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Twenty-Second Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905

Number 1135

 

 

 

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Around the State.
Grand Rapids Gossip.
Window Trimming.
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Governor Luce.

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16. Clothing.

20. Woman’s World.

24. Clerks’ Corner.

26. Mistkes of Clerks.

28. Winning Success.

30. Too Much Education.
32. Shoes.

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38. Dry Goods.
49. Commercial
42. Drugs.

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PROFOUNDLY GRATEFUL.

Among the nations most deeply in-
terested in the Eastern war, aside
from the combatants’ themselves,
there can be little doubt that Eng-
lish readers more than any other the
world over have read with something

ern trade. Any foreign power there

Levant to the
da, and the passage of Australia and
New Zealand to 1
be among the possibilities.

other hands woul

With these possibilities in mind it
is not difficult to conclude what Rus-
sia’s trend of thought has been and
is Following the line of least resist-
ance she came in contact with Japan,
a nation in her opinion hardly deserv-

| ing the name, and whose fighting abil-

more than composure the defeat of |
the Russian army and the sinking of |

the Russian fleet. For years the ag-
gressive ambition of the Russian bear

has been a menace to the designs of |

England in India. Whether it be true
that “On to Constantinople” has been
the watchword of the Muscovite or
a scheme of Napoleon’s to justify his
invasion of Russia, it is true that Rus-
sia hemmed in from the sea has for
years been determined to secure an

outlet for her vast Asiatic possessions |
: |
That Constantino- |

in ice-free waters.
ple would satisfy this ambition there
is every reason to believe; that every

move made strengthens that idea
needs really no proof, and England’s
one determination that this Russian

ideal shall never be realized is made
certain by those who even casually
have marked the English bars that

| ference that
j has all
| moment.

| disasters

ity she has woefully underestimated.

would cripple Great Britain from the |
Pacific coast of Cana-|

Driven back on the east Russia can
turn in but one direction, if she is}
able to turn at all, and that leads

directly to the northern boundary of
Afghanistan.

guarded. The lion’s paw with claws

She will not find it un-|
leasy striking distance of St.

as sharp as they were found to be in|

the Crimea ts ready to meet

force of two hundred thousand troops

which Russia has concentrated in

the |

Central Asia and she has a sufficient |

force within striking distance of Herat |

to take that city within a week, if

India authority is at all to be depend- }

ed upon, a condition of things which }

but a few weeks ago led to the Eng

lish Prime Minister’s reassertion of
the British government’s determina-
tion to regard any encroachment of |

Russia over the boundary of Afghan-
istan. as an act of war.
tion to a similar threat regarding the
acquisition by Russia of a port on the
Persian Gulf leads easily to the in-
the Muscovite

war with

along been possible at

With the

which

any

have postponed, _ it

overwhelming-

This in addi-|

| would seem, indefinitely the invasion |

lof the Afghanistan frontier has come |

ito the English people a feeling of pro

found gratitude for the course events |

| have taken in Japan.

have checked and_ prevented’ the
march of the Russian forces to the}
sea. |

A single word is a sufficient answer
to the ever questioning why? and that
word is India.
map of the world shows that country
to be the military center of the Brit-
ish empire and the key to the Brit-

A single glance at a

ish possessions in the Far East and
the Pacific and it is easy to under-

stand why on this account

India |

should be guarded as the apple of the |
English eye and as such should re-|

the attention

its importance to the

ceive
with
empire and the necessity of maintain-
Tt ws, indeed,

English

ing its frontier intact.
the most vital link in the great chain

that holds England and Australia to- |

commensurate |

gether and its occupation by a great |
military power—Russia, for example |
| ous sensibility of the British empire—

—would place in the heart of the em-
pire a force that would be capable of
severing the United Kingdom from
her Eastern possessions and of tak-
ing from her the whole of her East-

In the face of what might have been
account for this

While the

16 4S
felt
of India and

easy tO

gratitude.

termined upon, the closing of South-
ern Asia entirely to Russian egress is
which there
The liberties

a matter in regard to
can be but one opinion.

and the civilization of three hundred

ili f her black subjects depend | - ‘ : .
millions of her black subject PEN} te found a town, having everything

northern frontier

upon keeping that
unbroken, while back of them lies
the enormous wealth of what is per-

haps the richest country in the world.
What with Japan subdued would have
the
rious Russian millions into Afghan-

prevented the hurling of
istan and so into India? Strong as it
is conceded the British arm is, it has
and

not always been invulnerable,

with Russia at the center of the nerv-

that is exactly what India is to Eng-
land—it is not difficult to foresee the
direful consequences. That these con-

sequences are not to follow and that

ance Of

heart- | |
: 3, (mano has
integrity |
Afghanistan is fully de-|

lot an

Russia with her recent experiences

may change her plans is another rea-

profound gratitude on the

son for

part of the English nation.

It has been said with considerable
truth that Russia is only indulging
in a simple game of bluff. That may
be, but bluff is a game which Eng-
land has played with more or less
success. If Russia comforts herself

with her acquirements in Europe and
Asia and, encouraged thereby, should
decide to play it on the boundary of
Afghanistan, in spite of the two hun-
dred thousand forces concentrated at
Central Asia, as a game of pure bluff
it would be interesting to see what
would be the effect of mobilizing the
British navy in the North Sea within
Peters-
In the game of National bluff

fleet

burg.

experience shows the English
to be a powerful argument for peace
and British rights, a fact which makes
the

will be

stakes when

found in

it safe to infer that
the

English hands.

game is over
In England’s profound gratitude at
events it is
the

is msisting upon a fair share.

recent
that

the outcome of

pl
large

If, after a presumable counting of the

easing to note world at

cost, the Bear has been having a game

English Lion he has

of bluff with the
no reason to complain of the results,
If the stake was
Japan, 1f m taking im

direful as they are
f

India and not

the Manchurian trick he was schem-

ing for Afghanistan, it is high time
that that
that it
carried altogether too far; that right
is the that the
long looked for has come at last and
that
the

for im to learn game can

be carried too far; has been

law of nations; end

Great Britain in rejoicing over
postponement if not the avoid-
f evil is only one nation of
many who are glad to believe that the
end of the absolute power of the Ro-
come.

Postmaster General Cortelyou tells

Englishman who was out West

jin early days and fell in with a long

train of prairie schooners. The lead-

jer of the caravan announced that he

- ae ye . + oe y “ ;
ijand his fellow emigrants were going

| SOHTIC
VICtO- | ”
| town.

j

that that

have

and nothing

iWe

“There

was needful

Was tnnecessary. won't

any waste,” he said. isn’t a
won't do
the
Englishman pointed to

bent

person in our party who

important duty in new
The
and feeble man with a
long, thin,

old

p< ssibly be of

all. « Id
white beard.

there,” he

and 2
that

Said: “he

back

“Bat very man

can't any

use to you, can he?” “Oh, yes,” said

the leader, “we open our new ceme-

tery with him.”

ae
The man whe stutters never makes
hasty remarks.

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Values of Colors and Flowers from
the Artistic Side.

Color gives well as
color and it is hard to estimate the
value of color alone. A friend of
mine who has very large and attrac-
tive grounds about his

us form as

house once
said to me that he enjoyed walking
about his place at g o’clock in the
evening better than at any other time.
Here color was almost eliminated—
almost, not quite—and nearly all the
pleasure we get from things we see
is due to color. It is the source of
all the pleasure we receive through
the eye. Although my friend enjoyed
looking at his grounds in the night,
he could see dark masses against a
relatively lighter sky. He could trace
the outline of a bur oak, an elm or
a linden. He might be able to dis-
tinguish a group of shrubs by the
slight differences in shading, differ-
ences too delicate painter’s
brush. The pleasure derived at such
a time is due to the composition of
Flowers disappear, unless,
perhaps, a quantity of light-colored
flowers, like snowballs or elderberry

 

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masses.

blossoms, are prominent enough to
Flow-
ers may, however, be of great value
at this
fume.
grance
or clover is something to be remem-
bered with pleasure from June to
June.

make their existence known.

time on account of their per-
A breath filled with the fra-
of roses, wild grapes, lindens

There is a park-like area where |
like to take people at night and they
are invariably delighted, the pleas-
ure being due to the slightest changes
of color, unless the moon is shining,

in which case there may be strong

contrasts of light and shade, but even
then the effect may be compared to
an etching. Again, there are foggy
days when distant objects are shut
out of sight, when near objects are
given a outline, but
such a time we can have most beau-
tiful views. Perhaps they please us
more because so much is left to the
imagination.

hazy even at

Many painters and others, too, for
that matter, take great delight in win-
ter views. Here have abun-
dance of white—all colors—and deli-
cate shades of gray and brown, neu-
tral tints. Sometimes, indeed,
have quite strong notes of color at
this time, as when the view includes
evergreens, red-branched dogwoods,
shrubs with strongly colored bark,
but such notes are not absolutely nec-
essary to
The above illustrations bring out the
fact that many of our landscapes give
delight from their
tio’s.

we an

we

insure an attractive view.

varied composi-
Still other examples might be giv-

en. A lake pleases us, although there

rey he but two colors, the blue of
the skv and the green of the sur-| purple flowers of the lilac.

rounding foliage with their reflections
in the water, but the sky outline rises

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nearly to the water in the distance.
Certain tree branches may overhang
the water so that we might get the
complete outline of an elm against
the sky. We note that the water
goes behind a point and speculate as
to the extent of the part which we
do not see. Here the pleasure is all
due to color, but to color as reveal-
ing form. We look at a river which
disappears around a bend in the dis-
tance. Here again we may _ have
slight variations of color, but we de-
rive pleasure from the forms they

reveal and from our knowledge of
space and distance derived from
them. This pleasure is quite dis-
tinct from that which we get from

a rose or paeony, where we take de-
light in the color itself, although even
here the form enters as an element
in the artistic value of the flower.
On going through the woods, a
field or a garden, one is often pleased
by the discovery of flowers, fresh and
beautiful in color, graceful in shape,
as seen against backgrounds of green
and he is seized with a covetous feel-
ing towards the prize discovered. He
sees hepaticas, trilliums, iris, colum-
bines, lilies, roses and lilacs and pro-
If One flower
pleases hundred — will
please a hundred times as much and
proceeds to pick and put them to-

ceeds to pick them.

he thinks a

gether in a compact bouquet, but in
this shape, although the color is re-
tained, the forms are largely lost so
that their artistic value is actually di-

minished. To get the greatest value

from
plenty of room and suitably contrast-

flowers they should be given

ing backgrounds to reveal their deli-
cate tints as well as their graceful
One tulip seen against the
deep shade of a background of shrub
bery is to me more pleasing than a
compact circular bed of bloom in the
middle of a To be
sometimes see such masses of flowers

outlines.

lawn. sure we
along roadsides and railways, or in
fields or open places in the woods,
but usually, in such cases, the flowers
scattered at the margins. We
one then two or
three, then perhaps increasing num-
bers until they can not be counted,
after which they gradually
The shapes
beds are as varied as_ the
of clouds. If studied
them as we study the wooded bor-
ders of fields, marshes, lakes and riv-

are

first see flower,

decrease
and disappear. of these
natural

shapes we

ers I believe we could make our flow-
er gardens far more interesting than
they are at present.

I have spoken of the pleasing ef-
fect of landscape due to its composi-
tion, to its solid masses and open
spaces, but I would not undervalue
the positive colors which may appear

 

in it-—the reds, yellows, blues, pur-

ples and above all the greens. i
know a long belt of Japan quince
bushes twenty-five years old. In

spring there bushes are filled with a
of red

ing mary miles te see.

profusion flowers worth go

They appear
|just after the yellow flowers of the
hell and are followed by the
The col-

sometimes

colden
autumn foliage
make a maple woodland a gloriou

ors of

nearly to the zenith near us and drops, sight to behold, but we occasionally

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get tired of golden elderberries, gold-
en poplars and purple plums, which
have a somewhat monotonous effect
throughout the summer and often re-
mind us of a sickly tree. We all like
colors that denote health and vigor.

The pleasures we derive from col-
ors and flowers are like many other
pleasures from the fact that they are
increased when we share them with

our friends. We sometimes call at-
tention to or attempt to describe
these pleasures by words, speaking

of a tree as “grand” or “magnificent,”
of a flower as “exquisite,”
Sometimes the pleasure seems
great for words, as when one stands
on Inspiration Point and looks down

into the canon of the Yellowstone.

by placing
colors on canvas and very many peo-

which they receive

ple try to preserve or impart their

their kodaks.

Another fact connected with
trunks of
and

scenery—the foliage and
the
summer, the fruits and leaves of au-
tumn, the
the lakes
beauty is

trees, blossoms of spring
rocks, the fields, the clouds,
that this

often not noticed. I have

and rivers—is

of shrubs and trees in winter

after my attention had been

some study. I have told some
you of a boy who had never seen
the sun set until his attention was

especially called to it.
pleasure of others is
and, perhaps,
River
can make no

commendable
the members of the
Grand Horticultural Society
of their time

friends the beauty that is all about
them. Ossian C. Simonds.
ae a ae
Our Office Boy Gets New Job.
Last the Editur
what I had wrote about drug stores

weak when rede

he thot that as I cud not sit down !

wud be as well out of his way fur a
time, so he gave me a letter to a
drugeist that was advertism tur a

yooth with an enquirin turn of mind,
and I got the job. The first day |
was there, the drug clerk, who was
quite a masher, sent me to clean out
bottels that filled with straw,
and altho I rinsed them out with wa-
ter the straw wud not kum off, so I
put whitin in the water and
while I was trying to get out the
straw and the whitin a man came in

was

sum

& askd fur idy-forum supose-it-oreys.
The klerk into the back
wher I was & swore, bekaus his best

ran shop
gurl had come in when he was mik-
the stuf & askd him if he hed

to visit the more. I did not
kno what that was but I thot he had
the black Kalkuta.

sin
been

 

j heen in hole of

of a certain view as “very beautiful,” !

delight in beautiful scenery by using |}

always admired trees and flowers, but |
I did not fully appreciate the beauty

than by observing for |
themselves and pointing out to their |

 

and so on. |

too |

Artists try to convey the pleasures |
the |

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beauty of color as revealed in natural |

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to them and I had given the matter |

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To add to the|

better use of a portion |

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When he washed his hands he sed
he wud have to use pach-hooley, and
the gurl wud not stay. A Dr. kame
in and told him he might try Ikey-
thoal, but he sade on rekunsid-era-
shun he wud try rose & violet. He

told me to go to the 5th drawer
from the top in the front store &

bring some, & when I brot him a
pakit of valery Ann he swore again.
He winkd to the Dr. & said I had
beter get down the last bottel in the
top row, & to be sure & smel it to
see it was rose. I got the step lader
& tuke the bottel off the shelf, & a
gude smel. It was hydyous |
dropped the bottel. The klerk
in a rage & sent me home, saying
that the assesfetidia I had spilt wud
driv al the kustumers away. I
it wud him

So

got

wish

drive away.

 

 

Buyers and Shippers of

POTATOES

in carlots. Write or telephone us.

H. ELMER MOSELEY & CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

No. 2
30 doz. Egg Cases

At a Sacrifice

10c each while they last, for new
white wood cases, nailed up.

 

 

Cummer Manufacturing Co.
Cadillac, Mich.

 

 

Twelve Thousand of These
Cutters Sold by Us in 1904

We herewith give the names of several concerns
showing how our cutters are used and in what
guantities 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, IND.

 

B. SPiN the only
Dr. spinney inthis 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
sanitarium work and he neve!
fails in his diagnosis, He give:
special attention to throat ané
lung diseases making some
wondertul cures. Also all forms
of nervous diseases, epilepsy, St.
Vitus dance, paralysis, ete. He
never fails to cure piles.

There is nothing known that

This is a picture of ANDREW
NE\, M. D.

 

| he does not use for private ciseases of both sexes.

and by his cwn special methods he cures where
others fail If you would like an opinion ot yout
case and what it will cost to cure you, write ou!
all your symptoms enclosing stamp for your reply.
ANDREW B. SPINNEY, M.
Prop. Reed City sanitarium, Reed City, Mice

 

 

 

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

OLD CARPETS

INTO RUGS

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

THE YOUNG RUG CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH.

 

 

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Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.
New York, The
volume of business in spot coffee has
The

market

June 17
limited.
to be that the
the

been rather reason

seems has so

much appearance of a boom in
prices that buyers are holding back,
declaring the appearances are deceit-
ful and that they will “wait.” It is
that “trading” in
been active and an advance of 10@

certain coffee has
15 points has taken place, the mar-
firm.
Europe as well as from Brazil

ket closing very Despatches
from
all show an advancing tendency, and
it certainly: seems as if the present
would be a better time to purchase
than a month now. At
the close Rio No. 7 is held at 734c.

In store and afloat there are 3,823,-

coffee from

274 bags, against 2,835,856 bags at
the same time last year. Mild cof-
fees have sold rather slowly, but

there is a very firm feeling, in sym-
I Good Cucuta is
1034@IIc_ is

pathy with Brazils.
worth 9@ol4c, while
obtained for B

The

SO tar as

ogotas.

quiet,
Or-

wholly of

sugar market is very

refined is concerned.

ders have been almost

small withdrawals under old con-

tracts and hardly any new business
done, the reason probably
pretty well
A better mar-

has been

being that dealers were
stocked up last week.
ket is confidently looked for next
week.

There is the same old stereotyped
report of the tea market—light trad-
unchanged and

ing,

supplies
fully ample for all requirements as

prices
now coming in. Foreign advices in-
dicate that new crop teas of the bet-
ter sorts are rather higher than last
year, but it is yet too soon for any-
thing definite.

The holds ‘all ef its
recently-acquired strength and is in
for
tend to a higher basis and the call

rice market

good condition holders. Prices
has been fairly satisfactory, both as
regards foreign and domestic. Prime
to choice domestic, 4@4%c.

In spices we have a very firm and
quite active pepper market. Advices
all indicate light crops and buyers are
“coming to the front’ in a most sat-
isfactory manner. In fact, the whole
line of spices is firmly held and deal-
ers are confident the future will show
no decline.

There is little doing in the molasses
market, as might be supposed at this
time of year; and yet there is a call
fully up to the average and prices

actual ;
" | ned goods.

lare, as a rule, very well sustained.

business has been in
under old _ contracts.

Most of the
withdrawals

|Good to prime centrifugal, 16@206c.
Syrups are steady and_ unchanged.

 

Exporters have been doing a little
former Fair to

good stock, in round lots, 16@2oc.

By comparison with other weeks,

business at rates.

an active one for can-
The interest cen-
tomatoes, the old
apple.’ Your correspondent
with of the best-
Maryland the other
day and was assured that the acre-
age in that State, as well as in Dela-
ware would be fully
less than last year. This

this has been
main
ters around dear
“love
was

talking one

posted men in

and Virginia,
50 per cent.
will make a big difference in the out-
put and the market is already show-
Not long ago
standard tomatoes could be picked up
in large lots at about 65c. This fig-
not looked at i
6714c, and even 7oc is regarded with

ing greater strength.

ure is now, nor 15

some “lofty” looks and tones. This
for futures. On the other hand, buy-
ers are not falling over each other

to make purchases. They say they
have too often heard the story of
short tomato crops and, while they
put every confidence in what this

selling 10,000,000
cans last year and only 10,000,000 this

broker says about

year to be filled by canners, they are
ready to bet a penny that the market
will not begin to come up to the ex-
pectations of those who are shouting
There is a steady call for Cali-
the
price of cherries has not diminished
the The whole line of Pa-
cific coast goods is well held and a
than for
are quiet, but holders

OOc.

fornia fruits and advance in

demand.

better call last week exists

salmon. Peas
are firm in their views.

Dried fruits are dull.

very

Buyers take
the
not yet far enough advanced to make

small quantities and season is
value. Currants
fact, about the

strongest article on the whole list.

predictions of any

are firm and, in

There is a firm butter market, al-
though within a day or so the arriv-
als have been large enough to check
the movement. last

advance of

upward Since

week there has been an
about 2c in the price of best cream-
ery—from I9@z2Ic; seconds to firsts

19@20%c; imitation

creamery, 17@I19gc; factory, 144%4@16c;

are worth

renovated, I5@z17c, latter for extra
stock, of course.
Dulness characterizes the cheese |

and the arrivals have _ been

greater than could be

trade

advantage, so there is accumu-

lation and. not over

some

o4%4c can be

disposed of to}

named for small size full cream N.
¥. State stock.
In the egg market the supply of |

really desirable goods, stock that will

stand the test, is not

overabundant |

and prices are fairly well sustained,

but aside from this there is an abun-
dance of eges that are just a little
shady and the market is somewhat
demoralized. Concessions are made
and it is hard to give any real quota-
West of the
I7@i74c;

16(@16%4c;

tions. Goods from the

grades fetch

quality,

highest aver-

age common to

T WeniAe* | es dled ciAt 6c

TAC S72C, CanaicG, 1572@iuc.
—_—_—_—__~>~-—-=

Observations of a Gotham Egg Man.

The developments of the «

 

fair.

 

re situa-

tion bring nothing very encouraging
to the holders of the unusually heavy

accumulation of
With

storage spring

pro-

duction. indication of

every
the largest storage stock on record
at the close of May there are, natur-

ally, only three directions to which

holders can look for any confidence

in the profitable value of their prop-
CEEY —first an early reduction of yield
below the point of consumptive

needs, Second, an unusually large
consumptive output, and third an un-
usually

severe winter at the close of

the season. The latter, being a mere
gambling chance, can not be consid-
ered in estimating the probable out-
come except as a forlorn hope—a last
resort in the
favorable

The
the
the
may be approximately estimated and
the
elements that the

event of otherwise un-

conditions.

rate Of accumulation,

storage

relative rate of production and

state of consumptive demand

it 1S upon evidence as to these

temper of the mar
ket now depends.
As for

FEpOrts

accumulations the

June I

storage

obtainable on indi-

cated an excess over last year at

Chicago, Boston, New York and
Philadelphia of some 42 per cent.;

the associated warehouse

On Safnic

and report
majority

and in-

date, covering

of the houses in these cities

cludine a large number at other

points, showed an increase of about

14 per cent. compared with June 1,

32
1904

It is practically certain that as the

season advances this percentage of

storage holdings in excess of last

year will diminish, for it is hardly

possible that the storage capacity of

the country, although enlarged, could

accommodate 35 per Cer, OF Cven
30 per cent. more eggs than were
held last year, when the height of
accumulations was reached late in
July.

The quantity of stock stored, al-

though of course an important ele-

ment in the situation, is not conclu-
the

Sec yndary to

outcome;
the date
and to

Sive as to chances of

really

if is

when reduction commences,

the rate of consumptive demand. But
there is nothing in the present sit-
ation to warrant 2 behe?t in any
beginning of the season of re-

holdings.

early

duction in refrigerator

Production seems to be holding up
still far be-
yond the consumptive requirements.

remarkably well and is

The receipts from June I to June Io

were 364,544 cases, against 355,160
cases for the corresponding period
last year. This is not a large in-

crease, but the fact that after an ex-

ceptionally heavy spring lay the ar-

rivals are holding up in excess of last

late

unfavorable to

wear at so a date is certainly

expectation that

é
the yield will fall below consumptive
Is

needs at any unusually early period.

As for the state of consumptive de-
mand we can get only a general in-
dication from the statistics available,
but |

]

submit the following compari-

son for what it is worth:
This year the receipts at New
York, Chicago, Boston and Philadel-

phia from March to to May 31 were
the
storage accumulations were stated at

reported at 3,612,542 cases and

1,575,000 cases, leaving about 2,037,-
500 cases for trade purposes; last year

the receipts at same cities were

3,115,079 cases and the storage accu-
mulations were 1,103,000 cases, leav-

ine some 2,012,000 for trade pur-

poses. This indication of relative

trade output is of course inaccurate,
owing to differences in the movement
of stock from oné market to another,
and to some uncertainty in the accu-
racy of the reports of storage hold-
but even allowing for probable
that

material

ings;

errors it would seem any real

evidence of a increase in

consumptive output, compared with
last year, is missing when we consid-
er the statistics of the four markets

as a whole. Taking New York’s fig-
ures alone the showing for consump-
tive output is a little more favorable.
Here
and storage accumulations March Io

this 1,026,000
960,000 the
increase of

the difference between receipts

to May 31 is, year,

cases against cases at

same time last year—an

something less than 7 per cent.

accumulations since

The storage
the last week of May have consisted

chiefly of fair to good qualities of

Western eggs, put away at compara-
tively low prices considering the

A large
this stock, costing about

cost of the earlier storages.
Guantity of
has accumulat-

15@t6c at seaboard,

still going into the refrig-

ed and is

erators and it will probably be the
first to come out in any quantity. It
looks as if there would be enough of
this late May and June stock to sup-
probable deficiency in pro-

late date_N. ¥.

ply any
duction until a
Review.
to-day, don’t

something until

Froduce
If business is slow
put off
to-morrow.
—_~.2..——_—_
No man who is doing good work
5 5

improving

is sorry to hear the Master coming.

 

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Movements of Merchants.

Jackson—H. E. Nichols has opened
a new cigar store.

Jackson—Seward & Gasser, tailors,
are succeeded by Gasser & Webber.

Gladstone—Frank Hoyt has
ed a new grocery and crockery store.

Traverse City—J. W. Lane succeeds
Chas. A. Lawrence in the bakery busi-

open-

ness.

Homer—Wm. Hayden will engage
in the shoe business here about
July 1.

Manistee—Frank Schleiff is
ceeded by Jesse Thompson & Son in
the harness business.

Mackinac Island—Paul Hoffman
1as opened a cigar and confectionery
store for the

Stic

season.

Mesick—-J. H. Wheeler has been
appointed receiver of the Mesick
Furniture & Hardware Co.

Portland—D. C. Jones will con-

tinue the meat business formerly con-
ducted by Snyder & Wescott.

Prescott—Samuel Gilkey has re-
moved to this place from Bay City
and engaged in the grocery busi-
ness.

Belding—Lewis Pierce has sold his
grocery stock to Chas. Eddy & Co.,
who will consolidate it with their own
stock.

Mesick-—
for a receiver for the hardware stock

-Rruce Preston has applied

heretofore owned by Preston &
Harry.

Otsego—C. P. Ludwig has leased
a part of the Monteith building oc-
cupied by G. W. Leppard and will
soon open a fruit and_ vegetable
store.

Elk Rapids—Towers & Cole Bros.
have removed their general stock
from Leetsville to this place. The

business will be under the personal
management of M. J. Towers.
now

Co.'s

Floyd is
Iron

Manistee—Ralph
manager of the Antrim

store. During the illness of the late
Wm. E. Vaughan, Mr. Floyd has
been filling the position in a satis-
factory manner.

Alpena—Leo J. Smith, formerly
with Hawley & Fitzgerald and later
with I. Cohen, will engage in the
general merchandise business in the
new building at the corner of Lake
and Pine streets.

Muskegon—The business men’s an-
nual picnic, to have been held August

has been declared off, on account
ef the opposition of both merchants
that
to business.

and manufacturers, who insist
the affair is demoralizing

Lansing—Daniel C. Hurd, formerly
for many years a prominent § dry
goods merchant at North Lansing,
dropped dead in the business section
of the city June 19. Heart disease

was the cause. He was 57 years old.

Bay City—Spalding & Co.
reopened the meat market at 2021
Center avenue, near Trumbull, form-
erly occupied by the late George e.
Tapert. The market is equipped with
all the modern appliances for cut-

have

 

ting and keeping meat and is up-to-
date in every particular.
Petoskey—E. S. Martin has sold
his clothing and furnishing goods
stock to Arthur E. Remington,
will continue the business at the
location. Mr. Remington was
formerly connected with the Baxter
Co., at Grand Rapids, and is thor-
oughly conversant with the business.
Evart—Ellery C. Cannon, who sold
his grocery stock on April 1 to
Turner & McLachlan, has closed out
most of his dry goods, shoes, hats and
caps and announces his permanent
retirement from trade. Mr. Cannon
engaged in business here in 1871 un-
der the style of Cannon Bros. and
has been trade continu-
ously for the past thirty-four years.
Munising--H. Rosenthal, of De-
troit, has rented the center store of
the new Stewart block, and by July
1 he
ment
furnishings,

who

same

engaged in

business establish-

stock of house

goods,
Rosenthal is a
brother-in-law of Ben Freedman, the
proprietor of the Man’s Store. Their
and an

open a_
with a large
bazaar
goods, etc. Mr.

will

novelty

two stores adjoin each other
archway will be cut between the two,
making them practically one business
house

Battle Creek—F. P. Robbins, for
some time buyer and assistant to L.
W. Robinson in the management of
his dry goods store, has resigned his
position and will remove to Boyne
Falls, where his father owns a large
tract of land which the son will as-
sist in managing. H. J. Mulrine will
assume the work of Mr. Rob-
bins, together with other important
branches, and Carl Freeman will take
on other duties as having
charge of the basement.

well as

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Detroit Cement Tile
Co. has changed its name to the De-
troit Cement Stone & Tile Co.

Dexter — Amerman Bros. have
merged their creamery business into
a stock company under the style of
the Standard Butter Co. The
poration has a capital stock of
000.

Battle Creek—The United States
Bar-Magnet Co. has filed articles of

association. It has a capital stock of
$25,000, divided into 100 shares. All
of the stockholders are residents of
3attle Creek.

Manistique — The Northwestern
Leather Co. has increased the force
of workmen Io per cent. It is now
giving employment to about Ioo men
and the daily output of sides has
been increased from 500 to 8oo.

Munising—The Superior Veneer &
Cooperage Co. has the foundation
laid for the new hoop mill which it
is adding to its plant. The mill will
manufacture coiled hoops and its ca-
pacity will be 30,000 hoops daily. It
will give work to fifteen or twenty
more men.

COr-

$t0,-

Chatham—George Kinney has se-
cured the contract for lumbering a
tract of land belonging to Leo F.
Hale. The timber is chiefly pine and
will be converted into shingles at
the new mill Mr. Hale is building
at this place. The machinery is on

 

the ground and the plant will be
running in two months.
Ontonagon—The Sagola
Co. has bought the timber on three
sections of land near its present log-
ging operations in this county. It is
estimated that it has enough pine to
last three or four years. After that
period it will devote its attention to
of hardwoods, a

Lumber

the manufacture
large tract of which it owns adja-
cent to its pine holdings.
Kenton—Forest fires
place recently destroyed the post and
cedar block plant of August Nordine,
causing a loss of $8,000, with no in-
Mr. Nordine has made ar-
machinery

near this

surance.
rangements to secure
from Marquette for another mill and
expects to have it in commission in
a short time. The fires also de-
stroyed 170,000 feet of lumber piled
shipment. The old
camps were

and ready for
Kirby-Carpenter
destroyed.
Saginaw—Wickes
sumed the manufacture of gang saws.
During a period of a few years there
was scarcely any demand for gangs,
into use again.
known

logging

Bros. have re-

but they have come
The firm is making
as the 16-gauge pony gang with 24-
inch saws, especially adapted for cut-

what is

ting siding, and finds a good demand
for it. Three were sold last week.
The concern is sending a lot of ma-

chinery South and Southwest and is
| his neighbors’
| reward
| that
new |

running its plant with a full crew.

Bay City—The Meisel Cracker
Candy Co. is the name of a
concern that branched out in_ the

and

business world during the past week.
The establishment is located in the
Hurley block, Washington and Mce-
Kinley avenues, where it has ample
room to store its goods,
ing upon the next car from Saginaw

or any other place to fill an order.
The Meisel Co. will handle goods
manufactured by the Toledo Biscuit

Co. William F. Meisel,
the concern, was for eighteen
connected with Whitney & Plum and
the National Biscuit Co.

Bay Mills—The Bay Mills Lumber
Co.’s mill will be operated
months on hardwoods. The concern
is an enterprise controlled by the
Cleveland-Cliffs Tron Co. and several
months ago acquired all the property
of the defunct Hall & Munson Co
It is expected the mill will start in
two weeks and employ 100 men. The
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. owns con-
siderable hardwood timber
place and has been a steady buyer
for the last two years. It is probable
that a portion of these holdings will

manager of
years

three

near this

be diverted to the Bay Mills Lumber |

Co., which is capitalized for $200,000.

Calumet—Large gains in timber
values have been made in the Upper
Peninsula in the last year, with un-
usual activity in timber land
In the older counties this has not
been so pronounced for the reason
that much of the land was stripped
of merchantable pine years ago. In
Marquette county alone it is estimat-
ed that 100,000 acres of timber lands
have changed hands in the last twelve
months. For the most part lands in
that county have passed out of the
hands of speculators and investors

 

deals.

not depend- | : : :
|the various committees in

 

 

East and become the property

which contemplate
and other industrial
enterprises. Thirty years ago the
great forests of cedar in the Upper
Peninsula were thought to be of lit-
tle value and purchasable for
from 75 cents to $1.25 an acre. This
hardwoods except
greater val-
The few remain-
ing tracts of pine in Northern Mich-

in the
of corporations
manufacturing

were
true of also,
where they
ue for cordwood.

was
commanded

igan are held by corporations which

know the value of the holdings and
are not on the market.

a enna ee eB il ln eaten
Introduction To the Butchers’ Pro-
gramme.

The Master Butchers’ Association

of Grand Rapids has let the contract
to the Tradesman Company to issue
a souvenir programme for the ninth
annual picnic, occurs on Au-
sust 3 ine will be
the most elaborate publication of the
kind ever the city. It

which
programme

gotten up in

will comprise forty-eight pages and
cover, printed on the best paper, in
the highest style of the art and
bound with silk cord. The introduc-
tion to the programme, which was

prepared by President Kling of the
local association, is as follows:

When in the course of events it be-
comes the duty of man to contribute
of his resources, that by so doing he
may assist in the establishment of
welfare, the greatest
that can be bestowed upon
man is the confidence and es-
teem of his fellows. In submitting
this programme as a memento of the
nineteenth annual convention of the
Master Butchers of America and the
tenth annual picnic of the Grand
Rapids butchers, we trust you may
see in it some merit as the result
of a unified and assiduous effort by
charge. It
has always been the aim of our Asso-
ciation to seek only the good in all
things, and if by our endeavor and
example we should prove an inspira
tion to more successful and talented
workers who can lead the mighty
host of busy butchers on to greater
achievements our purpose shall have
been accomplished.

We extend thanks to the many
friends of butcherdom who have re-
sponded to the solicitations of the
Programme Committee, and to them
is due a substantial recognition for
their friendliness for our cause, also
to the speakers who come from all

| parts of the United States to address

us the butchers owe a debt of grati-
tude never to be forgotten. May
their efforts in our behalf bear fruit
an hundredfold. The delegates and
friends who assemble here that they
may assist in the development 0!
more progressive and favorable con-
ditions for our craft and to partici-
pate in the pleasures of the occasion
we most heartily welcome, and may
each recurring convention ‘and picnic
remind you of the friends you have
in the Valley City of Michigan.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

 

 

 

The Produce Market.
Bananas--$St for small bunches,
$1.50 for large and $2 for Jumbos.
Beet Greens—soc per bu.
Beets—New command 4oc per doz.
Black Raspberries—$1I.50 per crate
of 16 qts. :
Butter—Creamery is steady at 20c
for and 2c fancy. Re-
run heavy, but the specu-

choice for
ceipts have
lative buyers are taking hold in bet-
ter shape and have braced the market
the last few days. June is the stor-
age the are
that the storage will be as large this
year as usual. Datry is a giut/im the
market at 15c for No. t and r3c for
packing stock.

Cabbage—Louisiana $1
per crate. Mississippi fetches $2 per

month and indications

commands

crate.

Carrots—$1 per box.

Cheese—The market has about
reached a level which it will likely

maintain through the summer season.
Ir is possible, however, that a slight
decline will take place a little later.
Demand for cheese is up to the nor-
mal for the season of the year.
Cherries—Early Richmonds
16 crate.

com-
mand $1.50 per Sweet
fetch $1.75.

Cucumbers—Home grown have de-

clined to 40c per doz. Southern have

qt.

declined to $1.25 per box.
Eggs—Local dealers pay 14c for

case count, holding candled at 16c.

The difference between the current

receipts and the candled is now over
2c a dozen, as the shrinkage is in-
creasing as the weather warms. up.
It will not be long until “loss off”
will be the basis for buying eggs in-
stead of count.

Grape Fruit—Florida stock
mands $6 per box of either 64 or 54
California stock is $2 cheaper.

case
com-

size.
Green Onions—r5c per doz. bunch-
es for Silverskins.
Green Peas—$1r per bu. box.
Honey—Dealers hold dark at 10@
12c and white clover at 13@I5c.
Lemons—-The weather
started the price decidedly upward.
Messinas have advanced to $4@4.50

warm has

per box. Californias have been
marked up to $3.50@3.75.
Lettuce—75c per bu.
Onions—$1 per crate for Bermu-

das or Texas: $1.35 per 7o tb. sack
for Louisiana.

Oranges—Navels are strong at $4
for choice and $4.50 for fancy. Med-
iterranean Sweets, $3.25@3.50. Seed-
lings, $3@3.25. Receipts are about

equal to the demand, which is strong,
considering the abundance of other
fruits.

Melons—Cantaloupes and Rocky-
fords fetch $3.50 per crate of about
50. Watermelons from Georgia com-
mand 25@30c.

Parsley—-25c per doz. bunches.

Pineapples — Prices are steady,
ranging about as follows: Crate of
18, $3.50; 24, $3.25; 30, $3; 36, $2.75;
42, $2.50; 48, $2.25.

 

Pieplant—soc for 40 fb. box.
Plants—Tomato and cabbage fetch
75c per box of 200.

Pop Corn—ooc for rice.

Potatoes—New have declined to
6sc per Bu. and at that price are
selling very freely. The old stock

is still good, however, and so cheap
at 20c that the new has fierce com-
petition in the old. The new pota-
toes are not particularly good quali-
ty although about as good as usual
for early stock.

and

Poultry—The market is firm

outside quotations are paid for nice

stock. Prices range as follows for
live: Chickens, 1o@11c; fowls, 9@

1oc; young turkeys, 14@15c; old tur-
keys, I2@13c; young ducks, 15@16c;
broilers, 20@21Ic; squabs, $1.50@z2 per
doz.; pigeons, 75c@$1 per doz.

Radishes—ioc per doz. bunches for

 

round and i2c.for lone.
Red Raspberries—$1.50 for 12 qt.
crate.
Spinach—soc per bu.
Strawberries—This is the flush

week of the local crop, which is find-
ing an outlet at goc@$1.10 per 16 qt.
crate. Phe crop large and the
quality is fine.

is

Tomatoes—-$1.25 per 4 basket crate.
Turnips—$1 per box.
Wax Beans—$1.50 per bu. hamper.
a a
Some Advantages Thompsonville En-
joys.
June 20—Thomp-
in
for

Thompsonville,
sonville, the biggest little town
Michigan, has fine waterpower
hardwood timber, cheap
lands, competing railroads
and numerous’ other advantages.
Full information freely furnished to

factories,
farming

prospective manufacturers, farmers
and merchants on application.
G. W. Sharp.
i te

The G. R. & I. Railroad has secur-
ed an acre of land on Godfrey avenue,
directly north of the Luce Furniture

Co.’s factory, where a large ware-
house will be built at once, to be
known as the Godfrey avenue sta-
tion. An agent will be located there

permanently and a large amount of
freight, now handled by teams from
such factories as the Michigan Chair
Co., Stickley Brothers Co., Retting
Furniture Co., Grand Rapids Piano
Case Co., Grand Rapids Brass Co.,
Lindner Interior Manufacturing Co.,
Lumber Co. and the Luce
Co., will be received. It
will be a great convenience to
Such shippers as the €. S. Pame
Co., C. P. Lambert & Co., Wallin Tan-
nery Co. and the O. & W. Thum Co.
on the west side of the river.
oe

W. & J. Stadt have sold their
hardware stock at 616 North Ottawa
street to W. 1 DeGrafi and J. KK.
Quantrell, who will continue the
business under the style of DeGraff
& Quantrell. Messrs. DeGraff and
Quantrell were formerly engaged in
the hardware business at New Buf-
falo, from which place they came to
this city and opened a bazaar and
jewelry store at 457 South Division
street, which business they will con-
tinue under the same style.

Acme
Furniture

also

 

The Grocery Market.
Sugar—Jobbers report the
as very good and showing
crease from to
time has when
must have the
demands for
they are
from New York indicate an improv-

demand
in-
‘the
the retailers
to meet the
purposes

an
week week.
come
sugar
canning
Reports

buying liberally.

ing demand for refined sugar. Re-
finers say that the call for shipments
on outstanding contracts heavy.

Deliveries of straight car-load orders

is

for granulated can be made promptly
but the
on

refiners are falling, behind

mixed car orders.

and |

 

Tea—There has been little change |

the
the

ot
grades.

in tea since

noted

the Japan market
As last
quotations are within a

of 1904
The current demand for teas

opening. week
fraction
those on the high
is lim-
ited as the trade is well stocked up,
but it anticipated that a

movement will be experienced

is larger

as

ia good distributive demand, and

soon as the new crop becomes more}

plentiful.

|}improved enquiry

Coffee—Owing to the large exist- |

ing stocks, the apathy of the trade}

crop a|

and the nearness of the new

ce oe : |
feeling of slight uneasiness has de-|
veloped. Some of the New York

holders of coffee are inclined to take
a pessimistic view of the immediate
future of the market and think that
possibly prices will sag to a some-
This ts but
it must
doubtless

level.
situation

lower
of the
membered,

what one

be re-
there
apparently
Jobbers and roasters say

side
and
the other

are
views on side
as strong.
that the movement
tory. While speculating

on coffee the current demand is such

is very satisfac-

no one is
as to cause a steady, large trade.
Canned Goods—-The run of salmon
the Columbia River’ continues
light. Although it little
for sockeyes it looks now as if there
would be a decided shortage in this
variety of fish. Vegetables are prac-
tically unchanged.

on

iS a early

There is a steady
movement of tomatoes, peas and corn
about the The of-
ferings of corn and tomatoes by the

in order named.
packers are such that some very good
bargains have been put out by the
recently. ‘The
California
made their prices and the Association
has now followed. The figures made
by the latter are about the same as
those of the independents, although
lines the
are higher than those
by the outsiders. Considerable inter-
est is said to have been taken in the
pack as soon as

announced. This not
able in the Northwest,
stocks of canned goods

independent
have

jobbers

canners of fruits

on several Association

prices made

new prices were
notice-
as here the
still lib-
eral, but in the East the brokers are
The

prices at which pears and cherries are

1S so

are

booking orders very _ freely.
held are almost prohibitive, say some
of the jobbers, and they do not see
how they can at that
level. The spot demand for canned
fruits is fair. In the cities and larger
towns a fair amount of the fresh fruit
is now obtainable and this possibly
cuts into the demand for the canned
slightly, but the country at large has
not yet begun to buy fresh deciduous

do business

 

fruits in such quantities as to affect
seriously the sale of the canned.
Dried Fruits—The
ture dull
ed. There are some offerings of spot
of
from recent prices, due to the warm

fu-
unchang-

market for

is and

peaches

peaches at concessions 1@iYve

weather and the lower prices for fu-

tures. . The trade, however, are not
interested. Seeded raisins are in fair
enquiry at unchanged prices. Loose

raisins seem to be very scarce every-
where. Apricots are unchanged and

dull, both

Prunes are in good demand,

very futures and

spot
goods.
lec higher.
There is
it
mar-

and large sizes are about
Other sizes are unchanged.

le Oks like a
ket.

a 2

closely cleaned up
Some futures are selling around

basis for fruit other than
Santa Claras,
Santa Clara

been

2c
for
al-
but

and a 2c basis

have

ac,

There
at

prunes.
offerings

SO Somic
practically no sales.

the South note
the Atlantic

Orders from the distributing

Rice—Advices from

on
coast.
trade are coming in and dealers find
it difficult to
plies generally

somewhat renew sup-

from the depleted
At
strong, with an active enquiry
the offer-

Fancy styles are in request at

stocks. New Orleans the market

is very
poorly met by restricted
ings.
a higher range of values, as is also
the case regarding the lower grades,
Condi-

pre.

both being in limited supply.

tions of growing crop are

as
viously noted—greatly reduced acre-

age and late planting, which will re-

sult in harvest being delayed from

thirty to sixty days.

