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Twenty-Second Year

Wililam Connor, Pres.
William Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pree.
M. C. Huggett, Secy-Treasurer

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING
MANUFACTURERS

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

Our Spring and Summer samples for 1905 now
showing. Every kind ready made clothing for all
ages. All our goods made under our own inspec-
tion. Mailand phone orders promptly shipped
Phones, Bell, 1282; Citizens, 1957. See our
children’s line. ;

 

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upon receipt of our. direct de-
mand letters. Send all
accounts to our offices for collec-
‘tion.

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Collection Department

R. G. DUN & CO.

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

 

We Buy and Sell”
Total Issues
of
State, County, City, School District,
Street Railway and Gas

BONDS

Correspondence Solicited,

H. W. NOBLE & COMPANY

BANKERS

Union Trust Building, Detroit, Mich,

 

 

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

Twenty-seven companies! We have a
portion of each company’s stock pooled in
a trust for the protection of stockholders,
and in case of io 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withdrawn from sale with the exception of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 Michigan Trust Building,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1905

SPECIAL FEATURES.

2. Window Trimming.

4. Around the State.

5. G. RK. Gossip.

6. Clerk’s Corner.

8. Editorial.

9. Commercial Morality.
11. New York Market.

12. Value of Tact.

14. Back to the Farm.

16. Clothing.

20. Meat Market.

22. Hardware.

24. Ethics of the Street.
28. Woman’s World.

32. Shoes.

36. The Turning Point.
38. Dry Goods.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

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

 

 

THE NEUTRALITY OF FRANCE.

That France has done Russia an in-

service and has, therefore

Japan a
jury, is now perfectly plain.

calcuable
wrought corresponding in-
Without
the hospitality accorded Admiral Ro-
jestvensky’s squadron in the French
ports of Madagascar, and later on of
Indo-China, it would have been utter-
ly impossible for fleet
to have reached the Far East in con-
dition to combat
with the Japanese with any chance of

the Russian

engage in mortal

success. It is now not denied that
the Russian ships were permitted to
refit and drill their crews in Madagas-
It is also not denied that
Admiral Rojestvensky has been al-
lowed to coal his ships, clean their

Cat Watcrs.

bottoms and take on provisions in the
harbors of French Indo-China. It is
that the French Government,
acting under pressure, issued instruc-
tions to the colonial authorities in
China violation of
French neutrality, but as the Russians
paid no attention to the warnings, and
had no

true

to prevent the

s France force sufficient to

compel obedience, no actual effort
was made to interfere with Rojest-
vensky.

A few days ago a Socialist Deputy
in the French Chamber of Deputies
interpellated the government on the
subject of neutrality and accused the
Ministry of permitted
ports to be for bel-
ligerent purposes. In reply to the

having
France’s used
statement that French officials were
upon
being maintained, the Deputy men-
tioned claimed that the
was under obligation to enforce its

instructed to insist neutrality

government

The Premier then appealed
to the Deputy to drop the subject on

orders.

patriotic grounds, and when he re-
fused a vote of confidence was sought
and received, the Chamber sustaining
overwhelming

the Ministry by an

majority. While the government’s

course was approved, the fact was}
. . }

established that France has not en-

forced neutrality against Russia, and

that to attack that action is consider- |

ed unpatriotic.

Of course, this open aid to Russia

 

| ~ .
| the French government is already be-

Indo-China.

is no indication that

tention, but France’s fears

come aroused.
Once beyond the limits of

Indo-China, the Russian fleet can

fleet no

able. So large a fleet as that now with

Admiral Rojestvensky

and the frequent stops

French ports prove that this

more than seven knots per

to be sailed before
reached.
eee

Thomas A.
ventor,

Edison, the famous in-
was asked if he

thought that the numerous discover-

recently

ies now coming into use

world any better or happier, and re-

could tell
mad

wish |
this

we are going. |
What
mean? Why is this age going at such a
pace: Why

beautiful

you. does rush

headlong have we re-
and the simple
and the

leaves all

placed the
with the

tific?

commercial scien-

One man and
about the world hunting butterflies.
don’t understand Would he

understand me? I do not think so.”

him.

Fairbanks, with an
eye to the campaign of 1908 and the

Vice-President

farmer vote, remarks as he
“I like
farming, and I have gone through it
from top to bottom. It is the life,
after all, that blood

and gives a real charm to life.

the country for the summer:

makes the
One
never gets nearer nature than
he is engaged in cultivating the soil
and harvesting its products.”

ee eee!

know a
A minister in Pennsyl-

It never comes amiss to

LOC rd trade.

 

vania, unable to get enough salary to

support his family of eleven
dren, has left the pulpit and gone to
blacksmith, a

|learned when a

lwork as 4 trade he
atid at

he can earn $3 to $4 per day.

which
Many

hoy,

a good blacksmith has been spoiled
to make a poor preacher.

+is certain to bring consequences, and |

coming alarmed as to the future of
Should Japan finally de- |
feat Russia, she will be in a position
to menace Indo-China, although there |
such is her in-|
have be-

French
hopé for no further assistance until

it reaches Vladivostok. Just when and
where it will encounter the Japanese

one can say, but Admiral
Toga will probably wait until the}
friendly French coast has been left

far distant, so that in the event of de-|
feat no friendly asylum will be avail- |

consumes an|
enormous quantity of coal and stores, |
made at]
ques-
tion of supply is causing trouble. At |
the best, the fleet can make barely|
hour,
j hence even if not interrupted by the
Japanese there is a long stretch yet |}
Vladivostok is |

made the |

plied: “1 do not. I wish | could
answer all questions so easily and}
so sincerely. I don’t know what we

are here for, and I don’t know where |

goes

goes tO}

flow |

when |

chil- |

Number 1131

JAPAN’S RESOURCES.
When the Mikado

against the Czar a good many peo-

went to war
ple thought more of his courage than
they did of his discretion.
little country, little compared
with all the Some thought
| that the bear would crush his oppo

Japan isa
very
Russias.

| nent and practically destroy him. The
proposal to pity soon gave way to
first at
ments of the Japanese navy and then

admiration, the accomplish-

at the victories of the Japanese army.
It takes an
money successfully

immense amount. of

to conduct a wart.

A million dollars is but a bagatelle.

Even as. the struggle progressed

among its
would find the
hard to
successfully, but as it has gone along
month to
month it has actually appeared that

fears were entertained
that

| financial problem too

friends Japan

solve

from week to week and

Russia, big and wealthy as it is, has

had more difficulty in negotiating
loans and obtaining funds than the
little Japan. That

been marvels of

kingdom of has
this re-
The Mikado and

his advisers evidently understood the

one of the
markable campaign.

| situation better than their sympa-

thizers.

It is true that the working people

lof Japan get small wages compared
| with those paid in America, but its
treasury department was on a good
basis at the beginning. So far as
| possible there were financial as well

jas military and naval preparations,
| but no nation has money enough in
advance to

The Jap-
anese have proved themselves won-

its vaults stored up in

carry on an extended wap.

derfully patriotic and public spirited.

| Internal loans have been over sub-

|scribed and the Japanese credit is

good. Count Okuma reckons that his

people’s wealth is in the neighbor-
hood of eight billions of dollars and
i that

jeight hundred millions, with an an-
|

their annual income is about
nual outlay that leaves over two hun-
The Jap-

income

dred million yearly surplus.

 

anese derive their principal

from agriculture, fisheries, mining and

 

|silk worm growing. Its investments
| ir purely manufacturing enterprises
|are comparatively small, hence the
| drain made upon the young and mid-
| dle aged manhood does not so seri-

ously interfere with income produc-

‘The and the
|old men, with the aid of the women,

| ing. very young very

can carry on a goodly proportion of
the industries, and last year fortune

1

good

favored them with unusually

crops. The wealth producing power
lof Japan, despite the heavy drain
imade by the war, continues nearly

|normal. It is believed that its money

facilities have been nowhere

| raising
inear taxed to their utmost, and that

|they can continue to raise all the
|funds promptly when needed.

 

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Two Easy Exhibits of More Than
Ordinary Interest.

Who is it you notice more on the |
street, be it man, woman or child?

Is it the person of mediocre ap-
pearance, the one who looks just like
everybody else—‘“as alike as two peas
in a pod,” as the saying is—or is it |
the person whe, by something out of
the ordinary in dress, manner or car- |

riage, stands apart from the multi- |
tude?
If you would attract attention,

either to yourself or the store the
reins of whose destiny you hold in|

your hands, in some way be different |
or do things differently from the

| cial

| chemicals.

|imitation of an

|ioned of the rough boards.

roe and Division streets, develop the
idea of
“The old oaken bucket
That hung in the well.”
Imitation strewn in. the
bottom of the window for the floor

grass is

| covering, the sort to be procured of
| manufacturers who make all kinds of

window  accessories—wax figures,
pedestals, nickel standards and artifi-
etc. |

druggist could grow his own grass—

trees, vines, presume a
take fine excelsior and tint it a lively
green diamond
Why not?
In the center of Peck Bros.’
provised grass plat is a very

with dyes or other

im-
good
old-fashioned well,
the curb, posts and hood being fash-
Depend-
ing from the center of the hood, and
visible to the windowgazer, is a
bucket filled to overflowing with

| ceeeniets at the intersection of Mon- dow ‘given up to wooden-board “bul-

| letins,” as they might be called, such

as are being eagerly scanned by the
curious who stop at The Giant win-
shown in halftone.

dow here

/tion of the one in the center (which
might be denominated the motif of

the window-picture), carries a color-

| a se
| the coming season's demand.

ports with pins that one has_ to
look twice to see how the attach-
ment is accomplished. Half of the

other half lean to the right.

the neckband and each

garment.
has allowed to
graceful lines.

hang in easy

 

 

 

 

commonly-accepted order of matters.

Of course, such an one lays him-
self and his methods open to more
criticism than the plodding person
who hasn’t the nerve to “cut a dash,”
but if the one under the limelight
acts along right lines he need never |
fear the criticism he will receive—it |
will be simply the critique of betters. |

= * *

Two local stores this week show
originality in design, and yet that |
criginality is accomplished through |
the medium of the very commonest ,
of common materials—just wooden
boards such as may be obtained by
any city windowman or crossroads
general dealer by taking a hammer
and knocking small boxes to pieces
or sawing boards from larger ones
into lengths to fit the space or meet
the fancy!

2 =
Peck Bros., the wholesale and retail

 

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Mouy Bak
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tees
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pasteboard cartons of Wood’s Sarsa-
parilla, put up by the Pecks. In the
background runs a miniature picket
fence, while in all directions are rows
of the packages, and a pyramid of
them as high as a man is built at
the bend in the glass next to the
store entrance.

The and the roof bear,
numerous announce-

well curb
work,
ments extolling the efficacy of this
special Sarsaparilla, and a_ small
white

| The boards rest on the floor easel-
| wise, either standing against a regu-
|

‘lar copper window fixture or tilted

 

| Each board, with the single excep-

ed or figured shirt, in anticipation of
These |
are so deftly nailed to the pine sup-|

units slope towards the left and the|
Each |
has the proper collar buttoned on to}
displays a |
silk four-in-hand harmonizing or con- |
trasting with the general tone of the|
These the window trimmer |
and |

 

We

Carry in Stock

a large line of
Top Buggies
Driving Wagons
Spring Wagons

Surreys, etc.
We make

Prompt Shipments
| Brown & Sehler Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale Only

 

 

 

Mica Axle Grease

Reduces friction to a minimum. It
saves wear and tear of wagon and
harness. It saves horse energy. It
increases horse power. Put up in
1 and 3 Ib. tin boxes, 10, 15 and 25
lb. buckets and kegs, half barrels
and barrels.

Hand Separator Oil

is free from gum and is anti-rust
and anti-corrosive.
1 and 5 gal. cans.

Standard Oil Co.

Put up in &%,

 

 

 

 

The Michigan Furnace

manufactured by us
|is equipped with the latest improvements
in the
Hot Air Heating Line
Every furnace put in by us
has proved a success.
Let us figure with you. We will
save you money.

_ Weatherly & Pulte

|

| 97 & 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Announcement of Dissolution of Co-Partner-
| ship and Change of Firm Name

| kamp

Co.

Please notice that on March rst, 1905, the firm of Hopson-Haften-
was dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Haftenkamp
‘having disposed of his interest in said firm. The business will be con-
card some six by ten inches | tinued as in the past, assuming its former name of W. C. Hop on &

floats from one corner of the roof ' Co, The new firm assumes all the obligations and will collect all the

On it one reads:
Well,

I see you need a

spring tonic!

by a thread.

The idea underlying this window is |

very simple, but is cleverly carried
out.
a. =e
I can not recall ever having seen
in Grand Rapids another entire win-

|accounts

Very respectfully,

| W. C. HOPSON & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

OLD CARPET

We have the facilities, the experience, and, above all, the disposition to
produce the best results in working up your

S INTO RUGS

We pay charges both ways on bills of $5 or over.
If we are not represented in your city write for prices and particulars.
‘

THE YOUNG RUG CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH.

rs Sampara

 

 

  
 

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at the desired angle by small pieces
of wood nailed to the back in the
shape of a triangle. A hammer and
nails on the floor in the foreground

and a saw in the rear (which does}
not show in the photograph) indi- |

cate to the observer the tools used
to produce the result he beholds.

The spelling on the bulletin boards
is phonetic, and if a person on the
other side of the glass has the time
he doesn’t leave until he’s gone over
every blessed one of ’em!

To facilitate reading I give them |

here. They all emphasize the fact
that 1S a Shirt Sale, call attention

to the collars and neckties and quote |

prices.
The motif reads:
Get
Aboard
Fare
$1.50

Quick Sail
A. May & Sons

This beard is very humorous,
showing, as it does, a droll drawing
of the proprietors of The Giant.

Others are as follows:

You Won’t
Get seasick
If you
Patronize
‘This Sail

Mony Bak
If you donte
Go this trip

Summer
Shirts
and
Some Are Ties

Summar
Collers
2 tof 4
Quarter

Excursion to
Kumfort Town
Dollarn Haf

Fashionabell
Scarfs
50c

More
Shurtz
Inside the
Bote

This last is obscured in the picture
by the board in front of it.

Stilish
Shurtz
This Muche

A novel feature of this sign is the
whittling-out of a circle just the size
of a dollar and a fifty-cent piece and
the gluing or fitting in these depres-
sions of silver money to correspond
with the price of the shirt pinned to

this particular board.

These

Shirts

Be all

Rite

Jump

Aboard

$1.50 A

Jump

Noo Tiz
$1.00 or
4 Bitz

| Shurt
Sale
| Hustel upp
| Don’t git

Lefft
| The polished floor is unmarred by
| any drapery. Over the ledge in the
|background hang natural branches
|covered with pink tissue apple blos-

|soms—or they would be apple blos-

| soms if they had five petals instead of
| four.
Altogether an admirable window—
|}one especially adapted to stick in
| people’s minds and cause them to ad-
| vertise the firm name.
| _—_o oo

Reads All the Postals.
Talking with a party of friends at
|a downtown cafe the other afternoon,
a traveling man told of a new experi-
ence he encountered in a little vil-
lage not far from Grand Rapids on
his last trip out. He was standing at
the window of the postoffice in this
village while the mail was being dis-
tributed, when he noticed that the
| postmistress—who was certainly old
enough to know what she was about
—put the letters as she came to them
in their proper boxes, but placed all
the postal cards in a pile together
on a shelf.

“What are you saving the postals
for?” asked the traveler at last.

“Oh, I’ve got to read ’em all first,”
was the reply.

“Got to!” exclaimed the traveler,
with an accent of surprise on the
verb. ‘Why, how’s that?”

“I have to read ’em, every one,”
said the postmistress, “to see’ that
they contain nothing improper. It’s
a rule of the department.” And she
went on placidly with her distribu-
tion.

—— 62

Depew on the Wit of Women.

Senator Depew, at a dinner in
Washington, was praising the wit of
women.

“Against this wit,’ he said, “we
men are powerless. Even when all
the right and logic of an argument
are on our side, woman, with her wit,
will nine times out of ten put us to
shame.

“Thus a man once found that his
wife had bought a few puffs of false
hair. This displeased him. He hid
one day, and, just as the lady was
fixing the false puffs upon her brow,
he darted in upon her.

““*Mary, he. said reproachfully,
‘why do you put the hair of another
woman on your head?’

“Why, his wife answered, ‘do you
put the skin of another calf on your
hands?’ ”

 

 

Percival B. Palmer & Company

Mannfacturers of
Cloaks, Suits and Skirts
For Women, Misses and Children
197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

 

CORL, KNOTT & CO.

Jobbers of Millinery and manufacturers of

Street and Dress Hats

 

#

Removal Notice |

On and After
Wednesday, May 24th

we will be glad to see all our

ing purchasers at our new
garage on North Division St.,
nearly opposite the Majestic

theatre.

automobile friends and intend-
>

Adams & Hart

47-49 N. Division St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

20-26 N. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

MR. GROCER

Of course you love your wife. Then make her labors easy and save her many
steps to and from the pantry. The most sensible proposition ever offered. Well built
and substantially put together. Has two large bins which swing ona pivot and work
as easily when loaded as when empty. Finished in Antique Oak. Top, 24x48. Height,
30inehes. One kneeding board 22x24, one meat board 11x22.

Free with 60 pounds assorted ground spices, guaranteed absolutely pure 1 6 50
Send us your order at once °

    
  
   
 
  
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
   
   

No. 76 Kitchen Cabinet

7
Spices Delivered for $16.50 i
Cabinet F. 0. B. Factory Michigan by

WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.
Adrian—A. Peaney has re-engaged
in the grocery business.
Calumet—G. D. Grammas
opened a confectionery store.
Lansing—Chas. W. Derk has dis-
continued his bazaar business.
Alpena—Watson & Rix
Budde & Tollson in the grocery busi-

has

succeed

mess.

Detroit—A receiver has been ap-

pointed for the Soluble Dessicated
Egg Co.

Kalkaska—Chas. Harroun suc-
ceeds Mrs. N. Peach in the bazaar
business.

West Branch—Curtis J. Winslow is
succeeded in the drug business by
Floyd J. Wren.

Eaton Rapids—E. B.
ceeds Lewis & Dodge as owner of
the Hunch Cigar Co.

Atwood—Smallegan & Smith
succeeded in the general store busi-
ness by Henry Kooster.

Jackson—Frederick W. Kirkland, of
the firm of Fuller & Kirkland, gro-
cers and bakers, is dead.

Buchanan—Henry R. Adams _ is
succeeded by Wm. Roantree in the
lumber and coal business.

Lowell—Thos. Welch has sold his
interest in the Spencer-Welch stock
of goods to A. L. Spencer.

South Boardman—Howard Leach
& Co. are closing out their stock of
dry goods, groceries and boots and
shoes.

Hastings—A. E. Mulholland suc-
ceeds Wm. H. Goodyear, who form-
erly carried a stock of drugs and
books.

Detroit—The National Salvage Co.,
of which Harry Jacobs is proprietor,
has changed its style to the National
Clothing Co.

Kalkaska—The grocery business
formerly conducted by W. H. G.
Phelps will be continued in future by
Burt Wright.

Manistee—The hardware business
formerly conducted by Zielinski &
Kretzer will be continued in future by
Albert Kretzer.

Hartford—Frank Greenfield  suc-
ceeds Elgin J. Root, who has been
engaged in the harness business here
for many years.

Fountain—W. M. Boughner & Son
will continue the grocery and produce
business formerly conducted by
Boughner & Merritt.

Lansing—The Michigan Distribut-
ing Co. has uttered a chattel mort-
gage for $99,000 on its stock of ag-
ricultural implements.

Dodge _ suc-

are

Benton Harbor—Cryan Bros.
opening a branch meat market in the
store formerly occupied by William
Haydon’s jewelry store.

Pot—J: i. Eevy & Co. have
bought the dry goods stock of E. O.
Pierce & Sons, who recently went
into bankruptcy. The offer of 50
cents on the dollar was confirmed
in the United States Court at Bay
City;

are

 

St. Johns—The Abner Furtney shoe
stock was purchased at auction sale
by Mrs. Susanna Eby, of Berlin, Ont.,
whose bid was $1,128.50.

Upton Works—Gates & Selby, gro-
cery and meat dealers, have dissolved
partnership, the business to be con-
tinued by Frank F. Gates.

Hancock—Baer Bros., meat dealers
of this place, Calumet and Dollar Bay,
anticipate establishing a branch of
their business at South Range.

Mayville—The furniture and un-
dertaking business formerly conduct-
ed by Norris S. Stilson will be con-
tinued in the future by Stilson &
Coverdale.

Thompsonville—J. W. Slater has
sold his stock of house furnishing
goods to J. W. Hilliker, of Grawn,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

Battle Creek—-Otto Gemsch has
purchased the meat market connected
with S. F. McKay’s grocery, on Cal-
houn street, and will continue in busi-
ness at the same stand. In point of

active service, Mr. Gemsch is the

oldest butcher in the city.
Alpena—Budde & Tollison have

sold their grocery stock to David

Watson and Harry Rix, who will con-
tinue the business under the style of
Watson & Rix.

Port Huron—Horace E. Runnels
and Edward Runnels have purchased
the jewelry stock formerly owned by
the late J. W. Goulding and will con-
tinue the business.

St. Joseph—Fred J. Stowell
Edward Lane have formed a copart-
nership for the purpose of engaging
in the grocery business in the King
building about June 1.

Cheboygan—J. H. Barrowcliff is
having the building recently occupied
by Greenless & Son as a fish market
moved to a lot he purchased some
time ago on Court street and will
open up a grocery store.

Battle Creek-—-F. B. Coates, of the
firm of Pittman & Coates Hardware
Co., has purchased the interest of F.
P. Pittman, the senior member, and
will continue the business. The firm
name will not be changed.

Sanilac Center—The Anketell Lum-
ber & Coal Co. has been incorporat-
ed for the purpose of doing a general
lumber and coal business. The com-
pany has an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which is subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Mears—Ward & Walker have in-
stalled a “farmers’ kitchen” in con-
nection with their store, where hot
coffee, sugar and cream are served
to the patrons of the store. The
furnished with tables and
chairs, affording a convenient resting
place for the weary mothers with tired

and

room is

babies, who appreciate accommoda-
tions of this description.
Detroit—Hereafter the line of

paints and varnishes heretofore made
for general store trade by the Mc-
Lennan Paint Co., of Buffalo, will be
manufactured in this city, the Detroit
White Lead Works bought
the formulae, trade marks and labels
formerly employed by the Buffalo
concern in manufacturing and mar-
keting the goods mentioned.

having

 

Clare—The Clare Hardware Co.
has filed a trust mortgage with the
Fletcher Hardware Co., of Detroit,
to cover liabilities aggregating $10,-
ooo. C. W. Calkins, the owner, will
continue in charge of the business,
paying a stipulated sum per month to
all creditors. These conditions were
brought on by the crop failure last
year and consequent short collections.

Marquette—The Marquette Prod-
uce Co. is a new concern which has
been organized to cover the Upper
Peninsula territory from this city,
and which has cpened warerooms and

 

a distributing station at 112 Spring |

street.

The business will be conduct- |

ed under the direction of I. Zemur- |

ray, formerly of New Orleans, La
and J. F. J. O’Conner, formerly con-
nected with the C. B. Metzger house.

Both these gentlemen have had ex- |

tensive experience in the produce and |

commission business and have estab-

lished trade connections that they ex- |

pect to make advantageous to their
Upper Peninsula patrons.
Rapids F—. D.
the bone

Eaton Goodrich,

who has been and sinew

Benton Harbor—The M. A. Price
Cigar Co. has been incorporated for

the purpose of manufacturing and
selling cigars with an authorized
capital stock of $3,000, of which

$2,000 has been subscribed and $800
paid in in cash and $1,200 in prop-
erty.

Muskegon—The Superior Bag &
Novelty Co. has been incorporated
for the manufacturing
and selling silk and chamois. The
corporation has an authorized capi-
tal stock of $10,000, of which amount
$6,100 has been subscribed and $3,100

purpose of

paid in in cash.
Burdick has

one-third

Sturgis—F. L. pur-
chased a the

Forrister & Cheeney Manufacturing

interest in

Co., wholesale manufacturer of knit
gloves and mittens, at Detroit. A. B.
Tennent is representing Mr. Bur-

interest in the

business.

dick’s
of the

management

Munising—The Superior Veneer &
Cooperage Company’s plant will cut

| 9,000,000 feet of logs this year. Of
| this amount 5,G00,000 feet is hemlock,

of the co-operative store since its or- |

ganization four years ago, has

dis- |

covered that the work is beginning |

to tell on his nervous forces and that
the not just what
agrees with him best. He will there-

confinement is

fore spend the most of his time out
this and ulti-
mately probably return to his first

of town summer will

which will be manufactured into lum-
Detrott. The
stave factory will use 4,000,000 feet o!

ber and shipped to

elm this season.

Saginaw—The C. S. Bliss sawmill

| has been dismantled and the machin-

love, that of traveling for a whole- |

Smith and

charge of

sale shoe house. D. P.
Silas Godfrey will

the store hereafter.

have

decided by the management to dis-

sold.
shingle mill and is working off the
stock of hand at
his yard and about 3,000,000 feet man-

ery Mr. Bliss is operating his

lumber he had on

ufactured during the winter at But-
i|man, Gladwin county.
Marquette—The South Arm Lum-

It has also been |!

continue the Brookfield branch store. |

 

Manufacturing Matters.
Detroit—The Pioneer Woolen Mills
has increased its capital stock from
$150,000 to $250,000.
Detroit—The capital stock of the
Zenner Disinfectant Co. has been in-
creased from $50,000 to $75,000.

Sylph-Form Corset Co. has
increased from $10,000 to $20,000.

Lansing—Chas. P. Lesher’s

been |

}eighty men. Of

ber Co. has
Dead

started operations at its
with a crew of

the

River mill,

lumber sawed

|this season 75 per cent. will be pine,

ithe remainder being equally divided

| feet.

between hemlock and hardwoods, the

total cut approximating 10,000,000

As in former years the lumber
will be shipped largely by water, the

| bulk of the cut going to Tonawanda,

manufacturers of cigars, will conduct |
business in the future under the style}

of the Lesher Cigar Co.

Greenville—J. J. Bale and

| on the basis of 7-10 of 1 per cent.

other |

Lakeview stockholders in the Cogs- |

well Wheel and Hub Co. have made
a proposition to business men here
to locate their plant in this city.

Sturgis--H. L. Allard has retired
from the firm of Shoecraft & Allard,
and Mr. Shoecraft will continue the
business of manufacturing the steel
stepladders for which the factory is
being equipped.

Marquette—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Su-
perior Lumber Co. to deal in logs,
timber and lumber. The company is
capitalized at $50,000, all of which is
subscribed and $25,000 paid in in
cash.

Vestaburg—The Vestaburg Cream-
ery Co. has been incorporated for the
purpose of manufacturing butter and
other dairy products. The corpora-
tion has an authorized capital stock
of $5,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The capital stock of the | age ee

f | Sugar
Sons, | “—

 

 

The mill will be in operation
five months.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Beet
Co. made a final settle-
ment with the stockholders and dis-
banded. The settlement

has

made
The
company was organized here in 1890
with a capital stock of $300,000 and
a large factory built just outside the
city. three

was

It was operated about
vears at a loss and then closed down.
| majority of the stockholders live
here and are heavy losers by reason
of the venture.
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Geert Gringhuis has uttered a chat-
tel mortgage for $400 on his bakery
stock.

 

 

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The Produce Market.
Apples—The market is firm and
choice stock has advanced to $2.50@
3 per bbl.

Asparagus—95c per doz. bunches.

Bananas—Have been moving free-
ly the past week at prices practically
the same as a week ago—$1 for smali
bunches and $1.50 for large.

Beets—New command $1.50 per
box.

Butter—Creamery has declined to
fancy.
Dairy has slumped to 16c for No. 1
and 14c for packing stock.
ed is steady at 10c.

20c for choice and 2ic_ for

Renovat-
The production
is large and there is no disposition
on the part of the handler to hold
auy stock, so the market being full
of sellers, the price has naturally de-
clined. The trade in creameries has
picked up within the week, as the re-
tailers now take them, where form-
erly dairies were all they could sell,
Packing
stock is in excellent demand at the

owing to the high prices.

quoted price.

Southern commands $2

Cabbage ;
per crate.

Carrots—New fetch $1.25 per box.

Cucumbers—75c per doz. for South-
ern and goc for home grown.

Eges local dealers pay about
14'44@15¢ for case count, holding can-
dled at 16c. The receipts are liberal,
but not quite so large in volume as
a few days The big packers

ago.

_are in the market for apparently un-

limited quantities, at a certain figure,
and they take all that are offered at
that price. It looks as if the hold-
ings of the meat packers would be

very large, while commission men
will store a fair quantity. A few
years ago it would not have been

considered safe to store eggs at 16c,

but that is about what they are
mostly going in at this year.
stock

mands $6 per box of either 64 or

Grape Fruit—Florida com-

cA) size, (Calitornia’) stock) is) $2
cheaper.

Green Onions—15c per doz. bunch-
es for home grown. The stock is fine.
Peas—$1.35 per bu. box.
Honey —Dealers hold dark at 10@

12c and white clover at 13@I5c.

Green

Messinas have advanced
Californias have

been marked up to $2.75.

Lemons—
to $3@3.25 per box.

Lettuce-—toc is now the ruling price
for hot house stock.

Onions—$1.65 per crate for Bermu-
das: $1.75 per crate for Texas; $1.65
per 70 th. sack for Louisiana; $3.50
per 110 th. sack for Egyptian.

Oranges—California Navels are
steady at $3.25 for choice, $3.50 for
fancy and $3.65 for extra fancy. Med-
iterranean $3@3.25: Seed-
lings, $2.75@3. The supplies of Med-
iterranean Sweets are increasing and
the stock arriving is of excellent
quality. Navels are not quite so nu-
merous, but still plentiful enough.

Parsley—25c per doz. bunches.

Pieplant—6oc for 4o tb. box.

Sweets,

 

 

Pineapples -- Prices are steady,
ranging about as follows: Crate of
18, $3.75; 24, $3.50; 30, $3.25; 36, $3;
42, $2.50; 45, $2:35-

Plants—Tomato and cabbage fetch
75c per box of 200.

Pop Corn—ooc for rice.

Potatoes—The market on old stock
is stronger and a firmer feeling per-
No short-
however, nor has

vades the potato region.
age is expected,
anyone the temerity to predict much
higher prices than are now ruling.
New potatoes are selling in very lim-
ited quantities at $1.40 per bu.

Poultry—The demand is strong and
all varieties are scarce. Live poultry
commands the _ following
prices: Chickens, 12@13c; fowls, 11
@t2ce; young turkeys ,15@16c;_ old
13@1s5c. Dressed fetch 2c
per tb. more than live. Broilers, 22@
25c per th.; squabs, $1.75@2 per doz.

Radishes—18e per doz. bunches for
round and 2o0c for long.

readily

turkeys,

Strawberries—Tennessee command
$2 per case of 24 qts.; Illinois fetch
Indiana range from $2.35@
2.50. The finest fruit is now coming
in from Tllinois.

Tomatoes—$z2.50 per 6 basket crate.

Turnips—$1.25 per box.

Wax

$2.95;

3eans—$2 per bu. hamper.
ern
The Grain Market.

Cash wheat market has been quite
active the past week. The May op-
tion in Chicago, which is practically
cash grain, has had an advance of
eight cents per
wheat in Detroit has shown an ad-

bushel, while cash
vance of two cents per bushel for the
There has been a
nervous feeling on the part of op-

same period.
erators, due largely to the poor crop
from. the
Southwest and other sections. While
has undoubtedly
suffered to some extent from rust and

reports being sent out

the growing crop

fiy in some sections, the condition
favorable, and
The de-
mand for cash wheat is very good.
The visible supply showed a decrease
in wheat of 2,123,000 bushels as com-
pared with a decrease of 645,000 bush-
els for the same week last year.

as a whole is very

there is no cause for alarm.

Corn market continues strong with
market practically unchanged for the
The visible supply of corn
shows a loss of 1,594,000 bushels, or
practically the same as for the same
time last year.
ment of cash

week.

There is a fair move-
corn, but demand is
urgent for
trade as might be expected.
The oat
shown very little response to the re-
The
visible supply made a loss of 1,163,-
000 bushels compared with 2,171,000
bushels decrease last week. There
have been free deliveries from farm-
ers and prices are a little easier with

not quite so domestic
market is dull and has

cent advance in other grains.

demand only moderate.
L. Fred Peabody.
a a

Ralph Smith has engaged in the
grocery business at Luther. The
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. furnished the
stock.

a cnr

Henry DeYoung will succeed Thos.
Whalen in the grocery business at
167 Butterworth avenue.

 

The Grocery Market.
Sugar—Raws have declined another
tec since our last report and the

 

price of refined grades has_ been
marked down another Io points.
Tea—The only development  dur-

ing the week has been an advance
in new fine Japans of 1%c per pound,
due, apparently, to the good business
done in them. The market at present
is steady and well contained. There
is some concern regarding the
ments of new Formosas.

ship-
The mar-
ket is open on the other side and tea
should be coming forward, but has
not started as yet. Delays would
probably have an important effect up-
on the situation.

Coffee—The statistical position is
very strong and on it those holding
coffee are building great hopes. It
is estimated that the coming crop of
Rio and Santos will run in the neigh-
borhood of eleven million bags. This
is about a million larger than’ the
present crop, but at the same time
it will fall probably a million short
of the consumptive requirements if
the present rate of increase in
sumption is maintained.
Goods—Gallon

some of the trade are
asking more for them, as the outlook

con-

Canned
firmer and

apples are

is for a close clean up before the
The demand is very
A slightly stronger feeling is

season is over.
good.
reported in the tomato market, but
this is but a himt of firmness. The
fact that there are a lot of tomatoes
in the hands of the packers and the
there is
scarcely a possibility of a shortage

trade generally and that

of course, many of the tomatoes held
are not of the highest grade there are

enough good ones to “go ‘’round,”

with a few to spare, in all probability. |

Corn and peas are selling fairly well,
the latter doing better than the form-
er. The market is without particular
Other
possibly string beans—are dull and

change. vegetables—except,

lifeless. There has been no change
Tt is charac-
terized by the same strength that it
Reports
are conflicting from the canning cen-
ters, but the outlook is good for a
fair sized pack. The demand is ex-
cellent and is depleting rapidly the

in the salmon situation.

has held for several months.

already short stocks. Indications are
for a short pack of French sardines.
Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are
quiet and easy. Prices on _ higher
grades are probably a cent below the
Whitefish and lake fish

Salmon has

winter basis.
are dull and unchanged.
developed nothing new, although the
demand is improving. There is con-
siderable speculation over what the
future market for Alaska and sockeye
fish will open. No change has oc-
curred in mackerel during the week
and the demand is quite dull. The
market is fully maintained, as the en-
tire stock is held in strong hands.
Sardines are very soft. There is some
sort of a squabble for control of the
market among the packers and the
result of this to date has been a2
decline in oils and quarter mustards
of 20@25c per case. The average
price for oils to-day is $2.60, f. 0. b.
Eastport, the lowest price ruling for

 

 

| twenty years. Mr.
works against much strength. While,

 

some time. The pack of new sar-
dines is proceeding fairly, the produc-
tion during May being better than ex-
pected.
goods as well as old.

Syrups and Molasses—The glucose
refiners have pocketed their fight for
the time being and
their prices 10 points.

The cut in price touches new

have advanced
They have al-
so advanced compound syrup Ic per
gallon. The demand for mixed syr-
up is fair. Sugar syrup is in fair de-
mand at unchanged prices. Molasses
is quiet and rules unchanged.

Dried Fruits—Peaches on spot are
As reported last

week, some packers have named fu-

dull and lifeless.

ture prices, but very little business
Apricots are
Futures
are also dull, and everything points

has been done as yet.
neglected and unchanged.
to a heavy crop. Seeded raisins are
in better demand and prices are stiff-
er by about

1Z@%4c. Loose raisins

supply at unchanged
A good demand has develop-
ed for cleaned currants at unchanged
although

are in low

prices.

prices. Prunes are quiet,
the demand is healthy.
no material change.

Prices show
No new prices
have been named as yet, although the
coast is talking a 3c basis, which, in-
cidentally, is just twice the present
spot price.

——+ 2

L. F. Baker, who recently acquired
the interests of his partners in the
Davenport Co., which was establish-
ed about two years ago, will hereafter
continue the business under the style
of Roy Baker, under which cognomen
he has been known for the past
3aker is an ener-
getic salesman and careful manager
and will undoubtedly achieve a com-
plete success in his new undertaking.

—_ Oe

Sol Hufford, L. J. Katz and John
Roesink have gone to Kalamazoo,
Battle Creek and Jackson as a special
committee to interest the grocers and
butchers of those cities in the State
picnic, which will be held August 5.
Detroit, Saginaw and Flint have al-
ready accepted the invitation and will
come here with special trains.

Fred W. Fuller, President of the
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation, is visiting Chicago for the
first time this week. He took E. FE.
Hewitt along as a body guard to pro-
tect him from the fury of the human
devils who are obstructing the streets
in carrying out the instructions of
the union labor leaders.

a

The damage suit instituted by Fred
A. Smith Co.)
against Landlord Adams, of Bellaire,

(Petoskey Grocery
was noticed for trial at the May term
of the Antrim county Circuit Court,
but the notice was
countermanded by Smith’s attorneys,
Halstead & Halstead, of Petoskey.
This postpones the matter until fall.

subsequently

The feed business
formerly conducted by Dise & Keeg-
stra, 702 and 704 Madison avenue,
will be conducted in future by B. A.
Dise.

grocery and

The Grand Rapids Wood Carving
Co., which conducts its business at
42 Seventh street, has increased its
capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000.

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

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The Restless Period Before Vacation
Time.

About this time in the year there
are several thousand clerks who be-
gin to get restless over their work
and their confinement and wonder
when they are going to have a vaca-
tion. They have worked for ten
nonths, or more, very steadily, and
during that time there have been a
great many hard days and weeks of
struggling to get rid of the goods
and take in the money. There is un-
doubtedly cause for tired feeling and
a desire to be relieved of active duty,
and there are many plans in embryo
for the doings of the vacation time
that is coming. Suppose we think a
bit about all this and see if we can
not find something better to control
the restless feeling and something

better to lay out for vacation doings |

than have been done before.

The restless feeling is not a good
thing for either the clerk or the store.
To be continually thinking of some-
thing else than the business in hand
is detrimental to the business and is
also extremely detrimental to the in-
terests of the clerk. The clerk who
is thinking of excursions and sight-
seeing and visits and new faces and
good times while handling gingham
and dress goods and underwear is a
long ways from being a good clerk.
He is not only injuring the sale of
the goods he is handling, because of
ings ficient attention, but he is also
injuring his own efficiency as a clerk
and paving the way for the boss to
refuse him a raise in pay when the
usual raising time comes.

It is impossible to think of one

 

thing and do another with the ex-|

pectation of doing that other thing
the best it is possible to do it. The
clerk who absently pulls a suit of
clothes from the pile for the inspec-
tion of some man ready to buy and
lays the goods down while he thinks
of what suit he will wear and what
he had better pack in his grip when
he goes on a vacation has pretty
poor prospect of making a sale, or
at least runs a risk of selling ten
dollars’ worth when he might sell fif-
teen.

The young woman who shows cor-
sets and gloves to a good customer
and keeps thinking of how she will

what hat she had better take along
to wear with it is not attending to her
business as she should, and_ the
chances are that the customer will
decide that she wants some brand of
corset not kept and a pair of gloves
just a little different in shade than
those she has. been shown. The
young woman absently assents to the
objection offered, meanwhile contin-
uing to think about her own outfit
and what she is going to do with it.
It is not impossible that she has been
so mechanical with the customer that
she really can’t tell inside of five
minutes what the customer wanted to

 

see, and it may be that the customer
will be gone before the clerk realizes
that she has missed a fair opportunity
to make a good sale at a good profit.

Then, too, there are the usual store
discussions down the aisles and
across the counters as to what all
are going to do when vacation comes.
There are the usual elaboration of
plans and the usual exaggeration of
schemes and prospects. The one who
has planned a modest vacation at a
small cost and one that will contain
a maximum of rest and recreation at
a modicum of effort is made to think
that she had better change her plans
and go in a little deeper for “fun”
and a “good time.” Instead of sav-
ing about ten dollars on an outfit, she
wants to be next to some other clerk
who is going to have a lot of new
ciothes. She blows something she
really can’t afford for a _ purpose
which will undoubtedly be distasteful
to her in the end, because she has
not planned for anything of the kind
and because her desires for vacation
time do not run in that direction.

