positions low fi- | nance are wondering where to look for the much-needed article—men to take care of other people’s money and other people’s property and make accounting. a faithful and honest |The pulpit has |law can do Credit is the mainspring of modern business and confidence is the power that keeps it in motion. There can be no confidence without honesty and faithfulness and under the appalling circumstances the only thing to be done is to train men from youth up for the places calling loudly for them even now, so train them in these so far unlearned lessons that they will learn practically that honesty is the best policy because aside from “poli- cy it iS rent. The all-important question now is, “Who is to do the training?” Who is to see to it that the unlearned lessons are to be put off no longer? With the daily object-lesson on every hand it ought not to be difficult so to train the learner as to make it possible for the main idea to sink deep. So far the school room has been depended on and it has failed. been hammering away on the sixth commandment for lages to find itself beating the air and the thief-market is full. There is but one resource left. The home with the man and the woman at the head of it has got to come down—come down!—to teaching those sterling qualities of life and living which sup port not only that home but the so- ciety and the civilization depending upon it. The get-rich-quick idea must be crushed and the home is the only place to do it. There the task is comparatively easy. The method is as old as the hills. Line upon line; precept upon precept; here a little |and there a little, all of it illustrated by an example which can come only from a parent’s daily upright © life. The trifling bet, the getting some- thing for nothing, the stealing of a ride on street car or train—these and the countless practices which children see every day of their lives are in themselves _trifles. It is a hard thing to say, but it is the home training which too often turns out the thief. It is the home that winks at the result and it is the home that must rectify the evil. The something, punishment can do something; but unless the fa- ther and the mother in the quiet sanc- tity of home teach thoroughly — the unlearned lesson that honesty and truth and uprightness alone make a life worth living, the wrong-doing will still go on and an honest man, “the noblest work of God,” will con- tinue to be as it is to-day, the want of an otherwise prosperous nation. It is said that King Alfonso of Spain will only visit during his forth- coming tour the nations that have |been united to Spain by close re- | lations and a feeling of constant sym- pathy since the middle ages. Thus jit may be safely said that only a few |countries will be visited and. the United States will not be them. among A RINE LENE RS, ORR ED The trouble about greeting misfor- tune with a smile is that it never smiles back. ee aC NE A em A, CNN it is always more humiliating to own up to a mistake than to make one. . mat ae mete tbdiaate = Pe eee ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 SOME STRANGE FOODS. Rattlesnakes and Skunk Meat Said To Be Good. That civilized man has some of the most toothsome dainties goes without saying, and it is evi- dent that prejudice enters largely into this. ‘Yhus, im Calttornia, the best fish, it is said, is the sculpin, but in the East this fish goes begging on account of its disagreeable appear- Indian children may be seen catching ants and eating them, and in Mexico the honey ant is missed ance. In Arizona eagerly sought after by the natives, | who eat the well-rounded, currant- like abdomen. In South America the large lizard, the iguana, is a delicacy, not to speak of the larger snakes, which in taste are like chicken. The ordinary rattlesnake, it is said, is ex- cellent eating if one can overcome the inborn prejudice. Americans are inclined to regard the Chinese as a race of rat eaters and denounce the animal as unclean, at the same time consuming tons yearly of the most loathsome of all animals—the hog The rat is careful of its toilet, clean- ing itself constantly, but the hog is the only animal of so-called intelli- gence that revels in filth and prefers it to skunk, owing to its peculiar and of- cleanliness. The common fensive glands, will never be popular as food, yet its flesh is not only good, but delicious, according to various connoisseurs who have eaten it. That insects do not enter more in- to the food supplies of nations is due to prejudice. Grasshoppers are eaten | by some Western tribes. Ground up they make a meal that is said to be/| most nourishing and agreeable. Many a white man has pressed through a country, nearly starving as large game was not to believing himself be had, when worms and various in- | sects were at hand. During the flight of locusts Indians sometimes collect them in bags, wash them and cook them for a meal. The most singular food, in all probability, is the larvae of a fly, common in certain portions of California, and known as Ephy- dra. this imsect is found m such vast quantities in Lake Mono, Cal.,| that it is washed upon the shores | in vast windrows and can be col-| lected in bushels. The water of Mono is singular, seemingly very heavy and smooth like oil; so much so that it resists ordinary wind and refuses to become ruffled. When the larvae begin to appear the Indians gather from far and near and scrape | them up, place the worm-like crea- tures on cloths and racks in the sun and dry them, when they are beaten up and husked, looking then like rice. The Indians call the food koo- | chah-bee, and many bushels are col- lected at this time; that larvae is nu- tritious is shown by the condition of the Indians, who soon grow fat on the rich diet. Many birds are at- tracted by the larvae and gorge themselves with the singular food. On Lake Texcoco, in Mexico, a cu- rious fly is found, which also is eaten by the natives, and known as ahuatl; the eggs of the insect, which are de- posited on sedges, are also collected baa eaten for food. On Lake Chalco a certain sedge is cultivated on which the eggs of a species of fly are de- posited. Bundles are made of these and placed in Lake Texcoco for the purpose, and, when covered, the sedge is beaten over pieces of cloth and the eggs secured. These are col- lected and ground into a meal, also called ahuatl, and are in great de- mand on fast days when fish is re- quired, the insects or eggs not being considered flesh, as they come from the water. The food is made into | small cakes and tastes not unlike caviare. Not only the eggs, but the larvae, themselves a _ disagreeable- looking worm, are used as food un- der the name of puxi. The civilized man, perhaps, turns from such food with disgust, but it is well to remember that epicures in many countries, and _ especially in England and America, are particu- larly fond of cheese when inhabited by the larvae of a very common fly. In the United States the large octo- pus or squid, common on the Pacific coast, offends the American palate, but the Italian, Frenchman or Por- | tuguese eats it with avidity and con- | siders it a delicacy. The meat is clear |and white like chicken, and has the flavor of crab. The question of na- tional tastes is an interesting one, and the contrast between those of China and America is remarkable. | The objects displayed in the Chinese quarter as dainties are often repug- nant to Americans. It is common to find the Chinaman selling eggs of un- known age, especially ducks’ eggs containing ducklings ready to b hatched. Shark fins—a tough, dis- | agreeable food—are in demand, while | deer horns in the velvet and lizards | of various kinds are eaten. e The nest of the swallow, with its bedded secretion of the mouth glands |of the birds, is nearly worth _ its | weight in gold. Trepang, the tough, impossible holothurian, is eaten, and its collection is an important indus- try along the Malay coast, valued at at least $100,000 per annum. In France the sea anemone is used as food; stuffed like peppers and boiled it calls to mind crab or crayfish. The echini of various species is also used, cooked in the shell, like an egg, and eaten with a spoon. In nearly all of the old countries of Europe of the type of Spain and Italy the poor are so poor that everything in the na- ture of food is utilized. Absolutely nothing is wasted, and meat is rare. The