Syrup and Molasses—Glucose 1s

unchanged, but there is talk of high-

et prices, on account of the firmness

of corn. Compound syrup is un-
changed and the demand is_ light.
Sugar syrup is unchanged and. in

light demand. Molasses is unchang-
ed and in light demand.

hake

Phish Cod, and haddock are
in light demand and about ic per
pound easier than they were a month
azo. The fishing has been very

good, and the outlook is for a con-

tinued moderate range of prices:

Lake fish and whitefish are quiet and

unchanged. There is some little de-
mand for ocean whitefish. Salmon
shows no change. The demand for

mackerel is dull. Buyers are holding

off until it develops what the market
There has been no change

will do.

during the week. Sardines are un-

changed and the market is thorough-
it
some

ly demoralized. How much so

fact that
sales have been made as low as $2.05

can be seen from the

Eastport. This is ‘unquestionably
much below the cost of production.
to

reason for expecting greater firmness

There seems, however, be some

in sardines in the near future, as the
Me.,
for the present to be about over, and

fishing around Eastport, seems

no more fish may show there before

August. If this proves to be the
case the stocks in first hands will

soon be cleaned up and an advance
i almost Sure tO OCCUT.
a

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If ignorance were bliss, the aver-
age man would be howlingly happy.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

Description of New Craft Coming To
the Front.

Summer creeps on apace and the

demand for warm-weather clothing

and warm-weather house and porch |

furnishings is daily increasing. With
the long-continued cold of May peo-
ple became discouraged and _ little
cared to plan for the on-coming June.

have matured, or are maturing, and
preparations for summer comfort are
rapidly going forward.

question is clothes. That settled, the
next to engross the attention is the
surrounding of one’s self with agree-
ble furniture and furnishings for the
summer. Fortunate are
are able financially, and

those
have the

 

ling apartment in

| how
: |came the First Lady in the
But now their plans for the season |

there was anything in the idea in a
commercial way. So he took some
samples over to New York, showed
them to dealers in the great metropo-
lis and they simply “went wild over
them.” Result: two large factories,
one at Hyannis, Massachusetts, the

other at Auburn, New York, the lat- |
used to express it, they are “beat up|

ter location being afterwards selected
so as to be nearer New York City
in order to supply the lively demand
in that market for these new-old
goods.

In this connection it is remembered
Folsom, she be-

Land,

Frances after

fitted up, to satisfy a fancy, a sleep- | ’
| boudoir;

exact imitation of

ithe guest chamber of an old-fashion-

ed country farmhouse, it proving a
Of course, the first, the paramount |

ltijn He is

who |

requisite room for storage, to discard |

winter outfittings entirely, the very |

sight of which tends to ennui, and in
their place employ only those ob-
jects conducive to dolce far niente.

Such happily-situated people would

 

source of great delight to herself and |

friends as a curiosity.
The old bachelor’s name is Egles-
basking on the sunny

slope of 50 and is

described as a|

man of genial personality who, with |

not the shadow of a need for an oc

cupation, has thrown himself heart |
jand soul into his new venture (now
three years old). After seeing

ithe lucrative

business

thoroughly |

under way in the dual factories, and |

be especially drawn to the display in|

the extreme west
Spring Dry Goods Company the past

week, the pleasing result of the

window of the|
ling exponent of the joys of
| blessedness attempt but

Thread and Thrum Work Shop at}

the seaport town of Hyannis, Massa-
chusetts.

At first sight one exclaims, “Rag
carpeting! For all the world just like
Grandma Blank’s!”

And yet not so, for hers was fash-

incorporating them into stock
panies, he retaining controlling inter-
ests in each, what does this interest-

“start out on
the cities in
the Union numbering a population of
25,000 and over, in order to extol the
merits of his heart’s delight!

the road,” “making” all

one large store is selected in each

com- |}

single |

ric, apart from any mere eye-tickling
characteristic, commends itself to
every woman who values the well-
being of her household, as, while the
rugs lie soft and fluffy-appearing on
the floor, they are, in reality, as
tightly woven as a Brussels carpet.
As the women of a generation ago
good.” The looms are all foot-and-
hand power, as of old.

Hardware Trade Is a Trifle Less

Active.
After an unusually brisk spring
land early summer business in dis-

weather goods. and
hardware

trade is experiencing a slight dimin-

tinctly -warm
builders’ hardware, the
of business in
There is still, however, a
demand _ for

ution in the volume

all lines.
moderate

Most go ds,

| but manufacturers, jobbers and retail-

t is
Here is how the “tireless travelet |

of a manufacturer describes them:
“Soft snow-white rugs for the bath;
dainty, artistic, light-toned rugs in
pinks and greens to match the cre-
tonne-hung windows in my ladye’s
virile, dark-toned
rugs for den and hall and fireplace;

heavy,

| tailers

large, stunning, sunproof rugs for the |
iment of a slightly weaker undertone

veranda and the bungalow.”

And that reminds me of still an-|
other very excellent quality: All these |

many rugs, coverings and hangings
are tinted with vegetable dyes said
to be “fast colors,”
be beat upon by Old Sol or left out
over night in a drenching rain and yet
show no deleterious effect.

Samples of the Vudor porch shades
are also seen in the Spring exhibi-
tion window. These come in several

sizes to fit different veranda spaces

and are adapted to keep off the fierce
sun, to create a

rays ot the cozy

corner or to lend. an air of
sion to an otherwise too public site.
They are “light as a feather,” easily

so that they may |

seclu- |

put up and manipulated and form a

| fitting accompaniment of the Egles-

Only |

isuch city to represent the line, and |
|exclusive production, but space calls

ioned from cast-off strips of rags
sewed over-and-over two or three |
times to stay them, while these!
clean-looking rugs, portieres, couch

| been coaching an

: :
covers, sofa pillows, table scarfs, etc.. |

are made entirely from new mate-
rial—-cretonne and denim—not figur-
ed goods but solid colors. No pen

can depict their beauty, manufactur- |

ed as they are in both the softest of |
tones and the daringest of brilliant |

colors. The first are intended for
bedrooms and other dainty spots,
while the latter are for those receiv-
ing harder wear, requiring servicea-
ble colors that will not show soil—
for living rooms, dining rooms, dens,
piazzas, etc.

The use of rag carpeting for cur-
tains may seem a trifle odd and yet
it was exactly this use that suggest-
ed its practicability for the variety
of ways it is now employed.

It remained for a bachelor—a rich
bachelor with no occasion for his
immense wealth but to cater to his
own fads and whimseys—to discover
to the outside world the decorative
effect and wide utility of this “quaint,
sternly-serviceable old fabric.” The
more this non-Benedict contemplated
his temporarily-hung window shades
the more he became impressed with
the wide scope of the wrought stuff
And, too, he may have been influ-
enced by the growing popularitv of
the goods turned out by the Arts
and Crafts folk. At any rate, the
more he thought the matter over the
more determined he became to see if

 

he cares not which store it be so long
as it is a reputable and leading con-

cern. Mr. Egleston has no desire to

ton wares.
There’s a whole lot more to be de-
clared in favor of this bachelor-man’s

|a halt to my loquacious pen, so let us

iclose this eulogy with the wish, be

keep to “the road” forever and has|

understudy who

will soon take his place permanently. |

Two designers are employed, one for

each “work shop,” but all

must “pass muster’ with the bache- |

lor. It is mentioned that this latter

because he’s so thoroughly in love

with his merchandise, but that he

the goods are so appealing they sim- |
- | ready but the

ply sell themselves.

The Thread & = httum
“are available in
and desired.
woven seamless to a width of 12 feet
The us-

ual difficulty experienced in selecting

made every

weight

and to any length desired.”

a wa yaper first < aes onizing | a
21 wall paper first and a harm nizing | dogskins, get up
rarpet z rwards is easily spensed | os
carpet afterwards is easily dispensed | .4me to breakfast.

with, for, by sending a sample of the

wall covering, a large rug may be

obtained of the exact shades printed
on the

paper. And the buyer has

their art |

his proportions lean or goodly, that

his shadow never may become di-
minished!
————-_ >< _————
The Power of Language.

Converse D. Marsh

attention to the wisdom of applying

{the principle to the wording of ad-

only to wait a week or ten days to|

complete her room as to carpeting,

another item of convenience.
Elaborate patterns are employed

for “heavy” rooms and the simplest

of designs for places intended to con-| “I'll send it,” he announced, and as

vey a feeling of rest and coolness.
Screened porches for “breakfast
rooms” are charming when treated
in this manner, and, by covering the
table with a rag table mat, they may

be transformed into a darlingof a liv- | er,’

: | vertising:
really doesn’t have to say a word—|}

To illustrate: The breakfast

hope of the

was

from the foot of
“Willie! the
ablaze and our

morning refection

awaits your presence.” No reply be-
ing heard, the mother takes her place
and calls out: “William! You lazy
moment and
And still there
vaS no answer, whereupon the old
man stepped to the stairs and mere-
ly said: “Billt”’
the instant

this

“Coming, sir!’ was
response and in three

minutes a united family sat at the ta-

| ble.

a
Easy When You Know How.

Che druggist was plainly annoyed.

| the party left he called up the doctor.

|

“Got a_ prescription. It’s plain
enough, all but the last. What in
thunder is ‘Ne una dollara s. numo?’

“Without one dollar do not deliv-
translated the doctor, who had

ing room. The sanitation of the fab-|an eye to business.

rie is |
Orient is i but galvanized

ers are now being afforded a much-
needed breathing spell after the great
press of business which prevailed for
The jobbers and re-
replenish
stocks in

co many weeks.
continue to their

somewhat depleted many
lines although they are now becom-
ing extremely cautious in their buy
ing because of the

recent develop

in the market, but most merchants
are planning to buy heavily in the au
and the outlook for the fall
trade is exceedingly bright.

In the West the demand for hot

weather goods, such as_ ice

tumn

cream
freezers, refrigerators, awnings and
hammocks, continues in larger pro

Bast. Wire

cloth is also selling freely in all parts

portions than in the

of the country and the enquiry for
lawn mowers appears almost unabat
ed in many sections. The horse-pow
er and gasoline motor lawn mowers
are in better demand than for several
years, owing to the spread of the
many out-door games where smooth
and well kept lawns are a necessary
thing to the proper enjoyment of
the sports.

As the manufacturers of nails and
wire products increased their output
so greatly this year that the jobbing
and retail consumption has been un-

|able to assimilate the entire produc

tion, the small manufacturers are ex-

periencing considerable difficulty in

| finding a market for their wares and

jare being compelled in

many  in-

'stances to shade prices considerably

tells the fol- |
|lowing amusing story illustrative of
: : ithe force of language used, and calls |
does some tall talking on his rounds,
| Specifications on

|conductor pipe are

This price cutting, however, is in

dulged in only on carload lots for

shipment from the mill, and only a
few mills are practicing such shading
eaves trough and

being received

|freely by the manufacturers and the

family |
| was not; the sister, home from board- |

stcvindc |.
tiie ae
shade | the stairs:
The rugs are|

|

 

undertone of this market is fairly
steady. Scythes, hay forks and stee!
goods generally are selling freely,

sheets are offered at

|lower prices owing to the overpro

duction of this class of goods and th
declining price of refined spelter.

a
The World’s Trade.

The London of Trade las'

3oard

| week issued a bulletin giving a stm-
|mary of the

world’s trade for the
It shows that the import
of the United States for that
period was $1,079,070,000, while that
of the United Kingdom was $2,205.
200,000 and that of Germany $1,572.
745,000. The valte of the
from the United States was $1,425,-
155,000, from the United Kingdom
$1,.504,080,000, and from Germany

year 1904.
trade

exports

$1,293,275,000, from which it appears
that while the imports of the United
States were only one-half as great
in value as those of the United King-
dom, the exports were nearly as val-
uable.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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How the Japanese Soldiers Are Kept | but police statistics furnish confirma-| difference, was never reported at po-

The actual figures, based on a/|

Fit.

The student of military affairs who |

|

seeks an explanation of Japan’s vic- |
| fact, the reports of the police depart-

tories over the Russians will proba-

bly find it in the genius of the Jap-|

organization. Their
has been the of the individ
and they have made

anese for
efficiency
ual soldier;
efficient by lightening his equipment,
and by
fort their chief care.

health and com-

Their

making his

enable a soldier to march and

ail in

goal |

tion.
conservative calculation, are
more alarming than those

even
given. In

ments of the larger cities show that

in the twelve months just passed 16,- |

|o008 of the persons who disappeared

him |
as found,

during the year were never reported
but the shrewd police offi-

| cers, accustomed to the eccentricities

idea is to|
fight |

necessary. |

the same day, i
Water-bottle, canteen and mess-tin }
are all made of aluminum; and their
army boots are about one-fourth
lighter than the ordinary article but
not less durable. They are flexible
at the instep, and are made with a
view to ease m walking Ther

mostly of bamboo,
strength with a minimum of
At the

metal

stretchers, being
combine
stretcher

weight. ends of the

are light frames,
comfortable

and the

COVer at 4

above the patient;

supporting a}
distance |
whole, |

which weighs only twelve pounds, |
folds up automatically into a com-|

i. |
pact shape adapted to rapid trans- |

p rtation.

In looking out for the}
a }]

health and fitness of the soldier, the
Japanese have overlooked no detail, |
from the tin box of creosote pills,

as a prophylactic against
to the the
summer, or the sheepskin
This
remarked,

m<¢ squito-net for

for winter.

should be is not

luxury; in view of its efficiency as a

dysentery, |

head in|
waistcoat |
mosquito-net, it |
a freakish |

protection against malaria, it is a hy- |

ap- |

gienic necessity. An article of
parel worthy of note is the great-|
coat. Whether it be of summer or

winter weight the free

front slope outward, forming a

knees. In fair weather
cloth is
marc

for the
buttoned back for
The
hood

surplus of
convenience in hing.

ter overcoat, which has a

a fur-lined collar, is intended
a man warm in the

cold

toe-caps and special mitts which hang

Indeed, for extreme there

edges in|
cover |
this |

win- |
and
to keep |
coldest weather. |
are j

from the neck by cords to prevent
their being lost when removed for|
Ge . |
firing or other purposes. All articles |

of the best
buttons as possible

of clothing are
and as few
flat hooks and eyes being sub-
khaki suit has no but-
to the food, the
and all other pro-

used,
stituted. The
tons whatever. As

famous rice-cake

visions are carried in their lightest
and most condensed form. Vegeta-

carrots, beans,
dried to

insure

bles—sliced potatoes,

gourds, etc.—are diminish
preservation.
solid cakes or

various meats and fish are in

their weight and

Tea, salt, ete, are in

cubes;
hermetically sealed cans; and even
the fodder for the horses is specially
drying. Uhe

which

prepared by
Chinese camp-kettle,
ble sides, enables the Japanese sold-
boil

copper
has dou-
gale.
the
being heated between the two

ier to water even in a
Charcoal is burned on the inside,
water
layers of copper.
——_—~»- +
They Drop Out of Sight.

More than 5,000 persons annually
disappear in the United States and are
never heard from again. At first
blush the assertion seems incredible,

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it is reasonably certain that |

more than 5,000 persons were swal-|

lowed up in oblivion.

| live in village,

7|the kind concerning either

The tragedies of real life hidden |
within these peculiar cases, if they
could but be brought to light, would

rival many of the novels penned by
No sub-
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THE ONE THING NEEDFUL.

It is stated with more or. less truth
that once on a time when a certain
valedictorian with the conceit of the
average graduate placed in the pater-
nal hands the proof of his leadership
at college the old man perused the
document carefully and then, looking
at the expectant son over his specta-
cles, remarked, “Well, what of it?
The statistics are all right, as far as
they go: but if this is what you have
been working for, my son, your four
years are about the same as thrown
away.
thing to have in the family; but un-
less you have made up your mind to
make what this is supposed to stand
for, a pretty fair beginning for a
successful something else, I wouldn't
give shucks for it. Come on out and
help get in that hay!”

The incident is worth
only as it tends to bring out the fact
that scholarship, as such, is hardly
worth the gaining; and yet there are
too many valedictorians who
home—who will
the month—with
plished and satisfied with what they
have done are ready to pose for the
rest of their lives as a family orna-
ment, to be set up with the other
sacred things in the parlor and cher-
ished out of all proportion to their
real value.

came
come home during

life’s aim accom-

There is an idea often expressed
about the valedictorian that for some
reason or other he never amounts to
much. In college he is always cock-
ed and primed for the text-book ques-
tion and professor and class leader
equally exult as the high mark goes
down; but when the prescribed course
is finished the class leader is finished
just in proportion as he has studied
for high marks and has made the get-
ting them the end and aim of his col-
lege life. He leaves college a little
narrower than he went in. For the
sake of his high standing he has cut
himself off from the influences which
only could make a man of him and the
painstaking drill and the careful de-
votion to details which thorough
scholarship regards as the foundation
of every future triumph are minimiz-
ed if not lost by the mistaken idea
that the high mark is the thing in it-
self to be gained at any sacrifice.

 

 

the telling |

|man of any

 

This deplorable mistaking the
means for the end is getting to be
looked upon as a feature purely Amer-
ican. A thing to be “worth shucks”
must have a commercial value to be
appreciated and that value must have
a noticeable present worth. So while
in a general way schooling is “all that
it’s cracked up to be,” and high col-
lege standing is a good thing to have,
the boy in the ninth grade, scowling
over his algebra and his Caesar, is
apt to ask with considerable solici-
tude what the value of x or the con-
jugation of a Latin verb has to do
with a fellow’s getting along in the
world, a_ solicitude which kept up
will make him as big a failure as his
brother who comes home with his
ideal realized in the valedictory.

It is a delight to declare that the
man who has never been to college
and the man who has will find a com-
mon standing ground when they com-
pare the elements which have entered
largely into the success which they
have won and which the appreciative
world awards and _ that
ground is an early formed determina-
tion to get the best out of himself
that is in there. That strikes square-
ly at the root of the whole matter and
hits it. There is never any let-up.
There is no working for marks, the

common

lowest and the meanest motive that
can inspire the student heart. Ath-
letics may and should drift in—they

| are only a means to be made the most
A valedictorian may be a good |

of—to round out and to fill up the
earnest manhood which is determined
to be ready when the time comes for
the first class job that is waiting for
every human soul, and it makes no
difference, so that it is obtained,
whether the preparation has been ac-
One
thing is certain, the winner of a prize

quired in college or out of it.

worth winning has gone after it tooth
and nail. There has been no daw-
dling and the successful business man
can shake hands with the successful
other calling and each can
congratulate the other for doing with
all his might in all its details the task
of brain or muscle which each had
te meet and overcome.

The little, undersized Japs furnish
a case in hand. For years they have
been looked down upon with some-
thing less than contempt. Everybody
was against them and when they had
fought a good fight with all their
might. they were forced to give up
what they fought for for a woman’s
The Japs may be
the yellow peril—their enemies de-

reason—because!

clare saffron yellow—but humanity
has no finer model to follow than they
gave in that trying period of their
national life. They started in again.
They learned how to march and they
learned how to fight and they learned
how to win. To their undoubted cour-
age and their unswerving determina-
tion they added the one thing need-
ful, years of patient, painstaking drill.
never asking, What is all this worth?
and never wondering what it has to
do with the accomplishment of the
far-off hope, and at last! at last! the
glad day dawns when the Russian
army is swept from the face of the
sarth and the Russian navy is sunk
in the Japan Sea and Japan, “rousing

herself like a strong man from sleep
and shaking his invincible locks,”
again asserts her rights and again
proclaims to the world that to the
nation in earnest and to the man in
earnest there is nothing to hinder
from getting exactly what they will.

It is not the valedictory then, nor
the college behind it, that does the
business. It is the indomitable spirit
—the one thing needful of the man
who makes the most of his advan-
tages that makes him a prize-winner,
be those advantages what they may.

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TOWN MEETING TRIUMPH.

To those of us who are so old
writing
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that spelling schools and
schools where “each pupil
pected to bring his own candle” are

delightful as memories, the recent
and overwhelming town meeting

triumph in Philadelphia is as a per-
fect deluge of the sunlight of hope.

When such a complete and abso-
lutely convincing victory is record-
ed in behalf of the real voice of the
people and in such a great city as
Philadelphia, there can not be a sin-
gle really loyal and patriotic citizen
in any municipality in this country
who will make the claim that a simi-
lar result is impossible for the town
in which he lives.

There isn’t a citizen anywhere
who is worthy the name who does
not know positively and quite in de-
tail the ring rule methods and prac-
tices which cause the scandals so
common to American cities and their
governments. such
citizens know that a very prominent

Moreover, all

factor in giving success to such dis-
honest methods and practices is the
lack of individual and personal par-
ticipation in the preliminary proceed-
ings political on the part of really
patriotic citizens.

These facts being common proper-
ty, it is inconceivable that any right-
minded citizen can fail to feel the
the town meeting demon-
stration in  Philadelphia—a city
which, within a night as it were, has
arisen from

force of

the stigma of being a
Horrible Example to the dignity and
glory of giving to the cities of the
United States a new Declaration of
Independence.

 

The flag which Norway has now
unfurled is the old war flag stripped
of the emblems of royalty and of
union with Sweden. It is red, with
a broad cross of blue bordered with
white dividing it into four sections,
ending like an oriflamme, with two
red points above and below and a
blue point of the cross between. The
old flag bore in the upper angle next
the pole the emblem of union, a de-
vice containing the red, blue and
white of Norway and the blue and
yellow of Sweden, and in the center

the royal coat-of-arms.

 

One of the wise saws of the Japan-
ese is this: “First the man takes a
drink, then the drink takes a drink,
then the drink takes the man.”

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Lots of girls with expensive diplo-
mas didn’t learn a thing at college
but how to make fudge.

 

 

FLOWER OF UNIONISM.

The disclosures made before the
grand jury in Chicago during the
past week are educational, so far as
the aims and objects of unionism go.
The disclosures conclusively
that the strike of the teamsters was
not due to any grievance, but solely
to the fact that Shea, the notorious
leader of the teamsters’ union, was
paid $10,000 in cash by one mail or-
der house to declare a strike on an-

show

other mail order house. Because the
wholesale dealers of Chicago would
not refuse to deliver goods to the
boycotted house—boycotted because
Shea had paid $10,000 by a
competitor to institute the strike and
declare the boycott—they were also
placed under the ban and _ suffered
from the strike to the extent of mil-

been

lions of dollars. As a result Chicago
has lost trade to the amount of $50,-
000,000; the city of Chicago and the
county of Cook have been compell-
ed to undergo an expense of $2,000,-
ooo in endeavoring to maintain order;
450 people have sent to the
brutal
have been committed by union men,

been
hospital; seventeen murders
and the reputation of Chicago has
suffered in the estimation of the
world because of the chaos. and
anarchy which have prevailed as the
result of Shea accepting a bribe and
establishing his headquarters at a
house of prostitution, from which he
issued his orders to his henchmen
and victims.

This is unionism, pure and simple,
and the experience of Chicago in this
strike is the experience of every
other city which has had to face a
similar outbreak.

Unionism is the same the world
over. The moment a man joins a
union he leaves honor behind and be-
comes a law-breaker, a social out-
cast, a liar, a thief and a murderer.

It is not unusual for people to ex-
cuse and palliate unionism by saying
that the Chicago is
due to excesses which might not be
This

Unionism

experience of
peculiar to every community.
is a fallacious argument.
in Grand Rapids or Detroit is the
same as in New York and Chicago
The bad men forge their way to the
front, and the poor fools who pay the
dues and bow

their necks to the
yoke simply

furnish the sinews 0!
The moment they join a union
they are taught that the edicts and
orders of the union leader must be
obeyed—that, whether

structed to steal a document or maim

war.

they are in-

a non-union man or murder a strike-
breaker, it is their duty to obey in-
structions and not to ask why.

So long as there is a vestige of
country industrial
peace and prosperity will be impossi
ble. Until the great consuming pub-
lic scotch the serpent we will never
know what it is to enjoy the liberty
Con-

unionism in this

vouchsafed us by the Federal
stitution.

 

The trouble with a dead sure thing
is that it is generally more dead than
sure.

 

A man with a fiery temper is not
necessarily warm hearted,

 

 

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—

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

GOVERNOR LUCE.

Tender Tribute to His Memory by
Lifelong Friend.

On the 18th day of March, 1905,
at his home in the city of Coldwater,
Governor Luce died, a young man at
the age of 80 years.

Young, because in spirit and intel-

burning to the last.

Seldom does the chronicler

and |

|that give him shade and the
lect the youthful fires were brightly |

historian take up his pen to write, un- |

til high official honors or military
glory have brought distinction.

We stand at the foot of the moun-
tain and admiringly look up at its jut-

iin his

ting crags and snow-capped peaks; |
but it seems to me that the best part |

of the mountain, after all, is its firm
base and the fertile hills and valleys
that stretch away at its foot.

The valleys are made rich because |
the old mountains have been washed |

and storm beaten in the long years
that have gone before.

Cyrus G. Luce was born at Wind- |

sor, Ashtabula county, Ohio, July 2, |

1824.
parents.
father’s
woods of

moved into’ the

county,

family he
Steuben
where all the privations of pioneer
life were encountered. His first two
winters of schooling were there pass-
house built of tama-
rack poles. He afterward attended
a small academy at Ontario for three
school education

ed in a school

where his
was finished.
The balance of his time was spent

years,

He had God-fearing Christian |
At 12 years of age, with his |

Indiana, |

in helping to clear the farm and in|
driving a freight team to Toledo, a|

distance of about one hundred miles.

When the older boys left home to;
I

work for themselves, it became his
portion to remain with his father and
mother and to help care for the
younger children. Until 24 years of
age he stayed at home, among
other duties looked little
wool carding and cloth dressing mill
his father had built by a little stream.
Such mills are now only remember-
ed by the few early pioneers
remain with us.

Early he had become inspired with
the sentiment:

I live for those who love me

For those who know me true,

For the heaven that smiles above me
And waits my coming, too,

For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrongs that need resistance,
For the future in the distance,

For the good that I can do.

At the age of 24 years he bought
eighty acres of new land in Gilead
township, Branch county, and from
that time until he became Governor
of the State his residence and his la-
bors were there. His farm was eigh-
teen miles from Coldwater, the coun-
ty seat, and ten miles from the near-
est railway station.

There were his flocks and herds,
there he saw his acres increase.
There were his neighbors and, best of
all, there came to him his children.

and
aiter a

who

There was his home, his heaven on |

earth.
About him he saw the church spires

rise from the country wayside, the | |
|took its name under the sturdy oaks |
|

school house and Grange hall not far
away.
his farm grow fertile and productive,

He saw not only the soil of |

 

better to him, his neighborhood dad
surrounding people grow rich in
thought, in morals and in social im-
provement.

Henry W. Grady says that: “The
germ of the truest patriotism is the |
love a man has for the home he in-
habits, the soil he tills, for the trees
hills
that stand in his pathway—the love
of home, deep rooted and abiding.”

If to-day you were to go with me}
out to that country home, stop wher- |
ever you willed, enquire of any with- |
wide environs, you would
but one sentiment: “He was
worthy of every honor his country- |
men ever bestowed upon him.”

hear

Forty years neighbors in the open
country and men know each other. |
All true greatness must be _ builded |

from within or it will perish and die. |

Governor Luce, loved as he was by our

people, as the chief executive of this |

great State, was no greater, better or |-

braver there than when he was fol- |
lowing his plow, when he was help- |
ing the poor and living the happy
exemplary life he did in his rural |
home in Gilead. The glamour and/}
apparel of office wrought no change |
in the character or manner of Gov-}

ernor Luce.

In life the true love, esteem and
honor of one close friend who knows |
us best is worth that of a thousand |
whose friendship must be gained by|

favor. No stan ever had richer or |

| more abiding friendship at home than |

did Governor Luce.
When the Republican party first |

of Michigan, Cyrus G. Luce, with his
brother Whigs, was ready to enlist.

but he helped and saw what was yet|He was elected Representative in

 

1854 to the first Republican Legisla-
ture of this State and from that time
until he died he never ceased his al-
legiance to that party and always
marched under its banner. The off- |
ces he held at home, in the Senate,
in the Constitutional Convention, the
honors he held by appointment are
all familiar and matters of record.

We sometimes question how men
have gained their distinction and
fame and by what pathway they have
climbed to the summit.

The heights look tempting, but the

|rocky, winding paths leading up to
|them so often grow wearisome or

over-dangerous with temptation that

|men tire or fall before they reach

the goal.

Long before Governor Luce dream-
ed of executive honors he had earned

the warm and lasting friendship of

the farming classes of Michigan.
It was not to gain a kingdom that |

Governor Luce urged his aggrarian
friends to organize for their educa-
tional and social advancement. He
saw the forces that were moving the
modern world segregating and or-
ganizing, and thereby exerting a pow-
er that as independent units would
be lost. He saw the great prevailing
class to which he belonged little else
than willing consumers and compet-
He believed that in
some manner their sympathies, am-
bitions, hopes and
be bettered by concert of action and

ing producers.

condition would
by unity of purpose.
This thought he burned upon a

thousand altars over the State.

More than 2,000 years ago Spurius

| Cassius proposed the first aggrarian
SS

law by which each plebeian common-

ér. with other Romans, was to be
given four and one-half acres of the
public lands. The Nobles
controlled the government
claimed all conquest their

own and

Patrician
who
lands as
opposed such recognition
of the men who had tilled the lands
and fought the battles. The law was
passed, however, but only to be de-
feated in its execution. A false charge
against
was tried in a court of Patrician No

g
was preferred Cassius, Ee

bles, condemned to die, scourged by

Roman lictors and thrown from the

Tarpeian Rock.

Thankful are we to-day that civili

zation in this twentieth century does

not ostracize the man who toils be-
f

cause of his sympathy for his ple-

that
we live in a land where plebeian and

beian friend, and thankful also

patrician are upon level ground.
Gevernor Luce was patriotic ii
every utterance and sentiment. He

had no use for anarchy, for commun

ism or for socialism as understood.

So considerate, so zealous and so fair
was he in presenting the cause he ad
vocated that he won the friendship
and
into his

ésteem of all classes who came
Presence.

When he aspired to become a can-
Governor his

didate for the office of

become a household word
State. In
country he

name had
throughout the city, vil-

lage and had gone into
the homes of
him. At gatherings,
on the stump for his party’s candi-

dates. on days of memorial

our people until they

knew farmers’
and of
independence he had gone over the
State and
platforms.

spoken from a_ thousand

Wherever he went and

 

 

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upon whatever subject he spoke, he
carried conviction with him. He nev-
er took a position for the sake of
alone. He may have been
wrong in judgment, but in purpose,
never. He was always sincere and
earnest. His fervor and frankness
burned their way into the hearts of
men. He had a well filled store-
house of choice but plain language.
soul fettered

policy

His great never
with anything mean. He
haunted by ghosts nor by closet skele-
tons threatening to appear.

was

dire threats nor rich promises could
move him from the course his sense
of right marked out.

He never surrendered his
tions upon questions that must be
weighed upon the scales of con-
science. All other
governmental policy, where honest
opinions might differ, he was ready
to consider.

His boat never drifted
upon the sea of public
Sometimes, in rough weather, he
plowed his way into the white-capped
waves when the spray was lifted into
public view; but when the storm was
over and the sea had calmed, it was
generally found that his course was
right; but if, perchance, he had mis-
taken his bearings, none was readier
than he to obey the voice of the
whole people, the
every true citizen.

He made mistakes, but he was big
enough and manly enough to ac-
knowledge them when convinced of
his error. Vigorous and thoughtful
men think and have opinions. Some-
times they mistake their premises and
reach. wrong conclusions. Other men

aimlessly

for a time become more popular be- |

cause they feed only on predigested
opinions.
or left dress and never at front.

The safety of the republic is in |

men of thought, men of honor and
men of courage. Better to have brains
and use them, better to have opinions
and express them when occasion re-
quires, better to be active and some-
times wrong, than to be a parrot in
somebody’s cage.

There come times when the truest
and best of patriots who are holding
the reins of state begin to question
if, after all, popular government is
not a failure. Governor Luce never
lost his abiding faith in a govern-
ment by the people.

ed by corruption. He had profound
respect for the men who honestly
differed with him, and he courted
only the same indulgence from
others. Broad, generous and active,
he purposed, wrought and died a liv-
ing factor in society and in the State
he loved.

He was a profound student of his-
tory. The shelves of his library
were not sO many nor so long as
those of others less cultured. The
bindings upon his books were not
in gold or morocco, but there were
the stories of the nations, their be-
ginnings, their struggles, mistakes

nnn at sha

was not}

convic: |

questions of|

opinion. |

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commander of}

They are always at right |

His only fear |
was that in some way their power |
might become impotent or weaken- |

and triumphs. There were books of
| biography and science, and so famil-
liar was he with his book-case
friends that almost every page had
held frequent converse with him.

| It is doubtful if any man in the
| State was ever from reading and as-
sociation better acquainted with pub-

ernor Luce during the last twenty- |
He knew al-|

five years of his life.
| most every man in both
and what he was doing. He always |
faithfully the Legislature |
of his own State and could name the
members from the different districts
land recall their votes upon important

followed

| questions. This great State and her

interests had become a part of his
| life.

| From boyhood to the grave Cyrus
|G. Luce was a busy, active man.
| Every harness of labor fitted him and
| never galled. The only eulogy he

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craved expressed to a |
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|

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| ever was
|friend a few days before he died
when he said, “When I am gone |]
|hope it may be said of me that I|
| have been industrious.”
Every distinction that came to him |
| he earned through industry, and he |
When he be-
|came Governor he moved with his |
'family to the Capital and during the |
|four years he filled that office early |
|and late he was found at his desk. |

To him public office was not only |
a public trust but it was a constant |
trust.

Michigan may well be proud of her |
illustrious governors. No state has
been more fortunate. “Tuebor” (1
will defend) has been the living
shield they have borne against pri-
|vate greed and public wrong; and
|faithfully it was carried by him of
| whom we speak to-day, the one who
last fell to sleep.

In the long years to come the fires
will yet burn brightly upon the al-
ars of memory for Governor Luce.

He was exemplary. He was worthy

| wore it with honor.

of remembrance and of emulation in
home. He was temperate. al-
ways. His intercourse with men was
pure. His lips were clean.
it was buoyant and hopeful.
honest and truthful, congenial and
cpen hearted. The warmth of his
hand and his sincere welcome made
all men feel that his hearthstone was
theirs also.

When he had finished his labors
as Governor of the State he took up
his residence at Coldwater, and there
spent the remainder of his days.

The late afternoon of his life saw
the beautiful ripening of old age. His
mind was clear, his eye was bright
and his robust constitution yet lin-
gered with him.

But a few short weeks before he
died, I saw him rise to speak at a
public assemblage.
burned as of old. His grasp of
thought, his command of language,
his application, his store-house of
| knowledge were then as always the
marvel of those who knew him best.
Through life he was the embodiment
of manly simplicity and whether be-
hind his plow or upon the platform

any

 

 

His spir- |
He was |

The fires within |

lic men and with public events of}
. |
the State and Nation than was Gov}

| Houses of |

| Congress, from what State he came |
Whether “Peace hath higher tests |

of manhood than battle ever knew,” |

I do not know, but this is true, no |

 

before the cultured and refined, he | The Grand Rapids

was always the same plain man, free | Sheet [etal & Roofing Co.

from all affectation. | Manufacturers of Galvanized Iron Cornice,
Less than a year ago I went with Steel Ceilings, Eave Troughing, Conductor
ai . hi c Gilead farm, | Pipe, Sky Lights and Fire Escapes.
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again over the fields where
foot had felt his tread.
plowing for corn.

every

The air was fra-

grant with perfume from the blos- |

soming fruit trees he had planted,

and then turning to me, with eyes}

full of shining memories that I could ‘tracted for the sale of his clothing

not read, he said: “Do you wonder

that this is the most loved spot on|

earth to me?”

There are no friends like the old friends
World wander as we may.

The heart grows young at the mystic |

spell,
And love - its ebb takes a wonderous
swel
As we drink from memory’s dear old well,
And live over our life’s young day.
Governor Luce was a
church attendant.
Christian religion and practiced

virtues. He had strong and abiding

faith in a divine ever-present over- |

ruling Providence.
One _ thing I have yet omitted:

The

guiding star that led him on through |
How many times I have heard |
the sweet words from his own lips |
I can not tell, for tributes of love |

life.

are not counted. His star was no

brighter than a million others that il- |

lumine the sky, but his star was his
Venus. It was the memory of a pa-
tient, loving Christian mother.
ther he ascribed all that he was, to her
he gave all the praise.

Such influence and such reflections
are sweeter than fame.
perishable. They never die.

Governor Luce climbed the heights
alone. He honored his calling.

down to rest he was covered with the

love and esteem of his countrymen.
We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.

Milo Campbell.

——_» + >
Made a Good Trade.

Years ago when the stages used to
stop at East Lebanon, N. H., the tav- |

ern was kept by Landlord Barns. One

fall the landlord had just buried his |

wife, and the travelers pitied him.
When the next fall came and one of
the travelers
landlord: “I have pitied you all this
year for losing your wife. It was a
hard blow.”

“T don’t know about that,” replied
the landlord. “I married another
woman with a boy big enough to
work and $500. I made a good trade.”

—__.

Innocence that is advertised usually

hides some iniquity.

Men were |

constant |
He believed in the |
its |

To!

They areim- |

He}
honored his State and when he lay |

arrived he said to the |

| econ Trade Changes in the Hoo-
sier State.

| Crocker—J. M. Tennery & Co. have
moved their stock of general
|chandise to Wheeler.
Decatur—Gus Rosenthal has. con-
{and furnishing stock.

|tate has sold out its cigar box manu-
| facturing business.
Indianapolis—The capital
ithe Capital Rattan Co., which does a
manufacturing business, has been in-
i creased to $50,000.

business formerly conducted by J. O.
Warner, will be continued in future
by Warner & Lamb.

Lafayette—The Shafor-Crum
l|has changed its name to the J. C.
Shafer Grocery Co.

Mitchell—Emmett Brown is
ceeded in the furniture business
Brown & West.

Royal Center—C. L. Bader & Co.
continue the general merchan-
| dise business formerly conducted by
| L. B. Beckley.
Seymour—The general

| will

merchan-

dise business formerly conducted by |

| Tormoheen & Kamman will be con-
tinued by the Gold Mine Store.
South Bend—The drug _ business
'formerly conducted by Reuben Fink
| will be continued in future under the
style of the Economical Drug Store.
Columbia City—H. M. Bargstein,
|clothier and dealer in shoes and furn-
ishings, has made an assignment.

Hobart—The stock of E. M. Pas- |

|sow, dealer in general merchandise,
|is in the hands of a receiver.

—_+-+.__—_
Business Changes

Buckeye State.

Cincinnati—The , Cincinnati Choco-
late Co., which manufactured candy,
ihas gone out of business.
Dayton—FE. S. Cowen will continue
ithe merchant tailoring business form-
erly conducted by DeBra & Cowen.

Dayton—Robert Geppert, dealer in
groceries, meats and feed, is  suc-
ceeded by Chas. Frey.

Metz—Fred Barber will continue
the general store business formerly
conducted by W. B. McGraw.

Lemoyne—H. H. Dennis, dealer in
general merchandise, is dead.

Mount Orab—G. Moon & Son are
succeeded in the sawmill business by

iG. Vi Hughes.

| Recent in

mer- | c
|

Fort Wayne—The W. H. Davis Es- |

stock of |

Indianapolis—The cigar and news|

Co: |

suc- |
by |

the

Cleveland—Fineberg &
manufacturers of clothing,
solved partnership, Jacob
ontinuing the business.

Wolpaw,
have dis-
Wolpaw

Newark—The Hoover Ball Co.,
| which does a wholesale bicycle supply
| business, has increased capital
k to $100,000.

wm

its
| stoc
Springheld—Gordon &
succeeded in the grocery
business by J. A. Currie.
Trotwood—The Estate
Landes is succeeded by the _ Trot-
wood Lumber Co., which will deal
|in lumber, coal and builders’ supplies.

Son
and

are
meat

of Joseph

Cleveland—Two
been brought against
Cereal Co.,
other for $160.

judgments have
the Buckeye
one for $200 and_ the
Cleveland—A petition in bankrupt-
icy has been filed by the creditors of
| Julius Kohn, dealer in dry goods and
notions.

whole-
a

Dayton—Phillip Kemper,
saler of trimmings, has
real estate mortgage for

released
$15,000.

Dayton—Phillip Reith, retail gro-
cer and baker, has uttered a real es-
|tate mortgage for $3,500.

Dayton—A chattel mortgage for
$850 has been uttered by Gus A. Sig-
ritz, manufacturer of mineral water.

Defiance—The LaFave Arms Co.,
which manufactures guns, has uttered
'a chattel mortgage for $2,850.

Manchester—-A petition in
ruptcy has been filed by the creditors
of A. Marks, clothier.

Toledo—The creditors of F. G. Col-
grocer and meat
filed a petition in bankruptcy.

—___. ss ___
The Care of the Typewriter.

One of the best means of keeping
a machine in good order is never to
use the eraser, or if it is necessary
the

bank-

lins, dealer, have

to make an occasional erasure,

carriage should be drawn to one side. |

This will prevent the shavings from
dropping into the type mechanism of

the machine. The rubber of the eras-

ler is injurious to the machine for two

reasons: First. one of the ingredi-
ents of the rubber is powdered glass
ot fine sharp sand, either of which
is wearing on the machine; second,
the rubber is dissolved by the oil on
the machine, which enables it to work
into the very finest parts, and then
when it dries it hardens, thus giving
a sluggish movement to the action of

| the machine.

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on your walls with

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Late State Food Commissioner

{ Advisory Counse! to manufacturers and
jobbers whose interests are affected by
ithe Food Laws of any state. Corres-
| pondence invited.

| agai Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich

Sort up Your Glass Stocks

It will pay you to order

now.

There was one advance on the 12th of this month and every tendency is

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Jobbers are Begging Manufacturers to get them Saleable Sizes

You know what a shortage of glass means. Be the one in your town who has the stock. Order now, and profit by it.

Grand Rapids Glass & Bending Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Office and Warehouse, 199, 201, 203 Canal St.

Bent Glass Factory, Kent and

Newberry Sts.