There is the young man who in-
tended to skip for the country and
have a time of rest and genuine lazi-
ness, of the kind that comes with a
change, on somebody’s farm. He has
thought of long sleeps in a room
that is away from the noise of the
house and is in the stillness that is
found only in the country; but some
other fellow has planned to go to
the big city and spend a couple of
weeks seeing the sights. He is con-
vinced that country life is too tame
and old-fashioned, so he changes his
mind and gets ready to blow about
fifty dollars to the one he intended
and knows he can afford, and all for
something that will be distasteful
to him at the time.

Another clerk has planned a trip
to the city for the purpose of having
an insight into how things are be-
ing done there, but he comes in con-
tact with another one who is going
to the mountains with “a crowd” and
he is persuaded to go along with
them. It will be a disappointment
to him and he will regret the change
for a long time—probably for the
year to come. And so it will go
throughout the store. The schemes
and plans for something that is com-
ing a couple of months ahead will
be talked to a frazzle and discussed
te the extent that the business of the
store will be more or less forgotten,
and that needlessly.

It is well to think of all these

| ptans before the time when they are
have that vacation dress trimmed and

ready to be carried into execution,
but it is not well to allow them to
take supersedence over the work of
the store, or over that time which
should be devoted to the work of
the store. To be able to know what
are going to do is all well
enough, but there is no_ necessity
which calls for a neglect of store du-
hes to plan for vacation larks. It
keeps you unsettled, dissatisfied and
inattentive to the work for which
you are receiving your pay.

It is a custom in some stores, and
I believe it to be a splendid policy
for all stores, to have the vacation
schedule arranged several weeks be-

you

fore it is to begin. That obviates the
necessity of settling disputed dates
and the desires of too many clerks
to be away at the same time. lf
the initiative has not been taken by
the men who employ you, I suggest
that a good thing for you clerks to
do will be to ask the permission of
the firm to arrange among yourselves
your vacation schedules and submit
them for approval, first finding out
the periods to be allowed and just
when they can begin. Such an ar-
rangement will do away entirely with
the possibility of disappointments
that will surely come—always do
come—when a hit and miss plan of
independent date-making is followed.

Having arranged your periods and
the dates when you can go, why not
apply a little sense to the arranging
of plans and be a little more logical
about where and how the days ahead
are to be spent and_ occupied? I
knew a young woman who had been
ill during the winter and needed at
least three weeks of quiet and com-
plete rest to have an elaborate out-
fit made and go to a fashionable sea-
side resort where she had to play
every minute, simply because
had been invited to do so by
wealthy relatives. She reasoned that
it cost her nothing and was a “great
opportunity.” She actually spent
nearly a hundred dollars for outfit
and expenses that she felt called up-
on to incur because of the company
she was in, and she came home nearly
exhausted. The firm gave her an-
other three weeks for recuperation,
the most of which she spent in bed,
and she came back to work, finally,
in worse condition than when she
started out.

lady
she

You all say, “How foolish!” yet I
believe that many of you are thinking
of something equally foolish and ab-
surd and would consider it so if you
saw it in the plans of someone else.

A young man who had had trouble
with his eyes for a year accepted an
invitation to become one of a hunt-
ing party and was gone two weeks
where he was in the bright sunlight
for every light hour of the day. The
sunlight undoubtedly did his body
good, but he came back almost blind
and was unable to work for three
months. That, too, was foolish, but
some of you are preparing to do
things equally as detrimental.

Then, too, you lose sight of the
best uses you can make of your va-
cation time. You forget that you
need it for recreation and put in the
most strenuous work of the year,
work that you would absolutely re-
fuse to do if imposed upon by your
employers. I do not mean to decry
wholesome exercise and the attempt
to work off the stagnation of a year
behind the counter, but I mean that
}you should exercise good judgment
in what you do and not foolishly at-
tempt to exceed either strength or
reason.

You are the best judge of what
you can personally accomplish and
be rested and recuperated thereby. I
know a man who always takes a Jong
railway journey when he is exhausted
with his work. He has even gone
across the continent and back within

 

 

two weeks and returned to his work
feeling fresh and willing. How many
people, think you, could do the same
thing with the same result? I know
another man who dons _§tramping
clothes, puts a camp outfit on his
back and plunges into the woods
alone for two weeks, coming back
fresh and ready for many months
of struggle in an office. You and ]
could not, probably, find any pleas-
ure or recreation in that. A woman
goes down to the seashore and lies
deep in the sand for days at a time,
declaring that she finds more rest
and pleasure and recuperation in that
than in anything she has ever tried.

Because these people do_ these
things, we must not contend that we
can also do them with benefit. Nor
must we be willing to be led from
plans for our own good to
that others have made, when those
latter plans are neither to our liking
nor beneficial. The object of the va-
cation is to drop business, to get
away to something new, to change
the subject of life; and nobody can
accomplish this when exhausting
himself uselessly in other directions.

Pay attention to business’ while
business is before you, and think not
that your main trouble at present is
to get ready for a vacation that is
ahead. You are working no
harder than others, and your period
of rest is neither more deserved nor
more necessary. Restlessness begets
uselessness. Inattention to business
begets an invitation to move to some
other store——Drygoodsman.

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Too Much Territory.

Ex-Congressman Tucker, of Vir-
ginia, during a recent visit to Balti-
more, repeated a story of a Virginian
who had been indulging too freely in
the flowing bowl, and who did be-
come overconfident of his own great-
ness. Looking around at his com-
panions, the Virginian boasted:
“Gentlemen, I can lick any man in
Richmond.” Nobody took up the
challenge, and the Virginian returned
to the charge.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “I can lick
any man in the whole State of Vir-
ginia.”

“The words were hardly uttered,”
the narrator said, “before a tall, lean.
sinewy man from the western part
of the State gave the boaster a thrust
that sent him sprawling on the floor.
Like Owen Wister’s nameless hero,
this Virginian had a sense of humor,
and as he slowly picked himself up
he turned to the group and drawled:
“Gentlemen, I’m ready to acknowl-
edge that I kivered too much terri-
tory.”—Baltimore Herald.

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CONSTANT TALK OF WAR.

While all the nations of the earth,
with the exception of Russia and Ja-
pan, are at peace each with the others,
there is, nevertheless, so general an

uneasiness among them that every-
where the most engrossing subject

among statesmen of the various pow-
ers is that the most urgent duty de-
volving upon them all is to prepare
for
All

press.

war.
this

is seen in the European
For instance, the London Na-
tional Review for April contains an
article from an officer of the German
General Army Staff, showing how
Germany has little to fear in a war
with England, and could easily in-
vade and humble the United States.
The English Fortnightly for May has
an article on “German Foreign Pol-
icy,” showing Germany’s hostility to
England and France, while the Lon-
don Nineteenth Century for May is
filled up with articles on the danger
of war in Europe and the unprepared-
ness of England for defense against
any serious attack, while in the
Trench Parliament is being discuss-
ed with great earnestness the need
of defending the French colonies of
Cochin China from expected attacks
of the Japanese.

The German periodicals are con-
stantly discussing the necessity felt
by Germany for a great navy and
for foreign colonies,
no little talk in all countries

while there is
of the
possibility in Asia, after the Russians
shall have been expelled from Man-
churia, of a combination between Ja-
pan, China and India to drive the Eu-
ropeans from Asia. Any stch mili-
tary development in China and India
as has been exhibited by Japan would
accomplish ~. such
without serious difficulty.

an undertaking

The doctrine of the balance of pow-
er in Europe grows out of the neces-
sity for preventing any one of the na-
tions there from securing an undue
degree of power and control. When
Europe was dominated by Rome the
other nations, which had been con-
quered singly, were in no condition
to make any combination for resist-
ance, and the result was that Rome
remained supreme until the Goths,
the Huns and the Vandals from
Western Asia swarmed into Europe

 

 

and overthrew the universal Empire
of the Caesars. There was after the
fall of the world’s greatest empire a
great deal of fighting in Europe, but
no nation made any progress. to-
wards gaining general control until
Napoleon conquered Italy, Spain,
Germany and Russia, and balked only
at an attack on England. The Rus-
sian campaign wrought the destruc-
tion of Napoleon’s power, but so far
as victories were concerned his in-
vasion of Russia was a triumph, his
having been wrought by
the ice and snows and the frightful

downfall

rigors of winter.

For a long time after the fall of
Napoleon there seemed to be no na-
tion in Europe that aimed at general
control, such could
have been attributed to Russia. But
ambitions led her towards
the East rather than the West, and
into Asia instead of Europe. It is
true that the injunction in Peter the
Great’s will, to the effect that Rus-
sia must possess Constantinople, has
always been held up before the eyes
and fears of Europe, and more than
once England joined with the con-
tinental nations to prevent the expan-
of Russia the Southeast.

Since then Russia has turned her
attention to Asia, and her conquests

unless designs

Russia’s

sion in

have advanced eastward until the oc-
cupation by her of Manchuria, the

and her threatened seizure of Corea
aroused the fears of Japan and
brought on the present terrible war

in the Far East. If Russia is to con-

tinue to suffer defeat at the hands of |

Japan, both on sea and land, the once

mighty Colossus of Northern Europe |

will have to be counted out of all cal-
culations, and with this fact the bal-
ance of power in Europe is most se-
disturbed, for with Russia
out of the way Germany looms up

riously

as the most powerful figure among
the nations.

Prussia, before the organization of
the German Empire, had successfully
made war upon Austria and Denmark.
Then came the Empire itself,
then Germany was ready for the
torious assault on France in 1870,
the defeat and humiliation and
appointment of that proud _ nation.
The sudden rise of Germany after the
war with France has been rapid in-
deed.

and
vic-
and
dis-

Enriched by the enormous in-
demnity fund exacted

c

from France,
Germany possessed the means to be-
come a great manufacturing country,
as well as to build a formidable navy,
and thus Germany, with a population
50 per cent. greater than that
France, come to be the most
prominent and ambitious country on

of
has

the European continent, and is eager
for conquest in both the New and the
Old World, while Japan is at the head
of affairs in the Far East.

In the meantime the great Republic
of the New World, growing’ con-
stantly and enormously in popula-
tion, in wealth and in all the elements
of material power, is sought as a
friend and ally by all the European
nations. A writer in the Nineteenth
Century for May, speaking on
subject, says:

“During the last few weeks various

the

 

|erful influence in favor of peace, but

\its chief mission is to guard and seek
most northeastern province of China, |

 

writers have eloquently recommend-
ed that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance
should be renewed in the form of an
unrestricted and long-termed offen-
sive and defensive alliance, which,
especially if the United States should
join in, would prove an irresistible
The idea of an offen-
Anglo-Japanese
defensive

alliance

combination.
and defensive
or of an offensive
Anglo-American-Japanese
strongly appeals to a lively imagina-
tion, but it is to be feared that it will
un-

sive

 

and

remain a picturesque, but very
practical, idea.

“The United States are so strong |
for their defense, and they need so|
little attack, that they require |
no alliance whatever. Consequently
the United States would hardly be
prepared to conclude an alliance eith-
er with Great Britain or with Great
Britain and Japan combined, as they |
could not see the advantage of such
The United States are}

tear

alliance.
the only nation in the world which |
can afford to live in splendid isola- |

an

tion, and they have no reason to tie |
themselves to any power or combina- |
thus hamper |
action.”

tion of powers and
of

This Republic needs no alliances,
and should keep clear of all such

entanglements. It can use its pow- |

their freedom

the welfare of the nations of the
Western Hemisphere. Our business |

is to be prepared for self-defense at

ali times and at all points, and if we}
attend strictly to our duty there will
be plenty to do, and there will be|
more or less of fighting at that. No
great nation, however peaceably dis- |
posed, can go through its career of |
world duty without sometimes being
embroiled in war. It should do all
that is right and good which makes
for peace, but it must fight for its
own honor as well as for self-defense
whenever it shall become necessary.

Glasgow is a city where municipal |
ownership of public utilities has been
attended by considerable success, but
even there it admitted that the}
plan has its dangers. Sir John Prim- |
rose, lord provost of Glasgow, refers

is

to one of them as the tendency of
city employes to vote together and
thus dictate to the city the terms of

their employment and the rate of |
their wages. To counteract this ten- |
dency, which has manifested itself |

|

in sensible, conservative Glasgow, Sir
John recently suggested in a public|
address that the city withhold
franchise on all municipal
from city employes.

the
matters |

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The gains of a first rate American
jockey are large, but it may be
doubted whether they equal those of
a Spanish toreador of the same
grade in his calling. This reflection
is suggested by the retirement of |
“Bombita,” perhaps the greatest, as |

he is also one of the youngest, of the |

toreadors. He withdraws finally |

from the arena at 30 years of age |
with a fortune of $400,000, without |
counting jewels worth about $80,000 |

|

more, presented to him by admiring
enthusiasts.

lin Chicago.
| reported close in sight and the next

i then

| considerably

| benefits

| roll

| several lives have been lost and scores

| because

ithem delivered from Chicago

THE CHICAGO STRIKE.

The strike Chicago resembles
one phase of the war between Japan
and Russia which a few weeks ago
attracted general attention and com-
ment. There were rumors that peace
was coming within a day or two and
then something occurred to postpone
its arrival. The dispatches of one
day differed from those of the day
before, alternating between

in

prophe-
cies of peace and continued war. That
is about the way it has been of late
A settlement has been
day the telegraphed news announced
the determination to keep on fighting.
the and unscrupulous
president of the teamsters’ union, like
the Czar of Russia, leans one way to-
day and another to-morrow. Nor do
all the accounts published the
same day agree. The last of the week

Shea, venal

on

lit was said that the strike was to be

called off and ended. Dispatches since
indicate that the strike is not
only still on, but that it has been
The
patches of to-day and to-morrow will
probably differ and disagree, as their

extended. dis-

| predecessors have done.

The of the situa-

tion, the right and the justice of it.

common Seise

are all in favor of peace. The team-
sters had nothing but a so-called sym-
pathetic grievance at the outset. They
made no complaint about their hours

or wages. They struck because they

| were forced to do so by a gang of

erafters who foment strikes solely for
the purpose of levying blackmail on
employers of labor and drawing strike
the
ury by means of

from international treas-

fictitious names
which they place on the membership
of the local union. As a result
of people have been seriously injur-
ed, and many of those assaulted had
no connection whatever with the dis-
turbance and were citizens

peacefully along the _ streets.
ness has been greatly interfered with
and thousands of

passing
Busi-
men have been
and thus their
deprived of the
wages would

out of work
have

which

thrown
families
support

been
their
furnish.

Labor troubles are more numerous
and fiercer in Chicago than in any
other American city. Earnest efforts
have been made to bring about a sat-
isfactory conclusion of this strike, but
in vain. The city will suffer far be

iyond the amounts directly involved,

retailers all over the West,

| being unable to buy goods and have

firms,
will buy elsewhere and may continue
to buy elsewhere when peace is re-
stored. If the strike continues, with
outbreaks of violence and rioting, the
State militia and perhaps the Federal!
troops will be sent to the scene, that
order may be restored. From all ac-
counts and all appearances the strik-

|ers have no chance to win and the

welfare of the city as well as of
themselves will be promoted by an
early surrender.

While you are waiting for business
to come, it may be entertaining your
competitor in your prospect’s parlor.

 

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COMMERCIAL MORALITY.

The Development of the Good Faith
i of Men.

Commercial morality is, of course,
simply the application of the princi-
ples of universal morality to commer-
cial relations. The world of the
twentieth century is in its affairs
doubtless more under the control of
commercial men than at any previous
period of its history. It would be
difficult to say whether, with the in-
creasing complexity of human rela-
tions, of commercial conditions, and
of the factors that make up civiliza-
tion there has been an increase or a
decrease in the development of the
good faith of men, in securing the
foundations of what we call commer-
cial morality.

In the early days of commerce,
when written instruments were the
exception rather than the rule, it was
necessary for men to rely largely up-
on the spoken word, that is to say,
upon the good faith of the other fel-
low. We find the great Venetian
publisher, Aldus
1500, sending his books on credit to
individual scholars as far away as
3ritain. The Fuggers carried on an
enormous banking and __ transporta-

tion business largely on credit. To-'

Manutius, about |
| market.

 

to profitable development by opera-
tions carried on with absolute disre-
gard of the rights, the interests, the
possibilities of livelihood of their
competitors. Their actions are crim-
inal, and they escape the penalties of
crime only through the clever guid-
ance of lawyers selected because they
know how to evade the law. These
concerns control state legislatures,
sometimes by direct bribery, some-
times by allowing legislators a share
in their nefarious profits. Not con-
tent with this, they bring undue in-
fluence to bear upon the National
Government and undertake to shape
its policy so as to work for their
own enrichment, in place of strength-
ening the interests of the community
as a whole.

It is, of course, true that by far the
larger number of trusts which have
undertaken to stamp out competition
and fix final prices could not have
maintained themselves if they did not
work behind the tariff wall. The re-
moval of the tariff would compel
them to meet the prices of the world

Other combinations, however, have
grown up outside the tariff. Such are
those controlling the production and
sale of petroleum and beef, two arti-

day business transactions are general-| cles essential for the whole commu-

ly (with a few noteworthy excep- |

tions m regard to fhnancial oc

nity. Consumers have a right to ex-

|pect that the prices charged shall

changes) protected, so to speak, or/| represent fairly the amount and risk
at least recorded, by the written doc-| of investment plus an adequate re-

ument. This has the advantage of
avoiding misconception; but on the
other hand, the fact that there has
been an attempt to state the agree-
ment in detail tends to give to either
party the feeling that irrespective of
the original understanding he is justi-
fied in taking any advantage that may
not have been specifically blocked by
the written word of the contract.

Such chicanery in the form of in-
terpretation of agreements has been
much furthered and developed under
the influence of the legal profession.
The lawyer of one class is, of course,
to be credited with most important
services in protecting the citizen
against loss through blunders. The
lawyer of another class should be
debited with a seriously bad influence
in the enlargement of the crooked-
ness of business relations, in teaching
his clients to press technical claims,
and even to plan in advance for tech-
nical advantages which are outside
the spirit and purpose of the original
arrangement. I am inclined to doubt
whether the development of the or-
ganization of modern trade, with this
perplexity encouraged and increased
by the influence of the lawyer, marks
any advance; whether, in fact, it does
not mark a decided retrogression in
the morality and soundness of human
relations as compared with the con-
ditions obtaining in the middle ages
or in ancient times.

It seems to me that the modern
community, and more particularly the
United States, is under grave risk to-
day through the demoralizing influ-
ence of two great groups of dealers.
or traders. On the one hand, capi-
talists, working through the medium
of share-holding associations, not in-
frequently bring their organizations

 

turn for management and_ capital.
Any producer who has the necessary
technical knowledge ought to be at
liberty to build up a business in these
products and to be assured that his
operations will not be exposed to
freebooting assaults or to crushing
oppression. The history of the petro-
leum combination shows that it ruin-
ed competitors by methods immoral
in purpose, brutal in action, inequita-
ble in results.

The monopoly managers point out
that the community is paying less for
its oil than during the time of com-
petition, and naturally assume all the
credit. There is no possibility of
making a trustworthy comparison. In
this particular case it is very possibly
true that the community has not suf-
fered through any addition in the
price paid. It is assuredly true that
the community has suffered enor-
mously in its moral standard, in its
whole theory of business action, in
the disrespect caused for the authori-
ty of a Govérnment that could permit
the actions through which this co-
lossal business has achieved its enor-
mous wealth, actions which are in
line with the practice of mediaeval
pirates.

Such combinations as those speci-
fied are based upon commercial im-
morality. Their work can be carried
on only in communities in which the
principles of commercial morality are
not permitted to control public opin-
ion or state or national action. These
organizations are in themselves great
educations in commercial immorality.
They represent the spirit of barbar-
ism working with the machinery of
civilization. Until the state has solv-
ed the present problem of their prop-
er control, until it has been able to

   
   
  
   

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throw off the control exercised by |
such combinations over governmen- |
tal action, the community can not be |

said to possess assured moral

standard.

There is an enormous difference be-
tween the working of the business
conscience of the individual and the
conscience of a group of individuals

any

who have associated themselves to-
eether in a corporation. It would
almost seem as if the act of incor-
poration had been decided upon in
some cases in order to free the indi-
vidual merchant from the responsi-
bility of his conscience. The old

that have no

is certainly very

phrase “Corporations

soul,” largely true.
On the other hand, the associations

which have for sale not goods, but
the work of their hands, the associa-
tions known as the labor unions, are,
on their part, just as unwilling to con-
cede deal” They are
ing with continual and increasing em-

right to

“a fair assert-

phasis their determine not

only the conditions under which
their own labor shall be sold, but
those under which laborers not be-
longing to their associations shall
make sale of their labor, or rather,
be prevented from selling it. The

contention of lebor unions that they
should dictate to employers terms of
agreement with men outside of the
unions, and that if such dictation be
net accepted the outside laborers
must incur the risk of having their
heads broken and the property of the
employer must be subjected to de-
struction, is a claim which, in so far
as it has been exercised, indicates

that the Government has abdicated

its functions.

The readiness of our legislators to
truckle to the claims of labor unions
is equally in gravity to the feebleness
of the same legislators in resisting the
demoralizing influence of the
It is my belief that this demoraliza-
tion of the Government in its failure
io resist the wrongful influence of
capital on the one hand, and of or-
ganized labor on the other, has been
largely brought about by the pernic-
ious influence of the

protective sys-

tem. This system itself rests upon a
wrong idea of the functions of the
state. It is the idea that the citizen

can secure through Government ac-
tion some help in his business at the
disadvantage of his competitors, and
at the expense of the
that has had so much to do with the
wrongful use of Government authori-
ty for the issue of fiat money,
institution of trusts, for the undue
recognition of labor unions.
“Honesty is l
are told. True enough,
of the gods grind slowly.
as well admit that for the lifetime of
any one man dishonesty
pays. But there are
the game. The individual
to be

limitations to
who comes
thrown
almost im-

known as a liar has

away a capital that it is

possible to build up again within any |

lifetime.
George

one man’s

Haven Putnam.

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It gives a man a moral squint to|
look more at condition than at char-|

acter.

frequently |

trust. |

community, |

for the |

the best policy,” we |
but the : adie!
We may |

Ministering to a Mind Diseased.
The doctor’s telephone bell rang.
“Hello! he
“phone to his ear.
“Hello! Is that Dr.
yes.”
“2 his 15
tor, |
throat.

said, applying oa
Kewrum?”

Mrs.

such

Olierziil. Oh,
have
I just can’t endure it.

|

|
|
|
|

doc- |
a tickling in my|
I wish !

you'd come over as quick as you can |

what is the cause of it.”
“The old hypochondriac!”

and see

he mut- |

tered. “There is nothing on earth the |
matter with her, but I suppose I'll
have to go as usual. Madam,” he

continued, raising his voice, “what did

you have for dinner?”
“Chicken pot pie.”
“All rient. If be
minutes.”
When he visited his patient a quar-
later he
wheezing,

there in a_ few

ter of an hour

coughing and and appar-
in great pain.

“No relief yet, madam?”

“Not a (cough) bit, doctor! It’s
(cough) getting worse (cough) every
(cough) minute!”

“Well,” he said, opening his
and taking out a small steel instru-
ment with a long handle, “we'll soon

ently

case

remove the cause.
troubled in this way after
pot pie. May I ask you to
suspend your coughing for a mo-
ment, and open your mouth?”
“Will it hurt, doctor?”
“Not a particle. Now
eyes, please.”
She complied,

eating
chicken

close your

and he inserted the
instrument.
“I see what it 1s,

Hold

madam.

still. There—that’s all.”
“Is it over, doctor?”
“Yes, you may open your eyes.”

“Did you find anything?”

“I should say I did. Do you see
this?”

Hereupon he showed her a chicken
feather, which appeared to be in a
remarkable state of preservation,
everything considered.

“Is the tickling all gone, madam?”

“Yes, it’s all gone, doctor. I don’t
feel it a bit now. I just happened to
think, though, that I’ve made a mis-
take. It wasn’t chicken I had for
dinner, doctor.
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enough water to perform your ablutions,
and then out to the bench in the wood shed, where
which you

And you will not tolerate such condi-

to warm it up a little,

you complete your toilet,

moment?

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— smaller villages,

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without certain modern conve-

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than they paid for theirs.

Do you think it is a convenience,
or even a pleasure, to haul in a
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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 getting
then back to the tea kettle

must sit down and rest a

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combinations, in your bath

Pcl would you say to one of our white enameled sinks with en-
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Special Features of the Grocery and |
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, May 20—We have at|
the close of the week a fairly steady |
coffee market, although there have |
been a few ups and downs during the
past few days, neither buyer nor sell- |
er seeming to evince much interest
and both are simply waiting to see
what the future has in store. Sales}

are generally of small quantities, and |
quotations remain on about the last-
noted basis of 8c for Rio No. 7. In
store and afloat there are 4,025,465
bags, against 2,851,568 bags at the
same time last year.

In mild coffees |
there is a decided lack of animation |
and hardly an average trade is being
done, although matters might be
Quotations are about un-
changed, with good Cucuta at 9%@
gsc and good average Bogota at
1034@IIc.

worse.

The sugar market is getting into|
better shape and a pretty fair vol- |
ume of business has gone forward in|
withdrawals under previous contract
as well as in new business. The|
weather has been rather unfavorable |
for a sugar campaign so far as con-
sumers are concerned, but with some |
hot waves arriving we shall see daily
improvement of course.

There is a steady tea market and
little else can be said. Supplies are |
not abundant, but there seems to be |
enough to go around and prices are |

fairly well sustained.

Rice is doing better. Prices here
are unchanged, but at the South are |
said to be firm and _ higher. Indica- |
tions still continue very favorable |
tc the seller as acreage will be light |
and stocks well reduced. Prime to |
choice domestic, 354@4c.

There is a continued firm market
for spices, although the volume of|

jobbing trade is not very large. Sing- |
apore black pepper, 114@11%e.
Other lines are unchanged, but there |
is certainly no tendency at the mo-
ment toward a lower basis.

Deliveries of molasses under old
contracts have been sufficiently nu-
merous to make a good showing of
business and the market upon’ the
whole closes in a satisfactory man-
ner. Supplies are not overabundant,
although there seems to be enough
to meet all requirements. Syrups are
steady, and exporters have been do-
ing more this week than for some

 

time. Good to prime in round lots,
19@25c.

There is a better tone to the can- |}
ned goods market. The glut of|
cheap goods is not so large, and the|
salmon industry is getting into bet-
ter shape every day under more skill-
ful management. Tomatoes show a
better outlook and the tendency is
toward a slightly higher basis. It is
more difficult to pick up standard 3s
ot Maryland pack at 62%c and goods
offered at less than this figure are
not all they should be. The stock

'goods will find the market almost

|are much larger than last year the

| tained.

| hundred a month.

of peas at 55@6oc is limited, and new

bare of 1904 stock. A good pack of

| small fruits is looked for as the yield |
| will be large.

There is a good demand for top
grades of butter, and while arrivals

market keeps up well and dealers feel |
quite encouraged. At the close best |
Western creamery is held at 22@|
2214c; seconds to firsts, 19@21@

|21!%%c; imitation creamery, 18@20c;
'seconds, 17c; Western factory, 16@ |

18c; renovated, 17@19c and 2oc for
extra. |
The cheese market is steady. The

|supply of small new stock is as yet

moderate and quotations are well sus- |
The range is 11%4@11%c. |
The pasturage up-State is most ex-|
cellent and there is every indication

|of a large season’s output this year.

The egg market shows little change.

| Arrivals of moderate sorts continue
/abundant and prices are a little un-

steady. Storage selections of West- |
ern, 18'%4@18'%4c; average, 17%4@I18c; |
thirds, 154@16c.
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Telephones Responsible for Higher
Meat Prices. |

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The most original and amusing rea-
son yet advanced to explain the cause |

|of the recent advance in meat prices |

comes from Atchison, Kan. Here it|

\is: “A well known butcher says that |
|the telephone is responsible for the |

high prices of meat. On Saturday |
last a woman telephoned his market |

land ordered 5 cents’ worth of head |

cheese sent up to her house, ‘right |
away.’ It was not advisable to offend

the woman, so the wagon and driver | ff

were sent ten blocks with a 5-cent|
purchase. Nearly everything is de-
livered now. Naturally the butcher |
must have something to pay for de-
livery. The butcher says much less
meat is sold in Atchison than former- |
ly. People are not eating as much
meat as they formerly did.

In the

|old days the leading market sold as

high as 130 beeves a month at his |
Atchison market; seldom less than a
Now the leading |

| market seils thirty beeves a month.

The butcher says he can’t figure it

; out any other way; people are eating

a great deal less meat. There are
meat markets in Atchison that are
selling only a fourth as much meat 4s |
they formerly sold. Expenses are as |
high as they ever were, but sales have |
greatly fallen off; in addition, the tel- |
ephone has resulted in everything be- |
ing delivered. There is talk of a cash|
market here which will not have a|
telephone and which will not de-
liver. It is said such a market could
legitimately cut present prices 20 per |

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN s

 

 

 

VALUE OF TACT.
Advantage of Rubbing People the
Right Way.

Of the forty-nine articles of suc-
cess not rubbing people the wrong
way should be put anywhere among

the first three.

“Tact is better than smartness; take
on civility and a certain dignity, and |
with hard work you are bound to}
win,” is the aphorism in which aj}
great railroad President has summed |
up his advice to young men.

One of the greatest factors in the
success of Herbert H. Vreeland has
been his affability and genial good
humor. He was fortunate enough to|
be born with a sanguine  tempera-
ment and genial, cheery good nature.
“He has smiled, and toiled, and suc-
ceeded,” is the way one of his biog- |
raphers has put it, and it was owing |
to his obligingness and popularity, |
and to the fact that he was inca-
pable of taking umbrage that was due |
one of the turning points in his ca-
reer.

It was in the early days of his|
youth on the New York and North- |
ern that he made a mistake of some}
technical character that resulted in|
his discharge. He was so far from |
being daunted at this mishap that he|
returned and applied for a position
in the same company in a less im-
portant place.

He not only got back his old posi-
tion, but he was so obliging about}
doing other men’s work that he was
considered. almost a soft mark. One
day the New York capitalists who}
owned the road decided upon a tour}
of inspection. There was a_ great|
brushing and cleaning up and put-|
ting in shape of details on the road |

after the time of their arrival was tel- |
egraphed. The visit was made sud-
denly, however, and there was a great
deal of information that the divi-}
sion superintendents felt that it
would be well to possess which they |
did not have time to equip them-|
selves with. The intricate facts of
railroading are not easily crammed.

Question after question was fired
at the men who were conducting the
party of inspection. The matter was
invariably referred to one of the
young men in the background. “Oh,
Vreeland knows; ask him.” They ask-
ed about tracks, stations, roiling
stock, and to everything the pleasant
faced and raw boned youth seemed
to have an easy and pleasant as well
as an intelligent answer.

“Who is he?” asked Mr. Whitney.

“He is a brakeman, station man,
conductor, or any old thing,” was the |
answer.

 

Later, when he was sum-|
moned by Mr. Whitney to go to New
York, the directions were to find the

“pleasant faced and pleasant manner- |

ed young man” who had answered
the questions of the party on its re-|
cent trip. .

In all his business positions Mr. |
Vreeland is genial. He is as affable |
in his dealings with the men under |
him as he is with his superiors. From |
the first he has interested himself in |
the affairs of all his men. He knows |

every man who has been on the road

|after taking their complaints through

| with a large salary attached—for tact

|a man of wealth, and most of his
| success has been due to one thing—- |
| his good nature.

|}man to act as a buffer between them
jand the public, and of all

lis also one of the best paid. He has}

| successful men of the present
ij have throughout exercised more of

| The treatment which he gave to men

|men without a cent, excelled if any-
|thing in kindness and cordiality that |

itheir comfort, his thoughtfulness of
| their needs, were first considered an

|that he receives more cordially, and

for a year or longer and he encour-
ages them to talk with him.

To this pian have been attributed
the wonderful results of his reorgani-
zation of the Metropolitan road. Few
employes are either dissatisfied or dis-
charged, and it is Mr. Vreeland’s own
statement that he has seldom had
a complaint. Yet each one knows
that he can see him and that he will
be cordially received. They have
learned that he is a last resort, but
if they have not received satisfaction

the proper channels Mr. Vreeland de-
sires and invites the presence of any
one in his service.

There is seldom so specific a call—

and good nature as there has been
in the case of Chauncey M. Depew.
There are few men who have won
success in life as he has. He has
been successful in many more ways
than one. He is a senator from the
greatest state in the union and he is

Many great corpor-
ations have need of a popular, kindly

holding |
such positions Depew is the ideal. He

 

a perfect control of his temper, a|
wonderful faculty of rubbing off the!

|;rough edges, and has done a great}
| deal of good in positions in which |
|a less tactful man might have done |

harm.
There is probably no one of all the
who

this quality than Thomas R. Walsh.

in the old Leadville days, often to

with which he met people who were
better off. His treatment of the men
under him and his preparations for

example in philanthropy, but have
since been regarded as a working
principle in labor economics. Thata
strike is unknown among his men
is not only the boast of Mr. Walsh,
but to it and the fact that he has had
the best work out of them that was
possible he attributes much of his
rapid success.

It is said of him that he never for-
gets a friend or a service, and that
his “luck” has never turned his head.
Prosperity has smiled and he smiles
back, and in the meantime he has
not forgotten the old friends of his
Leadville days. There is no one
more welcome at his table, or no one

|they are given to understand that
|they are expected to be his guests
| while they are in the metropolitan
| city.

Joseph H. Choate, in making a mil-
lion dollars out of the law, has found |
his strongest 2id in the kindliness

 

which he has exercised toward others. |
A late biographer has described his |
amiability as of a kind that awakens |
friendliness in turn and begets trust |
for trust.

In spite of his reputation for sar-

W. F. Davipson, President A. B. Serna. Treasurer i
C. N. RUNNELS, Vice-President F. J. Dixon, Secretary }
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casm there is not a more kindly man |
in the world than Mr. Choate. His
innate kindness of heart was display-
ed in the tribute which he paid to
Koscoe Conkling when Conkling ap- |
peared against him in the _ Pacific!
Railroad case. It was just after Con- |
kling’s bitter defeat in the United
States Senate. Choate said:

“However we may differ, we owe
the Senator one debt of gratitude for
standing always incorruptible in the
halls of corruption. Shadrach, Me-
shach and Abednego won immortal
glory for passing one day in the
burning, fiery furnace; but he has
been twenty years there and_ has
come out without the smell of smoke
upon his garments.”

It was a gracious speech and Con-
kling remembered it gratefully to his
Gying day.

Of himself Mr. Choate has said:
“T have made it a rule never to neg-
lect a case, no matter how unimpor-
tant it may seem. A doctor owes it
to the dignity of his profession to|
treat a cut finger successfully just
as he would a fractured skull. The
same thing is true of the
though, unfortunately, all attorneys
do not appreciate this fact.”

It is due to this devotion to the
interests of even the humblest clients
that Mr. Choate has won a greater

lawyer,

percentage of the cases he has ap-|}
peared in than any lawyer
known. His unfailing courtesy of
manner has been as helpful in de-
manding his rights as it has in ob-

other

taining for him his popularity. On
one occasion, when he was address-
ing a bench on which Judge Van}
brunt was sitting, the judge turned
his chair around and began talking
This habit,
not unusual on the bench, is an an-|

to one of his associates.

noyance to lawyers which it is often |
part of their policy to ignore. When}
Van Brunt, surprised at the hush in |
the court room, looked around, Mr. |

Choate said: “Your honor, | have}

just twenty minutes in which to make
I shall need every |
second of the time and also the un- |

my arguments.

divided attention of the court.”

“And you shall have it,’ replied |
the judge, instantly acknowledging |
the justice of the appeal.

David R. “self-made
man,” has always been of singularly
pleasing address. The success with |
which he has handled his numerous
administrative positions in Missouri,
and the remarkable way in which
he directed the fortunes of the Louis-
iana Purchase Exposition, which de-
pended upon him more than on any-
thing else for its success, have been
due largely to his tact, his great gift
of handling men, and to his populari-
ty and pleasing manner. Especially
did this urbanity make an impression
during his famous European trip
which saved his cause. This was only |
a small part, however, which his
popularity has played in his success. |

When he was a small boy in the |
river house in St. Louis the pleasing |
manners of “Davy” Francis were re-|
sponsible for more than one promo- |
tion. Later, when as a poor young|
man, he won one of the wealthiest

and most accomplished girls in St

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 13

 

Louis for his bride, his duality |
again helped him to break down all}
opposition. It has helped him _ to|
every position to which he has risen,
and it has made of him an idol among |
those with whom he has lived and|
who have been the recipients of his |
cordiality.

Much of this same quality is shown |
James R. Keene. At}
times showing the irascibility which
he has developed with his life of|
speculation, his

at times by

smoothness and |
pleasantness of manner have. been
many times in his earlier life the se-
cret of his entering into success. It |
only needs something connected with |
his old time life to bring out a court- |
liness and cordiality of maner which
confounds
his enemies, and makes those who

surprises his associates,

come to him his firm friends for life
One day the sound of a woman’s |
voice requesting an interview was}
heard in the outer office. The clerk |
was receiving her, or, rather, get-|
ting rid of her with scant ceremony.
Mr. Keene appeared in the doorway,
discovered a woman in poverty strick-
en garb, whom he had known in the
old days, and ushered her into his
office as if she had been a princess.
G. KR. Clarke.
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The man who tries to hide his re
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The bridges we never reach or go
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

BACK TO THE FARM.

 

Problems for City Man Who Seeks |
Rural Occupation.
Written for the Tradesman.
An article in a recent issue of the

Tradesman on the “Comparative Ad- |

vantages of City and Country Life”
brings up a most interesting subject.
It is one which receives much atten-
tion from various writers, and from
the agricultural press in particular.
The continual exodus of young peo-
ple from the farm affects many in-
terests. The laboring class feels the
competition thus increased; the
statesman views it as a serious prob-
lem; the philanthropist regards it as
almost a calamity; parents feel the
loss of their children’s help and so-
ciety; farmers are handicapped by
scarcity of help; country churches are
enfeebled by the departure of the
young and enthusiastic; civil authori-
ties are in no small measure con-
cerned because of the congested con-
ditions which result from the flock-
ing to the cities of the American-born
and the constant influx of foreigners.
It is a matter which concerns every
one interested in the welfare of his
country and his fellows, and there-
fore an appropriate theme for even
a journal devoted to mercantile in-
terests.

In all towns and cities throughout
our country and in various occupa-
tions in life may be found a great
number of people who were reared
onafarm. Not all such left the farm
because of dislike of farm work or
country life. Some, indeed, with ex-
aggerated ideas of their own ability
and a desire for what they consider-
ed a grander
nial occupation, gladly embraced the
first opportunity to break away from
home and farm life. Others, with
no vain or selfish ambitior, but with
a desire for improvement and to fit
themselves for the station for which
they were best adapted, have with
reluctance separated themselves from
surroundings with which they were
content and have gone out to take
up their duties in the world.

, nobler or more conge-

Various are the reasons why peo-

ple leave the country and seek the}
cities, and various are the conditions |

of success or failure to which many
attain. Some benefit themselves and
their fellowmen and succeed in great-

er or less degree in their aspirations; |
many are doomed to disappointment |
and to lives of anxious struggle. |
Some realize their unfitness for other |
professions and return to the life for |

which they are best adapted.

Many, even if successful in their |

early aims and ambitions, as they ap-
proach middle life begin to tire of the

ceaseless bustle and activity of the |

cities and look with longing toward
the peaceful and quiet life of the
country which was theirs before they
set out in the wide world. But busi-
ness interests, family considerations,
social obligations, or other
stances, seem too binding to relin-

circum-

quish. Sometimes, when health fails |

and business must be given up, or
financial reverses cut them loose so
that the necessity faces them of tak
ing up entirely new plans, they may

aie back to the farm. But what a
| change in conditions of farm life
|a score of years may make! How
| handicapped is one who begins in
| middle life.to learn the business of
farming! Even if youthful days were
spent in faithful work, very little may
have been learned of planning and
|management. One is confronted by
entirely new conditions, new imple-
ments, new methods of preparing the
soil, of sowing and of harvesting.

There are problems without number |
that the boy on the farm never dream- |
ed of which must be correctly solved |

in order to succeed.