surprise of an Italian fisherman, who landed in Cal- ifornia after a trip around the Horn, is better imagined than described. He was amazed, not at the country, but at the abundance of food. He found his countrymen eating meat twice, perhaps three times a_ day, when he rarely had it once a month. He saw hundreds of pounds of fish wasted and discarded merely because the people did not care for it, when in Italy even the heads would be boiled and eaten. He saw big tun- nies towed out to sea and thrown away because they were tough, when in his own land every scrap of this fish was saved. used 1,000 years ago in Abyssinia and was brought to England in the year 1600? And did you Know that in 1903 there was consumed in this country 457,533 tons (not pounds)? Think of that, for it means 11'% pounds to each man, Did you Know coffee was woman and child. Its increase in use has been on an aver- age 20,000,000 pounds per year lately, and the sale of our Quaker Coffee Why? Be- it to be has increased in the same ratio. cause dealer and consumer Know The Best—“Q. E. D.” WORDEN (j;ROCER COMPANY Distributors Grand Rapids, Michigan Merchants’ Half Fare Excursion Rates every day to Grand Rapids. Send for circular. & A PUAN SN Are positively the best five cent cigars manufactured and have always proven to be good sellers. They are the cigars that Wise Men Smoke, Wise Merchants Sell. WORDEN (GROCER COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Distributors for Western Michigan 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the home-taught expressions speech until contact with the world | has taught them the real They will spell or not as and in the meantime with grammar. duty bids diploma forgotten they will draw deeply upon | such training as the schools have been able to furnish, while holding the job secured without the help of the much needed chair. It is remarkable how many gradu- ates have managed to get along with- —— the attempts 1 known graduate of out this chair. of a certain wel “Croke dewy eve,” Harvard, night till morn. from morn till ly striving to find the opening which has led him the White House. What a help it would have been for the Secretary of State had behind strenuous- finally to he with his college course him been fitted into the place which} in after years was to crown him the What a boon it would have been for the Rhode Is- land farm boy if he could have pass- ed from the graduating platform of the First Baptist church at Brown ence to his masterful prince of diplomats. University at presidency of our State University through the agency of “the What—but there is no need of going The world is moving and improving as she move Intelli- gence is the law of the land and not an enterprise with success at the end chair.” on with this. of it, but is calling for trained intelli- gence to man it. have either gone out of business or ready to put - their kinds makes es- are getting blinds. Labor of all timates now and draws up plans be- fore beginning a job. he end is seen at the beginning or the work is not entered upon. ll these demands are met by the teacher, somewhere along the line once anywhere, but now after com- mencement mostly. Cutting cross- lots into the store is frowned upon. The once careless grocer has made up his mind that his delivery man with considerable him is dollars better than the letter- less clown that neither reads writes. over the once deeply rooted idea that machine at fifty cents a veek can run the inanimate from the manufactory. “Show me} your school record,” is the require- | ment now when work is and the statements there will settle the question, together with the wages going with it. a human . With this fact understood the out- schools is not a matter of much concern. The diploma-car- rier is always wanted and as long as intelligent work is to be done he will always be in demand. That is what the schools are for and the coileges are for—to furnish with- out limit the trained brains that the vocations of life with out-stretched hands are calling for. The calling is going on to-day and it will not stop in June. The boys are wanted; the girls are wanted. Exactly as the thirsty grain fields of the Great West long for the rain in dry weather so the industrial fields the country over | are longing for the graduate down- pour, and they will appropriate every pour of the somewhere, asked for |} i while l Chance and guess schooling behind | nor | The manufacturer is getting | You can increase your trade and the affair | | | | of| drop of that downpour without the | that “chair” endowed ‘to teach graduates how to get a job.” Rk. M. Streeter. —_———2-2]—|__— The Nimble Penny. with the help of Quite a common error smal]l retailer, particularly the young retailer, is taking too liberal advan- tage of quantity price The extra discount on a big order in one line is a big temptation, but it is the nim- ble penny that catches the money. Many a store and many a business is ‘loaded down with these same large} orders, bought at a big discount and kept at a great expense of tied-up capital while they are being unloaded. but the interest on the money invested is more than It costs less freight enough to cover the extra Freight only has to be_ paid interest is a constant expense, whether it applies to tied-up or to borrowed How men have seen oppertunities of some spe- that they would embraced if they to afford it; opportuni- uired perhaps a small represented by many an unwise purchase! One fact, once, capital. many cial nature gladly had felt able escape most have ties that only req part of the idle capital like the beggars, we have that surely be unwise The always with us; some purchases will made be yf ea liberality in some direction; sel- f the name his par- discounts are a_ fine thing for those who can afford them, but let the little fell aim to keep his capital rolling over so actively that it will earn him greater interest than the dis counts represent. It can be done. Why not do it? buyers have often to regret dom is any buyer worthy c called on to seriously regret simony. Big ow rather Take your religion as a dose and it will soon make you sick. OU ARE freight. | From Factory to Home ”- O those of you who live in your country home, on the farm or in the smaller villages, where you assume you must do without certain modern conve- niences because you can not afford them, or because you think that it is not possible to have them out- side of the large cities, perhaps for the reason that there is not a sewer or water system, etc., we say—get away from such an im- pression! Hundreds of our farm homes have all the conveniences that a first-class system of plumb- ing affords, and you can have them for considerably less money than they paid for theirs. Do you think it is a convenience, or even a pleasure, to haul in a wash tub when you want to bathe, and then wait an hour for a couple of kettles of water to heat before your bath is ready? Do you think it is a convenience, or even a pleasure to pick up your tin wash basin, go to the pump with it, wind yourself oa enough water to perform your ablutions, then back to the tea kettle to warm it up a little, and then out to the bench in the wood shed, where you complete your toilet, after which you must sit down and rest a moment? Certainly you do not! And you will not tolerate such condi- tions if you are wise. Would it not be handy? Would it not be a pleasure to have one of our white enameled iron lavatories, one of our white enameled iron bath tubs, and one of our low down tank closet combinations, in your bath room, or any other convenient place in your home? What would you say to one of our white enameled sinks with en- ameled back and ash drip board in your kitchen? Do you not think it is worth your while to drop us a card, and let us tell you all about these goods, and what they will cost you? We are always glad of an opportunity to quote prices, whether you buy or not, and, further than that, we will furnish estimates on plumbing and heat- ing jobs free. We are factory agents for the full line of their boilers and American Radiator Co., radiators. Muskegon Quinn Plumbing & Heating Co. "Kis Heating and Ventilating Engineers. High and Low Pressure Steam Work. Special attention Given to Power Construction and Vacuum Work. Jobbers of Steam, Electric, Water and Plumbing Goods. and carry a Established 1880 ALWAYS SURE of a