 

MICHIGAN

 

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

in Refrigeration of
Dairy Products.*

Investigations

I know it is a disappointment to
the members of your Association not
to be able to hear an address from
Major Henry E. Alvord, who spoke
so interestingly to you last year. We
all regret his untimely death and no
He was a very
able man with a broad knowledge |
of all that pertained to his work in|

one more than my self.

the department. I think there is no
that
American in dairy circles. His
genial nature and_ kindheartedness
endeared him to all whom he
was associated. When asked by one
of your officers to appear before you
to-day I felt that it might be out of
place for me to attempt to give you
the results of something I have had
very little to do with, having been
in the department only about a year.
I consented, however, on condition |
that I would discuss the matter from
the standpoint of an outsider
make suggestions from that point of |
view.

question but he was the _ best

known

with

and |

It may be well to give a brief re
of the work of the Dairy Divi-
relative to the refrigerating of
dairy products before discussing the
more recent investigations. In 1902-
1903 our division carried on co-opera-
tive experiments with the New York
and Wisconsin stations in the cold
curing of cheese, the object being to}
study on a commercial scale under |
influence

view
sion

commercial conditions the
of different temperatures
during the process. |
About five and one-half were
used in the experiment and all types
American cheese obtained
from the firm typical Ched-
dar cheese, suitable for export, to the
bodied moist cheese in-|
tended for early consumption.
Cheeses of different sizes were also}
included, their weight ranging from
12% to 7o pounds. Three tempera-
tures, namely, 40 deg., 50 deg.
60 deg. were used. The commercial |
quality of the produce was determin- |
ed by a jury of experts who were |
thoroughly in touch with the de-|
mands of the market. The
tages of curing cheese at a low tem- |
perature were very apparent and may
be thus summarized: (1) The loss)
of moisture is less at low tempera- |
tures and therefore there is more!
cheese to sell. (2) The commercial
quality. of cheese cured at low tem-|
peratures is better and this results |
in giving cheese a high market value.
The difference in quality was confin- |
ed in most cases to flavor and tex-|
ture, the color and finish being little |
or not at all affected in cheese that |
was in good condition at the begin- |
ning. (3) Cheese can be held along |
time at low temperatures without |
impairment of quality. (4) The com- |
|

upon the

cheese curing

tons

were
ranging

soit

open

and

advan-

 

*Paper read by C. B. Lane, Acting Chief |

| cheese

lcuring of cheese the

| suffered at the

iwas 2

| : ;

a quality of cheese covered
| with paraffine was favorably influ- |
enced. The loss of moisture was|

greatly lessened and the cheese was
perfectly clean and free from mold

while all the cheeses not treated with |

paraffine were covered with mold.
(5) By utilizing the combination of
paraffining cheese and curing at low |
temperatures the greatest economy
effected.
that the

can be

the idea time may come

in the near future when cheese will |
be shipped to cold storage immedi- |

The curing of
instead of being the
the cheesemaker, would be-
branch of the warehouse
The results are sufficient

a considerable

after making.

the cheese,

ately
then,
work of
come a
business.
to warrant expendi-
ture on the part of cheese producers
in installing cold
The principle of increasing cost of
equipment to lessen cost of produc-
tion or

curing

augment gross earnings is
recognized as a sound financial meth-

The results suggest |

stations. |

w. C. Rea A. J. Witzig

REA & WITZIG

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

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

| Marine National Bank, Commercial Agents, Express Companies
Shippers

Established 1873

Poultry Wanted

Trade Papers and Hundreds oi

 

 

 

 

od by all large enterprises, and, while |

the expense involved is considerably |

Our new Poultry Feeding Plant

more than is incurred under existing |

yet the advantages enu-
than

conditions,

merated more

completed.

compensate for}

such expense when carried out under |

proper conditions.

Last winter we conducted an ex-
periment in the storing of cheese as
distinct from curing. This work was
entirely new and I shall simply dis-
cuss the experiment in a_ general
conducted with the

view of making a trial to be followed

way. it was

by more extensive work later. The|

interest
to the merchant, the purchaser and
the holder of the cheese,
experiments two years ago in curing
were more for the benefit of
the maker. With this object in view
1s@ cheeses were collected in New
York, weighing in the neighborhood
tons, and

points tested were of more

while the

of three

rooms specially fitted and placed at|

our disposal for this purpose at tem-
peratures of 40 deg.,
deg.

all cheese

and a few
merchants)
deg.
ough freezing would

even although we spoiled a
few cheeses in securing it.
of cheese included
Cheddar, flats and Young Americas.

As in the experiments in the

used

cold
influence of a
range of temperature upon the quali-

l ty as determined by flavor and tex-|

distributed in|

34 deg. and 28}
(to the surprise of |
placed at 5]
It was not expected that thor- |
improve the}
icheese, but we wanted to know the
| result
The types |

ordinary |

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

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

We furnish coops. Write us for prices.

 

 

Empire Produce Company
Port Huron, Mich.

Butter

 

 

ture scores was studied and data se-|

cured regarding the loss in weight
which the different lots of cheese
different tempera-

tures. I wish to say here that in this

|}experiment we had no difficulty in

holding the temperatures reasonably
uniform throughout the test. At one
temperature the’ greatest variation
degrees. The effect of
coating the cheese paraffine
was also noted. The results were in
some respects quite similar to those
secured in the cold curing
ment.

with

experi-

This is a matter of much practical |

of the Dairy Division, U. S. Department |importance and was very carefully |

of Agriculture at convention American
Warehousemen’s Association.

studied. Opportunity was thus

I would like all che fresh, sweet dairy

butter of medium quality you have to

send,

|

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

losses in
temperatures with

employed. This
shrinkage results in a heavy tax to

afforded to compare the
weight at low
those commonly

|
|
|

| temperatures.

compared with the cheese at lower
All the cheese scored

| high, some reaching 99 1-3 after being

| stored eight

the producer, and any factor which |

reduces these losses increases there-
by the total receipts from the milk
produced. Aside

from the tempera-

‘The cheese
that was paraffined when put in stor-

age scored a fraction higher than the

months.

| uncoated at times, but the difference

ture I may say the size and form of |

the cheese, protection of the external
surface and the humidity of the air
are factors which exert a more or less
influence upon the rate at which a
cheese losses its water content

ing storage.

|reduced the shrinkage the

dur- |

was too slight to be of any practical

importanée. As _ paraffining greatly

beneficial
effect of the treatment is obvious.
The rapid introduction of the method
in practice further at-

It should be added

commercial

tests its values.

|that very little mold appeared upon

The losses considered include only |

those which took place after
cheese reached the cold-storage room.

As already stated, weighings were ac-

the |

cheese, and on some

none at all, while the judges report-

the paraffined

led heavy mold upon the unparaffined,

| particularly where stored at low tem-

curately made when the cheese went |
| mittee storing the cheese was that it

into storage, and for practical pur-

poses it was deemed

desirable to |

know losses which occurred at stat- |

ed periods.

The weights of a num-|

ber of each style cheese were there- |

fore determined at
months from October 12 to June 12,
the

moisture

ended.
at
temperature in every case.

when experiment
the low

Cheddar

cheese stored at 28 deg. Fahrenheit

loss. of is less

intervals of two|
|at a temperature of 5

The |

decreased in weight in eight months |

2.88 per cent., while that stored at

34 deg. Fahrenheit lost nearly twice |
as much and that stored at 4o deg. |

more than twice as much.

This sav-

ing in a factory making 500 pounds |

oi eheese daily or by a dealer han-

ling that amount would
about 15 pounds of cheese per day,

where 28 deg. were employed rather

average

than 4o deg.
this different
and type of cheese were used and as
expected the
“Young Americas,”

In experiment

would naturally be

smaller cheeses,

size |

for example, lost more than the large |

Cheddars, and the range. of loss be- |

the
peratures was greater than was the

tween

case with the large cheeses and

highest and lowest tem- |
| bitter

amounted to over five pounds in 100. |

By coating the Cheddars (weight 63 |
| won't handle cheeses in any quanti-

—y

to 72

the losses at 4o deg.

pounds) with melted paraffine

Were

more than one-third, at 34 deg. about |
deg. the |
paraffined |

at 23
losses observed the

cheese were less than one-half those
noted on the unparaffined. The flats

and
on

three-quarters

reduced |

| be of interest.

(weight 35 to 40 pounds) showed a|

oq |
still greater advantage from paraffin- |
ing, while with the Young Americas |

(weight to pounds)

three-quarters |

of the loss at 40 deg. was prevented |

by coating with paraffine, and two-
thirds at 34 deg. and 28 deg. The
cost of coating with paraffine is in-
significant compared with the benefit
secured.

The cheese stored at the
different temperatures,
a little in score, were all

three |
while varying |
classed as|

finest and had the same commercial |
value except a few which were mot- |

tled. This was no fault in the stor-| In high temperature cheese the evap- |

ing or the temperature but in the
cheese themselves. The temperatures
of 28 deg. and 34 deg. gave the best
general results commercially, while
the 40 deg. temperature cheese scored
a fraction higher in quality and tex-

ture at times, but had a great dis-

peratures. The opinion of the com-

not advisable to store cheese at
low temperatures unless they
paraffined, as the mold affected their
sale to considerable

was

were

extent.
A number of cheeses were placed
deg. above zero
aS an experiment. Cheese men pre-
dicted that these fall
pieces when thawed out and be of no
hoped
cheeses

would all to
to

to-

value commercially. I

have one of these here

| day but found the last one had been

disposed of. This in itself shows
there was no trouble in getting rid
We had one or two cut in
the office and all pronounced them
The flavor was mild and deli-
cate, but tendency

to crumble, which would go against

of them.

good.
they showed a
them commercially. Expert scorers
rated them from 80 to 85 on a scale
of 100 and reported some disintegra-
tion of the curd and poor texture. Of

| course there are degrees which cheese.
may be frozen; they may be caught

“in transit” in a cold snap and par-
tially frozen, but the cheese in this
experiment were continued up to the
end. They commanded a
lower price than cheeses not frozen
things considered, freezing

and, all

was not practical. Commercial men

ty that have been frozen as they
know it means a loss in dollars and
cents.

There was one peculiarity about the
cheese stored at 28 deg. which
When examined at the
close of the experiment it was found
to be full of little white specks. The
fact that this occurred in cheese held
at a temperature below 32 deg. Fah-

renheit would exclude the possibility

| of the specks being caused by bac-
| teria or similar organisms.

It is be-

| lieved that they consisted of calcium
|phosphate mixed mechanically with |

such other material as may be dis-
solved in the cheese. When the
cheese is made the phosphates are
dissolved in the acid whey, but as the

may |

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We pay highest prices all the year around.

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40 S. Division St.,
Reference
5TH

Citizens Phone 3083

NATIONAL BANK Bell Phone 465

 

Egg Cases and Egg Case Fillers

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

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

Sawed whitewood

 

We are car load receivers and distributors of

Strawberries

Also Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Pineapples, and all kinds of
Early Vegetable.

THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY
14-16 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and Beans

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

R. HIRT, JR., DETROIT. MICH.

 

 

Fresh Eggs Wanted

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

COYNE BROS.

CHICAGO

References Michigan Tradesman and Egg Reporter.

cheese ripens the water becomes al-|

kaline and these salts are precipitated

| oration is rapid and the salts distrib-

|
|
|

ute uniformly. At low temperatures
water tends to collect in small drops
in the and
the calcium salts remain
specks.

cavities, on evaporation

as write

Storing cheese at low temperatures |
advantage in serious loss in weight|increases the amount of cheese to |

 

 

FOOTE & JENKS

MAKERS OF PURE VANILLA EXTRACTS
AND OF THE GENUINE, ORIGINAL, SOLUBLE,
TERPENELESS EXTRACT OF LEMON

FOOTE & JENKS’ Sold only in bottles bearing our address

JIJAXON|Foote & Jenks ae Ny

oS Se
Highest Grade Extracts. JACKSON, MICH. —_

Sara

 

 

 

 

    

14

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

sell by preventing loss of moisture
and covering with paraffine prevents
molding and increases still more the
yield of marketable cheese. This
saving amounts to several dollars a
ton.

The best temperature to hold but-
ter in storage has been an open ques-
tion with merchants and _ cold-stor-
age men for some time. This was
believed to be worthy of investiga-
tion by the Department of Agricul- |
ture and plans were periected a year
ago last October for an extensive ex- |
periment. Chicago was chosen for
the work as this city offered the best
storage facilities at that time for what
we wanted, and further the Depart-|
ment had an inspector there well |
qualified to conduct the detail work
of the experiment. The object of the
investigation was to study the influ-
ence which a range of temperature
exerts upon the quality of butter as
determined by flavor and texture. In-
structions were also given to note
the loss in weight under the different
conditions. The temperature of the
various rooms were 30 deg., 20 deg.,
1o deg. above zero, zero and 5 deg.
below, the 30 deg. room being chosen
as a check on the others since this
temperature was known to be_ too
high for a long period of storage. In
order to secure butter of a uniform
quality for the experiment special ar-
rangement was made with a large
creamery plant in the Middle West;
10,494 pounds of cream were gather-
ed by rail in the usual way from
nineteen stations, thoroughly mixed
and placed into six vats, where it
was pasteurized and churned, the but- |
ter secured amounting to something
over one and three-fourths tons. This
was packed in sixty-pound tubs and
prepared for shipment. On reaching
Chicago the butter was scored by ex-
perts, weighed and placed in storage
at the temperatures indicated. Every
precaution was taken from start to
finish to have the entire lot uniform,
and experts pronounced the different
lots to be of the same flavor and tex-
ture in the minutest degree. The
butter was given 92 points on a scale
of 100. Each room was provided |
with a. self-recording thermometer
which was kept in close proximity to |
the butter. (Chart exhibited showing |
variations in temperature.) During
the progress of the experiment the}
butter was scored six times. Two
tubs of each lot were taken out at
every test, weighed, scored and sold. |

To give the results in a few words |
it may be said that the butter stored
at 5 deg. scored better than that stor-
ed at other temperatures, having lost
only four points in flavor after eight
months and being still sweet and
clean. The zero lot was noticeably
aged at the second test and lost with
each succeeding score, or I2 points
in all. A fishy and bitter flavor de-
veloped after five months. The but-
ter at 10 deg. lost quality rapidly at
first, but later showed a better rec-|
ord, finishing with a score of 83)
against 80 for the zero temperature. |
This also developed bad flavors. It
was stored in a small room where
there was less variation in tempera- |
ture and also in a different ware-

iter for long periods.

‘tion of the packages, while others

| ket for consumption.

|containing this germ butter of good

'cause but the remedy as well. I have

house than the zero butter.

‘conditions of humidity and ventila-

tion may account for the __ better
score. The lot stored at 20 deg. un-|
derwent rapid and constant deteriora-
tion from the start. At four months |
the butter was fishy and aged and at
eight months had lost 19 points (17 |
in flavor). It was not supposed that
the 30 deg. lot would keep well, this
being used as a check. temperature. |
The loss in quality was excessive |
and shows that a much lower tem-|
perature is needed for storage of but- |
The loss in
weight was insignificant and did not
seem to bear any decided relation to |
temperature.

In general conclusion the data
gathered from this experiment em-|
phasize strongly the need of very |
cold temperature for the storage of |
butter. A modern cold storage house |
using mechanical refrigeration, where |
temperature of zero to 10 deg. below
can be readily maintained, affords a
minimum loss in quality and_ the
question of shrinkage need scarcely
be considered... Butter of clean, pleas-
ant flavor, good firm body, carefully
packed in bright, clean parchment
lined tubs and stored at a tempera- |
ture below zero is almost certain to |
retain its good qualities even for a
period prolonged well beyond two-|

lthirds of a year. |

You warehousemen are sometimes |
given credit for things you are not}
responsible for. I refer to the “fishy” |
flavors in butter. This is a question |
of no small importance to the dealers
and holders of butter. In_ talking
with several in the butter trade they |
all agreed to the fact that the loss |
from fishy flavor is a very serious |
item. Goods bought and passed as |
extras and placed in cold storage |
come out with fishy flavor and have |
to be sold at a low figure. One very |
curious fact in this connection is that |
goods from the same factory will
show the fishy flavor in only a por-

will be perfectly free. If this con-
dition prevails it is a serious problem
and one that will cause great loss
when the goods are put on the mar-
Scientists do
not agree as to the cause of this trou-
ble. One states that the fishy flavor
of butter is caused by the bacterium
odium lactis and that by inoculating
a portion of milk with this bacterium
fishy flavored butter was produced
while the control portion of milk
produced butter of good flavor. Al-
so, by pasteurizing a portion of milk

flavor was produced while the con-
trol transmitted a fishy flavor. Our
bacteriologist in the Department has
set this same bacterium at work, but
as yet it has given no fishy flavors.
I wish to say, however, that we now
have extensive experiments in prog-
ress to study this question.
ent lots of butter made in the most |
careful manner and subjected to dif-
ferent treatments are now in storage
in New York and we propose to make
a thorough study of this question and
determine, if possible, not only the

already pointed out to you gentle-

Pewer Aikman Bakery Co.

|tee both. Our line is complete. Send us a
| trialorder. They will give you satisfaction.

 

 

Manufacturers of

For 25 Years

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

Crackers and Fine Biscuits

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.

 

Trade Mark
Barlow Bros.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Our goods and prices are right. We guaran-

 

 

 

Port Huron, Mich.

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

 

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olden Kor
Flour

Reason Noe. 7.—Mixed Carloads.

To the carload buyer of Flour or Feed we offer a better opportunity
to secure mixed cars containing a variety than any other mill in the coun-
try. We will load straight or mixed cars of Spring or Winter Flour in
all grades, Pure Rye Flour in three grades, Spring or Winter Bran, Mid-
dlings and Mixed Feed, White Middlings, Ground Feed and Red Dog
Flour, and we pack in all kinds and sizes of packages. This is a great
accommodation to the country dealer, and we cater to that class of trade.

Isn’t this a good reason?

Manufactured by

Star & Crescent Milling Zo., Chicago, Til.
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Distributed by

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Computing
Cheese Cutter

Mr. Merchant—Compare the Stan-
dard with anything you have seen in
the way of a cheese cutter. Have
you seen one that looks as good to
you as the Standard? It is all that
we claim for it. The only absolutely
perfect and accurate computing
cheese cutter made giving money val-
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men that in our butter experiment in |}
Chicago that stored at a temperature |
below zero developed no fishy flavor. |
Flere, then, is one way in which you
can help the
yourselves at

butter industry and
the same time, namely,
low and
at 2
the

or

by supplying temperatures
this

help
100 pounds
was

studying how you can do
You
sell

he

minimum cost.
to

where

can
cheese man
to |

these ex-

cheese only able
sell 95 pounds before. All
the great benefits |

that may come through co-operation, |

periments show

and they mean much to the dairy in- |
dustry as a whole if you warehouse- |

|
men can guarantee to store butter |
and cheese for eight months or aj
year with practically no loss. In the

experiments outlined you gentlemen

have been of much aid to us; at the}
same time we believe the results of |
our work will be of some assistance |

to you. Through such co-operation
many of the problems in refrigeration |
presented by the various industries |
in the future may be solved.
Cheerful Debtor Writes Creditor |

Unique Letter.

A prominent business house placed |

a past due account in the hands of a|
coliector, who, in to

response a FC

quest for settlement, received the fol- |

lowing letter in reply:
“My
city prevented my writing

Dear Sir—Absence from the|

in answer |

to yours of a recent date.

“It will be utterly impossible for |

me to settle the claim you mention |

at present, for the simple but good |

reason—I! haven't it.

“T lost every penny I had in the}
world, and considerable I had in the |
future, in a theatrical venture last |

September. Up to the present time |
I have not recovered from the shock. |
“I think if you lay this fact before |
your clients they will not advise you |
to proceed harshly against me. From
their past experience with my modes |
of procedure in days gone by I do}
not think they can recall any sus- |
picious mannerisms which could lead |
them to suppose I am a debt dodger. |
“I have simply been initiated into |
the Lodge of Sorrow, Hard Luck |
Chapter, Dam-fool Division No. 69.
“My picture, hanging crape laden
on the walls of the Hall of Fame,
bears the legend, ‘Sucker No. 33,876,-
404
“My motto is briefly: ‘I would if I
could; but I haven’t, so I can’t.’
“Fortune may smile, however; up
to the present writing it has given me
the laugh. I have hopes.
‘Directly I am in a position even
remotely suggesting opulence, I as-|
sure you your balance will receive |

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my prompt attention.”
———_——E—
Falling Off in Pea Pack.
An authority on canned goods}

makes the following prediction: “The
American pea pack will not be as|
large as in 1904, which broke all |
records for this vegetable, the total |
output being estimated at the close |
at three and a half million cases. The
pack of corn and tomatoes will also
be reduced, more or less, as compared
with last season, unless the crops
are extraordinarily large.”

isiple that a portion of

| seeded at

| of

lof will.

Western Pea Crop Prospects.
Chicago, June 20—The
rainfall has not only materially dam-
aged the planted portion of the crop,

excessive

| but has delayed seeding and some of |
the
| still

Wisconsin
fair of their
acreage yet to plant, so that unless

largest packers’ in

have a percentage

| the ground dries very soon it is pos-

Wisconsin’s
contemplated acreage will not be
all. The effect of all this
will necessarily be manifested in the
net results of the season’s operations,
although the extent to which the out-
put will affected is beyond the
ability of anybody to accurately fore-

be

cast. The crop at several points has
| been pretty badly injured, and the
| pack, therefore, will be more or less |
affected, and that is about all that

anyone can say at this time.
——_~2 >
Power of Will.

Dr. Henry van Dyke, in speaking
of valuable attributes, classifies them
thus:

“Will is something, environment is
something, and so is heredity, but we

|classify them unfairly. The usual
order is heredity, environment, will;
a more effective arrangement would
be will, environment, heredity. Willi
very large, with a sword of disci-

pline to drill the influences of tem-
perament and heredity to a manual
its The old-fashioned idea
of social correctness self-re-
straint, which is the first embodiment
The easiest thing to be is a

own.
was

| savage, but it is not the best.”

Official Changes in Northwestern
Yeast Co.

On account of the death of Edgar
A. Hill, President of the Northwest-
ern Veast Co, B. M. Hair has been
promoted from the position of Secre-

|tary and Treasurer to President and
| Chas. B. Hill, who has been Assistant
| General Manager, has become Secre-

tary aud Treasurer and General
Manager. Both Mr. Hair and Mr.
Hill have been with the company

many years and are thoroughly con-
versant with every feature and detail

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Current

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That
“Chesty”
Feeling

really becomes a man who
smokes an

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It’s one to be proud of. Its flavor, its size, its shape, its
‘‘makeup” of fine, well-cured Havana and Sumatra tobaccos, its
manufacture and its price—all appeal to the man who gauges
his smoking by well-tested knowledge. Price, 5 cents each.

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Established 1872

Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.

Were the first to announce to the consuming public and the trade the great advantage the

Terpeneless Extract of Lemon

has over the (oil lemon and alcohol solution) so-called extract lemon which is not an

extract but a spirits of lemon.

The consumer now demands Jennings’ Terpeneless

Extract Lemon and the up-to-date grocer has the goods to deliver.
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point.
a plain cloth instead of being finished

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The pockets are seated with

with a welt.

A single-breast step collar is also
in good style, the general character-
istics being the same as the one de-

. —=|scribed above, save that the pockets
The sce! Thing in Vests for Men. |

The vest has been undergoing

many changes of late,

all sorts of |

more or less eccentric styles in make |
lis an overlap of 3% inches at the

and cut having been _ introduced,

while the extraordinary popularity of |

the fancy vest during recent seasons
has been responsible for many dar-
ing and some glaring illustrations of
the possibilities of “adding a bit. oi
brightness”
of the conventional style of dress.
For summer wear, however, there
is no denying the popularity and ap-
propriateness of the fancy vest. More

often than not, this takes the form | in

of a washable vest, and there are

are finished with a welt and the step
ollar is laid on. A double-breasted
vest of the no-collar pattern is cut
in the throat to fit tightly, and there

top, while the bottom is cut away to
button one. Patch pockets with flaps

|are also features of this vest.

to the somber monotony |

The very latest development of the
ultra-fashionable vest is called the

skirted vest. It has a seam across

ithe waist line, the object being to

many manufacturers of this class of |
clothing who find a profitable busi-|
ness in catering to the demand for |}

fancy washable vests alone.

Other |

mills run the year around on fancy |
vestings made of fine striped, flow-|
ered or embroidered woolen or wor- |
sted goods. Fine, dainty effects in|
designs which will be harmonious |
with the accepted patterns of the|

high-class negligee shirts are quite
the proper thing in vests. Many of
the more exclusive trade
vestings by the yard and have the

or haberdasher who does their shirts | cl

or who makes their clothes.

In the medium class trade there are

buy their |

give more spring on the bottom edge
and to insure a close fit to the waist.
The bottom of the skirt is cut away
front, and, in some instances, the
skirt is cut slightly on the bias. This
vest is usually finished with flap pock-
ets and the fronts and pocket flaps
are double stitched or bound with
braid or melton.
———_» ~~
Stork Swiftest of Birds.

There are certain species of ducks
that are given the credit by natural-
ists of being the fleetest of winged
creatures. Recently, however, it has
been ascertained that the learned
men were in error, and the stork is
found to outstrip by far all denizens

| of the air in speed. After an exhaus-
garments made up by the same tailor |

enterprising retailers who offer two- |

piece suits for the midsummer trade
and who equip each customer with a
washable vest designed to go with
the suit.

tive survey of the field it is now de-
ared that no living thing, not even
a scared jack rabbit, can travel with
the speed displayed by such birds as
the stork and the Northern blue-
throat. Not only do these birds fly

| with a speed that can hardly be con-
i ceived, but they keep up their rapid

As a business getter, per- |

haps, the idea is all right, but it is|

mentioned here merely to show the

trend toward fancy vestings and how!
it may be taken advantage of by the}

clotheir who keeps his ear to. the
ground.

This season washable vests made
of brown, pearl gray and other suita-
ble solid colors in a basket weave
mercerized cotton cloth have been
very popular among the cheaper
men’s furnishing stores. They cost
at retail from $1.50 to $2.50, depend-
ing upon the quality of the cloth
and the make-up.

In higher-priced lines the khaki
vest, the chambray vest, and the fine
French madras are all popular in the
washable lines, and some of _ these
creations of the art sartorial are illus-
trative of the lengths to which the

craze has gone if the matter of price |
to $8 |

alone is considered. From $5

 

is no uncommon price, and there are |
a number of fancy vest makers who|

demand even more.
The chief feature of almost all the

present styles is the cutaway bottom. |
The vests are measured a little longer |

in front and the front edge is slanted
off from the bottom button. A _ no-
collar vest is popular and a high-class
model we have seen illustrates the
above idea. There are five buttons,
the bottom one being about an inch
below the actual waist line; below

flight for 1,000 or 2,000 miles at a
stretch without apparently tiring.

Evidence has been collected recent-
ly which shows that the bluethroat
flies from Central Africa to the shores
of the North Sea, a distance of 1,600
miles, in less than a day and a night,
and making it, moreover, in one un-
interrupted flight.

The storks which spend their sum-
mers in Austria-Hungary and their
winters in India and Central Africa
are also marvelous travelers and
make their journeys twice a year in
unbroken flight each time. From
Budapest, in Hungary, to Lahore,
in India, is 2,400 miles in an air line,
and the storks make the journey in
twenty-four hours, thus traveling at
the rate of 100 miles an hour for the
whole distance. The storks which
spend the summer in Central Eu-
rope and winter in Central Africa
travel with the same rapidity.

>
Reflections of a Bachelor.

It is surprising the way your wife
will let you have your own way when
it is hers. :

The average man would be content
to forego more pleasure if he could

| have less pain.

Women are very good card play-
ers, considering what good conversa-
tionalists they are at the same time.

A woman imagines she would be
very girlish-looking if she weren’t so

this the fronts are cut off to form aj|undeceitful about the way she dresses.

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

New Things in Neckwear for Fall and
Winter.

Conditions for autumn have crystal-
lized sufficiently to enable an intelli-
gent estimate of the situation. While
four-in-hands are still to be broad, the
2% inch width will accepted as
the correct form, and anything be-
yond that is simply carrying a mode
AS a

be

to its extreme. matter of

fact, |

 

the soundest taste never endorsed ex- |

cessively wide four-in-hands because |

they tie into clumsy knots and look |

disproportionate to the collar, unless |

j}and broad, with practically no pinch-
jing in

rn |
The de- |
wear is|

ends and 1% in the center.
mand for for
growing by leaps and bounds, and in|

ties summer
many shops the four-in-hand is very |
little Evening dress ties for |
autumn are fashioned of fine heavy |
linen, still cut wide, 2 inches. |
Both plain and figured and corded |
effects are used.

ahead.
and

Evening jacket ties |

appear in new treatments, including |
black moire, with or without fringed
ends. The evening jacket tie is no|
longer adjusted into a tight knot with |

faring ends, but is arranged straight !

the center. Unlined evening |

|jacket ties which preserve an aspect |

it be one of those minstrel enormi-
ties. Two and a half inches is as
wide as a four-in-hand can well be
cut and at the same time look be-|

coming.
lars to be worn in autumn will prob-
ably be of conservative model, mod-
erately wide four-in-hands are neces-
sary to accompany them. The waist-
coat opening, which is always an im-
portant item to consider, will proba-

Inasmuch as the wing col-|

iree from

the

stiffness are preferred to|

lined forms, which are clumsy |

ito the fingers in the process of ad-|

| justing.
ilv in very plain silks.

bly be higher than during the spring, |

and thus very broad four-in-hands

would be unsightly. The upper-class
haberdashers of New York are giv-
favoring
that

in-hand, and are not any

measurement beyond for the

autumn season.
Those retailers who complain now
and then that the cravat department

|four-in-hand or

Jacket ties are made chief- |

Notwithstanding that spring and |
summer brought many lined and|
French seam four-in-hands, the best |
taste still countenances the folded-in |

square as pre-emin- |

ently the correct form. it imvolyes

{much apparent waste of material, but |
ing countenance to the 2% inch four- |

|lined or French seam article, and has, |

does not yield its rightful share of |
profit should look for the fault in the |

buying and displaying of goods. It
the
partment to be successful when it is

is absurd to expect cravat de-

habitually slighted in favor of shirts |

to be
Fine cravats have
but they

displayed

and other articles which seem
more remunerative.
lost
must be

pushed to the limit of

not one jot in favor,

effectively and
possibilities.
Special windows devoted entirely to
weave or color

cravats of a given

have proved very fruitful. High-class
coods always pay, and they lend be-
sides a prestige that is valuable in the
success of any shop, and which in-
fluences in turn every department.

Myrtle, wine, bordeaux, dark choco- |

late, indigo and dark grey are fav-
ored shades for autumn. Brown still
clings, but it must be dark, and the

same thing applies to grey, among

which fog and smoke are notably
smart. Bright red is a radical inno-
vation and, in combination, looks

undeniably tasteful. Plain dull gren-
adine grounds, which are really Rads-
veloute, a dull-finished — satin;
with self-satin
effects and taffetas in
dark shades are prominent in high-
The leaning of

meres;
reps in conjunction
soft-finished
class autumn lines.
fashion in
subdued

fine

effects, which look

of being

toward

rich by reason sub-

dued, and mere color showiness is as

very

far as possible avoided.
are faithfully reproduced in all
delicate hues of the best known vin-
tages and one particular line of wine
shades is a veritable triumph of color-
blending in a way hitherto impossi-
ble.

Broad ties and long batwings are
factors in the demand for wear with
They are cut straight

the

wing collars.
or graduated, 2 inches or 1% at the
ends, and the batwings, 134 at the

cravats is markedly |

Wine shades |

;stand better than they did, although
| the

| during the spring because many re-

the |
up
The |

into

the nicest trade demands it and

best manufacturers are making

that
four-in-hand

their four-in-hands way.

folded-in ties

softer, easier knot than either the |

 

too, an individuality that well-dressed |

men prize. Ascots, as we said last}

month, are to be larger than ever,|

and will be adjusted so as to obtain |
effect. Open

Once-Overs
.

a capacious, flowing

squares to be used as

open square was under a cloud

|tailers carried over considerable |

stocks from the holiday season.— |

Haberdasher. |
a rr

|

|one of the largest firms of collar, cuff

 

     
   
     
      
   
   
   

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One result of the prolonged strike |
in Troy and the incident disorder is |
the action of Cluett, Peabody & Co.,

and shirt manufacturers in the coun-
The firm has purchased a plant
in Rochester and intends to begin
operations there with 1,000 hands, to
be increased eventually to 3,000 hands.

try.

Troy is likely to lose other concerns

unless conditions there change for
the better.
_ Oo
Some people only tell the truth

when they want to shame the devil.

 

 

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Savings Bank

OFGRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

Has largest amount of deposits
of any Savings Bank in Western
Michigan. If you are contem-
plating a change in your Banking
relations, or think of opening a
new account, call and see us.

Paid on Certificates of Deposit

Banking By: Mail

Resources Exceed 214 Million Dollars

 

If You Are
Not Selling

“Clothes of Quality”’

you are not giving your customers
what they are entitled to.

Every seller of clothes who critic-
ally examines this season’s models
unhesitatingly places an order for
them.

Why not look them over?

Our salesmen are in your State

and will gladly call if you request it.

 

 

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MADE IN BUFFALO

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ESTABLISHED 1877

 

 

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(FOR THE MONEY)

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For Fall 1905
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18

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Style Tendencies in Little Folks’
Wearables.

The retail business of last month
was disappointing, having fallen con-
siderably behind in volume the busi-
ness of the same month a year ago.
The trade depreciation is attributed
by merchants to the low mean tem-
perature prevailing throughout the
month. The
month opened with every indication
of the business exceeding that of last

greater part of the

year, but after the first week steadi-
ly dropped off. In the East condi-
tions were worse than in the South
and West, but in general the busi-
ness of the month has not been up
to the normal mark. As a result of
this poor month at a time in the sea-
son when retailers should have been
actively selling lightweight worsteds
and woolens, the backward season
leaves them with more of stock than
it is desirable to have on hand at
this time. At this writing retailers
are attempting to force business by
reducing prices.

There has been no seasonable busi-
ness in wash goods, excepting with
the stores doing an upper-class busi-
ness, and their trade was done early.
In the minds of some _ merchants
there exists a doubt as to whether
it is the unusually low temperature
or some other undiscovered cause
that is interrupting regular business.
One of these men on the Monday
of one week put 1,000 wash _ suits
on sale, advertised the sale in his
usual way, and on that Monday sold
the entire lot, notwithstanding that
the weather was cool and_ blustery.
On the Monday following another
lot of 1,300 suits of the same popu-
lar-priced quality was offered, and the
day turned out warm and bright, yet
only 100 suits were sold. It is ex-
perience like this that. have made
dealers ask, “What’s the matter with
business?”

The fall season with clothing man-
ufacturers continues to- grow in all
directions. Reports of more and larg-
er orders than were booked a year
ago continue to come in from the
men who are still out completing
their trips. In our last report it
was stated that mercerized and cot-
ton mixed worsteds were selling in
goodly proportion. But since then
it has been learned that there is a
lively and insistent demand for these
goods. Mention was made in that re-
port of a large manufacturer who
was encouraging his road force to
push woolens, despite the demands
they were receiving for mercerized
cotton worsteds, and of his deter-
mination not to have any cotton mix-
tures of any sort in his line. Among
the men out for this house was a
member of the firm, and his experi-
ence on the mercerized cotton wor-
steds was the same as that of the
others. He wrote to his partner that
they could no longer hold out on
their all-wool policy, and he advised
the making up of another sample
line of mercerized cotton worsteds

and that these samples be rushed to!

the men then out, and with all ce-

lerity possible. The house got the

samples out as soon as_ possible.
Another large manufacturer, who

 

had sent his men out with only pure
worsted and woolen goods, using the
latter to take the place of the mer-
cerized mixtures, learned from the
salesmen that they were losing con-
siderable business by not having the
latter, although their orders were
very much larger than a year ago.
This manufacturer immediately put in
a supplementary line of low cheviots
and cotton mixed worsteds,. getting
out, in fact, an entirely new line of
samples, which were at once forward-
ed to the salesmen, who are now
going back over their route and sell-
ing the cotton worsteds to customers
who want them.

The plain Norfolk jacket suit is
proving a big seller everywhere. By
the plain Norfolk is meant the dou-
ble-breasted with detachable _ belt.
This combination makes it possible
for the retailer to sell this style either
as a plain or belted garment. Dou-
ble-breasted Norfolks are also large
sellers.

While the sale of
more general than before, it is only
in the Eastern district that the de-
mand is largely for bloomers exclu-
sively. The South and West still
buy a goodly proportion of knee

bloomers is

breeches.

In boys’ overcoats the long gar-
ment made of staple and fancy cloths
jeads. This long or great coat is
selling both with and without belt.
One of the successes is a garment
made long and full, single-breasted
with fly front, with a detachable belt
in three parts, and which may be
worn as a belted back or half belt,
or a full belt encircling the
The back belt is fastened to a button
at the side seams, and the two front

waist.

parts of the belt are fastened to the
same button and close in front with
two buttons, so that the full belt may
be worn tight or loose as the wear-
er may desire.

While the collars and lapels on all
the great coats are broader than last
vear, some manufacturers have in-
troduced the great coat, single and
double-breasted, with storm collars.

Separate bloomers are in shepherd
checks and combined with black belt
and white negligee shirt, four-in-hand
and fold collar complete the boy’s
summer outfit for city or country
wear. The thought suggested by this
combination of soft shirt and sepa-
rate knickers is that retailers might
find it advantageous to push sepa-
rate garments as making a desirable
and economical summer outfit for the
youngsters, giving prominence to the
idea by suitable window and depart-
ment displays. This should not be
undertaken until the weather _ be-
comes warm and_ settled—Apparel
Gazette.

et
Inventing Not Considered a Gift of
Genius.

While preconceived ideas rate the
faculty for invention as a-gift, ex-
pert opinion ranks it as a business.
Evidence points to the fact that a
gift in this direction alone makes a
particularly unsuccessful and hopeless
career, while without any special ge-
nius the qualities that are necessary
to any other business can produce

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Wholesale Ready Made Clothin
For Men, Boys and Children

Manufactured in our own factory and under our personal supervision. Our fall and
winter line for coming season 1905-6 is making a great hit, being of very best quality,
make and fit, and biggest line by long odds shown in Michigan at equitable prices,
reasonable terms and one price as usual to all. Many retailers prefer to come here
and make selections, but we will gladly send our representative if so desired. Mail

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successful and remunerative
tions.

inven-

The encouragement offered to in-
ventors in America makes it a field
for business endeavor worth the at-
tention of the worker. Prot Bell,
who has had experience in both hem-
ispheres, declares that the air of
America is encouraging to inventors.
“Appreciation,” he says, “is an
ment of its success.

ele-
Americans are
not only quick to appreciate new in-
ventions, but they are ready to back
them with money.

“In Europe people are more con-
servative. They are well contented
with the old and are unwilling to
adopt new ideas. An Englishman or a
Scotchman will be interested in, your
invention and admit that it may be
all right, but will insist that some-
body else try it first. In America the
same invention not only finds some-
one who is quick to see its feasibili-
ty, but also someone who is looking
for it. The atmosphere of success in
this country is the inspiration which
inventors need.”

One of the practical instances of |

this kind of encouragement is in the
Westinghouse business. Mr. West-
inghouse not only employs men who
are inventors, but takes in technical
students with a view to developing
ideas which they may possess. They
are put to work so that they so
through every branch of the factories,
and all the time what they do is care-
fully watched.

ments when he sees them.

“If a young man is in charge of a|

bit of work for some time,” says the
head of one of these departments,

“and can think of no better way of|
doing it than in the past, he is not|

much good to me. If my office boy
has a suggestion to make, I’ll weigh
it well.
thinking will pay him.”

Mr. Westinghouse himself is an il-
lustration of the fact that invention
above all things demands business
faculty.
hits.
finding out what the day after to-

morrow will need and setting out to}

provide it. Some time ago, for  in-
stance, he saw that railway trucks
must become bigger and bigger until
the old spring buffer would be use-
less in keeping them together, for
while springs might be had to take
the impact of a loaded fifty ton car,
they would be torn apart by the pull
of the rebound. Here was a problem
to solve. When the fifty ton cars
came into common use the inventor
had ready a friction draft gear not un-
like a bluntly pointed shell in shape,
which will absorb an enormous pres-
sure to the square inch by yielding a
few inches and will have a minimum
recoil. This gear can not be supplied
fast enough for the demand, and for
the last two years an army of men
has been kept busy turning them out.
There are innumerable like instances
in which Mr. Westinghouse has fore-
stalled the demand.

Mr. Edison includes this principle
in his advice to young inventors:
“The first essential is to find out if

Every man among the
thousands is expected to keep his |
brains alert and to suggest improve- |

I want him to think, and |

. e - |
His inventions are no happy |
He works on the principle of |
| at it long enough. Of course, the man

there is, or will be, a real need for the
thing that you want to invent. The
next is to be sure that it is practical.
With the object of making quick
money from his inventions the begin-
ner would best devise some little
thing which it costs but little to
manufacture.”

After this preliminary advice, the
next given by Mr. Edison is to pur-
sue the subject with ceaseless and un-
tiring thought. To think without ces-
sation as long as possible and, after
brief intervals for rest, to get up and
go at it again are the rules laid down
for the first step in the process. Aft-
er following it persistently, he de-
clares, something is sure to develop
itself.

In telling how he goes about in-
venting a contrivance, Mr. Edison
says: “First, I find out if there is
a real need for a thing. Then I at-
tack it in every way that I can. This
multiplied attack soon simmers down
until I get what I call a composite
idea, something which is a combina-
tion of all I have thought before, or
else the one feasible idea which seems
'to discount all the rest. Having once
got started on what I think is the
right track, I keep the pace up until
I think the goal is reached.

“There is one piece of advice I can
give: When a man starts to invent
let him do so with his mind free from
all knowledge of what has been done
in that particular field in which he is
investigating. To read up what has
been done by other inventors is al-
most certain to prove a snag in the
| path of the inventor. The best way
lis to keep the mind free from all
knowledge of what has been done al-
ready in the same field. When you
work in this manner you will often
find that, while your own ideas are
original, another’s may be just as
good up to a certain point. If you
had read what he had written you
would have been tempted to follow
in his footsteps.

“T believe that any person, even of
the most limited capacity, can become
an inventor by sheer hard work. You
can do almost anything if you keep

 

 

with the natural aptitude would
| there before the other, but the plodder
eventually would gain his point. The
constant brooding upon one thing is
sure to develop new ideas about it.
These, in turn, suggest others, and

get

fore you.

“Above all things, a man must not
give up after he has outlined his plan
of action. Of course, the question of
natural aptitude enters into the mat-
ter, and without it no man can be-
come a Star; nevertheless it is an aux-
iliary attainment. Dogged persever-
ance is really the quality to be desir-
ed. In the arts, such as music, poetry,
painting, and so forth, a special tem-
perament is required, but in the work-
shop of science men of the sanguine
kind come out ahead.”

J. S. Anstead.

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Lots of men think they are popu-
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Where we will be pleased to meet all our old customers and
prospective new ones. We are now selling a line of

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Immediate delivery on Spring and Summer Clothing, as
we still have a nice line to select from for the benefit of our
customers. Mail and phone orders promptly attended to.
Citizens phone 6424. If preferred will send representative.

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Dealers in Clothing, Cloth and Tailors’ Trimmings
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One of the strong features of our line—suits to retail at $10 witha
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DIRECTORS

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

 

 

 

The Art of Having One’s Own Way.
The

one’s

knowledge of how to have

own way is something of an

art and something of a science; that
is, it contains an element of the in-

1s

stinctive, while some of its secrets

may be taught and learned. It is a|

fine thing to have one’s own way,

and most persons are trying to ac- |

complish it all through their
But no one has made a real success
of it
it in that consummate fashion which

unless he or she can

leaves the rest of the world uncon-

scious of the achievement.

your own way and yet to have done |

so without exciting either resentment

or envy-—this is something to. be|

proud of.

Women like to have their

they are not always very wise in

There are
and

choosing their means.
two types—the coaxing woman
the domineering woman.
has her way for a
The woman

who tries to have her own way by

own
-ach fails in the end.
wheedling and by a thousand grace-
ful little arts is very successful in the

beginning—especially with men. Men |}
are soft-hearted creatures and they |
find it hard to resist the appealing |

look, the pout, the voice of
shy entreaty, the quivering lip and
that dim

But these things

saucy

the eyes grow with easy

tears.

then they bore a man.
recognize

because of the suspicion which they
excite that in the past he has been
a fool in paying any attention to

them. And then the smile seems

only a grimace, the entreating voice |

and all the
as artificial teeth and hair or a manu-
factured complexion.

As for the

a whine,

woman who domi i

eers, who is sulky or violent or in|

other ways outrageous, she, too, has
her own way—sometimes.
us give in where small things are
concerned, because that is the line
of least resistance, and we love our
ease. But the domineering woman
makes enemies on every side. The
hand of every one is against her. All
her friends, acquaintances, connec-
tions—even those of her own house-
hold—are secretly against her and
conspire to thwart her in a hundred
ways.

 

Whenever she is disappointed

or humiliated, there is a general joy: |

and she must at last be put

find her domination at an

down
and end.
The Mrs. Proudies of this world car-

ry things with so high a hand that

at last even the meekest of their |
victims turn and rend them.
The real secret of having one’s

own way is contained in the ability
to take things for granted and to
know just when things may be so
taken. First of all, you must lay

lives. |

manage |
To have

own |
way quite as much as men do, but |}

Each one }
time, but |

e
lose their |
effect after a very short time; and |
He comes to |
their insincerity. In the|
end they are apt to harden his heart, |

rest as false |

We all of |

©
ito your heart the great truth that
lvery few persons really know their
| ie : : :
jown minds. If you propose some |

lcourse of action to an individual and
think it
will, of course, ultimately decide that
what

give him time to over, he

he either will or will not do

| you may ask.