Suppose a man decides to leave the |
city and go to farming. He needs the |
hearty co-operation of his family. He|
needs to select a farm adapted to the |

particular kind of farming he prefers,

whether stock raising, grain, fruit or |

mixed farming. He may not know
until he has tried which will suit him

best or would be most profitable. On|

a large farm he needs many modern

implements and machines, and _ he|
must know not only how to direct}
the work of employes to the best ad- |
vantage, but must have tact to keep |

them contented and unanimous. He

may become a bankrupt before he has |
learned the road to success. If he|
buys a small farm and undertakes to |
do all or the most of the work him- |

self, he may find that he is physically
unable to do so. In any case, he is

quite apt to realize within a year or}
two that he knows but little about |

farming.

The most successful farmers find |
it a difficult matter in these days to}
It is often |

profitably employ labor.
a question whether it will be a great-

er loss to let land remain idle or to|

employ help at present rate of wages;
whether a crop will bring enough to

pay for cost of labor expended on it, |

 

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too far in the lead. To stay in

the game you must have the best

goods—the goods that hold your
old trade and bring you new cus-
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is just this kind. Dealers who

have sold it say so—why not you?

If you want to know all about
this flour ask your jobber or write

to us.

| ut

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leaving entirely aside any account of |

return from money invested in land. |

 

 

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our liberal guarantee to the consumer

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The man with a farm paid for, good
buildings, money in the bank and all
modern machinery and improvements
hires help by the month or year be-
cause he can afford it, the same as he
does other luxuries; but the man in
debt or the one who pays rent-money
must do all the work he can himself
and get along as best he may with
little or no hired help. It is like
going begging to seek for day labor-
ers. If one could secure help a few
days at a time occasionally when
needed he could plan to have all his
land under cultivation with some as-
surance of being able to gather his
crops when ready for harvesting. In-
stead he must plant only so much as
he can properly cultivate and secure
with the help of his own family, or
men hired by the season.

Enough might be said of the disad-
vantages and the almost insurmounta-
ble obstacles in the way of a city-
bred man attempting farming to dis-
ecurage any such from the undertak-
ing. But there is another side to the
question. Good business ability is
one of the most important qualifica-
tions for a successful farmer at the
present time. With a _ thorough
knowledge and rotation of crops,
judgment of stock, best methods of
care and feeding, economical manage-
ment of help, and all other qualifica-
tions necessary to bring farm prod-
ucts to a condition for market, one
may fail for lack of knowing how,
where and when to sell. An illustra-
tion of this is a case known to the
writer, where a graduate of an agri-
cultural college, given the superin-
tendency of a farm, fails by the
amount of his salary in making the
farm pay expenses. His @reatest mis-
take seems to be in holding produce
for higher prices when the market
is unusually good, and then selling
after a decline takes place.

The one who is successful in all his

| ficial.

| told this story:

| crops, the visitor remarked.

business undertakings will succeed in|

farming. He will succeed because he |

does not undertake any new enter- |

prise without carefully investigating

the matter and deciding that he can |

fulfill all the requirements. The spe-
cialist in any occupation should also
be a specialist if he becomes a farm-

er. One branch of farming at a time |

should be mastered by the novice.

The moral welfare of one’s family |

should be given preference of all

|

other considerations; and next to this |

is the matter of health. Intellectual |

and social advantages of the city

might well be sacrificed for a period |
co . |
at least, if one is fully persuaded that |

a residence in the country would se-

cure the first-mentioned objects. One |

who has overcome the

obstacles |

which confront the beginner and at- }

tained to a position
give his family a comfortable

where he can|
home |

and a substantial livelihood on aj}

farm should feel amply repaid for
all he has relinquished in city life.
Disordered nerves, insomnia and
brain-fag can be overcome by vigor-
cus manual labor if undue mental ex-
ertion is given up. Active outdoor
occupation can make life tolerable for

even a chronic dyspeptic. Heavy

work and exposure to extremes of

heat or cold are not good for heart Po ee Distributing Agents

 

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disease, but fresh air is always —

Buyers and Shippers of

[ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR
occupation is one| pP Oo 7 A i. O Ee Ss a Food Commissioner

| ry ry Counsel to manufacturers and

|jobbers whose interests are affected by ‘
in carlots. Write or telephone us. ‘the Food Laws of any state. Corres-

H. ELMER MOSELEY & Co. | pondence invited.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH) | 2341 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich

In no other
brought in so close a touch with na-
To the devout
mind there is 1 constant reminder of
the saying: “We are workers to-|
E. E. Whitney.

ture as on the farm.

 

gether with God.”

 

. —__>-.____
Reason for Wanting Rain.
Rev. Mr. Livingston, of Georgia,

**You have tried the rest now use the best.’’

 

Cen Reasons Why You Should Buy

| Golden Korn
Flour

Reason No. 3.—Scientitic Milling

Milling is a science;

“A friend of mine down in one of |
the small towns of Georgia has many
among the people in the
mountain country near. Several years

proteges

ago there was a long dry spell in
Georgia. At about the beginning of
it the wife of one of the mountain-
eers died. The disconsolate husband
followed her to the grave and was
the last to leave the burying
latge and
distinct, in the clay beside the grave. |

ground
His footprints remained,

Six weeks afterward my friend drove
out to see how the widower was do- rather, right milling is. It is the art
of knowing how to make good Flour and then doing it. We
know how to do it. Our millers have spent the best part of
their lives in the study of good milling;
science with them.

milling.

ing. He was sitting in the door of

his cabin, staring hopelessly at the
cloudless sky.
‘ht hit would only turn im an

rain,’ he said, ‘I wouldn’t ask nothin’

hence, it has become a
They are able to select the best wheat for
They understand the operation of their machinery.
They have learned the requirements of the trade. They test
the run of the mill frequently so that itis kept uniform. They
make daily comparative baking tests. They know how to make
GOLDEN HORN FLOUR just as good as it is possible to
make flour.
One more good reason why you should buy it.

of nobody.’
‘‘The dry weather is bad for the

‘’Tain’t crops,’ said the widower,
‘hit’s Miss
she won’t marry me until it

Seliny Johnson. She;
swears
rains.

“ «She ’lows it wouldn’t be showing

proper respect for my first wife to|

Manufactured by

Star & Crescent Milling Zo., Chicago, Tl.
Che Finest Mill on Earth

Distributed by

Roy Baker, S214 Rapids, mien.

Special Prices on Car Load Lots

marry before my tracks in the grave-
yard are washed out. I shore do wish
it would turn in an’ rain. Wve been
Good Lord,

a man kain’t wait on the

courtin’ her six weeks.
weather
forever.

 

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will mean to know the things to do

 

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Trade Pullers Which Have Proven
Satisfactory.

Probably the most forceful “tips”

as trade pullers that any store can

make use of just at this particular

season are by means of the show}
windows. People are out to see and
admire whatever is worth seeing, and |
this fine spring weather makes them
more disposed to enjoy at their leis- |
ure the attractions the windows af-
ford.

A store having a large trade in
what they call their “blue ribbon”
hats had a window ttrim_ recently|
which must have given the sale of |
these goods a decided boost. Blue
ribbon streamers spread from a cen-|
tral point in the decorated ceil-
ing to every hat in the window. The
little placards on the hats were
blue, with white figures. Attached}
to the glass inside were a number of |
handsomely engraved _ certificates,
with a bow of blue ribbon in one}
corner of each, guaranteeing the hats |
to be the very best that could be}
obtained for the money, and offering
if not found satisfactory in every
way, to replace with a new hat or
refund the money if notified within |
thirty days from purchase. This sug-
gests an idea for a trim for some}
patriotic occasion, when red, white |
and blue streamers might be similar- |
ly used with striking effect.

A football’ match in miniature |
made one clothing and_ furnishing
goods store window the center of
attraction for the uninitiated as well
as enthusiasts of the game. The
floor of the window was covered with
grass-green felt, chalked off as aj}
regulation gridiron. Figures about |
twelve inches in height, dressed in

football costumes, were lined up as|
opposing teams, and arranged in

playing positions, with a ball in the}
center of the field, apparently just |
ready to be kicked off. The oppos-
ing teams wore the Harvard and Yale
colors, respectively, with the rival
pennants suspended above. Several
pithy placards were displayed, such
as, “In the great game of business
we fear no rivals,” “If you have any |
kick to make regarding any pur-|
chase made in our store, please make |
it direct to us,” “A glance over our |
stock will show that we have scor-
ed again in our $15 spring suits,”

etc. | very nobbiest thing in the market.—

A yachting window was a big at-
traction for weeks last summer in
the height of the yachting season. A

good-sized yacht was placed in the|
center, while a very fair representa- |
tion of the sea was formed by sea-|

green material arranged over a bil-
lowy framework beneath to form
waves. Lettered on the bows of the
boat was the name of the clothing
house, “The Pioneer,” while each of

the sails bore the name of some}
quality claimed for their goods, such |

as “Style,” “Quality,”

| shown, and particular attention was |

“Superior | be disturbed in his slumbers except
Workmanship,” etc. One of the fea-| by nightmares of sheriff’s levies.

tures of this window was a light-|
house, constructed of granite- colored |
material, with brown goods arranged |
|at the base to resemble rocks. The |
|tower was illuminated at night by a|
|red incandescent light. At the back!

|

| i " |
=land side of the window was a dis- |
|

|

|play of men’s outing suits and boys’
|sailor suits, while the placard an-|

| nouncements contained a clever play |

|upon the word “sail.”
Their own make of men’s linen col- |
lars was cleverly featured by one|

| firm recently by a representation, in |

their big window, of a Puritan cot-|

|tage with vines clambering over it, |

and through the open door glimpses |

|of an old-time cleanly kitchen. A|

live, flesh-and-blood girl, dressed as |
“Priscilla,” the Puritan maiden, sat |
outside the door diligently sewing on |
the collars. An old-fashioned spin-
ning wheel, with a hank of flax on
the spindle, stood beside her. All|
parts of the unfinished collar were |

called to the fact that the lining |
was thoroughly shrunk before being |
niade up. All the strong points of
the collar were dwelt upon by the}
placards shown, and made _ doubly |
impressive by the display, which was |
most appropriate to the brand name |
of the collar.

A very unique idea, originated by |
one firm, was a big window display
of neckwear, of every variety of sea- |
sonable style, arranged in as many|
different ways as the ingenuity of the}
window trimmer could conceive, and
with panel mirrors placed at many
different angles so as to still further
heighten the illusion of the number
of ties shown. To draw attention to
these goods, a placard announced
that a first prize of a lady’s hand-
some gold bracelet, a second prize |
of a ten-dollar gold piece, and a}
third prize of.a fine silk umbrella
would be given to the three ladies
who guessed nearest to the exact
number of ties in the window. The}
prizes were also conspicuously dis- |
played. Only ladies were to be eli-|
gible for the prizes, and the only |
string to the offer was that each

|contestant must make her estimate |

1

{on a blank which would be furnished |

to each purchaser of a tie at this}
store. Folders showing a_ photo-|
graph of this window and containing |
particulars of the offer and much in- |
formation about their goods, were
mailed to customers in and out of
town, and sweethearts, sisters and
wives forthwith proceeded to con-
vince their special male property that
the ties sold by this firm were the

Clothier and Furnisher.
>

If you have no desire to spend any
money on printers’ ink, you can at
least make the store look attractive.
By all means make some kind of a
| window display. A poor display is
| better than none, but a neat one can
| be arranged with very little effort and
|expense. People will trade with the
| merchant who appreciates their busi-
ness enough to make a bid for it,
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Greens and Reds the Favorite Au-
tumn Colors.

Gauged by the time that salesmen
have been out with fall sample lines,
the new season is now advanced
about ten days. According to the or-
ders already sent in, and those taken
“at home” before the men started,
olive and hunter greens and wine and
maroon reds are the preferred au-
tumn colors. In grades at from $4.50
up the three-inch four-in-hand is the
choice scarf. In the best’ grades
folded four-in-hands continue in re-
quest. In sewed scarfs the French
seam is best in fine grades.

Monotones and two-toned mixtures
in plain and semi-fancy weaves and
self-figured designs comprise a good
part of the autumn showings in all
grades to sell at from popular to
high prices, and the makers are con-
fident that the heaviest business will
be done on this class of goods. Ef-
fort is making to introduce all-over
jacquard designs in large patterns,
and with some success. The pret-
tiest in the new ranges of heavily fig-
ured goods are the patterns in self
and sister tones—the latter a dark
ground with the pattern in a lighter
shade of the same color, and the
reverse of this blending of two shades
of the same color.

The foregoing outlines the tenden-
cy for autumn. The cravatmakers
have bought, from the silk mills and
importers of scarfings, considerable

greens and reds in solid and two-|

color weaves, and it is understood
that they propose pushing these. They
have also bought the most varied of
silks for the new season, and_ the
showings include the greatest variety
of scarf silks ever displayed. In fact,
it is the story of the tie silk makers
that the cravat people have ordered
more patterns and fabrics than ever,
and include in their purchases every-
thing that has struck their fancy as
at all serviceable for a scarf, even
including dress silks. Thus, while the
early indications point to another sol-
id color season, eventually things
may change to a variety season.

Although the spring season at retail!
is ahead of last year, yet owing to
the cool weather which prevailed in
April, business at best is only fair,
and retailers have entered the. pres-
ent month with large stocks of spring
neckwear. The duplicate orders are
consequently light.

Summer goods, however, have far-
ed pretty well, although advance
business has been heaviest on cot-
ton goods, which the silk houses fear
will cut into the sale of silks once
the warm weather sets in. The sale
of white cotton goods at retail has
already been large. And if the de-
mand continues as it has begun we
may look for a white season in neck-
wear.

No previous season has given a
better start to Rumchundas of im-
ported quality. And yet the domestic
twills produced for the summer have
never shown so much quality as char-
acterizes the new weaves. However,
when it comes to buying twills of
quality the finish of the imported
English twills is so vastly superior
that, even although the prices of the

 

domestic article have been cut ss
the competition this has caused is |
not feared by the handlers of the im- |
ported grades. When a_ gentleman}
buys a2 twill he wants a scarf of|
quality, and only the best imported
goods are perspiration proof. This |
year the genuine English twills are
obtainable in solid colors of fashiona-
ble hue, as well as in pretty block |
patterns. And the old-fashioned pol-
ka dot is still as staple as a twill.
Other summer silks, on which the
advance orders have been satisfac- |
tory, are Cantons in extracted and_|
block printed patterns. Pongees are |
again well up front, and selling in all
the season’s colors. Grenadines have
been revived in goodly variety, and |
are obtainable in plain and fancy|
weaves in four-in-hands and Wind- |
sors.
Houses making a_ specialty of |
Windsors are immensely _ gratified |
with the amount of business already |
secured, and although this scarf has |
hitherto been the summer favorite of |
the South and West, the way it has
taken hold in the East leads many to |
believe that it will be more generally |
worn throughout the country _ this |
summer than for some time past. |
Its sale will doubtless: be assisted by
the turndown collar, of which great |
expectations are entertained with the |
advent of warm weather. The notice-
able tendency in dress this spring is |

ja disposition to follow the careless |

negligee of the country, and the turn- |
down collar and Windsor tie are both |
synonymous with negligee dress.
Neckwear comprised one of the
chief items in Easter retailing, and
much surprise was expressed be-
cause of the large demand for!
squares. There was more than the

An Attractive
Proposition

Owing to greatly increased facilities for
the manufacture of our product, we wish to
extend the territory in which

‘‘Clothes of Quality”

are sold. We will, upon application from
merchants in towns where our garments are
not now handled, make one of the most lib-
eral advertising propositions ever offered to
a seller of clothes.

An advertising scheme representing the
outlay such as we propose could not be made
unless we had unbounded confidence in the
merits of our clothes.

Better write to-day—your rival may to-
morrow.

 

 

The Best Medium-Priced Clothes in the World
MADE IN BUFFALO

M. Wile & Company

ESTABLISHED 1877

 

 

usual amount of high-price neckwear |
sold, and retailers in the large cities, | 00 er Q
who reported that they ran out of ® e ”

some lines during the Easter Satur-
day business, say that this shortage
came heaviest on scarfs at from $3.50 |
to $5. An idea of how much better |
the good qualities were selling than |
the poor was had in the department
stores, where the cheap stuff, piled |
on center aisle tables for bargain !
hunters, remained almost untouched,
while the costlier stocks were most |
affected. |

The favored colors in the Easter
demand were white, gray, lavender, |
ecru and dark buff. Self-colored fan- |
cies went best, although in grays}
every combination of black and white
and pearl was in request.—Apparel |
Gazette.

 

—_»+>____ |
Judge Dugro of New York has just
rendered a decision which exemplifies
the wisdom of having uniform divorce
laws in this country and having them |
administered by a federal court. By |
the decision mentioned the plaintiff
in the case finds herself a single wom- |
an in one state and married in an- |
other. This is not the first time such
a complication has arisen and there
is no obstacle to prevent a recurrence, |
unless the question of divorce, as it |
should be, is made amenable to laws
that are the same the country over.
——_+--~____ |
Some men think they are saints be- |

cause they have heavy laundry bills.

|
|

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

The Legal Aspect of the Open Shop.
In the present struggle between the
employers and employes in regard to
the “open shop” question, both sides
have attempted to justify their con-
duct, and fortify their demands on
moral and economic grounds.
Neither of the contending parties,
not even the innocent third party, the
suffering public, has ever thought of
looking to the law “which governs
us all” for a solution of this vexed

problem. Unless this problem is solv- |

ed in a legal way, it will not be solved
at all, without danger to our institu-
tions.

It is true that in a general way
both parties claim that their demands
are sanctioned by law, but neither of
them is to avail itself of
legal protection by the ordinary legal
methods. Both sides are anxious to
succeed, and in their eagerness they
sometimes make use of violent meth-

anxious

ods out of court and only resort to
the courts for extraordinary legal
remedies.

As the labor unions seem to be on
the offensive in the present struggle,
it would be well to analyze their de-
mands, and see how many of them
are legally warranted, and to fix the
point, if possible, where the law says,
“Thus far shalt thou go, but no
farther.”

The one unyielding demand of la-
bor is the right of organization into
a trades union, which involves the
right:

To fix a minimum scale of wages.

To fix a schedule of working hours

To unionize the employes in the
shop.

To deal with the employer through
a representative.

And as a means to gain these ends
the right to strike, which involves the
right:

To cease working.

To get other employes to cease
working.

To prevent other workmen from
taking their places.

To punish the employer by all pos-
sible means, to-wit:

By inducing his customers to cease
their patronage.

By inducing others not to become
his customers.

By boycotting the employer and, if
necessary, by boycotting those who
continue to patronize the employer
after warning.

The question presents itself, there-
fore, are any or all of these methods
employed by labor to gain its ends
favored or condemned by law?

The right of labor to organize into
although considered illegal
less than a century ago and punished
as a conspiracy, is now sanctioned by
statute, both in this country and in
England.

Section 170 of the Penal Code of
New York provides that “the orderly
and peaceable assembling or co-oper-
ation (
ation of persons employed in any
calling, trade or handicraft for the

unions,

purpose of obtaining an advance in
the rate of wages or compensation
or of maintaining such rate, is not a
conspiracy.”

And the highest court of the State

 

 

junderlying law that men

of New York has held “that the oe
ganization, or the co-operation of}
workingmen is not against any pub-
lic policy. Indeed, it must be re-
garded as having the sanction of the
law, when it is for such legitimate
purposes as that of obtaining an ad-
vance in the rate of wages. It is}

proper and praiseworthy, and, per-|
haps, falls within that general view |
of human society which perceives an |
should |
unite to achieve that which each by|
himself can not achieve, or can}
achieve less readily.” '

The Court of Appeals of New
York, through Chief Justice Parker,
has also decided in the recent case
of National Protective Association vs. |
Cummings, that “workingmen have |
the right to organize for the pur-|
pose of securing higher wages, short- |
er hours of labor or improving their |
relations with their employers. They |
have the right to strike; that is to|
cease working in a body by pre-ar-

rangement * * * in order to se-
cure any lawful benefit to the several |
members of the organization as, for|

instance, to secure the  re-employ-

|ment of a member they regard as}

having been improperly discharged, |
and to secure employment for
other members of their organization, |
although the effect will be to cause |
the discharge of other employes who}
are not members.”

The right of an employe to insist
that none but union men shall be
employed in the same shop, under
the penalty of a strike, is also sanc-
tioned by the court in the same deci-
sion, for the reason that as the law
compels the employe to bear the bur-
den of the injury caused by his fel-
low workingmen, he has the right to
demand that he shall not be compell-
ed to work with men who have not |
applied for admission or whom he |

|has not deemed fit to admit into his}
| : |
union.

In view of the decisions and of the
express legal enactments, no one will
now seriously question the right of
the employes to promote their inter-
ests by organization; the difference
of opinion seems to exist as to the
legality of the means by which they
seek to gain their ends.

In the course of a strike the em-
ployes may singly or as an organiza-
tion publish broadcast, both to the
general public and to the patrons of
the employer, the nature of the evils
sought to be remedied by the strike
and request them not to deal with
such employer until their differences
have been adjusted.

They may persuade other employes
to leave the service of their employer
and dissuade other workmen from
seeking employment from him. They
may also refuse to deal with their
employer and may even refuse to
patronize those who deal with their
employer during the strike.

All these means may be used peace-
ably, and no cause of action accrues
to the employer, if the strikers suc-
ceed in preventing him from getting
other workmen to take their places,
or if his customers are dissuaded from
doing any business with him.

But to gain these ends the strikers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If 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.

 

 

 

 

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Wholesale Ready Made Clothing
For Men, Boys and Children ,

Manufactured in our own factory and under our personal supervision. Our fall and
winter line for coming season 1905-6 is making a great hit, being of very best quality,
make and fit, and biggest line by long odds shown in Michigan at equitable prices,
reasonable terms and one price as usual to all. Many retailers prefer to come here »
and make seleetions, but we will gladly send our representative if so desired. Mail (
and phone orders promptly shipped. Bell phone 1282—Citizens 1957. The founder of
this business established 26 years. We still have a nice line of Spring and Summer
voods to seleet from.

 

THE WILLIAM CONNOR CO.
28-30 South lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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at good does it do you unless you are prepared to grasp it:

Be Prepared!

The Michigan State Telephone Company

will assist you by placing a telephone within easy reach of your
right hand, thus putting you in quick communication with
more than 85,000 subscribers in the State of Michigan and with
all important points throughout United States and Canada.

A lost opportunity is worse than none.

Call Local Manager, or address

Michigan State Telephone Company
Grand Rapids

C. E. WILDE, District Manager

 

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may not prevent other workmen from | store.

taking their places by force or threats |
of violence; they have no right to}
enter the employer’s premises and |
disturb his trade, or obstruct access |
to those premises or block the side-|
walk and prevent the passers-by from |
entering their employer’s premises
on business purposes.

All use of force, violence, threats |
or intimidation is illegal and will be}

enjoined and punished by the courts.

"A man has a right to start a store |
and to sell at such reduced prices as |

to drive the other store-keepers out
of business. * | * * Nor could the

store-keeper be prevented from car- |

rying out his scheme because, instead
of hiding his purpose, he openly de-
clared to those store-keepers that he

|at nearby resorts, represents a decid- |

intended to drive them out of busi- |

ness in order that he might later prof-| .).,, grown, and many stores which|

* 9?

1% thereby. * *
“A labor organization is endowed
the same legal right
as an individual to threaten to do that
which it may lawfully do.”
Such in substance have been the
decisions of the courts whenever the

with precisely

{in the year.
ity, such as

opportunity has been offered to them |

upon the
questions involved.

to pass important legal
The great diver-

sity of legal decisions exists, because

|on the part of the merchant to have

in most cases the judges are asked to}

decide questions of fact peculiar to

every case, and the

ditions surrounding each particular
suit. Louis Lande.
—__+~- > ___

Marked Increase in Expense of Run-
ning a Store.

decisions are | 4
[ | purchase of high-class costumes and_|
based on the evidence and local con-| — .,,. :
| millinery which are shown at the be-!

There is also the restaurant |
or tea room, which may or may not |
prove a directly paying proposition. |

Many stores devote a large amount |
of space to the comfort of their em- |
ployes, in the shape of rest and|
recreation rooms or places where |
meals can be eaten, whether the food |
is served by the house or not.

Another source of expense is the|
delivery of packages. Competing |
merchants vie with each other in the
promptness of delivery, as well as
in style and appointments of _ their |
The distance which pack- |
ages are delivered free of charge, es- |

wagons.

pecially during the

many of

summer, when}

the customers are staying |

ed increase in expenses.
ee . . }
The advertising appropriation has}

i : |
formerly used a small advertisement |

|
now take a newspaper page every day |

Other forms of publici- |

booklets and circulars, |
have assumed a more expensive char-
acter, all this being a direct result of |
the more general recognition of the |

fitness of things and of the desire}

everything connected with his store |
assume the best and most up-to-date |
appearance.

 

|
Another item of expense is the|

ginning of each season with a view|
to attracting trade and sold without |

profit, and in many cases at an actual |

loss.

Within the last few years the cost |

of running a dry goods or department
store has increased in a marked de-
cree.
than one direction. In these

elaborate than was the case a few
years ago.
will not
crowded conditions which they at one
time were content to put up with.
Store buildings also are more cost-

ly. This is due rather to the greater

Merchants

The store itself is larger. |
tolerate the}

| creased the purchasing power of the
| public.

attention paid to fireproof construc- |

tion than to a tendency to ornament
and ginger-bread work.
big stores now being erected show

In fact, the|

it is questionable whether in the de-|

ornamentation their buildings do not |

err on the side of severity. The ten-

dency to erect enormous store struc- |

tures, however, is apparent, and it is
clear that the interest on such build-
ings, as well as on the sites, must
reach an enormous figure.

|2 decade ago were everyday matters.

When we come to store fittings and |

equipment we find even greater lav-|
ishness in expenditure. The impor-
tance of having beautiful as well as|
convenient fittings has become _ so}
thoroughly recognized that no mer-
deserves the epithet of |
progressive is content with old-fash- |
ioned and inconvenient fixtures.

In addition, an increasing amount |
of floor space is devoted to purposes |

chant who

other than those of keeping stock FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

and selling. Resting rooms for —
en visitors, more or less elaborately

fitted up, are essential to the modern | Grand Rapids, Mich.

|more scientific lines, and while mer-

aided by the general prosperity of |

: | thei >rchandise th: oy did a f
a tendency to excess of plainness, and | their merchandise than they did a few

. ;: n < lany 2 oO cE acy r .
sire to avoid dust and dirt-catching | “"Y degree of accuracy would be a

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Yo go still farther, we may cite the
entertainments of various kinds now- |
adays provided by stores which cater |

 

en cai i |to the medium and popular trade. |
This increase is visible in more |
days |

: i | pense there is no question. They have |
everything about a store is far more ii q y '

About these various forms of ex-|
rot only attracted customers, but|
have imbued the public with a desire |
for better merchandise. In exerting |
this influence the merchant has been|

the country, which has greatly  in-

With the increase in expense it
seems reasonable to suppose that the
public are paying relatively more for
years ago. To determine this with
dificult matter. In fact, any state-
ment that might be made on the sub-
ject would be based on guess-work.
One thing, however, is certain, and
that is that we seldom see the sen-
sational price-cutting conflicts which

Nor is this an occasion for regret.
Retailing to-day is conducted on far

chants may be lavish in some re-
spects, they are wholly averse to fool-
ing away money as they did in the
more happy-go-lucky days.—Dry
Goods Economist.

 

GRAND RAPIDS

W. FRED McBAIN, President

 

The Leading Agency

Removal Notice

About June 1st we will be located in our large
new quarters in the heart of the wholesale district,

31 North lonia St.

Barnhart Building

We carry a very large stock ready for immediate
delivery at our salesrooms in Men’s, Boys’ and
Children’s Clothing, also Cloth and Tailors’
Trimmings from the cheapest to the very best. Our
variety is larger than ever before.

Our goods are legitimate values, and submitted
on that basis to dealers who appreciate straightfor-
ward representation.

Mail and phone orders promptly attended to.

Citizens phone 6424. If preferred will send rep-
resentative.

Grand Rapids Clothing Co.

Makers of Up-to-date Clothing
At present in the Pythian Temple Building

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

The Most Popular
The Best Advertised
The Highest Grade

(FOR THE MONEY)

The Lowest Priced
Line of Union Made

Men’s Clothing

For Fall 1905
Ranging in Price from $6.50 to $13.50

Special Leaders

- $7.50 )
>» Regular Terms
7.00 |

50 in. Black Frieze Overcoat - -
Venetian Lined Black Thibet Suit - -
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

The Little Butcher Girl Scores a)
Success.
Written for the Tradesman.

There is a little business woman
that I know that is going to amount |
to something some day in the busi-
ness world. Her name is Anna; or,
more strictly speaking, it might be|
Anna but it isn’t. This little wom-
an is about fifteen or sixteen years
old but has good farseeing business |
sense and lots of it. Anna is a
butcher girl.

But first a little about what led
up to Anna’s becoming a_ butcher |
girl—-which, by the way, is rather a}
peculiar and unique position for a|
girl to hold:

Anna, like a great many other in-
teresting people, is the daughter of
poor but honest parents. That they |
are not particularly refined or par-
ticularly well educated is _ neither
here nor there. Anna’s father is a
Pole and, by some hook or crook |
becoming possessed of a small sum |
of money, he decided at once to go in
business for himself and accordingly
purchased a small meat market.

Things along indifferently
well, and I was watching the progress
of the new business, as I passed}
daily, with a good deal of interest.

One day, as I passed and threw
my casual glance into the shop, a|
pleasant surprise awaited me: There,
in spotless white apron and face shin- |
ing with the expectant light of one
who awaits a new experience, was |
a girl. I went on to the office—and |
thereafter my family wondered at my
sudden desire to purchase the meat
for the family. Our regular meat-|
man was also astonished at the sud- |
den cessation of orders at No. blank |
Blank street. All this led to explana- |
tions and soon the whole family was |
as interested as myself in watching
the growth of this new worker in the
busy business field. To be sure, the
steaks were a little doubtful in ap-/}

|
pearance and rather ragged around |

the edges at first, but a remark of re-|
monstrance refused to leave the lips |
when Anna smiled with a dazzling}
display of white teeth. As I grew |
acquainted with the peculiarities of |
Anna’s steaks 1 grew acquainted with |
Anna, and was pleased to note, for |
Anna’s sake as well as my own, that |
the steaks grew more like their old |
selves.

As I grew to know more and more |
about Anna [ learned many things |
from her: How her father had not
the money to hire some one to stay
in the shop while he was on a string
butchering expedition through the
country; how Anna had to give up
her school, where she was an apt
pupil; how she had cried at the pros-
pect of leaving the school room to
enter the shop.

This last she told me _ wistfully,
and then, the brave little woman
coming to the front, she added, “But

went

 

| apron, to the fine place of which she |
| was dreaming. |

| ure to eat them.

 

I like it here; it’s so businesslike. I

|
hope that some day we shall have a_
large shop. I will go to business |

| college and learn to keep books and |
|use the typewriter and then I shall!
| take care of everything in the office.” |

Anna was brave. It was a farcry}

'from the poor little shop, and the|

poor little maid in her long white |

As Anna learned to cut meat from |
her father the steaks were so notice-|
ably improved that it became a pleas- |
It was also a pleas- |
ure to buy them. In time the sci-|
ence of meatcutting was mastered by |
the little butcher girl and Anna’s suc-
cess was assured. I have seen|
countless instances that proved that |

Anna was cut out for nothing but a}

| business woman, and that it would|

be a shame to spoil so good a busi- |
ness woman by letting her go to |
school until she was through and|
then sit around doing petty little|
household duties until some fortu-|
nate person of the male persuasion |
came along to carry her off and in-|
stall her as manager in his own house.

I bought a good deal more meat |
after Anna began in the shop than
I did formerly. When things looked
exceedingly blue and I had lost con- |

| fidence in things earthly I would sud-
|denly discover that I wanted a cer-
| tain kind of meat for supper.
i to my little butcher girl always put
|me in good humor.

A visit

Finally, we got |

very friendly, this charming little

|; meat maiden and myself, and [I used)
|to drop in a great many times when

IT bought nothing at all and sit gen-|

| tly swinging on one of the revolving

stools in front of the counter—the

lend stool so that I wouldn’t be in

 

the way—and watch the girl at her

work.
With the utmost diplomacy she}
worked. Was Mrs. Jones’ steak of|

yesterday not of the best? Too bad!
The little butcher girl sympathized
with Mrs. Jones in the most charm- |
ing manner but—and this made her
valuable as a business woman—did

 

|not offer to make the omission good.

Not she. Still, she had the happy fac-

|ulty of sending Mrs. Jones off feeling |

not the least bit dissatisfied. It was|
this rare quality that made her so}
valuable. Without losing any money |
she was able to placate any complain- |
ing customer with her winning smile
and confidential manner; and, what
made these transactions a good deal
more interesting and pleasing to an
onlooker like myself, the little wom-
an was as unconscious of what she
was doing as could be. Her sympa-
thy was genuine and she sympathiz-
ed in such an agreeable manner that
it would be a very disgruntled per-
son indeed who would not be paci-
fied by her.

If Anna was unaware of her busi-
ness talents so was her father. They
ran the little business together, and
it flourished and prospered daily and
the two went calmly along congratu-
lating themselves upon their good
luck. As Anna became more profi-
cient in the art of conducting the
shop it took less of her time for rou-
tine duties and so she found time to
add a thousand little improvements

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted |

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Beans

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

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT, MICH.

 

 

 

We Want Your Eggs

We want to hear from shippers who can send us eggs every week.
We pay the highest market price. Correspond with us.

L. O. SNEDECOR & SON, Egg Receivers

 

36 Harrison St., New York

 

 

 

 

We Want Eggs and Poultry

We pay highest prices all the year around
Phone or wire us.

GRAND RAPIDS PRODUCE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

40 S. Division St.,
Reference

Citizens Phone 3083
5TH NATIONAL BANK

Long Distance Phone 465

Butter

I would like all che fresh, sweet dairy

 

    
     
 
   

  

butter of medium quality you have to

send.

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

W. C. Rea A. J. Witzig

REA & WITZIG

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

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

Marine Nati 1B i ere
ional Bank, Commercial Agents, —— Companies Trade Papers and Hundreds oi

ppers
Established 1873

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

 

about the place which her business
instinct prompted. Among the taste-
ful things I saw her do was to ar-
range choice cuts of meat about the
shop where they would catch a cus-
tomer’s eye pleasingly. Not content
with the possibilities of the counter,
she introduced a new feature that was
as dainty as it was novel: From home
she brought a medium-sized _ table |
and a tablecloth that rivaled the |
snow in whiteness. Some white dish-
es were also procured. They were|
very clean and very shiny and they
had the prettiest little pale green
vine running around them as a deco-
ration. The effect was pleasing be-
yond description. With this aid and
some choice cuts of meat Anna set
her table. When the whole was fin-
ished the result was all that could
be desired. It was immaculateness
personified, and helped to gain and
keep customers for her shop as well
as make the old ones more solid.
When a customer would come in
and say to Anna’s question as to her
wants, ‘Oh, | dont know,” and
glance hopelessly around the shop in
the wish of finding something to do}

 

 

away with the vexatious question of |
what to get for dinner Anna would
say, “Perhaps there is something here
you would like.’ Then, in her irre-
proachable white apron, she would
place her

exquisitely-wholesome-
looking self behind the table and with |
a flash of her white teeth and black |
eyes quietly wait—it usually did not
take the customer long to decide.
When things were at this stage I
was forced by circumstances to leave |
town. I very much hated to do this;
and one of the reasons was that I|
kated to leave my little butcher girl
at this very interesting stage of her
career. I had to go, however, and I|
did not come back for three years. |
What I found upon my return I will |

|

tell in an early issue of the Trades- |

man. Burton Allen.
cnet a pe ane |

He Showed the Butcher Some Clean |
Tricks.

An old man, his shoulders bent
with age, entered a market on Third
The proprietor was waiting
ona lady customer. A little boy who
had fallen down and torn his pants |
loudly.
bursts of grief and fear of what was
likely in waiting for him when he got

aventc.

was crying 3etween his

home, he managed to say he wanted
a pound of chopped beef. The old
man, sizing up the situation, sug-
gested to the butcher that he be per-
mitted to chop the meat and end the
agony of having to listen to the dis-
tressing sobs of young America. The
butcher looked at the speaker doubt-
fully: “] had a market once,”
plained. “I knew how to handle the
cleavers, too, and could drum as fine
an accompaniment to a street organ |
as you ever heard.” He picked up a|
cleaver by the end of the handle,
tossed it a few feet in the air, at the
same time giving it a revolving mo-
tion, and as it came turning over and
over in its descent, deftly caught the
extreme end of the implement on the
palm of his hand and balanced it.
while the butcher looked on in aston-
ishment. This butcher is one of those

he ex-

 

| gether

| crying.

| 1’m in hard luck.

silence-and-fun gentlemen.
joys things without saying so.

lars. In this case

showed satisfaction at the old

man’s performance, he did not utter |
one syllable, but picking up a chunk |
oi beef laid it on the block and went

back to the customer he was serving.

In the meantime the crying of the}
boy was growing less violent, and the

bursts of woe were less fre-
The old man picked up an-

sudden
quent.

other cleaver, clashed the flat sides |

of the two blades together and then
brought them both down into the
beef. Then he began the chopping,

slow at first, and then faster and fast- |
the effect of a loco-|

er, until it gave

motive tearing along at a mile a min-

ute. Then he began to drum. He|

was a magician with the

| Suddenly the rapid drumming ceased, |

He) en-|
He is |
as sparing of his words as of his dol-|
while his face |

cleavers. |

EGGS

That’s what we want.
For storage and present use.
Phone, wire or write us.

COYNE BROS.

CHICAGO

References Michigan Tradesman and Egg Reporter.

    

 

 

 

Weare car load receivers and distributors of

and in its place came a sound like the |

clatter of horses’ hoofs on the pave- |
ments, that effect made so popular a|

few years ago in Bronson Howard’s

“Shenandoah.” Then came his best |
imitation, that of a pile driver. The|
|imitation started with the solid piece

of iron ascending, and was made with
a tattoo of the cleavers, first
and gradually faster, until

for the descent. The release effect is

| produced by clashing the blades to-

sharply. Then the cleavers

|are worked rapidly into the meat to
| give the effect of the iron descending

and the sound of the iron pounder

| hitting the log is made by stamping

|the foot sharply on the floor.

3y this time the meat was well
chopped, and the old man laid down
The boy had stopped
The lady customer was look-
ing on in wonder, and the butcher
was lighting a cigar. “It isn’t so much

| the cleavers.

| what you were, it’s what you are to-

day,” said the old fellow, “and I’m as
good a man to-day as any of ’em, but
There’s a job wait-
|ing for me in Newark, and I need

twenty cents to get there. It ought |

|to be worth that to you. I’ve chopped |
your meat and soothed the boy, aud
showed you some tricks. Do I get|

it?” He got it—Butchers’ Advocate.

———»-+4—~

No man ever lost any time in the}
heavenly race by stopping to help|

another.

For 25 Years

We have made Barlows’ Pat. Mani-
fold Shipping Blanks for thousands
of the largest shippers in this coun-
try.

 

 

 

We Keep Copies of Every
Form We Print
Let us send you samples printed
for parties in your own line of
trade—you MAY get an idea—any-

way it costs you nothing to look
and not much more if you buy.

Barlow Bros.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

slowly |
it had |
reached the place where it is released |

Strawberries

Also Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Pineapples, and all kinds of
Early Vegetable.
THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY
14-16 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

SEED CORN

The seed Corn offered by us is grown especially for seed purposes.
It not only scores high but shows a germinating test of go%/, and
better. We have liberal stocks of the standard varieties, also Fodder
and Sweet Corn. ‘Ask for prices.’’

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED Co.
@RAND RAPIDS, MIOH.

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

Constantly on hand, a large supply of Egg Cases and Fillers. Sawed whitewood
and veneer basswood cases. Carload lots, mixed car lots or quantities to suit pur-
chaser. We manufacture every kind of fillers known to the trade, and sell same in
mixed cars or lesser quantities to suit purchas2r. Also Excelsior, Nails and Flats
constantly in stock. Prompt shipment and courteous treatment. Warehouses ana
factory on Grand River, Eaton Rapids, Michigan, Address

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

SEND US YOUR ORDERS “£5, ssn
Grass Seeds----Field Seeds

|Medium, Mammoth, Alsyke, Crimson, Alfalfa, White Clover, Timothy, Blue Grass,
Redtop, Orchard Grass, Millet, Hungarian, Buckwheat, Rapeseed,
Field Peas, Seed Corn.

MOSELEY BROS., aranp rapips, mich.

