ESMAN »

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-Second Year

 

Collection Department

R. G. DUN & CO.

Mich. Trust Building, Grand Rapids
Collection delinquent accounts; cheap, 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,

 

William Connor, Pres. Joseph 8. Hoffman, Ist Vice-Pres.
Wiiliam Alden Smith, 2d Vice-Pres.
M. C. Huggett, Seoy-Treasurer

The William Connor Co.

WHOLESALE CLOTHING
MANUFACTURERS

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

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

 

Commercial
Credit Co.,

Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids

Detroit Opera House Block, Detroit

Good but rou
upon receipt of our direct de-
Send ll

accounts to our offices for collec-

slow debtors

mand _ letters. other

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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 failure in any company you
are reimbursed from the trust fund of a
successful company. The stocks are all
withdrawn from a with the exception of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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SPECIAL FEATURES.

Page.

Window Trimming.
New York Market.
Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
Half a Century.
Editorial.

9. Sixty Years Ago.
Butter and Eggs.

16. Clothing.

18. Hard Work.

20. Clerks’ Corner.

22. Meat Market.

26. Hardware.

28. Woman’s World.

31. Bargain Hunters.

32. Shoes.

34. Eight Hour Men.

36. Panics and Strikes.
38. Dry Goods.

40. Commercial Travelers.
42. Drugs.

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

 

 

THE MAN WHO LAUGHS.

The man who laughs is a doctor
without a diploma. His face does
more good in a sick room than a
bushel of powders or a gallon of bit-
ter draughts. People are always glad
to see him. Their hands instinctively
go out halfway to meet his grasp,
while they turn involuntarily from the
clammy touch of the dyspeptic who
speaks in the groaning key. He
laughs you out of your faults, while
you never dream of being offended
with him, and you never know what

 

a pleasant world you are living in|

until he points out the sunny streaks |

in its pathway.
Chauncey M. Depew.

 

THE OREGON EXPOSITION.

World’s fairs in various countries
have become of such frequent occur-
rence that they do not always attract
the attention they deserve; neverthe-
less, as they commemorate some im-
portant event when they are held in
this country, they stand for much that
is of note and are not only expres-
sions of material progress, but they
are landmarks along the highways of
history in the Western World.

There have been held in the limits
of the United States world’s fairs
commemorating the Discovery of
America, the signing of the Declara-
tion of Independence, the first expor-
tation of cotton from the Southern
States, the purchase of Louisiana
from France, and some others of less-
er note. There was opened last week
at Portland, Oregon, the centennial
of the occupying by forces of the
United States of territory on the Pa-
cific coast, and two years hence there
will be celebrated by an exposition in
Virginia the tercentenary or three
hundredth anniversary of the landing
of English settlers at Jamestown in
1607.

The Oregon celebration grew nat-
urally out of the purchase of the
Louisiana territory from France. The
treaty by which the United States
acquired Louisiana gives a very in-
definite description of the territory

 

1905

eastern
boundary was the Mississippi River,
except in Louisiana proper, where it
includes the Island of Orleans, which
is east of the river, and in Minnesota,

to Lake Superior. The

western |

|

Number 1133

shape in the matter of preparation
that saved us from such a lesson as
would not have been readily forgot-

ten. The Boer war showed that Great

| Britain had been living in a fool‘s par-
where the eastern boundary extends |

boundary was the line of the Spanish |

possessions to the Rocky Mountains,
and along the main line of that range
to the British territory in the North.
The Gulf of Mexico
southern boundary.

formed the

No sooner had that vast region be-
come the property of the United
States than it was desired to secure
some information concerning its
quality and extent. President Jeffer-
son obtained an appropriation from
Congress for the purpose, and he sent
out an expedition under Captains
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,
of the Army, both able and accom-
plished officers.

The party as first organized con-
of the two fourteen
United States soldiers, nine Kentucky
hunters, two French Canadian
ageurs who were specially skilled in
canoe navigation, a Western hunter
‘These

sisted officers,

voy-

and a NEStrOo SECrVant. were

twenty-nine in all.

| tagonist as the Japanese.

adise, as the actual test of war prov-
that many of the important de-
partments of the British Army were
far from being equipped to bear the
strain of a campaign.

ed

Perhaps never in history has the
evil of unpreparedness been more
glaringly demonstrated than in the
present war in the Far East. De-

spite the fact that Russia provoked
the war and entered upon it with su-
preme confidence in an easy victory,
the developments of the past eighteen
months proven that
military establishment was totally un-

have Russia’s

prepared to cope with such an an-
Transpor-

| tation, commissariat and the task of

| re-enforcing the army at

At St. Louis, then

a frontier village, sixteen additional |

They

men were enlisted. started

the Mississippi River flowing in from
the Northwest and joining the main

river just above St. Louis.

Late in October of that year the
party reached the country of the
Mandan Indians, in what is now
South Dakota, some 1,600 miles from
St. Louis, and wintered among the
natives. In September of 1805 the ex- |

a
plorers crossed the Rocky Mountains, |

and on November 7 reached the Paci-
fic Ocean near the mouth of the Co-
lumbia River.
of what are now the States of Ore-
gon and Washington, for the United
States, and in March, 1806, they start-
ed back to St. Louis, reaching that
place on September 23, 1806.

They took possession

The journals and records made by
Lewis and Clark are of extreme inter-
est for their romantic adventures, as
well as of great value for the scienti-
fic facts contained them.
was made the first Governor of the
Louisiana Territory, and at his death

in Lewis

the front
This applies
to both army and navy, and probably
more so to the latter than the former

have all broken down.

branch of the service. On the other
of the
proves that the Japanese were most
thorough

hand, the history struggle

in their preparations.
Everything has been planned in ad-

vance and the needed supplies of mu-

| nitions, stores and men have been ac-
ifrom St. Louis May 14, 1804, follow-
|ing the Missouri, the great branch of

 

he was succeeded by Clark, who had |

become a general in the Army.

 

SECRECY AND PREPARATION.

Old as is the proverb that “In time

of peace prepare for war,” the world |

is constantly furnishing examples of |

foolhardy recklessness in this respect. |

The war with Spain of seven years

ago found this country entirely un- |

prepared, and it was only the fact that |

our adversary was in even worse

The
needs of the campaign have been so
out
appear to

cumulated where most needed.
advance

have

worked in

not

thoroughly
that there
been

does
hitch
since the beginning of the war by the
breakdown of any branch of the Jap-
anese military service.

a single or contretemps

Next to thorough preparation, the
thing that has helped the Japanese

has been

most secrecy. Mere cen-
sorship, no matter how rigorous,
would not suffice to so completely

conceal every military move from the
outside world. The whole people have
been educated to the importance oi
not revealing military movements, and
this obligation is felt by every one,
with the result that Japan has been
able to keep the movements of her
armies and fleets profoundly secret.
It was the inability of the Russians
to locate Togo’s fleet that was large-
ly responsible for the blunder Rojest-

vensky made of sailing into the
Tsushima Channel.

The lesson of the present war
which every country should learn is

the importance of keeping fully pre-
It
might also be well to imitate, within

pared at all times for emergencies.

bounds, the remarkable secrecy with
which the Japanese veil all their oper-
ations.

There are more ways than one of
losing money, which merely demon-
strates that money can be lost in

more ways than won.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Views of a Trimmer Long in the
Business.
veek

| ae

I was talking one day last

with a windowman who is an
knowledged expert in his chosen field.
Or, rather, I asked a question here
and there let all the

talking.

and him do

Said he:

temporarily, sick man had to go to

Arizona for his lungs, didn’t come
back—and here I am.
“That’s the way a great many of

us get our start. From being what
you might call a ‘supe’ we develop
the

looked up to by all the rest.

into a man about store who is

ition is one in which there is

The po- |

pro-}

motion ahead, if one improves con- |

| tinually, because there is always de-

| mand for the clever men. In the large

| city stores window trimmers get big

| wages, but it is hard to get a posi-

tion in those places. Oftentimes the

| head trimmer in one of the largest
“Yes, aS you say, window dressing |

. - |
has worked itself up to the place|
where it might be called an art. One}
can not do well at the business un-

less his whole heart and soul are in
it--unless he throws himself into the
work with a fine enthusiasm. A man
who is half-hearted, no matter what
the affair in
well as the

hand, can never

one who believes him-
self especially fitted for it and makes
everything else subservient to his
calling.

“A window trimmer should, above
all things, aim at originality. Of
must take more
to the
he his bread
butter. These should be the best pub-
lished, and when paid his
year’s subscription he should peruse
them to the his

money’s worth--and more—from his

course, he one or
subject

and

devoted
makes

magazines
whereby

he has
getting

extent of

purchase.
originality; but this does not mean

I said, he should aim at
-

that he shall never glean a hint or
suggestion from the efforts of others
He may
absorb much from observing the ac-

in the same field of exertion.

complishments of fellows engaged in
the same operation as himself. But
at the same time he must not allow
himself to become a mere copyist.
Such a course would be fatal to prog-
ress, would kill the incentive to ad-
vance to the highest pinnacle of suc-
cess.

“The first thing a beginner in the
business has to learn is to overcome
the desire to show a great quantity
of objects all at once. He seems to
be possessed with the idea that he
must display a sample of everything
in the shop. Really, the less articles
in a window the better, so as to fo-
attention of the
If a great lot of

the
idea

the pedestrian
on the few goods.
stuff is used in a trim average
beholder has clear of what
he has seen and, perhaps, could not
name a half dozen he
has passed on.

“Tt goes without saying that many

cus

no

articles when

shoppers are of many minds and the
merchandise that would appeal spe-
cifically to one person’s taste would
be spurned by another as_ spurious.

Even so: but avoid the danger of

stores in a State is more than glad

to give his. services for _ several

months to get the experience as 4

>

| ‘helper’ in a mammoth Chicago store

| like

Marshall Field’s. Then he has

| an equipment that stands him in good

do as}

 

 

 

overcrowding if you would enjoy the

reputation of being a first-class win-
dowman is always my advice when
a novice asks my ideas.

“‘TIow did I come to take up the
occupation?’

“Oh, like a great many others in
the line, I simply dropped into it.
Regular man was sick for a long
time, I, as his ‘helper,’ took his place

stead to get a better position than the

one where he drew his last wages.

“There are quite a number of
women who have taken up this work.
In many instances they are the wife
or other relative of the head man. In
Philadelphia there is one great store
all

arranged at night, and those employ-

where the window displays are
ed for this are a man and his wife—
and she is declared to be really ‘the
better man of the two. In many
ways women are better fitted for this
occupation than men. They generally
have finer taste and, whereas a man
has to study up on colors and com-

binations of colors, a woman seems
to possess this knowledge intuitively.”
ee
Colors and Mosquitoes.
A young girl was talking about

She had spent the sum-
mer in a place where they were nu-
merous.

“But 1 noticed,” “that
when I wore a yellow dress I didn’t

mosquitoes.

she said,
get a single bite.”

“Did
young scientist.

the
went

notice that?” said

And then

you
he
on eagerly:

“T am glad you noticed that, for it

is a verification of certain experi-
ments that we have made.
“We made these experiments in

a gauze tent, and their object was
to ascertain the effect on mosquitoes
of colors.

“We placed in the tent boxes lined
with cloth of different
found that the little
frantically into the dark
the yellow box
not, under any circumstances, enter.

ihe

several weeks.

hues, and we
crowded
blue

pests
box,
while they would
experiments extended over
We had in the tent
stone vessels for the mosquitoes to
breed in. We discovered that, next
to the dark
sought the dark red box.
dark

then

blue, the mosquitoes
After the
red, came brown, then
black,

green,

scarlet,

then slate gray, then

olive then violet,
gray, then white.

“Thus proved that the mos-
quitoes notice colors, and we formu
lated two helpful hints
habitants of mosquito
tricts.

“The first hint is to wear yellow
to escape mosquito bites, and to use
yellow netting for bed canopies and
window screens.

then pearl
we

in-
dis-

for the
ridden

| securing

“The second hint is to use a blue
lined box if you want to trap mos-
quitoes. With this box, in an infest-
ed region, you could easily catch and
cestroy thousands of the. insects
daily.”

2. --

To Boom Imlay City.

—A
Men's Association for the purpose of

Imlay City, june 5

factories and . otherwise
booming

ized by the business men of this city.

Business |

this place has been organ- ;

 

| with the following officers at the head
lof the movement: President, T. T.
| Crandall; Vice-President, J. I. Wer-
|nette; Secretary, Frank Bathsburg;
| Treasurer, J. S. Marshall.

maxim of
ao

the
can't

remember

oat
all, do all you can do well.”
——_—_2»——_——_—_

While hustling for a living, don’t

Nlwvraw
Always

Aristocratis: you

{neglect your liver.

————
The value of experience depends on
lhow you take it.

 

 

 

 

Patents
Granted

To the Computing Cheese Cutter Co., Ander-

1905. We now have a

cutter that is fully protected by United States

Patents, which protect all agents and jobbers

selling our cutter, as well as all retailers using

assured that you are protected against dam-

age suits of any kind.

ter buy one that is patented.

will be prosecuted.

son, Ind., on May 23,
it. When you buy this cutter you can feel

When ordering a cut-

All infringers

Computing Cheese Cutter Co.
621-625 Main St., Anderson, Ind.

 

 

   
       
     

High Grade
Cigars

are found oftener in adver-
tisements than in show cases.

You’ll find the

S. C. W.

 

 

high grade in both particulars.

easier to prove by simply smoking one of them.
will pull for a box order and buying that will save you money.
So many critical smokers endorse the S. C. W. that you should

join the procession.

Try One Now
G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., navers Grand Rapids, Mich.

5c Cigar
it’s
one

It’s easy to say this; but
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TRADESMAN

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Special Features of the Grocery and |
Produce Trade.

Special Correspondence.

York, June 3—We have had

one of the most quiet weeks in the

New

coffee trade we have experienced for

a long time. There is scarcely any-

 

thing being done in invoice trading
and the general distributing trade is
Advices from |
Europe show about the same condi- |

also extremely quiet.

tions prevailing there and the whole}
situation is a waiting one. Quotations
unchanged and it is
not thought any decline will ensue.
The decrease in the world’s visible

are practically

supply in May was about 650,000 bags.
In store and
afloat there are 3,956,954 bags, against
2,770,937 bags at the same time last
The receipts of coffee at Rio

No. 7 is worth 776c.

year.
and Santos are not so much behind

 

those of last season, as from July 1,
1904, to June 1, 1005, the aggregate
was 9,604,000 bags, against 10,080,000
bags at the same time last year. As
to mild sorts there is simply a drag-

ging, every-day trade and quotations
Good Cucutas, 94@
Bogotas, 1034@

are unchanged.

gc; good average

Tic.
While the rather cold weather has
been unfavorable for an active sugar |
: i i
market, there is a slight improvement |

and this is most likely to continue |

Quotations show little,
if any, Most of the _ busi-
ness has been of withdrawals under

from now on.
change.

old contracts, and now trade has been |

light and unimportant.
quiet.

Purchasers of teas are taking only
small lots and line trading has been
almost nil. Quotations are quite well
holders are inclined
faith in the fu-
Stocks do not seem to be es-

sustained and
to have considerable
ture.
pecially large and yet there is enough
to go around.
The slight
provement in the rice

although steady im-
trade
some time ago continues and a very
fair amount of business is being done
on the present basis. The tendency is
toward a higher level and holders are
not at all inclined to make concessions
Choice to head
domestic, 4@5%4c. A line of Japan
tice was quickly disposed of at full

from present figures.

figures.

The spice market has been rather
quiet, as might be expected at this
time of year. Stocks of pepper are
moderate and prices are well sustain-
ed, with Singapore 11%@t2c and
West Coast 114@11i%e.

1
Raws are]

noted |

 

Quietude prevails in the molasses |

market and sales are generally of
rather small lots to repair broken as-
sortments. Stocks are not large and
prices generally are firmly adhered to.
Syrups are firm and unchanged.
Canned goods have had a mighty
quiet week, although Friday showed
up rather better and some Baltimore
packers have had pretty good trade in
the finer class of goods. Fine peas

have opened at prices a trifle lower
last year and lower
Future toma-

than prevailed
grades about toc less.
toes have been sold at 65c in quite
large lots with the market reported
fairly active. Opening prices on Pa-
cific coast fruits will be made within
a few days. Salmon shows no change
and is quiet.

the professor’s pupils the results of
the removal of the brain.
Knowledge and will were abolish-
showed the
his only

ed and the-frog never

slightest sign of initiative,

i} movements being attributed to mus-

leular fatigue.
uninjured, and the

i dently see, but

The butter market is fairly active |

and some slight advance has taken
place within a day or two. Some arriv-
als are being placed in storage and
the supply generally is about equal
to the Western
creamery, seconds to

firsts, I9@2Ic; imitation creamery, 18

demand. Extra

214@21%e;

| attract

The eyes were quite
frog could evi-
without understand-
ing. Even his favorite food failed to
him, and every day an as-

sistant had to cram his food down his

i throat until the reflex action of swal-

|was placed on his

@igc; Western factory, 17@tgc; pack- |

ing stock is somewhat neglected and
moves from 15@16c.

Supplies of cheese are increasing
at primary points, as there is excellent
pasturage. This gives us more am-
some decline. The demand is fairly
active, but the supply is more than
sufficient for it

There is an abundance of eggs in

| ble that he

place. When he was
moved, and when he

took
touched he

lowing

was put in water he swam, and if he
back he rolled
over again, but on his own initiative
he never stirred.

The poor thing was well known to
all scientific men and it seems proba-
died simply of old age,

|and that his iife was in no degree

i ishortened by the operation.
ple stocks here and quotations show |

this market and yet prices seem to be}

pretty well sustained. Best West-
ern, 17!%4c; good to prime, 1644@17c;
common stock, 15@16c.
—_- or —-—
Most Famous Frog Dies.

The most famous frog in the world
has just died. It was the victim of
a professor in a university, who in
1899 cut out both hemispheres of its
brain. In spite of the operation the
frog was in perfect health, and for
five years served to demonstrate to

tp eee
Fabrics Made of Wood Pulp.
Certain fabrics are being made in
Europe, the warp of which is com-
posed of cotton and the woof of a

thread made from wood pulp. These
| goods were introduced almost four
|years ago. At the outset sheets of

| wood pulp paper were cut into finest

| shreds and twisted into thread by ma-

chines made for the purpose. Late-

|ly the paper process has been aban-

|
|
i

Good Storekeeping

doned and wood pulp is passed direct-
ly over grooved metal sheets, form-
ing very thin ribbons, which pass in
turn Over a machine that twists them
into a very regular thread of any de-
sired length.

When you hand out Royal Baking Powder to a

customer

You know that customer will be satisfied with his
or her purchase;

You know that your reputation for selling reliable
goods is maintained; and

You know that customer will come again to buy
Royal Baking Powder and make other purchases.

It is good storekeeping to sell only goods which
you know to be reliable and to keep only such goods
on your shelves.

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.. NEW YORK

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Vassar-—Geo. R. Eldridge has open-
ed a new grocery store.

Williamston—J. P. Dillon has open-
ed a fruit and confectionery store.

Morenci—N. FE. Roby succeeds
Roby & Bailey in the drug business.

Cheboygan W. H.. Crag. will
shortly open a new fruit and vegeta-
ble store.

Charlotte—Mort. Munson has pur-
chased the confectionery stock of
Fred Winters.

Adrian—A. Peavey & Son have
opened a grocery store at 145 West
Maumee street.

South Haven—M. Hale & Co. have
installed a bakery in the basement of
their grocery store.

Onaway—Melvin Brining is erect-
ing a store building which he will oc-
cupy with a new hardware stock.

Marine City—Henry Lacroix, fe-
cently of Harsen’s Island, has opened
a grocery store in the south part of
the Marine Stave Co.’s block on Wa-
ter street.

Grand Ledge—Martin H. Maier has
sold his harness stock to L. H. Roosa
and Ellsworth C. Whitney, who will
continue the business under the style
of Roosa & Whitney.

Charlotte—George H. Wygant has
sold his stock in the West End gro-
cery store to Burton Mansfield, of
Jackson, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location.

Muskegon—John Boelkhoudt, who
has a dry goods store at 146 Myrtle
street, has leased the building. at 91
Third street and will open a branch
store there. Miss Jennie Valk will be
in charge.

Laingsburg—At a meeting of the
stockholders of the Laingsburg Tele-
phone Co. they voted to increase the
capital stock from $25,000 to $100,000.
The company is in a very prosperous
condition.

St. Clair—A. Smith, of Port Huron,
has leased the vacant store north of
J. Moore’s furniture store and_ will
take possession this week. He will
carry a line of carpets, rugs, curtains
and oil cloth.

Detroit—The Detroit Business Uni-
versity has incorporated with a capi-
tal stock of $20,000, all paid in in
property by the stockholders, Wil-
liam F. Jewell, Platt R. Spencer and
James H. McDonald.

Cheboygan—Leonard J. Leske has
opened a cigar manufactory and_ will
make the “Leonard” cigar his leader,
and also manufacture a full line of
five and ten cent goods. He has
been with John Noll for six years.

Bay City—N. J. Fisk & Co. have
purchased the two-story structure at
208 East Midland street formerly oc-
cupied by John Marrow, Sr., and will
have it overhauled for use as a cigar
factory. They expect to take posses-
sion about June 15.

Brooklyn—W. S. Culver has merg-
ed his banking business, formerly
conducted under the style of the Ex-

 

 

change Bank, into a stock company
under the style of the Culver State
Bank. The corporation has an au-
thorized capital stock of $25,000.

Detroit—John M. Scott, merchant
tailor, has filed a petition in the Unit-
ed States Court to be declared a
bankrupt. His liabilities are sched-
uled at $1,036.38, of which $70 is in
wages, and assets amounting to
$454.30, most of which is in outstand-
ing accounts.

Alpena—The Alpena Mutual Tele-
phone Co. has leased for five years
all telephone property belonging to
the Michigan (Bell) State Telephone
Co. in this locality, including subur-
ban lines, cables, etc. The Mutual
Co. will now complete lines to Spruce,
Hubbard Lake and other towns.

Saginaw—Margaret C. Murray has
purchased the dry goods business for
years past conducted by D. B. Free-
man, who has been in business the
past twenty years and is prominent
in commercial and social life. Mr.
Freeman will remove to Pasadena,
Cal., where he will in future reside.
Miss Murray has been connected with
the business since it was established
by Mr. Freeman.

Republic—An addition to the Peter-
son-Utberg block, a structure erected
since the fire a little over a year ago,
has just been completed. C. H. Mun-
son, the druggist, occupies the stand.
Fred Karston has just completed the
foundation for a new block he will
erect on the corner opposite the
Peterson-Utberg block, on the former
site of the Republic Store Co.’s block.

¢ will be 118 feet in length, by
twenty-six wide, two stories, with
basement. The Republic Store Co.

has leased the building for ten years.
The place will be ready for occu-
pancy by Aug I.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Robert Mitchell Ma-
chinery Co. has increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $30,000.

Kalamazoo—The capital stock of
the Verdon Cigar Co. has been in-
creased from $60,000 to $100,000.

Sault Ste. Marie—The capital stock
of the Northwestern Leather Co. has
been increased from $350,000 to $400,-
ooo.

Sanilac Center—In order to meet
the demand for its wares the Sanilac
Center Manufacturing Co. is running
night and day turning out culverts.

Plainwell—F. H. Robinson, who re-
cently started a cigar factory in the
Cline block, is to put his goods on
the market the latter part of this
week.

Detroit—The Walter Manufactur-
ing Co., which does an architectural
and sculpture business, has changed
its name to the Ornamental Prod-
ucts Co.

Zeeland—The Ottawa Lumber Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
and sell lumber with an authorized
capital stock of $15,000, of which
amount $10,000 has been subscribed
and $1,000 paid in in cash.

Kingsley—-Case & Crotser, who are
now operating hardwood mills at
Bingham and Walloon Lake, have
purchased 4,000 acres of hardwood
timber land in Ontonagon county and

 

will begin operations on the tract in
the course of a year or two. :

Flint—Willard Nicholson, formerly
in the grocery department of the E.
O. Pierce & Sons’ store, has taken a
position with Wm. Foulds, James
Lee, who has been clerking at the
Foulds store, having taken a road
position with a Saginaw wholesale
grocery firm.

Bay City—The Beutel Canning &
Pickling Co. has contracted for be-
tween 700 and 800 acres of cucumbers
to be raised this year. The company
has branch receiving and salting sta-
tions at Linwood, Pinconning, Stand-
ish and Merrill, making short hauls
for the farmers.

Detroit—A corporation has_ been

formed under the style of the Wil-|

liams Neckwear Co. for the purpose
of manufacturing and dealing in neck-
wear. The company has an authoriz-
ed capital stock of $10,000, of which
ammount $5,100 has been subscribed
and $1,010 paid in in cash.
Constantine—J. B. George has
formed a company for general man-
ufacturing purposes, which will be a
substantial addition to the list of in-
dustries at this place. One-twelfth of
the old French water power now own-
ed by the village has been leased for
twenty years, and ground is being

cleared for the erection of a building } : i :
: © | these being the Continental

4ox8o feet.

Jackson—The E. Bronk Manufac-
turing Co., maker of skirts, which
came to the city some years ago as

a prison contracting firm, but which

abandoned this contract and opened | i ie
a : : : i | short-sighted if they can not see the
free shops, is closing up its business | !
. : ; : : _. | S¥YStem IS a winner.
in this city, and will consolidate with |

its New York plant.

 

 

for $250,000, and the Mendota for
$60,000, which with the other two
properties makes an outlay of $325,-
ooo. While the land is valuable for the
timber on it, this is not the only rea-
son for acquiring it, as it is believed
to be rich in mineral resources, and

will soon be developed along those
lines.

—_+->—_—_
One Dealer Who Believes in Pre-

miums.

Cheboygan, June 6—I started in the
general retail business years
ago, and always advertised
strongly, spending at least 4 per cent.
for that purpose, but the best meth-
od, without a question, is with pre-
miums, and in proof of this I quote
the following who are leaders in their
line who give away premiums: Siegel,
Cooper & Co. and Rothschilds, Chi-
cago; G. M. Barrett Co., Milwaukee;
Pitts, Kimball & Co., Boston; Globe
Store, St Loms. fhe Atlantic tea
and coffee concern, which started thir-
ty-seven years ago in New York City
with one store, now has stores from

seven
have

coast to coast. It has always given
away premiums. Take the
package coffee, Lion; leading

leading
soap
people, Fairbanks; leading cereal peo-

ple, American Cereal Co.; leading

|range people, Majestic, and thousands

i cash

‘YT " “ |
Negotiations for }

the occupancy of its factory, which is |

owned by the city, by another con-
cern are said to be in progress.

Kalamazoo—The buildings of the) strong after the iceman.

Illinois Envelope Co. are completed |

and were turned over to the company
by the contractors last week. Much

least of
Tobacco

of other concerns, not the
Co. All these people are leaders in
their lines and they all give premiums,
Are they making a mistake? My an-
I double my
others must be

swer is, They are not.

business and

Murphy, Osmun & Co.
a
Want Lower Prices on Ice.
Kalamazoo, June 5—The Kalama-
zoo Grocers’

 

Association is going

A committee has been appointed to

| treat with the local ice concern and

|make an

of the machinery is already here and/ yates for the grocers.

the rest will be shipped from Cen- |

tralia, Ill., the first of the week. It
is the intention to put a part of the

factory in operation some time the}

latter part of this week and by June|

20 to have the entire plant running.

There is a big demand for the enve- |

lopes and a shut-down is not antici-
pated for the next year at least.
Sault Ste. Marie—The Soo Rug
Manufacturing and Carpet Co. has
succeeded the Petoskey Rug Co. The
capital stock of the new concern is
$10,000, of which $9,750 is paid in. The
stockholders are Marshall N. Hunt,
20 shares; Fred R. Price, 20 shares;
R. G. Ferguson, 20 shares; John A.
Colwell, 20 shares; Otto Fowle, 20
shares; Joseph H. Steere, 100 shares;
Eber W. Cottrell, of Detroit, go
William F. Ferguson (trus-
tee), 350 shares; Charles S. Beadle, 20
shares; A. T. Washburn, 315 shares.
Calumet—The Calumet & Heecla
has closed one of the biggest land
deals in the history of Keweenaw
county, by which it acquires the Dela-
ware, Mendota, Amygdaloid and Ea-
gle Harbor properties, comprising
more than 40,000 acres. It was
through the City Trust Co., of Bos-
ton, that the Delaware was secured

shares;

attempt to secure lower
This commit-
tee has as yet taken no definite ac-
tion, but it is expected that it will re-
port on Monday night next at the
regular meeting.
Members of the

Association state

| that if they can not come to some

 

amicable agreement with the ice com-
pany whereby they can be furnished
ice at a reasonable rate than
row they will take steps to secure
ice from the outside. '

The civil service petition asking
for a law to punish civil service em-
ployes who do not pay for household
necessities has been signed by all the
grocers and passed on to the coal
dealers. It is expected it will go the
rounds to all dealers in household
goods.

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—Nothing of a startling na-
ture has developed. The consumption
is rapidly increasing and the large or-
ders are reaching the refiners in abun-
dance these days. The option mar-
ket has held about steady and there
is an undertone of strength noted as
the statistical position of the market
continues to be strong. Locally the
demand for sugar is increasing and,
while the trade is not actually load-
ing up, for fear of the market, the
buying is heavy on account of the
actual requirements.

Tea—The only feature worthy of
mention is the fact that the Japanese
naval victory has removed the specu-
lative feeling which has character-
ized the market since it was evident
that a notable battle was to be fought
While the market has steadied
up, no special change is looked for

there.

for several months.

Coffee-—The market is in a strong
position from a statistical standpoint.
The receipts thus far this crop year
have run half a million bags behind
those of a year ago and about a mil-
lion less than those of 1903-1904.
When it is remembered that the con-
sumption has been increasing at the
rate of about two millions of bags a
year the past six years, it is easy to
figure out great strength in the situa-
tion. However, there are always
other contingencies that enter into the
market and it is not safe to assume
on the above showing that the price
will at once shoot upward. The pack-
age goods have made no change for
some weeks and there is no indication
that they will do so soon. The sum-
mer, while not supposed to be a cof-
fee-consuming season, still brings
out a large demand, the farm trade es-
pecially using a lot of the beverage
at this time. This trade is now
stocking up for the summer’s work.

Canned Goods—Opening figures
on new pack California fruits are
awaited by the trade with interest.
The fact that sugar is high and that
the crop in some lines is short would
look like a high opening, but there is
no telling whether this will be the
case or not. There is a fair move-
ment in these goods, although the
abundance of strawberries and other
fresh fruits cuts down the call! for
the canned somewhat. Apples are the
exception to this rule, as the stock
of green goods has run out and the
canned and dried are now relied upon
almost entirely. Peas are another
excellent seller. This is due in a
large measure to the arrival on the
market of the green vegetable, which
at once causes a demand for the can-
ned. The trade is very large and bids
fair to almost clean up all desirable
goods in this line. String beans are
selling for the same reason, although
the movement is not so large as that
of peas. Other vegetables are rather
quiet. New pack asparagus is arriv-
ing on this market.. Reports from

 

Columbia River salmon fisheries still
indicate that the pack is running con-
siderably short of last year. The de-
mand for spot salmon is increasing
as the weather becomes warmer and
as a consequence the market is firm-
ing up steadily. There was practi-
cally no spring pack of shrimps on
the Gulf coast, owimg to severe
storms. Nothing new in this line
can be expected before August or
September.

Dried Fruits—Loose raisins are
dull, despite low stocks. Seeded rais-
ins are dull and soft. Prices are un-
changed. Currants are in fair de-
mand and unchanged. Prunes show
no change, but stocks are getting re-
duced. Size 40-50s seems particular-
ly scarce and some holders are ask-
ing 1%4c advance. As to future prunes,
buyers are indifferent, on account of
the high price. While some of the
packers are asking a 2%c basis the
larger operators are not out yet, and
in all probability will ask at least 3c.
Nothing is doing in peaches. Spot
fruit is dull and neglected and even
at the lower price nobody seems to
want futures. Apricots are dull, both
on spot and future. Future cots are
certainly low enough to attract at-
tention, but are not doing so.

Syrup and Molasses—The glucose
situation is unchanged. The _ corn
market has declined again, and there
is consequently no reason for any
advance, even if the refiners had been
willing to let each other do_ so.
There seems to be no doubt that if
the Corn Products Co., which is the
glucose combine, had been in control
the glucose market would have sharp-
ly advanced when corn took its re-
cent advance. Compound syrup is
unchanged and quiet. Sugar syrup is
slow at unchanged prices. Molasses
shows no change and the market is
dull.

Rice—The market is gaining decid-
ed strength on the short acreage and
the bad weather in the Southern
fields. Fancy Carolina head is up
about %c m this market and all
grades are higher in the South. It
is not improbable that the era of very
low priced rice is over foi at least
a year.

Fish—Salmon is unchanged and in
light demand. Cod, hake and had-
dock are not wanted and the market
is inclined to be easy. A few new
ocean whitefish are offered at $4.25
per 200-pound barrel, f. 0. b. This is
about last year’s opening price. The
mackerel situation shows no change.
The demand is dull. It is possible
that an order for a round lot would
secure a concession, but nobody
wants a round lot. New Irish mack-
erel are coming forward at $13.50,
and some offers are heard as low as
$13, but even at the latter figure many
buyers consider the market too high.
New shore mackerel are expected
during the coming week, and the mar-
ket will likely open around $11@12,
which is about the same as last year’s
opening. There has been some de-
mand for sardines during the week.
The independent packers have been
working hard to effect a combination
on the basis of $2.30 per case for the
new drawn cans, and they nominally

 

 

succeeded, but the price is reported
to have been broken almost imme-
diately. The new lightweight can is
inspiring all sorts of price-juggling.
The packers who are using it are
evidently expecting to. sell their
goods, as they have ordered enough
to pack 1,600,000 cases, while the -to-
tal consumption of sardines for the
whole country is only 1,200,000 cases.
a ene as
The Produce Market.

Bananas—There is no change in
prices—$1 for small bunches, $1.50
for large and $2 for Jumbos. The
summer demand for bananas is open-
ing up in good shape and the move-
ment from now on will be large.

Beets—New
box.

command $1.50 per

Butter—Creamery is steady at 2Ic
for choice and 22c for fancy. Dairy
is in plentiful supply at 16c for No.
i and 13c for packing stock, Reno-
vated is steady at I9c. Receipts are
large and the quality runs high.

Cabbage—Southern commands $2@
2.50 per crate, according to size.

Carrots—-New fetch $1.25 per box.

Cucumbers—Home grown are in
plentiful supply at 5o0c per doz. South-
ern fetch $1.75 per box of four to
five doz.

Eggs—Local dealers pay about
14%c for case count, holding candled
at 16c. The receipts are liberal, but
the quality is gradually deteriorating.
As long as it remains cool the stor-
age of eggs will continue. As noted
before, the quantities stored in this
market as well as in others have
been enormous. Daily reports show
the receipts of New York and Chica-
go as being very heavy, far beyond
the consumption, indicating that stor-
age is still going on.

Grape Fruit—Florida stock com-
mands $6 per box of either 64 or
S4 size, Cabkfornia stock is $2
cheaper.

Green Onions-—ts5¢ per doz. bunch-
es for Silverskins.

Green Peas—$1.35 per bu. box.

Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10o@
t2c and white clover at 13@I5Sc.

Lemons—Messinas are steady at
$3.25@3.50 per box. Californias have
been marked up to $3@3.25.

Lettuce—toc per fb.

Onions—$1.50 per crate for Bermu-
das or Texas; $rg5 per 7o Ib. sack
for Louisiana.

Oranges—California Navels are
steady at $3.50 for choice, $3.75 for
fancy and $3.90 for extra fancy. Med-
iterranean Sweets, $3@3.25; Seed-
lings, $2.75@3. Although the abun-
dance of strawberries cuts into the
orange trade somewhat the sale is still
good and promises to be so during the
early summer. Supplies of Mediter-
ranean Sweets are liberal. Navels are
not so plentiful as their season is
passing. Seedlings and St. Michaels
are on the market in all sizes.

Parsley—-25¢ per doz. bunches.

Pieplant—6oc for 40 fb. box.

Pineapples — Prices are steady,
ranging about as follows: Crate of
1S, $3.25: 24, $3: 30, $2753) 36, Seico:
2, S225: 4S. So.

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

Pop Corn—goc for rice.

 

Potatoes—New stock is slow sale
at $1.25. Old stock is in moderate de-
mand at 25c.

Poultry—-The demand is strong and
all varieties are scarce. Live poultry
readily commands the following
prices: Chickens, 12@13c; fowls, 11
@12c; young turkeys, 14@15c;_ old
turkeys, 12@13c. Dressed fetch 2c
per fb. more than live. Broilers, 27
@28c per th.; squabs, $1.75@2_ per
doz; pigeons, 75c¢ per doz.

Radishes—15c per doz. bunches for
round and 18c for long.

Strawberries—The market is well
supplied this week with Benton Har-
bor berries, which range from $1.10@
1.40 per 16 qt. case. Home grown are
beginning to come in and a few warm
days will make them very much in
evidence.

Tomatoes—$2.50 per 6 basket crate.

Turnips—$1.25 per box.

Wax Beans—$2 per bu. hamper.

—__+ +

Photography has caught the fastest
express train in motion by means of
the cinematograph, and it also shows
the growth of a flower. A bud which
bursts into bloom in say sixteen days
is exposed to a camera every fifteen
minutes during the sixteen days, and
when the pictures developed from the
films are assembled in order in the
moving picture machine the observer
may see to his delight, all in a minute
or two, the gradual breaking of the
bud—the blossoms open, close by
night and reopen in the morning, the
leaves grow under the eye, the sta-
mens peep from cover, and, finally,
the iull-blown flower.

a

A local merchant asked an editor
in a certain Michigan town to roast
the city administration for letting an
itinerant peddler come in here and
undersell him on goods. This is what
the editor wrote: “City dads, you
will hereby take notice that you are
roasted for permitting peddlers to sell
goods here. The merchant for whom
we do this favor has his job work
done in Chicago.”

a

A corporation has been formed un-
der the style of the Grand Rapids
Crate Manufacturing Co. for the pur-
pose of dealing in wood crates. The
new company has an authorized capi-
tal stock of $2,000, of which amount
$1,000 has been subscribed and $700
paid in in property.

a ae

Keene B. Phillips, who recently sold
his interest in the general stock of
Phillips & Wykes, at Richland, to
Arthur Wykes, has returned to Grand
Rapids and taken the management of
the Hine Stationery Co.

a

John Noud has engaged in general
trade at Copemish. The Lemon &
Wheeler Company furnished the gro-
ceries and Burnham, Stoepel & Co.
supplied the dry goods.

——_+--.—____

A cake of yeast is vastly superior
to some men. It can always raise the
dough.

—_——_2-_e-. —___.

Those who fight and run away may

live to say, “I told you so.”
—_—_—_2.--.

Watching the clock won’t make pay

day come any quicker.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

HALF A CENTURY.

Fiftieth Business Anniversary of a
Three Oaks Merchant.

Three Oaks, June 5—When Hon. J.
L. McKie sent out invitations to the
old and young of this vicinity and
to attend the an-
niversary reception held at his store
Saturday—an event planned to mark
the close of the fiftieth year of his
business career in Three Oaks—he
did not realize what was in store for
him: that the friends of by-gone days,
from afar as well as near, would gath-
er to a number sufficient to give the
village a somewhat crowded appear-
ance and to place the occasion in
home

many at a distance

the minds of the visitors and
folk as a Pioneer day. Such it was.
the the old
arriving in town, by
train and by wagon road. They drop-
ped into the place of business, which
had been fitted up for the occasion,
early with congratulations and to ex-

Early in morning

friends began

change cordial words of greeting with

the few who may have preceded them. |

Before noon the village took on more
or less of a gala day appearance; flags
were floating from some of the busi-
ness places, and bunting was looped
from post to post at the walks’ edge.

Mr. McKie and his receiving
friends, Henry Chamberlain, E. K.

Warren and others of the host’s form-
er business associates and clerks, had
more than they could attend to, the

store and adjacent walk becoming too |

crowded to allow one to conveniently
move about. Light refreshments were
the
consisting of

served to all guests and a pro-

gramme music by a
male quartette and speeches by Hon.
Henry Chamberlain, Mr. E. K. Warren
and Hon. J. L. McKie, together with
the reminiscent tendency of the gen-
eral conversation, made the hours joy-

ous ones to all present.

E. K. Warren, with his usual tact,
conceived the idea of photographing
the company in groups; three in num-
ber, the first to be of all those who
called this great wilderness home six-
ty years the
who lived in this vicinity fifty years

ago, another of friends
ago, or when the host became iden-
tified the the vil-
lage, and the third of those whose
hereabout dated back two
In the first picture one

with business of
residence
score years.
would expect to find two, three, or,
perhaps, a_ half
shows a surprising number—twenty
in all. The still rugged appearance
of the number and happiness and con-
tentment indicated in the faces of all
behalf of in-

dozen persons. It

is strong argument in
dustry and right living, for which the

 

 

reward is usually both peace and
health to the end of life.

Among those present from a_ dis-
tance were E. G. Curtis, of J. V. Far-}
well & Co., of Chicago, who sold

goods to Chamberlain, McKie & Co. |

and has continued to sell to their
successor to this time.

The afternoon pleasures will never
leave the memory of the older gen-
eration of friends. The evening at-
tendance numbered a majority of the
younger people of the community.

The crowd was dense, the programme

| died in August, 1855.

with the evening hours the event--
highly successful from a social stand-
point—closed.

James L. McKie was born in Ne-

shoba county, Mississippi, February

His
of Scotland and his mother of Eng-
land.

10, 1837. father was a native
He moved with his parents to
the prairies in Bond county, Illinois,
in the spring of 1844 and to Three
Oaks in November, 1854. He attend-
ed a district school during his boy-
hood and completed his schooling in
the Greenwich, Ill., Academy. He
taught one term of school in Three
Oaks in the winter of 1854-55, and in
the village of Three Oaks in the win-
ter of *58-’50.

In 1855 Mr. McKie entered the em-
ploy of Chamberlain & Ames. After

 

Ey

James L.

: " i |
eight years’ service with them and |
their
clerk

came a partner in the business, which

successors in the capacity of |
and two years at Niles he be-
name of
Chamberlain & McKie for four years.
The succeeding firm

was conducted under the

names which}
lead up to Mr. McKie’s sole owner- |
ship of the present business are given:
Mr. Ames, of Chamberlain & Ames,
Henry Cham-
berlain continued the business alone
until the next at which time}
Samuel W. Chamberlain, his cousin,
took an interest, which was continued |
until 1861 under the name of Cham-
berlain & Co. in the building now}
known as the Woodland House and
the the north
railroad into which they moved

year,

store on side of the

in |

 

 

| tried

berlain & Co. and Henry Chamber-
lain until March, 1864, at which time
the firm of Chamberlain, McKie & Co.
was organized (Henry Chamberlain,
J. L. McKie and William Chamber-
lain), continuing until March, 1868, at
which time the partnership was dis-
solved. The various succeeding firms
have been Chamberlain & Co., Henry
Chamberlain, McKie & Warren,
Chamberlain & Churchill, Chamber-
lain, Warren & Hatfield, Warren &

Hess, McKie & Vincent and J. i.
McKie (of McKie & Vincent), the|

‘ious firms now remaining in busi-| ea | ig
oo 6 |as satisfactory as it 1s to be able to

ness.

Still Unruffled.

est and most equable of mortals. No-

aa

McKie

body had ever seen him excited or

impatient.
him.
ment of his house was working badly.
He had

been experimenting with a

But there came a time that |
The furnace in the base- |

 

 

His face was black with grime, his
eyebrows and eyelashes were singed
to a crisp, and what was left of his
hair and beard was a sight to behold.

He went to a mirror and took a
good look at himself.

“Wal,” he said, slowly and deliber-
ately, “I was needing a shave an’ a
hair-cut, anyway.”

——_>--2
Pertinent Questions for the Catalogue
House Patron.

Lake, June 5—When

Central you

| buy from one of the big department

: i _ | store mail order houses, you buy from
latter being the only one of the va-|

a catalogue—from a picture. Is that

|see, feel and perhaps to try on the

t : ° coin?
Uncle Rufus was one of the calm- |

goods before you pay out your good
By the way, what percentage
of the have
Sears &

with
Montgomery

money you spent

Roebuck or

| Ward was returned as a donation to-

| ward helping to pay the pastor’s sal-

|ary this year?

did
contribute

the
last

How much

Cash Buyers Union

|} winter when you and your neighbors

iturned in and helped out that

pe Or

| fellow who was mortally ill with con-

sumption? How many premiums did

| John M. Smythe donate towards last

lyears Free Street Pair?

How much

will he give to this? Many people,
the

past, have ceased to drop their earn-

profiting by sad experience in

lings into these commercial nickel-in-

| the-slot

machines. Some have not.

| and the old saying that “another suck-

ier is born every minute”

| headed a

is daily, yes
itself

Geo. b.

hourly, proving true.

Thurston.