Then, perhaps, he will |

|be very obstinate in clinging fast to|

|his decision. But the mistake
made was in asking him at all. Ii
|you had not asked him but had just
1 quietly that he

assumed Was
wished, then it is ten

to do as you
chances to one that he would never

have thought of doing anything else

to think things over and thus possi-
You

i should take assent for granted and act

bly range himself against you.

you

going |

Hence, you should not give him time |

precisely as though it had been giv- |

en. For at the moment

idea occurs to most men

when an}

they are}

wholly neutral or indifferent, and in- |

tellectually uncertain.

|moment when you must £0

swiftly and quite as a
course.
for the right

with an instinct

the other person will realize

that he

never

could have had a

choice, or

lright to dispute your action.

him and it stays made up.

Of course, if you do this sort of

thing in a manner which suggests a
| challenge, or
|that you are really
iwill fail, or at

Pt

'through some sort of a scene. But

this is a question of savoir faire, and

way, |

That is) the}
ahead |
matter of |
If you do it discreetly and |

different |
that he even had any|
You}

have, in fact, made his mind up for

even any consciousness |
forcing him, you]
any rate have to go|

fit you havent that, you will never
|be able to have your own way, but
will yourself be managed by some}

|more clever person.

that most

responsibility.

method lies in the fact
shirk

They will all do pretty well at any-

i persons really

| thing if some one will only tell them
that
do. The world is full of accomplish-

|just what it is they ought to
led performers on the second fiddle.
They are not only born to be under-
hearts
underling is the one

limes, but m their heart of

the role of

|which they prefer. Responsibility

irightens them. To have to make

|up their minds and be answerable
with a
They distrust them-
follow, but

Suppose

|for consequences fills them

very real dread.

selves. They can they

|fear to lead. something

|should go wrong! This is not cow-

ardice.
aware of its own weakness.
mental habit
in life. If you know what you want,
|and swiftly take the lead, you can
make others

extends to

follow you, and follow

which select.
Only now and then you will find the
| exceptional

you in the way you

person whose will and

The psychology of this particular |

 

It is a sort of incompetence |
And this |

everything |

purpose are as clear-cut as your own; |}

land then you will kin-

|dred spirit with whom you can not

recognize a

|do exactly as you please.

Perhaps
the best thing in that case is to make

a graceful compromise.
Dorothy Dix.
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The trouble with ignorance is that
it seldom realizes its own blissfulness.

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Customer Lost Through Clerk’s Ig-
norance of Stock.
Written for the Tradesmsn.

I can find no excuse for a store girl
who does not know her stock.
is one of the things of prime impor-
tance; that is one of the things she
is paid to know. If she does not the
lack is painfully epparent when she
least expects it. and as it engenders
a feeling of suspicion in the mind of
a customer, and consequently a dearth
of confidence, the clerk should never
betray ignorance along this line, even
should she possess it.

In a big general store the other day
I was
past) brought face to face with this
proposition; this is the experience |
encountered:

|
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j

iseen these pins in Chicago and
That}

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

this
sort

(I'd

“Perhaps not,” I said, “only to
extent: That I can not find this

of clasp anywhere else here

pleased to find them in my

 

|
|
|
|
|
|

|

was |
home |

town), and I wanted quite a quantity |

lof them and it appears that you did |

once more (as so often in the |

| back on me, began to whisper

[I had been laying in my usual sum- |

mer supply of small conveniences in|

What |

$1.87 was

the way of notions. selected

came to almost $2 the

amount, to be exact—which I'll war-

rant was larger than that received
from the average patron of that de-
partmentand it is larger by just

$1.87 than that department will  re-
ceive from me ever again while
presided over by the careless clerk
out those small
Perhaps I am unreasonable,

now employed to deal
articles.
but when, for cause, I

it 1S |

take a dislike |

to a clerk I never wish to trade with |

that one more.

not care enough about the sale to find
them It to
ought to have known these two large

for me. seems me
compartments at the other end of the
held the

Say, you

wanted, if,

the

sizes |
at

counter

as you are head of

this stock and have been for twenty- |

four months.”
“Cant track: oO

she answered,

keep f everything,”

don’t-care air,

the

with a

and sauntered down

you |

Cups and Saucers Count as One Piece Only. No Package Charge.
passageway |

behind the counter and, turning her |

mutter to her frowzy-headed neighbor
at the next department.
They stood there tittering, with a

and |

glance thrown now and then in my

direction.

What should I do?
to wait on me for the remaining pins,
finish my other shopping or go and
report the girl?

Finally, as she made no move to re-
turn, | decided to leave her and here-
after send to a friend in Chicago for

those special pins.

Ask the girl |

So I made no further effort to get

waited on there and quietly walked

|ever to the opposite counter, where |

This time, among the things I pur-|

chased were eight or ten cards of
safety pins. I wanted all sizes. The
girl said they were out of the largest

]

the smallest. She

around

and rummaged

a little, pawing over several
boxes in the immediate vicinity and
not finding any of either extreme size

Soon she g

ave
and came away.

The next dav I happened to be in

it up and I paid her |
| worth of the

the goods were for the rest of my

trading.

The girl “for two years at the head
furtively
watched me leaving her section, and

of the notion department”

laughed yet louder with her compan-
ion. i
I did nothing about the matter but

sent over to Chicago for a dollars

1

large and small sizes of

{the new brand of pins, and that disa-

the store for something else and as [|

went past the notion counter my eye |

full
and

two cubbies to
the

sizes of the other safety pins I wished

lighted on
flowing of largest

Glad of the discovery, as the pins
were of an improved make, I paused
to The same young

see about them.

fo her:

over- |

smallest |

greeable treatment I received will end

my trading at that girl’s department.
Eveline Rhine.
—_——-o-o--o——_——

The under dog sometimes deserves

all he gets.
—_-—_--~>->>-
The professional jollier has many |

i iy | admirers.
woman was there and I politely said}

“IT was in here yesterday noon and |

got some pins like these,” picking up |

a card and pointing to the particular
fastening.
“Ves, I remember,” she observed.
“And,” | continued, “I all
the different sizes, and you said you
were out of the largest and the small-

wanted

est—here they are,” and I indicated
the two wooden compartments at the
the

answered,

other end of counter.

“Ves:
tally.

she noncommit-

“Why didn't you get what I wanted |

yesterday?” I asked, beginning to feel
a little nettled by her indifferent man-
ner.

“Dunno—spose I didn’t see ’em,”
she answered, with a toss of her head.

“Isn’t this your stock—aren’t you
here all the while?” I asked.

“Yes, it’s my stock, I’m the head
of it, I’ve had it for two years,” she

|
snapped, with a flash of black snaky

eyes; “but,” and she looked at me
defiantly, “I don’t know’s that’s any

of your business,”

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

 

Word of Advice To Young Husbands.
Written for the Tradesman.

Admitting that the course of true
love never runs smooth, none will
deny that the roses far outnumber the
thorns. The dear light of romance
casts a halo around the pathway of
happy lovers, softening their misun-
derstandings and entirely obscuring
their faults. Their mere existence is
a joy and every day a taste of heav-
en. No more serious troubles con-
front them than the cruel separation
of a few hours or days, and even then
the time is spent in silent adoration
of the absent one.

Theirs—they have determined—
shall be an exceptional case. Nothing
shall ever come between them, and
when the curtain falls on the last act
of the wooing their married life shall
be one long courtship. How can peo-
ple who love each other grow cold,
indifferent and matter-of-fact? No
suspicion enters their minds of the
rude awakening which so often comes
and reveals to the husband or wife
a character totally different from the
sweetheart of a few months before.
The little deceptions — innocently
made, perhaps—are all laid bare and
they see each other in a true light.
This particular moment is the time
for each to understand that he or she
has not married an angel and to re-
solve to be reasonable, happy in the
new relation and at all times consid-
erate.

The life of even the most fortunate
contains disappointments, bitter trials
and hours and days of heartache. The
good Lord willed it so; sorrows must
needs come. Let the young couple
meet them hand in hand and _ bear
them bravely.
manner will but bind them closer to-
gether.

A sorrow met in this

All trials, however, are not heaven-
sent. Many are born in the imagina-
tion and nursed in the heart until the
burden is unbearable. First, and
above all, let the cardinal rule of the
home be, “No misunderstandings.”
Friends are estranged, hearts are
broken, the whole current of a life is
changed because of mere misunder-
standings. There is no excuse for
such a situation between husband and
wife. A full, free confidence will
smooth the way and brush aside little
troubles that if ieft to themselves will
rival Jonah’s gourd in rapid growth.

One mistake young husbands are
prone to make is the keeping of all
matters of business from their wives;
often through kindly intent, no doubt,
but it is the first ripple, and ends in
roaring billows. No bright, intelli-
gent woman can be satisfied with such
a condition; there is bound to be a
feeling of rebellion in her heart. Can
it be a lack of trust that causes her
husband to keep her in ignorance of
his business dealings, plans and pros-
pects? Does he think she can not
grasp and understand business prob-
lems? Or can it be true he is finan-
cially embarrassed and wishes to keep
the unwelcome news from her as long
as possible? These and_ countless
other troublesome questions will ran-
kle in the mind of the thoughtful
woman. Ignorance is not bliss but,

on the contrary, positively distress-
ing and usually disastrous.

 

 

 

My dear Mr. Young Husband, treat
your wife as your equal intellectually
as well as socially. Any enterprise
founded on false principles will not
succeed; its failure is only a question
of time. The marriage relation is no
exception to this rule—the happiriess
of the home depends largely on the
mutual understanding and full sympa-
thy of the partners. It does not rob
the relationship of its romance to real-
ize that there is a strictly practical
side to the union which can not be
ignored. Let there be no “silent part-
ner” in the firm. It will be to your
advantage in every respect to trust
your wife implicitly with all that con-
cerns you. Marriage is a practical af-
fair which only true confiding love can
render congenial and happy. It should
be looked upon as a lifelong partner-
ship. Your interests and your wife’s
are identical. Your success is her joy,
your failure her disappointment.
From the first day you claim her as
your own take her into your full con-
fidence in all matters of business.
Talk over with her all your hopes—an-
ticipations. Let her understand your
business circumstances, your income.
Advise together. Look into the fu-
ture with a loving belief in each other.
Often her opinions will prove inval-
uable and if you have chosen wisely
you will always find her willing and
glad to retrench when business is dull
and the future looks threatening.

Many a marriage has proven un-
happy simply because the wife failed
to receive this confidence and lived
year after year with no knowledge of
whether the annual family-income was
$500, $1,000 or $5,000. Is it possible
for a wife so situated to administer
the affairs of her household judicious-
ly? She may be as true as steel and
believe herself economizing and sav-
ing for future rainy days, whereas
she is unconsciously living far be-
yond her husband’s ability to pay.

Or the reverse may be true. In
and mother
overworks and deprives herself and
children of many comforts and pleas-
ures they should have, she fearing
they can not afford them. Mean-
while business prospers, investments
increase in value and the bank ac-
count swells rapidly. If the time ever
comes when the well-to-do or wealthy
husband and father makes his posper-
ity known to his loved(?) ones. the
faithful helpmeet is worn out—old be-
yond her years—and the birdlings are
ready to leave the home-nest. What
a fatal mistake has been made! The
home has been but half a home and
it is too late to make amends.

many cases the wife

Cases of this kind are by no means
tare, but one is prominent in the mind
of the writer: A high-spirited, am-
bitious woman married a man many
years her senior. She left a home of
love and plenty, but his promises of
devotion made the future bright. He
was true to his marriage vows with
one exception: He considered all
business matters strictly personal and
private and kept his own counsels,
with never a word as to success or
failure. Many, many times did the
young wife endeavor to win his confi-
dence in such matters, but she was
always met with rebuffs and refusals.

 

  

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Direct or pointed questions were an-
swered in monosyllables and the wife
could but feel that the husband con-
sidered her as prying into what was
none of her business. As a result of
such treatment, she never knew of her
husband’s change of partners,  busi-
ness speculations and investments ex-
cept through strangers. How humil-
iating to a smart and self-respecting
woman! Can love stand such a test
year in, year out? It is too much to
EXPect.

Accept in good faith the advice of
one who has lived long and observed
much. Start right, young husband,
with your marriage partner and your
life will be a joy, whether it be a fi-

tiancial success or not. Barbara.
——_._. >
Scheme for a Cozy Window Decora-
tion.
Written for the Tradesman.
I read the window article on page

2 in last week’s Tradesman, and was

struck with the originality of the trim |

so graphically described by the writer.
It must have entailed some work on
the part of the windowman and his
helper or helpers, for, although the
materials drawn upon were all simple,
and so common that anyone with in-
genuity and patience could assemble
and arrange them, still I suppose that
of the farm scene

very reason on

“wash day” being so ordinary is one
that would make it not exceptionally
suggestible to engaged
work of making window

one in the

space pos-
Its
very homeliness—and I might say its
very it charm
that caused hundreds to be
bly drawn to a near inspection of the
and all the
items that made its en-

sess attractions for the public.

home-iness

 

gave a

irresisti-

to
up

window as a whole
separate
tirety.
The introduction of the noble dog,
the anxious mother and her
chicks and the big black cat content-
edly napping in the old-fashioned
rocker was an especially happy hit,
for, if there one of thing
more than another that will rivet peo-
ple on the outside of window's
glass, it is the presence on the other
side of some live animal or animals.
The scheme was never known to fail.
But, if merchandise is not used
most judiciously in conjunction with
animals, so that the observer can not
think of them without also recalling
the goods displayed at the time, then
such a window is a dismal failure so
far as passing goods over the coun-
ter is concerned; it is only of avail

hen

is sort

a

to put the store’s name in_ every-
body’s mouth—-to make the store
talked about as being one where

“those cute little rabbits are in the
window.”

Of course, all publicity of an agree-
able quality counts, but it is the
thought of the goods themselves that
must be suggested, and that so forci-
bly and yet so unobtrusively (now
that sounds like a paradox, doesn’t
it?) that the beholder can’t get away
from the place and still has no very
clear conception how this insistence
is accomplished. He must be made
to look at the goods without know-
ing why or how he is compelled to,
anomalous as the proposition seems.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Naturally, such a “wash day” trim
as dwelt upon last week is essentially

different from one in which goods
alone are utilized. In the latter dis-
play there is no chance nor cause

tor any concealment—the articles are,

you might say, really thrown at the |

observer and he has no opportunity
to get them,
similar exhibit, mer-
farthest from your
thoughts when you look in the win-
dow. You must stop to see
everybody else is glued to the spot.

away from while, in a

day”
chandise

“wash or

is

There is always this difference be-
tween an animal window and one de-
pending for its interest only on things
put there from the store’s
**

interior.

-_ ~*

Here is an idea that might be ef-

fectively carried out, but it needs
good big space. It’s an ice cream
parlor project:

Procure an ice cream table and
|four chairs, at which seat four lady
dummies appropriately dressed in

 

street attire. One dummy could be
the gray-haired mother of the others.
She should be richly and dignifiedly
zowned, materfamilias.
One the younger faced dummies
could be clad in a stylish tailor-made
of light-toned cloth, one girl
could be attired in a dainty lace-be-
decked dimity, all fluffy
while the fourth might be a typical
“summer girl’ in a handsome
broidered white linen costume
an elegant tailor-made hat.

as becomes

of

suit

airiness,

em-
and

As in the farm spectacle the win- }

floor could
greensward

dow
with and all the acces-
sories be on the summer-garden or-
A dainty bouquet of carnations
and asparagus fern, or of the wild
cherry blossoms now to be found in
the should grace the center
of the stand around which the dum-
my ladies are seated. The glasses in
front of them should be of the very
thinnest clearest and the han-
dles of the spoons poised in

hands should be of a_ unique
pretty pattern. Cotton batting, of the
antiseptic kind, as that is so white
and clean, may be pressed into the
glasses to represent the ice cream.

The two dummies in wool gowns
should sit vis-a-vis and the “summer
girl’ must be the most conspicuously
placed, as it goes without saying that
she would be the most attractive of
the quartette. Three of them should
have their heads turned towards the
other of their number as if listening
to her little chit-chat.

Real branches of trees with artifi-
cial blossoms wired at close intervals
—the sort put out by store fixture
manufacturers—should be distributed
profusely all around the three sides
of the window and extend across the

der.

woods,

and

and

top, way over to the glass, so as to
form a beautiful bower for Beauty
itself; and two enormous’ Boston)

ferns, in big blue and white, bedrag-
oned Japanese jardinieres, resting on
good-sized substantial “Mission”
stands, could be placed in either cor-
ner of the background.

I never saw such a window, but
think that it would prove a lodestone
for the store attempting it.

B) EB RDS.

why |

be entirely covered |

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Types of Clerks Found in the Aver-
age Store.

A retailer acquaintance once asked
me if I wouldn’t help him a week be- |
hind his counters during a time of
His best
man was detained at home on account
of sickness in the family and another |
clerk was taken suddenly sick, with
the result that he was left shorthand-

particularly heavy trade.

ed at a time when he needed every-
body and there was no one he knew
he could get to fill the vacancies. As |
a matter of accommodation I agreed
to help him afternoons for a week,
close
observations of what was going on

and during that time I made
among the clerks. The observations |
different than made
at former times, but they brought out |

were no those
many facts about clerking that I had
lost sight of and which I know are
to be observed in nine-tenths of the
stores of the Let’s talk
about them.

country.

These cierks didn’t know anything |
about who I was, and their conversa- |
that

My first ac-

tion was the freer on account,
as well as their actions.
quaintance was’ the ever-present
clerk who was working in the store
keep

had his plans

only temporarily, simply to
things going until he
fixed to launch a big business of his
own, which was later explained to be
coffee

flavoring ex-

a great cinch on the tea and

trade, combined with

tracts, in which there was a fortune

for every fellow who had the nerve to
The fact was he had been work-
ing in the

Ty.
store two years already
and had not yet been able to get his
plans into the right kind of shape.

He reminded me of the story of

pice oct {T WILL BE YOUR BEST CUSTOMERS,

denied the
allegation on the plea that his pa-|
rents once paid a visit to Missouri |

a native of Missouri and

that lasted twenty years, and during |
that time he born,
“no durned Missourian.”

but he was|
This clerk |

was just sojourning in a dry goods}

was

store for the time being—which time |
might lengthen out to
but he didn’t
known that he was making a perma-

twenty years,

propose to have it}

nent business of clerking for a living.

Don’t you know other clerks who

are similarly situated, and who are

with the

f |
gifted
all their affairs to the new acquaint-

disposition to. tell

ances of an hour, with an accompany-
ing expansion on the possibilities of
what they expect to do a little later? |

This clerk was also a composer of
His |

any of

music—a songster, as it were.
name had never appeared on
the fine productions in music, nor on|
any of the popular songs, but he had |
printed a and could

business to an undoubtedly successful

few carry the
issue if he only took the notion that |
The thing that barred his |
spreading of ability for the good of |
the musical business in general was |
that there was no money in it, for, |
don’t you know, the people who write

way.

|any retailer for the wages that most |
{clerks were getting; he must
| good pay in order to be persuaded to

| whose present predicament was not
|of his

;ent condition is only temporary—just

music seldom make anything out of it. |

Neither were music and flavoring |
extracts his only intentions, for he |
had once been a window trimmer in|
a great department store and could
go back to that line o# employment |}

at any time he chose and earn more

|money than he was receiving in his |
| present position.
ling paid about four dollars a week |
}ed in all the business of herself and

In fact, he was be- |

1

more wages than anyone else who

| bad occupied the position he held, so|
| he said, and all of it on the strength

of the fact that he was able to trim
the windows. It was probably true, |
as he said, that he wouldn’t work for

have

work.

Altogether this clerk was a fellow

out of which he
would pass at the earliest possible |
moment, but in the meantime he was |
inclined to be like the|
poor heathen in this story:

choice and

necessarily

“The poor benighted Hindoo,
He does the best he kin do;
He sticks to his task from first to |
last

And for clothes he makes his skin |
do.”
Don’t you know clerks of just such |

Will |

you have to go a great ways to find |

contends that he is a bit |
out of his element, but that his pres-

make-up as the one recorded?

one who

1

a few clothes
You
might let him read this and then both
think for a what [|
am trying to convey to you by the |

sticking to his task for

and present necessary board?

while on

of you

| manner in which this record is made.

On the other side of the store was
a maiden lady who had charge of ho- |
siery and such things.

I say “lady” |

Cr |
because she would probably insist that |

“woman” was not a sufficiently digni-
fied appellation. Nominally she had
charge of a section of the goods, but
in reality she assumed charge of pret-
ty much all there was on that side
of the store, much to the disturbance

|of other clerks who thought they had
a few rights not yet conveyed away |

from them.
This maiden lady was so well vers-

 

her neighboring clerks that nothing |
escaped her attention, and whenever |

|it was possible she put in her opin-

and deductions regarding the
selling of all goods and the answering
of all She

stock-keeper and she was acquainted

ions

questions. was a good
with the goods about her, which ac-
counted very much for her retention
as an employe. Despite the fact that
she kept other clerks in a perturbed
state of mind, she sold many goods.

clerk will not be hard to
find in any one of ninety out of a

Such a

hundred stores the country over. Such |

(a turmoil and disturbing of feelings |
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and the clerk who is so inclined falls
into the habit of being a sub-boss and
self-appointed monitor, simply
through allowing herself to put her-
self into every deal, whether asked or |
not.

 

Maybe there is no such clerk in

your store, and maybe you are not ac- |
quainted with such a character, but
for the the

good of business

| ger nails never look nice.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

25

 

and well dressed when working in a/|

Iry goods store where one was com-

pelled to handle so many dirty goods.

One’s hands get so dirty and one’s fin-
When the

girls come around to borrow a fel-

low’s nail file and then lose it, how

|1s it possible to keep finger nails in

where |

you work and for the good will and |

good opinions of the clerks who are
always about you, don’t allow your-
self to become a chronic disturber of
things like the maiden lady in the

store where I worked a little while

for accommodation.

There was another clerk who was
interesting because she was really
and witty and able to make
She not disturbed

by the interferences of the maiden

bright
sales easily. was
lady, and was always ready with a
that
other.

interference |
that
legitimate to fool |

silenced the
She

considered it

retort
of the

1
sne

was so cute

Fair and
took

turned—not

the boss on opportunity.

square to his face, she advan-

tage when his back was
advantages of the awfully bad kind, |
but little tricks to gain time or oppor-
tunity. in

were not bad, but their constant repe-

themselves those tricks

tition, and the way they led to others,
caused me to think that the cute clerk
herself to at-

that

would sometime allow

tempt some advantage would

lead her into trouble.

It is not to be supposed that you
know such a clerk, yet the time may |

come when you will run such

across

an individual and you will then take

notice of the characteristics that have
led me to think that the clerk named |
ic «liable to into trouble

get some

time in the future through carrying
her funniness too far.

Before the week was over the head
clerk made his appearance, and it was
remarkable how he assumed the au
thority over things that had seemingly
all gone wrong while he was absent.
The bundle boy had to take a lec-
ture, the youngest clerk had to have
a few training admonitions, I had to
be coldly requested to occupy a Ssta-
tion a httle the
the boss had to be consulted with very |

farther down store,
earnestly about seven times an hour,
and things in general had to be re-
arranged and refitted.

The boss afterward told me that he

was puzzled at the man from the
fact that when invoice time came he
was almost always sick, and when

extra heavy trade was on hand he had
some trouble at home that demanded |

his undivided attention. Yet it ap-
peared, or the clerk attempted to
make it appear, that the store got

into a terribly bad state as soon as}
The

responsibility resting upon his should-

he was absent for a short time.

ers was something big.

Is there any such clerk m your
store, and if you were head clerk|
anywhere would you think of con-

sidering yourself such an important |
factor and section of the
business after the manner described? |
Probably not, but you might think |
about it.

Another clerk confided in
to how difficult it was to keep neat |

necessary

me as|

shape? He thought he would have

his monogram engraved on his watch
because his initials made such a pret-
ty monogram, and, then, you know it
is the stylish do.

thing to Long

| front hair continuously dropped down

| minute or

over his eyes, and when he was bend-
ing over goods he was compelled to
keep his head tossing in order to see,
but it being a stunning way to wear
hair the inconvenience didn’t matter.
All these things had to be attended
matter if a needed

to, no there was

renovating of stock, and no matter

to wait a
allow the

if some customer did have

two in order to

young man a chance to fixed

get
right.
Perhaps you haven’t seen that sort

of a clerk, but [ have known a good

many of them, and somehow they

never seemed to be able to get above

the limit of about seven dollars a
week. If you know such a clerk
wouldn’t it be a good deed for the

business and a merciful awakening for
the clerk just to put him wise as to
what sort of a course he is mapping
out for himself? It might help him
and the

to raise his salary, in which case he

to raise his usefulness boss

will have less use for nail files and

spend less time studying the beauty of |

monograms.
Thre types of clerks I found in that
there

store are good examples, and

(is not a bit of dowbt but that this ar-

ticle will fall under the eyes of some
the
able to

who are inclined in directions

named. To be know one’s
faults and correct them is something
that is not given to many of us, and
that is why we should find the great
value in the joggings of others when
they say something that applies to our
characteristics.

personal -Drygoods-

man.

Wanted To Be Let Alone.
“What’s

the matter, old man?” he

said, as they met the next morning. |

"You look
“1 feel
“But last night you were the jolliest

blue.”
blue’
member of our party.”
"L felt jolly.”
“You acted like a boy just let
of school.”
VL det Ike
“You said that your wife had gone

one.”

away for the first time in three years,

and there wasn’t anyone to say a
word if you went home and kicked
over the hall clock”

‘"T remember 1t.7

"You said that if you stayed out
until 4 o’clock there was no one to
look at you reproachfully and_ sigh
and make you-feel mean.”

“Yes: and | Stayed out until) 4

o'clock, didnt I?
“You certainly did

“And I gave a warwhoop on_ the
front doorstep.”
“vies;

comic opera song, and tried to dance

and you sang a verse from a

a jis!

"Ves; and my wite missed that
train. Now, please go away and let
me alone.”

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into the store with a sample of pique |
For the |
use intended, a light weight was de-|

26

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

MISTAKES OF CLERKS.

Admit Your Error When You Are
Wrong.

To be always right is impossible.
But to be sometimes wrong and
gracefully allow people to know that
you are willing to admit the wrong
makes the doing of duties all the eas-

ier. To graciously admit error, to|
to send away |

pleasantly correct it,

customer satisfied and pleased, rather |
than mollified and displeased, is far |

better business than to stoutly stick

up for your side of the case, and|

compelling the customer to admit

that you are right and she is wrong. |

Here is a case in point which will

serve as a good illustration of error |

that should have been corrected, but

which was not corrected by the clerk; |

and in which the clerk considered

A woman came
which she desired to match.

sired. The sample had been obtain-

ed by another member of the family |

from a piece priced at 25 cents.
The woman handed the sample toa

clerk—-the head clerk of the store—

and asked to see the piece.

cord and asked her, “How
yards?”
told 35 cents.

if the sample and piece matched. An
affirmative reply caused her to re-

quest three yards. She paid the clerk

the correct amount and he neither re- |
turned the sample nor gave her the}

usual duplicate check.

When she reached home she dis-}
covered that the goods was heavier |

and more expensive than intended.

The next morning she returned to the |
store, explained to the clerk that the}

goods of which she had obtained a

sample and which she desired was |
25 cent goods; that the piece he had|
cut for her was heavier and cost |
She rightfully asked him to |

more.
exchange for a like amount of a
cheaper piece. He asked her for her
check, and she replied that he had
given her none and also that he had
not returned to her the sample she
had brought.

He stated to her that it was not the
custom of the store to make such ex-
changes, that he did not consider the

fault his because he had showed her |

the piece and she had said she would
take from it, and that she had an op-
portunity to observe for herself when
the goods was shown her.

match the samples obtained from it

and that he should have shown her |
more than one piece if he was not}

positive of the match. Further, she
said that she was not there to argue
the matter with him, simply desiring
to know whether or not he would ex-
change.

The clerk took her goods, laid it by
the side of the piece from which it
had been cut and told her that he had
no cord of that width at 25 cents,

He pulled |
out a piece with the same width of |
many |
She asked the price and was |
She hesitated, but not |
being sure that she had understood |
the price right at home, she asked |

He reiter- |
ated that it was not his fault that the |
wrong piece was cut. She replied that |
she considered it his fault in that he |
should know his stock well enough to |

| but did not show her the 25 cent
| quality in any width cord. She point-
|edly asked him if there was noth-
| ing in the store of that width cord at
ja quarter, to which he answered,
| “No.” She knew that he was wrong,
| because of the explanation given her
iby the member of her family who
| had obtained the sample, yet she felt
that he had the complete advantage
of her and that he had lied to her in
order to protect himself under the

pretense of protecting the store.

Not disposed to argue longer, she
asked him to wrap the goods again
for her. She took the parcel, left the
|store and went to a rival establish-
| ment and purchased other goods that
|represented a profit far greater than
ithe amount which might have been
lost had the reasonably requested ex-
|change been made. She knew he had
| lied, and she felt so uncomfortable in
his presence that she could not trade
more with him. There is also the
very reasonable probability that she
will hereafter trade but very little at
that store, although she has nothing
to record against any one but the ob-

stinate clerk.

You say she might have been mis-
taken, or that the one who obtained

That might have been the
case, but it was not, for I know the
stock and the clerk and know that
Some women

the price.

the woman was right.
| would have insisted and made a scene,
| but this customer would not do that
for the 30 cents involved. For the
possible 30 cents—al-
though it is not likely that any loss
would have been sustained through
an exchange as asked—that
drove away from the store a trade
which probably amounted yearly to
easily a hundred dollars. Added to
that should be the influence which
the story will have upon other cus-
| tomers who may desire to do busi-
ness at that store, and who will
eventually hear something of the
transaction.

saving of a

On the other hand, the clerk con-
siders, undoubtedly, that he has pre-
served the store from an imposition
and that he has vindicated himself
as a sharp dealer in goods. It is not
improbable that he made the remark
that there will be no more trouble
from that customer asking for goods
to be exchanged. There might have
been some fault on the part of the
woman in failing to be sure of the
| price before she left home, but that
| fault is not to be compared with the
| fact that the clerk did not know his

|

goods, that he failed to return hei
the sample, that he gave no check
for her money and that he deliberate-
ly lied to her about the goods in
stock in order to protect himself.

| The transaction on the part of the
|clerk was not good business in any
sense of the word. He took snap
judgment matched the
goods, made deliberate error in not
returning the sample to the customer
and not giving her a check, as well
as lying about the goods in stock.
He gained his point and carried out
his personal vindication under the be-
lief that the customer was being fool-
ed into his way of putting the case.

when he

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If this clerk, whose case has been ex- |

plained to you, had called the boss, |
the customer would have been more
easily and readily satisfied; at least,
she would have been aware of the
view the head of the house took of
the matter. The admission of a pos-

be the case if the latter ever dis-
covers the trouble for himself,

3e square with your employer and
be square with your customers, al-
ways ready to admit and correct er- |
rors in the proper spirit, and you can
not fail to vindicate and be square |
with yourself. And it’s the easiest
way.—Drygoods man.

>
Turn Over a New Leaf at the Bundle |
Counter.

Written for the Tradesman.

There is one subject I would like |
to see touched up more in the trade |
papers. It is highly important, and it
is a matter that is slurred over in the
stores to an astonishing degree. Eith-
er it is considered of little moment, |
o1 employers do not wish to go to
the additional necessary expense, or
employes perhaps do not carry out
instructions of those over them.

small.

My attention has again and again |
been drawn to the slovenly way in |
which parcels are wrapped up, both |
by those at the bundle counter and |
by clerks in their respective depart- |
|of white or blue or pink tissue pa

Wiis Seriak mmcramee, at tie best, | Po (preferably white, as that clashes |

ments.

tc carry a_ package
streets, or on the street car, especially
ii one has to transfer; and the an-
noyance is doubled if one has a long

on the sidewalk and on the car steps

and platform, also inside the car, both |

in the aisle and where one sits.

(By the way, this great unsanitary |
nuisance of men spitting in public |
places has become almost unbearable |
to the clean-loving women of the|
land, and I, for one, am heart and
soul with the movement going for-
ward to make it a criminal offense
for a person to commit this—you
might call it depredation!)

I reiterate that a shopping package
is an unmitigated vexation, anyway,
if carried by the purchaser and the
least that can be done by those in
charge is that bundies leave the store
in proper condition. Many a time
one is in imminent danger of losing
out of a carelessly tied or twisted
parcel such small articles as_ these:
thread, tape, thimbles, pins and nee-
dles, ribbon, and the like. The person
employed to do this work should see

| tough fiber.

through the} , |
| the box or paper used for a container,

| miring a

 

to it that each package that leaves
the place could not come apart if
carried in the hands a mile. When
a customer receives such a parcel, his |
mind is relieved of the anxiety that
it will come open, even if, on general |
principles, he dislikes to carry it |
around. |

Now, as to the paper itself: Don’t
use a poor quality, and, if you must

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

have your advertisement printed on
one side, don’t put that side toward

| the public, for nobody wants to make
1a free

sandwich-man of himself.

| Sometimes the ink rubs off on a per-
|son’s bare hand—or, worse, on the
| glove—and an
sible error by the clerk and the de-|
sire to make fair and reasonable cor- |
rection would have cost the clerk far |

less in the sight of the boss than will | intended to reach, and, besides, if the

tisement printed on a wrapper is sel-
dom or never read by the one it is

| printing is not placed so that “he who
|Tuns may read,” it is then possible
| to soil delicate fabrics inside, which
| Miay be even worse than dirtying a|

nice glove.

The general dealer might well go|
to the druggist for an example of|

| dainty work in the wrapping of a
| parcel. The

latter has difficult

| shapes to handle and yet what pleas-
|ing results he always accomplishes.

| You never see anything but extreme

tidiness displayed in the envelopment
of his parcels, and, too, often they are

| so small it would seem impossible to
| make a wrapper stay on them. The
| paper is rarely anything but a clean
white or pretty shade of pink or blue, |
tied with the same or contrasting tint |
| of twine, and you never see a woman |
|ashamed to carry the apothecary’s
| packages; indeed, she rather enjoys

I refer to the subject of the proper |
wrapping of parcels, both large and |

toting them around with her—they |

look so clean and attractive.

There’s another thing the average |
dealer rarely considers: Tf a put-|
chase—let us say a dress, coat, laces, |
ribbons, gloves, or anything else that |
would require care to keep it nice— |
be done up with a generous allowance |

with no color or shade) first, inside |

it really adds value to the merchan-

| dise, in the eyes of the customer. The}

dress to preserve from the mud a seer ae Pang -
the crossings and the expectoration | this feminine characteristic and al- |
| ways sends his goods out in the]
| daintiest of coverings. It’s something |
like a woman’s clothes—you can’t, for |
|the life of you, if you have any eyes
jin your head, help glancing at and ad-

prettily gowned woman,
even should her features be plain.

So, Mr. Merchant, if you have never
given this subject of neat and attrac-
tive parcels a serious thought, do, I
beg of you, turn over a new leaf, even
if far from the New Years’ Day, and
in the future have every package that
leaves your place of business such an
one as an elegant lady would delight
to receive before her friends, if so it
happened; and the added care and ex-
pense will be money in your pocket,
for women are often moved to pat-
ronize a store if for no other reason
than that it puts white tissue paper
around its packets. Jean La Vigne.

et

A New York woman refused to tell
her age to the census enumerator
who called at her home. Her hus-

|band when he arrived endorsed her
| attitude.

Only after being taken to
court and threatened with imprison-
ment would the woman give the in-
formation desired.
a ea

It’s all right to put whip and spurs
to your brain if you
tongue.

bridle your

execration on the|
storekeeper is the result. The adver- |

 

Use unprinted paper of |

 

 

Fans
For
Warm

Weather

i
*

Nothing is more appreciated on a hot day than a substan-

 

tial fan. Especially is this true of country customers who

come to town without providing themselves with this

necessary adjunct to comfort. We have a large line of these
goods in faney shapes and unique designs, which we furnish
printed and handled as follows:

th

eh $3.00 MO os $ 7.00

ON HL aL 4.50 ROO UL 8.00

BOO 2... EOOO...... 15.00

We can fill vour order on five hours’ notice, if necessary,
but don’t ask us to fill an order on such short notice if you

can avoid it.

Tradesman

Company
Grand Rapids, [lich.

 

  

 

28

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

WINNING SUCCESS.

 

Good Advice Handed Out by a Multi-
millionaire.

“Work just as hard as you know|
have |

how; never let up after you
made up your mind to achieve any-
thing, but stick to it, through good
fortune and bad, with a purpose that

knows no swerving,

you have success before you.”

This is the advice that James Oliv-
er, multimillionaire, President of the
plow manufacturing company that
bears his name, who recently round-
ed out his fiftieth year in active busi-
ness, hands out to the young man
about to start in life.

“Work,” he says, “is the one and
only basis upon which any success
worthy of the be built.
Every success of any importance in
this world monument to
man’s hard work.”

name Can

is 3

Mr. Oliver has a perfect right to|
i'needed for my support, and in doing

speak with authority on the question

of success.

from the bottom.
well what the upward climb means to
those that attempt it, and he knows
also the reward that hangs forth for
those who make the climb. He is
now 82 years old and still working.
He began work at an age when most
men are in school, and has been in

and if you are|
the right kind of a young man to-day |

|
some |

He has succeeded him- |
self, succeeded in spite of more ad-}
versities and trials than come to the |
lot of most men, and he has come up|
So he knows full |
|afford to miss acquiring, and that is

When he was 17 years of age he
decided that farming, while pleasant
enough as an occupation, was too nar-
row a sphere to hold the measure of
success that he was ambitious to
achieve. He looked around and se-
cured another position, this time a3
a laborer in a little Indiana grist mill.
His wages here were not any larger
than the average laborer’s to-
day, but after a year of work he had
learned the mill business fairly well
and had saved $75 besides. Then he
bought a house and lot—price $775.

“T always looked upon this little
venture, made when I was only 18

are

years old, as one of the important
events of my life,’ says Mr. Oliver.
“My pay at the mill was not any too
large to feed and clothe myself on,
but having put the $75, which repre-
entire capital, in as a first
worth of property, I
was bound to get the remaining $700
paid somehow. To do this I had to
save every cent that was not actually

sented my
payment on $775

this I acquired the habits of economy
and frugality which always helped me
the that followed. These
two habits that no young
who starts in on limited finances can

in years

are man

why that early real estate investment
was of such importance to me.”
“How the habits of frugality
and economy helped Oliver then is
shown by the fact that within a few
years he had the house and lot paid

well

his business then left nothing for
him after he had paid his help, and he
set about to devise a cheaper method
of manufacture without detracting
from the quality of his product. It
took years, this seeking, and it ended
in nothing more or less than Oliver’s
invention, the chilled plow, and the
great secret was solved. He could stay
in the business and make money at it.

3ut this the end of the
struggle, although the battle was half
‘There
be met and conquered, capital must

was. not

won. were other reverses
be acquired for the introduction of
the new invention, and the inevitable
prejudice against anything new must
be overcome. But the man who had
the nerve to start in business on $100
had the to fight back when
things went wrong. He stayed with
the troubles that came to him just
as closely as he stayed with his work,

nerve

and never once did the troubles get
the better of him.

Fifty years has he stayed with his
work, and through these fifty years

 

| the young man to follow who would

| win success:

of this world’s goods by dishonest

methods, but his success will be short
and

Be honorable always.

lived, unstable, unsatisfactory.
Never
fice your conscience merely to gain
wealth nor to deceive yourself into

believing that the mere accumulation

to |

 

he has worked and made his success. |
| Here is the way that he outlines for |
places that are offered.

Be honest, first of all. |
A man may acquire a goodly share |

sacri- |

less as he did seventy years ago, Mr.
Oliver says this, and it will pay young
men who are actually making the
start to-day to cut this out and paste
it in their hats: “Yes, I believe !
could, and gladly would I give all
that | have this world for the
chance of changing these gray hairs
of mine for the black of youth, and
my condition to that of a struggling
beginner, for the opportunities are
still all about us, waiting for the right
man to adopt them to his own uses.
“The idea that too many men have,
that there is no chance for them in
the world of to-day, that the chances
of three score years and ten back

in

were greater than they are now, is
absurd. This world is ever a just
world, if it is strict, and it always
finds places for the young men who
deserve them.

“A young man starting out in the
world to-day should banish the dis-
»ased idea that there is no room for
him. There is room and plenty of it
for every young man, and the only
trouble is that there are not enough
capable men in the world to fill the
man

“T believe that

starting out in life to-day will sooner

every young
or later meet his opportunity and that
his success or failure will depend up-
on his ability to see and grasp this
opportunity when it comes. I repeat
that the world offers as good oppor-
tunities to-day as it ever did for the
man who will work, and it never of-

fered anything really worth while to
else.” O. BH. Oven.

for and money enough saved to justi-| of money means success, for it does
fy him in marrying. His marriage
he also regards as a most important

his life, and urges the ac-|

the harness ever since. His whole
life has been one of work, and, fol-
lowing along his own line of thought,
the enterprise that bears his name,

not. A man must live a good life; any one

and useful if he is to be called suc-

 

a
Hospitality in Old Kentucky.

cessful, no matter whether his wealth i r
A well-to-do Kentucky farmer once

step in

his success, is a monument to his| quisition of a wife by the ambitious | mounts up into fabulous figures or}. ~. , i :
hard work. And he says that anyone} with the same insistence as he urges not. | invited ty acquamtance trom if neigh-
who will work can do what he has | the habits before mentioned. “Get a | “And then, possessing these quali. | DOTE ee ” dine with him. The
done. | wife,” he says; and he does not be-| ties, a man must persevere. A young | eae OF this Con eey daha alt aT
The story of Mr. Oliver’s rise from | lieve that a man needs to have any| man to be successful in business must well Known _ = oe for bts
the bottom is well worthy the at-!| great amount of money saved before |apply himself unswervingly to the | general crankiness and his propensity

tention of all who are struggling with |
It is a story |

the problem of success.
of painful struggling against odds,
odds that looked as if they would
swamp the ambitious
time and again, for years and years,
and of a success that is as complete
as it is well earned. There is a note
of clear, sane hope and encourage-
ment in the story.

In the beginning he started just as
humbly as any one can hope to start
in any day or age. His first “posi-
tion” was as a chore boy on a farm
at the princely salary of fifty cents a
week. In ten had earned
$5 and felt rich, richer than he feels
now when ke master of millions. But

weeks he

his get-rich-quick career was to be

short lived. His brother fell sick, and

young James had to hand over the}

$5 to help the family pay the doctor
bill.

His second position was an advance
over the first one. He was paid $6 a
month in this; nearly three times as
much as in the first place, but he was
His
prospects were not particularly bright
He was

still doing chores for a farmer.

at that stage of his career.
but scantily educated, had no connec-
tions to which influence might be
looked for, and he knew how to do
but one thing—chores. But he was
a good chore boy.

ler’s trade

manufacturer |

 

he marries.

Soon after this he learned the mold-
and started the career
that was to wind up as head of the
greatest manufacturing enterprise in
his line in the world. For two years

on

he worked as a molder in the town
where his plant now is. At the end
of this time he had $100 in cash, a
home, a wife, and unlimited nerve and
energy. He had decided that there
was a good opening in this line. So

0

he started making plows.
Fate turned the cold
him from the beginning.

shoulder to

One hun-
dred dollars does not last long after
one has started a shop on no matter
small a Oliver
soon found himself badly broke. AI-
so he woke up one morning and found
that the St. Joseph River had found
its way into his shop and swept away
all worldly

Others might have given up. Oliver
borrowed money and went to work
again. He became his own foundry-
man, blacksmith, office and
sales agent. He first worked making
his own goods, then locked up shop
and went on the selling the
plows he had manufactured. His trade
began to grow and soon he had four
men in the shop and four on the road
as agents.