Office and Warehouse 2nd Avenue and Hilton Street. Telephones, Citizens or Bell, 1217

      

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

we should. There is, for instance.
that of hot air heating. This is a

line that should net us a substantia! : SRS ; It’s System

profit. It is one in which catalogue
house competition does not cut a per- ‘ ; ; On the Wagon!
manent figure. Therefore, if we do : 9

: not make a profit it is because we cut r crue 5. It S System :
Some Changes Which Have Comeé| each other’s throats. So much de- aM On the Walk!
To the Tin Shop. pends on having this work properly "

 

 

 

 

 

ork pr | aa ort ae
| done that the eens is ——s : b ( PCE fh It’s System

During the last decade or two

 

 

 

 

 

 

every line of business has undergone | pay for that knowledge. In order
great changes. Few if any lines of | make a success of hot air heating it = ; a Over the Counter!
industry have seen more radical | is absolutely necessary that you know = ; t
changes than that of the sheet metal. | how. Properly managed, I find it is SS ; It’s System \
I can remember as a boy watching|a line that grows very nicely after ~ ee ; i
the tinner forming with what seemed | being well started. One thoroughly At the Phone! K
akin to magic the sheets of tin into | satisfied customer sells several, while i
the shining tinware. Now all that is| one dissatisfied can kill the business 9 k S E h
changed. Modern machinery does | completely in that locality. It S the McCas cy ystem veryw ere
these things so much better and|_ If you do furnace work be sure it is If your Driver takes an order on the Wagon, it does not have to be i
cheaper that we would not go back;done right. I have seen plants in- re-written or copied, it’s ready for filing, it’s a bill complete in itself and ¢
to the old method if we could. i stalled by men who did not know the he has made a copy of it forthe Customer with Only One Writing

What, then, are we to do? Shall first principle of air circulation and showing all the items and the Amount; also the Balance brought for-
we close the tinshop entirely, or shall | their work showed a. What is the ward and the Total to Date. 4)
we adjust ourselves to changed con-| result? Owner says, It does not heat, | It’s just the same as it would be if taken over the Phone, or over i
ditions? I am aware of the fact that} burns lots of coal, but little or no | the Counter, or on the Walk in front of your Store. It’s the Easy |
many successful hardware dealers| heat to speak of except in some| and Natural way. It’s the Sensible way. You don’t have to carry
have no tinshop. Yet most of us| parts of the house. I once lived in a| your total to the foot of the slip or carry it to the top. You don’t have
have some kind of a shop, so that the | locality where several plants like this | to serve time in a Business College to be able to handle accounts on

question is not so much, Shall we | had been installed, and I found it
have it? as, How shall we make it pay? | was almost impossible to get a chance

First of all, the tinner must be dif-|to talk hot air to the prospective |
ferent from the one of twenty years | builder. The moment you mentioned |
ago. The old saying, “that it is hard | the subject he would say, “No; I will | Write for Catalogue.
to teach an old dog new tricks,” ap- burn stoves rather than invest $175
plies quite forcibly to the tinsmiths | OT $200 for a rig like Neighbor Jones’, ;

of the old school. They sigh for the and then not get any benefit.” It was THE McCASKEY REGISTER CO

“ood old days” when the tinner | almost imposs ble to persuade those
never dreamed of doing a piece of | nen that it was the fault of the in- ALLIANCE, OHIO
work other than that strictly in his | Stallation and not the fu
line. In the tinshop, as we
1;

The McCaskey Register.
You See It ALL. You Know it ALL.
Your Accounts Can Be Protected From Fire.

 

 

race itself. Mfrs. of The Famous Multiplex Counter Pads and Sales Slips.
as the rest
Those of us who read one of — the store, talk quality seat last |

trade journals a few years ago will | ———

 

 

 

remember what bitter discussion |

e
there arose in the tinshop department
of that journal over a workman ask- | Gasoli e as ac ine

ing his brother tinners for informa- |

 

tion regarding the erection of wind- |
mills. Here was a man who found |
that his particular locality demanded |
that he know how to erect a wind-
mill and went to work to find out.
The old school tinner hurled his
abuse on the fellow who was simply |

following as closely as posvible the
demands of his particular trade. It is |
a long way from the bench to the}
windmill, it is true, yet most of us}
sell pumps, and it is only a short |
step from them to windmills. The ideal |
tinner for the shop of which I speak
must then be a mechanic of broad ex-

 

perience. He need not necessarily be
an adept in the use of the raising}
hammer and some other tools of ob-

 

solete sheet metallurgy, but there are |
numberless other lines that he can
take up with profit to his employer
which require no less skill. He must

 

 

 

be able and willing to turn his hand |
to such work as. bicycle repairing, |
pumps, the simple forms of plumbing |
and even windmills, if his trade de- |
mands it. The tinner who is not will- |
ing to adjust himself to these chang- |
ed conditions will have to move or |
be a back number. Personally I find |
the pump and windmill line one of|
the most profitable I handle. How-
ever, up to the present time I have

|

| | a

p had work enough for my tinner with- | The above i

Sik dee tie. | illustration shows our system for home lighting and water heat-
‘ing. Send for our catalogue.

Then there are many phases of the

a tinshop trade that we do not push as MICHIGAN BRICK AND TILE MACHINE CO., Morenci, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3

 

 

ure so low that you must sacrifice
quality better let the other fellow get |
it; keep. the standard of goods and |
workmanship so high that your firm |
name will be with the public a syn-
onym of quality. E. L. Garden.
_
The Catalogue House Situation in a/|
Nutshell.

judgment the catalogue |
houses have declared war on the le-

and all the time. If you have to fis
|

In my

gitimate retail dealers and are pour- |
ing shot and shell into us on every
side. They have already sentinels |
stationed at every point where there |
is business. These sentinels and car- |
riers are paid by Uncle Sam. The
catalogues are their munition of war

and are at work seven days in the

week, beginning Sunday morning and
working continuously until the fol-
lowing Saturday night, every day and
every night, 365 days in the year, |
day in and day out, year in and year |
out, working all the time, while the |
retail merchant goes to his store at
8 o'clock, looks over his mail, and
watches around to see how business

is going and hears his clerks tell of
a few sales they have lost from cata-
logue house competition. He goes to!
dimmer at £2 ociock, back at 1:30,
goes to the bank and looks up a few
delinquents, tells his clerks to keep

their eyes on the gun, goes home at
5 or 6 o’clock, having worked about
eight hours, while our competitors,
the catalogue houses, put in sixteen
or more, every minute of which is
used in one. direction, advertising}
good goods and cheap goods, the
very thing to induce people to trade
with them, while the retail merchant
gives about one-sixteenth per cent. of
his time to trade getting.

I think we retail merchants should |

march out and line up as in battle. |
We should stand together as a unit. |

We should say to the jobber, “If you
want our business
ammunition to our enemies, and sup-
ply us with such goods as we need
to fight competition,’ pledging our-

selves at the same time individually |
to the jobber that we will use such |
goods for that purpose only, and then |

advertise those goods
other things, the same as the cata-
They offer a few
items at cost and catch the trade.
We should do the same, and as the
catalogue competition gets stronger
the closer we must deal. Stop say-
ing yes to those who want credit
and tell them why, that you can not
meet catalogue house competition and
sell on credit; find out who among
your customers buy from catalogue
houses, make a list of them and you
will be ready for them when they
want credit.

logue houses do.

Some of these people are buying |
from their home merchants on time
and sending their money away. You}
can stop yottr part of that if you!
know who they are. Let them know |
that the fight is on and that you are}
in the battle to win. Meet any cata- |
logue price (quality considered). [|
regard home competition one of the |
greatest drawbacks in contending |
with catalogue competition. I am
afraid to make a fight on catalogue

stop furnishing |

along with |

 

 

houses, for fear my home competitor
will reduce the price on nails, an item

we do not need to cut the price on. |
If I say to a man, “I can’t credit you
because you send your money away |

to catalogue houses,” that man will

go to my competitor and get credit. |
| Ii my customer sends to a catalogue |

house and buys all his builders’ hard-

ware for a building and then comes |
to me for nails, I would like to charge |

him a profit, but my competitor sells
him nails at cost in order to get him

for a customer. If every

would join their retail dealers’ asso- |
ciation and attend their annual meet- |
ings and get in line, read the hard-/}
| ware journals, get in step and fire at

every command, it would not take
long to control the situation. Do not

try to stop the catalogue houses. If |
}you are behind, catch up and get in|
the lead; if you are in the lead, work |

to stay there.

If the
manufacturers think more of the cata-

I sum it up about like this:

|} logue houses than they do of the|
jobbers, let them sell the catalogue |
houses exclusively; the jobbers can |

attend to that.
more of the catalogue house trade
than he does of the retailer’s, let him

| sell to the catalogue house exclusive-

ly and let the retailer see to that. If
the manufacturer wants to sell to us,
and sells cheaper than the jobber,

then it is the duty of the jobber to|

retailer |

If the jobber thinks |

| All of our energy this year will be used in showing you the advantages of
| Grand Rapids as your natural source of supply for

GLASS

_.., Shipments from Grand Rapids will reach you quicker than from any other
| jobbing point. We handle only,the brands of the best factories. We want your
| business and mean to ‘‘Keep Hammering’’ until we get it.
Grand Rapids Glass & Bending Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Temporary location since the fire, 199-201-203 Canal St.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cut prices to meet the manufactur- |

er’s the same as we retailers have to |

cut prices to meet catalogue com

petition. Make every dealer and

manufacturer declare themselves.

Start at the head: let the jobber see |

that the manufacturers confine their
sales to the jobbing trade and let the

retailers see that the jobbers confine |

their sales to legitimate

dealers, and when this is done we re-
tail dealers will

understand better

how to dodge the bullets. But when |

they are pouring hot lead into us

from every side we do not know
whether to stand or run: but when we
know the source of the firing I think
we can fortify ourselves and make a
winning.

ithe jobbers will furnish’ us the right
| kind of ammunition and we do not
| waste it for profit makers, we will
| certainly win the battle. It takes
| united action to accomplish anything.

 

The retail dealers, jobbers and man-
lufacturers should handle this cata-
legue proposition through their re-
| spective associations, and in order
'to do that successfully every one in
| sympathy with us must enlist.

, H. J. Hellekson.

2-2-2 —__

Nothing but art on the menu is an
| aggravation to the appetite.
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There is no service without a sense
of the sacredness of things.

 

 

The Grand Rapids
Sheet [etal & Roofing Co.
Manufacturers of Galvanized Iron Cornice.
Steel Ceilings, Eave Troughing, Conductor
Pipe, Sky Lights and Fire Escapes.
Roofing Contractors
Cor. Louis and Campau Sts. Both Phones 2731

hardware |

Everyone knows that the fight is to|
be made by the retail dealers, and if|

Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

 

  

Michigan Fire and Marine  petroit
Insurance Company

Established 1881.

Cash Capital $200,000.
Surplus to Policy Aolders $625,000.

OFFICERS

D. M. FERRY, Pres. F. H. WHITNEY, Vice Pres.
GEO. E. LAWSON, Ass’t Treas. E. J. BOOTH, Sec’y

DIRECTORS

». i. “oy F. J. Hecker, M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Walter C. Mack, Allan Shelden
R. Jou Simon J. Murphy, Wm. L. Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar,
H. Kirke White, H. P. Baldwin, Charles B. Calvert, F. A. Schulte, Wm. V. Brace,

. W. Thompson, Philip H. McMillan, F. E. Driggs, Geo. H. Hopkins, Wm. R. Hees,
James D. Standish, Theodore D. Buhl, Lem W. Bowen, Chas. C. Jenks, Alex, Chapoton, Jr.,
Geo H. Barbour, S. G. Caskey, Chas. Stinchfield, Francis F. Palms, Carl A. Henry,

David C. Whitney, Dr. J. B. Book, Chas. F. Peltier, F. H. Whitney. r

Agents wanted in towns where not now represented. Apply to
GEO. P. McMAHON, State Agent, 100 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.

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ETHICS OF THE STREET.

Influences Which Tend To Pauperize | is

the Soul.
Whene’er I take my walks abroad,
I am fain to remark, not how many

cities of the United States do not
appear unduly freighted, but rather
how many and how potent are the
street influences which tend to pau-
perize the soul.
The school, the home; on

two foundations. we constantly
told, the welfare of this great repub-

these
are

from being so much barren rhetoric
is amply proved by the enormous
sutns spent on public education to a
luxurious degree, and by the pure
ideal of domesticity to which the pri-
vate lives of candidates for high office
at the people’s hands are required to
testify. Many and admirable, also,
are the schemes of public and _ pri-
vate enterprise that seek to carry hu-
manizing influences into the crowded
tenement, bridging so far as they may
the gap between the standards of the

classroom and the illiterate or alien
homes in which such vast numbers
of the commonwealth’s school chil-

dren dwell. But there remains still a
third factor to be reckoned with; a
middle ground in the child’s life; one
which has yet to be fully recognized

densed milk-or-rural-drama-impossi-
ble-to-distinguish-which, hats, whis-
cigars, foldingbeds, artificial

‘limbs, corsets, other things, whisky,

1
cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, tobacco, |
|

| cigarettes, cigars and whisky!
poor I see, for in that respect the |

It is the excess of space allotted |
them in the commercial exposition of |

the highways that renders them a|
|baneful influence; the hideous dis-|
| proportion to the needs of life in|

| which we allow their virtues to be

'blazoned on the city walls.

And the blazonry! * * * See]

| these rows on rows of besotted-look- |
lic rests: and that the assertion is far |

| mixing, proffering, drinking, with an|
|air of specious bonhomie designed to

ing creatures depicted in the act of

foster the corrupting notion that in
reciprocity of tipples lies czood-fel-
lowship; these rows on rows of inde-|
cently clad recommending |
some bottled or capsuled remedy for |

women

'the effects of a debauch! |

Breakfast foods: these at least are
innocuous, you say, in their bid for
notoriety. Not invariably so. When- |

|ever a foodstuff makes a merit of its|

theft of nature’s honest industries by
announcing itself as predigested, it
stands a self-convicted sinner against |
the natural moralities.

To the thinking adult these repre- |

|sentations are only so much adver- |

for its true value in the formation of |

character, the moulding of citizens.
The larger education of mankind |

comes from contact with the world—
and the world, for city children, is the
street.

Let walk
eyes not introspectively turned upon

us take a abroad with
cur own personal concerns, nor dull-
ed to our objective surroundings by
accustomedness, but open and sensi-
tively alert to note in what fashion
we are serving the ends of enlighten-
ment in respect to the gods we set
up in the marketplace, the influences
we invoke or suffer to preside over
the thoroughfares our children trav-
erse passing to and from their school,

| furnishings, impressions of life, rank-

tisement, to be deprecated from
aesthetic standpoint, but no eyesore |
to the blunted ethical vision. But
how is the child of the street to dis-
criminate between legitimate munici-
pal decoration and the labels of pri-|
vate enterprise? To him these illus- |
treted statements stand for mental

an

ing in authority with the inscription
on the monument, the statue of the|

|patriot, the map and motto on his|
| classroom walls, the text and banner |

| of

| the

his Sunday school, chaining |
his remembrance with a hundredfold
distinctness and allure of these|

because of the appeal they make to

| his playful fancy, the intimate collo- |

the pictures and legends with which |

we are wallpapering and adorning this
their larger nursery, their unrestrict-
ed playground, their outdoor home,
the street.

The hoardings are gay with adver- |

tisements, many of them no mean
examples of decorative art, and all
expressly contrived to arrest atten-
the

memory with phrase and symbol that

tion, catch the fancy and fix
shall create a want, or arouse desire
for some commodity.
of

Take any ran-
devices, and then
to the
general impression produced by their
You
the average result to be a
statements
that it
good thing to spend one’s substance

dom mile such

with closed eyes try recall

illustrated messages. will

persuasive, authoritative;

is

on whisky, cigars, cigarettes, tobac-

co, chewing-tobacco, chewing-gum,

quial note they strike.
It is the positive thing that counts |
with

a child. Innumerable  repeti- |
tions of stern Don’ts can not equal
in compelling power one delusively |

attractive Do. Of what avail, then, |
for the city in school hours to lay}
down

the principles of physiology |

| with their ominous burden of inhibi- |

| walls gainsay such teachings in rain-
| bow

tion, when at every turn the city’s

colors, in optimistic phrase?
How vital an impression does it pro-

duce upon a girl to tell her that tight |

lacing is injurious, while misshapen |
forms are presented as objects of|
i fashionable elegance for her emula- |
tion during recreation hours? Of

find |

ser.es of |

what use is it to warn the boy that |
nicotine and alcohol are bad for him, |

iso long as the city covers the walls |

a grinding necessity and a} of his great playground with dazziing |

invitations to smoke and drink, at the

|same time jocosely assuring him that |

corsets, liquors, soap, whisky, cigars, |

washing-powder, tooth powder, face
tobacco, whisky, gas stoves,

transportation, whisky,

powder,

corsets,

clothes, cigars, whisky, patent medi-,in classic nudity,

all possible unpleasant consequences
will be pleasantly averted by the ac- |
tion of a candy bolus while he sleeps? |

Put up in the marketplace some ex-
quisite example of the sculptor’s craft
with

and what

cines, champagne, comic opera, pills, | sweeping denunciations of the im-
breakfast food, whisky, tobacco, con- | morality of art does the welkin wl

EAST
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received

The First Grand Prize
at the
St. Louis Exposition

for caising

 

 

   
  
   
      
    

 
 

Facts in a
Nutshell

  

WHY?

They Are Scientifically

PERFECT

129 Jefferson Avenue 113 115«117;Ontario: Street
Detroit, Mich. Toledo, Ohio

 

 

What a storm of outraged protest is
aroused by any humanitarian move-
ment that, by taking into considera-
tion the social need which the saloon
supplies, endeavors to give a poor
man’s thirst due dignity and measure!
But blind are these censors, single
and incorporate, to the shameful fact
staring us forever in the face, that
lessons are being inculcated into the
city’s children daily, after the most
approved pedagogic methods, pictor-
ially, and by endlessly varied itera-

: i |
tions of one theme—lessons in intem-

perance and immodesty—by the un-
licensed proclamations on the
walls!

A small boy acting in the same
theatrical company with his mother,
not long since, was haled to court,
examined, remanded, committed, be-

city

cause he was found to be under certi-
fied years. The soul!
had lied about his age because her
earnings alone would not suffice to
support the two; besides, to have her
child traveling with all the

mother, poor

her is

home a wandering actress may call |

her own; and to the child this filial-
maternal comradeship and
partnership are infinitely more a home

than any of the host of institutions |

However, to
keep the law the lad must now be
committed to some such organization,

passing by the name.

or become a charge on unwilling rel
atives for the period of his scholastic
liability, until at sixteen he will be
turned loose, practically orphaned, to
drift, if he so elect, back to the
stage. At eleven, under his mother’s
wing, tutored in the crude but definite

morality of the melodrama, there was |

nothing harmful in the child’s bread-
winning connection with the theater.
He is far more likely to be endanger-

ed by it at sixteen, but of that hu-|

man aspect of the case the law takes
no cognizance.

cera jtsell with the fact that the

most degrading feature of the play-|
house, the poster of so-called comic}
opera and farce, with its ever recur-

rent variation on the motif of marital
duplicity, the elderly fool in evening
dress wantoning with high kickers of
the ballet, is offered year in and year
out for the contemplation of the city
children in the street! I doubt if one
child in thousands ever came to moral
shipwreck by being on and of the
Can it be doubted that
thousands are being coarsened, if not
corrupted, all the time the pic-
tures on the

real stage.

by
walls?

Clean streets in the maintenance of
whose cleanliness the children are en-
listed as allies may be counted as one

But
from

of the saving graces of the day.
here also cities are not free
blame in their ethical responsibility.
The exposure of dead animals to the
public gaze is a shameful thing. To
the children it is a coarsening influ-
ence that the household pet is suffer-
ed to become a thing of opprobrium
in the gutter. Civilization demands
that even for the dumb animal there
shall be dignity and decency in death.

The press always should be, and
more often is than not, friend of the
children, the poor, the weak. Yet
has the press a few sins to answer

for in its relation to the morals of

working |

Neither does it con- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

these wards of the commonwealth.

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We find ourselves in a populous di | ! k Pp ] ’
trict, although a far from poor one. | O O e a S a n e
We come upon a knot of small girls, |
|seated at an improvised table on |
lwhich are displayed pin-wheels and |
paper dolls for sale. The proceeds, |

Don’t grunt and growl because
your trade is falling behind, if you are

they proudly inform us, are destined | not using Modern Methods. In=
{to swell such-and-such a_ paper’s| crease your sales by using china as
Fresh-Air Fund. How sweet and

premiums.

Our Cheerful Living Assortment of
72 dozen nicely decorated pieces for
$64.80 will work for you where you
can't.

touching that sounds: children work- |
ing that less fortunate children may |
lenjoy! But as we further chat with}
them that Fresh-Air
Fund is as empty a term to them as}
Borrioboola-Gha. All they know}
about it is that a reporter-gentleman
has promised that the one who hands |
him the largest contribution shall |
| have her picture in the paper! Next |
day we buy that paper, and there, sure |
enough, is the portrait of the most

we discover

The American China Company
Toronto, Ohio, U. S. A.
Manufacturers high-grade semi-porcelain china

 

Cut this out and write us, mentioning the publication

 

| forth-putting little saleswoman,  ac-|
|companied with a letter that does|

to the inventiveness of |}
reporter-gentleman, positively |
lisping the joy the little heroine feels |
in aiding the sick babes of this noble |
charity!’ A love of cheap notoriety
is one of the most pernicious teach- |
|ings of the street.

great credit
the

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GUSTOMERS
WHO TRY

These two most essential
points for absolute satis-
always be

in Millar’ Coffees

Still further downtown we encoun-
ter a party of young men and women
preparing to board an Atlantic liner. |
| The aggressively vulgar quality of|
their good humor astounds us when |
told that they are

Astonishment, however, is |
modified on learning these to be win- |
ners of a newspaper contest that be-
| stows a vacation in Europe on the
| ten most popular educators of a cer-
tain district; this spurious popularity

faction will

found

 

 

we are school- |

teachers.

Millar & Co.

Chicago

 

 

 

| being purchased by the suffrages of |
their pupils on newspaper coupons. |
| Clearly not the most popular, but the |
particular, of

Superior
Steck Food

Superior to any other stock food on
the market. Merchants can guarantee

their
| calling are they; but what can be said

of ti

the

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MICHIGAN

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hours; but, so long as in their capaci-
ty of educators they lend themselves
to advertisement, they aim a mortal
blow at the ethics of the street.

In a public park we fall in with a
bright-faced company of. shopgirls
eagerly devouring an extra which
contains news of one of their asso-
ciates. The heading reads, “Love
Laughs at Locksmiths. Cupid De-
fies Cruelty. Pretty Miss Outwits
Stern Parents and Goes Off With the
Man of Her Heart!”

The facts of the incident happen to
be known to one of us. The girl was
not pretty—although, for that matter,
she might have been. She was an
anaemic weakling, lacking even the
fresh-skinned comeliness of youth.
The cruelty of her parents, worthy
souls, consisted in their loving efforts
to cure her of her infatuation for a
middle-aged man who had been turn-
ed out of a reputable profession and
divorced by a good wife. But the
press with jaunty unmorality gave
the crooked situation the twist that
made it read like spirited romance,
with the effect—so great the power of
the printed word!—that at the mo-
ment any one of those decent girls
would have levanted with even a bad

bargain of a man for the pleasure of |

seeing herself described as Dashing
Brunette or Dainty Blonde in print!

“Pretty Stenographer Corrals An-
other Woman’s Husband!” Natural-
ly the woman that steals another
woman’s man may be expected to
possess some weapon of added beau-
ty, or superior attraction, of one sort
or another. This, however, is not go-
ing to save her from miserable con-
sequences in the long run. But of
that~ephemeral literature takes no
heed: and so long as with flattering
emphasis it urges such possession as
condonation for error, it simply
makes the first step of the easy de-
scent still easier for the children of
the street.

These children are not ignorant. A
bald statement of the facts of life can
not harm them, for in one form or
another they know all there is to
tell. It is the meretricious coloring
imparted to these facts that counts
for ill; the suppressions that ignore
violated faith, make light of legiti-
mate ties; the perversions employed
at all costs to get a hurrah headline
for a domestic tragedy.

We fear the judgment of the man
in the street, not because we can not
rely on his solid understanding, but
because we have learned to rate that
understanding individually low. We
tremble lest collectively his inflamma-
ble passions should be roused, know-
ing well that the brute in him will
demand a victim before law and order
may resume their sway. We grieve
over the fallacies with which we see
him clog his own progress, delaying
by centuries the day when the mighty
truth shall prevail in his life. But
do we sufficiently assume our share
of responsibility for him when we
thus grossly overlook the fact that
the child in the street is the father of
the man in the street with all our
sins of omission and commission on
his head?

A day will come when the common-

tions destined to benefit mankind.

 

wealth will realize that the character
of its citizens is its valuable com-
mercial asset and that the mural
areas of the highways are too prec-
ious to the nation’s higher life to be
given over to the exploitation of mer-
chandise. Advertising will then be
relegated to an urban supplement, as
in magazines, and a high restricting
license fee will be charged, not only
to those who sell liquor, but also to
those who advertise that and all other
articles in which mankind is tempted

 

to injurious excess, while the city |
walls will be preserved to suggest
great thoughts, commemorate good
deeds and anneunce the latest inven- |

That of course will be Utopia—but,
after all, why not Utopia? Mean
while public sentiment can be up and}
doing. Nowadays it is a common oc-
currence to see a frail woman stand-
ing in the road, compelling a burly
truck-driver to relieve his overladen
cattle, or causing some poor chafed
and goaded beast to be unharnessed
and mercifully cared for. Schools, li-|
braries and_ settlements, fresh-air |
funds and private charities, all are|
doing vital work along the lines of |
neighborliness. Let us hope, then,
for a speedy betterment of the influ-
ences of the street—Marguerite
Merington in Atlantic.

—_~+
Employed Girl Should Dress Prop- |
erly for Her Work. |

Written for the Tradesman.

When will the plain common
American working girl learn to dress
properly for the everyday part she
plays in life?

As a general thing, she attends the
theater with a degree of regularity,
where, if she opens her eyes wide
enough to see beyond her nose, she
may observe the actors dressed for
the part they are playing. If the play
is a society drama the leading lady
is not found wearing the garb of a/
servant, and the maid will be neatly

|

gowned in print or gingham, with

white apron tied around her shapely |
waist in a big bow and a coquettish
little cap perched on her—more or

less--devoted head. Neither usurps |
the costume-rights of the other. And |
the villain dresses according to his
station. Fathers and mothers are
clad as such and not as young flib-
bertigibbets. The doctor will dis-
play clothes that befit his dignified
bearing, while the lawyer will don
the elegant suit looked for in his
profession.

And not only to his clothes does
the conscientious actor pay the great-
est of heed—his make-up must be in
strictest accord with the part he es-
says to play. His face, his hair, all
the little tricks of manner and
speech—everything about the charac-
ter he represents is given the most
earnest study to render a_ perfect
whole.

If, then, those who tread the boards
“dress the part” with such fidelity
to detail, why can not the ordinary
office and shop girl learn a lesson
in this regard from the “show folks”
if they possess not enough common
sense to know for themselves? If
they did we would not see, in the

 

 

| cretion looks to be the
| quantity—the

| being with herself.

| apparel.

morning when they go to their la-
bor, so many hundreds of working
girls trigged out in the bravery of all
the colors of the rainbow. Jet col-
lars of alarming proportions would
be left in their bureau drawers and
fussy lace-betrimmed dresses would
be hanging up in their closets,
where they belong during working
Sensible low-heeled shoes
would encase their tired feet and
Irench-heeled footwear of perisha-
biy-fine leather would be. saved for
the dressy occasions for which they
are ef regle.

hours.

be tabooed and white kid gloves

vould be kept to bring out ona Sun-

 

Fancy ribbon bows |
iand elaborately beaded stocks would

 

lay. A nice coat would be used “for |

the rain, and frilly parasols of airy
flufiness would be reserved for gar-
den fetes and like functions. And all
accessories senseless in themselves
and tasteless, not to say hideous, as
personal adornment would be “con-

spicuous by their absence.”

years verily possessed with the spirit | " ;
I : : P : Pp | ors and canvassers from entering the
of pile-on-ativeness. She seems to|

go on the principle of “the more the
merrier,’ in the selection of  gar-

rie

pany the same. With her, dress dis-
unknown
algebraic x. Every-
thing goes on at once and the more
kaleidoscopic the array of colors the
more self-satisfied she strikes one as
“7 Tis pity, and
pity ‘tis ‘tis tine’ that there is a

| best,” instead of switching it out in|

|came mr”

How the Book Salesman Sold Dr.
Andrews.

Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, Chan-
cellor of Nebraska University, recent-
ly figured in a humorous incident il-
lustrating the quick repartee bred by
experience in a veteran book agent.
Notwithstanding the glaring protru-
sion at the entrance of the main uni-
versity building of the usual plac-
ard, “No canvassers, peddlers or so-
licitors allowed,” the unabashed book
man had boldly entered the learned
halls and by cleverly utilizing the in-
termissions between lectures had
managed to secure an audience with
each instructor in the building—in
most instances with successful result.
After having practically finished his
visit he had pushed his way into the
executive office, where he greeted the
occupant with effusive cordiality.
“Didn’t you see that sign as you
?” interrogated Dr. Andrews,
sharply.

“What sign? I saw no sign,” came

: : ij the reply.
The ordinary girl wage earner ap- |

ao ithe visitor.
ments and the “fixin’s’ to accom- |

“Why, the sign prohibiting solicit-

building.”

“Was there such a sign?” queried
"Well, I am sory I
didn’t notice it, for I should certainly

| have observed it, but I have com-

prominent lack of intuitiveness con- | Say
ithe building.

tinually observable on the part of the

employed girl, in the matter of her}

In every city in the land|
| there should be some sort of night |

school—I don’t know what it would |
be called—which any girl and every

girl, self-supporting or drone, could

|

attend and “profit by the instruc-|

tion” there to be obtained on the

very important subject of dress. I feel |

strongly on this subject—really it is
a pitiful one when sifted down—and,
being a working girl myself; I know,
from personal observation,
whereof TI speak.

Several times in this preachment
have I used the words “ordinary
Please don’t infer
from the expression that I deprecate
labor or its necessity. All honest
labor is not only honorable but. it
serves the very good _ purpose of
keeping us out of the mischief that
Satan finds for the idle manus to do.
IT employed the word “ordinary” in
the meaning of “average,” “normal.”

One thought more and I am
through with this little homily:

If the wage-earning young woman
ever gets away from her work of an
afternoon sufficiently long to. stroll
through the downtown store district,
she will be surprised at the plain
gowns of the ultra fashionable, the
acknowledged leaders in society.
Their elaborate dresses are not seen
on the street, and the general tone
of their shopping costumes is quiet.

And always remember this, wher-
ever you may go: It is better to be
under than overdressed.

Ethel E. Clarke.

close

working girl.”

 

pleted my rounds here and have sold
nearly everybody. If you want me to
obey the sign now I will do so. Be-
fore I go, however, may I not know
with whom I have the honor of
speaking? No one else has_ ven-
tured to tell me I am not wanted in

“T am the Chancellor,” quietly re-
sponded Dr. Andrews.
Chancellor!” ex-
claimed the astonished book agent.
Sut, then, quickly regaining his com-
posure, “Not Chancellor
Not Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews?
Well, well, I. never would have
thoucht it. Dr EB. Benjamin An-
drews!

“Vou are the

Andrews?

Why, you know, I canvassed
for one of your books, your history
of the United States, and I. told
every one I sold what a great scholar

| you were and what a fine fellow you

were and sold lots of those books.
But I never would have thought it—
that the author of that book should
one day tell me I must not sell books
in the same building with him. It’s
really too bad!”

And the story is that the reminis-
cent book agent had an order from
Dr. Andrews before he closed _ his
day’s labor.

——_> 2
A Copper Roach Powder.

Ansil Moffat, city chemist of In-
dianapolis, recommends the following
fermula for a cockroach extermina-
tor: Dissolve 1 pound of copper sul-
phate in hot water; add a pint of the
cheapest molasses and half a can of
concentrated lye dissolved in a little
water; boil the whole and a red pow-
der will settle; wash this in fresh
water a time or two, drain on a cloth,
and dry by exposure to heat or other-
wise. When dry put it through a
sieve and for use mix one part with
two parts of powdered mustard, and
dust around,

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27

 

Perpetual

Half Fare

Trade Excursions
To Grand Rapids, Mich.

Good Every Day in the Week

The firms and corporations named below, Members of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, have
established permanent Every Day Trade Excursions to Grand Rapids and will reimburse Merchants
visiting this city and making purchases aggregating the amount hereinafter stated one-half the amount of
their railroad fare. All that is necessary for any merchant making purchases of any of the firms named is to
request a statement of the amount of his purchases in each place where such purchases are made, and if the
total amount of same is as stated below the Secretary of the Grand Rapids Board of Trade, 89 Pearl St.,

will pay back in cash to such person one-half actual railroad fare.
Amount of Purchases Required

 
  

If living within 50 miles purchases made from any member of the following firms aggregate at least.............. $100 00
If living within 75 miles and over 50, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ................. 150 00
If living within 100 miles and over 75, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ................. 200 00
If living within 125 miles and over 100, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ,...............-. 250 00
If living within 150 miles and over 125, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ........ ......... 300 00
If living within 175 miles and over 150, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .................. 350 GO
If living within 200 miles and over 175, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate .............. .. 400 00
If living within 225 miles and over 200, purchases made from any of the following firms aggregate ............. Lo | 0 OO

If living within 250 miles and over 225, purchases made from

Read Carefully the Names

you are through buying in each place.

Automobiles
Adams & Hart
Richmond-Jarvis Co.

Bakers

National Biscuit Co.

Belting and Mill Supplies
J. M. Hayden & Co.

F. Raniville Co.
Studley & Barclay
Bicycles and Sporting Goods
W. B. Jarvis Co., Ltd.

Billiard and Pool Tables
and Bar Fixtures
Brunswick-Balke-Collander Co.

Books, Stationery and Paper
Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
Grand Rapids Paper Co.

M. B. W. Paper Co.

Mills Paper Co.

Confectioners
A. E. Brooks & Co.
Putnam Factory, Nat‘l Candy Co
Clothing and Knit Goods
Clapp Clothing Co.
Wm. Connor Co.
Ideal Glothing Co.

Commission—Fruits, Butter,
Eggs Etc.

Cc. D. Crittenden

J. G. Doan & Co.

Gardella Bros.

E. E. Hewitt

Vinkemulder Co.

Cement, Lime and Coal
S. P. Bennett & Co. (Coal only)
Century Fuel Co. (Coal only)
A. Himes
A. B. Knowlson
S. A. Morman & Co.
Wykes-Schroeder Co.

Cigar Manufacturers
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.
Geo. H. Seymour & Co.

Crockery, House Furnishings
H. Leonard & Sons.

Drugs and Drug Sundries
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Dry Goods
Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co.
P. Steketee & Sons.

Electrical Supplies
Grand Rapids Electric Co.

M. B. Wheeler Co.

Flavoring Extracts and
Perfumes
Jennings Manufacturing Co.

Grain, Flour and Feed
Valley City Milling Co.
Voigt Milling Co.
Wykes-Schroeder Co.

Grocers
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.
Judson Grocer Co.
Lemon & Wheeler Co.
Musselman Grocer Co.
Worden Grocer Co.

of purchases required.

any of the following firms aggregate .

Hardware
Clark-Rutka-Weaver Co.
Foster, Stevens & Co.

Jewelry
W. F. Wurzburg Co.
Liquor Dealers and Brewers
D. M. Amberg & Bro.
Furniture City Brewing Co.
Grand Rapids Brewing Co.
Kortlander Co.
Alexander Kennedy
Music and Musical
Instruments
Julius A. J. Friedrich
Oils
Republic Oil Co.
Standard Oil Co.

Paints, Oils and Glass
G. R. Glass & Bending Co.
Harvey & Seymour Co.
Heystek & Canfield Co.
Wm. Reid

Pipe, Pumps, Heating and
Mill Supplies
Grand Rapids Supply Co.
Saddlery Hardware
Brown & Sehler Co.

Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
Plumbing and Heating
Supplies

Ferguson Supply Co., Ltd.
Ready Roofing and Roofing

Material
H. M. Reynolds Roofing Co.

- 500 00

as purchases made of any other firms will not count toward the amount
Ask for ‘‘Purchaser’s Certificate’ as soon as

Safes

Tradesman Company

Seeds and Poultry Supplies
A. J. Brown Seed Co.

Shoes, Rubbers and Findings
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Hirth, Krause & Co.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Rindge, Kalm‘h, Logie & Co. Ltd

Show Cases and Store
Fixtures
Grand Rapids Fixture Co.
Grand Rapids Show Case Co.

Tinners’ and Roofers’
Supplies
Wm. Brummeler & Sons
Hopson Co.

Undertakers’ Supplies
Durfee Embalming Fluid Co.
Powers & Walker Casket Co.

Wagon Makers

Belknap Wagon Co.
Harrison Wagon Co.

Wall Finish

Alabastine Co.
Anti-Kalsomine Co.

Wall Paper

Harvey & Seymour Co.
Heystek & Canfield Co.

If you leave the city without having secured the rebate on your ticket, mail your certificates to the Grand Rapids Board
of Trade and the Secretary will remit the amount if sent to him within ten davs from date of certificates.

 

    

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Love, a Virtue, Changed Into a

 

Vice.
If men were put through their
catechism and the question asked,

“What is the chief end of woman?”
they would reply in chorus, “To!
love.” And in this they would be|
merely expressing the universal pub- |
lic sentiment on the subject.

From time immemorial it has been
held that it was woman’s sacred mis-
sion to furnish the most of the visi-
ble capital of affection on which the
world was run, while man drew most
of the dividends. Love has ever been
held up before woman as a career}
and a reward, a steady business and
a holy duty. Her obligation to love
has been preached to her; her ability
to love, with reason or without it,
has been extolled as her greatest
charm; her faithfulness in loving the
unlovable has been exploited as her
greatest virtue, and it has generally
been felt that she was most an orna-
ment to womanhood when she was
so full of love that she could fes-
toon her affections about anything
that was handy. For woman it has|
been love, love, love that made the |
treadmill go round.

 

This abnormal development of a/|
single faculty is the greatest misfor- |
tune that has ever befallen the fem- |
inine sex, for in the majority of cas-
es woman’s enlargement of the heart
has crowded out her brain and back-
and the result has been dis-
astrous both for herself and society.
It is her superabundant supply of
affection, which, like an overful lake,
seeks any outlet, that causes her to
fancy herself in love with any make-
shift man and is at the bottom of
half of the divorce cases. It is her
inability to see straight or use any
judgment where her heart is concern-
ed that leads her to make mistakes
in her family that are criminal. It]
is because she is long on affection)
and short on self-respect, where a
question of love is involved, that she
so often bankrupts herself in life.

It is our way to think that love is
one of the good things of which
we can not have too much. This is
Nothing is more easily
overdone women are the chief
offenders in this respect. With them
love is a virtue changed into a vice,
a flower gone to seed and degenerat-
ed into a noxious weed. If it were
not for the sanity of men in matters
of the affections we should live in a
bedlam peopled by crazy Juliets and
Romeos.

bone,

a mistake.
and

The mere fact that a broken heart

is a peculiarly feminine complaint
shows how much wiser men are
about love than women. A man sel-

dom ruins himself for love of a wom-
an, but you can not pick up any
newspaper without reading of some
woman who has thrown away every-
thing for love of a man. Men take
love calmly, as they do any other
fortune. If it comes to them, well

 

and good. If it does not come, also
well and good. They are cheerfully
aware that there are a number of
other things worth having beyond
the doubtful joy of loving and being
loved; but, to a woman, to have miss-
ed la grande passion—never to love
or to be loved—is the supreme trage-
dy of existence.