——- > 2-2
Clung Fast To His Last Pint.
Van

Duser, of Nevada, had been assailing

Representative Clarence D.
the swindling
that, pamphlets
and reports, fleece gullible persons in
the East.

Western mining com-

panies with bogus

“But it is a wonder to me,” he said,

“that a certain one of these com-

panies has any success at all, for it
is conducted by as illiterate and thick-

man as I have

cvce. sce

This man is a character, For m-
| stance:

“One day he gave me a long ha-

rangue on the Indian’s love of

| dian a taste of whisky and he'll sell

whisky.

‘Why,’ he said, ‘once give an In
I was rid-
ing over the plains once with a pint

his very soul to get more.

| bottle sticking out of my breast pock-

|et, when an Indian happened along,

new variety of coal, in which there |
| his saddle, his blanket and his pony

|All for a pint of whisky.

was a considerable proportion of
“slack,” and it did not seem to be
burning. He threw open the door of |

the furnace, thrust the end of a long

| poker deep into the smoldering mass

and stirred it up vigorously.

The result was startling. A fierce

| burst of flame and smoke came forth, |

not only enveloping Uncle Rufus, but | jionaire who died recently, that the

blowing out the flue caps in the rooms
above and filling the house with soot
and ashes.

In the midst of the excitement Un-
cle Rufus came up from the basement

imi hat of the afternoon and x ‘ ce ill ell ac , =
similar to that of 1858, where it was continued as Cham-! with his usual slow and regular step.

and as soon as he
wanted to buy it.
““And do you know what that In-
dian offered me? Well, sir, he offered
me his buckskin breeches, his

saw the pint he

shirt,

What do
you think of that?’
“And you,’ said I; ‘did you sell?’
“*No,’ said the miner, ‘I didn’t. It

| was my last pint.’ ”

ie ae . .
the ambition of William

Ziegler, the Royal baking powder mil-

 

It was

| American flag should be the first to

fly at the North Pole. He sent sev-
eral expeditions to the Arctic regions
and one is now there. Many of our
millionaires have wasted their money
in less commendable enterprises.

acre

 

 

 

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Wednesday, June 7, 1905

 

 

TOUCHING BOTTOM.

it st a Yankeeism, if 2 has not
drifted among the proverbs, that
“only an angry man states facts,”
and that the only way to get at the
facts is to make the man mad. That
seems to be the condition just now
with Russia. In all her years of ag-
gression, fair and foul, that calm un-
ruffed face has never betrayed by
look or grimace that all was not right
within. Time and again she has met
defeat, time and again that paw of
hers has crept sometimes stealthily,
often as boldly, over foreign terri-
tory never to be removed, but
storm or calm, right or wrong, se-
renity has reigned supreme and act
and look have proclaimed to the
world the law of all the Russias: “The
earth is mine and the fullness there-
of. Shall I not take when I will and
do what I will with mine own?” So
far there has been little or nothing
to disturb this serenity; but when the
other day, with her fleet gone and
its Vice-Admiral’s head in a sling, she
was asked her opinion upon the situa-
tion she lost her temper, and the fact
had to come out. “Little credit Rus-
sia gets for her single-handed fight
with the yellow peril, and now after
untold losses of life and treasure she
gains what comfort she can in seeing
the nations from whom she has avert-
ed the evil fawning upon victorious
Japan!”

With this for a foundation-fact the
“fawning nations” find themselves
looking at each other with lifted eye-
brows. It was for humanity, then,
and not for her own aggrandizement
that Russia in silence has been toiling
for territory. It was for this, then,
and not for Constantinople that Ivan
the Terrible first took the title of
Czar, since attached to “the autocrat
of all the Russians;” for this that Pet-
er the Great brought Russia prema-
turely into the circle of European
politics; that Catherine II. by the
final partition of Poland helped to ob-
literate that ancient kingdom from
the map of Europe; that Russia blew
up her forts at Sebastopol and gave
up the claim to an exclusive protec-
terate over Christians in Turkey, and
finally was it for this, the defense of
the nations from the yellow peril, that
she sent sixty thousand subjects to

in

 

Siberia without a trial and shot from
the steps of the Kremlin the Russian
manhood that had dared to petition
“the Little Father” for the right of
enjoying life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness? If that is the bottom
fact that Russia touches in account-
ing for her overthrow, then fact and
falsehood are synonyms in the Rus-
sian tongue and the “fawning nations”
regret, profoundly regret, that the
fearful difference had to be learned in
the bloodiest war that history has
written.

National life at this late day does
not need to be told that the greatest
national peril is not confined to a
matter of color, any more than it
needs to be told that the highest form
of development depends for its best
expression on the freest personal lib-
erty; that whatever interferes with
that will soonest and surest under-
mine and destroy the existence de-
pending upon it, and that the lesson
of the centuries teaches no simpler
fact than this: that the abuse of abso-
lute power, irrespective of color, is
the only peril which national life
needs to stand in fear of. That and
nothing else is the bottom fact upon
which the Russian foot rests to-day.
From Ivan the Great to Nicholas the
Little absolute power and the shame-
ful abuse of it tell the whole story.
If there could be found from 1462 un-
til now a variation in that story there
might be reasons why Russia might
hope for better things; but the same
stupid monotony exists throughout.
Why could not Russia have learned
wisdom from Luther and Leo X.? Is
there nothing suggestive in the strug-
gle of the barons and King John? Is
there nothing in the voyage of the
Mayflower for the Romanoff to pon-
der? Is there in the tremendous
French Revolution nothing of cause
and effect for modern rulers to think
over? It is written in letters so large
that those who run may read that
the abuse of absolute power has but
a single result—destruction. ., The
French revolutionist found relief in
the guillotine. Will not the Russian
autocrat learn at last from the bombs
at home and the fearful carnage
abroad that her impending doom is
due not to the peril in yellow, as she
pretends to see it, but to her own
violation of a law as unchanging as
the God who made it?

The yellow peril as it centers in
Japan may be all that terror claims
for it; but with that the world just
now has little to do. Crossing the
bridge can be done best and only
when the bridge is reached. To the
outsider, interested and uninterested,
the Russian government has less to
fear from the Jap than it has from
its own people. It stands white ver-
sus yellow and the white has it mahy
to one. Japan may destroy the Rus-
sian army and sink the navy, she may
capture Fort Arthur and raze Murk-
den, but with a nation of patriots as
there ought to be, and as there would
be if the nation had given birth to
them and fostered them, the yellow
wasp—peril, if that is the apter word
—would have remained unmolested
in its nest; and, if the vices of the un-
civilized had led that wasp forth to

 

conquer, of their own free will the
Russian millions would have gone
out and returned only when every
yellow jacket had perished from the
land. Russia, however, is not a na-
tion of patriots, and she is to learn
as France has learned, and as every
nation has learned which trifles with
men’s liberties, that the end of such
trifling is death.

What the future has in store for
Russia remains to be seen. History
seems to sustain the statement that
the same law underlies men and na-
tions—right. | Unrighteousness shall
be punished and the way of the trans-
gressor is hard. If Russia, brought
at last to her senses, sees the error
of her ways and undertakes to right
the wrongs she is guilty of there is
a glorious future for her after years
of storm, but if she persists in the
course she has followed too long, the
story of Liberty will be repeated on
Russian soil and redeemed Russia, the
Republic, will take its place among
the nations of the earth.

 

 

TAMPERING WITH CREDIT.

Credit is cheap. This is proverbial,
but has it occurred to the average
merchant that the principle on which
credit is based—confidence—may be
so abused that credit is seriously
weakened if not entirely destroyed?
To obtain credit integrity of purpose
is the first essential. However effi-
cient the merchant, without integrity
of purpose his credit can not be A I.
He who contracts an indebtedness
and makes no provision or effort to
meet his obligation when due, but
relies on excuses and begs for exten-
sions, has no real integrity of
pose. When a bill of goods is pur-

pected that the obligation will be
met when due. If through some good
cause it can not be met, the contract-
ing party is under obligation to noti-
fy his creditors of the necessity of
an extension, naming a _ reasonable
time when he can and will meet the
obligation.

How often do we find, however,
that the merchant, instead of so do-
ing, allows his bills to mature with
no explanation why payment is with-
held, paying no attention to notices
of draft to be drawn on some future
date, never writing or requesting that
draft be withheld or setting forth
reasons why, but allowing draft to
be drawn, presented and_ returned
without comment. Such action will
surely weaken if not ultimately un-
dermine the credit of the merchant.
Credit to a man of business is what
chastity is to a woman: Neither can
afford to be fooled with.

 

The price of radium is now $3,000,-
000 per ounce. Real radium cocktails
are thus held in the dim distance.

 

In spite of the fact that so many
people want to borrow trouble, there
is always enough to go around.

A man is not necessarily honest be-
cause he has to work for all the
money he gets.

 

Never borrow trouble to-day that
you can put off until to-morrow.

pur- |

| would
chased on a specified time it is ex-

 

GENEROUS LEGISLATORS.

The enactment of the sale-in-bulk
bill by the Legislature is a distinct
gain for the mercantile interests of
the State, both wholesale and retail,
because it will relieve the jobbing
trade from one prolific source of loss
and prevent the demoralization of the
retail trade of a town’ which  fre-
quently results from the clandestine
purchase of a stock at half its value
by some soldier of fortune. The bill
passed the Senate early in the session,
but was defeated in the House by a
combination of unscrupulous lawyers
who saw a fruitful source of business
cut off by the bill, assisted by a few
country merchants who misconstrued
the bill and misinterpreted its mean-
ing. Representative Mapes succeeded
in having the measure reconsidered
and on its second appearance it re-
ceived sixty votes—nine more than
were necessary to ensure its adoption.
No fears are entertained as to the
attitude of the Governor, because he
has shown his friendliness to the
commercial interests of the State
wherever the opportunity has present-
ed_ itself.

One of the most pleasing features
of the campaign is the absolute un-
selfishness of the men who handled
the measure in the Legislature. By
common consent Senator Brown, of
Lapeer, is regarded as the godfather
of the bill, not only on account of
the splendid work he did this year,
but because he secured the adoption
of the measure by a practically unani-
mous vote in both branches of the
Legislature two years ago, only to be
thrown down by Governor Bliss as
the result of petty spite work which
disgrace a
Senator Brown introduced the

5-year-old_ school
boy.
bill in the Senate early in the session
and promptly sent it over the
House with the prestige of a practi-
cally unanimous vote. Then the trou-
ble began. Representative Mapes took
charge of the measure and stayed by
it faithfully until it passed the House
by a majority of nine votes. That he
did his work well and acquitted him-
self creditably is a matter of common
knowledge. That he met the expec-
tation and approval of his. co-worker
in the Senate is shown by the follow-
ing letter, sent to the editor of the
Tradesman by Senator Brown:

to

’"“VYou, of course, are aware before
this of the passage of the bulk bill,
with slight amendments made in the
House and the immediate concurrence
of the amendments in the Senate. I
want to express to you my apprecia-
tion of the services rendered by Mr.
Mapes in behalf of the matter. I con-
sider the passage of the bill through
the House, in view of the opposition
against it, one of the greatest pieces
of work in the present Legislature,
and I trust that you will congratulate
Mr. Mapes for his good work.”

In the face of the ill feeling and
bickering which frequently ensue in
matters of this kind, it affords the
Tradesman much pleasure to call at-

tention to this circumstance and to

commend the unselfish conduct of

both gentlemen in the premises.
All honor to Senator Brown. and

Representative Mapes!

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

SIXTY YEARS AGO.

Trip from Green Mountain State To
Lake Superior.

The sixty years that have passed
since 1845 do not impress those who
have lived them, and maybe a score
or so more, as being a very long pe-
riod of time, unless we consider it
in its relation to the entire time that
is allotted to us for this earthly so-
journ of ours; then the fact comes
to us that we are a long way beyond
the meridian, or the noon day mark
that most of us have looked forward
to, and after passing which, we begin
to look back and unconsciously be-
gin to live two lives, one in recalling

 

the past, the other in the present and |

We
realize

the

wealth of

startled
the after-
each afford

beauty, use and en-

be
for

not
this,
sunsets

future. need

when we
noons and
their
joyment, so we may continue to go

hopefully forward, living the present

in the dawn of a more perfect and
elorious future.
On May 17, 1845, the writer, then

17 years of age, a native of Burling-
ton, Vt., having his scanty apparel in
a small trunk, bade- adieu to his home
and its associations, depressed by the

 

parting but buoyed by a hope that |

pictured an alluring future, such as
often attends the inexperience
confidence of youth. The
and apprehension of my good mother
for her appealed to me more
than all

would be to

son
beside.

her an ever

and |
solicitude

I realized that they |
present |

source of anxiety, until superseded by |

news of my well being and well doing |

somewhere in Michigan, into- which
State my plan took me.
filled with a determination to

properly conduct my daily life, and to

nc

do my best, both physically and men-
tally, as the love and consideration
that I had
realization of her solicitude and great

for my mother and my
desire for my welfare.

The stearher Whitehall, Gideon La-
throp, Captain, then running on the
Champlain,

My

Lyon, just closing a term in

beautiful Lake was to
Lucius

Con-

District of

bear me away. uncle,
gress from the Western
Michigan, had come on from Wash-
ington to spend a day with his fa-
ther and take Michigan to
join, in Detroit, the surveying party
Houghton. My
uncle had been appointed by Presi-
north-

me to

of Doctor Douglas

dent Polk Surveyor General
west of the Ohio, which then embrac-
ed the States of Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan. Dr. Houghton, then State
Geologist had under-
taken a contract from the United
States for the linear and topographi-
cal surveys in an unexplored portion
of the mineral region of the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan, and with his
party T was to have an opportunity

for Michigan,

to develop my capabilities as a woods-
T was to begin at

man and surveyor.
the very work

y bottom

up, if T developed to be a

This was arranged before I
My uncle having business in Mon-
treal, we took the steamer
north to St. Johns, a village in Low-
er Canada, the Sorell River, at
the extreme northerly point of steam-
boat navigation. We left Burlington

and my way
climber.

started
going

on

Nothing so}

 

streets, having scarcely fourteen feet

at 1 e'clock p. m., afriving m St.
Johns at 6. Seemingly a new world |

|
cvery

was opening to my_ vision
hour. My first night from home was

The

Sunday, I rode a few miles from La

next morning,

in St. Johns.
Prairie to La Chene, opposite Mon-
treal, on the first railroad I had seen.
We crossed the river by steam ferry.
The

bridge

now famous tubular Victoria

nearly two miles long, was |

not built, but Montreal was a city of |
70,000 people, and had been founded |

more than two hundred years. It was |
full of interest to me. On Sunday I
saw marching through the. streets

the various orders. of
nuns, going to their several places of
The new part of

the city was sparsely occupied. In

hundreds of
worship. present

the old portion, the narrow crooked

know that pride is a necessary ele-
ment of character, in combination
with other qualities. I was shocked

when I heard the Treasurer of the
United States swear in the most jocu-
lar manner in ordinary conversation.
I shall He

stately appear-

never forget him. was

and commanding in
ance, but he left a bad impression of
himself with me. I was not accus-
tomed to hear such profanity, besides
the that

my uncle was nearly perfect; he never

I was impressed with idea

thought,
The
mother’s

be esti-

used such expressions. [

“What would mother say?” in-
fluence for good of a love
and association

mated. It

can scarcely

remains with us in some

form. In maturer years, in its place,
came to me the enquiry, What is
right, or what is my duty? After

|}two days in Montreal we were off

 

 

 

 

 

George W.

for a roadway, and not more than |

three for sidewalks on either

made the buildings look tall and mas-
sive and the streets gloomy. I went
into the great Catholic Cathedral, the
most noted and conspicuous building
241
135 feet wide, having a|
the |
The |

1824 to]

in the city then, and now. It ts
feet long by
six tawers,

feet

roof of copper and

main one being 213 high.
building was erected from
1820. At our hotel, “Doolittle’s Cof-
fee House,” kept by an American, my
acquaintances,
the |

introduced to}

uncle met many
them the
United States. I

him, and his son, who was about my

among Treasurer of

was

lage, a dashy young chap, whose fine

apparel brought to mind my coarse, |
carried |

home made suit, for nature
a full stock of pride under my plain
clothes, for which my mother had

often chided me, but I have come to

Thayer

up the St. Lawrence, passing among

No canal then, for
boats to pass around the various rap-
We left the boat and
around each of them,
then another boat. The trip was brim
full of Vermont boy
who had just emerged from its moun-

200 miles away.

ids, aS now.

took

stages

interest for a

tains, trying to see all possible. We
reached Kingston, a city in Canada
at the head of the St. Lawrence. Its

frowning fortress, with numerous can-
non plainly visible, set me wondering
for
the Green Mountain boys to capture
it: AC

steamer

how much of a job it would be
Kingston we took an Ameri-

can up Lake Ontario for

Niagara River, running up the Genes-
see River to a point a little below
Rochester, stopping long enough to

permit passengers who desired to do

so to take carriages to Rochester,
which we did, finding it a very live
place. By Vermonters it was then
considered to be in the West. Our

boat resumed its trip, entering Niag-

ara River and landing us at Lewis-

ton, where we entered cars drawn by

horses to Buffalo. We stopped at th:

Mansion House, then considered :
fine hotel. Our destination was De-
troit. I whiled away my time in Buf-

falo for a day or two while my uncle

was closely occupied with business.

The lake steamers in those days put

up in the hotels and other public

places large posters in bright colors,
cut of the
and hour of sailing

giving
and the
One

a half dozen or more new

having a steamer,

name, date
which it would

POTTS at stop.

would see

ones every day, but they were taken

down at once after the boat had de-
parted. One of these posters an-
nounced that the elegant, new, fast
running, low pressure steamer Lon-
don, Capt. H. C. Van Allen, would
leave for Detroit, through without
landing, in twenty-four hours. This
was regarded as extraordinary time.
Now sixteen hours are sufficient. We
took passage on the London, a Cana-
dian boat. Arriving at Detroit we
stopped at the National Hotel, now
the Russell House, kept by Edward
Lyon. Detroit was then a city of less
than 15,000 inhabitants. We found

that Dr. Houghton and party had left
for Lake Superior a few days before,
making me too late to join him there
had do. In two

days we were off for Grand Rapids, a

as, | expected to

place of special mterest to me, as

side, | its thousand islands to Lake Ontario,| there were my brother, aunt and other

 

 

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Great Northern Portland Cement Co.’s Plant

SST

   

Covered with Torpedo Ready Roofing.

For Sale by

H. M.

Reynolds Roofing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

persons whom I had known in Ver-
We took
the Michigan Central Railway, start-
ing from where the Detroit City Hall
now stands, running west on Michi-

mont in my earlier years.

gan avenue, now a long and populous

street. This chief railroad in Michi-
gan would be a curiosity now. They
used ties on the road bed as now,
but the track was made of sawed

lumber about 4x6, 16 feet long, form-
ing stringers on which were spiked
for cars to run on strap iron, about
3-8 of an inch thick and 2 or 2%
inches wide. The iron was spiked on
to the top of the stringers and where
the
put
end spikes would work loose and the
end of the ap. Wf
this curl met a car wheel below its
center the wheel would hold it down,

joints of iron met, a spike was
in near the end. By use these

iron would curl

but if it curled so much as to hit a/|
running wheel above its center, then |
that |

the moving train would force
piece of track up through a car floor
and through a car seat, causing the
greatest danger in then traveling on
the railroads, for not infrequently a
passenger was badly injured or killed.
This kind of an accident was termed
having a snake head. Trains ran fif-
teen miles or less per hour. At that
time the railroad was completed only
to Marshall; We took stage from
there to Battle Creek, then a
little village, but apparently thrifty.
We spent the night at the Battle
Creek House. At about 4 o’clock in
the morning we climbed into a mud
wagon, called the Grand Rapids stage.
We breakfasted at a log tavern, in
one of the small and infrequent clear-
ings that we meandered into. In the
timbered land the road was cut out,
but was not worked, only as the feet
of the horses and the wheels of the
wagons worked it into ruts and pitch
holes where roots and stones did not
prevent, but it was not so very long
before we came into the oak open-
ings, then so extensive in Western
Michigan. No one of. the present
generation has personal knowledge of
what the oak openings were. They
were inviting to the eye and to the

new

pioneer.
white oaks, formed a forest of trees
so far apart that a view could easily
be had in all directions from forty to
eighty rods. In the openings the
track of the road wound about among
the trees wherever the surface was
most available, and where the few
fallen trees could be avoided. A pio-
neer would go onto his land in the
late summer or early fall, build a log
house of the smaller oaks, girdle a
few acres of trees to prevent the
leaves from growing in the spring
and forming a shade, plough, drag in
a crop of wheat right among the
standing oaks, and in the spring plant
corn and potatoes, and secure a very
fair crop of each. As soon as possi-
ble the pioneer would cut and burn
the girdled trees, saving the finest
ones for rails. As we moved slowly
on, now and then a deer or two would
be seen, and as the forenoon ad-
vanced we began to think and talk
of what was to come and of dinner.
Yankee Springs! That was the oasis
of the trip, so some passengers said;

Large, fine oaks, generally |

 

 

 

|the several bottles

 

there good meals were served by the
famed Yankee Lewis and his wife. We
got there. Four log houses standing
in a row, connecting end to end, a
big barn, sheds, a large garden with
vegetables and beds of flowers
lighted the eye and made us all look

de-

happier. Wm. A. Richmond was one
of our passengers. What a lasting
impression little things sometimes

make!
man of considerable prominence in

Mr. Richmond was a gentle-

Michigan, and was a resident of Grand

Rapids. One of the passengers was

jan old lady traveling alone toward

some friend. Mr. Richmond was as
polite and attentive to her as if she
were some person of great note, or a
personal friend; getting water and of-
fering to her, bringing a chair to help
her in and out of the wagon, assist-
her into the cabin, securing for
a seat at the table, seeing that

ing

was supplied with food, and giv-
ing her every possible attention. They

were entire strangers to each other,

as Mr. Richmond had previously been |

to me, but afterward I knew him well
for many years until he died. That
attention of his to that lone old lady
on that trip told me that there was
real William A. Rich-
mond, and I scarcely saw him after
that, in all the years that I knew him,
but the incidents of that trip, and his
part in it, were brought to my mind,
always with a feeling of respect for
him. On went until Ada
reached. There another log tavern,
kept by Gen. Withey, father of the
late Judge Solomon L. Withey, of
Grand Rapids. All log taverns had

goodness in

we was

a bar room, where, on entering, the

most conspicuous object the eye
would discover would be two rows
(one above the other) of plain,

smooth glass decanters, each showing
grimed with finger
These decanters were said to
contain some known brand of whisky
What called “Luke’s
Best” was the favorite. Luke Whit-
comb was a famed Kalamazoo distill-

an outside well

marks.

or gin. was

er. A number of bottles were requir-
ed for the different qualities, as it
vas the custom to have what was call-
ed for, but in fact, as a rule, each of
(the number was
for display) contained one common
grade of whisky costing 20 cents or
so per gallon by the barrel. In most
of the decanters would be seen float-
ing some well faded pieces of lemon
In spring and summer one decanter
would have tansy sprigs. When a
man took a meal the landlord would
offer to treat, generally before going
to the table, but when it was a cash
transaction the patron was expected
to pay 6d or 6% cents, Spanish sil-
ver, or 6 cents in the of the
United States. We arrived in Grand
Rapids in eighteen hours, stopped at
the Bridge St. House, kept by Gaius
Deane. It was a plain two story, un-
painted frame building, standing a
little west of the present Bridge St.
House. Grand Rapids was said to
have a population of 1,200. Lucius
Lyon was then operating his salt
plant, the first to produce salt in
Michigan, making fine salt by boil-
ing brine in pans and coarse salt by
sun evaporation. The plant was lo-

coin

 

cated between the canal and the riv-
er, a little north of the present Ber
key & Gay factory. Gaius Deane was
superintendent. He had contracted
with William Morman, who lived on
3arclay street in Grand Rapids, for
1,000 cords of 4 foot white oak wood
to be delivered on the river bank not
far from the present West Michigan
Fair grounds. My brother, Lucius,
whom I had not seen for seven years,
lad a contract with Deane to scow
this wood into the canal and deliver
it on the canal bank opposite the salt

plant. I, having failed to join Dr.

Houghton’s party in Detroit, and hav- |

ing but a few shillings in my pocket,
was alert for employment. My broth-
er had a hopeful nature and induced
me to join him in his contract for de-
livering the white oak. Sunrise on
the second day after my arrival found
us towing by man power two scows
up the river to deep water, through
which they were slowly and laborious-
ly poled to Morman’s wood piles. The
labor of loading, scowing and unload-
ing the wood was done wholly by my
brother and myself. At that time the
farther the and
there was a long wing wall of stone
to direct the into the canal.
There were no guard gates. At the
head of the rapids before entering the
canal the current was strong.
floated front of
the other, being lashed end to end.

dam was up river

water

scows were one in
They were guided by the expert use
of setting poles by one of us being
well forward in the front scow, the
other abaft the center of the
When we were successful in our
from the

one.

trips Morman’s to salt

works we did very well, but about |

halt the time could not avoid
running hard on to the wing wall.
Then we worked in the water waist
deep from two to twenty-four hours
in getting the scows off.

we

It proved
to be a great field for hard labor and
a very small one for recompense, but
small as it was we occasionally went
to the bakery of ©. C. House or W-.
S. Gunn, then open for patrons on
Monroe street below the present Wid-
dicomb and appeased our
appetites with fried cakes, buns, pies
and

building,

cheese, scorning to deny our-
selves the cost of such palatable food
from our. scanty earnings. Lucius
Lyon had returned to Detroit, after
despatching his local business in a
stay of two weeks or so, where he
was arranging matters in the U. S.
Surveyor General’s office, which
act of Congress had been moved from
Cincinnati to Detroit. After scowing
wood until near completion we receiv-
ed a letter from our uncle (enclosing
money to pay our way) requesting
us both to come to Detroit to join
him in an expedition that he contem-
plated making into the Lake Superior
country in Michigan. We started off,
full of enthusiasm and anticipation by
reason of this unexpected change to
new scenes and experiences. Reach-
ing Detroit, spent most of our
time for a week in purchasing the
necessary supplies for the expedi-
tion, a list of which our uncle, an
experienced surveyor and woodsman,.
had prepared with care. All being

ready we started early in August.

we

 

Our |

ZCaeE |

Our party numbered seven: Lucius
Lyon, Henry Ledyard, a Mr. Broad-
head, of New York City, Dr. Joseph
H. Bagg, his man, Charley Hopkins,
my brother Lucius and the writer.
Mr. Ledyard was a son-in-law of Gen-
eral Lewis Cass, and father of the
recent President of the Michigan Cen-
tral Railroad. Mr. Broadhead was a
gentleman of distinction recently re-
turned from Paris, where he was an
official of the U. S. Government; all
the others were from Detroit.

We took passage for Mackinaw on
Oliver Newberry’s steamer, Illinois,
Captain Blake. The Illinois was con-
sidered to be a fine, large boat and
big burly Capt. Blake was one of the
most competent and widely known of
all the lake navigators. We reached
Mackinaw Island, where we stopped
at the Mission House, still in
mission as a hotel. Mackinaw
more interesting to me then than now.

com-
was

Then it seemed to more nearly repre-
sent its two hundred years of wild
life, so studded with incidents of great
interest. A
among a lot of half breeds and
tents and bark
dotted its beach, constituted the main
from the sightly
fort, with its white block houses and

historic few traders

In-
whose

dians, canoes

population, aside

stockade, and the soldiers stationed
there. Its single greyish white lime
stone street was hard, smooth and
clean. At the island we went on
board the steamboat General Scott
for Sault Ste. Marie. After leaving
| Lake Huron at De Tour, the beauti-
ful St. Mary’s River opened before
us in all of its old, quiet beauty, far
| more picturesque than now. We did

not navigate Mud Lake through an
artificial channel as to-day, but in the
that The
water was the clearest possible and
the the

channel nature had made.

forest trees fringed water's

|}edge the whole distance, presenting

|nature in her richest robes, there be

ling no settlers of any race to

 

by |

 

fits pristine beauty.

mar
We passed the
station,
established nearly or quite two hun-
dred years before by the Jesuits. The
Soo was an interesting village or set-
tlement, apparently belonging in the
same family as Mackinaw. Its most
conspicuous feature was Fort Brady,

ruins of an old missionary

whose parade ground and all of its
block house buildings were within an
enclosure termed a stockade, which,
as usual,

constructed of cedar

posts about eight inches in diameter,

was

placed closely side by side, and set
firmly into the ground and extending
eight feet above it; the top of each
post was sharpened to a point. At
short small, hole
was cut through, enabling the soldiers

distances a square
to get sight of outside surroundings
and to thrust a musket through and
fire upon an approaching foe. We
stopped at the Van Anden House for
the few days required to complete our
outfit for a voyage in an open boat
along the south shore of Lake Supe-
rior. We added to our numbers two
half breeds and an Indian, each ex-
perienced voyagers, and John Rich-
ardson, an American white, making
our party eleven in all. The supplies

we brought were thought to be suf-
ficient for two months for this num-

 

 

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ber. A large, new, strong, unpaint-
ed, Indian built Mackinaw boat, hav-
ing sides of white cedar, was found.
It was forty feet long by eight and
a half beam; had two handsome tam-
arack masts, two good sails and a jib,
five row locks and five roughly made
long cedar oars. We had blocks with
pulleys, rope of ample length and
strength. We bought the boat, sails
and oars for $45, by employing the
builders for the voyage. The boat
was below the rapids; for $10 about
that number of Indians delivered it
at the head, taking it by water. Our
supplies were carted a mile, loaded
into our boat, and we were ready to
start, having been aided by Mr. Ash-
man and other whites. We started
after dinner, going as far as Taqua-
menon Island, in the big bay of that
name (since called White Fish Bay),
forming the foot or outlet of Lake
Superior, where we camped for the
night. Here, and on each night there-
after, when we landed, we unloaded
all of our supplies, piled them com-
pactly, covered them with oil cloth;
then, with a rope and block hitched
to a tree by the strong arms of suf-
ficient men, we hauled our boat out
of danger of big waves should they
come. Pitching tents, gathering
evergreen boughs to sleep on, cutting
wood, etc., was actively going on
while the cook was preparing supper.
On the first morning, as we were
about ready to leave the island, a sail
and a small red boat carrying two
men, one with a white hat, was seen
passing northwest less than half a
mile away, going in the direction of
White Fish Point, our next destina-
tion. In answer to our enquiry our
half breeds said, “That’s Father Bing-
and his man.” Who is FBather
Bingham? “He missionary. He go
to White Fish Point to preach to the
Indians.” Father Bingham was the
spiritual father of many Indians and
the natural father of those well-known
ladies of Grand Rapids, Mrs. Thos. D.
Gilbert, Mrs. Dr.
Dr. Robinson.

ham

3uchanan and Mrs.
When our sails filled
Father Bingham was a mile or so
ahead. a lead that his boat kept until
we reached White Fish Point, which
we did in ample time to prepare for a
night’s sleep before dark.
dians came to us with large, fresh-
caught white fish, which we bought.
In the night we were awakened by
our tents tumbling down on us. We
crawled out into a furious wind and
the roar of the dashing waves that
had nearly reached our supplies, and
our boat was at the water’s edge in-
stead of being 100 feet away as we
placed it. Twice during the night
both had to be taken farther back,
and our tents were twice repitched.
When daylight came the wind was
blowing too hard and the waves were
too high for us, so we remained un-
til the second morning, when on look-
ing out we found the lake smooth,
the morning bright and sunny. Our
boat and supplies were 200 feet from
the water, but we were early in the
boat and away. No wind came with
the rising sun. All day we moved on
by the power of our cedar oars, in
the use of which my brother and

Some In-

myself had our allotment among the

 

six available men for that service.
Big and heavily loaded as our boat
was, we reached Grand Maria’s har-
bor before night, forty-eight miles, so
the Indian said. Grand Marais is a
pretty harbor only available for boats
of small draft. The U. S. Govern-
ment is now improving it. Here we
were again windbound until the sec-
ond morning. We found an abundance
of ripe sand cherries, the Indian said
they were; a red cherry about the size
of common cherries, growing on small
bushes from one to two feet high.
They were sour and pungent, better
to look at than to eat. The second
morning we were again off in pleas-
ant weather with a light but fair
breeze off land. We passed the now
noted clay banks, being immense
banks, high and abrupt, of solid clay.
Then we passed along and very near
the famous pictured rocks, which con-
sist of almost perpendicular cliffs of
rock, extending unbroken for several
miles along the lake, affording no
landings for boats, with generally
deep water at their base. I would
say that they would average Ioo feet
in height. They are named Pictured
Rocks because upon the face of the
cliffs may be seen a variety of bright
colors, extending from near the top
wall down toward the water. These
colors are mostly in stripes, like wide
ribbon, from four to eight inches
wide, caused, it is said, by minerals
in solution. Grand Island, containing
more than 25,000 acres of land, lies a
few miles above the Pictured Rocks,
separated from the main land by a
channel two miles or so wide. This
was our destination, where was an ex-
cellent harbor. Here was one white
family, Williams by name, a man, wife
and thirteen children. Williams had
a number of log cabins, quite comfor-
fable. One was a store, in which
were such goods as the Indians want-
ed. The store was kept locked, be-
ing opened only when the Indians
came with furs to trade, or without
them to get necessities to be paid for
in furs later. There were no white
people nearer than the Soo, more
than 100 miles away. The Williamses
were glad to see us and do for us
what they could, for which they were
compensated. The gentlemen of our
party were comfortably housed in
Williams’ good sized house; the oar
workers and the cook had an unfurn-
ished cabin at their disposal, in which
was a big fireplace with a crane. We
spread our blankets on the clean
floor and lay down to sleep in the
light of a fire in the fireplace, for the
night was cool. We were here two
days, for the Surveyor General had
sent an Indian fifteen or twenty miles
away to call to him a deputy surveyor
that he wished to see. The oldest
man in our party, and the most vi-
sionary and enthusiastic, was Doctor
Joseph H. Bagg, who, as we passed
the Pictured Rocks, beheld them with
wondering eyes, and was filled with
conceptions of great undiscovered
wealth that he was destined to reveal
to the world by means of mesmerism,
which was then attracting much at-
tention. A book had recently appear-
ed, “Bagg on Mesmerism.” The doc-
tor had smuggled into our party as

 

 

cook his man, Charley Hopkins, that |
he might continue his practice of us- |

Charley |
was a simpleton, knew enough to do |
fairly well as a camp cook, and that
was about all that he was capable of, |
except being a clairvoyant.

ing him as his clairvoyant.

The doc-
tor became profoundly wise and want-
ed to go back to view and explore the |
Pictured Rocks. He asked my broth- |
er and me to go. Confidentially he told |
us that the day before, as we passed |
the rocks, he caught a glimpse, as the |
water dropped away from the rocks,
of a vein of glistening silver, but he
had not spoken of it. He simply
wanted us to go and the skiff.
Quietly he engaged from Williams a
small boat that carried
After an
went

TOW

home-made

two pairs of oats. early
three

and unobserved

breakfast we cautiously
boat and

were soon out of talking distance of

into our

people on shore. It was a beautiful,

We soon reached the
upper end of the Pictured Rocks. We
went under the instruction of the
doctor, slowly along very near the

quiet morning.

rocks, from one projection on to the |
next, until we had covered quite a
distance, when short association
with the half breeds taught me that
there would be a

wind, which was then very light off

my

soon change of|

land, giving us nearly smooth water.

I suggested that we had better turn
back to danger. The
sneered at my suggestion and re-|

avoid doctor |
proved me in an abusive manner. So}

we continued until we came to a
deep cavern, which we cautiously en-

While

into its water worn cavities the glis-

tered. looking with interest

tening silver was again seen by the

doctor, who became intensely excit-
boat |
farther in and discovered the gleam-

ed. We carefully moved our

ing white silver to be a ray of sun-
shine 1

that admitted through a |
fissure in the rock from an adjoining

was

cavern. The illusion was perfect. The
with
pointment and our comments added |
to his discomfort.

doctor was woebegone disap-

In response to the
reine to so farther, |

flatly refused.

yielding, and when ordered, continued |

doctor’s

My brother was more |}

to row, I to retard, so headway was |
The doctor became furious |
my brother
me and we started back in time to|
meet a head
creased to a hard blow, and by the
greatest possible effort we barely suc-

stopped.

with rage, soon joined

soon wind, which in-|

I want-|
ed to keep close in to a lee shore until |
we should get above Williams’ cabins

ceeded in passing the rocks.

and cross the channel of two miles
partly with the wind, saying we could
not otherwise reach Williams. The

doctor knew better, as it did not look |

to be very rough from where we were.
He really knew no more about rowing |
or sailing than a cat, but we yielded |
to him After reaching mid chan-|
nel, between the main land and the
island, we could not make a particle |
although we both

the utmost. We}
were headed right, but we were drift- |
ing rapidly sideway toward the high
rocky cliffs below the harbor of the|
island, against which we must soon|
be dashed without a ray of hope for

of headway,
erted ourselves to

ex

fa few

| quiet

| gave us joy.

|could make out was swamp.

us. The doctor was now white with
Notwithstand-
ing our immediate peril, his condition
I told

the doctor that he would be silenced

fear and supplication.
gave me a grim satisfaction.
in a few moments, and I was glad of

it, a feartul And our
boat drifted on to within a few rods

fact for us all.

of the cliffs, against which the great
vaves broke with appalling violence.
We drifted the
waves were lessened by more shallow

over a reef, where

water. My brother and I exchanged

f words. If we could turn our
boat around on the crest of the next
wave without overturning, which was
scarcely probable, we might move
the
reef leading into the great open lake,
hoping to pass the cliffs and

shore.

with the wind and waves down

get in-
It was a thought promptly

followed by an attempt, which
breath of

na

intense solicitude we car-
ried into effect successfully, the wind
and waves rushing us on with great
We soon passed the cliffs

and then, in one of the most determin-

velocity.

ed efforts, succeeded in reaching shore
in the lee of a point, entering a small,
harbor, exhausted, but greatly
relieved by our unexpected
We had toiled a whole day, eaten
nothing since an early breakfast. We
food.
climbed

escape.

had no It was nearly night.
We a high hill,
we could look across the harbor and

from which

gladden our souls by seeing Williams’
Al-

the sight

distant.
though inaccessible to us

cabins several miles
To go around the har-
bor much of which we
I found

some ripe black currants, which I ate

was miles,

find
the
While picking them

could
them by the sense of touch in
dark of

some animal startled me.

ravenously as long as |
night.
I could not
see one, but heard it distinctly several
times. I ran hurriedly to the boat,
where were my brother and the doc-
about the
The doctor assailed me with

tor, to whom I reported

animal.

exasperating speech. He had recov-
ered from his boat fright. lt was
dark. We had a sail and matches. We

went back a few rods from the shore
to build a fire under the thick foliage

of trees out of the dew, which was

almost rain in the open. There we

built a fire, picked boughs of ever-
the

heads to

green to lie upon, then pulled

sail over our bodies and
keep the mosquitoes from eating us
up. They were as hungry as we, but
My brother and I]
were at once in sleep, but the doctor
had but talk and he
did not sleep so promptly. All at once
we were awakened by the shouts of
the doctor, Boys,
What’s what?
moment of triumph.

mot halk as tired.

done nothing

that?
Then again I had my

what’s

The animal was

there, and almost paralyzed us by
terrible yells as it jumped among the
We threw

were up. all

tree tOps very near (oO us.

We

burning brands.

night keeping the fire going and
throwing fire brands at our visitor.
After an almost endless night the

animal ceased its disturbance, and we
soon spied through the tree tops signs
of morning, when we went to the boat
with our sail; looking out onto the
lake we saw a heavy dead sea but no

 

 

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MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

the
the
we
the
How good they did look to
We were happy.

wind, and soon passed back by
cliffs that had so appalled us on to
point we failed in reaching, when
saw the cabins of Williams across
harbor.
us. As we moved
on we saw some men getting out our
big Mackinaw boat.’ Soon they spied

us. Can’t you see them looking? In

a moment more every soul in those |

cabins was out to look at us. They

had concluded that we must be lost, |

and the big boat was to be manned

and go in search of our boat to know |

We
were heartily welcomed back into the
party. The doctor begged us not to
tell all, but it was too good to keep,
He
was teased and jollied by his com-
peers for days. The half breeds and
Indians told us that the animal that
worried us was a lynx, as I afterward
had occasion to know.

with greater certainty our fate.

besides we had no love for him.

We were one
day going from Williams’ to the
of which to-day is the prettiest city
in Michigan, containing 12,000
ple, the city of Marquette. We camp-
ed four days. The United States sur-

peo-

Abaye, at the mouth of Kewanaw
wind bound
again for thirty-six hours. Our des-
tination then Copper Harbor,
situated about five miles from the end
of Kewanaw Point, where were Fort
Wilkins and two companies of U. S.
where

Bay, where we were

was

troops, also a copper

was being opened by a French com- |

At that time Copper Harbor
was probably the most noted place on
Kewa-

Bay is more than sixty miles
Geep. | the

pany.

Lake Superior above the Soo.
naw
is

lalfway down bay

| Traverse Island, by way of which voy-

; question to be considered was

Point
Abaye to the point go, then coast

agers who wish to cross from
along near shore and round the point
At the break of

day of our second morning at Point

to Copper Harbor.

Abaye a council of our party was
held in which the half breeds and the
The
the

Indians were the chief factors.

| advisability of disregarding the Trav
mouth of Chocla River, in the outskirts |

vey of that.and adjoining townships |

had been made by one of Dr. Hough-
ton’s parties only a few weeks be-
fore. There was no Marquette then.
The nearest white people were the
Williams family, forty miles away.
We went on an exploring trip about
fifteen miles back from the lake, all
carrying packs or-some encumbrance.
We went to a very large ledge, called
Iron Mountain, or what later came to
be known as the Jackson Iron mine.
There hundreds of
thousands of tons of rich ore exposed

was to be seen
above the general level; all the stone
en the surface of the ground and in
the beds of the streams was ore. The
mosquitoes were nearly overpowering.
My face was so swollen that my eyes
were closed. I was shut in a tight
tent for a day. The pests found the
thin skinned Green
just to their liking.
from the Chocla
his Indian came to our camp.

Mountain boy
Before starting
white with
The
white man was Prof. Stacy, a geolo-
gist from Maine, exploring the coun-
try. We took both into our party.

increasing it to thirteen.

a man

Stacy went
with us to the iron ledge. Coming
back, at his suggestion, we took his
lightened pack, that he might fish for
brook ‘trout the Upper Chocla,
which he did successfully, coming in-
to behind
with trout enough for our entire par-
ty. We had previously found, and left
undisturbed, a half acre Indian potato
patch. No owner could be found. Up-
on our return, under the influence of
appetite,
us to trespass.

in

camp an hour or two us

our consciences permitted

We dug enough for

 

 

one meal, about a half bushel of half |

grown potatoes.
time and to see it fall, I cut tall
sugar maple tree, about twenty inches

a

in diameter, probably the first ever

To while away the |

cut where Marquette now is, at least |

We sailed
is fo
blueberries,

by a white man.
The Indians induced
Dead River to. gather
which we did in abundance, they be-

stop

again.
at |

|

erse Island route and heading for the
point direct, a distance of sixty miles.
The two or three miles of the end of
the point was to us below the water
level and was not but
could see Mount Houghton. Such a
trip was regarded as hazardous. The
hait breeds and Indians knew that
the leaders of the wanted to
go direct to save time, but they would
not instruct. After considerable talk
the dusky braves said yes. Then the
old Indian was, by a unanimous vote,
made the Admiral for the
The indications were favorable.

visible, we

party

occasion.
We
were off before sunrise, with a light
fair wind, but as the sun went’ up
the wind increased, until when thirty
land
waves,
of the
For
word was spoken.
suspense filled each of us.
looked

sheet,

miles from we were in the midst

of

tire

coming the en-
Tt

two hours

immense
length
beam wind.

was a
not
Silence and great

The doc-
pale as

bay.

a

tor terrified and a
I, notwithstanding my

As well

known, some waves are much larger

which
apprehensions, enjoyed. is
than others, these larger waves ap-
pearing with much regularity. As
the biggest of all waves the
Admiral watched closely, and as it ap-
proached seemingly high enough to
bury us all ten feet deep, he would
turn the of the boat
to meet it, and as it came the boat
would in the
As the wave was passing, a

came

bow squarely

rise most surprising
manner.
few pailfuls of water would

times drop inside the boat, as the

sonc-

water rolled

along on the rail on
each side, but the instant it had
passed the Admiral would lay the

boat back on its course until the next
big wave came, when the same meth-
od was repeated again and again. One
constantly Our
craft was a fine sea boat, with plenty

man was bailing.

of ballast, and was splendidly man-

aged. As we neared the other side
the waves abated and the wind died

away, for we were approaching a lee
shore. From the end of the point to
Copper Harbor was five miles, which
we rowed, entering the in
time to catch a glimpse of the stars
and stripes at Fort Wilkins, and hear

harbor

ing nearly as large as small cranber-|the boom of the sun-down gun, both

ries. Our next destination was Point

emblems of civilization. I tell you

mine |

the flag, and a soldier of the United |
States in uniform, look pretty good
in many places. At Copper Harbor |
was the depot of supplies and the
stationary camp of Dr. Houghton, in
charge of Omar D. Conger, in after |

years, much to my surprise, a United

States Senator from Michigan, who |
dealt out supplies to Dr. Houghton’s
different parties, and also took at 6
and 9. a. m., 12 m., 3 and 6 p.m. tes-

istrations of both barometer and ther-
mometer. Dr. Houghton himself was
there. His party, that I was to have
joined in Detroit, was full. The only
place for me was one to be made by
taking away an Indian from the doc-
tor’s brother Jake, a slim young man
about my age, who was going ovel
the newly surveyed lines taking notes
of the readings of a barometer and a
thermometer (that strap-
ped on his back) at every stream, at

he carried
the foot and top of every hill of any
importance that the
By these readings, and read-

line of survey
crossed.
Conger’s stationary camp at

ings

the level of Lake Superior, taken on

at

the same day, could later be worked

out in the office, when time offered,
the height above the level of the great
lake of all such streams and_ hills.