sale and a profit if you stock SAPOLIO. comfort of your customers by stocking at once. HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap It will sell and satisfy. —Ssuperior to any other in countless ways—delicate enough for the baby’s skin, and capable of removing any stain. Costs the dealer the same as regular SAPOLIO, but should be sold at 10 cents per cake. i noite .. msl ‘ i i LNA Ea eet ne BATE BAREIS ANN PE Sama MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 CHAIR BADLY NEEDED. One Which Enables Graduates To Get a Job. Written for the Tradesman. The same old criticism comes a little earlier this year and by a change of key makes an attempt to hold up to ridicule one of the main hopes of the American republic. It has had its laugh at the sweet girl graduate and her wisdom-refusing brother. It has made all sorts of fun of the diploma and its pretty lute-string ribbon. It has asserted with a vehemence as senseless as it is uncalled for that the sheep skin and its absurd statements stand only for pads and frills. It has declared until its throat is dry and its voice husky that the owner after years of schoolgoing can not add correctly the average ledger column of figures; he can not talk his own language in- telligently and correctly and so far as writing it is concerned it has long been given up as a hopeless case. The “m-hm” of public opinion has not been at all comforting and now by beginning in season he hopes to cre- ate a laugh against the holder of the beribboned diploma and begins with this: “T’m going to endow one of the miversities,’ said the millionaire; “going to establish a chair.” “Chair of what?’ “Well, I don’t know what you’d call it for short, but it’s a chair that’s badly needed—a chair to teach grad- uates to get a job.” asked a friend. ‘There are statistics, if they are wanted, to show how many of these graduates are let loose upon the in- dustrial world every year. They come from the universities and the colleges in crowds and the number from the high schools of the coun- try makes up an army of no mean proportions. These numbers are yearly increasing and if a chair to teach them to get a job is to be es- tablished it can not be established a minute too soon. Before any appeals are made to the proper authorities it may be well, however, to ascertain to what extent applications of this character have been made. Does the university feel any embarrassment on account of the graduates still clinging to the alma mater gown? Has the State Univer- sity felt the need of “the chair?” Is the Grand Rapids Board of Educa- tion deliberating upon ways and means for lessening the graduate supply? If the reports from these sources are to be at all relied upon there is no “shutting down” of the works. The toddler of the primary goes home with the joyful fact that he has “passed.” There are millions in the ninth grade looking forward to the high school entrance even now with the brightest anticipations, and doubt about the future after that one red-letter day in June and longing for the services of the badly needed chair to teach them to get a job? It may be pertinent just here for the leading city of Western Michigan to ask the city Board of Education how many of last year’s left-overs are still unprovided for. cial point to the joke why not ask | June are still eating the bread of idle- ness because after making all due the unemployed? every institution of the worthy of the name. probability will be the result? country positions they had little or no trou- ble to secure. Would it be news to the reader or to even the author of the pleasantry auoted to be told that this condition of things has always been so? Ad- mit, for the sake of the argument, that some of last year’s “grist” have the year before last and the preceding years? There are none; or, if some are counted as such, the misfortune is due to no fault of the schools—a for the getting-a-job chair. This would be the place, if any- where, to beat over again the oft- tured and just as straw; turning nor beating. not yet been reached nor has it yet so been claimed. Graduates can not and will not, until practice gives them sufficient experience, add rapidly and correctly the column of figures, long or short. They will continue to use not yet been provided for. How about | condition of things not calling loudly | oft-beaten old) but there is use neither of | Perfection has | To give we) the President of the Ann Arbor fac- | ulty how many students from all the} departments who were graduated in| effort they are yet in the ranks of| With the question | thus started suppose it be sent to What in all | That | to a man they have entered and are| filling with more or less success the | A Revolution in the Handling Of Ready-to-wear Garments Have you heard of our “Twentieth Century’ Clothing Cabinet? Write to us at once that we may send you copy of our cat- alogue. Nothing handier ever invented to save the clothier wear and tear and deteriora- tion of his goods. Grand Rapids Show Case Company Grand Rapids, Mich. New York Office, 718 Broadway, same floors as Frankel Display Fixtures Co. The Largest Show Case Plant in the World Every Cake te, ywWacH & sa e6entay Lv, Sy & without % LA = “resins Signature O = = a Sa & comparsseo Zr. & § 2dope pars cS ops 016. o\ any Ca »S OUR LABEL of FLEISCHMANN’S YELLOW LABEL COMPRESSED YEAST you Sell not only increases your profits, but also gives com- plete satisfaction to your patrons. The Fleischmann Co., Detroit Office, 111 W. Larned St., Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Ave. Pi , . | oe t } Ba Catt 6 7 Seve whe kets Sree ware Avene GST RALY Be Seamrstrce : +4 2 £ : 3 Ae. ween 44 —— Jennings’ Extract of Vanilla has never been made below the stan- dard. This year we are producing a richer flavor and a better extract in our JENNINGS (DC) VANILLA than we have been able to supply during the 33 years this brand has been on the market. Jennings Manufacturing Co. Owners of the Jennings Flavoring Extract Co. SINGLE INSIDE LIGHT | 500 CANDLE POWER SINGLE INSIDE LIGHT | 600 CANDLE POWER | SINGLE INSIDE LIGHT 600 CANDLE POWER Read What a Customer Says About Our Automatic Lighting System Stanton, Mich., May 1, 1905. Noel & Bacon Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Gentlemen :— The light has proven entirely satisfactory, and far beyond our expectations. We have our two big main stores, warehouse and harness factory lighted, using 7,000 candle power. Our cost for April was $3.20 with your machine and the month of April a year ago cost us $13 with electricity. We now have ten times the light and the best lighted store in town, and we must se y your automatic part is a wonderful invention, as we can turn lights on or off anywhere in the building, the machine regulating itself, which saves both time and gasoline. Yours truly, Hawley’s Big Dept. Store, MM EB Kirk, Mer. Manufactured tactured Noel & Bacon Co. Both Phones. 345 So. Division St. Grand Rapids, Mich. PERIO r M : are Superior Stock Food Superior to any other stock food on the market. Merchants can guarantee this stock food to fatten hogs better and in a shorter time than any other food known. It will also keep all other stock in fine condition. We want a mer- chant in every town to handle our stock food. Write to us. Superior Stock Food Co., Limited Plainwell, Mich. at Bi = 4 = £ | 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN nnn FOOD ADULTERANTS. Methods By Which They Can Be Detected. It would be impossible in an arti- cle like the attempt to give a comprehensive account of following to the various methods used by analyti- | cal chemists in examining the innu- merable substances which are brought to them for investigation, but there pres- are certain substances whose ence in an article of food or drink absolutely brings it under the banas | far as the State food law is con- cerned, and the recognition and iden- | tification of which is a comparative- ly easy matter, even to one whose | knowledge of analytical processes iS | very slight. The so-called “pure food crusades” which are so frequently heralded by | the newspapers and the trade jour- nals, and which are made to serve as the target of many bad jokes, to | say nothing of the malignant attacks to which those persons who are en- | gaged in enforcing the laws are so} often subjected, are simply the occa- | sional attempts on the part of the authorities