No old bachelor commiserates him-

lself or feels that his life has been a

failure just because he didn’t marry;
but in the secret chambers of an old
maid’s heart there are always dust

}and ashes on the altar and she feels
that her lamp has been lighted in

vain. It is this false value that wom-
en put on love, this making it the
whole instead of a part of life, that
is responsible for half the woes and
disappointments that they suffer.
Primarily, it is the reason for more

 

unsuitable and uncongenial marriages |

than all

other causes combined. No|

thinking person can fail to see that |

our glorification of woman’s love
our great exaggeration of its power
and its influence and its beauty—-
makes thousands of women, intoxi-
cated with sentiment and romance,

 

|rush into heedless marriages with ut-

terly unworthy men just because
there is a fool tradition that a woman

is bound to have somebody to love. |

| And in this crime we aid and abet}

them.
before our daughters’ hearts so high
and so strong that it would take a
Cupid with a jimmy and a dark lan-
tern and a ton of blasting-powder
to get into them, we throw all the
doors wide open so that any ma-
rauding thief who chances to pass
that way may walk in and purloin
the treasure of their affections.
From the minute a girl baby is old
enough to understand anything we
teach her, directly or indirectly, that
love is to be the business of her life;
it is assumed to be the one thing
for which she is being prepared.
Her emotions are cultivated instead
of her reason. Every appeal is made
to her feelings instead of to her judg-
ment. To an inherited talent for lov-
ing we add a cultivated facility and
the result is inevitable. The girl
grows up simply bubbling over with
affection, and this excess of sentiment
she is dying to expend upon some
man, it does not matter much whom.
Like the “pretty maidens” in “Floro-
dora,” she is ready to cry to every
youth she meets, “I must love some
one, and it might as well be you,”
not because the youth in question
rouses any particular thrill of passion
in her breast but because she is over-
stocked with love that she must un-
load on some one. All of the talk
about awakening a maiden’s heart
is nonsense. From the time _ she
wears her hair in pigtails and is in
short frocks every girl’s heart is a
watch-tower with a lookout from
which she scans the horizon in search
of somebody on whom to bestow her
affections. She has been told that
woman’s destiny is to love, it is what
she is here for, and so eager is she
to give away her heart that she does
rot take the trouble to see that the
applicant is worthy. She is like a
child with a coin in its purse—mis-

o

|

Instead of erecting barriers |

 

|

 

erable until it is spent and too ignor-
ant to see if she is given a fair re-
turn for its value.

Nor is this folly confined to youth.
There is no other such _ pathetic
phase of this overdeveloped ability to
love and this over-anxious craving
for love as that which leads educat-
ed and refined women, when they
see spinsterhood creeping upon them,
to throw themselves away upon the
lame, the halt and the blind just be-
cause they must have some object
upon which to lavish their affection.
How often do you see a cultivated
old maid marrying an ignorant boor,
a dainty aristocrat condescending to
a parvenu, one delicately reared and
used to luxury becoming the house-
hold slave of the widower with many
children just because they feel that
a woman ought to have somebody to
love. Be sure that, if women had
only been taught that love is not the
whole aim of life, the noble army of
martyrs would have missed most of
its feminine recruits.

Next to the fatal theory that every
woman must love is the equally mis-
chievous doctrine of the power of
woman’s love. One of the greatest
and the cruelest delusions practiced
in this world is that which leads us
to make a generous and enthusiastic
woman believe that she can change
a man by loving him. It is what
induces a woman to marry a man
on trust instead of on appraisement.
She never looks at what he is. She
only contemplates the miracle that
she is going to work by her affec-
tion. If he has no money, no busi-
ness training, no way of making a liv-
ing, it does not matter; she is sure
that people in love are never hun-
gry, anyway, and that her love will
inspire him with financial sagacity.
If he drinks it does not matter either.
She is anxious to make a Keeley cure
of herself. If he: has a past she
shuts her eyes to it. She knows
that he will never sin again when
she places her little hand in his, and
it is only after she has brought mis-
herself that she finds out
that the efficacy of a woman’s love
is a fairy story and that as a reforma-
tory agent it is not worth a row of
pins. You can not love a lazy man
into being industrious or a drunken
sot into sobriety—and that is all there
iS to it.

ery on

 

Another place where woman’s
chief virtue in loving is her undoing
is in its faithfulness. Women and
dogs are the only creatures that pos-
sess the faculty of loving what is un-
lovable and of keeping on loving,
through mere force of habit, long
after all cause for affection is gone,
and that is the reason they both get
so many kicks. They make their
love cheap and men do not value it.
When a woman once loves a man
he knows he can not lose her and
so he takes no trouble to keep her.
All over the country there are thous-
ands of physical-culture classes in
which middle-aged wives are hopping
solemnly around on one foot and tee-
tering about, trying to keep the waist
measure and the lithe figure they had
in their youth, in order that they may
retain their husbands’ affection; but

 

nobody ever heard of a fat, bald, red-
faced, middle-aged man being mas-
saged for his complexion so that he
might present to his wife the same
attractive appearance that he _ did
when she fell in love with him in his
youth.

We recognize that a man’s love
may be killed by unworthy conduct
or worn out by friction, but we look
for no such aberration in a woman’s
devotion. We expect her to go on
loving those who have a legal right
to her affections, no matter how they
ill-use and despitefully treat her. And
she seldom disappoints our expecta-
tions. Earth has no greater marvel
than the tenacity of a woman’s affec-
tion and the way it will cling to a
brutal husband or an unworthy son
or brother. Disgrace will not alien-
ate it, cruelty will not kill it, ingrati-
tude and treachery will not harm it.
tt needs no more sustenance than the
eir-fed orchid and will cling and
bloom on the stone walls of a prison
as well as it will in the hothouse of
a millionaire.

“He was very good to me, judge,”
said a poor wretch, defending the
drunken hoodlum who had _ beaten
her; “he never hit me where the
blows would show.”

“John was heartbroken because he
couldn’t come,” lies the society wom-
an whose husband neglects her and
shames her with his open attentions
to other women, “but he had an ap-
pointment that he couldn’t neglect.
He’s such a slave to business.”

It is the same old story of woman’s
love that we have heard a thousand
times, and shall hear a thousand
times again—unrequited, unappreciat-
ed, but deathless as the God who
made it. When men were done with
quixotic chivalry they passed it on
to. women, and the world is full of
wives and mothers who not only cast
the cloak of their love around some
man’s weakness but throw it in the
mud for him to trample upon.
add to their trans-
gressions in love by loving not wisely
but too much. As long as a woman
is perfectly devoted to her family
she feels that the mere state of her
feelings justifies any sin of omission
or commission against it. Her chil-
dren may be the most unmannerly,
neglected and ill-reared in the com-
munity, but she feels she has done
her full duty by them by loving
them so well she can not make them

Women also

behave. She may spend her time
nagging her husband, wasting his
hard-earned money and_ neglecting

his comfort, but so long as she knows
she would die for him, if necessary,
she esteems herself a model wife.
Many a man, worn out with his wife’s
senseless demands and lack of reason
and wearied of the protestations of
affection that never bore tangible
fruit, must have felt like exclaiming
with Solomon—who was also a mar-
ried man, with probably a thousand
devoted wives— “Stay me with flag-
ons, and comfort me with apples, for
i am sick of leve.”

The final vice of woman’s love,
however, is when it is selfish. Then
it is the thing on earth most to be
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loves a man, a woman keeps him tied
to her apron-string and lets oppor-
tunity go by him. Sometimes she
loves her daughters so well she will
not let them marry. Sometimes she
loves her well she binds
them to uncongenial tasks and mea-
ger chances, instead of letting them
go forth into the world to seek their
fortunes and take their place among
men. There are crimes committed
in the name of love before which
malice would hide its face ashamed.

Women need a newer and broader
light on the subject of love, and to
realize that affection is not enough
just of itself. It must be wise, it must
be unselfish, it must be controlled, it
must have the gentle brooding of the
dove, the wisdom of the serpent, the
faithful strength of the watchdog, if
it is to bless the world and not curse

sons so

crueler thing than hate.
Dorothy Dix.
12
Embargo Placed on the Female Sex
by Landlords.

Outside the door there was a sign
announcing rooms for rent. The
woman went up the steps and rang
the bell.

Finally a man opening the door
asked her what she wanted. He was
a dark complexioned man with bias
eyes and straight hair plastered care-
fully down on each side of his head.
The woman thought he seemed to be
fatigued.

“I should like,’ she said politely,
“to see a furnished room.”

“We rent rooms to gentlemen,”
said the man, “never to women.”

“Why?” asked the woman.

The man shrugged his shoulders.

“T don’t know,” he answered, “ex-
cept that we prefer men.”

Then, although he still stood there,
he maintained a silence so profound
that the only thing for the woman
to do was to take her leave, which
she did.

She went to another place on the
same street. A little touseled girl
opened the door.

“Sit down, will you,” she smiled,
“while I go for mamma?”

But the woman seeing nothing to
sit down on but a wabbly tabouret
and the hatrack concluded to stand.

Mamma presently put in her ap-
pearance from the other end of the
hall. She had been washing her hair.
She apologized because it was not
dry. The woman said it didn’t mat-
ter, then asked about the room.

“We haven’t a room to rent in the
house,” said mamma. “Not a single
room.”

The woman wished to ask a few
questions that ran through her head.
One, if she happened to have any
outside the house for rent—on _ the
roof, perhaps, or in the garden some-
where—why, if her house was full she
didn’t take the sign off the door;
but concluding that it was hardly
worth while she said good morning
and went out into the street examin-
ing the advertisement in that day’s
paper concerning rooms in that par-
ticular house, and discovering that it
read: “Gentlemen preferred.”

She wended her way wearily to an-

 

 

other house, this time a building of
flats, where, ringing the bell and
groping through a long, dark, narrow
hall, she ascended stairs after stairs
until somebody said: “Here!” and
she halted abruptly.

She stood a moment looking at a
small, wiry woman, who looked back
at her.

“I see by the paper,’ the woman |

began, “that you have a furnished

room for rent.”

“Yes,” was the reply, “one—a large |

room with an alcove.
woman.”

“Yes,” returned the woman, in a

melancholy way, “I am,” and hung}

her head.

“And I would prefer to rent my}

room to a man. When I had a large

| house I didn’t mind women so much.
: : ae |I took a few of them. But now I
it. Lacking these, love is often a| :
|much prefer men since [I am_ so

|cramped for room.”

“Why?” asked the woman.

“Well, for one thing, because a man
isn’t half the trouble about a house
that a woman is. He never wants to
putter around half the day ironing
handkerchiefs or neckties and burn-
ing the gas just for the fun of it, as
a woman does, and he isn’t always
trying to find out how much rent you
pay and whether you have paid it or
not, or how much the other roomers

| pay or whether they have paid it or

not.”

“But they are not all like that, are
they?” interposed the woman. “Sure-
ly not!”

“Nearly all,” decidedly. “That is,
all ’ve ever had anything to do with.
A man is different, you see. For one
thing, he is hardly ever about the
house at all.”

“Well,” reasoned the woman, “a
woman who is out at work all day
long, who isn’t about the house at all,

 

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|}man, would she?”
| “You never know when they are
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| And while he is away you have the
juse of his room. It’s nearly always
|the same as if it wasn’t rented. It’s
yours until he comes home again at
| night, and that’s a mighty good thing,
I can tell you, to have the use of
your rented room all day when you
|are cooped up in a little flat. A wom-
She always wants to get
| the use of her money. Because she
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mean as to want to stop in a room
all day long and night, too, just be-
cause she paid for it.

She rang an old-fashioned bell at
a house this time, and an old-fashion-
ed woman opened the door.

“I should like to see your rooms,”
she said, smiling pleasantly in
apologetic way.

The old-fashioned woman looked at
her hard.

“Be you one o’ them actress wim-
min?” she queried.

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31

 

ness woman and behave yourself, I
don’t mind.”

The woman said very meekly that
she tried to behave herself, where-
upon the old lady seemed to melt.

That's sight, that’s) ri¢ht,”
said briskly. “A woman’s got to be-
have herself or she can’t stay in this

she

| house a minute, not a single minute.

with a|

suppressed cry. She wished she had a}

looking glass to see what was

the |

matter with her hat or her dress to|

the old-fashioned
her that, but there was not a glass in
sight.
“No,” she answered. “Why?”
“You sort of had the look of one,”
explained the

make woman ask

old-fashioned
“Yes, we’ve rooms, but we don’t take
nobody but gentlemen. You're
liable to accidents with
Now, you, you earn your own living,
don’t vou?”

The
did.

“And I suppose, earnin’ your own

woman had to own that

livin’, you are often hard up?”
It was the truth.
to acknowledge it.

The woman had

woman. |

them there
painted and powdered wimmin here
settin’ round; I won’t.”

The woman couldn’t help laughing,
and there she made
mistake.

I won’t have none o’

a

was where her

“Do the men always behave them-
elves?” she asked, making another.

|

“Of course they do,” flashed the old |

lady. “They go out in the morning
and come back at night and that’s all

there is to it. Now, are you a mar-

| ried woman?”

less |

gentlemen. |

| soul
she |

|r know it

The woman was meeker than Mos-
es by now.
UNO, she said, “I am a widow.”
“A widder!”
a filled the
foreboding.

in tone which woman’s

with dire
this room I’ve got wouldn’t suit you.

wouldnt. Not at all.

repeated the old lady
“Well! |

It |

costs too much for a widow woman. |

| lf you had a husband now bringing
in money all the time you might af-|
| ford to take it, but a widow with no-

“And IT suppose, earnin’ your own
livin’, you have money in the bank |
now?”

The woman shook her head sadly.

“None,” she said.
“Then what would you do if you
should happen to get sick on my

hands?”

“There are hospitals,’ returned the
woman, stubbornly.
One.

“But the trouble and the worry and
the expense,” objected the old-fash-

‘

ioned woman, “of getting you off to
Think of that.
No. We don’t
We take men.”
And the door suddenly shut.

a hospital.
falling on me. take

women here.

| an.

She had been in|

And all!

body to support her! No. The room|
wouldn’t suit you at all.”
“But suppose I am able to earn

my own living,”

“What then?’
The old lady was not to be ap-
peased.
"No, she reiterated, “this is no
widows room. Its a mans room.’

The woman kept wondering what the
difference was, but didn’t dare to ask.

interposed the wom- |

(its a mans room,” the other de-
clared.

“Flow much is it?” questioned the |
woman.

The old lady fixed her firmly

through the glitter of her glasses.

The woman went slowly down the |

steps, and, seeing a sign of furnished |

rooms on the other side of the Street |

with a full-grown tree in front, she

crossed over and, going up the steps, |

rane the bell it was 2 neat

house. |

The steps showed much evidence of |

scrubbing. The window panes glis-

tened. The curtains hung as spotless
and white as much washing could
make them.

The woman loved cleanliness. She

was so busy rejoicing in this immacu-
late spot that she failed to hear the
opening of the door. Soon a voice
“Well!” and look-
ing around she saw an old lady in a
white apron.

The old lady’s hair was white. Her
She kept the house

said impatiently:

cap was white.
in neatness.
The woman kept thinking to her-
self, “This is the place for me. If I
can find a room here I camp here for
life,”
and a smile on her lips as she re-
tO @

and there was joy in her eye

peated her formula in regard
room.

“We don’t usually rent rooms to
Wwimmin,” said the old lady, looking
critically at her over her spectacles,

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“Sixteen dollars!” she replied.

“A week?” the woman.
“A week,” replied the old lady.
“With

frowned

board?” further questioned

| the woman.

 

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“Without board,” said the old lady went down the steps and along the

with a clank of lips which served to
end the interview.

The door then
woman.

closed on. the

|
|
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All the doors appeared to have shut |

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cry. She wished she

might sit down on the steps a min-

laueh or to

ute and find ont, but she was too
much afraid of the lynx eye of the
old lady to do that. She thought

she saw it peer out at her through
the snowy lace of the curtains, so she

She didn’t know whether to}

|

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The Making of Good Sole Leather.

One of the maxims of the trade is
that good leather can only be made
from good hides. Damaged green-
salted hides or sunburned dry hides
are not good material for leather
making. Give me plump green-salt-
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turn them as first-class marketable
sole leather.

The tanning of sole leather is com-
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scribed as a gentleman’s business.
No dressings, blackings or stains are

required, as the leather itself is all)
| phuric acid and water, in which the

that is wanted.

After the hides reach the tannery
they are thrown into a pit of cold
water. They are pulled out the next
day, the dirty water withdrawn and
fresh water run in, and the hides
again immersed.

They are now placed on a con-|
and the adhering

dirt.
vex beam,

handled dull knife worked by
beamsman. There are excellent ma-
chines for fleshing hides, and they are
largely used.
are put in pits of lime water

After fleshing the hides |
and |

 

In two or three|
days the hides are thoroughly soft: | | dry hides which are thoroughly soak-
ened and fairly freed from blood and | ed and softened in water, and then

pieces | | roofs, which are dampened and mod-
of fat and flesh pulled off by a two- | erately warm. When the doors of such
a | rooms are closed after hides are put

1]

|

|
|

hauled from one to the other  for|

about three days,

and this results in|

swelling the fiber so that the hides |

when pulled up on a convex beam

and worked by hand or machine can |

|and given good tan liquor they thick-

be readily deprived of the hair. After |

this process they are thrown into cold

water again, and twelve hours later |

are hauled out and again worked on |

the grain, so as to force out as much
lime as possible. Some tanners bate
hides after liming so that the lime
may be more thoroughly expelled.

The dirty and odorous hides which
we began working a few days ago
are now clean and white on both
sides, and smell sweet enough to be
put into a dairy. Instead of a dairy,
however, the hides, which may be
whole or split from face to tail, are
put into vats containing very
weak and sour tan liquor. There is
little tannin in this liquor, as it was
drawn from a vat to make way for
fresh tan liquor. These handlers are
the nursery of what is known as
non-acid sole leather, and the hides
are handled or rocked in these sour
liquors for about a week. The skill-
ful tanner sees that the liquors are
mild and clean, so that the fiber of
the hide when ready for the fresh or
sweet tan liquor is in proper condi-
tion to receive it. The hides are now
placed in a vat of fresh bark liquor,
commonly spoken of as “sweet” li-
quor, and left there for a week or ten
days. At the end of that time this
liquor is quite sour, and is pumped
to the handlers to feed new or “green
stock,” and a fresh, sweet liquor is
given for the second lay-away.

In like manner the third and fourth
lay-away are given, and _ probably
from two and a half to four months

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are required for tanning, all depend-|
ing on the thickness of the hides. |
To supply the sweet bark liquors a
tanning large quantities of bark are)
ground up in iron mills, and in this |
ground condition conveyed in endless |
called |
leaches, which hold from eight to ten |
tons of ground bark. Each tannery |
contains a number of such leaches,
and each new one receives the liquor
of the next one in strength, so there
is a great pumping all the time all
around. In a few hours the tannin
in the bark is dissolved, the plug
pulled, and the liquor run to large
pits called coolers, and from there
pumped as necessary to the tan pits.

In making what is known as vitriol
or acid sole leather the handlers arc
not used, as this early work is done
in vats containing a mixture of sul-

stock remains forty-eight hours. This
acid water is very weak, and its pur-
pose is to swell and plump the fiber
of the hide so as to put it in shape
for being fed by the tan liquors.
Sweat sole leather is made from

| hung in rooms with thick walls and

in them, decomposition sets in, and
in a few days the hair of the hide
yields to the pressure of the fingers.
The hides are then taken away to be
unhaired. The sweating process
makes hides feel very thin and soft, |
yet after being pumped in vitriol |

en up and yield good weight in
leather.
The preliminary or beam-house

work for oak and hemlock sole leath- |
er are alike, so far as soaking, liming, |
leaching and unhairing are concerned.
Hides for oak tanning are plumped
in the handlers, and not suspended in
vitriol vats. Union sole leather is
plumped in sour tan liquors, and tan-
ned by ordinary hemlock bark _ li-
quors, with this difference—that as
each side of leather is laid away it
receives a heavy coat of ground oak
bark. By degrees the oak bark mod-
erates and tempers the action of the
hemlock liquors, and explains what
the term union means—mellow
easy sole leather.

These are brief outlines of the
making of sole leather, but the best
results are only obtainable when
every step is carefully studied. Suc-
cessful tanners make a_ point of
bunching hides of about the same
weight together through the different
processes. Few tanners would be so
negligent as to put light and heavy
hides in one pack, and thus run the
risk of producing unsatisfactory
leather.

After tanning the leather is hauled
out and allowed to drain, and then
scrubbed with plenty of water with
a strong machine and sent to the dry-
ing loft. Here the surface is smear-
ed with a mixture of oil and water,
and the leather hung up to dry,
which takes about a week. Each side
is now sprinkled with water, or dip-
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quick processes for making sole

leather, that has to stand the test

of time, and there is.still ready sale
for sole leather made in the slow, old-
fashioned manner. It should not be
inferred that sole leather tanning has
remained stationary; far from it. The
processes are being better understood
and less time is employed than form-
erly, but it should not be forgotten
that it takes time to produce mellow
and durable sole leather, with strong
fiber and excellent wearing qualities.
Some tanners use extract alone for
making sole leather, and many others
use a percentage of it. Bark extract

does good work in strengthening

leach liquors, particularly when used |

with heavy hides.

It is not difficult to make good
leather, and it is also easy to make
bad leather. A careless tanner may
let the hides soak too long in water,
or the limes may be so strong as to
swell the hide fiber unduly, so that
when it goes to the tan liquors the

 

action will be too quick and pene-|

trating, and brittle material will be
produced. Or tf it is a non-acid
process the handler liquors may be

hides, the hides will feed them. If
the “sweet” leach

mitted to stay too long in tan liquor

which has turned sour, the leather |

will be dead to all appearances when
it goes under the rolling machine. If
leather is rolled when too damp it
will show it, and if rolled when too
dry will always be unsatisfactory.
Many buyers and sellers of sole
leather and bottom stock go through
the world from year to year without
knowing how their familiar materia!
is changed from raw stock. While it
has not been possible to do more
than lightly touch on sole leather tan-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 33

 

 

slippers to be found in the retail |
stores are very satisfactory. But the|
particular girl, the girl who wants |
“just the very nicest” for trousseau, |
has her wedding slippers made to or- |
der.

Particular attention is paid to these |
made-to-order shoes, partly from the |
fact that a particular price is paid for |
them, and also because there is in|
making them just that sentiment that
makes the whole world akin, and the |
busy shoemaker wants to do his best |
tc make the bride happy, even al-
though he does not know her.

Most of these slippers are made
up in white kid to-day. Occasionally
a pair of slippers of white satin or of
some material to match a dress, is
calied for. Everything about these
slippers is made in white, and special |
attention is paid to having the edges |
and the heels 1 pure snowy color.

As long as men can trace back in|
this civilization white has been the |
bridal color, the symbol of innocence. |

| Lynn shoemakers have been making |

white shoes for brides since the early |
days of the trade, and many excel-|
lent specimens of shoemaking of |
cordwainers of other days are pre-|
served, for bridal slippers and other |
wedding fineries are handed down as
heirlooms in many a family.

One pair of these old-time wedding
slippers, which has lately come to}
light, was made probably before the |
war. The material is kid, and the |
linings are of sateen and cotton. A}
broad bow of kid ornaments the in-|
step, and two baby ribbons passed |

lover the instep to hold the slipper |

lon. The slippers were made on a
straight last, and they had broad, al-

so weak that, instead of feeding the| most brick square, toes.

A clever

|turned workman made them and he}

liquors are too!
weak the hides will suffer. If per-|

skived down the sole and sewed it}
so neatly that the seam between the

|sole and the upper is not visible. The |

vamp was also sewed by hand, and

la narrow ribbon binding was also

sewed in the same manner. The work

was done in a skillful manner, and!

it is doubtful if it could be duplicat- |
ied to-day, for few, if any, are skilled |

iin “binding”

ning, during this brief article, what 1 |

have said may _ possibly
those who have never visited a sole

stimulate |

leather tannery to do so at the first |

opportunity, and they will be well re-

paid for their enterprise—Shoe Trade |

Journal.
———-~» --
Footwear for June Brides.

From Easter time to June there
may be noticed in certain factories
an Occasional pair of white slippers
marked with a special order tag. To
the average mind there is nothing

out of the ordinary about these white |

slippers, but the man who looks for
a little romance in his industry read-
ily recognizes the footwear as bridal
slippers. The fad for such slippers
is growing steadily. Of course, for

4 multitude of Easter and June brides
the ready-made

white kid or calf

 

shoes in these days of |
labor-saving machinery.

The slippers are without heels or |
counters, and they are so flexible that |
they can readily be doubled up so}

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Some Sketches of the Caiteenete ! buninend where there were buttons,
Who Chance In. and where there were no buttons it
“Did you ever see anything so ex-| was pinned. And it was pinned so
aggerated in your life?” tight that I strongly suspected that
“No, I never did; you never run|if there was any shirt at all it was
across any such people in real life.”| only a wrapper and not a Sumatra
“T would think they would try and! wrapper at that. His trousers must
be true to nature in their characters.| have been fished out of the bottom
They would be just as funny.” | of the trunk of a man who was a dude
These were some of the expressions | cighteen years and six months ago.
I heard in coming out of a theater| They must have been tight for the
the other day, where an attempt at a| original owner, but on “Misery’s”
rural play was being made. It was| plump legs they fitted like fleshings.
true that from very ignorance some} His shoes never came from this store.
of the actors got their inspira-| If they did I won’t admit it.
tion of rural characters entirely from But he was not a customer, after
the colored supplements which} all. His entrance was prompted en-
Sunday papers did not draw very|tirely by the thought of a possible
close, but it was surprising how close | nickel loan from A. Small, for whom,
I have learned, he sometimes performs

more of them came and how little!
real exaggeration there was, even
when a conscientious attempt had ev-
idently been made to exaggerate.
The fact of the matter is that, to| both of them the sort that are kept |
the observing person in a shoe store,|in type. Man with derby hat, mus- |
rural or city, it does not make much tache, cutaway coat, creased trousers, |
difference a proportion of|stand-up collar, black four-in-hand |

the cellar.
The two other

 

large

the characters who come in, if they/tie, and lady with ready-made cloth | Unless you solicit the trade of your

were put upon the stage just as they | suit, shovel hat, with feathers close |
were, would be considered as over-| down and a teasing veil.
drawn, incorrectly made up and in | Then came _ another
every way without duplicates in real, | sketch.
every-day life. | Abrams Forks. Uncle had a wool

Hi. Ball and I got to talking about | boot, covered by an arctic on one
this thing after I got back from my | foot, and a rubber boot, covered by
trip to the city and the theater, and
we resolved that, for half of a day
we would keep close track of the
characters who came into our store}
who were a little out of the ordinary, |
and we selected last Friday morning/| with cape of the old
for it.

So as to be ready for all hours we
got down quite early, to the great |
astonishment of little Willie Fitem
and A. Small Sizer, who were sweep-
ing out. We resolved not to wait on

character

stocking on the other. One trousers
leg was outside the rubber boot, and
the other was inside the felt boot.

style, tied |
| around the middle by a piece of wool
twine, and a straw hat with a narrow
brim and polka dot ribbon band. I
|can figure where he got the other
articles, but that straw hat gets me.
| Uncle has a set of whiskers which
any customers ourselves unless we} look as though they were glued onto|
had to, but just to keep watch. | his chin with sorit gum and that a
The work in the shoe store went) slight pull would reveal him as a
on. Willie and A. Small were giving | 22-year-old, made up as a farmer, for
an object lesson of how thoroughly | his eyes are blue and his face above
they did their morning’s work, al-| his chin is that of a school boy. And
though I am uncharitable enough to} would you believe it, Uncle carried
fancy that their efforts were, perhaps,|a grip made of carpet, and when he
a trifle exaggerated, like the charac-| opened it he pulled out a woman’s
ters on the stage, because of the pres-| shoe, size 8, which had been worn
ence of one of the bosses and the}in all sorts of weather, and a boy’s
senior clerk. shoe, size 4, which had been worn
We waited half an hour before the|in all sorts of weather, and a girl’s
first character stepped on the stage|shoe, size 13, which had been worn
in the daily drama of shoe store life,|in all sorts of weather, and a farm
and then it was a well-known village | hand’s plow shoe, which had_ been
celebrity, “Misery Miller.’ Now, if| worn in all sorts of weather, and
any of the theatrical patrons whom I|some other kinds of weather _ be-
had heard criticising could have seen| sides. He wanted duplicates of each
“Misery” just as we saw him that|cne of them, and he got them and
morning, only taking a part on a real| paid the cash without much conver-
stage, they would have insisted that | sation or quibbling, so he disgusted
the characterization was a_ libel.| Hi. and me because he didn’t make
“Misery” has a fringe of black hair|any sort of a sketch of character.
around his head, never
seen a comb. The top and back of} door before a woman came in with
his head are bald. He is clean shav- |
en, or rather was, about ten days| skirt which athletic woman
ago, and he wore, on entering, a der-| must have worn once, because it was
by hat with the crown so low that,|/ very short, and this woman must
if you saw it on the stage you would | have been taller than the other wom-
say it was a stage hat, made espe- | an, and she wore a_ large bustle,
cially for low comedy and never worn which both Hi. and I were sure was
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some

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minister’s cast-off distinctive coat,| She had a hat which is called a “felt
cut off just below the waist, andj|shape” by milliners, and it certainly
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once, but somebody had ripped off! tc take them as they came.—lIke N.

all the trimming before our party got; Fitem in Boot and Shoe Recorder.
it, but she went on wearing it just |

the same, merely pinning a wing on | A Phenomenal Hen.
one side. Hi. swears that it was just} A recent number of the New York
such a wing as his grandmother used “Sun” states: “After five years of
to save when she killed hens or tur-| careful breeding for egg production,
keys to brush up the stove hearth | regardless of all other accomplish-
and little Sizer admits that he thought | ments, Professor George M. Gowell,
it had been used for the purpose and | Agricultural expert at the University
merely caught up and pinned on for | of Maine, has succeeded in obtaining
special adornment, and would be used | more than forty hens that have yield-
for brushing up again when the cus-|eq more than 200 eggs each in a
tomer got home. year, and has produced one hen which
The original designer of the hat|has laid 251 eggs within twelve
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“Yes, the men have confessed.”
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The officers planned it and paid the
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nism a lot more than losing a strike.
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you and your friends?”

officers ?”

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things.”
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union?”
Ves:
“But they don’t get out to the
“T suppose that’s it.”
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Chicago Tribune.

meetings and sort of run things?”

and your friends going to do about it?”—

ported records in egg yield. The hen
lis a small Plymouth Rock of pure
strain, although not shaped according
to the standard type. She is not only
under the size demanded for perfect
specimens of the breed, but her wing

it on, but our model didn’t have hair
enough for that purpose, and so she
had sewed on rubber tape, such as
you make garters of, to go under the
knob of hair on the back of her)
head, and had also pieces of soiled
ribbon, one piece white and one piece |
light blue, tied in a bow under her
chin. And she also would have done
nicely as a character on the vaude- |
ville stage but she would have been}
called an exaggeration on real life. | the world, being capable, under aver-

And then an Indian squaw came | age Maine conditions, of returning to

too slim for her body.
her defects, as viewed from the stand-
point of the fancier, she is in actual

in, followed by a Polander, and an |
Italian and the regular grind of the |
day’s work being ready Hi. and I had |
to stop our observations and begin |

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Happiness is wholly of the heart.

barring is imperfect and her neck is |
In spite of |

performance the most valuable hen in/

| her owner a net profit of 176 per cent. |

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THE PRICE OF SUCCESS.
It is not stopping when the fight is won;

the march is made—

But it is pressing ever on and on.

the game is played

Nor folding hands. when one task has an end—
The laurel withers and the bay will fade

When the last hill is climbed, the last song penned,
The last nail driven, the last girder laid.

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THE TURNING POINT.
Two Salesmen Effect Reformation in|
Fellow Worker.

Written for the Tradesman.
The two young fellows had just

come out of the Broadway. It was
“no snide of a play,” as one of them
remarked, “but while those things

are always fine, and ought to be in
stories and on the stage, it can not
be done anywhere else.—I’ve a let-|
ter to drop into the postoffice. Come
on down. It isn’t so very late,” and
they turned down Seventeenth street
to the postoffice. “Here is a cigar
to keep you awake. There’s no mis-
take but that play’s a_ dinger, ll
right, but that’s the sort of friend
a fellow wants if he’s going to have
any; but it isn’t the kind that’s hang-
ing around this old town.”

“Oh, 1 don't know. . You can't al-
ways sometimes tell. Pretty tough
outlook when all that’s good is dead
and the world goes poking along any
old way towards the everlasting bon-
fire! I guess you're off, Jim. Don’t
get pessimistic. Friendship—the gen-
uine thing—isn’t lying around loose
anywhere, but it’s right here in ‘our
midst’? just the same. It’s its rarety
that increases its value, but it stands,
Jim, as true as when our grandfather,
ages back, said it, and that numerous
army of grandchildren of ours that
are going to rise up
blessed are going to

and call us
believe as

strongly as we do that ‘a friend in

need is a friend indeed.’”
“Let us hope so. There will be
need enough of it. That makes me

think of Jack Grovener. Do you
know, Joe, that he’s one of the best
fellows that walks with two legs?”

“M-no, I don’t. He gangs it too|
much and his isn’t the right sort of
gang. When he first came here— |
that’s something over a year ago—
he seemed all right—I guess he was/|
all right—but that confounded, dirty-
lived Miles got hold of him and the
boy isn’t the same fellow. He’s been
going down ever since the intimacy
began and it’s a question in my mind,
and has been for some time, whether
the time isn’t pretty near at hand)
when it’s going to be too late to
mend.”

“What was it you said a minute
ago about the good’s being alive al!
right?
and see how it works? Jack Grovern- |
er is going to the—well, we'll say |

| cradle of the deep,’ that’s Jack Grov-
|erner’s voice.

| dubbed them.

Why not bring it to the front |

| company. He’s a good fellow at}

heart; is, in fact, his own worst ene- |
my.
among the New England orchards |
with a mother’s kiss upon his—brow |
sounds best, so brow it is, if it does |
interfere with the facts—and he gets |
into bad company. Down hill he
goes, when just as he gets to the
ditch at the bottom of the—hold on! |
Did you hear that? ‘Rocked in the

Isn’t it grand! He’s
just swallowed his third drink. What |

| do you say to taking him in hand and |

save him for himself—for to-night
anyway? I'll put down my pessim-
ism, I’ll swap it for your optimism, |

and let’s try the truth of the proverb |
on Jack. Faugh! the idea of Jack |
Groverner’s being down there in that
hole! Come on, brother Samaritan,
let’s turn up trousers and wade in!”
Down the wide steps they went—-
“facilis descensus Averno”—Virgil‘s |
way of saying that the way to the
place downstairs is easy—guided by
the song that has made writer and
composer immortal, and they entered |
the gorgeous saloon in time for Jim
Damon’s rich tenor to
with the magnificent bass that, from |
the curtained compartment
Jack Groverner and his party
enjoying themselves, was flooding the
beer-scented air with

‘“‘And calm and peaceful be my sleep
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.’’

“Jim Damon, by all
and down here!

harmonize |

where |
were |

that’s good! |
Let’s have him in|
here and sing that last verse
again. Come in, you Jim!” shouted |
the basso, and to the utter astonish-
ment of the bibulous party in came |

the “aristocrats,” as the rest of the|

clerking force of “Warman & Wye” |

In this mood there was no putting
Groverner off and up from that base- |
ment clear and sweet and beautiful |
rose the sacred song. The effect was |
the usual one. There was no filling |

| of glasses and as the party came from |

the compartment Jim and Joe flanked
the man who was his own worst ene-
my and went off with him up Capitol
hill, singing as they went, more than |
one home-going pedestrian, as he|
climbed the hill, stopping to listen

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to the “Stars of the Summer Night,” |

| Store.

Over |

tenor,” exclaimed the astonished and
| equally delighted Jack, “what’s to hin-
| der some more of this sort of thing
| sometime when we feel like it?
| Good night, Damon, my sweet sing-
'er! Good night, Gerald. That ‘Cra-
| dle of the deep’ always makes me
| think of my own cradle and the face
| bending over me in it. I hope you'll
jhave as pleasant dreams as I know
| I'm going to have. So long.”
|

 

| tuning it.

“Joe and I are going to luncheo}

| we want you to go along,” was Jim’s

o'clock the next day.

can play on the fiddle.

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lat the Home Dairy, Groverner, and |

didn’t mind. They didn’t, and the
applause that came thundering up the
stairway was received as gladly as it
was given.

That wasn’t the best of it, though
They got tired of singing after a
while and when Damon wondered
how a little instrumental music would
go, Gerald thought it would be all
right and taking up his violin began
At that Damon, already at
the piano, began to turn over his
music, when to the delight of the

|other two Groverner took a flute case

|invitation a few minutes before 12)
“We've been |
talking over last night’s soiree and |
i}we can’t wait until night without do- |
|ing something about it.

Weve a]
piano at the den and Joe fancies he}
We've a lot}
| plause below was surpassed by

a while and we want to see how that |

more favorable circumstances.”
" ftsivt exactly a saloon

“There’s just the place where Joe
comes in, or thinks he does! You
ought to hear him and you will if
you come over to-night. Do you
think you can?”

“Well, I guess!
date with Miles; but that will keep,
and if it doesn’t it’s no matter.”

So the three went over to the

| Home Dairy and had a good lunch-

eon together. They talked music

'from the downsitting to the uprising.
| They found as all music-lovers find
| that,
| they agree on the stand-bys and by
ithe time they got back to business.

while each has his favorites,

the evening’s programme was. made
out, and all the afternoon long each
was busy with “The Song He Loved
the Best.”
“Shall I come for

around you,

| Jack?” asked Miles as they left the

“You know this is the night,”

la heavy accent on the “the.”

“T know; but we shall have to give
it the go-by to-night, anyway. It’s
one of those things that'll keep.”

“Better come around and have our

| after-dinner cigar, hadn’t I? I’ve got

a banger for you.”
“Have got!” The New England
blue blood turned up its critical nose.
“Tm afraid not. I’m urged -to

;come early and stay late and ‘cir-

cumstances over which,’ and so forth,
preclude,’ and Gerald and Damon
then coming up the three left the
store together.

That trio had a good time
night.

that
They began with “Rocked in
the cradle” and they made a magnifi-
cent “go” of it. The first bar told
each of them he had found what he
had all along been looking for and
when that song was sung they had
to have a prolonged session of the
newly formed mutual admiration so-
ciety. Of course the “Stars of the
Summer Night” followed and after
that the real fun began. They found
|they all knew the same songs, rag-

that the splendid duet poured forth! time and all, and they had hardly

on their homeward way.
“Heavens! What a bass, Jack!”
exclaimed the cther two as the song

| . . .

| finished their first selection when
| there was a gentle rap on the door,
| followed by the request that they

the dogs—because he’s. got into bad| died away; “and heavens! what a | would “leave the door open,” if they

i had 2 sort of a}

i*Cradle of the deep’ will go under |
| stance!
song, |
| that’s a fact; but it wants a good bar-
|itone to lift a fellow off his feet!”

 

from his overcoat pocket and began
to put it together. After that I guess
it was “Begone, dull care” and no
mistake! For two good hours the ears
downstairs and the stars high over-
head were equally interested; and
there isn’t any doubt but that the ap-
that
above, only the distance was too
great to be overcome in the last in-
Then they closed the door
and there were refreshments—with-
out beer, thank Heaven!—and a little
wholesome talk of matters and things
that had drifted into their daily lives.
Then Jack Groverner went home,
saying as he left his new friends at
the threshold, “The best evening I’ve
had outside of New England, thanks
to you two.”

That was their first good time to-
gether, but it was by no means the
last. The fame of the trio spread,
especially Jack Groverner’s bass, and
the basement saloon and the base-
ment companions never knew that
singer more. No, there was no cut-
ting nor was there any dodging. Aft-
er two or three determined attempts
to establish the old relations, Jack in
reply to Miles’ appeal simply said,
“No, 1 guess not. I. don’t care for
that sort of thing any more. I know
now that I never cared for it. I was
not born that way and I was not
brought up that way. We Eastern
fellows admire your freedom from
conventionalism and your breezy
manhood; but we don’t like your un-
bridled animalism and that’s a fact.
We'll stand toe to toe with you on
the dividing line for the manhood
on both sides to shake hands, but
anything more for me degrades and
I'm not equal to it;” and so each went
his way.