The Indian with Jake went to carry
a pack of necessities, consisting of a
tent, blankets for each, pork, flour,
tea and cooking utensils, a small ax,
a big knife carried in a belt about the
waist. His duties were to pitch tent,
provide the necessary wood and wa-
ter and do the cooking for two meals
per day and be general scullion for
Jake, whocould only carry the barom-
eter, thermometer and notebook. After
seeing the doctor, my uncle told me
IT could have the position if
I chose to take it, and that he would

Indian’s

call at my tent in one hour for my
decision. My brother urged against
accepting. We both got a taste of

what it meant when we went to Tron
Mountain. Soon after my uncle had
left, Doctor Houghton (whom I had
before been introduced to) came and
talked the matter over with me very
frankly, the
and

saying Indian was a
he must have
him in his boat as the season was get-
I could have the place, but

so told my uncle because he had

good boatman,
ting late.
he
no other, and he could not discharge |
a good man in that far-away wilder-
ness to give me a better position. He
said the place was too hard for any
white man He had not
supposed T would be willing to take
it or that my uncle would permit me
to. the At the]
end of hour my came to
know of my decision. He would think |
I had no grit, that T expected to be
parasite uf 1 «declined. (1
would go if T died in the woods. but
1 felt humiliated and disappointed, but
When |]
manner as |
could, “T have decided to go,” he said, |
“Don’t undertake this and then back
out.” That afternoon I was off. As
I had made up my big pack at Con-
ger’s depot some of the men stood
and smilingly said, “You
that very far.” T was
ready; the doctor sent Jake and me
across Lake Fanny Hoe from the pa-

to endure.

left.
uncle

doctor then

an

a of his

gave no expression of it.

said in cheerful a

as

looking on

won't carry

 

Ss

| spring to fill a very satisfactory po-

Cc
i leg house (the only
1

| <o up under the roof

his blanket on bags of oats for 25
cents per night, and get a- dinner of
| baked trout, pork and beans, bread

| was called the

| lodge,

 

rade ground of the fort in a canoe, he

| requiring me to lie flat in the bottom

Jake and |

were only to be together nights. |

for fear I might upset it.

was to go over only such lines to
pitch camp as would enable Jake to
go but once on the same line, he be
ing allotted a given number of miles
The talked to

about to leave sayil

day. doctor

when

pcr

both
that
cn complete equality, both to have the
Jake the

Lucius Lyon’s

us

1G
1S

as,

we must be brothers, we were

same pay. was doctor's
,
perhaps this prevented close or even
However, I did
all my duties without help from Jake,
the he
broke the last of several portable ba-
But Jake and I were boys,

with boys’ notions.

brother; nephew;

pleasant association.

until end, which came when

rometers.
Since getting old-
er and wiser, we have to this day
been respecters of each other and are
both made glad when we meet. For
many years Jake has been an honored
Detroit. We to
Agate Harbor, where we reported to
Houghton He

said we could do nothing more. When

citizen of went

Doctor for orders.

I left the Soo there were only three

| sailing vessels on Lake Superior, the

Merchant
American

Algonquin, the and the
Swallow. The Fer Co.
owned the schooner John Jacob As-
tor on that. lake, but it lay an aban
doned wreck on the rocks in Copper
Harbor, but at the Soo, the propeller
Independence and the schooner Uncle
Tom, named for ex-Senator Palmer’s
tather, well-known old
dent of Detroit, were to be taken over

then a resi-

the portage, and the little schooner
Ocean was on rollers when we left
They were all launched above the rap-
ids. The docter had heard that the
Uncle Tom was to sail for the Soo
next day from Copper Harbor. He

decided to take me there that I might
start back to Detroit. He
in his boat the fifteen miles. He com-
telling

took me

mended me for my _ service,

in
to
the

me he wanted in his office

through
into the

me
the

wot yds

Detroit winter, and

with him in

20
sition. He paid me
sented me with $5 and handed me

sealed letter to my On th
rocks near the wreck of the schoon-

half breed

money due, pre-
uncle.

“+ Astor, a cook had a

one outside the
wanderer could

and sleep under

yarracks), where a

and butter, cof-

fee, tea and

dried apple sauce,
for 25 cents. It

Astor House. When
Jake and T came into Conger’s camp

sugar

| for supplies, where only Conger could

Jake, having acquaintances,
went to the fort to eat and bunk
til we started out again, leaving
to camp, cook my pork and flour
Stay alone.

un-
me
and

After trying this once or

| twice T became a patron of the Astor

House, and enjoyed its hospitality
with great zest. TI had no
but the landlord agreed to wait until
T should get my pay. When Dr.
Houghton gave me money he enqttir-
ed if T owed anything about there. I

said T did. He enquired whom. I said

money

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13

 

 

: : | |
that I owed five or six dollars at the Dr. Houghton’s drowning off Eagle 166

Astor House. He enquired how that} River in a big snow storm on the |
came to be. I told him. He exonerat-} night of the 13th of October, 1845. |
ed me, saying Jake should have eith- | the same in which the Uncle Tom was |
er remained with me or taken me | severely handled. Dr. Houghton, |

with him. He said I should not pay | whose portrait I saw but a few days

the bill, that he would, and he did,|ago in the House of Representatives |

remarking, “You can’t save anything

at Lansing, was a geologist of note, |
from your pay this way.” I said no,| and had attained an enviable promin- |
that any man who would go through | ence, especially in Michigan. Person- |
what I had for $20 per month had|ally he was small in stature, but |
only a contemptible object in view.| pieasant, winning in manner and con- |
“Well,” said he, “what did you do|versation. In a moment his earthly |
it for?” I said, “To show you and{ career was closed in a terrific storm, |
Lucius Lyon what I could do.”|and his boat dashed to pieces on the
“Well,” said the doctor, “you havejrocks of the forbidding coast of Ke-
done it and I want you with me|wanaw Point. Now, after sixty years,
again.” He set me aboard the Uncle|I long to go and take a second and |
Tom and bade me good-bye, saying he} final look at that great peninsula
would call in his parties and follow/along whose shores I sailed with
as soon as he could. I never saw him|those no longer here: to again cast
again, only as I saw him start back} my eyes upon the hills and moun-
in his boat, for a gale and a snow|tains 1 climbed, and where day aiter
storm came on very soon and the} day I traveled many a weary mile,
Uncle Tom was blown about the lake with a pack on my shoulders, picking
in a furious way with six inches of |my way alone through its numerous
snow on her deck, and no fire except lwindfalls and its seemingly endless
in the cook’s galley. A Dr. Yates, of |swamps, waking in October morn-
Albany, N. Y., a geologist, was the|ings with my wet trousers that I
only other passenger, who, when wel never took off frozen to my knees |
parted at the Soo, cut a gilt button | from wading its icy streams, wonder-
from one side of his cap, gave it to|ing what my future was to be, and
me as a souvenir of our trip, and I] what possible use could come from
have it yet. We had a most dreary! such service. Long since I ceased to
trip, losing our bearings entirely until} wonder. It was my school, my edu-
the storm abated, when, by chance,} cation in the great university of na-
we spied the little schooner Ocean, | ture, whose inentor no man hath seen.

that I saw on her way across the | George W. Thayer.
portage at the Soo. To me she was | ae ee

like seeing an old and long absent} When you have an affection for the
associate. She was at anchor not | golden rule you will not need to ad-|

very far from where Marquette now | vertise the fact.

 

 

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cheered up, then started for the Soo, | |
reaching there and finding the Inde- |
pendence afloat above the rapids and
fired up for her first trip on the great |
lake. I was invited on board to din-|
mer. There were some passengers. |
One near me at table asked the color- |
ed waiter for butter. The article was |
then often packed for shipment in fir- |
kins holding about too pounds. The}
quality was generally fair, but the]
product of March and June would be
jammed in together, consequently,
often when taken out, a streak of
white, with yellow on each side, would
be found, and such was placed before
the passenger. He gave it a wither-
ing look and asked the darkey, “Do
you call that butter?” The reply was
prompt and vigorous: ‘Yes, sah! that

is conglomerate butter with = spar

 

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|increases horse power. Put up in
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mouths of most everybody except

those who had newly arrived.

T reached Detroit, found my uncle,
who, as soon as [ entered the room,
ereeted me with the query, “Have
you been discharged?” I said I had. —
He looked glum. ‘IT handed him Dr.
Houghton’s letter. I thought I could Hand Separator Oil
guess what was in it, as I saw his}. : :
countenance change while reading it. is free from gum and is anti-rust
He only remarked that “the doctor and anti-corrosive. Put up in 4,
has written some very pleasant things|1 and 5 gal. cans.

about you.” In a few days a boat :
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.
Lem Wright runs a general store
at Knoxville, Iowa. He sells grocer-
ies, buys eggs, advertises, gets up
schemes and does a land office busi-
ness. A short time ago Mr. Wright
advertised that he wanted all the eggs
in Marion and adjoining counties and
a day was set for bringing them in;
prizes of sacks of flour were offered
to the patrons bringing in the largest,
next largest and third largest quan-
tity. The day’s receipts amounted to
nearly a hundred cases of eggs and
those winning prizes brought respec-
tively 209, 121 and 105 dozen.

A creamery man up in Hornells-
ville, New York, writes that a young
book-keeper in that vicinity has dis-
covered a process of pickling eggs
which will keep them fresh indefinite- |
ly. He says the young man has been |
using the process for three or four
years and that he has some eggs three
years old that are “not even musty.”
This enterprising genius is said to|
have bought up eggs at I2c a dozen |
last summer and sent them to New |
York last winter as “strictly fresh” |

 

and no one was the wiser!

Judging from the mixtures. sent |

here as “strictly fresh” eggs from up |
State in the fall and winter I should |
think it likely that this process—or |

some other—is pretty generally used}

ily date.

among farmers, country storekeepers
and others; and if the mixed eggs are
sold at a fair average price I sup-
pose the shippers think they are get-
ting the price of new eggs for the old
ones.

Every little while somebody bobs
up with a new process of preserving
eggs, but we have never seen a prac-
tical demonstration that any system
beats a first class cold storage house
—and the good old lime vat, when
properly placed and handled, has_ so
far maintained second position.

Nobody should be deceived into the
belief that any method of preserva-
tion will keep an egg eight or nine
months in such manner that it can
not be distinguished from the fresh
laid article.

If we can judge of the scale of egg
production by the receipts at leading |
markets it is evident that the egg |
yield is holding up remarkably well. |
One of the arguments of the bullish
element in April, when heavy sur-

production was being diverted |
to cold storage at extreme prices, was |
that production, having been exces- |
sively large in March and April, would
fall off rapidly at a comparatively ear- |

}

3ut in this view an impor- |
tant fact was lost sight of—that the |
production in Southerly and South-|
western sections began very late and}
would, naturally, continue to a later |
date than usual. This proves to have |
been the case for the distributing mar- |
kets are now getting far larger sup-|
plies from Southerly sections than is |
usual at this fact, al-|
though receipts at the leading mar- |

 

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“You have tried the rest now use the best.”’

Ten Reasons Why You Should Buy

giden Horn
Flour

Reason No. 5.—Bread Producing Qualities.

In the baking of bread the following qualities are to be considered:
Color, texture, taste, volume.

Good bread should have perfect inside and outside color—-white with-
in and a rich brown crust without. The texture should be light and
spongy—the kind of a loaf strips of bread can be torn from. When flour is
milled from the right kind of wheat and milled properly, it will absorb
large quantities of water and absorb it evenly. Absorption produces loaf
volume—the greater the absorption the greater the volume, the more and
better bread from a found of flour. In taste bread should be and
pleasant, possessed of the genuine wheaty flavor, not dry and tasteless.

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It has great absorbing power which produces a magnificent
Try it.

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finest texture.
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Manufactured by

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Che Finest Mill on Earth

Distributed by

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1904

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into actual use to pay for itself.’’

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kets fell

a little short of last year for

a short time early in May they have |

averaged larger for the four weeks

ending last Saturday—and last year’s |

May receipts were exceptionally large.

These execssive May receipts com- |

at a time
cumulations

ing when cold storage ac-

were unusually heavy
have thrown the markets into a some-
what demoralized condition.
cold storage reports indicate that the
larger centers will

storage go

June with a very heavy excess of
stock compared with last year—prob-
ably fully 35 and perhaps
38 per cent.
prospect of

dium

per cent.
further large lots of me

and ordinary qualities being
the
prices during June.

Some of

forced into warehouses at low

local warehouses are
practically full,
are concerned,
liberal
as if about
would be

our
far their
but others
and it

availa-

now so as

oo
een

rooms

can store quantities
looks
ble
fall
tive

It is

all the room
needed before
local

receipts

to a parity with consump-

outlets.

dificult to compute the

Recent |

into |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Focke, who form- |
and |

CL:
conducted a retail grocery
meat business, are succeeded by Roth |
Bros.. of Cmeinnati.

Dayton—E.
erly

Miller—Simpson & Blake have dis-

solved partnership, L. W. Simpson |
continuing the general merchandise
business.
Shelby—A. J. Reisendorfer succeeds
{W. D. Converse, druggist.
Toledo—The King Manufacturing
Co., which manufactures ladies’ wrap-

-and there is now every | 7
| succeeded in the
|ness by

cy

| ruptcy

merchandise.
trade |

output in this city now owing to the}

pers, has been incorporated under the
same name.
Waynesfield—G. C. Bennett, Jr., is
wagon making busi-
Bennett & Co.
Barberton—A petition in bankrupt-
creditors of
Co.
of
hardware

has been filed by the
Barberton Pottery
The
dealer

the
A
tins,

Wm.

and

Lima creditors
Smith,
have filed a petition in bankruptcy
New A bank- |
has been filed by the creditors

5B.

in

Riegel petition in

of John 3eez, dealer in general |

Ravenna—A receiver has been ap-|
pointed for Smith & Stranahan, gro-|
cers.

Toledo-—A receiver for the Kotton |}
| Kandy Manufacturing Co. has been|
applied for.

Toledo—A receiver has been ap-|
plied for for the National Chewing |
Gum Co., formerly manufacturer. |

wide difference from time to time in
the quantity of eggs accumulated in
receivers’ hands. Our. receipts for|
four weeks ending May 27 were 502,-
=93 cases and with cold storage ac-
cumulations on that date estimated
at 450,000 cases there would be a
withdrawal to storage for the four
weeks of about 188,000 cases. Proba-

bly the stock outside of cold storage

in receivers’ and on docks was

May
1 so that total accumulation

hands

20,000 Cases more on af

May
the

on

for four weeks would be

cases, leaving

than |

208,000
about 295,000 cases for |

trade output. This is equal to about |
73,500 cases a week, against about 64,- |
soo cases for May last year, but [|
can not say that the calculation is |
very reliable—N. Y. Produce Re-
view.
—___+~- +» ___.
Recent Business Changes in the
Buckeye State.
Akron—Lang & Hoover, clothiers, |

will dissolve partnership, C. J. Lang

retiring.

Bellefontaine—The style of the
Kloepfer-Strayer Shoe Co., which
does a retail business, has been
changed to the Kloepfer Shoe Co.

Brooklyn—Wm. A. Rehburg, deal- |
er in hardware and stoves, will be
succeeded by the Rehburg-Bush Co.

Cincinnati—The Gem Electric Co. |

succeeds the A. H. Electric Co.

Dayton—The
conducted under the style of the Day-
Co. wil be
Dayton

business

continued
Rubber

Rubber
future the
ufacturing Co.
The Bowden & Rodala es
the

ton
by

Lima—

dy Co. has changed its style to
Powden & Reinhart Candy Co.

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LOCAL SHIPMENTS

formerly |
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Twelve Thousand of These

Cutters Sold by Us in 1904

We herewith give the names of several concerns
showinz how our cutt rs are used and in what
juantities by big concerns. Thirty are in use in
the Luyties Bros., large stores in the city of St.
| Louis, twenty- -five in use by the Wm. Butler
Grocery Co., of Phila., and twenty in use by the
Schneider Grocery & Baking Co., of Cincinnati,
and this fact should convince any merchant that |

| this is the cutter to buy, and for the reason that |

we wish this to be our banner year we will, for a

| short time, give an extra discount of 10 per cent.

COMPUTING CHEESE CUTTER CO.,
621-23-25 N. Main. St. ANDERSON,

No. 2
30 doz. Egg Cases

At a Sacrifice
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‘‘ Satisfaction or Money Back?”

Get a trial lot from

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Our Wholesale Distributors
Grand Rapids, Mich.
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The seed Corn offered by us is grown especially for seed purposes.

It not only scores high but shows a germinating test of 90% and

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FOOTE & JENKS’ Sold only in bottles bearing our address

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Oil Meal Sugar Beet Feed
KILN DRIED MALT

Mill Feeds
COTTON SEED MEAL
MIXED CARS

 

 

Conservative Character of All Styles
of Neckwear.

 

The preparations which were made |
for a good business in May have not |

met with the results that were an-
ticipated and which they deserved.
April having been a_ disagreeable

month as far as weather was concern-

ed, it was natural and reasonable to |
look forward to a warm and pleasant |

May, but again merchants have been

disappointed, and the season is ad-

vancing without having had a real

old-fashioned business spurt.
The

failure of several

houses is the best evidence that man- |

ufacturers have suffered as

the retailers, and those who, in order |}
to get business, have had recourse to}

furnishing larger shapes than

could afford, and have reduced prices
generally, are now suffering in conse- |
quence, not having made any profit |
on what they have sold, and they are |

facing the coming season, which looks
anything but encouraging to them.
It is gratifying, in the face of what
be the
that representative
those which have gone along the even

may calied present depres-

sion,

tenor of their ways, who have furn- |

ished legitimate values, and have not
been influenced by break in prices nor
the
ruinous figures, have done nearly their

furnishing of larger shapes at
usual business, have made fair, living
profits, and are in the best position
to start with a fall line of silks, which
for beauty, originality in
combinations of colors and quality of

texture have never been exceeded; and
such houses are the only ones which |
are in position to furnish their patrons |

merchandise which has true merit,

and will give satisfaction to the con- |
|

sumer.

A large variety of fancy weaves are |

shown, and many have white hair-line

stripes running diagonally,

when made up, will be quite stunning; |

the lines are separated about two
inches.

Imitations of crimped crepe, but of
rich soft silks, are new and are very
desirable. These are shown in a large

variety of dark and medium _ tints
both in plain as well as two-toned ef-
fects, and

very attractive by medium-sized swiv-

and also relieved made

el figures and diagonal hair lines.

The so-called 50-cent lines contain |

various textures and weaves that were
accustomed to be seen in the higher
priced qualities. Taffetas
represented and largely in self-figur-

are well
ed effects, the prevailing colors being
reseda, medium brown, marine blue,
Hunter’s green, cochineal red, garnet
and mulberry. In some lines the fig-
ures which are of medium size, are two
shades darker than the
the effect is very fine.
It is noteworthy that
all qualities are of a
character. While plain colors have
had a long run, nearly all the new
ideas are based on plain or two-toned

ground, and

the styles in
conservative

neckwear |

much as}

they |

houses, |

designs,

which, |

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

We Have Moved

We are now located in our large new quarters

31 North lonia St.

| ;
| effects, and a variety has been obtain-
led by relieving these by delicate hair
| lines of white and colors, and medium

: : a : |
| swivel figures, the first being spaces |

|from one and one-half to two inches |
|and the latter spaced, say, one inch. |
| The figures are often several shades |
| darker or lighter than the ground.

While brown is not as popular as}
last year this color has been utilized |
very effectively by combining it with

others, thus creating new and rich
tones; as, for instance, brown and pur- |
ple, brown and green, brown and li-
| lac.

Diagonal ideas, which were

gerly taken up in foulards, are quite |

conspicuous in all fall lines; they will |

|make up well, and this style is of

; quite a distinctive character in neck-

wear. There is a strong impression

that wide scarfs will again have the
half to
three inches in four-in-hands and from

call, say, from two and a

three and a half to four inches in As-
This latter shape is likely to
become more popular, as it seems to

OES.

be especially adapted for wing col-

lars, which will unquestionably — in-

crease in popularity toward the fall.
With the advent of summer foulards

and washable scarfs will be much

'worn. Dealers have bought these

| quite liberally, and they must be dis-
posed of before the season ends.
Vesting materials of French manu-
| facture have been largely utilized for
The
of designs and patterns is new
different
the regular washable cloths, and they
this
| Scarfs made from these textures are

|
i

{made up without interlining and can

washable neckwear. character

and

unique, and is quite from

are well adapted for purpose.

be laundered to look fresh and new.

-—Clothier and Furnisher.

—-_> 2.

  

Right on the way to the Union Station

 

Where we will be pleased to meet all our old customers and

prospective new ones.

We are now selling a line of

Clothing, Woolens,
Tailors’ Trimmings

Immediate delivery on Spring and Summer Clothing, as
we still have a nice line to select from for the benefit of our

customers.
Citizens phone 6424.

Grand Rapids Clothing Co. |

Mail and phone orders promptly attended to.

If preferred will send representative.

Dealers in Clothing, Cloth and Tailors’ Trimmings
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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

 

 

Slight Misunderstanding.

itect, “you will want an

;}put in the drawing room?”
Mrs.
| don’t know how to play one, but I’ll

“Sure,” answered

| begin taking lessons at once, regard-

iless of cost.”

 

 

New Oldsmobile

 

Touring Car $950.

Noiseless, odorless, speedy and
safe. The Oldsmobile is built for
|use every day in the year, on al]
kinds of roads and in ali kinds of
weather. Built to run and does it.
The above car without tonneau,

$850. A smaller ‘runabout, same
general style, seats two people,
$750. Thecurved dash runabout

with larger engine and more power
than ever, $650. Oldsmobile de-
livery wagon, $850.

Adams & Hart
12 and 14 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich

 

“T suppose, madam,” said the arch- |

electrolier

Neurich. “I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A claim so broad that it becomes
The Best a challenge to the entire clothing
ae | tis
Clothing in th A claim which is being proven .
OUnINg in the by the splendid sales record we
United States }| have already rolled up for Fall.
Hermanwile Guaranteed Clothing
is well made and well finished—AND IT FITS better
than any clothing at $7, to $12. in the market.
Every retailer who wants a splendidly advertised line,
GUARANTEED TO GIVE ABSOLUTE SATISFAC-
TION, should see Hermanwile Guaranteed Clothing before
placing his order.

Our salesmen cannot reach every town—the express

companies can—at our expense, too.

Write for sameles.

 

HERMAN WILE & CO.

BUFFALO, N.Y.

NEW YORK
817-819 Broadway

CHICAGO
Great Northern Hotel

MINNEAPOLIS
512 Boston Block

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

17

 

Market Conditions in Shirts, Collars
and Cuffs.

If all furnishing goods divisions
were as active as shirts and collars
there would be brisk doings in both
the retail and wholesale divisions of
the market. Shirts and collars are
moving with such regularity that both
the present and future season are busy
ones—the former for the retailers and
the autumn for the manufacturers.
And during the fortnight furnishers
have been ordering in the stock they
have had on order so insistently that
factories are taxed and unable to get

shipments, even at this late date, to}
Al-|

their destinations promptly.
though goods have been forwarded
to retailers in quantities all this
month, the consumptive demand is
so regular that merchants continue to
repeat their orders on the season’s
successes.

It is hard indeed to designate the
successes and be accurate, for what

sells in one region with ease lags in|

another. -Yet there has never been

a previous season when everything |

in general in shirts, from the staple
white and the dainty white and black
to the extreme fancy get-up in the
brightest of pink and lavender, has
sold comparatively well. Pinks, lav-
enders, greens, tans and natural flax
linen, all are selling over retail coun-
ters. We refer now to the fine trade
especially, for it is only in fine goods
that these colors are obtainable in the
best shades. These are selected for

specific mention because the bright |

colors have not sold so well in shirts

in a long time, and they have done!
than furnishers ex- |

so much better
pected that most dealers are in need
of more stock, having exhausted their
first purchases, and now await factory
deliveries on repeat orders.

While it is generally conceded that |

more pinks and lavenders are being
sold and reordered than in a long
while, yet no two furnishers’ experi-
ence with colors is alike. One who
does a very extensive shirt
says pinks and lavenders go so readi-
ly that they seem to walk right out

of the store as fast as they come in. |
His neighbor, only a few blocks re- |
moved, says he is selling some pinks, |
but lavender—bosh, that is not a mas- |

culine color, but for women, how
charmingly it becomes them. Talk
of pinks to another man and he says
pink is a good color in the
school girl’s frock, but not in men’s
shirts. But the evenly-balanced man,
who sees business prospects in all
kinds of merchandise introduced in
season, declares that the coming in of
colors will greatly benefit the shirt
business, since it enhances the variety
of a well-selected stock and influences
the consumer to buy and use more
shirts.

This chromatic note continues into |

fall, for which season the color range
is much larger than usual, and retail
choice shows a strong leaning color-
ward in all styles of garments and
every kind of fabric. And the play

on color in some of these styles bor- |

ders very close upon the gorgeous.
The showy things are of patched va-
riety, and are to be seen in both print-
ed and woven goods. However, nov-

business |

little |

elty is more than ever before the life
of the shirt business this season, and
proof of the fact is evidenced in the
increased business recorded in all di-
rections on fancies. Although there
is much business yet to be done be-
fore the fall and winter season can be
declared over by the seller, he is at

date last year.

Pleated shirts are selling exception-
ally well for the new season, and a
notable feature of the pleating in au-
| tumn shirts is broader and fewer
| pleats than formerly. In number the
pleats vary, both double and single,
from one broad pleat on each side
| of the opening to five single pleats.
|The broad double pleat, one on each
side, known as the French boson, is
|a very attractive and good selling
| style of bosom in fine grades.
| It was expected at the outset that
| business on stiff fronts would be large,
|and these expectations are being real-
ized in both printed and woven mate-
rials, although it may be said in favor
of percales that most furnishers are
ifascinated by the exquisite quality
and beauty of the season’s_ print
types. The patched bosom has been
| introduced into white lines, and for
|the autumn season we have the stiff
| white front with printed units of col-
or sparsely scattered over a white
| bosom inserted in a white cambric
| body. This is embodying in the
| ready-for-service shirt the latest con-
|ception of the to-order maker.
The negligee season is now at
| hand, and white shirts in self effects
are in improved request.

Apple green madras is the latest
| green shade in summer negligees; it
|is a darker shade than reseda.

 

Low fold collars of various propor-
tions and styles are becoming more
and more popular, and every warm
day brings an increase of business
to the retailer in the low-fold and
pointed turndown shapes.—Apparel
Gazette.

en a
A Case of Cowardice.

“Did you advertise for a boy?”

“Yes. Have you answered the ad-
vertisement?”

“T have. But I’d like to know first
what you mean by saying that you
|want a boy who ain’t afraid of
| work.”

“Tt’s plain enough, isn’t it?”

“Maybe it is, but I should think
you’d rather have a boy that was a
little afraid of work. Just enough
afraid of it to catch hold of it quick
and rassle with it, and down it and
jump on it, and get the best of it,
| and show it that it won’t get a chance
to prove too much for him. That’s
the kind o’ boy I should think you’d
like—instead o’ the kind that ain’t
|afraid of work. Why, I knew a boy
once who wasn’t the least mite afraid
|of it, and he’d rub up against it, and
walk right into the cage where they
kept it, and let it eat off his hand,
and at the same time never meddle
with it enough to soil his finger tips.”

“That’s enough, young fellow. The
|job is yours.”—Cleveland Leader.

a

Every man of us has all the cen-

turies in him.—Morley.

 

present far ahead in volume of this}

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.
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.

We will, upon application from

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

 

 

Hl. H. Cooper & Co.

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.

 

 

 

18

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

1
|

HARD WORK.

i board by waiting on table; during va-

It Wins When Ability and Genius
Both Fail.

“What the business world needs to-
ability. We
enough of that; in fact, I] sometimes
think we have too much. What we
can and will

day is not more have

need is more who

ability

men
use the they have.”

This remark of a well known busi-
ness man sums up the
thoughtful employers.
lack of ability,
a iack of the
without which even great ability can
little. What
and are willing to pay well for,

ideas of many
There is no
they say, but there is
energy and persistence
accomplish employers
want,
is men who combine with their ambi-
tion, education and natural talents the
capacity for hard work.

The career of every successful busi- |
ness man preaches the gospel of hard
work; won only
by honest, enthusiastic, persistent ef-
fort. With all their natural shrewd- |
ness and foresight what would the As-
tors, the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, or |
the Rockefellers have amounted to if
they had not had the faculty of
“keeping everlastingly at it,” and of
struggling early and late with the ob-
stacles in their paths? I do not be-}
lieve any man ever attained lasting

that success can be

success through ability alone; but we | ¢
|on the

know of thousands who
mediocre ability, and in spite of lim- |
ited education, unfavorable environ- |
ment, and other handicaps, have won|
marked success. It was not chance |
which enabled them to win, but hard |
work.

with only

On the other hand, there are ex-
amples innumerable of men of excep- |
ability who have failed simply |
because they never worked hard. A|
general manager called my attention |
the other day. “That fellow,
he said, pointing to a middle aged
man at a lathe, “has brains enough to}
manage this whole establishment. He |
is a technical graduate of high stand- |
ing and knows this business from A |
to Z, but he hasn’t enough steam in|
his boiler; he has not the energy to |
put his ability to use; and that’s why}
he is in the shop instead of in the
superintendent’s office.” It was an in- |
stance of this kind which the sage |
of a little New England village had}
in mind when he used to say that “no |
matter how smart ye be,
tc use a pile of elbow grease or you
won't get far.”

tional

to one

you've got

It was to the liberal use of

that a young man

“elbow |
who was |
graduated last year from a New York
university owed his success
slow to learn and decidedly
tive in appearance, and when he pre- |
sented himself for matriculation he
nad less than $10 in his pocket with
no idea where to find more. The}
Dean, who had seen many men of far
greater ability fail in their efforts to
earn their way, tried to induce
to wait a few

i ”
grease

He was
unattrac- |

plucky to be discouraged. Before the
end of the first month he was on a
self-supporting basis; at the close of
his freshman year he
making money.

was

|in a department store;

capacity for hard work, because he
| will not shrink from long hours or

1. . oe an ca
” | glowing description of his ability and
| training when the employer interrupt-

| i : |
| motion of every old one, and applies |

he averages to sell over $100,000}
worth of goods a year in a field where |

|
|competition is remarkably keen.

| While his rivals—men with the adapt-
| pearance which ought to make them |

him |
years before entering. |
But this boy from the farm was too|
place
| results show that it more than com-
| pensates for his natural deficiencies.

actually |
He managed a laun- |
dry agency; on Saturdays he worked | men.

|
he earned his}

cation he turned canvasser. By work-

ing twelve to fourteen hours a day

continuously for four years he main-

tained a fair rank in his class, earned

every dollar of his expenses, and on

commencement day had in the bank

a cash balance of $500.

No matter what line of work this

young man takes up he will succeed.

A thousand employers would make a

place for him to-morrow. They would
give him preference over men. of

twice his ability, because he has the

difficult tasks, but will press on persis-
tently, enthusiastically, taking genuine
pleasure in overcoming difficulties and
in accomplishing what he undertakes
Men like this carry the
Garcia.

message to

Every man who hopes to make him-
self useful in the world and to win
advancement in his chosen line must
work. No
ability,
education, or

have a similar capacity for
matter how great his how
how at-
these quali-
locomotive
without fuel unless backed up by per-
sistence and energy.

ome to the

thorough his
tractive his personality,
ties are as useless as a
Success may
capable man for a time
strength of his possibilities
rather than through effort, but in the
long race he will be left far behind.
Some day the position he has hoped
for, and which he is pre-eminently fit-
ted to fill, will be snatched from be-
fore his eyes by a man who,
capable, has won the
| dint of hard work.

although |
place by

| less

A young man was recently apply-
known employer for a

was in the midst of a

ing to a well
position. He

“Never mind about all this.
thing I

ed him.
There is just one
Will you work?”
Will he work?

question in the

want to
know.

This is the
business

great
world to-
day. The answer decides the employ-

ment of every new man and the pro-

to all grades of service from the com-
mon laborer to the general manager
It is work that makes a good sales- |
man—not natural ability,
best

have ever known is one of the poorest |

appearance
or personality. The salesman |
imaginable
Red-headed,

specimens. of
homely,

mankind. |
uncouth, poorly |
capable of |
elling bread to a hungry millionaire. |

Yet I know

dressed, he does not seem

from actual figures that |

ability, personal magnetism and ap-

good salesmen—are writing h

letters to their firms,

ard luck
this man from
Maine is sending in orders.
maki
of the qualities he

He suc-
ng hard work take the

lacks,

ceeds by

and

The persistence of this salesman is
the essential quality lacking in many

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

 

proposition through thick and thin is

Plenty of men can work hard when
the road to success seems clear, but
when difficulties thicken they
their grip. Others work by spurts,
keying themselves up to high pitches
for some periods and then lapsing
into half hearted effort. Neither the
fair weather worker nor the skyrocket
type is

lose

desirable. Employers want

men who can be relied upon for as
good work when the skies are dark
as in times of prosperity, and who will
be as persistent month after next as
they are to-day.

Many a position is secured by per-
sistence. The best salesman now on

the road for a Chicago house was

|are working harder to-day than they |
one of the rarest things in the world. |

ever did. What you want to find is |

| work.” |

hired. only after applying for the place |

it his
that finally induced the sales manager
to give him a trial.

ten times. was perseverance
If he had become
discouraged and given up early in the
game he would have lost the oppor-
tunity for success.

Lafcadio Hearn, who recently died
in Japan, presented in person his ap-
plication for a position on a Cincin-
nati paper. “I don’t want anybody at
present,” said the editor. Hearn sat
down in a chair, pulled a book out of
his pocket, wiped his and
smiled.

glasses
“I said we did not need any-
body,” repeated the editor, loudly. “I
replied Hearn, affably,
“but I intend sitting right here until
you happen to need somebody.” Be-

heard you,”

fore the day was over Hearn had se-
cured what he went after—a position
on the paper’s regular staff—and had
written what is to this day consider-
ed by many the best story ever print-
ed in an American newspaper.

There are few positions worth the
having which can be secured without
persistence; there is none in which a
man can be really successful unless
he works himself to the limit, never
letting up until his task accom-
plished. John B. McDonald, the build-
er of the New York subway, is right

is

when he places this quality among the
essentials for success. “The world is
full of
ceeded,” he says, “and brilliant men

average men who have suc-

who have failed, because of persever- |
f

ance or the lack of it.”

For the business man of to-day

The men who succeed do not meas- |
ure their work by the clock but are|
always on duty, whether in or out of |
When they turn the key
in their desks they do not and can
not shut out their minds all |
thoughts of business. The bigger the
man the more thought he gives to his

the office.

from

business when outside the office. Few |

men are so capable, or advance so|
far, that they can entirely throw aside
of
When a man does this he al-

the |

business cares outside business
hours.
most invariably falls behind in
race. |

The recent unexpected resignation |
of the First Vice-President of one of|
our largest railroad companies is a|
This man started |
in the lowest rank of railroad serv- |
ice, and he worked his way up to a}
responsible position by the hardest
kind of work. Two years ago he be- |
gan to think his success so secure and |
so
that he could safely drop all thoughts |
of business except between the hours |
of 9 and 4. He thoroughly enjoyed
this new arrangement, and did not}
realize how his work suffered by it
until a month ago, when a man sev- |
eral positions below him was elected |
to the presidency of the road. His
disappointment was so great that he|
resigned his position and at 45 is giv- |
ing up active business life. The rea-
son he gives for his action is that the |
company did not treat him fairly.
Men high up in railroad circles, how-
ever, know that he lost the opportu-
nity of being president by sacrificing |
business to social interests.

good case in point.

his future advancement certain, |

Attention to business outside busi- |
ness hours need not be the worrisome
kind which leads to nervous prostra- |
tion, but the kind which makes a}
man always so interested in his work |
that he will act 1n his own or his em- |
interests regardless of the
hour or the surroundings. It is often |
the case that the men who take their |

ployer’s

| work the most easily are those who}

there is no such thing as “letting up.” |

The he the harder
must work.
manufacturing company tells me that

one of his duties alone, the securing

higher gets

he |
The President of a great |
| making his work the next day easier.

of capable assistants, is harder work |

than he ever had to do when he was
only the head of a minor department.
The man who does not
persistent effort is as essential to a
eeneral manager as to an Office boy
is unlikely to attain lasting success.
Such a man came to me the other
day—a with money to
invest but experience. He
was looking for an “executive posi-
tion.” By this 7 learned he meant a
position where he could lean back in
a comfortable desk chair for a few
hours a day, with nothing particular

young man
without

to do, and draw a salary of $1,800 a

year. “There are no such positions,”

realize that |

| it?

L told him.: “The men who sit at the |
executive desks have made their way }
up the ladder by hard work, and they where.

 

give it the most thought and atten- |
tion outside of business hours. The |
problem which seems puzzling in the

hurry of the office becomes easy of |
solution when looked at calmly in the

He who
night

quiet of one’s home. does

some thinking the before is

He has a tremendous advantage over
the man who never begins a plan for
action until he opens his desk in the

morning.

The ambitious man does not find}

his only reward in large salary or re- |

sponsible position. The true fol-
lower of the gospel of hard work

gets satisfaction out of the work it-
self. He finds in doing
something, in doing something weil
and in doing something better than
When giv- |
en a task he does not ask: “Has it|
ever been done?” “How long will it |
take?” or “How much will I get for

?? He simply says: | "It it can be
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kind of worker who is needed every-

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Errors Made on Employes in Seek- | «

ing Advancement.

| lt he

I have sometimes watched a_ big, |
strong, nervous horse standing per-|

fectly safe, as leit by his owner, with |

only his bridle dropped over his head, |

or, at best, tied to a weight that he|
could drag away with the slightest |

effort;

and yet he thought he was|

tied hard and fast and never offered |

to move. Should the horse make up
his mind to start down the street, he
would be surprised to find little re-
sistance. He would be astonished
that he had been held back by an
idea.

And this is just the condition of a

made will determine the outcome.
When a man is given employment

| he has received his ticket and been
y duly
| he is to run depends wholly on him-
i self, on his

entered. The kind of a race
degree of preparation,
determination. If he is a
he will be lost in the crowd.
will be

and his
quitter”
goes in to win he
heard from.

It is a fine art to be a successful
employe. It means to be capable of
carrying out the will of another man
with the personal interest and clear
insight that one would use in ne
dling his own business.

An employe makes a great mistake
when he imagines he knows more
than his employer. He may about
some matters, but his general busi-

|ness judgment can not be so good,

large number of employes, especially |

those who are not satisfied with their
present positions, and yet feel them-
selves tied down by circumstances
and unable to make a change. Should
they attempt to break loose _ they
would be ashamed at discovering how
slight were the ties that bound them.

stay on in a position after he

or else why isn’t he an employer in-
stead of an employe? The fact that
the other man is in a position to
hire him to do his work is proof—-
lacking the accident of inheritance
of the other man’s _ superiority
some vital direction. A great deal
of credit is due the employer for es-
tablishing a concern which will give

 

 

{others who are less enterprising an

| Opportunity to earn a living.
An employe makes a mistake to}

has |

come to feel dependent upon it; to |

think that there is nothing else he |
and that should he lose}

could do,

his present position he would not|

readily get another one. This atti-
tude of mind is evidence of cessa-

tion of growth and development. It)

is the danger signal,
wake up and make a change. A man
must always command his position,
not let his position command him.

telling him to|

When he clings helplessly to it, as|

if it were the only means of support,
he is in a bad way. He must all the
time be greater than his position. He
must grow, that the value of his serv-
ice may constantly increase.

There is much talk about the fu-
tility of trying to fit square pegs into
round holes and round pegs into
square holes, but in reality the em-
ployes who become of the highest
value to their firms are neither square
pegs nor round ones; they are plas-
tic and can become many sided. They
fit into every groove amnd_ corner.
They follow the trend of the busi-
ness; they are like molten’ metal
poured into a mold. They are the
men who can meet emergencies, who
are equal to the demands, who are
versatile, able to turn their attention,
with profit, to more than the mere
routine of their official duties.

Every man in every position has his
“chance.” The fact that he has the
position and dozens of others would
like to have it is proof that he has a
“chance” beyond others.

The business world is like a great
arena for the running of races. Many
come and apply for tickets which
will give them the privilege of run-
ning. Those who receive their tick-
ets are entered at once; the others
hang back waiting their “chance.” No
matter what their running ability,
they can not prove it until they get
on the track.
the kind of stuff of which they are

And once on the track,.

Often
where employes’. consider
themselves infinitely superior to those
who employ them, they should not
acknowledge it, because with all
their superiority of birth, education
and breeding, if they could not win
out against the other man’s sheer
determination and pluck, it does not
speak them. A_ superior
man in an inferior position
dence of
direction. Let his humility over his
failure to take his right place in the

in cases

well for

others, not himself,

| take to talk freely of his position, his

employer, or details of his business
to others, especially in public places,
such as restaurants or street cars. He
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

his idle prattlings, but he gives an

impression of decidedly poor busi- |

ness judgment. No employer will
take a man into confidential relations
with him who is known to be a free
talker of what should be considered
his private affairs. Other men real-
ize at once that a man who discusses

 

| who is wise will not take advantage
| of the moment of weakness.

| employer is also a man, the employe |

his business in detail freely and pub- |

licly is really not in a responsible
position.

An employe makes ‘a great
take to remain in a position in which

he sees no opportunity for advance- |

ment. He’d better make

where there is an opportunity

climb.

Several years ago a young man, 20]

mis- |

a change |
and begin low down in another line |

to |

|take to waste his time becoming one

years old, began work in a large city |

department store. He worked for

several

getting ahead. He went to his em-

ployer and told him he was not sat- |

| by
| Memorial Day,

corner of Main

ished.

“What's the trouble?” asked the|
employer.

“L want to be put where I can
work up,” said the young man, men-
tioning a department to which he
wished to be transferred.

“You'll have to go in on $4 a|
week.”

“All right, u start is all I want,” |

the clear headed

And to-day,

answered

“start,” he is city buyer
firm, and one of

he got his

for the same

largest salaried employes in_ the

house.

youth. |
four years from the time |

the |
| who are a little disposed to like a bit

|

His position is a responsible |

and remunerative one, and he will un- |
doubtedly one day be a member of!

this concern.

An employe makes a big mistake
when he fails to win the confidence
Confidence is the
strongest connecting link between
employer and employe, between firm

of his employers.

and customer.

works to this end continually. One
the wealthiest implement
concerns the established
confidence among its customers by
filling their with inferior
grade of machines, then writing aft-

ot farm

in world

orders an
erwards and explaining that they had
mistakes in sending out a
and asking that it be
returned them at their expense,
when the right machine would be at

made a

poor article,
to

once forwarded

It was a trick, and an expensive
one, but it illustrates the point. Once
set the confidence of a man and it
is with difficulty that it can be shaken.
Get into the confidence of your em-
ployer, make him feel that you are
to be trusted, that you are reliable
and safe, and you are sure of ad-
vancement.

It is a great mistake to try to get
the best of an employer or to at-
tempt to take advantage of inside
knowledge of affairs. Many timesan
employe gets the idea that he is in-
dispensable to the firm, and can on
this ground demand pay his actual
services do not warrant. A young

man lost a most valuable position
because in a critical moment in his
career’s history he demanded a higher

Every business house | i
i . l .,.._| that found lodgment there, instead of
recognizes the value of establishing | . d

. . | lin the human forms for which they
confidence among its customers, and |

| —_-o-e-e—___—_
| Novel Display of Relics by Galesburg

months, and saw he was not!

| used in serious work,

 

 

  
   
     
          

salary on the plea that they could
not manage without him.
Critical times are the times that

|
|
|
,
try the mettle of employers, and one|

 
 

Facts in a
Nutshell

WR

He will |
act the man in business, and if his |
will receive his reward. If the em-|
ployer is not a true man, then this
test will have shown him in his real
light, and the quicker his employes
seek other fields the better for them.

Honesty is not only the best poli-
but the
concern can become firmly estab-

only one through which |

cy,

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lished, and an employe makes a mis- |

of the pillars of a structure that is|

shaky. A. S| Monroe.