of the State to the laws which are on the enforce any salutary effect whatever. There is no use in arguing the| Guestion as to the real harm in the prohibited substances, as it is after | all not so much a question of the in- | jury to health as a question of fraud- | ulently manipulating inferior prod- | so as to enable the seller to} obtain the price of a much higher | ucts class of goods. The cry of “salicylic acid” has so influenced the popular mind many persons are under the impres- is an injurious product of solely ar- tificial origin and that its physiologi- | cal effect is but slightly less injurious than that of arsenic itself. It would no doubt surprise many of these per- | sons to learn that an ordinary winter- | green lozenge contains as much salicylic acid (combined as methyl salicylate) as the average tumbler of jelly which has been preserved with this substance; but such is certainly the case, as any one who desires may verify for himself. The presence of aniline colors and salicylic acid being most important then, from the standpoint of compli- ance with the food law, more prose- cutions being based on these sub- stances than on all others put to- gether, many persons feel entirely safe from prosecution when assured of the absence of these products from the articles which they are handling, and it is the object of this article to show the retail druggist how he can readily and effectually determine the presence or absence of these sub- stances at least. In looking for the presence of ani- line colors in articles of food and drink, it will be remembered that the range of colors which it is customary to use is somewhat limited, being confined principally to the reds, yel- lows and browns, very few articles statute | books, and which should be enforced | all of the time if they are to have} that | of this nature being colored either green or blue. The first step in the operation of | testing for the presence of aniline or selection and | preparation of some fat-free woolen | goods. For this purpose a good quali- ty of nun’s veiling is obtained and |coal-tar color is the | } } ifreed from fat by boiling it, first in| | until the removed. water entirely This material is then cut into strips | repeatedly in | alkali pure has been The material to be tested, if quid, is to be diluted with an equal of a uniform size (about 1x2 inches) | and preserved in a wide-mouth, glass- | stoppered bottle until it is to be used. | a li-| a 5 per cent. solution of sodium hy- | droxide for a few minutes, and then} | volume of water; if it is a solid or a| be dissolved in about four times its weight of water | semi-solid it is to land the liquid strained to remove | particles of fruit pulp or cellular tis- | sue, which would adhere to the wool | land interfere with the results. About | placed into a beaker, 4 c.c. (or 1 fl. then removed, washed in cold water, and then boiled for five | minutes in which been cloth is water has acid. cloth either be uncolored or will be chang- or vegetable origin the aniline colors cloth coal-tar - or used, the tet 6ff have been will be | ent. 100 c.c. (or 4 ff. 97.) of the liquid is | dr.) of diluted hydrochloric acid (10) per cent.) is added, a single strip of | the woolen gods is immersed in the | liquid and the contents of the beaker | are then boiled for five minutes. The | slightly acidulated with hydrochloric | If the coloring matter be of fruit | will | ed to a very faint pink or brown | dyed a bright pink, red, yellow or} brown, according to the color pres-| To confirm the results, remove | : f | the cloth irom the acidulated liquid, | oe eS ee 2 question | wash it well in water, place it in a| add | | beaker with a little water and |a few drops of stronger ammonia | water. Vegetable or fruit colors will | i|not dissolve, but will change to a | green, purple or yellow color. Ani- line or coal-tar colors will not be |changed in color. but will be dis- lis heated to boiling, after which, up- | on the removal of the cloth, acidify- |ing as in the criginal dyeing test, in- |serting a fresh piece of cloth and | boiling as before, the color will again be deposited. This second dyeing test is consid- ered an absolute proof of the pres- ence of added coloring matter, as no fruit colors have yet been found which will be deposited upon the wool the second time, while aniline colors will always be so deposited. When cochineal is present a bright color is obtained with the first dye- ing which might be mistaken for an aniline color, but when the ammonia water is added in preparing it for the second dyeing, the red color changes to purple, and the second dyeing |comes out practically “colorless. In testing for salicylic acid the ma- | terial is to be prepared as in testing | for coloring matter, except that it is to be acidulated with sulphuric acid instead of hydrochloric acid. After acidulating, about 50 c.c. (or 2 fl. oz.) solved, especially when the solution | Ceresota Flour During the ‘‘ Pure Food Show” this question was fre- quently asked by ladies at the ‘‘Ceresota Booth:” What will I do to have my bread always alike? The answer was: Buy and use ‘‘Ceresota Flour.” Uni- formity of quality—results al- ways the same—is the secret of the constantly increasing sales. Ceresota will make forty pounds more bread to the barrel than other brands. Have you a customer who can resist that? The Northwestern : Consolidated Milling Co. Minneapolis, Minn. JUDSON GROCER CO., Distributors, Grand Rapids, Mich. You Remember what we said years ago about making a flour that was so good that all the people would want it? Well, it looks to us as if it were so, for the constantly increasing demand for Dew Silver Leaf Flour has compelled us to increase our facilities for mauufacturing a num- ber of times since then, and we are adding new customers to our list every day. Have you ever tried selling this flour? we Muskegon Milling Zo., Muskegon, Mich. fancies ee of the liquid is placed in a tall cylin- | drical stoppered graduate (a tall cy- | lindrical bottle will answer the pur- | pose) and a layer of ether poured on} | the top (about one-fourth as much | ether as the liquid to be extracted). The contents of the cylinder are then | mixed by inverting it a number of times, taking care not to. agitate the contents too violently, which would | cause the formation of an emulsion. | After complete separation of the ethereal layer has taken place about are cautiously decantation or | 10 cc.) (or) 2 fh) ide.) removed by careful the use of a pipette, transferred to a watch glass and the ether allowed to evaporate at a low temperature. If salicylic acid be present in nota- ble quantities the residue upon the | glass will be distinctly erys- small quantities are have the | watch talline; if but present, the residue will appearance of small oily drops of water and a drop of dilute solution of ferric chloride (a dilute solution of ammonio-ferric alum is preferred | by some) will develop the character- istic purple color of ferric salicylate, which is positive evidence of the presence of salicylic acid. If a flesh-colored precipitate is ob- tained in this test instead of a vio- let coloration, it is proof of the pres- ence of benzoic acid, the processes for the extraction of these principles heing identical. When the liquid tested for salicylic acid contains tan- which is to be nin, it will be necessary to change the preliminary manipulation somewhat, as tannin would be extracted by the thus ferric salicylate reaction. In cases of this ether and obscure the kind, the liquid, instead of being acid- ulated with sulphuric acid at the out- | set, is treated with solution of lead eubacetate, which precipitates tannin, coloring principles, etc. It is then filtered and sufficient sulphuric acid is added to the filtrate to precipitate the excess of lead and render it| slightly acid. After filtering out the insoluble lead sulphate the liquid is treated according to the foregoing directions. CB ha Wail. ————_.