One evening months after the
“Concert Night,” as the boys always
called their first singing together, the
three were making the most of a quiet
Sunday afternoon in their pleasant
quarters, for their rooms were to-
gether now and Jack, sending sky-
ward a tremendous puff of fragrant
blue and watching its graceful curls,
said:

“T guess you two fellows don’t
know what you did for me the night
you came down into Grutchers’ and
helped me out with ‘Rocked in the
cradle of the deep.’ I’d got so I did
not care for anybody or anything. I
got to going with Miles and—well,
he’s rotten clear through and I know
now the rotten specks were coming
out pretty thick on me. Miles had
made out a night for us, and he was
working me up to it for all he was
worth. I had reached my singing
line and sing I had to. I had heard

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Damon’s tenor before but somehow |
I got the notion into my head that |=

you two were high-flyers, if you know
what that means—something a_ good
ways above human, you know—and
the idea of your coming down—that
was a come down _indeed!—into
Grutchers’ fairly took me off my pins!
It was your taking me each by an
arm and getting me out of there that
did the business for me. It showed
me that the world and the people in
it are not so bad after all. I thought
they didn’t care, that
they didn’t care for me, anyway, and
then you two took me in hand and
showed me that you did; that friend-
ship wasn’t dead—hadn’t even gone
to sleep; and loony as I surely was
that night when you took me home
I had sense enough left in me to
think and to say that friend in
need is a friend indeed’—say nothing
about two friends!

and they do;

‘a

“That was the turning point for me,
boys. If you had not taken
hand I should have been ‘a
Miles is now. If you'll look back
how things have been com-
Two promo-
think Mr.

me in
goner,’
as
you'll see
ing my way ever since.
tions; and—what do you
Wye said only the other day? ‘We’d
up to
you the grand bounce and if you

about made our minds, boy,
give
hadn’t stopped just as you did we'd
sent you overboard.’ So here’s to the
old proverb the

fellows who proved its truth!”

two
and
you can bet your bottom dollar that
Jack Groverner’s toast wasn’t

and here’s to

“done”
Richard Malcolm Strong.
o>

The Morality of Business.

in beer!

Exposed in all its nakedness, what
is the morality of “business”
the competitive system? It
morality of the flesh-eating § car-
nivora, curbed and bitted, so far as

may be, by those restraints of civiliza-

under
the

is

tion, the criminal laws. Men call its
results “the survival of the fittest,” a
phrase borrowed from __ laboratories,

really signifying the triumph of ruth-
less force and the strongest intellect
unswerved by the emotion of pity or
the spirit of love. The. mere phrase,
“business is
exposes the low moral basis of the

sO common, business,”

whole fabric of our industrial _ life. |
Widespread is the belief, especially
in the highest financial circles, that

the cleverest lawyer is the best cus-
todian of business morals, because he
well knows the hide-and-seek convo-
lutions of the criminal code. Great
corporations do not. retain
philosophers, they retain the best law-
yers; and the question they ask them |
is not, is this right, but is it within
the possible pale of the law?
thing is not actually and specifically
forbidden, like housebreaking, then,

according to this standard, it may be |
everybody knows, |

done. And, as

what is forbidden often becomes re- |
spectable provided you are not found |

out.

be prompt to recognize how many
honorable men of never-failing hon-
esty there are in all the walks of busi-
ness life-—Springfield Republican.

moral |

Ht 2!

That a business morality of this |

muddy aspect has a widespread vogue |
no one can deny, although we should |

Hardware Price | Current

AMMUNITION
Caps

G D., fa count, Ser mi. 40
Hicks Waterproof, per mi........... 50
emer, BCE me 75
mys Waterproof, ger m...... 60

Cartridges
nM. fo HBOrt, Ber We 2 50
mo fo ome per wi... 3 00
Noe. so Shoe, per me. 5 00
i oo toe Wer me 5 75

Primers
No. 2 U. M. €. boxes 266 per m._.... 1 60
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per m..1 60

Gun Wads

Black Edge, Nos. 11 & 12 U. M. C.. 60

Black Edge, Nos. 7 2 1 per mm... 70
mock Ege Noe 1, per mi........... 80
Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns
_ Drs of ox. of Size Per
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 1% 10 10 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 14% 6 10 2 90
135 414 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% 4 10 3 00
200 2 1 10 a2 2 50
208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 2 1% 5 12 27
264 3% 1% a 12 2 70

Discount. one-third and five per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64
Gunpowder
Kegs, 4 90
% Kegs, 12% ibs.. per %& kes ........ 2 90
| Meme, 6% iba. per % cee ........ 1 60
Shot
In sacks containing 25 tbs
Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 1 85
Augurs and Bits
ee 60
Jengiige senmine .................-. 25
Joenings iaitation 9... ..-......._.. 60
Axes
First Guaity SS & Breuge ........ 6 50
First Quality, D. GB. Brense. ..... 9 00
First Quality, ©. B.S. Steel. ...... 7 00
Mirst Quality, ©. B. Steel. ........... 10 50
Barrows :
Romeotd |... 15 00
ee 33 00
Bolts
ewe - oo 0
Cartiee, mew Tat. .... 2... 18. 70
Pam ce 50
Buckets
Wen, wiaia ........_............... 4 50
Butts, Cast
Gast Loese Pin, Gwurcd ............ 70
Wrougne, arrow. ................. 60
Chain
% in 5-16 ~ * im % in.
Commen ....7 ¢....6 4 ©€....48e
Dee ee 8%ec en -G2¢....6 ¢
BBB. 8%. <4 mC... 6%. -644¢c
Crowbars
Caet Seek per me 1c... 1... 5
Chisels
| Socmet Witmer. ..................... 65
Soemet Minis .....-...5,.... 2... 65
[Seckes Cormier .................... 65
fC’ Geter Jct. ct 65
Elbows
| Com. 4 piece, 6in., per doz. net &
| Cerruested, per doe .............. 1 25
| Adjustable .................... dis. 40&10
| Expansive Bits
| Clark’s small, $18; large, $26. ...... 40
Ives 1, S86: 2 328; 2 See .......... 25
Files—New List
[New Aimeriean |. 6...) 0.2.0... 8... 70&10
| oe ee en 70
Peelicr ss Forme Hane. .............. 70

| Galvanized Iron

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, «3
List 12 13 14 15 16 a7
Discount, 70.

| Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s . 60&10
| Glass
| Singic Strength, by box .......-.. dis. 90
' Double Strength, by box .......- dis 90)
me tie Gene we dis. 90)
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s new list. ...... dis. 33%
| Vernmes & Plamiyes .............. dis. 40&10
| Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ....30c list 70
Hinges
i Gate, Clark's #2, $............. dis 60&10
Hollow Ware
| Pots. ......-2-seeeee eee eee 50&10
Weaiee. . ow ci 50&10
| Spiders. ..........seeeee reese ee ee nee 50&10
| Horse Nails
An Balle, «.........0..0,.5.... dis. 40&10
House Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list. ......

Japanned Tinware, 7. ae

Iron r
Boe Oe 2 25 rate Crockery and Glassware
fie eee |... 3 00 rate
Knobs—New List ~<a
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings | eal oer Gem 48
Deor, Porceiain, Jap. trimmings 85 - to 6 Get per Gos. ................. 6
Levels S Sek Cee Be cle 56
Stanley. Rule and Level Cu" di __ OO EE ee 7
eo : evel CO.S ....dis ee - &
Metals—dZinc 1s Gal meat fiibs, each ........... 1 20
COG petind Cocke me Oa). ment tube, cach ........,.... 1 60
Pee penne 8% 25 = megs (Abs, G8em .. 2.2.1... .. 2 26
og #8) meat tbe, eae ........... 2 7
Miscelianeous
‘ Churns
mame (Mes 88 celta al
Pumps, ee —e 2 to 6 gal, per gal. ............ ee eee 8%
Screws New tise Chur Deshers, per G@om ........... 84
Casters. Red and Plate ......... so aide10 Milkpans
Pompe, American, 1.00.0... 22... ‘%e gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
Molasses Gates 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Seeboins Pattern 000). 60.10 Fine Glazed Milkpans
Enterprise, self-measuring. _......... 30 % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 60
Ba 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 8
ee see . .60&10&10 Stewpans
Common, pelea oc 70&10 | % gal. fireproof. bail, per doz ...... 85
Patent | Planiehed. iron 1 gual. fireproof bail, per doz ...... pa
“A” Wood's pat. plan'd, No. 24-27..10 80 Joa
ms Woods pat plana Noa 25°31. 5 96) 2 Set per dom .....-................ 6e
Broken packages 1c per tb. extra. -_ 2a8 Der Gm el. fn
ieee t to & gal, per We cee eee 7%
Ohio Tool Cos famey........_...... Sealing Wax
a. oe a. 60/5 ths. in package. per TD. ...--....-- 2
am isky Teel Cae faney.......... 40 LAMP BURNERS
ae ow | NG. @ Son | c...... 3t
Nails ey 1 — .. 338
CC eee
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire No. 3 ao. [
steel Halla Base ol. Se enn 5b
Wire nails, Bees 215 Nutmes Ce enn El 50
a ce a rte ries ay Nutmeg... eee sees ee eee ee eee eee ee ees
7S oe eo MASON FRUIT JARS
S$ advanee ..... With Porcelain Lined Caps
6 advance 20 Per gross
CC eee eee 5 00
OL ee OOOO 5 25
Dl Oe 8 00
Pile 2 Severe ll, eee eee 2 2d
: asing z a ee = Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
Jasing CWO ee. 5 hn
Caeiee © 20yamee. oi... 35 — Hes doz
Finish Oe aivanec.. 25 i '
Bim 3 ue 35 Anchor Carton Chimneys
Finish 6 oc lt... ..... 45 Each chimney in corrugated tube
Pearse: % advance _................. S5' No. © Crimp top .........0..0.05..., 1 7
mo. © Crimgo (60. ....0.0.....0,..,... 1 Td
Rivets re etl > 75
fron an@ tianeg | ....... ........ 50 — * bey! = a A ak “7
Copper Hivets and Hurs _.......__. 45 eo es Flint Glass in Cartons 30
i POO GO, COT CO ee 0
Roofing Plates iG. t Gutmy ton. |... 3 25
Px20 EC, Charcoal, Dean ........... 7 50| No. 2, CVrimp top. 4 10
14320 1X, Charcoal, Dean ........... 9 00 ‘ee Chek Claes | ; aaa oy
20x28 KC, Charcoal, Dean ......... 15 00 cml rere meme :
14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50 | ;;0 0 Crimp lop. ....seceeeeeeeeeees 3 30
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00 | No. 1, Crimp top. .................. 4 00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade _.15 06|%O. 2. Crimp top. -................. 5 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00 | Pearl Top in Cartons
Ropes | No. 1, wrapped and labeled. ......... 4 60
sisal, % inch and lirger .......... 9% | No. 4, Wrapped and labeled. ........ 5 30
Sand Paper Rochester in Cartons
Bee eee “ No. 2, Fine Flint, 10 in. (85e doz.)..4 60
ere Me eee natant dis 50 | No. 2) Fine Flint, 12 in. ($1.35 doz.).7 60
| Sash Weights No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (95c doz.)..5 66
some Rives, per tam ................. 38 00 No. 2, Lead Flint, 12 in. ($L66 dos.).8 7%
Sheet Iron | Electric in Cartons
BTR Ue 3@| No 2 Lime (Se dos.) .....:...... 4 20
Noe iG ta i 3 70 | No. 2, Fine Flint, (85c doz.) ........ 4 60
< ‘fo 3 90) No. 2, Lead Flint, (95c doz.) ........ 5 50
Nos 26 cg 20 410 3 00 | LaBastie
a oy to 26 ....... eee eee ; = ; = No. 1, Sun Plain Top, ($1 doz.) ..... 5 70
a i ak sa a a ah, ak a I 2 Jai , co
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 No. 2, Sun Pisin Top, (51-25 dom.) .-6 a”
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1 2
yy Shovels and Spades _.|1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 2§
First Grade, PO 5 50 | 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 1(
mecomd Grage, Dom ................. 5 00 | 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 lf
Solder 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 1
OM 21 | 2 =) Sly. bos with teucet, per aus. 3 7
The prices of the many other qualities 5 _— = iron with faucet, per doz. 4 75
‘of solder in the market indicated by pri- |? or ae oe Ns en 7 e
vate brands vary according to compo- ° 8#l- 8a w. Eom IWacetas ..........., 9 00
sition. LANTERNS
Squares | Ive. © Tubular, sige UE .. 2... 2.2.2... 4 65
emit |. 60-10-65 | No. 7 2 Set teste teen enna ee aee ; a
Ne. 15 Tubular, dagh ..... 5
ae or | No. 2 Cold Blast Lantern 7 75
10x14 IC, Charcoal. No. 12 Tubular, side lamp ........... 12 60
ts = —S oS soe No. 3 Street lamp, each ......... «. © Of
x arcoa |
Each additional X on this grade, ‘FL. Zo i - CA ee See
Tin—All bis | No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 656
away Grade | No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. 15c. 50
t0xt? IC. Ciavcom .................. 9 00 | No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
ee oe 00 | No. 0 Tub.. Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. eachl 26
He 45 pS rake eee ag | BEST WHITE Corton WICKS
ng SIEPCORL ccc ccc cc cescocce | ) contains 32 yar o. iece.
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50| No. 9 % in. wide, per gross or roll, 26
Boiler Size Tin Plate | No. 1, & in. wide, per gross or roll. 30
»
14x56 IX, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per tb» 13 | No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll 46
Tease | Ne. 3S, Lye in. wide, per gross or roll 8%
emcees, Game .... icc twee 7 co P i a
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40&10 50 book: u ‘ON B00Ks + Ge
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65 a ee ee eee ae
Mouse, choker, per doz. holes 1 25 100 books, any denomination eo 2 50
Mouse. delusion, per dae. eng 25 500 books, any denomination ...... il 50
1000 books, any denomination ...... 20 00
Wire Above quotations are for either Trades-
Brisnt Mareet 000s... ll... 60 | man, Superior, Economic or Universal
Anvenled Market (2.06.0 .0 0.63... 60 | grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered
Copperce Marect ... ll. 50€10 | at a time customers receive specially
inten Mereee _— | printed cover without extra charge.
Copperea Spring Steel .............. Coupon Pass Books
aa ae. oe cca aise : i | Coan be male te represent any denomi-
er es nation from $10 down.
Wire Goods | G0 beens oe 1 50
ee ee e370) 300 Toke -.20.. 2... 2 50
eM ee eee ctw ece eae} gee beens |. ....................... 1 50
iS E 80-10 | 500 book 1
ese 80-10 | tego DGemS .............. 20 00
Gate Pooks and Fives. .............. 80-10 Credit Checks
Wrenches 500, any one denomination ....... 2 00
Baxter’s See. Mickeled. ...... $0 11000, any one denomination ........ 3 00
(nes Gomme. 3.02.06. 0206.20. as 40 | 2000, any one denomination ........ 5 00
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, Wrought, 701b10 _ Steel ROOD we ce cee ec. oe 76

 

 
 
  

  

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.

Bleached Goods—The shortage of
the coarse and extremely fine lines
ot bleached goods in jobbing circles
is reflected in the primary markets,
where large orders are being con-
stantly taken for jobbing accounts.
The whole bleached goods division
is in an extremely strong position
and bleachers have given out no-
tices that further business will be
taken at full values only. Spot goods
are being sold at very solid prices
and buyers do not care so much at
what prices goods are quoted as
long as they can get quick deliveries.
On nainsooks, batistes and cambrics
the trend of values is steady and the
feeling exists that the coarser grades
will advance before the very fine
lines. Fine cambrics have advanced
1%4c during the past four weeks.

Gray Goods—The gray goods mar-
ket is even stronger than was the
case a week ago and it is more diff-
cult to place orders on lines that are
in demand. For export accounts
mills are either sold away ahead on
3-yard, 3.25-yard or 3.50-yard sheet-
ings and drills, or they are busy on
goods lighter than 3.50-yard sheet-
ings. Export business centers now
on goods lighter than 4-yard sheet-
ings, and mills are soon to experi-
ence a sold-up condition in produc-
tions on these goods similar to what
Some
business is being done for Septem-
ber and October delivery, but the
majority of cases show that deliver-

now exists with heavy goods.

ies can not be made as early as this.
Domestic buyers find the market
against them, but they do not seem
to comprehend the situation concern-
ing the future of the market, for, if
they did they would have come in
more freely, regardless of the prices
asked. The
have bought whatever was available

manufacturing trades
in the market, but even so they are
sadly in need of a great deal more
goods. The bagging trade are in
need of drills and duck as well as
osnaburgs and heavy browns.
Ginghams—On fine dress ginghams
and ginghams of the semi-fine order
a very excellent showing has been
The best known
mills are on a fair road to being
well sold up and are not seeking
business at other than to-day’s prices.
The styles for fall and for spring
are very much different from the
styles of past seasons’ goods and the
success of the designers’ recent skill
is already assured. In novelty lines

made in fall lines.

demand are tending to more simple |

and serviceable cloths and less. is

effects. The mercerized and _part-

silk goods are showing up fairly |

well at this early date, but more

stress is given to the fine cloths of |
Manutfac- |

the real gingham order.
turers are paying more attention to
finish and weave than they were and

| these points bring the new cloths
| quite on a par with English and
| Scotch goods. The end and end ef-
fects in the cheaper lines of goods
are taking very well and apron ging-
hams are credited with a large busi-
ness. There is a demand from the
exporters for standard staple ging-
hams and the market is decidedly
firm and regular in regard to such
goods. The sale of ginghams from
first hands within the past month
has been larger, so it is stated by
the factors in the trade, than was
the business done a year ago.

Shirtings and Waistings—Gray and
green effects in shirtings and waist-
ings are beginning to show more or
less prominence in the designs of
cloths that are in demand, and these
colors correspond with the tones
wanted in woolen and worsted goods.
In shirtings floating warp effects in
small and regular motifs are taking
well, also printed warp-colored wov-
en goods. The cutting-up trade are
buying more heavily of shirtings
than was anticipated and the best
lines are taking as well as the cheap-
er goods. Waist cutters are paying
more attention to staple lines than
novelties, although monotone novel-
ties, such as brocades and _ poplins,
are quite active.
necessarily hold off until the last mo-
ment, owing to the usual trouble that
exists in finding out just what ideas
are favored by the makers of fash-
ion. In dress flannels the demand
promises to be very good, both for
shirtings as well as waistings.

Dress Goods—While in many _in-
stances there is not room for im-
provement—the lines being well sold
up—there are many other fabrics
which have not as yet attracted their
fair share of business; but this week
has seen these lines placed in a bet-
ter light. Duplicate dress goods or-
ders are reported as being placed
with more freedom. The _ buying
trade, up to the present time being
busy with a late spring business,
have been uninterested in dress
goods. It is now reported that this
condition is changing and that in the
primary market increased activity is
apparent.

Cotton Underwear—There seems to
be no let-up in the demands _ for
heavy cotton underwear. This state-
ment does not necessarily mean that
there was a very heavy business done
during the week, because there was
not. A very good business was done,
nevertheless, for so late in the sea-
son, and there promises to be con-
siderable done next week. The char-
acter of the buying done was of a
filling-in kind and there wére many
buyers who bought more than they
usually would because they believe
in a very heavy retail demand for
cotton goods. Men’s heavy fleeces
at $3.37'4 were bought where busi-

| ness could be taken and women’s-rib-
seen of Persian and other two-warp |}

bed goods were more active than
usual. Some fair business was done
in seasonable goods with manufactur-
| ers who continue to operate on light
goods year in and year out. Concern-
ing prices on spring of 1906 goods,
ithe views of one large commission

| house may be of interest in this con-
i

Novelty lines must |

   

  

Memorial Day
Decorations

  
 
 
  

 

 

 

 

 

We carry a big line of Memorial Day Decorations

Wool Bunting Flags, Cotton Bunting Flags
Cotton Flags on Sticks and Silk Flags

Ranging in size from 2 inches to 36 feet long. Also red,
white and blue bunting by the yard. Write for prices.

    
 
 

P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale Dry Goods

    
 

 

 

For the Benefit of Whom It
May Concern:

For Sale

Without Reserves and in Lots to Suit
Big or Little Buyers, the

Entire Stock

of the

Morse Dept. Store

Absolute Dispersal Sale of Goods Un-
injured and Those Damaged by
Fire, Smoke and Water

Craig, Wright & Walker

Fire Insurance Adjusters
|

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 39

Thunder

traci
Aenton vor.

of leather goods just

 

 

nection: Phis house does not _ be-|

 

 

eve that values will be any higher |

 

|

than usual, whether yarns go sky-!
ward or the bottom drops out of the |
market. According to this concern |
it makes no difference what the con-
ditions are in the market, underwear
generally sells around the same fig- |

ures. Hf reports are circulated that

 

the knit goods market has advanced
a 2c per dozen m price, then it can
be safely said that the most of the
business was done before the ad-
vance. According to this house, the
business is done at the same values
as usual and the advances are made
when the productions are all or near-
ly all sold ap. This statement fts
well with the trend of values during
the present season. Reports of the
heavy business done in woolen and
worsted goods have hurt’ cotton
goods to no extent whatever, but it

remains to be seen what will be Lightning isnt quite So received.
done when it comes to the decisions | | | i
of the wearers of the garments. Sta- noisy, but it peels off more We desire to call your

tistics will tell you that the public
are gradually coming to a point

Lak 8 8 isood Tat ic all 2 special attention to the
| $2.25 and $4.50 per doz-

where woolen or worsted underwear

 

 

 

will be wholly discarded, but accord- 1 1c] | i
; right at a pole-raising or :
se ing to the manufacturers of woolen g P S en Hand Bags, which
1 : orste garme : . »mands Dm fre Chieago.”’ . ° | :
ay hance ee pase oe camp-meeting, but when it |] are exceptional values.

 

We also have grades
at $4.25, $9 and $12 per

‘ = comes to business conversation the high notes

Jacquard Shirtings—Many of the
most attractive fancy cotton fabrics

ok the sencon were all white coods|g SROwid be cut out. When we mterest a mer 9% dozen. Will make up
4 with jacquard figures. For instance. i :
one fancy shirting is all white with a chant in an assorted lot if 7
groundwork of plain weave anda dia- Say SO.

mond shaped figure formed by warp
and filling floats. It is this figure

4 which makes necessary the employ-

4g ment of a jacquard loom in weaving. @ ran
= Besides the figure there are a series Py ritan |
3 of four-line stripes formed by twisted -
3 yarns giving a corded effect.
5 Carpets—So far as announced, the Ra ids
a prices for the new season are not |

al satisfactory to all the manufacturers orse S |

On ingrains the advance is ostensi- | |

bly 2%c a yard. This does not cover r
the increased cost of the raw mate-

rials, but when a manufacturer also

spins his own yarn and is fortunate |

enough to have some low-priced | we assist him in distributing a quantity of Plain | 0O S
wool on hand, by mixing the low and

high priced wools together he will) Talk advertising among his customers, which is |

be able to put his goods on the mar- C

ket at a.small pront, All carpet : : O
manufacturers do not spin yarn; in just enough different from the average corset a
fact, the- great majority of them pur- Ll “ :
chase all the yarn they use. Spin-|f advertising so that it attracts attention and sells
ners are not doing business for pleas- i : | i
ure, and as a result the manufacturer goods. From the minute your order is received

who has to buy yarn made from : i i Grand
all new wool can not make a profit | by us we take a personal interest in your business

on his goods unless he lowers their Ra ids
quality by using inferior yarns. Job- to the extent of helping you in every way p
bers appear-to be well satisfied with © ®

the new price list, taken as 4 whole possible. | Michigan
They are not expecting a very active |

opening, in fact, they think it will

Exclusively Wholesale

be early fall before business shows
much activity. The past season has |
been the dullest that house-furnishing
men in general have experienced for | e

several years. There are incipient url an orse O
signs that the dullness is passing, but ®
no one expects any great revival

during the warm weather. Dealers | Kalamazoo, Mich.

are at a loss to account for the dull- |
ness. |

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Geo. H. Randa. Bay City;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, W. V. Gawley, Detroit.

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan |
Grand Counselor, L. lliams, e- |
— Grand Secretary, Tracy,
int. |

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T. |
Senior Counselor, Thomas E. Dryden: |
Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson. |

 

 

 

 

 

Commercial Travelers the Real Dip-
lomats in America.
Europeans sometimes say that we |
in the United States have no diplo- |
mats, that we have not trained or |
grown any, that we do not know}
what diplomacy is, says an American |
manufacturer. Their definition of di-
plomacy is to obtain what you want |
by intrigue, indirection and corrup-
tion, and they confine diplomacy to |
politics and statecraft. This half
sneer of Europeans is true if we look |
only at foreign politics. Our foreign
ministers and ambassadors have usu-
ally wanted little, but have clearly
known what they wanted and have
gone straight for it with so much
vigor that the other side generally
yielded, with much astonishment at |
queer, direct methods.

such

But our foreign friends have made
the mistake of thinking that politics,
and particularly foreign politics, is
with us, as with them, a life interest.
It is not. When it becomes neces-
sary we will train men to diplomacy
or take them out of the vast and
growing army of business diplomats.
To business has our talent—yes, ge-
nius—for diplomacy turned, and in
business have we trained a vast and
growing army of diplomats, men who
travel all over the country selling
goods, closing deals, making con-
tracts. These are our real diplomats
and of these foreign critics know lit-
tle.

About six months ago. my business
took me to San Francisco. It
long ride and for two days we met
on the common footing of the sleep-
ing and dining cars, with nothing to
do but talk, play cards, write an oc-|
casional letter and eat. The second |
day out four or five travelers who had
got well acquainted started talking
on this subject of business diplomacy.
It could easily be seen that all were
masters in the art of adapting them-
selves to each other and to circum-
stances. In the freedom of this en-
forced intimacy and _ leisure’ each
spoke candidly.

One was selling cloaks and dresses,
representing one of the largest man-
uiacturers in the country. He

S 2

if you prefer to call it so, commis-
sions and bribes. You can’t do busi-
ness in any other way. I’m not paid
a salary of $10,000 a-year to hesitate
at a little check-giving when I can’t
get the business otherwise. They all
do it. You know the case of Brown,

who bought for A. & B. (mentioning |

one of the largest department stores

| said:
| my

|lars with me.”
fa roll

| tures.

| could.
| ple
ithrough the order I saw it was not
| going to be as large as I wanted, so

said: |
“Why, of course, I give presents, or, |

over to C. & D. (a prominent manu-
facturer of cloaks and dresses) busi-
ness to the amount of $300,000 or
$400,000 a year. They gave him a
brown-stone house uptown in New
York, where he lived for years.
“Everyone knew it, and it is said
that both A. and B. knew it at the
time, but they said they did not care
if Brown did get houses and money;
that he had made his department pay
big profits and that was what they
looked at. Later on C. & D. actual-

|ly made Brown one of the partners

in their firm, so that he shared in

Later, when others had talked, he
“T have an understanding with

$25,000 a year and no questions asked.

I always carry several thousand dol- |
And here he showed |
“Ofttimes I meet a|
squeamish cuss and have to handle |
I'll get him around |

of bills.

him with gloves.

ito my hotel in the evening and we'll
|have drinks and cigars served and a/|
| little game of poker; of course, I al- |}
Nothing is said, but I}
book a good-sized order before I go, |

ways lose.

and really that is one of the cheapest
methods. When the man comes right

| their profits, and he was still the buy- |
ler for A. & B.”

house that I can draw up to}

loss will amount to hundreds of
thousands and occasionally to mil-
lions. They usually get one of these
firms of adjusters—I work for the
companies—to manage their  inter-
ests. If I only had the principals to
deal with it would be an easy matter.

“It would take time, because the
owners naturally think their property
is worth more than it really is, but
tact and management will usually
pull the toughest matter through.
But when one of these infernal Jew
or Yankee adjusters gets hold of a
big loss and ties up the owners with
a contract to do all the business
through him there is only one thing
to do, and that is to buy the adjuster.
Why, in that big fire of — hotel there
was only a partial loss and we hitch-
;ed and haggled how much it should
be for three weary weeks.

 

“That adjuster would not come in-
to the open and say how much he
wanted; if he had I would have gone
straight to the old man and then we'd
I did suggest one
day to the owner that the adjuster
was crooked, and found for my pains
that the adjuster had informed him
that I wanted a bribe. Well, it went

| have had a row.

| on, and one day I said to that adjust-

out and asks for money then I usually |

| have to pay a big price.

“Qaote, after I had: lost $300 at

me a decent order.

| Hie was shrewd and replied:
'cards, the buyer wasn’t going to give |
It I had not sug- |

gested that his boss would not like |

to know how heavily he had played

poker with me I’d have lost both that |

order and my money. The next time

I went to his city he came to my|

rooms. and we had our game of pok-

and handle the cards a little.

“I saw that he drank heavily, and
before midnight he owed me $700.
You never saw such a scared man. I
got his I. O. U.’s before he left. Then
I persuaded him to have just one
more round and I lost $100 to him
and gave him back part of his signa-
The next morning I said he

need not worry, but pay me when he

Then [I got him to my sam-

rooms, and when we got half

and add that other.

“He looked a little queer; so I took
out one of the I. O. U.’s and tore it
up and handed it to him. He increas-
ed the order as I wished, and before
we got through it was over $10,000.

| 1 then tore the others up and gave
; them to him; he was mightily reliev-
| ed.
| $100 bills.
poker with me, but I always give him

The next day I gave him three
Since then he never plays

money.”

There was silence for a moment,
and then an elderly, fine-looking man
said, meditatively “I am an insurance
adjuster, and you would not think
that I ever had to use money, but I
| do. On the small losses and in the

although often we have to pay far

burned. But these losses I do not

attend to, but only see to the big |
in New York City). He used to turnj ones in the large cities, where the |

er that if he’d settle for $250,000—
$350,000—I’d_ leave an
envelope at his hotel in the morning.
‘You
leave the envelope and I’ll see.’ So
next morning I left an envelope with
two $1,000 bills in it.

they wanted

“He met me with a smile and said:
‘Oh, why leave so small an envelope?
I.eave a larger one.’ I had to leave
three envelopes containing $15,000

| before he came down, and I positive-
er, but I can play when I want to}

|face, as the Chinese say.

i
|
|
|
|

| the

ly refused to leave any more, but
said that it could go to the courts.
We then settled for a little more than
$260,000. The amount over the $250,-
000 was put on to save my friend’s
But this
was really a saving to the companies,

}as they had planned to come up to

$300,000 if necessary. It always hurts
an insurance company to let anything
go into the courts. Some months
after I accidentally found out that the
adjuster had got over $10,000 from
old man to for

use as a bribe

’

| me ”__Independent.
I suggested that he increase this item |

oOo

Nothing accrues to our credit with
God until our debts to man have been
deducted.

ll

There is no merit in a sullen sacri-

fice.

 

 

Es eee

LIVINGSTON

 

country there is never any trouble, |

more than the value of the goods|

HOTEL

The steady improvement of the
Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large and beautiful lobby, its ele-
gant rooms and excellent table com-
mends it to the traveling public and
accounts for its wenderful growth in
popularity and patronage.

| Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.
GRAND RAP,DS, MICH.

bd

 

 

 

The Old
National Bank

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Our Certificates of Deposit
are payable on demand
and draw interest.

Blue Savings Books
are the best issued.
Interest Compounded

Assets over Six Million Dollars

Ask for our
Free Blue Savings Bank

Fifty years corner Canal and Pearl Sts.

 

 

 

Don’t Buy an Awning

Until you get our prices.

 

We make a specialty of store, office
ind residence awnings. Our I9go05 Im-
proved Roller Awning is the best on the
market. No ropes to cut the cloth anda
sprocket chain that will not slip. Prices
on tents, flags ard covers for the asking.

CHAS. A. COYE
Il and 9 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

™:eKent County
Savings Bank

OFGRAND RAPIDS, MICH

Has largest amount of deposits
of any Savings Bank in Western
Michigan. If you are contem-
plating a change in your Banking
relations, or think of opening a
new account, call and see us.

34 Per Cent.

Paid on Certificates of Deposit

 

Banking By: Mail
Resources Exceed 214 Million Dollars

 

 

A Whole Day for Business Men in
New York

Half a day saved, going and coming, by
taking the new
Michigan Central
‘*‘Wolverine”’

Leaves Grand

Rapids 11:10 A. M.,

daily; Detroit 3:40 P. M., arrives New
York 8:00 A. M.

Returning, Through Grand Rapids
Sleeper leaves New York 4:30 P. M.,
arrives Grand Rapids 1:30 P. M.
Elegant up-to-date equipment.

 

Take a trip on the Wolverine,

 

 

 

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.
Frank Siebel, the Portland printer,

has gone on the road for the Hammell | sal ‘
| to conter with representatives of the

Cracker Co., of Lansing. His territory
comprises all the towns on the Pere

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

41

 

another proposition to offer and that
a joint committee would come here
local Association

next Wednesday

evening if the local Association would

| wait that long before deciding. The

Marquette between Ludington and/|
Bay City.
Marquette Mining Journal: C. W.

Hall, formerly of Marquette, where
he was connected with local dry
goods stores for a number of years,
He is now
on the road as a representative of the
manufacturing department of Edson,
Moore & Co., of Detroit,
William Pohlman is

was in the city this week.

of which
for the territory of Northern Michi-
gan and Wisconsin.

The sudden death
(National
red at the Halladay Inn, at
sometime

Creek, during

night, will be greatly deplored by a

large circle of friends and acquaint-

ences. The deceased had been

general manager |

of Chas, E. Hall |
siscuit Co.), which occur- | given two weeks longer to try and
Battle |

Monday |

 

the road about eighteen years, prior |

to which time he was connected with |

the Muskegon Baking Co. Before
that he was engaged in general trade
at North Muskegon. The remains
will arrive here to-day, after which
the
made.

funeral arrangements. will be
.
and
past seven years for W. F. McLaugh-
lin & Co., of Chicago, has transferred
himself to Renfro Bros. & Co., tea
jobbers at the same market. He will
cover the entire State under this ar-

Samuel

Central Eastern Michigan

but

| ration

vote was thereupon rescinded and a
committee was appointed for the con-
ference consisting of H. R. Van-
Bochove, chairman, Walter C. Hipp,
Oliver Rasmus, William Moredyk and
&. Hoekstra.

The Committee on Sunday Closing
reported that the signatures of all but
three of the grocers and butchers of
the city have been secured to the
pledge to close their stores and shops
all day Sunday. The Committee was
bring the recalcitrant three into line.
The matter of closing all day Deco-
also discussed and,

day was

|although no action was taken, it was
on |

the general sentiment of the meeting
that it was the proper thing to do.
The committee in charge of the civ-
il service petition, asking Congress
for a law punishing Federal employes
who fail to pay their household bills,
that the signatures of all
two of the grocers in the city

reported

| had been secured and that those two

Evans, who has covered
the |
\see the men.

rangement, continuing to make Grand |
Rapids his headquarters, the same as |

heretofore. “Sammy” has been led to

make the change solely for financial |

reasons, his relations with his former
house having always been extremely

pleasant, as well as profitable to both |
|ing the annual fishing excursion and

parties.

a nr
Divided on the Location of Annual

Outing.
Kalamazoo, May 23—Much__ busi-
ness was transacted at the meeting
of the Kalamazoo Grocers’ Associa-

tion at the Auditorium last evening.
The new officers, John E. Steketee,
John &. . VanBochove,
Vice-President; Frank Toonder,
Treasurer, and Henry Schaberg, Sec-
retary, were installed. Mr. Scha-
berg was chosen both Vice-President
and Secretary at the two
weeks ago, but last night he resigned

President;

election

the former office and Mr. VanBoc-
hove was chosen in his stead.
Most interesting to the grocers

themselves of the many other mat-
ters discussed was that of the annual
The has re-
invitations from the Retail
Butchers’ and Retail Grocers’ Asso-
Ciations of Grand Rapids to
there the first week in August, at the
time of the convention of the Nation-
al Butchers’ Association, from Otta-
wa Beach and from Belle Isle at De-
troit. An informal ballot was taken
last night and Ottawa Beach came
out first, with Grand Rapids a close
second. No decision was made, how-
ever, because during the evening Sec-
retary Schaberg received a telephone
message from Grand Rapids to the ef-
fect that the Association there had

excursion, Association

ceived

come

flames Were

committee

absent simply because
had not had time
lt was also stated that

the

many men in other lines of business |

had asked to be allowed to sign and
it is probable that the petition will
be widely circulated outside the Gro-
cers’ Association.

Other matters brought up were the
report of the retiring Treasurer, H.
R. VanBochove, who stated that the
Association was in fine shape finan-
cially and that a good balance was

in the treasury. A resolution regard-

icontest was introduced, but was _ ta-
bled for a time.

— ~~ -e
Will Work te Increase the Member-

ship.
Lansing, May 23—At the last meet-
ing of the Board of Directors of the

Lansing Business Men’s Association,

| the subject considered was that of in-

| creasing the membership.

 

 

The As-
sociation now numbers four hundred
members, and.the Secretary was di-
rected to take active steps in-
crease this number by one hundred at

to

least. Personal letters and interviews
will be the method used to secure
this increase.

An envelope having on the back a
map of the city, with the railroad
connections, and some information
in regard to the city, was shown to
the members, its use whenever
possible was recommended the

members as a means of advertising

and
to

the city.
—__-<+.—__
Bay City Grocers to Picnic at Port
Huron.

Bay City, May 23—The Bay City
Retail Grocers’ Association has de-
cided to hold the annual picnic in
Port Huron this year. The picnic will
be given during August, but the exact
date is not set. A special meeting

te arrange details will be held May
a5.

to |

 

 

 

Plea for More Brotherliness Toward
the Drummer.

Let’s make a little plea for the|

drummer. Not that he 1s unable to

fi : E i
plead for himself, but that he is not |
undeserving of a little friendly as-|
sistance from sources other than his |

own.

About this of
comes your store you
He is liable to strike you |

at
three

the he

when

time year

to are
very busy.
when |
of

You may be sell-

time
minutes

rush
have

On 2 day, or a
hardly
own all day.
ing goods so freely that you think

there is no use in taking any time

you
your

to look over samples and that you}
be able to take care of
trade without anything new for some

will your |

time to come. You consequently |
swing the drummer off with scant |
ceremony. |

The drummer considers that your |

business, and he is willing that you
should of
want, but he is entitled to the best of

be the judge what you

treatment while in your presence. His |
time is not only valuable, but it is
really limited, and the chances are

that he is as completely driven to
find time to all
He knows he must subserve all |

do his work as are

you.
his affairs to your convenience and}

pleasure, and he is prepared to do it.
All he wants is fair and gentlemanly

treatment.

If you want nothing of the drum-|

mer, it is easy to tell him so pleas-

antly—as easy as it is to jump on|
him for some past error on the part
of the house, and cause him to feel}
like a kicked dog that wants to slink
If you make an ap-}|
best |

al- |

under a bench.

pointment with him, do
to keep that appointment, even
though it be at the cost of something |
on your part, for the drummer’s time |

has

your

valuable and he
laid aside that period for your
If
wants to get away on a certain train
to make to-
do your

is as as

yours,
use,

leaving its selection to you. he

another town
to let

in order

morrow, best him |
at that
Every drummer doesn’t expect that
to retailer upon

whom he calls, nor does every drum-

out time.

he will sell every

mer expect the soft side of business
as represented by a retailer who will
put aside all his own affairs in order
to accommodate the drummer, but the
house is watching his progress even
more closely than the retailer watches
the work of his clerks, and the drum-
that

he

feels the uneasiness comes
the knowledge that

make good at every corner.

mer
with must

He comes with neither a begging
plea nor whining supplication (that
is, if he be a drummer worthy the
calling), but he comes with a square
business proposition which you. can
accept or reject on its merits, but for
which he knows he has a right to ex-
pect honest and fair consideration.
He is a fellow who fleeces you of|

good orders as often as he can, but

he is a fellow than whom you have
better friend and than whom
there better fighter for your
rights in the house for which he sells

no
is no
goods.

Any drummer who is insistent be-
tells how you

yond reason, you

| consideration.

| will

 

should and should not conduct your
business, or conducts himself in any
other than a square business manner

iis not worthy of your consideration

in any sense, no matter what his
|line of goods, and we can neither
defend him nor ask for your better

Such men on the road

few and their days are always
numbered.

Just put yourself in the drummer’s
place for one busy day, and you will
understand why we plead for more

brotherliness toward the drummer.—

are

Drygoodsman.
i a

All Hands to Take a Day Off.

Clinton, May 23—-The members of

'the Business Men’s Association have
agreed to close all their places of
business on the night of Tuesday,
June 13, and not open them again
until Thursday morning, June 15,
take their families, their help and

go to Wampler’s
Wednesday,

their families and all
Lake for an outing
June 14.

All
bers of the
cordially invited to go with them and
have one of the good old-fashioned

on

whether mem-
not,

business men,

Association or are

picnic days.

The Association
right in making it a point to have a
little recreation now and then, and if
there will be no

has started out

everyone closes up
loss to anyone.

is y one thing against
a good time and that

The affair

There only
having

the

their

be weather. is

| dated far enough ahead that satisfac-

tory arrangements ought to be made

| with the weather man for a favorable

day.
——_.--.
Propose To Terminate Local Graft.
Eaton Rapids, May 22—At the last
meeting of the 3 usi-
ness Men’s Association the following
and will

Eaton Rapids

resolution introduced
be voted on at the next regular meet-

was

ing:

Resolved—That no member of this
Association shall buy a ticket or make
a donation in his place of business
or advertise in any program or pub-

lication other than the local news-
papers, without the sanction of the
Advertising Committee, which shall

consist of three members of the As-
appointed by the
secret com-

be
President, and to a
mittee, known only to the President
and Secretary.