But the manner

how scale. Young

his belongings.

force

road

in which he ran

work before him, no matter what that
Unsteadiness and fic-
to
No matter how

work may be.

kleness never can be made har-

monize with success.
insignificant may be a young man’s
first position, he should do his work
with the
as he would were the position of great
importance, for he must remember

that these first positions are the train-

same care and faithfulness

ing schools for the bigger ones that
are tO conic.

“He must never become discourag-
ed, no matter what he comes to face,
and he must not sit down and bewail
the lack of early advantages. Pov-
erty is no handicap in the beginning.
Rather it is a help, for too many ad-
vantages for the young man are apt
to kill his ambition, and without am
bition success is impossible. Anyone,
if he will work hard faithfully
and be honest in all his life, will find
that success is possible, for the poor

and

boy’s chances to-day are just as good
as they were. The sickening
doctrine of the pessimist who bewails
the lack of opportunity to-day
never find a responsive echo in the
breast of any American boy with a
strong arm and a level head and who
is earnest and persevering in his ef-
forts.”

ever

should

When asked if he could duplicate
his success to-day, starting out penni-

 

 

to use his gun at the least evidence
of what he considered an affront. The
farmer, well aware of the touchiness
of his guest, with whom, for business
reasons, he desired to remain on good
terms, always kept a wary
visitor.

One afternoon the testy

eye on his

individual.
in conversation with his host, remark-
ed: I account for the queer
feelings and impulses that come over
Do you know, the first
time I took dinner here I had as much
as I could do to master the impulse,

can’t

me at times.

when one of your sons made a certain
remark, to whip out my gun and let
eo.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that,” said
the farmer, “I know all about your

little failing in that line. My son
Jake was standin’ in the hallway just
back of you with a shotgun. You did
well to change your mind. At the

first motion toward your hip pocket

my son Jake had instructions to blow

daylight through you!”
+e ____

Edward Bok, after devoting much
attention to the evils tipping,
seems to conclude that the practice
can not be stopped, for he recom-
mends that for restaurants’ there
should be a standard tip of 10 per
cent. the amount of the bill.
Waiters would probably be satisfied
with this as a minimum.

of

upon

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29

 

 

Your brain has a limited
Capacity. Remove one-
half its load and the re-
mainder is handled twice
as well. The five greatest
troubles of a merchant—
the handling of cash sales,
credit sales, money re-
ceived on account, money
paid out and money
changed for customers—
are taken care of by a
National Cash Register.

 

 

 

 

' N. C. R. Company, Dayton, Ohio.
I would like to know how a National Cash Register
Michigan Tradesman wipes out a retailer's troubles. Lam sending this coupon

we

with the understanding that it puts me under no obliga-
tion to buy.

Name —
Address ag
Meas Na Crs.

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

TOO MUCH EDUCATION.

Glut of Educated Men Threatens the
World.

A source of discontent which must
soon be felt painfully in the United
States is the education of the people
above the recognized needs of educa-
tion. Through the extraordinary em-
phasis given by cur democracy to uni-
versal education more men and wom-
en are now trained, especially in the
universities, than there is demand for.
Not half of them are needed in the
learned professions, or can make a
livelihood through their learning. A
large part are, accordingly, living in
poverty, or drifting into “lower” oc-
cupations.

Many college graduates fill clerk-
ships, teach in primary schools, and
act as book agents or traveling sales-
men, for which their education poorly
qualifies them. The result is that,
besides being disappointed in having
to do such work, they are not suc-
cessful in it.

The number of
alarming, and the

learned failures is
discontent touches

the top of society. Wealth is taking

the lead in American life which learn- |
abler |

ing once controlled, and the
minds are not appreciated like those
which can make money.

Traders have more power to-day
than lawyers, clergymen or profes-
sors. A man is measured by what he
can do more than by what he knows,
and by what he can do in business
rather than in discovery or author-
ship. The United States Senate is
filled with millionaires who have no
training in statesmanship any more
than in
speak contemptuously of the literary
class. “Anybody can write,” said a
prominent butcher, “but it takes a
great man to run a commercial busi-
And he thought his life more
beneficial than the poet’s or philoso-
pher’s, because he paid more men

scholarship. Eminent men

ness.”

wages.

This excess in education is not in
the over-education of any, but in the
fact that too many are educated for
the number of positions requiring
education. When there were but few
learned ap-
one

men, learned were
preciated and in demand. Each
stood in the iine of promotion,
only to fame but to fortune. He
could make his reputation and_ his
living by his learning. Now, how-
ever, there are too to be
esteemed and employed. Half of them
are useless, and the world’s learning
The rush to the
universities by youth from. the coun-
try and small towns, where there is
little to interest them except educa-
the
plethora is mostly of inferior minds,
incapable of taking on the best uni-
When anybody can
so easily be turned into a scholar an

men

not

many so

is mostly wasted.

tion, aggravates the evil, since

versity training.

excess of scholars is inevitable.
There are but few things that a
learned man can do which are thought
congenial. He can put his learning
to use only in the professions, litera-
ture, politics, and some few applica-
tions of science to the industrial arts.
3ut these fields are limited and just
now overcrowded. Applicants must
wait to get in, and must take their

 

 

turn at work, working often but half
time and for small wages. There is
a general demand for more places in-
men to fill them.
People are hunted who want talent,
instead of those who have it, talent
going begging for places instead of
places for talent.

stead of for more

This condition has long prevailed |
in Germany, where the universities |
turn out so many that there is nothing
for most of them to do. Men capa-
ble of managing a state are acting as|

tutors in private families or secretar- |

a
Those who have |

 

ies to corporations.
wealth do nothing, and
end their intellectual life where it}
should begin—at their graduation.

mostly so |

In Russia the evil is still more no- |
ticeable, where within twenty years |
the university graduates have so mul- |
tiplied beyond the increase of agen- |

cies requiring them that they are|
mostly idle and in discontent. Many |
would start schools—not that  the|

people may be educated, but that the |
educated may be employed. Too many
are thinking for the amount of|
thought required in the present sys-|
tem, and the result threatens revolu- |
tion. The top of society is not occu-
pied with anything that the present |
state of society requires. A new con- |
dition is needed to give them a living. |
The learned are suffering as much as
the working classes, it being harder |
for scholars to get employment than |
for artisans.

As this condition is being transfer- |
red to the United States, the need of
a remedy becomes urgent. The ques- |
tion is becoming, not What shall we
do with our ignorant? but What
shall we do with our learned? Hav-|
ing planted universities in nearly all |
towns, we now have too many schools |
for the scholars, and too many schol-
It has be-|
come so easy to become a great man |
that it is hard to find anything for |
ereat men to

The only remedy for this condi-
tion, besides a discontinuance of the
agitation for collegiate training, is to
sever education to a large extent from
special forms of business, such as the
learned professions, and train youth
to better men instead of better
workers.

When there was so much to do in
this country that all capacity had to
be set to work, especially learned ca-
pacity, scholarship naturally became
practical. It had to be applied, and |

ars for the population.

do.

be

 

it was accordingly useful, and went
farther in beneficial results than in
any other country. But now that it
has done its pioneer work, so that
but part of the scholars are needed,
scholarship must find an end in it-
self, and be content with the enjoy- |
ment which culture brings, without |
looking to financial results. In Eng-
land this is largely done, where many
Oxonians care only for learned leis-
ure, and enjoy their culture as they
do their sports.

We have a limitless demand for
men in other than learned work,
where many of our scholars can find
employment; so that they need not
be idlers to the same extent as in
England. Besides expanding the sub-
jects on which learning may be spent,

 

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as the industrial arts, where science
is being more introduced, necessitat-
ing many scientific men, the learned |

can spend their leisure at books while |
giving their productive hours to com- |
merce or farming.

Learning does not spoil one for any
occupation. Besides improving most
work, it may be enjoyed as mere cul- |
ture. Scholars must to do
something else than make their living
at their learning. In times like the |
present they must accustom
selves to enjoy a life which is
highly intellectual.
so many learned unless they do some-
thing that does not tax their learning.
Working at one thing and enjoying
their culture at another, they must
often work without using their brains, |
as well as take pleasure without using |
them, as they do in riding, hunting,
golf and dancing—an easy diversion,
since one can spend but little of his
time at learned work, even when fav-

learn

them- |
not
We can not have |

orably employed for it, and must give
the rest to mental relaxation.

As we can not reduce the number
of educated men, we must train them |
into new channels and get wider oc-
cupation for the brain.
work must be held fit
and even for geniuses.

Common
for scholars,

Only thus can

we absorb the plethora of scholar- |
ship in the next generation, when so
many schools are in full blast and
training is pursued at such high pres-
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portunities.
There are certain principles which |
the manner all
branches of A business |
prospers, trade is increased, the field
at a
standstill, then becomes smaller and
In

work in same in

business.

is widened or the business is

finally dies or rots out. order to}
make it

Large concerns are becoming larger, |

a business go must grow.
true in hardware as in dry goods, and
just as true in the wholesale as in
retail business.

Now, if this is true, the merchant
who is in business to stay must real-
ize that it becomes necessary to en-
large his trade.
each year sees his profits cut down |
in some lines—competition from cat- |
department

He realizes also that |

alogue houses — from
stores—-and from other sources—con-
stantly are encroaching upon his field.
New lines must therefore be looked
into and added to the hardware stock.
Those lines should be most carefully
considered that come the nearest to
hardware. Dry goods may
successfully sell some kinds of hard-
ware, but it would be a difficult mat-
ter for aly store suc-
cessfully handle dry goods.
Sporting goods is one of the lines

stores

hardware to

which would come most easily to the
hardware store—the business can be
obtained by the hardwareman_ with
very little effort.
There a town in
York of about 1,800
where two hardware stores have the
trade, about evenly Both
these merchants are constantly kick-
ing about outside competition—the
catalogue houses are shipping goods
to that town every day—one jewelry

 

Central New

is |
population,

divided.

}in neighboring towns, and, of

| dealers

| alogue

| store—again

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| them,

| Having this business, which pays

| the

| dealers

ithe surrounding country that

| business.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

store and a drug store handle fishing

tackle. A bicycle shop is doing

a
successful business in bicycle goods
;}and sporting goods. Why? Because

neither hardware merchant is alive to

| the opportunities of his business. One

of these merchants is extremely un-

tomers

ed as to prices, which certainly are

at which the same goods are retailed |

| on many items much above catalogue |

house prices. Thus much of the busi-

ness goes out of town. Both of these

are in a rut—new goods

course,

are }

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|
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|
|

;bopular—does not cater to his cus- |
and both dealers have join- |

|

iconsiderably higher than the prices |

i
|
|
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|
|
|

| Costs the least to operate.

seldom stocked, are ordered from cat- |

this much
The

and business

lost entirely. town is in

|the only complete stock in this line

is carried by the druggist. The base

| ball and sporting goods trade goes
jto the bicycle shop and to the book

because the hardware

these goods. A small, exclusive

| plumbing and furnace dealer has built
|up a

good business in these lines, in

five years, although both

| stores make some pretense of carry- |
\ing plumbing and heating goods.

Now, this well illustrates the trou-

ible with many hardware merchants; |

ii these two dealers looked

could handle all the
ing and heating trade of this village.
a
good profit, would enable them to
handle some of the other business on
a shut
catalogue

and thus
from

closer margin out

competition
houses. By so doing each of these

would be enabled to almost

double their trade, and, by increasing

ithe volume of business, they would

be

able to buy at lower prices, and
would soon be drawing business from
would
still more add to the profits.

All
the hardware store, and many hard-
same
above

these lines come naturally in
dealers making the
are
noted by carrying too small a variety

ware are

mistake as these dealers
and not making more of a bid for the
this

they are not only losing good profits

By pursuing policy

to be made on the lines in question,
but also gradually letting other trade

in hardware get away from them.—

Hammernail in Hardware.
el a lpn
At the Lunch Counter.
Pretty waitress, tell me true,
Can’t you get a move on you,
Can’t you hurry up the cook,
Don’t vou see my hungry look?
Fair young maiden, on the square,
Why will you keep standing there,
Throwing smiles and red-hot air
At some “pie and coffee’? gny?
And here I am about to die,
Just as hungry as a bear,
Yet you do not seem to care;
Pretty waitress, tell me true.
Can’t you get a move on you?
Stand and buzz some would-be beau
And let a hungry luncher go,
Hungry, faint and worn with care,
And still you will keep standing there.
Ah, did you ask me what to bring?
Mercy, lass! Bring anything.
Just so you get it here to-day,
Before I really faint away.
Can’t you hustle up a bit?
I'm just about to throw a fit.
Really feel in some respects
Just like passing in my checks.
Pretty waitress, tell me true,
Can’t you get a move on you?
Myrt W. Brockway.

is |
the |
;midst of a good fishing country, but |

|

| stores carry only a very limited line |

hardware |

more jf
| closely after the trade they, between |
business |
|in sporting goods, and do the plumb- |

 

 

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Knowledge of Anatomy of the Foot |

Is Indispensable.

A pair of “kick ‘em offs” are all
right for the house, when a man is
too lazy or possessed of an unwieldy
trouble of

stooping to shed his footwear. But

rotundity, to take the

for the street this sort of foot cover-
ing is undesirable, because there are
times when the things take a notion
to part company with the feet, to the
great annoyance of the wearer. These
remarks are suggested by certain
emergency cases in which a quick-
put-off pair of
proved a blessing to their owner.

shoes

Numerous fatal accidents have been
recorded: in the past few years,
caused by that fatal trap, the railroad
frog, all of which might have been
avoided by an _ easy-come-off shoe.
The feet of these victims were held
as in a vise, while the engine wheels
cut off a foot or crushed out a life, on-
lookers being powerless ‘to aid.

Some one has suggested the inven-
tion of an automatic shoe that will
drop off easily when a _ person is
caught in one of these fatal snares.
At first thought this seems a good
idea—fully as important as an auto-
matic switch. This sort of shoe may
yet be devised and it will be a boon
to switchmen and brakemen, who are
beset with enough other dangers in

their perilous occupation. The near-

est approach to this style of shoe is |

the congress shoe, but even this,
which would seem to the initiated to
meet the need, is not a perfect safe-
guard. Most persons will ask:
does not the entrapped man pull his
foot out of the shoe with one su-
preme effort? If it be a congress
shoe, by using the frog for a jack,
or if it be a lace or button, by undoing
the fastening as quickly as possible?

In most instances there is not time
for manipulating laces or buttons be-
fore the train is upon the victim, who,
if he has enough presence of mind,
has thrown himself outward from the

track and lost a foot only. It would

seem then that the congress shoe |

should meet this emergency effectu-
ally. In many instances it does; but
it cannot be relied upon absolutely,

for the following reasons, of which | variations of the members over which

many persons are ignorant:
The grip upon the foot, in these

cases, is of a peculiar kind. 10 show |

this, place the side of one foot against
an immovable object, and
press the edge of the ball of the other

shoe tightly against the heel of the

upright

1
first, just at the juncture of the sole |

and the upper. In this case you can

draw off the congress shoe without

stopping, and your foot is free. Now |

replace the shoe and press the ball of
one foot against the other one as
firmly as an iron rail is supposed to
press, and at a point just above the
top of the shoe quarter and there you
are in a railroad frog. A heel would

have to come off before the possibility

ilied upon for this emergency.

isupposing that now and
would have |

| dozed into

|where danger is ever

'sons of refinement.

Why |

|of release, unless the shoe happened
ito be near the point of the triangu-
ilar iron forming the frog, in which
| case it would be just possible to drive
‘it backward into the broader open-
|ing between the two rails, when the
foot and shoe would be set free.

Tt will be seen, therefore, that there
is no shoe that can be infallibly re-

| gress is the ne plus ultra for getting |

and it is this special feature that

|
|

|
|

There |

jare times, however, when the con-

lout of trouble at a moment’s notice: |

recommends this shoe to the armless |

or one-armed man, who can neither |

|lace nor button his own shoes.

Of all the foolish and

methods of trying to make sales, that |

of coercion is about the worst.
acai a
timid and peaceful customer is bull-

1

buying something he

harmful |

Even |

doesn’t want, he will shun that store |

thereafter as he would a_ pesthouse |

present. In|

waiting on a customer the salesman’s |

efforts should be always of a consider- |

ate nature; at least, never more than
mildly aggressive.

The Baxter street |

style of coercion is distasteful to per- |

by the coat collar and forcing him in-
to your store won’t make a customer
One salesman in a

of him. large

town, who resented the imputation

Taking a man|

of a would-be patron that the goods |

offered were too high priced for the |
quality, and who wound up by making |
a hospital patient of the complainant, |

would do better in some other occu- |

pation—-say, as a recruiting officer,
where no sales are endangered.

The foregoing incident may prove

that men are sometimes harder to
suit than women in footwear: and it
should

teach salesmen that they

should be cautious about presuming |

too far upon the assumed indifference

of masculine customers. At any rate,

coercion in a shoe store is a suicidal |

business policy, because there are
questions of style, material, price, and

last, but not least, that of fit to be

reckoned with. Any one of these

factors, if neglected, will hurt

your |

store and reputation more than it will |

the transient patron, because he can |

easily avoid resubmission to your
treatment.

“Do I know anything about the

; anatomy of the foot?” replied a pros-

“Well, I could

hardly be ignorant of the form and

perous shoe dealer.

| I have fitted shoes for so Many years.

But my knowledge in this line, like
that of most shoe retailers, is of a

superficial nature. I know the foot

|mostly from the outside, of course,

as that is all I have to deal with. The
names of the bones, their relation to
each other, and all that. concern the
last maker, I think.” Just how far the
shoe retailer should go into the sub-
|ject of anatomy has always been a
| question and probably always will be.
| Some dealers contend that this is
| strictly the manufacturers’ and the
| last makers’ business, with which the
| sellers of single pairs of shoes have
|nothing to do. This is the extreme
Others hold that the shoe

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retailer, to be at his best, ought to}

know a good deal about the live,

sensitive member which it is his daily |

business to squeeze into shoes. The
writer has been always of the latter
persuasion, and so are many of the
popular and prosperous men
with whom he is acquainted in the
retail trade.

Said one of the latter:

most

“The popu-

pend upon his knowledge of shoes
and leather alone, nor of the latest
styles, nor on his ability to fit every
pair of feet.

“To be absolutely and permanently
popular he must know something of
the anatomy of the delicate and vul-
nerable member of the human frame.
My! even the horse-shoer possesses

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

33

 

student may secure pieces of the ie

ple leathers or shoes made from them, |
he being sure that he is correctly in-|
formed of the nature of the leather.
Then by taking a powerful reading
glass or a small microscope, he may
study the surface of the leather and
observe its fibre and grain until he is
f

amiliar with their appearance. Cer-

| tain little details are made visible to
larity of a shoe dealer does not de- |

the eye by use of the glass. After

once grounding himself or impressing

|in his mind the appearance of the va-

| rious

grains, the student will

soon

jlearn to distinguish between one and

(if he be a responsible man) enough |

‘horse sense’ to know that unless he
thoroughly understands the construc-
tion of the hoof—the line separating
the callous substance from the foot
itseli—he would be but a bungler in
his trade.”

How much more important it is,
then, that the fitter of human feet
should know what is necessary to
preserve them for usefulness, as well
as to merely provide foot coverings.
—Shoe Retailer.

A
Identifying Different Leathers a Hard
Task.

To identify leather is a
task that is beyond the ability of a
many

readily

great shoemen. Many buyers
rely entirely upon the word of the
salesmen, or the printing on the car-
what leather
While ability
to readily distinguish between various
leathers can come only from experi-

ton label, to know of

their shoes are made.

ence, yet by studying a rule of old-
time tanners and persistently observ-
that pass
their hands, shoe clerks in time be-
skilled one
leather from another
are in distinguishing a
a bad coin.

The this: The
larger the animal the larger the fibre,

ing the goods through

come as in identifying
as bank tellers
good coin from
rule, in brief, is
and the coarser the grain of his pelt
That is, leather from a cow hide has
a coarse fibre and coarse grain; leath-
er from the calf, being a smaller ani-
mal, has a smaller fibre and a finer
grain, and leather from kids

goats, being still

and

smaller animals,

lot

have still smaller fibres and still finer |

grains. The beauty of the kid leath-
er, by the way, is its closely knitted
The sheep is a small
animal, but it is o woolly, not a hairy

fibre and grain.

animal, and its grain shows the marks
of the wool.

The
of the
which

shoeman who is not quite sure
grain of the leather in the shoe
t

he is handling may rumple it
up a little betwen his fingers.

This |

will break the surface and bring out |

the grain. It will be noted

of a flaky grain.

that |

‘ " . Dee r s
sheepskin leather will break in a sort | clear up any doubts.

It would be a very difficult task to |
describe the various grains with suf- |

ficient clearness for the beginner to
thoroughly understand, but a little
self-educational scheme may be em-

ployed to good advantage by the

another without the use of a glass, |
and also by the “feel” of the leather
beneath his fingers, as well as by its
look to his eye.
Most of
name which readily suggests their na-
ture.

finishes leather have a
For instance, patent and ename]
leather suggest the shiny surface, box
the
soft finish; satin, a satin fin-
ish, and glazed kid a glossy surface.

calf the box-like grain, velour

smooth,

In embossed leathers it is difficult
tc distinguish between one leather and
the
However,

are
may
feel reasonably sure that, if he pays

another, although grains

plainly visible. one
for his goods, he is
getting a sheepskin imitation of some}
costly skin, and if he pays a high
price and buys his goods of an estab-

a small price

lished dealer, he may feel that he is
getting a genuine fancy leather. In
embossed leathers all the fancy grains |
are accurate duplications of the grains
the pelt the
seal being a reproduction of the grain |

of genuine animal,
of the seal, alligator of the alligator,
fish of the cod or other fish,
the frog, shark of the shark, snake
Some gen-

frog of|

of the snake, and so on.

uine snake skins will, however, have

scaly surfaces, which imitators can

not duplicate.
Tanners sometimes
grain of a-leather with tanning mate-
rials and oils, and then break it up
or emboss it to imitate other leathers, |
that it is difficult to distinguish the
So cow |

so fill up the

exact nature of the leather.
hides are made into imitation of calf- |
skins and of kidskins, and sheepskins
are made into imitations of colt and
kid leather.
leather men
time at leather to distinguish the imi- |
So possibly the

Sometimes experienced |
have to look a second
tations in this class.
best protection that the retailer may |
imitations is to}
reliability of the |

have against buying
assure himself of the
firm from whom he is buying goods. |

In the prices of|
shoes are suspiciously low, and the}
that imitation |
leather has been used in place of gen-

cases in which

shoeman suspects an
uine high-class goods, the shoeman
would do well to follow the leather
right back to the tannery—that of the
maker of the genuine goods—and the
tanner would undoubtedly be glad to}

It is also difficult to distinguish |
one patent leather from another aft- |
er it has been made up into shoes. |
Tanners themselves would welcome |
any device by which patent leather |
might be identified after it has been |

put into a shoe. Manufacturers or |

student. For standards of study the| popular advertised brands of leather |

 

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34

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

have lost much money through imita-
tions put onto the market.
Specialty and trade-mark leathers
are made by firms on their reputa-
tion, and hence are generally up to
all that is claimed of them. But the
shoe buyer must watch closely to
see that he gets the special goods
for which he calls. There is told a
story of a shoe manufacturer who
began to furiously undersell the mar-
ket on a line of goods made of a
certain specialty leather. One of his
rivals got hold of a pair of his shoes
one day, found a tag tied to the
tongue, “Made of calf,” and upon
investigation the rival found that the
tongue. alone was made of this leath-

 

 

er, the poorest grade at that, while}

the remainder of the shoe was an imi-|

tation of the noted leather.—Shoe Re-
tailer.
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More Rules of Health.

Some of the many rules which Sir
James Sawyer has formulated for
prolonging life to 100 years will strike
the American searcher after health as
so00d. Here they are-

1. Eight hours’ sleep.

2. Sleep on your right side.

3. Keep your bedroom window
open all night.

4. Have a mat at your bedroom
door.

5. Do not have your bedstead
against the wall.

6. No cold bath in the morning,
but a bath at the temperature of the
body.

7. Exercise before breakfast.

8. Eat little meat, and see that it
is well cooked.

9. (For adults) Drink no milk.

10. Eat plenty of fat, to feed the
cells, which destroys disease germs.

tt. Avoid intoxicants, which de-
stroy these cells.

12. Daily exercise in the open air.

13. Allow no pet animals in your
living-room. They are apt to carry
about. disease germs.

14. Live in the country if you can.

15. Watch the three D’s—drinking
water, damp and drains.

16. Have a change of occupation.

17. Take frequent and short holi-
days.

18. Limit your ambitions and

19. Keep your temper.

—_—_—_>+ +
Book-keeper Invents Handy Device.

A book-keeper in a Chicago office
is especially neat in his work, and in
order to be so it is occasionally neces-
sary for him to erase a figure, or a
line, or a letter. For the purpose he
has arranged a hard eraser in a man-
ner which leaves it always right at
hand and available at a touch. From
a beam overhead he has dangled two
lengths of the small rubber strips
used with a toy return ball, and to the
lower end of these has attached his
etaser. The strips are just long
enough to leave the eraser dangling
out of his line of vision and always
over the books at the desk. When
the rubber is needed the book-keeper
needs only to reach out his hand and
take it, the rubber strips stretching
as far as needed in any emergency,
then allowing the eraser to fly up out
of the way.

|

 

| stenographer’s school.

ROAD TO FORTUNE.

 

It Consists in Seizing Every Oppor-
tunity.

Opportunity never gives anybody
the glad hand. On the contrary, it
requires an alertness in its recogni-
tion, and a foresight in its. develop-
ment that makes it one of the most
illusive forces that go toward the
making of a millionaire.

Most men in George B. Cortel-
you’s place when the real opportuni-
ty of his life came to him would not
have known they had it. Although
his whole career has been a succes-
sion of events that seemed to have a
special bias toward coming his way,
all of his subsequent promotions may
be traced back to the opportunity
that was his when he was in the
He had been
studying stenography as a side issue,
but with his characteristic thorough-
ness he worked hard enough at it to
become an expert, and was made a
teacher in the Walworth institute
where it was taught.

Cortelyou made enough of this po-
sition—although he regarded it only
as temporary—to become still more
proficient in the work, all the time
doing outside reporting in clinics in
the New York hospital. From this
he went to doing the same kind of
work in the office of the appraiser of
New York, from which he soon went
back to teaching, being for two years
an instructor in a college preparatory
school.

But while he had been at it he had
become one of the best stenogra-
phers and private secretaries in the
country. Recognition of this fact
brought him the offer of a position
in the office of the Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General. Then Mr.
Cleveland asked his advisers if they
knew of a really good stenographer
for the White House. Mr. Cortelyou
had again been recognized as such
and the job which he secured at this
time has always been put down as
his great opportunity. The fact that
it was the smaller one that led to it
is overlooked.

On the few occasions when really
great opportunities come to men the
ability to grasp them is often found
to be wanting. Chauncey Depew
said in discussing this subject: “The
greatest failure due to a neglect of
the supreme opportunity was to be
seen in the career of Blaine. When
he met the 900 clergymen after he
had come to New York as a candi-
date for President and in the height
of his popularity; when Mr. Burchard
immortalized himself with the cry
‘rum, Romanism and rebellion,’ that
was Blaine’s opportunity. It needed
quick thought and quick action. If
he had jumped up then and there and
repudiated the dangerous classifica-
tion he could have turned the inci-
dent to his advantage. It was _ his
chance, but he didn’t act on it, and
the next day it had gone like wildfire
all over the country.”

In two cases in Alexander J. Cas-
satt’s life he has shown power to take
quick advantage of a sudden oppor-
tunity which had far-reaching conse-
quences. In his early days a serious

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: |
difficulty confronted the corporation |

in taking over a certain line of route,
and the highest officials had been|
called upon to consider the problem. |
Young Cassatt was present as a civil
engineer and was not known to any-
body except the members of his own
gang.
gle ensued which nonplussed both the
Superintendent of Motive Power and
the higher officials present. From the
men who were working on the new
route there stepped out the unknown
young man who “butted in” with
solution of the difficulty.

There was a wreck, and a tan- |

a

“That’s it,” said the official in con-
trol, who turned to the young engi-!
neer with a few enquiries and who
left word when he went that the
young man should call and see him.

Within two years he was Superin- |

tendent of Motive Power.

Seventeen years later he made
prompt use of just such another op-
portunity. It was at the Astoria, and
Robert Garrett, the President of the
Baltimore and Ohio ai that time, was |
relating to the friends he was dining |
with how a coup was to be worked |
to beat the Pennsylvania. A man at
the adjoining table who appeared to
be intent on his dinner was not no-
ticed by any of the company enough
to put check on the conversa-
tion, but he was not missing one
word, and the following day Alexan-
der Cassatt suddenly re-entered the
management of the company as/|
President. His prompt action on the
information he had gained not only

any

saved the proposed scheme from tak- |
ing effect, but it was said cost the|
other company $50,000,000.

Not only recognition but “playing
up” to opportunity is where the imii- |
lionaire who gives advice for the
success of other young men puts the
greatest stress. “There is something
in tecks says fF) Ball, but at the |
same time luck and don’t
go together, and opportunities do not
hunt up a man. He must look for)
them and work for them, and after}
all the measure of success depends |
a good deal upon the man. Let
man work steadily, prudently |
and give signs of intelligence and en-
terprise, and help eventually will!
come to him.”

laziness

al

live

A striking instance of the working
out of this theory is found in the life
of J. Reed Whipple. The first thing
he did was to get a job at the Parker
House in Boston. Many cite this as
an instance of his luck in the first
place in his getting in the hands of|
so good a hotel man George |
Young. The young man made him-
self so valuable, however, from the
first that he stayed in the house tn-
til 1876, the last year as Young’s
right hand man. All these years the}
young man who was uncommunica- |
tive as to his aims was working and |
saving toward the hotel opening for |
which he was looking. |

as

The opening came sooner than he |
expected when Young wanted to sell
Young’s hotel, believing that there
in it. Whipple

Was nO more moncy
and another young man, George
Hall, who had had a similar training
in the Adams House, between them

| of the young man, and had more con-

| Hotel.

| miners.

i

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

35

 

 

could muster just $10,000, and tic

| price of the house was $65,000. |

From this price Young would not |
deduct a dollar, but he made the con-|
cession that he would take the notes |
of the young men if they were prop-

|erly indorsed, and believing all the
| time that no one would indorse them. |

Help came, however, in George |

Sands, who had watched the career
He indorsed the!
notes signed by Mr. Whipple, and the |

fidence in him.

late L. G. Burnham did the same|
thing for Mr. Hall, both of them
from their observation of the pair |
being confident that they would)

When the notes were
due they were paid out of the profits
of Young’s Hotel, to the great sur-
prise of the seller.

When Thomas Walsh
West he opened a small eating house.
With the ultimate hope of investing |
in mines, he improved it until it final-
ly developed into the Grand Central
All this time he had been fol- |
the “srub staking” |
When a prospector ran out |
of provisions he gave him the neces-

“make good.”

|
first went |

lowing plan of

sary supplies, taking a share of the|
mines for his pay. In this way he
found himself owner of valuable min- |
ing properties which for years it had |
been his ambition to acquire.
Spreckels, the sugar king, saw hi
opportunity to increase his power in|
the Hawaiian Islands in the state of
exchequer. He became
King Kalakaua and
As the loans in-

creased his power grew greater. He

»

the public

friendly with

loaned him money.

had given careful study to the raising
of sugar, and knew how to cultivate
the cane and refine the raw product.
Through his friendship with King|
Kalakaua he secured valuable planta- |
tions. through the King’
poverty and Mr. Spreckels’ ability to

Finally, S|

furnish him all the money he needed,

he secured control of what was}
known as the Maui land grant of |
thousands of acres. This led, after

persistent efforts in irrigation and in-
troducing steam transportation on the
Island, to the incorporation of a sug-
ar company with a capital of $10,000,-

000.

The accident of reading a want ad-
vertisement in the newspaper gave
Henry Cevart his opportunity. His

father was the inventor of iron bed- |
steads, and the boy came up in the}
atmosphere of mechanical work and
had a talent for drawing, and when
he read that a boy was wanted in a
law office who had a knowledge of
drafting and designing he concluded
that the tide in his affairs had arriv-
ed. As it turned out, this was the
start which he received in the special
knowledge which-has made
he world of patents.
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Tommy—Been fishin’?
Johnny—Uh huh.
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it,

SHOLTO WITCHELL

Bill the Brakeman

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36

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

FRIENDLY KNOCKERS.

They Are the Small Vermin of the
Business World.

One of my readers just now is in
the slimy toils of the “friendly knock-
er,’ as he designates the type, and
he writes to ask advice in his treat-
ment of the man’s overtures of exces-
sive friendliness, which after all
amount to no more than the “knock-
er’s” own fondness for talking wholly
about himself and his family on any
and all occasions.

“Should we cut him short?” he
asks. “Should we tell him just how

 

contemptible he is, or should we give |

him simply the same bland talk?”
Manifestly no one method of pro-

cedure against this small vermin of |

the business world could be outlined
as universally advisable and accepta-
ble.
an institution would have the first
great bearing upon the treatment that

he and his knocking should receive. |

The effect of his knocking would need
to be determined in any case.

the man himself, determining his real
or fancied strength of position, which

sume the role of knocker for

The position of the “knocker” in|

: ld 4 And | own standing, he may be attempting
a ‘ oul size up | : : :
utter these one would need to size UP! better showing by persuading his
|empioyers that other men in the es-

| tablishment are by no means all that

in the first place prompted him to as- they seem.

the |

|regards himself in his position as
| firmly established and to spare; or.
| perhaps just a little in doubt as to his

house, and as clearly to fix upon the |

knocker’s own vulnerable points of at-
tack in one’s measures of defense.
In the person complained of
have a pretty fair conception of the
individual himself as representing a
type. His position in the house, how-

we |

ever, is not made plain and the treat- |
ment that could be outlined for a clerk |

would be an absurdity in its applica-
tion to the superintendent, chief clerk,
or even less prcminent head of a de-
partment. In any position, however,
a man of this type has his own per-
sonal weaknesses and these may be
reached, whether his rank be high or
low.

| his character. He deserves to be made
| ridiculous before his superiors;
| him appear so if you can.

| before his fellow employes in
|establishment and to almost as suc-

Within the range of knocking this |

“friendly” type of knocker is the

worst.

be earning no small part of their sal-

Thousands of men who should |

aries by reason of their knowledge of |

human nature know virtually nothing
of men. Many of these were brought
up in that old, mistaken school
“believing every man honest until he
proves himself a thief,”
have found men wanting, they have
looked upon the shortcomings as
merely an individual incident. To such
2 man the friendly knocker at once
is impenetrable.
ways so-genial and smiling, so unruf-
fled and even in temperament, as to
make it impossible that he should
have an ulterior motive in anything
he says or does. There is Mr. Sterne

of |
.| smug administering of his own bland
and as they | Vaporings and insincerities,
| would carry

| wince as from fire.

| the administering of it would carry

Mr. Hammer is al-| [0 SUSE
| institution that these hypocrisies were

—well, Sterne is a little inclined to be |

at times; Sterne has been
on the work of young

“grouchy”
“kicking”

Saunters, but the manager is inclined |
to think Sterne is a little hard on the}

young chap.
has seemed to like Saunters—Sterne
is just a little captious at times; Ham-
mer is always so different!

Then Hammer always |

1

To such a judge of human nature |

the fact that Hammer is allowed to

of friendship toward his victims may
at once be a handicap to those upon |

unless the attitude of a whole house
is markedly against these hypocri-
sies, the antagonism of one or two in-
dividuals may bring upon them quick-
ly the worst that the sneaking tra-
ducer has dreamed. The simple head
of the institution will be unable to
understand why Jones and Brown
only, of all his employes, are in re-
volt against Mr. Hammer, who has
proved himself to be such a “mixer,”
and always so tactful and pleasing to
everybody.

This particular friendly knocker,
who has been described by my cor-
respondent, has a deep-seated, person-
al vanity behind his knockings. He
is akin to the fabled ostrich hiding
its head in the sand. If it is not with-
in his duties to pass upon the work
of other men and their bearings in
the establishment, it is a gratuity that
he has undertaken his knockings. He

But in either case he is
vain enough to fancy that he is de-
ceiving either employers or employes.
He is at once admitting an overween-
ing confidence in himself, or else

 

showing in the most marked manner
his own acknowledged deficiencies.

Taking for granted that personal
vanity of a high degree is prompting |
our particular knocker, recourse
should be had against this foible in

make
But if this
may not be made plain to his employ- |
ers, it can be brought out to the full
the

cessful end. To this end my contribu-
tor’s phrase, “the same bland talk,”
seems to strike the note of possibil- |
ity above the others.

Deep down un-
der the knocker’s front of hypocrisy
is his own recognition of his own un-
worthiness; no repetition of the fact
could make it clearer to himself. A

however.
with it that element of

which such natures
At the same time

irony against

no suggestion to the dull head of the

defensive measures in any way.

To the friendly knocker there is
nothing worse in principle than one
of his same friendly knocks. In deliv-
ering his friendly knocks against an-
other he has had confidence that he
was deceiving some one. A taste of
his sneaking insincerity is at
once a notification that his methods
are understood and exposed, while
naturally they may be regarded as
at once the most galling of treat-
ments with his own medicine. Merely
for him to know that his

 

own

insinceri- |

| ty is recognized only by his victim is |
maintain his postures and expressions |

nothing; he will still put upon the |
victim so long as the victim accepts |

| the “friendly” persecutions in silence. | their time and money to breeding the a tran in a

lit recognizes a

|clination or knowledge

ties in public may be counted upon
to floor him.

|
|
|

At once the adoption of his own)

hypocritical tactics appeals the case
of the friendly knocker.

ployer, looking on at the smiling front |

of his hypocritical underling, and see-
ing the resentful eye of the victim,

sees in this expression of the victim |

The dull em- |

|
|

|
|
|
|
|

something that might be confession. |

“Mr. Hammer have
against the man,”

r; “that is plain in his manner.

can

best show of making a consistent in-

come of any one, excepting of
course the man who is_ fortunate
enough to possess a breed of pet or
show dog whose name has made his
kennel famous in the dog world.
Well bred, well trained hunting
| dogs are always in good demand, in
fact, there is never a time when a
man with a good hunting dog can
not realize on it, and the sportsman

nothing |
muses the employ-

Nat-:

urally Jones has it in for Hammer, |

however; how could he help it?”
But when Jones is even more smil-
ingly and talkatively disposed toward
Hammer than Hammer is’ toward
Jones—well, that isn’t so easy. “How
is this?” the employer is likely to con-
“Hammer and Jones are rather
it strikes me! How about this,
anyway? Here Hammer is running
me with stories and knocks on
Jones, while they are thick as three

sider.
thick,

to

| less

in a bed in a social way around the |

I wonder if that fellow Ham-
mer isn’t a sneak?
unsuspecting in every way.”

Before a “knock”
material weight,

office.

ries the knocker

! big,
Jones is certainly |
jare the dogs favored in this line.
of any kind car-|}

| show

must be in a position to command |}

more consideration than does the vic- |
If every man in this manner ac- |

tim.
auired consideration only according
to his just deserts,
knocker would have small
Perhaps even the friendliest knocker,

sooner or much later, will come in

even the friendly |
latitude. |

|
j

| makes

for his just deserts at the hands of |

a blinded justice. But in any
is long to wait on the part of the
conscientious worker who may be at
the knocker’s mercy in the meantime.

It is not maintained that this article
embodies the highest philosophy. But
condition against
which philosophy and philosophizing
have little bearing. Out of a knowl-
edge of human nature the writer of-
fers simply a common sense panacea
for a distinct evil from which more
than my
suffering. May the article lead both
employers and employes a little near-
er the truth of the situation.

John A. Howland.

———_.-.____
Raising Dogs For Sale May Be Made
To Pay.

Raising dogs for the market offers
the enthusiastic canine fancier the]
opportunity to indulge his fancy to
satiety and make a living at’ the

same time. By the same token it is
probably only the most enthusiastic
fancier who can
with any hope of success, the
woes and troubles of the dog raiser,

enter
for

whether he raises small dogs or large
ones, dogs for the pet market or dogs
for the hunting field, fancy breeds, or
“sust dogs,”

ing. Because of this and because it

is only the dog crank who has the in- |
necessary to}

the start of a dog farm, there is no
danger of this line of stock raising
becoming overcrowded, despite
limited demand for the dog in Amer-
ca.

one complaining witness is!

the business |
| year

are many and disconcert- |

the |

case it |

 

|

is never inclined to haggle about the
price of a dog when he is buying one.
Thus the hunting dog raiser is in a
position the question of his
only a question of the
number of that he can breed,
raise and train into mature doghood.

The bird dog is the desired of all
hunting dogs, from the viewpoint of
the sportsman or the He
is in demand because more
dogs are hunting than
in other lines of hunting, and he is
troublesome and liable to
illness than many other strains. The
rangy Irish setter, the Gordon set-
and the pointer
All
as

where
income is

dogs

dog raiser.
greater
used in bird

less

ter of a good breed,
of them find their backers, both
dogs and hunters, and they are
” The better a dog
the better he is, not only
commercial standpoint but

He ts not so lable to
the dog of inferior breed
coupled with the fact that
is worth much more when sold,
it desirable for the raiser to
keep his breed up as high as possible.

To train the bird dog a beginning
is made when he is a puppy, before
any habits or
His first lesson
is to learn to obey. This is also the
greatest lesson that he is put through.

all “good raisers.
is bred,
from 2
physically
fall il
and _ this,
he

as

he has begun to form

traits of character.

It is the basis upon which the rest of
his training is built. After he learns
this first lesson he is taken into the
field, where training
the work generally being
an old,

The

his progresses,

done with
as a companion
the

he is

dog
taught
old dog much he will;
taught to to a point, to heel,
and to stand stanch when the gun is

steady

puppy is to imitate

as as

come

fired over him.
His
the first two years of puppyhood, but

lessons are many and hard in

when they are learned thoroughly the
puppy is a trained dog with a market

| value of from $50 to $500 on his head,

age and the
man whom he is being sold to.

according to breeding,

the
delivered a
and
This
en the case where the dog is
breeding. While it

seem that at the above prices
raiser could rich in a

dog is sold on
day of his birth, to be
later, if he is alive

trained, to the purchaser.

Sometimes a

well
is oft-
of ex-
would
a dog
hurry,

cellent

grow

ithere are drawbacks to the business.

1

|
|

|of hunting dog that is
° . |
Of the men who go in to raise dogs | mand.

Puppies sicken and die, often without
apparent cause; sometimes they re-
fuse to train well, and there is al-
ways the danger of accident ending
the young dog’s career of usefulness.

The bird dog is not the only class
in active de-

There is always call for the

on a large scale those who devote; foxhound bred and trained to follow

satisfactory manner.

whom he smiles so hypocritically. But | Only a taste of his own bland vani-| hunting dog of all kinds stand the , While most hunting clubs make a

 

 

 

specialty of raising their own
there is always a
of this kind.
not run as high as the bird dog, but
there are much less trouble in raising
them and less cost. Even the dog
that will chase the little rabbit is a
salable article when properly trained,
and there are two or three large ken
nels in the country that make a spe-
cialty of raising rabbit hounds. These
are set hounds, of almost
small breed, bred with a view of
the speed of and
the keenness of scent at the

dogs,
call for good dogs

low any
de-
in-

creasing leg

creasing

same time.

But of all the dogs trained for the
hunting field the bear hound is the
most interesting, both in breeding
and training. Despite that the bear
no longer is numerous in many sec
tions of the country, there is a dog
raiser in Kentucky who raises noth-
ing but bear dogs and who sells all
the dogs he can raise. Some ofthese

dogs are sold in the Southern States,

many in the extreme Western, and
a few in the North. They are guar-
anteed to find bear wherever there

is any to be found, and to keep from
getting killed, which is the prime
virtue of a bear dog.

The bear hound is the largest of
kis type, usually crossed with a Si-

berian bloodhound, sometimes a
bulldog, and sometimes even the
calm collie. He is big of bone and
firm of mouth, but his strong forte
is his ability to avoid a bear’s attack
instead of fighting him. The manner
in which he is trained is unique, to
say the least, and suggests unlimited
danger to the trainer. The natural
instinct of a doe is to attack the
front of everything. This means
sudden, horrible death for doggy
when the thing attacked happens to
be a bear. So the trainer’s work is
to correct this inclination in the dog
under his charge. He does it in a
manner most thorough.