-+>—___ Idol Factory in New York. Although idols are not generally | used in this country, New York City manufacturing | is yet the principal center of the world of these curiously eods. The wrought and fashioned | | | supply is amazingly large and varied. | The largest idol factory has its | main office in East Ninety-sixth| street, but the manufacture of idols | is carried on in several different parts | of the city. The plaster department | is in East Twenty-third street, near | the ferry slip; the aluminum ion ment is in the metal-spinners’ dis- | trict in Grand street, and the papier mache work is done in Eighth avenue. An artist is employed in the house to supply new and attractive designs for idols. Every idol sent to India, China and Japan, for instance, is made strictly | in accord with the figures that belong | to the religions of these people. When an aluminum idol, for example, has been completed and is placed beside a bronze and bejeweled Buddha original | figures there are so many wonderful, | big, queer-looking dolls in this fac- | |rather than an_ idol | countries is almost | Glass & Pottery Review. MICHIGAN ! i ot ! it requires an expert in metals to dis-| country has almost doubled; the yield cern the difference between the orig- inal and the copy. At one time a ~ . . } firm in Glasgow, Scotland, had some small traffic in idols, but it has been found that the American manufactur- er of idols can supply the god at a price so much lower that it is not} i worth the Scotchman’s while to make | | images. | There are more idols shipped to| India than to any other country, be- | cause in India to-day there is 42} greater demand for gods than in} Japan and China. In every home there is a favorite god; if the family is one of moderate circumstances each member of the family has his little god, and when the god is made of many broken. and plaster there are these are immediately replaced. Thus the trade in idols is ever flourishing. matter how However, no many idols are turned out at the factory |per day, there are three figures that are never made there. These are the figures belonging to the Trinity. | Never are these figures made in other | metal than bronze, and that in India, for so sacred are they to the people that foreign workmanship defiles and insults each. But without these three tory’s different departments that one} believes himself to be in a waxworks factory. That | such a vast number of idols as line | the shelves around the rooms can be made, shipped and sold to foreign beyond _ belief. The average shipment of idols to va- rious countries is from three to nine hundred figures a month —China, 2-2 «2 Rice Lands Grow in Value. Since the fiscal year 1898-99 _ the acreage devoted to rice culture in this | TRADESMAN having advanced in about the same proportion from 250 million to 470 million pounds. Texas rice have increased in value during the same period from the low level of 25 | cents to $1.50 per acre, up to the! lands | 13 present average for improved lands of $12.50 per acre. Similar progress is reported from the prairie lands of Louisiana bordering upon the Gulf of Mexico. —_2-.___ The firm in faith never stand still. . Free Advertising Proposition. Z, Sheffield-King | Milling Co. Minneapolis, Minn. Were not the best Flour on earth could we sell it under our liberal guarantee to the consumer ‘* Satisfaction or Money Back?” Get a trial lot from Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. Our Wholesale Distributors Grand Rapids, Mich. and get the benefit of our extensive “se Sent Builds Up Businesses Sterepy Eve is a trade puller from the start — the attractive and EFFECTIVE advertising proposition that goes with Sterepy Eve Frour will not only increase your flour sales, but advertise your whole business. Is it Not Worth Your While to Write Us for the Exclusive Agency? Wykes-Schroeder Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan CE Distributing Agents i | i t 14 COARSE MANNERS. They Spoil Many a Sale of Magni- tude. Written for the Tradesman. “Straws show which way the wind blows,” and when, for one reason or another, a dealer indulges in ridicule at the expense of a customer, or a possible patron, that merchant is help- ing to dig his own grave. The average reasonable amount of fun at his cost if it is all goodnatured, but when the laugh is accompanied with a sneer the raillery is anything but agreeable to the one it is aimed at. People coming into often make mistakes about curious or un- usual articles, but it grates on their those person can stand a stores sensitiveness to have errors noticed and made much of by some miserable little jackanapes of a clerk who has missed his calling, as serving the public who bring in pocketfuls of money to scatter as they go from place to place in the establisltment, and should tie himself to some em- ployment which does not call for suavity of manners, interested, kindly little deeds which not only indicate gentle breed- ing on the part of the one exhibiting them but show a con- cern for the material advancement of the man he looks to for his weekly speech and courteous also lively pay-envelope, that delightful little bit of folded and sealed paper which means so much to so many laborers im the field of duty. Just s lowing turned the tide of a rich gi such a little thing as the fol- favor to a store not so accessib where the employes all vie witl other to see who can get the | o ~ ’ = following of representative citizens: I was standing in the entrance of a certain Grand Rapids shoe store, the other day, during the recent warm spell. The door stood open, and the people coming and going seemed in a happy-go-lucky mood, pleased with the evidences of a warmer season. Many came in to buy, while some wandered in “on shopping bent’— merely to look around. It’s somehow a theory of mine that every person entering a mercantile es- tablishment should be treated in the light of a buyer; should be accorded every courtesy that would be given the person whose money was expect- ed to be left there when he took his departure. But how many times is the reverse exemplifi many *d inthe indifference, the positive rudeness of those employed to secure willing dol- lars and endeavor, by every known legitimate bewitchment, luctant shekels pursestrings. to entice re- from the _ public’s I may be wrong in these premises but am of the opinion that they are shared by several others. With the crowd that thronged the store I mention came two dies I particularly oung la- y noticed, because with one of them I am slightly ac- quainted. They were very stylishly dressed and altogether the sort a fel- low likes to be seen speaking to. The girl I know bowed and smiled as they entered, saying a word or two of bright greeting and tossing me a fed my MICHIGAN forgotten yet—you know some peo- ple’s ways are so different from others’ that they have a trick of re- maining in your memory! The young ladies were in the store such a short time that I thought to myself they could not have found goods to their taste. their hurried exit came out a few days later, and reach- The secret of roundabout ears in a way 1 2 2 the older pret- Said he (we were tal stores in general and this one in par- ticular): other day. “She went A a ee Y oh NY VAN Wr os NAY RN \\ WS \ S SQW SS Soo Ny Ny NS SYS ty aS slugged, mum.” : or?” “He didn’t belong to the unio ‘B + ut surely they wouldn't slu 4 “No, mum, but he was tryin TRADESMAN ' ; have it, I don’t know a girl that I'm | prouder to walk down the street with. |My sister's so devilish handsome and | so—well, what the French call ‘chic’ | she cuts a dash everywhere | she goes. Everybody turns around to | | | better? | some | “You'd like to know her Well, come up to the house evening, old fel, and I'll see to it that | she’s at home. She’s much in de- mand, though, and I may have to use a little strategy to keep her there. “But I was going to tell you how an impudent clerk cheated his em-| ployer out of $25.—By the way, my sister said she saw you standing in he doorway when she stepped into} d to him?” nh. mim” g him for that, would they?” to work.”