Merchant.
Galesburg, May 29—A novel, and
of the
seasonable

by W. A.

and Pearl streets, in|

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129 Jefferson Avenue {13 -llI5-117 Ontario Street
Detroit, Mich. Toledo, Ohio

WESEEEEEESEBEESE GECESE BBA ST

east
FOAM

received
The First Grand Prize
at the

reason near approach of
window |
display, is that Douglass,
this village.

It consists of what is probably the
of projec-
tiles actually used the
war, existing in Michigan, and is the
result of Mr. Douglass’ personal ef- |
forts while sojourning in the South.

These are bullets of all shapes and
calibers, of shell, buck- |
shot and perscried missiles enough to

largest private collection

 

during civil

fragments

satisfy the most curious, and to those

  

of tragedy mingled with history, it is
some gratification to know that every
relic bears evidence that it has been
while some of
them are authenticated as having been
extracted from human subjects in the
hospitals of forty or more years since.

Among the other objects are nu-
merous fragments cut from trees and
in which are still imbedded the bullets

 

were designed.

Altogether, the display of
most interesting character and
well calculated to make the veteran,
who has survived the dark days of|

is

the |
one |

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the civil war, wonder how he ever |
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t away. |
a |

It’s the fellow who can’t sing that |

eenerally has things offered him for |

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We make a specialty of store, office
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market. No ropes to cut the cloth anda
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on tents, flags and covers for the asking.

CHAS. A. COYE
Il and 9 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Some More About the Little Butcher
Girl.
Written for the Tradesman.

In a recent issue of the Tradesman
I promised to tell more about Anna,
the little meat woman, whom [I left
in charge of her father’s shop when
I was compelled to leave the city and
thus lose sight of that interesting lit-
tle person for three years.

If this were a novel this chapter
would be entitled, “The Dream Comes
True,” for when I returned and pass-
ed down that well-known street and
looked eagerly into the little shop I
was much amazed to find it empty.
Disappointedly I went on down the
street.

In the next block had been a va-
cant lot when I] left the city. In
front of this was a large billboard
carrying the flaring announcements
of the theatrical enterprises in the
city. As I came abreast of the lot
instead of the gaily-colored posters.
the spruce and modern front of a
building met my gaze, and displayed

f

in the windows was a collection of
tastefully arranged meat.

Knowing instinctively that the
dream had indeed come true, I
went in.

The shop was full of ct
I had opportunity to look ar
fore I was spoken to by
three spruce young men
coats who were swiftly
ously cutting roasts and

But it was the offic
by glass that I was

 

or rather what I expected to find be-

hind that partition.
I saw behind that
slim young woman—a

from a smooth white fore

 

young woman with very

 

and very black eyes. that
energetically as she bent over her

desk.

Could this be Anna? Decidedly

no; Anna was a girl of 16 when I
left. But then I had been gone three
years.

Suddenly the black eyes caught my
gaze. A friendly smile lighted uy

pleasant face. It was Anna, and

  

knew me, and indeed the

come true

Wt en VA Ss OV I t
to the i he

   

  

extr:
ce Sees
book-kee ping

Anna fir

 

| ‘ |
| Anna proudly. “My dream has come
| true.”

 

 

 
 
 
  

              
        
         
   
  
     
    
  
 
   
     
 
   
    

I am sorry my heroine is, at best, |
nothing but the daughter of poor but |
honest parents keeping books in her an e
father’s meat market. But in the |
development of that uneducated little
girl there was much that was inter- |
esting; and, in the many little in-

 

 

stances that I have seen her display
her wonderful business sagacity, I
saw more good little business tips

than I have seen in many a more pre-

Our new Poultry Feeding Plant
completed.

tentious establishment. If ever there
was a self-made business woman she
was one, and the rise from a rather
scrawny little person cutting very
bad steaks in her father’s small shop

We are in position to handle 20,000 (twenty
thousand) head of poultry per day.

to the good-looking, self-contained
young business woman in the glass
office was remarkable.

T soon was on my old friendly foot

We can make it pay you to buy poultry
for us in your territory.

ing with Anna ay and used to
drop into the glass office occasionally
io hear in detail how the dream came
true.

One day. when I came in, the usual
ly placid brow was wrinkled with lit-

We furnish coops. Write us for prices.

tle lines of trouble. Anna’s father

was seriously ill. While his life was

 

  

not in danger his illness was liable

 

to be a serious blow to the business.

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was possessed otf
1

to his daugh

Empire Produce Company
Port Huron, Mich.

Butter

a good share of

  

knowledge of

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a ae ead ee see = I would like all che fresh, sweet dairy

oe butter of medium quality you have to
Anna told me about it afterward,

ing very modestly her part in th send,

E. F. DUDLEY, Owosso, Mich.

 

 

ELLIOT 0. GROSVENOR

Late State Food Commissioner
Advisory Counsel to manufacturers anc
jobbers whose Or oa are affected by
the Food Laws of any state. Corres.
pondence invited.

2321 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich

 

W. C. Rea .

REA & WITZIG

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

J. Witzig

 

Buyers and Shippers of

P Oo T A T Oo E S We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Live and Dressed Pouttry,

Beans and Potatoes. Correct and prompt returns.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICK Established;1873

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

23

 

business woman, but something hap-

pened to stop it all:

In my visits to the office I had seen,

occasionally, a young man about who |

was not connected with the shop. I

did not pay much attention to him.
Ife seemed to be a nice enough young
man.

One day he approached as 1 was
sitting on a bench in a park, and start-
ed to talk in
1 talked and
found him to be a very pleasant young
indeed. Then he

Anna and I

was the matter.

a rather friendly way

with him a while

soon
man, began to talk

about saw at once what
He asked me a good
deal about Anna, especially about her
early life

(1 did

by this young fellow,

[ hoped to discourage him

not want good copy spoiled
: P) I

even if he was
rather nice). I told him about Anna’s
early life in the shop, in the hope that
very nice

he, beme 2 young man,
l

would not like the idea of marrying
a girl who had been reared in a butch
Not that it made the slight-
didn’t

appear to make any difference with the

cr shop

est difference in this case! It

young man, either; he seemed to think
it only showed Anna’s sterling qual-
ities. and I had to admit that he
right. In the
that | would be

Was
spite of good copy
the

that |

knew spoiled by

arrest of the business career

was almost sure would be made, the
young man and [ parted rather good
friends. He was such a sensible young

man—-about girls and things, you

know.

The young man spent more time

than ever around the office after that

A st y ae ach a.

Atma did mot Seem very Bitch dis
pleased at his being around in the
way. Later, it developed that the

excellent
but

a position.

youns man was a most

book-keeper and office man, had

been thrown out of

I hate to have my story end so

1
|
L

morning tl

y, but

conventional one €

young waylaid me on the street

and told

man

 

me that Anna had promised
I He did it

him very clever-
not to

to marry

ly. too: “So as break it too

quickly,” he said. “I have a_ posi-
tion,” he continued.
“Is tnat soe’ said [: f am vwery

where is itt”

“In the office down at Blank’s,
he answered, giving the name _ ol

Anna’s father’s shop. “I have Annas

place,” he smiled.

could

“And.” I asked, “What is to become

of Anna”
"Oh, she:

said the nice young man, easily
“What as ite

the trap so readily that it made the

She has a new position,”

said I, falling into
young man’s eyes snap with pleasure

“My wife,” said he simply.

We clasped hands and T wished him
good luck.

In the course of time the wedding
And now I drop in at

their modest little cottage to see the

took place.

young couple; and, because that prom-

business career was cut short

ising

1Out at me

ihe growled:

and few otherwise would have known

of it, I have written the story of the
little butcher girl. 3urton Allen.
——_—_» +>
Boast not thyself of to-morrow;
for thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth.—Proverbs.

|

Mackerel Now a Luxury.

|

|

Sandy Hook, Mass., May 29—Mack- |

erel has become a luxury beyond the
For six-
fishery of mackere!

means of the poorer classes.

teen years the

has been on the decline and salt mack- |

The

ments of the fish are wrapped in mys-

etel has risen m price. move-

tery and so are the causes of the fail-
ing supply. The Government fishery

department is no. better off m

knowledge than the old fishermen
who have followed the schools up and
down the coast until their hair has
grown as white as the foam-capped |

waves. This much we know.

cr OF

eT!

coast in the vicinity of Cape Hen-

ry; by the middle of April the schools

reached the capes of Delaware and
slowly advanced past Barnegat and
Sandy Hook. About the middle of

May a school arrived off Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia.
From the size
it was apparent that they did not be-
the great littoral
south

schools

advanced from the and
from
the

disap-

it was presumed they came

1

somewhere to the eastward in

dee p Sea. The schools often

pear entirely from certain localities

and leave no sign, but it is believed

their movements are practically the}

same now as in 1820, the date when
mackerel fishing assumed importance.
The banner year of the mackerel fish-
ery was the season of 1831 when 430,-
000 barrels salted in New Eng-
land. Of

barre

were

late vears 13,000 to 15,000
‘Is have been the catch.
Henry Barnes.
a
Worked Both Ways.

‘Three years ago last winter,” said
man, “I held up

 

the Cleveland was
on a lonely street, and because the
robber found only $1 in change in my
terrible clip

pockets he me a

the head to

gave
over show his dissatis-
faction

“After my head quit aching and I
think, I formulated a plan. I
took a $1 bill and wrapped it around
a lot of Blank paper and made a re-

spectable looking roll of it, and when-

this |

In the}
early part of March the fish in great- |
less numbers struck the south- |

and general charac- |
ter of the fish composing the school |

 

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

 

Reference

ever I] went out nights where another |
holdup could occur I took the dummy

along with me.

“Nothing happened until about two
Then
night and
Up they went, and

months ago.
one

hands up.

a fellow jumped |
ordered
from }

behind me he went through me with |

He almost
found

promptness and dispatch.
and
later

gave a shout when he
pocketed the

]

roll, but a minute

‘Were, you blamed millionaire, you
lugegin
ile I

bread and water, and I’ll even things
you my compliments.’

have been g around
1
I

of dollars whil

up by giving

hundreds |
1ave been living on |

“And he hauled off with a stuffed |

club and gave me such

a bat over}

the head that my ears are hardly done |

ringing yet. I don’t think it was the

same robber, but I’m sure he gave|
ime the same sort of headache.”

—_—_~22—___
The real seed of life lies hidden in
the soil.—Streeter.

 

 

 

GGs

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

COYNE BROS.

CHICAGO

References Michigan Tradesman and Egg Reporter.

     
   

   
 

 

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We pay highest prices all the year around.

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40 S$. Division St.,
Citizens Phone 3083

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24

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Piles-Fistulae Cured

~Without Chloroform, Knife or Pain

 

In Bed For Three Months Before Coming |

For Treatment.

Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

I suffered with protruding and bleed-
ing piles between 15 and 20 years. For
the last eight years I followed railroad
office work and I thought they would
not bother me at that kind of work, but
I found it made no difference. Every
time I would ask a doctor about it all
the satisfaction I could get would be
that I would have to get them cut out,
and as that was a dread to me, I kept
letting them go and all the time I got
worse. Last October I was taken down
with them and could not walk. At last
about the first of January I had to go
to bed and they kept me there until
March seventh. During this time I suf-
fered everything and tried all the pat-
ent medicines ever heard of with no re-
lief. On March 7th I went to Grand
Rapids and saw Dr. Burleson. Upon ex-
amination he found that I had two large
ulcers. He treated me without pain and
eured me. To say that I was grateful to
him is putting it mild. It ts a pleasure
to go to his office, as his method is pain-
less and he is a gentleman in every re-
spect. His charges are very reasonable
and he wants no pay until cured. I
have been working on a farm all summer
and have not tried to protect myself in
the least and can safely say, “I am
cured.”’

To anyone who has the piles, let me
urge you to go to Dr. Burleson, as there
is no use in wasting time and money
on medicines. 1 am,

Yours truly,
J. —& BARTER,

x. D. £
Shelby, Mich., Sept. 19, 1904.

 

On His Way to Have Them Cut Out.

For the benefit of anyone suffering
from piles, I would like to recommend
Jr. Burleson’s New Painless Dissolvent
Treatment as being sure, quick, cheap
and practically painless. In fact, every-
thing he claims for it.

I had suffered with piles for a number
of years, and as my work (that of dray-
man) was rather hard, thev caused me
much inconvenience, becoming so painful
at last that I started for Ann Arbor to
be operated on, but was advised by a
friend to stop in Grand Rapids and see
Dr. Burleson. I did so and have been
thankful a thousand times that I did. I
was rather skeptical at first, the thing
seemed so simple that I could not be-
lieve the cure could be permanent. But
it is. I was operated on early in March,
the time consumed not being over an
hour and the operation being practically
painless, and came home and went to
work. My work was unusually hard the
first few days and I noticed a slizht re-
turn of the old trouble and went back.
(Let me say right here that the doctor
had explained to me that I might have to
take a second treatment.) The second

operation did not occupy more than ten)

minutes and I have never felt a trace of
the old trouble since. As that was six
months ago and I have been lifting hard
and working in all positions and on a
wagon from 12 to 15 hours every working
day since, I am now positive the cure
is permanent, and can heartily recom-
mend it to anyone suffering from piles.

In addition I would like to say that
a patient receives most kindly and
courteous treatment and that the cost
is very little compared with the bene-
fit one receives.

Yours very truls,
MARK CRAW,
254 Washington St.

Oct. 1. 1904. Traverse City, Mich.

 

Suffered 14 Years; Cured In 2 Treat- |

ments.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 10, 1904.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson, City:

Dear Doctor—During the winter of
1890, I was taken with slight hemor-
rhoids, which were, I believe. only ag-
gravated by the use of the _ so-called

drug store pile cures, at any rate they

continued to grow worse until I was
in such condition that it was impossible
to get a good night’s rest. With some
degree of suspicion I finally decided as a
last resort to try your treatment, and I
am now happy to state that after two
treatments, I believe my case to be
cured. All suffering from hemorrhoids

of any form can, I confidently believe, be | I

cured by your method. Yours truly.

A. GREEN
Engineer Dep’t G. R. & I. Ry.

Family eS Not Want Her to

ome.
Vermontville, Mich., Sept. 18, 1904.
| Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
| Grand: Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

Bad Case Cured in Two Treatments.
7 Ionia, Mich., Oct. 20, 1904.

| Dr. Willard M. Burleson,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

| My Dear Sir:

I am only too glad to do aw i
can fo ou to show m atitude for) L \
iy a | severe ease of protruding piles for a

the great benefit you have brought me
and to bring others suffering as I was
to receive the same relief.

I have suffered with piles for about |
eight years and have at intervals of a |
week or ten days been unable to leave | d ]
| anaesthetics, and we decided we would

my bed, and suffered intensely. With-

out exaggeration I have used at least 50 |

boxes of ‘‘Pyramid Pile Cure,’’ as well
as numerous other ‘“‘cure-alls,’’ without

With reference to your treatment for
rectal diseases, will say that a member
of my family was afflicted with a very

number of years and suffered intensely.
All kinds of medicine and several doc-
tors were tried, but to no avail. We
heard of your good work in curing such
cases, and without the administration of

try your new painless dissolvent treat-
ment. . This was done with some mis-

| givings, but we are now very thankful

receivi ‘lief. t there |
Se ae cae wer ne cc te }ments the piles are all gone and the

was no relief for me except through an
operation. I had often seen your adver-

tisement and in fact had written you and |
received one of your little books of testi- |

monials, etc., but your claims and cures
seemed so impossible that I could hardly
eredit it. My brother, however, who

was away from home and was sent for, |
being obliged to wait in Grand Rapids |

for some time, improved the opportunity |

to call on you, and was very favorably
impressed by you and came home with
the determination that I go to you for
treatment immediately.
the first of May, last, against the advice
of my physician and all my friends I

that we did, for after two of your treat-

patient is in better health than before
in years.

I never lose an opportunity to speak
a good word for you and your treat-
ment, and will gladly answer any in-
quiry. Yours very truly,
HERBERT W. EVEREST.

Could Not Walk.
Dr. Willard M. Butrleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.,

| Dear Doctor:—

Therefore, on!

Words cannot express my appreciation

| of your kindness to me, and your skill

went to Grand Rapids and took the first |

of 19 daily treatments. The relief was

immediate, as from the first I did not |

suffer one-half what I had_= suffered
nearly every hour of the three weeks
preceding, and from the fifth treatment
on I felt more comfortable than I had
for the greater part of the time in eight
years, and far from being painful, the
treatments were actually soothing. I
have had no recurrences of the trouble

in treating me for piles. I had been
troubled for 12 years and for the past

|\few years had suffered all the time. I

could not work or even walk without my
piles coming out. I had driven team for
the past few winters and many a day
when the weather was below zero I had

|to lie on my load, face down, in order

|
j

to keep .ue piles inside. Although I

| suffered much from the cold and nearly

froze to death many times, I chose it
as the lesser of the two evils, for when

EVERY CASE
CURED

 

since and from my own experience as | the piles were out they pained me so I

well as personal observation of other
cases far worse than mine, am thor-
oughly convinced that you can do all
you claim, while the extreme reason-
ableness of your terms is sufficient to
convince anyone that you are working
to relieve the sufferings of humanity
and not to become a ‘‘Croesus.’’ and no
one need hesitate on account of lack of
funds.

I would most heartily advise anyone

suffering with piles to go to you for/|
treatment immediately and it will be a/|

pleasure to me to give the particulars
of my case and answer any inquiries of
anyone desiring information. I am,
Yours most sincerely,
MRS. MYRAH C. BENNETT.

 

could not stand it, and bled so much that
it made me very weak. I had not gone
home from my work a night in years
without blood in my shoes from the in-
fernal piles. No one who has not had
these cursed things can realize what I
suffered.

When I went to you, you examined
me and told me that you could cure my
case, and I am glad to say that you had
no trouble in keeping your word. I have
regained my health and can now do more
work than I could before in years. I feel

| very thankful to you for your kind treat- |
|} ment and gladly recommend you to all

| sufferers of rectal trouble.

Piles 20 Years; Cured in One Treatment. |

Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
| Dear Doctor:—

I cannot thank you enough for what
you have done for me.
twenty years with the protruding and
bleeding piles. i
time and could hardly work, but I am
thankful to say that I am now well and

I am always pleased to relate my ex-

I had spent hundreds of dollars for med-
icines and with other doctors, but got
no relief. I would not take a thousand
dollars and be back in the condition I
was before coming to you.

Wishing you success in your good work,
am, Yours truly,

| WM. BERG,

| Sept. 10, 1904.

| Grand Haven, Mich., R. F. D.

I suffered for |

I was in misery all the |

I am,
Your friend,
HOMER MILI.ER,
Sherman City, Mich.
Oct. i, 1994.

 

Piles Have No Terrors For Him.

Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.,
Dear Doctor:—
The piles have no more terrors for me.
I know where I can get relief if they |
ever return. I am _ beginning to feel
what it is to be a well man again, thanks

| to you and your method.

you cured me in one painless treatment. |

I have had a very pleasant summer. |

1 | I spent some time in Detroit and St. |
perience to other sufferers with piles. |

Louis and now I am teaching in the

| little village of New Era.

|

 

It will be a pleasure to speak a good
word for you whenever possible. I have
great faith in your method and I know
that you are just what you represent |
yourself to be and that you will do
what you say you will do. I am,

Very respectfully yours,
FRED KERR, |

Get. 7. Shelby, Mich. |

October 1, 1904.

Nervous Wreck Cured in One Treatment.

GOODRICH & STANLEY,
Manufacturers of Cement Blocks and

rick.
Traverse City, Mich., Sept. 24, 1904.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Sir and Friend:—

I had suffered with bleeding and pro-
truding piles for 20 years and they grew
worse all the time, was operated on
twice by injecting the tumors, which
almost took my life. Used all kinds of
ointments and suppositories to no effect.
My nerves became so wrecked that I was
obliged to go out of business. In some
way I saw Dr. Burleson’s advertisement
and decided to try once more to get re-
lieved. I did not expect to get cured.
But I was cured with one treatment and
have been able to do any kind of hard
work since. I would advise any sufferer
from piles to go at once and see Dr.
Burleson and not spend your money as
I did for salves and on quacks. I will
gladly answer any questions of anyone
writing me, for I know that Dr. Burle-
son can cure you.

Yours respectfully,
E. STANLEY,
7219 W. ¥ront Set.

Swindled By a Quack.

Rockford, Mich., (KR. Ff. ©. 28.) Oct. 20.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

For years I was a sufferer from pro-
truding piles, which caused me no end
of suffering and often incapacitated me
from doing my work. I triell to find
some medicine that would cure me, but
failed. Several years ago I was treated
by a specialist in your city, but he only
took my money and did me no good. It
took me some time before I realized that
I had run up against a quack, and then
I quit. This experience made me sus-
picious and I was slow to try it again,
but I was finally driven to do something
and knowing of some cases that you had
cured, decided to go to you. You cured
me with the greatest ease and I never
had a bit of protrusion after the first
treatment.

I have recommended you to a num-
ber of my friends and you have cured
all of them as easily as you cured me.

Refer anybody to me, it always gives
me pleasure to say a good word for. you.

Gratefully,
FRED ZIMMERMAN.

Cured In One Treatment Without Pain.

Pastor’s Study, M. E. Church.
Charles Hayward, Pastor.
Beaverton, Mich., Oct. 11, 1904.

Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
My Dear Dr. Burleson:—

I can cheerfully add my testimonial to
your list. You accomplished all you
claimed to do in my case. Really, I
felt that I must take time and see for
myself whether your work was a suc-
cess, but I must confess that I cannot
see any signs of returning trouble. For

 

| years I was affiicted with protruding and

bleeding piles, also a prolapse and you
cured me in one painless treatment by
your New Painless Dissolvent Method
You are welcome to use my name in
any capacity in which it will do good.
I am gratefully yours,
REV. CHAS. HAYWARD.

Protruding Piles Cured.

Dr Willard M. Burleson cured my wife
ef a very bad case of protruding piles.
The treatment was painless and caused
her no apparent discomfort.

I hope to be able to convince many suf-

ferers of his great success.

M. JENSEN,
Greenville, Mich.

 

Bad Ulcer Cured.
Dr Willard M. Burleson cured me of

| avery painful Rectal Ulcer, and I am

pleased to recommend his treatment te
others ‘ ; PORK,
Albion, Mich.

Cet. 21, 1908.
Fistulae Easily Cured.
Sebewaing, Mich., Sept. 16, 1904.
This is to certify that I was afflicted
about one year ago with a fistula (a
form of piles) which got to be more and
more aggravating, so that last spring 1

| consulted Dr. Burleson and consented to

treatment, which has given me very sat-

| isfactory results and I gladly recom-

mend him to those persons similarly
afflicted. RICHARL MARTINL

 

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Bad Case of Prolapsus Cured.

Chatsworth, Ill., Sept. 19, 1904.
Dr. Wiliard M. Burleson,

Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

In consideration of the lifelong bene-
fits have received at your hands, I
deem it no more than human gratitude
to write thanking you for the services
you have rendered me, and trust you
may be able to use this letter in a man-
ner that will enable others who are suf-

| I tried your absorbent method. At times

ferers as I was to secure a lasting cure |

as you have accomplished in my case.

I suffered for upwards of thirty years
with hemorrhoids and _ prolapsus,
trying suppositories and lotions of all
kinds, and being treated by doctors and
receiving no permanent benefits, my state
of health had become almost unbearable
from intense suffering and loss of blood.
I was unfitted for business of any kind
on account of the nervous condition into
which the pain and inconvenienve I had
suffered had gotten me. Through the

; your new method, the one operation has

and |

ily, and that I should be able to do just

kindness of a mutual friend I learned of |

you and your unparalled success in the
treatment of rectal troubles. On the
seventh day of April I managed to get
to your office in Grand Rapids. The fol-
lowing day you operated upon me. Ten
days later you performed a second opera-
tion, and within a month after the time
of the first operation I returned to my
home in Chatsworth, cured of the ter-
rible trouble which had made the greater
part of my life almost a burden to me.

I am happy to be able to add that the
cure is a permanent one and do not be-
lieve that I will ever again be annoyed
by the old trouble.

During the time I was under treat-
ment by you, I met and conversed with
numerous patients who said they were
suffering with complaints of a nature
similar to mine, and for whom you ef-
fected a cure in much less time than
you took to cure me But after the
years of suffering which I endured, I
consider the month I spent under your
care to be the ‘‘best spent’? month of
my entire life, as I am now enjoying a
state of health and freedom from pain
and inconvenience formerly unknown to
me.

You are at liberty to use this letter
in any manner you may desire towards
letting others know of the wonderful
cure you have accomplished for me, and
I will gladly refer any ‘‘Doubting Thom-
ases’’ to innumerable of my personal
friends who are familiar with the facts
regarding the cure you accomplished for
me. Yours truly,

JAMES A. SMITH.

 

Piles 10 Years Cured In 60 Minutes.

I was a sufferer for more than 10 years
with a very bad case of protruding,
bleeding piles. I tried many of the so-
called remedies, but received little if
any benefit from them. I was told by
several physicians that the only way I
could get relief was by an operation. and
even then they would not guarantee a
cure. About two months ago I was
obliged to quit work and go to bed,

calling in the family physician, who rec- |

ommended Dr. Burleson. I took his ad-
vice and I am well and strong again.
Dr. Burleson cured me completely with
one treatment, and no one, except he
who has suffered in the same way, knows
what a relief it is to be free from this
painful and aggravating disease.

I gladly recommend Dr. Burleson and

will gladly answer any letters of in-
quiry that may be addressed to me.
Ss PIERCE,

October 1, 1904. Alma, Mich.

 

Piles Many Years; Cured In One Treat-

Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1904.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—

I was afflicted with protruding piles
for many years—so much so that I had
great difficulty at times about doing my
work. I tried numerous remedies, but
nothing helped me permanently until I
went to you, more than a year ago.

I cheerfully recommend your painless
method of treatment. It has done won-
ders for me. Shall always feel grateful
to you for the benefit received.
ge you success and again thanking you,

am,

Yours very truly,
MES. C. & FORD,
432 Western Ave.
(Formerly of Cedar Springs, Mich.)

Wish- |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

25

 

Just As Young as He Used to Be.
Office of A. J. Bradford, U. S. Pension
Attorney, Justice of the Peace and
Conveyancer and Dealer in Real Es-
tate, Baldwin, Mich., Dec. 16, 1903. |
“we Willard M. Burleson, Grand Rapids, |
ich.
_ Dear Doctor—I suffered with protrud-
ing piles for 35 years and spent hundreds
of dollars for relief, but in vain, until

was confined to my bed and unable to
work for weeks, but thanks to you and

been perfectly successful, and I am gain-
ing fiesh and health every day. It seems
almost incredulous that your simple rem-
edy should cure so quickly and painless-

as hard a day’s work as when I was a
young man. I am now 61 years old, an |
old soldier of the war of the rebellion, |
and I feel just as young as I used to do
in my younger days. Sixty days ago I!
left your office and rode home, 75 miles.
without any discomfort whatever, and
have been steadily gaining ever since.
My friends all talk about my wonderful
recovery, and I tell them that to Dr. Wil-
lard M. Burleson stand all the credit
and glory for my present healthful con-
dition.

You can refer any and all persons to
me at any time, and I will convince
them that this testimonial is from a
grateful heart. Very respectfully,

ANDREW J. BRADFORD.

 

 

Nine Months’ Treatment Did Him No/|
G |

ood.

Rockford, Mich., March 1, 1905.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Doctor:—
It has now been some time since I

took your treatment and I am satisfied
that I am perfectly cured. I suffered for |
12 years with a very bad case of pro-
truding piles, which often confined me to
bed for days at a time. I had tried every
remedy I could hear of, but the piles still
stayed with me. Several years ago I
took treatment for about nine months of |
a man who has posed in your city as |
a rectal specialist for a number of years,
but he did me no good at all, but took |
my money. I called on you as a sort of
fcrlorn hope, hardly expecting to take
treatment, but was so favorably impress-
ed, that I decided to give you a trial, and
I have never regretted that I did. From
my own experience J am satisfied that
you are the only man in Grand Rapids
that knows anything about piles. I am,
Yours truly,
HENRY HESSLER.

| your treatment.

| tion.

Well-Known Business Man Cured.
Willard M. Burleson, City.
Dear Doctor—
I wish to express my appreciation of
I suffered for about 20
years with a bad case of piles and from
my experience with you I know that you
can do all you claim, and more, too. I
never lose an opportunity to recommend
you to my friends. No person with piles
can make a mistake by going to you for
treatment. lt know of many other bad
ease, which you have cured. I am
Gratefully yours,
OTTO WEBER,
(Otto Weber & Co.)

Dr.

 

Willard M. Burleson, M.D.

Rectal Specialist.

Originator of the New Painless Dissolv-
ent Method of Treatment for the Cure
of Piles and all other Diseases of the
Rectum.

103 Monroe St.

 

Charges and Terms

My charges are always reasonable and

|are for a complete, permanent and guar-

anteed cure. The exact amount can only
be determined upon a complete examina-
Any person who is not prepared

No Intelligent Person Can Doubt This
Overwhelming Evidence of the Suc-
cess of the Greatest Discovery Ever

Made for the Cure

of Piles

 

Fistulae Easily Cured.
Sebewaing, Mich., Sept. 16, 1904

This is to certify that I was afflicted
about one year ago with a fistula (a form
of piles) which got to be more and more |
aggravating, so that last spring I con-
sulted Dr. Burleson and consented to
treatment, which has given me very sat- |
isfactory results, and I gladly recommend
him to those persons similarly afflicted.

RICHARD MARTINI.
The Knife Failed Twice; Easily Cured.
T’etoskey, Mich., Nov. 24, 1904.
Dr. Willard M. Burleson,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dear Sir:—

In answer to your inyuiry regarding my
condition since receiving your treatment,
am pleased to say that it is very satis-
factory. After suffering for 15 years and |
having submitted to two very painful |

| operations,
| could not be cured.
treatment was so effective and painless

| A Duty
Dr. Willard M. Burleson, City.

| me,

I had about decided that I
Your method of

it seems almost like a miracle.
Yours truly,
EH. SLY.
Vice-President Elk Portland Cement &
Lime Co.

I am

 

To Recommend the Treatment.

Dear PDoctor—
Having had personal experience with
your new painless method of curing piles.
I feel it a duty to suffering humanity to

| spread the news of your great work. I

never lose an opportunity to recommend
you and it will give me great pleasure
to answer any inqviries you may refer to
am Yours truly,
REV. FATHER KRAKOWSKI,

168 Butterworth Ave. '

| to pay the entire fee at once will be al-
lowed to make payments as his conven-
ience permits.

Any person who is too poor to pay will
be cured absolutely free of charge and
will receive as careful attention as
though he paid the largest fee. I want
no person to be kept from the benefits of
my wonderful discovery for financial
reasons.

Write any of the people whose testi-
monials appear here and ask them if
they were satisfied with my charges and
terms.

 

The Method

I eure Piles by a NEW PAINLESS
DISSOLVENT METHOD, which is my

own discovery, no other person using it
or knowing what it No hazardous
operation of any kind is employed and
no knife or chloroform used. Many bad

i.

cases are cured in one painless treat-
ment and few cases require more than
itwo weeks for a complete cure. The

| PATIENT CAN ATTEND TO BUSINESS

DURING THE COURSE OF TREAT-
MENT.

T have a booklet explaining my method
more fully than I can explain it here,
and [ am pleased to send this booklet to
anyone who will ask for it.

Any sufferer solicitous for his own
welfare would not think of submitting
to any other method of treatment, after
investigating my Painless Dissolvent
Method for the cure of Piles and all
other Diseases of the Rectum.

SEND FOR BOOKLET, IT CONTAINS
MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION.
How to Find Out

Ask some one who knows,
who has been cured, some one who has
|tried everything else without relief.
| Write to any of the people whose testi-
|monials appear here. They will tell you
truthfully of their experience and without
prejudice.

Don’t ask

some one

some one who knows no
more about it than you do. Don’t ask
some doctor who is trying to get you to
submit to the knife. He is all one-sided
and can e nothing but the knife and a
small prospective fee. The experience
of A. J. White, as told in his testimonial
in booklet. is a good illustration of this.
He investigated tor himself, however,
and then did the oniy thing any sensible
person could do—come to me and was
;cured without submitting to a barbarous
surgical operation.

Any person who investigates honestly
jand carefully would not think of submit-
ting to any other method of treatment.

se

 

Guarantee

| guarantee to cure piles and all other
diseases of the rectum or accept no pay
for my services. Any person who doubts
my ability to cure need not pay one cent
until satisfied that | have done ail |!
claimed. IF 1! FAIL. THERE WILL BE
NO CHARGE. i REQUIRE NO DE-
POSIT OR WRITTEN CONTRACT.

Write and ask any of the people whose
testimonials appear here if my guarantee
is not good. If your trouble ever returns
after | cure you, | guarantee to cure you
again free of charge.

Testimonials and References

T have hundreds of other testimonials
of cured patients which I have not room
to publish here. I can also refer you to
many prominent people who have known
me for vears.

I would say for the benefit of out-of-
town people that I am a permanent resi-
dent of Grand Rapids and have practiced
medicine in this city for years.

The enormous practice I enjoy is con-
clusive proof of my success.

Dr. Willard M. Burleson

Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How a Retailer Worked Into a Man-
ufacturer.

When I was 14 years old, as is cus-
tomary in Germany, I was apprenticed
to a locksmith. I worked for him
three years without wages, besides
paying him a bonus for the privilege
of doing so. No one had heard of
the eight-hour day then—we worked
from 6 in the morning until 8 at
night. Here I engaged very actively
in the manufacture of nails—working
the bellows while scrap-iron was
worked up into nail-rods and then in-
to wrought nails. All this work was
of course done by hand, and the nails
were worth somewhat more than they
are to-day.

 

The tools also were primitive. I
remember that we sharpened one set
of tools on a block of stone lying in
water.

I continued this work after I be-
came a journeyman; but then I re-

 

| $50 or $60.

and November 14, 1874, found me at
Beatrice, intending to spend the win-
ter with my brother on the home-
stead. But an opportunity came to
establish myself in business. I had
a chance to invest my capital, con-
sisting of a pair of good arms and
willing hands, $6.50 in cash and some
credit, in a gun shop which I, with
the help of a brother, bought for $20.
You see I was getting fairly started
and was about as well fixed as the
rest of the old settlers.

Business was pretty dull; the drouth
and grasshoppers had cleaned out the
country.

During the winter I started about a
half-dozen old army guns into needle
guns. When the spring emigration
to the Black Hills gold fields came
business boomed. One day I sold my

| stock of needle guns to an outfitter for

This was more than I

| had seen for a long time, and it put

ceived wages amounting to the mag- |

nificent sum of 15 cents per week.

In 1869 I immigrated to this coun-
try and found work in Newark, New
Jersey, as toolmaker, and later as steel
engraver.

| were going ten.

I spent the summer of ’73 visiting | :
|a calf-weaner patent which, however.

a brother where Filley, Neb., now is,
returning to my work in the fall.
Then came the historic Black Fri-
day and I was out of work. After a
few weeks of idleness I went to Read-
ing, Pa., where I found employment
in a small railing shop at $9 per week.
This was quite a change from the

gold factory in which I had worked |

just before, at much higher wages. As
a Christmas present I received a dis-

charge. I soon picked up a little
work from carpenters and_ others |
making steel stamps for making
tools.

While working one day in my

room, my landlord came in quietly
without knocking. I suppose the old
gentleman thought that I was help-
ing Uncle Sam to increase the circu-
lating medium, which was very scarce
at that time.

He informed me that the Reading
Hardware Co. was advertising for a
tool maker. We went to their works
and I went to work, but a strike of
the moulders soon tied up the whole
plant. Lying around and_ doing
nothing didn’t suit me, so I packed my
trunk and struck out for myself, mak-
ing stamps. This brought me from
$5 to $10 per day. What could be
done in Reading could be done else-

where, I reasoned, and the farther |
West I went the better the field. I}

had about $150 and felt that the world
was mine.

I reached Nebraska City in August,
1874. The first venture as a manufac-
turer had proved a failure. I stayed
with a brother for about two months
making a set of stencil dies for my-
self and making stencil plates. In
the latter part of October I went to
Lincoln and secured work in a gun
shop. After a very short time I quit

 

me on my feet and set me up in busi-
ness. For the next six years I was
strictly in clover repairing fire arms,
sewing machines, mowers, printing
presses and wind mills, charging 50
cents an hour by the clock.
friend used to say that this clock ran
twenty-four hours while most clocks
In 1880 I started in
the hardware business, but still car-
ried on the gun shop.

That year I commenced the manu-
facture of flower stands and window
brackets. Later bought an interest in

was not a success. I hardly think I
got my money out of it. In the fall
of -1892 the Lilly corn husker was
added to the line. You are all familiar
with the success of this husker. It

| was a hard pull to educate the great |

American farmer, but it was a steady,
determined pull to make it win. And
while I was not able to reap the full
reward of the invention, I have no
fault to find and am perfectly willing
to go through the same experience
again.

Four years ago the Gassett  sus-
pension hinges, and the next year the
storm window screen fasteners, were
perfected and put on the market. This
gave me both spring and fall business
and keeps the little factory busy. The
product finds its way to every part
of the country.

The gunsmith’s shop has grown in-
to a well-known factory in 1905, a
slow process but, nevertheless, quite
satisfactory to me. It has kept me
busy to look after both my retail
hardware and manufacturing business,
and this has kept me from getting in-
to mischief. I have had my ups, and

also my downs, but my practical

 

 

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knowledge has pulled me out every
time.

|States Government, rather goes to|

What I have already said would in- | show that the worker who seems |

dicate that the retailer who wishes to |

make this change must prepare for
it far in advance. He must use great
care in selecting his parents and the
place of his birth in order to be better
fitted by heredity and surroundings
to conduct the business in which he
later expects to engage. If he then
follows the natural inclinations he has
chosen, and learns some mechanical
trade, he is almost certain to become
a manufacturer sooner or later.
Speaking seriously, nothing is more
natural than that certain hardware
dealers should become manufacturers.
Many of them were practical artisans,
tinners, gunsmiths and_ blacksmiths
before they began to sell nails and
The store is the
best place on earth to learn what the
people need or think they want. The

stoves. hardware

average customer, moreover, feels free

at all times to tell the dealer what is
with the offered for
If the dealer has, with proper

wrong goods
sale.
foresight, equipped himself for his
called upon
time to time to make articles

graduation, he will be
from
which can not be purchased.

These suggestions will set him to
thinking, the result is an invention
which is given a trial by the dealer’s
customers. If they pronounce it a
success a patent is secured, some il-
lustrations printed, and the new man-
ufacturer packs his model and testi-
monial letters and takes a trip to vis-
it the wholesalers.

Being a good customer of the
house he is now trying to interest,
he is received and listened to. with
more consideration than the ordinary
inventor. Nevertheless he is proba-
bly advised to work up a demand for
his product. This means a campaign
of advertising, letter-writing and un-
profitable traveling. If the article has
merit a demand will gradually grow
up. The next time the wholesaler is
visited he will place an order. The
graduation is complete.

This business is particularly pleas-
ant for two reasons: first, because the
territory in which the
done is so large that it is not affected

business. is

by local crop conditions; second, be-

cause most of the business is done

with business men, most of these be- | i Liga aaa
|who generally “gets there.’—N. Y.

ing hardware dealers, who are always
ready and willing to help a brother
hardware dealer introduce some new
article if it is something for which

Dat) i

they have been looking or if it sup- |
| young woman, snapping her teeth to-

plies a want. F. D. Kees.
——_—-o—————_

The Steady vs. the Rapid Worker. |

The ideal employe, the one who is
auick, steady and accurate, is like the
ideal employer or anything else ideal
—a rare bird. Circumstances, they
say, alter cases. They certainly ought
tc alter methods too. There are some
occupations where speed is nearly the
whole desideratum; others, where
speed is a valuable quantity, but
where accuracy is a “sine qua non.”

It is not surprising that employers
should value the man who seems to
accomplish a lot of work quickly and
with little effort. But an instance

related by an old business man, at

 

|one time an employe of the United |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN - 27

 

 

|

merely a dull plodder may be the|
more successful in the long run.

Holding positions in the Depart- |
ment of the Interior were two young |
clerks of directly opposite character-
istics. One was bright, quick, brim- |
ming over with mental and physical
energy; the other, a quiet, silent fel-
low, came and went like a shadow,
making no ripple on the surface of |
office life. Exactly the same amount |
of work was one day given to both |
men, work requiring a fair degree of
accuracy, but no elaborate detail. It |
was needed, however, with as much|
dispatch as possible. Both were sup-
posed to start at the same time, and
without anything definite being said

it was somehow understood that pro
motion might follow for
achieved the better results.

The clever Mr. Brightbrains be-|
gan with a great show of feeling|
himself a sure winner. To beat Mr. |
Dullboy was such “an easy one!’ So}
Rrightbrains didn’t mind a few mo-|
ments lost at noontime, a word or
two with the other fellows now and |
then on this or that agreeable sub-
ject. He also took his time getting
started in the morning. What was|
the good of being no end ofa hustler

whichever

and the deuce of a clever worker if
you had to plod, plod slowly through
the day like poor old Dullboy.
Then one morning, just as Bright-
brains was making up his mind to
start work, he missed the poor plod-
der. Nothing could exceed the pat-
ronizing tone in which he made en-
as to the whereabouts of his
absent office mate. And then the
blow fell. Dullboy, it
finished the day before in fine style |
and had immediately been transfer-
red to the division of final results; a|

auiries

 

seemed, had |

big, big step for Dullboy in the right |
direction! |

All this goes to show that a man|
may be like some race-horses, a sure |

winner_who doesnt win; also that}

the truly wise never make the mis- |
adversary |

take of undervaluing an

merely because his implements of war |

differ from one’s own; also that in a
crisis the man who just pegs away
without becoming either un-
duly elated or depressed is the man

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“Match?” murmured her friend who
had just confessed to a certain inter-
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“Yes; all the same color,” was the
answer, “shirt, handkerchief, socks—
all the same shade. None of that
kind for mine, thanks. Just think how
much time they must take in primping
every morning to get all those things
the same.”

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Nothing So Helpless As the Elderly
Gentlewoman.

“Something must be done,” Lulu
Horton’s tones were firm and decided.

“But what?” we asked helplessly. ©

“The idea of Miss Fanny being in
want,” wailed Alicia Graham.

“And having to sell all of her beau-
tiful old mahogany that’s been in the
family ever since her great-grand-
father was Minister to France,” said
Julia Truitt in sepulchral tones.

“And that’s not the worst of it,”
the remainder of us chimed in, “the
old house that ner family have lived
in for generations is about to be sold
over her head. She mortgaged it, you
know, to pay that scapegrace neph-
ew’s college debts, and the interest
has simply eaten it up.”

“Tf only there was something that
Miss Fanny could do to make
money,” exclaimed Lulu Horton.

“There ought to be,” we cried in
chorus, “Miss Fanny is so intelligent
and so capable—why, she is simply
grounded in the classics and she reads
Ibsen and knows what Maeterlinck
means in his philosophy, and when
she was young she used to spend
every winter in Washington when her
father was Senator, and as for house-
keeping, there isn’t anybody in Fair-
town that can make such cake, or
bread, or pickles. Why, she ought
to be able to do almost anything.”

We had foregathered at Alicia Gra-
ham’s, ostensibly for afternoon tea,
but in reality to discuss the case of
Miss Fanny, who had fallen on evil
days, and we took no shame to our-
selves for so doing, for there was
nothing in our hearts but love and
pity, and a desire to help the fragile
little gentlewoman, who, after living
all her life in comparative luxury, was
suddenly, when past middle age, con-
fronted with the great problem of
earning her own livelihood.

In the little town in which we lived
Miss Fanny was our great lady. Her
father had represented our district
in the Senate, for dear knows how
many terms, and had then been sent
abroad as Consul to some foreign
minor court, where Miss Fanny and
her sisters were celebrated as_ the
beautiful Americans.

Of course that is ancient history
now. The Senator has been in his
grave these many years, and the other
girls are married and live in distant
cities, and only Miss Fanny is left
to us. Not that we ever cared for
the other girls, and we all bitterly re-
sented the way that they treated her
in the settlement of their father’s es-
tate. They—or their husbands, it is
quite the same thing when you come
to money matters—took the best of
everything. Miss Fanny never knew
how to stand np for her own rights,
and she let them have what they
would. In particular when they di-
vided up the great rich farm that had
been the Senator’s choicest posses-

 

of tobacco land and the fertile wheat
fields and left her only the poor land
about the house.

The Senator had planted some lo-
cust trees upon the knoll on which
the house was built, and had chris-
tened the place “The Locusts,” and
had been very fond of it, but, as we
pointed out to Miss Fanny, you can
not sell associations, and one acre
of good tobacco land is worth a hun-
dred acres of sentiment.

“Oh, well,” she said, excusingly,
“the other girls needed the money
more than I did. They have families
to provide for, and, anyway, I have
enough to live on.”

Now all that was changed. A mort-
gage that she had placed upon the
house to help a worthless nephew
out of trouble was about to be fore-
closed, and the frail, unworldly, deli-
cately nurtured little gentlewoman
was to be thrown upon the world
komeless and penniless.