The trainer arrays himself in a
bearskin, crawls on his hands and
knees, and, roaring like the beast he
represents, faces a crowd of ambitious
puppies. Puppy, being of the proper
breed, leaps ferociously at the head
of the black thing before him. Then

the lights go out for puppy for some
time, for the
fully swats him with a club.

he comes to tries the trick
Ags rudely
After he has been knocked silly half
front

unmerci-
When

Over

trainer most
he
again. nin he is repelled
a dozen times he learns that the
is the end of a bear to avoid, and he
goes around to the rear to make his
attack. Here there is padding for
him to chew and worry to his heart’s
delight, and ever afterward it is there
that he will devote his
When he meets a real bear he knows
enough to follow him along and nip
his thus retarding his
and avoiding punishment
at the same time. A good bear dog
is seldom sold for less than $100.

energies.

hind
progress

legs,

 

Thomas Slavin.
—_ ++.
The habit in believing in people is
beautiful if now and then a mistaken

one.

—~-o——
Love is as easy to give as it is to”
get.

The selling prices do|

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Hardware Price Current —

AMMUNITION
Caps

           

G ©, fol) count, per mo...” 40
Hicks’ Waterproof, Der eee
Musket, per mo. 8 75
Eiys Weaterproef, per m........ |... 60
Cartridges
NO. 22 ShOre, Der Mi, 2 50
wo 2c 10ne ber ma 3 00
INO. oo Short per mo... 5 00
Ne: 22 fone, per mo 5 75
Primers
No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, a... .. 1 60
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 350, a m..1 60
Gun Wads
Black Edee, Nos 11 & 120. MC... 60
Black Edge, Nos. 9 & 10, per m..... 70
ack Pdee No Y, per m........... 80
Loaded Shells
For Shotguns
i Drs.ef of. 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 . 1 6 10 2 90
135 4% 1% 5 10 2 95
154 4 1% 4 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
imees, 25 ibs.. por Kee. ............. 4 90
% Kegs, 1246 tbs., per 4% ke@ ........ 2 90
o Kees, 6% Wbs., per 4% kee ........ 1 60

i Shot
In sacks containing 25 Ibs
Drop, all sizes smaller than &...... 85
Augurs and Bits
—. ., |... . 60
OMI BOI oo wa we 25
Jetininew fiiitation ................-. 60
Axes
First Quality, &. ©. Bronge ......... 6 50
First Quality, D. B. Bronse. ..... 9 00
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel. ...... 7 00
First OGuality, DD. G. Steel. ........... 10 50
Barrows
cee ..................... 15 00
Oe ee ee. 33 00
Bolts
i 70
Corrisec, now st ................. 70
eee 50 |
Buckets
-. = Ciiti...................., 4 50
Butts, Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured ............ 70
Wreouent narrow. ................. 60
Chain
%in 5-l6in. % in. % in.
ee. 4 oe e....6 ©¢....c5e
Le eetaeee eng _-14e....6m06....6 ¢
BBB. . -89C....7%€ 6%c -64c
Crowbars
at Sheek Per We oe eee eee en we we 5
Chisels
Ne ey ee a 65
eee 65
TO Eee 65
eS eee 65
Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6in., per doz. nt.
Corrugated, per C0 1 25
a dis. 40&10
Expansive Bits
Clark’s small, $18; rt, -_ ..... 40
Ives’ 1, $28: 2, $24; 3, See --.-..--.-..- 25
Files—New List
ee 70&10
PU CINO webct ce ccc med eros esetoe 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps. .......ccecees 70

Galvanized Iron

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27, 23

List 12 13 14 15 16 17
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 light ................-.-.. dis. 3)
Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s new list. ...... dis. 33%
Yerkes & Plumb’s .............-. dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel ....30e list 70
Hinges
Gate, Clark's 1, 2, @............ dis 60&10

Hollow Ware

Pete -50&10
| Kettles. 5
Spiders.
Horse Nalis
| Au eee. .ic..u. Lccdecedaeces Gu, S0aee
House Furnishing Goods

Stamped Tinware, new list. ...... 70
Japanned Tinware, ....-.sereeeee++ b0KI0

 

  

 

 
 

Coe’s Genuine. .......... Ceca aa
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, "Wrought, 70Ib10

 

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Iron |
= OO oe ccc eee 2 25 rate Crockery and Glassware
(idee Bane 2...
s and -3 00 rate | STONEWARE
| Knobs—New List Butters
Door, mineral, Jap. trimmings 1% Sal per dom ..:. 2... lt. 43
| Door, Porcelain, Jen. tromines .... S| fF to 6 gal per dow ................. 6
Levels | 8 gal. each ............ sees eee eee 56
iii thal a eee . : 110 @at Gace... 8... 70
< y Rule an vel Co.’s ....dis. 12 gal cae 22... lll. 84
Metals—Zinc 15 = meat = COGN o.o lc ut le 1 =
; 20 @al. meat tubs, enem ............. L¢
ee ee 8 et eet Ges ee 2 26
cm a 30 gal. meat tubs, each ........... 2 70
Miscellaneous Chuene
mara Cages . 3 8c... 40. i"
Pemps, Cister. ...00.0 5.05.55... 75&10 2 to 6 gal, per gal. .....-....++-++-- 6%
Sevawe, |New Ease (oe 85 Chum Dashers, per Gee .........-. 4
Casters, Bed and Plate ......... 50&10&10 Milkpans
Dampers, American _............... 50  % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 48
Molasses Gates 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
stebuins Pattern (20.0... . ll... 60&10 Fine Glazed Milkpans
Enterprise, self-measuring. .......... 30 | % gal. flat or round bottom, per doz. 69
Pans 1 gal. flat or round bottom, each .. 6
Br 60&10&10 Stewpans
Common, polished ..00000.0.0.000 00. 70&10 | % gal. fireproof. bail, per doz ...... 85
Pens | Bidwished lean i gal. fireproof ball, per doz .....-. 1 30
“A Wood's pat. plan’d, No. 24-27..10 80 _ Jugs
‘“B’’ Wood's pat. plan'd, No. 25-27.. 9 80 | %@ Sal. per oz. ....... 1+. see ee seen eee 6¢
Broken packages %c per tb. extra. 4 gal. per GozZ. ........----..--- eee 4
Planes | £ tes Sal, per gal... 1%
| en cc Sealing Wax
Ohio Tool Cos faney............... 40| - ‘
| Seiota Bench 0)... 7 ee 50 | > tos. in package, per Ib. ........--. >
Sandusky Tool Ce.'a fancy.......... 40) LAMP BURNERS
Benen, first qualitg.................. 45 | No. 0 Sun ... 2. eee eee ee eee eee eee eee ee i
Nails No. 1 SUD. eee eee eee eee eee ee ee eee 38
Advance over base, on both Steel & Wire xs i ar ee =
eee 85
meees tiadin, DARE .......... 01... 336 Tubular . bo
Wire nails, eee See 50
20 16 GO advanee. Ne
H@ to 16 Advances... .................- 6 | MASON FRUIT JARS
S SAVAMES With Porcelain Lined Caps
© oaverce ......................... 20 Per gross
4 alvance o.oo... eee 5 00
Ce ee (Cmares oo 5 25
S MOWAICE ooo Wee Solem owe 8 00
Wine @ S0MANCe. 0... cl. SO Caps. ................. 6... es. 2 25
pia a ener ieee = Fruit Jars packed 1 dozen in box.
asing MOURMOE. 5 ar
Casing 6 advance... 35 on ene ors doz
Finish 10 advance.. 25
Finish 8 advance 35 Anchor Carton Chimneys
| Finish 6 advance 45 Each chimney in corrugated tube
Barrel | sdvanee .................. SG | We. © Cramp tom ...022. 0 i 70
i ive. 2 Cramp fom. ...........0... comcek fe
_— | No. 2; Crimp top. .......... Hb Lo
From and timmed@ .................... 50 | :
Copper Hivetsa and Ture ........... 45 | ee pies sp Glass in Cartons 3 00
© ©, Crimp top. ....-.. Se cecaes
_ Roofing Plates Ne. i) Crinip top. oo 3 25
i4x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean ........... 7 5@| Noe 2 CVrtan top (2.0.22. .01... 1... 41¢
14x20 EX, Charcoal, Dean ........... 9 00 ‘i Flint GI ;
Zexae IC, Charcoal, Dean ........- 15 00 cag i ass in Cartons
| 14x20, IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 50| -:0- 9, Crimp top. ......--.+..++- -++-3 30
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade .. 9 00 | No. 1, Crimp top. ....--...+++. sere 4 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..15 00 | No. 2, Crimp top. ......--.-++++.+-- 5 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade ..18 00 | Pearl Top in Cartons
Ropes No. 1, wrapped and labeled. ......... 4 60
sisal, % inch and larger .......... gy, | No. 2, wrapped and labeled. ........ 5 30
Sand Paper | Rochester in Cartons
tea No. 2, Fine Flint, 10 in. (85c doz.)..4 60
East acct. 1 SS l..... settee eeeeee dis 650 No. 2, Fine Flint. 12 in. ($1.35 doz.) .7 50
a Sash Weights No. 2, Lead Flint, 10 in. (95¢ doz.)..5 66
| Solia Eves por tom ..............__. 28 00 | No. 2, Lead Flint, i2 in. ($1.65 doz.).8 75
Sheet Iron Electric in Cartons
Nos. . : = ee 6c a) ............ 4 26
| Nos. ne. 2 ipe Mlint, (95e dem.) ........ 4 60
Nos. 2, Lead Flint, (95¢ qn) Bere es ce & 50
Nos LaBastie
oo vo. 1, Sun Plain Top, ($1 doz.) ..... 5 70
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 No. 3, Sun Pisin Top, (91-26 dos.) ..6 3
inches wide, not less than 2-10 extra. OIL CANS
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz. 1%
Du / Shovels and Spades | 1 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 1 25
| _—_ Grade, Dom ....... od. 5 560 | 2 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 2 1
ecoma Grade, Dem ................. 5 00 | 3 gal. galv. iron with spout, peer doz. 3 1:
Solder | 5 gal. galv. iron with spout, per doz. 4 li
ia... 21 | 3 Sal: galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 3 7%
The prices of the many other qualities a ~ . Ee —_ faucet, per dos. : =
of solder in the market indicated by pri- | = poy ane ae ete
vate brands vary according to compo- 5 gal galv. tron Nacéefas ..........-. 9 00
sition. LANTERNS
Squares | No. 0 Tubular, side lift .............. 465
ian... 60-10-5 | No. on ae ret eeeeseeeeceees : a
Tin—Melyn Grade ia 1c at 1 76
t6n14 1C, Charcoal ..... ee 10 50 | No. 12 Tubular, side lamp ........... 12 6¢
ones a gy eae Oeste ete reese ee _ a No. 3 Street lamp, each ....... oesee Be
Ox SEO aa G
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25 nc Lares oLones
TI All | No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, bx. 10c. 51
n—Allaway Grade | No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, bx. l5c. 50
toute 1C Ciareoa) .................. 9 00 | No. 0 Tub., bbls. 5 doz. each, per bbl.2 00
Lar a Peta 0 | No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 dz. eachl 25
Ux arcoa. | BEST WHITE COTTON WICKS
| 14x20 IX, Charcoal 50 Roll contains 32 yards in one piece.
Each —— x . ro grade, $1. 50 No. ‘ % in. — per gross or on F
oiler Size n ate No. 1, % in. wide, per gross or roll. 30
14x56 IX, for Nos. 8 & 9 boilers, per i» 18| No. 2, 1, in. wide, per gross or roll 46
Traps Fess sarees ac eet eee
Steel, Game ..........-----ss-seeeee 75 COUPON BOOKS ae
| oe Gale mote a a 50 books, any denomination ...... 1 56
Minuee enoboe per doz. holes 25 100 books, any denomination ......2 50
Sicads een per aon ae ae | see books. any ee acces ke oe
' i ee | 1000 books, any denomination ......20 00
Wire Above quotations are for either Trades-
Heigtt Miaweet 8... 60 | man, Superior, Economic or Universal
Auvcdsed Siathet . 2.12... 6... 60 | grades. Where 1,000 books are ordered
| Coppeted Meatee ........ 50&10 | at a time customers receive specially
Tinned —— Dee ce cece ee ee —_— | printed cover without extra charge.
Coppered Spring Steck .............. | Coupon Pass Books
on Soe SS aoc es ee ; 13 | Can be made to represent any denomi-
Ce | nation from own.
a Wire Goods ie — — ae eee ee oe og oe . =
A es - aa
Screw Byes. -80-10 | 500 BOOKS .......-cesescccececseccs 11 50
eee, oi ana. -80-10 | 1000 books .............-se cess eeeeee 20 00
Gate Hooks and Eyes. .. ccecss cree Credit Checks
Wrenches 500, any one denomination ....... 2 00
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled. ...... 30/1000, any one denomination ........ 8 00

2000, any one denomination ........ 6
Steel TAD Lecce lcuccecdscasseueneca

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

 

i;not be a misnomer.

Weekly Market Review of the Prin- |

cipal Staples.

Bleached Goods—One of _ the)
strongest features of the present
market is bleached goods, and most

agents report that current business

on this class of goods is steadily in- |

creasing. Prices are made at

only”

“value |
and stocks are nowhere nearly |

equal to demands. An increased busi- |
|ier knows what they are by experi- |

ness is also. reported in all-white
goods, a considerable amount of re-
orders being taken. Sellers declare

that the recent impetus given trade

will do much toward bringing up the |

average of the season. Plain sheer

effects have been called for in recent |

orders to such an extent that stocks

are literally cleared up on styles that |
have had a sale since the opening of |

the season.

Swiss muslins, plain and |

dotted, fine cambrics and chiffons and |
ithese cloths for next season.

brocades are the principal sellers. The
hard finished, fine sheer goods are
the best cloths in the buyers’ eyes.
Poplins and the heavier fabrics ought
to be good a little later. Printed ba-
tistes and nainsooks are to be again

in vogue for the spring of 1906. For |

the slow selling cloths there is a
little better demand.
ly are more active.

Cotton Dress Fabrics—The

business being done in novelty do-

large

ton dress fabrics with few exceptions. |

Fine cotton and mercerized ginghams
are in good demand, but outside of
these goods demands run to silk or |
Pongees and fou- |

_ “\ery as they were a month ago.
Lenos especial- |

| very

jence and by the price he pays
| them.
|they are satisfactory or not,
should he care whether they are call-|

the minimum. The idea is to call
the fabric by some name which shail
20 ca 2 A
mercerized worsted does not tell the
consumer that the fabric contains cot-
ton. Also it does not distinguish it
from the cotton worsted, which con-
tains some mercerized cotton and
which is also called a mercerized
worsted. This is hair splitting of a
high order. Low-grade woolens and
fabrics containing carded cotton are
called woolens; raincloths that do not
shed rain are called raincloth.
not call the mercerized worsteds
“fancy worsteds?” The manufactur-
er knows what they are. The cloth- |

for |
The consumer knows whether

ed “worsted fabrics which contain |
cotton” or not? It is said that the
campaign against mercerized fabrics
by certain interests has helped the
fabrics rather than hurt them.
any event the fabrics have sold.
Other mills are preparing to make

Heavy Brown Goods—tThe situa-
tion in the heavy brown goods divi-
sion of the market has not changed
much in favor of the buyer. Drills,
twills and heavy

so why |

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sheetings are just |

 

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as dificult to obtain for nearby deliv- |

The
situation on sheetings from 4-yard to
4.70-yard goods is getting to be a
serious matter. Quotations are

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{advancing and nothing is to be had

mestic silk and silk and cotton goods |
° ° |

has made serious inroads on fine cot- |

silk mixed goods.
lards and the cheapest. very light- |
weight silk goods are taking the

place of a good many wash goods
There is some business being done in

crashy cloths, fabrics similar to those |

being worn a year ago. Burlap imita-
tions are also in fair request.
Shirtings—The demand for shirt-
ings is of a very fair order’and buy-
ers are ordering where cloths come
up to their ideas. The favorite goods

are black and indigo madras, al-
though considerable business has
been done in plain madras. Percales

of the better grades are in excellent
shape, as well as floating-warp novel-
ties and end and end effects.

Dress Goods—Price advances in
dress goods market have caused a
great deal more commotion than was
the case when men’s wear fabrics
were advanced.

The buyers of the|

| mium.

in many counts for months to come.
On 4-yard 56x6os practically nothing
is to be obtained under
same is true of 48x52s

at 5c.
down on

Busi-

ness also has been turned
4.50 and 4.70 yard sheetings at 44@
|45@c, respectively. Osnaburgs can

not be obtained unless at a good pre-
The manufacturing interests,

| particularly the bag trade, are suffer-

 

former fabrics had not prepared for |

the advance, that is, their purchases
had been smaller than they might
have been, hence the advances came
before the major portion of the or-
ders had been delivered, making it
necessary for the buyers to place fu-
ture orders at higher prices.

Mercerized Goods—There is at |

present much discussion as to what
a worsted fabric should be_ called
which contains mercerized cotton
only as a means of pattern making;
that is, where the cotton used is in

ing for the want of goods. Ticking
and ducking have been

ate from Ya@ic.

Cotton Underwear—The attention
to underwear by jobbers has _ been
brought about in order that a careful
analysis can be made of the situation.
Little buying has been done in the
new goods and little is likely to take
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OUR CASH Anp
TTC

Dupiie?

JING ues

ARE
Saris FACTION
GiViNG,
Error Saving,
Labor Savi ing
Sales-Bocks

    
  

THE CHECKS ARE
NUMBERED, MACHINE-

PERFORATED, MACHINE-
COUNTED. STRONG &

HIGH GRADE-

THEY COST LITTLE
BECAUSE WE HAVE SPECIAL
MACHINERY THAT MAKES THEM

AUTOMATICALLY.
SEND FOR SAMPLES ann ask
rorour CATALOGUE AY

SALES BOOK DETROIT.

RADans &Co. MAKERS ~ MICH.

 

 

 

advanced of |

5%4c, and the|

| harness.
Why |.
Increases horse power.

 

CORL, KNOTT & CO.

Jobbers of Millinery and manufacturers of

Street and Dress Hats
20-26 N. Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Mica Axle Grease

Reduces friction to a minimum. It
Saves wear and tear of wagon and
It saves horse energy. It
Put up in
|r and 3 lb. tin boxes, 10, 15 and 25
‘lb. buckets and kegs,
and barrels.

ee

Hand Separator Oil

is free from gum and is anti-rust
and anti-corrosive. Put up in %,

1 and 5 gal. cans.

Standard Oil Co.

 

    

Forest City
Paint

gives the dealer more profit with
less trouble than any other brand
of paint.

Dealers not carrying paint at the
present time or who think of
changing should write us.

Our PAINT PROPOSITION
should be in the hands of every
dealer.

It’s an eye-opener.

Forest City Paint
& Varnish Co.
Cleveland, Ohio

—————S

Send Us Your
Orders

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Percival B. Palmer & Company

Manufacturers of

Cloaks, Suits and Skirts
For Women, Misses and Children

197-199 Adams Street, Chicago

half barrels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Latest
Fad

In neckwear is the four-in-hand made
of blue silk, having white dots or
neat, small white figures. We are
showing a fine assortment put up in
boxes of one-half dozen each. These
prove to be rapid sellers at fifty cents
each. Price is $4.50 per dozen.

Note also the following shapes and
styles now in stock which are excep-
tional values for the money:

FOUR-IN-HANDS
¥%, dozen boxes, black silk or satin
Ment or Gark colors. ........... $4.
1 dozen boxes, black silk or satin
and light or dark colors......... $2.25
dozen boxes, black silk or satin
(Merrow emeped)...............- $2.25
dozen boxes, assorted colors(one
inch wide), for ladies’ wear ....$1.25
dozen boxes, black silk or satin
(one inch wide), for ladies’ wear $2.00
dozen boxes, changeable silks,
assorted (one inch wide), for
a «6 CCC... $2.00
STRING TIES.
dozen boxes, black silk or satin
and light or dark colors........ $2.25
dozen boxes, black silk (mid-
gets)
gross boxes,

$1.25 and

er

bb fk

white lawn at 90c,
SHIELv” BOWS.
dozen boxes, black silk or satin
and licht or dark colors......... $1.25
dozen boxes, black silk or satin
and light or dark colors (large
—oy
dozen boxes, black silk or satin
and light or dark colors (small
—) <
dozen boxes, white lawn band
bows at 75c, 90c, $1, $1.25, $1.50
— o8............,....... $2.25
SHIELD TECKS.
dozen boxes, light or dark assort
ment (job) .....
1% dozen boxes, black silk or satin
“*and light or dark colors (nobby
Oye) -....:.. $2.25
BAND TECKS.
¥% dozen boxes, black silk or satin
and light or dark colors........ $2.25
% dozen boxes, assorted colors. . .$4.50
WINDSOR TIES
boxes, plain colors, as-
sorted.
dozen boxes, plafn colors, light
or dark assortment and blacks. -$2.00
dozen boxes, plain colors, light
assortment with embroidered fig-
res OF CHER. Ss. $2.25
Also the ‘Buster »rown’’ (made
up having rubber loop to attach)
assorted colors $

Sit

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e

ay

1 dozen

Bee

Give us a trial order by
through salesman.
will be pleased.

GRAND RAPIDS
DRY GOODS CO.

Exclusively Wholesale

Grand Rapids, Michigan

mail or
We are sure you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from certain quarters indicate that
salesmen have had a rather discour-
aging reception; buyers

til they came to the market. Here
and there, of course, exceptions are

reported of lines which have met |

with general favor, but it is evident
that, generally speaking, spring trade
has not opened as freely as the manu-
facturer could desire. It must not
be taken for granted that all lines
have been opened in the cotton un-
derwear division of the market, for
there remain yet to be put on the
market quite a number of lines, and
manufacturers who are still in no
lightweight
seem to have the right idea of the

hurry to. take orders

situation. In additional heavyweight
business there is little doing, although
it is quite generally believed that the

buyers have not ordered all of their

needs.

Cotton Hosiery-—A fair to
business has been done in nearly all
lines of hosiery, but more particularly
in seasonable goods. Staple blacks
and tans in half and full lengths have
had a very fair business and laces

and lisles in full length have done}

Embroidered half
Heavy ho-

nearly as_ well.
hose are in good request.
siery is less active.
Carpets—Evidence of a steady im-
provement in the demand for fall
earpet lines and rugs is shown in the
renewed interest taken by manufac-
turers in the wool situation. The
various mills throughout the coun-
try continue to grind up a fair amount
of wool each week.
can not go on indefinitely without

This naturally
necessitating replenishing of some
sort. At the beginning of the season
manufacturers claimed that they had
on hand sufficient supplies of wool

to keep their plants running for some |

little time. Reports from mills in the

vicinity of Philadelphia show that en- |
quiries are being made, and sample |

When

bags taken in many instances.

it is remembered that this section of |

the trade was in a poorer position
than anywhere else in the country, the

fact that the mills there are now in |
the market for wool would seem to}

indicate a much healthier condition
elsewhere. When Philadelphia manu-
facturers found there was little or no
demand for ingrain carpets, they
turned their looms to making cheap

grades of rugs. This policy has prov- |
ed a very wise one, and has without |

doubt saved the situation, in that it
has prevented a shutdown in many
plants.
—_—_ + 2
Some Things We Can Afford To
: Quit.
Gossiping.
Fidgeting.
Grumbling.
Hairsplitting.
Saying Fate is against you.
Finding fault with the weather.
Anticipating evils in the future.
Going around with a gloomy face.
Pretending—not being your own
self.
Faultfinding, nagging and worrying.
Taking offense when none is in-
tended.

have told |
them that they preferred to wait un-|

good |

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 39

 

]
| : . a a
| Dwelling on fancied slights and
| wrongs.

Talking big things and doing small
things.

Scolding and flying into a passion
| over trifles.

Boasting of what you can do in-
stead of doing it.

Thinking that life is a grind, and
not worth living.

Talking continually about yourself
and your affairs.

Deprecating yourself and making
light of your abilities.

 

Saying unkind things about ac- |
quaintances and friends. |

Exaggerating, and making moun- |
tains out of molehills. |

Lamenting the past, holding on to |
disagreeable experiences.
Pitying yourself and bemoaning |
your lack of opportunities.

Comparing yourself with others to
| your own disadvantage.

Waiting around for chances to turn
up. Go and turn them up.

Writing letters when the blood is |
hot which you may regret afterwards. |

Thinking that all the good chances
and opportunities are gone by.

Thinking of yourself to the ex-|
clusion of everyone and everything |
else.
See the
best rather than the worst in others.

Dreaming that you would be hap-
pier in some other place or circum- |
stance.

Carping and criticizing.

 

Belittling those whom you envy be- |
cause you feel that they are superior |
to yourself.

Dilating on your pains and aches
and misfortunes to every one who will |
listen to you.

Speculating as to what you would |
do in some one else’s place, and do|
your best in your own.

Longing for the good things that |
others have instead of going to work
and earning them for yourself.

Looking for opportunities hundreds
or thousands of miles away instead of |
right where you are.—Success.

— |
Postage Stamps at Premium.

A dispatch from Fairbanks, Alaska,
to Tacoma said that a common Unit-
ed States 2-cent postage stamp had
just been sold there for $1, and that
it was the last stamp in town. The
| last lemon in town had also been con-
It sold for $2.

ee

Worship with the heart results in
work with the hand.

| sumed.

 

 

 

We face you with facts and clean-cut
| educated gentlemen who are salesmen of
good habits. Experienced in all branches
lof 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
1a 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.

|
|

 

Summer
Underwear

Don’t wait too long in filling in your
The good
Our stock this
spring is the finest we ever carried.

stock of Summer Underwear.
numbers are going fast.

Gents’ in balbriggan, Jersey knit and
plain black, which is being used very exten-
sively by firemen and engineers.

Ladies’ underwear, Jersey knit, in long
sleeves, short sleeves and sleeveless.

Prices ranging from $4.50 to $9.00 the
dozen.

P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Wholesale Dry Goods

 

 

 

$2 Corset Retailing
at One Dollar

 

 

 

The sooner you get
away from the idea
that Price Repre-
sents Value the
more money you will
make and the greater
satisfaction you will

give your trade.

 

 

 

PURITAN CORSET CO.

Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

 

 

   
 

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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Geo. H. Randall, Bay City;

Secretary. Chas. J. Lewis, Flint; Treas-
urer, W. V. Gawley, Detroit.

 
   

  
    
  

 

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan
Grand Counselor, W. D. Watkins, Kal-

amazoo; Grand Secretary, W. F. Tracy,

Flint.

Grand Rapids Council No. 131, U. C. T.
Senior Counselor, Thomas E. Dryden;

Secretary and Treasurer, O. F. Jackson.

 

 

How the Drummer Helps the Re-
tailer.

The friendship of the drummer
should be cultivated with great care.
He can benefit you more than any
living man in a great many ways.
Not only in straight financial affairs,
but in providing you with informa-
tion and advice which oftentimes
either makes money for you or pre-
vents you from doing something that
would prove costly.

The habit of crustiness with travel-
ing salesmen can not be too severely
condemned. It is too dangerous to
be persisted in. And as a striking il-
lustration, did you ever know a pros-
perous business man who was noton |
terms of more than mere acquaint-
ance with the drummers?

The friendship may be _ obtained
easily, and lost easily. No class of
men are more reciprocal or more re- |
sponsive than drummers. No men
will stand less nonsense either. Treat |
them right and it will prove to be a|
shrewd move.

Financial worries are apt to over-
take any retailer. Dull business’ or
slow collections and a multiplicity of |
other causes frequently put him in a|
close corner. You may have plenty
of good merchandise on hand, and at
face value may be solvent. But cred-
itors press you. They ask the local
bank for advice. That institution re-
sponds with the statement that you!
are in hard shape although you may
extricate yourself. But where there
is room for a doubt they abstain from
To be}

 

making any recommendations.
forced to pay all your bills at this |
time would mean great sacrifice and |
possible disaster. This is the time
when the drummer’s friendship is a
mighty good thing to have. You have |
told him your woes. He goes home|!
in a few days and makes his general |
report.

When it comes to your case he is |
in a position to do you a good turn. |

“How about Brown?” asked his|
employer. “He owes us considerable, }
and at the trade club several whole- |
salers say that he is away behind. |
The bank report is not favorable, and
we are considering a petition.”

Then if you are straight and the}
drummer knows it he can say:

“Mr. Brown is only in deep water |
temporarily, I believe. Times have |
been slack in his town, but the mills |
are going to resume next week and |
when the operatives begin earning
money his business will brighten at |
once and he will get withheld trade |
with a rush. I believe he is still a}
good risk, and consider that you will |

| against him.

| the specialties.
| or you could never learn what

jis always

be a gainer if you wait a few weeks
and give him a chance. The man is
honest and a good business man, but
conditions have for a time been
He'll pay you all right,
if vou give him a little time.”
This talk impresses the employer,
who knows that his drummer is giv-
ing him an accurate statement of af-
fairs. He “guesses that he will take
no action at present,” and that even-
ing at the club tells his friends, when
they are most of all responsive to
good fellowship and incline most to-
ward “fair play,’ that he has con-
cluded “to give Brown a show if the
rest do.” Business men are always
as a body willing to be lenient when
there is any excuse for it, and it only
takes one man to suggest it;
others usually agree.
settled on the spot, and you are tided
over.
drummer who did it for you.

Suppose you contemplate a new

line for which a warrantin mand |...
B 8 _ ai. have no real sorrow so they

ut you can not afford | ‘
: oe r sau . |must find something to harp on; for
to sap your capital at this time. The!
| opportunity is sound and tl rum-|, °
PI y da | — d | heralded as one with many sorrows.
He will tell his house |

Nine times out of |

has arisen.

mer knows it.
how matters are.
ten you get the goods.
the
knows where

Again drummer frequently

a small lot of salable

He has a small lot him-

| self maybe, or knows where you can

get it. If he is your friend, he tells

| you.

Your competitor has stocked up
with, say, a line of low cuts or ox-
fords. He has been to the city and
after inspecting everything has picked
cut this line. When he puts them on
sale, being the latest thing, his trade
will benefit. You having none of
them will lose not only the shirt and
necktie trade, but the kindred little
purchases made by persons buying
Of your own endeav-
that
has bought But the
drummer usually is posted on what is

competitor

| going on in your town, and knows
| what other merchants

are finding

;most profitable and also what they

are going to feature in the way of
fashions ordered for later trade. He

| knows just about how far you are be-
| kind your competitors, and he can ac-

curately foretell the effects upon your
business. You can find out all this
from him if you are upon terms of
friendship with him.

New fashions, new methods of sell-
ing goods, and new ideas of store ar-
rangement and display are a small
part of the drummer’s fund of knowl-
edge. Traveling about as he does
and coming in contact with these
things, he is an authority. And he
willing to talk to his
friends.

When there is a promotion to be

When he comes to town be glad
to see him, and do not let him become
is doubtless in good social repute, so
take him up to the house after busi-

iness. You can talk better there any-

way.

Cultivate the drummer assiduous-
ly, not because he is a good thing,
but because you need his friendship

 

| spray which

just as much as he needs yours. This
world progresses largely because of
the spirit of mutuality, even more
than through individual effort. And
the retailer’s best possible comrade
is the traveling salesman.—Boot and
Shoe Recorder.
——__+~-.__
Nursing Sorrow Not To Be Com-
mended.

Written for the Tradesman.

Nursing sorrow is common among
all classes—among the poor and the
rich alike. There is the least of it
among the educated.

We find those laden with sorrow
nursing it as if it were some tender
would wither and die
if the sun’s rays beamed upon it or

et the voice of mirth awakened it from

Phe affair is 1. i . !
|ish it; we car not give it up.

: : | ours and we will claim it.
But it was your friend the}

We seem to cher-
Te is

its drowsy sleep.

We also find others nursing some

| little thing which has happened until

it takes on the aspect of sorrow.

among many it is quite popular to be

Instead of doing something which

| would tend to brighten the path of
| life, they are constantly seeking that

| little

| and profitable wares, just enough of |
| it for your trade, can be picked up to|
| advantage.

disagreeable companion, Sor-

row.
They find something which they
cherish and nourish until finally they

really have a tender little plant in

| sorrowful bloom.

| fear

They guard it, watch its growth for
that harm may happen to it.
Every action of another which may

ibe a little different than usual is tak-

intent. Every
wor dspoken which is not just so is
heard and considered a snub. Their

feelings are too sensitive; they allow

en as haying evil

| themselves to dwell on those things

 

so much that in reality they watch

for them instead of shutting their
eyes.
One can nurse trifles until they

become of larger growth and seri-
ously hamper our lives. We should
be blind when the case demands it
for our peace. One can hardly real-
ize the ill feelings we bring to our-
selves through these different chan-
On the other hand, we can
hardly realize the sweet peace and
sublime happiness in which we would
be enveloped if we shook .. off the
yoke and ceased to nurse the foe of
gladness.

I have in mind several people who
are very good citizens but who, if
not blessed with some real
rehearse that which has happened
sometime during the—perhaps _ re-
mote—past. Now these people are
all good, honest and true, but what
would the world do if filled with such
a melancholy class of people! Our
asylums would not be large enough
to accommodate the patronage; for
we could not stand the great trial
of hearing things of a pitiful nature
all the time.

Still we, as a nation, can profit by
these very examples. Through them
we may choose whichever course we
prefer. By talking with both the
mirthful and sad we at once know
which of the two is the welcome vis-
itor,

nels.

sorrow,

Why not throw off the mantle of
all that which tends to cast clouds
over our life and seek blessed sun-
shine instead? How much better it
is to be living in an atmosphere of
happiness, mirth and thankfulness.

Each and every one of us has our
own burdens to bear, and let us do it
as heroically as possible. Above all
things, let us not spend our precious
moments nursing sorrow. Life is
short and our time should be well
spent. We are placed here to ac-
complish some good. Let us answer
the call. Lucia Harrison.

 

 

 

Morton House
Bouquet

3 for 25c, $55 per 1,000
Ten cts. straight, $70 per 1,000
High grade in
representing the choicest material
and workmanship

money can command.

every respect,
best which

Handled by all jobbers and by
the manufacturers,

Geo. H. Seymour & Co.
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.

 

 

 

In Time of Peace
Prepare for War

Now is the time to have your Steam
or Hot Water Heating Apparatus put
in working order for next winter's use.

This is part of our business, and we
want your
comes on,

WEATHERLY & PULTE
Heating Contractors
97-99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

orders before the rush

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY

W. FRED McBAIN, President

Grand Rapids, Mich. The Leading Agency

 

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 White 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

 

 

 

 

 

oe

Copper Country Butchers Picnicing |
To-Day.

Hancock, June 19—A meeting
Lake butchers

ot
the Portave held
here Friday evening and the Knights
the Knife and Steel to
hold their annual picnic in Hancock
this year on Wednesday, June 21. |
The meeting attended by
butchers from this place and Hough-
ton the South
a delegation down.

Was

of decided

was. well

and Range also sent

Enthusiasm was

high in the meeting, for all former

butchers have been
rousing affairs the members
the craft determined to

the one this year one of the best.

picnics of the
and of
are make
The regular order of the day will

be observed. The shops will all be
closed and the doings will begin ear-

ly in the morning and continue until

late at meht. All of the butchers
in the county will be the guests. of
their Portage Lake brethren and the
parade will be a monster one. The
Quincy band has been engaged for
the occasion and that organization
will head the parade, which will start
from the Copper Range depot at 9
o'clock in the morning. It will pass
through the streets of the town
and end up at the Hancock grove.

At the grove the butchers will go
Daniel Holland,
will his

in for a good time.
the

orator of day, address

brother tradesmen and there will al-
so be several other numbers on the
programme, which will be rendered

in the pavilion. The other events for
the grove have not yet been announc-
killing contest

the regular

held

of

ed but

be other
Another
meeting of the butchers will be held

next Monday night in tl

and there will

entertainment.

will be

features
1e City Hall,
this place, when arrangements for the
picnic will be perfected.

The following selections of officers

and committees were made Friday
night:
President of the Day—-Thomas A.
Payn.
Secretary—John Ruelle.
Treasurer—Matt Kangas.
Grand Marshal—Christ Miller.
Orator—Daniel Holland.
Executive Committee—Thomas A.

Payn, John Ruelle, Daniel Holland,
Christ Haller, Thomas P. Payne,
Timothy Reagan, William Gamble,
Matt Kangas.

Committee of Arrangements—John |
Buzzo, Edward Payne, Henry Ratz,
Joseph R. Monkoski.

Committee on Music—Thomas_ P.
Payne.

Committee on Park—Christ Heller
Sports—Henry Goudreau, William
Noetzel, John Ruelle, Ben Tamblyn.

Advertising—S. Barabee, William

Gamble, John Ruelle.
—_2-->_
Copemish Out After New Enter-
prises.

Copemish, June 20—The village of
Copemish has now a Business Men’s
Association whose object is to devel-
op the town and foster the industrial
and other interests of the community.
The organization comprises the rank
and file of the enterprising business
men of the place, and when it is|
stated that the motto of the organ. |
ization is “In unity there is strength,” |

|ish business men realize that to|
| keep pace with the progress of the |
times they should combine for the}
betterment of local conditions and
the growth of their town. |

| determination o

| Copemish is

no

i —
Some one sends the Tradesman
a report of the Hillsdale convention
ok the |G. C.D.) ten) days) atten | the
meeting was held, which found a con-
venient resting place in the waste
basket. The Tradesman is always

ifor some years.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

1 can readily be seen that the Copem-

 

a : : :
The Copemish business men are |

go
+

enterprisin They know that they |
good town, one of the best |
ft the State, a town

growing, a town whose nat-

section o

that) is

ural advantages are superior to many
of

other citi 1S size, and it is the

¢
i

cs

these business men

te exert every effort to build up the
city

and to extend its influence

of
forms the
Man-

and

commercial
It
f the Ann Arbor and
Northeastern

a center
nean proportions.
junction o
&

the center of a rich farmings coun-

istee railroads

 

is

try which is being very rapidly devel-
t
a

oped. As the timber passes away i

is realized that Copemish will be

central point of a valuable agricul-

tural and fruit territory.

ag which

There advant
tend to

industries ¢
be

are hiany

the

cs

permit increase of the
yf
gradually developed as the Busi-
Men’s

fluence and resources. This Associa- |

the place, which will

ness Association grows in in-

|tion is proud of the town, and the |

members want the outside world to|

know it They do not want their |
light hid under a bushel, and they |
extend an invitation to the world |
te come and see what a good town |
Copemish is. There is plenty  of|
room for all.

The business men realize that once |

they all pull together Copemish can}

attain the prestige that it deserves.
They are therefore resolved to unite |
firmly and to accomplish things |
which only a united community can }
acquire. The Association has an eye |
single to the future welfare and
srowth of the village and its mem-
bers are determined to bring the|
town to the front in an_ industrial
way and socially as well.
mR. G Bares, See y
mel

They Are Puzzlers.

Among the hard things in this
world to understand are mules, wom-
en, gasoline engines, automobiles and

wireless telegraphy.

 

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be made the vehicle o

lad to publish news, but declines to
f disseminating

ancient history.

The Grain Market.

The wheat market has shown an ad-
vance of about 2c per bushel for the
week. The visible supply has shown
a decrease in wheat for the week of
1,424,000 bushels and in corn of 457,-

000 bushels and oats 230,000 bushels. |
Harvest is progressing finely in the |

South and Southwest, and new wheat
is beginning to arrive and the quality
is fine. Considerable wheat has
ready been cut in Southern Ohio and
harvesting will com-

Indiana and

mence in Michigan within a_ week.
Some reports of damage come from
the Northwest but the spring wheat
crop as a whole is doing fine.

We have had a strong and active
market advance of
two or three cents per bushel. Re-

ceipts of corn are quite liberal and

im corm with an

| grading is fairly good. The demand for
|cash corn is sufficient to care for all

arrivals. The amount of corn in the

al- |

visible supply is low at only 2,921,000 |

about half what is was

date.

bushels,
last

or

year Same

selman, F, C. Letts, Wm. C. Phipps,
C_ Elliott, H. S. Griggs, H. N. Hig
inbotham, F. J. Buckley, M. D. El-
om, B. B. Cashman.

Immediately after the stockholders’
meeting, the newly-elected Board of
Directors organized by electing the
following officers:

President—Amos S. Musselman.

First Vice-President—F. C. Letts.

Second  Vice-President—Wm.  C.
Phipps.

Third Vice-President—C. Elliott.

Treasurer—_H. S. Griggs.

Secretary and  Auditor—B. B.
Cushman.

A dividend of 3 per cent. was de-
clared on the common stock, paya-
|ble June 16, to stockholders of rec-
;ord on June 6.

The financial statement issued
April 20 disclosed total resources of
$2,499,099.38 and liabilities of $798,-
“190.44, showmg a net worth of
$1,700,379.94. After paying the 3 per
|cent. dividend on the common stock

The growing |
z >

crop is doing fairly well but reports |

of

tions.

excessive moisture in some sec-

Oats have shown some strength in |

and the regular 3 per cent. semi-an-

nual dividend on the preferred stock

| July 1, there will still be $95,379.94
ileft to the credit of the common
stock.

—_—_——_.

sympathy with other grains. Receipts |

the growing
The demand for

oats is good, but

are quite liberal and

crop is doing finely.
cash we

Can Sce

nothing to warrant a strong advance

 

| Grand Rapids in the Furniture Trade.

According to the industrial census

| which has just been made there were | finger nails torn off. The victim ap-

at this time, as we are practically |

iwithin three or four weeks of new|

oats. L. Fred Peabody.
(ee te

The Old, Old Story.
Chicago, June 20—Edward Bickett,
a non-union teamster employed by
the National Express Co., was sub-
jected to barbarous torture early to-

‘day by four union teamsters who are

on strike. Bickett was attacked in
front of the teamsters’ union head-
quarters. After being knocked down

| by the men three fingers of his right

thirty-eight establishments in Grand |

Rapids during engaged in
of

earners

1904
manufacture
6,654 and producing
$9,409,097 worth of goods. The wages

wage

of the employes amounted to $

industry is $8,004,713. The value of
leads all other industries in the city,
one-third of the total

enumerators

and is about

the census

discovered.

which

more
Rapids

the State is large. There are

factories outside of Grand

than in the city, although the aggre-

gate of their production, as well as
t

ed, is only about half of what is cred-
Ae-

he number of wage earners employ-
ited to the factories of this city.
a19q} 110d91 34} 0}
are 134 factories making furniture in
Michigan. They had _ 13,260

earners and their products were val-

snsttoo

wage

 

———_.22—___
1 B. Melntosh, of
been promoted to the general super- |

Owosso, has

intendency

Co.. of Adrian. He has been

Piano
traveling representative of the firm
From this time on

by Lee Williams.

£ the Clough & Warren |

ued at $18,421,735. This represents
an increase over 1900 of 1,390, or II.7
|per cent., in the number of wage

learners, and of $3,807,229, or 26 per
| cent. in the value of products. The
total value of the product of all fac-
'tories of every class in Grand Rapids
is $31,03
with 389 factories.

?

.589, and this city is credited

|
|
‘he will devote less time to road work | 2-2
and more to the factory. | Annual Report of the National Gro-
——_+++——_ | cer Co.
I D Cook, who formerly con- | At the annual meeting of the Na-
ducted a confectionery business at|tional Grocer Co. the following were
142 W. Fulton street, is succeeded | elected directors of the corporation

for the ensuing year; Amos S. Mus-

the lee . . °
in mae '‘“ his cries were in vain, and when the
Turnitture, employing | 4 : ;

p'OY1N8 | assailants left he was unconscious in

|the street, where he was found later

hand were broken and two of his

pealed to the men to have mercy, but

| by a policeman.