—Chicago Tribune. ior her summer footwear—high house shoes, Nick only knows how many more, I don’t. boots, Oxfords, dancing slippers. and the Old She’s a great girl to get things by the quantity. She says she generally buys at a better figure by so doing and, also, she saves herself a lot of run- ning around on an occasion when she ican ill afford to take the time. It’s her idea, and a good one, too. She has her own income and she’s a ju- buyer. She’s not the least mite stingy, but, on the other hand, dicious she isn’t a bit wasteful. i “She’s a slick dresser, I tell you. She purchases the best of everything, keeps her clothes in fine order and always makes a good appearance. If she is my sister, and ‘I do say it that t smile, as she passed, that I haven’t | shouldn't,’ as the country women expecting to lay in her summer sup- ply of foot-coverings, as she was pleased with the looks of the shoes displayed in the big window. Of course, the clerk who came to wait that she meant to leave a quarter of a hun- dred dollars under that on her could not know very roof, and so he was not careful to conceal his risibilities 2 little later on. “Pausing a moment at a small stand in the front of the store, on which were a number of stunning new ideas in shoes, my sister picked up one of the street boots for a closer inspection of its stylish cut. “‘Now, I admire that shoe.” she exclaimed, hurriedly taking in the blucher cut and one or two minor points and then holding it at arm’s ‘length for the general effect: ‘only,’ | inside the shoe. ' down land as if that ended it with her as | man she quickly added, ‘I don’t want such a heavy sole.’ “And with this—she told me all about it afterwards—she took the shoe in both hands, without a farther glance at it, and tried to bend the sole. “Her eye was on her girl compan- icon just then, and, too, as a matter of fact, she hadn’t so much as peeped It was laced up to the top and looked like any other | shoe you might pick up from a bunch on the ledge of any store in town. ““Oh, my! That sole’s entirely too heavy; and the vamp is too stiff, also. That’s stouter leather than I want.’ “And then my sister laid the shoe without further examination far as that special shoe was concern- -d. Picking up another, she essayed ito bend that sole, also, thinking an- other might be lighter in weight. “With that a look of utter con- tempt spread itself broadly over the |clerk’s face and he gave way to a loud sarcastic laugh. “My sister shot a look that em | braced all the customers in the im- | mediate vicinity and a hot flush man- | tled her cheeks. “She could not see that she had done or said anything to warrant un- seemly behavior on the part of the waiting on cha- her, and was |grined to be the mark of enquiring |eyes around her. “Then appeared the reason of the i clerk’s actions: ““That shoe, Miss,’ he shouted, so that every one in the store could not | | but hear, and | other guffaw, ‘that shoe, Miss, has got then he uttered an- a last in it! And so have all the rest | of °em on this here table—you could- | . , ° , | n't bend ’em in a thousand years! “Well, you can imagine how my sister felt to have that fellow adver- tise her mistake to fifteen or twenty | people! “She left her $25 in a store farther down the street wherethe clerks are gentlemen.” Larry Brown. —_»-- 2 ___ No Union Labor and Good Shipping Facilities. Manistee, May 16—Manistee has bonded for the purpose of encourag- ing manufacturing industries to lo- cate here. The city affords, proba- bly, the most desirable location for manufacturing and other industries employing labor of any place in Western Michigan, being practically free from labor troubles, with good shipping facilities, both by water and rail, within a night’s run of Chicago and Milwaukee, with daily boat lines between these two cities. It is also situated on the Manistee & North- Railroad, Pere Marquette Railroad, Manistee & Grand Rapids Railroad, the latter connecting with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. Good live industries having an estab con- eastern lished business and employing siderable labor, desiring to change lo- cations, will receive liberal induce- ments. They should correspond with the Manistee Development Co. T. G. Trimble, Ass’t Sec’y. +. Fast people do not stand fast. ae MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 “You have tried the rest now use the best.”’ Cen Reasons Why You Should Buy % Try “Booming” any really worthy article and you will Q| den born be surprised at the steady sale, even after you think the ‘‘boom” has worn OLY off. The boom never wears off an Reason No. 2.—The Best of Wheat f i ] > 1 j i ' . . . . article the public finds it needs. That's There are many varieties of wheat and a great difference in the way with Quaker Oats. Grocers grades. Grades are determined by weight, color and condi- ia) tion. Good flour can be made only from best of wheat. Much who are cutting down their oatmeal poor wheat is ground into flour and offered for sale. Only an expert can judge what grades of wheat will produce the best of stock to consist of Quaker Oats alone a es are winning out. They know what WE GUARANTEE THAT GOLDEN Horn FLOURIS MADE FROM THE CHOICEST GRADES OF SELECTED WHEAT, FREE FROM ALL ADUL- they’re handling. So does the TERATION, AND IS ALWAYS UNIFORM AND RELIABLE Another good reason why you should buy it. public. That's the permanent ‘‘fea- Give us your orders and we will satisfy you. ture’ value of QUAKER OATS won (awe Hihk 2 brneccece— ete tee eee le ee ee | "Os _ Base Deceptions No, friends, this is not a title of a /%vestde Companion, continued-in-our-next novelette. It has to do with a most important feature of show case construction. The value of a case is largely determined by its base. If you wanted to, you couldn’t put French plate and solid mahogany frames on a cheaply or unscientifically constructed base, and guarantee your work. We are wood-working scientists. We know what wood will warp, how it will warp, and why it will warp. The same regarding its wearing qualities. | Our base is actually stronger than if it were carved out of a solid log. We've really im- | Manufactured by § Star & Crescent Milling Zo., Chicago, Tl. Che Finest Mill on Earth Distributed by | Roy Baker, 82" Rapias, mic, Special Prices on Car Load Lots proved on nature. Another thing: We made the first receding base. Is it likely that our bases are at least the equal of any other, or not? You say. - Grand Rapids Fixtures Co. South Tonia and Bartlett Streets Grand Rapids, Mich. New York: Boston: 724 Broadway 125 Summer St. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Early Opening of the Fall and Win- ter Season. From all parts of the comes the news of the early opening country of the fall and winter season. De- spite the fears of a portion of the wholesale trade, the traveling repre- sentatives who left for their territor- ies as early as April 1 found that the retail merchant was ready and willing to look over the new sample lines and begin the work of selecting his stock. The fall and winter season of 1905 will hereafter be noted for the fact that the sea- son opened nearly six weeks earlier heavyweight than any previous season, and from the very start salesmen have met with encouragement in the shape of good- sized advance orders. It has been the desire of manufac- turers for some years past to get as | early a start as possible each season, but they have been handicapped by the fact that it was necessary to show full lines of finished garments. When it is taken into consideration that these lines sometimes numbered over five hundred styles, the work of pre- paring the garments was enormous. A few seasons ago the idea was in- | troduced of showing one garment of a style, and the rest of the shades or| patterns of that particular fabric in| swatches. At first buyers did not} take kindly to the innovation, but it | has gradually gained ground, and | manufacturers in general have now} Not alone does it | Save an immense amount of expense | adopted the plan. in the reduction of baggage for the traveling salesmen, but it has allowed | the manufacturer to create his sam- | ple garments, and before the sales- | men are ready to leave on their trips add to the line the swatches of the sample pieces which have lately ar- | rived, and which would cause a de-| lay of weeks if sample garments had | to be constructed from them. The early opening of the season re- | acts in another and if possible a more important part of the business For several years the volume of| ready-made clothing used in _ this | country has been increasing at an enormous rate. Under the old sys- tem all of these garments had to be made within time. about three months’ Great as are the manufactur- ing facilities they were stretched to the utmost, and as a last resort, in order to manufacture the garments needed to meet the deliveries the fac- tories were run night and day, at an enormous additional expense. This night work can now be eliminated by extending the season, and allowing manufacturers this extra time in