“She has just been robbed,” cried
Alicia Graham vindictively, because
of the sympathy that was tearing her
tender heart, “do not tell me that
precious nephew of hers ever intend-
ed to pay her back! I know better!
Coming here with all of his palaver-
ing, and his renentance, to get what
little Miss Fanny had. Goodness
knows, it does look as if a woman
as old as she is ought to have had
enough sense to see through it all,
and after the way her family have
treated her, too.”

“Has she nothing left?” I asked.

“Nothing but that old farm, that
is all grown up with locust sprouts
until it is perfect thicket,’ was the
hopeless answer; “now the question
is, what is she to do?”

It was a question that might have
puzzled wiser philanthropists than we,
for there is nothing else on earth
so pathetically helpless as the elder-
ly gentlewoman, untrained in any
business or profession, who must of-
fer her poor little accomplishments
in the great market of labor. It was
a serious matter that, as the time
wore on, became a poignant personal
matter with each of us, and that we
discussed day after day over innumer-
able cups of tea. Of course our first
idea—it is always the inevitable first
idea of women who cling to home as
tc an ark of refuge—was that Miss
Fanny should take boarders.

“You remember her angel food,”
cried one excitedly.

“Think of her rolls,” chimed in an-
other, and we agreed that in that way
ease and fortune lay for Miss Fan-
ny, and we felt it nothing less than a
special providence that just at that
particular time some strangers, who
were members of the church and dis-
tinctly presentable, should move to
town. Asa matter of fact, we resolv-
ed ourselves into hotel-runners for
her, and sounded the praises of her
housekeeping as assiduously as if we
had been drawing a salary for do-
ing it.

In our inexperience it never occur-
red to us, and assuredly it never oc-
curred to her, that keeping boarders
is a profession that requires definite
and accurate technical training. To

sion, they took all the broad acres| Miss Fanny, used to dispensing a

 

gracious hospitality, it was nothing
short of martyrdom to take money
from those she persisted in regarding
as her guest. If they paid, she made
it up to them as far as possible by
inviting their friends and relatives on
indefinite visits. Moreover, she help-
ed various and impecunious boys and
girls by giving them their board.
“When you have a big table one or
two more do not count, you know,

my dear,” she would say in excuse |

to us when we remonstrated with her
against burdening herself with the
support of others.

But Miss Fanny }

 

“And that settles it,” she said. “We
know Miss Fanny is the most culti-
vated person in this community, but
she could not begin to answer the
tom-fool questions they ask in these
examinations, with all their fads and
new-fangled ideas about teaching. It
is my opinion,” she concluded, gloom-
ily, “that if Emerson were to come
back to earth now he could not stand
an examination to teach kindergarten
babies how to build block houses.”

After that. in different bursts ot

inspiration, Miss Fanny tried making

was unyielding as only a gentle per-|

son can be, and, anyway, you can not
give $90 meals for $30 board and make
money, and so at last the butcher
bill and the grocery bill added an-

other lien on the house, where al-|

ready the newest thing was the third
mortgage, and so we were forced to
admit that Miss Fanny’s venture as a
hotelkeeper was a failure.

Then we bethought ourselves of
getting her a place to teach in the
public schools, and there was not a
married man in Fairtown who did not
go to bed, and get up, and eat his
meals, to a running accompan-
iment of Miss Fanny’s needs, until
he promised to see the School Board
and use force and corruption, if nec-
essary, to get her a position. Alicia
Graham herself undertook to see the
Principal and solicit his influence.

“You know him,” she said, in de-
tailing the result of her interview
with us, “the miserable little prunes-
and-prisms, dry-as-dust creature, with
a soul no bigger than the point of a
cambric needle. I told him what we
wanted, and he smiled in his super
cilious way and said:

“‘Really, Mrs. Graham, I would
like very much to oblige you, but,
you know, it is quite out of the ques-
tion. Miss Fanny is altogether be-
hind the times. She would not know
how to teach by diagram, or any of
the modern methods we use nowa-
days. Now,’ he went on patronizing-
ly, ‘what do you suppose Miss Fanny
understands well enough to teach?’

“Well, it happened just at that
minute that my Katie came scorching
by on her bicycle, chewing gum, with
her skirts flung about her knees and
a cap on one side of her head, and as
she saw us she screamed out at the
top of her voice:

““Hello, Mamma! Hello, Profes-
sor! Isn’t this fierce?’ and I turned
on him.

“What could Miss Fanny teach?
IT cried. ‘She could teach girls to be
ladies, and I’d give a thousand dol-
lars right now to anybody who could
make one out of my daughter.’ ”

Of course the teaching project fell!
through. We were sadly convinced.
and much against our wills, that some
more definite knowledge was re-
quired in a school teacher than an
intimate acquaintance with Scott and
Dickens and an ability -to quote By-
ron in appropriate places. The final
blow fell when Alicia Graham again
interviewed the public school Princi-
pal, and brought back the information
that Miss Fanny would have to stand
an examination before she could hope
to get a place.

|

 

preserves and pickles for rich city
people whom we had been led to be-

l lieve were hankering and pining for

home-made delicacies, and willing to
pay fabulous prices for them. If there
are any such customers, we failed to
reach them, and her jars came back
from the various exchanges unpacked
and unsold.

In the meantime Miss Fanny grew
paler and thinner and more worn as
the time went by. Care and anxiety
lay their heavy hands upon her and
bowed the shoulders, and whitened
the brown hair as age had never done,
and one had only to notice the tremu-
lous smile about the faded old blue
eyes to guess how long and bitter
were the lonely night vigils that she
kept.

At last there came a day when the
interest could no longer be met on
the mortgage, and Miss Fanny’s
house and furniture must be sold to
pay the debt, and for a week she shut
her eyes that she might not see the
bill of sale as she walked down to
the gate, for, indeed, to her the end
of all things had come.

It was growing late in the fall,
and as she made her round of the
little garden, where only a_ belated
chrysanthemum bloomed in _ faded
splendor, it seemed to her as if it was
the prototype of her own life, where
all the flowers had faded and gone,
leaving only a desolate and forlorn
waste behind. Then she turned and
went into the house, going slowly
over it, and touching every piece of
furniture with tender and_ loving
hands. What memories, what hopes,
what dreams clustered about them.
They were a part of her life, and she
felt a numb, helpless pain as_ she
imagined one might feel who has a
limb suddenly lopped off. At last
her aimless wandering brought her
te the library, and she sank down in-
to a chair, and laid her arms across
the old mahogany table with a ges-
ture that was a caress. It had been
hers so long, and to-morrow it would
be hers no more.

“Dear God,” she sobbed, brokenly,
“Tam not strong like many women,
nor clever, nor young. I am not fit-
ted to struggle with the world. I am
old and broken, and the way is dark
and lonely before me. I appeal to
thy promise, Lord, remember—‘the
broken reed thou wilt not break.’ ”

How long she sat there she never
knew. Perhaps, worn out with mis-
ery, she fell asleep, but the first thing
she was aware of was that Alicia Gra-
ham was standing over her, with the
tears running down her face, and the
advertisement of the auction sale
crumpled up in her hands, while Mr.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29

 

 

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the handling of cash sales,
credit sales, money re-
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paid out and money
changed for customers—
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Michigan Tradesman wipes out a retatler’s troubles. Lam sending thts coupon
with the understanding that it puts me under no obliga-
tion to buy.
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Graham’s figure filled up the fees
way.

“Tt’s all right, Miss Fanny,” Alicia
was saying, “I didn’t tell you because
John didn’t tell me, and I didn’t know |
it, but he’s been working on it all|
the time for the last few months, and |
he’s got some railroad men, and they
are going to buy that locust thicket |
of yours for crossties, and, oh! Miss |
Fanny, it seems that in trying to cheat |
you, your brothers and sisters cheat-
ed themselves, and the locust grove
is worth a fortune. And, oh! Miss
Fanny, just think of it, you are rich—
rich, and there won't have to be any |
more boarders, or preserves, or any-

thing, and, oh! I’m the happiest wom- |
an in Fairtown.”

And so it was that the case of Miss
Fanny was settled.

“After all,” I said to Alicia Graham
once in reviewing it, “it didn’t seem
to prove anything, or throw any light
on how an elderly gentlewoman, who
needs to earn a living, can do it.”

“No,” said that practical woman, |
“the only way in which she can make |
money is to inherit it. Whenever 1 |
see a woman like Miss Fanny under- |
take to solve the bread and butter |
problem, I always put up a prayer to}

heaven for manna.”
And I agreed. Dorothy Dix.

el
Marital Inequality Happily Dis-
posed of.
Once upon a time there was a man}
who walked ahead of his wife.
At first it was only about seven-
eighths of an inch. This was during
the honeymoon period.

At the end of six months he had
increased the distance to two inches.
At the end of a year it was six inches.
And at the end of two years it was
a foot.

At first the man’s wife remonstrat-
ed with him.

“Tt doesn’t look well,” she urged.
“People will notice it.” And the man
would temporarily fall back. But it
didn’t last.

When the man and his wife had
been married five years the gap be-
tween them had become so wide that |
the matter was serious. It became a
public affair.

Various expedients were broached. |
One person suggested that the man’s |
wife start out from the house ,ahead |
of him, gauging the time by their
objective point so that they could
both wind up together at the place
they were going to—all to be ar-
ranged by a table of distances. But
this was found to be impracticable, |
for the reason that as the distance |
between the man and his wife was
constantly increasing, this method|

would require a constant readjust- |
ment.

Some one then suggested that

prayers be offered in all the churches
with a view to fixing the speed of
the man and his wife in an exact
ratio. But it was pointed out that |
if the man’s wife had been unable
to get him to go slow enough for |
her, Providence should not be asked |
to undertake the matter.

It being admitted that, so far as|
the man himself was concerned, the |
case was hopeless, it became evident

|posed of in this happy manner, the

|community in which the man and|
| his wife are living has settled down
to a much-needed rest.

| truck farmer, with a life interest in
|aS pretty a piece of land as lay out

| gets evicted, has to buy a suit of store

| of cactus and Canada thistles. Poor

 

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that his wife must be the one to ap-|
ply the cure. And it was urged upon |

| her that she might as well make the | H RI ISK
best of it and walk just enough faster | I *

than she had been walking to keep |

up. But she explained, in reply, that | Made from wholesome ingredients under approved sanitary
this was precisely what she had been | conditions.
doing; but that the faster she walked, | A Health Food sold at moderate price.
the faster her husband went. Sold in barrels and cartons.
Finally the matter was settled in See quotations in Grocery Price Current.
this wise: Manufactured only by

The town presented the couple DUTCH RUSK COMPANY, Holland, Michigan

with an automobile, the distance be-

 

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the average distance that the man
kept ahead of his wife. He sat in

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And the matter having been dis-

The Rise and Fall of Adam.
The earliest business man of whom Fresh Cane Sugar
I find record was a man. named
Adam. I don’t know his other name.
Adam was living the simple life, of
which we hear so much and.see so Eastern Granulated and other grades. Manufactured exclu-
little nowadays. He was a sort of

Supply your wants from our daily arrivals of fresh,

sively from Cuban cane.

None better for table, canning and other family purposes.

of doors—not a weed nor a potato The best to stand damp and warm weather.
bug in it.

Adam ought to have been happy— |
no taxes to pay, eggs forty cents aj Pp wd d S g
dozen, and few clothes to buy—fash- 0 ere u ars
ion in fig leaves didn’t change often.

Along comes a slick promoter with
a gold brick. He offers to make sugar, XXXX Powdered, Standard Powdered and Fruit

We grind daily in our own mill, from pure granulated

Adam wise—promises him tips on the Powdered.

market and all that. You all know :

the com of the geminal story. Tho It is therefore fresh and free from lumps. The finest
promoter was a fakir, the tip was no_ powdered sugar obtainable.

good, the market went the other

way, Adam is sold out under the Buy From Us

rules, margin all gone, loses his farm,

 

clothes all around and go out West

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old Adam—his children are yet buy-

 

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BARGAIN HUNTERS.

Woman Is Woman All the World
Over.

“There are two things vitally inter
esting to a woman,” said a wise Eng
lishwoman the other day. “One is a
bargain and the other is love. A wom
an can not get along without hunt
ing for bargains. She could not if
ft is as stimulatine to her
and

she tried.

as cigarettes wine are to men.

You can hardly blame us. You know
it’s something like playing the races
to hunt for a thing you need or want
and want to get just as cheap as you
I know it to be true. It is not

only in Bond street that women hunt

Can.

for lovely hats, m Rue de la Paix
for handsome jewels, and in State
street for stunning trocks and hats. |

I've been all over the world and I’ve
still to find the woman who fails to
take interest in a bargain.

“The mere mention of the term bar-
gain hunter brings many an incident
to mmd You American women are
as bad as any of us; worse than some.
It almost to think
of the time when an intelligent Amer-

makes me laugh
visiting me. For
arrival |
should introduce her to the
When she first
came I asked her if we should begin
Westminster or Temple
She looked at me just a little hesitat-
ingly and said that if I didn’t mind,
she would like to put it off for a

ican wOmanh was

days before hei wondered
how I
sights of London.

with Bar.

day, as she wished to do some shop-
ping. We
shop in town hunting for tailor-made
She told me that it had been
the ambition of her life to have a
We finally

admired, but she

went and we did every

suits.

real English tailor-made.
came on one she
refused to take it until we had gone
through every shop on this street to
see if we couldn't find something just
a little cheaper.”

The

silastic

French are even more enthu-
when it comes to a_ bargain.
While traveling through Turkey I was
with a French
and the first thing we had to do when
we struck a new place was to hunt
While in Constantino-

ple one day we were on our way to

m company woimnanh,

for bargains.

gomg

were
Mind you, we

the mosque, where we
to hear special service.
were late, and still she insisted on
stopping at a cigarette shop.
I said we must hasten on or we
should be late,

Orn, only

but she smiled and
you must
I’ve been

answered, dear,
grant me five minutes here.
looking for this place some weeks.
They make the best cigarettes, and

they are wonderfully cheap.” She

bh

went in and selected a brand at
francs. No, she wouldn’t pay that
price.
fifty, and she got them.

The Persian women are less active |
shoppers than are many of the Orien- |

tal women, and still they like to go
bargain hunting.

said to me:

we have a fair. If you come you can

get some things remarkably cheap.”
Didn’t those women fight that day?
I feel certain if Napoleon had had
could |

them for soldiers he never

I was visiting in a|
small town and a woman of the place |
“You must not forget |

31

 

|
| have lost the battle
| Scarfs, dress goods, silks and
i

of Waterloo
fans
But the

ale were the trousers

important

women wear

troucers in that country, sometimes
a

a half dozen at a time.

il |
he women of India are supposed

fo have their minds concentrated on |

thoughts spnitual, and still they know

While in

the value of 2 cheap thing.

India I was in a shop one day hunt- |
ing for combs, and a Brahmin woman |

came to me, saying, “E see you are |

hunting for

reasonable.
You will not find it here; these people

something
cater to Americans.
And sl

| drove a real bargain.

But this weakness extends farther. |

Tiflis, amone the Caucasus, and :
beautiful Magyar came into a shop
in a most excited way
cleck if
happened. He

worst, 1 asked the some-
dreadful had

blandly and

thing
smiled explained,
not at all.

er, VW

She’s only a bargain hunt-
e have plenty like her.
]

providing she

said that she would wait a while and |

think it over, and now she’s angry
have it for what
other

to think she can’t
we offered the day.

Women in most primitive countries
are exceedingly fond of decoration,
as much for as little
can possibly get. Take the
They havea
They

and they want
as they
Dinka women in Africa.
mania for iron rings. wear
them in their ears, on their arms and
The heavier they are the bet-

1
legs
i le

all vied with one another in interest. |
features of the|

Come with me.” |

1e took me to a place where she

I remember that I was in a town in|

 

Fearing the |

“On. }

We set
1 price on a silk scarf the other day, |
fook it at once, She]

|
|

| become possessors of these elaborate
decorations, made of animals’ teeth.
These incidents might be increased
|a dozen fold, but they certainly show
| that woman is woman the world over.
Climate and occupations may change
her interests and her coloring, but her

always the same.

Much we hear of the civilized woman,

inclinations are
the cultured woman, the product of
For all that
that

and enjoy

this age and generation.
we are one in that, it is true
we are devoted to dress
| bargain hunting as much as_ most
| men enjoy going to the ball game.
Delia Austrian.
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| bone and the stretching of the arms
hearted
yawn, together with the filling of the

| which accompany a_ whole

lungs, form a splendid daily exercise. |

 

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Triumph of Salesman Over Gushing
Old Maid.

It was Monday and a dismal, rainy
day. The dozen or more clerks in
the shoe store were loitering in
groups about the aisles, indulging in
gossip over the events of Sunday. As
a rule business at Brown’s was good,
for his was the leading store, on a
busy thoroughfare in the bustling city
of Denver. But on this particular
day pedestrians were few, and even
the street cars which passed the store
were comparatively deserted.

It was almost noon, and the rain,
swirled by a blustering wind, was
coming down in torrents. A cab drew
up to the door and a woman of about
35, well dressed, but by no means
handsome, alighted and with some
difficulty made her way to the en-
trance of the store. There was a stir
among the clerks as they gazed with
expectancy at the approaching figure.
Who would be the lucky man to win
this lone star for the crown of his
forenoon’s business? was the absorb-
ing question of the moment. Scarcely
had the door opened when salesman
No. 9, always to the front when any
business was to be had, sallied forth
with ali the gallantry of a Chester-
field to meet her.

“Good morning,” he ventured, and
then felt it his duty to pay a slight
tribute to the heroine’s bravery for
venturing out on such a stormy day.
But the proffered remark had no more
effect upon her stolid countenance
than the rain had on her cravenette
coat, or the umbrelia that protected
her.

“T have just twenty minutes
which to buy a pair of shoes,” she
remarked; “my train leaves the Grand
Central depot at 12:30, and I would
not miss it for a fortune, as I must be
in Omaha to-night.”

“Veracious old maid,” mumbled the

in

bald-headed salesman to the group
that stood about him; “the Omaha
train doesn’t leave until 12.55. I'll bet

she is the d— to wait on, you can
read it in her face.”

“Give me a patent leather dress
shoe,” she directed, with an air that
bespoke minute adherence to the cut-
and-dried principles of measurement.
“T want 5 AA.”

“Yes, madam; have a seat right over
this way, please,” responded the gen-
teel young clerk, as he reached for a
measuring stick that lay on the ledge
near by. And quickly removing her
right shoe, he began to adjust his
stick for the measure. But at this
juncture she interrupted him with a
remonstrance that fairly upset his
equanimity.

“Didn’t I tell you my size?” she
shrieked.

“Yes, madam; but you know sizes
vary in different makes of shoes.”

“Nonsense!” she retorted in dis-
gust. “I have worn 5 AA all my life,
and you will oblige me if you get
what I asked for.”

 

 

“Very well,” replied the clerk suave-
ly, as he repaired to the row of shelves
where the patent leathers were kept.
But to his consternation not a 5 AA
in the whole lot; 5 single, 5 triple, 5
B, and nearly every other letter in the
alphabet, but not a pair of 5 AA in
forward stock, nor in surplus. What
should he do? He felt the jig was
up if he confessed the truth to his
exacting client. It was a duli day
and a $5 sale he could not afford to
lose. He had scanned every inch of
shelving in the futile attempt to lo-
cate the coveted size. At last he
mustered up courage, and armed with
a 5 A, he advanced with an air of
confidence and assumed _ triumph.
Hurriedly slipping the shoe onto her
foot, he buttoned it up. It was per-
fect. Then drawing the mirror be-
fore her, he gracefully adjusted it for
the last act, as he supposed, in a brief
but triumphant drama.

“What size is that?” demanded the

loquacious female sharply. The tragic
moment had come. With bated breath
the young man shrank from the pos-
sibility of having to beard the lioness
in her den. But there was only one
thing to do, he must tell her. “That
shoe, madam, is marked 5 A, but, as
you see, it runs narrow, for it fits
you perfectly, and might easily be
taken for a 5 AA.”

Raising a pair of golden lorgnettes
to her flashing eyes, she gazed long
and scrutinously at the shining foot-
wear, and then wearily sighed—“T’ll
take them.”

That young salesman, by his tact
and good nature, and by his superior
salesmanship, for that was what it
was, had summarily triumphed over
the stereotyped and false ideas of a
gushing old maid, who from the out-
set had shown more inclemency in her
disposition than there was in the
weather. The art of pleasing had
scored a triumph not only for the as-
siduous salesman and the fastidious
patron, but for the proprietor of that
business as well. For a critical cus-
tomer thus pleased, in the face of
many odds, meant strength added to
the character of his establishment.

Now, may I be permitted to draw
a few lessons from that little inci-
dent?

We hear so much about duty that
we are inclined to think sometimes
that it is an overlauded term—hack-
neyed, in fact. Yet I am sure that
hidden deep in every man’s nature are
impulses to do the right and spurn
the wrong—impulses which, if follow-
ed out, would be the greatest boon
to him who cherishes high ideals.

A prominent merchant said to me
that he would rather give a customer
a hundred dollars than have him go
away dissatisfied—in which remark

we read the conviction that the abili- |

ty to please is indispensable to suc-
cess.

Success is an elusive thing. It is
here to-day and gone to-morrow.

Let your motto be always, “No mat- |

ter what comes I shall do my ut
most to please.” If a squeamish,
overbearing, inconsiderate specimen
of humanity makes you her unfortu-
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your common sense and

and the best you
consoling yourself twth the reflection
that “he that ruleth

call
courtesy

upon

do can,

his Spirit is

mightier than he who taketh a city.” |

——Shoe Retailer.
—_-o+-s—____

Handling Hosiery in the Shoe Shop. |

A few months ago the writer was in
the Family Shoe Store, Washington,

D. C., owned by Joseph Strasburger, |

and found the entire front of his

stock, back of his show windows, with
the exception of the entrances, was |
devoted to a hosiery department. Mr. |
Strasburger carries a full line of men’s |
and women’s hose in all grades, rang- |

At cer-
he
will carry a line of hosiery that he

ing from 25 cents up to $1.50.

tain times, and for certain sales,

sells two pairs for a quarter, but very

few of these goods are sold, the aver- |

age price being from 25 to 50 cents
in both men’s and women’s. In

department was a most

stock in blacks, browns and fancy col-

Ors, requiring the services of several |

clerks. A few weeks ago the writer |
was in the store of Smith, Kasson}
€o., Cincinnati, and found a similar |

department, carrying about the same
amount of stock, and running on the

same lines as that of Mr. Strasburg-

er. In addition to the hosiery de-

partment the Smith, Kasson Co. had}
also two weeks before installed a de- |
this |

neckwear;
that
salesgirls were employed to look aft

partment for ladies’

had met with such success five

Cr Satie.

The profits on hosiery may be con

sidered large ones. Take, tor

stance, cent goods;

25
an average $2 a dozen; 35 cent goods
cost $2.50 per dozen, and so cent
goods from $3.50 to $4 per dozen; 75
cent goods, $4.50 to $5 a dozen; hose
that sell $1

$7.50 per dozen.

at per pair, from $6 to

Consequently, with
reasonable sales, the margin is large
enough to pay to handle these goods.
On ladies’ neckwear the profit is still
cases will net
but 30 to 40
per cent. can easily be depended upon

lareer, and in

the

SOme

dealer 50 per cent.,
in the way of profits on this class of
finery.

Now comes the question whether
or not departments of this kind pay
in The answer 1s

retail shoe stores.

—they certainly do. A man or wom-
an buying shoes would naturally have
their attention attracted to a hosiery
department, and as these two lines
the it to
retail shoe dealer who
adds a department of this character

are dress for feet, is safe

Say any live

to his store is sure to make it pay in

the end. As an illustration of what
has been done in this line we might
point to the F. M. Hoyt Shoe Co.,

of Manchester, N.
cently added a hosiery department to
its business, and is selling large lines
of hosiery to the retail
dealers throughout the country.

In an interview that the writer had

H., which has re-

Lonsdale

with the manager of a large shoe de-
partment in one of the great depart-
ment stores the question was asked
‘if his department worked in connec-
tion with the hosiery department?
His reply was in the affirmative, and
he informed the writer that it was a

this |
complete |

in- |
they cost on]

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

33

 

 

|
| sesabiaal case for customers in the|

shoe department to make enquiries |
where the hosiery department was, |
and very

|
|
:
often their

lines

they referred
| ng
; colored or fancy hosiery in connec-
tion with On the other
| hand, in their hosiery department the
salespeople usually called the atten-
tion of customers to the fact that cer- |

shoe customers certain of

low shoes.

tain lines of hose were desirable for |
low cut shoes, which would be found
in their shoe

department. In_ this}

way they attracted attention to both |

lines and the result was increased |
sales.

Many shoe dealers, no doubt, can}
spare from five to ten, or even fif-|

teen feet of space from their shoe de-
partment, which could easily be util-
ized as a hosiery department, and in|
this their
| business and add materially to their |

way they could increase

profits. |

Another interesting feature in con-
of
character would be the window dress-

nection with departments this |

ing, which could be tastefully decorat-
led with hose on forms, and displayed |
around shoes, thus calling the atten-|

tion of the passer-by to these adver- |

tisements, without any additional ex- |
| pense, and in the general advertising |
lof the dealer a hosiery department

|could be mentioned without any ad-

ditional cost—-Boot and Shoe Re-}|

| corder.
eee

It’s a poor religion that will not

stand the trip from the church to the |

| Street.

 

 

Bob the Blacksmith

|
|

 

 

No.

442

Men’s Kangaroo

 

 

 

Bellows Tongue Bal
“yu US. Standard Screw
French Toe Plain

This Shoe is Made for Hard Service
Nothing to equal it at the price

$1.60
Hirth, Krause @ Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob the blacksmith is hearty and hale,
Makes shoes for horses that never fail,

Wears shoes that are shoes upon his feet,

That don’t set him crazy on account of

the heat.

They are made by a firm who calls them

HARD-PAN
are never bunched with the

And they

“Also Rani.”

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

Write us for reasons why.

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co,

 

 

Makers of Shoes

Grand Rapids, Mich. |

TOP-ROUND $3.50

No. 53. Always in Stock.

     
      
    
  
 

 

A staple shoe—
one that is a great
fitter, and for ser-
vice there is noth-
ing like our patent
which

guarantee. Let us

colt, we
send you a sam-
ple dozen freight
and if not

paid,

 

 

as represented we

 

want them back. Write now. Our man is in your

State—let him call on you.

Ba

White-Dunham Shoe Co., Brockton, Mass.

W. J. Marshall, Detroit, Michigan Representative.

 

34

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

EIGHT HOUR MEN.

They Seldom Amount To Much in
This World.

The most careful research fails to

disclose any fortunes . which were

made by working eight hours a day.

The stories of millionaires, the biogra- |

phies of the self-educated, the inside
history of the quick rises to fortune
give the credit to the working day
which begins early and ends late.

“By everlastingly keeping at it you
are bound to succeed,” is the univer-
which the self-made

sal conclusion

man offers for the encouragement of |

“Without everlastingly keep-

,

others.
ing at it there is no success,’
which
facts

he who runs
about what

conclusion
read in the
have done.
The great working capacity of Edi-
son is well known. He offers it as the

may
men

recipe for success in any business as |
6|

and work |

well as in inventing. “Get up at
o'clock the first morning

until 2 o’clock the next morning.
Keep on doing this until something |
in your line develops itself. If it does |

not do so pretty soon you had better
shorten your sleeping hours and work

a little harder while you are awake. |

If you follow that rule you can suc-

ceed as an inventor or at anything}

else. It was the following of just
such a rule that led to the invention
of the electric light, the phonograph
and the kinetoscope. There are not
many what this ‘large

who realize

amount of application’ really means: |

The getting up extremely early, the
staying up extremely late, and
sticking at it meanwhile with a vim
that never can recognize failure. Men
of this kind are sure to succeed.”
“The old rule remains the
says George W. Perkins, “there is no
success without keeping everlastingly
at it.”

Mr. Perkins at 39 was made a part-|

ner of Mr. Morgan with an income
of $600,000, it was
he had started as
Chicago; with only a common school
education, and had

through various stages of drudgery

remembered that
an office boy in

progressed

to his high position in a comparative-
ly short time.

He was 9 years old at the time of
the Chicago fire, and afterward went
into the office of his father, who was
an agent of the New York Life In-
surance Company. It was a time of
stress and fierce endeavor to rebuild
Chicago. The boy’s
were electrified with energy.

surroundings

men rise again to wealth and power
by sheer pluck and hard work. He

became book-keeper in the office, and |

by 1881 was cashier.

ed as a furious and systematic work- |

wasted time in
His one thought was work.

During his many promotions through

er. He
ments.

no amuse-

the soliciting field of insurance his}

favorite motto was the old and well

worn one of “nothing impossible to |

criticism of
that they do not

industry.” His
men in general i

°

want to work more than eight hours |
a day, that they want to take things |

easy and to lie in bed late. “They
can never get ahead in that way,” is
his ultimatum.

is the |

the |

When, a couple of years ago, |

He saw |}

He was describ- |

young |

| “Even in Wall Street Mr. Perkins’
| capacity for hard, grinding work and
| his tireless application are considered
“Mr. Morgan
| out a good many strong men, but at
| last he has found one _ who will
| outwear him,” said a New York bank-

|a wonder. has worn

er after his first interview with Mr.
Perkins.

| The rapid rise of James Brooks Dill
founded this kind of
application. He was a country minis-
ter’s son and by the help of scholar-

is upon same

|ships and outside work he got his
'degree at Yale. After this he did
| whatever came next. He went into
ithe office of E. Copes Mitchell, of |
| Philadelphia, as a law student, and al-
so got a job as teacher in Samuel
| Clement’s private school. He then
|

entered the senior class of the law
| school of the New York University
|and managed while taking the course
there to fill a teacher’s place in the
institute at Hoboken. He
eraduated as the salutatorian, was ad-
mitted the bar, opened
While his practice was

Stevens

to and an
office at once.
| growing he earned a living by writ-
ing and reporting for one of the New
| York His friends of
those days say he worked all the
|time and seemed to thrive on it. He

newspapers.

first law case worth mentioning was
connected with the failure of a com-
|mercial agency whose directors, hav-

|ing failed to file certain papers, were
| held personally reliable for debts. Dill

appeared for one of the directors and
won the case while the cases of the
This

the turning point which made of him

| other directors were lost. was

|a corporation lawyer, a pursuit which

he has followed indefatigably ever

| since.

same,” |

The whole history of Schwab’s ear-
ly life in the steel works is one of
When Capt. Jones
| first gave him a position at driving

tireless energy.

stakes he was at his work before any
At the same time he went

| one else.
to a Pittsburg business college and

afterward took a special course in en-
gineering. When he was appointed
superintendent of the Homestead steel
he the
He was devoted to his work,
He toil-
far into the night and was the
Noth-

works reconstructed entire
plant.

and rarely left the property.

ed
first man up in the morning.
ing seemed to exhaust him.
Senator Patterson, of Colorado, be
gan a life of untiring industry at the
of 14. He became
devil and through three years worked
At 17
he learned the trade of a jeweler and
the hope of
proving his condition. He went
with his studies without any help un-
til finally at the age of 22 he had
saved enough to go to Asbury Col-
lege and later Wabash College. His
finances only held out until his junior

a printer’s

age

 

all day and studied at night.

watchmaker with im-

on

|year, but he became the editor of a

paper through which he got political
influence. During all this part of his
| career he kept up the study of law.

| Fortune was unkind to Albert J.
| His father
| lost his property just after he was

Beveridge from the start.

born and as a little child he worked
upon farms in the summer and went

 

  
     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
    
 
   
   
 

Men’s Fine Shoes

 

As we make them are fine shoes
in every sense of the term.

Fine in careful, painstaking work-
manship. Fine in the high quality
of the standard leathers used in their
construction.

As a retail proposition for $3.00
and $3.50 they satisfy you and your
customer. You with a fair profit;
your customer with a good fit, his
money's worth in wear and all the

style he wants.

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

 

he
ichigan Shoe Co.

Detroit, Mich.

AS LEASED the double store at 146 and 148
Jefferson avenue, just west of Griswold street.

They will occupy the entire building, which is five
stories and basement. In their new location they
have 6,000 square feet more space than before.
They have fitted up the building with entirely new
fixtures and have undoubtedly the best equipped
jobbing house in Michigan. This will enable them

to serve their old customers and prospective new

ones more promptly than ever. Give them a trial.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 35

 

 

 

 

 

to school in the winter. At 16 he Franklin—W. J. Younce will con-
was boss in a logging camp and/tinue the boot and shoe business
worked during the day and studied| formerly conducted by Younce & |
during the night with the hope of| Payne. ¢ ;

getting to college. Indianapolis—Meyers & Jenner suc- Special Machine Made
He did not make it until he was 21,| ceed Meyers Bros., retail grocers and :

" a e |
when he entered De Pauw Univer-| meat dealers. ° Carry in Stock 1%, 1%, 2 in.

sity at Greencastle, Ind. He was the| Linton—Allen Bros. succeed Allen
strongest man in the college, both|& Morrison in the general store busi- a large line of Any of the above sizes

mentally and physically, ana his in-| ness. . with Iron Clad Hames or
dustry was considered prodigious. He Muncie—O. E. Baldwin will contin- Top Buggies with Brass Ball Hames and 4

kept up a ceaseless activity, working | ue the retail grocery business former- Brass Trimmed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 during vacations and taking a part ly conducted by Franklin & Baldwin. | Driving Wagons | Order a sampl if
in athletics, debating societies, college| Salem—J. A. Ratts & Son are suc-| : mpile set, 1 not
politics, besides paying his way|ceeded in the grocery business by J. S rin Wa ons satisfactory you may return
through by getting most of the availa- | Dawson Standish. p § $ || at our expense.
ble prizes. Shoals—S. C. Johnson has taken a

He found time to read extensively | partner in his grocery business, which Surreys, etc. Sherwood Hall Co., Ltd.
and when he left college he got a po- will be conducted in future under the | . :
sition with a prominent law firm in | style of Johnson & Ray. We make | ee. he.
Indianapolis. His industry and anx-| Caledonia—A receiver has been ap- .
iety to work hard attracted their at- pointed for the Caledonia Supply Co. Prompt Shipments |
tention and before the year was out} which conducts a general merchandise enn a arr ere Sere eee
he et Bera their managing clerk at | pest i Brown & Sehler Co. | RUGS “gS
a good Salary. | South Bend—A chatte mortgage . . §
Leslie M. Shaw was dependent up-|has been uttered by the Fulton Fish St See, ee. THE SANITARY KIND j
his own efforts for securing an| Market, for which + toedieee tas bee Wholesale Only ee een eee =
on — V ' € t ° € ing An | lat . V Cc a freceiver ha een | toe Marie, Mich. All orders from the
— ie elo ni happen | appointed. | cent to our address there. "We have =
schools. e taught school in the} A pe fxr solicitin orders as we rely on
winter and worked in the _ harvest Wanted To Find Out How It AUTOMO BI LES advantage of cur fepuation se maxers off
' i HP erste ms :

A, fields in the summer. Several yous i — ae ois aeet eee ae aay at brie oe 0 ee ee Se
he tramped all over Iowa selling fruit | own in a remote section of a will serve your best interests by consult- | us at either Petoskey or the Soo. A book- j
trees and nursery stock. His energy | Southwestern State is a little town ing us.  Someemiiap oe ‘ieee on ee
was wonderful and he was determin- | which a railroad approaches rr Michigan Automobile Co. | : aeadinw. a . a |
ed to succeed in spite of his poverty. than thirty-two miles. The news of Grand Rapids, Mich. De ee ee ge A a Ye,
After years of hard work he earned | the world is er out and probably i | |
étibuale to comenlete Bis collenc and | denied by the time it reaches there, The Grand Rapids Arc Mantles
professional course and_ graduated | and the little town makes no news for Sheet Metal & Roofing Co. Our high pressure Arc Mantle for

itself. There has been, however, at| Manufacturers of Galvanized Iron Cornice, lighting systems is the best money can

from the Iowa College of Law. After f
least one event in the annals of the| Steel Ceilings, Eave Troughing, Conductor |buy. Send us an order for sample

this he spent twenty years in untir-

pa i Ss aights ¢ Mire Escape:
- ing and ceaseless devotion to busi- place. That was when a new bank Tf oft a. i. —
C was started. It was only a branch — | — +
ness. Cor. Louis and Campau Sts. Both Phones 2731! 345 S. Division St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

bank, but that did not dim its luster
or novelty in the eyes of the citizens
ee ' Le / The first depositor was “Si” Fox.
dress to young men. lt does not) _..
. : | Si was a man of means, but had trust- 99 8
improve, and success waits for the] . e . . 66
: ‘ed for the safety of his money to

young man who can do it better than] |: : cy

: ae | his yarn sock and his gun. Now he
others. Don’t work for the sake of com-|. | - : ae i
felt that as the leading citizen of the Of
town he ought to encourage the new

 

“The work of the world is not be-

 

ing done well,” said Shaw in an ad-

pensation; but for the sake of achieve-
ment. The man who works for com-

ae : : i i , enterprise. He put in a thousand 9
F pensation wears himself out in eight I I en S O S’ an
| dollars as soon as the bank opened. 9

hours, but the man who works for
a An hour later he came back and
the sake of his employment  can| 9
: asked how money was taken out. ou S oes
work more than twelve hours a day]. ! .
! i ! ae i The method of making out a check
without experiencing fatigue. You : :
: was explained, and Si made out one
are going into the busy world and|. =. a : il
t] : i ! : ; for $1,000. The cashier was surprised
ere 1S. Sood yay im store for 2zo0k¢ 4 Ll iu
r i at the sudden withdrawal, but paid it

without remark. Si took his money

Is Attracting the Very Best Dealers in Michigan.

services. Competition is more intense

ao than it pe 7 — sy ou aed acid down to 2 group of men WALDRON, ALDERTON & MELZE
et Sere tO meer’ tO et | and desplayed it. The grep catered Wholesale Shoes and Rubbers

and the best worker commands the in a mae bt iene woeed Secs
highest compensation for his labors.” | .. ] i State Agents for Lycoming Rubber Co. SAGINAW, MICH

sion.
G RK. Clarke.
—_—__>+»—____

: into the bank again and told the Y A O t f
et ees Coes * Oe See cashier that he wanted to deposit a ou re u O

sier State.

 

 

 

 

In ten or fifteen minutes Si walked

 

 
   
 

thousand dollars.

eg EE i | i !
oo? Met -2ie eet _— “Why, sir, what is the matter with : he Game
q erts & Harvey in the confectionery ny . “yy ae

miei you?” asked the cashier. You
yusiness. posited a thousand about an hour ago a

> i. : r » 7 r .

: : Bloomington—W. P. Dill, who sad jock 2 oat Welere @ tad ot Unless you solicit the trade of your

formerly conducted a flour mill busi- cold, and now you want to put it back local base ball club
ness, is succeeded by E. M. Trapp. saute

Elkhart—Brice H. Reed will con-|° ty,

Well,

my friend,” said Si, “me They Have to

tinue the business formerly conduct-| 104 the boys just wanted to find out

ed by the Electric Construction Co. i : ee
Fort Wayne—The capital stock of —— Wear Shoes
the Wayne Knitting Mills has been It isn’t possible to sell shoes while
increased to $700,000. your feet are higher than your head.
Indianapolis—Brady & Co., whole-} Deliver your convincing arguments in

, sale paper dealers, have gone out of fitting the customer. And Be in the Game

Order Sample Dozen

business. —_——_2 2 ae :
Indianapolis—George & Moore,| The only way to encourage some |SHOLTO WITCHELL Sizes in Stock Majestic Bld., Detroit
manufacturers of food specialties, are | people is to do your level best to dis- Everything in Shoes

 

 

 

 

succeeded by R. T. Moore & Co, courage them. Protection to the dealer my ‘“‘motto.”’ No goods sold at retail, Local and igeng Distance Phone M 2226

 

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:

 

36

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

PANICS AND STRIKES.
How They Are Lessened by the

 

Trusts.
There is an old proverb to the ef-
fect that the more a man knows

about political economy the less he
knows about business. The force of
the truth of the proverb will become
clear on a little reflection. For it
should be plain that the man who
spends his time in trying to master
the large and important laws which
govern the general operation of busi-
ness itscelf can have little time to de-
to the practical details of busi-
In other words, a good econo-
ought to make a

And seems to be

vote
ness.
mist
man.
fact.

The writer of this article has him-
self spent much of his leisure in read-
ing the works of political economists
and in trying to assimilate their view-
point, but he has noted a remarkable

poor business

such the

fact which seems to have escaped
the economists themselves. Econo-
mists will cling to an old opinion

long after a business man would have
abandoned it as perfectly futile. For
example, let us look into the ques-
tion of trusts and competition.

In most of the text books given to
young men studying economics in the
colleges you will find the opinion that
strikes generally accompany the
of a panic. The economists are cer-
tain of them, have the
causes of panics and strikes with al-
most mathematical exactness, and the
following account of it all probably
will interest the man of business. Ac-

end

figured out

cording to the classical view the man-
ufacturing of all commodities has as
its basis the fact that manufacturers
sell their products in a market open
to competition. If you do not assume
this to be the fect, all the rest of the
argument will fall to pieces. Let us,
therefore, assume it—for the present
And let us take as an example of pro-
duction the one commodity of shoes.
What will be said here about shoes
applies to all other commodities man-
ufactured and sold in the open mar-
ket; and if we suppose that all other
businesses are carried on, in general,
just like we are going to suppose the
shoe business is carried on, then when
we have accounted for strikes and
panics in shoes, we have accounted
for strikes and panics in all other
lines.

Let us suppose, for the sake of the
argument, that all shoes in the coun-
try are made by ten different factories,
each independent of the other, and all
of them bidders for the trade. Each
factory has its drummers out, each
supplies its own territory, but these
territories overlap, and the general
trade is made sharper and more com-
petitive by the activities of railroads
and other methods of transportation.

Now it should be plain that the peo-
ple in the country will consume each
year a certain quantity of shoes. The
people demand so many shoes each
year, and these shoes have to be made
by the factories. But how is the man-
ufacturer to know just how many
shoes to produce? How is he to an-
ticipate his trade?

He does it in several ways. He
fells the pulse of his trade by esti-

 

 

mates founded on general demand
from jobbers, who, in turn, feel the
pulse of their own trade, and finally
it is up to the manufacturer to de-
cide his output for spring and _ fall
trade, and thus the ten factories go
on producing, as in “good times,” a
considerable larger quantity of shoes
year after year. The individual man-
ufacturer congratulates himself on the
increase of his profits, even although
prices have been observed to fall a
little, and everything looks prosper-
ous and happy.

This sort of thing goes on for a few
years, when suddenly there comes a
clap of thunder in the shoe business.
Demand suddenly falls off. The job-
bers
The retailers
demand. People do not seem to want

have a lot of shoes left over.

never saw so poor a
shoes as they wanted them last year.
The shelves are stocked up and no
sale.

But is this the fact?

No, it is not. The fact is that the
people are buying shoes right along,

and probably have bought as many

shoes this year as last, or the year |

before for the people must wear
shoes.

What, then, has happened?

Simply this: The ten factories—

ezch one doing business independent- |

ly—have increased their output out
of all proportion to the really exist-
ing total demand, or to the increase
in the total demand, and the result
is not that the people have cut down
the number of shoes they are buying,
but that the manufacturers, overesti-
mating the number that would be
needed, ran it up beyond the safety
line. Shoes are stacked up on shelves
everywhere and stay there.

Thus the retailer finds himself
“stuck.” So dbes the jobber; and the
factory man has to cut wages or close

the
shoe manufacturers who borrowed to

down. Banks want money from
Men with money
the
bone;

extend their plants.
from shoe-

the

circulation;
the

draw it
maker cuts

shoe workers strike.

wages to

Net result: Panic and strike to
gether.

Now, this argument looks reasona-
ble enough, and it probably was true
at one time. The “overproduction”
described as taking place in the shoe
trade took place regularly in all lines
of business and the climax used to
once in

come about every eleven

years. Strikes and panics took place

with the regularity of the sunspot pe-

riod, and one British thinker associat- |
|down the hill to poverty and panic.

ed the two. But we are now right
in the middle of one of the biggest
sunspot storms on record and there
is no sign of 2 panic.

Not only is that the case but the
strikes which were. figured out to be
the result of have
been with us right along since the
strike and are with us
now, with every prospect of increas-
ing.

Is there any large, conspicuous fact

overproduction

great coal

in the business life of the country
which accounts for the seeming
anomaly which, according to the cal-
culations of the economists, should
not be here at all?

The answer is that such a fact ex-

 

|

 

ists and should be as plain as a pike
staff to any one who cares to look at
it. Just after the last panic, which
took place in 1893, the large manufac-
of the United States began
their gigantic work of organization.

turers

Previous to that time the state of in-
dustry in the United States was some-
thing like that described in the state
of the ten independent shoe factories
-—general the rule
and the manufacturers were making
Nobody
much his rivals were going to pro-
duce, and although could
make a pretty good guess as to what
the
be, not one could for his life say how

competition was

goods blindly. knew how

-ach one

total demand in his line would

 

much of the total demand was going |

to fall to his share. Each one made

a grab for all he could get, with the |

general result that all over-reached
themselves and the vast pile of un-
the

with a

used and unsold commodities in
warehouses fell
the

something

stores and

great crash on
like

head of

the rain of
the

tale of the

dustry,
dollars on the
merchant in the German
Poet Volkmann.