This does not prohibit any member
this a
ticket as an individual at the regular

sociation, to
be

of Association from buying

| place of sale or advertising in any

Any member
this

other legitimate way.
the
agreement shall be subject to a fine
of $2.

of Association who violates

Resolved—That a printed copy of
this resolution shall be sent to each
of the Association.
2-2 2

The Holland Interurban-Graham &
Morton passenger service from Grand
Rapids to Chicago unequaled.
“Steamboat Flyer” leaves daily 8 p. m.

2

To storekeepers: Make your win-
dows work for you. There is no frost
on the glass at this season of the

member

is

year.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

: oe : : ;
prominent position, the disfigurement | manufacturer, who, after a certain

of the surface will be more or less} amount of red tape, returns the actual °
cost of the goods. I must confess | pecia er

perceptible.
that I do not see what there is in it

 

 

 

 

By the use of certain alkaline sul-
phides, hair can be readily removed|for the druggist, who is out wrap-| For June
with little or no discomfort, but the} ping paper, twine, freight and last, |
application has to be repeated from | but not least, his time. Unless some The Month of Roses

time to time. | concerted action is taken the retailer

e
Strontium sulphide is an efficient} will speedily be swamped with this Sweet Alsatian

 

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Harry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

 

  

 

 

He Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek. depilatory when in its normal condi-j doubtful class of “business.” I] be-
i W. E. Collins, Owosso. ; A reni ino | ew cn : : Se
i insets far Weis Ghose Tiled: Jee 26 tion. A conv enient form of applying lieve we should turn down every
iE and 27; Houghton, Aug. 16, 17 and 18;;|it is as here directed: proposition that has not the proper oses 5
ie a a oe 5 See | Strontium sulphide ......- 2 drs. [ratio of profit and insist upon no Er
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- | Stac OCI ee 3 drs. | further extension of the _ free-trial- PACKED 4
catia aw ae Detroit : Powdered starch ..,.....-- 3 drs. {bottle plan on which our direct 1 Pint Sweet Alsatian Roses
Vice Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,| Mix well and keep in the dry state! profit is a problematical quantity. 16 Double Sheets Music
Detroit; Charles P. Baker, St. Johns; H. | Gl uated 6 ce peaks tl | aie :
G. Spring. Unionville. | until wanted for use, taking then a_| City Druggit. 2 Yards Roses
Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit. isufficient quantity, forming into a/} ee
Treasurer—E. E. Russell, Jackson. Pa : a ° 4 Plates Roses
Executive Committee—John D. Muir,| Paste with warm water and apply- The Drug Market. Candis Mian’ i
if Tr igeituer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal: |ing to the surface to be deprived of | Opium—The decline in cost has| aa — re ’
4 amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit. |hair. Allow to remain from one to| been checked and an advance has Printed hangers and streamers
Trade Interest Committee, three-year|;, | _- cs : a i : ' i" :
term-—J. M. Lemen, Shepherd, and H. | /}V¢ minutes, according to the nature | taken place of 5¢ per pound. Higher | Allin carton for $5.00 net.
Dolson, St. Charles. | of the hair and skin; it is not ad-| prices are looked for. Order through your jobber or
ac ivisable to continue the application | Morphine—Is unchanged. | direct
Difference Between Koumyss, Mat-) jonger than the last-named period | Quinine—Is weak and on the de-| /

The Jennings Perfumery Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

zoon and Kephir. Remove in all cases at once when| cline. The present price is the low- |
| |

These are practically the same|any caustic action is felt. After the) est it has been in years.

removal of the paste, scrape the skin} Oil Peppermint—Continues to de-|
gently but firmly with a blunt-edged| cline on account of the new crop |
blade (a paper knife, for instance) | soon to be distilled. |

 

thing as they are all made from fer-
mented milk, although there may be
a difference in taste and appearance.

 

 

 

 

i Originally koumyss was prepared ex-j until the loosened hair is removed.| Oil Wormwood-—Is in better sup- Base Ball Su lies
4 clusively from goats’ milk, kephir| Then immediately wash the denuded] ply and has declined. | pp 2)
} from ewes’ milk and matzoon from surface well with warm water, and American Saffron—Has declined. Cr t
4 cows’ milk, but the various prepara-| apply cold cream or some similar Gum Camphor — Competition of “yee ’
; : | : : al Z
+ tions of the market are now usually | emollient as a dressing. Japanese refined holds the _ price Marbles, Hammocks, Etc.
é made from cows’ milk. P. W. Lendower. | down. 4
‘ Koumyss is best made according | To aoe i Short Buchu Leaves—Are tendi
i tH a . sia f : : i, | Formula for Preparing Culinary ie - eee eee

to the formula for fermented milk! ae | lower. Grand Rapids Stationery Co.

given in the National Formulary, Linseed Oil—Has advanced and is

A mustard for the table is extem- | 29 N. Ionia St.

 

 

 

 

i which is as follows: it ia 4 'tending upward on account of higher
f a i : i | poraneously prepared by mixing the|_.
H Cows erik. fresh ....rooo cc. i oe . oe price for seed. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
; a“ ae G ground mustard with water or with |
Yeast, semiliquid ..... 5 cc. oe

a little vinegar. We suppose you

 

eae 35 gms.
Dissolve the sugar in the milk con-
tained in a strong bottle, add the

A i When a man really knows God he
| Ve ~«> dS “Tre as y oi o
want the composition of the French | always rejoices at the prospect of a
chance to give.

 

article, which comes in pots, and

| keeps a long time.
yeast, cork the bottle securely and | “°°? ri

| 6 s
keep it at a temperature between 73.4 | i Take salt, 17% Bs, scraped | | I ) V 1] icible
| horseradish, 1 ftb., garlic, 2 cloves.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

H to 89.6 deg. Fahrenheit, for six hours, | a aia. oo a You will make no mistake if you reserve your
; | boiling vinegar. a gal. Macerate i orders for i
Hi then transfer to a cool place. | ieee: eens ad sangeet
Kephir is made by the action of a|‘ ee r re Hammock 3
i . : |/hours, strain and add sufficient flour | S$ 4
: special kephir grain or ferment upon) - ; : : e
milk. The active kephir grains are | 0! Mustard. Fishing Tackle wi ae '
added to fresh milk kept at a tem-| 2 Oyer’s Table Mustard—Steep 1 : ; é Sesegat ngage can be made
s at n-| ae ee | or $33 and $30 respectively. If
perature of 7o to 8o deg. Fahrenheit, | P!™t mustard seed in 1 quart of dis | Base Ball Supplies ; : a li h
ss a en se : 'tilled vinegar for eight days. Grind | : you are not handling these brands
ect of fermentation be-|. a : . i | r k d Fl inchide a ¢ ea
, , | a sample lot in yc 2x
comes apparent by the rising of wan and put in pots, thrusting | IF@WOrks an ags ,' ” —
Hi ; : cg .|a red hot poker into each order.
t grains to the surface. The grains |-° Pp : ee | Our lines are complete and prices right.
may then be strained off and the| > Lenormand’s Mustard — Flour | The boys will call:in ample time. Handled by all jobbers and by
- | - Fa |
sea a ri enough | Of mustard, 2 fbs., tresh parsicy, | the manufacturers
i - A aie -| chervil, celery and tarragon, of each FRED BRUNDAGE |
yeast cells to insure continuance of | i - Wholesale D | Geo H S & .
. : te ae i ee i nis | . ;
the fermentation, left to itself in well-|°* 97 garlic, —— salt : — " i dieciiaa) »
sek Kebshet |anchovies; grind well together, add_| Stationery and School Supplies Grand Rapids
S. ci ‘ =. | “ i
Matzoon is the koumyss of the Ar-| Salt £. oz. grape juice or sugar to | 32-34 Western Ave., Muskegon. Mich.
iF menians. It is a thick, curdy liquid | sweeten, and sufficient water be form |
which is probably prepared like kou- the mass into a thin paste. When|
i i £ | put into pots a red hot iron is mo-|} This is a picture of ANDREW
Pi myss or kephir, stopping the fermen- | ’ B. SPINNEY, M. D. the only
ih . sntarilv ct i fj . Spinney inthis country. He
i tation after one or two days and ex- | mentarily thrust into the contents of | ins aekioke sige pieabecpest Forest Cit
i pelling the gas, as it is not efferves- | each, and a little wine vinegar ee) eka ioe "guns eee te I y
u |The additi f ; f | : years i
cent and gas is emitted when the | ss vddition = : any portion of | wo tosee soph meee gate yg me
e ° olyce r¢ als oer rove-|
: cork of the bottle is drawn. see as . oS eat = <n : Special attention to, throat. and aint
, r a ;} ment, as it would preven ne rapid | / jung diseases making som f
: H. W. Sparker. | I I ji enim cures, Also all forms b.

   

drying of the paste. gives the dealer more profit witb

less trouble than any other bran¢

—_—o2.-o——__—_——_

Simple Method of Removing Super- |

of nervous diseases, epilepsy, St.
Vitus dance, paralysis, etc. He
never fails to cure piles.

Thos. Willets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a ae SSS" There is, nothing Known that of paint.
& 7 | ° ° ¢@ does not use for priva' diseases 0 10 sexes, a
é fluous Hair. | The Free Trial Bottle Nuisance. and by his own special methods he cures where Dealers not carrying paint at the
q There is no simple method of re-| I have noticed of late a great in- | Seve tM FOU TT cost to cure you, write’ out ee oe
4 ‘ . : i i i
moving the hair by which the growth | crease in the number of patent medi- all your symptoms STEW E SPINNEY, Me ‘on eco aenceend
i : De ec i ; City, M 5 N
of new hair will be prevented. Elec- | cine houses that offer a free trial of Prop. Reed City Sanitarium, Reed City, Mich should be in the hands of every
rical destruction o e hair bulb is| their remedies to th ali rj Caner.
trical destruct f the hair bulb is| tl 1 the public, with | _
4 the only means of doing this; it is|the guarantee of a cure or money | It’s an eye-opener.
. not always certain, we believe, and,| back. Unfortunately there are many | i IL ES CUI g E D Forest Cit Pai t
what is worse, carries the risk of dis- customers who come back for their | 7 Fam
ei ° . . . : ;
i figurement. Each introduction of the} money, especially in chronic cases. | DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON & Varnish Co.
f electric needle produces a minute} Then we have to refund and send in| Rectal Specialist Cleveland, Ohio
‘A . ° - ° . . ° ’
H scar, it is said, and if the hair is in a|the return guarantee coupon to the |} '03 Monroe Street Grand Rapids, Mich.
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MICHIGAN ee
‘WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

43

 

 

 

 

 

Evechthitos ....1 00@1
mrigeron ........ 1 00@1
Gaultheria ...... 2 25@2
Geranium -OZ
Gossippli Sem gal 50@
edeoma ....... 1 40@1
SUMINOra ........ 40@1
Lavendula ...... 90@2
famonisa .... 8. 90@1
Mentha Piper :.3 75@4
Mentha Verid ...5 00@5
Morrhuae gal. ..1 25@1
DVR oo 3 00@3
ae 75@3
Picis Liquida . 10@
Picis Liquida zal
oe fo 929
Heemmaring ._.... @1
Heese of ...... 5 00@6
Seen 100
Dene 2... | 90@1
Pees 2 25@4
Sasealras ....... 90@1
ceraete, ess, oz.
eee oo. "1 10 1
oe ogee 8 40
wae, Ope ..... f
Theobromas 189
Petassium
more ......... 15
Bichromate ..... 130
mromame . |... 23@
ar 12@
Chlorate ..... po. 2
Cyasige _....:.: 310
eee .. 8 60@3
Potassa, Bitart pr 30
Potass Nitras opt 7
Potass Nitras .... 6
Prussiate . .... 2
Sulphate po .... 15@
Radix
Aconitum ...... 20
Menem .......... 30
Anchusa ...... 10
Aram pO ........
Catamus ........

Gentiana po 15..
Glychrrhiza pv 15
Hydrastis, Canada.
Hydrastis, Can.po
Hellebore, Alba.

Inula, po
Ipecac, po.
Iris plox

Semana, pr ......
Maranta, \%s
Podophytlum po.

Sanguinari,
Serpentaria
eee 6...
Smilax, off’s H.
Sines, we ......
Sciliae po $5....
Symplocarpus ...
Valeriana Eng ..

Valeriana, Ger .. 15

Zingiber a 12

minasoer y ....... 16
Semen

Anisum po. 2@..

— J(gravel's). 13
Bea tf ......... 4
Carui - 15 10
Cardamon ....... 70
Cortandrum ... 12
Cannabis Sativa. 65
Cydontum .....-. 75@1
Chenopodium ; =
Dipterix Odorate. 80@1

Foentculum
sen po.

aaron Ae ....
Sinapis Nigra ...
Spiritus
Frumenti W D..2
a .......
Juniperis Co O T.1

Juniperis Co ....1 75
Saccharum N #.1 90
Spt Vini Galli ..1 75
Vini Oporto ....1 26@2
Vina Ale ...... 1 25@2
Sponges
Florida Sheeps’ wl
carriage ....... 3 00@3
Nassau sheeps’ wl
Carriage ....... 3 50@8

Velvet extra shps’
wool, carriage . @2
Extra yellow shps’
wool carriage.. @1
Grass sheeps’ wl,
corres ....... 1
Hard, slate use .. i

Advanced—
Declined—Quinine, Cod Liver Oil, Saffron.
Acidum
Aceticum ....... 33
Benzoicum, Ger.. 76 7
Boeraciea ......... ¢ 1
Carbolicum ..... 26 29
Citricum. ........ 49 4
Hydrochlor ..... 3 6
Nitrocum .. ... 8 10
Oxalicum ..... a 12
Phosphorium, dil. 15
Salicylicum ..... 42 45
Sulphuricum 1% 5
Tannicum ....... 7 80
Tartaricum <.... 33 40
Ammonia
Aqua, 18 deg ... 4 6
Aqua, 20 deg ... 6 8
Carvonas ....... 3 15
Chicridum <....-. 12 14
Aniline
Binek  .....;.. -.2 00@2 25
Brown i... ....... 80@1 Su
Ree ... 62... 45 50
VelloW ..cc5..c05 2 50@38 60
Baccae
Cubebae ...po. 30 15 18
Juniperus ..... . oo. é
Xanthoxylum ... 30 35
Balsamum
as uneneces 45 66
Pere 2. acc 1 50
Torabis, Canada. 60 65
Tolutan 2........ 35 40
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.. 18
Cammiae ....-.... 2¢@
Cinchona Flava.. 18
Buonymus atro.. 30
Myrica Cerifera.. 20
Prunus Virgini .. 15
Quillaia, gr’d . 12
Sassafras ..po ; 25 34
Oe 46
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Gla.. 30
Glycyrrhiza, po.. 38 30
Haematox -...... 11 12
Haematox, 1s ... 138 14
Haematox, %s .. 14 15
Haematox, %s .. 16 17
Ferru
Carbonate Precip. 15
Citrate and Quina 3 00
Citrate Soluble .. 65
Ferrocyanidum 8. 40
Solut. Chloride .. 15
Sulphate, com’! .. 2
Sulphate, com’l, by
bbl. per cwt .. 70
Sulphate, pure .. .
Fiora
Aemies, 2... ...52.. 15 18
Anthemis ....... 22 26
Matricaria ...... 30 35
olla
Berosmae ......:- 30@ 33
Cassia Acutifol,
Timnevelly .... 16 20
Cassia, Acutifol.. 25 30
~—— a a8 20
48 an - ..
Uva Oral... ...- 33 16
Gummi
Acacia, 1st pkd.. 65
Acacia, 2nd pkd.. 45
Acacia, 3rd pkd.. 35
Acacia, sifted sts. 28
Acacia. pO ...... 45 65
Aloe, Bare ...... 12 14
Aloe, Cape ...... 26
Aloe, Socotri ... 45
Ammoniae ...... 65 60
Asafoetida ...... 85 40
Benzoinum ...... 50 55
Catechu, ig .... 13
Catechu, %s .... 14
Catechu, %s .... 16
Camphorae ...... 81@ 85
Euphorbium .... 40
Galsanmuamn ....... 1
Gamboge ....po..1 25@1 35
Guaiacum ..po 35 36
Miee .... ‘po 45c 45
Mastic joc... 60
Myrrh... po 50 46
Cee ---83 15@3 25
Siemee - 22... iso 50
Shellac, bleached 45 50
Tragacanth eee 70@1 00
Herba
Absinthium .--4 50@4 60
ow oz pk 20
Lobelia -02 pk 35
Majorum — .02 pk 28
Mentha Pip oz pk 28
Mentha Ver oz pk 25
Bie 2. oz pk 39
Tanacetum V . 33
Thymus V oz pk 35
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat .. 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat .. 18 20
Carbonate K-M. 18 20
Carbonate ...... %% 20
Oleum
Absinthium ..... 4 90@5 =

Amygdalae, Dule. 60
Amygdalae Ama.8 7 #3
pe ‘Cortex | 3 20@2
Beream .. oo... . 2 85
oe <
ann aes eae Sem
aneean ce ae
Cinnamoni -.....1 00
Citronella. .....

Conium Mac ...
Copalba ....  ,

 

 

Yellow Reef, for
slate use. ... a
Syrups
Acacia
Auranti Cortex ..

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Rhei Arom ......
Smilax Offi’s ...
Senega .........
Settee ...........
Scillae Co
Tolutan
Pruaus

 

Tinctures

Aconitum Nap’sR
Aconitum Nap’sF

& My
Asafoetida ......
Atrope Belladonna
Auranti Cortex ..
oe
Benzoin Co
Barone _.......
Cantharides .....
Capsicum
Cardamon

 

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Cmchona ........
Cinchona Co ....
Columba
Cabehae _.......
Cassia Acutifol .
en — Co
Digita’
—" oes
Ferri Chloridum.
Gentian ........
Gentian Co.
Saarce .. |...
Guiaca ammon ..
Hyoscyamus
Iodine

I
Nux Vomica .....
Gon...
Opil, camphorated
Opil, deodorized. . 1
Quassia .........
er

Sanguinaria .....
Serpentaria
Stromonium
Tolutan
Wallerian ........
Veratrum Veride.
Zingiber

Miscellaneeus

Aether, Spts Nit 8f 30
Aether, Spts Nit 4f 4G
Alumen, grdpo7 3
Anmatto ......... .
Antimoni, po
Antimoni et po T 4
Antipyrin ......
Antifebrin ...
Argenti Nitras oz
Arsenicum ......
Balm Gilead =. 60
Bismuth S N 20
Calcium Chior, _
Calcium Chlor, 163
Calcium Chlor \s
Cantharides, Rus.
Capsici Fruc’s af
Capsici Fruc’s po
Cap’i Fruc’s B po
Carophyllus
Carmine, No. 40..
Cera Ala .......
Cera Flava
Crocus
Cassia Fructus ..
Centraria
Cataceum
Chloroform
Chloro’m, Squibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst 1

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Chondrus ..... 2
Cinchonidine P-W 38a
Cinchonid’e Germ 38@
Coeaineg .......2, 05@4
Corks list d p ct.
Creosotum ......

ream ...... bbl 75
Creta, prep .....
Creta, — Ae 9
Creta, Rubra .. (
— ..,......, 1 2@1
Coavear ........
Cupri Sulph 6
ree ........ 7

ery, all Nos

emery, po ...
Ergota ....po.65 60
Ether Sulph .... 70
Flake White .... 12
Game. ...........
Gambler ........ 8¢

Gelatin, Cooper .
Gelatin, French .
Glassware, fit box

Less than box

Glue, brown .... 1
Glue. white ..... 15
Giycerina ....... 15
Grana Paradisi ..
Heeies ........ 35
Hydrarg Ch Mt.
Hydrarg Ch Cor

Hydrarg Ox Ru’m
Hydrarg Ammo'l

fend bo

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9599999099993 389999990559

Hydrarg Ungue’m 50
Hydrar; — ..
Ichthyobolla, Am. 90@1
Tee we ee, 75
ane, Resubi 4 85@4
TOGGIONTE «........ 90@5
Tagen ...-.<-.- g
a 1 15@1
ee 65
Liquor Arsen et
ydrarg

Tod @

Liq aon oo Arsinit 38
esia,

Magnésts, Sulph bb

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 
     
       
     
     

| sence SF. 45@ 66 =. M ......... 10@ 12); Lard, extra 10 80
| Menthol Lae £0@2 G0 i Sapa, @ ......... @ | tard, No 1..... 60@ *
| Morphia, SP& W2 35@2 66 Seidlitz Mixture.. we 22 | Linseed, pure raw 48@
| Morphia, SN Y Q2 35@2 60 | Sinapis ......... 18| Linseed. boiled ...49@ 54
| Morphia, Mal. ..2 35@2 60 Sinapis, opt ..... @ 30| Neat’s-foot, w str 65@ 70
| Moschus Canton. 40 | Snu Maccaboy, Spts. Turpentine. 61@ 66
| Myristica, No. 1. 28 30 DeVoes -....... 51
| Nux Vomica po 15 10 | Snuff, S’h DeVo’s g 61 Paints —
| Os Senta... |. 25@ 28 | Soda, Boras ..... 9@ 11} Red Venetian . 3
50) Pepsin Saac, H & Soda, Boras, po. 9@ 11| Ochre, yel Mars. 1% 3
60 | FD Ce @1 00 Soda et Pot’s Tart 25@ 28] Ochre, yel Ber .. 1% 2
a Seda, Carb ..... 1%@ 2| Putty, commer’l.2% 2% gs
60 | Picis Liq N N &% Soda, Bi-Carb .. 3@ 5\| Putty. strictly pr2ig 2%
50; gsaldoz........ @2 | Soda, Ash ...... 3%@ 4] Vermilion, Prime
60 | Picis Lig gts .... 1 6@ | Soda, Sulphas @ 2 American ..... 13 15
50 Picis Lig. pints. 60 | Spts, Cologne @2 60 | Vermilion, Eng... 75 80
60 | Pil Hydrarg po 80 50 | Spts, Ether Co.. 50@ 55/]Green, Paris ..... 18
50 Piper Nigra po 22 18 | Spts, Myrcia Dom @2 00|Green, Peninsular 13 16
50; Piper Alba po 35 30 | Spts, Vini Rect bbl g bead, rem ...... 6% 7
7 | Pix Burgon ..... = Spts, Vi'i Rect %b Lead, white .... 6% 7
650; Plumbi Acet .... 12@ Spts, Vi’i R’t 10 gl @ Whiting, white S’n 90
75 | Pulvis Ip’c et et Opitl 30@1 50 Spts, Vil R't 5 gal @ Whiting Gilders’ 95
75 a Strychnia, Crystall 05@1 25 | White, Paris Am’r 1 35
a) 4P Ste doz. g 76 | Sulphur Subl ..... 2%@ 4| Whit’g Paris Eng
50 | Pyrethrum, pv .. 0 25 | Sulphur, Roll eee 8% Ce 1. oe, a 40
50 | Quassine ........ S@ 10} Tamarinds ...... 8@ 10/ Universal Prep’d 1 10@1 20
60 | Quina, S P & W. 22@ 32] Terebenth Venice 28@ 30 1
50 | Quina, S Ger. 22@ 32]|Theobromae ..... 45@ 50 Varnishes
60| Quina, N. Y. .....22@ 32) Wanilla |. are No 1 Turp Coach 1 10@1 20
50| Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14| Zinci Sulph ..... 7@ 8|Extra Turp ....1 60@1 70
60 | Saccharum La’s. 22 25 Coach Body ....2 75@3 00
56 Salsein Co. 4 50@4 75 Oils No 1 Turp Furni 00@1 10
650 | Sanguis Drac’s 40 50 bbl gal | Extra T Damar .1 55@1 60
os) Sane, We... 2 14 | Whale, winter ... 70@ 70! Jap Dryer No1T 70q@
50 . —
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= We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,
4 . i
- Chemicals and Patent Medicines.
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48 | We are dealers in Paints, Oils and
12 |
fl Varnishes.
9 |
8
75 We have a full line of Staple Druggists
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ma Sundries.
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42 Weare the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s
| Michigan Catarrh Remedy.
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We always have in stock a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines and

Rums for medical purposes only.

We give our personal attention to mail

orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same
day received. Send a trial order.

 

 

 
   
     
 

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however, are lia-

ble to change at any time, and ccuntry merchants will have their orders filled at
market prices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

 

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Gonfections ............ ll
dles . 1
Canned Goods 1
Carbon Oils 3
oo? ...... 2
ease ........ 2
Chewing Gum 3
SS ee 2
Choeolate ........... 2
Clothes Lines ......... oe
eee oe oe a.
ee &
cocoon Shells ......... oe
ee... 3
ew 3
DB
ited Fruits ........... 4
F
Farinaceous Goods .... 4
Fish and Oysters ...... 10
fishing Tackle ........ 4
Flavoring extracts . . =

 

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icking 9
Woodenware ........... 9%
Wrapping can. oe

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AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s

1lb. wood boxes, 4 dz.
1m. tin boxes, 3 doz.
sm. tin boxes, 2 dz.
Tb pails, per doz.
. pails, per doz .
. pails, per doz ..1
BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand

.
NIAAA ww
So
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_. con, per as ....
2M. can, per doz 1 49
sib. can, per doz 1 80
BATH BRICK.
Aree © Cc 75
ee 28 85
BROOMS
eo. 2 eee ......... 2 75
oe. & Cero ........- 2 33
i. 2 tree... 5... 2 15
eo s Coe... in
Paseo Gem. .2i.. 5. 4¢
Common Whisk ...... 85
Pamacy Wresk .....-... 1 20
Warcheuee ........... 00
BRUSHES

Scrub
Solid Back 8 im ..... 75
Sosa Mack, Ji in ...... 95
Pomted en@s .........- 85

Stove
_ >
ee ee 1 10
a 2 CL a %

Soe
— Ss ... 1 00
_ et ee 1 30
mo 4 1 70
Sa 1 90

3
apy COLOR

R. & Co’s, 15¢c size.1 25
Ww. R. & Co.’ S, 25¢ size.2 00

CAN LES
Electric Light. 8s .... 9%
Electric Light, 16s ....10
Porcamee Ge ......... 9
Parafine, 12s ......... 9%

Wicking.
a —

3 Ib. Seca. 75@ 80
Gals. Standards .2 15@2 25

Blac -errles
Steamers ....... 85
Beans
mee... 80@1 30
Red Kidney 85@ 95
— 70@1 15
Wee 2... 5@1 25
Blueberries
Clases ....... 1 40
Brook Trout
rom. ........ 75
2tb. cans, . — 1 90
Little Neck, 1tb. 1 ae 25
Little Neck, 2%b.. @1 50
Clam Boullion
Burnhanrs % pt ...-.-. 1 90
Borshanrs, pts ...... 3 60
Burnham’ = Fon eto w es 7 20
ae Stendards et —_— 50
Wie ......... 1 50
orn
a 75@90
a 1 00
Pe ge 12
French Peas
Sec Extra Pine ...... 22
Oo 13
Pee oe 15
meee pe
Gooseberries
FORA gk oe ce dw 90
Hominy
peamG@are ....-.3..._... 85
obster
aor: Se 2 15
aa oe hf 3 75
Picare Tees... 2 69
Mackerel
Mustard, 11D ge es 1 80
Mustard, 20-7. ......-- 2 80
ee. Oe 8 1 80
eg 2 80
{‘{{‘§‘OO 1 80
aes. Pe... 2 sn
Mushrooms
Eiopens «=... .. 15@ 20
Buttons ... .. sa. 22@ 25
Oysters
Coe Wh. -.. Lc @ 90
cove, 2. ...--.. 1 70
Cove, 1tb. Oval . @1 00
Peaches
Pee oa... 1 10@1 15
Tew: 42225... 1 65@2 25
Standard ........ 1 00@1 35

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Marrowfat ...... 90@1

 

 

 

 

er Gee. 1 30
ee ee 1 44
OME. cde ee 1 80
ae ... 2 00
Cotton Braided
Oe ee ce, 95
ON ee eile, 1 35
ea ee as 65
Galvanized Wire

No. 20, each 100ft. longl 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long2 10
COCOA

 

pierre ...... 35
Cleveland ...... eee ae 41
ees, ee. 35
Come, BS .........- 2
ee 42
i 45
Van Houten, ¥%s . 12

  

Van Houten, %s .

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Marshmallow ......... 16
Marshmallow Cream ..17
Marshmallow Walnut 7
Mary Ann
‘Malaga
Mich Coco Fs’d honey. 12
Mik Biscul .........- 8

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Deas oes ee - 26
ne ee 4
Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55

Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Mich. Frosted Honey.12 Foote & Jenks
Mixed Picnic ......... Coleman’s Van. I.em.
Molasses Cakes, Scolo’d 9 202. Panel is s
Stoes gelly Ear ...... 12 30z. Tap 3 2 ees 6h
a Branch, cote No. 4 Rich. Biake.2 00 1 50
Oatmeal Crackers et ‘ ene I is
oe = ede = No. 2D. & per dos... 15
eee eee { Dp es
welt | te eres Te
Oe. 1.4... -4... | Taper er doz.
a Seite 15 ie "hcexican” Vaal
Pretzels, hand made ..8% | No. he i =
Samara hand m'd 8% No. 6 D. GC. per doz....3 00
ee | ee
ee yaks G A
| Richmond. ee 11 Amoskeag, 100 in balel9
| Richeoed ......... 2... 8% | Amoskeag, less than bl 19%
on |
| Snowdrops Co ey Old Wheat
spiced: Sugar Tops .. 2 | No. 1 White. 2)... .. 1 00
| Sugar Cakes. scalloped ; No f Het 0 1 00
—, an steeeeee = bai? woes Flour
Spiced Gingers .....-...9 | Patents om Bran®® «oo
roc Se nggenber at - ceceeas Tetons oe 5 30
f1en! ° DE ee 10
oe S | oe Strateht ...... 4 70
oe - | Sets een 4 Li
CREAM TARTAR eee a tetas : =
Barrels or drums ....... 29 | MTT: 20
a ne WO, ae ak ce
Seliahe eae 2000006 l 32 | “Subject to usual cash dis-
Fancy caddies .......-..- 35 | © Flour in barr
els, 25c per
——— Te | barrel additional.
Sundried ~~ 4@% Worden Grocer Co.’s a
Evaporated. ...... 6 @7 | Quaker paper .........%
California Prunes | Qui mer cloth |... 5 0
100-125 25tb boxes. @ 3 | Spring Wheat Flour
ene ta 89) oe Ck
80-90 25% boxes @ 4. | Golden Horn, family ..5 $5
70- 80 25Ib boxes 4 4% | pure Rve licht .....4 45
| € ye, ght covcce 4 45
2 Ae:
49 -50 251 boxes @ 6% | Dearborn 2.012.215 38
~~ a oe cae ® | Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s
Citron : Delivered
Corsican. ........ @15 | Gold Mine, %s cloth 6 55
Currants Gold Mine, %s cloth 6 45
inert: tb eee .. ORM? | SU Mine, He cloth ¢35
Imported bulk 64@ 7% Gold Mine, 8 paper 5 25
Peel | Gold Mine, %s paper 3 15
Lemon American ....12 | Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand
| Orange American ....12 | Ceresota, %s ......... 6 35
Ralsins | ¢ ‘eresota, ek. 6 25
London Layers, 3 cr a oe) Ceresots, es ......... 6 15
London Layers 4 cr 1 95|Temon & Wheeler’s Brand
| Cluster 5 crown ... Zee Wineod. 48 .....5..- 6 40
I.oose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5 | Wingold, EE BE 6 30
Loose Muscatels, 3 cr..6 Mineod, se ......... 6 20

Loose Muscatels, 4 cr..6%
L. M. Seeded, % Ib5

| Sultanas, bulk ....

| Sultanas, package .

Van Houten, 40
Plums Van Houten, is ......- (eae
Plum . Pine cate teers Siw 2
a _ | Witoer, 6 ...... ee |
25@2 75 | Wilbur, Es ee 42 |
55 | COCOANUT
| Dunham’s 145 ......- St
| Dunham’s ¥%s & \js.. 26%
Dunham’s \%S ...... a4
Dunham’s %s ....... =.
ae |... = |
COCOA SHELLS |
a bere 2% |
Teo eee .... ---- 3
Pound packages .. .... 4
COFFEE
| Rio *
i Co Om 2...
Col’'a River, talls. @1 80 | Fate 12
Col’a River, flats.1 85@1 90! Choice ..........-.-++- 15
Red Alaska ..... tip cicllieal T is |
Fink Alaska .... @ % Santos |
Sardines Conon 6.0. 11%, |
Domestic, 4s .. 3%@ 3% | Wair. .............0.05- 12% |
Domestic, %s . ou nceeus ee 15
Domestic, Must’d “ A : Mane 18
California, 4s ... Peaberry ......0..0-...
California, %¥%s.. a "a2  " Maracalbo
French, 48 --..- eens 15
French, %8 mae @28 |cChoice ...... ge en 18
Standard ....... eas. |... 16% |
Succotash Pee |
ME occ sccues ece 95 Guatemala
Good ......--+++- Edt Ce a a IEEE RI 15 |
Peary ..........- . 25@1 40 Java
Strawberries Aticge 20 12 |
Standard .......- 1 10/ Fancy African ........ a7
Ne ee Ce 25 |
omatoes i eo. 3
Poe... 80 | ®. ¢ ocha
Od... seers eee - wiki ooo. 21 |
a 1 15@1 45 Packag
ea — 2 50@2 60 New York oe |
CARBON OILS —— eee > =
Barrels Oe ee
Perfection .....-. @10% Jersey. cee eee ee 13 50
Water White ... @1 [ion ....-.--1-----.-- a3 50 |
D. S. Gasoline @13 McLaughlin’s XXXX |
Deodor’d Nap’a .. @11t. McLaughlin’s XXXX sold |
Cogeee@er ....... 29 =" to es — — -
peIme ..-......- 16 : orders irec oO |
Bie winter .. 9 @10% | McLaughlin & Co., Chi-
CATSUP cago.
Columbia, 2 pts.....- 4 50 Extract o
Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60/ Holland, % gro boxes. 95 |
Snider’s qvarts ....... 3 25 | Felix, % gross .......- 115)
Snider's pints .......-. 2 25} Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85 |
Snider’s a eee a 1 30) Hummel’s tin. % gro.1 43 |
HEESE CRACKERS :
Se @15 National —— Company’s
oon City .... @13 rands
Peeriess. ....-... @. Butter
ee 2 @16 Seymour Butters ...... 6%
os «(C...-.... @14%4|N Y Butters .......... 6%
Cee eens @14¥% | Salted Butters ........ 6%
aaa @1a4 Family —— pe ge ee 6%
Se. ge eee @15 oda
Riverside ........ @14. |N BC Sodas .......... 6%
Warner’s @15 Pee &
ee @15 Saratoga poner oe 13
oe ee | ee ees ..-.-:-
@
iimbarer. ......... 14% — Oysters . ‘ =
Pineapple ....... 40 @60 | ee 2 _—-
fan Gara. ....... @i9 |Argo ..... pact Sars: ee a
Swiss, domestic. @14%4 | Extra Farina ....-....
Swiss, imported . @20 cua Goods
CHEWING GUM ie ee Aa i a
American Flag Spruce. 55 Assorted Cake ........ %
—— a ee = ae ererecere 9 |
ac acc ke a nese |
Largest Gum Made .. 60 —- — seeeeeeee =
oe ee G | Sucter THM .--++----o-
Sen Sen Breath Perf.1 00 | Chocolate Drops ...... 17
peer Phe 2... ee | Coco Bar ...........-.. li
Wereiee 55 | Cocoanut Taffy ....... 12
CHICORY Coffee Cake, N. B. C..10
Sak 2... 5 | Coffee Cake, Iced ....10
ee 7 | Cocoanut Macaroons ..18
eee 4|Cracknels_...........-- 16
Peueks 2.2.6 7| Currant Fruit ........ il
ee 6 are ate! Dainty noone
CHOCOLATE exyewnees ........:-..
Walter Baker & Co.’s Pete Cookie .......... 9
German Sweet ........ 22 | Fluted Cocoanut ...... i
Preaemm ............. 28 | Frosted Creams ...... :
Waa 41 | Ginger Gems ..........
Cares 35 | Ginger Snaps, N B C 1%
meee ke. 223 | Grandma Sandwich ...11

é6oft. 3 one extra..1 00
T2ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40
90ft. 3 thread, extra. 1 70
60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29
“2ft. 6 thread, extra..
Jute
ME oes foe el 75
ee cee ee 90
ee eee oees ieee 1 05
BS cece oc +o

BO. 2. cc recoceccceeess-l 10
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| Honey Jumbles

Graham Crackers ..... 9
Honey Fingers, Iced oa
Iced Honey Crumpet. .12
Imperials 9

n@tgen Pelle .......-- 15
asereey Lammen ........ 8
Leagy Pinger ........ 12
Lady Fingers. hand md 25

Lemon Biscuit Square 9

Lemon Wafer ........

Lemon Snaps ......... 12
Lemon Gems .......... 10
Die WO voc s is ceeds 11

 

 

L. M. Seeded, 1 i 4

8
FARINACEOUS GOODS
_—

Dried Lima. ........

Med. Hd. Pk’d. <- is@1 3

Brown Tiolland .......
Farina

24 lib. packages. ....1 7%

Bulk, per 100 Bs. ..... 3 00
Homin

Flake, 50%b sac soon OO

Pearl, 200%. sack ....3 70

Pearl, 100%. sack 1.