pro- ducing the stock needed for fall de- liveries. This will of course react in a beneficial way to the consumer. More time will be devoted to the tailoring departments, and better gar- ments will therefore be produced. The new samples which are being shown’ to the trade by the traveling a : | dium-priced grades. | motorist. ' salesmen are meeting with the un- qualified approval of buyers and the trade in general, which seems to ap- preciate the radical changes which have been made in styles. The most marked difference from the garments of last season is of course in the length of the coats; this being in the case of sack coats from two to four inches. The coats are built with mod- erately broad shoulders and do not fit the figure as closely as heretofore. The lapels and collar are wider. The idea of the designer seems to have been to produce a roomy, comforta- ble garment, with plenty of style to it, and in this he has succeeded ad- mirably, as the styles are all of pleas- | ing appearance and will be worn with satisfaction by the most careful and | conservative dressers. The overcoat season promises to] be one of attractive styles, and the preparations which have been made by the manufacturers certainly seem to be ample to meet any possible de- | mand. In the nigher-priced garments surtouts, paddocks, paletots will no doubt be the more popular garments. The Chesterfield is always popular. and will continue to be so during the coming season. Fine Meltons, Ker- seys, aS well as some of the rougher | finished materials, will be used exten- these Next in grade will come the semi- sively in making garments. | ulster or great coat, and this promises to be the popular garment for the me- Made of Scotch plaids, and constructed with broad shoulders and roomy body of heavy good length, it is the ideal garment for general wear, and its popularity | is assured. The need of the automobilist ‘has | been appreciated by makers of ready- |to-wear garments, and for fall and | winter there are several houses who are devoting their entire attention to the construction of jackets, trousers and overcoats designed specially to} | meet the needs of the motorist. The | wholesaler whose line is the regular styles of suits and overcoats has also | recognized the demand for auto cloth- ing, and in nearly all of the lines be-| ling shown for fall and winter are| samples which are designed for the | So popular has the auto | become that nearly every town can boast of at least one or two enthusi- asts. To the retail merchant who ca- ters to the needs of the few is open- ing a special and profitable depart- ment which in an incredibly — short space of time will be catering to the needs of many. The traveling salesmen who repre- cent manufacturers of children’s clothing are all on the road with the new samples for fall and winter wear Never have such care and attention been given to the productions of suits and overcoats, and the result is innu- merable pleasing styles. The new samples show a great variety of new | fabric effects—Clothier and Furn- isher. —_—-. >>. When a man tries to hide his re- ligion he is sure to lose it. _. oo You will not lose any true friends by loving your enemies. H. H. Cooper & C Utica, N. Y. Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in Medium and Fine Clothing Perfect Fitting Well Made and Good Materials Our Garments Always Handle with Satisfac- tory Results The Right Kind of Clothing at Right Prices Represented by J. H. Webster No. 472 Second Ave., Detroit Mich. lf You Want for Fall, 1905 ‘The Best Medium Priced Clothing in the United States’’ Wait for our Salesman, or send for a Sample Line at our expense. The Quality is right. The Fit is the best ever shown at $7 to $12. HERMAN WILE & CO. Buffalo, N. Y. New York Chicago Minneapolis sseesiiainst si eteaeuniatataly : Senet Es a= aaa ta MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Style Tendencies in Little Folks’ Wearables. Those retailers who took the Easter week of last year to compare with the Easter week of this season re- port gratifying gains in business. This year the trade did not concen- trate on Easter Saturday to do most of the buying, but scattered their purchases through the week, so that, taking the week’s record from day to day, there were big daily increases, and Saturday was only a normally fair business day. Yet the season has been an active one. The weather has been ideal for the sale of woolen and worsted suits and top coats, as well as reefers for young people, and for this much the retail merchants are grateful. While every style of garment in the calendar of juvenile apparel has sold, on all sides as- tonishment is expressed over. the record sales made by the Norfolk suit. As previously noted in these reports, the present popularity of the Norfolk makes it an excellent fall style, and the advance autumn orders show that it is winning out again very satisfactorily. Following the Easter week trade there was a noticeable lull in retail departments for a while. This brief let-up gave buyers an opportunity to look to their wash goods stocks. Such stock as they carried over, aug- mented by “pick-ups” obtained in the market, were sold out quite clean early in the season, when the advance sales of tub goods were pushed for- ward. Now that the actual wash goods season is at hand, we find re- tailers cleaned out of old goods and freshened for business with new mer- chandise. Conspicuous in the new lots are woven and printed shep- herd check suits, which will doubt- less meet with as ready sale in the lighter weight cottons as they did in the woolens and worsteds which have been a feature of the spring sell- ing season. The makers of children’s lines, noting the reception accorded plaids and checks this season, ‘have already planed to include these in their spring showings for 1906, and have instructed the mills that check and plaid goods will be in request. Most of the salesmen for the repre- sentative houses have been calling on their retail customers now for several weeks, the latest to get away having departed last week. There has been a fair amount of fall busi- ness already taken, and, according to these orders and the reports sent in by salesmen, retailers are feeling good. Where the pulse of the trade has been taken the indications of a healthy fall and winter are evident, and travelers report that their trade is imbued with great confidence in the future development of business. They are buying full general lines. This is significant of expected busi- ness and that old stocks are extreme- ly light. The long suit coat is generally fav- ored for boys, youths and young men. For the latter it runs to 31 inches, and the double-breasted sack is go- ing remarkably well. Early orders show that its position is even better than it was a year ago, when. the sales were said to be as three to five. In the large cities this pro- portion is reported now to be as four in five. The very “smart” sack, long and generously loose through- out, yet slightly shaped at the waist, is meeting with a good reception in the large cities with the buyers of nobby styles. Country trade, it is feared, may be afraid of the new style, yet it is not extreme enough to be hazardous. The shaped coat will be fairly well established, no doubt, by the end of the summer, and _ its more general edoption will be likely for autumn. The fall sack will be similar in model to the shaped sack shown last April, although not so extreme in length. The representative manufacturers of young men’s clothing have intro- duced the paddock and surtout—sin- gle and double breasted skirted over- coat—for fall with cuff effects for the sleeves, and in self and velvet col- lars. The same garments have also been brought out for youths and boys, and will be seen in rainproofed and light weight fabrics for early autumn wear, as well as in the heavy weight overcoatings for winter service. Although in many respects. the tourist, double breasted and Chester- field overcoats will be somewhat sim- ilar in style to last season’s models, the very latest for dressy young men will be the shaped Chesterfield, about 46 inches in length. The reception accorded fur coats for little folks is the reason for bringing out more extensive and varied lines of fur garments for the winter season, and manufacturers are showing more comprehensive lines of furs now than ever before. The prices asked