3ut soon after 1893 the ten shoe
factories got

together, organized

themselves into one shoe factory, and) through the farming country you will

the trouble was stopped at its source.
Pretty much the same thing happened

in almost every line of American in- |

dustry.

The reader probably sees for him-
self that by the
dustry” there is nothing more or less
than the the
trusts about which we hear so much

organization of great

to lay one’s hand upon.

As for the political economists, they
are puzzled over the trusts. The trust
—which
the

Was a

growth of industry itseif—is a

To Succeed the Farmer Must Be a
Good Business Man.
Written for the Tradesman.

Although there are a multitude of
publications in America devoted to
the interests of the different trades,
why is it that the farmer has no pub-
lication looking to the business side
of his nature and occupation? Is he
not in the
business? Surely, if all the industries

strictest sense a man of

|of the world would come to naught

without the agricultural foundation to
that the
business

upon, it were meet
farmer's side of the
world should have a place somewhere
among the myriad of trade publica-

stand
great

tions.

There are the agricultural papers,
to be sure, but these treat only of the
simplest forms of the busy life of the

“independent farmer.” I make bold
ito say that without the business
knack, if it may be called such, no

head of the in-|

foolish |

farmer can make a complete success
in life. Without the keen insight in-
to matters and things going on in
the world he is left at the mercy of
shrewd schemers in other lines of in-
dustry and often falls a victim to the
lightning-rod peddler, fertilizer crank
or steel range fakir. In passing
meet with the thrifty, intelligent cat-

tle-raiser, fruit-grower and_ general

farmer, as well as the shiftless, horny-

handed son of the soil who seems

| scarcely able to put flesh on his bones

‘organization of in-|

land

and very shabby clothes to his back;
in fact, is hardly able to keep body

soul together. The latter may

: ' Ho | have been one of the first settlers in
and which are so exceedingly difficult |

town, have had his pick of the ehoic-

lest land in the township, yet he has

necessary outcome of |

matter which might well puzzle many |

a man besides a_ college professor.

And the question has frequently re-

curred to many thinking people, If! =. .: : . Te
ro re | insight into the future, makes of him

vou destroy the trusts what are you
going to fall back upon?

The trust method
abolished the panic in

apparently has
this
and has replaced the old strike against
a cut in wages with a new kind of

strike for a raise in wages.

Which is to be preferred, a fight
of labor against capital for more pay
It would
certainly appear there can be but one
answer.

or a fight against less pay?

A strike for higher pay is
a fight up hill toward prosperity. A
strike against a cut in wages is rolling

And if the former be the present
state of industry it is the much abused
trusts that we have to thank for it.
George F. Tyrone.
Reason for Everything.

“The trouble with the modern do-
mestic,” said the manager of the in-
telligence office, “is that she doesn’t
seem to know her place.”

“Of course, she doesn’t,”
lady a regular patron of
the institution. “She doesn’t stay in
one place long enough to get ac-
quainted with it.”

—_—__»--~> —___

Lies abide forever, although they

are believed but for a moment.

replied the

who was

| township.

failed to live up to his opportunities;
in fact, the
to pick one forty after another away

has allowed later comer
from his very door and combine these
the the

The later comer, combirt

into one of finest farms in

|ing business tact with keen financial

| self a prince

among business men

|right in the agricultural district; all

country, |

ithe unjust laws of

of which excites the envy and jeal-

ousy of his poorer neighbor, who

openly and often declares that it is

the country that

i have boosted his neighbor above him-

 

self.

What is the trouble? The business

knack of the one man wins out every

time, and to succeed he must have

this no matter whether he locates in
farm. Therefore, why
not a trade paper—-not agricultural—

town or ona

for the successful business farmer?
Mayhap, too, such a paper, if patient-
ly studied by the poor farmer, might
methods of

work in his case and tend to lift him

serve to induce different

out of the slough in which he finds
himself. It would be well, I say, for
young farmers just starting out in
life to read a journal of this kind,
and I am hoping to see something
like it launched in the not distant fu-
ture.
to every question.

However, there are two sides
Perhaps it may
not be necessary to have a paper de-
voted to the especial interests of the
business farmer; it may be that the
journals already catering to the cus-
tom of business men can find room

 

 

for a discussion of farm financial en-
terprise, with good articles from suc-
cessful agriculturists relating to the
farmer and the necessity for his busi-
ness training.

A man without business

has certainly a hard row to hoe—even |

in free and eniightened America.
is this true in the

but it

only

applies with equal force

ing

to every line of work from the labor- |

er at the forge to the minister in the
pulpit.
with

sure of making large success in life.

There is even then danger of his mis- |

the
~and

in
them

taking his calling. A farmer

pulpit—there are many of

he preacher at the plow are certainly |

misfits which are sure, sooner or lat- |
er, to result disastrously unless some- |
thing happens to set the feet of the}
misplaced ones in the right path.

We all remember that U. S. Grant
made an indifferent farmer, a by no|
means first-class tanner; as a com-
mander of armies, however, he was

an unqualified success. Grant was not
Wy.
word
have

Bryan,

of

an able orator;

won fame by mouth and

undoubtedly
stick
So it POCcs.

would proven a
commanding
to

nonce,

very poor in

army. Every man his

have but
Let
where

calling. Some men

these are exceptions. each

belongs
to

vidual be placed he

and he will surely succeed a

eree.
What is success to one

mean failure to another. Great riches

do not always mean success

theless, no success can be secured

unless one has gained a measure
this world’s goods.
poverty not congenial bedfellows
It

happy and

are

is not necessary to be rich
Abraham Lin-

he

successful.

coln was a successful man,

and his life

yet

never won wealth, had in
it more of

The

more

farmer a business man

than
It is estimated that

as

successful men in

lines of business.

only one merchant in ten wins out; |
the nine go to the wall, failures in|
life. One would hardly dare claim

that nine

successful. It would be rash to make

such a statement since perhaps one- |

quarter of the farming community

are in comfortable circumstances. It
is easier to make a bare living at
farming than at any other work; per-

haps this is why so many poor sticks

are grubbing the soil for their food
and clothes.

a man remark that to
know where the next day’s wood and
food were was all
That man is

landless and dependent up-

IT once heard

coming from he
cared for in this world.
living yet,
on days’ work and a pension for a liv-

He may be I think he
since he of
timbered
to pick from in his youth
availed himself of the opportunity.
that man a success?

ing. satisfied;
acres
lands
and never
Ts
I will ledve the
riddle is

is, had thousands

of rich Government

reader to guess—to me the
unsolvable.

Again T say, to succeed, the farmer
must be a good business man.

J. M. M.

instincts |

Not |
farmer's call- |

Even when a man is blessed |
keen business instincts he is not |

however, |
an

indi- |

de- |
man might |
Never- |

of |

Contentment and |

to be |

sorrow than of happiness. |
is |

other |

farmers out of ten are non-|

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Hardware Price Current

 

AMMUNITION |

Caps
'G D full count) per mo.) .06..)... 40
| Hicks’ Waterproof, mee Mi... 5 50
MiusRel per Mo. 15
| Eiy's Waterprocf per m............. 60

Cartridges
i Mo. 22 short per mo... 66... 2 50
No. 22 -2 OF
| No. 32 -.0 @
[No 32 lone per m................... 5 75
Primers
Ne. 2 U. M. €., boxes 260, 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. 9 & 10, per m..... 70 |
Biack Bdge Ne 1, per mo... 2)... 80
Loaded Shells
New Rival—For Shotguns
Drs. of oz.of Size Per
No. Powder Shot Shot Gauge 100
120 4 1% 10 10 $2 90
129 4 1% 9 10 2 90
128 4 1% 8 10 2 90
126 4 1% 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4% 1% - 10 3 00
| 200 3 1 10 12 2 50
| 208 3 1 8 12 2 50
236 3% 1% 6 12 2 65
265 3% 1% 5 12 2 70
| 264 3% 1% 4 12 2 70

Discount, one-third and five per cent.
Paper Shells—Not Loaded

 

 

 

No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 72
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 64
Gunpowder
eee om ee. per bee... ........... 4 90
| % Kegs, 12% Ibs., per % keg . -. =
1% Kees, 64 the., per % keg ........ 1 60
Shot

| In sacks containing 25 Ibs
| Drop, all sizes smaller than B...... 85
Augurs and Bits
i ee 60
oenmigey mengine .................-. 25
fJemninew faiitation .................. 50
Axes
| First Quality, 5S. B. Bronze ......... 6 50
First Quality, D. EB. Brenmge. ..... 9 00
| First Quality, - a = = ...... 7 00
First Guality, D. B. Steel. ........... 10 50
| Barrows
ee 15 00
[Gor@ca. ...... 33 00
Bolts
ae oe 70
Corrisee, new st -.....--.....-4.. 70
aoa |... 50
Buckets
[Wel pilin |... 4 50
Butts, Cast
| Cast Loose Pin, figured ..........-. 70
Wrought, narrow. ......--....-.... 60
Chain
_-* -16in. %in. Yin.
Common. .....7 > .6 ¢....6 6... .0%e
oe |... 8% .1%e....64¢....6 €
| BBB. ...---..- 8%c....7%C....6%C.. -644c
Crowbars
Cast Steel, per Mm. ..........+........ 5
Chisels
1Goeket Wivmee. 5 nine ne eee 65
Socket ramming. .........-.......-. 65
[Sackett @uemer 22 ll. 65
| Socket Slicks. ......--.e-eeeeeeeees . 65
| Eibows
| Com. 4 piece, 6in., per doz. ....net. 75
| Corrugated, per doz. ............+- 1 25
| Maqumenbie Ceo e dis. 40&10
Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26. ...... 40
Ives’ 1, $18; 2, S46; 3, See --.----<.. 25
Files—New List
New American ......
Nicholson's -......-.-.--
Heller’s Horse Rasps. ..
Galvanized iron
Nos. 16 to 20; 22. and 24; 25 and 26; 27, «3
List 12 13 14 15 16 i
Discount, 70.
Gauges
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .... 60&10
Glass
Single Strength, by box .......... dis. 90
Double Strength, by box ........ dis 90
| By the Heme .............-....... dis. 90
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s new list. ...... _ 33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s .............-. dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ....30c list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clark’s 1, 4, &...-......... dis 60&10
Hollow Ware
Port .....-- aoe oe cos os ee so eee
Co eh gees -50&10
Spiders. 2.2 sono e ew cee c wesc LITT 50@10
Horse Nalls
Au Sabie. .........-+......--. -dis. 40&10
House Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list. ......
Japanned Tinware. wencicescatemsips

 

 

3t

Crockery and Glassware

 

 

 

 
 

STONEWARE
Butters
16 eat por Gem... a 4k
E te 6 anal. per dom. ....... 22 -se5 es 6
ee ee ee secon
oe 70
Oe a a4
15 gal. meat tubs, cach ..... eos 1 20
20 gal. meat tubs, ge a 1 60
25 gal. meat tubs, a 2 26
30 gal. meat tubs, a a 3 10
Churns
2 to © gal per gal ................. oe
Churn Dashers, per dow ........... 4
Milkpans
% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Fine Glazed Milkpans
\% gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 69
1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Stewpans
% gal. fireproof. bail, per doz ...... 85
| 1 gal. fireproof bail, per doz ...... i ie
Jugs
i wal. per Gem ............... Soeewae ee
eal per Gem 2:20. ON
i to G gal, per gal............ cesses OE
Sealing Wax
5 tbs. in package, per Ib. ........-.- 2
LAMP BURNERS
ING @ Sm... au
Wea ft Sam ....0..0.0..... 2.06 oo a. 33
Me. 2 Sim ole a i 50
We S Sim 2.22.2... oo . &
Coe ee 50
Ee Ee 50
MASON FRUIT JARS
With Porcelain Lined Caps
Per gross
eee Weeepee cua 5 00
EE 6 25
re SOO a, 8 00
Peage —.......- oe ee 2 25
EF ruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box of 6 doz
Anchor Carton Chimneys
Each chimney in ——— ,
Wo. © Crimp tOp. 2.6.0 ce cceccewcesscs 1 70
mo. 1, Crimi GO. -2..0.--n0s. nescedock am
No. 2: Crimp top. .........- eeees.. <2.
Fine Flint Glass in Cartons
No 6. Crimp top. ........... ictcoucn of
Mo ft Crime top .............. 22... 2 oe
No. 2, CVrcuan tap. ....-............. 41
Lead Flint Glass in Cartons
..@. © Crimp top.
No. 1, Crimp top.
No 2, Crimp top.
Pearl Top in Cartons
No. 1, wrapped and labeled. ......... 4 60
No. 2, wrapped and labeled. ........ 5 30
Rochester In Cartons
No. 2, Fine Flint, 10 in. (85c doz.)..4 60
No. 2, Fine Flint, 12 in. ($1.35 doz.).7 50
No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (95c doz.)..5 56
No. 2, Lead Flint, 12 in. ($1.65 doz.).8 75
Electric in Cartons
No. 2, Lime. (Ge dom.) ...........- 4
No. 2, Fine Flint, (85c doz.) . .
No. 2, Lead Flint, (95c doz.)
LaBastle
i No. 1, Sun Plain Top, ($1 doz.) .....5 76
| No. 2, Sun Plain Top, ($1.25 doz.) ..6 90

Iron
es Won -.2 25 rate
Taent Bane .........5......... .3 00 rate
: Knobs—New List
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings .... 75
Decor, Porceiain, Jap. trimmings .... 85
Levels
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....dis.
Metals—dZinc
Ge pound casks <.........-.....-. ton oe
Pee poume -. 2.1... noe occas Sm
Miscellaneous
[Ere Cages ooo ee 4
OOO eee 75&10
| serews, New tde6 2.3... c oe .. 8
| Casters. Ged and Piets ......... 50&10&10
Dampers, Amecteen. ........... Lecce
Molasses Gates
Stebbins Pattern ................. —
| Enterprise, self-measuring. ........
| Pans
|heu, Acme ooo. 60&10&10
Common, polished <.<....... ccc ee ae 70810 |
Patent Planished Iron |
‘‘A’’ Wood's pat. plan'd, No. 24-27..10 80
“B” Wood's pat. plan'd, No. 25-27.. 9 80
Broken packages %c per Ib. extra.
Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s fancy..............- 40
ee cee ee 50
Sandusky Tool Coe.’a fancy.......... 40
Bench, fret guelity.................. 45
Naiis
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire
en WN Oe occa wees, ' 3
SCO eee eee 2 15
20 to GO advanee.............-... 0566 Base
1 to 16 advamce..................... 6
S Se oe
G @iyenee «2.2. 20
. se 30
SO ee 45
2 ae... 70 |
Ringe % advaiiee... 3... _—.
Coates 10 Gevatiee ..............-. 15 |
Casing & advance...... ea 26
Casing 6 advance............. _<..... oo
Wintsa 60 a@vemee................... 25 |
Binie © aavoneo _...:......... 2... 35
Mime &© a@waeee 2... 45
re Cece .................. 85
Rivets
inom ame Cie 220.8... 50
Copper Rivets and Dure ........... 45
Roofing Piates
1420 IC, Charcoal, Dean ........... 7 60
14320 EX, Charcoal, Dean ........... 9 00
20x28 IC. Charcoal, Dean ......... 15 00
14x20, IC, Chareoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, ANaway Grade .. 9 0
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00
Ropes
Sisal, % inch and larger .......... 9%
Sand Paper
Fast acct 13: Ge ...-..... dis 60
Sash Weights
Sole Eiyee, per tom ................. 23 60
Sheet iron
Noe 4 to Me ........ e 3 60
mee te &  ....... 3 70
men 8 to 2F «2... 3 90
Mos. 22 ta 2... 410 3 00
Bios 26 te 26 ...........-.... 4 20 4 00
No 2... ts 4 30 410)
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
Shovels and Spades
First Grade, Dee... ..............- 5 50
OE eee 5 00
Solder

 

4@% 21

The prices of the many other qualities
of solder in the market indicated by pri-
— brands vary according to compo-
sition.

Squares
Steet and Hom ........... ....... 60-10-5
Tin—Melyn Grade
S606 HC Charcoal -...........-.... 10 50
34x26 IC, Charcoal ...... Coca cues = 50
10x14 IX, Ce remee oo 2 00

Each additional X on this grade, 4 25
Tin—Allaway Grade

beets 0 Ciarecea! .............. 2... 9 00
d4xze 3C, Cimrcoal ........ ao

a0mi4 €X Ciiireest -....-: 8... 10 50
cicce 1, Coercee ................. 10 50

I
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50
Boiler Size Tin Plate
14x56 IX, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per Ib 13

Traps
Giccel. Game 22.0. ss. 76
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 40&10
Oneida Com’y, Hawley & Norton’s.. 65
Mouse, choker, per doz. holes ......1 25
Mouse, delusion, per doz. ........... 1 25
Wire
Bright Maret -..........--..--+4+.2- 60
Ammealiod BEAFRGE .... ccc sw ccccecenns 60
Coppered Market ................... 50&10
(ime MSN no sl e e |
Coppered Spring Steel ..............
Barbed Fence, Galvanized .......... : 13 |
Barbed Fence, Pereee .....1..... Hu
Wire Goods
Bree oo. oc a 80-10
OE ———————————————_ ..-80-10
OE Sepeuss 80-1
Gate Hooks and Byes. Pela ea on «soe .S0-a0
Wrenches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled. ...... 30
Coe’s Genuine. .....

Goe's Patent Agricultural, Wrought, 701b10

 

OIL. CANS
gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2
gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3
gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 4
gal Tilting cans ........... eee ueea 7
gal galv. iron Nacefag ............ 9
LANTERNS
. © Tubular, side HfE ........ coves &
. 2 B Tubular ...... Meee ee ae ue ecco
| ff Soeur Genk ...;........... 6
| 2 Cold Blast Pantera ........... 7
. 12 Tubular, side lamp ....... eae aan
. & Street lamp, each ....... co. o
LANTERN GLOBES

. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c.
. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. l5c.
. 0 Tub., bbis. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2
0 Tub., Bull’s eye, casea 1 dz. eachl
BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
. 0 % in. wide, per gross or roll.
. i, 56 in wide, per gross or roll.
No. 2, 1 in. wide, per gross or roll
. 3, 1% in. wide, per gross or roll

 

 

COUPON BOOKS
50 books, any denomination
100 books, any denomination
590 books, any denomination .....
1000 books, any denomination Ce
Above quotations are for either Trades-
man, Superior, Economic or Universal
grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered
at a time customers receive specially
ee cover without extra charge.

Coupon Pass Books

Can be madé to represent any denomi-
nation from $10 down.

SO beoks ..... ee eet eucc es cace 1 50
TO eee cena ee, 2 50
Gee bOGme .........05.0.....2. elas 11 50
g006 boone .....-.....-........ 2... -.20 00

Credit Checks

500, any one denomination ..... =. 2
1000, any one denomination ....... - 3 00
2000, any one denomination ....... . 5 00
EGON CUMION ce ccccecacveesecensvctscs «| OO

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Weekly Market Review of the Prin-
cipal Staples.
Domestics—Nearly all lines in the
domestic division of the market have
increased considerably in strength,
and buyers who have lately come into
the market, expecting to secure goods

 

at old prices, have been disappoint- |

ed. While they have refused to ac-

cept the situation at once, after a

careful canvass of the situation they |

are willing to pay asking prices in
While

only a fair export business is in prog-

order to secure. deliveries.
ress, the statistical position of this
class of goods was never better, and
business is undoubtedly hindered by
inability to grant satisfactory ship-
ments. Coarse yarn goods for the
home trade are being taken moder-
ately, but it is not believed that the
requirements of buyers have been fill-
print cloth

ed, by any means. In

yarn goods more interest is evinced!

in wide qualities and the week has

been very favorable on goods for

converters’ uses, certain lines being

made 45 inches wide in two color
checks and retails for $1.25 per yard.
The material is worsted and the col-
ors, in both warp and filling pat-
terns, are arranged two and_ two.
White and light tan, white and black,
white and blue, white and brown,
and black and green are some of the
combinations. The warp threads are
drawn in on ten shafts divided into
three sets; the first set contains four
shafts, the second set two shafts and
the third set four shafts. The warp

| pattern contains 88 threads in a re-

peat. Fight threads are drawn

|through the eyes of the first set of
| four shafts, the draft being from front

to back in regular order. These
threads are four white and four col-
ored. Through the eyes of the second
set, containing two shafts, 36 warp
threads are drawn in regular order
front to back. Then cight
threads are drawn in on the third set,
containing four shafts, after which
36 threads on the second set complete
a repeat. All these threads are drawn

from

|in in the reed in pairs of two of each

| color together in the same split. The

| filling pattern contains 96 picks.

Figured Poplin—A_ beautiful sum-

| mer poplin, 42 inches wide, and which

|retails for $1.25 per yard, is made

taken for a considerable period. Nar- |

row goods are slow, but unchanged

in price. Drills and twills of the

heavy grades are difficult to obtain |

and osnaburgs and cloths of an al-

lied character can not be obtained

without a premium being given. Even |}

at a premium only small orders can

be taken. The manufacturing cut-

ters in nearly every instance are los- |
ing business every day because of the |

slowness of deliveries, and where they
can find spot goods they offer un-
usual prices. Light brown sheetings,
lighter than four yards, are the most
sought for of the light gray goods,
and both domestic and foreign buyers
are taking sides in the buying.
Shirtings and Waistings—Madras

. . - . |
cale shirtings, are being taken in good |

The cutting-up trade are
always in the market for something
out of the ordinary and this season
Floating

quantities.

is no exception to the rule.
warp and jacquard effects are ap-
where conservatism is
the motif of design and
some very good business is

proved of
shown in
being

done. The tendency of coloring is
along the blues and blacks. Madras
goods are wanted in neat stripes.

while percales are being looked for
stripes and
and blue effects. Waistings in all
staple goods are being taken in large
quantities. Printed sheer

in hairline small

goods are

selling well and the same can be said |

of poplins and lenos.
the dress variety are being well taken
care of and the apron ginghams are
good
goods, such as Persian stripe ging-
hams in silk and mercerized mixtures,
are not as active, but it is too early
to predict anything with any degree
of certainty.

Worsted Checks—A popular sum-

in nearly as shape.

black |

Ginghams of |
Sb

Novelty |

| with a silk warp with 124 ends to the

inch and 64 picks of worsted filling
to the inch. The fabric is made in a
variety of beautiful ranging
from olive green to golden bronze,

colors

e * . |
and the sheen of the silk warp gives
la different tint

with every change

in position. The face of the fabric

|is ornamented with small leaves, pro-

| duced by

|

floating the silk
threads over the worsted filling.

warp
The
stem of the leaf is composed of two
warp threads floating over three picks,

land the float is moved one to the
right every second pick. The leaf
covers II picks, each warp thread

floating over four picks, and the float
moves to the right one warp thread
at each pick. The fabric is woven

|}on a jacquard, and the figures are
shirtings, and to a certain extent per- |

|

 

scattered over it at intervals of about
half an inch. The effect is small
spots that have a different luster from
the body of the fabric in whatever
position it reflects the light.

Cotton Underwear—Business in the
heavy cotton underwear market con-
tinues to be of a piecing out charac-
ter. Jobbers, have more
business to place than mills can ac-
tually turn out in time for deliveries
to be made to the retailers, but nev-
ertheless there will be no shortage
because of this. Jobbers are filling
in on lines whenever they can and do
not object to paying a little more
than the market price when a good
order can be taken. The market, it
can be seen, is in the hands of the
knitter and it remains for him to say
what what shall not be
When. the new season opens
it may be a different matter, but the
knitter can have something to say
about prices if he only goes at it in
the right spirit. The center of in-
terest is with standard fleeces and in
14-pound goods $3.37%4 is a very easy
price to do business on. Women’s

however,

shall or
done.

mer dress fabric, containing 72 picks| ribbed goods of the seven-pound va-
and 76 warp threads to the inch, is|riety are in better shape than has

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A NEW
LOT

of leather goods just
received.

We desire to call your
special attention to the
$2 25 and $4.50 per doz-
en Hand Bags, which
are exceptional values.
We also have grades
at $4.25, $9 and $12 per
dozen. Will make up
an assorted lot if you
Say SO.

rand
apids
r
oods
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Exclusively Wholesale

Grand
Rapids
Michigan

 

 

 

Percival B. Palmer & Company

Manufacturers of

Cloaks, Suits and Skirts
For Women, Misses and Children

197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

 

CORL, KNOTT & CO.

Jobbers of Millinery dnd manufacturers of

Street and Dress Hats
20-26 N. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

GRAND RAPIDS
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

| W. FRED McBAIN, President
|

 

| Grand Rapids, Mich. The Leading Agency
|

 

Aikman Bakery Co.

Manufacturers of

Crackers and Fine Biscuits

 

Trade Mark

Our goods and prices are right.
tee both. Our line is complete.
trial order.

We guaran-
Send us a
They will give you satisfaction.

Port Huron, Mich.

 

 
  
 
  
  

This is a picture of ANDREW
B. SPINNEY, M. D. the only
Dr. Spinney in this country. He
has had furty-eight years experi-
ence in the study and practice of
medicine, two years Prof. in
the medical college, ten years in
Sisanitarium work and he never
failsin his diagnosis, He gives
special attention to throat ané
lung diseases making somé
woudertul cures. Also all forms
of nervous diseases, epilepsy, St.
Vitus dance, paralysis, etc. e
never fails to cure piles.

There is nothing known that
he does not use for private diseases of both sexes,
and by his own special methods he cures where
others fail. If you would like an opinion of your
case and what it will cost to cure you, write out
allyour symptoms enclosing stamp for your reply.

ANDREW B. SPINNEY, M. D.
Prop. Reed City Sanitarium, Reed City, Mich

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for

John W. Masury
& Son’s

Paints, Varnishes

and Colors.

Brushes and Painters’
Supplies of All Kinds

Harvey & Seymour Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Jobbers of Paint, Varnish and
Wall Paper

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 39

 

been reported.
well sold up.

tion at issue and many people wiil
be mistaken if most mills do not have
a great deal of trouble in this re-
On seasonable goods there is
Bals

and lisles are in fair shape and will be

spect.
more or less doing at this time.

for months to come. In men’s lines
it is a question which has the prefer
ence of the business.

Cotton Hosiery—The heavy hosiery
season is about at an end.
turers are now turning their atten-
tion to
but as yet have made no effort to in-

spring and summer goods,
troduce new lines to the jobbers. The
outlook at the present
favorable for all

time ap-
pears plain fine
lines, and full-length laces and em-
broidered half hose look as well.
Carpets
pet industry is unchanged from last
The
way of a large volume of business is

Job-

-the situation tm the car
stumbling block in the

week.

high prices for raw materials.

bers are insisting on the lowest pos- |

sible price regardless of whether the

manufacturer can get a new dollar

for an old one.

ers who never expected to sell direct |

are now laying plans to do so in the}

future as their only means of pro-

tection from the evident intentions of

the jobber to take all the profits in|

the business. The manufacturers who

do sell

husiness up to date, while those who

direct report a_ satisfactory

sell only to jobbers are not so well

satisfied with the volume of business

received.

Lace Curtains—This is a busy sea-
son with manufacturers of
ham lace curtains. Some of the mills
have their output sold for four weeks
ahead.

ee

Municipal Lighting Plants Do Not}

Seem To Pay.

A suggestion in a recent issue of
the Review that the village of
land would perhaps be money ahead

if the lighting business were turned |
over to private parties met with con- |
siderable criticism, yet it appears that |

other towns than Portland have be

come convinced that no

saved by municipal lighting and are |
figuring on granting franchise to out- |

The Review is not earnestly
advocating such a Port-
land, but the idea is worth thoroughly
investigating.

siders.

move for

Overtures have recently been made
to the Piatt Heating & Power Co., of
Lansing, by the authorities of both
and Grand
electricity from Lansing for the light-

Mason

ing of those places.

Both Grand Ledge and Mason own |
For the pur-|

their lighting plants.
chase of the plant at Grand Ledge
These
bonds are still unpaid and it has been
decided by experts that the plant has
but little value.

At Mason the lighting plant has
always proven an expensive luxury.
At the recent spring election the citi-
zens voted down the proposition to
raise $8,000 in bonds to put the plant
in working order, and as it will be too
expensive to run the plant in its pres-

$20,000 in bonds was issued.

Most producers are}
In fleeces the matter |
of deliveries later on is the main ques- |

Manutfac- |

Some manufactur- |

Notting- |

Port- |

money is |

 

Ledge to secure |

;ent condition, it is proposed to se- |
cure the electricity from other sourc-
es.—-Portland Review.
Lighting Plant For Sale.
Monroe, June 3-—For the past five
years Monroe has been trying the ex-
i periment of municipal ownership of
its electric lighting plant. During that

time a long list of difficulties have

been recorded. The boiler has blown
up once or twice, expensive machin-
fery has been destroyed, the city has
been in darkness many times during
long periods, and more than all that
it has proven an expensive proposi- |
tion. Momroe is sick of municipal
ownership and is considering several

propositions for the disposal of its

plant. One of the propositions comes
from City Surveyor White and an-
other from the Detroit, Monroe &

| Toledo Short Line Co.

Some of the mishaps of the plant
were the result of spite work, caused
by the discharge of an employe who
is supposed to have put sand in the
| fine workings of the machinery, caus-
ing a heavy loess, and the explosion
that blew out the side of the building |
and destroyed an expensive engine |
that had only been used a short time
was also attributed to the same cause.

The plant has been run to_ better
advantage during the past few
months, the electrician in charge be-

ing an expert, who has kept things up

better than at any other time during
the five years’ experiment.

——_—__.-<._—_
Trading Stamp Company Quits.
-The Michigan |

Trading Stamp Co. has given notice

Kalamazoo, June 6

te the public that they will close out
their business in Kalamazoo by June
1175 and quit the field here. They give]
as their reason that the business has
|not been patronized by Kalamazoo |
| people and it is useless for them to
leontinue the local branch. The com-

| pany has agencies scattered all over |

|| the State, and their office here is in

the Chase block.

 

 

Merchants, Hearken

We are business builders and |
money getters. We are ex- |
perienced We succeed with-
ont the use of hot air. We}
don’t slaughter prices. If we |
can't make you
, profits, we don’t want your |
sale. Nocompany in our line |
|can supply better references. We can convert |
your s‘ock, including stickers, into cash witho t |
|loss. Everything treated confidentially.

Note our two places of business, and address us

RAPID SALES CO.

609-175 Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.
|
|

Or 1071 Belmont St., Portland, Oregon.

 

|

| We face you with facts and clean-cut
| educated gentlemen who are salesmen of |
| good habits. Experienced in all branches |
| of the profession. Will conduct any kind
lof sale, but earnestly advise one of our |
“New Idea’ sales, independent of auction,
to center trade and boom business at a
profit, or entire series to get out of busi-
ness at cost.

G. E. STEVENS & CO.

209 State St., Suite 1114, Chicago.

N. B. You may become interested in
a 300-page book by Stevens, entitled
“Wicked City,” story of merchant’s
siege with bandits. If so, merely send us
your name and we _ will write you re-
garding it when ready for distribution.

  
 
 

agente

Hot Weather
Goods

We still have a good

 
  
   
  
   
   
  
 
 

 

assortment left of Or-
Dimities,
White Goods,

gandies,

 

 

 

Lawns,

 

Ginghams, etc., and would advise you to buy
There will still be

great demand for these goods during the hot

while the assortment is good.

season.

Write for Samples

P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Dry Goods

nese TAS crite time BF age AER

 

 

reasonable |.

 

 

‘‘Laugh and the
World Laughs
With You,
Weep and You
Weep Alone.”’

No man ever made a
dollar by getting in the
*“dumps.”’ A. cheerful
countenance will open
more pocket-books than

a sour face and a jimmy.

For example, buy a line

of
Puritan
Corsets,

place them in stock, put

a smiling face

 

 

; % behind

them and the first thing

‘sf Sell Puritan Corsets.”’’

you know you have the

 

 

 

dollar and the woman

has the corset. Everybody is pleased and you have made more profit

than you you could in selling and other make. Try it.

PURITAN CORSET CO.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Geo. Randa.., Bay City;
Secretary, Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, W. V. Gawley, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, lliams, -

— Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,
nt.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, Thomas E. Dryden:
Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

SHEER SLICKNESS.

Advantage of Artistic Salesmanship
in Selling Goods.
Aren't salesmen the slickest
Quillers you ever saw?
Why, a good deal of the time a

Foxy

 

retail grocer is like a little child in|

their hands.
puts up they’ve got a hundred an-
swers and, fairly overborne and beat-
en down, he paper they
push at him, which ties him up to
what!

signs the

heaven knows

For every objection he |

That sounds like a fancy picture, |

but it is not cverstated one degree.

I consider a professional salesman the |

slickest
the pike.
Of course, I do not mean

thing that ever came

any offensive sense. I am a

man myself.

down |

that in|
sales- |

body to say anything, he added:

“And if that’s too much I'll sell it
to you for 10.”

Well, what did that do?
man there felt his heart
to such an obvious and
beginner.

Every
warm up
bungling
We could not help want-
ing to help him along, so one after
the other we went down in our pan-
talettes and coughed up a dime for
what I
me.

A week after that I found out that
that “amateur” salesman had worked
that racket all over
the city and had coined the public
sympathy into money at the rate of
a dime per throb. I further learned
that the little metal affair he sold
could be bought at any department
store in Philadelphia for 8 cents.

You see?

That fellow had deliberately stud-
ied out his method of approach. He

didn’t even take home with

same reduction

knew human nature well enough to
Know that if he seemed to deliberate-
ly cut his own throat by reducing his
price before anybody asked him to,
people surely would sympathize with
his inexperience and want to help him
along.

And the scheme worked precisely
the way he thought it would. If he
had gone in and bluntly presented
his proposition, even at 8 cents, he

wouldn’t have sold one where he
|sold fifty.
I was in another man’s office the

There is a school in Chicago where |
they aim to make a salesman even}

I saw a great batch of its
advertising matter the other day. As

slicker.

near as I could size the scheme up, :
ithe owner of the office was at leisure

they aim to teach a salesman to in-
stantly get on his buyer’s blind side
—to know by instinct the first time
he looks at him what his soft spot
is and go for that to beat the band.
That is really the secret of selling
goods—to know how to approach a
buyer. Any salesman will agree with
me there. The salesman who knows
how to go to a retail grocer and in-
stantly arouse his interest.or his cu-
riosity, or even his surprise, is going
to make a sale seven times out of ten.
This

harder to do

sort of approach is getting

every minute, because

the number of new __ propositions

that come out breeds a lot of new
schemes to get next to buyers with
them.
are the greatest grafts imaginable.

Some of these fine schemes
The other day I was sitting in a

broker's office. There were two or
three other fellows in there and I was
telling them I kept my pants

pressed.

how

In came a young fellow who look-
ed for all the world like a
youth who had drifted into the city
by accident. He _ hesitated, smiled
bashfully at the gang, and then reach-
ed in an old-fashioned bag he carried
and brought out a simple little metal
appliance to use on stationary wash-
stand spigots.

country

Not a man in the of-
fice really needed one.

“T’'ve got something here I'd like
to show you,” he said apologetically,
and then he went on to explain what
it was like an amateur of the greenest
dye. Nobody warmed up a little bit.

“The price is 15 cents,” he said,
and then, without waiting for any-

| buildings in Philadelphia.

 

 

other day, in one of the largest office
In walked
good
When

a sporty duck with
clothes and Hebraic features.

young

the stranger said impressively:

“Mr. —— (he had gotten the name
from the door), a syndicate composed
of the American Tobacco Co. (and
a lot more big firms; I forget the
others) have sent me to you.”

Then the fellow paused impressive-
ly. The man addressed was a lawyer
and he perked right up, smelling a
fat fee.

But the fee didn’t materialize.
Stripped of its craftiness the scheme
proved to be simply a solicitation to
subscribe to some magazine, “Col-
I think. The point about the
“syndicate” far-fetched, but it
got the buyer’s attention anyway.
The American Tobacco Co. and the
composed the

her's,
was

other concerns who
“syndicate” were all advertisers in the
magazine and they were supposed to
have sent that
everybody subscribed and so brought
themselves within the range of the

out solicitors to see

gospel preached by the _ advertise-

ments.
This was a bad approach, because
ic showed the

cloven foot so

and aroused disgust.

soon
During the past few weeks the
“Scientific American,” of New York
—the patent paper; everybody knows
it—has been sending typewritten let-
ters to representative men. The let-
ter simply said they desired the re-
cipient’s opinion upon a certain mat-
ter of importance and had taken the
liberty of sending a representative to
secure it. The representative
supposed to arrive in a few days.

I got one of these letters myself.

was

 

That is why I said they were sent
tc “representative men.” When I got
it I began to swell up and had vi-
sions of an interview with myself ap-
pearing in the “Scientific American”
on a subject I uidn’t know anything
about.

After a little while the representa-
tive called to get my opinion as_ to
whether I didn’t think I would like
to subscribe to a new scientific work
in 366 volumes.

Well, schemes to get into
a man are poor, I think, because, as
I said, they go to pieces right away
and make people tired. I was mighty
tired, after swelling up over the let-
ter | book
walk in.

One day last January I saw a mid-
dle-aged man walk in a_ wholesale
grocer’s office and ask to be directed
to the fruit buyer. After he had
been told where to find him I saw
him reach in his pocket and pull out
an orange. He cut t# in half and
then walked up to the buyer,
sat within to feet of where I stood.
Mr. te
stranger said, when the buyer looked

“Like

these

got, to have a agent

who

“How are you,

 

up at him.
this.”

He held out half an orange and
the buyer took it and ate it.

“That’s the best brand of
oranges I know of anywhere.”
the stranger. “li you want any at
any time here’s the place to get ’em.”

oranges? Taste

Florida
said

He laid down a card on the buyer’s
desk

“Here, wait a minute,” called the
buyer,

and started to go out.

and, to make a long story
short, he opened up prices with him
and gave him an order for five boxes

on the spot.

You see the fruit was unusually
fine and the seller knew he could
depend on it. That is what [| cali

He knew that
with the taste of that orange in the
buyer’s mouth he'd be called back all
right.

artistic salesmanship.

I could wander along on this sub-
ject for a good while, for there are
a lot of old skull to
say about it. But I do not like to
work overtime, so no more now from

things in my

your affectionate uncle.—Stroller in
Grocery World.

 

 

AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS

1903 Winton 20 H. P. touring ‘car, 1903 Waterless
Knox, 1902 Winton phaeton, two Oldsmobiles, sec-
ond-hand electric runabout, 1903 U.S. Long Dis-
tance with top, refinished hite steam carriage
with top, Toledo steam carriage, four passenger,
dos-a-dos, two steam runabouts, all in good run-
ning order. Prices from $200 up.

ADAMS & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids

 

LIVINGSTON
HOTEL

The steady improvement of the
Livingston with its new and unique
writing room unequaled in Michigan,
its large and beautiful lobby, its ele-
gant rooms and excellent table com-
mends it to the traveling public and
accounts for its wenderful growth in
popularity and patronage.

     
       
     
       
     
 

 

Cor. Fulton and Division Sts.
GRAND RAP.DS, MICH.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

I Must Have It

Refuse Substitutes
and Imitations
You will know them, despite their fan-
ciful names—they are usually mixed with
hot water and do not have the ce-
menting property of

J\iabastin

ea ny

Mix withcold water, any onecan brushiton;
A Rock Cement ‘natin:
and tints.
Kills vermin and disease germs; does not
rub or scale. No washing of walls after
once applied. Other wall finishes must be
washed off every year—expensive, filthy
work. They rub and scale, and the
glue or other animal matter in
them rots and feeds disease germs,
Buy Alabastine only in five pound
packages, properly labeled. Tint
card, pretty wall and ceiling design,
‘““Hints on Decorating” and our artists’
services in making color plans, free.

ALABASTINE CoO.,
Grand Rapids, Mich., or 105 Water St., N. ¥.

 

 

 

™eKent County
Savings Bank

OFGRAND RAPIDS, MICH

Has et amount of déposits
of any Savings Bank in Western
Michigan. If you are contem-
plating a changein your Banking
relations, or think of opening a
new account, call and see us.

Paid on Certificates of Deposit

 

 

Banking By Mail

Resources Exceed 244 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.
A Marquette correspondent writes:

Fred A. Siegel, for several years in the |

employ of John Siegel, 116 North
Third street, will represent a Burl-
ington, Ia., manufacturing concern in
the Upper Peninsula and sell a patent
kerosene can.

O. F. Jackson (Foster, Stevens &
Co.), who has been ill with a stomach
trouble for several months,
covered so rapidly of late that he now
expects to resume his visits to the
trade in about two weeks. This will
be welcome information to Mr. Jack-
many friends, who will
joice with him over his recovery.

O. Morsman, who has recently tak-
en the position of Michigan travel-
the Kellogg

has re-

son’s re-

ing representative for

Switchboard & Supply Co., of Chica- }

has concluded to make Grand

go,

Rapids his headquarters and has ac- |
cordingly established himself at this |

market. Mr. Morsman hails from

Dodgeville, Wis., where he held the |

position of General Superintendent of
the Independent Consolidated Tele-
phone Co. for the past two years.
a
To Would-Be Salesmen.

If you want to go on the road be-

cause you think it an easy life —then |

don’t.

If you think you would like it just |

because it is a “change’”—then don’t.
If you are going into it “just to see
a little of the world—then don't.

If you are going to try it for any |
reason except that you think it a de-|
sirable career and one in which you}

can distinguish yourself—then don’t.
For selling goods on the road is a
very serious business.

nice large orders in a morocco-bound
book and sending in a nice large ex-

pense account at the end of the week. |
Ask the netx traveling man you see }

if this is not true. There is lots- of
the hardest kind of work in it; lots ot

irregular eating and sleeping; lots of |
disappointment, and more discourage- |

ment in a week than you could ex-
tract from a clerk’s position in a solid
year.

And yet because there are obstacles

to be overcome it is a good career |
for the right man; the quitters soon |
get thinned out and try something |

else. There is money in it—for the

right man. And if yau feel it in your)

bones you could sell goods and have
the grit to feel that way even after
some icicle deliberately destroys your
card before your eyes and_ walks
away and leaves you when you strike
him for an order, maybe you are

the right man.—American Industries. |

—_—_.+.——__
The Treatment of Traveling Men.

The average dealer reveals his

character in his treatment of travel- |

ing men.

upon any one who approaches them |
with anything to sell as an intruder, |

whom they are at liberty to treat with
the utmost incivility.

Such persons, of course, were tn-
fortunate enough to be born without
the instincts of gentlemen and what
is even more unfortunate, without the
rudiments of common sense. They
fail to see that all persons engaged
in legitimate business are actuated by

There is some- |
thing more to it than writing down |

Some dealers seem to look |

|
|the same laudable motive—tke mak-
|ing of money.

Under the present conditions
| business the traveling man is as
much a necessity as is the clerk, and

until he has done something person-

ot respect and considerate treatment.
If some dealers find that they are

of |

| week.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The Grain Market.

There has been very little change

in the cash wheat situation the past |

The movement of grain from

| first hands has been moderate and the

sag ’ i milling demand fair.
| ally that is contemptible, he is worthy | ket for the next month or six weeks |
weather |

The |

ithan of supply

apt to lose too much time in talking |
to traveling men they should not for- |

| get that the fault is their own. The

busy, businesslike dealer can transact |

a great deal of business or no
ness at all with
eler in a few minutes, and in either

busi-
a

case be as good a business man and
much of a gentleman the
other.

as as in
——_2-.___
Eight Great Secrets of Success.
| A man with a mania for answering
advertisements had some
He learned that
by sending $1 to a Yankee he could
get a cure for drunkenness.
did. It was to
keep it.”

has
esting experiences.

Then he sent fifty cents to find out
how to raise turnips successfully. He
found out: “Just take hold oi the
[tops and lit.’

|and sent thirty-four one cent stamps
|to a Chicago firm for information as
When
ithe answer came it read, “Sit down
/on a pan of dough.”
Next advertisement
read, “How to double your money in
months.” He was told to con-
vert his money into bills, fold them,
land thus double money.
Next

household articles and got a package

how to make an impression.

he answered

SIX

his

he sent for twelve useful

|of needles.
He was slow to learn, so he sent
to find ta!) eet) seh
“Work hard and never spend a cent.”
| That stopped him.

Sut to find
how to write without pen and ink. He

$1 out “how

his brother wrote out

| was told to use a lead pencil.

| He. paid $1 to learn how to live
| without work, and was told on a pos-
ital card: “Fish for easy marks, as
we do.”
——_.
| Amply Qualified.

| Proud Parent—If you would win
|my daughter, young man, you must
prove to my satisfaction that you have
| fortitude, patience under discouraging
circumstances, strength of character,
courage, an indomitable will to suc-
ceed, and, above all, an ability to bear
misfortune. Fave you those

with
qualifications?
Suitor—I’ve known your daughter
am asking you
other

for some time, sir, and

her hand. Do you wish

|

|

| ~

| tor
assurances?
+. + ——_-

Why She Wept.

| “But, my dear,” protests the young
| husband, “you have paid $56 for this

Easter bonnet, when I asked you not

 

to exceed $25.”
“Yes, love,” sh

e exclaimed, “but
don’t you see the $56 one was marked
down from $72, and the $25 ones
were only marked down from thirty.
I saved $16, instead of only $5. You
you ought to commend me instead
of—boo-hoo!—of—of scolding me.”