3,239,- |
748, and the capital credited to the}
| Charles J.
the furniture output in Grand Rapids |

have |
| old-fashioned
The furniture industry throughout |

Sulp.40d |

 

—_—_ > o> — —
There is nothing spectacular about
Bonaparte, who is soon to
the He
pays strict attention to his law busi-
m. to p.
after which he goes, in winter, to an
the
section or in summer to a large es-
tate He is not ath-
letic, loves the simple life and finds

become Secretary of navy.

ness daily from 9 a. 5 M.,

residence in swell

near Baltimore.
keen pleasure in reading and walking,
total

tobacco.

abstainer and uses

He

and, strange to say, has never taken

is 2 never
does not like to travel,

a long sea trip in his life. His friends

are wondering how he will accept his

first aquatic trip. Ehey all expect
him to have mal de mer. He does,
himself.

It is suggested that when Japan
secures the billion dollar indemnity
from Russia it may make an offer
to purchase the Philippine Islands
from the United States. There was

ereat criticism because the American
Government bought the Islands from
Spain without the consent of the in-
habitants, and there would probably
be just as great criticism if the Is-
lands were to be sold without their
consent. The prospects are that the
American flag will continue to float
over the Philippines until it is dis-
placed by a Filipino flag.

 

  

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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 a Associa- |
tion.

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. M. Lemen, Shepherd, and H. |
Dolson, St. Charles.

 

 

Distilling Attar of Roses.

In Bulgaria, during the month of
October, slips are cut from all old
and buried in trenches
foot wide

soil.

rose bushes

 

and covered with
About eighteen
afterward these slips reach
maturity and come to blossom. The}
the latter
second one

about a
fertilized
months

harvested in
May and the
month later.

first crop is
part of

Twenty-two pounds of these blos- |
soms are added to nineteen gallons
of water and placed in a copper still
set in masonry. A fire is lighted un-
derneath and kept up until the water
boils. Then the temperature is grad-
ually reduced, and in one hour and a

half twelve quarts of liquid remain.
This product is then redistilled and |
The net
product is small when compared to!
first bulk.
A St. Louis paper recently print-
ed the

the attar of roses obtained.

following, of interest in this |
connection:

“Mr. George W. Vanderbilt has |
erected a still for the purpose of ex-
tracting the attar the

raised in

from damask

reses which are his con-
servatories.

“If his experiments are successful
this summer he intends buying sev-
eral thousand land in the
South for the culture of
roses of the attar variety.

“Meat this tract of will be

erected a large distillery with scien-

acres of

exclusive

land

tiie equipment, and under Mr. Van-
derbilt’s management it will doubt-
less be a commercial success, thus

transplanting an important Bulgarian
industry to the United States.”
—_— ~~~ ——

Some Peculiarities of Topeka Whisky.

Topeka drug store whisky is famous
from San Francisco to Augusta. Out-
side of Kansas it is used only as ma-
terial for jokes. In Topeka it is used
People from little towns
over the State come here to take bot-
tles of it home to drink.

for sickness.

3y these ig-
norant ones it is used as a beverage.

It has been tried upon Indians on
circus days. No Indian was ever
known to take two drinks at the same
drug store. Experienced redskins
drink lemon extract.

Last circus day Standing-Bull-Milk-
in-the-Face, a famous chieftain from
Holton, took a drink at a local drug

j}alcohol and gin

| greater part of their sales.

 

store. He went to jail and got $10
next morning. He had money and
paid his way out. In the station he
took a drink of ice water. The water
loosened the dried whisky in_ his
stomach and before he had _ taken
thirty steps from the station he was
drunk again. He was fined $25 for
the second offense. Judge Hamilton
worked the compound interest fine
system on him. When he finally got
eut he took the train home, singing
lustily, with seven bottles of lemon
extract, a pint of red ink and a half
pint of pure alcohol nestling under his
diaphragm. But he not drunk
that time.

A liquor is made in the basements
of drug stores of Kansas City and St.
Joseph from ground glass, tobacco
juice, alcohol, pepper, linseed oil and
St. Vitus ointment. It is sent across
the State line through tunnels lest a
few drops should spill and kill the
vegetation. When it arrives in Tope-
ka it is called whisky.

Topekans very rightly do not drink
it as a beverage. They use it as
medicine. From the large number of
people who have been
cramps, rheumatism, colic, insomnia,
aurora borealis and pip by the use of
drug store whisky, there can no long-
er remain in the mind of any one the

was

| least doubt of the efficacy of the rem-

edy so far as these ailments are con-
cerned.

After the Topeka public learned
that Missouri cellar whisky was val-
uable as a medicine, they began to

cured of |

 

 

experiment and discovered that beer, |

also had medicinal
properties, long unknown and hidden,
but none the less worthy.

At the presert time there are over |

forty drug stores in Topeka which
for the
Pills and

count upon these remedies

plasters have gone out of

ia hair tonic:

fashion. |

The city has taken up Gukenheimer |

and cork screws.—Topeka Herald.
——_~>->>___
Newspaper Mixers.
We have repeatedly had occasion
to call attention to the danger of the
formulas and advice printed in the

“beauty” and “household” columns of |
The “jolly mixers” |

the daily papers.
of the popular press daily publish lo-
tions and bleaches in total disregard
of all laws of chemistry or pharmacy.
Corrosive poisons in face lotions, in-
compatibilities of all kinds, and chem-
ical crimes abound. One young lady
cheerfully directs the “dear reader” to
pulverize a substance always sold in
liquid form; another gives a formula
the chief ingredient of which is oil
of bitter almonds.

An interesting question here pre-
itself. Suppose a reader were
to take the penny advice and in conse-

sents

| quence sustain injuries more or less

Who would be held liable for
the damage, the paper, the girl beau-
ty doctor, or the pharmacist who
materials? Although
the justice of the matter seems suffi-
ciently plain, we are willing to pre-
dict on general principles that the
pharmacist would get the worst of it.
—_>->____

As the apparel oft proclaims the

man, so does a business man’s station-

Severe.

furnished the

ery.

 

| water, and heat.

Simple Treatment for Burns.

In cases of burns and scalds there
are three maxims to be observed:
(1) Remove the clothes with care;

|

 

to this mixture hydrochloric acid di-
luted with an equal volume of water
and wash the precipitated acid on a
filter with warm water until it shows

i | Eh AEGON ie ae Ss
(2) exclude the air; and (3) prevent | 0 reaction with silver nitrate. By this

collapse.
cised in removing
tached to the skin;
en best to cut the

any clothing at-
indeed, it is oft-
clothes off; apply
oil—usually carron oil—composed of
equal parts of linseed-oil and lime-
water, with strips of clean rag, which
should be well saturated with the oil;
ever these apply a good quantity of

|
|
|
j
|
|

es 2 ee ere ee f ~j rere =
Great cate must be exer-| method 380 grains of acid were ob

At

salicylic

tained from 489 grains of oil.
$2.50 a pound the oil,

acid can be produced for little more

ior

| than twenty cents per ounce.

cotton-wool, and then a flannel band- |

age.

shock by wrapping the patient in a}
warm blanket, and cautiously admin- |

istering stimulants, and, if the pain
is acute, a soothing opiate draught
ordered. If

hand, then use flour, whiting

will be Of 1s not. at

made into a paste, and apply over the

scald. If the skin is only reddened,

the dressings may be soaked in a

weak solution of sodium bicarbon-

ate, which will aflord most re-

lief to the pain. Robert Jones.
——_.-2>

Label Laughlets.

" : )
It is rather amusing at times to

read the different drug labels that
come here to be printed; that is, the
manner in which the copy is prepared.
Here are just a from
In part of the directions for

few samples
memory.

Corn Cure it reads: “Apply each
night for four nights and remove the
corn.” How simple. Another tor
toothache: “Saturate cotton and in-
sert in cavity.” For the gums: “Rub
a little on the finger.” For rheuma-
tism: “Take «2 tablet three times a
day until cured.” Another reads:

>»

“Sure cure for Rig
to cure in ten minutes;

Head, guaranteed
take one tab-
let every twenty minutes.” Another,
“Removes and prevents
dandruff, making it fine and glossy.”
reads.
not

And one “Repeat in twenty

minutes if relieved in half an
hour.”
et
The Drug Market.
Opium—Continues firm on account
of reported small crop.
Morphine—Is_ unchanged.
and

account of

Quinine—Is_ dull weak.
Alcohol—-On

price for corn has been advanced 2c

higher

per gallon.

Oil Peppermint—Is weak and _ is
tending lower on account of the
near approach of the new crop, which

is reported will be large.

Canary Seed—Is tending higher on
the

account of reported damage to

growing crop.

Dutch Caraway Seed—Continues to
advance.

Gum _ Shellacs—Are scarce and
higher.

Linseed Oil—Is very firm on ac-

count of the position of the seed.
—_—_. 2
Salicylic Acid, “Natural.”

The so-called “natural” salicylic
acid can be satisfactorily made on the
small scale (Merck’s Report): Place
oil of wintergreen in a porcelain evap-
orating dish with twice its bulk of
Add to this a con-
centrated solution of sodium hydrate
until the oil is completely taken up;
dilute with water and heat. Then add

or chalk |

~ 1
Care must be taken to prevent |

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—  —

| Revival of an Old Flim-Flam Game.

20—A lumberjack
here

Gaylord, June

recently entered a drug store

with a gallon jug, and asked for half

a gallon of aleohol. The woodsman

explained to the clerk that he had
been in another drug store and got
|all the spirits they had in stock, a
half gallon, while he wanted a gal-
llon. The clerk proceeded to fill up
the vacant space in the jug and re-

turned it to the customer, who now
asked to be “trusted.” When he was
that he "eash’
store he told the dealer to take out
half of the which
done, only to find that the first half
of the jug had been filled with water.
ee en

Join the “Don’t Worry Club,” even
if you are the only member in your
town.

informed was im a

his goods, was

 

 

 

 

PILES CURED

DR. WILLARD M. BURLESON
Rectal Specialist
103 Monroe Street Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

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Our line of Fireworks for the trade, cele-
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ties is the largest in Michigan. Wait for
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FRED BBUNDAGE
Wholesale Drugs and Stationery
Muskegon, Michigan

 

 

Base Ball Supplies

Croquet
Marbles, Hammocks, Etc.

 

Grand Rapids Stationery Co.
29 N. lonia St.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced—
Declined—

Acidum

Aceticum
Benzoicum, Ger..
Boracic ...-...-.-
Carbolicum
Citricum.
Hydrochlor
Nitrocum
Oxalicum .....
PRemphvertanh, dil.
Salicylicum
Sulphuricum
Tannicum .......-
Tartaricum
Ammonla
Aqua, 18 deg ...
Aqua, 20 deg .
Carbonas .....-.
Chloridum .......
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Copamee .........
Peru
Terabin, Canada.
Tolutan

Cortex
Abies, Canadian..
Cassiae
Cinchona Flava..
Buonymus atro..
Myrica Cerifera..
Prunus Virgini ..
Quillaia, oe
Sassafras
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Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Gla..
Glycyrrhiza, po..
Eiaemeatom .......
Haematox, 1s ...
Haematox, %s ..
Haematox, Ks ..

Ferru

Carbonate Precip.
Citrate and Quina
Citrate Soluble ..
Ferrocyanidum 8.
Solut. Chloride ..
Sulphate, com’l ..
Sulphate, com’l, by
Dbl. per cwt ..
Sulphate, pure ..

Flora

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Anthemis
Matricaria

Barosma
Cassia

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Tinnevelly ..
Cassia, Acutifol.
Salvia officinalis,
%s and &s ..
Uva Orel ........
Gummi
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2nd pkd..
8rd pkd..
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Acacia,
Acacia,
Acacia,
Acacia,
Acacia, po
Aloe, Barb
Aloe, Cape ......
Aloe, Socotri ....
Ammoniac
Asafoetida
Benzoimum ......
Catecnu, is ....
Catechu, 3s esc
Catechu, osc
Camphorae
Euphorbium
Gaibesum .......
Gamboge ....po..1
Guaiacum ..po 35
ne... po 45c
Mastic

Shellac, bleached
—,

Absinthium .....4
— oz pk
Lobelia .0Z pk
Majorum — -02 pk
Mentha Pip oz pk
Mentha Ver oz pk
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Tanacetum V ...
Thymus V oz pk
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat ..
Carbonate, Pat ..
Carbonate K-M.
Carbonate

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Absinthium
Amygdalae, Dulc.
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Hedeom 40@1
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Lavendula ...... 90@2
timests ......... 90@1
Mentha Piper ...3 40@3
Mentha Verid ...5 00@5
Morrhuae gal. ..1 25@1

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Picis Liquida zal ¢
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Rosmarini @1
Rosae oz ..5 00@6
Succini . . 40
Sabina .. -- 90@1
Samceal ..... 2 25@4
Sassafras" ..... 75@
Sinapis, ess, oz... @
Tigiil eee ee. 110@1
Tiree ........ |. 40
Thyme, opt ..... 1
Theobromas 189
Petassium
Bi Card ......... 15
Bichromate 13
Bromide 23@
car ..... 12@
Chlorate ..... 12
Cweanme ........ 34
Heme ........... 60@3
Potassa, Bitart pr 30@
Potass Nitras opt 7@
Potass Nitras .... 6
Prussiate . 33
Sulphate po . 15@
Radix
Aconitum
Althae
Anchusa ..
Arum po ..
Calamus 20
Gentiana po 15.. 12
Glychrrhiza pv 15 16
Hydrastis, Canada. I
Hydrastis, Can.po 2
Hellebore. Alba. 12
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Maranta, \%s

Podophyilum po. 15
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Bee, cut ...... 1 00@1
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Seem |... 30@
Sanguinarl, po 24
Serpentaria ..... 50
meee 85
Smilax, offi’s H. g
Smmex, @ .....
Scillae po 35.... 10@
Symplocarpus ... @
Valeriana Eng .. @
Valerfana, Ger .. 15
Zangiver & ...... 12
Zinger j ....... 16
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mira, i ......... 4
Caruli ~. 15 10
Cardamom ....... 70
Cortandrum 12
Cannabis Sativa. 5
Cydentum ....... 75@1
Chenopodium ... 2
Dipterix Odorate.
Foeniculum .....

Foenugreek, po.
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Pharlavia Cana’n
feeaes Abe ....
Sinapis Nigra ...
Spiritus
Frumenti W D..3
Frumenti
Juniperis Co O T.1
Juniperis Co ....1
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Nassau sheeps’ wl
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Velvet extra shps’
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Extra yellow shps’
wool carriage.. @1
Grass sheeps’ wl,
CArriaze ......- Z
Hard, slate use .. 1
Yellow Reef, for
slate use. ... i
Syrups
Bence ..-....--.<
Auranti Cortex ..
Zingiber .....-.
Ipecac .......-
Ferri lod ....
Rhei Arom ...
Smilax Off’s
Senega
Scillae ........
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT

   
   
 

 

 

 

 

| Mannia, S F ..

‘son 50 |
| Senthe® ... 2...) 2 = |S
| Morphia, SP & We 35@2 6

| Morphia, SN Y 7 ig: $0
| Morphia, Mal. ..2 a a
Moschus Canton.
| Myristica, No. 1. n@

30
| Nux Vomica po 15

10

Os Sepia ........ 25@ 28
| Pepsin Saac, H &
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| Picis Liq NN¥%
gal dow .......- @2 00

| Picis Liq qts . 1 00

| Picis Liq. pints. 60
Pil iene po 80 50

| Piper Nigra po 22 18

| Piper Alba po 35 g 30
Pix Burge ..... 7

| Piumbi Acet ... 12@ 15

| Pulvis Ip’c et et Opitt 30@1 50

| Pyrethrum,

i 28 toe doz. @ 76
Pyrethrum, pv .. 20 25
GQuassiae ........ 8 10
Quina, S P & W. = 32
Quina, S Ger. .... 22@ &2
China, NH Y. ..... 22@ 32
Rubia Tinctorum 12 14

| Saccharum La’s. 22 25
Salacia ......... 4 50@4 75

| ge Drac’s .. 40 50

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G@ ..... @ 15
Seidlitz Mixture... 20@ 22
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Singpm, opt ..... @ 30
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Soda, Boras ..... = bai
Soda, Boras, po. %@ tl
Soda et Pot’s Tart 25@ 28
Soda, Carb ..... 1%@ 2
Soda, Bi-Carb s@ 5
Soaa, Ash ...... 3%@ 4
Soda, Sulphas @ 3
Spts, Cologne @2 60
Spts, Ether Co.. “— 55
Spts, Myrcia Dom 2 00
Spts, Vini Rect bbl g
Spts, Vi'i Rect %b
Spts, Vi'i R’t 10 gl @
Spts, Vi'i R’t 5 gal @

Strychnia, ai 05@1 7

Sulphur Subl ..... @
Sulphur, Roll ....2%@ 31%
Tamariids .....- 8 10
Terebenth Venice = 30
Theobromae ..... 50
Menem .....-... oo
Zinct Suiph ..... 7@ si
Olls

bbl gal '

Whale, winter ...

70@ 70

 

Lard; extra ... 08 80
Lard, No. 1..:.. 60 65
Linseed, pure raw 49@ 54
Linseed, boiled ...50@ 55
Neat’s-foot, w str 65@ 70
Spts. Turpentine,.. Market
Paints ber <=
Red Venetian ...1% 2 3
Ochre, yel Mars.1% 2 4
Ochre, yel Ber ..1% 2 @8
Putty, commer’l.2% 2%@3
Putty, strictly pr2% 2%@3
Vermilion, ime
American ..... 13 15
Vermilion, Eng... 75 80
Green, Furie ..... 14 18
Green, Peninsular 13 16
beag@ fred ...... 6%@ q
Lead, white - 6% q
Whiting, white S’n 90
Whiting Gilders’ 95
White, Paris Am’r 1 25
Whit’g Paris Eng
er oo. c 40
Universal Prep’d 1 10@1 20
Varnishes
No 1 Turp Coach 1 10 : 20
Extra Turp ....i 60@1 7¢
| Coach Body ....2 75@38 00
| No 1 Turp Furnl 00@1 10
Extra T Damar .1 55@1 60

Jap Dryer No1T 70@

 

 

Drugs

 

 

We are Importers and Jobbers of Drugs,

We are

 

dealers in Paints,

Varnishes.

Sundries.

Chemicals and Patent Medicines.

Oils and

We have a full line of Staple Druggists’

Weare the sole proprietors of Weatherly’s
Michigan Catarrh Remedy.

We always have in stock a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies, Gins, Wines and
Rums for medical purposes only.

We give our personal attention to mail
orders and guarantee satisfaction.

All orders shipped and invoiced the same

| day received. Send a trial order.

 

 

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

Tinctures
Aconitum Nap’sR 60 |
Aconitum Nap’sF 50 |

Mee 60 |
7 En 50 |
es & Myrrh . 60
iano eee te 50
Atrope Belladonna 66
Auranti Cortex .. 50
Beaman .. 60
Senzoin Coe ..... 50
Barca —....... 50
Cantharides ..... 75
Cancicum ....... 50
Cardamon ...... 75
Cardamon Co 15
Castor ._.. 1 60
Cutechn ......... 50
Cmetona ... 1... 50
Cinehona Co .... 60
Colma ........ 50
Cubenae ........ 50
Cassia Acutifol .. 50
Cassia Acutifol Co 50
Digitalis soe. 50
meee |. 50
pba nn. 35
Gentian ........ 50
Soman Co. 60 |
Guisca ......._.. 50 |
Guiaca ammon .. 60 |
Hyoscyamus 50
loge |... 75 |
lodine, colorless. . 75 |
me |... 50 |
Egueme .......... 50 |
Peyrrh .... 8... 50
Nux Vomica ..... 50 |
Onl ..... 75 |
Opil, camphorated 50
Opil, deodorized. . 1 50)
Quassia ......... 50
Hhateny ........ 50
mee 50 |
Sanguinaria ..... 50
Serpentaria ..... 50 |
Stromonium 60
Teimtan ......... 66, |
Maleriag 000... 50 |
Veratrum Veride. 50 |
Zingiper ........ 20
Miscellaneeus
Aether, Spts Nit 3f 30 35
Aether, Spts Nit 4f "7 38
Alumen, gerd po7 4
Mnnatte 00000) 50
Antimoni, po ... 5
Antimoni et po T 0 50
Antipyrm ....... 25
Antifebrin ... 20
Argenti Nitras oz 48
Arsenicum ...... 12
Balm Gilead 7”. a0 65
Bismuth S N 2 85
Calcium Chlor, eg ay 9
Calcium Chlor.%s @ 10
Calcium Chlor \s ¢g 12
Cantharides, Rus. 1G
Capsici Fruc’s af @ 20
Capsici Fruc’s po @ 22
Cap’i Fruc’s B po @ 15
Carophylius .... 20@ 22
Carmine, No. 40.. 4 25
Cem Allie ....... 50 55
Cera Flava ..... 40 42
—. ......... 75@1 80
Cassia Fructus .. 35
Centrar ....... 10
Cataceum ....... 35
Chicroform ....-. 32@ 52
Chloro’m, Squibbs. >. 90
Chloral Hyd Crst 1 35@1 60
Chondrua ..... 20 25
Cinchonidine P-W 38 48
Cinchonid’e Germ 38@ 48
Cneamie ......... 4 05@4 25
Corks list d p ct. 75
Creosotum ...... 45
Creta ...:.. bbl 75 2
Creta, prep ..... 5
Creta, ae bee 9 11
Creta, Rubra ... 8
Crocus ........... 1 20@130
Cudpeae ........ 24
Cupri Suiph .... 6 8
Destvine ........ q 10
Emery, all — 8
Emery, - po 6
Ergota . _po. 65 60 65
Ether Sulph aosl 2 80 |
Flake White .... 12 15
Gera ........... 23
Gembler ...:.... 8 9
Gelatin, Cooper . 60
Gelatin, French . 35@ 60
Glassware, fit box 75
Less than box .. 70
Glue, brown Tt 13 |
Giue. white ..... 16 25 |
Glycerina 15 20
Grana Paradisi . @ 2
Humulus .... 35@ 60
Hydrarg Ch Mt. 95
Hydrarg Ch Cor 9
Hydrarg Ox Ru’m 1 05
Hydrarg Ammo’l 15
Hydrarg Ungue’m 50@ 60
Hydrargyrum .. 75
ichthyobolia, Am. 90@1 00
Tndigo .....-:... 75@1 00
ja, Resubi . ‘= 90 |
Togoform ........ 49 0@5 00
Lupulin ......... 4
Lycopodium. 1 15@1 20
Reser ........... 65 75
Liquor — et
Hydrarg 25
Liq Potass en 108 12
Magnesia, Sulph. 8
Magnesia. gue 18%

 

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing,
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however, are lia

ble to change at any time, and ccuntry merchants will have their orders filled ai
market prices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED

Rolled Oats

Cheese

DECLINED

Some Spring Wheat Flour

 

Index to Markets

 

 

 

 

 

By Columns

Col
A

Axie Grease ..........2- 1
B

Bath Brick 2

Brushes . 1

Butter Color 1

1

1

i

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

3

3

3

3

8
D

iaet Prete ........... 4
Fe

Farinaceous Goods .... 4

Fish and Oysters ...... ; 10

fishing Tackle ........ 4

Flavoring extracts ..... &

ty Paper ...... (cionene

fresh Meats ........... 6

Cruits ..... cadueuee scare Se
G

EE —. ©

on Meee... &

Grains and Fiour ...... 5
H

eo eee os een 5

Hides and Pelle ...... 10
i

ee ol &
J

eee 6. &
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ce 5.5... ee 5
Lo]

Meat Extracts ........ :
MIE kc vedescsccscns ®
N
ee ce Ca, 11
°
Pees ....... cackeeen a
P

i
é
6
6
6
6
7
7
7
1
7
z
7
ee i ec 7
ese cok eeu ees 7
—————— — 8
eee ..~-.-- oes 8
earch ..... oc oelee ce ci.
Se ee &
oe eet ou 8
T
SE bo cnwecesees ee
Tobacco ..... SE
I do nasecccece ioc.
Vv
Washing aeune 9
Widiing .......0s00000. 9
Wootemware ........... 9
Foust GRD cecoMscesss B

 

 

AXLE GREASE
zer’s
itd. wood boxes, 4 dz. 3
1m. tin bexes, 3 doz. 2
344th. tin boxes, 2 dz. 4
10% pails, per doz. ..6 00
15%. pails, per doz ..7
25Ib. pails, per doz ..12
BAKED BEANS
Columbia Brand

a 228, per aon .... ©
21. can, per doz 1 40
sib. can, per doz ....1 80
BATH BRICK
Pee. 5. i... ss, 75
OE a 85
BROOMS
oo, t tere 2... 2 75
oe 2 tree 2... 2 3d
oo. 2 See... gk... 2 15
Dio. * Cespet ..........: 1s
Pease Cees... a 2 4¢
Common Whisk ...... 85
Peace Wee... ...... 1 2
Warchoure ....:......- 3 00
BRUSHES
Scrub
Sed Back 8 in ....- 75
Soma Berk, ii in ...... 95
Pointed cuds ......... : =
Stove
mee 3c. a
ae 2 oe. 1 10
OO a its
Soe
me ee 1 00
ig ee Ee A es 1 30
PO Bc ances. e 1 70
ee Se 1 90

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BUTTER COLOR

W., R. & Co’s, 15c size.1 25

W., R. & Co.’s, 25¢ size.2 00
CAN -LES

Electric Light. 8s .... 9%

 

 

 

Electric Light, 16s ....10
Paes Ce 2. 9
(ei 9%
NN, ke
CANNED GOODS
Apples
3 Th. Standards... 75@ 80
Gals. Standards. 2 25@2 35
Blac -erries
Standards ....... 85
eans
ea 80@1 30
Red Kidney .... 85@ 95
eee CL 70@1 15
es 3. 5@1 25
Blueberries
Santer ......- 1 40
ok Trout
ee. 42... 5 75
2tb. cans, . — 1 90
Little Neck, 1tb..1 00@1 25
Little Neck, 2%b.. 1 50
Clam Boullion
Burnham's % pt ..... 90
reese, Pee ...... 3 60
Ee 7 20
Cherries
Red Standards ..1 39@1 50
Mees. ........-- 15
orn
Fair.
Good ..
Fancy .. owe
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine 22
ecus Pee ...... ke
ae ae as 15
US, a oe. en 11
Goosepberries
Peer... ee 90
ominy
Seen 85
Lobster
pear, 52... ese 15
eee TO oe ee 3 75
ge a 69
Mackerel
Mustard, 1fb.
Mustard, 2b.
Soused, 1%.
Soused, 2%b. ..
—cmato Tip. ..
Tomato. 2tb
Mushrooms
Pee ck 15@ 20
Rae... 22@ 25
Oysters
ee, See ont. @ 90
ore, 2... sc @1 70
Cove, 1fb. Oval . @1 00
Peaches
as cae oce, 10@1
ee (4. 1 65@2 25
Standard ..... -.-1 00@1 35
Me oie hee

 

 

Piums
ae 85
Pineapple
Sateen .......... 25@2 75
Ec 1 35@2 55
Pumpkin
MO ee oc aco 79

ee oe 89
Peer ct. 1 09
et @2 00

 Senenersiee
Peamiare «. ss.
Russian Cavier
Toe OO a cee 3 75
oe fe 7 09
- eee ...... sss 12 00
Saimon
Col’a River, talls. 1 80
Col’a River, flats.1 85@1 90
Red Alaska ..... 1 35@1 45
Pink Alaska .... eo &
Sardines
Domestic, %3s .. 34%@ 3%
Domestic, %8 5

Domestic, Must’d 6
California, %s... 11@14
California, ee 5 Sa
French, tis ..... 7

French, %S ..... 18 6 28

@ 9

Shrimps
Standard ....... 1 20@1 40

Succotash

 

Strawberries

Pane 4. 1 10
PR pone teens 1 40
Tomatoes
UN eb cee ec yee @ 80
Ree soe g 85
ae 2 1 15@1 45
TE 2 50@2 60
CARBON OILS
Barrels
Perfection ...... @10%
Water White @10
D. S. Gasoline @12%
Deodord Nanp’a ... @iz
cana 29 @34%
oe os 6 @22
Black, winter .. 9 @10%

CEREALS
Breakfast Foods
Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 doz 4 2
Bordeau Flakes, 36 1tb 4 0
Maita Vita, 36 Ifb ...-
Grape Nuts, 2 dom. ....
Malta Ceres, 24 1Ib .
Cream of Wheat, 36 2Ib
Egg-O-See, 36 pkgs .
Mapl-Flake, 36 1tb .
Excello Flakes, 36 1fb.
Excello, large pkgs. ...
Vigor, 36 pkgs.
Force, 36 2%b
Zest. 20 2%b
Zest, 36 small pkgs ...4 50

4

Do DO bom BV DODO
oe
oe

Ralston, S6 2p ....4. 50
Dutch Rusk
Cee ce coe ee sce 75
bak oer Te... 55
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avenna, bbls ..4 60
Steel Cut, 100M sacks 2 35
Monarch, bbl .......; 4 20
Monarch, 100% sacks 1 95
(usmer, Gases ......... 3 10
Cracked Wheat
Bie 314
22 2. peekaes —-...... 2 50
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts.....: 4 50
Columbia, 25 % pts...2 60
Suider’s querte ....... sa
oor. pee ........ 2 25
Snider's % pints ...... 2 30
CHEESE
Soe @io
Carson City @10
Peerless @10
Pe os @12
Pe ie acs @i11%
a @11
| a Se a Se ae @ii
BORGES osx cecus ss. @10%
miverseme -....... @10
Meares oo. @ii
Nh ican cecy @15
ee @30
OO @15
es ae 14%
Pineegeme ......- 40 @60
eS @19
Swiss, domestic . @14%
Swiss, imported @20

 

 

 

CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce. 55
Beeman’s Pepsin
Black Jack
Largest Gum Made .. 60
ee ao anne cree sn 55
Sen Sen ee Perf.1 00

eeeee

ee 2 55
ree a 55
CHICORY
ee ce 5
PN eee eed ela, 7
BN eee is enn 4
ee ces te 7
RNIN occ cue 6
CHOCOLATE
Walter Baker & Co.’s
German Sweet ........ 22
Pe Sc ce et 28
A coe cca owed 41
eee i 35

ce a oe 28
COCOA
ee es 3h
eevee ...... ...... 1
seen, Se .......<.. 35
Cylonial, 368 ......-.-.- 33 |
ee. oe 42
EE 45
Van Houten, %s ...... 12
Van Houten: Us ...... 20
Wan Houten, "6s ...... 40
Wom Bootes, 35 ....... res
i aes a ae
rer, Ws... ..-.--.- 41
Wee BE ws so es 42
COCOANUT
Dunham’s 4s ......- 26
Dunham’s ¥%s & lis 26%
Donhams Ss ...... 27
Denharm’s %s ....... 28
eee ee ces 13
COCOA SHELLS
See, ee a 2%
Teese gunntity ........- 3
Pound packages .. .... 4
COFFEE
Rio

IONE, noc ect tess 11
ee 12
es ee ee >
I eee cece tae me
Santos
COM oss 11%
ee cele ee ee 12%
Ce ce cee 15
ee 18
Prams .....-....---.
Maracalbo
ee ae 15
Ceee oo eee 18
Mexican
ee ee See 16%
ee a aU Gs 19
Guatemala i
ce ane ae a 15
Java
Sire wc 12

Fancy African ..
A

 

 

Pr. &.

Mocha
Aree 2 21

Package

New York —

Arbuckle. me
Dilworth. .
wereey. ...-- ne
ae 13 50

McLaughlin’s XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold
to retailers only. Mail all

orders direct to
McLaughlin & Co., Chi-
caZzo.

Extract i
Holland, % gro boxes. 95
Pere, % arom ........ 1 15
Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85
Hummel’s tin. % gro.1 43

RACKERS
National Biscuit Company’s

Brands

Butter
Seymour Butters ...... 6%
N Y Setters ......-... 6%
Salted Butters ........ 6%
Pamily Butters ........ 6%

Soda

WC Seeas ........., 8%
a
Saratoga Flakes ...... 3

Oyster
Round Oysters ........ 6%
Square Oysters ....... 6%
ee 1%
BPE ee ak 7
Extra Farina ......... 7%

Sweet Goods

Se 10
Assorted Cake ........ 11
Assorted Novelty ..... 8
Bagley Gems ........+ 9
eee OD bee eens. 9
oe a7
Dee TO pions we ess 13
Chocolate Drops ...... 17
Cee Wee oe 11
Cocoanut Taffy ......- 12
Coffee Cake, N. B. C..10
Coffee Cake, Iced ....10
Cocoanut Macaroons ..18
Cree i sc 16

Currant Pratt oo... 6
Chocolate Dainty ....17
Cartwheels 10

eee eee eenee

IMaie Cookie ........:. 9
Fluted Cocoanut ...... 11
Frosted Creams ...... :
a

Ginger Snaps, N B . 7%
Grandma Sandwich . —

Graham Crackers .....
Honey Fingers, Iced 42
Honey Jumbles ...... 12

Iced Honey Crumpet .12

Imperials
Indiana Belle
Jersey Lunch .. oo.
aay Pees ......-- 12
l.adv Fingers. hand md 25
Lemon Biscuit —_— 9
Lemon Wafer ... -16

    

 

 

 

Lemon Snaps ..
Lemon Gems...
Tem Ven ae
Marshmallow .. _
Marshmallow Cream ..17
Marshmallow Walnut “
Mrary BUR osc c ote as. se
eee rE ae ii
Mich Coco Fs’d honey. -
Milk Biscuit ...
Mich. Frosted Honey. "13
Meixce Piewic ........- 11
Molasses Cakes, Scolo’d 9
Moss Jelly Par ....<.. 12
Muskegon Branch, es
PI ee ea ec
| Oatmeal Crackers .... 5
[tireuee faiee ........- 16
wee Gem... eo te 9
Penny Assorted Cakes 8
Peek. Pepees Ve...) 5... :
Pineapple Honey ...... 15
eee Pe oo oka. 9
Pretzels, hand made ..8%
Pretzelettes, hand m’d 8%
Pretzelettes, mch. m’d 7%
Raisin Cookies. ........ 8
ciao cea es 15
TO, ooo oc oe ee 3%
ok te ts 8%
Eupe Sears ...... eae es 9
Beetch Cookies ....... 10
Te, 16
Spiced Sugar Tops .. 9
Sugar Cakes. scalloped 9
Soeer Bauares ........ 9
PO ce cee ee 15
bebe ees wees 8%
Spiced Gingers ........ 9
a 3)
Viennsn Crimm ........ 9
Vanilla Wafer ........ 16
ce aa 10
OO 10
CREAM TARTAR
| Barrels or drums ....... |
ae wae 30 |
OE ee 32
Pancy cacti ......-.-. 35
DRIED FRUITS
Apples
Seared .......... 4 @ 4%
Byaporated. ..... © @7
California Prunes
100-125 25tb boxes. @ 3
90-100 25tb boxes @ 3%
80- 90 25th boxes @ 4
70- 80 25tb boxes « 4%
60 -70 25tb boxes @ 5
50- 60 25tb boxes @ 5%
40 -50 25tb boxes @ 6%
30- 40 25t boxes @ 7%
%e less in 50tb cases.
| Citron
Curtiecam. ........ @15
Currants
| Imp’d. 1%) pkg .. 6%@ 7
| Imported bulk .. 64@ 7%
Peel
Lemon American ....12
Orange American ....12
Raisins
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, : er..6

a Muscatels, cr. .6%

_ M. Seeded, 1 Ib. ‘saan
M. Seeded. % Ib

 

sidamaaee ac... Gs
Sultanas, package . @8%
FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans

Eeied Eee ...s-s+...-

Med. Hd. Pk’'ad .1 =e =

Brown Holland .......
Farina

24 1m. packages. 1%

Bulk, per 100 fie. ..... 3 00

Homin

Flake, 50Ib sac 1 00

| Pearl, 200%. sack . 3 70

| Pearl, 100%. sack ....1 85

| Maccaroni

and Vermicelll
| re me tox ..
| Imported, 25Ib box ..2 50

Pearl Barley

| | Common. Ceucie one ucn 2 00
| Chester eh eee thee ae 2 20
BT a 3 25

| Peas
Green, Wisconsin, bu..1 15

Green, Scotch, bu. ...1 25
Se Be 4
Sago
We TO eee 3%
German, encks ........ 3%
German, broken pkg. 4
Tapioca

Flake, 1101. sacks .... 3%
Pearl, 130%. sacks ... 3
Pearl, 24 1M. pkgs .... 5

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Foote & Jenks
Coleman’s Van. Lem
2 Fane. ......3 2
30z. Taper 3

 

u 0015
No. 4 Rich. Blake.2 00 1 80

 

Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon
Doz.
No. = Pane! D.C. .... 75
Ho. £ Fane b. C.... 1 50
No. 8 Pang BC... |. 2 00
Tomer Penet Cl... 1 50

2 os. Full Meas. D. C:.: 665

2 0%, Full Meas. D. C...1 36

4 oz. Full Meas. D. C..2 25
Mexican Vanilla

Doz.
No. 2 Panel 2. C;...... 1 20

iNo, £ Panel D> C.... 2 00

| 2 oz. Full Meas.

ro. 6 Pane: 1h C....:. 3 00

| Paper Panel BD. C.;... 2 =

1 oz. Full Meas. D ee
4 oz. Full Meas.

| No. 2 Assorted Flavors 75

 

 

GRAIN BAGS
Amoskeag, 100 in balel9

Amoskeag, less than bl 19%
GRAINS AND FLOUR

Wheat
Old Wheat
Mo. 1 White ...:.....; 96
no. 5 ee. 96

Winter Wheat Flour
Local Brands
Patents 5
Second Patents ....... 5 30
POON ee
Second Straight ......
oe
ates oe
Buckwheat

  
  

qt oa 20
ee to usual cash dis-
count
Flour in barrels, 25¢ per
barrel additional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Quaker paper ......... 5 00
Quaker cloth 5
Spring Wheat Flour
Roy Baker’s Brand
Golden Horn, family ..6 15
Golden Horn, bakers ..6 05

Pure Eye, Heit ..._.. 4 45
Pure Rye, dark ..... 4 30
Cee : 40
Deere 5 30

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s

Delivered

Gold Mine, %s cloth @6 60
Gold Mine, %s cloth ..6 50
Gold Mine, ws cloth ..6 40
Gold Mine, 1 8 paper ..6 45
Gold Mine, 4s paper . -6 40
Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand
Seresota, Ms... 6 60
Cereseta, Mee 6 50
Ceresotia, 266 2.0 6 40

Lemon & Wheeler’s Brand
Winged, Ge ......,..,. 6 50

Wine 45 ....- 1s. 6 40
WiteuM, ws ..... 6 30
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brana
Laurel, Ms clath ...:6 5A
Daurel!. “4s cloth ...... 6 40
Laurel, %s & \s paper 6 30
raure, 46 |... 6 30

Wrykes-Schroeder Co.

Sleepy Eye, %s cloth .6 30
Sleepy Eye, \%s cloth .6 20
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth .6 19
Sleepy Eve, 4s paper .6 10
Sleepy Eye, 4s paper .6 10
eal
reeeee. . ee 2 59
Golden Granulated ....2 65

St. Car Feed screened 22 00
No. 1 Corn and Oats 21 00

Corn, Craened ......,, 20 50
Corn Meal, coarse = 00
Cn Meet... 7 00

Winter Wheat Bran. ‘Ts 00
Winter wheat mid’ngs 19 09
8

Ce eed 50
ats

Car tom 2.000... 8415
Corn

AO, BEM ol lg 59%

Hay
No. 1 timothy car lots 10 50

 
 
 

No. 1 timothy ton lots 12 50
HERBS
ee =
ee <tc. ae
Laurel Leaves ........ 15
Senna Leaves ........ 25
JELLY

5Ib pails, per ena 1 70
tor Dee 4... .. oe
cee Oe ce 65

LICORICE:
ee ee ‘ 80
Cees 4... ek. 23
eee <.5Lk Stace -Gecce 14
ee 11

LYE
Condensed, 2 doz ....1

Condensed, 4 doz ..... 3 00
MEAT EXTRACTS
Amnoere 2 Ok .... 445
Ayvacurs 4 of ........ 8 20

Liebig’s, Chicago, 2 oz.2 75
Liebig’s, Chicago, 4 02.5
Liebig’s’ Imported, 2 on.4 55
Liebig’s, Imported, 4 oz.8 50
MOLASSES
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle .. 40

Ceri Sac ce ae

Pee oo ss rtenceoe

OH side ick. sone
Half barrels 2c extra.

MINCE MEAT
Columbia, per case ..