for some of these fur garments are astonishingly low, considering that the fur overcoat for the boy has hitherto been considered an expensive luxury. The favorite for juveniles is the beaver cloth or shaggy napped garment in white, cream white, gray and other seasona- ble colors. These are less expensive than the genuine zibelines—Apparel Gazette. ——_---2——___ Wanted the Job. One of the Southern Senators re- counts a conversation that once took place between a friend of his—a busi- ness man in Mobile—and a colored man who had made application for work: “Well,” said the business man, aft- er the recital had been made of the darky’s qualifications, “I should like to give you the place, but I’m afraid I can’t do so, for I understand you are married. For special reasons I desire for this place a single man.” An expression of the deepest dis- appointment came to the dusky coun- tenance of the applicant. Finally, after a short silence, during which he mumbled to himself by way of reflection, he said, hopefully and eag- erly: “Well, boss, if dat’s de only trou- ble, I think I kin arrange a divorce ale sane” _——o2-> Some people never pray “forgive us our debts,” except when the offer- ing is being taken. ee A BAN WHY WE MANUFACTURE THE LARGEST LINE °F ENG CV ACD aaa Ne UH Ay AUTEN NU AUK IN THE WORLD. ¢6 INCH STORM COLLAR LEATHER BUTTONHOLES SIDE POCKET SIDE POCKET SNOT SSHONI 2 OTHING D TWO_ Ol nINY WHOLESALE MANUFAC FACTURERS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH | | TAKING CHANCES. |side of Wood street and call every | | firm successively to the top, and pass | | | i 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i | It Sometimes Leads To Great Suc- f Ke ty ch Pe Ee Efi Bh Ey cess. The willingness to chance it is, to a certain extent, a factor in success. There are numberless cases in which | the giving up of a sure thing to fol- | low the path of difficult uncertainties has proved the entrance to the road to wealth. The willingness to take chances. course and challenge to fate that it appears to be. Instead it is a putting ot the known forces within against the unknown ones without. It is a careful reckoning of the strength of desire, ambition and determination, and putting them in their place as a factor against difficulty. “Chopping’s pretty sure, Jim,” said the brother of Hill, the railroad mag- nate, when he decided to forsake his life as a woodman and start out West. “’m going to take my chance and give it up, just the same,’ ’ said young Hill. Although he could not see the before he made this answer. When, as a small boy, Andrew Car- negie got a chance to leave the cot- ton factory, it was to take the re- sponsibility of running a large en- gine, an art of which he knew noth- nity on this account, but took the chance of making good by his own exertions afterward. “The firing of the boiler was al! right,” says Mr. Carnegie, in his au- tobiography, “for, fortunately, we did not use coal, but wooden chips. But) the responsibility of keeping the wat- er right, running the engine and the fear of making a mistake, caused too great a strain, and I awoke often to find myself sitting up in bed trying the gauges.” “He never told them at home what a tussle he was having,” says one of Mr. Carnegie’s biographers, who sees in this story the key to his success. “Tt is the revelation of his whole char- acter. He never hesitated to take a chance when promotion was in sight. He did not wait until he had mastered an occupation or situation before accepting it. He accepted it! first and then mastered it. He was) an engineer before he knew anything about boilers, to say nothing of en- gines. The same is true of the suc-| cessive duties which he assumed.” The way Mr. Carnegie planned to use what resources he possessed when he was offered the position of messenger boy, he tells again in his autobiography: “My only dread,” he says, “was that T should some day be dismissed be- cause I did not know the city, for it was necessary that a messenger should know the names and addresses of those men in Pittsburg who were in the habit of receiving many mes- sages, and I was a stranger in the that I would learn to repeat succes- sively each business house in the principal streets, and was soon able Heinze made the claim that he | 9 * could follow the course of a copper ot 1n lclaim which he held and which lay lerties laughed at the idea. He went} \into the courts, brought suits and) ‘ard Oil that they thought it worth rents si leav > room | : . ~ future, events since leave no FoOM) While to compromise. So Mr. Rogers for doubt that the young man took | a sweeping inventory of his energies | | 1f we carry this thing to the end we ‘ ' | we have some plans which are inter- ing. He did not refuse his opportu- | |sent for you to talk business with | to the other side and call every firm The Most Popular ‘to the bottom. Before long I was | \able to do this with the eee The Best Advertised streets generally. A more recent instance of the abili- | The Highest Grade ty to take chances the greatness of | (FOR THE MONEY) which was only equaled by his bound- | less determination, was shown in| The Lowest Priced lthe encounter which young Mr.| | Heinze had a few years ago with the | Line of Union Made however, is not always the reckless | Standard Oil Company. between two other mines, so that he| could trace the dip of his own vein For Fall 1905 even where it went into the others. The men in charge ‘of the other prop- Ranging in Price from $6.50 to $13.50 succeeded in getting injunctions Special Leaders enough to tie up the work of the two 50 in. Black Frieze Overcoat - . - $7.50 0 } great mines. Venetian Lined Black Thibet Suit - - 7.00 fi So embarrassed were the operations Write for Samples at the other mines owned by Stand- Regular Terms sent for Mr. Heinze. The young man came and the two went into con- sultation. “Now, Mr. Heinze,” said Mr. Rog- ers, “you know that we can ruin you. can strip you of all you have. But fered with by these suits, and I have you.” “T am always ready to listen to a business proposition,’ was the young man’s answer. “How much do you want to quit?” The young man smiled. “I did not come here to make a proposition, Mr. Rogers. You sent for me you know. & I am here to listen to you.” “We will give you $250,000 cash to settle all your claims. We will give it to you this afternoon,” he added Sincdia. —— = About June ist we will be located in our large Thc pacha wane Meted at the oles new quarters in the heart of the wholesale district, man with a smile. “I thought you were a man of broad views and used to great negotiations,’ he said. 3I North lonia St “Tn the name of heaven, how much : do you want?” was the answer. Barnhart Building “Ten million dollars,” said Heinze That the young man had at least a good idea of the difficulties which lay before him when he refused the offer We carry a very large stock ready for immediate delivery at our salesrooms in Men’s, Boys’ and |to name his price can not be doubted. Children’s Clothing, also Cloth and Tailors |That he made no mistake in measur- Trimmings from the cheapest to the very best. Our jing his own fighting qualities as able variety is larger than ever before. |to cope with them was proved a lit- Our soods are legitimate values, and submitted tle over a year ago, when, after end- less suits, a decision was granted in the Montana courts which practically on that basis to dealers who appreciate straightfor- ward representation. i tee the ieiow auke Uheoeine Mail and phone orders promptly attended to. company he had been fighting. It al-/| Citizens phone 6424. If preferred will send rep- so turned the Minnie Healy mine over resentative. tc him, worth, it was estimated, just $10,000,000. Giving up a certainty for the sake : : of a wider field is one of the chances Grand Rapids Clothing Co which men take, which are made to : some extent matters of certainty by Makers of Up-to-date Clothing | the intensity of their ambition. At present in the Pythian Temple Building city. However, I made up my mind} . . ne situated than was Lewis Nixon in Grand Rapids, Michigan Few young men have been better 1890. He had just been transferred One of the strong features of our lin i i i e—suits to retail oO to the staff of the navy, and had been sapaplecraata good profit to the dealer. to shut my eyes and begin at one | put in the construction corps. During} i ee