 

Being young, he wished to marry, |

i the
commercial trav- |

| lantic

The grain mar-

matter of
demand.

will be more a

and

Government weather bulletin for the

week ending June 5 gives conditions

as regards the wheat situation as fol-

lows: “The week ending June 5 was

most favorable of the season in

the Rocky Mountain region and over |

the western portion of the Central
Valleys.

Generally favorable condi- |

tions prevailed also in the Middle At- |

and Southern States, but in

| New England low temperatures, with
a UW M ol
|light frosts and lack of zainfall, have

| | prevented growth.
miter |

Portions of

Ohio Valley, the Upper Lake region,

| something very important.

41

siderable replanting will be necessary
owing to excessive moisture and cut-
worms.

Oats have shown some strength in
The

erowing crop is doing fine, receipts

sympathy with other grains.
are liberal and the demand good.
L. Fred Peabody.
——__~> ~~»
The Woman in Business.

She sailed into the telegraph office
and rapped on the counter. The clerk
remembered that she had been there
about ten minutes before he came for-
ward to meet her. He wondered what
she wanted this time.

“Oh,” she said, “let me have that

I forgot
I wanted
tu underline the words ‘perfectly love-

telegram I wrote just now!

‘ly’ in acknowledging the receipt of

the |

that bracelet. Will it cost anything

bextrar

| Oklahoma and Southern Texas have |

And he}
“take the pledge and)

suffered from excessive moisture. On |

the Pacific coast the conditions were |

generally favorable, although parts of |

California
temperatures too low.”

Oregon and experienced

The changes in the visible supply |

for the week were as follows:

A de-|

crease in wheat of 1,082,000 bushels, |

oats 1,303,000 bushels and an increase
of 335,000 bushels.

While receipts of corn have been

in

corm

quite liberal, the demand has been
good both for domestic and export,

and prices have been firm with an up-
ward The growing crop
as a whole is in good condition, par-
ticularly through the corn belt, but in

tendency.

| the Northern and Eastern States con-

 

 

| few

“No, ma’am,” said the clerk, as he
handed her the message.

The young lady drew two heavy
lines beneath the words and said:

“Tt’s awfully good of you to let me
do that. It will please Charley so
much!”

“Don’t mention it,”
THE would like it,
of violet extract on
telegram at the same rates.”

“Oh, thank you, You

said the clerk.
I will drop a
the

you
drops

sir! don’t

| know how much I should appreciate

| it.

I’m going to send all my tele-

| grams through this office—you are so

obliging.”

And the smile she gave him would
have done any one good, with the
possible exception of Charley.

 

 

United
Commercial Travelers

Will hold a

 

 

BASKET PICNIC

The First of the Season

 

 

At

North Park, Saturday, June 17

 

Programme

FOR

1—Base Ball Game
3—Hop, Skip and Jump
5—Running Jump

7—Putting the Heavy Weight

FOR
1—Throwing Base Ball

MEN

2—Quoits
4—High Jump
6—Standing Jump
8—Pole Vaulting

LADIES

2—Running Race

 

Come One, Come All!

Turn out and have a good time.

G. R. ALEXANDER,
J. H. Mirtar,
A: T. Drees,

Committee.

ARES EMOTO SY SLT EE

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Harry Heim, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur H. Webber, Cadillac.
Treasurer—J. D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
Sid A. Erwin, Battle Creek.

W. E. Collins, Owosso.

Meetings for 1905—Star Island, June 26
and 27; Houghton, Aug. 16, 17 and 18;
Grand Rapids, Nov. 7, 8 and 9.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Assocla-
n.

President—W. A. Hall, Detroit.

Vice Presidents—W. C. Kirchgessner,
Detroit; Charles P. Baker, St. Johns; H.
G. Spring, Unionville.

Secretary—W. H. Burke, Detroit.

Treasurer—E. E. Russell, Jackson.

Executive Committee—John D. Muir,
Grand Rapids; E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor;
L. A. Seitzer, Detroit; John Wallace, Kal-
amazoo; D. S. Hallett, Detroit.

Trade Interest Committee, three-year
term-—J. . Lemen, Shepherd, and
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

The Effect of Light on Pharmaceuti-
cals.

The question of the action of light

on medicinal preparations, deleterious

or otherwise, is of great importance.

It does not receive the consideration

by the average pharmacist that its |

deserves. A pharmacist
but

preparations of full medicinal activi-

importance
who desires to dispense none
ty must carefully consider the storage
of the various preparations manufac-
tured or handled by him as regards
their exposure to, or exclusion from,
light.

Galenical preparations, such as fluid
and medicinal
not be kept in clear
When so kept, they
always throw down more precipitate
than
amber glass.

extracts, tinctures

wines, should

glass containers.

when stored in bottles made of
Whether the
tates formed in these preparations are

precipi-

active or not, they prove that light

has a decomposing action upon some | A
| One hundred parts of the coarsely

of the constituents of the drug. Con-

tainers made of blue glass are of no}

use, as it is well known that the blue

|mixture of 25

a I am at a loss to understand
| why the directions for keeping this
| preparation in the light, contained in
| the U. S. P. of 1880, were not incor-
| porated in the 1890 edition. If this
|syrup is carefully made according to
ithe U. S. P. process, placed in two-
| ounce clear glass containers complete-
ly filled, and then put in a good light,

it will keep almost indefinitely, retain-

ing its pale green color and remain-
ing in all respects satisfactory.
Z. Lee
—_— >
Formula for a Hydrogen
Skin Lotion.
peroxide is a
oxidizing and decomposing

Brown.
Peroxide

Hydrogen powerful

i well combined with other

apt to destroy the peroxide. Many
j}attempts have been made by manu-
facturers to overcome this tendency
|to decomposition.

Solutions of hydrogen dioxide can’t |

exist in alkaline or neutral

certain percentage of acid being re- |

An

avoided, as it

mediately decomposing. excess

of acid must be acts

no better as a preservative than just
a sufficient quantity to maintain an}!

acid condition.

Certain bodies appear to exert a

retarding effect upon the decomposi-
the
efficient, and in the order given: boro-

tion, following being the most

glyceride, salicylic acid, boric

alcohol, sodium salicylate, acetanilid
and salol.
The _ best

cause precipitates.

now known is to use the pure perox- |
| authorities to permit their sale. Only |

skin lotion.
Joseph Lingley.
———_.-2.————_—
Wine of Muira-Puama.
The following formula is suggested
hy Profs

ide by. itself as. a

Caesar and Loretz:

powdered drug are macerated in a

parts of alcohol (90

per cent.), 25 parts distilled water,

iand 950 parts of sherry wine, for ten

rays of light are the most active}
chemically.
Vinum Carnis et Ferri, N. F., should |

be stored in amber colored bottles

days, strained, expressed and filtered.

| The dose is said to be 20 to 30 grams

and protected from the light as much |

as possible. I have stored two

tions of this preparation, one in clear

por- |

glass and the other in amber bottles, |

and have found that the portion in
clear glass gave a copious
on standing two or three weeks, while
that in amber bottles contained only
a trace of precipitate.

Volatile oils should be kept in their
dark a

original containers and in as

place

i
ble

oils into shop bottles containing trac-

as possible.

practice to pour fresh volatile

es of old oxidized oils. In such cases
the fresh oil is not only contaminated
with the old
its ozidation is greatly hastened.

terebinthinate oil, but

Elixirs containing ferric phosphate
or pyrophosphate should be kept in
amber glass, as when exposed to the
light they gradually darken in color.

The

phosphitum compositus.

same is true of syrupus hypo-

On the other hand, some prepara-

tions require the brightest light in

the store to keep them in prime con-

dition. Such a one is syrupus ferri

It is a reprehensi- |

two or three times a day.

The same authors give the follow-
100
parts muira-putiama in coarse powder,
20 parts 90 cent.,

ing formula for a fluid extract:

per alcohol and

ol | 10 parts of glycerin are mixed togeth-
precipitate | T

er, allowed to stand two hours, pack-
ed in a percolator and percolated with
diluted alcohol, the product being fin-
ished according to the general direc-
tions of the German Pharmacopoeia
for fluid extracts, and requiring from

400 to 500 p. of the diluted alcohol
of that Pharmacopoeia. The dose is
2to 3 erams daily. H. W. Sparker.

——

Say “Evaporated Cream” Is a Fraud.
Representatives of the largest con-

densed milk manufacturing concerns

in the country appeared in Chicago

on Wednesday before a committee
of the Association of Official Agri-
cultural Chemists of the United
|States and protested against the

| standard of quality proposed for evap-
The Committee
authorized by the Department of Ag-
determine the
of purity of food products.

orated cream. was

standards
For twen-

riculture to

 

agent of |
an unstable nature, and could not be}
prepara- |
tions, as the reactions would be very |

media, a|

quired to keep the solution from im- |

acid, |

The latter three, however, |
way |

ty years the term “evaporated cream”
has the trade used for
condensed milk. The Committee, be-
lieving this term deceptive, will rec-

been name

 

|ommend that the product sold under |
the name of evaporated cream shall |

be exactly what the trade name im-
The Committee took the pro-
test under consideration.
a
The Drug Market.
Opium—lIs firm, “[t 1s
that the cost of importation is above

plies.

very said

our selling price.

looked for.
Morphine—Is unchanged.

 

Quinine—Is_ steady.

Chloroform—lIs steady at the de-

 

‘line.
Cod

ing lower.

Liver Oil

| Oil Peppermint—Is steadily declin-
ing on account of the approach of the

new crop.

Caraway Seed—Has advanced and
is tending higher.
Foenugreek Seed—Is very firm and

stock is small. Higher prices are

looked for.

Has advanced

fis tending higher on account of the |

advance in flaxseed.

——_2->—__

Handle Maraschino Cher-
ries.

Pittsburg jobbers have decided not

|
|
|
| Linseed Oil
1

| Will Not

|to handle Maraschino cherries, nor
:

any cherries or cherry syrups _ that
show the least flavor of hydrocyanic

|acid, even although it should come

from the mere crushing of the pits.
The this the
refusal of the State dairy and food

cause for decision is

| whole cherries in syrup, and genuine |

icherry syrup free from artificial flav-
Soda

dispensers when ordering from sales-

oring can be legally served.

ment signed by
that incur b
selling their products will be refunc
ed them.
———
Foam Producer for Soda Water.

Six 60:

any fines they may y
1.

eight drams of a freshly

added to each gallon of syrup has
recommended. While

moss, white of egg or gelatin hasten

been Irish
the deterioration of syrups, also clog
the drain pipes, and soapbark, sarsa-
parilla or yerba santa leave an un-
pleasant after-taste, it is claimed that
licorice has none of these drawbacks,
and is superior in every way for those
syrups where a slight tinge of color
is no objection.
a

The devil usually applauds the man

who roars at him in prayer meeting.

 

 

Base Ball Supplies

Croquet
Marbles, Hammocks, Etc.

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
29 N. Ionia St.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

Another advance is |

Is weak and tend- |

Ic and!

men should demand a written agree- |
responsible firms, |

prepared fluid extract of licorice root |

 

Invincible

119

As good as cigars can be made
for $33 and $30 respectively. If
you are not handling these brands
include a sample lot in your next
order.

Handled by all jobbers and by
the manufacturers

Geo. H. Seymour & Co.
Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

 

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For
Public
Display
Our
Specialty

  
  

We have the goods
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5 4
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Mifand order one of our
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With program for tiring.
j Best value and satisfaction yuaranteed.
Our line of Fireworks for the trade, cele-
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ties is the largest in Michigan. Wait for 4
|@ our travelers. 4
FRED BBUNDAGE 3
Wholesale Drugs and Stationery 4
Muskegon, Michigan 2
June’s the month of e
The advertising starts the sale

 

Sweet Alsatian
—_ Roses

i : .

eer of this Perfume Invites

| New Customers to Your Store 4
| Order through your drug house or j
| direct

PACKED

| Pint Sweet Alsatian Roses al
| 16 double sheets of Music, perfumed. |
|2 yards Roses, ‘‘Paul de Longpie’’ e
14 plates Roses, ‘‘Paul de Longpie’’

| 50 sampte sheets music 3

| 2 printed hangers and streamers
All in one carton for $5.00

The Jennings Perfume Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

PILES CURED

|
|
|
| DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON

 

 

Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe Street

 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

  
  
     
       
     
     
    
    
    
     
 
    
    
 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

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Declined— : =o ae 12 40@2 60 oO 10@ 12] Lard, extra .. 70
' | Morphia, se Washes as wiicicce’. oe eal iinccce 5 iL. 6
Acid | Morphia, ¥ Q2 35@2 60 | Sinapis  - 22 | Linseed, pure raw 49@
cldum Evechthitos + | Seaamae faa --2 35@2 60 | Sinapis oo 18| Linseed, boiled ...50@
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Benzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 75|Gaultheria .-...: 1 00@1 10 ures . ca, No. 1. 28@ 30 : oe Spts. T 0
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Carbolicum ..... 26@ 29 | Gossi il 75 | Aconitum Nap’sF Os Sepia _..0 2... 2 ' eVo's 51 Paints bb
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Tartaricum ..... 38 a. 3 00@3 50 oma... _.. iper Nigra po 22 48 | Snta. Myrci 55|Green, Paris .....14(
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qua, 2; ae ee el ee ts. Vii -ead, Ted ...--- 6
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Carbonas ....... 18@ 15 | Rosmarini Casto oe 75 | Pyrethru 130@150 |Spts, ViiR’'tigal G@ iting, white S'n 90
Chlorid e ..... m, 5 @ Whiting Gilders’
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Blac pepe ¢ coes 25 | Sabina a a 50 | Quassiae ........ 10 Sulphur, Roll ....24@ 3% | __ cli vee
Brown CSE Oe A 80@1 Sates at pects a a 60 | Quina, S P & W. 30 = Tamarinds ...... 8@ 10| Universal Prep’a 1 40
ma — Si - ' Cubebae -....1!! 50 | Quina, S Ger. .... 22@ 32 Aa. 280 0 giana
eae 2 50@8 60 | Sinapis, ess. oz... @ & Cassia Acutifol ait teen 2 2 ae ———
ona Baccae & “21 1061 30 | Gasais, Acutifol Co ee oat << = No 1 Turp Coach 1 10@1 20
ubebae ...po.20 15@ 18/7 40 faltals 00 50 Saccharum La’s. 22@ 25 me ct 7@ 8| Extra Turp .- 60@1 70
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Xanthoxylum ... 30 a5 Theobromas .... 15@ 20 Ferri Chloridum. 50 | Sanguis Drac’s .. 40 50 - No 1 Turp Furnl 00@1 10
Balsamum Petassl : Gentian .... |. ‘ 35 Sado. w... 12 14 | Whal i" bbl gal | Extra T Damar .1 55@1 60
Copaiba a “s se Bi-Carb um ms Gentian Go. 16a = aoe e. winter .... 70@ 70' Jap Drver No 1 T 701
Me 1 60 | Bichromate |...) ae 5( —SES=S
Terabin, Cana Ominte .. | 13@ 15 Guiaca ammon .. 8
Tolutan ...... ” pe is $ — ce 36 30 | oo i en
C8 w He eee 1 ne oo. oe
snes euacne ‘ aoe ee po 12 Z | Kine colorless. a
Caml coccscee- eS 6 ia 50
Cinchona Flava.. : Potassa, erage a 65 ao.” sete e ress 50
Buonymus atro $0 Potass Nitras o . Si eo 50
i . as opt 7@ 10 |NUX Vomica .....
pom ae: 20 — Nitras 6@ 8 | Opil.. 50
alae rgini : aaa, ne A en see 75,
Quai, ar ig) Erysrinte "oo BR a8 Obit deodoriscds=” 1 3
3. i G “+ au
Saseafran.-poab || M/s ax | Quaeela
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Glycyrrhiza a” 6 os ances 4 33 + rurenassr seer 2. 50
q yrrhiza, po.. 28 oo Tpentarta .....
; ae. it or oe @ 25 | Stromonium .... 30
Haematox, is... 13@ 14| Gentiana po 1 .-- 20@ 40/Tolutan ..... 60
Haematox, %8 niiane DO 15. - 12@ 15| Valerian .......- 6@
oe # - 15 | Glychrrhizn pv 15 16@ | Veratrum Veride. 50
matox, %s.. 16 17 | Hydrastis, Canada I | cinaieer Veride. 50
i Ferru Hydrastis, Can.po . 0 20
oa SS Precip. 18 Hellebore, Alba. 12 15
Citrate Bombe = 1... 18@ 29 RNa
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errocyanidum 8. = 49| Jalapa, pr... i : >
Solut. Chloride . 15 | Jalapa. pr, oo. 25@ 30|Alumen, gra po7 34@ 38 We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs
Sulphate, panies by 2 welecen ‘* @ 35 a a * a Cc ers O rugs,
bbl. per cwt .. a m po. 15 13 | Antimoni, po .. 5 hemi i a heh
oushela game. a 7 Antimont et po T 400 50| icals and Patent Medicines.
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Anthemis ....... La pa  S Arsen! z @ 48 We ar wie . :
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Barosma .......- 25@ 30 | Smilax, of’s H. 8 ‘e Galelun Chior eur Varnishes.
Cassia Acutifol, Smilax, M ..... @ 25 | Calcium Chior, ie el
“SRtnewdl nr’ 15 28 |Srmnloctenas’.-. 1 de | Canta Shorts @ 12
cutifo 35 red et three @ 95 | Cantharides, Rus. e
Salvia’ officinalis, Valeriana Eng .. | @ 25 | GaPsict — oe Ss a We have a full line of Stapl tc!
4 ca eee hs .. 18@ 20 i: Ger. 15@ 29|Capsici Fruc’spo @ 22 Staple Druggists
4 J 4 ) F ’ = .
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Acacia, Ist pkd 65 s ni Carmine, No. 4¢ 2
Acacia, 2nd pkd.. 45 orga Cera Alba So
hea ae i = Anisum po. 20. “ian we 50@ 55
7 Acai ae ona 4 Apium (gravel’ 8). 18 15 | Cro a ..... 40@ 42 W .
, . Rird ome 44... 1 75: € ar 3 a )
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Asa se | Cydoniam ....... ee ee @ 90
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Catechu Foeniculum . @ ne P-W 38@ 48 ine oO
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uphorbium 40 | Lobe 8@ 6 | Creosotu i
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Guaiacum po 85 3 ae oes... 5 ¢| Creta. Doce es: 5
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— 45 | Sinapis Nigra ... masa 1 mew We give our personal
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Shellac, bi g J 1 50| & 7™@ 10) 5 action.
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Herba Saccharum N #.1 90@2 ota po. 65 60
Absinthium .....4 50@4 60 | Spt, Vint Galli “4 10/| @ther Sulph . 6 All orders shi i ;
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| Salonen *-08 Di is ina eS 2562 00 | Galle, ----------- 2 3 day received. Send a trial order
aa entha Pip oz pk 98 | Florid ; Gelatin, Cooper . i
Menth rida Sheeps’ wl , ip : 60 |
eh ee gee |B Nemeautanasbe” OD Glassware ft box °°” 73.
anacetum V . a5 carria: = Less than b
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a Calcined, Pat a wool, carriage . @2 40 Glyce — a is =|
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Carbo -M. carriage... @1 25 é
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: ° oe C D> |
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Absinthium _... 490@5 0@| Yellow Reef, for ydrarg Ox Ru’m 1 05 |
sane 7. 00 . oe slate use. .... @1 40 aaa — 1 15 |
i. 7% 73 Syrups sere ngue’m 504 60 |
Auranti Cortex . i 2... i  . 75
Bergamii — 4 i Bat * _—_ Cortex .. $ Hs — olla, Am. as . ru Co.
Cajiputi ......... 86@ 9@|Ipecac ........... g $0 | Iodine, Resubi ..
Caryophilii .--.. : ag & [a ag mt --1 Seas oe
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Chenopadli'"13 tage 09 | Smita" Oars <:: so at | Macias 01 G8" fs rand Rapids, Mich
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Citronella. <2... 80 Scillae =) | igure Aree. ot | ’
Conium Mae ...| 80 90 Scillae Co ...... 50 ydrarg Tod @ 25)
on ou veel 1% | Tolutan ........ §8 Liq Lia Potase Ar Aratute 10@ 12)
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be | Magndste 154 |

 

 
 

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vcaeecnanre

saaagetehorniiniae ria

sapangatabatute ae aia

 

Se OREO

 

 

44

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.
ble to change at any time, and ccuntry merchants will have their orders filled at

market prices at date of purchase.

 

 

ADVANCED

Rice
Rolled Oats

 

 

Index to Markets
By Columns

 

 

 

F
Farinaceous i. 4
Fish and Oysters ...... 10
Fishti PRES ..ccesn's 4
Flavoring extracts ..... &
Fly Me .63....,. 5...
fresh Meats ..........- 5
ieee gece cl pit
G
eee 2. cee 5
Oe é
Grains and Fiour ...... 5
H
eee eee eee 5
fides and Polls ...... 10
i
oo 6
J
Pe oes &
.

RD oc 8
Re cy ctl é
M
Meat Extracts ........ :
Mustard ............... 6
N
OS one Sl lk 11
°
Sees .....-. ee 6
P
aE EE oe 5
Pickles cote lee ce :

Playing Cards ..........
SS ue ie 6
Provisions ............. 6
R
ee 6
Salad scabies 7
Saleratus Pg bobe
ee 7
—— Ee :
Bhoe Blacking -........ 7
ee 7
ie eee e ees 7
ee 8
= ee es :
ie eee
PE bee e eee e ee eee toe 8
T
ee icine bes een ee
Tobacco ..... (iueecuke 9
TD ose» Juleewe a.
Vv
Wimeger .....22222----e 8

 

AXLE GREASE
Frazer’s
1%. wood boxes, 4 dz. 3
1fb. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2
_- tin boxes, 2 dz. 4 25
Tb pails, per doz. 6
- pails, per doz ..7
. pails, per doz . "12 00

 

BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand
, per Gon .... 9
- can, per doz 1 40
, Cam, per Ges ....1 BD
BATH BRICK
Ann ook... 75
eee |... 85
BROOMS
oe 2 eee .........
oe. 2S Cree... -. = 2
me. 3 Carpe .......
oe. 8 Core -.
Paar oe...
Common Whisk
Fancy Whisk
oie ewes
BRUSHES
Scrub
Seid Back 8 in ....- 75
Solid Back, 11 in ...... 95
Pointed ends ......... - =>
Stove
eS ce 75
me Se CL: 7
ee Fe ee iw
Soe
a SL 1 00
tt 1 30
ee © cae 1 70
Oe ee 1 90
BUTTER COLOR
W., R. & Co’s, 15c size.1 25
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size.2 00
CANLES
Electric Light. 8s .... 9%
Electric Light, 1€s ....10
Peres, 8 ...-...-- 9
Pere See 5... 9%
Wie. .......-....--

g.
CANNED GOODS

Apples
3 tT. Standards... 75@ 80
Gals. Standards .2 15@2 25
Blac -errlies

  

 

Stemdaris ....... 85
ans
eee ee 80@1 30
Red Kidney 85@ 95
ee ces se: 70@1 15
Weak 2... 75@1 25
Blueberries
Btanderd ....... 40
Brook Trout
en. ok. 5 75
2tb. cans, oe 1 90
Little Neck, in. 1 00@1 25
Little Neck, @1 5
Clam’ Boulton
Burnham’s % pt ..... 99
Burnham’s, pts ...... 3 60
Burnham’ ~ S.-i lew ou 7 20
Red nies : eo — 50
Meee .osc ec. ss
Corn
Pee. oc. 75@90
NE on te oe ee ee 1 00
eee 1 25
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine ...... 22
Extra Fine <seee
oe 22 15
oe «|... 11
Gooseberrles
Pee 6... 90
ominy
Siena ...... st; 85
Lobster
ner 6S Cj. _. 2
Star, i>. 2. 2
Picnic Talis" 2 69
Mackerel
aaa 1... 1 80
Master, we. -.......- 2 80
ae 2 1 80
ee eee 2 80
ee eee 1 80
(a a
Mushrooms
a oe 15@ 20
Pee ....-.-.. 2@ 25
Oysters
oe Te, La... 90
Cove, De ------- @1 70
Cove, 1Ib. Oval . @1 00
Peaches
oo ee 1 10@1 15
Wee oe ce cc 1 65@2 25
Standard ..... ---1 00@1 35
cies :
Marrowfat ...... 90@1 00

 

 

   

 

 

 

CHEWING GUM
— oe =
i ae eeman’s Pepsin .....
Prices, however, are lia eeek See oss. 5
Largest Gum Made .. 60
ite, doe, ee 5
Sen Sen Breath Perf.1 00
—— ree sg ,. es 7:
i ee ee 5
DECLINED CHICORY
Cheese — ones Oana oe ome :
a 4
IE ices ww ce 7
Sees ee ss 6
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s
German Sweet ........ 2
_—————a 28
NS eccee cd cede 41
2 ees Lo... 35
Se 28
COCOA
Plums Peers ....-.. 2... 35
es 85 . bevehend < a =
ineapple olonial, 8
Grated ....... —s 25@2 75 | Colonial, %s 33
File 0a 1 35@255|Epps. .....- 42
Peewee .....- 45
—“ —— 79 | Van Houten, 3 12
Good. sce ese: _ 8 | Van Houten, 40
ee “ei
Raspberries Mane, Se 41
Standard ........ Wilber %S |... 00.0 2). 42
Russian Cavier COCOANUT
a. come _ |... 3 75 | Dunham’s ¥s ....... 26
ee. Cees oo 7 0) | Dunham’s %s& lys.. 26%
eT 12 00; Dunham’s Xs ...... 27
ae Salmon ate — a 28
ee ver, talls. @1 80 | Bulk ......-..--.----
Col’a River, flats.1 85@1 90 | ep, FOCOA SHELLS
Red Alaska .....136@1 45 | Toco quantity ......... 3.
Fink Alaska .... @ % Pound packages .....-- 4
Sardines COFFEE
Domestic, %s .. 34%@ 3%
Domestic, %s .
Domestic, Must’d 6 @ 3
California, 4s... 11@14
California, 14s...17 oy
French, %s ..... 7 @14
French, %8 ..... 18 @28
Shrimps .
Standard ......- 1 20@1 40| Choice. ..........----- >
Succotash ceckeey .ceeetcocken ee
ee 95 Maracalbo el
WOOO oo one. ci 110) pair 15
Fancy ........--- 1 25@1 40 | Choice 2.2222, 00.00000018
Strawberries Mexican
Standard .......-. 1 10| Choice ........-...----- 16%
Fancy ....-..-..-. . eases. .....-..- son viee 19
Guatemala
Por ... ee 991 Choice -... msaare eter 15
ee 85 ava
Pager 1 wks a6 | African ........-.++--- 12
Gelione 10.0.0. 2 50@2 60 a African ......-- =
CARBON OILS eS Lo... 31
Barrels ocha
Perfection ...... wie (Arabian ....5.......-- 21
Water White ... @1. Package
D. S. Gasoline @13 New York Basis
Deodor’d Nap’a .. .@114. | Arbuckle. ............ 13 50
a eens 29 @34% | Ditworth. ............ 13 00
Maemo .....:.... 16 22 ee, ees ee 13 50
Black. winter .. 9 GIO iidon ..-.-...-.:- ease 50
McLaughliin’s X
CEREALS McLaughlin's XXXX sold
_,_,_ Breakfast Foods _|to retailers only. Mail =
Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 doz 425] or@ers direct to W.
Bordeau Flakes, 36 1tb 4 05 ughlin o., jan
Malta Vita, 36 1b ....2 85 | claus =
Grape Nuts, 2 doz. ....2 70 Extract
Malta Ceres, 24 1tb ..2 40| Holland, % gro boxes. 95
Cream of Wheat, 36 2tb 4 50! Felix, % gross ........ 16
Egg-O-See, 36 pkgs ..2 85 | Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Mapl-Flake, 36 1%b ...4 05 | Hummel’s tin. % gro.1 43
Excello Flakes, 36 1b. 2 75 CRACKERS
Excello, large pkgs. ...4 50 | National Biscuit Company’s
Vicor, 36 pies. .....-- 2 75 Brands
Force, ge cee... 5. 4 50 Butter
Beat, Oe Ae... wee 4 10 | Seymour Butters ...... 6%
Zest, 36 small pkes ...4 50 WY Betters ........-- 6%
Ratton 26 2 ...... 4 50 | Salted Butters ........ 6%
Dutch Rusk Family Butters ........ 6%
ee eee 4 75 Soda
Bak ne 108 ......... 55 |N BC Sodas ........-- 6%
Rolled Oats. Select "ak oA 3
Rolled Avenna, bbls ..4 50 | Saratoga aw coeeee
ee 0 sacks 2 25
oe aa = - 10 mont Oysters .....-.. 8%
Monarch, 100% sacks 1 90 aaa Oysters .....-- S%
Quaker, Cases .....-.-. 3 10 Phen sa i hat ta ramet vs
Bulk Ceeenen Sener 31% Extra Farina pe aerrts 7%
gage gtteseeteees 33 al aie
4 2Ib. packaes ....-.. 2) Avteeete 00026 e hc...
ATSUP Assorted Cake ........ 11
Columbia, 25 pts...... 4 50/Assorted Novelty ....- 8
Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60 | Bagley Gems ....-.... 9
Snider’s quarts ....... 3 25 Wee ED cece e eens. 9
Soiders pints ........ 3 3 | Bent’ = Were ......... 17
Snider’s % pints ...... 1 30° , Butter WE ce eee 13
| Chocolate Drops ...... =
CHEESE : | Coco B ee oo
Acme ......----- @11% | Cocoanut Taffy ....... i
Carson City aii Coffee Cake, N. B. C..10
Peerless = | Coffee Cake, Iced ....10
Ee -_.... 212 | Cocoanut Macaroons ..18
Emblem @iey i Cramieees 2. 16
Gem ...........- @12 | Currant WE oc oces 11
Pee ee. @12 /|Chocolate Dainty ....17
eee @i2 {Castebees ........... 10
Derwe ....... @i1 | Dexte Coonte ....--.... 9
Wares ........ @12 | Fluted Cocoanut ...... 11
a @15 | Frosted Creams ...... 9
Pe Sheet @90 | Ginger Gems .......... 9
Leiden .......... @15 (Ginger Snaps, N B C 7%
[eee . 2.2... 14% | Grandma Sandwich ...11
Pineapple ....... 40 @60 (| Graham Crackers ..... 9
ee eas @19 Honey Fingers, Iced =
Swiss, domestic . @14% | Honey Jumbles ......
Swiss, imported . @20 Iced Honey Crumpet 3

 

Imperiale ....<....---. 9
Indiana Belle ......... 15
Jersey Lunch ........ 8
Lady Fingers ........ 12

Lady Fingers. hand md 25
Lemon Biscuit Square 9

Lemon Wafer ......- 7

Lemon Snape .......-. 12
Lemon Gems .......... 10
a 11
Marshmallow ......... 16

Marshmallow Cream ..17
Marshmallow Walnut .17

Mary Ann 8%
Malaga 1
Mich” use Fs’d honey. =
Milk Biscuit

Mich. Frosted Honey. 3
Mixed Picnic 114
Molasses Cakes, Scolo’d 9
Moss Jelly Bar ...... 12
Muskegon Branch, —
Newton
Oatmeal Crackers ooo

Orange Slice ........-

Orange Gem ....-....- 9
Penny Assorted Cakes 8
Piet Brees ...-- ec cuun 7
Pineapple Honey ...... 15
Pink Tene .........-.+- 9

Pretzels, hand made ..8%
Pretzelettes, hand m’d "8%
Pretzelettes, mch. m’d 7%

maisin Cookies. ....... 8
ewe teen 15
ee il
ee 8%
Bye HEARS oo oe tos os
Scotch Cookies ....... 10
Maowarens .......-.+.. 16

Spiced Sugar Tops .. 9
Sugar Cakes. scalloped :

 

Sugar Squares ........
——————— ee 15
Sees. oe 8%
Spiced Gingers ........ 9
OO eee 11
Vienna Crimp. .......- 9
Vanilia Wafer ........ 16
TOE cc cscececeetis 10
AE gpa scien eee ee 10
CREAM TARTAR
Barrels or drums ..... sae
PR See es creas <a
Sauare cans ............ 32 |
Fancy cadties .......... 35
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Sunattied® ......... 4@ 4% |
Evaporated. ..... 6 @7

California Prunes
100-125 25Ib boxes.

90-100 25th boxes @ 3
80- 90 25tb boxes @ 4
70- 80 25tb boxes a 4%
60 -70 25th boxes @ 5
50- 60 25% boxes @ 5%
40 -50 25th boxes @ 6%
30- 40 25th boxes @ 7%
\%e less in 50tb cases.
Citron
1Corpivam. ....-..- @15
Currants
Imp’d. 1b pkg .. 6%@ 7
64@ 7%

Imported bulk ..
Peei

Lemon American ....12

Orange American ....12

Ralsins

London Layers, 3 cr 1 50
London Layers 4 cr 1 95
Cluster 5 crown ... 2 60
T.oose Muscatels, 2 cr.. 5
Loose Muscatels, 3 cr..6
— Muscatels, 4 cr..6%

Seeded, 1 Ib. S4@i%
= a Seeded. 4% = @
Sultanas, bulk ... 8
Sultanas, package . - @8%

FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans
Dried Lima

Med. Hd. Pk’d. .1 iar 85

Brown Holland .......
Farina

24 1%. packages. ....1 75

Bulk, per 360 a. ....- 3 00
Homin

Flake, 50Ib sac re

Pearl, 200%. sack ....3 70

Pearl, 100%. sack ....1 85
Maccaroni and Vermicelll
Domestic, 10th box . 0
Imported, 25tb box ..2 50
Pearl Barley
CO 00
ocd a cues 2 20
eee... 3 25

Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 15
Green, Scotch, bu. ...1 25

_—_—— &
Sago
st Cee... none 3%
German, sacks ........ 3%
German, broken pkg. 4
Taploca

Flake, 110tb. ae ‘e+e
Pearl, 130%. sacks ... 3
Pearl, 4 1. pees ....-6

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Foote & Jenks

Coleman's Van. Lem.
_ ——

Tape
No. 4 Rich. Blake. 3 00 i 50

Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon

 

 

Taper Fase . ©..... 1 50

1 os. Wall: Meas. D. CC... 66

2 oz. Full Meas. D. C...1 20

4 oz. Full Meas. D. C..2 25
Mexican Vanilla

OZ.
Mo. 2 Pend DC... .. 1 20
No. 4 Fane i C...:.- 2 00
No. 6 Fane! 1 C.:...... 3 00

 

Taper Fane . C..... 2 00
i1 of. Fall Meas. D. C.. &
iz of. Pull Meas. D. C..5 &
4 oz. Full Meas. D. C..3 00
| No. 2 Assorted Flavors 75
GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100 in balel9
Amoskeag, less than bl 19%
GRAINS AND FLOUR

Wheat
Old Wheat
mo. 2 Weeete 22.2... 102
Ro. Fee ot 1 02
Winter Wheat Flour
Local Brands
ates 23 ee 70
Second Patents ....... 5 30
POMNOEO oe ee a 10
Second Straight ...... 4 70
a 10
Ce 4 50
— ee 4 60
aes cia cau eu esa. 0

2
‘Subject to usual cash dis-
count
Flour in barrels, 25¢ per
barrel additional.
| Worden Grocer Co.’s —<
(Cuaker paper ........- 5 6
Quaker cloth 5
Spring Wheat Flour
Roy Baker’s Brand

 

| Golden Horn, family ..6 15
| Golden Horn, bakers ..6 05
| Pure Rye, Heht ...... 4 45
Pure Eye, dark ..... 4 30
| Calumet ie eet asl eel ose oo en
Rearwowe ... 2.0... oe
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s
| Delivered

| Gold Mine,
bo Mine,
old Mine,

¥%s cloth ..6 75
%s cloth ..6 65
%s cloth ..6 55
Gold Mine, iss paper ..6 60
| Gold Mine, \4s paper ..6 65
Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand

Pprewonrtiy —— 4, 6 65
| Ce mera, SaS .sct-.. ccs 6 55
| Ceresota, — |... 6 45
| Lemon & Wheeler’s Brand
PWittoe, %65 .......... 6 60
aa 6 50
Tw Oe Soe 2... . 6 40
| Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, ”s Can 6 60
i Laurel, “s cloth ....- 6 59
| Laurel, %s & 4s paper 6 49
ee sl 6 40
{ Wvkes-Schroeder (Co.
| Sleepy Eve, %s cloth .6 30
| Sleepy Eye, %s cloth .6 20
| Sleepy Eye, %s cloth .6 10
Sleepy Eve, %s paper .6 19
Sleepy Eye, 4s paper .6 10
Meal
eee 2 59
Golden Granulated ....2 65
St. Car Feed screened 22 00
No. 1 Corn and Oats 21 00
Coen. cracked ........2)
Corn Meal, coarse ..22 00
on ee. 27 00

Winter Wheat Bran..18 00

Winter wheat mid’ngs 19 00
Coe Feed i... 18 50
Oats
er Oe 34%
Corn
on uew ........... Se

Hay
No. 1 timothy car lots 10 50
No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 50

 

HERBS
ae
meee foo
Laurel Leaves ....

Senna Leaves

JELLY
51h pails, per doz ..1 70
7c PAs ..... ac eae 35
oe pee .......... ——

LICORICE
ee eee cee 30
eee. 4... ee is ae 23
a 14
eee .................- 11
LYE
Condensed, 2 doz ....1 60
Condensed, 4 doz ..... 3 0
MEAT EXTRACTS

Armour, 3 68 ....... 445
Arvweours § O68 ........ 8 20

Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 oz.2 75
Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 02.5 50
Liebig’s Imported, 2 0z.4 55
Liebig’s, Imported, 4 oz.8 50

MOLASSES

New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .. 40
“hoice 35
og wees cise sees =

Half barrels 2c extra.

MINCE MEAT
Columbia, per cage ..3 75

 

 

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MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 dz ...1 75
Horse Radish, 2 dz. ...3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 dz ..
OLIVE

Bulk, 1 gal. kegs - 1.00 |
Bulk, 2 gal kegs .... 95;
Bulk, & gal kegs. .. 90
Manzanilla, So. ....
Queen, pints ......... 2 35
Queen, — 4 50 |
Queen, 28 oz ........- 7 0U
Siumes, & GF <...-... 90 |
Stuffed, 8 OZ .......-. 1 45 |
Stuffed, a = Pe evtese 2 30 |

PIPES |
Clay, No. 216 -k 7
Clay, 7. D., full count 65 |
Cob, Mo. 3 ...... -. Si

PICKLES
Medium
Barrels, 1,2v0 count ..5 00 |
Half bbls., = —— a is 00 |
j

Barrels, 2400 count ..7 00 |

Half bblis.,, 1,200 count 4 00 |

LAYING CARDS
No. 90 Steamboat ... 8
No. 16, Rival, assorted 1 ;
No. 20, Rover enameled 6
No. 572, Spec sees
No

2
6
ial
98, ‘Golf, aiin finishz 00
No. 808 Bicy cle
No. 632 Tort whist 2 2
POTASH

99

Barreled Pork
ee
Mat Pack ........... 14 00
ace Pee. ............ 14 50
Short Cut
Bean

Pig
Brisket.
Clear Family

Dry Sait Meats
S P Bellies
Bellies
Extra Shorts

Smoked Meats
Hams, 12Ib. average.
Hams, 14Ib. average.
Hams, 16Ib. average.
Hams, 18Ib. average.
os RO cc nss 11% |

dried beef sets.13
eee: (—. . cus)
Recon, clear ...... 10@11
California Hams. ..... 7
Picnic Boiled Ham
Bolot Tam Ln...
Berlin Ham pr’s’d ... 8
Mince Ham 1

.
oo I
tubs. -advance
tubs ..advance
tins.. advance
. pails ..advance
pails ..advance
pails ..advance 1
pails . advance 1

5

% |
5
Me
%
%

Bol Sausages
ee es beckic
a 644 |
wramkgoct Cece eces cee 2

Been... 4.4..4..-4..... Oe

  

Wee... a
ee oe Cac c ss eee
Heagcheeme ........... 6%
Extra Mess .... 9 50 |
eee «=... ...... 8. 10 50 |
aa, aoe .......... 10 50
Pig’s Feet.
 Beee .2.............-8 8
-. oi
ee 75
..
Tripe
a eee .........
% bhis., me Me ........ 1 50
ibbis., eww 3 00
Casings
ieee, oer Ue ........
Beef rounds, set. ..... 16

Beef middles, set ..... 45
Sheep, per bundle .... 70
oe amerine.

dairy. -.. 104%@11%

4s

Potted tongue, \%s ....

Potted tongue, %s ....
RICE

Sereenings ........ 214 ¢
Par Japan ....... @O3%4
Choice Japan
Imported Japan ..
Fair Louisiana hd.
Cheice La. hd. ..
Fancy La. hd ....
Carolina ex. fancy
SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pint
Columbia, 1 pint ....4 00
Durkee’s large, 1 doz.4 50
Durkee’s small, 2 doz.5 25
Snider’s large, 1 doz...2 35
Snider’s small, 2 doz...1 35
SALARATUS
Packed 60Ibs. in box.
and Hammer ....3 16

i ooce 25 |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Detanees .............. 3 00
| D@ienees Cow ......... 3 15
| oo eS ee 210
ee ee 3 00
|

Wyandotte, 100 Sa ...3
| SAL SODA

‘iain bids ..... 85
Granulated, 100Ib casesi 00
tae, «IS s«§. tL ... 1
o| Lump, 145% kegs .... 95

SALT
| Common Grades
100 3b sacks
| 60 5Ib sacks
28 10% sacks .