 

 

 

 

 

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Horse Radish, 1 dz ...1 75 | Columbia, % pin Soa
Horse Radish, 2 dz. ...3 50} Columbia, 1 Lag | 00 Manieaee ty Coup oe wit me
Bayle’s Celery, 1 dz .. | Durkee’s large, 1 doz. Jack a Comp ~ cme Cut [See Seeeenes ~+---2 | tem ~~
saan | Durkee’s small. 2 a 5 = | Jackson. 16 62 0.070. 0} Cadillac Ta ee ..54 | 3-hoop Standard ..... 1 75 | Extie He vi a aN ;
1 ——. | Swee OMA cy | 2-wire, oe 7 . ee
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs an eee ee 1 2 | Se Se eee --4 | ee ae Se “ae {= eee es OS le eee
Bulk, 2 gal kegs .... 95 | doz..11 35 | Gold Dust, 100-5e ...14 00 | Hiawatha, 101b pails 1154 | Cedar, all red io is me
Bulk, 5 gal kegs. 90 SALARATUS Mirkoline, 24 4™. 2021 3 99| Telegram -....-........ 30 | Paper, Eureka ...... 460 eee ee
Manzanilla, 8 oz. .... 90; Packed ¢ Pearline «.......0.0.00. 27s ee Cae ce aa) iene | COU Ce aete —
Gusen, pits... 2 35| . racked 601s. in box, ONDE ie 10 | Ereirie Hase ..... 49 | i Senna arta .
meen, 39) Oe 5 0.c.L. 4 50 | itd eli » | Babbitt’s 1776 |... 7 3 75 | Protection ..-.- 22.22. 40 0H oe ee :
Queen, 28 0Z 7 oo | Dene, 3 op | OBES) eee 3 59 Sweet Burley -....... 44 fee ee eS voc oa
ak 2 2 Dwight’s Cow _..77°"" 7 See a. = Softwood ........ Le oq | Conmeeve oc... se
eee Reem ooo | Vm oo ee Se a (tie
Stuffed, 10 Om .-....... 2 30 ee ; 00 Soap Com Pier Gross 000 0 a ded -~" >" Gpeabbaseensreeter
- pounds : Brok
yandotte, 100 %s ...3 00 | Johnson's Fine 5 10 | ale neers eee eee eee eeee sn Traps | ao screrssers gl
PIPES tea | Johnson’s XXX 20.777” i = Phawatha (0s 41 | Mouse, wood, 2 holes . 22 =e BARE aensnncsesoss &
Clay, No. 216 ........1 79 | Granulated nl J Nine Ofeloee (0 000000) Soe | RUN, 22a eens gen 35 | Mouse, wood, 4 holes . 45 ee gies
Glay, T. D., full count 65 | Granulated’ bbls)... - 85 | Rub-No-More |._...... 35 | Battle Ax 5 | Mouse, wood, 6 holes | 70| Kindergarten .....
Cob,’ No. Dieses. 85 | ia oe 100Ib casesi v0 aa a 3 75| American Eagle ...... 33 |Mouse, tin, 5 holes .. 65 | — hc lig
, ee 75 uring Stundard Navy (|. ... | [eae Weed... 2... ni ee TCO. oo cee
PICKLES Lump, 145Ib kegs 95 s eoenee Pg Sons. Spear He tae - oz. : : i = [ttae, erie... i need “Mu ic a yl lle 1
cases ace | Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00 Spear Head. 14% 07. -.44 Tubs seme gee ‘Cream --16
Breil iH gross lots 4 50 | Nob oe ge Bn a ah remio Cream mixed 1
arrels, 1,zv0 count ..5 00 Common G Sapolio, single box so my Twist. 236.2... 55 | 20-in., Standard, No. 1.7 00|O F Horeh 3
Half bbis., 600 count ..3 00/199 31m sack ee Sapelia, hand... - 25 | Joily ‘Tar. ..39 | 18-in., Standard, No. 2.6 00 | Fame aa
ao Be 4 Eoecee 2a; (id Honesty _..._.. 43 | 16-in., Standard, No. 3.5 00| Gy ancy—in Pails
aa - anufacturing Co | Todd “4 | 90-4 a - 3 | Gypsy) Fiearts ... 0). 14
Barrels, 2,400 count ..7 00| 28 10% sacks ----1 85 | Scourine, 50 cakes ..1 8¢ no ee ante = coast nn ae | Cone Bae Oe
Half bbis.,, 1,200 count 4 vv | 56 ID = ee i = Scourine, 100 cakes 3 50 la ae Sees eca es. oa | i. ae = 2. ..6 50 | Fudge asada ecae. a
cl ce-mtgp t  a le 3 ee idsic 6 | 16-in., Cable, No. 3. ..5 | Pes eee ee
PLAYING CARDS oo) sichs 2... 9 eae SODA Fl dee ol. oe "80 | _ . ee ee id 30 ‘ea po HY 3
No. 90 Steamboat ... 85/5 _ Warsaw | Kegs, English ....11277 5% | Honey Dip Twist ....40 | N®- 2 Fibre.......... 9 45 | Salted P ia
i ‘ J : a. 4 Black St | No. 3 Fib 9 CONIER 2.2... 11
No. 16, Rival, assorted 1 z0 |°°, ™- dairy in drill bags 40 | -+ 4% | andard .......40 |" vidi a a a 8 55 | Starlight Kisses.
= hg a ee by 28 Ib. eto in drill bags 20 itis SOUPS a a. eeeeeee a Siiatias Gee Boards = Blas Goodies =
: pecial ..... at. she deets a a $0 eee u cae oe |...” 2 50 | Lozenges, plain .. 10
No. 98, Goif,satin finishz vv | d6Ib. sacks. gq | Red Letter .... 90 | Min Kel Twist ..........52 | Dewey ........ 1 75 | Lozenges, printed .....1
en gs GN bee lg ee ee ee ; oO
No. 308 Bicycle ...... oe | i Mi |... eee a sess oe Double Acme ....... 2 75 | Champion Chocolate ..11
No. 632 Tourn’ t whist 2 25 | Granulated. fine SPICES Great Navy .......... 3g | Single Acme .. :12 25 | Eclipse Ch a
— ., _—- eS |”lCUhlee lee eee. | = se ocolates ...13
POT Medi fine)... | 80 Whole Spices Swe 1 Smoking a Aint 3 5) | Eureka Chocolates. 13
ASH 85 | Allspice = oo i 34 — Peerless 2 75 | Quintette Chocolates ..12
CE 2g | Fle Se | No e 75 | Che ’
ouune an oe on oa Ce : p iosre in mats. 13 po oy SE = \iaaie Domken : a pcg rig Drops 16”
a tee ee ceeeeeee 4 00 , Canton ......! 16 | Bamboo, 16 oz. ....... 5 |Good Luck ... 75 | L
Penna Salt Co’s ..... 3 00 | Large whole .... @7 bani ao bund. 28 12 t, Gb ... site | Universal Anema 65 | a
PROVISIONS Small Whole .... @ 6% cae Saigon, broken. 40 rm ty, 16 om. pails Lola Window Cleaners ltal. Cream Opera, 12
Barreled Pork | Pollock ee Tia il Cl wen, "tome = Honey Dew ....... 40 7} iM. ..---.+-.-- 1 65 | Ital. Cream Bon Bons
[Pole oc... oves, Amboyna, 92 | Gold Block oe EA NG 5 2¢
@ 3% | Clove ae 2 Cen |... 4600 | Se ee ee 1 85 mi pede 2... 2.8,
_— Rceaene sss ll 2 ~ bs Halibut pos eg Mangibar ...... = ——— ee 40 16 in. 2... ee eee eee 2 30 Molasses Chews, 151b.
elec eee we ips, ....... : a ee | | EE i sicaeeede
TN DE, hits ounce a. _ oe a Rite eee a | ‘a eee | oie Wank 27 -
a = on — ” iets oo 35 | Duke’s Mixture ....... a ao ae 2 esos 20d
i 25 Ss, 115-20 ....-. |Dukes’s Cameo ....... - Butter ......... $35!  Paner_ta Ss. Boe
oO ro is Holland Pepper, Singapare, blk. iB — ee 7 = in. oo See. 2 oe Le i ae —_ i
Briket. |... "TE 09 | Mhite Hoop, bbls epper, Singp. white ;|Yum Yum, 1% oz .... : (Ee ta. Rutter oo. Oe 58
wsteeeeceeee f WHEE Poon ae) BBG Pepper, sl if - = Om ....39 | fo tn. Battier _.._. 75 | SS en -ee
Clear Family ........12 50 | \hite fe keg Ge 70 es stern ee 7 banat um, lfb. pails ..40 | Assorted, 13-15-17 a 8 a Me a eet =
soa” lm «Of an Pure Ground In Bulk | Corn Cake, 21% oz. .... 38 | Assorted 15-17-19 ....3 25/ H. M Choe Bros
aaa ee ee @ fae Geo 16 | Corn Cake, 1fp. 1.111122 |. WRAPPING PAPER Dark No. 12 ....... 1 0%
imu aaa a8 Soe, 100Ibs ........ 8 oo Batavia ...... 28 | Plow Boy, 1% oz. ... |Common Straw ...... 1% Bitter Sweets, ass’d ..1 25
Prenngietnateagee - 04 oe mele |... iG ages! seas is 48 Plow Boy, 3164 oz. ....3 Fibre Manila, white .. 2% Brilliant Gums, Crys.60
Hams. 2% oer oe 15 Ginger i ee. Me hip eas 3% a... 25 aos _— colored . 4 pedi srg Drops ..90
ams, 121b. average . - ‘ees » African ....... 3 ess, oe | le antin ....... “ 1ges oe 48...
ae 14Ib. average ..11 | No. 1, a 7 50 | pon ioe re 18 | Air Ce |Cream Manila ......! 4 | Lozenges, printed’ 2... =
Haden 16Ib. average ..11 | No, 1, 40tbs ..........3 25 | Mace . aoe 25 Cant Hook. ........... Butcher’s Manila .... 2 | imperials ..........2.2260
ee eee | Be 1, Wibe ..... 90 | Mustard ........... ++» 65 | Country Club. ........ 39-94 | Wax Butter, short e’nt.13° | (ottoes ------ reverse 60
Skinned Hams ........ 11%|No. i, 8ibs . De ee 18 | Forex-XXXX .... 9 | Wax Butter, full count 20 Cream Bar ............55
aoe a lh 73 pper, Singapore, bik, 17 | Good Pndtaw 00000) | Wax Butter, roll - |G. M. Peanut Ba
Shoulders, (N. ¥. cut Mackerel Pepper, Singp. white . 28 | Self Binder, 160z. 802 3 yg i Lie
Bacon, clear 10% @11% Mess, 100s.) 0.0)... 13 50 | Pepper, Cayenne ..... | ed Siivcr Poon | YEAST CAKE Cream “putt a
California Hama, 7iz | Mess, 40Ibs. ........ Sag ree 20 | punita ae Te 24) | Masie 3 dex, 0.1 ‘ol ame Winteune Pep.
Pienie Boiled a 20 1 65 STARCH | Royal Smoke ......... ] pee SITU 00 | String Rocke een... 68
ME ae ae lee Se 4 a6 [OSE SOS e aie lo a ; Sunlight, 1% doz.. 50 | Wintergreen Berries ..
— — pr’s'd 5 -— 1, — oe. 12 00 | 44, ee Gioss | Cotton, 3 aT 20 | Soe pica : v++e1 15 | Old Time Assorted, 2
aaa oer — N ae 5 20 ; kages ........ | Coiten. cae Z c ream on ..1 0 ™ cope ........ i
= No i, tbs sas eRe ic 3tb. packages. on 4% | Sete a ae = | Yeast Foam, 1% doz .. 58} Buster Brown Goodies
Compound .......... oe 13 ts saa Gee ba Sa aotte | emp. 6 ply ..2o ooo 13 | FRESH FISH 30Ib. case ............
Pure. sited Ho ERR _" iris nilhcaase ol oxes a — medium _._. 1/7399 I ee Up-to-Date Asstmt, 32
0Ib. tubs. .ad , O. o. 2 Fam Her NL @ | Wool, 1Ib. balls ...... | Jumbo Whitefish . 1 ee, eer ciel icit cial elmaiaid 3 75
s0ID. tubs oe = Sine ee VINEGAR : ia Whitefish a a :
. 2 eee " 20Ib packages ........ Malt [item .... 2... " INO. De wenerese 50
“a oi alee 206 | 40Ib packages 4,@7 | Malt White wine 4060 8 | Eatibut 00001.) Gio Ten Strike No. 2°.2..6 00
10%. pails ‘:advance %| °- Pure Cider, B& B Marti | Ciscocn oc Herring @ 5S | poe Sout Ne 5 -..-.- 8 00
«CS SYRUPS fan Gus eee |p ---- 1%@ Ten Strike, Summer as-
3b. pails . advance 1 | Anise 5 Corn Pure Cider, Robinson.10 | ve Lobster @2 sland wee =
Sausages eoety. Smyrna ...... 6 ge eee 22 Pure Cider, Silver ....10 — Lobster. @? 5 <igeeeiee ————
Bologna g | Caraway ...........-.. s a OME ...4..5,. 24 WICKING ecg @12% | Ch a
Sa 20Ib cz ae oer tae Ha ocolate Maize .....
ie eae ena. Malabar ..1 00 20D cans % dz in case 1 55 No. 0 per gross ...... 30 | No Pick a @ 8 | Gold Medal Chocoia -
Frankfort . : EE den stnreevedn ese: 2 | 10!b cans % dz in case 1 50 No. 1 per gross 40 | Co i 27 Almonds 18
Por ... . | Hemp, Russian ....... 4 oD cans 2 dz in case 1 65 No. 2 per gross .....50 Porch, dreseed @7 Chocolate Nugatines ..18
Tot ‘ 8 eae a ad = aa 4 | 2% cans 2 dzin case1 70 | No. 3 per gross .......75 | Smoked White Ue oie Quadruple Chocolate .15
ongue | Mustard, white ......- 8 WOODENWARE_ tr B ---. @124 | Violet Cr .
Headcheese a ee eee tae. 8 Fair rn Se Baskets . Gol, Rises mon. @ Gold Medal “Creat _
- ee i ere 16| Bushels. (0000100. “| es iver Salmon. @11 pails ms,
Extra Mess . 9 50 | Cuttle ee arene ~~ eee 20 Bushels, wide ia108 _— ‘Pop Corn
Boneless Sincere OO SOE SLACKING | | a ea mi — Dandy Smack, 248... 65
—o Sow... 10 59 | Handy Box, large, 3 dz.2 50 Splint. Pac 7 | Dandy Smack, 100s 2 75
a ze, 50 | Splint, medium .......5 00 | P P Os
ls Te 11 Babys a 33 | Sundried, — [— eo ee 4 00 | F. H. Counts te “40 Pop ‘ae te 1008 +
Sig oe 08 | ae } Folish .- undried, medium 2 | Willow, Clothes, | ie : . ps
1 eis, 20a | on Crown Evie 85 | Sundried, choice ...... 32 | Willow Clothes, oes 00 | Bulk Oysters mo oe Tone ae is
* a dc ee 3 75 | | Scotch, 1 — | Sundried, fancy ...... 36 | Willow Clothes, small.5 50 Bw Ee Counts 2200)... 25/¢C io oo ea a*
oritritttstss:5\s9 22 | Scotch, in bladders ....37| Regular, medium ..... 24 Bradley Butter Boxe ero Co cess 0G
Kits, 15 mee ocr = = jars, aa. i ane 36 me cone | ea 'NUTS—Whole
8, ei appie, in jars. 43 | Regular, fancy ...... . 36 3Ib size n case .. cla
% bbis., ois gle $0 SOAP | Basket-fired, medium .31 5Ib size, 12 in cone su 3 | Sone La em a —— eo ea
Wabbis., 80rms. 222121218 00 | yacent™a! CHY Soap Co 4. | Basket-fired, fancy. 7-43 | 101 size, 6 in case -. 60 er te gee -+++-1 25) Aimonds, California’ sft
ee | Jaxon .......-....+-05: | Basket-fired, fancy ...43 4 utter Plates HIDES AND P
iinet wae — i aan... i 00 | — a, 22@24 — : —_ 250 in crate 40 | — wee fae = =
cP ahaa J. S. Kirk & Co. eee ees aaa sas 9@11 : val, 250 in crate 45 |) Green No. 1 .......... 10 Wilberts 2.01...)
— sat set. ao 16 | peietion Waaaie - 405 Pannines 1.1.0... 12@14 be - — 250 in crate 50 Green De 9 gg een yo
Sheep, per bundle .... 70. | Soe Diamond, 50 80z 2 80 | Gunpowder | — crate 60 Les wie: ao 1 ee 11144 | Walnuts, soft shelled.
7 ee Butterine usky D’nd, 100 6oz...3 80| Moyune, medium ..... 30 | Barrel, 5 : © se | Caldas, arom Mo 4. ee
Solid, | Jap Rose, 50 bars 3 75 : gal, each ..2 40 alfskins, green No. 113 06 Tabl
miry ..... @10 |g I cco | Moyune, choice ....... 32 Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55 | Calfski ) | Sable DEAS, fancy @13
Rolls, dair .10 avon Imperial ....... 3 10 | Moyune, fancy ‘ 5 ‘oo ee ns, green No. 2.11% | Pecans Med.
e- 7 %@11% | White Russian ........ is RY ----+ +=: 40 | Barrel, 15 gal., each ..2 70 | Calfskins, cured No.1. 134 | Pecans, ex. large *
anned_ ‘Meats aus peat Sone v pingsuey, medium ....30 Clothes Pins Calfskins, cured N > ec: iba @ll
Cc 1... & 2 1
‘orned beef, 2 50 .-+-2 85 | Pingsuey, choice 30 -| Round ; No.2. 12." | Pecans. Jumbos- @12
Corned beef, eee oe eaten es ches 40 Pingsuey, fancy .....40 Round — el —=eEee Hickory Nuts pr bu
oast Beef |.....2 00@2 50. coe cma Youn 1 nt _— ae Pa
a. 0 / g Hyson Egg Crates Oo C an
Poe a. Ks seg 49 | LAUTZ BROS. & CO. | Choice SS aay «+ --30 _Kompty Dumpty ..... 2 40 | ooo ygag ey 25@ 75 Chestnuts, New York ;
Devilea —. $5 | cin, cen 2 oo 36 | No. 3 sae eee es = | Shearlings SG 5@ 50 =eate, Ber UU... .. J.
ar catg a. ae ee oe ce Oolong Facts = Tallow —
ted tongue, ea a | Big Master, 100 bars 4 00 | Formosa, fancy ..... 42 | ieee lined, 8 Ne 8. @ 41 Spanish Peanuts “<4 7%
Potted tongue, %s |... 85 | Marseilles White soap. 4 00 | Amoy, medium ....... 25 | Cork lined, 9 Sea 85 | No. 2 ......... 2h 45
RICE | Snow Boy Wash P'w’r 4 00 | Amoy, choice "39 Cork 1 Mm 4.4... To) 7 24 | Walnut Halves. O28
Screenings 2%, @2% Ss | Cork Hned, 16 in. ... |. oe Wool | Filbert Meat @
Fair Japan ...... gacey 4 | |T. i a 3 85 | English Breakfast | Cedar, ? oes _———— medium30@31_ | Alicante oe G33
1 Nh ¢ 4 a ” s ;~“ Ve & Ze 26 | a
Choice Japan .... 4%@ 5 Se Bok eee: 400 — ee a | Mop Sticks | nwashed, fine ...23@26 | Jordan Almonds . @47
Imported an. lie WB ok con 6751S ee 20 | Trojan spring) | .0 0)... | 90 | CONFECTIONS Peanuts
air Louisiana ha. @4% | Star ee 3 10 | a ---.40 | Eclipse patent spring . 85 | Stick Cand Haney, HH. F. Sune .. ¢
Choice La. hd. .. @5_ A. B. Wrisl | No. 1 common ........ 75 | Standard ot. ven | eee SS ee
Wena = ee risley | Indla Me teat. eh poiets eee eggs ters 8 fosmted .......... ae
Carolina ex. fancy oii poeta vteeeeeeees 4 00| Ceylon, choice ....... 32 | 12%. cotton mop heads 1 4 Standard Tv ot a 8 |Choice H. P. Jbo. @7%
ee 3 40 Fancy. seccerserececenes@e | FIGCRE MQ ee Cut Loaf ngs 8% | Choice. H. P_ Jum-
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Another and Greater

5 @ 10c SALE

Our January sale was so warmly welcomed by retailers

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looking for the goods with which to avoid a dull period
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greater sale of 5 and 10 cent goods.

The results of months of effort by a buying organization ‘
that reaches into every market of the world are in our July
4 catalogue—which includes over 12,000 items to retail at 5

| and 10 cents and is the only complete list of such goods.

Our July catalogue begins with eight solid pages of the big
things syndicate 5 and 10 cent stores are always hunting for
to use in their windows in which these stores do all their

outside advertising.

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This extraordinary sale of 5 and 10 cent window lead-
ers alone makes our July catalogue intensely interest-
ing to the merchant who wants to solve the summer
problem of how to keep income greater than outgo.

And there are hosts of other Yellow Page Items—the
Butler name for bargains that are really big—besides our

entire line revised in goods and prices to fit your July needs.

Get our July catalogue, No. J544, and begin at once to make
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ecial rice Curren usiness-Wants Department
| , under this head for two cents a
AXLE GREASE | ‘pia vo 1, Sotton, Lines : Advertisements inserted
eae G@ : Me cece cc es i 3 a ne | |
se 2, 15 teet ......... 7| word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subse-
[Boston Butts... @ [42s : } less than 25 cents
eee ee 6 te 3... 8, 11|quent continuous insertion. No charge less than 25 cents.
| Leat Lard. -..... @ ce Get... 12 od
Mutton . 1 feet... ..... 16 ae _ , orders.
Pe ia oie eee 1S Cash must accompany a
| —— ae @12 S16 feet .. ....- a
[iames 42... .. @12 | i 6 lad é Ti
edie pe eee en rer $ CHANCES. For. Sale—Grocery and crockery stock.
¢ | Carcass be una ae 54%@ 8 ie a oe = a i cua ee eon A =, —— oo ane — age ay
ere no i : For Sale—Stock of groceries and fix- | situated in best of location and on popu-
one = ii: "hs g 00 | | Poles tures. invoices about $2,500, at Hicksville, lar side of the street, in active up-to-date
ne eae sae | Be 1¢ ft. doz. 55|0O.; 300 people; three other groceries; | town of 1,500 in the midst of good farm-
Bamboo, t, per | ‘ § t } ee ee ee
BAKING Poe eEe | Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60 | good location, ee ——— Ad- | ing a Address No. 666, care J a /
| Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80 | dress J. E. Coburn, icksville, O. 696 gan ‘Tradesman 666 _
| | QOhio drug store for sale. Growing city Location—For an goods or department
GELATINE ae a : i sg I Stock and fix-
a e | : : lof 18,000; low rent, long lease, opposite | store in county seat town. Stock and fix
. %4Tb. ‘eans, 4 doz. case. 45 | GG PQ SYRUP io +o ae cores: : = postoffice, good stock, ~— possi = ay for sale. Boston Store, hecaaagese- ah
; , 4 doz. case.. 85 Te i i ee ‘fountain; full prices. ine opportunity Ind. 64
= ok 3 doz. case 1 ri" 0c cana 0.20.0... 1 84| Knox's Sparkling, doz1 20) ¢,. cut ‘rate business, invoices about Good location wanted for dry goods or
bio S66 cane ool. 0 2 30 | Knox’s Sparkling, gro = a | $3,000. The Waldorf Pharmacy, Marion, | general store. Northern Indiana or I-
Royal 6 50c canS ..------- 2 30 | —— oe — “14 00 Ohio. 695 linois, Southern Michigan or Nesee=.
, ‘or Sale—Nice clez hardware stock | ern Ohio preferred. Must have g0o
10c size 90 | CLOTHES LINES | Nelson’s see eee ereeeee 1 50 | For Sale Nice iy ' ae s ; ic ey room in good lively town of from 4,000
3 in one of the best towns in Michig
Spee) | = ee aeaa ctr ntes s 1 1,500. Address No. 694 care | to 15,000 inhabitants. Give full particu-
go | Gert. 3 thread, extra..1 00 | Plymouth Rock. ...... 1 25 | Population 1,5 ddress No. 694, ci » ue wate a a
60z. cans 1 qt. 3 thread, extra..1 40| SAFES | Michigan Tradesman. _ 694 lars in ‘ind. etter. Address: Box Tas
%1b cans 250 | Yuft. 3 thread, extra. 1 70 |—}or Sale—Good established mercantile | Goshen. Inc a Eh at
16m. © thread, extra..1 29 | business, invoicing about $2,000. Address iy Sale— —Confectionery, bakery and
% tb cans 375 | ;2ft. 6 thread, extra.. is w.. 2s Division St., Grand Rapids. | ice cre: am establishment in a university
1lb cans 480 Jute i 7 : 692 town, standing population 18,000, with
WOfE, 220. were eee cece 75 | eS a ae ane students, 22,000; all latest improvements
eee 90 | Wanted—To buy stock goods, dry ; aa pee coal ave Tia
5 capanueal care a 1 05 | | eoods, shoes and clothing, for cash. Write priya: rae pnb as "he pte at
mee «649i cans 2150 | i26ft. -.-.....-...-.- ..2) 60 _ Rockford, Mich. 1 |, as aunes died sudaealy. Agden
Cotton Victor A snap investment in a stock which | J. R. Trojanowski, Ann Arbor, Mich. 661
BLUING Oa 1 10) | will pay dividends within the next four Mic aie UAT eee ae | eewerall nen
4 Arctic, 40z ovals, p gro 4 00 | «avy eel vee tl pod —— : Located in the greatest divi- chandise, consisting of dry goods, cloth-
a. Arctic, 80z ovals, p gro 6 00 | oft. ---1 60 dend paying district in the United States. | ing hoots, shoes and groceries. Located
i Arctic, 160z ro’d, p gro 9 00 ne’ Windsor | | Only 50,000 shares of the stock on the | jin’one of the best towns in Michigan.
2 [OO re tena os 1 30) Full li f fi d burg- | market. $100 invested now in this stock | Have lease of store building for term of
e- GREAMFAST FOOD fee tala) ail halal atin ates ll fat aaa safes kept = | will make you $1,000 within six to eight years and a fine grocery business. If you
3 Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brands |7Mft. .. -. .---+---- eee 1 80) | months’ time. An opportunity of a life- | Want to locate in business that will make
| 2 09 | Stock by the Tradesman | '™ : :
3 ee earns 7 Company. Twenty differ- | time to large or small investors. Ladies | you money from the start, it will pay you
3 Cotton Braided lent sizes on hand at all | or gentlemen, investigate. It will not cost | to investigate. Address No. 676, care
j AOft. 202-222 cence sere 95 | times—twice as many safes | You a cent. Highest references furnished | Michigan Tradesman. i na 676
; MON. =~ ++ nereeae teens ss 1 35 | as are carried by any other | 0" application. Don t delay your an-| —Wanted—To buy a good drug store on
3 re. ee, 3 | house in the State. If you | ] a: torlag- pes “2 a . 2 pos contract Address No. 675, care Michi-
‘ Galvanized Wire so | are — Pa oo a. | eae Meyer, Box 621, Salt Lake aa: gan Tradesman. 675
s No. 29. eac ong Rapids an nspec e ah. :

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j }— aaa eS EN For Sale—32-station Lamson Cable
No. 19, each 100ft. long2 10 line personally, write for i —— aid eo ay — ge Cash System, in fairly good condition;
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COFFEE | quo : | ee eo ee ee ae i price $25. per_ station. Address Herpol-
= Fioaeted | SOAP Need en University Place, Neb. 685 _|sheimer Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 646

SEER | : : iH : | \B ' s “C B ia Wanted—To buy a general stock of dry
Sunlight Flakes | Dwinell-Wright Co.’s B’ds. | beaver oap Co.’s Brands goods, shoes and groceries from $5,000.to Want Ads. continued on next page.
4 Per case .........-.-. 4 00 | | $8,000, in town of 800 to 2,000 inhabitants.
Wheat Grits | | = ss a 830, Belding, Mich. 686 saa eal
: Cases, 24 2tb pack’s,. 2 00 | | For Sale—Racket store in one of the
: ae | | best towns in Central Michigan, 3,500 in- AUCTIONEER

habitants. The greatest beet and sugar
| producing county in the State. Gasoline
| works, asphaltum works and two large

|cold storage plants. teason for selling,

WONDER. | Want to go West. Address No. 682, care
ISOAP.| | Michigan Tradesman. 682
To Rent—Finest store in Sault Ste.

| 100 cakes, large size..6 50 | Marie. Can do business of $200,000 yearly
| 50 cakes, large size..3 25 } with $15,000 capital. One of the best
/100 cakes. small size..3 85 | Openings in Canada for first-class dry
50 cakes, small size..1 95

who has never had a fail-

ure. Let me be the doctor

and put new life into your

business. Consult me to-

day.

R. H. B. MACRORIE

AUCTION CO.,
Davenport. Ia

 

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s bd | goods or department store. Over $250,-

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Less than S00. .......- 33 | | | | 000 paid out monthly in wages. Address
508 oF more .....-....-..-. 32 | Tradesman Co.’s Brand. Box 3329, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. 683
1,000 or more .........-- 31 | | For Sale—Richmond Paper Mills, Rich-
¢ Geo. H. Seymour & Co. | White House, 1Ib .....- [oe Ind. Address Richmond Paper
3 Morton House Bouquet 55 White House, 77> ..-.-.-- |.Mills, Richmond, Ind. 684
: Morton House Bouquet 70 | Bxcelsior, M & J, 1... ET L . eG
i Henne 3 wecacicion (Mee a. aah. | For Sa e—Fine saddle mare. Groulx &
‘ iG 30 Tip Top, M & J, 1b | Bidwell, Big Rapids, Mich. 681
| ; Bietie Chick. .......... 30 Royal Java o.202.. 24... | For Sale—Brick yard, all complete, now
3 : | Royal Java and Mocha.. | running; good market; fine retail trade
= Worden o— * brand Java and Mocha Blend.. established; good reasons for selling. Ad-
3 : - | Boston Combination .... Black Hawk, one box 250 dress W. C. Davie, Tacoma, Wash. 679
3 oe cholo Mm 35 | Distributed by Judson Black Hawk, five bxs2 40 ~ Chance to sell for cash, all machinery
a Perfection Isxtra Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; Biack Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 in your factory or mill mortgaged or
: POMOC aisle esate aie ici sia as 2 |National Grocer Co., De- otherwise. Hastings Metal & Machinery
é Londres Grand. ......--- 35 | troit and Jackson; F. Saun- TABLE SAUCES | ee en ny
j — ee =| ders & Co., —_ — Walford, tare .......- 3 75 ~ Chadron, Ne 23x wa , ae
¥ UTITANOS .ccccseccccceccs ons Bros. & oO agi- 1. An ) ebraske ) atio abe a c
£ Panatellas, Finas. ...... 35 — Mesa © eek, Halford, small 2 25 3,000. Wants general merchandise, furn- I. S. TAYLOR F. M, SMITH
; Panatellas, Bock ......-.35 | Bay’ City; Godsmark, — a | ere and dry goods —— Investigate MERCHANTS, “HOW IS TRADE?” Do
j @ Jecmey Cea. ..-..:....-. 35 [rand & Co., Battle Creek: : be once. Write P. B. Nelson. 693 you want to close out or reduce your stock by
¥ | Fielbach Co., Toledo. | P] For Sal A small stock of drugs. Only closing out any odds and ends on hand? We
: COCOANUT | ace stock an yay of 360 inhabit: ants. Ad- | positively guarantee you a profit on all reduction
< Baker’s Brazil Shredded | | dress No. 698, care Michigan Tradesman. | Sales over allexpenses. Our plan of advertising
4 | | our | . 698 is surely a winner; our long experience enables us
& | | 7 | > - ~: - - _ te produce results that wil please you. We can
a | i I ees Sale— rood — ee ae | furnish you best of bank references, also many
5 | | vuilding in prosperous town of 15,000 in- | Chicago jobbing houses; write us for terms
Z | business reer pana 2 Patan ane without ties cad ol particulars,
3 | | business uilding $2,000. Address John : - :
4 Getz, — a :lU ae Taylor & Smith, 53 River St., Chicago
| | on ' For Sale—Drug stock, first-class. in

 

| good town. Doing good business, $1,500

| a Address Quinine, care Michigan Trades- YOU’LL BE SURPRISED

man.

  

 

 

 

  

| rid
: a | = | h | For Sale—An up-to-date shoe stock. at the results obtained
are CONDENSED MILK Ss Will invoice $2,500. Address No. 668, from
any ester J | a are Se in é 665
‘oe ii ror Salen ‘Clemr atock of. dry goc an Expert
10 %1b pkg, per case 2 60 | Gall Borden Bagle ---- 4) = hasiS | will invoice 36.000." Address "Now 669. a
35 %Ib pkg, per case 2 60 olin ee 59 | | care Michigan Tradesman. ae uctioneering
38 4Ib pkg, per case 2 60 a 470 | | For Sale—Furnitu undertaking. That’s our business
16 %tb pkg, per case 2 60 | Magnolia .........----- 4 00 | b Will invoice about : Address No. We promise ttle
FRESH MEATS PChnallenge ..:.-....-..- 4 40 y | 670. care Michigan Tradesman. 670 We do much
Beef (lee |... secnstteee 3 85 | ° ~ Patent right for sale. Steam hot water oa
a a | Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00 | using | pump. one cylinder, uses no packing. Can 1s act wanes
p ciowade by te 5G 5% FISHING TACKLE | be 2 peso oped — at 1405 ~~ | Our best references are
Hi i. larters 74@9 |% to 1 in 6 | I d jan St.. Des Moine ' our present sales
ee y @l6 14% to 2 in NN itl Ta esman | For Sale—Hotel in thriving city. oo Write today
PR, ce cdicncnedion S @t |i% to 2 m .-........ 9 | ore electric lighted, 31 rooms. $2 per :
Hounds ....--.-- 74%@ 8 | es 2m ........).... - Cou ons a, gece pea Dog _ — — A. W. Thomas Auction Co.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Saginaw Business Men Alive To
Their Best Interests.

Saginaw, June 19—The Saginaw
Board of Trade considered a_ large
number of important matters at its
last meeting. A large number of
applications for membership were re-
ceived, thus showing increased inter-
est in the organization and its work
under its energetic new head, Hon.
Wm. S. Linton.

After the reading of the minutes
of the previous meeting and some
other minor business, the matter of
Saginaw’s
celebration was taken up.

coming

Ss F Sy

mons told of his very pleasant visit |
to Flint a few days ago, on the occa- |

sion of Flint’s semi-centennial cele-
bration and Old Home-Coming day.
He described the interesting features
of the parade, portraying the Flint

of fifty years ago and the thriving |

little city of to-day, and told of the
large number of people the two days’
event had attracted to that place,

with the desirable publicity that had |

been accomplished. The Flint cele-

bration cost only about $9,000, and |}

it was a notable event. It was the
sense of the Board that a Board of
Trade committee be appointed to co-
operate with the committee named
by the Common Council and the Re-
tail Merchants’
matter of Saginaw’s semi-centennial
celebration. President Linton ap-
pointed as such Board of Trade Com-
mitee Hon. Wm. 6B. Baum, E. A.

Robertson and J. W. C. Pendell. A|

special Board of Trade Committee to

represent the Board individually may |

also be appointed later.

for each association in the city, fra-
ternal, business bodies, etc. to ap-
point a committee to co-operate with
the other committees for this occa-
sion. The celebration will be held in
the summer of 1900.

On motion the Court street M. C.
Railroad depot matter was taken up,
and it was decided to press the sub-
ject on the attention of the Railroad
Company. A committee composed
of Messrs. Julius C. Vogt, Julius Ip-
pel and Emil Achard was appointed
to call on the local representatives
of the Michigan Central and have it
brought before the railway manage-
ment.

A communication was_ received
from the National Hay Association,
calling the attention of the Board
to the fact that the Association
would hold its annual meeting at To-
ledo, O., on July 18, 19, 20, and invit-
ing it to send representatives. In
response to the invitation President
Linton appointed as delegates to this
meeting Messrs. E. C. Forrest, Geo.
C. Warren and Henry Carr.

A letter was received from the
State authorities in regard to the
mustering out of Company C. This
stated that Saginaw would be given
the first section of the new engineer-
ing corps if it desired it. President
Linton said it is important to the city
to have the section organized here
if possible, and the matter was_ re-
ferred to a committee of six, com-
posed of Messrs. Wm. G. Gage, <
S. Bliss, C. M. Ireton, C. H. Peters,

semi-centennial |

Association in the}

It was sug- |
gested that it would be a good thing |

G. Leo Weadock and

Lewis.

Arthur F.
These gentlemen will go over
the ground and take the matter up
with Governor Warner.

A letter from Major Beach was
read in which he stated that the mid-
dle ground, at Saginaw, had been
specified in the Saginaw River dredg-
ing contracts as a place where dredg-
ed material may be dumped. This is
the method proposed for filling up
this valuable piece of property and
building it up to be ready eventual-
ly for park purposes.

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| Michigan Central Rate Too High.
Lansing, June 20—At the meeting
Retail
llast evening at the City Hall, the
| question of the annual

of the Grocers’ Association
picnic was
'brought up and a rate to Bay City
and return of $1.10 was submitted
by the Michigan Central Railroad. It
was unsatisfactory to the members,
and willbe rejected. Rates are to be
secured from the Grand Trunk by the
way of Durand to Bay City and also

ito Port Huron, and they will proba-
‘bly go over this road to one of these
places. It is possible, however, that
the Michigan Central may make an-

other rate which will be acceptable
to the

It is understood that a new trad-
ling stamp company of Toledo is
and that some

Association.

doing business here,
of the grocers are going to use them.
No action was taken last night, but
the sentiment of the meeting was

against their use.
A meeting will be held next Mon-
day night, at which time the picnic

location will be decided.
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| Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

| Buffalo, June 21—Creamery, 18@
| 201%: dairy, fresh, 14@17c; poor, 12
@t14c.

Eggs—Fresh, 16@17¢

Live Poultry—Fowls, 12@12%c;
| ducks, roprec; seese, Io@IiIc;
| :
| springs, 20@22c.

Dressed Poultry—Fowls, 13@14c;
old cox, 10c.

3eans—Hand picked marrows, new,
|$2.75@285; mediums, $2.15; peas,
$1.75@1.80; red kidney, $2.50@)2.60;
white kidney, $2.75@2.90.
Potatoes—Round_ white,
23@25¢.

Rea & Witzig.

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25(@28c;
mixed and red,

“Too much dry goods for the
much wet
the men.” This is the terse explan-

ation of the divorce evil advanced

women, too goods for

by a Southern judge.
——_++2>__

If you are going to do a man at all,
be sure you do him good.

BusinsHanl

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale or Rent-—Cheap, good ,general
blacksmith and wagon shop centrally lo-
cated, doing good business in live town;
will sell stock if you prefer to rent; have
owned and operated shop 33 years. Rea-
son, poor health. Address H. Willis,
Plymouth, Mich. 701

 

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For Sale—i0.000 acres timber land on
3 Forks of Kentucky River. Will divide
to suit purchaser. Some fine propositions.
Also good investments in coal lands. F.
A. Lyon & Son, Beattyville, Ky. 702

 

For Sale—First-class bakery,
rant, ice cream and soda fountain busi- |
ness, only bakery .and soda fountain in
thriving Michigan town of 1,800. Good |
brick building, furnished rooms above.
Will sell building or rent. Doing good
business. Will sell cheap if taken at
once Good reasons for selling. Ad-

dress No. 699, care Michigan Tradesman. |

699

 

For Sale—Good clean
merchandise in good town in Central Illi-
nois. Invoices $6,000 to $7,000; not less
than two-thirds cash, balance time at 6
per cent.; no trades. Address 7
Hancock, Neoga, Ti. 67

Wanted—Established mercantile or
manufacturing business. Will pay cash.
Give full particulars and lowest price.
Address No. 652, care Michian Trades-
man. 652

~ Factory. ‘cost systems introduced and
faulty ones mended. Comprehensive

 

monthly reports formulated for boards of |

directors. Business propositions looked
into for investors and fraudulent schemes
exposed. Disinterested advice in all mat-

ters of company incorporation, organiza- |
How to}
underwrite stocks and bonds, realize on |

tion, financing and operation.

patents, etc. Special terms to small con-

cerns and those just starting. Geo. F.

Card, M. EB. t. K., Three Rivers, —
64

 

For Sale—Saw and planing mill plant,
40,000 feet daily capacity. Admirable lo-
cation, éspecially for manufacture of
boxes, barrels and truckers’ packages of
all kinds. Will sell at a bargain. Write
for particulars to E. L. Williams, York-
ville, Va. 623

For Sale—$3,500 buys one-half or $7,000
buys whole hardware and grocery store;
good town, buildings and location; sales
in 1904, —
way, Mich.

 

Quick—Wanted | ‘general st stock or stock |

shoes for cash. Give full particulars first
letter. Address Ross E. Thompson, 1004
Iglehart St., St. Paul, Minn. 64

For Sale—Clean general stock ‘and store |

building and warehouse located in good
town on Pere Marquette Railway, 85
miles from Grand Rapids. Good farm-
ing country. Property will inventory
about $8,000. Owner will sell for $4,000
down and balance on time. This is the
opportunity of a lifetime. Address No.
656, care Michigan Tradesman. 656

Stores Bought and Sold—lI 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.
Frank P. Cleveland, 1261 Adams Express
Bldg., Chicago, Ill.

For Sale—Clean ©

 

‘general stock and

frame store building, located at railway |

point in Northern Michigan, tributary
to growing farming country.
in town. Stock inventories about $1,500.
Terms to suit purchaser. Address No.
561, care Michigan Tradesman. 561

Wanted—Stock of general merchandise
or clothing or shoes. Give full particu-
lars. Address ‘‘Cash,’’ care Tradesman.

324

For Sale—Small stock of groceries and |

notions, located in the thriving town of
Martin, Allegan County. Good reason for
selling. Write or enquire of Edward J.
Anderson, Plainwell, Mich. 539

Cash for your stock. Our business is
closing out stocks of goods or making
sales for merchants at your own place of
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

For Sale—43v 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. Very desirable for stock
raising or potato growing. Will = ex-
change for stock of merchandise. C. C.
Tuxbury, 28 Morris Ave., South, Grand
Rapids, Mich. $35

For Sale—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—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 Tradesman. 651

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ 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
county, having a fine trade, well-es-
tablished. No hard times here. Always
plenty of money. Address Box 504, Han-
eoack. Mich. R45

For Sale—$8,000 stock of boots, shoes
and rubber goods. Good established busi-
ness and all new desirable goods. Only
exclusive shoe stock in city. Owner’s
health failed and stock will be closed
out for cash or good securities. Thrifty
town of 3,000 in Central Michigan. Ad-
dress Lock Box 83, Corunna, Mich. 641

For Sale—First-class drug ‘stock in
first-class Southern Michigan town of
1,300 inhabitants. Invoices $2,500. Will
sell for $1,800 if taken before July 1.
Other business. Address J., care Trades-
man. 639

 

 

 

restau- |

stock general |

Address box 143, Ona- |
cis |

Only store |

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, —

6

 

40-Acre Farm, wire fenced, 15 acres
'eleared. Good frame house. Young or-
|echard. Will sell or exchange for stock
of general merchandise. Address Lock
| Box 227, Roscommon, Mich.

|date baking, confectionery and catering
business. Good location can be secured
and elegant opening for money making
business in this line awaits the right man.
I would be willing to help good man
get started and back him financially if
necessary until he could carry it alone.
| The town is greatly in need of an up-to-
| date establishment of this kind and the
need is continually increasing, so a good
man could not fail to succeed. J. H.
Edsall, Greenville, Mich. 628

Wanted—Man to engage in an up-to-

 

Wanted—To buy stock of general mer-—
chandise. $10,000 to $15,000. Outside of
Chicago. Address No 620, care Michi-
| gan ‘tradesman. 620

 

Our 16, 18 and 21 ft. family launches

make an enjoyable outfit. We build all
kinds of pleasure boats. Main office and
| works, McHenry, lll., on Fox river, con-
| necting with Fox Lake regions. Hunter-
| Weckler Boat Co., 138 Washington St.,
| Chicago, Iil. 619

Delaware farms, beautifully located.
Write for free 1905 catalogue to Chas.
|M. Hammond, Real Estate Broker, Mil-
ford, Dene 609
For Sale—Bakery. Good location. Doing
nice business. Apply to Judson Grocer Co.
589
‘Wanted—To buy stock of merchandise
from $4,000 to $30,000 for cash. Address
No. 253, care Michigan Tradesman. 253
For Saie or Trade—One hundred shares
of the Watson, Durand-Kasper Grocery
| Co.’s_ capital stock, of Salina. Enquire
| W. J. Hughes, Box 367, Enid, O. T. 598

 

For Sale—A large number of selected

 

— | eeries, lamps and crockery, located in
|one of the brightest business towns in
| Central Michigan. Has electric lights,
| water works and telephone system, popu-
lation 1,506 and surrounded by splendid
farming community. Store is situated
on 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

PCSITIONS WANTED.

Experienced lady desires position as
clerk in general store, sp-aks German and
| English. Good references. Also under-

stands bookkeeping. Address Box 105,
| Loyal, Wis. 660

| For Sale—A good clean stock of gro-.

 

Wanted—Position by young man, Ex-
| perienced at grocery business. Capable
|} manager, buyer, salesman and advertise-
|ment writer. Will accept position as
| Manager or clerk. Gilt-edge references.
| Address Grocer, care Tradesman. 678
|
|
|

 

 

“Traveling man would “like to manage
| business interests for well-known manu-

facturer or jobber, for Maine. A1 refer-
fence, 'M. &.” care C. A. Vincent, is
Middle St., Portland, Me. 690

 

Wanted—Position in shoe store as clerk
or manager. Have had 15 years’ experi-
ence. Best of references furnished. Ad-
dress No. 667, care Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

HELP WANTED.

 

 

ai ..
~ Wanted—Tinner, by the year, assort-
ment and job worker. Rutter’s Hardware,
Warsaw, Ind. 700
Wanted—tUnregistered drug clerks to
write Aug. T. Fleischmann, former Sec-
retary Missouri Board of Pharmacy, for
1,000 selected Board of Pharmacy ques-
tions and answers. Pree $1. Ane T
Fleischmann, (M. T.) Kansas City, Mo.
687

 

Wanted—Salesmen everywhere to carry
good selling line of children’s turn and
McKay shoes as a side line on commis-
sion. Address No. 688, care Michigan
Tradesman. 688

 

 

Wanted—Salesmen to sell on commis-
sion our line of overalls and jumpers;
only experienced need apply. Ben.
Martin Mfg. Co., Springfield, Mo. 659

Wanted—Dry goods salesman of ex-
perience. Wages $50 per month. Palmer
& Hobbs Co., Kalkaska. _Mich. 653

Wanted—Capable man to take charge
of clothing. groceries, boot and shoe and
dry goods departments. Address National
Supply o., Lansing, Mich. 624

“Salesman to carry a good side line that
will pay traveling expenses. Sells to
house furnishing, general and hardware
stores. Pocket model free. Season now
on. Novelty Mfg. Co... Ottawa, Til. 339

 

 

 

AUCTIONEERS AND TRADERS.

 

H. C. Ferry & Co., Auctioneers. The
leading sales company of the U. S. We
ean sell your real estate, or any stock of
goods, in any part of the country. Our
method of advertising ‘‘the best.’’ Our
“terms” are right. Our men are gentle-
men. Our sales are a success. Or we
will buy your. stock. Write us, -"

Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill.

 

 

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