Maccaroni

and Vermicelli

Domestic, 10% box .. 0

Imported, 25tb box ..2 50
Pearl Barley

eee, 2 00
Cuedier ...............2 204
PO ee ee 3 25

Peas |
Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 15
Green, Scotch, bu. ...1 25
Split, Tb.
Rolled Oats
Rolled Avenna, bbls. .4 50
Steel Cut, 100%. sacks 2 10
Monarch, bbl 00

Monarch, 100M. sacks 1 85
Cuaker, Cases ......... 3 10
Sago
at eee .- 1... 3%
German, sacks ........ 3%
German, broken pkg. 4
Taploca

Flake, 110t. sacks .... 3%
Pearl, 130Ib. sacks ... 3
Pearl, 24 1t. pkgs .... 5
Wheat
Crackel, bE ......... 3%
24 2Ib packag eee 50
FISHING eT ACKLE

seer eeeree

  

No. i, eee oo. 5
No. 2, 15 feet 2
No. 3, 15 feet 9
No. 4, 35 feet ,a
No. 5, 15 feet a
No. 6, 15 feet -a2
No. 7. 15 feet -
No. 8 15 feet -
No. 9, 15 feet .. - 26
Linen Lines

 

j} Laurel %4s

| Worden Grocer Co.’s Bran@é

Laurel. %e6 cloth ..... 6 40
Laurel, 1s cloth ..... 6 30
Laurel, %4s & 4s paper 6 20

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Wvkes-Schroeder Co.

| Sleepy Eye. %s cloth .6 10
Sleepy Eve, %s cloth .6 00
| Sleepy Eve, %s cloth .5 90

5 | cleeny Eve, %s paper 5 99
Sleepy Eve. 4s paper 5 90

Meal
Seen. 2 59
Golden Granulated ....2 65

| St. Car Feed screened 22 00

No. 1 Corn and Oats 21 00

Corn. eracked .........2 20 50
Corn Meal, coarse ..22 00
On Meat 7 00

Winter Wheat Bran..18 00
Winter wheat mid’ngs 19 00
18

Cow Feed .........,.. 50

| ats

Cae tote 2.8L 34%
Corn

en wee, 56%

Hay
No. 1 timothy car lots 10 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 50

 

HERBS
ee ee 15
Toes ........... 15
Laurel Leaves ... 15
Senna Leaves 25

JELLY
5Ib pails, per doz ..1 70
Tame pene ............- 35

wee Oe .......... 5 65
LICORICE
ee ee ce eeu s 80
Calabria eee ee eee s 23
i a, 14
ee ee ee cee pS |
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz ... 4 60
Condensed, 4 doz ..... 3 00
MEAT EXTRACTS

Armour’s, 2 > eee cae 445
Armour s 468 .....:.. 8 20

Liebig’s, chaenn : 0z.2 75
Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 0z.5 50
Liebig’s. Imported, 2 oz.4 55
Liebig’s, Imported, 4 02.8 50
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy — Kettle .. 40

   

Choice Medeedcace ae
Par .. - 26
Good 22

 

Half ‘barrcis Sc extra.
MINCE MEAT
Columbia, per case ..2 7

 

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Horse acme ARD
Horse Radish. ia. .1t& | Deland’s
Bayle’s C C2 ge i). 79 | Deuits toe
oso 1 ao 50 | tts. antag Coe ae 5 oo | Big Master i00-bars 1-00
Bulk, 1 gal — | Woe eeeaibesaene =| | Marseilles White bars 4 00 |
Bulk, 2 gal kegs ...1 yandotte, ee 10 | Snow Bo hite soa 00 |
Bulk, 5 gal kegs .... U0 ve 100 %s “2 00 | Police Wash ree -4 00 | TOBA
on ee — Lae z | Granulated, —- -- & OF a r & Gamble bo, 00 a cass ay
ueen, in Z. es ranul : ns . a fory, ea a adillac ut
en a. 35 Lump, “pols. ssc |S a Sweet Lomig 2.2011 sa | Shoop Standard
i € see. e 4um he oe 0 Bogen Megane : a ee a
; Stutred = ee +4 50 Dp, 145lb kegs .... 75 CB Wakao” 6 75 | Huaweine: 5Ib pails lise |= oe a 1 60) Ju
j Stuffed, 8 = abana 7 vu 2 “as LL Se on aa waa 10 ——— 10Ib Pails - -56 ‘Swire, Cable ae need is Jumbo, 321b. ei
oe uffed, § oz ..-...... | omm os i. a | Cedar ea B ee eocaes a .
one Mae 165 100 3Ib on Gr ountr Tl agg Exeici ge P ee 1 9 saa ie
, =s See nae a aca Ot ae nll aper, ed, bra 90 mn Cream 1.1.2...
‘ a. eS 8 a0) Bmp sacks iain 1 95 | J: aan peal 40 Protection GE .....6, = ond = ae gi Sugar sti ne
ay, © nr oe 56 ee 1 35 | ackson, 1 ity Coap C sweet we ne aera 5 oe a c
Cob . full coun qo | 86 WD. sacks -......- ific 6 oz) . Tiger rey (an 40 Tooth 26 ine
, No. 3 oe {2 28 Ib sacks AEN 13 | Gold Dust, 24 large «. 2401. ee Hardwood _—— eo Se
s —— «s+. 85/56 Mm. a ea 15 | — paat. 2 is nee Gress Plug -- a7 —— eieaaawes 2 50 Competition aN 6Y,
arrels, 1,200 cou - dairy in dri | Kirkoline, 2 ee ssa ee Banquet ..-2...0+... *"2 75 | Special bude mua!
Half bbls. 600 aa 5 00 amg dairy in aril ae 40 | Pearline 24 AMD. os. 3 80 Kyl ting 35 a ie 1 50 Conserve stteees a i
“" oO p o g p | So ee ee RR rence nen oe ae ONSETVE .eeee ee ee sles.
Barrels, 2 Small unt ..3 00 56Ib. «as Back ags 20) thames ea 3 75 | Se eon ae 41 Mouse, wont 3B 1 50 a saan 7:
Half bb! ,400 cou rt Rosei ae ue 4 10 | Ameri oo | co cee _ eee _ | Broke ie :
bis.,, 1,20 mt wot Granule ommon . 2A Se 375\S a a 37 Mas ood, 4h _ g2/1¢ n ;
PLAYIN¢ oe Medi ated, fi oe 75 | Standar tagle ba ee se, Wo oles . 46 ie Coat
_ = ao CARDS. - edium_ fine ae ase 80 AFMOUF'S ......0+2.00. : 50 | Spear ne Navy r2e08 | = rig 6 holes 7 Renae
ae ee edeleenie Lae ee | > i ’ " i" AN soccees es esuaus
No. 16, eee so SALT FISH 85 | J Soap earn 3 = — —. uel ae moe oe holes .. a ole pag aieaa 3
No. of Rover pacar ai aoe Por seatind 8 — a a: — a | epee a 80 | o~_ Ton Crea ly a"
No. a ieee cial aneer 60 | wee Whole _.° @72 | Nine O'cl a 5 10 a oe. esecceces ine 20-in a 75 French a Ste
No. 808 a satin aang 75 | p rips or Se @ 6% | on ae Pires 4 25 | Todd Jonesty i oe a Standard N Star ee se ee ee 10
No. 632 ane oe : 00 | ollock ... icks.7%@il be Lore ateeeree ® 35 [Feday ..--..20.202, |, Standard, No. oH 00 Toca aoe sees ee
=> ist Halibut ‘ ain || ie wcscene seeeee eed Sg an a at . = r ms
438 POTASH” 25 ve _ Hallbut @ 3% | deaemee aoe, poy eS i a a = omy a No. - 00 OF taeckenas One 13
os one erie umn nne 14 | Sapolio, nab pina “— | gescy is er 66 16-in. Cable, => 2S Fanc Drop il
enna Salt Co's... 4 00 Herring aaa, | eee ae ae Gases Comme ip ‘Twist 1.240 iia 2 -.6 60 oo ncy—In_ Pails
PROVISIONS 00, White edivlland an —— = oa 1-40 | NO 3 — “15 50| Pudge Sq ve 14
; ae u ae ; | Sanu ee nT IN PE occ cck. ees oo
é Mess ——— ae Bearers ion ae 25@9 25 feu Manufacturir "3 os | nt a cs a ae — | o. 3 Fibre in ee: 9 = | ase Squares a wpe 12
; a Bae 13 0 White ioop, ke 14 25@5 00 Scourine, a cakes ne se Co | Mill el Twist :: | Bror ies ica 8 55 — eae oe
: Back Fat. Ct i 0 N a e hoop m Zz. 60@ 70 S cakes a Sie we = vi Coats es oe oe Cae La
i er 4 00 | Round 10 chs @ 1 Boxes ODA ca\.0 ae | Dewey... 00000 2 so | searngnt oe 11
¢ Le id 50 ound, 100tbs_... @ 6 | Kegs, Er a . Sw Smok ae Si ae a 3 50 San Bl a 11
ee 3 50 Round Ibs | nglish soe. O16 eet Co ing ingle A e .. 75; Lo as Goodies ..... 11
Sealed 401s ..22 2... i 75 | Columbi SOUPS oe 4% ines Car. TC seeeeees 34 oa Peert & ish ie = Same or seeee i
~ ote aged i 75 | he at Car. wees eeeee, Singl ce Senn 5 | Ch: ges, lain. +--+:
+2 Clear Family eo rooneott oo 15 | Hed Velen 3 00 Bamboo, ié ee = Northern a Oe : = ieee co ee -. a
+ ee 3 50 | No ee Rina *-* 3 a 25 | Doubl ela Poe so . 2
7 SP Dry Salt Meats No. 1, dots 2200 1 50 aneprotele Spice 90/1 X 1, rt 3 Good @ Duplex 1.2.2) 275 Gulciotie hocolates a
xtra Sis Cn : pi oo 25 | C acs . one pail a ‘ 00d Luck ....+2..00. Chz hoc bande
[xtra Shorts .. 92 o. 1, 8Ib teteeeee ee ooo. y Dew So. iS a Hr A 2 75 ampio olates
RIE Gites Meats sates anna a ao Steer ce |e i a ion Gum ‘Drops 8
{ ams, 12 el Meeage || Mess. Otbs. C: ssia, Batavia, bun > 4g Elasman 0.000. .c2s, Magy ers I non Sours 21222111 of *
2 Hams, Ib. avers Be ue 13 50 | Yassia, Sai avia, bu . i Ki — .... 16 i ea 165 mperials a
5 , 12. 3 rage. 10% Mess so. 50 | Cassia, aigon, br nd. 28 ee a ee ein ¢ ee en H
‘ Hams . avers 0% , 10Ibs 2 3 ssia, Sai , brok 28 | + Beer nranas : )26 mm. O22 2 erials | ---«..+--
i be esc ci casi 80 | Cloves, aigon, i a oe QS |, Wood Bows 5 | Ital am O ae ee
i ae. stb. slp oe No. * ae. 1 68 | Clewer pe othe rolls. és | Dukes’ Wixture (0...) 11 Wood es oo rea a © a2
——s ib. average. 10% No. 1, 1001s... an Mace ” Zanzibar -....... 18 Myrtle Navy ae 13 in! Butter ss. “aaa Ces a
: i Z a ngs 22200 ab | Nemes #8867200 a eee a 7 Ps i ae
mien. beef sets. 10% No. 1, l0tbs. «0+... 5 on a fecgg 13 | Yam You Y viene aoe Butter .......0. _ %5| eae = = »
os on (N. ¥ sets.13 Cea Co 15 vutmegs, 1 ee a4 55 | Crea “ee a 1§ in. Butter ..--..... :hi oo tag ih
Califor clear . + cut) cae. 1 oe Nutmegs, 05-10 aime 45 pssomag na _ pails . .40 19 an — Lenton 2 00 | a pears 2
Pic ornia Se Whitefish i 3 | Pepper oe un 35 fc eee ode | "38 y leas ge he 3 25 PO aan 2 12
Pon "eouled" Ham "saad | SO No. t'"No. 2 Fa Cte Pee Ret eee 1B sonatas 8 St
a ko aie | SOD. ee sce bee | SS ae -@ige. a a 29 “17-19 11.13 25 eis ae
Ham pr’s'd . | oe... se 3] ~ S fia. 1% 22 w gale Dro -60
; 2... —aa = oores = ag 10 anspics a a Peerless, 3% > = Common’ Stras smite 25 HL ocolate Drops. +60
[fee twas ae ee ee u >e 12208 ib Stra hoe. Drops.
oso Lard ee en tee 90 z | rae Batavia ee 16 | preg snd 1% a oe 25 | Fibre Manila, red i Bhat Choe. — "35
on. sini Re ac A 53 a oe EDS | Cloves. — Rie 28 | Cant Hook. a 38 No. 1 renee cee 2% Bitter Tans < and
80 eat 8 4 ao eerie 15 | Ginger. —— Hoey 4g | Country C ee 3g |Cream M Ma 1’ Brilliant eets, wos oe
Tb. tubs vance araway yrna .. | Ginger, pean 16 | Forex lub. _..20 Butche anila __ 4 a ae Gums, "1 25
4 60ID. tin . advance % | Caraway we eos 6 |Gin ae aa 13 Good ieee 39-34 | ae s Manila i. Toe euieical 7 Crys.60
: 20Ib. aa advance ig | Celery ~ peer lmeaee oo 13 | Self pindian _seeeesees 2-34 | Wax Butter, mia. alt ozenges, —s au
— advance Hemp, Russian ..... “Bog | MACE varceeseretetteee 95 | Silve nder, 160z, 80z 3 o | wan 8 oS an aa printed... 60
a BID. aaa . advance % | Mixed aa oe 10 cing pap 65 | aross Foam . me, Som 20-22) utter, — 20 i ee coca
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a eee 614 | oo Box, oe 3 dz.2 50 | a. pack: vical a 4@5 | Wool ee ranches: = am, 1% doz 1 00 wintereroen Berries |. 60
, Headcheese — see. Ce i oe Miller's — Polish . 1 = 40 as ta oe an, | i ~ Hane 20 Cl : FRESH FISH -- 58 2. — ee - 60
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sennenees a ral City Soap Co, luce | et aaa te | Live Lobster .. To~e1l | <on Gea 2. 4
oro Naphtha a Te 2 85 a Bares 22 a 0 per ICKING i | Lobster. . @25 | Ten aco No. 3 . ....6 ee
a “gee # 00 | 101 cans % dz in case a ee a ----; go | Haddocie 22: a | ee a a
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Hogs eres eae Pure Cane S| sosnet & |succeee- $4, gle Tee
’ } $ ° Beales |... 2 Le a ne a ig Jed S a . Al as
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‘ou Lewcees | Et all ¢ 5 75 | Me els, pec e ce ccacee Col. oe pee |. 12% Ch gra ate
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Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00}
Parken ......... 55 «6 «00 |

BAKING POWDER

JAXON

4b. cans, 4 doz. case.. 45
%Tb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 85
1tb. cans, 2 doz. case 1 60

Royal
10c size 90
4%41b cans 1 35
60z. cans 1 90
4%TD cans 2 50
% Tb cans 3 75
llb cans 4 80)
= 3Ib cans 13 00
5Ib cans 21 50
BLUING |
Arctic, 40z ovals, p gro 400)
Arctic, 80z ovals, p gro 6 00
Arctic, 160z ro’d, p gro 9 00
BREAKFAST FOOD
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brands |

 

   

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a eee 4 00
Wheat Grits

Cases, 24 2Ib pack’s,. 2 00

CIGARS

 

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd |

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or we 32
Eaee of waere -.: 5... .. 31

Geo. H. Seymour & Co.
Morton House Bouauet 55
Morton House Bouquet 70
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Worden Grocer Co. brand
Ben Hur

Peepeetien 35
Perfection Extras
Pees 8c
Londres Grand.
Standard
Puritanos aoe i"
Panatellas, Finas.

Panatellas, Bock ....
Jockey Club.

COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

 

70 %4%b pkg, per case
35 %tb pkg, per case
38 %4%b pkg, per case
16 %tb pkg, per case

FRESH MEATS
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| Boston Butts ... e <4  ¢ a edhe, te 0 hee
tear tere oc. @ 7%, | ,1.00 carton, 18 in box 10.80
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| Mutton | 25Ib. cloth sacks .... 1.65
‘Carcass @ | 50Tb. = — i 15 |
Tae 8 @12 100%b. cloth sacks ..... 6.00
@ Peck meneure .,...... “90 | |
Veal | be. measure ........ 1.80 |
Cerrar... 4c. 54%@ 8

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White House, tm ......
Excelsior, M & J, 1ib ..
Mrccicior, Me J, 2..
729 7p. @ & J. 1! .-.«
mop Jaen .....-. .
Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....
Distributed
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer Co., De-
troit and Jackson; F. Saun-
ders & Co.,
Symons Bros. & Co.,
naw; Meisel
Bay City:
rand & Co., Battle Creek;
Toledo.

 

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz. in case

Gail Borden Eagle ....6 40
Crown
Champion
Daisy
Magnolia
Challenge
Pee ss
Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00

GELATINE
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Coxe 2 of oe .....: 1 61
Knox’s Sparkling, doz1 20
Knox’s Sparkling, gro 14 00

 

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| Full line of fire and Sic
jlar proof
| Stock by the
| Company. Twenty differ- |
jent sizes on hand at all
| times—twice as many safes

safes kept in

Tradesman

as are carried by any other
house in the State. If you
;are unable to visit Grand

Rapids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.

by Judson

Port Huron; |
Sagi- |
& Goeschel, |
Godsmark, Du- |

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12144Ib. sack Cal meal _ .39 |
25lb. sack Cal meal 45 |
F. O. B. Plainwell, Mich.
SOAP |
pore Soap Co.’s Brands |

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100 cakes, large size..6 50 |
50 cakes, large size..3 25!
100 cakes, small size..3 85 |
50 cakes, small size..1 95 |

Tradesman Co.’s Brand.

 

Black Hawk, one box 2 50 |

Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40 |

Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 |
TABLE SAUCES

Hiatt, lores ..-....- 3 7%
Holford, smal ........ 2 25 |

Piece Viele
Business
ona
Cash Basis
by using

our |
Coupon Book |
System. |
We |
manufacture |
four kinds
of
Coupon Books |
and |
sell them
all at the
same price
irrespective of
size, shape
or
denomination.
We will
be
very
pleased
to
send you samples
if you ask us.
They are
free.

Tradesman Company

Grand Rapids

 

FIREWORKS

Our Special Catalogue

cover design of which

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and a copy is any
; Z merchant's free for

the asking.

“Yellow label” goods

are famous for satis-

SUTL

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Why

makes

a seller. risk

Fs . other when

we _ sell ‘Yellow

Label”

less than what you're asked for commoner kinds?

BUTLER( BROTHERS )CHICAGO i
fireworks for

Better goods and lower prices—how can we give
both?

are the main reasons.

Immense sales and a saving way of selling

Any one of our houses alone sells more fireworks than

the next largest jobber, while the ‘‘mileage” of our
catalogue is merely a postage stamp and its hotel

bills are nothing at all.

It's easy to prove whether we're right or wrong for
in our special catalogue we print guaranteed prices
that are net and not subject to this discount for one

man and that for another.

Tell us to send you our Fireworks catalogue, get the
other fellow’s price down to our Net level and then
compare—not forgetting that, in addition, ours are

the famous ‘‘Yellow Label” goods.

Mention No. J541 when you write and we'll also take

your name for our complete June catalogue now

nearly ready to mail.

Butler Brothers

Wholesalers of Everything
By Catalogue Only

New York

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BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first. insertion and one cent a word for each

subsequent continuous insertion.

No charge less

than 25 cents.

Cash must accompany all orders.

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

ivor Sa —Chance in a lifetime to right
party. First-class bakery, restaurant, ice
cream and soda fountain business. Thriv-

   

 

| once. a.

ing Michigan town of 1,800. Good clean
stock. Two-story brick building, seven |

furnished rooms.
reasons for

Will rent or sell. Good
selling. Bank reference to

anyone concerned. Address No. 602, care
Michigan Tradesman. 602

 

Wanted—A practical carriage man to
buy stock in a weli-established carriage

factory; the president retiring from busi-
ness; established 1872; incorporated 1904;
open shop. The Johnston Carriage Co.,
Oak Park, 11. 591

For Sale, Hotel Property—Steam heated, |
4 lis 29g tasty Steam heated, | sonville.

electric lighted, 21 rooms, $2 per day. New
hotel with plumbing, city water, ete. Con-
veniently located in one of the best towns
in Northern Michigan. Population of vil-
lage upward of 2,000. Hotel is located
within a few rods of the water—deep
water transportation—and
business.
trade and is turning away business much
of the time. Is now rented, but no time
lease. Town has two railroads, excellent
buildings, waterworks, electrie lights and
is thoroughly up-to-date, with the
ot farming country surrounding it. $4,000
eash takes the property. Address No. 590,
care Michigan Tradesman. 590

Sale—For

For

located in splendid county seat; prosper-
ous farming community; the opportunity
of a lifetime; best of reasons for selling.
Box 116, Rochester, Ind. 592.

 

Saie—Iron working plant, machine
equipped with modern machinery.
Foundry, large floor space, complete with
all appliances. Wood working depart-
ment, all new and modern machinery; 3
large brick buildings; new roofs
otherwise in good condition; two
one and two stories; one 50x130 foundry:
with 7% acres ground: switches running
through the shops; plant within 50 to 500

For
shops,

   

 

   

near center of |

cash; a clean $7,500 stock |
dry goods, shoes and groceries, centrally |
|} market

| entire

Has the bulk of the commercial |

Best wholesale
Michigan, doing
to-date machinery,
dleby oven.

bakery in Southern
good business; all up-
including No. 4 Mid-
Will sell cheap if taken at
Thomas, 190 West Main St.,
Jackson, Mich. 571

Shoe Stocks Wanted—We pay cash for
stocks of shoes. Address G. M.
McKelvey & Co., Youngstown, Ohio. 584

Cash for your stock. Our business is
elosing out stocks of goods or making

sales for merchants at your own place of
business, private or auction. We clean

ie

out all old dead stickers and make you a |

profit. Write for information.
Yost & Co... Detroit. Mich.

Chas. LL
250

| unlisted treasury stocks of merit.
| Slasie, Box 120, Park City, Utah.
on cational

~ For Sale——480 acres of cut-over hard- |

wood land, three miles north of Thomp-
House and barn on premises.
Pere Marquette Railroad runs across one
corner of land. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
Tuxbury, 28 Morris Ave., South, —_

   

   

| Rapids, Mich : oe
Ir stments—I have gilt-edge oil, in-
idustrial and plantation stock paying

|from 7 to 15 per cent. dividends; rigid in-
| vestigation
| references given.

courted. Bank and other
J. F. Waite, Suite 730,
5

best | 189 LaSalle St., Chicago, Il. 553

~ For Sale—Cash grocery; good location

for meat also: stock $1,000. Object of
| selling, change of business. Box 445,
| Whiting, Ind. 552

 

  
  

j}and
;in Michigan.

yards of four trunk lines; coal mines in |
switching distance; buildings have thei1
own lighting system; with concession of
30 years’ lease at $1 a year rental: water
$1 a year; city of 8,000: present conces-
sionaries wholly inexperienced men and
will sell at right price. Address L. ¢.
Spooner, Agent, General Delivery, Blu
Mound, Il. 59s
Jewelry stock for sale in a good town.
good location, fine store and fixtures: no

old stock. A
easy
Minn.

For Saie or Trade—One hundred shares
of the Watson, Burand-Kasper
Co.’s capital stock, of Salina.
W. J. Hughes, Box 367, Enid

money-maker;

cheap and
icrms. A. C

Chittenden, Marshall,
597

 

¢ rrocery
Enquire
OT. 59s

ing $3,000. First-class location.
2.000. alive with oil workers. gest and
most prosperous farming community in
Eastern Indiana. ‘Trade will be consider-
ed. : This is a money-maker. Reasons for
selling, owner’s oil interests demand his
exclusive attention. For particulars ad-
dress G. W. Whiteman, Albany, Ind. 600

For Sale-—A stock of new and up-to-
date shoes and fixtures. Address No. 603
care Michigan Tradesman. 602

Wanted—-Location for men’s clothing
Will rent for term

and furnishing goods.

of years. Would buy small stock of same.
Address Clothier, care Michigan Trades-
ee | i 582

_ For Sale—Retail lumber yard. Located
in finest agricultural district in Ohio.
Large territory. A good investment. Ad-
dress Lock Box 34, Jackson Center, Ohio.

Town of

 

a oe 579
Chadron, Nebraska, wants furniture,
dry goods and general merchandise stocks.
Great openings for business. Write P
B. Nelson. 578 f

For Sale—First-class general stock
$3,500. Live town, 25 miles from Grand
Rapids. Apply E. D. Wright, care Mus-

selman Grocery Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Se OS : 576
For Rent-—Storeroom, two floors, 38x99.
Suitable for dry goods, clothing, crockery,
furniture, _ete., good light, steam heat.
best location in Waterloo, Ia. Address
Box O, LaGrange, Til. 575
To Exchange—$16,000 worth of manu.
factured merchandise and formula to
make a successful business proposition.
Want improved or vacant real estate,
farms or timber land; describe fully for

answer. 126 Randolph Bldg. i
Tenn. . ~— ——

| best

We have cash customer for good meat

in good town. Number of farms

to trade for stocks of goods. Stores in

good towns to rent. Clark’s Business Ex-

change, 23 Monroe, Grand Rapids, Mich.
2

 

For Sale—Clean hardware stock estab-
lished 15 years. On
corner

in Grand Rapids. Store

| ducted in connection with large general
| -

and | Stock,
80x160, |
2 | reasonable.

but in separate building.
will inventory about $4,000.
Terms to be agreed upon.
Address No. 545, care Michigan Trades-
man. 545

Stock

Wanted—A good man to locate here
buy live stock. No better location
For particulars address E.
H. Weston, or R. D. Letts, Bannister,
Mich. 541

For Sale—Stock general merchandise in
best mining town in Minnesota, inven-
torying about $20,000. Can reduce to
suit buyer. Good reasons for selling. Will
rent store. Address No.
gan Tradesman.

For Sale-Bakery. Good location.
nice business. Apply to Judson Groeer Co

   

For Sale—Grocery and meat stock. Best
Store in city of Pontiac. Fest location,
trade. Stock about $2,000.

 

|for selling, going out West. Address or tail

 

Wf shes, Bo xe 1 ion BV.
For Sale—Clean stock hardware. invoic- a

3. V. Woodward, Manager. 587
Wanted—-To rent for term of years,

store for general merchandise in good

town in Central Michigan. Would pur-

chase small stock to secure location. Ad-
dress No. 532, care Michigan Tradesman.
29

"A first-class and up-to-date general

For Sule—A good clean stock of gro-
ceries, lamps and crockery, located in
one of the brightest business towns in
Central Michigan. Has electric lights,
water works and telephone system, popu-
lation 1,506 and surrounded by splendid
farming community. Store is situated
on popuiar side of the street and one of
the finest locations on the street. No
trades will be entertained. but reasons
for selling will be entirely satisfactory to
the purehaser. Address No. 422, care
Michigan ‘Tradesman. 422
Mining Investors Attention!

For sale,
Chris
5

 

 

 

 

Stores Bought and Sold—I sell stores
and reai estate for cash. I exchange
stores for land. If you want to buy, sell
or exchange, it will pay you to write me.
Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express

| Bidg., Chicago, il. 511

For Sale—As we wish to give our entire
attention to our elevator business, we

| will sell our stock of shoes and groceries.

excellent business |
is con- |

Rent of store |

| hardware.

| lars.

|
|
|

|

 

| Martin, Allegan County.

Reason |

No dead stock, good profits, and a money
maker. Elsie is the best town in Cen-
tral Michigan. No trades’ considered.
Investigate if you are looking for a pay-
ing business. Hankins Bres., Elsie, =
42

 

‘Vanted—To buy stock of merchandise
from 34,000 to $30,000 for cash. Address
No 2543. eare Michigan Tradesman. 2543

For general stock and
frame store building, located at railway
point in Northern Michigan, tributary
to growing farming country. Only store
in town. Stock inventories about $1,500.
Terms to suit purchaser. Address No.
561, care Michigan Tradesman. 561

Drug stock in hustling town of 600. In-
voice $3,450. Priee $2,500 if taken by
June ist. Fine location and profitable
business. Best reasons for retiring. Ad-
dress X, care Michigan Tradesman. 535

Sale—Clean

To Exchange—Fine prairie farming
land. Will trade at actual cash value
for stock good clean merchandise or

For particulars address
Stuttgart, Ark. 3
—Stock of general merchandise
or clothing or shoes. Give full particu-
Address ‘‘Cash,.”"" care Tradesman.

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For Sale—Michigan hardwoods; es-
pecially maple. elm and ash. J. S. Goldie,
Cadillac. Mich. 558

For Sale
notions, located in

  

Small stock of groceries and
the thriving town of
Good reason for
selling. Write or enquire of Edward J.
Anderson, Plainwell, Mich. 539

 

 

 

‘HELP WANTED. ~
~ Agents Wanted—Thirty

good agents

i wanted at once; good pay: good oppor-
tunity for good men who are willing to
work. Write us at once for full particu-
lars. Address Grand Rapids Novelty Mfg.
Co., 74-16 Monroe St., Grand Kapids,
Mich. 599
Wanted—Salesman, none but the best

|of specialty salesmen
| article on

store in one of the best villages in West- |

ern Wisconsin;
1,000. No trade.

stock inventories : about

Also a very nice hard-
ware stock with store building, ware-
house, ete., a rare chance for the right
man. It will take about $8,000 to handle
this, but it is better than a bank. Ne
trade. A fine opening for the right party.
W. E. Webster, Hudson, Wis. 5

We are retiring from business and of-
fer for sale our department stores. The
best paying stores in any small town in
Southern Michigan. Stocks consist of
clothing, shoes, dry goods, carpets, mil-
linery, ete. Can be reduced to about $10,-

 
 

000. Will sell all to one party or dry
goods or clothing department separate.

A big chance for the right party.
traders need apply.
interested address M. H. S., care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 570
For Sale—One pair of high bred, strong
and racy-built fox hound pups, four
months old, $30 each or $50 for the pair.
Satisfaction guaranteed or money re-
funded. Joe Shill, Winamac, Ind. 565
For Sale—Good paying hardware stock
and tin shop, located at corner Ottawa
and Coldbrook streets, Grand Rapids. No
other hardware store within seven blocks.
Stock will inventory about $1,600. Good
reasons for selling. Enquire T. Stadt &
Sons, 319 West Leonard St. 566
‘The only variety store in a town of
3,500; 11 factories; good farming country;
good reasons for selling. Lock Box 846,
Belding, Mich. 580

 

 

 

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and wood. For full information, write
|Gem Oil Burner Co., Willoughby, Ohio.

need apply, on an
which we allow a large com-
mission and which will soon be in use in
nearly every hardware store in the
country. Address C. A. Peck Hardware
Berlin, Wis. 601
Representative wanted to introduce the
only burner made in the United States
which will make natural gas
and properly heat any kind of a stove or

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Salesman to carry a good side line that
will pay traveling expenses. Sells to

 

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| stores.

Pocket model free.

Season now
Novelty Mfg. Co.. Ottawa. TH 329

Wanted—Capable salesman to cover
Michigan with staple line. High com-
missions, with advance of $100 monthly.
Permanent position to right man. Jess.
H. Smith Co., Detroit, Mich. 524
Salesman Wanted—A
wholesale grocery house that sells direct
to consumers. Address Wholesale, Box
427. Jackson. Mich. £42

on,

 

 

 

 

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isfied
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To Exchange—-s80 acre farm 3% miles
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acres timber and 10 acres orchard land,
fair house and good well, convenient to
good school, for stock of general mer-

      

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estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
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Bankrupt Sale

The Stock of General Hardware, Agricul-
tural Implements, Wire Fencing, Store Fix-
tures, Notes and Book Accounts of Ivan C.

Elsbey, bankrupt, Roekford, Mich., are offered
at the

prop-

for private sale. On June 3d, 10 a. m.
the
the real estate of

bankrupt, will be sold at auction.

village of Rockford, any of above

erty remaining unsold, and

The stock is in excellent shape. Inventory

and appraisal may be seen at my office.
Cc. A. RENWICK, Trustee
45 Pearl St.

MAKE US

Grand Rapids

PROVE IT

 

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I. S. TAYLOR F. M. SMITH

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who has never had a fail-

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AJCTION CO.,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

MENU OF THE JUNGLE.

“Hunger the Best Sauce” the World
Over.

The bill of fare of the jungle is as
extensive as it is unusual; and no one
can form any idea of it unless neces-
sity has compelled him to use __ it.
Personally, having been obliged on
my numerous journeys in the interior
cf South America to partake of these
unconventional tidbits, I much prefer
them to the limited and monotonous
diet of the natives. In Bolivia, for
example, the daily food consists of
the so-called “chupe,” which is made
of cooked Indian corn and chunes—-
that is, frozen potatoes. This re-
markable dish is hardly inviting to
the American, especially as_ the
chunes are like stewed corks in flavor
and consistency.

My introduction to the jungle bill
of fare was made by a black and yel-
low water snake about seven feet
long, which I killed one day, and
actually cooked, but only because a
ravening hunger drove me to it. I
see myself now, sitting qualmishly
before this curious repast and debat-
ing whether to taste it, while an ap-
petizing smell, which only increased
my hunger, poured forth from __ it.
Hesitatingly, I took ffom the pot a
morsel of the inviting looking meat,
slowly laid the delicious smelling bit
to my lips, and gingerly began to
taste it. Having made a beginning,
it did not take long to finish, for the
flavor was extremely delicate. I fell
to heartily until I had satisfied my
hunger. Now all my prejudices on
the larder question dispelled,
and without more ado I investigated
everything which looked eatable to

were

me.

After several attempts I have been
obliged to give up all of the cat spe-
cies as uneatable, for the flesh is far
from palatable and remarkably tough.
Almost all kinds of snakes may be
eaten. They make splendid roasts
and soups. The flesh of most varie-
ties resembles in flavor and appear-
ance that of our eels. Indeed, I am
inclined to think that it is better
than that of eels. I must make an
exception of the boa constrictor, the
flesh of which more resembles that of
a rabbit.

I find roast monkey an especially
tempting delicacy. There are, how-
ever, several kinds of monkeys whose
flesh is uneatable. The meat of the
South American howler tastes horri-
ble, and I never ate it except when
driven to it by hunger. All kinds of
raccoons make fine dinners and taste
like turkey. The armadillo makes as
delicious a meal and tastes something
like pork. A well roasted armadillo
is as great a treat for me as a suck-
ing pig.

Most kinds of feathered creatures
make good roasts, but I have found
that the chicken tribes have much
more palatable flesh than the rest ex-
cept certain kinds of ducks. Of the
great delicacy which roast parrot is
said to yield I have never become
convinced, and can only testify that
the flesh is remarkably tough. The
South American river crabs, which I
found in several places in Peru, were

 

fine, and not to be compared with
their North American cousins. Va-

rious kinds of snails are just as good.’

Most kinds of turtles taste good,
but the meat must be cooked a long
time or it will have a strong, un-
pleasant after taste. Almost all kinds
of the deer and pigs of these coun-
tries make excellent dinners, and the
sloth is not bad. Tapir foot makes a
veal roast fit ta tempt an epicure.

Eggs of turtles, ostriches and alli-
gators are edible in every form. Os-
trich eggs are cooked in their shells.
The first thing is to make a hole in
one side of the egg. Then you take
a short stick with a piece of twine
tied to the middle, put it through the
hole in the egg shell, and brace it
against the sides. Then suspend the
egg by the string over a good coal
fire until the contents are cooked to
the desired degree of hardness.

Then, too, various vegetable dishes
can be prepared out of the most
diverse kinds of vegetable growths.
Thus, for example, a good substitute
for asparagus may be made out of the
young shoots of many kinds of ferns,
while the upper part of the marrow
of all kinds of palms yields an excel-
lent salad, tastes
without vinegar and oil.

which good even
Many kinds
of tuberous plants make good substi-
tutes for potatoes, while a great num-
ber of plants lend themselves kindly

to preparation as spinach.

The most peculiar roast which, in
all the course of my travels, it ever
fell to my lot to eat was a roast sea
cow, or manatee. This seal-like ani-
mal has four different kinds of meat,
which are as dissimilar as possible,
both in appearance and in taste. The
meat from the head tastes and looks
like good veal; that of the back is like
pork. The under part of the body
has a pronounced fishy flavor, but
so strong that there is no enjoyment
in eating it. The tail fins are held
in great esteem as a delicacy by the
natives, but I could discover nothing
in them except a flavor as unpleasing
to me as it was unfamiliar.

The wilds of the mountains yield
fewer palatable articles of food. Vi-
cunas have flesh which is like goat’s
meat in flavor, but not so tender. The
deer of that region are extremely
good to eat. Under all circumstances,
and in all parts of the world, it is
true that “hunger is the best sauce.”

O. Sperber.
——_.-2.-—————

In some parts of the West
South the people are getting inter-
ested in a new paving material, call-
ed Kentucky rock asphalt, that is
said to have peculiar qualities fitting
it for road making. It is ground up,
spread over a prepared roadbed to
the thickness of three-fourths of an
inch and thoroughly rolled. With-
out heating it becomes in the course

and

of a few days solid, resembling any
asphalt pavement. It is said to be
dustless, free from mud and not slip-
pery.

——_+- 2 ___

It isn’t possible to sell shoes while
your feet are higher than your head.
Deliver your convincing arguments in
fitting the customer.

 

AFTER THE GRAFTERS.

Graft and grafters are not confined
to the city of Grand Rapids or the
State of Michigan. Other cities,
counties and states have them in
greater or less numbers and _ the
better element in all communities is
anxious to be rid of them. Now and
again legislatures introduce bills cal-
culated to lessen this evil and occa-
sionally one passes. Everyone ad-
mits that there is need for reform.
The only question is how it can best
be accomplished. The last Wiscon-
sin Legislature passed such a bill. Its
framers aimed to make it include gra-
tuities to buyers for commercial
houses, tips to porters, servants, etc.,
as well as corruption in politics. All
gratuities in return for service sup-
posed to be paid for by another em-
ployer are held to be a species of
objectionable graft. The important
section in the Wisconsin statute is as
follows:

“Whoever corruptly gives or offers
any agent, servant or employe any
gift or gratuity whatever with inten-
to influence his actions in rela-
to his gift shall be liable to a
from $10 to $500, or to
fine and imprisonment for one year.”

It is not perfectly plain that this
law can be invoked against such gra-
tuities as go by the popular name of
because “cor-
ruptly” given.

tion
tion

fine such

“Tips,” they are not
A man who gives a
Pullman porter a quarter does it at
the end of the journey, not to corrupt
him, but in recognition of courtesies
That defense, can
invoked in behalf of the man who
gives or promises to give a city or
county official money or something
else valuable for his influence and as-
sistance in securing a contract. It is
notorious that corrupt methods are
often resorted to in making sales of
goods to municipalities. While it is
not bruited abroad and boasted of, it
is still sort of an open secret, some-
thing that many people know about
and wink at and for which they say
there is no practical remedy. This
State has laws against this sort of
thing, but the real difficulty is in en-
forcing them. The man who receives
the bribe of course denies it and the
man who gives it must of necessity
protect the man with whom he did
the business if he proposes ever to do
business with him and his associates
It is not at all probable that
any state will have too many laws
against grafters and graft, but it is a
fact that most states have laws
enough already, provided they were
rigidly and fearlessly enforced.
_—-oo-o——————
It Is a Bogardus Kicker.

Owosso, May 23—Prosecutor C. M.
Hamper and W. E. Hall were inform-
ed at Lansing by the Attorney Gen-
eral that grocers’ peddling wagons
which make trips into the country
should pay the yearly license of $75
each.

The law, however, is so broad that
grocery and meat clerks who make
dzily visits to their customers to take
orders are classed as peddlers also.
Mr. Hall says if he is forced to pay
the license fee, he will insist that the
law be enforced all the way down the

however, not be

again.

 

line. As the license money goes to
the State, no one in this immediate
vicinity would be benefited by  en-
forcing the law. The opposition to
the peddling wagons, in view of the
statute’s very ample provisions, is
expected to peter out.
—_—_. >

The Boys Behind the Counter.

Traverse City—Harry who
has been employed in the clothing de-
pertment of the Hannah & Lay Mer-
cantile Co. store some months past,
has gone to Rapid City to take a po-
sition in the general store of Way &
Son.

Marshall—Clifford Page has resign-
ed his position with B. A. Kelleher
to accept one with H. A. Woodruff
& Sons, a shoe concern in Lansing,
and will assume the duties of his new
position in about two weeks, Mr.
Page has been salesman at Kelleher’s
for five and a half years.

Kalkaska—Miss Alice Hoffman,
who has been in the employ of the
Palmer & Hobbs Co.

lady, has resigned her position. She

Dean,

 

 

as head sales-

is ‘succeeded by Miss Izzie Neier.
6

Detroit—The Magic Gas Mantle
Co. has been organized with $30,000
capital stock, of which $19,000 has
been paid in in cash. The stockhold-
ers are A. Egestorff, Jr., A. W. Lew-
is, Henry B. Schantz and Henry B.
Schantz, trustec.

BustnsHanls

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

For Sale—Bakery and grocery. New
Leing good business. Sickness
for selling. Lock Box 158, Paw

, Mich. 604
For Sale—A complete and up-to-date
set of grocery fixtures, oak finish, cost
$500. Will be sold at a big sacrifice if
taken at once. Schulz & Pixiey, St.
Joseph, Mich. 611

For Sale and Trade—We have good,
first-class stocks of goods; general mer-

ehandise, clothing, hardware, shoes. im-
plements. drugs, jewelry, racket stocks,
ete.; some for sale for cash, some for

trade, some for part trade and part cash.
Located in Indiana, Indian Territory, II-

 

linois, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and Michi-
gan. If you are in the market for any
kind of a stock, we have it. Somers &
Warren, 500 Manhattan Bidg., St. Paul,
Minnesota. 610

For Sale—A large number of selected
Delaware farms, beautifully located.
Write for free 1905 catalogue to Chas.

M. Hammond,
ford, Delaware.

Real Estate Broker, Mil-
609

 

Wanted—Location for dry goods and
notions. Population 2,000 to 10.000. Ad-
dress R. Sabel, 58 Eureke. Ave., Wyan-
dotte, Mich. 608

I want to rent clothing department in
live department store and live town any-
where, or will divide store with some
good up-to-date shoe or gents’ furnish-
ing or dry goods man and inaugurate a
big sale. My clothing is Al, very low
price and want immediate action. Rhea
Clothing Co., 12 State St., Chicago. 606

We Buy For Spot Cash—Part or your
whole shoe and general merchandise
stock. Write us to-day and our repre-
sentative will call at once ready to do
business. Merchandise Buyers Syndicate,
12 State St., Chicago. 607

For Sale—Building occupied successfully
for sixteen years as grocery and meat
market. One of the best business cor-
ners in city. Present occupant will lease
premises for a year, if purchaser desires.
Address No. 581, care Michigan Trades-
man. 581

 

 

 

 

HELP WANTED.

Wanted—-Experienced grocery delivery-
man. German. Must be recommended
and willing to work. Steady employment.
State age and married or single. An-
swer, stating wages expected and ex-
perience. C. B. Mansfield & Co, Colling,
Mich, 05

 

 

 

 

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