  

 

j Naptha soap, 100 cakes 4 00

 

| Big Master, 100 bars 4 00 |

|

| Marseilles White soap.4 00 |
| Snow Boy Wash P’w’r 4 00
Proctor & Gamble Co.
Ls 2 85
Ivery. Gone ........... 4 00
avery, 10 om ......... 6 75
ee ee 3 10
A. B. Wrisley
Good Cheer ........... 4 00
(oe CoOupery .......... 3 40
Soap Powders
Central City Coap Co.
Jackson, 16 oz ........ 40

5 | Gold Dust, 24 large . 4 45

 

 

  

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TOBACCO
Fine Cut
| Cadillac Se -54
Sweet Loma ...... 04
Hiawatha, 5Ib pails <a
| Hiawatha, 10Ib = . 54
Co 30
baw Cam 0. oo... 33
Praine Hose ....... eT
Prerection ....... occ ae
Sweet Purley ........ 44
a a ao
lug

ee rece 2... 7.5... 31
ee ee 35
OO ee 41
Ee 35
Attic Aw ............. 37
American Wagie ...... 33
Standard Navy. ...... 37
spear Head 7¢ ax. ....47
Spear Head, 143g oz. ..44
Nebey Twist .........55
Jony Tar. ..........38
Old Honesty ......-. -43
4.0.0
ee 38
Piper Heidsick ....... <

Boot Jack ....... ceees
Honey Dip Twist ... a
Black Standard .......40
Cadillac a

 

Smoking
pweet Core ...........a6
perae Cor ow... 32
PWampash .............. 26
ee 1 om ....... 25
EM i. om ...........- ae
rx i a6 oz. paiis ccecae
Honey Pew oo... 40
|Gald Block ........... 40
(eee oe 40
res ce 33
[Kila Pete 00000000 as
| Dukes Mixture ....... 40
Dukess Cameo ....... 43
Miyroe Navy ......... 44
Yum Yum, 1% of ....29
Yum Yum, if. pails ..40
Cream ...:............. 38
|Corm Cake 2% oz. ....25
Corn Cake, Wb |.) ||. "22
Fiow Boy, 1% oz ...39
i Piow Boy, 3% oz. ....3
Peerless 346 of. ...... 35
Peerless, 1% on. ...... 38
aor Deane. 2.2... 8... 36
Cant Hoek ...........30
Country Club. ........ 32-34
Porce- Baus ......... 30
| Good Indian ...... 29

| Silver Foam

| Sweet Marie ....

| Royal Smoke

 

WINE
Cotton, = pig ......... 20
Cotten, 4 my ......... 20
Jute, 2 ee 14
| Hemp, . my ......... 13
| Miax, medium .......- 20
| Wool, yard hells ...... 6

NEGAR

| Malt white Wine, 40gr 8
| Malt White Wine, 80 gril

| Pure Cider,

B&B ..11

| Pure Cider, Red Star.11

Pure Cider, Robinson.10

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| Boston Cream

Paiis
|2-hoop Standard ..... 1 60
[= hoop Standard .....1 75
2-wire, Cable .........1 WW
S-wire, Cable ......... 1 90
Cedar, all red, brass i. 2
Paper, Mureka ........4 20 |
Mie oo oe 70
| Toothpicks
| Efardwoe@ ............2 60
Softwood ..... eceeae am Oe
[eee «Ck. 1 50
Wicar ce... 1 50
Traps
Mouse, wood, 2 holes . 22
| Mouse, wood, 4 holes . 45
| Mouse, wood, 6 holes . 70
| Mouse, tin, 5 holes 65
[iee, Weed 2.2.5.5... . 80
Rat sprig .......... .-
| Tubs
20-in., Standard, No. 1.7 00

18-in., Standard, No. 2.6

 

16-in., Standard, No. 3.5 00
a0-in., Cubic, Na. 1. ..7 G0
13-in., Cabbie, No. 2. ..6 50
16-in., Cable, Na. & ..5 oO
Not) Bibra 000 =- elo 80
Ne. 2 Fibve ....... 24
NG. = Wibre .......... 8 55
Wash Boards
Bronze Globe ........ 2 50
(ower ...........,.... : %
Deuble Aemo ........- 2 75
Mamere Acme .......... 2 25
Double Peerless ...... 3 50
Single Peerless 2 7
Northern Queen sa oo
| Double Duplex 3 00
| Good Iueck ........... 2 75
| Cmiversar ............. 2 65
Window Cleaners

ee 1 65
14 in. eee cee el. 1 85
joe fe ce 2 30
| Wood Bowls

[i t. Butter ........ 75
iS i. Batter ......... 26
1S in, Butter ...... oem OO
a7 tt, tier .......... 3 25
2 in, Batter 2.8... 75
| Assorted, 13-15-17 ....2 25
Assorted 15-17-19 ....3-25

WRAPPING PAPER

| Common Straw ._.... 1%
| Fibre Manila, white .. 2%

| Fibre Manila, colored . 4

| Cream Manila

No. 1 Manila

| Butcher’s Manila .... 2%

Wax Butter, short e’nt.13

| Wax Butter, full count 20
| Wax Butter, rolia ....15

| Self Binder, 160z, 8oz. 20- 22 |

| Pure Cider, Silver ....10
WICKING
| No. 0 per gross ......30
ime. ¢ per gross ...... 40
Oo. 2 per groan ..... 50
Ne. 2 per eroan .......
WOODENWARE
Baskets
re 2 i¢
; Bushels, wide band -i 60
| Market ....... coe
Saaew tees .......... 6 00
Splint, medium ....... 5 00
Splint, sma .......... 4 00
| Willow, Clothes, large.7 00 |
Willow Clothes, med’m.6 00
Willow Clothes, small.5 50
Bradley Butter Boxes
2b size, 4% in case .. 72
3Ib size, 16 in case .. 68
5Ib size, i3 in ease .. 63
10Ib size, 6 in case .. 60
Butter Plates |
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate 40)
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate 45
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate 50
| No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate 60
| hurns
| Barrel, & gal.. exch ..2 40
| Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55
Barrel, 15 gal., each ..2 70

.
|
|

|

Clothes Pins

50
56 Ib. sacks . Gold Dust, 100-5c 0
me Wy oeeee .. 8... HMirkoline, 24 4%). ..... 3 80
Warsaw | Pearsine .... 6.00... 4... 3%
156 Ib. dairy in drill bags 40/|Soapine ............... 410
28 ID. dairy ind@rilibags 20] Gabbitt’s 1776 ......... 3%
Solar Rock Co 3 50
G6m, Sacee -. 5... ou | Armouns ......... <scue 20
Common Weelom ............... 3 80
| Granulated, fine ...... 80 Soap Compounds
Mceimwe Buc, ......... SS | Johnson's Wine ......_. 5 10
SALT FISH J0ohnacns 2AM ....... 4 25
Cod | Dbitne Celec® .......... 3 35
| Large whole .... @i7 Rub-No-More ......... 3 75
| Small Whole .... @ $% Scouring
| Strips or bricks. 7%@il Enoch Morgan’s Sons.
Poloce ....:.... ¥% | Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00
Halibut | Sapolio, half gross lots 4 50
(Sie 14 | Sapolio, single boxes ..2 25
es ......w., 14% | Sapolio, hand ......... 22)
Herring | Scourine Manufacturing Co |
Holland | Scourine, 50 cakes ..1 8¢@|
| White Hoop,bbls 8 25@9 25 | Scourine, 100 cakes .--3 50}
| White Hoop, %bbl4 25@5 00 | SODA
[White oop, kee. G0@ 10} Boxes ..............0.. 5%
| White hoop mchs @ 175 | Kegs, English -........ 4%
;NOrwenian ...... @ | SOUP
|Seund, 100ibe ........ 3 is | Columba ............. 00
| Round 46ihse _......._- a % | Hed Detter --.-.-.. 90
eee 15 | SPICES
| Trout | _ Whole Spices
Mo. 1, 160s _... 8... @ Ge | Alepice .. -.. .. . 2
mee 6S, See .......... 3 25 | Cassia, China in mats. 12
me £ eee Lj. 96 | Cassia, Canton ....... 16
| No. 1 oe |... 75 | Cassia, Batavia, bund. 28
| Cassia, Saigon, broken. 40
Sia | Cassia, Saigon, in rolls. 55
Mess, Cloves, Amboyna. ...... 18
Mess 5 | Cloves, Zanzifar ........ 12
Mess | Mace 55
No. 1. | Nutmecs, 756-80 ....... 45
wo. = | Nutmegs 35
No 2 | Nutmees, 115-20 ...... 30
| No. 1, | Pepper, Singapore, blk. 15
| ee. — white. =
| Pepper, snot ..._. 2... |
No. 1 No.2Fam ‘pure Ground in Buik
soo. |. .......-- 950 & 50) Allspice 16
5 00 3 10 | Bee oe. ao
BOTD. . +. esse eee 52 | Cassia, Batavia ...... 28
10Ib. ----1 10 | Cassia, Saicee ........ 48
BID. ....-+---- : 90 44 | Cloves, Zansibar ....... 16
| SEEDS | Ginger, Arica .......- 15
LS eas ia —..20 | Gineer Cachin ....... 18
|Canary, Smyrna ...... 6 | Ginger, Jamaica |...
i eee © |Mieee 65
Cardamom, Malabar ..1 00 | Mustard .............. 18
Ceoere |... 12 | Pepper, Singapore, bik. 17
Hemp, Russian ....... 4 | Pepper, Singp. white . 28
| Mixed Bird ..... i 4 | Pepper, a Lc...) ae
| Mustard, white ...... - = Meee ....8 20
| —— ae 8 STARCH
—————————— 4% | Common Gloss
| Cuttle Boe 2.5... 25 | 1m packages ........ 4@5
| SHOE BLACKING [3i. packawes, ... 0.1L: 416 |
| Handy Box, large, 3 dz.2 50 | 6Ib packages .......... 5%
| Handy Box, small ....1 25 | 40 and 50fb. boxes 2% @3"2
Bixby" s Royal Pee .. Si Barres ............ @2%
| Miller’s Crown Polish. 85 | Common Corn
SNUFF (20m) peekages ........
| Scotch, in bladders .37 | 40Ib packages 4% @7
| Maccaboy, in jars .... 35 | SYRUPS
| French ~—— in jars. 43 Corn
OAP | Barres ....02020.0.... 22
Central city Soap ie |\Halt Garreis ......:.. 4
Semom .......... Sieve 2 85 | 20Ib cans % dzin case 1 55
Boro Naplitha ........ 4 00 | 10Ib cans % dz in case 1 50}
Johnson ~— Co. | 5Ib cans 2 dz in case 1 65 |
Bee ee wenn nn 1 85 | 24%1b cans 2 dzin casel 70 |
a 3 15 | Pure Cane
| Borax ......-.---eee+e- sale ee nL 16
| Calumet Family .....- SiGe oo . =
| China, large cakes ...5 75| Choice ..........0.000- 25
| China, small cakes 3 75 | TEA
[eee 8 oe... 10 |
(eine Soe ......... coos oo | Japan
| Etna, me cakes ..... a Sundried, medium ....24
ee EE 05 | Sundried, choice ......32
Mary ee ca oO Sundried, fancy oe
Mottled German ...... 2 25| Regular, medium ..... 24
owt Gee 2 2 45) Regular, choice ...... 32
Scotch Family, 60 | Regular, fancy ........ 36
cakes. ......-..--+-- 30 | Basket-fired, medium .31
Scotch “Family, 100 | Basket-fired, choice ...38
a -.-+--3 80 | Basket-fired, fancy ...43
Weldon ..........+.--- ee coy 22@24
Assorted Toilet, 50 car- Sites 9@11
Pose ee “i693 oe) Wianinies 12@14
ssorte oile
| i! Gunpowder
ae 7 50 " :
3|Gocoa Bar, 6 oz .-..325 Movune, choice =......32
arse ene we *"*"s gg | Moyune, fancy ........ 40 | Round head, 5 gross bx 55
Pale ‘ines Tae Oe 400 ees —* osenam — — = cs. TS}
>. oti | le 5 *ingsuey, choice ..... rates
Pale Gave 8 00 Pingsuey, fancy °:1.- 40 | Humpty lace ee 2 40
oes Weoeeet ......... 40 | _ Young Hyson Wo. I, complete ...... 32 |
J. & Kirk & Co. Choices 0. c.0 00 No. 2 ee feces 18 |
American Family ..... « 06 | Wanecy ................. 36 aucets
Dusky Diamond, 50 80z 2 80 Oolong Cork lined, ch |... 65
eng D'nd, 100 60z...3 80| Formosa, fancy ..... 42 Cork lined, Sih ...... 15
Jap Roee, 60 bars ....3 75 | Amoy, medium ..... aS | Cork lined, 10 in. 85
Savon a Deeeeae ; | Amoy, choice )......... es | Cedar © ii ilo. .
sian ... e |
| poe oon Hares ...... 2 85 | English rent Mop Sticks
Gatinet, oval .........- 2 15 | Medium Trojan spring ........ 90
Snowberry, 100 cakes. 4 00 | Choice | Eclipse patent spring . 85 |
Fancy os No. commen ........ 7%
LAUTZ BROS. & CO. cies
Acme soap, 100 cakes 2 85 |Ceylon, choice .......32

YEAST CAKE

 

 

No. 2 pat. brush holder 85| Standard H. H. ...

Ideal No. 7.

eeeresece

12%. cotton mop heads i oe

cases

| Jumbo, 32m). .......<.. §
H.

Extra H.

Olde Time Sugar stick |
30Ib case
Mixed Candy
Grocers
Competition

 

Species (|. ..... ac ae 058
Commerve ..... eee ed oe 1%
Ce 8%
| eee 3. ce
Co
|Cue Beet ............. §
| Leaeger 12.5. Mead a deco 8%
Oe a 10
Bon Ton Cream ...... 9
;Hrench Cream. .......16
PME cic on eae
Hand Made Cream ..15
| Premio Cream mixed 13

O F Horehound Drop 11
Fancy—Iin Pails

Gypey Hearse ........ 14
Coco Bon Hore ...... 12
| Fudge Squares .......12%

| Peanut Squares ...... §

| Sugared Peanuts‘ 11
| Salted Peanuts ........11
Starlight Kisses. ..... ii
San Blas Goodies ..... 12
Lozenges, plain ...... 10
Lozenges, printed ..... 10
Champion Chocolate ..11
Eclipse Chocolates ...13
| Eureka Chocolates. ...13
Quintette Chocolates ..12

Champion Gum Drops 8%

moss Drops .......2.. 10
Eemiom Sere 12... 2... 10
eee a
ital. Cream Opera ..12
Ital. Cream Bon Bons
SO aa
Molasses Chews, 151d.
Cee ee 12
Golden Waffles ee aec. ae
i 12
Fancy—In 5fb. Boxes
iLemon Sours ..:...... 55

Peppermint Drops ....66
Chocolate Drops ......60

|. M. Choe Drops ..3
H. M. Choc. Lt. and
Dark Na.  ....... 1 00
Bitter Sweets, ass’d ..1 25
Brilliant Gums, Crys.60
A. A. Licorice Drops ..90
Lozenges, plain .......55
Lozenges, printed .....55
Eeuperiats ........0..... 60
Mietiages -........:. TT
Cream Bar ........... 55
G. M. Peanut Bar ....56

Hand Made Cr’ms. 80@9

| Magi, <= dom ........ 15 | Cream Buttons, Pep.
| sunlight, 2 doz. ...... 1 00 and Wintergreen. - 66
Sunient, 146 dow..... S0| String Heck ..........
Yeast Foam, 3 doz ....1 15 | Wintergreen Berries ..60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz ..1 00/ Old = Assorted, 25
| Yeast Foam, 1% doz .. 58 a
FRESH FISH, a Buster Brown Goodies
BL _| 30%. case ............
Jumbo Whitefish ..11@12 | UP-to-Date Asstmt, 32
Trout enh -- O88 |Ten Strike  Assort-
ena @10 ment Ma © ........ 50
es Ten Strike No. 3 ....6 00
ee a ae | Sen Siete Be. 8 -8* 8 00
| Bluefish a -10%@11 Ten Strike, Summer as-
is Lobster oo @ 25 sortment. 15
she eee og | Sortment. ...........
Coa ya ee 912% Kalamazoo Specialties
ee g g | .Hanselman Candy Co.
No. Pickerel ...... @ 9 | Chocolate Maize .....18
(Pigg @ 7 | Gold Medal Chocolate
| Perch, dressed .... @ 7 Almcm@eA ....... 6.54 18
| Smoked White .... @12% | Chocolate Nugatines oan
Red Snapper ...... @ | Quadruple Chocolate .15
Col. River Salmon. @11_ | Violet Cream Cakes, bx90
Mackerel 15@16 | _ Medal Creams,
ovirune : = E —— oa ae
Cans Pp | Dandy Smack, 24s 65
l- EL Count bi ar | Dandy Smack, 100s ..2 75
ilar nia isin a a. | Pop Corn Fritters, 100s 50
is 2 Ge sul cuee ee ee
1). Ey Counts ......... 25 | LTacker Jack .........
| Pop Corn Balls, 2008 . 3 or
Shell Goods | NUTS—Whole
cl “> | Almonds, Tarragona ..15
| aes Sc eevasiadeae eeeue : | Almonds, Aven
|| Sareea ae as halon a 1 25 | almonds, California sft
HIDES AND PELTS ee new ..... 7 on
Cae c | Wilberts ........ @13
| Green No. 2 . | Cal Na t ..... 14 @15
Cured No. 1 | Walnuts, soft shelled.
Cured No. 2 gy, | Walnuts, Chili .... @12
Cairskins) green No. 11300 | Table nuts, fancy @13
Calfskins, green No. 2.11% | ae poner 7
Calfskins, cured No.1. 13% | pecans: 5x. are @
Calfskins, cured No. 2. 12. | | SCRnS. ee or b @12
| Steer Hides, 60tbs over11¥, | Cas wee ee 15
Pelts Coccamea | oc
= Wool. ........ Chestnuts, New York
ee ee 90@2 00 Stata per hu .......
be » P
cada ae 25@ 80 Sheed
a Tallow | Spanish Peanuts 64%@ 7%
No. 1 .....-..25. @ 4%) Pecan Halves ... @45
NO. 2 oo @ 3% |-Walnut Halves.. @28
Wool Filbert Meats ... @25
| Unwashed, medium30@31 Alicante Almonds @33
| Unwashed, fine ...23@26 Jordan —. @47
eanuts
CONFECTIONS | Fancy, H. P. Suns .. 6
s. , = Candy i | sy P. Suns, ‘
SM oe a i OOREOE ccc cc cscesen
| Choice H. P. Jhbo. @7%
Standard Twist ...... 8% | Choice, H. P. Jum-
Cut Eee cccccevecces 9 bo, Roasted ...

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Special Price Current

 

AXLE GREASE

 

Mica, tin boxes .. 9 00
POP once sees oS 6 00

BAKING POWDER

JAXKON

%Tb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 45;

%4tb. cans, 4 doz. case.. 85

1M. cans, 2 doz. case 1 60 j

Royal

10c size 90
%ib cans 1 35
60z. cans 1 90
1441 cans 2 50
% Tb cans 3 75
1M cans 4 80
= 3%b cans 13 00
5Ib cans 21 50

BLUING
Arctic, 40z ovals, p gro 4 00
Arctic, 80z ovals, p gro 6 00
Arctic, 160z ro’d, p gro 9 00
BREAKFAST FOOD

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brands

 

 

Sunlight Flakes
Per Gases oo... 1.6 s.. 4 00
Wheat Grits
Cases, 24 2b pack’s,. 2 00

CIGARS

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd

Leos than S60. ....-.-.. 33

cee OF Tere 100c. 4. 32

[oe oe wee .... -ii,... 31
Geo. H. Seymour & Co.

Morton House Bouauet 55
Morton House Bouquet 70

vee ose... 33
eee eee bere ea: 30
[gee Cie. ....... _ oo
Worden Grocer Co. brand
Ben Hur
Pee... a
Perfection Extras ...... 35
Re nl. 35
Londres Grang. ......... 35
aterm. 35
Peres ..6....-. coc 35
Punatelias, Finas. ...... 35
Panatelies, Bock ........36
Jockey Gano 35
COCOANUT

Baker’s Brazil Shredded

 

70 %%tb pkg, per case
35 1%4Ib pkg, per case
38 %Ib pkg, per case
16 %tb pkg, per case

FRESH MEATS
Beef

oe Ee
Forequarters. ...
Hindquarters ....
Loins

bo pop be
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Pork
a 10
prensa 3... @ 7
Boston Butts .... @ 8
peOnMiers 00... @ 7%
leet tard. ...... @ 7%

Mutton
a @ 8%
Lae oe pli

Veal
Carcass ..2.25.., , 54@ 8

CORN SYF
ae 2c fans ..........- 1 84
Te fee Comes ...... 6c e 5 2 30
Se es 2c 2 30
CLOTHES LINES

Sisal
60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
72tt. 3 thread, extra..1 40
yuft. 3 thread, extra. 1 70
60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29
i2ft. 6 thread, extra..

Jute
— .... cc. 75
Re ce cS 90
ae 1 05
eee ie . =

 

Galvanized Wire
No. 29, each 100ft. lengl 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long2 10
COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s B’ds.

 

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ia a tol toe
ae
<< eae —
White House, I ......

White House, 2Ib ......
Excelsior, M & J, 1b ..
Excelsior, M & J, 2tb..
aap Top, MB & J, 1b ..-
Boge Fiee ..
Royal Java and Mocha..
Java and Mocha Blend..
Boston Combination ....
Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
National Grocer Co., De-
troit and Jackson; F. Saun-
ders & Co., Port Huron;
Symons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
naw; Meisel & Goeschel,
Bay City; Godsmark, Du-
rand & Co., Battle Creek;
Fielbach Co., Toledo.

 

CONDENSED MILK
4 doz. in case

Gail Borden Eagle ....6 40

eee cc 5 90
(coon ............. 4 52)
EE 4 70
meacoes ... 4 00 |
ee og ek 4 40

eS 3 85

| Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00 |

— TACKLE

 

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No. 2, is teet
No. 3, 15 feet
No. 4, 15 teet
No. 5, 15 feet
No. 6, 15 feet
oe Ff. ere...

7. = Me feet ........: 18
me Pe Pee ww... 20
Linen Lines
—s =
Medium a 2€
ee -
Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55 |
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 69 |
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80 |

GELATINE |
Cons Eee. wipe 22... 8 a.
Cre 2 GE sims ...... Gy

Knox’s Sparkling, doz1 20}

Knox’s Sparkling, gro 14 00 |
Knox’s Acidu'd. doz ..1 20]

Knox’s Acidu’d. gro 14 00

SOIR cL. 50
ke ee 75
Piymouth Hock. ...... 1 235

SAFES

 

Full line of fire and burg-
lar proof
stock by the
Company.

safes kept in|
Tradesman |
Twenty differ- |

ent sizes on hand at all |
times—twice as many safes |
as are carried by any other

house in the State.

If you |

are unable to visit Grand |

Rapids and
line personally,
quotations.

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands |

100 cakes, large size. .6
50 cakes, large size..3 25
100 cakes, small size..3
50 cakes, small size..1 95

Tradesman Co.’s Brand.

 

inspect the}
write for |

Our Summer Good

the feature of our June catalogue emphasiz

s Sale

es again

one marked difference between The Butler Way and

that of other wholesalers.

Four months ago our buyers bega
for bargain lots of summer stuff.
was told to contribute
catalogue in the

NOW.

results are in our June

goods your people are buying

Observe that while men with grips are

n to iook out
Iivery department
a few real BARGAINS. The

form of

already

asking orders for goods you cannot sell until Sep-

tember or later,

summer lines, that will be maintained comple

the end of June anyway, and leaders for use

Your present wants—-to rid yourself o
remnants, to push summer selling while the
to be made, to be sure you can get more
ig sellers

summer things that prove to be 1

wants we supply.

our offerings are revised prices for

te up to

in June.

f spring
profit is
of your
are the

For proof that The Butler Way of timely mer-

chandising means more money for you
fall but right now

J541.

BUTLER BROTHERS

Wholesalers of Everything
By Catalogue Only

New York Chicago

HOLL next

ask for the June catalogue, No.

St. Louis

 

 

Bakery Goods Made on the Premises in a
Middleby Oven will Increase your Trade

Black Hawk, one box 2 50}
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40}
Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 |

TABLE SAUCES

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Halford, smail . :

 
 

 

Place
your
business
on

a

cash

basis

by

| using

| Tradesman
| Coupons

 

You are not making all the money that you can make from your
your own baking.
| Let us tell you what others have done.

business unless you do

It is a most profitable investment and it will pay you handsomely in the end.
Send for catalogue and full particulars.

Middleby Oven Manufacturing Company
60-62 W. Van Buren St., Chicago, III.

 

 

 

Leading the World, as Usual

rm

crt TEAS.

1 All Highest Awards Obtainable.

1-lb., %-Ib., 4.1b. air-tight cans,

oe Louis Exposition, 1904, Awards

GRAND PRIZE and Gold Medal for Package Teas.
Gold Medal for Coffees.
Beware of Imitation Brands.

Chicago Office, 49 Wabash Ave.

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47

 

BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements

subsequent continuous

 

insertion. No charge less

inserted under this head for two cents

a word the first. insertion and one cent a word for each
Cash must ac

than 25 cents.

 

company all orders.

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS sir slctaceall

We snted— B sti iblishe a
manufacturing business.
Give full particulars and

mercantile or
Will pay cash.
lowest a

 

 

Address No. 652, care Michian Trades
man. 652
For Sal A six-light Ann:-Arbor Store

Lighting System, used one year, good
condition, will sell cheap. Address H. C.
Walker. Byron, Mich. 649

For Sale—Hotel in thriving “city. Steam

 

 

heated, electric lighted, 31 rooms, $2 per
day. Everything new and modern, fine |
trade. Good location. Bar. Address No.

648, care Mic higan Trade ssman. 648
Only bakery

Indiana, 2,500

‘Bakery and confectionery.
in county seat Northern

inhabitants, daing paying business; good
shipping facilities; seven living rooms
above; cheap rent; store and bake shop |
well stocked; price $650. Come and see

it. ther business compels me to sell.
Geo. W. Brabrook, Knox, Ind. 644
Wanted—A partner in the banner town
of Calumet, Michigan, to take half in-
terest in the best selected, and most
popular styles of boots and shoes in the
eounty, having «a fine trade, well-es-
tablished. No hard times here. Always
plenty ef mogey. Address Box 504, Han-
cock, Mich. 645
For Sale—Old established wall paper,
paint and picture frame stock, including
decorating and contracting business. An-
nual volume of business, $25,000. Reason
for selling, wish to leave city. Address
No. 651, care Michigan ts idesman. 651

Factory cost systems introduced and
faulty ones mended. Comprehensive
monthly reports formulated for boards of
directors. Business propositions
into for investors and fraudulent schemes
exposed. Disinterested advice in all mat-
ters of company incorporation, organiza-
tion, financing and operation. How to
underwrite stocks and bonds, realize on
patents, etc.
eerns and those just starting.
Card, M. E. EE. &., Three Rivers,

 

Geo. F.

647
Lamson Cable
good
Address Herpol-
Mich. 646

best

For Sale—32-st: ition”
Cash System, in fairly
price $25 per station.
sheimer Co., Grand Rapids,

For Sale—Quick, racket
opening in Michigan.
or not at all, in

Store,

order to complete an-

 

other deal. Best town and location. No
speculators. Price $3,000. Address De-
partment Store, care Tradesman. 655
Quick—Wanted general stock or stock |}
shoes for cash. Give full particulars first
letter. Address Ross E. Thompson, 1004 |
iglehart St., St. Paul, Minn. 64a |

For Sale—Clean general stock and store
building and warehouse located in good
town on Pere Marquette Raitway, 85
miles from Grand Rapids. Good farm-
ing country. Property will inventory
about $8,000. Owner will sell for $4,000

time. This is the
lifetime. Address No.
an Tradesman. 656

down and balance on

opportunity of <

656, care Michi
For Sale—Dry goods, boot and shoe and

grocery store, located at Sheffield on

Grand Trunk H. E., size

living rooms attached.

 

 

Good well,

good

cistern. One good stone cellar for but-
ter and eggs. Large woodshed and ice
house. One barn with driving floor suit-

able for six horses. One acre of. land.
Also if desired, one good frame ware-
house with team scales and office. For
particulars enquire of Chas. Sipples,
Sheffield, Mich. 642

For Sale—Retail lumber yard.
in finest agricultural district in Ohio.
Large territory. A good investment. Ad-
dress Lock Box 34, Jackson Center, Ohio.

(

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. |

576
' For Sale—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 1,500 and surrounded by splendid
farming community. Store is situated
on popular 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 purchaser. Address No. 422, care
Michigan Tradesman. _ 422

Mining Investors Attention! For sale, |
unlisted treasury stocks of merit. Chris

Slagle, Box 120, Park City, Utah. 585

looked |

Special terms to small con- |

Mich. |

condition; |

Must sell in 10 days |

32x44 feet, with |

“Located |

| Stores Bought and Sold—I_ sell stores
and real estate for cash. I exchange
stores for land. If you want to buy, sell
or exchange, it will pay you to write me.

- | Bldg., Chicago, Ii.

Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams “a |
1

1ot 500. to

\Wanted—To buy ‘stock of merchandise |

from $4,000 to $30,000 for cash. Address
No. 253. care Michigan Tradesman. 253

For Sale—Clean general stock and
frame store building, located at railway
point in Northern Michigan, tributary

ito growing farming country. Only store
in town. Stock inventories about $1,500.
Terms to suit purchaser. Address =
561, care Michigan Tradesman. 56

Wanted—Stock of general Sane
or clothing or shoes. Give full particu-
lars. Address ‘‘Cash,”

notions,
| Martin, Allegan County. Good reason for
Write or enquire of Edward J.

selling.
Anderson, Plainwell, en 2

Cash for your stock. Our business is
elosing out stocks of goods or making
sales for merchants at your own place ot

business, private or auction. We clean
out all old dead stickers and make youa
profit. Write for information. Chas. L
Yost Co., Detroit, Mich. 250

 

 

   

to ale—480 acres of cut-over ~ hard-
wood land, three miles north of Thomp-
sonville. House and barn on premises.
Pere Marquette Railroad runs across one
| corner of land.
raising or potato growing. Will  ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
Tuxbury, 28 Morris Ave., South, Grand
Rapids, Mich. 835

 

 

|lished 15 years. On excellent business
corner in Grand Rapids. Store is con-
ducted in connection with large general
| stock, but in separate building.
will inventory about $4,000.
| reasonable.
Address No.
| man.

Rent of store

 

care Tradesman. |
324 | chandise.

Stock |

| and

}out; location
| business,

_ | Gilbert,

"For Sale—Small ‘stock of groceries and
located in the thriving town of |

| necting with Fox Iake
| Weckler

Wanted—I will pay cash for
stock of

small
general merchandise in a town
1,000 inhabitants, Southern
Michigan preferred. Address N., care
is ude ‘sman. 614
for Sale— —Having outgrown our pre
ent quarters, we offer for sale the three
large buildings we now occupy on Ottawa
Market streets and G. R. & I. rail-
road, with such portion of the power
plant as may be desired; 200,000 square
feet of: floor surface, sprinkled through-
unsurpassed for wholesale
exhibition purposes, storage
warehouses or investment in central
business property. Apply to Wm. Ff.
Agent, 104 North Ottawa. Grand
Rapids Refrigerator Co., Grand Rapids,
Mich. 613
Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-
$10,000 to $15,000. Outside of
Chicago. Address No 620, care Michi-
gan ‘tradesman. 620
Our 16 18 and 21 ft. family launec hes
make an enjoyable outfit. We build all
kinds of pleasure boats. Main office and
works, McHenry, {1l., on Hox river, con-
regions. Hunter-
138 Washington St.,

    

 

tont Co.,

 

| Chicago, Ti. 619
For Sale--Wholesale fish business, cold
storage plant, etc:, a most excellent op-
portunity; about 3.000 required. Ad-
dress Lindquist Bros., Marinette,

| sentatives everywhere,
Very desirable for stock |
| without interference

For Sale—Clean > hardware stock estab- |

 

Wis.,
Mene ‘kaune ss Station. 625

We pay

 

inform: ition.

~ Repre-
an opportunity to
income $5 to $25 weekly
with regular occupa-

eash for

increase your

 

tion. No canvassing. Colburn & Sharp,
Hoboke n, N. J. 621 a

For Sale—A large number of selected
Delaware farms, beautifully located.
Write for free 1905 catalogue to Chas.

M. Hammond, Real Estate Broker, Mil-

|ford, Delaware. 609

~ For Sale—A complete and up-to-date
iset of grocery fixtures, oak finish, cost
$500. Will be sold at a big sacrifice if |
taken at once. Schulz & Pixle vy, Se.
| Joseph, Mich. 611
For Sale—$8,000 stock of boots, shoes

Good established busi-
desirable goods. Only
|exclusive shoe stock in city. Owner’s
health failed and stock will be closed
|out for cash or good securities.
town of 3,000 in Central Michigan.
dress Lock Box 83, Corunna, Mich. 641
For Sale—Best paying store in Michi-
gan. Stock groceries and shoes, invoic-
ing $3,500. A bargain. Address 232 N.
52nd Ave., Chicago. _ 633
40-Acre

and rubber goods.
;ness and all new

 

Farm, wire fenced, 15 acres
cleared. Good frame house. Young or-
chard. Will sell or exchange for stock
of general merchandise. Address Lock
Box. 227, Roscommon, Mich. 634
For Sale—Good clean drug stock, doing
good business in a hustling town of 500.
Invoices about $1,200. No competition.
Owner has too much other business. Ad-
dress Lock Box 213, Rose City, Mich. 637
For Sale— First-class
first-class Southern
11,300 inhabitants.

drug
Michigan
Invoices $2,500. Will
sell for $1,800 if taken before July 1.
| Other business. Address J., care Trades-
man. 639

207-acre oil lease, six
oil wells, one gas well and all equipments
for lease. Only 30 acres drilled off East,
200 feet from west line. Well made 6,200
barrels 27 days. Cheap lease at $150,000.
Reason for selling, no means to work
lease. One-third down, balance on easy
payments. One-half taken in land or
merchandise. R.

 

$25 000 Sal buy

 

| nice business.

Terms to be agreed upon. ‘ing an

545, care Michigan — -—
5

 

| chase small stock to secure location.

For Sale—Bakery. Good location. Doing
Apply to Judson Grocer Co.

589

 

 

years,

Wanted—-To rent for term of
store for general merchandise in good
town in Central Michigan. Would pur-

Ad-

| dress No. 532, care Michigan Tradesman.

532
carriage man to
well-established carriage
the president retiring from busi-
ness; established 1872; incorporated 1904;
open shop. The Johnston Carriage Co.,
Oak Park, Hl. 591

Wanted _L Oc: ution. for dry goods and
notions. Population 2,000 to 10.000. Ad-
dress R. Sabel, 553 Eureka Ave., Wyan-
dotte, Mich. 608

~ Wanted—A practical
buy stock in a
factory;

 

 

 

For Sale—Building oce pie 2d succes fully
for sixtee n years as grocery and meat
jmarket. One of the best business cor-

stock in |
town of |

| switching distance;

Brammer, Albany, |

| large
| otherwise in good condition;
|one and two stories;
| with 7%
through the shops; plant within

ners in city. Present occupant will lease
premises for a year, if purchaser desires.
Address No. 581, care Michigan Trades-
man. 581
For Sale or Trade—One hundred shares
of the Watson, Durand-Kasper Grocery
Co.’s capital stock, of Salina. Enquire
Ww. J. Hughes. Box 367, Enid, O. ir. 598
For Saie—Iron working plant, machine
shops, equipped with modern machinery.
Foundry, large floor space, complete with
all appliances. Wood working depart-
ment, all new and modern machinery; 3
brick buildings; new roofs and
two 80x160,
one 50x130 foundry;
acres ground; switches running
50 to 500
coal mines in
buildings have their
own lighting system; with concession of
30 years’ lease at $1 a year rental; water
$1 a year; city of 8,000; present conces-

 

yards of four trunk lines;

 

sionaries wholly inexperienced men and
i will sell at right price. Address L. C.
Spooner, Agent, General Delivery, Blue
Mound, Il. 593

Ind. 640
Wanted—Man to engage in an up-to- |
|date baking, confectionery and catering |

| business. Good location can be secured
jand elegant opening for money
business in this line awaits the right man.
I would be willing to help

necessary until he could carry it alone.
The town is greatly in need of an up-to-

need is continually increasing,
man could not fail to succeed. J.
Edsall, Greenville, Mich. 628
Department store located
Michigan’s best cities.
000. Annual business, $125,000. Will sell
or rent building. Apply for particulars
to “Y. B.” care Michigan Tradesman. 627

so a good |

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date establishment of this kind and the |

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good man}
get started and back him financially if |

PCSITIONS WANTED.
~Wanted—Position, either groceries,
, gents’ furnishings or general store.
12 years’ experience as salesman and
manager. References.

 

 

man, care Tradesman. i
HELP WANTED.
Dia anted—-Man to do general wor ‘*k ina

eneral store. State age, experience and
‘pealieniter! of salary wanted. Address No.
1/650, care Michigan Tradesman. 650
Wanted—Dry goods salesman of ex-
perience. Wages $50 per month. Palmer
& Hobbs Co., Kalkaska, Mich. 653

Address Sales- |
638

 

Wanted—Position as salesman in gen-
eral store or on grocery wagon. Ex-
perienced. References furnished. Have
some knewledge of pharmacy. Address

No. 654, care Michigan Tradesman. 654
Wanted—Capable man to take charge
of clothing. groceries, boot and shoe and
dry goods departments. Address National
Surply Co., Lansing, Mich. 624

but the best

Wanted—Salesman, none
of specialty salesmen need apply, on an
article on 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
Co., Berlin, Wis. 601
Salesman to carry a good side line that
will pay traveling expenses. Sells to
house furnishing, general and hardware
stores. Pocket model free. Season now
on. — nets. Ce... ci Til. 339

 

 

AUCTIONEERS “AND TRADERS.
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can sell your real estate, or any stock of

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To Exchange—8v0 acre farm 3% miles
southeast of Lowell, 60 acres improved, 5
acres timber and 10 acres orchard land,
fair house and good well, convenient te
good school, for stock of general mer
chandise situated in a good town. Rea.
estate is worth about $2,500. Correspon-
dence solicited. Konkle & Son, Alto.
Mich aon

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AUCTION CO.,
Davenport, Ia.

 

 

1. S. TAYLOR F. M, SMITH

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

TRADING STAMPS.

Why the Craze Has Subsided in This
Country.

The failure of one or two trading
stamp concerns, and the general fall-
ing off of business for the others,
marks the rapid decline of this scheme
for promoting business and benefiting
the schemers. The scheme was
shrewdly planned, and without doubt
offered attractions to those who were
first approached with the proposals
for exclusive use of the stamps. No
doubt also the first users of the
stamps found them a decided advan-
tage for increasing sales, and hence
there was a remarkable development
of the trading stamp operations.

But there are millions of people
looking for good things, and the one
who develops a good idea is sure to
have plenty of imitators, who will fol-
low him closely and even improve on
his methods. So it was that the orig-
inal trading stamp concern did not
long have the field to itself, and the
merchants who secured the exclusive
use soon found that competitors were
able to make equally attractive offers
in the way of stamp giving and pre-
miums. Thus, it developed that when
everybody could give the premiums
there was no advantage in it for any-
body and the result was that the mer-
chants paid a heavy tax on their busi-
ness to the trading stamp concerns
wih no corresponding benefit.

When the trading stamp plans first
came before the public there was nat-
urally a feeling of alarm on the part
of merchants who could not get the
stamps and who saw business going
to the firms having them. As usual
in such cases there was a resentment

against the successful firms and de- |

mands for new laws to suppress the
stamp Later
tions were formed, and in some states
the legislatures were prevailed upon
to pass laws designed to suppress the
stamps, or at least regulate their use.
Most of these laws went too far and
were such clear invasions of individ-
ual rights that they were declared void
by the courts because in attempting
to do away with a minor evil they
would establish greater evils.

issuing. on associa-

In previous references to the stamp
giving pians it has been held that
there was little need of special laws
for regulating business methods be-
cause all evils of this kind can be-de-
pended upon to work out their own
cures. As everybody knows more
than anybody and the greed for gain
is always present as the vital moving
force for business operations, there
are few evils indeed that competi-
tion will not ultimately regulate. The
bigger the profits of a successful con-
cern the more eager will be the com-
petition, while on the other hand the
attempts at suppression or limiting
profits by drastic legislation must be
the most effective means for scaring
off the competition that would other-
wise come.

In the matter of the trading stamps,
for example, new stamp issuing con-
cerns were quickly in the field for a
share of the wealth that the mer-
chants were willing to contribute, and
the exclusive benefit idea disappeared.

 

But while it was easy for merchants
to take the stamps in the first place
it was a different matter to be a
leader in giving them up as long as
others were using them, and the
stamp concerns were spending money
to make a public demand for the
stamps. In some places merchants
came together in a common sense way
and by united action discontinued us-
ing the stamps, but while the public
craze for the stamps lasted mer-
chants generally could do nothing
but pay up to the companies and cov-
er the expense by increased prices
when possible.

Finally comes the last stage when
competition of the stamp concerns
brings concessions in the prices of the
stamps to the merchants with more
value in the premiums for the pub-
lic, thereby cutting into the previous
good things in the way of profits un-
tii failures result. In the meantime
the public have learned that the
stamps are for the most part a delu-
sion, and that in most cases also
they are dearly paid for in the prices
for the goods. The stamp concerns
can not afford to keep up their adver-
tising with the vanishing profits, and
as the buyers cease to trouble about
the stamps merchants will find it ad-
visable to discontinue giving them.
Thus the trading stamp craze will
have run its course.

In much the same way most of the
other evils in mercantile affairs which
loom up in threatening proportions
fade away when the inexorable force
of competition comes into play. With
the large combinations or trusts it
seems at times as though competition
was stifled, but when the chances for
big profits are in sight the brains of
the outsiders can be depended upon
to find some way of getting at the
same. Only a few years ago newspa-
pers were publishing lists of over a
hundred trust organizations, and there
was a genuine alarm as to the future
But of all
this list how few remain and how
few of the survivors have any power
of control in the market!

If the trust scare had brought about
the enactment of the repressive laws
that were called for when the big or-
ganizations were formed it is safe to
say that competition would have
been hampered also. When all were
left free, however, organization was
met by other organizations, and the
capital required, no matter how large,
was easily obtained. The big organi-
zations proved that certain econo-
mies were possible and these were
the basis of promises for larger prof-
its. But the outsider saw all these
possibilities and in almost every in-
stance, as the result of the competi-
tion, the economies have gone to the
public in lower prices rather than to
the trust organizations in larger prof-
its.

results from such control.

So it is wiser when these questions
of business methods come up not to
get too excited over them. They
may look threatening enough, and
where evidence of extortion appears it
is not easy to be patient and look
pleasant. But until greed for gain is
eliminated from human nature no few
individuals can control the opportuni-

 

ties for profit. The relief from at-
tempted extortion may be slow in
coming at times, but it is sure to
come, and all such contests as surely
result in permanent gain for the pub-
lic in the lower prices, better products
or better conditions that follow.—
Boot and Shoe Recorder.
+2
Molasses Better Than Vinegar in the
Business World.
Written for the Tradesman.

 

Reader, you who earn your bread
in some “busy mart of trade,” did
you ever stop to consider what an
influence for cheerfulness is a pleas-
ant smile? Think of those with
whom you work side by side. Are
you fondest of those sour-looking
ones who pass to a desk, or other
department, with never a gay “Good
morning!” Do you anticipate with
joy the meeting with those fellow-
workers who brush past you with
head down or averted eye, as if they
were either ashamed of something
they had done or wished to ignore
your very existence—you never can
be sure which?

 

watching out for the chance to find
some flaw in your work, something
they can ‘pick on you’ about?

“No,” you will find your heart say-
ing, “I do not like the people best
who go out of their way to do the
disagreeable. I prefer those who are
kind and gentle to me; who greet
me of a morning with a smile that
comes from the heart and makes all
my day the brighter for it. I like
best those who fling me a merry
‘Good morning!’ on their flying way
to get out of their wraps before the
signal rings to begin work.”

Verily, there be some from whom
we expect a smile every time the eyes
meet. Then there be those others
whom we dread to encounter, for
they ever have a look of chilly dis-
approval, of cold disdain to regard us
with—they seem to think we enjoy
that kind of glances. Or, mayhap
they go a step farther and, as we
meet them casually, make remarks
to us that poorly veil a sneer. They
seem either to freeze up at our ap-
proach or else make a_ spitfire of
themselves until we sincerely wish
we might never behold them again.

I have known two workmen to
stand at the same bench—where they
were allowed to talk a little at their
work if they didn’t let it interfere
with what they were engaged on—
and one would be humming a blithe
little chanson, glancing out of the
corner of his eye, meanwhile, at his
companion to see if he wasn’t “’liven-
ed up a bit,” only to be met with
some bitter fling, some rankling slur,
that caused the song to die on his
lips, while a slow flush of resent-
ment would mount his forehead at
the unwarranted spoiling of his happy
mood.

Two book-keepers I recall in a dry
goods store; one was the successor
of the other.

It might have been something in
their physical make-up that had to
do with it—probably was; at any rate,
the first to render service to the firm
was a round-faced little rolly-poly

Do you like best |
those around you who are always | °
| will be taken of it and the result be

 

of a girl. Whenever she looked at
you her face wreathed itself in smiles.
It was easier for her to laugh than
to breathe; and yet it was. never
strident laughter—just a little bub-
bling-over that was as spontaneous
as the song of a lark at Heaven’s
gate. Never obtrusive, never thrust-
ing herself upon one, she yet was
a wall of strength to lean on, _be-
cause of her beautiful, sympathetic
nature.

Book-keeper No. 2 was the antith-
esis of the one just. spoken of.
Lean and lank, she towered above
one, always with such a menacing
look on her sallow old hatchet-face
that the other workers in the place
were glad to flee her presence. Al-
vays scowling, always complaining,
always muttering some meanness, she
was so cross and crabbed that every
one was glad when she left her post
to marry a farmer and make his life
wretched instead of theirs.

Also some employers are tardy in
their obligation to scatter brightness.
It would seem they go on the princi-
ple that, if they say a cheerful say
or smile a gladsome smile, ad. antage

less work ground outof those under
them. But, mark my word, grouchi-
ness but engenders grouchiness and
makes unwilling workers of those
who, under the sunny influence of a
goodnatured employer, only hustle
the harder to make up for a bit of
time lost in the exchange of a little
pleasantry. The man who dissem-
inates fear never warms people to
him.

Smile, if you have to get up an hour
earlier each day and practice on it!

Suzanne.

Rare Achievements of a Boy Who
Dreamed.

It appears that back of the seedless
apple, produced by John F. Spencer,
of Colorado, is a lifetime of patient
effort and determination to achieve
the results now apparent. As a boy
he was interested in experiments with
plants, and dreamed of an apple with-
out core and seeds. Three of his ap-
ples exhibited recently in London
sold for twenty-five dollars. One of
the striking peculiarities of the new
trees is the absence of blossoms. In
place of these three or four small
green leaves grow from the_ twig
around the young apple to shelter it.

Busine

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Por Sale—Saw and planing mill plant,
40,000 feet daily capacity. Admirable lo-
cation, especially for manufacture of
boxes, barrels and truckers’ packages of
all kinds. Will sell at a bargain. ‘Write
for particulars to E. L. Williams, York-

623

 

 

 

ville, Va.

Representatives Everywhere—Who can
present a financial proposition we believe
will pay greater profits than Bell Tele-
phone. which was hought for 50c and sold
at $4,000 a share. Our booklet (24 pages)
full particulars mailed free. Inventors’
and Finance Co., Hoboken, N. J. 622

For Sale—$3,500 buys one-half or $7,000
buys whole hardware and grocery store;
good town, buildings and location; sales
in 1904, $36,000. Address box 143, Ona-
way, Mich. 61

HELP WANTED

_ Wanted—Registered or registered as-
sistant pharmacist. Address D. T. Paul-
son & Co., 427 E. Bridge St., Grand Rap-
ids, Mich. 657

 

 

 

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